skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. But I think it’s the high profile libertarians (Thiel) that create the perception.
Did you try firefox quantum? I am also using an "old" machine, first gen i7 mobile processor. Firefox (pre-quantum) was slow for me on windows so I switched to Chrome. But firefox quantum was equally fast if not faster.

Now, I am using firefox 56 on OpenBSD, and it is really really smooth.
Are we looking at the same graph? The same tool is showing me they were ~20% in 1920, and doesn't have data for earlier.
Uber Link Deal with NASA for VTOL “Flying Taxis” by 2020
Query Optimization in PostgreSQL. EXPLAIN Basics – Part 2
That's the complete opposite of the way Chrome was designed. I've rarely seen Chrome do a complete lock-up and close everything. The point of Chrome spinning up a new process per tab is that when one Tab crashed it doesn't take out the whole browser.

Firefox on the other hand did this constantly. In fact the only thing that has prevented me going back, and I have regularly given it a try as I support their overall approach and support of web. So I am excited to see how Quantum feels.

But if Chrome was constantly locking up and crashing completely I have to imagine its something wrong with your computer/OS.
I know that during and after WW2, USA enacted significant anti-trust legislation that broke up and prevented the formation of monopolies, while at the same time allowing for the widespread adoption of worker unions. Taxes were also higher at this time. Did similar legislation occur in the UK during that time period?
Yeah, over 20 years 1M sounds reasonable - wasn't really recognizable what timespan was meant from parent's post...
If you read the video description, the blame should really be on the city for having an obscure system where you can rent the field that no one actually uses.
I can't tell if you're kidding, but... Markdown Here gives you control over the CSS used when rendering, so you can put those loud styles on, say, H1, and then just write:

# DO NOT ET CETERA

...And then render.
Yes.

I recently had to help a person with a broken wordpress theme. The reason: The theme used a font from a thirdparty host and that host was gone. The fix: Simple, get the font from the Internet Archive and host a copy locally.

When you include assets on your webpage from third parties you always have to expect that they change. Avoid it if you can.

For fonts this is mostly annoying as you can't control your layout. For Javascript it's outright dangerous:
https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/889-Abandoned-Domain-Takeove...
As would I
So.. what about liquidity? Are the liquidity options for the funding shares similar to that of VGSIX? Doubtful.

In no way could I imagine you would have had the option to liquidated those shares for pre-recession prices. Without that option, you were probably stuck holding the shares or selling for a similar loss. So what's the advantage again?
The Mystery of Perplex City [video]
It depends on where you live. In places with lower rents it seems more common for young professionals to live alone (most people I know live alone or only with a significant other)
For context, rurban has had a long-ongoing feud with the perl5 maintainers that eventually resulted in his removal from the mailing list for being unwilling or unable to disagree sufficiently civilly to hold an effective discussion when people felt he was technically incorrect.

He's also, OTOH, a technically brilliant developer whose positive contributions will be missed.

(also if you ever run into him at a conference, I'd recommend grabbing a beer with him, I've always enjoyed doing so in spite of our spirited disagreements over various things)
What about putting all your money under your mattress and then your house burning down?
>if you tried to sell your holding during a market downturn

This is not possible with Realtyshares at least. You have no way to sell your holding. You just have to wait it out.
So my feed would be filled with extra long tweets from bots and people who have nothing better to do but tweet all day to level up, and people who only tweet when they have something important to say would be limited to 140 .

Hmmmmmmm
I thought the meaning was clear. The good panels are put in smart TVs and not non-smart ones, so even if you have no interest in using smart features the smart TV may be a better choice.
N of 1 here but I am in the category of people who hate Facebook (been off for a year) and very much miss the pictures, invites, and updates from people I love. When I used FB, I unfollowed/unfriended folks I didn't care about, really curated the experience as best as I could. I truly miss the interactions with people.

But what I read over and over about the amount of data being collected, combined with the very strong feeling that my worldview was being solidified (I don't want news/articles tuned to my worldview, I want to be challenged) and the desperation at which it tried to drag me back in, made it impossible for me to use FB any longer. Twitter at the same time. Instagram took longer but I'm off (again).

"I choose to focus on the positive and refuse to harbor such negative feeling" - I do too, can't speak to the author. Getting off social media because of the negatives has brought a lot of positive to my life:

- More in-person interactions
- More checking in over phone/text/email directly (still electronic but one to one)
- More to talk about when I see people (I don't already know every little thing and people are excited to actually tell you about what happened)
- More time reading books and long form articles
- More time working on things I care about
- Less news and "news"

If social media brings positivity into your life, great, enjoy. But YMMV. This is a bit like telling someone not to leave an abusive relationship because they're only focusing on the negative and, hey, your relationship is great!
There's no way to make this sound non-insulting to the person I originally responded to, but one of my most-hated pet peeves is the "it's easy, just <8 year old's solution to a problem>" comment.

"Why don't we just make bad things illegal?"
This review from 2011 shows how the Harmony Link works, and that it requires a MyHarmony.com account to set up a device, and to control it from an iPhone: https://www.engadget.com/2011/10/11/logitech-harmony-link-re...

You don't buy a product which solely depends upon a free online hosted service and then bitch after 7 years of using it for free. Yes, it would be nice if Logitech released its server-side code so people could host the service themselves, but that would require a firmware update too as MyHarmony.com is almost certainly hard-coded in the device.

Personally, I learned this lesson in 2002 when the Dreamcast's online services were terminated after only a year. It's too bad other people didn't seem to notice the parallels in 2011. But the suggestions of "class action lawsuit" is just stupid. You can't sue a corporation into running a free service for you that it never guaranteed in the first place.
"That's not the sort of 'above the clouds' we had in mind"
If we had a way to have a realistic transfer pricing we wouldn't have the result that we have now where systematically groups make the biggest profits in countries with low taxation. If we look Apple group, their most productive employee are all based in small island nations. So on an Iphone, conceived in the US, made in china, sold in EU the biggest share of the profits is made in Bermuda or tax heaven?
Design Predictions for 2018
It's early to say but the top strategies on Quantopian were showing off sharpe ratios higher than 2.5, which should bring great profitability with very small downward moves. The fact that they have such a poor performance so far (while still having little AUM) is definitely a proof that something is wrong with the way they test their strategies...
Fully Functional JTAG Obtained for Intel CSME via USB DCI
It's useful, therefore people use it. You're asking for people to accept a clear decrease in the utility of a service. Because ????
Yes. You'd have to really try pretty hard to lose money in this market.
How an Israeli Tech Startup Changed the NBA
The wheels themselves can not act as coils because of eddy currents.
Piwik[1] is pretty good. For self-hosting, basic features are free and open source, some of the more advanced features are sold as plugins[2].

There's also OWA[3] if that's more to your taste

1 https://piwik.org/
2 https://plugins.piwik.org/premium
3 http://www.openwebanalytics.com/
The problem is that there is no other really scalable revenue play for a product like Quantopian other than starting a fund. They could try and charge people for the platform but that is pretty niche. That could be a good business - but I'm not sure it's a VC-funded business.

Still, I've been skeptical of Quantopian's business for a while. System writers are likely to opt-out if they have any success, and they need a track record of 5+ years in order to raise any substantial amount of money - particularly true with something so unproven like a crowdsourced algo fund.
Most people would say that's a bad idea, too.
>So what's the advantage again?

I didn't say there was one. I invest in real estate because it has historically strong returns and is not 100% correlated with the stock market. That is very different from an 'advantage'.
NASA contracts Uber to build flying taxi air control software
"the myth of communication is that it has occurred"
Create an issue with what's going wrong with FastMail. https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/issues/new

My own brief testing -- and another user's report -- suggests that it's working. Make sure you have rich editing enabled.
For real estate, art, gold, assets and overseas moves, the question still remains as to what the sellers then did with the cash. The buyers might have gotten away, but the sellers are still caught with bags of that need to be laundered.

There was a huge collateral cost, I don't think anyone can deny that, but whether it was worth is still too early to call.
mmm.. well..., this happens everywhere outside sillicon valley and it is normally handled playing together. King of the field.
It doesn't matter whose fault it is. If people think it's unsafe people will stay away.
https://archive.fo/CrtmX
Uber partners with NASA on flying taxis
Google Search History Inspector/Intersector
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Three-fund_portfolio

If you prefer a book The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins is pretty good.
You do have an interesting point worth discussing, but that was not the thrust of GP's comment.

Even your "autonomous organizations" will need to deal with e.g. the halting problem, for example.

http://cognet.mit.edu/book/heterogeneous-agent-systems [You want to read chapter 10.]
I don't get the point of these. Index funds win most of the time, and when they don't index funds still win once you count the amount of time and effort needed to marginally beat them.

Set it and forget it.
Yeah, and I bet that carbon fiber burns real nice.
You can build a system that simply controls commercially sourced, UL listed, mains equipment. That top level comment mentioned using IR but you can also control cheap 433Mhz outlets with simple transmitters and a library like rc-switch for arduino[0].

Home assistant also integrates well with openzwave so you can use most zwave devices including a variety of switches.

[0] https://github.com/sui77/rc-switch
The problem with home automation is that it is so expensive just from a hardware standpoint (you’re talking $50 light switches instead of $2 light switches) that most folks willing to pay for it are already served by existing home automation vendors (most of whom are independent contractors).

You’re not going to convince your average homeowner to replace $100 of mechanical light switches that last forever with $3000 of IoT switches that have to be replaced every 10 years or so. You’re really not going to convince them to drop another $2000 on configuration.

By far the biggest use case is in home theaters, which is already a well-served market. Pro-level home theater installers have been putting in these systems for 20 years; they’ve just become cheaper. The pros definitely use this stuff too; open source is pure margin on an install versus a commercial solution.
None, but they were selling these things very recently. They had a clearance sale. I'm sure someone in Logitech knew they were going to EOL these things and sold them anyway. That is getting into consumer fraud territory.
Came in to support this sentiment
I think most technology starts out unsafe/unreliable and overtime as early adopters use it, they'll get to a point where it is reliable. This is a point-in-time, that will almost certainly change probably in the next 12+ months
In this case it seems they are buying the thing and renting the functionality.
Pigs flying
Twitter would be profitable tomorrow if they laid off half the employees. The company is so bloated for product they deliver. It should be a money printing machine.
As a kid, the neighborhood basketball court had norms for use that developed over generations. If you wanted to play and a game was in progress, you’d call out, “Got next!” (If someone else on the sidelines had already called it, they’d let you know and you’d wait your turn.) When your turn came, the winning team stayed on the court and you went onto it with your team, picking up players from the sideline as needed. In this way, people from the outside still had their chance to play, but they integrated into the system. (They were probably made better players as well since they had to play against a wide-array of competition.) The system was true of any urban court I visited around the US.

If our neighborhood court suddenly had to be reserved, it would be a major disruption to norms established for generations. Neighborhood kids, who knew nothing about local government and how to work with it, would have suddenly felt pushed out. Worse, assuming they observed the reservation made by the “outsiders”, they would have been left with nothing to do except wander the streets. That’s often the scenario courts were built to prevent.

I understand that leagues need to schedule ahead. I also understand that local governments need supplemental income to maintain neighborhood facilities like basketball courts and soccer pitches. But, neighborhood kids need open time during after-school hours and weekends to meet with other kids and play without the formality of a reservation process. The Dropboxers in the video would have been a lot smarter if they explained to the locals about the reservation and offered to have a big game “subbing in” as needed.
"I've Been Moved"
You're looking at income, not wealth
The migration tools I work with have this already automated and (having been involved in the design of said automation) it's really not that difficult to add.

Other DBMSes often have to do complete table rewrites for certain types of ALTER anyway - so while, yes, it's faintly annoying to have to do that in userspace rather than having the db engine do it for you, it's not nearly as big a disadvantage as it first appears.
> Apple bills itself as a transparent company.

lolwut? Secretiveness is kind of their thing.
> "Same shape"

are you kidding me?

maybe it has kind of similar shape at best and looks quite alien design, looks uncomfortable and very "gamer", doesn't look like a normal mouse for office use

while MX500/MX518/G400 have the very same comfortable shape
It's called overfitting.
Unless RAM usage hasn't significantly increased beyond 200mb since alpha, it should run.
Exactly. Tax loopholes are like exploits. If they were all enumerated somewhere nicely then we could just patch them up.

If you're planning on using exploits, you keep try and them secret. Once they are common knowledge they get patched (hopefully).
The title makes it sound like people lost their money.
I really like this movement of going back to the basics, web 1.0 style web apps/sites.

I do feel however that there can be a compromise, I think we can build our web applications in the 1.0 style and power them up in the 2.0 style, allowing the capability of the client drive the presentation of the application.

For hints on how I'm doing this for Remarkbox (https://www.remarkbox.com) - please read http://russell.ballestrini.net/capability-driven-presentatio...
Some of the more successful features that appeared first in NeoVim have also been adopted in Vim 8. One of the new features in this release is that NeoVim will use the tmux clipboard if running in Tmux, so you can use "+y to yank in one Vim instance and "+p to paste into another vim instance running elsewhere in tmux. https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/6894/files
I'd agree that having roommates can be made news for a strong introvert, but I don't think the amount of physical space you have is necessarily all that important. It's more whether you can have time to yourself.
How good can Dopamine's moral compass be if they don't immediately refuse service to anyone who wants to use Dopamine's services?
Chrome hang on Linux is extremely common. Check this out https://www.google.co.in/search?q=chrome+hang+linux&oq=chrom...

From what I understand, it has something to do with the way it does memory management along with cache. I don't know - but I have pretty much a flagship laptop and am running Fedora 26 which IMHO is the best OS out there right now.

Chrome blows. Quantum rules.
I did see those but chose to ignore them because of the affiliation partnerships. FinancialSamurai.com in particular turns me off because they're constantly pushing affiliate products, so I can't trust them.
Ask HN: How should a job post look?
If you're like me, you also believe that Job Posts are poorly structured when it comes to engineering jobs.

How would you redefine them?

I was thinking:

1. Tell me the primary technology?
2. Tell me what problem I would be solving?
3. Tell me what's the biggest challenge?
4. Give me badges that tell me about the work environment. [Work from home] [open office] [snacks] [flexable hours]
5. Show me pictures of your office or a video
6. Keep your company overview short and sweet

What would your list look like?
Corrected headline: "Lamborghini Unveils Borderline Science Fiction Plans for a Concept Car"
Not for strategies that are trading frequently with 1-3 day holding periods...
With a so-called "general anti-avoidance rule" (GAAR) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tax-avoidance-gen...

Effectively if your tax arrangements are weird enough they have to be submitted to a judicial-like body to determine whether they are for some sort of legitimate business purpose or purely for the purpose of tax avoidance. An example: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

"Paragraph C5.6.7 of the Guid
ance states “[the GAAR] rejects the
proposition that taxpayers have unlimited freedom to use their ingenuity to
reduce their tax bills by any lawful means"

"The reward was structured in the
following way: a purchase of gold for
the Employees was funded by the Company; that gold was immediately sold
by the Employees
;
the Company’s liability to pay the third party gold supplier
was settled by the Employees in return for a director’s loan account credit in
favour of the Employees; in connection with the purchase of the gold a long
term obligation was created under which the Employees were required in the
future to pay to the trustees of the EBT an amount at least equal to the
purchase price of the gold (plus indexation)."

Obviously this arrangement is nonsense and is purely for tax avoidance, so the GAAR cuts through the complexity and rules it unacceptable.
Plug-In EV Sales in Norway Up 48% in October, Overall Market Share at 43%
Grand Theft Auto boosts Take-Two Interactive sales. GTA 5 shipments pass 85 mil
Can someone ELI5 if this is an issue with Ethereum in concept/execution or with Pairity and how they handle Eth?

Is this an issue that can be repeated on different wallet platforms/exchanges easily, or is there something uniquely wrong with Pairity wallet that caused this?
The page is not responding. I smell Bigfoot.
Silverdale / Bremerton / Poulsbo area out in Kitsap County.
Depending on the situation, it can be well worth it to have your test suite run against SQLite while doing active development to be able to iterate faster and then run it again against the target database before pushing the branch.

Where possible I much prefer to spin up a version of my target database in a tempdir but "faster test cycles" is sometimes worth accepting the trade-offs.
"When you design chips, cure diseases, or build rockets you are fighting entropy."

I've never quite heard 'entropy' used as an argument, and though you might be a little bit correct in some sense of the word ... I don't think it holds true either physically or as an analogy :)

But bon-bons for trying.

That's my favourite 'most HN comment of the day'.
This site claims responsibility of $300M lost of Ether (Ethereum)
This site claims responsibility of $300M lost of Ether (Ethereum) http://cryptosecretsociety.com
While I agree, and have done the same in the past - You still have to file, and it's only the first $100k that is exempt.
2015 to 2017
Don't you want a car that can't traverse speed bumps though?
Doooooooooone
I put 50k into Patch of Land, 5k into 10 loans. If everything works out, I'll make about 5k. However, one loan never made a payment and is going to court, and one other is in default.

Once my money is paid back, or whatever, I will not put any money into them again, or for that matter, any other realty fund either.

Like baccredited said about RealtyShares, there is a big problem of total lack of transparency. Another problem is that the majority of loans get extended. So, in my case, where I put in 50k, thinking the loan matures in 12 months, so I should get it back then. Well, after those 12 months pass, suddenly the loan was extended for another 12 months.

Furthermore, I actually talked to them about borrowing money for property I wanted to buy. The interest rates they wanted were ridiculous and I'm not really sure how anyone can make a profit borrowing through them.

If I wanted to put it into real estate, and couldn't buy my own, I would put money into the Vanguard REIT funds, because, while there are issues there too, at least your money is liquid, and it's Vanguard. (or Fidelity or Schwab would be fine too).

Lastly, the real place to put funds is into balanced index funds. That's where most of my savings are anyways. This was a trial that I personally wasn't very happy with.
> There can be no need of a hard fork.

Except that one time with the DAO.
Well said. The issue here is that the code and semantics of the language (Solidity) were (are) both very poor at communicating and codifying intent.
The point is that they don't pay those taxes where they are based either.

Additionally, they create some value in Germany (a small share but still large on Apple scales). Taxing income derived from that is not double-dipping.
Maybe because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquitaine#English_Aquitaine ?

> Aquitaine passed to France in 1137 when the duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine married Louis VII of France, but their marriage was annulled in 1152. When Eleanor's new husband became King Henry II of England in 1154, the area became an English possession, and the cornerstone of the so-called Angevin Empire. Aquitaine remained English until the end of the Hundred Years' War in 1453, when it was annexed by France.
It should read “hoard cash”, i.e. mattress money.
Digital sales up 31%