skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I need inspiration, I read that book. John Romero was an interesting character, but John Carmack is the whole point of that book to me. His work ethic and drive to continually improve his skills are so inspiring and rewarding.
I think another side effect of this is increasing the long bias markets already have. I could definitely see being short the market becoming a very dangerous proposition. Price discovery is a lot more difficult when it becomes costly to short things and I can only see this leading to greater volatility and heightened market crashes. Related to corporate governance, Chanos [1] shows the importance of short selling through Enron.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chanos
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The maglocks we installed had a field sensor that measured the bond strength. The LED on the maglock would turn red when powered and then turn green when the bond strenght was correct.

Even a tiny piece of paper would keep the LED from going green. Same with a slightly misaligned plate on the door. Pain in the ass since our controllers would not show the door secure until it was perfect.
It's more so, you don't need to write defensive code and you're actively encouraged not to... The mantra is akin to "let it fail, it will recover."

Once you start doing it, it becomes more apparent what the difference is... And that's not to say you can't design fault tolerant systems, it's just "easier" to do so with Erlang/BEAM.
Because at some point the volume of 'work' you process will be more than what a single CPU can handle.

I think of it like big corps vs startups. Startups may have more efficient engineers and development cycles and produce higher quality work because of the selectivity of their employees, but the sheer amount of work a big Corp can do is significantly more.

(Just an example, not saying big corps don't have talent - far from it)

When designing your system you need to decide which model it needs to follow. There are places for both.
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Umm... is that some rootkit code being used as the hero image on this article?!?

Are they illegally hacking, or data mining? :P
Not a startup nor code, but I'm working on starting a solo consultancy or something as my first real business. I'm having issues figuring out:

* How to position myself

* What specific service I'd offer instead of just plain old commodity coding. I'm thinking about perhaps working with non technical business owners.

* How to reach the people I'd like to work with

I'm in the research phase at the moment.
> But the fund manager may disagree with your investment thesis.

I'm referring to funds managed for me with the proposition that they will beat the market, i.e. the fund manager has a thesis which they agree with (because it is theirs.)

So while what you're referring to of course exists, it's not what I was talking about.

Apologies for being too vague in my post, however I thought the underlying assumption of this discussion of actively managed funds being chipped away by passive ones was that we were talking about the types of investment vehicles used by a "normal" person that wants to put their money in something that will grow over time, without having to pick stocks on their own.
This reminds me of a video I saw recently whete Ted Cruz, along with other republican senators, politically attacked NASA for studying Earth's climate!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=peL7Qecg3qQ
Ah, a cross platform app that cannot be used cross platform because it needs an Android phone. Awesome.
Very possible I missed it, but a story using data science in my opinion should be open source and reproducible using something like a data science notebook script.

This article reads as data scientist should be editors, which in my opinion makes zero sense. Sure understanding story is important, but editing ledes is a waste of time.
How fault-tolerant is your web server when datacenter has power outage? You can't build fault-tolerant system with one computing node by definition.

That means that if you planning to provide proper availability you want to work with system of applications, not just one. That means you should look into creating networking architecture that can handle all of that.

Most of the time it means that people just use tools that solve that for you, like load balancers. But it doesn't mean that somehow all modern applications are immune to failures.
I find the "WEIRD" thing a bit tough to support, at least with regard to IQ. East Asian populations (Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan right at the top) seem to consistently score higher on IQ tests than "WEIRD"os. Maybe the less pathetic and self-hating way to look at it would be "EIR" populations. Even then, it's hard to argue that spatial and linguistic reasoning are not universal values; even if you're uncomfortable that some populations have lower averages than others. I feel as though this must come from a lack of respect for the obvious personal value of Education, Industrialization, and Riches.
Now that's a motto I can get behind: "Do no thing that's not absolutely strictly required by legal code."
I've been participating. I noticed that when I'm doing a workout my Watch"s heart rate monitor might drop to 65 bpm from 120, for example, then recover on another reading. Does this mean that the Watch isn't always accurate?
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The react community is great, in stark contrast to the angular community.
smart people are inclined to work smarter not harder :-)
That's exactly what people did before Prop 13. The idea that granny was getting tossed out on her ear by the tax collector wasn't ever literally true.
I hacked on this a while ago, and the best libraries I found were one called Wad for playing notes and applying effects, and another called Teoria for building chords and intervals and so on.

I was hindered by not having any idea what I was doing but here's what I came up with:

http://www.aphall.com/random/audio-test/ (clicks weirdly in firefox, no idea why.)

Libraries:

Wad: https://github.com/rserota/wad

Teoria: https://github.com/saebekassebil/teoria
On the bright side, it would work on a ChromeBook.
I think this is pretty naive. Customers (generally large institutional investors) don't choose active managers because those managers provide superior returns. They choose them for the same reason that people choose big consulting firms like BCG or McKinsey: status and affiliation, nepotism, internal power struggles, and cover-your-ass blame insurance.

I mentioned in a previous thread about this -- I worked for several years in an asset management firm before moving on to other things. We frequently assisted clients in the process of firing us. We would prepare white papers for them, give them data and slick charts. Sometimes this would literally disrupt the quants and research team and we had to join in creating materials that would be used by client board members in their presentation of the decision to fire us. Sometimes we even had to provide examples of this kind of work when a client was hiring us -- our helpfulness and data services during the times when we are fired was actually a prominent selling point. We were basically saying, hire us now and you get to look fancy. Fire us later and we'll set you up to look principled and full of conviction to do the right thing as a sophisticated board member.

There are all kinds of laws restricting gifts you can give to clients or receive from clients, and just as many stories about how such-and-such a client took some regional sales manager out to a strip club, or flew them some place and got them a reservation at some exclusive restaurant or something.

It's all political. As a technical person, you are hired to look fancy on paper. I remember overhearing my boss bragging to a prospective client that the team had an "Ivy League graduate" leading up their quantitative software development ... on my second day of work! I had zero financial experience of any kind at the time. It was ludicrous.

It's painful to see everyone buying into this. I hope beyond all hope that clients do a better job of actually holding firms responsible for returns. Firms that don't engage in legitimate statistical research to determine an edge in investing will fold up, and firms that actually have a chance at superior returns might actually start letting their staff do real research work instead of bullshit marketing and catering to client political whims.

But that's a fairy tale world. This will all blow over and clients will continue dedicating huge blocks of their endowments or retirement funds to active managers for political reasons and will continue happily not holding those managers accountable for inferior returns.
Eich's Brave Inc. Issued C&D by Newspaper Association of America [pdf]
Brave Inc.'s response: https://www.brave.com/blogpost_4.html
Great, thanks for that info!
From my experience, I was lucky to have good managers that seemed ok during interview and even after I started working. What changed my situation for worse was new manager, either replacing my direct manager or being put above my direct manager due to merger,change-in-structure,etc.

Then my situation took a dive. New managers usually don't like non-super-star employees already there when they are brought in from outside. They didn't hire you themselves. And they are under pressure to do better. So if you are an average worker, you have a big fat target on your back.

All points on this thread were great. But you never know about life, what will happen tomorrow.

So don't feel too secure or cocky when things are going well. And don't feel too down when everything seems to be going against you.
You don't have to tax it. The city doesn't even charge for metered parking spaces on Sundays. Just pricing these would be a huge first step.
You should update your knowlage of keybase. They are more then just a GPG public directory. They try to have multi device end to end encryption capability distributed by a smart system of public key infrastruture. This gives them the basis to have multi client archtecture for messanging and file sharing. It is very cool because it allows you to revoke individual devices and thus also 'solves' the GPG problem of having one 'holy' key.

See:

- https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-new-key-model

- https://saltpack.org/
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Thank you :) I'm still working on coding and documentation style, so I appreciate the feedback!
There are 100 podcasts about passive income. Do X then sit on a beach and cash checks. Total scam but people want to believe. When told what you want to hear, some people will listen.
I think the GUI wasn't that great, but the features were quite usable and helpful.
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Yes - and be very direct about this. Ask them "So why do you like this job? Why is this a great place to work?" I've had someone pause, look at me and tell me why it was a bad place and I should run away.
Wow, that's really, really, strange...
You sound like you don't actually know anything about react... I have never heard anyone promote react based on file size, and angular does not provide 'a lot' more tools out of the box. React is better than angular pretty much in every single respect.
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I wish I could upvote your comment twice. People need to get involved in person!
Nah, just a mistake :-)
Thank you for participating! And that's exactly what we're measuring—how accurate is the Watch, and in what circumstances does it make errors? The anecdotal evidence is very conflicting, which is why we're comparing the AW to a few different clinical gold standards to get hard metrics.
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I once brought an interviewer to the brink of tears after she revealed how overloaded she was and how the EE team had effectively been eliminated for offshore workers. It was curious that all the other interviewers before her were MEs and systems engineers with no knowledge of the job I was interviewing for. They all kept referring to the "old product line" developed in house and how great it was to work on. The implication being that the new line was shit because nobody was around who new how it worked. All the money went into developing sexy enclosures and nothing into the actual electronics.

There were lots of glossy trade brochures lionizing the founders and how great they were but it was apparent that they went public to cash out and were riding the growth roller coaster to drive the stock price at the expense of capable employees who can sustain the company long term.
I'd love to see a news source that solely backs up their sources with cited data, and shows full methodologies for gaining that data.

There would need to be a way of anonymising sources, not sure how you'd get around that problem.
http://qz.com/656104/a-fleet-of-trucks-just-drove-themselves...
My use of "name" was a poorly chosen example to tie to the concept of a reservation. I just chose it because "name" is an extremely common and unambiguous column in many tables.
I wish it was written as an apt-method, or even a replacement for /var/lib/methods/http. I suspect the lack of documentation for apt methods has made this unlikely.
First paragraph: "The Heaviside step function in its discrete form is an example of a bang–bang control signal."

Lutz.
What do you mean? It's already on iOS.

Do you mean integration where Signal could integrate the SMS messaging (or similar functions)? Just taking a stab in the dark, but that's not (afaik) something iOS allows.

Edit: Duh, you mean to pair it with like you do now via QR code from an Android device. Sorry, gotcha.
aria2 will eventually support chunked transfers over sftp, too - then I can get rid of lftp.
On android, 'reddit is fun' is great. Because of it I was never wanting for an official app and I knew that whatever they released officially wasn't going to be that good. Not out of the gate anyways. So far the release of the official app has just been mildly inconvenient for me, 'reddit is fun' had to be slightly renamed and the icon changed. But whatever.
Rent control discourages downsizing, which has ugly effects on the housing market. If you've lived in a 2BR for 12 years while your kid grew up, you cannot rationally downsize to a 1BR. Why? Because the 1BR on the market has a higher rent than what you're paying for your 2BR.

Same story with the taxes. You can sell your current place for top dollar and buy a smaller one, but you're going to take a huge hit on the new tax basis.

A crucial component in freeing up housing is downsizing in later life, especially as we have the baby boomer generation starting to retire.
I just used Redux on something pretty complex. The page starts with four different API calls to get a mass of data with which it populates the state and the page can get going. It does anywhere from 1 to 25 more calls to get graph data but that comes down while the page is already in a state where the user can start interacting with it.

Any time the user interacts with the data on one line (among hundreds or thousands) calculations are redone at four different levels so we don't have to keep going back to the back-end to update the data, instead we can keep working with the data we already have.

So... With all that said, how did it work with Redux. Eh. Not so bad. I don't love it the way I loved AngularJS after I used it for the first time, but it's OK. The results are complicated but given how we're using it and what we're doing, I don't know how it wouldn't be complicated. I dislike that there's going to be a significant learning curve for anyone who encounters this page in the future, but the previous version of the page was a total trainwreck. At least this time I can do a lot of stuff and envision changes to the calculations and how it all updates and I don't break out in a sweat.

The biggest area I ran into problems was that a lot of the data we need to keep up-to-date is derived data (for example, an array of data for Angular UI Grid which has to use a heavily modified version of data in the state). Redux doesn't really do anything to help you update that as needed.

There are a lot of reasons there are so many plugins and add-ons for Redux, I think you might find it interesting to go over those so you can learn some of the themes they have and see what problems they try to solve. Actually, I think that's a worthwhile thing to do with any new technology. Go look at all the software which has sprung up to fill in the holes and you'll learn a lot.
It could be something more like what Visual Studio's compiler does with the __assume keyword.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1b3fsfxw.aspx

You can't use that for equality testing at all. If the assumption is wrong, the compiler will generate bad code.
I'm guessing Alien Blue, as great as it is (I paid for it years ago!), was built on a foundation in need of major refactoring.

They probably made the call that many of us think about doing - though we rarely do it - of throwing everything out and starting from scratch, building from the ground up with all the past lessons learned.

If so, I think the ultimate measure of their success will be speed of iteration.

Even if it doesn't include everything alien blue has today in, say, 6 months, it will likely introduce plenty of other nice features, and for many users will be either a wash or nicer and more stable.

I'm curious to see what happens!
Because drawdowns are inevitable and investment companies need operating capital even in (particularly in) down markets.

If they were paid solely based on performance then you would also pay points on the spread between what you lost vs. what some benchmark lost that year. I can't imagine many investors wanting to take on that kind of risk.
1- it's beta
2- it's built as a chrome packaged app, which means it runs on all platforms regardless of what smartphone OS you use.
3- it's beta
4- it's okay.
I was very excited for the improved emulator, but I also run Docker to simulate my app server, and the Android emulator does not run simultaneously with VirtualBox. Sticking to GenyMotion I guess...
So does the Desktop client have its own set of keys? Do you encrypt every message for each device registered? Can I somehow revoke a device when I lose my phone/laptop?

Are you considering something like the Keybase Device registry? It would be fantastic if I could somehow add my phone number to keybase and integrate with Keybase. It would be a total hit, Keybase providing filesharing while Signal adds the messenging part, all backed up by a clever PKI that works for the online world.
Actually it does. The prime objective of Socialism is to prohibit private property. Social democracy on the other hand seeks to exist within a standard capitalist system. Healthcare systems similarly vary along those lines with some countries prohibiting private practice (in either care or insurance) and some not.
Maybe interviewing elsewhere is only half of the solution.

We all end up in situations we don't expect. While bad leadership is hard to overcome, it's a great learning opportunity. Now that you are there focus on improving yourself.

- improve your coding, on your own time or not

- help your boss not be an asshole. or go above them. or manage them. That's a skill too.

- enjoy your paycheck, but save money

Hope that adds a slightly different perspective.
Lots of good advice here. I'd like to add a key phrase thrown around a lot, 'A-players'. As in, "we only hire A-Players for our team." Or "Our team is made of only A-Players. If we hire anything less then the world ends." Beware when managers/cofounders/leads/directors say this. Your bullshit detector should be going off at this point in the process because what they're really saying is that they only hire people like them, egotistical, shallow, puts others down, don't ask for help since you're suppose to know everything, expect them to talk about themselves ALL the time, expect a lot of bullshit (i noticed that a lot of 'A-players' resemble the 'bro' attitude). It is difficult on the first 'pass' to avoid such a situation especially without experience. A company I worked for explicitly targeted young developers because of the long hours, cheap labor (coder monkey?), the koolaid is easier to drink without experience. good luck out there.
Great questions!

Who will teach the classes? Well in theory the curriculum would be well made enough to not require an expert to teach. But, I envision having a few different instructors on staff for the different areas. For example, bringing in a personal trainer would help with fitness/nutrition.

The curriculum I have kinda dabbled with working on, but it would have to be adjusted for the actual "class" that is being taught. I bet with some time I could put together a really solid foundation of a curriculum just from my own experience and a good amount of research. For example, I spent a week with a freshman at the beginning of the year last year and was able to provide substantial value with just my general knowledge and experiences. With success, considerable time could go into putting it together, consulting with experts in each area would make the material much stronger.

Getting the word out to interested students is also a good one. Depends on which vehicle is being done. Could sell weekend camps to a high school directly or for the summer camp, advertising at elite high schools and the elite colleges students are getting into would work. I think filling a first group would be difficult, but a decent reputation and only... 50 available slots for a summer would be filled easily.

Thanks for reading!
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Yeah, this is more an experience related to be called in after the fact. Which has been fairly recurrent for me.
The Yuck factor or why so many people feel disgusted about technology
I'm sorry to report that you might have to return http://gothamist.com/2016/01/13/l_train_tunnel_closure_years...
Controversial politicians, by their very nature, are not convincing liars.

If you want to find examples of convincing liars, you need to look among the people who are universally loved.
elm-flasked (elm front-end, python-flask backend) popped up in the NoRedInk repo this week, take a look ~ https://github.com/NoRedInk/elm-flasked
> because the author explained the decisions

By far one of the most useful things a resource can do.

It doesn't just broaden your understanding of a domain, but it can teach you how to think about design problems.
youtube video showing the process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuygOYZ1Ngo
That can happen at the small scale - neighborhoods or suburban villages. It doesn't really happen at the city or metro area scale.

(If you have evidence of urban areas that have allowed lots of construction during periods of high population and job growth - cities like Dallas, Houston, or Atlanta - and have also seen high housing prices, please share it; I'm genuinely curious).

Part of the problem in the bay area is that there is minimal cooperation between the dozens of municipal governments to allow more housing. None of them want to be the first or only one to do it out of fear that they'll just end up with more density and high prices. It's a bit of a prisoner's dillema.
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> Prop 13, which is the Ponzi scheme

Prop 13 is a tax issue, not a housing supply problem. It affects schools more than housing prices. Also prop 13's worst offenders are corporations not individuals.

Individual property owners sell/move on average every 7 years. And the taxes are reset at that point to market rate for the new owner.

This has nothing to do with housing supply constraints, but for schools we should remove it from corporate property owners, who some like Wells Fargo have property that hasn't changed hands in over 100 years.