skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The cause? A coder had mistakenly programmed a router to send placeholder bids as live orders. If not for the good graces of the options exchanges, the bank would have lost $500 million, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Cancellations and price adjustments reduced that to $38 million

It's interesting to read the full SEC report because it's a little more complicated than that: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2015/34-75331.pdf

It basically outlines a cascade of failure in controls, bad configuration defaults, and poor SDLC. In particular:

>In addition, the firm’s operation and management of its electronic “circuit
breakers” did not effectively block the erroneous orders sent on August 20. These circuit
breakers existed to prevent erroneous orders by halting all message traffic to the exchanges once
that traffic had exceeded a certain rate. However, on August 20, the firm’s control personnel
repeatedly lifted the circuit breakers blocks between 8:44 a.m. and 9:32 a.m., thereby permitting
additional erroneous orders to be sent to the exchanges. Before lifting the circuit breaker blocks,
the control personnel did not obtain authorization from the responsible technology employees, as
required under written firm policies.

>The firm’s policies relating to the manual “lifting” of those circuit breakers were
not disseminated to or fully understood by the employees responsible for deciding when the circuit
breakers should be lifted, and, prior to August 20, 2013, GSCO personnel had lifted circuit breaker
blocks shortly after learning of the block and while still investigating the cause of the circuit
breaker trip.

From what I remember, this circuit breaker was notorious for raising so many false positives that control personnel just got used to lifting it without thinking.
I believe the point the parent is trying to make is that when you spend the time to learn Visual Studio, vim, etc. you can transfer that knowledge to multiple languages. With Pharo those tools are limited to, well, Pharo.

The benefits of learning a particular tool are essentially proportional to how often you use that tool. The greater flexibility of other tools such as vim means that the cost of learning it can be amortized over essentially as many projects as you wish. The costs for learning Pharo tooling are only spread over as many Pharo projects you do. If you don't believe you'll be doing all that much in Pharo, it makes it a fairly daunting proposition to invest that time.
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But it will create multiple hierarchies, as opposed to the single hierarchy to which you are constrained by a conventional filesystem.
It might be housing. I'm seeing those "real estate investor seeks trainee" hand-made signs at intersections again. People are placing offers on houses sight-unseen because houses are moving so fast. The only thing missing is extremely low percentage down payments; does anyone know if 3% down is back?
Like most quotes from comedians that sound smart, he’s totally wrong. Unless you consider all existence is suffering or something or make the definition of suffering so broad as to make the quote pointless.

Just a few examples of great things accomplished without great human suffering or slavery- space race, Internet, Inca Trail, Bilbao Museum.
Crap! I knew I forgot something. I forgot to reference "eat flaming death". Oh well, good catch!
Seems like this could pair well with the journal crisis and suggestions to implement a blockchain journal: Your paper cannot be accepted by the journal unless it includes executable code; the results of which are then injected into the "paper" view...?

So, basically - a paper consists of what it takes to replicate the paper, and the blockchain journal's first step is running the replication.

This would be problematic for papers that require expensive computation, however...
Does anyone who's tried this have any thoughts on how it compares to Jenkins/Hudson?
The signature signifies intent. You understand the charges on the receipt. You can't say "I didn't know I bought that" when the list of things you bought is right there and you signed your name.
This data is for all new apps released and has nothing to do with our user base. In fact, we don't have an SDK.

The report uses data from our SDK identification engine, which works for all apps.
Yes, but "Back in the day" ended with the Morris Worm at the latest, and that's coming up on its 30th anniversary today.
Very nice. I wonder why haven't anyone build something like that before. Is it against Google terms or something like that? Perhaps it's just too complicated.

Also, I don't know what could be the use-cases.
> it's free

For non-basic usage, that's a con, not a pro.
> Science on large datasets can happen via interactive notebook.

I did not claim the opposite, just that it regularly happens without interactive notebooks. This seems like an interesting project though. Regarding the blog posts, it seems that there's a bug that makes all the entries appear as published on September 20, 2017?
Berkeley and the UC schools are making major strides in online education, including edX participation and on-campus projects. If you're interested in Berkeley and data science, there's an online masters program too. (Disclosure: Berkeley is in my client roster). https://requestinfo.datascience.berkeley.edu
How difficukt would it be to port it to linux?
While I totally get that this isn't going to quite "change everything" what really stuck out to me is their use of geometry shaders to do the animations with voxels. Very interesting. I have a fork of google draco where I've been working on getting animated point clouds into unity compressed then adding geometry shaders to them. I think there are very unique experiences coming for us with point cloud tech and voxel tech, but they probably wont replace our polys any time soon for gaming or anything.

https://github.com/millerhooks/draco/tree/unity_point_cloud_...

https://github.com/millerhooks/DracoAnimatedPointClouds

https://github.com/keijiro/Pcx
i think there is a natural barrier for these paths being too hard and too mathy for most people. people have known for decades that engineering is a good path.
lol, I knew LF and CRLF was a thing, but only CR? Interesting :D
I have also found this interesting. What I don't understand is that the amount of data science jobs are no where near the levels that people make it seem. I am not sure where all these people will end up working if they want to be a data scientist. There is not a need to hire huge teams of data scientists like you might for dev roles, it doesn't scale the same way.
Delegate and grow
Yup, all that lighting in the video is baked. If you look at some of their other videos where they start destroying models, you can tell that it's baked because the shadows don't change. Modern video games still heavily use baked lighting, but anything that moves need to have dynamic shadows.
I mean sure use whatever you like, but I'm just not sure how much use it would be for people interested in reading your paper.
This seems to be one of the problems with USB-C implementations, barely any of them seem truly compliant? I remember this comment from a week ago[0]:

> In watching the evolution of USB-C over the last few years, it seems like it's extremely hard to implement correctly with the huge number of modes, alternate modes, and power delivery in the spec.
> When you connect two USB-C devices today, you have almost no idea what is actually going to happen, which device is the master, and which way power will flow.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16706803
While not exactly the same, reminds me of the "Roach Motel" Dark Pattern [1] which intentionally increases friction to completing an action by users that would be detrimental to the business (such as deleting one's account). Amazon is another example of making it nearly impossible to figure out how to delete your account unless you search for the steps or go through a lot of trial and error. [2]

[1] https://darkpatterns.org/types-of-dark-pattern/roach-motel
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxkrdLI6e6M
Please don't post uncivil or unsubstantive comments here, even if another comment also is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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An account created 40 minutes ago can post something that appears on the front page?
> data that companies pass through third parties, like analytics services

That's exactly what this law was meant to prevent.
not answered in article: where does one apply?
But it's better than Baremetrics, so I don't get your point. It being free just makes it both better and less expensive.

ChartMoguls is excellent if you want to be on a paid plan. It's also super expensive.
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That's why the second graph on the page is 'Our Solar System with Ceres' showing exactly that.
> But I do recall a bunch of characteristics of early BASIC systems that potentially led to terrible programming habits: GOTO and line numbers leading to spaghetti code; all global variables; no scope; no functions; self-modifying code (overlays); etc. All of these had to be unlearned at some point.

Compared to just being told these things are bad and should be avoided, I'd like to think that being forced to code in the above ways makes you better rounded as you have first hand experience for why those practices are a bad idea. It's not like you have much choice if you have to code in something like assembly as well.

I've worked with programmers before who can regurgitate the names of current bad practices but can't describe the reasoning behind them which isn't a good thing.

Personally, I think it's an absurd idea that e.g. if you began coding with all global variables and no functions you'd be unable code in a different way. If you're amazing at coding in an environment that makes it challenging to write complex programs, you're going to quickly become efficient at writing code in environments that makes it easier to write complex programs.
Then the people who want to compile it rather than complain about it would have to go through an extra hoop to fix it again. They published it the right way.
I clicked the delete button on my account on Monday. I've had several people come to me and ask why I unfriended them, as if they had thought they'd offended me in some way. I started to wonder if Facebook had told them that I'd unfriended them. No, some of them had browser plugins that would search their friends list for changes.

... which is cool, I guess.
Great. We had to roll our own receipt emails using the old subscriptions to get this feature (along with card expiring/expired call outs).
Definitely. There could absolutely be good tech here, but getting through the vaporware-like marketing speak is too hard. It hit so many buzzwords and tropes that by the time they got to "like Minecraft but better" I was just laughing.
Why not? What matters is article quality.
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Yep, a lot of the people who want to get into it run away when they find out you need to know how to code and understand the math. For some reason there is this idea that it is easy money.
This again? Remember the Euclideon engine? The main problem is that you can't animate models composed of voxels. Every one of these "atom-based engine" projects runs into that wall and rides the funding until the hype runs out. Bummer.
Also, even if we detect a system with N > 3 exo-planets, we often cannot tell if there are more than N, but below the threshold of detectability, making the plots incomplete and incorrect.
But if you're talking about long-term savings, people don't normally keep their life savings in cash. There are an enormous number of possible investments.

A more reasonable benchmark might be the S&P 500.
Fot a more zen perspective, consider the upside down: It’s not the poster that got it to the front page, but the people who upvoted it.

If those were all fresh accounts, it would have been detected as a voting ring.
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If you're in Europe and want to delete your fb account, wouldn't it be better to wait until GDPR activates, so your data actually gets erased instead of hidden?

I'm going to erase quite a few accounts I'm no longer using on various services, I really hope they won't cheat.
I just figured MIT was making “easy” ethical statements. In general the examples that MIT spoke out about had no opposing parties, had no impact to MIT, and no repercussions. So MIT didn’t really have to care or make a sacrifice to speak out for Dreamers or against Charlottesville and whatnot.

But for anything that requires sacrifice like MBS not giving an endowment, they suck it up. This is what sucks as wishy washy populism as it doesn’t reflect any insight into an orginizarion’s leadership’s values.

MIT is likely concerned with increasing its power. Thus is part of the establishment. Doing lots of great things, but part of the establishment.

Thus their total cop out over Aaron Schwartz back to when they didn’t admit their first black professor until 1956 (http://diverseeducation.com/article/7136/).

There’s a really popular and well respected engineering school that has a big problem with sexual assault. They issue statements and sponsor marches and stuff. But drag their feet on any actions like removing organizations that frequently have members commit sexual assault.

I just consider most of the statements from universities PR and virtue signaling unless it’s acompanied with allocation of resources.
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You paying signifies intent. If I use Google Pay to pay for something, I've shown that I agree with the charge. The signature is just useless hassle. I've had to do it it twice in my life and they never seemed to be pens around just when you need them...
I am no longer using coveralls, I am using codecov.
http://archive.is/e40uP
> and all of those FBI guys are guilty of watching kiddy porn.

What? I was with you up until that point. Then you lost me.
My wife just noticed Costco is offering same day shipping, I thought it odd that they could get the logistics down and it turned out to be Instacart.

I have personally used it but might now so I don't have to brave the traffic/chaos that a suburban Costco can be. That being said I haven't heard great things about IC in my area.

It, admittedly just now, strikes me that taking away the headache of Costco would be pretty welcome. We get mostly the same things and rarely go there without a list/goals for the trip. Additionally, their sales don't change often. Making online ordering much easier than going to the grocery and planning for the week/scoping the sales.

This really turned into a costco related comment.
>Keyboards allow me to have private conversations in an office setting

I'm sure you already know this (since it's old tech), but, one can deduce what you're typing just by listening to your keyboard typing sounds.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/09/snooping_on_t...
At 11-13 or so I played a then popular Minecraft mod package from a collection called Feed the Beast [0] which included a mod called ComputerCraft [1] - That was my introduction to Lua and basic Unix concepts.

Now that I think about it that seems pretty similar to what you experienced with DOS&BASIC on a "real" computer.

Except the game mod also provides simple & powerful programmable robots called turtles that work similarly to scratch, but are way more fun and feel more useful. Using them was a really good introduction to computing for me.

The "interesting game" your son plays could well be one that integrates programming to advance in it, there are a lot nowadays.

[0]: https://www.feed-the-beast.com/
[1]: http://computercraft.info/wiki/Main_Page
I wonder why the EU is an afterthought when you need to spend millions on compliance for every new feature
Yep. Getting out of a 'real job' released a whole bunch of cycles and there are a bunch of stories waiting to be told. I don't submit 'em ... I just write 'em.
Ok, let me explain:

You are in Nordic country N, and your filings show your income of $X (a high number). Your relatives A,B,C live in country R, which features large amount of mobsters. Said mobsters learn of the value of X via N's public info system, and make lives of A,B,C uncomfortable or dangerous or downright kidnap them to receive a chunk of $X. And no, A,B,C cannot always move for a variety of reasons.
Plus, if they replaced the ^Ms, what would we have to complain about? This truly is the best way. People can complain, and people can compile.
Oh I follow. No, I meant I like using git for version control.
Eh, I prefer when they don't clean up anything. It feels more like real archival work.
Ask HN: What should you do if you think you might have a rare medical disorder?
Context: have seen PCP, multiple specialists, taken a lot of blood tests, and have done considerable research, without receiving a concrete diagnosis (in the US). Chances are I'm experiencing some undetectable auto-immune or poorly understood condition (like CFS).

I've become incredibly frustrated and I'm curious if anyone here has ever found themselves in a similar situation and figured out a reasonable strategy to navigate the medical system.

Should I be considering Mayo Clinic? Is there any online platform where I can poll a lot of specialists all at once? Other options worth considering?
I left a similar comment in a random discussion around this topic in Scuttlebutt. I'm not really sure where I could address for a proper discussion as a) they have their idea, which is legit and b) they don't have any incentive to listen a random guy with some random thoughts :)
Text editors are shells, remember that if your program executes a text editor.
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Thanks for the feedback. To your risk point -- there is often risk involved, as businesses that have worked with large ACH payments know.

More broadly, we believe in revenue-based business models because it's the clearest way to align our incentives with those of our customers. We want to be forced to find ways to generate more revenue, via smart recovery, better invoice payment methods, more payment method support, etc.
Whenever the whole comments argument comes up I like to bring up this article[0]. I find that it describes a good balance between when comments are useful and when they are not.

[0]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/code-tells-you-how-comments-te...
Yea they could emulate the carriage return and only show a mangle of lines...
"Saloon" as a British-ism for "sedan" is a new word for me. As for the article, likely needing to "raise additional capital during the second half of 2019" is a far cry "uncomfortably close to the truth" of totally bankrupt.
Is stuff like this still an issue?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16261136

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16106793

Seems wrong to invest in companies and not serve your own customers first. That should be the absolute priority. You're basically investing their money.

Many unhappy customers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/

Why don't you "create customer value" by doing right by your customers?
>Instacart, the grocery delivery startup that has a partnership of sorts with Whole Foods, is raising $150 million in funding, Axios first reported. This is on top of Instacart’s $200 million raise at a $4.2 billion valuation in February.

>Instacart has since confirmed the raise, bringing its total Series E round up to $350 million with a valuation of $4.35 billion.

Read: this is an additional $150M at the same pre-money valuation as the previously reported raise.
http://archive.is/CCY8Y
Just look at all the beautiful castles and churches in Europe. They were mostly built on the backs of peasants. Or all the generals we revere who sent thousands or hundreds of thousands of people who had not much to gain from the war to their deaths.
Personally i have 3 axis for problems programming languages might be suitable for, as theres no such a thing as 'one language to rule them all' (And the 'Java cult' really made us all lost a lot of time trying to make things fit into this wrong mentality).

1 - For hardcore stuff - C++/Rust(if i can) - VM, OS, Browser, Emulator, etc..

2 - For bussiness/application/backend stuff - Swift (Go is also suitable but only if its server backend stuff, it will suck in other problem domains)

3 - for Scripting - Javascript/Lua (or Python). (This axis is expendable, as you may or may not use it)

So, from my point of view, you can also use Swift or Rust for some things, depending on the type and goal of the project, given both are memory safe and pretty fast.

You will never find 'the one true language', where you can use it for everything, so dont even loose your time trying to find it.

But for me, if theres something today that is much more closer to this goal is Swift.

Because it can cover a lot of ground. In my opinion, Rust can't do it, because given they were busy trying to eat C++ lunch in the language evolution process, they lost ergonomics and in the productivity area (you can use it of course, but you will suffer the same as if you had used C++ for the same problem domains).

Now maybe Swift will loose the Ref-counting by default runtime memory management, and if that happens, it can also be a great contender for things right now only C, C++ and Rust are suitable for.
I'm very surprised to hear this: I've submitted several artefacts; co-run an AEC for a (small-medium) conference; and spoken to a lot of people about it. I've heard virtually nothing negative until your post. Indeed, the artefact reviews I've received have nearly all been thorough and considered (one review was slightly nitpicky, but that's one review out of 10-12). For paper reviews, on the other hand, I'm very happy if 1/2 of reviews are thorough and considered. Bear in mind that most of the artefact reviewers also implicitly review the paper, and you get some idea of how good a job they do.

My main bugbear with the whole thing is the incorrect spelling of "artefact". And when that's my main bugbear... well, things aren't too bad!
I’m not knocking it because it’s not a Mac. I’m saying when Apple sells a complete solution it is generally trouble free.
> Someone breaks into your house with a knife with the intent to cut your throat and steal anything that can be sold quickly.

That is assuming a lot of thinking from a scenario that started as:

> I don't know who you are, why you are in my home, and what your intentions may be.

Even assuming what you said, the right to take a life is not a right a citizen should ever have, in any situation.
Featured or fucking?
watch out for the door handles - wipe them clean before entering. the great and fearsome Putin is sending you some Novitchok now! and, what the hell, Olga Fedotova too!
Except you can literally draw a poop emoji as the signature and it’ll be happily accepted. How would that signify intent at a later dispute investigation?
Would you have time to say a bit more about why WinFS failed from your point of view?
97% is quite an understatement, too. The Sun makes up about 99.8% of the total mass of the solar system.
Why you should attend a bootcamp with a deferment model
What is Monocle? What are "Monocle Sheets"? Where does a chatroom fit in a personal finance spreadsheet?
How does this handle side-effects of functions like database changes, etc?
It would be nice to see more information about the people behind this service. The site is clearly speaking to people concerned about privacy, so knowing who is running the service is part of knowing who has access to your information.
Actually the measurement system can sort of encode cultrual knowledge. For example, in the imperial system, a fluid ounce of butter weighs one ounce, so a pint of butter weighs a pound. :^)
Fair enough. Quicklisp + SBCL/Clozure is pretty solid but I suppose that wasn't the case 20 years ago.
“every program attempts to expand until it includes a full copy of chromium...”
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