skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of those who actually have a non-trivial attempt at it think they're doing it because they're working with a large amount of data and doing "backtesting", but that's well below table stakes.

Can you define "table stakes" used here? The tone is a bit dismissive, but if there are individual investor doing algo trading with a few $100k and making some multiples of 10% gains annually, in bear and bull markets, seems like non a myth to me? Ie a couple of these people post here on occassion.
Here's another anecdote: I'll take four experiential-subjective anecdotes from a professional any day, as compared to macro-scale analytical-subjective theories from an analyzer-theorist.

Dodging around relational morals like "don't lie to others" or "be a good human being to others" is a typical blind spot of a game-analyzer-type logician. "I beat the game, don't I win the prize?" are famous last words in these cases; I suggest you choose your audience very carefully if you wish for your cognitive gifts to be celebrated in the context of such a strongly-recognized developmental target as being an honest person. Perhaps sporting or hostage negotiation or other "bluffing"-oriented domains are better suited for such advice, where some variant of "outright lying" is given a little bit more leeway.
You should compare that number to how many renounced before FACTA passed and you will see it is not trivial. It is the main reason people renounce now.
It was easy to forget, reading this, that it was actual news and not the synopsis of a scifi thriller. It's surreal.
> Quickbooks and Lacerte significantly reduced the demand for accountants.

My understanding is spreadsheets didn't so much reduce accountant employment as change the job from determining the facts to predicting the future; more 'what-ifs.'
What is the evolutionary benefit of our large brains, when birds can achieve such high intelligence in such a small volume? I mean, having a smaller head would definitely be a tangible benefit for survival (e.g. easier birth, less prone to injury, needs less energy)
, yet humans had evolved in the exact opposite direction... What is the avian brain’s secret sauce?
Faster, sure, once you have facebook loaded.
Unless, of course, you have a news app, which loads the RSS feeds, which, by nature, is way faster than both.
The parrot is 36 years old? That's very special. I know some birds can outlive humans (a web search will bring up some cases), but we generally think of pets as having shorter lifetimes than us.

He's relatively a sage and I hope he is treated with the respect one deserves. :)
Could you please expand on what you mean?
A better link, one that's not blocked in European countries:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-20/deere-sui...
How did a business get a .edu TLD?
Google is bad!

Oh and btw if you're interested in free events, tours, outings, discounts, rewards & more, e-mail me at my GMail account!
For what it's worth, mine survived both the washer and dryer unscathed. I just had to clean off the contacts at the base with a cotton swab.
I meant to submit this as an "Ask HN" post.
Hey, as long as you're modernizing FORTH, how about a new version of COLOR FORTH with support for millions of colors, proportional antialiased fonts, retina displays, and even transparency?

Then you could write opaque, transparent or invisible code and comments!

Blinking text and scrolling marquees would at least bring it into the late 1990's.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ashleyf/2013/11/02/the-beau...

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

http://wiki.c2.com/?ColorForth
My state has a network of community and technical colleges. There is a program that allows one to get their Associates degree through community colleges, then transfer to a state school and continue paying community college tuition.

10 years ago, this allowed for earning an engineering degree for $2k a year, or $8-10k.

In my experience, community colleges were very much viewed as remedial. I’d guess that many of the classes were taken by students who had failed the equivalent class at university.

I took Physics at both the community college and university (I was afraid that the community college class would not prepare me for later classes). The differences were stark:
At university, lecture was 3x a week by the professor (who did not speak English), recitation by a TA (who did not speak English), and lab by another TA. There were 3 sections with 400 students per section. The professor had one hour of office hours for all 400 students in my section.
At community college, my professor lectured, ran the lab, ran recitation. He went to a top 5 school, was an American, and was a great teacher. The class had 2 sections of 30 students. He ran weekend reviews for tests, if needed, and had open office hours all day. His tests were very difficult and required mastery of the subject matter.

I dropped the university class after I realized it was of much lower quality than what I had already received, for 1/5th the price, no less.
Google isn't going to count port scanning and other such malicious activity in their global search traffic metrics. It's very possible that such traffic is more prevalent than legitimate search traffic by orders of magnitude. I have personally operationally managed sites which are only very moderately high profile and yet still receive a constant stream of malicious requests from foreign IPs pretty much 24/7 even with aggressive, proactive & reactive firewalling in place. The costs to execute such tasks are negligible for a nation-state. To be honest I'd be more inclined to believe the numbers are real and that you're posting this comment as an agent of a belligerent nation-state trying to spread mininformation than the other way around (though I sincerely do hope you are posting in good faith and are just naive).
Performance should not be sold as a new feature; it should be one of the main drivers from the beginning. I remember reading the verge redesign article where they raged about the speedups compared to their previous site - and the new was still bloated.
I agree that statistical ML is only good for interpolation, but I also feel that the set of human behaviors that are reducible to interpolation is larger than we realize. Even high order human behaviors like academic research or art criticism contain huge chunks of pattern recognition.
> (and subsequent implosion)

Can you elaborate?
Thanks for the Gigerenzer article. While he points out unfortunate problems with the way NHST is commonly/mindlessly used, none of that changes the fact that in many cases, there is a natural null hypothesis from an application of Occam's razor. (which was the point of the response to OP's question)
It looks familiar to me because I wrote a tutorial for it for Coherent and used it for many years before David Conroy wrote MicroEmacs.

vim, not so much.
OAuth for the Open Web
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia.edu#Domain_name
"1B hacking attempts" is, of course, incredibly vague. It could be 100 sophisticated groups using their 1B 0-days, or one dude running a script on repeat.
Could you please not use HN for ideological flames? It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Voter ID laws would be OK if they were passed along with funding to provide Voting IDs to citizens. Somehow, they never are... (generally speaking, in the US)
There is definitely hope, it could turn out to be empty hope but... APFS has a lot to offer Time Machine as the hackery needed to get it to work on JHFS+/HFSX is tomfoolery at this point. At the least APFS has metadata checksums, and adding on an optional csum tree for data is not difficult for Apple to do. They already do COW with APFS so all that's needed is a separate tree for data csums. And then they have snapshots instead of hardlinks; or reflinks instead of hardlinks. I think it'll happen eventually as the deadweight of supporting HFS+ catches up with them.
I think the current state of US politics all but guarantees that any attempt to implement voter ID cards would result in attempts to lower turnout. Every implementation would be done at the state level, and a bunch of states have already been seen doing anything they can to thwart turnout to the opposing party.

If such an ID scheme were laid out fairly in the constitution, I think the US could do it fairly. But today? It'll never happen.
We are realistically closer to autonomous AI than you imagine. Pessimism, budget planning that didn't anticipate it, ethical concerns and human employment are slowing down the development.
Nobody complains about Google Docs being "an app". If a program like that doesn't have "normal scrolling" and a functional "back" button people will tend to forgive them.

Most sites aren't that, though, even if their devs think they are. LinkedIn and Twitter and Reddit are just plain old boring mostly-static collections of pages.

They might have a few good reasons to screw up their UI anyway, though:

- They can attract devs who want on the bandwagon,

- The "man on the street" might actually like crap like the Reddit redesign. Let's not blindly assume that our aesthetic preferences are shared by the public, even if they seem like a clear moral good to us (and especially if that moral intuition is informed by a technical background that is not widely shared.)
I agree with you about letting the interview flow naturally. That's how the last half of my interviews go. Often times looking at and discussing some of the candidate's code, depending on what the role is.

I don't always get it perfectly right, but when I do my interviews feel good to both sides. It just feels like we spent an hour discussing a topic we both like and we both learned something new.

> Maybe the author isn't as strict as I understood

I didn't get the idea that he is when I read it. What I did get is that he wants lots of data points confirming the same thing. A list of standardized questions or topics is just one of those data points, right?
SBCL is together with luajit the fastest dynamic programming implementation there is. It runs laps around things like python and ruby. It does not have a steep learning curve. You become quite capable quite fast,but there is a lot to an implementation like SBCL and it will take a long time to understand all of it.

The metaprogramming utilities of lisp are still unmatched.

Scheme (my daily driver) is a smaller language. It consists of a small set of well chosen primitives that easily compose to build higher abstractions. It is really nice to work with.
Regarding your first point - any recommendations on articles to read on best practice?
Which is vague and can have a figurative meaning as well.
Can we recall for a moment, that more than 70% of the continental US population lived on farms or in rural areas, not much more than 100 years ago. The crush of humanity to the cities, and the concentration of capital in farming, is very much a huge experiment. There is nothing in capitalism that says that humans have to live, or enjoy life, or said another way, the drives of capital take over even common sense things.

Secondly, wafting around some huge number of dollars for a market cap is getting pretty close to (WS:WEASEL) weasel words..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Word...
This is a very good advice indeed.
Worker pay hasn't increased much, but total worker compensation is up a lot if you count employer-paid healthcare benefits.
Please don't.

Edit: it looks like you've been using HN primarily for political battle. That's not what this site is for, and we ban accounts that do that (as described in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Can you please not do that?

Explanations of how we approach this can be found at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... if anyone wants to read them.
That's called fail2ban, and you're describing a custom filter.
Generally these are countries where one of the following is true:

1. The ID in question is nationally compulsory to carry out most day-to-day tasks, and so no one is disenfranchised by having to show it. In the US, on the other hand, there are lots of people without any form of ID card

2. The country has a history of large-scale in-person voter fraud.

In Mexico, both of these things happen to be the case.
Why would a voting system even need to be online?
> The AirPods are really far and away the best truly wireless in ear headphones

If they fit your ears yes, but if they don't fit your ears they're useless because they fall out after a few moments of use.
Translation: 1 billion Brute Force ssh attempts rejected
More evidence that differences in intelligence are largely differences in basic brain structure, not things that significantly vary within species. IMO brains are structures that can be easily broken by mutations, but if unbroken are of roughly equal potential (although a product of surface area and density of connections might make a measurable difference in memory.) Better brains would be significantly different in structure.

Give a brain the right structure, and it could be the size of a peanut and figure out things you can't figure out.
> I’ve seen lesser cases win. You’d be surprised. Your tight knit industry community isn’t the general public.

[citation needed]

Court cases are a matter of public record and, given your, ahem, open advocacy of falsehoods, it's unclear why we should believe your unsupported assertion.
But then you have to unpack it, don't you? Like, diffs are great for downloading images, but once you've downloaded and want to run it, you still have to construct the final filesystem.
This might be my political bubble speaking, but the vast, vast majority of voter suppression stories I've seen have been Republican legislatures trying to deprive the Democratic party of votes.

But even if that's not the case, it stands to reason it'll end up being a left/right thing, because it's the right trying to deprive the left of a vote, or vice versa. The two party system guarantees it.
Voting requires ID in almost every other western democracy, including Canada. The rest of the world see it as very reasonable to identify yourself at a polling station. It's odd that this is so contentious in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_ID_laws
"Is that the case in the numerous other countries that require voter ID?"

Other countries that require ID to vote generally have an ID card system separate from the driving of vehicles, and more people hold passports. Consequently, a larger percentage of the population has a state ID readily at hand. Yes, in the USA states might offer an non-driver’s-license ID card, but the system is that this is a choice, not a must, while in other countries everyone needs to carry some form of ID at all time.
Are there any CL implementations that are as slow as python?
What about finger paint, like most other countries use?

You just simply get an unwashable ink on your thumb. It does a few things. It shows you voted already. Also, puts a little bit of social pressure on people you see who don't have the mark.
What's the point of voter ID cards when the system you are casting your vote into is compromised?
Ask HN: What are your PIM/PAM best practices?
As a developer, I'm getting into the privilege access management domain and am interested in current best (and bad) practices, plus any canonical resources that have been helpful. What PIM/PAM providers does your organization use? Any homegrown systems?
Right from that very article:

> When Apple included DTrace in Mac OS X a point in favor was that it could be yanked out should any sort of legal issue arise. Once user data hit ZFS it would take years to fully reverse the decision.
Find the style and code lovely.
Would you please stop posting abusive comments to Hacker News?

Your comment would be just fine without the first sentence.
They will also repair by mail.
Unemployment has been around as long as there has been employment. It's not at all obvious that structural unemployment will increase in the future. You could make an equally plausible argument that it will decline. At this point we're all just guessing.
From what I understand the greatest vulnerability is modification of voter registration data. If you show up to vote and they don't have you in that district's voter rolls because your address was changed to another state, your vote has just been taken away.
This change also fixes the Julia issue that bothered me the most personally: if in a comprehension with nested loops any of the non-outermost ones was over an empty sequence, you'd get an error.
Opinionated, in general, means that one person or team made as many decisions as possible up front and built the system to use those decisions rather than requiring the end user to configure things themselves. It's great when you agree with the person(s) making the decisions because you don't have to configure it yourself, and it's terrible when you disagree with the decisions that someone else made for you and set in stone.
This seems like a very uncharitable reading of the article.

Inheritance has it's place in the toolbox.
A Soviet scientist created the only tame foxes in the world (2016)
mostly cause the laws get abused to target mostly democrat voters.
Steam Leak Reveals Detailed Player Counts for Top VR Games
IMHO:

* Merge Patch better reflects the practices that people are already using today.

* RFC 6902 is over-engineered and less understandable.

* RFC 6902 requires more space.

* RFC 6902 requires another RFC[1] to work. RFC 6901 - JSON Pointer...

* ... which doesn't reflect the current practice either. I've never seen people use the 'a/b/c' notation. It's always 'a.b.c', because that's how you access it in JS.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6901
Like others comments , Kudos to the authors.

I'm an SPA Lover ( Angular , Vue ) , but still most of the points raised here a coherent from a back end perspective.

That said , a lot of the arguments are basically summed up as :

"I don't like Front End Dev. because it's not as mature as Back End".

I will not lie on this point , JS is a fast evolving ecosystem that sometimes has issues to stabilize. Hence , there is a lot of marketing and self promotion mixed with frameworks sometimes ( Growth Hacking ) pushing for unnecessary tech that dies a few days after they have leaved the Github Trending page.

For beginners , when a framework reach a certain threshold ( Github Stars most of the time) they feel like they should hurry and use the framework to stay relevant while most of the time they don't need to and the tech is just fluff.

My point here is very simple, you are ROR or Django or ASP.NET dev and you love what you do ? As long as you find jobs keep doing this , don't bother with Full Stack Fluff.

Now that said , I can only encourage the author to do the Angular or Vue tutorial to discover something different. Rails is great ( it's empowering a lot of website Github , Airbnb etc... ) but SPA are different and when used properly it's hard to go back , the experience is delightful.

Most importantly we are getting closer to the serverless era where backend will be completly different from what it is compared as now, and SPA and SSR will likely be the standard in the future.
I have a question for those in the field - is there a good tool to fingerprint the level of algorithmic trading going on in a particular market? I trade in a lot of very obscure and illiquid stocks and in some I can spot obvious bot trading, but in others I see none.
Two things:

1. I wish they had mentioned not messing with the "visited" color of hyperlinks. It's so useful and so many sites set it to the same color as unvisited links.

2. "The Non-Designer's Design Book" by Robin Williams[1] is fantastic and I highly recommend it. It's not specifically about website design but it pretty much all applies.

[1] Not the actor/comedian, she just has the same name. She also wrote a manual for PageMaker (remember that!?) that was so good I still enjoy reading it today, years after the program it's for has been left in the dust.
I have a NUC which came with s VESA mount, and would love to attach it to the back of its monitor, but the monitor (and actually, every monitor I own with a VESA wall mount) uses the wall mount as the attachment point for the stand.
> Those examples are not design related...

I disagree. I'll grant that if you narrowly idealize 'the visitor' to be a content-consumer who never chooses to 'view source' (let alone use a command-line user-agent to interact with a website), minifying/bundling HTML/JS doesn't affect the 'visitor experience' design.

However, hidden tracker JavaScript definitely impacts every visitor's experience, and directly betrays the 'honest and transparent interaction with a visitor' the author desires:

> a button agrees to submit the visitors information to the server. Hiding this interaction behind a hyperlink or unadorned text betrays the core nature of a website.

The JavaScript tracker hides its interaction behind the browser's JavaScript engine, which is a much greater betrayal than any poorly-styled hyperlink or button.
Let's not forget about how the Bushs burned a few thousand votes in Florida to win the 2000 election over Gore.

It's hard to believe voting machines aren't hacked on the regular with how they're almost built to be insecure. But maybe they've never been hacked. I don't know.

Either way, that doesn't make all technological solutions bad by default. A technological solution /could/ be better than a paper solution.

I think the crypto bubble is very overhyped, but I'm pretty sure some form of a distributed voter database /could/ make it nearly impossible to forge a single vote, let alone forging votes at scale.
> You're required to file even if you owe no tax.

That's true above the $10k limit, yes.

> For those lower income folks it's cheaper to renounce than to keep paying these fees.

I guess it's a good thing that's easy for them, then!
No. That’s so very wrong on so many levels. And UNIX systems have no “folders”, only directories. One can tell you’ve grown up on Windows.
Depends what you mean by "voting system". Individual voting machines rarely are - they're usually air-gapped, read the ballot from a physical memory card transported by sneakernet from administrative offices, and write vote totals back to those cards for sneakernet transmission to same offices.

However, those central locations use a lot of internet-connected machines, mostly to communicate their numbers to outside systems. The computers that program the ballot descriptions pre-election (a vector for attacking voting machines) are also usually internet-connected - they're plain old desktop workstations of some elections official.

Air-gapping those systems is probably doable, at a minor loss of convenience, but there is a reason they're internet-connected.
The counter to that is, does everything really need to be an app? Take reddit for example, it was perfectly usable and in fact worked great when it was a static page without any JS going on. The current app-like "new reddit" is by comparison less usable and noticeably slower.
I'm arguing against the idea that people truly believe "every life is worth saving" even by effective altruism advocates. Effective altruism is only arguing how we should ration the resources we've already allocated to helping people. It doesn't address the fact there is a quota at all.

For people who deal with this professionally the quota is defined monetarily. For the average person its an unconscious decision. But in all cases the amount of resources allocated to helping is not defined directly by the demand.
I wish there was a brutalist browser that just turns every website into a brutalist designed page. It’d make me me suoer happy. Might even pay for it.