skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a conversation with a co worker about this. Its basic probability. Lets assume they make at least 1 trade a day and they have been doing this for the past 25 years. Its a simple binomial probability problem. For them to be correct on that many trades and it to be 'luck' would be a probability in the ~0.00001% range.
Better heat conduction cools the magma below, causing it to "fall"-flow downwards, while somewhere else nearby, hotter magma must go up. Just a assumption, neither geologist nor fluid-dynamics-expert.

Its a turbulent system though, so any prediction is futile :D
Warren Buffett was referring to traditional (long-only) investment funds...
He himself was for many years running a hedge fund (and had learned from the pioneers of hedge fund investing.)

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2012-04-24/what-was-...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2012/03/26/warren-bu...

https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-fee-structure-of-Warren-B...
We did this for our QA team because of our organization's configuration management policies. Previously Microsoft updates would install broken drivers for their test equipment.
AT&T Reaches Deal to Buy Time Warner for More Than $80B
SSH is a waste of time?
Index fund tracking has become successful because one of the goals of US Government policy is to maintain that things like the S&P 500 continue to go up over time. If they go down people get voted out of office.

So the index funds have the full force of the US Government watching over them. This is why economics is not just some math puzzle but often more about politics and sociology.
People definitely care on a deep level, but how could a non-technical person express their lack of consent? I hear people expressing their concerns in the form of paranoid theories. But their theories are true. Many people I know already censor themselves around phones, assuming the devices are listening and sending personal conversations back to some server.
What software are you using there?
Change the default admin password.

The original Mirai program tried a little over 60 passwords and it would just brute force into an IoT device.[1]

From what I read, it seems that one specific manufacturer in China is the owner of a lot of devices used in the Mirai botnet attacks.[2]

1: https://github.com/jgamblin/Mirai-Source-Code/blob/master/mi...
2: (I cannot find the link, but it was an article from yesterday)

EDIT:

Found this when googling the strange '7ujMko0admin' password in Mirai: http://www.cam-it.org/index.php?topic=9396.0 So it looks like the Chinese manufacturer that they target is Dahua.
By helping everyone regardless of their gender or race. Build a soup kitchen and feed anyone who's hungry.

We manage to help children from sex predators despite the fact that it's taboo to talk to children about sex. In a similar way, we don't need to discuss race at the office to prevent racial discrimination.
Where's the pain-free device with open source, easily upgradeable firmware, that puts all of our IoT devices in their own private network but lets us tunnel through to them? It needs to be easy enough that our (grand)parents could pick one up on Amazon, Best Buy, or Home Depot and plug in and go...
> Four different interviews with me were submitted to The Paris Review. These were patched together to form a single interview, which was shown to me. This scheme worked only fairly well, so I called in yet another interviewer to make it all of a piece. I was that person. With utmost tenderness, I interviewed myself.
>At the time, it what somewhat novel to be able to get the source code at all

Really? IIRC, in Jason Scott's excellent BBS documentary (you should go watch it. Like, right now. It's that good), Thom Henderson (from SEA. Remember them? I don't, because I wasn't alive. Which is why I have to rely on documentaries) said that it was expected in UNIX circles, which is where Kermit originated.

Or were you on PC? I don't know, I wasn't alive.
> True, but he (and Munger) generally invest quite conservatively. He doesn't buy for capital gain, but to hold indefinitely. He buys businesses he understands, with financials he understands, for prices he figures reflect a fair discount on the economic value, plus a generous margin of error.

The Bank of America deal shows how good a deal you can get when you can put $5B where your mouth is

> In exchange, Berkshire Hathaway received $5 billion worth of preferred stock yielding 6% a year plus warrants to purchase 700 million shares of Bank of America common stock at an exercise price of $7.14 per share.

apologies in advance for linking to fool.com http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/08/19/how-much-is...
Musk's plan is to have ships going back and forth every launch window. I'd expect anyone disabled like that to be offered a trip home.
Investing successfully is all about adding value. Buffett is an active investor, but he makes his money managing the businesses, not just picking stocks.
Not Quite a Flying Car but Close: Meet the Airbus Vahana
Latest commit, March 31st? Is it abandoned?
Chlamydia vaccine: A murine study finds a promising vaccine candidate
Just thinking, Is there any chinese production of IOT involved? might be firmware involved?
For Mars? I doubt it:
"It’s important to say that the idea of Mars as a lifeboat is wrong, in both a practical and a moral sense." ... "My feeling now is that faced with the extreme expense, technical challenge, and danger of going to Mars, interest is going to shift to the moon as a destination that can actually be reached and occupied during some of our lifetimes."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-17/why-elon-m...
Hey, I recognized all of that software save ZMODEM, and I'm not out of highschool yet! Then again, I only know about it because I read The Cuckoo's Egg, and am totally obsessed with computer history.

But I think most of us would recognize baud, even if we've never worked with anything that you would measure in it.
You can't hide your browsing from your carrier. AFAIK, Apple is not that motivated to track their customers, and has made privacy and security part of their brand.
A question is not a leading/suggestive question just because it "leads the comment". Parent was merely picking up the grandparent's main claim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading_question also doesn't define the term by whether it can be answered plainly or not either).

That said "something being unfortunate" is a very subjective thing connected to personal morals. Intuitively I don't have much empathy for "victims" of (not outright criminal (by which I mean heavy scamming and the sort)) trolling either, it's the natural rule of this place. You'll get bitten by it a couple of times and move on. Nothing to see here.
Not disagreeing, but please explain how the hotel industry is archaic, and how you want them to change. (Or do you mean insufficiently competitive?)
SModem was the best. You could chat with people while downloading files.
Can Mental Illness Be Prevented in the Womb?
I think this is a plausible theory of the attack - (first seen in from npr report on incident):

NANOG 68 BackConnects Suspicious BGP Hijacks is shown 4ish days ago. Last talk of the night, discusses BGP hijacking shenanigans and krebs; touches on MO of possible attacker.
Speaker is Director at Dyn. Attack in retaliation.

So far the targets have been organisations that have responded to or made allegations of corrupt DDoS business.

Please don't buy into all this cyberwar bullshit, this may just be a well resourced (its really not that hard to pop boxes with default passwords.....) attacker doing criminal response to commentary.
Indeed. This is why the tar format explicitly allows garbage data at the end. So then people started pondering all of the nifty or clever things they could do with tar files. And they didn't want to give it up when they started compressing the tar files.
6 Unmistakable Habits of Utterly Authentic People
The creator of this, Greg Slepak, is very active in all kinds of blockchain technologies. My guess is that if this saw significant use, or bugs were reported, he would jump back on it full steam.
> The fact that you can sit there on your computer and say "oh, those poor foreigners would be so much better off if they just let me decide for them so I could keep them in a third-world subsistence farming economy"

Where did I say that, exactly? I welcome the opening up of economic opportunities to these populations. I just think that they deserve the same protections and pay for doing those jobs that Westerners would receive if they were the ones doing them, rather than just being pawns in a global system of labor arbitrage.

It's a bit rich to get up on a moral high horse and then declare from that elevated position that the life of a Bangladeshi worker is worth less than that of an American one. Companies aren't setting up in these countries because they are benevolent actors looking to help them develop their economies. They're setting up there because they can exploit the workers there in ways that they can't get away with doing back home anymore.

Workers in developed economies had to endure a century of bloody struggle to claw those protections into place; I would rather we construct an economy that allows this new class of workers to get them for themselves without having to suffer through that.
The argument makes perfect sense. Nobody can use the theoretical swiss army knife pictured in the article - it's too wide, and ridiculous.

In the graphicon of over-engineering taking over users and enveloping them, pushing design out of the way, it implies that the result is hostile to users, and pushes design out of the way.

But where we read this is an example of the person selecting the "knife" in question out of every single blogging platform on the planet. So, the swiss army knife pictured is inaccurate, it's a straw man. Secondly, the author clearly finds the design appropriate enough to use, and a great match for their user stories.

So whereas the central thesis in the article says:

> "small, elegant, and successful systems tend to be plagued with feature creep due to inflated expectations".

The author is not using a "small, elegant, succcessful system".

Perhaps the swiss army knife pictured is the best knife on the planet, and not one of the worst. This fundamentally undercuts the point the author is making.
This is likely, Backconnect hosted Mirai in the past right before attacks on Krebs. (however not during them.)

There's also no small amounts of publicly available evidence that Backconnect used insider information provided by their CEO (ex Staminus employee) to compromise Staminus network earlier this year by hijacking a management range of theirs.
Emrys Wstacott's the Wisdom of Frugality: How Frugality Became a Status Symbol
Yes, that's what I do. I also think it's fine to use omit trailing semicolons and to use short-open tags (I already labelled the file .php --- why do I have to keep saying "php" all over it? And I'm not usually outputting XML.)

<? foreach($x as $y): ?>
<h1><?= h($y->title) ?></h1>
<? endforeach ?>

You just want to make sure to escape all output with htmlspecialchars, or define a shorter function like I did ("h").
This is ill. I suspect making this change allows unrestrained data analysis, such as deep learning with all the models, including those models that just so happen to have encoded your identity somewhere in the hidden layers.
Here's the thing.

-- police violence is unambiguously a racial issue [0]

-- "white lives matter" contains implicit parallelism to "black lives matter" and cannot help but be viewed as responding to BLM. Its use in general has been to deny the racial aspects of police violence.

-- if you wish to address police violence for all groups, then use language which does not function to deny or derail other movements. Choose a new catch phrase. BLM is necessary to address the particularly black aspects of police violence, and trying to turn it into a race-blind movement is to destroy a core part of the problems it is trying to address.

Make a movement which is interested in the general problem of police violence, but recognize that you're not addressing the same types of problems as a movement like BLM and don't try to stop what BLM is doing.

The claim that <a movement which addresses the particularly black aspects of police violence is alienating> is a condemnation of non-black culture, not a condemnation of BLM. Race exists and has strong effects on culture and treatment, and race-blindness' only function is to deny marginalized groups the opportunity to address the oppressions specific to them.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/1...
So what if you build your soup kitchen in a spot that ends up benefiting one group more than another (say it is closer to where they live)? Is it then taboo to notice that and consider moving the kitchen?
It's ironic that a tool (probably!) intended for building documentation lacks
in its documentation heavily. I couldn't even tell why I might want to use it
over good old Perl's POD.
On the contrary, they are a leap forward into an age of abstraction. They address the reality that what people really want is for their capital to increase, period. As such, if you can do an index fund where everything is going to increase because it's part of the index fund and everybody knows index funds beat the market, the consensus opinion is that if you're in the index fund your value is going to increase, and therefore the companies listed can go about their business because their values increase thus justifying them being in the index fund.

Complete abstraction. Always has been, this is just the codification of it. The future catastrophe isn't so much the companies becoming more irresponsible than they already are, because they never particularly were. The catastrophe is more 'the concept of capital becoming meaningless', a sort of conceptual Reichsmark inflation where the numbers we talk about steadily become meaningless and absurd.
Then how come index funds get so much return?

If index funds are so bad and destroy companies, you would expect them to not get good returns.

But that's not the case, they get great returns!
they're literally opening a gateway to the "underworld"
Not sure why this was downvoted. In economics, it's called negative externalities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
Yup, the first problem with Xmodem was that it transferred sectors (as in CP/M) and thus file size was always padded with zeros to a multiple fof 128 bytes.

Then came Ymodem which fixed this, and then Zmodem which was considerably faster (windowing protocol) and allowed resuming interrupted transfers and handled CRC checksums.
How humans do mathematics if where were blind, deaf and senseless?
> What invasion of privacy can't you excuse this way?

The ones made by the same people pointing the guns.

I'm completely at loss what to think about recent events, but godd2's argument isn't trivial.
Right. In fact the financial crisis was a busy few years for Berkshire-Hathaway. Like everyone else they took a drubbing, but they also unleashed a lot of their unused cash to make deals on generous terms.

It helped that they were structurally inclined to build up cash. As Buffet explains, a booming share market is bad for him: everything is too expensive to buy.

So cash piles up, waiting for good deals of sufficient magnitude to arise.

When a bust arrives, there are bargains everywhere and a lot of money to buy into them.
I find the whole design of GitLab not appealing to my eye. The recent redesign was a step in the right direction but I am still missing visible separators (e.g. boxes, lines, colored background) between/around areas for example on the page of an issue.
And whose judgements are enforced by the government monopoly on violence!

Libertarians have this curious tendency to define institutions as "government" or "not-government" however it suits them best...
Brand bashing
Every time I see the word "diversity" used in this tone, I'm reminded of Vaclav Havel's brilliant essay, The Power of the Powerless:

http://www.vaclavhavel.cz/showtrans.php?cat=eseje&val=2_aj_e...

The manager of a fruit-and-vegetable shop places in his window, among the onions and carrots, the slogan: "Workers of the world, unite!" Why does he do it? What is he trying to communicate to the world? Is he genuinely enthusiastic about the idea of unity among the workers of the world? Is his enthusiasm so great that he feels an irrepressible impulse to acquaint the public with his ideals? Has he really given more than a moment's thought to how such a unification might occur and what it would mean?

This writer translated Havel's essay into modern American. Very few words had to change:

https://paworldandtimes.wordpress.com/2016/01/14/the-office-...
A SaaS business I know of switched TO stripe.com from a more traditional processor / acquirer scheme for payment card processing, and saved a bundle. The traditional scheme had several layers of fees; the payment processor and then Visa / MC / AMEX, then the bank. Different card flavors (rewards cards, etc) offered different fee levels. Predicting fee levels was a probabilistic task.

Switching to Stripe, they got a two-tier one layer fee scheme. One tier for AMEX and a lower tier for MC/VISA.

The fee burden was noticeably lower with Stripe, too. the business I mention requested a fee discount and got it based on annual volume. But it was cheaper even without the discount.

So, where are the lower fees?
50 MW seems really small? I don't think nuclear is the way to go, but the scale seems to make this type of plant irrelevant.

from: http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=104&t=3

> As of December 1, 2015, there were 99 operating nuclear reactors at 61 nuclear power plants in the United States. The Fort Calhoun plant in Nebraska has one reactor with the smallest generating capacity of 479 megawatts (MW). The Palo Verde plant in Arizona has three reactors and has the largest combined generating capacity of about 3,937 MW.
Yeah: what they mean by "container format" here is similar to the usage in video compression file formats, where ".avi" doesn't imply any particular compression algorithms. An xz file is a container format which is designed for use to store another container format.
What's your definition of business logic?
The connection is unfortunately crucial – apart from deep learning, there aren't actually that many problems that require the amount of computation to justify the transfer.

BUT: considering the CPU is really just a very expensive traffic conductor in the way these frameworks work, an option may be to combine GPUs with fast storage (SSD) and/or maybe a sort of second-level RAM.

Scaling across GPUs is pretty easy. You can run batches in parallel and combine the results, and only the learned parameters need to be transferred once you have distributed the data.
I think this is the worst design I've ever seen, with the background image zooming out as I scroll. Extremely distracting.
Too late to edit: substitute 'can't' for 'can' in the second sentence.
What if you get a computer to do it?
BBSes: Yet another technology I missed, because I wasn't alive. Ah well.

Speaking of things that I wasn't there for, did you know TinyTIM's still up? Sketch (perhaps better known around here as Jason Scott) hasn't actually killed it because it's so cheap to run. Mind, nobody's actually around anymore, but you can explore the relics of a once-great civilization over at http://www.tim.org/.
I highly recommend the angular cli tool. In 2 minutes you have a webpack setup with bootstrap that hot reloads your code . you can even proxy API calls to your real web server. Deploying consists of copying the dist folder . With tree shaking the footprint for angular 2 drops significantly
You can hide your browsing history from your carrier easily with a VPN.
Let's consider your first example: a method with just one line of code.

I'm not sure why you bring that up. There's nothing intrinsically wrong about a method that only has one line of code. That one line of code can, for example, contain a complex calculation and the method is an abstraction for that calculation.

Even one line of code just calling another method can be quite alright if the method is, for example, part of an adapter or facade class.

Of course this sentence seems to capture your thinking:

"excessive interface use due to the (clueless)need of pedantic levels of unit testing"
Essen 2016: Our picks from the biggest board game con in the world
TinyTIM
The parallel you draw to communist purges is illogical. When you look at historical conflicts all parties think their actions are righteous, no matter where they fall on the political spectrum. Purges are justified (rationalized) by the need to solidify power for the greater good. In other words: it's about expedience. It doesn't matter whether the purges are committed by communists, fascists, or religious zealots.
SAG-AFTRA Video Game Strike: Is It Just About Terminology?
Yes. The description made me remember an old movie I saw as a kid that scared the shit out of me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_in_the_World

`An international consortium of scientists, operating as Project Inner Space in Tanganyika, Africa, is trying to tap into the Earth's geothermal energy by drilling a very deep hole down to the Earth's core. The scientists are foiled by an extremely dense layer of material at the boundary between the two. To penetrate the barrier and reach the magma below, they intend to detonate an atomic device at the bottom of the hole.

The atomic device is used and Rampion's fears prove justified, as the crust of the Earth develops an enormous crack that progresses rapidly. Sorenson discovers that there was a huge reservoir of hydrogen underground, which turned the small conventional atomic explosion into a huge thermonuclear one that was millions of times more powerful. Another atomic device is used in the hope of stopping the crack, but it only reverses the crack's direction. Eventually the crack returns to its starting point at the test site, and a huge chunk of the planet outlined by the crack is expected to be thrown out into space. Sorenson remains at the underground control center to record the event despite pleas by his wife Maggie to evacuate with the rest of the project staff. She and Rampion barely escape in time to observe the fiery birth of a second moon. Its release stops the crack from further splitting the Earth.`
As they should. If you own a home or an apartment you should be free to monetize it* .

* - I mean legally. I am not advocating booting paying tenants on leases because you want to jack up rents or rent on AirBNB.
The goals of the Federal Reserve are "maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates." The real goal, though, is economic growth, and we just happen to believe that those intermediate goals are good at serving long-term economic growth.

The prices of stocks are one of the most forward-looking macroeconomic measures that we have available to us. The better we get at improving long-term economic growth, the higher stock prices will go, other things being equal. So basically, if you have good policy, stock prices should always go up (in real terms). If the Federal Reserve were perfect at preventing recessions and everyone knew it, stock prices would be higher.

While you would probably not want to make stock index growth the target of monetary policy because of Goodhart's Law, it is very reasonable to take it into account as a part of a forecast of how well your policy is working.