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Hey guys... I made the page. Just saw lots of traffic coming from here so figured I'd come check it out.

A couple things I figured I should address after reading the comments:

1) Yahoo!'s historic S&P 500 data does not factor in dividends. So the returns would likely be 1-2% higher each year (which over time makes a very big difference). I should probably add a note on the page mentioning this.

Here was my conundrum when making the tool: I picked the S&P 500 because it's the only index that allowed me to pull very, very old data (nearly 70 years) using Yahoo! Finance; plus, it's often the "go-to" index for discussing overall market performance. But it's not "real" in the sense that you can't actually buy shares, and it doesn't pay dividends. So I could make up my own method for factoring in dividends, but I wanted to go strictly by the numbers. When you factor in financial advisor fees / bad decisions that new investors make, it's probably enough to "counter" the lack of dividends, if you want to look at it that way.

Plus, sites / companies are notorious for over-stating how much you can get annually by investing. I'd prefer to under-state it, if anything. Don't want to sell false hopes.

2) Regarding incremental, small deposits (and potential transation fees)... it's actually very easy to set up auto-investments in index funds that match the S&P 500 without ever incurring any fees. You could do $31 on the first of every month and basically simulate this.

3) Inflation would be useful to factor in, but it would also add confusion. This could be a cool add-on, but I'd have to think about the clearest way to demonstrate it. So would the 1950 daily amount be equivalent of $1 today? (so I'm guessing 20 cents or so?)

Hope you guys enjoy the site. Feedback is great (positive or negative - I'm not sensitive).
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If you install a custom kernel and it crashes or hangs before it gets far enough to write the logs to the disk, the rescue image doesn't help figure out why the custom kernel isn't booting up.
Using the military against US citizens is such a horrendous thought, that it's explicitly outlawed. And those drones are easily armed, so if you want a comparison, this isn't like a manned helicopter. It's like a manned Apache helicopter, that just happens to not have a complement of Hellfire and 70mm rockets, patrolling the US skies. People would freak out if they looked up and saw that doing law enforcement duties.
Fold that friggin' number. It's causing everyone to scroll horizontally.
I probably should have read the article

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Since the 1990s, doctors have been under more and more pressure to treat pain as a serious medical issue. Pharmaceutical companies took advantage of this desire, marketing opioid painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin as a safe, effective solution to pain.
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privatised health care and the profit incentive to prescribe high cost pain kills. I believe the Drs get a kickback from the companies for pushing a particular brand (could be wrong on that though).

Also, who put the pressure on the Drs to treat pain as such? Politicians? Why would they? I imagine leant on (or the term is "lobbied" by big pharma. Would be interesting to see the "donations"* paid to politicans from big pharma right around that time and who profited from this.

* I always find this funny who we in the west call this "donations" but when reporting on third world countries it is termed a "bribed". Paying money to get what you want from government so you can make more money....
For this usecase several hours of downtime is not much of a problem. In fact, the server will be off for more time then it's not. If you want to upgrade: wait until the backups are done and you should have 12hr till your next backup.

I'd hope that's more than enough time to expand a snapshot.

Also, how does pricing work for hourly servers? Is it still a quid a month?
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Yup, but I think there's a desire to get good 3d-reconstruction techniques for single images because in practice you often want to do reconstruction in extremely small environments where using multiple cameras is sometimes not feasible for various reasons.
Would love to read some explanation on how this is made. Very impressive!
I work around this by either checking the core libraries out into my new project folder, so ice got multiple copies around- and also I've got a core-Luba project that's literally all 12 core libraries we have that I can have open in one window with my other project open in another.
Asset prices are depressed during bear markets. Those make incredibly good times to buy, because when the market jumps back up your dollar during bad times becomes so much more valuable when those assets appreciate during good times.

If anything, during good times it may make the most sense to store value in liquid accounts and wait for fire sale prices when the economy craps out. But some consistent growth is better than none, due to dollar cost averaging (i.e. you don't know whether asset prices are going to go up or to go down) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging
If a scientist working in the field writes about this, backing his assumption with research papers and actual work that's being done in the field: I'm listening.

If a futurist writes about this, mostly backing his assumption by repeating alterations of the phrase "because of technological progress": I'm expressing my skepticism on hn.
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How do you do that? Where do you draw the line? Basically every company I've worked for has, at some point and to varying levels, taken government funding. It could be buying off the shelf products in the same manner as every other customer, it could be the company creating a modified product for the government, or it could be taking funding in the form of R&D tax credits.
Looks like you've got a bug when the mouse passes over a link that has no sidenote. To reproduce:

1. Hover over a link with a sidenote (i.e. "Bill Gates").
2. Hover over a link without a sidenote (i.e. "unrecognised").
3. Move your mouse off of the link.

During step 3 the previous sidenote will briefly appear.

(I'm running Chrome 48.0.2564.116 on OS X 10.11.3 if that matters)
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It helps that they have repeatedly proven this strategy works. When the CTO goes to the CEO and says "we're going to build this, not buy it," the CEO obviously trusts his decision making because he's seen him successfully execute his strategy so many times.

It sounds like Netflix engineering culture is built a lot around trust. Management trusts that only top engineering talent works there, and the sink-or-swim culture, coupled with performance bonuses and a rising stock price, ensures that the engineers are making the best decisions for the company. It's a lot easier to approve a "build" vs "buy" decision when you know that the interests of the engineers pushing for it are actually aligned with the company business interests.

Contrast this to a company with a large separation of incentives between the stock price and the engineers. In that scenario you end up with a bunch of engineers who are bored and want to prematurely optimize systems because there is no clear personal cost to doing so.
This is my concern as well.

My privacy threshold is pretty low (my username across most of the web is my real name, for example). This, though, is an always-listening device in your home, that connects directly to a company who's stated goal is to sell you more things. That, combined with the potential for abuse/hacks/subpoenas, crosses a line for me.

It feels a lot like the GPS trackers that insurance companies want to put in your car, which I also think is a bridge too far.
“It’s an unusual thing for Amazon to be out of something, but for the Echo, it’s usually in stock just for a couple weeks before it goes out of stock for a few days — so it feels like they’re having trouble making enough of the devices.” Mr. Wingo noted the Echo, which Amazon sells for $180 only through its own site, was selling for $200 to $300 on eBay.

FYI, for anyone that does want to buy one right now (Amazon says it will be in stock March 20), I bought mine from Home Depot. You can also supposedly get them at Sears, Staples, and a few other stores. No reason to spend $200+.
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What's been the biggest acquisition channel for you? Optionally, what market are you in?

Interested to hear what's working for different people and any surprises you've seen.
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This also ignores the fact that your average person, until more recently, couldn't so easily invest in the S&P 500, without some big transaction costs. A couple of factors that make this possible today:

1. Online brokers, starting in late 90s, lowered retail trading fees, made access easier.
2. low-fee, highly liquid, highly competitive ETFs give anyone cheap exposure to the broader market indicators, like S&P 500.

So an ROI calculation from the 1970s is mostly academic, but I guess illustrative of what you might be able to get using that same approach over the next 30-40 years.
Besides moving your mouse around, zooming in and out also works beautifully (might put a bit of a strain on your system though).

Given the sheer amount of work for one piece, with The Three Graeae appearing to be around 1000 lines of code, I'm also quite amazed he managed to produce seven. Brilliant, and Art indeed.
One of the reasons this kind of language bothers me is that it's both clickbait and a part of the general project of drumming up excitement about the sciences for the usual reasons.

And while I suppose this drumming up of support is a net good for the sciences, at least from the standpoint of future and practicing physicists, it is fairly unrelated to the significance of these kinds of discoveries. This kind of news has more in common with a breakthrough in advanced mathematics that gets far less "salivating"-type coverage than anything in physics ever will.

In other words, while this news might cause some interesting talk around the water cooler about the exciting new way the universe might be operating, it's only because folks' imaginations have been stoked in a way that I think has to be admitted is a little bit disingenuous. Headlines like this contribute to that.
That's almost true. If Fb bid only $10, you could see bidding simply for the right to (a) announce the bug or (b) post a hash and lord it over Fb. There's a vanity value for some of these bugs that probably goes into the hundreds of dollars.

But the rest of your point? Yep. Sounds about right. Though I don't think it's quite fair to say that "Fb sets the price, not the market", since Fb is the market for these bugs.
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It seems to be tying shapes and positions to aspect ratios and tweening them, but that would be an insultingly simple explanation. It's really an amazing piece of work.
As was every other cyclist back then. Look at the wiki, the guy was a horse.
Truths are whatever you make them, as long as that is what you really believe. "Truths" rationalized by an entity holding conflicting information may need sampling to ascertain the origin of the conflict. That's where voting comes in handy, but it's not a perfect solution by any means.
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OVH's more expensive servers do use IPMI and include free KVM. Their cheaper kimsufi and soyoustart offerings use a USB KVM to ethernet device, and charge for its usage.
I think the closest thing to a Wireshark for CPUs is Intel VTune (https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-vtune-amplifier-xe)
I am still paying £3 a month for one of those! Shame they don't still sell them at those prices.
As I understand it, they're officially considered to be a type of NUMA, cache coherent NUMA or ccNUMA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform_memory_access#Cach...
They aren't worried because they looked into it. You could argue that "comparing max theoretical energy to that of cosmic rays" doesn't constitute "looking into it" but that's splitting hairs.
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It's rendering to a <canvas> so no reason why not...
It is not. Neither transaction costs.
"The Evolution of Massive-Scale Data Processing" presentation from Google provides a good comparison of Flink with other tools:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10vs2PnjynYMtDpwFsqmS...
A variant is start with one penny a day and increase by one penny each day. People are adults by 10,000 days, middle age by 20,000 and die around 30,000. The accumulated amount is triangle numbers of days, or the day count squared, then halved. That would be a half million (10K^2/200), 2 million and 4.5 million dollars respectively for these 10K-round numbers. These are actually feasible investment amounts.
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It's shameful that

(a) it took a freedom of information request to make this information public.

(b) the Pentagon did it's own internal report and found that there was no wrongdoing.

(c) that nobody in the government is going to hold these clowns responsible or create any sort of legitimate process for determining whether these flights were legal or not.
Although it isn't equivalent to wireshark, linux's perf command (no doubt osx/win/bsd have their own) is close enough and very easy to use.

It exposes a very large number of CPU counters, including cache misses etc.

Not quite as thorough as simulating. But probably more useful in practice.
Only for bad judges. Just ask any AI - 'what flavour do you reckon a meteorite is' or something weird like that, and watch it try and equivocate.

(the answer is Rocky Road by the way)
You can apparently have multiple profiles but they're all connected to a single Amazon account. (So you can have different playlists etc. but they're all connected to a single credit card.)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
I think that's a great tip.

For your product, would it apply for Canadian retailers/real estate companies as well?

Given that I was focused on real estate with my previous startup, I could help you make the connections in Canada.
You need to commit to it. You just toe the line. If you currently depend on being able to SSH into boxes and tail logs you will feel a lot of friction.

However, practices like those tend to be a crutch anyway.
I think I understand, now that the customer already needs to have kiosk hardware like screens, an enclosure, etc. and the product is software only. Right?
Plenty of debris was created, it was just in a low and decaying orbit so it was mostly gone in a few days. By contrast most of the debris from the Chinese test will still be there in 2030 unless someone goes out and cleans it up.

On the other hand the argument was about China's technical abilities and intercepting something in a higher orbit with a faster closing velocity is harder to do than the US's anti-satellite test. The Chinese proved they could destroy surveillance satellites and the US didn't really show that they could do the same.
What makes AlphaGo so strong?
While the forecast might be wrong, a big hindrance right now (to pretty much everything) is a lack of cheap, clean energy. There will never be a time in the apparent future where anyone will ever say "We're producing too much energy."

And if we ever get there, it will be one of those nice problems to have.
The 2003 match was a brute force approach.

AlphaGo's architecture resembles much closer to how humans think and learn.

I initially learned Go to be able to have some chance of an AI. I then had some transformative experiences that coincided with my early kyu learning of basic Go lessons. On of the big lessons in Go is to learn how to let go of something. Taking solace in anything on the Go board is one of the blocks you work through when you develop as a Go player.

I had already known about two years ago that just the Monte Carlo approach was already scalable. If Moore's Law continues, it was a matter of time before the Monte Carlo approach would start challenging the professional ranks -- it had already gotten to the point where you just needed to throw more hardware at it.

AlphaGo's architecture adds a different layer to it. The Deep Learning isn't quite as flexible as the human mind, but it can do something that humans can't: learn non-stop, 24/7 on one subject. We're seeing a different tipping point here, possibly the same kind of tipping point when we witnessed the web browser back in the early 90s, and the introduction of the smartphone in the mid '00s. This is way bigger (to use a Go terminology) than what happened with chess.
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Laws, and democracy, should be evolving just like we do because our ancestors - 100s of years ago, even 10s of years ago - simply did not come up with timeless solutions to much stuff any more than the people who wrote the bible did a couple thousand years before them.

Some of the things we once defined as just we now consider to be heinous human rights violations that only occur in the worst corners of the world - slavery, inequality etc. Some laws are commonly considered out of date and failing today's society - drugs, mass-incarceration, copyright, patents, marriage.
> "the latest wisecrack about Harvard"

"Latest" in this case means "over 5 years old, but the author recently heard about it." Eg, the following 2010 comment at http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/05/secret-lives-of-profe... uses the exact same phrase:

"It is complicated, but one way to look at it is that Harvard is a very large hedge fund with a university attached to it (which gets a tiny fraction of the fund's payout each year)."

And earlier 2007 piece titled "Goodbye, Princeton University" uses a similar construction, at http://www.nassauweekly.com/goodbye_princeton_university/ :

"Princeton University has ceased being primarily an institution of higher learning and is, like Goldman, a huge hedge-fund with a university that it runs as a side project."

We also see it in several previous HN threads (see https://hn.algolia.com/?query=harvard%20hedge%20fund&sort=by... ). The oldest is from 8 years ago, referencing a 2008 article titled "Is Harvard Just a Tax-Free Hedge Fund?" at http://theamericanscene.com/2008/05/12/is-harvard-just-a-tax...

> Viewed purely in terms of economics, Harvard is really a $40 billion tax-free hedge fund with a very large marketing and PR arm called Harvard University that has the job of raising the investment capital and protecting the fund’s preferential tax treatment.
Thanks for asking a very relevant question.

Another tip I can share is going to meetups of your target customer and building relationships.

We're building something that's fairly overlapping (i.e. landing pages, etc. ) but we're more focused on the marketing automation piece. Good luck!
In response to both of you, I really don't think that you have "fasted" in a particular period if you are consuming calories at all.

You're certainly restricting calories and I'm sure it's a positive step, healthwise, etc., but ...

If we have a goal of depleting the energy stores in our liver, you're interrupting (and perhaps) sabotaging that.

OR, if we are trying to restrict calories into a certain time window, you've opened up that window with the butter and the milk. You're no longer in the 16, you're in the 8 (so to speak).
Regarding inflation, you can use the the CPI (http://www.bls.gov/cpi/), specifically the CPI-U (all urban consumers), not seasonally adjusted. For example, $1 in 2015 was $0.10 in 1950. The BLS actually has a little calculator you can play with (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl).

It's fairly straightforward, but if you want a script to start you off, here's a little something I wrote in perl for my own fun: https://github.com/Amorymeltzer/sandbox/blob/master/inflatio...
I'm on a team developing an immutable infrastructure solution with (Docker) containers at a large financial institution. The biggest downsides so far:

* It can get complicated very quickly since it involves a lot of stages, systems, and loads of brand new tools where you're unlikely to be able to hire existing talent (you need people who can just read the docs on a complicated tool/architecture like Kubernetes and then start using it).

* Speaking of talent, you need developers who are reasonably well-versed in Linux systems administration. Could your developers write a shell script that can configure every little aspect of a Linux host from packaging to authentication? Your developers also need to understand some hard core topics of TCP/IP (e.g. anycast), firewalls (e.g. port mapping), and DNS (TTLs, views, SRV records, and more). They also need to be well-versed in security (e.g. the impact of running as root inside a container) and especially authentication (e.g. HMAC, securely storing shared secrets) and encryption (SSL, managing certificates, knowing which hashing algorithm to use)!

* Dealing with existing bureaucracy. Especially rules and policies in regards to security. For example, some people will think that containers and immutable VMs should be treated like regular hosts. That can mean waiting hours for an inventory system to acknowledge their existence before you can put them into production. Or having to wait 30 minutes after every container/VM is brought up so that a security tool can perform a scan even though each container/VM would be identical in every way and have already been scanned before production deployment. Sigh.

Of course, a lot of that depends on where you work. At my work right now the biggest challenge is the bureaucracy for certain. If I can get containers classified differently than VMs then all my policy/BAU problems will (likely) go away. If I can't get that then, really, there's no point to our efforts since there would be no advantage to end users (the consumers of what we're building).

I may be able to live with a pointless, half-hour-long security scan every time we bring up a new container but I absolutely cannot live with an 8-hour-long wait for a container to show up in our system-of-record (inventory system).
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The S&P 500 is also a much safer hands-off investment which is likely to beat most active investors - especially for the amounts of investment we're talking about for $1/day (or even $10-100/day...)

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/03/04/469247400/episo...
Ha. "I can't sign up for a new account and use this service right now, so nobody should care".

K.
Not illegal in this case, because the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) is a department of the Department of Homeland Security, is not covered by the Posse Comitatus Act. Although the CBP is an armed service, it has a federal regulatory agency mission.

The Act only specifically applies to the United States Army and, as amended in 1956, the United States Air Force.
Seconded.

Tinfoil is great. It's basically just a wrapper app for the mobile site but it basically allows much greater control over what data you want FB to have access to.

In my case, nothing.
What exactly do you suggest to fix the problem with EBT?
MongoDB partial dump using your application data model
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