skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the article author is quite aware that too much parallelism will slow down the build, but still wanted too investigate why it makes his computer so unresponsive.
> If they're truly pointless

You've conflated "value to society" with "potential to make money". The two are unrelated. Dumping toxic waste in the river may make money, but has negative societal value.

Whatever societal value there was to faster trading was exceeded when trades could execute by the time your browser refreshed. Humans make financial decisions on the scale of minutes at fastest.

At this point HFTs are still pursuing "making money" (and there may still be money to be made) but certainly not providing any societal value whatsoever; since they are stealing from the general public their societal value is strongly negative.
I've always wondered if this idea was usable in general purpose application programming. It is very similar to DCI.
Perfectly agree with that. And that's exactly what I'm doing so far: working for someone could be useful for improve yourself not only in what you'd like to do: side projects will benefit from this, believe me. I noticed improvements event in terms of analysis of problem solving.
> "Given that pornography is emotionally charged, it would be shocking if it had no impact."

I realize you're not making that argument yourself, but it strikes me as exceptionally weak. The "obvious" response is that it's been extremely difficult to document any experiences as having measurable impacts on children (starvation is a big exception, but hopefully it's not too difficult to see what might make that different...). So the baseline expectation should be a fairly strong confidence that no matter what it is that you're showing children, the effect is likely too small to measure.
Medium to high risk vanguard funds have done very well for me and since they are index based it is much lower risk than just day trading. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/05/18/how-to-make-money-...
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How can there ever be evidence for physical (psychophysical) harm to children who watch adults have sex? We 're like the only species who copulate in private, so it seems hugely presumptuous to argue that it is harmful. I think the greater harm is done by the continuous brainwashing with messaging that suggests that sex is the ultimate reward and is somehow connected to your value as a person, and is a thing you can trade.
India's hard-fought public health battle against polio has been won
The problem with that was that I couldn't get to a showroom. Now that they've expanded the closest one is probably about a 2.5 hour drive. Still doable but for a car that I can't actually afford it's kind of tough to justify. Did sit in one when I was in LA and it was very nice.
I think the impact is negative, since sexual release reduces the desire of a man for sex temporarily, and with that the man will make less 'moves' to actual women. It's bad from an evolutionary point of view because the loss of actual sexual opportunity means there is less chance the man will have offspring. It's definitely not what the genes intended for a man to go for the junk food, so to speak, rather than the real thing, and so will damage the chances of a man for passing his genes. Of course in today's world, people are allowed to reduce one's chances of passing off one's genes, and do things like getting fat, watch porn, use condoms, have abortions. It's not a crime for people to sabotage their chances of finding a mate / having children. Preventing children from doing those activities to ensure their 'bright futures' as good husbands and wives with children is and should be solely the parents' responsibilities at their discretion.
All the recommendations for low cost mutual funds are good, but I recently found Motif Investing (http://motifinvesting.com) - it's a really interesting way of investing in stocks, based on very specific sectors. For example, "cloud computing" or "beer". These types of investments would be difficult to do cheaply with any current mutual find or ETF. It's not something to put all your money into, but it's an alternative and possibly interesting way to invest (I am not affiliated with them in any way).

I would also offer a recommendation against an expensive car. Take it from someone who bought a really nice sports car - the novelty wears off relatively fast, and after that, you're just left paying hefty maintenance fees. Remember a car is to take you from point A to point B.
This 30min documentation explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lcB9u-9mVE
The problem is in the way the industry is organized.
Looks nice, did you consider the following approach?

client = Lol::Client.new "my_api_key", "euw", {cache_store: Lol::CacheStores::Redis.new(server: "redis://localhost:6379", ttl: 900)}
I think the last paragraph there is self-contradictory. Simple things shouldn't be patentable, precisely because the invention doesn't need to be fully disclosed.

To take a silly example, let's say I propose a patent on the process of painting a house green. That's the entire text of the patent. Should it be granted? No. In part because I haven't fully disclosed the invention. But what could I possibly add? "Step 1. Cover house with green paint."

A government granted monopoly is a big gun. Far too big if the goal is just to provide you with revenue. Government works for the people, not one company, and if we're going to give you the right to exclusively profit from something, we demand to get something in return. The thing we demand is knowledge. We want to know how you did it so that after your monopoly expires, everyone can benefit from the increase in knowledge. If your "invention" is so simple that we all already know how to do it, then we don't need the "full disclosure" of a patent, and we don't need to buy your description of painting the house green for the enormous cost of having to pay you exhorbitant fees for every green house for the next two decades.
I'm maxed up to match on 401k.

Max it beyond match.

At current returns and tax rates, investing pre-tax dollars will probably get you more bang for your buck that almost anything else.
I admit, it has been a while since I read it and that is what I remember. I went back and reread some of it, and you are right I couldn't find any direct quotes. That was my mistake.

It does however have its roots in The Oxford Group.

You may find this of interest though:

http://healthland.time.com/2010/09/23/how-religion-was-edite...
It would be a shame if they disqualified me/us. I'm in this for fun. I guess everyone is. If I can travel freely in Europe and have no problems being in a "German" team, I think there mustn't be any problems.
Of course, but it wasn't really strong.
That site basically works for CA and Chicago. This just proves my point about CA having awesome cars everywhere. You can rent a Model S for $25!
Performant games never release their memory, so they should never get paused by the GC.
The Economist explains: The startup explosion
Speed of build isn't the issue, responsiveness is. Throughput is commonly sacrificed in favor of interactive performance, otherwise we'd all be running some modern equivalent of punchcard batch jobs.
I would suggest checking out index funds from Vanguard (or Fidelity or Schwab).

Also, you may want to post this to:
http://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/

They're a very reasonable and helpful community.
What's a backup?
... and at $5/month, if you're a photographer with many terabytes of data, it is 1/10 the cost of amazon glacier, last time I checked!
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It isn't an additional cost if you look at the overall situation of the buyer. The taxes owed will always be less than the gain realized.

If anything, using bitcoin that have appreciated in value probably reduces the perceived cost of the item.
Seems like they were granted multiple deadline extensions to address this:

http://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/comment/112937/#...
Yeah, you could do a lot worse than BDSM.
Best bookmarking tool? Delicious just lost 1500+ of my bookmarks
Just because the exploit is illegal in one circumstance and not in another doesn't mean it's not an exploit.

When the exchanges are complicit in the deal - being paid for sending information early to particular parties - it's pretty easy to argue there is a conspiracy to defraud the general public, and so regulators have regularly argued:

http://www.gotgoldreport.com/2014/03/why-new-york-ag-wants-c...

I assume that when these practices are finally banned you will change your tune, right?
Absolutely. After messing around with various combinations of rsync/ssh/unison/s3/glacier/etc for a few years, I bit the bullet and paid for Crashplan. It's cheap - the family plan is ~150 USD/year for up to ten computers, unlimited.

It's a lifesaver. I've installed it on my parents/wifes/siblings computers and the piece of mind it gives me is immense - when I get the inevitable phone calls about the damn computer deleting that important file, I can either tell them how to recover it, or do it myself.
AA+ rated municipal bonds can have great rates of return, low risk and usually the capital gains are tax-exempt. You can purchase bonds through online brokers (I use TD Ameritrade). There of course are other bonds; corporate, treasury and CD's you can set up in bond ladders to generate income and reinvest after maturity into another bond but those are generally subject to standard tax rates.
I plead guilty to approaching from a mathematics PoV.
My sole intent is to overcome the tyranny of distance and exploitation of the time difference.
The only people I hope to convince are other, mathematically sophisticated traders.
By social do you mean the public-at-large's suspicion?
Check the site. No sponsors/offers this year and we've taken steps to avoid what happened last time - our brand/logo is released under a loose Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs, and the content on the site is pretty much all Creative Commons.

We've got the Attribution/NonCommercial stuff in the logo license to protect against sites implying that we approve of what they're selling. We just want businesses using the logo FOR PROFIT to state that we don't endorse or promote their product. Everything else is free reign!

We definitely never intended to trademark/restrict the use of the term. We just got a bit over-enthusiastic with the legal side of things - now we're trying to put trust in the community instead (which, admittedly, should have happened in the first place).

If none of this makes sense, I'd be happy to explain it further
> We stop to think for a long while to debate whether to spend 50 or 75 bucks on a piece of clothing, while we can't perceive the difference between spending 50,000 or 50,025 thousand on a car. The difference would have to be 50,000 to 75,000 thousand for us to perceive it equally.

A bit off-topic, but I've read about this irrational thought pattern before, and it strikes me that it's not that irrational. In general, one buys a car far less frequently than one buys a piece of clothing, so saving 25 bucks every time one buys a piece of clothing is going to add up to a lot more than saving 25 bucks every time one buys a car. The expense of a purchase correlates with how rare that type of purchase is, so it seems sensible to me.
Besides the problem illustrated in LIFE AFTER PI I think that AutoDesk seems to buy up all/most of the competition is a bit worry some and every bit of more competition is a good thing.
Next Silicon Valley? Berlin's battle to be a tech hub
With how the new AWS S3/Glacier storage works, you no longer have to do any calculations for restoring from AWS either
It's probably rhetorical.
Look into an Health Savings Account (HSA). Unlike a Flexible Savings Account, what you deposit can stay in there past a year and lets compound interest work for you. When you reach retirement age, you'll have a nice fund to pay for medical expenses that medicare won't pay for.

Caveat: Only suitable if you don't have any ongoing expensive medical costs (diabetes, children, etc).
Permanent Portfolio forum:

http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/permanent-portfolio-dis...
Hm, really? No such issues here. Could it the transform-3D SVG animation on page load?
Has anyone tried http://wealthfront.com or heard anything about it?
One of the huge problems you have in this debate is the question of cause and effect.

Does porn cause harm? That it does is indisputable. There are many cases where men report decreased sexual performance as a result of watching too much porn (that is a harm particularly if it interferes with close intimate relationships). If nothing else, that is a harm. Does it cause harm on the balance? That, however, is unknowable.

But the harms which are readily documented don't match the harms which are posited. The harms which are posited are also readily observed but a causal connection is impossible to draw. Our culture has for the better part of a century (since probably the 1920's or at least 1930's) slowly been decoupling sexuality, marriage, and reproduction. Pornography may be seen as a consequence of that separation, but it certainly cannot be seen as the primary cause given the timing. Whether it furthers and further entrenches a pattern of hedonistic sex may indeed not matter -- it is only one small piece of a much larger cultural pattern.

So in the end, I don't know if it causes the harms portrayed. What is clear is that a failure to deal with the context rather than the technology is a much larger problem.
Is the name 4chan trademarked? It doesn't seem to be. Would it be easier to secure the .com if they trademarked the name first, then went after oversee?
IIRC it was highly possible to get 60FPS even on old hardware ~10 years ago.
I'm a little surprised no one suggested Bitcoin.
"Porn is not physically addictive." Oh but it can be addictive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_addiction
Having written one of the major HTML5 game engines (Construct 2), it's extraordinarily difficult to completely avoid memory allocations, so there is always some garbage overhead. Consider straightforward calls like slice() make allocations and have to be worked around to avoid garbage - and that is very much just the tip of the iceberg.
To a degree, true, although what wasn't clear from the above, admittedly, was that I'm a child of the 80's. I was fortunate to go to a school during those precious formative years in the late 80's/early 90's which refused to comply with the growing culture of pandering to parents' irrational media-driven fears. I didn't select my classmates!

Most of my generation did not play freely. I would go home from school holidays and attempt to muster neighbours/random local kids/friends into going for an explore/insane expedition into the local wasteland/abandoned buildings/woods/caves/whatever. Very few takers, and my mother got no end of "your child is a ne'er-do-well trying to lead my Johnny astray".
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If you wait till the last day, you are probably willing to pay the fine.
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Yes, we'll provide test game servers that you can use.
Does this mean that all future Linux releases will have version numbers converging towards Pi, like TeX?
Yes it is. http://www.trademarkia.com/4chan-85867485.html
Which part of the world are you in? If I had to design a truly terrible investment, I'd end up with something that looked an awful lot like housing.
Trademarks in the US don't need to be registered to be protected, like copyright (but unlike patents).

If you have established use of a mark before the registration (or use) of a competing/conflicting mark, you can defend it.

In fact, registration arguably provides no protection other than the fact that it makes it easier to search for your mark in the USPTO registry.
Try this to start:

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/names.html
I am about to dive head first into web/web app programming. Would you suggest I do it all through plain vanilla HTML/CSS/JS?

I mean I wanted to start with these (I first wrote web pages in the late 90s with just HTML) as I believe you do need a fundamental understanding of the foundations to be able to make a good choice regarding frameworks. But would you say just stay with those, and don't worry about SASS/LESS, Angular/JQuery/etc..?

Or can the right framework really make you more productive? (I really do wonder about this because all I see with a lot of frameworks is that they impose a way of thinking onto your coding)
I think the paralyzed by choice meme is overstated in a lot of places. Sure there is a lot of new JavaScript libs and tools being developed but none of them are needed. A lot of them certainly make your job easier and it makes sense to learn about the new tools as they come but in general a ten to fifteen minute glance will tell if it should be in the pipeline or not.
this is stupid : "ALL MEMBERS FROM THE SAME COUNTRY".
Why? I don't really understand the reason behind it
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You have to hand it to Digital Ocean for actually listening to customers, explaining themselves thoroughly, and taking the issue to the community (HN on several instances) for discussion. Totally civil all around. Thanks to nixgeek for raising the potential issue, and thanks to raiyu for engaging in a meaningful back and forth discussion with everyone.

The issue itself? I have accidentally "terminated" a few AWS instances that I instantly wished I hadn't, and so I can see the benefit of it sticking around for 24 hours. This would have saved me a few times if I was using DO instead.
No they do not, but it makes for a much easier defense. That is the whole point.
Computer Simulation of 1,500 People Looking at Smartphones and Walking
Historically, intellectual property was the crown’s desire to raise unconstitutional revenue by getting money out of those who would buy a statutory monopoly at the net present value of the royalties that could be extracted. The monarch issued a writ patent, that is a royal decree, and the monarch raised money at the expense of society.

In 1620 after an outburst of patenting to raise extra Parliamentary revenue by James I, Parliament passed the Statute of Monopolies which stated that only Parliament might grant monopolies in statutory form and that only for new inventions. The principle written into the law was that the only valid or legitimate use of the otherwise dangerous mechanism of the statutory monopoly was for new discoveries and that for a limited time.

That was then. Where we current live at is that this 400 year old legal concept of statutory monopolies is used not to secure new discoveries, but to have government act in the market. Companies want to prevent cheaper or better products by competing firms from entering the market, and "intellectual property" is one of the better tools used to achieve this end. This is obliviously wrong, so it is up to government to step up like they did in 1620 and stop the abuse, but so far the trend has been to add more abuse, more government involvement in the market, and ever increasing number of royal decrees.
Looks fairly recent. Maybe that's exactly what they were waiting for.
But is that a bad thing if it is something one enjoys?

I find it saddening that people should be ashamed of their fetishes and whatnot, like it's a taboo. Why couldn't we just express our sexuality openly and the way we want to without social stigma surrounding it?

If there's something I think which needs disruption in our Western societies, it is human sexuality. What's holding us back and with what arguments?
In this case the choice is between one ideal that encourages you to think for yourself, and one that discourages you.

One ideal which emphasizes the need for science and rational thought and one that needs conspiracy theories to survive.

One ideal which has proven to bring peace and prosperity, while the other is failing miserably, comparatively speaking.
It's good this is getting more attention, however there were many good books before this one.
"Quants" and "Dark Pools" were my favorites and a good place to start.

The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable

Automate This

The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It

Dark Pools: High-Speed Traders, A.I. Bandits, and the Threat to the Global Financial System

Hedge Fund Market Wizards
> In fact, registration arguably provides no protection other than the fact that it makes it easier to search for your mark in the USPTO registry.

Isn't the trademark legally yours if you register and no one challenges for some period of time (I want to say 7 years)?
On a related note, I got a pleasent surprise when I opened the Developer Console on Facebook.com: they present you with a giant red warningp[1] and block any code execution in it until you explicitly 'allow [your] account to be hijacked if I paste malicious Javascript'[2]

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/6UVaTen.png

[2]: https://www.facebook.com/selfxss
Offshore Wind Farms Could Knock Down Hurricanes
I bet all the traffic to 4chan.com is from people mistaking it for 4chan.org as all it says is 'inquire about this domain'
I really doubt that, as Iron Man is a comic character from the start of 1960 or so.
That diet would be low in everything except protein. Of course, in theory, that would be better for weight loss. But the question is whether or not that is really sustainable, which is especially important for a long term goal.

IIRC, although your body can run on just the glucose it gets by breaking down fat, it is less efficient. In my own experience this shows up as a negative effect on mood -- which makes me more likely to want to eat (and binge).
Cheers for the advice there. :) The course will be in video format with downloadable content and code examples as well as (for premium user) the option to download the videos and the tutorials in PDF. Do you think that SlideRule would consider backing this project?
Do you pay a fee for them?
OK, I'm lets stipulate that I am not particularly mathematically sophisticated.

However, I thought that you had a list of numbers at least as large as the number of trades expected in the 5 minute period, then you could order the trades by shuffling the numbers. I think it would not be too taxing to determine whether the sequence over time is random enough.

That said, I'm starting to see whether that it would impossible to know whether any particular 5 minute (or maybe day's worth) of trading is random enough.
Perhaps crypto can come to the rescue here. Publish lists of random numbers in advance pgp signed.

Anyway, enough of my ramblings :-)