skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are still very poorly-defined (what is "keeping people busy"? what is "useless to society"? Examples, maybe?), so it's hard to say anything about them. That said, I don't see why reducing the labor supply would eliminate jobs like those before other jobs.
Perhaps it's what we were looking for?

I suspect that we can be trained to spot fakes too to make it harder. Perhaps there will be some co-evolution?
Maybe I was too broad when I said "understand" - I had no intention of trivializing economics. I'm interested in it because it's both complex and relevant. I just want to know more than I know now.

If I were to look at physics, I can model simple systems in classical physics quite easily using a computer. In biology I can model population dynamics. Doing so helps me learn, and I find it gives me a deeping understanding as it forces me to be clear about exactly what is going into a model.

I'm aware that economics is a much softer science, but other than Peter Novig's example I can't find much in the way of modelling as a learning tool (rather than a research tool).

Does that approach exist anywhere?
I'm pretty sure the argument here was that most people would believe someone that is close to them. Someone that they know, someone that they trust.

However that wouldn't, and shouldn't be extended to a stranger without proof. Especially in regards to career damaging allegations and even more so after an independent investigation turned up nothing to substantiate her claims (other than TPW's wife working too closely within the company).
If the Romans knew lead pipes made water unhealthy, how did we end up with so much lead piping? (I'm not asking the question as a refutation, I'm genuinely curious - was this a lesson we forgot??)
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Someone finds a zero day html parser vulnerability and takes over your computer by putting the malicious markup in a banner ad.

More experienced users are not safer in any way if they're using unpatched and unsupported software.
So what? What if he were to use curl or wget? What then?
What nonsense are you blathering? Github isn't open source so you can't fork it. Meanwhile there are lots of other GitHub-a-likes out there - Gitlab is only one of them. So if you don't like Gitlab either, there are other choices.
Notice that these percentage are the percentage of children with "elevated lead"., I'm making up numbers here but If we consider elevated to be anything more than X ug/L . first of all how was this X chosen? Secondly, if 6.7% of NY state children have (X + 0.01), this would be very different from 4.9% of children who have let's say ( X * 3 )
Instead of looking at race, we should be looking at culture. Is education stressed in the family?

The railroads were built on the backs of what is essentially Chinese slaves in America.

Chinese restaurants spread around mostly because of rampant racism that forced many families and businesses out of san fransico and into the midwest.

Many of the descendents of these same immigrants are now extremely successful. Why? Because they didn't pass on a victim mentality and instead pushed their kids to succeed at all costs.

I'm really tired of these articles that give us straight statistics and somehow equate this with racism.
You are missing the point of war, it is not to win!!! The aim is to perpetuate war and the profits made by the war-mongers, as paid for by the domestic tax payer. WW1 poets - Sassoon et al - noticed this and nothing has changed since. So, from that perspective, when Gorby 'took the enemy away' that was a serious loss for our overlords in the likes of Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems etc.
The robo advisors charge an extra 0.3-0.4% on top of Vanguard's expense ratios. So at the very least, from a cost perspective, they're more expensive than just using Vanguard.

(Side note: The target date funds have slightly higher expense ratios than just rolling your own with the same underlying funds and "Admiral" share classes.)

The question is, what is the value you're getting out of Betterment/Wealthfront? I don't recall where, but I've seen one or the other say that its estimated value-add was 0.7-1%. So less their fees, that's net positive (if you trust that).

Automated tax-loss harvesting is a big deal for workers. It saves you a little income tax at your marginal rate.

Automated rebalancing removes some of the annual work associated with maintaining your own portfolio (but so does a target-date fund).

At the end of the day, I'm not sure they're worth the fees... I still manage my own (simple index-fund portfolio). But they're pretty close to worth it.
> The last time foreign soldiers invaded the US proper was when Canada marched into Washington.

A foreign army invaded the South decades after that.
The essence of any totalitarian strategy is to seize some resources, invent a necessarily preposterous myth, then in exchange for demonstrating belief in the myth, re-distribute the resources arbitrarily among a minority of people who are easily replaceable and know it. The secret is to then reward people from the majority for denouncing and replacing members of the minority for not being zealous enough, so that they can elevate themselves through commitment to the myth. This has the self-policing effect of keeping everyone in line.

So long as you can keep those resources coming to your ruling coalition of highly replaceable idiots, you are golden. Read Smith and DeMesquita's "Dictator's Handbook" for details of how this works.

It doesn't matter whether that myth is of a 3000 year reign, the supreme right of a proletariat, the divinity of leader, that my golf handicap includes 11 holes in one, the revolution, or even that my particular tribe or ethnic group is morally superior to your tribe or ethnic group. It's all the same shit.

What people don't talk about is how these assholes seize power. It's through charismatic promises of future rewards to people who think they have nothing. They appeal to the greed and impulsiveness of the poor, it's a straight short con.

The nuanced part is how you get current status quo supporters to switch sides and provide their support to the challenger. They do this with a second message that triggers the middling man's sense of loss aversion. This is just posing a credible prisoners dilemma in which if moderates and supporters defect now, they get to keep their social position, but if they hold out, they will lose everything.

Arguably, this model of political polarization shows how ISIS works, how feminism annexed academia, why Trump is popular, why Occupy failed but why BLM could grow exponentially.

Nazi's were repugnant, but history would show that being repugnant is likely more indicative of political success than failure.
Exactly! Here is a telegram Ho Chi Minh sent Truman on the 28th of February, 1948. A piece of history you can touch. (well you would have to break into the archive or work there, but theoretically hehe)

http://todaysdocument.tumblr.com/post/18436528466/dated-febr...

Published by the national archives, it shows that Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist and independence seeker first, and Communist second (or even third)

In fact, having spent time in Paris, Boston, Moscow and Hongkong working menial jobs and getting in contact with western philosophies in his youth he actually chose to quote

"All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness"

this from the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in his independence speech after French occupation.

The course of history might have been slightly different...
> Wealthy individuals have access to investment strategies resemble far more the philosophy of large pension funds than robo-advisors.

I know these are naive questions, but here goes: do those pension funds differ greatly from large university endowments? How do those differ from what one can achieve using a combination of cheap index funds? Ramit Sethi famously recommended an allocation based on David Swensen's experience managing the Yale endowment. You can find index funds to match that reasonably well. How different will that be from what Yale or a pension fund actually does?
If you make an accusation, especially one like this, that could easily destroy the life of the accused, of course you have to prove your claim. Innocent until proven guilty. It's perfectly sound logic, it applies to anyone regardless of gender, and nothing about that is sexist.
Hoping to see first half or perhaps a bit more of that (I'm pushing 60)

In my case: line noise on teletype -> tablets
I'm not sure I agree re (2). TLH isn't super difficult, but there are enough things to do wrong that it's easy to fuck up.
My friend Mike had success using Linkedin for specialized professional expertise related to his field. That would probably be where I would start.

That said, Mike was in a position to evaluate the experts because it was related to his expertise.
That stat IS in that article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender#Rape_of_females

"In a 2000 research article from the Home Office, in England and
Wales, around 1 in 20 women (5%) said that they had been raped at some point in their life from the age of 16 beyond.[6]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender#Rape_of_males

"The same study found that approximately 1 in 21 men had been made to penetrate someone else, usually an intimate partner or acquaintance."

This is completely in line with original claim, "have been forced into sexual intercourse against their will". Wiki page does call this rape when it comes to women, but not when it comes to men.
Anyone interested in robo-investing might also be interested in Quantopian (https://www.quantopian.com/).

It's marketed as a platform that facilitates competition for the best trading algorithms but really, algos can be as complex or as simple as you want. A simple monthly portfolio rebalancer takes ~5 lines of code (handle_data is boilerplate required by the platform):

def initialize(context):
schedule_function(rebalance, date_rule=date_rules.month_end())

def rebalance(context, data):
order_target_percent(symbol('IVV'), .6)
order_target_percent(symbol('MUB'), .4)

def handle_data(context, data):
pass

Plug that in, backtest it (it has a pretty comprehensive backtesting and research suite) and add your Interactive Brokers or Robinhood account details and you're off.

It's all free as well.

Note: I have no ties to Quantopian, I just discovered them after being disappointed by how little flexibility Wealthfront and Betterment offered me.
>It's politically untenable for water boards to raise rates, especially since water bills are not progressive (seniors and the poor pay the same rate as rich people).<

Based on my experience this is a key factor...

Just maintaining an aged system--making repairs to keep the water flowing--sometimes fully stretches the yearly budget...

I have a friend, a local businessman, who serves on the board of our local rural water district...he is a good man, serving with other good men and women, and the community is lucky to have such responsible citizens...in ways that they cannot even begin to imagine...

The board meets regularly to to review appeals from citizens who cannot afford that month's water bill...in almost all cases extensions are granted...

This is an infrastructure issue just as much as it is a health issue...don't get me wrong, safety is critical, absolutely...often utilities are doing the best they can with what they have to work with...all the while fully aware of what would be required for them to do better...
She works as a senior designer at Apple.
>2008 was a wasted opportunity to combine much needed infrastructure investment with fiscal stimulus.

Yeah, but that would raise employment and, by extension, wages, which American business elites don't want.

They'd rather keep half heartedly talking about basic income and some techno utopian magic robotic future for the next 50 years rather than support restarting the Public Works Administration and providing a decent job guarantees again to do actual needed work like this.
> In short, dataset makes reading and writing data in databases as simple as reading and writing JSON files.

But SQL is the best DSL for databases Period.
The history of the 20th century actually shows the opposite--both the labor and environmental movements employed lobbying tactics in direct opposition to moneyed corporate interests, and achieved huge success (they each got their own Cabinet agency, for example).
>Twenty years ago the only people taking photos of this quality were professional photographers. Now we have college students who can work really hard over a school break and be able to afford a great camera setup.

Eh. Plenty of amateurs using SLRs were taking good, solid photos 20 or 30 years ago. How do you think the pros got their jobs if not by becoming good photographers first?

It is far easier these days is to take photos that are technically proficient especially in difficult light. (My brain probably still holds way too much arcane and now useless information about B&W film processing chemistry.) And, of course, it's far easier for amateurs to get their photos seen.
How about https://github.com/ccontavalli/ssh-ident ? Is that still a "best practice", since the author doesn't mention it in this blog entry?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba

"In 1958, Cuba was a relatively well-advanced country by Latin American standards, and in some cases by world standards".

Compare with Chile which used to be poor.
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Yup: one of my grandfathers walked off the land, got a job as a dockside blacksmith and was a professional soldier in 1913 (bad news, Ypres, Passchendaele, Mons the whole lot).
I have now, and you are correct. It also says so in the README. The API looks like it's designed to be compatible with any SQL database, though.
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That same society at a different time determined slavery, jim crow laws and other prejudicial treatments were once okay just as it did affirmative action. An appeal to authority or populism doesn't make it good or right. It merely makes it lawful and/or socially acceptable.

There are many widely published and peer reviewed theories that turned out to be wrong after implementing them and empirically seeing that they are imperfect. There are scientific theories and there are non-scientific theories and the one you've put forth is squarely in the camp of non-scientific theory, which typically are hypotheses that lack the ability to be disproved.

I would like to think we can do better than replacing one system of prejudices with another. We've seen the pendulum swing both ways enough time now to better predict where the ideas contributing to momentum of the pendulum will lead to an over-correction and novel injustices.
Mind was blown first time I learned that gluing wood together along the grain is often as strong a bond as the wood itself.
What would the resource be in the case of BLM?
The github page says "Records is a very simple, but powerful, library for making raw SQL queries to Postgres databases" - so it does seem PG specific
Well, the UK wasn't by any means completely destroyed in WW2 and there's a lot of work being done there to upgrade centuries old infrastructure.

Some examples:

1) The Thames Tideway sewer is being constructed to handle the fact that the old London sewers have run out of capacity and routinely flood sewage into the Thames when there are heavy rains. The problem is that unlike modern sewer systems, London's is used for both rainwater and household sewage. And the original system was designed to overflow into the Thames, on the assumption that would ~never happen. But population growth and lots more concreting means it now happens regularly. The Thames Tideway is a massive, very deep underground tunnel that roughly follows the path of the river.

2) The London Underground is the world's oldest underground railway. It is upgraded continuously. The Crossrail upgrade is the largest construction project in Europe (technically Crossrail is not LU, but it's all a part of an integrated somewhat underground network).

3) The UK road network costs less to maintain than is raised via fuel taxes. The roads are effectively a profit centre for the government, in a sense. They are maintained continuously.

4) The UK water pipe network has had leaks at an economically sustainable level for 15 years now (i.e. the cost to find and fix the remaining leaks is higher than the value of the water lost). It does not use lead piping:

http://dwi.defra.gov.uk/consumers/advice-leaflets/lead.pdf

I don't think there's actually any difference in infrastructure age between Europe and America. WW2 is a red herring. A lot of modern infrastructure runs underground and was undamaged or only lightly damaged by bombing, which was in any case, focused on the cities. The biggest impact of WW2 on the London Underground, for example, is that these days they have to do systematic searches for unexploded underground bombs before doing any work.
Best as in market share, but certainly not best by it's own merits. (ie there is better git management software)
It's not like Github and Google Code are the only two choices. (Of course, Google Code isn't a choice, as it's shutting down.)
I suppose this tool has it's place in the ecosystem. I just wonder why anyone would use this when there are ORMs ....

EDIT: I'm not saying this is a waste of time from a developer who obviously puts out quality projects. I'm saying I don't see myself using it. I'm most familiar and comfortable with the Django ORM and have overseen a large project with it. There were several raw queries when I took over but once I left it there were none and all the replacement I did was clean ORM queries more performant than their raw SQL predecessors.
>Q: Would you guys consider moving off Google groups to a real mailing list?

>Sure if there was a good reason.

I haven't checked their group specifically, but every other Google Group I've tried to join without using my gmail account simply refused to let me join. People seem to insist that it's possible, but every time I've tried it's put me in an endless "verify your email" loop.
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I don't believe anyone seriously uses curl or wget to browse the internet outside of edge cases.

If he really wants to read YouTube comments, why not open a separate browser for YouTube? Why not make your own CLI interface that pretends to be the "extraload"ing code?

I think it's perfectly fine that people have to actively exert effort to stay on a previous browser. Because those people are the reason IE8 and IE7 and IE6 were issues for the longest time.

If you don't like the everchanging web and the fact that it's built on crappy standards, then build your own thing. (This is a point I fully agree with: the web is an awful application platform as it is now.) But why would you make the experience more difficult for everyone else?
Stupid decision, the should have used $foo (dollar sign for variables) like in Perl and PHP. It remind me decisions of standards based on XML (XLST, XML-Schema, RDF, etc).
Hilariously, I'm pretty sure that this article is violating the license! This person's photos are licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/). Among its terms are "ou must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use."

Maybe I missed it but I did not see any link to the license or indication of whether changes were made. Simply crediting the copyright owner is not sufficient to satisfy the terms of the license. Also, with CC < 4.0 you need to include the work's title.

The Trump site is doing exactly the same thing, not linking to the license
Maybe so, but what of those in the other 20% who found themselves disappeared or shot for political reasons, or those simply held prisoner in their own country?
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You could also ask why lead was used for gasoline when it was known that lead was toxic.

The reason is simple. People knew it was toxic and caused brain damage ('madness' in Roman terms) at high levels of exposure. What they didn't realise is that very small levels of exposure could cause an internal buildup over time and cause steady mental degradation. If someone is exposed to massive heavy metal poisoning and immediately goes crazy, the correlation is obvious. If an entire generation slowly gets more violent and crime rates go up, then it's much, much harder to spot the issue because everyone is changing at the same time.
I think there's a big difference between just getting your book printed and getting anyone to read it. It's all about the distribution and marketing.
> if you left out the addition of run-time checks, and performed only those static checks that the partial typing has enabled?

This is effectively what "optional types" are, which is a sort of sister technology to "gradual types". With optional types, they are only used to show static type errors to the user during development time. At runtime, all of the type annotations are ignored and the program runs like it is fully dynamically typed.

This is how Dart, TypeScript, and (I think) ActionScript, Hack, and Flow work. You'll note that those are all languages from industry and have had various degrees of success and real-world usage.

Dart can also be run in "checked mode", which means it will also do the runtime checks with worse—but not catastrophically so— performance. Sort of like running a debug build with asserts enabled. (And, in fact, checked mode also enables the assert() statement in Dart.)
Why would you want to switch databases when you deploy? That's asking for bugs that only get revealed in production.

Also, the intersection of SQLite, MySQL, and Postgres is a pretty terrible database. You can be a lot more effective if you decide which one you're writing for.
One example is if you're using the JSON features of Postgres. ORMs usually are not suited to these kinds of use cases.
Depends on your friends :-)

I have a friend who jokingly tells people "Yeah, I've got proper diabetes, not fat bastard diabetes."

I don't think the wish people ill who have Type 2, but I do think they want people to know it's through no fault of their own.

It's bit like if a non-smoker had lung cancer. I expect they would be at pains to make clear that they didn't catch it through smoking; that they were unlucky rather than unwise.
The key to self-improvement is broadcasting to everyone that your a better changed person. Better yet, don't change but just do a better job of portraying yourself in a better light.

welcome to the hell of post-digital living
Anyone who has ever used ORMs would know the answer :)
It's for people like me who do not use ORMs. I also use things like procedures and multiple result sets. I'm downright vulgar these days.
I'm just kinda reflecting what I read about a book called "bullshit jobs", where he gives examples like telemarketing and a lot of paper pushing admin positions. Basically anything that society as a whole wouldn't notice disappearing. I've heard criticisms like there's less bullshit jobs than he says there is, but still.
It's sad that ORMs are always restrictive and raw SQL can't be safely and easily modified. I'd always wished for a library that one could just write SQL, and the library could do the transformations.

I.e. one writes plain SQL strings, but they're parsed under the hood, so AST transformations can be applied, like adding extra WHERE clauses conditionally or applying LIMIT.

Sadly, I haven't found any good Python SQL parsing library. That was long time ago, though - maybe someone had written one already.
The NYT has a useful visualization of S&P 500 returns over various periods since 1920:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...