skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ok, so if you think the hell thing is going to hell, just go SHORT, it's one click away. How simple is that?

Uh, how? Also, the hard part about making money on a short is knowing WHEN the price is going to crash. You can call an obvious speculative bubble what it is without knowing exactly when it's going to pop.

> if it's SO EASY to make a ton of cash off a crashing market, then EVERYONE will go short, since it's so EASY to make money

If the market is already crashing, why would someone sell you the stock to short sell? Don't you have to short before the price starts to drop?

> And that's why markets are generally stable and it's what humans do best, we go LONG. :-)

What?
Well, ripgrep uses Rust's regex library. If VS code used the regex library directly, then they would basically wind up re-creating ripgrep (or something very similar) itself.
Incrementally redoing the signal system is difficult, particularly because the system has lots of branches and reverse branches--which means you have to basically have it enableable on the entire system before you can enable it, rather than doing lines at a time.
Let me point out that the "culprits" responded, and it's a very good response. And turns out I was wrong to jump to conclusions because of their silence/blocking. Though they did initially handled it very poorly for a PR firm.
Come on , it didn’t crash. Is just a small correction , small dip. Is just 30-49% down that is , was, a normal day in crypto
One interesting error in their paper: 27o (two-seven offsuit) is actually the worst hand in a 10 player game. 23o (two-three offsuit) is the worst hand heads-up.
Mark Manson: the 4 stages of life
Also known as 'idlewords here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idlewords
Coinbase sent me an email saying that they cannot guarantee uptime during high volatility. The exits are locked.
Funds like this tend to outperform in bad to normal markets and underperform in highly bullish markets as they have more discipline around valuation. Warren Buffett famously underperforms in very bullish markets as well

The pitch of funds like this is that for a few years out of 10, they'll underperform, and then massively outperform when everyone else is sucking. People invest in funds like this (note I don't know too much about his fund in particular but know many funds with similar styles) because when all the people who think they are expert investors bc they rode a bull market crash, these funds will be making lots of money
Lee Atwater, former chairman of the Republican National Party ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater ) literally said that the key to republicans winning in the south was couching racism in more palatable euphemisms.

https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-inf...

North Carolina's GOP was sanctioned by the Supreme Court for actively attempting to disenfranchise black people: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/north-c...

Then you've got this: https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/943864121497473026

People can be former racists, hell, the prior pope was in the Hitler Youth!

That said, if you want to argue Robert Byrd presence in the party, who has a 100% rating from the NAACP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd ) somehow indicates that the Democrats are institutionally racist, you are operating with some substantially motivated reasoning.

(edited because it's likely SOME Democrats are racist, but not the political party itself as an institution, unlike the GOP)
What if he's wrong?
Don't go into open source expecting anyone to pay you. It doesn't work like that. The reason your open source project is used by anyone is, to a great extent, because it's free and open source. If you charged money at the outset, there's zero reason to believe that anyone would use it. If others are making money or raising funds on the back of your work, there's zero expectation for them to even give you a token of appreciation.

Anecdote: A few of our open source projects (our largest is https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx ) have web-based demos ( http://oss.sheetjs.com/ ) which some people have copied, stripped license and attribution comments, changed the name, raised money, and then turned around and tried to shut us down. On the bright side, at least someone found it useful.
Using Laravel and WordPress to build a really fast and flexible API
And now they responded, and the reason they didn't have a story ready was apparently they didn't anticipate the accusation because they were working to help fix a screwed up situation for the accuser.
Our team of 5 created Videobolt to help you promote your personal or business brand with professional motion graphics. On Videobolt you create custom motion graphics in a streamlined online editor, export and download your project as .MP4 and then repurpose as you see fit.

Our current offer consists of logo intros, cinematic titles and a few slideshows. We are mainly targeting at twitch streamers, vloggers, and bloggers. We wish to build a tool useful to anyone who wants their brand to look like a million bucks, but also have money left over to sustain both their cat and their business.

The whole thing is free to use and you can also grab freebie videos from select templates by sharing on social media. For those that need more, we have affordable monthly packages.
Many businesses are using VR, AR and or MR. Petersen Automotive Museum is using Hololens for Ford GT MR experience. A company like Payscout is assisting retailers like Body Language Sportswear with VR retailing and VR payments with a partnership with Visa. Payscout has now launched their VR platform to help non-profits with donations by assisting in creating more engaging giving campaigns through the use of VR.

https://latechnews.org/mixed-reality-hololens-experience/
https://latechnews.org/non-profit-donations-go-vr/
An anecdote but I've seen exactly that. Sites that stream foreign films that you can't buy using hosts that will open 10 tabs of ads the moment you click on a video, weird redirects, and a bunch of user-hostile stuff.

Usually I go to the network tab and pull a direct stream to the file hosted, but some even go as far as streaming using specialized clients that chop up the video and apply encryption (which I assume is easy to defeat but not worth the hassle when the whole point is to avoid the hassle of ads)
This looks wonderful :) I'd love to try it out at some point.

One thing that I think could really improve the documentation is a few examples! One of my favorite things about the Python docs and the community is the wealth of examples. From looking at the docs, I couldn't find the main thing I wanted to see - what would MoneyType's annotations look like if I used it?
it just free cardio, you can burn about 600 calories in an hour which would otherwise be sat in a car or bus.

you can use it for strength training if you do a few sprints, but the main pull of it it that you don't realise you're burning many calories unless you really try.

breathing fresh air for an hour is great too.
Opening Hacker News 15+ times a day.

Seriously, "Focus" is the hardest thing to do when I have the entire internet and my phone right in front of me.

How do you manage?
Since mining is concentrated in China, one could argue they already have!
Elchemy: write Elixir code using Elm-like syntax
This is quite true.

I have an online games website I work on mostly for my own enjoyment. Basically just my take on classic arcade games like Asteroids (https://arcade.ly/games/asteroids/) and the little known Star Castle (https://arcade.ly/games/starcastle/). It's made a grand total of less than £7 from ad revenue over the last two years... because what I want to do for fun is write the games, and not a bunch of boring SEO.

Sadly it's the boring SEO that might make it pay enough to cover its own hosting. And even knowing this I'm still too unmotivated to do anything about it[1].

[1] Granted I should probably use Fiverr or Peopleperhour to pay somebody to do it for me, and I probably will, but I at least want to finish my version of Space Invaders first... and, fortunately, I have some time off over Christmas to work on it.
qtcreator is pretty good
Especially given that the Supreme Court has sanctioned the GOP on several occasions for racially motivated disenfranchisement.
Re: MiFID II - having just completed a project for MiFIR financial transaction reporting, let's just say it remains to be seen whether it can help "protecting clueless investors from themselves" as you say, especially when London, by far the largest financial market in EU, isn't going to implement it.
Managing daily burn-outs where my mind prevents me from looking at code objectively and patiently. I recently have tried putting on meditative music and trying to clear my head so i can be productive again. It is really hard for me to code for 8+ hours a day.
The comment didn't include a good metric of whether the author knows what he is talking about.

How do his funds perform in bad markets? That is an important part of diversifying a portfolio. Funds that outperform the market in good markets are likely to fall even more than the rest of the market in downturns.

It doesn't matter if you make out like a bandit during a boom if you aren't able to preserve much of that accumulated wealth.
I'd be very skeptical of the "required" money quoted by anyone who is affiliated with the MTA or state government in general. There's a lot of evidence that indicates the MTA is used as a personal piggy bank. Take, for example, this gem: "MTA wrote $4.9M check to three upstate ski centers in bizarre move requested by Cuomo officials" [1]. Or this one[2] (also part of this NYT series):

"Subway workers now make an average of $170,000 annually in salary, overtime and benefits, according to a Times analysis of data compiled by the federal Department of Transportation. That is far more than in any other American transit system; the average in cities like Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington is about $100,000 in total compensation annually.

The pay for managers is even more extraordinary. The nearly 2,500 people who work in New York subway administration make, on average, $280,000 in salary, overtime and benefits. The average elsewhere is $115,000."

Why are we paying these employees such an insane amount of money relative to our peers? Political failure[3]. Due to the Triborough Amendment clause of the Taylor Law, anytime negotiations with the union fall through, the terms of the previous contract continue. Thus, the Transit Workers Union (TWU) have no incentive to negotiate in good faith. They can't strike, but they still get a pretty sweet deal.

The solution to this starts at the top. We need to vote out our current corrupt (or at the very least, easily cowed) government and put in place people who will make this a priority and not be completely beholden to special interests.

[1] http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mta-wrote-4-9m-chec...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Law#Criticism_and_refor...
Unfortunately, there don't appear to be many credible, impartial or first-party sources linked to that wikipedia article. The best appears to be a Chicago Tribune article[0], but that only contains direct quotes from employees who claim not to have seen anything, and indirect (and sometimes contradictory) descriptions by other witnesses.

The common details seem to be that it was "dark grey" and "well defined," and displayed no lights. It can be difficult to correctly estimate the size of an object in the sky, so the disagreement about that doesn't necessarily discredit the story. The conclusion reached that it was a "weather phenomenon" doesn't sufficiently explain it.

Interestingly, there appears to be evidence that airport personnel contacted the FAA about it which turned up in a FOIA request, but I don't know if that audio is anywhere, or verified.

[0]http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-01-01/travel/chi-070...
N-S aren't "right" though. The derivations make a lot of good assumptions that breaks down in certain materials/situations.

What is right is its starting point on the conservation of momentum and energy. Then it makes certain assumptions about the stress-tensor which are not necessarily true. Meaning, you can derive the N-S from consv. of mass and E and a certain stress tensor (ST), but its not derived from a universal ST.
I humbly submit my article as an alternative. I clearly explain why there is no alternative, and give a concrete description of the markov chain. Though after the initial description of what problem MCMC is solving, I do dip into the math.

https://jeremykun.com/2015/04/06/markov-chain-monte-carlo-wi...
https://stackoverflow.com/a/22645853
Netflix's rise to be the king of streaming is directly related to viewers opting in for the ease of use and safety of Netflix (similar thing happened with Steam: it squashed piracy into nothingness even in countries like Russia).

Now that you will have to pay for Netflix, and HBO, and Disney, and Amazon Prime, and Hulu (I think they have exclusive deals), and that a lot of this content will not be available in non-US markets, the pirate sites will see a rise again.
The same case is for Belarus. Building this station is part of becoming energy independent from buying Russian gas. Lukashenko will build it even if it's non-profitable and Lithuania won't buy energy from it. He's stubborn SOB when it comes to independence.
At my company, it took us several years and the concerted outcry of hundreds of developers, but internal IT is now finally abolishing our proxies, one office at a time.
That seems like a feature, not a bug. Can’t see that desktop apps should need kernel features at all (other than what could be provided by any kernel)
Staying Relevant in Software Development 2018
Great. But that begs for more questions. Money is a unit of trade between humans for getting something from the other human in exchange for your money. If an entire class of humans is no longer needed, how will they receive money to pay for what they need? How much is your legal tender worth when large swaths of the country whose denomination you claim your wealth from are no longer "part of the economy"?

Not that I have answers to these questions. But we do live in interesting times.
For the record, the concept of XHR/AJAX originated at Microsoft, although it was not originally called that, and was first implemented in IE5.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequ...

Ditto for DOM Storage --- before the W3C, IE5 had userData.
dealing project managers.

they are very bureaucratic. They create tons of excel files to track project progress, and drag you into 8a.m. meetings to discuss how to update those excel files.
I work on Windows and run nightly builds of a developer branch. Occassionally some big regressions slip through, like networking or Hyper-V not working, broken graphics drivers not allowing multi-mon, and prerelease SDK's that break Visual Studio.

Still fun though, and I enjoy finding and filing bugs.
sure, that's the move.

i'd like to use something like react that creates both backend/frontend code in the future.

you end up with 5-6 files that just pass the same data from one to the next (form/model/component/xhj/api/model/etc..), react just removes 2 or 3 files from that equation.
First Commercial Payloads for Blue Origin
Like it did China? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/25/chinas-bike-...
Then go faster. At least on the way back home you can go all out.
Software is used everywhere. If you care about the broader impact of your work, take your skills to an organization who’s mission you respect.
This kind of information-free comment is just trolling. You've been breaking the guidelines a lot, so we have to ask that you please go read them and stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You can see the ones happening on GDAX on their main page, https://www.gdax.com/trade/BTC-USD
If it seems ridiculous to look at this single exchange's order book and extrapolate a whole market from that, yes, it is.
The interesting thing about this is that legitimate money managers act like this too. These are completely binary propositions: either they make you money or they don't. No slew of licenses and regulatory ID number checks will help this.

> He arranged for tours of properties in Geneva and Monaco and once insisted Diana travel on what he said was his company’s private jet. (Hottinger had no plane; it was chartered especially for the occasion, for about $40,000.) “He got us by being relentlessly helpful,” Diana, 59, says. “We’re Francophiles,” adds Andrew, 74. “We both speak French, we love French food—so maybe we were vulnerable. We were impressed.”

His "exploitation" of cross border regulators to evade a harsher conviction and restitution isn't really that notable, in my opinion (albeit clever if he was avoiding money laundering charges as the article suggests). Many legitimate funds have to operate with the same flexibility and exemptions for other reasons, and ultimately you either create value for your investors or you don't.

The real deterrent is that people are more concerned about their kneecaps and families, especially from any gangsters or politicians they have in the fund.

If that deterrent is gone then you'll see more of this.
Communication with other people. In my experience, even a two-dev project can be worse (in terms of overall quality, coherence of vision etc.) than if I just did everything myself. Of course, the more people the more mess the project becomes - but, at the same time, most software is just too large to be written by a single person or even a very small team. Hence, the usual end game is a crappy code base and a product that barely works.
Well, thanks for your opinion on my work!
Newish CTO who puts technical concerns before common sense decisions in a small company.

Example: App is already crashing due to server load a month prior to black friday, his decision instead of optimizing things and finding the problems is to write unit tests for the month. Finally a mutiny happens by the senior team and everyone scrambles to fix and improve things a week before BF and we make it through by the skin of our teeth.
In 2017 also you should choose Swift. Swift 4 ABI is very stable(hopefully, I know they are messing some core things with Swift 5 but... ah)

Swift is great language. Apple is also moving their inbuilt apps and frameworks to Swift. No doubt objective-c is compatible but you should choose Swift for sure in 2018.

Reasons:

1) Preferred by apple.

2) Great Community.

3) You will find lots off tutorials and help (after iOS8 etc) in swift.

4) Great language adopted many modern language semantics.

5) It's Swift era.

No doubt, Objc is great language and I have worked many years in it. But when you write the code in Swift language it feels really great and you will find your code less buggy because of many feature provided by Swift (Swift compiler assume you are dumb).

Go for Swift.
And even if it does (potentially) matter, the lifespan of code is horrifyingly short. Companies shut down. Management regimes want to be "impactful" and rewrite all the things.

It can be to pretty demoralizing when you realize how ephemeral your work is.

(That being said, I still love coding!)
Teachers needed the repeal of net neutrality like farmers need a drought
I remember playing GC1 on a 300Mhz celeron with everything turned down. Needless to say, anything but the easiest single players missions were murder. It ran like a dream on an AMD Athlon 700 with an ATI Radeon 9000 though, when I finally scrounged up enough cash to buy it. GC2 was too different from GC1 in terms of gameplay mechanics for me to truly enjoy it, but I did finish the single player campaign, messed around with online (only a few matches) and attempted to make an old-style Ground Control map. That was released but I don't think it ever amounted to anything.
https://www.copyright.gov/mandatory/

"This law requires that two copies of the best edition of every copyrightable work published in the United States be sent to the Copyright Office within three months of publication. Works deposited under this law are for the use of the Library of Congress."

In the FAQ (https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/mandatory_deposit.html) they specifically talk about software:

"As described in Circular 61, the deposit requirement for registration is one copy of identifying portions of the computer program. However, to satisfy the mandatory deposit under section 407, a "complete copy" of the published work must be deposited. A complete copy is defined in the regulations as a copy that includes all components that make up the unit of publication, even if any of those units are in the public domain. So, if the published user guide is normally part of a package that contains other elements, then the mandatory deposit requirement requires the deposit of those other elements, too. For example, if the user guide is published as part of a package that contains a CD-ROM, an installation guide, and installation software, then each of these other elements must be deposited in addition to the user guide to fulfill the mandatory deposit requirement."
My office is loud and I am not allowed to work from home or stay late(management will actually kick us out of the building after 6:00PM)
It's probably a stupid question, but doesn't that ignore the dividends?
US ambassador to Netherlands describes own words as 'fake news'
That hurts to hear.

You know what gets me though? Patreon and YouTube. Granted you have to work your ass off to get to, say, $1000/month - based on channels I watch I'd say you need 30k+ subscribers to get to this level - but clearly there are people out there, in fairly decent numbers, who are willing to donate to support free content.

So, the question becomes: why does this not work for OSS?
Underperform sure, I get that. Negative performance, when you're getting like >15% s&p 500 growth for year after year? If that's what GGP is saying that's really bad.
Acquiring new clients.
Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart
I use vimswitch (http://vimswitch.org) to copy my vim settings over to new machines.

(Disclaimer: I am the author of vimswitch)
Code reviews where people come up with BS just to have something to say. Or creating a clean design only to have it turned into spaghetti by others.
It depends on how much effort you put into it. While one's body will adjust to the load cycling puts on it, that doesn't mean that one cannot increase the effort put in to compensate.

The commute will become shorter due to increased speed, but that doesn't stop one from putting in more effort to maintain an even higher speed.
Never underestimate the role of salesmanship in the success of convincing people to give you their money.
I'm in Chengdu, Sichuan right now. There's literally 2-3 hundreds of Mobike/Ofo bikes nearby every metro station or shopping centre.

But it seems people at least try to put them in rows and local security (there's rarely a public space that's really public) shouts at people for dropping bikes randomly.

Around midnight the maintenance workers check every bike for damages / battery level and take them back to warehouses leaving just a few dozens in a neatly ordered lines.

What's more at least Ofo notifies you that the bike you used was park against the rules. They probably give you a few strikes and then terminate your account.
Right, as far as I'm aware, no one ever has made any money from Bitcoin, and its 1000s of % increases in less than a year.
It really depends on where you live. Biking to work simply isn’t feasible in the LA area — it’s not like you can just hop onto the freeway. And the air isn’t exactly fresh either.
Since Inception (07/24/00): 0.54%
It truly is amazing. You'd have to really try to do that bad.