skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For better or worse the cost of skilled human labor, particularly someone trained as a watchmaker, is damned expensive. Supply and demand.

Can you get a similar, and perhaps even better constructed (machines are, after all, more precise than humans) watch from China? Sure. Is it the same watch? No.

These watches are luxury items - a status symbol. They are the Rolls Royce of watches: built by hand, damned expensive, and worth every penny to those who buy them.

Of course, if you prefer the watch from China, then more power to you. I prefer my Dodge car over a Rolls Royce as well; I don't need or want a symbol, just a good car.
Funny, I read that article and got excited that I finally know how to use Make. Then I looked at one of the examples he pointed to, and discovered he abandoned it in November last year :P

https://github.com/topojson/us-atlas/commit/a2a9d4279a125212...
There's no official HN iOS app. If the app is more modern, it'll use the new Safari View Controller that integrates content blockers (vs. the old web view).

Facebook tracks every link through their own (slow) redirect service, so they can track every link out. The "Like" buttons also act as page trackers, even if you're not logged in.
Leaders in Sales Training vary widely by industry & business models. A few to consider -

- Miller Heiman is the Corporate America Gold Standard, now incorporating SPIN Selling > https://www.millerheimangroup.com/huthwaite/

- The Challenger Sale by CEB Group is strong, geared toward large enterprise, complex scenarios > https://www.hirevue.com/offer/sales-training-companies-corpo...

Challenger Sale - is based on the brilliant insights of Matt Dixon > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfE8zZUoMc

- Mike Weinberg is probably the most accessable and useful to a wide range of SMB companies, he's quite good! And his 'New Sales. Simplified' book is a Must Read > http://www.newsalescoach.com/services/
> Apart from that, you have two cases.

And you have zero cases and some handwaving.
Young people are now more likely to live with parents than a romantic partner
The tl;dr is just "don’t start a code reading group."
Only because there isn't a desktop app... yet ;)
"I wrote many years ago that technology is like a tsunami which can't be stopped."

Well, China is doing "great" with its Great Firewall to keep citizens in check, despite the technology advance. Many more countries are following this idea and I'm sure we will see more "Great Firewalls" upcoming in few years.
swedish-americans vs swedes and americans vs swedes are simply two different comparisons, and it's not clear that "even worse" applies.
That's a great news ! We are exclusively using scala at work for back end and I wonder if it could be interesting to switch new projects to scala native.

Did you test scala native against well known and massive open source scala project ? Did the performance improved or regress ? Did you wrote a brand new scala compiler for native code ?
On Android: App Settings -> Links open externally
Screen Stabilization in Android
Previously if briefly discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9404302.
Using JDK 9 Memory Order Modes
could this info, once cracked, simply be fed to the machine?
"Swartkops" - hello fellow South African AV geek!
Veen

Not sure why you are downvoted. Your comments resonate. I do FB however.
Yes, if you can afford the allocation of the memory upfront Arrays are always faster :)

My point was more that understanding the semantics of the two types is important to how the program will run.
I never once said conservative. Trump is the leader of the Republican party and no Republicans are doing anything substantive to oppose him. The modern Republican party is explicitly racist.
So how come more general anonymous forums work? Because while parts of 4chan and other similar sites are topic based, the likes of /b/ are just a general free for all. Why do people continue posting there if it's anonymous and generalised?

Why are the general discussion sections of anonymous imageboards the most popular part of said sites?
Windows Hacks: Creative and unusual things that can be done with the Windows API
How so? Pleases go into more detail.
> plus one more feature I’ve always wanted: the ability to generate a keypair from a passphrase

No. This is a bad feature. It turns your public key into a password hash, subject to cracking. This is a major footgun. Someone implemented this for bitcoin, called it a "brainwallet", and people lost large amounts of money due to not understanding the implications or how effective modern password cracking techniques are.

A more succinct breakdown on why this is foolish in this particular case:

> This means I can reliably access my archive keypair anywhere without doing something strange like uploading my private keys onto the internet.

Let us compare two cases:

1) Uploading private key to the internet, encrypted with a passphrase

2) Uploading public key to the internet, generated from a passphrase

In case 1, in addition to being encrypted, there is no reason to make it public, so it would likely be stored somewhere password protected. You can't attack it unless you have the file.

In case 2, the public key is, well public. You're basically handing it out to everyone to try to crack.

The result in case 2 is strictly worse security, for a very marginal increase in convenience.

Though, it seems the author simply published his encrypted private keys before: http://nullprogram.com/blog/2012/06/24/
>> Broadly speaking I think that you are speaking about two things: derivatives pricing (this is what people think when thy talk about quantitative finance) and algorithmic trading (which can be either pure market making or alpha seeking speculation ;).

"Quantitative finance" was mostly associated with derivatives pricing in the mid-late aughts, but nowadays I see a pretty loose classification tossed around that essentially makes it shorthand for "we're doing something data science-y to forecast things." It's more of a marketing/cultural term, and has sort of lost a lot of the meaning and precision it used to have. Handy to sort of succinctly sum up where on the Street you vaguely work (or at least which ingroup you'd like to signal therein), but not so handy for trying to e.g. Google around for what to learn. QuantStart is probably helpful there though.

Not a criticism of your point, just wanted to add some color to it for other readers. I agree with Wilmott forums being a great starting point at the very least, though it's going to be a little esoteric for someone totally new to finance.

To the OP: pick up Heard on the Street: Quantitative Questions From Wall Street Job Interviews. It's not perfect, but it's a good start. There aren't any textbooks that will take you all of the way in algorithmic trading (from finding alpha, to strategy implementation, to risk management, to portfolio theory, etc). If you're a CS student and looking for quantitative finance, core computer science (not just programming) is what you want to drill down on. You'll want to invest in your math skills quite a bit too, and especially statistics.

Research firms like Two Sigma, RenTec (good luck), AQR, D.E. Shaw and Bridgewater, which are wholly or in part devoted to what you might call "financial engineering." Learn about their processes and talk to as many people in the industry as you can to learn about what they do and network.

Finally, chollida1 does this better than I can, but please don't trade with your own money. It's an expensive tuition :)
Also works with YYYY-MM-DD...

Although admittedly I too find the US date system's wrong-endianness pretty annoying.
The article mentions collection of top soil and I assume vegetation and a plan to burn this to reduce it's volume. I can understand how burning will make the volume smaller, but I can't imagine how to burn this material and not spread radioactivity everywhere via airborne soot. How does this work?
Stoic Penknife: Practice ancient Stoic philosophical 'technologies of the soul'
An interesting problem with long pass phrases is they become almost biometric in difficulty of changing.

So lets say 10 bits of entropy per English word and you memorize the first 400 words of your favorite translation of the book of Genesis to produce your ridiculously predictable 4000 or so bit key. OK. Nice job. Now your machine gets powned or some service gets powned or you lose a very important flash drive or whatever and now on a dime you have to perfectly memorize five hundred words of ... the book of Revelations perhaps. Really? It sounds simpler to rekey your biometrics by getting new fingerprints or holding a different picture of a retina in front of the retina scanner. Memorize five hundred words perfectly, OK. Memorize a different five hundred words on the fly after a stressful breech, that's just not funny. Can't I just use "Password1"?

Note that a theoretical rainbow table of the bible "could be" very long but a realistic and practical rainbow table could be very short. Very few people are going to begin or end a passphrase in the middle of a possibly important line. In fact most are going to begin and end on major boundaries of which there are not many, and you can exclude all the too short or too long phrases. I suspect there are very few 4000 bit key pass phrases in the bible. And other books are almost easier to predict via social media, most famous book by some author you're related to, or everyone on social media knows your favorite book from uni, etc.

Long pass phrases don't biologically scale over operational time where you might end up rekeying often.
Considering the glut of neural network libraries, it'd be useful if there were some blurb about what makes this "special".

To clarify myself, "what niche does this belong to". Caffe for instance remains (to the misery of people like me) the standard library on which reference CNNs are implemented (other than that little pony's YOLO :P).

Tensorflow/MXnet/Chainer/Torch have nice dynamic interfaces... but basically are doing the same thing underneath (calling cuDNN/GEMM), and have the backing of well-known researchers/big corporations (maybe not Chainer...).
Nobody turned obstacles upside down quite like the ancient Greek & Roman Stoic philosophers. Building on the work of the French historian of philosophy Pierre Hadot, this (open source) web application enables you to practice the ancient written exercises that, Hadot argues, are behind the writings of such Stoics as Marcus Aurelius. The exercises pose you questions about your life. It's the next best thing to having your own personal ancient Greek philosopher to talk you through your life problems. Open source code at https://github.com/Henryvw/stoic_penknife
The position nearly plays itself - none of the black pieces except the bishops have any legal moves, so if white moves his king around, without capturing anything, a draw will result by the 50 move rule (the bishops can't mate the king, since they won't control any light squares). For black, the play is even more automatic, since moving the bishops back and forth on the dark squares is the only legal option.

I do think that a computer will play this correctly for both black and white; for white, a capture will result in a checkmate within a few moves, which the computer will be able to see. So this may result in incorrect computer evaluation, but not in incorrect play.
How to Become an Overnight Glamour Puss
The game glitch, gave birth to Slack.
Instapaper Service Fully Restored
Is social media making us lonelier?
How to build a simple meme bot in 30 minutes using Meteor
I'm not involved with this project in any way, but I would expect performance to be overall worse with Scala Native. The advantages of Scala native are likely:

1) Much faster startup times

2) smaller memory footprint for small programs.

3) Potential for easier installation since no dependency on the JDK (assuming binaries are statically linked)

So basically you could use scala native to cover some cases that are better covered by golang or rust right now. For large and long-running server-side processes, the JVM is still king.
Even after massive Yahoo bungles, CEO Marissa Mayer is set to take home millions
It's a joke about strippers.
On another note.

Dear Americans, the queen would like you to stop saying "could care less" - by David Mitchell of Peep Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
It is certainly lacking. Especially considering that Google is, as they say, using my personal data to offer me a better search experience. I'm starting to wonder what they are talking about if they can't even find me a pair of fitting jeans.
> What happened to just messaging users?

Snapchat happened.

A few years ago, Facebook wanted all posts to be completely public, in order to combat Twitter. Now they want to be Snapchat.

If they can't buy a rising competitor, they try to become it.
Actually ISO 8601 states that the datecode format that should be used is

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+<OFFSET>

in this format, Pi day is:

2017-03-14 (The rest of the complete format omitted since it is not strictly relevant)
That's helpful, thanks.
O'hare (ORD), please!
This seems to be the danger that Keybase.io is convincing people to put themselves in as well huh.
Certainly measurable, but what are you really measuring? If I gave one of my junior devs a serious problem to research, consider and solve and they came back to me 60 minutes later, I wiuld tell them to go jump in a lake...and I'm certainly not looking over their shoulder while they do it. I always say I do my best development in the shower when thinking about a problem fir a while. Unless you plan on jumping in there with me, you'll miss a lot of where my actual problem-solving happens. Short syntax questions to screen and longer-form 2-dayish take home problems for the win... with practically every other approach you're measuring things that just aren't really germane to how good software is developed.
You can still see bits of the Glitch game on Slack's 404 pages: https://slack.com/wherever

It's a good story that they were happy to give up the name and domain to Fog Creek for this.

Also: I really like HyperDev/GoMix/Glitch. Making this tooling available for people seems like the next juddering step forward. There's easy comparisons to things like HyperCard and Yahoo! Pipes, and the intentions seem the same here. Looking forward to the future of this.
disruptive doesn't have to mean ignoring regulations
So it is meant to be a different architecture? What market is it targeting?

Is mill low power, high performance, embeded, radiation hardened, etc? Will it come in small packages with RAM and ROM on the die? Will it support a different architectural view (maybe all the memory will be non-volatile)?

A lot of questions and very little answered in the page.
Unless you are meeting up to watch the eclipse...
Get FREE TV with a Homemade HDTV Antenna Made from a Paperclip
Crypto Market Is on Fire Right Now – Market Cap Nears $25 Bln
> it sounds like what happened with the original submission was that a moderator accidentally put "(2010)" in the title and users flagged it because they incorrectly thought it was old

mhm, I'm sure that's what really happened
Well, IMO, React is much better than building the equivalent in jQuery.
Tip, install a "secure browser" - it would be detected as a low end platform because it doesn't send everything they need to "optimise" the experience, and offer you a stripped down version.

Whoever installs fb on mobile is asking for it.
Android also supports a real Firefox, so one needn't trust one's web browsing to the tender mercies of Google.
Would PM if i could, but just fyi, the phrase is https://www.grammarly.com/blog/bear-with-me/ :)

E: Please don't upvote this, it doesn't help the discussion!
"Given how pervasive our intelligentsia-dominated media has become"

What?? Where did you find such media? Please share.
They also have a new committed use discount where you buy an amount of RAM and a number of vCPUs and use them in any shape of VM that you want.
It'll be a strange day if I can ever apt-get install a Facebook app from the Debian repository.
Glary Utilities Pro 5.7 Crack and Serial Key 2017 Download
It seems like every couple weeks someone complains that PGP is dead and then suggests that everyone switch to an alternative.

The problem is, what do we switch to? Few of us are confident enough to roll our own and even if we did, how would we communicate if everyone is on different protocols?

For now, PGP works. Not very well, but at least it's useable.
Useful How-To's, Real Case Studies, Best Practices
Mac Power Users #368: Living in a Tin Foil Hat World
> obviously I would prefer doctors to have been to medical school

I have twice had the experience of doctors (generalists) looking up symptoms on Google and picking a site - with me there. They didn't even go to a school for learning how to search on Google.

People tend to overestimate the value of credentials.
My question was more at the level of "What if you could buy a Rolls Royce from China that was in ever way, practically identical and cost as much as your Dodge?" What would that do to the car market?
Except that's not what people mean when the say 'Pi Day' - they mean the US date format of 3-14.
Exactly. I'm pretty wary of jumping straight on the latest environmental trends as sometimes we're just trading one bad situation for another and calling it progress. But I was willing to switch out all my incandescent bulbs for CFLs because it had a pretty major impact on my electric bill. Even though CFLs are an environmental disaster in and of themselves, being filled with mercury. CFLs are fragile and I don't like having to worry about cleaning up mercury spills in my house. For that reason, when LEDs became cost effective and popular, I was all too happy to start the process of replacing burned-out CFLs with new LEDs.

There are three ways to motivate people IMO: cost, convenience, and social pressure. All of my neighbors have recycling bins sitting out front so I have one too. I switched to CFLs because they're cheaper to run, and then I switched to LEDs because they're far more convenient. I'd have an electric car, but in my northern climate they're not cost effective, they're really, really not convenient, and none of my friends or neighbors have one. But I have an electric snowblower because it's cheaper and more convenient.
The claim that computers cannot solve this problem is never really clarified. Which chess AI's exactly? That it involves Roger Penrose and claims about special abilities of the human brain only makes me more suspicious.
Thanks for pointing out that those were bishops in the diagram. I found it difficult to parse the drawing for some reason.
This sounds like an opportunity for somebody write a backwards-compatible ncurses replacement in a modern systems language. I promise to try using whichever language manages to do this first.
Hah, I have moved my Atari Gauntlet cab many times and I agree it is both heavy and treacherous :)
What advantage does using WKWebView provide for an app over SFSafariViewController? Is it just the ability to change the color and icons to match the rest of the app's style?

Or are apps generally switching over to SFSafariViewController? Curious to hear some iOS folks' thoughts on the matter since I'm uninformed.
When I started with Linux I used the Zed editor by Sandro Serafini, which used WordStar-like keybindings as well.

Interesting, how it seems to have completely disappeared from the web since then. The two "zed" editors I could find appear unrelated, as is the current "zed" Debian package. Only archive.org seems to still have the original web page

https://web.archive.org/web/20120520234205/http://zed.c3po.i...
Getting Started with Game Development in Rust
Creating the perfect GPG keypair (2013)
Thank you. Maybe the same is true in the UK (where I reside) as well and I was mistaken about it being legal?

I'm not sure if this is the relevant legislation but I've found the following in section 48 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006:

A person commits an offence if, otherwise than under the authority of a designated person—

(a) he uses wireless telegraphy apparatus with intent to obtain information as to the contents, sender or addressee of a message (whether sent by means of wireless telegraphy or not) of which neither he nor a person on whose behalf he is acting is an intended recipient, or

(b) he discloses information as to the contents, sender or addressee of such a message.

Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/36/section/48
This is exactly why I use Tinfoil for Facebook on my android phone. It's just a webview around FB's mobile site.
Never touch a running system ;) Scala on JVM is much more tested than the new shiny thing. Also don't expect improved performance... many people think that the JVM is bloated and makes programs slower (this is mostly not true). The downsides of the JVM are more memory consumption/footprint (when you have e.g. small servers or micro instances) and the cold startup time of the JVM itself (which is not relevant on a server in comparison to desktop Java apps).
Would be interested to hear if any backend Scala projects like e.g. Play work on Scala Native.
Which bit? The 2010 thing is precisely what happened. It was a case of sleep deprivation, which is one lesson of how trying too hard to make this place good can mess with a person.

The other bit was just my attempt to explain why users might have flagged the post. User flags were what demoted its rank, and it isn't obvious why people flagged it. There's also the issue that meta posts aren't great for HN in the first place, but those rarely lack for upvotes.
The cancer of Web 2.0 summed up in one proposition
Seems closely related.

The update of the distributions in a Thompson sampler can be thought of as a multiplicative update, considering the old dist as a prior. Those updates become relatively smaller with time though, as the distributions become better known. So TS has a more complicated update rule.

Then there's the decision rule. I think of TS as approximating the probability that a given observable is the best, by drawing from the distributions. This effectively just uses a softmax on the weights. Which seems close in spirit, and probably more open to analysis than TS, which often gets complicated under analysis.
I had a summer job in 1997 at a large Insurers (kill me), and people on my team would spend at least half an hour a day waiting for networked, dependent Excel files to calculate after opening them.

Since then, I have always suspected it was still a problem in large financial institutions, although the few times I mentioned it to people they looked at me blankly. Now I feel vindicated!

Out of interest, does the Financial Industry use any analogues to source control and unit testing for spreadsheets?
> Author lists a few requirements, saying that PGP satisfies every requirement, and then says "I couldn’t find anything that fit the bill".

I read your comment before I read the article, and the above part specifically jumped out at me, and I thought "oh come on, that can't be an accurate representation of the article.

Then I read the article, and it is. Wow. He literally lists four reasons, saying PGP works for each one, and then says "I couldn't find anything that fit the bill".

Either this is sloppy writing or NIH-enabling cognitive dissonance of the highest degree.
I wonder how this study can be used as evidence against determinism, ie., that humans really do possess free will. If the coin toss relevantly affects the person's decision, then it seems like random chance plays a key role in affecting our experience, right?