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Thanks to securities laws, the rich get richer, and the poor have to wait for the scraps.

Ideally the SEC's mandate would be limited to going after P&D groups and other scams, and no longer include enforcing restrictions on selling securities to unaccredited investors as a non-public company.

If the poorest households are allowed to spend 9% of their income on lottery tickets, I don't see the justification for preventing unaccredited investors from investing in whatever they want.

All it does is eliminate the long-tail of small companies and nonprofessional investors from participating directly in a key sector of the economy.
This is the ultimate HN bikeshedding topic.

It's a proxy for the nature / nurture debate.

I put my vote token in the nature side. Women can do what ever men can and persisting the ideas that they can't sucks.

That is my opinion and I am unwilling to change it.
Is there legal backing to your assertion, or is that just your opinion? Clearly that can’t be true either. Otherwise, I can claim that socks and sandals are offending me, and it becomes your problem to modify your attire, not my problem to tolerate it.
AFAIU the Spectre software "fixes" are either extremely expensive, or still exploitable, or both. I think you're correct about OOO, and there goes the security of all current HTML/JS engines.
Was just reading about yoga. Since you’re familiar with it, do you know if there are plans to support css grid?
You can't attack someone like that on HN, regardless of how bad you consider their software. We ban accounts that do this, so could you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, and take the spirit of this site to heart when commenting here?
> Waymo has been running a pilot program that lets people hail rides in its cars, at first with safety engineers riding in the driver’s seat, but fully driverless since November 2017.

Perhaps a stupid question... Does that mean that when the service starts the car will be devoid of any human (except for the paying customer/customers)?
>In February, Indonesian police arrested two rubber plantation workers in Borneo, accusing them of shooting an orangutan multiple times, decapitating it and then throwing its body into a river.

This is just fucked up. Human cruelty knows no bounds.

Disturbed individuals who eventually become serial killers, start by torturing animals before graduating to humans.

Maybe the near human appearance and mannerisms of these apes, make them an attractive target for such individuals.
This is one of the classical two-layered 'did you know' /'podcast' memes.
The first layer is about a well known, but not necessarily universally known historical event/idea that's been a interesting tidbit of knowledge for decades, usually well suited for metaphors of all kinds ("Bitcoins are like Tulip Mania 2.0). The second layer always asserts the opposite of that meme, or rather the did you know this isn't actually true position.
The likely Truth is ultimately a somewhat boring synthesis of both positions, that may make for a good, but not a great smarty pants podcast topic. I love those.
I agree it is bikeshedding. But I think it is bikeshedding with a constructive purpose of serving as a safe sandbox in which people can practice talking about difficult subjects without it blowing up in their face.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16399006
I guess if there is a 50% or more chance that someone will pay more and you would make money then it makes sense, you can't win if you don't risk, those who stay on the side find comfort in calling those who risk, lucky when they win and stupid when they lose.
Guessing you never had access to Turbo C++, which was originally released for US$50.
Vaughan Pratt also designed the Sun logo (an ambigram). But his original design was square, then John Gage rotated it 45 degrees.

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

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

https://orig00.deviantart.net/e290/f/2011/230/2/c/sun_micros...
I don't see the point made by the market cap chart or even how much they account for in the total market.
You are wrong, which is why Venmo is used to scam sellers instead of buyers: https://www.thebalance.com/venmo-scams-315823
Kent Beck leaving Facebook
It was (essential) bought by the Abu Dhabi Tourism board to be displayed at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Basically they bought it as an expensive advertising campaign for their big shiny new museum
But of course it saves money.. on the long run.
Yes, it does cost more upfront, and yes, people will be using the 'free doctor' more, in the short term, but over the lifetime of the patient, it costs considerable less to prevent, than to 'fix'. Of course, you could say that people who 'suddenly' need fixing will live less, so overall the state will save money cause they will be dead sooner, but i'm pretty sure that's NOT the point of healthcare.
Vaccine being preventive care, I do agree it is better to let epidemy spread and let the weak die by millions, thus having a population as healthy as in middle age.
We could also stop the preventive care of teeth and only let people got to the dentist while their heart is as rotten as their teeth.
most of the interesting point is that it seems like tulip were more part of the realm of art then commodities.

People were buying tulips because it was a sign of wealth and taste and a beautiful rare object to display, just like art.
People were speculating on those, just like art.
But when people do so with Art and pay millions, nobody bats an eye.

Bitcoin (and other commodities) might have another underlying reason for why people give them value and decide to speculate on them (just like, say, Wall Street speculating on cattle futures).

So yeah, maybe some Tulips were sold the price of houses - but it sounds normal when someone spends millions on a painting.

I'm defending any point, just saying I think it's interesting to read this, I never heard before that people were mostly buying tulips because of their symbols, not just for pure speculation.
The USA consumes only 1.8% of the world's total palm oil production. The EU 10%. The Nutella consumption effect on orangutans is completely anecdotic. Not everything bad that happens on this planet is the responsability of the western man.
Or maybe a file should stay where it is and processing logic itself should be deployed there. If file parts are distributed then processing could be suspended and migrated to place where next piece is stored. Something similar is done with Hadoop and HDFS.
Finite State Entropy
Great! I'm happy I did not completely disgruntle you and you still speak with me. I can be way too undiplomatic at times.

Small market + Hard problem sums up the responses here nicely. I like that! Because I'm not convinced the market is too small. And because I love hard problems!

I wonder what format I should use for my list so I can put it online easily... hmm... It would have to be one list for each city. Maybe I should put it all in one sqlite db and write a script that renders it to static pages, one page for each city?
You have to go back to 2008, to a series of events that killed 170 people.

About 60 people have been killed in mass shotings in the US in the 48 days of this year.

> In America, mass shootings only seem to occur in "gun-free zones", where perpetrators know there is little chance of armed interdiction before they have accomplished their mission.

No. In America mass shootings are so common they're not widely reported. You're cherry picking mass-shootings to fit your narrative. If you look at all of them you'll see they occur all over, and not just in "gun free" zones. This is a consistant tactic used by gun rights advocates: exclude any gun violence they can to reduce the numbers. "This mass shooting doesn't count, it's gang violence", "These deaths don't count, they're suicide", "This isn't a mass shooting, because only 3 people died"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/02/10/kentucky-murd...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/05/three-police-offi...

http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/crime_police/art...

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/tag/mass-shooting-detroit/

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/breaking-news/breaking-pbs...

etc etc (This is an incomplete list of February's mass shootings.)
Invest in RV parks now.
True and relevant, even if they'd like to say it's not.

The tulip thing is just what happens, in myriad forms, when the Gini coefficient gets too out of hand. It's not that lots of people were ruined through gambling desperately on bizarre, random things. It's that there were a bunch of people so insensibly wealthy that they didn't need to be even slightly rational.

Also see 'Veblen good'. When conditions allow this, rationality just stops mattering.
Can you please not post political rants to Hacker News? I know you mean well, but you're damaging the site and violating its rules when you do this, and we've asked you more than once before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What I can say as an more or less of an insider: the report is credible.

Look at electronics industry, while the "China wave" is waining already, but you still can't do anything electronics without going to a single city in China.

Same will eventually be true for software, but it will take no less than a decade as it was for electronics.

It took around 15 years for the sentiment to change from "hey look, they can actually make electronics" to "I can't make parts A and B for my project outside of China" to "to don't even try making out of China"
Is anyone even talking about let alone demoing self-driving in a seemingly chaotic urban driving in India and elsewhere? My uneducated guess is we are decades away from being able to navigate anything real world like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLUm3Q-7iZA

If you zoom out, you'll see that there's a method to the madness but a lone driving car that's not a part of a fleet doesn't have such luxuries.

I don't think the problem is solely image processing and machine learning. I just don't get self driving and how we're supposed to wow the logic. You have to be aggressive to drive in a city or people will constantly cut you off for hours. This means you will hold up traffic making the situation worse for everyone. However, you can't be too aggressive. Imagine the damage we will cause to the "optics" of self driving if we run over (at a slow 10 mph) stubborn people who cut us off. That will just look like murder.
For me it looks like inverted survivorship bias. You won't hear from people that succeed so you don't have way to count them. People that nag or email author might be even in some special group of 'someone please make it work for me', I cannot imagine mailing author of a book. I do not believe that such group to be really big, maybe it just visible more than others. Like 'plz give codez' on StackOverflow.

Buying a book or reading blogpost does not entitle you to anything more, like wasting author time. Time is most valuable asset and he already spent it on writing book. If that book is crap you can rate it on Amazon or something but directly contacting author?
Ripple will also stay I think. But I would be careful of Ripple. Just my opinion. It's interesting it's connected so well with many financial institutions and that they have big names on board but I would be a bank I would rather look in something like Stellar than Ripple which is (theoretically) in a centralized control of one entitity. All this locked up XRPs which are not in circulation would not let me sleep well.
I think so, although apparently it's possible for Waymo to control the car remotely. Not sure if that means fully driving the car remotely, or just giving it higher level instructions.
It sounds like you are saying the law and precedent is good. You just disagree with their interpretation of the facts in this particular case. Not everyone in a scociety can come to a consensus on every issue. That’s we have the court system decide.
I don’t get the mixing of baking soda and vinegar: won’t that neutralize the solution (actually I read that the soda will buffer it slightly alkaline.) so what’s the purpose of mixing the two?
Once those exist why would the transport companies need you? Would probably make more sense for them to buy big fleets of self driving trucks to use at scale.
So some people use a payment platform that looks like using cash, don't use any of the common sense they would using cash, get scammed and complain ?

It's PEBCK in it's purest form.

Zelle is secure, as way to wire money. People can't put a gun in your face and still it while you send it.

It's exactly what it advertises.

I don't see how anybody could be confused by "easy, fast, secure, done" here.
It seems that the most "developed" areas in combination with predictable weather gets roll-out first. This means that non-western countries will get them later; or, depending on the situation, maybe never at all at 100% area coverage. I can totally imagine robotic car software parking right after a the highway intersection and subsequentially handing over driving to a human. Traffic in lesser developed countries may be too complex to ever have self driving cars to ride on.
New Relic. Unfortunately it reduced their free plan (and the paid plan is expensive), but I was always amazed about their free features. I'm still didn't find a good alternative. :(
> The 'biological differences' argument falls flat because it implies that somehow women changed on a biological level between 1984 and today.

Or that computer science, and programming, started to change around 1984, which is not at all implausible.

Also, in the article you linked there is a good observation:

> The share of women in computer science started falling at roughly the same moment when personal computers started showing up in U.S. homes in significant numbers.

Which coincides with the time in which programming became a hobby you take up in childhood because you enjoy doing it, rather than a profession like any other. In other words, this could hint to a self-selection into a computer science career based on pure enjoyment of the activity as a child.

(The article instead suggests computers were marketed mainly as toys for boys- which is also not implausible, but doesn't explain why tech companies would have willingly cut themselves off half of the possible revenues of their product- I bet a 100% increase in sales would beat any prejudice).
I still use .htm as an extension name for HTML files, even though all modern OS' can support .html. I wonder how common that is.
1-2k€ vs $10k salaries?

At least that's what they do in my EU country.
> Whether you buy Google shares or Telegram tokens, the only reason you're buying is because you expect the price to go up in the future.

I am not arguing the equity angle. I kind of agree with you on that, especially because you used Google as an example.

But, I am getting a bit tired of people making it sound like IPO and ICOs are the same. They are not. Google or any other company have to be in operation for year(s) and show consistent revenue, if not profits and even talk about their future plans on how they will use the money before people "expect their prices to go up.

ICOs on the other hand rely simply on paper. No one knows whether they will deliver on their promises and expect price to go up. It is like VC investing for sure. But, without the expertise required to vet ICOs the whole "expectation of price going up" can be described as FOMO.
eh, is that really the line? Does it matter what language it's coded in? In the end if you're ending up calling the same UI APIs....

The issue with web apps is more about the UI and performance, but I really doubt that the JS VM will kill performance.
With electronics - like with most physical products - having your production facilities near your suppliers and customers, and having lots of low cost labor, has a really big impact. With software, it's a completely different story.
We repainted one of our kids bedrooms with an emission free paint (IIRC, https://www.auro.de/en/products/walls-and-ceilings/dispersio... ) instead of the usual latex wall paints. Painting without the usual smell felt really strange. Particularly so for my spouse, who easily gets a headache from strong smells.

Also, if you read the fine-print on normal latex paints, the recommendation is to not live in the room for a month after painting. I don't know anyone who has ever followed such..