skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's useless verbalism. Like in that koan, where a bunch of monks were asked to describe a jug, you can use all the words in attempt to describe what Photoshop does, but the point is, if you use Photoshop for the tasks most of professional users use it — which is retouching/design, because despite many people indeed use it for drawing, if you would talk about drawing you'd compare things to SAI/Kita instead — you most likely can not replace Photoshop by anything else without losing productivity. Why you cannot exactly do that would be a little different for every user, and that's pretty much the point — there is a thousand different things it can do, and most of them are crucial to some people, but useless to others. And something like Gimp having all of them but one crucial thing just doesn't cut it — you simply won't switch, despite it costing you significant amount of money. Because either you can work, or you cannot. And verbally specifying why is almost as much of work for Photoshop developers, as actually implementing it in code is.
Yeah, at some point you have to consider the ROI. "Art school" is not going to pay for itself. I'm not sure it's even useful for anyone truly talented, and it's definitely not useful for someone who doesn't have talent. So I'm not entirely sure what the point of it is.
> How many times have we seen a company out-perform expectations and then the stock plummet, or a company under-perform and rally?

Far, far, far less than a company's stock surging after a good quarterly, a great product launch or tanking after a bad earnings report. You are nitpicking.

Yes, outliers and "irrational" market reactions exist, but there is an obvious arbitrage opportunity in deriving accurate sales numbers or other indices before the market gets its hand on them.
And in true democratic fashion Turkey jails political opponents. “But they were terrorists”. How convenient. Go protest the war and see how “not autocratic” Turkey is.
My point was that the assertion in the post I responded to, that the positive view of alcohol is a product of marketing, cannot be correct, because people have been enjoying alcohol long before propaganda was so easily and commonly disseminated in the form of advertisement.

I'm not making the judgement you mention.
Fruit and vegetables and other perishable goods will effectively self-destruct if unsold anyway, so I don't see that as being quite as bad as deliberate destruction of product that would otherwise last indefinitely.
In all honesty, I'd like a system that could play and record ultrasound.
Thing is, the price isn't crazy low compared to competitors. It's for people who are confused and don't have the technical knowledge to do something like install the unifi controller software on a debian server. If you're scared of command lines, meraki is the product for you.
https://thediplomat.com/

^IMO hands down the best site for geopolitical editorial coverage of Asia.
See my comment below. Apple actually pays recyclers for not refurbishing their goods, and shredding them instead.

Of course, the recyclability of the resulting shredded mixed mess is near zero.
6 years ago, Meraki access points were a few hundred each, and security appliances were a couple thousand, plus a hundred to a thousand per year in subscription fees. But I paid to, because ever since we did, we didn’t have to touch it, and install was a breeze. Well worth the time savings.
Because they want to stream audio from streaming services, which have APIs that change regularly, and require some level of DRM and subscription management. If you just want to stream audio from a local server, buy a squeezebox device. (They went under a few years back, the demand wasn't there, but they did have exactly the setup you want)
3D printed pulsejet uses Tesla Valve
The banking side is a different topic than the post at hand here. No doubt in my mind that banking functions as a relationship driven business - you're right there.
> For creative work, you can't cheat. My believe is that there are 5 creative hours in everyone's day. All I ask of people at Shopify is that 4 of those are channeled into the company.

He's practically asking to put company success before personal growth.
That's incredibly selfish if you ask me.
Jimmy Hoffa and ‘The Irishman’: A True Crime Story?
So how would it be like if it were to foster society in a meaningful way? What else should they be doing?
> Locking the file is a signal not to work on it because someone else is modifying it

I know how file locking works. Like I've said before, my day job involves using a locking-based version control system. My disdain for locking-based version control comes specifically from having to put up with it instead of using something sane like Git.

> So you have to explicitly and clearly bypass your source control to do what you suggest, at which point someone rightfully yells at you.

And yet that will inevitably happen anyway, because someone's breathing down your neck to get that animation done and won't take "well I'm waiting for Bob to finish recoloring first" as an answer. Cue the aforementioned fistfight over whether Alice's animation or Bob's recoloring can happen first.

Or it'll inevitably happen due to the aforementioned risk of deadlock (Alice is tweaking animations in a different order than Bob is tweaking textures, and thus run into a situation where both are waiting on the other to release locks on files; cue fistfight).

I've seen both cases happen repeatedly. All of those cases would've been avoided had we used a version control system that used branches and merges instead of locks and unlocks.
I can’t read the article at all, it’s a paid publication. Are people who are voting for this all subscribers?
Strike the Game of Worker Rebellion – Trailer Video
Why the Private Sector Must Help Refugees
It's reasonable when it's your own custom protocol, but it's a very different story for an open one that has multiple clients.
Sellside gets paid for corporate access. They’re basically glorified cheerleaders. Especially in current market.
Hmm. Any source on that or a piece of journalism ?
Anyone know if any of the FL Studio alternatives are good?
The world is hooked on Australian coffee culture
I thought switched reluctance was about cost reduction (with maybe a few percent efficiency increase). Maybe weight too.
FASP, specifically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_and_Secure_Protocol
Ask HN: What is one emerging trend to learn about in 2020?
My goal this year is to begin researching and writing about an emerging trend in 2020. What topics are you thinking about? Some topics that I think will get more attention are:

- Mental Well-Being in the Workplace
- How legacy companies are adopting new technology
- Innovation in the Midwest
- The intersection of public policy and technology
- Work-Life Balance
At least when it comes to diet: sauerkraut, kefir, vegetables/leafy greens (dirt has good bacteria and some of it always remains on vegetables).
Grandpa's sound system was analog, not digital (as are all sound systems at some point before the speakers because sound is analog)

In fact I actually have a 192khz, 32 bit dac connecting my PC to a Technics stereo amp from the 80s.

Pithy snark only really works when you actually understand what you're talking about.
Reminds me of a certain very well known startup in beacon space. I visited them some 6 years ago, back when they were finishing their fist product - a nice-looking battery-powered Bluetooth beacon, completely encased in some kind of silicone. I asked them, well, what's the expected time until battery is completely discharged, and how do I charge it back or replace it? And the answers were, a year or three (depending on use), and you don't, because by the time the beacon dies, you'll want to get a newer, better one anyway.

One of the many reasons I never bought anything from them.
I love how that issue has all these other articles that have hidden gems of insight of things that, with the benefit of hindsight, would have been good to have taken note of. Including gems on Lisp, on the philosophy of designing software for unix and to make things small and testable as soon as possible. How things like structured programming had a lot of fluff talk around it that obscured the tiny gems of good ideas, that people got carried away with the "process".
A Netflix for Audiobooks, please.

I want to be able to start as many books as I want.

I want on demand.

I want ALL of my audio books to remember where I left off.

I want cross platform.
File extensions are the de facto type indicator on all platforms, not just Windows. Even when the FS has some other way to specify the type (e.g. a separate MIME type metadata field), the extension still normally sets the default value for that.

This is orthogonal to all that, though. It's about the UX to associate an app with a file type, regardless of how that file type is determined.
OneNote. There is only Xournal(pp) with a much smaller featureset and more bugs.
Well, there was this, fortunately short-lived... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System
I can't afford it and it's not mainstream enough for my industry (extremely conservative) to try out.
Sell the shovels!
Not all environmental costs are in energy used and CO2 produced though. Microplastics are spreading all over the planet and we don’t know what the long term effects on biological processes will be. Maybe the bag is harmless but maybe its not.
I'm a beginner for this field, so I have some questions. Is it spontaneous for the machine/server to pull data from the queue, run reports, and so on to perform batch operations? What is the extracted data used for? Isn't this action responding to a request?
These are all of Apple's missing iOS devices
Clipboard manager

Given the hugely abstract data driven world we live in and the inability of the human brain to have long term cache it should be important.

Open source versions exist but they are simply not up to scratch to paid versions, they are simply crap to be honest. Most paid versions have demo modes to see whats good but even the paid versions could do with improvements.

Don't get bogged down in making it work online. Keep it simple, runs locally. Windows or maybe if possible Android.
Varnish seems to get good mileage out of that strategy.
Simple Circuits and Festive Flashlights
There are plenty of marinas in and around Seattle that allow liveaboards. There are waiting lists, but I know people who have gotten spots within a year or two of signing up.
Websites that we need in 2020
>So we finance it, or our kids do, 45 million of us owing a collective $1.6 trillion in student debt that not even Bernie Sanders could make disappear.

Considering $1.6 trillion dollars is about what we spend annually to maintain our global military empire (when you include all the legacy costs including paying for veterans healthcare), it really wouldn't be very difficult to make it disappear at all. Of course, its a matter of priorities.
Rather older. This sort of thing started rolling out when Landscape came out, c.a. 12 years ago. Does Red Hat have something similar in RHEL?
>If I asserted that the Japanese secretly drank the blood of children, that Japanese women were unchaste, that the Japanese were really not a branch of the human race after all, I guarantee that mot of the newspapers would print it eagerly, and that I could get a hearing in churches all over the country.

Given how well Icke is doing, Lippman wasn't wrong.
NPM resolution is not deterministic because package dependencies may be specified using SemVer, e.g. “~1.0.0” which may result in pulling 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, and so on - anything that matches 1.0.x specifier.

The NPM ecosystem commonly uses these types of specifiers. Even if your own dependencies are all specified in “package.json” using exact versions, they almost certainly depend themselves on other versions (dependencies of dependencies, and so on) using the semver specifiers. That means whenever an author of that package publishes themselves, your resolved dependencies may change.

The package-lock.json is simply a record of the exact dependency resolution graph based on the registry state that existed at the moment you generated it, so that you can reliably reproduce that graph a month or a year later. Otherwise it’s very common for NPM-based projects to have “NPM install” fail later on (or succeed, but create a bug or unit test failure) because some new version was added to the registry and created a compatibility issue or bug.
It's open and federated protocol, not open source, that everybody else wants from them.
I'll believe it when I see it but I'd not be very surprised if they pull this off. Turkey has been able to pull off lots of giant infrastructure projects like the new Airport, Metros, Highways, Bridges, etc...

I think the government is very functional from that aspect.
D-Link posted this advisory and a bunch of updates for this and other vulnerabilities: https://supportannouncement.us.dlink.com/announcement/public...
Is this a violation of US resale rights?
FYI, the basic features mentioned are available in plain macOS.

Remap caps lock to control in system preferences.

Then ctrl-p: up, ctrl-n: down, ctrl-b: left, ctrl-f: right

ctrl-d for forwards delete,
also ctrl-a/e for home/end, ctrl-u/k for delete line forwards/backwards

Works in almost all text entry boxes with no config or other software.
Ones that can load on my phone when I only have 2 or 3 bars
For live security prices, there are a couple that are commonly mentioned:

* IEX Cloud - https://iexcloud.io/docs/api/#deep - Live order book data straight from IEX. This is free and I don't think you even need an account at iexcloud.io to use it.

* AlphaVantage - https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/ - I think this is request/reply, but there is no 15 minute delay from what I can tell.

I don't use IEX's DEEP endpoint, but I do use IEX for daily historical prices, among other things. Here's the project that the option trading application uses for daily prices: https://github.com/evdubs/iex-stocks.

With respect to the option trading application, it doesn't use live prices. Analysis is done offline and, upon order submission, a stock entry price is set so that the option orders don't activate until the live stock price has risen/fallen to the conditional entry price. This is one mechanism that allows the application to be careful and not be filled for an order when the stock has already moved against us. So, there is reliance that the broker (IBKR in this application) is properly handling our order and its special parameters.

If you care to take a look again at algo trading, I think you might find it useful to investigate more "offline" strategies that don't require you to be constantly plugged into ever-changing market data. You might even find that it's easier to find an "edge" as a retail investor by doing this rather than being on the lower-latency side of things.
> stream audio from streaming services, which have APIs that change regularly, and require some level of DRM and subscription management

That's a good point and it makes it even more important to push back - abusive, customer-hostile business models don't just affect the direct customers, they spread and infect everything downstream.
Openscad is a completely different paradigm. It is a graphics scripting engine, not a parametric modeler. Openscad is good for what it does, but is a hugely different beast from a parametric modeling system.

In solidworks (to pick on the one I am most familiar with, NOT expert with) you can click on an edge and say "radius this". In Solidworks, you can have a master model drive dimensions down to other drawings, so that multiple people can work on different parts of the same system and get the bolt holes to line up. In Solidworks, you can say "give me 2% draft angles on these faces, and run an injection mold flow analysis."

Openscan is cool and I use it, but nobody would confuse it with Solidworks or similar.
So that I would have to chase fewer scumbags who constantly steal to sell tools on craigslist/facebook market/pawn shops to support their drug habits.
Ruby Lazy Enumerators
Playing for the planet: How scientists use gaming to talk about climate change
It is uncommon for a company to outperform expectations and plummet but very common for it to simply not react or dip slightly. Thus making it hard to make any serious money if you can predict outperformance

However it is more common for a stock to tank if it misses expectations. If you can predict underperformance, you can make some serious bank.
Make your kids fold their own clothes.
I would think this is a common approach. I use the same approach. Scales up to hundreds of developers.

I do generally try to enforce the goal that on any working day there should be at least one commit from the developer. If I notice a developer is consistently missing this metric it usually indicates trouble in the project they are working on or that the developer is just not delivering enough.
Streaming Scikit-Learn with PySpark
Small data, Kalman filter, belief...

They're using Bayesian statistic. Probably added some expert belief to their prior distribution (informative prior). The whole article made it sound spicier than it has to be. The majority of the ML algorithms out there have too many parameters so it require a lot of data to overcome certain weaknesses like selection bias in tree ensemble, etc... So with small data it seems like ML are turning toward Bayesian. Also article may be missusing the term inference.
Literally the only "improvements" that are ever going to happen to audio in your lifetime will be a) internetifying it and b) adding more restrictions to how you use it.

We've hit peak audio (best reproduction, no restrictions on usage) and it's only downhill from here.

I look forward to my 2025 speakers that only work for an hour a day unless I pay for extra time credits.

"Do you wish to play a) music b) music and local radio c) music, local radio and podcasts [BEST VALUE]?"
> my informed observations and readings

I lived and worked since the mid-1990s in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, plus have a related degree. And no, I will not give you sources to contradict your "facts". That's not how science works. If you present "facts", then its on you to present the sources. And don't downvote people asking for a source. That's yet another level.
That should be illegal.
"double dip"; your words, not mine.
There is no good FOSS or even just open source RIS (Radiology Information System).
If what I remember about the Great Depression from my history lessons is correct, the picture becomes quite different when you have farmers and vendors destroying food to keep the price up next to masses of people starving because they can't afford the food.
I'll restate something that's often misunderstood about democracy.

The use of elections is not to find the "best" leader (for any definition of "best" that you have) but to prevent civil unrest. It offers an alternative to pushing for opinions violently in order to be heard.

For this it needs to offer a credible and legitimate path towards political changes.
Of course it's a sarcastic comment, and I know it when I was comment. It seems that it was you, who are unfamiliar with its background and implication.

"Reproducing the ultrasonics" here is a sarcastic reference to any sampling rate higher than 24 kHz (it actually backs back well before digital music). Audiophiles often prefer it because it's claimed that it has a wider frequency response, a lower quantization noise by oversampling, increased transparency after recording and remixing, while critics believe it's a point of diminishing return, and increases the odds of unwanted distortion that actually decreases the fidelity.
I love Volumio. I have a couple of RPis around the house plugged into external powered speakers (PC style Logitech 2.1 sets) and one in my kids room plugged into a little mini speaker.

It can play everything from MP3s to Spotify to Internet Radio, and has a really nice web interface.

It’s such a great project that deserves a lot more attention.
Thanks for the definition of beta. I hear it thrown around, but never knew.

Beta of Dow Jones is .98 to the S&P 500. [1]

[1] https://www.zacks.com/stock/chart/INDU/fundamental/beta
The top quant funds perform exceptionally well even through bear markets. That's a fact and a matter of public record. Likewise the funds which rely on alternative data the most aren't even primarily quantitative in their strategies, so you shouldn't be grouping them together.

I don't know where you worked, but please stop perpetuating the myth that everything in finance is shady business in smoky rooms. Contrary to what you're saying, a lot of the alpha generated at the best firms comes from novel approaches to data analysis, not the uniqueness of the data itself.

There is real ingenuity in research which translates into consistent alpha. I'm not going to argue it's literally the maximally valuable way to generate returns in finance, but you're dismissing it entirely. Not everything in trading is relationship building and trying to curate data no one else has.

There is room to combine otherwise public datasets together to find novel insights, and this is frequently done.
They did this, but the blacklist only prevents the remote from getting updates from the cloud.. it does not brick the device, and it can continue to use its current config. Or at least that's how it used to be.

I have a harmony that I bought in 2009-ish, and the provided "batteries included" exploded in the first few days of ownership and made a huge mess. I wrote them a complaint, and they sent me a new remote. When I activated the new one, the old one stopped taking updates.

Amusingly, there is an open source tool that can pull a config from one harmony and flash it to another. The replacement was actually slightly inferior (mushy keys), and so I'd program the replacement, back up the config, and restore it to the original.
There is a reason why almost all British car companies went out of business.
Obviously, any device that communicates with an untrusted 3rd party whenever it's turned on is not even trying to be trustworthy. Watching for any unexpected network traffic would be a very basic step in assessing the trustworthiness of a device.

I suppose, lacking the kind of efforts that Bunnie is making, the best you can do is start with relatively simple mass produced hardware, purchase it in a way that it can't be tampered with specifically for you, install an open-source OS which doesn't communicate with 3rd parties, check the software checksums.

Some applications, like vote counters, may not even need an Internet connection. Creating a secure system to count votes isn't something I'd like to be asked to do.
> for regulatory reasons, credit cards could not be used to invest; and while SeedInvest, the platform we used to execute the round, was able to accept debit cards initially, our debit card processor decided, several weeks in, that it no longer wished to support crowdfunding initiatives.

Cautionary tale for equity-based crowdfunding. I'd love to read about some success stories.
This was talked about in the Science In Action podcast:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csym2w

Is this open? Is it published, is it tightly controlled or in ongoing development?

It would be great to know more about it, or play it with friends.
What problem is this solving that isn't already done by other tools?
> Inaudible ultrasonics contribute to intermodulation distortion in the audible range. Systems not designed to reproduce ultrasonics typically have much higher levels of distortion above 20 kHz, further contributing to intermodulation. Widening a design's frequency range to account for ultrasonics requires compromises that decrease noise and distortion performance within the audible spectrum. Either way, unneccessary reproduction of ultrasonic content diminishes performance.

- Christopher "Monty" Montgomery, the original author of the Ogg codec, founder of the Xiph.org Foundation, a real audio engineer.

https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html