skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taleb's "fooled by randomness" is often misquoted as attributing performance to luck rather than skill, but it actually explores the idea that returns are affected more by variability rather than the return itself in the short run. That is, one will not do oneself better by watching the market, but rather investing for the long run.

I've worked in the investments industry a long time now, and I've come to realize that the market is great at coming to a consensus, not necessarily the right one. It's the job of an investor (much like an entrepreneur) to have a different thesis from the rest of the market, have conviction that they are right, and then be right.

That being said, the market, especially the US equity markets, are predominantly efficient. Alpha can be found outside the mainstream, however.
>They make more money selling ink than <activity>

I'm not surprised. At all. With the prices ink has...
Today, I like to use Extempore [1], a self-contained, physical computing environment with a Scheme-like language and another that compiles to be as fast as C based upon an LLVM backend. You can code audio and visuals all in Lispy goodness within Emacs.

Processing is still cool, and there is a JavaScript version available and lots of books and online examples. It really kicked it off for me [2].

The term 'Creative Coding' seems to be the one that is sticking and encompassing the widely different approaches to creating art with code and computers and other electronic interfaces and devices. Very exciting time for this field right now. Livecoding is another term you'll hear for creating mostly music live in code, with some still doing visuals [3]. Fluxus was a favorite of mine [4].

openFrameworks, a C++ toolkit has a lot of libraries, including ML and AI stuff, to try out a bunch of different things [5].

There are examples of people using GA (Genetic Algorithms), ANNs (Artificial Neural Networks), GP (Genetic Programming), MCMC (Markov Chain Monte Carlo) methods and more to create artworks, visual, audio or mixed.

The Nature of Code and some YouTube Videos for SuperCollider and other creative coding software touch upon some of this, but you need to Google for specific examples, since people are using them all over the place. My first exposure was a Java Applet where people would look at a generated artwork and hit +1, 0, -1, for like, neutral, dislike, and the applet purportedly used a genetic algorithm to make a new piece. The piece would evolve with the user being the fitness function by participating in judging the pieces.

I am playing with Darknet, a C-based CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) that can utilize the GPU, and also work with OpenCV [6]. You can use it to generate text based upon famous writer samples, or recognize objects in an image or video.

[1] extempore.moso.com.au

[2] https://processing.org/

[3] toplap.org

[4] http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/

[5] http://openframeworks.cc/

[6] http://pjreddie.com/darknet/
If your objective is to buy an iPhone and listen to things with it, you do not need to buy shit other than the iPhone.

Except if you want to listen to things while charging the phone (which happens when you are on the plane/train/...).

Other than that: fair point!
Being commander-in-chief is very different from being a kind of dictator of the military complex and is strictly circumscribed by law and custom.

For example, all commissioned officers are approved by the Senate, and the Posse Comitatus Act prevents the President from using the military to enforce domestic policy. Congress also has the sole authority of appropriating money to the military and they can attach whatever strings they want.

There is probably not single individual more powerful than the President, but Congress as a whole is by far the most powerful branch of government. The Presidency doesn't even compare. That said, I think what we've seen over the past several years, and will continue to see, is that dysfunctional Congresses increase the power of the Presidency.
Why is that "ironic?" I don't see how it disproves his point.
Google wants car-bots to roam the streets and crawl the real world, much as they did in the digital space. They just need a flow of automated cars to blend into.
Hm. My printing volume is down tenfold from a few years back. Pretty much all I print now, is card stock for my game club (draft copies of new card games). And my printer has a hard time if it gets very thick.

I wonder, has paper sales volume tanked? Is specialty printing all that's left? Why don't printers do a better job there already?
Printed novels dry out my fingers, are exceedingly heavy (even one weighs twice as much as 1000+ ebooks, and we're talking about flying which has weight limits), inaccessible for many readers (no audio narration, large-print editions have to be bought separately and are even heavier), hard to read in the dark...
I'm puzzled why this interest in the topic hit me all at once like a ton of bricks, whereas 6-months ago I didn't think much about it at all. For me, it's been binary. I'm doing some catch up. :-)
Yeah - I suppose that is fair. Certainly with HyperNeWS the fun[1] was creating a user interface interactively and then connecting it to your back end application via message passing.

1. And it certainly was fun - HyperNeWS was brilliant (e.g. I remember drawing a "broken window" of multiple unconnected parts, pasting it as the shape of a terminal window and everything continued to work - this was '91 or '92).

Also I vaguely remember logging into another users environment and manually tweaking the transformation matrix for the terminal window they were using to rotate it very slightly as they were working...
Yeah, "Reenactment is for pussies", eh?

I'm part of the SCA. I've done fencing (heavy rapier) and some heavy. Yes, the heavies use rattan (wood) for their weapons. That's because we like our fighters to live afterwards, and be relatively uninjured. Have injuries happened? Yep. Have deaths happened? Yep. But the SCA's policies on fighting are battle-tested, over melees of thousands of fighters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrueFTheV-Y

This article is just 'Not Even Wrong'(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong) - There's ways to do mostly safe fighting, and ways to be a douchebag that can end up breaking bones and killing people. This is certainly the latter.
" They took out the headphone jack, like tech journalists rumored for years and years, and are now selling you a $9 dongle or forcing you to get Bluetooth earbuds,"

Perhaps as a followup, bullshit.ist could do an article on the difference between "selling an adapter" and "including one in the box" and the sloppy journalistic malpractice that is deliberately confusing the two for the sake of whining...
Probably RDS is just a layer over EC2, but I'm not holding my breath waiting Amazon disclose much information about their setup (I wouldn't).

For Postgres at least you are not the god-like DBA, so I just trust they have all bases covered (or at least more resources than I have for keeping everything safe).
Ohhh, man. With negative interest rates companies have it easier to buy the competition that actually competing with them.

Innovation is never obtained from big companies buying other big companies. On the contrary.
I thought the drum sounds would be generated using JS, but they are just pre-recorded samples (bass_drum.wav, snare_drum.wav, low_tom.wav, mid_tom.wav, hi hat, cymbal, cowbell, hand clap, hi tom, conga, claves).
I'm looking for drum-generated sounds using pure javascript, so I can make changes on them and create new kinds of sounds.
I already created some pure JS sounds (e.g. laser sounds, bass effect, white noise, achords, bell sounds, water drop) but I'm still looking for equations to generate more realistic drum sounds: http://js.do/blog/sound-waves-with-javascript/
The inefficiencies of advertising and marketing is the True Barrier to Entry for modern companies. One needs to have the financial resources to throw away 90% of one's advertising dollars - because that is not really throwing it away, it is padding and paying the Internet infrastructure that will pad and prop your company's reputation because you're a good revenue source for them, as you buy ads from them.
Because if users own their identity and there is a new social network built upon the basis of owning your own identity and take it with you were ever you go, which is something most people want, then FB would be screwed. They would have to come up with a new revenue model to compete.

Ad blockers are becoming more and more popular. A social app built on Blockstack would prevent users from being tracked.
But the "programming" part of "dynamic programming" is the older synonym for "optimisation" like in linear or quadratic programming, not for writing general computer programs. It's not the same kind of "programming" as in OOP or FP.
cd /usr/local/Cellar/vim/HEAD/share/vim/vim80/compiler; chmod 644 *.vim README.txt
-bash: cd: /usr/local/Cellar/vim/HEAD/share/vim/vim80/compiler: No such file or directory
chmod: *.vim: No such file or directory
chmod: README.txt: No such file or directory

Eh..I'll probably wait a little bit longer.
I've only seen £70k+ for senior developers. Where my definition of senior here is >= 5 years professional experience.
Minor comment regarding CSS: Flexbox alone was never supposed to fix layout; the real magic is supposed to be Flexbox + CSS Grid. As I understand it, Flexbox is truly designed for use in one dimension to govern local dynamic behavior within a larger CSS Grid layout that structures the whole page. At the moment the problem is the lack of CSS Grid adoption by browsers (see http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-grid). I'm still hopeful that the state of CSS layouts will drastically improve once Grid and Flexbox are both sufficiently supported.
I have so many questions about the Uber program in Pittsburgh.

Does it take instructions? Can the rider change his mind?

What happens if a fight breaks out in the car?

Will there be a hotline you can call if your car goes rogue? Or just parks and won't move?

I guess these questions are why they are doing a pilot program.
MAD changed years ago, See Presidential Decision Directive-60 (PDD 60)
I think what always gets ignored in these "Facebook sucks, we should use/build X instead" arguments is the grandparents factor.

My gran cannot be expected to learn server administration and security just to have an inferior* version of what she has right now with Facebook. For that matter, that's not a tradeoff you can expect almost any non-tech (or most tech - we have other things to be doing) people to make.

(Inferior, meaning the supposed benefits to her are completely philosophical and theoretical, rather than practical. She doesn't give a tuppeny crap what advertisers are doing with her likes.)

Unless she can right now click on an icon that brings her to something that looks like Facebook and has her family on it and is easy to use, all the alternatives in the world don't matter. And I get the sneaking suspicion she's not in the minority here!

Everyone always starts looking at this from the tech side, as if having the system be P2P should be its primary selling point. No! In the real world, that isn't a selling point any more than something being Free Software is a selling point to anyone who doesn't read Stallman. The "threat" from advertisers, corporations, and governments accessing your Facebook data is going to have to get a lot more practical and a lot less theoretical (the NSA might do X Y and Z!) before that even winds up in the same universe where it can appear on a normal person's radar.
That is because Html is a more readable form of RTF, but still a document descriptor none the less. and hack in with javascript.

If the world had settle in Word format, instead of javascript we will be using VBA, and everything else will look exactly the same.

I think what we really need is a web app environment, with programming as the first though
He should stop buying inkjet printers. You can pick up an HP m402dn laser printer on Amazon for $150. It's fast, plugs directly into an ethernet network, and handles full duplex without a hiccup.

It's a printer, what more innovation do you need?
or you want to listen to things while charging the earbuds!
> Obviously you'd need to have a KVM setup installed,

what is a "KVM setup"? any Linux distro on compatible hardware[1] is a KVM setup. You do need the qemu package installed, but that's hardly a "setup".

[1] most (if not all) new systems, the hardest thing is enabling it in the BIOS I guess.
I understand this is a rant. But the writer comes over as a desperate bully who can't stand the fact that his childhood future fantasies didn't come true.
I like cyberpunk. I like the aesthetic. But it's not how the future looks like.
There's more to the future than what people envisioned in Gattaca on the one hand, and Blade Runner, on the other.
Show HN: Yet Another Time Tracking App
I worked for some months on the printer industry (on the image processing side). Innovation is not a word we used a lot. A printer is basically a microcontroller driving a DSP doing some image processing (scaling and dithering mostly). The µC then sends that to another µC driving the different motors. The DSP is a generic component used by half the industry. The other half used another DSP. Both the µCs are generic components used by half the industry. The other half, you know the drill.

It was maybe 7 years ago, and I guess now they have a single µC containing the DSP and able to speak USB, do the dithering, and control the motors all in one package. There is almost no R&D in those markets. That's how you get a $20 printer (and $50 ink cartridges).

Do no count on printing on PCBs or fabric, that'll be R&D, and that's expensive, no one cares up there.
That's my other beef: 5 hours of battery life on the Airpods, are you kidding me? I was interested until they got to that dopey box you charge them in and told us they only ran for 5 hours of listening. That's pathetic.
Yeah, this is a Russian state-owned "media" known, together with RT, to be waging a disinformation campaign. If you don't find this in any of the hundreds of proper media it's likely just made up. I'm not American so have no bet for Trump or Clinton, but the thought that the Kremlin has a heavy interest and a heavy influence in the US presidential race should really give everyone pause.
Check out librevault, it does encrypted file sync using a DHT to find peers, allows for encrypted-only nodes which cannot decrypt your files (so you can throw them up on cheap VPSes, or friend's machines without worry) and in a nice open source package. Only catch so far is that the file indexing seemed kind of slow compared to SyncThing last time I tried it.
To be clear, I didn't mean to call you a racist: just that that particular comment had a flavor of racism.

Deeming a group of people as just generally superior/inferior to another based country/continent of origin smells pretty racist.

Maybe a more correct term would be cultural racism? It's your prerogative as to how you explain it to yourself, but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ...
Out of curiosity, do you use OSX? I am mainly a Windows user, which lends itself very well to full-sized windows. But whenever I use Mac, I find myself using smaller windows. Might also be related to resolution/retina displays.
Many cards are first year free but quite a few aren't. AMEX stopped first year free on a lot of their cards. Regardless if I'm getting a bonus I'm subtracting any fees from that bonus to see if it makes sense. If a card is $100 annual fee and the worth of the first year is $500 it's a no brainier to get $400.
If Debian is running mysqld_safe as root then that--alone--is a problem. As for the rest, they are just configuration mishaps being used with malicious intent. One could just as easily misconfigure similar services rendering similar results.
I've built native ui applications under win32 (API itself, MFC, ATL), os/2, x11, qt, gtk and more. Developing UI for each of these was a thing I found much more straightforward than web applications over the last decade.

The initial learning curve was higher, but once you had that knowledge it remained correct and relevant for years- sometimes decades.

And your application UX was faster and smoother. The minor lag between user interaction and UI action that we take as a given today in all but the most basic applications simply didn't exist if you wrote your UI to conform with the platform guidelines.

Even poor performing complex UIs typically did better than today's well written complex UIs - on hardware quite a bit less capable.

We've accepted he current hodgepodge because of portability, but if you've ever worked with the base platforms for any length of time , the difference is painfully clear.

This doesn't touch on how you could expect a consistent ui experience across all applications on an entire platform. It's hard to get that across even two web sites.

We are currently well into a full generation of developers and consumers who are unaware of what's being lost, because most of their interactions are with browser base applications and mobile phones. Waiting a few dozen to a few hundred extra ms for ui to respond is considered normal, if it's noticed at all.
Vim 8 has been released (includes async jobs)
I don't even know where to start with this one. This website a has an obvious pro-Russian or at least an anti-Hillary bias. It's also named sputniknews... The article is written in first person with no research aside from what the author has produced. Even that research is at best, iffy. It's a bunch of google trends pictures.

Come on people. We can do better than this.
Let me ask this: How much would anyone here pay for a quality printer that lasts virtually forever, has great software support across all platform and got cheap ink/toner that fits automatically replaced?
> Unlike the blank oppressiveness of modern tech aesthetics, it was this brilliantly anti-minimalist statement that said “let’s make it obnoxious, and before you can put it away, you have to slide down the earpiece like you’re reloading a freakin gun,” and it even had all the ringtones that were used by the characters in the movie, because why not go all-out?

Alright, I personally like more minimalist aesthetics, but I'll hear you out.

> The truth is that we live in ridiculous times, where our reality is fiction manufactured to forward the interests of an elite few, much like the fiction that has largely become the reality of our shared world. The dystopia we were promised by Gibson, Scott, Dick, and so on has come to fruition: wealth disparity turning poverty into a death sentence, neverending war in faraway lands killing millions as the “Leader of the Free World” arms tyrants to the teeth, and an inevitable destruction of human civilization as we know it are the cornerstones of our modern reality.

???
Also that Samsung phone he likes so much looks like utter crap, and I promise that spring mechanism isn't going to last a year.

There's a reason those designs aren't in the real world: every single moving part is a new exciting point of failure, and our current devices with nearly no moving parts fail enough.
If I were you, I'd start applying and interviewing at other companies. It sounds like your managers are incompetent at best, unethical at worst. This doesn't sound like a company where you'll be learning, growing, and doing work you'll be proud of.
Sonic Mania and the Triumph of Fan Culture
I'm not sure what you're asking.

If the target hasn't been defined, it's likely it will be missed. That it's tied to a date is secondary. Not "disturbing them with truths (as you seem them)" is irresponsible, but it's not always obvious how to go about presenting the facts-as-you-see-them.

It seems like both your team and the client need a hard-reset to take a step back, decide what everyone actually wants, and to figure out a way to actually achieve something beyond mental exercises.
Does it mean that we could finally get a shell to RDS? Would be interesting to tinker around.
Once upon a time C was not even an option for anyone without access to an UNIX workstation, other than dialects like RatC and SmallC.

Parallel to C, one should learn how to do systems programming in a *Pascal/Modula dialect, or Ada for something more modern, and see that systems programming doesn't need to be as painful as the C experience.

Bonus points if the degree makes use of something like mikroPascal or mikroBasic compilers from Mikroelektronika for bare metal programming.
I'm using it every day for a couple of months now, never crashed and loads faster than Vim 7.

Anyway, the things I appreciate more are the fast evolution and the community, no more than one year ago I tried it but was too lazy to compile, wait, configure...

This time I ran homebrew, linked my .vimrc in ~/.config/nvim/init.vim, and forgot I was using Neovim instead of Vim, except for the async compiling/linting.
Dear <whomever wants to kill facebook> - the answer is simple: Leverage email.

Send marked up messages that look good in both HTML and can be transformed into threaded comment strings in your client. Embed XMPP chat, and set up enabled-by-default encryption around the whole thing. Leverage mailing lists for your special interest groups and your public pages. Sell server time for managing the mailing lists and image hosting, and for a web client.

The infrastructure is there, just forgotten.

This has been banging around in my head for a few years now, but I'll never have the time to do it myself. If you can poke holes in the core concept - please do. It needs to be fleshed out.
AirPrint is, when compared to what came before it, mind-numbingly simple. Printer announces itself with Bonjour, provides basic configuration (like choice of paper tray) with IPP, then accepts documents in PDF format. The end.

Put simply, it upends the retarded mess of printer drivers and replaces it with something that does the job perfectly well 99 percent of the time. All it requires is for the printer to have sufficient MIPS to raster PDF files.
I honestly don't think it's broken. If I'm going to loan you money it makes sense that I'd like you to have a history of successfully managing debt and access to debt. You are more risky if you don't have a history.

It makes logical sense. Is it fair? I don't really think so, but its at least logical.
We received the same warning on both outbound and return legs of an Aer Lingus flight from IAD to EDI. Not sure how they would ever enforce it, beyond the honor system, or expecting other passengers to notice and report misuse.
From a javascript point of view, React is great, but I wholeheartedly disagree on the CSS modules. What React did here breaks the whole purpose of CSS, even if it is messy, not to mention that now designers need to have help from programmers to do their job. IMHO, it is much better to user Sass to make CSS sane, and just do whatever makes life easier on the frontend. I feel something light like Backbone.Native with a Shadow/Virtual DOM system is a superior system in this sense.
While we're clarifying, it's Recurse Center (insert American flag emoji)
People paid for this rant?
ColourPop – Match the Colour, Pop the Bubble
My first published game. Free on Android and iPhone.

The goal is to pop bubbles only when they match the colour of the falling bubble on the left.

Seeking critical feedback and advice for future game releases. Don't hold back :)
If you would like to listen to an entertaining version of the paper, here it is: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/uber-economists-dream/
I saw that talk and thought his points were interesting. His take on the Wall Street thing is that the kind of people who would have gone to Wall Street to try to make it big trading bonds are now heading to SV to try to get rich.
I am very comfortable with what qmail appreciation says about me as a programmer.
In fact they will take your drugs and send you to the CDT(Centro para a Dissuassão da Toxicodependência) where a lawyer, a social worker and a psychologist will try to brainwash you into stoping using drugs...