skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. But even for those types of market I doubt that there exists an academic paper describing a reproducible trading strategy/method with above normal returns.
Bitcoin mines are in western China and Oregon precisely for the abundant and cheap hydro power. That's not so bad, ecologically speaking.

Bitcoin is only as ecologically harmful as the source of the electricity used to run the miners, and it's no more harmful than any other use of electricity. If the world switches over to solar and wind as baseload power, problem solved. If the world doesn't switch away from using coal, that's not Bitcoin's fault. It's not a problem Bitcoin can solve.
> I haven't done any math on the issue but I believe

This is not the kind of discussion where assertion by belief has any place, on either side of the discussion.

What we need solid estimates of how this technology currently scales, how it might improve, and how it compares to existing electronic currency, and physical cash (taking into account things like embodied energy of coins).
I didn't flag it, but when I last looked all the comments were of people about as well informed as the author and I filed under "trash fire, don't get involved".
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Hi,

I've had good results with simple plastic cases, as long as a few rules are followed:

- The case must have a gasket on its cover

- Any openings must be on the bottom of the case (including antennae!)

- Cable glands or waterproof connectors must be used on all openings

- All cables must have a little slack, so they hang below the case and come straight up

- Put a couple of dissecant bags inside the box

I've been using this for various DIY outdoor projects for years, like putting mikrotik routerboards, raspberry pis, arduinos, etc. outdoors.

Water will accumulate in all openings not on the bottom of the case, and air pressure changes will cause the box to "suck" this water in, no matter how tightly sealed that cable gland is. That's why the openings should all be at the bottom.

Just my 2 cents.
I don't know, and in media stories about it, it has required a significant amount of chasing to actually read it. I don't agree with it, and it overly politicizes a social kind of argument - but I think it's important to drag these things into the light and debate them with clear facts and sources, not to let them linger in the darkness.

For all it's faults, it did have one good suggestion - that programming may be more attractive to a lot of folks if we make it more collaborative in nature. That's an area where some otherwise really talented engineers suffer, and if we expand the discipline I think it would be a meaningful improvement for all.
There was a time that I could put in more hours and keep my productivity up. But it wears you down, and after two years of many hours I'm quite worn out. So, yes, short time you could probably get more done if you push yourself. But it will run you, and any developers, into the ground leading to lowered productivity over the long term.
it's as toxic of a response as the original manifesto, imo
I'm not sure about that - it also mentions that Qt is incompatible with Microsoft Narrator. If it doesn't work with the screen reader that comes bundled with the operating system, it suggests Qt is doing something wrong.
My lunch, right now
It would be interesting to see an anonymous agree/disagree poll. I bet it would be a Brexit/Trump type of outcome. Censorship only extends until polling booth. For now.
You're probably right about the flagging. Though I imagine there's a bit of loyalty to Google at work here as well. A lot of folks have tied their careers and personal lives to Google, which tends to lead to a bit of justification-based blindness to their faults (this phenomenon is much more visible in the "discussions" around the so-called console wars).
Because of urbanization, the paving of gardens, the water does not sink into the ground over large areas. The sewage systems are having difficulty coping with this. Because of this they're thinking about taxing the paving of gardens.

There's a municipality planning to do this starting January 2018.

https://www.gemeente.nu/ruimte-milieu/minder-groen-tuin-bete...
I have often wondered this myself. The 90's were all about the 4GLs taking over, and that obviously didn't happen. Here are some thoughts in no particular order.

The languages were usually some flavor of "business BASIC" which were in reality pretty bad. It was far too easy to end up with "ball of mud" apps. I worked for one company on a project over several years to replace a foxpro app with EJB 3 backed desktop app. A lot of the complexity in that project came from documenting and replacing what users were doing by manually updating the tables with proper workflows (permissions to perform actions? egad!). Note this is not the fault of the 4GL in particular, but more a result of the "throw something together" ethos (so I maintain). So my take away here is: great for prototyping, not so great for long term maintenance and support.

There are still companies offering 4GL solutions in this space like [1] and [2]. I have no doubt there is some enterprise version of Microsoft Access that will expose your app to the web, with an appropriate licensing fee.

Another thought I have is all the X compiled to Javascript to run on the browser languages, like scalajs and java (GWT). GWT (in my view) was a failed experiment, I don't know of anyone using it for new development, all the apps I see are legacy. I welcome feedback on this.

Something else I think about is; in those days, although lisp and smalltalk were around, doesn't seem like they were widely used. Nowadays, there's an abundance of dynamically typed, highly productive languages with extensive library ecosystems that essentially enable developers to move the language to meet (any particular) problem domain, and create solutions quickly. So the appeal of environments that bind language/database/display together isn't as novel as it once was. In other words, Ruby and Rails is your 4GL today.

> Or was there some snobbishness amongst programmers who didn't view these products as 'real' programming languages?

Definitely some snobbishness; but also the fact that as developers, we have to chase 'the new hot' on some level to stay current, and marketable. No one wants to be stuck only knowing coldfusion, when those jobs all go away.

[1] https://www.elevatesoft.com/products?category=ewb

[2] https://harbour.github.io/
I'm sure it does, but there is a gun culture in the USA. You can go to a large gun store on a Friday night and just hang out and discuss guns. There will be 80 and 18 year olds there all chatting. Gun shows are not even about buying guns, it's a cultural gathering. When you attack guns you attack the culture, and there will be pushback. Same can be said for fox hunting, confederate flags, whaling, etc.
Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash?
"Everything must be like a commieblock!"
This list of "Most active current discussions" is pretty useful for cases like those, I use it a lot (flagged ones are shown there too):

https://news.ycombinator.com/active

Discussions of "Google Manifesto" (two of them are still listed among "active"):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14934581 (146 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14937778 (132 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14937895 (556 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14939636 (344 comments)
I grew up without internet/tv/cellphones - books, art, and dreaming was the first line of defense from boredom, but eventually they ran dry after weeks of repetition.
That's a good idea. What's the locality?
What exactly does "meritocracy" mean to you?

Employee: "Hey boss, you should give me a raise."
Boss: "Why?"
Employee: "Because if you don't then the opportunity cost
of working here will be too great for me to
stay."
Boss: "Oh. Ok. Here's a raise."

The above seems like a perfectly reasonable conversation to me. And I can't see how else it should work. What it takes to retain an employee is so widely variable that it really can't be up to the employer to determine how much to pay each person they want to retain.
I've been programming since I was a kid, I've implemented a linked list exactly once in all that time and that was when I went back to uni to do a foundation degree in software engineering.

In reality if I need a particular data structure I just pull it in from the standard library.

You don't have to be a structural engineer to build a house ;)
Typical OVH.
It remains that in a country which brags of its freedom of speech you could be arrested for replaying the words of a civil rights activist who was assasinated 50 years ago.

"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
This is awesome - really eye opening. This seems like a good proof point of the inefficiency of the art market (partially due to lots of missing data, partially due to the relatively small sample size of high-end art sales). Excited to see where this goes, and how it impacts the efficiency of the market.
Quick links was nice for saved searches especially if you check the same searches regularly and use gmail in multiple browsers. I used it like a standing query for my inbox.
It is accessible, just not with some specific software. From what I can see, they tried to solve it, but could not due to lack of cooperation by the software's creator. Maybe they should have spent more effort, but then this was not a paying customer apparently.
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Do you mean on HN or elsewhere?

On HN, a story is scored both on the number of upvotes and on the number of comments. When a story has a lot of comments (in proportion to the number of votes), that story is punished based on the idea that it's probably only a few people talking to each other very agitatedly without producing many novel insights.

I have not followed the Google Manifesto discussion, but it's easy to imagine that this prediction holds true in that case.
The article claims they did, but the author uses a paraphrase instead of a direct quote. From the article:

"No problem. Qt works on Linux, Mac and Windows, and if you find any problems, just report them to us and we are going to fix them."

However without a direct quote, it's hard to tell if that's an accurate representation or not.
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Where can I get a dedicated server with 128GB of RAM for $100-$200/mo?
That's not a private thought. You would be taking action against another person.
Well Obama was the best gun salesman ever, so I'm not alone.
Here's an English article.

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2017/07/brabant-villag...
Ask HN: What to do after years of being a hikikomori?
Hi HN,

The last few years I have been living as a hikikomori in a tiny apartment in my parents' house, using my savings to invest in the stock market. However, in a few months I will be broke. And I don't know what to do to prevent it...

Some background: I have been a loner since my early childhood and never had any friends. Somehow I was never interested in others; legos, and later books, were far more interesting. And there has always been this feeling of not fitting into "systems" like family, school, or workplace. Maybe I am somewhere on the autistic spectrum.

At first, my "career" followed a traditional path: school, IT apprenticeship, CS bachelor at a university of applied sciences, job as a web dev. This entire time was characterized by constant struggles dealing with others, and boredom, starting with the apprenticeship. The break came after I got fired from the job after less than a year. What followed were months of depressions. Somehow I stumbled upon "The Intelligent Investor" during those dark times and that probably saved me. I started with investing and have been doing so since then. The firing also turned me into a hikikomori, however, in practice not much changed. In my spare time I have already been a "part time hikikomori" since the end of my apprenticeship, when I moved into the apartment.

With the dwindling of my savings, I thought getting a job as a dev would have the highest probability to avert the financial troubles. But so far I didn't even manage to get a single interview. I guess it is because of the outdatedness of my tech skills and/or the long time since my last job. Combined with my low success rate with interviews in the past, it now looks almost impossible for this approach to work. Two other approaches I currently follow are learning/reading about solopreneurship and option trading, though the outcome of both is uncertain. Are there other approaches I miss and could try?
I can't up vote this enough..

I've spend an unreasonable amount of time reading research related to finance for my web app Piglet:

https://projectpiglet.com/

Long story short, all "research" is pretty much B.S.

I used to assume this is because people want to make money, so they keep the good analysis secret. However, after working in the industry a few years; it's mostly because they just don't know how to apply the algorithms or if it's even possible.

I think my favorite example is the seminal paper on using twitter sentiment to predict stock movement[1]. They don't use a large enough data set, and more importantly they use granger causality to identify "casualty"[2] between sentiment and stock value. They then claim they found a specific range which has a p-value indicating they are correlated... Of course you'll find a correlation when you look at two normalized signals and try to match them up.

Now, if they had not use the DJIA (Dow Jones Industrial Average) and instead used 500 individual stocks, and found the sentiment on twitter correlated with stock value(s) 90% of the time between 5 and 10 days. I'd argue they probably have something.

However, because their method is literally a BFS on only two signals in an attempt to find a correlation, they must correct for the p-value. i.e. "look and you shall find"[3]

This is just one of the hundred issues I've found, but really sheds light on how bad that industry is.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=twitter+stock+sen...

[2] Granger Causality offsets two signals in an attempt to find a correlation between them at an offset between two times. AKA find "causality" by finding correlation at an offset in time

[3] https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/5750/look-and-you-...
DFS+Fanduel+MLB+Picks+8/7/17:+DraftKings+Top+3+Pitchers
Something you think could make a million bucks. That will give you motivation to finish!
I assumed they were getting flagged as dupes as there were 5+ separate active discussions about the same topic.
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I don't know, but "Surely you're joking, MR. Feynmann" contains an anecdote about a bidding war between Caltech and another university, at the end of which he turned down an even bigger offer in order to be at Caltech.
I think pasta is talking about this:

https://radar.avrotros.nl/nieuws/detail/belastingvoordeel-vo...

Translated:

People who replace their garden tiles with grass, have to get a tax premium.

That's what Lambert Verheijen of the water board "Aa and Maas" is pleading for. This was reported thursday by BNR. Because there is too much paving, the water doesn't sink into the ground well enough and the risk on flooding increases. Verheijen got inspiration in Germany, where a comparable premium is already in place.
Without specific links it's hard to tell, but there are some automatic rules that often kick in in cases like this. The penalty I notice most often is the comments-vs-points ratio. If people just keep adding comments without voting for the article itself, the link gets penalty and may lose quite a few positions.

Whether you want to call that censorship is up to you, but there are a few projects which attempted reverse engineering of the HN sort order and the features were primarily automatic. What I'm trying to say is: what influences the positions is usually the nature of the discussion rather than the content. Can't prove it for every case though.
Sounds like a disincentive for paving with impenetrable ground cover. Rainfall is not absorbed when the ground is paved. Instead, it collects and increases flash flood risk. To compensate for this, the rainfall collection and pumping infrastructure must be more robust. Perhaps this tax will be spent on such improvements?
Not European but I'll take a guess. Hope this helps:

In the UK (and maybe elsewhere in Europe) a "garden" is what people in the US would call a "yard"; an open space near a residence. Often, but not necessarily covered in grass or plants.

"Garden paving" would mean covering it with something impervious to rain, such as concrete or asphalt.

So a "garden pavement tax" would be a penalty for people who choose to cover up soil with an rain-blocking material, to encourage them to use an alternative which allows the ground to soak up the rain.

As an example, in my town there is a public park in a flood plain, its driveways are made with "permeable pavers"[1] which are basically thick brick tiles with holes in them. They allow the rain to go through to the ground instead of building up and flooding the parking lot.

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=permeable+paver&iax=1&ia=images
Hello, thanks for asking. Not all data is equal to hackers so any data that you have publicly available is likely not going to be sought after by hackers. They will likely be looking for data that could lead to a payout on the darknet. This could be internal data such as any proprietary data such as product development information, internal communications, employment data, stakeholder information, and any trusted information from partners. That is, of course, if your company is the main target. If they are after your customers and the clients you serve then confidential information such as credit card data, healthcare records, or any sort of personal identifying data will be the main target. It helps to identify what data is the most valuable in your organization and could cause the most disruption. What hackers target will be different company to company. Hope that helps!
I think your frustration with the non-objective treatment of the subject is justified. There are a lot of strong feelings around the issues. Confronting our own biases is difficult for most of us.
From Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society" (written in 1970):
"In these essays, I will show that the institutionalization of values leads inevitably to physical pollution, social polarization, and psychological impotence: three dimensions in a process of global degradation and modernized misery. I will explain how this process of degradation is accelerated when nonmaterial needs are transformed into demands for commodities; when health, education, personal mobility, welfare, or psychological healing are defined as the result of services or "treatments"."
Nearly all of the document's factual claims are squarely in the middle of academic consensus. If you find the arguments morally troubling, just say so, but don't contribute to the raving anti-scientific delusions of the blank-slate crowd.
Looks good on paper, and surprisingly bloat-free stock OS (just the usual Windows 10 crapware), but even with the highest bin kit, my Carbon Gen5 gets hot to the point of being uncomfortable to handle, and starts stuttering with just 5-6 Chrome tabs open. It can play Starcraft 2 for 10-15 minutes (just long enough to run a benchmark!), and then just starts giving up.
That's a really useful link. "Active" should be in the top bar.
It would be cheaper to build giant fridges to freeze the excess water and store it in the north.

It would be even more cheaper not to let the ice melt, which still is in the north.

Wind and Solar and others are now mature technologies which are price-competetive. The Model 3 shows, electrical cars are a thing. We have all the technology to slow down and eventually reverse climate change. In the great scheme of things it is not even very expensive, we just have to put all these technologies to use.
Loneliness and obesity have a common origin, or at least significantly overlapping causes. They both derive from living in an environment that is a) substantially different from what we are evolved for and b) loaded with social pressures and saturated with advertising that pressures people into making bad choices.

There's no way you can argue that obesity is anything other than a conflict between the environment we evolved for, and the one we live in. Anywhere you go in America, you are surrounded by cheap empty calories, sugar and white flour, both highly addictive substances, and also surrounded by advertising urging consumption of the above. For us to not have an obesity epidemic would be astonishing.

By the same token, the only kind of negotiating power the modern worker has in finding a good salary is the power to quit, and so people quit often and early, which leads to them moving frequently away from the friends they've managed to find. All of us are also surrounded by messages telling us that for our lives to mean anything we must work longer, and spend more money, which doesn't leave much time for forging social bonds. Again, you can argue that nobody is forcing you to make these choices- but for us to have an epidemic of loneliness is completely unsurprising.
I think he means the Dutch mindset is more: We don't care whether climate change is happening or not* . We are already below sea level and have been building solutions for our situation for decades. We are not "living" climate change already, we are living in a country below sea level.

*We (I am also Dutch) might care about climate change, but that is independent of this infrastructure we already need anyway. Why is this article talking about what we think about climate change only to go into the infrastructure we need regardless of climate change. Article is great but the title is way too clickbait, the content of this article are unrelated of what the Dutch think about climate change..
The more you seal off your land with buildings, or pavement, or even patio tiles, the more the rain will wash off your land and flood people who live downhill from you. So the Dutch pay closer attention to the issue than other nations.
it's not needed, but transfers using smart contracts could be more convenient than in other ways. It doesn't have to be a zero or 1 proposition. It's like saying cloud is not needed because we can do it on the desktop
The only users that are interested and can implement it themselves already use linux where accessibility works better than on windows or with JAWS.
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> Reminds me of that joke website (is it poisonous?). The first question was "Are you in Australia?" and if you confirmed you are, the answer was automatic "YES"...

I think Australia must be unique in having at least one venomous/poisonous species of fish, amphibian, reptile and mammal.
What look & feel would you prefer?

I'm not necessarily describing pretty or good UIs here, just ones that feel "solid" and "crisp". You can see what is clickable, what has focus, and everything is consistent, and not distracting. On the opposite side of the spectrum are, lets say, GPU driver UIs written in HTML. Crispness is necessary IMO for good UX, but by no means sufficient.
I'm a huge fan of Artsy, would love to chat some time.
They don't mention any screen readers; their documentation only calls out backend accessibility specs without any mention of popular specs (UIA) they don't support.