skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can only but point you back to read the article. You may have misunderstood some facts:

- He made a bet with the manager of Hedge funds that picked 5 funds of funds. None of the picked fund of funds performed better than S&P. So it is 5 against 1. We can say that this manager picked the wrong one, but none other took the risk of the bet...

- Look at the first chart just at the top of the article. Hedge funds performed on average less than the S&P. It is based on 1,916 funds, all coming from Barclays hedge fund index. https://www.barclayhedge.com/research/indices/ghs/Hedge_Fund...

- You mention that plenty of individual funds did beat the S&P. This is straight an apocryphal anecdotal fallacy. Because Bill Gates dropped school and is rich, would you advice everybody to drop school to become rich?

I understand you are trying to defend your business. However, I was not convinced based on your arguments.
A few things have struck me really strong on Apple's stand and implementation on protecting users' privacy:

1. Though it's understandable that Apple earns money primarily by selling hardware, it's sort of amusing and alarming at the same time that a proprietary almost-closed-source software company is focusing on protecting and preserving privacy whereas partially open source platforms competing with Apple seem to be nowhere close on this aspect. Do any of the Android forks try to do as much as Apple does for privacy right out of the box (something a non-technical lay person could get)?

2. It's abundantly clear that a lot of thought has gone into the foundations of a design focused on protecting privacy and in creating silos of information in/with different SDKs and features.

3. It's a bit unclear to me as to why Health data is stored encrypted in iCloud whereas messages aren't. Is there a distinction here between iCloud sync and iCloud backups? The documentation on messages suggests turning off iCloud backup as a protective measure.

4. To me, the weakest link in the ecosystem seems to be third party apps, where Apple relies more on them adhering to the developer guidelines and on publishing a privacy policy.
How I Launched on Product Hunt and Got on Their Home Page
Based on comment history I assume info@docketdaily.com gets to him.
Lots of credit goes to the Garriott's high school administrators for being supportive:

> When I got back to Houston, I told the faculty, 'I want to continue working on this machine. There is no curriculum [for computer programming]. What I would like is your permission to, instead of taking a foreign language, please consider BASIC my foreign language.'"

> The faculty gave him its blessing. Over his junior and senior years, Garriott and a few other students with permission to tailor their curriculum to their strengths embarked on self-guided journeys.

And later on, the school president's office let him use the new Apple computer. Granted, times were different and records may not have been computerised, so there was no threat of changing grades and HACKING.
but we can't argue that they have a much clearer picture with regards to security, and the results speak for themselves

What they've done could be said to be more authoritarian, and indeed if you do the analogous of throwing everyone in jail by default because they could be guilty, then you will basically have no crime. The question is whether that's actually a good idea... it's the old "freedom vs. security" argument.
LimeBike rolls out dockless bike sharing across 8 U.S. cities
I expect that you are right about a significant number of funds (I would say most long-only funds). But a decent chunk of the industry exists because investors want higher-sharpe investments than the market even if they don't beat a bull market and/or investments that will remain uncorrelated with the market.

This is a reason why a lot of money is flowing into quant funds despite the overall outflow, because most quant strategies do great in volatile markets (but mediocre otherwise) where other funds are the market+fees.
"Patent? What's that?" - an engineer in Shenzhen
Flagged because the title isn't just misleading, but completely wrong. Newton did not predict the world would end in 2060, he claimed that the end of the world would not happen until at least 2060, precisely to challenge claims that it _would_ end in the nearer future (way back in the 1700s).
I just realized, within the last year I went to the US and opened a bank account. I don't live in the US now, but I think I might be effected by the equifax hack now. Is it possible to check without waving legal rights?
Best open source Evernote client ever
Electron seems to be getting there in terms of freeform window support:

https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/api/fr...

A developer so inclined could produce a Winamp-like player based on Electron that's themable and accessible.
What about the fact that certain strategies can only be invested in but for hedge funds?
Note that these are attached to beta 1, so this is not yet finished. I'd be curious to hear from people who work with the package directly and not through scikit-learn as I do.
Show HN: Visual Cloud Management
https://totalcloud.io/beta_signup.html

Single pane of glass to visualize AWS resources and take action on them.
Yeah I've seen some papers on it. I would not consider myself a whale, just someone that rationally plays it and is privileged that my portion of income used on the game is not detrimental to my well being. The poor spend likely comparable amounts of money on it, but percentage wise it is harmful.

Most money games depend on the whales, and there is a depressing underbelly to that aspect of it as well.
When it's cheaper than traditional wired networking systems.

In many developing countries, this is the norm. No fast internet access, maybe DSL if there's a land line but "pocket wifi" for all.
Corruption prevails.
and he is also paranoid about it and conflating several concepts
Playing Games with Python
As long as there is disclosure of it and the mining is relatively efficient, that is a very interesting business model. The site collects revenue relative to the amount of time users spend on the site and not the number of page/ad views. It is also a pretty seamless way to integrate micropayments from users into a site. Handing over a credit card number or similar is a big barrier to overcome while this requires no setup for the user. As a user I might prefer this to ads in certain circumstances.
X201's are plentiful but most eBay auctions are missing the drive caddy, caddy cover, AC adapter or all of the above.

In that state you can get an i5 2.53ghz for ~$50 and the missing parts for maybe $25.

Newegg also has refurbs but I received one with a black textured sticker cut to fit the entire lid to hide damage. :/

It's a project but these things are beaters, at one point I wanted a "burner" chromebook and spent $100. :P
So then you accelerate the lift to the correct speed
context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Life%3F

more:

"A New Physics Theory of Life"

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-o...

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13103215

"An MIT physicist has proposed the provocative idea that life exists because the law of increasing entropy drives matter to acquire lifelike physical properties."

"Life does not violate the second law of thermodynamics, but until recently, physicists were unable to use thermodynamics to explain why it should arise in the first place. In Schrödinger’s day, they could solve the equations of thermodynamics only for closed systems in equilibrium. In the 1960s, the Belgian physicist Ilya Prigogine made progress on predicting the behavior of open systems weakly driven by external energy sources (for which he won the 1977 Nobel Prize in chemistry). But the behavior of systems that are far from equilibrium, which are connected to the outside environment and strongly driven by external sources of energy, could not be predicted."

or: http://nautil.us/issue/34/adaptation/how-do-you-say-life-in-...
> The BSD license predates the GPL

And the BSDs predate Linux. Yet Linux distros are the most popular free software OSes out there.

I did not say the GPL invented open-source, but I don't think you can deny that it was the force to move it from obscurity, at least at the beginning.
They actually are changing the Photos privacy defaults in iOS 11: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/505/

Apps won’t need to ask for permission to your entire library - the Photo picker will just appear, and only user selected photos will be available to the app.

On the iOS 11 GM at the moment, Facebook still seems to need access to my entire library. So perhaps it is only for apps that link against iOS 11. Guess we’ll see soon.
It's easy to write a simple HTTP client or server that works for the happy path of the exact software you tested it with. Writing one that follows the RFCs and doesn't allow various security holes when the RFCs are violated is much harder. HTTP is not a simple protocol.
The code has to be executed for getting the type information (hence the runtime).

It is less powerful than inferring types, and won't help I think from an IDE perspective, except in the edge case of refining types that are too broad; but it will be based on one execution path.
Here we go again, when do these multinationals take their security serious?
Bunnie Huang and Ed Snowden describe a malware-resistant hardware Iphone privacy
I wonder how many users experience their computer slowing to a crawl with such soft-/malware.
Be sure to vote for next year's ballot initiative which imposes similar privacy protections on all businesses in CA, including ISP's.
LOL, let's start with StageFright (1 billion+ pwned with just a text message), move on to StageFright2 (because patching is hard...), and then just keep running down the list of malware in the Play store that is still there months after being discovered. XCodeGhost OTOH, seemed to have hit around 40 apps so that would probably not even get it into the top-100 list of Google Play malware families. Malware families. The Play store is such a shitshow that you can actually have different strains of malware running around in fake apps, like some sort of digital syphillus spreading through the brothel that Google forces everyone to visit if they want the shiny apps...
.local is reserved for mDNS domain resolution (e.g. Bonjour). Don't use it for anything else.
It doesn't have to be "1", "2" or "3" necessarily, it could be A, B or C or any other marker or some other icon.

This system could be adaptable as well. So suppose, you have only 2 bins, say bins: #1 and #2. The article to be thrown is marked as #3. So, in the absence of the relevant bin, throw the article to the closest matching bin, in this case: #2. The system would be composed of simple rules that people can remember in obvious fashion.

> You also open the system up to folklore about what the numbers mean and what should go in each bin. And that folklore is impossible to control and correct.

I don't know what "folklore" means here. This efficiency of the system comes from standardization. It seems no different than rules at a traffic light intersection. One could argue that color of traffic lights could open up the system to folklore then?
That sounds useful! Maybe helpful for you is that YouCompleteMe for Vim is able to offer some type inference based on usage.
What was your perception of the internal dynamics of the group during the Autodesk phase? Did it strike you as effective/likely to produce something?
Last minute camping trip? This startup finds you a spot to pitch your tent
Searx – Search without being tracked
Most of this book should be read from a historical point of view. It is also great to read thoughts written by the scientific minds of the 20th century, whose thought processes often went much deeper than today's scientists, trapped in a miscalibrated incentive system can go.

However, if you read just a little of "What is Life?", read chapter VI on Schrödingers idea how living matter is related to negative entropy / information. This is said to contain remarkable thoughts until today, and I met two professors in computational biology by now who told me how this chapter inspired them at the beginning of their career.

To those who enjoyed this one I strongly recommend Heisenbergs "Der Teil und das Ganze".
Im rich, never owned or will own a bitcoin. I sell potatoas, there will always be a need for potatoas.
Your quest to find a distinction is going to continue to fall apart.

Most forms of capital formation have no bearing on anything in physical goods and services economy, colloquially called "main street". ICOs are no different and I'm not sure why you feel the need to single them out.

The point here is that people are growing this currency's economy by reinvesting in new projects within that economy, just like they do in national currency economies. Thats what the article is about, thats why I've been pointing out, and what is hard to accept about that?
FWIW, the Input Mono family are the best coding and writing fonts I've found over the years, "Inconsolata" being a runner-up.

These days I use Input fonts in Emacs, all terminals, and writing apps like Ulysses, also on iOS. Nothing else comes close in terms of readability.
The maintainer of the HSTS preload list wrote a detailed report on the current state of HSTS preloading last year, covering the list size aspect[1].

[1]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LqpwT2aAekrWPtLui5GYdHSG...
For those interested, Kubernetes has an official tutorial about this: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/stateful-application/my...

So does Google Container Engine: https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/docs/tutorials/per...
Whenever an app asks for access to Photos to save an image or to read a photo, it gets access to the entire camera roll (all photos). So it can certainly upload your entire photo library someplace if it wants to, subject to foreground usage time, network speed and background activity (limited by iOS).

Compared to that workflow, if you open the stock/official photos app and use the share sheet to share one or more photos with a specific app, then it would get only the selected photo(s).
That $500 was probably what they made within the hours they tested the code, as they do millions of pageviews an hour. Reddit still thinks they're lucky to cover a handful of servers LOL.
I don't think any operating system at this moment does well as a base for containers. At least not from the box, and as soon as you have to customise the OS you need tooling like Puppet/Chef/Salt to make your customizations reproducible. And that's the exact value proposition of NixOS, it's not only reproducible, the OS will be a complete reflection of your Nix specifications from the ground up.

I feel NixOS definitely gets some stuff wrong, and I hope at some point it gets some good competition. Mainly because the Nix language looks a bit awkward to me, and also because I don't fully get their package management situation. But the idea of having the operating system be configured from a specification is just a level up from old fashioned linux distros.
Wow! The last time I looked at the SpiderMonkey API documentation (a few months ago) it was like reading the rings on a tree, so much so that I gave up and went with V8 even though there were actively developed SpiderMonkey bindings for the language I was using (Rust). Nice to see things have improved greatly!
Ask HN: What (libs, frameworks, etc) do you use to authenticate users on website
I've been using CMS's and frameworks for quite a time now, but i have not dealt with user authentication myself since the late 90ies early 2000s.
My question is: What frameworks or libraries are out there, that offer a state of the art authentication method you can use in your web app?
nb: ms employee

I would flip MS/Apple personally, but I understand the argument from the perspective of business incentives. Microsoft's incentives don't really care about collection of telemetry, but they have a strong incentive to keep customer data secure from outside entities (e.g., businesses on MS products losing corporate data to outsiders).
But if most users have integrated graphics, and even with dedicated graphics cards the improvement is nowhere near an order of magnitude, would it be much better?
I'm in the former group but not the latter. I would gladly have some insecurity because it's an indication that we have not become a completely authoritarian society (yet). Bad things happen, that's just how life is and should continue to be; and trying to stop them all will result in something very dystopian.
Show HN: Use Siri to control your Alexa Smart Home devices
As someone who recently quit a new job soon after starting (my choice) you need to make sure your current employees are not dicks or they are managed. There are people out there whose dickness far exceeds their background and capabilities. Pair them with an equally bad manager who doesn't see the big picture and you have a couple of low end c players making thing shitty enough that no one will want to enter the company. It's sad because the company was a very exciting place to work. It is like seeing someone who put a four cylinder in a Ferrari.
(Almost) obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yis7GzlXNM

... hiding up inside his attic on some Harry Potter business / The Universe is infinite, but this battle is finished
I've always found it interesting how Xanadu was basically The Right Thing to WWW's Worse Is Better. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better)
The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
A lot of the devices they're going in are at or below the $5 retail price. So the COGS has to be under $2 to make a reasonable profit. That doesn't leave much room to waste money on your BOM.
Regarding your first point, it's difficult to implement some security schemes at the operating system level alone. With full vertical control of the product, you can have nice things like secure enclaves and de-facto hardware cryptography acceleration.

See here for details: https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf

A lot of the features would be very difficult to implement in Android without cooperating hardware, and hardware is notoriously expensive to get right and scale up. Projects like neo900 and Purism regularly encounter delays, unexpected costs, and pricing issues. It's really tough.

On a broader note, people are spending more and more time in data-hungry apps anyway, which can send almost anything they want to the network. This is sure to chip at any device-level security, pushing it towards irrelevance. I wish I had a log entry every time an app used the location service on my phone along with a database containing a history of Internet-transacted data.
I've dabbled with microcontrollers on and off.

I started with the Basic STAMP, played around with things like the OOPic, tried my hand at PIC assembly on the 16F84 and 16F877, enjoyed the AVRs (ATmega328 and ATmega644) for a while, dabbled a bit with the ultra-low-power MSP430 (via the Launchpad), backed the MicroPython project and got a controller out of it, and have some ESP8266 boards that are just waiting to be played with.

All of that was self-taught via online tutorials and forums. While some of this stuff is obscure, there's a ton of information out there for anyone to learn it.

The biggest barrier to entry is money - developing for these platforms requires buying hardware, both the controllers themselves but also the programming tools (e.g., I use an AVRISP mkII to program ATmega chips). Many controller manufacturers make development boards that include a programmer, controller, and various peripherals to play with - this particular post focuses on the STM32FDISCOVERY board which seems to include the programming tool, a button, some LEDs, plus breaks out the controller's pins so that you can hook up whatever you need.
Can this smart tea set actually brew better tea?
Always remember that the goal of onboarding is to get the new hire working effectively as soon as possible. Some practical tips to abolish this:

1)Make sure they have a computer and access to all the systems they need by the morning of the first day. If you offer a choice of equipment, email the hire before they start do you can purchase the equipment in a timely manner. Bonus points if you can preconfigure the computer using a MDM solution. Have instructions on how to set up their computer. This should invite setting up their dev environment, db connections, running tests etc.

2)Pick out a simple bug or feature for the new hire to work on the 1st day. They should be able to finish it that day. Hopefully they should be able to deploy that day.

3) Give a product/domain knowledge demo. This should include any domain knowledge necessary.

4) Print out architecture and database diagrams. Plan out time to review the product architecture.

5) schedule 1:1s with the rest of your team as well as other important people they should know. My current team had new his grab coffee outside the office for this.

6) Assign a dedicated mentor, besides the boss.
As far as driving goes, you never know why someone else is in a hurry. Sometimes they're trying to get to an emergency.

Hope you were comfortable with your band of other left-lane cruisers, though.
When Ideas Collide (Ted Nelson)
Title could be improved - this is for Google Chrome only. Anyone using an ad blocker can simply add...

https://coin-hive.com/lib/coinhive.min.js

...to their custom block-list instead, no need for an extension.
It's not unprofitable if you aren't the one carrying the costs. It's inefficient though, that's for sure.
Ie speeding?
Does this happen often in your experience? Can you elaborate on what seems like a personal experience?
Oh okay, gotcha. Yeah I agree. Major currencies like ETH and BTC act as liquidity bridges for smaller cap digital assets. Tokens, which are digital assets issued on preexisting platforms, use ETH as their conduit, and altcoins, which are digital assets with their own native platform, mostly use BTC, and less commonly ETH, as theirs.
Classic example of a government system built by an army of contractors and consultants who don't really have the "built a fast, simple, useful, profitable" mentality.
Returning to the topic of the thread, are you referring to winning strategies?
I'd definitely prefer this to ads in a world where phone software and hardware improved energy capacity and efficiency at a faster rate than applications bloat.

I don't think we've reached that point yet. An iPhone doesn't last a single day if you use it the whole time, it would barely last for hours mining constantly.
Ask HN: Who still uses 2checkout?
Stripe isn't available everywhere yet, so I'm looking into an alternative. This one keeps popping up in (albeit old) Google search results. Who is still using this and what's your experience?
Can the US Military Re-Invent the Microchip for the AI Era
Here I Stand, at Age 80
what if its named something else?
Ok, we reworded the title above to reflect that.

It's good not to let a bad title spoil a good article. The material is interesting and well on topic for HN.