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This comment is true and helpful, but I worry that someone reading this comment might conflate "approximately all financial advisors offer similar advice, regardless of cost" with "no one can beat the market, it's always superior to put your money in an index fund" due to prevailing socio-political opinions surrounding Wall St. Those are two very different statements.

To add a little nuance: I always recommend a flat fee financial advisor too, but there are people and funds capable of consistently beating the market. They are just so exceedingly rare that it's difficult to separate them and their results from the crowded noise of people who either think they can or who know they can't but will claim they can anyway.

Still, most investors ("retail investors") should use an index fund.

Just a minor point that bears mentioning.
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As I understand it, there are a number of potential optimizations based on Rust's implicit understanding of the lifetime of a memory region. LLVM doesn't know about those because they can't be represented in the IR. Last I heard, any kind of optimization work based on the extra information rustc has is waiting for the compiler refactor that's currently underway.
If you hadn't used Opera before it became yet-another-WebKit-shell, you wouldn't understand. Going to a higher version number would be more of a downgrade.
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Don't know for sure, but IIRC, opera 10 was one of the last good versions of opera before their new management started ruining stuff and eventually sold out and became a chromium skin.

I'd jump back to opera in an instant if they had all the features of the old versions, but with a modern html and JavaScript engine.
> Does the market still function as a market if everybody uses index funds or robo advisers?

The more people forego seeking alpha the more of it that is available. So even if 50% of the market is passive, the pricing signals will all come from the 50% that's being actively managed.
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Still don't understand why do we need this, and what would it solve in the US
That would be a pretty weird "market" if money didn't shift to the opportunities created in such an environment.
Did you watch the video?

Curious why you think using const functions doesn't prevent data races after watching

at 29:00 he says the C++ standard guarantees const member functions are data race free.
The advice people really need is tax advice. There's a grey line between investment and tax advice.
I'm not sure you quite grasp how hardscrabble these areas are, and 7/11 and Shell are both franchise operations in the first place. The capital still needs to come from somewhere, and gas has worse margins than grocery in the first place.
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Use Lambda + PhantomJS + D3 to make a lot of visualizations that are saved as images. It works well but the development was a bit of a pain, and finding a PhantomJS binary that was compatible with Amazon's flavour of linux took a little while.
Yes, it was a victory for the US. The objective was telling any country in the world "look, this happens if you side with the wrong guys, that is, not us". Saying "we lost" while ignoring the millions of vietnamese dead, civilian and military, north and south, the millions of wounded, the forests and infrastructure destroyed, the consequences of that war today (Agent Orange, unexploded bombs), is an exercise of imagination that baffles me. A victory for the US would be what, the same destruction plus a parade of US forces in Hanoi?
Do you know if this is actually very different from one of Vanguard's target retirement funds? Taking a brief look at Betterment's portfolio make it seem like the distribution is almost identical. Did I look at the wrong offering at Betterment?
This is very odd. I know universities can be very liberal places, but where did this combination of "mandatory" and "student-run" come from? I'm actually in favour of flattening hierarchies - but not inverting them. Why should students barely out of high school get to dictate the behaviour of teaching assistants who may be up to 40 years their senior? Why should the power relationships be temporarily inverted like that?
He does caution that the figures may not be comparable. I don't know the details of the figures, but I can imagine they normally only test children who have been found to be exposed, so you'd expect higher rates. In Flint they've tested more widely, though of course exposure is wider too.
I just got a phone call from a friend in his last quarter at a top 10 uni last night - he was stressed out because his research group hadn't actually written any code yet. It was all copy pasted from other projects.

They ran into some issues, and have no idea how the code base works and can't fix it. I think (on my experience) schools teach you syntax, and lots of history. Not much application.
Yep, I've used this too in simple flask programs. Pretty simple, and it's great when you don't really need to do anything beyond simple data storage and retrieval. It's upsert functionality is pretty handy—particularly pre-DB support. Not that any of this couldn't be done by hand, but why when you don't have to?
>What does GitHub have that makes it irreplaceable in a short time?

All the alternatives are slow, clunky and ugly.
I recently played around in this space ( https://medium.com/data-engineering/artificial-startup-style... ). I was merely thinking through what it would take to turn this into a Turing test and not actually executing one.

These guys seem to be trying harder to actually make this a Turing test, but as the commenters above have noted, the problem with using source photographs makes this a fairly imperfect test. I have a suggested fix for that.

In my last effort in that post, I actually used one source photograph, and then compared the output by a human painter and the AI painter. My original results were terrible, but then quickly vastly improved by a better implementation of the algorithm, the Deep Forger implementation.

I think that this variant in the procedure, having both the human and the AI start from the same source photograph, could make for some interesting variants on Turing testing.
The saddest part of it all is that we were allied with Vietnam in WW2 with OSS operatives in assistance.[1] Ho Chi Minh reached out to the United States for our support at the end of the war. Unfortunately, the French wanted back their pride and their colonies and refused to support the Marshall plan without them. So we turned our back on a people who wanted to be independent for politics and a desire to buttress Western Europe against communism.[2] We then followed the French in after their fiasco at Dien Bien Phu to fight the spread of the communist menace.

For the longest time I thought the Vietnamese were the biggest losers in this. They got their independence, but down a path closer to North Korea instead of South Korea after much loss of life. But now I think America was the biggest loser. We lost a cornerstone of our culture: military service. We killed the draft and a generation has been inoculated with the attitude military service is for poor people without other options. The military has begun to privatize and isolate itself from America. Fewer and fewer people serve. Many people serving in Iraq were paid, foreign contractors. Debate about the military is nonexistent. Everyone “supports the troops,” but the wars are either patriotic or evil, with little discussion of execution and goals. It saddens me and makes me think of Rome at the end of the Republican period. [3]

[1] http://www.historynet.com/ho-chi-minh-and-the-oss.htm

[2] https://books.google.com/books?id=B59ZUKeNoD4C&pg=PA47&lpg=P...

[3] http://www.historynet.com/romes-barbarian-mercenaries.htm
Everything's on the CPU right now. Since the interactions between particles is incredibly complex and is designed for serial execution, the best place to start is rendering visuals like fire and blob effects. However, on my machine there is little difference in performance when toggling this feature on/off.
Sidenote: displaying the player controls not in the video but at the very bottom of the page is interesting, but will likely lead to more confusion for many users. I think it would be better to display them in the video window as the major video websites do.
Please please please please support a sane version of Node (something released less than 9 years ago would be nice...)
That's why banks offer business loans.
What do you think lobbying is exactly?

By and large, lobbying is the process of presenting politicians with factual and legal arguments to support policy positions that they wanted to take anyway. So if climate change legislation would be bad for your company, you go find the conservative politicians who are ideologically opposed to environmental regulation and you present their staff with every bit of information you can find to throw into the debate.

Why should this be illegal?
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I did not mean to say Facebook or Google replace Twitter with these platforms. If you look at Instagram and WhatsApp, Facebook only made these products better, gave them more independence, did not force them into Facebook ecosystem. Facebook has become really great at execution and building great products. Twitter would get the same independence from Facebook but they will learn a thing or two about execution. Similarly, Google has a different value prop. They can bring machine learning to Twitter and make Twitter really useful.
Sure, but that's the low-hanging fruit of tax avoidance.
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I think the social effects of GitHub are very strong. It's the de facto arena for open source collaboration. By using it, a project signals that they choose the most widely used community, and thus encourage participation. It's familiar. Everybody has an account. There's built in GitHub support in package managers, even, so the namespace of "githubuser/project" is valuable.

Personally I'm not interested in another clone of GitHub.com. Let's try another model entirely. Something more distributed and federated. That way lies diversity and immunity to lock-in. Let's collaborate in an open fashion using open protocols and decentralized hosting.
Do I really have to have a Facebook or Twitter account?
True, I should have been more precise. I meant 'North' aligned forces as in all those that opposed American invasion, Northern and Southern Vietnamese alike.

In fact, Vietnam would have never won if there were no substantial (some might even say majority) support from the Southern inhabitants. From manpower, to resources, to shelter and hiding FNL agents the support of the population helped to erode the Diem regime et al.

Being Spartan like in certain ways! Confucian philosophy Vietnamese flavoured. Values like respecting elders, being of virtue, and being studious certainly are highly regarded. But just as much valor, military prowess (and by proxy the ability to defend the country against much stronger occupying forces) and endurance in the face of adversity are highly regarded in Vietnamese culture.

So yes, the profession of being a soldier e.g. being a mercenary is not as respected as a teacher; a soldier 'by circumstance', following the call of duty, fighting to defend the country? Very much so.
It's easy to see this in terms of statistics if it's not _your_ 2-year old with the speech delay. Not all individuals tolerate lead at the same level. Lead was commonly used in the middle ages and not everyone suffered from the neurological damage that lead can cause.

Statistics are the best tool we have but it's also important to realize that when the incidence rate is low enough, you need a lot of data for statistical methods to be reliable. We see this in A/B testing of conversion rates. If your base conversion rate is only 0.1% and you are looking for a 15% lift (e.g. 15% higher chance of lead poisoning), then you need a sample size of over 700,000 for each branch (i.e. 700,000 kids "exposed" to lead and 700,000 not exposed). That kind of sample size is hard to come by.
This has to be the best kind of user complaint. I amreallycurious if anybody from Google actually answers and I am dying to see how they explain this kind of "flaw" to their loyal user
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The anarchist position is totally self defeating. We live in a complex society so some systems are needed. You can't do without a functioning justice system, functioning infrastructure, a financial system you can trust not to steal your money and other things. The market can't provide these things without some rules.

I really wish people would start asking for government accountability instead of wanting to abolish things that don't work and thinking that there is some magic fairy that will jump in and make it work. Getting systems to work well is hard, never-ending work and there are no simple solutions. Most of us here build technology systems so we should know this first hand.
Is it trading in the US yet? Their website still says "early 2016".
The all_comments page was accessible from any browser, not even requiring JS. Now the only option is AJAX-loaded comments. IMHO it's another following of a sad trend to replace simple, reliable functionality with more complex and less accessible ones.

This reminds me of Twitter experimenting with full-AJAX loading of tweets a while ago...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1798891

...then reverting 2 years later:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3614037
And unopinionated. It takes a tremendous amount of listening, polishing, and gardening to arrive at what github has built.
I'm actually not sure how much is really new here. Yes, he's expended a lot of effort and done this systematically and he's released the photos as creative commons which isn't normally the default so a lot of people don't use it. However, as we speak, there are any number of students both on college newspapers and other amateurs taking many thousands of pictures of candidates at their stump speeches and rallies. And this has been the case for a long time. The photos just aren't readily available for reuse.
Given that the EPA wasn't going to warn anyone until the issue was outed by a private individual doing research on their own, we probably have no good idea how bad it is....but the EPA probably does.
It's very strange that the original image even shows signs of doctoring (note the two duplicated columns of water). It is so incredibly obvious to see - why were either of them manipulated in this way?
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The article didn't make mention multiplexing and MaxSessions defaults in OpenSSH. The default is 10 which means you auth once, and all subsequent logins are without auth and without syslog entries. If you manage secure systems and have 2FA, this allows bypassing 2FA and logging.

All I have to do is trick your folks into testing a ruby / python / perl / bash script for me that will drop a key on your machine, fire up ssh using that key and tunnel back to my host. Now I have full control of your secure (banking, government, eCommerce) environment, completely bypassing 2 factor authentication. Just one link to one of your email distros and up to 10% of your folks will run it.

Combine this with sudo credential caching and now I have root on all of your systems without having to bother finding vulns.

Thx to Prandium for the demo of this simple social engineering exploit.
I have a few projects on github and bitbucket, and find bitbucket a joy to use (and free, even for private projects).

Obviously, bitbucket could decide to do the same shortly after github (as I'm fairly certain they made free repos available to attract github's customers, and free private repos to differentiate). In the case that it does, I'm not sure what I'd do.
I have a really hard time believing these figures, if only because it would essentially render Flint a non-issue. 32% of Iowan children being poisoned would be what we'd all be hearing about (if only because it might be a convenient primary issue).
I find it very disheartening that you and other commenters in this conversation are so happy to brush away the the real harm to the foreigner who doesn't get to work in the first world. You for instance summarize the benefits of free movement of labor as 'profits increase in the short term - hurrah' and 'good deal for individual Indians but not for the Indian economy'. I feel like that is quite hurtful to H-1B holder whose life could be radically transformed by having the opportunity to work in the US.

I find the ease with which you are willing to draft me in a war that I did not chose to be disheartening. That somehow it is the duty of the talented people
of the source economy to to grow it. How about you move to India the grow its economy? (Maybe you are actually a third-worlder who gave up the opportunity to move to the first-world to make your home country better. In that case I deeply admire your sacrifice. But if in fact you are a first-worlder who grew up with all the advantages that the first-world has to offer and still don't see the hypocrisy in asking a third-worlder to stay home because he/she happened to be born in the wrong country, you should engage in some self-reflection.

Your citation of the Comparative Advantage section of David Ricardo's wikipedia page does not give me too much confidence on your understanding of the economic theory of free trade (especially as it pertains to labor) and the shortcomings of that theory. You must be aware that Ricardo says exactly the opposite of your point of view since you label your point of view as the 'reverse Ricardian effect.'

At the very least, provide a reference to the 'reverse Ricardian effect' that perhaps quantitatively models how reduced spending on wages causes an economy to fall off a cliff?

Also, I'm not sure I understand your theory of what counts as unethical discrimination. Why is it wrong for an employer to prefer less competent but cheaper employees? And is this only a problem if the cheaper employees are non-local?
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While this is indeed pretty dire, it's worth bearing in mind that the entire generation who are currently running the world suffer from lead poisoning to one degree or another - atmospheric lead from gasoline additives was a major source of lead in humans until lead was withdrawn from petroleum. Add that to most paints being lead based until the last quarter of the 20th century, and you have an entire generation of brain damage.

The western roman empire quite likely degraded in part due to its leadership being brain damaged by lead - they added lead acetate to wine as a sweetener, and lined watercourses with lead regularly - although the former was a far greater source. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/win... for some reference.

In any case, a huge chunk of the world's population has heavy metal poisoning, be it mercury, lead, cadmium, or all of the above - and it's largely being ignored, and things like Flint are almost unhelpful, as it makes this look like a localised problem, when it's actually global.
This is his brother Erhan, but I'll pass on the kind words! Omer is back making first looks on the new MMOS.com YouTube Channel, check it out!
I am just wondering if those opportunities would be more about exploiting weaknesses in other algorithms and less about identifying good companies.
What part of my comment implied I am doing a guess work.
See also this article I wrote explaining this: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/fervent_defense_of_f...

Concretely speaking, HFTs price discriminate when providing liquidity. Grandma gets a good price to sell her 2 lots of GOOG, but Bill Ackman and George Soros need to pay more to sell 20000 lots.
The market isn't losing valuable insights from people who are investing in index funds. Even if they were confident enough in an individual stock to buy shares, that doesn't mean they have any real insight about the company. For example, thinking RHT is a good buy at 63 doesn't demonstrate any insight about Red Hats business, management or market.

I suspect the opposite is true: the market would be better if people invested in index funds rather than individual stocks when they didn't have any insight about the company. I don't have definitions to separate company "insight" from the more speculative information, but the distinction seems real enough.
Chelation therapy is a common alternative medicine therapy. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelation_therapy#Use_in_alter... .

There is very little evidence that those plants are effective. The positive studies I've seen (based on a few hours of looking in PubMed last year) are only in animal tests, and are more suggestive than conclusive.

An effective study would also need to show some response curve. Is one leaf of coriander a month good enough, or do I need to eat 200 grams per day to get a 5% decrease in blood lead levels?

Chelation therapy, like with EDTA and DMSA, can be effective for heavy metal poisoning, but they have limits and side effects. For example, "From 2003 to 2005, deaths of 3 individuals as a result of cardiac arrest caused by hypocalcemia during chelation therapy with EDTA were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" (from Wikipedia) and "The oral chelation test using DMSA may lead to misleading diagnostic advice regarding potential mercury toxicity and can be associated with serious side effects" (from http://acb.sagepub.com/content/41/3/233 ).
I would like it if you'd put a video on the landing page, to show mobile users what it can do and how it works.
Yes, unsound gradual typing is clearly worth it. For example, using Typescript shouldn't have any performance penalties over JavaScript since it's purely a compile time thing.
Oh, duh. Of course. :)
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How does drive away of open source projects would make corporate customers feel better? They are related to me, but exactly opposite of what you said (open source projects test github features used by corporates).
I searched for flat leather sandals and the first three things on the results page were:

- something called Jane Design that gave an internal server error when clicked,

- two links to some UI framework

The rest of the page was the output of a Google custom search.

So the idea sounds interesting but first impressions are definitely zero out of ten.
I don't find it that great. Finding your own repositories is a bit cryptic compared to bitbucket.
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Agreed. I also see very little value in simply cloning GitHubg, that's one of my problems with GitLab. I like it, it's open source and the perfs get better, but at the end of the day, it is a clone of GitHub. Not much innovation. I would love to say a player take some risk and try to present a new model and new way to leverage Git.
The article Links through to how the original iPod was ROM dumped which I found interesting.

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Perhaps the user doesn't want his/her web browsing experience to be the awful, bloated, slow, tracking-laden experience that javascript has made it into for the rest of us.

I for one applaud this individual.