skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, if you are sure the market is about to go into a steep correction or even a recession. But how do you know that? Why not go even further - If you knew for sure the market was going to drop, you could make a lot of money in options. Why aren't you doing that instead?

You shouldn't be trying to time the market. Lots of people try, they tend to fail. Come up with an allocation plan, and stick to it.
Thank you. I knew about the DSN but didn't know there was a status page. Quite fun.
I maintain the polyfill service. I think it's great that more people care about polyfilling older browsers and it would be so much more powerful if we collaborated on one service. Your feedback on polyfill.io is accurate, but out of date. I know you were very active in working with Jonathan on his original service, and I'd be delighted to talk to you about how we can work together.

I'd also make a few points of feedback on your solution:

1. It's confusing to name your service with a name that is only one character different than ours. Some might interpret that the confusion is your intention, which I'm sure it isn't - would you consider renaming it? We've already seen confusion happen around polyfill.io (which is still the old service for compatibility reasons) and cdn.polyfill.io.

2. Granted, Jonathan's original polyfill.io had no tests. But that's one of the things we've spent a lot of time fixing, and our test framework is now extremely good. You're testing using naive feature-detects, while we have relatively comprehensive test suites for many features and are adding more all the time.

3. Your targeting of browsers is based on data gathered from crowdsourced sources like caniuse and MDN, whereas we establish compatibility through testing our polyfills in every browser using an automated CI-driven process on Sauce Labs.

4. We are now starting to incorporate other people's polyfills where they are better than ours, and have a mechanism to do that, and to store and serve the appropriate attribution and licence information. We've actually considered many of the polyfills that you have made part of your service.

5. We've had discussions with several of the authors of the popular polyfills you've included, and their main concern over the way we were considering including their code was that we copied it into our repo rather than linking their repo as a dependency. You're doing that too, and including more third-party code than we have so far. It's totally legit within the licences they've granted and it's a policy we'll probably continue to follow too, but we're still thinking on how we can do this in a way that keeps everyone happy. For the moment, this is encouraging us to lean more towards using our own code.
I posted it after one of our engineers discovered that this is a hard problem!

We were trying to use Twilio and Authy on an application but they handle phone numbers in a different way. Say you accept a phone number from Argentina, to call mobile phones from outside the country you need to add a 9. Twilio accepts that 9 and correctly sends SMS or calls to that number but Authy only accepts the local number format without the 9 and have a big IF to add the 9 internally. So, if for some reason the application must use a phone number in Twilio AND Authy you will need to accept two phone numbers from the user (that are the same in different formats), which is... annoying.
Here's the description from chromestatus: https://www.chromestatus.com/features/5169444246519808
Yeah; if I could take a pill a day like the T2D crowd with Metformin I would prefer that any day to insulin therapy.
and whatever it is... is it legal?
Glad I could help you alleviate your white guilt. Now let's work on why you're a sexist douchebag.
1. Not everyone has the time to study finance.

2. According to Piketty, the market is doing pretty well over time, so simply following it is perfectly ok.

That said, I've heard the best way to beat the market is to invest in undervalued, small, unglamorous and mostly unknown companies. Obviously, that requires some serious study and resistance to hype.
Also, http://whatsthefare.com/

Read their blog, it's pretty interesting. Fred Wilson also discusses the findings here: http://avc.com/2014/10/the-cost-of-loyalty/
I did not mean some fantasy version of Capitalism, just the fact that for a modern capitalistic society to function, people have to want to buy a new car every few years, strife to have a house and take on consumer credits to buy a new flat screen TV. Maybe I should have used Consumerism. I think it is fairly indisputable that modern economies would not function, if there were not a constant and increasing demand for new stuff. From a global standpoint this seems far from optimal, if you want to optimize for conserving finite resources like oil. In a free market the only way to counter act that a finite resource is exhausted is by the fact that the price increases as time goes on. So there is a very long time where you can use a resource for frivolous stuff like Helium balloons, while at the same time being perfectly aware that it should probably be used for more useful things.
OpenBazaar is a decentralized Dark Net market that's 'untouchable' by police
How do you see value investing vs MPT then ?

I often refers to a good paperon What has worked in investing [1]

I think Taleb criticism is right though and he demonstrates it through Mandelbrot fractal.

[1] http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/sites/valueinvesting/files/file...
We did hear a story in Idaho where they walked in on prisoners watching a Khan Academy video about building a motor (https://www.khanacademy.org/science/discoveries-projects/dis...). Since motors are contraband (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edc37hoSD7Y), they had to remove the video.
Yup - building a universal library of functions. Let me know if you have any questions paul@blockspring.com.
Just out of curiosity, how do people who invest at $25B valuation expect to make money? Are they okay with it going from $25B to $50B and getting 2x, or are they also looking for 10x+ return?
This is only partially true. Even before the internet people talked to each other. You knew basically what you should be making for a given position.

I've negotiated salary on every job after the first. I probably ended up with a few extra percent, but it wasn't major.
Is it a real-time check, which would include surge pricing, or just a calculation based on carriers' published rates?
We'd be curious to hear what state this was in. KA Lite is being used in prisons all across Idaho, and many in Washington state, some in New Mexico, Virginia, and a few others. In some cases, this is grassroots. We're figuring out ways to help overcome institutional resistance to make sure it can be accessed by as many prisoners as possible.
behavior that have a negative impact on other people, such as stealing for drugs, comes from the physical addiction.

And, I took the most addictive drug to illustrate this.

What is the net negative impact that MDMA users, for instance, have on other people ? Other than being nice to the point of being annoying, but, well, if we talk about this kind of negative impact, what are we waiting to make ethanol illegal ?
They're each contributing the same: one person's worth of work.

The article discusses the idea that when you're hired you're given a career that the company decides on, not you. So in that context, where they'll turn an art history major into a java developer, things are different.

The Japanese system is predicated on the idea that salarymen are fungible, and in that context your personal skills or contributions don't factor in. You're the same as everyone else, and if every one of a company's 80,000 employees is functionally identical from the point of view of the system, there's no real line between a programmer and a janitor.
When you make everyone work until 1:00 AM you can afford quite a bit of inefficiency.
That's right, thanks for the correction.
IMHO, the quality of people you will find at your local retail branch of an ibank (think BoAML, JPMChase, WF/Wachovia, etc.) is still very shoddy and suspect. These are the channels that people have immediate access to and think of visiting, even if you have $25MM. For these retail operations, iirc the threshold is $50MM before you are shipped off to a proper PWM team at HQ.

>You will have no shortage of white gloved managers eager to help you invest your $25M.

How do you know which while gloved manager is actually any good though, assuming that the $25MM guy is quite naive about investment management? I believe that the small time millionaire must be up to speed on investing basics just as much as the $500k guy, in order to be able to discern the competence of his managers.

I generally agree with jhulla's advice of going through a good estate planning attorney or accountant to find decent people. If you have a network of rich friends (which you can probably make in a few years after making your $25MM by plugging yourself into the right circles), but barring this (or even if you do manage this), I insist that even the rich guy needs to know at least the basics.
Argh. I haven't even thought of that. Moving into a new apartment in Tokyo in 1 weeks time.
Mozilla's implementation is the problem here, not the polyfill. The polyfill is actually (on this point) a better implementation of the spec than the one that landed in FF 32. What has happened here is that our test runner has loaded the polyfill, but it has not installed because FF passes a naive feature-detect. However, it goes on to fail the full test suite, so we conclude that the polyfill does not work (which is strictly true) and mark it accordingly on our compatibility chart.

Moz bug filed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=924058
You can add instrumentation to binaries using DynamoRIO or pin. This isn't currently supported by afl-fuzz out of the box, although there's nothing that makes it fundamentally difficult.
SR#1 they created the Armory, a seperate market. It was full of scams and extortion attempts so shut it down. Best listing was some guy in Russia trying to peddle uranium for GPS coord drop.
We'd like to have generic APIs in the future that will allow idiomatic automatic data parallelization. Niko Matsakis has been thinking about this for quite a while. Stay tuned :)

(Note that Servo has been using this type system feature for a while now to prevent data races in our massively parallel CSS layout code.)
I don't believe the 'threat to capitalism' that the parent referred to requires the hippies to immediately threaten to create a communist/anarchist/etc society, just to not participate in the capitalist rat race, to base their lives less around consumption. In that light a 'nice' place is very different from the typical "American dream"TM, and having such a place and feeding your family don't require the type of participation we're talking about.
Very well written and balanced, the time was worth it.
Python obviously has those primitives (that's what I meant by the tradeoff between it and Golang) but Guido infamously discourages their use.
Cool! Yep, you can install it on anything that runs Python (it's all written in pure Python, with no libraries that have binary dependencies). We run it on Raspberry Pi's, netbooks, server racks, Sandisk Connect hotspot devices, old Pentium III's, and now (thanks to python-for-android) even standalone on Android devices (which should be released soon). We want to support any old, existing hardware, as well as the cheapest stuff available off the shelf today.
When hackers grow old
Stocks and bonds being inversely correlated is an old rule that hasn't held as true since the 2008 crisis. Stocks, most bonds, and most other asset classes have been moving up and down together although with different degrees of volatility. Long term US treasuries are a standout as one of the only investments that has a clear inverse correlation to the general pattern.

Having run a lot of simulations in determining my own portfolio I came to the conclusion that these things affected my returns, in decreasing order:

1. annual maintenance costs
2. tax effects
3. choice of index
4. diversifying beyond stocks/bonds

I imagine most people who aren't using a passive strategy can chop 1 - 1.5% off their costs just by switching to indexes, and the remaining optimizations will pale in comparison. But as the size of the portfolio increases the additional effort becomes worthwhile.

It's possible that over the long term the market will decouple again but keep in mind that most investment advice about "universal truths" about the "long term" are based on a little over 100 years of market data. Given that I started investing at age 20 and will hopefully live to old age, that's not a lot of training data in comparison to the amount of prediction it's generating.
>>Regarding "Don't beat the market", Warren Buffet says "The game is really easy when your opponent decides not to play".

Except Warren Buffet himself is a huge proponent of low-cost index funds, and recommends them for the average person.

You really can't use him as an example because he's at the extreme end of the spectrum: wealthy to the point where managing his wealth is his full-time job. He has decades of experience and the knowledge that brings. So to him, it does look as if no one else is playing the game. That's the real context of his quote.
Well, the drugs were just a side story to the political activism that took place along with it. The war on drugs is just one of several counter measures to the shock the political elite experienced, when suddenly "fringe elements of society" demanded active political participation. The cost of a college education would be another example. It has skyrocketed since then, and now to become a decently educated person, you basically have to work a high paid corporate job afterwards, unless you are lucky.
polyfills.io is not an FT service.

polyfill.io is the original service by Jonathan Neal that our service is based on. It is shortly to be decommissioned.

cdn.polyfill.io is our new service, the subject of this HN thread, and a collaboration between Jonathan Neal and the FT.

polyfills.io is an unaffiliated project by Jonathan Ong.

The naming is confusing. Hopefully it will be clearer when we're able to decommission the original polyfill.io, and I've asked Jonathan Ong to consider renaming his.
Yes, speaking from personal experience, I'd say that it does depend on the area and the way people are in that area. I agree with you, there are places/circumstances where classism is more prevalent/destructive than racism. In the US on the whole, however, classism still hurts black people more than it hurts anyone else.
regarding last mile transportation, it's worth noting that Uber employees themselves not infrequently take Uber from 4th and Kings station to their office at 10th and Market, which is only a few miles away.
... have come to expect some advances in programming languages from the last 50 years of research?
We need a good tutorial for TempleOS. It will last longer than Windows or Linux.
You can only open an account with Vanguard directly if you are in the US.
Statistically, professional investors don't beat the market. People aren't "downvot[ing] what they don't understand", they're downvoting demonstrably poor advice.
If want to invest $1M you can get managed tax loss harvesting that will pay for itself. Also you should probably have more asset classes than just US equities. Having said that, you could do a lot worse.
What I meant by "last mile transportation" was the transportation of physical goods, like packages, mail, delivery food, etc. Drivers could probably fit a couple of these "errands" in at no loss, while increasing the efficiency of last mile transportation/delivery for the services seeking to deliver goods.
The initial use of "Huh?" might have been what set the tone for me. At the time I read it, the comment also ended with "kiddie", so I might be a bit biased.

Aside from that, it's obvious he has more experience with Erlang but the tone still matters in a discussion.
> 3 months: How long it takes a dedicated beginner to learn the skills to qualify for computing and web development jobs.

I'm genuinely curious as to how many people here, who either program or hire programmers, will say that the above is a true statement.
The reality is that the professionals have better tools. It's not just gambling, it's gambling against someone that can see the cards.

If there is some method to turn $1 into $2 then there is a whole sea of people who are better and smarter than me who will keep doing it till that method no longer works.
Depending on the personal injuries claims that courts hand out, this could be risky in some countries.
Write in Go
An alternative that was posted here a week or so ago: https://eager.io/blog/how-long-does-an-id-need-to-be/
Like many people higher up, he'd made large bets and instead of admitting he'd screwed up, he tries to keep the lie going.

This is extremely common behaviour, high up and on the street, and it rarely benefits the person doing it - except in the extreme short term.

There is something people don't realize about decision making : time horizons. You make decisions that benefit you in time. That means you consider whether an action benefits you at point X in the future. There are extreme examples, like giving a kid all the candy he'll get for a week and letting him divide it up. On the other end of the spectrum we have the Sagrada Familia. The people voting to have it built would never see any part of it. Their grandchildren wouldn't see more than a tiny bit. Their grandchildren's grandchildren would not see it. And so on.

Now these aren't "pure" examples. The kid is not going to eat all the candy right then and there, and building the Sagrada Familia had economic advantages when it was being built, and even today.

But if you consider most crimes at a time horizon of a day or two. They make sense, suddenly they become rational actions. HSBC and Jamie Dimon made decisions that would benefit them for years at least, and then lead to disaster. This is in fact quite a long time horizon. These are rational actions. Given the outcome, they are very rational actions.
I've never used uber or lyft, but I used sidecar yesterday for the first time, and given this was my first experience with this kind of service I have to say this is so much better than having to hail a taxi. It sucks that you have to have a smartphone, (what do you when battery is out) but otherwise it's easy to see how transformational this kind of new service is. You can pick your driver, your driver can accept or reject based on your destination, you can see how much they will charge up front, and you can tip right from your phone making the thing entirely cashless. It's pretty amazing.
You have to weight the infringement on the rights & freedoms of innocent bystanders suffering at the hands of the abusers, against the infringement of rights from outlawing the drug. Somebody must loose; which should it be?

This is a good question to ask in some hypothetical world where making it illegal actually stops people from consuming it.

That's clearly not our world, though, so the question is actually of little relevance. Laws punishing consumption have been shown, empirically, to violate the rights and freedoms of both the users and of the innocent bystanders (by preventing users from becoming non-users).
>>Somewhat paradoxically, I found it easier to focus at that hour.

This is because everyone else is sleeping and there are no distractions. Also, if you live in an urban area, the ambient city noise tends to be at a minimum at night, which can give a sense of peace and comfort that is otherwise not fully there.
It's not about "beating the market." It's about retail investors underperforming professional asset managers AND underperforming the market.

Tell me this: Other than reducing basis, what can you do to increase your chances of success in an investment? If success is defined as "not losing money"?

One way to reduce basis is by selling covered calls on your stock positions, limiting potential profit but adding no additional risk and substantially decreasing your basis month after month. It's not rocket science, and it's not "poor advice". You and retail investors as a class have been scared into thinking that it's "riskier" to spend $300 on a call spread in Tesla than it is to go out and buy 100 shares of TSLA for around $25,000. That doesn't compute.

Edit: It's not that an investment strategy that uses options is the only way to be a successful retail trader -- just like you can cook without sharp knives -- but dismissing them without being able to articulate why, well, that's not doing any favors for the regular investor.

Edit: I've been here for a long time and have plenty of karma to burn in the name of standing up and making a point I believe in. Something is wrong with retail investing when, as a class, we've consistently underperformed, and at the same time we have this dogmatic insistence that options are "too complicated" for the small investor. Mutual Fund? Front Load? Compound Interest? These are all ok but writing a covered call on a stock position is verboten and scary and too hard? Please. Buying (Edit: shouldn't have said "buying", what I meant was "making money on a") stock is a 50/50 bet. (Random Walk theory; Efficient Market). The price can either go up or down. There's no reason a retail investor should not tilt those odds a few points in their favor the same way professional traders do every day.
For slicing, the general rule in C++ is whenever you have a value object, polymorphism does not apply. A value object is always whatever its compile-time type is - after all, it's just a value, it can't represent some other "thing" that's off in some other memory space. Polymorphism only applies with pointers and references.

Remember this rule and the throws behavior makes perfect sense, as do a lot of other C++ gotchas.
>Lots of people try, they tend to fail.

And with enough people constantly trying to predict the market, inevitably some get it right. They make a lot of money, they're heralded as geniuses, and we hear about them in the news. We don't hear about everyone else who failed, or when the market-timing winners turn out to be repeat failures in subsequent years.

Put a bunch of people in a room and have them start flipping coins. If there are enough people playing the game, chances are somebody will end up tossing many heads in a row. If they keep flipping long enough, chances are they'll revert back to the mean. This is a pretty good model of market prognostication.
Vendors there sold phony identification for the sole puposes of renting drops to import narcotics or start a false front company. SR wasn't involved in trading databases of stolen info, though the other major sites that weren't busted are. Agora is like the walmart of e-crime
Shameless plug, but I put together http://www.Ryder.io for checking prices across Uber/Lyft/Sidecar/Summon. Ended up being very similar to whatsthefare
I'm addicted to Muji now and buy all my housing goods there (well, sometimes my wife sneaks over to Ikea but...). It really is very good...especially the really good balance of their 40 kuai spoons (the last spoon you'll ever buy), and I don't think I could ever use a sheet from anyone else.

I think Japan is like any other countries: there are pockets of genius in a mostly conventional culture. The same is true about the USA, China, and so on.
At a minimum you should get a "fee only" adviser who has a fiduciary duty to you. You can still get bad advice, but at least you won't get corrupt advice.
Or you could, uh, buy Berkshire Hathaway...
This is a great story. I actually was trying to remember flomio's name the other day (wanted to use their technology for something).

Really perfect timing for their technology, kudos to their persistence.