skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious if you can share any more about your approach to fundamental investing. What stage/size companies do you focus on and how do you find an edge?

I looked into fundamental investing for a while but came away with the impression that you're trying to guess what the consensus of the market will be rather than finding some "right" answer. ie you can think the price should be x but if nobody else will buy/sell at x then you're wrong.

I've instead been subscribing to the notion that price movement can be thought of as random and selling option premium accordingly (the whole tastytrade mantra) but haven't been super successful and would be interested in hearing other approaches.
For you and for a lot of people, rglullis. This is the mainstream West media thinking. But I missed your arguments proving that WeChat could be worse to China than is FB to Brazil.
You're only accounting for one form of selection bias when in reality there are two.

The first form of selection bias is inside your country. If you don't already have status and wealth, then you won't even be able to overcome the cognitive/emotional load that's required to leave your country.

The second form of selection bias is when the Immigration Officer says yes or no.

The first form of selection bias is far more effective at weeding out the "low" earners and ensuring the top earners are pre-selected for immigration.

There is a third form of selection bias but that may not help with this conversation, and that's geographical. Crossing an ocean has historically been seen as riskier then crossing land, so that weeds out the risk averse.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11969740
Uncovering human remains after 8 years in the desert of foreign nationals, hours from the nearest signs of civilisation, at risk of one's own life, and wanting to demonstrate to others that the claim is substantiated: removing an item that provides solid proof strikes me as grounded.

The author clearly deliberated over, and fairly considered the merits, of removing other items.

Consider too: finding something once in the desert does not mean you're likely to find it again. Animals, weather, rains (rare, but often overwhelming), or other humans could further disturb the scene, or you could simply lose track of where the item had been (even with GPS) or be distracted by false hits (the reflective surfaces which turned out to be rocks).

Particularly after discovery of the remains had been reported and multiple parties were aware, with information being leaked out.

I find nothing malicious, and nothing reproachable, in his account. Though note that this is his account, there may be another side.
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The site works a bit awkward on my phone (iPhone 6), something with the width. Might want to debug that :)
OK, so you put your IP address into several centralized DB's on the regular internet, then when I2P starts it randomly fetches from one of those repositories.
I noticed that the slides contain an error.

write(1, hello, sizeof(hello));

This will write the NUL byte to stdout, which is undesirable, but you probably won't notice it in a terminal. You might as well do this:

write(1, hello, strlen(hello));

(You say, "But isn't that slower because of the call to strlen?" Fear not, strlen is optimized out by the compiler in this case.)

For fun, try compiling the basic program with optimization enabled, and look at the assembly output.

printf("Hello, world!\n");
Similar to composability problems in cryptography. Naively combining primitives that individually hold certain security guarantees will most certainly undo all of the security, instead of "stacking" these individual guarantees.

Usually you can trace the insecurity to mismatched assumptions, unhandled edge cases or a failure to consider global contexts (like where you accidentally turn one function into a decryption oracle for another).
The concept of observability is, but you seemed to miss that one in favor of focusing on the metaphor itself.
Show HN: Elementary cellular automata in the browser
Yeah, you can pretty much skip the later entries without missing much, it's all about how they searched but couldn't find anything else.
Become a sysadmin that writes tools (which is more like old-school system
programmer, the one who wrote grep and syslog and init and bash and awk).
Since you're nominally a sysadmin, nobody will look at your workbench to check
if you're using "kosher" languages, so you're free to use whatever makes sense
to solve a problem (hint: not always a functional language).

Been there, done that, been happy with the approach.
The one exercise I would love is calculate rolling retention. It's a very common SaaS metric but really hard to get/calculate. I don't know any ORM that does it elegantly.
It is presumed that Carolino wrote the book through the aid of a Portuguese-to-French dictionary and a French-to-English dictionary, using the former for an initial translation of a word or phrase from Portuguese, and the latter to convert it from French into English. The result, of course, is a mishmash of cloudy gibberish.

Similarly, my sons watched a hilarious Let's Play of some game that had been translated too many times and had somehow ended up using the F word to mean something like "put in." So, every time you acquired an item, the game follows this formula:

"(Character name)! (item name)
bag fuck"

So in the LP an early example is

"Terry! drug
bag fuck"
Sending emails with Elixir/Phoenix
But that isn't a very useful metric. The question of how hard something is is pretty much equivalent to "how much time can I expect to spend on this before I learn it?". You're saying that there's coding you can do without spending too much time, and coding you can do only after spending years. Sure, but you can be reasonably effective early on, and there's an easy path to mastery (build more and more complex things).

Ultimately, it's a matter of learning curves and outcomes at each point.
Purchased your book in a show of support of your work (your HN username made me smile a little too).
>> I have always wondered if it gets the same level of scrutiny or interest from researchers or nation states

My guess is the I2P gets more scrutiny from the US government, because it's much harder to break versus TOR(for which there we're always probably some attacks). It might even be that TOR is a government response for the demand for anonymizing networks - funded specifically in order for the anonymity community to do something else than I2P and anonymous remailers, and seems that the community mostly went with it.
The runoff is sealed off from the environment, but water vapor isn't. This appears to be pretty well studied; for instance, just the non-waste biological activity of an indoor lot of live cows can saturate the air, which then needs to be vented.

I think 'tzs is just pointing out that the water consumption numbers here are oversimplified. They probably are, right?
Are Indians considered Asians?
Well. Not an expert so this is lacking nuance:
So Dyalog back some years ago came up dfns. Traditional Dyalog functions are something like:

RV←foo MyFun bar;x;y;z
....
....

where RV is semi-optional the return value; foo and bar are the right and left arguements; and x y z are all local variables. Any variables declared in the function body are global. You can't nest functions like this.

Dfns look like

MyFun ← {
...
}

this comes with four variables automatically ⍺ ⍵ which are the right and left values and ⍺⍺ ⍵⍵ the right and left functions. you can nest dfns and variables declared inside are lexically scoped.

Co-Dfns is a compiler (written in Dyalog) which adds parallel primitives into this existing dialect of Dyalog.
> Then how do you explain the same Asians people being successful in other countries where the immigration process is not as strict as USA?

Since immigration costs money and it's "easier" to stay where you are born, there is no way to escape a selection bias.

> By saying that "already-high-IQ" people immigrate to the home country aren't you in effect saying that there is no one in the native homeland with a higher IQ than the immigrating pool?

No, and I'm not sure how that follows. The argument that I'm defending just asserts that the ones who immigrate are "better" than average in some way.

> Are you saying that there is a preference given to Asians over white people by the employers?

Again, no. The preference is already given by the immigration office.
I don't think it's looking at paint. It's looking for road edges.
Almost Everyone Thinks the Pound's Days Are Numbered
You're responding to a statement I didn't make. I just corrected the common misconception that the SS tax is 11%, it's not, it's 34.75% [0]

What would happen if those taxes were lowered is for economists to speculate, I'm not one (even then, as the joke goes, put a question to two economists, get three different opinions)

[0] This conversation made go check the exact values, you can find them here: http://www.economias.pt/contribuicoes-para-a-seguranca-socia...
> I expect AArch32 to be gone from most high performance implementations in a few years

Apple has been requiring iOS apps to include 64-bit binaries for more than a year, and in iOS 10 they're publicly shaming 32-bit apps [1] on launch. Wouldn't be surprised at all if 32-bit support is gone from iOS and Apple's SoCs by iOS 12 / 2018.

[1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/06/15/ios-10-warns-users...
Just an FYI, Manning has a code the past two days for 50% off all books, and they will often have 35-50% off single books at anyone time. Their shipping is also expensive for a single item, but free for three. But yes, otherwise it's very expensive. $45 for a 200 page picture book on algorithms is a bit steep.
Again, there's a lot of work that you just glossed over. There were man-years of work put into making the doors, bolts, screws, boards, and everything else you just had to assemble into a house.

Try building a house from stuff you find in nature, and it will take a lot longer than a few months.
People who are interested in this should take a look at DragonflyBSD: https://www.dragonflybsd.org/

The things this quite claims are crucial to high performance networking, that need to be done outside of the linux kernel, are already done in the DragonflyBSD kernel:

The key to better networking scalability, says Van,
is to get rid of locking and shared data as much as
possible, and to make sure that as much processing work
as possible is done on the CPU where the application is
running. It is, he says, simply the end-to-end
principle in action yet again. This principle, which
says that all of the intelligence in the network
belongs at the ends of the connections, doesn't stop at the kernel."

Dragonflybsd solves the locking and shared data problem by running a network stack per cpu core. If you've got 4 cores, you've got 4 kernel threads handling TCP. I don't understand the details of scheduling processes to the cpu handling its network connections, but Matt Dillon, the head of the project claims it's accounted for in the scheduler:

<dillon>	we already do all of that
<dillon>	its a fairly sophisticated scheduling algorithm.
How processes get grouped together and vs the network
protocol stacks depends on the cpu topology and the load on the machine

```

edit: If you want to try it out on a VPS, vultr is the best one I know that allows you to upload custom ISOs (https://www.vultr.com/coupons/). There was a bug fixed recently in the virtio drivers that should make it pretty stable running on a VPS. You'll have to wait for 4.5 (a few weeks from now) or just upgrade from master (very easy).
I like it, it resembles somehow a car and gives a speed feeling
Here are two I have been using from time to time:

http://sqlzoo.net/wiki/SQL_Tutorial

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/SQL/SelfPaced/info

Also, thanks for linking the one in this thread. The interface looks clean (on my laptop at least).
Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't (2011)
You wouldn't know about it if someone who was doing anti-government or anti-capitalism stuff got successfully blackmailed before achieving their objective.

This would maintain the illusion of things happening without actually allowing them to come to fruition.
This is awesome! This will come in handy to me because I've switched to Elixir and Phoenix, which uses Ecto as it's default data access package - Ecto's syntax is very sql-y
> Without assholeswe wouldn’t have relational databases, iPhones, or any other manner of innovations that have improved our daily lives.

Wrong. Without assholes we wouldn't have people taking all the credit for the hard work of entire teams of engineers. Taking credit for something is not the same as creating something.
Hence Debian's practice of back-porting security fixes on stable distros.

Also applies to Ubuntu, probably Red Hat, though the latter's vastly smaller repos mean vastly greater reliance on third-party sources, and concommitant risks of introducing/changing features when security fixes are wanted, or riding bareback without security updates.

There's also the inherent conflict between running current code and fixed code. Debian's legendary conservatism reflects a bias toward the latter, at least on its stable branches. Of course, you're welcome to lead and bleed on testing, unstable, or experimental, if you so choose.
Apparently HN's markdown implementation is supposed to leave the * alone as long as here is not another the other end. But there seems to be no upper limit to where that end may be.

Also, it seems to only check if the * is near something else, not if it is before or after. Nor if the after is after a before (if that made any sense at all).
The problem here mostly is not about the throughput,which i guess most of the highend hardware could help, but in terms of how many connections it can handle per second is where the bottleneck is on the Linux Kernel.I cannot imagine a 1 million CPS linux kernel support now .. But the same is possible with a UserSpace TCP Stack .
Would someone with background in other sql flavors be able to use this as a into to PostgreSQL?
Yea, tor basically does the same thing.
Isn't that the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_roll? That's pretty (universal?) standard in democratic elections.
I doubt there's very many libertarians that would claim the private sector doesn't benefit from government spending at times. Every complex issue has it's nuances.

Generally, the stance of libertarians is that the TCO associated with the military industrial complex FAR outweigh it's benefit.
I switched to an Nvidia Shield (Android TV) almost a year ago, and it's by far the best media play device I've had. You can navigate with a remote (and it works great with my Harmony hub remote, which gives me one remote that can control the TV and audio). I primarily use Netflix, Plex, YouTube and Google Play Music. Very conveniently, it's also a Google Cast device.. so without switching inputs or doing anything, you can just instantly cast your phone/tablet.

Over the past 13-ish years, I've gone through a Roku, Chromecast, small form factor Windows 7 and 10 PCs, Pivos Xios, some random android box, and going back farther SageTV (amazing at its time), and a MythTV system.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12020506

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12001730
What started out as an idea to extend only Amazon's core capabilities as a service to other retailers transformed into a challenge to extend even the core of the core, which was the digital backbone infrastructure. Maybe this can be a tl;dr of the whole article.

Such business philosophies require companies to unselfishly give up developed competitive advantages and provide that as a service to the entire industry. Imagine if this same philosophy was implemented at other companies: the past-time heavyweights would be serving a far higher calling today. And entire industries of innovations of would have picked up and developed on where the old left off.

Examples like Intel offering the capabilities of its foundries or Kodak offering its patents to filmmaking or Microsoft offering others to build on its Office Doc format would have prevented both their fall and promoted the industries to greater heights.
Or it was a [poor] way to try and ban certain types of gambling while allowing others.
Each blood vessel feeds hundreds of thousands of neurons.
Nightweb is discontinued ⌘ https://sekao.net/nightweb/blog/discontinued.html
I didn't find that Udacity course all that helpful. Especially toward the end, where it could really shed some light on the actually advanced Kube topics, the videos shorten to 60 seconds each and he just glosses over topics without any explanation why they matter.
>> My guess is the I2P gets more scrutiny from the US government, because it's much harder to break versus TOR

How so? Is this what is alluded to by "onion vs garlic" routing design?

http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/anonymizing-networks-t...

(I can't get the I2P explanation/comparison on their official site right now; not sure it's me or them, haha.)

Again, I read a while back. I am pleased to know it is more secure.

Personally, I liked they had easily accessible Android builds directly from them at the time. But the Tor devs do so much good development, tech writing on the blog, and research publication it is hard to love or hate either group as they save the Internet from itself.
FYI: I downvoted this because I dislike the trend of Elixir/Phoenix discussions taking over every single thread.
I find them a necessary evil.

This because you only get so much cooling passively, and you only get so much computing done pr unit heat (something that even mobile phones are discovering).

End result, you can only compute so much on a passively cooled system.
I'm afraid the 'asians are smarter, work harder and have better culture' makes a whole lot more sense.

Let's leave US and look at Asia instead - compare performance of Japan/Korea/Taiwan (can also through in Singapore and HK) and more recently China to other countries (Indonesia/Philippines/Malaysia/Thailand etc) post WW2. They all started out dirt poor yet some countries have made tremendous progress while others are still pretty undeveloped.
Not all of us want to go on retreats overseas with coworkers, especially if we have a spouse and kids, but definitely some people prefer that kind of environment at work.
Why use personal finance software?
Sorry, I'm having difficulty following you. What do you mean by an "n-3 cube"? Or are you actually talking about n - 3 many different cubes?
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On the road to a gig economy, litigators take the wheel
You folks don't know how much it means to us to hear that people are finding success with Kubernetes. Thanks for using it. We'll try to keep pushing the envelope.
Google talks up its self-driving cars’ cyclist-detection algorithms
I'm curious to know what you think of Go in general as well as Go vs Erlang.
YCs newest legal tech startup taking on immigration
The CoreOS team and technologies have been critical to getting Kubernetes going. Thanks, Brandon.
Broker's fees of 15% or even 20% seemed to be fairly common last time I was looking in Manhattan several years ago. It's definitely not pegged at one month anymore nowadays even in Brooklyn.
Look at performance of Chinese all around South Asia - Malaysia, Indonesia. Or just compare Singapore with Malaysia: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=gdp+per+person+singapo...
Again, you mirror the Spanish public opinion very well.

The pattern is clear: you only respect state backed cultures, my culture and language are mere nuisances that waste people's time.

That's one of the main reasons we need to break away from Spain ASAP. Before it can complete the cultural genocide it has repeatedly attempted during the last 3 centuries.
Google Self-Driving Car Project Monthly Report - https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en...
Generally these things only exhibit negative effects in the long term.

If it exhibits short term negative effects, it'd be obvious what to do.
How is Werner Vogels not even mentioned in this article? I know he wasn't at Amazon in 2003 when the discussions began, but he was within a year.
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> What do you do when you can't see the lines on the road? Or when cars are suddenly four abreast on a three lane highway? Or things like the especially treacherous black ice.

Indeed, these things are also quite tricky for human drivers (Winter is a windfall for body shops!).
It's the modern version of 'mongoloid' which has gone out of fashion.

Interestly enough, in the UK 'asian' refers strictly to people from India/Pakistan.
Yes, I misread his post. My mistake.
There really ought to be some sort of PE-equivalent certification for mission critical software, where they're required to sign off on the code before it can be legally distributed. It seems like the majority of today's catastrophic failures are due to faulty software and currently there's no accountability when it happens. If engineers were routinely crashing aircraft and breaking MRI's they would be going to prison because of the accountability procedures that are in place.
Maryland dairy farmer fought the Justice Department – and (finally) won
Would add two points:

1. Internal Jeff Bezos memo from around 2002 that everything should be a web service, which eventually can be externalize: http://apievangelist.com/2012/01/12/the-secret-to-amazons-su...

"Anyone who doesn’t do this will be fired. Thank you; have a nice day!"

2. AWS started in 2006 with EC2 (provision service through API) and S3 (some file storage). Simple, but primitive building blocks.

Google entered game early in 2008 with App Engine. Very powerful, but restricted Platform as a Service. It pretty much requires to rewrite whole application from scratch and doesn't let you do tons of stuff.

Eventually AWS is keep adding services with more functionality (SimpleDB, DynamoDB, SQS), while it took quite a while Google to realize that it needs to provide bare servers too. So both approaches converge, but Amazon capture magnitude more revenues from cloud infrastructure.