skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sounds like an oblique way to say the upbringing is the problem.

They're saying it doesn't differ between families, which means parental upbringing is not the issue, it's some issue which affects society in a broad swathe.
https://i.imgur.com/MG3eGTM.png

Inferno here is also slightly patched[1], instead of using stateless components, it is using stateful components to demonstrate how fast it can go down when you start using high-level abstractions in a library that focuses only on low-level primitives.

And if you really want to understand the fundamental flaw in libraries with fine-grained direct data bindings, try to reimplement this[2] 70 lines of React code with such library.

1. https://github.com/localvoid/js-framework-benchmark/commit/2...

2. https://github.com/localvoid/uibench-react/blob/master/js/fc...
It's not surprising at all - what comes after the very early stages of development of many areas in science and technology are indeed usually could be called "a golden age." (In math it was the period of around 100 years after Newton; in physics - the second half of the 19th century plus the first half of the 20th.) As far as computers and software, we are now also way past the golden age, unfortunately...
Alternatively, Musk does a lot of bad things and the journalists are rightfully calling him out for it.

Musk is notoriously anti-union, continually over-promises then under-delivers, has continually treated his wives as trophies, and has designed a worse subway just because he doesn't want his knees to touch some peasant's knees. He's just another shitty billionaire
I was a bit blunt.

However, it is up to potential employees to refuse offers that are not in their best interest.
Actually both are not racist. Both are subjective statements.

One needs not explicitly add "I, personally" to his personal correspondence.

"Chinese women are so ugly, I cannot understand how people manage to reproduce in China" should be read as: "I find Chinese women so ugly, that I cannot understand how people manage to reproduce in China".
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There is the counter quote by Churchill: "Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished."
Ask HN: How do you test your SDN Codebase
For those that that build SDN components in the data plane, I have a few questions for you:

1 - Which tools do you use on a daily basis to do functional testing of your SDN components ? (For example, how do you test that a jitteriness on the underlying physical network doesn't cause crazy behaviour in your code? Or high level of packet drop? Or non-standard TCP implementations going thru your code? or .... you name it)

2 - How much of your Quality Assurance/Control processes are automated vs. manually done ? (rough estimate)

3 - What infrastructure do you use to run your automated tests (Do you have a private cluster? Public cloud? Kubernetes Cluster? ....)

4 - What advise would you give a new comer to the field of SDN data plane development?
They don't. They try to, but they are still full of questions that require learned context.
Sounds more like "Chinese culture" phobia to me. He said good things about Japanese people.
Yes, but it's not exactly the same as the Western habit of maintaining colonies and puppet governments for a far-flung empire. China has done nothing analogous to, say, Britain's occupation of India.
“Multi-leg options strategies have been one of the most frequently requested features by options investors on Robinhood. With multi-leg, you can trade Level 3 strategies such as iron condors, straddles, strangles, call and put debit spreads, and call and put credit spreads more efficiently, invest at a lower risk, and with less capital requirements. ”

I’ve never traded options. Have any non-traders here effectively used any of the above mentioned strategies? If so, how do you learn to use these techniques?
This is an interesting study.

It is worth noting that the recent meta-analysis (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24979188) showed no such effect across a wide variety of scales and countries.

However, the really interesting question here (which is possible to answer because of the size and sampling of the Norwegian data) is what is happening in Norway, for this effect to be occurring in what appears like a consistent fashion?

In other words, we should in general rely on meta-analyses rather than individual studies when looking at results like these.
Also! Killer features galore but folks having trouble seeing past the fmt. You're just making so many assumptions here it's very clear you didn't try it. It's fast.. really fast. Faster than CF.
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its just for security like he said to congress right?
$230 million is a lot of money!

I'm not saying the problem isn't worth fixing - it definitely is! But Yikes, that sure does seem like a lot doesn't it.
I think this is something we all fight, we live in a vampiric system in terms of the various ways in which our energy is drained off.

Biggest things that have helped me have been paying attention to endocrinology (avoid things / activities that deplete your testosterone), supplementing things like magnesium, heavy workouts, and good diet / sleep. Avoid screen time as much as possible. Read more books, etc.
> Neural Network architecture (sideways skyscrapers that get more focused as the network plays out) does not incorporate generalization much ...

Have you ever seen kids learn the tables of multiplication ? Or addition (but people don't seem to remember from their past that they learned addition from tables). Doesn't that give you pause when you're saying humans can generalize ? Because clearly, this is not how we teach our children.

Humans don't learn that if 2+2=4, 3+2 must be 5. No. Humans learn that 2+2 is 4, then they learn that 2+3 is 5, then they learn ... and so on and so forth.

Even when you see online players investigate a game. Whether it's chess, zelda, or starcraft. You keep seeing the same thing. Humans don't learn by generalizing. They learn how to act in every situation ... one situation at a time. So it's not just 6 year old kids doing this. The game advances because there's a few specific individuals that spend entire days making nonsensical moves, and on rare occasions they find a new move, see what happens, and tell the world (in chess we're talking something like once a year, in mario it seems possible to do it once every few months. It's scary how much tenacity is required for such a process).

And for the vast majority of humans, it never even gets to that point. They just don't have the tenacity.

So if you think humans are AGI, which you seem to do, then clearly such a state can be achieved with disappointing generalization capabilities.
And where is the relevancy of looking at someone's thoughts that he never communicated publicly or acted upon whatsoever? Are we doing a psychoanalysis or something?
In case you're confused: HN is not JUST about hacking and startups, and has never been just about those things. Read the HN guidelines.
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

There is no way we are alone.
Projects like these need a motivation section.

It’s not clear what the usecase is.
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The tax rate was 35%, bond rates more like 2.5-4.5% (depending on the length) and interest being deductible the actual impact less than that. The recent tax cut made this all quite worthwhile.
So if a hostile foreign nation is looking to sow chaos and discord to ultimately pit Americans against each other during the election, which angle will they push on social media for this?
> because we're probably alone

... in the observable universe.
you have a few ways:

* a paper trading account, where you can experiment with trading strategies without risking real money

* reading about the strategies and their payoff scheme, eg: http://www.theoptionsguide.com/long-straddle.aspx
Actually, I think the opposite is true. Instead of seeing new desktop versions without feature parity, we will finally see the iOS/Android/MacOS/Web versions of the Office Suite get feature parity with the Win32 versions because they will all be built from the same codebase.

I know that it's common for rewrites to not approach feature parity, but I think Microsoft is aware of how much people rely on Excel and Word and will make feature parity a high priority because of that.
Maybe they realized people were getting really suspicious of Tether and they couldn't keep creating tether ex nihilo?
At the time of the segwit implementation, BCH kept the old protocol version.

edit: I think you may have a point but I don't see it and you don't make it clear in your comment either. My point is clear and factual and doesn't need your approval.
Jesus, is it so hard to google at least once before naming a project? Just recently that Sonar thing now this. What's next? A Windows editor called Linux?
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> UMF is being used in IoT (Internet of Things) applications where message sizes need to remain small. To allow UMF to be used in resource contained environments a short form of UMF is offered.

Then offer it in Protobuf :-) In general, I don't understand where this would be used instead of an app's specific envelope. The use cases should be specified better because it's really easy for any app to just send their own preferred JSON format without following this.

Tangentially related, I similarly tried to make a messaging format (but with more bells and whistles and more about the transfer, storage, permissions, etc). The proto files are at [0] and the messaging platform is still under active development.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/yukup/tree/0cc926f98d01fba64b818383...
You're using an ad hominem argument in the cause of thoughtfulness and competence?? Hm.
Learn by doing. what could go wrong?
It’s hard to visit a different culture for the first time and not notice their differences as a group. It’s only with extended interaction with people from a different culture that their individuality stands out.

I’ve always thought that the cure for xenophobia is travel, but it’s more than just travel that’s required. You can’t just breeze through as a tourist, you have to spend an extended length of time and get to know people as people.
Complicated options strategies == more money for the brokers.
As you alluded to in your comment, there are different types of intelligence. Also, the concept of intelligence itself is too broad to define precisely.

That said, IQ tests are not as flawed as people think -- they measure a particular set of abilities, and there is evidence that those abilities correlate to aptitudes that are useful in some areas of life.

For instance, the Advanced Raven Matrices test (a "culture-free" test used by Mensa and other organizations) measures visual-spatial skills and does it fairly well at that (as long as it is not gamed -- it is possible to study for an IQ test and do well in it -- but then again any test can be gamed).

If a particular task/job requires heavy visual-spatial skills, chances are that people who score well on visual-spatial tests will tend to do well there. Visual-spatial skills are a type of intelligence.

It's not the only type, but it is one type. You need to understand what the test is measuring.
data.table in R is blazing fast
I'm not an expert in the field, but my casual understanding is that the research shows basically the opposite to be true. That is to say that IQ is generally predictive of success and/or ability across just about any dimension you want to choose.

Said another way, if you had to hire somebody sight-unseen and you were only allowed to know one piece of information about them, IQ would be the strongest predictor of performance.

(I want to be very clear: that's not to say that the person with the highest IQ will always be the best performer; it's just to say that if you had no other information, and you had to hire based on just one piece of information, IQ would be your best bet.)
I'm actually wanting to do a bit more investigation into the Bronze Age stuff. Long, long ago, I read Buckminster Fuller arguing that the Bronze Age could not have been centered in the Middle East (as we usually assume), because there's simply no significant tin deposits there. The only place in the world where copper and tin occur naturally together is in Thailand. And bronze is important because bronze fittings are essential for any seafaring ships larger/more complex than Polynesian pontoons. The only major tin deposits near Babylon are in the British Isles... and how do you get there?

I need to fact-check that, though. If Fuller is right, it really is a huge twist on the story of early global trade.
If the argument stated above is correct, there is an awful waste of space. (Thanks, Carl!)

There is nothing in physical law to suggest that here is substantially different from anywhere else in the universe. To believe that here is manifestly different from every other place in the universe is a really surprising claim.
A persons education isn't just about learning facts. It's also about learning approaches to thinking and problem solving.

A crude example would be these days people are less reliant on memorising information as they were 30 years ago because search engines enable the individual to find answers quickly. So you adapt your approach to a particular subject to learn how to search for answers instead of how to memorize those answers.

As an aside, since we are heading at pace to a future where our memory is augmented by the internet; if for the internet offline for whatever reason humanity could be thrown into the dark ages again with vasts sums of knowledge lost.
Not weird when you realize what the target market is, which is basically those that want to get a little bit of "gamble" on. I'm sure their valuation is also closely tied to the volume of trades they provide, so they want people to be trading as much as possible on their accounts. A DRIP would just take away liquidity for amateur traders. They want people to see money in their account and trade with it, the DRIP would keep that money out of their accounts.

While I obviously think Robinhood is amazing for disrupting an industry with pretty high fees, I worry that it is basically becoming gambling for a certain part of the population.
ETH and ETC both have the original blockchain data, but one corrected a criminal act by social consensus because we are normal people and we can discuss and reach agreements just like anybody else.
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Bingo. It fractures a powerful adversary for the parties pushing this. This comes up all the time with NYC/Long Island and New York (but, curiously, not for Texas or Florida) for the same reason. There are advantages to controlling the largest state in the country, and that advantage would shift to Texas. Since in either outcome this causes distraction and dissension, it's already a victory.
I've always found Chinese girls attractive, long before I knew anything at all about population genetics. Not that I know a whole lot about it now, but still. I was lucky enough to go to a school in the UK, but with a large proportion of foreign students from all over Africa, the Middle East and Asia so maybe that had an influence.
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Wait. They don't have an option for automatic dividend reinvestment? That would probably be in the top five most-obvious features to have.

Of course, it's hard to make money on dividend reinvestment.
>And the damage is done. This[0] comment by 'm_fayer elsewhere in the thread is quite chilling. Actual native toolkits are rotting, as big companies join the web-for-everything bandwagon.

What's worse is that actual native toolkits are rotting, while at the same time we never managed to produce a single, great native cross platform toolkit -- even less so a great cross platform one.

Not because it's impossible, but because no major player cares (they have their own platforms), and OSS attempts like Wx and GTK+ don't have the manpower.
I don't believe there is any legitimate justification for this atrociously bad feature: If you were using it ethically, it still requires the same number of clicks as if you just linked to the Chrome Web Store.

Consider that launching an extension install without permission is bad, so someone is going to have to click a button on your website to install the extension, and then when the Chrome extension install prompt appears, click again. So two clicks.

Or you could have them click once to link to the Web Store, and a second click to install the extension. Still two clicks. The only real abilities taken away here are:

- Your ability to launch the extension install prompt without user consent, which is bad.

- Your ability to hide the reviews and other details on the Web Store page, which is bad.
In UK it's still standard to give people the full card number + expiry date + CVV number from the back of your card over the phone when trying to do literally anything that requires a remote payment(which I am sure they are just typing into a form on a computer in front of them). It's mind boggling.
The quotes are translated from german into very specific english word that carries connotation. Going by the translation however, I find the interpretation made by Rosenkranz to be with odds of my own. I see a comment about too high population growth, while Rosenkranz claim it is about "how Chinese men can find their women sufficiently attractive to have offspring with them". A question about why there is a too high population growth is not the same as a question about why there is any population growth.
Wow an NPM package for 5 css rules. Reading the description this guy seems to be searching for normalize.css https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css/blob/master/normali...
The state containing San Francisco would lean Democrat. The state containing Los Angeles would lean Democrat. The third state (San Diego, Fresno, Bakersfield) would lean Republican. That seems more representative to me?

http://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-political-geogra...
I think enclosing the word you really want in "quotes" forces Google to not discard that term.
This is more click-bait journalism; I'm not sure why Einstein should be singled out for sharing the same beliefs as others in the society in which he was raised. "Europeans in 1922 were Xenophobic" is not worthy of an editorial.

The writer claims that Xenophobia was not Universal, and therefore this is interesting. No view is universal; there are people alive today who believe the earth is flat, although they are a minority. In 1922 Europe, only a very small minority of people would not have been Xenophobic.
My last job in finance(still am in finance fwiw) used much more VBA to price out billion-dollar swaps and swaptions than I was comfortable admitting to...
A slightly more pessimistic view is that the rich part of society have engaged in regulatory capture to control the most profitable genesis events for their own mutual self interests.
Looks a lot like class warfare on the poor/middle class and intelligent.
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I think the fact that XRP is missing from their platform is another reason for accredited investors to pass this time. With the number of financial institutions who are already using Ripple's products, or at least have heard of Ripple or what XRP is for, you would assume that a significant number of accredited investors are interested in XRP too. I think most of these accredited investors don't particularly care whether XRP is a "true" cryptocurrency, either.
Heh forget that, there's screws on the back to disassemble the thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxM55DNS9CE he takes one apart in 20-30 seconds with a screwdriver.
Let me leave this here: https://imgur.com/a/ZOcKWmp
Multi-leg option strategies are designed to constrain the total risk exposure and possible profit of a combination of trades.

One of the simplest example is to sell a call at $X and purchase one at $X+N[1]. The purchased call is insurance against being on the hook for an unknown rise in the prices of security (which would then be exercised against your sold call). The "bet" in this case is that the rise in the price of the stock during the period of the spread is not going to rise above $X by more than the price difference of the two options.

All the rest of the fancy names are combinations of buying or selling these types of combinations. The names come a combination of the desired result (ex: "strangle") or the shape of the profit graph (ex: "condor").

Do a lot of reading before dipping your toes into options trading. On the one hand it's arguably less risky than regular equities as you "know" what you're risking. On the other hand it's very easy to get wiped out as well. Something as stupid as not closing your our spreads before expiration can destroy your account if they get exercised.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_spread#Bear_call_spread
Imprecise, perhaps, but certainly not unfalsifiable; a MCG is not challenging, xorioshiro is not challenging, a stream of 9s is not challenging. Not knowing precisely where to draw the line is not to say there is no difference between 2^60 and 10.

It is not like you have to be right first time and forever more; in the absolute worst case and the NSA already has a perfect attack, that still leaves you better off than otherwise, and frankly if the NSA wanted to DOS you they would manage regardless.
The whole thread and all later clarifications just look like a guy spewing random stuff loosely related with what he's working on at Microsoft. There's not much meaningful information to take from there.
Why does the paper being linked have a bearing on this?

The point is that even in a popular article or cursory summary, you at least need the context of an effect size with interpretable units.

If you have to follow a link to the paper even for that then the article itself would have to be worded in an entirely neutral way (as in, not indicating that the data supports any particular conclusion).

Any non-neutral presentation (like saying the data supports any type of conclusion about boys’ math performance in rich, white suburbs) will create subjective impressions about what the result means (which can be fine, so long as an effect size and interpretable units are attached).

People seem to disagree with my comment because the study (among others) was hyperlinked in the Times article. This strikes me as entirely missing the point of my comment.
If I'm typing a sentence that I am very familiar with, I can get up to 95 WPM and Outlook 2016 has no problems keeping up.

Perhaps it's your computer and not Outlook.
For me, google has become the entry point whenever I search simple stuff, like song lyrics, an address. Whenever I need real insight, I turn to other sources like HN search or even twitter