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I don't think that's entirely fair - let's say your parents made $500,000 a year; if you made 90 billion, wouldn't that still be self-made? Sure, it's not as self-made as Carnegie or Rockefeller who would have been 10/10 as child-laborers turned wealthiest men in the world, but it's not exactly Trump or JP Morgan Jr., either.
So should Firefox, Safari, Opera, and edge all just throw in the towel so we can standardize on chrome? Because I always thought having options was a good thing. You seem to want to get to personally pick winners and losers "because fragmentation".
Yeah. All of the tech listed here, but this one especially. When I first heard about it, I thought it was spectacularly stupid.
Interesting perspective on single-payer.
That argument is based on the premise that the best thing to do is be cowardly if it benefits you, even if it costs a lot of people who you have a duty towards substantial amounts. The long term prospect of repeatedly caving to corruption taking relatively small portions of the population hostage is eventual corruption of the entire system -- death of the system -- which costs the futures of the very people who would be angry at you.

I'm not sure I agree with that premise.
If you have to pick a smart home thing I'd actually get something like SmartThings. It's amazing actually how nice it is not to think about things like turning on lights, locking doors, etc. You can wake up to coffee (and not on a timer, literally when you wake up it'll detect your motion and start brewing it), etc.
That can't happen if the incoming particle is a single photon. One way to convince yourself is to realize that a closed system consisting of a single photon is massless, therefore it cannot later contain a massive particle without violating conservation of mass (in the sense of E^2 - p^2).

Another way to think about it is that a photon contains the maximum amount of momentum possible for a given amount of energy. (E = p). If you transform any of its kinetic energy into rest energy, there's nothing that can carry the excess momentum.

However if the photon is in the presence of a massive particle, that particle can soak up the excess momentum, and pair production is possible. Alternatively if you have two photons, their momenta can cancel and pair production is again possible.

A fun physics problem is a photon striking an electron and producing an electron-positron pair; what was the minimum energy of the photon, in terms of electron rest energies? It's not two, for the reasons given above!
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Also, healthcare isn't the only industry with that type of problem.

That makes the issue more resonant, because the deep corruption of the legal system and routine criminality of corporations cuts across pretty much every facet of life.

Intentional criminality by corporations should be treated exactly like intentional criminality by gangs, with the leaders rounded up and served sentences according to the scale they operated on. Anything in excess of a billion dollars of criminal activity should be a life sentence.

I somehow think compliance would be much better if executives were held responsible for it. But... That's how corruption works -- they're not.
There's actually quite a lot of puzzle solving involved that makes it interesting. I think there are a lot of misconceptions of the industry at large and it suffers from bad PR after the global financial crisis. It's an interesting software problem to try and write algorithms that can earn alpha regardless of what is happening in the market. If anything computers have made our markets more efficient and it is great for price discovery.

It may not be the same as creating a product or service that people love or solves a need, but it is an interesting problem to tackle.
Hey Aalleavitch,

Sorry about the experience, feel free to email me at either of my emails in my profile if you'd like to bounce some ideas off someone or get some feedback. I think I can empathize with your situation - I've been part of the hiring decision for a number of developers without CS degrees or even college degrees.

Best,

-Mason
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In many ways I believe this the value of HackerOne (they effectively administer bug bounties on behalf of other companies).

They understand what constitutes reasonable, necessary and/or expected by both the security communities AND company/legal and can work as a party to both sides with standard agreements, suggestions, etc.
Meh. This works when you’re algolia and co and your “users” are developers. When your users are real users and you’re not dealing with web resources that can be live updated, a release is a big deal and shouldn’t be treated so blithely.

When we release a new version of a native desktop software, we are “owning” that release and taking responsibility for it. Our customers pay money for our products, and if someone (especially a new customer) we’re to download a broken build in that time, it will cause a much bigger headache than having to wait a bit for a release to go out.

There are two extremes, and this article switches between them: release early and break often, and release rarely but break nothing. For algolia to have shipped a broken release and have only one person that can release is the problem. Either a release is no big deal and everyone can release and it’s ok if a release is and, or a release is a really big deal and only select people can release to ensure the quality of releases.

The answer isn’t globally “make releasing easier,” it’s to decide which model best suits your company product, and embrace that. Either test your releases like crazy to make sure you don’t ship broken code, or make it easy and fast to fix a bad release.
Me too, and that was my first Bond movie. My dad said I'd like it. I was skeptical but boy oh boy was he right.
The crazy part is when you actually take out a tape measure and visualize 9.6 meters.
Sweet! I like that it only plays if the tab is active.
huh, so what do i need to learn to be one of these ridiculously expensive people working w/ kdb?
> We've already asked you this.

Am I on some kind of a black/gray list? Either that, or you specifically remember my name, which sounds odd.
Do you know the name of the EU provision that makes 2 year warranties on products mandatory?
It's a bit more involved than this. Current market doesn't really follows fundamentals. I dug into advanced theory quite a bit and that won't help me peanuts when trying to unfold what people mean with their patterns and ways. Quite the opposite some times, angular 1 for instance, it was a bit insane what they assembled.. unlike anything fundamental if you ask me.
The number of engineers and commits is probably in the same ballpark at Amazon. With a DVCS, far less operations are done server side, so I would imagine the read requests are an order of magnitude or two lower. They have tooling to get a global view across all repos, however there are no cross-repo atomic operations (those can be managed in their build system in a relatively robust way).

What advantage does a company wide mono repo provide?
Yeah, my thoughts exactly.

> A chord is 3 notes played at the same time.

It's not like you have to dig too deep to discover four-note 7th chords, diminished/augmented, inversions, etc...
Face the market you work market hours. Tech doesn't have that limit. Both are cyclic, but FB is probably here to stay. Finance can be very dynamic: think LTCM.
I don’t know, you should ask their advertising team, otherwise known as their entire source of income.
Regarding 4, I'm curious why it's in this list with the others. It certainly makes life better for the individual, but doesn't losing all its top talent to foreign countries hurt developing countries?
Then why did he support another person's presidential run?

And why is it a problem for him to concentrate power so long as the power transfer is consensual? or democratic?
What I find more surprising is the length they went through to make git work for them.

It would probably have been better if they had assigned a team of highly skilled engineers to design a distributed source control from scratch specifically to solve the problems faced by the windows team.

After all, `git` itself was developed for Linux because Linus was not satisfied with any of the existing solutions.
Last I checked TV has taken a beating from Netflix and other streaming platforms.

I personally never believed in new media's limitless newconomy rise to the stars. Nobody wanted to pay for newspapers anymore but web journalism was going to be different?

Internet advertising is growing up.
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> Second, the Vietnam War did not succeed in containing communism

Sure it did, or at least it helped. As with many conflicts of that era, North and South Vietnam were proxies for the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A.

Note that the U.S.S.R. no longer exists. It's been completely eliminated from the face of the earth. That counts as winning, by most standards.

Vietnam started the process of bleeding them dry, and Afghanistan finished it.
I'd start with https://code.kx.com/q4m3/
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See that's the thing. I don't know what "earning alpha" means and why I should care, and working on "price discovery", which is also something I am unaware of, sounds more like a punishment than a reward.
It is required because bad actors historically manipulated lease accounting to misrepresent their contracts and future payments they are liable for. It is not 'debt' - it is a contractual liability, valued at a fair and reasonable value (including valuation of termination provisions).
I don't quite see the point in this. If you are paying with a credit card you aren't on the hook for any fraudulent charges anyway.
Oh my. that's just.. wow. Obviously done before code-review became a standard!
>I am not talking so much about porting an entire language run-time for a language with a very system dependent run-time, and I am not talking about useful libraries of these languages, I am talking about garbage collection.

I'm talking about the former as pretty much the entirety of my previous comment tried to convey.

>I also don't see the advantage of WebAssembly as a compiler target in general.

The advantage is it would be a single target.

>So it's impractical in some cases because of large binaries, not for any of the reasons you've pointed out so far. Giving WebAssembly programs a way to integrate with the VM GC will change this how, exactly?

It's impractical primarily because it's not production-ready. In the interests of pedantry however, reliance on a VM GC would likely result in a somewhat smaller binary size.

>In Blazor's case the large file size can likely be attributed to things not strictly related to the run-time, like the core libraries.

Per its readme: "This is because Mono on WASM doesn't yet have any IL stripping or minification, and bundles a large runtime that includes many desktop-related features that are irrelevant on the web."

>What is general web use, and how does it relate to WebAssembly?

Most people use the internet to visit websites. Most major websites optimize their page loads as much as possible to fit as many ads in as they can without completely tanking the user experience. Using the previous example, a 4MB binary doesn't fit that use case. It would be more the realm of specialized applications.

>What are the alternatives?

Javascript ecosystem or production-ready compiled languages that target wasm.
Despite being a very intelligent apex predator with a diverse diet[1], orcas apparently have never killed a human in the wild before in recorded history, and there is only one recorded case of an orca even biting a human[2]. Of course fatal attacks by captive orcas are well known.

Still, orcas are magnificent animals.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale#Feeding

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale_attacks_on_humans
It may be close for the first year or so due to the signing bonus, but 3-4 years in if you're performing at the expected level at a trading firm you should be making double the 200-250k number, and I doubt the tech firms match that kind of compensation (at least for most people).

Another factor you may wanna consider is the opportunity cost -- how hard would it be for you to work at GOOG/FB if the trading firm job doesn't work out? And vice versa?
Source: http://aresjournals.org/toc/jhor/26/1?code=ares-site

A more citation ready article is here http://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/homeowners-cant-count-o... but overall owning and living in your own home isn't a vehicle for wealth.
Nice work! Am I crazy or are the pulldowns for accidentals not doing anything?

> There doesn't seem to be any indication of major/minor.

There's a line in there about capital/lowercase of roman numerals not being important, by which I hope the author meant out of scope of the article. So I think they were explicitly just enumerating the chords of the diatonic scale.
I'm trying to hard to use siri but it never works.

"light"
> I don't understand

"flashlight"
> I can't do that

"why?"
> I couldn't say

"open the flashlight"
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The first line of the article runs contrary to the headline:

> Owning a home may help you save money, but it won't help you make money.

Even this point I disagree with. Is it not cheaper to own and maintain rather than rent, in the long term?
All this needs now is a free (at least commercial use allowed 64bit version, ideally OSS) kdb+.

I'd love to use this, many things are so much more straight forward in q than they are in pandas.
But if it means noone can run my software unless they pay for kdb+ it's a non-starter.

I wonder if this would work with Kona.
I'm surprised you didn't link an actual c file; everything related to k seems to trigger an exorbitantly high number of "what the fuck"s. https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona/blob/master/src/0.c for example.

http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10501320 is one of my favorite articles, though
If it's still unanswered and you actively want an answer to it, pease link it here. I'll make sure it gets triaged.

And thanks to OP. It looks like there are a lot of them that can be closed manually - a quick scan found quite a few that're dupes, but didn't get enough votes to close, or just had the dup in a comment. I'll prune some of those. (That's not to say there are unanswered ones that don't need answers.)
It's already happening in music with several different cryptos http://vectorspace.ai/recommend/app/crypto_discover?query=mu...
Thanks for providing the source; this comment clarifies the headline:

> “When you assume that those monies are reinvested at a rate of return, renting, on average, wins in terms of wealth creation,” Johnson said. “Of course, many renters will not reinvest those monies and will instead use them for consumer goods, which is the least desirable option in terms of building wealth.”

Mythical, prudently invested renters may beat RE appreciation. You can’t sleep in a vanguard account, but I suppose you can’t buy bread with equity either.
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As I said, vastly different views, to the point of being annoying.

We, as a country, are not in the business of "country-building" but rather survival and that of avoiding pain. Our government doesn't need talented individuals - they just need brainwashed populace and stability for their power. Thinkers are direct infraction to the system and usually are not tolareted.

Also, what do you expect disarray of talented individuals with no power to concentrate power to do alone in a society that doesn't recognize nor like them?
This is kinda funny, it undoes one of the original pillars of why git was made
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Not too likely to work if the builders know anything about making an efficient Dyson sphere [0].

0. https://www.tillett.info/2016/08/03/carnot-efficient-dyson-s...
That's all I thought about when reading this. The methods are all modern and the bread pictured would be a marvel to bread makers in Roman times.
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> How are these things supposed to be worked through if no one is willing to engage in a debate about them?

The first step in getting people to engage in a debate is for them to believe that the people in the debate will be acting in good faith. That's often not true—I wouldn't agree to an interview on Fox News, for instance, because I would have no confidence that they'd be acting in good faith.
At least two of the financial firms on OP's list are known for working you more than market hours, the average is well into the 60+ hours per week.
They're closer to Koch or Trump than anybody who labored from nothing.

Your hypothetical is why I agree a scale is better than a binary classification. I guess we might just disagree on the grade.
Price discovery means that anyone can find a fair price for some asset. For example, algorithms that provide liquidity in agriculture products ensure that farmers can easily liquidate their inventory, as well as hedging their risk through derivatives.
> who cares how they pay their bills?

People having that attitude towards content creators is how we landed in this mess in the first place.
Yup. Opened now.
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this worries me sometimes; i have finally (in my early 40s) moved from "specialising in the craft of programming" to getting a job in a domain that excites me (language tooling), but i am now a relative amateur in a field that is full of phds and the like, and i am not sure how large the field itself is going to be in say another 10 years.

i've been wondering if i should pick up something entirely different on the side (e.g. machine learning for broad applicability, though that does not excite me at all), or to instead diversify from my current niche but learn to write tools across a broader variety of languages and ecosystems. it's scary sometimes how the entire programming ecosystem can change overnight and leave once-valuable skills in the dust.
Hmmm, would it actually be twine? I'm thinking some sort of plant stalk, straw if you could tie it or bind it. (I'd guess straw's too brittle but it'd be readily availability if you're producing grain.)

I'm thinking, it doesn't have to be very strong, and if you can't reuse the twine anyway...
Yes, and as I said above: good for Twitter.

However, I notice that you don't have much to say about my argument against speech leading to violence. What do you think about that.
Doesn't that defeat the point of moving reads off the master? I guess they're lower cost reads though..
It doesn't have to be better, it just has to be "not much worse", so that people coupling it with FF on desktop won't feel like they are missing out. You will likely not get new users from Android first, but you should be able to make sure all your desktop users remain so when using Android devices.

Besides, Google is not exactly famous for internal synergies, for years they had two different browsers on Android and they still have multiple chat apps...
Most phones do have a "spy mode", it's just activated by the NSA.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/06/technology/security/nsa-turn...
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This is a really terrible review. I really want to say something that contributes more, but my god, this person does not understand or even care to understand Dennet. Again and again, he elides over all of Dennet's reasoning only to seize suddenly on the conclusion, which prima facie he disagrees with, as an apparent absurdity or contradiction. I don't intend to write an elaborate dissection of the article, but just as a particularly egregious example:

"Similarly, when Dennett claims that words are “memes” that reproduce like a “virus,” he is speaking pure gibberish. Words reproduce, within minds and between persons, by being intentionally adopted and employed."

The review can be summarized, in brief: "Dennet gives some 'ingenious' arguments that I do not particularly care to follow, but for all the effort, he does not seem to grasp the fundamental flaw - namely, that he disagrees with me."
PS:

A lot of people from my "generation" of hacker-scene hackers are commenting on Facebook about how they warned people back then what Draper was about. Which, they did. But mostly, Draper's proclivities were a joke to us.

I don't blame us too much. We were 18-19 years old and it was the mid-late 1990s.

But I'd sort of want to remind, um, us? that there are a bunch of other people with comparable reputations. I don't think they're my stories to tell (or, in my case, I guess my rumors to spread). But there are a lot of missing stairs in this field, not just that one.
> Is inequality a feature or a bug of capitalism?

Where does crony capitalism fit in?
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If you asked a random sampling of 1000+ karma HN users what my specialty was, a bunch of them would say "crypto", but I have 1 semester of college and didn't know CBC mode from CFB mode 8 years ago.

Some fields might be locked up by postgrads (crypto engineering is not one of them, and I doubt language tooling is either). You should check before you invest too much in it. But I would advise against being spooked by academic credentials. Good places to work care more about conversance than credentials, and you get to draft off of all the research work the academics publish before moving into industry to compete with you.
I know where I live they recently legitimized what used to be nonsense schools. Most of them offer courses for blue collar work tickets. Most of the people that own and operate these 'colleges' have ties with government. Shortly after these became recognized as rwal colleges suddenly you needed tickets to do the most ridiculous things. My wife was talking to a patient at her work once who was complaining because she couldn't find burlesque work because you need a ticket and a license to get jobs.