skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Avoid speculating on such things when you clearly have no background in them. You will accomplish nothing but spreading misinformation.

http://www.investmentreview.com/files/2010/07/The-value-of-l...

https://fp7.portals.mbs.ac.uk/Portals/59/docs/Finger,%20Mark...

http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/pdfiles/papers/liquidit...

https://www.macquarie.com.au/dafiles/Internet/mgl/au/mfg/mim...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidity_crisis

The stock market is absolutely connected to "real value" (which doesn't make sense as a concept in the way you're trying to use it). Besides allowing companies to raise capital for future endeavors, it also allows the market to communicate price information, which is critical for reducing the risk associated with a given transaction.

> at best any benefits just benefit rich investors buying stocks.

It benefits everyone; investors risk their capital by selling it to companies in exchange for partial ownership, which allows the company to grow, and if the investment pays off the person who risked their money is rewarded. Without the stock market, companies would have to get loans for growth, which is risky and too expensive to be practical.

> It certainly doesn't increase production.

Yes, it very much does, for the reasons I outlined above. This is like Econ 101; why are you commenting so strongly when you clearly do not have any background here?

> but instead drained away doing this garbage.

A small efficiency increase expressed over 100 trillion dollars of trades every year is a huge productivity increase for society.
The person who wrote this article is obviously engaging in high level mental gymnastics.

She explicitly asked to have Assange assassinated -> people laughed -> until they realised she was serious because she offers arguments why it would be better to kill him.

My 2 cents: Assange is anti establishment and that's why he helps Trump.
Thank you for putting it into more and clearer words than I did.

You're right, the divide has always been there. That's why it always flares up during elections - it's only during elections that the divide is useful to the people who stoke it. Candidates benefit from their electorate being loud and vocal and at arms with the other electorate. It drives press, it drives news, it brings people out to vote. All things correlated with winning an election.

Once an election is won, the game changes. Then it's all about unity and compromise and understanding one another. Because that's what those in power need to stay in power.

Unless of course somebody wants to force an early election or worse. Then all bets are off.

Now, I can't say for a fact that this is how the cycle works in the US. But I've seen it play out numerous times in my home country (Slovenia) where for a period of more than a decade since I started observing, I don't think we had a single government last the entire 4 years. It's a big part of the reason why I left and came to the States.

And I find myself once more in the midst of elections driven primarily by shit up stirring. Perfect.
Thank you for posting this. I disagree that Trump does not have any real plans, but I don't see any alternative solutions proposed in this article, that's what I would like to hear from Sam. I would love to see the collective intelligence of Silicon Valley tackle some of these issues, regardless of who becomes president.
> Every politician has public and private positions. That's just how politics works.

Really? Even with binary opinions like supporting gay marriage?
OpenBSD source code mirrored on GitHub
I can't believe I'm linking to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement
This is pretty much what I think but I'm looking for citable source
There have been security concerns about sharing space technology with China, versus with Japan and Europe. Russia is also not highly trusted, but on the other hand their space technology is regarded as equal to ours, so there's not much security risk to cooperation.

Probably moving forward, China will move into the top tier of space powers alongside Russia, the U.S., Japan, and western Europe, and ahead of India (which has its own program albeit with a lower budget).

At that point, cooperation between China and the West would be mutually beneficial. One thing China brings to the table is a very low cost program; they seem to be able to do launches for one tenth the U.S. budget.
I keep seeing this argument, and just because you disagree with libertarian principles doesn't make them more "insane."

Dismissing in such a negative way well thought out view points because they don't match your world view is counterproductive to having good policy discussions.
> I think that accusing the left as being monolithic and acting unanimously adds to this divide.

Yes. Can you explain how this seemingly apropos of nothing observation contributes to discussion?
Indeed a great joke and has become mainstream. Here's the latest version:

There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand Ternary, those who don't and those who mistake it for Binary
Expansion of the surveillance state, even less government transparency, more money in politics.

Not to mention her abysmal record on war, cyber security, election rigging, and media manipulation.

After 4 years of Trump we will have a country that is willing to acknowledge its mistakes, and two parties in disarray looking for fresh candidates to invigorate the masses.

After 8 years of Hillary we will have seen the trend of villifying the opposition reach its obvious conclusion.

If you don't toe the party line you are racist/sexist/actualHitler. I voted for Obama twice and I regularly get called a racist online because I don't support Hillary.

Hillary controls the media, is backed by all the money in the world, and is a war hawk.

What will happen is whatever she wants to happen, and I can't think of a single positive impact she has had on my life.
Right...I'm not suggesting they'd need to be bankrolled, just pointing out that it's not too difficult to make the same sort of argument about Wikileaks or Edward Snowden: that laws were broken.

For the record:

I think Gawker acted like a bunch of thugs, and society didn't need a protector to rise up against them. I didn't; I just stopped reading their sites.

I think Wikileaks ... well, I don't know what I think about them. They've caused harm, but they've also enlightened, and they've performed a public service that contributes to the electorate's available information. I wish they had more to contribute for other candidates, and I have no judgment on why that is other than that it appears politically motivated to not participate in opposition disclosure for all candidates (yes, I know, it may simply be that they have no data). It's difficult for me to stake an unequivocal position on them, and I think that's okay, because I have no convincing evidence to support one.

Snowden? I believe he behaved in as responsible a manner he could to support his ethical beliefs, and I believe justice for him includes being allowed to live a normal life in whatever country he chooses without fear of prosecution. He profoundly affected me and my beliefs, and I have immense respect for him.
He's repeatedly threatened to throw journalists in jail that wrote things he didn't like. He threatened, on stage, in a Presidential debate, to unilaterally throw his political opponent HRC in jail. He is already contesting the results of the Democratic election weeks before it has even happened.

And that's just what he's said. The fascist overtones are present in a variety of other ways. He makes minority groups scapegoats in order to appeal to ignorant masses.
Unless i'm getting my natural sources mixed up, a banana is slightly radioactive due to Potassium-40 and that decays beta. A standard Geiger counter easily detects x-ray/gamma/photons, where beta decay is via an ejected electron and its detection requires a specially thin 'window'. (Which often occurs as a 'lollipop'[1] detector as opposed to a cylinder. huh, they refer to it as a 'pancake' detector) Fun fact: there are many lab benches with painted splotches on them. Beta source spills being able to be shielded by even a coat of paint.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geiger_counter#/media/File:Gei...
re: the example you give about VP Biden announcing secret cyber attacks against Russia during an NBC News interview, it isnt necessarily a waste to "burn processing cycles" keeping up with such news, when you consider that observing propaganda in action can itself provide information about "what" exactly the "powers that be" want people to believe, leading to further examination of "why".

it is similar to reading financial news or watching CNBC with the mindset of reading between the lines, wondering who and why is interested in propagating such stories.
Panoramic at it’s best
Nice straw man, but the market doesn't have to be right about everything; it just has to not be completely wrong about a market worth tens of trillions.

The stock market is one of the mechanisms that allows the market to be right by communicating price information.
For 'valid' to mean anything interesting there has to be the possibility of something not being valid. If the criteria for 'valid' is merely that 'someone thinks it' then it's starting to sound like it's not a useful distinction to make.
I'm curious on what you'd think about my sister comment since you have already been in this position.
That was 240 years ago. We recognize the value they added and understand them in their historical context.
It's high time YC and HN joined the progressive war for social justice. I don't care if these investors could make a return on investment. What matters to me is that problematic behavior of disgusting, violent Whitey McWhiteface privilege boy Peter Thiel be put in zhis place and be shown that there is no place for zhim in the progressive, inclusive and diverse world we seek. That is obviously not the kind of inclusion we're talking about here.
Linus said once that if the only benefit of using C for Linux was excluding C++ programmers, that was enough of a benefit.

Sounds really negative, but to be honest, sometimes if the only benefit of Scala is excluding people that are not comfortable with advanced programming, for a project that requires it, then great. You saved your recruiters the job of looking over a lot of resumes that you didn't want anyways.

Scala is not incredibly hard. I am not gifted and I managed to learn it to an extent in which I could solve practical problems.

That being said, I think learning Scala comes out more naturally when you have some exposure to Java. Since many Scala constructs are really shorthands for longer Java code.

I have to accept though that some people go really hardcore on the functional side (like the typelevel/scalaz folks) and that can be really intimidating.
> Calling Trump racist, for instance, isn't going to flip anyone's voting bit

That is what saddens me the most from this election. The fact that someone running for a high profile position can get away with such abhorrent remarks as Trump's made.

Maybe the real issue is the 2 party system. Both candidates have signifiant flaws, so the electorate is selecting on the attributes they dislike less.
Then why hasn't he been indicted?
I think you missed bronson's point.
So do you use FB Ads only at the top of the funnel or do you also have have retargeting Ads? Just curious as I'm in the process of setting up this very process myself for https://redokun.com
It is really annoying that the linked article gives statistics only in completely meaningless forms: "a processor that contains 300 percent more memory than found on most servers and 100 percent more bandwidth" ... "able to process 2.5 billion transactions a day." What is a transaction, and what is processing one? "The concept of a 'mobile transaction' is a bit of marketing-speak." And no more detailed explanation!

Of course the answer to the rhetorical title question is IBM makes them because customers buy them. I think the reasons they keep selling are (1) clients have legacy apps that are very critical and very well tested and run on mainframe environments and (2) mainframes give higher reliability than other single-box solutions.

But these points are my take; the article doesn't say anything meaningful!
A sitting American president is never going to commit military forces without the consent of Congress?

> During the 20th Century, forces were sent by various presidents into countries such as Nicaragua to suppress rebellions without asking Congress. During the Cold War, dodging Congress not only continued, it increased. For example, the Korean War, which the U.S. was involved in for three years, was never officially authorized by Congress.

> In 2011, President Obama's failure to get Congressional approval for U.S. military actions in Libya raised accusations from both parties.

http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/war-without-congress...
Stand at a platform at a train station and look at the crowd. Everyone who is not looking down is currently talking to a person, either on their phone, or there at the station. Everyone else is looking down, fiddling with their phones. Before the smartphone, the only people who did this was the rare book-reader.

The smartphone would have come to us eventually, but the iphone hastened it's arrival by more than a few years.
Is it really that they support Trump or are just anti-Hillary? From this post, you are not really pro-Hillary, you are just anti-Trump, so consider that it goes the other way too.
Do you consider this piece of journalism as propaganda too?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/world/rise-of-saudi-prince...

I could be as much skeptic as you and I can draw my own conclusions for why this particular story might have been published now and not before, and for what purpose, but this doesn't stop me from enjoying reading it and absorbing its juicy details and knowledge.

I'm still thankful for NYT for dedicating time and effort to expose this person as a fraud and hypocrite and I'm looking forward to reading more of these in the future for other despicable figures.
To me, they are insane. I don't know what to say. They don't bring much to the table I take seriously. I like some of the principles, but it's not a coherent platform.

Ironically, the same complaints apply to both the libertarian and the Green Party, though I have more beef with Jill Stein than the platform itself.
While there are people commenting on how the techniques sound a lot like a software engineering class, as opposed to a computer science class, I think this approach overall would be fantastic for computer science. Writing tests and documentation are great discipline for assignments. Once these software engineering practices are in place, they can serve as a framework for future assignments.

The HTTP server as a starting point is an excellent idea. This allows for students to see the results of their efforts in an interactive, visual, tangible way. Successfully implementing a search algorithm for the first time is great, but how much more rewarding would it be to see an unsorted list on a web page, a "sort" button", and watching the list sort before your eyes?

Students become trained in one of the most underrated skills in software: communication. They also gain practice in building prototypes to help with job hunting or demonstrating to managers. Does this reframe the curriculum in the context of industry rather than academia? Yes, but I feel it would be incorrect to orient CS around the minority of students who will pursue academic careers anyway.
Also, Apple was buying their way upwards.

After the candy imacs i think much of their tech is bought.

Best i recall at least the iPod firmware, iTunes, the iPhone multitouch tech, and even Siri was startups Apple bought and internalized.
User gragas is copying and pasting the same post at this point - they're not interested in discussion as much as astroturfing at this point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12715525
What's negative about saying this would "chill applications from startups working on problems not relating to white western males'? If Thiel was supporting a candidate who was chauvinistically in favor of black women, it would be fine to worry about people from other backgrounds being excluded. But he isn't (in part because such a candidate doesn't exist.)
I've noted a moderation and more nuanced position lately.

To be perfectly frank, sometimes I wonder if DJT is not the establishment's strawman designed to keep us with the globalist agenda.

The globalists' agenda is directly responsible for the death of millions of Muslims and likely a substantial number of Iraqi and Syrian Christians, with Sam's choice of president being very much in the loop, starting with her husband's policies (that resulted in the official toll of 500,000 dead Iraqi children, which WJC's secratary of state famously considered as "worth it"), to the destruction of Libya and its attendant miseries, and in Syria with millions of dispossed, and yet another nation in ruin.

As a Muslim, let me assure you, if I was the president, I would make sure every single person arriving from these war zones is fully vetted. Given that I am from West Asia (the so-called Middle East) you should note that neither racism nor aversion to Muslims would motivate that approach. It's just common sense.

Further, while I fully agree that since we have instigated this global crisis and thus even beyond the call of human empathy are responsible and must sleep in the bed that we have made, let it be noted that the best way to help Syrians and refugees is to STOP THESE WARS so they can live in peace in their own homeland. Again, this is just common sense.

Clinton and her fellow travellers (and they are quite a few of them!) are ideologues. And ideologues are dangerous, imo, since it is their ideological framework that does the thinking for them. You can practically substitute any other neo-con/liberal for Hillary Clinton and it would not make an iota of difference.

That said, note, I am voting Jill Stein. I agree with the 10 Nuclear officers that in their recent open letter noted that the psychological profile of Donald Trump is that of a man that can easily be provoked (gamed).
but since when is racist, bragging-about-sexual-assualt-against-women, anti-muslim, "politics"?

I'm critical of supporters of Trump not because of his (Trump's) politics but because of his personal characteristics.

If I was interviewing someone for a job at my company, and I saw a video of them bragging about how they like to sexually assault women, I would not hire that person. No matter how bad-ass a coder he/she was.

Would you?
It doesn't take gymnastics to reach the conclusion that the Secretary of State of the United States of America is not seriously advocating for a military strike on the Ecuadorian embassy in the largest city of our closest ally. The notion that Clinton wants to "drone" Assange is about as credible as the notion that she and Podesta discussed murdering Antonin Scalia in a "Wetworks" operation.
>How do you go about working with someone that is uneducated

This is a myth. [0]

>with someone that is uneducated, and often proud of this fact, raised to believe all other races are a blight against life as they know it, and often are proud of this,

>I'm not trying to be coy

I can assure you no one is about to accuse you of that :) [1]

[0]: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mythology-of-trumps-...

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=define+coy&oq=define+coy&aqs...
Also check this comment on the <nettime> mailing list https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1610/msg00021.h...
I never said trump supporters are racist. I just said trump supporters are supporting a racist. And someone who likes to brag that they sexually assault women.

Would you hire a person for your company who brags about sexually assaulting women?

I wouldn't.
Gotcha - thanks!
Debugging code generation in Go
loooool

Ever seen an action cam called SJ Cam? It looks like an exact copy of gopro camera. Why do you think they don't sue the manufacturer?

The answer is that they are their original OEM from whom they were buying rebranded products and sold them as hero cameras 1 and 2. They never signed any kind of agreement securing exclusive rights to the design. At the time they wanted to build their next generation cam from scratch, they were unnable to do anything with the fact that SJCam continued selling the original design.

Not only small companies buy off-the shelf designs. Not even biggest brands shy of from banal rebranding: probably more than a half of all notebook designs are off-the-shelf design house products.

Who sold Apple the reference design for the first ifone? It was Taiwanese ODM "First International Computer," and they are trying hard to conceal that fact as it will set their "designed by Apple in california" line in bad light.

If somebody had access to the repair manual for the first iphone, they could've seen many references to the ODM and individual factories making sub-assemblies.
This is "code monkeying", not "computer science". A valuable skill, to be sure, but let's not mix terms.
Not quite. The position being discussed in the article is a more nuanced revival, in that not having a distinct word doesn't prevent one from distinguishing the color, but having the word does affect behavior (speed of distinction, grouping of colors where it's called for, association of colors with other things etc).
Just like 20 years ago fusion was only 15 years out.
The article is extremely verbose. The diagram on page 1 of this document sums up the idea:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-education/reprints/1997-Percept...
(Besides this not being "CS" as people are pointing out)

This is good to give some ideas to people that like to tinker and learn by themselves, who are the people needing instructions the least.

The thing is, if students don't have a step-by-step instructions they will fail and complaint, you can tell the author is not a teacher.

Anecdote time: I did MS in CS in an university in the US, in one course we had to set up some XML web service in Java, the prof lifted all the instructions from official web site and gave us the slides with step-by-step commands but he missed one step, so next week nobody except me (who bothered to look up the error and RTFM) had the service set up, this was a 500 or 600 level course.
The part where you said that your problem with wikileaks was that they chose to not release some of the info they have.

You didn't say that they released fake data. You implied that all the data that they DID release was true and accurate, but there was some other true data that they didn't release.
> 21 different accusations against bill Clinton of extramarital affairs

Who cares. He's a shitty husband, whatever.

Do I care that Trump sleeps around? beyond thinking "gross", no.

> 3 of violent rape

Yes, those are worth caring about.
You cannot be in a startup that is the next Google and be a supporter of someone who is a proven pathological liar and pu$$y grabbing sexual predator. That simply defies logic, if not the rules of common decency, and you need to be good at logic to be Google, or anyone (other than Trump)
Double the cost, not necessarily the price. And maybe not even double, considering the price is already under-valuated, and buying tons of RAM chips from the factory must be cheaper than market price.