skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Securities attorney who worked for a hedge fund here. MIO (the fund adviser) would have to implement "ethical screens" to prevent the fund from acting or appearing to act on information from McKinsey consultants. There are a few major problems with how ethical screens work in practice:

- It's based almost entirely on self-reporting. If a MIO employee has access to material non-public information (whether from a McKinsey consultant or elsewhere) MIO's compliance department has virtually no way of knowing that investment needs to be restricted unless the employee tells them.

- Insider Trading is one of the most difficult allegations to defend against. You're innocent until you can prove otherwise. How do you prove you didn't do something? Typically through records outlining the rationale for your investment decision. The quality of the notes, and investment decisions for that matter, of Portfolio Managers varies significantly from PM to PM.

Rather than simply rely on policies and procedures it seems MIO has contracted most of the investment responsibilities out to sub-advisers and/or has some sort of fund-of-funds structure to their investments. Whether that's to make sure the transactions are actually untainted by inside information or whether that's to obscure transactions that are tainted by inside information is anyone's guess. It seems most of the issues outlined in the article stem from McKinsey failing to disclose their ultimate beneficial ownership of securities (by looking through to the fund's holdings) rather than anyone being able to demonstrate (yet) MIO has acted on insider information.

I also did a brief stint as an accountant at a big four firm. There's a reason accountants aren't permitted to invest in their corporate clients. Not only is there potential for insider trading but it could cloud their professional judgment. As the lines between the big accounting firms, law firms, and consulting firms blur it no longer makes sense that they operate under vastly different regulatory and ethical obligations.

Edit: Others might also be interested to know that while McKinsey's setup is apparently unusual for the consulting world, there are many large law firms who are also SEC-Registered Investment Advisers and deal with the same conflicts of interest. The potential for insider trading in those cases might be even higher as the law firms are often filing disclosure documents with the SEC on their clients' behalf.
If you're into RTS, Starcraft 2 is basis for a bunch of research and has an API available - see https://github.com/deepmind/pysc2 or a tutorial for getting started https://njustesen.com/2018/01/16/getting-started-with-the-st...

DOTA had also decent API links as far as I recall.

Also, there's a lot of research on older games, see https://github.com/openai/retro for interfacing with NES/SNES/GBA/etc games.
I hate this language of “so and so isn’t a technologist”. You don’t need to understand how a compiler works or grok segfaults to see the future.

It’s obvious if you’re running a big data center yourself that you’d rather pay someone else to do that, it’s just that no one wanted to take on that operational burden because it’s a pain. It doesn’t take a technologist to realize that arbitraging pain is where you make money. Everything after that is execution.

There are plenty of people who see the future who aren’t coders, they just usually can’t execute.
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Honestly, I wasn't aware. I'm just an old-school guy who uses EPUB to read novels and tech books :)

But again, I'd just include libwebkit (or similar) with a JS engine into my app and be happy.
> Do you have an argument against the authors points that does not consist of adhominem and projection?

Did you read the first part of my comment? Literally the first two paragraphs are exactly what you're asking for.

> The self-made illusion is precisely that because we ignore the many things that gave us a headstart in life and allowed us to do the things that would've caused other people to fail. The only reason why I'm here now is because I took on a risk of going bankrupt moving across the country for a job opportunity in an industry that suddenly became very volatile. Had I been laid off or had the winds shifted and resulted in my first job being downsized, I would've been financially destroyed and dropped right back into poverty. We ignore the sheer amount of luck and circumstance in our career and lives in favor of telling a story where we're the hero.

The fact that luck is involved does not make being 'self-made' an illusion. You're probably an intelligent person, if this opportunity would have blown up for you, you'd have done something else.
I feel like your response here is only against the title, not the content of the article, since your complaints are explicitly addressed in the article.
Wouldnt a single wing being buffetted by a downdraft or sudden turbulence cause catastrophic loss of tension between all wing tethers and the whole thing collapse?

What if instead of teathers, you just had two large circles of composit, as a hub and a rim, that were stiff enough to keep all wing positions but stiffer than a flimsy string - and thus keeping formation?
I think a lot of people really overestimate how pervasive this view is outside of this website.
Uranium two electric bugaloo. Sorry had to do it.
how about a probation period? in that time, contributions are more actively reviewed than usual.

eg 3 months or 10 patches (whichever takes longer)

only after that they become a trusted member.

it's like joining any other project. new members need to show their will to contribute, and that doesn't necessarily relate to past contributions.
"Neighbour" vs "neighbor" is not "old school". One is the correct way to spell it in British English, the other is the correct way to spell it in American English. "Faux pas" comes from French and so is spelled the way it is spelled in French. There's no linguistic mystery, "fopas" is just not a word.
Except it's not, Google has price ranges for registration dates. So if you wanted to registered today (Feb 19th) that's gonna cost you $11,500, but if you want to wait until it's free, that's 10 days from now.

https://domains.google/tld/dev/
And definitely use a registrar that supports 2-factor auth.
This is interesting because McKinsey alumni and consultants at Nielsen seemed to be shopping an insider trading scheme around the time that they got involved with Equifax. The partnership was leaked way before it went public and the stock subsequently popped. This was pre data breach.
Honest question for someone who doesn't know the area well..

Macau and HK are both Cantonese speaking regions. Given that the Infrastructure updates in the area make everything "closer" (in terms of travel time etc), what impact is this having on language?

Is this a Montreal type thing where most people are bilingual enough where it doesn't matter? Is Cantonese a de-facto street language in these South Chinese cities even if Mandarin is the official language?
Duh, this is the goldman sachs model.
tilewand@microsoft.com - I'll share on the post as well!
Marriage rates are also declining except among the middle to upper-middle classes.
Haha, Apparently how not to host a website giving tech advice includes having SSL certificate error on the website
Yeah, like fall back into poverty.

People that are wildly successful often hit some very narrow window. You can be persistent and try and try again which increases your odds, but it's still a crap-shoot.
personal experiences when driving 4 wheelers around drinking beer and other things.

weed is legal nationwide so is prostitution

is that enough ?
That was some very selective pasting.

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
Maybe, maybe not. I played assassins creed during the beta and they are actually giving me a full copy of the game soon so I don't see why they wouldn't be able to give users full copies to the games they bought if they ever shut it down.
For what reasons does Google actually ban accounts?
Get a mortgage.
I always thought it was common knowledge that most people 'making a living' on journalism, academia, literature, art, etc. were being subsidized by either their or another's independent wealth.
I was under the impression that Amazon drm v3 wasn't cracked?
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Yeah, I was under the impression that widespread double-dealing was basically an open secret in finance.
Shameless ad-hominem here, since there's not much to grab onto in that guy's argument:

Be careful who you believe. This grumpy genetic determinist is clearly out of touch with an entire field of emerging research about the gut-brain axis.

Apparently this guy you're quoting is also skeptical of epigenetic inheritance. (http://www.germlineexposures.org/blog/no-convincing-evidence...)

Why should I listen to him again?

He's hung up on finding a singular "actual mechanism" in a complex, nonlinear system? I know almost nothing about this guy but I suspect he's another a drug company biologist, desperately holding onto shattered dreams of genetic determinism.
I switched to a 4 day working week a couple of years ago, and took a 20% pay cut in the process.

I'm certain that I don't actually produce any less than I did when working 5 days, and my stress levels are definitely lower. All in all, the company got a pretty good deal, since I now have the same output, but get paid less!
I recommend activity-watch[0] if anyone wants a good, open-source, at-a-glance system of tracking for their own computer usage. It's definitely helped me rebuild a memory of my activities on days that got away from me.

[0] https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch
Interesting, Sean O Sullivan who coined the phrase cloud, was a business analyst at compaq.
It's very doable, especially if you have a partner to split it with. Where the $45k gets someone under 30, is just that it can take several years to put together that sum. Most people don't start to hit their earning stride until the very late 20s or early 30s.

So you're in the median bracket and you get your first serious, solid paying job by ~24/25. It's reasonable that if you're diligent about savings every month, you could have $45k+ by yourself at 32-36 years of age, and I'm assuming some financial setbacks along the way. With a partner, it really shouldn't be a problem by those ages. To do it before 30, you'd need a good economic pairing of two people that already are near or above $85k by 30. All assuming you're not living in an expensive market of course. With the necessary caveat: having children before 28 or 30 considerably changes the equation (unless you have a larger income in the household to offset that additional cost), as can serious health problems and associated bills (depending on your job/career situation).
Jeff's original request for S3 was, as I recall, along the lines of "We need malloc() for the Internet."
Newegg does at least have a 'Newegg only' checkbox so you can avoid the outside sellers.
I will still buy electronics from Newegg for that reason. No longer trust Amazon for those.
As someone who both bestows and lays claim to annoyance in generous measure, I won't dare to disagree.
Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, and Spiegel all came from wealthy families...
Hypothetical C++: Extensible Tagging
My grandfather started having hallucinations (auditory mostly - i.e. hearing voices and carrying on conversations) and showing signs of paranoia (like thinking his house had been broken into when it clearly had not, thinking people were spying on him). We were afraid it was dementia or Alzheimers.

He went to multiple doctors to verify the cause, but wasn't getting anywhere - didn't seem to really be either thing, but exhibited similar symptoms. He was eventually diagnosed by a super competent neurologist with extreme sleep deprivation due to sleep apnea.

When tested it was determined that his sleep apnea was waking him nearly once a minute, but he wasn't becoming fully conscious and therefore wasn't aware he was constantly waking up. He was never entering deep sleep at all. It was more like moving out of dozing into almost-awake and then back again rapidly all night long. He knew he was tired, but had no memory of really restless sleep.

He started using a CPAP and the symptoms started declining immediately. He was back to himself within a couple of weeks. It was really astonishing - I had never heard of anything like this - and of course it was an enormous relief for everyone in my family.
How do you invalidate a legal concept like "define that which you want to seize" because old people founded the nation ?

The old coots dont have to know how to define it. The modern police do and I want the phone records for those several thousand people doesnt cut it
Why not use a balloon? or dirigible or something like that?
Maybe it's a subjective association. But isn't a shelter a place for a homeless person?
You could start by having double blind taste tests. People love to wax on about their taste abilities and end up failing in real experiments. French wines always beat California wines Until they did the Judgement of Paris blind test and were shocked to find California wines topped all categories.

This whole discussion reminds me of the Conan O’Brien running skit where his “Producer”, an over the top Europhile, is constantly commenting on how everything is better.

https://youtu.be/vuDMiFwWTM4
How is Amazon's drm scheme any easier to deal with? Do you mean in order to read on a kindle device?
If anyone actually wants to test this: IPv6 is already a modified version of this UUID plan. The designers were even kind enough in designing IPv6 to provide some nice memory shortcuts over UUID in the IPv6 address style, such as :: to fill runs of zeroes.

It might~ be fun to see how much of the web you can explore just memorizing IPv6 addresses rather than using DNS.
There's always an element of chance in success. Every new business was a risk. Every move across the country a bet. Every new product a gamble. To say, "well I/he/she just got lucky" I think ignores that fact.

Sports are perhaps a good allegory. Sports always have chance & luck. But the best teams have a track record of tilting the odds consistently in their favor, by working to minimize chance and making the most of luck. Does anybody actually say "Well the Patriots/Yankees just got lucky"?
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See I was voted down. Racism.
I just started using Elementary yesterday, I will certainly check this out!

As an aside (and also as a small request), I miss the Kindle for PC app's ability to easily display a book in a 2-up view. To get two pages to show now, you have to change it into multi-column view and then mess with the page width and the window size until it looks good. I'd love to have another eBook reader on my computer that has a nice two-page view. Kindle Cloud Reader shows a perfect two-page view, but you can only use it for books you've bought from Amazon.
> It would be a fairly significant unintended consequence if setting the national minimum wage to $15 were to actually eliminate entire job categories like fruit picker and burger flipper, due to pushing the minimum cost of labor above the cost of automating the role.

This is not an unintended consequence, IMO. An unintended consequence is typically something that is not foreseeable, but the conversion of jobs to automation after minimum wage increases is not unforeseeable. You'd learn about that in an entry-level economics course.
When you start to get an executive-height perspective, you begin to see jam-ups that normal people don't see for several years. You can conceptually articulate the fix/need and let the real engineers hammer out the implementation. The same applies for tech, financial and social trend-lines.
> it could be easier to smuggle physical currency out of the country than digital currency, which was the point that I was refuting.

Then you were refuting a position I never espoused. My point wasn't that gold is easier to exfiltrate, but rather that BTC isn't necessarily easier to get out. If the border agents of the tyrannical government you're fleeing know you to have wealth, and are informed about bitcoin, they have many options available to them to prevent you from leaving with your wealth, including simply forbidding you from leaving at all. At that point, you'll have to smuggle your body out, so smuggling a few pieces of gold along with your body isn't a huge inconvenience.

If on the other hand the border agents don't know that you're trying to smuggle wealth out of the country, then it shouldn't be to hard to get through the border no matter what method you choose.

The one scenario in which BTC seems clearly superior is when the border guards are simultaneously alert but ignorant. Looking very carefully for money, but totally oblivious to the possibility of BTC. This might work during the present, but don't count on this remaining true forever. If enough people start using BTC for this, tyrannical governments will wisen up pretty quick.
No cypher overlap suggests that either 7pace's SSL settings (server side) are unusually restrictive, or your browser simply doesn't support those settings for other reasons. Could happen on older browsers maybe, or restrictive group policies on Windows, etc. Try a different browser perhaps?
To an American ear the name evokes "animal shelter", a place where abused or abandoned pets end up (generally a place with a negative or sad connotation (ex A: the Sarah McLachlan ASPCA commercial)), or a "homeless shelter" (with even more negative connotations).
In Sweden BBS-lagen is applicable here. That is you
run a community service where the users publish works.

5 §
"Skyldighet att ta bort vissa meddelanden"
The obligation to remove certain messages
2. It is obvious that the user has infringed copyright or rights protected by regulation in Chapter 5. the law (1960: 729) on copyright for literary and artistic works by submitting the message.

Here is the US law
https://www.bu.edu/law/journals-archive/scitech/volume1/orou...
"contributory infringement"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributory_copyright_infring...
Material contribution
"second situation is when the means for facilitating the infringement such as machinery is provided by the defendant"

Providing printing press ability and the electronic means to upload/download without scanning via OCR for copyright infringement of known text and print service and the platform itself
Here's an archive link: https://archive.is/yFO6l

I removed the s in https and it loaded but redirected to the https version, confusingly.
It seem like Finland to a larger extent is still interested in providing good conditions for its citizens, for example:

* Finland has one of the best school systems in the world. Sweden one of the most deregulated and is average in PISA rankings.

* Finland is one of the few western countries to build a new nuclear power plant. Sweden is set to instead use taxes to deal with climate change while the price of electricity is the highest in a decade.

* While this library was being built they have been arguing about building the privately funded Nobel Center in Stockholm for years.

Finland is also able to take decisions such as working against smoking. This is one of those "nanny state" public health things Nordic countries are known for. In Sweden there are half a dozen commercials for online casinos every commercial break on TV, on billboards and in all the online newspapers.

I can see why especially Stockholm would be alluring, but if you look at the housing market (or outside of Stockholm) it isn't as fun anymore.
Filter down to just ".dev EAP" here to see all registrars participating in EAP: https://www.registry.google/register-a-domain/#!/

And we have no control over registrar prices, or countries that any given registrar operates in.
> reverse-dutch auction

Why? Even if it's "cute", it serves no other purpose than racking up prices and keeping buyers second-guessing themselves. Just run a normal Dutch or a second-price auction.
> The strawberries I find in the US are all enormous and have no taste. I have always assumed it's because these are easier to harvest.

You must be getting them from the wrong place, because the ones in California are delicious. You can often find them on the sides of highways in farm country. Spectacular.
Ok, then, calculate the t-statistic of your income level with respect to your starting cohort then, if you want to be rigorous about it. I think my point stands.
Businesses often claim there's a "labor shortage" and lobby for overseas workers without changing their practices, such as paying more or allowing longer training curves for hirees that are a close enough match but not an exact match.

They did this in agriculture and IT, and the lobbying usually worked. If denied the easy out, companies will change their employment practices and/or automate.
>...this is you being unfamiliar with felony murder doctrine.

Someone isn't aware of the merger doctrine, I see. To point: Where's the felony murder charge[0,1]?

[0] - https://www.newrichmond-news.com/news/crime-and-courts/45488...

[1] - https://kstp.com/news/lennie-dwayne-brooks-randy-lorenzo-bro...
why would you think that Mandarin and Cantonese are two language
Just tried again and it's worked this time. That suggests they had some of their settings wrong.
It’s too bad there’s no way to do this to all software on a phone.
You can have the best of both worlds - tap capslock for escape, hold for ctrl.

I currently use karabiner-elements to get this functionality, it's pretty good.
Former McK here. You asked the wrong folks to come in...I'm not sure I would ask b-school grads (my former colleagues - love them to death) to talk technical stuff.
In some parts of the world, it's very often the other way round: kids financially supporting their parents. Or what would you do when your parents' savings and pension had all disappeared in the collapse of the USSR? That's exactly the scenario some friends of mine are in...