skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have trained your body to expect food every 5 hours, sure. If humans could not survive short (letalone prolonged) periods of fasting, we would not have survived very long.

How are you supposed to hunt an animal if you get light headed and lose mental faculties when hungry?
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You got downvoted for your sarcasm, but you have a point. Some people think that Ruby classes are instantiated using the create method.
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I don't translate sign language into text and speech!
Of course it was using a feedback loop, but GIGO applies:

The STT and IRU disagreed on the attitude of the satellite.
In this case the IRU takes priority, but its data
apparently was wrong, reporting a rotation rate of 20
degrees per hour, which was not occurring.

Starting from there it would have no way of knowing about the true value of 'X', so the feedback loop was fed with wrong data and just kept taking decisions† that made things worse, especially given that:

The satellite configuration information uploaded earlier
was wrong and the reaction wheels made the spin worse.
[...]
the ACS attempted to correct a rotation that didn’t exist.
The erroneous configuration information led the ACS to
aggravate, not correct, the rotation.

† Even without misconfiguration, stopping an object from spinning in a vacuum isn't as direct and linear as accelerating/braking in a car, requiring precise coordination of multiple fixed thrusters and/or reaction wheels.
Pensions could've been higher if they didn't take that much out? Not sure how OP meant it but that's what I feel; same when CEO's take obscene salaries; the employees could've been paid better if she/he didn't take that kind of money. It seems obscene anyway; I can see you want to secure your future by taking enough millions (depends on where you live how many) to do that even though you make enough per month to live comfortably. I cannot see, unless (like Griffin does by the way) you have a higher plan, how taking more is better than flowing it back to employees or the actual purpose of your company (which in this case is pensions)?
If you don't think investing billions of dollars skillfully such that you don't lose any of it and earn a risk-adjusted return that's better than your peers is valuable then maybe you should try it sometimes.

These guys manage money for hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people who are counting on that money being there for their retirement or families.

If a hedge fund manager earns $1 billion, you can be assured that he grew his customers investments by something like $4 billion.

For every guy that makes $1 billion, there are a thousand or more that don't get anything close to the salary that a medium-salaried employee at a decent startup gets because they LOST their investors money.
A recent candidate said basically this during his interview, he got the job.
AFAIK It's the lack of a human making the close doors / start moving decision that leads to a need for platform doors.

(The Central, Jubilee, Northern and Victoria lines also use automatic operation to similar levels as the DLR, it's just less obvious as the train operator still has a separate cab).
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So these magical hedge funds are so powerful that they can force people to invest in them?
And yet there are a thousand juvenile games on the Apple App Store making millions.
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Then I guess you have to factor in housing costs, say a hotel fee.
Does no one know what the word salary means anymore?
True or False, most canned foods contains some level preservatives?
Anyone knows why they are not willingly sharing the raw data with law enforcement?
Pension funds are run by big boys also (in fact they are much larger), if they think they can get better returns elsewhere they are free to move their funds there.
Carbohydrates are bad for me, period. I'm diabetic (type 2), and even the American Diabetes Association says I should be eating around 60g carbs/meal.

After some rudimentary data science liberally using the glucometer, I can tell you what my body does after all types of simple sugars as well as some complex sugars... And my limit per day is around 10g carbs. I will change this up to reintroduce some foods I may not normally eat (like high fiber low carb bread, or Ryvita rye crisps).

When I was initially diagnosed, my fasting was 161mg/dL and a1c=7.1 . Now, my blood sugar when I wake up in the morning is around 85-105, which is normal. I've also lost 50 lbs
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It takes multiple items of clothing for a single outfit, so I'm not so sure about that.
Keep in mind that the 2% is there to cover the expenses of the firm and its trading costs. The 20% is the real incentive for the fund managers.

Also keep in mind that they only get that if they earn more for the investors than the "hurdle rate" which is an agreed upon metric for return.

Quite literally, they only get paid if you do very well in the markets. For every $10 that they grow your money, they keep $2 and you get $8.
Comparing what an owner Kenneth C. Griffin makes to what a hired manager Jamie Dimon makes wtf?
Thanks for the link to TPOT, this looks really interesting
> I think tattoos are even older than this.

Ötzi is the oldest tattooed body we have and thus the oldest hard evidence of that practice.

While there is peripheral evidence of probable earlier tattooing (Cucuteni-Trypillian sculptures, and how wide-spread confirmed tattooing practices are circa 1000~2000BCE), we don't have anything hard before Ötzi (circa 3000BCE).

Incidentally, Ötzi's tattoos seem to be therapeutic rather than artistic.
I live in Germany and the web search workaround only gives me the paywalled article again.
We don't measure the correct salary for people by the value they create; if we did, teachers would be much better paid.

Instead, we look at supply and demand. How many people could do a similar job?
GoAccess is really one of the greatest tools of these kind. I use it with GA on all my servers.
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No experience, but I wrote "I hear good things about Cryptography Engineering".

That said, at least one colleague was much happier with Security Engineering (also available for free online, and the non-crypto parts age well). Security Engineering doesn't teach you hard crypto (much), but does teach threat modelling and presents various solutions.
This would be amazing if it was done by Uber themselves, enabling you to avoid surge prices or at least long waits. This way, I don't see it as something I'd use.
> I can run much farther if I ate my previous meal than if I didn't

If anything I would think the reverse to be true. Runners and cyclists eat sugar gels instead of 'real food' because gels are easier to digest, and all the energy you spend on digestion isn't spent on the activity.
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> If a hedge fund manager earns $1 billion, you can be assured that he grew his customers investments by something like $4 billion.
> For every guy that makes $1 billion, there are a thousand or more that don't get anything close to the salary that a medium-salaried employee at a decent startup gets because they LOST their investors money.

Given the 2/20 rules that a lot of funds follow, that's not strictly true.

If you're managing a $10bn fund, and working on 2/20 (2% fee, 20% performance), you're taking $200m off the front just for managing the money. Regardless of profit or loss, you've got that money.

You're then taking another 20% off of any profits you're making, when you're making them. And then keeping them even if you end up losing money the next quarter, that money's still yours.
Owners get paid more than managers. The controlling shareholders of certain banks will most certainly make more annually from dividends than the management team running these companies.
> If a hedge fund manager earns $1 billion, you can be assured that he grew his customers investments by something like $4 billion.

Um, no you can't. A lot of hedge funds don't charge performance-related fees. Some of the best performing managers one year go on to be massive losers in another because they're taking so much risk.
I'm not sure about these specific ones or how the law is in the US, but in Estonia where I live, you are indeed required by law to invest 4% of your pay into pension funds. The high management fees are a major criticism point of this system.
You completely misunderstand how this works. They only make $1 billion if the fund makes $5 billion that year.

So they aren't taking anything from the fund. They are investing the money wisely, growing it, and sharing in the gains. It doesn't get more "fair" than that.
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Hi! I'm the author of this article. Despite having been in the software game for a while I still completely underestimated the work. Hopefully this is a useful record for other people launching their weekend project.
You as the beneficiary of (most) pension funds don't get to choose where your investments are placed. There is a massive agency problem with the people running pension funds paying out billions to hedge fund managers - especially when they know (or should know) that hedge funds don't add value across the entire investment industry.
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By starting a hedge fund.
Of course!

Well, hyper is a lib for dealing with the HTTP protocol. If being cross platform did not matter, hyper could be build atop of this.

I did not go the route of mio because I wanted to learn the entire process of working with epoll by doing it myself. I've learned a lot, and would not have that knowledge if I just built atop of mio. Mio must also provide a unified abstraction across platforms, where I was free to experiment and change at will during the building process.
There were varying degrees of guilt when killing someone in Roman law already. Suggesting that involuntary manslaughter was 'invented' because of trains is preposterous. You might be thinking of corporate manslaughter but that's an entirely different matter. You also seem to suggest that people were killed in droves because of trains not using a horn, and that the only was that was stopped was by introducing some new form of manslaughter. I hope you see for yourself how that falls under the category of 'extraordinary claims', which as we know requires extraordinary evidence.
How come that the bigger the service becomes the more prone it is to manipulations like that? It's always the same story: the service is relatively new, it becomes big, then it starts introducing algorithms that mess with the natural order of the submissions (time added, votes etc.) and then it comes to light that someone was manipulating this system in order to push their agenda. The same applies to reddit and (I think?) twitter.
Not to mention the staggering history of fraud and manipulation for which JPMorgan Chase has paid many billions of dollars in settlements and fines...

They got 25 billion dollars from the US government in bailout, then they paid 13 billion dollars as settlement for fraudulent practices pre-2008, and so on and so on...

It's total ridiculous ideological stupidity to say "duh, they earn their money on the free market."
I was looking at that the other day, really exciting project.
they lost their customers money, it does not say if their firms lost money... At least thats what I see / hear when these "losses" appear.
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> Keep in mind that the 2% is there to cover the expenses of the firm and its trading costs. The 20% is the real incentive for the fund managers.

True to a degree, unless your AUM is growing substantially faster than your costs, at which point your fees are covering more than that already.
Their tax rates should be significantly more progressive. Before the 1980s this headline would be unthinkable. Watching the apologists here justify this is Mark Twain Americana at its finest.
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I've long wondered about other psychological favtors that come into play as well. I wonder if each time I give a song a thumbs up, say, during radio play, they record features like day of the week, month of the year, season, the weather that day, time of day, maybe a geographic classifier like city/suburb/wilderness. These are all things that could be used to make localized, time dependent and situational recommendations. I like a lot of the 'mood' playlists Spotify offers as well, but I've used players in the past where you have to choose between very similar and highly subjective things like calm vs tranquil to populate a mood based list, and I wonder if features I mentioned could make this a more passive process on the user's part.
As if any institution would remain in a jurisdiction that levied 90% tax.
Implying we don't deserve to die anyway

Humanity is cancer, we are parasites on the ecosystem

Oblivion is the only way out

Embrace the void
The fact that someone is willing to pay someone else to find ingenious, opaque methods of scraping value from society without producing anything in return, does not make it ethical.
The capital in RenTech's flagship fund is 100% from the employees of Rentech. These guys are managing their own money. So the idea they're screwing customers on it is false, they are the customer. I think they have some other funds as well, but not the flagship Medallion fund.

I did IT at a Wall Street investment bank. Jim Simons and these math and CS guys at Ren Tech made a paradise for math and CS people over there. At investment banks you make money for heirs, and as IT are treated like garbage, and their IT and quant operations are garbage at investment banks (relative to hedge funds). Rentech, DE Shaw etc. did quant math, IT infrastructure etc. right and are kicking investment banks ass. Rentech manages employee capital instead of handing it to heirs and underpaying IT and treating IT like shit and having a shitty IT infrastructure like even the top investment banks often do. So these hedge funds are demonized by traditional Wall Street, who are trying to hang some populist halo around the criticism. It would have to be a populist or liberal/soc-dem criticism, because it's certainly not some kind of Marxian criticism. Marx explained how exploitation happened in capitalism, and it's not by a bunch of machine learning gurus managing their own money figuring out how to
trade commodities better than Wall Street investment banks who manage the money of heirs.
> Pensions could've been higher if they didn't take that much out

Pensions would also be lower if they were invested in funds that made lower or negative returns. The theory (right or wrong) is that the high fees charged by the hedge funds are justified because they provide better risk-adjusted returns than other investment vehicles. Hedge funds may be bad and their CEOs may be overcompensated, but it is more complicated than just "every dollar paid to Kenneth Griffin is a dollar taken from a pension fund."
Have you ever seen Time suddenly stop? It doesn't. It just keeps on ticking. (okay, the theory of relativity may have other things to say about how those ticks propagate through space, however: we're talking about computers and user interfaces here..)
It looks like it's scheduled to be fixed in Piwik 3.0.0: https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues/5728
In the case of RenTech's Medallion fund, the capital is provided by the people managing the fund, so the provider and customer are the same person.
Fun fact: Mr. Griffin made more than, for example, the total size of 3D modeling market http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/PressReleases/3d-mapping.as...
(I'm not sure of the quality of the referenced link so if someone has better information please correct me)
Texts are mostly free in Ireland (depending on plan etc) and WhatsApp is huge here.
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Granted they are skilled at what they do, but I think the point is that they don't create much, if anything of actual value.
Context helps: "His foe set upon him with such vigor that he knew he was hopelessly outmatched. He began to silently pray for assistance."
I'm only seeing a little under a billion there. If he had similar returns in previous years he donates less than 10 percent of his income. Many poor Catholic families give 10 percent as a tithing. While better than nothing, I find the latter contribution to be more substantial.
Sharing the gains... If one guy makes $1 billion that is called sharing? I don't misunderstand how it works; I find it obscene, that's all.
Panopticon includes a simple disassembler framework. The basic idea is that you provide opcode patterns akin to regexp and write a function that emits mnemonics and code describing opcode semantics. There isn't much documentation, but you can take a look at the AVR and MOS 6502 disassemblers in lib/src/mos resp. lib/src/avr.
Do people accept death due to autopilot error in aeroplanes? It's the same thing. There has been no demands for autopilot to be removed from planes or mass refusal to fly. The reason is that most people can see that autopilot is an overall safety gain compared with getting a human to concentrate on the same thing for long periods of time.
Please cite a hedge fund that doesn't charge performance allocations.

And those funds that LOSE money for their investors also don't MAKE money for their fund managers.
Isn't this an issue of paying capital gains tax instead of income tax?

The amount of money they earn is arbitrary. If the deal is 2/20, and the manager performs (hence the 20), they're rewarded. That seems fair to me. If you think 20% is too high, find a different fund?
Piwik is scalable up to at least 1 billion actions per month. Piwik is scalable! But it is not cheap, as one needs powerful database servers with a lot of RAM and fast SSD disks. It can be costly, but Piwik scales!
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9/11 showed that after great death comes great live.
You think its better to have a situation where you can't find where something is, nor even approximate it, but you can generally approximate when something is, and grope around it? Because I don't think thats the case - if you can't remember where you put it, its not helpful to grope around the location of where you think you might've put it - or at least, lets say this: it might be more helpful to group around time, than space, when dealing with abstract ideas.

A user interface can be derived to help you do that groping with Time. User interfaces have been derived to help you do groping with form or place (Spotlight, cf.), too, but I wager Time-groping is more effective. But that could just be the musician in me...
"It was absolutely bias, we were doing it subjectively,"

I think it would be equally interesting to discuss the biases of algorithmic solutions. It's a bit naive to think people selecting news is subjective while a computer selecting news (based on an algorithm written by people that relies on data created by measuring people) is somehow objective.
There was a great link someone commented on the post itself, describing how to implement a "login via email link" on mobile.
https://auth0.com/blog/2015/12/04/how-to-implement-slack-lik...

I haven't spent much time reading it, but I guess it works with deep-linking - the mechanism used when you click on a link to Facebook.com and it takes you to the Facebook app instead of the Facebook webpage.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Genera...
For a single server, I believe you are correct.

However I found scaling write load past a single server's limits more difficult using Postgres than MongoDB.

Fortunately that is part of what the OP addresses in his post.
Thanks for the feedback! This means I need better docs :)

So, the framework itself does not implement any of that, it is on the consumer. It just calls the proper methods on the trait object provided.

https://nathansizemore.github.io/hydrogen/hydrogen/trait.Str...

In the README example, I'm using it combined with another streaming crate I made, which does provide all of the internal buffering and state management for non-blocking I/O.
Maybe they made good decisions and lost money. Let's say I have a million to invest. I value an expert making investment decisions with that million at $10,000 per year. There are many others like me so the manager collects many millions to make decisions with. They doesn't guarantee the money will be made, they just guarantee they will make the best decisions they are able to with that money which has higher expected return than me making those decisions.

It's in nature of our world that very often good decisions lead to losses.
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From what I recall, 'set' is the word in the English language which has most meanings - over 50.
I would argue that the minds of quit a lot of people would implode :)
What value? Numbers in balance sheets is not value, per se, and optimizing those numbers is also not necessarily value. Take things down to their bare essentials, what's the economic utility of hedge fund managers? Are they optimizing investment? Are they doing investment at all? Are they helping to ensure liquidity in the market? Are they helping to ensure the markets operate smoothly? Are they extracting rents? Are they merely shifting wealth?

It's funny you mention the middle ages, because there are a lot of parallels there, I think. Tax collectors would bring in massive wealth for their employers, but would anyone say that such wealth was fairly and honestly come by? Middle ages governments were rarely consensual and most of their expenditures were not to the benefit of those they ruled. I think if you look at hedge funds you'll see a lot of similarities. A lot of their wealth comes not from investments or from facilitating economic activity. Rather, a lot of it can be characterized as extractive and even exploitative.

Hedge funds are not just about managing huge amounts of wealth, painting them as such is a diversion. They are about using money to extract even more money from whatever "market" it is possible to do so, and at whatever cost.

Worse yet, hedge funds have so corrupted and influenced our governments that they've been able to socialize their losses during economic crashes, without being forced to socialize their gains during booms. Additionally, some of the largest wealth transfers in history are occurring right now through stock buyback programs, which substantially benefit stock owners and especially hedge funds.

Meanwhile, hedge funds are not actually producing substantial returns for their investors, most do worse than index funds. So somehow they manage to be both really bad for democracy, bad for a lot of the things they poke their fingers in (where they look at only the bottom line and attempt to extract the most dollars in the shortest time frame, the worst characterization of the influence of the stock market), and yet they are still bad at providing a decent RoI. But hedge fund managers pay themselves well, certainly. It's little more than the same old problem of oversized corporate executive pay scaled up. Whether they perform well or poorly the refrain is always "oh, but here you are dealing with a different class of people, the CEO class or the hedge-fund-manager class, and they are oh so unusual and special that they demand a higher caliber of pay even when they fail, because you see if you were to get some schlub off the street to do the work they would have cocked it up far worse, so you should be thankful". This despite all evidence imaginable to the contrary. It's simply a matter of elitism and classism run amok, which might as well be a new type of aristocracy.

(As for your last comment, this is already done, the only "automated financial tools" most investors need is an index fund, which not only outperforms almost all hedge funds it also outperforms most other types of active investments.)