skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do I get into this field?

Well turn the question on its head and ask what can you bring to a hedge fund to allow it to be more successful. That's the test we use.

Hedge funds are similar to start ups in that they are small businesses where everyone needs to pull their own weight and be able to handle their own area without supervision as everyone is busy enough handling their own area of concern.

Or put another way, say the firm has 10 people and each share equally in the year end bonus pool.
If the pool is $100 then each person makes $10 in bonus.

Therefor you must be able to increase the bonus pool by atleast $10, to $110 in the next year or two, in order for the firm to break even by hiring you.

So what do you bring to the table that allows the firm to increase its profits? how good are your networking, math, C or C++, optimization skills, what market structure insights do you have?
This won't down vote everything. Votes get throttled, so I guess a setTimeout has to be used.
But the FTC doesn't have a couple of rovers on Mars.
ripb "All of your complaints seem to be about the defaults."

Only one of five is a default issue and I even declared it a default issue and how I go around defaults.

1. Mir is a huge mistake (My opinion)

2. Unity (Well I am tiled window manager (i3) guy now so all DEs) I really don't like the flow of OS X and it is starting to really look more like OS X. DEFAULT an easily be changed.

3. Lack of community between the Linux ecosystem. Millions is spent on Ubuntu but seems like little makes it upstream.

4. Software Center. They need to just take OpenSUSE's one-click model and get rid of their current model of App Store and the horrible app model. (My model)

5. Their Developer SDK to "Write once, run everywhere." If I had a nickel for every time that was promised (Java looking at you) Once again OpenSUSE Build Service is the most underused Linux tool in the last decade
> Much of the so-called "gerrymandering" is required by the VRA

Not by the VRA alone, but by the VRA combined with the statutory requirement for single-member districts, combined with the expected outcomes of FPTP elections.

Keep the VRA and eliminate FPTP in single-member districts, and you don't need to gerrymander to preserve expected minority representation (plus, you represent everyone better, not just the particular racial minority being protected by the VRA.)
I believe it was Kevin Rose who argued that Tesla might become an energy company if their charging infrastructure becomes an industry standard. So companies like GM will pay Tesla to let GM cars use the Superchargers and swap stations.
Skype and email yourself. If you don't have the time to do that, likely you dont care enough (you as in some person, not you you)
List of Altcoin Faucets Giving Free Crypto-Currencies
primate studies have consistently shown monkeys and chimpanzees have similar sex-based toy preferences as humans

e.g., http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18452921
2 draw file cabinets and a wood door.
Apple "should" have made a low-end phone, but couldn't bring themselves to (iPhone 5C is their best try), because it's against their market image externally, and their self-image internally. They have to keep inventing great new product categories - a tough way to make a living!

But Musk doesn't want to be high-end. He wants to change the world, get us to all buy electric cars. That means more affordable cars, which is the direction he's going. He only started high-end because that was the best place to start. Of course, there are many challenges before he's done.

(Goodness, why is this being downvoted?)
Goal of the day: going home to upgrade to latest PHP latest 5.5 patch version. (5.6 later https://wiki.php.net/rfc)
So as I understand it, the author is suggesting that NetFlix produce a bunch of low-rent pilots (or half seasons or so) throw them against their wall of subscribers with a bit of recommendation-targeted magic, see what sticks, then spend the money to produce the "grown up" versions.

At first glance, that isn't a terrible idea, but even if it were their eventual strategy, I still think it makes sense to spend big bucks on top shelf series to start. For one thing, they weren't totally "blind": If you believe their spin, they spent a lot of time analyzing their audience to target exactly the kinds of shows they should make, and they have a lot more data to go on than, say, AMC had seven years ago. For another, if they wanted their subscribers to take them seriously as an HBO-like content producer, it helps to actually produce some HBO-level content right out of the gate. Once subscribers trust that you can make Emmy-worthy shows, they're more likely to tolerate your ultra-targeted but cut-rate test-batch series.

Even so, I'm not sure how the suggested strategy is supposed to play out: Say they made 100 cheap shows instead of 5 expensive ones. In order to be more interesting to any particular audience to overcome the fact that they aren't (yet) Hollywood-quality, one would think they'd have to appeal deeply to a narrow audience (I'd give a science fiction show about a generational ship a chance no matter how cheaply it was produced, for example). But now your show is in a trap: It's too focused, and will have a hard time gaining an audience even when the production values go up (and how do you "scale" to more expensive actors?) Time travel geeks loved the movie "Primer", which cost about the same as a small car to produce, but a million-dollar-an-episode show based on the concept has roughly 0 chance of making its money back.
The Constitution was the result of people realizing the Articles of Confederation had too little central power in many ways.

Yeah, because the Articles had the central government at about a 0.4 out of 10 (on the North Korea == 10 scale) and they begrudgingly turned the dial up to about a 1 with the Constitution. They were shooting for the least amount of central government possible that could still maintain a defense from outside aggressors and settle inter-state disputes.

Through inevitable power expansion, it's now at about a 6.

While I agree with the article that the disappearance of the party boss system is a factor, I view the current gridlock as being a voter battle between those who would really like government to be at a 4 vs those who would just love to live in a country that had a government at 8.
I like it.

Not being familiar with .styl, though, this line confused me:
"So, it has found /assets/style.styl."

Especially because it found style.sass
Hasselblad slaps some wood, $10,000 price tag on Sony's new A7
I some what disagree. If I was going to spend time on a YC application I would make it so it had the greatest possibility of getting a interview.
There are no funds (that I know of) that except outside investments. Most are proprietary trading groups meaning they don't solicit investment. As far as returns they can be big. RenTech Medallion has thrown up impressive numbers for years, many 50% or more. Most of the firms that I know of are north of 50% in the small to medium sized space. If you want to peek inside a larger one look at GETCOs S1.
Materialism is such a narrow and limiting dogma.
A simple example comes from the article itself. Parameter 'strength', the strength of the frognication. What is the range of that? Is it 0 to max int? min int to max int? 1-100?

(A real-life example would be a function that outputs an image in JPEG or PNG and takes a quality parameter. I notice that within the same library often one type of image wants 1-100 where another type wants a different scale, like 0.0 - 1.0. The parameters have the same name.)

This is not something that can be checked by most type systems. Therefore it needs to be in the documentation.
A friend of mine sometimes goes to the US, buys some nice used guitars that he knows are of good value, and sells them when he returns to Brazil, and usually it pays for the trip.

forgot to add: I almost never buy my computer/electronic stuff here. I just order online from the US and sometimes pay customs (it's still cheaper most of the time)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsd#Reactivity_and_degradation

"""

"LSD," writes the chemist Alexander Shulgin, "is an unusually fragile molecule."[6] It is stable for indefinite time if stored as a solid salt or dissolved in water, at low temperature and protected from air and light exposure.

LSD has two labile protons at the tertiary stereogenic C5 and C8 positions, rendering these centres prone to epimerisation. The C8 proton is more labile due to the electron-withdrawing carboxamide attachment, but removal of the chiral proton at the C5 position (which was once also an alpha proton of the parent molecule tryptophan) is assisted by the inductively withdrawing nitrogen and pi electron delocalisation with the indole ring.[citation needed]

LSD also has enamine-type reactivity because of the electron-donating effects of the indole ring. Because of this, chlorine destroys LSD molecules on contact; even though chlorinated tap water contains only a slight amount of chlorine, the small quantity of compound typical to an LSD solution will likely be eliminated when dissolved in tap water.[6] The double bond between the 8-position and the aromatic ring, being conjugated with the indole ring, is susceptible to nucleophilic attacks by water or alcohol, especially in the presence of light. LSD often converts to "lumi-LSD", which is inactive in human beings.[6]

A controlled study was undertaken to determine the stability of LSD in pooled urine samples.[71] The concentrations of LSD in urine samples were followed over time at various temperatures, in different types of storage containers, at various exposures to different wavelengths of light, and at varying pH values. These studies demonstrated no significant loss in LSD concentration at 25°C for up to four weeks. After four weeks of incubation, a 30% loss in LSD concentration at 37°C and up to a 40% at 45°C were observed. Urine fortified with LSD and stored in amber glass or nontransparent polyethylene containers showed no change in concentration under any light conditions. Stability of LSD in transparent containers under light was dependent on the distance between the light source and the samples, the wavelength of light, exposure time, and the intensity of light. After prolonged exposure to heat in alkaline pH conditions, 10 to 15% of the parent LSD epimerized to iso-LSD. Under acidic conditions, less than 5% of the LSD was converted to iso-LSD. It was also demonstrated that trace amounts of metal ions in buffer or urine could catalyze the decomposition of LSD and that this process can be avoided by the addition of EDTA.

"""
Maybe the CPMs are so unusually high on TV is because of the fill rates?

I don't actually know the answer to this question:

Can you get 10 million ad views on a youtube ad in a tv-show-length of time?
One downside to term limits is that it essentially guarantees more of the revolving-door style of politics. In other words, people would move back and forth from the public to the private-sector ... promoting political agendas beneficial to specific private-sector companies or industries while in-office, eventually to be rewarded with a high-paying job by the very companies or industries they benefitted while in office once their political term ends.
Given the fact that he had a null result, I don't think this criticism could possibly be valid.
Streetview like Walking Tour of Indian Cities
What I meant to express is that longterm, small 10-30ug microdoses do have an effect on me, and that effect is largely negative, but that my "sweet spot" in terms of experience is very high. Less that 300ug creates almost no observably "psychedelic" effects; its like a wasted experience with purely psychological residue. And so, following, one would think that for someone with such a high tolerance actual microdosing would have no effect at all; it does, and that effect manifests itself in a sort of unpleasant underlying low-level depression and anxiety.
TwistVolt Funding at Dragon Innovation
Does the settings page itself show all the options there set to "No Email"?

If any item is not showing "No Email", then there might be something wrong with the script/bookmarklet for you. If all the items show "No Email", then LinkedIn does not provide options to unsubscribe some emails.
Absolute population growth includes immigration, so those numbers may be skewed somewhat.
What mechanism do you suggest for a genetic predisposition for interest in a technology that was invented in the last handful of generations? How could there possibly be a "car gene"?
I think you may have selective memory with regards to VS6 (understandable over 15 years). Having recently worked at a company that for silly reasons did not upgrade beyond VS6, it was not lightning fast, took several minutes to open, and crashed frequently even with smaller projects.

Modern VS really needs to work on managing large projects- but this isn't something it ever had to begin with, and has certainly improved since VS6 despite added functionality. The responsiveness issues you list seem a little more problematic than normal from my experiences- I would definitely try uninstalling a few plugins and seeing if that helps.
Who's competing? Who decides what's competitive? How can you assure no bias by those on whom there is tremendous pressure for bias?

Speaking to more than a dozen people at a time costs money. If you're going to try to persuade 50,000,000 people to vote for you (about how many voters needed to win a US presidential vote), that's going to cost a LOT of money. If your message is a tough sell, it will take even more money to sell it.

Your example proves my point. Precisely because regulations exist to limit political speech, those seeking to fund more speech than allowed have to launder campaign money thru Super PACs et al; those who hit the regulatory limits on political speech but don't have the huge sums available for such "laundering" are stuck. The more you try to tighten limits on political speech, the greater the cost to bypass those limits - and the greater the rewards to those who do, seeing their competition impeded by regulation. And those limits WILL be bypassed, as there will ALWAYS be some way, given enough money, to bypass them.

Libertarians are primarily for less governance, removing barricades erected where there is no need for them in the first place. There is no need for regulatory accountability in political speech if the regulations exist for oppressive purposes: restore liberty by removing the regulations, and there is nothing to account for. No need to make barriers open, transparent, and accountable if you remove the barriers entirely.

Sure, you have to use your real name when petitioning the government. When citizens speak to other citizens, it's not the government's business.
The stupidest thing to do is to build mobile version of a website
But if you do it to mine bitcoins, you're a visionary.
next up: protecting your address book
It seems to me that these very qualities of a woman being nurturing, risk-averse and emotionally expressive harken back to the earliest times. In hunter-gatherer communities the woman normally didn't partake in the risky, competitive sport of hunting, she was the gatherer and the childrearer.

I have two young nieces that I look after quite a lot, one's almost 2 years old and the other's 3. They have a variety of toys at their disposal: little cars/trucks, barbie dolls, puzzle games, cooking playsets, action superheros, etc. I have myself tried in some capacity to steer them towards playing with the traditionally boys' toys: I display extra excitement when we're working the little car, I walk them through programming basics like for loops in goofy and fun voices, I try to spice up games involving superheros (hey, they can do more tricks than the barbie dolls, so that's easy!). But yet, they do have some sort of natural preference for girl toys. They love the cooking playset and the dolls. The cooking playset is the go-to-toy when they're mad and crying -- it's the thing that works, can't explain how.

I understand that this anecdote is worth only 2 cents. I'm not going to make any conclusive statements because I'm not a female. I just want to tentatively say that in my observations girls and boys are wired a little differently -- and maybe it just so happens that the woman's propensity to seek stability over excitement, security over competition lowers the chance of success in the current capitalistic system. But mind you I don't like the current capitalistic system, precisely because the winning players are so often very risk-prone, resulting in the system being very unstable and unsafe for society at large. If we step away from a capitalistic system and step toward something more communal -- a society in which values are emphasized, I think woman (along with the rest of society) would probably do exceedingly well (or at least that's my pet theory anyway).
In the eyes of the New York City Government what Banksy is doing is vandalism[1]:

"§ 10-117. Defacement of property, possession, sale and display of aerosol spray paint cans, [and] broad tipped markers and etching acid prohibited in certain instances."

Graffiti is a Sand Mandala[2], it is art and it is beautiful because of it's guaranteed impermanence. If Banksy's vandalism wasn't vandalized or taken down or painted over it wouldn't be as powerful as it is. It is a symbiotic relationship like a flower and a bee.

To learn about NYC graffiti history watch Style Wars[3] a 1982 documentary on the NYC scene.

[1]http://www.nyc.gov/html/nograffiti/html/legislation.html
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_mandala
[3]http://vimeo.com/14911708
That is categorically incorrect. HFT firms like Getco are official market makers and have all the same responsibilities.
This is a huge problem, and has the added wrinkle that all the people qualified to solve it won't, because it doesn't apply to the stuff they're deploying and they're clever enough to not need it solved anyway.
I heard many complaints about SP1 slow starting and getting stuck in 'Shutting Down'. On top of that SP1 has zero new features. Bunch of so called security updates. From my perpective i'm using the stable version.

If thing go awry i would need to waste a day or two reinstalling the OS again. It's very easy to resist installing this update.
So next time buy a used dinning room table and refinish it????
This is about microdosing, not tripping. There are some claims (one recently on reddit/r/nootropics) that taking very low doses of LSD will have various positive cognitive effects. Gwern here attempts to test these claims.

If people said that taking a sip of beer had positive effects, I'd expect Gwern to test that as well.
Websockets are not subject to Same Origin Policy. In Firefox it is subject to a "must use wss:// if on a https:// page", but that's all.
Hollywood is pushing DRM and requiring its use. Netflix wants DRM (via Hollywood), but Youtube doesn't currently seem to mind being DRM free.

If DRM capability becomes ubiquitous, Youtube might become DRMed, but that's on a longer time horizon.
I disagree heavily. Stock VS is very fast. However it does slow down significantly when using a plugin like ReSharper.

But for me in the end it is worth it. Show me any text editor or IDE that provides the same number and quality of productivity enhancing features as ReSharper that isn't as slow or slower.
I still find it's easy to struggle while finding a starting point. Any other general tips?
I left linkedin a long time ago but I still get emails when someone wants to connect. I must have opted out of those a dozen times! Nope, still get 'em.

Also, pedant speaking here, "in one click" isn't really an accurate description of this process.
Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of so d ware errors
You can change an API without removing functionality. Sometimes you want to add functionality. Or sometimes the context around the API changes. Like for example, a python API might not function the same in Python 2.5, Python 2.7, and Python 3.

All I know is, I help maintain a very large set of public APIs that my team is very resistant to changing, and yet somehow the docs are still out of date.
Being 'other' is sometime annoying and hard yes. On HN I am 'other' because I am not from the US and English is not my mother tongue and I don't watch Netflix. At work I am the only foreigner in a Chinese company.

But being other means you are special and provided some sufficient open mindedness, you can bring a fresh point of view to the discussion.
MPAA doesn't get it. Costly lobbying and crushing lawsuits is not how you defeat piracy.

This is how you do it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ukYf_xvgc
So if you used Q or a similar library:

Q.async(function*() {
var ra = yield opA();
var rb = yield opB(ra);
yield opC(ra, rb);
})().done();

Are you wishing for the other syntax or something that you can't achieve with generators/promises today?
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
> Are there hft funds available to general public for investing?

No, one of the characteristics of HFT is that the returns are high and the capacity is low.
.styl is the file extension for stylus. Its just another css preprocessor like less or scss

http://learnboost.github.io/stylus/

I think this part is just a typo

> So, it has found /assets/style.styl. Now it analyzes extension:

>

> .sass extension? Use Sass then.
Obligatory question: Is newline handling notepad in finally fixed? Can I maximize terminal window? Those bugs have been open for 28 years...
VCs on average underperform retail investors on average

On a liquidity-adjusted basis, VCs underperform by a wide margin
> Maximal competitiveness.

Maximal competitiveness in FPTP elections inherently means maximizing the proportion of citizens that are maximally dissatisfied with the representative of their district, by maximizing the proportion of the population who are represented by a member of their least-favored major party.

Which illustrates the "there are no good districting methods in FPTP" issue, and why focussing on how you draw FPTP district lines is a waste of time.
How do women react when they hear you're in the tech industry? I think that would be more enlightening than how a majority acts around a minority and would shed some light on whether there is anecdotal credibility to the author's point about preference between the genders determining societal positions.
Planting a Strartup Garden
Try putting your `xmodmap' command in `~/.xinitrc'. It gets read whenever the X server starts (`startx').
I use wireshark regularly (on OSX these days). Looking forward to this!
Thanks! We promised to bare it all :)
I don't disagree that public APIs should be well documented. However, I believe it's very easy to forget to update the comments. Especially in scripting languages without type safety. There is little to remind the programmer that arguments were added, types were changed, argument order was modified, behavior was changed, return value was changed, locking behavior was changed, memory allocations were changed, etc. Obviously unit tests should help catch many of these changes. However, it's still up to the coder to remember to change the comments. When you're behind on a deadline or you're juggling 50 different API changes because you're still alpha I'd say it's pretty easy to forget to update a comment.

See http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/ if you want an example of on API that could easily have a few typos in it. Who is checking to make sure it's 100% in sync with the code 100% of the time? Not trying to say this example has bugs in the docs but there's a LOT of behavior described that could be out of date.
Ask HN: Do you cut your own hair?
Not sure if this is very HN appropriate but this is one of my biggest pain points. I am fortunate to have thick hair that I grow quickly. I like to keep my hair short. Anything beyond 3.5-4 weeks is pushing it. I hate, absolutely hate going to a hair salon/barber etc.

I even bought lot of hair cutting tools but how the heck do you cut your own hair ?