skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a big fan of Lewis & I have read multiple accounts / variations of the sub-prime crisis. The Big Short tells only half the story but nevertheless a very important one especially by covering Michael Burry as patient zero for identifying the problem. However, the book does a big dis-service by not writing more extensively about John Paulson. He made the most amount ($15BN) shorting sub-prime mortgages & when you have a book called the Big Short but don't cover the biggest short, it seems incomplete. Gregory Zuckerman's "Greatest Trade Ever" should be read along with "Big Short" to get a more complete view of the crisis.
Please e-mail me on the account listed in my profile. I should be able to help with the first one (at least forward it to the right people.)

I'm really sorry about the bad experience.
Today the truck industry still fights any safety measures, rest times for drivers etc, the bar is way lower than for cars, or see the loopholes in safety for moving vans.
Yes, it does. You didn't read it carefully enough.

The whole premise of the David and Goliath story Lewis wants to tell is that HFT is a device used by the Wall Street establishment to screw over the rest of the market.

But in fact it's more the opposite: HFT firms are upstart prop trading and market making shops that are pissing off giant banks like Goldman and JPMC by making it harder for them to skim profits off block trades for pension and hedge funds.

Also: the use of rhetoric like "dribbling retard" isn't what makes an argument "ad hominem". An ad hominem argument is one whose logic rests on a claim about its opponent and doesn't account for its opponent's argument. The logic behind the quote you're commenting on doesn't do that.
Are there good and bad sugars?
The US auto industry fought air bags for about two decades, saying they were too expensive and that people did not want them: http://www.csmonitor.com/1988/0519/abelt.html

"Top Ford Motor Company executives went so far as to arrange a meeting with President Nixon to plead against a federal regulation that would have required air bags in all cars, starting with 1973 models. The meeting had the desired effect: Mr. Nixon ordered the regulation quashed. Eleven years after the 1971 meeting, a transcript from secret Oval Office tapes disclosed the conversation."

I believe the Toronado air bags might have been offered just to provide a tool to say consumers did not want them.

Earlier on, they also fought seat belts. Then later, they fought for state laws mandating seat belt use by drivers, just so they could say the airbags were not necessary in the presence of seat belts. And a bunch of other stuff. Classic cartel behavior.
just been playing this with my 6 six year old who has no experience in forth and she figured out 'the anchor' (drop) and the 'printer' (duplicate). I suspect this happened quicker for her than it might have for some adults because she was quite happy to click on everything until stuff happened and a pattern emerged. though eventually (level 1_6) the sequence of operations got too long for her
They take what they fund. Also, when patents are involved, the big company that ends up acquiring it often uses it to discourage innovation outside their company. So, quite different from a patron model in practice due to incentives.

Now, this doesn't stop a company or VC from acting like a patron. We've seen a number of them release open-source software, publish papers on working strategy/tech, sponsor R&D that is similarly public, and so on. I'm not sure what the percentage is but it shows the models aren't exclusive. It's just the incentives shift VC stuff far in another direction from Da Vinci or Michelangos making goods for the public. Really far per some billionaires. ;)
It still has a use. I occasionally put figlet text into project headers that are likely to end up copied around to other codebases. That makes it more obvious that the file in question comes from an outside source.
Big thread yesterday - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10963568
Science: your body odor reveals when you are sick
Not sure if this is the OP's case, but some gems simply do not work if you upgrade any other gem. It's reliant on an older version of gem X.
> The hypothetical in question isn't even intended for you. It's intended for the general public. Most of whom would gladly eat up whatever story they are sold.

When you frame the conversation that way, it makes more sense.
Chinese researchers create autist monkeys through gene manipulation
It's fascination how people who consider themselves smart put themselves in dangerous situations which sound and humble people would never even consider.
Need a hybrid for several reasons: marketing/sales; logistics; lobbying Washington against what undermines legal protections. The non-greedy things entertainment industry does that benefits industry and artists. I'm not sure what that model would look like as I don't know the industry well enough.
This seems like a glorified recruiting post.

Additionally the title is "Working at Genius", not "How code reviews work at genius.com"
Quantum Processes in Graph Computing – Marko Rodriguez, GraphDay 2016 [video]
This is the future of the technology industry. There is no fighting it, you cannot fight with the forces of the free market. The salary differential between US based tech workers and foreign workers is too high. If the products you are working on require no innovation or real skill, as is likely with these disney positions, they will be outsourced.
That implies popularity, but I've never heard of any of the alliterative characters mentioned in Wikipedia:

> In 1849, a "very different" English version was published under the title "The Story of Chicken-Licken" by Joseph Orchard Halliwell.[15] In this Chicken-licken was startled when "an acorn fell on her bald pate" and encounters the characters Hen-len, Cock-lock, Duck-luck, Drake-lake, Goose-loose, Gander-lander, Turkey-lurkey and Fox-lox.
There are certain benefits to making sure your citizens are gainfully employed.

Also citizens vote, foreigners don't.
Also /r/justrolledintotheshop you discover a significant amount of information by looking at that stuff and dropping a comment asking what you're seeing (if somebody hasn't already done that, which has usually happened). The denizens of that subreddit are incredibly nice and the subreddit is halfway hilarious and terrifying: some people drive these things[0]… around you…

[0] http://imgur.com/90AvmSL
Managers are not necessary the leaders. Managers manage resources, leaders lead people.
The real fix to this is to make sure that people brought over with an H1-B can easily change jobs. That way they're not beholden to some low-wage job, and companies that bring people in merely for low wages will face high rates of churn.
I'm not sure I would consider laws that favor a country's citizens over foreign nationals "xenophobia". They CAN be, of course, but they can also be solid policy that most or all nations do.
>Uber and Lyft would need to pay hourly wages, along with all of the associated taxes due.

Not true. You can be an employee with a non-hourly pay structure. Just one of many misconceptions batted around about the implications of driver reclassification, along with (these aren't all false per se, just not-necessarily-true):

- Drivers would have to get the Uber-paid lavish health care plan that developers there get.

- Driver cash payments would remain the same and not be reduced.

- Drivers would get fixed work schedules.

- Drivers would value the compensation package that includes employee benefits but has lower cash pay, over the compensation they get now.

- Uber would have to provide the vehicles.

- The economic incidence of FICA taxes would shift to Uber (not how economic incidence works[1]).

Again, the employee/contractor distinction depends on a number of factors; you can be classified as an employee without meeting all of criteria.

[1] Good explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/422av5/some_g...
Because New York and California are part of the same country?

And it's not "certain types" of people. It's all non-Americans.
Microsoft Releases Its Deep Learning Toolkit on GitHub
Yes, I noticed that when I upgraded; spent several hours debugging before I found out that was the problem (I had both flat and nested, where prod used the old, and my tests used the new)
I made a website that ranking popular tech companies and startups
No real content about code review at Genius.

Self promotion posted by the Genius cofounder.
Wasn't that originally MST3K?
"Certain types of people", you mean non-citizens? The H1B lets non-US citizens into the country, ostensibly to fill a supposed skills gap. In reality, most H1B's issued are to replace high paid citizens with lower paid, low benefits immigrants. Whether you think this is good or bad, it isn't xenophobia or racism, it's a dollars and cents issue.
I'm actually in favour of expanding immigration, but describing opposition to it as xenophobia is extremely unfair.

The logic is really very simple: those artificial barriers are also the borders between economies, social benefit systems, etc. etc. Every person within those borders that does not have a job puts a drain on the rest of the country. Someone without a job outside of those borders does not. So bringing someone across those borders while an unemployed person is within them is a net economic negative.

Obviously that is a vast, vast oversimplification, but there is a logic. Xenophobia is an "intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries" - putting your own economic interests ahead of others isn't necessarily the product of dislike or fear. And some would say it's entirely rational.
Discussing the merits of HFT is similar to discussing the merits of different approaches to cryptography. Because there's such a vast amount of prerequisite knowledge required for analysis, one either has to slog through the learning curve or look for expert opinions.

So who are these experts in HFT that should be referenced? Certainly not me or Michael Lewis.

One source I like to follow is
Eric Hunsader. One of his claims to fame is catching a leak in FOMC data that led to a policy change by the Federal Reserve [1].

My own take on the HFT debate: HFT is here to stay; the method of trading is not the problem, the danger is that no regulator can monitor the massive stream of quotes and trades and accurately sift out bad actors. What's the solution -- I have no clue, but arbitrarily slowing down trades is not useful.

[1]http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4473.html

Edit:

Apparently no true Scotsman would follow Nanex as a source. Duly noted. :) I'd be interested to hear of other sources that at least attempt in depth analysis like Nanex.
>Or is this a guise for xenophobia?

TIL not actively undermining your countries economic foundation is xenophobia.
Don't forget SystemML[1] and Singa[2], as well as venerable systems like Mahout[3] and SAMOA[4].

[1]: http://systemml.apache.org/

[2]: https://singa.incubator.apache.org/

[3]: http://mahout.apache.org/

[4]: https://samoa.incubator.apache.org/
I don't have much use for Docker on my personal OSX computer, but whenever I've tried to get things running smoothly on there for pet projects, B2D was such a pain and either wouldn't work at all, or would be pretty awful to get set up properly.
I try to make a practice out of simply refusing to read any single study that says something exciting.

If it's true, people will replicate the study, and we can read the meta-study on their replications and be appropriately amazed later.

But chances are, publication bias has caused something statistically insignificant to be claimed as true, and people will lap it up because that's the sorry state of science journalism.

The fact that in this study the sweat appeared to be of the same amount in both cases is another sign that the experiment was likely just flawed.
Where can I find these maxims written down?
in 2009 we launched an iOS app. This is why it failed
Ho! IT hurts. They remove the fun of nested implicit structures and all funny magic that makes ruby fun.

Fun is so much more important than being serious.

And now rails - fun = converging towards all serious framework that are both bloated, mildly unsecure and emasculated.

So fun programming by hipsters did not solve the complexity problem.

Still in competition the haskell priests with the monads, the "no state" sect (as if they were avoidable), the Banana Driven Methodology, the old silver bullet java tarded, the mighty chaos PHP Chtulu lovers joined recently by the illuminated DevOps of the UniKernel...

I propose to help engineering by teaching magical computized voodoo.

Free coaching in exchange for your soul.

Meanwhile, going for some popcorns
T9 cellphone + voice dictated mapping + anything else?
>>[...] others in the cryptographic community [built] what they called 'fair' blind signatures [...] where untraceability could be lifted by an "independent party posessing the right private key" (i.e. a public "police backdoor"). They were trying to backdoor Chaum's encryption...

Chaum himself is advocating not just for any ol' backdoor, but for a flavour of "multi-sovereign-party public police backdoor" if you believe the Wired article that explained his proposal.[1]

[1] http://www.wired.com/2016/01/david-chaum-father-of-online-an...
(WARNING: crusty Sun old-timer memories follow)

For those who aren't familiar with this, up until the mid-1990s or so, Sun let individual engineers name their own workstations. In fact many regarded this as a privilege. Each workstation ran its own copy of sendmail, so one's email address was login@hostname. People came up with all kinds of clever login/hostname combinations, such as what Don mentioned, eat@joes.

My all time favorite was Rich Burridge's, whose workstation was named "stard". Since his login was richb, his email address was...

richb@stard
Copperspice is LGPL. Like Qt, it can be dynamically linked into any standard C++ application. The key is that the user needs to be able to instead use their own version of Qt/CS, if they want.
i said that comment is a bit over the top. i was talking about "either Lewis is a credulous idiot who is not competent as a journalist, or Katsuyama is an idiot who was not competent as a trader" it seems Locklin's goal is to say Michael Lewis is an idiot, which is ad-hominem attack. The need to call him an idiot, combined with the "retard" comment is really not needed and doesn't add anything.

i do appreciate your explanation for how the goal of Lewis's book is based on a fallacy
What I meant is that are there any records of any myths in the countries round the North Sea of lost lands that might actually turn out to have some basis in geological fact.

NB I'm in Scotland and fascinated by ancient history and geology (which are almost the same thing....).
It's justified in avoiding free rider effects. If the public subsidizes the operation of a company through security, education, and infrastructure, the community that makes that investment is entitled to ensure that the fruits of that investment go to other members of the community.
I agree that the labor laws have an "impedance mismatch" with the on-the-ground reality and I tried to spell out what that was in another comment [1]. Basically, laws shouldn't be discontinuous like this -- where all the rules sharply change when you just 50.001% look like a contractor (or the opposite). It should be more like "as you start to look more like an employee, you must adhere to more of a certain requirement".

Don't know why you're getting voted down so hard.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10717768
>artificial barriers

Like citizenship? Do you consider citizenship an artificial barrier?

As someone who has worked at tech companies and various law firms in the Silicon Valley, I've seen this story played out several times. Hire Cognizant, TCS, Infosys, Symphony, or some other outsourcing firm and then bring in H-1Bs for an entire department. All it does is drive down wages for everyone and hurt everyone except for the 1% at the top.

How do you feel about companies and law firms gaming job postings to disqualify qualified workers in the US so they can hire someone on a visa for much less? Employers are posting jobs that don’t really exist, seeking candidates they don’t want, and paying for bogus non-ads to show there’s an IT labor shortage in America. Here is the law firm Cohen & Grigsby advising other employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU Do you consider this abuse or fraudulent?

>Or is this a guise for xenophobia?

Implying that the only people against immigration are racists is just a lazy, offensive, and dismissive argument. Try something else.
I suspect this could be true.
A lot of my friends from Princeton and Upenn still don't have jobs, and its been a few years.
The ones that did well were engineering and finance degrees, and even then most were looking for jobs from around 3 months to a year.

I've also noticed their parents seem more desperate to support their families, some taking part-time jobs post retirement. The most extreme example I can think of is one friend's dad an engineer who couldn't get hired became a barber(in the midwest).
It really seems like a bad situation for everyone, like there aren't enough jobs for everyone.
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New: your circadian body clock should match the rotational speed of the Earth
Quality is too important to be left to QA engineers
​Vital OpenSSL patch coming
That's a fair point but it's hard to take seriously the suggestion that someone who puts more thought into a response isn't likely to have a more insightful answer.

I cut out most filler words out of my vocabulary years ago as I find them annoying but occasionally do use the "mhm" hum. That said, I will fully admit I'm a traditional nerd at heart and do lack intuition for nonsensical, "how's the weather" conversation.

But if you want to speak about something meaningful? A conversation that would flip the roles and leave the majority of the public at a loss for words, you would probably prefer to speak with me.

Most of my social interaction is at places where naturally curious people gather (like user groups / meetups).

This is why in most situations I let most people do the talking, and I focus on questioning them. I can judge what level they're on intellectually and as a bonus, people like to talk about themselves.
They've done a ton of innovation.

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/disney-magicband/
How Waze Makes Roads Safer Than the Police
Every user who has been around for a while has a "flag" option for every story, to be used for stories which should not be on HN, such as spam. Your posting briefly made the front page, then was flagged off of HN by people clicking that link.

There's nothing you can do to avoid it except avoid posting stories which imply Silicon Valley has any sort of sexism problem.
> So bringing someone across those borders while an unemployed person is within them is a net economic negative.

You're right - that's a vast oversimplification. Here's one of my own: at the same time Linus Torvalds moved to the US, there were a number of unemployed people. I still think it was a net win to let him in, though.

Be very wary of the lump of labor fallacy, it's what's behind the "they took rrrr jawbs" mentality.
No biggie, people are pretty bendy right?
Question, is there a homebrew package for DLite?
Well, you can't operate the camera without an internet connection. The only thing you can do is unplug it & plug it back in.

It's really irritating to use a Nest thermostat with no connection, either, since you can't set or control your heating/cooling schedule.
I wonder if they couldn't make a bit of a gripper that opens and closes for each turn. Sure it would be slower but then it would match human movement.
I agree with your argument. I have seen people say on HN that 1 hour of setup to start a project is too much. If this is the case, React + stuff is really not the right thing for you.

However, the React ecosystem is really not that complex. You can write clean, sizable apps with vanilla React.

Then you might need a state management system like Redux. Its quite easy to roll out your own that fits your project and does not have all the pluggability whistles like Redux.

All other things are really not needed for most people, and if you do, you are facing problems so large, evaluation of libraries is a small fraction of the effort.

It's more the mindset of people "I'm missing something great" that drives them crazy and into framework fatigue. (OMG server-side rendering, falcor, relay, immutable.js arrgggh)

Usually, you are missing something you don't need, otherwise you would be looking for it actively.
The real fix to this is to make sure that people brought over with an H1-B can easily change jobs

When I was on an H1B visa I changed jobs multiple times, very easily. Part of the problem is that people (including potential employers) aren't aware how easy it is.
> All it does is drive down wages for everyone and hurt everyone

What about the guys on H1B's who are now earning 4x more than they were back in India? Are they not people too?
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For me, Futurama is the first thing that comes to mind.

So I'm kind of waiting for Nixon's head to be attached to a robot body now.
It's often very positive because by signing the contract, you get a potentially desirable job.

I agree that these sorts of clauses should be banned, but "never sign a mandatory arbitration clause" is overly simplistic advice.
His comments about his previous phone, the LG G3, are interesting to me. That happens to be the phone I have, and I think it works great. I'm using a stock-based ROM (rooted, of course, with TWRP), performance is excellent, very little bloat, and the battery easily lasts me the day, even when I play a little GTA:SA, watch some YT/Twitch, do some video calling with Hangouts, and Chromecast some Dora The Explorer for my kid. I use Viper4Android to do DSP on Spotify and get some pretty nice sound out of my $10 earbuds. I'm not on Facebook, and one of my New Year's resolutions was to stop reading the news[1] and using Twitter and Reddit, so that's probably saving me loads of battery.

As far as expense, yes, it's more than $129, but it's currently being pushed heavily by MVNOs where I live as a $0 budget phone ($400 in subsidy). Currently flagships from Apple, Samsung, etc are in the $850-1100 range. IMHO the G3 is a perfectly serviceable mid-range phone.

[1] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
FlightAware.com will send you a free one if you are in an area they need coverage for and are willing to keep it plugged in!

[1] https://flightaware.com/adsb/
Looks great, any plans for an Android version?
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Right, but its likely the people replaced here wrote ETL jobs and corporate web pages.
they should not be raising the fee on transferring between employers: "and another $4,000 to move an H-1B immigrant who is already in the country to a new employer."

This is a give away to the outsourcing firms. Helping them having a bit more control over their employee.