skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insider trading as in: Reading the SEC reports that insider parties have to submit in order for them to be able to trade the stocks.

This is pretty common, for example I've found a site that uses the same reports I read to trade with a strategy http://www.smarteranalyst.com/daily-insider , I know a guy who works there and he eats his own dogfood (invests with the strategy) and so far he's claiming good profits.

Personally I don't really buy into it yet but we'll see.
I rather think about school: How can teachers even mark wrong spelling if there is no standardized spelling? The same holds for punctuation of course, for which up to now I really could not find any ressource with authoritative character where to put commas in the English language.
great talk, thanks for sharing this video
There is a German housing technology called "vacuum house" where instead of heavy insulation you build an airgap with a pump, creating low air pressure. Windows need to be shut and you need double doors (like an airlock) to avoid heat loss. Obviously it needs central airflow with heat exchanger as well. This creates a house that only needs the power for the pump and the heat exchanger instead of heating / cooling. Body warmth and cooking is enough to make up for the loss you have in winter. The little power you need can be created with Solar cells on the roof.

To me it seems like the future - if there's a drawback I don't really see it. Mass produced such a house minus the solar cells shouldn't be much more expensive than your average American house with air conditioning. The whole structure can be very light, so earthquakes shouldn't be an issue either.

Why arent't we all building this? Is there some problem I'm missing? Is energy simply too cheap to bother?
Insiders are allowed to trade the stock of the company they work for. They just can't make a trade which is motivated by non-public insider knowledge. For example, if the company was going to have another bad quarter the insiders can't dump their stock in advance of the public release date. Most of the time, insiders will have a schedule set up and announced well ahead of time for when they want to sell stock, to avoid being accused of selling in reaction to some negative event for the company.
Putting open source to work
Just skimmed through the code. It's nicely done (way neater code than I'd ever write). Seems to pull down each video to stream directly, unless cached locally (toggable), there's also some/day night code in there, and it supports multi monitors.

Totally usable and saves me a job. Cheers!
FYI - Your https link generates a cert error because node.green is being served with the www.github.com ssl cert.
LendUp etc try and tackle this space. But I would think the issue for tech startup, is that the people and families in most need of it, will not have the data history for a big data solution?
Japan's Next Generation of Farmers Could Be Robots
The idea that it's a useful model of depression is more conjecture than anything else. I think at this point it's mostly used for the sake of comparison with all the other experiments that used it.
AMD has been keeping real Zen info much closer to their chest than Bulldozer info ever was, fueling speculation that they might have another flop on their hands, especially since Jim Keller left right after it taped out. Their future at this point all rides on if they can survive the next 1.5-2 years with little cash while getting Zen to the marketplace and hoping it is competitive with whatever Intel is putting out in the meantime.

That being said, I think Zen is entering in a much better position to succeed than Bulldozer was - They're entering with a leading-edge 14nm process from Glofo, which has been producing for a year at this point, at good performance and yields by all accounts. Glofo's 32nm process that Bulldozer is on was less than stellar and never really achieved good power consumption. What we do know about Zen's architecture also seems much more conventional and "fat and wide" than Bulldozer, a design which Intel and AMD previous to Bulldozer were pulling off successfully for years. Bulldozer's module design might have been good in theory, but single-threaded performance suffered too much compared to the fat and wide design.

If they can match Intel performance at even slightly lower price points, which seems likely given the above, I think they will easily survive the near to medium term, and if they are somehow able to do even better than that, we might be in another 2003-2007 era for Intel where they struggle to play catch up for the next few years. Seems unlikely, but you never know.
I want to congratulate the person who invited Scott Aaronson to speak (New York university, about integrated information theory) and didn't record and publish it on youtube. /sarcasm

Seriously guys, we only have that many people like Scott. Please don't take their smarts, wisdom and time for granted.
What a horrible curse!

At 50, life is already borderline boring -- even another 50 years would be almost unbearable. So another 950 years? Damn.

I'd probably spend most of it counseling younger people not to have too much fun -- lest they lose the capacity for it.

And maybe finish my book. With that much time I wouldn't really have any legit excuses left.
Containers will slow down your app
I proceeded to your linked article, and while I see that the author's opinion is "Gates' Foundation did far more harm than good in education," I don't actually see the examples put forward supporting their (/your) position on that.

The only examples are "The Gates Foundation tried something, found it didn't work, and so stopped doing that thing [smaller schools.]" They're then criticized for attempting teacher metrics, and a couple paragraphs later, "they've since backed off on this, but the damage of their influence has already been suffered!" Which, to me, reads again as "they thought teacher metrics would work. They found it didn't, so they stopped doing that."

Actually, a lot of that article basically reads as "no one should ever make calculated experiments to discover what the most effective interventions are. How dare the Gates Foundation not be all-knowing! And if they're not going to be all-knowing, they have no right to admit to a mistake and back off on a failed intervention!"

I- what?? What?!

Presumably, then, the author (or the people the author is echoing) can put forward a better alternative, rather than just criticize the organization for recognizing failure and re-allocating resources. "Assuming that poverty is not going to be solved overnight, what other, more immediate steps might be taken to address these problems? How might Gates spend its money more wisely? McGoey offers little guidance on this. She seems to have visited few schools and talked to few teachers or parents. Nor does she give much space to the perspective of the Gates Foundation itself."

She then slams the Gates Foundation for doing "considerable good" in public health. What's their flaw, then? The author's unsubstantiated assertion that they ignored opportunity cost. Not even that. She sort of /implies/ that other health interventions would have had greater public health ROI (by pointing out that chronic disease is very expensive, she leads us to conclude "why, then we could save a lot of money by intervening there", ignoring whether that larger cost correlates to more lives saved per dollar spent), and that the Gates Foundation ignores them, but doesn't actually provide any stats on that being the case. Which makes sense, of course, because there aren't any good stats to support that argument: the Gates Foundation particularly staked out their interests in extremely high ROI illnesses. It's shit-tons cheaper to save a man-year from malaria than to save one from type 2 diabetes.

This is not a great article. The author, Michael Massing, appears to have written it with far more bias than critical attention, and you should reconsider letting it inform your opinions.
Fsn: an experimental application
to view a file system in 3D

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555327
Interesting. I hadn't read about that model of working memory before but going through the article it does sound like we have similar experiences.

1) I also have a phonological loop - and would consider this the strongest part of my memory. I have a relatively easy time memorizing large volumes of text and my verbal aptitude on tests has always been extremely high. I also have an aptitude for foreign languages and enjoy studying them as a hobby.

2) I would agree. I could probably tell you the color of the floor of the kitchen where I'm currently living, but any past place would be difficult. I've experimented with a memory palace before so I believe it would work in theory but I haven't practiced enough to know for sure.

3) Sometimes I wonder this as well. I frequently have very vivid dreams and occasionally have flashes of things that I think are mental imagery but they're fuzzy and not something I can really do on demand.
Thanks! I've updated it to an http link, I'm just so used to https working everywhere nowadays. Maybe it's time to petition GH pages to support letsencrypt!
> There's a huge number of houses with idle fiber installed 10+ years ago.

Do you have a source for that? Verizon may have passed 18 million homes, but only the homes which have placed an order for Fios were ever connected. So, no or very little idle fiber.

> Gigabit ethernet was introduced 17 years ago and carries 5 km over fiber.

Wrong. You can buy off the shelf SFPs with 200 km reach. Use amps if you want longer reach.

> Cable is just waiting for providers to switch on 10 Gbps since years ago.

You don't just switch on 10 Gbps on cable. First your vendor needs to release DOCSIS 3.1 equipment and you need to test it. Then you need to upgrade your CMTS to DOCSIS 3.1 and swap out any cable modems that don't support 3.1 and dedicate spectrum to DOCSIS 3.1 downstream channels.

And it's not since years ago. DOCSIS 3.1 was released a bit over two years ago. Comcast will start rolling out commercial DOCSIS 3.1 service this year.

> Phone line copper has similar story...

What?! G.fast can theoretically give you 1 Gbps, but only if you already have fiber to your driveway. There aren't even any commercial deployments yet and all vendors don't even have products yet.
I've read one of his books (Call of Chtulu) for the 1st time recently. I had not been warned about the high amount of racism that is to be found in his writing. It felt awkward until the last page!

The only time I have been that disturbed by a book, it was novel from Houellebecq...
>Say if I press Cmd+Space on a Mac and type "Facebook" in Spotlight, it immediately begins downloading the native OS X Facebook app

Epic malware vector.
Hell, my problem is just people spec'ing me in game and asking me to either make a lopsided trade or, as you mentioned, just go give it to them. I think I got at least a dozen friend requests from strangers the day I unboxed my M9 on a maxed out casual server.
It's exactly the same here on HN. I get downvoted all the time, and usually for rather innocuous stuff too.
> “The point is, basically, that Wikiepdia is not bad,” Evans added, “But it needs to meet its own standard for verifiability.”

But published books and journal articles do meet the Wikipedia verifiability criterion, even if they are not accessible online at no cost.

To make those books get a low "verifiability score" seems like a bad idea to me. For quite a a few topics, it is still the case that the information you can find by just googling a topic is a lot worse than what is published on paper. (I know this from trying to track down online sources for various things I read about on Wikipedia...)
5,000 Developers Talk About Their Salaries
You need both.

Technology alone cannot solve political problems. The technology can be banned.

Technology can, however, raise the difficulty for sub-components of a government that are wanting to push the limits and do things outside the boundaries of the politically agreed upon systems. Encryption can't stop the NSA if it has widespread political support because the encryption can be banned. But right now intelligence agencies are absolutely hurting, because what they're doing is highly controversial and blocking them with encryption is not at illegal. If the political debate is won, even if it's just a partial win, then they're forced back inside their box for a long time to come.
Or put the domain on cloudflare. My site is hosted on github too, with a CF cert. Works fine with https :)
If you use the bcrypt node package you need g++/make to compile native extensions so there's really no way to avoid it. You can remove it after you run `npm install` in your own dockerfile, but it won't help container size at all.
You mean like it did with FX!32 back in 1996 to run x86 stuff on alpha processors?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32

Its not nearly as hard as you think to translate between isas. Some things won't directly translate, like say the matrix multiply resister in some mips super computers, but you can easily just swap that out for a more mundane approach.
Don't you need a lower level language (than even assembly and maybe even some sort of hardware support)? Virtual memory abstracts away whether the address is in RAM or disk. Going a step further, you need to undo even one more layer of abstraction so you know whether you're accessing L1, L2, or main memory.

But to be honest I think just malloc is a decent abstraction. You control memory layout and the rest is having algorithms with good access patterns.
I use Amazon Video and Netflix pretty much interchangeably on an Android tablet. I don't find a significant difference in usability.
That's just some shit that ancaps like to say. Also note the constant references to fiat currency. I don't think he was actually being racist with that.
The AI had better be able to interact using a mouse and keyboard. Any time I see the "AI wins!" headline, for anything real time, it was invariably given a superior interface. Watson getting a text file sent to it instead of having to read the screen or listen to Alex read the answer for example. If the machine isn't watching a monitor and forced to use the same input methods as the players, then sure it will "win," but it will be a cheat, not a triumph of AI.
Being able to have multiple battles at the same time is not terribly interesting, because humans can scale this as well. Team up two humans and they'll be able to do twice the work. Teaming two players to play a Go or a chess game against a computer wouldn't do that much good though.

I've recently read Ender's Game and there was an interesting idea in there. In the book it is hive queens controlling the Buggers fleet with exquisite control, yet Ender is able to exploit this as a weakness, as every human is a sentient being capable of thinking and acting independently, so as a commander he was only giving high-level orders to his lieutenants and they did the rest. Which is how humans have fought wars.
Having just read about the Apollo project, I now appreciate what a huge and sustained national effort it was. Moreover, it would have been impossible had it not been for the "space race" with the USSR.

Sadly, it seems hard to imagine we'd be able to pull off something on this scale nowadays.
Not could. Had been and were, for which there was growing evidence culminating with the Snowden files. I don't disagree that they had a considerably larger impact than what went before. You're absolutely right in the sense that once the stories of GCHQ's black boxes, the EUP's documented disclosure of Echelon [0], room 101 and so on and so forth got outside the circle of people who were familiar with them they became FOAF stories and conspiracy theories and weren't part of any mainstream discourse, but there was a bit more to [it] than abstract hypotheticals and general 'power corrupts' cynicism.

[0] An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/pdf/jadis/2013_12/8.PE4_AP_PV!...

[edit]
I've got my hands on some analyst reports about AMD about an hour ago (a little too late sadly) from a very respectable tech analyst (one of those wall street people with a 8 figure salary) which I can't share unfortunately.

I have to say that you hit very close to base - makes me wonder if you've also read the report or are the said analyst :) They speculate that Zen is actually a lot further ahead than AMD are willing to admit publicly.
Some of those savings are needed in order to be able to provide 100M/1G to the consumer:
- 10G in the distribution
- 100G in the core

So, even with competitive pressure, consumers can't expect to receive the latest and greatest for peanuts.
>Apparently in the US, great service consists of being nagged constantly to remind you that he server exists and needs a tip.

It really doesn't. It means that my water gets refilled, you don't mess up the order, you're there when I have a problem, want to order dessert, want my check, etc. I can't speak for everyone but if I have to eventually ask someone else to find you to get me my check--that's when tips go down, not because you weren't pestering me constantly.
We'll never give up our non-standard and confusing spelling. It's part of the charm of the language.
Certain processes are vital to the computer's operation and should not be
killed. For example, after I took the screenshot of myself being attacked by
csh, csh was shot by friendly fire from behind, possibly by tcsh or xv, and
my session was abruptly terminated.

Haha, this is nuts :)
Verizon Accuses Strikers of Equipment Sabotage
I did try to provide a fix for the history-lost case for when a popunder is blocked, but in the end I had to give up because there was no way to make it work reliably (using current extensions API).

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/1028
>(Lovecraft is considered a major literary figure in France, hence the interest among academics.)

Lovecraft is not really considered "a major literary figure in France" and Houellebecq is not an academic (except in the sense that he studied at a university like half of French, but he's not working in academia or anything like that).

Perhaps you meant Houellebecq? He indeed is considered a "major literary figure" (if somewhat controversial).
Oldest Message in a Bottle Ever Found
More SJW nonsense. Moving on.
Wouldn't that either cost money or only secure the connection from the client to cloudflare?

From what I understand (and I admit, my knowledge is pretty lacking around what cloudflare offers) the free part is only the security between the client and cloudflare (and not the security between cloudflare and your server).

On one hand it's better than nothing as I assume most MITMs are on local wifis and such but on the other it gives users a false sense of security.

Then again none of this is of actual concern for node.green
There is no authoritative source for English grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Common usage decides what is correct, essentially. Organizations or groups may decide to use certain style guides, for example, the APA style guide or the Chicago Manual of Style.
The problem is not just with the time it takes, but that most garbage collection algorithms are stop-the-world ( not sure if any of them are truly concurrent ). This can introduce correctness problems.

I used to work on a network management software that used ICMP polling to detect if network devices were down. We had a SEDA architecture, requests were put on a queue, timers were set and if the device did not respond within a timeout, we would mark the device as down.

Problem was, it so happened that in a high load system after we sent out the request, the garbage collector would kick in and take eons to return the system to running state. When the system returns, the timer events would fire and the handlers would note that the timeout has expired and mark the devices as down. The device could have responded in time to the requests but the system would not have detected it.

This is why I am weary of languages with mandatory garbage collection. I feel it should be a library in any serious systems language.
To be fair, exiting EU would put the UK at disadvantage as EU tax heaven / headquarters beachhead. Common customs and VAT space goes out of the window, as well as hundreds other compliance regulations tying the EU together. Luxembourg and Cyprus will certainly get a lot of new business.

But I really doubt Obama rationales have anything to do with that.
Installable through Caskroom via

brew install Caskroom/cask/aerial

These videos look amazing on just about any screen. I've got a 15" MBP Retina connected to a 34" Dell Ultrawide and I've caught people just _staring_ at the big screen with many of these videos.
The metric is "Did the message get passed, and did I not sound like an idiot?"
Mobsters, thieves & politicians tend to do "good" after getting caught for malfeasance, too. WG didn't get "caught", he(MS) gamed the system, incorporated others' work & ruined most competitors. Now he gets to live with his conscience.

Extend.
Embrace.
Extinguish.
Atone.
Social Justice Warriors would probably lose their shit if those parts were left in the US version. Less hassle to engage in self-censorship than deal with the political backlash from people who find out about these scenes and cry foul (yet surely never actually played the game themselves). Need to go overseas for Freedom of Expression now.
There are specific guides within certain contexts. An educational setting may use the Meriam-Webster dictionary as the definitive for spelling, and the English textbook as the definitive for punctuation. Outside of specific contexts, there is no absolutely correct way of doing things.
I agree, I don't think "serfdom" is racist, but it doesn't shine a good light on you to use, and erodes the trust people put in you by default.
12/40

I work as a software engineer. The rainbow and characteristic body poses are the only thing that I can even vaguely "see" (and that was being generous).

However, on the question about a lightning storm I can hear lightning striking around me but not see any images.
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Text asking
By definition, if protectionism is needed, then the locals preferred the foreign made products.
Exactly. I think, in contrast to chess or go, Starcraft is not only a "mind game", but also requires physical agility and precision for command outputs. Those Starcraft top players all have had wrist injuries and so forth [1].

If the AIs were to become strong enough to compete against Starcraft players, they would have the unfair advantage of being able to give a lot more actions per second.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/16mkmg/injuries_...
The particulars of the interface are really not the point of these exercises
I wondered what became of Dennis, the author. He got his PhD in 2004 and is now doing computer modeling of infections diseases. http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/resume.html
None of Macau, Monaco, Liechtenstein, or Switzerland are former British possessions.
They won't. Their ability to afford the foreign products would be limited by how much they earn, same as anyone is.

Protectionism doesn't fix that though. If you can't afford sophisticated cheap foreign-made goods, you also can't afford the crappy expensive protected local made goods either.
2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation?
> better than typical C++ because you avoid virtually all object allocation/deallocation costs that C++ has

So to have Java perform better than C++ you just have to avoid allocation in Java and leave it in in C++?

> If you want better I would not bother with C++ at all personally, but use C / assembly or even look at FPGA type setups.

There is nothing in C that gives it a speed advantage over C++. Basically you've discovered step 1 of 3 when optimizing software (step 0 is to profile) -

1. Minimize heap allocations
2. Rework memory access for cache locality
3. Use SIMD

1 and 2 can be done with C++. 3 really needs to be done with something like ISPC so that SIMD use isn't fragile and compiler dependent.