skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traders are not necessarily smarter than the average software engineer. (There are many very smart people in both fields) However, they are fairly irreplaceable. This is because to be good at finance you need to be both smart and experienced. The only way to get experience is to work in finance for several years, and as a result, the supply of traders is fairly limited. (compared to the demand) Generally, someone who starts finance will not make their firm any money for the first year, but after five years they will be earning their firm a lot of money. The supply of good traders is a lot smaller than the supply of smart people.

A second reason why they are compensated so highly is that they are working in a highly leveraged job where the labor cannot be easily be divided between multiple people. This is similar to how CEO's make a lot of money, because being a good CEO produces a lot of value for the company and the position cannot be split between multiple people. (I'm not trying to imply that traders produce as much value to society as CEO's do) Being a marginally better trader will make your firm millions more per year. Good hedge funds have 100-1000 million of assets under management per front-office employee. (For example, D.E. Shaw or Bridgewater Associates)
The variants in small bags are easy to use. I smoke/snus when drinking, so I use nicotine ~ once a month. I feel better the day after with snus.
You've reminded me of a funny quote from Immediate Action or Brazo Two Zero by Andy McNab, autobiographies of a famous British special forces soldier.

"No one runs faster than Mr Heckler and Koch."

(Heckler and Koch are a German gun manufacturer. If you are heavily armed and armoured, you don't really need to run after or away from your enemies.)
>But that's the problem - it's normalised the recreational ingestion of nicotine

What's the problem with recreational ingestion of nicotine? It's a light stimulant; I'm not sure why this is any worse than caffeine. And certainly isn't worse than other medications like opiates or amphetamines.

I'm not a cigarette smoker, although I love cigars and probably have one or two a month on average.
Do you have some links to sources?
Pentagon & NSA officials say they want Snowden extrajudicially assassinated
On the hobby side of the vape scene, there's a concerted effort to remove the 'cigarette' from the equation. A lot of the original modders started with flashlights (as far as I am told).

Years ago I participated in a study to test the effects of smoke machines. I was working at a large arcade that threw huge parties with DJs and such on the weekend. Naturally, we had smoke machines. The researchers found that the PG had no effect on our respiratory system, which was actually what concluded that vaping would be a good alternative to smoking.
You could then also install third-party packages

Sure. And that's always been the case. There's a question of what constitutes the "core OS", though in the case of the BSDs there's also a pretty strong tradition that this conforms largely to the state of BSD/UNIX in the late 1980s / early 1990s: kernel, libraries, userland, mail, DNS, lpd. While you can add a webserver to a UNIX system, it doesn't require one in the same way that, say, mail and cron are pretty much required to get basic tasks done.

I suspect Oracle's PoV is that a crappy 1970s proprietary database server and security-negative Java runtime are integral parts of every operating system and should be included by default, as well as the license compliance system required to manage them.

Windows Server is absolutely a Cathedral, though Microsoft has had its own reign over the system tempered by both legal and marketplace / partner considerations -- hands tied in the first case, business reality requiring they toss some scraps to their vassals in the second.
A better reference than Wikipedia? :-)

E.g., Wikipedia says: Thus far, the evidence specifically implicating snus in pancreatic cancer is only suggestive.[25][26]

Your link say: [Scandinavian] snus users have a significantly higher risk of pancreatic cancer.

That is a contradiction. Wikipedia has references.

And snus, according to both references, is less bad than snuff. Your quote ("Smokeless tobacco") generalizes over the same group.
Yeah. In fact, my current kettle cost £2.99. That was 6 ish months ago.

I buy them, and treat them as throwaway. They seem to last as long as £30 ish kettles, so why bother spending more? My cheapo ones last about a year, then I just get a new one. Awful for the environment, but there you go.
And now we are at #111 on page four. Slow clap.
Here in Australia in older houses it is very common for power to trip if too many appliances are running at the same time - not unusual at all.
So smoking tobacco is bad. Got it. Now what about marijuana? Less bad?

I don't think I've ever read a report on marijuana yellow-taped with as many warnings and dangers as those found in tobacco reports. Is this because not enough evidence has been gathered around the dangers of weed?
No, not really. Buildings larger than six units can still be Ellis-ed and turned into TICs. Even if those TICs can never convert to condos, it's still often profitable to do that.

(Btw, owner-move-in evictions have nothing to do with the Ellis Act. Separate laws.)
Since it's the same chemical that is used at live event and nightclub to generate 'fog', I sure hope it is not dangerous.
It did have a horrible tone but we know it's true. There are some deeply unpleasant people on HN who are happy to spew some really vile opinions.
Some important blog posts by Danilo Campos that seem to have been eaten by Hipmunk's blog history

> I have a confession: At first, I didn’t get Hipmunk. I mean, I understood the merits of the interface, I respected the user focus of the site, all of that was awesome and drew me to the iPhone project...

From a UX perspective, I’m really pleased with how the pinchable, stretchable, draggable time bars came out in the application. They feel really good to use. But from a development perspective, this is some of the stupidest, craziest code I’ve ever written in my life. Don’t ask me how I did it because it did it entirely the wrong way. Maybe I'll share once I figure out the non-stupid approach.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110305185856/http://blog.hipmu...

> I published the post, submitted it to Hacker News and moved on with my night.

I got some traffic, but that wasn’t the interesting bit. The interesting bit was an email the next morning from Hipmunk co-founder Adam Goldstein, thanking me for the mention and wondering if I would want to be considered to work on a future iPhone app.

Uh, yes? But “considered” my ass – I was going to build it. Awesome side project. I’m incomplete without a side project.

A couple of weeks later, I turned up at Hipmunk HQ, during their Startup School open house. I hung out for an hour, got to know everyone, then cornered Adam at the end.

“What do I have to say to get you commit, right now, to putting me on your iPhone project?”

An old sales tactic: ask for the sale. I spent my teen years in a Best Buy, selling Dyson vacuum cleaners.

Adam was cagey, claiming he had a couple of other developers to talk to, so I decided to build some wireframes on spec that night to sway his decision.

A couple of nights later he called me. They didn’t want this to be a side project for me. Adam made me a full-time offer and with minimal haggling, I accepted.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110224183811/http://blog.hipmu...
How on earth could chewing gum be anywhere nearly as harmful as actually smoking tobacco-based products? Nicotine is as close to harmless as any effective medication. So the "by how much" is as large as possible.
Sherlock: Easy distributed locks for Python with a choice of backends
The credit card industry is still on dial-up while thieves are using broadband
Long article without the one piece of information I wanted: How to opt out.

Edit: http://medconfidential.org/how-to-opt-out/
I understand that from an idealistic perspective what I'm doing can be regarded as malicious or sexist, but I'd like to point out two very important things:
1. there is no requirement for girls to only attend the all-girls classes.
2. this is not my philosophy, this is a data-driven decision that has nothing to do with my perception of the abilities of males or females. The all-girls classes were a result of us seeing a significant drop in the percentage of girls enrolled in a programming class.

It was a management decision that many of the parents in our community appreciated, and quite frankly I'm a bit shocked by how quickly people on HN jump to the conclusion that I'm some kind of misogynist.
Let me try to rephrase to tell you what I meant with that sentence, which I was attempting to phrase delicately. The reason why a line manager might not immediately say "It is probably true that someone claiming we addressed a letter to his deceased daughter means that we actually in fact addressed a letter to his deceased daughter" is because that line manager has to deal with many calls every month from people who are mentally disturbed. For example, I was once accused by a customer of being a CIA operative who hated Muslims because his pencils were late. His pencils had arrived on time.

Skepticism about the father's claim was a mistake, but it's not an inconceivable mistake to me. After anyone at OfficeMax had realized that the allegation was true, my ideal state of the world is that the CEO is on the phone within 5 minutes.

This is getting conflated with two other issues:

"Did OfficeMax actually intend to send this letter?" No. Of course not.

"Does OfficeMax having created a system which allows this letter to get sent mean that OfficeMax should fix the system?" Yes, OfficeMax should identify and fix the bug which allowed this to happen. In contrast to many people, I believe that the type of bug which caused this is likely rather minor. I would not agree that e.g. this letter is by itself a persuasive case that direct mail is evil, for example.
Google removes Extensions due to policy violations and popup ADs
zakn, since you said you're still trying to figure out where hike.io stands in the internet of hiking, you should know there is an app called "Yonder" that focuses on high quality photos of the outdoors, submitted by members of the Yonder community (who are by design mostly hiking types). They have an iPhone app and have a UI modeled after Instagram. I've used it to find hikes around my area. You should check it out for the some of the social-oriented features it has.
Do you hang out on teaching or nursing forums?
Licensed under a slightly modified "Q Public License":

http://www.observium.org/wiki/Developing_for_Observium#Licen...

http://opensource.org/licenses/QPL-1.0

So not totally sucky, it's still open source and free beer.
I agree -- kids receive all kinds of messages about how girls and boys should act, from the media, their parents, and their peers, and a lot of it is just plain toxic and manifest in masculinity-affirming posturing and violence. It's essential to look at these things if we really want "equality".
The substance is one thing, but volume is another. Are people smoking 'a pack' or two of marijuana every day for decades?
>>This sort of attitude really, really disgusts me

The idea that you have an environment that relies on an out-dated browser really, really disgusts me! :)

What if instead of actually fixing the real problem, everyone decides to just freeze on whatever version of a browser fits their needs at a specific moment? Fragmentation happens... and that's bad for everyone. I rather have people like you upset at me for forcefully upgrading your system than dealing with all the support tickets of "My IE6 and Firefox 3.5 show a blank page during checkout". There are major advances happening in webdevelopment and they'd move even faster if webdevs didn't have to worry about people who refuse to let go of some old browser.

If it's an old version of TurboTax, fine. That's your thing. It only effects you. But the percentage of different browsers out there has an effect on everyone. It's like the way I was holding on to an out-dated at&t SIM card. They mailed me 4 new SIM cards but I refused to upgrade. Eventually, they just cut my service and I had to go into the shop to upgrade. When they're trying to support all the cellphones out there and upgrading the infrastructure, they can't have people dragging their feet with old SIMs they need to support. There is a very real cost to supporting old SIM cards that don't fit into the infrastructure they're trying to build out for new phones & SIMs. There is real cost in supporting old web-browsers when technology in web-development is moving ahead in leaps.

I stand by what I said; if you think you've solved an issue by staying on an old browser version, you've made a mistake somewhere upstream that needs to be fixed there. If you truly can't move forward for some reason - go download some developer/nightly branch and install that. I'd want that branch to update itself to production path every month though because holding an old browser version is not a valid solution. It's just delaying the fix to whatever is really wrong in your environment.
not working on mozilla.
And that is why businessmen make mediocre politicians and policymakers at best. You need to take all thing into account thinking decades into the future.

So next time a self made billionaire thinks he can enter politics on basis of his current success this should be taken into account.
Please note there are age related discrimination problems in our area of work. And frankly speaking when you talk of management you are talking of glorified desk supervisors and when you talk of architects you are talking of UML-drawing clueless people in semi-managerial roles.

Almost anything that requires solving hard engineering problems like scalability, quality you will again get back long hour working engineering culture.

The competition is fierce from younger people. Also the level of learning you are required to do to just 'catch-up' with existing trends in technology in simply too much.

In all the problems look very similar to that in other branches of engineering too. Mechanical engineering for that matter sees too little enrollment from girls, same with civil engineering.
Thanks for the great tool! By the way, is there a chance you would consider setting up a custom copy of ditaa on your server? The ditaa.org server seems dead quite long already (some year at least, I think? or is it just me?), unfortunately... Also, I'm kinda working on a Go port of ditaa (https://github.com/akavel/ditaa), but it's totally work in progress still, and just one of many hobby projects I push forward only from time to time...
Your comment about 3D being superfluous without contributing anything meaningful really hits home when I try to recall the 3D movies I've seen. Even the one that made the biggest impression on me, the stunning and very well made "How to Train Your Dragon" in 3D, but to this day I remember it in my mind as if it was only in 2D.
I launched my first side-project over the weekend. Here is what I learnt
Yeah, that's why Google keeps releasing things like Dart, NaCl and PNaCl. Because they are still in the "early aughts".
I doubt he'd be willing to keep it up for more then a year but that still is a lot of help.

Personally i think the way OpenBSD asked for help was kind of wrong.

They just completely ignored the little each community member can pitch in and went for the big companies.

That's how it seems at least from their announcement.
yeah, I'm progressing toward vaping full time -- but it's the habit. I could set my watch to it. haha

When I quit last year (no vaping), the first thing I noticed was how incredibly salty restaurant food was. After years of working with essential oils (for soap making and such), my nose leaves much to be desired.

If you do try vaping, try an iTaste variable voltage battery with a dual-coil pro-tank. Also get an e-liquid that's 50/50 between vegetable glycerine (good vapor -- 'clouds') and propylene glycol (throat hit).

This is what I'm using now, and as a result I've lowered my 'analog' intake by half.
again, what is the difference between these sites? They all reflect the same cycle of poor scoping and fixed budget that makes it impossible for those that refuse to work for a few dollars an hour for someone who is trying to pay as little as possible because they think software is a petty grunt work anyone can just pick up and do?
I think you missed the description of my organization - we're not doing professional development. We're training kids on how to better access technology, and quite frankly people on HN don't really understand what our atmosphere is like. Girls and the parents of girls really appreciate our all-girls classes and events, they have excellent attendance and the girls really come together as a community.

I honestly couldn't care less about idealistic principles when the all-girls classes have been working great for us and have boosted the number of enrolled female students.
Animus9 is an obvious mens rights advocate.

They are indistinguishable from trolls; the only difference being that they believe the stuff they say.
I work in the enterprise world with a few major Indian consulting companies.

Their European sites always have problems trying to force the Indian work style on the European workers.

Somehow their managers keep forgetting our work laws.
It can fuck up your mouth considerably though.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3714813/
Oh look, Roger Ebert. The ultimate hipster.

The same man who says games will never count as art. He's just scared the entertainment industry is changing.

I've watched literally dozens of 3D movies and have never once had any kind of side effect. I think it's a self-fulfilling prophecy for most people - they expect to feel something, so they do.

The brightness issue is exactly why 3D screens have higher powered projectors and more reflective screens. I saw a 3D film in the 1990s and that was dark; modern ones are not.

Strobing is a side effect of crappy framerates (24fps should not be acceptable for anything, ever), not 3D.

I'm not even going to bother with the focus 'issue' as so many people, me included, don't even experience it, but yes, it is resolvable.

As for immersion, meh, he can speak for himself, the most immersive experiences I've had were 3D, and the main immersion-breaker is other people moving around, making noises, eating, etc. What annoys me the most is badly done 3D movies though, as they look bad and ruin the overall perception. A movie made in native 3D will always look better than a postproduction kludge like Clash Of The Titans or most things Disney did. I also hate it when 3D is used an excuse for cheap effects like having things fly directly at the viewer or hover in front of them, as that ruins both the credibility of the quality of the effect and the seriousness of how it can be used.

When audio was added to movies, people said it ruined them; then colour; 3D is just the next step of that iteration.
WHY would you have to search hikes by name instead of location?
Why not? This is an industry with precious few role models outside of heterosexual white males. Highlighting the fact that it is, indeed, possible to succeed in this field without being a member of this category is good, and encourages more diversity. It may even, you know, be a motivating factor for some.
Well, with the combined factors of WWII keeping the men busy, and the general conception around that time that "computing" was boring data-entry work -- and so, fit for women -- the fact that those handful of pioneering women (Hopper et al) were alive around early/mid 20th century isn't coincidence. The last real "wave" of women programmers has long been over..
I don't think you're thinking young enough. When's the last time you tried to control an impulsive 6th grader?
Id be interested to see if even better effects would be realized if television was cut off from a group like this for a generation or two.

Why did the parents of these poor kids do a terrible job of parenting before the stipend? They were drunk half of the time (literally 10-12 hours per day). They drank mostly because they felt sorry for themselves. Why? they felt disadvantaged and envious, they were basically pouting. Why? because their lives were not like those they saw on television. Also because they had "learned" by watching television that they were poor and worthless and could never get a leg up in the white country they lived in. Once they started getting money and buying more worthless crap from Walmart, they felt like they were keeping up with the Jones' thus they felt less sorry for themselves and drank less. The rest is self explanatory...

Simple really.

This is the truth, Self pity is the biggest enemy of the minority. Nothing does more to promote this than The visual media. How do I know this is true? because my wife was one of the children in this story. She and her family told it to me long before I read it here today.
No. Microwaves are a general cooking thing, and relatively new. Not considered necessary. Tea, in the UK, is so ingrained in the culture, and has been around so long, that kettles are almost like cutlery. I can't imagine a house or business in the UK without one. Hell, you even find kettles in vans out on site. Where there is a Brit, with in about 20m, you'll find a kettle, and a tea bag.

The only exception to that could well be from recent immigrants. They may not be in to tea in the same way, and may not be so wedded to the kettle. Even then, one British thing immigrants quickly pick up, possibly to help integrate, its drinking tea.

In short, dont mess with the British and our tea.

Oh, BTW.

Im British, I can't stand tea. Nasty foul bitter bile. Who the hell likes this stuff? Surely only sadists actually like tea? I like coffee.....
yes.. very interesting..

http://care-data.info

http://www.nhsdatabase.info

give more details..

there's also an optout aesthetics (optout art??) idea/event on:
http://arty.li/ZMo
If you have a desire for nicotine, you should look into a good vaping option. I mentioned what I'm using in a comment above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7088395).
Feel free to expand...
I am looking at it at Firefox and it seems to look right. Could you give me some more detail so that I can fix it?
LLVM Weekly #3
Smoking costs billions? Productivity? An 'even higher' increase in risk of lungcancer? And there are no other factors at play at all? So now it's going to be a war on smokers again, is it? What a terrible causation-correlation fuck up.

ftr, I quit smoking a year ago. And happy I did.
>And frankly speaking when you talk of management you are talking of glorified desk supervisors

No, I think you should fire your manager :)
is it possible for him to withdraw all that at the market rate? Even if he withdrew regularly, wouldn't that cause him to affect the value of the bitcoins? I wonder if there's enough liquidity.
9th paragraph:

" unless people choose to opt out via their family doctor "