skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are completely orthogonal. A market maker provides immediacy. Not all parties in a market want to trade at the same time. The market maker provides the service of immediacy, which they charge for. You are free not to use their service. You can place your own resting order, you can use an intraday cross, or a an opening or closing cross to access liquidity. You could also execute a block trade through a bank. You could use a dark pool. Or you could use some combination of all of them.

The underwriter is like a market maker only in the fact that it is taking principal risk when it purchases the shares. It typically already has buyers lined up for all the shares and it does not face risk from the price changing between when the IPO is priced and trading starts. That is not to say that the bank is not without risk. It has obligations like price support for the IPO.
> Autonomous cars are going to kill people, lots of people. They are going to kill passengers, bicyclists, pedestrians etc. It has already happened and will continue.

I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla (and other autonomous driving providers) directly offer customers their own insurance and liability coverage. The auto insurance companies of the world see the writing on the wall, yet have no data to accurately model or price such a product. It might be a good thing too, since it providers a second layer of incentive to improve the underlying autonomy technology.
Exactly what I was thinking. We have a gently used, 10 year old Fit and have been casually considering an upgrade in the next few years. Looks like our timing couldn't be better...
> messing with the UK government on a controversial topic in the public view

Is it in the public view? How many Daily Mail headlines about Google Analytics have you read ever?
Apparently you won't get much for it, then.

I'm kind of in the same boat, but I'd really like to get an electric model that's been produced for a few years, which means there won't be much on the used market.
I mean laws will ban the sale of new ICE cars, which by then will be the "old tech".

So when you can't even buy one new, why would someone want a used one? (unless, like I said, it's a pleasure driver or some exotic, which is a tiny fraction of all cars sold)

Think of all the things that have been replaced and superseded in history - once the new thing exists, the old one drops in price dramatically.
>But you're right that the general public isn't going to shrug when $AUTOMAKER's car runs over a skateboarder and the company says "We are committed to safety and we'll try harder next time."

Unfortunately many examples from recent years (acceleration pedals, air bags, tires) show that after few weeks everybody will forget about the issue and move on.
The early Apple ][ docs were quite lighthearted. From the 'Applesoft Tutorial':

http://i.imgur.com/LfVSFK2.png
Many countries in 2030?

Germany's upper house passed a non-binding resolution about how they want it to happen in 2030. What others are there?

There are bunch of countries talking about 2040 and a few including the UK have legislated. However, that is safe enough that the current bunch of legislators will be long gone. It might also be like repeatedly missed emissions targets and so on.

Also, called petroleum liquid cancer is inflammatory.
There's a real question as to whether we'll have enough copper, too.
Salesforce's Marc Benioff details cloud giant's push into A.I., secret client
I have been enjoying using selenium as a programmatic interface with the browser. Hopefully more of that!
The idea of government injury is often invisible. Here is a specific example, and likely 3 of the 6 examples I listed have above are similar factually (anti-kickback):

1. Russians began opening pharmacies in Russian neighborhoods throughout the UD (yes, Russian neighborhoods are a thing);

2. The pharmacies would deliver drugs to the medicare patients and in those deliveries included certain gifts anything from Russian newspapers, magazines, to sometimes Russian caviar;

3. As they do CVS identified the success and bought the network of pharmacies;

4. After the sale a lawsuit was brought, because a pharmacist at just one of these pharmacies mentioned that these additions to the drug deliveries violated anti-kickback laws and as a result the pharmacy took retaliatory action (I believe day shift to night shift and reduced hours)

The US government would never have known if it weren't for the pharmacist, and it's the exact behavior prohibited by the Anti-kickback Statute, but I'd challenge you to articulate the injury to the government (in fairness I know you could, but I think you see the strong counter arguments).
Everything's a panopticon, what could go wrong?
Just being the status quo isn't an argument for the legality of such a database. It's true that (most) recordings and data collection in public are currently legal. But the law was created at a time when there were natural limits to the aggregation and connection of such data.

If new technology drastically changes what is possible with such data, it's up to society to change the law. Don't want the whole world to have access to your location data 20+ years back? Find enough people who agree, and it won't happen.

There are many countries (i. e. all of Europe) where such a database would already be illegal, and I'm having a hard time thinking of the possible downsides.

Sure, there's a sort of abstract notion of freedom at stake. But any real harm would require some slippery-slope argumentation. At the same time, there is a direct, obvious, and (in my opinion) rather strong loss of freedom that comes with such a breach of privacy.

All those defending those neo-nazis in Charlottesville and their right to assembly should oppose something like this. Because with such a database, there'd be pretty good lists of everyone who participated in any such rallies in the last decade online right now.

Want to keep your sexual orientation, religion, or political affiliation from your prospective employer? No longer possible. Happened to be in the same place as some criminal more than statistics would suggest? You're now a suspect. Etc etc.
I can't see a law like that passing in the US for generations.
Potentially. But I think it's also the fact that dealerships are leasing out the 500e at $99 or even $59 a month for 3 year deals. So why even buy a used 500e when you can get a brand new one for <$100 a month or $1200 a year.
Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
> It is the argument that is still lawfully used to deny service on the basis of sexual orientation in much of the country; only a minority of states have public accommodation laws under which sexual orientation is a protected class.

> Which can be an argument for internet companies not having their free speech rights limited in order to mandate that they relay political views they disagree with as easily as it can be an argument for that imposition.

That argument seems in direct opposition to the argument that, e.g. Christian bakers and photographers should be required to provide services for gay weddings. If Google may not be mandated to relay political views that they disagree with, how can photographers be mandated to do so? Do multi-national megacorporations have more rights than individuals? Or is one political view simply wrong, and therefore acceptable to discriminate against?
You prefer the "stuffed to the gills" flavor of blocks eh?
It wouldn't surprise me at all if subkeys got missed in v1 of the feature, it's rare to use gpg, and even rarer to use subkeys :)

I'm sure if you file a bug with the details, they'll sort it it!
You missed his point. He will wear out his car until it has no value then gladly buy another used car at a great price.
Do you? Excuse my ignorance, but I thought there was a way to locally mangle the data before submitting. Is that not what apple is doing?
This has nothing to do with who paid for what. Case in point: children, the elderly, or foreigners should enjoy the same right to privacy, even if they aren't (currently) paying taxes. It's not about property rights, it's about a modicum of dignity.
I wonder if we can "mine" all of the old copper wires (telephones, etc)?
How do you define "hate movement"?
You just don't know much about android dev it seems.

When an app gets put in the background it gets an event from the OS it's then the devs job to not keep everything loaded in the background but most don't.
FWIW, I think Google has been turning things around for their paid services. I've had to contact Project Fi customer support a few times, and found it vastly superior to all previous experiences with telcos. They're also probably getting a ton of experience in dealing with enterprises thanks to GCP.

With that said, this announcement doesn't look like it has any relevance to regular consumers. I'm gradually migrating as many things as possible away from Google, having realized that I'd have no recourse if they locked me out my accounts. Their TOS [0] says services can be terminated at any time. I'd feel a lot more comfortable if we had a guaranteed grace period for migrating away upon your Google Account being terminated. IANAL though, so maybe I missed something?

[0] https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/
> but refusing to signal entirely isn't the path to less toxic relationships; it's the path to being alone in your bubble.

You can still talk to people and you can both gauge each other based on personality and topics of interest. In fact you'll find more people of interest by talking to them rather than filtering by outward appearance. I'd argue you remain in a relative mono-culture or bubble by filtering via aesthetics.

We might have differing opinions due to circumstance - I live in an inner city suburb and work in an office of ~700 people, so you're having conversations with a lot of people whether you like it or not. I can understand this might be different if someone lived a in a rural area where aesthetics means someone can trust that you're a local and can use aesthetics as a short cut to kick off a conversation. But even suburban life allows us to graduate from using the shit we buy as a way of defining us to what we do and say.
Caffe 1 is developed by Berkeley and I think Apache or BSD licensed. The Patents.txt issue occurs with Caffe 2 which is developed by Facebook.
Sorry for not being as clear as I would have liked. I am not sure that current semiconductor approaches are relevant to the work of the lab. The analogy may be that the lab is developing a technical approach that is different from current techniques in a manner similar to the way semiconductors were different from vacuum tube techniques.
This is incorrect, at least in theory. RAPPOR is designed to protect the user's data even if an attacker can see all of their individual responses over time. Of course, there could be implementation issues...
StarTrek.io Auction at Flippa Raises Copyright Issues
There are lots of 2015 Nissan Leafs coming off 2 year leases. I picked up one 6 months ago for $8500 with 19k miles.
In principle it's no different from predicting the path of a spaceship, which can be done with great accuracy. The error comes from imprecision in knowledge of the meteor's location and velocity, which would improve greatly once you start pushing it around.
These are the types of comments I'm referring to, why all the hate and assuming proponents of blockchain are full of shit? Were people this skeptical in the late 90's when the internet was coming to fruition?

>Proponents can't distinguish different roles of money
I'm pretty naive to this stuff, but you just listed a bunch of terms I easily googled in 2 minutes and now have a rudimentary understanding of. Sure there are tons of things to study in the field of finance, but I think the main idea is just a more decentralized setup and native "internet money".
So, what are the odds that we'll have an AI that writes at GoT quality before George finishes the last book?
Anyone else just stare at this stuff hoping to understand it someday?
> If you genuinely can't taste the difference, don't buy it. But if you do, then buy good coffee.

Perhaps I should have been more clear about signalling. I'm not suggesting you remove the small pleasures from your life. If something has utility (including pleasure) and the capacity to signal, then go nuts. Consider it a bonus.
RDP is absolutely fine at 600kbps, in fact it's just fine at 128kbps and still pretty decent at 56kbps.

Bear in mind that it's not magic, so even with the improvements in newer versions that make video and audio suck less it's not going to let you stream any better than your base connection speed would allow anyway.
This is not a problem and would not happen for an enterprise customer.
And in fact, the path of an unguided spaceship can not be predicted. Go look for old news stories of satellites crash landing - they can only give general areas, not exact.

For example: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/09/falling-s...
Were you a paying customer?
This is a great write up but misses how gov't regulation could actually force a winner-takes-all distribution. States (like CA and NV) have already started to draw up their own autonomous driving regulations and the DOT is planning to support this evolution with Federal standards.

It's reasonable to assume that these standards will get more stringent over time as accidents, insurance, and compatibility become forced issues (likely though lawsuits). The companies that have the data and systems to meet these standards will be able to keep up but it'd be hard (read: impossible) for a new entrant to catch up after the initial players are further down the evolutionary curve.
Cherry MX switches are much bouncier than some types of switches. (This explains why some keyboards with MX switches end up dropping or duplicating keypresses when their controller uses a poor debouncing algorithm.)

For instance old “complicated” Alps switches (circa 1990) have an extremely clean switch from off to on, with almost no bouncing.
It seems the blog is back?
Mostly it comes down to investor preference.

For companies experiencing a high rate of growth and good long term ROI, many investors would prefer the company reinvest the net revenue instead of paying dividends.

Some investors prefer capital gains due to tax treatment (long term gains vs income tax). Many companies oblige this with stock buybacks.
If you present the user a dialog, that is effectively opt-in, which is what already exists.
So there was a huge argument of CT vs SF switching way back when. IIRC there was Kalpana (CT) which Cisco acquired and Granite (Cat4K, SF) and Crescendo (Cat5/6K, SF). Cisco killed cut-through. The 1st real ASIC that did cut-through since then was the FM4000 (Fulcum) which was used in the Arista 7124, BNT, etc. The FM4000 latency was 600ns vs. 6 microseconds for the standard Wall Street switch at the time (Cat4900). 600ns to 6 microseconds is huge.

The FM4000 looked at 64 bytes before forwarding (IIRC). The 1st Broadcom chips that did cut-through were the Trident line. They looked at something like ~200 or ~500 bytes before making a forwarding decision (sorry exact number is not in cache anymore). They cut that down with the T+ chips.

The funny issue about cut-through is that it will forward a corrupted packet. Trying to pinpoint the source can be fun.

With static webpages, etc, old school internet the latency was not a big deal. The improvements in switching with cut-through and low latency were a game changer for storage, video, etc.
The biggest one is that this uses a common runtime instead of bundling one with each application.
I think you underestimate the financial burden of buying a car. As long as a gas vehicle runs, they'll be a market for it. If they depreciate even faster, they'll still be a market. People don't care about resale at the bottom of the market. They care about reliable transportation which I assume gas cars will continue to provide.

There are plenty of 20 year old vehicles out there with plenty of life left in them.
They are, and it comes down to a time/cost thing. Yes, you can roll your own infrastructure, domain and manage your Win/Mac laptops (which most places already do) or you can see if using Chromebooks can save on employees that don't need full laptops.

But most likely you're still going to need that AD or LDAP managed infrastructure because several roles aren't going to be able to get by with a Chromebook (not something I could see my self doing Scala development on personally).

And then it comes down to, what's the point? You're either already securing your company data and backing it up or you're already using hosted services for everything (Office365, GitHub Enterprise, Dropbox Enterprise, etc)

I agree it seems like more Google lock-in and for something so terribly simple too. I mean except for things like the managed app store, you could just get some really cheap Linux laptops and you'd get the same end result.
I didn't miss the point. That was a joke.
Welcome to the club.
>when you can't even buy one new, why would someone want a used one?

For the same exact reasons many people today choose to buy used gas cars over new electric cars.
The actual payment networks like visa and mastercard charge very small amounts in most cases, something around %0.15 + $0.02. Most of the credit card fee is going to the issuing banks.
Bresenham's algorithm is also the best way to compute Euclidean Rhythms (rhythms where N hits are maximally-evenly distributed among M possible steps).
While working as a Software QA Engineer at Apple, I wrote a large amount of statistical blog posts to get a breadth of skills outside of my role (story: http://minimaxir.com/2017/05/leaving-apple/)

I did have a statistical background before starting at Apple however. Most of my projects were self-taught and done as self-research (I am not a fan of the take-a-million-MOOCs strategy everyone likes).
Not all Scheme people. Scheme is my favorite language, and I don't highly value call-with-current-continuation (and I claim to understand it well).
> Most development platforms should be defaulting to secure random number generators, and most developers should be reaching for secure random number generators as their default choice.

I was curious about this statement. So I did some research.

This page (http://vigna.di.unimi.it/xorshift/) indicates that xoroshiro128+ generates 64-bits in 0.81ns on a modern 3.6GHz CPU.

If I'm reading this page correctly (https://bench.cr.yp.to/results-stream.html) ChaCha20 gets about 0.8 cycles per byte these days on modern CPUs.

Running the math we get 9.88 GB/s for Xoroshiro128+ and 5.14 GB/s for ChaCha20 (assuming a 3.6GHz modern CPU for both).

Actually a _lot_ closer than I thought. It never occurred to me that a CSPRNG could compete, performance wise, with a non-CS PRNG.

I'm sure there's variation here. Sometimes CSPRNGs will have re-keying cycles, and probably most implementations aren't going to use the highly optimized version we see in the benchmark. I'm not sure if the Xoroshiro128+ benchmark I found used a version utilizing all the SIMD functionality of the CPU (like the ChaCha20 benchmark does). I'm also not sure if Xoroshiro128+ is the fastest PRNG or not.

But I have to say, if these numbers are accurate ... you're just plain right. There's no reason to default to a non-CSPRNG. CSPRNG is a safer default, and in the rare scenario that a developer needs more performance they can go seek out a specific PRNG for their needs.
Lol in what way?
How does climate change impact your data and site?
ow! my eyes burn from the 80's texture background...

Synthesis was one of my favorite papers - sort of more Unixy, traditional-ish than Self (another fav from that decade...)
When new car sales move to electric from gasoline, you'll start to see gas stations go out of business...slowly at first but accelerating as the percentage of gas powered vehicles declines. You'll still have your car and be allowed to drive it, but the days of just finding a gas station wherever you need them will be over. Much like early days of electric cars, people will need a concrete refueling plan for every trip, which is going to make those cars a lot less attractive to own and a lot less valuable on the resale market.
It's actually a problem with people breaking into unused houses and ripping out the wiring. Or stealing other metal.

Scrap yards in my state (and I'm sure many others) are required to take identification from anyone that sells them metal.
Build-an-ICO getting closer as we speak. What a time to be alive.
World production is almost 20 million tonnes annually so that shouldnt be an issue. Its also not like electric cars use that much more copper than normal cars: normal cars have both a starter engine and an alternator plus all the engine wiring.

Also, electric motors can use aluminum wiring, and many induction motors have aluminum rotors since they can be cast at a lower temperature than copper.
> It seems like your prediction is not becoming reality.

We'll see. I only made it last May :-)
Evaluating anthropogenic versus natural climate change with machine learning
It does seem like a lot of work to get output that looks like something from a simple Markov chain.
Maybe we can get an ICO for a build-an-ICO.
I found the post informative ("convincing", to use your word since there seems to be nothing in the post that attempts to convince but merely inform) and I see nothing in your response that addresses any of the points raised.

Perhaps instead of telling us only that your time is more valuable than engaging in discourse on the topic if you did provide more information then we could see new sides and facets of this information that, from what I can tell, you are alleging are missing.
Do you have a link to support this? My comment/link wasn't a dis of EV's, it was pointing out the glut of inventory GM are sitting on, including EV's.
If you are interested in a Bolt now would be an excellent time to bargain for one at the dealership...
Do you have any reason to believe that?

Almost all car charging is done at night, when grid load is far lower. Charging will not be a problem, and there is no material shortage likely in the near future.
RAPPOR uses a Bloom filter. It doesn't report the domain itself; it reports (a corrupted version of) a handful of bits of a hash of the domain.
Netflix hasn't been able to block all VPNs. VyprVPN still works, for example.
Thnak you for the detailed explanation!
> Even a few days is unacceptable. There are times in my life where, if my Google Calendar, Google Docs, and email had all been shut off simultaneously, even for only a few days, I would have been completely fucked. Think travel, etc.

If you want that level of service, maybe you shouldn't use a free product.

You can have a free product, or you can have good, responsive, human customer service. You can't have both.

If you chose a free product, be ready to handle the consequences of your decision like everybody else.
"But people within the industrial design team including Jonathan Ive, Apple’s chief designer, believed that a fully driverless car would allow the company to reimagine the automobile experience, according to the five people."

Ah Jony Ive, first he ruined iOS 7 and now this constant need to tinker with things that work fine. I love the hardware design but please leave the software and HID bit alone... of course YMMV

P.S. Anyone feel iOS usability has been going down with the move to a flat design?
Batteries, but that's why a lot of money is currently being invested in battery R&D and mass production.
Also: "As slim as you want, NodeKit uses the embedded JavaScript engines provided by the operating system."
Vudu sounds like voodoo
So, you're saying that if the government hits you in the face, the right course of action is to also allow other citizens to hit you in the face?