skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how it looks to you, but stock markets weren't meant to be betting houses.

> You are not giving them money to spend on things with a payoff.

how so?
One point I'd like to make on this:

There's the obvious question, why bring up the subject now when they don't even have the technology ready? The answer is easily revealed by the response: to get over the giggle factor as early as possible. Right now much of the commentary is about how ridiculous or silly this is, but that will fade with exposure and with publicity of successes in testing.

There are lots of things that have the same problem. Legalized marijuana, space tourism, reusable launch vehicles, manned mars missions, 3D printed organs, etc. Often times it's as important to get over the giggle factor as it is to build something that works. Personal computers and tablet computers ran into the same problem, but once people stopped thinking of them as toys people got down to the business of making practical use of them.
It is not just about the trailing slashes.

I wanted to create pretty urls but I couldn't do it in a simple way because the developers thought that in a path can not be optional parts, like:
/article/1/article-slug and /article/1

So they removed a useful feature. And it was in a 2.x -> 2.x+1 release... Yesterday it worked, today not. I was not happy. :)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14980952/routes-with-opti...

My othern concern with scala, what is mentioned in the article, is the operator usage.

How am I supposed to "invent" this <:< notation for adding headers? (dispatch lib)
`val svc = url(object_url) <:< Map("User-Agent" -> "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/5.0)")`
or in squeryl, converting a boolean into a "query boolean":
```
val fls = false
fls.~.?
```

Other than these, I like it. When I am coding in JS or PHP I always praise the scala types/ compile time checks. I am almost afraid of dynamic typing since I tried scala. :)
Sportsmen will have a blast with this.
Reminds me of this quote from Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy:

"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always
assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins
because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York,
wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done
was muck about in the water having a good time. But
conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they
were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same
reasons."
Depends on what you consider your risk tolerance to be; you could equally say you're doubling down on the success of the company: "when this place takes over the world, it'll help my career and increase my savings". The real problem is considering your employer part of your investment strategy, combined with the craziness of regular people picking stock market winners, per the article and GP's point.
Wait.

Scala has unicode operators?

Wow.
If you look carefully at https://gist.github.com/trevnorris/7729322/#comment-961709

It's clear @bcantrill does all what it takes to keep Ben Noordhuis out. It's so obvious I don't understand why people seem to be so blind
> lack of resources

which kind of resources?

> Half of citizines do not speak ukraininan language, they identify themselves as Russians.

2/3 declared Ukrainian an their native,
moreover there is distinct movement of Russian(!)-speaking anti-Russia(!) pro-Ukraine people. Source: living in Russian speaking Ukrainian city

>The other part is only waiting for a moment to gtfo there.

meh
Well, to be fair, most unexpected behaviour in js comes from people not knowing the language, or people expecting js to behave like other languages. I do agree though, that js does have its share of design quirks.
A hobby operating system project - everyone's gotta have one, right?

There are many like it but this one is mine: https://github.com/rikusalminen/danjeros

It's an x86_64 bare bones kernel project, doesn't do much except for boot and handle some interrupts. There's a little multitasking and some related stuff.

Unfortunately there's only a finite amount of time in the world, and not too much of it is available for me to dedicate to this project.
I wish I had more than one up vote.

Just yesterday I had a fish finger and salad cream sandwich for lunch, followed by a crisp sandwich for dinner. These tasty snacks - along with Pot Noodle sandwiches - fuelled me through university many moons ago, and are delicious enough that I'm still making them now that I'm married with two children.

I must admit that I'm not totally sold on the plain recipe for a toast sandwich, though I could see it being tasty with a bit of garlic butter rather than just plain butter.
I think the real world popularity of scala is significantly higher than that of clojure (e.g. TIOBE rankings). I don't think there is any more "future focus" on clojure - scala is still making big new releases all the time, and IMO it will be easier for scala to gain clojure's flexibility and compile performance than for clojure to gain scala's safety and runtime performance.
"Multi-decade returns of 20% and above are well documented."

The few that exist might be documented (but please enlighten us on where), but if they are, it's most likely because they are so rare.

"I personally invested in a fund 12 years ago which has returned a compound 21% pa return over that period, so I know that they definitely exist."

That's exactly what the GP says - of course there are, but how do you which ones will be, and know you didn't stumble into this one by chance? Your story might just be survivor bias. When I look at the funds my banks offer, there are some that offer 10%+ returns for the last years. Thing is though that they offer dozens of funds, all of which look equally likely in their prospects. How do I know which one to pick? Their yields are normally distributed, just as one would expect.
Possibly the most blatant advertising I've ever seen in an HN comment. At least put a bit of effort into it.
In the UK I use 'Pact' to get coffee shipped @ £6.99 / bag twice a month. The packaging fits through the letter box and the variety is great.

If you want to use this kind of service but aren't based in the US, give them a go.

www.pactcoffee.com
In your example the hammer is controlled by yourself, while there are always other people behind public humiliation. When somebody hits you with the hammer (humiliates you in public), is this your own fault? You really blame the victims here. You say it's their own fault for being picked on, but this is simply not the case. They had a bad day, that does not justify anything. The state is for punishment. Do you blame rape victims for being attractive and for wearing "risky" clothes?
Although not 55", a post above refers to: http://tiamat.tsotech.com/seiki-4k

It seems like if you do not do gaming, you should be fine.
I suspect HN and r/programming have a lot of high IQ members who aren't doing much with their lives.
It's the same thing I thought seeing the first one but than I realized that his prices were actually even lower than any coffee I could find around so it had a reason to exist. But for this one, $20 a week seems an awful lot. Ok it's start-up oriented, but if a start-up is going to get a shipping of coffee it would make sense to just receive it with any other goods that supermarkets can ship you no?

And to answer to the "why?", to try and get any opportunity to create a business, this sort of things seem to be pretty common for everything this days.
Forget stocks, there isn't enough profit in that. I'm looking for a good futures broker. I want to give him $1,000 in cash and wind up with $100,000 a mere ten months later. It's happened before, why can't it happen to me?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_cattle_futures_c...
>And then you realize that you don't really need Scala-ing if you can do the same stuff in Java or any other strongly typed language.

That's the turing completeness fallacy. Why not just write everything in C? And java's types are inadequate for doing really generic methods - how would you go about writing scalaz's "sequence" in java?
I'm always unimpressed with how these geniuses can solve all the math problems posed to them in these hagiographies (whether Bill Gates or the flavor of the month). Every math book past sophomore level is full of unsolved problems that have bested the brightest minds for centuries or longer. I'm always curious just how do these geniuses define a math problem?
Finally, a resolution that will let me fit enough text on the screen when combined with http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/homepage2006/tinyfont/ !
The continued Myspacing of Facebook
IIRC the Groovy founder said he wouldn't've bothered making Groovy if he'd known Scala existed. You get all the power and flexibility without having to give up type safety.
Unless you are proposing a nuclear bomb, most EMP devices wouldn't make any difference when they are flying high in the sky at 20mph
Maybe there's a camera live-streaming the flight, hell; within 10 miles of the warehouse maybe there's a guy in a tower with a pair of binoculars.
Its not about speeding it up, its about finding a fair test, this would create a worst case delivery scenario which you know someone hasn't messed with.

If you can optimise your applications under those conditions you know its going to be gravy for those without lots of hops. The problem is that developers have very fast computers AND are usually a very short hop count from their deployment servers. They make really bad testers.
For a good summary of the value investing philosophy checkout these books:
Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman

If you want to know this group of high performing value investors, c2 is referring to Buffet's article called "The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville". It's a pretty fascinating read. You'll have a hard time investing in most of these folks as they are all early proteges of Ben Graham (father of value investing) and as such many are dead or retired.

Regardless, I highly recommend reading those as they give you an idea of why some think a strong value investor can beat EMT & the market.
GMail is smart really. :-)
Depends on your audience. There are people who type "facebook.com" into the google search bar. Do you think those people know what a .org is?
I appreciate that some places do treat the term "software engineer" rather more seriously, but unfortunately the fundamental problem remains: it is difficult to license someone to recognise their ability if you don't have some objective means of determining that ability first, and I don't think we do yet. The existing efforts, at least those I've seen before, seem to be more concerned with general professional ethics than any particular competence with developing software specifically.
Ruby has many high level text operation abstractions, which is not included in most other languages. But in micro-benchmarks we need to ensure all the languages use the same algorithm, or similar code to do the job. Then the high level methods, which are usually better optimised, are usually forbidden.

In the computer benchmark games (http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org), most of the benchmarks are heavy on floating-point arithmetic or raw loops, which are completely not for the case of web applications. You can also see in text benchmarks like regex-dna, Ruby performs much faster.

If you do benchmarks regardless the implementation details. You may find Ruby can be several times faster than Java in cases like AES encryptions: https://gist.github.com/luikore/7746976 --- though this is not a valid micro-benchmark, it is in fact comparing JCE and OpenSSL. But this is what real-world programs do and the speed of calculating Mandelbrot sets or simulating n-body systems really doesn't matter.
Of course, I had to read this a month after being diagnosed with Type II diabetes :-(

(You may downvote at will ... just noting that this is essentially carbs sandwiched between more carbs, dammit.)
If you think it's so obvious to implement the algorithm in discussion here, feel free to publish it openly and preempt future patent claims.
Bugherd switch from Heroku to Cloud 66
How not to celebrate your new credit card
The secret Hong Kong facility that uses boiling goo to mine Bitcoins
>What if her behavior correlates to the DEA's program of parallel construction using inadmissible evidense collected by the NSA and shared with the DEA, thus provoking a premature conclusion of guilt, where the court case was then reversed engineered to align with the illicit intelligence?

that would explain why she went down without talking to FBI/etc and taking down all the DAs with (or even instead of :) her (as this just couldn't have happened at that scale without all the DAs involvement)

Took one for the team, and will land softly somewhere after the time on the "farm" (again with such cover it wouldn't be general prison population which she helped to populate).
true. It is however, possible that some statistical analysis can be run on the hits, although interpretation would be convoluted since the initial value is SHA'd twice.
This. I don't think it's realized how insignificant to the real world our discussions are sometimes (note: sometimes). They are lovely, intellectual, and interesting, but not as important as you go about your day thinking they are.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_water
Fun fact:
Facebook won't let you post this domain.
Maybe the .tk ?
I don't know what my strategy would be, because I need to learn more. I'm still trying to decide if I ought to pursue it.
Ideas That Inspired Snapchat, Instagram, Dropbox and more
Yeah should have included the link maybe. Possibly also lots of people don't know any better since 90% or more of the time the media reports about audio levels it's always plain 'decibel'. Even though that makes no sense whatsoever. It's like saying 'and now drive 1' without specifying a unit. Yet, I would have expected more from the average HN user with anough karma to downvote.
Sure, paper trading is a given for at least part of, if not all, of the endeavor.
I'm having a hard time believing these quotes. I am also not familiar with this linked site. Is this a joke?
> Why did you choose a windows stack instead of a Linux stack?

Always a big question. I went from IBM mainframes
to Prime supermini computers, to more IBM mainframes,
to PC/DOS, and OS/2. Then to Windows was natural
enough.

Some of the work by Microsoft is good.

Microsoft has a lot of customers doing
important computing which means that
it's possible to make their stuff work.
There are a lot of programmers posting
problem fixes on-line.

I don't know enough about Linux and Windows
to make a good comparison. In the end I
trusted Microsoft's big customers to make
Microsoft make their more serious software
actually work. Yes, once I get some revenue,
for questions I will get a Microsoft
'account executive', expect him to make
things 'right', and call for expert paid support
when things don't work.
https://www.seedmatch.de/startups/e-volo/uebersicht

They just collected 1.2 million € via crowdfunding.
but Cyber Monday is today. Awesome marketing stunt to get free TV ads and media coverage the day before.
This type of thinking is the most frustrating thing I've ever encountered. Being held back by bureaucracy and HR filters has hurt more than a few highly-intelligent people. It's so incredibly demoralizing to be held back by inadequacy's of an education system or socioeconomic status.
Confession: I Could Have Made $128 Grand in Bitcoin But Lost $1,500.
I usually find stackexchange's discussions more than ample. There are many sites whose comment system and content could use a re-hashing by HN's nerdery, but stackexchange isn't one of them. (Unless we are playing the wayback game of re-posting a question from several years ago).
Nice one.
Wish I can easily grab a certain generated graph and use it as a waveform in a synth. Just for... science.
> and if you do neither why would you care?

Because you run a business that Walmart is outcompeting? You have no imagination if you can't come up with at least ten ways people could be being negatively affected by Walmart outside of direct business interactions with it.
I feel sad for these businesses built on a platform that are bound to come to a stop..
Indeed. However, you tell a rape joke about women and someone should (and very likely will) tell you that it's not funny.

Comments like,"Don't drop the soap," are so benign in our culture that you would have to be in a hypersensitized environment to be concerned about repercussions of any sort.

How many people feel as if justice is served when a male prisoner is raped to death, à la Jeffrey Dahmer. In fact, many would not call Dahmer's homicide a rape, but switching genders would absolutely qualify it as such.

I'm sounding as if I'm on a soapbox about this, but I'm not defending female rape in any way or the power imbalance of gender in most of the world.
"cyber monday" is the april fools of marketing, there aren't actually any good sales today, it is meant for people who feel left out from the consumerism

But does Amazon even need marketing like this? I mean everyone price checks Amazon, even especially while looking in a physical store.
I would suggest that by sharing your experiences with Ruby, via a blog or personal website, you increase the value of your own personal brand. Potential employers can see from the outset that you are a Ruby "go-to-guy" (or girl).

Combined with a good code repository, you are then the more attractive hire, compared to the person that doesn't have any of this.

Take a look at the developers that stand out in the Ruby community. I assume that all of them have become well known by blogging or for having founded something (e.g. the developer of a popular Ruby gem).

In the .Net world, Scott Hanselman, Rob Connery, Scott Guthrie and Troy Hunt are well known mainly due to their commitment to the community. Most of that is through blogging and podcasts. Their personal brands are now extremely valuable, when it comes to employment, work contracts, public speaking.
I was driven to sign up and comment by your snide remark about cholera being "imported from India, as it happens". But you do make some important points too, though spoiled somewhat by the introduction of John Michael Greer, whose involvement with what I call 'non-evidence-based healing techniques' does not make him much credible.

About your important points: yes, the industrial revolution (roughly 1750-1950 as you say) was when most scientific, industrial, medical and engineering advances were made, and this happened in England, the US and Western Europe. All true, but, even here, it was not as if these changes were driven solely by a spirit of inquiry or general altruism, and it was not as if the rest of the world had no role to play. It was greed and the competition amongst nation states that drove a lot of the change; and it was financed to a large extent by systematic exploitation of people from other parts of the world - through colonisation, slavery, etc. India itself was under British colonisation during most of this period (1750-1950). And whole swathes of Africa and Asia were similarly colonised in that period.

About cholera, if it was "imported from India", it was the British themselves who did the importing of it and their people suffered the consequences. On the other hand, the indigenous people living in Australia and the Americas did not ask the British and Europeans to come to their lands and bring in small pox with them, but they did anyway; and it devastated whole populations there.
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By having more local warehouses that stock the top x most sold things. 100% of the things I can readily remember that I ordered the last 2 or 3 months are so common that they were all in stock in the local shop that I bought most of them at (a large online retailer here in the Netherlands has 6 or 8 or so shops across the country, for local pick up or to try stuff in-store). And they were not the most common things either - a steam wall paper remover, a router (of the woodworking type, not the networking type), a specific type of headphone. If they can have those levels of stock in high street bricks and mortar shops, they could have even larger inventories when they could store them in fully automated warehouses in cheap industrial areas. The accuracy in stock prediction ('shop stock', not 'financial markets stock', obviously) is jaw-dropping.

Man this is going to destroy high street shopping (even further, I might add) - imagine being able to order 10 outfits for trying on from your own home, try them on and send the 9 you don't want back right away, in less time than it would have taken you to just drive to wherever you can buy it off line. If clothing (and other main street) shops are having a hard time now, wait until they have to compete with this...
Are you bragging?
Agree on lack of content. I'd like to know more about the actual coffee options and not too keen on providing my email just for that. Also, 'free shipping' sounds mighty tempting to me since I'm in the middle of nowhere in Spain :)
"I've read The Economist for 20 years. Despite understanding the financial markets better than most..."
outch..

"For example, you can think of the market as a random walk with an upward bias."
outch again. If you think of the market as a "random walk" (a well defined mathematical concept) AND have read Taleb, you might want to read him again.
Those companies are very different from Amazon.
Right now he/she holds >1B USD worth of BTC, which really does not concern/bother me.

What concerns me is that Satoshi holds over 10% of BTC, which could become significant, if the value of BTC market cap raises to say 21T (ie 1M USD per BTC) as many eventually hope it does.

Someone with 2T USD worth of claim checks on society demands more scrutiny than your run of the mill billionaire.

I would sleep better at night if I knew that my participation in BTC is not fueling some insanely evil endgame plan.
Progress can expose problems in a system; the solution is not to halt progress, but to fix the system.
My hobby OS is x86_64 only, straight C. It's GPLv3. I wrote it with the intention of writing a tutorial, partly because of this void, but still have not written the tutorial :)

https://github.com/nwg/nanos

x86_64 bootup / structures

https://github.com/nwg/nanos/blob/master/src/boot.asm

https://github.com/nwg/nanos/blob/master/src/kernel_init.asm