skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would think that in the age of digital cinema niche films would have a boost. If you are creating a film for distribution, creating a dcp for cinema is trivial. The dcp can be shipped to cinemas on a physical copy, via satellite or over the internet and be delivered straight into the cinemas system.

For the cinema owner there’s literally zero effort involved to schedule a few shows of a niche film. For the bigger chains most of it is automated anyway. All you have to do is schedule the shows in your point of sale system and the backend systems does the rest like building the playlist transferring content to the correct auditoriums and so on.
There are a few things to watch out for:

1. Systematic trading doesn't necessarily require an algorithm. For instance this rule might work (over a 5 year horizon, don't try it monthly): "buy very large cap stocks if their P/E goes below 4 and sell if it goes over 10." But you don't need an algo.

2. The market has long bull runs. So you might have an algo that has some long bias. It will seem to perform above chance. You should compare it to just holding the market.

2b. If the market is going through a bull run and your algo has some leverage built in, it will outperform just holding the market.

3. If the market had a massive crash in the data set and your algo has a short bias, then you should check it against just shorting the market.

4. The issue of models, markets and biases mirror the same debate in science theories, data and statistics.
Speaking as a CS educator, I agree, with a caveat:

In my free time, I took the big Coursera course, and it is (was?) also tied into a proprietary toolset, GraphLab. They have "you can also do this in pandas" instructions on lab assignments, but the instruction and tools are aligned to GraphLab. I imagine the vast majority of students will not even consider using pandas.

Graphlab Create has since been open-sourced (as Turi Create) by its new owner, Apple. I didn't have a problem with the setup back then.

Stressing over toolsets is like stressing over your first programming language. It's counterproductive. You will do a lot better by finding a source of instruction you trust and a toolset you can work with, and then actually making something.

Quality instruction vastly outweighs the tradeoffs with learning a new language/api/etc.

From having skimmed the Microsoft course's offering, it looks like it would prepare a good student to understand and apply the algorithms to make models, but not to implement the algorithms themselves (which the Coursera course does do).

Which is fine! I could tell you how to implement elliptic curve cryptography and prove most of the mathematical underpinnings, but I have no intention of ever writing an implementation myself.
I've seen people try that and I've noticed the correlation myself. Around the end of last year (November/December 2017) it was possible to watch BTC jump 5-10% and jump over to ETH and catch the same wave 5-10 minutes later.

The problem is those patterns quickly disappear as automated trading picks them up. The window goes from 5-10 minutes to seconds or less. Much harder to act in such a small window.
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I am glad someone posted this link. They are been at the forefront in regard to pricing transparency.
I wonder whether the people who do subvocalize when they read tend to be better at writing poetry (or songwriting, or just writing beautiful prose.) I would expect that they'd have been subconsciously training themselves to the "feel" of good meter.
This is great.

Article in The Atlantic back in 2009: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-ame...

My mother-in-law died of brain cancer over the course of about five days. We received a "Statement of Benefits". She received ~$130,000 of care. Medicare paid ~$30,000. That's bullshit. Per James Fallows' article, medical price transparency is CRITICAL. You can't improve something if you can't see it and can't measure it until after you experience it.

I'm an anti-Trump (and anti-Republican) Republican but I have to admit that, with this Medicare transparency action, sometimes this administration takes surprisingly sensible actions.
I thought I'd read it in a blog post by Jason Scott at textfiles.com, but I couldn't find a reference quickly. It could have come from conversation, as I've visited the Internet Archive a few times.
On the subject of depression meals— pre-prepped salads are a great way to combat this. They're cheap, easy to make when you're having a good day, and you can make a few days worth in advance. When you're feeling down all you have to do is put it in a bowl, and you have a healthy meal.
Microsoft does provide recovery disks for download: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7

Only recently did you need to enter your license key to download them. Regardless, you need the license key to activate the OS, so these disks did not enable anyone to use the OS who did not already own a legitimate license.

Microsoft's lost revenue came in the form of reduced sales of redundant licenses..
Looking at this as someone who's been writing a lot of ClojureScript lately, I'm reminded of how nice it is to be writing in a Lisp: if I felt this was the right syntactic construct for a common-enough problem in my codebase, I'd write a macro for it and get on with my life without having to wait for it to trickle through committees, compilers, and browser implementations.
I backtested thoroughly and paper traded before going live.

Paper trading is nothing like real money trading. That's also one of the first things you learn, it's like a different dimension.
> This can change if OSes start optimizing for the proposed convention.

What conventions? Its not realistic to assume the world will change to fit your views of software :p

> At least in C/C++ it doesn't.

Sure does; it adds more build targets, gets you to maintain shared code across executables, and plan deployment for multiple executables instead of one. Thats all before even coding the support for that.

> Why not?

Because these depend on shared memory and ownership transfer for performance; you'll drastically drop performance just for the sake of isolation.

> No reason for it to stay that way.

I will literally stop using the web if pages can spawn processes :)

> I won't pretend to know all those words :P

Hehe, basically immutability makes it so nobody can mutate data, thus making it safe to be shared across threads. Uniqueness will transfer ownership such that only one thread has references to a mutable piece of memory at any time. Deterministic parallelism means its impossible to have race conditions or deadlocks.

> I just think the article's proposal has some merit and we should consider it.

Agreed, I'm still having a hard time seeing it however :p
Everyone here is giving great advice. But the real problem with depression is that you can know exactly what you need to do, and still be unable to do it. Like the feeling of trying to scream in a nightmare and nothing comes out. I've yet to figure out how to get over that.
Don't do pills unless you're legit suicidal. Natural things like meditation and exercise are the way to go.

Take some time off work or school and make building healthy habits your one and only priority.

Take the time to reassess your life. Depression is usually a symptom of living by other people's values. Take responsibility for yourself as a human and exercise your freedom of choice, deeply.

Or just numb yourself with chemicals into whatever square hole you're trying to fit in. that's the way to make your metrics, right?
Their is no penalty for overpaying your taxes unless you mean the implicit loss of the time value of the money overpaid.

Anyone who's been "penalized" for overpaying their taxes was actually underpaying their taxes prior to their overpayment. People don't realize that taxes are generally due over the course of the year (usually quarterly), not all at once on April 15/16/17. The April deadline is just the due date for the final payment of your prior year's tax liability. If you were underpaying during the year, you could be penalized for that even if you overpaid in April the following year.

This is why trying to game your withholding on your wages (i.e., minimal or underwithholding) is such a bad idea. Any gain (i.e., investing in stocks) is usually more than offset by the penalties and interest you pay if you end up being wrong about how much in taxes you owed. The stock market would have to have a very bullish year to see an upside, usually better than 10% growth--and the target just goes up as interest rates go up.
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> Do not ask here

I disagree with this. It's still valuable to hear from people with direct experience. Good professional help is a great idea if it's available to you. In the UK for instance, mental health seems very much underfunded within the NHS.
I know this is tounge-in-cheek, but a bit harsh. There's a huge wealthy aging cohort interested in entertainment.
Rising costs of healthcare are also a big issue in other top-wealth countries, and for better or worse, the US also does cutting edge health science that other countries dont get close to.

I find the comparison country vs country to be valuable, but somewhat limited. The U.S. is unique in a lot of aspects.

For example in argentina(i know, not rich country but hear me out), that has public healthcare, healthcare spending per gdp has been cut in half in the last couple of decades: mostly because private healthcare ate up the market. Hybrid markets are a reasonable compromise.

The US is also not a free market of healthcare, it has the worst of both worlds: highly regulated, intrusive and punishing state, with proteccionism and quotas.

To this day I still believe the #1 healthcare policy issue is with the state's intervention. It is the FDA that makes pharma expensive, it is H1B quotas and medical licensing requirements that prevent foreign doctors to come to the US, it is Medicare that puts fee-for-service, it is the state that makes malpractice costly, etc etc.
When I call a function, I have no way of knowing if there are any unhandled promises within it. The difference is the restriction: with nurseries, background tasks can only outlive function calls if the calling function allows them to.
That's us! Odd the proper link didn't go through. Oh well. =)
Medicaid (free healthcare for the poor) and Obamacare (require insurance with subsidized rates for the poor) are examples of how to address this issue.
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> Thunderbird would work with Fastmail for encryption using PGP or SMIME (at least I think Thunderbird supports SMIME).

Thunderbird supports SMIME natively, just like most of email clients. But of course there are some usability issues, like you need to enable encryption each time per email, or require it for all emails, there is no middle ground like "encrypt if I have keys, do not encrypt otherwise".
I know a guy who makes so much money he got banned from the internet. He told me he makes 1000000 Btc a day. Fact.
Your opinion is completely invalid though, because Mr. Lundgren did not tamper with the disc contents to ship any malware of any kind.

You could go on a killing spree this afternoon - should we go ahead and lock you up now?
Going back and reading the original WP article sheds some light on the whole case.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/04/24...

He wasn't actually convicted of distributing software illegally and the arguments for the cost of the licenses is moot. That being said, initially Federal Prosecutors tried to say the discs were valued at $299 a piece but Microsoft intervened and said that they sold refurbishers licenses for $25 and his were at most worth $20.

He was convicted of counterfeiting and copyright infringement for distributing media that had Dell and Microsoft logos and looked like legitimate media.

> The discs had labels nearly identical to the discs provided by Dell for its computers and had the Windows and Dell logos. “If I had just written ‘Eric’s Restore Disc’ on there, it would have been fine,” Lundgren said.

So why didn't he?
Kontiki didn't prove much about the Polynesian navigation or the types of crafts they used.

Linguistic and other evidence strongly suggests that the Polynesian islands were settled from west to east (probably originating from Taiwan) and Kontiki drifted with the currents from east to west.

What's interesting is that the Polynesians settled the outlying islands by sailing into the prevailing winds (making it easier to return home if the failed to find land).

They used efficient outrigger canoes which could be tacked or, sometimes even better, shunted, into the wind.

They also did a lot more than follow birds, they relied on keen observation of the ocean (interference patterns in the swells caused by an unseen island), the colour of the clouds (clouds are darker underneath when there is land beneath them) and relied on a sophisticated 'star compass' for latitude navigation.

If their home island was at latitude -18deg for example, they knew which zenith stars passed above their island, and which stars set at what point on the horizon at that latitude.

So after an eastward exploration run, when they wanted to find their way home, they just kept their islands's zenith star at the zenith and sailed west with the wind till they made landfall.

Polynesian non-instrument navigation is undergoing a revival. See:

http://www.hokulea.com/

http://archive.hokulea.com/holokai/1976/ben_finney.html
Some ideas I put together previously towards coping with depression, but most are covered here by other posters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15455259
Hard to provide good advice without knowing why you're depressed. Given that, there are a few things that are probably going to be helpful:

* Stop caring what other people think. This is at the root of so much suffering it's ridiculous. Other people will try to guilt you into caring if they know you think this way, they're just being selfish, ignore it.

* Find the positive aspects of things that initially appear negative. Challenges are opportunities for growth.

* Forget your big goals. Learn to set small goals you can achieve today, and trust that your daily success will lead to long term success.

* Find something to be passionate about, and chase it. If your life is just an endless procession of unpleasant chores, of course you're going to be depressed.
In the place I live there is a lot of small theaters around. Like 30-40 persons only. It is a nice idea. The big cinema is a nice idea too. It has nothing to do with Netflix though. In my opinion, it just happened that old hollywood still have control of most of the theater business.

If people are interested in going to theater, I'll guess it is just a matter of time before netflix deploys its own theaters.
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Ignore concerns, not people. And only if those concerns are objectionable and unvalidated by others.

A good example of how to ignore concerns would be comparing Dan's responses here with that of Acemarke's. Dan's is to-the-point and confident, whereas Acemarke's is... markedly less so.

Really, the issue here is not how one developer communicates but how they communicate as a team. It's obvious that this self-damaging article wasn't formally approved by every Redux stakeholder-- but I also recognize that no one on the team expected for this to happen.
Lots of very useful suggestions, but I'd also add:

a) Be patient with yourself. Whether it is therapy, medications, etc. these things take time. Months, at the very least.

b) You may have to switch multiple therapists, after investing a few weeks with each (multiple sessions). This is exhausting. But stay the course. Hard as it is.

c) Medication: You may have to try different drugs; they may not work. They most likely will have side effects even if they are not helping. This process is also draining.

Therefore, in addition to patience, if you can, let someone else know you are trying & going through this, so that they can remind you to be patient. To give yourself & the process time.

Edited to add:
This essay [1] by Zach Hollman, is really really great for a very personal, insightful, reflective assessment of how hard it is, and what a battle it can be.

[1] http://zachholman.com/posts/the-depression-thing
This website is an echo chamber for holocaust deniers and other such paragons of empathy and humanity. I know this because a friend of mine recently mentioned how he started on this site because it claimed to be "censorship free" and when he checked back a (long) while later it was all extreme racism and other things like that.

In light of that, having and actively using an account here doesn't look good for you. Unless you're already actively tainted by this sort of thing or you happen to live in a country where this kind of behaviour is accepted (do those exist?).
But they're close to getting two numbers to add together!

https://twitter.com/thomasfuchs/status/933447631514169344
This is a constant trope, and every time it's wheeled out a bunch of developers say they would love more uninterrupted time and their own offices vs open spaces. Both of these ignore the obvious - you don't optimise on productivity locally you need to optimise on output of the system as a whole. Productivity of the system as a whole is significantly improved by communication. Devs in offices may burn through a ton of tickets very productively achieving failure by building the wrong thing.

Secondly, people who have never been managers often don't understand the externalities. As a manager, I've been asked "Why should the devs get so much better computers/bigger screens etc than us?" Different conditions can create an intense feeling of unfairness among people who don't get those conditions. Those types of things can wreck the culture at a company.

Finally, open space is much much more flexible, so easier to change up when you need people to sprint together on a thing, when you need to scale up your team etc. Offices are extremely inflexible and typically anchorpoints for people's perception of their own status. Therefore once someone has an office, it's practically impossible to get them to not have one any more, even if circumstances have significantly changed.

It's easy to blame management but it may well be that management have a totally different set of problems to consider than you.
The market would just let them die, so if those are the only two options then I'd go with the government.
Multiple the medicare spending for the amount of population it serves and rejoice in a 40% GDP spending on healthcare.
The purpose of the example is to demonstrate functional dependencies based on grouped tables.
It's not all or nothing though. Many countries have hybridized private/public healthcare. Examples:

- Compulsory basic insurance (private or public) (Switzerland)

- Private insurance + equalization pool (Netherlands)

- Compulsory HSA + government price fixing (Singapore)

- Socialized general coverage + private supplementary coverage (France)
This. What good is advanced technology if profitability calculations stop it from being used for all but those that can pay full price.
I wired my whole house for Ethernet, hid the patch panel behind a bookshelf door
Does the concept of LTS really make sense for languages that produce compiled executables? Taking Haskell as an example, the usual output may have dependencies on some typical system shared libraries, not so much on the ecosystem from which it was compiled. If static compilation is an option, then there is very little runtime dependency on anything besides the OS.

Now, there could be a vulnerability in one of the packages you built against, but exploitation of that is going to also depend on whether that specific program uses the vulnerable bits of code, using inputs controllable by an attacker.

It's mostly moot compared to the story here anyway, as none of the others are beholden to any entity resembling Oracle.
Oh, cool, this would actually help protect against a lot of things!

If you can set up a deadman's switch and there's no way to figure out who it belongs to, that should make it significantly harder to find out which publisher to attack.

Contrast that against 'every day at 5, I publish a signed checkin to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Dropbox, my blog, and a hundred other sites simultaneously.'

In that scenario, blocking or faking the trigger isn't the attack vector. The attack vector is that it's really obvious who the trigger belongs to, so to find the publishing IP an attacker can just monitor who connects to those domains.

I guess the trick is actually getting Ether anonymously, but that's not the hardest problem in the world to solve.
Not often, but I'm a software dev, I like things to be reproducible. So I always install everything through "setup brew" ('setup' is my program), and then the only part of my setup that is particular to a new machine is my bootstrap, which is like 30 lines of code:

https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/bootstrap.py

Also, ever set up a new machine and then for days you keep finding system config that's not how you like, or things that aren't installed that should be? I even set my Mac's settings (defaults write ...) through my setup program. I started a new job fairly recently and my system was up and how I like it in one step.
It was prior to the Oracle purchase, I believe.

MySQL was the M in the LAMP stack, and was installed on many linux distros by default.
You need to change some habits to fight depression. Habits are hard to change. My theory, extended vacations in a place where time is more amorphous (yes they still exist) are great for habit breaking and setting.

In short, the one recommendation I don't see here is take a long, well deserved vacation. In my experience, the main complications in vacations are from other people... so don't be afraid to go on vacation by yourself, either, it keeps it simple.

(Camping is great for long vacations. KOA's are great in-between location campsites too for example.)
OP was talking about UK. Which, in immigrant context, is mostly London. Which is truly sad housing situation.

Talking your link, the problem is most of the vacant homes are where people don't want to live. You'd have 3.5mio people without incomes to maintain their housing.

Why Silicon Valley has housing crisis if there're 18.9mio vacant houses? :)
> what the insurance company considers allowable

Why is this concept ever even deemed acceptable? Why do you get the privilege of "only paying what the insurance company deems allowable, minus what they cover", but someone else has to pay in full?

This puts you in a state where you basically require insurance to get care at a reasonable price. Where its cheaper to have coverage and pay out of pocket, than to pay out of pocket without coverage.
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Fewer of these posts. You have posted this like five times in the last week or so.
That's inappropriately anthropomorphizing the market. The market doesn't choose anything. I choose, and the market determines my constraints in choice. Since I'm well employed and not poor, my constraints are to my liking. My question regarding those who don't share that set of constraints. For some people, they go to the emergency room in cardiac arrest, having no insurance or ability to pay for critical treatment. Currently, they are treated, and costs are passed on to other consumers. Under single payer, those cost distributions would be made explicit. So besides doubling down on socialism, it accepting the status quo, are there reasonable alternative?
Potassium can also help. Sadly, caffeine is a major contributor to PVCs for me and I miss it.
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