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Experiment HN: I'll build whatever you want (attempt 2)
I'd like to try an experiment live here on HN. I'll build whatever HN wants and document the process.

It'd be a useful thought exercise on how hard it is to evaluate and execute ideas, and I hope it will help me snap out of denial building things people don't want.

All ideas submitted will be public, though you can delete your submission. Please keep v1 of the idea to something that can be built within a couple of days. I'll keep the source code and may push it further but feel free to copy the idea I end up working on.

If you wanted a way to test an idea fast, now you have this option.

To make sure I build something people want, I'll use a metric that shows how much you want what you're asking. For me to choose your idea, I ask that you pay.

It can be whatever you want, but if someone offers more their idea goes to the top and displaces yours. Feel free to discuss the ideas as much as you want here on HN.

If the top idea is something I don't have the skills to build I'll refund your money.

If this seems like it might be a useful experiment, I'm game. Else ignore me, but I'm not sorry to experiment.

Here's the link to place your bids.

http://138.68.19.20/
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> Which thus far has been pretty accurate, but is the contribution of stock pickers actually zero? Is it negative?

Net of fees, probably. There's a certain amount of value contributed to the real economy by accurate stock prices, and a certain amount of that is created by reading the news, being aware of industry trends, etc. But the number of people needed to do that efficiently gets smaller all the time.

> Do the stock pickers, clever scamps that they are, figure out a way to take advantage of the Bogleheads and their naivete? Are they already doing so? Is this going to turn the stock market into just one big house of cards?

It's smoother than that. The more people are indexing, the more profitable the various types of active investment become. There's an equilibrium to be reached. We're probably in for higher volativity than present, sure - but the present low volatility is a historical aberration.

> If I've seen any trends in the financial markets, it's that every good idea will eventually be flogged to death, usually with catastrophic results.

More like it will get flogged until there's no more money in it and it's just a boring utility, like has happened to HFT.
Weird there is still a little lag on multiplayer side.

Just did a quick game on MacOs vers and first thing i saw was a lot of "Username set latency to Extra High"
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Привет,

Я только что загрузил приложение WhatsApp на мой Android.

Это приложение заменяет SMS. С помощью него я могу отправлять фото, видео и другие медиафайлы!

Приложение WhatsApp доступно для Android, iPhone и Windows Phone. Здесь нет логинов и паролей: приложение работает по принципу SMS, однако для его использования необходим доступ в Интернет.

Скачай приложение с https://www.whatsapp.com/download/ и попрощайся с SMS.
My dad is technically still a nurse, so uhm, yeah I know a thing or two. In Europe at least, most admin positions are filled by people with degrees. You will need a degree to be promoted to an admin role. In fact, there are even degrees in nursing these days, which give preferential access to stable roles in areas where offer outstrips demand (i.e. poorer regions).

The best you can get without a degree is leading your own team of nurses, which basically means deciding shift patterns. My dad sorta invented his own job (back in the '70s when the world was more flexible, let's say) and "escaped", but most people he knew are still there doing shifts.
> So a disclosure is now an advertisement?

No it isn't. I merely said that the article reads like an advert (not: it is an advert) and furthermore I said the affiliation would not help to shake this impression off. This is merely an aside and still doesn't imply it is an ad. My main problem with this article is that it is not critically examining what it is reporting about. Whether or not it actually is an ad is secondary.
> his hardly makes a case for any country being able to match the US capability and exposed acts of hacking

This is bizarre to witness.

It's amost like as an American you need to be safe in the perception that the US is #1 always, even in truly terrible things.
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Mango ice cream is much more delicious imo :)
And then, on SSDs it is a very minor issue
That is one of the major concerns regarding indexing and Vanguard in general. The process for selecting directors in Vanguard indirectly affects the proxy voting for corporate governance in stocks owned by the fund. Many people think it will lead to lower competition because of the objective of the fund is to keep in line with the market and not beat it.
When are you planning to release the Mask-RCNN code?

I'm trying to implement the RoIAlign layer in Tensorflow and I've a few doubts and having the author's code would definitely help in implementing it.
Glad to see people finally waking up to the fact that most active money managers are actually terrible at managing your money.
There's at least a 10x speedup potential in existing hardware if people stop doing silly things like Electron apps and shoehorning everything into web browsers.
> the stock price of a company has no direct bearing on its capital. Only at IPO time or when a company is raising additional capital is the stock price relevant for the capital. E.g. Google's stock price has increased 15x since their IPO, but that has had no effect on their capital. Any other time besides the IPO and when raising additional capital, it is just money changing hands between stockholders, the company doesn't see any of that.

But all the capital decisions are in the context of the stock price. If an outside group looks at investing, that will be in terms of current shares; if the company gets bought by another or does a merger, that transaction will be determined by the current share price.

> Secondly, the market is frequently very wrong about pricing stocks. It was happily 'allocating capital' to internet stocks during the dot-com bubble, to financial stocks up to 2008

Some of those internet stocks were worth far more than even their inflated valuations at the time (of course, many were worthless). The market price is always going to be a best-guess consensus estimate, sure, but a lot of these things are just inherently hard to figure out how much they're actually worth.
So, how well is Kubernetes suited for working with local hardware? As I understand it's mainly supposed to work with some external abstracted storage, like AWS EBS, cephs, NFS etc
But it's much slower that local SSD and for some small local installation maybe be not optimal. Like, running some not large non-critical service which requires database, several workers, some monitoring etc, overall 3-4 local servers. Is Kubernetes a good fit for this or it's only supposed to work with hive-like stateless workers connected to external storage over network?
That's kind of a paradox right? OP's link wanted H1B rules to allow employees to change companies or start new ones while on that visa unlike the present rules which don't allow for that.

That's what the article wanted to implement. The Indians at the helms of most companies in SV are here because of the H1B(& gradually progressed to green-cards) for higher education from US.
Sorry but I'm not sure I understand your point?

Android is Apache 2.0 with the Linux / GNU parts retaining their respective GPL licence. Microsoft are distributing the OS for free, which is allowed within the terms of Android's licencing and something that is done by many other organisations including Google themselves.
Environmental groups had plans to shut down nuclear reactors by blocking water cooling pipes in the sea.

Animal rights protestors have firebombed[1] several UK department stores (for selling fur), and abattoirs and milk distribution depots; dug up a corpse from a grave and held the body hostage; rescued animals from labs and caused damage to the labs;

Far right groups have rallies that attract considerable violence; an English politician was murdered by a far right extremist.

Illegal surveillance is obviously, unambiguously, wrong. The people who did it need to face both disciplinary action and criminal prosecution.
Does Fiber yield control back to the js engine when doing the "rebasing"? Or are all of these synchronous in one frame?
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As long as you're complaining about being silenced, why don't you not be silent by providing me with a link to the proof that I asked you for, but you silently ignored, please?

Asking for proof is not silencing, even if you decide on your own to go silent after I asked for proof. Your silence on the topic of proof speaks loudly.
Wow, just wow. I am going to try doing this with my GTA SA.

I am amazed with how versatile and fun Python is!
Here's a talk by Andreas Rumpf (Nim creator) about async programming in Nim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwArqelfBBY
End of civilization came about, people lost the ability to communicate in simple summary. Using text became obsolete, even simple tasks like a child saying 'mama' the child was required to navigate endless youtube sessions and podcasts.

Dating became a ritual where couples took turns to listening to 1-2 hours podcasts, most became disinterested in sex, people quit communicating the old fashion way by simple sentences like " I love you".

#1 sign your society is about to collapse, when every post you read is a link to a video or audio that requires you sit through hours of agony to learn concise point that someone could have written down in five words or less.

It's here.

...

If a picture is a 1,000 words, then what is a 'podcast' or a 'video', when a concise summary can be transferred in just a few words?

Traditionally the 'audio' & 'video' were used by Hollywood as a filler between commercials and content was deferred to hook the listener for the entire hour, in order to maximize the advertisers chance of hooking a customer. In the current paradigm what is the point of a 30 minute podcast to learn a one minute point of view?

Certainly for radio ( internet & air ) the goal is still the same to hook the listener, like facebook to hook the user so he never leaves facebook.

...

Summary? who knows most likely about decadence, and self indulgence, but mostly people quit talking to one another directly.
I really miss the past 600 years of free travel.
I'd suspect all those HFT firms will have robot agents (trading based on some ratios/logic) as simulations for their testing environment.
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Irish War of Independence? Hungarian Revolution of 1848? A little harder if you don't count independence efforts of distinct groups of people. Solidarność? Storming of the Bastille? Hungarian Revolution of 1956?

It's fairly pointless to list examples, as they are everywhere. Sometimes the goal is achieved more easily, sometimes it takes decades. But it can work.
Most of these projects use CSS or the DOM to provide animations, which aren't available on react-native. Usually, all compatibility problems between the two come from that.
Would you rather have less documentation and fewer tutorials? I wouldn't call four links about a new library excessive.
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Is it treason to expose abuses of power and illegal practices?
To outside observers you most certainly are approaching one at speed.
> Facebook and Google are evil, and we must stop them.

I agree and usually we don't have a good and approachable open alternative to push. I genuinely think matrix and riot.im tick all the boxes this time though.
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As a Vanguard customer, I can understand why people are so enthusiastic about their products, and have known for a while that passive investment, and Vanguard in particular, was growing while active management was on the decline.

At no point did I think the difference in inflows was anywhere close to 8.5x. And it does worry me.

I'm familiar with the contention that even having some active players in the market will arbitrage the prices back to fair value, but when they compose such a small share of such a large market that's no longer a trustworthy assumption to make.

There's no law that I know of that prevents active players from exploiting the knowledge that passive money will go wherever the market tells it to. There have got to be a lot of opportunities here for profiting, legally, at the expense of those passive investors, that goes beyond simple margin arbitrage.

My point is, the less active money there is around, the less accurate our concept of a correct value can be. This situation has the potential to de-stabilise the economy sooner rather than later.
Would it be possible to read the game's framebuffer directly to get rid of the screen grab step? I'm thinking that might be faster.
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1) is excellent advice. I stumbled on this approach when a good friend died suddenly a couple of years ago. Some other friends couldn't make the funeral, and I wrote it all down for them. Then I found it was a huge help for me...
Agree with your observations.

For some reason marketing types simply do NOT get that their carefully crafted email marketing missives are automatically consigned to spam. Do they read every email they are sent? Probably not, but their conceit is that their emails are special and should be read.
Why should we not support those who expose wrongdoing? That's the core of the issue you're ignoring here, whistleblowing is not just releasing whatever things you want.

If we as a nation want those activities, then we should make them legal and clearly defined. If not, then stopping those activities from taking place hardly sounds like "treason".
Many older Russians I've met look very fondly
back at the USSR; younger generations have a
mixed attitude, many just echoing their
parents' sentiments, others enjoying modern
Russia.

I have family in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and have often heard that sentiment - that things weren't too bad back then. Hard to say how much of it is due to viewing the past in rose tinted glasses or missing their youth though.
They do own the results of their efforts. It is called their remuneration. If they want to own part of the company they can buy stock in it. It is public. No one is stopping anyone from working at a worker coop if they so desire.
Really interesting text-to-text generation work. There’s also some work being looking at using Neural Networks for data-to-text generation. Some of which was presented at INLG 2016 last year at Edinburgh. However, it is still early days and currently symbolic approaches still achieve better text quality in closed world applications.
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Why should start-ups get a free ride and tax payer subsidized employees.

If a start-up isn't economic without underpaying then it does not deserve to exist and is wasting capital.
Oh, right - although one could argue that's a subclass of crotch-grabbers.
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Seriously, your own homegrown garbage collection inside the js runtime? I looked at React the first time it came out and aside from the insanity of using xml mixed with javascript or some kind of pseudo js, it was waaaay too complex. I dont know but it seems crazy to me to write applications like that, it makes xaml look decently simple.
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As a technique, it goes waay back. There is some reason to believe even the Gunpowder Plot was engineered by authorities.
I will never believe people recompile PHP binaries every day.
Yeah, but I think its a little more serious than Trumps' crotch-grabbing sexism, when such a significant swathe of UK politicians is embroiled in child-sex scandals, that it becomes a frickin' National Security issue to prosecute them.

If only the subjects of the UK had a spine, as a people, and the willingness to confront the dire evil that has usurped their political infrastructure .. alas, they don't. A nation of cowards, really.
I wouldn't go that far.

AIs in games often cheat, and they're also dumbed down so that they don't beat humans too fast, but the main difference with "regular" AI comes from the difference in goals and context. AI in most games has to make sufficiently smart decisions in a dynamic environment and with very limited timespan (milliseconds, usually). In such, it is pretty similar to algorithms used in robotics, and therefore entirely unlike the stuff the regular AI does to suggest you better ads.
I would have thought JSON was more a back end
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I am intrigued by your product and marketing problem. I did a quick Google search and found several firms that are taking a consulting approach to your solution space. Ok, so you have some sort of on-line web app that lets you create mobile apps?

So does Intercom tell you that people have tried using your product once, deemed it too confusing and have ditched it?

Since I don't know which of the many products that the Google search came up with is yours -- you do have paid ads? -- I can only broad brush presume that the product promises more than it can deliver and thus is quickly discarded after one failed attempt. If the persons trying out your product wanted consulting services, then there are number of firms who explicitly are offering that approach to solving the mobile app creation requirement.

Perhaps you could provide a wiki / FAQ / forum which is only accessible using the email that was used to activate the free trial. Then with a bit of instrumentation you might be better able to discern the steps that evaluation users take.
> and the leaker could both get 14 years under proposed anti-whistleblower laws:

No, that's not a proposal of the Law Commission report (which isn't a proposed new law).

Here's the document. It's over 300 pages long. The consultation is still open.

http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/project/protection-of-official-data...

The report gathers information about all the whistleblowing protection law in the UK; all the secrecy protection law (which exists in some weird places; and laws in other countries.

The 14 years comes from 2 places:

1) comparing the English "Official Secrets Act" maximum sentence (currently 2 years) with the equivalent in Canada (currently 14 years). But the report does not propose, even tentatively, that the English maximum is extended to 14 years.

2) Comparing the maximum sentence under the official secrets act with other laws. For example:

> 3.184 The maximum sentence for the offences contained in the Official Secrets Act 1989 is the same as many other offences that criminalise the unauthorised disclosure of information. For example, it is an offence punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment for an employee of the National Lottery Commission to disclose information that has been supplied by Her Majesty’s Commissioners for Revenue and Customs that relates to a person whose identity is specified in the information or whose identity can be deduced from the information. This is the same maximum sentence available for an unauthorised disclosure that, to take one example, damages the capability of the armed forces to carry out their tasks.

One effect is to lengthen the maximum sentence under the Official Secrets Act, but another might be to reduce the sentences in all these other laws.
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sooooo much missing.

where are Stuart Smith's games like Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves. A 17 player local multiplayer RPG for Atari 800 or his Adventure Gane Construction Set released by EA for all platforms back then?

where are all the SSI and Epyx games like Temple of Apshai?

Interplay games like Bard's Tale ...

Heck, if it's "history" how about the crpgs on the Plato system in the mid-70s?

maybe rename the book "so and so's random book of crpgs"? or maybe more catchy "Two 20 sided die rolls of CRPGs" ;)
You have several options for this. If it is non HA, then you can pin a RC to a specific node, and use hostpath storage. if the container fails, it will always respawn on the same node, maximizing uptime and also having max capacity from your local SSD.
Alternatively, you can also run rook, which is backed by Ceph, and use affinity to make sure that your pods are very close to storage, and gain back some of the speed.

In general and in my opinion, it is always better to run with k8s since you have, for the stateless pieces, cluster awareness. So there is never a downside to it, especially as the control plane is very lightweight for small clusters, and you can colocate many parts.
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Your intuition seems correct but with a big caveat. If you divide the market in two, active to one side and passive to the other, both of them will have the exact same returns as a group. That's because all the passive investor is doing is replicating the market average and not changing it so the mix of stocks the total passive investors hold is the same as the mix of stocks the total active investors hold. That means as more money gets invested in index funds pricing becomes worse and thus there are more active funds that make a lot of money and more active funds that lose a lot of money and on average they still make the same returns before fees than the passive funds.

It only stops being like this if pricing gets so poor that active funds can start to trade in ways that the passive funds can't replicate, either because they're faster or more frequent or have some other trading advantage that makes it very hard for the passive fund to replicate it effectively.
But why does that matter? Does your Angular 1 application work? Does Angular 2 existing prevent it from working?
Yeah, you can recompile PHP 2-3 times per year, and it's just long line of args, nothing more. And you can compare it with every-time compilation of modern js apps. What an equation! And you forgot to mention Rust, but let's pretend it's normal way of arguing.
I think limiting heavily the use of h1b by body shops make it direct hire only no w2 contractors
This isn't punching down because universities are breeding grounds for future ideologies. What is laughable to you and me is being taken seriously by university administrators, whether by agreement or fear of backlash. Open ridicule is how you deal with inane ideas, the far left deserve much more of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYbM-3E11Qo&t=117s

Boeing also released a video of the pilots rehearsing the routine. There's an overhead view of the takeoff - that's a lot steeper than 30 degrees, unless it's a perspective trick.

EDIT: 50-55 degrees seems to the actual pitch angle.
The "some reason" is very simple: It's tiny. If you want to build a container image and want it to be as small as possible, but want a bit more flexibility than e.g. just busybox or just your app, it's very convenient.
> It could be the spaceship equivalent of a SUV.

I bought my first SUV a few weeks ago. It's a Jeep renegade, thus not very big, still the comfort from big space inside (without a huge 2-D surface) is priceless.