skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are CBOE and CME are providing liquidity (fulfilling buy/sell orders) or are they simply operating a pool where traders bring their own positions and act as a settlement platform between participants?

How can they grantee 'legality' of the coins being traded by those participants in the 2nd scenario? Let's say then the coins being traded in the 2nd scenario are identified by the IRS as 'bad coins' - will they freeze the coins held by that account until the legal dispute is settled?

How can you grantee the legality of coins in an option contract if the coins held by one party prior to the contract expiration are seized?

I'm very curious how they're going to handle these scenarios. Personally, I wouldn't trade on this.
Why is it so hard to shoot down a missle? I always thought that ballistic missles travel with a very predictable speed and direction.

So hitting them should be an easy task for a guided missle as long as it got enough time to reach it at all (which I think is not the problem here). So the only problem I can see is to disarm the missle during flight but am not sure if that is what is meant here.

Does anybody know why it should be hard to shoot down a ballistic missle?
That was a pretty decent article until the part with video games.
Those 'standard extensions' are pointless though, aren't they? Capable of absolutely nothing of importance? They're just scraps of HTML and some CSS with extreme limitations on what they can access is my understanding. If Chrome has a security hole that AV vendor X knows about, would such an extension have the power to prevent Chrome from loading it and getting exploited anyway?
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It seems like a vast majority are low quality questions asked by people with a questionable grasp of English.

I'd like to see some studies on quality through the times as SO grew.
It is irrelevant if rules are bad or rules are good. It is only relevant what the rules are at the time of the competition.

Rules can always be changed but it must be done before the beginning of the game.
You know nothing.
It could be a conspiracy.

Or it could be too many column inches to fill and not enough time to fill them with something insightful.

Yeah, probably conspiracy.
The magnetic head that writes to the disk, is fairly small and close to the platter. The flux is very contained. So that part seems negligible in the overall scheme of things.
> go needs go, haskell needs haskell, rust needs rust

That's painful. It's one big point which Nim [1] does better. It compiles to C and bootstraps from C. That makes porting to other platforms much easier.

I don't understand why Haskell and Rust don't provide bootstrapping from C. Did they write the first compilers with Assembler?

> You just don't notice it because these two languages are already part of the base system.

C (not C++) has become the essential foundation on any platform. You will likely not be able to sell your embedded system unless it supports C.

[1] https://nim-lang.org
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Handling emotions?
Bitcoin is a currency right? Where is the Forex level leverages being offered? We need to speculate on bitcoin with 100:1 or 200:1 to really get this bubble expanding.

Failing that, ill settle for a x3 ETF
All the more reason to replace it with David's Sling.
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I agree. Also there are new dubious tags describing the Generation Z[1]. "Most of Generation Z have used the Internet since a young age, and they are generally comfortable with technology and with interacting on social media."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z
>> to reduce imaging expenditure or increase surgical turnover.

That opens a pile of other issues. For reference, when I showed up at the ER it was a Canadian hospital. They called the surgeon in early, for me. I think word went out that they were spinning up an OR early and the ultrasound tech rushed in. So cost and turnover weren't really an issue. Everyone was salary, the equipment owned, and nobody standing to profit by cutting into me without need. Frankly, everyone had a good laugh at how quickly the system came together. But I did fall into that category of people who showing up on evenings weekends that, statistically, don't do as well.
In some cases this sharing of passwords has turned out to be rather convenient. Like when you get accused because logs show that you did something wrong, you have this "Oh, I don't recall doing that - must have been one of the 15 people who regularly access the systems with my credentials" defense. We had at least one case where police officer played this card after being accused of checking records he had no legitimate reason to check.

Especially when facing criminal charges (or public scrutiny), this kind of tricks can actually work. Especially if you manage to show that this was widespread in organization and management has not taken steps to stop this bad practice.
> It won't surprise me to see a WebAssembly backend for Flash.

If Adobe was smart, they'd have started working on am asmjs (later WebAssembly) + webgl output for Flash a long time ago.

Alas they're not exactly forward-planning and let the platform die, and its tools fizzle. Today there's already better alternatives that do things more cleanly/natively (like Pixijs). If you use TypeScript with Pixijs, it's like having a much more advanced ActionScript, better development tools (your browser's devtools), and better performance. You lose a "stage" for free drawing, but that was more often than not a misused feature anyway (and one that has good alternatives in the DOM/JS world anyway).
You don't need AI. A simple fuzzy string match and some basic rules around it (ie, allow 25% fault across all tests, so your useragent can change 20% and the other strings can change 5% without you needing to reauth).

The simplest defense is to never log the user out and only ask passwords for special things (like Github's Superuser Mode)
Well, shouldn’t things that can’t sell their stuff anymore fail?

In Denmark where I’m from, municipalities have grouped together to build open source software as a response to a market which fails to deliver the products we want.

The industry response has been lobbying the government and trying everything in courts because it’s viewed as “job theft”. Well, not all industry, some companies have figured out software as a service, open APIs and agile corporation is where it’s at, but the big old dogs are playing the blame game.

In 10 years the old dogs won’t be around, because just like the diamond industry, they ran out of things people wanted to buy.

I mean, you can blame millennials all you want, but the most watched sporting event in 2017 was still the CSGO finals featuring a Danish team. You either adapt or you disappear because the people who are into your aged ways are only going to continue dying.
If compilation exhausts the IA32 address space, then I'd say it's not adequately performant as a whole, regardless of how "efficient" the resulting binaries might be.
Making it difficult to decompile the source code is a feature not a bug.
Yea I can see this backfiring over the long term.

A counter example is Nintendo, where Sakurai was literally recorded, so people wouldn't be confused about the project status and what he told them to do.

https://www.polygon.com/2013/11/20/5127488/a-day-in-the-extr...
Same here. I'm an artist, but my work is in math and physics visualizations so I come here for that kind of content as well.
Being snarky I would ask you how is that working out for you?

I bet on the call your replies are short. So just reverse the order: make your emails short and to the point with the abstract of your reasoning behind it. End with you can discuss in detail on a conference call. I bet no one takes you up on it.
Those are reasons to offer fallbacks and alternatives for users who don't have access to an up-to-date browser. They're not reasons to ignore modern web technologies that are a good fit for the problem you're solving.
Processes that ensure high value code (longevity, readability, maintainability) rarely are, but that's what pays the bills.
I think this a well made point that many developers fail to appreciate.

Some processes are there to make people productive, prevent them from distractions and help resolve issues...

...but an equally important set of things you’re doing is providing estimates and feedback to the business, so they can make strategic plans and not look stupid to customers.

A lot of process fails (particularly in agile) seem to stem from failing to understand why they’re being done.

Retrospectives aren’t for planning technical debt sessions; they’re there to explain why you didn’t deliver on time. You made some bad estimates? Well, if you don’t go back and review them, guess what, you’ll never get any better at it.

Were those deadlines arbitrary? Maybe, but aren’t you glad you didn’t have to sit in a meeting explaining why things won’t be delivered when you said they would, and oh yes, how stupid you are and so very sorry, its not good enough is it.

Those are meetings no one wants to have.

If you’re forcing your workmates to have them by half heartedly doing a process, your team isn’t doing their job; even if they’re highly productive and produce high quality output.

Scrums aren’t a tech briefing. No one really cares what you did yesterday. Its your chance to ask for help if you need it, and a chance for the team to make sure everyone is on point and not drifting off into Q-space working on something irrelevant.

Basically, whatever the process, people don’t just magically ‘get it’: you have to actually articulate what you’re doing, and who’s benefit it is for, or its a meaningless mess of going through the motions.
I hadn't heard of Fanout before. I can't find any info about its global infrastructure - what regions does it serve?

It might be helpful in the new year. I'm developing a module for my app which uses websockets but I'm concerned about the performance for our clients in areas not served by AWS such as the UAE.
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This is easy to refute for crypto fans.

In your scenario, a third-party prints $159,600 USD. (aka inflation, government deficit/debt, quantitative easing...).

Time will tell who's right.
It's a quote from Socrates.
They're going very fast and even small errors in the estimate of their position and velocity will be enough to miss. Also, the motion is less predictable if they're in the atmosphere.
Dude, he is quoting.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-childre...
Yup, and most items on their site of no focus state, which is bad for accessibility.
It has been attributes to Plato, but check my link in the sibling comment.
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Those would only help limit login sharing; they're not solutions to the problem of making account delegation easier to do (and to understand).
I'll take "Apocryphal Socrates Quotes" for $500 Alex
It's a quote from a Greek dude nearly 2300 years ago.
Hah, well boomers do take money out of the stock market, while it's millennials putting money in (401K). Boomers take out social security, while it's millennials are paying for it.

Personally, it seems like it's the millennials keeping the whole system afloat!
I'm pretty sure this is a cash-settled future. No coins are changing hands.
This is what Chrome already does: it uses a utility process to host the common file dialog. See https://cs.chromium.org/search/?q=CallGetOpenFileName&sq=pac...
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>go needs go

No it doesn't. You can use gccgo to bootstrap go.
Having worked at companies that do this crap, nope. It does not sound crazy, especially if the company self insures.
These are all cash-settled futures. Suppose I buy and you sell a future marking Bitcoin at $10,000. The next day, Bitcoin is $11,000. You give me 1,000 U.S. dollars. (The exact mechanics depend on various factors. I’m stylising.) The next day, Bitcoin falls to $9,000. I give you 2,000 U.S. dollars. Et cetera until the contract is over.

Many investors want exposure to Bitcoin. A significant subset therof are perfectly happy with the financial system as is. They want Bitcoin to look like any other financial asset. These futures are the beginning of Wall Street serving that demand.

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice. Not all futures work like this. Review investments with a lawyer and/or investment advisor.
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Performance in web apps is not a goalpost for everybody. While there's certainly web apps that are problematic in terms of performance, you're unlikely to be running at 100% CPU the whole time, so it's not like using C will be the right solution.

I can see how C/C++ (and, well, more likely Rust) will become a de-facto solution for when you need performance or some type of robustness to your apps (ie probably the right thing for Figma). But the potential performance improvement might be negligible on most makes, and unlikely to offset the fact that you'd be working off a completely different stack making things like debugging and inspecting much harder.

What I think is likely is that using WebAssembly will allow new types of web apps to become popular. Things like video encoders, image editors, etc. Things that you just wouldn't do with JS anyway, at least not in the heavy parts. Thing of a standard web app that uses ffmpeg on the background.
And I'm quoting (apocryphal) Socrates :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing
It does not. We have defined a totality of the market. Since it does not fit crypto-nutcases view of the world, they come up with the slogans: QE! Fiat! Inflation!

Do you at least accept that in the market described above coin value is fictitious as soon as totality of the market is value for coins is higher than $400?

[late edit]: Do note that it is not to mean that there's no money to be made before the collapse - there are tons of fools who are willing to part with it. That's why financial firms are starting to salivate looking at it.
Even as a hypothetical that's an unrealistic question. Since we have a shortage of doctors in many regions and specialties due to price controls and educational pipeline bottlenecks, even if it was possible to rate doctors with a reasonable degree of accuracy (and in reality this generally isn't possible) some patients would still end up getting stuck with the worst performers. The only difference is that instead of the selection being mostly random as it is now, under your hypothetical the patients who would switch to the best doctors would be the wealthiest and best informed; the poor, elderly, and illiterate would continue to get screwed. Is that really the outcome you want?
I don't buy that argument. Each platform has similar but different functions for doing all common things, the graphics API's are converging on a similar design as well.

To make it clear, the main platforms for more AAA-like titles are Windows/PC, PS4, XboxOne, and now the Switch. The main platforms on mobile are iOS and Android. Each of these requires an adaptation layer to be written because they are all different to each other, some more than others though.

So you can "lock" yourself into one of these platforms, "lock" yourself into using an engine or existing library which covers some subset of those platforms, or write your own adaptation layer and engine.

For learning and experimenting it's quite easy and convenient to focus on a particular platform, Windows/PC in this case is a good simple default since it's available and doesn't require NDAs, licensing, etc.
And it looks like the right logic except the part that boomers feel entitled to complain about everything.
>doctor's might be incentivised not to treat patients which make their numbers look bad.

If your concern is with metrics arbitrage, then it is not necessary to use quantitative metrics to satisfy concerns about bodily autonomy. One might instead require providers to furnish anonymized records of all the adverse events their patients have experienced, along with any mitigating factors they think absolve them of responsibility.

I think the issue of quantification is actually a red herring. A simpler example will indicate whether or not there are differences in our ethical intuition. I am scheduled for a "routine" surgery, but yesterday's patient who was having the same surgery by the same doctor had a major artery sliced, bled out and died. All the staff are aware of what happened, but no one tells me. In fact, even if I ask, people are instructed to say nothing. If I possessed this information, I would almost certainly decide not to proceed. I go ahead with the procedure based on the understanding that death is a much more remote possibility than those treating me happen to believe. Is this or is this not a violation of my bodily autonomy?
I had trouble understanding bitcoin myself, and therefore stayed away from it, but what made me understand it, if shinny metals and compressed carbons pieces have huge markets, eg. gold has a cap of 7 trillions and bitcoin is just 150 billions, and just work why bitcoin would not also work, even when you buy gold jewellery or diamonds, in the back of your mind is the resell value, (hedge against inflation), not that they look much better than a fake, or the coated version.

Maybe in US inflation isn't a problem but in my country until a few years 7% inflation was low, although maybe the official inflation is low, but as far as I know asset prices have gone up due to quantitative easing.
Here is a video of the awesome Sprint ABM missile - (0 to Mach 10 in 5 seconds) - it includes a near miss of an ICBM RV and the RV makes the Sprint look slow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msXtgTVMcuA

Edit: Sprint was meant to defend against ICBMs - but the idea is the same, ballistic missile warheads are going very fast and really aren't that big.
I wish the day came sooner when we could use linux for power-constrained devices, leaving the classical embedded approach behind. I imagine it for about $20, with BT, lasting for a week on a 500mah battery and running OpenWRT/LEDE.
>Unions exist to lobby for their members; teaching unions represent teachers, not students. //

In the UK I have some knowledge of the work of one of the largest teaching unions the NASUWT.

The members are teachers. They're primarily teachers because they have a passion for teaching. As such their union actively works to improve _learning_ in schools and so lobbies for activity that benefits pupils.

An example. Pupils get a certain amount of money allocated, that money is allocated politically and in a devicive way but does not impact on wages at all, nonetheless the union lobbies for fairer and more transparent distribution of such pupil stipends.

The union does help it's members, but it also does research, shares best practice, and I dare say other things, that help improve _teaching_ too.

They also campaign on social issue - racism, sexism, forced marriage, ... even when it's not directly related to teaching.

Perhaps your characterisation is true of specific teaching unions in USA?

The issue with the Reassignment centres appears to be they can't sack teachers for doing unlawful things without a trial (seems reasonable, presumption of innocence), they lack evidence to go to trial, but they feel the teacher can't be trusted.

What's your solution? Sack people without due process? So sack teachers when there's a suggestion they might have done something wrong? In situations where pupils can easily make false allegations (without repercussions on themselves) that enables pupils to get teachers fired very easily; is that fair in your opinion?
> Windows versions less than 10, are effectively dead and gone.

Ha! Don't we all wish. Here's the marketshare numbers from this month [1].

- Windows 7: 43%

- Windows 10: 30%

- Windows XP: 6%

- Windows 8: 5%

And companies are going to be buying extended support for 7 no different than XP so you'll have to wait out that 5 years.

[1] https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...
why can you put in negative numbers as the amount?
Ballistic missiles move very fast. Repost: http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html
> I don't understand why Haskell and Rust don't provide bootstrapping from C. Did they write the first compilers with Assembler?

I don't know about Haskell, but the first Rust compiler was written in OCaml. See for instance the comments at https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6nt2j1/is_there_any_e...
It's cash settled. No actual Bitcoins change hands:

http://cfe.cboe.com/cfe-products/xbt-cboe-bitcoin-futures

This is not unprecedented. If you look at weather futures, for example, nobody's going to want to take delivery of a petagram of cool air. Or think about index futures: who wants to receive 1 share of 500 different stocks at settlement time? When the underlying commodity is hard to work with and people still want to gamble^W hedge their risk, cash settlement solves plenty of problems.

That makes sense here. People who need wheat or steel to run their business and want to lock in prices might buy futures. But approximately nobody actually has a business need to deliver 1,000 bitcoins in February. At best, they might want to hedge some sort of risk. But more likely, it's straight up speculation from people who don't care about Bitcoin as such, but just want to get in on the action.
Unless convinced otherwise and after following the link in the sibling comment I woukd assume OP mentioned 'Kepner-Tregoe' as a jest.