skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No doubt. And at this point I'm beginning to lean towards the idea of abolishing money altogether (and I'm the market anarchist here).
[TED Original-VIDEO] the Science Behind Stage Fright (and How to Overcome It…)
Limitations on short selling always concern and perplex me. Why is that a good idea? Isn't that preventing the market from properly adjusting to whatever circumstances have occurred, or new information that has arrived? Limitations like this feel like "Let's all pretend that the truth isn't true".

It astonishes me that in this day and age there are still so many arbitrary controls on marketplaces, such as the Greek stock markets shutting down due to their financial crisis. Isn't it important for the market to adjust and properly accommodate those events? (If the market simply cannot function due to the crisis itself, then that makes sense. I assumed it was shut down because people are afraid of how prices will change as a result.) Sure, some people might panic in an unreasonable way, and if they do, they will get taken to town by other people who go long during the same time period. Just like people who are overly confident will be taken to town by short sellers if there's a bubble and it bursts.

I understand why there are controls on the marketplace like around prohibiting naked short selling, or reversing transactions that were obviously erroneous, but controls like preventing short selling seem absurd. If someone wants to bet that prices will decrease, let them! That's an important signal and an important correction to the market. Perhaps we would have fewer market bubbles if there was more continuous correction.

Is anyone working on a bitcoin-based stock market with no limitations on trading? Could such a thing be legal? Perhaps actual shares of stock are not being traded, but rather some other kind of financial instrument that represents the right to the upside or downside of some shares without having to own them, but you own the upside or downside. Then the idea would be that anyone can buy these instruments using currency or bitcoin on a market that operates differently than today's conservative markets.

I imagine this is probably illegal for a variety of reasons, such as "know your customer", but it's interesting to think about. How would the stock market be different if trades were unregulated, in the sense that there are no limitations on buying and selling shares. It operates 24/7 and never shuts down no matter what happens, and never imposes constraints on selling or short selling. I imagine this market would need to operate as a central authority or federation of trusted brokers (someone needs to verify that the seller actually owns the shares they've promised to deliver), but the authority or brokers would be willing to transact in both regular currency and bitcoin. Would this be a more effective market, or a dysfunctional one, and why?
Curation is my entire business and this article only casually mentions what I think is the most important point about why human curation works so well: trust. And, in particular, trust when things get weird.

When there's a clearly identified brand or person standing behind curation, it has a major effect on the audience and their response, versus a "blameless" automated job. Humans explicitly trust or distrust other humans, whereas trust in software or algorithms is either implicit or of dubious nature.

If I subscribe to a magazine, listen to a radio station, or attend a festival curated by a known figurehead, group of people, or a brand like "The New York Times", that I trust, I know things that I experience that are out of my comfort zone were likely designed to be there. If a news recommendation algorithm throws up something weird (and they always do, alas), I have no idea if it was being smart or just making a mistake.
Full article: https://pando.com/2015/07/03/holacracy-dunces/e5d42015bc13e7...
> Shouldn't the campaign involve avoid insecure files in insecure format from unknown or unverified sources?

That's an interesting question. I think answering in the affirmative is infeasible.

Slightly smarter user behavior is part of the solution, sure, but users should not bear much if any of the burden of determining whether a file is secure (in this case, by remembering what file formats can include an OLE object and whether those are secure to open yet) and whether the many links of authentication all hold.

Oh, I got this message via <channel> from <person>, how do I know <person> actually sent it, or not? Well, <several entities> were involved in <system that delivered it>, do I trust all of them? Oh, I don't need to, because <other systems> authenticated the message. But what's the probability that <person> is either trying to infect me, or has an infected machine that's infecting any <format> files they send me? What other attack vectors are there? The rabbit hole runs deep.

Computers should just work. When a user thinks he got a message from <person> but it's not actually from <person>, that's not the user's fault, but the system's. When a message that the user expects to show him a bunch of pictures (slides from a presentation) actually contains executable code that takes control of his machine, that's not the user's fault for not knowing the latest CVEs are.
Clipper chip
I'm not sure 'normal' is the word I'd use there, unless one counts the collapse of Russia, the Napoleonic wars or WW1 as 'normal'.

If you read the section under IMF on the Latin American debt crisis, you'll see quite a few parallels with the Greek situation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_American_debt_crisis
I think my ability to say I'm glad he's apparently being less of a shithead is also protected speech. Why are we talking about this again? Nobody said he should be arrested.
I think the problem here is that people seem to assume that "application isolation" is synonymous with "security isolation." Your statement is true, the vulnerabilities are the same, but people don't seem to get that there is no "security story" for containers in the first place. That isn't their job.
If you use the 12 hours wisely then you can live a very full life. My life is much more focused now that I get 10+ hours of sleep (of course some people are super focused and sleep 4 hours - but the average person "wastes" a lot of the day).
I need more sleep than anyone I have ever heard of other than sick people - that is I sleep a lot when otherwise healthy - however I sleep very irregularly, commonly staying awake for days at a time then sleeping for several days.

I have always been this way it was a problem in grade school, and is why I am self employed.

In 2010 I determined that I can stay awake for four days before I start to experience subtle visual hallucinations; stay awake any longer and they became quite severe.

I think this may have damaged my brain somehow. At one time when I stayed awake so long I could work productively, no I cannot, however I still have that same sleep cycle.
Meanwhile people sleep on the streets in Greece,
from children to pensioners.

GDP in Greece is $18k per capita. Why do they sleep on the street? Where do people in Slovakia sleep? They have only $16k per capita.

I have friends in Macedonia. They have a GDP of $5k per capita. And I witness nobody sleeping on the streets, when I visit them.

Isn't Greece a relatively wealthy country, compared to several others in Europe?
Note that one of the authors (Jean-Louis Gassée) was in charge of Macintosh development at Apple in the 1980s, then left to head up Be Inc., the developers of the BeOS operating system.
I see lots of issues with this product...I hope they have good product liability insurance because they're going to need it.
There is no natural law that says this. People, organizations, and governments can very much accumulate debt that they cannot repay, it happens all the time. You can't squeeze blood from a stone, but you can enslave a person or throw them into debtors prison if a punitive approach is what you're after.

No matter what you do the debt will not be repaid because it cannot be repaid. We would like to think that in our modernity we have come up with civilized and merciful ways to deal with this situation, like bankruptcy for example. Unfortunately in the case of Greece the creditors seem less then enlightened.
Well, the guy had apples. Must have been legit!
I don't believe any harm has been identified yet, so any harm must be much more subtle than most genetic disorders one might be thinking of.

But if you're looking for an evolutionary rationale, the extra energy expenditure of 4+ hours additional wakefulness (either on its own or due to extra synaptic energy consumption if you accept Tononi's SHY theory of sleep) is a sufficient reproductive-fitness penalty in a pre-modern context to explain why it's rare.

> we need some randomized samples.

These pretty much are randomized samples. You can look at the siblings and relatives and now you've got Mendelian randomization, I think.

Further reading:

"A Gene That Makes You Need Less Sleep?" http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/a-gene-make... ; HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8215872

"Heritability of Performance Deficit Accumulation During Acute Sleep Deprivation in Twins" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3413799/ Kuna et al 2012

"The Transcriptional Repressor DEC2 Regulates Sleep Length in Mammals" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2884988/ He et al 2010

"A Novel BHLHE41 Variant is Associated with Short Sleep and Resistance to Sleep Deprivation in Humans" https://pdf.yt/d/i-sxyELBIBsir7uy Pellegrino et al 2014
Lack of sleep doesn't cause migraines for me, but I am and come from a family of long sleepers (9-14 hours a day it pretty typical).

I've been told point-blank that I just need to change my attitude because, according to this person, my inability to wake up refreshed with anything less than 9 hours of sleep is 100% because of my attitude.
There is no magic. Either the browser stores the source somewhere or the browser refuses to show source or the browser refetches the source from the server when asked to show it.

Given that in the setting of that bug report the user has explicitly instructed the browser to not store anything anywhere, and that you don't like the third option (the current behavior), I assume your proposed solution is to put up some sort of error message instead of showing the source in this situation?
The low Euro has not been courtesy of the Greeks. They are a tiny fraction of the Eurozone, with the population of Georgia and the GDP of Louisiana.

And yes, it is ideological. Multiple Greek governments cheated their way into the Euro and their population had a super high income for years [1]. Now they want to keep their entitlement state, with early retirements, higher pensions that other comparable EU countries, and huge amounts of bureaucracy and corruption. Why should the other countries continue to finance them?

I'm sure if Germans could go back in time and realized that the no-bailout clause of Maastritch would have been ignored so much, they would have rejected the Euro altogether (at least that was the opinion of the German economists I spoke to).

Why don't just let Greece default and leave the Euro? With their lax govt and rigid markets, they are not able to deal with a single currency. Let them default, like many countries have in the past, and then they will regain competitiveness at the cost of austerity by proxy, but that seems to be the only way.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2015/6/28/8858727/greece-gdp-chart
RDP on ChromeOS.
> Python 2 will never die.

Everything dies.

> Ask Kenneth Reitz for example. He says he will use Python 2 forever.

So, assuming this currently-stated intent never changes and Reitz is immortal, Python 2 will always be in use.

The first of those premises is somewhat suspect, the second even moreso.

> There are a lot of companies with huge codebases who never will port to Python 3.

That's probably true. Its less likely true that those companies will never port off Python 2.
Please read the book, "The Five Love Languages" so that you understand how real love works. You may not actually be in love.

This should give you relief about what to do. You don't "have" to react to your feelings because you're feelings may actually be betraying you.

If he is your best friend, I would take him aside and start out with an apology by asking him what to do.
> They might, but it's really hard to tell (they're so opaque it makes detailed analysis impossible).

This is actually one of the reasons why I think China is going to be worse off. More uncertainty means less foreign money coming in which is a bit of a viscous circle. Economies can't grow at a specific rate forever. There will be ups and downs, sharp rises and bubbles. As much as China tries to mitigate them, the can't fight it forever.

Also, the government has total control of their monetary system. While helpful in times of economic uncertainty (they can keep propping it up, even beyond what the U.S can/will do), it shows that China's Yuan isn't ready to replace the dollar. No country is going to want to go all in on a currency where the nation could pull the rug out from under you at any time. They would be beholden to China, and give up more 'power' than they do with their competitor, the U.S. China also ranks 100th on the global corruption index (http://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results). There are 99 countries less corrupt than China.

It truly and really is like the U.S is a legitimate bank with rules and regulations while China is more like the Mafia's version of bank, where they make their own rules and have no regulations or checks & balances on themselves.
You use something like lodash from the start so you know out of the gate you're getting something modular, consistent, feature rich, that also happens to perform well. Using a library like lodash gives wiggle room between you and the language. This wiggle room allows for increased consistency, added features, and performance improvements. For example ES6 introduces changes in `Object.keys` to support string values. Lodash standardizes the behavior so it's consistent across es3, es5, and es6 environments.
China may make its own rules, but reality gets a veto.

I'm perfectly even-handed with that assessment... it 100% applies to any economy, of any form.
As it's a sleeping pill, I've always assumed that meant staying awake
Please. The EU != Europe

I'm a citizen of a European country (Sweden), but I don't feel that I was given the finger at all. I would've voted the same if I were in their shoes.
I guess if you're outsourcing it? In my time in academia I knew labs that burned through $25,000 per month in mouse cage costs.

I can only guess what "five arms" you are referring to, but toxicity studies and efficacy studies often require different animals. Not just mice but transgenic mice, or nude mice with xenografts, etc. This has to be pricey to get the statistical power you need for a drug candidate.

I've also heard that the FDA likes to see more than one animal, so either rats or monkeys may be dosed as well. It all adds up.
Show HN: AngularJS factory implementation of base64
> I'd recommend reading the book Continuous Delivery. It is a fantastically helpful read.

Which one? The one by Humble and Farley (Addison-Wesley) is from 2010, is it still relevant?
I seem to recall people creating programs that would use gmail for data storage.

Also, UUCP sounds similar to Fidonet.
cool, will definitely take a look
When i used to very actively trade stock (even just thousands of dollars) i used to monitor releases from companies like MSFT's and Buffet's holding companies announcing upcoming stock purchases. I would then immediately buy the stock before they can. Then i would sell it a few days or few weeks after their purchase to lock in my 10-35% gain.
There are other traits than IQ which promote the success of the species.

Even if unintelligent, physical strength and endurance enable one to hunt, to flee from predators.

Sharp eyesight and sensitive hearing.

Those of African heritage commonly have Sickle Cell Anemia. While it is a crippling illness it gives one resistance to malaria; in much of Africa that enables one to live longer than those with healthy blood cells.
I think numpy and scipy[1] beg to differ. You should go look at what's actually available in terms of scientific computing on Python, as I think you might actually learn something (hint: numpy is really a bunch of Python wrappers over FORTRAN routines, if you look at the source code). Having been a PhD student in Physics, in particular (at an Ivy League university, nonetheless), I can tell you that the majority of new code we were writing was Python, and since I've left, it's probably gotten more so. A good example of Python in physics, is PyMCA[2]. Python is really poised to also (thank god) reduce the marketshare of Matlab.

[1] http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-dev/f2py/getting-started.htm...
[2] http://pymca.sourceforge.net/

Also:
http://www.quora.com/How-did-Python-dominate-scientific-comp...
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/138643/why-is...

Finally as a Physics person, you might also like the coursework for this (I certainly enjoyed the course):
http://pages.physics.cornell.edu/~myers/teaching/Computation...
That assumes you get to spend all 16 as you choose.

If you have to spend 9-11 hours at work, more time helping with homework and housework, more time shuttling dependents around, etc., etc., you can end up with very little time left to spend how you choose. Adding 4 hours to that could be like multiplying your one free hour that's left by 5.
The fact that Greece didn't meet the required criteria was well known at the time. The decision to let Greece (and others) join the union was a political one. I think the larger countries reasoned a country so small could only have a tiny effect on the overall economic picture. It's true, too - the Germans and the French have enough money pay Greece's bills indefinitely were they willing to do so.

The Achilles heel of the EMU was always that monetary policy is controlled in Brussels and each country has its own fiscal policy. While the individual countries are supposed follow certain fiscal rules there's no real enforcement mechanism.

In the long run that can't work. Either we're going to see a United States of Europe with both fiscal and monetary policy being set in Brussels, or the EMU is going to fall apart.
This would be true if people always behaved like Econs, not Humans. In normal times, the mass market averages out irrational behaviour (and there's less of it when things are calm) - but, occasionally the herd stampedes. Perhaps it's better in these cases to slow the panic until things calm down and people start behaving more rationally again.

There are also cases where people individually rationally maximizing their individual financial interests is, collectively, devastating for society as a whole.

Continuous adjustment sounds great, but sometimes we get crashes, which aren't.
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Tim O'Reilly Talks with Astro Teller about Moonshots [Video, 23 Mins]
Four(!) days? Seems like a neurological problem, have you had a medical exam or sleep study about this?
Definitely agree to an extent. Right now the video has helped us a bit since when we notice him getting a bit fussy/moving around we know its an early indication that feeding time is coming soon (ie. he hasnt cried yet but is starting to wake up).

But honestly, probably wont be staring at that video feed all day long like we do today haha.
Drat. rs4963955: TT; rs4963956: CC; rs1480037: CC. Of course, I already knew I was not a short-sleeper but one can always hope for a hidden superpower...
Encryption is like armor for information. Armor is a weapon.

Don't ask.
1) app search is so broken that I would pay[1] money to access a decently curated list. I'd love for something like GNKSA to exist but for apps that have demo / lite versions; are sold for a price; have limited sensible iaps; etc. or maybe there exists a subreddit for this?

2) I buy many books for my child. Amazon is pretty hopeless at recommending books to me, even though I've seeded it with knowledge of the books I've bought. So I turn to human curation: the Kate Greenaway medal focuses on excellent illustration in books for children. That list is an excellent source for books. Then one or two degrees of separation (eg, other books the illustrator has worked on, or other books the author of the winning book has written) get you hundreds of excellent books. Someone scraping this list and using affiliate links could probably make a bit of passive income.
what happens if you double the money supply but economic productivity also doubles? The money is worth exactly the same as before.
Things we’re not supposed to notice:

- Governments literally stamp their names and politician's faces on money. You're supposed to obtain it and give some back to the government.

- There’s a distinction between government and economy, though government enforces capitalism (social relations of "property", police, etc), and attacks other nations which try alternatives.

- The money supply is basically bureaucracy-points made on computers.

"In God We Trust" is an apt description of how we're not supposed to question simple things. With the moralistic notion of "debt", we religiously consign children to awful fates.
Yes, python is not the future...but no, Julia and Python's Numba is just as fast as FORTRAN.
I do work in the financial sector and somewhat aware of it.
OpenVZ or LXC give you OS containers like KVM or VMWare gives your Virtual machines. Unlike OpenVZ, LXC does not need a custom kernel, and is supported in the mainline Linux kernel paving the way for widespread adoption.

Docker took the LXC OS container template as a base, modified the container OS init to run a single app, builds the OS file system with layers of aufs, overlayfs, and disables storage persistence. And this is the app container.

This is an opinionated use case of containers that adds significant complexity, more a way to deploy app instances in a PAAS centric scenario.

A lot of confusion around containers is because of the absence of informed discussion on the merits or demerits of this approach and the understanding that you have easy to use OS containers like LXC that are perfectly usable by end users like VMs are, and then app containers that are doing a few more things on top of this.

You don't need to adopt Docker to get the benefits of containers, you adopt Docker to get the benefits of docker and often this distinction is not made.

A lot of users whose first introduction to containers is Docker tend to conflate Docker to containers, and thanks to some 'inaccurate' messaging from the Docker ecosystem think LXC is 'low level' or 'difficult' to use, Why would anyone try LXC if they think it's low level or difficult to use? But those who do will be pleasantly surprised how simple and straightforward it is.

For those who want to understand containers, without too much fuss, we have tried to provide a short overview in a single page in the link below.

https://www.flockport.com/containers-minus-the-hype

Disclosure - I run flockport.com that provides an app store based on LXC containers and tons of tutorials and guides on containers, that can hopefully promote more informed discussion.
Reminded me of Dr. Ivan Sutherland's "SketchPad" demo; here's a video of it with Alan Kay commenting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=495nCzxM9PI
Thanks. We changed the URL to that from http://nautil.us/issue/4/the-unlikely/what-ive-learned-about....
Stack Overflow isn't supposed to be “nice,” or for “all” programmers
Trying not to repeat others. Since you sound like you're interested in "learning from the past":

- The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks

- Programmers at Work by Susan Lammers

- Apple Human Interface Guidelines: The Apple Desktop Interface

- The Data Warehouse Toolkit by Ralph Kimball