skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Introduction to Probability, 2nd Edition by Dimitri P. Bertsekas, John N. Tsitsiklis. It is textbook for EECS Probability course at MIT and very well written for beginners.

Additionally, there are video lectures available on MIT OCW which mirror this book closely.

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Probability-2nd-Dimitri-...
The SEC says that insider trading is illegal because it "undermines investor confidence in the fairness and integrity of the securities markets".[1]

[1] https://www.investor.gov/additional-resources/general-resour...

Edit, previous response:

Fairness is the "straightforward", "textbook answer" as to why insider trading is illegal. Misappropriating company information" isn't a great justification because insider trading is still illegal even if a company explicitly allowed employees to trade on nonpublic information.

[1] https://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/10/26/why-exactly-is-insider-...
Shortcuts is basically Workflow with private API access.
I have also just put a (used) copy in my Amazon basket.

@ddingus - ignore the haters. I also shared elsewhere on this thread and fully expect to take a vote hit. Sharing shouldn't be about other people, it's about you. If there's anything this whole thread and linked article should tell us, it's that we are all individual people with our own histories and personalities, and each one of us is just as precious as every other.
6400 bytes ought to be enough for anybody!
I believe that still requires the use of Apple’s servers.
As someone who speaks in a strong Cultivated Australian accent, I fear Siri will never get me.
It's not just the new style, I don't like the general direction reddit is heading.
I've had my lock screen flip out a couple times, once requiring a manual reboot of my phone. The notifications list has graphical glitches. Some third-party apps are suspiciously crashy. It's probably the least problematic early iOS beta I've used, but like any beta I still wouldn't rely on it if missing a call would be a deal-breaker.
I would recommend especially Mathematica and using Wolfram resources (Mathworld [1]) so you can randomly browse through different ideas and play with them in Mathematica code. It's great fun if you like both math and programming.

Mathematica can understand and process mathematical notation and has high level of expression allowing you to build an abstraction on top of other abstractions (Prolog like).

[This high level of expression of Mathematica is sort of disadvantage as far as programming languages go because you can easily end up with a code that works but is completely unreadable even to you without wrapping your head around it - same like elegant mathematical formula that needs complex proof]

Matlab is more for modelling and applied math (it is really good at that).

[1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RiemannHypothesis.html
c2 before they rolled out their new ridiculous client-side rendering design, yes. Otherwise, I agree with you.

Timeless design is one that exposes the nature of the tool and helps use it to achieve its purpose, with no superfluous elements added.
Try AFWall+.

I use this so I have a smartphone on wifi, and what amounts to a flip phone when I'm on data (just calls and texts...no email, no slack, no insta, etc etc). It supports modes too, so you can have "Nav" where Lyft and Maps have connectivity if you're getting around.

Very nice.
Shortcuts has this as well.
Nice article! Bag-of-Words models, however, have their drawbacks and I wouldn‘t consider it a modern technique. Would be awesome if you would also try some state of the art techniques like NN word/document embeddings, e.g. with doc2vec.
Linux Kernel bug hunting
Industry-Era – Setting Up a Digital Proof-Of-Concept Factory Initiative
Have not yet seen a full UI that have not undergone change.
But, there are UI elements that have stand the test of time.

The best example I can think of is Letters and Numbers. We have been using them for a long time to communicate and interact with each other.
I’m sure you’re trying to be humorous, but just in case you’re not, this isn’t something that Shortcuts lets you do.
It’s already there in the form of Automator and AppleScript.
A dumbed-down Automator, maybe. Please don’t insult the users of Workflow.
Does it go down to the low E?
Mysterious source of illegal ozone-killing emissions revealed, say investigators
Thanks, I came here to ask the similar question about native optimizations on this 'hack'. Apologies for my lack of knowledge, but I'm a little confused on which one to use out of all these variants while compiling C++ code on a 64 bit platform for the standard 'float' type inverse square root? Are there varying levels of compromise between speed and accuracy among all these methods? Thanks ...
> Apple should focus making the hardware better and to get the software out of the way

I…what? They clearly do, considering that they have the best smartphone hardware on the market and have what’s generally considered to be a good mobile OS? This feature is something that power users have been asking for years–if that’s not innovation in your eyes I’m not sure what is.
I'm curious about

> Some disabilities can be helped with aggressive nutritional support.

What do you mean? Any examples you could give?
Top Awesome Android Libraries – July 2018 for Android Developer on GitHub
I actually started with CMVC, an IBM proprietary VCS which was horrible. CVS or pretty much anything was an improvement over that so I had no problem making that switch.

I was an early adopter and promoter of Subversion. I loved how much faster it was than CVS, although it took me a few years to fully understand some of the more complex things like the details of merge tracking.

I was very resistant to Git at first - I fundamentally just didn't get it. The whole concept of a distributed VCS seemed like anarchic nonsense. I basically had to be dragged there kicking and screaming, but of course now I'm very comfortable and would never go back to Subversion.

Everyone rightfully complains about Git being hard to use but it's totally worth it for the power. It seems unlikely to me that the next generation will be "works like Git but simpler to use". I think whatever comes after Git will have to be more significantly different than that.
Facebook Tests Do Not Disturb, Instagram's You're All Caught Up, Tinder Loops
It's disheartening that so many bright people work on research that will undoubtedly be abused by authoritarian governments and make the world a worse place for everyone. Ask a thousand people what video analysis can be used for and I bet the vast majority will say surveillance, and most would probably struggle to think about something else.

I wish researchers would start to ask themselves if what they're building can be abused by authoritarian governments, and if so, switch focus to a field of research that will make the world a better, rather than a worse, place to live in.

History will not look kindly on researchers who built the tools that enabled Xi the Pooh to achieve a dystopian surveillance state.
Quadrilateral Hierarchy (image)
Keep going, finish the project, publish it on Github and then post back here so anyone interested can go and have a look.

It may become popular or it might end up with a single programmer. It doesn't matter. Just do it!
But if it's flexible then, like a driver with a BCD, it won't remain neutrally buoyant at every depth.
Of course not. mc32 expressed an interest in how Chinese people see this issue ("non-Western", clear in context). That's an interesting question. But walrus01 responded with Western media reports on highly politicized subjects. That wasn't a serious response, just the usual political/national battle, which we're trying to avoid here.

HN threads are supposed to be for thoughtful conversation, in which people respond meaningfully to each other's questions and try to figure out the truth together. If you think in terms of intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), that isn't hard to understand.
Crowdsourcing Companies for Tech Solutions
That’s all good but I hope that Siri can be improved to understand voices like mine (a native Greek so my English accent is not perfect). Siri understands 40-50% of what I say. Google (on iOS, so same hardware) is more like 80-90%.
"still spreads an application's files all over the tree"

No, only three directories: /opt for application, /etc/opt for configuration, and /var/opt for applications' data. Please read the specification, either FHS[1] or AT&T original[2] from whence FHS came. Good engineers seek out and read specifications before they start any planning and work.

When you package applications in this way, only /var/opt needs to be backed up.

[1] http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html

[2] https://smartos.org/man/5/filesystem
There's a new initiative called 'eelo'[1] which claims that it will be a drop-in ROM replacement for existing Android phones. Apparently it's built using a modified AOSP[2] using their own open-source software components. They are focusing on privacy and security. I'm not convinced they'll ever release anything substantial, but it's good to see another player in the Mobile OS space trying to challenge the status quo.

--

[1] https://www.eelo.io/mobile-phones/

[2] https://source.android.com/
In East Germany university students were encouraged to have children in an attempt to do just that.
Your solution might be worth discussing if the genetic mutation leads to a birth defect. But for later onset (like >35 years in this case), we'll be in 2050s. Even with a pessimistic view of things, we might find a cure for many/most of the diseases that affect us today. Honestly, I can't even imagine what the 2050s are going to look like.

The problem with the suggestion (or that conversation) is that it creates guilt in people carrying that disease for no fault of theirs. No I am not religious.
I was incorrect, and you were almost correct.

There are 44 high speed trains from Beijing to Shanghai each day.

Of those, 10 have a journey time of <5 hours. 23 have a journey time of >5 but <6 hours. 11 have a journey time of >6 hours.
Why would they? 99.9% of cases you have no need to. And it costs money.
Have you checked out the two WWDC talk videos on developer.apple.com about Shortcuts? They should provide a lot more context and connect the dots between a lot of the new APIs.
10-20%: This makes sense if you are Enterprise or Service provider vendor. We consistently deal with bigger vendors such as Cisco/Juniper, etc who charges these rates. If the equipment (with fully loaded Chassis) cost $1m after all the discounts, the maintenance contract runs $50-75K if you have many of them or $150K+ if you have only few. There is lot of good support, Warranty (free replacements), onsite support, that is provided with this.

However, if you are talking about pricing recurring $10-20 for a $100 Mass market Product (example, Smart Home product, residential Routers, etc), that seems like a BS especially with most of these companies provide pathetic outsourced support who have zero knowledge of how product works and have never touched the product. But saying this, I have seen some of the companies going this route and not sure if this has worked well. The whole industry is going down "recurring" revenue path after success (or rather percieved success) of some of the companies.

"significant upgrades" - how significant are these updates?

If you compare with IXIA, Spirent, R&S, Agilent, etc they charge 10%+ for yearly maintenance and it is for " network and RF testing" equipment. I know some of the new vendors such as litepoint may not charge that much.

Have you heard about fair.com and their model?
Have you guys thought about "leasing" your equipment?

Most of the manufacturing equipment I have seen becomes obselete once the technology changes. For example, once 5G mmWave is out, a lot of 4G-LTE only equipment may be obselete
Android app development services at Mobiloitte
I spend 12+ hours a day writing code for open source projects that I started, many of which are very innovative projects. I spend my time learning, documenting everything I do, building tools that I want to use so that I can build other tools with those tools. If you are bored, it is because you have a sense of entitlement. "The world exists to entertain me", you may think. "I exist to entertain the world" is how you should be thinking.
Optimization Auditing: A Deep Dive into Chrome's Dev Console
Going an extra mile – about motivation and pressure
> Siri won’t respond the same way your boyfriend will when you ask him to find some good Chinese food, or express some feeling

I think Siri did pretty well when I asked her these:

Q: Find me some good Chinese food

Siri: I found four Chinese restaurants a little ways from you:

Q: How are you?

Siri: Very well, thank you!
Just to be clear, I'm disagreeing with you because I think you're wrong about the world as it is not because our interests are opposed. I would have far more money if the US had a super complicated batch auction system and everybody could only trade on public information. It would probably only have a tiny, barely noticeable, negative effect on your life in the form of higher spreads for ETFs and various index products.

> "Misappropriating company information" isn't a great justification because insider trading is still illegal even if a company explicitly allowed employees to trade on nonpublic information.

I am not sure why you are bringing up this specific and very complicated example. Has this been tested in court and I'm just not aware of it? I don't even see how a company could allow its employees to engage in insider trading without it being misappropriation. The company has a responsibility to its shareholders. At a minimum, this policy would have to be disclosed to investors.

Investors very frequently use data that is not publicly available. Sometimes it's mosaics that they've put together from smaller pieces of information that are not public, sometimes it's body language of executives in private meetings to which the public does not have access, sometimes it's satellite images, sometimes it's information from IR, and sometimes it's something else. None of this is illegal without additional clarification.
Pretty much off topic, but Řrřola, the author of this blog post, also makes mind blowing 256 byte demos.

E.g. Puls from 2009: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53816 (check the youtube link if you don't have an MS-DOS ready)

I understand little about extreme sizecoding, but I suspect it's a similarly obsessed mathy story as this blog post, to double use the same bytes as code and content in a way that things actually work and look great.
Changing cultures requires courage - if you can’t be the one putting themselves on the line then the least you can do is not be the one oppressing them for doing so.
Google's voice recognition is nuts. One time I fired up Google's voice search and fed it some of the MST3K names for Dave Ryder from Space Mutiny (e.g., "Punch Rockgroin", "Blast Hardcheese", "Splint Chesthair", "Big McLargehuge", etc.) and was surprised at how many of the searches it got right -- capitalization, spacing, and all.
Was happily using Bugzilla but the company decided to switch to Jira and it's unpleasant to put it politely.

One of my main gripes is the ability to atomically update an issue vs incremental updates. For example, Bugzilla allows you to edit multiple fields then hit commit to save, Jira on the other hand applies changes automatically when you edit certain fields (e.g. assignee). This causes people problems (person gets assignment email before the comment about why it was assigned to them has arrived or vice versa), and automation problems (if you have anything driven by receipt of the emails, you now need to collate many before action can be taken). It may well be possible to configure Jira in a way that's more useful to us, but sadly we've got one mega instance that's supposed to be all things to all people and as such, doesn't do many things well!

Used Redmine before Bugzilla and thought that was pretty good.
Apple Shares App Store Retrospective Ahead of 10th Anniversary
For more : visit www.industry-era.com
Your description confirms my suspicion. I bet they used a collapsable core. It is the same way they're able to mold internal threads and such.
The fact that alternatives exist doesn't mean the design isn't timeless
Chinese Woman Who Threw Ink on Photo of Xi Jinping Has Disappeared
This will definitely be part of the us Trade War going on.
Which problem that has stable algorithm would require 64-bit then?
Are you confounding vegan and vegetarian?

Also, the study didn’t control for any of the other variables of his diet for example low sugar intake. You can eat as much vegetables as you like, if you eat a lot of sugar, your diet is still unhealthy.

Even if the paper holds for vegan there is still a difference in living longer and living health. That’s why I stated the health span, too.

I really recommend reading the book. Its evidence is based not only on large cohort studies like this one, but also on other sources like centennial studies, biochemical pathways etc. It is probably the best source for understanding what food does with our bodies as of today.
I'll be that guy and say that I don't like sub-pixel anti-aliasing—I find the color fringes distracting. I turn it off wherever possible. That said, people seem to like it so it's a shame the option is going away.
Sigh, I wish osmand was available for iOS. A friend is using, and constantly frustrated with, maps.me (only reasonable option for a low-data-usage plan on iOS I'm aware of, recommendations for others welcome, requirements: no tracking, non-evil, fully offline).
Ask HN: Any obvious reason for duckduckgo vs. Google speed difference on mobile?
Over mobile network (4G) I am unable to open duckduckgo from time to time and google is as usual very fast. I checked duckduckgo is not down and on my desktop duckduckgo works fine. I was thinking if there is any priority assigned to google requests by my network carrier and intentionally blocking duckduckgo. Using firefox over android, Pakistan
Fabricator – (near) instant API clients
You allow posts about mass surveillance technology yet it's supposed to remain apolitical.

Disgusting
Nope: doctors are not obligated to provide care they deem futile. This is essential: you cannot force anyone to do something against their conscience.

Notice the”futile”.
nice article, there is a kaggle competition (Spooky Author) that you had to identify which of three authors wrote a sentence. the problem is very much the same, so not only can you try your technique on the data, you can also read kernels people posted in the competition.

Unlike what the commentor above said that its not modern and you should have did word2vec, bags of words are very robust and work well in these situations. word2vec was trained on a completely different corupus, and this data is quite small.

some things you might try are:
- cosine distance between words
- ad LDA (latent dirichelet allocation) topic probabilities
- add verb speed (how fast they used the first verb in sentence
- run an LSTM NN, add the predicted prob as features (careful in overfiting)
Not the author, but I do know a bit about NLP, so to answer your question: Yes it would :)
> For people who've never had the experience, it's stunning how fast a stray kick into the silt can turn the water in a cave pitch black. Like barely able to see your hand dark. Even when you're used to it most people will find it very claustrophobic.

For some reason reading this made me shiver in fear. I don't usually visualize scary stuff when I read it, but this did it. I know I would be scared to death if it were to happen to me.
Bizarre diplomatic ‘sonic attacks’ reaching epidemic proportions
For those who want to interpret their own results:

Search your report for rs429358; also reported as gs246.

(T; T) is the normal variant.

(C; C) or (C; T) is estimated to increase your chances by "12x for late-onset Alzheimer's and 61x for early-onset disease"
It's difficult to find any scientific paper's by these prominent researchers. Where would one find those?

As far as I know, there is no concrete evidence that proves any causal relationship between inflammation and neurodegenation.
Hi. I’m based in Scotland with background in financial services and particularly mortgages. Is it a strict requirement to be onsite in London?
If it quacks like a duck and quacking is what matters...
Tell that to a relative of mine who had a tenant fall asleep drunk smoking in bed. Matress caught fire, smoke alarms went off, and she was able to rush in and get the passed out tenant off the matress then carry it outside. The fire department scolded her when they arrived 10 minutes later, but she undoubtedly kept the house and all the tenants belongings from going up in flames.
Timehop Security Breach Affects the Company&rsquo;s Entire 21M Userbase
AP Explains: How computers see faces and other objects
There's also taiga [1]. More or less an open source clone of jira.

[1]: https://taiga.io/
>As far as we cant tell, ignoring all the JV and shares, this is basically AMD making their EPYC chip in TSMC specially for Chinese Market.

Yes, basically Chinese paid near $300m just for the right to put own label on it, and distribution rights.
To me, the biggest thing here is that it takes a completely different approach than what has been the traditional path for voice assistants. In the past, it was always the game of waiting either for a custom skill or app, or it was hoping that Google or Amazon would program in some logic for handling a particular case.

Shortcuts enables basically any end user with enough devotion and dedication to short circuit this. It doesn’t require them to be an app developer and it doesn’t require them to learn code at all. The most basic shortcuts can be created without any if-then-else logic while enabling so much.

I’ve seen my mom ask her Google Assistant to do things with “and” a lot and they just don’t work because command chaining hasn’t been implemented. But with Shorcuts, she could conceivably make a chain and designate a phrase to be conversationally equivalent with an “and” in the middle.

Instead of having to explain to family why Siri can’t do X or Y, I can just make a Shortcut or show them how, and I’ve solved the problem rather than explaining why it can’t be done.
Doesn't that same argument (about not having existed at all) apply to all forms of birth control, including abstinence? Almost every time a woman menstruates the 'tragedy' of someone not existing has potentially occurred. To call this a tragedy at all seems absurd to me, and no, it is nowhere near equally tragic as living with many hereditary diseases.

I think there are arguments to be made that not every hint of imperfection should be eliminated (who gets to decide what imperfection means?), but your argument isn't one of those.

If I had never existed (for any reason) nobody would be able to miss me, least of all me. My parents would have tried again a month later and gotten someone else. Perhaps someone better, we'll never know.
I use Arq to back up to Dropbox because I have the space there. It works fine, but the main annoyance is that you have to remember to use Selective Sync to not sync your backup folder to any of your desktop computers linked to Dropbox.
"It allows user-land code to create private memory regions, called enclaves, that are isolated from other processes running at the same or higher privilege levels" ...

Except when it doesn't https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/03/using_intels_...

More junk in the processor like the Intel management engine.