skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article seems to be a short rehashing of material from the titular book. In that regard it's mostly content marketing for Index Fund Advisors Advisors, a firm with a bias against expensive active management (but hey, it's not exactly an unjustified bias these days :). I do think it raises a good point, just as the book did - for the most part, customers do not get rich in the markets with active management, despite how highly paid many professionals in the industry are.

It's a little enthusiastic in its point about there being no evidence that active management can be successful, even in the paper it cites. One of the difficulties with points against active management from research papers or e.g. Buffett's public bet is that the entire industry as a whole is often assessed, not just the outliers consistently capable of beating the market. The firms that can consistently beat the market exist in an entirely different strata from the rest. There are fair arguments against their ability to perform consistently, but a more honest analysis would follow the relative few that have evidenced success in the past. Otherwise they conflate "most active managers are not successful" with "the industry is based on a fundamental fallacy."

It's probably easy to read this and overlook the fact that while rare, there are indeed active managers who make their clients far richer than they are when they start, sometimes extremely so. These managers and their firms more or less quickly become richer than the dreams of avarice themselves, along with all the celebrity that comes with. It's not hard to find people who beat the market consistently - the real magic is finding them before everyone else does and prices you out of investing with them.

Finally, for the most part truly successful active managers work with institutional investors, for whom "where are their yachts?" is not necessarily a coherent question. The customers of hedge funds who become very rich are not necessarily going to indicate this in a visible way. The legitimate argument raised by the article and the corresponding book should probably have a more modern question used to convey its point.
For what? Cracking passwords offline isn't illegal as long as you don't use the passwords to gain unauthorized access to a system and you don't share the password with anyone other than the rightful owners.

There's nothing wrong with cracking a WiFi network's WEP password in front of the owner of the network in order to demonstrate WEP's weak security. You would have to actually connect to the network to commit unauthorized access.
A digital revolution in health care is speeding up
This isn't a dystopian future we can avoid, it is a dystopian present that already happened and we are stuck with it.

Almost every page needs JS to use. Almost all JS is thoroughly munged beyond readability. It's normal for even page navigation (surely a browser function) to be handled in JS, and for resource loading (again a browser function) to be done through JS making AJAX requests to URLs generated deep in a minified blob. The accessibility nightmare is real.

Ads are common as ever and adblocking is an arms race never won. DRM has been here for years, and HBO isn't putting .mp4s on an FTP server any time soon. YouTube is almost unwatchably saturated with ads and is run by Google, the search and analytics company. Targeted advertising and analytics are a bell that can't be un-rung.

The web you are trying to save became a victim of its own success, somewhere around when everyone decided it was going to be HTTP and HTML instead of gopher, the browser wars started and AOL users started to flood USENET.
Speak like a leader | Simon Lancaster | TEDxVerona

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGBamfWasNQ
Implementing hash(); Its easier than you think
On macOS, someone below recommended "WiFi Signal", USD 5.

Not so fully featured, I assume, but free is Wireless Diagnostics. Ignore the popup, and go to Windows -> Info/Scan/Performance
(it's in System -> Library -> CoreServices -> Applications, but I start it via Spotlight)
Please don't post unsubstantive or snarky dismissals to HN. It degrades the quality of discussion we're hoping for.
Because those in control are inevitably going to become corrupt and use their power to advance their own personal agendas.
Java doesn't support compiling C/C++ to their runtime. So that's not really comparable to this.
Some libraries just seem obvious in retrospect. This looks very cool. I've had a lot of success using click for command line programs in the past. Fire looks like it'd replace click for the majority of simple cli programs I write.
I stopped reading after the first sentence "Ninety percent of Americans have used a credit card" which I find to be completely untrue and fabricated.
"Diversity" is frequently a euphemism for "black people".
> To me, the more interesting question is "why were the 60s and 70s so good for GA?" De-regulation of airlines was probably one factor, but it can't be the only one.

Lots of WW2 pilots still alive and interested in flying in the 60s and 70s, maybe? I'm just speculating, but the population of flight-trained people in the country has probably not been higher than then.
As an Uber employee, yes we are going through a rough patch and we are doing a lot of bloodletting right now internally, but as a company I think we will emerge much better and much more impassioned. If you saw the numbers we see, you wouldn't be so quick to predict our death. And no, I'm not going to leak anything, go ask NYT who seems to have their own personal leak, whom I hope gets caught and fired.

In terms of self-driving cars I'm not holding my breath. I think that's a decade away at least, the only reason why Uber cares is because if we don't have a foothold in that race, it's an existential problem for us. But all it will take is one terrible self-driving car tragedy to push back all research by 20 years due. I really hope something like that never happens but with all these players doing self-driving cars who can tell what will happen in the future.
In order for Apple to even consider making that tradeoff, they'd have to find a successor technology to Thunderbolt (Intel makes Thunderbolt), which has been part of the Apple ecosystem for quite some time.

USB-C might fit that bill, but I don't see Apple making the jump anytime soon.
The real world is vastly more complex than "true or fake". The Trump tweet you mentioned is a perfect example. His tweet was not a simple statement of fact:

> The media has not reported that the National Debt in my first month went down by $12 billion vs a $200 billion increase in Obama first mo.

That's a claim: "I have lowered the debt in my first month while Obama raised it". While the facts are true (the debt did go down), the claim is false. Trump has taken no action that would cause the debt to be lowered; it's not unusual for the debt level to fluctuate in the short term.

The real problem we have is that most people aren't interested in this kind of nuance at all. A statement that makes your team look like the winners, or the other team look like the losers, is easy to accept without much thought or analysis.
I think you are describing anarcho-capitalism, not libertarianism

FWIW, I consider those terms, along with "voluntaryist" and/or "market anarchist" to be approximately synonymous for all practical purposes.
Your post reminds me of Frederick T. Gates, manager of the Rockefeller fortune, who once sold Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines to US Steel for 55 million dollars (1.5 billion with inflation) in profit for the Rockefeller family. I guess his response would be "my client considers yachts symbols of decadence, instead he owns several houses in downtown Manhatten, upstate, in the Berkshires, and in Florida."
I see it more that Uber-LIKE services have won, whether or not that's Uber specifically or a myriad of similar companies. E.g. in Northern Thailand there is both Uber and the local version called Grab, which is way better than Uber
You should let people know that you have skin in the game. You are one of the founders of the company according to your profile.
I'm about your height, and the 172 works fine. The 152 is definitely a squeeze.
The Oxford Latin Course is a good standard college-level introduction. There is also Lingua Latina if you want to go full immersion.
On my iPad right now. My first-generation "Time Capsule" has four options I can set via the iOS Airport Utility.

802.11n (b/g compatible)
802.11n only (2GHz)
802.11n (a compatible)
802.11n only (5GHz)

I gave away my AirPort a while ago, it was also first-gen of its kind so I think it only did 802.11a
Innovation that no one is asking for honestly. If Nintendo didn't have their classic titles, no one would be buying into underpowered consoles at this point. Sega never made anything with a ravenous fanbase. Nintendo exists solely on their core fans buying into whatever they make regardless.
It doesn't exist at the AAA level he's describing, to fit the limitations of WebGL the web versions of those engines are based on their stripped-down mobile renderers.

We need a next generation WebGL with features comparable to DX11 before web graphics can catch up with the state of the art in native PC/console graphics.
This was just introduced last night at an Electron meetup in SF. It was something the speaker was working on and shared at the end of his presentation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EruDxnLK_bg&t=14m55s
Thanks for the explanation. It's more evidence to my point that I'm always amazed it works at all :)
So this is why my electricity bill is so high
> All signs point to the recency bias being the primary culprit.

Saved you a click.
> You should let people know [...] according to your profile.

They did let people know.
Thank you! At least I'm not the only person who believes this would be the expected behavior. I'm still half expecting someone else to pop out and explain that I'm way wrong, though.
Intel x86 assembler is arguably not a nice API, but most of us are not working at that level any more.

The requirements for an instruction set aren't really the same as the requirements for a language well suited to writing, say, video poker games.
They already make things like that.
https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Bluetooth-Transmitter-Receiver-...

Some companies like Westone, also make a replacement bluetooth cable since their IEMs all have replaceable cables.
https://www.amazon.com/Westone-MMCX-Bluetooth-Cable-78548/dp...

I am pretty sure the correct answer is: Stop making phones so thing and bring back the 3.5 headphone jack.

If the 3.5 really is a hindrance, come up with a connector that allows a simple adaptor to 3.5 jacks and still allows cabled charging. I already have a couple of L-adaptors for my headphones with straight connectors, so carrying a 3.5-to-Lightning doesn't bother me. But not being able to charge at the same time. WTF?

iPhone SE forever!
It's against the HN guidelines to use story titles to editorialize. Please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The article misses out on explaining WHY we cannot get the promised bitrates. The answer is Shannon's limit on channel capacity, which mandates that you pay in either bandwidth or high power or low noise (SNR) to get higher capacity. Now these WiFi devices have internal rate adaptation algorithms that choose a particular modulation and coding scheme (MCS) index based on the measured SNR. A higher MCS index means better higher bits per symbol (modulation) and lower overhead code rates, and more antennas (spatial streams), which is how you get the xx Gbps bandwidth advertised on the box. List of MCS indices: http://mcsindex.com/

In today's devices, interference is considered as noise, which means that SNR simply drops to a point where the higher MCS indices are not chosen at all. So, even though the device is capable of the advertised XX Gbps bitrate, the SNR isn't high enough to switch to those higher rates.
FYI "e.g." means "for example", so "for e.g." means "for for example".
You're welcome to read more into my reply and usunderstand my point. I'm sorry to hear that you were diagnosed with autism.
I have a pair of JLabs BT earbuds and routinely go 30'-40' without any problems. Typically at the gym I leave my phone in my bag and will leave my bag at one station while I superset at another.

Normally I loop the earbud connecting wire in front instead of behind my neck because it gets in the way for squats.
Well, there's the bit where the "free market" has kept valuing Uber at absurd levels despite it being not financially viable. Also that the report from the "disgruntled employee" dovetailed well with what people already knew about the company from word of mouth, and with gender politics issues that have been a problem in SF since forever. Also that the "exploited employee" isn't even an employee, since Uber is fighting like a cornered wolf in court to keep them classified as contractors so that they don't have any of the rights and benefits that they would otherwise be entitled to in a first-world workforce.

I mean, like the article said, Uber has done some great things, and the world will be better in its wake; ride sharing was a thing that needed to be invented, and it needed someone as forceful as Kalanick to be deployed. But if you honestly think that its modus operandi is standard fare, you're the one with the cynical outlook on capitalism and big business.
They might not care about software per se, but they do care about having access to information, education, communication and getting things done faster and better; and networked software enables people to do these things. Provided one has no other computational devices, carrying a dumb phone in this day and age is tantamount to bringing a knife to a gun fight.
Avoid pixel conversions when storing textures from cairo image format
Cogl: Prefer swizzling to convert BGRA buffers
A blockchain in 200 lines of code – Medium
Doctor Launches Vision Quest to Help Astronauts' Eyeballs
Examples of the zeroth theorem of the history of science (2007) [pdf]
Uber has picked fights with local, regional and federal governments around the world, as well as reporters, other companies, etc. Many of those could potentially lead to litigation but so far haven't, and if anyone has been waiting to sue Uber, this is the optimal time for it.

With the Waymo lawsuit, the internal investigations, cash burning, leaks, disgruntled employees and drivers, a wave of new lawsuits around the country and the world could quickly overwhelm the company, preventing it from doing an IPO or even securing more funding. With the IPO delayed and valuation damaged, more of the best employees will quit, as the long hours and low salaries won't translate into post-IPO fortunes.
I agree with this, but not a popular opinion. Hence the down votes you are getting. Korea and China don't have the same memetic immune response to such ideas, injecting one's children with growth hormone in hope of increasing future job prospects, for example, is extremely common in Korea. I suspect embryo selection and generic engineering for increased IQ will take off in East Asia first. Then we will be forced to allow it to compete. 50+ more IQ points looks very possible: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3421

However, any significant lag could spell the end of American economic dominance. For this reason, I intend to start investing more in Korean firms in the next few decades.
How could it be the case that a traditional Uber competitor (eg. Lyft) could be cheaper, though? Only through venture capital. VC aside, Uber have the demand, which gives them the power to squeeze drivers.

Think of it from a driver perspective; if a competitor pays less than Uber and has less demand, why drive with them?

And if you think there will be a competitor capable of out-spending Uber using venture capital, think of it from the perspective of a VC; why pour so much capital into a business so unlikely to succeed against an incumbent when you could put it into the incumbent itself?

I think the primary risk to Uber's business is that of a self-driving competitor being capable of disrupting them; such competitors will have capital already, and will be capable of disruption through all the same ingredients that got Uber to where they are. Those companies would probably work with Uber at least at first, anyway. Uber will be at their mercy every time the contract needs to be renewed.
Dissecting Reinforcement Learning
You had me at "5 to 30 minutes"
I spent three months working full time to get a job
If you have a fast enough internet, you can right now stream games to your PS4 just like Youtube. In 10-20 years time, we'll be able to stream games running directly on publisher's server farm somewhere.
SF would probably count there, but Flywheel is utter rubbish in comparison to Uber.
I use 'row' as a variable name quite a lot, especially in loopy situations where it's obvious. The more problematic times are when you have things like a source and a destination row dealing with, say, cows, and you call one of them 'row' and the other one 'cow\_row', and in different places pick which kind of row is which at apparent random.

Or the situation with the file names, as someone else mentioned at more length.
> The only answer I can come up with is that there is a political motivation, driven by neo-Marxism and the narrative that capitalism and big business are inherently evil.

I downvoted you because your argument is a false dichotomy (could be true but caused by something else) with no evidence. If you're going to make outlandish claims you need evidence to back it up.
Water is amazing at blocking RF... and we're composed of a lot of it. If you stand between a Bluetooth device and your Mac when you're monitoring with the Bluetooth Explorer app, you see a pretty marked difference compared to the device having a direct line of sight! Air still insulates, but a few orders of magnitude less than water (thankfully for wireless product manufacturers!).
They're obviously talking about adults and I don't think that number is too far off, what would you put it at?
The nice thing with a diesel aviation engine is that it can run on kerosene (Jet fuel). Jet fuel is available at pretty much every airport.
802.11ax won't mean anything unless you reduce interference (see my reply below). Without high SNR, all these new efficiency techniques won't get you anything. Shannon capacity is still what limits performance.
Latency will always be a consideration though; the fidelity might get there in terms of audiovisuals, but you can't engineer around the speed of light.
Ugh so torn by this.

Very thorough and great statistical work, but it's all arguing against a weak premise.

His insight was that 2nd and 10 disproportionately followed an incomplete pass. This generated two hypotheses:

Coaches (like all humans) are bad at generating random sequences, and have a tendency to alternate too much when they’re trying to be genuinely random. Since 2nd and 10 is most likely the result of a 1st down pass, alternating would produce a high percent of 2nd down rushes.

Coaches are suffering from the ‘small sample fallacy’ and ‘recency bias’, overreacting to the result of the previous play. Since 2nd and 10 not only likely follows a pass, but a failed pass, coaches have an impulse to try the alternative without realizing they’re being predictable.

The argument boils down to coaches trying to catch the defense off-guard; they are either alternating to be random or "overreacting".

It may not be that complicated. Coaches hate 3rd and 10 or more specifically third and long. Analysts emphasize it every game and the reason why is because at that point there is no randomness. You pretty much have to pass on 3rd and 10 and the defense knows this, not to mention a play that requires ten yards takes longer to setup than a play which takes four and the defense is already rushing your QB...

If you have an incomplete pass on 1st and 10, you pass again on 2nd and 10 and have another incomplete, you're now looking at passing on 3rd and 10: 3 passes in a row, no time burned off the clock (time of possession is also highly valued), and no momentum - you've just fucked up on the same play two times in a row and you've got to run it (well pass it) again.

You run on second down, you'll usually at worst get a yard or two, but you very well could have a good run and you're then looking at 3rd and 6, third and 4, situations that open up your playbook a lot.

This might not be the reason coaches do it, but it's certainly a possibility. They seem to get into an argument of causality when they've got some interesting correlations. But I just armchair quarterback so don't mind me.
It's launched in the US, Germany, and France so far. It started in the US, and Germany and France both have elections coming up. Launching depends at least on having factcheckers or mainstream media outlets doing factchecking active in that country and willing to join the scheme.

(I work for a factchecker in a different country).
> You need to clarify what market you're in. Not NYC, surely.

As a New Yorker, what? Every Uber car over ever been in has been far far cleaner and nicer. There isn't even a close comparison.
Uber's business practices have made me ashamed of the tech industry for several years now. Recent developments are just telling me they aren't only screwing drivers but some of their engineers too.

Their competition is also funded by big VCs and/or big corporations, there's no inherent problem with that. Not everyone who thinks Uber is a scumbag company is pushing some fictitious neo-Marxist agenda.
The next level of nuance, of course, is separating Trump's propensity of associating everything positive he sees with himself and the completely true words of that tweet. The fact stated is a legitimate starting point for a policy discussion that is easily and cleanly distinct for the implied claim you referred to.
Sadly, https is pervasive but not universal.
Watchdog to launch probe into misuse of data in politics
Since I remap Ctrl <-> Caps Lock on all my machines, it's especially funny to me.
5-8c is massive.

If you live in a temperate climate,

20c is quite pleasant and warm.

28c is getting into the range of a really hot day.
the performance is terrible in vs code? not that I've seen.
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Not sure what you mean with it being random. It's not. The choices they made are based on previous choices they made. In that respect it's more akin to an evolutionary way of looking at our choices.

You don't need to be manipulated by anyone else it might just be that you simply don't make the choices you think you do but that they are spread out over a much longer timeline.
I used them 7+ years until a few weeks back. I had one aging website I literally had not posted anything new to in about 3+ years, and rarely visited. It made enough to have withdraw possible every few months. The only thing I can think of is the few videos on a youtube channel with a few thousand views posted about a year back. They probably were making $5/year. I'm not sure how I am banned for invalid ad clicks when I was barely making any revenue or have traffic. No explanation. Appeal sent on the 16th of Feb saying it will take a week or more to process. Still waiting. What a a joke.
Expired cards and active cards generally have the same card number. I've certainly had multiple cards with the same long number across them. If you have to write the expiry date on anyway then why not use it?
I know a lot of veterans got pilot's certificates with the GI Bill education benefit, so that was probably part of it (in addition to conversion of military pilot experience into civilian certificates)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13791525
You missed the part where you put the card into the chip reader early, and it beeps loudly and everything stops while you read that the card can't go in early, so you take it out and huffily wait until it says enter card now.