skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The essence of the shift in the postmodern worldview is the belief that truth and virtues are subjective; that communications are fundamentally impossible due to the differences between people; at the same time, teaching and the knowledge of the old are predicated on a mode of oppression. This has largely been laughed off by STEM people, because it is hilariously wrong. Unfortunately, it got into the liberal arts and humanities and poisoned their ability to make virtue judgments and compelling moral cases.

Historically in the US, the complaints are more from the conservative POV, but I'd not let that deter you. Bloom's Closing of the American Mind is probably one of the more famous ones. The Sokal Hoax was a famous shot of the matter.

There's more than a small amount of "gerroff my lawn" in the critiques, but the substance is more than just moaning about "kids these days", it's a deep philosophical worldview difference that has ramifications across society.
Or you could focus on the positive part - that he actually cares, and shows interest in learning more about the problem to better understand how to solve it.
I assume Steve isn't paying himself anything right now, given that's he been deceased for 5 1/2 years.
You refused to sign it fearing a slowed economy and now you congratulate yourself for having meet the goals due to a slowed economy.. nice.
Ben Carson is heading HUD after all, welcome to 2017.
I hope not. In my opinion, the Catalan separatist movement is clearly not democratic (despite using agitprop equaling self-determination to democracy, which is a fallacy), and often, xenophobic ("Spain robs us"). I hope that once the economy gets fully recovered, nationalist people will go back to a more rational position.
I suspect it's because the Twitter bots inflate the user count of Twitter. It seems that even though Twitter's monetization is not the greatest, their valuation mostly comes from the number of users on Twitter. The reasoning process seems to be something like, "Twitter doesn't make a lot of money right now, but they have the ear of some 300 million users, and that's going to be valuable in the future when they get their monetization story correct, right?" And so TWTR prices are kept afloat. Bots probably degrade the user experience of Twitter quite a bit, but if Twitter aggressively bans all bots, their user count goes down maybe 15%[1], and what does that do to their stock price?

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.03107.pdf
http://www.draper.com/news/equipping-insects-special-service has some more info:

"Research at HHMI—led by Anthony Leonardo, Janelia Research Campus group leader—has led to a deeper understanding of “steering” neurons in the nervous system of the dragonfly that control flight. HHMI is applying techniques in synthetic biology to make these “steering” neurons sensitive to light by inserting genes similar to those naturally found in the eye.

Draper is developing tiny optical structures, called optrodes, that can activate the special “steering” neurons with pulses of light piped into the nerve cord from the dragonfly’s backpack. Traditional optical fibers are too stiff to be wrapped around the tiny dragonfly nerve cord, so Draper developed innovative flexible optrodes that can bend light around sub-millimeter turns. These optrodes will enable precise and targeted neural activation without disrupting the thousands of nearby neurons."

It isn't clear to me whether they have done that yet, though, and, if so, how good the steering works.
At $29 a month it's pretty steep though. I'm unable to afford it right now, however after reading the linked article I'm tempted to get a subscription.
The trick is to teach people to express their values by consumption, not by production or investment. Most people have the intuitive sense that they are a moral person when they personally don't perform any acts they consider immoral. This sense fails when they can pay someone to perform an action that they would consider immoral but with a consequence they desire, all without their knowledge.

The one place, in a capitalist market economy, where values have a place is in the endpoint, at the consumer. Consumer markets really depend only on values; by definition, they are those goods that people buy because they value them inherently, not those that they buy to achieve another goal. The rest of the economy self-adapts to produce those goods as efficiently as possible, which often means production practices that people would find morally repugnant.

If people trained themselves to a.) seek out as much information as possible about the supply chains of the companies they buy from and b.) not buy from them if the externalities introduced by the company aren't in accord with their values, then the market would self-adapt to reflect those preferences. It effectively creates a market for intelligent entrepreneurs to do the right thing, by influencing consumption desires so that there's a profit potential in being good.

There are still some very significant challenges in bringing this information to the consumer, and in people integrating all that information into their choices. A lot of the benefits of market economies is that they condense a lot of information from each stage of the production process into one number, a price, which propagates throughout the value chain so that self-interested actors end up producing a good in the most maximally efficient way. If you want to encode moral judgments and pass them through the value chain, you need a lot more information to go from producer to consumer. And businesses have a lot of incentive to cheat and conceal this information, so accurately recording & transmitting it is challenging.

Actually, I just had a crazy half-baked idea around using vectors instead of scalars for prices and encoding this information in a cryptocurrency, but the margin of this HN comment is too small to contain it. Maybe someone else can run with it.
I found https://www.wired.com/2014/10/3-d-printed-shoes-generated-us... which seems cool

Perhaps easier than 3D printing would be stacked laser-cut acrylic sheets. You could use transparent and partially opaque colors for dead and live cells, which lets you see the interior 3D structures more clearly than purely opaque 3D printed structures. I think the optical quality would likely be a lot better than anything I've seen 3d printed.

I'm interested enough in this idea to see if I can come up with some interesting figures to make.
Healthcare is one of the biggest areas of government, and administrators in the field often have medical and/or public health degrees on top of pre-med or substantially similar undergraduate coursework.

For that matter, I think that medical doctors are substantially overrepresented in elected general government office (state and federal legislatures, etc.) even though not nearly so much as lawyers. (e.g, Congress is 2.8% physicians, while the US adult population is around 0.4% physicians.)
> Typescript annotations are little more than documentation

This is true at the boundaries of your codebase, but if your application is complex enough, tsc is a life saver. Typescript saves me from bugs literally every day. Not to mention the benefits around tooling and refactoring.

Agreed that there are some big footguns with respect to soundness, though.
With deterministic statements like this you are no different than the current President of the United States. In my opinion you should approach topics from more than one angle and then only make deterministic statements when you decided what agenda you want to push.
So if I sell a bitcoin to my friend for cash, I'm breaking the law?
There are all kinds of legal and legitimate reasons to pay for something in a way that isn't easily tracked. You can do it now with cash and it isn't illegal. Just because you want privacy does not mean you are a criminal.
Actually I have checked IB API and it is very restrictive, e.g. you cannot request let say all daily data for all symbols for 2007 for example or even for one day for that matter...
Can I get that in underwear?
How would one go about self-studying neuroscience to the level of say, a second year grad student not yet specializing in anything? That is to say, familiar with the basic concepts and able to make sense of current research given enough time.
We have a number of commercial space-flight companies now and a dozen self-driving car platforms that work quite well. Neither of these really existed before their respective X-Prize type challenges.
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On the other hand, just sticking a Vec<T> into Rc or Arc should work well enough for quite a few things.
I wonder if it is mathematically optimal.
This feels like the Something Awful Forums solution to SnR. I'm optimistic. It's simple and likely will work well.
Let's agree to agree that such criticism is within the intellectual purview of the university.

However, I posit that the essence of postmodernism is to deny objective claims to truth and virtue. Would you agree with that?
TL;DNR: They put a tiny backpack with some sensors on a dragonfly and released a really nice marketing website with little to no real information about it. The video shows the dragonfly "flying" a few feet at most.

It looked more like something for marketing / recruiting than anything.
Sure, sometimes it is not easy, e.g. using the metro ("underground") in Saturdays or Sundays is quite uncomfortable. However, that allows to avoid increasing ticket prices, because of optimal utilization. So in the end, a bit of discomfort during 3 months for getting very cheap public transport during the whole year is a good deal, in my opinion, as there is no such thing as a free lunch [1] :-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_ain%27t_no_such_thing_as...
More like reification of the very old problem from the times when we got
threading API, with thread safety of functions that alter process-wide state
(umask(), chdir(), sleep()), except now it's calls that alter some
thread-specific thing.
What dates do you see missing data for?
Ask yourself if you think you're stupid, then read the entirety of the agreement for your car insurance (or any insurance, for that matter), and then ask yourself if you think you're stupid.
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The end of Charge’s mobile service
Why is the level of conversation on this topic so low?

There's two top level comments here that effectively say: "Healthcare costs money! You didn't think of that did you, commie!".

And this is on a forum full of intelligent techies who are interested in business. I shudder to think what the opinion of the average Republican voter is. Some fever dream involving death panels no doubt.
Worth noting though that Options data is super hard to get running on QuantConnect due to the memory limits and lack of index options.
It's one of the reasons I totally do not believe in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Brain_Project

What I do believe is that once openworm achieves its goals that progress might become very rapid indeed.
No, because of tourist rentals are not enough for covering the local demand, the problem is 10x bigger.

Regarding people needs, in my opinion the problem is that people in charge in local government (Barcelona city) is not focused in solving the problems, but in agitprop for increasing their own power (currently the extreme-left is governing Barcelona in minority). Also, regional government (Catalonia) is focused in doing separatist agitprop in order to hide their corruption. In top of that, central government (government of the country, Spain) has no competences to help in the housing problems, as most competences in that regard are local/regional.
Why on earth do you think the top quant companies will leave alpha on the table for you to snatch up?

That sounds too much like wishful thinking to me. Furthermore, if someone is really smart enough to beat the market consistently why on earth would they trade just on their own personal account? Work for a hedge fund and use other people's money to leverage your bets.
India is doing pretty well in green energy on the whole! India has the 4th largest energy generator from wind in the world. India has the largest solar power plant in the world (Kamuthi in Tamil Nadu). I at least hope that India is not inclined to return to coal with the US's exit from the Paris accord.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_by_country
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/12/02/india-solar-power-pl...
This is really trying my patience. You made a clearly incorrect claim without mentioning specific dates and challenged me to disprove it. When I did disprove the claim, you shifted the goalposts with this backpedaling remark about how only specific dates are missing. You continue to make these claims and put the burden of proof on everyone else because you can't be bothered to defend them when you're challenged.

I'm not searching for a needle in a haystack for you. Make a falsifiable claim, and make the entire claim, with the specific dates you're talking about, or stop this astroturfing against Quantopian and QuantConnect that you're doing.
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If you want to build a real algorithmic trading strategy.. please pick up a real textbook such as Qian's Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management.

You should understand the following concepts at a minimum:

- Markowitz portfolio optimization (mean-variance analysis)

- Beta-neutral portfolios (i.e. using MSCI BARRA, sector ETFs or PCA factors, etc)

- Alpha decay

- Time series analysis (autocorrelation, GARCH, ARMA processes)

- Basic price-based signals (momentum, volatility, value, etc)
- etc, etc.
I guess they're expected to go bust, really. Who knows, the small (and large, really) business sector is completely ruined, the market has been crippled by these tax changes. The tax code gets a large overhaul every year, which instills great uncertainty to anyone thinking of starting a business, and many taxes are retroactive.

For example, I've had to pay taxes for funds that were formed in 2016, but the tax starts in 2013, which means that if you completely paid all your taxes for 2015, in 2016 you suddenly owe three years of a tax that was voted in just that year.
I found it useful for lower costs in sending money across country and currency borders.

Someone will reply and say it's not actually cheaper, but what is available for the average joe it is definitely cheaper. It's also faster and more convenient if both sides have bitcoin exchange accounts.
Hey drodil

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1076825

has an old (but still relevant) discussion of this.

I got interested at 11, wanting to make games, but my expectations (and those of my friends, particularly) were far too high. It wasn't until I was 15 or so and got interested in the function of computers and mathematical logic that I really learned anything.

https://projecteuler.net/ fed my hunger for challenge, knowledge and quick(ish) reward.

Edit: I started in Python and Pygame at 11, continued Python at 15 and then got into Clisp.
because selling overpriced plastic sticks is a lucrative business which has nothing to do with security or threat models at all. It's just marketing
Yep, GitHub is usually backup for me. Most of my projects is abandoned after few commits.
hi, academic liberal here.

I don't think I've never pretended virtue doesn't exist. And, to be frank, most of the liberal types I know, regardless of their (a)religion, believe there are virtues.
10 minute ambiences and music for your games and stories
Oh, missed this one:

> I first tried to use Split String to break up the key and value fields, but found I couldn't enter a tab character either via \t or by pasting it. I saw a note that said not to use Split String for CSV or TSV, so I next tried the TSV operation.

That's strange. You should be able to paste a tab character in a flag value. You can also type it directly, using the Mac way to enter tab characters in text fields: option-tab.
"Oppressive social systems? You mean like the capitalist patriarchy boogeyman?"

I mean things like racism, misogyny, colonialism, social inequality, and yes, even the oppressive aspects of capitalism -- which actually do exist, much as some would like to spin capitalism as an untarnished blessing on the world.

"But the article you linked is from 2004 and out of date with regards to what is happening. Postmodernism in universities is moving into the social sciences and attempting to destroy the bedrock of modern Western civilization."

What is the bedrock of Western civilization, pray tell? And how does what's happening in the social sciences threaten it?

"It wouldn't be so bad if proponents had something better to replace it with - but all they have is a labored version of Marxism that increases racism and segregation, and lowers meritocracy through identity politics. Social equity is the goal, but increased oppression will be the result."

This has been the line of the so-called conservatism with a smile, which pretends to care for the downtrodden, the oppressed, and minorities. That line might fool many today who have little familiarity with history, but is real stretch for those who've seen the conservative boot stomp down again and again on those they are now pretending to concern themselves with. No, conservatism has always been concerned primarily with protecting and advancing the interests of the rich and powerful, and there's no indication that they've suddenly turned a new leaf and suddenly love their historical victims.
The missing puzzle piece here are dividends. Sure some people buy high and sell low and thus take a loss. But the market as whole can increase in value due to the external growth and profit.
Linkedin. Go there, search for scientific active equity (that is what a professional quant manager is called).

Sort by who manages real money and who doesnt. Anyone managing $1bn or more all has it. That is not very much money to manage.
>HHMI is applying techniques in synthetic biology to make these “steering” neurons sensitive to light by inserting genes similar to those naturally found in the eye.

Yeah, I'm going to need to see a lot more information on what they mean by that. Which genes? What proteins do they code for? How is their transfection being targeted to only "steering" neurons? What proportion of their 'optrodes' successfully contact their target neuron? Among other questions...

This sounds highly aspirational, not like an actual product or even a proof-of-concept.
currently, gauth connect is best option for general public. It's a fact, they are popular and have no passwords
> At this point, processing power rather than theoretical understanding is the limiting factor.

No. And you can clearly show this by reasoning like this: if what you say is true then we would be able to simulate a human cognition system but simply slower than real time.

The fact that we can't even begin to do that no matter at what speed we would like to set this in motion proves that there is no such thing as sufficient theoretical understanding.

To state that even stronger: we are nowhere near close to such understanding. We have roughly the kind of knowledge that you'd be able to glean by taking a hacksaw to a computer, figuring out that there is such a thing as a non-linear element and that you could use this for computation and maybe a basic digital circuit or two.

Immensely useful, but not the level of understanding that we would like to have.
'Inefficient to run but quick to code' is my motto.
> large down vote... community

Please report this to the Hacker News mods, if you have evidence. It's against the rules, and they check this kind of thing. Nobody should be doing it.

> IP Holders, well this is speculative.

All of Rust's stuff is MIT/Apache2 licensed. There is a trademark on the name and logo, held by Mozilla, but other than that, there's none.
From the conversation in the hacker news link, it looks like base122 gets the increased efficiency from using unprintable control characters, which is incompatible with base65536's explicit goal of only using printable non-whitespace characters in its output.
This is something I've ummmed and ahhhed about before. You think it's worth doing?
Just to pop in on this "Other countries also had 100 years to develop. That they weren't able to do so is no fault of US or other developed countries"

That's a real real real strong blind spot on how Western nations have been interfering in developing nations for decades. Africa, the Middle East, Asia all have a long and storied history of the West actively interfering with their development. We 100% are now having to lay in the bed we made.
Parts of the theory of disruption - specifically that an entity with less entrenched structures, can solve problems in more efficient ways - applies to nation states as well.

When 25% of your country has no electricity at all, you get to imagine parts of your grid from the ground up. If there's an expectation of load-shedding and your grid doesn't have to be at a 100% in all places, you have room to make mistakes. Most importantly, if the renewables aren't replacing but rather adding to your energy generation capacity, you don't have to fight entrenched fossil fuel businesses and associated regulatory capture to get started.

In many ways it's similar to how telephony spread in the developing world. They skipped landlines entirely and went straight to GSM.

I'm terribly excited about renewables in parts of Africa and the rural areas in South Asia. My family is originally from Bangladesh. The local grid is so unreliable in rural areas and Chinese solar equipment so cheap that most of my family members who live in villages just bought a solar installation instead of waiting around for the utilities to run wiring.
Also do run in release mode for best performance. The default debug mode rather optimizes for developer convenience and hot reload cycles etc.

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Flutter%27s-modes
He keeps saying they do. He doesn't say your compiler does. He says there exist production compilers that do. Which, again, makes your attempt to rebut him with gcc a little weird.
Nonsense; they are also useful for purchasing illegal goods and services!
Peer-to-peer electronic cash has numerous uses beyond tax evasion and money laundering, just as physical cash does.

But to your point, even these laws are part of a new trend. Money laundering is a relatively new crime, and widespread taxation of private transactions only came into force in the early 20th century, with governments around the world instituting income taxation.

50 years ago, almost all transactions were in cash, and the income tax was widely evaded through the use of cash. The government knew very little about what people were buying and how much wealth they had. With the emergence of electronic payment systems, large Trusted Third Parties emerged that collated transactions, and settled them periodically through the respective central bank. These TTPs became gatekeepers and information gatherers, and enabled central authorities to monitor the most intimate interactions of the population - their financial interactions - in incredible detail. Cryptocurrency holds the promise of returning privacy and economic power back to the decentralized distribution that historically existed, but power, once attained, is jealously guarded, and those who have it will likely not want to give it up.