skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The amendments don't grant rights; they limit government.

They limit government by defining, in the fundamental law, rights that are prortected against government encroachment. Those aren't mutually exclusive alternatives, one is the means by which the other is achieved.

> That's why we call them inalienable rights. You cant "amend away" these things.

The quasi-religious belief that there are rights that exist "in nature" prior to law and which all governments are obliged to observe is a popular one -- and was with the founders -- and part of the basis for the use of the term "inalienable right". However, the exact parameters of such "inalienable" rights are far from uniformly agreed even among those who subscribe to the belief that they exist. You absolutely can alter which of the rights that some people believe to be inalienable are protected by a government through amendments; note, for instance, that quite a lot of people from the time of the founding through (and no doubt past) the time when this was, in law, settled at the point of a bayonet by the 13th Amendment, thought that the widely-accepted-as-inalienable right to property included the right to hold human beings -- and particularly for whites to hold blacks -- as personal property.
The Los Angeles Times reporting about the first two days of trading this week in China[1] is also interesting for perspective on how the stock market in China influences the broader economy of China. The key idea is that the current situation, even WITH government intervention, is very likely to severely hurt the personal savings of a lot of households in a country with a strong tradition of personal savings. That could turn many well educated, high-earning people who were previous supporters of the Communist Party of China leadership of China into doubters about their government or even regime opponents.

The CNN report based on official media reports from China strongly suggests many economic upheaval from the current intervention in the stock market in China.[2] The most dynamic and innovative companies in China are those most likely to be unable to raise further investment funds.

[1] "It's a bumpy ride for China's stock market investors"

http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-stock-market-2...

[2] "Nearly 25% of Chinese stocks have stopped trading"

http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/07/investing/china-stock-market...
> Note: I'm not an economics expert by any means, so go easy on me :)

That's fine - I have a degree in economics, so let me take a stab at explaining this!

> why in situations like this, governments tend to intervene? In the long term, wouldn't it actually be better to let the market just naturally figure itself out?

As Keynes said, "In the long run, we're all dead".

The problem is that the "long run" doesn't actually correspond to any specific duration of time or point in the future; it describes the aggregate, idealized behavior over time. There may actually never be any point at which the trading price of $XYZ[0] actually matches the underlying value, as long as the price over time tends to track the fundamental value[1].

On the other hand, an overfocus on optimizing for the short term causes stunted economies that never reach their full potential (in the best case) and a downward spiral with a negative feedback loop (in the worst case).

> That way the end prices reflect the real value.

By the way, there's actually no such thing as the "end price", because nothing happens in a vacuum. Let's say Google launches a new product today. It may take two years to figure out whether or not that product is going to be a success[2]. If they did nothing else in that time, then yes, there would be an "end price" after this event, but the real world is a series of overlapping events that are all playing out simultaneously[3]. So the market never has the chance to converge towards the "end" value after event A, because by that time, events B, C, and D are all having an effect on the system as well. That doesn't mean that A's effect is negligible; it just means that it's never observed directly.

[0] By the fundamental theorem of calculus we would be guaranteed this at one moment, but prices aren't actually continuous so this doesn't apply

[1] The fundamental value, of course, can never be directly observed, as is often the case in statistics.

[2] Or even ten years, if we're talking about self-driving cars.

[3] The word "event" here is a technical one, not a colloquial one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_study
On fish, is part of the problem the success of marketing labels like "wild caught" and "ocean fresh", or John West's taglines implying quality but serious wastage? The first two imply that farm/factory-raised are inferior.
This is low quality blog spam. I don't care if it is a blog from Harvard Law, he is just parroting a NYT piece[0] published today on a 2012 study and a 2014 book.

This blog adds nothing, and instead we should just link to the NYT piece directly.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/07/opinion/joe-nocera-the-goo...
How about if someone yelled "Gun!" instead of fire? Guns might be a more modern version.
Congrats on writing a book and launching it!

That said, for me, this is just one more data point that you don't write a book to make money off of book sales. You do it to establish yourself as an authority and earn from that new position.
They were using metasploit according to the article, so I doubt that they were sniffing out 0days, meaning that "everyone" knew of the exploits, not just the NSA.

Secondly, if you're trying to state that the NSA specifically knew that these specific companies were open to these specific exploits, but chose not to do anything, then that's a stretch. Were the NSA doing it's job of helping to secure networks, it would only be attempting to secure domestic networks. I doubt very much they would drop an email to a foreign company stating that they found their network security to be lacking.
I've found that too and it annoys me a lot. I put it down to having more exciting dreams than them. I've spent plenty of late Saturday mornings gallivanting around my own mind.

EDIT: Also, people confuse sleeping late with sleeping too much. If you go to bed at 4AM, getting up at Midday isn't so crazy.
Bet me what? That SHANCOMP will go lower from here? And I assume you already know that your payout will be skewed: options price in a higher chance of downside than upside already so you should probably pay me $7 if it rallies against my $5 liability if it falls. Point is: this "China is tanking" idea is on everybody's lips and the surprise risk is now a rally.
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In biographical information, sometimes, but rarely in the middle of an article.
>>That way the end prices reflect the real value.

Is hype the `real value`?
I’m not part of the Snow project, but I have the impression it’s still pretty experimental. If so, it’s probably better for non-technical users to remain unsettled about it for a while yet.
> Public bodies have sought to use the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) on nearly three million occasions in the past decade to snoop on people.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8868757/Council...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Po...
R/DeepDreaming a place to post pics created by Google's Deep Dream program
It's the price of housing, not one's income, that determines whether people are sleeping on the streets. (Assuming that they actually are in Greece.) Plus, GDP/no_of_people is an average. Some make more, some make a lot less. Especially those 25% unemployed.
TIL You can get anything from Yahoo websites in a nice JSON or XML format
The evidence simply does not support present hiring methodologies as predictive of successful business outcomes. Therefore, you should hire and invest in people who need jobs. The reason the increasingly widely accepted status quo of interview processes continues is essentially due to confirmation bias: companies want you to feel like you are part of a special, select team. In reality, we are not that much different from each other. The evidence suggests hiring people who need jobs and dispensing with the bs.
CoreCLR Hello World
The phrase originally came from Schenck v. US[1], in which Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said:

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.

Few recall that Holmes used this argument to justify imprisoning a group of socialists for the crime of attempting to mail leaflets. These leaflets protested US involvement in The Great War and urged people to protest the draft.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
This isn't the same, but if you're interested in looking at a compiler and OS mostly from scratch based on C check this out. It's pretty amazing. https://github.com/rswier/swieros

It comes from the author of the c4 compiler. (Interpreter?)
That's more or less what a Surface Pro with OneNote (and OneDrive) does. But it isn't even ballpark $200. More like $700+.
A ridiculously deep, 2740-word teardown of Slack’s new homepage
Thanks; switched from https://pando.com/2015/07/03/holacracy-dunces/.
Playing the collateral damage is always a wise strategy to consider, but it's also worth considering the possibility that the decline has a lot further to go.

In hindsight, prices today might look like ideal entries for short positions months from now if this is just the beginning of a major decline. In markets like this, no action should be taken without a thorough fundamental and technical analysis. Making an ill-researched assumption one way or the other will cause a lot of people on both sides of the market to lose money.
How do you learn market structure?
> the latter aren't a market of their own but usually a pass-through mechanism for regulatory arbitrage.

Out of curiosity, what do you mean by that ?

So I get that CFD are not traded on a central exchange, and are custom investment product provided by some financial institution. So indeed not really a market.

However, besides that they seems to be used by regular investor for, well, regular speculation.
I can understand that much, but CVS doesn't (privately) reap the returns from healthier customers. That dynamic would apply to a health insurer or provider, not a glorified convenience store.
Have you looked at Boogie Board Sync?

http://www.myboogieboard.com/na/products/boogie-board-sync-9...

I tried it. I really wanted to like it, but the writing screen was just not bright enough for me. May be it will work for you.
Good discussion of this little logic puzzle here:

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/76491/multiple-choi...
Would be mind-expanding if shell redirection could be used for that, e.g.

> diff <(cat a.txt) <(cat b.txt)
Yeah, BaaS :-), but what CRO would take on those type of jobs when they can't charge what they do for clinical trials or drug discovery.

I'm not sure how much interest there is either and I agree that something is missing. Maybe affordable kits similar to how PCs became more accessible to the masses as IC prices came down. Maybe bringing modern scientific equipment in to school biology classes to expand public knowledge beyond test tubes and bunsen burners.
I used to be one of those. Then I got the interest bill and since then I seem to be able to sleep through whole days if I let myself (I don't). My productivity took a pretty good hit but when I have to I can still go at a good clip for about a month or two (high intensity jobs, ship on fire kind of stuff). Then after that I run out of steam and need to recover for a while.
I think it could be argued that people that drink heavily harm more people around them then people that smoke. I don't have any studies to say which one is worse, but there is no way you can say people that get drunk don't have a direct effect on those around them.
I am new to all this. I was thinking to get started with The Elements of Computing Systems by Nisan/Schocken. Is Project Oberon something entirely different? If not, how do they compare?
Indeed and I've considered it a bunch of times but I have a fast android tablet and a nice laptop/desktop setup running Xubuntu.

$200 would be ideal, I don't need a tablet just a high quality portable digitizer rather than another tablet.

Next tablet upgrade might well be a surface pro though even running Windows (which I haven't done for a decade) as I'd really like instant access to all of my sketches going back months or years.

EDIT: It would be incredibly useful to pull up a sketch of an architecture against a git timestamp so I could figure out WTF I was thinking at the time ;).
I concur, his site is amazing, he's definitely on to something, great abstractions there and relations to factorials. Love it.
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Hmm. I have TT, CC, and CT but I generally sleep terribly.

Does anyone know of more research on what would cause this to be expressed? Maybe I just need to be more consistent with my schedule.
First they come for the tobacco, then the addictive candy that causes obesity, then the life-wasting and mind-altering games in the app stores ...
Vancouver housing being affected depends on what amount of foreign investment properties have mortgages dependent on foreign derived income, and what amount was bought outright with laundered cash.
It is funny, I was up late last night playing around with writing my own OS and then this becomes the #1 spot on Hacker News.
on average I'd say so, yes:) at least, on my sampled average so far.
I have always particularly liked this scene, even if it is completely apocryphal:

"Next, he fired at the pykrete to give an idea of the resistance of that kind of ice to projectiles. The bullet ricocheted off the block, grazing the trouser leg of Admiral Ernest King and ending up in the wall."
Plus their massive patent portfolio has definitely paid off in various ways.

PS - I don't personally like software patents, but you cannot deny they make money for research-based organisations.
Thanks for the congrats!

Yeah I agree that other perks can outweigh the money; see also the comment below about marketing being one of the hardest parts about writing a book. Getting more known now will help future books I write (Nathan Barry is a good example).

I am reaping some rewards of having expenses covered to do workshops abroad. It's not a source of income, but it does make travel a lot more affordable which is great.

Ultimately, I hope that there will be some long-term passive income from the book (and possibly other books). We'll see. :)
> The presence of HFT shows that insider trading doesn't seem to have as much of a detrimental effect as people claim.

Do you have any sources on this? I'd be interested to read more
Might anyone have suggestions on where best to find delicious Iranian comfort food in the SF Bay area? There are quite a few Persian restaurants, but I haven't found any of them to particularly stand out. Personal recommendations from people who know the cuisine would be great.
alive customers are the best kind.

CVS is a pharmacy so keeping patients alive longer means more money on perscription medication.
Comments on “You Do It Too”
This appears to be the code he took:

http://code.google.com/p/svnarchive/source/browse/trunk

Source: http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/07/aleynikov-code-dump-un...
I absolutely hadn't but that looks damn interesting, thanks!

What was the delay like in actual usage?

EDIT: This is literally what I was describing and have wanted for ages, US only but some ebay.co.uk vendors have them! I'm having one of these soon!
I think there has been a misunderstanding. I never meant to say there is no place for the work of the author. I merely wanted to say that saying academic work produces nothing, as the reaction I replied to stated, is shortsighted.

I completely agree with the rest of your comment. Depending on audience you might prefer the one approach over the other. A person searching for an algorithm to use in a (large) production environment will most likely search for traditional publications (as you called it), while research might search for the other type described.

That leaves a discussion if you can talk of academic publications missing all the contents required for a publication. ;). I would like to call that academic work, and the other academic publications.
Where I live when they passed an indoor smoking ban in the county, certain businesses near the county line were up in arms because smokers will drive an extra 5 minutes to go to a bar/restaurant where they can have a cigarette too.

There were bars that were in danger of going out of business because they couldn't get a waiver and enough of their customers were going elsewhere.
Another question came to my mind, slightly related, what is another interesting Italian company to check?
I think "movimento 5 stelle", it's a """party""" which makes up whatever, it would be fun to show the fake votes and all.
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Please excuse the formatting of the job postings in the link above, Taleo is not the ideal ATS.
In my job we have some big projects on Python 2 and Cython gives us access to some of the "new Py3 features": types (real types, not just hints) and async IO (through C primitives). We eventually chose Cython because at least we can get big speedups (depending on the code and how much can be properly cythonized, of course). With Py3 it was a change to the codebase (which we also had with Cython, of course), to get approximately the same performance, maybe slightly less, maybe slightly more.
FYI http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/em-dash.html
SQL Server Web Edition is not the same as Standard or Enterprise. The reason you use SQL Server instead of PostgreSQL is for Database Encryption, Analysis Services, AlwaysOn Availability Groups, etc. Web Edition won't even do mirroring.

The cost is worth it if it saves you multiple employees worth of development work or administration overhead, and in my experience it does. The pricing is also (surprise!) negotiable. At Loopt, our annual software licensing cost was well under the cost of one developer, and this was before BizSpark.
OS X BSD System Calls Reference
It looks like it was patched (as far as I can tell): https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms14-06...

Is the problem that many people in China are using XP, or pirated versions of windows that don't get updates?
Using SegmentedControliOS to render multiple components in React Native
That sounds really interesting! What kind of stuff were you developing, and what kind of roadblocks did you hit?
In fact, wouldn't they lose profits on tobacco cessation products and medications used by smokers with health problems?
This sounds similar to another book/course/project I've seen that was quite interesting to work through:

From NAND to TetrisBuilding a Modern Computer From First Principles

http://www.nand2tetris.org/

http://www.amazon.com/The-Elements-Computing-Systems-Princip...
This is probably the first time I heard of such a speedup when going from 2.7 to 3.x, and the fact that you can't account for it makes it worse because we can't evaluate what's happening and if such speedup could be achievable on other projects :(
I'm a bit of an Apple fan, but let's be honest, Apple isn't eating Microsoft's lunch. Apple has 18% mobile market share, and it seems that they've broken into the double-digits in desktop share:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/07/mac-achieves-highest-u-s-pc...
Ask HN: Hacking the TID in 802.11(n) transmissions
Is it possible to hack your wireless chip so that all transmissions get tagged as high priority? Would doing something like this be desirable?
This doesn't explain why they would actively fight to make it illegal.
Will do, I love PostgreSQL so I'm pretty excited to se what the possibilities are!

Found this gem in the docs :D

Unsupported Aggregates:
xmlagg ( xml )

:(
This website has ADP's official response to Zenefits motion to dismiss. More interesting is the way that the reporter humorously points out that Zenefits kind of brought this on themselves. http://dnsr.com/adp-vs-zenefits-the-unicorn-who-lives-in-a-g...
I cannot think of another tech company that's as obsessed with pens as Microsoft is. They've been working on and promoting this stuff for what feels like decades now.
That's almost laughably incorrect, although unfortunately popular amongst a certain segment of the tech set. The nearly-impossible-to-use computers that did very little very slowly back in the 80s (and earlier) were not nearly as amazing as your memory is fooling you into believing. Sure, nearly-bare-metal OSes don't soak up much in the way of resources, but that only works in very narrow market segments, and computers are totally mass market now.

And in any case, you mean "before Windows" if anything, because DOS was fast as blazes (and did pretty much nothing as a consequence).