skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India has been launching from 1960s. It is not "a nation that's just getting started with spaceflight"
There is always the possibility that some of our ancestors spent thousands of years so far north that they didn't have significant pollen & pollinating insects, or fruits, vegetables, legumes and the kinds of irritating things most other cultures evolved in harmony with during recent millennia.

Always did seem normal to be irritated by irritants, with some people more irritated than others by different things.

Seems like each person can only handle a certain amount of total irritants before they experience discomfort.

I remember intentionally overcoming an allergy to cats. Researchers have since indicated that the suspected irritant is the cat's saliva rather than just the hair itself. Regardless, it was not unexpected to become more sensitive to less-often-encountered things completely unrelated to animal hair or saliva as a tradeoff after reducing the feline sensitivity.
That's a great counterpoint, too. Both essays seem right. I think the solution is a hybrid... something in the middle as usual. I think an exploration into hybrid models that build on both traits is the best route. I'm eyeballing Rust as an example as it has a team doing Cathedral model with guidance and ecosystem from Bazaars. I see good and bad in it that come from aspects of both. Very interesting.
insider trading =/= failure in regulatory compliance.
Well if it can run arbitrary executables, it can run Wine!

:)
Not to mention that if something goes wrong with a plant, you'll probably have time to evacuate. If a dam fails catastrophically, you'll probably first know when you feel the ground shaking, and that will be too late for you.
You can read about the awesome theory behind relational algebra. Gave me a great appreciation for how awesome SQL databases actually are (and why they work the way they do).
Peer to peer lending is the best thing I have found this year. You can get around 5 to 7 percent interest and you don't need a large amount of capital. With all the other financial markets so volatile right now this is a pretty solid rate of return. There are always risks of default that you will need to consider, but most platforms allow you to mitigate that with automated diversified portfolios.
I'll have to defer to your expertise in Objective-C and iOS, because it was my understanding that C was not a first class citizen in the iOS world. Like with Windows, Microsoft has treated C like a redheaded stepchild. Yes C++ is a superset of C, but it is still a huge pain to get working in Windows.

Do you have a favorite platform independent C project that handles iOS deployment well that you can direct me to?
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We just launched a new feature at Codevolve that tracks your coding skills for you as you learn. Would love to hear what you think!
Definitely not illegal. This decidedly critical site [1] was created by a $12 billion hedge fund - Pershing Square Capital Management, run by Bill Ackman. At the time they made this site, they had a ~$1 billion short position in the company's stock.

[1] https://www.factsaboutherbalife.com/
How an Ad Campaign Made Lesbians Fall in Love with Subaru
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Maybe I'm jaded, but reading this I came away a little disappointed at not learning anything much. A lot of the behaviour seems strange, and yes, a little crooked. But "evil"?

I think a better explanation is hidden in this phrase. The authour writes:

>> Trading is very stressful. I hate it. I would make a bad trade and I would feel my blood pumping all over my body all day long. And then if the trade was a loss I would cry at night. I was so scared all the time. I hated it.

On one hand it makes me feel a little better that this happens to even successful people. But on the other hand, you cannot be a trader with this kind of attitude.

Suffice to say that not everyone has the same problem. Sounds to me like he's justifying his own actions in retrospect, at least a little. Does recounting a grab-bag of fun anecdotes say anything about the real problems in finance? I like James Altucher a lot, but I expected more here!
"But, some of them, like this one, leave me feeling a bit disheartened."

I think this is a common reaction. Look, he basically starts these articles by saying you're going to be disheartened by this.

For some reason, this makes a lot of people want to find a way to A) not have to learn the stuff that they feel disheartened for not knowing; and B) not feel disheartened.

Nobody is saying that you have to learn this stuff to make Steve happy. But I think there's a reason that you feel disheartened for not knowing it. Deep down, you know that you really should learn something about it. And that's why you feel disheartened. That's a good sign!

But I don't think there are any shortcuts to making that feeling go away.
Well, it's not actually true.

Imagine a world where all software were written in assembly language, or even better, machine code. There would be no use for compilers. 'Portable code' would be machine code that was frantically re-written (by hand) from one platform to another platform. And we wouldn't have a number of JIT technologies and other languages (by definition) as well. Here, without compilers, there would be many people who understand computers.

The fact is in the world we live in, code is on a higher plane than hardware instructions, and it's something that impacts software engineers' lives proportionally. Practical computers work with machine instructions, but idealized computers operate on programs which can be abstracted as code in another language. The practical constraint is that program code must be transformed to be used, so the compiler becomes an essential tool.

The fact that compilers as we know them are so complex leads to the assertion that "if you're not 100% sure you know how they work, then you don't know how they work." Because face it, if you're working on a monolithic, complex piece of software that automates a large volume of menial work, and there is no certainty that it performs as expected or does the right task, then it won't function at all.

You don't need to know how computers work (in this semantic argument) to be a computer programmer, but you absolutely must know how computers work to be a compiler writer. And like the transition from machine instructions to programs written in high level languages, the journey from programmer to compiler writer is a quantum leap, but one that gives someone advantages as a programmer.
Showtime "Billions" is probably the smartest show so far this year (maybe before Mr.Robot S2).

Fun background info: even though the author denies it, the show is loosely based on Steve Cohen of SAC Capital (now family office Point72, after insider trading charges from US Attorney), who the author had a short encounter with. And the "career coach" psychiatrist in the show played by gorgeous Maggie Siff bears resemblance of the famous psychiatrist Ari Kiev floating on the SAC floor.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-14/showtime-s...

[2] http://nypost.com/2015/08/14/embattled-hedgie-inspires-showt...
Actually, they have a commercial launch arm and do compete in global market. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antrix_Corporation).
To add to this, the addition of a style guide is helpful on two fronts.

* Components and patterns are standardized, allowing for less process in design reviews and quicker iteration

* Engineers can create component libraries that mirror style guide elements and turn frontend work into something a little closer to 'lego' building
I wonder if having worms as a kid (I was an expat kid in Nepal) provides some kind of protection against allergies as an adult?

I have never had any allergies and I think this may be the reason (both my parents have seasonal allergies).
My impression of this is that, like most issues of prosecutorial equity, this simply traces to the difficulty of making a case versus the rewards (yes, primarily to the prosecutor, but in theory also to the public in the form of deterrence) of actually winning the case.

We also tend to forget that prosecutors are only supposed to be bringing cases that they are certain they can win. Criminal prosecutions aren't speculative.

Finally, people like to point at the Martha Stewart case as evidence that prosecutors are celebrity obsessed. But Stewart was swept up in the earlier prosecution of several other people associated with ImClone.
> The Fed, with the touch of a keyboard, writes money into existence out of thin air, purchasing securities with it.

Yup, that's how currency gets into circulation. How else would it?
Also ran into the pricing modal issue when I clicked through to one of the designs [1]. Using OSX Chrome 50.0.2661.102

[1] https://app.illustrio.com/detail/percentage/55803bfd7ca4ca2e...
Looks pretty cool. What language and UI toolkit did you build it with?
[Architect from Couchbase]

Couchbase Mobile is open-sourced under Apache 2 and has all of the database and sync functionality of Firebase. From a database perspective it is more complete than Firebase. It also has enterprise level security, REST/Stream/Batch APIs, etc. Take a look and see if it meets your needs.

http://www.couchbase.com/mobile
what recent cases?
>The effect of caffeine as an appetite suppressant is nowhere close to letting you skip a meal

I don't know what you mean by saying caffeine doesn't let someone skip a meal, no one is asking permission. Most can skip a meal with or without caffeine, but the caffeine would only help curb hunger pains in those few hours before lunch. I am not suggesting caffeine has some magical properties (though we all know it does).

>A lot of people take their tea/coffee without sugar and the calorie content of a table spoon of milk is negligible.

Ok lets use your example of how a lot of people take their tea/coffee. A Starbucks 16oz coffee with no sugar and just 2% milk still has over 100 calories (120), just shy of a 12oz coke (140).

Clearly, whether or not that is negligible is sadly a matter of opinion more than science, because you say it is and I say its not. Consider this though, while sugar in coke is no doubt the larger health issue, you won't find to many people who say the amount of empty calories from a coke every day over a year is negligible (maybe just the Coke people themselves, but they will also say the sugar isn't an issue). Nevertheless, what you define as negligible calories is still more than an egg, still more than 2 pieces of bacon...and none of the nutritional value.
Small pitch, I am the owner of Pressed (https://www.pressed.net), and we do white label managed WordPress hosting. So anyone can sign up to create their own Managed WordPress hosting brand, and refer clients to their brand and build recurring revenue. Our team handles all the running, support, etc for the brand so you can just sit back and feed customers into it.

Pretty passive :)
Yep, sorry about that: https://frontapp.com/
Fascinating. Thanks for the links. These cases seem to be more evidence for how the system is rigged in favour of the elite.
Actually || is short circuiting and behaves exactly as he described, it returns the first true thing it encounters.

$ php -a
Interactive shell

php > echo 1 || die('die');
1

This echo's 1, it doesn't die.
We have a lot of Polish immigrants where I live. Health care in Poland is delivered through a publicly funded health care system, which is free for all the citizens of Poland provided they fall into the "insured" category (usually meaning that they have their health insurance paid for by their employer, or are the spouse or child of an insured person.)

Minimum wage in Poland is 410 EUR, in the UK it is 1,378 EUR

... I could keep going but you get the point. The UK is a desirable place to live. The UK is small. The UK has a housing crisis. The NHS is at breaking point (our local hospital is in crisis)... Not much of this is due to immigration, but it doesn't help that 500,000 (or so) new people turn up each year.
I have a friend who sells software that enables churchgoers to donate via a mobile app and someone in the town I grew up in wrote software for youth group management. You would be surprised at the niche needs that are out there.
I have been extensively using the dateframe/sql API and I just love it. Most of the issues I have had stemmed from the cluster / Spark configuration and not the API itself. Using SQL is so much more intuitive them using multiple joins, selects, filter etc on an rdd.
Which platform? Lending Club seems... volatile at the moment.
> I'm an American myself, so I'm also well aware of the beautiful side of American life.

Ah... that explains the sakura tinted glasses, then.
IMO its a long, drunken rant fueled by a massive ego.

I get the opposite feeling from Steve. I think he's a guy who, like most of us, realized that he didn't know something that it's pretty important to know and, like most of us, that realization made him feel pretty bad about himself.

Unlike most of us, he recognized that the way to make that bad feeling go away is to get out there and learn the damn thing you feel bad for not knowing.

If that's ego, then we're all fucked.
I lived in the NRQZ and had no knowledge of the fact until maybe a year ago, long after I left. Some of the commenters here are ridiculous; we had cell phones, wifi, microwaves, radios, and probably anything else people here have come up with. I'll grant that the cell service was never great, but I always figured that was more a function of living in a pretty rural place (town of 20k).
We've been growing non stop since December. We're definitely noticing OPSkins starting to take some similar approaches to growth and marketing that we have.

We're definitely hiring. Trying to find some local talent in Toronto.

Either way, if you're actually interested, feel free to email me something at paul@lootmarket.com
You were actually correct -- see my above reply.
Nice articulation of asymmetries in luck potential based on different activities. At any given moment though it can be difficult to balance the allocation of time and effort because activities like being an employee or even consulting (still trading my time for a particular dollar amount) are often needed right now to meet obligations.

I tell people that I consult to pay the bills and then write and build products with the hope that one day I hit something more scalable and don't have to just trade my skills and time for money.
I agree. Depending on how validations is defined you could also use a method reference .filter(validations::contains).map...
Not to be a stickler about name collisions, but Facebook wrote a research paper about a graph database called Unicorn back in 2013:

https://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/courses/2015/6.S897/readi...

This appears to be unrelated, which is somewhat unfortunate.
Indeed, we had to came up with a pricing based on the few customers/users we already have. But I agree that the gap may seem inaccurate.
I've done some of this. Made some internal tech tools for non-tech business. Figured our problem may be one others also have, so made generic versions hosted online. A couple have become popular, but we're only talking hundreds of $$ each month.
Any good books on that?
You'd be playing wack-a-mole so hard that your legal team would cost more than any gains. I had similar google alerts as the previous poster, and the sites would have every single popular game -- I don't think anyone fought it effectively, although I never did a true survey.
As an orphan from the semiconductor industry, proficient with hardware, assembly, firmware, and light software coding I think prospective employers neglect seemingly non-qualified engineers that might answer phones or work in receiving while updating specific skills that engineering needs but is disconnected with HR who filters prospects with a laser focus to ensure immediate productivity.

We need to recycle great engineers who are unable to predict the exact programming skills that would lead to NEAR term employment.

How can we address the lack of a domestic engineering ecosystem?
"We only hire the best, because nobody else has a hope of surviving the mess that our previous 'best' made."

Seriously, I think WOHTB is an indication that the company doesn't know the difference between selection and training. They want the technical equivalent of Navy SEALs (which is already a questionable goal) so they put in an equivalent of BUD/S, but that's a training program and they're using it for selection. Anybody capable of getting past that is either a faker or doesn't need it, and since the second group will also have little patience for it all you're left with is the fakers. Not a strategy for success. I don't mind, though, because their failure makes things easier for the rest of us.
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The kernel is in C. In OOP, there's at least one level coming from class declarations. 3 levels are more than normal in OOP!
Where I live there isn't much space left for new houses. I guess we could build up, but it doesn't seem desirable. Give the local people the choice of building low cost high rise accommodation or voting out of the EU... well, that's the decision we're all making at the moment.
Careful though, you can quickly be picking up pennies in front of a steamroller. It's a low amount of interest for unsecured debt and when you don't get the principal back that 5-7% suddenly seems not so high.

And "automated diversified portfolios" is exactly what mortgage backed securities were a decade ago. Look how that turned out.
As to "overhearing at a restaurant" - the person who speaks may be committing an insider trading violation. They are an insider and did not take all steps necessary to keep it private.

Now, it could be that as a recipient of training, I've been made excessively paranoid but this is how I read it. But lawyers love torts based on "tainted" things.
To be fair, nothing between Monterey/Seaside and Santa Cruz is very built up, and it's all very nice weather, as far as I can tell.
Hack, Hustle, Nap, Repeat: Life as a Young Techie in San Francisco
Make something that makes money. It can't be passive income without income. Figure out all the stuff you do to keep the money earning. Simplify that upkeep until it's a well documented set of steps or a nice web interface or something anyone can do. I'm finishing this part at the moment, having spent months converting my entire app business into an online dashboard.

Then you just need to find/pay someone to handle it for you. Lots of people online and in the real world are very well suited to well defined tasks they can 'just do'.
Overblown, perhaps. However, there is not doubt that dentists and patients are exposed to some mercury vapor when inserting "silver" fillings.
My observation that tends to annoy people is to point out that the best place to store spent nuclear fuel is inside the original fuel rods. The best place to store those is next to the nuclear reactor. The objection seems to center around reprocessing. Course the longer you wait before reprocessing the less radio isotopes you have to worry about.
Yes, that makes sense. I'm not sure I'd read anything by you until this post, but it sounds like you're talking more about where you are putting your framework development efforts, rather than what you'd use as a framework for the time being.

Framework development is pretty far from what I do (I rely on the efforts of people like you, honestly), but like I said, I can see the need. I'll probably be using something like what you're working on in the not too distant future. Best of luck with your efforts, I hope good things come of it.
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Jack Crenshaw has a nice series called Let's Build a Compiler. http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/. It was written many years ago and posted to the comp.compilers usenet group, so the formatting is old-school, but the content is still useful.

There's also a wikibook on the subject. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Compiler_Construction
That was not the intension behind my comment at all. I rely on type systems a lot, myself.

I was trying to note that Clojure, as a dynamic language, is making a (to my eyes) very interesting choice, of doubling down on these dynamic methods of verification. For some uses, I can see this as the better choice, for others it isn't and won't be.
The app still needs a lot of error handling love. Thank you for the report.
Yup, a history course would be a good idea. I still find it surprising when programmers, even on HN, don't know where the term "Open Source" came from, as if it always existed.

I was involved in a source code copyright lawsuit a few years ago as an expert witness. It made me realize how immature the software industry is. How many terms we use have no authoritative definition. There are no books that cover the basics that say "this is this" and "that is that"
Regardless of whether it's usable, "reminds" is right. Rakuten is a huge modern forward-looking company, yet this is the best they can do. It's basically a classifieds of clickbait.
Databases are one of the most fun computer science topics. And I don't mean _databases_ from the perspective of an admin or even a developer, but a database developer of the internals. I love trying to read the code of complex systems like databases or language compilers.
With this technology you’ll never have to visit IKEA again
tl;dr UK news reports of UK citizen posting review about a UK business on a UK website run by a UK business, censored by a US law.
70gb in 7 years.. including cryptographic witness which is soon going to be segreted..
That said, a technically legal inside tip based trade can certainly face the wrath of the SEC and leave you on the hook for a ton of legal bills.
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Speculation can create value by injecting capital into the right projects/resources that otherwise would not be funded.
I'm interested in finding out more about your use case and why other offerings aren't working. You can email me at $username@gmail.com if you're willing to discuss this.
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I can see why you might say it "smells like BS", but it's not entirely implausible. The parent referred to 2 elements: summertime birth, and "playing in the mud", both contrasted to being confined to indoor environment.

"Born in summer" implies greater exposure to sunlight (in northerly latitudes) vs. winter birth. Sunlight induces vitamin D formation in the skin. Vitamin D is implicated in normal immune system development so low D levels in infancy could conceivably be a factor in later development of allergies, etc.

"Playing in mud" suggests contact with organisms present in the natural environment. Deprivation of this exposure has been discussed (here on HN a few days ago) as the "old friends hypothesis".

Basically the idea is that through evolution our immune system "outsourced" certain functions to co-evolving microorganisms. When contact with these "friends" is lacking our immune systems are compromised and abnormal hypersensitivities develop.
Not the grandparent, but I don't run an ad blocker, which is how I "pay" for the sites. I do run NoScript, but I'll enable sites like the NYT.

It's sad how the entitlement mentality convinces people that they not only have the right to consume all media on the web for free, but they also have the absolute, inalienable right to view it without looking at ads. Because the

It seems very juvenile to me. "I want everything for free, even if it does cost money to create, and if I can't have it free, I'm going to post to complain about it!"
OP claims to have been fired after 6 years of playing video games at work