skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a very important lesson in here about investing, but not the one the author intended. From the article:

"Suppose you find a stock that you know will increase in value. You go to the bank and say, “hey, can I borrow $90k to buy this stock? I’ll put down a down payment of $10k.” You’ll be laughed right out of there."

And then, later:

"Now suppose you find a house that you think is a good deal for $100k. ... suppose you go into the bank and say “hey, can I borrow $90k to buy this house, and I’ll put down $10k?” If you have decent credit, you’ll get the loan easily."

Leverage, i.e. a multiplication of your investment by borrowing money, is quite frowned upon when investing in stocks[1] but is not frowned upon, in fact positively encouraged, when investing in real estate. This is because "owning a home" has a sentimental value attached to it by policy makers that equity investing does not. It is a weird market distortion caused by bad policy, particularly in the US.

Leverage by retail investors is frowned upon because they can get badly burned and lose a ton of money. Real estate is not as volatile as equities, but as the financial crisis of 2007 showed, large numbers of retail investors going into real estate solely as a speculative investment can lose them huge amounts of money.

In all investing, the size of your return is related to the risk you are taking on. If you can get a 30% return investing in housing, as the author suggests, and only 6-7% investing in mutual funds, that's because housing is 4-5x more risky than a mutual fund. Higher returns are not just sitting around waiting for you to notice how much more money you can make.

So by all means leverage away if you've got capital and want to take on more risk for the chance of higher reward, but don't go into it thinking it's an "almost guaranteed way" to make money, as the author has concluded.

[1] Unless you are a large bank, but that's a whole other story.
http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack

Terrifying.
Oh, come on! They had to cross Oakland! Shit was hard yo :p
Abstract thinking about their environment allowed our ape ancestors to be more adaptable and plan ahead, thus increasing their chances of surviving to procreate.
Perhaps you watched it on a system with the horrible, high-framerate interpolation switched on? Not everyone is sensitive to 24fps (traditional film) vs. 30fps (looks like Handicam output) and the effects of TV/processor motion enhancement.
Ah, it's a kind of positive feedback loop, then. More of this, please.
Researchers discover how and where imagination occurs in human brains
i am interesting of how to develop this island
would they got a solar power grid?
> Anyone making over $60k per year could [...] save 20% of their income without dropping below the median household income of $50k.

20% of 60k is 12k, 60k - 12k = 48k. So no, the claim isn't true for the most trivial of reasons.
In a similar vein, does anyone want remixgrid.com or gothamroommates.com for any sort of interesting or altruistic project?
It's still de facto Egyptian territory, although for the bizarre political reasons outlined in the Wikipedia article they just don't claim it as such. Flying in/out isn't going to work too well since it's fully surrounded by Egypt and Sudan.
I didn't read it. Reverse psychology is a chancy business.
Fun comic!
The contradiction in the middle prevents the view espoused from being consistent. And of course, like most ideas of this nature, the writer violates all the rules in the explanation itself!
Lastly, there was no indication the writer knew he was writing satire so we get to laugh at him and not with him, I'm sure that will satisfy many readers!
> I don't think linux offers any advantage over windows

It's free in beer, and free as in speech. The developer experience is much better on Linux; doing something like running all your video assets through a converter in parallel is a one-line shell script on Linux [1], but a hundred-line Python script on Windows. Subjectively, on Linux filesystems seem to be faster and overall memory usage seems to be smaller.

Seriously, a long time hardcore unix guy doesn't see the benefits of Linux over Windows?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6363676
Besides all the bad things and malicious behaviour of the big players (yes, all of them) the internet has brought to us, there're still sites that have changed the world to a better place. Especially StackOverflow has contributed largely to increase the equaly of opportunities. Due to the lack of basic education and access to hardware and the internet not yet everybody, but a massivly increased number of people can become great developers. At some point you need help from the experienced. Books and online documentation don't help anymore, that's where SO comes into play. It made me a 2-3 times better developer and kept my spirit up when I couldn't solve a problem by myself.
Ah, you're correct. I don't program in any language that considers hungarian notation to be a common naming convention so I haven't ran into it before. For some reason I had not stumbled on to the page that explains this until I deliberately looked for it now.

As far as alternatives go, I usually specialize based on what my needs are. If I'm using a JS framework I don't have as much of a need for an all-in-one solution like datatables because the framework usually does a good job of handling things like DOM rendering and data storage without the need for a full blown table sorting library.
Grammar Snob? It isn't so simple
Looks pretty cool. Any way to fix the header to always be visible?
Anonymous for the submitter of the information, not the assholes exposed by it.
I didn't vote because although I've had an account for a long long time now, I never use it ever
Here is the late Maurice Ward's YouTube channel..

https://www.youtube.com/user/mauricewardstarlite/videos
All code no matter how beautiful is a sunken cost.
First advice: max your 401k. That's selfish.

That's what Wall Street wants you to do. Reality is whomever manages the funds has only one short-term goal in mind: year end bonus. It's very common for traders to move on shortly after bonuses are given out leaving "cooked" books for the next trader to deal with. The plan is always to never get caught holding the short term strategy book.

I find the typical trader archetype to be repugnant. There's so much of it that goes against technical-minded people with even the tiniest sense of ethics. If you're financially disciplined you're better off investing elsewhere.
> In Japan, people use phone to pay for public transit

And vending machines, and convenience stores, etc.
> I've never jumped on that bandwagon and I don't miss it.

That's... lovely. I'm not sure what it has to do with the price of rice in china, though. You don't miss something you've never had? That kind of goes without saying.

I watch considerably more than one or two movies a year, and netflix is a great way to watch them on a casual basis. I don't want to get CDs in the mail and I don't really have any interest in dual booting to windows (and no, most of my PCs don't come preinstalled with anything).

I'm really not even sure what the point of your post is, except to say that I should inconvenience myself greatly for no really good reason.
I dare say, it doesn't appear as if this person has been keeping abreast of the latest PHP trends. FIG standards go a long way and Composer is a godsend (prior to that I wanted to tear my hair out all the time).
Grammatically, ted is right on this one.
All currencies are a shared delusion. If everyone believes something has value, it does.
There ain't no such thing as a prestige dialect in English. In all of them, "affect change" is just plain wrong.
No reason to try to get your ratio up artificially.

Why shouldn't they?

If they do this they may attract more girls (ladies, women?) to Angular which will improve the Angular ecosystem overall. Perhaps there are a number of women who have been tempted to go but aren't that committed to Angular and this might tip them over the edge.

I don't think we can acknowledge that there is a problem attracting women to our industry and not provide these sorts of concessions and special treatment, at least in the short to medium term. In the long term the industry culture and perceptions should be such that this isn't needed but that isn't where we are yet.
http://nic.io is the official .io domain supplier and works quite well.
Indeed but it's ungodly easy to add composer, follow FIG standards and be on your merry way to refactoring. At some point if you keep it up it will be easy to transition into a good framework like Symfony.

I just refactored an old class hierarchical system where each class extended a random other one and all functions were called from a global parameter or $this-> so if I can do that, anyone can!
Also, buying an island in a 3rd world country is an entirely different proposition from doing it in a place like Canada. For example, keeping your stuff safe becomes a major concern, especially if you're planning to only visit every now and then; you pretty much need to hire a permanent caretaker.

Also, in the Phils (and most all Asian countries) foreigners can't buy land directly, so you need to use various workarounds of dubious legality like setting up a corporation with a local citizen as director and an undated, presigned letter of resignation, etc.

And you're still screwed if somebody in power doesn't like what you're doing. There was a bizarre case a while back with some Finnish guys setting up camp on a remote Indonesian island (with go-ahead from the locals, mind you) that eventually ended up with the army showing up to kick them out with lots of chest-thumping about Indonesian sovereignty, but my Google-fu is failing me right now...
> Almost no one ever really analyzes sanity.

That's true, but it's easy to see why -- a "sane" person doesn't need either therapy or psychoactive drugs, so psychologists quickly lose interest in them, as either a client or a research subject. A sane person is boring.

That's why, as the years go by, more and more everyday behaviors are turned into evidence of mental illness. Are you aware that, in the most recent mental illness diagnostic guide (the DSM), scratching your arm has become the basis for a mental illness diagnosis? I wish I were making this up.

Read and weep: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatillomania

It only gets worse from here. This is why the director of the NIMH has decided to abandon the DSM as a guide to scientific research -- and not a moment too soon:

"Two NIMH Directors Debunk DSM & Deplore Psychiatry's Unscientific Modus Operandi" : http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/920/94/
I'm not the parent, but we switched from Datatables to SlickGrid: https://github.com/mleibman/SlickGrid

Much nicer API and it's fast for large amounts of data. Unfortunately like many things it's lacking a lot of docs so you have to dig through the source of the examples.
For correctness, it should be how educated speakers speak English. In this case, I would also settle for "how published authors write English."
You didn't learn much at all then. To think that being poor and having a tendency to make bad decisions, is just a matter of having developed negative personal habits throughout your life is just plain naive and ignorant.

Poor people are not just personally poor, they were raised by poor parents who taught them different values, albeit seemingly dumb ones (though I know a lot of poor people who are wayyy happier than a lot of wealthy people I know following the note card). They were taken to crappy schools, if their parents took them, or made them go at all. They were fed all sorts of unhealthy food their whole lives. They're lied to relentlessly by businesses saying things are healthy, will help them, or are good decisions (always campaigns run by wealthy people taken advantage of poor people).

They have everything around them working against them, and some dumb, naive, asshat, born to the middle class, thinks (s)he was poor for a little while and it was kind of enlightening and fun, ignorant guy telling them to put money in a 401k. Will it put rims on my car, because that would make me happy? When I'm 65? Fuck that.
The nerd-in-residence
> The brain isn't like that at all; it's built out of all kinds of ASICs that have evolved for very specific functions.

That turns out not to be the case. There are some specialized modules, but stroke studies have shown that massive damage to specific functions can often be recovered by retraining. It seems that particular parts of the brain are especially good at learning particular jobs, and that when they learn a job they somehow suppress redundant learning by other regions. Much of the apparent specialization of the brain is very possibly an optimization process, akin to a computer cluster that automatically assigns I/O jobs to nodes near the mass storage.
You might enjoy this :-) http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex

Don't pay too much attetion to the "science" but the philosophical implications are interesting to ponder.
LibPhenom by Facebook
It's a behemoth, but a very useful one.
To be honest, I really enjoyed EE. I answered enough questions to earn VIP and even had shirts and things sent to me.

However I ended up letting my experience lapse, and I lost my VIP status and from then on I was bummed.
If you aren't a VIP I couldn't imagine ever paying to see the answers.

If you were a VIP then the experience on EE was similar to SO.
Had to check the date when it mentioned "Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie".
Don't let your babies die, but really try not to have them if you can't afford them.

I never said people's poor decisions made them poor, I'm saying they can help get out of poverty by making good ones.

And if you have kids, yes, make a dollar. You brought life into this world and you have a responsibility. You can let your kids get stuck in a cycle of poverty by feeling like a victim or you can bust your ass to try and get them out of poverty. If I had a child in poverty I wouldn't be smiling, because I'd know that I brought life into this world at a disadvantage and I'd work my ass off until I did what was right. So you can keep telling poor people that they're helpless, or you can, like I do, believe they have a great perseverance and aptitude that they need to tap into and provide a better life for their children.

I'm not saying they need to do it alone; quite the opposite - we as a nation need to believe in the ability of our disadvantaged to become productive members of society and promote programs to help them get there. But we do not need to act like any nudge towards taking matters into your own hands is an implication of blame. It is not. It is a suggestion that betting your children's future on government intervention is a colossal mistake. I'll vote for legislation that enables the poor, I'll pay higher taxes and donate to 401cs and get the word out, but there is no single greater factor in the equation of your children's happiness than you yourself.
> I think he meant the purpose of humans, not the purpose of each individual human. Why would each human have a different purpose?

Because of evolution and natural selection. Natural selection works because of diversity, not uniformity. The more diversity, the more quickly a species evolves to meet the environment's changing demands.

So, to answer your question in the most formal and scientific way, if people weren't different from each other, evolution wouldn't work.
Here is my project.

Reddit.com/r/freewareindex

I could always use a domain since I am broke as hell

EDIT: Also am working on a new site but before I was just using blogger.com
if you don't like the use of the word girl, eh. I don't really like boy much, either, but it wouldn't offend me. 'Boy's night out', 'one of the boys', whatever. It's not professional, but tech companies tend to be pretty fringe on the word professional, anyway.

if you don't like the idea of giving a specific sex a discounted ticket for simply having been born with different genitalia , right on. I totally agree.
Somehow, despite not understanding why exactly we exist, what our purpose is, and that at any given moment we could die and cease to exist, we don't go insane. Do you have any idea how crazy that is?

I don't get why people need a reason to exist. To me it's clear that there isn't a reason and we don't have any predefined purpose, yet most people create their reason. Maybe they live for their loved ones, maybe they enjoy life. And regarding death: it's scary and doesn't happen very often, so it makes sense not to think about it too much.
Good design for a real problem
I think it'd be interesting to see it used as a search index of README files on github. Though I'm sure you can use some sort of filter to create that anyay
This is one of the things that confuses me so much about the feminist movement in tech and in society at large. The conference organizers are trying to encourage female attendance by giving discounted tickets to women and someone immediately finds fault with them; however, if no effort were made then a multitude of posts would probably show up lamenting the lack of female attendance at the conference. This type of catch 22 is extremely detrimental to the feminist cause in my mind as it paints a picture where there is no good way out so why not just ignore it and take the flak that's coming anyways?

Also, the bar/nightlife industry has had great success with discounted "girl tickets" increasing female and male attendance.
They've already had a bankrun. You just can't see the other depositors, nor is there any regulator shutting them down and trying to reclaim cash for said depositors.
Translation: "In an ambiguous brain scan, psychologists find exactly what they were looking for -- support for a vague, unfalsifiable theory." Another hand-waving psychology result that will be forgotten in six months.
Posting style
better yet, just never link to or use quota. if they're going to be scummy, don't support them.
A lot of people still actually use those, but you definitely do see a lot more flat touch-screen 'smartphone' designs lately.

But all kinds of phones have NFC and can be used for trains and buying stuff.
Gandi.net is the current favorite for .io domains, as they are only $39 per year: https://www.gandi.net/domain/price/info
If I were a girl on the fence about going, something like this would definitively convince me that I'm not welcome, except in the Titstare sense.
The same reason it is hard to learn Emacs, but in the long run learning the tool is worth the startup cost a thousand times.
Luckily, I didn't suggest that.
>>Real insanity would be realizing how large the universe is

I remember going camping when I was 15. After everyone else fell asleep, I laid on my back under the clear open night sky and let my mind wander.

I first thought about planets in our solar system, then the interstellar medium, then other star systems with their own stars, planets and asteroid belts. I then "zoomed out" and thought about the Milky Way, then about other galaxies, spiral ones and starburst ones and irregular galaxies, and the void between them. I thought about nebulae and black holes. As time passed, I started to view Earth as just a planet, and our sun not as the Sun but as a star. Just one out of countless. I started to put myself in the shoes of an alien who lives on another planet - or maybe within interstellar clouds! - and tried to...

Then I stopped.

The reason I stopped was because I had the distinct feeling that my mind was about to break. As if I was about to run a buggy function, and if I pressed Enter to run it, it would throw an index out of bounds error and crash permanently. So I did the sane thing by pulling my sleeping bag over my head and falling asleep.
It's not that I necessarily disagree with the goal of attracting more female attendees, but as a girl (and maybe I'm just speaking for myself,) I don't feel like I would be "tipped over the edge" by a demeaning pink "Girl ticket."
I have no trouble playing BluRays on GNU/Linux.
Not that I'd bother; BluRay drives are an extra expense, and are fragile as far as media go.

Much of the content I consume also requires software patching to watch comfortably anyway(anime for instance is often only ever released in Japan without English subtitles. Even if I could afford the discs, I wouldn't be able to consume the material comfortably until I've studied Japanese for a couple more years).
Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet
Sounds like aerogel.
Well, after 9PM that drive is < 30 mins. But the Bay Bridge is bumper to bumper much of the day and every exit/entrance around it gets backed up. It's bad.
This is one of the things that confuses me so much. Why anyone in our industry wouldn't understand the difference between "professional conference or event" and "ladies night", or between pointing out how common entirely male dominated speakers and panels are vs. merely complaining that there are no free tickets for women with pretty lanyard colours.

Seriously.
I think that that city is too busy trying to keep the white suburbs from seceding, a move that would deprive Atlanta of its tax base, to have time to talk to the likes of me.
One issue that needs to be addressed is driver support, particularly around multi-monitor setups. Nvidia apparently now has at least partial support for Optimus laptops as of driver 319+ (currently 325).

The biggest PITA with multi-monitor Linux based systems is dealing with forced max power state (read: constant heat generation and fan noise).

Optimus should allow Intel graphics chip to drive say, your laptop display and one external monitor via VGA, and then the Nvidia chip drives an external via HDMI and Display Port.

On Fedora 18 so can't yet upgrade to Nvidia driver >= 319. When I initially connected 2 external monitors to my laptop, the laptop GPU fan kicked on _every single minute_ click-whirrrr, click-whirrr, click-whirrrr, total madness.

Was forced to mod the VBIOS, undervolting the Nvidia chip and slightly reducing GPU fan speed, a risky though rewarding operation. Now the laptop stays quiet since the GPU is constantly in adaptive/power saving state.

Hardware undervolting is obviously a no-op for gamers; hopefully with Optimus the multi-monitor heat generation situation will improve to the point where users don't have to risk bricking their graphics card in order to have a sane Linux work environment when not gaming.
Populations in nearly every ecosystem have shifted in response to human introductions of formerly isolated species from other regions. The change really is dramatic - in the last two hundred years the northeastern US forests, which I've studied somewhat, have completely lost the dominant overstory plant, the American Chestnut (introduced fungi), and have lost a many-inches-thick layer of topsoil debris with resident moss & fungus populations (introduced earthworms). That's in the ones that have recovered from the agricultural/logging clearcuts and that weren't affected by the fire suppression.
BitPay surpasses 10,000 merchants
>>I have to disagree.

Yeah, I was being sarcastic when I said it is "interesting." You're spot on in your analysis.
Wow...I don't know how much more stereotypical sexist male you could get in one email..."girls", "pink lanyard", gender binaries...

The way to attract more women, stike, people to your conference is not through tokenizing them...it's by making the conference interesting (having some diversity in the organization group would be a start!)
Well you can use it to get over fears and anxieties. Also to reduce stress. By seeing that is that the things causing these fears don't actually exist.

It would be better if we used philosophies as a tools rather than cling to them as a absolute truths.

As and aside, solipsism is dependent on qualia, so not True in an absolute sense.

(Not my idea. Similar things have been argued by Rorty or Wittingstein. Also by some Buddhist philosophies - eg. Madhyamaka ).
Whats new about this? Used this in the past - not anymore - there are better alternatives these days.