skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure you're being downvoted for going against orthodoxy by suggesting that one can "beat the market". I agree with you in that it can be done, and should not be attempted by most people (I personally would not put intelligence constraints on it; I think it's a factor of one's tolerance for looking at financial data, and an ability to keep emotion out of trading decisions). I don't try to time the market, however. My prime directive is to preserve capital, which I implement mostly through stops. I'm happy to leave money on the table, but I don't want to lose money.

But let's look at the fund in question: how did they stay funded? The same way a lot of bad funds stay funded: people put money in and never look at it again. And those people are not the ones updating stop limits, looking at charts, and basically making a hobby of their finances. Those people should be buying index funds. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. With the time I've spend reading books, tracking markets, etc., I could have learned a language, started a business, build my own house, whatever. Because after looking at returns over the last twenty years, yeah, I have demonstrated I can consistently beat the market (or more likely, can leverage opportunities of sheer luck), but not by enough to make the opportunity cost worth it if I didn't actually like doing it as a hobby.

And folks should completely ignore your point #4, especially the part about buying a house "tax-free". Eh, not quite.
quality > quantity

I doubt there are 400,000 papers worth reading in all of medicine. A major skill in research is understanding what to read, and how carefully.

Prepping to write a review usually involves about 150 articles, for me. About 50 of them just need a cursory look, and the abstract often suffices. Another 80 or so need some more attention; you might be looking for patterns in the methods used, cross-referencing results, figuring out what labs are doing what, tracking authors over time, etc. This is how you understand the state of a field.

The last 20 or so are the bulk of your time. A few are genuinely excellent and will be a highlight of the review. Some are simply solid work that requires a good amount of attention. A fair number are terrible and highly misleading. These are the papers that look okay, but have some flaws that need to be addressed by the field at large. It takes some tact to write about these, but it's usually not too bad.

Finding good authors, especially ones that write good reviews, can get you up to speed in a field in an afternoon. An evening chasing down citations and digging a bit on your own, and you're probably about where Bill was with this. Since Alzheimer's is a pretty big subject requiring familiarity with a variety of topics, I'd give it two weeks.
CLISP doesn't compile functions input at the REPL or loaded from source files with LOAD. If you don't do (compile 'fib), you're testing AST interpretation, not byte code.
How else would you have it end?
> This is the opportunity that the Chrome engineers foresaw. We saw it too, but we had a bumpier path to get there. Since we had an existing code base we needed to plan for how to split up that code base to take advantage of multiple cores

The "bumpier path" is that they removed XUL-based/legacy addons, only chrome-like addons (aka WebExtensions) are now supported on FF57. Personally i still have some extensions that are marked as Legacy, mainly for web development so m going be slightly affected with this release, i hope the performance gains are worth it.
Interesting, looks like a fair number of apps use webrtc directly.

https://mightysignal.com/top-android-sdks?tag=47
https://mightysignal.com/top-ios-sdks?tag=47
>Separate ... screens.

I can almost see the "let that sink in" expression on your face. Wholly agree with the rant. Might as call it the "Modern Design Manifesto".
Came here to say that. Tree Style Tabs makes ut possible to navigate an unhealthy amount of tabs.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15685541
duplicate, please check before submitting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15685541
If they took a (less horrifying) Black Mirror approach where it was stories in the same universe that could be interesting, but I don't think it would play. There's a lot of story fruit still in LOTR universe that hasn't been plucked yet, so I think that they could do something really good that was episodic as well, but I suspect it will end up closer to "Legend of the Seeker" than something with a good, lasting story.
Since when does someone get kicked out of the US for having gone to jail?
She wrote a program for the old mac called "Music Mouse"

"This is a program I first wrote for my own use way back in 1986 on my spiffy new Mac 512k, that somehow ended up enough in demand that it became a so-called "product", and actually got rated as a "5 Mouse" program by MacUser Magazine. It lets you use the computer itself as a musical instrument, played by moving the mouse with one hand while you control dozens of available musical parameters from the Mac's "qwerty". It's a great musical idea generator, ear trainer, compositional tools, and improvising instrument. The software does a lot of harmony handling for you (you control the variables it uses for this), so it's useful - as are all "real instruments"at any level of musical training, experience, or skill, from beginning through professional."

http://musicmouse.com
Yep it uses AWS Lambda currently, you'll usually end up paying < $1 for small side projects such as https://gh-polls.com/ etc, but it definitely depends on your traffic.

This project looks like it's more FaaS style (sans the self-healing / autoscaling etc). Up is more application oriented, it just happens to use Lambda.
Not fake, just out of date. That graph clearly shows Bitcoin Cash surpassing Bitcoin's hash rate for a period of about 12 hours yesterday.
+ Bitmain, the largest ASIC manufacturer and the only reason why BCH fork ever happened in the first place
Algorithmic complexities in general, which in the day-to-day life of a developer are rarely considerations. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I ran into a problem that required the type of algorithm design needed in these interviews, yet they form the basis of hiring in many places. Crazy town.
fast.ai - it's free, and there's a low level of assumed knowledge from the outset.
I think the code people have to write in interviews is not supposed to work/scale in the real world. The purpose usually is to test whether the candidate can implement a correct algorithm. Even though this is Java (?), it's used more like pseudo code.

A follow up question could be: "Do you see some problems with running this with big numbers? How would you scale it?"
I hope this will eventually happen with bitcoingold. Bitcoin and bitcoincash should have never been allowed to be mineable with ASIC's. For now it's still Bitmain's game.
Job postings on job boards are not job offers :-) I am talking about real companies in the corporate world who are thinking of upgrading to Angular from whatever proprietary

Basically they didn't jump on the React bandwagon because of the licensing thing, but are ready to jump on Angular's because it ticks all their boxes
The LSAT sounds an awful lot like an IQ test. In fact, the scoring looks suspiciously close to IQ * 1.5 with a similarly scaled standard deviation, seeing as the range is 120-180 (which would correspond to 80-140 on a typical IQ test) and the median score is 153.

So it wouldn't surprise me if a person with a BS in Physics aced it. Math/Physics majors tend to have the highest aggregate scores on standardized tests, be it GRE, SAT, ACT or even ASVAB.
Something Different for Engagement
Added benefit: sometimes when you leave a site with something still in your cart, the site will later email you to tell you that the item is on sale.
It benefits the lower income groups significantly while giving a kickstart to job growth, at nearly the sole expense of the upper middle class.

I don't like the plan because I pay more under it, but the value of the giveaways to the very rich seem rather small compared to low income benefits. Lowering of the corporate income tax rate and axing the mortgage interest deduction has broad support from economists across the political spectrum too.

NPR had an interesting piece on this in 2012:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-...

Edit, great chart showing who pays more / less:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/here-are-the-winners-and-l...
It's a distributed system. What do you mean by "backed"? I'm sure there are some ex-felon proponents of BTC as well.
This was an interesting read, thanks so much for sharing. They always find a way to dig as much info as possible out of people.
sorry.. my mistake. I meant kicked out of US after serving jailtime.
Performance is usually death by a thousand cuts, and (imo) the best way of mitigating this is by standardizing some measurements and making that automated. Block changes that move performance past this bar, make sure the organization buys off on this approach. Any changes to a critical area that impact performance need to be zero-sum - if you add something, you need to take something away.
It's too soon to judge, I think. I would be happy using the old FF if the new one didn't have already the things I need. In the mean time I would try to collaborate. Once FF 57 is out of beta officially, there will eventually be enough people with itches to scratch. It was in my plans to implement Tree Style Tabs properly if no alternative appeared before end of the year.
Well, that is rather the idea in The Killing Star. Also The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin.
> I'm not going to see flying cars in my lifetime

How old are you now? 20, 30, 40? Given an average life of lets say 80. That's 40 years. So much could happen. Are you serious?

> at least until we get some demonstrable AI in consumer products that's anywhere near what I'd trust to drive a car

Google started the self driving concept back in 2009. 16 years later, here we are. Also, that's half of what's left of a potential lifetime.

Waymo is testing on public roads now [1].

Here's an article details the other competitors timelines [2]:

GM: Rumors of self-driving vehicles by 2018

Ford: Truly self-driving vehicles by 2021

Honda: Self-driving on the highway by 2020

Toyota: Self-driving on the highway by 2020

Renault-Nissan: 2020 for autonomous cars in urban conditions, 2025 for truly driverless cars

Volvo: Self-driving on the highway by 2021

Hyundai: Highway by 2020, urban driving by 2030

Daimler: Nearly fully autonomous by early 2020s

Fiat-Chrysler: CEO expects there to be some self driving vehicles on the road by 2021

BMW: Fully self-driving vehicles possible by 2021
Tesla: End of 2017

Lets say, that all the manufacturers slip and it's only until 2030 that it's a viable consumer product. That's still 26 years it took to develop. Way way less than half a lifetime.

Now if we extrapolate all that AI and knowledge and apply it to:

[3] - Uber enlists help from NASA in bid to launch flying taxis by 2020

then [4] - [5] - [6] and probably more companies who are racing to make this a reality. Even if it took them 20 years to do so.

You'd still see it in your life-time.

-----

So please. I'd love to hear a rebuttal.

[1]:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/07/google-wa...

[2]: https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/04/self-driving-car-timeline...

[3]: https://news.sky.com/story/uber-enlists-help-from-nasa-in-bi...

[4]: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/21/electric-fl...

[5]: https://www.wired.com/story/delorean-aerospace-flying-car/

[6]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/17/flying-car-compan...
Spivak calculus. There is nothing like it. You will learn how to think in math, not just calculus.
Two other favourite ecosystems of mine. :)
How well can you decouple?

That's all I need to know about you. If you can do this well, I (or you) can fix all your bugs quickly. I (or you) can fix (most of) your performance issues quickly. If you can decouple, you can isolate whatever other areas of ignorance you have with ease.

How well can you decouple? Is it instinctual for you to riddle off code architectures and solutions that are decoupled? It takes time + a value system to acquire this skillset (so that it's instinctual) but once you have it, you can move mountains with code.

The sad thing is our industry doesn't create the conditions for acquiring this skillset. (And rarely, like in this scoresheet, do you see it measured in interviews.)

The usual refrain is "I didn't decouple here or there because, um, it was faster to take on the technical debt."

No, you didn't decouple there nor there because you didn't spend several years falling on your face trying to decouple and failing. Because you were too busy getting paid to crank out whatever works in the shortest possible time, all the while saying "I didn't decouple here or there because it was faster to take on the technical debt." You didn't decouple there because you don't know how to decouple there.
The Story of how Bobrisky became famous(How it all began)
For those who are unaware, Bitcoin Cash is a fork of the bitcoin network (NOT an alt coin).

Over the years, there have been two conflicting visions for what Bitcoin should be.

The Core development team what Bitcoin to be digital gold settlement layer. A censorship resistent store of value for settling low volume, multi thousand dollar transactions, that costs hundreds of dollars per transaction. This is because the higher transaction fees are, the higher the "security" of the network is.

The other, competing vision for Bitcoin, and Bitcoin Cash, is that it should be a way for every day people to make every day transactions. They believe that fees per transaction should be measured in cents, at most. This vision sacrifices some amount of security, in order to allow mass adoption.

There are more complicated arguments, such as mythical "layer 2 and layer 3" solutions, called the lightning network, that could be deployed on the network, so as to help with scalability. But these solutions are perpetually 18 months away from completion.

Mostly recently, the settlement layer, high fees faction "won" by stopping one of attempted upgrades to the network, and the other side responded by forking the network and going its own way. That is Bitcoin Cash.
Because I recently read a really interesting story that talked about how science tends to get in the way of real progress. I hope you don't mind me sharing it with you but it struck a real note with me. http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/saving-science
yes, I can now hold down small talk conversations, ask people about their lives, be interested in them and remember to ask follow up questions next time I see them.

I will ask questions about the outcomes of an approach rather than making statements about it so that I make sure we both are working with the same information.

basically it's made my life a lot less stressful, and my discussions with colleagues much more productive
Finance also causes a lot of problems.

If nobody could get a home loan the housing prices would drop. But, loans don't create wealth so long term would be closer to break even than you might think.
Falcon FOSS SQL Client with Built-In Data Viz
It really depends on your business model. Are you selling results, or expectations/head count? Is the engineering work actually vital to company success or is it mostly about maintaining a stable product that doesn't need much change? So what may work for some businesses, would raise terrible issues with others.
Although I'm going to have to read this book it seems like.
Playing devil's advocate here, especially for Postgres this isn't a clear cut case, as because of Postgres' MVCC implementation, depending on whether the rows were already frozen or not (caused by lots of mutations ongoing and not enough VACUUMs), it might have either used an index-only scan (only from 9.2 on and only if most pages are visible-for-all, so the query scanner allows the optimization). In the other cases, it would have had to fetch all rows from disk anyway, in which case "not enough information" would have been true...
Boston Dynamics: the New SpotMini [video]
"Don't worry about someone stealing your idea. Worry about no one giving a shit when your idea comes to life."
Our ndbench results for YugaByte DB were just posted on our forum https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/ndbench-results-for-yugabyte-db.

In gist, we ran ndbench for 7 days and our p99 was under 6 ms with no "long tail". It is achieved by cautious architectural design and implementation choices. More details are available in our post.
It is possible, but it's messy in terms of which one is the default (clicking on links outside of the browser), taskbar/launcher buttons (OS- and DE-dependent, some configurations have issues e.g. with pinning) etc. I think there was something else - minor and just slightly inconvenient - but I forgot.

Compared to ProfileManager, Container Tabs are absolutely awesome. Completely different experience, smooth and nice.
Alliance for Open Media Welcomes Facebook to Its Board as Founding Member
Yes it's a marketing piece. It's written to scare people into buying their security products. Sure they are entitled to publish this. Yet I have zero interest in reading it. And I think it shouldn't be promoted.

When I see the Cloudflare domain here it usually means solid technical posts. Maybe I should lower my expectations?
I easily reach a hundred tabs with Tree Style Tabs when researching a topic. The tree structure makes it easy to understand how you've navigated the web and to traceback where you came from. When I found what I've what I was looking for I start closing tabs. The ones that remain is my catch and I save the URLs and/or contents.
I'm glad you've never had to deal with pickpockets.

I recommend you stay out of cities, though.
Indeed, I didn't think it could surpass Chrome's dev tools quality so quickly.
Testing Recommender Algorithms in Python with Surprise (Interview)
Ride-share upstart 'Fasten' revealed as Hive of insecurity
Yes, but that’s $100k worth of vesting per year based on the value at grant date. Very few situations exceed that in illiquid companies.

[1] http://www.naspp.com/blog/2009/08/iso-100000-limitation.html
Yet another sub-par Vice article. Why even give this guy a platform? He clearly doesn't understand how law enforcement sting or undercover operations work.

Further, this was already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15425906
For deep learning, my two favorite nominees are:

1. Hugo Larochelle's Deep Learning course available on YouTube

2. Depending on how much math you like, Nando de Freitas's Deep Learning course (also on YouTube) is also superb.
he defected for political reasons. Since he has over $150M+ of bitcoin now, it was a $22M-worth idea.
Very Interesting !
>Learn a skill in your free-time, and then get a job in that skill.

The real world doesn't work like this - most jobs above entry level require a college degree or some kind of professional certification. If you have kids to feed and rent to pay, that's a hard row to hoe. I know it's possible to somehow get a job based on self-reported self-training but that's rare. If it was that easy why do you suppose there are so many people that are working as dishwashers and cashiers? Maybe you just think they're lazy and stupid?
Now this is ridiculous. Thanks for sharing this article.
Yes, I do recommend it highly. And then the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy by Liu Cixin.
Amazon Alexa throws her own party’ in empty flat, forcing police to break in
People Are Building Their Own Powerwalls Out of Laptop Batteries
and this is where Chrome has a good hook on me.

In order to switch, both FF desktop and mobile need to be better than Chrome.

Does FF support a version of Chrome tabs too ?

Damn, they have built themselves a good moat just with features I will miss.
For self-study, you don't necessarily need to follow the usual progression of math classes that start at calculus. It's more important to get comfortable with linear algebra than calculus, especially the way a lot of intro calculus courses focus on calculating integrals and derivatives. Maybe it's not the best message, but the worst grades in my math degree were in the intro calculus classes.

I don't remember what intro linear algebra books I used, but my college uses this: https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~linear/ (I took the class before this free textbook was developed).
>the same income should pay the same federal tax.

Given the vast difference between local economies, this would result in huge disparities in effective tax rate depending on where you live.

For example, a person who makes $100k in Kansas City, MO is far wealthier than someone making that much in San Jose, CA. Taxing them at the same rate is essentially a massive tax break for one and not the other.

The SALT deductions account for this.
> altenative regime

Why must it be a regime?

There is no need to use centralized platforms.
That doesn't really make sense to me... any public policy can be rendered ineffective by subsequent politicians.

So a non-populist politician implements an "effective" UBI policy, but since it's only effective for a short amount of time because things change and people realize later that it's not as fair/effective as they thought... or else you can only pass a compromise bill and it's really not effective at all, but you're told it will be (assuming you keep voting for X!).

I mean, why should everyone get the same amount? Or why should the percentage difference between my UBI this other groups be different by X amount?

Suddenly the UBI is just a new way to target voting blocks with promises of adjustments in their favor... essentially like how the tax code is used politically.

The only way to implement UBI effectively is to implement it a way where it can't be used as a populist political tool ever, which I think is impossible.

The most messed up thing I find about UBI is that it's the solution put forth by companies which are actively avoiding paying taxes through loopholes and havens.

Rather than someone like Zuckerberg thinking "Hmm... maybe I could help impoverished people by spreading my wealth to my employees more evenly and by paying my fair share in corporate/personal taxes to the local/state/federal govt?"

Instead they say "I deserve billions of dollars in personal wealth and to stay competitive (despite my effective monopoly) I must utilize every tax loophole possible and it's up to the government to find some other way to find the revenue to keep my users/employees at a living wage."