skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's fair that people can make money from having 'perfect' knowledge of the market. I don't buy into the efficient market hypothesis.

I can point out many significant inefficiencies in the system - E.g. Nepotism (allocating employee rank and pay based on social connections instead of skills/results), executive bonus structures which favor short-term gains over long-term gains, monopolies which make companies complacent and employees less productive, other anti-competitive behaviours - These factors allow large, inefficient companies to beat competitors in the market in spite of significant internal inefficiencies.

Anti-competitive behaviour will probably always exist in the markets; it's part of human nature and it's basically universally accepted except in the most extreme cases (E.g. antitrust cases).

Maybe if humans become smarter and more psychopathic (like in the novel 'Atlas Shrugged'), then we could have an efficient market, but right now, I think it's very far from efficient.

Maybe it's efficient on a human psychological level (from the perspective of an average trader/investor) in that there is some sort of universal consensus about the value of everything. The problem is that this consensus is not rooted in reality but on a superficial, socially-constructed representation of it - That means it's not necessarily efficient in terms of maximizing the output of companies and the happiness of their customers.
I agree that writing down stuff more is usually beneficial to everyone, but at times, it has felt like rehashing things that everyone who was present in person already knows, just for the benefit of remote people. That's a cost at times.
I never got bored with lunch for the two and a half years I worked downtown in SLC. Now that I'm in SF I am having a hard time finding replacements for some of my SLC favorites -- one advantage of a smaller city center is there's more variety in less walking distance. SLC has good Asian crossover, Chinese, Vietnamese, Mexican (good stuff like mole), American, Thai, Italian, hipster, burger, pizza, sushi, etc. options all close to each other. Some of that is fairly recent.
> they are what society has deemed worthy of forbidding.

Only if by 'society' you mean rich old rentseeking stay-at-home busybodies with nothing better to do than complain at town council meetings.

Edit: less snarkily put, the people doing the forbidding are not representative of society and are not acting in our collective best interests
You can have that. A freestanding home in a quiet neighborhood with a garden and space to park one car per family with affordable housing and high quality transit in reasonably dense urban development (150+ density, 2x that of the city of San Francisco) is possible. And it scales to millions of people, even tens of millions. But you need Japanese street geometry. That means small blocks and really narrow streets. Really narrow like 4-5m wide streets making up 80% of all street kilometers in your city. That's 4-5m building line to building line with no sidewalks because the entire street has to be shared.

It works, but it's no good for daily driving. You can get out of town in a car with some patience, but you're going to take the train in town.

If you can accept that, you can have it all. But no American city has made that choice.
"Every two blocks" is a bit much for anything but the densest of high-density areas. Even the convenience stores aren't clustered that closely in my city's downtown.
why do people in the ethereum community throw around the phrase "turing complete" with such abandon? can't you just say that you can create smart contracts with contingent on conditions? I don't see what this has to do with a turing machine besides the fact that you can script if-else in a contract?
"why do people still work 40+ hour weeks"

Mostly it's about upbringing. People are taught to have expectations for themselves and they strive to fulfill them. 15h would be bare subsistence for most, and that's not good enough. The minute they can live their expectations without work they usually check out; e.g. 45 year old "retired" government workers bankrupting their muni/county/state with union negotiated pensions.
Yes I already responded that you are correct to the exact same comment on 200 days vs 2000 hours an hour before your comment.

I posted a link to exactly the salary information you are referring to in my unedited comment. They do not match those in the parent comment.
All of these suggestions apply to coding too!

I wish email writers would spend a bit more time on composition. I do realize code lives a lot longer than an email does, but if they put in just a fraction of the effort a programmer spends on structuring code, it would make email a lot better.
Snowden wasn't the first to try to expose unconstitutional behavior. Many have tried to "go through proper channels" and they all were ruined and nothing changed.

Snowden spoke the truth with nothing to gain.

I watched NSA director James Clapper lie to congress. It was said that he didn't review the questions he was sent in advance of his hearing before congress. He didn't have to answer. Do you think it likely he didn't look at the questions before appearing before congress? Really?
He refused to answer other question hearing, he could have refused that one.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/mar/11/...

As for fleeing to Russia; he was transiting through Russia when US revoked his passport, stranding him there.

Rosa Parks broke the law AND did the right thing.
Were you buying these options throughout they year, or just near earnings?
You probably won't see this, but Scott Adams and I are not the only ones to notice this. Stay on the right side of the narrative, though; you wouldn't want to run afoul of the powers that be.

https://freedomandfulfilment.com/twitter-censorship-free-spe...
Would have been more interesting if we were looking at a liquid helium fluidyne engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidyne_engine
It's possible, but almost inevitably, the "strategy" employed backfires, and the trader loses everything. One that comes to mind is Brian Hunter[1], formerly of the now defunct Amaranth Advisors hedge fund. Hunter was viewed as a sort of wunderkind, but he had a natural gas position (I've heard the initial position was between $1B and $2B, but I don't know specifics) go south, and rather than sell off and accept the losses, he doubled down and sank the firm. Margin calls ensued (of up to $6B) that could not be met and assets ended up being sold off for pennies on the dollar. (I previously worked for a firm that bought a large chunk of Amaranth's assets).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Hunter_(trader)
Yes. Of course.

Communication failure is the #1 cause of technology project failures.

Communication failure is insidious because there are no warning signs or alarms that it happens. In fact, in most cases, even after the death of a project there is no serious examination of the communication failures that caused it.

I love management. I love being a manager. I love being the guy who is responsible when things go wrong but has nothing to do with things going well.

But technology development has changed that game. It's basically flipped the idea of manager upside down. It will be quite a while for the rest of us to adapt to the change.
Fruits and vegetables give you the feel-good factor
"creativity" in Arts and Sciences (like academia in general) is driven by a silly popularity game.

It is as BS as are lives across the spectrum. Far off mountains appear hospitable indeed.
A leak in Slack seemed to indicate a while back that there's a Verizon "team" at Apple. My guess is they are incredibly closely integrated on the update process so Verizon can simply rubber stamp the final releases.
Flush from its Trump-bump, ProPublica is staffing up to cover the president
The ‘March for Science’ is gaining mainstream momentum
What Twitter should do is extraordinarily obvious.

They should get very lean. Their platform has real value, which is why they're not disappearing in terms of use. There is also no replacement for what they provide and how they provide it, as of now.

At $2.4 - $2.6 billion in annual sales, they should be generating $600 to $800 million in net income. It's an absurdity of mismanagement that they're not. Their margins should be extremely high. At that level of net income, they can sustain a ~$20 billion market valuation and remain fully self-sustaining while they focus on growth + product.

They built Twitter as if it was going to be a juggernaut with high perpetual growth. They've been scaling back that structure very slowly, which is a mistake. They need to pull the band-aid off a lot faster, the crazy growth days are over.

If Wall Street doesn't give them a reasonable multiple on their new highly profitable structure, they should then work with perhaps a Ballmer + private equity + other insiders, to take Twitter private, where it can get out from under the Wall Street quarterly rat race.
Stock trading and software development aren't tasks I'd rate as difficult mental labor.

In fact, the reason such jobs are desirable, is specifically because they're actually kind of cushy.

Stock trading is a task that has been over-complicated mostly because investors need to engage in double-speak, so that motives for trades that lead to financial gain can be sufficiently obfuscated, when explained to auditors, judges, juries and regulatory officials. Behind the curtain of quants, it's really just a lot of grocery shopping.

Software development is mostly about stacking legos in ornate fashion. Bytes cobble together as building blocks. There are a variety of 256 different building blocks. The computers themselves, the syntax of the code, the methodology of data structures and loops, these aren't the hard parts. It's just plumbing.

Plumbing is probably a similar target of automation.
Even simple cellular automata can produce drastically different behavior given slight tweaks to simple rules, so I don't think that a small genetic delta rules out a large structural change.
We've been experimenting with Sococo at my office. It can share voice, screen, and video with multiple people. It's worked pretty well so far.
Now you said that, I wonder if it's a bug or a feature? :)
Or more recently Mark Fisher, who at least in one essay (to be honest, I've only read this so far but just bought another book; I'm much more familiar with DFW and agree with your analysis) suggests that depression is societal (https://theoccupiedtimes.org/?p=12841) and who killed himself.
About the PPK talk and tweet
This all seems to boil down to unstated expectations from both sides, which is a no-win situation. My last boss's attitude to people who wanted to work remotely was "You can do whatever you want as long as your work doesn't suffer or you don't end up disconnected", making it explicit than the onus is on the remote worker to fit in to the team.

scruple's boss should have told him that right at the interview stage, before a job offer is made. Maybe say that he expects scruple to turn up in the office for a few days every month. Or whenever a major decision needs to be made and scruple is out of the loop. Or have regular one-on-one meetings over video-conference with everyone in the team to remain connected, making up for his physical absence.

Whatever the details are, scruple's boss should have told me he'll need to make an extra effort to make up for his remote work, and both sides can then decide whether to go ahead with the job.

In the absence of that, both sides end up holding the other responsible for the problems, which is a no-win situation.
I still strongly believe it depends on the person. If learning programming is bad in video, companies like Udemy, or Treehouse won't find the success they are currently enjoying. Also, copying and pasting isn't an option for printed books unless they are ebooks, but still people buy printed books.
LEDs don't produce polarized light. You might be seeing the matrix scanning.
> I should merely have a right to my property being as smell, noise, and shadow free as it was when I bought it. I should /not/ have a right to anything more than that.

I feel like the other commenters are missing that this is the debate. If you choose to move in next to a concert venue, that's your prerogative. If one opens next door, this is when NIMBYism kicks in. Cities need to evolve, and existing owners speaking out against loud businesses or view-blocking skyscrapers or whatever it may be prevent this from happening. Whether this is virtuous or not is up for debate, but it's certainly a limiting factor.
This helps, but it's still kind of a problem if you have an "event space" that nobody ever visits outside of events. Portland's Rose Quarter is like this, for instance - in theory it's an entertainment district, but literally all that happens there is (a) scheduled events and (b) people crossing between transit lines, so most of the time most of the area is just a big expanse of empty unused concrete.
The thing is... they've tried a lot of this. They've paid developers to port to Windows Phone before. It wasn't enough. They'll practically give you free hardware if you tell them you're developing an app. Realize that Google and Apple do not give a crud about you if you develop an app for their platform. Microsoft will fall over itself trying to help you if you develop for their platform, even if you are a little guy making a little app.

Microsoft already HAS developed the ability for Windows Phones to run Android apps. (They actually sent me a free phone just to test the feature!) Sadly, they decided not to release it, and we don't really know why. It could have been that they were worried about developers settling for Android apps instead of making UWP apps. Or Google could've threatened them, which seems plausible too. (Android is kinda "open" source, where yes, it's open source, but Google will do underhanded things if you dare to use it in any way they consider a risk to their dominance.) I can tell you the Android Bridge for Windows Phone worked amazingly, and my demo unit phone still has that version of Windows on it.
The cities you mention all all what you'd call top-tier cities in Asia, all with significant municipal planning and zoning.

I'm talking in particular about cities which have little-to-no planning (look at 1-10m population non-capital cities through China, Indonesia, India etc.)

When we were living in Guangzhou we had to deal with constant blackouts, water stopping at least once a week. Our visits to friends in Hunan and surrounding provinces were practically the same experience.
This has to be the best amateur science write-up I have seen in years, maybe ever.
GNU social, and others.
Lol, no apologies needed. Unless you're Canadian, in which case it's customary. Wonder what those scientists would have to say about dark matter in the midst of a DMT bender. Can they get NSF funds for that?
"What I have learned, working here, is that smart, successful people are cursed. The curse is confidence."

Things to remember when smart people appear confident:

- the correlation between confidence and ability to actually "do" something can be low

- smart people can live in their heads

- smart people can overestimate their expertise in areas they may be familiar or ignorant of, equally

- street smarts can kick smart, smarts arse

A quick question I ask is, "Have you done this before?". I use this question to determine perceived verses actual smartness.

Here's an example of why you need to do this. Back in '10 I went on a 220km hike from 200 meters above sea level to 2,228 (about 7300ft). [0] I was with a mixed group of people, fit, smart and motivated. On the last day, mid point to the final destination, we took a photo at the summit of the highest point in Australia. Lots of smart people in that photo, PhDs, Masters students etc. By the end of the day, one suffered frost bite, three got lost and of the finishers who covered the entire distance, maybe 20% came away without some sort of injury. Why?

"Have you done this before?"

A lot of smart people ^thought^ running and riding then walking 30+Km/day was easy. A lot didn't think going into an alpine area in early autumn would be cold. The PhD with blue lips who I marched off the coldest place in Australia wore jeans and jumper, had taken a 600ml container of water and no food. [1] The three who sparked a search, decided to take break in a hut, but not inform anybody. [2] Now nobody really got hurt or lost. But they could have, had luck not been on their side. Smartness breeds a certain type of arrogance that left unchecked, can get you into trouble quickly.

Time and time again I remind myself, depending on the circumstances, "street smarts" whip "smart smarts'" arse.

Reference

[0] @samh, "Australian Economist who lost bet will walk from Parliament to Mount Kosciousko" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1126054 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1126078

[1] At the top the wind was 50km/hr and in fog. https://flickr.com/photos/bootload/4603144874/in/album-72157...

[2] Tail-end charlie (me) also missed checking inside the hut. https://flickr.com/photos/bootload/4797709801/in/album-72157...

[3] https://flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157624081287855

[4] https://flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157624081287855
“The Valentine Lover”
> While this week’s sharp temperature spike resulted from the arrangement of these intense weather systems, scientists say such spikes are probably becoming more frequent and intense. Rising greenhouse-gas concentrations are increasing average temperatures and shrinking Arctic sea ice. Earlier this week, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported January Arctic sea levels were the lowest on record.

This entire paragraph is why people deny global warming.

They admit we don't know if this is unusual. In fact we know it's a normal occurance, just it's 'probably' happening more often yet.... jump to Global Warming.

This is not science, this is politics and it's why people go hard the other way.
Twitter is the perfect case of a technology company that should have never gone public. They should have followed their valley peers with inflated valuations and no actual business and take private equity and foreign investment. Wall Street calls bullshit when they see it, and smart people short these types of companies. Silicon Valley doesn't provide a way to short these propped-up companies, they just continue to self-promote themselves on private equity and foreign investment. Wall Street is the most perfect market in the world.
I am constantly amazed at the ideas physicists will come up with to cast the universe as predictable and deterministic.
To be clear, I didn't say that you shouldn't care, or that you shouldn't ask people to keep you in the loop.

Three other people have responded to my last post. Please see those responses, since they address your points.
True, but not for a very long time.

The day someone that can make a robot to clean my bathroom and then make me a ham sandwich, I'll get worried.

In the meantime, other industries like sports, entertainment, tourism, etc. expand.

One are that will be the last to be automated is 'taking care of the elderly' - it's human-intense and that market is only expanding.
In practice, having lived a couple houses from one (as a renter), it's more a theoretical problem than a practical one.

Given that the two condos that sold near me (one next door, and one two doors away) went in the 300k-350k range, it doesn't seem to be depressing the property values much either.
> "There are 2 rules for success. Rule 1: Never tell everything you know. Rule 2:.. ;)"

In regards to this quote, this is why hedge funds are so protective of their "secret sauce". At a fund I worked for, I saw an employee sued in federal court for intellectual property theft 4 hours before he was terminated. Criminal charges followed a few months later. (Don't email source of a quantitative trading system to your personal email, lest you want to be jailed & unemployed and untouchable by the rest of the industry).
Everyone at work has been using https://room.co lately. Seems alright.
I saw these weird drapes folded around me that were brown, green, and white stripes. They were gently heaving, and I knew that they were living creatures that were watching over me. I didn't take enough to have a full breakthrough, but in that moment I was certain that I was dying, with all of my consciousness welled up into my head, as if that's all I was. When I came to and regained awareness of my limbs, I was relieved to feel tears on my face because I guess that meant I was still alive. For a couple of weeks I wondered if I really had died. The feeling was that strong. Now, I think that's absurd, but still a tiny part wonders...

The lesson learned was that I needed to start questioning my convictions more. Just "feeling sure" isn't enough to certain of something. I try to maintain a little bit of skepticism and doubt toward every thing these days.
Are there ways to optimize personal income taxes the same way corporations do? Can I create a shell person in the cayman islands and pay them the exact amount of my income and deduct my US income to $0?
You would prefer that Trump, a lifelong civilian, should ignore and override his experienced military advisors instead?
It's designed to engage from well beyond the ranges at which guns are effective. I'm not necessarily saying I agree with the choice of gun armament, but... yeah.
maybe generalizing to my situation, but if you are in a dense city then being 10 minutes away from your job is being 10 minutes away from any job.
why does your "press" link to a public dropbox folder for branding material? this is all so amateur
No apologies needed, we get it right. :)
Twitter is a tragedy of the commons type scenario.

It's an amazing way to connect, but ultimately it's a loudspeaker for loudmouths. It needs to die.
Daniel P Friedman: A Celebration
Regarding what prompted the post, its probably not coincidence that the subject of liquid helium pumps came up in a Worldbuilding Stack Exchange question earlier today: http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/70788/how-c... .
The homepage says "Goodbye" and has a shutdown notice so it's probably not the best alternative... Do you know any similar services still operating?
Show HN: Easy to understand intro to Python
It's even mentioned in the FAQ:

"The other kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down, then fall steadily, and only one should be on the front page at a time."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Not sure how it works on cloudformation, but in the console and API you have to explicitly skip the final snapshot.
So, assuming you mean to imply that DMT "insects" are real creatures composed of dark matter, such a being would still be affected by Earth's gravity if it was nearby, even if it couldn't interact with our "normal" matter at all. This seems to imply that it would be pulled through the surface of the earth, towards the center.

So if any of you see intelligent insects walking around on your next DMT trip, ask them how they keep from being sucked into the planet.
There's a shutdown notice on their homepage...
From alcoholic to web developer
Most of the high-density areas in Portland have a majority of buildings with ground-level retail and restaurants. With that said, most of that is buildings of 5-10 stories, though there are scattered high-rises with ground-floor retail, including a few where the inside lobby is open to the public and is effectively a small mall with convenience stores, small restaurants, etc.
It can be represented as a hierarchical structure as long as the relationships are simple. In any of his examples if you added a number of extra relationships to complicate what is there, the hierarchical structure becomes a generic graph.