skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could somebody explain why so much effort is being put into quant strategies, when it seems that real-world information gathering would be a much easier way to gain an edge over others? Let’s say you pay to place a camera on a building next to a given company’s factory, and use analysis software to count the number of trucks coming and going from the factory to predict their order flow and earnings. This kind of thing is harder to scale up, but also gives an edge because not everyone else is doing it.

In an age when all hedge funds have the resources to hire the best and brightest engineers and buy the fastest processing hardware, it seems that none of them will have an edge if they are all starting with the same publicly available data.
You seem to think of viruses as all the same? The headline (and text before the paywall) does not say or imply that these are human-infectious viruses. They're just viruses. As in, a basic form of life, basic enough that it's highly questionable whether it makes sense to call them living. They're everywhere. As are bacteria, and bugs (rapidly descending in orders of magnitude in that "everywhere"!) But it's certainly news to me that trillions are falling from the sky; I would have guessed that uv radiation would disrupt ("kill"?) them.
I would really appreciate opinions on what to improve.
We don't create factories around people.
Reinvent fashion, kitchens and house plans to fit the machine. That's very doable. Restrict the solution space to find the answer. (Let Marketing handle the user acceptance issues)
Thanks for your input, unfortunately it doesn't tally with my experience. Maybe i'm doing something wrong?

I've literally just installed the nightly version as opposed to the beta - no plugins, but sync is enabled. Scrolling on Twitter is a jank fest, not as bad as previously but I put that down to the adblockers I had on the beta.
Is Wagile really that evil?
For a long time, Google Allo's web client didn't work on Firefox unless you sent a Chrome user-agent.
I think you mean:

aɪ heɪt tu seɪ ðɪs, bʌt aɪ doʊnt si ðə pɔɪnt ɪn meɪnˈteɪnɪŋ ˈkɑmpləˌkeɪtəd oʊld ˈraɪtɪŋ ˈsɪstəmz. (aɪ min, ʌv kɔrs aɪ si ðə hɪˈstɔrɪkəl ænd ˈkʌlʧərəl ˈvælju, bʌt aɪ doʊnt si waɪ ʃʊd ˈpipəl kip ˈjuzɪŋ ɪt)
ju raɪt eɪ "nu" ʧaɪˈniz ˈkɛrɪktər ænd ðɛn ðɛr ɪz: eɪ) noʊ weɪ tu ˌrɛprəˈzɛnt ɪt ɑn ə kəmˈpjutər ənˈlɛs ju drɔ ɪt bi) noʊ weɪ ʌv ˈnoʊɪŋ haʊ ɪts prəˈnaʊnst

ˈlætən, səˈrɪlɪk, ˈærəbɪk, ˈhibru (ˈoʊˈkeɪ, ðeɪ hæv sʌm ˈkɑmən ruts), kɔˈriən ɑr mʌʧ mɔr meɪnˈteɪnəbl ænd "ˈpɔrtəbəl".

noʊ, ʧaɪˈniz woʊnt bi ðə nu ˈɪŋglɪʃ. ju gɛt tu raɪt ænd kənˈvɜrs ɪn ˈɪŋglɪʃ ɪn ə ʃɔrt taɪm freɪm (1 jɪr). nɑt ʧaɪˈniz. ænd ˈsɜrtənli ðə ˈlɜrnɪŋ kɜrv gɛts ˈstipər ðə ˈfɜrðər ju goʊ.
Nice. That tui looks similar to the gcloud alpha interactive cli.
I have to laugh a bit when you guys complain that they talk Buddhist metaphysics at Buddhist meditation retreats.

For a view on what the Buddha himself suggested about how to evaluate claims, see the: Kalama Sutta[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalama_Sutta
There was no such time.

Caesar got his due through overpriced goods and poor choices, as the government relied on tariffs and excise taxes.

We also didn’t need to support a war machine with tens of millions of people, didn’t have a social safety net, etc.

Massive sales taxes are even worse. Adding 20-30% to every economic transaction is a boat anchor that would kill most industry.
Full circle. I point to my previous comments. You keep repeating your weird claims as if that makes them seem any less weird. The title is well-chosen. If you had a horrible education that is besides the point, it has nothing to do with that article. Sorry for your bad experiences in school, can't help you there I'm afraid, I don't understand why you bring it up.
I've been watching younger friends teaching their infants some sign language, which seems to make for happier babies. The kids can start learning at 4-5 months and had the coordination to use the signs maybe two months later. 'more', 'eat', 'mom', 'dad','play', 'sleep' & 'dog'. And the kids are thrilled when I finally learn a new word from them.
Blockchain and socio-technical systems – diffusion through hybridization
Yes, FFs devtools are slow to the point of being unusable for me.
I still use Firefox for general web surfing, but need to switch to Chrome for debugging/inspection.
See this thread (posted 7 hours before your comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16842012
Keep in mind that Apple's ability to monopolize its own hardware supply was once cited, by learned observers, as a great advantage over Microsoft. At the time, it seemed to place them in a much stronger position. In the end, it nearly killed them, and may kill them yet. The problem, for Apple, was that most of the world's computer users ended up owning cheaper hardware. But cheap hardware couldn't run MacOS, and so these people switched to Windows

Well, almost 20 years later. It seems like Apple'sstrategy was right. By owning the hardware and software and having the culture to do both, they were able to come out with the iMac that made them profitable, the iPod that made them relevant, and the iPhone that made them rich.

Owning their own OS allowed them to take one OS and port it to phones, tablets, watches, set top boxes, and speakers.
Introduction to AWS with Terraform
And yet, `match` is the only one that gets correct type inference.

`.map(ifSome).getOrElse(ifNone)` infers the type from `ifSome`, and forces `ifNone` to conform.

`.fold(ifNone)(ifSome)` infers the type from `ifNone`, and forces `ifSome` to conform.

Meanwhile, `match { case Some(x) => ifSome(x); case None(x) => ifNone }` will correctly infer from both cases at once, and give you the greatest common ancestor.
The WSJ article about this was discussed in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5165809.

olalonde gets a point for predicting the movie.
I think one of the biggest issues with AdNauseum is devaluing ads to a point it's no longer viable to show any because the adsense account (or alternative) will get flagged as fraud or ads will pay out far less, harming the publisher much more in the long run than an ad blocker. If I still ran ads on one of my websites, I would be very upset if this was the case. While I agree it is also probably in Google's best interest to sell ads at high prices, it does affect those who use adsense as well.
The GP's opinion isn't reality, and the argument was based on the false assertion that thousands begets millions (or more).

This is similar to the people that tell me, "perpetual energy machines exist, but the fossil fuel industry is suppressing them"
It was coined in 1976 as a term meaning "information virus" (akin to gene) something that manages to get itself copied by using its hosts, humans. It still sort of has shades of that meaning in its modern usage, but the original usage was more serious... useful for discussing things like how religions evolve self defense mechanisms.

Nice to see Wikipedia still talks about the old meaning, and uses "internet meme" for the newer meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
The point is that a hundred million people could well do with not spending the time and effort to copy-paste that information and figure out if they're doing that correctly, and there also would be a hundred million less declarations for IRS to review.

That's how it works in quite many other countries; if you don't have anything peculiar, then you simply don't do anything at all, the appropriate taxes were already withheld by the employer and that's it. You file a declaration if you're running a business, are renting property as a landlord, or something like that, but the vast majority of "normal people" do not need to care how the tax declaration process works.
Then you should present an example of USSR being lean and efficient in some meaningful way, I'd think.
Because it didn't.

Crimea is part of Russia, paid for in Russian blood with the 20+ million Russian people who died in the Second World War.

Hello crying masked Wojak downvote brigade! Come hang out on /pol/ later, it'll be fun.
No, the tool works like a brainwallet. The seed phrase determines the ethereum public and private keys. That way there is nothing else to save, no file backup is necessary. Knowledge of the seed phrase is sufficient. That's a feature, not a bug.

It is not like gpg where the private key is independent, stored on disk and encrypted by the passphrase.

The user messed up in that he didn't understand that he needed to use a strong passphrase or it was possible for anyone in the world to guess it.
> These may seem like big asks but Mozilla is taking in 1/2 billion a year

It takes a huge amount of money to build and maintain a modern web engine and browser.
That's actually exactly what happens in a few of the cases mentioned. In fact, in one of them, the courts chose not to fix the error because it would set a dangerous precedent (which is what you are saying would never happen).
Firefox, on occasion, cannot play videos above 4fps until I restart it.

After running for awhile, Firefox slows my entire system down to the point there is a 250ms-500ms delay for every key press.

Despite all this I keep trying to make FF my primary browser, but wow it is hard.

I'm actually using Opera as my day to day, it has hotkeys that are just a little bit better than Chrome's, backspace still does what I'm used to it doing (going back a page) and the "jump to last tab" hotkey is super appreciated.
> minor fiasco with their extensions ecosystem

minor? you are kidding

>feeling like I'm in more control of my browser

I lost the control of my browser after quantum. Now I still have some control over the websites displayed in the browser but the browser itself (loading screen, private mode, new-tab, reading view, focus of adress bar, all chrome-urls, ... ) are out of reach. Mozilla took 40% of control away. Without serious effort (fork , hacking..) I can't control my browser any more.
You should give some of the emacs modes a try. Could do this sort of stuff for wire a while now. And I'm really just talking of interior buffers. Not org.

Kind of odd, but repl on steroids is really just how dim the modern view of the old lisp machines is. Most of our neat repl tricks were just taken for granted on some of those machines.
To the parent’s point, creating an eth address is identical to bitcoin, it’s the same elliptic curve.
I found it a bit weird too as introducing a cyclic binary dependency is definitely not best practice for a standard programming project. However the C compilers do the same thing and so you already have these types of cyclic binary dependencies and it is unfair to force all languages to be written in C.
For printing, try the Print Edit add-on:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/print-edit/

EDIT: The Firefox Quantum version (thanks politelemon): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/print-edit-we...

It's not simpler, but it's worth trying just to see and appreciate it; I've never this functionality elsewhere. You edit the document in Print Preview in an amazing number of ways, from removing sections to editing text to changing page breaks to much more. It's been completely reliable IME. It's hard to believe someone did it, maintains it, and is giving it away for free.

(Despite my enthusiasm, I have no connection with the software or developer.)
FF was still 32bit and without per process tabs it would run out of memory and crash multiple times a day for heavy users.

With multiple processes and being 64bit across all platforms, those particular complaints are gone.
It's fixed now, at least good enough that it didn't hinder me.
Not quite the same, but the Developer Tools picked up a lot of the functionality of Firebug: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Migrating_fro...
> quit pushing for pocket and other proprietary nonsense

Mozilla owns pocket and is in the process of open sourcing it. Some parts are already on GitHub.
Yes : but...

- "It" wouldn't be a "computer"

- you / someone would have to be able to understand it, which might be impossible (for a human)

- you would have to be able to construct it, which might be very very technically hard

but yes (ish)
The same reason why brands are desirable in legal markets. Mainly for quality control and the ability for the user to ask for a specific pill that they enjoyed or heard good things about.
That they use well known brands is a side effect of it a being a black market. Why develop a brand of your own that could be taken away at any moment? Reuse well known brands so people will remember them.
That article can be read here: http://archive.is/Kb2zY. Archived two years ago.
*demonetized
I think it was already in the 90s or since Bush 43 that the parties declared each other as enemies that can't be talked to. I still remember listening to back then House Speaker DeLay who openly declared in along interview that the other side was the enemy and that there was no room for negotiation and the only possible outcome was full victory. That was pretty shocking to me expressed to openly.
>I've been fearing they'd take down Google Books

Oh that would be terrible. Google Books is extremely useful for academic work: not every library has good text search and I often found myself using Google Books to get reference material I could then look up in the library for full access.
My uMatrix configuration, which I'm pretty sure is mostly default, allows Google Fonts by allowing the CSS to come through.

What really drives me nuts is playing JavaScript Whack-A-Mole just to read some text. Trust me, you don't actually need an AJAX call mediated by something hosted on code.jquery.com just to display a bunch of text and images. Web browsers have been able to handle that since before JavaScript existed, and they can still handle it today.
Well, I think that you are throwing strawmen by a barnful here, Monsanto, eugenics, whatnot, but other than a few inaccurate statements about food being bountiful and people not starving you are trying to avoid talking about what the real issue is -- would less hysteria about GMOs and increased use help with feeding people who are starving now, or not? It'a pretty simple, really.
>Have you even tried to turn that stuff off in Chrome?

Personally, I have made an effort to try to turn things off in Chrome, because I felt it to be a superior product to FF. I switched to FF purely because I realized that my interests are never going to be aligned with Googles.

The problem is with the rate of change, and lack of UI stability. Can you disable WebRTC? You used to be able to with an easy flag, now its probably harder. Can you disable WebGL? Can't seem to w/o jumping through hoops. Why is Chrome looking at my USB devices? Can I disable WebUSB? nope. Disable Omnibox? Dont think so anymore. You used to be able to IIRC,etc, etc.

Google is never going to make it easy for you to stop sending data to them. An option of "Don't send anything ever, and don't ask me again" would be nice. More and more UXs are employing dark patterns where disabling is never an option, just 'deferring' or 'pausing'. (e.g. https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols)

Its hard to make definitive statements because Chrome keeps changing. Now, thats not Chromes fault, of course, but what rate of change is manageable? I don't know.
>'Total Addressable Market' is a bit of a vanity number

I sort of agree. Of course if the TAM isn't very large that's a red flag. But usually TAM makes a lot of assumptions about addressability and ends up with metrics like "I just need to capture 1% of the Chinese market."

TAM is also very much dependent of price points. I'm part of the potential market for lots of things if they're cheap enough--which often means a price point below what it costs to deliver the product or service.
For anyone confused about how the WHATWG came to write a new HTML spec entirely from scratch, after the W3C blocked the work happening at the W3C, this is a good place to start: http://diveintohtml5.info/past.html#webapps-cdf

I'm going to assume your point that the WHATWG is "extremely powerful" compared to the W3C was meant to be satirical.
the Security Director wasn't a security expert - not ideal..
As someone who mostly sticks to python but is interested in data analysis and visualization, I still haven’t figured out what problem d3 solves, and which use cases it makes sense for?
Cf. xkcd #1468 How worried you should be when various things happen to you in movies vs. real life.

https://www.xkcd.com/1468/
Everything in the Goenka system of Vipassana is "open source". You can listen to the discourses and decide for yourself whether it feels too much like a sect.

And this is precisely what makes it friendly to the Hacker mind-set.
I'll answer this as a long time ecstasy user. Pill producers make their pills in a variety of shapes and colors and for them it's mostly about marketing. When I was in high school "rolexes" and "supermans" were some of the most sought after rolls in New York. They were sought after because they had a reputation for being high quality. However if you've been around longer than five minutes you know it's easy for other people to also make pills, possibly of bad quality, in the same shape and color and so producers would change their shapes and colors constantly to try to stay ahead of the fakes.

For users the appeal of corporate branded pills is that it's sort of fun/funny to see something so illicit branded with something so commonplace. It's almost a joke. As if IKEA or Microsoft sold ecstasy.
I use Chrome without signing in but I'm sure it doesn't make a difference: Google knows your IP and the IP from where you normally use Gmail. I don't believe that they don't infer who is using Chrome.
You could invest $50k in lobbying and $70k in getting procurement paperwork done and build a fantastic book of business with government.

You just wouldn’t meet VC growth targets.
Can you elaborate on this? That sounds like the opposite of the way it would work.
Neither finds that aspect of the pills incredibly engaging. It's a means of authenticating a batch of pills, while using coded parlance, so that people develop a sense of getting what they paid for, while latching onto a memorable detail, and communicating in slang that flies under the radar.

No one cares about those stupid logos, or infringement or whatever. It's more about shared secrets and awareness of undisclosed details while dropping hints and passing around code words on the sly.

Now that these code words have been leaked in a bust, they'll google some other logos, print them out, mold them into the pill press, and next week's batch will be "Bob's Discount Furniture" and "Facetime" or whatever.
The last sentence seemed odd and would be nice for clarification. Not many government contractors say no from my experience.

"IBM declined to re-implement the architecture in a more modern technology."

They must have had something else they were trying to sell them.
Print Edit WE (by the same dev) appears compatible with Firefox Quantum

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/print-edit-we...

Thanks - I'll give this a try
> "One of the country's favorite sayings is 'women are for children, boys are for pleasure,"

Cultural relativism... I heard about a Marine going to town on a ranking Afghani for something like this a few years back. I just didn't realize how prevalent it appears to be culturally.
Giving all the power to a bunch of Chinese miners doesn’t fit my definition of decentralisation honestly.
I still believe much more in the banking system subject to different governments than anything that is (or can easily be with a minimum effort) in direct control of one single government quite famous for his absolute control over everyone and everything.
As a data person, I've always wanted to use D3 to build my visualizations but it's always been like using Assembly to build a program.
And how useful that feeling is to manipulate for media companies.
> Are there any other cells in the body that are not, over time, replaced?

Sure. For instance, female ova. The stock is limited.

> Might it be possible that some brains have the ability to generate new neurons, while others do not?

The former is obviously the case for rodents at least. Could it differ within the species? I can't see why not, in principle.

> Couldn't it be possible that evolution created such situations?

I imagine it's more about gradual loss of function. For example, in larger brains it's progressively harder (and less probable) to transport the neuroblast to the area where its growth would be beneficial for the brain at large. Thus, eventually adult neurogenesis ceased to increase fitness in large mammals, became effectively an atavism, and mutation load disabled some relevant genes, but it still could hang on a few pathways that either work or do net depending on specific alleles present in the population.
Working from home, starting around 9:00 (some days might be fishing the local river before that) at 11:00 will exercise, lunch and nap to about 13:30, more work until 16:30. For vacation this summer going to Europe with the family for 1 months... All this is the reason I cannot retire (or change jobs)
Shortfilm about violence as entertainment
I use it daily and it’s actually pretty nice. Personally the they don’t bother me when they are “littered” on the sidewalk either
Gotta work Doug Trumbull into that list — he directed the effects for 2001, Blade Runner, and more, https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=HHjLsvEOeS0 and he's still around!

(Thanks!)

As to that particular project with Justice, it almost fell through because we were on a tight deadline to get the game out in time for the 2008 holiday season. We were working 18 hour days (or more) on the thing, and my best friend and collaborator surprised me on the morning of my 25th birthday in November with this Quartz Composer test visualization of what we wanted to do: https://vimeo.com/129257159 — I immediately sent it along to the office, and the CEO called me up and wished me a happy birthday. They were all floored, and he excitedly gave me the go ahead on the proposal.
How the American economy conspires to keep wages down
Don't be disingenuous, check your local alt-right source and see how they feel about her if you really want to know.
Personally I did math, focus on number theory and algebraic geometry. I was also programming a ton on my own, meaning that this is typically not required for a math curriculum, but I feel you really need it for crypto. Feel free to email me if you want to chat more.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11902587.
Moore's law was quite an outlier in the history of technology, and one thing that kept it going is that the returns kept up with the cost of the increasingly complex technology that it demanded.

The paragraph that dismisses the 'low hanging fruit' explanation of Eroom's law looks rather weak to me - it says there are still many potential targets, but does not consider their technical feasibility, cost or potential ROI.
IIRC, it (detachment) is called vairaagya in Sanskrit. I remember from reading the Bhavagad Gita, that Krishna says to Arjuna, that abhyaasa (practice) and vairaagya are key. (I've used my own version of the spelling of those words to emphasize the pronunciation, since I don't know how to put those accent marks on top.)
repl.it supports compiling and running code that uses many intrinsics.
Found one the other day, https://athletigen.com/ can't login unless using Chrome
Your computer may have memory issues, I've seen similar symptoms before.
It was tied up in a court case about copyright.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/04/18...
One reason is to give dealers and customers a level of plausible deniability about their activities after the fact.

If a text message is asking for Angel Dust or ICE, the defense attorney will have a harder time than if the text message is asking about IKEA or Gorilla Glue.
Hey everyone,

I'm super stoked to see this project getting some more traction!

I was responsible for the visualizations / the scraping, so I'm happy to answer any questions people might have about the whole process.

^_^