skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even hedge funds aren't zero sum. They receive dividends on the investments they hold which is a return that is not zero sum.

Of course, the more active a fund is, the farther it gets from zero sum, but it would never be fully zero sum.

Additionally, financial services overall are far from zero sum. There is a great deal of efficiency and market lubrication created by financial services and if you exclude the high frequency traders, you leave a huge majority that is still quite beneficial to people on both sides of the transaction.
I recently deleted my FB account. It asked me if I still wanted stop use messenger, which I did. Kept all of my contacts and previous message chains, if this helps inform anyone from anecdotal experience.
Ask Ellen Pao.
The link-title should be edited to say either "text message based" or "SMS based" for disambiguation purposes, IMHO.
Would "have" ...and Google isn't a nonsense word, btw. It's a homophone of the word "googol," to the effect of invoking the idea of a vast, large number of things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol
Are you optimistic about the future of Silicon Valley?

What do you think of Michael O. Church?
MongoDB Atlas released
Carkeek is nearly 100 blocks from downtown...
Never signed anything other than the aforementioned piece of paper (2 sentences) and a NDA. Unless you work for a start up with 5 employees and no HR the HR Dept has its set benefits and forms you must sign, those are not negotiable, only salary is. Typically you are in a standard benefits group depending on the date you were hired and if you are full time or part time. Example: benefits group 3, everyone in that group has the same benefits, you surely aren't going to negotiate special treatment.
What is a manufacturer to do when someone opens a device that functions as advertised, zaps it through a careless electrostatic discharge, puts it back together and gets free warranty service?

Well, that manufacturer has to raise prices (or invest in even more involved ways of detecting damage, or in hardening the electronics against ESD, all of which cost more). This harms those that don't want to mess with their devices.

There is no such thing as a free lunch...
It sounds like you might have a problem at the sourcing stage. How do you get leads on candidates?
Epson made the Google Glass we’ve all been waiting for
I simply don't agree.

I don't doubt there is a 'double standard' when it comes to how men and women are perceived in different scenarios, but 'confidence' is not going to be perceived as 'being bitchy'.

So - yes - when a woman gets vocally assertive, commanding, dominant and dismissive - she can bee seen as a 'bitch' whereas a guy might be perceived as simply 'alpha'. However I would add that many guys who act like this are also considered 'jerks' or 'a-holes' - to be frank.

But - when a woman asks for a raise - which possibly a sign of confidence - this is not going to be perceived by anyone as 'bitchy'.

A woman who, when asked to explain her algorithm, does it with delight, assurance and poise - is not going to be seen as 'bitchy'.

The issue of 'power signals' and 'alpha dominance' etc. I think is a whole separate issue from regular, day to day 'confidence' for most people.

95% of guys in the workforce are not aggressive the the point of being douche-bags or considered 'hard alphas' wherein their female counterparts might run the risk of being seen as 'bitches'.

Many men who act in an overtly dominant manner actually lack confidence. If they were comfortable in their status they wouldn't need to burn any political capital by risking being a douche.

If women are disproportionately likely to be 'less confident' than this may have a lot to do with why they are perceived such a way in leadership positions.

FYI, the women that are by far the most 'confident' in business are those that have played team sports. They are used to winning, to losing, to coming together, the ups the downs - they are not 'thrown' by the small things and not afraid. They tend to be more comfortable in their own skins, and when they assume positions of responsibility they act what most of us would describe as 'more normally'.

I think the issue of day to day 'confidence' and 'potentially being perceived as a bitch' are completely different things.

I know way too many very confident women in business who wouldn't remotely be considered bitches by anyone.
Who is the target audience of the book?

You don't dig all that deep into the tech side of the valley, so it's not the geeks. You don't talk all that much about the details of the deals, so it's not the suits. That, leaves ... tourists?
1. Lower counterparty risk (the counterparty being a big stock exchange rather than something like mt gox)

2. easier hedging / large bets with options

3. Can use existing retirement account

4. Easier to include in a will.
The type of acts that the MMWA prohibites that are addressed in the article are not merely exploitations of insufficiently-cautious customers, but are mechanisms for leveraging market power in the market in which the original device is sold in order to monopolize associated markets (such as the markets for repairs and accessories for devices in the original market.)
Ask HN: Where did the MoveLoot submission go?
A (negative) MoveLoot (YC W14) article reporting its demise is nowhere to be found despite ostensibly having sufficient numbers (9 points & 3 comments in 25 minutes) to be on the front page. I'm not even that cynical but seems curious. Are submissions like this "spikeable"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12005354
Local news isn't dead. We just need to stop killing it
RethinkDB Performance Report
This trust would make it trivial to hold Bitcoin in an IRA with tax free gains. The demand for this is so high that one alternative, GBTC, is trading at nearly twice the market price of Bitcoin.
This is great. This has a chance of inspiring the next generation of people to eschew traditional routes. I'm sure she'll be super-successful/inspiring in whatever she does, even if she doesn't fulfill her original objectives (similarly with many of the Thiel Fellows).
Having a plenty of experience with ES and CQRS, the approach they are using doesn't feel right, and even the performance is terrible comparing to other naive implementations, IMO.
The best explanation for the feeling I have is - "To choose a RDBMS and then to do your best to limit the functionality you can use - that's a hard one"
I assume that someone who's configuring their router will also be configuring their children's devices in such a way that the children won't have permissions to make those changes.
Also excellent is 1975's proto-cyberpunk novel "The Shockwave Rider" by John Brunner, which was directly influenced by "Future Shock."
Thanks for the clarification! I was going to include the squash-benchmark link, but they don't include zstd yet. I guess I jumped the gun :\

And especially thanks for the clarification on performance relative to input file size and sliding window size.
To the best of my knowledge, there are no available to the general public truly no-fee options for having someone else buy a variety of stocks for you. ETFs internalize fees, so many people are not aware of them, but their fees are generally comparable to the equivalent index fund's fees.
I think there's an extra "the" in the sentence:

If you already know the some Lisp…
It's adorable. For kids by kids. Author Eva. Not a bad robot either. She obviously works very hard.
This is one of the most disappointing points about research. They write code and then don't release it as free software. Sure, it isn't "production ready" but if you don't provide the code you wrote then someone will have to waste time reimplementing it.
There are a number of dock slip owners in San Francisco who have a boat parked there that they rent out as a living space. It's far from luxurious, but I've heard of rents as low as $100/month.
Am I permitted to submit details?
No offense, but not the HN crowd. Supposed to be mainstream normals. Sales, yo....
Which font is the one used in the first few editor screenshots on the Goa site?
I don't think so. I struggle to understand the things they are building, but one of the very nice features is that each of them is structured in a way to make them provably correct. That's definitely a potential value-add, and it needs to be in at least Nock, Arvo, and Hoon.
Whenever you have inflation, it's always good to have assets, either real property (they're not making more land) or durable goods.
The first issue transformed my understanding of an essential topic, States of War. It was produced in response to the ignorance surrounding the U.S. invasion of Iraq War at the time, IIRC. I'm someone who reads a lot of serious foreign policy, and by far it's the best, most revelatory, perspective-redefining (my highest complement) thing I've read on the subject. Stealing from an earlier post of mine, Lapham wrote:

Cicero made the point fifty years before the birth of Christ: “Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.” The American historian, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., made the same point in the essay that served as his epitaph when it was published in the New York Times on January 1, 2007, two months before he died. Under the heading, “Folly’s Antidote,” he prescribed strong doses of history as a cure for “the delusions of omnipotence and omniscience,” akin to those that persuaded the Bush Administration to stage a rerun in Iraq of America’s misadventure in Vietnam. The failure to connect the then with the now Schlesinger diagnosed as an illness which, if left untreated, he thought likely to lead to the death of the American idea. Children unfamiliar with the world in time make easy marks for the dealers in fascist politics and quack religion. ...

An acquaintance with history doesn’t pay the rent or predict the outcome of next year’s election, but, as the season or occasion requires, it makes possible the revolt against what G.K. Chesterton once called, “the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about” ... About the methods of pacifying cities bloodied by civil war, I learn more from Machiavelli’s Discourses or the Memoirs of William Tecumseh Sherman than from the testimony of General David Petraeus or the commentary on Fox News. When I see Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani being bundled around the country in a flutter of media consultants fitting words into their mouths, I think of the makeup artists adjusting the ribbons in Emperor Nero’s hair before sending him into an amphitheater to sing with a choir of prostitutes. The remembrance of the good old days in ancient Rome serves as a program note for the performances on set with Diane Sawyer and Tim Russert. [1]

Contributors include brilliant people and witnesses to history spanning millenia and nations:

* Thucydides

* Sun Tzu

* Winston Churchill

* George Patton

* George W. Bush

* George Orwell

* Krishna

* Homer

* Lenin

* Saint Augustine

* Albert Einstein

* Kurt Vonnegut

* Jessica Lynch

* (far more than I will list)

.

http://store.laphamsquarterly.us/back-issues/states-of-war

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[1] The whole essay is well worth reading, both for his writing and for his ideas: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/states-war/gulf-time
I drank a lot, and did stupid things. It was really self-destructive. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Really.
Female ENIAC Programmers Pioneered the Software Industry
You seem very thin-skinned
Wall Street accounting, and a lot of other accounting besides. "Market capitalization" is a bit of a fiction. If you understand it, it's not a lie, but it's a bit of a fiction.
Not this specific hardware, but in general, yes. Amazon Echo does pretty much this, except it focuses on one source instead of all possible sources (from what I know). PulseAudio also recently gained a feature to use beamforming (see a HN submission from either today or yesterday), but for now it needs the location of the object you're trying to record as an input. I guess you could kind of brute-force that and let it run many times over the same audio stream to find all possible audio sources.
Better yet, you could listen for breathing sounds if they're not speaking, and use those to find speakers. ;-)
For me, all I need is a file picker, so the Document Picker will work for me.

For you it sounds like the best solution is just to wait and see.

I'm very surprised at dropbox doing this. Dropbox is about the only API I've been able to just integrate and not touch for the past 5 years. It's worked reliably without any issues.
The beam devs should make an Avro sink next for the python sdk. We are using the dataflow Java api and I hate using Java. You have a pretty slick product so far. Thanks for building it!
Assessment of Antiretroviral Effects of a Synthetic Aluminum-Magnesium Silicate
I don't see how "typed/untyped" is a meaningful distinction if you consider "dynamic types" to be types. If the only observable effect of the typechecker in a dynamically-typed language is a runtime error, how do we distinguish an arbitrary source of runtime errors (e.g. "throw" or "error" statements) from a dynamic typechecker? Obviously it isn't the presence of the word "type" in error messages, but what is it? In the presence of the metaprogramming you describe, we can't say it's down to whether checks are inserted automatically either, since non-type dynamic checks may also be inserted pervasively and automatically with metaprogramming.

If Lisp is typed, what's an "untyped" language? One in which the user hasn't done metaprogramming to insert runtime checks? Or is the distinction just about whether it's the end programmer or the language implementor who does the metaprogramming? None of these seem like very useful distinctions.

If it's lispy to actually do a separate typechecking pass, please forgive my ignorance.
So google paid to find 16 vulnerabilities in Microsoft's TrueType font engine. One of which was actively being exploited and sold to governments / any thugs with $$$ by Hacking Team. Am I the only one who finds it stunning that Microsoft is too lazy to do their own fuzzing?
...which is based on LZSS :|
Qualitative Democracy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5cCyAqCkIw
Sounds to me more like the difference between using the flash or not.
Looking at that file made me feel like I had aphasia.
I like the way that the 'rent' on the property encourages the builder to actually produce a product that will survive the purchase period.
That's right. If you can pony up the cash, and maintain the boat (read: elbow grease) it's not a bad choice. But you have to love the boat, and the sea.
I paid more, but yeah...it can work out.
I love this idea.
Epson also makes EVFs for mirrorless cameras so it's not that strange that they would innovate in this area. Zeiss were also developing their glasses, not sure how far they got

http://www.wired.com/2016/01/zeiss-smart-glasses/
Symbolic computation is when you evaluate a binary executable as a math expression. You might try to solve for inputs that cause a crash. It's difficult due to well-known issues with the famous halting problem, but in practice you can get useful things done.
Well, we agree on that one! I think he just didn't like the voice, but couldn't admit it wasn't enlightening.
I think you're probably better off reading the current docs: http://urbit.org/docs/
This last part is sooo overlooked.
Patreon would be great for this.
Just looked at their pricing. ~$9 query right there.

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/pricing
Preferably all three. But I definitely think Berkeley grads are relatively underrated to Stanford ones.
Picture of new Uber logo in the wild
There are many rent to own plans out there, even had a friend do that with all his rentals. He had one in all the time I knew him renting his "terms" I thought were just fine.

However you also have to be very careful around this with regards to banking laws and even some local regulations will discourage it. The problem with taking your equity is that it likely is taxable an taxable on enough levels to make it not worth anyone's while.

Now taking you idea further, you have a developer/startup/etc that owns units across the country with a form of interchangeable ownership. I think the logistics might sink it and if the company managing it all ever went bankrupt you would come out on the losing end. I guess it would end up being a more equitable time share?
Almost, kinda related is this Invisbilia episode that's pretty interesting about a blind man that uses directed clicking in his mouth as a way of "seeing via echolocation". They talk about how it activates similar parts of the brain that vision does which I think is a cool parallel to what's been created here.

http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/378577902/how-to-bec...
I don't really disagree, but it's a 50 minute (uphill) walk from Pike Place to Volunteer Park, whereas it's 15 minutes to the edge of SLU. I don't really mind walking an hour, but many people do.

Golden Gate is a little out of the way, Central Park is super accessible by subway.
OnePlus 3 review: A great $400 phone you can actually buy
That bird drawing is the most beautiful thing I've seen today.

https://blogjhi.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/3-azaras-bird.pn...
Testing for malaria–or cancer–at home, via cheap paper strips
KP doesn't have the same cachet anymore. It is one of the top 10 VC firms. That is all. Nothing special here. Move over.
> brave

Kinda getting tired of this word being thrown around...

But good for her.
"Shedding cash" seems slightly obscene. Great phrase though.
Really gets to the nature of what we mean by the term "intellgence". It's _gender_ specific. A lot of times in AI you'll hear people talk about a no gender robot thinking for itself. But we have no examples of genderless intellegent humans. intellgence implies gender.
Perhaps, but it's unlikely that many do. Updating such an app would involve writing the new update to a different location, which could pose a challenge for not confusing the user. The Mac App Store doesn't have to deal with this.

Some developers that distribute their app in dmg's try to nudge the user to move the application for them into /Applications, but that's kind of hostile, and developers shouldn't have to go out of their way to do that.

Before 10.12 at least, developers were generally okay with the updater not running on read-only media - this is more intended behavior rather than being 'broken'.

Anyway, just pointing out the real concern from the article.
I've gotten that a few times too - sometimes the issue opener turns out to have been right.

I think more people need to do better at communicating better is what it comes down to.
This is pretty cool, and reminded me of the far-field microphone array in an Amazon Echo (which uses 7 spaced out microphones). Which also makes me wonder, taking something like this (which has way more than just 7 mics) and applying it to the problem of far field speech recognition, are there large gains to be had? Just thinking of what new applications become possible, when you have the ability to print hundreds or thousands of miniature mics on a single board that will fit in a small-ish device.
I also have some vague recollection of a sourceforge project with a car viewable from all angles in a demo. The library was DirectX 7 or 8 compatible at that time, I think.
Facebook wins privacy case against Belgian data protection authority
The Federal Reserve would agree with part of your thesis, as zero interest rates and quantitative easing has caused significant asset inflation and those who are not asset holders have not benefited at all. Instead, many are now priced out of real estate, and have to pay high P/E valuations for stocks. Much higher risk to participate now.
Around Year 5, You’ll Have to Build Your Third Management Team
You can use Messenger without a Facebook account (just your phone number I think).
My wild guess would be the top 3 are Benchmark, Andreessen and Sequoia, am I wrong?
Common Lisp declarations are hints to the compiler that is doesn't have to do as much type checking, and so it can speed things up by omitting type checks, because you the user told the compiler it was safe to do so.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/12677731

...SBCL with certain level of safety declarations does mostly do what you really want though.
Tracking equity and liability on this sounds like an absolute nightmare. Once you've added an entity to abstract/simply the equity/liability situation, you end up with something that looks a heckuva lot like a bank and a mortgage on a condo/coop.
Such systems are ubiquitous on commercial fishing vessels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishfinder
That's basically a mortgage except the bank starts with almost 100% equity
You keep bringing this point up in the comments and you've been answered but I'm curious about something.

You say elsewhere that while 20 percent (the actual number is around 18) of CS grads are women, only 10 percent of junior devs are in fact female. Others have mentioned that maybe the women went on to graduate school or are working some CS related job that doesn't fit the definition of "junior dev".

The latter points seem reasonable to me but you keep bringing it up though so here's my question, where do you think 50 percent of female grads are ending up? The unemployment line? That would seem like a very large number of people, such a large number that it would have been recorded somewhere. Do you have any actual statistical data beyond the raw numbers you keep bringing up?
It's a cool idea but it won't work in areas where housing supply is scarce (basically everywhere). Renters are already perfectly willing to pay thousands of dollars a month for zero equity. Landlords have little incentive to offer equity in the underlying real estate to get people to move in, so they don't!

In places where housing is plentiful and there is competition you do every once in a while see "rent to own" terms where part of your rent payments can be credited towards a purchase, and typically the renter will need to buy an option to purchase up front.

Unfortunately, housing supply would have to skyrocket in order for landlords to be desperate enough to have to use your idea to lure tenants.
I lived in Seattle for almost 12 years, and I only found 2-3 months a year to be what I'd call "great" weather (or even good). My life and mood have improved dramatically since I moved to a place with more sun and fewer clouds. Obviously this is largely a matter of personal preference, but I couldn't disagree more that 9 months of the year in Seattle are great....
If you want to buy real estate in small liquid increments, you can do that with REITs (essentially real estate trusts that trade like stocks).

I live in an apartment owned by one of the big publicly traded trusts, and have amused myself in the past by calculating how many shares I'd have to buy for the dividends to cover my rent. On balance there are other ways I'd rather invest my money though.
This is a great idea and you are not the first person to have it—
Apply HN from several weeks ago:

"Apply HN: reinvent ownership" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11454138

I'm more than willing to work on it.