skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We find that [Buffett's] alpha becomes insignificant when controlling for exposures to Betting-Against-Beta and Quality-Minus-Junk factors. Further, we estimate that Buffett’s leverage is about 1.6-to-1 on average. Buffett’s returns appear to be neither luck nor magic, but, rather, reward for the use of leverage combined with a focus on cheap, safe, quality stocks. Decomposing Berkshires’ portfolio into ownership in publicly traded stocks versus wholly-owned private companies, we find that the former performs the best, suggesting that Buffett’s returns are more due to stock selection than to his effect on management."

http://www.econ.yale.edu/~af227/pdf/Buffett's%20Alpha%20-%20...
I'm having trouble lining up the history dates exactly. It seems to have been one of the forgotten conflicts of the retreat of the British Empire; Wikipedia dates the "Bush War" to 64-79, slightly after the 63 that this guy is supposed to have fought there.

White Supremacists vs. Communists. Not really something anyone involved should be very proud of. But that appears to have been after Rick left. He would have been in the British colonial police, which was a pretty ugly position to be in but the British government was also attempting to ensure that Rhodesia did not secede as an apartheit state.
> Those two should give a good overview of the available options. Basically, you can use local paths, NFS shares, vendor-specific storage (e.g. AWS EBS) and various other things.

Yeah, but which of them actually work?
It sounds like the court is giving both sides "an actual chance".

But what do you know?
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The attack involves taking down a high-value system via low-value, readily accessible USB port.

I imagine that the USB PHY of a well designed system exposed to this attack will not survive, but the entire system won't be so easily nerfed either.
> a bad, usable UI

But Twitter's UI is barely usable. It's not possible to search my past tweets, or someone else's past tweets, for one example.

That alone turns twitter from being a useful tool to share information into being a trivial app to share ephemeral nonsense.
In 1998 there was one of the strongest El Nino events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%E2%80%9398_El_Ni%C3%B1o_e...

Maybe this made for a sudden increase, rather than a more gradual one.
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More adventurously, he suggests that new communications technology could allow computing to be moved off of the Earth, reducing demand for energy.

Since latency to the moon is more than 2.5 seconds round trip I think the utility of moon based data centers will be marginal. Maybe as off site backup site or big batch processing.
I don't think the hold is pressurised, and so there would be very little oxygen there.
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This doesn't work when 100k other people with the same attributes are laid off in your city.
I like patcheudor's comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12467176
> And then I go on Hacker News and learn that the fair salary for people working at big companies, with around my experience is 330k!?! Man what am I doing wrong.

Why not go interview at a big company, then?
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To be honest, the only practical reason for me to use KVM instead of VirtualBox (which I'm already using via Vagrant too) is I have more control over "low-level" features, eg. I can setup VGA passthrough.

But it seems they don't allow such features, and "don't have plans to allow the user to add any custom parameter to the VMs"?

Great work nonetheless.

Edit: I understand my use case is not exactly what they're looking for.
Because it was the 90s?
People prefer to make their own mistakes and not have "order" imposed upon them.
I think you might be underestimating the ability of people to assess the situation. It's not like people aren't aware of these options. They rather have good reasons to reject them. Namely, that implementing them would mean that the state would need to commit crimes in massive numbers against the human rights of many innocent people. Committing crimes against some group of people in order to reduce the crimes committed against another group of people is kindof difficult to justify.
> Java, being a significantly superior language to ActionScript

ActionScript 3 was all right. A bit too listener-heavy but a mature, reliable, comprehensible language, and arguably lighter and more approachable than Java. Had Microsoft (among others) not nobbled it back in 2008, we might be using it as the next generation of JavaScript (ES4) by now.
I have a similar question re the Python implementation

Is it still possible to realise benefits of the encoding when translating Python objects?
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Yeah, I know it's adjusted for inflation. I guess they explain it? I can't imagine a paperboy earning nearly $60k (adjusted) in a couple years, so his investment returns must have been phenomenal right off the bat.

A high school sophomore would be 15-16, so he would have already made the $67k (adjusted) before he got into the pinball business.
Maybe you haven't been reading http://thedailywtf.com. Most programming jobs are as you have experienced. Maybe 1% of 1% work for startups on exciting projects. The rest just do maintenance on Java EE or worse COBOL.
> If we were stilling coding things that way, we might be able to go to the moon but we wouldn't have self-driving cars

Erm ... we actually don't have self-driving cars
I haven't seen the musical but I've listened to the album quite a lot. It's excellent in my opinion.

The author admits to not even seeing the musical. I question if he's even listened to the music.
Presumably the reaction to an in-cabin fire will be quicker than to that of a fire in the hold.

Do these batteries provide their own oxidizer somehow (in that would flooding the hold with CO2 or something actually extinguish one on fire)?

I don't know how fire protection currently is within an airplane hold but surely this is a solveable problem. Maybe airlines are asking that people not put these batteries in the hold is because fire protection systems haven't yet been adapted to this risk.
Lovely gem:

the main market for such technology lies outside the UK
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Battle of the Nations have held the UK national tournament in our local park for the last couple of years. My wife and I went to watch the first year, thinking it would be a quaint medieval reenactment thing.

It wasn't. A few minutes into the first bout we realised they were dead serious and properly going for each other. It was a lot of fun, but there was definitely an odd feeling of 'how much should I be enjoying this?' as it was so violent. Basically two people in full armour beating the crap out of each other with a heavy metal bar and a big wooden plank.

A fun day out for all the family.
This is what happens when the user is not the customer.
It's not necessarily the case in war that either side is "good". It certainly wasn't the case in the Rhodesian war, though we have to be careful to distinguish the actions of the leaders from the actions of individuals who get caught in events outside their control.
Hard drives are so cheap why not DIY? The article implies TB of data but I find that dubious.
Title reeks of sensationalism.
I always wondered what would happen to violent crime if everyone logged what happens? (If there is no obvious camera, it would be enough if 10-15% logged, for the risk to increase.)

A button sends the last minute of everything that happened to the police, along with GPS coordinates (preferably with a face recognition service)?

If your voice is needed to turn off logging, it will be obvious what happened, when knock out drugs are used in bars.

And so on.
RC enthusiasts use LiPo batteries, which can cause a lot of damage if mishandled and damaged, you can see a video here where a famous quadcopter pilot shows how many batteries he carries for a day of flying [0].

These batteries go into your carry-on luggage and needs to be protected from damage and short circuit.

Some info on why batteries shouldn't be in the cargo hold "Halon 1301, the suppression agent found in Class C cargo compartments, is ineffective in controlling a lithium metal cell fire." [1]

Here is the FAA requirements:

- LiPo batteries installed in a device are ok in either checked or carry-on luggage.

- An unlimited number of spare (uninstalled) LiPo batteries with a rating of up to 100 WHr may be carried, but only in carry-on baggage.

- With airline approval, up to 2 LiPo batteries with ratings between 100 and 160 WHr may be carried, but only in carry-on luggage.

- LiPo batteries larger than 160 WHr are not allowed.

It seems really strange you can travel with these things, I can't imagine the damage that will happen if a bag of batteries happens to blow up.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCtneglrE8I&t=278

[1] http://www.faa.gov/other_visit/aviation_industry/airline_ope...
Not a molecule of sense
I'm a member of a group that practices medieval sword, dagger, and unarmed techniques - with a view to being martially sound and historically accurate

My background is similar, though it's not mediaeval (nothing earlier than the late 17th century).
He might have made some money picking stocks, but he got rich by selling an overvalued company at the peak of the dotcom bubble. I suppose this is an example of a market inefficiency as well.
Hah. According to Wikipedia: "The Datapoint 2200 used simple bit-serial logic with little-endian to facilitate carry propagation. When Intel developed the 8008 microprocessor for Datapoint, they used little-endian for compatibility. However, as Intel was unable to deliver the 8008 in time, Datapoint used a medium scale integration equivalent, but the little-endianness was retained in most Intel designs." Which I guess is a reason to use little-endian, though not one that's really relevant to anyone that's ever actually used an Intel CPU. (ARM, incidentally, was little-endian by default because the 6502 was.)
> [...] I've always been puzzled by the urge to move more and more logic to the frontend.

Moreover, we've already had applications written in client-database
architecture, and it was nowhere near pretty. Fortunately they died long ago,
but unfortunately they're resurrected now again.
You can see my comments about Halon 1301 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12478330
Well, they at least provide value to people without too much externalities which makes them much better than both fighting in the mud and all the adtech work that drives this mess.
I'm sure you can negociate if you have offers from Google, Facebook and Palantir in London. Negociating only works in hot markets, and there are very few of them for tech in the EU.
OK, that makes sense - thanks.
I'm sorry, but I find tools like this so questionable. The idea the boss should know when his or her employees are planning to leave without even asking seems like a Orwellian nightmare waiting to happen.

Reminds me of those apps people install to track friends and relatives.
I have some questions for you:

- Can you guarantee that there is no better (i.e., stronger correlated) predictor for murder rate than skin color?

- How far behind in strength of correlation is the next-best predictor, and what is it?
On the chart, the preceding few years have a very similar slope. One possible explanation is that he entered his 20s after all, and you might imagine that he started being taken more seriously in his business ventures when compared to the preceding period (i.e. it is possible the growth looks really huge when starting from a small base)
> Interesting, what native UI system is in your opinion easier to work with than web?

I'll answer that: every single one. I haven't ever seen a GUI system more complicated than the HTML/CSS/JS mess. The problem with these is that at first glance they look easy. Doing 'hello world' in HTML is little more than actually typing 'Hello world'. They only become a mess if you try to do something reasonably complex. The end result of this is that there are many people who start out with HTML and stick with it. They simply never experienced anything different.

> Why then so many devs choose to use WebBrowser wrappers to render their desktop/mobile UIs because it's way faster and easier to develop with?

No, it's cheaper to develop with. There are many more 'web developers' out there than mobile developers and they are usually very cheap to hire. The goal of corporations is not to build the best UI or to use the best tools, it is to make the most profit. A web-UI is usually considered good-enough by the suits and web 'developers' are a dime a dozen.
> Neil deGrasse Tyson or Richard Dawkins

Twitter actually ruined my opinion on these individuals.

Neil deGrasse Tyson writing smug bitchy tweets about slight inaccuracies in Hollywood sci-fi movies. Painted him in an entirely different light to me

Richard Dawkins tweet after tweet of him just arguing with stupid trolls, you're supposed to be a respected academic yet here you are wrestling pigs in the mud because for some reason you feel you have to win every argument.
There's a life log built into Google Maps. It's called Timeline and it's pretty neat. It annotates your raw location history with the names of places you've been and the photos you took while you were there. It's a nice benefit for those of us who don't mind letting Google store our location history.

https://www.google.com/maps/timeline
Abstractions make things more complicated? I think you're missing the basic definition and purpose of abstractions. So how do you define "almost"?
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> Having said that, period texts discussing fighting with sharps acknowledge the problem of double hits, which were apparently quite common in duels with rapiers and smallswords, so the effect of tournament fighting is presumably to exaggerate an existing problem rather than introducing a completely new one.

I've mistakenly thought that by "the same thing" you meant the actual medieval combat, not tournaments. Imitating tournaments is indeed a more achievable goal.
I lived in Tokushima for a year and my advice is to make sure you avoid summer (15 June - 15 Sept) the weather is insanely hot and humid. Wikipedia says the trek should take 30-60 days so starting around April 15 might be about right.
I love the part where they said it's made for penetration testers and security auditors...You can literally threaten someone with a usb stick now.
This addresses the second Main Russian Question but not the first one:

"Who's there to blame" but not "What's there to do".

What's there to do with Zimbabwe now? And other post-decolonization failed states?
Your first point is in reference to the 'USB Kill Tester Shield', not the 'USB Killer'.

Quote from the front page: "If you use a charger or USB port that is not your own - the device can steal your data while you are charging. Using a USB Kill Shield will prevent devices from having access to your data."
I find Reddit so utterly unusable that I don't even have an account. Visiting a Reddit page, all I see is confusing tumble of interface: I can't distinguish content from controls, one level of reply from another, useful content is drowned out by "me too" and "snark". The mobile interface uses text sizing that is too small to read on my device (with my eyesight).
Reminds me of one I made years ago (back before Web Audio, when the HTML5 <audio> tag was actually pretty new)[0]. It's not under 100 lines, but it's self-contained and (mostly) readable like this one is. These days I'd definitely go with Web Audio as the playback mechanism, of course.

[0] http://stepheneisenhauer.com/demos/drummachine/
Samsung loses $14bn in a few hours over Note 7 issue
They went through some rough times this summer (bankruptcy/re-org) [1] and have secured some new funding [2].

Also interesting, because they are based in Sweden, you can get a look into some of their financials as well[3].

Anyone from @narrative care to comment on this?

[1] - http://blog.getnarrative.com/2016/07/narrative-initiates-a-c...

[2] - http://blog.getnarrative.com/2016/07/first-round-of-funding-...

[3] - http://www.allabolag.se/5568709520/Narrative_AB
Lua looks like a nice language, but I've never really tried it. The Lua JITs are really impressive.

Metaprogramming is a pretty widespread feature these days. Even Rust, for example, has both Scheme-style rewrite-rule macros, and (unstable) programmatic macros, for example.
If only life were so easy then a roadmap or checklist would solve everything.

Experience is critical. Knowing what works is useful but more importantly knowing what doesn't work is essential. Focus on solving the issues and not on welcoming good news.

Start small. Do you have personal programming projects? Did you _project manage_ them? No? Then start by critically managing your own work. Stand back and introspect.

Do you want to manage any type of project or are you targeting technical projects, client projects, web projects? There will inevitably be a mixture so you need to understand that. Don't trust anyone. Keep asking for justifications and proof. Remind everyone about the different responsibilities that are present in any project and be specific about each individual's responsibilities.

What are you waiting for?!
The support is quite good today, see https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/.
It's about the country which is now known as Zimbabwe, which still had this colonial name up to 1980.
Yes. Web programming is a mess. It's layers and layers of half-baked solutions, each patching deficiencies in the previous layer while introducing new deficiencies. It's a convoluted Rune Goldbergian contraption, attempting to make a general application framework out technologies originally designed to display hypertext.

The individual parts make sense once you're familiar with them. Some are even designed by conscientious and competent people. But the feeling that, taken together, it's an ugly hack is inescapable.
I was using node.js for a while and having to deal with the same bugs over and over again. Usually the bug would be passing the wrong type or mistyping a name. I started using Typescript and things got a lot better. Scala.js is great and all, and probably a good choice if you're using Scala on the backend, but Typescript works a bit better because the Javascript it generates is pretty close to the original. If you search the HN archives, people seem pretty happy with it.
This doesn't sound like a NodeJS problem.
Definitely yes. I'm on the sidelines until things will settle down into something that makes more sense and if it doesn't then I won't be doing any web development.

Software is such a huge field there are a ton of interesting challenges outside of the web and the current mess does absolutely nothing to keep me interested. It's a veritable tower of Babel without a clear sense of direction or longevity.
The worst part about Twitter is finding context for tweets.

It happens so often that I'll stumble across a snarky response, want to know what that was about, but I just can't find a way to find the original tweet that this was obviously a response too. Sometimes clicking a tweet works, sometimes you can scroll up, but often that just doesn't work. Then I click on all the people who are mentioned in the tweet, try to find the context, see that they must have tweeted hundreds of tweets since then, and then I give up...
Some development jobs are more interesting, I've worked in a startup which was very fast pace and plenty of tech to learn and challenging projects, but the renumeration wasn't great so switched to an enterprise style company. Pace is slower which is fine because it allows a lot of time for enjoyable side projects and self directed learning. If your day to day tasks aren't challenging enough you can carve out some time to create your own projects.
What's wrong with Twitter's search page? To me it seems to do everything one might want. https://twitter.com/search-advanced
That would be a net positive, so the sky is really not falling.
Issue isn't tech, it's that the average person doesn't see any value in what P2P offers.
"Liberals" in the meaning above is purposefully left undefined.

Liberal ideals and principles can and often are ignored, see Occupy Wallstreet/2008-Financial crisis, if it suites the existing power holders. In short, could modify from liberals to "power of oppression".
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Wow. A small taser with an USB connector.

What's next. A taser with an HDMI connector?
You are solving the wrong problem. The reason there's no FB killer is the network effect. You can create the best alternative in the world, but to actually populate it with users is the task that nobody knows how to solve.
And I have to disagree with you. Doing UIs in native frameworks like JavaFX or even in a pure C++/WinAPI, is much more saner than doing any kind of UI in HTML/CSS. Ignoring flexbox for a second, which is kind of bleeding edge new thing, remind me - how exactly do you vertically center stuff with CSS? :P.

My two main issues with doing UIs on the web are:

- web stack is terribly unpredicatable; you're trying to force an inherently document-layout-oriented model into a free-form 2D canvas, which leads to layouts exploding whenever user switches browser/OS/device/timezone/whatever.

- the code makes no sense; no matter how crappy the Java APIs were (due to deficiencies of the language mostly), the code you wrote at least did what it said, because it expressed the UI concepts explicitly. HTML/CSS is a huge mess of insanity when it comes to doing UI work. I mean, in what reasonable world should the idea "center this" be expressed as "set the left and right margin to 'auto'"? CSS is full of stuff like that.

(And then there are some silly philosophies like "separation of form and content" which everyone touts, but rarely anyone actually follows; see e.g. grid layouts.)
So good I repeated it.
"It should be borne in mind that, in virtually all English civil litigation, damages are merely compensatory."

That doesn't sound like it follows from the English rule.
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I really don't know. There aren't many models for successfully transitioning out of a dictatorship. A few European countries have done it but in a vastly different context.

As for what will actually be done, that's fairly easy to guess: in all likelihood nothing, unless Zimbabwe somehow starts to threaten western interests.
Can we have surveillance and innovation?
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As the law currently stands, no. You can take an active role in curating comments and still be protected. You can even build a business model around charging people to remove defamatory information about them from your site, and Section 230 not only protects you from liability, it protects your business model by preventing the courts from forcing you to remove that content. A number of companies such as RipoffReport.com have built up very successful businesses around this model, and it's that which is endangered by this lawsuit.