skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More precisely, an index fund owning both Coke and Pepsi wants profits from the soft-drink market to grow bigger, and the easiest way for that to happen is for both companies to increase their prices at the same time. Note that this is exactly the opposite of how competition in capitalism is meant to work - it's meant to drive down prices towards the cost of production, increasing overall efficiency as it does. Note also that this likely also results in selling less soft drinks than if the companies were actually competing, because increasing prices generally decreases sales.
The article's focus on the temptation for collusion seems overblown to me. Yes, the interests of Pepsi+Coke's index shareholders are served if the companies avoid cannibalizing each other's value, but those shareholders have no way to apply pressure on the companies to do that. Index shareholders do not vote, and by their nature cannot sell shares of a company that they are displeased with.

The other concern seems more well-placed. An efficient market requires that shareholders buy and sell companies in response to performance. Index funds buy and sell companies in response to the performance of the fund, or the market as a whole, or some other arbitrary factor. If 50% or 80% or 90% of a company is owned by 'dumb' funds, what does that do to their market value? And how could that affect the choices of the CEO?
I'm pretty sure the strategy hasn't changed. The change is that a broader segment of the public is now aware of it due to the new widespread technology to record and distribute video. It's similar to black American's experiences of policing, which has always been that way but now people who never would have seen it are (more) aware of it.
1. I'm still on 10.9. Still have not moved over to Yosemite. Mavericks runs smooth for me.

2. It is 2015 and iTunes/iPhone syncing is still the absolute worst. I just want to add a couple of albums to my iPhone, why do I need to connect over a cable (wifi syncing almost never works for me) and why do I need to wait more than 5 minutes? I don't want to sync my entire phone again! (If you know how to not have iTunes do this, please tell me. It is the worst).
Although permissive licenses are great for libraries, they aren't that good for applications. Why would you let someone make a closed source version of your open source video editor? No, you never ever want that happens, that's when copyleft comes into play, it's ideal for applications like this.
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The highest rate of Neanderthal admixture is in East Asians, but there is also a non-trivial rate (2-6%) in most Europeans. The admixture in sub-Saharan Africans is much lower, which creates a risk of any discussion of positive Neanderthal traits pulling in much broader baggage relating to race & genetics.
Consumers would be better off avoiding both Coke and Pepsi, most likely, aside from a very occasional one.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23488503
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My wife's Macbook has been a huge disappointment. The login is slow, the computer crashes all the time, and safari stopped working. And it's just over two years old.

So N = 2.
A description I read about galaxy vr is the only application that made sense in the current VR space from consumer point of view - the optics can create a friggin huge 2D screen to view in 3D space. I haven't tested it though.

I'm not so sure gaming is the numero uno application. There are a shiteload of places I would like to experience but really cannot access. Oceanic trenches, top of Everest, experiencing a volcanic erruption from near by. Sports fans would probably appreciate a POV right above the playing field (images from drone cams). Games sound really boring to me - compared to the real world vistas I could experience. Yeah, middle aged geezer, blah blah blah.
We offer Redshift and raw SQL access as an add-on to the analytics, it's not used to power the dashboards at all.

We've actually developed an in house backend from scratch that's gone through ~10 or so iterations. There are 3 main data stores:

1) We have a real-time in memory data store (similar to Redis) for recent data that aggregates data in various ways to display on the dashboard 2) We have a batch service backed by Amazon S3 that for data older than 24 hours that also aggregates data 3) We have a column store for more complex queries that can't be represented by the aggregated data

On top of all that we have a distributed query engine that access all the data stores and queries the appropriate ones in parallel at query time on the dashboards.

We'll have a blog post that has more details about our stack in the next week or so.
I'm the author of http://sensitivecities.com/so-youd-like-to-make-a-map-using-... and make maps using Python all the time.

I'd love to switch to Cartopy, but its documentation isn't comprehensive or well-presented. I check back every six months or so, and then forget about it again.
Its more a return to the Commissar system that almost caused Russia to lose WW2
Here's what I've written up for a toy content addressing system I've been writing in Python:

"If it's so easy, why did it take us 3 years and 10,000 lines?" "Because we wrote it in C."

And because the real system:

- Tracks file meta-data (including tags and full-text indexing)

- Has a way to find files/hashes without file or hash (search)

- Uses a database instead of hardlinks everywhere

- Supports hash algorithm plugins (not technically done yet)

- Supports more hash formats (short, base-64, etc.)

- Is ACID (and coordinates transactions between DB and file system)

- Supports multiple repos per user (at arbitrary paths)

- Handles hash collisions (aside from the primary hash)

- Has a basic user interface

- Has a sync protocol
Sure, there may have been much worse things happened in Zimbabwe than a beloved wildlife Cecil, but the fact that this event raises awareness about wildlife conservation is a BIG DEAL! [1]

[1]: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/08/cec...

PS: I was wondering if Palmer's PR team paied for this NYT article.
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the newly recommended library, redux, is great. Flummox was great too, but redux is better, I recommend giving it a shot if you haven't.

To the original point, you are still sending the data twice, once in rendered html, and once in that state that gets rehydrated.
This would be exciting if it was even rolled out in Austin yet.
Sorry, should be fixed now! Are you still seeing any issues?
You can tell your opinion is unpopular, you're already getting downvotes.

I would have to mostly agree though, maybe besides the HP point. It's not quite a proper comparison.
> All by itself, this potentially dangerous, totally unnecessary show of force was troubling. The pot business was accused of a mere misdemeanor. There was no need to surprise patrons—some of whom were ill—with guns in their faces. But needlessly endangering the public was just the beginning of the dubious conduct. A surveillance camera recorded officers disconnecting the shop’s surveillance cameras. Under the impression that they’d got them all and were only accountable to fellow police officers, the cops discredited themselves in footage destined for YouTube:

> On-duty police officers appear to be eating edible pot products—OC Weekly transcribes words they spoke while egging one another on. (“Those candy bars are pretty good,” one said. “I kinda feel light-headed though.”) Other dialogue offers a number of insights into the subculture of this narcotics unit. Take the woman with an amputated leg that police encountered on entering the dispensary. “Did you punch that one-legged old benita?” one police officer asks another. The other cop laughingly replied, “I was about to kick her in her fucking nub.” These are people Santa Ana taxpayers empower to use lethal force at their discretion.

> The lawsuit argues that the video doesn’t paint a fair version of events. The suit also claims the video shouldn’t be used as evidence because, among other things, the police didn’t know they were on camera. “All police personnel present had a reasonable expectation that their conversations were no longer being recorded and the undercover officers, feeling that they were safe to do so, removed their masks,” says the suit.

> The dispensary also did not obtain consent of any officer to record them, the suit says. “Without the illegal recordings, there would have been no internal investigation of any officer,” the suit says.

Its pretty clear behavior like this and:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9948255

Is simply, horrifically common among law enforcement. :/
VR is pretty much as old as everything else in computer graphics (45+ yrs):

http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/input-output/14/35...

Although now seems like a pretty great time for VR given the hardware available and the funds being thrown at it.
"With beacon technology, the company says it will be able to send information about deals as well as recommendations directly to consumers’ smartphones, provided they opt in to receive these alerts. Initially, the beacon technology will work with those users who have the latest version of the Target iPhone app installed on their phone and have Bluetooth turned on."

How many of Target's customers are really going to use this capability, if they even know of it? How many are going to use it twice?

I was among the ~110 million customers affected by their 2013 security breach. How many of us do you think are especially eager to install a Target app on our phones?

This looks like a solution in search of a problem.
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> killing it for no other reason than for some kind of misguided personal glory.

So would the issue then cover hunting as well, would there still have been an outcry if he did it legally?
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"How does one pick the test cases for something like the GildedRose? Emily Bache, who provided the test cases for this essay and who ran the Python user group kata that I participated in, developed the test cases manually."
I created my tests based on empty example from Emily
https://github.com/emilybache/GildedRose-Refactoring-Kata/bl...
and right now I assume I have my own tests covering all edge cases because I discovered edge cases with golden master technique and I added missing tests to gilded_rose_spec.rb file.

"The solution shown here "recorded bunch of input examples and output results from the program we wanted to refactor." However, are those seeded versions themselves sufficient?"
Golded Master tests are sufficient because I recorded all possible cases of inputs/outputs for reasonable amount of sell in days.
See
https://github.com/ArturT/GildedRose-Refactoring-Kata/blob/s...
https://github.com/ArturT/GildedRose-Refactoring-Kata/blob/s...

"Even coverage analysis may not be sufficient."
Agree.

"Coverage assisted test development is, in my opinion, an underused technique."
I guess you're right. I wouldn't relay only on test coverage.
When it works, it is brilliant and seamless. On the other hand, there is not any redundancy, in the sense that if one piece of the equation (OS + the hardware + the software) is rubbish, it cannot be readily replaced by substitution (e.g. swapping Windows for Linux).
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You realize that the scenario you describe is equivalent to "the entire collapse of global civilization that will make previous dark ages look like candy and unicorns."

I'm serious. If the overall economy is "stagnating or even deflationary" for any significant period of time, all of the wheels are going to come off.

(Really want a dark thought? You realize that we've dug up and used all of the easily-available oil, right? When Some Later Generation Gets Its Act Together, they aren't going to have a convenient, cheap source of energy.)
One of the Die Hards with Bruce Willis and a hacker kiddo exactly that
> The fact that one has to struggle to name companies with large Mac deployments is a sign of the reality of Apple's ecosystem

Or that companies don't advertize what they run as end user devices, because it's just not that competitively important.
Ok I'll bite. Going from volume based pricing to feature based pricing is standard as an ecosystem matures and the underlying "resource" becomes commoditized. We offer both more features (Microscope- it's pretty cool, please check it out!) and more volume on our free plans than similar competitors so I hope that's compelling enough. Things like enterprise support and complex features are better put on the paid plans where larger organizations are happy to pay for them. Long term, the idea is you want to charge by value, not by cost.
Yes, I use one of each of those from Google and they all work pretty well :).
There's a lot of tech companies dealing with 100-10,000 macs. Mine has probably 2000 in circulation.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2016-m...
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Yep. Actually quite useful.
I've been increasingly feeling the same way, especially about OS X, but what's the alternative for a developer-friendly desktop operating system that looks and works beautifully (almost) out of the box?
>People form stronger bonds with animals that aren't edible.

True, but not with animals they have only seen picture of.

>On top of that, lions are regarded as noble animals, and this particular lion was killed in a dishonorable way, AND suffered for over 40 hours.

Dishonorable because it was a human who did it? Nature doesn't care about honor, really.
There's nothing fundamentally different between Chinese and American citizens? Are you joking?

The cultures are entirely different, and that includes the perspective of the people towards the government. You can find many sources to support the claim that in general, the Chinese people trust the Chinese government more than the American people trust the American government. In China, the attitude toward the state is akin to the attitude of a child toward a parent. The prevailing wisdom in China is that what's good for the state is good for the people. Obviously that's not the case in America, where polls show record levels of distrust toward the government from its citizens.

These political differences stem from fundamental cultural ones, which is why I take issue with your claim that there's nothig fundamentally different about American and Chinese citizens. On the contrary, most differences are fundamental ones.
Here's to the crazy ones.

( Sorry, I couldn't resist. I found it funny in a sad/ironic way. )
If index funds create larger voting blocks of shares, wouldn't that create a more powerful pool of voting power to influence changes than if all shareholders were voting individually? Index funds could turn over voting control to a proxy/research based voting service or survey their investors to determine how to vote.

I'm embarrassed to admit I actually don't know the voting policies of the major index funds I'm invested in (VTI, AGG mostly).
I agree with this statement.

I think lazy evaluation is very hard, especially when you are dealing with a codebase of of say 50 files with structures containing other structures, the line between lazy and strict is very hard to see.

The difficulty learning lazy evaluation skill goes from

* 0 where you know nothing to 5 where you sort of understand.

* 5 - 90 is a space where you think you know what it is, but you really don't. You'll probably get yourself in trouble more than helping.

* 90-100 is when you grok it and can use it effectively.

I am an avid haskell user for a few years and I am still 50/50 on most of my conclusions about laziness without asking someone else.
The quote "stock acquisitions that create such anticompetitive horizontal shareholdings are illegal under current antitrust law" doesn't seem to include any reference that I can find to any original text written by Elhauge. Instead the footnote links to a bunch of the author's own articles about Elhauge.

The only properly cited textual evidence offered is a series of denials by Elhauge that he ever said index funds are illegal.

Levine has been writing about this for months in articles with linkbait titles like: "Should Mutual Funds Be Illegal?" (http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-16/should-mutu...)
and "Labor Department Wants to Tweak Your Retirement Plan" (http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-15/labor-depar...)

It seems like Levine has an axe to grind with regulators, and doesn't want anyone to talk about research that might suggest regulation. He might be right, but he is making a crappy argument.

EDIT: Ok, I stand corrected. Elhauge totally said that. It's in the abstract. I had trouble finding it because Levine cited himself instead of the paper at the end of that that paragraph. Sorry.
I've always understood it to mean 'audacity', but without any necessarily negative or positive implications.
There is a priceless video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKPwZqUUrQo of the Gurdjieff movements, the dance at 3:24 is an expression of a computational process.
Why can't the index fund just sell Pepsi and keep Coke? Just because one of the companies does bad means you have to divest from the entire industry?
I believe the DK2 is something like 3 models behind the Consumer version.

On DK2 website they ask users to wait to buy consumer. Best VR for me is Horror/360camera even on Cardboard.

It's just another waiting game for more "Apps". It's like buying a ps4 without any new NaughtyDog Titles.
This is exactly why so many of us like IRC. It (mostly) separates the wheat from the chaff. Chances are you're not going to take the effort to get onto IRC to spend 30 seconds spouting a worthless opinion.
This is the secret sauce that makes every implementation unique. Camlistore, IPFS, StrongLink (my project), and others all have different answers. I think the important thing is that they all use hash URIs that can interoperate. Then you can find the content using whichever system you prefer or makes the most sense.

StrongLink doesn't use a distributed hash table, because one of my requirements is that it must work offline. In StrongLink, you pull from other repositories you're interested in, and then always resolve your requests against your own repo (locally).
Stallman's book on my book shelf is called "Free Software, Free Society" and I believe the spirit of GPL goes beyond just software.

It's the idea that sharing and collaboration will bring us more freedom - freedom from opressors or owners of any kind, who can control our lives for their benefit.

I believe this to be the deeper philosophical implication of free and open source software. It's the dream of a better, freer, smarter society.

So I don't think government spying is perfectly in the spirit of free software, it's exactly opposite to it.
And, if you're lucky, it's connecting to a private IP network.

The Chrysler hack was possible because the cars' built-in cell connection [i]wasn't[/i] connecting to a private network; the cars were unfirewalled and accessible to anything else that happened to be on Sprint's cellular data network.
Vanguard may invest passively, but they claim to do active things with their proxy votes:

https://about.vanguard.com/vanguard-proxy-voting/
Spotify's approach to customer engagement and accountability is a little better than Apple's in that they have a product support forum. But their contempt for the customer seems to be about the same WRT to removing features on a whim.

They removed a deal-breaker feature a couple of years ago (filter a list for a song) and have only just managed to put it back, only half working, now. I don't know how bad iTunes has got (haven't used it in 5 years) but I can't recommend Spotify as a replacement.

If anyone does have any suggestions, I'd be very glad to read them!
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Okay, but at the end this is not too much about profit.

More to give teachers in the world a tool for teaching Image Processing in a more intuitive way. They anyway will not make profit I guess with ImagePlay.

But if you find someone willing to "donate" enough we might switch license (-,
I think the point the parent is getting at is that nothing about business guarantees constant, compounding growth. It's not just mathematics, it's population growth, productivity, capital distribution, etc. - lots of stuff that we take for granted that results in constant growth rates, but that doesn't necessarily have to.
I believe the author is Belgian.
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One person was wrong once about the iPod, that means that all criticism of new tech products is invalid forever!
I would get ThinkPad W550s instead. Plus you can get 32gb RAM unlike most laptops.
With the title I was expecting Paul Graham to have written an article on Cryonics and the need for donations to SENS :\
Mm hmm.
I think it's a coping strategy formed in response to an absurd mission. Going by national stats on drug use, I would guess that most cops have, at least at some point in their life, been friends with drug users and tolerated drug use, if not participated themselves. But they now find themselves in a situation where they are ordered to oppose it. The psyche hates hypocrisy, so it constructs an alternate narrative: the war on drugs isn't about drugs, it's about violent drug dealers and drug users. That's a cause worth fighting for, and one that would make sense to fight using military tactics.

In other words, kicking doors down makes cops feel like righteous warriors, writing tickets in pot shops makes them feel like asshole tattletales. They pick the strategy that makes it easiest to live with themselves. It has nothing to do with the optimal strategy to counteract the violation of law.
It might not even be possible if Google, Bing, Yandex had TOS that required the use of their ads networks (negating the point of it being funded by donations).
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I think what he's saying is that it is pitiful that Apple is seemingly abandoning enterprise. I just skimmed the article, but it seems like IBM is doing this on their own.
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But does VR make existing 3D games better? Better enough to wear the bulky headset? I think that is yet to be seen.
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Seriously.

Have any cities without large pre-existing fiber networks actually seen widespread google fiber adoption?

I was singing its praises multiple years ago when Austin was announced, but excluding a couple of small neighborhoods in south-central Austin, the city has seen relatively little in the way of google fiber. AT&T, and Grande have actually been expanding much faster from what I can see.

Major business areas still haven't seen Gbps speeds.
> My Macbook Air. It's better, but the power button no longer does anything when I press it.

Press and hold. It's this way to prevent accidental logouts which were frequent in my case when it was just a press.