skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah! Good suggestion. I have read the book you referenced and it reminds me of a particular test in "The O.S.S. And I" where a trainee is led by a "hotel owner" in occupied territory to the attic to retrieve a list of co-conspirators before the police arrive, which is signaled by the hotelier shouting from the outside.

In one case, a French paratrooper heard the warning and immediately dashed past him and out of sight. It took two hours until his hiding spot was discovered. When asked why he ran away, he answered that by alerting his presence so loudly it implied the hotelier was in fact working with the police and couldn't be trusted.

Going back to Kahneman, I would interpret that as a System 1 reaction geared towards survival, rather than following the rules. There is a line in the book that says something to the effect of: "A spy must be a man of integrity, but he must also be willing at a moment's notice to act as a criminal by lying, cheating, or killing, to serve his country."
I always wondered, couldn't you just buy a berkshire stock and chill? I mean I get that it's pretty easy in hindsight to identify that berkshire was a success and that this isn't easy to call (and that various other funds were promising at some point until they weren't), but after so many years of good returns it looks like a safe bet. Since the 60s its total returns turned out orders of magnitude above the S&Ps. (although you could say this is mostly due to the 80s, berkshire vs S&P returns have been much closer the past decade, but berkshire still did better consistently)

Another question I have is, do people expect the price to drop when Buffet ends his work at berkshire for whatever reason? (whether by choice or circumstance)
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The OP makes a fundamental error:

Traditionally, economists have put the facts in a subordinate role and theory in the driver’s seat. Plausible-sounding theories are believed to be true unless proven false, while empirical facts are often dismissed

The error is the assumption that facts are, well, facts. In real life, it's not nearly so black-and-white. Remember back in high school physics, when we did experiments with Newtonian physics, but our answers never quite worked with the theory - not just because of Einstein, but mostly because of (a) measurement error and (b) we were (knowingly or not) assuming point-masses on frictionless planes, etc.

As long as we were willing to write off our errors against those two sources, we could never discover that Newton's theories were incomplete, and we needed relativity to explain differences. We only got to that conclusion via models.

The way that you choose to measure fundamentally drives what your measurements are. And you can only decide what and how to measure if you start off with some model of the world.
Even if you're developing a high-end crazy graphics game in UT4 on your desktop with SLIed GTX 980s, it's still useful to be able to work on it from a laptop at more than 2 FPS.
Well it doesn't play with basically any library. That goes for HHVM as well. I tried it out after someone here recommended it. I had about the simplest app possible and I still couldn't get it to build.
Implying that they'd fit right in because they're brown and Muslim is some seriously ignorant shit. Remember all the ethnic tensions in Europe, in the Balkans? And religious tensions, even between different sects of Christianity? To imply that doesn't exist in other cultures is to attribute complexities to your own race and deny that they exist elsewhere. Ignorant.
> I just posted an update to the predictions post, with my own scores. Take a look!

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/ten-predictions (convenience link)
Is your correlated.org data-set or result-set available bulk or via API?
For developer boxes, the price of power and cooling do not matter compared to developer productivity, and developer productivity can be in some cases hugely impacted by the speed of their PC (during builds, simulations or renders, etc.)
Hope the results will be as entertaining as the Color Survey:
http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
I have a close friend from Poland who has shown me much of your lovely country, and all I can say in response is: YUP! :)
It gets more interesting where the American companies own subsidiaries incorporated in other countries. Can a US court compel Apple's Irish subsidiary (for instance) to release data?
Are many people often CPU capped anyway? How would you detect a performance increase unless you're over-utilising the machine.

For example, my work machine has an i7, 8GB of RAM, and an SSD. I can cap IO and RAM, but I am yet to see the i7 max out, heck even over half the cores. I guess what I am saying is: Is CPU really a bottleneck most people encounter day to day anymore?
Is that really a general problem in the Go community?

I ask because I've seen people explaining the tradeoffs Go makes pretty clearly online without any rudeness or condescending attitude.
As someone who's considering buying in Scotland in the not vastly distant future, this. It's a question of what the land is used for and the scale of it.
Arguably a large part of the Cairngorms national park is not in the Highlands, but you're right. An additional nice thing is that the Cairngorms National Park is rare in the UK in that it is actually something resembling a proper national park.
>>> It "amazes" me why these "refugees" flock to Germany or Great Britain and not to their very wealthy brethren in countries such as Kuwaii, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Arab Emirates, etc... Same culture, same religion and they are much closer!

Some of the "alternative" countries you mention are direct supporters of the forces who have caused or are themselves involved in wars in countries from where refugees come. And despite "same" culture, "same" religion and proximity, I assume, these countries don't want to import social and financial problems.

>>> It also amazes me why the EU leaders insist for other European countries to accept these "refugees" when the majority of EU countries is not responsible for this situation at all.

As for EU countries not being responsible: UK, France and Germany (and other EU and non-EU NATO member countries in their tow) are very well directly involved and responsible. Political destabilization, intelligence services involvement, boots on the ground, flying aeroplanes and drones (and dropping bombs) over their heads, supporting local "rebel" forces. In Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen - they are all over the place. So, it's "natural" that the "weapons of mass immigration" are heading towards EU.

>>> Luckily there are some leaders out there that are not afraid of this stupid political correctness and they build fences on their borders because they know what this might lead to.

No, European "leaders" are not stupid for building fences. OK, they are... because by building fences they are dealing with the effect and not solving the cause. They are stupid for making themselves marionettes to the Oligarchy. For letting their countries become vassal states. Especially funny, all ex Warsaw-bloc countries, in pursuit of "freedom", have flocked in the arms of another tyrant (instead of trying being truly independent). Last but not least, they are stupid for not building good trans Atlantic ships and sending the refugees to the Oligarchy.
I think the 'scalable technical structure' is key here; up until some years ago, if your application was growing, you'd need to rent and manage your own servers. Nowadays one dude can just upload his application to Amazon and have it scale automatically with no real hassle. If this was ten years ago, the first hired employee would be a sysadmin.

Nowadays though, as long as you have a good idea and some reasonably basic skills, you can make an app for millions of people.
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I guess those pattern get broken once someone uses a dvorak keymap (like I do) and the person analyzing the text doesn't know.
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I think people aren't complaining about the quality of the app. Rather we dislike the fact that when clicking a link to a forum we are forced to decline to install their app before we can view what we are looking for.

Personally I close the page.

I really hope the creators of tapatalk go out of business.
If anyone is interested in something other than shitting on economics...

The other half of the article seems interesting. Does anyone have handy references (besides the Athey and Varian papers in the article) to how machine learning is being used to establish causation rather than focusing on prediction? I've heard several places that there have been big strides lately in this area, but I'm not sure where to look.
As many as we can?
I take it you've spoken to loads of refuges then and that's exactly what they said then? "Our childrens lives are at risk, but we fancy risking them more to come to a generous country".

I think you misunderstood my point and took it too literally: who cares who's responsible. We can still help people unconditionally without expecting anything in return but within reason.

"Hey man, you're going through a really hard time at the moment. It's not my fault what has happened to you and it's not your fault this has happened to you either. But I would be happy to help you regardless."

Now, wouldn't that be an amazing place to be? Well done Germany, Iceland and the others.

--- Slightly off topic
There's videos of locals all going up and greeting refuges and offering toys, food, donations. I can't imagine how amazing it must feel after years of hardship and death on your door to see happy faces greeting you with open arms. That right there would give me hope and a strong feeling of wanting to do everything possibly to repay the people who helped me in my desperate time of need.

P.s I wasn't a refugee, but I did grow up in refuges as a child and I met and spoke to refugees. This was going back 18 years ago now, much has changed but I met the most incredible and inspirational people there.
I was taught to use my brain through a keyboard :p. Writing on paper seems clunky to me.

And since I'm homeschooled I've been typing most of my answers to books on a computer (for 4-5 years).
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Photoshop was able to show it:
http://i.imgur.com/7EdBySv.png (Macbook Pro, 16GB RAM)
Simply being: just be
I bet 37 is pretty popular.
Life in Europe is better for now. Flood European countries with millions of "refugees" and it won't be for long.

On the other hand, I sometimes say "If immigration is so great, why don't you take a foreign lodger into your house?" At least these "Refugees welcome" people are putting their flats where their mouths are.
It's an intern for customer support.
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That's exactly my situation. Going to 720p requires half the fill rate of 1080p. Turn off some postprocessing and antialiasing and you might get double the performance again.

So if you're at 1/4 peak performance, you're still running a smooth game albeit not quite at full detail.

If you're at 1/16 peak performance... things aren't looking too good by the time you get your game smooth.
Hugely interesting concept but still with a bit of rough edges. I do see the value but I think by using a graph visualization, it's still a bit too complexed.

Curious to know if you guys have already had customers who've mentioned that they are interested in paying. I can imagine that there are still a few steps to go before actually getting to the point of lead generation (i.e. strength of partnerships, contact information, etc.)
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I saved this article to my pocket to read later....
Lots of socks are polyester.
My son just picks two in the dark and wears them. He wanted an outward sign of his nerd cred. If they matched, he used to pick again. But he stopped doing that, because if he really didn't care, he would wear matching socks too. Has he reached some higher level of Nerdvana?
Get real. The consequences (whether they are good or bad, I don't know) are obviously more relevant to those actually living in the country than those shouting what to do from the other side of the planet.
Handling databases in dev environments for web development
Keep in mind that the same job often pays considerably less in London than it does in San Francisco. And I'm not referring to taxes but actual salaries. I've known quite a few folks who have taken pay cuts when moving to London and folks who have received considerable pay increases moving to a major city like San Francisco or NYC from London.
Sounds like a great start. When are you going fulltime with it?

"It" being letting homeless people crash at your house all the time.
thanks, that was a fun read
Ask HN: Topic for a speech on programming languages for a LUG event
Hello,

I have been invited to hold a speech on programming languages for a local LUG event.

What topic do you think I should talk about?
I'm honestly still trying to figure out the implications of eDRAM. It seems like the main benefit is offloading traffic from the memory bus, particularly now that it's coherent.

Am I missing something?
Well, you can check with your foreign intelligence agencies to see if the person is suspected of any malicious behaviour or connections, and if the person has acquaintances already in the US, you can ask them questions.
Interesting, the dupe detector allows both https and http versions of a site.
Uber Isn’t Causing New York City’s Traffic Slowdown
I loved the Pocket Chrome extension and used it every day. Once they changed it to one that required cross-domain cookies, I uninstalled it and only used Pocket once or twice as a result. Unfortunate!
epic reply bro XD
An URL for the edification of others -- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L00EJU6

(I have just purchased the book, and the problem mentioned in negative reviews about the text not matching the title seems to have been fixed.)
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Security is one of the hardest things to decentralize. Would you rather trust Google or a rinkydink website with your data? They may not have even installed the latest patches of their open source software!

Bitcoin decentralized money.

Until now, social has not been decentralized effectively.

Security is even harder, perhaps! Because it requires authentication but also a clear definition of guarantees, including availability! Perhaps your data could be stored on your computer and other replicas can be stored encrypted in the network, like freenet, but encrypted only by you. And your key would be a hash of your passphrase like "all horses are fine". If that guy's bitcoin key had been a result of a hashed passphrase, he wouldn't have lost $3 million in the garbage!
I love open source and appreciate free software tenants, but think this is absolutely an argument against using the GPL for library-style codes.

Your point is an ancillary benefit. Most authors don't publish libraries to encourage the greater FSF-ecosystem or free software agenda -- they publish to make it available to others and see it get put to use. Picking a license that limits prevalence of use is contrary to that objective, plain and simple.

It also does not necessarily follow that proprietary would have been the alternative to free software. Published as ISC/MIT/BSD, lots of additional open source software would have been able to make use of the library, advanced more quickly, more easily permitted additional open source and free software derivatives, etc.

More power to authors that choose to use GPL on a library code, as they are certainly entitled to do so, but it is a substantially limiting factor in the near and long term. We do not have to agree on these points. ;)
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And the first word in the list, hubris, refers a personality trait that the question is likely to reveal. Well played.
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>> In light of that, I'm moving away from thinking that using tools like this as a sort of spray-on tan for cleaning up code is unwise.

Great metaphor, and I agree.
> especially political movements like the rise of Baathism and pan-arabism

Pan-arabism was not such a bad idea. It was somehow similar to the "nation-state" idea prevalent in 19th century Europe, which, while true that generated some ugly side-effects (WW1), in the end was responsible for the creation of most European modern states as we know them today.

The same thing could have happened with pan-arabism, i.e. we could have talked right now about a modern Lybia, a modern Egypt or a modern Syria, but instead the Suez Crisis killed this possibility in its infancy and gave guys like Nasser (or Assad in Syria and Gaddafi in Lybia) reason to take even more power in their hands.
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Confused. Faster CPU means lower latency for all operations. Doesn't have to be maxed-out.
Then, we need a good service to store keys, with a key to get to your key
Do you have any data showing that religious people deviate only slightly from non-religious people?
Tell me again about those "python performance limitations".
Cable TV as you know it is finally coming to the end of its road
Things We Still Don’t Know About Water
The order is randomized, apparently. Hubris was mid-pack for me.
Of course I can think of such scenarios, I can't think of any scenario in which this would be a big problem though.

A lot of people live with flatmates who they didn't really know before living together. It's unusual not to for students. This doesn't always work out perfectly either.

To blow this up into a huge problem, if a refugee is involved, isn't anything but racism.
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Because there is no good reason to use 3.x and 2.x is the natural choice that makes perfect sense?
Info on the Fedex court case is below; note, the IRS can move quicker, and can extract far harsher penalties (as they should).

"FedEx has settled a long-running dispute with FedEx Ground California drivers. The class settlement will create a $228 million fund to resolve claims by over 2,000 FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery pickup and delivery drivers. Some claims date back to 2000 and some extend through 2007. The settlement must still be approved by the Ninth Circuit, but assuming court approval, will end one chapter in a bitter dispute.

The settlement comes in the wake of a 2014 Ninth Circuit ruling that FedEx misclassified drivers as independent contractors. FedEx has long maintained that it didn’t misclassify anyone. Yet independent contractor status was a key component of how FedEx does business. In the case of the 2,300 FedEx Ground drivers, for years, FedEx called them—and paid them—as independent contractors."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/06/16/fedex-sett...
This is really cool. I especially love what it came up with when it combined the M.C. Escher "Hand and Sphere" print with the Golden Gate Bridge.
>decent key management

What about Hashicorp's Vault?
Steve Jobs did it, only with his entire wardrobe.
You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code
> It "amazes" me why these "refugees" flock to Germany or Great Britain and not to their very wealthy brethren in countries such as Kuwaii, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Arab Emirates, etc...

Out of these countries, only Egypt is even a signatory to the Refugee Convention and its Protocol. All of these countries range from "questionable human rights status" to "fascist theocracy".

More importantly, most Syrian refugees are in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq, all of which are already overflowing (Turkey alone has close to two million refugees). They are fleeing to closer countries, but these countries are already operating beyond capacity.

> Same culture, same religion and they are much closer!

Watch this video of Damascus college students before the war: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbM4trP42NY&sns=em

How much do you think they have in common with the culture of Saudi Arabia?

> It also amazes me why the EU leaders insist for other European countries to accept these "refugees" when the majority of EU countries is not responsible for this situation at all.

The underlying reason here is Dublin III. According to the Dublin Regulation, asylum seekers are to be processed in the country where they enter the EU [1]. Right now, this means that Greece, Hungary, Italy, and Spain. You see the problem?

Now, Sweden, Austria, and Germany are helping out despite Dublin.

Finally, it doesn't matter who is responsible. The EU member states are bound by treaty and customary international law to deal with refugees on its territory; the principle of non-refoulement prevents them from sending refugees back into danger.

And yes, it would still be nice if the countries that helped create that mess also helped out with the refugees. As it pertains to Syria and Iraq, that would be in particular the members of the "coalition of the willing"; Daesh arose out of the ashes of Saddam's military [2].

> Luckily there are some leaders out there that are not afraid of this stupid political correctness and they build fences on their borders because they know what this might lead to.

It's pretty hard to build a fence in the middle of the sea.

[1] The Dublin Regulation also is intended to support the countries of entry through various means, but was designed for a much smaller number of asylum seekers.

[2] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/iraq-war-on-terror/r...
This is a very good perspective and something that hits home with me. I'm constantly struggling to do "more" beyond my areas of expertise thinking that it's going to be cheaper/make-more-money, etc.. I feel like the advice you just gave applies to many areas, not specific to the stock market or investments.
I have long understood language from a neuroscience perspective is a means of sharing thoughts. If you see a car there is a cluster of neurons that light up saying 'car'. Apparently the same thing happens if you remember a car. Language taps in to that memory aspect and lights up the same associations.

Thus, the word Happy is the abstract feeling/memory of being happy and can have different but related meanings to everyone. Ditto, stop, gerund, pi etc.

IMO, abstractions past that point have more to do with redundant encoding than anything else.
A 15 minutes drive from my birthplace!
That is a view usually held from people that are separated by geography, class or income from a lot of the humans they feel responsible for.
Barclays started to accept Bitcoins
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