skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well actually, yes, pretty much. No trader actually succeeded in meaningfully moving the fix, precisely due to this mechanism - except for 1 guy - Tom Hayes, probably the best known of the Libor guys (the other guys were done for attempting to move the fix, not actually moving it)

Tom knew full well that it was impossible for a single guy to move the fix - go too high or too low and your submission gets chucked out. In the range, as 1 of 12 others, you aren't going to have a meaningful impact.

The only way of moving it is to get all submitters (or at least lots of them) to submit high or low fixes in your favour. But a cartel like that is never going to work:

1) It means revealing your positions to your trading counterparties and competitirs - not good
2) Others could be the other way round to you, and want to submit fixes against you
3) Even in those heady days of loose standards, setting up and running a cartel would be logistically tricky

So - what to do? Well Tom had a great insight. he realised that athe interbank lending market was pretty illiquid and there was wasn't much mush actual trading to reference. Most banks were submitting "best guesses" and those guesses were based on broker screens like ICAP. The rationale was that ICAP saw all the flows, so ICAP know the levels, so it was reasonalble to base your submission on the ICAP screens (ICAP screens are used as a reference in all sorts of markets, they are the gold standard).

Now Tom also raelised that ICAP weren't seeing much flow either and that their prices weren't much better than guestimates. So - he basically bribed a couple of brokers at ICAP to bump the screens. And that way he'd effectively bump the whole market as everyone was basing their prices on them! (He bribed the ICAP guys by executing "wash" trades, back-to-backs, that have no economic rationale, but generate brokerage fees).

So, in short, yes the top & tailing averaging approach is pretty robust. But of course no system is completely infallible.
This is controlled on browser level and most (all?) browsers implement this. Origin can be faked by just using anything that can make a http request, like curl. It exists to protect users not the server.
How’s the Canadian relationship with Russia going?
Not sure why you're being down-voted. Colonialism isn't capitalist, it's like the opposite of capitalism.

Nations going to war and invading each other for "economic reasons" is almost always a symptom of a mercentalism. War isnt a form of economic competition, it's a mechanism to enforce protectionism.

Unless we're using the humanities defintion of capitalism by which we mean "anything bad the west has done, up to and including the death of Socrates".
There's not enough details here to give a fair analysis, or useful response, I think.

Seems to me that you assume a few things; (1) that the CEO is not insanely busy, (2) that they hung up on you a few times, when it could be any number of technical issues, (3) that they are not human, and able to maintain optimism and momentum through multiple disconnects without giving up.

Also seems to me that you wrote that tweet out of frustration, while if you had waited a day and let yourself cool down, you probably would have worded it differently, or not written it at all.

Of course, I have no idea what the tweet said, so this is just pure speculation.

As for what you could do differently, I'd say: be somewhere with better reception while doing phone interviews, and if the other party misses lots of appointments, assume that they're (a) new to their job/role, and/or (b) very busy - but they've still indicated that they want to talk to you, so actively remember that each time you feel let down.
True, but the DNS rebinding attack is real and invalidates a lot of assumptions.
Why wouldn't a driverless car have a means of signalling nearby people? When it's not possible to directly indicate you are aware of a pedestrian by waving, a quick flash of the headlights is common.
All you're saying there is that BTC has first-mover advantage. That can disappear overnight.
> what is it with sysadmins maintaining large scripts while at the same time quipping that they are not programmers?

We've met some programmers, and don't want to be compared to that[1].

Seriously.

Programmers will embark on some massive mission that Apache and dumb CGIs can do[2]

Programmers will justify their slow software by saying it's readable, or by saying that the JIRA ticket didn't specify how fast the solution needed to be.

Programmers will make user interfaces that require clicking multiple times to find some bug, then require the report tediously repeat those clicks, complain that the bug report wasn't accurate (can't find a button that says "OK" when it says "Close", and there's no other buttons).

Programmers will actually shit in the pool, and say it improves readability. Seriously: I have seen programmers delete perfectly working code and replace it with something broken (especially on the edge cases) and then ask the sysadmin team to wake up at 3am to restart their software every night. Code that was working fine for years. Code that wasn't even in their project. Fuck that.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16155641

[2]: http://marcio.io/2015/07/handling-1-million-requests-per-min...
Thanks! Already fixed.
It's incredible that so many people were so ready to ignore your main point (police shouldn't be able to kill with impunity) and were eager to engage in a discussion about Tyler instead.
HiPEAC18 provides the expertise to advance computing in the face of crisis
Is there a list of hosted FaaS offerings somewhere?
That's a privilege of big countries like Germany, although Kazakhstan might qualify as well. I live in Estonia, a country of 1.3 million, and although there is a standard Estonian keyboard layout, there's basically zero products using it. [1] The local stores primarily sell laptops and desktop keyboards with the US ANSI layout. This is especially annoying, because ISO layouts like Swedish, UK, or even German would be a closer match to the Estonian standard. I also fear that this is impacting how many young people get into programming, because the Estonian layout binds three essential programming characters < > | to a key which physically doesn't exist on the US ANSI keyboard. I've seen it in practice how a friend tried to learn programming with his US ANSI keyboard, by copy-pasting those characters when needed. Not exactly an optimal situation. [2]

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[1] Most keyboards had the Estonian layout in early 2000s, but they soon rapidly lost market share, mostly due to laptops if I had to guess why.

[2] Why not use US ANSI layout in the OS to match the keyboard? Because it doesn't contain characters required to type Estonian words.
Sound could be a red herring
Modern C++ is a pleasure to work with, despite lacking a packaging ecosystem like Maven's. Though I agree it's way too easy to shoot oneself in the foot. Specially when dealing with large teams of not-so-great corporate developers.
Ah fair enough. I mostly skimmed, but searched through for "diacritic", "acute" and "accent" among others to see if it was mentioned - didn't think to use these.
Yes, it was very simple to setup, deploy and understand on an ongoing process, BGP is incredibly simple by design.

I’m heading to bed now (AEDST), but check out:

- https://docs.projectcalico.org/latest/getting-started/kubern...

- https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/calico-n...

And there’s plenty of other resources out there. IMO if you’re designing a highly available platform, BGP is one of the simplest parts of that complex system.

In my experience you’re likely to run into much more finicky problems with higher layer systems including failover delays, reliance on casting systems and state drift.
I don't agree. The project is indicating which major version of Angular it uses. The reasoning in the post you linked doesn't really apply.
Their products, especially APIS, have issues. Serious issues that are not being addressed because it's not their currently hip product.
Good stuff in GP list... plus I'm looking for rate limiting to curb abuse (in your service offering).
> Perhaps capitalism is realizing...

While it superficially looks good for corporations to "contribute to society" and they will fall over themselves to give lip-service for this idea, such goodwill will VAPORIZE in the instant they're no longer deeply in the black.

Sorry, but capitalism won't "realize" anything by itself. We should not leave any aspect of our social safety net up to the whims of hedge-fund a-holes, financiers and large corporations who have demonstrated over and over and over what they _really_ care about.
> Startup idea: a service that will let you search your inbox. Aka google for searching.

I don't mean to pick on you but picturing the perspective behind this comment is very funny and a little sad to me.

grep is almost 40 years old. It is free software, fast, and doesn't share your data with anyone. Small knowledge of the file structure of MIME enables more advanced search. This is all without mentioning desktop-based email clients.

Reading your comment, I can only picture some web-page javascript-based track-you-and-show-ads 15-employee company whom you give your email password so they can connect to another service and make high-latency queries on your behalf.

Shows how far we've come?
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Technology doesn't magically fix human problems, but good uses of technology can play to human strengths so that humans make fewer mistakes, or the mistakes have fewer bad consequences. BGP can and should be implemented so that the human operators are making the fewest possible mistakes and those mistakes have the least bad consequences. I doubt that protocol changes are what is needed, but that doesn't mean sitting on our hands is the right choice.
from browser ? No. from non-browser clients like curl ? Yes. And your server will never be able to tell if it is fake or not
Unidirectional payment channels are currently live on Ethereum. Here's a full explanation of those, along with bidirectional and networked channels, with Solidity sample code: http://www.blunderingcode.com/a-lightning-network-in-two-pag...

I guess I've been misusing the term "ledger." You're exactly right for Ethereum. Bitcoin has transactions with "unspent outputs." Each transaction can have multiple inputs and outputs; to make a transaction you collect unspent outputs from previous transactions, use them as your inputs, and typically make two outputs, one to the payee address and one that holds the change.
But this is the wrong way around. At least make it an option to offer the typo correction instead of forcing it on you. Think of how much money Amazon made with one click. Two clicks is twice the clicks. Focus on fast and relevant searches not trying to guess what I meant. It's great to have a typo correction on offer but let me decide whether I want that to be default -- I don't. I know what I am searching for.
No, not all of us. I didn't read the comment just fine either. I assumed a person who uses irrelevant misogynist slurs may have a personal grudge against the person he's insulting, so I'm not going to take anything he says about her very seriously.
Not necessarily, he didn't say "if and only if"
Slightly off topic; Not on the Results Accuracy for a minutes.

Ob­vi­ous­ly, in­dex­ing the whole Web is crush­ing­ly ex­pen­sive, and get­ting more so ev­ery day

Why? CPU, Memory, SSD has all gotten a lot faster and bigger. Bandwidth is also a lot cheaper for Google since they essentially owns the fibre. Faster Algorithm may have an even bigger impact.

I would have thought information, in terms of text ( Not Video and Pictures which is a few order of magnitude larger ) would now be cheaper then the old days.
Google is not suffering from memory loss, it's getting smarter day by day, The old school methods of expecting exact keywords are not going to work. This will eventually come down to context – knowing what you like, where you are and what you tend to search for.
Iceland is the better example - during the boom years they were offered loans in Euro instead of their national currency. Then after the crash when their own currency was devalued in respect to the Euro, they were left with repayments they could not possibly service.
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> Colonialism predates the Marxist notion of imperialism by 400 years.

I don't disagree with that.

> When the colonial powers started to conquer the world there was next to no capital.

The whole point is the pursuit/accumulation of capital. Even if you start with next to no capital.

> no serious scholar of economics, politics or history would call any pre-industrial economic system predominantly capitalist.

In my own opinion I'd say it started around 1600 with the formation of the British and Dutch East India companies. It seems this is debated by many and largely depends on your definition of capitalism. [0]

So I'm happy to just agree to disagree.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_capitalism
Whether it was their business or not, I'm thankful Americans did it, because it meant that I have been able to live my first 50 years in freedom and peace.

Without American support after World War II, also Western Europe would have been ruled by stalinist USSR.
There's nothing left here that's between the lines. I made . the description concise cause there's a 2000 character limit. The network issues happen quite rarely and honestly, are not even a thing most of the time.
Is anyone using it and can comment on stability and potential issues?
Sure, but also a lot of money to be lost. And you can only lose so much before you go broke.
It's probably neither.

Past experience would suggest a double digit move either way isn't surprising. But equally, it's not correcting anything as there's no meaningful book value to correct to.

These are likely just fairly arbitrary moves that will be followed by other arbitrary moves.

As the markets are almost completely opaque, unless you're the person dumping, attempts at attribution are mostly futile.
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You can charge them with murder all you like, but while brandishing as control is considered standard police practice, you will find it almost impossible to prove any intent.
I don't have screenshots of the tweet but it said: "Just had the rudest interview with @company. No. 1 rule in tech: Don't be a dick"
Ask HN: Is there an S3 alternative that doesn't charge for bandwidth at all?
So far the closest I've found is Oracle's S3 competitor which charges for bandwidth only after 10TB: https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/infrastructure/storage/pricing
In the same way that "Code in Haskell is guaranteed to have no side effects"? https://xkcd.com/1312/
The US? Because if Europe gets overrun by Soviets, like they got overrun by Germany, guess who's next? Could you imagine Soviet Europe for the last 60 years?

My uncle was drafted in Vietnam, except he didn't go to Vietnam, he went to West Germany. He spent his time waiting for the Soviets to roll their tanks over the border.
The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday
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It makes Nigeria look bad. Why lend money to a country that's just going to wait around for some megabillionaire from another country to make a goodwill effort to take care of its problems?
A counterpoint from Yoav Goldberg:

http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~yogo/squad-vs-human.pdf
Aside from the fact, already highlighted by other commenters, that this is a proprietary system operated by a company that actively protects their IP, I think it's also a terrible idea.

As you noticed, it does not differentiate based on height, so the ballyhooed deliveries would require two addresses to find an appropriate suite number in an office building, but more importantly, their app is required in real-time to find anything.

Given an address like 123 Main St, I know that I can find Main Street, and then head in one direction or the other to find 123. Given an address that is three arbitrary words tells me absolutely nothing about where that is in relation to me. Zip, zero, zilch. Only an app, or a clumsy proprietary printed map, can help me. Even then, anything other than following arrows on screen is a genuinely ugly experience.

A public, open address of the traditional variety lets one get close, then closer, and zoom in based on the address alone. In the US, for example, you can first read the country, then the state, then the city, then the street, and finally the street number. It's all stored pretty efficiently in a standardized address.

This dumb system loses all of that, but they claim it's better for places that lack standardized addresses. Of course, we already have a system for that: latitude and longitude. The advantage of the public, open lat+long system is that, again, you can generalize and approximate at first, and then add more decimal points when it matters. There is no way to do this with this dumb system.

It's an idea that seems great when you first encounter it, but it's proprietary in a way that hampers its utility, and is also impractical in actual operation.
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Usually rewrites to C are for performance and portability. In this case I suspect the former.
Recently I had a lot of problems uploading content with Microsoft Edge, the cuprit was LastPass. Now I have it disabled until I need a password.

Lastpass is a good tool, I hope they fix this issues.
Nigeria's got a population 50% larger than Japan and they're the largest economy in Africa. I don't see why little countries should be expected to give up their cash to bigger countries just because it's "polite" or something.
One of the more interesting pieces of open media I've found: a documentary produced at the time of the Columbia student protests of 1968. (49 min total)

https://archive.org/details/Columbia1969

https://archive.org/details/Columbia1969_2

There's a lot revisionist history on both sides, but it ultimately boiled down to young people attempting to assert their visions of the world, while entrenched, older power structures attempted to avoid change.

Personally? I think it's inspirational for people to get off their ass and try to effect change they believe in.

Action, not anger.
Try ending today with a failing test for a great start tomorrow
Why not link that account?

Mentioned in another comment:

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

> Military intelligence officer K. Barton Osborne reports that he witnessed the following use of torture:

> > The use of the insertion of the 6-inch dowel into the canal of one of my detainee's ears, and the tapping through the brain until dead. The starvation to death (in a cage), of a Vietnamese woman who was suspected of being part of the local political education cadre in one of the local villages...The use of electronic gear such as sealed telephones attached to...both the women's vaginas and men's testicles [to] shock them into submission

Yes, I bet a some anti-social people used the protest movement to engage in their own oppression ("killing pigs" and "killing commie charlies" is the same thing in a way), but using them as a fig leaf is blatantly profiting of their deeds to hide yet other vile deeds, and to smear the best parts of a generation that at least tried.

That professor may never know even just one first-hand account of a person murdered as they looked away, and in turn may never know the life they actually lived. People don't like to hear that, but sometimes, who you think you are is just a shiny consolation price for being distracted from what you're actually serving. People can fool themselves and beyond a threshold, they're usually too weak to ever stop fooling themselves. They fell down the gravity well, let them serve as a warning. See them, see the well, and judge their words accordingly.
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Why news of kernel.org does not provide anymore new article from months?
It seems that from more than 6 months, https://www.kernel.org/category/site-news.html does not provide anymore update articles. Why?
Why do I do this to myself? Bob's first predictions for 2018 – I, Cringely
I checked their website, and found out that there are none
First class on an A380 is a better experience than a 787, if we're talking economy the economy upper deck on LH flights are truly a bliss to fly in: the first row is highly recommended.
You don't have to delete your comment, it's nothing to be ashamed of. The angular versioning situation is really not that simple.

And you are right, the ReadMe likely should say Angular 5 and not Angular 2.
Study: Whopping 93% Say They're More Productive Working Remotely
Hipsters care a lot about signaling that they prefer fringe/niche/"non-mainstream" culture. Since it is all about social signaling rather than actually enjoying a wide variety of culture, it is just as important for them to signal what culture they don't associate with, and that is decided not by the quality of the music/film/food itself, but rather based on whether other people why enjoy it are "down with it" or "mainstream".

Radiohead is a pretty popular and well-known band, so you have to pretend you don't know them, while at the same time disparaging them - not for anything related to their actual music, but for the people liking them not being hipsterish enough. This is the epitome of hipsterness.
Thanks! You might be able to postpone the panicking. Although I haven't looked into head lice (we specifically looked at body lice), this redditor had some links in that head lice apparently are less likely to carry diseases.

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/7qopqf/black_death_sp...
Do you not think it's reasonable to believe that the Mill is immune to these flaws without hardware given the information presented in this paper?
I think the richest person in Africa is probably the king of Morocco (~150bn)
There's also a financial reasoning behind that. Low interest rates and high liquidity seems to be the new normal. Even "Main Street" corps are trading with PE ratios above 20. This means 20y of current profits to get back the money.

A capital investor now needs a lot of profitable years to recoup their investment. One single scandal like VW emissions may jeopardize a lot of years profits.
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Marijuana has never been legal in the Netherlands. Laws against cultivation are quite strictly enforced. Only sale and consumption are tolerated, but still technically illegal.
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Handy Docker commands for local development
I'm not sure the analogy holds. C is a very specific programming language you can characterise as a byte-array manipulation language. That's a very specific building block for making software if that building block is what you need, hence its merit. Java "on the very surface level" has absolutely nothing that relates to C, modulo some syntax if you think that has a lot of weight.
let me add that in the case of cisplatin, morphine to ease the pain is the vomit inducing compound (sadly)
Rubbish. I live in the EU and buy stuff from the States on a semi regular basis. Shipping costs are usually the deciding factor, card fees are insignificant.
If you're curious in retrospect, I found this to be the best book I've read about the entire Vietnam period. (along with historical context before and after)

https://www.amazon.com/Vietnam-History-Stanley-Karnow/dp/014...

Granted, there's a lot we know now that wasn't known at the time (e.g. MACV-SOG's pre-Tonkin activities and concealment of same from Congress, or the serious consideration of tactical nuclear weapons during the Battle of Khe Sanh), but if you're into history it's a good read.