skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 2794 word post is 100% about his experience at Amazon.

Not writing stories about your co-workers qualifies you for NPD now? Why are you splitting hairs?
We should organize a rogue scientist justice league.
Ask HN: Who's conducting the most interesting artificial intelligence research?
Which universities and/or companies are performing the most interesting research in artificial intelligence? I'm specifically interested in the data-side applications, but anything would be helpful.

Would love to hear about some project people have worked on.
Morality we know is encoded in human brains anyway. We may not like it, but that doesn't mean it's not moral from alien's POV. And yes, in such case, tough luck for us.
Trying to Break the U.S. Energy System for Its Own Good Business
That made a pretty convincing argument that it's broken, followed by thoroughly unconvincing, hand-wavey, claim to victory because "we eventually muddle through."
In my opinion this makes Firebase way more approachable. Previously, their limited number of connections made it very, very expensive very quickly. Storage seems like a much more logical scaling factor.
I'm not so sure about how the article ends. According to the traditional "more risk, more reward" idea, it shouldn't at all be surprising that taking active steps to reduce your portfolio's volatility results in lower average gains.

If those non-linear hedge funds are really succeeding in reducing their customers' risk exposure while also reducing their performance by only 10 basis points, color me impressed. That's over an order of magnitude better than the hit I'm taking from the asset allocation strategy I use to limit risk on my short time horizon stuff.
CSS shouldn't be so complicated. It's all about selector simplicity, scalability. If you make too complicated sass, css or less, you're doing probably wrong.
>> I guess thats why HR should work more to find people with different mindset, ability and should create working environment for them

What? Who suggested that.

>> Not everyone succeeds in social terms, not everyone is good at amusing their peers, there are some people who do better in academic/virtual stuff, but not so good in other terms.

No one claimed that everyone/anyone needs to better in social situations. However, there's a clear and obvious difference between lack of social skills and being an asshole.

>> so what? should they die? should they always live in dirt?

Or they could stop being an asshole? They could try to resist their urges to consistently alienate and discredit the work of their team mates. Maybe give that a shot.
Why You Fail to Get Traffic to Your Blog
It helps to be a student studying at an elite american university - pedigree opens a lot of doors, for better or worse. Also, I had a shit ton of luck with interviews and recommendations.
If the benefits of passive investment strategies are so obvious and widely known, why do wealthy investors turn to hedge funds? I find the argument that they just don't know better to be unsatisfactory.
A tear for this, that they are running out of time because we want trainers and cars and sofas and little plastic things you put in drinks then throw away, given time they might be our friends, the way we act I'm not sure they would choose to be :(
This could be the seed of something fantastic, IMHO.
I'm trying to gain some bulk, and was using the "leading" product (MFP), but stopped because their data is: absolutely filthy via redundant user-submitted info, oriented towards companies rather than simple fresh home-cooking, poor handling of units (should be agnostic with internal conversion), and has friction at every layer of the experience.

Even with basically no features, this is probably easier to adapt into something that I might use.

Part of the problem with calorie/nutrition tracking is that use-cases conflict. I guess this could either become more opinionated, have multiple opinionated structures built on top of it, or just stay lean.

Interested in seeing where this goes, would follow a dev blog.
All google code java projects are (auto)migrating to github. Also android.
Surely we have to set higher goals to aim for with integrated graphics than 12 year old games.
Here's the link to that conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUycREPyKcg
Turing award lecture by Ken Thompson, "Reflections on trusting trust".

Recommended if you haven't read it already.

https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
The Wikipedia article mentions a band, the Sugababes, that started with three founding members, but one by one all of them ended up leaving the band and being replaced. Is it still the same band?

An interesting twist is that the three founding members regrouped and formed a new band, with the Sugababes still in existence. Which is the real Sugababes?
How to Prepare Your Family for Y2K (1999)
How on earth is this possible? I live in Zug, and everything in this part of the world costs a fortune. How do you even get a place to live for less than 1500? You realise when you have a kid the krippe is 2500CHF each month? Have you ever eaten at a restaurant for under 50CHF a head (even a McDonalds meal costs 15CHF)?
lol... Just built 1.4.2 (or whatever latest 1.4 was) last night.
I was wondering whether or not to go against master. I wonder if there were even any commits since then or just a tag.
While Industry Fights to Lower CAFE Standards, Tesla Motors Wants Them Raised
That's a lot of crickets for this announcement.
> This attitude is so toxic, it's like saying isn't assembler good enough for you?

Real programmers don't need an assembler; ed(1) is sufficient and if you can't write a program without anything else, you shouldn't be allowed near computers.
It depends if the hedge funds really are reducing customers' risk exposure. If the companies the hedge funds own are basically the same as the market (the article references Google, Apple, and Facebook as the most commonly owned stocks), then they probably are not.
Teasmade? I hate tea!
>One can have only heard "begs the question" used properly, but if you weren't familiar with the phrase, easily and understandably take it to mean "a question is begging to be asked", then go on to use it incorrectly.

I'm not saying this is impossible, but I don't find it convincing. The formal usage is something that a person does, and is usually the end of a statement. ("You're begging the question.") The colloquial (not "incorrect") usage is something that a situation does. It is nearly always rendered in the third-person present tense and directly followed by the question it is introducing. ("Well, that begs the question: what do we do about it?").

I don't see how somebody could hear only the first version, and end up saying only the second version. I can see how someone could be confused the first time they hear the first version (i.e., "Wait, what question is he referring to?") and would need to have the term defined for them. But that's pretty much the definition of "jargon".
Since UIWebView doesn't do JIT, as you say, and third party browsers using UIWebView are allowed, I don't think this theory holds up. The inability for third-party engines to do JIT certainly is a problem, but it doesn't look like the problem that causes Apple to make this restriction.
I was just discussing how American culture is, on its surface, highly extroverted yet actually quite introverted. We value an extroverted personality, but then people generally go home to isolated suburban homes, eat alone quietly while watching TV, watch more TV then go to bed. Families can be extremely individualistic, meaning people hardly spend time with extended families.

When I was in southern Europe recently I couldn't help but notice how people would sit in restaurants or cafes and talk for hours. Honestly I have no idea how they can converse for so long and what they talk about.

Of course as I understand it the further north you go the more introverted and achievement-oriented the culture becomes, like America.

I don't mind it but of course I'm biased, I'm American and somewhat introverted. I like that I can be introverted and eat alone or watch a movie alone and nobody cares and when I feel like it I can be extroverted and chat up strangers or have some good office banter.
I've been in an identical position, at a more tradition place. I worked on the Wells Fargo/Wachovia merger and I couldn't figure out if everyone around me was an idiot or if I was.

The best thing that ever happened to me was that I was fired. I did a few critical things during that transition for their IT, but in the end I didn't really matter, even though I could claim hundreds of billions of dollars in new transactions.

Wells wasn't wrong and I wasn't either -- we were just wrong for each other.
It's not always effective - many developers will often save minutes of thinking by spending hours dicking about in a debugger and setting up state.

But it is true that for some types of bugs a step debugger is damn handy. And for some types, mostly a distraction.
At what age did you reach your peak performance?
You mean they are simply being sold to so well they don't conduct their own research? That also seems like an unsatisfactory explanation.
Hedge funds have had a rough time of late. Too many funds chasing too little money. I'm not surprised that many of them aren't doing well. This is already starting to shake out as the sell side has gotten out of the fund business.

Having said that

> Think of how a recent, less technical study showed that Apple, Facebook, and Google are three of the most widely held hedge fund investments.

Umm not sure why that would be a knock on hedge funds. Wouldn't you expect them to hold some of the most high performing stocks over the past few years?

I mean, isn't that pretty much the exact premise of a stock picking hedge fund? They pick the market winners so you don't have to hold the entire market, losers included?

There are lots of reasons to hate on hedge funds but that point shows the blogger really had their premise determined before even starting to analyze the paper and data.

Remember, the premise for many hedge funds is that they hedge the down side, in 2008 funds outperformed the market.

http://www.vox.com/2015/2/24/8093957/hedge-fund-racket-chart

Hedge fund returns in aggregate are also driven down by the large number of funds that are started up and fail within the first 3 years, I've seen stats with 3 year close down as high as 80%.

Judging hedge funds by aggregate would be like someone looking at the startup market and saying, "Hey 80% of companies fail within the first 5 years, why would anyone invest or work for a startup when they have such awful failure rates."

The truth ends up being the same for both startups and hedge funds, most fail fast and only lose the owners money, with a smaller amount failing in 2 years with angle funding, and an even smaller amount failing in 3 years with outside investor money.
There is a quite nice demo down the page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUpW5LXaoVU
I feel like every description of the problem of p-values I read is missing the real issue. And that's that people are using the p-value incorrectly.

A fairly standard definition of the p-value (from wikipedia) says: "In statistics, the p-value is a function of the observed sample results (a statistic) that is used for testing a statistical hypothesis. Before the test is performed, a threshold value is chosen, called the significance level of the test, traditionally 5% or 1% and denoted as α."

What this description is missing though is the crucial importance of the fact that the threshold value is chosen before doing the analysis. And moreover, that the entire analysis plan has been chosen before doing the analysis. Because what the p-value is really telling you is the probability that on repeating the experiment (and its accompanying analysis!) you would see a result as or more extreme than what you observed.

If your experiment comprises "try all of the combinations of variables to see what gives me the best answer", the p-value you compute would need to be some very fancy test that took that into account... and you would see your analysis as having much less statistical power.

For a simple example, look at a statistically rigorous method for dealing with multiple hypothesis testing when you plan it in advance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonferroni_correction.

Of course p-hacking is bad. The problem isn't frequentist statistics or p-values though, its scientists not understanding the statistics that they use. If you want to use a p-value to help make a decision about a hypothesis, you have to commit to your analysis plan in advance.

edit: Furthermore, p-values were designed to deal with experimental data. If you're doing an observational study, perhaps you should use statistical tools designed for that purpose.

To sum up: when you have people who have no idea what they're doing do statistics, they will do it badly.
A High School Diploma, 11 Years in the Making
It's really a question of what you're into. MUDs run the gamut from purely social with little combat (a bit like IRC with more functionality) to traditional medieval fantasy hack-and-slash to sci-fi space combat.

Some have specialized clients they recommend; I'm a big fan of just using TinyFugue [0] in a shell window, but that's just me. :)

MUD Connector [1] is a great place to start, as it has a few thousand listed with average sizes, themes, reviews, etc. All searchable, so you can find what appeals to you.

As a very general rule, start with the bigger more active ones. The smaller ones can be very fun and you can make great, close friendships with other players, but they also can tend to get kind of insular and hard for a new player to penetrate.

[0] http://tinyfugue.sourceforge.net/ (it's also in most package managers and in homebrew for Mac)

[1] http://www.mudconnect.com/index.html
if only firebase could scale... they have so much downtime
Navigating a Startup as an Introverted Founder
JSON object storage for one? I'm a little confused as to why their schema relies on storing JSON data as a TEXT field in MySQL. I don't believe this is technically incorrect, but seems to negate many of the features of relational database design. Why not just store each entry as either a traditional column or use a solution that enables native JSON storage.
Shutdownify is shutting down
I don't know why a non-gamer would bother with an AMD/NVIDIA graphics card. Even a developer. If the most graphically intensive thing you do is watch YouTube videos or Netflix, use the Intel integrated video. It's plenty good for those things. I totally agree with you there.

But on the flip side, as a gamer, I couldn't imagine giving up my discrete graphics cards on my gaming desktop. How many years back and how low resolution and graphics settings do you have to go before you find a game which is playable on an integrated chip? I guess it depends a lot on your definition of "playable", and your game selection; if GOG is where you regularly buy games then the integrated chip is probably more than adequate. Or if you're using a single 800x600 monitor, you're probably ready to run the latest games on your integrated chip. But otherwise, I can't seriously recommend anyone play games on an integrated video chip.

Sidenote: I would choose the touchpad as my #1 source of hardware frustration. Anecdotally, I haven't had much issue with graphics cards, other than one replaced under warranty.
You can't use iCloud as backend for other platforms. If you like to port your iOS app for android you cannot use the same backend. It's a major restriction if you wish to extend your app in other devices.
> So they include the whole browser tech stack for a simple graph?

And they have the balls to post it on a blog with "Engineering" in its title.

Then again, this appears to be the new standard of doing things. We consider the browser to be today's operating system, and modern apps (Spotify, Visual Studio Code, Atom, etc.) bring their own operating system. Fire up your editor and jot down a quick note? Yeah, why not make coffee while it's loading. Back to the future, I guess.
It's still much better than anything integrated in the PC space.
Was my favorite part as well. Surprisingly fun read.
CoreData doesn't behave the same way Firebase does. CoreData and CloudKit are more like Facebook's Parse or Google's Mobile Backend.
Ask HN: How do you encrypt then sync files to ANY cloud storage as offsite bckup?
On a windows computer. But if you have a solution for Linux or Mac, I am happy to hear it.

I will pay money for it , as long as it works.

I need a solution to encrypt and then sync all my files to the cloud as offsite backup.

Here are my requirements:

* Must have file versioning enabled in the cloud.

* Must encrypt locally on my computer before being sent to the cloud.

* Does not require me to create a virtual drive/folder on my hard drive and then drag and drop files to encrypt then back up. In other words, it encrypts current folders and files in my hard drive as I work on them. No drag and drop to a virtual drive/folder required.

* Preferably open source.

* Preferably no Java .

* Preferably strongest encryption algorithm used --- Perhaps Truecrypt ? EncFS ? dm-crypt LUKS ?

To quote another person: "I'd love to see a fully open-source, zero knowledge, roll your own-solution, allowing it to be hosted on offsite VPS! I think this would pretty much solve the problem of cloud storage."

What would you recommend?

Thank you very much.

*
TL:DR
Please recommend a solution that can encrypt then sync to ANY cloud storage of my choosing , including Tencent or Kanbox (10TB free)
Love eating alone, me. In the UK I always feel a bit weird, but I love sitting on the bar of a American brunch place, drinking limitless coffee till i'm buzzed out of my tree, and eating on the counter. Also the US coffee shops are full of people working alone, reading, doing their thing. In Europe, people cling to each other like monkeys at dinner time, and I feel like a real freak, and bat away pitying glances for fun, so I much prefer the US way.
In order to experience/measure something, you must interact with it. Any interaction changes both sides. You can't experience the same ship twice.
libsass is very strange. It must be statically linked and it requires copyright assignment for contributions.
Riitam-Being Human
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Yes, usually you can tell. But the times you can't are very annoying. As a writer, you can be forced into awkward circumlocutions to avoid ambiguity.
I know, but it was related to its development.

That would be an idea I guess. Porting NewtonScript to modern systems.
This is the OP expanding on my own question.

Right now, for your information , I am aware of these back up clients and the cloud they can sync to. Unfortunately, None of them can sync to any cloud storage of my choosing:

SyncBackPro Arq for Windows and Arq for Mac Syncovery Duplicati BitTorrent Sync Strongsync ExpanDrive CloudBerry CloudBacko Filement GoodSync Boxcryptor

I think it has something to do with the necessary use of the REST API from cloud storage. See this post.

http://support.2brightsparks.com/knowledgebase/articles/4495...
Regarding the "we don't have the CC data" aspect of this: I think it is possible that the management, senior engineering staff etc believed that they were not storing any part of the credit card number, but in fact they were. I say this because in my career I have seen several cases where we had : contracts signed, policy documents written, things said in meetings over and over; all making it clear that information of some type was not to be retained. However, when I inspected production database tables and examined log files, it turned out that said data was in fact present. Bottom line: someone has to follow up and verify that nothing is being stored that shouldn't, and that exercise has to be repeated periodically in case something changes over time.
http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/195706.html

Graydon Hoare about what code he has left in Rust.
They also use HBase for a lot of their non relational data.
Also interesting when applied to OSS.

https://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/260347/ship-...
So many publishers still have such a long way to go in working out how to do native content well.

While the study is interesting, I reckon that piece took Matt Yglesias (an otherwise great writer) all of about 10 minutes to write. And the token "make sure to save enough, own stocks for the long term, and stick to passive strategies rather than trying to beat the market." is just awkward.
Jason Fried: The difference between time and attention
That's a big difference between work here and over in Italy - there, most everyone went out to eat together every day. I miss that a bit (although I'm really happy to be back in the US for other things).
Show HN: Learn how to develop secure software (Curated List)
Its hard for me be believe that people with a lot of money whose only job in life is to figure out how not to lose it do not do their research. There has to be deeper reason.
Why Microsoft is an awesome place to Intern: Part 2
Planned change to GHC: merging types and kinds
I would say so. My understanding is most of finance is more about who you know than anything else. This understanding comes from my work in the legal industry and having high-powered and incredibly wealthy clients. The product we were selling (legal services) wasn't any better than what was down the street but because of personal connections we got the business and it seemed that way for most of the deals that revolved around their (wealthy people's) decisions.

I specifically dealt with legalities of financial matters of the very wealthy.

edit... I'd like to add that the majority of my clients didn't have the time or the willingness to do their own research on the vast majority of their personal finances. Instead they would use people they trust at specific institutions and give little thought after that.
Yes, the Luddite "fallacy" is also an assertion. It's based on strong historical data and weaker economical theory.

Your comment does make sense, but "we are losing the edge" does not automatically mean that we'll ever be completely defeated. And even a small victory is good enough to avoid a crisis, because of Jevon's paradox (that's also not a paradox).

To argue that we are headed to a crisis where humans won't be able to compete with capital, one needs evidence supporting that there'll be absolutely no economical activity where humans will outcompete machines (at least for a reasonably big share of the humans).

I do think that'll happen because there's no feature of a human that a good enough machine could not emulate, and machines are inherently cheaper (because we are "wasteful" from a production perspective), but my argument is fundamentally a repeat of materialism, for what the only possible evidence is the lack of evidence of the alternatives.

Also, the timing is iffy, there's little evidence that we'll have that crisis soon (there's little evidence either way, but it mostly points into a crisis soon). I happen to think we will because our current machines started to do lots of tasks that we learned that were very hard at the last AI explosion. But there's no guarantee that there aren't even harder tasks, that we just didn't try yet. Also, our computers are approaching the same capacity that people estimate that our brains have. But those estimations have lots of assumptions, that could easily be wrong.
Yes. Cheaper index-funds are often the better choice, but banks aren't selling those as agressively.
I can't help but feel like the anti-native-extensions point of view is short sighted.

Why shouldn't we have optimized implementations of algorithms that we can share across various languages?