skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This situation has the potential to de-stabilise the economy sooner rather than later.

If these passive investment funds create a positive feedback loop for some stock prices - I don't know if that's the case - then this could be a pretty high risk.

On the other hand, I would intuitively expect them to have a dampening effect on the "pump and dump" schemes that created so many bubbles. So, in a way, they could even help stabilizing the markets?
True, it fails to provide explicit notifications, but it does provide implicit notifications which could be recognized.
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I promoted posts on a Facebook page successfully a few times several months ago. Facebook has been surfacing those posts constantly bombarding me with reminders that they were successful and people are liking the posts and page. Everyday, such and such person liked your page.

Maybe Facebook is targeting the smaller people by having the algorithm push their posts over larger companies. This might be a good thing. Do you do better with 1000 duck sized advertisers or 1 horse sized advertiser?
How an ETF Gets Too Big for Its Index
Planned to also be later crowdfunded into a physical release, sold at cost price.

There's a very good chance I would buy a copy. I already have several physical copies of the books Jeremy Parish put out (pdfs: https://gumroad.com/gamespite, physical books: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&fie...). Felipe, since I saw you're commenting here, Parish may be a good person to talk to (https://twitter.com/gamespite) for advice on the physical publishing. This is also the sort of project he would be interested in.
How is the threatened murder not discussed in court?
Can't do cross-origin requests. It would need to be an electron-style app.
I'm not sure I get the point of this. Couldn't someone pick a number for nefarious purposes and then possibly workout a simple looking "reason" it was picked?
It's not only PhDs. I was a Masters student who worked as a GTA and GRA. The dept head of the CS program I work under now has repeatedly told faculty to focus on hiring more PhDs and fewer masters students.
Ajax made predictive (random)prefetching mainstream .its only natural that random eviction algorithm are coming along . when you pick one end of stick you pick another too
Seriously? Comparing Che to Ghandi? What a farce.
Additional thoughts on the issue: http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2017/04/when-an-etf-changes-...
I played the first Zelda as a kid. I'm playing the latest Zelda as an adult that has three children. I'm talking over thirty years of video game playing.

It is one of the best games I have ever played.
Are there any languages that allow you to give the compiler a hint that you're about to grind over a gigantic dataset so don't bother to cache any of this data because it won't be accessed again for a long time? It seems like it could be helpful in keeping a big crunch from obliterating the cache constantly. You might also be able to apply other optimizations, like preloading the next data blocks so they're ready when the CPU rolls around. Maybe compilers already do this behind the scenes?
Because it's easier to exonerate ourselves from any responsibility for our own mistakes than having to deal with that.
Direct link to paper at arXiv, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.08715.pdf
When I had Facebook I was passionate about several topics, but I limited my posting to only 1 - 2 times a month. Initially when I started I got some engagement, questions, etc. As the years wore on I gained some friends who cared about those topics too, who liked my posts, shared, etc. Dozens of likes at times.

Well, turns out people paid less attention over time, or seemed too. Those posts got fewer likes and shares. Well, perhaps people just got turned off to my "activist" posting, bored, etc? If I posted a stupid life update about getting a new strainer though, fucktons of likes of course... Decided to ask my girlfriend and a couple family members if they even saw my posts on privacy or what have you, nope. It was buried or not shown on the feed when it came out.

It's not just the feed either, the ordering is bleeding elsewhere. When I asked my girlfriend if she could see specific posts she went directly to my profile and couldn't even find them often times because Facebook now controls the order of items on someone's feed. They show "trending items" and them semi ordered older ones.

I think this article, and some personal experience, shows some of the consequences of being tied to a social platform that controls just the order of news on your feed. It is trivially easy for them to bury topics either because they just don't like them or think they "hurt user engagement." It's a sort of super stealthy shadow ban, where sure, you content is "visible" but only in the loosest meaning of the word.

I had misgivings about Facebook initially from a privacy standpoint, but how much power they have to moderate content, virtually imperceptibly, was one of the final straws that got me off of it. We're not just giving away personal information, we're giving away our ability to persuade and connect in meaningful ways.
A) That surplus money was already been spent in the 1990s.

B) Not true or relevant.

B) Not true or relevant.

>So if someone argues that trust fund doesn't exist, they are arguing that revenue from payroll taxes should finance tax cuts for those richer than them. Effectively transferring money from poor to rich.

Again, not true at all. Notice how you can't actually answer the question I posed about how SS can actually get the money out of the trust "fund." The fund is empty and is quite literally only made of a IOUs from the general fund.
There have been allegations of Reddit playing around behind the scenes as well. It seems once you get so big you have to play this game.
Markets Start to Ponder $13T Quantitative Tightening Strategy
> I'm surprised to hear that Lambda gets costly. Is this from real experience or is it just theoretical? My impression was that Lambda saves you money by not having to pay for excess capacity.

I delve into this in detail here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14075634

In short, using Amazon's own pricing example, yes, it's extremely expensive for production web app workloads compared to just running an autoscaling group with 10 (!) nodes on ELB/ALB, and the pricing disparity increases as load increases.

With that said, Lambda is a great fit for little tasks that will never need a whole server.
I think this is a rough rule of thumb, obviously there's nothing magical about the $10K figure, but it does get you thinking in the right direction.
We already can target WASM[1] :). Nim's JS backend is already very useful though, you can see a game I've created using it in the features page.

1 - https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/2838
The trees that make Southern California shady and green are dying. Fast
Well then I guess now for you it's just a matter of going to live in the ideal world where all of that holds true, and you're golden to live without any care.
The market will be irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

You are putting far too much trust into speculative market forces.
I only ever see them when I go in towards the centre. I'm assuming they are moving them around known crime hotspots.
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Maybe it's a private repo?
Asians are good at Math than Americans. Is that rote learning too ?

> we moved on from that waste of time decades ago.

No wonder Asians are taking over.
I wholeheartedly agree with 10.
Not only that but adequate sleep, regular exercise and healthy eating contribute enormously towards healthier cognition. As a developer, I tend to find myself far more productive and successful in a shorter period of time when I am living on the healthy side of things. Everything that is me just works better when I go for a run three days a week, eat clean foods and get in a solid 8 hours of rest a night.
Sales.

Learn how to do sales end-to-end.

How to listen to a customer and understand their needs, how to market to those needs, how to convert those leads into contracts, how to bill those customers, how to make them feel valued and show value to them, how to upsell when the contract expires (how to get more value from them).

Learn sales. Mostly because it helps you understand the whole of a business, and will guide any prioritisation of your engineering like nothing else.

It turns out, you really don't need to build a great thing, you just need customers who pay.
For science fiction fans, Vernor Vinge uses these ideas to great effect in a subplot of _Deepness in the Sky_.
$10k MRR in 3 months seems like a lofty goal to me. Is that from product launch? or from day 0? with or without investment?
Slate's Twitter reposts many of their stories as well, but the duplicate tweets remain intact. Duplicate tweets redirect to the same web page but have different Slate-branded short URLs so perhaps that's how they get away with it.
Selling a product is about the same. Dont second guess too much and get to it asap.
I don't see how these are not the same things. I see lots of posts from people I don't know that are liked by some of my friends, but often never see original posts by other friends. And I only have about two dozen friends that I follow.
Google search had for any recipe an ingredient filter on the side which they removed a while back.

I think a blog idea to help the site with more useful information and SEO is how to manage a home kitchen. For example, how to store food so it doesn't get thrown out. This can go hand in hand with the recipe search.

I was a private yacht chef for 6 years and I ran what is a home kitchen like a professional kitchen. I had to deal with looking at what was about to go bad or needed to be used first because I could only go shopping every two weeks sometimes and figure out what recipes I could make from them. Although I only cooked for a couple and 4 crew, I ran it like a two star Michelin kitchen.
From the article:

...on real workloads, random tends to do worse than other algorithms. But what if we take two random choices and just use LRU between those two choices?

"2-random" is his short hand for the above scenario.

[edit: formatting, I have no idea how to signify a quote; I don't want preformatted because it makes a scroll box.]
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My mother had an episode of transient global amnesia [1] that lasted for about 12 hours. It was the strangest thing. For those 12 hours, both her short- and long-term memory were almost completely impaired. It was terrifying when we thought it might be a stroke, but once the whole differential diagnose was done and we realized it was probably just TGA, we knew we just had to ride it out.

We spent the few couple hours answering the same round of question for her about once every minute. She'd occasionally get really scared and upset, but then she'd forget what she was upset about! We'd ask her questions and she remembered the most basic autobiographical details (married, 3 kids), but just about nothing else. We'd ask, "where did you go to college?" and she'd say, "I went to....I...don't know!" Obviously, pretty disturbing, but we just had to trust it was temporary.

Eventually, the duration of forgetfulness started extending, and then by night, she said it was like a fog was lifted, and she could remember again.

As described in the Wikipedia page, she hasn't experienced any aftereffects, other than not remembering much of that particular day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_global_amnesia
A decade ago the USS San Francisco (submarine) drove full speed into a seamount (underwater mountain). One person died, almost everyone else was injured, and the entire front was ripped off but she did not sink.

The cause was a blind over-reliance on a single chart which did not show any navigation hazards in the area. Other charts available to the crew had indications of the presence of a seamount.
We have an application code (<50 files for now. can grow) that multiple devs work with. I maintain the master copy of it in a server where git available. I'm thinking of having version control with git for this codebase.

The other devs should be able to pull and push changes to it. I'm looking for an optimal workflow that'll save us some headaches later.
wow.. way to sabotage my own submission :D. thanks for letting me know
Facebook's motto is "move fast and break stuff." I'm glad they didn't follow this when making React Fiber. I suspect they learned from Angular 2's failure.
Indian workers are worse off, because they pay the same amount of taxes as an American worker with no salary hikes or promotions. Stuck with the same job for years. No freedom of job portability. Spouses cannot work, always at the edge of relocating based on where the bodyshops deploy them.

The H1B visa is for 6 years temporary stay, but the H1B worker pays for SSN which he have no use of.
> when people who contribute more than you are rewarded more than you

This is one of the shittiest attitudes I've seen on HN in a while.

Having a child is not in itself something that qualifies as a greater contribution to the species than anything anyone without children can make.

Honestly this is the weirdest kind of child-worship.
Pick two entries at random, and then choose the least recently used one.
^^ Effectively this.

My concern is that if everyone is in the passive investing boat then we're no longer following the market, we're making the market, and it's a big departure from the philosophical under-pinnings behind the idea of passive investing.

(We started out letting active players make the market by placing good/bad bets and winning/losing. We got a market that was at least trying to find the right price and we did well due to the low expense ratios. Now that we're in the majority, I'm concerned that no-one is trying to find the right price anymore.)

tldr; I have mixed feelings about passive investing over the long term if we're no longer small fish in a big ocean.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Irish_Coast_Guard_Rescue_...

> The preliminary report by AAIU investigators found that the helicopter had hit the island, which was not registered in the craft's mapping system and was only identified by a crew member only 13 seconds before impact.

Seriously?
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>The problem really is that you are comparing a geographic (Indian) to followers of a religion (Jews).

Wrong. Keep telling yourself what you want to hear. I'm talking about Jewish ancestry (i.e., genetics), not Jewish faith. Essentially all of the genius Ashkenazi Jews were non-practicing:

- John Von Neumann

- Albert Einstein

- Bobby Fischer

- Richard Feynman

- Sigmund Freud

- Hans Bethe

- Eugene Wigner

- Milton Friedman

- Karl Marx

- Noam Chomsky

- Scarlett Johansson

You can even read this astounding section on Wikipeida: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews#Notable_Ashkena...
Yet, this is a general problem of all kinds of investment funds, not only of index ones.

It is a huge problem (and probably responsible for much of the lawlessness we can find on Wall Street), but the switch from active to passive investment shouldn't change a thing.
What is the announce date of this phone
Nimx: Cross-Platform GUI Framework in Nim
Indeed, I was thinking of extending the 1-year post study work allowance of the f-1 to three, or something along those lines.
Unfortunately, the world we live in requires some money to have professional journalism. Even if these folks were non-profit, they'd still need some money to get by and do the stuff (pay reporters, curate a website, print physical newspapers, and so on).

They have to play to survive. Sure, this could be fixed in a myriad of ways, each having their own set of issues, but most of us aren't in a position to do that.
You must be German. ;-)
The public bailed out the mistakes of the capital class in 2008, and will do so again
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The worst part is you can switch it back to the chronological view, but Facebook will undo your change at their earliest convenience. You have to make a bookmark to the correct feed to keep it showing up properly.

It is annoying, but I'm not a power user. I only check it once every few days to keep up with the relatives, maybe post once a week or so. It's pretty low maintenance.
Thanks for the tip. The problem is that Parish publish his books through Amazon's CreateSpace, which is powerful but extremely expensive... printing the CRPG Book in color through it would cost more than $60 per unit. :/

I would love to do something like the Bitmap Books ( https://www.bitmapbooks.co.uk/collections/all ), which have great quality and a decent price, all funded via Kickstarter.
querying backups is an amazing feature. I like the speed how MongoDB brings new features to its products.
Languages, no, but the madvise syscall has flags for that kind of pattern.
> > Not all pages can have the same "section" style,

> But they can have the same CSS styling (colors, fonts, responsiveness, etc) that ties the whole site together.

> A good example that's at the top of my mind is this: https://hugodocs.info

> It works great on desktop as well as phone, and a common theme is seen all across the site.

I might be missing something but the website you linked has only two pages and I would consider them to lack continuity even more than the current Nim website. The layout for the "docs" page is completely different to the home page.

> By the documentation page, I meant a page like this: https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html

Oh I understand where you're coming from a bit more now. Everything under the `docs/` is sort of separate, it's part of Nim's doc gen generator and thus has a different style associated with it. But I can see why you think it loses continuity.
Re: tax code - there was a good planet money episode a few weeks ago [0] about this. It argues that Intuit aren't nearly as big a player as conservative groups who bizarrely view simplifying the tax code as akin to raising to taxes.

[0] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/episo...
Link between political beliefs in the article could imply that kink is related to need for external social approval before indulging in their true desires.

All those costumes and gear looks like a ritual framework for people who lack innate self acceptance, and conformance to the aesthetic relieves them of their ego defense that was preventing them from allowing themselves to experience the true power dynamic of who they were. Men relieved of responsibility to be dominant, or of responsibility they did not feel they owned, women relieved of expectation to be strong, or of the expectation to be compliant and "good."

With only a political and social, not spiritual or moral framework for self acceptance, it follows that progressives are turning to kink as a kind of ritual therapy.
Both React Native and Litho use Yoga[0] under the hood for layout, so there are already some shared underlying parts. I'm not familiar enough for RN in practice to say whether you could plug Litho Components into RN apps.

[0] https://facebook.github.io/yoga/
Alphabet seeks 10,000 volunteers for a massive medical study
You may also want to check out /r/financialindependence on reddit.
Ahh, I must've missed that piece of news.
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But we shouldn't dissolve worker protections entirely just because you don't like some of the rules
I would prefer they'd show actual reality on the ground instead of trying to win political points though - for the sake of people who're actually trying to use it for navigation.
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No one cares about your code. They care what it does.
Pretty close to finishing. Is Buffett still winning?
I'd make that narrower than "active shareholders". The only kinds of active shareholders who can exercise informed and effective oversight are large, professional active shareholders, who buy significant percentages of companies (enough to have a voting share that matters) and have in-house research and legal departments. Many active shareholders don't really look like that. The retail stock-picker buying stocks on ETrade isn't in a position to exercise oversight of the companies they're buying any more than they'd be if they were buying them through index funds. So I don't think much is lost in terms of corporate governance if that group of people moves from stock-picking to index funds. In principle, something could still be lost in the stock price signal if they move to index funds (a different question than corporate governance), although whether retail stock pickers, even taken collectively, are contributing anything useful to the price signal is not necessarily certain.
This thread has many comments that either ignore or are unaware of the basic economics of the situation. The contention isn't that H1Bs are paid differently. The argument is that a market with 50k more H1B engineers will result in a lower salary for a U.S. resident with that skill set.

In other words, if people with that skill set were more scarce, compensation would be higher and eventually more U.S. residents would be attracted into to the field.

There may be good points against that contention, but this thread is mostly talking past it.
> one of the 10 activists said “their password may have still been in use as recently as late 2015 or early 2016.”

So these were all abandoned passwords, at the point Bindmans confirmed them correct.

Having said which, the notion that people are generally crap with passwords is obviously correct. Also I wouldn't be at all surprised if the way the article reports the password verification is abridged or at least wildly inaccurate.

Edit: I notice the Guardian article says Jones is represented by Jules Carey, who's a very well known and trusted lawyer among UK environmental activists, not a random person. I don't know if that's who they gave up their old passwords to, but we seem to be generally letting our imaginations run away with us here so let's say it was.
The other reason why we're long past the point of questioning whether it's ethical is because pretty much the entire press insisted that it was a moral imperative for Facebook to take control of news on their service because of people sharing "fake news". There weren't really any dissenting voices on this point from what I recall.
This is only a feature of hyper-centralized news curation systems. Once we figure out the issues of moderation and allowing illegal content to be purged while preventing purging of legal content, and someone figures out a way to get a bandwagon going, it will hopefully no longer be necessary for a news curation platform to have to "play ball".
> But the increased complexity also increases the fragility of the system, and also adds ongoing maintenance costs. At some point there is no marginal return for adding complexity, or the return on maintaining the complexity becomes negative, so the complexity is no longer worth maintaining. Collapse.

Society collapses because of technical debt?
I know one of the biggest struggles of training RNNs in TensorFlow, for instance, is the fact that the graph is static. Other frameworks, like PyTorch, have dynamic graphs.

Will Caffe2 support dynamic graphs (perhaps down the line)? What is your reasoning behind whichever decision?
IV was such a disappointment to me that I haven't even tried V yet. SA felt so expansive and open to me that when I played IV, it felt like I was trapped on story-telling rails.

Have they reversed that trend in V?