skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laws against insider trading should be abolished. The statutory prohibitions cause real economic harm by making markets less efficient, while there isn't actually anything immoral about insider trading. It's not fraud, it's a victimless crime, and markets getting non-public information faster is good because it allows faster correction of the allocation of capital to companies that are worth more or less than is publicly known. People who have knowledge of the deficiencies of a company should have an incentive to make the public aware of them and correct the price at the same time, and a trade does just that.
I think I understand this perception to be the product of youngish, upwardly-mobile, well-educated people who are able to build enormous, fluid, flexible social/friendship/dating networks throughout their 20s living in L.A. or NYC that they couldn't build in St. Louis or Kansas City.

They're actually mostly right about that. [0]

The problem is that the perception remains well beyond its usefulness. Mid-sized Midwestern and Southern cities have everything a married couple in their 30s with (or without) a couple kids could possibly want -- all the stuff you mention and a lot more, really. And they provide it with a COL-tradeoff that can't be ignored.

I have a fairly good idea what people in New York think of my hometown and other cities like it and, frankly, they're wrong far beyond otherwise reasonable differences of opinion (as in they hold what are inarguably factually incorrect views (about, say, the size of Midwestern economies, the availability of jobs, the number of cultural institutions, the experiences of people of color and homosexuals (in urban centers, admittedly), the prevalence of ethnic restaurants, and on and on).

[0] I think it's exaggerated (especially in the sense that it's not for everybody), but real.
I hate the Patriot Act too, but beware unintended consequences.

How do you feel about laws like the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

I think that law continues to serve our society well. And I'm certain it would not be renewed by our current Federal government.

Ditto for regulations on water, sewage, pharma purity and many other laws that facilitate civilization. It's all very nice to say 'sunset every law', but we depend on many of them being in place.

Like removing redundant rivets on an aircraft. You can't be sure which ones are critical. The cost of discovering that can be quite high.
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so does this mean that the cold run startup time thing has really been improved enough to build web applications? To me that is the biggest killer in moving forward, not knowing what the end users experience is going to be like because of cold startups that forces a user to wait a long time.

From the article's data, it's really tempting to use AWS Lambda now given this benchmark.
Oh, I thought we were talking about something else: _Space Invasion of Lapland_

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invasion_of_Lapland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Dxo8tYU3M
> No one is making the argument that Google discriminates based on race or sex.

The third cause of action of the filing is literally "workplace discrimination due to gender and/or race in violation of FEHA".
If you're talking about Damore then I believe that's less about what was said and more about how it was stated.
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>the purchase or sale of a security of any issuer

I don't see where they ban refraining from trading.
Well, today Apple is trust Akamai with a certificate for their origin: apple.com

In this future, it seems like the content will be signed with Apples TLS certificate/key and then the content can be distributed by anyone.

This could open the doors for a more distributed web too :)
It would be good to add the base size for the observed effect in each study.
Small societies also mean small markets. That's one of the reasons why so few of the largest and most successful companies were founded in small countries; you need a certain critical mass to allow for growth and economies of scale.
This post was helpful to me, as well as #4 of the same series: Event loop and the rise of Async programming

I come from a native programming background, and whenever I worked on front-end javascript I always felt I didn't quite grasp what's just behind the code.

These posts were a big help in getting rid of unknown unknowns.
This is speculation based on rumour. We don’t even know if Zuma was something other than a block of concrete.

Wait until Northrop Grumman or their secret customer releases an official report. Otherwise the facts are that Falcon 9 delivered a secret payload to orbit, landed the first stage, and SpaceX is now preparing for three more launches this month.

Can HN please stick to facts and leave rumour-mongering to other groups?
I thought someone had cornered the market for beef sandwiches in space.
Some people, uhhh, really like porn.
In the same article, they describe their intent to, yes, restore timing resolution, once alternative mitigations mature.
Where can I actually read the spec? I'm not even much of a cryptographer, but I'm curious --- and the closed attitude is a contributing factor to things like this:

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/10/16/falling-...
My bad - the OP was arguing that insider trading is a good thing, and the response was a criticism of that argument.
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> Also nobody ever seems to ask: diversity of what exactly?

https://www.bis.org/review/r160531e.pdf asks literally "Diversity of what exactly?"
Google is a for profit company. Damore obviously did not help that with his views of women and Google did as any company with a brain would do and get rid of him.

Why on Earth do you think a former Google engineer is sitting at home unemployed? You would never want him on a team that had to get something done.

There is so many reasons to fire him and it is California so Google did not even need a reason.

But the more interesting thing is how did the become a right wing thing? Who was able to pull that off and use this as something to gen up the right wing? Is it not a bit manipulative of the right wingers? Do they not see it?
You forgot the part where, for the sake of simplicity, their stdlib directly invokes syscalls (rather than going through libc). Which breaks on platforms where syscalls are not considered a stable API, like the BSDs and macOS:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16606
Been soldering/desoldering that very type of equipment for many decades; it is perfectly normal, and what you would have seen in commercial products of the time, from TVs to computers to even military, IIRC.
> You think a guy who got fired after a few years of work experience would rather make a company look bad than gain financial security?

No, I think Damore is savvy enough to be aware of (and, given his participation in right-wing media after the memo blew up, whether or not this was in his mind in advance, has likely since been counseled by others even more aware of) the fact that his route to maximizing financial returns from this affair lie in maximizing the media impact and his centrality to it, not maximizing the lawsuit payout.

> The reason we are hearing about the lawsuit is because he did try for a settlement, with terms much like you deacribe, and Google refused.

Pure speculation, both as to whether he attempted at settlement and what the terms he requested were if he did.

> You only go to court as a last resort, and that's what this is

That's obviously not a universal truth.

> That's also why we are only hearing about it now instead of when it happened

Damore filed an NLRB complaint almost simultaneously with his firing (it was subsequently withdrawn) and immediately started his intent to file a lawsuit; we know from the details of the law suit and the Damore camps own description that they spent the intervening time gathering stories to support a class action. You are spinning a fantasy out of speculation.
Because Americans can't be expected to remember the PIN to their CC and that would cause lost sales.
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I'm not sure if Martha Stewart is on par with the Intel corporation, but she is worth half a billion dollars, so I digress.
> For everyone else: what's the point of suggesting that there was a failure? It doesn't make anyone look good...

Making SpaceX look like a failure is entirely the point. It is very possible to profit in the stock market by making people look bad.
There were several years where that was basically my routine. Wake up, eat a bit, go to the gym, weightlift, go home.

I’ve been weightlifting for about 12 years though.
> So you think that people who have the ability to affect the value of a publicly traded good should be allowed to trade on actions that they can plan and know about in advance?

Insider trading laws don't stop this from happening. People not considered "insiders" can impact the price of stock. For example, in 2007 Lululemon stocks took a temporary dive when their seaweed claim was challenged:

"Not so, says the New York Times, which commissioned its own test after a Lululemon investor, who is shorting its stock, supplied the paper with lab results."

That, of course, doesn't include market professionals:

"Market professionals gain disproportionately from bans on insider trading because they are in a position to act on information that insiders cannot use, and can do so more quickly than any other group, including shareholders" [1]

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=l9PuCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA161&lpg=...
I'm a bit surprised at no mention of importance of sleep. Why is that?

Or is this because that falls outside of scope of what "longevity research" in this case means?
But your broker is on the hook for the difference if you decide to sell. In that instance they're taking the profit but also the risk. The issue here is that this guy found a way to make someone unwillingly take the risk.
What is it means for humanity?
The Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate in 2009-2010. Anything Obama and other Democrats thought was really important could have been forced through then.

(Indeed, they did force a major health care reform bill through with zero Republican support, mirroring how a major tax reform bill was forced through with zero Democrat support a few weeks ago.)
Obviously he did. Weird that is not obvious. But Google does not need a reason.

BTW, the fact that a former Google engineer is sitting at home unemployed would suggest he did do something wrong.
For federal tax purposes, virtual currency is treated as property: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf
Can someone explain the disclosure procedures that were actually followed? It seems like everybody freaked out at the same time. AWS had apparently already protected all but a "small percentage" of their VMs. If there was some kind of responsible disclosure taking place, allowing vendors time to upgrade, it seems like it wouldn't have had so much impact.
good this was reckless
...Facebook had a personal assistant service?
a - Women have a higher capacity at empathy (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19476221)

b - higher capacity of empathy might be in part to biological:
"Testosterone may reduce empathy by reducing brain connectivity" http://www.psypost.org/2016/03/testosterone-may-reduce-empat...

c- people who have a higher level of empathy might be interrested in fields which need a higher level of empathy, or seek to join fields that directly interact with people [ I don't have a source for this one. It seems logical to me, but it is unproven. if you know a study that proves or disproves it. Please link it]

d - higher levels of women interessted in other fields leads to less women interrested in tech
I wouldn't be surprised if his intention is to take this further than just a settlement. There's a great deal of social momentum pushing for Google to be accountable for this whole debacle at a larger scale than that, and Damore is positioned to play the hero archetype on that front.
It doesn't, I was being ironic.
Actually California is very pro employer and maybe what you meant?

Google obviously has a lot of reasons to fire Damore but they do not even need a reason.

Former Google engineer sitting at home unemployed and unable to find a job supports he should have been fired.
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That is a bit of a red herring. He setup the automated trading schedule in 2015. In October 2017 he changed the rules of his automated trading schedule to dump his stock almost as if he was trading on insider information.

http://www.forexlive.com/news/!/intel-ceo-reportedly-sold-39...
SpaceX is a private company
I don't think the issue is if or when he sold the stock, but how much he sold and why he changed it to be 9x the amount previously scheduled.
Most companies would recall a product if it was unsafe, just to avoid the potential liability. However, the problem is that almost no guarantees are made in any way when you buy a product from Intel and any guarantees you think they made are immediately absolved of liability by legalese you "accepted" when you opened the packaging, etc.

Also, technically, their caches / tables still work as designed we just didn't understand that design very well.
> from a user perspective it's a great experience imho.

Until you need to share a link, wonder why the page loaded slower than normal thanks to 100Kb of render-blocking JavaScript, or get phished or believe a spoof because it has google.com in the URL.

I really like the stated goals but shipping something with usability problems is a great way to get tarnish its reputation. Hopefully this new incarnation will live up to the original hope.
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With current CPU design there is only so much that can be done, but the architectural fix seems obvious to me, one that doesn't give up the performance benefits of speculative execution and branch prediction.

The data in caches, the TLB, and the state tracked by branch prediction must be segregated by the protected mode bit. That isn't sufficient so solve all the problems, but seems like it solves a number of them.
Google has zero to worry about. It is California so Google does not even need a reason. But come on! You could not have Damore in your ranks with his views and considering he is sitting at home unemployed unable to get a job supports it.

Who would want someone with his views on a team with women?
Yeah, those foreign spies will never catch on to this ruse — not like us intrepid HN commenters.
Sure. But discriminating on your own citizens based on where they were born (or where their parents were born in china’s case) is extra douchey.
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The headline is wrong. SpaceX says their mission (launch of the payload) was a success. The Northrup Grumman payload is responsible for the rest of the mission. SpaceX are literally only allowed to talk about their own rocket, since it's a classified mission. But the rocket made it to orbit and the upper stage deorbited in the same place as planned according to other observers.

Oh, and because it's a classified mission, we don't even know if the mission was INTENDED to stay in orbit. For all we know, it was a test of a reentry vehicle of some type. Additionally, off-the-record sources may just as well be lying about the result of the mission as they would be risking jailtime to leak results to reporters. This is a classified mission, no one is going to risk their job and their freedom just to make Andy Pasztor better able to troll SpaceX (which he has a long history of).

They may even be paid to intentionally spread misinformation (anonymously, so it can't be traced back) about the mission in order to protect the secrecy of the payload.

Additionally, SpaceX is continuing Falcon Heavy processing without skipping a beat, rolling out the vehicle just hours after mission completion. If there was a failure, there would be a stand-down to determine the cause before continuing.

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EDIT: I should point out that Northrop actually provided the payload adapter and handled integration: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=43976.msg1...
Author here. I've studied Forms/3 a bit! It's a good reference.

Flogo from Chris Hancock is also good to know about: https://llk.media.mit.edu/papers/ch-phd.pdf
ok what about this "Sex differences in brain size and general intelligence (g)" (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289616...)

"Abstract

Utilizing MRI and cognitive tests data from the Human Connectome project (N = 900), sex differences in general intelligence (g) and molar brain characteristics were examined. Total brain volume, cortical surface area, and white and gray matter correlated 0.1–0.3 with g for both sexes, whereas cortical thickness and gray/white matter ratio showed less consistent associations with g. Males displayed higher scores on most of the brain characteristics, even after correcting for body size, and also scored approximately one fourth of a standard deviation higher on g. Mediation analyses and the Method of Correlated Vectors both indicated that the sex difference in g is mediated by general brain characteristics. Selecting a subsample of males and females who were matched on g further suggest that larger brains, on average, lead to higher g, whereas similar levels of g do not necessarily imply equal brain sizes."
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According to Kester, the solder company, they were formed in 1899 to make flux cored solder. Looking at the 1933 Allied Radio clearly shows Kester rosin core solder.
Yes, this is a big problem.

Was watching a (non-related) YouTube video the other day when a recommended video on Sumerian tablets popped up. Being a bit of an ancient history buff I clicked on it. Took like 5 minutes plus to determine it was a crackpot UFO aliens created Sumerian culture video. Because it looked convincing at first.
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Why the Singularity Is Not a Singularity
It would be good to include some mental models for attitude towards money. Things I have noticed about myself:

No problem paying for something that absolutely needs to be done. E.g. repair a leak in the roof. Replace something.

Don't notice money spent on regular monthly payments. E.g. mortgage.

Don't notice $1000 spent as 50*$20 but more frightening to spend $1000 at once.

Fear of loss when investing is big. It feels like such a leap of faith to invest in anything.

However spending the same money as the investment on a holiday is OK for some reason.

Easier emotionally to not earn $1000 than to earn it and spend it, even though the financial outcome is the same. Has nothing to do with working hard etc.

It's hard to hodl!
Problem is that it had nothing to do with politics. Did you not see the memo and what Damore wrote? Nobody could have kept Damore around and the proof is nobody will hire him.
This number will always go down, because in SF only houses built before 1980 are subject to rent control.

Therefore, no houses are being added to rent control. And the number can only stay constant or go down.
How does a microcode update work? My sparse understanding is that instructions are physically encoded in the chips. That you could take a microscope and look at the different instructions.
> Yes, the most generous interpretation

Canada's most prominent food related export is Maple Syrup. Is it such a stretch? For them that's a very efficient export. And the native population used to eat a lot of Seal meat, so clearly that's the most efficient food for that area.

> Are you willing to have a discussion and apply the Principle of Charity or not?

Go for it. The growing season in Canada is so short you'd have to farm a ton of land to feed everyone. Tell me how you'd make it work.

Again, you have not explained why bother doing that?

> In 2005, the import of fruits, nuts, and vegetables into California by airplane released more than 70,000 tons of CO2, which is equivalent to more than 12,000 cars on the road.

That's it?? That's nothing. But why are you looking at airplane to California? Most food is shipped by truck, and California imports relatively little food.

And how much extra energy does it take to grow food in the wrong place? It's a comparison, not an absolute.

> And again, do you have any sources?

You can google just as easily as me. Here for example: http://freakonomics.com/2011/11/14/the-inefficiency-of-local...

"My conservative estimates are that under the pseudo-locavore system, corn acreage increases 27 percent or 22 million acres, and soybean acres increase 18 percent or 14 million acres. Fertilizer use would increase at least 35 percent for corn, and 54 percent for soybeans, while fuel use would climb 23 percent and 34 percent, for corn and soybeans, respectively. Chemical demand would grow 23 percent and 20 percent for the two crops, respectively.

In order to maintain current output levels for 40 major field crops and vegetables, a locavore-like production system would require an additional 60 million acres of cropland, 2.7 million tons more fertilizer, and 50 million pounds more chemicals. The land-use changes and increases in demand for carbon-intensive inputs would have profound impacts on the carbon footprint of our food, destroy habitat and worsen environmental pollution.

It’s not even clear local production reduces carbon emissions from transportation. The Harvard economist Ed Glaeser estimates that carbon emissions from transportation don’t decline in a locavore future because local farms reduce population density as potential homes are displaced by community gardens. Less-dense cities mean more driving and more carbon emissions. Transportation only accounts for 11 percent of the carbon embodied in food anyway, according to a 2008 study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon; 83 percent comes from production."
The only thing I see is that smartphones fixed boredom. Waiting 15 minutes or even 45 minutes in line is no longer a painful experience.
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Rosin core predates that computer by a half century, at least. Kester was formed in 1899 just for that purpose, according to them. Was just looking at Allied Radio 1933 and rosin core solder is prominent. Not sure why the comments; radio building was at high form in the early 20th century.
Yes, I'm sure Damore claims he was excellent. But claims of excellence do not correlate perfectly with actual excellence. And neither do promotion packets; I'm sure we've all worked with somebody who did better on paper than was justified.

So I'd still like to see his code. And talk with some of his coworkers.
At present, there are two more parts linked at the top; both are similar to this in length.
I generally agree with Friedman that insider trading is not as bad as it is portrayed for some of the reasons you mention. But there is also another side of the coin, particularly with CEO's: he had the command to disclose there was a high impact security issue, and chose not to and profited from it. In this case, he was participant in creating the trade.

As such, he sold stock to people that didnt know about a piece of information he was withholding. So im not so convinced there shouldnt be any insider trader laws.
Total moron.

He will lose, yet again.
Oh you're right. Specifically, they kept the CFBundleShortVersionString the same, but updated the CFBundleVersion. My guess is that updating CFBundleShortVersionString is a marketing decision. Maybe Apple is waiting till all the WebKit fixes related to Spectre/Meltdown are available before updating it?