skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree this is a good idea in principle, the problem in practice is that the government is complicit in the cheating. Many of the private actors in the 2008 debacle didn't get punished because the government officials who would have had to punish them had given them nudge nudge wink wink approval behind the scenes. Also, when things started to go south, government officials were calling the shots. (Not to mention the obvious revolving door effect--government officials regulating a given industry are usually former executives in that industry, and often go back and forth several times in their careers.)
The point of the article is that it's not, in the context of Open Source having a certain philosophy behind it.

In particular, the article distinguishes Free Software from Open Source, and highlights the difference in emphasis.

The claim of the article is that this difference is what led to widespread commercial adoption of Open Source -- but not Free Software.

The distinction between the two is what Stallman is very wary of.
How is it Google's responsibility to help you defy your country's onerous laws?
I filed a bug to Apple regarding an issue I found with carplay. They didn't attempt to reproduce it and asked me to generate debug logs. I found this ridiculous, as a customer, I have no energy to gather debug logs.
> how long ago did these slimebags abuse the system

How long ago is 2008?

> are we sure it's still a problem in the modern era?

Sure seems like it to me.
Yes, and also Open Source =/= Free Software (which is also talked about in the article).

Free Software predates Open Source.
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Yup. So what. This means nothing.
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Assuming the trader is still holding the position described in the article, they have made significantly less profit to date, and they may have even lost money. That's because for each long 15-strike VIX call they hold, they're short two 25-strike VIX calls.

Their payoff diagram from this position w.r.t. the VIX settlement value at the time that their options expire increases linearly from 15 to 25, then decreases linearly (with a slope of the same magnitude) past that point. Their profit will be maximized if the VIX settles at exactly 25, while they will lose money if the VIX settles above 35.

Of course, it's also possible that this "mystery trader" is using this position as a hedge against direct or indirect VIX exposure in the remainder of their portfolio.
Dow futures point to a more than 1,000-point fall at the open
No, but if you've ever done security before, you would know that it's a matter of "not if I hacked but when". Judging from their response, they seem to have pretty good procedures in place. Conversely, Equifax took months to respond and pulled a "it's not our fault".
That's the million dollar question, and is the exact reason why this strategy (and no strategy) is a silver bullet.
I keep one in the pocket of my driver's side door and one in the glove box. The ones I have also have a razor for cutting through the seatbelt.
i asked one question on SO a long time ago that i'm embarrassed about. i don't blame anyone for not asking with a handle that links to them. i think that just about all questions have been asked really and you can just find them with search.

but on the topic.. she's busted. there's good evidence now beyond signs like those SO/github thoughts.
I think the average computer user knows that websites often look different on computers vs. phones, so they might be confused when a website looks different than normal on a computer. Like I said, I would only call this a nuisance. Certainly not a big deal.
Which many wont. Yet business still have to provide same service as someone who has. Cost remains same but now profit reduced drastically. Thus its not economical to provide to EU.

IMO this demands more attention from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16314101
Google and Facebook have proven themselves about as trustworthy as a pair of starving animals, and frankly it took time and a lot of benefit of the doubt before plenty of people arrived at that conclusion.

In the words of Nixon they “Earned everything [they] got.”
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Marginal return. If working an extra hour per day will give me $100 pre-tax, tax rate being 10% and 90% will largely determine whether I'd do the extra work, versus spending that hour with family etc.
Everyone has different threshold for pay/fun ratios but overall society will be less productive as tax rates go up at least in the static sense (not considering tax money being put into productivity-increasing use).
It depends on how long cheap money will be available. It can be that the market is changing tack at the moment. A lot of capital is flowing in bonds at this moment.
uMatrix is well worth the time it takes to use too. It shows you a matrix of exactly what each site is requesting. I've become so much more aware of what is happening on websites since installing the plugin about a year ago.

The great thing is that it's so quick and easy to enable/disable/customize too. For example, I've identified two scripts that block websites from loading when it doesn't get loaded... so I allow those to load on every website -- no ads, but the site still loads.

Mixpanel is blocked by default in the blacklist that I subscribe to.
If you're a normal person, who had a decently sized/exposed market retirement account in 2007, it took you about a decade to get back to the same level, inflation adjusted.

That's a lot of risk for chasing inflation adjusted returns…

Not to mention, there are a couple short volitilty ETFs that will be terminated soon, hope some long term ETF buyers won't be exposed to them or any big names they are holding who were exposed, because we're not done yet…
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"One issue is the narrowing of investment opportunities for working Americans." -- really? Only 54% of American's hold any form of stock at all, and most of those only have stock in the form of a mutual fund.

"Another source of disquiet is intensifying industry concentration." -- concentration or horizontal scaling? One of the things I disliked about working at Google was their claim they owned all my work at all times because they were literally in every single business associated with technology[1].

"Finally, there’s the societal benefit that stems from the institution of public capital markets." -- again what societal benefit is that?

Startups, and by that I mean venture based ones, not the local pizza restaurant or nail salon, absolutely would love to "go public" and have some nice liquid event. But they screwed a lot of people at the turn of the century out of their money and as a result that route was closed down. There are at least hundreds of companies that start, grow a bit, and get acquihired or otherwise consumed by big companies. The people then do their time (18 - 24 months typically) at BigCo and then roll out to do it again. If they could go public and take your money without consequence I'm sure they would :-).

[1] No, this probably would not hold up in court, but it was what legal told me when I asked them for a definitive statement.
https://www.nasa.gov/content/reddish-bands-on-europa

blue-white terrains indicate relatively pure water ice, whereas the reddish areas contain water ice mixed with hydrated salts, potentially magnesium sulfate or sulfuric acid.
InterSystems switched to advertising Caché as an "object" database sometime in the 2000s (at least that is when I first saw their ads, maybe it started earlier). I assumed it was something like ObjectStore. Definitely felt deceived when I found out what it really was.
If you search PACER for "5:2017cr00308" it pops up for me.

The direct link to the case documents is:
https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/HistDocQry.pl?77183091...

PACER login required.
Not touching an HP printer with a barge pole. Fuck you HP.
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He's trying to sell his services.
Can't wait to try this.
There's more than just Democrat and Republican out there.
Looks awfully similar to Mark
Google "ice albedo feedback" and you'll find that it's very well known among climate scientists modeling global warming, too.
He was fraudulently name-dropping the megabank:

"Choi admitted in his plea... that he was never employed in any capacity by any financial institution..."
That difference is also talked about in the linked article, but who reads that? :)
The counterfactual to this argument is that his clients would be much more likely to purchase his products if there was something to learn from a competitor like Tesla. They buy his services and reports to learn. If Tesla is vastly superior, and Munro understands how, that is critical to the Big three. Knowing or having some small boutique industry firm take pot shots at Tesla doesn't get them anything. This isn't being reported on NPR and CNN.

In reality, I think this has almost no impact on his business other than a little bit of publicity. Well run companies on the scale of GM are going to be just as interested in the data on a competitor whether their competitor is better or worse. There is always something to be learned. Ford is going to learn different things from Hyundai and from Mercedes...but they are going to learn.
Are those two scripts widespread or specific to a site? And if they're quite widespread, would you be able to share how to identify them?
> My company decided to move to WP and every time we engage a WP developer or consulting company, and I give them my engineer requirements, most of them pass. I'm talking about things like command-line deployment, publish to test servers with git, things like that.

How common is this with programmers in general though? If you frequent hackernews, you get the impression everyone does these things but this isn't going to be an accurate representation.
Maybe he's trying to sell his services to Tesla so he dialed up the prickiness.

"I'm calling this out about your car. You got quality problems. We can help."
People are out of their minds over a couple of minor red days and pullback to maybe one or two months ago. IMO it betrays a much deeper fragility in market confidence.

I'm pretty new to finance and haven't lived through a crash yet, but IMHO, the show is not over, not by a long shot. And the longer we go without a crash, the more extreme it's gonna be.
The odds are > 0. I cant tell you what to do with your kids, but this was a true experience that could happen to anyone. Bleak as it may be, some people will take advantage of trust.
Exactly this, and he took money from some of his employees under fraudulent terms according to the referenced Medium story.
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Noncombatants don't typically wield swords bare-breasted, however.
#MeThree

Google now has WordPress as the next internet thing to embrace and than kill off.

Miced feeling here. I hate WordPress but don't like Google doing it...
A Bitcoin pump is coming
Yeah window winders too - they should have a knob that drops the window down someplace not accidentally accessible. That should be easy enough to do without adding any significant bulk.
No no, at some point there still has to be a broad layer of tortoises or the whole thing collapses.
> reasonable confidence that you could work at the same place until retirement

based on what? on belief that the wise communist party conquered the laws of economics, history and nature?

Maybe disintegration with plunging into poverty is inevitable and natural end for the "oppressive regimes". Then at least East Germans got it easier than their neighbors to the East thanks to reunification.
> I refuse to set up a new WordPress instance for any client unless they are also paying me a monthly retainer to keep it updated and secure.

Similar, or insist a hosted solution is used.
Say you’re a freelancer and could do one more project but the marginal tax rate is going to be 90%, vs. being maybe ~50% on the previous project you did. So now you’d be doing the same work for 1/5th of the income. Wouldn’t you consider saying “screw this, I’m going on a vacation?”
Take a look at this https://goo.gl/forms/YdGFaYuVJIM4wiJH3
We were never unfriendly. And its not exactly like they were making it publicly visible.
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This is amazing for shells. Thank you for writing it.

Your reasoning and explanations are first rate, and the documentation is superb.

Your emphasis on POSIX is a great approach for working on a very wide variety of shells, including older ones and regulated ones. I deal with these regularly at enterprise clients, and I'm excited to try Modernish with these. Kudos!
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My idea about conflicts is, since OT is a centralized protocol, the server can refuse some conflicts and let user to resolve it.

Another thing I don't like about CRDT is for text editing, it requires a uuid for each char you type. this is a huge waste of memory and disk imho. on the other hand OT requires no metadata
Anyone who suggests we know enough to state confidently whether "nature" or "nurture" is the predominant force in human development is either ignorant, deluded, or both. The simple truth is that we have only begun to scratch the surface in this area. Its one thing to speculate, and entirely another thing to claim enough knowledge to make a confident assessment (let alone know for sure).
Am I missing something? Among the companies I would trust not to leak or expose my password (or incidentally collect it plaintext) google would be high on that list.
you have to look at this https://goo.gl/forms/YdGFaYuVJIM4wiJH3
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I am not an employee of Uber. I accept their bids for rides when I want to and that’s it. I have no commitment or responsibility to them besides that ride and vice versa.

Also, as noted in your article, regular taxi drivers in the UK have always been considered self employed contractors despite also having no ability to change the regulated meter rate. So this whole pricing argument is invalid and inconsistent with historical interpretations.

Another example is doctors here in Canada who bill out to the government at a fixed price schedule. Are they not self employed either? After all, they all bill the same entity and are not allowed to set their own prices.
IPOs used to be to raise money, now they are to cash out. If you really want to maintain control you do not float.
>If everyone's income rises by 5% (and most of most people's income is spent rather than saved), I would expect prices to rise by about 5% and find that entirely logical.

Generally everyone's income would be rising 5% either from inflation, which amounts to a transfer from creditors to debtors, or from growth, in which case the total basket of goods and services available has grown 5% and there's no need for prices to go up.
This is an interesting method of providing a user space VFS later without the need of a kernel driver, like FUSE.

However, that said, I wonder if it would still work in cases when a file is memory-mapped (via mmap() and friends) and modified directly in memory rather than direct FI/O calls. Would parrot still work in this case?
Whatever animosity we as developers may feel towards WordPress, it's a huge (perhaps the single largest) tech boon to small and medium-sized businesses.

People launch online stores on it for the price of their domain name, hosting and some sweat. That is freaking cool; more projects should aspire to have that kind of impact
Anyone who measures their commute in terms of hours because they can't afford to live closer to work lives in a "shit area."

Temecula is a shit/middle of nowhere area if your closest employment options are in LA.

Nobody said anything about the Midwest being shitty.
If you can display it on that tiny ass screen you could probably just program a machine to do it. Sounds like a business that wouldnt last long.
"the OSIRIS-REX spacecraft, launched two years earlier, will home in on the asteroid 160,000km (100,000 miles) out in space. Flying alongside it at over 63,000 miles per hour, the spacecraft will precisely map Bennu’s shape and trajectory and, later, swoop down and snatch a sample from its surface which it will carry back to Earth"

I hope they properly account for gravity-tractor effects and don't deflect the orbit closer to an Earth-colliding trajectory.
How much though?
I was just talking about the commenter you replied to (gonational).
>2. A bigger share of investor profits get redistributed to workers, be it through taxes, pension fund investments, co-ops.

>#2 will not be happening anytime soon.

That sound you hear in the distance is a recital of the Internationale.
As the tax rate increases, the value you get for increasing your income goes down proportionally.

I think if you take it to the limit, you can see the effect more clearly. As the tax rate approaches 100%, say 99%, then even if I make $100,000 before taxes, I'd only keep $1,000. If I push myself hard to earn $200,000, I'd get to keep $2,000. Yes it is still double, and I am doing better, but not much of interest changes in my life and I personally wouldn't say I'm doing well. I can barely afford to take that second vacation, or see much value for my efforts. My efforts are simply less rewarded, giving me less tangible reason to make the extra effort. I think this would kill off the incentive to create wealth in the economy.

Wealth is needed to take care of basic needs, so it would be self defeating if you were trying to take care of everyones needs and make sure they had a little spending money to participate in the economy.

Somewhat as an aside, I didn't consider what benefits I would receive for paying a 99% tax rate, presumably it would be all the basic needs plus some more, but this would start to feel like a planned economy where individuals, with their small discretionary funds, would't have as much input into what is created in the economy, rather it'd be a course political process which could be slow to meet the needs of the citizens, or fraught with other unforeseen difficulties.
Precisely. And once there is the perception of a gold rush and that others (namely google et al) are already way ahead, then what?
I don't know about assemblers exactly, but you might be interested in https://wkz.github.io/ply/, it's a smaller language inspired by dtrace.

A nice thing about using C is that you can #include C header files, so you have access to all the constants defined in those files.
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14a/ avoid sticky footers too, like that page has
Maybe their valuation is too high that they can't fulfill ROI?
The main thrust of the article is that the disengagement numbers are not a good judge of which ai is better. As the companies have to much leeway to fudge the numbers as they are self reported.
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A more realistic framing would be to say that the auditors having accepted something gives a middle manager an excuse to not have to do something when you ask.

But here’s the thing; any company over a certain size is going to have internal compliance. Because that’s just good business; you want to know if money is walking out the back door.

Parent companies are still going to audit their subordinates; they don’t want the risk. Banks audit private companies before giving them loans. Investment bankers and private equity do the same. These auditors publish standards. So good internal controls processes will still be necessary, just for different reasons. If you want access to funding and resources, you had better be compliant.
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I haven't looked into this for over a decade, but that's exactly how Movable Type used to work. The blog is generated as static files by the admin interface, which is web based but can be completely isolated from the publicly facing site.
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> The hardware designers at Apple are clearly smart enough to be able to work out something if they didn't want the notch

I don't think it's clear. Do you have anything to support this assumption? I haven't seen an iphone that is bezel-less without any encroaching notch. They haven't yet been able to eliminate the camera bump, either. This is basic stuff. Don't have crappy cut-out on the screen, don't have protruding camera from the back. Also, even with thew notch, the side bezels aren't nearly as thin as they are on competitor phones.

Pretty clear that they weren't able to reach a design they truly wanted.
The simple act of complying with GAAP is much more onerous than SOX. Any finance person worth their salt can navigate SOX easily. Only inexperienced finance people have problems with SOX, but then again, similar things can be said about inexperience programmers as well.
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> Now you can get just as much money from the private capital markets, and it doesn't come with all the pesky rules around reporting.

This is true but having lots of small public investors sometimes makes it easier to maneuver than a handful of big fish / massive investors akin to many small customers compared to 1-2 big clients that dictate your fate.

Public markets are similar to product development that targets many small customers compared to private markets that are like services / contracting that have a few or one big client, the latter is more risky and sometimes you are directed by the big fish rather than not being worried about having to please everyone.

Public markets are directly tied to everything now, the stocks, bonds, wages, jobs, retirement, funding, etc. Equities were created to give everyone a chance to invest and ride the tide up with the big boats, if companies are already tapped by the time they go public, public markets, retirement and market based wealth will not be as robust.
Depends on the daemon. The most common version of this would be a daemon that starts as root, opens its log file, and then drops privs. In that simple case, yeah going to a named pipe would work fine. But if you stop reading from the pipe, it will presumably block when writing.
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Staff photo shouldn't be in the article.
How does license help ?
simcity's IP is owned by EA, which is a multibillion-dollar publicly-traded company. this isn't just "someone's art". the only ones who benefit from strict enforcement of 25-year-old IP are EA's shareholders, not the artist, and certainly not the public.
2008 could not have happened without Freddy and Fanny. Government shares a huge amount of responsibility.
> Humans are terrible drivers.

Compared to what? We have some evidence that computers can do better in tightly controlled scenarios (limited access freeways) but that's always been low hanging fruit.

I think humans are pretty good drivers, actually. How many 2 lane undivided roads do people go zipping down all day, every day, with very few accidents? A ton. We're also very adaptable and good at handling outlier situations.
Back in the BBS/FidoNet days someone sent me a comic GIF that, when renamed with a .COM extension, would execute under DOS. It was a nifty little demo, although .COM files were going the way of the dinosaur around then.
Yes, but if you're ok paying an extra $10,000, why not just do it now?