skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I recall reading somewhere that warren buffet took a bet with a hedge fund guy a d his premise was also that a hedge fund cannot beat S&P index over a long term .
But a sucker is born every minute and I think sliced will do well for itself.
Interesting. If Hedge funds can't event beat a vanilla S&P500 index fund, why would any one want to invest in a hedge fund?

http://longbets.org/362/

Buffet (S&P500) is leading against hedge funds on the aforementioned long bet: http://fortune.com/2014/02/05/buffett-widens-lead-in-1-milli...

Disclaimer: I am on Buffet's side on this long bet. Management fees are the devil. I am all-in for low-fee index funds.
>it is the only way to do it coherently

There are many consistent ways to define the derivative of a number.

The way we are all familiar with is to define a number as a zeroth-order polynomial.
Yes, this seems to build on the idea of regex derivatives. If regex derivatives can be used to transform a regular expression into a recognizer for strings, why not transform a more general grammar into a recognizer of strings.
Mind linking to the first hand source, or at least something with a better reputation than Daily Mail?
I don't know about BTC-e, but the swaps information from Bitfinex is usually available at bfxdata.com

e.g. http://www.bfxdata.com/combined/btc.php
I'd have a look at what competitor's are already doing in the space:

https://www.goodeggs.com/
that's a lot of cold empty land! the roman empire was with a large and variegated population.
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I implemented Brzozowski's regex derivatives to build a regex implementation back-end. That back-end is used whenever exotic constructs (negation, intersection) appear in the abstract syntax of the regex; in their absence, the implementation falls back on the NFA-graph-based back end.
I think that this is not correct: both are an increase of 22 percent, but the latter is also an increase of 16 percentage points (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage_point).
By the way this is what a legal version looks like:

http://aerocasilla.com/

I buy something on amazon, they send it to AeroCasilla's warehouse in Miami, AeroCasilla bring it to Costa Rica and their customs and text me when I can pick it up.
> slumlord

You say that like there is something wrong with renting property to poor people.
Exactly - apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
I love how you can start a smuggling organization (from the description, it's just that, this is not even legal gray area bullshit, it's legally black) and call it a "disruptive startup" these days in Silicon Valley AND get funded by YC, I mean, what the actual fuck?

No kidding it's a $16 billion market in China alone, that's why people risk on getting EXECUTED to be in the smuggling business.

Edit: this is from their site, they call themselves the "only peer-to-peer platform that gives you access to the global market."

I actually bursted out laughing when I read it, I should start a money laundering service and call it the "only secure platform that unlocks the full potential of your earnings"
Uber for bodyguards and uber for lawns. Neat!
And I don't see anyone teaching how you write an editor with multiple front-ends! People normally start with the front-end.
The problem described isn't a technology problem. It's a business domain problem, and it should be solved by fixing the domain modeling. The example doesn't uncover any problems with REST architecture.

If prices are changing and you need to capture them, the "Product" concept isn't enough. You need to model the concept of price, and perhaps price change events too. So a customer doesn't buy a product, but a product together with a "ProductPrice".
It has not been claimed that it was a leaked memo. I must apologize for the imprecision of the word 'leaked'. 'Published' is a better word than 'leaked' and should have used it instead.

To reiterate the point without the confusion regarding 'leaked': The media is the message. The form of the news/announcement of the resignation came in shape of a memoized email exchange, as if these actual words between Ballmer and Satya were exchanged in this actual format.

I submit that they were not.

I submit that the substantial majority of the content was not written by or for Satya nor by or for Ballmer, but that this announcement is for employees and investors to read. I submit that it is also a method for Microsoft to contextualize a complicated decision for the tech media and for the digestion of the broader interested public.
Some remarks:

1. Mercator projection gives Russian empires an unfair advantage.

2. The Romans ruled over arguably the best lands in the known world at that time, and a much larger part of the world population. Russia ruled/rules over vast empire of vast forests, inhospitable steppes and empty tundra, sprinkled with a few good spots and a few people.

3. Inefficient travel doesn't make a great empire.

That's not to say the Russian empire wasn't huge, or didn't have a lot of people, or wasn't powerful. It was the largest power pre-World War 1, and its remnant is still a major player. I just wasn't as important or dominant or influential or long lived as the Roman empire was.
Civilian GPS alone isn't accurate enough to be believed to within 10 MpH. Even with the fuzzing gone:

http://www.maps-gps-info.com/gps-accuracy.html
http://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/performance/accuracy/
I think that the cloud will win, if only because it's the logical first step for any small customer (which you can later up-sell). And large customers will be won over when you tell them they never have to upgrade again and that uptime/security is guaranteed by an SLA. Businesses love eliminating liability and risk, and theoretically the cloud can win on both counts.

Also, I think mobile-first will win via the web and because mobile is the lowest common denominator (you can put a qwerty keyboard and browser on any full computer).

My $.02 though, it's a huge gamble for Microsoft to beat others in this space. If I were Microsoft I'd be buying Pandora, Redbox, Sirius XM, expanding MSNBC, and putting more into Xbox. That space is all about negotiating with parties and exploiting your dominance, which they've proved to be masters at over the years. For Microsoft to win in the cloud and mobile, I think they need to embrace open source and common platforms similar to IBM and Oracle, and I think they can never summon that desire.
This is just another design decision. In git terms, linking to a particular revision is sometimes useful. So is linking to HEAD. There's no domain-independent rule that says you have to support both or prefer one or the other, so long as you know what your customers need and don't get them confused.

If you really want to link to a snapshot that can be downloaded later, using a content hash like git or camlistore might be a good idea.
Definitely. I wouldn't want my car driving in an unsafe manner just to follow local ordinances.

I'd be very curious if I could sue those local governments for endangering me if my vehicle is forced to follow their rules and gets in an avoidable accident because of them. It would be an eminent domain defense, in the sense that government can't deny me of my property without a justifiable (public safety) reason for doing so.

And forcing my computer to behave in a certain way that causes it to potentially harm itself is definitely a denial of property.

I'm sure they'll just write me a ticket though - and if no one has gotten out of that by citing statistics on road safety, my autonomous car won't be any better off.

Hopefully, this will all be resolved reasonably with a national law and a nice bug report interface on Google's part.
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As an example alternative, Mongoose has versioning in its schemas. If you GET /product/12345, you'll receive the product info, along with its revision number, let's say this is revision 3. The user decides to buy the product, so they POST /orders with {productId:12345, __v: 3}. In the meanwhile, the store has updated the product, and Mongoose updates the revision to 4. Versions mismatch, send a 409.
http://aaronheckmann.tumblr.com/post/48943525537/mongoose-v3...
I missed the previous posts about Sandstorm and I'm glad this was posted. It's a very interesting technology and the team behind it is very talented.

A few of the projects I'm working on involve hosting applications for many customers but I'm also a firm believer in the rights of a user to take their data and move to another platform.

Seeing the one-click demo to spin up a working Roundcube email installation, Ghost or Wordpress installation, or web-based office application makes this inspire the imagination.

It's certainly a technology that I want to play with over the coming weeks.
Isn't the solution to your problem widely adopted since the early 90s? Store a checkout, push and pop products to it and then total up the real time values when the transaction is completed. Passing the value to be charged through in the POST is incredibly insecure.
Some other great resources:

1. Mike Duncan's "history of Rome" covers the first 1000 years (http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/)

2. Robin Pierson's "history of Byzantium" covers the final 1000 years (http://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/)
Nice one, but I prefer this gif about the decadence of the Spanish Empire... the end is quite funny.

http://oi58.tinypic.com/sbhoac.jpg
At the bottom of page 15 they have a reference from 1999 -- after the publication of this paper!
I suppose you pay additional shipping to AeroCasilla ( for shipping from Miami to Costa Rica ) & also pay additional customs at the port of Entry ?
is the information you (locals) provide a big enough pain point to get people to try a new service? why will your site work while so many others in this space have failed?

sorry, just playing devil's advocate. I've been iterating in this vertical for 2+ years.. it's not an easy industry to break through in, and it's not for lack of trying or money. The biggest challenge is the infrequency travel for most people.
You can't get a job on either coast without demonstrating "passion" to the team of neck beards that'll interview/scrutinize you.
Alice effect?
Being able to take pictures or video but not upload them destroys a lot of the utility of a mobile device.

If you can't take a picture and upload it before you get arrested then whatever was on your phone can go away. But once it's uploaded it gets much, much harder to make it disappear.

I will concede that it's not as bad since the camera still works. But that doesn't make all my worries go away either.
Someone should make a word cloud out of cloud first and mobile first.
If the dataset comes from the Gov't (e.g., Freedom of Info Act), one might argue that its public domain data. If its public domain, then slapping a license on it doesn't change anything.

If its not public domain, and you want people to use it fairly freely, Apache seems like a good license.

Disclaimer: i haven't thought about this very carefully before posting. Could be wrong.

One thing I do know is that @copiesofcopies is a former EFF guy that knows open source licensing. Ask him!
A great summary, but I find it annoying people always only mention the Eastern Roman Empire in passing or as a footnote. It was a continuation of the Roman Empire in every way.

They were called "the Roman empire" or "romans" by themselves and the rest of the world. And they lasted another 1000 years, many of those as the dominant regional power, bringing the total lifetime of the Roman state up to a staggering 2181 years.
I love how that matches Clippy's standard incompetence, since generally speaking screens are for creating openings to drive or take jumpers. Sometimes you see a screen designed to get a guy into good post position, but usually not.
How long before state police start pointing these back upward? I mean, in some areas it is basically handing military gear to secessionists, which does not seem all that bright. I certainly wouldn't like to be the federal official charged with the job of asking for any of them back.
I generally don't understand the example. An "Invoice" object should capture everything relevant to the purchase, including prices, taxes, shipping, etc. Identifying a "Product" via ID is fine, and that Product may even have a "current price" attached to it. But in no way should that referenced Product object impact the captured Invoice object.
When you have a hammer ...

Rise of the warrior cop was very interesting read. With the gear comes the cop attitude. If you want that kind of toys in you state, you shouldn't be allowed to have them.
It wasn't pointless.

I used to do the same thing when I was a kid with soccer and hockey games (growing up in Europe). It made me better at a lot of things that were useful to me in a career in technology - attention to detail, presentation skills, learning to extrapolate and summarize (i.e. I would try to see who scored more goals, or what time period were the most goals scored, etc).
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But how do you know the actual speed you're going to gauge the accuracy? Have you timed this over a set distance or something?
Definitely! Some have already talked about the event a few times while they were live.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong."
More Superbowls to win, NBA championships to win and yachts that need attention.
I think the concept of sum predates integers by a substantial margin. It's a bit of a theft to extend it from its true domain of applicability, the (positive) natural numbers.
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The 12 byzantine rulers podcast led more or less directly to the history of rome podcast

http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/

Beware, its an investment of perhaps 200 hours?

Mike Duncan has since moved on to Revolutions and is currently in the beginning of the French revolution. Don't let that slow you down, its not like the history of rome is going to change much in the near future.

Then "the history of rome" podcast begat "the history of byzantium" podcast. Another investment in time which isn't nearly done yet.

There is also the British History podcast which is pretty good listening and technically on topic as it was partially part of the roman empire for a good while. Another work in progress.

(And I see sspiff and I posted within seconds of each other. Well, great minds think alike and all that...)
With the comment about running out of money, I had got Chicago confused with Detroit. Sorry to anyone that this may annoy.
One county on the map has ~16k population and 640 military surplus assault rifles. If they're equipped with 30 round magazines, they can shoot everyone in the county without reloading once.
This was referenced in an article linked from this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8199503

Looks like they're using D3.
I don't know what happens. I don't have the solutions. I don't know which world is better. I think that the problems you describe are real problems, but not obviously unsolvable, and not obviously worse than the problem of dying; but I don't know.

But if you think that in the world where people don't die of old age, we should kill them ourselves - I want you to come right out and say it. I won't tell you that you're wrong.

But you don't get to hide behind "the natural order of the universe". That's not how ethics works.

If we should let people die in this world, we should kill them in that one. If we should let people live in that world, we should try to save them in this.

> human arrogance (for example, imagining that human agents might be able to change the aforementioned non anthropomorphic, non perceptable, non cognitively encompassed universe)

This just strikes me as bullshit. What are you saying we can't do, exactly? In one sense, we can't change the universe: the laws of physics are constant and inviolable. And yet we went to the moon.

But eliminating aging wouldn't be changing the universe in that sense, any more than eliminating smallpox was. Was that arrogance? Was it bad to mess with the natural order of the universe like that?
Why does any police force need a grenade launcher? Unless these are used for tear gas or something.
Presumably for tear gas / smoke rounds?
Morgue?
It would be interesting to see a study that compared reading performance on larger books.

I just finished the Idiot, by Dostoyevsky. It was challenging; I frequently flipped back to earlier passages to clarify details.

It was easy to find passages. When I read paperback I have some kind of tactile memory for where details are. I don't necessarily remember words, so I couldn't search. But I can find any passage in 2-10 seconds. I can't do that electronically.
You certainly aren't BASE jumping with military parachutes. At least not more than once.
Think of Derivative as a function which inputs a function and outputs a function. When you think "derivative of 5 is 0", you imply "derivative of f(x)=5 is f'(x)=0"

This article seems to define a function called Derivative which inputs a number and outputs a number. In this case, "derivative of 5 is 1" actually translates to "derivative of 5 is 1".
FTA: "To patch it up, we attach the product price to the order..."

The author already discussed attaching the price to the product into a ProductPrice. His argument continues that price is only one thing, there may be more.

FTA: "If our analytics department needs to know the product category for their reporting, or if our accounting department needs to know cost-of-goods-sold for revenue calculations, we must attach these as well, as they may change over time. As these requirements grow, you end up sending more and more of the object graph attached to the order, just to maintain consistency for everything that happens after-the-fact."

He's essentially extracted all this information out into its own class caleed "State" which can be referenced by a single ID and passes that along with his product, a ProductState if you will.
TicketLabs will have an uphill battle against TicketMaster, but man do I hope they succeed.
Hedgefunds CAN beat indexes, but most dont. Most Hedgefunds fail early.
Because there's an epidemic of cell phone theft, many cellphone manufacturers don't provide a reliable mechanism for the victim of theft to deactivate their phone, and third party solutions are hit-and-miss. The primary purpose of the legislation is to require manufacturers to provide users with a way to remotely brick their phone. They're also required to get the user's permission for this as part of the phone setup, and make it easy for the user to disable the feature at any time. That's why there is support for this ability in a phone.
> I'd like to avoid going to Product Hunt whenever possible

Why?
It's lucky crime rates have dropped so low. You wouldn't want this kind of hardware lying around if there was any chance the wrong king of person could get their hands on it.

It would make a great movie or game premise though.
My comment earlier was a bit strong; there are obviously cases when you just need to get the job done, and if jQuery UI covers your use case with an acceptable perf hit then go with it.

If you want a halfway house, I've just remembered this little jQuery plugin, not well known at all, but it is the best thing available:

http://threedubmedia.com/code/event/drag

For me this plugin was a bridge between using DnD libraries and writing raw mouse listeners. It basically just fires off events at key points during a drag sequence, and it's up to you to update element styles to move them around... ie, you can't see anything physically happening on the page unless you update the DOM yourself (not difficult). It's basically sugar around mouse events to make them a lot less intimidating, eg, on each move it gives you the mouse position relative to wherever the drag started, so you don't have to keep track of this yourself.

Compared to any regular DnD library, it's better performing and miles more flexible. It's almost as good as doing it with raw mouse events. Look at the demos and view the code, they are impressive. It's old though. Hope it still works with modern jQuery.
You realize the Mexican War is over?
The bet between Warren Buffett and New York based asset manager Protégé Partners is that in the 10 years starting January 1, 2008 Protégé’s five hedge funds of funds will give a higher averaged returns to investors (after all fees) compared to Buffet's choice of the S&P index fund Vanguard Admiral. As of June 2014, Buffet's pick is up by 43.8% while Protégé is up only 12.5%.

http://fortune.com/2014/02/05/buffett-widens-lead-in-1-milli...
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Excuse me sir, have you accepted our lord and savior React.js into your life?
Yes that's it exactly. They bill for shipping + their service, and pass on the fees customs charge for the items.
Step 0 seems impossible, but you really just have to talk to people. I say this as a formerly very shy, awkward person.

Start by talking to people you have on interest in talking to. Don't approach an attractive member of the opposite sex or a businessperson. Instead, say hello to an elderly person you normally wouldn't look twice at.

Or try to make cashiers laugh. Brighten up people's day. If you just talk consistently, you'll get better. Talking to people is a skill like any other.
Google uses this as a key litmus test for which businesses it wants to enter - the media's reported on Larry's "toothbrush test", where he's only interested in products that get used at least twice a day.

This is also behind the increasing focus on traffic & turn-by-turn navigation in Google Maps, and the acquisition of Waze. Google Maps as web-based satellite mapping software gets used only once or twice per year, when you go on a trip to an unfamiliar location. Google Maps as a local business directory gets used once or twice per week, when you're looking for restaurants or coffee shops to meet at. Google Maps as a traffic-avoidance system gets used once or twice per day, to figure out the best route around jams.
No, they couldn't shoot more than a few people before thousands of armed citizens made them stop.

To help clarify things: the city of LA has 10,000 police officers and 1,000,000+ armed citizens.
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> The main issue debated is whether or not companies like IV hurt or help innovation with its business practices.

This is an interesting point. Has anyone (without a direct financial interest to do so) made a credible argument that IV is anything other than harmful to innovation?
Roughly (I'm not a lawyer) data by itself is not copyright-able, but the organization and selection of data is, so most datasets do, in fact, have to come with a license to be usable.
Then don't enable this feature on your phone. The law also requires that the feature be explicitly approved by the user and that it can be disabled by the user at any time.
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Yes much more accurate to say smart phones came along. Back then the "mobile" experience was typically a WAP/WML service that would display text on the screen that you could navigate. I actually worked on a service back then called Strategy.com that used WML to deliver news, weather, and traffic to mobile devices. It was very limited. We thought we were awesome when we created traffic notifications using a push service that cell providers would bundle on the phone.