skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only difference is the 50m makes profit with little or no risk. And the consequence of this is consistent inflation, lowering of the purchasing power of dollar, quanitative easing and military keynesianism, along with other things.

One example is if you had $10m in real estate, infinitebank with loan you super low interest rate and then you invest it in a limited $200m fund which had some quasi-guaranteed rate. I can't remember the details but the risk was zero or low. Can't remember the fund name.

However, the advisor to the 50k person probably knows more than the advisor to the 50m person. The high networth advisor is even more of a salesman with no real knowledge.

But at the world's largest wealth management firms, 50m clients are not so encouraged. Wouldn't want to be a threat to the Managing Director or CEO.
History is always the upper and (part of) the middle classes trading placdes.
Buy Experiences, Not Things
OT: /waves from Patterson Park
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The article looks forward to a bright future where people who cut hair can earn much less than the current median wage of $11.12 an hour.
> I'd expect I'm not the only one who wants to pin few certs for sites that I visit frequently.

How can you tell what the backup pin for those websites would be without the owner publishing the HKPK headers? How do you know the max-age of their current pin?

It sound a bit like trying to stuff things into the browser's cache - a road to disaster.
I probably misrepresented what my intentions are. I'm not actually going on a research trip, but I do intend to visit Europe soonish, and hope to get a better understanding of what is going mainly by talking to locals etc.
I think of D as a sociopath who could be Nazi or "patriot" depending on which one would give him current advantage.
> that is an illegal migrant,

when not having documents == {theft, murder, fraud}
At least you can do that by adding other SA objects.

I used to do exactly this kind of filtering, by building up by SA query, back in the day (about 2008) when I last used SA in anger.
I'm just curious: in the first example of the section that you linked, what's the purpose of the "|| ', ' || " bit? I think the double pipe is used for concatenation in SQL, but I don't understand why the ', ' part needs to be concatenated like that.
80% of Syrian population lives in Syrian government controlled territory.

Those Alawites and Christian living on ISIS-controlled territory on the other hand...
The human traffickers. They distribute leaflets praising the benefits of each country.
I understand the reasoning, but this new syntax is still kind of verbose and ugly. I think one of the reasons Sass has been so successful is that it is elegant. It adds a lot of functionality to CSS, but does so in a way that feels very much at home. This new syntax doesn't feels very elegant and it doesn't feel at home with current CSS syntax.
What trade has no element of skill?
Couple thoughts coming from a late 80s baby raised in the burbs:

* Cars are a symbol of freedom. You don't have to ask mom or dad to drop you off at the movie theaters. You can actually do things after school with your friends rather than go straight home. You can blast music that expresses your counter cultural identity as loud as you want without anyone telling you to turn it down.

* Cars are an expression of identity. If you're about status, you rock the Benz. If you're about strength, you have the raised pickup truck. If you're about speed, you have the Civic with VTEC turbo, NOS, and the loud exhaust.

* Cars are fun. There is no better feeling than having your favorite music turned high, your windows down, and rapidly accelerating through traffic. The roar that you hear and feel from your car tops off the experience. I haven't been able to reproduce this rush on other vehicles like boats or bikes.
That still counts as timing the market and is Known to be ineffective. What if the market doesn't tank and you sit in cash for a long time? If it does tank, how will you know when is the true bottom for you to invest your last 10% in? Etc.
For us it was the "provisional license" prior to 18.

That said, in my house it didn't matter. Dad was old school and according to him, me getting a license would make his car insurance go up (which I would have to cover) but I wouldn't be allowed to drive his car because he depended on it to get to work and couldn't risk his punk-ass son messing it up.
> Things like a Secular government are new concepts to them

I don't think a secular government is a new concept for Syrians or Iraqis. Saudis, Afghans? Sure. But Syria and Iraq have been under secular governments pretty much since the fifties.

Now living in an open, liberal society like those in Western Europe is a different thing altogether, but for educated Syrians it's not an impossible endeavour. I think most of those actually making it to Germany/Sweden/etc. are from the most "modern" parts of society, as the less educated and poorer ones are pretty much stuck in Liban or Turkey
Europe is a very big place, with lots of countries and regions and cities and villages.

My take is that the great majority of people in Europe (as a whole) only see or hear about refugees in the television, in the news, and in the internet, just like everybody else in the world.

Of course (and just like everybody else in the world) that doesn't deter them from forming a very strong opinion about the subject, to express it very loudly in the internet and to fall prey to their local politicians using the crisis for their personal benefit (no matter what side of the divide they fall).

Just like you I won't form a strong opinion on the matter and I suggest you not to try give it much thought either. It is a very serious and complicated problem but there is a great change that the people who can help is already doing it and, as for the rest of the population, it is more likely their involvement will only hinder and cloud the matter even more.
Please understand that we feel a real threat here. Sweden, France and Belgium is already quite chaotic.

Please understand that some people think that people that have "fled" through multiple safe countries might not be the ones who most desperately needs help.
Over what time period? Like the last 2 years or longer or shorter? What specifically is the poor being asked about?
> If they aren't, private organisations have no incentive at all to act responsibility. Often they don't.

So the dentist in the license-free world have no ecnomic motivation to not just rip peoples teeth out with a pair of pliers?

People can self-regulate for risk and safety when they have complete information about the business. That would not have been available decades ago, but today we have the Internet and can easily move to interconnect everyone with common protocols to discern reviews and criticism of business to give consumers a more informed choice when choosing potentially dangerous trades, without crippling innovation and entrepreneurship within their domains.
Define "doing poorly".

IBM is down 17% percent in the last 6 months. (https://www.google.com/finance?q=ibm) As far as tech stocks go, that's not crisis-mode.

As far as newsworthyness, Watson and Bluemix have been making the press rounds.
Exactly. I go to cnn.com and wonder, "where's all the content?"

I think dearth of content, and overuse of blank space has a lot to do with responsive web design run amok.

You can have great tailored desktop, and mobile experience without pandering to RWD.

My favorite example is Sankei.

Desktop
http://www.sankei.com/

Mobile
http://www.sankei.com/smp/

There's no weird 6 different media query breakpoints. (like Smashing Magazine site). It has one fixed width layout for desktop, chalk full of descriptive text links, and just the right amount of photos.

Their mobile site is wonderful. Images are all lazy loaded.

And you know what the best part is?

Do "View Source" in either version. Look how clean and flat their markups are even with ad affiliate javascript code. There's more content than markups.

Reuters and nytimes are decent, because they have a lot of text content on home page. But do "View Source" and their lack of code discipline and brevity shows compared to sankei. There's far more html code than actual content.
Interesting points, but minor correction here. Typing Chinese efficiently has to do with the input method. Using pinyin as you suggest is actually hopelessly slow as you would have to first recall the precise pronunciation of the word (the -n vs -ng for example), type the pinyin, then scroll through the (normally) massive list of words. Of course, things like fuzzy pinyin and context aware suggestions help, but adopting an input method based on the character radical composition or handwriting recognition is much faster.
Aren't they destructive enough though?
Accountants have taken over leadership roles, resulting in a corporate-wide prioritization of earnings-per-share promises over engineering and logistics.
The left's intolerance veers toward totalitarianism.
PHP developers!

I'll see myself out.
Agreed, it's super weird to see that keep getting mentioned, that you need to minimize the volatility of your extreme fortune. Why? Are you planning to liquidate the extreme fortune in the next 1-5 years? ...
I don't think Steve Jobs is a good example for this discussion.
Oh, sure. No doubt at all.
IBM has transitioned into an enterprise services/consulting firm over the past 15 years or so. Their game plan is to get huge $$ contracts from Fortune 50 companies and government agencies, which is a long and costly process.

This kind of business is extremely hard to scale, compared to a true software or hardware company innovating and licensing/selling products. IBM does have a ton of resources behind Watson, but that's still basically an enterprise services contract sale, and not much of a cloud product.
Driving without a drivers license is also illegal (in most countries) but not considered equal to theft, murder or fraud. That's a false equivalence because not all things considered illegal are considered as abhorrent as murder or theft.
Or you're in the "techie: try it". Since this technology doesn't really exist yet and nearly everything about it is pure prediction.

Your "of course" isn't really true, is it? I mean, rental cars don't come with a toolbox or first aid kit. To be fair, the toolbox was because I had a crappy car and needed to be able to fix it. A car rental service would include maintenance, but that extra work, and cycling out the cars more often, would probably be more expensive than having my own car, no?

(BTW, the "spare tire" was in the #1 category, under "people will lease their cars to other while they don't need them", not the #2 category of "people will lease cars".)

I feel like you handwaved the 'there would be a solution available' by considering and dismissing only one point, and not seeing it as an example of a larger set of problems.

Where is the ski rack? The gun rack? The bike rack? The dog crate? The trailer hitch? The tinted windows? Choice of color? After-market satellite radio - or CB? Car underlighting? The special sound system? Fog lamps? "Baby on Board" decals? Wheelchair lifts, lowered floor, or scooter hoist for those with handicaps? Phone or laptop charger?

Skiing friends of mine would leave their gear (boots, skis, packs, masks, gloves, poles, etc. plus duct tape and tools to fix minor problems) in the back of their SUV so they could take off for the mountains during snow season. It's a hassle to lug all that equipment in and out for each trip, and you might easily forget something. My mother leaves a sewing machine (one of five) and other sewing gear in her trunk to make it easier to go to quilting events.

> You would have winter tires

Perhaps. It's hard to say. I lived in Santa Fe, and in the city didn't need snow tires. My friends lived in the country, at higher elevation, on the end of a long dirt driveway. New Mexico has a lot of dirt roads, so it's best to be prepared. Even if the cars in Santa Fe had their tires swapped out, what about the cars of day-trippers from Albuquerque? Or those in Sacramento who decide to go to Tahoe?

As I only needed the sand once, it seems like an expense to swap out the tires each year for something that isn't essential. How much will that add to the cost?
Colorful and imaginative writing. 75 years on, did it ever show to have a kernel of truth? It reads like a Just So Story that lets anyone call anyone else a Nazi in spirit.

I'e bet there are plenty of As to Es on both side of the Nazi divide.
This is a good read if you're interested in that sort of thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
As a native Eastern European (who has been in the US most of his life), I'm still occasionally flabbergasted at the paucity of 3+ bedroom apartment options in US cities, as well as how crappy the <= 2 BR options are. It seems there's a cultural expectation that once there's more than two of you, you move out to the suburbs and buy a freestanding house. Like you, I have absolutely zero intention of following that script.

Central/Eastern European apartments often had a small foyer, a narrow hall way, and doors along the perimeter into ~2-3 rooms--sometimes more. The hallway usually had closet space. One room was generally somewhat bigger than the others and understood to be a "living room". Kitchens were separate rooms and often had a door of their own, which effectively meant they were an additional room, since one could work, study and socialise at the kitchen table. Overall, there was much more compartmentalisation and walls, which I think is essential if you have children, but even if you don't. Interestingly, I wouldn't say their area was much bigger than 1-2 BR apartments typically found in America--the floor plan was just configured much more rationally. Such apartments were fairly close to table stakes in former socialist bloc countries, as well as elsewhere in central Europe.

For instance, my wife and I live with our three young children in a 2 BR ~1200 sq ft. unit in downtown Atlanta--definitely against the grain. It's the typical American apartment layout, a poor and awkward imitation of a house; front door that opens into an "open plan" consolidated living room and kitchen environment, and two bedrooms where "private life" is said to take place.

What would make far more sense to me would be to take that same 1200 sq ft. and dump the second bathroom and the unnecessarily large walk-in closet in the master bedroom. That would certainly provide for a third--if small--room that could be used as a study, which would literally make all the difference for allowing me to get at least some work done at home. And we don't need a giant "TV room"; what we need are walls, noooks and crannies. It's wasteful and pointless; it leaves us with two bedrooms that are really only good for sleeping, and one common area in which all five of us have to coexist much of the time. Might as well just get a large studio at that point.

As I see it, much of the problem with "open plan" offices carries over into "open plan" floor plans. I don't understand Americans' obsession with and preference for this design. It's perfectly possible for families to live comfortably in a central urban place with relatively little square footage--if it were designed more sensibly and with some of the virtues that otherwise can be found only in a freestanding house.
That is why patio11 was careful to say that you cannot find one who will predictably beat the market. Yes, those supermen do exist, but you can't determine beforehand who they will be, or if you can, whether they will be one of the diminishing few that will beat it next year (or for the next 10 years).
Canadian City Eradicates Homelessness with New Approach
In my experience Japanese site are way more cluttered than Chinese sites. Even with the large number of links and pictures Chinese sites look more organized and designed where Japanese sites are just a plain mess. My theory is that Japanese writing relies on the comparatively simple hiragana for "grammar" (not to go too deep into the topic) in addition to the complex chinese characters. As such it gives the text a kind of weird rhythm without which it is pretty difficult for them to read text (only presenting hiragana loses the meaning while only presenting kanji would be very hard to skim) As a result even when somewhat deliberately designed, the end result seems like a jumbled mess of characters with varying contrast randomly flowing together. Additionally words that would for example appear in a menu are of either writing system and as a result of varying length, thus difficult to align.

Combine this with the sofware industry here being absolutely driven by incompetence ("as long as you shut up and work hard [= long hours] you are a good employee") in most places you get no willingness to risk changing the status quo that is stuck in the late 90's.

Compared to that Chinese sites look pretty refined to me, with the same sort of characters of usually very similar length and while there is no whitespace the contrast between characters is much less varied and looks much more pleasant in my opinion. I can see contemporary patterns are also used a lot more too which suggest China in general is more aware of and willing to incorporate the latest trends. Taobao vs Rakuten might be a good example. Yahoo US vs CN vs JP (the latter run completely by Yahoo Japan and has nothing to do with actual Yahoo anymore) is another.
Since its March 2013 high. Their revenues have been decreasing for 14 straight quarters
Sanctions are only a problem for the little people. The governing elites aren't missing any steak, iPhones, and caviar.
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That struck me too:

No mention of doctors, lawyers, civil engineers, architects, librarians, actuarians, dentists, pharmacists .. in that article.

These all professionalized in the late 19th/early 20th century, to great benefit of practitioners in these fields, in terms of remuneration or job security or even both. If those get to benefit from rent seeking, it is not surprising that others would seek the same advantage.
From my lowly developer point of view.

Power may be a bit quicker than Intel, but it's unfamiliar to many. Nvidia is breaking new ground, it's sexy, accessible, and cheaper.

On the software side it's a similar story. Why use their unknown proprietary cloud stuff when I can just make use of the plethora python/julia/clojure/R stuff? AWS is fancy and ever expanding, Softlayer is a PITA.

IBM biz news http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=ibm
I was interested enough to follow the link the OP entitled
"Across America, 535,000 children ages 1 through 5 suffer lead poisoning, by C.D.C. estimates."

Here it is for convenience:

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6213a3.htm (2013)

As far as I can tell, the CDC regularly tests some children in a malnourished nutrition program (not a random sample of all children), with sample sizes in the N=1600 to 1800 range over several years. They divided that data into several cohorts, and over time the incidence of children above the threshold reported has decreased in all factor categories, so that by the 2010 cohort it was one third what the incidence was in the 2000 cohort.

Now I didn't do more than skim the article -- did I miss a smoking gun? Or am I looking at link bait by a journalist?

I do not wish to belittle whatever crisis the article is about, whatever it is, but its links backing up the alarm are not, in fact alarming.

"Lead poisoning in poor children decreased 3x over the Augties, CDC said 3 years ago"

The author seems to have done a deep dive and found some alarming numbers. I wonder if his Iowa data are from the Quad Cities area -- a region historically known for lead mining. I can well imagine that lead poisoning has a strong environmental and industrial component, and that some places are worse than others just because of the soil. That is certainly true of exposure to radon gas in the home, for example.
For me it's not so much about "allure" as it is economics. I live with my girlfriend and she has a modest car that she's paid off. We both work downtown and live about 3 miles from work. We mostly ride to work together so we only pay for one parking pass and use one car's worth of fuel.

When weather is nice I may ride my bike to work or ride the motorcycle I bought for shorter trips that don't require the car or highway driving. Either way, the bike cost maybe a third of what her car cost but neither of us is paying off a vehicle loan.

I've considered getting a second car. Something used and under $10k. Maybe even under $8k. Basically I think about it those handful of times it's not convenient to share the car and I need to pay $10 to take a cab/Uber or rent something once a year for a longer trip while she needs the car.

But I can never really justify it. As much as I'd like my own car, even a perfect balance (cheap/old enough to be affordable but no to much that maintenance makes up the difference) would cost way more than hiring or renting something for the times I'd use it.
Julia is in a category by itself because it requires runtime reflection on types to do just-in-time compilation of code at the time of a method call.

It looks like it would be quite hard to translate Julia code to another language that doesn't have multi-method dispatching, so you pretty much need a Julia VM to run it.
Does it mean its core revenues are more stable? Are enterprise customers moving away from it?
Except this happens to all languages when they grow big.

If the language is a rich one, then every shop uses part of it.

If the language has a rich library ecosystem, then each shop has its own little garden of libraries.
AWS does cater to enterprise customers, but do they have the same one point of contact style service that IBM has historically provided?
Am I the only one who thinks that "rent-seeking" is a wildly misleading name for this phenomenon? To normal people, "rent-seeking" means "looking to collect on a payment for leased property".

Same for "moral hazard". I'm not sure what phenomenon that phrase should be applied to, but it certainly shouldn't be applied to the phenomenon of people taking more risks because they won't have to deal with the fallout. That phenomenon should be called something like "risk asymmetry".
Could be. At least your assumption, unlike mine, is testable. If it's an unintentional bug, the policy behind "Error 53" will become more consumer-friendly in an upcoming iOS update. If it doesn't... well, Occam wins the day.
Agreed one hundred percent, being formatively from an urban background and then transported into suburbia in childhood. Much of my useful life experience and skills in that stage of life came from exposure to the reputed "grit" of cities.

Suburbia offered nothing in this regard. It was a contentless, vapid expanse of nothingness, where I couldn't go anywhere or do anything without being deliberately driven there by my parents.
setup.py does 2 things before other commands: delete __dev__/package_name, and copy files from root to __dev__/package_name.

That means if you do `setup.py develop`, your links are pointing to the copy inside of __dev__, and not to the files in the root directory. So even if you modify files and commit changes, the installed link still points at the old installation - which is exactly how `develop` is not supposed to act.

> `insideout` doesn't delete the ugliness. It merely postpones it from the viewer's eyes

I'd say it prioritises what's supposed to be "important". And it's a very one-sided view of "important".