skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hedge funds get away with it because no one who invests in a hedge fund is investing in the average hedge fund. The average hedge fund performs about as well as the S&P 500. Ok. However, I doubt you could find anyone with money in a hedge fund (knowingly, at least - the investment of endowments and pensions are a different issue than the one I am addressing) who would claim to have invested in one with "average" performance. The upside of hedge funds is much higher than safer investment vehicles. That's why people keep using them. The issue is the same one that plagues law students going to schools with bad employment outcomes - people are completely capable of understanding likely outcomes and expected performance. They are even better at believing that they are the positive outlier.
MVC scales fine for what its meant for. I'm going to hazard a guess and say they were putting far more than a web app layer into the thing. MVC by definition is easy to debug you can look at the inputs and follow through to the output exactly. Their complaint of a messaging bug saying the user had a message when they didn't is a clear cut example of muddling routes and code duplication.

If you're trying to push an api layer into MVC you're probably going to run into problems at any kind of scale because your application doesn't end there, it goes through into the client layer and loses control of how data is represented.

Keen to hear any other thoughts on this but that is my view.

Put 54gb of code into any framework and you're going to run into "scaling" issues.
Also all browsing, including your cart, is served over HTTP until you go to the checkout page. You can't browse over https even if you explicitly ask for it. They don't need to ask Amazon for data if they have a router between you and them.
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This is not a very meaningful hurdle, though.

For example, let me pitch you on the Patio11 Hedgehog Fund. It uses complicated financial alchemy to produce market-beating returns, and you only pay if we beat the market. The fund has never lost money. Care to invest $10 million? You pay 2% per year and 20% of returns above the S&P 500.

Hypothetically suppose the S&P is up 10% next year. I deliver 20% returns. Alchemy, what can I say. You make $1.6 million, I make $0.4 million (from you), and since I did this in parallel with 100 other people life is pretty grand for me.

Now just between HN and me, my strategy is simple: I buy the S&P 500 as an index but I use 2X leverage.

What would have happened if the market went down 5% next year? Well, we would have lost 10%. That certainly sucks, and you need to make your $1 million back. Which is great, because I am now accepting new money on the Patio11 Chinchilla Fund. It uses complicated financial alchemy to produce market-beating returns, and you only pay if we beat the market. The fund has never lost money.
Well those are non sequiturs. Data sitting on a CDN is not "traffic", until it is actually traffic. CDNs function not by prioritizing traffic, but by reducing traffic.
> you should feel bad for committing crimes, even if it's clear that if you didn't somebody else would

i don't think edward snowden should feel bad for what he did, even if it's considered a crime.

as for robbing a drunk guy in the gutter, you could argue that you are teaching him a lesson, and that the price of this lesson is the cash he has in his wallet now. it would be a rather aggresive marketing strategy, but hopefully the guy does learn from it.

likewise, you could argue that soros breaking the bank of England is him teaching the people of the world a lesson - you can't prop up a currency indefinitely. people like him - folks with lots of money and more desire to earn money than to support practices they think are unsustainable - will prevent governments from pegging rates indefinitely, just as muggers will prevent people from wandering carelessly through parts of town where no one is watching them.

i'd like to live in a world where people were more interested in gaining a positive reputation by passing on the chance to profit from destruction, even if it's legal. that wish is exactly like wanting to live in a world where nobody gets mugged: both of those situations are inevitable if omnipresent surveillance takes off. if being caught is a certainty, nobody's going to pick a wallet anywhere. if databases of people's responses to your actions are publicly available, many supporters of government-backed monetary policy - as well as the friends and families of those who suffered from his actions - will shun soros and anyone else who helps knock a tower over because 'it was going to fall anyhow.'
Whats required to withdraw money from an account; the account number, routing, and some form of signature (I'm assuming ACH drops the signature requirement).

The USA is far behind on banking security. We're still using PIN numbers for debit cards and you could take my credit card and sign for any charges on it. A lot of people in the USA sign "CHECK ID" in the signature panel of their credit cards in an attempt to stop this. The idea is that if it says CHECK ID the clerk will definitely stop and check ID. But if it's not signed (which they aren's supposed to accept) or the signature is incorrect.. a store clerk will 99% of the time just pass it on. I actually never sign my credit cards because it requires a damned marker that won't look like my signature anyway.

I've never once been hassled.
I just use Cmd+H to hide windows instead of minimizing, since hiding effectively does exactly what I want (get the window out of my sight, but leave the app running) and then I can easily Cmd+Tab back to it.

I only recently found a good use for minimizing over hiding: I was working in my IDE (PhpStorm) on several projects (each project opens in its own window) and I wanted to switch back and forth between two project windows. With 4 or 5 windows open, switching between the two windows I was interested in (using Cmd+`) was a game of cat and mouse. I was alway hoping that I'd land on the right window and not mess up the order of windows. Then I realized if I just minimize the windows I don't need right now, I can get them out of the Cmd+` cycle and easily switch between on the two windows I want.
My understanding is that they need the ultra-specific maps for the (more challenging) city-street driving, not the (less challenging) highway driving.
They aren't secret- some places require them for ACH direct transfers. Rent and mortgage nearly always requires it. The thing is you should keep it secure and NOT use it if you have the option to go another route.
For a university professor is about the standard here, some are far less lucky.
And yes, we have low salaries here, a bit better in the private market but still professors and computer scientists are very low paid compared to what you can find in the rest of EU top countries.
Any business should be profitable to sustain itself and potential growth etc. The point is, being DRM-free is not anti-business and not anti profit. Treating customers with respect is good for business, not bad.
Some indian ayurveda recipes use heavy metals to cure diabetes. They don't succeed, but they do cause heavy metal poisoning.

http://www.bcmj.org/bc-centre-disease-control/heavy-metal-po...
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My father being an ET sufferer who has had a useless DBS device implanted that he now leaves disabled at all times, I concur with your assessment.
Everytime I see electronics like https://www.takeitapart.com/guide/81, I feel like "shit, how incredibly precise have robots become".

Those resistors on the last image, attached to the 3.5mm jack, are 0.3mm wide and 0.5mm high, and spaced together with next-to-zero distance. And yet, the pick+place process was exact enough that the components didn't just melt together.

Awesome.
Actually, I wasn't restarting the server. The pain was reloading that file, as it would break work that other people were doing at the time. I'm looking into whether modifying the postgresql.conf file from a query line will let us do what we were having a need to do.
I totally agree with this. In the US (and probably most other countries) bike laws and infrastructure at at best an afterthought shoehorned into the existing automobile/pedestrian setup. Lots of cyclists are reckless and inconsiderate, and they should be held accountable for that. However, I think the only real way to fix the problem is to address the underlying systemic deficiencies.
I think there's still a market for this device for people with essential tremor explicitly as opposed to Parkinson's, in that is the opposite and worsens with movement.

I have an ever so slight tremor that's worsened by the drugs I take but nowhere near bad enough for others to notice let alone be worth any treatment (so far) and I would occasionally kill for something like this to interact with my phone some days. Like this morning I was pinching and zooming up the wazoo to give my thumb a big enough target to hit without hitting things by accident while shaking around. Not sure it'd be that useful at the moment for fine tuned control but...

(oh look I'm having a hard time hitting the reply button now...)
"Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act prohibits discrimination in health care programs on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sex stereotypes, gender identity, age, or disability."

That is why they don't ask your gender, national origin, race, age, etc. It's irrelevant to the price.

(EDIT: wow, i didn't know that either about NYS! thanks for finding that and sharing )
That's pretty grossly overstated. Bank account numbers are printed on checks, which don't have very high security around them at all.

If bank account numbers were as high risk as you say, we'd hear about rampant scams where waiters and cashiers at stores jotted the numbers down when you paid with a check and then drained your bank account later. That dog would have barked.
It's native code, but it's strictly contained within an open source sandbox that implements all the interfaces it can use to communicate with the outside world.
It seems to work for me even without letting go of Command, I just need to tap Option while Command is being held down and it will pop the window back out.
My problem with articles like these can be seen in the title. The best way to get to an answer of the question I believe he thinks he is asking (Why do people continue to give money to hedge funds despite evidence that on average, you are better off with the 60-40 stock/bond mix?) would be to present what hedge funds are, present the alternatives, and delve into the reasons. Now, he does most of those things in the piece. The problem is that his original question was already biased - how do they "get away with it." He assumes that there is something going on that blinds all who invest in hedge funds, when in reality, the truth is much closer to this: Those who invest in hedge funds think they've found the one that outperforms average.

TL;DR - hedge funds are for the more risk-tolerant (I agree with his issues on pensions and endowments being invested in riskier vehicles, but that's a separate issue from the question he posed).
>Could you please elaborate why you have "no choice" ? How exactly did Ukrainians threatened the Russian people in Ukraine so you agree on war ?

why war? I just support the right of people to take power in their hands and form their own state when their basic rights are violated or not protected by the current state they reside in. United States two centuries ago, colonial Africa 60-40 years ago, Kosovo, South Sudan,... Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine,... . If it were my decision Chechnya would be separate today.

>Wasn't a Yanukovych a pro-russian president ? Why not simply wait for an election as a democratic country ?

exactly. Yanukovich (while being complete trash, not that other politicians there are any better though) was democratically elected. What would be the point of new elections?
Repost from earlier in the week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7712586
Really this is something that almost everyone who drives does subconsciously every time they drive. Driving in a new environment is stressful and more difficult because you haven't mapped out the terrain and so you're working entirely from what you see and not from a virtual model in your own head.

Obviously the Google car's data collection is more extreme and precise than that which happens in your head, but that seems like it's mostly just because they don't yet entirely know what they need.

And this, in the long run, will be part of the advantage of these cars once they get the process more automated. I expect that when you can finally buy one of these cars they'll have a (perhaps opt-out) system where terrain data is collected and merged into Google's own system to provide better data for future drives for not just you, but everyone else as well.

And that'll be one of the reasons it'll be safer. If also a whole bunch more creepy.
(EDIT: WOW. It appears New York State, since 1992(!!!), has not allowed age rating. Unlike the other states.)

ACA plans are "age rated" (although only 3:1 from 26 to 64, unlike the true actuarial rate which is probably 6:1). It's not "discrimination" under the law. This effectively means young people subsidize old people. (a flat rate without age would be even more extreme, which would make plans essentially irrational for healthy <40 year olds)

NYS or NYC might be different; I know NY had some weird pre-ACA rules.

You used to be able to use gender (which was pretty universal; males were about 20-30% less than females even for plans which excluded childbirth); you can still use smoking. You can do community rating under certain terms too, although it's fairly restricted, and generally just means some insurers don't issue in some parts of states.

IIRC health history was used mainly as buckets; the "best" individual plans required an essentially clean health history, or would exclude pre-existing conditions entirely. Various legal hacks over the past ~10y created various forms of guaranteed issue.

http://ahip.org/Issues/Age-Rating.aspx has some info.
On the flip side, I've nearly hit two pedestrians on Market Street who were not paying attention, and jay-walking right in front of me while it was my right of way (traffic light was green). As a cyclist, you have to be aggressive, or people (including those driving cars) don't notice you.
The Enso Locate story (our home-brewed Bluetooth LE indoor positioning system)
Iranian girls teach how to drive a car while dancing and singing..
I work in web browsers a lot and the greatest thing I've ever done for productivity is use the Vimium extension in Chrome, which allows me to easily navigate the web using my keyboard.

Pressing "f" instantly tags each link on the page with one or two letters that I can type on the keyboard to go to that link (if I type them as capital letters, the link gets open in a new background tab, otherwise just a new tab).

Even if you're not a fan of the vim editor, if you enjoy keeping your hands on the keyboard it's worth learning the few keyboard shortcuts that Vimium provides for navigating the web.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...
Soros profited off of a screw up by the British government. And not just one screw up, many if you look at the full history of what happened. I think the British government screwed their people way more than Soros did.
I have essential tremor not quite as bad as shown in the video but bad enough I'd be interested in such a spoon. I've tried Propranolol, a common tremor treating medication, but found the side effects (drowsiness) too unpleasant for frequent use. I have an anesthesiologist friend who reminds me of the surgery option every so often but brain surgery doesn't strike me as elegant as much as serious and invasive. My friend assures me it would be fun, but I think he means for him, not me.
I enjoyed (and completed) the class. I had no scala and only minimal FP experience.
If cyclists want to ride on the roads that are predominantly used by cars they should have to follow the same traffic laws as cars so they are as predictable as cars. Pedestrians walking on the road have a strict set of rules to keep everyone safe. Alternatively, they should be barred from riding on roads and have their own rules which would make them equally predictable.

Northern Virginia has some of the worst drivers I've seen anywhere in the country but you can predict that they're going to run a red light up until 5 seconds after it's changed or that they're going to race past a line of stopped cars and try to cut into an exit at the last moment while texting.

Cyclists here are a completely different breed and are in no way predictable. I've seen them riding into on-coming traffic, ditch off a road onto a sidewalk to cross an intersection only to jump back onto the road after the intersection. I've seen more near misses with pedestrians in cross walks and cars making a right on red than I can possibly count.

Because they don't consistently follow any rules whatsoever they're dangerous and the majority of them have an holier than thou attitude because they're not ruining the environment. They're just ruining every driver and pedestrian's commute.
To add to your question: it's relatively the same for motorcyclists too.
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Just give me an Internet connection and, above all, some time to think.

So true, so simple, and yet at times so hard to obtain.
Hey man, appreciate the feedback. Well, it's a guitar site and so I wanted it to be a little bit cheeky and not have like a SaaS product marketing kind of vibe. But I guess it makes sense that someone might want to just be able to share a clip or browse without some crazy comments about losing virginity.

What else do you think I can change around to make the marketing more effective?
The application feedback discussion is happening on `blog.indutny.com` bthread. Let me know, what you think.
You can press Cmd + L to skip down to the definition, or Cmd + D to open the dictionary to the current word.
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I have no idea what you're saying. You're bringing up Edward Snowden, who has literally nothing to do with the conversation at hand. Then you're proposing some form of defense for the idea of mugging the drunk guy. Then you're shifting right to omnipresent surveillance, which again has nothing to do with what we're talking about. Your comment is utterly incomprehensible to me; I know what all the individual words mean, but I can't put them together into a cohesive thought that's relevant.

Can you rephrase yourself in a way that's more understandable?
It's about recognizing differences in appearance based on association with others of the same species. If I've never looked in a mirror but I know what my mothers face looks like, I don't need to have ever seen my own face to know that I probably have two eyes, a nose, and a mouth.

They do this experiment with human babies: At a certain stage, if you put something on their head they will recognize that it doesn't belong there, because they recognize that something is "different" about the human appearance in the mirror.
Apparently you can trick an octopus if you use high definition video, so the display is obviously visible to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmzfxFF5vDI
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The fact that one of the responses, ronaldx, completely agrees with the point that I put in sarcasm, stating "The problem is that your sarcastic position sounds pretty good to me", shows that while the position seems smug and superior to you, it is actually a reasonable one around here.

The sarcastic part literally sounds pretty good to people here, and two posters have expressed agreement with it.

And look at the result. We have two very good comments agreeing with the sarcastic part (or denying its premise), and which we can now turn to.
According to the article and video, under the proposed law, bikes wouldn't be allowed to "blow through a stop sign". The fine for that would be even increased.

Which makes me wonder, what's the difference between "yielding while preserving some speed" and "blowing through"? Is there a defined speed that is still allowed?
I tried that out a month or two ago, and liked it but quickly removed it. At the time it was popping up its sheet when you invoked the command-tab switcher, which was really annoying.

They seem to have fixed it since then.
In my terms, a bank vault would protect my valuables by fundamentally denying me access to them, except on terms dictated by some external trusted party. This is the case of DRM using entirely encrypted paths (which can be broken with the big guns, like in your analogy), not the case of it being "just for show".

> The goal of making Joe-Average choose between the official channels or some malware laden underground site is a perfectly pragmatic one on the parts of the licensors.

Uh... what? The problem with DRM from a practical standpoint is that the effective technical means serve as an impediment to Mr Joe Average using his computer for perfectly allowed purposes - including at times playing the game. (Look at any major game launch recently for thousands of upset players because the DRM servers are overloaded.)

Secondly, you presented a strawman, since there are lots of non-malware-laden copies available online.

I'm not really against DRM per se, if there were some magic solution. Nor am I arguing that partially effective security measures are meaningless. I'm arguing that having encryption protected computing channels which deny the user override (or inspection) access are dangerous (duh! they go on malware laden websites, as you point out), and that any DRM which doesn't use such hardware level (or even low-level software) is no more effective than just setting a metadata flag saying it's copyrighted.

I get why companies want DRM, but that doesn't mean that I think giving in to their wishes is a good idea, when it both creates worse computer security problems and fails to solve the problem at a technical level.

A lot of people pirate things precisely because DRM is such a hassle.
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Except with a motorcycle, you are able to get up to the intended speed for a road. A bicycle cannot accelerate or maintain as high of a speed as a car. A motorcycle does not have either of these problems.
Searching the internet should bring up several places to buy the Singapore Math books. There is an official site[1]. The books come two per grade level, for example 3A and 3B. They are small books, but filled with content. They only cost about $12 each. There are also workbooks available (for more exercises, but you might not need these) and some teaching guides too (that I'm unfamiliar with). For someone that was in elementary school 50 years ago, the math lessons look very familiar. There was one subject covered for which I wished there was more explanation: translating word problems into equations to be solved. This always came easily to me (I ended up majoring in Math in college), but Singapore Math has an interesting step that seems to work well for kids. They translate the word problems into a standard diagram where rectangles stand in for quantities and then the equations are derived from the diagrams. I wasn't taught that way, and so I wasn't sure how to motivate the correct construction of the rectangles. Don't let this minor complaint disuade you from trying Singapore Math. Consider the latest international rankings of students, the PISA [2]. Singapore is one from the top (Shanghai-China is number one), and as I understand it, all students in Singapore take the test so there is no selection bias. Furthermore, their books are in English while all the other top rated countries (China, Korea, Japan, Switzerland, etc.) have text books that I can't read.

[1]http://www.singaporemath.com
[2]http://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/PISA-2012-results-snaps...
I think that serif font looks bad. Especially when it's small like in the footer.
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