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Interesting, according to a BI article[1],

1. Byrne alleged HF's (e.g. SAC/Cohen) were colluding to short Overstock.
2. Byrne claimed that naked short selling resulted in 6x the "actual supply"
of overstock shares in the market (i.e. Short sellers were borrowing=>selling
a lot of shares without actually securing those shares.)
3. Byrne took out a $100K ad in the WSJ in 2013, saying FU to SAC when
Cohen was forced to scuttle his firm due to reg investigations.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/overstockcom-ceo-explains-ant...
Personally, I'd say yes to his question - and indeed, this is a question, not an argument; and it's a question that presumes a knee-jerk reaction against Medieval History majors...

Gross world product has been growing along an exponential function for some time, and machines are threatening to allow us to be comfortable even if we don't work as much as we physically can. Maybe giving everyone some years in their youth to enrich their lives would be a good way to organize the economy once it's a viable option. Maybe a lot of people agree with this, and in wealthier nations it's ~just~ now close to being within reach, but it isn't quite there, so what we're feeling would be considered friction in the transition.
Oh, probably not, but I have a feeling that none of the languages that exist today will still be used in a 100 years.
...which is a big reason why I find it insane that people aren't more interested in microkernel (or unikernel+hypervisor, which ends up in the same place) designs.

If you can have a tiny trust-kernel that has been proof-checked, keep everything else outside of it, and the things outside of it can only communicate with (or even observe) their peers via messages sent through it, then you don't need to worry about including untrusted code in your app.

Instead, you just slap any and all untrusted code into microservices (microdaemons?) in their own security domains/sandboxes/VMs/whatever, and speak to them over the kernel's message bus (or in the VM case, a virtual network), and suddenly they can't hurt you any more.
Yes, do you not?
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For some reason I cannot reply to your reply, so my apologies, here's a sibling.

You mistake that other user for me. Check the names. He seems to mind his privacy less, and I applaud him for that.

Anyway, I don't see how what he has said is a troll either. Ask s businesswoman if she feels more powerful in slacks and 4" heels (tastefully covered by said slacks because the height itself confers the power, the heels may actually serve as a distraction from that.) I'm sure some will say "no, I just wear these because firm X has a policy" but many others will feel oppositely.

Edit: yet another confused poster. Why would I log out and log back in to my main account to respond? Sometimes multiple people have the same surprising preferences and choose to respond to add their own voice to a thread. Who knew?

Edit2: you edited your post to call out a comment after I explicitly said that it's another poster. Had you been correct, I would have deleted said comment. As it remains, I suppose he must be just another heel wearing man. Crazy! Maybe I should email to find out his favorite brands.

Edit3: the homophobia, transphobia, and inability to be comfortable with an anonymous person's personal choices is precisely why I decided to post so much on this thread today.
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You're railing against a point I didn't make.

You can have a "class consciousness" without pulling out the hyperbole and Stalin card.

This consciousness is what afforded us civil rights, granted us a safe work place, an eight hour work day, labor rights and bought us social programs that keep people from dying in the streets.

Somehow these "class conscious" revolutionaries didn't let society devolve into chaos.

It's this consciousness that we need to remind ourselves and those with power of our worth. Otherwise, we'll continue to get fucked over. No one will offer to make us concessions that we never had the power to ask for.

The majority of the third world and anyone who wasn't born into the right religion/race/family in the first world would like to have a word with your first point, though.

I guess we shouldn't realize nor negotiate from our position in society since being run by plutocrats isn't so bad because you say so.

Good plutocrats try to make sure their population has "just enough" that they don't rally in the streets with guns. Relying on the goodwill of these people is an absurd expectation.
It's expensive, terrible, and frequently overcrowded, but at least it's not as outdated as it used to be.
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I am a frontend developer at a consumer startup (~40 employees) in the Bay Area. Our company consists of three frontend teams and a backend team powering the frontend clients. Lately I have been feeling that I do not capture enough of the value that I provide.

My team is responsible for implementing all product specs before the other two frontend teams. As a result, I have a more accelerated timeline for all features and spend more time iterating the product (whereas following teams implement the last version). In addition to this pressure and accountability, I end up troubleshooting problems with the product/design specs as well as missing APIs or bugs in the backend.

Throughout the day I field questions from the backend team regarding what APIs I will need, and questions from the frontend teams regarding how I implemented features and what backend APIs to use. This guidance in addition to the troubleshooting I do are orthogonal to the deliverables I am responsible for.

I am young and paid fairly well, but having an accelerated timeline in addition to doing work that other teams should be doing, as well as guiding other developers, has started to make me feel undervalued. My title is "software developer" and my options comprise 1/500 of the company, with a large gap between me and the leadership team.

For the amount of hours, attention, and energy I put in, I feel that I could be earning more. I can write backend code in addition to my frontend code, follow the commits and progress of the other teams, and never need guidance or oversight. Even with my timelines, I always deliver.

Where do I go from here, or what is the accurate title for what I am doing at my company? Do I need to start my own company to capture more of the value I am creating? Do I need to ask for a significant change in position and be willing to walk away?
http://www.quora.com/What-are-Ben-Horowitzs-favorite-books-o...

http://steveblank.com/books-for-startups/

http://randsinrepose.com/books/
"Does anyone have suggestions on what to do (except complaining to the ISP)?"

Talking to the ISP would probably be the first thing to try. ISPs are probably used to dealing with these kinds of problems, and if Apple did ban an IP block, your ISP would be in a much better position to negotiate with Apple than you would.
That's a very good question. I'd add one other thing that interests me - aside unintended economic consequences, are there unintended social consequences? I can for example imagine people who are also poor but not enough to be eligible for a grant simply becoming jealous of their neighbors who lifted themselves up thanks to GD's help, especially if the relative change of social status within the village or town was significant. After all, people are just people, and there were already hints of reactions typical in context of lottery winnings, namely family and friends suddenly showing up and asking for loans.

If there are any studies about how direct donations affect social dynamics within a community, I'd be very interested to read them.
Remittances are a maybe but honestly the cost of moving money is the small part of a good remittance service. Having the end points is the expensive part. So far all the bitcoin remittance companies either have skipped that part(requiring bank transfers for the last mile) or are using other peoples services. The first isn't usually cheaper than the equivalent service at traditional remittance services. The second only works as long as they are small enough to fly under the radar.

There is also the problem that as its usage increases the difficulty in offloading the bitcoins for the remittance company increases which means their costs increase.

Bitcoin sucks for micropayments. Even the core devs agree with that and recommend you do them off chain.

Credit card fraud is almost entirely a merchant problem and honestly when it comes down to it they don't matter in deciding what payments to accept. Their customers will.
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I think a relevant paradigm shift partially exists in the form of static typing. Sure, you can still use JSON in a statically typed language, and many do, but it's more cumbersome than in a dynamic one, while the space efficiency and built-in validation of things like protobuf start to look more appealing. Even on the web, statically typed compile-to-JS languages are rising in popularity, though nobody is using protobuf there...

We'll see. I definitely expect JSON to remain popular for many years at the least.
Plus there's the ravenscar profile for working with hard real-time systems, making it possibly the best language for working with embedded and safety critical systems.

If only the tooling was a little better (as mentioned above), Ada would be my go-to language of choice.
Not particularly prescient; the issue didn't appear with Citizen's United. Back then, there was already a law proposal (the McCain-Feingold bill) to limit spending by corporations and other groups on political ads.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McConnell_v._FEC
Much better quality scans:
http://www.cufon.org/pdf/4_NSA_Tech_Journal_Articles.pdf
(see page 20 onwards)
In regards to Coffeescript over ES6, I still turn to CF for these:

1) postfix conditionals
2) list comprehensions (will probably be in ES7)
3) the .litcoffee format
4) use of -> or => for defining functions unbound/bound to `this`
5) python-escue whitespace (i love it)
6) array slicing (some_array[3 .. 8])
7) regular expresions defined on several lines (expanded for readability)
8) friendly "item in some_array" that translates to .indexOf() condition
9) @value becomes this.value
10) The existential operator? is awesome.
11) () -> a = 1 b = 2 return { a, b } # becomes: { a: a, b: b }

There are others... I very much enjoy the syntax coffeescript has for its for loops.
for value in some_array
for value, key in some_array
for key of some_object
for key, value of some_object
for own key of some_object
for own key, value of some_object # for-of uses Object.hasOwnProperty()

Coffeescript just needs a for loop form that works with iterators, then I will be happier. I can write in Coffeescript and distribute both that and the compiled JS, no problem. This feels comfortable to me. I hope was ES6 becomes common that Coffeescript's class syntax will "fall through" to the same ES6 way underneath.
Learn to read English. I was inviting you to explain how you would run a company without access to capital.

Also look at how your comments on this thread have been treated.
For me the most surprising part of this report is:

"Instead, the government relies on self-reported figures from the nation's 17,000 law enforcement agencies. The figures exclude killings deemed not to have been justified."

1. The paper said that during the first five months of this year, 385 people were killed. That means that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies and agents didn't take part of even a single of these incidents.

2. 17000 law enforcement agencies seems to be a lot of departments, most likely with overlapping attributions and jurisdictions. For comparison the U.S. have about 3300 counties or equivalent.
And what is the penalty when NSA continues to do so, assuming they're even found out? Especially when they can just retroactively claim that the people doing so were on overhead for other projects. Or if they simply fund those type of projects through shell companies with reserves from drug running / insider trading?

The only way to fix this mess is to defund and dismantle the whole damned agency.
What standard(s) are you asking about here? Other modes of transport? Our rail system from 20 years ago? Similar services in other European nations? I’d say our rail system is probably significantly better than it was 20 years ago. For some journeys I would almost always choose rail travel while for others I would hardly even consider it, usually as a result of cost or timing — how direct a route you can choose and the convenience of the connections makes a huge difference in our system.

As for comparisons with our European neighbours, there was some interesting discussion a week or so ago about how international rail within Europe works (or, sometimes, does not work yet). I added some comments there about a recent experience travelling between the UK and the Netherlands by train:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9631874

The short version is that international rail travel within continental Europe (well, Schengen really) seems to be much less hassle than travelling to or from the UK by train.
While he's answering that, can you explain why you like grapefruit (if you like grapefruit) or don't like grapefruit (if you don't like grapefruit)? Because I totally don't get it. :-)

"Because I enjoy the sensations it provides" is often the only analysis we can provide for our tastes. Sometimes we can break it down further, and people with unusual tastes are frequently pressed (politely or not) to "explain" their tastes.

This is understandable--we're genuinely curious about tastes that differ from our own--but it's also a bit myopic, because we so rarely turn the same unanswerable attitude on our own tastes. Simply because something is common does not make it immune to analysis, and I strongly encourage anyone who wants to ask this kind of question to give a preamble for their own taste in similar matters.

So if you're straight and want to ask a gay man, "What is it about the male body that turns you on?" first say, "The thing that makes women attractive to me is..." I have no idea how to answer this: I'm boringly straight and just find the female body inherently attractive. I can appreciate male beauty the way I can appreciate a beautiful building, but there's simply no attraction. I've come to accept that my gay friends are just wired differently from me.

I'm not saying "all differences of taste are unanalyzable" but that our legitimate curiousity about other people's tastes should be an opportunity to analyze our own.
Increased market depth means more efficient price discovery, additional demand, and a greater share value.
I have never understood why managers need to be paid higher than the people they manage..

That is the single reason for many orgs screwing up their system as this forces excellant developers/workers to abandon their core skills and move into management..
It's crap.

At least, in my opinion --- I live in Switzerland now, so my standards are... different. But, basically, overpriced, unreliable, dirty, and slow. The only places where the train system actually works well is the south-east of England, where it's horribly expensive. I used to live in Reading; a peak time day return into London, which is maybe half an hour a way, costs about £40.

Bear in mind that I know perfectly well that Britain's rail network is amazing compared to, say, America or eastern Europe. But the local perception of it is that it's bad. (Not helped by several rounds of botched privatisation, too.)

Incidentally, I'd love to know how to get from Ireland to Great Britain by train. Do they float?
To me, when pricing is "get a quote", that translates to "it's so exorbitant we are afraid to put it up publicly lest people immediately be turned away before we can deliver our sales pitch".
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The "amateur" state of college football is a joke. It's the only option. It's a de-facto minor leagues for the NFL. The NFL benefits from being able to scout these players through it without having to draft or pay them earlier. The college athletic departments benefit from having found a revenue stream far larger than any other minor league, yet still not having to pay the players who generate that revenue. Heck, even the athletes in other sports get more real benefit than the college football players, since that's a lot of what's funding their scholarships. The football players are in a weird position of playing in front of 50-90,000 adoring fans every week just like they would in the NFL, but seeing nothing more than a scholarship and some stipends.

You haven't explained the huge differences. The vast majority of post-high-school players in any sport are doing it despite it being either a poor financial decision or simply part of a system that's inherently rigged against those players. The 1% get fame and fortune, the 99% wash out with nothing to show for it but years of little income. E-sport aspirants get even less to show for it? It doesn't seem very meaningful to quibble over the difference between "very little" and "practically nothing."
Having just been in England and Germany I must admit having trains to go everywhere is awesome.
You make a great point about engineering. The interaction of algorithms/techniques and the database, as well as computational infrastructure and UI/UX, are all significant areas of differentiation. I still disagree about algorithms themselves as a differentiator -- everyone has access to excellent shortest path algorithms already. Other geospatial optimizations (scheduling, circuits, flows, etc) are a different story; as represented by the many scientific disciplines that pursue those problems: operations research, graph theory, network science, location science, etc.
Does the graphics processor have free drivers and firmware?
The thing to remember is that the Internet was never designed as a commercial, ad-friendly place. As many of its architects have noted, it would look very different if it were. That means trying to build an ad-supported business in a place that is - if not hostile - than at least fundamentally indifferent to the needs of ad-supported content producers was always going to be a tough row to hoe.

If you succeed, well good for you. If not, don't feel too bad - the cards were stacked against you from the outset.

In either case, the most important thing to remember is that Internet does not owe you a living. Nor does it owe advertisers an easy and easily controlled environment in which to operate. It has purposes that are significantly higher and deeper than hustling cheap, fast content while trying to make quick buck by selling your audience's personal details to fly-by-night ad networks.

Not everyone operates like this, of course. Google, Facebook, and BuzzFeed are all examples of places with far cleaner models. All they sell is access. None of them make information available to others. Indeed, they all guard what they know very jealously. And Google aside, they haven't been vectors for piracy.

But on balance, the Internet has been pretty terrible for people who work in the content industries, and the new media industries - in partnership with advertisers - have been pretty terrible for the Internet. You really need to go outside of this mutually debilitating flustercluck to find the truly awesome and wonderful things that the Internet makes possible. And many of these are things around which very good businesses can be built. For genuinely daring and visionary people, it's an extraordinary time to be alive.

Here's what's not visionary, or helpful, or beneficial to humanity: trying to turn the Internet into a cheaper, faster, dirtier, amalgamation of print and broadcast media, only with much crappier advertising and a large helping of surveillance and malware thrown in. You're not saving the world with that crap. Indeed, you're the bad money that drives out the good, and the sooner your business model collapses, the better off the world will be.

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Non-European citizens can't use Interrail. There's a similar product called Eurail but with the discounts available for advance-purchase tickets, the pass often doesn't make sense if you're traveling with a relatively specific itinerary and can plan ahead.

The surcharges on the various high-speed trains really killed the cost-effectiveness of the Eurail pass.

edit: There's a good overview of why the Eurail pass if often a bad option at Seat61: http://seat61.com/Railpass-and-Eurail-pass-guide.htm#Should you buy a railpass or pay-as-you-go
It's actually not that easy, since the client has full control over what the server sends out.
Couple of things:

You need to find an affordable place to live, where the demand is high.
Atlanta is affordable and has high demand for data skills.

"big data"

http://jobdensity.com/QueryGrid.aspx?q=855&t=%22big%20data%2...

Statistics

http://jobdensity.com/QueryGrid.aspx?q=850&t=Statistics&qt=6...

sql data

http://jobdensity.com/QueryGrid.aspx?q=851&t=sql%20data&qt=6...

"machine learning"

http://jobdensity.com/QueryGrid.aspx?q=853&t=%22machine%20le...

mysql

http://jobdensity.com/QueryGrid.aspx?q=854&t=mysql&qt=6/6/20...

Oracle is hiring like mad, it might be a place to get a start

http://www.jobdensity.com/techsector.aspx
A little odd that they seem to be unaware of micropython.org as well...
Yes, but why are they still using it?

This is an industrial problem in the film world. Celluloid film keeps remarkably well in moderately good conditions (cool and dry), and more importantly it's so standardized that you can load a decades-old film into a new projector and it will just play back correctly. The Academy standard for 35mm film has been in place since 1932 for example, and specifies everything down to the shape of the little holes on the side: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_perforations

Digital video archival is a nightmare. Although the physical storage media problems are now going away thanks to cloud services and suchlike, there isn't yet an established standard for picture storage - the main contenders are MXF and Adobe's Cinema DNG.
To piggyback off of the above comment; There does exist a completely, as in 100%, free laptop for sale. "This is extremely rare in modern day computing."[0]

[0]http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/
I was confused as to why Ireland was showing up as accessible in these maps. Mainland Ireland isn't accessible by train from Europe. I found this excerpt in the original blog post which makes the concept slightly misleading:

Any points on water were assigned a swimming rate of 100 minutes / kilometer in order to create dense contours at the coasts.
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I would appreciate if you would list these most active hackerspaces of Europe!
If you avoid commuting long distances it isn't too bad in most places. Just because you can commute a long way doesn't mean you should.
> Yep. Stop the "in your face" ads, stop the tracking, and people are less likely to block the ads and the tracking. It is really simple as that.

I think it's too late.

Ads have an irreparable PR problem.

As soon as users find out about the existence of Ad Blocking, they will simply enable it and never look back because they've been burnt by deceptive and intrusive advertising for far too long on the internet.

Whitelists, exceptions, even the very act of even thinking about turning off their Ad Blockers, are things that only principled, technical users will ever bother with, and we all know they represent a mere rounding error on the total internet population.

It will probably be a more fruitful effort to start exploring other alternative methods of monetization than to try to make Ads work again.
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