jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The Efficient Market Hypothesis is obviously, patently false. The markets cannot agree on the value of an asset from week to week, day, hour, minute or second. Equities in stable businesses with millions of shares traded daily see their prices fluctuate 5%, 10%, 20% intra-day. The tangible value of a company simply does not change that fast. It doesn't.

It's impossible to time the market perfectly every time because that would imply perfect knowledge of the moves of all the participants. By the same token, it's impossible to mis-time the market every time, because then you could just take all the opposite moves and you're back to winning. It is possible to win more than you lose, not by being the smartest, but simply by being smarter than the average participant. Which, thanks to companies like Robinhood putting trading capability into the hands of any naive smartphone owner, has become easier than ever.
Actually Italy counts everyone who dies who has COVID19 as a COVID19 death. This does not include future death by long term after effects but it includes more then what e.g. was included in China, which is part of why the death rate is so much higher in Italy (the other part is in average people are much older in Italy then China).

Also put that in context with the fact that Italy reported that the majority of death is with people which have preexisting conditions/other illnesses.
This is cool.

I’d like to see how cameras that use this, stack up against the Osmo[0]. That’s a pretty awesome little camera.

[0] https://www.dji.com/mobile/pocket-2
It seems like the SC industry is a bunch of Brent from the Phoenix Project where miracles happen when they enter a trance and find the right bit to flip at the right place and that their PowerPoint presentations is a snapshot of the neural network inside their brain.
"In 2013, Kamran published a book entitled 9/11 and the New World Order. In this book, he has tried to substantiate some of the popular 9/11 conspiracy theories. In an article on 24 September 2012, he wrote that currently 95% of the US media is owned by only six corporations, whose top echelons are dominated by Zionists allied with the banking cabal: "With the US military and intelligence apparatus in their control, with their ownership of the media, and with their control of academia, it is easy for them to direct assassinations and false flag operations, such as the murder of JFK and 9/11."

cool guy. /s
Seems like they could have rushed the development of RCO to allow a shot at bringing the empty Columbia back, too. In parallel with all the other preparation efforts, fast-tracking something like that where an already-100%-written-off craft might get saved seems worthwhile.
Let me get that straight. A junior dev can get up to 2K USD? That's a huge span. What determines where one ends up on that scale?
Thanks pc86 - really helpful feedback!
Ask people that don't care about you what they think.
You make it sound so black and white when in reality everything is gray.

I happen to know a few "criminals" and they're not bad people they just choose to do shady stuff. Although I've met a few that i instinctively distanced myself from because you can tell they're always out to trick you or get something from you it's usually not that simple.

Some of them were even punished way out of proportion to the severity of their crime.

I don't know if most kids have the skill to deal with these people and since the crafty ones come off as overly friendly they might even get lured in.

It's probably not idea to mix clueles teens with street smart criminals.
> I took the $319 I was about to spend on an Office license and I donated it to the LibreOffice project, and will just continue to do so every time I have to go through this process.

This.

Generally, I get much more value from OSS than commercial. I donate - not mostly because it's the "right thing", but because I want it to continue.

If you write OSS, and would like something in return, consider this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863901
Importantly you also absolutely can’t avoid giving your data to the government. And if you try to lie and create a fake “DMV profile” for yourself to keep your data secure you’re gonna end up in serious trouble.
Jekyll has nicer templating, but when you work on large website, Hugo is just much faster.

Bootstrap team is moving their docs to Hugo: https://blog.getbootstrap.com/2019/02/11/bootstrap-4-3-0/#br...
This represents an opportunity: these folks should just build their own apps which distribute content to their fans. Thats kind of what apps are for - the commoditisation of networks like Instagram and so on, is only really necessary because the technological barrier to entry is too high.

All it would take is for someone to open source a decent image browsing/payment transfer application, stick it on Github with a decent license that allows for re-use of the code, and 'services' like Instagram and Facebook will die the deserved death.

This is only a thing because the OS vendors are gate-keeping, and because they work hard to make it more and more difficult for people to write and distribute apps themselves...
> Unless the author is an accountant or otherwise close to the field (e.g., talkative friend is an accountant), this is a weak statement.

The author admits in the parenthetical paragraph that the accountant comparison may be weak (and welcomes corrections), but given that the target audience is most likely unaware of a Peyton Manning in the world of "assets=liabilities+capital" (if one exists) it still adequately gets the point across.
There's a great, short book on how to practice while making "good" mistakes. It's called "The Perfect Wrong Note." I've been found it helpful while teaching myself to pick the banjo.
As a south african having grown up with vuvzela's present at every sport match, the present worldwide 'outcry' is quite entertaining.

Don't you just love the smell of globalization in the morning?
To be sure, though I think that the no outside influence restriction is a bit contrary to the archeological record. Though I didn't make it clear, what concerns me are not the coarse technologies of life--wheels and pottery and what not--but more fine, non-obvious innovations. Consider concrete: with the dissolution of the Roman political structure the secrets of concrete were lost. It took 13 centuries, until the 1750s, to rediscover its formula. During that time, public works were greatly retarded. Indeed, the Anglo-Saxon (whose buildings rarely had windows for stability purposes) culture produced a rather famous poem we now call The Ruins in which Roman ruins are attributed to the works of giants.

What concerns me is not the transmitting of basic machines across the simplification of a society, to use Joseph Tainter's jargon, but, rather, difficult, contextual knowledge. Our knowledge of Mathematics, for example, was preserved by luck: the Byzantine Empire harbored enough learned individuals and archivists until such a time as the Crusades swept through. All of my work simply assumes an industrial, technological civilization with advanced computational capacity. Any textbooks I might produce in the future will have the implicit assumption of contemporary operating systems, compilers and hardware. If, through sheer chance, any of my potential works survived across a collapse they would be useless without further context. I imagine that the same holds true for advanced works of physics, especially that which requires hugely complex experimental devices.

Euclid held up well enough as his works were self-contained. What modern works can say the same?
Three points

1) This sounds a lot like the "Deliberate Practice" espoused by the (imho excellent) Study hacks blog http://calnewport.com/blog/?s=deliberate+practice

2) Also similar to Steve Yegge's recommended approach to learning to type. (another great read)

3) Is it just me or is the silvers.org site a gold mine of great ideas?

Like this, for example:

My vision of the road to mastery:

- start with the fundamentals

- get a solid foundation fueled by the understanding of
the principles of your discipline

- expand and refine your repertoire, guided by your
individual predispositions

- while keeping in touch, however abstractly, with what
you feel to be the essential core of the art

What results is a network of deeply internalized,
interconnected knowledge that expands from a central,
personal locus point.

When everyone at a high level has a huge amount of
(technical) understanding, much of what separates the
great from the very good is deep presence, relaxation of
the conscious mind, which allows the unconscious to flow
unhindered.

He gets a lot of his writing posted on HN. Do you think he deliberately practices writing or is that just natural talent? After reading this story of 15 years to overnight success it really makes me wonder.
Microsoft's Spartan is meant to have something similar to this. Will apparently sync to your Windows 10 Mobile 'reading list' as well.

Sounds interesting.
The ones calling her a Steve Jobs wannabe tend to be backed up by numbers. This article is backed up by cherry-picking third party forecasts.

That said, two years is a pretty short timeframe to turn around a 12.5k employee company. A tumblr success may be her saving grace.
I agree; I was hoping for a more cogent explanation, but the whole time-shifting concept with respect to Fair Use is...weird? It's more of a "Terms of Service" type of issue, from my perspective, in that paying for the service should carry with it certain reasonable rights. It's not exactly a "transformative" notion from my perspective, but honestly, the courts have been so all over the map of reasoning that it takes me a while to figure out the logic. Sometimes, when I do figure it out, I get really, really mad with flashbacks to the crux of the Napster case which ruled "A home computer is not an audio device and therefore person-to-person sharing of audio copies as Fair Use does not apply" (paraphrased) and is so utterly shitty and wrong it has led us down the DRM wormhole.

At least Eminem successfully sued for his 50% cut. For those unfamiliar, the jist of the story is Eminem's label told users they were 'leasing' a song, which entailed a 50% royalty rate to Eminem, but they accounted each lease as a 'sale' and paid him closer to 20%...which was in violation of his contract. He sued, he won, and it's a thorn in the industry's side to this day. I blame the greed of "having our cake and eating it too" and the outcome pleased me on both fronts as an artist and paying consumer.
Microsoft offered $44.6 billion. Current market cap of Yahoo is $45.76 billion.

The market cap doesn't necessarily capture the takeover price, but I doubt it is wrong by 10 times.
What start page filled with ads? Neither Chrome nor Firefox do this. Chrome's start page contains either my installed Chrome "apps", or frequently visited pages. I think Firefox's is just a Firefox-branded version of the Google search page, but I can't remember and am away from my desktop atm.
This is definitely true. I've been labeled on occasion as "not passionate" for not being willing to work myself into the ground at 60+ hours a week with a four hour round trip commute.

That's not to say that I won't work long hours at crunch time or I have a problem with going the extra mile. But if your "crunch time" is 52 weeks a year, it's no longer a matter of passion, it's just exploitative.
Wouldn't this be possible with some preprocessing pipeline?
Yes, WhatsApp has a massive adoption rate, but it will need to vastly improve its web interface and generally make their service look and feel more professional, as well as more collaborative. When I think of Whatsapp, I think of messages between individuals. Slack, for my company, replaced IRC, which is much more of a chat room aggregator.
> DO: Navigation that is always visible on the top of the screen? Yes!

Is this really a good practice? I'd personally avoid it unless there's absolutely no other way of accomplishing whatever you are trying to do in terms of UX.
Even here in Europe privacy laws are much lighter when it comes to B2B stuff.

It's actually legal to send unsolicited spam to business emails sadly.
Yeah, that was the point. My experience is working with teams with very varied backgrounds in Europe, and you really have to make a point to talk a common language. Instead of speaking my native language with others with my background I speak English. Similarly others have to do the same thing. If a group of Russians speak Russian with each other it hurts the group.

The reason I brought that up is because I've seen some American progressives say that trying to make people speak English is racist or non inclusive. But it is the other way around. in the teams I've worked nobody were native English speakers but everyone spoke English. That is the only sensible way to handle a diverse team and letting people speak their native language just creates silos and removes the point of diversity. And someone on the team being a native English speaker wouldn't change that point.

For example, if I worked in USA and a group of latinos spoke Spanish with each other I'd tell them to speak English. Not because I think they need to speak English in USA but because they are excluding other groups by speaking a language only they understand. Similarly if I were to speak Swedish with my teammates I'd expect others to say the same thing to me, and in diverse environments I even speak English when everyone around me knows Swedish just to make it a habit.
https://frippery.org/busybox/
Programming and software fields are full of people with steep disregard for culturally established theories and truisms.

Until some VC backed tech company builds a product around a 1000+ year old theory, it seems to hold no water in this community.
I don't doubt that you've seen examples of that, but I've seen plenty that go the other way. Heavily downvoted comments that are only slightly defensive of him, and others that rise to the top for bashing him when it isn't even relevant to the conversation. It really depends on the thread. Different topics attract different crowds.
It has changed to favour traditional big papers instead of smaller ones, since yes people go directly to the bigger sites now. Barely anyone goes or even knows what Bing is in Spain.
Decades of research! I hate how they can't just say we believe in diversity because that's what we value. There's nothing wrong with that.
QLC is also much lower endurance, so at those sizes there's also the question of how much over-provisioning needs to happen to enable acceptable endurance, while still being cheap enough to out compete the alternatives.
This is a level of negligence that is beyond just being accidentally wrong. It would have taken less than 2 seconds for the author of the article to check whether Android has resolution independent ui. Instead they chose to mislead everyone who reads hackernews.

I really don't have any patience for the 5 minute write -> post -> submit cycle that a lot of the crap submissions on hackernews have, and I think it warrants some vitriol.
I pretty much agree with you. In the case of Afghanistan, though, I'd have to say that poor governance is already a serious problem, and in fact it could hardly get worse. The U.S. would like to improve this situation (as long as we've got troops in the country, anyway), but I've yet to see any evidence that we know how.
And Power Point is the world's most used Vector Art tool I'd wager.
Wow. Slightly disappointing. Mind sharing why she turned you down?
I would keep it plugged in and charging most of the day, add a bluetooth keyboard, and ditch my laptop :)
I'm struggling to understand what AppRabit actually does. It claims to "give[s] you an easy way to create web based database applications" that is build on top of Django.

Django already is an easy way to create web based database applications so what does AppRabit add to this?
Pictures of men stoking each other's penises is porn, however.
So I’m with you on this one.

Why wouldn’t CCP stop all suspicion on this and say the virus originated in another part of China? It almost feels like a murderer trying to use reverse psychology by hiding in plain sight. Like, it can’t be from Wuhan Lab because they actually reported that it came from Wuhan (what idiot that’s trying to cover it up do that?). A calculated person would make such a calculation.

The truth might be weird here.
What a wonderful story, thank you!

I've restored a couple of cars and nobody that sees the end result will ever truly appreciate the amount of work that goes in to a job like that unless they've done it themselves as well. Your dad looks so happy in those pictures!
IntelliJ data flow analysis does this to a certain extent (paid feature though)

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/analyzing-data-flow.html
Doesn't it depend on what we find?

For the most probable outcomes, it's about improving (whether it's a lab escape that requires tightening how labs work, or a natural origin that requires, well, something).

Of course, if theoretically this or another pathogen was discovered to be human-made / engineered on purpose (not a real scenario in this case! Purely a hypothetical), then obviously it might have "holding someone responsible" repercussions.

And there might be other scenarios I can't think of that would engender different reactions.

Bottom line, when investigating to discover the truth, I don't think it's valid to beforehand decide on the reason that you're seeking the truth.
I bet it was “just a conspiracy theory” back then...
Covid boosted Capitalism.
I haven't read it yet but does the author actually mention "Q Anon" as their information source or is that a connection you made and ascribed to the author?
I'm also flagging.

This has no merits with regards to science or the hacker mindset (thinkering with things, technology or engineering).

It's someone with an agenda, trying to leverage the reach this platform has for the wrong purposes. (Propaganda/incentivise cancel culture).

Does not belong on Hacker News.
At the end of the day it is really about how much existing code can be quickly reused.

I used to think this was true, and then after I became a bit experienced with web development, I realized that the bulk of code (JavaScript, in particular) released for public use ("reusable") is garbage. Complete, utter garbage. Poor APIs, terrible abstractions, namespace contamination, a lot of assumptions that those packages are the only ones in use.

Yes, you can slap something together quickly with the bits of turds available online, but when it comes to customization and fine-tuning, you will either spend a lot of time undoing half of what some other developer did with their package or writing one of your own. For writing my own widgets, tools, and frameworks, I want a great language. And when I build tools with a great language AND with a good language design approach (it takes both), I have things I can reuse.

More available reusable code is not an advantage. I am coming to think that the more accessible a language is for just anyone to use, we get lesser quality shared code.

There are gems, for sure -- I will happily name jQuery as an excellent, extensible framework. A lot of the community's jQuery plugins, on the other hand...
There is an interesting Google talk video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxNg-tXPPWc from Tom Malzbender, who was a senior researcher from HP labs and developed a method called Polynomial Texture Mapping. This method helped him to see more details in the surface of objects and more specifically in Antikythera Mechanism.
So this way registrars will make obscene amounts of money for doing very little rather than squatters? Don't you think that's throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
I wonder what happens the first time that there's a credible link to someone dying as a results of Wikileaks leaking a document.

You know, if you keep leaking any and all classified information you can, inevitably some informant or logistics route or defensive position is going to get routed or assassinated. It's just a matter of time - while the government does some bad stuff, I'd reckon the majority of classified documents are classified for decent reasons. It's not just a bunch of wild animals running the show.

And when an operative or informant or ally or supply team or soldier or law enforcement officer eventually gets killed as a result of a leak, I wonder what the government's response will be.

Edit: Knock off the downvoting and make a reply. There's an informant in the Chinese politburo who is risking his life to protect the dissidents that the Chinese government targeted with the Google attacks. His life is at risk now. If you have any credible argument for why releasing any information related to the man, let's hear your argument. Because I think his life is at risk, and that's a bad thing. If you disagree, let's hear your reasoning of why it's okay to do that.
Emulating registers w/ QuickPiet http://twoguysarguing.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/popping-a-reg...
I think you can't, although if you turn on "show dead" in your profile, and if you know what comment it was, you may be able to find, copy, and re-submit it.

Was it a reply to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1947178 ?? There is a deleted comment in that thread, but I can't see the content. If you were the author then it's possible you can.
There are a lot of bullet points there, but not many seem to be actual crimes committed by the USA. Isn't that what whistleblowing is about? Specific crimes related to the agency you are directly blowing the wistle on? Not wholesale release or everything you can get your hands on?
Probably are.

CCTV statistics are rubbish. Most of them are in private hands and/or are for traffic management.

As I said there is a financial penalty and we have motion tracking webcams in the cage so any unauthorised access, we know about straight away.

We do know because we're responsible for making sure stuff like that doesn't happen.
RTFM, it's even searchable these days.

Or, you know, learn/set up keyboard shortcuts if you're going to be working with the software regularly.
To back up your point, in what world is having a good job, nice house, and large retirement savings "mediocre"?
The way I see it, keeping it in the markup makes it more straightforward to debug. If it's server-side, all of our developers need direct access to the asset server as soon as there are content negotiation issues. If it's client-side, we can share a highly-available asset server and each developer has their code sandboxed.

In an ideal world, it would be server side. But it would easily mean twice as much work to get there.