skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The data channel seems like one of the most under-utilized features for WebRTC. On our platform we've seen a handful of companies develop RT games and applications. Nice to see people developing applications other than AV applications.

Going to also shamelessly promote our webrtc platform www.temasys.io It has very strong support for data channel, and socket messaging.
Well, no, not really. Ideally a car has a definable spec, such as a road with consistent markers. Steering within a consistent set of lines and reacting to other cars on the road is difficult enough, especially if you try to account for random behavior from other drivers.

Modeling and forecasting a security's price mathematically, or a set of security prices, is complex in a different sort of way. A better analogy would be like trying to program a car to deal with a meteorite that suddenly hits the road in a random spot, or a bomb that goes off 100 feet in front of the car as it's cruising on the road. There are far fewer rules with which to start a foundation, and the entire macroeconomic structure is far more delicate and in constant flux from news, other traders competing against you, information closed to the market, etc. With cars, you at least get a road, and add randomness in with other drivers. With security prices, you might have a lower bound of potential losses, if you're buying long. It's just a different animal.
All this copyright nonsense is so medieval.

What we need in the 21st century is the new Universal Copyright Act which will claim the content public domain once it has 50%+1 direct democratic votes to be so.
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Hi HN! I am head of business at Deepgram (YC W16) and I'd like share a new project that we've been working on with RadioCut: a startup that allows users to clip radio snippets.

Our project is called DeepRadio (http://deepradio.radiocut.fm/) which allows users allows users to search for keywords and phrases in a number of past radio broadcasts.

For example, a user can search radio broadcasts for mentions of 'FBI' and the app would take the user to clips where the words were spoken.

I would love to get your feedback on how to make this more useful. Thanks!
I think the OP's concerns with centralization is that over time this might become a great collection of fun/useful/interesting/<insert adjective here> sites, just like geocities, but because it is centralized it can all irrevocably just go away one day at the whim of the controlling company. Just like geocities.
I thought exactly this. $1300 per share seems like an obvious way to keep the small fry out.
"Auto Table of Content" userscript/addons[0].

I believe any article longer than 3 pages should have a table of contents. If readers feel bored, they can look into the TOC, jump to other section to find something fun. But most of they don't have one. So I make it my self. This's inspired by this Firefox addon[1] (no longer maintained).

[0]: https://github.com/letientai299/userscript-auto-toc

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/table-of-cont...

Edit: Add newline between links.
> "Why do traders in investment banks feel their jobs are immune from AI, etc?"

Why do people need to have anxiety and fear about AI is the better question. Let's solve those instead of this blindless ambition to automate everything, and then somehow assume our benevolent government will give everyone UBI or some other pipe dream.
I dreamed of living in Alaska since I was a child, actually. I didn't get to Alaska, but that's OK. I live in Norway, which hits into another long dream (living in a foreign country).

I don't yet live without neighbors - I'm in the 3rd or 4th largest city. I occasionally stay in a little primitive (no power/water) in the woods, and we have some plans of moving to a less populated area. We just have to stay within a reasonable commute to the city for work.
I don't get why it would be that way? It's built to be deployed in a DMZ on a private network and that's how 99% of users (typically professionals) use it.
Just wanted to say I love 'A Soft Murmur' and have been using it at work for years. Programming music is good, but still has track changes, whereas ASM gets me in the zone quicker.
openssl s_client is really valuable if you regularly work with minimal container images that don't have curl, wget or even ncat. openssl(1) is almost always there.
There are politics like anywhere, but nothing unusual.
I bought a laptop from them 7-8 years ago because I felt paying for an OS then putting Gnu/Linux onto it was a waste of money (the Dell XPS is just as expensive as the Windows one, so I think I got this wrong). It worked really great, but, was ugly as sin. The body seemed 10 years out of date even back then (there were more modern looking laptops in the 90s). I think the Dell XPS linux is the only nice looking linux laptop that I am aware of. Given Apples dropping the ball for UNIX devs, I hope this space gets better.
Amen, coding is a never ending study. Always new things. do do do do doooo. I'm coding it.
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>Why would you assume that? Nuclear bombing and not caring about civilians is not normal behavior.

Did not say, or imply that they were normal behavior. I said that other presidents (not all other, some other) have probably said similarly disturbing things.

>The Clinton emails were supposed to be private, yet never had anything close to that type of behavior.

Clinton wasn't who I had in mind, but I suspect private, verbal conversations would be more revealing than emails.
So, what's an embedded system supposed to do when it can't reach its NTP server and needs to validate a cert?
>The escalations in DDoS size that we saw in 2016 were supposedly driven by a high number of insecure smart home/IoT devices, I'd like to do what I can to stop this becoming a trend.

Primarily driven by home routers, not IoT devices.
from the "Can you explain the Net Market Share methodology for collecting data?" part of NetMarketShares FAQ[0]:
"[...]43% are commerce sites [...]"

Could it just be that christmas shopping skews these statistics? Then again, statistics for the previous years don't seem to support this theory.

All in all this doesn't seem like information I would want to base any claims on.

[0] -> https://www.netmarketshare.com/faq.aspx#methodology
Plenty of downsides to balance out the high pay and the excitement of working with big transactions. The hours and level of stress take a heavy, heavy toll on many people.
> Perhaps the best analogy is a chess expert paired with a computer can beat either the computer or the expert alone.

This has stopped being true for a number of years. Computers play chess so much better now, that a human will actually impede it.

Think this way: could a 12 year old (the human) help a math graduate (the computer) on some problem? Or more likely he will just be a distraction?

More elaborations on this from gwern:
https://www.gwern.net/Notes#advanced-chess-obituary
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That's an extremely stupid analogy. Do you seriously think that the cost variability of civil infrastructure and software are comparable?
...That's a lot of apples
There's a duality of thought going on here (with apologies to the false dichotomy). One says that all intelligence is ultimately materialistic/mechanical and that all we must do is retrace these steps with electronics and we can achieve whatever we want including high-value traders. The other seems to leave room for... let's call it the "irrational" side of things.

My only point here is that just about all values themselves are irrational. The same problem in trying to get a computer to recognize that the Mona Lisa (or poched eggs or Mozart or whatever) have value, is the same one that makes it hard to teach them to figure out if Tesla is still a good long-term investment etc.
Isn't the CIO a presidential appointment? I wonder who the next one will be. Or, will there be one at all?
Why not offer a simple paragraph like "Mathematical Mesh is a [thing] for [class of people] that [does this or that], which provides its users [these benefits]. It works via [some technical explanation]. It is available [in this form, for $X USD / free]. To get started, [perform this action]. To learn more, [read this article]."

I recently had to review about a hundred websites in my industry, and for quite a few of them I was simply unable to figure out what they do, sell or provide.
If you do that you're all good. That's not how store bought juice is prepared though.
I guess it's a workflow that has stuck with me from using a Macbook Pro. For some reason I rarely feel comfortable sitting with a monitor, keyboard and mouse for many hours.
Their expository value was great, their legal value was specious.
>These people by vast margin are not legal gun owners

Anti-gun control people keep making this argument, and fail to take into account the larger economic impact of more inaccessible guns. If they are restricted it makes them more expensive to obtain on both the legal and illegal markets. Like you said

> large, poor cities

If in fact these cities are as poor as you say - which, speaking as a resident of Chicago, is a grave distortion of our reality - then this only bolsters my argument. Guns shouldn't be affordable or accessible to the average everyday criminal. Controlling the supply allows us to control the price.

> a bit premature to connect gun sales to rising crime rates

This is directly addressed by the evidence I provided. Gun deaths are inexorably connected to gun sales.

>What do you think this does for the public perception of the police dept?

CPD is taking steps to address its image, getting rid of the poor leadership that led to this crisis is exactly what they should be doing. They're hiring people from disempowered communities, organizing outreach, building trust. CPD is busy busting its ass demonstrating its ability to operate effectively in this environment. You need to be aware that police departments originated[0] not as public defense organizations, but as union-busting, organizer-murdering hired security. Things have changed, but as recent events[1] have shown, there is still work to do. As someone with family members in the CPD AND as someone with family members of color, I am keenly aware of the tightrope both sides must walk. There is no perfect solution, but burying your head in the right-wing propaganda machine does none of us any good.

At least I'm proposing a solution. Again, you make an assertion that there is a negative impact of "recent critisicm[sic] of police" and that it has directly led to this outbreak of homicide. What criticism, specifically? By which groups, specifically? And what should be done about it, specifically?

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_(detective_agency)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Laquan_McDonald
>>by the end of the month he could also recite the first 1,000 digits of pi.

I can't tell if he's joking here, this sounds incredible, useless but incredible.
> He doesn't even correctly identify what weasel words are. ("Some people say", "It is believed", etc).

Agreed, the scripts can use improvements like these. Its a start.

I'd also add 'but' if its not there yet. Its function is to negate everything written before it which easily leads to fallacies.

> I'm not sure why 'very close match' is any more opinionated than 'close match' is.

Because 'close' in 'close match' is informative. Without 'close' you get 'match'. So close tells us about the state of the match.

Very is redundant at best. Very is also emotional, its function is to (consciously or not) attempt to induce an emotional response in the reader; ie. to manipulate the reader. You want to avoid all of the above in a scientific paper.

Its important to note that we can reach for perfection whilst writing. Because such a goal is far fetched it makes more sense to improve ourselves via iterations. (Same with these scripts, or software development in general.)
A seven-mile caldera would surely be a 'major eruption'. Lots of distance between a small mountain (439 ft tall, isn't that a hill?) and a large volcano (Vesuvius is for instance the size of Naples).
And it's easier to debug a video codec if it's ASCII art, but there's huge benefits for using TLS everywhere instead of plaintext, and they more than outweigh "it's harder to debug."
Because it's not a case of baby and bathwater, where the thing you don't want to throw is millions of times more valuable than the one you want to throw away.

Here, the two things that might be thrown away are of the same value (justifiable passive voice vs unjustifiable passive voice), and it's not that big a value to begin with.

Plus, you have a perfectly good replacement (active voice).

Lastly, it's just a general advice for people who overuse unjustified passive voice. It's not supposed to be subtle. If those people could understand subtlety they'd kept the justified passive voice themselves when it's appropriate.
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> When technology enabled FX trade spreads to be less than a penny

This also created the incentive for collusion/price fixing in the FX market as regular bid/offer spreads became too small to make any money.
"Useless but incredible" sounds like a good description for life itself!
Get out of your comfort zone, pursue novelty.
I'm 45, I have all my hair.
In my 20s I taught myself the dvorak layout, In my 30s I learned mountain unicycling and guitar, in my 40s I learned to knit and play drums.
Learn new skills, stretch your body and your mind.
One day I'll learn how to use semicolons!
There has been a lot of sloppy epigenetic studies, here is the sceptical view: https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2015/sep/11/why-im-...
The idea of a hardened perimeter around a soft squishy interior has been proven repeatedly not to work.
Different projects - different requirements.

Perhaps you should assume people who are using it like this carefully weighted security against their requirements and came to the conclusion that it's a legit tradeoff.

> This is just broken by design software development.

This is just your "I know it all" mindset.
acute vs. chronic stress
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Well said. I grew up in Arkansas, now in Colorado.
Salaries are high, but cost of living is also really high. If you are from the US, expect to eat out less and have a smaller house/apartment, but have nicer (and longer) holidays.
That is completely inane. You're telling me that a superset of something is worse than the thing itself, which can only be true if "I know it has no spyware" is worse than "I know it has spyware".

The rest of your comment disingenuously assumes that a computer can only have one piece of spyware, and if you know what it is you can remove it and now you're safe. What if there's more spyware you don't know about? And if your remover is completely safe, why not just run it on all your computers, safe or not?

Not to mention that removing spyware from a computer turns it into a computer that might or might not have spyware.
Financial harm is still harm. You cant sue unless you are personal affected in some way, financial, emotional or otherwise.
I also still have a T400 chugging along with Arch. It got put in storage for a few years until I dug it out while recycling some other junk and realized it still had considerable life in it.

I just set someone up with a T420 with a few upgrades and it's a fantastic value. Hardest part was finding a source for the rubber HD rails needed to swap a 7mm tall SSD in place of the original 9.5mm platter drive. It was technically a downgrade from a newer thinkpad laptop that they had, but the T420 is just a better machine from fit/finish/touchpad/upgrade/repair perspectives.

If anyone has advice on swapping the screen on a T420 please point me towards it - the T420 screen is, for me, the only negative.
I think civilization's best hope would be that technology manages to keep a small group of people thriving without direct sunlight(for growing food) until the negative affects of the catastrophe are reduced by natural processes or geo-engineering. If we can setup systems that can provide energy without need of a large network of resources and manufacturing to maintain(nuclear with a stockpile, geothermal, robust wind turbines), then people could live on artificially lit agriculture for generations.
My typing speed is about the same as yours. But since I started learning how to code I figured it would be useful if I could type faster.

I started using ratatype.com daily. If you're self taught you may not be typing optimally (used MSN messenger to learn how to type).

At first you'll obviously be a lot slower but eventually learning how to type correctly helped me get past that local maximum.

(This is all assuming you aren't typing the correct way RN)
I don't agree with the question, especially if we are talking about de facto traders. There is a high level of worry because commission margins and returns per unit of risk are the lowest ever. I would say there is a high level of calculated ignorance in the industry.

Truth is, most trader jobs have been gone in the last 15 years. First it was the automation of order collection (phone orders being replaced by automatic order routing processes), then automation of the execution process (from human order management to algorithmic trading), then automation of the investment management process (from discretionary processes to quantitative management), and the last frontier will be the automation of the relationship with the client.

Problems are different for different trader types.

Execution traders execute orders on behalf of clients. Today a lot of clients execute directly using web terminals and APIs. And if you still execute on behalf of others you spend a lot of time fighting against the machines (one solution is to trade out of market, but this too is being automated). Very very hard to come up with new execution algos.

For delta hedging traders the role has been reduced to monitoring, unless you have allowance to take risk (which most banks don't since the 2008 crisis).

For alpha traders, whose job is to extract money from market, the risk is not in being replaced by the machines, but one of overcrowding, i.e. everyone following the same strategies is reducing returns and increasing risk (skew) across the board.

Sales traders whose activity is to sell first, and trade last, still need to manage relationships with customers. But this has been changing gradually, with clients prefering digital interfaces, passive investment programs, and now the rise of automated investment management programs.

I started working in the industry circa 1999. The head of trading I was working with told me once machines will never be able to invest like a human. He's still there doing a lot of money, but certain that it will end someday. His strategy: "let's see if I can make it one more year"...
What I hope to do :

build a ESP8266 opened door detector (or try it with rust with a RTL8710
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5lfpnk/rust_on_rtl871... )

build a ROS robot with SLAM using a 3D cam : http://www.ros.org/

build a multicopter : https://www.reddit.com/r/Multicopter
Even with HTTP you usually don't use netcat beyond playing with simple GET requests. Most web app developers and hackers use developer tools available in their browser, libraries for their favourite language (urllib for Python, LWP for Perl) and specialized command-line tools (curl).
Sometimes it can be safer to assume that something is completely insecure, than to assume ( incorrectly ) that it is. Not implementing any security on a product guarantees the former - outside of complete user incompetence. I would also say that guaranteeing security is beyond the scope of most projects, especially those with limited development resource ( Redis for example ).
This is declaring a constant and assigning a function that takes no arguments to that constant.
I think it was hard to recognize it as such, and perhaps difficult as purity lower, but indeed issues surrounding "snake-oil" remedies were the motivation for the first true product label regulations.
So yes, you can get lighter laptops that can't handle 16GB RAM and have a lower-res screen (and a worse onboard graphics) card for a comparable price. But you specifically were comparing weight and power - and that's not entirely an apple - to - apple comparison you're doing here.
Those options represent a .026% ownership stake of the company.

However, it's not quite a simple as that, because some of the investors almost certainly have more preferential shares of the company, so what those options really represent is 0.026% of anything after those investors take their cut. mathattack's answer starts getting at it in a little bit more detail.

You should value them at $0 for purposes of evaluating the job offer. The only way you could tell what they can/could be worth is having a peek at the future at the time the company is about to exit.
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My point was that you've underestimated the problem difficulty, when the signal is not of a smooth manifold and where the dynamics are far from stationary, it is incorrect to infer that techniques which have worked well in stable and smooth scenarios will continue to work well. In fact they have not and it looks, not for a while yet either.

> Citing Newton as a typical example of the superiority of human inferential abilities perhaps represents a case of cherry picking

Are hyperparameter searches across a sea of AWS instances cherry picking?

Anyways, I don't think I cherry picked. There is not a single machine that can do the same yet. And more importantly, a learning algorithm that notices model failure and works out the surgery required to correct or even completely replace it.

Newton is an example of the human brain at its best. But he was far from the only: Maxwell, Green, Einstein, Noether, Archimedes and so on the list goes. But we don't need to go that far since Crows are already capable of generalization that out matches what machines can do for the near future.
It's cool here to deride pop science articles as sensationalist hooey, but this is actual news. The volcano appears more active and scientists are legitimately worried.

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-gas-ground-bay-naples-volcano.h...

http://phys.org/news/2016-12-naples-astride-rumbling-mega-vo...
Hainan, China.
Better air quality and weather.
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Effectively zero for the foreseeable future.

The "valuation" of a company is a tricky figure because it can be based on a variety of things.

While the company is still private, it's based on the latest investment round which is whatever the investors agreed to. I can buy 0.0000001% of your company for $1 but it doesn't mean your company is "worth" $1T anywhere but in my head.

In the public markets, it's usually related to current and future estimate sales. There's still no equation, just a gut feeling.

And wow. That's an amazingly high strike price.