skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US there is a comparable work component. You are allowed to refuse any offer that isn't reasonable or comparable work. Sometimes you have to convince a judge, but there is an appeals process and so it isn't hard to argue that a bad job is beneath you.

Note that the above is about accepting a job. At times you may be required to fill out so many job applications (per week) and you are not allowed to refuse any interview offered. The result is people do apply for bad jobs and get an offer in the interview they have no intention of accepting.

Of course after a few months your benefits run out and then the low ball offer is more appealing as at least it gets you something. However even then a low ball offer isn't as common as you might think. Someone with no place to go will take it, but you cannot stop them from finding a new job next week. Offer someone too low and your risk they collect your money just long enough to become useful and then find a new job. You are paid for your first week of work even though you spend most of it learning and so you cost the company money in training, thus once a company hires you they need to keep you long enough for you to pay off that first week training time.

Note that in the US each state does things differently. The above is a generalization based on what I've seen in different states. The details are different and change.
Completely agree. Yeah luckydude I can say with 100% certainty that if you took all of your money out right at this moment, you won't lose any money in the next crash. Give me the nobel prize in economics guys.
My first startup was in Arts space. I used to do Art exhibitions along staircases, where people in companies would walk up the stairs and see photo-journalism stories (instead of taking lifts). I did a few good exhibitions and later closed the startup because of financial reasons.

I was a bit scared that someone established in Arts industry, would take up my idea and because they had more networks and artists, would do a better than me locally and then more people would steal it in different cities.

I tried to go open source later and literally tried that an art gallery or a photographer steals my idea and does staircase exhibitions. I tried to pitch it to people from different countries, they all loved it, said would try it, but never did. I sent them elaborate checklists on how to execute and pitch these exhibitions.

Nobody steals your idea - unless they see that you are making money doing it already. At which point, your idea is no longer a secret.

Since then, I have shared my ideas for months before working on them and received valuable feedback to refine them or weed bad ones out. I have even shared ideas that I thought were patentable - that made me uncomfortable, but no one ever stole them either.

Interestingly, at times I have thought of stealing someone ideas (we were co-founding and I felt cheated). I tried, but could not steal the idea either - though I was the developer. I guess, it is a lot of work to steal an idea.

And my latest startup idea is a game - https://halfchess.com . I shared it for a few months before starting to build it.

It can still make me uncomfortable to share an idea at times. So I stopped sharing ideas with people who make me feel uncomfortable or don't have a constructive feedback.
> aggregate market cap will only increase by $50B

If you list 5% of a $1 trillion company on a stock exchange, the aggregate market capitalisation goes up by $1 trillion. (Float goes up by $50bn.)

Market capitalisation is price per share times shares outstanding [1]. Float is price per share times publicly-trading shares [2].

[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/small-cap/2005/04/29/quotouts...

[2] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/floating-stock.asp
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Only if everybody in the world did it. Otherwise, it makes whoever did do it vulnerable to anyone who didn't.

Unless of course one subscribes to rather silly and naive notions like that the USA is the primary source of conflict in the world.
When you look at it from that angle, Bitcoin becomes a very interesting hack on economic incentives (and how they don't always map to useful real-world activity)
> So I would say you're not an odd duck, there's just a different set of values you're trying to signal.

I agreed with most of your comment, but this sentence seems to imply that all decisions are purely or at least primarily for the purpose of signaling values to others. I don't think this is true. Humans may be very social and tribal creatures, but I don't think that means it's impossible to make decisions without caring what other people think, like who reads the "signals" generated from e.g. the prudent purchase of a used Honda or whatever.
The graph does need to be compiled, you're right. But you can still do everything interactively through the REPL. I don't see the difference in practice.

Also, is there any reason to think useful optimizations are being made during compilation in theano or tf that don't get made in torch because it is more strictly dynamic? Anecdotally, pytorch seems quite fast, but I'm wondering.
Nice. FWIW, there's actually many existing libs like this out there. My Redux addons catalog has sections for "Action/Redux Generators" [0] and "Entity/Collection Management" [1], which both include a wide variety of utility libraries for abstracting out various aspects of fetching data and loading it into Redux. (I actually already had Redux-ARC listed in that first category.)

[0] https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links/blob/ma...

[1] https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links/blob/ma...
how does one go about getting a quant position? (PhD, bachelors, masters?) I feel like there's a bias towards PhDs...
The thing is - they could do all this and ... about 250 people would buy it. Maybe 1000. To break even at that level of production, they'd probably have to charge 5 times what people would want to pay. Meanwhile they have tens of millions buying their "toy computers". Where would you focus your efforts?
Bitcoin tops $3,400 as investor confidence boosts it to record high
It's much worse: Chrome takes performance hit when accessibility is enabled, so does Electron:

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/7206#issuecommen...

So they are inaccessible by default at least on macOS while Safari and native Cocoa apps are always accessible.
Ok, right, I know. I’ve made films myself - shown them at festivals around the world inc Cannes - and I’m aware. It’s true; you’re correct on the definition.

The reason people are reacting negatively is not because of the truth value of your point: it’s because your point was pedantic and irrelevant.

Is that time the length of a feature film? Yes. Many of them. Does that mean all feature films have to be that long? No. Are most feature films the general public encounters ~90-120 mins? Yes.

So you’re not adding to the discussion. You’re being that “well, actually...” guy.

I’m not trying to rag on you to be mean, I’m trying to help you understand why it came across poorly.
Simulate the Great American Eclipse
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The assumption that the car market is "free" and not distorted is is already a pretty silly idea. The largest reason for promoting electric vehicles is that the cost of pollution isn't taken into account within the market for internal combustion cars. There's already a substantial distortion. With all costs included, electric cars may already be "cheaper".
The limit on li-ion 100W.h standard and 2x160W.h in carry-on with airline approval.

The 2017 15" MBP has a 76W.h battery.
Does Germany pay for room and board while studying?
While the name 'fiscal liberal' may be a poor name in an attempt to make it fit into a grid with the other 3 names, I have to say the concept of payment of wages being inherently coercive is one I've seen numerous times. Personally I have a hard time understanding it because it seems to be a double standard that isn't applied to any other type of work, but regardless of how I view the logical consistency I have to say it is a serious view that is held by a significant percentage of people I've encountered while discussing this matter.
Well Tcl expects you to use an interpreter for each thread and pass messages between them, which is fairly easy. In Tcl 8.6 you also have the option to use multiple coroutines within one interpreter.

This avoids the Global Interpreter Lock problem that plagues Python. How does Guile handle that?
Make sure you when you make important decisions you surround yourself with the smartest people. You cannot know everything, but knowing how to proceed with your most trusted and smartest people will be the core of your success. Provided you can make the right decisions, and learn from the wrong ones.
For anyone shopping for a good deal: The Lenovo Outlet sells refurbished products for a great discount. They often get inventory in bursts, so if you want a good deal figure out your search criteria and check repeatedly. I got a T460s with great specs for around $800 a few months ago.

http://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/outletus
That was my issue. Everybody's is going to be different. Regardless, it's always ultimately a personal problem, with a personal solution, not one with society. Only you can know what your intense longing and pain actually require, and only you can take action to make it part of your life.

Calling it a philosophical problem isn't helpful because philosophical problems don't have solutions, only approaches for thinking about them. You're effectively saying that you don't want to not be lonely.
Like there was in 2008/09 when most people in the world lost confidence in banking systems followed by the bailouts and Quantitative Easing.
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Looks like you're trying to creatively reinterpret the comment you're responding to into something that's easier for you to take down.

I don't see where QAPereo says the thing that you say they're saying. (In fact, I see the opposite, but that's beside the point.)

EDIT:

Three people (strictnein, nicky0, EpicEng) show up to point out the comment I'm referring to said it's "just another [...] walled garden". Er, yes. That's my entire reason for commenting. I can see the words that were written. Which is why I'm calling out the person I replied to for asking a question that suggests those words say something else.

Here's a breakdown of what has just occurred:

Person A suggests it's no different from any other walled garden that's come around before.

Person B asks Person A to defend the stance that it's different from other walled gardens.

I point out the contradiction between what Person A has said and what Person B apparently wants Person A to have said. Then you all show up. Why are we here?

I'm gonna leave HN for a while.
Code is a formal specification. You can have layers of such specifications. The problem with viewing code as the specification is that a lot of languages obscure the intent and only reveal the how.

I'm working on a radio product, it's clear how data is being moved into certain buffers. It's clear when data is moved into certain buffers. It isn't clear why data is moved into certain buffers, or if the code is correct, only that it's being done.

A higher level specification set allows us to have a documented understanding of why the code does what it does, and allows us to reason about it at that level. It also makes it feasible to bring new people into the project, because 150k sloc (not a huge project, but not small) of largely low-level code is not something someone new can jump in on and understand quickly.

We also have something that's much easier to reason about when designing system tests, and to test the code against. We write the tests as though the specification were the reality, and test the code against that model to detect where it diverges. If we only had the code, what would we test it against? If it's its own spec, then it can't be wrong.
> You're wrong, and I've explained this upthread.

No. I'm not.

Are formal math and engineering useful in cooking food? Yes, they can be (particularly if executing on an industrial scale). Are they necessary? Not really. Plenty of great cooks just throw in ingredients in the amounts that seem right to them, perhaps tasting the result once in a while. Are they sufficient? Nope. If the best mathematician and best engineer in the world collaborated, the result might be edible or it might be an inedible mess.

If neither formal math and engineering are necessary nor sufficient to produce good cooking, we can safely conclude that cooking is not math or engineering.

> Static type systems are arguably a product of this, especially advanced ones like Haskell's.

Haskell is used by, to a first approximation, no one. Which was my point.

> Now you're just being anti-intellectual.

No, I'm not.

> The only question is what you choose to do about that: learn the math, or stay ignorant.

I was one math class away from getting a dual BS in math and CS in undergrad. Rather than stick around for another semester, I took the BSCS and went to grad school.

You can safely assume that I "learned the math", and that I am not "anti-intellectual".

The point here is that while, on the most fundamental level, the universe may indeed be made of math, that doesn't mean that treating everything with the math toolbox is the best way to proceed. Expecting that math methods will produce great software is a fundamentally goofy idea -- just as it would be to expect math to produce great poetry, painting, architecture, or anything else (and the same for engineering).
Agree that they were not the most prudent financial managers, my point was as soon as they changed the tax code; there was a 10 year window to sunset it and almost all of the companies left which really decimated the economy where jobs just vanished as they were moved back onshore and satellite offices closed.
The 2+ hour difference is comparing playing video windowed and fullscreen, not video to other tasks.
This is an awesome idea.

I've spent a lot of energy making apps to automate my life and management my schedule. Now I'm tempted to also have it throw in something random now and again. I couldn't go to these extremes (I couldn't pick up and move to another country for instance) but it would be cool to say do things less extreme... like pick a random place for dinner or watch this random Netflix movie.
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The Porche 918 Spyder qualifies for a $3,667 tax credit. The car costs $845,000 for the base edition - and only 918 were made.

It meets all the criteria of the IRS EV tax credit. It's capable of 78 mpg while emitting only 79 g/km of CO2. Even the Prius only gets 58 mpg while emitting 111 g/km of CO2.

While I fundamentally agree that anyone buying a $845k car doesn't need a tax break - I also see that since it meets the rules as stated it should qualify.
Only the elite know. It's so funny how people think that recessions, depressions, stock market crashes, etc are some "natural" event.

A stock market crash happens when the elite decide there should be a market crash. When they pull money out of the market.
Household debt to GDP tells you the state of the society. Household debt to income tells you households' ability to repay. If Debt/GDP is fine but Debt/Income is not, you're looking at (a) default (lenders eat dust), (b) inflation (savers eat dust) or (c) public assistance (non-borrowing taxpayers eat dust). That's a political question. If Debt/GDP isn't fine, option (c) flies off the table.
Totally agree. The two NDs I have seen in classes are cops, but only 10% of cops are probably gun enthusiasts; teh rest just shoot the minimum required per month, which is probably 25 rounds. I had my NRA instructor certs years ago, but won't teach due to insurance costs. Then again, the chances of civilians using weapons defensively in public are pretty low, so it's really not a risk worrying about. Just don't go to public shooting ranges. The number of holes in the ceilings tell it all. I feel perfectly safe doing IDPA, etc. and shooting on private ranges and clubs.
Guessing the author means that you can dock it and play on a TV/monitor in your house in addition to being portable for taking around.
Do you have anymore info you can give on that?
When you take your nice, theoretical software package and expose it to the real world, you always find things you wouldn't have predicted in the design. The world in general and humans in particular are messy and chaotic. People enter things you wouldn't have expected. People use your software in ways you wouldn't have predicted. Simple communication protocols suddenly become victims of race conditions.
I originally wanted to argue your assertion but I think you do have a valid point and I deserve the downvotes.

I don't agree with your assertion about unsustainable consumption and debt is required for fueling a prosperous economy though. It might have been that way in the past decade or so, but we cannot continue with the same levels of debt forever, regardless of how much the economy desires it. I don't know what the solution is, perhaps expansion into space, industries that cater to a new market? But again, I don't think the right answer is duping people into believing that having nice cars is the answer to all of their problems.
Are you assuming people's genders?
unless the 'next crash' is runaway hyper inflation.
We got the tongue in cheek point of the comment. However what is being discussed is the ordering. Defcon 1 is more serious than Defcon 5. ie it counts backwards from 5 to 1 as situations become more serious. So your comment should be Defcon 2.

Pedantics aside, I did enjoy those little comments you put alongside the threat level.
I've worked successfully with a number of people whose opinions on many subjects were radically different than my own. It's called being a professional.
So tell me what is the equivalent of Bonzi Buddy on the iOS App Store?

While there are occasional apps that aspire to such, the fact that basic OS functions are private APIs and are not distributable on the only widely available vector into devices prevent malware and many (but not all) privacy breaches.
The more people who visit ccc sites the better.
By all means, fork Git and require a minimum 50% female membership. If you are successful, more power to you.

You are actually criticizing women for how they spend their free time while claiming to help them.

What have you contributed? Where is your name on the Git commit history? Where does your name appear among the credits for outreach work?
Recall that this entire subthread is the result of your claims about Murray. I am not an expert in the field, so I don't have strong opinions about the competing explanations for group differences in IQ. What I'm fighting against/for isn't any particular claim about intelligence, but rather your framing of one particular claim.†

I do strongly hold the position that a genetic explanation, should one exist, says absolutely nada about policy, "supremacy," how we should treat each other, or really anything else. I also strongly believe that a good faith inquiry into this question (and acceptance of whatever the science reveals) is a pursuit orthogonal to "white supremacy. This is so obvious to me that I feel silly even rebutting it.

Again, I'm not advancing one particular explanation for group differences. I'm opposing your treatment of the implications of one of those possible explanations.

Further, as I stated elsewhere in this thread, the statement "white people are smarter than black people" as a summary of population differences is statistically and biologically illiterate. This way of talking about these issues is unscientific and obfuscatory and it has no place in serious conversations on this topic.

† My personal opinion, as a non-expert, is that the differences are probably explained by a complicated mix of factors, but that genetics likely play some role. If this seems wishy-washy, it's because it is. I'm including this footnote only to avoid the accusation that I'm dodging your question. My opinions here aren't worth much. Frankly, I doubt yours are, either, unless you've got a second career you haven't mentioned in your profile.
He states it in the video: they are incredibly overwhelmed with data coming in and are just using "old search methods" such as word search that he deems ineffective.

My understanding is that this bulk data gathering is not as much as preventing attacks but further securing of power for the strange amalgamation that we would call the federal government.
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Please post evidence...
The danish models are either 1 or 3 year "standard" warranty..

The warranty doc says:

What Does this Warranty Not Cover? On-site service/repair, ....

So no on-site for the danish models (there is some mentioning of on-site as an addon, but no prices)... And the "full amount back + keep laptop" sounds to good to be true..
but i feel like they're looking for PhDs and Math Olympiads.
If you don't wasn't encryption, why not just use telnet?
If it would reveal secret capabilities (or illegal procedure), the NSA does not reveal their information.
Wow, really interesting read. Thanks for the link.

Only trouble is that once people find patterns like this, they have a habit of disappearing. Hopefully this one is based on solid enough fundamental market forces that it persists after its publication. It was published in 2013 so we won't know for sure until after 2023.
Yes, I know (and it's not just video fullscreen, it's video in QuickTime). And as I said, I thought this was known. Apple has called this out. I mean, did people really think that merely playing a video extended battery life? Or did they just forget about those features that Apple talked about.
Autonomous Cars are about more than Driving
Occam's razor says it's because the capability to gather far exceeds the NSA's ability to analyze. The data they collect is probably run through basic automated analysis (probably keywords, sentiment, and social network analysis, possibly some attempt to correlate to interesting real-world activity like purchase of large amounts of fertilizer, etc). But mostly the cache is used for retroactive surveillance to catch colluders after an event. The data would also be useful for local law enforcement (a kind of "super tap"), and certainly they have the eyes (if not the skill) to analyze the data, but that's a political hot potato. (And thank God - there are plenty of local police chiefs just itching to send the SWAT team in to a family home based on NSA "cyber").

Note that one of the more useful and interesting uses for this data would be political demographic analysis more comprehensive than anything available legitimately. It could also be used to target leakers, especially if you could use devices to put 3rd parties in the same room. E.g. my phone hears or sees you and your friend together, even if you don't have phones.
But consider that Elon Musk has recently come out vocally agains the subsidy.

He feel's that rather than an electric car subsidy, carbon should be taxed and 'let the market decide'. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/338108608430632960

That is what a bad faith argument looks like. Having taken the subsidy for years, as all of the other major car maker are starting to offer an electric model, he gets religion and wants the subsidy eliminated. That is, once it starts to benefit competitors more than Tesla, it's a market distortion.

I don't begrudge him playing the game better than others, but don't pretend he's not playing the game.
Plus, as you mentioned yourself mcap corresponds to the present value of all future cashflows and GDP to one years output. The only way this would make sense is you were comparing changes in GNP to changes in mcap.
some sensible rules right there. pimping is not what you want. good for tasmania.