skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall a talk someone from microsoft gave about needing to create another driver in windows xp fairly late in the process and they gave it a NSFW name/acronym and then retroactively came up with a working name that fit the acronym. Apparently it's still in use today. I can't remember what the driver is though.
Pandas Library for Data Visualization in Python
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From having dealt with some legal departments in the past, the reason they like these licenses is that they create clarity. For them patents are an orthogonal issues. Having licenses that may or may not affect their own patents or any patents of their competitors is hugely important when considering whether to use particular software, whether to contribute to particular software, etc. At the minimum, it increases the workload for them and worst case there are all sort of things that suddenly have to be considered. Doing legal checks is super tedious.
I suspect legalization would have positive effects in the US as well, but I do not suspect it will slow consumption. This is evidenced by juvenile vaping rates. The trends indicate that vaping is on schedule to far exceed historic levels of tobacco consumption by minors. Vaping is generally healthier than tobacco having little or no toxins, but the nicotine content is variable and can occur in far greater concentrations than in tobacco products resulting in greater addiction rates than tobacco. Whether or not nicotine were criminalized demand and consumption would continue to grow. The problem is not legality or even availability. The problem is demand. Children want to smoke nicotine products that taste like candy. The messaging is that tobacco is bad, but vaping is... (not communicated).

I suspect the differences in cultural attitudes between Portugal and the US are a large factor for the differences in evidence of success.
It's not really that different of a purpose. You want at least one satellite visible in the sky, not on the horizon, nearly overhead. A highly elliptical geo tundra orbit gives you that overhead pass that a normal geostationary orbit can't give you. US Satellite radio (like Sirius) uses a tundra orbit with multiple satellites to cover the US and some parts of Canada and Mexico. You get max overhead time over the US with at least one satellite at all times so the connection is always good unless things on the ground interfere. Japan is doing the exact same thing as everyone else here.
Looks like a Logitech G19 to me. I wouldn't have thought Knuth would have a gaming keyboard, let alone one with a screen.

EDIT: I think the other comment is correct, a Logitech G110
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As far as I know, yeah. This one's probably marked up because it looks fancier, I have a cheaper version (Soda Stream Source) but happened to see this one on SlickDeals recently.

The main value they add is a convenient CO2 tank exchange program at places like Staples and Best Buy. I'm sure rigging your own system with a bigger tank would be cheaper in the long run, but I don't have space for it.
>""Reward shareholders" is code for stock buybacks - the practice of a company using ultra-low interest financing to buy its own stock on margin."

I'm curious why this would be done on margin. Are they using call options then for their own stock?
I want robinhood to succeed. Retail brokers charge huge fees for poor order execution, and also charge fees for arbitrary stuff. $7-10/trade adds up fast and also huge fees for options.
Deciding on what to do with a packet
FWIW, Fidelity now offers brokerage accounts that include checking, bill pay, etc. and have access to no minimum, no fee, no load index funds.
Then who is doing the accounting work? If accountants are so expendable (especially if they're expendable at the peak of tax season), why do we have extra accountants floating around?
We shouldn't rule out the possibility that they did have seemingly proper legal analysis, it just wasn't complete.
I find building solid foundation and tooling really important, and it seems where are right there at this point with Rust. But IDEs have always been controversial beasts. Some might say Visual Studio at one point was one of the best representations of good set of trade-offs that made great code-writing environment. Now it's different story. But what I am far more interested in in terms of Rust and it's IDE ergonomics is what can be achieved differently? Rust by itself is different beast. Unique language that pushed different way of thinking and structuring code. So can that be used as an inspiration for something different in terms of IDEs and developer UIs?
Not CMU, but Cornell's College of Engineering most recent class enrolled more women than men.
>> we could say that success in active investing is (often) a function of how much you're willing to spend to find the right opportunities

Is this also true at the level of the small investor ?

Say I'm willing to spend a few hours a day learning and researching about stocks. Does this mean that over time, I'll be able to significantly beat the index funds ?

Or is it, more likely, a fool's errand, because that as a small investor, I don't really have enough bandwidth and money to significantly diversify ?
No, we definitely do it forwards; fountain pens and cursive used to be a serious problem, as is having your hand over what you've just written, so I write "overhand".

(To see this, do a 45 degree '/' with your right-hand pen, then leave the tip in the middle and make your left hand into a mirror image in the plane of the '/')
Maybe "run-space" is more appropriate than "server". In the "old days" of the web, one could host many Perl or ASP-classic scripts (applications) on the same server without much problem (if you avoided risky practices). But with bigger stacks with more parts that need version management, we began moving to one-app-per-server. But that got expensive, so virtualization increased. Each app is now basically housed in one virtual server space such that it's not really a server in the original sense such that "run-space" seems a more fitting term. There are other competing terms such as "container", but that may be specific kind or brand. I'm looking for a more generic term.
Classical whatabout-ism.

Linus was arrogant, condescending and abusive in his emails. Those guys were arrogant and condescending. Being as bad as Linus when dealing with other people is really not something worth striving for and not something worth defending.
TypeScript has a similar problem, where depending on some compilation flags you end up inheriting their license on your compiled output. I've been trying to get them to fix it but it is stuck in lawyer limbo:

https://github.com/Microsoft/tslib/issues/47
Example: if I'm an entrepreneur and I see an opportunity, and I have a friend with the resources to support me and who also thinks this is a good idea, then I'm not going to go out and raise funding from random strangers.

You'd be surprised how many deals like that are out there. Many entrepreneurs do business with a few solid partners during their lifetime.

Aside from that, there are other reasons:

1. You don't want to invest everything in the public markets, i.e. acquiring an interesting existing business and growing from there could be a good idea.

2. Some of these businesses might be less prone to losses during a recession or stock market correction, so they might serve as a buffer for cashflow and income.

3. These deals might have higher upside, because of information asymmetry or something that isn't blatantly obvious to other people. Alternatively, you might have access to different channels that could easily grow the business.
I owned a Chinese car for about 2 years (Great Wall Haval H5). Even with tariffs, it was cheaper than European cars and came with more features. Allegedly they licensed the prior 4Runner platform for suspension. They used a Japanese engine, and then kinda copied Mitsubishi SUV styling. Overall, my initial impression was favorable.

Over the two years I noticed that it didn't hold up as well as I would have expected: The power windows quit in the down position. It ate batteries. The engine accessories weren't engineered by anyone who had ever owned a car before (belt tension was a single bolt rather than an adjustable idler arm).

I'd probably buy one again, but not as my only car, and with the understanding that I'd be putting a lot of effort into maintaining it.
How Italy's populists used Facebook to win power
The "everyone should change their way of life" approach to environmentalism hasn't worked and has been quite divisive, why do people continue to think it is an effective strategy?
Be forewarned: MiniKanren has no "not" operator. (I invested a lot of time teaching myself MiniKanren, working through most of "the book" (The Reasoned Schemer), before I found that out.)
How old do you reckon someone would have to be to remember something like that? 5 years old? 10 years old?
excuse my ignorance but what is the magical ampersand?

edit: Doh.. I guess I just got caught commenting without reading the article. Sorry everybody!
Ayahuasca has also been shown to generate new brain cells which could, theoretically, accomplish something similar. http://beckleyfoundation.org/ayahuasca-stimulates-the-birth-...
>"Buybacks are at least much more tax effective than issuing dividends."

Why are buybacks much more tax effective? Is this due to the way the accounting is done on them?
At a micro level, taking money out of a deposit and investing it does not create inequality. At a macro level, the fact that simply having wealth begets more wealth in a way that labor cannot accomplish is a driving force behind inequality.
I would not say the cocom limits aren't enforced, any exportable GPS receiver is required to have the cocom limits and needs a special license to unlock under EAR regulations. This means that anyone building a cubesat and using a commercial receiver has had to specifically get that exception.
Nevertheless, the more complete and accurate your picture of what you are attempting to achieve, and where you are, is (at every level of abstraction), the fewer iterations it will take to get done - or the fewer bugs remaining after a given elapsed time.

It's like situational awareness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation_awareness
Technically, the US has defaulted in '79... but I think we can agree that was not a true default in the spirit of this conversation.

It doez though illustrate technically and reality are 2 different things.

And the reality is the US can default. While the option is there to endless print money and technically avoid default, should that situation happen, USD will become worth less the more they print. So you end up hitting a point where you essentially issue money of near no value. Once a govt sees this happening it's more realistical they bite the bullet, hit the reset button and default. Because a country needs a functioning currency that people have confidence in to run and recover. No reasonable govt is going to keep issuing money to 'avoid default' at the cost of recovering the economy.

And arguably even if they did, issuing worthless money would in the spirit of debt repayment, be considered a form of default.
I want Robinhood to fail. Most retail brokers pass through price improvements to their customers, and their fee structure is reasonable for the services they provide. I don't want a Facebook Of Financial Services (you don't pay directly, you pay through being the product).

Robinhood is what Moviepass rebranded as a hip fintech startup that provides trading services would look like. They target the financially illiterate, and should be nuked from orbit.

If a few dollars per trade are breaking you, you have no business actively trading (and should have at least $25k in working capital per FINRA pattern day trading guidelines [1]). Put your money in an index fund at Vanguard and stop gambling in what is a glorified loot box at Robinhood user scale.

[1] http://www.finra.org/investors/day-trading-margin-requiremen...
The criticism is not directed at the LSP. RLS just implements the specification, but as you said LSP doesn't create these constraints.

One outcome of all this might be that RLS internally gets replaced by something like rust-analyzer, which is something that the maintainer of RLS has mused in a recent blog post as one of many possible options for the future of RLS:

https://www.ncameron.org/blog/more-on-rls-version-numbering/
How does that compare to something like CitusDB I wonder?
What did Hillary do that this administration (which Luckey supports) hasn’t done ten times over, literally? They’re all hypocrites grasping for power, nothing more.
> How on Earth is it related to populism?

In this case I suspect the author is talking about a popular interpretation of populism where a politician in question intends to make sweeping changes to constitutions and rights where those are seen to be working against the popular interest.

In this case the answer might be to curb the rights of specific types of family investors somehow, for instance in European property markets (to take an example from the author) where this is seen as distorting the markets and causing pain to people - for instance not being able to afford housing, or ending up in negative equity because such funds pull out of the market and cause a bubble to collapse.
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It didn't really give any indications as to how it works in the article, but the people I've known with the worst social phobia have been those who've been most scared of potential (or imagined) social punishment, usually because they feel there is a "script" that they will have trouble following in a social setting (e.g. responding to something "the wrong way", or not having the "right" answer ready for a question, etc.) Seems like it makes sense that if you're constantly places in scenarios with no script and no right or wrong answer, it would help alleviate the anxiety over not knowing "what everyone knows" you're supposed to do in [situation], and that being confident in what you say is like 50% of being seen as a socially capable person.
Bath Salts to Bitcoin: John McAfee's Bizarre Crypto Hustle
Do you have a link for stats or a wider study? I would love to share them , as my local gov also considers those buses
Is it "easier"? I'd have thought with their robots-and-bins it was notionally identical, save a few minor modifications to the front-end.

As it's Amazon, presumably they tested and found this to be the best mode for profit.
I mean, dealing with the multitude of irreducible results in the natural sciences is a major source of what I would consider to be very bad science, owing to institutionalized biases formed from 'conclusions' made from previously unwarranted results. While it as well is a major issue in medicine, no one dies when some ones claims of a soil carbon characteristic or a stomatal conductance trait end up being irreducible; in-fact it can cost you a career to even open up the can of worms which is validating the previous results on which your work claims to be based.

There are two issues at odds here as I see it. One, science is a career, and if you don't show results, well, it will be a short career indeed. Two, science is a philosophy which governs the determination of the best `truth` possible given the evidence. The two are highly at odds, and perhaps this may give a way to at least resolve some issues related to irreconcilability in all science.
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Agreed, cause the article states the 50/50 statistic only really applies to ages 105-110. After that, I suspect they would start getting worse, but there's probably not enough of a sample size to provide an accurate estimate.
Ok, I'll say it.

Tap water tastes gross in every major N. American city I've lived in. I'll filter it, air it out and chill it. But out of the tap, N. American water tastes bad. A little town in Albania I've visited once has (much) tastier water than any city I've been here.

I can't blame ppl for drinking bottled water (Evian is gross though)
All AMP is doing is providing training wheels for developers to create non-crappy versions of their websites by restricting what they include.

AFAIK, there is no special magic to AMP that makes it fast, that can't be accomplished with simple CSS/HTML. It's just an on-rails subset of web technologies

Now, it may be arguable, in this screwed-up world, that the only way to remotely even get publishers to make better websites is something like AMP, because it's "marketable" or "friendly" compared to just saying "fix your slow website", I just wish this wasn't the case. But I believe anything AMP does can be accomplished through non-proprietary means using standard web technologies.

Not to mention, publishers probably only care about AMP because they feel forced to do so (because of carousel visibility, etc).
It’s mentioned in the article, the author appears to have coined it for the original story.

“Checking” accounts are regulated. “Savings” accounts are regulated. “Checking & Savings” accounts are not a thing and thus could be considered a grey area.

The ampersand magically gets you out of regulation.

Well, it DIDN’T, but that was the theory it seems.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18698211

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18693689
It's in the article. Use CTRL-F.
A cup works pretty well.
Well, to turn that around, what makes you sure that capitalism is working correctly here? With respect, you appear very reluctant to commit to any economic observation, yet also seem confident that basic Economics 101 applies to executive remuneration without allowing for other economic considerations (capture etc). For example, see [0] for a brief discussion of how executive pay may not be an efficient market.

My own view is that neoliberal economic policies have led to workers having a lower share of economic output [1], resulting in an increasing share going to shareholders [2] and executives. As you say, it's totally in the interest of the people who have the money to give less of it to their workers.

You're correct that I can't absolutely "know" that to be the cause, but then I don't know what makes you so confident that there is an efficient market for executives.

[0] https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2014/01/understanding-ever-...

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2017/article/estimating-the-us-...

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/1324/s-p-500-earnings-history
According to the article:

> Robinhood can’t issue a “checking account,” or a “savings account,” since those are things only banks can do, but “checking & savings” is technically neither of those things and so perhaps it falls into a gray area. “A magic ampersand,” I called it.
Donald Knuth shaved the ultimate yak. He wanted to write a book with mathematics in it so he implemented what for decades has been industry-standard mathematical typesetting system: TeX.

That's remarkable. I just wish he'd finish the book.
I never bought bottled water before in the first place, but I do find it practical to keep a pack of them in the car in case I need them. They'd also be useful in emergencies. If I kept home-filled bottles around in there that long they would get gunky.
Because the alternative is ultimately "Everyone probably won't get to stay alive". Which is a pretty big change in one's way of life.

Also, using cans instead of bottles isn't exactly a major shift in most people's life. It's infinitely recyclable (unlike plastic), something nature knows how to deal with (unlike plastic) and often better for the beverage (in the case of beer at the very least).
Regenerative stem cell identified and isolated in planaria flatworms
The service was marketed to be available in January, they were collecting email addresses to queue up for the pilot.
Tldr: planarians, which are flatworms that can regenerate an entire organism, have a specific stem cell that a single cell can regenerate an entire organism. This specific cell has finally been found.

This can allow, hopefully, the study of human regeneration and perhaps drugs/cellular techniques that can restart human regeneration after previously impossible to fix injuries.
Is it possible to buy bitcoins anonymously and store them directly into Sam Harris' wallet? This would solve all creepy political de-platforming issues forever.
> its not like without this, they would not be able to acquire more users

The “personal financial independence” crowd avoids this stuff like the plague, although seemingly ironic, those crowds primarily cater to people that lack the most basic understanding of a bank account who need to repair and control horrible financial situations

They are steered clear from capital markets, aside from managed ETFs and retirement plans

But add .25% interest rate improvement in a bank account and these people will salivate over it

Robinhood going above competitors, even at the expense of going above market rate, would have gotten there attention

They would park their money in that account and have easy access to stocks and cryptocurrencies, allowing Robinhood to continue their big data/market sentiment/payment for order flow selling business with greater efficacy
This looks mostly harmless, yet this made me pause: "The effort has been overseen by Heather Meeker".

The same Heather Meeker that started the whole "let's relicense FOSS projects with confusing non-FOSS licenses because we don't like that AWS is using our code"-buzz that's been debated a lot lately.
Anecdotes are fun, but we observe higher degrees of nicotine use among young people now than we did before vaping exploded.
A lot of products also have this problem where the listing page will have selectable variations that are totally different products. So naturally one could be total rubbish but the overall review score hides it. Amazon does it with their own basics items so it’s not something just scammers do. Sidenote, their powered usb hubs are garbage.

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-4-Port-USB-2-0-Ultra-Min...
Ok, I'll test on linux tonight, I'm going to follow the progress and hopefully I'll be able to help before it becomes too bloated! ;)

Does it run well on Raspberry Pi?
I picked up WireGuard yesterday, and within an hour, I had my server and 4 clients setup. Freaking gravy.

And this morning, I connected to the bus WiFi, I turned on WireGuard, and kept a constant connection throughout my commute to work. It just works so well.

I could never do that with my OpenVPN connections.
If you just used the 50/50 method (which was only proven for 105-110), then you'd expect 2 of today's 105 year olds to make it to 122. But, Jeanne died some 20 years ago, when medicine wasn't where it is today, and she was humorously 105 in 1980!
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He funded a pro trump campaign, but not sure why it would count as covert propaganda.

“In mid-September 2016, Palmer Luckey donated just shy of $10,000 to a recently formed pro-Trump non-profit organization called Nimble America. At the time of his donation, the entire body of Nimble America’s work consisted of putting up a single billboard in the Pittsburgh area [that read “too big to jail. paid for by Nimble America” with a photo of Hillary Clinton]. Going forward, Nimble America planned to put up more billboards in battleground states (hence the organization seeking donations).”

https://uploadvr.com/fake-news-happens-reporting-palmer-luck...
The cost of telling a #MeToo story in Australia
Sounds brilliant to me. They had over 100,000+ people sign up for a wait list. There is a clear demand for such a product...