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Young man.

I have been in your exact shoes and tried this exact strategy. Hated the exact same things you do. Told every internet forum that would accept me that the US Government has worked in order to support economic interests and supremacy through out the world and in the process has benefitted from and knowingly participated in serious crimes against humanity. I gave hundreds of examples backed by our own documentary record and declassified history. Chomsky style. I could go on for hours on just central America.

It doesn't work. Your words are going to fade into a black hole and eventually only you will remember them. And probably not, even.

This is not going to help you achieve your goals. Detach and think about why. It is obvious.
Deductive reasoning may be a powerful tool for discovery, but it can just as easily be hijacked into a means to rationalize emotion and stop useful action. Your argument here, for example, boils down to "why aren't you 100% consistent with rational thought?" But I don't know of anyone who is, so why would you try to justify atheism on that basis? The rational ideal is one you'd have to believe in, just as much as any God.
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I love it, could think of some improvements, but for a v0.1 really really cool!
For some reason Markov would score 'Seals' extremely high next to 'Baby'. The more it would pop up, the more people would put 'Baby Seals' into the IRC channel and it became a common signing off phrase.

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Is Sublime better than TextMate? I do program in various languages and maintain collections of local and remote files.

I bought Coda 2 after using Coda 1 for years, and Coda 2 is a bug-riddled piece of shit. I guess I'll switch to Espresso, but I'll consider anything at this point. Except DreamWeaver, which is another buggy piece of shit.
If a person is successful in one business should we subject ourselves to his idiotic views on another business?

By definition they can’t go into an equity unless there already is liquidity.

HFTs who are usually market makers [1] maintain liquidity in the market by constantly having buy/sell orders open for many instruments/scrips. In their absence, a counter trade may not exist for matching against when you or I put out a sell/buy order. Being able to sell/buy a scrip/instrument within seconds is a valuable service that investors appreciate. In India, the securities exchange regulator mandates that all market makers make a minimum value of trades per day. I am not sure of the exact current values in each segment but it's in the order of millions of rupees. This is how regulators create conditions of liquidity so that markets are nicer to trade in especially for retail investors.

The missing link in all the discussions is: What is the purpose of the stock market?

The stock market can be divided into a primary market and a secondary market. The primary market exists to finance companies. When they IPO, cash is generated which they can use to fund business activities. The secondary market exists to encourage purchases in the primary market and to efficiently discover the price of the securities. Without a liquid secondary market, very few investors would be interested in a primary market.

HFT is only doing what was already done since many years ago manually. Humans make the same mistakes computers are being programmed to make today. In their defence, they execute exactly as asked - they feel no fear, doubt or greed - unlike a human trader . Should we treat them as being harmful because computers make mistakes at a significantly faster rate? HFT is a still nascent concept. With sufficient regulation, we will likely be able to get rid of the problems and retain the advantages.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_maker
What Ian Stevenson collected were anecdotes, not evidence. Evidence would be statistically significant instances of characteristics, not transmittable through any other mechanism , verified against a control group. He never even proposed a mechanism for transmission that someone might actually investigate, or even prove or disprove, let alone actually conduct anything resembling a real test or experiment himself.
Cool stuff! <3, i'll fork and add some missing features!
I want to make an important note here: trading is not a zero-sum game. It generates value through the exact mechanisms that you noted, market making (liquidity) and inefficiency elimination (accuracy). Via the efficient market hypothesis, the value created by adding this asset liquidity and price accuracy finds its way back into the hands of the traders, often through real value increases in the assets going to traders with call positions.

This functions to keep demand for trading moving by making the average market return stay close to or above the market discount rate. So stock trading doesn't end up as zero-sum, but rather benefits parties at the market discount rate. If it didn't, no one would trade but those seeking to gamble, and there would be no notion of fundamental analysis in the market.

In reality, outside of an ideally efficient market, it's easy to intuitively suspect that the average return associated with trading is above the discount rate, and that more savvy investors obviously earn higher returns. This is more or less correct: the S&P averaged around 8.5% annual returns over the last few decades [1], and that only increases the farther you go back and lower the more recent your range's early bound is, corroborating the association between unideal market efficiency and high returns. Both "investing" and "trading" are less distinct in the stock market than in, say, VC, and so that 8.5% applies equally in aggregate.

But trading is most certainly not a zero-sum game. Like all market activity, it converges to producing value at the market discount rate in an efficient market. What that rate is is incredibly hard to say, but it can vaguely be associated with S&P returns, which have hovered around 5-6% in recent years on time-weighted rolling averages.

[1]http://moneyover55.about.com/od/howtoinvest/a/marketreturns....
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Ask HN: As an average coder, should I try to sell programming ebooks?
A few months ago I started to poke around with Clojure. As this is my first serious dance with a functional language, I've been compiling a lot of notes and code samples as part of the learning process.

A thought has wedged its way into my brain; I'd like to take my informal scraps of knowledge, put together an ebook and sell it. Not sure about the length yet, but my hope is that it would be short, dense, and cheap ($15/100 pages max). Kinda like "Learn Python the Hard Way" for Clojure, but with training wheels.

Problem: I'm not a known person in the software world. Heck, I've done some websites, written some scripts, done some sys admin stuff, but I'm just an average guy with average skills.

I know credibility helps sell copies, but I kinda feel like selling such a product would be (for lack of a better word) cheating people. To be honest, this thought has surfaced in other ideas as well. I find myself unable to create and sell things, despite a >tremendous< urge to do so.

I'm just a mere mortal. Should I wait until I'm more skilled to make and sell these types of things, or try to get better by doing it? Or not even worry about such things?

Have any of you ever experienced this feeling?

Maybe this is just be a problem of low/no self-esteem, but any thoughts would be very much appreciated.
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Thank you for the best explanation of this lunacy I have ever read.
I tried to edit after I made the comment as I read it and thought it was a bit harsh, but sadly couldn't for some reason.

My point was that all of this takes time, and doesn't sound like something a lean and mean startup would do. Buying doors at $40 doesn't sound lean, the time spent instead of working on the product/service doesn't sound lean. There's an opportunity cost that should be factored in and they could've saved a load of money and time by buying the furniture second hand.

Having said all that, it's their business and not mine, and if taking time out to build these desks won't disrupt their schedules or revenue stream then it's up to them if they want to do it. Personally I'd never allow it anywhere I work, but time's much more important (and billable) in my industry so their mileage may vary.

Of course, they now have something tangible with their time that reminds them of the day they built their own desks. If there's value in that then more power to them.
It continues to be dissapointing that new releases of Python continue to be useless due to the (I will claim needless and arbitrary, although I could totally argue the other side if forced: I am not ignorant of the reasons, I just disagree with the opinions) decision to make the new builds incompatible with the previous ones (and in some cases for the obvious worse, such as how Unicode is now less correctly handled when iterating filenames in directories).

I mean: I do almost all of my "business logic" coding in Python these days, and yet when I hear of a new version of Python it carries as much weight to me as a new version of COBOL (which, honestly, probably has more use cases, and almost certainly more users, than Python 3.x). This is the first time I have simply totally felt stranded by a development environment since Microsoft abandoned Visual Basic and replaced it with "Visual Fred" (aka, Visual Basic .NET): and in that case I had already jumped ship to C++ years earlier.

At this point, the cost of trying to get all the libraries I rely on set up on 3.x--especially when a ton of them have decided either 1) to slightly change the semantics of the API "as everything is breaking anyway" or 2) that they are obsolete and that you should use some other newer library if you want 3.x--is sufficiently high that one may as well switch to an entirely different language (in my case, probably Clojure).
Yes, do it, if for no other reason than to improve your own skills.

What's the saying - the best way to learn is to teach?
There was a PEP/branch (p3k-jit) to merge Unladen Swallow into mainline, but the PEP was withdrawn as Unladen Swallow faded to black: http://qinsb.blogspot.be/2011/03/unladen-swallow-retrospecti... http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/
There a few options that allow you to stay (mostly) in Python: Numpy/Scipy for numerics; using Cython[0]; or using an alternative interpreter (specifically PyPy[1]).

(This assumes that your specific use case is covered, e.g. PyPy doesn't support Python 3 yet.)

[0]: http://www.cython.org/
[1]: http://pypy.org/
I can't answer you in the absolute, but FWIW, Python 3.3 contains a number of changes that are deep-seated enough to improve performance in a wide variety of applications.

The biggest of these changes is likely the new adaptive system for the internal representation of strings which tries to pick a representation most suited to each respective string instead of using a "one size fits all" representation, to minimize the memory footprint and improve cache efficiency. Additional work that happened along side this should also greatly speed up encoding into UTF-8 and -16 and some string operations.

Another biggie is the new dict implementation, which should also significantly reduce memory footprint and improve cache efficiency (and keep in mind that object attribute namespaces are dicts, so that also affects all objects).
Curious as to why you tried to control the experiment as much as you could, but then decided to move all of the profiles into different cities?

They should of been located in the same city. How do we not know that LA girls and guys are more loose, and Boston women don't even use online dating.
Sublime Text definitely runs that risk by not being open. Look at Textmate.
Interestingly the SECOND BEST looking woman got far more messages than the best looking woman, both in US and UK.

I wondered why.
> It continues to be dissapointing that new releases of Python continue to be useless due to the (I will claim needless and arbitrary, although I could totally argue the other side if forced: I am not ignorant of the reasons, I just disagree with the opinions) decision to make the new builds incompatible with the previous ones

FWIW, and while I disagree with you wrt long-term (though short term I'm still on Python 2 due to working on a non-ported 10 years old code-base with dependencies on non-yet-ported libraries), 3.3 has added some concessions back for ease of porting with the re-introduction of the unicode literal prefix `u` (see PEP 414).

> and in some cases for the obvious worse, such as how Unicode is now less correctly handled when iterating filenames in directories

Either it's handled or it's not, Python 3 provides both options for you to pick, linux filesystems are broken either way.

> in my case, probably Clojure

From my playing with it so far, even if I switch "big" developments to that Python will have to remain part of my toolbox due to how horrendously slow Clojure and clojure-based tools are to start up. And I have issues with the utterly terrible error reporting as well.
I don't know if any of this strikes me as particularly new. Every new female account on any dating site gets absolutely hammered with messages in the first few hours.

What's missing from a lot of discussions is simple supply and demand. I was on OKCupid for a few weeks and paid the $10 for the creepy stalker upgrade. Out of curiosity I started comparing male and female profiles in my city.

In Perth, Australia, for profiles above a 90% match to mine, there were 8 male profiles for every female profile.

For profiles averaging five stars, there were 8.5 male profiles for every female profile.

Supply and demand means that the females on the site can really hold out for more. I suspect that this means that the distribution of actual dating activity will be wildly uneven -- the 1% or 2% of males who are really very attractive will clean up almost the entire female pool's attention. And the 50% of females who are above average will have their pick of the top 25% of the male pool.

Perth is not necessarily a good sample, as this town already has a lopsided male:female ratio. But every city I looked at had the same phenomenon. If I turned attractiveness up to maximum and only went to high matches, males always greatly outnumbered females.

I've given consideration to setting up a dating website in a niche market, but that particular niche market will have an even more lopsided male-centric demographic. I've been seriously wondering about just letting men and women know up front what the current ratios are. The theory being that it will deter some men and encourage some women. Alternatively I might try bar tactics: men pay at the door, women drink for free. Again to deter male users and encourage female users.

Basically it is men who are using these sites, not women. And until someone cracks the code on that, it's going to be a fairly one-sided experience.
Sure, and in some next generation language yet to be invented you might not even need the error monad!

But we're talking Go here.
Just tried it out. It is actually very good. Wonder whether there's any gesture support for browsing.
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http://docs.python.org/dev/library/ipaddress.html#module-ipa...

Am I the only one worries that Python is slowly turning into Java?

Instead of simple text/string for everything, now Class for everything, with nauty weird ill-defined Exceptions.
You're familiar with the Stable Marriage Algorithm, right? The math doesn't bear you out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem

It's been proven that the algorithm is optimal for the initiators of proposals, i.e. men in contemporary Western culture, although women can hack this by asking guys out themselves.

The confusion is because you've artificially restricted the universe to a subset of its true size. Women's pool of mates to select from isn't 20 times larger than men, because men have already done a round of selection in deciding who to message. You don't actually message every single girl you see on OKCupid, do you? If you're fat or ugly as a woman, you're basically screwed (or rather, not screwed) in the mating game, because you become invisible to most men.

That's why I tell girls on the OKCupid Reddit that messaging guys can only help them. Once in a blue moon (as in once every month or two), I get an unsolicited message on OKC. A majority of the time, I don't reply. The thing is, I would never have messaged these girls to begin with, while occasionally I'll take a chance on a first date if their personality seems interesting, so they've only helped themselves.

It's also worth remembering that there are subsequent rounds of selection too. If women receive (on average) 20x more messages than men, it must mean that men send (on average) 20x more messages than women, since each message has exactly one sender and recipient. They're only going to end up with one girlfriend. So if those girls respond to their favorite guys, many of them will be culled out after the first date, third date, whenever. I've been on I think 16 first dates off OKCupid. I asked only about 3 of them out for a second date. Some (several?) of the remaining 13 probably were not interested in me anyway, but that's still a sizeable number of girls who did not get who they want.
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The problem with life before birth (edit:you know what I ment) or after death is that I am the sum of my memories, evolutionary quirks and my bodies interaction with the world.

If I don't remember a past life - even in the unlikely event that it was a real thing - that wasn't me, that was someone else.

If you agree with the basic facts used to justify that, but not the conclusion, I'd appreciate any feedback. Likewise if you disagree with the whole thing. Still working on this one.
Learned helplessness.

Most men stop contacting the most attractive female profiles because they never hear back.
Being civil about these issues is important. (dhechols could have been more civil.) But one of the problems with belief systems is that people often do "expect special rights and privileges."

In my opinion, one of those widely regarded "special rights" is the right to make unfalsifiable claims without being challenged. Scepticism is widely viewed as an "attack" on the safety-zone we call "faith," when in reality it is simply what it is: someone pointing out logical flaws. It's not their fault if we take it personally because we believe our beliefs should be free from sceptics.

But, of course, it helps to not be an ass about it too.
Building IM client is an interesting approach to attract developers and train development team.
Ehm, how do you check whether an IP address is inside of a specific network with strings? Or how two networks overlap? How many addresses a network has?

Hint: there’s more than /24 networks and IPv6 makes it even more complicated.
The blogger claims that the research was ignored without any consideration, but comments points out that the research have been considered, but rejected as pseudoscience.
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higher perceived odds of success by the men, perhaps.

there's an okcupid blog post about this very observation:
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-mathematics-of-beauty/
Cloud stuff makes sense if you have one little website (or certain values of one BIG website). But if you plan to be in this business for the long term, it just makes a lot more sense to have a quarter rack someplace with a couple fast boxes in it.

I have something like 30 sites up and running at the moment, some big, some BIG, some small. Adding a new one involves spending seven dollars on a domain name and fiddling around for a few minutes in Remote Desktop, safe in the knowledge that it can live comfortably on that server for its entire life without me needing to figure out what a dyno is.

So yeah, in the end it comes down to flexibility. Or rather how you define flexibility. Some people like to be able to spin instances up and down and squeeze their expenses down to the nearest micropenny. Others like to know that they have plenty of breathing room and no requirement to spin things in any direction at a price that's still on the same order of magnitude as the micropenny crowd.
As a writer, some of this strikes me as dumb. There are a lot of people who aren't "writers" that I'd be glad to hire. Why would you grill someone on the rules in the Elements of Style? They can look that sort of thing up. If anything, I'd be more interested to see if they absorbed the real lessons in the Elements of Style. (Hint: Not the rules.) Also:

"We have found that we are able to hire great writer from this process, who are able to create award winning content, whether it is a short article or a book."

Hire a copy editor.
Power accumulates first in the hands of the people who make the guns and the bullets, who package them, ship them, write the accounting software, process the orders, pack the trucks, etc.

The only real violence we should worry about is the every day violence that is used against these people ( mainly the threat of starvation, unemployment, poverty ) if they don't do their jobs. And that violence is surprisingly effective considering that violence changes the world by making it every day, and remaking it, over, and over, and over. Making people choose to get out of bed before 8am instead of sleeping in and making love and eating pancakes. Over and over and over.

Any one who talks about revolution without talking about first about every day life has a corpse in their mouth. Debates about violence and non-violence represent a decision that represents maybe 0.0005% of the experience of human beings.

There are so many more interesting, probably 100x more revolutionary decisions one could make, where this debate isn't even relevant.

Should one work on optimizing life for the sustainability of multiple concurrent romantic relationships instead of for the stability and predictability of a mortgage payment? If so, how? What effects would this have on the economic and military stability of a country?

Want to topple a regime? Make its subjects fall in love and want to bone more than they want to go to work.

Start by writing an app for that.
The two simple ways of addressing this are to use some sort of folder level authentication (e.g. htaccess and htpasswd or equivalent) and to make sure it's not referenced in sitemaps or robots.txt, nor linked to from elsewhere on the net.
The technician actually can remeber Ohms Law :-)

You may laugh but a few years ago my Father was then the technical director of a small Electrical Engineering company (spun off from Eaton) told me that a junior engineer could not correctly calulate the thinkness of cables for a particular load.
Yes, that's what he meant with VS not being efficient in that regard.
> I am worried that Python is slowly turning into Java.
Instead of simple text/string for everything, now Class for everything, with nauty weird ill-defined Exceptions.

The example your are pointing out is for the module ipaddress which is for inspecting and manipulating ip addresses. It's not that Python now requires you to use ipaddress objects in place of strings for sockets.
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