jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The assumption is that you want the maximum return for any given number of bets. If you have unlimited bets then sure, maximizing the return per bet is not really important. But where can you find unlimited bets with positive expected return?

There are other assumptions in there, like that there's no minimum bet and you can divide your bet to arbitrary precision. Always check your assumptions! I'm sure someone has modified the Kelly criterion for minimum bets and quantized bets, but a cursory search didn't turn it up immediately.
Me too and I'm surprised this is at all controversial.

Word is a native app with important features (structural elements, templates, macros etc), real time collaborative editing, fully customizable keybindings, bibliography management, mathematical equation editor with latex symbols, etc.

Google Docs is a slow, web-based, nerfed clone of it. If you just have to write the occasional memo then sure, Google Docs is serviceable. However if documents are an important part of my job, I want to be doing them in Word.

(I've even put emacs keybindings in it.)
> We don't have to ban self driving cars. We just set the success criteria at zero deaths.

That's equivalent to a ban.
They do? Ugh.. hopefully not continuous emitting of pulses.. I can hear some ultrasonics due to my cochlear implant, and it's been really annoying how these days Lutron is selling motion detectors that use both ultrasonics and IR. They like to buzz, even when people are already in the room.
> Given the snarly mess of frameworks/tools/languages/abstractions used in web dev, it's not obvious you'd get worse performance or inferior code using JIT LLVM and some newly minted update of Visual Basic or Swift with component/object/view caching.

What is obvious, however, is that more users have a Web browser on whatever device they want to use to use your software than have a virtual machine environment for any language besides JavaScript.
Correct me if I'm wrong but these numbers don't include smartphone or tablet numbers, correct? comScore's Multi-Platform numbers for July haven't been released yet (that I'm aware of). http://www.comscore.com/Products/Audience_Analytics/Media_Me...
It might happen, but at least in the segments of the industry I work in, I don't think it is common. What is more common is human error. Most of the businesses I deal with are highly regulated, and they wouldn't risk fudging the numbers. In fact much of our business these days is related to enforcing compliance regulations.

If you knew how dirty most financial data is when it is released, you would probably be checking your statements more carefully.
If you're not being sold anything and the company is making money, then you're the product. Nothing is free.
P.S. Your (Google, again) elimination of the + operator in your search queries was, again anecdotally, another factor in the declining performance of your searches for me.

+1 to that. At the least Google should have added a ++ operator to replace the co-opted +.
Location: Chicago

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10 yoe, dozen completed projects in travel, finance(HFT), in-house enterprise apps, customer-facing webapps and some cordova mobile apps. 5 years on current position where I (had to fill the gaps and) covered fully the position of full-stack dev/sysadmin/devops/infra and:

* acted on users and devs complaints about the Trading Strategy control application, reimplemented and delivered the new control web-app in Kotlin and VueJS1. First Kotlin application for the company.

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Hi, I'm the author of Fancy.
The erlang-style actor message passing hasn't been implemented yet. I'm workin on that though. Rubinius has a built-in Channel type, (similar to go) and an Actor library built on top of it. Once I get some of the other language features I'm currently working on done, I'll focus on that part of the language.
It just takes some time to get all these things finished, but it was always a goal to have this in the language.
Rubinius also has inter-vm communication which I will expose in Fancy as part of the language as well.
Another feature I'm currently working on is first-class pattern matching that preserves encapsulation (basically you have patterns as first-class values and matching an object against a pattern involves asking the object if it matches a given pattern - that way you don't break encapsulation).
Hope that explains some of your concerns.
There is a great potcast at the bottom of the page worth listening to, with even more interesting information than in the article. So many people were using the Real Book for years without knowing who actually compiled and typeset all these wonderful lead sheets.
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Well, I don't have MS Word, I don't use it enough to pay for it.

So use Pages. It came with your Mac.

I also would like to do some small changes to the images(maybe laser eyes? maybe draw some lines to emphasise an emotion?).

Preview. It also came with your Mac.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_Payments_Service / http://www.fasterpayments.org.uk/about-us/benefits-faster-pa... : 24/7 accessible from internet banking in the UK.

(US banking is technologically backwards even by the normal low standards of the banking industry, partly due to less aggressive pro-consumer regulatory coordination)
This was a very helpful response, thanks for taking the time to do it!
Excellent point. A two-sided market is vulnerable on both sides.
wouldn't a spreadsheet be easier?
Merry Christmas everyone and thank you all for the great insights you gave me this year. HN is, without doubt, the best community on the web.
Yeah I really believe this is mostly about the programmer.

It takes a different type of programmer to even want to venture to learn lisp in the first place.
Is the problem Mayer, or the fact that Yahoo is a walking zombie? To me it seems that the argument is the opposite: Yahoo is the wrong company for Mayer. She is clearly talented, but Yahoo is so dead at this point that no amount of genius can save it. What value could Yahoo possibly still provide to the world as a media company even if everything was to go right for them?
I think your objection is less about the type of person and more about the use case. Representative maps are best for showing relationships and directions. That's why public transportation maps (subways esp.) are drawn to show how various lines intersect vs. what lat/long coordinate you enter and exit. For your use case, a geographically accurate map may be better.
> Having 2 kids makes it much more important that you immediately go find something that pays better.

And that is where I am headed.
This is VERY misleading given that it doesn't include visitors to the search engine (which Google dominates) and even bigger it does not include visitors from mobile devices.
I would have to agree. Tell me any large organization where there's not a few infractions in a decade.

And I'm no apologist for the NSA, I just think intellectual honesty is good for our side of the argument.
Which specific technical limitations would you be referring to?
Sorry to weigh in like this, but both sides are equally right/wrong and stupid. Cameras are just like programming languages, just tools. Some cameras are great for one thing, while they suck for another thing. You make decision based of your shot list you have to make, plan for lights accordingly and thats it. Whining and "one tool to rule them all" doesn't help when job is about to be done.

One thing I've noticed though with smaller "toy sized" cameras is that actors don't like them. Yes. At least most of them (especially ones without stage experience). They tend to use camera bulk as a viewing audience, and I found an easy and cheap way to fix this. Just slap a huge matte box on camera and that's it. Psychology is a funny thing.
Most just release free/cheap clients for services they sell for much much more than that for other methods of consumption.

Not associated with any of these companies:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gotomeeting/id363452804?mt=8

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/logmein-ignition/id299616801?...

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ac-7-pro-control-surface/id36...

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/citrix-receiver-for-ipad/id36...

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lexi-complete/id295363885?mt=...

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/webex-for-ipad/id364031971?mt...
Good feedback. What sort details would be interesting?
To add wifi (or any networking at all) you have to buy a $120 microSD wifi adapter with a specific custom chipset made by exactly one company in Japan. Now you've passed the price of an eeepc on ebay for a machine that struggles to play an ogg.

Sounds like a solution without a problem to me.
Yep. Both professions spent way too much time uncovering other people's bugs.
Part of the issue is that the whole incentive structure in education is set up such that there is no relationship between tuition and either the cost or value of a degree; universities survive/succeed on brand/rank, not value provided. This is a reason that throwing more money into the Pell grant program, for example, will basically not help maintain college affordability, because schools have strong incentive to increase tuition annually, ahead of inflation. I'm trying to remember which article I read that described this problem (it might have been in the NYT), but as far as I remember it, basically: schools pick tuition by looking at what other schools charge and figuring out roughly what they can get away with. Schools have a strong disincentive to lower tuition, because their success depends almost entirely on their brand, their brand depends on their rank, and part of the US News ranking scheme looks at $$ (spent, nominally, but that's considered to be related to the amount taken in) per student, so charging less lowers school rank. They therefore charge exactly what A) everyone else is charging and B) what they think they can convince people to pay them, and people are willing to pay a lot of money for the prestige associated with a particular brand. The actual sticker price of a school therefore explicitly does not consider the actual cost of running a school or the value that the degree will offer.
Exactly what I needed to know - thank you, thank you, thank you. :)
systems/network/database administrators?
Some people are natural sales people, some aren't. I've noticed that the guys really really good at selling don't even think about problems of a product or social barriers to contacting people and just do it.

As I can't read their mind I'm not sure if it's a mindset they deliberately choose or just a different way of looking at life, but you definitely sound like one of those kind of people.

Great trait to have, but not everyone has it. Doesn't mean you can't be an entrepreneur if you don't have it though.
I dunno, but it doesn't sound like they got good results.

Ignore the reddit and PRWeb based sales, since it's not really correlated with the DDG spend. And you only have 22 sales originated directly from DDG for a total of $550 in sales.

So they lost half their money, and that's before we talk about their costs. And I'm sure they have a much better profit margin than most businesses.
While the Beagle 480 is $1200, the Beagle 12 (full/low speed) is only $400. You can force a high speed peripheral down to full speed by using a USB 1.1 hub. The protocols are identical at the application layer, although there are a few low-level differences in flow control packets.

http://www.totalphase.com/products/beagle_usb12/

The PS3 hack only needed full-speed descriptors:

http://rdist.root.org/2010/08/30/theories-of-how-ps-jailbrea...

http://rdist.root.org/2010/09/01/more-details-surface-on-ps-...
I'd even pay $100-$150, like for the Blue Line non-networked product.

$50 would be a no-brainer.

Over $200, however, means I'll wait.
As someone who was there (in the 3rd balcony) it was seriously shocking. As dumb as it sounds, I think some people thought it was part of his act, although when he collapsed the second time, it still took about 15 seconds for someone to come to his aid.

None of the 20+ staff at the auditorium came to help immediately either, which was even more shocking, since I hope that they would have some idea of what to do in a situation like that.

Altogether, it was a very scary, confusing situation. I'm just glad he's alright.
When we studying group psychology the first thing my professor said was, "You're about to loose a bit of confidence in humanity" basically what i took away from it, if i'm in a situation where I need help, and there's a group of people around you should "single" a person out.
I remember a college "introduction to economics" class where the professor asserted that in this new technological age, the typical economic cycles of growth and recession were obsolete; that from here on out it was just growth growth growth.
This was in 1999.
> ... an open source "math compiler" ...

Automated theorem provers behave much like this. As you lay out the steps of a proof they will check that each step is correct and show you what you have remaining to prove. You can start with a vague proof outline and refine each step until there is enough detail for the compiler to infer a full formal proof. Check out the Isabelle/HOL tutorial for a good example: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/hvg/Isabelle/documentation....

These tools are still very young but they have already proved useful in cutting edge research eg http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gonthier/4colp...
I don't think anyone can agree on what hacking is, so discussing it is pointless, as is this article.
And the rest of the world who see Django as an amazing RAD tool with a huge app ecosystem keep plugging along ... don't get me wrong, I'm a huge advocate frameworks like AngularJS, but that approach is just not suitable for most meat-and-potatoes public-facing web applications.
Because it's functioning like a taxi, not a rental car?
Those facts are indeed correlated, but there's no evidence of causation.
> What I find most strange about all of the photos of office design for "big companies"

> The funniest thing about all of these "office design" photos that I see of big companies.

Are you A/B testing your comments?
It boggles my mind that this can be a post-1998 worldview. I understand that they were late to the game, but late, then invested, and then flippant?

Or will a mobile world prove them right, but too early?
I think I pre-ordered from the publisher Cambridge Press. I got home and it was leaning against the house. Nice Monday surprise.
Worked just fine on iPhone over 3G, thanks! (was a nice intro to IF for me - tried Zork once, but it required just a bit too much commitment of time - played this one through three times in an hour or two.. :)
Running Yslow or pagespeed on the site would have turned up the same thing. Not to diminish John's effort, but it's really not black magic.
One planned way to mitigate this is to work a steady job for a while. Save a bunch and then dive in. You know exactly how long your savings will last.

Though a bit different from your question, I just read a story about Airbnb on how they funded themselves selling something at a fundraiser or some such.

Sure money is a good lubricant; but it doesn't stop someone who is really after something.
No sane person can take the bible literally. It's a piece of paper containing text that was written long ago when people didn't had this much technology.
You get stripped of all metal when you enter visiting rooms in UK prisons.
Even the cookies. It's been in webkit for a while. SO USEFUL.

You can also use it to leech stuff from login/captcha protected download areas like rapidshare or the apple dev center. No more failed browser downloads of 1gig files! Just add -C to your curl command!
Initially my reaction was the same as the herd, however on reflection I see that he's trying to address a problem in the mobile space.

Really the mobile phone market is currently a duopoly and that's bad for consumers. We are now getting past the initial innovation part of the curve and starting to see level growth in terms of the number of devices in the market place and platform changes.

What we need to start thinking about is perhaps a standard on which Apps are built. Right now its like the 90s where you'd build a site for IE and one for Netscape.
How can google.com be used to serve malicious content?
Once I run the numbers for air travel fatality rates, as compared to car fatality rates but talking into account miles travelled for both (and number of passengers etc), and, assuming I was correct, they came out pretty close.
Work places where you'd normally dock a laptop, for example. But I'd rather carry a laptop, quite frankly. While the MouseBox would be far more portable, it would not offer anywhere near the same freedom as a laptop would, and it would be underpowered by necessity.

A further problem is that some people simply don't like your average cheapo mouse, and some people prefer very light mice.

It's a weird concept.
America is nevertheless in a very poor place given its economical ranking
Does anyone know if there is technology out there which would allow for VPN traffic to blend in with other traffic, or to bypass DPI in any way?
It is absurd if I can get the same book as a paperback for less money - it is the same book, after all (essentially, digital information). Unless you are one of the rare people who has a huge advantage from just having the book electronically (like if you are traveling all the time), it just doesn't seem to make sense.

The paperback is delivered for free, too - it takes longer, but as a reader, I have some patience (it takes time to read a book, too).

If I like the paperback, I can pass it on to friends.

Carrying books around is inconvenient, but I rarely read a book twice within a short time span, so I really only take one or two books when I travel. On the other hand I don't have to worry about leaving my book on my seat on the train when I go to the toilet.

Moving and shelf space are an issue, on the other hand book shelves look good. Some people even buy fake book shelves with fake books to decorate places.
Dr. Shetty has exactly the right ethos in a cumbersome and bureaucratic industry: "Japanese companies reinvented the process of making cars. What health care needs is process innovation, not product innovation."

Improving processes in this case will naturally generate better products (health services). But will also increase the knowledge of these processes, which will ultimately pave the way for the creation of improved supporting technologies.
> discriminate people based on their politics

It usually seems to be based on people's bigotry or sexual misconduct. I haven't yet seen a politics-based ban.

Regardless, politics is not a protected class, nor should it be. If your political view is fascist, why should you have the same protections as someone who is born a minority? One thing can be changed and can be thought of as evil; the other can't.
I've started investigating whether a truly "just in time" variant of Tailwind is reasonable. It's almost like a CSS transpiler - converting tailwind classnames to their CSS form.

You'll probably always want AOT for the "critical css" in the first load, but afterward, JIT might be reasonable.

At a minimum, it should be feasible. You can override Prototype's appendChild, replaceChild, and insertBefore to grab classnames and generate CSS before the DOM is updated. Everyone will tell you this is insane, but it seems to work.

But it's unclear if this leads to something "better" than the AOT solution. It feels like code golf: will the transpiler have less bytes than the CSS generated by a pure AOT solution? The tailwind folks have come up with a really dense way of expressing verbose CSS, so I think it's possible!

No affiliation to Tailwind. Just playing on weekends.
Agreed, incremental recompilation falls squarely in the AOT camp.
Looks like much of the phys.org page is copy/paste from the Daya Bay release or the Berkeley page:

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/08/21/new-resul...
http://www.interactions.org/cms/?pid=1033164

Anyone have a link to a paper or arXiv preprint? I can't find one.
> BTC can be used in electronic black markets - not many currencies can be used for that, and that fact gives BTC huge value to many people.

I think it should be noted that if the silk road were to get shut down or disappear, bitcoin's value will completely tank. It's basically the backbone propping bitcoin up. Those people using it for black market purposes will try to unload their coins, which will trigger others to unload their's as well. It will spiral out and the result is the bubble popping.

Unless bitcoin has a much stronger infrastructure than it does today, I highly doubt it would survive something like that. Which if you think about it, says something about bitcoin's fortitude.
LOL. SERIOUSLY?

I just met a guy who lost his legs to an IED that he KNEW was on the route he was ordered to take because they needed to get from A to B in the quickest possible time. He volunteered to go himself (he was the Captain of the platoon) but his team refused to let him make the run himself.

That was the THIRD IED he was hit by.

I'm glad we have people who are willing to risk their lives for us, no questions asked. They willingly go into hellish situations where they could lose life and limb and with little expectation of reward. Frequently the opposite.

You benefit from this sacrifice. You PROFIT from it. Don't pretend you're morally superior. Police go out and beat up bad guys so you can be safe.

If you were more of a man, you'd admit your cowardice and stay quiet otherwise.
Well if you really want to start an revolution you might want to check out completely alternative structure of society. Such as Panocracy [1] or Constructive Utopism [2]

1: http://en.panokratie.net/2013/06/10/panocracy-intro/
2: http://falkj.info/FJO_s_cu.htm