skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assume that average individual represents people who have jobs unrelated to analysing companies/markets and therefore are managing their money in spare time only.

To me stock picking on the basis that you know better than the market is largely hubris. Most of the people I know who do it don't do any meaningful benchmarking so it's impossible to properly assess success. When the market goes up they made money (yaaay - I picked well) but when they lost money it's because the market went down (nothing I can do in the face of that).

There are a decent number of people manually investing their pension and I genuinely think some proper requirements on reporting would be valuable for them.
> but ultimately would you trust your home to something you can throw together in a few weekends?

More than I trust it to something that sends it over the internet to someone else's cloud over insecure channels, yes.

"trust your home" is somewhat misleading. The house won't fall down if the surveillance cameras are off. I've been in that home for years now without surveillance cameras and it's fine; I'd be a bit happier with some video feeds in various places but it will contribute to additional security: It's not all or nothing.

Also, wi-fi isn't the only or necessarily the best option to hook it up. I did mention that storage is harder that image capture now, but I believe that a Synology NAS or similar is the preferred approach. Multi-Terabyte HDs have gotten affordable.
Let's Encrypt is awesome but you still need to have root access to the machine. I host my stuff on a shared 1&1 node and I can't seem to find any way to add SSL to my websites without having to pay them.

(Yes I should move to another host but that is too much hassle for me right now.)
Interesting. Markets are totally broken but I hadn't seen any legitimate players acknowledge that yet, good find. While the main argument in favor of HFT is providing liquidity, there really isn't a situation where a 'real' investor needs liquidity at the microsecond level.

Solid private companies refuse to go public not on boarding the typical mix of innovators/new companies on an exchange.

Companies have much shorter lifespans.

and a massive amount of other factors, I can't do justice to on a 48hr sleep deficit. My personal thesis, we are in a huge bubble. Tech, while certainly overvalued, is possibly the least out of whack with a true underlying value (to the degree that even exists).

Signs of this are everywhere. It isn't a terrible thing I don't think, but an average investor might not make much money in the market if they started putting money in now.
U.S. has the 10th biggest GDP per capita in the world. People express their opinion and don't get shot, stabbed, or poisoned for it. There is no war. Your politicians may be corrupt, but not to the point where they shit in gold plated toilets[1] or have their own palaces[2].

Your main problems are income and social inequality. And your tax code.

There are people literally risking their lives so that their children could have a life comparable to yours.

Oh boohoo. Get your shit together.

___

[1] - http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/world/europe/dazed-ukraini...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Palace
Interesting, the American usage seems to be quite different from usage in Germany. There is no such thing as a "food calorie" here, they're labelled as "kcal" (kilocalories). From the German Wikipedia article on "Kalorie":

> Umgangssprachlich werden oft Nährwertangaben in Kilokalorien fälschlich
> als „Kalorien“ bezeichnet. In den USA ist bei Nährwertangaben
> die Bezeichnung calorie für Kilokalorien auch offiziell zulässig.

In English: Informally, kilocalories in food are often referred to simply as "calories". In the USA, using "calories" instead of "kilocalories" in nutritional information is officially allowed.

Here it's not allowed to label them as calories, they have to be labelled as kilocalories. They're still called "calories" informally though.
Matt Levine's take on Bill Ackman vs index funds: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-01-27/bill-ackman...
Mathematically, it might be close to average but I don't think that's a great way of putting it either. If you click through to the study, it was actually only men that died earlier. The lifespan of women was unchanged.
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John Wyndham's SF novel 'Web' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_(novel)) was an interesting exploration of spider cooperation - uncannily close to the observations detailed in this article, but written in the 1960s!
Growth Hackers, Put Your Site on HTTPS – Google's Scarlet Letter
Benchmarking Remote Procedure Call Protocols
Griffiths is not great but for someone completely unfamiliar with the subject it will hold your hand quite nicely and is not pretentious at all.

For someone a little more knowledgeable it might get a bit boring...
Ccleaner with Winapp2 does the job here.
That is interesting. The Ads team is the same group that recommended turning off Transport Security in iOS 9 so you can run your Google's unencrypted Ads stack[1]. I'm sure there are two different departments that are fighting two totally separate wars. I've definitely seen this pattern in huge companies where one team is trying to push an agenda that forces another team to reshuffle their priorities.

[1] - http://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2015/08/handling-app-...
Thanks to hga [1], here is Marvin Minsky's Universal Turing Machine emulator written in Teco.

MSG: APL 1
DISTRIB: *BBOARD
EXPIRES: 03/17/81 23:08:54
MINSKY@MIT-MC 03/11/81 23:08:54 Re: too-short programs
APL is compact, I suppose. So is TECO. When I wrote the following
Universal Turing Machine, which works, I actually understood it.

i1Aul qq+^^0:iqm^[29iiq\356y0L1 00L1 11L2 A1L1
y0L1 0yR2 1AR2 AyR6 yyL3 00L0 1AL3 A1L4 yyL4 0yR5 11L7 A1L4
yyR5 0yL3 1AR5 A1R5 yyR6 0AL3 1AR6 A1R6 y0R7 0yR6 11R7 A0R2
^[j<sR^[;-d-2ciql-^^^[ci"ed^^^[cii^[ciuq'^[>
j<sL^[;-d-2ciql-^^^[ci"ed^^^[cii-2c^[ciuq'^[>jxblx1lx2lx3lx4lx5lx6lx7hk
iyyAyyAyy^[32<i0^[>ji110101110000010011011^[ 1uq<htmbqq=>

I do not advise attempting to understand this code, which is
almost as bad as that for the Universal Turing machine.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10161002
Nokia was never that big. We're talking hundreds of billions money reserves big and tens of billions orders to suppliers big.
> enable vibrant mutually beneficial partnerships

> take full advantage of internal and external synergies

Sounds like marketing speak. What would the product actually do?

Also, based on what I've witnessed in meetings recently, the current norm seems to be to exchange traditional cards, then add each other on LinkedIn, either immediately or later that day. Some people have started to skip the traditional cards step. I think your product would need to offer a clear benefit that LinkedIn does not have.
The End of App Stores as We Know Them
Free Trade with China Wasn't Such a Great Idea for the U.S
i've fainted before. you're right, the time just 'blinks' out of existence. it's different than sleep.

i'm not quite so sure 'dead' isn't a good way to describe it, because that's probably what it feels like to be dead, and what it felt like before you were born.
The paper:

http://www.ddorn.net/papers/Autor-Dorn-Hanson-ChinaShock.pdf
Fixed immovable continents is a theory that has reasonable prediction power: if you assume that, you can do lots of things without having results that are too inaccurate to be worth calculating. That is not true of the kinds of highly-specific theories that people seem to be more prone to come up with in some fields. The kinds of things that even fairly recent "science" in fields such as psychology and (sadly, all too often) medicine reads more like "the world is balanced on the back of a tortoise" or "there is an evil genie that makes things fall to the ground; his name is Fred and he wears a black cape" than "continents are fixed" or "physics is deterministic, particulate, and local".
>It certainly does sound like this is personal for Cheng //

I don't think I'd conclude that: effectively if someone is claiming a section of the "public domain" as private IP then they're infringing on all of our rights (why don't the public prosecute such cases?). It impacts Cheng's company more, ergo they are suing - but it's responsive rather than some sort of vendetta. It's the opposite of personal if it doesn't matter who took the action they would still sue.

An analogy in real property: Minero has taken a public park and put gates up and a notice saying it's theirs. Cheng just happens to be the first to roll up wanting access to the park but it's an affront to all those who might wish to use it.
And what if you suffer from all three of those 'types' ?
You should never model your life based on others' expectations.

You should certainly model it based on your own wants and preferences, but after giving it some thought first because what you think you want and why isn't necessarily what you really want and why.

For example, what does wealth mean? For someone, it can be that you can buy a BMW. However, if you want to buy a BMW you're never just buying a BMW: you're buying something else that actually satisfies you. The BMW is just a symbolic token for what you really want. If you know what that is then you also know whether buying that BMW is the right choice. It might be the perfect symbol for freedom or whatever in your life. Then go buy it. But you might be longing for something else and buying the car wouldn't eventually make you happier. Then you would be looking for something else again but as long as you don't know what you really want, you'll be shooting in the dark.

For me, wealth is independence. The more independent I am the wealthier I am. In corollary, people with FU money are the richest people on the Earth on that scale. Myself, I'd happily live cheaply if that meant I could basically choose what to do instead of having to work to keep up with my spending. Once in a while I count how much would I need to own to produce capital income that would give me a basic standard of living and the money for some hobbies I'm interested in without constantly having to think much about money.

Maybe status is worth something for someone. Maybe if you show status (buy that BMW) and hang around with people wealthier than you, some of it actually sticks and you gain even higher income and status because of your connections, eventually. Or maybe, by looking for other people's acceptance by the token of status, you're just trying to find a way to convince yourself that you're perfectly okay yourself and accepted just as you are. Then it might be less painful to deal with that first instead of hunting status for half of your life.
> PS: it's pretty bad form to down-vote because you don't agree with opinion.

Ignore single downvotes; they're often mistakes and usually corrected.

Also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683

> IIRC we first had this conversation about a month after launch. Downvotes have always been used to express disagreement. Or more precisely, a negative score has: users seem not to downvote something they disagree with if it already has a sufficiently negative score.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

> I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness.

> It only becomes abuse when people resort to karma bombing: downvoting a lot of comments by one user without reading them in order to subtract maximum karma. Fortunately we now have several levels of software to protect against that.

There's another one from pg saying the same, but I can't find it at the moment.

But he did also say this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057347

> My plan for dealing with downvoting is just not to display points on comments any more. The hard part is that to make that work, I also have to come up with alternative ways for people to find the comments they're most interested in on big threads.

I agree that people should avoid downvoting for disagreement, but it's probably more important to avoid accusing someone else of downvoting you for disagreement.
Being socially-impaired developer is so 90s
It did nothing for me - no noticable effect.
It's not only quotation websites.
In Germany "If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter" is a well-known quote from Goethe - except that it isn't from Goethe.
To the best of my knowledge it is from Blaise Pascal and it took me about an hour of research to be confident enough use the quote with this attribution.

This was way too much time spent for a simple quotation, so my question is: Is there a reliable canonical source for quotations? Maybe something good journalists use?

I know there are several quotation dictionaries but are they any good?
The rise of indexing parallels the cutthroat, winner-take -all nature of the post-2008 stock market and economy where winners like Google, Amazon, Visa, and Facebook, for example, are bid higher and higher to no end and companies that show slightest weakness are culled quickly. Even blue chips are not immune to this. Walmart stock crashed 30% in 2015 in an otherwise flat market due to some minor weakness in store sales. In the 80's and the 90's, large funds were more willing to put money in sub-par stocks & sectors, investing indiscriminately, but post-2008 capitalism has gotten much smarter and discriminating. That means lots of losing stocks and few winners, leaving investors with one of three choices: be lucky or skilled enough choose the handful of winning stocks, choose index funds, or choose active management, the latter which tries to beat the first two but almost always fails and has really high fees. The second choice is the most viable.
Many of these questions have been explored in AI fiction for many decades. Even right down to the titles, like the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" which became "Blade Runner" for the movie version. Or "I, Robot" by Isacc Asimov.
Torrent to IDM
It is really hard for DFP to not allow non-secure creatives as long as you can create 3rd-party creatives. They do try to detect non-secure assets though, so they won't run on secure pages. See: https://support.google.com/dfp_premium/answer/4515432?hl=en
Chinese businessman gets deal in seed theft case
Dan McKinley: Do You Work at Amazon?
I'll bite, why do we need to know Apple's trade secrets when we can arrive at grandparent's conclusion by glancing at GPU benchmarks?

http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph9820/79253.png

http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph9878/78726.png
Similarly armchair: An alternative to reducing the bridge might be trying to actively increase it - the brain reconfigures (right?) so perhaps we can with careful drug use open up the dark area and allow the regular brain to use that sector again. The difference between cleaning a room in your house and nailing the door shut.

Maybe that is in part what is happening anyway? Or is there evidence to show that the section of the brain becomes under-utilised. (no I didn't RTFA; will get right on it!)
I am really interested to know if this allele (C4A) has been under selection or not. The fact that it is in the middle of locus of immunological genes could mean it has just been carried along with the actual selection being for immune function against infectious disease.
Here is some critical comments about the universal nature of power laws in science (in Science): http://science.sciencemag.org/content/335/6069/665.full
Someone else linked the paper directly: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-data/assets/papers/d...
>I bought a Macbook Pro and it was horrible. I got the old Macbook back and the Pro which should be faster was slower. Brought both to Apple (in Amsterdam) and they said it had something to do with my software. Yeah. VIM. It's super heavy. Very nasty experience. Battery life on the Pro was not there either but they couldn't find anything so I had to suck it up.

Are you implying there was some hardware reason your Macbook Pro was slower than an older Macbook?

And contrary to all CPU/HD/Memory specs and benchmarks and reviews for the respective models?

I'd be surprise if it was not software related.

And while you might "only" use Vim, that doesn't mean much. I'm pretty sure you also browse, check email and do other things, so you do use many apps, Vim is just what you use most frequently.

In any case, all it takes is a single rogue app to make a machine crawl -- some haxie you installed that provides some third party functionality but don't consider an app you use because you don't interact with it, or even Spotlight with a corrupted index.

>A friend told me the Macbook pro is excellent. So I gave the Air away to a friend and bought a kitted out Pro. The misery. No battery life and it was slow with max mem and cpu. Slower than the Air on everything. Again; Apple says it isn't. I won't mention Vim again.

It's not just Apple saying those machines are faster.

I can't understand how a developer (since you use Vim) can make such statements. It's not very difficult to compare the specs of the baseline configurations of the two models.

I've done heavy graphics, 3D, 4K video editing and DAW work on Macbook Pros and Airs -- while recent Airs are decent, there's simply no comparison. And it's trivial to show it in all kinds of benchmarks and tests.
The wealthy don't hoarde money if they can find someting better to do with it.

There's research suggesting a long-term secular decline in returns to business investment starting as early as the mid-1960s. I'd turned up research from the oxymoronically named Deloitte Center for the Edge a couple of years ago, something called the Shift Index.

That, shifts in tax code, generally declining labour power (weaker unions), political shifts, particularly in the US, and oil/energy price hikes and instability, as well as globalisation, all seem to have contributed.
People have been building software products to try and replace the business card for close to twenty years. I don't wish to discourage you but spend some time researching the companies that tried first.

If you can offer something truly novel or can articulate how a certain idea didn't work before but would work now you may see success.
I suspect there’s a marketing self-help book somewhere which recommends adding bold text a few times per paragraph to keep readers with short attention spans engaged.
Actually I can't think of many cases where German would use pronouns with countries. The reason these are masculine is because they are typically referred to using a definitive pronoun (literally "the Iraq", "the Iran", etc). It's more common with names of regions -- which may indicate that these countries used to be mere geographical regions (rather than sovereign nations) when the names entered the German language.

It also happens with countries like the UK, the US, the Czech Republic and so on, but obviously for the same reasons as in English.

I can't actually think of a country that's feminine in German. The "die" you often see is actually indicating plural (e.g. "die vereinigten Staaten", the United States; or "die Niederlande", "the Netherlands").
I don't think performance concerns really got people to avoid DOM manipulation in practice, but it did mean that more thoughtful developers had to jump through a large number of hoops to make things perform well.
Death by a Thousand Support Tickets
OP here. Thanks jerf. I wish we had tools for sharing visualizations from our heads as easy as posting to facebook. :)
A friend of mine curated a couple hundred pages worth of quotations with citations to original works into a book called Quotes of Note: Brilliant Thoughts Arranged by Subject (there's another Quotes of Note that came later and is probably a TM violation). It's on Amazon.
How the cloud can be part of your unified business strategy?
Why is this necessary? Google already disabled third party extensions.
Gender gap: only 3% of founders are women in BCN startups
Sure, but what about ships? If you've read any sci-fi, the term "mothership" should spring to your mind. Or "motherboard" in hardware.

The concept of "some larger entity that spawns smaller entities" seems to generally lend itself to the mother/daughter terminology if you want to be poetic about it.

That said, whatever happened to artistic liberties?
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If you try to dictate how language must be used you're just being ignorant of how she constantly evolves through her use by different speakers.

So, there.
Politics. There are obvious strategies (bomb everything, if war still not over, build bigger bombs and GOTO 10), but that sort of demotivates humans and they stop the war.

It'll be interesting (as in the old fake Chinese curse interesting) to know what happens when less democratic power structures wage war. They are still constrained by economics (trade creates value, if they bomb the shit out of someone they might find themselves cut off from trade, see embargoes and sanctions on Russia) and the possibility of an internal struggle (civil war) is always there.
GitHub falls offline, devs worldwide declare today a snow day
Unfortunate name. SSO is already an established term for "single sign on" used in Login federation everywhere.
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Totally agree. Look how quickly people switch to whiteboard when failed to explain some software design linguistically. We lack an easy tool for sharing our internal spatial representations with other people, and there is a lot of space to improve.
Well, at least for several threat models, "your site to CF" is at least slightly better than "CF to clients". It's not vulnerable to things like unsecured wi-fi sniffing. Then again, neither are self-signed certs and for some reason all browsers consider them even worse than no cert.

On the other hand, it doesn't protect against government spying, but then again, I think some governments straight-up MitM HTTPS traffic anyway. For instance:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10663843
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