skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. I use a variety of free datasources - including Alphavantage, and the nightly Nasdaq dumps, to collect a bunch of data nightly, in addition to real-time. My robot is based on errbot - which I integrate with a private slack organization/channel so that I can interact, and have all the logging infrastructure I need.

The database is MySQL, and communicated with via SQLAlchemy (through errbot of course), with a series of commands and crons (errcron) set up, in order to both notify myself and execute on various data gathering activities. The rest of the processing code is likewise - in python. I don't rely on scipy, numpy, or anything else, given that I don't see the need.

The reality is that there are a series of activities that are profitable at the micro) level in the geography in which I trade, which is why my robot currently integrates with Questrade - specifically so that I can execute from Slack, while I work at my 'regular' job. All passwords and reusable tokens are stored in an ansible-vault, so that I can commit and push my repository around.

I'm running two different experiments actively: one that does an arbitrage based on data I'm looking into, the other than specifically tries to eke out a $0.10 gain per share, closed daily. Going into Jan 1 2018, I'd made ~57% from August 31 (first day of trading). This year, I'm down ~8% overall so far. Passively, the return has been great.

Now, I'm changing my focus - enough people I know are generally interested and willing to light the same amount of money that I am on fire. So, I'll keep experimenting, but I'm taking 1% of the overall return for the 'bank' (i.e. my corp).

This will all clearly catch fire.
How about better job security?
You can do deconvolution using ImageJ, but getting a model of the PSF for an arbitrary aperture is the tricky part. https://imagej.net/Deconvolution
Sure, because federal goverment agencies not controlled by voters and in open mutiny against elected government is exactly what US needs more of. I don't think you thought it through.
The person I responded to did not ask for a sports car.
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It's easy to forget that before PowerPoint: slides were napkin sketched by a manager, passed to a secretary to type up a detailed description, sent to a design bureau to piece together, proofs shipped to be examined/reviewed/quality-checked, then imaged to 35mm slides, and finally shipped back to the manager.

In comparison, ugly manager slides in PowerPoint really are a huge productivity boost.

Robert Gaskins' book Sweating Bullets about the early history of PowerPoint history is a fascinating read: http://www.robertgaskins.com/powerpoint-history/sweating-bul...
Would be nice if cloud providers automatically had a fence around your subnet with an ssh proxy that did this stuff already. Seems crazy that typically you open up ssh directly to everyone.
I believe the parenthetical saying "generally unsubstantiated reasons" is referring to the "employment" part, not the "housing" part. Equifax (and their competitors) like to sell their credit data to employers under the guise that those with good credit scores will be good employees, despite basically no data backing up this claim.
Banks in Britain and U.S. ban Bitcoin buying with credit cards
The Alt-Right Is Killing People
Ted Nelson: What We Can Still Learn from Xanadu
Which ones are you referencing, and what is their market share? At some point, the team needs to decide if losing X% of the market due to new technology is worth it.
I thought so too. But apparently that doesn't give you a _point focus_, rather a square focus, which doesn't work.
If you're writing the software, I don't see a reason why it should exist, be shipped alongside the binary and not be modified per-server anyway. And if it is modified per server, it's your CM's responsibility, directly or via modifying startup flags.
Everything is political. I can't see many if any playlists in my Spotify, so I can't see the playlist you mentioned, but given that the travel ban (legally dubious) affected musicians wanting to travel to the US, it's not entirely irrelevant. It's probably a good position to take if you want to appeal to your audience in Spotify's case. Not that I can be bothered to look, but there's surely playlists against gun control (starring Ted Nugent) and the like?

I was originally quite surprised to see comments suggesting that Spotify was very political, because I've never considered that myself in ten years and I still can't see after trawling all over my Spotify account - there's literally nothing I can see that's overly political, except the politics section of the podcasts. Obviously it's tailored to me, but I really can't find anything. I would probably more offended by Spotify suggesting I like the Spice Girls or Justin Bieber than anything else, TBH.
I think one of the reasons people don't like the idea is this very reason.

It's coming from the position "someone is likely to do me wrong and I will be collecting evidence with that in mind". That in itself is a pretty aggressive position to take - but once you interact with someone it then says "_you_ are likely to do me wrong".
It's a bummer—I don't know about showstopper, though. The usual first goal for remakes like these is to get around the limitations from DOS and whatnot. Things like resolution and map size are easy targets and improve gameplay a bunch.

Perhaps some tools and ideas from this project will spark interest in a native OSS remake.
Not sure why my last comment was flagged. All I said was that in order to fix this problem we are going to have to kill Vladimir Putin.
The Successful Campaigns to Organize Media Workers
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If everyone waited for 100% availability, then 100% availability would never come.
Interestingly, the divergence between spelling and pronunciation of English words if frequently mentioned as a special difficulty for speakers of languages that are written phonetically, but it seems like this would be a problem for everyone.

I am glad that English doesn't try to accomplish this (French is even more extreme in this regard). In English words are roughly spelled in terms of their root meaning, which makes it easier for a native speaker to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word. In fact the fashion for "phonics" (trying to learn English starting with phonetic structures) has screwed up reading and spelling for two generations of American kids.

A phonetic approach has a couple of problems. The first is the choice of whose phonemes to use. Any language with many speakers will have several dialects, so one single dialect must be chosen as authoritative. The second is that pronunciation inherently shifts over time so you must continually tinker with spelling or end up with a written language full of head-scratchers (it's no surprise that spelling bees have been prime time TV fodder in France). German is a good example: offical spelling and grammar corresponds with Hochdeutch (which is not used at home by a majority of people, though perhaps recently a plurality?) and which was offically adjusted twice in the 20th century alone to account for pronunciation shifts.

I don't know Korean but with 80 million speakers I'd think that it suffers from the same issues, although perhaps hangul's structure manages to exert a conservative force on pronunciation.
Sorry, where on earth did I say I don’t care about type safety? Why do you need to take this point to a total extreme? I simply gave an example of why the comment about mempty was wrong; but now I have to defend C#’s type system?

Clearly C#’s lack of type inference, sanctioned ad-hoc polymorphism (even though it can’t be achieved in the way I have shown), and higher kinds makes it less expressive as a language. I’m not going to argue that point.

But this kind of language holy war is frankly pathetic. Attacking every detail of an implementation (that works) is unnecessary.

Yes, it’s easier to get null reference exceptions in C# compared to Haskell. That is the result of poor decisions made when the language was designed. So, yes, today I will use ad hoc polymorphic techniques and yes I will have to make sure I constrain to structs, that’s life.
Volkswagen Executive Oliver Schmidt was just sentenced to 4 years in prison in the US a few months ago. And 8 other former and current Volkswagen executives have been charged by US prosecutors. Though I doubt any of the others are dumb enough to step foot on American soil.
"Origin of the name -
In local class field theory, the group of units of the local field plays a central role. In global class field theory, the idele class group takes this role (see also the definition of the idele class group). The term "idele" is a variation of the term ideal. Both terms have a relation, see the theorem about the relation between the ideal class group and the idele class group. The term "idele" (French: idèle) is an invention of the French mathematician Claude Chevalley (1909–1984) and stands for "ideal element" (abbreviated: id.el.). The term "adele" (adèle) stands for additive idele."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_ring

(Took me a few minutes just to get that - reminder, bring diving gear when venturing into math waters ;-)
Having children rarely contributes positively to the "accumulate wealth" goal.
I don't use it in production, but I do have front-end teams that need to develop against services, so it's nice to be able to have them use Docker to serve those APIs locally. That's probably the biggest productivity win in my team right now, along with just sheer reproducibility.
What's the point of reporting? We had an issue with a sysadmin. Ended up firing him but didn't revoke all his credentials in time. He logged in and deleted all our Azure servers and rm -rf'd our GCP boxes. MS wouldn't help us at all, but Google's console log showed the login from the guy's town. What're we supposed to do? He was in England and we the US.

Had a similar issue with a hacker that found a way around our billing systems. Ran up $90k of charges. He was in Montreal and we even had his ID. What're we gonna do, waste time trying to go after someone that'll claim it was our bug and he didn't know anything was wrong?
This is probably one of the best things I've seen posted in HN. Art books, aside from the actual art, contain essays written by academics or experts not found in Wikipedia or similar. They're also printed in small amounts and fairly expensive (e.g. books on exhibitions are $50-70).

This kind of project opens up a lot of knowledge to the general public.

Now if we could get more Kenneth Clark books reprinted...
iPhone X bug leaves some users unable to answer calls
If it's anything like the rest of their printer line, it will be cheaper to just buy a new one than it will to refill the ink.
I heard this on a podcast and I think it rings true:
They claim something is bad or failing and then defund it which causes it to actually be bad or fail which allows them to further defund it.
The Story of Twitpic – Noah Everett
That’s surely covered under “inequality” and “desperation” though?
I have a visceral dislike of such human-produced black-box systems, but I have to admit that humans themselves are black boxes, even to ourselves, and any large system (a social system, political system, or a huge machine such as an oil refinery) will exhibit obscure emergent behavior.

So maybe I just have to get over it.
I've been using Habitat[1] for shipping all my Go applications. That way I can run the go binaries on whatever kind of infrastructure I need (containers, vms, bare metal). I can mix and match for different environments, or change my mind later without needing to repackage my application or my infrastructure automation.

Ultimately at the end of the day I need to work on a team with other operations-minded developers, and shipping them a dockerfile / docker container is kind of a spit in the face, so this has been a good solution for me.

[1] https://habitat.sh
Hm, I think that good EMG interfaces will come way sooner than a useful BCI.
All you can do is tap to change the different surfaces, and the models stick in the real world so you can walk around to change your perspective. You can reposition the surface by dragging, pinch-zoom to change scale, and two fingers to rotate.
What does it mean to put something 'on ice'?
Do you refer to https://www.gomoxie.com/ ? Or https://signal.org/ ? I never heard of moxie, but Signal lacks a web client, unfortunately.
> Alphabet: The Korean alphabet is called hangul.

This is the best alphabet I have learned so far.

"Many linguists consider Hangul to be the most logical writing system in the world, partly because the shapes of its consonants mimic the shapes of the speaker's mouth when pronouncing each consonant." https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4684-1068-6_...
> I'm pretty sure humanity is already past the point where this question is timely. We have many cameras watching us all day long and ten years from now there will be even more.

Really? Do you have cameras looking at you all day at work? Or at home, while interacting with your family? I hope not. I also hope that you'd object to any attempts to put such a device.

It's true that society by and large accepts CCTV cameras in public places. But that's not the same as equipping everyone with an always-on camera and having every human interaction recorded. That's just dystopian.

> For what it's worth, maybe this will finally teach people to thing before they act.

That's the oldest argument in the book. And sure, it's true. If you point a camera at people, they will behave "better". But that's insane, that's like saying that since children are most likely to be abused at home, then we should outlaw parenting, and have the state raise all kids using only state-certified™ personnel. Sure, that might work, but it kinda seems like we're losing something important along the way, no?

Having everyone "act better" is a good cause. But surveillance comes at a huge social cost, not to mention the potential for abuse by the watchers or those who decide what "better" is. Your "act better" might be a long way off the government's idea of how it would like citizens to behave.
I don't agree with what they are doing but I don't think there is anything unusual or illegal going on. The elected president or Congress could fire them at any time if they thought that the agency heads were doing anything wrong.
>There is no giant record for someone to datamine.

It's laughable to think there won't be cloud integration. Having automatic or one click upload is probably one of the most powerful features. People want to be able to post stuff on snapchat, store it in drive/dropbox, etc. The data sets will be mined just like existing social media is mined.

>Not living in the UK doesn't change much, it goes from "in public I'm always possibly on camera" to "in public I'm always possibly on camera" everywhere, not just the Uk.

The UK goes particularly far (for a western country) when it comes to mining the data to recognize and track people. That's why I chose it as my example.

>My ability to influence society with a camera is far beyond "the DMV clerk being nicer". It's being able to hold the cop who pulls me over accountable. Being able to get video of the van that hit a parked car and sped off. Being able to submit proof that the person I saw trying to open the doors on a bunch of parked cars was actually trying to do that. The second two are real examples that have happened to me within the last 6 months, the first one is a real example that you can easily see the utility of via verifiable stories on the internet.

Same general idea, multiple implementations. All the things you listed are about on the same order.

>And even if you think my ability to influence society is minimal with it, that's fine, ability to influence society wasn't why people above were asking for it.

I agree. Having a "record the last 30sec of my life" button would be super useful. Every time I see something funny, I could scroll back , take a screenshot and post it online so my buddies can get a laugh. That's useful. I think it would also be incredibly dangerous at scale because it will be easy for the incumbents to use to influence society.

Basically everything I'm saying here has been said about Facebook/Google, etc. The difference I see in this case is that I think that by reducing the friction of recording/uploading to near zero the effects will be magnified.
> That came, and it turned out, having a quality camera you take with you is pretty cool and the end of the world didn't happen.

It's a little early to say that, given that we're talking about things that take 50 years to transpire. You're telling people right now, in the midst of the smartphone explosion, that it's all said and done and over - you won't regret it at any point in your life, you'll always be glad of that smartphone, etc. But you don't know that yet.

And I will say that for some people it has already happened. I have missed countless things in the last 10 years because I was looking for my phone to take a picture. Events that happened and I never witnessed them to even get a memory of, just because I was looking down for my phone.

I already regret having the camera nearby but not quite ready to go for the last 10 years. Your examples are already wrong, and actually quite offensive in your tone, suggesting that you know better than everyone and that you know how everyone will feel in 50 years.

The concerns are real and justified, even if you personally don't share them.
I think it's a bit specious to blame Republicans in general for the halt to this investigation rather than Mick Mulvaney, at least with current information. This is a breaking story, so let's give Republican Congressmen a few days to react. If they remain silent and don't loudly complain about this, then we can put some blame on the Republicans in Congress as being complicit in this.
As someone coming to web development from iOS development, CSS is the only thing I've really been struggling with. I just have such a hard time working with a model where changes aggregate around so much, so changes intended for one place end up messing something up elsewhere. Maybe I'm just not using it right? To me it just seems much saner that components (and the styling thereoff) are by default completely isolated from each other and their parents and children, and styling is only shared where you explicitly request it. Maybe this is due to the historical roots, where CSS is intended to style documents rather than apps? Maybe it's in the same category as JavaScript in that it's easy to hack something together that sorta works, but it takes a lot more overview and discipline to create something sane and maintainable? And where there are a ton of online resources that are outdated or will teach you bad habits?
How does this compared to differential synchronization used by google drive? https://neil.fraser.name/writing/sync/
It is a shame every time you see someone whose live tiles are just the Windows defaults with no customization and unsurprising their complaints about how hard it is to find apps they commonly use. (Or worse, still use the desktop as app launcher when it's so much easier/nicer to switch the Start menu to full screen by default and have more useful layouts and live tiles.)
But 80% availability is also pretty weak. Especially for CSS stuff where fallbacks are usually hard or impossible to implement cleanly.

This isn't javascript where you can just throw a polyfill (and even there, you're usually trading in multiple kilobytes of polyfills for a random feature you could easily have worked around.)
Not a replacement for a healthy lending.
> Sorry, where on earth did I say I don’t care about type safety? Why do you need to take this point to a total extreme? I simply gave an example of why the comment about mempty was wrong; but now I have to defend C#’s type system?

If you're going to dismiss safety issues in your approach with "Yes, it’s possible for programmers to write bugs." then there's no point having the conversation, because that's an equally good argument for not having a type system at all.

> But this kind of language holy war is frankly pathetic. Attacking every detail of an implementation (that works) is unnecessary.

It's not a "detail", if you can't do it safely then that undermines the point of doing it at all. If we were willing to be unsafe we could just cast to the desired type.

> Yes, it’s easier to get null reference exceptions in C# compared to Haskell. That is the result of poor decisions made when the language was designed. So, yes, today I will use ad hoc polymorphic techniques and yes I will have to make sure I constrain to structs, that’s life.

I'd sooner pass the module dictionary explicitly, like one does in ML, than adopt a technique that would normalize having "default(...)" in my codebase.
Ok, I get it. A circular mirror focuses all directions equally, while two cylindrical ones focus only exactly left-right and exactly up-down correctly, leaving every diagonal out of focus to varying extents.
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We used to have debtors' prisons instead.
> According to the specs, the finished page should look something like this on desktop:

It's ironic how the ASCII art doesn't translate to the site's mobile layout :p
This seems to only be a video of the closing of FOSDEM. Some stats, thanking volunteers and reminders for people to clean after themselves.
Am I missing something?
"Flexbox — Getting warmer, but would result in a bunch of extra div elements that act only as containers for the actual content"

I feel like I'm the only person who thinks most of CSS grid can be accomplished easily using `flex-grow` and `flex-basis` and it doesn't add that many extra divs. Grid certainly looks more semantic though.
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I agree that I may be bullish on long-long-term prospects. One of my gripes from the get-go was that even though Crypto was not intentionally exclusive as anyone anonymously anywhere in the world could create a Bitcoin wallet, it is intended for the more tech-savvy crowd. This excludes people like my parents and grand-parents who have used cash for a lifetime or plastic digital currency. I also believe a central monetary agency and a regulatory agency are vital to an economy to keep it from getting out-of-hand. The reason for my phase shift in thinking, is really applying the principal of greed I see here to other industries such as pharmaceuticals. I admit that I am not an expert in Pharmaceuticals, but I have to believe that these big pharma companies are altruistic and can only justify high prices by investing in high-risk, high-reward studies to find cures for ailments that are currently not treatable. I believe there exist good people in every industry, but the age-old notion of "one rotten apple spoils the whole barrow", remains more relevant than ever.

Disclosure: I have formerly worked in Prime Brokerage Tech at Goldman Sachs and an HFT focused on the US Muni and Corporate Bond market. Currently in wine tech though ;)
Using Traefik as a Reverse Proxy with Docker
1. Running strip on go binaries is a BAD IDEA: https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/2a95488f7843a773de2b541a47...

Use -ldflags="-s -w" instead

2. Production build should NOT be running glide install - you want ALL your dependencies vendored, locked and commited to your repo before you build it. Bonus: you can have your Docker image build by CI pipeline and know it's going to be exactly like the one you've got locally.

3. If you're including external resources in your container (upx in this case) via url it's common sense to verify GPG signature or, when one isn't available, at least file hash

4. If your app doesn't need things like ca-certs you don't need Alpine - you can just use "FROM SCRATCH" to only have the statically linked binary in your container slashing another 50% off the final size of container.
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