skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple actually does have a quasi hedge fund to manage its cash position:

https://qz.com/393093/the-mysterious-fund-in-the-desert-that...

Too much cash can also lead to behavioral finance issues down the road as well such as companies making ill-fated acquisitions such as Microsoft did under Ballmer's helm.
I've read the first three, and attempted every single exercise (besides the few he marks as "suggested research problems"). It took me four years to finish, and I had a MSCS when I started. The first volume is probably the most math-intensive, but also the easiest, since a lot of the math is review. V1 is split into two parts: a pure math half, and then a programming half. All of the programming examples and exercises are done in a custom assembler that he calls MIX, but you can find emulators online to run your programs. I've read CLRS and Knuth and I definitely enjoyed Knuth a lot more - there's just something about his writing and exposition that makes the books compelling. They dare as well as entice you to understand them. It's not really as proof-heavy as CLRS IMHO, and TAOCP covers different ground that CLRS does; the only real overlap there is that volume 3 covers sorting algorithms.
monoprice is inexpensive but be certain of ordering what you need because returns are not economical. i ordered two items (among others) that i wasn't sure would work for my application. they didn't, so i requested a return. the return shipping cost was as much as the cables/cords themselves, so now they're just lying around adding clutter to my life.
Mark Kettenis' formal objection on behalf of the OpenBSD project: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-April/112300.h...

Theo de Raadt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12617881

These objections have been largely glossed over by the LLVM community. It's no secret that a handful of corporations are pushing for this change, and not the best interest of the open source community. Especially the larger ones using LLVM, like *BSD. LLVM is already under a permissive BSD-like license (NCSA), as pointed out by jwilk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18700258

OpenSSL is similarly attempting the same thing with newer versions of OpenSSL, which they went about in a particularly legally dubious way: https://lwn.net/Articles/717996/ (For context, OpenBSD maintains LibreSSL).
Some long term predictions are extremely accurate. For example, there will be a total solar eclipse visible from Madagascar and parts of Africa on September 4, 2100. That’s pretty certain.

Climate science isn’t anywhere near that level of reliability, of course. But it’s a hell of a lot better than novelists handwaving about the future.
It seems to be one of two options, IMO:

1. They are doing everything like this (i.e. with not enough legal analysis), and have only just now happened to do something illegal. This would make sense if the top-level people at Robinhood were techbros and not people with experience in finance, but that seems kind of unlikely given that they're able to set up an investment app in the first place - I would assume that's very hard to do if you're not already neck-deep in that industry.

2. They are (for some reason) trying to set this up as a "Robinhood vs The Man (tm)" thing. They're already branding themselves hard on the "Giving financial freedom to the average person" thing, and I could totally see this giving them some free advertisement if they choose to take advantage of the "Big bad government hurting poor people's opportunities!!!" idea.
As you mention, it would make little sense for academia to do this as a cost-cutting measure. The same goes for companies like Google or Facebook that are swimming in cash. Is it that hard to believe that they're doing this because they value the additional opportunities for informal communication and collaboration that open-plan offices provide?

I realize this is a polarizing topic, but personally I've always preferred working in open-plan spaces to having a private office for precisely that reason.
She died about 20 years ago, which means we're only one generation away since her record was set.

But there's a simple explanation: all of the people represented on the top 10 eldest list were contemporary to WW1, the Spanish Flu, the Depression, and WW2. In general, one side of the list would have been middle aged by the time WW1 started, and the other just barely met drafting age by the time the war was over.

The people who would have been born in the early 1890s were hit hard by world events, their absence on the top 10 is likely a temporary dip that we're now just starting to come out of.
I agree. Clearly it is easier for some people than it is for others. Not always simply a case of "you lack willpower" etc.
The interview cites this passage from the 2007 book Insurance and Its Secrets:

Everyone remembers Jeanne Calment, who has officially died at age 122 on August 4, 1997. It was said at the time that this lady had benefited from having a life annuity, which was true. This was paid by a large French company that was not happy at all with this exceptional longevity. The company was even more upset as it knew that it had been paying not Jeanne Calment, but her daughter. In reality, after the death of the real Jeanne Calment, her daughter who obviously was no longer a child, had taken her mother’s identity to keep receiving the annuity. The insurance company had discovered identity theft, but in agreement with – or on the demand of? – the public authorities, it had not wished to reveal the truth, given how much the character of the “grandmother of the French” had become legendary.

It seems that any investigation into this case should involve the insurance company. It would be surprising if Valery Novoselov had not at least started interviewing those involved with the insurance company.

Could it be that these investigations actually were made but turned up nothing to support the claim made in the book?
Depending on the type of sugar different processes are involved.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/sucrose-glucose-fructos...
Languages of all kinds of paradigms are Turing complete. But we still use different languages for different purposes, because some programs are more convenient to write in a certain paradigm that maps well to their problem domain.

In Prolog for example, you can easily define concatenation of cons-lists as

concatenate(nil, Ys, Ys).
concatenate(cons(X, Xs), Ys, cons(X, Zs)) :- concatenate(Xs, Ys, Zs).

and then generate all 4 possible solutions for the query concatenate(X, Y, cons(1, cons(2, cons(3, nil)))).

Of course Prolog has built-in lists that'd allow simply writing append(X, Y, [1, 2, 3]), but the ease of defining certain simple algorithms and then running them backwards is what makes logic programming so useful in my opinion.

If SQL can express an equivalent program equally succinctly, I'd very much like to see how.
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I've found improv to be frustrating (but not anxiety inducing) in the sense that you can "yes and" a topic to a place that's difficult for someone else to pick up.

Almost like you're playing catch, but you tossed the ball to a place that makes it too hard for your friend to catch. Another example would be writing a comment (even this one) and consciously making sure it's easy to reply to, rather than just expressing myself.

I suppose it's like having a binary tree, and trying to pick a node that's not too far down the tree.

I find myself having to take a step back and consider what I'm going to say and if it makes sense (in general) for someone else to continue off of rather than just talking.
To be fair, they only got negative attention among the people who wouldn't have used Robinhood anyway. Their business model is going after people who don't know better.
A financial lawyer should fully understand the consequences of misleading consumer financial products, especially post-2008. First, you aren't allowed to do that anyway. Second, consumer finance is one area where cleverness is virtually not allowed.
Just program.
Shout out to https://reviewmeta.com - A service I recently discovered (maybe here!) and have been using for our holiday shopping needs. My wife now uses it and was horrified at how shady most reviews are.

Note: I have no affiliation with the company.
I think this is an example of the SV/startup mentality that regulations don't matter and just do it, it'll be fine.

And in a lot of cases it is.

But not in something as tightly regulated as banking -- and not when as the Bloomberg piece astutely points out, the "innovation" in question was already done in the 20s before regulation.

It's like crypto Ponzi schemes. People who start them think they are doing something innovative, when really, it's the same "robbing Peter to pay Paul" trick that existed long before Charles Ponzi and his postal reply coupons scam made it a household name. And yet, investors still willingly invest in clear Ponzis, because they are convinced the math will work! The math never works. (To be clear, I think there is a difference between someone like Charles Ponzi and the BitConnect scamsters and the people who invested with Madoff. Madoff was successful for so long, in part because he didn't promise ridiculously outrageous returns. He was running a Ponzi, but what made him so much worse was that it looked legit to investors, whereas most Ponzis offer returns that are never sustainable and look weird to a more savvy investor.)

I'm not implying Robinhood is a Ponzi, btw, but I think what it did here by actively misleading the public is really gross and I've lost all respect for the startup and will never give them a cent -- "free" trades or not.
That's not how negative press works in 2018.

One-off press events with negative sentiment typically only affect brands that are getting to be known for the first time.

While a disastrous launch, most people who heard about this Robinhood checking already knew about the app. I don't think it's going to affect their brand much but will have driven app downloads to check it out, or re-acquisition of churned users. Referral events like this end up driving more core activity, which for Robinhood is making more deposits and trades (not signing up for checking).
I’m not sure about that. Amazon turned Seattle into a truly big city, which it wasn’t before.
Well, and advertisement is meant to be "information". Textbook capitalism is just not a good model of real world capitalism.
The lap band's long term performance is terrible - the sleeve and Roux-en-Y perform well long term with most patients keeping the weight off even 10 years later.

Weight loss isn't the fundamental issue at play - it's permanent weight loss.

Most individuals in their life are able to clean up their diets enough to lose weight, but maintaining that weight loss indefinitely for a lifetime, an overwhelming majority fail at it.
> it’s unlikely one can link Amazon’s decision to a single factor.

It will never happen but imagine if when articles like this were written you had some understanding of how the article came about? In other words was it floated by Columbia's PR department? Did the author just trip over the subject and then decide to somehow write an article that ended up with the very timely link bait title?

Paul Graham's 'The Submarine' for context:

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I guess I'm not their target audience, then, as a 25-34-year-old tech worker with disposable income and a desire to care about the ROI of my checking account.

Because not only will I not use them for this, I closed my account entirely 'cause this is the sign of a disreputable company.
I work remote, and I am certain that improv can help a virtual team read eachother on calls and engage in "groupthink".

I don't know how I can alter a class so it's Zoom-ready, but maybe this research will help me convince some Guinea Pigs at my company.
People fall off cruise ships with alarming regularity
I read the book too and it was very good. More of a easy to read research paper than a fad diet. And makes a lot of sound conclusions. I adjusted my eating accordingly also and have lost weight. The only issue is I had to add a morning bite of something (i knwo this breaks the fast) but it kickstarts my metabolism. I follow everything else and only eat 2 meals and keep them close to maximize my fasting time. 15 lbs and counting.

It has also been helping with portion control as a side effect. I dont eat as much anymore
Corollary 1: This also applies if you build a system which is 'technically correct' but so complex nobody could be expected to understand it.

Corollary 2: This also applies if you build a system which lacks proper documentation. It's functionally equivalent to a system which is so complex nobody can understand it.
This is sucks, well, I hope they can start it again in the future.
I am shocked that your comment hasn't been flagged yet. Global warming is big religion among "intellectuals", you're in deep doodoo if you blaspheme against it.
The funny thing is Chinese e-shops don't do that. You can find a bunch of the same goods at e.g. JD but if you buy from the JD itself ("Joy Collection" in the English JD frontend joybuy.com), it would never be fake and it would never be co-mingled - and the reviews are separated too.
re: At the time, Unix wasn't even widely available outside Bell Labs and a few places; it definitely wasn't available to Knuth or most of the column's readers.

At that time, 1986, Unix was widely available - there were more than 100k Unix installations around the world by 1984. AT&T Unix Sys V and UCB 4.3bsd were available. Knuth was friendly with McIlroy, who was head of the Bell Labs computer science research group that begat Unix. Sun Microsystems was formed in 1982 - their boxes ran Unix, and Sun was a startup spun off from Stanford.
The article links to a website rebutting climate science myths [1]. It addresses this point as well [2]: both terms are still used, and both terms are still valid.

[1] https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php

[2] https://skepticalscience.com/climate-change-global-warming.h...
Hopefully the author here is right in that the SEC will continue to step in and say "No, you can't just call it something else. What you're providing is a bank account."

If Robinhood manages to get away with saying "It's not a bank account; it just does everything a bank account does", and therefore that it doesn't require the same level of regulation, then that's going to be a HUGE problem.
What compiled binary ?
Tech Workers Got Paid in Company Stock. They Used It to Agitate for Change
The TechCrunch article you linked indicates that it's the article's author, Salil Deshpande, who's responsible for the Commons Clause. Heather Meeker was just the lawyer tapped for this.
Will it slow down RISC-V?
Yes, but you need to be wary that you're using the toolchain for its intended purpose. The toolchain is supposed to be saving you typing and lookup time. It's not supposed to be substituting for your actual understanding of the code.

The problem is, I don't think anyone completely understands the code when they write it. 90% of the time, you're writing code with a library written by someone else and you have an abstract understanding of what it does. That's the whole point of code is to abstract as much detail as possible. Its so you don't have to know what the machine code equivalent of X CPU add instruction is when coding a website for example. You just type + and the compiler/interpreter does everything for you.
Just because those materials are mined in China doesn't lower the cost other then the price of shipping. And my understanding is that shipping costs are generally a tiny faction of the cost of most items.

I think there's a popular conception that it should be cheaper. Just like if I use oil in Saudi Arabia it should be cheaper. But if I live in Saudi Arabia and I've got a bunch of oil to sell how much should I charge for it? Should I charge non-Saudi's the same?

There's an assumption that the answer to the second question is "no". I don't think that's how it works.
Thats an amazing quote.

Reminds me of a "hermit-like wizard in his tower in solitary uninterrupted study of their craft."
The ESA has written guidelines for the responsible disposal of end-of-life satellites, and created this short film to illustrate the concepts.

http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/content/view/embedjw/484820
Interesting that MIPS includes DSP functionality in the ISA. Does anyone have experience using DSP functionality with a MIPS chip? This seems like something that could be big, since so many of the DSP chips that are out there are totally proprietary, require proprietary compilers, etc. The idea of widely available DSP support that can be built with standard off the shelf OSS compilers / tools seems like something that could be a big win.
Only a looming governance problem, but not in any way a financial performance problem. Only the latter will trigger any real reaction from the markets, and Bogle thinks that won't likely happen until 70% of market under passive indexing at a minimum.

Governance concerns are not structural and addressable when it reaches a critical mass. I wouldn't be overly concerned, just put in a word when someone starts to lobby for regulation requiring delegating voting power back to index investors, and fund managers having to vote the preponderance of pro-rata voted shares.
Sci-Hub?
I seem to remember older programming languages (COBOL?) being far closer to English-as-spoken as they are today, using, for example Do/END instead of today’s more common c-style { and }.
That whole thread makes me question current system packaging best practices even more than I already do.

For example-- where is the introductory email from the would-have-been packager to upstream saying,

"Hello, I'm so-and-so. I'd like to take a stab at packaging Pale Moon for so-and-so. Any docs or issues I should take into consideration before beginning? Sincerely, Obvious First Step"

Especially considering Pale Moon is probably in that category of "top 20 most complex packages" for their system.

I'll give another example of similar non-existent communication with upstream that ended up wasting my time as a Debian user:

"Dear Firefox, Hi. It's the firefox-esr packaging team from Debian. Our current package for it is about to go EOL. Since our release schedule is slow and our security policy doesn't scale, we make an exception for Firefox by backporting the new ESR version in its entirety. Anything special we should know about major version 60? We know that some of the archs we support are considered tier 3 archs by Firefox, and we'd hate for an upgrade on our stable release to break FF completely for lots of users who run Debian Stretch on arm devices, for example. Especially given that nobody can build with debug symbols on some of our supported archs, making it difficult for them to adequately report the bug to you."

I upgraded to Buster because of this. I.e., Firefox's "ESR" holds more meaning for me than Debian's "stable" does.
> I'd have thought with their robots-and-bins it was notionally identical

Is it really identical? They do have quite a bit of warehouse which means that shipping can be quite longer and more expensive.

Let say I'm a third party and I got 100 shirts in Amazon warehouses in north America and they got 100 too. That means that in average there's 2.6 shirts per warehouse (I found there is 75 warehouses but that can be a wrong number) but we each got 1.3 in averages! If someone buy 2 of mine, most likely they'll have to ship one from somewhere else, while they could just take one of theirs and consider it the same.

At the end of the day though, it doesn't means that I was truthful and my product is actually the same, which can hurt their orders.
Well, it depends. Is the standard deviation on that distribution ~400 years, or ~400 microseconds?
So, if you value it so much, put up the money?

San Francisco could have purchased the property for preservation. Evidently, it wasn't worth that.

Needlessly infringing on private property rights is disgusting. If you want to preserve something, you should own it, or at least purchase some sort of right to keep the property preserved. Simply seizing that right, by force of government without payment, is at least unethical. I feel it is also unconstitutional, given that our constitution prevents the taking of property without compensation. In these cases, the property has to some degree been taken. Oh, we maintain the legal fiction that you still own it, but you can't actually do what you want with it.
>if you spend a modest $500/month on your debit card you're leaving at least $10 on the table in credit card cash back, not to mention the other benefits that come with using a credit card

I use a credit card and then pay it off with the money in my LMCU checking account, the day after the interest hits :) I only do the minimum number of transactions with the debit card and I use them on low cost purchases.

>You're only getting an extra $12.50 a month over if you're keeping $15,000 in an Ally or Discover Savings account

Savings accounts have restrictions on the amount of times you can move money in and out of them. Checking accounts do not have that restriction. I'm sure I could find a savings account with better interest, but in my current life position I need a checking account.

I am unemployed right now, but I am meeting the direct deposit requirement with my monthly dividend from a stock I own, O. They also accept things like transfers from PayPal towards the direct deposit requirement.

If I were instead a homeowner with a family, I could get my spouse to make a separate checking account to double up on the amount emergency reserve money kept in a checking account. But again, it makes way more sense for emergency reserve money to be kept in a savings account. That's what they're made for.

IM(potentially uninformed)O, if your family is keeping more than $30K in a checking account, then you should probably be investing in stocks or bonds or mutual funds at that point anyways. It's not like you can't sell off investments to pay for emergency costs.
How it gets converted is the key not what it ends up as. One type will be easier to breakdown another more difficult. That's the key.
"ads injected" is false, we don't do anything without user and (if involved; our main opt-in model is user-private ads not in publisher slots) publisher consent.

Mozilla itself says, and I say, that "half the board" did not resign over me. See https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat..., and also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10654651 for a detailed breakdown from me based on what I can say that others involved also said. Mozilla (same FAQ link) testifies that I was not "ejected" and was welcome to stay at an unspecified C-level executive position. If you don't believe them, I can't help you.

On "divisive", beware false division and fake cover stories or excuses. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13429898
My guess is that it is really hard to become a bank in the US and this has slowed down innovation. Look at The UK and what they did with openbanking. You now have new banks like Monzo and Revolut which are completely disrupting the industry. I’d advise anyone to get a Revolut card, Monzo is unfortunatey UK-only, to see what it means to have a bank 2.0
Remembering the actual event would probably mean you were around 5 at the time, and a cutoff that gets thrown around would be 1995.
The Counterintuitive Truth about Earth's Resources
Not to dox myself, but I was about five when the event happened, and my brother who is three does not recall it.
>But hardly anyone outside medicine does hypothesis preregistration yet.

And that's where this idea fails from a practical standpoint. This system gives scientists the means to do something that hurts their chances at publishing/funding.

Now, if it were somehow enforced, then you'd have a different situation, and it could give some serious benefits.