skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mathematically speaking though, Michael Berry's success may have been more to do with luck than skill:

1. Nowadays, options are priced in such a manner that the expected value of buying OTM hedges is almost always negative. This is due to the inflated volatility for out-of-money put options and other factors.

2. It just so happened that the subprime mortgage meltdown coincided with his career; for the period between 1935-2007, his strategy would not have worked. It also would not have worked between 2008-present. (maybe it worked have worked in 1987, so we're talking three instances out of a century). Right now, the evidence suggests bank have reformed their lending practices, with higher credit scores for new homeowners, so the odds of another financial meltdown are slim.

3. The fed balance sheet is big, but interest rates are very low.

The fed has posted a large profit , a 30% gain in 2015 for a profit over over $100 billion, which is sent back to the treasury

http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/20/investing/fed-profit-balance...

And the evidence due to the mathematics of the yield curve and the composition of the fed's holdings suggests the the odds of the fed losing money on it holdings is very low:

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/04/11/odds-of-fed-losing...

“Short-term interest rates would have to rise rapidly to quite high levels — in the neighborhood of 7% — for the Fed’s interest expenses to surpass its interest income. Such an outcome appears very unlikely,” the paper said. In the event that the Fed did face a loss, it could simply hand no money back to the Treasury and, “in the most extreme case, future remittances would also be reduced (and recorded as a change in deferred credit), but the Fed’s capital base and financial position still would remain completely secure.”

Japan has a much bigger debt, they seem to be doing fine. Low interest and srong dollar is due to reserve currency status, flight to safety, emerging market weakness, commodity weakness, petro dollar, the large size of the US economy, and other factors.
Microsoft WinWord is basically feature complete since 1989/90. And it wasn't an original design at all. Xerox and various other companies had word processors several years before Microsoft. Microsoft managed to have an competitive advantage by owning the Windows 3 and DOS platforms - changing platform APIs to make competing word processors and spreadsheet programs incompatible wasn't a fine thing. Microsoft has certainly a bad track record how they act with competitors. Is this the "new Microsoft" everyone tries to tell me they see in their new CEO? It seems it's the same old company with the same old well known tactics.
The author admits that "logical punctuation" is an equally valid form, and can even point to publications for which it is the house style. So why is he taking points away from his students when they use it? It strikes me as a rather petty way of enforcing a particular stylistic choice where it doesn't really matter.
You might as well say the same thing with physical cash. What makes the loan possible are the contract and the set of laws surrounding that contract. I don't see how bitcoin changes that part.
Not for instance ids, bucket names, and the like.
I recommend Greg Egan's Orthogonal trilogy: The Clockwork Rocket, The Eternal Flame and The Arrows of Time. It features a finite four-dimensional universe with no time-like dimension.
Change dependency from libart -> libopenjdkjvm.

Does this mean they're discarding ART for OpenJDK's VM?
Sure we will try out.
If you get time check out Oizom app and suggest us can we get any benefit if use your kadira tool?

P.S I am still confused what exactly kadira does.
Costs of Renting Are Going Up
I'm not mixing up my countries, passage was granted b/c no one was concerned that they would stay in Croatia and they were just dumping the problem on to the next neighboring country. Everyone knows they're trying to go to Germany and the Nordic countries. The countries that border Austria/Germany obvious were a bit more concerned that they refugees wouldn't be let in and so they'd end up with all these people on their border.

When the gov't agreed to accept several thousand refugees several people told me they thought it was a horrible idea and that they don't need these communities in Croatia.
Trendiness, Hotness, etc.

It'll all come crashing down once the economy busts.
> Look for industries where the current market has not kept up with advances in technology due to the business structures of the incumbents.

TI graphing calculators for high school students?
I can't speak for the poster, but I use vim quickfix, often populated from the shell. alias cbuf='vim - -c "cbuf!"' allows for things like `git grep -n frobnitz | cbuf`.
Its exciting to see all the goodies from java sound finally coming in. I could care less about cobra though Im just glad we get better support for audio coding from java without having to resort to jni and the native layer in c/c++.
Replying to x0x0:

Wait a minute, I re-read my initial statement, this is what I said:

> "I am replying to those who make claims that H1B workers are being paid below market rate, hence driving down salaries."

I mention specifically about H1B workers are not being paid below market rate. So the salaries of H1B workers is not the cause of the driving down the wages.

To your argument, will an abundant supply of labor cause the salaries to go down or stagnate? Yes.
And the lawsuit is all about copying the aesthetics, not the functional aspects. In UIs, usability is more about the aesthetics, since it is all about the best way of presenting the underlying functionality, not the functionality itself. I cannot think of a valid reason why a product should be able to free-ride on the popularity of its competitor. Just because a "market is lopsided" does not seem like it.
From the article, 'The last line of the movie, printed on a placard, is “Michael Burry is focusing all of his trading on one commodity: Water.”'
Yes, improving my household management software and toying with building a shell.
dang, want to change the headline from "mysterious commit" to "Google switches Android to OpenJDK"?
Because the EFF's 'stupid patent of the month' section was started pretty much in direct response to Apple using it's rounded-corner patent in its litigation with Samsung.
I agree, and I wish more JS projects in general would embrace SQL.

I think part of the problem is the Meteor team's reluctance to have Meteor thought of or even used as a traditional web framework.

Their vision is a framework for real-time applications that allows you to develop for web and mobile in parallel, but that puts them in a category where their intended use case is invariably losing to native every time. I think there are a lot of people who would love to use Meteor for RESTful mobile-first web application development, but are a little disappointed when they find Meteor is MongoDB-first and doesn't even have native support for routing.

For me, Meteor currently occupies a strange space where it's the web framework I'm the most excited about, yet it's the wrong tool for every project idea I have.
by itself, yes this is a stupid patent.

however this is not a stupid lawsuit by MS.

this article sucks to highlight the lawsuit. most people are not reading past this is a stupid patent and they are suing corel for such a petty reason.

from the actual complaint, microsoft patented the office 2007 UI and specific workflows over multiple patents including this simple stupid one. the others are fairly specific

"Microsoft brings this action to protect its rights and investment in its innovations
embodied in utility U.S. Patent Nos. 8,255,828 (“the ’828 patent”), 7,703,036 (“the ’036 patent”),
7,047,501 (“the ’501 patent”), 5,715,415 (“the ’415 patent”), 5,510,980 (“the ’980 patent”) and
design U.S. Patent Nos. D550,237 (“the D’237 patent”), D554,140 (“the D’140 patent”),
D564,532 (“the D’532 patent”), and D570,865 (“the D’865 patent,” collectively “the Microsoft
Asserted Patents”), copied by Corel into its infringing products."

"Corel has copied the look and feel of the Microsoft interfaces in its accused
products. Among many examples, Help for WordPerfect X7 suggests that the user “simulate the
Microsoft Word workspace until you are accustomed to work in WordPerfect”: "

that is just the opener in the complaint,
corel is using these same UIs in a "word mode" essentially cloning the patented "look and feel", which is against micrososft's licensing and use of these elements.

https://www.eff.org/files/2015/12/28/microsoft_v_corel_-_com...

the patent doesnt seem so stupid when you put it all together with the other patents and can see what Microsoft was trying to protect overall.
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> there's no money in a cure

I hope no one actually believes that, because it's really quite a stupid thing to say.

There are TONS of industries that rely on selling things just once to consumers, and yet they have a huge market. How often do you buy a new toilet for example? Yet there are tons of models with lots of competition.

There's plenty of money in a cure.
Broken clock right twice a day.

A classic case of a "short/crash/doomsday personality" hitting his perfect moment.

Kudos to him, but I'll look elsewhere for insight on the next cricis/opportunity.
I guess I never found manual dependency resolution to be that big of a problem.
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How does the Voting Rights Act work to weaken the process of voting?
China has it's own definition of terrorism.
https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Garbage_Collection_Overview

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games

TSubobjectPtr are smart pointers, but regular pointers will still be garbage collected if they are UPROPERTY() and in a class derived from UObject

Tim Sweeny talks about GC a bit in https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced...

The presentation is a little dated, but they're still using GC, so...
Okay. Kadira is a performance monitoring server for Meteor. With that, you can detect slowest parts in your app and place where it's uses a lot of server resources.

Then you can optimize accordingly. We've some guides. Start here: https://bulletproofmeteor.com/basics/what-is-performance
Why doesn't the article mention Southwest Airlines??
Nonsense there are multiple types of vaccines toxiod vaccines for example vaccinate you against toxic compounds such as snake bites.
There is quite a bit of research into regressive therapeutic and preventative vaccines against cancer currently.
A vaccine is a process which teaches your immune system to combat a certain condition whether it's caused by a bacteria, parasite, a virus or a toxin it doesn't matter.
If you can teach your own immune system to combat cancer by either teaching it to attack certain markers, or by disabling the "stealth" mechanisms which many types of cancer use to fly under it's radar you've effectively created a vaccine.

Also vaccination is one of the most logistically complicated processes in medicine they are extremely short lived require very precise refrigeration and proper administration is considerably more critical than most cancer treatments, 80-90% of the cost of vaccination programs in developed and developing countries alike go into logistics.
For cancer treatments even the experimental highly specialized ones it's completely the opposite, and run of the mill treatments like chemotherapy are easily administered by medical technicians under almost any circumstances.
Ask HN: Would you use a free distributed computing SaaS?
Hi HN, I'm currently building a "little" distributed computing system, it's a little different from the norm. It runs off javascript, so any jobs would have to be submitted in JS. I'm looking to do heavy load testing, so it would be completely free.
Is there a use case for this system/would you use it?
"Various strains of HPV, which spread through sexual contact, cause most cases of cervical cancer. Two cervical cancer vaccines have Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in the U.S. — Gardasil, for girls and boys, and Cervarix, for girls only."

http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/sexual-health/in-depth/cervical-cancer-vaccine/art-20047292
Did he finally become a doctor?
This is not reflective of the truth. Having been added as a co-founder of Code4Startup for months, I incorporated the company, raised funds from 500, rebranded and redesigned the site, elicited project creators, helped turn on a subscription service for the company and the list goes on. I don't like to speak negatively about any one so I will leave it as ultimately because there was a breach of trust, the partnership ended.

I carried over only my work and what I was entitled to as a legal co-owner of the company, including my design work, only projects that Brandon (my first hire at my previous startup Rocketrip YCW14) and I worked on over to my new company that remain backed by 500 Startups because of the trust they placed in me.

Believe it or not, Brandon and I are in this for the mission to contribute to practical project-based learning for anyone to create real products and learn how to code, and from that perspective, your comments are hurtful. We hope our projects can benefit more people out there and it is our belief that more online schools that focus on creating real products like Udacity, Thinkster, Udemy, Watchandcode and so on should exist.
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I think "heavily affected" is a matter of opinion. It's been mostly some rather unorganized and heavily suppressed unrest in Xinjiang...

As far as we know the country isn't infiltrated by Al Qaeda or the IS (like Europe and maybe the US)

As for your second point, sure - a perfect climate to clamp down on the internet some more without upsetting anyone.
CouchDB uses B-trees in an interesting append-only fashion:

http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/btree.html

That makes it work well for reliability and data durability. I have never had it corrupt data over the years. Can always pull the plug on the server (or kill -9 the process) knowing it will recover to a consistent state, or you can also take filesystem snapshot at any time and get a constent database image (I've used that for backups).
Yep, at least since Photoshop 3 (which runs just fine on Win7 btw). Macromedia Dreamweaver (now Adobe) had a Ribbon (toolbar with tabs) many years before Microsoft Office 2007 too, nevertheless Microsoft filed patents for it.
Dang, I apologize for making a personal attack. I was responding to personal attacks made by stefantalpalaru.

Two comments made by him I found insulting and provoking:

>You must be new to the internet.

and

>I think I found your problem: you're not familiar enough with the English language.

Although these personal attacks on me are no excuse for me to return these personal attacks, I feel that stefantalpalaru needs to be warned against such negative comments as well. Just warning me feels unfair and unjust and I would appreciate it if you reprimanded or warned people in a way that would make the situation fair and just. It doesn't feel good at all when the provocateur didn't even get a warning.
Those aren't vaccines against cancer, those are vaccines against the papilloma virus.
Vaccines against HPV are quite commonly administered in Europe, Asia and many middle eastern countries but it's not a wide anti cancer vaccine.

And if it was you do realize that you are only proving my point right?
" The zero interest-rate policy broke the social
contract for generations of hardworking Americans
who saved for retirement, only to find their
savings are not nearly enough."

But the evidence actually shows that a better returns can be had with stocks than cash (bills). Even with rates at 4%, stocks way outperform cash:

http://www.skepticmoney.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/1802-...

Putting cash into a bank is a poor way to save for retirement, if past performance is any clue.

The 'hardworking person' saving for retirement by stashing all his money in the bank may more myth than reality.

The majority of Americans have little savings, so the difference between 0% rates and 4% is immaterial if your expenses exceed your income.

http://www.gobankingrates.com/savings-account/62-percent-ame...

The problem is not that interest rates are too low, but rather people suck at personal fiance. But on the other had, the Paradox Of Thrift suggests that it's 'good' for the economy that too people don't save too much.

Those who have more wealth put it in stocks, bonds, or index funds. They seldom keep it in cash.
It just doesn't seem fair that you should be able to patent things based on how they 'feel' - The mood of something is highly subjective and usually has cultural roots (and culture is in public domain).
They would just seize them at the border. This is basically the same as international pharmacies selling pharmaceuticals.

You would also want to never plan to travel to the USA ever again - the penalties for ignoring the FDA are not minor.
cooperate profits are at record highs. A bond crisis would require either a crash in profits or a spike in rates, neither which show any signs of occurring.
I'm curious about big commits like this one:

In the context of the recent juniper attack where some unauthorized code was committed without anybody noticing for years, it seems like it would be easy to hide a backdoor in such a big commit.

How do you go about checking the integrity of the code when you have so many files?

8902 files were changed, most added, and the commit says it's just importing openJDK files. Is there anybody checking that the source file imported haven't been modified to include some kind of backdoor?

edit: replaced "cisco" with "juniper"
Mark may think that he is doing right, but in reality, he is not. Even now FB is running an Ad campaign on TV channels in which Mark is addressing gathering at Town Hall of IIT-D and professing free basic internet. Though how hard he argues, it is against net neutrality and yes they websites that are going to be there under free basics, are going to become way more popular than the other. So one way or another, this isn't a charity as Mark is pinpointing, it is money making under the covers.
No. Variety breeds better products and WebAssembly is a pretty different thing from the JDK. You might as well say that web assembly competes with LLVM.

I don't see anyone adding Java back into the browsers, that ship probably sailed.

I also have a huge problem with the litigious nature of Oracle... However, this would mean that something was settled and might reduce the likelyhood of future lawsuits especially in regards to patents or copyright. WebAssembly didn't go thru that process which might mean that if it picks up some anonymous patent holder might start attacking it. It is vendor neutral though, which is both a plus and a legal liability as there is no single "responsible" entity.
Option two wasn't even worth mentioning. There is absolutely no way Google is going to abandon ART and switch to a significantly less performant VM. AOT is here to stay.
> "It comments like these that make me believe you like to stereotype people."

And you don't? If you were in a dark alley and saw a guy in a hoodie what would you think? Exactly, it's called stereotyping :)

You can twist the meaning and nitpick my comment all you want. Of course I don't mean all people, does everything need to be spelled out explicitly?
with Windows 10, the OS itself is spyware
> AOT is here to stay.

No it isn't. Read the source. ART has a JIT now.
No. The stock market represents equity, i.e. ownership, in corporations.
>I think I found your problem: you're not familiar enough with the English language.

That's a highly offensive insult. But I'll take your bait.

Lets talk about the english language and how it's used in conjunction with the word value when discussing certain topics. When we talk about marketing we use the MARKETING DEFINITION of value. When we talk about economics we use the ECONOMIC DEFINITION of value. The definition of a word changes depending on the context. These are typical language concepts that exist both in the English language and other languages as well.

Since we are talking about the law of supply and demand I would venture a guess that we're talking about economics rather than marketing. Thus by context and by common sense we are using the ECONOMIC DEFINITION of value. See the ECONOMIC DEFINITION of value below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_(economics)

The quote below on "what is the definition of value?" is taken directly from the wikipedia link above and is located in the first paragraph:

"the maximum amount of money a specific actor is willing and able to pay for the good or service"

Try going through that sentence with a dictionary at hand.
How can you protect an UI, that was heavily inspired by A) Xerox Star B) Apple Lisa C) beside other lesser known third parties and is very common for 30+ years. Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia/Adobe Dreamweaver, KDE shell, Gnome Shell, Wine, Apple MacOS/OSX, BeOS, etc. Many products from other companies had very similar UI designs years earlier than Microsoft or come up at the same time. There was a famous dispute between Apple and Microsoft about the Windows UI that has been settled outside of the court (and the second case was interesting too):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Micros....
> ...recent cisco...

you mean juniper perhaps?
Contrary to popular belief, a lot of pundits were actually bearish on housing in 2005-2007. Given the enormity of the crash, it makes these predictions seem more prescient than they really were, but such predictions were hardly unique. A Google headline search from 2004-2007 shows many calls for a bubble or crash in housing. Also, the vast majority of pundit predictions are wrong (like all those predictions between 2009-present for the stock market to crash and or for a double dip recession). Being right once is hardly a reprieve.
Woops... it's fixed!
I actually wish the FDA was far less strict. One of the reasons we have so many ineffective drugs is that the FDA values safety over everything else. The ideal drug to get licensed is a sugar pill that due to statical chance (or fraud) shows a slight effect. No side effects and you can sell it to everyone. Of course it wouldn’t do anything, but it would make you a lot of money.

If the FDA was less strict then drug companies would develop drugs that actually worked, but also had side effects (basically we would tip the balance back in favor of effectiveness over safety). While it would always be ideal to have a drug that worked perfectly without side effects, it is always better to have a drug that works than one that doesn’t. You can always choose to not take a drug because of the side effects, but if the drug is not sold then you don’t have a choice.
No offense, but it sounds like she's trying to justify authoritarianism by shifting the blame to its victims for not "getting out".
Ehm... this design resembles the design of rheostat slider like that http://olx.ua/i2/obyavlenie/reostat-provolochnyy-maksimalnoe... and is not original.