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Ask HN: Best sites for finance, hedge funds, private equity?
HN was the first place I thought to ask, as the crowd is knowledgeable in a wide range of areas;

I've recently become interested in Private Equity, Hedge Funds and that side of finance.

What are some sites I can become more immersed in these topics.

Not necessarily knowledge based, more so HN type aggregator sites or news and current discussions. Even good historical stuff.
Yes of course, specialization increases abundance. But if you read the given examples it wasn't suggested that farmers make their own diesel. But rather that they own their land and equipment. Same for plumbers, it's advocated that they own their own tools.

Basically it's lamenting the lack of small businesses. That's not really wrong either. Diversity in business ownership might not be maximally "efficient" in certain regards but I think most folks would prefer that there isn't just one farming conglomerate, one nationwide plumbing service, etc.
"In other words, the faces of general law-biding public have a greater degree of resemblance compared with the faces of criminals, or criminals have a higher degree of dissimilarity in facial appearance than normal people"

Hmm... so.

You look weird -> people treat you worse -> you don't feel like working with them -> higher chance of being a criminal.

I know that's a giant leap in reasoning, but that was the first thing that came to mind.
This big push for control of information flows is all disturbing, sounds very authoritarian. Plus the big question is what is real journalism or who decides ? The government? or are media companies just trying to build economic moats against new comers?
These are not malls. They are places owned by the local governments. They are not private places. They are public places. We have a duty to house homeless people. Why? Because we can afford to do so and it's the right and humane thing to do. If we don't and they can't do it themselves. We treat animals better than human beings.
This extensive answer on Stackoverflow is often cited as a good description of the philosophy and functionality of Vim. Making it in turn a good and somewhat unique introduction to using Vim.

"Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi."

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most...
Gee why are you completely ignoring what the article is about??
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The value add is saying that codes are important, but enforcement is just as important. Perhaps moreso because if you skip the latter, the former doesn't mean anything at all.

If the builder skimped on the $20 cleanout, it should have been noticed by the building inspector.
I speak to people in real life and I don't rely upon fake internet friends to feel valued.
Thanks for the link; it clarified some issues regarding paying cycles that I was fuzzy on.
The Machine That Changed the World: Interview with Alan Kay (1990)
"Education won't help. Teach a human how to do something, and you have one human who can do it. Teach a computer how to do something, and you can have as many computers as needed doing it. "

This is pragmatically not true.

There are tons and tons of jobs that can't be done by computers.

The 'entertainment sector' was not even a part of the economy 100 years ago. Now it's a big chunk.

Think of how big sports are. That was all 'unpaid amateur' stuff before.

It's worth examining how much we ought to work and not, but we also should understand there will always be work to do.

Also - the industrial revolution had a far greater direct impact upon 'labour' than the computing revolution.

'Machines' could do the work of thousands of men - and the economic translation was direct - not 'soft' as we have with computers.

And yet what happened? Consumer surpluses found their way into the economy, and 'people did other stuff'.

Paradoxically - through the entire history of 'automation' unskilled labour has been getting more expensive, not less.
I have email, irc, a telephone (both voice and SMS, and signal type apps), a physical mailbox, and people can actually come over and visit in addition to all of that. I can also communicate via third parties. "John wants you to call him", I've heard.

I never had a facebook account. I don't have trouble keeping up with family, friends, or work. And I have more free time. And less bullshit memes.

I think I can survive another several decades without facebook.
This is just wrong news, not fake news. Fake news has become the buzzword du jour but missing in the current application of the term to everything is the main problem is not fake news stories, it's fake news sites.

Journalists are always going to be wrong some of the time and several factors have been ramping that error rate way up but this has been discussed at length for at least a decade now. But, for the most part, legitimate news sites at least try to vie for truth as one of the competing demands on the business.

What's genuinely new is sites whose entire business model is predicated on intentional dissemination of knowingly false stories as a major part of the media landscape. Alex Jones style journalism has always existed at the fringes of the media landscape but now are becoming the main news source of a significant proportion of the country and that's worrying.

Trying to label other things as "fake news" muddies the waters and distracts from the issue.
I agree with you that a person that uses this website does not really 'understand' matrix multiplication in any deep way, though they will have slightly higher chance of understanding the algorithm at face-level.

I don't think that makes the site worthless or worthy of the some of the scorn I'm seeing in here.

I strongly agree with the complaint that "this completely misses the point" is super negative and dismissive and should be condemned.

If we-the-community want people to keep making things for fun or to try to help people, we have to criticize them graciously instead of saying that they are so wrong as to be useless. Not because it is moral or proper to do so, but because in practice dismissive and scornful negative feedback makes creators less likely to create new things or to try to improve old ones, and that's bad.
Perhaps this is fake? Perhaps not. Who controls that? http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/pizzagate-4chan-un...

Media claims its fake: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/pizzagate-shows-how-...
The thing with Weekly World News is, literally none of it is real. It's all imaginary. And people know that. There's not a single sane person in the US who thinks WWW is a truthful source of news. And I'm not saying "sane" as in "agrees with my point of view" but the literal legal definition of sane. No one with a valid drivers license, who lives on their own without supervision, holds down a steady job, and has responsibilities beyond tying their own shoes believes WWW is news. It's pure entertainment. No one thinks pro wrestling is real either, even though they present it as being real. The "pretend to be real" thing is just part of the entertainment value. It's playing the straight man in a comedy routine.

But my mom, who has a doctorate degree in a medical profession and is a director at a medical organization, firmly believes in everything and anything that's mentioned in a tweet that is aired on CNN. Or posted on Facebook overlaid on a picture of a Minion.
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That 'college education' one is tough.

'Opening a restaurant' does not require a Uni education, but I'd rather the person be smarter, more educated, understand aesthetics, customers, finance etc. - and be college educated.

You don't need 'high school education' to do a lot of construction work, but I'd rather hire high school graduates.

There's a lot of intelligence that goes into many of these kinds of jobs. As people are smarter, the quality of the output goes up.
Well, how is this different from the old supermarket tabloids? I vividly remember bat boy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Boy_(character)
Yes, in small groups such as tribes. There is reciprocal altruism at play, where helping other members of the group can reasonably expected to be repaid in future, so it can be a win win.

In our modern world it is often going to be the case that you won't deal with the same people again, or the transaction is completed completely impersonally.
> the DSM is not valid.

that makes treatment easy then. POOF! all mental illness disappears because the book is "invalid". FYI you're using a defense called denial[1] when you do that :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial
Just because they play both sides of the field doesn't add credulity to the objectivity of their coverage.

I am so jaded to believe that both sides pay them for coverage. Either in money or political favors.
So fake news spreads via real news sites now. Should the rolling stone be blacklisted for fake news like the uva rape hoax ?

Where is the line essentially?
"At this point I've already come to accept that fulltime labor for everyone is simply not going to happen. "

This is not true.

Total workforce participation grew radically through the last 100 years - esp. because the introduction of women into different jobs.

Demographics aside, we have really quite high participation rates - even after 200 years of automation.

Also - because of demographic changes, we're already at a stage of declining labour force participation (since 2000), and we already retire at '60-ish' and live another 30 years not doing a whole lot, but amassing massive healthcare bills.

So - people more than ever need to be 'gainfully and productively employed' while they can, in order to offset the fact they'll be hanging out for quite long time not creating direct value.
I appreciate that Shopify took a slightly more conservative approach to growth resulting in less feast / famine.

Their RoR stack might have gone out of fashion but it seems like they consistently made the right decisions considering a lot of their customers rely on the Shopify platform for their livelihoods and not just to express their opinions in 140 characters.
They're 'Tesloop', based in LA. I've seen complaints on the Tesla forums from LA area Tesla owners about how they keep hogging up the chargers.
E.g Charging for Supercharging Won't Deter Local Fleet Operators

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/5bonff/chargin...
I really disagree with this article. This is the sort of fundamentalist thinking that Americans trained themselves in during the Cold War.

> Behind much of the Middle East’s chaos — the wars in Syria and Yemen

Both of these wars are domestic in nature. In any Civil War parties naturally seek to ally themselves with outside powers. The powers then see the opportunity to win big for small(ish) cash, or at least avoid losing an ally.

It is true that Iran and the Saudis are fighting for supremacy, but it is not true that all the wars in the middle east are because of that.

Its equally wrong to force all of this into a even deeper into a pure sectarian conflict. Neither the Saudis or the Iranians are above supporting people that they ideologically disagree with it is politically useful to them, even people who would attack and kill them if they could.

This article tries hard and fails to make everything about Iran. Saudi Arabia going against the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, clearly that is because of Iran. The Saudis have enough reason to make sure they have allies in Egypt even when Iran is not a factor. Every countries ties not to have enemies on all sides.
Not hard to imagine that there would be a lot of work out there of marginal economic value but not enough to employ someone at the minimum wage to do.
Has the intercept been labeled fake news? I knew greenwald had harsh criticisms of the american media.
Lol been there, done that, got the tshirt. I've implemented ecommerce sites; integrations with 3-4 credit card processors, ACH for US, Canada, and the U.K., sales tax for all US states, Canadian HST, GST, PST taxes, and UK VAT.

Typical developer self congratulatory BS. I'm a special snow flake, look at the systems I've built to solve such unique problems! Sickening isn't it?
He may have been being sarcastic, but if you add three words it becomes less of a war crime and more of a solid plan for the future: "without an education". Yes, everyone should be able to vote and should be able to have kids. Everyone should have a good solid education that teaches critical thinking, too.

If someone is uneducated, that's everyone's problem, specifically because they do vote and do have kids. We shouldn't take that away from them, however we should do a better job at not producing uneducated citizens in the first place.
Amazon sold 426 items per second Christmas 2013. Their average order value in 2012 was around $47. Assuming the average value to be the same, it works out to around $1.2m per minute.
Secular decline in labour participation rate decline is mostly demographics. People are getting older, and not having as many kids as they used to.

This started in 2000 coincident with the downturn.

The big drop in 2008 was mostly the crash.
I my head I see the matrices remaining in place, while the vectors from the left slowly float to the right, produce dot products, which in turn float into their destination cells in the new output matrix just to the right of the equals sign.

But that's just me.
#!/usr/bin/ex -u
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quit

Alias all commands to this script for unlimited fun.

(Edit: HN syntax)
Your father's lifetime wasn't all that different. From no planes, to jets, to mun landings. That was rather epic. Same too in medicine. In the 1940's cancer was a death sentence, today many live for decades. Things like insulin, especially antibiotics, arguably have had a larger impact than computing technology. People don't drop dead nearly as often today.

Go back another generation or two and anesthetics and germ theory allowed surgery to progress. Appendicitis was no long a death sentence. My grandmother was, as a child, "in traction" for weeks. But nobody really fears breaking a bone or cutting a knee these days. Every of the last few generations described themselves as living through a tech revolution. Ours is just the latest. There will be more.
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This is not fake news, but it's a great example of how the rush to be the first, with no verification, spreads misinformation of all kinds.

And this does not only happen to journalist, but normal people too. It is thus a good reminder to people to check before they retweet or share that article.
Depending on where you are in the world living solely off benefits isn't very appealing to most. Much more likely that most will be forced into it rather than choosing it.
DNS interception usually takes place by redirecting traffic destined to port 53, like so:

iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -p {udp,tcp} --dport 53 -j TPROXY --on-ip mitm-ip --on-port 53

Doing this isn't inherently malicious. Most of the time it's done for performance reasons. Bad idea, if you ask me, but whatever.

Since dnscrypt transmits DNS requests over port 443, which is also used by HTTPS, ISPs can't redirect the packets without performing more costly fingerprinting, or else websites would break.

dnscrypt packets are also encrypted and authenticated, so the worst probable thing an ISP could do is, like you said, drop the requests.
I am in the same line. Time is key there. Companies & canditates are often on the same page on this.

Fast & efficient sourcing & applying process: Smart matching to offer me only relevant and up-to-date. One click to apply.

Real time update on processes I applied: Has it been reviewed but the company? Are they interested or not? How many candidate are still in the process?
Such a bogus answer. The person asking the question literally wanted a number in $ for net worth. What he got was a crash course in philosophy and moral science
I'm not advocating blacklisting news agencies, but I would strongly suggest everyone take a critical look at their own sources of news, and then at everything they report.

I told a joke at work a few years back, "hey did you hear Betty White dyed?" The obvious joke is she "dyed" as in changed her hair color, but it sounds like "died". Someone overheard me and it wasn't long before I heard people mourning one of their favorite celebrities.

News agencies are exactly like that.
>I don't see it reasonable that the homeless sleep around shops, public structures etc.

So where then?
To be frank, something like this can't happen in the US.

Then again, we can't even deliver clean water to all of our residents. Not that we aren't on net, better, but we could be.
Mark Zuckerberg — Facebook’s CEO — is probably the most powerful person alive today. He may even be the most powerful person ever.

The first assertion isn't even remotely true. And the second is just plain silly.
FYI doesn't look like I can sign up on iOS Safari, tapping signup just closes the menu right now.
> Kuwaitis and the Saudis would not help it get out of.

There is long distance between 'would not help' and 'drop all your debt claims against me'.

Nobody had forced Saddam to invade Iran. He took the risk and took the debt knowingly. He then turned around and and claimed 'I did all of this for you, so I don't have to pay anything back'.

The Americans did help to build the Saudis, but the Saudis would almost certainly have succeeded without the Americans as well. Saudi Arabia was never a America child.
Well, except Spez actually did it. Brad asked for feedback/proposed doing it.
>> We didn't beat spam—it ate the Web. It is the Web.

That hits the mark for me. It feels as though the entire web is one big advertisement for stuff you don't need. It's made people apathetic. They don't even see it though it enters their subconsciouses.
A more interesting question would be, after all he has experienced: Does Jimmy Wales really want to be rich?
On mobile this is nothing meaningful, could someone please share a screenshot?
Ignoring your real argument, but a bun is supposed to be mostly air.
Please stop posting unsubstantive comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Truffle is something you have to eat lots of to understand. I can taste that there is a difference, but I wouldn't judge one truffle as being any better than another. They all taste a little the the dirt they came from and I don't eat them often enough to care. I like a good stilton cheese, but I'm not going to criticize those who thinks it tastes "like feet".
> The solution for obesity is self control...

Absolute, categorical, sweeping, prescriptive assertions like this demand backing citations.

If you had used qualifiers like "...for obesity in most/some/plurality of people...", then you probably wouldn't be getting down voted, but just the ketogenic diet's impact alone for many people is sufficient to disprove your assertion that it is only about self-control. In those cases, it was incredibly poor information distributed by the US food and medical industries about the food pyramid that led to continual failure to control weight for many people who found the weight melting off when they tried a ketogenic approach, or simply started to eat fats again instead of assiduously avoiding it. And before you dismiss ketogenic's thesis that low carb high fat works, Sweden's medical establishment found the evidence compelling enough [1].

This doesn't even get into what we're seeing with some fecal transplants, or many other matters we are just beginning to explore about human metabolism. Once within "normal" BMI or body fat percentage, then yes, self-control, portion control, etc. are necessary when on a cut, for example. But for obese and morbidly obese people, not all of them categorically are in their situation due to lack of self-control. I might concede perhaps many of them are, but categorical assertions like yours are uncharitable to the researchers who are pushing the boundaries of our understanding of our own metabolisms, and I would rather our species explain by real science what happens around us rather than prescribing moral allegations as "just so" explanations of our world.

[1] https://healthimpactnews.com/2013/sweden-becomes-first-weste...
What 25 Years of Development Does to Safety Technology
I'm sure the Russians had something to do with this.
This quote from the article seems to answer your question:

> Even if porn was aired on CNN, it’s clear that a lot of publications ran with a story based on tweets from one person before verifying the facts.

They are condemning the race to be first at the expense of verification. "Fake news" might be an annoying buzz word, but I strongly support the main point of their article: journalistic integrity requires checking your source.

Edit: However, I guess we both will agree with how shalmanese described the situation above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041290)
In fairness, bots have been influencing many subs for quite some time. An analysis of how one sided /r/politics was and how many seemingly bot accounts (very new accounts with abnormal activity, heavy publishing/etc) posted nothing but pro Hillary / anti Trump articles with an immediate push of votes.

Reddit is gamed all over the place, in all subs. Between that, and fake amazon reviews, it's really feeling like this is a problem we need to start spending some time to try and push against.

No idea what we can do.. probably nothing..
>Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
I don't know if it is new but lately I have seen more brand-new-sellers advertising low priced products on Amazon that never ship... You don't usually need to do anything to get a refund, but it wastes people's time and is especially bad if you miss out on a good deal on black Friday because of it...
It's almost as if satire isn't propaganda at all. Weird, that.
Honestly? No. The bindings for different editors are different, so for forward paragraph I use "}" in Vim and "M-}" in Emacs. But I just don't think about it. I guess the visual look is enough to make me know what to type.

When it comes to email the "editing" is pretty minimal anyway, I'm mostly deleting bits of quoted text and inserting my reply, or composing from a blank template.

As for how I started many years ago I used to pay for a shell hosting site, and they gave me PINE the mail-client which was console-based. I've stuck with console mail clients ever since. So much more efficient than graphical mail handling, and I guess at the same time I started having Linux desktops and used Emacs for development. I did use emacs at some point for mails, but found it slow to start-up. So I kept using vim when I eventually switched to using the mutt mail-client.

At this point I'd say I'm very very familiar with emacs, both with the internals (C & Lisp) and as a user. By contrast I'm pretty good with Vim. I do keep learning new things about both, but I don't expect I'll ever master either!
Some thoughts about the reports of supposed evidence of election irregularities
Global warming is accelerated by humans and our planet is doomed if we do not stop it. With that said, I could care less about saving the environment.

Recycling, composting, and electric vehicles - most of this is an inconvenience to me and is more expensive. My kids and their kids will be perfectly fine in their future environment. Now the trillion dollar question is how do you make people like me care? No, 25 cent paper bags at Safeway won't convince me to bring my own reusable bag.