skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think testing for 4 months proves your bot is better than the hundreds of serious players that spend millions on the smartest talent and the best tech tying to eek out an edge?

How are you determining true alpha? We're in a bull market. Don't mean to sound harsh but this could be blind luck.
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You just send my sides in orbit!! Read the OUG 13/2017

http://www.dreptonline.ro/legislatie/oug_13_2017_modificare_...
FedEx's new service takes aim at Amazon
Paypal to Force Sellers to Give It Equal Representation as Payment
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JavaScript is often a context I want to switch out of.
Exclude all the audio and video data streamed over the internet, as well as the contents of torrent traffic and other data useless to the panopticon (just keep the metadata), and I'd imagine the amount of data you'd be left with would be very possible for the US government to store.
Is protocol v1 something that existing users can migrate to with just a client library swap, or is it a rewrite effort?
Please don't be uncivil in comments here.
Well, education as a public good had a nice run. Not that it has been in particularly good shape in this country, but we have blueprints from other countries on how to improve it.

Instead we have a completely inexperienced person in control of $60bil+ because she paid off Congress. Seems par for the course these days.
The core Facebook iOS team built the news feed in ComponentKit. ComponentKit (Objective C++) was inspired by React:

http://componentkit.org/

" Something in a language that is more optimisable and works everywhere, like Lua with C extensions, or OCaml, or Java. JavaScript is hard to get predictable performance from and HTML is extremely complex,"

React Native is not based on WebViews/HTML. It uses a virtual DOM on top of native views:

https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/optimizing-performance...

"React builds and maintains an internal representation of the rendered UI. It includes the React elements you return from your components. This representation lets React avoid creating DOM nodes and accessing existing ones beyond necessity, as that can be slower than operations on JavaScript objects. Sometimes it is referred to as a "virtual DOM", but it works the same way on React Native."

This is quite different from similar Javascript based efforts such as Cordova.
> "...and nothing from the leaked Snowden material is evidence."

RNG
I think I'll try that. Every time the lag happens I'm surprised by just how slow the app feels.
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"Over a third of the Fortune 100 and many of the most successful and innovative web companies rely on MongoDB. "

taken from their page : https://www.mongodb.com/mongodb-scale

This should give people some insight on why MongoDB is being used in the industry.
Yes, he was more or less discarded by the same people who previously hailed him as a 'God' when he was saying something positive about immigration.

Interesting how people work sometimes.
>"Hedge funds have customers because the majority of them don't beat the market in the long run"

Interesting do you have any data to look at regarding that? How do they justify their 2 and 20 then?
During Ceaușescu's final speech he offered to raise the salary of workers by 200 lei per month to placate the rebelling crowd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceau%C8%99escu%27s_final_speec...
For comparison:

https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-md

https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-ent

These boxes are better options if you plan to run such nodes for 3+ months.
Lots of hyperbole in your statement. Indeed lists 6200 job listings for mongodb[1], 37 for rethinkdb[2].

[1] https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=mongodb&l=
[2] https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=rethinkdb&l=
> Money paid into social security is only for your retirement if you're scheduled to retire before social security is scheduled to become insolvent.

You'll get Social Security benefits after retirement for as long as the SSA is around. It may not be the exact that dollar your employer is putting away for you now, but you'll get back something.
Hehe good one
I read the other day that here in Costa Rica the health care 'caja' has 1 employee per 85 people, it's more like working there is the plan. I can't wait to see what Watsi does next.
And what if the CA is simply giving away the keys to the NSA? The NSA could then sign as anyone they wanted to.
This is an aside, but why did the author prepend Emacs with GNU every time?

From my understanding, GNU Emacs is a specific flavor of Emacs (which is a general class of editor). From wikipedia, it's the most common flavor of Emacs. Is it not generally understood that Emacs implies GNU Emacs? Would it not be sufficient to introduce the article with, "... Emacs -- specifically, GNU Emacs -- ..." and then carry on with Emacs elsewhere?

It seems needless, or even pedantic, but maybe I'm missing something?
As of 2011, GCHQ stored their full-take for 3 days and metadata for 30 days. Do you believe they haven't increased capacity in the past 6 years?

Again, the discussion comes down to evidence versus reasoned speculation. Evidence of intelligence agency activity is generally pretty tough to come by.
I'm reading the New Michael Lewis book right now, on kahneman and tversky, and there's a point where the notion of encoding similarity as distances is first very popular, but then torn apart in the sixties.

Essentially, it comes down to statements like 'this woman is like Queen Elizabeth' being different from 'Queen Elizabeth is like this woman.' human perception of similarity is assymetric. Tversky's suggestion is that we essentially think if things as a collection of tags, and A is like B if A's tags are mostly a subset of B's tags. But if B has more tags (because it's a specific thing that we know a lot about, for example) then B's tags won't mostly be a subset of A's tags, creating the asymmetry.

This directly attacks the kind of similarity that word2vec relies on, and I'm wondering if there are critiques along these lines on the literature.
I'd rather not disclose the exact capital for personal reasons, but every month has been profitable so far.
How many cars today can do 500 miles of range? My hatchback gets 40+mpg but only lasts 350 miles on a tank. My SUV gets around the same.

You might get some diesels going that far, but 500 miles is not really common among gasoline engines. I'm not sure why that's your metric for a quality electric car.
I'll get spanked here for sure, but he is right. Facebook did it too, got caught, and admitted it. Half of what I read in the collection of comments looks as credible as fake news. FYI I watch CNN AND Fox. Left and right obviously. Regarding political matters, I deem Fox more credible. They show more of the actual info. CNN has been caught multiple times editing at the perfect moment to change the meaning.
"You can't add too much water to a nuclear reactor"
Well, there's a (hopefully) easy way to solve this problem: submit a FOIA request for the missing data, and post it publicly.

Does anyone know of a place to post such things?

Edit: To be clear, I think there is no good reason for this to be hidden behind a FOIA wall. But, assuming that we're stuck with the FOIA wall...
Get rid of drag and drop and arrange the grid either LIFO or FIFO instead. Let users rearrange the notes after creation. This promotes getting a thought down without distraction while preserving arrangement for a reflection period. Make this awesome please.
"legalize bribes lower than $50k"
If you had bothered reading OUG13/2017 you would have found out that a case regarding a lower than 50k becomes a civil case and the damaged is recovered by the state.
Honestly read the ordinance and stop making propaganda for PNL/USR or whatever party you want.
> To improve readability of our product range, we're changing the naming convention of our cloud servers. Our new servers are called X64-60GB and X64-120GB. The starter cloud servers, the VC1, will be renamed at the end of the preview to follow the new convention.

I'm all for this, the names have never made sense to me.

But `X64-60GB` has 10 cores, and `X64-120GB` 12. I think it's certainly conceivable that someone pick whichever for the core count; not (just) the amount of RAM.

Why not `10X64-60GB` and `12X64-120GB`?

Then there won't be problems again if a future type, `10X64-120GB` under this scheme say, is offered.
The author considers speed of light being the absolute, irrevocable certainty, but how does he know that?

Does he know _why_ c is constant? Had he mastered general relativity enough to be 100% sure that it can't vary in time or space? Or that our current understanding of physics is total and there absolutely can't be something that we don't know about speed of light?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-variation_of_fundamenta...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_speed_of_light
this has been submitted many times already in the past few days, biggest discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13576921

Please check for duplicates before submitting!
How is that any different from any other ToS? How do you define extortion?
Succinct and accurate.
The EFF is right, but the relevance of the TOS violation is more subtle than the EFF's explanation makes it out to be. Using someone's property without their consent is, of course, a crime. When that property is ordinarily available for public use, consent is presumed, but can be revoked. It's can be criminal trespass to remain in a store after you're kicked out (although usually it's just civil trespass).

Here, "Oracle sent Rimini a cease and desist letter demanding that it stop using automated scripts. It did not, however, rescind Rimini’s authorization to access the files outright." So the question is, was the implied consent to use Oracle's servers effectively revoked?

Arguably not. A public mall can get you kicked off the property for any reason, and can press charges for criminal trespass if you don't leave. But it can't press charges for criminal trespass for violating the sign on the door that says "no hats." And it probably can't press charges for criminal trespass if it sees you wearing a hat and tells you to take it off, but doesn't kick you off the property.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13576921
C# doesn't have unified call syntax, it has extension methods. You're right in that they do allow you to write a function that takes an argument and call it as if it wasn't on that argument, but it doesn't have UCS generically, just as a special case.
No one is debating the first claim. We are debating the second claim which was absurd and completely unambiguous

> He thought Hillary Clinton was going to kill him if he said he was planning to vote against her

You are lying (again). How is this constructive? Intellectual dishonesty swings both ways. You would call me out if the tables were turned. You are better than this.
What you're referring to as Emacs is actually GNU Emacs, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Emacs.
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I think the public school system in this country is terrible. Personally excited to see some radical changes and ready to give this a chance.

Too much bureaucracy, institutionalization, unionization and inertia going on. Extremely strange and inconsistent funding/taxation patterns and complete lack of oversight or accountability has been the norm for 30+ years.
Ossert, a Ruby gems ranking system utilizing an Open-Source Maturity-like model
Yes. Development is very active.

https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-joins-linux-foundation/
While I think I can appreciate your sentiment in general (esp. technology) discussion, in this case it is really misplaced.
It is arguable if more liquidity is a good or a bad thing from some sides, but I'm not sure how HFT increasing liquidity was ever a question? It is a matter of volume and there is more automated than non-automated volume in most equities and futures exchanges.
I think in a democracy there should be some group of state attorneys who are not just allowed, but mandated to prosecute the law to the fullest extent possible.

For example, if Congress has a law making ToU violations crimes, then there should be a select few DAs who are required to go out and prosecute people who enable AdBlock and visit a certain site. And it should always start with legislators if possible. See how fast stupid laws go away.
Sure it is! You know that, due to the sort of thing you're doing, you ought to try to be careful. But you make the decision not to.

Think about driving. I can easily imagine making the conscious decision to simply not drive very carefully--whether for fun, because there's an emergency, because I want to hurt people, etc.

You might think of it as analogous to willful ignorance. You know that there is something you ought to know, but you make a decision to either not seek the knowledge out, or to insulate yourself from it.
I have a feeling there's a joke here I don't understand.
This sounds to me like they were tracking your IP.
They don't separate national security from law enforcement. They _say_ they do, but they don't.

Parallel construction is when an intelligence agency tips off law enforcement about some nefarious actor (like say, Ross Ulbricht) and then LE has to construct a plausible scenario where their hard-boiled detectives tracked down the bad guy through traditional police work, not through spying on American citizens.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/05...
I call troll. Also, I saw a story VERY similar to this one on Reddit two weeks ago.
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I suppose you could take [0,1] \cup Z, and put a uniform measure on that set.
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As a somewhat extreme case, the rationals (Q) are unbounded but their measure is 0, hence finite.
It doesnt matter what were they initially designed in some abstract sence. Nobody would question that those 2 are primarilly editors and that it is their most important function - editing and navigating text (and along, text interfaces). That means that vim must be better as its workflow is more efficient for that (thanks to the 2 modes and speed that object motion combinations give) and more healthy (without producing RSI which means I can physically do vim more time then emacs, a point mostly ignored by people ).

Both can do basically anything nowdays so the argument of particular workflow suiting better different people does not hold. Its just that some people dont want to invest time into learning vim because vim on-boarding is probably the hardest compared to any other editor. There are maybe some other aspects involved for some people (like lisp vs viml) but those can safelly be ignorred as non important in majority of casses.
REI is an interesting example. It's a co-op in name, but the employees don't have much representation at the top. (See: http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/07/11/24328725/rei-work...).

There are lots of great companies that are employee-owned (the Winco chain of grocery stores comes to mind), but I'm not aware of any in the tech startup world.

I'd love to know about market research companies with an employee-owned model! If you know of any specifically, let me know. Google doesn't seem to be of much help.
Mattermost is the one thing listed above that I don't use. What do you see as the differences between team and project chat? I've always seen Gitter as chat with one room per repo; on the other hand, I've also never had a team chat.
You only need basic knowledge of physics to see why a high performance car without large radiators would overheat when expending a ton of energy per unit of time. Sadly a lot of people here lack it.
Love the ambition. Bring some transparency, reduce fraud, use technology to reduce cost where possible. Great idea, hope it works.

I'm skeptical it could reduce healthcare costs significantly simply because of the massive effort required to change the healthcare behemoth in even small ways. However, given the exorbitant costs of healthcare (currently paying $1800/month for a family of 4), it's worth certainly trying.

Is there a time frame on this experiment?
Right out of the box? Mongodb has been trying to get it right for 10 years now. Kyle says the storage engine they've used for most of that lifetime is fundamentally flawed, and they've only now, a decade on, managed to write something without known bugs to replace it. And maybe this time it's ok. Maybe this time there aren't any more layers of buggy crap in mongo yet to be found and fixed.

Maybe. But you'd have lost that bet if you made it any day in the last 10 years. And in those 10 years mongodb has demonstrated again and again that they aren't up to the task of writing a reliable database. Even with their new storage engine they couldn't find the bugs alone.

I think using mongo today for any mission critical data is an irresponsible choice. I'd seriously question the judgement of any senior engineer who picks it for a new project over rethinkdb or Postgres.
I would imagine - I haven't taken the unit apart.
I'd have more time to optimize at these lower levels if I wasn't stuck babysitting C++ codebases to protect them from and fix their undefined behavior.
Too bad Dart has fallen so far out of fashion.
When you say 'just', would you expect it to be even faster? Does the 7z benchmark not favour multicore machines or vast RAM?

10-15% corresponds pretty directly to the GHz difference - according to @lossolo [0] these are 2.2GHz; your 2.5GHz is about 14% faster.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13591040
If you compete only on coding skills, sure. But introduce software architecture skills and you become a bit more unique. Throw in excellent communication skills and ability to configure and maintain a CI/CD process and you're rare as rocking horse poo.
Absolutely not. As I mentioned in the interview, the progress so far is not by any means a reliable metric and there are many factors that affected it. 4 months is not nearly enough to prove that and so far the bot works well on a very specific niche market. While there may be infinite other better approaches, this is yet another working one, which doesn't necessarily yield the best possible result. I understand your point of view and I completely agree with it.
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Let's assume your algorithm moves the market: 1) This is not a big problem: Lots of machine learning and control theory involves dealing with feedback loops. 2) If it moves the market in a predictable way, you can use this to make money.

The Western world is capitalist, not a Platonic ideal. Even if you strongly feel that people should have different reasons to invest, you will not be able to sway them (unless you can show that your alternative makes them even more money).

If you claim that long-term outperforming of the market is highly unlikely, you contribute outperforming to short-time flukes: The stock market is essentially unpredictable or in perfect equilibrium.

Unpredictability implies all these hedge funds would do better consulting random number generators, instead of well-paid quants.

Equilibrium implies the current market is operating at maximum efficiency, yet one currently makes money by exploiting non-equilibrium and erroneous evaluations.
I guess this is in relation to the following clause?

In representations to your customers or in public communications, you agree not to mischaracterize PayPal as a payment method. At all of your points of sale (in whatever form), you agree not to try to dissuade or inhibit your customers from using PayPal; and, if you enable your customers to pay you with PayPal, you agree to treat PayPal’s payment mark at least at par with other payment methods offered.

So my interpretation is that this is to avoid merchants from pushing cheaper payment methods by saying negative things about PayPal or making it harder to find or use. I'm not sure this is as dramatic as the title makes out. Am I missing something?
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As with most events that have occurred since Trump took the presidency, I am concerned, but optimistic. She has my full support, I hope she makes great changes to a system that desperately needs it.
Yes, we can only hope the Senate doesn't poison the bill again. The EFF supports the bill as passed by the House.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/fight-over-email-priva...
And the State of the Union address was delivered in written form to Congress for more than the first century after the Constitution was ratified. Hoover was the last to never give a speech for the State of the Union.
Google, Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Intel and Uber Take Legal Action Against Trump
That's cheeky... AFAIK PayPal does absolutely jack shit for sellers other than give them the money they rightfully earned... sometimes

Now they demand equal representation?
What is the topic of the website, if you don't mind?
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Cool and interesting. I'm not very familiar with Watsi, but is its innovation mainly in business processes for healthcare non-profits - mainly improving information and resources flows?
Love seeing Clojure getting more usage and exposure. The more companies that use it, the more people will give it a chance, and it hopefully snowballs from there. Selfishly, this also means there's more of a chance I'll get to use it in my career.

It is easily the best language/platform I have used, and it is a joy to work with, Leiningen and Figwheel especially. Being able to use this wonderful language through the entire stack is a bonus. The drawbacks listed are real, but are getting better all the time. Spec goes a long way to improving error messages.
How many trades have you executed?
Tests failed because not in 2016
Perhaps equally or more interesting, what does one suppose is the effect of the following?

> We are adding the ability to create a negative balance in your PayPal account when we reverse a payment to cover eBay buyer protection claims that the seller loses.
From the episodes (I myself not being in the market for million dollar hybrid supercars), there's a significant amount of button pressing to have it go all-electric.

And I think only 2/3 even had that option.
> a government should be only focused on their campaign plan

Oh, boy!

I hope you never get in a managerial position and while you are at it read the ordinance

http://www.dreptonline.ro/legislatie/oug_13_2017_modificare_...
Honestly as a developer these cognitive service offerings are incredible powerful and easy to plug-and-play. I don't need (or want) to train an advanced machine learning model, but do I want to know the sentiment of incoming customer support emails. If it's easy, why wouldn't you?
I disagree in two ways: the first is that the ability to write template composition procedurally isn't specific to JSX. You can do that in plain js/hyperscript just as well.

The second point is precisely that this is procedural code. If the ability of putting together templates procedurally is the pinnacle of templating power/expressiveness, we might as well go back to Backbone.js.
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