skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also like to keep in mind that investors who purchase a percentage stake in the company valuing a company at 25 Billion probably have favorable terms and preferred stock such that they will make money even if Uber goes through a liquidation event at less than that amount.

I see Uber being a 10 Billion dollar company without any problem.
I wonder if "Hacktivist's Advocate" defense-attorney Jay Leiderman would agree this is "a stunningly clear violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)", as he is quoted in this article, if he were defending someone accused of the practice.
Did it though?

AFAICT when people came down from whatever it was and actually tried to live their 'new' ways, they pretty much degenerated and fell apart after short times for all sorts of reasons.

Being a corporate drone is not an aspiration. Feeding your family and having a nice place for them to live certainly is though.
That depends on how you define "wide scale infrastructure sabotage". I believe that this is resulting from: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-security-advisory-relay...

January 30 to July 4, 2014 someone set up 115 tor nodes on fdcservers.net (total cost maybe ~$200k?), which was 6.4% of entry guard capacity. Clients talk to 3 guard nodes for an average of 45 days each, which means they probably picked a guard ~12 times during this period. Each guard-picking attempt had a ~6.4% chance of landing one of these bad guards, or a 55% chance across all attempts.

"We know the attack looked for users who fetched hidden service descriptors... The attack probably also tried to learn who published hidden service descriptors, which would allow the attackers to learn the location of that hidden service."
This misses the fundamental point: we were designed to reproduce. It's innate to not just our species, not just our kingdom, but to basically every living thing.

And yes, I would argue in fact that we are merely survival machines for our genes. We homo sapiens fancy ourselves above the fray, but in reality we are every bit as much part of the cycle of life as are bacteria, trees, and fish.
It seems like it would be pretty easy to filter by amount of motion and list in priority order. (Provided the motion lasts long enough to overcome latency effects, etc).
I'm not sure about silk road 2, but firearms were never sold on silk road.
I'm not too familiar with how a table view in OS X compares to UITableView on iOS, but are cells reused? I feel that that optimization alone would at least limit what needs to be rendered to what's on screen.
Blake has been formally charged with conspiring to commit narcotics trafficking, conspiring to commit computer hacking, conspiring to traffic in forged documents and money laundering conspiracy.

The FBI clearly would have sought a warrant from the judiciary as they would in any other case. I really don't understand where you're coming from here. There is nothing unusual at all about how all of this has gone down.
Look into credit unions for which you might be eligible, as well as smaller regional banks that don't deal in exotic financial products and in which the management team still feels a personal responsibility to their depositors. patio11's recent blog post on Japan has a good section on what that's like:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/ (ctrl-f for "Taro", read about his banking relationship manager)

There are still banks in the US that operate like that in principle, if not in degree - no exotic products, strict adherence to traditional corporate lending standards, extensive knowledge of their customers, and a culture ingrained first and foremost with personal responsibility to the soundness of the local economy.

Best example I know of is First Hawaiian Bank [1], having worked there a few years. It is actually the longest continually-running bank in the US, having been founded in 1858 and survived every major depression and financial crisis since. They're not on the bleeding edge of tech or quantitative finance, but that's one of the things that saved them from being a victim of the financial crisis (aka, the Battlestar Galactica of banking).

Other banks like that scattered around the country too. You can start some research with the various bank rating sites:

http://www.bankrate.com/rates/safe-sound/bank-ratings-search...

http://www.bauerfinancial.com/

[1]:https://www.fhb.com/en/inside-fhb/our-rich-history/
True, but for most people without 25M (ie most of us), is the arginal improvement in return on a 500k investment worth the extra complexity over a straight stock/bond mix?

Unrelatedly, what are you thoughts on the permanent portfolio (if you've heard of it).
I updated the copy on the site to clear up a couple of things.
That might be right, but there are tens of thousands of people who use their personal email and credit card to buy hosting services. You can't assume they all operate Silk Road 2.x
There is an argument that removing the criminal sanctions against addicts might significantly mitigate these problems.

Regardless, the current legislative frameworks around the world (with few exceptions) are based on fear and a twisted sense of morality rather than actual harm.
Of course there is "general purpose". It the complement of "special purpose". A processor not made for a wide range of applications, rather than for a "special purpose" is general purpose (and this is distinct from "all purpose": general purpose doesn't necessarily mean equally well adapted for any use whatsoever: two different general purpose processors can have quite different strengths.)

> The general-purpose processors of today are highly specialized and designed for running applications compiled from low-level C-like languages.

And those applications differ from each other like night and day. One C application is Ruby virtual machine. Another one a text editor. Another one a window manager, ...

The idea that processors are special-purpose hardware blocks because they are designed for running compiled C is a laughable form of reductionism. Why not make the ultimate argument and say that they are specialized devices for handling 0's and 1's. Or maybe the specific voltage levels of the majority of the signals of a chip it specialized. This chip is specialized to 5V; this more modern one to 3V, ...
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About 23% of the people that use heroin becomes addicts[0].

Most users are responsible, but since they are responsible, they won't impact you, or anyone, and you'll never hear of them

[0] http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/heroin
>It is my opinion that we (techies) overestimate ourselves.

What everyone is forgetting is this:

The FBI, NSA, CIA etc all have techies. And since they would be extremely well paid it is logical to assume that they are very good at what they do. So anything that we can do they can do only (a) arguably better and (b) with the constraint of having to comply with the law.
All I did was take your for-loop code and translated into idiomatic Go code. My point is the for-loop in Go isn't as terrible as the loop example you wrote.
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> I would additionally argue that aside from cost, because of the speed exhibited by such processors, many algorithms that do not naturally fit in the current model are in fact faster on the modern CPU than the hypothetical GP-PU anyway.

Yup. I think the article's initial assumption of what a general purpose processor looks like ignores history. We've tried to build those kinds of processors... and what we've converged on is processors that are good at these particular specialized operations, because that actually tends to work better for most jobs. Not that there aren't exceptions... you can look at FPGA's to get an idea of what they are, and the fact that FPGA's are only used in a bunch of very specialized areas suggest that modern CPU's aren't THAT far off on being reasonable optimal for a truly varied set of tasks.
None of the iterators in the Rust core library allocate. (In fact, they can't, since the Rust core library has no allocation—it's the building block for liballoc.)
QA Walking Stick
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Gotcha! So will Rust then auto-parallelize these "pure" closures?
IMHO, a big couch is better than a comfy chair.
If you are lazy you can just put your money into one of the 10+ Vanguard Target Retirement funds [1] which are just varying mixes of their stock/bond funds + automatic rebalancing. It goes from 90%/10% stock/bond mix (VTTSX) at the high end to 30%/70% at the low end (VTINX).

1: https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/target-retirement...
It doesn't? I had no idea, I guess I just assumed it did.
Usually the open methodologies are ditched for paid or subsidized versions simply because the latter is generally of a higher quality.
EDIT: There's enormous value in perfection, just to be clear.
That interpretation of "due process" seems to neither make sense nor be just.

Are police officers or FBI agents who are being shot at prohibited from shooting back at their attacker, because that would deprive life without due process of law?

Can suspects not be arrested until a court case has exhausted all its appeals, because that would deprive liberty without due process of law?

The FBI (presumably) had a warrant here, after gathering evidence, and the cooperation of various other agencies including a few district attorneys. The US (hopefully) is a land in which the process of acquiring a warrant before actually seizing anything or arresting anyone is so commonplace that it isn't even mentioned. There was a process of law, it involved the courts, you didn't see it because it didn't need to be mentioned, and it didn't involve the completion of a criminal case.

(There are separate safeguards, against police officers killing people without reason, arrests happening without a warrant, or liberty or property being deprived for unreasonably long while a court case is artificially stalled. Some of those safeguards are not as effective as a free people would hope. But I don't think that's what you were referencing, and I don't think you can make a case that any of those happened here.)
Just once, I'd like one of you to admit that Silk Road (any many of the other sites) sold large amounts of identity theft equipment.

These are not noble drug dealers harming nobody.

They are sociopathic assholes selling whatever makes money, even if the ONLY reason for the item is to harm innocent individuals against their will.
That would be an argument against someone who claims that the general purpose processor, to be general purpose, has to look like those familiar ones which we have.

Put another way: a particular point in a large space of "general purpose" doesn't indicate special purpose.

You have to choose a point to implement something.
Perhaps I was unclear. I'm not arguing that depression is "naturally" common. Only that reliable happiness is perhaps not naturally common. I'm not arguing that depression is the opposite of happiness; however, I do not think it's unreasonable that if people are overall less happy, this will increase the incidence of depression.
We encountered some of these same issues and wrote this library to mitigate them: https://github.com/groupon/locality-uuid.java. I think UUIDs make good unique ids overall, particularly in distributed environments where id generation can't be coordinated, but should be used carefully, as the article notes.
Why we created Agile CRM
I would actually revise #1 to be to always use a smart pointer for heap-allocated objects. C++11 is 3 years old now after all.
You don't have to be royal to Uber. Always check prices before ordering. Here you can see prices from all major Uber-like companies:
http://uphail.com/
I'm completely sure of it. In general it's changing drastically in the US in fact.

National polls indicate the majority are now in favor of pot legalization. States keep moving step by step toward treating drug addiction as a medical problem instead of a criminal problem. There is extremely wide-spread recognition that we have far too many people in prison, and that the police are far too violent / aggressive; both problems are finally seeing push-back and improvement.

The US has a long history of making sweeping cultural changes, sometimes extremely rapidly, other times extremely slowly. There is immense and continual precedence in the US for the culture moving in the right direction, from women's suffrage, to civil rights, to gay marriage.

America has a problem with alcohol? Where? I think you have it exactly backwards, there is relatively little puritanical anything left in America's culture.

1) The US is the world's largest consumer of alcohol. 2) The US is the world's biggest pornography market. The US is freer when it comes to that, than many European nations that are supposed to be non-puritanical. 3) I have no idea why you referenced video games, there are no actual problems with video games in the US despite whatever sensational blip you might have seen. 4) Most media in the US is perfectly fine with sexuality, you're referring to an extraordinarily small part of it, the broadcast networks.
I would argue that avoiding physical dependence (the 23% number) is not the bar for "responsible use".
That's real perseverance, way to hold out. In 2012 I also thought NFC was just about the coolest thing ever when I got my Galaxy Nexus. I started working at night with a friend on an NFC rewards system for Android and was really passionate about it. I was sure that the upcoming iPhone 5 would definitely have NFC support. Why would it not?

Anyway when it came out and had no NFC support I just stopped working on my side project. I know this is not at all on the scale of your story (mine was a few hours a week, this was your life) but I can relate.

Anyway I'm glad Apple went ahead and "invented" NFC again, because the tech is awesome and I'd like to see it wide spread.
Decent article, but awfully linkbait-y headline. You'll get that advice at many places around the internet - I recommend those curious to read the wiki at bogleheads.org
Go updates twice a year, which is actually a lot. I don't think a release every 6 weeks for Rust is a good idea. That'll never fly for enterprise software. Heck, for some companies the Java upgrade cycle is too fast.
If you are investing new money every month and attempting to maintain the same allocation over time, you are in a sense automatically rebalancing. Of course, this assumes your total investment over a given time period is roughly in line with the relative delta in performance.
The primary question is this: do we truly have models that can predict future asset correlations. In other words, are our assumptions about distribution of returns valid. Behavioral economics suggests that individuals react differently than mathematically predicted.

Personally, I think the biggest problem with any ideal portfolio allocation tool are black swan events (Taleb).
General question about index funds: if a market is about to go into a steep correction or even a recession, wouldn't it be more advantageous to invest in specific stable stocks, rather than an index fund that tracks the entire market?
Someone will probably some along and explain it in detail, but as I roughly maybe understand it, Hacker News stores everything as Lisp closures in RAM, which fills up frequently. So every now and then, it sort of has to be turned over and emptied out, like a toaster.

..and as flat files to disk. But not a database.
I don't believe Blake is the owner of the 400 sites they took down.
Let's take the example interview question: given a string, how do you determine if it is an anagram of a palindrome? The answer is that, for any given character, at most 1 should appear in the string an odd number of times. Here is an implementation in Scala, with higher-order functions:

def isAnagramOfPalindrome(s: String): Boolean =
s.groupBy { c => c }
.map { case(key, value) => value.size() }
.filter { n => n % 2 != 0 }
.size <= 1

And here's a more traditional implementation in JavaScript.

function isAnagramOfPalindrome(str) {
var chars = {};
for (var i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
var char = str.charAt(i);
chars[char] = (chars[char] || 0) + 1;
}
var numOdd = 0;
for (var key in chars) {
if (chars[key] % 2 != 0) numOdd++;
}
return numOdd <= 1;
}

I find the Scala version much more readable, but I'm assuming you'll prefer the JS version?
>Ask rich friends

Agreed. This is the only thing I could come up with that would reasonably ensure that I would be talking to someone decent.

Offtopic, but it is my belief that one of the strong factors in the perpetuation of wealth and associated wealth disparities in society is exactly this kind of information and knowledge asymmetry in the population, from access to the best advice (networks or simply the funds to gain access) to the osmosis-like uptake of information throughout one's childhood when raised in an affluent family/neighborhood/environment.

>the financial advisor is simply a coin-operated sales guy

Agreed. this is absolutely the mindset I tell all my friends to adopt, and to not be mislead by the title of "advisor", since they are anything but.

>Odds are after you get past the glossy color printed custom, just-for-you, spiral bound investment plan, you will see a custom portfolio that will be assembled with MPT.

Partially agreed.

Most of the time, I agree that what will be pitched is a cookie cutter MPT set of assets/funds that, while often of somewhat marginally unideal quality, will generally get the job done. However, I have* seen and heard of absolutely horrible plans being thrown at naive new wealth people, and while "odds are" (as you say) this won't happen to you, it's still a non-neglible probability that you get wrapped up with some truly sleazy operations.

That being said, your average American PWM firm/team/branch isn't likely to totally come after you like this. I think this is more likely to happen in Asia or Asian firms in the west.
Yes, but that would require you to reliably predict future market price movements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_timing
> You are aware that your opinion is controversial, so treating it as fact is dishonest and nothing but a dog-whistle.

Isn't the opposite opinion similarly controversial?
Yep, the recycling/trash system is nightmarish. Furnishing a new apartment (they don't typically come with anything, including a washer or fridge) results in a huge amount of packaging (the Japanese absolutely love to box, rebox, bag, rebag, wrap, rewrap, etc.) which makes your first month a very nasty lesson in how trash pickup works and doesn't.
Hi. I'm an ex heroin addict, and while I was addicted for 6 years, only two other people in the world knew. I ran two businesses (one successfully), and wrote innovative software that made people a lot of money. I was successful. There are a number of other techies who have reached out to me to explain their stories, and as it turns out I'm not alone in this.

I still got clean, because the risk of getting caught and the impact that would have on my future outweighed my addiction. I'm glad I did, and I'm lucky Australia treats it as a medical problem, not a criminal one, when you seek help.
WordPress.

I like being in complete control of my content/platform. WordPress themes are cheap and plentiful. Lots of great plugins to do everything from SEO to lead generation. And lots of WordPress developers available to do any customizations we need.
I completely agree with you. MPT/PMPT systems are contingent upon accurate modeling of risk and return and this is not a science.

Nassim Taleb is a vocal critic of MPT.
The Perfected Self (2012)
http://whatsthefare.com is pretty helpful. Have it bookmarked on my phone and check it before using either Uber or Lyft. They used to be able to get the surge from Uber, but it's an estimate now. Probably got blocked from Uber is my guess.
Rust has that too. You can cross-compile binaries that will run on any platform that LLVM supports.
Fuzzing TCP Options
I would bet that in 10 years your speech will be different.
The environment is set up such that you have to be risk averse. If you can't fire someone for incompetence, you're going to go the extra mile to make sure the person you hire is competent. Ultimately that means hiring through social connections. You have a friend who knows someone looking for work, and it reflects badly on him if your hire doesn't work out.

And your new hire knows it, so if there's a problem he not only loses a job (ultimately), but he loses a connection to find another job.

Same goes with the apartment. Japan is famous for the difficulty in getting people out of an apartment. The harder it is to get people out the more pre-qualification you need to do up front as a landlord. So you demand not only that the tenant can demonstrate a stable job history, but that he has a lifetime job at a company that's willing to get involved if you have a dispute. Because if things go sour and you don't have outside leverage, you might have to go to the local mobsters to convince your tenant to leave.
Swamp40 didn't google for "20 hz" they googled for '"20 hz" ghosts'. Every link I looked at in the results was about infrasound and how it causes a feeling of uneasiness and perception of supernatural things going on.
So? They could be arguably much worse. It doesn't matter. You only need to be good enough to notice asymmetries (such as your (b), or certain mathematical asymmetries as another example) and set them up in your favor. There are plenty in existence for both sides. When the asymmetries are powerful enough, it doesn't matter how well-equipped or intellectually superior your opponent is.
> we were designed to reproduce

No, we weren't designed to do anything (because we weren't designed). We reproduce because reproduction is an essential component of the evolutionary process that created us. But:

1) for humans, reproduction of memes is at least as important a component of our evolution as reproduction of genes and

2) even if you consider only reproduction of genes, the reproduction of genes is NOT the same as the reproduction of individuals.

You should read "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins.
There's a story that the creator of 1999's "Melissa" virus was found via a GUID in the Word document that included their MAC address.

(I'm having trouble confirming the veracity of this, since the web is full of citogenesis that links to
http://www.zdnet.com/news/tracking-melissas-alter-egos/10197...
which isn't super clear, but it's a good story nonetheless.)
It's useful to know Ian's background too; he's the author of the gold linker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_(linker) so would be intimate with the sort of problems that generics and map and reduce would introduce to the compilation pipeline.

To a language user the benefits might be clear but the problems not.

To a language implementor the problems will be much clearer.
"They" are not the same person. Silk road and sites like it are/were marketplaces, not retailers.
Your version infinite loops: http://play.golang.org/p/uglbTETE6d

See why for loops are tricky? :)
How?

Aren't they 1) basically facing a serious organized labor problem once they become actually legal, and 2) 5-10 years away from being made irrelevant by autonomous technology?
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