skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wondered that before as well. Same for Google. Both companies have absolute treasure troves of data that could certainly be used for trading signals.

Interestingly, the data could be equally effective for building actuarial models and selling insurance to customers (I believe Google has stated an interest in this in the past).

Does anyone know what the SEC implications would be for a company using its proprietary user-generated data as trading signals? Is there any precedent?
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Would there be any method for detecting if an article is available through Blendle when you hit a pay wall article through normal web browsing (eg from a Hacker News link) or I guess this would need to be something the websites implement themselves.
No.

The singular defining quality of the poor is that they lack capital.

This makes everything about being poor more expensive.
Not wrong at all. Certainly would have saved people here.

Maybe there's a commentary about progress and the quality of the infrastructure that some incident hasn't made people cache dependencies yet...
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Applying Bayes' Rule to the Analysis of DNA Evidence [pdf]
As someone who is non-technical, I pretty much was mind blown until the very end. Had a feeling it was fiction haha. Glad the comments here clarified. Entertaining read.
Define "longevity"? I'm typing this on an iPad 3 running iOS 9 and it's definitely showing its age. The hardware is in perfect condition but it struggles to render many web pages and the wifi (although better than on iOS 6-8) is hideously slow compared to my midrange Android phone.
8 years ago I bought a top of the range Sony Vaio. I used it till last month. Replaced hard disk one time. Replaced memory one time. Glued charger together one time.

I bought a new median range Dell this month....and meh. Basically those eight years have made no difference to me running Arch and/or Debian.

Imagine trying to say that about the 8 years preceding that (I.e 2000 to 2008).
No, there are resins that cure with visible light. They're just more 'spensive.
>An alternative way to read this is that Apple themselves don't believe their own products will be worth using after 5 years

Didn't he say Windows PC's?

Also OS X supports Core2Duo hardware, which is nearly 10 years old.
You can also ZFS send an entire filesystem snapshot, very efficiently, to rsync.net:

arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/rsync-net-zfs-replication-to-the-cloud-is-finally-here-and-its-fast/

http://www.rsync.net/products/zfsintro.html
Seeming less poor is what measurably increases your quality of life in almost every social dimension. Given that social capital is the only capital most poor people have, it counts for a lot.

(As a chap who grew up poor.)
Similar to Lambda, yes, while also being not tied to AWS, can run programs written in more languages, does not have many unnecessary restrictions on programs, etc.

We did put AWS into consideration when designing this service, and concluded that Lambda is still for long running purpose, which does not fall into the main target of our service.
​Red Hat becomes first open-source company to make $2B
> Bugs are common; we have to learn to work around them.

Or we could, you know, fix them.

I wasn't asking for a justification. I was just asking why this is occurring. If you don't know, that's cool. I mean, one of the reasons I ask is because I'd like to know if VMWare are going to fix this bug.

So thank you for explaining that software has bugs. I'm sure I'll remember that the next time I fix a regression in LibreOffice, as I did with the issue with EMF dashed lines not displaying correctly or when I fixed the issue where JPEG exports didn't export the DPI value correctly...
This guy nails it. "uber for everything" is a plague. I think he could have used some better examples though.
Keep in mind the following is also attributed to him:

"Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy."
That's probably true but I can't help but arm-chair-expert assume there's got to be a better solution than blind consumerism. My guess is these teens have an underlying confidence issue that should be resolved not just bandaged with status symbols.
http://www.apple.com/environment/
Very entertaining! How did no one realize this was fake by the first graph? Does xkcd design the graphs for fb premium partners?
To quote rule #10 of Butterick's Practical Typography[1][2]:

Never use un­der­lin­ing, un­less it’s a hyperlink.

[1] http://practicaltypography.com/summary-of-key-rules.html

[2] http://practicaltypography.com/underlining.html
There was a heated debate last week when someone choose to distribute a 100 lines css framework via npm... I've chosen my side.
I still have my 2008 plastic Macbook refurb that I still use to browse the web.

I had the pre-release Win 10/64 on it for a while, and it actually ran faster than OSX did on that machine (in my experience, Windows runs faster on Mac than OSX itself, but ymmv). And keep in mind that my Macbook pretty much got left behind by OSX after Lion.
I was just about to say your experience with teaching is not the same as everywhere, and about to cite my friends that complain about all the petty "office politics" involved in their teaching jobs (between teachers and staff) and how easy it is to get fired (pre-tenure) when a kid decides they want to ruin your day, and generally management is one big cock-up (especially in university)...... but then you got to the paragraph where you said "My understanding is that in the US it is a disaster" and yep, my teacher friends are all in the US.

Damn, I wish teaching here worked like it does for you. I'd have much happier friends, and might consider it myself.
So you're saying concepts will reject libraries that compile fine today?
Pentium 4's pretty bad by modern standards, unfortunately. It's well over a decade old and wasn't all that great even when it was introduced. I think the cut-off for "good enough to be used today" is somewhere around the Core 2 Duo which was introduced a decade ago and was a huge step up from the Pentium 4.
The funny thing is that if the implications noted in the story were true and Facebook could accurately forecast events into the far future, building a social network would be the least of their priorities.
> Actually you can have twice as fast desktop CPU today than your 2500k

Alternatively, you can overclock the 2500K to absurd levels (33% or more seems the norm, even on air cooling), which negates most of the advantage of newer models.
"I discovered this when the company told me they couldn’t show off a lot of things they wanted to."

Many of these factories will tell you anything to get you to buy, so I wouldn't exactly believe this.

The problem is that not only can they share your secrets, there is pretty much no legal recourse.
> It does the job.

Certainly. Again, was just addressing it's not only prestige. Look, I own a Nutribullet. It does the job. But it's a complete frustration to use on a daily basis. I'm replacing it with a Vitamix at like 3X the cost, because I'm tired of dealing with the Nutribullet's quirks. And that's just a fricken blender. :-)
If you asked them, they would say that they definitely need to seem less poor. It brings a measure of status, easing their way through daily social affairs.
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You know what's really sad ?

I am using a 2009 octo mac pro, which is now 7 years old and since that date, apple has not released a single product that is compelling enough to upgrade that system.
Since most HN commenters are concerned about the source code availability, we'll definitely reconsider the licensing model.
In the US, this problem is largely tackled by the formation of Farmer's cooperatives. Does anything similar exist in India?
Inside the New Comedy Economy With the Silicon Valley Cast
On iOS Packaging
it's not one module at question here. it's 250 modules with thousands of installs.
I don't think it's fair to expect Apple to support 32-bit processors anymore. OS X will run on Core2Duo, which is nearly 10 years old. My parents' iMac is a 2006 and runs El Cap.
I have money and the utility of iPhone is what I don't want. Instead opted for a cheap Moto G basic model 4-5 years ago and still happy with it.
The Most Important Lesson You'll Ever Learn: Starring Warren Buffett
Ask HN: Do you hate social media?  and does this app fix that?
Social media is flawed; it isn't social and it isn't relevant. Instagram feeds are filled with overly-curated photos, often fake, taken 6 months ago, having no relevance to the posters real life. Facebook feeds are full of political nonsense, religious quotes, memes, and irrelevant garbage. On top of it all, of our 1000 'friends' none of them are actually our friends... well maybe a couple.

So I created 'With'. The first truly SOCIAL and relevant app. It's simply about who you're with... because the people you spend time with actually have an impact on who you are and what your life looks like. How does it work? You simply make a group with the people next to you, or the people you meet. That group is displayed live - in real time- to your friends. They can see photos you post and see who's there. You can invite people to join... like actually physically come meet up with you and your friends. So how do you make sure people are really with each other? We developed the 'tap'. To make a group, you physically tap your phones together! Anyone you tap will be seen on your profile page, whether they're a close friend, a colleague, or a celebrity you met back stage, people will know who you've ACTUALLY met. Imagine LinkedIn... but your connections weren't BS online recommendations - no, you actually have to shake the persons hand if you want to say you know him. Welcome back to being social. www.getwith.co
Yup. Clock-for-clock, Skylake is about 10-20% faster than Sandy Bridge, IPC improvements have been <5% per year. The apparent improvement since that time has been slowly cranking up the stock clockrates. If you overclock a Sandy Bridge to >4 GHz, which is extremely reasonable, then it keeps up just fine with a Skylake in most tasks.

CPU performance is largely "good enough" for most users. OS bloat has finally stopped: Win8.1 is just as fast as Win7 (and is more stable) and Win10 is faster and skinnier. Most users don't do anything intensive and probably wouldn't even notice if you substituted in a low-end processor. For those that do have big needs, GPU offloading has taken off in a big way.

This is kind of unfortunate in other respects. CPU performance (especially single-threaded) is extremely important for high refresh rates. At 144hz there's no margin for any weak link in the system. But I recognize that I'm kind of a niche user in that regard.
The aesthetics of the chart are pretty standard for a 2D Stacked Area chart.

The only "mistake" is that the CONFIDENTIAL watermark is a lower z-order than the chart, which defeats the purpose of the "watermark."
So..., Apple can read it? How is it any better?
> If there's something sad about that fact, it's that the industry has delivered so little value in the past 5 years that not many people feel compelled to upgrade!

The glass half-full response?

The industry has delivered so much value in the past 5-8 years that not many people feel compelled to upgrade!
FBI leans on forensic software maker to crack terrorist iPhone
But also, if you're shipping things to users browsers, please cut out all the stuff you don't use. I don't want to download 100 extra module's worth of JS code because it was bundled.
Parallel aggregate over cores in a node is fast, but parallel aggregate over many cores across many nodes is even faster:

https://www.kentik.com/metrics-for-microservices/

https://www.kentik.com/postgresql-foreign-data-wrappers/
Was I the only one, whos first impression was, that facebook was somehow involved in insider trading. And that for some reason they were brave enough to also use this information for load balancing...
IANAL either, but moral rights are often (usually?) inalienable, so I doubt any license can waive them in those jurisdictions.

That said, I don't think "un-unpublishing" code (even under your own account) is the same as claiming ownership, just redistribution.
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Looks beautiful, but been burned too many times by Kickstarter, seems like a great concept but I will only believe it when it hits the market.
Tensorflow Implementation of Deep Visual Analogy-Making
Nuance and variety. A (quality) newspaper has its own signature, and presents you with a variety of articles (including news, investigative journalism, and op/ed articles). Some of these will be very popular, some of these will only interest a subset of the readers. Sometimes an article about something completely unfamiliar to you will turn out quite interesting. That is the serendipitous effect you get with a newspaper — although you do apply some form of filter by choosing newspaper X over newspaper Y.

If only economic concerns where a factor in determining what to write about, you would end up with a few insightful articles about widely appealing topics widely shared, but fewer high quality articles about niche topics.

A newspaper for me is a convenient shorthand for “a group of journalists and columnists who write good quality articles”. I would hate to have to hunt down individual articles and authors! The risk of getting locked up in my own private filter bubble is way too high.

I have a subscription to a newspaper I read daily, but sometimes I want to read an article from another (Dutch) newspaper. That is when Blendle is really useful (Blendle is a Dutch company, and all major Dutch newspapers make their articles available there).

The situation may be bleaker in the US. I am not overly familiar with US newspapers.
Ah, the use of public ca implied a more general use scenario in my head.

As someone else mentioned, creating a PKI is probably the way to go at this point.

And I suppose double check that none of them are binding interfaces they're not supposed to, if any of those have interfaces with public IPs.
Yeah, no. This is 90% of the reason why I stopped using Debian based distros. There's a complete lack of consistency with how they do their package management to the point that I eventually started to build most things from source. Too many outdated and unpatched packages.

Archlinux is a bit better, but the crazy amount of timeouts and the everything-goes mentality is getting pretty frustrating.

CentOS/rhel isn't much better, for what it's worth. Dear god, those repos....
Not KSP: Real-Time Instrument Scripts
frontpage for the last 13 hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340510
There's no way to comment on the website directly, so I think they are requesting that comments be submitted via email. I found this towards the bottom:

> Contact Information:

> (individual) John Gruber <http://daringfireball.net/>

> <comments@daringfireball.net>
The dusty alley that powers India’s Silicon Valley
Apple has already explained this.

Car vs Trucks. Apple isn't trying to replace your professional tool.

Apple is trying to make a computer that is easy to use, can handle some light tasks that some people need occasionally, can stream video lightly and can play lots of games.

You need a truck. Most people just need cars
No, I wasn't asserting that there is some magic C++ feature that the browsers aren't using. "Most exploits tend to be in new code" was the piece of your argument that I was missing.
As is common with household names, a fair percentage of the lore associated with it is nonsense.
This sounds really familiar.

In my experience the CEO/Founder can be classified as either of two types:

1) Great sales guy but has no deep concept of the technology his product is based on and other related aspects such as technical debt. Can be really hard to explain why something is more complicated than it looks to him, etc.

2) Great technical guy who can't sell. If you're not doing something conceptually new it can be difficult to acquire customers if your selling is weak.

I wonder if any one has encountered the unicorn CEO/Founder who's great at both of these things?
But why are you saying the copyright was transferred? I don't see anything that implies that. Someone got a copy of the code under an irrevocable license that grants them to right to re-publish it, and that's what they are doing.
I've had a Senegal Parrot for about 5 years. He has his own 'names' for each person in the family, and sounds to indicate if he wants some of your food, or to be picked up, or to go take a nap, etc. Some of them are English words, some of them are the sound he decided to use. He's as loyal as a dog and wants nothing more than to be carried and petted and fed peanut butter all day. (He will lick the peanut butter off a piece of toast, "accidentally" throw it on the ground, and make his "give me some of that please" noise for as long as you have some and he has none.)

He will bite when startled, craps on everything sooner or later, and screams for fun. Someone described it as having a toddler with a can-opener on its face, and that's not far from accurate.

It's not an easy pet to have, and not for everyone. But - if a bird works for you, it works fantastically.
I'm hardly assuming people are all the same -- that's the very thing that places like Bloomberg, which standardize on a one-size-fits-all model for the sake of cheapness yet come up with political stories to plausibly defend it, are doing.

I'm saying don't make all seating open-plan. Don't allow mandates for one-size-fits-all seating. For those who require privacy to be productive, spend the money required to give it to them. For those who thrive in a constant communication stream, spend the money to give it to them.

I'm not going to Google the pile of evidence mounting against open plan offices for you.

But I will say that I worked in quant finance for a while and the idea that an open trading floor is needed, even at the exchange, is a big lie. It's about status and showmanship, and functions as nothing but a hindrance to completing actual job duties.

Open-plan fire-drill quant finance was the first work environment that actually showed me how much of a lie it is. Every single person hated it, and at least in part the bonuses and inflated compensation was required just to get people to engage in the Sisyphean task of trying to get their work done in that environment. It was like hiring Usain Bolt and asking him to break the world record for a 100m sprint -- but to do it in your swimming pool.

There are many high frequency shops and quant hedge funds where they need real-time audio links between traders, and yet they still organize into private offices and use teleconferencing and workplace chat, and it ends up being far more effective than having them physically colocated. In one case, I even remember one of the primary researchers was given special permission to live in San Francisco even though the entire rest of trading team worked on the East Coast, simply because he had family reasons that required him to be on the West Coast. It didn't degrade communication or knowledge sharing, even in rapid trading situations, at all.
I don't really use npm, but I imagine you could unpublish the version and then republish the version as a modified one?
We circulate internal drafts like that all the time. The purpose of the "Confidential" or "Draft" marking isn't to be in front of the data, it's to clearly indicate to anyone internally who has a copy that it shouldn't be released.
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I bought a 2008 Macbook as a refurb back in 2009.

Apple didn't think it was worth making Mountain Lion running on it.

Meanwhile, I installed the newest 64 bit version of Windows 10 on it as part of the Insider program, and it generally runs faster than my Lion install.
Its from a company I no longer work at. Not much really to it. The hardest part is connecting to the NAND. We had special debug connections provisioned to make it easy. Other options include desolder the part and putting into a socket, using a interposer, using boundary scan. Then we had a FPGA board that connected to the NAND and via USB to a PC. The FPGA board issued the proper signal patterns to control the NAND and the PC had a GUI interface to issue all kinds of commands to the NAND including doing a raw read and write to files. Obviously we cannot decrypt anything stored on NAND.

When we get a failed SSD, I would read the internal logs and try to root cause it. Sometimes, we have to power up the firmware or change contents of the NAND to help determine the root cause and the concern is the problem is no longer reproducible. By keeping a backup, I have a good chance of recovering things back to the original state.

Having a backup gives me lots of freedom to experiment. I've seen weird multi-factor failures where a batch of NAND parts would fail due to high temperature, with particular data pattern written using specific commands. One of those things that even manufacturing screening could catch in reasonable time. Debugging these failures was always one of those moments where I would go in wondering "what the heck is going on" to ... "ah now it makes sense."
Built a monster PC late last year and I see it lasting me a long time as well. I don't want to play the game of always jumping on the latest and greatest. Your pockets will always get emptied out and I've discovered accumulating material possessions and keeping up with the Joneses doesn't give me the endorphin rush like it used to. Thanks for this comment.
What makes you think that these approaches are opposite?

When you introduce containers in some form, it becomes reasonable to add monitoring for errors. Make sure that there is redundancy. Now if error conditions are found, it is OK to lose the container. Another will be along shortly to pick up where you left off.

This approach is often used in distributed software. For example a good MapReduce framework will take care of detecting failing machines and replacing them, hopefully with perfect results. Erlang uses the same approach, and some of the most reliable software in the world has been written with it.

This idea does not just apply to a digital world. For example each rocket in a Falcon 9 is able to detect that it is not working right and shut down. The overall system is designed to work if any 7 rockets still fire.
Fiction or not, this is similar to an actual story of (ex)-fraud researchers at Capital One[1], who (ab)used their access to credit card transaction data in order to infer whether target companies' quarterly earnings would be below/above expectations, and then traded on that knowledge.

However, in the actual story, there was no "black box" to query, the ex-employees wrote all the complicated queries themselves.

EDIT: They turned ~$150K into ~$2.8 MM USD over about three years, before being caught, mostly through options trades it seems.

1. http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-23/capital-one...
http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
Nice piece. When I saw that first from-future graph, I thought Facebook is faking their data. As they are known for faking page likes.
Scientists develop a 100 times faster type of memory cell
Is Android the right comparison? Because I don't think Android when I think about my barely useful iPad 2 (because Android tablets are tire fires), I think of the Pentium III Thinkpad that I use for distraction-free writing. They're both about as useful to me, and one is as old as a high school sophomore.
Reading this on a 2009 MacBook Pro with SSD, working perfectly fast for my tasks, with Thinkpad T400 running FreeBSD nearby. I think they're running out of ideas why would I need to upgrade. Definitely not doing it for a new fancy UI animation. Just imagine: a content that scrolls down and then smashes into the screen boundary, bounces back and then reaches equilibrium slowly. My ass...
I have a Postgres database with 25 bn rows on a single host with application level partitioning and a parallel query infrastructure. Surely abuse, but Postgres has handled it beautifully.