skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Entering a new-entrant class is like coming across a recently bombed $2 shop. The colour, noise and tat cause some sort of visceral reaction. I can't understand how anyone can learn in that environment. This special snowflake went to a Steiner school which was like authoritarian east European orphanage in comparison. I liked it.
The Fama/French research in this area is really like the junior high school science fair project of the finance world. It's entertaining to look at, and kind of cute, but has pretty much zero applicability to the real world.

Also keep in mind that David Booth is chairman and co-CEO of Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA), where Fama has worked for quite a long time and where French also works, both as consultants and French also as Director of Investment Policy.

DFA is truly just another one of these shit-show asset managers that out of one side of their mouth talks about how all other active managers are ripping you off, but out of the other side of their mouth says that, of course, they know what kind of piddly freshman linear regression model really will consistently generate superior returns.

Fama's Nobel Prize in economics was the same kind of political farce as Obama's Peace Prize.
somebody finally handled state right for a framework ;p

also components, and generating repeating elements with js builtins: `<ul>{ items.map(item=><li>{item.text}</li> }</ul>` is cool.
Why didn't they come to an agreement with one of the Amazon's competitors? It sounds like a logical next step which needs to be taken to survive.
Exactly. Affiliate is their only profit. Sure they can crawl and link, but they would get 0 profit from that.
Sanity is defined relative to society and social norms. For example, homosexuality stopped being labelled as a disorder when society's attitudes started changing.
Interesting concept. I think a lot of people will have issues getting past how strange it seems at first.

What I am wondering though is, shouldn't they include at least a bit of personality stuff in there? If I were going to pay them to send sample to me, I would want to know all 10 of those samples are from someone I have a decent chance of getting along with. Because attraction is not everything.

I also think most people know what gender(s) they are looking for, and would rather not get get a set of samples that includes others. Like what is the point in sending two heterosexual individuals of the same gender eachother's samples? Or sending a homosexual individual a sample from the opposite gender?

A completely random sample of 10 seems inefficient. There should at least be some sort of simple optimizations involved. Unless I am missing something?
An AI is typically starting with no prior experience and ability to reason. It is essentially brute forcing approaches and is basically succeeding based on the birthday paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan#Uncarved_block
Is that so? OneCloud, DropBox, etc rely mainly on a program that runs only on specific OS versions. The API's are non-standard and do lock in you. And third party programs that break when the API changes. Or who is using such cloud storage only via web interface?

We are not speaking about FTP services that were common in the DotCom bubble era, right? And eg MySpace.com originally (until 2001) used to be one of them. And there would be common API protocols like WebDAV and scp/ssh, but do Dropbox & co support them? ("OneDrive for Business", which isn't OneDrive but a branded Sharepoint, supports a limited subset of WebDAV)
Fortran doesn't have templates. Frankly, I doubt modules will ever exist for C++, because they seem fundamentally incompatible with templates. To me, people that complain about modules being delayed look like people complaining that they don't have jet packs and teleporters.
The point isn't that it's digital but that it's small units that blend into bigger units.

Animals do https://www.google.com/search?q=bird+camouflage
Fool! This "modern web" you speak of is nothing without me browsing it. It is not I who am missing out! Nay! It is the "modern web" that is diminished by my non-browsing of it!

They are punishing themselves! Why!?

No matter. I shall browse on, without Javascript, safe in the certitude that I am only missing the content of people too foolish, ignorant, or uncaring to use HTML and CSS properly.
Silicon Valley's Stars Guess What Real Startups Do
How this happened:
- Mesos was largely the brainchild of Andy Konwinski (also co founder of Databricks - both Spark and Mesos were born in the AmpLab at Berkeley). Ben Hindman then interned/worked at Twitter and they needed cluster management. Ben used Andy's stuff (but contributed a lot to it). The mesosphere co-founders also used mesosphere after their experience at Twitter. They figured that everyone else would need it too.

- The key to this is that Andy interned at Google the year before, and worked on 'borg' and Omega. These are schedulers used at Google. Andy then took ideas from Borg and, to some degree, Omega, and just made it outside of Google.

- So this is basically technology that is 1-2 generations older than what Google has. I dont know what they have, but while Andy et al. were building Mesos, Google et al. weren't just sitting there, warming there asses.
The problem with that solution is that it puts most of the burden on those least able to shoulder it. Most of us here probably have flexible hours, so moving our commute by even an hour isn't that big of a deal. Someone working a lower end job has set hours, so they cannot move their commute. Meaning they have to drive when congestion happens, meaning they get hit with the price.
In the broadest sense, Psychiatric disorders are internal mental conditions that prevent a person from being a happy productive member of society. If you live in a society that demonizes homosexuality, then it kind of makes sense to call it a psychiatric disorder. In this case however the solution wasn't to cure the homosexuals, but to cure society.
Of course it's your money to do with what you like, but how exactly are you interacting with your money and how often?

Also if you want 100% stocks and 0% bonds you can buy VTSAX or VTI (that's US equities, if you want international ex-US there's VTIAX / VXUS).
Why not just rm -rf everything and dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda? That way they won't even be able to see that anything is happening.
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Growing up, the class roster printout did not have characters to show my full name. As a result, it would truncate the last letter of my first name, showing "Ala" instead of "Alan."

Inevitably, on the first day of a new class, the teacher would call out attendance, and would briefly pause with a puzzled look on their face, and attempt call me "Ala"? "Allah?" while my friends snickered in the background.

I'd sigh, and say "No it's Alan" and the teacher would correct the attendance sheet and we'd be done with that, for that semester at least.

Until there was a substitute, and we'd start the whole process over.

These days, I don't mind people butchering my last name, and when I have to spell it out over the phone, I endure the occasional comment about it. I take it in stride, as I myself struggle with ethnic asian names. However, I get very testy when someone butchers my first name (it happens more than you would expect).
I have had a decent number of forms that would not allow me to enter my last name because it contains a space: De Kok. Apparently over the centuries americans coming from Europe would drop spaces. For instance Vanderbilt is a Dutch name, that stems from the original Van der Bilt (means from the Bilt, which is a Dutch city)

So now American programmers assume a space in a last name (or a dash for that matter) never happens so is an illegal condition that should cause validation to fail. I don't agree
Sure - when everything is relative, the only remaining judgment is to not get involved. So we replace what could be a summary about what something means to our community, with mechanistic duplication of the OP title.

I do understand it keeps the noise down by raising the barrier to editorialization (make your own new post), and perhaps that's uniformly for the better. I just think that characterizing that particular summary as "accusing" is more divisive than the summary itself.
As I mentioned in a few child comments, I don't think Vanguard can implement tax loss harvesting in a way that's customer facing at all. They certainly can't implement it in the way that Betterment does - that would involve purchasing competing mutual funds' ETFs, which I'm sure the SEC would view as anticompetitive.

I suppose you could do something like that within a sector - trading an Amazon for an Apple in tech, or a Shell for an ExxonMobil in oil - but that's betting on a lot of independent factors besides the performance of the commodity or sector as a whole.
I wouldn't be so quick to disagree.

I spent 2 years generating over $1mil a year in sales through the Amazon affiliate program - to be dropped without warning or contact. No amount of follow up and attempts to contact my, previously very accessible, account rep resulted in anything. Not even an explanation on why my account was closed, outside of being told that I could take legal action (in the state of Washington) against Amazon to collect on the nearly $40k in yet-to-be-paid earnings.
This is such a shame... I really enjoyed PriceZombie to display old prices, even though they shouldn't have been doing this. I wonder why Amazon changed their mind after 3 years?
I really hope I can get this as a NuGet package. This new LPaaS is the wave of the future!!!1
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I understand the standard definition fine--what I'm pointing out is your inconsistency in applying that definition, like listing as examples research, public art, and free roads despite the fact that none of them satisfy the characteristics of non-excludable and non-rivalrous.

Even the wikipedia page is hilariously mixed up, listing a public lighthouse as a public good, even though a person needs to own a ship to benefit from the lighthouse (excluding most people), only so many ships can pass through a section of the sea at one time (making it rivalrous), and of course the government can just turn off the light whenever it wants (excluding everyone).

Edit to add: if a road or a park or a lighthouse can be a public good, then so can a subway. If a subway can't be a public good, then neither can a road, a park, or a lighthouse, since they all violate the definition in similar ways.
I'm not sure you can fairly compare bringing people into your own home vs. short-term stays in other people's homes. The context is completely different.

You might be right that money plays a part, but it is far from the only variable in play.
That kind of technology won't be commonplace, available, or in a position to do anything about the problem for a long, long time. Meanwhile, the traffic problem exists today.

I'm all for self driving cars, but I'd like to see solutions for the problem today, not just letting things get worse until something magically makes it better.
These kinds of limitations are fascinating because they reveal the cultural biases (and I don't mean bias in the negative sense) of their creators. A Western, American system might not be designed to accept names with accents and vowels because who has those in the States?

Anecdotally, I also heard of a female games journalist who had trouble using a VR headset because she wore mascara. It threw off the eye tracking because the system wasn't designed to handle that.

Any designer must test his or her product on many groups of people to find these problems.
I think 50% is a fairly good guess for pump usage for people that aren't buying other stuff. At 5 gallons a minute, that's 2-4 minutes of actual pumping for most cars/trucks, possibly larger for vehicles with larger gas tanks (note that a faster pump rate actually increases the overall revenue, even if it reduces the percentage of time spent pumping per person compared to other actions). At a busy station, I think 2-4 minutes of time to pull up to pump, pay with a credit card, and leave isn't out of the question.

It is all highly variable, of course. Let me know if you ever actually test this. :)
Do you mean 'likely'? Because 'probabilistic' is something else.
Compilers are a moving target - and you'd be surprised what you can find. Here's one I recently ran into (with a different repro:)

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/...

I didn't file a bug as it'd already been reported - although in my case, the trigger was using a logging macro which used __LINE__ from a lambda IIRC. Nothing terribly spectacular.

The last bug I remember reporting was default constructor parameters not instantiating templates correctly. Something like void f(int i = some_template<int>::func()); would fail to generate, and thus link against, some_template<int>::func. f might've needed to be a constructor. Sadly the connect bug is 404 and web.archive.org didn't capture the page. They said they would fix it in VS2008 SP2, but I ended up checking and finding they'd fixed it in SP1.

Even ignoring ICEs, I'd say I probably hit at least one confirmed compiler bug a year minimum when doing regular C++ development.
Google Shopping requires vendors to pay for inclusion so it isn't a fair comparison of what's actually available. What makes matters worse is that they don't make that clear so people think it's fairer than it is.
Padmapper ended up fine though.... They just got acquired for millions.
How much time does it take to "raise a baby correctly?" Parenting is heavily driven by cargo culting, old wives' tales, and conventional wisdom; but very little by actual data.
"It is untouchable as far as HCI is concerned" (among the "it just work's" argument, or the privacy advantages, generally superior ecosystem, etc) and yet "Pricing is unreasonable".

The dissonance… is strong with nerds who think the only thing that contributes to a product's price is it's raw spec sheet (where again, Apple is generally quite a bit ahead). Clearly, things are not equal and Apple's sales mean millions are giving them a thumbs up in regard to their pricing being reasonable.
We know what Google was doing, or at least doing and willing to make public: http://kubernetes.io/
I recognize my question has little to do with the OP. But I can't get past this investment dilemma. Let's say I have $100k in two different accounts. Assume both accounts only hold one stock, an index tracker, that grows annually at 6%.

Example 1) A retail E-Trade account

Example 2) A Roth-IRA account.

With the first account, I paid commission upfront when I purchased and again when I sold.

In scenario 2, I probably paid commissions AND I pay 1% fees on assets annually.

30 years later account 1 will have ~$575K and account 2 will have ~$432K. So even if you consider tax advantages you are better off with the retail E-Trade account.

If I don't need an advisor AND I do want the tax advantages of a ROTH IRA, what do I do ? Right now I am paying 1% annual fees to a guy who I met once 10 years ago who was just lucky enough to fax in my paperwork. Thanks in advance.
I love the dashboard that comes out of the box [1] - it's very polished.

[1] - https://rethinkdb.com/docs/administration-tools/
Anyone else uncomfortable with the fact that AIs are almost always female? Making this one a teen girl just upped the discomfort for me.
Given a lot of the stupid stuff investors have backed, with lots of money, I can't really take their arguments seriously.
Ha ha, the first response; "There's no way that's true". How right they are.
1) What do you love about it?
- making things
- logical element of programming.

2) What do you hate about it?
- css, javascript bugs
- tech-bro culture
- gloat of companies

3) What do you wish got better?
- more companies making products helping the world / making a difference
- less competition for jobs
What is his nationality, out of curiosity? Or was he born with name and surname?

BTW Just found this list, pretty short. Is it common in some societies still to have just one name?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legally_mononymous_p...
Ask HN: How do you manage your time?
What strategies/tools do you use to manage time commitments across personal, work, FOSS, other projects etc.?
> Particularly for something that does not affect combat effectiveness (PT, Dress), a single style should be good for decades.

Completely agree.

> I think that the Army should define a garrison uniform that they can stick with, something along the lines of the BDU with the additional pockets of the ACU.

The garrison uniform should be what the Navy terms a 'service uniform': polished leather shoes, trousers, a long- or short-sleeved blouse depending on the weather, and a cover, with optional coat and tie. It doesn't ever need to change, except maybe slightly in cut to keep up with civilian styles.

Camouflage should only be worn when actually fighting, or training to fight. Anyone sitting at a desk outside of a war zone should be wearing a service uniform, not camo.
I would say likely
Because it's nobody's business what the home life plans are.
Also, I think it taxes should try to be uniform across the nation. I find it smelly for Texas to try to attract business from California it worse, Kansas to steal businesses from Missouri by promising not just lower tax rates but effectively zero tax.

Why is it not OK for China PR to manipulate the RMB but it is OK for Texas to lower worker rights to attract business? And no, I don't believe in this "laboratories of democracy" bs. There are things in which uniqueness is good but there are other times when we need a standard (you know like the Constitution and the bill if rights).

Now, I'd be all for a low tax, maybe 0.1% (due annually) of property value so that someone who owns one million dollars of land and building will pay $1000 extra each year. I'd go further and say no exceptions (not even non profit or charity) just to illustrate a simple problem: we don't know how to do any redistribution.

Should this new tax go directly to the county government to spend as they wish? Should it go to the state so they can take money from Lawrence and spend it in Kansas City, KS? Should it go to the federal government so it can spend more in Iowa than the tax raised from Iowa? I am just bringing this up because I've thought about the fetish among some people that everything would be OK if the federal government just backed off and let the state governments take charge. The problem is it wouldn't really fix the problem. I don't think Divide and conquer really works like this because we haven't divided the problem enough. Our States are too big themselves.

I guess my main point is that as long as the tax rate is uniform across the whole system regardless of location, I could live with a small land/house tax not exceeding 0.1% of property value so that a person with a million dollar house pays $1000 each year. The problem is in how we spend this money. Does the money have to be spent in the same neighborhood? Town? County? State? Country?
>> I mean I'm a 9-5 programmer who likes to learn off-hours and sometimes I'm envious of the Silicon Valley salaries, but then I see the 90+ hour weeks that are expected along with the rent you unfortunate souls have to pay, and all I can think is NOPE!

Plenty of people enjoy Silicon Valley salaries with 40 hour work weeks. I expect that most people with those salaries work closer to 40 hours than 60. In fact, I don't personally know anyone who works more than 50 hours a week unless they're building a startup and it's their baby.

I don't mean to pick on you, it's just that I read things like this...

>> I'd rather make somewhat less money so I can have at least some choice in my life rather than be completely owned by my boss like some kind of indentured servant!

...on HN all the time, and every single time I think to myself, "You can have both!"

I'm not denying that there exist jobs with work-life balances that resemble dystopian hellscapes full of abject misery, but it's just frankly not the norm.
They were TOLD that they were 100% in compliance with the rules and that there was no problem. And then one day things changed for no reason.
Thanks for the extra details. I know at least one business that is actively looking into online payment options at the moment, and a few people including myself who might deal with these issues again in the future and so like to keep aware of what's available. If you do reach a point where you've got more complete documentation and English legal agreements available, I'm sure a lot of us would be interested enough to take a look, because it seems Mondido does currently have some significant advantages over some of the other services but at least here in Cambridge, UK it doesn't seem to be very well known so far.

FWIW, I don't think the occasional post submitted to HN as you develop your service would be out of line either, certainly if you did update to be more accessible to UK businesses.
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> These kinds of limitations are fascinating because they reveal the cultural biases (and I don't mean bias in the negative sense) of their creators. A Western, American system might not be designed to accept names with accents and vowels because who has those in the States?

My guess would be on the order of tens or hundreds of thousands? It's 2016. There are very few good reasons left to assume text == ASCII anymore.
i'll replace this notion of friend with a metric of how much time is spent with a person

i agree with the comment noting expectations, and also want to emphasise that i have spent lots of time with either type of houseguest

but what i have found interesting is it is easier to fall into spending time when the money exchanging hands is roughly the amount i would want to pay for the service

for instance, on airb.. i have set my price on the room i offer both under, on, and over what i myself would want to pay for the room

when i charge less than what i would pay for my space i can get guests that i feel are rude or disrespectful to me, my home, andor my neighbors

if i charge more than i would want to pay for the space, i can get people who have high expectations: arguably, fair expectations on what they get for the price; or are just absent because someone else paid the bill and they are there to work

when i charge a rate that i think would be fair if i were to be paying for the space i find i spend more time with the people

the worst part is when you enjoy the time you spend with people you know are going back home across the country or globe
Everyone can't do it because there are only so many some of the smartest people in the world intensely interested in making money via trading to go around.

No, everyone can't do it because they are in an 0-sum game. If everyone was as good as Renaissance, then Renaissance wouldn't make money. But if all the smart people are in Renaissance, then Renaissance makes money.
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I've been working remote for the past 5 years at 2 employers.

My first group was very coherent and supportive even if remote. We were constantly in contact via chat/email/phone and there was a sense that we could count on each other to get things done. We only met in person once or twice a year, which didn't seem like a big gap given our close communication.

My current group, while the company strongly supports remote workers, is very detached and isolating. I actually see my coworkers a lot more frequently but don't feel a lot of commonality or support. Some of that is just how this organization is constructed - it deemphasizes peer-ship.