jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Right now all other electronic payment networks require the extension of credit somewhere in the system. Credit card companies offload the risk of managing this to payment gateways, but it is still there. This leads to expensive things like PCI-compliance requirements and chargebacks-for-profit.

By eliminating the need for credit, bitcoin eliminates an entire horizontal layer in the payments industry. The first uses are thus obviously biased towards high-risk transactions, but it will be surprising if a lot of high-cost merchants like airlines aren't accepting bitcoin in 2-3 years, if only because 2-3% of a 3000 USD ticket is a lot of cash to pay a middleman if the consumer trusts you enough to handle the transaction directly.
>Apple's strategy of assuming that their users should just throw away three year old devices seems not to work out any longer.

Yeah, as I've been saying...

Some may call all of this growing Apple consumer angst and issues "back luck", but I bet Steve Jobs would call it "bad karma".

Consumers with early 2011 MacBook Pros that died after 2-3 years didn't feel like they got a very good ROI on a 3-4,000 dollar laptop, go figure. Especially those that paid hundreds more for extended Applecare and had the defective GPU fail quickly after it expired.
A game for bigger kids is Hacked [0].

[0] http://www.hackedapp.com/
I am surprised to hear you say that Chrome's antixss auditor is a good enough solution. I havent examined it myself, but my understanding was that there were quite a few bypasses and the chrome team isn't super interested in making it work.

I must admit it's been quite a while since I did any consulting, but rare is not how I would have described xss when talking about web apps that customers had.

Besides XSS, you're also vulnerable to HPP attacks on links. Especially with RESTful sites where you do something Directory traversal-like on links. Though I don't know how common that is going to be through form fields, rather than URL tampering, its not something I've seen anyone care about.

I guess people with legacy crap might be willing to accept the filtering, but it doesn't seem like something anyone would accept if their app had any social component.

Good luck I guess, its an interesting idea, but it seems like a very niche product due to all the usability impact it will have. Maybe there is a market for "citrix for web apps" :)
http://paulgraham.com/mean.html, which I missed the first time around.
Which I find very interesting when juxtaposed against the Steve Jobs hero worship that also goes on around here.
If you like the default behavior, then you don't need .inputrc.

If you want vi command line edit keybindings, then you do.

Or if you like emacs but you want to customize, then you need a .inputrc.
I think there is more to it.
For me, it was reading the 1632 book series(Ring of Fire). Learned more Swedish/German/European history from fictional alternative history books then apparently EXISTED in my high school history books
Is Baidu the first major Chinese tech company to start maintaining open source projects on the scale of Google or Facebook?
I worked an internship where we were testing 'toilet to tap' in south florida. For the most part it was effective and not too price with RO (Reverse Osmosis) + MBR (Memebrane Bioreactor) but the hardest problem (lol) was Viagra, quite literally. Getting pharmaceuticals out took so much energy with the process that the economics of it just weren't attractive enough.
Your experience is interesting to read, but not quite valid to the original post. The poster was referring to developer bootcamps like Flatiron or General Assembly that have a primary revenue derived from tuition (or recruiting fees for some), and are trying to produce developers to be hired by other organizations.

Your bootcamp was to produce developers for your own company. They made an investment in you to bring you on board and pay you, and they had a significant vested interest in making sure you were going to be successful. Your company doesn't make money by providing bootcamp services.

When the bootcamp itself has an investment in the attendee, things are likely to be different.

Consulting companies have been doing what you describe for many years - sending new grads to internal bootcamps to teach them a bit and then immediately bill the newly minted junior 'consultants' to clients. This is not a new thing, and I'd argue is very different from what the post questioned.
Just have the different scopes and contexts attached to windows, and have XCode-like "inspector" windows where every text field is effectively another REPL, and you'd just about have Smalltalk. Ruby already has most of the cool language/library constructs, plus an order of magnitude more (too much) syntax.
I don't think it's such bad advice. Javascript and Ruby/Python have a lot in common underneath their surface differences and with server-side Javascript on the rise their problem domains are becoming increasingly similar.

Javascript also has the advantage that you don't need anything more than a browser to start learning it and that you can easily visualize what you're doing. It's not my favorite language but I think it's a good first choice.
Thanks for your interest. I would love to sell this commercially as a side project but the market is entirely on the US while I'm in Mexico. Cross-country shipping and customs is too much of a pain.

The story of my life: I should be in the States. Only now it comes with an interesting twist: If I lived in the States I would very likely sell plenty of these desks, yet if I didn't live in Mexico I would very likely never have built this ultra cheap proof of concept in the first place. :)
Umm, please spare us the kneejerk anti-government rhetoric. Governments sometime have resounding failures and resounding successes, but it isn't the fact that a government is the agent or not.
Dealing with user submitted content on a 200+ million user platform must really try the patience of security researchers for Facebook.

It would be great if Facebook had a security research group that openly published the results of their findings, those findings that don't expose corporate secrets. They almost certainly have seen it "all."
The more dramatic the move the worse it ends, he can very easily stay up an extra hour a night, cut some TV and learn. Looks to me like a basketball player opening a record label...just because some have become rich and famous with it.
"investors do not fund ideas"

This was an often repeated remark at a recent angel investing conference I attended.

Sorry that is not what you wanted to hear. Unfortunately it is reality.

You need to create some concrete representations of your idea and demonstrate why people need it.
No, it's dumber than that.
You said rape twice.
Sounds like a reasonable theory. All it takes is a moment of carelessness or not being up to date to the latest exploit.

That said, we do step into fewer digital traps than a less technical person.
I know a number of quite proficient programmers with degrees or backgrounds in the classics. Some, to be sure, are of the generation where 8th-grade programming class wasn't really an option. I'd much rather see the primary and secondary schools teach human languages and mathematics than see them try to teach coding.
oh, i mean, i agree. in school, i did a project in a network security class that involved phishing the network security class, and it had a roughly 50% success rate.

if someone were to seriously try and phish any specific site, they'd probably be reasonably successful. the question really is, how long would it take for someone to recognize what was going on and get it killed? will 20 people visit the page, or will 2000?
I trust my password manager. It auto-fills my passwords only on correct domains. When my password manager doesn't work, I'm highly suspicious.

Plus I use passwords that are auto-generated based on domain name, which I copy & paste to the generator. Hopefully this makes me immune to homograph attacks.
This community on average is more technical than most but that is just aggregate statistics. I would say that in any community you are going to get x% that would fall for a phishing scam.
Inconsolata, with varying sizes depending on my mental state. It’s free, pretty and legible.

Get it here: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
Scheme is second in jobs on indeed.com, and the author doesn't realize that his search is off?

Erlang could become "the next Python"?

What a shoddy article.

Edit: I realize that Scheme is second only among the nine niche languages. It's still bogus, as a simple search for scheme on indeed.com shows.
> Use common sense

Read "The Gift of Fear" by Gavin de Becker. Highly recommend it for anyone who wants to know more about how to protect yourself.

tldr: Trust your instincts. They have been honed by many, many iterations.

http://tgace.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/the-gift-of-fear/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_of_Fear
My take on their experience was that they had only sort of abstractly thought about stability. Then they severely underestimated the variance in performance. Before moving to Amazon, stability was something you worked at in the lower levels, e.g., hardware, power, etc. Once you move to amazon, stability cannot be controlled at a lower level, so you have to make your application code more robust.

With your own IT infrastructure, you'd logically put the focus into improving the reliability on your hardware stack, rather than just focusing on handling those issues in software.
> I believe this 100% to be true.

Based on what evidence exactly?

> Considering that under certain conditions the virus can stay in the air for up to 3 hours, masks definitely are helpful.

Those conditions being using a Goldberg Drum designed to keep aerosols that can't stay airborne for as long as possible? If yes then yeah sure this virus can survive in the air for 3 hours, but that isn't normal reality. It can't stay aloft that long, it will hit a surface.

Goldberg Drum:
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article-abstract/68/1/85/188529...

You really only need the mask if you're going out and symptomatic. Even then, as noted, leave the masks for the people that are encountering sick people daily. They need them way more than you do walking around buying groceries.
I would very much like that for Android. It seems much better than the tablet drawing app my kids currently use.
Maybe it depends on what activities the ICC engages in within the US. Le Monde doesn’t have “jurisdiction” in the US (or anywhere) to arrest anyone, but they still do investigations, which are presumably still legal for foreign journalists in the US.
I'm developing the weightwatcher tool for deep neural networks into a full fledged product

http://github.com/CalculatedContent/WeightWatcher

The weightwatcher lets you detect potential problems in a trained neural network

https://calculatedcontent.com/2020/02/16/weightwatcher-empir...
There doesn't seem to be any native option to perform search in the default search engine provider set in the browser.

There used to be a external.IsSearchProviderInstalled native JavaScript method[1], but it was deprecated by browsers, most likely to prevent them detecting and recommending one search provider over the other.

Simplest workaround will be to show a dropdown select list or page modal with search engine options, for the user to be able to select their choice.

[1] http://help.dottoro.com/ljfslnsp.php
Ventilator manufacturers aren't impressed by Elon Musk's offer

https://mashable.com/article/experts-doubt-tesla-elon-musk-m...
That's an interesting theory I hadn't heard before. I've read about iodine in seaweed and seafood, part of common diet in Japan; and how iodine influences thyroid hormones.

Just started searching on the role and effect of iodine in the body - indeed, it seems to be fundamental in fetal development and cell regeneration (its suppression, apoptosis); the endocrine system, metabolism, repiratory, immunity.. I never knew how important iodine is, thank you for pointing this out, I'll study more.

A possibly relevant snippet:

> Based on the reported values in seaweed, some have claimed levels of 12 mg (12,000 mcg) in Japanese diets, leading Abraham and Brownstein to propose that

> “only mainland Japanese consume adequate amounts of iodine and that 99 percent of the world population are deficient in inorganic, non-radioactive iodine; that is, they have not reached whole body sufficiency for that essential element.”
> the same people that are patent trolls would add misuse of copyright to their set of tools

Prenda is an example of how misuse of copyright is already in the trolls' toolbox.

Since you think about this stuff you might find the latest on the Santa Cruz Operation interesting:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/xinuos-finishes-pick...

Xinuos is the company that purchased the remnants of the SCO Group in 2011. The SCO Group, in turn, is a company most famous not for its actual products but for its litigation against IBM and Linux. That litigation began in 2003—partially funded by a very different Microsoft, only five years after the leak of the Halloween documents in which Microsoft acknowledged the "long-term viability" of open source software and discussed strategies to choke it out of the market.
It might be more interesting to read a different Feynman biography. I read Genius first, then Mehra's The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, which I liked better.
Honestly, I wish tweets were treated like verbal exchanges more than written. Not everything that is said needs to be recorded for perpetuity. If a politician or someone powerful tweets, then sure it might be in someone's interest to record it. Good luck to them. But unless you're someone that people really care about - it should be fine to just delete your tweet for good. If that means something problematic was tweeted but lost, then so be it.
Tesla isn't competing against an electric car, though, it's competing against the upper middle class consumer's gas car. Against this car, probably a lexus or 3 series thereabouts, the Tesla is not a good bargain unless you are interested in having an electric car for the sake of that alone.

It being some green choice itself is dubious, considering how much gas and coal is still used in the electric grid and how this car still produces particulate pollution from brake and tire dust, and the fact that you've just brought multiple tons of rare earth materials from around the world together to do the same job the $2000 used corolla that already exists locally at your neighborhood used car lot does, or even a moped for some, only with a higher perceived social standing. The acceleration is on par with the rest of it's class, the range is decent, and the supercharger network is good but still much less convenient than filling up at a gas station, and there's been times on my travels where even the distance between gas stations was dangerously few and far in between.

Imo the worse problem for the car wasn't that we powered it with gas, it was that we insisted on using a vehicle weighing 3000lbs to move our 200lb selves. It doesn't matter how green your energy source is when only 6% of it is used to actually move you, and there are externalities just from the weight alone (the brakes and tires required to stop 3200lbs vs 200lbs e.g. on a bicycle and their associated pollution, the cost to the earth forging these 3000lbs of metal).
> computer programs always serve a functional purpose

The Court is apparently not familiar with much of my code :)
Does it send every request of mine to its servers to get that information?
It's amazing all the free market zealots here are totally fine with companies completely messing with the fundamentals that make markets work.

Companies tell employees not to discuss their salaries, this causes an information asymmetry where employees can't accurately ascertain the free market value of their labor.

Workers try to pool their power together to get more of the value that they produce, they are evil. Corporate mergers and acquisitions that pool the corporations power so they can maximize profits, just the market at work.
It's a pity they never got to release their rollable phone. I hope another OEM launches one (Samsung? Google? Apple?).
Wow, that is indeed a great find.

https://www.biblio.com/the-intelligent-investor-by-graham-be...
But still, deprecating XML means lots of already functional apps won't work anymore. Maybe a "All new app registered after X date will only be able to use JSON formatted data" would be better.
Likes:

-Our building is 100 feet from the ocean up on the cliffs. Going outside to get some air and see the Pacific is quite refreshing. It is also a few minutes away from a very nice surf spot.

-We have a nice clean kitchen.

-Plenty of space with large desks, Aeron chairs, and all the pixels you can handle.

-Fresh water. This is big for me since I drink a lot of water.

-Fast network connection. Not blazing fast, but fast enough.

-We have a very nice gym onsite complete with lockers, trainers, massage therapists, pool, track, volleyball, etc.

-Parking right outside building.

-Office is always clean.

-Nice restaurants nearby.

Dislikes:

-Lots of noise/people talking. 90% of it is not work related or interesting which is more the problem than the noise. This quote from PG's quotes page pretty well sums it up: "I'm surrounded by postmodern idiots and blatherers. Your writings give me hope."

-We have quite a bit of wasted space. e.g. a conference area which is rarely used. This space could be used better.

-Restrooms are to small and don't accommodate a full office well. Luckily there are others to use neraby.
This is even better than Charlie Stross's idea of making sexual noises during the search. I think if you combine the two we could have the TSA staff revolting against their own policy in a week. I can see it now:

<tsa>: Would you like the backscatter or a pat down?

<iuguy>: The pat down brother, I really want the pat down.

<tsa>: Are you sure? It's a physical check for 'resistance'.

<iuguy>: You'll get no 'resistance' from me brother.

<tsa>: Ok [starts patting down and moves thigh up leg]

<tsa>: [moves it above the kilt and has sudden realisation
that iuguy is not wearing underwear]

<iuguy>: Hmmmm.... yes.... a little to the left... a little to the right... hhmmmmmmmmm... yeah thats right baby....

<tsa>: Sir are you deriving sexual pleasure from this?

<iuguy>: Have you heard of Ohm's law?

<tsa>: Nope, what's that?

<iuguy>: Well honey, lets just say the combination of your high voltage and my strong current and just let me tell you my resistance is at an all time low.

I guarantee no TSA employee doing the search will be out of therapy within 5 years once I'm done with them.
So I guess the rent is too damn high?
This is the job description:

manage a highly creative, unconventional, and extremely diverse research organization;

set strategic directions;

raise support from corporations, governments, and philanthropic organizations;

and

serve as the leading public voice for the Media Lab and its vision.
The other solution is to lose the irrational fear of others seeing one's body. It would make me uncomfortable too, but that doesn't mean it's rational. The backscatter machines seem like less of an inconvenience than taking off your shoes and putting them back on every time you walk into an airport. If they actually do make things safer and don't cause any health issues, I don't see a problem with them.
Nah, it's not particular, 3.0 was a bad joke :)

Well, I know better than to get into discussions about style !
Ok... So looking at IFG as 96 bits or 12 bytes of "overhead" thats 0.8% or 0.13% for 1.5k and 9k frames. Why do I care about 0.67% of throughput? And pretty much all silicon in over a decade does line rate at 1k anyways. Or if its latency a hypothetical higher clocked lane would be something like 1ns instead of ~3ns per frame? Thats the difference between 2 clock cycles and 6 cycles of latency.

So what is your shorter/faster ifg buying in practice.
Well. In many ways he's right. How many people still use an desktop email-client? or chat client? I personally use Google docs as my primary office suite. Lot of software in enterprise is also web-based.

Web-based apps are also battling it out on mobile. Lot of apps are just wrappers for accessing web-based content. Performance is the primary obstacle stoping mobile from going completely web-based. Both the new entrants, Tizen and Firefox OS (not to mention Chrome OS) have thrown their weight behind web apps. We consume radio and youtube through web. Its not a stretch to imagine Netflix being accessed primarily through the browser in the future.

The growing SaaS business model is highly favoured to web-based apps. It is taking longer than expected, but the future is generally trending in the direction of web-based apps.
https://www.google.com.au/search?num=100&site=&source=hp&q=d...
One law for all, evenly applied.
One is led to wonder if the terms are worded in a way to avoid this sort of hack.
They don't need to show a warrant first in the case of no knock raids.
Depends what philosophy you're talking about.
I think it's easiest to "judge" them in the context of your personal goals. So, rather than thinking about if they know what they're doing, look for indicators that they'll provide an environment suitable to whatever it is that you're there for. If you're there primarily to learn, for example, then different characteristics will be important than if you were there to get rich.

All that being said: Yes, the fact that they've done this before is a good thing. It doesn't really matter if they failed or were successful in their last venture; both types of experiences are educational and should help them in this new project.
Solomon, in case it's not clear why people are upset, I'll spell it out:

1) You're lashing out at the very community that supports you. Instead of listening, seeing problems, and changing, you constantly dump the blame on your users and partners for the sake of your ego. If there's a communication problem you need to realize it's your fault and your responsibility to remedy it. Your users aren't being paid millions to make Docker work. You are.

2) This spec is clearly half-assed and intended to shut people up, not actually move anything forward. You and I know that nobody is going to do anything with this spec, because there's no reason to think it won't be broken by a change in Docker core tomorrow.

I don't even think a spec is necessary here: what Docker needs is options. By which, I mean Docker needs to be sliced up into small enough, simple enough pieces that you don't need some huge slapped-together ad-hoc spec to take Docker apart and adapt the guts to your needs.

This isn't an open specification, this is a bible from the Docker gods dictating the container commandments, which are subject to change when Zeus gets pissed. Please know the difference. Worse, at the end of the "spec" is an apology of its existence, making it clear that the intention isn't to listen to people but to tell them how it is.

3) I know this puts Docker in a tough place as a business, but everyone's getting the impression you're forsaking the early adopters and hackers that got Docker off the ground in the first place. This is somewhat ironic: you reminisce about the good ol' days of HN when it was about hackers building things, when it seems the company's goals have shifted away from actually building things to shutting up the proles and supporting enterprise interests like locking everything down and keeping things stable because big bucks are paying to keep it that way. If that's where Docker wants to go, your perogative, but I don't know why you're surprised that the grassroots hackers you're abandoning are turning on you.