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> It's a very wide category

The term is historical, not functional.

Before option-pricing theory, securities pricing was an art. Yes, there were capital asset pricing theories for fundamental analysts. But at banks, a phone and hustle were the tools of the trade.

With Black-Scholes (and put-call parity) came the ability to (a) manufacture options out of other securities and (b) print objectively-wrong quotes. The former gave banks an incentive to build the business. The latter gave them the incentive to automate. The people they hired to do that were quants.

The first generations of quants automated option-pricing models. Through the 80s, they found themselves involved in more products, e.g. securitised loans and mortgages. By the 90s, they were launching funds. Today, almost everyone on a modern trading desk is a quant to some degree.
This is not much of a fiction for a significant percentage of people reading Hacker News.
I took the claim to be that there was something inherent about books that made them more enduring than other forms of media, which just isn't really true. Anyway, libraries, among others, make these kinds of decisions all the time, because they don't have infinite space for books (hey, here's another reason ebooks might be valuable).
Applied Science channel is worth mentioning.
Insert standardization XKCD. It's been tried. And even so, you can still use the "standard" coredump tool to analyze a Go program's coredump with decent success.
That could change the coming years. I’m not saying it will. But it could.
They do. Xbox Live Game Pass is exactly this (and there's a PC version as well.) See also Apple Arcade and Google Play Pass.
Changing the ownership of /use/local is neither bizarre nor dangerous. It (used to be) a very common thing to do for workstations in a domain type environment (school or business etc), we do this where I work for end user Linux desktops.
The worst part is that a malicious signed binary could just download the malicious parts afterwards. Signing isn't really an answer for google.
Right. There is nothing wrong with having a simple life that runs counter to all the pressure one feels from the media (disclaimer: I don't feel that pressure at all; I feel the opposite, that we don't have enough driven people in society). But there's no reason there are going to be advertisements and awards handed out to the most balanced life liver somewhere in an affordable city in America.
Every McDonald's I have been to in Australia has been remodeled to look like an average cafe, there is no music and the color scheme is mostly, white stone texture / brown wood.

It's not a deluxe restaurant but it's not horrible. The coffee they serve is perfectly fine as well.
The timestamps are gold.
That sounds interesting. Thanks for the recommendation.

I do think coming into it without any particular expectations, and while watching secular videos about it, was actually helpful in being able to get something out of the text. I was raised Catholic but I guess my upbringing wasn't particularly rigorous in that way so I didn't have that many preconceived notions about what the text was "supposed to" say.
Make sense, what do you think about negative meaning comments ?
This particular article is about MFE students from one school, but hedge funds love PhDs too.
In the physical world, sure.. Because there was a cost to producing the physical thing (beyond the creative effort), and it will degrade over time, has costs associated with transfer, etc..

In a digital world, those constraints don't exist, so an artist could in theory get paid once for something they did, but hundreds or even thousands of people could experience their work in a "like new" state.

I'm not saying it should not be this way, but our current pricing model for these goods does not account for this possibility.

So something will have to change for this new approach to be sustainable.

Again, not advocating for either approach in particular, just saying that for an economic model to work, there has to be appropriate incentive and compensation on both the creator and consumer sides.
In Australia they seem to have made the kiosk the only option when in store. Tbh I don't mind it as the UI on these kiosks is very well done and I can spend my time looking through the list of available options.
I hope I don't come off harsh, as that is not my intention.

> Why isn't it okay anymore to just do my job, have friends and watch movies?

The reason you get to "just do your job, have friends, and watch movies," is because of the advances in science/technology/government/economics/art/etc that gave you and your ancestors enough surplus in productivity so you can afford spending some of your time watching movies. Those leaps would not have been possible if the persons working on them shared your attitude.

So much suffering has been avoided by people who sacrificed their comfort discovering vaccines, inventing engines, or rallying people behind a cause. It's more than likely that you and I would not even be alive today without those sacrifices.

I don't know about you, but I feel I owe my life and my privileges to people who didn't "just do their job." And it inspires me to pay it forward.

Now don't get me wrong, maybe it is okay to "just do your job and watch movies." But don't lose sight of why you get to do that.
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It’s totally fine to do that. To each their own :)
Not being able to spawn other processes is actually a huge security and performance benefit when you know you're deploying to a virtualized environment to begin with. (eg: cloud).
Steam is a digital store and a consumer buys software from it. You can twist words and describe it using all sorts of other marketing bullshit but it's mostly in bad faith.

It's why the NZ's consumer guarantee's act has terms like what is "reasonable" and The Disputes Tribunal (somewhat equivalent to small claims court) will often consider things from an average consumer perspective.

HN is full of technical power users so it's common for the comment sections of these stories to devolve into a "well actually" nitpick of language use but most sane countries consumer protection laws are intentionally not designed this way.

Otherwise you can probably extrapolate anything into a "subscription" service. Your bank and most credit cards are structured in a way that looks like a subscription, but an average consumer doesn't consider their plastic cards a financial "subscription".
I've never seen a scenario like this and even with the ideal case of current abstraction frameworks there is always tedious grunt work that juniors get to cut their teeth on - doing minor adjustments to fine-tune requirements, adding minor functionality, etc. Stuff where you don't want to waste time and focus of senior devs.

The only scenarios I saw where juniors were not needed is overly complex systems where the barrier to entry was so high you needed a huge amount of upfront knowledge to do anything. Those were not good projects to work on.
The first criteria for a Third Place (wikipedia link below) is "Occupants of third places have little to no obligation to be there. They are not tied down to the area financially, politically, legally, or otherwise and are free to come and go as they please."

Military service has a lot of benefits. But it probably wouldn't serve the same purpose that Mcdonalds does in these communities
Copyright law doesn't exist in France so doesn't matter. France has droit d'auteur, that can be translated litteraly as author's rights. There are quite deep differences.

The concept of exhaustion of rights is probably ludicrous from a French perspective. The most common adjective used with the word rights in French must be "inaliénable", because most rights cannot expire nor be sold nor be taken away.

That's going to be a big culture shock for Valve. You'll forgive me for not going into more details but this would require a fairly long post to illustrate how different the law is.
Regular Expression That Checks If a Number Is Prime (2016)
Legit shops might employ DL algorithms as a way to recover behavioral indicators, but no one is relying on DL or using DL for decision-making.
If he got his games in a bundle as he stated, and the bundle do no longer exist,, he could resell these games at a price closer to the standalone price, usually higher
Im not an expert, but I don't understand why dinofarm went for such high-res pixels that their pixel art ended up looking like shoddy non-pixel art.

Seems like a misapplication of the technique, to me. In the article he explains how classic pixel art conjures an illusion by _implying_ shapes and textures... Does Auro even attempt that sort of magic? It seems like Auro's implications are explicitly drawn.
I grew up in what would probably be best termed the "upper middle class" and I had a job at McDonald's in high school.
Once you get used to / take for granted the additional compiler features in F#, you will find yourself weaning yourself off C# code more and more. Resistance is futile!

2019 ends my year of F# focus. In 2020, I will take a look at Rust since it is C-but-not-nearly-impossible-to-correct-insecure.

Between Get Programming with F# and Domain Modelling Made Functional, I am a convert for F# and will continue using it into the future. Why?

Quick example: I'm currently hacking together a program for the RPG system used in Star Wars Fantasy Flight Games, so that the game master can input possible player actions during their turns and keep track of player stats, generate NPC encounters etc. and so forth.

Writing the back-end in F# (stored to SQLite) really helps me keep the game rule book (business logic) straight, with compiler-based warnings if I try to, say, stick XP into a function that expects in-game cash.

On the front end, I'm using plain old Windows Forms in C#. The UI is mostly for data crunching and keyboard-first usage (I'm keeping in mind my FoxPro days and gui.cs / TUI / keyboard-first functionality from that twitter thread a few weeks back), and is mostly for gluing UI controls to the back-end itself (maybe this will be a mobile app, website, etc. in the future depending on the GM's needs).

For this program, I wouldn't write any game logic in C#, now that I'm used to F#. C# lets me get away with too many mistakes compared to F#, for the same reasons JavaScript lets me get away with (even more) too many mistakes compared to C#.
"Thus landscape-partitioned from one another, the individual homes beneath the umbrella dome do not need their own separate weather roofs."

Is this saying that the houses themselves wouldn't have roofs? That would seem like a pretty significant privacy and security issue.
Is Financial Engineering still relevant these days? I thought it is all Data Science now.
Cool. Well done!
A lot of tech book publishers don't use DRM when bought on their website. Informit, Peachpit, Apress, Packt. O'reilly also didn't when they used to sell it directly.
Is this a case where there is a difference between legally blind (which can mean vision very impaired but some vision still occurs) and completely blind? If it is the former, you might not notice unless they had to use a screen reader/vision enhancement in front of you.
Putting aside the dispute about the novelty and intensity how is a decrease in gatekeepers both natural (the expense of distribution) and artificial relevant to the cited problem?

They haven't made any positive difference and cannot. The incentives for "gloss" to sell are the same and the alternatives have their own evils.
The problem with these stories, and pretty much any that use shock as there source of humor, is that they just aren't that funny. "It's just a joke" only works if the content actually develops a punchline. But instead, it's the same story, over and over again. The only change is that the BOFH goes from fighting with incompetent vendors foisted on him by management to just being the same, exact kind of dick to the people he's supposed to be supporting, making him exactly the same, frustratingly useless "help" he complains about with the vendors.

Even with a reading that these are projections of what he sees as how other people see him (he doesn't actually want to watch cartoons all day and delete peoples files intentionally, that's just what people think he does), the joke runs tired after the 3rd iteration, and then continues ad nauseum.
Technically speaking OP only suggested statically linking (a) libc, not glibc specifically, and musl is a libc.
Chick-Fil-A pays a slight premium and recruits heavily in the evangelical churches that the operators belong to.

The small town McDonald’s are actually pretty similar. Usually they are owned in the community, while urban McDonald’s are usually part of a multi-unit franchisee. Chick-fil-A doesn’t allow that.
An admirable goal. Depending on your current consumption, you could be setting yourself up for failure.

A more balanced resolution could be at least 1 hour dedicated to ML or side projects per day, no excuses. I did that for six months to learn to play the banjo. Also, I would make sure to set up a distraction free environment and 1x per week, set your weekly goals to stay on target (I.e don’t go down a rabbit hole unless the rabbit hole is the goal)
They claim that it works on real x86 hardware.
Most (all?) attackers dont care about apps. They want access to your server to do other things. That could be downloading a monero miner or doing something as simple as mysqldump. Either way that's another program which isn't possible in a single process world such as a unikernel.
A python implementation of is_prime(n):

return re.compile(r'^1?$|^(11+)\1+$').match('1' * n) is None
Thank you for making your books DRM-free!
Is "submarine" just "Trojan horse"?
I've deployed all sorts of things which dynamically link libc in containers. This just isn't an issue in practice.
Where is this? I can walk into a dispensary.. usually really close to wherever I am and just buy whatever I want. It's like buying bread.

When I lived in California I could have it delivered even.

Here in Colorado the black market continues to thrives because shit heads don't think they should have to pay taxes, but the actual experience of legally buying pot is super easy.
...but only for logged out users.

They didn't test what happens for people with an account.
That's true, but it's just more difficult to distribute.
Aspera only uses multiple UDP streams if the line rate is too fast for one sending process to keep up. Very often the actual bottleneck is the receiving storage backend.

It absolutely does not measure packet loss at all. The only response to a dropped packet is to request a re-send.

The protocol is simple but depends on very smart sending rate control. Much of the complexity of the current version is to perform well when the receiver has a slow disk, or the link goes through a satellite.
One should code in Haskell as if it were a small language like Scheme (or Standard ML, or early OCaml, or..). It's a wonderful language for that. The deep stuff isn't actually necessary.
The flaw in this logic is that you're imputing a uniform level of predictive power to all "economists". In any given group there will be people who are much better at a certain skill than others. Such people would be ultra-rich if the skill is to predict the economic future, largely at the expense of those who are not able to predict quite as well.
That's awesome. Just FYI the link to the Firefox extension at the above URL is a dead end.
A lot of it is just encountering new challenges you haven't faced before.

Learning to scale an application was certainly one for me. Another was writing a webapp where accessing the primary datastore was a 50ms round trip. Another was writing warehouse software that had to interface with hardware. And another was building a somewhat complex multi-system application that ran an ecommerce business.
Thanks for the correction, but it doesn't actually answer the question. Why did whoever initiated the lawsuit go after Valve, when there would have been stronger cases to be made against closed platforms?

(The cases against closed platforms would be stronger, since on those platforms it's far easier for the secondary seller to prove that they no longer have access to the game.)
Thanks; I didn’t know that, but it makes sense. Not a design decision I agree with, but it’s coherent, at least.
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There's not even a list!
It is capriciously applied if they don't acknowledge the possibility of mistakes and have some way of dealing with them.
I don't know the specifics of Python's C interfaces, but I know Ruby by default will cover all 3rd party extensions in the GIL for safety and you can release it upon entry into the extension using the C api. But doing so can be very dangerous if you're calling back into the Ruby core as you could inadvertently cause problems that the GIL was meant to protect you from.

I imagine Python works roughly the same.
Summing lists isnt IO
That's something else still. But yes, I've become more driven and more focused on ensuring financial safety for my family as well, in addition to not losing much of my interests so far.
Seconding this, it's a fantastic watch if you don't have high needs. Most importantly it has a transreflective display (e-paper like) so it doesn't need backlight. When not using GPS or heart rate it can do crazy 50-60 days on a single charge.
Interesting question. You actually can't resell digital movies in France because you can't buy a digital movie per se.

The common digital platforms operate on a 24h or 48h rental basis. You actually don't own the movie. You pay to view it once, you could view it multiple times within that timeframe, then it's gone.
Summing lists != IO
Sorta. The retailers still have to buy from the provincial monopoly warehouse.

Unless that's been changed. It changes everytime we sneeze.
This data [1] from google is a bit old (from May 2019), but shows about 10% on Android 9, and maybe a third on Android 8+; to get 50%+ (the common interpretation of most) you're looking at Android 7+, and that was released three years before the stats. Maybe, if uptake of 10 is as good as 7+, we'll see most people on Android being able to use this in 2022.

[1] https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/
Or is it a "any publicity is good publicity" stunt?
Unless you have a provable chain of trust that the code compiled is the code running on this thing then... Nah.

I trust Google’s Titan keys. shrug.
You might like my https://histre.com/ It (optionally) connects to Telegram, so you don't even have to install an app to quickly save your thoughts. They all go into a "notebook", ready to be organized later (if you so choose).
I think a to-do list of some kind would be a good place to start.

I personally have been using Dynalist to keep track of of my daily log. With it, I am able to tell you what I roughly did anytime in the last 2+ years(on a working day).

Here's my current list for 2019: https://imgur.com/a/ZDy4Ydv
Quant here. I used to be a seismologist but switched to finance one year ago. This year I earned well below 100k€.
@robsun what kind of app your friend built?
> There's no obvious optimum

There is. Same as music distribution or the calculator profession. It's unpopular, but inevitable.

We can recognize that sale of copyrighted digital goods (sans any dependent services) is not practically protected by copyright. It's as impractical as trying to track down and sue the person in my family who took the hi-res picture of a mona lisa picture in France. It might take a couple generations, but it will happen.
I don't actually have a lot of experience/knowledge about this, but here goes.

Two ways to address those concerns:

- Your app runs on bare metal and security is implemented on the network layer. For example, something external to app handles authentication and you have something in front of the bare metal box examining and approving requests (like other apps).

- Your app runs in a VM and the hypervisor handles security.

The local user-based security model has been insufficient on the server end of things ever since publicly widely accessible cluters of HTTP servers with load balancers became the norm. Of course you want to protect the local server but we're much more interested in authenticating and applying security beyond the boundaries of any individual OS. There is LDAP and numerous standards but they require implementation beyond the OS - your own or reliance on a third party like Google or Microsoft. If you have to reimplement this with microservices then who cares about the local OS?

A microservice that is only spoken to via HTTP GET or POST requests could get away with removing a lot of things in a traditional OS, such as shells, TTYs, console support, all drivers unrelated to CPU features or networking (no SCSI, floppy, etc.), all drivers unrelated to sending/receiving data through a NIC (no xtables support, no NAT/routing, no weird TCP options no one uses, no weird protocols no one users, no conntrack), no dnotify/inotify support, and maybe even go so far as to remove code behind syscalls that the app doesn't actually use. No TTY support means no one's logging in, so who cares about users at this point?

A non-microservice app, like CGI scripts invoked via Apache, is probably a poor choice for unikernel, but a front-end caching webserver may not be.
They are in the same "larger family" in the sense they even use mostly the same structure and alphabet. Compare with Korean, which will surely require more than a couple of months.

The CEFR/EU consider you only need around 800h to reach Advanced/C1 french level as an english native speaker, which is around 30 weeks full time. That is way more than "communicate basic ideas", which is more like an A. In fact, the oft-shared [1] map from the US' FSI considers than 24 weeks is enough for a US diplomat to reach _proficiency_ in French.

[1] https://img.theculturetrip.com/1440x/wp-content/uploads/2017...

I think people seriously understimate the amount of hours a single month has. Programming languages are much easier to learn. Very likely you can even memorize the entire specification of your average programming language (save for a couple exceptions) in such time.

Which I wouldn't do to learn a language, but just saying to prove the point.
Threads may not scale, but thread pools can. And that concept has been in Java and C# for a long time.

I agree with your point about the industry now favouring the event loop model of concurrent programming. I know C# has introduced recently async/await syntax to match the idiomatics of JS (probably to appeal to JS-comfortable devs) ... but the concept of built in event queues is still not supported. (I may be mistaken as I only read a bit about this feature of C# in late 2017)
Note that they use C# and ASP.Net...

(SO and DailyWTF are very much into Microsofts ecosystem)
or maybe you should consider using C++, C#, Java, et al instead?