skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is more investors indexing a “bubble”? Is it just because of the growth line?

While there surely must be some crappy indexes out there, one could argue that more indexing by (individual) investors is a sign of a more people understanding the difficulty of stock picking and harsh effects of management expenses on investment returns.

I’m very happy indexing in my retirement portfolios, but am curious as to what the arguments against it are. The few I’ve read have seemed to be active fund managers scared at the prospect of losing their livelihood to a better product.
It will have to do intercontinental cargo flights for a while before it can be FAA human certified. They'll probably need to invent whole new classes of safety requirements before it can take passengers.
Not sure I agree, I thought High Castle did a decent job of undermining notions of historical and moral determinism, in that it manages to get the audience rooting for Obergroupenfurher Smith by the end, blurring the moral lines a fair bit.
US spends significantly more money per capita to healthcare than other countries. US healthcare problem has nothing to do with lack of resources (human or financial resources).

US could save money in healthcare while improving it by reorganizing the healthcare. Even wealthy people get worse treatment than they could because the way incentives work. https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/6addvo/the_wealth...
Okay, I get the concept. Where is the argument for it?

>Sometimes, especially in abstract situations involving higher-order functions, providing names for tangential arguments can cloud the mathematical concepts underlying what you’re doing.

Sometimes? When?

>point-free notation serves as an example of how subtle changes to the way you think about or define your code can have big impacts on readability.

In the end, we're defining `atLeastTwo` and using it identically, so it would be much more compelling if there was an example in which things were, in fact, more readable. This example is just syntactic. It's like arguing that `const atLeastTwo = (x) => x >= 2` is better than `function atLeastTwo(x) { ... }`

> It’s your job as a developer to be cognizant of these tradeoffs.

It's just that this piece isn't really helping me get there.

I think the author is suggesting that we define `atLeastTwo` in terms of an `atLeast` primitive, i.e., currying and partial application. It's clear that this is going to make composition easier, but it is relying on it. Now, I'd like to see how point-free, as a paradigm, yields better results in terms of readability or error prevention.
Exactly - this is the same reasoning I use as a counter argument to gun-control propositions.
Time for people to start making fake social media accounts. Just setup a LinkedIn that says you're software architect and a lawyer, then show it to border guards.
Among the many illegitimate reasons to demand online accounts, there are definitely 100%-fake profiles. I have seen this with friends: something that IS their picture and their “name” (though the scammer probably added spaces or something). Great. Just imagine, someone at the airport first asking leading questions like “is this you?”, then demanding that you log in; and since you won’t be able to, now what? Then suppose they have “evidence” of what “you” have been doing with this account.

Even important digital information isn’t being secured correctly (Equifax) so this is not exactly the best time to be attaching new importance to stuff that is easier to emulate or steal.

It also can’t come at a worse time from a “social media exhaustion” point of view. I haven’t used stuff like Facebook in months. I’m further from this crap than I was even last year, and the last thing I want is to have to dip back into the cesspool to appease the authorities.
Are you not profitable? Why do you need VC money if you are worth 400M?

I would start calling the VC firms everyday to set up an appointment. You have revenue and a proven product which is leaps and bounds ahead of most pitches they see. At the very least you can use these term sheets to increase the acquisition offer and give urgency for the acquiring company to act. You do not want to let them come in and learn everything and leave as I have seen this happen with a company I was a contractor for.
definitely. We plan on exposing the workers to app developers later this year.
I'm surprised there isn't an equivalent for Firefox. At least no obvious one I can find so quickly.
Yes, it supports multiple monitors in limitless arbitrary positions. If you want a monitor to the right hand side, one mounted behind you and one above you then you can configure this.

However if you want three monitors lined up side by side, this seems to be ridiculously hard to configure at least in Ubuntu. The monitor drag-drop interface in Ubuntu is the worst I have ever seen. We recently had three new hires and had to go through the traumatic experience of setting this up for each of them.
This seems like a market reaction to increased SEC regulation that has led a lot of companies to delay their IPO.

As others have said, there are pink sheet OTC stocks and then there are companies like Snap and Square that only IPO so private equity can make a profit. For average joe investors looking to find opportunities like in the late 90's tech bubble, ICO's seem to be the answer.
NASA and Russia Team Up to Put Moon's First Space Station
The biggest problem I have with GNOME is how boring it is... It's not a bad thing, don't get me wrong, but I wish it would be a bit more interesting, especially if I have to use it 10+ hours a day.
Wondering how authentic the audio recreation will be? SID chip is very popular.
It's the early days-- there are already "non-custodial" exchanges-- shapeshift and changelly.... and atomic swaps are just starting to be experimented with. When lightening network exchanges and atomic swaps and side chains are all perfected in 1-5 years much of the exchange risk will be gone.
Using a good function syntax [Scala], the pointed version is:

{ x => Math.pow(2, x) }

Obvious it's a function of 1 argument. The pointfree variant requires 1 extra concept [partial], plus building a mental map of the arguments, to reconstruct what kind of a function [or value!] the pointfree expression represent.

Furthermore, implementing the reverse check is syntactically symmetric in the pointed version:

{ x => Math.pow(x, 2) }

Whereas the pointfree version, assuming the function is not commutative, accumulates even more concepts:

partial(flip(Math.pow), 2)
Any idea where Enigma sources from? I want to attain the least latency possible, something like Flexport sources.
Cell towers here have battery backups (it's a legal requirement). Also, power outages are extremely rare over here. Average reliability of the power network in my country (the Netherlands) was 99,995% over the last 14 years. The average outage takes about 30 minutes. IIRC cell towers have a 3-hour battery backup.
Good to see we are still on track for our descent into tyranny. Ahead of schedule, even!
That's valid for some countries, not all.
Maybe someone here can satisfy my curiosity:

What are the significant applications (industrial, military, or scientific) of SAT solvers?

They're not just a theoretical curiosity are they?

The wikipedia entry describes a number of algorithms, but is silent about their use (or lack thereof) in the world.
Besides the culture wars and this current (in my opinion) backward looking view on immigration I am not sure I'd agree that the ship is sinking. Overall things are good, there is just a lot of negativity & division that I think that is being driven by profitable propaganda on both sides.
> Also, I also think we should have a carbon recapture tax added to gasoline

That can't work for any country that has "country".

In the US, the vast majority of goods are delivered using trucks that burn diesel.

You can't have a gas tax without a diesel tax. Everyone would just switch over.

If you tax gas, you effectively tax everything, and that's not okay for any economy.
There’s a distinction to be made between communication services and social media.

Personal communications should of course be private, but social media is not a form of personal communication. It’s a form of broadcast, usually to a company’s servers you have absolutely zero control over.

You don’t need to “cosplay MI6” to be diligent with what you share and what you don’t. You should just be prepared to assume that anything you post on social media can and will appear in the future.
Get used to it. Cyberwarfare is only going to increase.

And there's little doubt Russia interfered with the USA's election. To what degree is being investigated.
That's a pretty inaccurate and uncharitable "summary" of the article.

I mean, sometimes foreign governments do hack stuff, and when they do they will sometimes leave evidence of who was behind it.

It's far from conclusive in this case, and there's a lot of speculation, but the article is completely up-front about that.
Fast, unless you happen to have very very long lines and word wrap enabled.
What about the Flynn effect?

Could it be this:

http://www.advancedsciencenews.com/co2-on-the-brain-and-the-...

https://thinkprogress.org/exclusive-elevated-co2-levels-dire...
Pointfree style uses composition (among other operators), currying, and partially applied functions, but it refers to something distinct from the sum of those concepts/features.

Consider the following function of two parameters, written in Haskell/PureScript syntax:

f x y = g x (m (h y))
= (g x . m . h) y

We can now eta-reduce/partially apply f instead in the definition (which is possible because f is curried by default):

f x = g x . m . h

If I were using pointfree style at all (which I almost never do), this is where I'd stop. However, you can go the whole hog and strip out all the arguments:

= g x . (m . h)
= ((. (m . h)) . g) x

f = (. (m . h)) . g

I've made use of everything you listed, but it's only when you go this far that your function is truly free of "points".
I prefer the Shiller PE for my doom-and-gloom. ;-)

http://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe/
I use 32bit server images in VPS because the RAM usage is significantly lower. This is critical in VPS units with 512MB of RAM... I'm worried.
Or a drone.
In Michigan at least, these programs are funded by the taxpayer. $Power_Company gets to make a profit on every crappy fridge they haul away or every LED lightbulb they install.
V8's API is C++. While bindings exist in other languages, they don't always expose everything and don't always keep up with V8's frequent API changes. I felt it was essential that we bind closely to V8, being able to use all of its features, and that we be able to track closely to the latest stable release.

Also, I personally have decades of experience in C++ and wasn't sure this should be the project where I work on learning Rust.

That said, I love Rust and highly encourage more people to use it.
This is pretty interesting, especially if one get some kind og local storage where one can cache the data from the users and also keep some extra data one need to handle the requests.
One can also imagine some kind of MQ solution that distribute to the edges and then updates the clients (for games and such scenarios)
Since you weren't actually a citizen entering this country, you don't have the same rights as citizens do. Now you do, since you went through the process, but you certainly didn't before.

Secondly, if you had nothing to hide, then whats wrong with sharing?

You should separate the difference between citizen and non citizen. We know NOTHING about those people coming from outside the country. Immigrants in the past, didn't want to come and kill people. They came for a better future. The same can't be said about the current immigrant. So we must review and make ourselves more aware of the kind of person that is trying to because a citizen.
ZIRP is the root of all evil.
Are you suggesting that reading a book on Category Theory might make me better at writing SQL queries?
...because the people describing it that way are ironically ignorant of world statistics?

https://www.gapminder.org/
Summary: Service Workers on the Edge Server.

Very interesting, especially since it allows for a Cloudflare ESI system.

Wonder if many will take advantage of it
can someone explain to me the benefit of acquiring a totally unrelated company and how that makes business sense?
I also like that you don't need to be a literate person to assemble their furniture (wordless instructions).
coughUBI
I would be very, very careful making the conclusion college degree leads to lifetime earnings, it's possible that a third (or forth, or fifth, ...) factor that makes people more likely to earn a college degree is what leads to the bump in lifetime earnings.

It is also completely useless to lump together all college degrees from all schools.
Deloitte Hacked
Is there any proof that there is not an "FM" module? I saw the verge article, and the daringfireball, but neither of those writers are technical writers. A baseband radio, on any cellular device does FM modulation for the QAM/QPSK symbol decoding at base frequencies that would handily cover the FM band. Of course this may still not be possible due to the baseband processor's capabilities, but I'd like some technical data that proves this.
Use AutoHotKey to remap CapsLock to function as an Enter key.

Or dig into the JS and figure out how to execute the send manually?
I'm aware of stuff like that, and things like nerdtree. In the past, I've had many boxes I might end up on so I kept coming relatively stock to the distribution. In the last four to five years it's been primarily one box, so I've finally started putting in more advanced features slowly.

There are benefits to being comfortable in a somewhat stock Vin, and there are benefits to having it highly customized. I find the benefits imparted might be outweighed by the discomfort when it's not as you expect if your work flow forces that situation on you, so as my work flow has changed with the type of work I do, I've tried adopting different vim strategies.
Here's a list of unsuccessful attacks post-9/11. Not much info on how they were thwarted or if the surveillance played a role: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsuccessful_terrori...
Yes. We are exploring adding data storage at the edge. We would love people’s feedback in the product and what features we need to add.
On the other hand, there's no surprise uncapped charges when something unexpected happens.
As I understand it, the version of Gnome they're shipping is vanilla Gnome with a few extensions enabled by default, all of which can be disabled using Gnome Tweak. There's no need for a separate session.
I may be an idiot, but personally, I would find it hard to believe in a God who never sanctioned judgement, who never advocated justice at all. That would be truly evil.

As far as the Egyptian first-born, was God not patient and slow to anger? Was that the first plague or the last plague? How many years had the Egyptians oppressed another people? How many Israelite children did the Egyptians not kill? Did the punishment not fit the crime? Is God not just?

‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?’

“Therefore, son of man, say to your people, ‘If someone who is righteous disobeys, that person’s former righteousness will count for nothing. And if someone who is wicked repents, that person’s former wickedness will not bring condemnation. The righteous person who sins will not be allowed to live even though they were formerly righteous.’ If I tell a righteous person that they will surely live, but then they trust in their righteousness and do evil, none of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered; they will die for the evil they have done. And if I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ but they then turn away from their sin and do what is just and right— if they give back what they took in pledge for a loan, return what they have stolen, follow the decrees that give life, and do no evil—that person will surely live; they will not die. None of the sins that person has committed will be remembered against them. They have done what is just and right; they will surely live.

“Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just. If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, they will die for it. And if a wicked person turns away from their wickedness and does what is just and right, they will live by doing so. Yet you Israelites say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to your own ways.”
Whole Foods Investigates Card Breach
While I share the sentiment, misquoting people who were saying almost the opposite of what you meant is not going to go very far. Franklin wasn't talking at all about what you were thinking he was talking. It was about an argument on taxation.

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famous...
> 'I love the USA but wouldn't want to live there'

I have a work colleague who has a green card but lives in the UK. He gets questioned on it every time he goes through US customs.

Essentially, the very idea that someone would choose not to live in the US is considered suspicious.
The biggest threat of violence to US citizens comes not from immigrants but from gun violence inflicted on them by their fellow American citizens.

Barely a week goes by where the US doesn't experience an act of domestic terrorism without some total nutter shoots up a mall, movie theater, school, church etc. In fact the frequency of these gun violence incidents is such that they sometimes interrupt each other's news cycles. There is even a lexicon that has been invented to describe the - "sheltering in place, "active shooter" etc.

You will never hear the US media call or government call these acts of terrorism or the perpetrators of this gun violence against innocent people referred to as terrorists.

It's worth noting Donald Trump the architect of this anti-immigrant hysteria opposes expanding federal background checks for gun purchases.
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Considering everything we now know about Russia's attempts to influence our elections and sew division, is it really unreasonable to think they might try to throw a wrench into our credit system?
The housing index confused me too, as they chose a year after a huge collapse in the housing market as a comparative point. I'm not saying US homes aren't overvalued--or that they are--but it's misrepresentative of the state of the market: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA
>Because their social media lives are not its business -- citizens or not.

This is a bit absurd. First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees your right to publish papers. But now you also want the right to prevent your publications from being read? The government has had a program collecting a vast majority of publications for a very long time i.e. the Library of Congress, so one might say the precedent has already been set.
I am scared. President Trump's twitter account shows he is petty, vindictive, and thin-skinned. I won't be surprised if immigrants who are critical of him are punished. [1]

https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/28/aclu-fight-doj-request-i...

PS. Immigrants in the past came to kill all of the locals. ;)
There's been a 211% increase in statistics being posted out of context.
Using even better (PureScript) syntax, the pointfree version of the latter can be written in notation similar to a hom-functor.

f1 = pow 2
f2 = pow _ 2

This makes it look like a lambda but without having to bind an argument explicitly. Makes it much nicer to write complicated expressions (although I can't speak to the readability for people less fluent in the syntax).
She seems like the sort of person who is very particular about the way things are done, and if you don't do them that way she'll be upset. He probably knew he was setup for failure, since she knows exactly what she wants, but won't tell him. He is definitely too passive, but she has probably inadvertently trained him to not do things without permission, because when he's tried she's been upset because he did something she didn't want. She wants him to take initiative, but he's probably gotten in trouble for initiative in the past.
Gr8 points. The healthcare problem is a disconnect in the laws of supply and demand. In economic theory prices are determined by the intersection of supply and demand curves. So when demand shifts up, more supply comes online to meet demand and bring prices back down. In health care this is not happening. Bear in mind that the first and one of the most powerfull lobbying organizations is the AMA.
healthcare sucks a lot more out of the customer in the US than elsewhere in the world, so the fact that the US spends more is combined with healthcare patients spending more money per capita in the US.
Having experienced both, I can tell you that I am terrified of having a motorcycle accident in the US. Or breaking a leg.
I've maintained for years Apple was waiting for their ARM chips to get big/fast enough to make the switch
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Congratulations on the announce - it seems like a game changer of a feature, and one I look forward to testing.

Will Cloudflare be curating a list of useful worker scripts? I imagine there will be certain usecases that get a lot of attention (e.g. ESI)

Do requests made from the API go through Cloudflare's usual pipeline, or do they go straight to the backend? In short, will we need to manage the cache ourselves?

And finally, does this change Cloudflare's role as a "dumb" intermediary?
I will report this back to the Dear Leader, he will find your plan very interesting!
It's a big deal because it's almost impossible to use this information in a way that won't have a huge cost to

1) the people visiting the US and

2) the US public (via tax support for enforcement which is driven by this policy)

Wolfram Alpha says that 322 people visit the US in a year.

Let's assume the technologists in charge of this (who are really no different than any other corporate engineer - capable, but fairly disinterested in their work and apathetic/unaffected by the results) manage to make the process 99.9999% effective in screening out the innocent, and 100% effective in screening terrorists who enter the US.

Well, that world-class accuracy gives you 99.9999 * 322 million => 322 people a year who are caught in the dragnet
(and in all likelihood, it will be multiples of this number; likely thousands of individuals).

So now we are interrogating, investigating, and suspecting 322 innocent people in order to catch the... oh, wait; there really haven't been any terrorist attacks like 9/11 since... 9/11.

The Boston Bombers were home-grown. Anti-abortion extremists, religious fundamentalists, bullied schoolchildren, and paranoid schizophrenics have all tried or been accused of trying to wage terrorism on the US, but there's not a single event[1] that it looks like this policy could have prevented. But we're investigating 322 individuals (and their families, friends, and close contacts) in order to do it.

And at what cost? We will never know, because those numbers are classified due to their sensitive nature.

In the end, none of this matters: the government was never interested in terror prevention in the first place. They just needed a new bogey man to replace drugs, the Russians, whatever as a reason to ignore the constitution.

The war on terrorism is a farce.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States...

* edit: added the parenthetical note on numbers, multiples of estimate