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>they're very valuable if and only if you cannot use the protection [..]

I don't think that's entirely fair. They're also valuable to those who want to transfer money without ridiculous fees, excessive bureaucratic friction, and many mandatory middlemen.

What other system would allow you to instantly be able to accept payments without giving an exorbitant portion of your revenue?
> my boss assumed that it would be sourcing the bride

Are you sure you understood him correctly? That would be highly irregular, to say the least. More likely it was an offer to pay for a matching agency. Arranged marriages between specific people are pretty rare these days, and unheard of outside of family. Unless your boss literally adopted you, he would never take on that responsibility!
Of course it's not listed. They're not going to say "this is our first region and it runs on some pretty old hardware and hacked together configurations so we recommend you don't use it."
The image you have is probably close to how in some societies 2 families decide their children are betrothed to each other.

The reality is closer to match making: some colleagues might introduce you to somebody who could be a match. Or maybe they will invite you to what is called a goukon, a group date where one of the male participants invite a few colleagues or friends of his who are single while his girlfriend invite the same number of female colleagues or friends of hers who are single.
I think what was meant was that the semantics should be optimized to human. Those semantics matter more then the syntax, since you can quickly get used to syntax.

So think of it as learning to recognize and pronounce an alphabet used to form words, over understanding the meaning of sentences in a given language.

Having said that, once you get used to the lisp syntax, as I did, I find it is better suited to humans. But to believe it you need to try out structural editing.
Wow I forgot how painful this was to watch.
From the very article you reffered to me :

Short sellers were blamed for the Wall Street Crash of 1929.[15] Regulations governing short selling were implemented in the United States in 1929 and in 1940.[citation needed] Political fallout from the 1929 crash led Congress to enact a law banning short sellers from selling shares during a downtick; this was known as the uptick rule, and this was in effect until 3 July 2007 when it was removed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC Release No. 34-55970).

So one is actually entitled to wonder if regulations are not needed. While the article fail to explain categorically in which way it is "incredibly important".
Amazing work, how long did it take to build? Where you working on it full-time or part-time?
All National Guard units were federalized immediately after World War 2 (meaning that yes, they are "state-run" both literally and figuratively).
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I don’t think “choosing” is the right word, it’s more like providing the opportunity to meet someone with drinking events, goukon etc. At least if his company is like the ones I’ve seen.
What..I can't... I am speechless.
I don't follow your point about randomized AZs. I agree they are randomized and have observed and correlated region letters across multiple customers/accounts. How does that make it seem like a problem is region wide though?
Obligatory reminder that tech companies at scale are nowhere near 100% CS grads. In most companies where I've worked (me: CS grad) over the last ~20 years, CS (and related) grads were the distinct minority of overall staff.

The population benchmark for "tech hiring" probably should look more like "college graduates" than "people with CS degrees."
I can't seem to submit a WaPo article about Amazon Jobs hiring event
Because:

- companies like a good discount and, on the whole, engineers are terrible negotiators,

- you'll get WAY more shittier candidates looking for that green, and

- Compensation != salary, so $200k comp + equity can mean a lot of things (for example)

Personally, I like playing salary poker. You can win big if you aren't afraid of walking or awkward situations.
Tesla Q2 Earnings Report: 1800 Model 3 reservations a day; Will build 1500 in Q3
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“We are excited to be creating great jobs that offer highly competitive wages, benefits starting on day one and the choice for employees to go back to school,” John Olsen, a human resources vice president at Amazon, said in a statement.
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Liveness analysis is honestly pretty simple so I'm glad it's being introduced as a rule for determining lifetimes. I would be afraid of introducing rules that make for complicated specs, and this is almost one of these areas. However, it's fairly easy to describe liveness analysis with set theory so I think it works.
It's interesting to think about a fork as a stock split, because there is no entity to decide on a split happening.

It's really a 3rd party issuing tokens based on proof of bitcoin ownership.

Definitely going to be some interesting times for financial regulators!
No, it's not that simple. Scandinavia has had a pretty good run with socialism. But Norway does the old college-educated trick of investing 10% of it's oil income. And Sweden has a much more diversified economy. In South and Central America, what we have are dirt poor countries with enormous export income. For sixty years the wealthy of these countries have been siphoning off the export income to make themselves rich at the expense of everyone else. When a charismatic demagogue steps up and offers to make you feel as rich as the countries export bank account suggests you should be, what are you supposed to do? Politely decline and tell them to invest in infrastructure and a rainy day fund?

Socialism in the extreme is a hazard to stable government. But so is capitalism, federalism, militarism, and any other -ism.
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A more "air gap"-ish concept would have been a camera on the Firefly. Take a pic of a QR code on the phone, sign on the device, use the phone to take a pic of the output QR.
I mean... this could/does literally happen in the US as well. Don't get me wrong, the circumstances are slightly different, but the basic premise is the same:

http://www.itworld.com/article/2807200/business/riaa-raids-a...

*nvm, as I read more of the article it's pretty much the same thing
You could at least read the paper abstract instead of relying on the made up HN title...

The actual claim is "almost one half (53 out of 116) lose their unicorn status when their valuation is recalculated". So, yes, if half lose unicorn status, then the other half do not lose their unicorn status. Is that really such a keen insight?
I doubt he would phrase it the same way I did, but I am absolutely not materially misremembering the conversation in which he said, and this is a verbatim quote translated from Japanese, "[24 year old coworker], this is Patrick. He just joined, graduated from a good school in America, and has a bright future with the company. Have you ever considered an international marriage?"
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The economy was growing under Chavez's predecessors. Yes, it would have fared much, much better. What he did with oil is less important than what he did to the rest of the economy. Chavez was lucky, in a way, because he died right about the time math caught up with his economic policies.
The upsides are for users as well: better performance, less memory usage, better ability to implement web standards. Browser developers aren't just breaking extensions for the fun of it, but because they're in the way of actually producing a better product; the goal is to produce said better product.

The upsides are just somewhat more diffuse than the downsides: the former apply to all users, while the latter only to those who have extensions that stop working.
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Excellent description.

I really like the section of "Thinking in Scopes" in the Book that describes this:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/first-edition/lifetimes.html#...

You can think of lifetimes as hidden variables defined by the compiler that are in a sense bound to some block of code. I find this to be the best way to think of them personally.
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If we assume a simplistic log-normal distribution over the valuations of startups, and overvaluation is exactly half, this would mean that as a whole, startups are overvalued (median<mean)
Snapchat does have Discover, with "snap stories" from news sites and even stuff they curate themselves.

https://support.snapchat.com/en-US/article/discover-how-to
you had me until you said, "fiat ruled until ethereum came along..."
When several people report failures, each in their own AZ, if you don't realize they're randomized, you can assume many/all AZs are impacted.
The U.S. has “impoundment orders”, which are fundamentally the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Piller_order#Impoundment...
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I was the same on re-entering society. I went ahead and put my convictions on the job apps, as I figured I didn't want to waste time going past the application if the company had a problem with my record.

Funny thing is that my dad told me I'd never get a job by doing that, but I got one two weeks after my release.
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Not exterminated just the Land was conqueered. Yes God commanded the extermination, as well as bashing the heads of babies onto rocks, but it didn't happen. No where in the scriptures of the Hebrews does it say they were exterminated.

Joshua 16:10 They did not dislodge the Canaanites living in Gezer; to this day the Canaanites live among the people of Ephraim but are required to do forced labor.

Yes Israel came and kicked out many people groups to settle in Israel but they never exterminated. The Old Testament is full of stories of neighbors being a pain to Israel.
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As end users, many (in fact a majority) have already made the decision that the benefits of Firefox's extensions don't outweigh the drawbacks those same extensions impose on Firefox in terms of performance and responsiveness, and have voted with their feet.

I appreciate that your personal tradeoff was different from most, and I know the pain of having an application that was targeting your use cases move away from that. I don't have much to offer other than the goal that Firefox still has to offer extension APIs that are broader than the ones Chrome does. It won't be quite as "yeah, hook into anything you want" as the old extension system, but that was really becoming completely unsustainable and was holding back Firefox not only in things like performance and responsiveness but also web standards: extensions would depend on things working a certain way and changing them to follow the spec would break those extensions...
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> when the startups receive $120,000,000 to make a juice machine that is only really accessible to the top 1 or 2% of the USA

Given that even most crack houses probably have more than $399 worth of kitchen equipment, to the extent it's only 'available' to the 1% is only because it doesn't offer enough utility to justify the cost. Had they made a less shitty product that cost the exact same amount then no one would be complaining about class inequality or whatever.
It's almost like people have been through this problem before and devised regulations to fix it.

Don't get me wrong, I always use Uber or Lyft over a cab. Taxi regulations are often cited as awful. But this particular one is a good one.
Exports only tell part of the story. Much of what a country consumes is produced locally, so just looking at exports ignores the collapse of industries like construction and agriculture.
Minikube is a good place to start and the kubernetes.io guide is pretty good: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/stateless-application/h...

If you like video, try out this new (free) EdX course: https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-kubernetes-linuxfoun...

(Disclosure: I run CNCF and we developed that course.)
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Remembering what you learned
Cruise was acquired by GM for $1B, at a time when it was a fraction of the scale & sophistication of Waymo. So how does Waymo not count as a success when you consider the comparables...?
I've only written a small amount of elisp but I've found that while you don't actually do all that much arithmetic manipulation, the ease of manipulating S-Expressions outweighs the price of entry.
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I gotta say, as fucking annoying as I find most of you people on other topics, I am so thrilled to see your support for a cause such as this one. You almost killed the cynic in me :) Go hackers!
Richard, a suggestion:

Have a way for parole/probation officers to search for jobs nearby for their charges. My PO was actually a helpful guy, as he figured if I was working, I was more likely to stay out of trouble. Just have some way for them to engage and provide assistance to new parolees.
Doesn't at Kaiser either. You just get all that stuff under a single line item "Emergency Room visit Level 2: $650". Funny how that happens when the hospital and the insurance are the same company.
Seems to me the problem is with the exchanges, not the bitcoin.
Being on the legal teams for plaintiff or defendant would be a start.
Couldn't you just set the value to 0 and allow a grace period for those who are long-ing or short-ing the currency to trade before "starting" it?
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Features are very different, because the features of Hy are the features of Python. So any comparison of Clojure vs Python will do.

The syntax though is very similar.
Did anyone appear in their interview? I just wanted to check if someone in HN did.
Ridiculous fees, bureaucratic friction, and mandatory middlemen are exactly how I would describe converting the BTC someone transferred to you to a usable form (by exchanging to your local fiat currency).
That's nothing short of awesome.
Not an expert, but I read Derek Lowe's blog[1] and he tends to report on pretty much all the drug trials in the Alzheimer's space.

The amyloid hypothesis (that the cause of Alzheimers is the buildup of beta amyloid plaques) seems pretty weak at this point. The drugs that remove or reduce amyloid buildup don't seem to stop the progression of the disease. The current best guess seems to be that the amyloid plaques are a symptom of whatever the underlying cause is. And the key takeaway is that we have NO IDEA what the actual cause is. We've got a bunch of guesses. One of them might even be right. Or possibly multiple, there are probably several diseases that cause the same symptoms.

So if we can detect the non-presence of amyloid plaques but detect symptoms that would be good as a way to distinguish between the different diseases. Of course there might be more than two variants...

[1] http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/alzhe...
Oh I'm not doubting you. But that's slightly different. Putting in a good word for you and making introductions to eligible young co-workers isn't quite the same as "here's your bride!", which is what it sounded like.

I can absolutely imagine a 50s-ish japanese boss saying exactly the contents of your quote.
Some studies* have found that black men with a conviction experience significantly more hiring discrimination than white men, so the pool of "people with convictions struggling to get a job" is probably even more skewed towards black people.

* random example form googling, but I've seen a few on the topic https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015/04/03/race-crimin...
> We all like to drink the cool aid and think that a startup's purpose is societal impact

No, we don't. Who do you think you're speaking for?
Happened to me too. Went straight to probation though, no prison time. Still, was given a job offer and worked for two weeks then the company asked everyone to do a background check. I was out in two days after that.

Now almost a year into my current full time job. I've been very lucky and fortunate but the threat of a background check will always look in the distance :/ will keep my chin up though.
XT and Classic did fork the blockchain and had the history though, meaning for a time they were an alt-coin with history.

That's completely counter intuitive to what you're saying about Matt's example not having a history.
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I mean, from my (admittedly limited) understanding of Clojure, but my significant experience with Java, this doesn't seem to be the case. Clojure lets you pretend that Java objects are essentially record types, and there's only a couple extra bits of syntax you need to know. Other than that, You can almost completely ignore the existence of Java in Clojure. How else is it possible that it's been ported to JavaScript, CLR, etc.?
Richard, another thought I had:

There is a tax break for businesses that hire a new parolee. Something like $4-5k tax credit for the first year of employment. Would be good to find out about that and let employers know - help encourage them to hire criminals.
What do people think about "minutes per day" as a metric for success?

I think it represents a fundamental misalignment of goals between users and the company. By this metric, the more of your waking life that can be taken, the better.
Any reply which is brief and generic enough for an AI to write it for me can be written in a short enough time that finding the mouse and clicking the appropriate button won't save me any appreciable effort.
Actually take that as a challenge -- I would be interested to be proven wrong.
Actually the economy suffered a massive contraction in the 80s when - surprise! - oil prices plunged. This is partly what led Chavez into power - mostly because while the country technically returned to growth - wages did not go up and unemployment did not go down.

Same cause last time as this time but last time was "all the fault of capitalism" and this one was "all the fault of socialism".
I believe he is referring to the person who posted that comment.
This is why it is helpful at the beginning of the interview process (at the recruiter stage) to make your minimum ask known. That's usually around the time where they ask for your salary.

Your response should be something like:

"I'm not comfortable/allowed/whatever-excuse-adjective-you-want with/to disclosing my salary, but I want to make $x. Is this sensible?"

(Disclosing your salary gives the recruiter implicit permission to low ball you.)

If they say no, you walk.

If they say yes and then rescind at the offer stage, you DEFINITELY walk. They'll likely come back to negotiate at that point because letting a candidate with an offer walk is money left on the table for that recruiter.
No I don't. Source plz?
Steps 3 and 4 were not fixing it as best as they could. They are just doing another wrong thing trying to cover the earlier mistake by sacrificing another group of their customers instead of Bitfinex itself. This group of their customers are also innocent as they are just lured by the foolish policy. They could transfer their BTC to the personal wallet to get BCH if they were not lured. Everyone playing game in Bitfinex is trying to maximize profits based on its policy, robbing or being robbed. The one who breaks the policy or changes the policy without notifying is the nasty one.
I personally work on the Nature Index
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Cruise was not acquired for $1B. http://www.businessinsider.com/gm-cruise-automation-price-20...
> it's more like a company cloning itself but adopting a different vision/mission, and awarding shares to all existing shareholders.

And that doesn't sound... insane to you? I mean, skipping the problems with physics where a "split" company would have to clone its employee talent pool as well: such a company would share the same products and the same markets and the same sales channels and have zero share of all of those at the start. And you're saying that a "healthy market" would be expected to bid up shares of that crazy reincarnated zombie company thing to like 20% or whatever of the original value? Based on "different mission"?

This is crazy, and I want no part of it. The coin community is literally inventing phantom cash and pretending like there's no bubble. How often has that been true in history?
Minimum 6 months in some countries.
Mark Zuckerberg covers microphone: https://twitter.com/topherolson/status/745294977064828929/ph...
To be honest, there's a lot of things that could be done differently.

It's just a matter of finding a way to do it that doesn't jeopardize the entire business.
I agree its "common knowledge" but is it true? Or is it just a case that because 80+% (made up) of everyone hosts in us-east-1, thats the only one we hear about in HN (and other sites) threads?
Ok, so why are they less likely to negotiate, why are they more likely to ascend at less valuable companies, etc. The whole point of talking about the wage gap is figuring out why it exists. And inevitably, there are only two possible ends to this investigation. Either there are inherent biological differences that cause women to be less effective and valuable in our economy, or some societal manifestation of sexism is causing these differences. As far as I can tell there is no other possible answer.
The bees I've seen swarming my garbage all my life are definitely not bumble bees.
BTW doesn't setv support multiple pairs?

(setv e0 (-> (+ 1 3 88) (/ 2)))
e1 (-> (+ 3 2) (* 8))
result (- e0 e1))

like setq and setf in CL.
The AWS Global Infrastructure guide to all the Regions is pretty informative. When you look at the table here[1], you realize pretty quickly that every idea that AWS has ever had gets an initial deployment in Northern Virginia (us-east-1).

It's also one of the reasons why so many people continue to use it. If you really need one of these services for your infrastructure, then your very likely going to be stuck using us-east-1. It may be quite some time before you get a 2nd region.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regio...
It is better left undefined since that would close its evolutionary scope, excluding great experiments in "noise music". Does it produce something that affects you is what matters.

David Cope's work is interesting in this regard. His algorithms composed sheet music that is played by a pianist. He's done some blind tests where the audience appreciated the "work of Chopin" until they came to know the truth.
>do any states off employers incentives to hire convicted felons

Some do, yes. I shared an office who hired ex-cons who got a huge rebate on wages in our municipality (up to 55%). He had 2 or 3 doing office work. Very pleasant people, not that large of an applicant pool however. If we had been hiring at the time (bootstrapping), I would have definitely taken advantage.
That's been vastly over reported, the default M:F ratio is actually ~1.03-1.05 men to 1 women. Men are however significantly more likely to die every year (other than 10-12), and the age gap at marriage means even more men die before finding a spouse. Add on women are more likely to remarry than men and you can have large gender gaps without destroying society.

PS: China M:F ratio is 106 to 100. By comparison India is 108 to 100 but 90 to 100 over 65 the population is simply young. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio