skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you tried looking at how EVE Online does it? The idea you describe roughly matches my experience in it, though I was never a dedicated trader exploiting arbitrages. As a manufacturer, though, I'd often be able to ascribe price fluctuations to externalities like, "Alliance X just won a war in region Y and now they're consolidating their gains, resulting in purchases of lots of starbase construction materials, which I'm making." Or even simpler ones like "Corporation Z seems to have come back from hiatus."
First, accumulation would be the wrong way to think about it. Once the two agents are engaged in transaction, it doesn't matter which is which.

Let D be the difference in wealth post-transaction divided by the total. The expected value of D is 1/2. That means that we should expect that one agent will walk away with 75% of the pot and the other with 25%. Thus, although the expected outcome for an agent is 50% of the pot, we're still pretty much guaranteed to get very uneven splits.

Next, note that a person's wealth affects the payout of the next transaction. In other words, the person who takes 25% is almost guaranteed to be able to make less on the next transaction than the person who walked away with 75%. Suppose all our agents start out with 100, and that the 75%/25% splits are guaranteed. If each agent engages in exactly one transaction, then half our agents will have 50 and half will have 150. A 50's next transaction will either be (50, 50) or (50, 150). A 150's next interaction will either be (150, 50) or (150, 150). The expected outcome for (50, 50) is (25, 75). The expected outcome for (50, 150) is (50, 150). The expected outcome for (150, 150) is (225, 75). None of the expected outcomes even things up. It just gets more and more spread out.
It is (apparently) per US policy to use weapons (like drone missile strikes) with high likelihood for collateral damage without taking such damage into account.
I have never heard of such a thing in a conference context, but I have seen it come up in others. And I don't think it's helpful to label such exclusion "hate", as it typically comes from women who feel that self-identifying as female is not sufficient to qualify one to be called a woman.

But it's a very complex and interesting issue, not worth bringing up here, as you note. It's brought up here to stir the pot, I seriously doubt GP actually cares about transpeople at all.

[Edited later: for what it's worth, I regret choosing the word "typically" above. "Sometimes" or "often" would have been more appropriate word choices]
Jean-Luc Cooke tried to submit a patch back in September 2004 (yes, a decaded ago) and was shot down. I don't know if anyone has tried since.
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We are focusing primarily on integrating more platforms in order to make the metric more relevant to everyone. Some platforms DO integrate other app; however, we are trying to aggregate data in a way that makes it easier to compare. Nudge will become more and more passive as we continue to integrate.

We have more on the way, so keep your eyes peeled! Thanks!
A very good work! Thank you for making it open source, in general there is a need for several modularized, open source editors (images, vectors, databases, data map, UML & more.) The problem would be a standard look and feel, perhaps it would be great to define a common, standard open source editor UI style guide
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Yes. At last year's startup conference, the pitch winner was from Spain. We had people from Italy, Singapore, and even Texas :-)
Define "value", because I'm pretty sure that 99% of globally used currencies won't have this magical "intrinsic value" that you speak of.
> people start getting paid in Bitcoin (already happening) and accept it as payment (also already happening), all these exchange fees go away.

Still have to exchange for taxes.
Even I am making negative dollars a month
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It would also presumably mean that the government could compile a list of cellphones that turned off during the protests, while not located at but rather near the protests.

To a sane government, this information wouldn't be of much use. To a crazed paranoid government going on purges and witchhunts, this could be all the information they 'need' to find somebody suspect.

Of course if you pull the battery, they would also notice the phone dropping off the network (though it would be unclear what the cause was). To a crazed government, the difference might not be too important.

If you are ever in the sort of situation where any of this might become a concern, I recommend leaving the phone at home, sitting comfortably on your couch, turned on with the TV on. Of course this precludes using the phone in an emergency, so 'burner' phones with removable batteries may become valued.
Understood. Already signed up but feel free to remove me from attendance.
> Our goal with this conference is to inspire women to start (or hang in there with!) a startup through the insights and experiences of those who have done it already. If you're a woman interested in learning more about startups, I encourage you to apply.

How is that discriminatory? You can't argue that women are widely represented in entrepreneurship (heck, it's an even smaller percentage than in development.) Startup School has always been 99% men. I'm personally super excited about a conference with women who've dealt with the issues I have as a female founder.
I've never had good luck with WD drives, from the 1990s through the present. At first, I had no luck with Seagates, then they seemed to do pretty well up until recently, where now I'm seeing some radically bad results. I wish IBM would get back in the HD business.
Ask HN: Fresh out of bootcamp, what next?
Hello HN. Thanks in advance for the advice!

I am a graduate of a RoR/JS bootcamp that just ended in late November. After graduating I found (part-time) work with a local Javascript developer and now provide basic technical support for one of his larger projects, a CDN for sports videos.

I asked a question a week ago about technical certifications and the HN community very wisely assured me that they weren't very helpful beyond certain specific (and corporate) career tracks.

My question now is: what are some structured projects, assignments, or goals (beyond my own work, which I do have) that I CAN do and feel like I'm moving forward?

I want to keep learning and growing, I'm just not sure where to turn to next, and - beyond my one side-project - don't have many ideas of my own that need building out.
I agree with you so much that I broke my mouse clicking the upvote arrow. I'm also glad that ycombinator is doing this because it shows YC's official stance, as an organization , supports these kinds of events regardless of all the commentators trying to detract from them.
So, I understand your intent, I suppose, but a think a more pragmatic viewpoint could be beneficial. Sure, this conference is aimed at women, but many tech conferences are predominantly aimed at men, simply because that's the largest demographic who attend. This isn't hurting men in any appreciable way, and could encourage more equality later down the road.

> Some radical feminists only accept 'born as women' to their conferences.

This may be true in some rare, extreme cases, but is frankly hard to imagine. Can you cite any sources on this? My experience (though I am neither trans nor a woman) is that people involved in the feminist movement or gender-queer community try to treat a trans person as much as possible as any other person of that gender.
Definitely. I just downloaded it to evaluate as a replacement for Mozy, to ultimately consider evaluating it as a replacement for Mozy Pro for one of my clients.
It's not so much about dramatizing, he's simply a dick.
It's not a straw man. This is a common question that people have, but you may not have heard it voiced publicly, because people are worried about saying it out loud. Here's a perfect example:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20081006164746AADzo4l
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I'm not a hero. I'm aware of the advantages I have by winning the parental lottery. And I also understand that people who think saying "we treat people who aren't like us like shit and it's magnified across generations" is "looking down" have a vested interest continued societal unfairness.
mikewhy: see my large post. Can brunch do all of that? I have no idea what brunch is and it's hard to google. What language is it for? Ruby?
I don't usually discuss matters of faith in this forum since it's pretty far off topic.

However since you asked. Most christian faiths would say yes. The form is less important than the intended meaning for a prayer. And God would be perfectly capable of understanding the index form since He is considered to be Omniscient. QED: index form is perfectly fine.

Other religions may differ as to whether the form is less or more important than the intended content so I can't say whether principle transfers or not.
To clarify dllthomas' comment,

Land acreage is a fixed resource.

This is one of the reasons that a lot of economic models depend on land: there is a very real scarcity there to drive the equations with, and it forms a foundation for virtually every other form of scarcity besides labor.
Bill Gates is not saying that everywhere in Mexico City is like the picture on the right.

"There are still slums and pockets of poverty, but by and large when I visit there now I think, “Wow, most people who live here are middle-class. What a miracle.”"

Sadly, I don't understand what you are saying in your second paragraph. I don't see how your criticism refutes Myth 1 "Poor Countries are Doomed to Stay Poor"? Take a metric, look at it over time. Watch it change. That's exactly what Bill Gates did in his piece.
Everyone can be a jerk but for some it depends on the situation, where others are jerks all the time :)
I think vim has the best designed interface. This is reason why so many other editors always have a vim mode. Remember, imitation is the best form of flattery.
Best to leave that attitude on reddit

You disagree with my interpretation of this thread, fine. You might be right, great! The "best leave that attitude on reddit" comment is childish and does more to lower the quality of the conversation than my call to ignore unexplained (not even irrational) points. Grow up.
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BittorentSync is very handy. http://www.bittorrent.com/sync
Thanks.

PS: Maybe I don't like their journalism and prefer straight to the point content.
I have heard they are very bass heavy which is what most people like. They could not care less about nuance and realism in music. Bose speakers proved that.
You have to tap the "now playing tray", then there is a circular progress bar which you must track your finger around. It's incredibly easy to move from 99% to 1%...especially problematic when the circle turns into a volume slider.
You can place a buy ad on LocalBitcoins and actually buy at below the market rate.

Maybe in your town, but for me the spread on LocalBitcoins is hilariously huge. I just punched in my city (Chicago) and got $818 bid by $850 offered. That's a $32 spread, which is much larger than I see on any of the online exchanges.

edit: Actually I think you are talking about the equivalent of a resting order (placing an ad) which isn't what I'm talking about. My scenario involves crossing the spread, which in the localbitcoins case would mean answering an ad.

edit 2: I encourage everyone who hasn't seen localbitcoins to go check out the ads there. "Hilariously sketchy" is about the best way I can describe it.
Feminists fighting against trans women is a fairly well known phenomenon. Feminist and transphobic are hardly mutually exclusive worldviews.

Edit: dug up a few pointer links:

http://www.transadvocate.com/unpacking-transphobia-in-femini...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transphobia#Transphobia_in_fem...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_views_on_transgenderi...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=transphobia+feminism
I don't know why people ascribe ideological significance to this kind of thing. Fact is, there are proportionally few female founders, probably even fewer than we would expect even if we expect more men than women to do startups, hence encouraging women in particular to do startups will increase the pool of founders overall (which benefits everyone) with the side benefit of improving YC's portfolio. There is still Startup School.
Contraception doesn't stop people being able to have kids, it allows them to have sex without having kids if they want to.

Out of interest, do you want to see contraception restricted in the areas where it is already widely available, or just restricted for the people who do not yet have that access?
Rogue BTS/stingray. Ukraine needs to set up something similar to the decentralized Athens community network so protesters can turn on airplane mode and remove sim cards which will work for a while until they jam it. Note how every government during sustained protests resorts to hiring criminal hooligans to randomly assault people wonder if they will be given a list of subscribers to go visit like Bahrain did when doctors were dragged out of their houses and beaten for having their cell radios tracked to underground hospitals to treat injured protesters.
Much of development aid goes directly into health or food security, one way or another. It can be argued that any foreign aid, no matter how badly it is spent ends up saving lives. With vaccination programs it's just much more obvious and visible.

Gates rightly substitutes "foreign aid" with "saving lives", because that is the comparison that matters. When lifes are at stake, dickering about 1% of the federal budget sounds as ridiculous as it should.
One of the aid organizations in his letter, The Global Fund found, during an audit, bribes paid to corrupt Cambodian officials. That's an anecdote in his paper. Do you have facts to back up your assertion that it is "too idyllic and utopian compared to reality"?
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But only enough to pay those taxes.
I don't know about the person to whom you are replying, but in my opinion, in this case, two wrongs make a right, if you can call hosting a conference aimed at an under-represented group a "wrong". Sure, in a perfect world, we wouldn't want or need such conferences, but in this world, we should strive for the best equality we can manage and not limit ourselves by blind idealism.

If in the future, women and men are equally represented in STEM fields, then we can have a discussion about whether such conferences have outlived their purpose. But since that is not the case today, I think that trying to rectify the imbalances in a reasonable, non-confrontational way that doesn't harm anyone is laudable.
Questions for the women of HN. Do you see gender specific events as something that will fade away with time? Are they something you are comfortable with being part of society for the foreseeable future?
Plus you don't have to create an account.
> "We always recommend having a local and an off-site copy of data"

Sound advice.
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That's a perfectly valid complaint, where I can come back with a hundred other arguments: if you're looking for 16GB of RAM, you're likely to be looking for something pretty specific and willing to shop around or install the RAM yourself. Average consumers likely aren't going to go directly to Lenovo's site to compare laptops, they'll go to Best Buy and find the prettiest one or the thinnest one or the cheapest one or whatever meets their simple needs, or they'll ask a friend for recommendations. I could go on with arguments like that, but I won't.

Sure, it's inexcusable to us. We wonder how consumers ever manage to buy a computer, then we're saddened when a consumer makes the "wrong" choice or are unhappy with their laptops. Yes, buying a laptop should be easier. But it works, and people still buy PCs. Lenovo is profitable, despite these issues.

People come to me and ask what computer they should buy, that their old laptop died after a year or the screen hinges broke. I point them to a $900 Lenovo that I know is reliable, a $800 Dell that I know has gotten good reviews, or even a $1000 Macbook which I know will last forever with no maintenance. And invariably, they all go out to Best Buy and pick up a $400 HP with pretty plastic and blue lights and complain when it breaks within the year.

So why don't PC companies make it easier to understand their models? In my opinion, it's because they don't have to. Simple as that. People will continue to buy their cheap trash and continue to complain about it because that's what people do. No one cares, the PC makers profit, and the cycle continues. Apple has not had as big of an impact on the PC market as we like to think they did. We will see the laptop market die completely before PC makers and consumers learn the lesson Apple is trying to teach them.
Human life is our ultimate resource, for creative potential and resourcefulness and social fulfillment. It seems like we shouldn't squander this resource just because it can seem inconvenient at times. Taking the long view, collective humanity can probably ultimately solve all the "but what if" scenarios that are touted as justifications to stifle human life.
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As soon as Tom becomes President he gets a Secret Service detail with dark sunglasses! That animated gif is hilarious.
I agree that it's largely to stir the pot in this case, but as a gender-dysphoric bisexual male I am curious where the line would be drawn.

I'm fairly sure Jessica will just apply common sense though and would put me somewhere below full (trans-)women but above cisgendered men as far as priority goes, which would make sense.

Not that I'd be able to attend either way though; even though I would very much love to.
> You'll never believe what happened next!
The author must think highly of American women. A random sample showed nearly all of them between 65-69" and over 200lbs.
If there were hundreds of millions of sites to compromise, I agree. But if one obtains, and keeps obtaining, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Yahoo private certificates, then one can access the private information of billions of people.
Address parsing is actually very easy. Knowing when you got it right (or wrong), that's the hard part, and that's where address validation come in handy.

If you can start with a list of all the following, you've got a great start:

prefix abbreviations
street names
street types
suffixes
city names
state names

Add to that all the possible misspellings and then factor in levenshtein and soundex to account for misspellings you didn't know about and you've got a pretty dang good address parser. Figure out how to do that lickety-split fast, and you've got gold.
Defamation is illegal, so obviously freedom of speech isn't the highest priority in the US.

(I'm just trying to show you that there are limits on what you can say without legal trouble and what you cannot say without legal trouble: it all depends on where you put the cursor and how the limits are enforced. But to point out the existence of limits in order to demonstrate the absence of something is flawed.)

BTW, one comment: Holocaust denial is illegal in France. But to be clear, holocaust denial means refuting the facts established by the international Nuremberg tribunal. So it's not like a completely open category. Now, whether it's efficient is another matter…

"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."

-- US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
You think this conference is wrong? Why?
My only concern with events like this is that males could also learn from female founders advice and experiences. It just seems like a loss to forcefully segregate the audience.

I would love to attend an event that featured a female only stage. It would be a refreshing change from the current conference lineup.
I find that fascinating as well. A thorough probabilistic analysis could be fun, but I'm too tired for that right now.

One thing to keep in mind is that even supposedly uniform distributions can have outliers. For example, if you just throw N balls into N bins, there's going to be a bin with log N balls in it with high probability. Something similar is most likely going on here as well.

In a way, the really interesting question is whether the outcomes of that experiment are exponentially distributed. Then again, the simulation has basically nothing to do with real world wealth distribution anyway.
> but stability will increase with mass adoption

I don't see how this is realistic; the needs for bitcoins will be endogenous to the people using it, whereas the supply increases based on arbitrary constants (until it stops increasing altogether).

That says to me that the more people that use it, the more volatile it will become (especially after the supply freezes). When it becomes less volatile, it's merely because the needs coincidentally line up with the supply (i.e. when transaction volume drops -- fewer people 'using' it).
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Thanks! I hadn't heard of this. Playing around with it for a few minutes, and it strikes me as, well, _complicated_. I think that's one of the difficulties in this space - just being able to reduce, reduce, reduce so much data into powerful, impactful decision making.
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What's preventing people from simply signing up for Google Maps API for Business then sending your requests that way and returning the results?

Thereby spreading out the bulk cost of an API license amongst your customers who have to pay a significantly smaller amount, but adding up to profit?
I worked in platter sputtering at IBM right out of College during the Death Star period. Basically, IBM had multiple parts manufacturing and sputtering facilities all over the world. The best disks/heads/motors always went in to the SCSI drives and the lesser parts went in to IDE drives. SCSI drives of that period were fairly bullet proof. Desktop IDE drives, not so much. Most of the San Jose and Munich production had higher yields and were mainly for SCSI and laptop drives. So it was less faulty manufacturing runs than the parts came from lesser production facilities, usually Singapore and the Philippines. They ended up closing the sputtering plant in the Philippines as they were never able to get their test yields up high enough...
1 in 5 college students suffer from test anxiety. If you, or someone you know, has run into this you probably know that it can be really frustrating to know the material but freak out when it is time for the test. I built it to help my girlfriend with her frustrations and it has been beneficial. Her anxiety has gone down and confidence (on tests) has gone up. With the new semester getting started, I figure it might be time to open it up and get some general feedback. Thoughts?