skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it just me or past few days we are seeing lot of Echo related news/stories?
Amazon Echo marketing team campaign? I also see it in comments. Lot of responses look like canned comments.
And Amazon has lots of tiny shell companies like Rawles LLC, fostering distrust and compartmentalization between product teams. Not a healthy work environment.
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I'm sure that there will soon be a minimum price for fresh air in smog-choked cities like Beijing.

If someone ever does find a way to extract gold from seawater economically, I wonder what kind of economic contractions would occur? As gold goes down people would lose billions while other safe assets like real estate would go through the roof. If we too-heavily rely on crypto-currencies, the same could certainly happen.
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Random Walk and Intelligent Investor as already mentioned are great books. I'd put Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (Philip Fisher) near the top of my list and I enjoy the Value Investor podcast (John Mihaljevic).

If your interest is more the short-term movements, and less investing based on price and intrinsic value, then I'd suggest branching into economics and psychology. The Little Book of Behavioral Investing (James Montier) is excellent.

I think the best way to translate what you're reading to a practical application is a paper portfolio. I wouldn't recommend single-stock selection for your $ portfolio, but researching and following stocks that you pick will make you more aware of the market. As with learning anything, document your decisions (what, when, why) and use that as a feedback loop to improve.
How would Mt Gox been able to do this?
​A big step forward in container standardization
It should only allocate savings for vacation and the user-defined goal after saving for everything else. There's two separate loops in the code. But I'll verify it's working correctly.
This might be what you're looking for, or at least point you in the right direction:

http://www.skepticaldoctor.com/2010/01/15/classic-dalrymple-...
We are talking about city planning. Sitting in a private, quiet garden is not one of the use cases for a city.

If you live in a suburb, then it's a legitimate complaint. If the suburb has a lot more jobs than houses though, the commuters who want to live closer also have a legitimate concern that should be balanced against yours.
What the Panama Papers can teach us about the Cloud
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Try this presentation:

http://www.slideshare.net/8kdata/torodb-scaling-postgresql-l...

Edit: does this help? ToroDB do certainly need to get better documentation :(

https://github.com/torodb/torodb/wiki/Setting-up-ToroDB-as-h...
Aaron Levie runs a $1.5B company in part to a Jerry Maguire-like memo
Well, the article/study are asserting the mere consumption of cannabis is the issue, not the method of consumption.

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that plays a key role in the
brain’s so-called reward center, and is released in response
to pleasurable stimuli like eating cake, having sex, and taking
drugs. This is what makes many drugs so addictive (and cake
so irresistible), although research suggests that excessive use
of these substances causes a dopamine imbalance, with lower
concentrations of the chemical being released in parts of the
brain such as the striatum.

Importantly, dopamine deficits in the striatum have been associated with
reduced cognitive performance. Given that THC – the active ingredient in
cannabis – is known to stimulate dopamine neurons throughout the brain,
lead researcher Anissa Abi-Dargham explained that “it is important to look
more closely at the potentially addictive effects of cannabis on key
regions of the brain.”

But of course, inhaling smoke from anything is not healthy. But that's not to say vaping or edibles are healthy just because they don't contain smoke! You're putting foreign chemicals into your body either way, and according to this study, they all have the same long term negative cognition impacts.
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I've found that as long as I go to "I don't want to see posts from this page" on every single sponsored link, they stopped appearing at all fairly quickly. No defence of the app though - I strictly use the mobile website. The separate chat app is actually pretty useful for that reason
Straw man. Using a client side approach does not automagically grant you scalability.
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Flight Over Dwarf Planet Ceres
Indeed, Hacker News' one piece of JavaScript is for the upvote mechanic.
As an example? It is like the only thing that does it and it is so new that nobody has used it anywhere. It also looks like it just tries to map a document database back into a relational database implementation.
Defragmentation-as-a-Service (DaaS)
It's not either "build-system dependent mess" or "everything in header." The alternative to "everything in header" is "header file has interface, .c file has implementation." Then you add the .c file to your project, include the .h file, and it works better than "everything in .h" since instead of 20,000 lines all other .c files in user projects have to see only a few hundred lines, which compiles faster. And that's how C projects were supposed to be organized since the beginnings. You don't have to have dynamically bound files if that isn't needed. Some licenses insist on dynamical linking, but when you make your library, your decisions on how it's linked are independent of your decision to stuff the implementation in .h.
Thanks, this clarifies the intentions of the politicians. They couldn't care less about solar; they just want to help out their cronies. If they subsidized all panels, the Indian firms would probably go out of business while the average Indian got better, cheaper panels from the world leader, China.
- Signed receipt

- Proof of receipt

- Proof of ID

- Time of receipt

- Proof of address

- Etc
We are the investigative journalists who worked on the Panama Papers AMA
Because that is expensive compared to just buying the plant, grinding it, rolling it up and smoking it?
What about writing web-apps with zero Java, Scala, C#, Ruby, Python, PHP ??
New proof of a minimum property of the regular n-gon (1947)
Judging from Ikura's web page as well as the lack of Internet presence and name of the interviewee here (Amy G. Dala... Get it, amygdala?), I'm inclined to think this interview is fake.

In any case, I've noticed a tendency to conflate JavaScript with what I'll call "JavaScript abuse". I'm guilty of JavaScript abuse and I'm sure many of you are as well. But to attribute this to any programming language, regardless of bad parts, is the sort of blame-shifting we should try to avoid as developers. "Never use X" might be a solution to a problem but it won't necessarily guide you to good design patterns.

We've all heard the old adage "use the right tool for the job" but its just as important to do a good job with the tools you have. It's possible to write pages that use CSS and JavaScript to enhance your users' experience while also being small and rendering perfectly in Lynx. If you're having so much trouble with JavaScript that you eschew it completely, maybe there was an issue with how you approached the problem rather than with the language itself.
So is the study cited by Wikipedia in the half or greater of biomedicine studies that are just plain wrong, or the half that might be right? And is that true for all patients prescribed it?

Down in the trenches, doctors don't pay so much attention to studies, as a new resident who's taken over the primary care of my condition noted. Instead, he depends on what his experienced supervising doctor has figured out over time, and of course what he's learning in the world of real patients and ... well, we really don't know how real the drugs are once they go generic, not when, for example, Indian companies, even when operating plants in the US, cargo cult their HPLC tests of batch purity and correctness. The supervising doctor I mentioned was always interested in my reports of apparent real world bio-equivalence as the two drugs he prescribed me went generic.
Take a flight over dwarf planet Ceres in this video made with images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The simulated flyover was made by the mission's camera team at Germany's national aeronautics and space research center (DLR).

I thought this video was particularly cool because the motion and parallax made it feel very 3D.
> Organizing anything in this state of pervasive surveillance is nearly impossible and should be a wake up call for those sleepwalking into one.

Is North Korea even in a state of pervasive surveillance by modern standards? Their technology is not all too advanced. It's the thought of being listened to that keeps people in line, more than the technical implementation. And that overwhelming condition is really the result of propaganda - communication fanout rather than fanin.
Where do you see that he's getting crap for a female lead?
Brilliant Donald Trump parody by 11 yr old
Introducing support collision detection in Helprace help desk
Read "Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners (http://www.amazon.com/Trading-Exchanges-Market-Microstructur...)

This will give you an idea and maybe whet your appetite about how markets and trading actually work, and all the reasons people use markets. From there you can work towards learning more about actually developing trading strategies more complex than buy and hold.
The entire argument against JS fell apart in the last paragraph. As long as it's not me who is writing JS but some 3rd party library which I just pass data along, then what I have is no JS.
That's great, glad they made that change.
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"Murph" (and the space helmet too) are likely an "Interstellar" reference; Cooper's daughter was named "Murph": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/reference

Young Murph: Why did you and mom name me after something that's bad?

Cooper: Well, we didn't.

Young Murph: Murphy's law?

Cooper: Murphy's law doesn't mean that something bad will happen. It means that whatever can happen, will happen. And that sounded just fine to us.
Concentrate
> What great event occurred on the year 1 CE that we decided we should start marking our years from that point?

Absolutely nothing. You need to have a starting point, and for historical reasons we ended up with that one. It isn't a meaningful date for anybody, but it turns out having a common reference point is more important than having a significant reference point, so nobody cares.
Yeah, definitely. I think for my personality, I just have a really hard time just "snacking" on Facebook. I also might have a more active set of Facebook friends/family than you do. I feel like whenever I open it, even when I've toyed with checking it weekly, I end up spending hours reading posts and articles people have linked to, etc. It's easier for me to just ignore it for months at a time and being okay missing the occasional important update.
I read the previous piece. I suspect it was useful to people with interests other than being an asshat...and on Hacker News that's a disproportionate number of people relative to the internet at large.

Thanks for writing it and posting it.
Easy:

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A Random Walk Down Wall Street

You will know 99.9% of what you need to know.
400 requests per second.
The Echo and Tap are on sale today for 15% off. That brings the Echo to $153.71 or 5 payments of $30.74. The Tap is $111.01 or 5 monthly payments of $22.20.

I just happened to order both yesterday and Amazon refunded the difference without any hesitation.
For example, the article references "OTP" but doesn't define it. Is this Erlang's OTP? Apparently it is because Cowboy is an Erlang HTTP server.
GitHub: New Webhook Event Actions Are Live
Well, until then, Google's speech recognition API is available (https://cloud.google.com/speech/) so it seems like it should be possible to at least compete at Google levels of SR without even having to understand what training data is.
Google Faces E.U. Antitrust Charges Over Android Apps
When I first started I read The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing [0]. It's probably a bit dated now, but if you're just starting it gives a pretty good overview of the basic terms like what is a stock, a bond, options, futures, put, call, stop, limit, short, etc.

Another similar book is How To Read the Financial Pages[1]. Again, probably a little dated, but I don't think much of the terminology has changed.

I would still recommend index funds for the best returns, but if you want to follow the financial news it helps to understand the lingo.

[0]http://www.amazon.com/Street-Journal-Guide-Understanding-Inv...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Read-Financial-Pages-Peter-Passell/dp/...
Not a good reflection on your actual ability to scale when a 500 word blog post makes your entire web server choke after just a few minutes on the front page.
Interesting. I'll have to take a deeper look at this. Thanks.
The inside story of the Paris climate agreement
I feel for you. I'm typing on my 13" Macbook Air from 2011. Apple wants to banish 5-year-old PCs, so I'm all in to banish my trusted Air. But what's my next option? Pro is too hefty for me and '' is underwhelming, while Air is left behind.
It also looks like it just tries to map a document database back into a relational database implementation.

Which is a problem why, precisely?
I think this is a lesson in how optimizing for short term metrics can hurt long term engagement when you forget your core product value. I signed up for FB in 2004 and would have been classified as a core user since I would check the site frequently to see what people were up to and would often post updates myself.

However over the past 5 years FB has been trying to drive up engagement off the News Feed through allowing apps to publish to timeline, and encouraging people to post links to articles and videos, etc. For me, Facebook today fundamentally is no longer fulfilling its core product value of helping me stay connected to what is going on in my friends lives. Apps like Snapchat have now taken that role because they are able to deliver on that value in a way Facebook is no longer able to.
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I like to think that short story was inspired by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
Am I the only one who thought the writing wasn't particularly good? Disclaimer: I still haven't seen the movie.

It kind of felt like a throwback to 1950s science fiction where characterization was more of an afterthought than a fully-fleshed out endeavor. I.e. the "I am an idea / political position / plot device wearing a human-suit" school of character design. Except with more pop culture and cool added in this case.

Which isn't to say it wasn't an entertaining book and I didn't heartily appreciate the story!
Graphics on a 1366x768 display end up looking like mush if they're not aligned to pixels. Once everything's higher-res this will be less of an issue, though.
[factorio](https://www.factorio.com/) might be worth a look too
Agree, seemed odd. If it were me, I'd find a single, complete, simple, yet "magical" behavior to demo/release; users, not tech is what matters.
Magic Leap reveals more about its 'mixed reality' tech
https://willyreport.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/the-willy-repor...
For me, its more about the frameworks shoving between you and the presentation layer. It's not realtime and interactive anymore (rather about packed and delayed update/repaint cycles). Consider what could be done alone using the canvas 2d-context with the current API. There isn't a visual thing that couldn't be done with this. Some may remember the creative wealth of CD-ROMs in the 1990s – we may have all of this, but better. Instead, it seems more about a glorified mark down presentation layer. We really could do better.

P.S.: Maybe, this is just an old man's rant about the old days like when PostScript was all written by hand and typo came in stars. But I'm really underwhelmed by the state of creativity on the web.
Depends on what you're using it for - the emphasis seems to be on Chromebooks, despite the blatantly obvious name change. I doubt that there's any technical limitation to adding more, this is just where Intel expects the market to settle.
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TL;DR

Newer, larger "snowball" appliance (current = 50TB and newer 80TB version), as well as access in additional international regions.

Network optimized S3 uploads (faster inbound transfers) for an extra 4 cents/GB.

Sidenote: I'm curious if you can get the same speedup for inbound transfers by using a Cloudfront distribution in front of your S3 bucket for no additional charge (no cost for inbound transfer on either service).
FYI, the abstract for the New York Times article that is purportedly the first nude the NYT has ever printed (even counting classical art?) is here:

"Art and Science Proclaim Alliance in Avant-Garde Loft"

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=980CEFDA173EE...

The full article is behind a paywall so here's a screenshot of the spread...slightly NSFW:

http://imgur.com/3FfKlyM
I solve that by ruthlessly unfollowing people. Just briefly met at some random event and have't talked to you since? Unfollowed. Friend-ish I haven't seen in 4 years? Unfollowed (unless you're really close). Friend who posts too damn much? Unfollowed (or filtered with FBPurity). Group List (unfollowed or unjoined the list).

I've got 3x/4x more people on my friend list but I mostly only see stuff I want to see. I've also quite often picked "hide post" and then when it asks why I pick "see less of so-and-so".
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This is my opinion as well. It's possible for more agile traders to consistently make money year after year. It's just fraught and you won't know until after the fact whether you have what it takes. You could also do well for a very long time and then lose those gains.

People tend to trumpet their winnings and not their losses and a shocking number of people don't actually know their rate of return.

I recommend Four Pillars of Investing by William Bernstein (http://www.amazon.com/The-Four-Pillars-Investing-Portfolio/d...). It has a lot of overlap with Malkiel's book and I recommend both of them.

Until you have read at least one of them I recommend you not start investing. The Intelligent Investor is a little optimistic and in later editions even Benjamin Graham admits that maybe active investing is not the greatest idea for most people.
That's what happens when 10,000 people hit your website all at once. :) I think it's probably Wordpress that is sucking here though.
This is also what troubles me about anything that requires a 'real name'. I also don't understand why, E.G. Google, or companies like Google would be against this; I'm effectively telling them how to target ads by the context I use.
Sending to a regular person that doesn't have a fax machine
Peter Seibel's talk "Practical Common Lisp"[1] covers that from a different angle, also comparing multiple dispatch with the visitor pattern.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeAdryYZ7ak
It's rather interesting to me, that every time one of these studies or articles is published, people crawl out of the woodwork shouting denials and rejection.

People, for some reason, want to cling to this naive idea that cannabis consumption has zero negative effects.

Can't we all just accept that it is indeed harmful to your body and brain, especially if used habitually? Continue to use it as you wish, but understand it very well is causing long term harm, just as any other sin-of-choice! Is that really so rejectionable?
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Cool, I like those kind of subtle references. I've not seen that movie, what little I've seen about it seems interesting. Would you recommend it?

That dialogue is reminiscent of "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be." -Abraham Maslow

Edit: Well, glancing at the IMDB page, I'm guessing you would recommend, I didn't know the movie had been so well received.
Yeah, I think we understand each other. I don't really hate FB. Or if I do hate it, I hate it the same way I "hate" World of Warcraft. I've just realized that I am easily addicted to things, and I recognize in FB something that could easily consume hours of my life every week. It's better for me to just pretend it doesn't exist most of the time, until the occasion where a real-life friend mentions something they posted on FB that seems worth delving into, like the aforementioned baby pictures.
nope, vaping and edibles are much more economical - your cannabis goes a lot further
Relevant Calvin & Hobbes: http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/cal...
Uh, reading the study, smoking cannabis then taking amphetamine causes dopamine deficits, and they don't explore whether this is transient or permanent.

I smoke more weed than I probably should, but I had a screwed up dopamine system to start with - the genes don't lie.

Actually, on that note, perhaps people with preexisting dopamine deficits are more likely to become heavy cannabis users because it's the only way that they can experience dopamine - going through life with people going "what an achievement! Aren't you proud??" and only being able to reply "meh, I should've done better than first place" or whatever sucks. I can only reflect upon and feel good about what I've done with my life when stoned. I don't have a reward cycle, otherwise - I learned to motivate myself with a punishment cycle instead, and only now am I slowly unlearning it.
Thats seagold, not Tifanny quality!
> As a non-American, seeing young children reciting the pledge of allegiance in unison is downright creepy.

The practice dates from the heyday of Hitlerism, and arguably springs from much the same sort of motivation - and it's creepy enough before you read about the Bellamy salute.
> Of course, just reading that sentence, I see I've fallen into the trap.

See https://xkcd.com/774/ :-)

In all honestly, though, I wouldn't worry about it too much. People are just doing what they do to find their identity, and as long as you don't look down on them for not finding the best solution (because who has?) then keep looking for what works best for you. And recognize that it'll change over time. Embrace the changes, but don't dismiss those who haven't made the same changes as you.
A good book to stop trading!
Interestingly, the all-time Bitcoin price graph looks a lot like the Gartner Hype Cycle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

Whether or not this really is a "plateau of productivity" remains to be seen however.
>I'd file this headline under the category of "questions to which the answer is no".

Obviously if Bitcoin goes tits-up it will not be more stable than gold. There seems to be a non-trivial probability Bitcoin will go tits-up from shitty governance alone, but barring that it seems to me that Bitcoin has the potential to be far more stable than gold. Access to gold is dependent on a large amount of geopolitical factors that could all change at any time, as well as mineral extraction technology that is getting better all the time.

Extrapolating far enough, we'll never find an asteroid that's miraculously made almost entirely out of Bitcoin.

I'm curious as to whether your viewpoint is the same for all cryptocurrency or just Bitcoin.
Sorry, what? The relevant committee is a bunch of bright computer language designers, doing the best they can while navigating a maze of legacy, backwards compatibility, community, and bureaucracy concerns with every step they take.