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If you are wont to read all of this, you might buy the Volume 1 of the CFA exam books instead.

After having been through an economics degree beforehand, I was impressed at comprehensiveness and conciseness. They're written to be read, unlike a lot of academic textbooks that are written to be references for lectures.

There are several thousands of pages in Volume I, but that's because they cover so much ground. If you're looking for a holistic understanding, and would otherwise pick up a dozen different paperbacks from some online blog list, you might do well instead to pick up the official introduction for finance by and for the financial industry.

For a general understanding of macroeconomics, I'd recommend just Cassidy's 'How Markets Fail' and you're set.
Why isn’t CPU time more valuable?
The feat of engineering is that these problems are gradually being _solved_ or worked around while maintaining backwards compatibility. For example, C++20 will have modules, which means you won't need to include everything again and again in each translation unit.
>Are you sure all your passwords are secure?

all the ones in my password manager are

>Are you sure your accounts can’t be broken into with social engineering?

And who's to say that you can't also use social engineering to recover the real email? eg. "I forgot which email I used, but it's on my domain, example.com". This is even more plausible if you use any of the "tricks" that the GP mentioned, like putting random characters, since it further lends credence to your "forgot my email" story.

>Is your password manager infallible?

Considering you have to store all those different emails somewhere, I don't see how this mitigates the treat.

>It’s defence in depth.

Sure, it's defense in depth, but the gains in security is so marginal.

>Of course you may also do this for privacy reasons as well

Sure, I'd buy that aspect, but catchall domains or dot/plus tricks aren't going to cut it because they're relatively easy to deanonimize. Not to mention all the data you leak on those platforms just by using them (location references, friend lists, interests, etc.)
Funny you mentioned that one, I’m staying at it next week and booked through HT.
No it's not. Net Neutrality is the idea that large bandwidth users should not be charged when they cause most of the cost of the ISPs. Netflix and similar countries want to be able to grow forever and not be billed for the required hardware growth that ISPs need to put out to support those companies products. ISPs should be able to charge for that.

An ISP doesn't bill you for how many bits you download because data traffic is extremely peaky, way more peaky than water or electricity. If they build their network assuming a certain amount of peakiness and then everyone suddenly massively blows out those estimates because some new company comes along that massively uses more data, someone needs to get charged for that. That cost should fall on the company causing that so they can properly set the price of their product to how much data traffic they drive.
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I think they were using their catch-all for non-transactional/newsletter emails. I have a catch-all for websites and then another that I give to people to email me on. This lets me see emails sent to me by a person easily while having separate email addresses for each site.
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That’s preposterous. There’s no way chickens with the best adaptation are the ones being bread; they’re in cages. Selective breeding could’ve easily developed a selection bias of large chickens that are obscenely aggressive and fight their confines.
>> I just feel that vouchers tend to increase choices primarily for those who are already fairly well off.

> Anything that increases choices tends to increase choices primarily for those who are already fairly well off. This also applies to Affirmative Action. The beneficiaries of Affirmative Action tend to be kids who are already in the Upper Middle or Upper classes.

School vouchers appear to be particularly bad by this measure though. For anyone already sending their kids to public school, it's subsidizing a behavior they already do. It's $8k per kid that could be spent on improving other schools.

For those who just-barely can't afford to send their kids to private schools better than the public schools, it's a huge gain, but I am of the opinion (though I admit without sufficient data) that this gain comes at the expense of the quality of the public schools (or in a zero-public-school, voucher scenario, the 0-added-tuition private schools) that those poorer will be relegated to.

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I guess my point is that I think vouchers are likely to be a net-loss for the poor, and even if I'm wrong about that, I'm struggling to think of ways in which they could be a net-gain.
I’m not sure. I’m not entirely convinced that discrete and continuous spaces are dual spaces. They are connected, but they are not duals.

Same with sampling vs continuous. One cannot interchange the order of the composing morphisms while preserving the properties of the original. The sampled object cannot reconstruct the continuous object in all situations due to effects like aliasing.

In optimization, the concept of duality is also a much stronger idea: the primal and the dual of a problem are opposing views of the same problem that correspond exactly (not approximately) in their dual properties.

Discrete optimization is nonconvex by nature (does not satisfy convexity definitions) so I’m not sure if it has any duality relations to convex optimization. There is a relationship but it is not a dual relationship.
So a woman is dead because of a self driving car being tested on a public street but the company has no criminal liability.

How many people does Uber have to kill before it becomes a problem?
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> Anti-fallacy

What's an anti-fallacy? Seems to be the opposite of a fallacy, so that's a good thing, I guess.

> You take the mere presence of these comparisons to undermine

No, I take the fact that the text is full of these sentences to "undermine" (aka: disprove) your incorrect assertion that

"That's not what the review does at all. "

and

"That's one or two sentences of it"

That is exactly what the review does and that's a lot more than one or two sentences. Alas, there's a limit to post length on HN and just pasting the entire review gets old.

Interestingly, the fact that your claims turned out to be utterly and completely false did not change your conclusion one iota (see: motivated reasoning[1]), you just switched to other "reasons".

No, I do not find the rest of her ranting in any way "substantive". For example, you quote:

"The prospect that a group of children might get together to build a new road themselves is not one they can countenance."

Well, here's what the reply I referenced has to say to that exact sentence:

"Far from this being something the authors are unable to countenance, encouraging children to build new roads themselves is exactly what the authors hope to achieve. But this can’t happen if adults prepare roads rather than children."

And of course, "not one they can countenance" is not language that has a place in a serious review. You can say what's in the book or not, you just don't have access to the authors' state of mind. But the ad-hominem is what this is about, so "can't countenance" it is.

The rest is, again, unsubstantiated ranting. The authors "romanticise" the past. Where? How? Is this bad? Why? Nothing. Where do they get "fuzzy"? This is not a history book, saying they did not research something they neither intended nor claimed to have researched seems somewhat silly.

> "good and bad" vs. "privilege and power"

That seems a very slim "error" to hang your critique on. If, in fact, it is an error.

Some of the terminology used: "matrix of domination", "vectors of oppression and privilege", "oppressive measures", "domination always involves the objectification of the dominated; all forms of oppression imply the devaluation of the subjectivity of the oppressed."[2]

Now you can try to claim that all these terms do not carry any moral judgement whatsoever. I think you'll have a hard time with it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality#Key_concepts
> Something that has always bothered me is that smartphones are basically supercomputers

They're only comparable to 90s supercomputers in the sense of compute power.

But when it comes to productivity they are fundamentally limited by their physical size and limited input/output real estate vs a desktop or laptop, or even 90s supercomputer with a 25" CRT and big clicky keyboard.

Even laptop keyboards use nearly full size keys, just as piano keys come in a pretty standard size, regardless of the size of the piano.

Programming on a phone directly would be like cooking for a banquet on a single camp stove instead of a full kitchen. You could do it, but why?

And sure, you can hook up a keyboard, mouse, and external monitor to some Android phones, but at that point, it's hardly a phone anymore.
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It will always be a grey area.
Interesting reading the article, from a risk perspective I would think Uber would have assessed the risks associated with using an Uber self-driving solution. Particularly mitigating automated controls to stop the car in the event it detects an emergency, given it has this capability.

But I agree with the verdict, it's just strange that the vehicle has the ability to detect a potential collision but cannot apply emergency braking to prevent it.
> I strongly believe that we should be keeping our email addresses as secure as our passwords.

That doesn't make any sense. Just create multiple email addresses, one for talking with people and a separate one for signing up for services.

The one problem is there are companies like Facebook where even if you sign up with a secret email address, they will send password reset tokens to the other public-facing email addresses you have on your profile.
What I most keenly miss from college, and think self-education lacks, is the peer group.

In college I could sit with a group of 5, 10, or more people who have the background and interest to discuss a wide variety of topics at a high level, from world history to Shakespeare to calculus.

Online isn’t the same, and finding such a peer group outside school is much harder.
But this problem is gradually going away. That is, with every new language standard version, the use-cases for macros become more and more limited.

Anyway, yeah, modules should do sidestep this challenge.
> While the system identified that an emergency braking maneuver was needed to mitigate a collision, the system was set up to not activate emergency braking when under computer control.

> Instead, the car's system relied on the human operator to intervene as needed. "The system is not designed to alert the operator," the report notes.

How are the not negligent for this specifically?
indexes, caching (pass through, LRU, etc), query read replicas, sharding, pre-fetching, sampling, maybe look into columnar storage ... Hard to answer not knowing more specifics.

Something to always remember: if it is valuable, charge for it. If it is really valuable, you can spend all kinds of hardware on it. Give each customer their dedicated instance and rinse and repeat the strategies above.
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I can't speak for you, but for me the limiting factor for programming has never been how fast I can type, but how dumb my brain is.

That said, I actually think that Vim translates surprisingly well to a mobile setting. You don't have to do any awkward hand motions for doing elaborate keyboard chording (except for capitalization). The screen is small, but high enough resolution (720p I think?) to where I can make most stuff out, especially if I make the font big enough.

It's definitely not my preferred hacking environment, but I find it more fun to do that on the train than people watching. Well, most of the time at least.
"How much money does the defendant have?" seems to be the prevailing factor in assigning blame in criminal cases.
Backblaze no question about it. Use encryption and you won't have to worry about privacy. It's expensive to recover your data, so you'll need other backup methods too unless you're made of money.
> Charging more for higher bandwidth or data usage because of the application is not allowed under NN.

ISPs would never charge customers depending on the product because measuring that is practically impossible. They never even wanted to do that nor advocated doing so (this was a major source of misinformation put out by the pro-net neutrality camp). What they do want to do is bill the service, namely very large companies that use tons of data, for example earlier Netflix, for the cost of the infrastructure build out they need to do. They're not interested in small companies that produce small amounts of data, nor the end users. They're interested in recouping infrastructure costs from those that drive it upward, which isn't end customers.
Fair enough. I guess your original statement was more that AirBnB shouldn’t be consider a tech company in the same breath as FB and Netflix, and not that it isn’t a tech company.
If you use Inbox, you can't count on it being available for more than few weeks :(
Huh, I might have been wrong. I was pretty darn sure the 2015 model I use at work had the capability...
.....and website down.
Absolutely. If software needs configuration before it is secure than the default behavior should be to throw an error while starting up with a link to the documentation for configuration. The default should NEVER be to just start up unsecured.
On one hand, I think Uber was reckless and wantonly created the conditions for this incident.

On the other hand, I don't want this to be the death knell for autonomous driving experiments.

On the gripping hand, it's possible that a large settlement might have been the best outcome from this tragedy for the family of the woman in question. They gain nothing from Uber's criminal liability.
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Isn't most of the point of computers driving us so they can react to things we can't? I dont know why that bit would be turned off... Seems seriously problematic. Secondly, that looks like a really bad place to be pushing your bike at night.
The law doesn't require automatic brakes and alerts on cars. Think about how many clunkers those laws would make illegal. You can't hold Uber to different legal standards, but we can certainly say they were negligent from a moral standpoint
Interesting that you chose to reference Jim Crow to contextualize a law explicitly designed to not restrict access to services because of the form of legal tender you carry. In a city where 26pct live in poverty and may not have access to banking services, such a law is about as no-brainer as it gets.

Laws attempt to balance the interests of the individual with those of the community, and can be influenced by the participation of the community. Jim Crow lasted as long as it did because the people that it harmed never got a vote.

For such a law to be unjust, you'll have to show some evidence of people being negatively affected by it. The only counterpoints offered by the article are concerns from Amazon, about a store that does not even exist in Philly yet.
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> farming? from some statement I read somewhere 'yield' was the problem

bond yields in finance
This is potentially precedent as a legal blocker for public adoption of self-driving cars. If I am to serve a 1 year prison sentence for faulty code or a deprecated LIDAR sensor, I don't see in what scenario I would be willing to leave my fate in the hands of a self-driving car manufacturer. Just as in the case of a chauffeur, if they are driving and commit vehicular manslaughter, I would not expect to be deemed guilty.

It seems to me that it would be the benefit of self-driving car companies to own up to liability as it is to their benefit of achieving widespread adoption. For example, Volvo is in line with this idea and has publicly stated that they would accept full liability in fully autonomous operation modes[0].

In this case, I do think that some liability lies with the driver - as they were tasked specifically with prevent situations like this. What is not clear is whether or not this task is even humanly feasible given reaction times, and based off of this, whether or not Uber has been criminally negligible. Given this, I am surprised that the prosecutor seems to have absolved Uber of any blame.

[0] https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressrele...
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It will increase, which I guess is sort of my point. We already know there's a lot of abstraction. If these things are only alike semantically (two pairs of dual things can be completely unrelated), what does it gain you to point out they've everywhere?

I don't mean to be obtuse, but it strikes me as saying that a city is full of concrete.
I can't be alone in not caring too much about the cert.

Notepad++ - Crack on!
It's not always the driver's liability. Sometimes the pedestrian is at fault.
Probably, but I'd prefer we not have to kill people to do it.
An aside but if you’re at the early stage where you’re looking for docs like this on HN, I wouldn’t make an advisor a board member. You want an agreement that lays out their stock grant and vesting schedule and lays out agreed terms for advising, that’s it.
HN has a guideline that you should respond to the best interpretation of a comment, not the least favorable one.

IMO he was clearly reffering to 'thing' being 'an effective thing' for preventing viruses, as opposed to him asking if people downloaded software before code signing.
> They had a fenced outdoor area they could wander around in, but they always ate everything that grew, so it was just dirt. We did let the chickens out of their pen in the late fall and winter when we didn't have a garden planted. They were really happy roaming around and pecking at things. They'd all wander back into their coop in evening to go to sleep, so all I had to do was close the door at the end of the day.

Hmmm... I did the exact same thing. Only difference is that I did it in Stardew Valley. =D
I thought we didn't break userspace
Easiest way is just to put up a fake service and they’ll give you their real password (same one they use everywhere). I can do this in a day and get thousands of real passwords and emails if I wanted to.
> Volume 1 of the CFA exam books

I'm seeing a couple of Google results that are different publishers. Do you have a link you'd mind sharing so I look at the right ones?
Everyone thinks more kids should go to trade school instead of college. Very few think their own kids should go to trade school though
Blame the driver... of course the driver was told that the car drove itself... he was watching a show on his phone when it happened so Uber is putting the blame on him.

I don't think the driver was trained properly to drive in that semi-automated driving system. Is the fault lying with him or is Uber just trying to lay the blame on him to avoid paying anything.
To put things in perspective, Jack Dorsey has an estimated net worth of 5.2 billion dollars. His weekly wealth adjusted spending on Bitcoin is almost certainly less than the pennies in your car's cupholders.
It's also sort of like email, HTTP or JSON in that having a clear minimal feature set and good design would have been en extremely nice thing to start with; but everyone is better off for having an open platform to communicate with right now.
I believe he's saying P(bad if signed) < P(bad if not signed) - "I trust signed apps more than unsigned apps". I'm saying, maybe, but I'm not sure, and Cost * P(bad if signed) may be much worse than Cost * P(bad if not signed).

When the Transmission bittorrent client site was hacked to distribute ransomware, it was signed using an unrelated certificate that was likely stolen. This happened twice within a year, with different valid (stolen) certificates:

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2016/09/transm...

Stuxnet certificates were also stolen.

This disproves the GGP's premise that a signed app implies the developer paid for it, as well as your assumption that the paper trail for legally acquiring a certificate is an impediment to signing malware.

You're not only trusting the developer who purchased the certificate and the CA that granted the certificate, but also trusting the ongoing security of everybody else who has purchased a trusted certificate. That's a pretty open circle of trust.

Certificate revocation can limit the time of exposure once malware is distributed, but it isn't always implemented.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/evasi...

"they found 189 malware samples bearing valid digital signatures that were created using compromised certificates issued by recognized certificate authorities and used to sign legitimate software. In total, 109 of those abused certificates remain valid."
A civil suit for negligence is still available, even when not criminally liable. Two different standards. See O.J.
Email security is greater threat than ever
I bought a libre13 DESPITE pureOS.

PureOS is just a distraction. instead of adding a usbC port to their already outdated computer line, or lowering the absurd price (there is a reason their clientele is exclusively in california and germany) they are fiddling with linux distros like it is 1995.

This is the same old a phone-just-need-a-browser idea of 10 years ago. This will fail, for the same reason firefoxOS failed: There is no whatsapp (or lock-in chat app du jour) website.
The entire point of opposing school vouchers is that the people pushing them and their implementation of school vouchers would devastate local school systems

Just because particular schools close, doesn't mean something bad is happening. In a market that actually works, no one is too big to fail.

And again, the problem is racism. White flight exists. It is why public schooling in those neighborhoods is so bad to begin with

Thomas Sowell remembers attending a very good school in Harlem, and that the neighborhood was safe enough for him to sleep outside on the fire escape, if it was too hot on a summer evening. The key difference has been effect of the welfare state on those neighborhoods, and the resulting degradation of the social fabric there, not the flight of white people.

https://youtu.be/mS5WYp5xmvI?t=996
Since we're just making these things up, how about a story where the dad is a deadbeat HVAC repairman who fucks up his back and gets addicted to pain pills while his three kids study medicine, law, and computer science and go on to be a general surgeon, judge, and tech billionaire
I made an app for tracking ongoing refactors in your code. Is it useful?
Studies of communities that have longitivtiy confirm this. For example, the "Ikaria" study, a university of Athen's study of the island of Ikaria, where males reach the age of 90 2.5 times more frequently than Americans, their diet consisted of hardly any red meat at all (and also hardly any sugar), but rather beans, legumes, wild local greens with lemon juice and olive oil, fish, honey, and red wine.