skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This type of "web" would run perfectly over encrypted networks as well since it would carry much less data. It would solve the problem of cluttered/fluffy web and insecure/easily-surveilled communications.

Being realistic though, this would only serve highly functional computer users seeking simplicity and privacy.

A lot of internet users view "beautiful" webpages as a display of trustworthiness and importance. And that's a very important trait if you are a business.
One thing I'm curious about: is he actually sure the maze is solvable? I would guess the AI uses A* or something similar to solve and then gradually guides the characters along, but maybe it stumbles if it's unsolvable. Or maybe it gives up after some search depth
If there is an aws sponsored conference you talk to the organisers and see if they want to buy 1000 aws stickers for the goodie bags, for instance.
The comment I replied to specifically referred to the top 10%. The bottom 90% definitely aren't all receiving welfare. A $500 minimum for a Scottrade IRA account should be easily achievable for most in the bottom 90%.
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It depends. The city isn't great for locals, but the overseas investor sees different things. They look for stability and ease of entry. A good airport, reasonable immigration and stable house prices. Even the local efforts to stabilize prices through the new taxes are seen as safe in that they reduce the chance of a bubble burst. If you are looking for a place to park money in real estate, Vancouver is on the short list. If you are a local looking for work or wanting to start a business, that is a totally different story.
Another thing that kills off many investors is failing to understand the time value of money. For example, there was a recent reddit thread about a person saying she was climbing out of debt by paying off the lowest interest rate loans first and deferring the high interest loans until last.

I had to read it several times as I thought I was misreading it. I have many other anecdotes on that point, but that one takes the cake.
> RMS is more of a realist than people think.

> He considers his efforts to have been wildly successful.
I've come to realize that Hacker News for the most part is not a good forum for discussing the market. There seems to be a lot of disdain and calling it a "rigged" system that makes the rich richer. Just look at the comments at the bottom of this thread. That sort of mentality is ill-informed of finance and the market.

The market is not only for millionaires and billionaires. You can trade $6.95 on ETRADE now and can even trade for free with Robinhood. I actually hold about 80% of my holdings in ETRADE and 20% in Robinhood. I use Robinhood for buying smaller chunks of shares (lowering dollar cost average) or more risky smaller trades.

Savings accounts are stupid! They offer fractions of percent interest. Look at exchange-traded funds that track an index such as the S&P 500 or Nasdaq Composite. My personal favorite ETFs are the tried-and-true SPY and QQQ.

I wrote a blog post on Robinhood and leveraging capital using margin on my blog for those interested:

https://justink.svbtle.com/leveraging-capital-using-robinhoo...
One doesn't need to be married in order to be covered by the EU rights in question. Straight from the source:

"The following family members of an EU/EEA citizen or Swiss citizen, who is exercising his/her right to free movement in Denmark, or of a Danish citizen who is exercising or who has exercised his/her right to free movement in another EU/EEA country or Switzerland, has the right to have a visa application processed in accordance with EU regulations:

* spouse

* cohabiting partner aged 18 or over <----

* ..."

See https://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/coming_to_dk/visa/visas-unde....
> Android apps will at some point work on Windows Phone

Shines a whole additional angle on the "first-class Linux subsystem inside Win 10" efforts lately..
Not necessarily. Dry-stacked blocks require surface adhesion which can be dressed up anyway you want (e.g. smoothed and painted, make to look like stucco, etc).
There isn't much history taught. So each generation makes the same mistakes over and over again.
Except there is no graceful failure mode here.
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Yea, well. I just don't think we can continue this argument.
Sure, but given they are already planning on making massive changes to the bus schedule as well as light rail, might as well wait for BART to be in Milpitas before doing that, since it's supposed to be "this year".
I agree with your dim view of prohibition. It clearly makes thing​s much worse. In fact, I lean toward the extreme opinion that prohibition isn't merely counterproductive, prohibition is the entire problem. Furthermore, the notion of "drugs" and all that they represent is socially constructed; only a sliver of what is believed about drugs comes from the chemicals themselves; most of it is a tradition of myths that form a sort of secular religion, along parallel lines to belief in things like black magic and curses. Drugs are thought of as possessing evil and demonic properties; they are tainted with black magic, and consuming them brings the black magic into a person's body and causes them to commit evil acts, infects their minds and causes madness and irrationality, causes everything the person is connected to to self-destruct, and ultimately kills them. Unless, that is, they are able to break the hold of the magic, renounce drugs, and perform rituals of cleansing (getting "clean"), etc., to symbolically remove the magic and show that you have been reborn as a person who recognizes the terrible power of the black magic and now wants nothing to do with it. Except that the magic can never be completely washed off; you are now an "addict".

Anyway...
I've tried a couple stock "systems" of my own construction. Got my ass handed to me every time. They only worked on historical data :-)
What a hilariously misleading title.
A better name would've been TakeNoBullshit award. Because that is what which rots the world and Aaron tried to fight it to save others from being subjected to the same bullshit.

Like 2muchcoffeeman commented:

>>The award is clearly for people who are being disobedient for the benefit of society.
Breaking rules for the sake of breaking rules is just anarchy or trolling. You're just inconveniencing people who set out to recognise real contributions to society.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13848430
I don't think there is an exact term (and if there is I'm all ears), so the closest one I found pertains to onion routing[1], except instead of each layer being a different key, each layer is a different algorithm and a different key. I.E if you wanted to use algorithm X and algorithm Y, you could encrypt your plaintext with cyphertext_x = X(x_key,plaintext), and then cyphertext = Y(y_key,cyphertext_x). If X is terrible, Y still protects your data. if Y is terrible, X still protects your data. Note that the order in which X and Y are applied doesn't matter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing
Sure, but he wasn't exactly known for underestimating the scope of any drug-related problems. A better analogy would be that if Falwell says that gay marriage isn't responsible for causing hurricanes, you can probably take his word for it.
That is true. This is the reason the film industry has been rendering with motion blur for 30 years.
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Shortcat - https://shortcatapp.com - lets you access nearly all parts of Mac GUI from the keyboard.

Together with the 'Command + Shift + ?' help menu, you don't need a mouse.

There's a lot of good info here: https://github.com/orta/keyboard_shortcuts/blob/master/READM...
There are houses that are less than a half mile from the platform, yet no one in their right mind would walk that.
http://imgur.com/a/TUi8r

EDIT: I mean walk around under the Grimmer underpass, not dart across the freeway obviously.
Then I apologise, it must be an information 'hiding' issue then because they clearly flagged installing their own Authenticator and I was completely ignorant of the use of GA; GA must be the most popular authenticator? Does this all mean I can use a third-party auth for both MS and Google sites or is it only MS that supports third-party authenticators?
Apples response to Android was lawsuits over ridiculous things such as "having round corners" (and thus violating Apples design patent). They make a great product, but they're an absolutely terrible corporate citizen.
If you have to apply CSS to find elements with inline styles, I think you have a more serious problem.

And telling everyone that every one of their images must have an alt tag is draconian. Sometimes an image is purely decorative. Sometimes an image doesn't convey any more than the paragraph beside it. Often an alt tag is written in a perfunctory way, or even when it isn't, it doesn't truly make things better for the blind person. I think they should be at the writer's discretion.
Tax avoidance on capital gains since it can be added to your IRA. Also it would allow bitcoin to be purchased from any trading station in the US rather than a website you have to sign-up for
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They aren't different, just different dimensions. If you increase the frame rate you would need less temporal anti-aliasing. You can actually see noise artifacts in the motion blur of the first ice age movie (and many other places to be fair, like the slices in the transitions on Big Bang Theory).
-nw helps :)
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/
I love binging videos of people that are masters of their craft.
See virmundi's comment.

I've been able to make sizable returns by not buying when things were overpriced and then buying when they are under priced. This doesn't mean all of my money, but enough that it's worth the time.

The Brexit was a fantastic opportunity, I got in way late and still bought in at a 10% discount.

Historically when the market looks like this there's going to be a correction in the near term. With the pace of this bubble I'll be able to buy good companies at a massive discount.
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I applaud you, good sir. I've used Mac OS (classic) since a child, Windows since a teenager, and OS X sometimes at certain jobs. My most recent job rather forced me to use Linux... and now I find myself wishing for less and less GUI and more and more TUI.

Command lines really are far more intuitive to me than any GUI has been; my workflow in a software terminal is far more productive than any GUI application has ever allowed me to be.
Buy and hold indexes. That's the smart approach.

The only alternative that makes sense to me is to follow Peter Lynch's advice and buy what you know. Do this with money you can afford to lose.

When Apple released the original iPod I begged my Dad to buy me one and raved about it. Based on my excitement, he bought several thousand shares of aapl and still holds them. The gain on that single investment is greater than all the income he earned in his lifetime. You cannot expect to make these kinds of investments. Take a sliver of what you have and put it behind something you believe in. Put the rest in index funds.

Edit: I meant to tie this comment back to the original title about wealth disparity. Point being, my Dad has created generational wealth from a single lucky investment. It's just luck and a system that let's you keep your winnings.
I recently found this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/hmmm/ It's very good.
Buy and hold is an above average investment strategy. Many people panic sell in lows, and impulse buy in highs. They believe, implicitly, that they can market time.
I am amazed at the level of detail that Kubrick went into. Even after decades of movie's release there are hidden nuggets I keep finding. Absolutely brilliant.
There are people who do very well on in-person interviews, but do poorly in actual job performance. This article will not likely benefit them. On the other hand, there are people who do very poorly on in-person interviews, but do very well in on the job performance in rare situations that they somehow got hired. Those that don't get hired becomes lost opportunities for both hiring companies and the candidates.

The approach is similar to a consulting contract with option to hire. Getting a candidate working for a few weeks or even a few months on an actual work environment as if he was hired should give hiring managers the real deal about a candidate.

I don't think the specifics has to be the same, but the general idea or structure is important.

This looks like a very promising approach for getting the best possible team.

I agree that the article looks like a clickbait and that this will work with smaller subset of candidates. But I think this information is important and it should be out there.
The EFF must feel totally hopeless at this point. People are buying microphones with internet connections and sticking them in their homes. They're making the choice to buy "smart" IoT shit that spies on them. They're at a point of defending a major company selling that stuff, because they didn't instantly roll over when approached by law enforcement.

It's like... PETA complimenting a butcher on a clean kill. I don't blame them though... who knew the great battle over privacy would be lost before it even started, because people want their toaster to go online?
It's the classic content marketing approach of rehashing some a bunch of simple points in order to funnel readers into his "expert consultant" service.

All though in this case, it's got a good makeup job.
Every article I see where it is a blog about 'making X Y times faster' the answer is always 'by doing something that reasonable people would assume we had already tried' and this article is no different. This is just cycles implementing a crude version of the cutting edge from 15 years ago.
IMHO - 2 thoughts...

1) The way to find out if this is a pipe dream is to see if you can get a first client. Get a first client for yourself. If you can't, nothing else matters.

2) There is a huge fight in consulting companies between investing in "products" versus serving existing clients. This is why it's so rare for consulting companies to create products of their own. The best people wind up serving clients, and the internal products get sidelined. It only works if you're 100% explicit from Day 1 that the consulting exists purely to bootstrap the product. That's admirable, but if you're really into products, why not just get VC money?
I literally don't think I've ever spoken with an individual that has $50m in net worth it's certainly not the norm.
> Imagine that Big Brother scenario extended to the millions of smart devices such as digital thermostats and fire alarms feeding the Internet of Things ecosystem, and you have a problem that could eviscerate the privacy of billions of people, say security experts.

Is this anything but opportunistic scare-mongering?

"Spy agency own spy tools. Wouldn't it be scary if they used them on you?!?!?"
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Keep in mind that a key piece of evidence in the murder case in question is a single datapoint from his smart water-meter.

"Why did you use 140 gallons of water around 2AM? Long shower bud?"
I like using these to diagnose what kind of lemon a client just brought for maintenance, but they can be pretty nice to ensure you got your final product right too.
Sleep deprivation amplifies my emotions. The highs become higher, and the lows are lower. Like an op-amp.

Prayer and music helps to cope with the lows. Like a diode.

Sleeping less to wake up early and pray before work has had a huge emotional benefit. It's like an half-wave rectifier.
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I work on Beaker Browser. Version 0.7 will have markdown sites. Here's what that looks like: https://twitter.com/pfrazee/status/840228255529590784

If you ask a layman to differentiate between "the browser" and Facebook, they might not know the difference. In a lot of ways, Facebook is a browser for a set of content types like posts, videos, business pages, etc. Same logic applies to say YouTube: it's a specialized "subbrowser" for videos. If pressed I think I'd say the only reason YouTube or Facebook aren't browsers is because they're not decentralized. They browse a fixed set of end points.

AMP project, kind of similar, it's a specialized sub browser for mobile articles. And it's like what you describe, actually: constrained, but not decentralized.

I don't think we need a new browser or web to accomplish your ask

Browsers could specialize by running "sub browser" overlay applications. If you want to a constrained subweb with markdown-only sites, then sure, why not? It's not that different than a markdown-only publishing service-- the YouTube of markdown-- except the app logic is on the client side, and it's browsing a decentralized web

our markdown website feature is built in, but it could be moved to userland as an overlay, as an app that's triggered when the user turns it on, or goes to a certain type of site. It may sound like a stretch, but out bigger picture is to invert the relationship with services to create thick client side apps, in which case an overlay app is just a particular class of app with a particular class of permissions
It seems strange, why do you comment when you state you have no experience in Ruby or Python? Maybe leave the conversation to people who at least know one of the languages well.
I have run a consulting firm for the last 8 years. Feel free to email me.

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Irony: can't view the page with an adblocker.
As an outsider your opinion does seem to be the case, but I've heard stories of people taking it quite a bit further (eg claiming dependants that in no way meet the criteria). It is probably easier to rationalise incremental steps away from what should be done over time as you get away with each previous one.

What originally perplexed me originally would be seeing signs like "do not walk on the grass" and in some places it seemed completely ignored, and others obeyed. Same with speed limits (one time I was the slowest driver on the New Jersey turnpike because the signs said go 45 due to roadwork, so I did). I think it is the chances of getting caught that define people's behaviour, not any reasons for the rules in the first place, and this seemed to be a very big American trait.

BTW Dunbar's number is also related to the fairness thing IMHO.
Did a bit of Bing Ads last year (Had much better results than Adwords and Facebook Ads). Nothing really now, mostly just working away at new features and making improvements.
There's also no reason to believe that botting is done via API in most cases. I would think it's easier to detect + ban that way. I don't know how it's done in the majority of cases, but I know it's not particularly difficult to write a bot that drives an actual browser and emulates human mouse behavior.
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I'm a keyboard-only developer with a very high key rate, but I don't write an above-average amount of code.

My keystrokes are used on a bunch of custom shortcuts that I use to quickly navigate and read code.
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The Berryessa station, at least, should be bikable from a decently-sized residential area, not to mention reachable by light rail or bus. We'll see what people actually do.
The accusation of it being rigged goes far beyond brokerage fees.

It has to do with earned income tax vs capital gains tax, sales taxes, out-of-balance property taxes, educational opportunity, legal recourse, inheritance, etc.

P.S. I agree with your conclusion, even if your argument is weak.
I know a couple that invested the bulk of their net worth into Apple when Jobs returned. They advised me to, too. I didn't <sob>.
Otherwise known as ironic.
The benefit of buy and hold depends bit on when you buy as shown in this graphic

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...
Anybody can participate in the market and take advantage of capital gains and write-offs (losses). I'm not following your logic.

EDIT: Love that I'm getting down voted for saying anybody can participate which is a fact.
I think I can speak from a position of genuine dislike of mouse usage. I enjoy it for certain things, like perusing the web, or clicking through tickets while sipping on a morning coffee. The mouse is a great invention, and I would never want to get rid of it completely.

That said (subjectivity ahead), the mouse becomes annoying only when I'm done thinking, and it's time for doing. Imagine you've got your window manager set up just so, terminal multiplexer sessions all pointed in the right places; and finally, a problem -- and clear solution -- in mind. All that's left is implementation.

You start typing your solution, switching windows to compile or refresh a webpage every now and then. Things are coming together. As you proceed this way, a stroke of brilliance hits you, and you add an extra flourish that resolves an entire class of problems. Welcome to the "Flow State."

Finally, you realize you'll be needing a file from your Teamviewer session with another computer. You foreground that process, and navigate to the remote computer's file manager. So far, you haven't even had to traverse farther than three keys from the homerow.

Unfortunately, to transfer a file over Teamviewer, you'll need to use the mouse. You'll have to click three times to get to the file sharing widget, and use the mouse even more to get your remote/local directories lined up, another click elsewhere to initiate the transfer... close the little confirmation popup that's now obscuring your screen. It's not the end of the world, of course, but your dance has been interrupted.

I'm not sure you'll relate to anything I've stated above, and I'm by no means advocating "going mouseless" as objectively superior to your own preferred flow. Whatever works for you, works for you. I am hoping that my reply might help you get in the head of a keyboard jockey.

By the way, this reply was written with a rather fluffy cat sitting on my mousepad. So I'm not the only one to be inconvenienced when I have to switch to a mouse. Needless to say, George is a huge fan of vim. :)
Ask HN: Is there a browser extension that filters all political posts?
I have been searching for some sort of browser extension that filters all political posts from all websites (so far I have only stumbled upon Trump filters for Facebook; yet I have had no luck).
Ohhh boy, hopefully some of my older comments can save you from a world of hurt.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12912781#12913058

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10590448#10590496

Stop loss orders, not even once!!

I mean I say this in joke form but I mean it in all seriousness. Using stop loss orders is a sign of someone who doesn't know what they are doing.

They just aren't suitable for markets anymore. Well they haven't really been suitable for the past 10 years but atleast now the major markets are finally no longer allowing retail investors to use that order type.

Please don't ever use stop loss orders.
This comes at an interesting time when Microsoft has recently announced server designs on ARM architecture.
This makes some sense, but it occurs to me that a blind person has no way to distinguish between an image that has no alt tag because it would be meaningless, and an important image that the author simply didn't think to write an alt tag for.

alt="(Decoration)" would clear it right up and only takes a few seconds.
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