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Removing regulations on financial institutions also improves economic efficiency. It also results in stuff like say, the 2008 housing collapse, or the failure of entire countries (see: Greece).

Arguing against privacy protection by claiming its for the benefit of our economy is just rehashing the "free market vs regulated market" argument. Sure, economic efficiency improves. Our wellbeing? Not always.

Is ad tracking pervasiveness the same as locking factory workers inside a burning building? Probably not. But we learned well from that mistake almost a century ago. We'll learn from this one too.
How is your idea, i. e. „Poor people should work harder“, more insightful than this quote, which points out the (rather uncontroversial) fact that being able to send your kids to the right prep school is a significant, and unearned, factor in success?
Your site looks great, I like the way you explain your services.

You might want to check your "blog" link at the bottom though. Gives me a 404.
All while hearing rhetoric from certain politicians saying how people "leech" from the system and actively try to remove these services.
>And whenever someone makes the point I'm making in this post, people rush in to point out that you can do so much good with lots of money. As if that somehow runs in opposition to hoarding it from being used by the broader population in the first place. It's as if you caused the collapse of an entire economic structure and then said 'but look what I'm going to do with all these resources!'.

Right, but that is sort of the point I think. Sure you may have collapsed the economic structure for the moment, but when you say "but look at what I'm going to do with all these resources!" its because you (assuming good faith) intend to use the hoarded resources to make some lasting improvement. You have the resources, so you can make a discovery or something that leads to not as many resources needed for the future. Its obviously not the best methodology, but it is one.
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I can’t disagree more strongly with this attitude.

You’re saying that children basically barely out of high school need to make decisions that are very high cost and impact the rest of their lives, then held accountable for them when they make a mistake.

This is on top of the fact that in all likelihood both society and their parents and teachers pushed them hard that the only way to succeed in life is to max out on education.

Blaming kids for choosing the wrong college is just a symptom of a broken system. How messed up is it that almost the very first decision a person has to make when reaching the age of majority is whether to take on tens of thousands in debt or more?
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I was probably born in the top 20%. The culture I inherited was "learn in school, go to college, learn to do something that pays, get a job that pays well, don't waste your money". I definitely wasn't born rich, I haven't inherited at all (yet), and I don't hoard with an iron fist.

But thanks for smearing all 20% of us with your slur. It sounds like you don't know much about the bottom of the top 20%.
You can distribute that money to literally 1 billion people and everyone would still get $2,900. It's a truly unbelievable amount of money.
The advice is absolutely well taken. Just to clarify I did not use such harsh words for anyone though that is what went inside my mind and that is what the employer felt. In that sense it was a symbolic fuck you rather than a real verbal one. It kind of makes the entire discussion on this thread moot.

Also it is about optics. Many employers blatantly engage in exploitative behavior with a straight face and talk about "how we are like a family". Similarly I too can make a beautiful farewell speech that how I learned so much at the job and how thankful I am for such wonderful co-workers working towards a noble goal of changing the world with a straight face. Everyone knows it is fake, everyone knows the facts and yet everyone is forced to smile

The above employer faked the valuation data to make his company look far more valued than what it actually was. So I have no idea what those $300K convert into in case of a real acquisition. But I have to pay thousands of dollars to the employer and IRS to exercise them. They did tamper with some of my key immigration status, filed patents without including my name in it and also coerced me into signing a "bond" (though it is illegal if you are on h1b). Of course it took lot of patient negotiations and "difficult conversations" to resolve every single issue and throughout I felt humiliated (my current visa status is tied to the employment and hence I could not quit on the spot.) People say why don't you go back to your country then but when you have 2 US citizen kids in school and wife whose work authorization is linked to your visa status you have to patiently drink all the insults and quietly suffer the humiliation for the sake of family.
If that were true, why wouldn't we be doing it now? You could feed the world from the Sahara.

The fact is that ecosystem management is incredibly important technology, absolutely required for things like Mars missions, planetary terraforming, and Not Killing Earth - and we do not have it yet.
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Sure. I believe the motherboard is an ASUS X470 Prime Pro. I picked it up at Fry's and I'm not home to look at what it is so I could be a little off.

It is indeed a pair of NVidia cards, but that part only matters a little bit. I don't really highly recommend NVidia for the host and as far as I know you can run whatever card you want on the Linux host. Looking Glass may care about the guest GPU simply because it's still a bit experimental, but there's not really any reason I'm aware of it can't work with AMD or Intel graphics processors.
I was a second year undergraduate math major at Caltech when the Rubik's Cube came out in the United States, and they quickly seemed to be all over campus.

Second year was when we took the intro to abstract algebra course. One of the requirements my professor had was that we each had to do a term project involving material from the class. I couldn't think if anything interesting, so went to to see the professor to see if he had any suggestions for interesting project areas.

He simply said "The answer is in your hands". I looked at my hands, and realized I had been carrying my cube with me. Oops. I hadn't even figured out how to solve the stupid thing yet, let alone understand anything mathematical about it, and now my grade would depend on understanding it? DoH!

One of the first people at Caltech to figure out how to solve it was Peter Shor. Until there were a fair number of other people who had figured it out, Peter was nice enough to make a nightly circuit of the student houses solving people's cubes for them.

I remember one strange night when Peter came around right as several of us where wondering if some particular thing was reasonably do-able. The group wondering this also happened to be high on LSD at the time. (To be clear, Peter was not tripping. He just encountered the tripping group on his nightly cube solving circuit).

Both Peter and one of the tripping people started working on the problem. The strange thing was that the tripping person was not a theory guy. He was a strictly experimental cubist. But for some reason he was just staring at his cube thinking about the problem.

And Peter, who would usually figure out these things with theory instead was just furiously trying things.

Peter and the tripping guy both solved it at the same time, while the rest of us wondered if we had entered the Twilight Zone.
Unfortunately there's a lot of terrible advice given to children. 'Follow your dreams' and the like. It's nice to talk about university as somewhere to expand your horizons, but people never mention the cost.

The cost of 10-50k/year for tuition and an opportunity cost (in terms of not getting a full time job and working your way up) of another 50k+/year. Is that a fair price for a degree that won't get you a better job?
> But it is a stubborn mathematical fact that, at any given time, the top fifth of the income distribution can accommodate only 20 percent of the population. Relative intergenerational mobility is necessarily a zero-sum game. For one person to move up the ladder, somebody else must move down.

The author is hung up on the idea that there will always be a bottom 20% and an top 20%. Might as well bay at the moon.
1. Edge Financial Technologies had many clients. This was one small client at the time.

3. Sarao, the trader, is a witness against Jitesh and is part of his plea deal.

2. Which other platforms is this legal?

Answer: Adding quantity to an order is legal on most stock markets, and derivatives markets around the world.

Adding to your order is a perfectly legitimate transaction. Think of it as "Just before the price rises, I want to buy all I can." or the opposite "Just before the price falls, I want to sell all I can."
For all requirements $R of everyday life:

- "Schools should be required to teach $R, and not graduate a student that hasn't learned it!"

- "The evil school wouldn't graduate my snowflake merely because s/he couldn't pass the standardized test for $R!"
> You can see the three extra zeros at the end. It's not the top 20% or the techie scum, or whichever other group is currently not underwater that's destroying the economy.

Thing I find grimly humorous is how doctors have been waking up to the realization that they're just 'the help' and the over-class think's they make too much.

Also like tech scum dogs the tax structure is designed to keep they and their spawn from breaking through into the over-class.
JSON Schema is actually pretty great.
Does a youtube channel count? Eyeballs mean very little if youtube payrates are to be believed.
Why not limit federal aid and student loans to "in-demand" majors? Do we really want high school students getting >$100k debt for majors with limited market value?
I would think this might actually be a good application for the blockchain with smart contracts
No, it can't. WebGL is at a completely different level of the stack than Datashader. WebGL is even lower level than what most people use for 3D graphics (hence threejs and babylonjs).

Data visualization is at a higher semantic level than rendering; ideally you don't want to deal with pixels and polygons. D3, for instance, binds graphical primitives (usually in SVG) with data representations but requires more programming to do actual data visualization (and that's why a bunch of software layers on top of D3). Bokeh deals with still higher level primitives closer to the data set level (plotting and charts).

And Datashader carves out a niche where there's too much data to have a 1:1 ratio of data element to graphical primitive on the screen. It does that by rasterizing, but then also handling the hard part of mapping backwards from image to data for selection and interactivity (I hope that's right; I got it from watching the 2016 video).

Anyone who has had to do this stuff for a living knows it is hard to do right, and that good modular tools are always welcome.

I don't see how this repeated "it's just like X" line of responses is benefiting the discussion. Datashader is not just like WebGL or basic low-level rendering, any more than D3 is just SVG or web apps are just TCP connections. Completely different levels of abstraction with lots of value add in between (and hard work, I'm sure).
> Jen enrolled in a one-year master’s program in public policy at an Ivy League university, where, despite having small scholarships and participating in work-study programs, she accumulated an additional $50,000 in federal loans.

She got a degree in public policy, which I assume is government work. Also, I find the "If you get a STEM degree, you can get a job." claim to be disingenuous. Are the job markets actually overflowing for every letter in that acronym? Can someone who specialized in frog reproduction or proof theory be guaranteed a job?
That's just one of many examples.

For instance if you're running in a VM, all bets are off, beacuse the host can and will page you out guest phys memory.
> The success of many a startup relies on investors whose capital comes entirely from the concentration of wealth and the lack of redistribution.

But they are redistributing the money precisely by investing it in startups.
That's great if you can earn a lot of money and save up for early retirement. But, that's not what's happening here. It looks like by his own admission of "running out", that he really hasn't been saving aggressively and will be back in the job market in a few years, possibly with a rude awakening. I see these types all the time: making a ton a money thinking they're on top of the world, the same ones saying how they don't mind higher taxes.

I don't know how long the good times will last, but I don't think we can just count on super high demand for developers forever. There will come a day when the market balances out the supply and demand in favor of employers and when that happens people like this guy are going to really regret their earlier choices.
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I was referring to comments that MS is good at backwards compatibility and “if you write application, it will run forever” and I pointed out that MS also breaks backward compatibility what regards languages.
I had an interesting meeting with some politically connected tribal elders from Alaska. Right now they use a lot of diesel generators, so bringing a coal plant online is probably a better option than that.

There is a few areas in super remote locations within Alaska where the ground is literally on fire. Building geothermal plants would be a clean way of capturing and producing power for the entire state. The problem is that the areas are so remote that running transmission lines would cost ~$1M/mile and go across some pretty inhospitable land.

I had the idea of building the plant and then housing cryptocurrency mines, on site in containers, to literally generate the revenue to build the transmission lines. The problem being of course that in order to that, it would require quite a bit of capex based on a pretty volatile market. Not really an ideal investment.

Anyway, just thought it would be a fun story to share here. Cheers.
A bit different. Hodges didn't press his case in front of cameras at games, and media/news is much more pervasive now on general.
Huawei is banned from an infrastructure point of view. Qualcomm does device chips for phones and whatnot, not network infrastructure.

The US government hasn't banned consumer devices of Huawei (except for government purchases). So you can still buy a Huawei phone or laptop.

Also, Qualcomm basically had a monopoly in the US due to patents applying to CDMA phone tech (it's why most phones had different SKUs in the US versus the rest of the world, as you effectively needed a Qualcomm chip to get on Verizon's or Sprint's networks.)
LOL, buzzfeed.
It's not at clear that all Software is a net good for society; look at all the people addicted to Candy Crush and Loot Boxes, people's unwittingly sharing embarrassing photos because of Facebook/Google anti-patterns, and malware being spread through ad networks.

I suspect the market has over-valued the outputs of computer science, and while that remains true, then software companies have as much as duty as, say, oil companies or banks to "give back to the community" to offset the negative externalities of their work.

Put another way: If we find a way to run a fully-automatic people-less farm, that doesn't mean that farmers deserve to become destitute. In my opinion, we should be compensating farmers for their service up until now (maybe, like a pension) and then giving them the freedom to reallocate their time to the benefit of society as they see fit (which might mean taking vacations or it might mean starting a startup).
Yes. And that's with the relatively simple deep models we have today, which are much simpler and have significantly less capacity than the human brain!
Not necessarily. Know a girl who said fuck off to her boss and walked out of the cabin because the boss wanted sexual favors and tried to force himself on her. Honestly even punch in the face would have been a very adult response. So it depends on the situation.
How much of that is because of the concussion protocol?
Also fundamentally you can look at it like this: If I (as a nation-state) had the ability to embed a kill switch embedded into the telecoms hardware on which other nations depend, and over which I had exclusive knowledge and control, would it be in my interests to do that? Of course it would. Irrespective of which nation state we're talking about that's a Good Idea.

Also, technically such a backdoor capability is almost undetectable (down to a sub-microcode analysis level), as per the Ken Thompson compiler hack.
Its all just a taxpayer (and employee) subsided way to lower high skill labor costs for companies. "We need more STEM" /s.

What we actually need is a long term solution to middle class destruction. Everyone/everything is sucking them dry. It’s too bad though once they’re empty the whole system is dead.
Where did I write anything about the poor needing to work harder?
> Difficult Equations

Well, they are indeed difficult if you want to develop a new method of solving an equation or if you have discovered a new type of equation (which does not happen a lot these days). Otherwise, solving a differential equation seems to be not much more than simply a matter of recognizing a pattern and choosing the corresponding method.
They are though. What if the API you're relying on doesn't have types and it returns something you didn't expect.

I think this is the biggest gotcha for developers who are using typescript. Typescript doesn't do runtime type checks, so if you're calling out to something third party that isn't written in typescript, you can't trust it'll return what you think it returns.
Make them bankruptable. Make the risk real, causing banks to only give loans if the kid is gonna pay it off fairly regularly.
Fewer kids going to college will decrease demand, and cause the price to go down, as well.
Tech schools have far better outcomes, and will be chosen more often.
According to many on HN, your college education shouldn't be about finding a job. "It isn't vocational training". It's about expanding your mind and becoming a well rounded citizen of the world.

Obviously, I don't share that belief....
> If you ask a chess afficionado about...ok, I don't know what will set them off.

the difference in ranking requirements for male grandmasters and female grandmasters
You're quite right. Let's see some habitable biodomes out in the Sahara, a much more tractable environment than Mars. But nobody seems to be pursuing this technology at scale, preferring to focus on the rockets.
That is such great work. Getting the job done with the tools already around is just such a good feeling.
These seem like complete non-sequiters, what does ad tracking have to do with mispriced insurance on mortgage-backed securities? How will ad tracking cause the economy to collapse? It seems like you are just bringing up an unrelated traumatic event from the past to scare people. I read that exotic mortgages are making a comeback - maybe congress should focus on that instead of grilling tech CEOs about advertising.
I could kiss this comment. You don't have a right to stop other people using py2 just so your ecosystem is a little cleaner. Yet that level of entitlement is apparently not uncommon in Python discussions.
Interesting. This is the first project I can think of where a clean-room implementation was done so that a project could use a less free license ("free" as defined by the FSF).

Does anyone else know of instances where a company did a clean-room implementation of a previously FOSS tool so that they could make a paid/proprietary version? Usually it goes the other way.
Presumably this would either eliminate certain jobs over time or limit those who go into those fields to a given financial class. Smells a little too much like central economy planning to some.
We have enough cubesats to make that happen. You can rent time slices for software.

That’s like saying you need to access certain sectors of a hard disk.
You were defending a tyrannical government through text book whataboutism. It doesn't matter that you were doing it to "expand my mind"--you could say that about literally any argument you make, no matter how morally repugnant.

>It's a tautology. Anything Chinese companies/people do is evil, because China is evil, because everything they do is evil...

I listed very specific, "evil" things that the Chinese government is doing. Yet you've decided to avoid those and instead address an imaginary argument that you invented out of whole cloth because it's easier for you to argue against. That's called a straw man.
I agree it is difficult to fault these students who chose majors without fully factoring in lifetime earnings and that we should allow college loans to be wiped out in bankruptcy.

However, I disagree that we should let lenders vary interest rates by institution and major. Our premise was that these students didn't understand the full picture of what they were getting into. I'm not sure complicating that picture by varying interest rates is going to make the situation better overall.
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"Synthetic" feels a bit like marketing, but the work is nonetheless cool.

Venter's first "synthetic" bacterial cells had their nuclear genomes ejected and then replaced with genomes copied from pre-existing cells. It would be extraordinarily hard to create a cell from scratch without all of the existing biology ("to make an apple pie, first construct the universe".)

These genomes contain an abundance of genes, some of which are suspected to be inessential in maintenance of life and proliferation under normal conditions (ie. they signal pathways or encode structural or metabolic components that aren't absolutely critical).

Venter's work here is to identify a minimum viable set of genes required to run chosen from an existing, easy to grow bacteria. Such an organism (or set of organisms) would be much easier to study as there is less noise. The biochemistry gets much simpler.

To be clear, this isn't the minimum set of genes required to live. It's the minimum set of genes required to run the bacteria it is modeled after. Different experimental parameters may necessitate deriving similar minimal organisms from different species. Or introducing additional genes (eg. resistance genes).

Eventually, once these "synthetic" bacteria have been proven, labs will want to order them and conduct their experiments under these much "cleaner" experimental models.
Sometimes the employee deserves to vent out his anger. He needs closure. He needs that satisfaction that after years of exploitation and humiliation he had the final word.

"Don't burn your bridges" is a good advice only when ghosts of your past are not going to cross the bridge and attack you in future. In many cases you should set the bridge on fire and destroy it till the last brick.