skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In hindsight it's always easy. You know what, the book authors wrote the book in 1999 for the general public, the average joe who bought tech stock without much knowledge. Many insiders from the valley knew about the bubble, yet your grandma in Texas never heard about it in 1999 or Jan/Feb2000. That's why that book helped lot's of people to get out of it, right before the crash - it doesn't matter when the crash happen, a few months before is better than a months too late, isn't it? Well the one amd two star reviewers thought they were clever or were heavily invested insiders (like you/other downvoter now?). Petty for them that those probably lost their money. It's always good to learn from history.
> Economists understand the theories behind money and wealth creation

Isaac Asimov was trained as a chemist before becoming a science fiction writer. He relates the story where someone asked him what kind of glue to use for gluing together certain materials. Asimov said he had no idea, and the person walked away shaking his head and presumably thinking "some chemist this guy is".

Understanding glues and adhesion is at least one level of abstraction higher than knowing fundamentals of chemistry.

Richard Feynman also had a great essay about how understanding quantum physics doesn't allow you to figure out everyday physics questions (eg., At what temperature does gold melt?). In theory it should be possible to derive the melting point of gold from quantum physics, but it's impossibly difficult to do so.

Likewise, creating wealth (doing business, trading stocks, etc.) is probably several levels of abstraction higher than knowing the theories behind wealth creation.
At this point, 16 bits of entropy is more than the entropy of a lot of the passwords that I've seen.
Millenials are unknowingly signing up for slavery and throwing away all the hard earned labour rights in the name of being more agile.
The story with Japanese Banks is also much more interesting that this journalist apparently knows.

Essentially there's a very close coupling between a bank, and it's corresponding major company. It's common knowledge which is which, f.ex. Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, which extends to all the conglomerate's suppliers and the employees of those companies, who will all use the same bank. This gives the major conglomerates enormous economic information, through the bank, about the financial state of their suppliers, as well as a huge amount of power over the companies, through the bank lending system. And this is before you get to the problem of Bank's making very low interest loans to prevent companies going bankrupt - which in any case is common practice everywhere. Bank's are structurally not able to absorb very high amounts of losses, so the old saying about the bank having the problem applies to large loans.

The only viable way to compete with Sharp in this example (well, apart from leaving the country), would be to go to one of the other conglomerates and pitch to be taken under their wing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu
For how many pieces? Last I saw it was around $15 at Walgreens.
A really good read- we don't spend enough time talking about the strategy for startups as it relates to larger companies. We talk about disrupt, disrupt, disrupt, but it doesn't always have to be that way. When aligned properly a larger company can pull a startup upwards.
The critical difference is, all the zombies were actually dealt with in the US. Goldman Sachs is back to being fully functional and very profitable, it's entirely capable of standing alone today.

There are no big banking zombies wandering around the US landscape now. Most were consumed, forced into mergers. Their balance sheets were cleaned up, via the Fed (Citi and Bank of America for example).
It's not a "no true Scotsman" argument when there are ample examples of true Scotsmen. Larry Page, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs, for starters.
Note that it's a web app using NW.js (like Electron) to turn it into a 'desktop' app.

(Which I'm personally OK with for applications like this, where native gains may not be as big)
Please re-read my reply, especially the line that says:

> If you're a consultant who can work from anywhere, and you make more than the cutoff (which I would hope!), then GBI is similarly irrelevant.
> But I was definitely hoping for a more quantitative analysis of the benefits.

You may enjoy this then:
http://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
Why, How and from Where do I learn Python?
While we are on the issue of Detroit and automakers here's a topical scene about some collective bargaining of jobs at an auto supplier, from the well-made documentary, Detropia [1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7vJA9AVvdQ&t=6m22s

[1]

Detropia (Rental / Purchase link)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv2RSWehfaM
Reconciling past changes in Earth’s rotation with global sea-level rise
Does that respect import search paths? Does the original?
Bill would require IT workers to report child pornography
Please don't post uncivil comments to anybody here, including inventors of programming languages you don't like.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10963889 and marked it off-topic.
The straight 256-bit AVX solution (no pext) goes a bit faster out of memory:

AVX... 0.013 (speed up: 1.80)

And even better out of L1:

nate@skylake:~/git/WojciechMula-toys/base64/decode/sse$ ./speed
input size: 8192
improved scalar... 2.481
scalar... 4.839 (speed up: 0.51)
SSE... 1.918 (speed up: 1.29)
SSE & BMI2... 1.668 (speed up: 1.49)
AVX... 1.127 (speed up: 2.20)
AVX & BMI2... 1.290 (speed up: 1.92)

(Absolute times aren't comparable between Mem and L1, just the ratios within each)
Seems like a wealth transfer from "developed country" workers to "less-developed country" workers and capital owners. The exact dynamics are of course hidden from that chart. The labels on the axes say that the peaks are gaining relative to the valleys in that chart.
http://www.whatisthought.com/eric.html#economies could be described that way (except the code's not in Python AFAIK). It's pretty interesting, though I haven't seen any follow-on work.
This is sort of what Cable TV companies do, they block ads with their own ads.

Brave claims to block ads that slow down your browsing experience and track you with cleaner ads that don't do that. The user can earn Bitcoins watching the clean ads to use to pay a site to browse without any ads.

You have to figure that there is a profit motive there somewhere, the free web browser has to pay for itself so they can earn money.

He's reinventing the way advertising is used on the web, blocking dirty ads with clean ads. Using a Bitcoin based reward system to remove ads from a site by paying Bitcoin for a subscription.
46% gain over C is irrelevant if your program only spends 1% of its time decoding base64
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Even games like SimCity and Minecraft?

The genre is interesting in that it includes stuff that could barely be considered a game (more like toys). No progression, goals, challenge or reward really. But then there are some like SimCity which I would consider more engaging than most games of any genre.
I still have a gopher server. gopher://simonrumble.com
Problems at Theranos Lab: Feds will release details on serious deficiencies
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Confirms Key Executive Departures
I've contracted and had access to all those things, though I don't see the point of unionizing as the sole employee in my own business... Nor would I see any point in rights under the 'Family and Medical Leave Act' when I could take as much time off as I liked and pay myself whatever I wanted to during said leave.
From that article:

>"People [in Guantanamo] had already seen the first series, it was hugely popular." Others who were at Guantánamo at the time confirmed her account. Some described to me how the series contributed directly to an environment encouraging those in the interrogation facility to see themselves as being on the front line, and to go further than they otherwise might have

So torturers at Guantanamo had to get lessons on torture from a TV series which, prior to Season 4, was basically torture-free and pro-Muslim?

From Season 4, 24 was fascistic, pro-torture garbage, but it was taking its cue from real life US policy, not directing it.
Works on IPv6 even!
Is Slack, unprofitable w/ $30MM yearly revenue[1], really worth almost as much as Twitter, unprofitable w/ almost $2BN yearly revenue? That's a lot of growth to account for.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/slack-expects-30-million-reve...
At no point do they claim drone-ing is wrong or immoral. It's the bad guys that tricked them. And the whole, normalizing it as just a mistake. Carrie is never punished for her crime. There is no introspection on the issue. It was purely an apologist part of the storyline.
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Sure, if it's just 1% it probably wasn't worth optimizing even that plain C code. But you don't know that. And you especially don't know that if it's a part of a library or the like.
You should probably change your lightbulb to something like Philips Hue, and make _it_ more red.
Some glaring editing mistakes here, like this:

The suede jacket I had on was level II, meaning it’s certified to stop .9mm, .45mm, .38mm, and .22 caliber rounds

Ouch. There's no such thing as a ".9mm": it's 9mm.

No such thing as a ".45mm" either: that round is .45 inches.

Same with the ".38mm".
Guess someone should have pointed it out to him, that his childhood hero was an avowed racist ("I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion". Also see the Bengal famine; right up there with Holomdor.)

Why not call it Stalin solitaire then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
It’s about … time
As for many popular social scientists I can't even tell whether they aim at becoming famous or whether they're just very ignorant fellows who really think they've "cracked it".
There's a fantasy in the corporate world, and Zappos is a perfect example of it. The fantasy is the idea of the "family" company, of the non-mercenary employee, of the company full of wholly intrinsically motivated people who just want to work together and make something great and that's the reason they get up in the morning and go to work.

There's some truth to that at every company, but ultimately money and ownership matters. And it's delusional to think that employees do, or should, feel unbridled affection for their employers. The only way that ever makes any sense in big companies is when every employee is not only hugely empowered but also has a substantially stake in the company.

Using "revolutionary" new forms of management like "flat" or "holocracy" or what-have-you aren't going to magically transform a company into something entirely different. At the end of the day there are people who can fire anyone and people who can't, there are people who live in mansions and drive luxury cars and people who don't. The only way to have an actual co-op is to, you guessed it, legally be a co-op. You can't just play make pretend.
Okay, I'm not going to get you to elaborate. If you view many news sources as compromised, where would you recommend people get their news from?
> Let's not mistake a personal post by an employee with official communication

A good point; I agree.
One cannot easily immigrate to the US to work, especially without a sponsoring company.
As a foreigner you better follow he law, because the government will make an example out of you. Only Chinese companies can drink tea with chinese officials.
I'm comfortable that my employer can terminate my employment should I alienate the people I work with to the point I can no longer carry out my job.
Fighting online thieves by putting more innocent people at risk doesn't sound like a way to fight online thieves.
How exactly do you judge a malinvestment if you don't measure its effects?
Thanks and I'm not offended at all. It was interesting to hear what Netflix is doing. I was just using your post as an example of a larger issue and addressing that issue; as icebraining pointed out, one post by one employee doesn't signify an official policy of Netflix.
The mechanism is called "import hooks":

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/import.html#import-hooks

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0302/

You can see the import hook added here:

https://github.com/kragniz/json-sempai/blob/master/jsonsempa...

Import hooks are a great feature in Python.

Take the `import` mechanism in the language and reduce it to its barest theoretical formulation - what does it really do? (Name binding.) Think of all the other features in your application that can be reduced to this. (e.g., configuration management) Use the constraints of the import mechanism to guide the design of this feature, and use import hooks to implement it. You'll end up with an implementation that is very "close" to the core language. I would assert that this closeness strongly suggests correctness and composability.

Less philosophically, think of the Python virtual machine as a system with lots of "safety valves" and "escape hatches." Import hooks are one such safety valve. Think about all the things you could do easily by hooking into module importing? (Real use-cases: loading code from bitemporal object databases, deprecation of modules, relocation of modules, configuration management, &c.)

Of course, there are languages that are much more flexible than Python in this respect. Python aims for a practical flexibility, and I find that, in practice, Python strikes a nice balance.
Nope, unless there's an underground trade in API keys. [1]

Wonder what happened.

[1]: https://bandcamp.com/developer
Working in the same neighborhood as Amazon's new headquarters, I've become convinced that not all is well with their security. All those blue badges with their employees' full names dangling from their belts while they're in line at the local food trucks is a social engineer's dream come true.
Expect to see some high-profile breaches.
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Looks great! Out of interest, does this take advantage of any native features via node or could it also be a website?

I'm curious if the motivation of making a desktop app was just for the "installed app user experience" or because it was needed to access some API.
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I suggest http://www.hivelocity.net. They are awesome!! They only do colo or dedicated servers.
Real mature, Sam. And since the personality of the commenter matters all of a sudden, then tell me, have you ever lived outside of the U.S.? Because you must be incredibly sheltered and never really encountered the things you accuse the U.S. of, if you think that the country is an oligarchy or a police state.
Another ex-happy Namecheap customer here. Was going through credit card fraud issues back in July. In September out of nowhere get an email from Namecheap support that my July payment for one of the domains did not go through and I owe them $240 for the chargeback. No amount of reasoning got through to them - this is after several years of owning multiple domains with them. Dropped the penalty by $100, but that didn't exactly make it right. As I was considering my options, they locked all of my domains and redirected to parking pages. Had to pay up to get them back. Avoid at all costs.

TL;DR: Credit card was stolen, Namecheap penalized me for that and then blackmailed by locking all domains.
It's largely to prevent fraud and money laundering. A significant feature of Japanese bank accounts is money can move between them essentially instantaneously and Japan is a very cash-based society. What banks do not want to happen is for someone to take a cookie-cutter LLC, do an ore-ore fraud (i.e. call up a bunch of Japanese senior citizens and get them to insta-wire their life savings to the new account), immediately convert it into cash ("I need $200k for payroll in $100 bills" is something that is not crazy in Japan -- getting rarer but not crazy), and vanish into the ether. [+]

It does not help matters that a large Tokyo startup was a) a money laundering operation for b) a large international drug network then c) experienced more than half a billion dollars in suspected embezzlement while d) the banking system was caught with it's collective pants down. This current puts a giant blinking Give This Application All Possible Scrutiny on anyone who says "tech company" and "international wire transfer", which is really %#(&)0$ing annoying when you're a tech company which needs to get and make international wire transfers and does not have $100 million of business lying around to justify the bank doing fairly costly due diligence work.

[+] Edited to add: You might not think this sounds like a very plausible fraud, since it requires a corporate officer to make a personal appearance at the bank branch and produce identification, but the corporate officer might be a victim of the scam, too. A "local businessman" who "already owns another corporation so I can't be director of this new venture" approaches them about a great new job as company director, no experience required, the lawyers will take care of everything. The lawyers ("lawyers") draft paperwork and the director stamps everything. On the first day of work the lawyer says "Great. OK, it's the 25th. First order of business: get $200k out of the account at the bank for payroll to the employees at the $FOO branch office. Also, print out a receipt for your own salary; here's the form. We'll meet you at the train station and walk you to the office." At the train station the lawyer looks at the form, notices a misprint, and says "Oh sorry, this is wrong. We don't want to make you look bad on the first day. Tell you what, I'll phone ahead to the company to let them know we're going to be a bit delayed. Wait here, I'll pop back to the office, print the form correctly this time, and we'll go in together then. That's the envelope? Great; give it to me and I'll put it in the safe; wouldn't want someone stealing it at the train station. Society is going to the dogs, you know?"

Later that month, when asked by the police officers, the corporate officer can produce an impressive collection of meaningless powerpoint slides, business cards listing fake names of fake lawyers tied to phones stolen/registered with stolen credit cards/etc, and a total lack of understanding of what went wrong.
I would not really see the need or have any practical way of doing that since most if not all of my medical costs is tax subsidised. But as this varies depending on where you live id definitely be open to it if there was a need
I think it would be interesting if something like this could be chosen as a compiler optimization.
Twitter was offering RSUs since before the IPO (I worked at Twitter).
But everyone's using a 10" Surface tablet now! We all need that 40px padding for our sausage fingers while tapping our screen at work.
Reckless behaviour is not associated with lack of fear, as reckless behaviour is not uncommon among normal human adults with fear intact (also the aforementioned drug does more than inhibiting fear).

If one is going about life "without thinking or caring about the consequences of an action", that is more a sign of being unintelligent (quite often a case of native intelligence being hampered by such strong emotions as ideological feelings) than merely being fearless.

Animals (especially early primate ancestors of humans) do not have fully developed intelligence, so it not unsurprising that they unlike us require primitive emotions such as fear to survive as a species.
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A couple of flaws in the article:

>That will keep the market flooded with artificially cheap Sharp products -- mobile phones, solar panels, air conditioners, printers, microwave ovens

Sharp doesn't dominate any of those markets. If it went bust people would buy them as cheap pretty much from other Asian manufacturers.

>The bank bailout does nothing to improve Sharp’s corporate strategy

Sharp seems about to be bought by Foxconn which is quite a change of strategy. It wouldn't have happened if the government had let it go bust years ago.

The main effect of letting Sharp go bust would be to throw 50000 people on the labour market who in efficient market fantasy land might all be snapped up by more efficient employers but who in reality would probably have been mostly unemployed.
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Your comment is offensive. Saying things like "too much Asperger's" should not fly around here.
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I don't know of any explicit details of progress, but everyone I've mentioned it to in the VR space nods knowingly when I mention it, so I take that to mean that it is an area of active research and development.
> > relative wealth is a zero sum game.

> How do you reckon?

... Basic mathematics? By definition, there's only and always 100% of the current-wealth to subdivide. Never 101%.

Your gain of +1% always means -1% somewhere else.
I expect you'd find the same dynamics despite adding some positive externalities to the transactions. Depending on how large those externalities are. The nice thing about this example is the code is there for you to modify and test your theories.

A good simulation tries to pare down the system, not getting distracted by other mechanisms that don't change the basic dynamics. For example, it'd be more realistic if the transactions were partially parallelized, but that wouldn't change the analysis much.
It can if you use Haskell: https://github.com/mikeizbicki/HerbiePlugin
Late reply: thanks :-)

I'm certain the design team are being very careful in the changes they are making to the UI.

The design team's page can be found here:

https://www.libreoffice.org/community/design/

Their blog can be found here:

https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org
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Apart from a recent (26 day old) update to the javascript, this looks like it got abandoned back when Google acquired Jetpac (who's website now seems defunct). Anyone know what the status of this is? I guess there must've been some more-recent-than_aug-2014 updates, since it mentions RaspberryPi2s...
I remember seeing this documentary a few years ago.

When one considers ill effects of fear, often stuff like PTSD and phobias come to mind. But normal people too are adversely affected by fear on a daily basis. As this documentary shows the masses are easily influenced (via fear) by propaganda/ public relations to make decisions that are not in their own best interest.