skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a quant, but:

Imagine playing a huge board game with a bunch of very smart (as in, MIT math PhD smart) players that spend every waking hour trying to come up with strategies, and every time you come up with a good strategy the entire metagame of all players quickly adapts to its existence so the game stays interesting (except for some that lose before they can adapt and have to leave the game.)

Factors in a good game strategy might include fast thinking, every historical move a player played in the game, human psychology, poker-type bluffing, reverse engineering algorithms based only on their outputs, correctly predicting the future of industries and companies, headlines on the news, sentiment analysis on social networks, predictions of election results (and stuff like the Brexit referendum), as well as the complicated rules of the game itself, and Sicilian Reasoning (http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/rsb-results1.html).

Some things you might do as part of a strategy: charter a fast ship to send information to your friends in another market before it becomes public, so they can buy a lot of stuff before it's price goes up; buy a donut every week in the same shop and keep track of receipt serial numbers to estimate changes in a franchise's weekly sales before anyone else knows them; use satellite imagery of Walmart parking lots and some computer vision algorithms to get a very good estimate of their sales; borrow $10Bn from your friends and use it all to sell British pounds in a very short period of time, forcing the British government to stop pinning the pound-dollar exchange rate and making $1Bn in the process; install a spy network throughout Europe so you get information on the result of the battle of Waterloo a day before the King's intelligence service, spread a rumor that Napoleon won, buy everything that got cheaper because of the rumor, then the next day sell it when the truth that he lost arrives and use the money to more or less buy everything of value in Britain.

At each point in time there is a clear tracking of scores so you can know exactly how well you're doing relative to every other player.

And the best thing is, you get paid the best salaries in the market to play this game.

I love being an entrepreneur because of how open the rules of the game are and how many creative moves I can pull off to get advantage without having to convince some judge or committee or boss that this is a good idea. Strategic quants have all this and the additional benefits of immediate feedback and a great salary with low risk.
"Starting from Celery 5.0 only Python 3.5+ will be supported."

This is a small detail, but I'm glad that one more big Python project is dropping 2.x support. The 2/3 split is not good for the community.
look around yourself. How many of the SWEs you see came from a coding bootcamp vs. a traditional CS background?
Yes, you certainly can. This is actually a topic that I've been exploring for a little while now.

http://www.openmindedinnovations.com/blogs/3-ways-to-integra... is a decent, although old article on the three different ways that it can be done.

I personally recommend https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails as the solution to this issue. Instead of merely providing you with React and React only like https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails does, it welds Node & Rails together to enable you to use the latest and greatest of the javascript ecosystem.

As for the benefits of doing so, having started my web development journey with Rails, I like to think that Rails provides an excellent convention for Backend MVC & ORM while Node gives you access to up-to-date javascript libraries & frameworks. Combining Node & Rails allows to you to exploit the strengths of both systems in exchange for dealing with greater complexity.
travel, read, and work!
I can't imagine going to a party where encouraging somebody to do something that could deprive him/her of future legal entry opportunities is preferred banter.

In my social circles, people tend to like truth and transparency. Maybe we're doing it rong.
If you are including the developers in the system you're calling antifragile, then Chaos Monkey is also part of the system. Antifragility refers to a system that benefits from attacks or disorder from outside itself.

You are watering down the word so much that it wouldn't have reason to exist. Is every chair-making process antifragile since chairs get stress tested before being sold?
Hadn't heard of this before -- I am sooo going to try this. Thanks for the link!
Here are a couple of articles about things he's said about H1B. From skimming them it sounds like he wants to raise the minimum prevailing wage an H1B would have to be paid and eliminate abuses like what happened at Disney recently where they fired their existing workforce and replaced them with lower paid H1B workers. Since you are shooting for a masters at a top school I wouldn't think these changes would affect your plans

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2973597/it-outsourcing/...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/03/...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/63369555990007398...
But some workloads get all the priority while others get zero/idle priority. Not true in public cloud.
I'm only 22 so it hasn't hit me yet but I don't feel bad about only hanging out with my girlfriend. I know it's not the best thing to do but after work (where I get along with coworkers very well such that it feels like hanging out sometimes) I just want to read, do some personal programming, and watch films in my bed.

Every now and then I'll see someone during a weekend but aside from girlfriend things I have a strong desire to be alone[1] whenever I get free time.

[1] Not literally alone but doing something by myself like study an algorithm or read a book.
Chris Granger's Eve is based on Datalog. Perhaps his work is finally what breaks out the logic programming prolog paradigm.
Kind of sad you had to answer your own comment.

Listen, you know, as long as we're alive we can change things. Go out to a bar meet some strangers. It's never too late to make some friends. My problem has always been time.

Just don't give up, we don't need hundreds of good friends just a few. Even one or two are better than none.
I don't think it works with spam anymore - except for naive spammers, they are very aware of this trick.

It IS for organising legitimate incoming mail though.
You are replying to yourself on hacker news at saturday night.

I hope you are at least sitting at a bar reading from your phone. Otherwise you are not even trying. cheers.
This isn't what the OP was asking about.
A good example of real-world application of the donut-receipts idea above is the German Tank Problem[0] from WW2.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
I do it when I push to staging on Heroku :)
I have a wise older friend who is fond of saying, "Our attention is our most valuable asset." Sometimes, depending on the setting, he will add that in our culture it has been stolen.

I certainly often feel like I'm in a losing battle to keep my attention on what is essential. I've had 3 close friends move away in the past year. There are and handful of new people I've thought, "Hey, I'd like to be friends with them." Each time one or both of us don't seem to have the time to connect or if we do it's once with a "We should do this again soon."

Still looking for answers I guess.
What might all this say about Palantir's development processes in general?
I recently had a 2.5 month break between jobs. I, too, wanted to make the most of it. These opportunities don't come that often in life.

During my break: I learned squash (so much fun - can't get enough of it, and it's so good for you), studied Spanish (lovevto travel in Latin America), learned a bit of Scala (not really that much, to be honest), took some salsa dance classes (tough, but so much fun. Met lots of new friends), and did some Lynda courses on video editing (for making fun travel videos). I also spent a week and a half doing a road trip through southern France and Italy. Read a lot of books that were on my "someday" backlog - almost 0% TV!

As someone else mentioned, the quasi-unstructured time in the day was so refreshing. I loved just doing some random boring errands, bumming around the coffee shop talking to people, taking a long walk in the park with the dogs (I live in NYC)

I'll tell you: I'm 2 months i to my new job (technology job at a startup), and I really miss the feeling of this unstructured "regular life", or whatever you want to call it.

Cherish it, but don't overdo the planning, as it'll stress you out!

All the best!
I'm not sure why you're so surprised, this is standard logistics management for warranty replacement services.

Manufacturer specifically asks customer to keep it informed where the equipment is physically located, and then prepositions spares to appropriate depots in order to meet the contractual requirement established when the customer paid them often a large amount of money for 4-hour Same Day (24x7x365) coverage for that device.

This isn't how hyperscale folks operate for the same reason Fortune 100's rarely take out anything more than third-party coverage when their employees rent vehicles, it becomes an actuarial decision, the # of 'Advance Replacement' warranty contracts and the $ involved, vs. buying a % of spares and keeping those in the datacenter then RMA'ing the defective component for refund/replace (on a 3-5 week turnaround time).

tl;dr - Operating 100-500 servers you should likely pay Dell and they'll ship you the spare and a technician to install it, operating >500 servers and you should do the sums and make the best decision for your business, operating >5000 servers and you probably want to just 'cold spare' and replace yourself.
I'm curious why you recommend Europe or Southern Africa. I haven't been to Southern Africa so I can't comment on traveling there, but these seem somewhat arbitrary to me.
only if you are dumb (or blind by the san-francisco alternate reality) enough.

sadly, the alternative is to have to, over and over again, skip the page your service providers ask for your phone after every login. Even after you have something actually secure like OTP generation keys exchanged.
> Exit polls suggest that those worried about economic topics voted Clinton. Those that worried about immigration and terrorism voted Trump.

A lot of people worried about immigration are so because of the "they take our jobs" angle. So it goes hand in hand.
> Read all incoming emails within 4 hours max and respond after reading if possible.

Oh God. I hope this is "within business hours"? Because I sleep for more than 4 hours at a stretch, thanks.

(Also: occasionally a comprehensive reply requires an essay, or the equivalent. What do you do in this case?)
Clasp seems to be much slower than SBCL (yet?). But yes, the amount of libraries has surely grown over the past few years, probably even too much:

http://eudoxia.me/article/common-lisp-sotu-2015
Apple also is about creating new markets. They have so far consistently supported Windows too and that's also a market now - it wasn't so in the beginning.
this one was linked by ars elsewhere in the comments here. references the paper as well. very cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnn21smGVrQ
Introducing the WINGS DAO Referral Program
Interesting post. But I wonder if the focus on how we would communicate with aliens makes sense. In the case of this movie, they arrived here, apparently. If they're that much more technologically advanced than we are, wouldn't they be taking the lead on communicating with us? They'd probably have a substantial set of templates for how to communicate with primitive civilizations developed already.
If current tech managers have a hard time over the next decade, it won't be that management is less important. Instead, there will be a growing number of people that have written software and are going into management that will be better at it. They actually understand what's going on around them. Software is an outlier in that front line managers can't do even a little bit of the job their direct reports do. This only happened because the industry grew so fast that the bulk of programmers were so young.

That said, make sure you actually want to write code. Boot camps prepare you to make simplistic websites and mobile apps not the interesting stuff you mention. You'll have years of learning to get into those in a meaningful way.
Not sure why the author "actively resists" having her spouse as best friend. My wife and I have known each other since high school. She's the only one from high school I still talk to regularly, and she is definitely my best friend.

We're in our 50s. She has always been more social than me, and struggles to make female friends. I'm not sure that it works as well for her as it does for me, but the casual acquaintances and handful of friends I've had since hitting my 30s have been enough for me.
i reached a point where i realised that my friends were more important to me than i was to them. it was a horrible feeling, but i couldn't blame them.. they were all getting married and having kids - after which my friendship was waaay down their list of priorities. one of the benefits of being in a relationship is to have somebody to whom you're at the top of the list for. friends just cannot be counted on as much, a realization that only hit me after age 30.
The fanbase may be old, but there is no reason not to like the C64. I'm not even 30 yet but the C64 was crucial for developing my interest in computers and software (see my other top level post).
It's a great machine through and through. The hardware and software are simple and more tangible compared to modern systems. I think every child should be introduced to old hardware/software like C64+BASIC!
Sure and GitHub also has literally an order of magnitude more infrastructure than is being discussed in these proposals and retains Amazon Web Services and Direct Connect for a bunch of really good reasons.

Transparency from GitLab is excellent but you shouldn't really generalise statements about cloud suitability without the full picture or "Walking a mile in their shoes".
If you live in either SF or NYC, I'm happy to go out for coffee and a conversation some time. I can't promise we'll be best friends, but we can sure have a try ;)
I'm not saying people can't find happiness in those situations (in fact civilians in those situations are often amazingly upbeat all things considered).

I just mean the bit about external factors almost implies external factors barely affect happiness is silly, external factors are also a large part of happiness.
Back when I worked in a big corp with an actual DC onsite we had similar contracts. I assume they worked anywhere in the US as we had multiple locations. IIRC they were with HP.
Where are you getting .pg from? Wikipedia lists .pl, .pro and .P as extensions.
I know how you feel with that last bit. There's a few people who are very important friends for me but if I'm honest about it, I'm not sure I'm even in their top 10. Don't get me wrong, they've each done wonderful things for me and I treasure their friendship but sometimes I feel I'm not a very high priority and I'm not sure they realize how much I depend on them.

Asymmetry of interest can be a major strain on a relationship; unfortunately it seems true symmetry is a near impossibility.
Also a similar model is used for Ph.D. programs. 1:1 advisor-advisee. Each advisor has only a couple of Ph.D. students at any given time.
I think this is a pessimistic view of Google Cloud given the revenues they're now making from it.

A more interesting question would be about Rackspace and SoftLayer, the former of which has been taken private and the latter was acquired by IBM, both are in the "We will give you anything you want, this is how much it'll cost" side of the hosting business which is AFAICS most likely to be under pressure in the next 10 years as workloads get modernised.
Glad to hear it!

A school history class doesn't give you a sense of the spirit of the times the way Clarke or Burke do. This may sound elitist but when I hear my own generation (millennial) talk about the past I feel like I'm hearing an aural caricature.

Unfortunately you'll notice all my examples of excellent documentary making are unusually old examples of television.

I suspect that between advertisers demand and a culture uncomfortable with bold or frankly even nuanced ideas you just cannot make good television for a large audience.

Adam Curtis for example still makes interesting documentaries from a centrist political perspective but he is notable precisely because he is rare. I think "Curtis and then who?".

Many geeks I assume, have gotten rid of their televisions for that reason.
I appreciate that, zemvpferreira. I'm in Denver, though. Thanks for the offer.
Wow, this escalated quickly. Where did I call everyone a xenophobe? I thought we were going to have some rational discourse and you quickly resorted to name calling and finger pointing. Thanks.
Good catch, we'll take a look at this. I've filed an issue to track it [0].

[0]: https://github.com/palantir/blueprint/issues/122
> For a taskbar

Thanks, my google foo failed me. So it was there all along.

If they've provided some way for me to say what a window's size and position should be rather than having their "everything shall be maximised" shoved down my throat it's worth trying again.

When I use Gnome3 now I am struck by how well everything works, albeit for their definition of works. Random things tend to break under other WM's from time to time which is irritating. From what I can tell this is because they depend on gnome's applets to fill in the bits they don't have time to do, but gnome is a moving target.

Random breakage is probably going to get worse as the move to Wayland accelerates. Sigh. We do live in interesting times.
Why would anyone with to put up with the insanity that is US healthcare? It's byzantine, expensive, the cost of health insurance is completely out of control. On top of that comes the H1-B madness.

Why not Canada, Europe, even post-Brexit Britain? Immigration and healthcare in any of these is actually sane.
a rabbitMQ client? what's so awesome that everyone here says it is essential for python web projects? Honest question, never used python for that.
Unless something completely unexpected happens in the next decade or two, it seems clear to me that there are only a couple of possible outcomes here:

1. Stay the course and endure further entrenchment of inequality and rising under/unemployment due to capitalism's innate tendency to concentrate wealth by favouring capital over labour (unearned vs earned income) and technological changes leading to reduced opportunities for low skilled work.

2. Bite the bullet and accept that a political solution is needed to reduce inequality (most likely through some kind of redistribution mechanism). There are plenty of historical precedents for this (Bismark's social contract, rise of the labour movement, the New Deal).

A few commonly discussed solutions are:
1. Universal Basic Income
2. Governments introducing money into the economy directly through spending on infrastructure (or UBI) rather than through assuming debt.
3. Shifting taxes away from income to assets. An example of this would be Land Value Taxes.

Personally, I am in favour of (3), with the focus being on taxing unproductive investment first. Lower income taxes and and more incentive to invest in actual businesses (rather than say, flipping houses or other speculative activity) would do a lot of good. It would be great if we had an economy where money was a bit easier to make and a little bit harder to keep. A higher velocity of money is good for an economy.
If you discover early on that you're not going to get much out of it, don't feel too bad for bailing out. Having a book doesn't mean you are forced at all costs to finish it.
I hope you do find some new friends. And remember, you have to be a bit of a stoic if you want to preserve friendships and make them last longer.
If something is slower in CPython than in Pypy, I'm pretty sure they are usually up for treating this as a bug.

Things that are slow because of warmup used to not be the focus, but there is some focus there now too.
As for the essay-length response, I want to let you know I received your comment. It deserves a longer response and I hope to get that to you by the end of day Monday. Let me know if that doesn't work for you.
They are generally pretty friendly, it may be worth bringing it up on the mailinglist, the advice may be to open a bug up then.
This is the video:
"Ramanujan's infinite root and its crazy cousins"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leFep9yt3JY&t=687s
It's Sunday 4:12 am and I'm watching UFC alone :)
Score voting is just another term for range voting. Approval is just score voting with the lowest resolution, effectively. Condorcet can elect a consensus candidate but inherently is worse at this than score/range/approval.

Condorcet is a rank system so Arrow's Impossibility Theorem applies.
Also, being a rank system, there will always be arguments about
interpretation where people can hand-wring over how the outcome would be
different with Borda or IRV or another way to determine the results of a
rank-vote election. Finally, Condorcet always supports
tyranny-of-the-majority rather than consensus. A polarizing candidate with 51%
support and 49% strong disapproval will always win any rank vote, while a
consenus candidate everyone likes can win a score or approval vote.

Effectively, score is range is approval, same basic idea, and ONLY that
idea is simple, clear, zero argument about interpreting results and none of the
pathologies of rank voting. And no, rank voting is NOT able to elect consensus
candidates over polarizing ones in the way score voting does.
> she's creating something with the intent to sell it.

This is something the ATO actually takes into account. However, just like turning a profit, this alone is not sufficient to qualify as a business.
the reason this doesn't exist is because stores make money off you wandering around, looking for what you want, picking up other stuff along the way.
Had first kid in my early 30s. Stopped hanging out with friends. Never been happier. My biggest regret is how much time I wasted on friends in my youth.
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Competition for attention among personal relationships seems to be growing thing in my life. Makes me a bit resentful sometimes. It's been especially harsh these past weeks.
React-redux-webpack-async Complete project solution
LLVM/Clang and Grand Central Dispatch comes to mind. The MAC framwork is also a shared effort, but I don't know who is doing the heavy lifting. It's something.
Facebook to stop allowing racially targeted ads for housing, employment, credit
Next time my wife starts looking at jobs for me and says "hey this quant thing looks like it pays a lot, why don't you apply?" I'll just show her this.
The C-64 was my introduction to computing and programming as well. My uncle, a newly minted engineer at the time, brought one to our house when I was about three years old and just left it. This was incredibly fortunate given how poor my family was at the time. Some of the first words I learned how to spell were LOAD and RUN thanks to the BASIC prompt.
> WP mentions PoS and AR

Over my head, care to define your abbreviations? Thanks