skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got a story that connects the new and the old way of trading.

When I joined the industry just after the millenium, I joined a firm of guys who used to be floor traders. Basically the guys from "Trading Places" with Eddie Murphy: coloured coats, loud shouting, eating contests. As London got automated, they moved "upstairs", which basically meant holding the eating contests in a room of screens and squawk boxes. It was a fun time (but not for everyone; old school also means macho culture and sexual harassment lawsuits). One day I thought to myself "in what other job in the world would you find your boss breakdancing?"

I checked up on that breakdancing guy the other day. He's continued along the way of old school market makers, taking calls from brokers and manually entring them into a system. He literally said "Nacho, I'm a dinosaur. I can't code, but I have 25 years of experience trading. And trading changed. Everything is eaten by the computers, and on top of that we have free money keeping the market from having more than one opinion."

We talked about a guy who used to work in the firm we were at. He'd gone the other way, and caught the start of the HFT boom. Now he's a billionaire. It's amazing that someone could go from the pit to trading several percent of global daily volume each day.

But basically, the old school traders are well aware of what the computers can do. They aren't stupid, the ones who can't code know they can't, and they can see the writing on the walls.

As far as I can tell, there's only one area of trading that's relatively immune to the machines. And even that isn't completely immune. It's special situations. That's where you're looking at corporate events like mergers, rights issues, and so on. It's somewhat hard to automate because there's just not that many things to make bets on. One guy can sit and read through a bunch of events and put on big bets, and there aren't that many people who have the specifics of how to make the decisions. So the benefits of automating it are not as huge as with most other types of trading.
If you want to go the Google route instead, you can do the same thing with them: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/hosting-static-website

I setup a Hugo site using that exact guide.
We tried babylon for a mobile VR experience, needless to say the performances are mediocre at best. It runs well on PC because it can afford to waste 95% of the computer's power and still run smoothly for small scenes.
I find hard to understand why it feels so hard to avoid eating sugary food.
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I ended up in Montana. (Bitterroot Valley between Hamilton and Missoula specifically).

Granite big walls and boulders to climb, powder to ski in winter, microbreweries and relatively cost of living.
This has been the case in Belgium for about 20 years. The law does make it possible for the family to _refuse_ in case they have objections against it.

It is the default, but the family is still considered.

And a link, in Dutch. I'm not sure how well you'd fare with google translate so sorry for that:
http://reborntobealive.be/orgaandonatie/belgische-wetgeving-...
Just to offer another point of view here: What you say is true but IMHO things have been improving on the "culture" side over the last 2-3 years especially.
Everyone who works with native code, not just C or C++, should at least understand how linkers and loaders work.
I don't know, but I swapped it myself recently and it was easy, once I found a T5 screwdriver and a guitar pick.
No doubt this was Douglas Adams's original inspiration..

"Right Said Fred" Bernard Cribbins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge_4SlJWfl0

"I said to Charlie, "We'll just have to leave it
Standing on the landing, that's all.

You see the trouble with Fred is, he's too hasty
You'll never get nowhere if you're too hasty."
A few tips: Figure out whether you can clear your browser's cache and history, also find or figure out IT's strategy for desktop backups.

Also find or figure out what sort of network monitoring is in place, and where. If you're a developer, consider places you can shoehorn a plausibly deniable proxy or VPN so monitoring at the network egress for example doesn't trace directly back to your desktop IP address.
> dodgy networking

Had recurring wifi issues on a Macbook Pro as well (as did many of my co-workers)... Not saying it's great on Linux but I would hardly call the alternatives much better...
RadioCut is a platform where you can listen to past and present radio shows and you can cut and share radio segments you enjoy with your friends. We think this is the new way to listen to radio: on-demand and social.

Imagine a Spotify for radio. Imagine giving listeners the power to select their favorite moments and making them viral hits online.

That is RadioCut

We launch the site on October 2013 in Argentina. Since then, we have a 12% monthly growth.
Today we are the third site where people listen to radio online.
We have more than a million sessions per month.

But the most important thing is that these users make 12 thousands cuts per month and this quantity also is growing.
They are not passive listeners. They listen to, rewind, forward, cut and share bit-sized audios with their friends.
>"Even the busiest lines in Tokyo are mostly single-rail."

But aren't most of the train lines in Tokyo owned and operated by separate competing companies They don't have to interoperate or not that much correct?

Once upon a time the trains in New York City were also owned by separate competing companies, there was the IND, BMT, and the IRT but they now operate as one entity under the MTA. As a result all these lines were originally built differently with different tunnel widths and platform to accommodate the different size cars. I think this level of interop adds to the complexity of the system as a whole.
For the weather it's not that bad in general, and if you pick the best canton in Switzerland (Valais) {{Citation needed :-) }}, you will have more than 60% of sunlight [1]. The place is also really beautiful [2] and have been in the «52 Places to Go in 2015» [3]. Only drawback, it's a quite rural area, so not the better place to find jobs in IT in Switzerland.

[1] http://www.meteosuisse.admin.ch/product/output/climate-data/...

[2] https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=valais

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/01/11/travel/52-plac...
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I disagree. Have been reading a lot of AI papers in recent weeks.

"What we have seen lately, is that while systems can learn things they are not explicitly told, this is mostly in virtue of having more data, not more subtlety about the data. So, what seems to be AI, is really vast knowledge, combined with a sophisticated UX," one veteran told me.

Why be anonymous in such an article? You aren't leaking state secrets. I'd like this 'veteran' to explain to me why recent algorithmic advances like the DNC or recurrent entity networks are not "more subtlety about the data".

The last few years have seen major improvements in the underlying neural network algorithms alone, like the addition of 'neural memory', big advances in training of neural networks that have loops in them and so on. The major progress in fields like question answering, story comprehension and game playing aren't simply about using old techniques with more data. They do reflect significant theoretical advances too.

It's not a good article, just clickbait by Orlowski of the traditional sort. His final point about liability is so vague it could apply to industrial robots or autopilots too, somehow they manage to exist just fine.
A fun and colorful explanation of how DNS works
Yes. From experience, many developers, namely newly-graduated college students from not-so-rigorous programs, have little idea of Assembly. The same applies with theoretical computer science (Turing Machines, FSMs, PDAs etc.), algorithmic analysis and fundamentals of computing hardware (flip-flops, half/full adders, basic CPU design).
Okay what you do? I am kind of considering a career change for exactly whatever it is.
jokes apart which borough, Brooklyn?
You can always screw up an interview, or maybe some interview process is suboptimal, or some people feel pressure. But the claim you made was that these are questions that you memorize the answers for, that they're trivia questions. I can tell you, I have not, in any interview, in the past 7 years, gotten a question that I already knew the answer for.

And I've asked questions that people didn't already know the answer for, and guess what they do? Many of them figure out the answer. After all, they're questions designed to be ones that you can figure out the answer to in 20-30 minutes.
I honestly love living in the Bay Area. There is a community for everyone that fits their style, weather is good, food is great, lots of culture opportunities, great for kids, all types of environments in driving distance, international airport, best development community in the world, expensive as all get up.

Live in Oakland and it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.
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> So which is it, they're spreading "Fear, uncertainty and doubt" or they're right?

They're spreading the FUD that Linux laptop hardware support is frustrating, no questions asked. It's FUD because it's a fear-inducing oversimplification of the current state of things, which is that Linux laptop hardware support is enjoyable -if you do your homework-.
If Django (for example) was as popular and as user-friendly as WP, there would certainly be DJEngines out there charging what WPEngine charges. It's not about security problems, it's about the fact they charge less than I (for example) can. For my clients to get from me what they get from WPEngine would easily be $1000/month, rather than $99.

One of my clients spends $99/month on WPEngine, and $5-20K per month on the advertising and social media that brings in all their new traffic. They have five people on staff, who probably cost $80-100K per month. $99 for WPEngine is a blessing--it frees them up to think about what's important, rather than wondering whether their tech provider is handling backups.

Your arguments about WP security are not strengthened by the point about WPEngine costs.
Would you mind elaborating a bit on the "took every advantage I could to compensate for the damage caused by stress."

In a similar position and would be good to learn what worked for you.
It's opt-out in Austria as well.

You can register your opt-out with a simple signed letter to the government.

I don't have the time to dig up the statistics right now, but the percentage of donors is considerably higher than, for example, in Germany, which is opt-in.
I own my computing devices and I should be able to control the traffic they create. Encryption must not prevent me from doing that.
Once you are tired being praised, teach them some valgrind. It will solve most of their problems.
> I like what Redis does, and it's also heavily used in industry. What I am saying, not incorrectly, is that their approach to security is harmful to their users. Most of whom won't know, care, or implement additional security which they should.

Then a different security story within redis wouldn't save them anyway. Security is not magic fairy dust that you sprinkle on something and then hope for the best.
I bought a Dell Inspiron 13 7000 earlier this year. i7, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, touch screen, convertible.

Ubuntu works flawlessly on it with the exception of not auto-rotating the screen when you fold it (you can set up a hotkey to do that, so not a big deal.)
I agree that there doesn't seem to be a consensus, which is why I haven't made progress.

The guide you linked to does seem to be more complete than the ones I've seen in the past, thanks!

The gallery linked was especially useful: http://imgur.com/a/O8ntb
This makes me want to pack my bags and head east...Good for you man!
I develop on a T460S. I dual boot Windows 10 and Debian Stretch, though Bash on Ubuntu on Windows has kept me mostly in Windows lately. I prefer this ThinkPad to the previous generation; it's back to having actual mouse buttons.

My only complaint is the lack of graphical oomph; gaming isn't really a thing this machine does, though it's okay at it. Then again, if that's what I was going for, I probably should have bought something else.
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i wouldn't be surprised to learn that this is not universal, that there are some individuals whose reaction to this sort of stress does not cause the sort of brain damage described in this paper.
Any stats to show how this has helped reduce the transplant waitlist?
Can you elaborate? I have seen quite a few "digital nomads" recommending Las Palmas.
Media queries have been based on "effective pixels" rather than actual screen size since early in iOS/WebKit development and entrenched (or worsened depending on your perspective, I suppose) in the "retina" shift and other browsers following suit. It's a communal hack, but you can mostly assume that a modern browser is going to choose applicable media queries based on what it best thinks its pixel density and device form factor may be, rather than actual specific screen size. (Including things like Windows' Tablet Mode switch signalling to Edge to apply media queries differently.)

It might have been nice if CSS had more standard media queries that stated more explicitly what is desired (@media tablet-screen {} or something similar), but the compromise that remains is a solid one that mostly works and is adaptable/evolvable to potential future shifts in device profiles (both in browsers choosing different "effective pixel" ratings over time on the one side and CSS writers shifting breakpoints on the other).

Yes, new CSS standards like Grid/Flexbox could try to invent new wheels to deal with responsive issues, but it's easier for those standards to get adopted if they just subsume existing standards such as media queries.

I'm curious how you manage to avoid media queries while building "truly responsive" websites.
Ask HN: If sharing music is illegal, how am I able to share music on WhatsApp?
I know WhatsApp's intention is not to distribute copyrighted music but it does allow sharing of copyrighted music with peers.
one might argue that it is "User Generated Content" but its still copyrighted material which the user has no right to share.
obviously, WhatsApp(coughfb) won't face any legal actions cause its not explicitly telling people to share copyrighted material but, it never the less is illegal right?
PS. not sure about iOS, but it definitely allows sharing music on android.

So the question is if an app explicitly allowed people to send music like WhatsApp allows will it not face any legal issues?
It's been like that in Poland for many years now, but in reality this doesn't really work since families are always asked before the donation and they usually refuse and the law doesn't really expect the doctors to ask the families but they still do it anyway, just to be on the safe side and not have to deal with repercussions like the family suing the doctor.
I've owned and used both the Dell Precision M3800 and now the Precision 5510 running Ubuntu. They've generally worked well for me. The M3800 with UHD screen and discrete graphics generally sounded like a jet taking off when the fan was going. The 5510 is practically silent in my experience and works more reliably to boot (e.g. I have a lot less trouble with the new Intel WiFi card than I did with the M3800's Broadcom card). Your mileage may vary of course.
It is the strike price.
All web traffic that is not encrypted is vulnerable to having its contents altered enroute.

This is a type of man in the middle vulnerability that allows for javascript, posts, etc. to be changed into something malicious.
To elaborate on the great food, we've got a Melbourne restaurant guide from one of our LA writers who grew up in Melbourne. https://www.theinfatuation.com/melbourne/guides/best-melbour...
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Allthink is pretty good.
> For example, how many human jobs did AI replace in 2016? If you gave professional pundits a multiple choice question listing these three answers: 3 million, 300,000 and none, I suspect very few would choose the correct answer, which is of course “none”.

It's probably very hard to evaluate the impact of AI, but their answer is not any better (nor sourced) than that of the professional pundits they criticise (by the way, I can't find any article of anybody claiming that jobs have been lost due to AI). Rubbish theregister article as usual.
In science and engineering you almost never have a "major breakthrough" where some radical change happens over night. Progress is made by slow incremental improvements. Only from a historian's bird-eye view can you make statements like "the steam engine started the industrial revolution". Steam engines existed before James Watt. He just improved them a little to make them commercially viable.

AI in particular suffers from poor definitions. Nothing computers can do is "AI", only the things that are still impossible can be called "AI". Doing arithmetic was once thought to be a sign of intelligence. So was playing Chess, or Go, or recognizing faces. Now that computers can do this easily it is no longer considered difficult.

So while the recent progress with neural networks is likely somewhat overhyped you shouldn't discount the importance of making things commercially viable. In the 90s we had software that could do image recognition, true, but it wasn't accurate enough, general enough, fast enough to be useful in practice. This has changed over the last ten years to the point where image recognition has tons of commercial applications.
I see something. I don't understand the significance.
Our privacy is being violated by laws such as these, there no question about it. I wish there was a way to avoid this kind of information exposure, because i m afraid "accidental leaks" with unknown consequences will happen. These systems not only expose private information, they also duplicate it and many tax authorities don't exactly have strict security standards. IMHO it would be better if there was a system in place that allowed people to pay taxes in the country where their money resides and then pass the collected tax money to other countries anonymously.
I read this (similar) book recently and using the techniques in it I passed the AWS exams in a short space of time: https://www.amazon.com/How-We-Learn-Surprising-Happens/dp/08...
Main part is "When properly configured". I recently tried out Brave browser on mobile which supports HTTPS everywhere. It slows the mobile web experience so much down that it is not funny. I really like to have HTTPS everywhere but unfortunately not everybody does a good job with that (Handshaking... SPDY, HTTP/2 etc.)
Yup, agreed. Iirc, AI on twitter predicted trump (my own model trained from 2007 and onwards) data. Also, I know for a fact renaissance has been using ml for a while.
Even though it was a bit of a "sufferance", I enjoy having been full circle somehow. Starting with Java OOP in college, then went lisp maniac [1], then ml/FP. Which were all somehow further away from the machine, in a way. But at the same time lisp model seems a fairly thin layer over raw asm. And you realize that primitives of computing: arithmetic, logic, iterations.. are very similar whatever the language or paradigm. I then learned a bit about continuation, non determinism, compilation and now I'm almost free. A language is mostly an encoding. Most of them speak about the same things but in a different clothing.

Not 100% free, I think I need to finish my compiler training and forth bootstraping before I can claim that.

I can't really suggest others to follow the lisp, ml, prolog road though, so I'll just state what I wrote above.

[1] SICP especially, with its gradual pedagogy. From substitution, to environment, to register machines. You can see the relationships up close.
I'm from Italy originally, and now live in SF.

I would go back to Italy in a heartbeat if I were retiring, or if I were a software developer doing remote work. Great people, great food, great history/culture, etc.
I'd probably pick Venezia (Venice), one of the most stunning places in the world. One of the tourist-free areas, of course.

The problem with Italy is when you have to deal with people for work. Terrible. A nightmare. I would never do that again.
Defaults are an extremely powerful policy lever--sometimes worryingly powerful.

FWIW, Richard Thaler, who played a big role in creating the field of behavioral economics, has argued in favor of "mandated choice" for organ donations at the time people renew their drivers license [1]. His concern with default opt-in, as I recall from one of his books, is that defaults are so powerful that they may not really create implied consent.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/business/economy/27view.ht...
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that sounds like manic-depression or similarly, but more modern, a bipolar disorder. IANA Doctor, just sympathetic.
This is appalling. Are not our bodies our own? The remains of our bodies should belong to whomever we will it to.
Same here. Photographic memory; could draw lifelike depictions of people I'd met a single time hours or even days later, could recall what position on a page a paragraph was on months or years after reading something, etc. However, after a coworker killed himself and dumped a RPG/AS400 job on my lap several months before a major calc/billing, I couldn't even recall the beginnings of sentences by the time I'd completed them.
I've recently been using Hexo for blogs: https://hexo.io/
I don't know if this is for everybody but I've found a love of Muay Thai. It's taken me away from the computer and almost feels like I'm 'levelling up'. +10 stamina +10 agility.

The other things I'm trying:
- Daily meditation
- Regular sleep routine.
- Got rid of my smartphone
- Ignore all social media
- Unitasking with one screen, one task at a time

This is some of the stuff I've been doing to help alleviate the stress that I put on myself. Might work for some, might not.
Many will benefit from this change, but France should not force anyone to opt into what is a very personal and emotional decision. The government should not tell you what to do with your body even after death.

The online opt-out registry and opt-out form options will give people a chance to express their wishes to avoid donation. However, there will be a sizable portion of the population who do not fill these out due to ignorance, especially in the less advantaged fringes of society. What is the government going to do to make sure everyone knows about the change and the ability to opt-out?
> ignore the mysterious person who created it

Does that matter? It's not like they have any control over it.
You're the one making the affirmative statement that high travel keyboards - which the whole market is moving away from - are functionally better than low travel ones. You prove that there is any real rather than purely subjective benefit.