skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are, right now, influencing each other through a filter. A filter designed by Paul Graham and friends with some values in mind. For instance, there is no picture of each other, no reference to sex, nor race. That prevents many prejudices from being activated. That is impact.

If actions speak louder than words, infrastructure, that which dictates which actions are possible at all, speaks much louder. Developers are building new infrastructure all the time, for every action and human need. Right now I can buy groceries online, get a remote job, and find a date on an app. That is techno-essentialism.

The future belongs to the hacker in much the same way that medieval Europe belonged to the knight and the bishop. The power of the computer is obvious to anyone that isn't living under a rock, naturally, this brings many fakers, if you focus on them it all seems like a bubble, because you are focusing on the bubble. Treat yourself better and focus on what pervades. The Times They Are A-Changin'.
No. That is a dangerous attitude on this. There are limits to how much you can raise through taxes before you trigger a death spiral, where you scare off working age contributors, which increases the burden the rest have to pay, which scares off more contributors, and so on.

That's exactly what happened with the dinosaur companies (GM, Bethlehem, etc) with unfunded pension obligations. The "legacy costs" made it so they couldn't compete. True, it's harder to switch countries than avoid employment at a dinosaur, but that's a difference of degree, not kind; the dynamics are all the same.

Don't start from a model that assumes no one will ever leave. That's how earlier generations of actuaries "didn't figure it out".

Edit: It's not even necessary that workers flee the country; it could also be that more of the economy is driven underground, which has its own nasty side effects.
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Comprehensions have their own opcodes which directly call e.g. PyList_Append with no further checks or lookups in each iteration.
This is an important thing to remember. I wish the bbc would remember this when they post random twitter comments as if it were representative of the people reading their story.
I am out for a few years and haven't done too much with BGP, but iirc it heavily depends on your BGP configuration. BGP is a highly complex routing protocol and you can tweak it to your exact needs. On default it is just like RIP and takes the shortest path, except that RIP counts each router and BGP only counts the outbound routers.
It's a lot easier than all of that. New two-factor authentication standards like U2F achieves most of that with just a simple, inexpensive hardware token.
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always keep money in reserve for when the bubble further crashes.
I don't think it's axiomatic that individuals should be funding their own pensions. I feel a lot of these problems that keep popping up have the same fundamental root cause: governments (and the non-wealthy) have less resources, as more of those resources end up concentrated in fewer hands over time which has certainly been the case in first world countries over the last few decades.

Proposed solutions of austerity and cutting and degrading services even further for the lower classes are exacerbating this tendency. I'm not sure what the endgame here is supposed to be.
When a bitcoin transaction is created it sits in the transaction backlog until a bitcoin node validates it. Nodes have the economic incentive to pick transactions with the highest fees. If you do not set a high enough fee, you risk your transaction sitting in the backlog for hours or days.
For Linux/Unix, I'm going to recommend a book, which for now is probably too ambitious: "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective" by Bryant and O'Hallaron, a.k.a. "CSAPP".

http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/perspective.html

This book is targeted at working programmers:

Most books on systems—computer architecture, compilers,
operating systems, and networking—are written as if the
reader were going to design and implement such a system.
We call this the “builder's persepective.” We believe
that students should first learn about systems in terms
of how they affect the behavior and performance of their
programs—a “programmer's perspective.”

I'm recommending CSAPP to give you an idea of where the end lies. If you grok its material, you will know more about OS kernels than would be required for any typical front-end or back-end web development job.
I just see it as a way to resell Chinese electricity. Digital currencies do challenge state-backed currencies. They'll never fully take over until taxes are accepted in a digital currency. As a tool for circumventing taxes though, countries do view that as a threat and will clamp down hard on it.

If you want to treat it as a digital collectible and pay taxes when you sell some for a profit, great. If you want to treat it as a currency and not pay taxes, good luck.
No, they would probably move to a postquantum cryptography system.
I like that he has:

Withdrawn from the tpp.
Is currently renegotiating nafta.
Mattis is an excellent choice.
Tillerson is an excellent choice.
Is supporting Saudi Arabias "Vision 2030" plan, which attacks the root cause of radical islamic terrorism (economics).
Is in the process of draining the swamp (Susan rice and the unmasking scandals).
I've made and realized a shit ton of money off the stock market since he got elected.
Obamacare is gone and is in the process of being replaced.
Jobs are coming back.
He supports laws and law enforcement over criminals.

Edit to add: Gorsach is an excellent supreme court choice. I'm glad that corrupt comey was fired. In the process of reseting nato relations and getting everyone to pay their fair share. Mattis is handling north korea expertly. Oh, he avoided starting ww3 against russia after obama tried to start it in his last few months in office. Also, jury is still out, but there has also been lots of work done on China and their whole basket of problems.

And, most importantly, acknowledges and recognizes that us Americans from flyover country are not red neck slaves to the self righteous smug ass coastal cities and their out of touch political elites.
And to add to this, it's impossible to predict the future. Even if you are privy to all relevant details to come up with an accurate "value" to attach to your shares, you have no idea what sort of deals will be made in the future (stock-backed loans or later equity rounds come to mind). All it takes is one bad-for-common deal and you're wiped out, and common is usually the first to get the short end of the stick (and the last to find out).
The problem isn't the actuaries, it's the assumptions.

For example, NOBODY KNOWS how much health care will cost in 20 years, but that's central to figuring out defined benefit obligations (as just one example).

Or, what's a good investment rate of return assumption to use? Small differences (e.g. fractions of a percent) compounded over decades lead to huge differences.

How do you model black swan events (e.g. 2008 crash)?
https://www.coursera.org/learn/understanding-arguments
I think "scrum" refers to daily standups. I may be wrong though.
In most post-Soviet universities I've seen, Landau's idea of the theoretical minimum is well and alive. Depending on the professor, Landau isn't rare as required reading in undergrad courses, and the notion that you should be familiar with anything in Landau in graduate exams is also common.
Thanks for the explanation.

A related question I have then is would RSUs be considered as providing downside risk(but no upside) for employees then as the value is independent of the companies actual performance?
British Airways flight disruption was caused by someone unplugging the power
US pension model (Social Security) does do redistribution just from the middle class to the lower class and single people to married people.
Might have lost it all due to an exchange going belly up.
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I'd hesitate to call it investing. More like speculating.
By being unable to find productive work for the workers. You can't produce anything for the retirees, and you can't find out how to make the workers produce.
So it's Flattr but run by the same company that also serves ads..

Eh.
Is there an easy way to see current queue status?
This is my primary concern with SaaS identity providers--yes, they are easy to setup and administrate, but they are huge honey pots.

In addition, customers are unable to do any forensic analysis to determine how their data was affected.

> OneLogin’s blog post includes no other details, aside from a reference to the company’s compliance page.

The only option is to hope they provide customers with relevant information in a "timely manner", but that could be months for an organization with thousands of customers.
What should scare people the most is the Illinois pension funds' assumption of ~ 7% real returns going forward. If the market stays flat in real terms for the next decade, which seems at least possible (if not plausible), it's significantly worse than their worst-case scenario, which is already probably unsolvable without some form of default.
Let's call "investing" in currencies what it is: speculating.
If there is no viable alternative to EC for public key cryptography by then, a lot of things will break down, and Bitcoin wouldn't be my main worry.

If there is, I hope Bitcoin will have transitioned.
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"The ability to influence with disproportional effect on the outcome of all kinds of political affairs compared to someone not active in IT, the ability to reach large numbers of people, the ability to pull on very long levers, far longer than you’d normally be able to achieve comes with some obligations."

If this is true, then "some obligations" would almost certainly include a reluctance to abuse those long levers or alienate a large swath of users. Power ought to be used responsibly.

Back to reality, though, the reason why hackers and other tech-minded folk are averse to politics is the exacy reason why they're hackers: because politics is about as far away from the hacker ethic as possible. It'd be like asking a racecar driver to take up an interest in gardening; yeah, some NASCAR drivers can probably grow one hell of a vegetable patch, but it ain't exactly something one could or should expect them to do.

Hackers would rather focus on being immune to politics. It should be no surprise, then, that they tend gravitate toward things like cryptocurrencies and other technologies resistant to governmental control (or providing a means for such resistance).
It depends what you're using it for, no?

If you're using it as part of an auth mechanism then sure, don't use it. If you're using it for anything else (checksum, verification etc.) where you don't expect any adversarial action then it's fine.
Anyone who has ever purchased bitcoin and held on to it before this past month is sitting on some amazing gains. If you purchased bitcoin at the top of the bubble in 2013, despite being down for years, today you would be up around 100%.
There was a nice long essay that looked at that same phenomenon from the context of underground music that gradually shifts in tone as it gets more popular, until the particular genre now names simply a kind of pop music that isn't really what it started off as. Sadly, I can't find a link to it, so I'll be grateful if anyone can provide one.

Still, politics are probably important and if we could engage in politics with non-techs with amazing efficiency, we might be able to have our cake and eat it too - address the political issue in 5 minutes at the start of the conference, then get back to business.
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Even assuming the spaces are still under lease and the entity that signed the lease still exists, the lease often has a sales percentage built in. An empty site isn't good for anybody.
It probably is. I might never know. People use the words "agile" and "scrum" very liberally at least around here.
There are a few ideas about how to circumvent that, most are pretty early. I think the general consensus is we still have at least 30 years to figure it out as that kind of quantum computer is more than likely, that far off. But of course it can all change pretty quick.

And if we don't have quantum cryptography by then, not just Bitcoin, everything we use today pretty much will be at risk.
Taxes evaded mean programs not funded.
Is that not what investing is supposed to be, in most parts; or entirely?
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> The most hyper specialized and interesting hackers are also the least likely to have time to waste arguing about the political battle of the day.

I find the opposite to be true. The most intelligent and experienced hackers are not hyper-specialized, but have wide ranging knowledge of computing, mathematics, science, and people. They have strong, well-considered opinions on many topics, including politics.

Spending time arguing about it on Hacker News, probably not, but face-to-face with people they respect, yes.
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Soon Delicious will be down. So what good alternatives you know?

I am trying right know https://raindrop.io . It looks really promising. Of course we have http://pinboard.io, but ui is too ugly for me.
Just because something is fun and interesting doesn't make it any better of an investment. You are passing the novice buck onto others
"Ponzi scheme" as a term is generally overused. It identifies a specific fraud, and things that look sorta vaguely like it may have any number of critical differences in those sorta-vague similarities that result in a completely different outcome, including potentially worse ones. It is not a sufficient analysis of the situation to stick the label "Ponzi scheme" on social security and think anyone has obtained any sort of understanding of the situation from it.

Resist metaphors.
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It's not about being stuck. If there's a reasonable chance to get multiples of what you can get immediately it's worth it to wait. Commercial real estate leases are generally ten years. Look at the math:

Lease ends Dec. 30, 2016 -> Immediately rent out for $10k/month to a mom and pop -> By Dec 30, 2024 total rent paid = $960,000

vs

Lease ends Dec. 30, 2016 -> Wait two years for an international fashion label that wants a vanity store -> rent out at $35k/month -> By Dec 30, 2024 total rent paid = $2,520,000
Couch Potato investor. 50 percent Vanguard Total Market Index, 50 percent Vanguard Inflation Protected Securities. Rebalance yearly.

https://assetbuilder.com/lazy-portfolios
Second person to recommend that to me in the last week, I moved it up the list, thank you.
BTC trades like an accelerated stock market. Instead of crashing every few decades, it "crashes" every few months.
I tend to think of politics as resource arbitration. Say, you have limited resources (as we all do) and there are too many contenders who want to settle this without resorting to any sort of violence, then you need pretty much politics.

Technically, a kernel scheduling algorithm or packet forwarding algorithm are politics too (hence they're called "policy"). The problem is that the real world is so messy and complex and has too many variables unlike CS stuff that we can hardly reach any sensible solution in a timely way. In theory we can tackle on politics in a somewhat objective manner but it's typically waay harder than any software project.
While it's not black-and-white, investment implies low-risk where speculation implies high-risk. Betting that bitcoin will increase or decrease relative to the USD is very risky. Its own volatility is proof enough.
Hayek was one of the first to suggest a Universal Basic Income would be a good idea. That would be quite a strange notion if he thought the poor should be left to fend for themselves (at least economically).
Have you tried reading the description?

> Localize and translate any apps or sites that uses YAML for localization.
> Yaml is used in many languages such as Ruby, Python, Php and for Framework such as Rails or Symphony.
4-6am to ~1pm. Whenever some unforeseen external factor forces me to change it (usually an unwelcome social obligation in the morning), I quickly gravitate back to it.
You get to decide based on how much transaction fee you're willing to pay to the miners that confirm your transaction.

The simplistic explanation is that the Bitcoin network effectively incorporates a hard upper limit on the number of transactions per unit time. (Every new transaction must be recorded in the blockchain, and the blockchain only grows so fast.) So as the currency becomes more popular and demand for transactions increases, either your waiting time to get the transaction confirmed on the blockchain increases, or your transaction fee has to increase.
A broken clock is right twice a day.

Chipotle wanted to open a restaurant in the Lower Haight right next to the MUNI station; it got voted down, and it was no particular loss to me since the Mexican restaurants around there were far better anyway, but that location was empty when I moved there and only now, 6 years after the original business closed is it being torn down to build apartments.

And I don't think anyone is claiming commercial rents in SF are cheap; the best you could say is "maybe it would be worse if we removed this one rule and kept all the others"
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> Ewa Klobukowska who was stripped of an Olympic Gold medal for "failing a chromosome test" (ie, exactly what the OP is claiming should be the arbitrator of gender)

Chromosomes are the arbitrator of sex. We know about intersex people and have known about them for some time. None of this means men can become women and women can become men
It's U.S.-only? Are you kidding me? So this will actually restrict who can visit a website, as opposed to the ad-version?

Whoever came up with that bright idea?
Any tips for investors in Europe? (Germany or UK in my personal case).

I understand that these strategies are not country-specific, but not sure if Vanguard is accessible to non-US citizens, and there might be tax implications in different countries. That's why I'm asking.
Here: https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions

Recently Ethereum has been taking a chunk out of Bitcoin's market share. One of the big reasons why is that it does not currently have this problem of a massive transaction backlog requiring large transaction fees.
My UK bank requires a password and a separate secret phrase that they do the letter selection from. You need to supply the password and 3 letters from your secret phrase.

As my phrase is quite long I pretty much always end up writing it down or using an editor.... :-)
I'm surprised this comes out now, right in the middle of the noise about the UASF (User Activated Soft Fork) and Segregated Witness controversies.

The community is pushing to enable larger blocks among other functionalities that would cult down on the fees that miners (read: Chinese miners) collect.

Obviously the miners won't agree on that, but the network agreement depends on what the Bitcoin processing power decides, not on what the majority of the users do. At some point either the miners join, the users give up, or the chain forks in two (obviously with wildly different valuations).

I'm not familiar with People.cn, but my first reaction with the headline is that the piece of news has second intentions.
Timesheet – Work Hours Tracker for Android
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Timesheet is a work hours tracker for Android . It allows you to track your shifts and earnings more efficiently.

* You can create jobs with their names, description, rate per hours and set if breaks are paid or not.

* Create shifts with start / end time and breaks. * You can also add notes to each shifts

* Quick clock in/out with the built-in timer

* Statistics for each jobs show you how much you made or how many hours you worked

* You can also setup work periods with tax deductions if any to have a better idea of what your future paycheck will be.

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Not according to Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing:

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative
I think we're in agreement? There is a basic level of care in those UHC countries, but then private insurance/services/etc for above and beyond.
But coal and oil, working correctly, are destroying the planet.
We're not asking you to defend this physicist. There's an obviously confusing bit about conservation of mass here, which lead to the user citing the Law of Conservation of Mass, that I already asked about, and which you are now ignoring. That's the thing to focus on, not on Frank Wilczek. We already know the poster (unwittingly) was a bit presumptious, but in my opinion I think it would be better to focus on the ideas and let the presumptiousness just slide.
Someone needs to create Spreadsheets Anonymous and share the crazy stuff people do in Excel, the best one I've seen
is a full GUI wizard (back, next etc.) in VBA.
I tend to give the benefit of the doubt to experts in such situations. While I too thought of the Law of Conservation of Mass and wondered why the author didn't think of it I also know this means that most likely it is I who is lacking knowledge in this case. It is highly unlikely that I know something about mass that an expert doesn't know. Rather than linking to Wikipedia the question ought to have been asked, "what does he mean when he writes this?" Instead amelius says he should read Wikipedia.

Let's not pretend that our superficial understanding matches the expert's understanding or that we can teach him something new by citing Wikipedia. If we can think of a point that the author seemingly misses it is almost surely because we are the ones not understanding something.
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I'm fine with that as long as people opposing nuclear power keep the radioactive ashes from coal powerplants needed to replace the nuclear baseload in their states. As well as all the other toxic wastes. Not mentioning the side-effects, including global warming, starvation, migrations, and wars caused by that.

Instead so far they seem to push the externalities to others by either using coal and spewing it all into air, or not using coal, but buying balancing power from elsewhere, where they do use nuclear power or coal power :).

I think we can agree both of these alternatives are morally dishonest.
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