skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting. Both the Premier and President (when he was Vice-President) have visited Shannon in recent years. It barely makes the news relative to when the US President visits.

I believe they are also very interested in the agri-food industry in Ireland (Ireland is the second largest exported of baby formula to China).

"Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrives in Shannon for two day visit to the West of Ireland"
http://www.shannonairport.ie/gns/about-us/latest-news/latest...

"Visit of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping to Shannon"
http://www.irishexporters.ie/visit-of-chinese-vice-president...

"Ireland second largest exporter of infant formula to China"
http://www.farmersjournal.ie/ireland-second-largest-exporter...
Most of that state only has to exist on the server, which in turn doesn't really have to figure out visibility and doesn't necessarily even need textures.

The world pieces are a very specific set of permutations, which could easily be loaded in to a graphics card's memory at the start of the game. All you are really tracking are which pieces are where, and by the game's nature, there aren't that many pieces or positions they can be in...
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A related potential signal in the other direction: Draper made it surprisingly clear that they only provided seed money and no further investment. I believe the Theranos founder was friends with Draper's daughter and that makes it an even stronger signal imo (as you usually tend to stick up more for people you're friends with).
I'm using JSON for my new socketIO server. You can put anything on the wire with socketIO, so messages are small and simple. Plus the clients seem really good too. They'll auto reconnect, etc. if the server goes away. I haven't tested whether they'll queue messages while offline yet... guess I should.

I'd definitely recommend it. This is a problem I've had multiple stabs at, but I finally feel like I've got a long-term solution now. But yeah, no federation, etc. My need is single-site realtime chat.
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...and the Russians will develop electronic warfare that will make all of those advanced systems useless.
More optimistically, psychologists might hope that genetically-based sub-grouping of patient cohorts might help to determine those who best respond to the various types of psychological interventions.

Of course, genetic testing and gene therapy may obviate the need for psychotherapy in some circumstances, but that's many years away.
this is a somewhat obvious comment, but the notion of "an average individual" and "everyone" is very different.

some people can specialise in price discovery as their occupation, and some people can specialise in growing sweet potato, or teaching kids, or nursing, or what have you. the former person can spend their time and energy learning how to pick stocks by hand, and influence the market, and the latter people can spend their time and energy learning and doing other useful things, and they can invest in index funds.

Here's a completely different angle of attack:

suppose I believe that the market doesn't price things correctly, and that some countries/sectors/companies are over valued, and some are under valued. in general, for some arbitrary set of of unpopular beliefs, there isn't an index fund I can buy into that is a good approximation of my beliefs. Even worse, it probably isn't possible for me to build a portfolio by linearly combining different index funds to approximate my desired portfolio allocation.

For example, suppose I want to invest in countries A,B,C,D,E and sectors U,V,W,X,Y,Z subject to ethical constraints K and L.

It may be the case that for each of the countries I can buy an A-country-ETF, and a B-country-ETF, and a global-sector-U-ETF, and a global-ethical-K-ETF, and for large countries I may even be able to buy a country-C-sector-X-ETF, but I can't make a good approximation of my desired portfolio by adding linear combinations of these things together.

I don't really want to buy an canned portfolio in the form of an ETF, I want to buy a custom portfolio, or a custom portfolio factory, say.

But perhaps part of the success of ETFs for non-expert folk like me is that they'd prevent me from expressing my strange individual beliefs about the market (which will probably result in worse investment outcomes for me than if I just did something mainstream).
The second largest European IT-related conference is FOSDEM (5000 participants); of course it has a different focus. But it's more productivity, less party.

Then there are conferences like HITB Sec Conf that are much smaller, but focus exclusively on security - many (probably most) Congress attendees don't really have a security/hacking background, so I'm not sure the total number of attendees is a good metric for "is it a good security conference?".

Though Congress does get all the high-profile talks. And there is no European hacker conference with nearly as much visibility as C3.
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It's great that the author decided to do this work.
TL;DR: The Dunbar numbers are significant for online social networks too.

People working in TCS on "social networks" often work with TCS tools, which are inherently asymptotic.
Thus they conclude some stuff on social networks, while assuming that the number of "friends" per person tends to infinity, without seeing much of a problem concluding that it's what happens in "the real world".
To be fair, one excuse is that more realistic models are often not mathematically tractable (yet), but it doesn't excuse making wild conclusions.
reading the topic and not the article, my gut feeling is high quality products, whether it be phones or laptops. But, -especially- laptops.

I've been looking for a replacement for my x201 thinkpad for about two years, for me, it's the last high quality laptop that exists with linux support. Taking OSX is fine because it's widely used and has a POSIX backend/bash/etc

So, if you want high quality hardware and a POSIX OS then OSX/Apple is definitely where you go.

and it runs linux better than most laptops /anyway/.
Metatrader has an excellent programming platform, for writing your own technical indicators and building automated trading.

Problem is: don't do it.

I agree with the others.

As someone that has spent years trading stocks futures and warrants(a kind of option)...

And as someone who has read roughly a 100 books on trading, markets, investing, predictive finance...

And as someone who spent 5 years trying to write automated technical trader bots....

(And sought out and paid trading "experts" to learn from them in person)

I'm telling you: Don't do it.

The markets are pretty efficient.

Making money by trading is very very hard work.

You have significantly better odds with buying and holding high growth blue chips.

I know you want to trade.

But reconsider: at least paper trade for a year - this will open your eyes - and prove whether you are serious about becoming a professional, or just a dabbler about to lose a painful amount of money.
> If the move's objectively good, there would be no variation in moves between players.

If we could solve chess, this most likely would be true, just as it's true for tic-tac-toe, which anyone can solve in mere minutes once they realize that symmetry allows for only 3 distinct opening moves (corner, middle and edge) and games should always end in a draw unless someone makes a silly mistake.

Granted, there are lots of paths to draw that one might take, but the objectively strongest move is to take a corner, then the opposite corner, which requires the opponent to either try to force a draw or lose, whereas it's not hard to use weak moves to hand either player a victory, even though the game of tic-tac-toe can always be forced into a draw with skilled play.
Performance is often cited as the "big win" that React brings to web development; I really wish that wasn't the focus that (what seems like) most people take.

The DOM isn't (that) slow; it's all the crap we do to it that makes it slow.

React's strongest selling point is its ergonomics: It frees the developer from having to write huge swaths of code that they otherwise would be with most previous libraries/frameworks.

It achieves that with its immediate mode rendering: you no longer have to reason about how to transition the DOM from one state to another (in nearly all cases).
>Good brands have been able to scale historically. GE has countless appliances designed with quality and care.

I might be able to concede GE; I don't know enough about GE to make an informed opinion.

>HP in its heyday had 100s of products known for its innovation and quality.

Right. In their heyday. Then what happened? They tried to do so much that each product became shitty. So shitty that they ended up having to rethink their business and split. And then continued to do poorly. HP is like the poster child of doing so much that they ended up fucking themselves over. They even bought webOS at one point (did nothing substantial with it and sold it for a big loss years later).

>Microsoft in its heyday had dozens of products that were either in top or close second in their category.

Again, in their heyday they had a lot of stuff.. then promptly lost their darling factor. Now that they've shed a lot of the dead weight and are focused on more of a singular experience, they have been receiving more critical acclaim than at any other time in the past decade. It's actually that reason that most of my tech stocks are in MSFT these days.

>Pepsi Co produces 100s of products under different brand names, many of them huge market leaders.

Sure, but they sell essentially the same type of drink but in different flavors. The jump from one drink to another is different from a Mac to a microwave.

>Google has dozens of products (Email, maps, news, book search, scholar, docs etc etc) - all of which are pretty high quality and either in top or close.

Google has a terrible reputation for reliability in most of their products. They have search, email, maps, and docs. That's about it. The others are either limping along (Google+) or not widely used (Scholar). They have a notorious reputation for shuttering projects. I will not pick Google Compute over AWS or Azure.

>The rules of economics detects that fat margins are not protectable over long run.

All companies die in the long run too, if you wait long enough. For a reasonable span of time, I'm not too worried about Apple. They have the best mobile SoCs. Qualcomm even shit their pants for an entire year (look at the 810 and 615) just trying to catch up.

Samsung just had miserable results and dropped 40%. They won't even release units sold for the S6 line; that's how bad it was. Considering that Qualcomm also dropped 19%, and market news in general the past two months, I think we need to expect most companies to report a negative change compared to the previous year. Currency headwinds are certainly not helping. The fact that Apple even grew shipments on an S year when every other company is contracting is pretty good.

>iPad sales are already 25% down. Tablet market is actually booming but people are just buying cheaper ones

I agree that the iPad needs to be rethought. At the moment, they just aren't useful enough to justify upgrading so often. I haven't seen any numbers that point to the tablet market booming (source please. This is interesting), but Apple don't give a shit about market share. It's about the profits. I don't care about market share either.
Haha, it's so useful. :)
This is a funny reply, if you remember yesterdays discussion about Apples missing computer innovation:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10980023
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"Businesses are rewarded because others can't copy them easily."

Businesses are rewarded because they serve the community honorably at a profit.
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Having access to a "Commodore VIC-29" or other accoutrements of wealth doesn't prevent one from having a rough upbringing. From the biography details, it seemed Elon Musk had to deal with with psychologically skewed family members in addition to making way in a backwards society bent on apartheid and violence. That can break a man. These resonate with me precisely because I've had to endure similar things. Not every part of the US is a safe haven. I'm blessed to have gotten where I am, but it's not without scares and I'm sure Musk has his as well. Some parts of myth making actually brings out more of the truth in a story.
Chrome has installed the Program Files like a "good" application for a while now. It did used to install to AppData\Local which was "bad" as yes it did skirt around some security things at the time.
I shall try this!
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Even if there's no trading and no price for stocks, if all shares of all publicly owned companies were owned by one big index fund the profits from all those companies would eventually be, one way or another, channelled and attributed back to the owners, i.e. the index fund itself. That alone would set a price for the index fund itself.

The fact that there's a market outside of indexing allows the index funds to buy more stock with the dividends received. With no market the index fund would need to pass the dividends forward to the owners of the fund.
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Mike Hearn in his exit speech said... "R3 is not a bitcoin company, or even a cryptocurrency company, and there is no 'BankCoin' or 'R3Coin..." Not true Mike, there is a Bankcoin and you've always known it...

http://www.reuters.com/article/fl-syndicatednewsnet-idUSnBw3...
A book about the period, published in 2014: "1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed" by Eric Cline. As both the book and the OP make clear, the collapse did not take place in the course of a single year, despite the catchy title.
Another major factor for 9to5 is probably having a common time that businesses are open. Many businesses need to interact with a multitude of other companies during their working hours. Having the same working hours as every other company you need to interact with makes scheduling meetings/phonecalls/etc a lot easier, or reduces the need for scheduling and the overhead that comes with it. I'm sure there's a good way to solve this too, but I can't think of one off the top of my head at the moment.
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It's bro science, ie not science at all.

The truth is simple but boring: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10640658
Yes, 70 years ago psychiatry had some odd ideas. It's frustrating that you only make these comments about psychiatry - you don't pop up in geography threads to say "Wait, what? Does this mean geographers don't still believe in fixed immovable continents?".

Endless therapy is not recommended for anything, and certainly not for schizophrenia. There are recommended lifestyle interventions, but these are aimed to reduce or stop smoking, to control weight gain, to keep people out of hospital, or to help people gain and keep employment.

A therapy might be involved if a person is hearing voices, but isn't particularly bothered by them. In that situation it doesn't make much sense to medicate away those voices (because the medication has severe side effects) so the person might get a "therapy" that helps them cope with voices, and learn when and how to seek help if the voices become too much.
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I don't think it would be a non-profit. Rather it would be, "Here, Newegg, take this donation to your legal fund, without me having to waste your time shipping me low-margin products!"
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A related aspect of this is that Apple focuses on just a handful of models while companies like HP and Dell seem to have hundreds, making it even harder to choose.

Let's say I read that the HP Xbook 2788Q is the greatest laptop ever and has perfect Linux support, and want to buy one. First of all since HP has so many different laptops, finding a store that actually carries a particular HP laptop is very tricky so it's basically impossible to get a hands on look at the laptop before buying. Then it turns out that HP doesn't sell the Xbook 2788Q in my country, they sell the (visually similar) 2789P instead. Are there any major differences? Is the reviews for the 2788P relevant? There's no easy way to tell, making it very difficult to compare and buy laptops.

Apple makes it easy, a MacBook is a MacBook all around the world so I know exactly what I'm getting.
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Delightful, indeed. You don't often get to hear one company publicly tell another that it "sucks." It certainly does sound like this is personal for Cheng, who said, "Minero’s case does not have merit, and its patent is not only expired but would suck even if it wasn’t expired."

Another great quote from Cheng [1]:

"I never get invited to parties anymore," Cheng said in an e-mail. "Now I keep getting kicked out."

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/patent-troll-real...
Ask HN: Feedback on Startup Idea – digital business card
Hi HN,

I'm thinking about an idea for mobile application and I wanted your advice. Here is my hypothesis:

We are living in a high-speed economy. The paper business cards provide static engagement. So modern business men / women want a more dynamic branding and marketing tool to enable vibrant mutually beneficial partnerships that take full advantage of internal and external synergies by sharing up-to-date information with each other, referring each other based on a face-to-face meeting initialized visually creative digital business cards.

Does it make sense? What is your opinion? Would you buy a product like this?
The fact is they did penalize themselves for couple of times in history.
Thank you very much. Everything inside me tells me that it's exactly what you said, an efficient system and luck plays more of a factor than anything else (besides having a giant amount of capital).
What kind of informational resources do you suggest?
BTW I've been paper trading for well over a year now, I never feel like I have enough knowledge to "pull the trigger" with real money.
Metatrader was one of the ones I looked at.
What are your thoughts about ForEx? I consider it MORE risky than day trading especially when you don't have the capital. But I'm taking all input.
Thanks again!
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I'm surprised when people recommend clean-up tools, rather than wiping and reinstalling.
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Pachi isn't in the same league as AlphaGo. Pachi can't win at all against AlphaGo without handicap. With a 4 stone handicap Pachi only wins 1% of the time against AlphaGo.
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What makes humans so much more intelligent that they can learn to be as good as this game when playing only up to 1000 games per year and be just as good as a something that can train on a million games per day?

I want computers that can learn on small data instead of big data, like humans do.
It would be nice if it could clean up the crap Chrome produces. Just few weeks ago I was wondering why my drive is so full, and yep, Chrome was almost 12GB of that. It was cache, so somewhat legitimate (unlike what they used to do - leave 20 chrome copies on your drive), but chrome couldn't clean it (clear cache did nothing). I had to delete it manually (and of course it caused some problems). Few days later I was at 10+GB mark again, Chrome not being able to clean it.
> Do people sit around and play video games, or do they create new things? Are people happy and fulfilled?

The answer to this question is influenced by so many environmental factors that it would be difficult to do one study and arrive at a repeatable answer. Communities, countries, cultures, weather, and so many other things are at play.

We already know that education and training produce self sufficient people. If startups want to to give back, they should start with something they know and incorporate more training programs into the workplace. Develop growth cycles, from beginner to professional, and build a culture of renewal and community that makes people want to stick around.
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Phil Lounibos' advice is prescient. The notion that another (more dangerous) insect species ends up taking the place of disease vector mosquitoes is a frightening one, indeed.
>Suggestion to all potential future reporters out there: pay more attention in your math, science and engineering classes, and less in your liberal (f)arts classes

You were making sense, until this last para. Have some compassion - you don't seem to care that a human (journo) is degraded into such a position (used emasculate to describe his position) by another (although no fault of the latter). Its good that humans are different, for various reasons -- its so obvious. Going by your logic, what Mr. Page does is fart compared to say a Roger Penrose writing 'The Road to Reality'.

All said, we all try our best, you know. Your project looks interesting. So is mine, or that journalist's or Larry Page's or Roger Penrose's. In the large scheme of things, who knows what really matters.
Ran it, said it found nothing. But now all of a sudden I'm getting some sort of ad e-mails in my gmail inbox?
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I agree that invalidating the patent is a strong motivation, but I imagine that another major motivation is in establishing their reputation. Future putative litigants will think twice about getting dragged into a legal battle with a company that doesn't let them walk away from a battle when it no longer suits them.
Agreed -- also, one always finds modest homes and cars in high-end neighborhoods, so people are able to not succumb to peer pressure.
Would you post some examples?
1: How did you manage to get the audio clips from all those songs?

2: How long did it take you to create?
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With over 10 000 hours of Dota [1] under my belt I am fairly certain that even with perfect mechanical skills [2] a strong human player will still beat the A.I.

Even at the very top pro level, matches are constantly being won & lost purely based on the initial hero drafting phase. Calculating the optimal draft is way more difficult than Go. It's probably not an exaggeration to say that the search space scale difference from dota draft to Go is about the same as from Go to tic-tac-toe. Because it's not only about the 100+ different heroes grouped into combinations, but also every possible game that can happen then with those combinations.

Then once the game starts, the A.I. may be able to respond to actions extremely quickly, with perfect precision. But what should the responses be? This is not a simple thing to answer and humans keep taking completely different approaches as our understanding of the game keeps evolving.

Also, the very best dota bots can currently only beat absolute beginners who don't understand the game at all yet. It takes a few hundred games of practice for a human to go beyond the best A.I. currently available.

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[1] A game similar to League of Legends

[2] Directly reading from memory and then directly calling gameplay functions, basically a perfect hack, would get you what is known as "mechanical skills". For example being able to last hit.
Oh, and I can no longer send tweets in Tweetdeck. Good times.