skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a flaw in this reasoning: are Nobel winners actually training people better or do they simply have access to more money?

In my experience researchers that get a lot of grants are able to fund lots of projects, which leads to smart people working for you, which leads to big publications, which leads to more grants. Nobel/Lasker/Name-your-prize winners are just some of the people at the top of the grant pyramid. In fact, I'd argue that who wins a Nobel is a bit of a stochastic/political process, there are tons of scientists who made Nobel-worthy contributions that never won one.

That said, the outcome ends up being the same. Big/well funded labs tend to be started by smart people who had the advantages at big/well funded labs and the cycle continues, but I think the way things are funded is a big part of how that system works, not the inherent smarts/brilliance of the Professor.

Also it's not about pooling money. I think the OP is making a comment on effectiveness for educating people. For example, Cooper Union, an exceptional institution in NY that has a history of training people to an MIT-level for essentially free has come upon hard times and has somewhat abandoned that free-education principle (granted this was due to some financial mismanagement, but a big donor could certainly force changes there). This was an institution that taught many disadvantaged students, particularly from the NY area who couldn't afford MIT and its compatriots. Perhaps the money would have had far more impact there? Or what about offering massive scholarships to people attending community colleges who have a helluva GPA but need help for childcare?

$140M is an incredible gift, I can't help but think there are better ways to spend it than giving it to an institute that already gets massive amounts of grant and other money. Maybe a place that could really use it to help those that need it most?
So, I used to write on a blog called topfinancialadvisor.com (not for a couple years).

It was kind of funny, when researching for the blog, we found countless articles all copied from bloomberg.com, forbes.com, usanews, cbs, msnbc, etc. They all had the same basic story, which barely told anyone anything, and at the end had some sort of popup to "get your financial advice." It was clear the whole things was just an add from the start, just trying to get high in the google rankings.

And, that's pretty much how I feel about every financial adviser. It's a gimmick to collect fees. It doesn't take a genius to make money on the stock market, or invest in a property. The key is to diversify and invest in solid teams / products. The same things Warren Buffet looks for in a company, is literally almost the exact same thing YC looks for in a startup. It's a solid team, good management, vision, and a solid product (preferably with solid sales); and only trade what you know.

That being said, (a bit of a shameless plug here) that's part of the reason I'm writing my own financial adviser (https://projectpiglet.com/ currently being alpha tested). The idea being, use what other people know, to help trade the market.

I fully intend to just charge a flat monthly fee, and provide other services as well, for your own research. Basically, explain the whole process of why you should buy X, then let you make the decision. This (I felt) was much more honest, and although it might cost me more money initial, building trust will eventually benefit long term IMO. Plus, it has the added benefit of (if it ever takes off) optimizing investment towards solid products / teams, as opposed to shady financials as CFA do.

The CFA's I speak to about this, drive me absolutely nuts. They think I should either (a) just look at the companies financials and that's it, or (b) try to talk me down, then try to sell me their services (claiming they can do better). The best part, is when I show them my portfolio -_-
But that's because the Europeans all adopted the word later.

From etymology online:

The distribution of the different forms of the word in Europe reflects the spread of use of the beverage. The modern English form, along with French thé, Spanish te, German Tee, etc., derive via Dutch thee from the Amoy form, reflecting the role of the Dutch as the chief importers of the leaves (through the Dutch East India Company, from 1610). Meanwhile, Russian chai, Persian cha, Greek tsai, Arabic shay, and Turkish çay all came overland from the Mandarin form.
The Rising Stakes for Tesla in China
you go to a private banker in a jurisdiction whose sole job it is to do private banking and get that shit private banked. dont pretend you dont know which country im talking about.

thats a really simple problem with a known solution. its just not advertised at all. everyone above a couple mil gets 10-15% annually and just doesnt talk about it to average randos. because instead of listening they always start shouting matches about how its so unfair that normal people dont have access to this stuff and taxes and tax evasion and all the lowlife hate thats inevitably going to happen.
What changes when your principal is in the 7 figures?
Definitely. I heard about him (10 years ago) from one of his old bosses who mentioned this page. This sed one liner page took about a month to go through from basically zero Unix experience. Probably the most important learning piece I've ever gone through. Good stuff.
It is if we're only asking for False Dilemmas of (a) give to one of finest institutions in the world or (b) piss it away. There's more than these two options, though. The most world-changing stuff didn't even happen at MIT. I'll go further with a radical claim that the donor would be better off giving it to DARPA based on their track record esp under Strategic Computing Initiative. Maybe with caveat that any results can't be patented and/or must be licensed for FOSS or cheap competition.
If you're concerned about tracking then are you using an ad blocker? Then the FB integration has no affect on you.
Satoshi is now worth, what, just under $3 billion. Insanity!
the last part was just for the lulz. I figured a facebook quality post needed some facebook quality comments.
Ask HN: Dyslexic co-founder – any practical tips?
I have a dyslexic co-founder. Does anyone know of a cheap service that can proof-read emails for him on short notice? Perhaps zirtual, although it looks to have scope that goes beyond just proof-reading (also it's kind of expensive).

Any other tips to help dyslexics?
As common words go, this one isn’t that old though. Dates from the late 1st millennium, and has mostly been spread around in the past 500 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_tea

I think it’s similar with other products originating largely from a single source, e.g. “chocolate”, “ramen”, “tofu”, “wine”, “cashmere”, “curry”, “khaki”, “shampoo”, ...
first question, why do you even need that?

solution one: ask first name or nick. use that. the end.

solution two, in case you really need the info: the correct UI is a text inpuy with auto complete. so if I want to type apachr helicopter I can.
For installation of Jupyter, Anaconda works well across all platforms, even most slightly older OSes.

http://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

It does work better for people to install Jupyter with Anaconda, rather than use virtual environments, because there's not the overhead of also having to learn about virtual environments. People tend to think of them as just associated with the class and don't use them as much for their own work outside of the workshop or course.
I personally know several people who were not in that 1-5% who did go to MIT and most definitely have massive student loans. Maybe they do that now, but they definitely didn't in the past.
Why wouldn't private bankers be as predatory of high net worth individuals as other financial professions are of normal folk? How does having a couple of mil protect you from being taken advantage of by charlatans? Don't the rich fall for dumb schemes the same was everybody else?
The United States has been making the same mistake for decades - it was called "globalization". Globalization was necessary to finance the Imperial War Machine. I think this was covered in Perkin's Confessions of an Economic Hitman [1][2] (my earlier comment on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13442222 ).

[1] https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1576755126 [2] https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1626566763 (2016 edition, which I haven't yet read)

This quote is on the right track:

> In February, if you remember—and given the deluge of news, half news, rumor, and innuendo, who can remember anything these days?—Donald Trump memorably compared the United States to Russia. When Bill O’Reilly called Vladimir Putin “a killer” in an interview with the new president, he responded that there was little difference between us and them, for—as he put it—we had our killers, too, and weren’t exactly innocents abroad when it came to world affairs. “There are a lot of killers. You think our country’s so innocent?” he said.
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> The president has said a lot of outlandish things in his first months in office, but here he was on to something.

The rest of the article doesn't demonstrates that the author doesn't understand President Trump's modus operandi [3]...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13538462 (also see Scott Adams' blog for commentary on El Presidente Trump as a "persuader").

I think El Presidente wants to do a good job, but he's in charge of a briar patch. He can't do everything himself, and is at the mercy of his advisors... As long as El Presidente keeps his eye on the bigger picture, America still has a chance.

P.S. Remember that the Briar Patch tricked President Obama into authorizing the Libyan regime-change operation [3]. President Obama has said that not adopting the "you break it you bought it" policy (thereby allowing chaos to replace the stability that the Libyans used to enjoy) was his biggest mistake.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya#2011_Civil_War
Advocating angry outbursts and drinking to suppress your problems both seem like terrible recommendations.
Buy index funds until managed funds lower their fees. Vote with your money. If you want your portfolio to be a safer bet, put more percentage of it into bonds.

Besides, most managers have a fund that has the same companies as an index, just in slightly different proportions. If they pick things that are risky and fail, it would look bad. If they slightly underperform the gains the index has, they look fine.
I recall reading development was being done on a pretty beefy FPGA; one that would not be limited to emulating just the C65 (note the C65 was based on a 65CE02 16-bit CPU at ~4MHz, and not the 8-bit 6510, so quite a bit more demanding than a 6510 at ~1MHz).

I went searching for prices way back when I first started reading about the Mega65 project (I donated back then and got access to the core files, but didn't go through with buying an FPGA to try them on), and I think the FPGA in single-unit quantities was over $200. I may be misremembering, and I may have looked at the wrong vendors, though. But, I think they're not targeting a super low-end market for this project. Which, I think is reasonable. People with no money to spend will run an emulator.

So, I hope it won't be too expensive, but I won't flinch if it's a few hundred dollars, even though I picked up my current working C64 for under $50.
This hurdle is not very different from people needing to have individual mobile phones to communicate with each other. Such a distributed requirement where the device is reusable across multiple contexts and not limited to a company may result in the costbeing directly borne by individuals. It might take time, but we've seen this repeatedly happen - the internet, cell phones, wifi, cameras (ever snap whiteboard pics?)
"XYZ Community College"

Another false dilemma between MIT and XYZ Community College. There's all sorts of Universities and probably some community colleges with teams that are doing great work with way, way less than billions in funding. There's chances for great impact if they likewise get the piles of money MIT has been using to do great impact on top of brand name and connections. It will take time for the smaller players to develop the latter but they can use the former immediately.
Some lotteries that accumulate when there are no winners have weeks with better-than-even odds. By this logic, you should wait until the odds are sufficiently in your favor and then dump your entire savings account into lotto tickets, for an immediate gain.

Of course, even if you can pick up a 20% gain in EV, that small chance you end up a billionaire won't save you from the 99.99..% of cases when you're eating cat food in retirement.
I think that this comment is basically right about the economics of the situation, but because it focuses on economics it misjudges the ideal role of the Internet in society by considering it (only) as an aggregate of capital, i.e. an economic tool. Economic tools in this case work for the benefit of individuals on an individual self-interested basis.

However, the Internet also acts as a medium for communication and socializing, which has benefits to society which cannot be explained by direct benefits to individuals from their self-interested exploitation of the medium. As an example, consider a case where a person reads a moral argument online and chooses to act less selfishly than they would have otherwise. This has a negative direct effect on the individual's actual life, but the outcome of many such events is a net positive for society. So too is it a social benefit if, for example, people in an economically undeveloped city learn about the effects of wood fires on air quality and switch to electric or gas cooking. And these are not services that any individual pays for.

As such it is important that the Internet is regulated to ensure, among various other goals, that as many people may be socially connected via the network as is possible. However, the ongoing centralization of the network has resulted in the perception among many people that online social activity is becoming increasingly confined to fora in which self-expression is either officially restricted or may cause the poster to be targeted for harassment. In reality, this is a result of the fact that some people just don't get along, and you've either got to keep them on lockdown or separate them, cynical as it sounds. As such, the claim that, for example, big companies having an advantage is "just how business works" must be evaluated in light of the effects it's having on our social environment (which we depend on). In practice, some groups of dissatisfied people (of varying political views but we all know who I'm really concerned about) have started to avoid the mainstream altogether, and because small companies are at a "just business" disadvantage, people unsatisfied with mainstream Western online media often turn to media sources owned by countries such as Russia or Qatar, or subsidized by billionaires with questionable motives, and so forth. It stands to reason that encouraging the network to grow in a way that supports "grassroots" alternatives to social media may limit the ability of unscrupulous actors with capital to influence politics.

It's always been my understanding that limiting group size reduces conflict and so if net neutrality gives smaller companies an "unfair" advantage and leads to lower economic growth, I think it would still be a good thing. But primarily, I want to emphasize that the Internet is not just a service provided to individuals.
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I like Divvy, too. I wonder how hard it would be to snap Divvy's GUI overlay onto these Linux tools. I frequently want to arrange windows not just in halves of the screen, but in thirds. I find that gets cumbersome with keyboard shortcuts alone.
They aren't "mutually exclusive". If your voters have been packed into a district, making your seat more secure, then you are a victim of gerrymandering. It's not simply an alternative type of gerrymandering.

The misunderstanding of who stands to benefit from redistricting has allowed republicans to propagate a narrative that "democrats do it too". In 2012, despite Republican house candidates receiving less of the popular vote they walked away with an extra 30 seats[1]. That's not a bipartisan effect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Represe...
Also IIRC General Douglas MacArthur wanted to use 30-50 atomic bombs along manchuria during the korean war, he claimed that it would have resulted in a sort border of radiation for 60 years and would prevent any invasion of korea from the north
> You don't need to sink an aircraft carrier, just keep it at long range.

At which point you haven't neutralised it; it's just become a 'fleet in being'. You still have to account for it. You may be able to protect your home waters from it, but you can't project power when it's around.
I know at first it looks confusing, but the lisp syntax is pretty much the best. I can teach it to someone in 1 minute:

(<function or macro name> arg1 arg2 ...)

That's it. This is 100% of the syntax.

If dealing with a function, the evaluation will always be arguments from left to right are evaluated first, and then the function is called with the result of evaluating the args. This is 95% of the cases.

If dealing with a macro, go read the documentation for it, because every macro is a DSL, and evaluation can happen in different ways. This is the 5% case.

All the complexity of learning a lisp comes from knowing more functions, what they do and how to use them, and learning each macro's DSL.

Can this syntax be improved on, I'm not so sure. Clojure added some special syntax for some more literals, such as [] for vectors, {} for map, etc. And I do think in one way they help, but in others they hurt.

Maybe adding something that distinguishes a macro from a function, but once you know the names of them, the name is enough to know.

Maybe make it so there is a more visible demarcation between the function/macro name and the arguments. Not sure how though.

All that to say, if you give the ayntax a good chance, like 2 to 3 months of 40h a week for your brain to more clearly see where the functions start and end, I'm sure you'll like it.
I always find it disappointing when video from Apple doesn't work in Firefox. There are quite a few JavaScript libraries available these days which support HLS in browsers which don't have built-in HLS support but Apple doesn't make use of them.
I second that question.
This is what kind of stand you get for $120: https://hecklerdesign.com/windfall-stand-for-ipad-air

A TV is much larger and there's more to this than just formed steel. $1200 is consequently exactly how much this one is as well: https://hecklerdesign.com/heckler-av-cart

Sure, you can get cheap junk like https://www.amazon.com/Mount-Factory-Rolling-Mobile-Screen/d... , but that would probably fall apart in a week and isn't meant for a screen being touched all day. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1090879-REG/middle_at... and https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1337848-REG/peerless_... are in the same category as this. The target audience is businesses who will potentially be using it every day fairly heavily for years, not how-cheap-can-we-make-it home use. In that, it seems to be very much in line with the other stuff currently on the market, potentially even a good deal for what you get and how nice it looks.
Hmm, don't think I understand your first argument. If 72% of MIT undergraduates graduate without loan debt, this almost certainly includes all of the students (29%) coming from the top 5%.

There are certainly people that are dissuaded from MIT for cost reasons, and money could be used to solve that problem.
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The F35 was a Lockheed bureaucratic coup: they got buy in from the Marine Corps, which has very little organic technical prowess compared to the Air Force and Navy, by pitching the VSTOL version up front. Once they had buy-in from the Marines, DoD released a short-fused competition announcement, which gave the Boeing team very little lead time to produce a competent competitive airframe, the X-32, which looks like an obese guppy (1).

As for airworthiness, it should be noted Lockheed has no, no commercial airframe business. Boeing's commercial business exceeds all military programs in production scale. Observers of the competition generally agreed (1) Boeing could have produced better airframes given a more reasonable timeframe, (2) separate airframes (as Boeing proposed and eventually happened in the F35 anyway) would provide better performance per dollar.

As for the Zumwalt, I'll just leave Robert Work's paper (2) as an exercise for the reader.

The Ford is too big to say much of anything about "the Ford". Carriers are huge investments. On investment scale, it's equivalent to building a city from scratch. If you haven't been on one, you probably can't wrap your head around the scale of the thing. Nuclear reactors, an airport, 5-6000 people, enough munitions to level a small city. And it's own flotilla of warships.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Strike_Fighter_program

(2) http://awin.aviationweek.com/Portals/AWeek/Ares/work%20white...
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> It was once suggested that each network interface have a $1 bill attached

I'm assuming this was a joke, but was it actually serious?

Because things would've gotten hilarious at the first replacement banknote [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replacement_banknote
Sony has just released a new Digital Paper tablet with option pen-cover. It is available for pre-order and shipping in late June/early July. I have pre-ordered it and plan to use it for reading mathematics book PDFs. The refresh rate should be a lot faster than anything on the market currently.

Pre-order here: http://amzn.to/2sg3Db6
If you have a bunch of money you should research it out and find a fiduciary. The more money you have the easier they are to find (I work for one).

EDIT: Here's a start for search terms from wikipedia.
Personal fiduciary services are often referred to as private trust, private client, private wealth management, or private banking services.

>Some claim that index funds such as vanguard are also not guaranteed to go up as everybody and their dog switches to them vs managed funds.

If the market's going up index funds are going up. Considering their relative performance think of it like this. If half of US stocks were owned by VTI and the rest were owned by, say, 20 actively managed funds then on average, before fees, they will both perform the same because they represent the same basket. The catch is that passive funds have low fees since they're easy to operate and active funds have high fees because they require more work. Also consider that in those 20 active funds there will be some winners and some losers and you'll have no way to know who they are. Setup a simple bogleheads-ish portfolio and go think about other things.
Your boss is very ignorant. Show your boss this thread. If s/he's reasonable, s/he will see that the responses make sense and allow you to drop this wild goose chase.

> avoid offending them

Start with a long list. Facebook has a long list of gender options, so you could start by copying that. Add options for "decline to state" or "not listed" and stop there.

> list them all, the whole list of them that peer reviewed neutral third parties ala science has proof of

Gender is a social construct, not a scientific one. It's generally up to the individual to decide. The same is true of religion, sexual orientation, and pronouns.

Colors of skin is an absurd thing to include. You're going to come off as very weird if you have people identify their skin color.

Race is potentially a scientific construct, but there is no general consensus on how to define or separate races. Everyone is on multiple continua of races.

If you're talking about ethnicity instead of just race alone, you're also talking about many thousands of options. Just don't include it.