skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Warren Buffet has endorsed holding an S&P500 index fund many times. He has not endorsed SPY as a vehicle for that. SPY is more than twice as expensive as Vanguard's or iShare's S&P500 funds, and has lagged them since inception. It is also the case that SPY is organized as a unit investment trust so it cannot lend shares for securities lending revenue, as other S&P500 index funds can and do. For all these reasons, I expect SPY to underperform VOO.

In fact Warren Buffett picked Vanguard's S&P500 fund for his long bet (http://longbets.org/362/)

Agree with the rest of your post. Taylor Larimore is a mensch.
The photographer is Christopher Payne who does a lot of work that looks at humans making things. The colors and how they're treated in these photos is a product of his specific aesthetic:

http://lenscratch.com/2016/08/christopher-payne-making-stein...
Really? That's great. I didn't know that. FNB should get on it then. In general FNB seems to have 'poor' security. You can't even paste a password in when resetting or signing up. They seem to just want me to be making week passwords.
That's right, the banks often send paper checks. Automatic bill pay is shit.
Well lah dee freaking dah, dude. I'm just talking about rough ballparks.
>Then they relabeled every bathroom in California as being "All Gender."

Citation needed.

>There are two genders. Sometimes, people from one gender decide to identify with another gender. Fine. Men who believe they are women can go in the women's room and vice versa. No need to invent the concept of "all gender."

Binary gender [1],[2] and gendered bathrooms [3] are actually much more modern than the concept of a gender spectrum.

>["]I am not going to allow you to pretend this is real science."

Who is pretending this is real science? This is a rhetorical paper in a journal of philosophy.

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender#History
[2] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_(South_Asia)
[3] : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/stu...
Does anyone know how much data is offered on the retailers where money is spent? This is important. I'd like to easily classify and organize purchases similar to mint without having to hand all of my data over to a third party.
Great story, thanks for sharing. My online presence and interest in computers were also largely thanks to Harry Potter.
The everyday discourse on HN is dominated by naysaying. Vision doesn't stand a chance here.
Show HN: Amazon wish list price monitor bot, tries to be funny (weekend project)
The 5 Manager Archetypes You See in the Design Process
Thanks, good to know they're not hardcoded but I need the real glow plasma
I had a Sprint AIRAVE. It needs GPS to tell it where it is. Not just at setup, but constantly. That's strange. It also has the serious defect that it publishes itself as a strong cell site even if it loses its Internet connection. So if your Internet connection goes down, so does your cell service, until you unplug the thing.
Hmm, my editor does it for me.

Wait, even Lisp does that for me, because it has a built-in source code pretty printer:

Call the pretty printer to format this mess:

CL-USER 41 > (let ((*print-case* :downcase))
(pprint '(defun add-text-padding
(str &key padding newline)
"Add padding to text STR. Every line except for the first one, will be
prefixed with PADDING spaces. If NEWLINE is non-NIL, newline character will
be prepended to the text making it start on the next line with padding
applied to every single line."
(let ((str (if newline (concatenate 'string (string #\Newline) str) str)))
(with-output-to-string (s) (map 'string (lambda (x) (princ x s) (when (char= x #\Newline)
(dotimes (i padding) (princ #\Space s)))) str))))
))

It prints wonderfully formatted and indented code:

(defun add-text-padding (str &key padding newline)
"Add padding to text STR. Every line except for the first one, will be
prefixed with PADDING spaces. If NEWLINE is non-NIL, newline character will
be prepended to the text making it start on the next line with padding
applied to every single line."
(let ((str
(if newline
(concatenate 'string (string #\Newline) str)
str)))
(with-output-to-string (s)
(map 'string
(lambda (x)
(princ x s)
(when (char= x #\Newline)
(dotimes (i padding) (princ #\Space s))))
str))))

Now one would only need to fix this beginner level code.
Guessing most people that care about this would have some sort of "minimum http header/feature" test that runs each build.
Ugh, I'm so tired of this argument.

Lego has more sets today that are just bricks or bricks with multiple models than they've had for like 35+ years. Not to mention dozens of books they put out with other ideas.

And I'm not talking about instructions for how to build a different set, I mean "Here's a way you can combine these pieces that you might not have though of - figure out what to do with that" or "You like animals? Here's how to make a tail. Go make some animals."

My daughter gets plenty of small sets, and then typically just wants to dive into all of the extra pieces and build something completely different. Sometimes these are inspired by Lego suggestions. Sometimes they are crazy things she comes up with on her own.

There is nothing that Lego sells that legitimately limits people in what they can build.
Does this have any implications for the ridiculous seizures of property police carry out every now and then when they pull someone over who has a large amount of cash on them?

The whole idea of a court case titled, e.g., "State of Texas vs $45,000" is asinine. I'd love to see the SCOTUS lay down the law on that bullshit.
What is the t-mobile unit called? i have a similar issue in a basement workshop
From the README.md:

> Also, unlike most of the emulators you can meet nowadays it uses HTML and CSS for its UI (exactly as Atom does), which means we can stop misusing unicode characters and make a better looking terminal with appropriate tools.

I added emphasis.

When they say it's the right tool for the job, and in reality it's not... well, you get reactions like these. And justifiably I think.
Facebook Will Add 3,000 Monitors to Screen Offensive Content
I interviewed with them just a few months ago for an analytics role - very friendly and intelligent people. I was impressed. #anecdotes
I used Pex a lot, very cool to see your next project is _also_ PL Magic :)
I think _today_ the primary benefits are having a single identity and source of payment, essentially to simplify cloud service management. (though the value there will grow as we add more services) In the longer term, I'd love to figure out ways to help our partners complement/sell each other. Being able to have datastores automatically connect to your logging/monitoring, or having a really great CLI experience to connect and deploy pieces and bits in complementary ways.

As far as services go, we're pretty mixed of opinion right now. I think we have a great story for Ruby developers and think it would be great if we could cater to Node next. James on our team would like Go or Rust, Matt on our team would like to go serverless or maybe even GraphQL-related services (but he's a bit of a futurist).

If you have suggestions/a wishlist, let us know!
Ask HN: Do you write unit tests for your side projects?
> Because the oceans are already being over fished to the point we're facing a very real likelihood of collapse.

Evidence please.

Most of the costal area of India uses relatively far more primitive fishing methods compared to Japan or China. Have not seen any ocean fish becoming less available in last 30 years even though population might have doubled and demand for fish gone up by 5 fold. At least there is no evidence on ground !
Haha, no I don't distrust them. I want to invest when they go public!
C64 Bash login in OS X
No, but it's usually used to take screenshots and stuff like that.

It means rendering without the UI from what I understand.
Hey, so I just let this little FB Messenger bot run free into the wild.
CheapHarry is a price tracker that notifies you when prices of products you watch drop. You can send it amazon.com product links or your whole wish list (make sure it's shared or public though).
Feel free to ask me anything or give me any feedback. :)
The COL and tax difference isn't 2x. Alabama doesn't have unions, so they can't bargain collectively. That's the whole reason manufacturing has been moving south
We do have bigger problems.

> The Justice Department's report said Brockmeyer approved the creation of additional fees, "many of which are widely considered abusive and may be unlawful, including several that the City has repealed during the pendency of our investigation. These include a $50 fee charged each time a person has a pending municipal arrest warrant cleared."

> Just about every branch of Ferguson government -- police, Municipal Court, City Hall -- participated in "unlawful" targeting of African-American residents for tickets and fines, the Justice Department concluded.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/09/us/ferguson-missouri-courts/in...

It looks like it was trivially easy to come up with any scheme they wanted to collect money from people too vulnerable and poor to fight it. If the Michael Brown shooting hadn't happened, the area wouldn't have received the scrutiny it did, and my assumption is that the scheme would still be ongoing. I'm sure this happens elsewhere; the smaller the community and the more chummy the players, the easier it would be.
The whole point is to not let V8 do any job at all.

V8 == user impacted.

Compile time V8 == compiler impacted, users happy.

It's like interpreting what you can during compile time, with caching capabilities.

To speed up boot time and init time, not runtime per say.
People who move out to California to work at Facebook are very far away from a representative sample of the country.
New York Times should not have hired climate change bullshitter Bret Stephens
Container Networking and Openshift primed
Ask HN: What are some good sites to buy a (used/new) car?
Are there any startups or other in this space that aren't the usual incumbents?
Bringing AI to enterprise integration
«To add to your "gas station" example, most of these stations make profit not from gasoline but from other stuff they sell like cigarettes, sodas, chips etc.»

I think this is why the Convenience stores may (again) out last the pumps outside them. On long road trips, bathroom breaks and snacks/food will still be useful, even in an electric future.

As you also note, the new convenience store is the supermarket and the supermarkets are also best setup to electrify large parking grids as the transition happens.
That would be great if employers actually let you take a break. Instead what will happen is exactly what you would probably try, which is to get the person to do some other kind of work.

I am happy for you that working on developer tooling is a break for you, but for some people this is never going to be the case. Some people might only be able to work 150/250 possible work days in a year sustainably. I think this advice is aimed at those individuals.

At the end of the day you have to watch out for yourself. If you work yourself to suicide the company is never going feel sympathy for you. This is a business transaction, and part of business is crafting a message that resonates with counter-parties. Companies themselves do this all the time, and it is perfectly standard.
Sowell on software
new old school magic ;)
http://www.xfree86.org/4.7.0/ctlseqs.html#Mouse%20Tracking
I'll thx a lot.
Mens sana in corpore sano: a healthy mind in a healthy body
Refer to this online course for advice on how to learn better: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
Isn't all computing just basically artificial intelligence?
> but what is it doing now outside of games

Clearly VR is still in very early stages of its development, so I don't see how what's being done right now provides any valuable insight into its potential.

> the high romanticism of VR one of the reasons why I am highly skeptical of the industry.

Whether that romanticism exists or not doesn't change the technology or what can be done with it, so I don't see why that's a reason to be skeptical of it.
Okay, I don't feel this way either. Unfortunately, most of the world is not as liberal as the community on hacker news, and as soon as you mention 'gay' or 'transgender', the discussion turns to gender / sexual orientation rather than the original topic at hand. The article sidesteps this issue by not mentioning it until much later, that is all.
The author seems to think so.

"Armed with this ruling, the Nelson decision may set an important precedent to rein in another abusive civil proceeding: civil forfeiture. The parallels are striking"
It's not the same thing.

; executes the following command even if the first one fails. && only if the previous command returns 0.
Yes, absolutely. Due to the large number of side projects I've worked on over the years, it's very important to me that I can put something down and pick it up again later. Unit tests allow me to do that. They drastically reduce the amount of certainty I have that modifying or adding a new feature to an old code-base won't break everything.
>The OPs perspective in the Greek's mainstream media and elite's perspective. You can't even discuss the eventually of switching currency in the TV.

Pretty much how it is everywhere wrt having an actual discussion of practical options on the table (setting aside juicy ad revenue) that might not favor those whose social economic status puts their heads first in line on the not so metaphorical guillotines at some point ;)

I think the citizens of Greece should take page out of the Victoria Nuland play book.

I mean if I had means to be able to talk to the all the pensioners I would:

- advise them the reach out to any of there family/friends who have (decision making) roles in customs/commodity importers w/ decent import volumes from other EU countries

- work out a deal where they buy their materials from cheaper non "market economy status" places + flag them through while discontinuing imports from their northern neighbors (already profiting here, because cheaper)

- then pooling their funds and shorting companies/securities with the largest exposure to their non buying before earnings calls, and close out shorts soon after. (profiting on the other end, because why not? but you have to liquidate short positions before the ECB printing press comes to the rescue :P)

Or maybe people will continue to take the raw deal while bent over a barrel with ones pants at their ankles.
> Webpack is for dead fish.

I haven't used webpack but I have used many similar tools, and I've heard a lot of praise for webpack. Can you elaborate on why you dislike webpack so much?
This is a global phenomenon, not just happening in the US.

How would they enforce it?
Merging Maps
I think it's especially doable as a programmer. You only get ~5 productive hours a day, so why not take a long lunch break and do some exercise in between?
My initial reaction was, "yeah, that was an awful D-Pad." Then I realized the reference was to the disk drive. Oh, well... Two promotions, then, according to the root comment's saying.
Still cheaper than WU. A typical BTC txn fee is somewhere in the ballpark of $0.50 right now. The author of this article paid WU a txn fee of $14 if I'm reading it right.
I don't know about 'recognizing my humanity' but making eye contact with other drivers is a very good way to verify that they have seen you. I cross a mini-roundabout on my commute to work, and it is surprising the number of drivers who have not seen me because I am obscured by the strut at the corner of their windscreen, or they are looking elsewhere.

I don't ride in front of a vehicle until I think they have seen me.
It also required ridiculous metered long distance fees, forced you to lock up the family telephone line, and buying and installing a modem was much harder without the help of the internet.

I would advance the hypothesis that the prospect of the internet back then seemed much worse compared to dropping a few hundred to have Vive hardware shipped to your door and plugging it in. But the people who built the internet saw what it could be, not the garbage that it was.

And we're still in the beta stages; this stuff only gets better with time.
Isn't this just a souped up femtocell?
#1 and #2: True

#3: The government would only own the poles and towers. ISPs are free to pay a fee to use said poles and towers to hang their cables/wires/antennaes. Since these items would no longer be owned by ISPs, they would not be unable to block smaller startups from trying to get into the neighborhood.

Imagine, for a moment, a landscape in which the roads in our country were owned by FedEx and UPS (or even Amazon) rather than the government. Then, imagine that they'd struck deals to stay out of each others way; moreover, imagine that they decided to divide up the cities amongst themselves (LA roads are owned by FedEx, SF roads are owned by UPS, etc). They would be able to block smaller delivery companies from delivering around the country. The copy shop in the next town over would be unable to deliver copy paper to your office directly. They would have to either go through one of the larger delivery companies or not deliver at all due to being blocked. Well, this is what's happening with current ISPs.

I currently have only Comcast/Xfinity in my neighborhood because Comcast owns all of the telephone poles (which are using public land for free), and in my last neighborhood, my only choice was AT&T/DirectTV. There is no chance for anyone new to come into the market where I live be cause the ISPs own the basics. It's sad really.
> Facebook is being tied to credit worthiness, and job applications, whether we like it or not.

Where, how? I've never heard of someone needing a Facebook account for credit and any employer asking for your Facebook profile is a huge red flag.
Quick Guide: Using WebP on Your Website or Native Apps
> Alabama doesn't have unions

Alabama disagrees: https://labor.alabama.gov/inspections/unions.aspx
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Probably only in the U.S, and even so probably hard to regulate anyways due to nature of cryptos
isn't that the point of having a three headed fund? 50% spy, 25% bonds, 25% international?
This looks very good indeed but the lack of initial data model very severely limits the production usability of this tool. You can't use "document" and "window" ...

It's the same problem TypeScript have/had that for external libs you need definition files for it to work. Now if we had TypeScript-to-assumeDataProperty generator that would be VERY interesting!
I think the networks way over-adopted the spirit of the FCC's Fairness doctrine (1) and the equal time rule (2). It's so easy to build controversy and call if "fair and balanced", which drives up ratings while suppressing the evolution of any meaningful progress in any of the affected areas.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule
I promise this will never get better until fines get handed out left and right for breaches of ANY personal information. Right now, no one really gets penalized for breaches unless it involves regulated data (financial, healthcare, etc...).

Why? Money, obviously.

1. employing security engineers who know what they are doing is EXPENSIVE.

2. third party pentests are expensive.

3. if there isn't an open source tool available, all of the software in the security area is SUPER expensive.

No company, especially small or medium size, is going to spend that kind of cash without a real motivator.

Even if you do EVERYTHING you should be doing, you will still have vulnerabilities. Its a loosing game.
There's so much sarcasm in your post that I'm not sure I understand your point. Can you clarify?
It's a brilliant tool, bravo!
Why did you go down that road instead of heap snapshot? Portability?
The technical founder trap
15W TDP
Wally?
Great question. Invariably when researching different models you come across the forums where some critical part of the car has failed costing the owner thousands to repair, and yet after a while it becomes clear that every model has its share of lemons. So then you are back to cobbling together information from a bunch of distributed sources which is a pain, and prone to bias from fans of particular models etc. I would love to see something in this area and even better, a startup that can undercut the ridiculous mark up of second hand cars from dealers, but still offer cars that are guaranteed not to be lemons.
A long time ago there was a theory about using Guile (the GNU Scheme) as a general interpreter for languages using partial evaluation: you write an interpreter for a language in Scheme, use a given program as input, and run an optimizer over the program. This turns your interpreter into a compiler. I played around with the concept (making a Tcl interpreter), and it even kind of worked, often creating reasonably readable output.

Prepack looks like the same kind of optimizer – it could be a fun task to write an interpreter and see if this can turn it into a compiler/transpiler.
>but is unlikely to happen any time soon.

It's guaranteed not to happen as long as you vote for the big two parties, making sure it doesn't is one of the things that gets bipartisan support.

While I agree a win for a third party likely end with the new party entrenching itself like one of the current two, that seems like the best way to get a new party devoted to fixing this to emerge.
> What does it take one to become a "hero" nowadays? And how is he in any way connected to the working class?

As soon as you're born they make you feel small

By giving you no time instead of it all

Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school

They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool

Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules

When they've tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years

Then they expect you to pick a career

When you can't really function you're so full of fear

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV

And you think you're so clever and classless and free

But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

There's room at the top they're telling you still

But first you must learn how to smile as you kill

If you want to be like the folks on the hill

A working class hero is something to be

A working class hero is something to be