skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's incorrect to lump the internet together as one medium. The messages that propagate over Reddit are different from those that propagate over Hacker News, which are different from Facebook.

Why draw a distinction? Because the algorithms behind those products can and do change.

Right now, hyper-partisan content is everywhere. Why? Because publishers have collectively realized that partisanship drives clicks. Take away those clicks by changing the algorithm: the medium changes, the messages change.

Facebook used to have a problem with Farmville spam. It doesn't anymore because the system changed. Perhaps the same could happen with hyper-partisan clickbait.
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It seems that the JVM cannot be blamed for the slow startup time when using Clojure, but compiling Clojure's own core library is what makes it slow. And if you begin to add dependencies it will become even slower. The itself JVM is able to start quite quickly.
Isolation often gets a person stuck into positive feedback loops of negative feelings (loneliness, anxiety, sadness, guilt, shame, cynicism, paranoia, listlessness, self loathing, despair, etc.), disrupted circadian rhythms from poor sleep and lack of sunshine, lack of routines and loss of time sense, lack of exercise, unhealthy diet, poor personal hygiene and cleanliness, substance abuse, financial problems, and so on.

Without sources of external correction/feedback/perspective, even tiny negative thoughts can get amplified and spiral out of control, and a human can stop behaving within the range of personhood (that is, the usual social construction of normal behavior). Without any human contact, it is difficult to keep control over the focus of attention, find meaning in daily routines and projects, etc. Even trivial tasks can start to take monumental amounts of mental effort. With sufficient sensory deprivation someone can become dissociated or start hallucinating, or can fall into catatonic depression.

Some people are obviously better at handling isolation than others, but it’s tough for even the strongest willed. Involuntary isolation (e.g. solitary confinement, or long-term homelessness) is a torturous experience for most people, often causing permanent emotional scars. Voluntary isolation (living as a hermit in the woods to write a novel or whatever) should not be undertaken lightly.

Often people isolate themselves after some kind of severe negative shock, e.g. the death of a loved one, a bad break-up, a professional failure, etc. People experiencing strong negative emotions without any social support/comfort from family/friends can get themselves into situations that are difficult or impossible to climb back out of, especially if substance abuse is involved.
There's MSoffice for mac, haven't used it but it certainly exists. Unless you mean VBA? Don't see why they'd sell office without macros.
> You can choose not to answer it; you can lie; you can choose not to work for employers that ask the question in the first place, especially if they coerce you into providing records.

>> you can choose not to work for employers that ask the question in the first place

>>> you can choose not to work

And here is the disconnect. Not everyone has the ability to simply "choose not to work...". Hence, laws. Your reasoning could be applied to simply working in general. After all, one can just choose not to work until they find a job that meets all of their criteria (salary, vacation time, commute, great people, great mission, etc). Unfortunately, life doesn't work like that.
I am not quite sure how GDP of a country is measured and what are the different methods to measure GDP. But one thing we can't deny is that everything that we use today has "Manufactured in China" label to it. I am just amazed how many goods are produced in China.

Whole of the Indian market is flooded with Chinese items. I see most of the stuff I buy in US comes from China as well. I am not even talking about things like iphone. I am talking about everyday stuff one uses like clothes, shoes, etc. All the wealth is flowing into China in exchange for those goods which increases their GDP. China is also making huge investments in Africa & Pakistan. They are exploring new markets for selling its cheaply manufactured goods.

The Economists claim that those numbers are fake are not aware of ground reality. I don't see China slowing down in the near future, at least no in the next decade.
I don't agree. Is there some way you can back up that claim and be more specific? (Though I think you and I have had this discussion before?)

All human institutions are 'rife with corruption' if the standard is some ideal, but until we adopt our computer overlords we're stuck with people. On a relative scale, I don't see them as so corrupt; and I'm not willing to wait in order to make progress. (EDIT: Name the non-corrupt institution that you want to make these decisions.)

Most importantly, the cities are getting things done.
If one group in a negotiation has near all the power sometimes society benefits from negotiating on behalf of the one with none.
Probably because there is a very large disparity in power and information. A few points:

1. You will always need the job more than Comcast will need you (unless you're unusually skilled, most workers aren't)

2. Comcast knows how much the pay every one of their employees, you the job seeker do not.

3. Comcast is only asking so they can figure out the lowest pay you'll accept. You have no way to figure out how high they are willing to go, so you start out at a disadvantage.

4. Limiting a company's ability to ask intrusive questions in no way impinges on individual liberty, you are not a company, and a company is not a person.

5. If you choose to not answer, they likely will not hire you, if you lie and they find out, they will likely fire you. If they lie the you about the pay range and you accept, you have no recourse but to quit if you catch them in that lie, which brings us back to point #1.
For sufficiently complex & performant functional code you need to have immutable data structures. Clojurescript has this built into the core data types by default, in Javascript you need to use an immutable type library, but then you have to do a lot of awkward data marshalling into the immutable types that really hampers the experience.
You might like Asimov's story "The Dead Past".
> they always talked about team this and team that, but efforts to actually incorporate the team were obviously seen as weak, and the "arrogant know it all" persona was rewarded.

These are usually techniques to weed out people that the people defending those strategies think (consciously or not) are unfit. If you follow the advice you really are unfit and they will exclude you.

This is common across the board in social situations.
This looks really interesting! Could this sort of approach be used for immunotherapy as well?
Nearley – Parser toolkit for JavaScript
The common retort is that nothing is impossible.
Call us back once CoffeScript programs can use immutable data types as easily as mutable ones :)
It is a little misleading. Misleading I think should be the correct word choice. It might not be incorrect, but it is misleading.

Another example that comes to mind is the Colorado newspaper headline that crime has "doubled" in the last decade. That leads a person down the train of thought that crime is out of control. In reality, it grew in proportion to the population. The headline, "Crime grows in proportion with population" doesn't evoke gasps and sales of your paper.
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For myself, these sorts of libertarian arguments seem very similar to the concepts presented in Econ 101. They are very logical, consistent, and compelling. They also rely on a ton of assumptions that do not hold up in the real world.
>There are some reasons somebody felt an urge to create perl

Larry Wall (creator of Perl) says something pretty close to that here[1]:

"I was too lazy to do it in awk because it would have been hard to get awk to jump through the hoops I was wanting it to jump through. I was too impatient to wait for awk to finish because it was so slow. And finally, I had the hubris to think I could do better."

[1]http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3394
Because they've taken VC money. Usually, even if a business becomes profitable investors do not want to wait out a long term approach or be involved in a "lifestyle" business.
> You can hold individuals responsible for misleading statements in financial disclosures notwithstanding the fact that individuals indisputably have free speech rights

I'm not sure you can be effective if you do it reactively with lawsuits; who can afford to sue a Wall Street bank? You need regulations and rules.

Also, the problem is not just misleading statements, but requiring that essential information is included, that it's expressed according to certain common standards, and that it's understandable to common people - not just to Wall Street bankers.

There's a long history of selling bad deals to widows and orphans by confusing them. Currently you can't sell certain things to non-professionals; if they have free speech, can you stop them?
While you are right that the pain of the compilation step is immense, I think you may not appreciate all the niceties we have in Clojurescript land that you have to do without in javascript land.
I did make a post on LinkedIn. Only one person replied saying "hire him!" and I only know him because I previously reached out to him (his company is mainly security IT stuff). He did a presentation in my ACM club. All my "friends" (people with whom I worked on projects across multiple classes) and university network basically are not communicating with me. It's really disheartening, since I did help classmates with some things and was always positive.

I've also asked my neighbors (software dealing with Oracle), electrician, and friends of family. No one can provide anything concrete, besides stating "it's easy to find a job."

Honestly, it's more disheartening to learn you have no network when you thought you did.
Hey, you need to white list yourself personally on Microsoft's network for your servers IP's.

It's a sneaky bastard of a link to find but I dug it up for you: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/getsupport?oaspworkflow=...

Look at that address... I bookmarked it for when we had to do it for GamerDating.com a while back.

Anyway that will sort you out for MSN/Hotmail/Outlook etc.

AOL I have no clue.

Good luck.
How do you handle credit card integrations, any repos I can look at? I can help you with easily integrating the former by the way, no reason not to get integrated payments.
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Discrimination is, AFAIK, only illegal if it's against or impacts workers on the basis of a few specific issues (race, sex, pregnancy, etc). I don't see salary histories fitting the bill, do you?
Wow. Thanks, I learned a lot from this.
The ratios for these calculations only include participants. There are seven billion humans, the vast majority of whom are either not old enough to trade or not in regions where they can actually participate in trading (in the speculative, not investing sense). Of those even eligible to trade, most do not engage in it in any kind of intentional capacity, let alone professional.

There are not seven billion traders. At any time in the United States the number of funds is in the thousands. Adding in other countries, and being generous with the term "trader" (or "investor", "fund manager", etc), I would be willing to agree that there have been millions over the past two decades (the same time frame as some of the track records I've mentioned). What does that leave us with? We're still orders of magnitude away from the successes we observe emerging due to chance. The numbers just aren't there.
>I could be totally off but, if all the intervals were integer based would this problem go away?

No.

Even if you represent date ranges as pairs of integer timestamps in UTC (for consistency) you now need to do annoying and possibly bug prone casting and converting. Remember, code not written is bug free. Those tests won't write themselves. Also think of N dimensions; those come up often and are hard to handle with this input type.

The moment someone needs a pair of GPS coordinates that are doubles you're SOL. Which incidentally is a common situation with interval trees: find things in a viewport, intersecting roads, etc.

Even the tree itself is actually generic. You could build on a red black tree and using generics use an internal data type to order the tree with some extra book keeping and thus use the same underlying tree implementation for, say, an ordered set structure, interval trees, etc.

You can do this all now with error prone casting. I don't know if you've done Java pre generics but it is a vastly more error prone world than post generics Java.

Incidentally the lack of these other structures leads to lots of OrderedXYZTypeSet type code in our codebase that are generated to avoid cssting.

With generics we'd not only have one implementation for all types, but we'd likely open source it since the broader Go community could use it and add additional useful types and functions.

Go has very few built in data structures which exacerbates this problem. It at least partially has so few because the generics support in maps and slices etc. is basically a special cased hack since it's not baked into the language and is thus likely hard to maintain.
I've read a bit into econophysics. In stat mech, the exchange of energy between atoms is assumed to be random. When the exchange of energy is random, the resulting distribution of energies is a Gibbs distribution, which means that the probability of atoms with higher energies falls off exponentially.

The application is that if you replace energy with money, and atoms with people, then the same equations hold for a model of people who randomly exchange money. Therefore if investments were truly random, you would expect the distribution of investors' wealth to follow an exponential distribution, not a power law! This directly contradicts the article.

Interestingly enough, the bottom 99% follows an exponential distribution, while the top 1% follows a power-law, and the transition is very sharp (eg, wealth plots have a "kink" in them).

Brief introduction to econophysics for the mathematically inclined:
https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.3662
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Yes, I have used the Hololens. It's technically impressive, and the structured light-based environment mapping seems to work well. It's easily the best of the AR bunch that I've played with, but it's still got far too many problems to get past the interesting tech demo stage, and it's nowhere near ready for mainstream adoption. The display quality is somewhere just north of flaming garbage, and it's certainly nowhere near the type of quality they've shown in those CG heavy videos.

I understand that AR and VR are very different challenges, I was simply comparing them as two nascent techs that are frequently talked about together as being upcoming. VR is much closer to being ready for primetime, despite Hololens' release. Even the Oculus DK1 was closer to ready for mass adoption.

And most of /r/oculus would vigorously debate your last sentence since Touch came out, which makes that sentence completely false. I say this as a Vive owner, Touch has taken away the Vive's main advantage.
Exactly, the UKF and EKF filters are very highly optimized for memory size and computation while dealing with noisy measurements non-linear and difficult to compute functions. They certainly don't require normally distributed errors.

That makes them applicable to a wide range of embedded applications. As generalized ML tools, I'm pretty doubtful unless you wanted to create something in hardware as a large set of coupled noisy state-spaces.

http://ethw.org/First-Hand:The_Unscented_Transform
> Regulating what questions I can ask (i.e. my speech) is a restriction on my freedom.

I don't believe this type of question has ever been held to be political speech, so the government isn't bound to protect it. Allowing employers extra power to depress wages isn't in the interest of the government, or the employees. There are more parties interested in opposing this type of power imbalance than maintaining it, so it's being banned. Democracy isn't meant to protect you money.
>Is lying really the behavior we want to incentivize?

Oh gosh. You make it sound bad that way!
It's not 'lying', it is 'strategic disinformation'.
This is well covered by Charles Ellis: The stock market has changed dramatically since the 70s, when most money was invested with almost no information. Getting key information well ahead of the market was relatively easy. A lot of people made a lot of money then, until the amount of 'smart' money rapidly increased.

It's still possible to get better returns than average on the market: After all, most of congress does this. But the one way to do it is precisely like congress does, by having information that the market is unaware of.

This is what make people move money into venture capital: It's a way to invest into things most of the market is unaware of, and whee the number of players is small enough that it's still possible to get privileged information.

Buffet's current plan is only doable because he has access to more information, and has such a gigantic bundle of money that any effort to get an edge will be multiplies by investment size.

Where does the wealth of the richest people in the world come from? Tremendously risky bets, going heavily into a single, extremely successful venture that they had special access to. But what makes their ventures win, vs those of second players that did badly in the same industry? Non replicable things, distributed in a way you could call luck.
>who can afford to sue a Wall Street bank

Probably investors or rich customers who get screwed by these statements or a band of normal folks in a class action lawsuit
What does Pixie itself actually run on then?
dropchain.tech
No big company is perfect, so trust is a relative judgement. It's also somewhat based on values, so we may think have different opinions. For example, I would trust MS more than Oracle, or one of the big cable companies.
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> you just confirmed what keeps people from uderstanding this truth: confirmation bias.

More like just world falacy in this case.

It's everywhere in all things social. Some religions even incorporate it (Hinduism, Buddhism and Calvinism come to mind)
Were Einstein's thought experments not science? There was no data.
With a username like "llllllllll" I don't think pronunciation is his concern.
The principles you raise require a relationship where parties have relatively equal power.

For example, if the CEO of a Fortune 500 company pushes a janitor for sex, you can say the janitor has the "free choice" to deny the CEO, but that's not really the case. If a high-profile coach tells one of their team members to do something inappropriate, the college kid has the 'free choice' to say no, but not really.

This rule is actually the law; the validity of contracts depends in part on the relative power of the parties who negotiated it. A bank can negotiate a contract with a naive person which sells the bank all the the person's possessions for $1, but no court will enforce it.
The State itself can sue the banks for those misleading statements, e.g.: https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/enf-actions-fc.shtml
Fair point, my misinterpretation.
Of course the Chinese economy is gigantic, the Economist is not disputing that. The question is recent trends, and it is in fact terribly hard to get reliable data on that.

>I don't see China slowing down in the near future, at least no in the next decade.

The Chinese government, from the top down, has been saying for years that the economy is slowing down.
If I want to help my Country, I need to go out, get blasted on ale, and then take out a credit card on the way home, preferably a loan. This would be the only thing that I could do to improve my countries economy and apparently, our Economy is in good shape (just ignore health, social care, pensions, energy, transport, education, ai and the aging demographic and viola).

What you just said, and what I just said, should be switched around and I think the primary reason why that isn't the case is because Credit Agencies now come with a "Public Bailout" parameter.

The entire system is just made up to suit those with the golden pens. Reality is long gone.
> I'd argue that everyone is Tribalistic, just people in bigger cities consider their tribe to be entirety of humanity because of exposure to so many different types of people

I love the optimism of this notion. I may be jaded and cynical, but I fear that 'big city people' see their tribe to be other 'big city people' rather than the entirety of humanity. I came from a small town to a variety of big cities, and have met more people who are proud of having made that transition than those who retain a deep loyalty to the kind of people they left behind.
Yes. The point is that corporations' new 'free speech rights' may interfere with that.
it seems to me that he considers (post-brexit) Britain one of his most important political and ideological allies. (pure speculation because there was this whole "Churchill Trump" thing in the news today). Would love to hear what others feel is the strategy if there is one. Europe (German speaking news) doesn't know what to predict.

On the upside social media has been a real joy today. The usual political hate was somehow replaced by the energy of the womens march that has taken over at least my personal feed! There still is hope.
For a partial solution, have a look at "sandbox -X" (man 8 sandbox).
Since you don't like my comment, if you read some of the other comments in this thread, you'll see that the model built in this article actually isn't reasonable at all (as I said). A small percentage of investors have achieved results that aren't possible through pure luck. So you are, in a word, wrong. Thanks for the downvote though.
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today its a glitch. in 3 months there will be an executive order demanding that every twitter account follows trump potus.
Yes, even SanFran/SiliValley prices do not surprise Chinese visitors to the US. They're only shocked you get an entire house for that price, and that the houses are so old!
The best ORM ever, F#'s FSharp.Data.SqlClient. A very thin layer that let's you statically program in SQL in your app. But I typically just use Functions/Stored Procs. But sometimes, for one off things and experimentation it can be nice to write SQL directly in your app.
There are a few things preventing it from being an effective database for general-purpose content:

- "bespoke" data storage [1]

- originally optimized for small amounts of data [2]

v3 made progress on both of these fronts but see [3][4]

[1] https://github.com/coreos/etcd/issues/2647
[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/etcd-dev/store/et...
[3] https://coreos.com/etcd/docs/latest/faq.html#deployment
[4] https://coreos.com/etcd/docs/latest/op-guide/hardware.html
Interesting! I had a similar thoughts, but didn't want to start from scratch (I include Electron in this definition). Instead, I went with implementing it as a Atom package to leverage its community and other text-editing features. See https://github.com/viddo/atom-textual-velocity
> held to be political speech

Freedom of Speech extends well beyond just political speech.

It protects all forms of speech. Where did you get the idea that only political speech ought to be protected? Under your theory, who gets to determine what constitutes political speech?

Is my freedom to criticize a religion protected? Or is that kind of speech not protected as it does not fall under your definition of "political speech"?