jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Is there a limit to how many shares a company can issue? No, a board can technically issue shares unto infinity. There is no guarantee of scarcity, no guarantee they will not raise more money.

The scarce asset is the company, not the shares. Yes, they can issue more shares, but those shares still represent the same company plus the new investment money raised by raising the shares. They're not creating more company out of thin air when they issue more shares.

EDIT: To clarify some misconceptions in the comments below: When a company sells more shares into the market they are not simply diluting away existing shareholders. The keyword is that they are selling shares, meaning they take money in exchange for shares. The company's value increases by the amount of money they take in exchange for the sale.

Example: If a company is worth $1,000,000 and has 1,000,000 shares outstanding, each share is worth $1. If the company decides to sell another 100,000 shares and the market buys them at $1/each, there are now 1,100,000 shares outstanding and the company is now worth $1,100,000 because they took in $100,000 of cash via share sales. Existing shareholders have not lost any money or value.
" the end game is to make the user buy a house, sell the house to the other user, and make that user sell the house into fiat, it's that simple!"
Yeah, GP has apparently never heard of Dr. Spock's books.
Offline isn't as different as you might think:

2012-02-19: Almost every major retailer, from grocery chains to investment banks to the U.S. Postal Service, has a “predictive analytics” department devoted to understanding not just consumers’ shopping habits but also their personal habits, so as to more efficiently market to them. “But Target has always been one of the smartest at this,” says Eric Siegel, a consultant and the chairman of a conference called Predictive Analytics World. “We’re living through a golden age of behavioral research. It’s amazing how much we can figure out about how people think now.” -- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...

2016-02-28: Pass a billboard while driving in the next few months, and there is a good chance the company that owns it will know you were there and what you did afterward. Clear Channel Outdoor Americas, which has tens of thousands of billboards across the United States, will announce on Monday that it has partnered with several companies, including AT&T, to track people’s travel patterns and behaviors through their mobile phones. --
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/29/business/media/see-that-b...

2019-03-07: Location-tracking technology can now monitor people so precisely that retailers know, for instance, which customers visited a fitting room but never made it to the cash register. -- https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/08/how-retailers-can-track-your...
I use NewPipe on mobile. No nagging pop-ups, background play, free software.
The first thought you should be having is what are you actually protecting? Is the value of your product in the PCB? Keep in mind that even moderately complex PCBs can be reverse engineered relatively easily.
Honestly, I couldn't see it really working much more frequently with some functions and people spread out over timezones. It was common to not be able to meet up at for a week or two with some roles - sales would be traveling, too many issues, meetings. etc
Being downvoted I'm genuinely interested - are there new MacBooks with Nvidia cards? I'd like to get one if it exists. Am I missing something? All have AMD/Intel graphics cards, right?
I gather it's greed. I recall some ex-conman saying that greed is the thing that makes most cons work, that even smart people will deceive themselves under its influence.
I am self hosting searx, it is not exactly the same but it prioritize results found on most search engines, meaning that the paid results on google will sink if they werent paid also on ddg and bing (and others). It works great, I am using it exclusively for more than a year (I have do a redirection in my squid server from google to it, to avoid habbit of writting google.com as url), give it a try.

Completely googles for almost 5 years, android rom baked at home with microg, self hosted nextcloud, searx, mail server and squid doing permanent caching on cdns and removing all the tracking junk from pages.
> When you open source your hardware IP, you can buy it from Aliexpress few weeks later.

Sounds like an easy way to get others to do your work for you for free. Win win. Why go through the hassle of establishing a supply chain. So what's the catch? Why are we still labouring instead of waiting for our products to magically ship themselves through Aliexpress?
Ok, what does it takes to enable op code cache? It is not only about software, it is about many no brainers.
The measures that you mention seem like ways to mitigate the obvious effects of open offices by making them more like closed offices -- including increasing the amount of floor space per worker.

>>> Maybe the reason is because you're doing it wrong.

That can be said of any failed ideology.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jānis_Pīnups

This guy came out of hiding 50 years after the end of WW2
Some of these are good. Others, such as using .bind() just to create a handler for the click() event, are terrible. Not only are you creating a NEW closure every time the code runs (via executing .bind) but also you lose th ability to use the actual this inside the handler! Much better to use closures as they were intended, and have that extra _this var to refer to the previous context if necessary.
In more general terms, might an overall solution to DRM hardware be found? I keep thinking there's got to be a way to route around all of the embedded chip tricks, be it in printers, cars, coffeepots, litter boxes, etc. If the answer isn't technical, it'll have to be legal. As tiny chips get cheaper, this will become the norm if we let it.
My $.02 on this.

In teaching you talk about time on task, and how to get everyone in the classroom to focus on the work.

The open office environment can work in certain circumstances (roles) but if you are paying someone to focus on work, then provide them with an environment where they can focus on the work.

At least these days, ear phones that subdue external sounds are available and folks can usually figure out how to block visual distractions.

"Orbiting the Gaint Hairball" has a good example of someone setting up an office that is outside of corporate guidelines that serves the people that work in it.
"I know where you live and am prepared to commit crimes" sends a bit of a message, don't you think?
Read this as well: http://blog.golang.org/json-and-go
What is the actual law that someone that engages in DDOS'ing violates? I feel like we might need one specifically for the activity. It's effectively the internet version of criminal mischief. It's not hacking and all of that, but it's also not something that we should just let go all the time. I'm getting sick of hearing about script kiddies DDOSing random websites, I'd be happy to see some fines.
In each case, you also have to consider the possibility that each government is acting in the best interest not of the governed, but of the individual or group doing the governing.

Is this genuinely in the interest of America, or just in the interest of the person making the decision? That's a question you always have to ask, but it seems particularly pertinent in the case of a leader who has been issuing numerous baseless complaints about various opponents, whose actions have repeatedly been refused by courts, and who was denied a second term.

So while it's true that the government doesn't need to act in the interests of anybody but its own citizens, it would be nice to know if this decision achieves even that much -- or if it's just spite.
i live in venezuela and i buy and sell bitcoin every week because it's the easiest way for me to get the local currency on localbitcoins so i can buy groceries and such. i only use it for this purpose

i've also sent money to people in other countries using localbitcoins. it's really helpful for me in that way. they just deposit money into people's accounts and it's worked flawlessly for me so far
I'd also recommend this one. Relatively "basic" data but it's GDPR compliant and easy to install and update. Big thanks to the author!
That would probably only work if it gave the altered species a significant advantage (or if you had a system to detect and penalize/eliminate individuals depending on their genome, at scale).
I once wrote a piece of software that cracked passwords for Windows 9x network shares. It looked just like the movies, it would crack one letter of the password at a time, each letter would cycle through the possibilities and then lock in, before it would move onto the next character. Those with a good memory of exploits will recall the exploit that was used.

So it's not necessarily fictional, sometimes it does work like that. I wasn't alive in the 80s, but I would guess that such things were very common back then (but obviously are non-existent now).
I've been using WolframAlpha for this sort of thing. The idea of using something fully local and open-source does have some appeal, but it's hard to compete with the convenience of Ctrl+T "wo" <Tab> <Query> <Enter>.
That is an interesting comparison, but I was going by this:

https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/infographic/chr...
It has two integer pipes. This core is similar in performance to the dual-issue in-order Cortex-M7- also 2 DMIPS / MHz. I guess I view this core as a technology demonstration that you can have a practical (not too large, not too low MHz) out of order processor in an FPGA.

On the other hand, I think there is still space for a small in-order dual-issue FPGA RISC-V with 2 DMIPS / MHz performance.

Actually there is one:

https://opencores.org/projects/biriscv

1.9 DMIPS / MHz..
So, basically free. I mean most coffees cost more.

They’re just covering the fees to prove you’re a person/developer, and basically nothing more.
This article really doesn't make any sense. My support of network-libertarianism notwithstanding, Arrington's major bone to pick is raising the angel limit, and his opening paragraph is about how Obama hasn't pushed through enough legislation to benefit the valley?

I don't get it. Seems like an article written out of frustrated cognitive dissonance, not one out of any cogent thinking.

At the end of the day, the system is the system. It's way easier to work the system's rules to change it (especially with the wealth that silicon valley has) than to ignore the system and tell it to go away.
Nostalgia is rarely uncomplicated
drug dogs usefulness to law enforcement, almost exclusively, are as machines to manufacture probable cause on command. As this is how they’re used, “bullshit” is far too kind a descriptor.
> While the design is nice, it doesn't seem -that- earthshattering that it was done in four days.

And yet it may have needed a genius to desgin and write something so simple. UTF-8 was not the first multi-lingual encoding system; here's an entire list of them, worked on by a lot of probably very smart people:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Character_encodings

It only seems 'obvious' in hindsight:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias

Edit: A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Eh, you're posting on HN in fluent English. Your personal friend group is probably nothing close to what's average in China. It's a straightforward sampling bias.

Did you go to a Western university? A good one? And now work at some Western company? You can add atypical points for all of those.

Most of the Chinese people I know are fine in terms of education, around the same as any other demographic. But most of them I know from a top European university, or from highly skilled work in China. Most of China is not like that at all.
Looks a lot like mingrammer https://diagrams.mingrammer.com/
> I'm patiently waiting for pijul to be mature enough that I can move everything over to using it

Pijul is super slow. I've tried it a couple of times, and is too slow to be usable.
If this is true then Epic should definitely be punished. The mechanism by which this has been brought to widespread scrutiny doesn't indemnify Apple, either.

The idea that Apple should have app store monopolization written into law (their words) because of the tactics Epic used is ridiculous.
What's with the comments here so far?

MS really did sell more Win7 licenses than Apple sold (Macs + iPhones + iPads + iPods). Thats an interesting factoid that makes it easy to grok the scale of Windows. No need to get all defensive. McDonalds probably sold three times more Big Macs than MS did Windows licenses...
I find it disingenious to claim apps don't need to be free, when you built a successful app that already has followers (thanks to the lite version also...) and is highly regarded in tech spheres. Would he have done his experiment on a new app with a new concept, it would have a lot more credibility.

I actually downloaded the lite version a long long time ago, and I wouldn't have if it wasn't free.

Update: btw the 'Read it later' link is broken in the OP, it should be http://readitlaterlist.com/ .The app developper should really buy the readitlater.com domain if he can...
Right on, man. We'll keep you posted.

To be clear, we have more in common with GitHub or Quora than we do with Swivel, but I agree there are lots of bones on Everest.

You know what they say: too early, too early or too late?
Up also made excellent use of 3D to add to the emotional feeling; the way they handled "depth" in the sad introduction was different to the way they did it in the fun scenese or action scenes.

It was subtle, but it was there.
Yeah, I was hoping to find a little bit more in-depth information though. I'm finding reports of a handful of companies (including Google) being selected to be database "administrators" for this, but I can't get clarity on whether such a database is supposed to apply to equipment manufacturers or to service providers.

There's also an ongoing federal lawsuit over the use of this technology.

I'm still looking into it though.

edit: looks like the equipment is still under development, experimental, and not commercially available. Phooey. I can't find any development timelines, either, and it looks like the FCC wants to restrict devices using certain frequencies to certain geographic areas, so it could be a while before it becomes possible to roll this out.
If you like this, I would highly recommend the "Carl Sagan Tribute Series" by callumCGLP: http://www.youtube.com/user/callumCGLP#p/c/0/pxlPVSAnWOo

It similarly uses quotes from Sagan's audiobooks, but combines it with the Lost soundtrack (which fits surprisingly well), and footage from Discovery and the BBC. Really great stuff!
It should at least be an option for me not to store it, if I prefer not to use "one-click" and similar features. I understand why stores prefer to save the information without giving me a choice (reduces friction for future purchases), but I'm not sure that's a good enough reason given the prevailing security track records.

Either that, or perhaps there could be statutory penalties for data breaches. For example, if there was mandatory compensation of, say, $100/person for a data breach, companies might be incentivized to better think about whether they really need to store this data, and whether they're storing it safely.
Would really suck for him if domains changed in some way as to make it not worth all that much. If it was me with the domain I'd sell now, to much potential for downside in the future.
Even if you never spent any cash for 7 years, the full bank/cc records are insufficient to built a complete personal price index, because they don't list exactly what and how much you bought (unless you have some extraordinary bank/cc).

Can reconstruct from your bank records how many kWh electricity, gallons of gas, pounds of potatoes, cups of coffee, Gb of data or hours of video you consumed in 2015?
Thanks! We're based out of Singapore, so trips to the US at this point are probably something we might not consider, but we're planning to hit a few of the sports conferences in South East Asia to spread the word.
Cambridge, UK - InterMine

We're looking for a web developer with great UI design skills to work on InterMine - a platform becoming widely adopted among academic genomics databases for flexible query & analysis of biological data.

http://www.intermine.org/wiki/NowHiring
I think they probably would hire an older, experienced programmer...

...but it might be interesting to turn this question around and ask if these older experienced programmers would want to be hired by a startup. Keep in mind, this is a very different question from asking if they'd want to work for, or at, a startup.

The old mantra I heard was "the founders get rich, the early employees get screwed, and the late employees get paid." Of course, not at all true in all occasions (even fairly "late" employees at google got rich, and at most startups, nobody gets rich). But I figure an older, experienced programmer would truly understand how illusory the stability of W-2 work at a startup really is. It'd better be a pretty great startup (and they are rarely as great as they think they are).

If you're going to tolerate that degree of instability in your life, there are usually much better options than taking an "interview you, hire you, assign you work" role as a programmer at a startup (consulting work, starting your own company if you seek high risk/rewards, bigco, gov't work if you want to interview for a job with a paycheck).
Be careful. "isolate" comes from Latin "insulare" (or insolare? I don't know). "isos" is Greek for equal, and "in" is a Latin prefix for not.
... Does this count Gmail as part of the Google Apps suite?
This article is infuriating. They're effectively trying to social engineer these kids to prevent a few side effects that are crucial in their development.

Why is it that we think that kids are somehow meaner now than they were at any other point?
i spent time here as developer. it was, hands down, the worst development and work experience of my life.
I think this is a huge part of it. As you get older you naturally acquire and subsequently have to maintain things -- they can be material (a mortgage, car payments, insurance, etc), emotional (dog that needs walking, kids that need feeding, wife that needs attention) or other obligations. And that's just obligations. There are other reasons why startups fail to convince older, more mature and more experienced developers/engineers.

Kids fresh out of college are easy to convince for little or no money and the slim chance of glory. As you get older you are more realistic: Even if this company is successful it won't make me rich. Even if the technology is awesome to work on it may not make the company successful.

We tried really hard to grab a couple of really brilliant engineers right after we closed our angel round. The reality? While what we were working on was cool, they could make twice as much as we could afford to pay until we closed our Series A and even though our options package was decent, it wasn't generous enough to make them rich even if we had a generous buyout or IPO (which, you know, who knows if that will ever happen). Plus it takes 4 years to vest.
- Work less.

- Make my first surf trip.

- Learn how to dance.

- Study German.

- Spend more time building relationships.
The ME is on _every_ CPU, and you can't easily disable it (there are ways, but it's unclear how much really shuts down, and you might lose power management features).

vPro is merely the larger ME firmware: The small one is 1.5-2MB, the vPro one is 5-7. A non-vPro mainboard probably comes without a SOAP-capable webserver (although I wonder what they need 1.5MB of code for), but the chip to run it is all there.
The difference is that if there was supposed to be a video, and the video went missing while in the sole custody of the police, it is a reasonable inference that the video went missing because it supports the defendant's version of events rather than the police version.

Indeed--this is a standard evidentiary rule (and jury instruction) in almost every U.S. jurisdiction. In a criminal case, it would be enough to throw out the case, with prejudice. In a civil case, the judge would even be within his authority to issue a finding of fact against the party that "lost" the video.
Do you have any idea why the GFW blocks UDP by default? I can imagine that for corporate networks, but as far as I know, uninspectable UDP streams only recently came into existence with Google's QUIC (which assumes pre-negotiated encryption keys are still valid)

Why block all streams if you can inspect them (or at least their handshake)?
> That's just a default.

And your point is? If there is no port specified, that's what it's on if the protocol is HTTPS?

> You can use TLS with a broken cipher. You can use SSL_NULL_WITH_NULL_NULL. Browsers will helpfully provide things like a slash through the https in cases like this.

As they should, because allowing such things to happen automatically is contrary to what the spec is expecting to happen:

> If the hostname does not match the identity in the certificate, user
> oriented clients MUST either notify the user (clients MAY give the
> user the opportunity to continue with the connection in any case) or
> terminate the connection with a bad certificate error.

elsewhere

> In order to prevent this form of attack, users should carefully
> examine the certificate presented by the server to determine if it
> meets their expectations.

- RFC 2818 "HTTP over TLS" (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2818)

(for the second quote, the User Agent automates that process to make sure the certificate meets trust and expiration and the cipher suite meets exceptions.)
Wow, thanks. I'd forgotten about that one.

HN has had many ups and downs with this issue. While I think PG's statement "so far the experiment seems to be working" still holds up, I've also been noticing many ill-spirited and nitpicking comments lately. It's a constant problem.
Training is part of the solution, but I truthfully don't think that can be driven by startups. We might not even be around years from now to receive the rewards from our investment in junior developers.

More practically, I wouldn't feel right hiring junior developers when I don't think we'd be giving them the best training given our current staffing levels and product needs. Since we already have too few senior devs, I'm not sure I could justifiably ask the team to take on the additional burden of mentoring junior developers (though I do hope we can start a robust training program once the dev team is a bit larger).
Economists had similar experiences. I ate lunch with Tom Schelling frequently in the period 1979-81, and got the impression that WW2 had been one of the most intellectually exciting times of his life.

And of course something similar is true of physicists and engineers.
The moto g didn't cost over $1160 over the course of two years (partly for amortized monthly costs, plus higher costs for the plan)... moto g on, for example Simple Mobile is $40/month plus the cost of the phone. Pricing may be slightly different, but when I compared when I got my N4 a couple years ago, the plans I was looking at for my phone would have been around $70-90/month or more, with any iPhone, plus the initial out of pocket... compared to a moto g out of pocket today, that's a lot more.

That's quite a big difference. I've been pretty happy with my Nexus 4, and hoping to get a full third year out of it... since the Nexus 5 isn't a huge bump, and the N6 is way out of the ballpark on pricing imho. I've been recommending the Moto G LTE for most people lately... it's a usable phone without a lot of extra monthly expense.
I've been helping keep the bitrot away at https://github.com/aliceml/aliceml if you're interested in using it.