skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And the bigger indices grow, the larger the opportunities for active traders to profit. It's not a real problem — it's self-correcting.

I appreciate that finally someone puts forward a rational argument as to why index fonds will keep working. Books and online resources tend to not take a critical look at the system at all or they offer an answer along the lines of "Trust me!"

Having said that, only hindsight is 20/20! It feels like we are rushing into the next great financial experiment. In a complex world there is simply no telling what's actually going to happen. I assume (any sources?) that currently more money than ever is flowing into index fonds. Furthermore, chances are this is just the beginning. For instance, the buy-and-hold hype is just arriving in Europe. Blogs and online communites on this topic are currently mushrooming here! Yesterday I even saw an ad on Germany's biggest TV station right before the evening news. This is very unusual to say the least as the common people of Germany by and large have an incredible amount of distrust in anything but savings books! This current gold rush mood is just scary to me as usually, when something hits mainstream media, the magic is gone!

Anyhow, the question I am asking myself is: What will the market do now that it has access to more cash than ever? Are the markets even productive enough to put those sums of money to good use? Or is this bonanza just FU-money that encourages more reckless behavior?

I can only speculate as to what is going to happen but my hunch is that in the long term the gap between returns from index fonds and savings books is going to become a great deal smaller as more people are willing to shoulder risk for companies and thus risk premiums go down. There may still be active traders who try to find opportunities but I suspect structurally the percentage of passive investors will expand quickly and won't go back below today's percentage.
I would very much like to invest in index funds, but Vanguard need a social security number, which I don't have. Does anyone know of an alternative that doesn't require an SSN, or something comparable to Vanguard in the EU?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-09/hedge-fund-cio-expe...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-09/horseman-global-unv...

We'll see how the next large correction plays out. That the "problem" may be "self-correcting" is not very reassuring (the dot-com bubble and the subprime fantasy also ended with some nice self-correction).
I agree with all of your points, except the last one. I don't think a shared ledger is required for interacting between multiple entities. We basically want a database that is beyond the control of any corporation - seems to me that a government-controlled database would fit the need.

The associated complexities and limitations with blockchain ledgers are a lot. The nodes must be propped up by large amounts of computing power, which only big companies/groups can provide, not individuals. And it's not as if the government can't be trusted, there are so many stock market indices & financial markets that aren't under anybody's control.
There's CCTV vans all over the City Of London. They don't tend to venture out much further, but they totally exist. I see them all the time.
They say they plan to crowdfund a physical release at cost price.

They're going to have my gold pieces for sure!
> Is Boeing facing a hard time competing against rivals say Airbus?

Airbus is on a strong run at the moment.

However what I think 'competition' means in this sense is design and construction competition within Boeing. The 787 was a $30 billion lesson to Boeing on how to globalise aircraft design and production. They made a mess of it, at least on the initial -8 model, but as a result seem to have learned how to work with global risk-sharing partners; partners who employ their own engineers at their own cost and who design components ( wings, fuselages etc ) at their own cost and risk to a specification provided by Boeing. Much like engine manufacturers already do.

And as a result Boeing can also move towards a final-assembly-only paradigm, which further reduces workforce requirements.

Smaller companies like Bombardier have already had to make those changes in order to survive and Boeing is being proactive in following them.
Amazing collection, it reads very well, and contains many of the games I have played. Good memories. The current state of most games, such as unofficial patches, mods and overhauls, is also very useful and makes me want to play some of the games again.
New pitch: Mercedes AMG. We don't just want Mercedes, we want the AMG level :)
Vanguard for Vanguard ETF/Mutual Fund products in a Roth IRA brokerage account.
Ghostscript4JS v2.0.1 is out – Enjoy it
I find myself self-censoring on topics like this, not because of what I (don't) fear is being done by authorities, but because I can't help but to note that we're not, in fact, living in some Orwellian dystopia, and that seemingly the surveillance that is being done is promulgating a safe and stable society, but not toeing the sky-is-falling line doesn't do much for those numbers by my username.

Meanwhile, there are places that are living in a dystopia, and the single most important goal of the powers that be in those places is undermining the rule of law. So I can't help but be skeptical of stories like this.

We have a society where we can air discussions about topics like this, and where criminals can be kept out of the public sphere, and these are good things. There. And hey, tonight at least, for once, I won't go to a throwaway to say so.
Sigfox relies on

* Ultra Narrow Band (100Hz) modulation

* Low data rate (100 bits/s in Europe, at 14dBm/25mW) + lightweight protocol

* High receiver sensitivity, mostly SDR based

We've got a few youtube videos explaining this ... but mostly targeted for a generic audience.
The "radio signal modulation" may have enough tech details to match what you're looking for : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGvM6KEDIdE&index=6&list=PLc...

We're also working on a publication of a standard UNB IoT protocol, Sigfox being one of its implementations.
Should come within a few weeks.

There is a draft about the network architecture here : https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zuniga-lpwan-sigfox-s...
Do you know about ETF? Most of the Vanguard mutual funds have an ETF version.
Elm is amazing! If you have all the pieces in place aka model, view and update; once you get it compiled successfully.. it just works, it's mind blowing. This also makes refactoring a joy.
I'll agree on that, maybe the solution is to keep one step ahead at all times.
The Web's Timeline
Yes, componentDidMount is the place to work with DOM. componentWillMount never worked this way—it is basically a glorified constructor from pre-ES6 era.
I'm really shocked, not. How else do you control society lol
I was expecting a more proper ebook format rather than physical goods. I might be tempted though, depending on price + shipping.
Would love to. However, i'm based out in India.
Let me know how can i connect?
However, if you keep flying 1G after exiting that parabolic barrel roll, you're going to make a hole in the ground. The vomit comet usually does a 3G pull up afterwards. You've got to exceed 1G, either to enter the parabolic arc from level flight, or to leave it to regain level flight, or more likely, both.
amen. I rolled a angular app 3 years ago, and now most of the libs i used are unsupported, and impossible to upgrade anything cause of dependency hell.

now we dont use yeoman to create react apps, and we have a thousand start kits that get u off the ground. your node_modules directory probably has 30k+ plus files before a single line of your app is written.
yarn

just imagine ur an embedded programmer, and you boss asks u to write a hello world for the nexet device, and u come back with a react app with 30,000 dependencies to get the job done. then u find a bug, which fb just fixed in the next release. But u cant upgrade to the latest version, because that conflicts with library that is used by a 3rd level dep, that is used to add padding to a smiley somewhere.
Do you think that there could be people on HN who have worked in software development and dealt with spurious requests from users?
This is funny/ridiculous, after all US and the West was busy shoving Globalization down everyone else's throats just few decades ago and now every wants to reverse Globalization. This should be a case study, which I know won't ever happen!
What about Intelligence services? This is a local police force!
> Whether to invest in the market, or in a certain asset class, is a separate decision from whether to pick stocks or buy a passively managed fund.

Picking stocks vs Picking managers vs Passively investing, but sure. You're right in principle but i'd question whether it's true in practice?
If a foreigner with a fraction of your assets and no network can replace you, it's your own fault.
Those who have down-voted the above almost certainly do not know the situation on the ground.

FWIW, I recently had to explicitly inform the Canonical Virt maintainers (of which there seem to be very few) about which patches that ought to be backported to fix a bug in one of their libvirt packages that was seriously affecting (i.e. preventing from patches being merged) OpenStack upstream CI environment.

The said bug had fixes already available upstream, and are straight backports with no conflicts. No one bothered to do the "unsexy" work of backporting & cutting a quick stable build.

Only after pointing out the commits (with help from one of the lead upstream libvirt maintainers), and posting them on a LaunchPad bug, did the Ubuntu maintainers stepped in to backport the said fixes.
> The UK is hardly an autocracy.

Not only autocracies do this kind of evil. Especially now that the (deeps state) ruling class consists mainly of capitalist, you can see that the police targeting dissidents fits a clear motive.
Discover how YouTube's algorithm could influence French elections
I'm assuming that is a reference to the random walk theory. That theory suggests that "the past movement or trend of a stock price or market cannot be used to predict its future movement". It's random in the sense of unpredictable, not in the sense of actauly being determined by chance.

The implication of the random walk theory is that current information is already uilt into the price of the stock. That is only true insofar as there are active traders acting on that information. The parent is merely explaining why those traders will exist, and why you only need a small part of the market to actively trade.
> If you're in a class, you will soon hear the overused phrase "The plural of anecdote is not data".
> You can out-smartass them by replying "Actually, it is".

I don't think it is. The plural of anecdote is probably something more like "a lot of single points without any care taken to correct for variables."

To get real data there needs to be a lot than just more anecdotes. There needs to be careful measurement, followed by correction for a lot of other factors.

Here's one example:
"I've never seen this tree before. I wonder if those fruits are edible"

"It's just an anecdote, but my father ate one of those, started throwing up 30min later, and died the same day."

"What did he do before that?"

"Oh, he swam the dirty river, then started playing with that striped snake over there. He was a brave man, what with his heart problems and the cancer."
Good to read that React is faster now.

Can we write an efficient rich text editor like Google Docs in React? Or would it still be too slow?
In an apocalypse type scenario all bets are off anyway so you might as well ignore it.
setState is not async-only in React 16. We keep the old behavior and just change the engine now. Later we will look into enabling new behavior.
The two American parties are effectively composed of roughly a dozen factions that just pretend to be unified parties at election time.

Look at the fate of the Ryancare/Trumpcare bill. Republicans control all branches of government, yet they can't even agree to vote on a piece of legislation that was a core campaign promise for the last eight years.

It would feel more honest towards voters if the Republican umbrella were split into actual separate parties: "Economic Liberalists", "Moderate Right", "America First Economic Nationalists", "White Nationalists", etc.
That's actually evil...

I find that the withdrawing of medical programs by a company is a pretty reliable indicator that it'll fold in a few years, since it's a common "exit-strategy" to earn a few last bucks before the up-top rats jump ship.

Been at two companies who were thriving, and both after only a few months stopped their medical insurance. After that, dozens of people left over 1-2 years, and the company was massively haemorrhaging money due to customer dissatisfaction.

False economy.
Ask HN: Pipeline for making interactive experiences e.g(shincity.com.au)
Any insights on how interactive experiences such as (shincity.com.au, fetedelabiere.merci-michel.com) are made.
There is a network emulator (USB key), but we're not 100% happy with it. Which is why it's not advertised for sale yet.

But if someone is interested to give it a try in not-yet-covered areas in the US or elsewhere, let me know : devrelations@sigfox.com ; I could mail one for free in exchange of test feedback

———

Hosting a public base station in exchange of discount/free subscriptions is something that could be considered. Again, feel free to reach out :)
One thing to consider : Public base station means that other users will rely on it for their own devices, with a need for reliability (uptime, backhaul connectivity, ..)
United Airlines Based Android Game Removes Passengers from Flight
I mentioned elsewhere in the thread a beta Sigfox Network Emulator.

Let me know if you could be interested in testing it.
THE INTELLECTUAL CRIMINAL
Yes, can the link be changed to the Guardian piece, rather than this hard-left blog.
Note that the number of prior shielded transactions (not the proportion, and not the value) is what is actually relevant to the privacy of new shielded transactions. Roughly speaking, the privacy you get with Zcash is comparable to what you would get with Monero if you could use all previous shielded transactions (over 120000 of them, currently) as mixins. That's why the criticisms of Zcash based on the percentage use of shielding (either by transactions or value) are totally missing the point.

-- Daira Hopwood (Zcash developer)
Sorry if I'm dense, can you explain ?
Its the Canonical distribution of Kubernetes. Supported by Canonical.
Windows 7 is going to be 8 years old this year -- while this does seem like a dark upgrade pattern, maybe they're just trying to avoid another ie6?
It rules out 99% of the people successfully doing something which they claim to be "full stack". They might be great at their jobs, but I don't consider them "full stack". Low-level stuff is always part of the stack.

I guess there has been a sort of grade inflation on "full stack". When I go looking in the "Who wants to be hired?" threads for people, my reaction to seeing "full stack" is that the person is almost certainly exaggerating to an extreme. Real "full stack" is super uncommon, but it sounds impressive I guess. It's just not very believable.
You would have to go through a EU bank who would act as a middleman. There are many of them that have zero fees so it would be practically like if you were investing directly with Vanguard.
Just when I thought that we have enough JS frameworks and there's nothing to do fundamentally different, along came vue.js ...
There are a ton of Americans studying medicine in India. Simply because its cheaper. So it goes both ways.

I'm pretty sure these Americans plan on working in America after residency.
Sorry about that. Any chance you could submit a bug report on GitHub[1]? Include screenshots and any other relevant information if you do.

1 - https://github.com/nim-lang/website
Yet another good reason to have 2FA enabled
>I have also found the error messages more meaningful across the ecosystem; React can sometimes produce very unhelpful errors.

Can you file an issue next time? We're happy to fix confusing errors.

>much, much faster to load

I would love to see some data backing it up. I thought they are roughly in the same ballpark with Vue having slightly more built-in APIs but I might be wrong!
Native Linux Containers on Windows Server
چرا باید اتاق سرور را مانیتور کنیم ؟
My favourite bit there:

> people so willfully stupid that they will cut each other`s throats while the bankers drain them dry.

Divide and conquer. Proven classic.
No, you'll get the same kind of answer. It's not like one of the neural networks will write me a poem in response, on its own initiative. The form of the answer was decided by the human intelligence that created the neural net encoding.
When 40% of your NHS workforce are potentially at risk due to Brexit, or when farming as we know it will collapse, then it very very much is a big deal.

However you are right that what should be happening is that the current intended prosecutions for electoral fraud should be completed (report due 12th of June) before any election is considered. The opposition parties should not be voting for to enact an election.
Working on it! It's a pretty big country ...

So far, you have solid coverage in some metro areas only : SF/North Bay, Chicago, NYC, Atlanta, Houston (Miami & others are getting there)

Check out sigfox.com/coverage to get insights on the current production coverage (Sorry for the colours ...)
> Are you considering converting the documentation pages to responsive design too?

Unless someone volunteers to do this it likely won't happen any time soon.

As for the continuity. Not all pages can have the same "section" style, the documentation page for example is just composed of a list of links and descriptions. Of course, if you have ideas on how to improve the continuity then I'm all ears :)
When running a kubernetes cluster on your own hardware what do you use for storage?
Care to explain how? I understand the original comment didn't really add any other information but surely the differences in nature and nurture account for something, when considering Adoption Studies are a thing. [1] Perusing the results of a quick search bring up loads and loads of differences between adopted and non-adopted children, across many different metrics. I'm sure the "parenting community as a whole" doesn't exclude adoptive parents. Almost all of these studies show differences, such as with social skills or behavioral problems [2], and with these differences might the parent have to adapt? There are many things that come into an adopted child's mind about their own adoption too, and challenges specific to adoption [3]. Is this particular information relevant?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_study

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/the-adopt...

[3] https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubpdfs/f_adimpact.pdf
Perhaps it would be like Ubuntu going back RHEL/CentOS vs. Fedora churn, or turning something like iOS into something like Android.

Sometimes, projects need to leave things that are working alone instead of churn-for-churns' sake.

This move needs more substantive explanation than "we're renaming and duplicating projects, creating the Paradox of Choice." It's already open source.

Plus, being too open, other companies can just come in like with W3 and drive features and complexity that aren't always positive.

Next, one Tragedy of the Commons problem with Android is companies aren't motivated to invest significantly into making the overall platform better because it helps the competition. Sure some
do, but they usually make their fork of it slick and shiny on the outside but the upstream/inside doesn't always get the same love.

Finally, a poor execution of an open platform makes the whole platform look bad to customers.

It's not the end of the world if docker pivots oddly but I hope it goes well.

https://blog.docker.com/2017/04/introducing-the-moby-project...
Please see my reply in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14144042.

Regarding benchmarks, you might enjoy reading this: https://medium.com/@localvoid/how-to-win-in-web-framework-be...
I was just looking at a DDR3L 8GB module for $43, but I could perhaps see the value in Sublime at $70 a license if it significantly improves on Atom, but as it is I've yet to even fully utilize all that Atom offers, or have pain points.
We have a build system which is built around maven with *nix only in mind. It does a lot of handy stuff and 99.999% people in company are on macs, I just wanted to have one device instead of two so I was trying to use surface. I keep trying it like once or twice a year and then back to my Mac + iPad + Apple Pen mainly because of that. I also tried to run Linux in hyper-v and use shared directories but io perforce is quite poor in this case too.
I wonder what the closest to "YC classic" is in 2017. I was going to apply to YC fellowship but disappointed to see it's cancelled.
May i ask your company website? i'm from New Delhi
The slow demise of Wikipedia Zero on the subcontinent
Well, you can look at the American system two ways - either the primaries are part of the Crucial Democratic Process Of Free And Fair Elections™ (CDPOFAFE) or they're not, they're parties' internal business.

The thing is, the system is pretty weird in both cases.

If the primaries _aren't_ part of the CDPOFAFE it's weird that voters only get a choice between A and B.

If the primaries _are_ part of the CDPOFAFE it's weird that things like superdelegates exist, that independent voters don't get a say, and that the procedures to detect and prevent irregularities are so lax.
No, there are no plans to use WebAssembly in the next few releases although we'd like to explore this eventually.
DSSD’s demise
So, because of one incident you lost all respect for all union activities? That's like losing respect for all Chinese because one wasn't acting rationally.
Sigfox, Wifi, or else, my recommendation is the same : when you have nothing to say, do nothing :)

In most "connected" devices, you don't need to keep an established connection which will drain the battery fast.

This is why idle consumption is key, as it will often be the state of the solution 99.x% of the time

Simply turn the communication module on when you need it.

Then the difference between solutions consumption-wise will be on time needed to establish connection if any, time & power to send your data.
With the Creators update, can you now actually run a postgres service or apache in the linux subsystem?
Sounds similar to the complaints about Firefox, though the only notable issues I've run into with Atom have been related to shared file editing (and resulting sync issues). If someone could just leverage etherpad lite with Atom, it'd make me so happy!
Resuming, as I understand it:

Good stock pickers > Index Funds (blind money) > Bad stock pickers

By investing on index funds you are betting in the average of the average (a fund is already an average of undervaluated and overvaluated stocks).

However, by investing on managed funds your probability of having profits over index funds is low: even if stock pickers that beat the market (by definition) amount to 50%, extra fees make most of them still less profitable to investors than passive funds.

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Nope, somebody else did it so I just upvoted. It became better though, it used to be impossible to run Java 8 at all.
testing out pelican; it has plugins for latex and jupyter
With the ability to pause large updates in the middle without committing them to UI, doing some higher priority updates, and then "rebasing" lower priority updates on top of them and continuing the work. So it's a bit more sophisticated.
May i ask your email address?