skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. I worked on congestion avoidance for a UDP based protocol and it's really difficult to get this right because you have to coexist with lots of other algorithms on the same network. If you are "fighting" a loss based algorithm TCP stream it's virtually impossible for you to get your fair share of bandwidth without getting packet loss.

An algorithm for efficient local networking where everything is under you control is very different than something that runs of the Internet. Not even sure that this style of congestion avoidance is the best approach for a tightly controlled local network.

Edit: and keep in mind that packet loss is correlated with queues filling up. So as long as there's lots of loss based algorithms in the wild it's difficult for someone to come in with a better solution that coexists with those other flavours (at least if you're not allowed to touch the "network" itself).
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It's possible that we will reach a point in computing history where we can run all historical software, and that this state of affairs will continue indefinitely. It just requires enough manpower put into "bootstrapping" of hardware in software (emulation). A decentralized Internet file system might help too.

In other words, the "digital dark age" [1] for code (in addition to documents) doesn't need to last forever.

You might compare it to things like farming, metallurgy, or plumbing. Many things in those areas were invented independently in different geographical areas, and some were altogether forgotten and reinvented later. But now we've reached a point in civilization where we're not going to forget them, because we have libraries, the Internet, and so forth.

Likewise, at some point we should stop forgetting how to run old software as well. Old software can be made runnable now through conscious effort, but the "default" is still for it to rot and be forgotten.

For web pages, the Internet Archive only does the server side... there does need to be an archive of web browsers as well, and there probably will be some day. I have no idea when that will be, but I think it will happen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age
Is that speculation, or do you have evidence? I'm genuinely curious, for personal reasons.

Schizophrenia and mood disorders run on both sides of my family. The schizophrenia is rare - the mood disorder not so rare. But, we are all kind of eccentric and artistic and driven to be creative.

Anyway, one thing that we often talk about is this sense of being able to subconsciously and intuitively 'feel' what others are thinking and feeling. It can be a painful experience because it acts like a sixth sense in a way. That is, it's physically painful to be around people with underlying anxiety or anger or tension, even if they're suppressing it enough that others don't notice. People have said that I'm able to predict what they are thinking and feeling before they even know that they're they're thinking and feeling it.
I remember this, from before Obama's presidency, and after.
Frankly, I agree, but I also don't see another alternative. I have a reasonably decent github portfolio, but most companies I've applied to view it as supplementary evidence, rather than proof of my abilities.
Nope. For newspapers, at least, this accounted for maybe 20% of revenue.

The remainder was ads and classifieds.

Everybody is in trouble.
His plays from 60 years ago read like they were written yesterday. Everyone talks about "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" but "The Zoo Story" is a devastating, somewhat surreal two man play that has never left me, even decades later.
I almost fell for this sourceforge link. No, I don't want to punch the monkey or learn one neat trick.
But people paying for a newspaper barely covered the cost of printing it, and even then, plenty were taking losses on the cover price.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4n3e1s/the_state_...
I don't know why, but it has never, ever gotten me. I guess maybe they're a point in time snapshot and all my keys have rolled since then.
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If your software runs on a CPU, those are not under your control :)
Really surprised that a simple and perhaps intuitive question got 131 points. You can just reframe it to "if I send my password to the wrong website, will it be able to read it?" and answer is still yes. Maybe it's 'of course'.
I struggled a bit with the auto-translated version, especially since the article seems to assume some more knowledge in the terminology than I have.

How has the quality been lowered? Is it that the added resistance of the adapter (the article doesn't mention its capacitance/inductance, so I'd guess that's less significant) interacts with the inductive load of a speaker to create a filter, so now the frequency response is less flat?
> evidence to support that they underperform direct index funds

Well, they charge additional fees. They have to make that up somewhere or it's the same (but at higher cost) as buying the indices directly.

> very frequent automatic rebalancing

This actually costs money and doesn't improve outcomes. Scroll to "study for the NYTimes on rebalancing" on http://johncbogle.com/wordpress/category/ask-jack/ . Or http://www.morningstar.com/cover/videocenter.aspx?id=615379 .

> automated (aggressive) tax-loss harvesting

Tax-loss harvesting has very limited benefit. Mostly you can offset income. But it's only $3k/year. You can harvest enough losses by hand to easily take the $3,000 deduction too.

> Third, the ability to diversify any amount of money. You can put $1k into Wealthfront and diversify across five Vanguard index funds. But directly on Vanguard, this is impossible because the minimum investment in most Vanguard funds is $3k.

No... you can buy the same Vanguard ETFs with no minimum.

> With that, take their Total Stock Market Index Fund as an example. If you can only invest $3k in it, your expense ratio is 0.16% [1]. If you can invest $10k in it, your expense ratio is 0.05% [2]. Through Wealthfront, I can hold the VTI ETF at 0.05% expense ratio

You can just buy VTI as an individual. You still get the 0.05% rate.

> The best possible claim I can imagine then is that for very large accounts, excluding tax-loss harvesting benefits and any benefits of rebalancing, it is cheaper to index invest — for example, if you have a $100k account and can spend less than $225 worth of your time [4] in the entire year keeping up on it, rebalancing if you wish, etc., then in some cases you could beat the robos.

Yeah. Reducing expenses is the goal.
I really need to get my blog up and running so that I can write about things like this.

My view is that dependencies are someone else's solution to my problem of technical debt.

I'd be a straight-up liar if I claimed to be proud of every line of code I've written, either for an employer or for myself. Sometimes you just have to hammer a square peg into a round hole and be done with it because deadlines. Or lazy. Or boredom. Or whatever this project is going nowhere anyway, so wtf? Hack the shit out of it.

I always tell myself I'm going to get back to that later and clean it up, but I often don't because, well, moar deadlines.

Dependency updates--particularly breaking ones--are things I love to hear about. Dependency updates give me an excuse, both professionally and for my side projects, to revisit stuff that I knew was janky and crappy and broke when I wrote it, but have since come to accept.

Security updates are absolute gold in this game of not wanting to suck but still having to meet deadlines.

"Sorry boss, but there's a vulnerability in lib x. We have to update. But it's breaking. So now we have to refactor. Two weeks, at least. Maybe more."

I just got rid of a crap-ton of bad code while I was updating for that dependency. Oops.
The colloquial "freedom" you refer to is subjective and can be used to mean anything. Robbing a bank would give me the freedom to start a business without putting my family at risk. Going to jail would make me more free by not having to worry about food. Microsoft Windows gives me more freedom to get my work done because Linux has poor support for Word documents.

Freedom or liberty has to be defined negatively (e.g. absence of constraints) and precisely to have any objective meaning at all.
there is absolutely no reason you would need to type an ssh key by hand.

even at the very lowest level of server recovery (bare metal bios or uefi), crash carts are obsolete. you can cut and paste everywhere now through ethernetworked or emulated serial means.
I agree with all this:) I also enjoyed the article, "free as in baby" is a great phrase.

At the same time I think it's important to note that the entropy analogy is just an analogy. Software is not actually subject to the laws of entropy (at least no more than a book or a poem is). Sure, often we want to change programs for various reasons -- that's not entropy.

Most fields have to deal with actual entropy -- the fact that we don't should be super exciting. See chubot's adject comment for just some of the things this makes possible.
Don't get it. It's FOSS. npm install the version you want. A new version released you don't like? Keep using the old version. Don't like the old version? Write your own. Fork it. It's free and awesome global collaboration!
When you say "How to Read a Book is a wonderful read," do you mean one ought to "read" or "inspect" it? :)
> fix the problem yourself and submit a pull request

For smaller projects out on GitHub I often see attempts at this that fail. Stuck in "Open" status for years or outright rejected.

Maybe the account in control of the canonical repository is no longer active or interested in the project.

Maybe that person doesn't understand or agree with the submitted code or asks for more accompanying work.

Maybe the submission is under-documented or not even fully understood by the submitter.

Each of these types of sticking points can be overcome, but the bottom line is they all take a lot of work from one side or the other.

Does anyone have examples to share of open source projects that have very low friction for drive-by contributions while still maintaining quality? Projects with very clear documentation and instructions for contributing? It would be nice to have some models to aspire to.
Can confirm. 50% of the roles I've interviewed for are DevOps, and they definitely ask algorithms questions. Granted, I don't think DevOps is very different from product engineering these days. It's still code.
Finally someone gets it on HN!
Sort of. Ideally you're trading future long-term capital gains taxes for lower income tax today. You assume the future cap gains rate will be lower than or equal to your income tax today.
Concerning "Data Science", the problem is that collecting data and conjecturing about what is going on, is not exactly science. You would need to experimentally test things, and look at that kind of data instead.
I like how the page doesn't mention the date.
As you reach the $3k max and your portfolio continues to grow, the benefit to fee ratio becomes worse.
But without the incentive to make awesome windfall profits there wont be any EpiPens to begin with.
These are exactly some of the advantages Perl6 has over Perl5. In Perl6 you do have types but they're optional. So you can be as precise or as imprecise (typed) as you like.

In D for instance you do have an auto type, yet it's still a type. An auto function that returns real or BigInt will trigger a compiler error. You need to convert the real to BigInt before any compilation can occur.
Like an IRA, you're free to open an HSA with another provider and transfer the balance. You get the deduction from your employer and can invest in lower-fee funds. The best options are still relatively expensive compared to the IRA/401(k) scene, unfortunately.
The entire strip between the trees and the base of the building.
Allowing differing reimbursement amounts seems pretty similar to charging different prices to different patients. Why not remove negotiation entirely and say price is X for all patients and you must reimburse 100%?
Correct! Sovereign immunity.
I hate to say this, but most of the time, I just fork it, fix it, and forget it.

That may sound like I'm not being a good community member. But, most of the time, dealing with the maintainers is more effort than I have time for.
Agreed. That horribly misleading graphic mislead me for a long time as a child.
The US Market 1981 to present is something of an anomaly that isn't likely to repeat. The same goes for the post WWII era. I'm not saying going long everything is a bad strategy necessarily, but like all investments, it's not guaranteed and has risks. There's nothing wrong with taking value into account when buying investments. It's very different from selling stock out of fear or because of a crash.

counterpoint: http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2016/01/investing
Sure, you have to meet the coding guidelines and rules of the project. Many won't accept a drive by pull request without a unit test and documentation for example. 9 times out of 10 the project authors are grateful for the help.
I've done a little bit of research on the team that implemented this and they are mostly PhD's. I was never that strong of academic outside of my CS classes. I just didn't care about anything but CS, and spent more time programming than I probably should have in my undergraduate years. Years later I suffer the consequence of that by having a lower GPA than most grad students would.
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Bright idea! Using someone elses Computer To generate your password!
Snowdon is the highest peak in the UK.
The newspaper was the primary way to get ads into the home. Each city paper had a Google-like position in that city's ad market.

Quality could be higher because ad reach was based in part on subscriber count, not just the attention-grabby-ness of particular headlines.
You are probably right and it's not so easy to find broker proposing them. But I've read few days ago they are growing and thinking about improving their presence in Europe so this may change. Still, if you want to build a simple portfolio a-la Bogleheads I think it's easier to use big étf funds (they may not be at the same fee level of vanguard but the competition pushed then low enough to be ok)
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Also eupersonalfinance and leanfire
What I'm getting out of this article is another angle on the pointlessness of literary criticism and possibly even literary studies. Let's have the English department focus on teaching people how to write rather than how to analyze, reanalyze and overanalyze works of literature. What all this overthinking leads to is just the muddle found in the posted article.
Two words: classified ads.
If a new version of lib2 moves to a half-baked version of lib3, I want to stay on the old version of lib2 (and lib3) until the community agrees that the lib3 change is good and everyone has migrated to it. Having two different versions of lib3 in process is begging for bewildering bugs, and it was a serious mistake for npm to let that happen (much less by default!)
Since there is a saturation of media and different art forms I don't think any piece can even be audacious anymore.
> I just fork it, fix it, and forget it.

When you say you like to just fork it, do you mean that you're publishing the fixes you make somewhere, or just keeping them to yourself?

I am very interested in any attempts at some kind of fork aggregator (see [0] and [1]) that can help interested parties see what patches have landed in each fork, rather than just which ones have their own users.

[0]http://forked.yannick.io/jquery/jquery

[1]http://www.toddsifleet.com/projects/github-forks#jquery/jque...
Although unlikely, Uber might actually rewrite the auto industry. Investors are essentially playing roulette with Uber, and view the company as a potentially huge payout, although with low odds. As an illustration, investors might model a 12% chance of $500B, and model a 88% chance of bankruptcy, which would be $60 Billion of valuation.
Someone already made a post about this on HN by the way :P
In case anyone else was curious, so far 766 people have clicked that link (over the past ~9 hours). (The AutoTempest one I buried at the end of my other reply has 106 so far.) Quite a bit more than I expected, given that this story only has 200 upvotes or so, and I'm sure only a small fraction of viewers would click the link. A lot of HN lurkers out there!
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Boxer's Baby – Motu Patlu in Hindi
Any idea of how to define "long lived" ?

Excluding the HTTP/2 situations, obviously if you're fetching a single small resource (image or something) that takes <1s then that's short, but, where's the line there? Is something >1m long?
"Your own country"? Assange is Australian, not Swedish.
Oh no don't you see he is genius that can do it at any time. Sure he could be rich or do a backflip he just doesn't want to right now.
Comer's book "Computer Networks And Internets" is a decent introduction. If you are on a budget get one edition out-of-date; it's a college textbook so the previous edition is usually about 90% cheaper than the current edition.

Once you feel comfortable with the basics, start going through RFCs for what you are interested in. In most cases the RFCs describe not just the protocol, but the reasoning behind it as well.

For me though, I need to do more than read; I need to be "hands on." One example:

When I was in college, I wanted to learn the IRC protocol better, and I noticed it was text based, so (after reading through a couple of RFCs) I connected to an IRC server with telnet in one window and the spec in another window. about 6 hours later I was finally able to connect and send messages. Those 6 hours were both less boring and more educational than 6 more hours of reading would be.

Net results on my grades was either slightly negative, or a wash; I probably missed 2 or 3 classes during those 6 hours, but I got nearly double the next highest score on my Networking midterm 3 semesters later.
> Non deductible has very little benefit, so might as well go with Roth, or back door into a Roth.

Non-deductible IRA actually gets a worse tax treatment than an ordinary taxable account, due to the long-term capital gains rate being lower than the income tax rate.
Twitter is pretty strict when it comes to bots and apparently they didn't like Terence's behavior(automatic following, lots of similar replies) and his tweets were no longer showing up in peoples timelines (replies).
ballpark cost of trenching for fibre installation is AUD$120 / metre. this varies quite a bit depending on what you have to trench through.

may be somewhat cheaper in US than Australia due to lower labour costs. e.g. Australia's minimum hourly wage is about double that in the US.

can reduce costs by ~70% if you are able to re-use existing duct / conduit in the ground, but you'd have to negotiate usage of that
Sony's patent indicates its android TV could adapt content to viewer reactions
Yes, there is definitely a problem.

But 'lobbying' itself is not the problem.
It depends on how long you have until retirement, which is influenced by your saving rate as a percentage of income. If you can save 99% of your income, you can retire real fast and your investment choices don't impact your pre-retirement earnings very much.

(That's pretty much the gist of this post: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim... )

That said, you need to be invested somewhat just to fund retirement. It can be pretty conservative, though.
The mental health profession "diagnoses" someone with a set of symptoms, then treats them with drugs that suppress the problem-symptom without addressing its cause.

My friend needed sobriety to recover from her "mental disease". Alcohol, cocaine, and methamphetamine are good for throwing the body's chemical energy flows (glucose -> ATP, etc) out of balance. B-vitamins are sometimes appropriate...
Anecdotally, the changes made to the SAT circa 2005 seemed to make it significantly more feasible to "study" for the test.
The UAE at #9? It's a modern-day slave state, that entices workers from the subcontinent, takes their passports, and then forces them to work without pay. Not sure how that is 'economic liberty'.
Oh hey, I recognize you u/misnamed. I saw a comment on I and EE bonds and looked up for the username :-).
I am super disappointed that jsonresume.org can't fix their formatting issues surrounding output to pdf and ms word. I am not casting stones as the contributors are all a super talented bunch. Coming from the Python/R-project universes and having started up a professional services firm for individuals in Shanghai; English resume editing, interview coaching and LinkedIn Profile creation, I simply don't have the time to learn and modify the underlying node.js code. The ability to easily ingest and store the resumes I am supplied with and then the highly improved product I create would be invaluable. I have learned the hard way how difficult programmatic formatting for the mass market really is. As a professional resume editor, I concur 1) simpler is always better, 2) white space is as important as what is on the printed page, 3) use 1 1/2 to 2 pages for readability. Many resumes are run through ATS parsers/processors and you do not want to use such fancy fonts and styling that you provide any chance for your document to be rejected by the system. There are other tips and tricks but those are the most basic. Great discussion here.
EE bonds don't trade on a secondary market. :)
I happen to think that who funds an organization is often indicative of their agenda i.e.: follow the money. I also understand this belief is not universally shared.
There's something quite ironic about paying for a smartphone app in order to relieve the stress and anxiety induced by our society.

And also the fact that there is a billion dollar mindfulness industry.
Your hypothesis seems to be that companies in low-tax countries have a higher growth rate than higher-tax countries in the same industries. If that were true, then companies in those countries would eventually dominate the world's market share. Instead, it's companies in higher tax countries that are the largest.

Governments often increase productivity. Try investing in a country with no laws, education, or infrastructure. They can also help make an economy more efficient by maximizing positive externalities and minimizing negative ones. Social benefits can also be beneficial economically as an externality. Companies don't have the incentive to keep someone from starving or to educate them from kindergarten, but having a larger, more educated work force certainly benefits the economy as a whole.
Holy hell, there's only a few people missing for it to literally be "all stars". Which makes it unfortunate that there are two tracks! How come IRDC never had this, and I haven't even heard it mentioned in rgrd?
That is a difference in the US. In UK/Australia you pay the mortgage from your post-tax salary.

Encouraging some people in Australia to perversely rent their house out and go and rent a similar house (sometimes identical apartment in same block!) from someone else, in order to get the interest offset against tax.

In the UK it is even worse, as you can only claim 20% of the interest cost on an investment property even if you are paying 40% tax on the rental income (!!)