skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like it may be possible only because of the exceptionally weak US-UK extradition treaty, which gives the USA unusually strong powers to grab people from the UK without any equivalent ability for the UK to extradite people from the USA. The one-sidednesss of this agreement has caused political problems before as it is seem as epitomising the slavishness of British politicians to Washington.

If "spoofing" was really only outlawed in the Dodd Frank act then it seems likely that most countries wouldn't have any laws against it, and an extradition would fail on the grounds that what Sarao is accused of would not be a crime in his country of origin.

I'm sure the UK Government will love the idea of sending a trader to the dogs in America regardless of whether or not this is actually illegal in the UK itself, just because it's election time and like all politicos everywhere they want to be seen as whacking financial types. But it seems to lead to a bad precedent. If trading strategies can be simply made illegal in a law so large even the people who voted on it didn't read it, then how can anyone really know if their trades are illegal or not?
This is great. I have tried to access NASA's open data before. It was quite scattered and non-intuitive. Even the USGS also has a nice data API as well. BLS and DOE not so much.
HTTP Verbs Demystified: PATCH, PUT and POST
Elevator.js
Keep in mind the black out wouldn't rule out any electric device that had batteries or capacitors as part of it. I had a smoke detector that made a slight humming, took me forever to figure out where it was coming from, and replace that smoke detector.
5 years of three.js
But Hacker News isn't a platform for posting essays. You're supposed to have back and forth discussions. If all we get a treatises from on high discussion threads aren't going to be worth reading.
I shall put the few codes I have already wrote on github.
This is fantastic news! I was waiting for that to happen :)
He pretty much just says carbon. Certainly is some water involved too, but yeah, breath in CO2 and breath out just O2.
> No, it depends on leverage. If you've got the most leverage, the relationship will be pleasant. If you don't, the relationship will be abusive. Just like everything else in capitalism.

Exactly. And it's not for nothing that "Workers of the world, unite!" is included in the Communist Manifesto, as uniting themselves against their employers was one of the few methods of gaining leverage for 19th-century workers.

If it counts I'm more of a Libertarian kind of guy, but even so I'm wondering for how long these growing power-unbalances will be ignored by both those "in power" (corporate employers, politicians, finance people) who just seem to crave for more and more, and also by us, the "normal people", who just carry on with our lives like things have never been better.

Because at the end of it all private property is merely a social construct, and once 100, 1000, 10000 people will find it strange that their combined earnings amount to what a "capitalist" or financier earns, then, just maybe, those people will decide to put that rich guy/girl in front of a wall and shoot him/her down. It happened before (see the Bolsheviks, for example), not sure why it couldn't happen again.
I believe most of the issues in Western Europe were due to the reorganization of the Roman Empire by the Emperor Diocletian after the time period known as the crisis of the third century. The reforms he implemented basically helped turn the west to Feudalism. He tied people to the land, and forced people to work in the same trade as their parents. He also tried to reform the economy by fixing prices which of course didn't work out well. Since the coinage was reduced to near nothing, people had to resort to barter, which I'm going to guess stifles trade.
From the actual complaints, it's not clear to me that Nav Sarao is being charged with helping cause the Flash Crash, but rather for flagrantly executing a spoofing strategy during the Flash Crash.
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> Usually it's illegal, but the IRS is being destroyed by budget cuts and can no longer enforce the law.

A civilization so small you can drown it in a bathtub.
The author talking about the Boiling Frog myth as a fact is quite ironic in this context.
This is a neat idea! Although I'd imagine that it'd quickly approach the power of a full computer algebra system.
You're talking about a different issue. Your suggestions don't solve the problems I used to motivate my post.
on closer inspection, this version is not nearly as good (and hence probably independent)
(serious question)

Does anyone here support both the granting of habeus corpus to chimpanzees as well as the legalized killing of unborn humans in the womb? How do you rationalize it?
Problem Solving in the Corporate World
Oh, I made a song based on that movie, a few weeks ago:

https://soundcloud.com/gabrielfalcao/home-of-the-future
I've actually done this for years in the real-world. Yes, you can make mistakes. No, it's not a particularly hard problem to avoid and, as jonafato noted, --no-site-packages has been the default for awhile and I had it enabled by default for many years before then.

If this is a frequent challenge, it sounds like there's some technical debt to pay down elsewhere in your testing/deployment practice because it really doesn't need to be that hard.
Ruling has already been amended unfortunately:

http://news.sciencemag.org/plants-animals/2015/04/judge-s-ru...
Is there a compilation of applications and experiments using each API?

The classical example of cool stuff you can do with this kind of API is the world wind map:

http://earth.nullschool.net/
Essentially a Canadian version of the Patriot Act.
It is unlawful to place orders deliberately intended never to trade. Obviously, every market maker has to place and cancel orders, but every one of those orders is submitted with the knowledge that they might trade, an eventuality the market-maker has to be prepared for.

In a layering spoofing scenario, the trader is deliberately structuring their orders to make it virtually impossible for them to trade. The point of doing that is to create the illusion of volume; the orders the spoofer places with actual trading intent will probably be in the opposite direction of their giant spoofing orders.

Obviously, lots of legitimate trading strategies rely on forms of deception (most often: "These piecemeal trades are not part of a concerted effort to buy a zillion shares, I promise"). Where the line is seemingly drawn is, your orders can conceal information from the market, but they can't directly inject fake information.

Here's a detailed SEC complaint, which accompanied a settlement, that does a decent job laying out how regulators establish someone's submitting orders with an intent to deceive rather than trade:

http://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2015/comp-pr2015-4....
Yes, but then again, babies, people with altered/reduced mental capacity, etc generally don't rip other people's faces off.
This line of reasoning gets tricky very quickly and takes us into ethical dilemmas. Take for instance babies with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anencephaly e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_K

Should functional chimps who show emotions, bonding, skills and reasoning ability be given fewer rights than human babies with no brains but heartbeat, even though we know for fact that they can never be functional members of society? Are our rights based on DNA or potential?

My preference is to treat entire species as non-human persons once even a few members have demonstrated partial intelligence. So cetacean, hominoid, psittacine, canine, feline, equine, bovine, and porcine could easily fall into that category. However, since I hear bovine and porcine are delicious, I don't expect them to get any rights in my life time. Maybe in a few centuries once lab-grown meat is plentiful.

In the meantime, I don't see why we can't treat intelligent species that are not commonly eaten as non-human persons with basic rights.
Your post was rude, misrepresented GP's argument, and did not contradict any assertion made in GP's post.

GP correctly argued that artists have always created, whether or not they were granted rights under a system of copyright law. He did not focus on or advocate a return to the system of artist patronage from the 16th century.
> It took 200 years and a lot of bloodshed to establish those working rights. It's ironic how they're now being destroyed and workers themselves let this happen.

Chain the bodies, and the slaves will fight you tooth and nail. Chain the minds, and they will defend their own servitude.
Yep. My family first got one in 1985, and IIRC it was one of the cheaper models at around $350 (1985 dollars)
> ... the only part of the fat ...

It's only Hydrogen... But it still needs to go somewhere. Oxygen comes in to carry away the Hydrogen as water--you can't urinate Hydrogen.
Pretty sure you're mistaken. The Velaro-D reached 403km/h without modifications[0], the Velaro-E did the same back in 2006. That's not the untuned record either, these belong to China's CRH380BL.

[0] http://www.mobility.siemens.com/mobility/global/en/interurba...
I'm not sure about the archival issue.

The only problem with archival that would make physical books superior is after civilization collapse that destroys the supply chain for computing devices.

Assuming DRM can be stripped, which it can be for most of the major ebook sellers including Amazon, ebooks can then be converted to epub which are just dialects of html with some xml metadata.

Even if html becomes deprecated in the future, there will be converters for html to new better formats.

Unencrypted ebooks can be backed up off-site, to cloud storage, to m-disc dvds or blu-rays stored in safe deposit boxes.

Physical libraries can be destroyed in fire or natural disaster almost as easily as an ebook collection on a computer. Physical books take up space and cost more, and cannot be cheaply backed up. There's a conflict between securing physical books against wear & tear and destruction, and allowing access to them.

It's worth distinguishing the sharing/lending issue as a legal problem, not an inherent deficiency of ebooks. Ebooks are better for sharing/lending in many ways... there's no need to spend time or money physically transporting them, and no need to worry about a friend accidentally spilling coffee on your favorite book.
StackOverflow user tmyklebu provided an efficient algorithm to solve a more general floating-point equation, C1 + x = C2, using only computations in the very floating-point system that the equation is written in:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/24223668/139746
I don't have an android phone, don't use other products than 'search', 'maps' and 'docs', if there are 'dark pattern' 'do you want to turn your search history on' in those products that randomly pop up to trap unsuspecting users then I will discount those as not being valid. One thing I'm sure of: I never consciously re-enabled my search history, if google wishes to swindle people that's entirely their problem but I highly doubt that such practices are ethical, assuming they are legal.
And look at that, it's https. Excellent. (reference to the poorly-thought-out rant at https://github.com/WhiteHouse/https/issues/107)
why does it have to be human society?

Because that's what these laws are meant to regulate. Other species also have rules that regulate their own communities.
Well, when used as an analogy, it doesn't have to be correct. But still, you're right.

While looking this up, I came across the craziest sentence in the Wikipedia article:

"German physiologist Friedrich Goltz demonstrated that a frog that has had its brain removed will remain in slowly heated water, but an intact frog attempted to escape the water when it reached 25 °C."

Apparently this isn't quite as crazy as it sounds, as the brainless frogs still exhibit some reflexes, to the extent that they'll jump out of hot water. But still, it reads like a study in "WTF did you expect to happen?!"
Not sure how it would work during a blackout, but it sounds like you're listening to a mains hum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_hum
> design a library providing arbitrary precision "computable numbers"

I believe they call those "programming languages"
I don't understand the leap here, but it would depend on how far the fetus was in development. A vastly different debate begins there.
Very cool article. I like that it lays out the key features that would be needed on any academic paper platform.

This actually sounds similar to Authorea (https://www.authorea.com). It's an online collaborative academic word processor and publishing platform. Uses LaTeX, but more powerful and efficient.

I added a comment on the post with some more details. (Disclaimer: I work at Authorea, so I'm biased.)
A glib answer would be "because it's a huge continent"? In fairness, I think this is actually a pretty decent article about a complex topic, but I can't help but think it's the wrong question to ask.
Please embrace my willingness to look foolish, I really want to be able to explain this properly; can someone explain to me why fat doesn't get changed into energy, and disappear through heat?
Technical insight: Honda's radical Formula 1 engine for McLaren
Disable password access, use keys instead. And install fail2ban to prevent brute force attempts.

Here is a good read about basic security: http://plusbryan.com/my-first-5-minutes-on-a-server-or-essen...
I think this is a double edged sword. On the one hand things/resources can be easily shared among many people. This is good, fewer resources into supporting a population. It also allows people who seek marginal income increase to do do on a part time basis.

This I not good if the economy evolves to make this marginal income system into the main and default way foe people to engage into the economy -"a race to the bottom". It also puts son pressure on producers who must now adapt to the new status where big ticket items can be shared among many (vehicles, mowers, etc). Perhaps a move to higher quality higher priced lower volume.

The labor unit granularity would make these workers, on average, less valuable. And the advantage goes to the educated, more skilled.

This devolution into a person to person economy where the main beneficiary is the "platform" will not bode well for the average person.
Chimpanzees are sentient. Unborn humans are not.
There was a house I lived in at the edge of town, and late at night on the balcony (midnight, 1 am, etc) when it was very quiet I could hear really quiet booming sounds. It was quiet enough that if a car drove by on the nearest road it would drown out the sound. It was not a steady hum—more like a distant explosion or bass drum. It was frequent but not regular enough to be music. I would guess it was the 20 to 30hz range. I could never quite figure out what it was.
Married men work harder, smarter and make more money
It's cognitive dissonance.
Is this supposed to just be GWS? It's not working for me. (Of course, I have the interface set to Spanish, which has occasionally kept things like "weather" from working as well.)

EDIT: https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager works fine. Just not doing anything from GWS.
Jason Lemkin, again: http://www.saastr.com/hire-the-right-type-of-vp-marketing-or...

My experience is weighted towards building and selling enterprise products (so, selling to Fortune 500 companies). I actually think the VP of Marketing hire is even harder, for enterprise-oriented startups, than the VP of Sales hire. Most of the candidates you'll find with "big company" experience will want to do a lot of "big company" style marketing -- focusing on branding rather than lead gen, hiring expensive agencies, and positioning via high-profile partnerships. All of which strategems are problematic for startups, to say the least.

A VC friend of mine told me once that one of his investments had hired and fired 9 VPs of Marketing, I think over something like an eight-year span. (We were having a conversation about how hard it is to find -- and to evaluate before hiring -- marketing people who understand both enterprise selling and startups.)
Babies don't tear other babies limb-from-limb. Chimps are horrible creates, and consequently, I have no qualms about their use in medical testing.
Apparently no country is responsible for its own actions, everything is the fault of the Americans. That attitude reinforces US power.
Maybe an appropriate response is to stop hiding comments, then.

I personally make sure to read all of the (non-short) greyed out comments as usually I find the perspective interesting (and wrong, but interesting).

I wouldn't care if it was flagged somehow but left entirely visible.
Before the industrial revolution we had serfs and artisans. As the factories absorbed both the serfs and the artisans, the serfs saw it as an upgrade, while the artisans resented the new way of life. Through workplace organization, which usually involved serious risks, working conditions improved for everybody and reached a certain equilibrium by the 1950's.

The lessons learned through workplace struggles in the last 150 years have been forgotten. The notion that "you should feel lucky just to have a job" has such a firm grip on the imagination of the American worker, that we've lost all sense of class consciousness and are accepting a return to serfdom without even putting up a fight. Today you might be an engineer with a comfortable job, but the 'modern workplace' will soon eat you up just like it did the artisans.

The Luddites of industrial England were not afraid of new technology. They smashed machines in the workplace to gain a better bargaining position and prove a point to capital. And today, being against the sort of arrangement that's sprung up around the on-demand workforce doesn't mean that you're against technology. For me, it means that I am for respecting the dignity of the worker and ensuring that the sacrifices our forefathers made were not done in vain. If technology can develop within those constraints, I'm all for it. Otherwise, I say smash the machines.
The last time this was hashed out on HN, all the available documentation seemed to establish that the UK-US extradition treaty had recently changed --- to correct an imbalance that had historically favored the UK, and is now more equitable.
I currently make enough to support both the wife and I.
We are both child-free and keeping it that way.

Making double what I would be currently if I was not married.
I don't see how it's not mostly luck. Being gifted with the right mindset is not a small exception. That's pretty huge.

Of a hundred million babies born this year, they do NOT all have the same chance of becoming a billionaire. That's luck.
Do you actually play on Kongregate? I check it on occasion and have noticed that it hasn't really changed over the last five years. 90% of the games I see at a glance aren't any different.
That doesn't even answer the question.
>My personal philosophy is only to entertain the question of personhood with entities that are or most likely will become able to pose that question. So yes, if they eventually find a way to 'uplift' chimps or something like that, I'll be happy to welcome them. Conversely, it makes no sense to entertain the notion of personhood unless and until the chimps have done so themselves.

you're just speaking from a position of the species [violently] dominating the planet. Chimps wouldn't need your prized personhood status (existing only in the human imagination) at all if not as a way to minimize violence the human species would apply to the chimps otherwise.

Anyway, it sounds like you've never read Catch-22.
Yes, taking a sweet fruit and removing all the liquid leaves you with something that is remarkably unhealthy by weight, despite being "natural." But that just means that eating a lot of dried fruits and nuts and such is not a great diet choice.
Wow. That is a great price. I didn't know those amenities existed downtown for that cost.
I'm with you on the lack of review articles, and I think they are probably the aspect of conventional publishing that this could most likely replace.

I think you'd need a very radical overhaul of how science works to replace the scorekeeping aspect. I don't think a Github CV is a good analogy to how this could work, because academic science is interested in hiring leaders (i.e. people who can get funded), not contributors. I think realistically you would need to change how science rewards/emphasizes certain activities first, and then publishing would follow. That would be a good outcome for science, but I think it'll be awfully hard to get out of this equilibrium.

edit: I'm curious what you think of the PubPeer model. That's obviously different from what you're envisioning, but thematically I think there are some similarities.
I disagree that it is trivial. If we know what bits of the unencrypted bitstream do what, and have a cryptographically secure way of signing the stream, then GLHF with that. If it turns out that documenting the parts of the chip required for configuration makes the black box security not work, then it was crap security and provided no real security to anyone. As it stands there is no way to tell and we have to take the smiling sales guy's word that it is "SUPER secure, promise".
Reading through these it's fairly obvious that Sarao's layering was manipulative and illegal (it boggles the mind that they only caught up with him now), but blaming him for the flash crash is ridiculous over-reach.
> Choosing your own hours, working only on things you want to, setting your own salary based on how much you want to t work.

I've said this a few times before, but to pull this off takes a tremendous amount of work, effort and luck. Finding work and marketing yourself is another job in its own right that you have to do on top of existing client work. Furthermore, all of the risks that were once handled by the employer are now on the contractors shoulders. For most people, all this simply isn't realistic or sustainable.
I believe anyone should be able to get any medical procedure they need in order to maximize their health and happiness. The needs of a fetus don't outweigh the needs or rights of the mother. A fetus is not a person.
What yannu said. Doesn't really matter whether marketing lives inside the sales org or not. It can work either way. (And your new VP of Sales will always tell you that marketing should report to her.) What matters is that you a) have enough and the right kind of marketing in place to fill the top of your sales funnel, and b) instrument and evaluate marketing performance at least as quantitatively and aggressively as you do sales performance.
Because the whole point of building these things is to make our lives easier. If we have to take care of them as if they were human beings, then they are not worth building. We already have humans. Roughly speaking, I want robots that will do stuff that people normally don't like doing, 24/7 with no holidays or days off. If we have to give robots days off and otherwise treat them as equals because they are counted as persons, then why on earth do we need them? Biosupremacy all the way.
Though the sneaker page makes it very clear that its not ready for production use.
I am very excited that Red Mars is apparently being made. I thought by HBO but just Googled it and it says Spike TV. Not sure...
Do you have any examples of comments downvoted by the hive mind?
From the complaint:

35. According to Consulting Group analysts and the expert, that day,
SARAO was active in the E-Mini market on the CME, and contributed to the orderbook
imbalance that the CFTC and the Securities Exchange Commission have
concluded, in a published report, was a cause, among other factors, of the Flash
Crash. Among other activity, SARAO used the dynamic layering technique extensively.

...

36. SARAO's use of the dynamic layering technique was particularly
intense in the hours leading up to the Flash Crash. SARAO used the technique
continuously from 11:17 a.m. until 1:40 p.m.