jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is huge. Huuuuuuuuge. I haven't checked MobileCoin yet but hope it is as good with privacy as Signal but also decentralized.
That's pretty much my argument for choosing Bash over Python for my everyday scripts. It's sensible.
?? but the mouse is so useful!
> JVM can't do dynamic dispatch on multiple arguments

It can since Java 7, the instruction invokedynamic was added for this kind of stuff.

The implementation for Pattern Matching (the project Amber) [1] will use the very same instruction.

[1] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/amber/pattern-match-...
Prisons have started doing that, too.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/02/illinois-inm...

> A spokeswoman for the Illinois department of corrections, Nicole Wilson, said that an Illinois statute allows the department to “recover from offenders the expenses incurred by their incarceration”. She pointed out that all offenders are required to fill out a comprehensive financial disclosure form, which is reviewed by staff, with any decision to pursue assets made on a case-by-case basis.
^^ Zuckerberg is a noisy neighbour having a tantrum if he's taking this personally.
How do I get this for my games?
I have no firsthand information, but reading https://github.com/solokeys/solo

"Solo Hacker can be converted to a secure version, but normal Solo cannot be converted to a Hacker version."
I don't really agree with the premise that it's hard to forgo having a smartphone. Especially with the quarantine, most days I don't even know where my phone is, even if I'm out and about. The attention hogging is real even if you turn most notifications off and day-to-day, I don't really use most of the features.

An exception where a smartphone can make a huge difference is travelling — maps, translation, transportation etc all within your fingertips truly are priceless.

I do understand that I'm not the standard model user though, I usually only get a new phone once the last one literally isn't usable anymore.
What's a LP?
I think his opinion might not have changed. In his latest "C++ sucks" rant in that "why is git written in C" thread he points out not having GC as being one of the detriments of C++.
I had no issues with the login
Your best bet is to go for the fiscal havens in Europe: Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Swiss. They have really LOWER taxes and banks pay VERY well.

As a graduate and competent C# developer you can easily get 65kEUR+ per year + car + meal vouchers working for a service company in Luxembourg. That's a bit more than 3500EUR/month in your pocket with pension + health insurance + unemployment etc paid for. Banks pay MUCH more than that. And European institutions pay about 5kEUR/month net with even better pension/health plan/etc.

It's 40 hours/week in Luxembourg and 25 days of paid holiday. I have yet to experience unpaid overtime.
F-Secure's article on this, http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002145.html, shows that the location database is uploaded to Apple twice a day
In the case of ethnic and religious sites, a fairly promising and probably reasonably accurate description is given. In the case of adult sites, that's just fraudulent and flat out lying to people can be an effective way to get at least some registrations.
> part of that risk (from the pov of the broker and the buyer) could be hedged contractually

everything I can think of here (e.g. not actually paying the seller anything until their shares vest) ends up leaving the seller (the employee with the stock options) with strong incentives to not get fired at a place where doing the minimum required work really ought to get you fired. So I guess that could reduce an employee's incentive to work hard by reducing the upside, but it certainly wouldn't eliminate it. And all those things also reduce the investors upside, too; I mean, sure, you've covered the downside, but I get fired and you don't get any of that facebook stock you wanted. Do the deal with two unvested employees, and maybe you end up with more facebook exposure than you can afford.

> it seems to me that the staff involved must be paying a hefty risk premium for their liquidity.

yeah, especially if the shares are unvested.
I am currently in the no mans land where I need to upgrade my 3G but am hanging on till the next iPhone. If Apple don't announce something soon I shall have no choice but to jump ship to Android.
Thanks for pointing those out, fellas. Should be all fixed now. :)
The C++ developers I've meet in London that earn 600 GBP/1000 GBP by day (consulting) are people who has been working for investment banks (JP Morgan for example) developing trading systems that use FIX Protocol (http://www.fixprotocol.org/).
I think social environment is the best way to do this, far better than any drug could accomplish. Went I went from UCSD to MIT for grad school, the increase of smart ambitious people around me drastically changed my own expectations and that allowed me to pull myself to that level. If I had just taken some kind of drug to motivate me, it still wouldn't allow me to see how much higher my own bar could be, or influence how big my dreams should be.

I recently visited this leather maker who rents space in a larger co-working space full of makers/doers. She talked a lot about 'the energy' of the environment and how much that fueled her own creativity and ambitions. Drugs in isolation couldn't do that, and aren't the answer (as far as I'm concerned) should there not be some deeper isolated mental issue (like depression).
People don't want to be charged a fee to make a face-to-face transaction with someone they know. That is a lousy business.
"I'm sure soon they'll be having one of their annual power outages too."

All of my personal racks and (roughly) 1/5 of rsync.net have been inside the he.net core datacenter for 12 years.

I have never experienced a single power outage. Warm Springs datacenter.

Genuinely curious what you're talking about ?
None of the other social networks you were an early adopter of told your their future monetization plans did they?
Remembering back those were awesome. Can't image what our parents thought.

I was curious and looked it up. In Germany climbing structures may have a "fall height" of up to 3 meters. They can be much higher, though, since the fall height is only counted to the next rope layer. Basically, the ropes will slow down your fall is safe enough.
Actually, their Developer Program Policies prohibit "a webview of a website not owned or administered by you": https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html But this is only a rule, that does not mean anybody enforces these guidelines ...
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Don't worry, we've still got "I'll get a date when Half Life 2: Episode 3 comes out"
Hopefully not much. The visual differences simply demonstrate that they are separate and mutually distinguishable groups.

The numbers quoted in the main article demonstrate that these groups do differ in some characteristics which affect education, although they don't illuminate which ones in particular.
To beat anybody you need to became more valuable in the everyday activities. Care to explain how Groupon can matter in the online or offline life for an average person?
It seems like philosophy students see this far more than other people (based on my informal survey of my philosopher friends) but confusion of descriptive and normative statements, also known as David Hume's "is-ought" problem, is one of the most common fallacies I see anywhere.

This is most easily seen on the more populist articles on Hacker News (which I simply found by going to /best).

Here's an example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2037139

These people are having an argument about whether it is or is not slavery i.e., a descriptive judgment. However, the question of whether or not it is slavery has little bearing on whether or not it should be done. The commenters are confusing a descriptive statement as relevant to a normative question.
Do you really need to do anything super smart with them? Could you at least link to the logged scripts as files? Smarter stuff can come later.
Thanks for those predictions. Futurology, whether extrapolating trends or trying to predict disruptions is pretty tricky. I've got a couple of old books from the 1920's which attempt to show what the future holds. Here are some of those images [scanned in and from AM LOW]:

http://picasaweb.google.com/brettdonovan/AMLOW#5471538663829...

It would seem that one can extrapolate rather well. Particularly well on the abundant communications, however as always - the flying car is out of reach.
I don't even play video games any more, but if it's reviewed as any good at all, then I'd be tempted to buy a copy and waste a weekend playing it.

...hmm, maybe this is how all those luxury nostalgia business models work like $200 Barbies...
except.. you can't just go buy one, yet. And then you can't just drive away on the highway, right away. You will have to buy the $2500 240volt charging station, and have it installed. And the oil burned in a gas car is replaced with coal burned to generate electricity in your electric car. Essentially you have converted your car to run on coal for a majority of Americans whose electricity is generated by coal. Plus you will have to pay the gas tax somehow, although I'm sure the law hasn't caught up to that one yet -- but they will; my guess is, legally speaking, you may only drive "off road" until they figure this out. You might need to upgrade your house wiring as well. But +1 for your enthusiasm.
But reading from the article it is at least clear that the Courts "rejected" a request to ban Sci-Hub and instead gave time to the Scientific community to figure out a way forward. I don't see where you get that the Court in India was in favour of banning Sci-Hub.

Quoting:

"In December, academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and the American Chemical Society filed a suit with the Delhi High Court, asking Indian internet service providers to block Sci-Hub and similar site Libgen. The court rejected the publishers’ requests that the sites be blocked immediately, instead declaring it an “issue of public importance” and allowing time for the scientific community to weigh in."
Yes, I don't understand american/English dates and time. I don't know when "04/06/2019 09:00 PM" is. Is it April or June? 0900 or 2100? Let me send an ISO8601 time as all other APIs accept.
> They had promises and async/await in 1995.

Really? Do you have a source on this? I was under the impression that C# was the pioneer here.
Sometimes I wonder if the people making "why don't they just ... " type comments even bother to read what they have written.
The idea is pretty good, but misses the mark.
Bitcoin has shown that decentralization is a bad idea. What people actually want is Sharebowl: a single bowl, the size of oregon, that you can trust to keep your valuables safe.

We plan an ICO by 2022, IPO by 2023, and IBS[1] by next week.

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/irritable-bow...
EMFs and other waves so close to sensitive biological parts seems unwise. I haven't switched out my iPhone 6 because I trust the headphone jack.
The average vocal HN commenter on these matters are much more likely to be a fairly conservative techno-republican than elsewhere on the internet e.g. nearly every thread I've seen on the Capitol Riots (apart from the main one, which after being flagged and restored had an influx of fresh blood) has some kind of smarmy "ah yes but what about the (black people) looting and murdering in the summer".
Similarly any thread on gun control shows just how much some Americans view gun violence as a mere cost of doing business so they can own an assault rifle.
James Bennet edited the opinion section, so his resignation wouldn’t have anything to do with the shift away from “solid reporting” you’re talking about.
I've always wanted to ask an audiologist whether "active noise cancelling" type technologies actually pose an auditory risk. They kind of have to emit the same amplitude-at-the-ear of audio of what they're cancelling out, right? And sure, most of the time the waves cancel, but maybe the algorithm gets it wrong a couple milliseconds at a time and - while possibly not perceptible - are those high peaks of audio-cancelling-sound damaging?
That's a great argument for Apple being the arbiter of what is allowed on their app store, but a very poor argument on why they should also decide what can run on your phone.
> You can write a function that compiles successfully, leading you to believe the function is syntactically and semantically coherent, only to find that when you add an actual call to that function, the compiler now flags errors inside that function.

This happens to me pretty frequently in C++. It won't compile with a syntax error, but if you don't call, say, a templated function, then the compiler simply can't know that the stuff you're doing inside is nonsense.

I don't consider this to be friction. I generally know what I've called, and what I haven't. I expect dark code to be bug-ridden placeholders with good intentions.
"Perhaps" = "claiming"?
For the last two years I've been learning Neumann's native language, Hungarian. It's a very difficult language for an English speaker to acquire (and vice-versa), but this quote could be adapted perfectly to how I feel learning Hungarian, "Young man, in Hungarian you don't understand things. You just get used to them.". I wonder if Neumann had a similar experience early on while learning English, and it shaped his view of mathematics as well.
Wtf is that dip to $33 ?
On page 3 of the book: "They built ENIAC, the first digital, general-purpose, electronic computer". It all depends on how you define the term "computer". Not to forget that "computers" at that time were the women who did the calculations; see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer#Etymology. Nearly all computers today are electronic and digital; so ENIAC was one of the pioneers of this development (the Colossus was another one).
Stallman has informed opinions on these topics however. He is not some Q nutjob.

As for me, as long as they were being tolerant of others and did not withdraw from public dialogue then sure, I would not mind working with him.

>>That's exactly what these totalitarian wokists aim for: to make people afraid to oppose them.

>Look who is insulting people here and making assumptions.

Is there any other reason for the plugin? I personally know at least two people (not including myself) who did not sign it because they feared of being "cancelled".
Do you feel the need to remedy this injustice, when, as you claim, the difference between you and a poor person is luck?
Just saw this recently: http://blog.libinpan.com/2009/07/less-is-better-than-tail/ -- use less +F instead of tail -f
This all looks like some kind of simple analogy to explain the factor model.

The overall idea is that the price of a stock is explained by information (price, earnings, estimates, whatever...).

If you then try to reduce the dimensions of this information, you could find various underlying drivers of the stock price.

One could do that with a PCA, but the sheer amount of data, potential high collinearity between them, and difficulty of then making sense of the resulting coefficients is not practical. So traditionally the drivers are explained by carefully crafted factors defined by economists, and it works rather well.

Some of these factors exist since a long time, and have proven to be persistent across decades.

Interestingly, most of these factors are not tied to companies themselves (idiosyncratic) but rather on whole groups of stocks.

Beta, country, sector, explain the vast majority of stock price movements.

Your first quote seems to sort of describe fundamental factors (quality, value). The underlying idea being that fundamental indicators of the company (price of the stock versus amount of assets, versus earnings, etc), while compared one against each other, should tell you which stocks will perform better than others. These factors have proven to be less and less predictive in the last 20 years, with "value" even being notoriously a "bad bet". It's cyclic though, and we could expect (and it starts to be the case since some month now) a come back.

Your second quote seems to describe more technical factors, such as momentum/reversal. The main idea being that there is inertia and correction in the way stock returns fluctuate. If a stock performs well, it will continue to do so, until some correction happens and it will revert to its short term mean, then it will restart, etc. Funds focused on these strategies are often labeled "CTAs" or "trend followers".

The last part of the quote seems to describe well more modern factors, such as those found in "behavioral finance". The underlying idea being that actors of the stock market are humans, and as such are not fully rational and exhibit bias. If you understand these biases, you can benefit from them.
Emergence [1] is what I thought of at first.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
This is, IMO, the hardest part about the stock market to explain to new people.

I work with a guy who otherwise seems smart but who just can't wrap his head around information being priced in. His ideas are things like buy retailers right before Christmas and sell soon after, or to buy stocks in cyclical industries because they have low P/Es (at the peak of their cycle). And he is quite confused when market movements fail to match official earnings results.

The people with all the money hire the most knowledgeable/experienced people and invest in the best technology, which end up making a retail investor's ideas of why to invest in stocks look pea-brained. That doesn't mean (IMO) investing in the stock market is entirely a fool's errand for those without that info, but it does mean you should probably educate yourself (not necessarily with books - would a book enumerate all the different ways information can be "priced in"?) as much as possible and, most importantly, stay away from things you don't understand.

There is also a considerable amount of stock market results which you can ascribe to things that an AI-based trading systems, or purely fundamentals-based trading system, couldn't capture. For example if your thesis was that the Internet would grow to encompass a large part of the economy, you would have made a killing investing in promising Internet companies (post dot-com bubble :)) with a long term view and completely ignoring anything like fundamentals. But I suppose that is the difference between investing and trading.
Note that the Southwest Airlines method (no assigned seats) was fastest in the Mythbusters test. I’m surprised that it got such a low “satisfaction” rating, as it’s one of the main appealing factors for me to fly Southwest.

Maybe it’s just very polarizing, and SWA “gets away with it” because their market share roughly represents the percentage of travelers who like that method?
My point, expressed more fully, is: "teach people to design projects with measurable outcomes versus the status quo; calculate an NPV to make your implicit assumptions and biases explicit; look for ways to restructure your project plan into intermediate goals where you can reassess your strategy (aka "real options"). And your projects will, on average, cost less and be more successful." My meta-point is: these are useful skills that can and should be taught more widely.

Your argument is essentially "No", is it not?

I'm not sure how that helps improve the situation.
Correct, I should have put “free” in scare quotes, lol. Stolen is more accurate.
> It shouldn’t be possible for apps to say you have to agree to this or I won’t run.

It's not - that's a violation of the App Store TOS. That's also not what's happening here - you can use clubhouse without allowing contacts access, but you can't invite someone to the closed beta without allowing it.
This article says that they've found that the slime mold's memories are stored in tubes that form intricate networks inside the cell. It's interesting because neurons have lots of microtubules and there have been some recent research showing that they may be more than just structural components of the neuron:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3979999/

Could there be a relationship between these slime mold memories and memories in more complex organisms?
I think that theres evidence they are already doing packet inspection and active interrogation for anything they deem suspicious. So if your SSH tunnel has some recognizable traffic characteristics, it's game over.

There is an option to configure OpenVPN with a fixed key that it uses to encrypt all and any traffic, leaving only random data. That's very desirable right now since there are no easy ways to detect it, but in the future I guess they'll just outright block any traffic that is just too random. Real plaintext traffic, certainly with verbose 1980 protocols like HTTP, trivially fails many randomness tests.
I'm pretty naive when it comes to these things but my sense was that Meerkat's use of Twitter was pretty asinine and that was the main reason for the banishment. Does Twitter have much of a history of banning services merely for competing?
+1

Kaizen isn't a perpetual advantage. Just look at what demographics are doing to the Japanese economy and manufacturing base. Korea is the new Japan in many ways, and any honest Japanese manager will willingly tell you as much. Korea came from literally nowhere to catch up to Japan, despite kaizen.

Disruption, rising costs, aging demographics, etc., can easily shift industrial edge from one country or region to another.

I'm not denigrating kaizen, mind you. It's still a valuable principle, and one that will continue to confer many advantages to the Japanese industrial base. But it's not a sufficient advantage in perpetuity.
I want to know when the whole "awesome" thing will pass.

And what is it all about, anyway? Is it my generation's satire of the kind of crap marketers fed us in our youth? You know, all of that "totally rad" stuff?
CLR has been "replaced" by CLRS (added an author, can't recall his/her name).
And it would also contain an infinite number of books which claim to list which books contain real information, but actually contain some titles that contain nonsense & lies and/or are missing some titles that contain real information. So the chance of you finding a fake information-listings book is far greater than you finding the real one.
From the article, "At least two airports are opting out of the TSA entirely. I hadn't known you could do that."

Does anyone know if an airport opts out if it still has to comply with DHS (or other) regulations? For example, even if they kick the TSA out are they still required to pat down or backscatter x-ray passengers?
Birkenstocks, actually
I agree with disputing both subtexts. The OP does not suggest that security researches are being targeted for searches. I certainly don't disagree with the notion of investigating a suspect's associates under certain circumstances.

Given your feelings about the subtexts, I think I understand your comments.