skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm of the tiny, minority unpopular opinion that believes you can beat the market by picking stocks,. I have done so consistently for the past decade. Pick large cap companies with huge growth, high barriers to entry, insulated from economic trends, no debt, and high profit margins.

My favorites:

MA, V, BABA, GOOG, FB, JNJ, GILD, HD

That's not many, but these are some of the best long term investment ideas I can find. Stay away from volatile, macro-sensitive sectors like oil, materials, and retail and stick to healthcare, consumer staples, and utilities. People are getting older and wanting to live longer which is bullish for healthcare, and the web isn't going anywhere even if oil is going to $40.

Or you can try an ETF linear combination http://greyenlightenment.com/?p=1540

There are many strategies that beat the market and provide as good risk adjusted returns as an index fund .

Warren Buffett , btw, broke his on advice of avoiding tech by buying IBM, which has lagged the market considerably. most of the time Warren Buffett doesn't pick stocks in the traditional sense but instead gets special preferred shares that pay huge dividends and other perks. The performance of BRK.B is influenced more by the private companies like Geico and than stocks like Coke.
This is very cool. Enjoyed playing around w/ it. Nice job.

But one thing (for whatever it's worth) what makes vim super useful (to me anyway) is the plugins and my vimrc with custom key bindings.

(edit) On second look, it appears you can modify vimrc. Very nice.
Using a non-commercial insurance policy for a commercial-use vehicle is fraud and routinely leads to declined claims.

The vehicle driver might be aware of that and take the risk anyway, but passengers are usually not aware of this and need some protections.
There are other, safer, kinds of funds beside stock funds. It sounds like what you want is a fund holding government bonds. Those are pretty safe, and will probably give you better return than the bank.
lol, the Patterns of GoF seemed like those of tailoring to me.
There is an economics article I’ve brought up several times on HN. It has a lot of non obvious deep implications: “The Nature of the Firm' (1937), By Ronal Coase” It tries to answer the question of why companies exist rather than bilaterally trade of goods and services between individuals in a market. IE, if centralised economies are so bad, why are free market economies dominated by enormous companies that are internally run like a Stalinist country. Instead of Apple making all the software and hardware and the babushka doll of precursor software and hardware, couldn’t we have Apple replaced by a market?

The economics of the time (especially among proponents of centralized systems) focused a lot on “inefficiencies.” Why produce hundreds of iPad screen designs when only one is needed. Economies of scale. Coase’s answer to the question was transaction costs. The “cost” of weighing all the options and negotiating a deal to have you write a thousand lines of code to go into my bigger bundle of code.

In modern companies like Apple this is extreme. But, if you think about it in a manufacturing economy, it makes more sense.

Anyway, as I said, the more I think about it the deeper some of the concepts and implications seem to be. For example: (a) There are inefficiencies out there on the scale of East/West Germany. (b) Transactions costs are at the root of many/most major inefficiencies.

The part of this blog that got me thinking about this was “working for equity vs. salary.”

I think that for most people, the choice company they work for wass 80% chance and 20% uninformed bias. Applying for a job and interviewing is a big overhead (transaction cost) and your ability understand the company’s chances of success and the magnitude of this success isn’t very good. The fact that many people don’t know what percentage of the company their stock represents is the glaring proof. Prospective employees don’t have anywhere near the information that investors do. How much money is in the bank? What are revenues? Burn rate? Valuation at previous rounds?

The poverty of information and the fact that transaction costs make it impossible for one to consider more than the tiniest semi-random sample of opportunities is exactly the kind of dynamic I think Coase’s work implies.
> http://minireference.com/static/excerpts/Shannon_channel_cod...

in case somebody is interested in more than the 15 pages provided in the excerpt, here's ivan's complete thesis:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.4188v1.pdf
Yes, that's exactly my point. By occuring zero times, it means the preceeding token is irrelevant, and will match any arbitrary string.
Sorry, but that's an outright conspiracy theory you have there. The drug policies are nothing but a populist response to the public demands to "do something" by politicians who know no ways to deal with undesirable phenomena other than trying to ban it. The same knee-jerk reaction is behind many if not most policies (most famously, rent controls).

In my country there are no private prisons and no racial minorities to criminalize but the drug laws are just as bad as in the US. Actually, much worse. And if you go to the comments section under any article about legal highs on the local news sites, most people are demanding even more draconian measures, including death penalty for possession.
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People don't pay for things that they don't have to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows#T...

The same kind of thing happened 15 years later with UEFI and Secure Boot.
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US government bonds (ten year, so plenty of short term price risk) pay 2.16%. If you are in Europe, German government bonds pay around 0.8%.
Fair enough, but implied anchors are not part of the regex standard
I'm sure that you're using simplified terms to explain this but bass reflex enclosures don't use reflected sound per se. It's a heimholtz resonator(like blowing across the top of a glass bottle) and the air in the port is in phase with the front of the speaker until it's tuning frequency at which point it rolls off more steeply than a sealed enclosure because of phase cancellation.
Nor did he mention Facebook stock. Weird.
Definitely check out the imgur gallery[1] with explanations of all the scenes!

http://imgur.com/a/Ur5dP
It does depend even in mature boring companies you can make a nice return I made a fair bit on BT.A and REL (Elsevier)

Of course when I worked for poptel (.5%) I would have been able to retire if we had been brought out by the co-op

BTW in the UK BT 's latest employee 5 year share save returned £60k tax free and that is a scheme available to every one.
Amen.

My impression from a small european country is that most politicians will happily damage the tax payer for an amount roughly 2 orders of magnitude higher than the corresponding bribe, whether by taking a cut when privatizations happen or by spending ludicrous amounts on infrastructure projects or military hardware, or even by investing taxpayers' money badly on purpose to benefit banks (who pay bribes).

The only remedy I see is more transparency (all contracts, offers etc. must be made public) - but recent trends go in the other direction with secret agreements, more direct democracy (immediate direct public votes to prevent unpopular political decisions) and harsh punishment when officials are caught taking bribes (the Chinese go to extremes though - death penalty sometimes - with no apparent effect).

Long-term, very optimistic vision: replace corrupt political decision makers by AI, but I fear human tricksters will be able to take advantage of that too.
Thanks for responding.

I can see the value of interrogating your personal analytics. I guess how valuable that is depends on how much activity and content you have invested in these online services. And of course, some companies, as you say, would love for their online services to be your principal digital identity. (Which raises another question: do people want a single digital identity? Or do they prefer multiple, unconnected identities? Or even a single identity that isn't joined up with everthing they do online?)

"My question is how we enfranchise those individuals with the choice..."

A good question and I agree. For me, it's also about giving users the information to understand the implications of making that choice. This is particularly important (in my view) when your personal data is involved. That's one reason why I'm critical of Google. Privacy is important to me and they omit basic and (in my view) essential information about privacy in their privacy policy. This makes the privacy implications of using their services unclear. (And, yes, I realise this all comes down to levels of trust, the interpretation of privacy, the value of the service provided, and how much importance someone ascribes to privacy in the first place.)
This is called "Day-age creationism". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-age_creationism , which also includes the history behind that specific interpretation.

Quoting from a creationist site (http://www.icr.org/article/theistic-evolution-day-age-theory... ), "Most Bible-believing creationists maintain the day-age theory is an unbiblical option for the following reasons:", followed by 15 reasons. That essay is from Richard Niessen. 1980. Theistic Evolution and the Day-Age Theory. Acts & Facts. 9 (3).

This is because Niessen is a Young Earth creationist, who believes in the literal word of the Bible, as compared to redefining the words to try to make the Bible fit the scientific narrative. Quoting another creationist,"If God cannot be taken literally when He writes of the rising of the sun, then how can one insist that He be taken literally when writing of the rising of the Son?" (Note that ICR is also a Young Earth creationist institution.)

Since some creationists reject day-age creationism, using the same source material, where then is the additional evidence that might resolve this ambiguity? Otherwise this link is only repeating old arguments, which of course are completely at odds with everything non-Biblical-based research has concluded for at least the last century.
Very nice. It first struck me as just a curiousity but honestly I would consider using a browser plugin like this that let me edit web forms with something like this, picking up my local ~/.vimrc. That or for the various interactive code editing tools like ipython.
You seem to not realize those are problems for us, human virus, and not the planet problems. Those so called problems are natures way of trying to balance things. If you cut hunger and make a breakthrough in healthcare you will immediately accelerate population growth, and in effect accelerate pollution and energy use.

Earth is unsustainable in the long run. No one is willing to accept euthanasia, birth limits, basically efforts to maintain population caps. People might say its a good idea others should implement, not them personally :)
As I saw, the regexps are all implicitly anchored. When you read `A`, you need to be thinking `\AA\Z`.
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> I also believe that the stock market is a game, not an investment vehicle.

So beat the day traders, quants on their own game. You dont have to trade daily, just buy stock of a good company at a reasonable price and sit back. Once you have invested in a good company then the next step is not to do anything foolish, like selling your shares just because the company had a bad quarter.

Have you read Ben Graham's Intelligent investor, if not, you should.
Non-technical people learned WYSIWYG and they can learn something else too.
I get the same addresses from 208.67.220.220 as I do from 8.8.8.8 - addresses belonging to my ISP. If I'm using OpenDNS's recursor to look Google up, that would put the query (from Google's perspective) firmly outside of my ISP network, so why am I getting addresses pointing to my ISP in that case?
> the active fund is now always ahead of the index

but the question is how do you select the active fund which will consistently beat the market in the future.
most social news sites like reddit and digg consist of a clique of a dozen or so people who control the flow of discussion, and dissent is down-voted. such is life. That's why I work for myself so I call the shots.
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Google has a POP (point-of-presence) at most ISPs, even small ones.

There was a whole time, when pinging google.com would return xxx.static.my-isp.tld as rDNS.

# dig @2001:4860:4860::8888 +short A google.com. | head -n1

85.234.204.236

# dig @8.8.8.8 +short A google.com. | head -n1

74.125.136.102

The first IP, if you whois it, belongs to my ISP, the 2nd IP belongs to Google.

These POP servers are one to several Dell servers located in your ISPs network, who then redirect traffic to other Google servers. These servers usually also have some caching (ie popular YouTube videos are cached there).
This is really interesting. Perhaps this would allow for vim on ChromeOS without messing with the linux images (crouton) or the like.
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I use LiveScript. Sadly it's not typed. But with it's standard lib prelude.ls it makes a nice package.
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I did not know about GGC, and that seems cool (and similar to the Netflix approach of putting content servers inside ISP networks). However, this does not explain why I get an address pointing to my ISP network when I query via OpenDNS, which is definitely outside of my ISP network and is an intermediate recursor (so, from the perspective of the nameservers for google.com, the query is not coming from a Virgin Media address range).

EDIT: And from the GGC documentation, it does not seem as if the ISPs are required to serve content from the in-ISP nodes to customers outside the ISP, which is what this would look like.
I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you just implying the FB is a bad investment and so are the ones I mentioned?
Ask HN: I registered a domain that has a Twitter account assigned to it
I just registered a nice domain name for a new project. Let's call it xyz.com. The domain was free, but has been in use before.

I noticed the twitter handle @xyz is registered, has a text and a logo of the project that previously was on the domain. It has not twittered anything though. It has a link to xyz.com in its description and it is assigned to mail@xyz.com

What would you guys do? Just reset the twitter password and use it? Try to contact Twitter? Try to contact the previous owner? So far, I was not able to find any contact info.
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I don't think that they will go bankrupt. Rightscorp is a loss making shell company which remains in business due to regular 'donations' from copyright holders.

Their remit is to engage in aggressive, quasi-legal practices intended to frighten people away from the sharing of copyright material without having the legal repercussions from using these tactics backfiring on the copyright holders themselves.

While this lawsuit seems crazy and immoral, there is method in Rightscorp's apparent madness and badness, and it is certainly consistent with their other practices. This lawsuit will hit the news just like all their other antics, and create a general level of FUD that will induce people to think twice before they download copyright material, just in case they find themselves at the wrong end of a lawsuit that they cannot afford to defend.
As a first step, I wonder how feasible it would be to have a constant presence around these planets and moons? A 'standard' orbiter, mass produced? I was reading about the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer mission, and it's incredibly exciting, but it won't get there until the 2030s, and even then it'll be a temporary presence.

The reason I think of this is that I recently came across this animation from New Horizons showing a 330km-high eruption that recently happened on Io:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_(moon)#mediaviewer/File:Tvas...

It's utterly captivating, at least to me, and I can't help but wonder what effect it would have on the public's imaginations to be able to see images like that every day, in high definition, from all over our solar system.
I wonder how the serializers will coexist with the Django Rest Framework serializers in an existing app? How different are they? Will I have to have dozens of duplicate definitions? One for DRF and one for SwampDragon?
OP remarked, why do the mutual fund managers have yachts but none of the clients do?

It's as frivolous as asking why the executives of Nike have millions but the majority of people who buy Nikes don't.
(.)+\1 means the last letter has to be equal to the first letter.

(AB|O|OR)+ dictates that the last letter of the first row has to be A or O

[^ABRC]+ makes it so that the lower right square can't be B therefore the upper right square can't be A
Oh thanks for clarifying that!
Don't the nations with the best health care also tend to (perhaps not always) have slower population growth?
Here too, but the driver doesnt see it either way.
Uh, violent crime exists. And it's worth fighting. Right? As is corruption? Or do you think we should give up on both?
Todo list:
1- Invent powerful machines for simulations and calculations(ok)
2- Stop with childish religious beliefs altogether (in progress - 5ys)
3- Review completely the social contract (in progress - 50ys)
4- Fix mortality (urgent - 100ys)
5- Explore the universe (2114)
> This may be why time seems to speed up as you age: you develop more compressed representations of events, and the memories to be read out are correspondingly impoverished. When you are a child, and everything is novel, the richness of the memory gives the impression of increased time passage—for example, when looking back at the end of a childhood summer.

With no proof or otherwise, I had always conjectured that this was because time is compared proportionally. When I was 6, the three months of summer were approx 3 / 72 of my life = 1 / 24. When I am 60, those three months will occupy 1 / 240 of my life.
One thing you're forgetting is that it'll take a Maximum Effort to actually get mass quantities of people vaccinated. Especially if the vaccine requires refrigeration.

This, in an environment where fear, a common feature to all deadly epidemics, is a primary driving force.

Any significant fraction of vaccine administrations resulting in morbidity or mortality, or having to do it all over again with an actually effective vaccine ... well, it won't end well. I'm not sure you'd get a second try with another one.
Excellent article.

Thinking about it, 24fps (good old fashioned film), even though laughably low by the standards of modern displays, manages >1 frame per perceptual time-quanta, which is enough to give the illusion of motion. Any lower than that, and you start getting "frames" where there's no change in the film frame, and the motion illusion breaks down.
How I wish I was born in a time when mankind can travel the vast cosmos.
Next time you make a donation that could be disclosed, are you prepared to lose your job over it?

Disclosing the sources of campaign funding is not all roses. There are several groups who use that information to intimidate doners. They go after their careers, their businesses, their families, their reputations. They create maps of where "the opposition" lives, and then let the lunatic fringe on their side do what comes naturally to them.
Most of the quora answers seem to ignore the significant shift in avionics that has occurred with the general adoption of glass cockpits.

In older aircraft, you would've been staring at a wall of gauges, lamps, and buttons i.e., C130[1]. These, for the most part, have been consolidated into large multi-function displays (MFDs) like the C130 AMP [2] or C-5M [3] with the remaining analog controls are either there for emergency use or for the pilot's benefit like the yoke.

The MFDs generally reduce pilot workload by consolidating relevant data into task-oriented screens. However, the main driver was more likely the significant weight reductions and costs associated with manufacture and maintenance of the aircraft - fewer cockpit components and simpler wiring.

Ultimately, the types of controls are similar between the older and new aircraft. The notable exception is the keyboard(?!) in the A380s [4].

[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C-130_Hercules_cockpi...
[2] C130 AMP http://www.edwards.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/091109...
[3] C5M http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/C-5M_Cock...
[4] A380 http://www.aerospace-technology.com/uploads/newsarticle/6889...
Just take it: the account is unused, and you did an honest try to reach the former owner.
Just a tip - if you'd like to use vim on ChromeOS - look into Caret. Its a nice code and text editor like Notepad++, and it has a vim-mode. Its been a while since I've used it, and I don't think it's very extensible, but its something.
...er, don't wish to sound negative, this crashed on me. 8Gb RAM Ubuntu box with Chrome - normally a stable computer that doesn't do things like 'swap'. I might try it again on my ChromeOS box, but, right now, that is as far as I got.
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This is very cool. I love Lua, though my experience with it is limited to the few weeks I spent playing around with it as a Source engine scripting language in Half-Life 2: Sandbox. Still, it was very fun to learn, and I think this is an interesting application outside of its usual game scripting territory that I'd love to try out sometime. Great work! Thanks for sharing.
OpenDNS uses edns-client-subnet, which passes the DNS client IP subnet (/24) with the recursion request. Google still knows you are on Virgin Media from behind OpenDNS.

http://www.afasterinternet.com/howitworks.htm
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Your command log shows you are not using OpenDNS, but Google's Public DNS (8.8.8.8). Are you confusing the two?
Patterns exist to compensate for a programming language’s lack of expressiveness!
The talk is here: https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/4971-domain-driven-desi...
Edit: Swampdragon runs in a Tornado IO loop for real time functionality, and uses Redis Pub/Sub for actual Pub/Sub messaging. It's more like Django bolted to Tornado than Pub/Sub added to Django.

* Objects are diffed in the python process before saving the new state. They
are diffed with what was loaded from the DB at object initialization time.

https://github.com/jonashagstedt/swampdragon/blob/master/swa...

* Then, the whole object is stored, and the changes are broadcasted. Since
the whole object is stored, you can get race conditions if multiple server
processes modify it concurrently.

https://github.com/jonashagstedt/swampdragon/blob/master/swa...

* Messages are sent from Python to Redis Pub/Sub channels, and received by
Python again. If the Python process has (Websocket) subscribers for the channel,
messages are delivered. The indirection over Redis allows having multiple
Python processes.
Yup. More info here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-edns-clien...
js_of_ocaml let's you do ocaml in both client and server, and in a single app, with shared variables. http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/
As it operates on the byte code you can put any ocaml into the browser, even the compiler itself.
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>If it was any good, it wouldn't need paid sales reps. //

Unless they wanted to increase their profits. Just because something is good doesn't mean that sales reps can't convince more people to want it.