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I'm a finance professional as well, and I generally agree with you. But every consumer has access to one piece of very vital non-public information, Namely, his or her's personal preference.

For example, say that I own a Tesla car, and think that it's pretty great. That's a very valuable piece of non-public information: I think Tesla cars are good. If one was to act upon this private information 3 or 4 years ago, they would have done very well indeed. Same with Google, or Amazon, or a multitude of other public companies.

I think people overestimate how difficult it is to make money in the public markets as individuals. Hedge funds, and especially mutual funds, are quite constrained in their ability to up size positions and put on profitable trades. They have redemptions, they have to hold assets in cash to liquidate shares (mostly this in a problem for mutual funds, not hedge funds), they might have to hold a long only portfolio (again, a problem with mutual funds, not hedge funds).

Individuals don't really have this problem, since they are managing their own money. If they want to put 50% of their capital into one name, no one is going to stop them. Moreover, they have full transparency into redemptions and inflows.

I have personally have done quite well with my own investments, achieving a better return than the firm that I work at. This has only been possible because I have complete insight into my risk tolerance, and don't have management and performance fees eating into my returns.

Another example. My wife's grandfather's wife in the early 2000s loved books and loved reading. Consequentially, she loved Amazon and what the company could provide for her. She convinced her husband to invest a sizeable chunk of their net worth (while not huge, was substantial, maybe 2 million) in one name, Amazon. They both dead recently, but the estate is very very valuable at this point, all because of that single Amazon investment shortly after they IPO'd.

Just because there are huge players in the market, doesn't mean an individual can't compete. In fact, individuals are probably in the best position to reap the highest returns from the public markets.
> Finding parity is quite difficult, particularly when you already take good care of yourself.

My wife and I have actually driven each other to be better than either of us alone ever were. We're fitter and healthier than we ever were, and it's largely because on nights I don't want to go the gym she does - we act as each-others champions.

Also, it's surprising to find out the things you don't about yourself until you see it through another person's eyes.
> I hope these techniques can be used to restore other old footage.

Paul McCartney was so impressed by Peter Jackson's work that he approached him to restore 55 hours of old Beatles footage. Rumor has it that the film will come out in 2020.
This is absolutely incredible. Did they not weather test it before rolling this out across the city? Did city workers know what what these marks were so as to not to cut across these lines doing routine road work? I wonder if any of these removal/repair costs are going to fall on the city or if Google is taking care of it? This is a pretty amazing story.
Every major financial regulator has business continuity and disaster recovery requirements but the standards are woefully outdated. A plan that gets the bank back to full functionality within 24 hours would be acceptable to most regulators and even considered speedy to some.

Tangentially related, I highly recommend the movie "Out of the Clear Blue Sky." Cantor Fitzgerald was a bond trading firm at the top of one of the twin towers and lost every employee who was in the office on 9/11. Incredibly, despite losing the majority of their employees and despite losing almost all of their trading infrastructure, they managed to resume operations in time for the bond market's reopening 48 hours later.
Algol68 had this property. Consider

STRUCT (INT x, y) z = (1, 2)

Here z is a const struct. If you wanted a variable, you'd have to say

STRUCT (INT x, y) z;
z := (1, 2)

or equivalently

REF STRUCT (INT x, y) z = LOC STRUCT (INT x, y) := (1, 2)

Basically a variable has a REF mode.
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Like what? Never used Visual Studio.
That being said I would love to read this same article written by an average joe

I assumed that it was written by your "average Joe", given the difficulty with sending a large file. The user is on a Linux laptop, and none of the half dozen ways to pull that off come to mind? Okay, fair enough, some people's necks can't even grow a beard. But if you're saying that's not the case, I'm a little disappointed in the author.
Sure. You are correct that Switch and Apple really only have data centers in the area. They employ very few skilled workers. The Gigafactory does employ a number of skilled engineers. If you are looking for SV & SF pay, you aren't going to find that, but the cost of living is not nearly as high. There are a number of old incumbents that most people don't think about. Microsoft Licensing, Intuit, Hamilton Company, IGT, Sierra Nevada Corporation (Think SpaceX), Arrow Electronics, TriNet, ITS Logistics, Server Technology, Panasonic. Then you have a lot going on with the startup scene. There is the Adams Hub for Innovation in Carson and UNR Innovation Center. Companies like cycle.io, Shortstack, Black Rock Solar, Filament, PeerIn. Marketing companies like Noble Studios, KPS3 and The Abbi Agency.
Researchers find evidence for a new fundamental constant of the Sun
Not if you have electric (temperature controlled) heating.
Died out? They are the largest music streaming service in the world.

Did I miss sarcasm in your post?
That is the thing though, I never did code reviews in C++ projects and have been often in the past (in my C and C++ days) the dude playing the D.Quixote role about static analysers.

Modern C++ is safer, but only if you can ensure everyone on the team never reaches for C style tricks, nor the libraries that you link against.
Just like with hit points, one is all you need. Just enough lives. ;) Or in this case, high enough and stable enough frequency.
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You know what's very good at a very repetitive set of tasks that rely on math and probabilities - and is 100% disciplined, right?
> Can you imagine if people who manufacture components for industrial designs behaved like Google does? "We have these subway trains with busted brakes, but it turns out that they were manufactured by Google and they dropped the project two years ago. I guess we have to buy new trains then..."

Like in the NYC Subway?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mta-why-has-the-nyc-subway-gone...

> The old-fashioned system requires intensive care. When parts break, which at their age happens often, this busy repair shop springs into action. Like doctors, mechanics examine the patients. Some sound like they're on their last breath. Many of the companies that made these components are long gone. So workers here have to manufacture their own replacement parts.

You have to be aware of the potential for the obsolescence of any service you use. Sometimes they drop the project, sometimes they go out of business. The end result is the same. I don't get mad at PageNet for not supporting my pager any more.
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I did this on my mobile devices originally just to block Facebook, but when it ended up showing me how pervasive and obsessive the attention grabs were, I tried it for others.

It's kind of amazing how much better an experience surfing the web is without them, from load times to quality of content. Highly recommended.
Most hedge funds are making worse returns than average investors. They only funds that are consistently making money are highly sophisticated quantitative top-down systematic traders. And their returns having nothing to do with their rolodex. Names like RenTech, Bridgewater, AQR, 2 Sigma.
Can a memory leak be the root cause of memory corruption? No: there has to have been some other problem, which is why it is worth separating it from other more dangerous "safety" issues.
My (Swedish) company tried this. I got it crossed out after I pointed out that that meant they also had legal responsibility for anything I produce out of work hours.
It's definitely not good to breathe in though, so you can still see why, for liability reasons, the company would want all employees to evacuate if it's going to be deployed, and leave it to firefighters with SCBA equipment.
How bout eating a carrot. Or a banana. That is vegan food.
As a Dane, here's some observations:

You don't ever talk to strangers. If you do, its superficial, or e.g. something crazy is taking place in a public space you can't avoid commenting on. So if you're not good at striking up conversation or don't look friendly, you'll simply never meet new people. No-one will talk to you unprovoked, ever.

Therefore, most Danes are only in a single close-knit group with their friends from school, since it's really the only place where you are forced to meet new people. As a result of this, it's extremely hard to "break in" to a new group of friends if you've for example moved to Denmark from another country or just moved to another city.

I suspect most Danes find social gratification through work. We're good at keeping a cosy working culture which involves lots and lots of cake (and alcohol, at parties.)

Most Danes I know maybe talk to one or two friends regularly and are totally content with that. Myself, I only regularly talk to my parents and my work mates – the rest have steadily disappeared from my life.
Yet the Linux Kernel Self Preservation project is still in a getting there kind of state.
The biggest harm those drugs cause is to the wallet of the user, to the point that a lot decide to become dealers (or sex workers) themselves so that they can cut the drug with brick dust and USE the clean share for themselves, which causes major health issues (e.g. abscesses at the injection point) downstream that are then attributed to the drug rather than the additives.

If those "drug addicts" have access to cheap, uncontaminated drugs and the dosage is controlled by their doctors then all of the problems that are commonly associated with "hard" drug use disappear.

However most people get jealous of those "cured" people who live a normal life but still have their doctor treat them with the drug that made them addicted in the first place. Usually it's along these lines: "What?? My tax money is used so someone else can stay addicted?" When the clinic was shutdown around 70 people became homeless because they cannot afford street drugs and 6 died from overdoses. Of course the reaction was something like "If after decades of treatment people are still addicted, then maybe the clinic wasn't so successful after all."
Look at the newest post about Carta in the stocks reddit. Companies are buying your data from other companies to do targeted advertising campaigns.
I read article and I saw that Node is not so bad at all..
Exactly what I was thinking when I read that part. I hope those people are still his best friends.
Working long hours for 9 months and getting laid off at the end doesn't only affect you financially. It will will have a significant effect on your personal life and the people around you who may depend on you.
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Also, keep in mind that HN is mostly user curated, and represent the views of it's participants more than ycombinator itself.
Security Content of MacOS Mojave 10.14.3 Supplemental Update
From my perspective Fargate offers the functionality I would have expected from ECS in the first place. What ECS provides OOB requires too much janitoring and ultimately isn't terribly different in effort compared to running your own k8s or mesos infra on EC2 instances you provisioned yourself. You still basically needed an orchestration layer over ECS.

Which is why, I assume, Fargate is now listed as an integral feature of ECS on the product page.
If you have unsafe Rust code in your crypto code, you're doing it wrong.
> just charge each adult a fee to cover the hardware cost

That seems a quick way to discourage adults from taking programming courses. Should they pay for a chair and table too? Or a screen? Of course not, that cost is amortised across many classes.

It's ridiculous that the Foundation makes bulk purchasing so difficult when the original vision for the RPi was for education. But that was fairly quickly forgotten when it became the darling of hackerspaces and upselling became the priority.
Something to keep in mind is that mirror scanning for television is a very old technology, dating back to the beginnings of mechanically scanned TV:

http://dci-forum.com/back-roots-tv-history-beginning/24/mech...
Able Health is hiring a junior software engineer to help doctors improve care
Former fund manager here.

Behavioural economics seems like a very fashionable explanation for market behaviour. However, it doesn't seem falsifiable. Just because some factor seems to work, it doesn't have to be because of herd effects. In fact it's never explained exactly which of the many BE effects is at play, or how to know which ones are not active at a given time. I've never seen anyone predict that now, loss aversion is excessive, therefore the market is going to go up or down or whatever. It seems to always be "we found this violation of EMH" -> behavioural econ is true.

Regarding the things mentioned in the article, none of them are new. That doesn't mean that anyone can make money doing them. I like to do restaurant analogies when it comes to hedge funds, maybe because I grew up in one and went on to manage a couple of funds, but also there's certain similarities.

Everyone thinks they can cook. It's just taking the same ingredients that are publicly available and putting them through some process, right? Well unsurprisingly it is indeed possible to make a meal that is better than what you can buy at a restaurant. Can you do it cheaper and with less effort? Not likely. On the investment side though, it really matters a lot whether you can execute cheaply. And you can get lucky with the right combination on either side of this analogy.

Another analogy is recipes. How many restaurants owe their success to having better recipes than everyone else? I struggle to think of any. A restaurant is not merely a collection of recipes. You can stick exactly the same instructions in front of two different teams and the experience will turn out differently. The same goes for these strategies. Plenty of funds do trend following, yet somehow they do not end up with the same returns.

And finally, a recipe is merely a guide. Look in any cookbook, there are loads of questions left over after you read a recipe. Do I peal the potatoes? How long do I cook things? At what temperature? And so on. These strategies are just like that. So, 12-1 momentum. How much of each future? Is there an execution strategy? What you end up doing depends a lot on what exactly the environment is, who your staff are, etc.
Am I replacing someone? Why did that person leave? Is the company profitable? Will I be in a cube? Office? Hot seat on a big table? Is there a technical career ladder? Are engineers valued here?
I can imagine a time (not there yet) when -- if lifelike android companions existed, and I had one -- I could forget that it wasn't human. Especially if it nagged me about stuff.

More realistically, I can imagine that about a homecare worker.
I haven't tried this yet, but based on some quick searching it might need some tweaks[0]. This is a pretty easy change to make, so I'll try it out later.

[0] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/282752/turning-pow...
> personal satisfaction

You can be one of the people you help.
Unfortunately they're the holders of my mortgage (it was sold twice and they ended up with it). So I don't even have a choice of being their customer for the next ~25 years.
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My lactose intolerance disagrees.
With security mindset, "if at all possible do not allow" is the basically the same as "always allow".

As mlock / VirtualProtect are OS dependent I strongly suspect this is not part of Rust itself.
Additionally, I suspect there would be some design problems for example putting this protected thing on the stack (protect the whole stack? Or just parts? Bookkeeping wether a stack lock can be released after a function exits?). How do you move values into / out of such an object?

So I don't think this exists, but I've been pleasantly surprised by Rust before.

My general solution for this case is to either mlockall the whole process if it is small / short-living or to have no swap in the machine, for example long running crypto servers. Who runs servers with swap anyways?
Spotify is finally profitable
Incredible. You made up a really stupid and (for a bank) illegal thing, then said it's stupid!

If I were a company, I'd use this as a sign you are not competent enough to receive our money.

No dipshit. They have active->sync->async or star replication, live every other bank. Guess what - when you actually fails over it's not always perfectly smooth. The OP made up that "all of wells fargo" went offline, when in reality tiny bits and pieces die. Have you ever worked or did you wander off the high school tech subreddit? When you actually fail over, sometimes not everything fails over smoothly and you have to do database media recovery and replay redo logs.
I think its hilarious that so many of the comments are calculating how much money he can make from Gumroad when the ENTIRE point of the piece is that "hey there is plenty of success to be found in non monetary ways."
I wouldn't say no shortage, with rainforests and forests being depleted in the tropics around the world.
Businesses have a right size, and growth for growth's sake is cancer. Venture capital fuels the cancer.
>I always wonder if there is value lost in companies that are shuttered because something isn't the next big hit, or some private equity decides they want to cash out / break up a company that otherwise... would be just fine and would have continued contribute.

Of course there is, but you have to compare it with the opportunity cost of working at something world-changing.
[DLA 1648-1] Firefox-esr security update
It really annoys me that Microsoft ships Windows Server with IE and not Edge. It's very dangerous.
Regional bank checking in. We've been told to reroute certain workloads through other means until 6am central Friday. Regardless of that, the story coming out of this over the next few days is really going to help Business Continuity departments at other institutions plan for this scenario. My teams are running mock scenarios this afternoon based on the auto power shutdown causing a data center to be unable to fail over. Might end up being something else entirely, but it's still a good scenario to investigate.
It's not negative, it's a genuine questions about something that _will_ happen. The number of relationships that are permanent is not 100%, therefore the website _will_ run into this at some point.

If I had to guess, it would be much more than 50% of submissions. Who wants to have a permanent page of their past relationship for all to see?
Not every small business has that luxury.
Yeah to be clear the Fargate container hosting was always the vision for ECS, from the very first internal proposal to build this system. But its necessary to build something that keeps track of container state at scale first, and that is ECS. We built ECS so that it can keep track of container state both in Fargate and containers running on your own self managed EC2 hosts. This gives you the most flexibility if you have really specific needs for your container hosts that Fargate can't cover for you.
No. Over 30 or 50 years maybe but 10 years is too short especially considering we just had an incredible bull run.

I think many leaders in the space have said they expect lower returns in the coming years as well. Obviously this list is biased towards those who I personally believe in:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/22/jack-bogle-believes-the-stoc...
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/nobel-prize-winner-shiller-s...
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/06/vanguard-youll-make-less-mon...
The resultant 12% oxygen is 60% of normal atmospheric air. It's still breathable, if you're an average healthy person with healthy cardiac and pulmonary function, sitting at rest - but it's not healthy, it's enough that you're going to start seeing systemic responses. The reduction in partial pressure of oxygen being sucked into the lungs will also cause an increase in the partial pressure of carbon dioxide and inert gases.

I think the concern likely comes from:

-Folks that are of poor cardiac function are going to be evacuating, meaning increased cardiac demand under stress, while being somewhat oxygen-starved. This could tip some folks into an acute episode that otherwise wouldn't.

-Folks that are of poor oxygen function, who are borderline hypoxemic to begin with. Think folks with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder: about 5% of your employees aged 55-65 will have it.

You won't suddenly kill a building full of people. I'm guessing the evacuation rush is to make sure they're not liable for unnecessarily sending a couple to the hospital.
OMG that's hilarious!
The real question is why are we using yaml at all?
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Oh for the days when you didn't have to even begin to think about how untidy (or uncool) your apartment looked (or how untidy or uncool you looked) every damn time you picked up a... "call".
She's longing for the "good old days" when web development was easier to learn, but AFAIC the good old days were 15 years before that when the "entry point" was C64 basic and there was no world-wide web. I would have written something similar in 1999 when I saw everybody goofing off with HTML and CSS and having important things like ASCII codes and memory allocation hidden from them.
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But the government has to build the hardware. And that costs money, and a massive amount of evidence shows that the government will underinvest in that hardware.

When I travel to Japan or Germany, it makes me cry to come back to American public roads and trains. But not privatized American broadband. We’re doing something wrong and that isn’t giving government insufficient involvement in the construction of infrastructure.
Facebook just became the ultimate dystopia (2018)
What "tech"? Most of what passes as "tech" now is a business model.

Up until about 2000, when you went to a Silicon Valley VC, you had to have a patent and a working prototype. Using that model, the VC industry as a whole was very profitable from the 1970s to the end of the century. In the 2000s, the VC industry became a net lose. Buying market share until everybody else goes broke is not a net win for investors.