skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If he thought he needed the market to produce returns in the bottom 10-20% of it's average decade returns, it was a terrible one, he's a 4-1 or 9-1 dog. Or maybe he thought the market was overvalued and that it was closer to 50-50 that it would have a bad decade. But that's still a 50-50 bet, no big edge for him.

And in both cases the reality is that he's giving up 3-4% a year in fees to the index. That's a huge edge for the index, he'd need the worst decade in history to beat that.

Anyone who has every analyzed long term hedge fund returns comes away convinced they are terrible. Those fees are just far too high to overcome for 95% of the funds.
I wonder if this is the kind of app you can "never" properly write in a cross-platform way...
Those can be easily harvested from there
The Thought Emporium, if you are sciency-inclined - https://www.youtube.com/user/TheChemlife
Is there an official WhatsApp status Twitter account? I cannot find one.
The timeline goes further back than 2012... VR has been around for what, 30+ years?
Were the anime fans translating their anime from Japanese or English? If Japanese, did they work off of a Japanese translation of Harry Potter? Or was it mainly that anyone from the anime-translating community who could also understand English became interested in your project?
Ctrl-P for me on Windows just opens the print dialog.
Lowering taxes only works if you can combine it with something else that will keep the companies in place afterwards, such as a critical mass of specialized workers, infrastructure, etc. Otherwise it's just playing the downward-spiral game in a saturated market.

The federal government should create a 10-year plan to subsidize PR and fix its economy/democracy from the ground up. If you look at Eastern Europe, it takes a long time. One specific hack won't fix this, that's magical thinking, and usually from corrupted politicians turfing their funders.
There's a difference between a state, municipality, or territory engaging in deficit spending, and a sovereign government that controls their currency doing the same.
IMO text is actually a great way to interface with computers, because the core problem is reading code not writing it. Further, people have decades of practice in reading / interpreting text and writing in a linear format which lowers the mental overhead.

As to GUI builders their are a lot of them however people tend to design for the screen they use which creates almost as many problems as it fixes. Further, that's rarely the 'hard' part of the design even when you have them using a good text based abstraction is often more productive especially in terms of diff tools and version control.
>"you are wrong, way wrong, and stupid, and I cant explain why because you are not capable of understanding. Basically, I just want to write on the internet how poorly I thinknof your character simply because I disagree with your political opinion"

I am glad you feel that way.

Since you are so righteous without reason, I hope that today you set out to contribute something concretely good to humanity.
Yep, at least in The Netherlands.
Keep in mind that everything is gzipped nowadays, so it may not make a big difference in network usage. Although it is still likely to cause some memory overhead
https://helpwanted.apache.org/

http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html

http://savannah.gnu.org/people/?group=tasklist

https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/helpwanted/?SetFreedomCookie

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38881/how-to-find-opensou...

https://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/07/04/195239/Finding-Open-...
I wasn't making commentary about Puerto Rico, except in taking exception to the poster above me who was pushing the line that not only should Puerto Rico default on their debt, they shouldn't even regard it as a bad thing that they have to, since after all the people lending them the money knew it might never get paid back and built it into the interest they charge.
You can try to look under GitHub's trending page for those languages (e.g. https://github.com/trending/ruby).

Also I like to check out tools that I use daily and see if there are issues I can tackle. You can follow mailing lists, public slack channels, etc. too.

Just talking to others will give you ideas to get started. And if you can't find anything quickly, start your own and have fun with it!
So perhaps the successor to the successor to bitcoin, in another 10 or so years?
This case is well covered by the guideline that says:

> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.
Oxford also taught a few courses in Haskell:

- Functional Programming
- Digital Systems
- Principals of Programming Languages.

Compilers was primarily in OCaml, and there were several other courses in Scala.
>The article argues "VR will also enable immersive concerts, reinvented museums, and live, court-side sporting events"

As a day one Vive owner I also agree these kinds of statements are fairly bullshitty. VR doesn't remotely compare to the real experience of a real outing. Nor is it able to do much outside of gaming and there are probably valid reasons why. Gamers are used to being in virtual spaces, using VR is fun, etc but its also isolating, uncomfortable, expensive, and low res.

The good news is that "games" encompasses many categories of experience. Social fun like Rec Room, or RPG's, or MMOs, or shooters, or playing pool, or pingpong, etc. Its a varied experience and I think its a little dismissive to say something like "Oh but its only games now?" Games are huge! Why are we discounting this incredible part of the human experience and something part of all human cultures? This is like saying, "Oh you're in love and getting married? That's just endorphins and patriarchy." Its dismissive to an extreme.

That said, I've watched a bit of youtube with my Vive and can certainly see it making in-roads with consumption of media, but even the best pool simulators, gun range, or pingpong simulators not only feel nothing like the real thing, but they're barely a fraction of the fun of the real thing. If futurists are banking on VR replacing many real experiences, well, they better be ready to be disappointed. VR's strengths aren't being a digital version of real experiences, its making fantastic worlds and experiences of its own that feel 'real' and interesting.
EDIT: All of my comments in this thread are being downvoted, presumably because

1. People are assuming I support advertising, and advertising to children

2. People are angered by that and thus downvote me.

All I'm intending to do is clarify why readers don't like the concept of advertising, or advertising to children. Is this offense, to ask for a clarification?
The speed of transmission of Quantum entanglement would, I believe, be limited by the speed of light between the two points in space, without having to traverse a path that follows the curve of the surface of the earth.

So, communicating from Australia to Norway would traverse the diameter of the earth, rather than half of the circumference (plus satellites of course)
> If your account was affected, you no longer need to do anything.

How do you figure? An unknown actor presumably had full access to your email inbox for a non-zero amount of time and the proper remediation is "nothing"? If I was concerned this had affected me I would right now be changing my passwords to ____everything____.
This is the first set I've ever heard about pre-release. I imagine it will be pretty popular.
How does this compare to https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/CRoaring?

Is the difference that this one is distributed?
Just curious: what's the main argument against statehood? Federal taxes?
I know a very wealthy hedge fund manager who just moved to PR in order to minimize (read: eliminate) his Federal tax burden.

Of course, as the current situation demonstrates, not being under the Federal taxation umbrella has certain disadvantages.
You could try contributing to gitlab.com, I didn't know any Ruby when I started contributing but they have an awesome guideline and issue tags that show you what's easy to do for you. You get high quality code reviews and they help you a lot when you struggle.
on a set this big that's usually not a problem.
I totally agree, there's no need to log that you bubbled an error. My recommendation is to have the function that generates the error also log it internally. That way, you don't need to log any returned errors at all, unless you are calling a 3rd party library that can't log it's own error.
First, you'd need the Illinois legislature to stop arguing and navel-gazing about the long-standing budget impasse and actually do something about it, for better or for worse.

This seems unlikely.
Not only that but you can also use the money to buy faster CPU.
down in Switzerland
There is ZERO legal basis for asset forfeiture UNLESS someone is charged with a crime. Your property is really part of you and no one, no government has any legal right to imprison you (which includes your property) unless you are charged with a crime. This is the most basic human right -- habeas corpus and due process.

I really hope the practice is stopped because it is unconstitutional and abused horribly. In terms of abuse, after the police take someone's money, say they find $10k in cash on you. The police demand proof of its origin (now this of course is once again Guilty until proven Innocent which was hopefully struck down now by SCOTUS), then you go to the police with your proof. The police will cast doubt on your proof, tell you to go to Court and spend $5k of legal fees to reclaim your $10k OR they very kindly say let's just refund you $7k and call it even. This is regular practice. Police stations have been found buying helicopters and other things with such funds (the Washington Post had a great expose on this).
About $30/mo. It cost approx $43,000 to build, looking to recoup at least 50% of that.
I didn't edit it. Please don't sink to the level of putting words in people's mouths.
Any project needs help. Pick a hobby of yours and browse the web to find appropriate projects in your languages. I would say that is the best way to find work that is fun for you.
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Most(?) US states have an "ID" card option you can get instead of a driver's license. It's official proof of age etc. but does not confer any driving privileges, and it's a bit less expensive. No need for the Feds to have to manage this.
Sure, seniors vote. Don't assume that the seniors in, say, Texas are going to be in favor of higher taxes in order to rescue pensions in California and Illinois, though.
More yes for deeper stuff, more no for outer stuff.

I have integrated testsuit for core framework components, which can be run separately, i tend to have separate tests for more upper level stuff, and i rarely have unit tests for actual programs.

It tends to be a drag that is very easy to half-ass, so i try not to waste it.
Same in France (since about one hour)
Down in Boston
I received it too
The top 10 apps are now all from Facebook or Google. The average user now loads zero apps per month. Apps are dead.[1]

[1] https://www.recode.net/2016/9/16/12933780/average-app-downlo...
> It's sad that there are developers and projects who write the type of code that causes these sorts of performance trade offs. I stopped writing this kind of fancy code a long time ago when I realized it wasn't worth it. You're just shooting yourself in the foot in the long run.

I respectfully disagree :)

I stopped writing excessively terse, 'overly clever', borderline 'minified' code a long time ago when I realised it wasn't worth it - it isn't readable, and it certainly isn't maintainable by my future self, let alone others. Maintainability is generally more important than saving a few cycles. Abstraction does not necessarily === "shitty code" - abstractions help us to build a mental model and reason about what the code is doing.

Having said that, I certainly see where you're coming from - abstraction can be overused, taken to the nth degree such that it's almost impossible to work out how anything actually works, and I do rather loathe such excessively heavy frameworks. But Prepack can help optimise the good frameworks that use just enough abstraction.

On the face of it, Prepack gives us the best of both worlds - developers can write maintainable code, and Prepack can optimise it a bit for us. Others here have menioned it too, but I see it as akin to the same sort of optimisations that compilers generally do.
Very cool!
A feature suggestion for the future: add a Watch app! That shouldn't be hard to implement at all, and would be a killer feature, I believe. A quick color browse from a pic in the gallery.
I don't think so; I'm a counter-example for one. I've found that I just can't track my spending unaided and that I pretty much need to maintain my own books to stay on top of everything.
https://openhatch.org/

https://www.codetriage.com/
My PHD says everything is a-ok sigh
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I know the Research Institute sold out several times and was often hard to get.
Arab Spring migrant turned dev raising money for teaching coding to refugees
Your characterization of the first article is misleading:

> Guion was charged with two felonies, one for the marijuana and another for possession of a firearm in commission of a felony. Police secured the cash, though Guion’s agent claims the money was from NFL paychecks and that he has bank statements proving it was not related to the drugs. A spokesperson for the Starke Police Department told The Huffington Post they have not received this documentation and that they gave Guion a receipt stating their intent to permanently seize the cash.

Constitutionally, seizure (the money has not yet been forfeited, only seized) only requires probable cause. Finding a large amount of cash next to almost a pound of illegal drugs is undoubtedly probable cause to conclude that the money is the proceeds of illegal activity.
Were the downsides manageable? Increase in APK size / build time?
OP here, happy to answer any questions
It was easy to miss, as the article was broken into two pages. Almost everything dealing with asset forfeiture was on page two.
its moral hazard by many parties, but after what happened in 2008 and the lack of punishment that should have come to wall street, the financial system learned that they could get away with anything.
actually I had more problems than that..
I even raised some at their issue tracker.

Currently if you load a dotnet web application it will only load all needed assemblies on the first request, so if you have a ton of libraries that your first request will hit, it will load all of them. that's even worse than anything else so far.
(actually you can write a assembly loading logic for that, but wtf?)

modularity is not prepackaged into .net core MVC/WebAPI. you can make assemblies that can make use of others, but it gets way way way way way way way trickier if you have 10 MVC projects linked together and every app has his own controllers/views/models/wwwroot/routing which will be merged together. (you need to load stuff via .Assembly, feels hacky (https://github.com/thiennn/trymodular/blob/master/Modular/sr...) uses xproj not csproj tough)
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The complete idiom is "a few bad apples spoil the bunch", which is the opposite of the point you're trying to make here.
Is there a gem or library that you use? One that isn't too massively complex? Then start with that. My first open source contributions were adding features to libraries that were useful to me, so even if I got slapped down, I still came out ahead in terms of productivity.

Another reason to pick a library you actually use is because you will go into it with additional curiosity and expectations. I'm always a bit thrilled to find out that a library which I can't even begin to imagine being clever or thoughtful enough to design is indeed much smarter than I imagined, or, is actually kept together with duct tape. The latter situation has actually helped me overcome productivity declines that come from obsessing in vain over whether I've got the details down right. I just need to remind myself that a much more useful and popular library that I depend on has apparently flaws that end up not impeding development or public usage.
This has promise but still needs more work. I added one line to their 9 line demo ( https://prepack.io/repl.html ) and it ballooned to 1400+ lines of junk:

(function() {
function fib(x) {
y = Date.now(); // the useless line I added
return x <= 1 ? x : fib(x - 1) + fib(x - 2);
}

let x = Date.now();
if (x * 2 > 42) x = fib(10);
global.result = x;
})();

I understand Date might not be acceptable for inner loops but a lot of my code that deals with scheduling would benefit significantly if I could precompute some of the core values/arrays using a tool like prepack.
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It's great to see this on site that shows white page with js off...
What shapes our legal systems the most IMO is the idea of guilt and punishment. Its a very automatistic thing. Somebody does something wrong, they charge themselves with guilt, and then this guilt has to be balanced by punishment or atonement.

This leaves little way for nuance and mercy (but you can of course introduce exceptions into your laws). Also it tends to lead to wierd considerations the more we know about brains, and we have to think about if somebody is really "responsible" for their actions or doing it involutarily (due to insanity or determinism...).

If I'd design a society from scratch, one thing I would consider is a legal system without guilt. Instead of a big table PUNISHMENT -> ATONEMENT, I would make imperative laws a la: "Police officers shall prevent people from being harmed" and "Police officers may lock you away for X days after consulting with a psychologist/judge that you are dangerous, especially after you already hurt somebody". I'm just making this up as I go along, in reality it would be more precise of course.

My point is that this system of moral prohibitions (and rights) is in a way a broken abstraction. I wonder if a completely different society could work differently and better.
On a related note, is there any project targeting Vscode in a web browser? I would love to ditch tmux/Vim and move to remote vscode in browser. Currently I use vnc but perf is terrible.
Hi Google Docs. I'm not sure I need any help managing my email at the moment, but maybe we can just be friends?
The most important thing is to find a project that has the bandwidth to process your contributions. If you see dangling pull requests or patches that have never been reviewed, move along. Even if a project passes this smell test, the only way to be sure that it has maintainers willing to devote some measure of time to providing feedback on your work is to submit one or two small fixes and see how they fare.
Minimum wage only causes unemployment if the labor market is competitive. This is not currently the case in the US as a few big companies (Walmart, McDonald's) have disproportionate market power, and most economic sectors are becoming even more concentrated. Under such oligopsony conditions, increases in minimum wage will generally come out of profits (which are at historically high levels of the GDP [1]). Since wages are spent locally, but profits not as much, minimum wage regulations should generally help the local economy.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1Pik
What we learned developing a production realtime application on RethinkDB
Fascinating.

Obviously the thing to do is to predict user input. Capacitive sensors within buttons to try to detect when your finger is above or resting on a key? Or just hall effect analog buttons, so you can tell when the button starts to go down before it reaches the bottom of the depress action.
I think the point that the "game player" is making is that the well-known context isn't universally considered outstanding enough to revoke a business license.
How does one measures performance improvement for a web page gained from such tools?
"your factory will only produce half as many fish."

But then why is fish still so cheap and plenty of it avaiable, which was the main point?

(but again, I don't know that, I am just refering to the argument)
The Halting Problem is a bit like Information Theory.

Information Theory, and the Pigeon Hole Principle in specific, says there is no algorithm that can compress all data. That doesn't mean that compression is a fruitless endeavor and we should never have written a compression library.

It means that you have to figure out if your input falls into a subset of data where the outcome of the effort is both tractable and useful. You compress text and structured data, you don't compress noisy data or already compressed data, because it's usually worse than doing nothing.

Similar thing with code analysis. If there is back branching or asynchronous code, you are probably going to hit the Halting Problem, so don't even try. But if the code is linear, then precomputing the output is tractable and useful.

You could also simply apply a budget. If an attempt to unroll a block of code exceeds a certain number of clock cycles or branch operations, you should give up and look at the next most likely scenario. The analysis you're doing might reliably halt in an hour, but who wants to wait that long? Especially when it's one of many such evaluations you'll have to do per build or per day? Just give up and keep moving.
(And of course, bankruptcy has much in common with jubilees; not everything, but it implements the idea that debt shouldn't be forever)
I would love to see a "Paths" post about getting into 3D printing. Or if anyone has any good resources for a total beginner I'd be grateful.
> So what if it turns out that Uber is totally innocent?

I honestly can't see this as an outcome; either Uber's wrong in they completely and miserably failed due dilligence, or they're wrong in that they actively coerced [him] to create a shell company with Google assets so it could "launder" them into Uber.

We can't say for certain which it is at this point. All we know is that Uber's trying their level best not to say which by refusing discovery and worming around the issue. That alone signals to me that the preponderance of evidence bar is going to be a fairly easy one for Google to clear here. There's just too many dots that even when left unconnected draw a pretty clear picture of what happened.
Admittedly not European myself, and I know that there is some hunting in Europe (and used to work with a Polish guy whose family hunted pigs), but it doesn't seem anywhere near as pervasive as hunting in the US.