skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-09-03/should...

This Bloomberg articles goes into our hypothetical discussion. Basically it concludes that if he was to time the stock market margins perfectly he would have made out a bit better in the long run. But that's with great timing of the market, which is hard. Also anyone will say you need to diversify your portfolio, not just dump it all in index funds.

Then you have to factor in passion. Trump loves real-estate, why just invest money in the S&P 500 and hope you play all your cards right when you have a passion in a different investment strategy?

"The simplest version of the comparison seems to be that if Trump had taken his $40 million inheritance from his father in 1974, converted it into cash, and invested it in the S&P 500, reinvesting all dividends and spending no money along the way, he'd have about $2.3 billion or so today, depending on how you do the math. Bloomberg computes his actual net worth as $2.9 billion, so he's modestly outperformed the S&P over his career, again depending on how you do the math."

So he modestly outperformed a typical investment strategy, built a brand for himself, and did what he loves. I'd call that winning.

Also an important tidbit from the article:

"That, however, understates his performance. For one thing, if he put all his money in index funds and reinvested all the dividends for 41 years, he'd be dead, because you can't buy food with reinvested dividends. As an investing strategy you can't beat compound returns, but as a strategy for life food has key diversification benefits. Also I feel like Trump has unusually high consumption expenses? For instance, to choose one item at random, I gather that he is currently funding his own campaign for president. That would also eat into his returns."
Yip. And if you can query any ECU, and know what you are doing/have more information on the system, you can get higher level security access (and that information, is again, not THAT hard to find).
This allows you to call functions that modify the parameters and probably restart it as well..
What makes the minix operating system special?
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Do you not support minimum wage laws?
And about the same price as the Nokia 7+...
Passion is a tricky thing because even great jobs require some combination of cool, interesting things and wading through shit. A job that you're passionate about doesn't mean one that's shit-free--it just means that you get enough fulfillment out of the good parts that you're happy to tolerate the stench.
I think they have to specify "Windows Defender ATP" because "ATP" is overloaded. There's also "Microsoft Office 365 ATP".
Is the decay of xenon-124, the rarest event ever recorded in human history?
The Manhattan project had the benefit of most of the physics being at least fairly well understood. Everyone knew there was energy to be liberated from the atom, the question was whether a bomb would be practical: could it be small enough to fit in a plane? Could the material be enriched and mined practically? All of that stuff was engineering problems, absolutely massive ones. There were big uncertainties about the physics, but they were about the size of the effect, not about whether it existed at all.

But EmDrive ideas are putting the engineering before the horse, the physics supposedly underlying them are not mainstream at all. The Manhattan project got off the ground because all the heavyweights in nuclear physics at the time thought it was possible. Nuclear chain reactions were demonstrated first, before the Manhattan project was started. (Self-sustaining chain reactions did only come as part of the Manhattan project)
As someone who struggled dealing with physicists explanations in college I argue that much of the lack of clarity is a deliberate ambiguity as to the meaning of the underlying mathematical structure of the symbols you're informed to manipulate.

As an example, when I was taught calculus of variations, we didn't dwell too much on the fact the symbols in our functions we were differentiating were no longer corresponding to points in R^n, but rather to functions existing in function space. Why the mathematics we were taught in Vector Calculus worked here as well was quietly ignored, to the extent that when I raised the issue with classmates, they didn't realize that anything had changed from vector calculus.

As another example, is physicists playing fast and loose with what exactly they mean by 'vector' (hint: they mean it's really a function on R^3, but good luck finding an undergrad textbook that says that; I'm curious as to how Sussman treats this).

Sussman, by virtue of implementing programs, takes a constructive approach, and thus forces both the author and reader to come to an explicit understanding of what the underlying mathematical objects actually are and the structure of how solutions are formed. Thus, I am not surprised that he comes up with a superior and clearer definition of the Legendre transform.
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Literally: I have successfully sent CAN messages that were understandable to ECUs with an Arduino while waiting for a delivery of real hardware. There are Arduino-GSM shields that are super easy to use and would be remote-accessible.

Such a device would be dead easy to build even for someone who has almost no experience in electronics.
The media's constant reporting on college debt and low paying majors has actually had a large impact on what the next generation is studying. https://qz.com/1370922/the-2008-financial-crisis-completely-...

The humanities and social sciences have fallen off a cliff, heath care and STEM has soared. I'm skeptical that this is a good thing.
An example of a blackboard system in the wild that many would be exposed to today is kubernetes
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The other social networks with that amount of capital were trying to be Facebook, i.e. another closed network that they can profit from. Facebook just under a different name has no relative user advantage and no reason for users to switch.

An actual decentralized network has different requirements and can thereby attract users by having different characteristic advantages.

For example, one of the large and growing problems with centralized networks is that everybody leans on them to do censorship, and they have insufficient stake in protecting individual speakers, even against unreasonable or blatantly fraudulent censorship requests.

If you make it trivially easy and inexpensive for anyone to self-host then the person making the censorship decision is the person whose content it is to begin with, which brings back the proper alignment of incentives regarding cost of removing content vs. liability for hosting it.

And that's just one advantage. Another is you control your data instead of Facebook and it's only you and your own friends who have access to it, not some corporation using it to run adversarial machine learning against you. Another is that your data is local and is therefore faster and available in places with poor internet. Another is that you have access to it yourself and can make modifications to both code and data, and then you get improvements from everyone instead of being restricted to a single company with a conflict of interest.

These kinds of things add up, but first you need somebody to spend the resources to develop it into something that non-experts can easily use and understand. Which is already happening, slowly, but would happen much faster with those kinds of resources.
Scary stuff. We connected light bulbs to the internet so people could turn them on and off with their phones, and they were hacked and turned into a botnet[1]. Okay, fine, maybe your "smart" bulbs blink or burn out, and you replace them with "dumb" bulbs.

Why, exactly, do people think it's a good idea to connect cars' engines to the internet? If something is exposed to hostile input, it will eventually be hacked, and if there are 100,000 identical things out there, they will all be hacked at once. Unfortunately, I think it will take something like all Teslas accelerating uncontrollably off the road, because some teenager was bored, for people to get it.

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161107/09211835982/not-e...
I don't think this argument makes sense. The information gossip provides is probabilistic rather than binary. You never really get a "true" answer, but that's the point -- it's just a signal. Suspicions are not created equal; perhaps a major, corroborated, founded suspicion could destroy relationships where a minor one may not.
No. Just a basic overview of all programming languages.

- I/O (sys, network, screen, printer etc.)

- Data types (numbers, strings, bool, composite data types etc.)

- Built-in ops (comparison, logical, arithmetic etc.)

- variables

- branching

- loops

- functions
Yes, it's enabled by default in the open source server. There is no whitepaper, but you can find what's collected in the source code:

https://github.com/traccar/traccar/blob/master/src/main/java...
Ah thanks! I always did get the impression it was a more viable business than Lyft or Uber, but wasn't aware it was becoming profitable.
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Totally agree. I live in Portland and the attitude is much more relaxed, but I make well above the typical SV salary. I get to choose my technologies, work from home when I want, my company has no interest in anyone working more than 40 hours a week, etc. I'm sure I could make a bit more with the right job at the right company in SV, but the quality of life here is so good that I won't even consider it.
Neither do vaccines. They still managed to basically eradicate extremely dangerous afflictions.
Not docker, but library hosting, in general. My company maintains client libraries for 6 languages, also hosted in the popular place for that language. The standards for account management and authenticating the libraries are all different. Some have scary-little security, some have painful security.
There's not much content to work with here. Her success runs counter to the prevailing media narrative that young people are always broke and struggling. Yes, many are, but many are not, especially in STEM fields. The short-term inconvenience in exchange for making a lot of money (especially if one keeps expenses low) makes it worthwhile in the long-run by being able to retire sooner. 10 years in a high-paying job that is not one's passion beats 40+ years n a low-paying job and never having enough to retire. Her parents paying for most of her college helped a lot, but so does a high IQ to get a good paying job as she did.
True story: at a former employer, a colleague made an HR complaint that in reality was well founded due to abuse. At one point in the investigation, HR told the two people not to interact with each other directly, but for unavoidable work reasons they were still in the same team-related Slack channel.

A mute or ignore feature would have been great to lower the victim's anxiety level during that time due to HR's unhelpful handling of the situation. The victim's finances and general life circumstances did not make "just quit" a good resolution.

(Oh, and the end result: HR fired the victim, with some severance paid, and kept the abuser a while longer. The abuser eventually got fired but probably not due to this incident.)
Precisely. It's also interesting to see what you can do with vehicles where the broadcast traffic 'leaks' out the OBD port. A lot of makes use the same ECU across models for common parts.
Assuming the fine is one-off and market doesn’t devalue facebook because of the fine itself, couldn’t Facebook issue new stock to offset the fine, effectively losing 3% of stock value in the end?
This has to be the most misguided attitude that you can have. I don't think this will serve you well in your career.
It should all be shut down down. Some kind of reasonable privacy should be a right.
Are there really no good open source forum alternatives?

-- asking for a friend :-)
Yeah, passion is overused recruiter-speak. Sure it's nice for cheerleading if everyone feels passionate about their job, but it's really just short-hand for being engaged and focused which is orthogonal to passion.

There is however something which I believe software engineers need: an innate desire to understand how things work, and a tenacity to debug them when they don't. If you don't have this internal drive, then you'll never get over the hump of the vast background knowledge you need to be a productive programmer in any interesting job.
>The use case for a taxi is surely dominated by when you need a car but can't or don't want to drive? I've definitely taken more taxis near my home than away from it, purely because I'm here more often.

I'm sure it depends. I've never taken an Uber near my house. (I do get driven to and from the airport but I use a private car service for that.) I don't actually use Uber/Lyft (or taxis) all that much when I travel either although I've started to do so a bit more often when I found I mostly rented a car to get to/from the airport to some destination and then just have it sit.
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>Doesn't it seem weird to you how they only cared about "making iOS secure" once they had their own product?

Not really - there's a big difference between banning an insecure app when a secure solution has been added to the OS, and banning an app when no secure solution yet exists.
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It’s well known that it’s cheap to buy legislators. The low amounts involved don’t make a convincing argument to me that it doesn’t have an effect. It’s also well known that legislators spend a shitload of their time soliciting donations. Surely all that time spent begging for money influences people’s thinking.

If I gave a legislator a dollar to add a paragraph to a bill, we’d both go to jail. It would be laughable to argue that it doesn’t count as a bribe because the amount was small. Yet if I do the same thing except I donate that dollar to the campaign, it’s totally cool and even a good thing because I’m a job creator?
A good example is we don't even know the details of how Roman concrete was made (apparently much stronger than modern concrete), and it was used to build everything.
Interesting. Firefox is much more performant for me on mobile than Chrome (and crashes way less).
The Romans were not good ship builders. I'm skeptic.
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Most devices are basically unusable because they lack documentation and specification. It can be painstainkingly and slowly reengineered, but when is that done, if ever? I think the easier way is to spend money on devices with proper documentation.

More and more the most important question I have when I consider to buy a device is whether the mainline kernel is supported and can be installed. If not, I move on.
>The Canary Islands are a great stop en route to America. In fact, that's the one Columbus used.

If you're implying that should be used as evidence supporting romans having explored north america, that's really a stretch. Looking at a map, the canary islands are close to the roman empire's territory and the romans could have been there for plenty of reasons besides going to north america.

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Islas_Canarias_(real_loca... and https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Roman_Em...
It would be nice to have some of the proof checker instrumentation for fast starts upstreamed into HolLight.
Polynesians never crossed large open oceans. They island hopped.
When is the 30% Google Tax applicable?
I'm confused. When can a developer use a 3rd party payment gateway and when is it mandatory to use Google's own in-app purchase system and cough up 30% Google tax?

The policy at https://play.google.com/about/monetization-ads/ tells me 3rd party payment gateways are okay if:

(A) Payment is solely for physical products, or

(B) Payment is for digital content that may be consumed outside of the app itself (e.g. songs that can be played on other music players).

On my app users need to pay to filter profiles like in a matrimony app. So the product is a profile filter.

Can I use a 3rd party payment gateway? Yes or no?

If your answer is no, why does Google let matrimony apps (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bharatmatrimony, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shaadi.android) use 3rd party payment gateways? Their use case is the same as mine. Is it because they also have a web version and people can use the web version also (amounting to content consumed outside the app)?

If your answer is that I can use a 3rd party payment gateway, why exactly?

Please help!
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Drivers for Android are not drivers for Linux. You cannot get them and compile them together with the kernel from kernel.org and install it. That is why the devices are stuck on unmaintainable ancient kernel versions.
MINIX was special because the book was used in many universities to teach operating system principles.

MINIX also one of the few affordable Unix-like operating systems you could run on your own PC, and it came with full source (except for the compiler)

Linus was running MINIX when he created Linux.

And finally there the famous discussion by Linus and Andy Tanenbaum (the creator of MINIX) about how operating systems should be structured.
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If exploring results to ecosystem destruction, why not?
Just leaving this here:
Do Tasks, Get Paid:
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> POS is not decentralized

huh?

> Sharding has a unstoppable risk of a 51% attack.

So does bitcoin?
Antitrust has had solutions to this forever. When a business misbehaves, the government settles by entering into a consent decree that involves government lawyers crawling inside the company and laying their eggs. Then they live in there for a number of years. They get lots of information about what the company is doing, as it's happening, and can put a stop to stupid nonsense before it happens instead of trying to punish it after the fact. They can also require the company to do things to mitigate the damage, like not collecting or retaining information unnecessarily.

In general, do things that aren't cost effective or efficient for companies that haven't misbehaved but make a very effective combination of punishment and reform.

But that's assuming the goal is actually reform rather than just lining government coffers.
Governments at odds with archeology to protect the origin story of the country is common across the world.

In India, as recent as latter part of this decade archeologists found gold mine of evidence for >2100 year old Tamil civilization at Keezhadi including Roman artifacts[0].

There was no evidence of Hinduism found, for the matter of fact no religious artifacts of known organised religions was found there.

The archeologist who made the discovery was transferred and the excavations was halted. Fortunately, Tamil civilization is still very much in existence in the state of Tamilnadu,India; so the matter was taken to court and the court has now ordered continuation of excavation at Keezhadi & ordered the original archeologist back to the site[1].

But there has been numerous hurdles since, a blatant obstruction by the central government.

India is a culmination of several such civilizations, but the ruling party wants to project India as a 'Hindu Nation' which magically originated before any other civilization in the world. Unfortunately, they have the popular support for obvious reasons (You'll likely witness in the comments ).

Wiki[2].

[0]: https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/keezhadi-hittin...

[1]: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/keezhadi-excavations-h...

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeladi
Less bullshit majors seems like a very good thing.
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So should I take my money and securities out of Etrade if they are above the levels guaranteed by SIPC?
Is there something similar for Quantum Mechanics? Both MIT and Harvard use Griffith's "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics," but it seems to emphasize computation and symbol manipulation over physical intuition.
Science gives us answers. Culture gives us meaning.
These news organizations and politicians care so much about privacy that they all have facebook accounts? I've never had a facebook and never will. I care about privacy. I don't think they do. So that leaves me wondering what they really care about.

Also, facebook and news companies are both in the same business - the ad selling business which is the cause of the privacy issue.

But that's not my concern. My concern is the obvious politically motivated move against one company and one industry by politicians, government agencies and news companies. When people start calling zuckerburg and sandberg ( who was hailed as a female hero by the media for many years until recently ) antisemites, you have to start asking question. No?

Don't you think it is odd that news companies ( who are supposed to be objective and report the news ) are advocating for fines? Shouldn't a news company simply report the fine rather than demanding more fine? Where's the objectivity? Shouldn't journalists report what is happening rather than advocating for something to happen?

I'm for reporting on facebook and privacy. It's an important issue for sure. What I also want is reporting on the reporting itself because that seems to be an even bigger story. I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but even I can see that there is more than reporting and news involved here.

And it's hard to take the news concerns about privacy seriously when they are all demanding preferential treatment on facebook's platform. Why don't the nytimes close their facebook account? Why don't they pull their headlines from facebook rather than demanding facebook prominently display their headlines and give their headlines top billing? When their words and actions don't align, it makes me wonder. I'm always wondering.
We know how to make Roman concrete. Way may not know the exact historical techniques but we know chemical and material science behind it and can produce it using different methods.
I think what you're missing is that yes, Joe John working for Microsoft as a lobbyist is not directly donating, but Microsoft is donating to politicians via PACs etc. The notion that a politician is not going to give more weight to a lobbyist employed by their corporate donors is playing dense on purpose.

It's a semantics game.
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> I'm not really sure what kind of authentication provides that

KYC combined with sms confirmation, CC details and a Google account. All "normal" people have and share that, what's wrong with you?! weirdo.

Welcome to the web of 2019:-)
That QZ article gets a lot wrong. In particular:

> if the tech bubble bursts, computer science may even be riskier than a humanities degree, which gives graduates a broader set of knowledge.

How do humanities degrees provide "broader knowledge" than CS degrees? Different, sure, but broader?

Good CS degrees are not coding bootcamps. CS students take a lot of mathematics and logic-heavy courses and can easily pivot from programming to jobs in insurance, finance, accounting, education, project management, and even law.

Good CS degrees also require a lot of technical writing, which opens up all of the stuff that's usually associated with humanities degrees.

Bad CS degrees exist. But then, so do bad English departments.

This also ignores the fact that a lot of CS students are taking courses in English/poli sci/History/etc, but very few humanities students are taking CS courses. E.g., I didn't have a major or minor in any of the above fields, but I took upper-division courses in the English, Relgiion, poli sci, and history departments. However, I only ever encountered one non-STEM major in CS courses beyond CS 101.