skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to throw in my anecdote: when touring a local datacenter some years ago one of the principals pointed out equipment cages they claimed were rented by the NSA. The facility wasn't the local carrier hotel, but did have a large number fiber loops into it, enough that peering with virtually everyone was trivial. It would be a reasonable place to duplicate and sift through traffic that goes out over a number of pacific undersea cables. It's also entirely possible the principal was telling a tall tale.

In any case I think given all that's been disclosed over the last 10 years it's more reasonable to assume over-collection than under-collection.
This article title is priceless.

"The good news is, if you don’t eat food, you have nothing to worry about. Everyone else, however, should probably take note."

I think we need to bring back the phrase "E. coli conservatism".
Migrating a Native JAVA REST API to a Serverless Architecture
I don't see why you should. Germany has lots of foreign people living there, now even hundreds of thousands who entered illegally in the first place, and still they won't be sent away. A Brit will have no trouble there (or here, I'm in another EU country).
> That said, I don't doubt that there are tons of sites that look just like this and actually do have something to hide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
Vanguard recommends it, lots of folks on Bogleheads.org seem OK with it (they tend to recommend a three fund portfolio), but Vanguard founder Jack Bogle has said he thinks a two fund portfolio is sufficient because the US markets list big international companies rather than only those in the US.
Right, but that was in 1996.

In 2016? If Snowden and Manning can walk off with what they did, I can't imagine more subtle agents aren't siphoning off much, much more.
I don't think MCJE will die any time soon. It's still the first branch new features land in, and no matter how much MS markets it, MCW10 will be a second-class citizen for as long as that's true.

In addition, much of the Mojang staff works primarily in Java, as does the modding scene. If Mojang dropped MCJE, there would be a massive outcry, both inside the company (I suspect Searge, and maybe Dinnerbone, in particular, would object) and outside it.

Finally, even if MCJE was dropped, the community might well keep it alive. People still play 1.2.5 for the modding scene, and the jars are fairly well available. The community could probably outpace Mojang - and indeed, with projects like Forge, the OreDictionary, FMP, the FluidAPI, and others, not only have they shown they can do it, they already have the groundwork in place.

Thanks for the info though. I had assumed that MCEE was a continuation of MCFE.
> While timing the market is a no go, from 2000, 2008, now 2016

You realize you are trying to time the market, right?
Counterpoints:

a) leverage cuts you both ways. Great when the market goes up, terrible when it goes down (particularly with a Loan-to-Value ratio of 90%).

a') futures or broker margin trading give you leverage in other markets, too. Doesn't mean it's prudent.

b) much harder to diversify, because of the big chunks (you can buy shares for 5k, but not a house. You can sprinkle 100k into different equity/debt markets in different countries, but not into many houses in different countries).

c) massive transaction costs. Round trip can be 10% or more.

d) much less liquidity. If shit hits the fan, you can sell shares and have cash at hand in a few days. Try that with a house.

f) again, regarding diversification: you could get bad tenants that trash the place and/or don't pay rent. If you own a large number of properties, it's a quantity you can average over and deal with. If not, it's a gamble.

g) rates are pretty much as low as they can go (though, to be fair, everyone's been saying that for some 7+ years now...) but seriously, they'll have to come up. That would put pressure on real estate prices. (Of course, you can avoid liquidity issues with fixed rate mortgages, that's prudent, as long as rents hold up).

h) inflation has not really been an issue for several decades. It is prudent to keep it in mind, though, but clearly real estate is not the only real asset.

i) Lastly, there might be something of "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller" to it. I have no doubt that what you are saying is accurate - but you might have been lucky, and avoided a massive downside. And clearly, it is not a feasible strategy for everyone to own 26 properties and rent them out (because someone actually has to live in them and pay rent...)
" “Ninety-nine percent of faked deaths are water accidents. In most drownings, the body is recovered. So why was this body not recovered?” "

I had exactly this question when they mentioned that Osama was killed and his body thrown to the ocean. OK it's not a drowning, but why was it thrown to the ocean?
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You can probably pre-compute part or all of those aggregates using triggers, and then run those queries in ~200ms or less with a plain B-tree.
I never said that the experience is irrelevant.

To quote the other comment: "20 years experience feels like 4 years experience repeated 5 times with different buzzwords".

There are two things which come to mind and that I'd like to point out.

- Each 4 year cycle is bringing less and less experience. The guy who is starting now is going to work for at least 45 years. We could say that it will be a tremendous amount of experience, but it's more likely than he will not be able to sell > 30 years of experience. [it's challenging and not specific to tech work]

- There exist no people with > 30 years of experience. That's not to negate the handful of these guys in the SV and a couple of research centers across the world. Relatively speaking, the amount of people with 30 years of experience is roundable to zero.

- Corollary: It's difficult to know what it's like to have 30 years of experience in the current market.

- Final word: Shiny technologies are only affecting the 20 years old bro coders in the 70 hours web startups. The bunch of the jobs are still in old school industries like medical/aerospace/finance/government/contracting who stick to old school tech and never upgrade.
So, does this suggest that the new canon is full of books that are actually uninteresting? Because it seems to me that canonical books should be there because everyone found them worthwhile, even if some of them seem daunting. For example, Les Misérables, is a worthwhile book, fully interesting in my opinion.

I do sometimes read books because of the hype, like Catcher in the Rye, that I later wish I read something better. But the only book I read to say I read it was "The Beautiful and Damned" because I heard it called a book that you always wish you could say you had read but you never did. Of course, it wasn't as good as I hoped.

But, dang, if you are reading just to be able to drop names, get a new hobby...
"rkt" is such a strange name. In my head I don't pronounce it as "rocket" but as "rekt", with all the connotations that has.
Unfortunately as a lay-person I think that modern physics has grown to complicated that I have no basis for really judging who is right or wrong in an argument like this. Wolf's article seems more persuasive, but that doesn't mean that he's right.
This is fantastic. Thanks.

RE: effective_io_concurrency --- any idea how this should be tuned for SSD or PCIe flash? The manual only gives an example of how to tune for RAID (by number of drives).
> This is all separate to your claim: of course, if your doctor agreed to charge you $x+200 (leaving aside the reality of negotiated and contracted fee schedules) and refund you that $200, then absolutely yes - this is insurance fraud.

If you charge $X more for an Epipen vs. the market rate for a generic epinephrine autoinjector but offer a $X discount for uninsured persons (or a smaller $Y discount for those with copays or deductibles), it is the same scam.

Maybe not legally, but effectively.
I graduated during the first dot.com boom, and decided to transition from Economics to web developer. I got a job at a small company, with minimal programming knowledge. My programming test was explaining how a Perl program I wrote worked.

I certainly wasn't a great engineer, and I have never been a natural programmer. But the company I worked at realized that they didn't need the top 1% to build basic enterprise software. Paying a kid out of college 1/5th the salary of a top 1%er, and who a maniac about learning, was pretty attractive to them.

The barrier for you guys is so much higher now, and it's a shame. We need you. We really, really need you.

I think the real question is: do you like building real applications? Algorithm questions are wonderful intellectual challenges, and useful background knowledge. But most engineers I know spend 90% of their time figuring out why something wont compile, trying to integrate with crazy APIs, or dreaming about how new technology X will fit into the stack. Worrying about whether the hash table Java uses is O(n) or O(1) is very low on my priority list, and something hard to justify to bosses and customers who care about a shipped product more than microseconds of optimization.

Take a break from programming if you can. Get a job in retail, and experience a different form of suffering for a while. Or join the Peace Corps. When your brain gets rested, find an open source project that interests you, and contribute to it. If you can't find one you like, or find that it bores you to tears, consider another profession. There's no shame in that, the world needs doctors, lawyers, chemists, business people and barristas as well.
Have you considered getting a software or web dev job in a non tech company? They generally don't put you through the algorithm tests and tend to have interesting problems to solve. Completely different vibe vs tech companies though but may appeal to you more.

Examples:

Warehouse shipping companies that have a need for shipping software, barcoding software, always need reports, etc.

Mail order or e-commerce companies who rely heavily on inbound orders and who need automation/streamlining.

Advertising agencies tend to need web devs too. Pay is generally lower but you get the opportunity to work on all types of projects.
> OK it's not a drowning, but why was it thrown to the ocean?

Because they didn't want to create a site that could either be turned into a memorial (by sympathizers) or a target for vandalism (by people who hated him), or both.

In any case, if you're wondering whether or not bin Laden is dead, you can be pretty sure that he is. If he weren't, the best way for them to damage and discredit the US would be to post video proof-of-life. The fact that they haven't done that by now shows that they can't.
It's fear. Twitter was a neat little idea that scaled easily. It doesn't need many people to keep it going. Twitter could have been the next Craigslist - so cheap to run it takes only a tiny team, but so powerful in concept it crushed the classified ad industry.

But it's such a simple idea that Facebook or Google or WeChat could add a "tweet" capability and perhaps crush Twitter. So there's a desperate attempt to get big enough to fight back, or come up with a second product, or something. Sometimes that doesn't work.
Completely agree. There is undeniably enormous value in Twitter and it's so important it's not going away. So what if they haven't figured out how to make money off it yet? They will.
Selective Perception: They Saw a Game
Inside Nest’s 50,000-Home Virtual Power Plant for Southern California Edison
and maybe make those prices public?
500 dead horseshoe crabs have washed up in Japan
What an irony that this was invented to prevent fiddling about with things, considering how fouled up it all got.
Most of these books should be available in digitalised form on Gallica (from the National Library), here's the full scan of your first link for example:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k48859k.r
If I don't know where the profits are coming from and for what cost, investing may not for me.

There are a few companies with good ethics, mostly in tech, that I would invest in. I don't see myself investing in a mutual fund or index fund though.
The submission has 140 points at this very moment. I find it ironic :)
Article 50 will never be triggered.
Thanks for the tip. Now here is the funny part: the router is Netgear WNDR3700(v1) running OpenWrt. I have exactly the same router with exactly the same software at home - and it doesn't behave the same. It runs great at home, no dropouts.
I've always had a hard time understanding pipes, so it may just be that the concept will take more time for me to grok. I thought that the little bunny foo foo example in section 18.2 was really hard to grasp. I think that doing a similarly in depth example with numerical data, while more boring, may make the concept easier to understand.

I've been using r4ds for the past couple weeks. This is the first time I've really understood how everything in R and the tidyverse fits together. I am really enjoying the book. It has already helped me immensely.

Seriously, thank you for writing this.
From 1871 to the end of 2015 returned 6.86% annualized in real dollars. Most 30-year periods you can pick out average either that or above, save a few odd periods. [1]

I use [2] to do most of my predictions. I think you are being way conservative with assuming a 4% withdrawal rate will only give you $10k real dollars on $1m invested, but everyone has different risk tolerances and assumptions :)

1. http://www.moneychimp.com/features/market_cagr.htm
2. http://www.firecalc.com/
One argument I found compelling: you are naturally short one property, as you have to live somewhere. Thus, you go long one to be flat.
I am in the EU and I am investing my money in peer-to-peer lending.

You lend your money to other people through the marketplace and they pay it back with interest. The ROI is about 10% to 15% per year. I think it is low risk since you can choose the type of the loans you want to invest in (loans secured by real estate or short term loans with buy back guarantees). You can also diversify since the minimum investment is €10.

I don't think you can invest hundreds of thousands or millions of euros (the market is not so big) but the market can definitely support tens of thousands of euros.
When did failing become immoral?
On Chrome/Mac. See console and type stuff (resetPlayer()) and press enter, but nothing happens.
Alternately, a lot of people around here no doubt have unique opportunities to speculate on how specific technologies will progress.

If you can spot something that's genuinely original in how it blends things together, has enough expert mindshare to be a leader in its domain for the foreseeable future, stands good odds of capturing a decent amount of the value it creates for those who support it, and offers a way for you to throw money at it: throw money at it.

It's a completely different game from trading in more mature markets where politics and statistics become major forces alongside original innovation in determining what happens next.
I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you claiming that they're losing in every single other market?

At least in Portland, I've never taken a taxi in my life, but have taken probably a dozen Ubers.
Well I was reading it, so I suppose I don't think it's that bad :-( However it is generally lightweight "yoof" nonsense.
> Hundreds of Iranian refugees are currently residing within the country, having been displaced from their war-torn homes.

I find this sentence weird for 2 reasons. Firstly "hundreds" is multiple orders of magnitude fewer than the number of refugees in Europe now or the number of ethnic and religious kin taken in by Albania in the 90s. Secondly, what Iranians are being displaced from their "war-torn homes"? There is no war in Iran. For me this calls the rest of the article into question.

What can BBC teach us about trust?
Wikipedia has the tables listed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_IRA#Income_limits

Note that really its not a real contribution limitation, just a phase out of the contributions being tax deductible, which is most of the point of using an IRA
Non-physicist here.

Woit makes very negative comments about Cole, but my impression was he has the same basic view about the status of string theory as the one expressed in the article. Could someone explain how they are different?
Agreed. Here's what one looks like where I used to live: https://www.google.com/maps/@35.685061,-105.9393468,3a,75y,5... .

Centrally located, no public entrances, and no windows. I imagine the lack of windows also helps make it more secure, and less vulnerable to vandalism.
Well something about the startup doesn't feel 'right' - but I don't know if this is because I'm somewhat risk averse.
all reality shows are produced with actors

These two girls twice appeared on Shark Tank. One of the girls used to babysit my kids. The company is still in business.

http://portlandtribune.com/ttt/89-news/129967-lawsuit-prompt...

https://wildfriendsfoods.com/
I don't really care that many people have a hard time with DFW's pretentious style or book length. I enjoyed infinite jest immensely—there are some really golden scenes that will stick with me forever. Would I read it if I was overworked or busy? no.. but I wouldn't read Shogun or Shantaram if I was too busy either.

My point is, if you don't feel like doing something, great—but then getting prescriptive about it & trying to dissuade others seems like an error.

"Abundance" is not a personal problem in the arts - maybe it's a professional one, but that is addressing an entirely different goal of curation rather than as a recipient of art.

It is the idea that one is supposed to "keep up" or "know everything" ala "last person to know everything" e.g. leibniz, is absurd.

The author has kind of buried the lede and is actually against subjugating herself to accepting what "the literary marketplace put forward as worthy of attention".
> Why are you comparing 401k and Roth? They are completely orthogonal concepts.

Because the entire thesis of this thread is that it is better to contribute to a 401k and other pretax accounts before contributing to a Roth under nearly all circumstances(other than at the beginning of your career) that don't involve massive tax raises in the future.
So of course nobody wants to read it. Which works rather well with the title of the piece...
People really misunderstand what the EU is.

Article 50 will likely never be triggered. The costs of triggering it are enormous because the UK would have to literally sit there copying EU laws and turning them into UK laws. There's zero incentive to diverge because if you want to sell into the EU you need to abide by the EU regs anyway.

The entire thing is fucking pointless.
The Kano OS also has a fun Blockly/Minecraft integration that is worth looking at. You can access it by buying a Kano kit or just download their OS to an SD card and boot it up on your own Raspberry Pi. Great stuff.
IMO, in the long term the most sane approach for production is kubernetes with rkt, especially given things happening in docker 1.12.

You even can use docker locally and rkt in prod, as rkt can run docker images.
Germany gets stable Euro, otherwise with high export surplus DM exchange rate would skyrocket long time ago and decrease German industry competitiveness.
Less. 1% they still take a quarter of your money over 30+ years. At most 50 bips = 0.5%, but aim for 10 bips or less, like good old Vanguard.
> what they forget (or more likely, choose to ignore) is that investments can be just bad investments

Do you have evidence that someone forgot or ignored this issue? Quotes from a particular central banker, for example? I don't think this part informs the conversation.

The question you raise, while maybe novel to some of us on HN, has been long discussed and examined in economics. There are indicators of over-investment and under-investment, and trade-offs to different central bank financial tools.

Finally, because a central bank tool increases investment, that doesn't mean the level of investment becomes too high; it could have been too low before. It's like watering a plant; it might help or depending on its prior condition the same action might over-water or under-water it. One sign there is under-investment, as I understand it, is that extremely low/negative interest rates are not stimulating inflation. This suggests plenty of under-utilized capacity.
I think this is a much more interesting problem in the sciences than in literature.

There is too much high literature for a scholar to read it all. So like everyone else, the scholars mostly read what makes the popular bandwagon by virtue of reaching a critical mass of interest.

But in the sciences, people are writing about things that matter! The overlooked articles are missed progress.

In literature, writers are writing to write. If masterieces go unnoticed in the avalanche of quotidian works...oh well? There are plenty of perfect wildflowers which go wholy unappreciated as well. Should we mourn the missed opportunity?
It would then block hacker news for promoting YC, right?
After all, people have a right to know the truth!
I'm learning R for fun at the moment. I'm sure it's super useful for statisticians but it's quite an intricate language! It's an unlikely mix of different paradigms and features mixed together. Not something I'd recommend to a beginner programmer, yet it seems that people love it (even non-programmers).

I looked at several tutorials and what worked for me the best so far are the official manuals https://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html (esp. the language definition and the "introduction to R").

Moreover, for the programming languages enthusiasts, the following article is pretty interesting:

Evaluating the Design of the R Language (Morandat, Hill, Osvald, Vitek).

"R is a dynamic language for statistical computing that combines lazy functional features and object-oriented programming. This rather unlikely linguistic cocktail would probably never have been prepared by computer scientists, yet the language has become surprisingly popular. With millions of lines of R code available in repositories, we have an opportunity to evaluate the fundamental choices underlying the R language design. Using a combination of static and dynamic program analysis we can assess the impact and success of different language features."
I do see your point, yes. The contract is formal for a reason. I'm being far too fuzzy, my team probably don't know what they're supposed to do in the case of an emergency, so log in out of a mixture of curiosity and apprehensiveness.

Hmmm. Well, I always hated pager duty, especially as a frontend engineer. What the hell did I know about these silly Hadoop clusters that were thrown together so badly? Why wake me up just so I can wake up the lazy SOB who can't build software properly?

I'd prefer not to impose that on my team. Is there a middle ground?
Don't believe the lies a single second.

The truth is, it is NOT tough being 3X-4X in silicon valley.

What is tough is accepting to put up with startups about to fail, long hours, mediocre pay, little benefits and immature coworkers. That does limit the size of the job market.

That issue is faced by everyone, independently of their age. The youngers selves just happen to have lower standards in average
That sounds awful.
Try a Tilley. I looooove my Tilley.

I have this one: http://www.tilley.com/us_en/men/hats/ltm6-airflor.html

Owner's manual is worth a read, if you're unfamiliar: http://www.tilley.com/media/pdf/Tilley-Owners-Manual-EN.pdf
Exactly like South Park's previous season's main theme.