skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Gambler's fallacy has to do with independent uncorrelated events. The stock market is no such beast.

Maybe I'm not remembering correctly, but wasn't there a bit of research a few years ago that showed that most investors performed worse than throwing darts randomly at a dart board (of stocks)?

EDIT: Obviously, I know next-to-nothing about the stock market (etc.).
>If they can't produce enough value to justify minimum wages, why would they move to places with a higher cost of living?

Mopping a floor produces economic value because there's a difference in how much a dirty store sells versus a clean one. If all you can do is mop floors for this thought experiment, this difference in how much the store sells directly effects the economic value of your labor. In Puerto Rico, this difference is less than in the mainland US, which is why the value of their labor (and the natural price of it) is lower.

In other words, since the US is more intensely capitalized, there are more opportunities to provide $7.25/hr worth of value.
it's not clear from your comment what real socialism even means. You seem to be advocating for some sort of planned economy? (that's a horrible idea) Then whats this about allowance for other items?
(Unicode) Private Use Areas
I'd rather be drunk with them than hang out with you and risk falling off that high horse.
Promises only bind those who believe. Those pepole are paid to evaluate the risk.
Liberal parliamentary regimes are elected oligarchies. They are not and have never ever been democracies. Only Switzerland is somewhat a democracy.
> in fact you may have more luck changing the dumb laws if people are truly hurt by them.

But that’s the point.

Cuban Cigars are legal in Germany.

You can legally buy them.

But every payment processor that’s located in the US can not process such a transaction.

Relying on foreign companies for most basic needs means you lose a lot of sovereignty.
Most Startups Still Opt for Dot-Com Domains, but That’s Changing at Y Combinator
I'm not sure what you are looking for. OP linked a cashless society to being the cause of government control. This is false. Government can exert control already in a cash-based society to a sufficient degree. It's more a style of the government in question than the tech used.
This is the most valuable comment here.
> and which doesn't have command history out the box

SML/NJ had the same issue; you can use rlwrap[0] to fix that.

[0]: https://linux.die.net/man/1/rlwrap
We're google, we love you! As long as you're not a gunowner. Or whatever other group we decide to label as undesirables in the future.
No, I have done and pubpished an article about how gzip works with JS and the result will compress pretty well. Not better than the code, but I would guess within the same order of magnitude.
> I don't think that it can be used to transmit information at all

What if the "no-cloning theorem"[0] wasn't actually right? That would enable doing a bunch of copies of the same particle state, making it possible to predict the probability distribution of each particle. That way it would be possible to send information doing measurements[1] rather than forcing a particle state.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/chadorzel/2016/05/04/the-real-r...
Private Equity Firm KKR Partners with Girls Who Code – Fortune.com
The whole point is to make money for the owners. For any individual investor, they can sell, but not the owners as a whole.

Buying the stock back when it's undervalued might be a better way to do it, though.
In many European nations if you start a business and fail you will never get another chance.

The USA financial system that allow for bankruptcy is part of the reason that we are an entrepreneurial nation.

Failure is part of innovation.
That is a kind of slavery. Plus as a lender you still have to quantify that risk, so what does it buy you?
download js -> run through JIT compiler -> execute

vs.

run through JIT compiler -> download js -> execute

Whatever overhead the JIT compiler adds will be latency for the user.
I realize mentioning Bitcoin in a tech forum feels gauche in 2017...

Having said that, it's strange that this guy doesn't mention cryptocurrency anywhere in his post.

He spends a lot of time discussing technologies that aren't quite there yet, and leaves out the one area that is (likely) right at the point of adoption.
Venezuela tried petro-socialism, backing their welfare state with a single resource that they happened to be swimming in. Price of that resource false -> no more monetary value -> money is worthless and welfare state fails.
Ok, I initially didn't research farther than the inital article. At this point:

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/03/24/letroy-guion...

With a plea deal and 5k fine & court fees, "the charges were dismissed without adjudication of guilt.

There’s still a civil forfeiture case pending, so he can get his money back."

So now there is no criminal basis for the state holding onto his money...

Edit: 5k court fees -> 5k fine & court fees
As I said (but should probably have said at the beginning rather than the end) I think the use of civil forfeiture in practice is frequently horribly corrupt. While the basic idea has merit - we don't want criminals to profit from ill-gotten gains - the application of that principle frequently turns into an asymmetrical and highly politicized contest between who can better manipulate the rules, to the point of drastically undermining respect for the principles they were established to uphold.

I'm sorry that I don't always make it clear enough when I'm making a narrow technical argument vs when I'm making a sweeping ideological one. I am 100% against police departments being able to profit from civil asset forfeiture, both because the incentives for abuse become overwhelming and because the existence of abuse is then used by others as a pretext for undermining the system within which such rules originate.

My personal concepts of the relation between individuals, society, government, law, and justice, are radically outside the mainstream, which is why you should consider switching to a monarchy and installing me as King, or Queen. On the other hand, distilling those radical ideas down to a manageable set of operational principals that don't require everyone to be a philosopher is difficult, which is why you should probably hold off on the coronation for a bit.
I agree that Haskell guards are aesthetically uglier, but they're much easier to read with the conditional before the result.
People just love to give advice, however you ask you will find.

I actively searched: friends of friends, networking groups, customers, government funding schemes (via Business Link in UK), paid people but I don't feel I ever found somebody I would class as a mentor. I took value from all these people but they were never somebody whom I relied on beyond a couple of get-togethers.

I still think it is very much worth searching. If you can find somebody who is a great fit for you it can transform your perspective, I have seen this happen to others.
The UK’s second biggest district by population[1], Leeds is also home to the world’s first ever moving image[2]!

1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33198686

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_districts_by...
> But if we make it our social norm that bankruptcy is nothing to be ashamed of and to be taken lightly

I don't know about "taken lightly" but bankruptcy and defaulting on a debt should not be something to be "ashamed" of, for an individual, a company, or a government. Default is an option specifically written into every debt contract out there. There should be no more shame in choosing to default as there would be for choosing to exercise a stock option that causes your counterparty lose all his money. Lenders reap a huge premium for doing nothing but assuming the risk of default. If there was zero risk there should be zero premium.

No surprise that it's mainly bankers pushing the "it's immoral to default" line.
Because they'd have to happen every time for every user, so there'd be no real gain there. It has to happen as the code is published in .min.
> ...its adjective form democratic really only refers to the processes of appointing leadership

Not only. Democratic also (but not only) refers to the rule of law, separation of powers, branches of government, bicameral legislative branch, independent judiciary, and associated checks and balances.

> what's happening in India sounds more like the gradual march of bureaucracy and its exploitation by interested parties rather than a will or even whim of the majority of voters.

Voters are a) whimsical because of and b) manipulable thru appeals to blind emotions (e.g. fear and hope). The antidote is a thoughtful electorate. This requires an educated society but more importantly a highly ethical society.

And so I believe what's happening in India is a program based on the realization that you can't have individual liberty and collective democracy without personal responsibility and civic accountability. There is and will be resentment - so until it becomes a way of life some broad coercive measures are being used to enforce policy. You can call this illiberal or authoritarian - or you can call it pragmatic. The key for it to be perceived as pragmatic is for the central government to swiftly take down any internal corruption. It will reinforce the integrity of such coercive measures and amplify the ethos of "accountability".

p.s. an ideal/utopian liberal democracy might be a fiction but so are all of our aspirations
Some companies are good at one thing and don't want to expand. They think investors have better opportunities outside.
dividends usually come from mature companies (think coca cola and chase bank). a dividend signals that they're likely not going anywhere.

some investors like the guaranteed income. dividends are attractive in this regard, especially in a bear market.

some companies–like apple–just have too much money on hand so a dividend makes sense.
First Principles, Dreams, UAV’s and Flying Cars
You can contribute to my project, https://github.com/WikiEducationFoundation/WikiEduDashboard

It's a Rails/React app for professors to run Wikipedia assignments, where instead of writing term papers, the students improve Wikipedia articles.

I'd love to have help from experienced devs -- especially someone to help me get started migrating to Redux.
I offer you the infamous phrase "extended superset" made famous in the world of SQL databases :).

(Of course, you're right.)
The GOP will not allow this because it would tip the scales towards the Dems.
Who pride themselves on contrarian views? That looks like a rather foolish kind of goal.

Well researched, fundamented, empirically valid views are worth pursuing, and if those happen to lead into contrarian, ok, nothing wrong with that, but pursuing it? No way.
I thought this was of interest after I read this on SU:

https://superuser.com/questions/1205451/how-can-i-display-th...

Apple, apparently, has a private use area that defines things such as the Apple logo in Unicode; people on Apple platforms were unaware that it only displays on Apple hardware. I wasn't aware Unicode even had such a thing.

To me it opens up all kinds of interesting things - as a commenter in the SU question points out, nothing stops say, Microsoft, from defining the same code point as the Windows logo.
Given that I've personally bought Cuban cigars with my Amex card last Christmas as gifts, I'm pretty sure your assertion is false.

It's more likely the case that an American credit card holder cannot buy them, even when he is in Germany, because he's subject to American laws, as I would be if I took a box into the US and started selling them.
The limitations discussed in that paper should be fully addressed by a modern FRP framework like Reflex.

The existence of STEPS is actually one of the very few things that keeps me motivated to continue programming - maybe all that complexity isn't so essential after all. :)
Indeed, this is an awful "guide".

EDIT: ... because a) it's extremely outdated, and b) it doesn't even give you the basics.
a martingale betting system is spotted in the wild!

as long as he can persist to infinity, he will make money.

i don't know if ted can, but i suspect warren is an immortal lizard person of celestial intellect (and wealth).
EU institutions force them by controlling the policy. Sure, if you have a few millions to invest, you can go elsewhere, but if you have billions, you are most usually working with other people's or institutional money, and are fairly limited by various laws and policies, and large part of that money practically has to go in some sort of government bonds. Then, you can not just disregard those AAA ratings at return * 2 because you'll have trouble explaining that you do not trust the ratings...
The most common problem is that code executing at that point can hang in unexpected ways, preventing shutdown. It's a real bummer when that happens. I've even seen it happen with logging written the wrong way, where the code attempts to flush the logs to ensure they are written... and hangs.

Meanwhile, the crazy code that panicked is still running it's other goroutines - remember, you called recover! - so maybe now the webserver still has an open port and is allowing your users to access whatever strange state is left inside... gonzo things really can happen if you let a corrupted program stay on rather than shutting it down immediately. Even if nothing bad is happening, you still are out of commission for that entire period.

The point is, murphy's law always comes into play. So if we're talking about production best practices, consider that "most likely fine" means "definitely not fine at scale over time". Just make sure that whatever you're doing during shutdown can't block.
if you've saturated the market, it's usually less efficient to spend your profits trying to expand your business somehow than to simply let your investors take that return and invest it as they see fit.
Better URL: http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/theoryleisureclass.pdf

[For me, anyway, because gutenberg.org blocks VPNs.]
But tons of people have cars, even in Tokyo where they are more a luxury than a necessity.
Tesla losses grow as company enters key expansion
What attack vector does changing your password help with? Are you concerned they could have recovered the account password via the Oauth scope?
They are playing different sports. Hedge funds aren't really about maximizing your return, they are about maximizing the profit of the firm that manages it. That could mean making customers happy by maximizing their revenue, but if they can just do a good enough job and convince their customers that they are doing an excellent job by taking advantage of imperfect market information (the market in this case being money managing), then they can extract the most amount of money sustainably from their clients.

Alternatively they could just use an index fund, and their customers would be better off, but then they would have to convince those customers they were providing enough value to equal their fees, which would be hard, and would likely result in many lost customers.
https://thenextweb.com/2017/05/03/whatsapp-is-down/#.tnw_9iO...
You have lots of signals to generate without JS. System font base (this alone should provide a fairly unique identifier!), screen aspect ratio, DPI value, "pointer" media query, the relationship between width/device-width... and on non-TOR-scenarios you can fingerprint supported HTTPS encryption layers plus the user-agent. Oh, and you can also passively fingerprint on the presence of an ad blocker.
Not entirely sure I understand what you're saying, but I don't believe that's the how it works. Civil forfeiture is currently allowed because the property is "charged" with a "crime", and because it's not a person it doesn't have the same protections as people (i.e. innocent until proven guilty).

So the "innocence" of the property can't be proven, and thus it is forfeited. So rather than "He still could have gotten the $5000 from a crime", they're saying "The $5000 could still have been transacted in a crime", and the guilt or innocence of the person it was taken from is considered irrelevant.
Why would USA want PR as 51? What benefit is there?

PR has more debt that California, and zero industry except for Bacardi rum.

Name one thing made in PR?
Luck is definitely a BIG tension in terms of punishment. Anyone for example driving drunk is at risk of killing someone, but only the drunk driver who actually kills someone (bad luck essentially) is put in jail for months or years.
Has WhatsApp done post-mortems in the past?
I was thinking the same thing while reading through this essay. I know the firm he works for (A16Z) is investing in the cryptocurrency area and even just did a podcast[0] on it.

[0] http://a16z.com/2017/04/03/cryptocurrencies-protocols-appcoi...
If your goal is to pump money into their economy, why not pump it directly instead of subsidizing some industry and hoping that somehow the "pumping" happens indirectly? Trickle-down mentality is still alive and well, sadly.
Oh, Len Deighton. I've definitely heard of him, and probably have read at least one of his books. Cannot remember which now, though. I think he was a popular author in India when I was heavily into novel reading, earlier. Will check them. Thanks for the recommendation, and I'll keep your point about sharing in mind.

P.S. For a moment, after seeing you mention Len Deighton, I confused him with Ken Follett, some of whose books I've also read. They were good too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Follett
Ok. So why wouldn't this be a black-hat hacker's version of heaven? Writing Javascript scripts that touch my bank account directly must be the bulls-eye target of all bulls-eyes. What's the security model?
WhatsApp is down WORLDWIDE
Facebook's extremely popular instant messaging service for mobile phones is down right now. WhatsApp official status twitter account (https://twitter.com/wa_status) shows no activity since 2014. Twitter users are actively tweeting about it right now (https://twitter.com/search?q=whatsapp).
Ok. In this model, you keep one of your basic rights (freedom) but forever loses another (right to have any property). I'd call this a "semi-slavery" model.

At least in some "debtor's jail" systems you could get your rights back after spending some time incarcerated.
>If they can't produce enough value to justify minimum wages

There are alternative views on this. Marx's theory for example says that workers are not paid according to the value they create, or what their labour creates, rather they are paid at the rate which is required to sustain them. The commodity which the worker produces and sells is termed 'labour power', requiring among other things food, enough to support a family if he has one and some amount in accordance with the moral character of society, varying with supply and demand accordingly. This is the minimum that needs paying.

So Marx would say that wage has nothing to do with value created. It only has to do with the value of labour power, which is equal to the value needed for the worker to sustain himself.
This 25-Year-Old Just Broke All the Rules Raising Money for His $5M App
You are correct in all of this, of course, but cash can always be kept for backup even in societies that are mostly cashless.

The issue of "un banked" can be distinctly American too, actually. Given the extent of social programs in Can/EU, even the nearly homeless have bank accounts, because government funds are pushed directly into accounts, and it's more secure/timely than receiving a physical cheque. Not having a simply checking account is a very rare thing in Canada.
ASU: Asuncion, Paraguay.
>"No. 2: Risk matters, eventually"

Isn't this exactly backwards??
If you can borrow at 1-2% a year, it's almost a no-brainer.
An Overview of the Google Docs Phish Going Around Today
Oddly enough Zuckerberg posted this[1] about an hour ago saying they have 1.9B users on Facebook each month. Rehosted image for non-FB users[2]

"Our community now has more than 1.9 billion people, including almost 1.3 billion people active every day."

[1] https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10103696225640981&se...

[2] https://i.imgsir.com/qePz.jpg
Sociology as a field arguably emerged from the study of crime. We have annual crime statistics which we all take for granted today but two hundred years ago or so it was a revolutionary concept. It was thought that crime was something spontaneous and driven by animal spirits, but crime statistics showed the contrary that crime was in fact a fairly consistent part of a society. Once one could compare crime rates across different societies, then it become clear that crime was very much related to the organization of a society, etc. -- all of this at the time was very surprising. It's this insight that I think drives a lot of "liberals" to be somewhat anti-punishment and see the society at fault or blame...while "conservatives" still tend to focus on individual responsibility. Another tension!
Down in Montreal Canada
>which are expected to be as little as $80

I've been paying close attention, and the lowest price I've seen has been $300, and I don't believe any solid state lidar has yet to be produced at that price point, despite companies claiming they could more than a year ago.
There are two main reasons why index funds outperform active funds.

1. Fees. Active funds start as underdogs because of their fees.

2. The distribution of returns in the stock market is very uneven. Just handful of well performing stocks at any moment account make significant gains in market. Index funds pick these winners every time. Active funds start as underdogs even in the stock picking game.

Why Indexing Works, Heaton , Polson and Witte, 2015. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2673262

> The risk of substantial index underperformance always dominates the chance of substantial index outperformance, with the difference being greater the smaller the size of the selected sub-portfolios. It is far more likely that a randomly selected (small) subset of the 500 stocks will underperform than overperform, because average index performance depends on the inclusion of the extreme winners that often are missed in sub-portfolios.
I was wondering why I couldn't log into the web portal. Guess I know why now
Another example of having the technology in front of you and not predicting its use is the Apple videos under Sculley. I remember one (cannot find now) that had a man scan in a newspaper into his tablet to help him learn how to read.

GPS for civilians actually predates the 1996 directive http://www.pcworld.com/article/2000276/a-brief-history-of-gp...
Node v7.10.0 Released
Down in Brazil.
NRT
GVA: Geneva, Switzerland
This robot can 3D print a building in 14 hours
In Rem = against a thing/object - https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/in_rem

Jurisdiction = Power [of a court] - https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/jurisdiction

"The term jurisdiction is really synonymous with the word "power"."
Which is why Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea are doing so well. I'm astounded people still think the idea of central production control has any juice left in it after such a thorough debunking in the 20th century.
The site would be much better if it loaded a sample SVG by default so I don't have to hunt down the source for an SVG that I have lying around (or on the internet).
So many people miss this. This project (and many others like it) wouldn't be faster without Electron. They flat out wouldn't exist.

If people don't want to use Electron apps then don't, but don't fill every single discussion of an Electron app with the same old whining.
Thieves drain 2fa-protected bank accounts by abusing SS7 routing protocol
Down in India.
Chihuahua Mexico too
> I just vent on HN.

... to fit in?

(Just in case it's somehow unclear, I'm being entirely tongue in cheek here, no hostility intended!)