skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The largest impact in the history of humankind will be made by those companies that work to extend human lifespan."

True but I feel for the wrong reasons. To my mind, the single greatest challenge our species has faced in our brief history on this planet is how we minimize our impact on the finite resources available to us.

Researchers recently reexamined the predictions made in the 1970's book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth and found the models are holding true.

The elephant in the room is how do we curb population growth in a meaningful and humane way. What's the point of extending life if there's a diminishing return experientially?
It's even more interesting than you think. The Conservative Party do much better under Scotland's system of proportional representation than in Westminster.

Compare these results:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_ele...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament_general_ele...
It's because the role of the Scottish Parliament is in deciding how a given block of money should be spent. A party that is in favour of lower taxes (and by extension lower spending) can only implement the lower spending bit - we'll cut spending and your taxes stay the same isn't much of a sell for a political party.
This particular human dislikes writing and reading redundant tags.

I'd be much happier with s-exps and JSON is close enough.
Well, it might be secure from their point of view but from user's (yours) definitely too anoying. I'm sure that it's not easy to update/migrate to new security system but some solutions are just crying to be updated.

Btw, I found this tweet that describes bank's security measures :)- https://twitter.com/webchaeschtli/status/462584313209696258
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This kind of self-deception seems to quite prevalent with those banksters.
a similar project: http://www.openbankproject.com
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This is a slightly difficult problem to solve, but we are working on a proposal for how this could work. See https://github.com/vaffel/react-components/issues/7
It's a really common misconception that "most bank software is still written in Cobol".

Of course it varies from bank to bank, and of course there's still some legacy systems on Cobol. But many banks run primarily Java [1] in their backend. They have to: besides the fact that Java is a much more productive language than Cobol, it's the only way you can actually hire people nowadays! No bank running "most software" on Cobol is sustainable. The supposed fear to rewrite or touch simply isn't real either: if a bank does not understand and therefore care enough for "most" of its infrastructure, it isn't a sustainable bank either. These large corporations tend to be as conservative as you can get, but they are not totally oblivious.

That doesn't mean there are some little used systems still running on ancient stuff. I once heard an anecdote (no way to verify if true) that the Dutch revenue service rehired 80 year olds because they were the only ones that understood how to program some of their old machines that were programmed using wires and knobs.

The financial services market was the first market that was primarily an IT market, and a lot of infrastructure was built up on stuff that is totally unfamiliar nowadays. There are places that will pay you a lot of money for programming in an ancient language.

[1]: It's interesting to think that Java will be the Cobol of next few decades. Although I've seen signs that Scala and even Clojure are entering the banking world as well, which is encouraging.
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Stripe turns a card number into a token, which you can store without needing to worry about PCI compliance. That token can be used with Stripe to use the card from their secure store.
Yes. In the 13 general elections dating back to 1964, the Conservative party have been 2nd, 3rd or 4th in Scotland's vote share for the Westminster parliament. In the three elections since 2001, the Conservatives have finished 4th (in a 2-party system).

Yet 6 of those 13 general elections, including the most recent, have resulted in a Conservative Prime Minister.

Source: http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp20...
Is there a mirror? For those of us in the corporate wasteland this is not accesible
As far as I'm aware if you tip via chip and pin the vendor will generally keep a percentage. I tend to pay by card, tip with cash. :)
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To get a decline the POS would have had to take the card number, so probably not.
How large are the binaries you deploy? Unless it's hundreds of MB per binary I does see the dynamically linked executables being worth the trouble.

Of cause options are nice, I just worry that in the end I don't get to choose.
They worked on it for two years before going public.
Regarding remote job postings - make it clear if this is US-only remote or world-wide.

Also - please make sure that it is easy to search for terms like "C++" and "Go".

Regarding locations, it should be easy to search for "Remote" AND "C++" AND "Europe".
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They still can. They can be as ambiguous as they want. They just wont be able to advertise it as compliant with "Standard Markdown".

I don't see a problem.
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I can think of one particular bit of government spending that a lot of people in Scotland would be absolutely delighted to get rid of.

[Hint: they all begin with V and float]
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He told them no, which is still involvement.
Indeed. East-Ukrainian polls pre-invasion showed roughly 30% supported secession.

Crimea was the most interesting since it actually had the legal structure in place for a secession and if a proper referendum had been held it would actually have been a close call.

What happened was not actually a proper referendum though; even Russia's own internal sources indicated an actual turnout of only about 35% which is nowhere near enough to qualify for the legal way of seceding from Ukraine.
This is a very good background on the wider causes of this referendum taking place – nice to see.

It's going to be very interesting to see what happens to the UK post-referendum, regardless of what way the vote goes.
Fair point. In a CV, I would consider work on OO projects a bonus, but I would never consider its absence a detriment.
I worked on these systems and I can categorically say this is the best summary of HFT I've ever come across.

Many of the systems, fiber networks, data centers, and software that I touched are mentioned here. I've never heard the term "bit fucking" before, but the explanation of having to understand what happens under the metal is very true. You have to have a good understanding of software, compilers, assembler, CPU micro architecture, network protocols, and operating systems to be able to operate in this space.

I don't really know what else to add, except that I and many others I worked with in this business think that batch auctions are the solution. Although the work is technically challenging and interesting, I certainly don't like the arms race aspect of it, and I wish the resources (natural and human) used by this sector could be better allocated. One of my big concerns was the added CO2 emissions of constantly spinning programs doing no useful work - all in the name of minimizing latency. I did some research into reducing the carbon footprint of our code by reducing idle spin cycles. Alas, I never really had the time
to get it working well before I decided to pack up and move on.

Happy to answer any questions anyone may have.
I really like this idea, though I suspect it'd be let down by the ELIZA-like. I don't think even a cutting-edge AI would do a lot better than ELIZA did, and she really was limited.
I've not used one (sounds awesome and exactly what i want), but to answer your question perhaps it's similar to the difference between using a mouse with a monitor compared to directly touch interfacing with the monitor. For for example Vassal boardgame, for which I bought my Iyama touch monitor there is a real experiential difference between using a mouse and your finger for moving pieces. Less seperated and more natural.
MarkRight.

Markdown done right.
I think the Westminster government had no choice. David Cameron was dithering about the decision to allow a vote on independence, and Alex Salmond just went and announced a date. What's Cameron going to do, forbid it?
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What other option do they have though? They can't go spewing democracy across the rest of the world and then iron fist things back at home.

No. The only thing they could do (and are doing) is attempt to undermine and scare everyone out of it.

- "You don't even have a currency figured out!"
- "You are not getting to use the pound, no way!"
- "You are not getting into the EU either, we've checked and got the big wigs in the EU to say as much, publicly, as well."
- "... and there'll be no more commonwealth for you either!"
- "Your north sea oil wells are drying up, you'll all be starving to death in a decade. The horror!"
- "It's a big world and you'll be in it on your own. Be afraid!"

...etc.

*PS. The above quotes are a summation of actual quotes made by the opposition.
What would you rather do? E.g., are you bored with development per se, or life in general?
On my iPad Air the text is massive(as with most "mobile" websites) and an inch on each side of the screen is wasted with empty space.

Maybe I've got funny eyesight.
I thought netbooks were dead. Is it about the price?
I already have very cheap 0.5 mm think foil i put on the living room door on which i write household schedules, chores etc for that week. Good enough and makes me less dependent on technology. Having such a display always on would take lots of electricity and would be distracting, the white foil doesn't have these problems and is infinately smaller and cheaper - it just doesn't have the intelligence (you probably won't need for this particular purpose)
I'd say it's the opposite. Selling radical change is harder than selling the status quo. The Yes campaign has to prove Scotland "has what it takes" and dispel all the fears and uncertainty which comes from big change. All the No campaign has to do is convince enough people things are fine as they are.

What's truly amazing about this referendum is the engagement. It's projected to be an 80% turnout, with many, many people becoming involved in politics for the first time. There were queues to get registered to vote over the last few days. The level of awareness amongst the electorate is staggering compared to previous elections. It's an exciting time to live in Scotland; no matter the result, Scottish politics won't be the same again :)
I don't think that's how banking works to be honest.
Money move from bank to bank via the countries central banks if I'm not mistaken. Then the central bank reconcile everything in batch processes to ensure that banks aren't just making up money (well more than they are legally allowed to).

Denmark has had a few occasions in the last few years where this has failed because one bank failed to deliver their transactions one night.
Cremea voted to be independent of Ukraine in 1991, it was invaded by Ukrainian forces during the referendum and after. I't just that Russia had it's own problems back then and didn't have the ability to deal with local conflicts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_sovereignty_referendum,...
I would strongly disagree with the CDF being "excellent" – it's basically money cut from other NHS budgets and repurposed for expensive individual cancer therapies.

At the very least, an expansion and improvement of the existing equivalent system in Scotland (individual treatment request) would offer a better solution for the need to fund individual specific treatments that haven't been widely approved.
Devastating LTE apropos of the paper Methylphenidate exposure and neuron loss
I would assume std compute engine pricing:

https://developers.google.com/compute/pricing
Why forbid it when you can just ignore it? E.g. Spanish government said they wouldn't recognize results of a Catalonia independence vote. (Whether they actually would is another matter.)
The US donates 0.2% of GDP. The top four recipients of that aid are Afghanistan, Israel, Iraq and Egypt. You can imagine what they spend it on.

We also give aid to the West Bank and Gaza, so we're working both the supply and demand side there.
I was talking about the Scottish parliament. As I read it, the article talks about both (as I read it). Feels like I'm derailing the discussion a bit but essentially:

Overall Scottish spending is not related to UK tax levels directly, but is directly related to spending in England and Wales[1]. So the argument is that there is little point in a party trying to get voted into Holyrood (the Scottish parliament) promising a smaller states and fewer taxes at the moment, because they have little proportionate control on the taxes (although again, on the spending they do in theory).

The reverse is not true for Westminister - the more they spend in England and Wales, the more is available for Scotland to spend, and vice versa.

Hope that clarifies what I was saying!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_formula
I wonder if it would be possible to generate a cover based on the plot?

Character name detection is pretty easy

Gender detection for the characters depends on the year of the book, but is possible with reasonable accuracy (although one would need to be careful of translations).

Key scene detection in text isn't something I know much about. I've read some research on recognising emotion in text, and it might be possible to use something like that on a rolling basis to find the most important parts of the book.

Using that information to create an illustration... would be challenging.

I can imagine algorithms to draw the character by extracting descriptions from the book. Putting them into the context described by some key scene would have a few additional problems.
I don't understand why HFT is still around, if it's considered a problem.

Naively, couldn't all the craziness about HFT be resolved by enforcing a 1-second tick on the markets?

Like, right now it appears that trades occur instantly. Instead, queue requests and have the trades occur only once a second. Or 5 seconds.

Would this work? I'm assuming that either there's no motivation to solve the problem, or there are difficulties that I'm unaware of.

---

I've been wondering this about HFT for a while and this seemed like a good place to ask. Then I went back and finished reading the article, and this solution is proposed at the end. Curious about whether it would work on not.
Possibly better fit for TV. Although it's usually no problem, I can imagine that cinemas would get really anxious about people taking pictures of a moving they are watching
IIRC, thats mostly done using SWIFT [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIFT_message_types
Eminent domain is sadly abused in 99% of the cases.

I'd rather it didn't exist, but I can see the need in the most extreme examples.

See for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_for_Billionaires

Edit: keeping on topic, there was a holdout when building a mall here in Uruguay, and they built the parking lot around his house:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Geant/@-34.8667764,-56.023...

there's a controversy in my country (Uruguay) because the state wants to apply Eminent Domain to a supposed landmark, because a study said 200 years ago it had been a campsite of the national hero:

http://www.diarioelpueblo.com.uy/destacados/el-hervidero-una...
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Also been involved in this line of work. How would you see the specifics of a batch auction working? I'd see it as not doing anything if the matches happened in a FIFO manner (it'd still pay to be first). Would a pro-rata batch auction fix the problem? Or would we have to introduce a random component to match all crossing orders in each batch?
This is really useful. I'll be curious to see how the scammers tab expands over time...
I see. It would be interesting to see this on a finite universe - a curved universe where opposite edges join
I've always wanted a chromebook. This is exactly the sort of information I need: I'm looking for a 15" model with at least Core i5 or equivalent performance and a high DPI screen.

Every time I go looking I end up digging through hundreds of irrelevant results on multiple sites only to discover no such chromebook exists.

In other words, this is exactly what I want. I'll keep coming back and checking stats!
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don't be mean?
Good enough and makes me less dependent on technology

Except for the immense supply chain that brings those products to your store :)
Interesting project

More and more financial institutions are starting to implement messaging using the FIX protocol

http://www.fixtradingcommunity.org/pg/main/what-is-fix
You shouldn't have to update it manually. Isn't there a good way to pull the current price from amazon?
>> out of the last 68 years, Scotland has voted Conservative 6 times, but has had Conservative governments for 38 of those years

Do you mean that Scotland has voted Conservative in 6 general elections? If so, with a maximum of 5 years between elections, they voted for a Conservative govt for up to 30years of those 38. That's quite a misleading way to represent that statistic isn't it?
even Russia's own internal sources indicated an actual turnout of only about 35%[citation needed]

For Crimea, this referendum was like the real second coming of Christ for the bible belt of US of A. Would be surprised.
What about http://react-bootstrap.github.io/ ?
You should read to the end of the article, where they discuss exactly this kind of solution.
What's the motivation for this? Is it coming from inside the industry/is it a suggestion/fun project?

I'm don't understand the purpose - it's all about transmission, not data. Banks could sure do sure do with a standardised API, but is interbank message encryption a problem needing solved? I've haven't heard anything like that.

The author is very sure of it's production-readiness. If this transpires to be true, then I could easily see this spec as a good way to encrypt message-based data of all kinds. But where does this bank angle come from?
There's a lot of license fee money on the line for the BBC.
Been trying to figure this out myself. What if we have 3 offers and 2 bids crossing at the same price after the 1 second tick is up. Which two offers get filled? If the answer is, the first two, then you've solved nothing. Maybe you randomize it? That could bring up some interesting issues.
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It seems right that the Conservative Party should have representation in Scotland's politics, but it seems wrong that Scotland is ruled by them.

The disproportionate Westminster system - where a reasonably sized body of Scottish Conservatives currently have 1 representative out of 304 in the London-based party - contributes to major underrepresentation of Scotland in the existing government.
Are most of the Socket.IO users using node at the server side?

I started using Socket.IO with python server, gevent-socketio (actually Flask-SocketIO that is based on gevent-socketio). But then the Socket.IO 1.0 came out 28 May 2014 and gevent-socketio is not yet updated. Not sure if there's any plan for it.

Another tricky part is that gevent-socketio doesn't play together with uwsgi so I had to move from uwsgi to gunicorn in order to use Socket.IO and also the latest gunicorn breaks Socket.IO support so must use gunicorn 0.16.1 instead of 0.19.1. A bit frustrating ride. But that's another story :-)
yellow: classic works of the German language and other languages translated into German

red: classics in their original foreign language

orange: bi-lingual books

blue: study guides

green: original historical sources with explanations

magenta: non-fiction (politics, history, society, natural sciences, art, music or religion)

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>I don't understand why HFT is still around, if it's considered a problem.

Primarily because regulatory capture has, until now, overruled all attempts to reign it in. The banks and hedge funds engaged in this activity wield vast amounts of political power.

>Naively, couldn't all the craziness about HFT be resolved by enforcing a 1-second tick on the markets?

Not really. That just changes the game from "who can trade a picosecond before you?" to "who can trade a picosecond before the tick?".

An almost microscopic tax on transactions would prevent it, though while having a minimal impact on all other trading activity.
From the docs, I can't figure out how this is "decentralized". All I see are encrypted and compressed.
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There's a video? Can you post a link? The navigation on that page is horrible, and all I'm seeing is the same front-on image of the robot vacuum.
Strangely, if I go to the Australian site https://www.dyson360eye.com/en-AU, I get a different image, but still only shows the one.

I'd like to see the video and learn more.
We discussed this[1] yesterday, but this letter to the editor is worth reading. Lots of useful info for reading and understanding a scientific paper.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8263515

edited: One of the paper author has just reply to the LTE
Glad you like it!

Seems there's a market for decent spec Chromebook's that don't cost an arm and a leg like the Pixel :( Building this table also confirmed that what I want doesn't exist!
Yup, just got there. Oops.
That would symbolise everything the independence movement asserts about the arrogance of Westminster politicians and their alleged couldn't-give-a-damn attitude towards the Scots. Personally, I think there would be riots.

If there is a legally-held and popularly-supported vote in Scotland which decides in favour of independence, it would end badly if Westminster somehow decided to declare it null and void or just pretend it didn't happen.
>that the author is very fond of himself.

How?
And I found it better than the original at the very least ;)
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You do have a good point there about clones... but is pop-cap sue-happy like King?
The economy is geared towards playing such zero sum games. This is pretty much by design - policies such as austerity, ZIRP and financial deregulation shift the allocation of capital to speculation (gambling) and away from productive investment.
In the latest opinion poll from the most No-friendly pollster[1] 'Yes' is ahead in all age groups apart from the over 60s, where No is way ahead. If there is a No vote it seems likely to have been won by the old. This backs up the narrative from this article that Britishness is dying out in Scotland (of course, pensioners have also been frightened by scary stories about their pensions, and tend to be more small-c conservative, so it's not entirely an identity thing)

[1] YouGov. Different polling companies appear to have different systematic errors in their results, meaning that polls are spread fairly widely. This particular polling company has until recently been showing large leads for No. In their most recent poll the lead had been cut down to 6%, reflecting a feeling 'on the ground' that there's a genuine shift happening. Personally I am still totally unsure what result we'll get in two weeks (two weeks!)
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