jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
1. That is due to speculation.

2 & 3. Those are basically due to Bitcoin being so new. Governments don't really know how to deal with it yet.

4. That's true, though there will likely be a product that will solve that in the future (i.e. a USB key that contains your wallet and signs transactions for you).

5. The waiting for a confirmation is more a limitation of the service. There's no reason why Google IO wouldn't be able to reserve your ticket once it received the transaction (within a couple of seconds) and then give you the ticket once there was a confirmation.

6. You use a cold storage wallet to hold the bulk of your funds, then transfer them to a hot wallet as needed. (So, keep your $5k in BTC in your cold wallet, and transfer $500 to your hot wallet every week or something.) Decrypting a hot wallet shouldn't be much harder than entering a password.
I did. I updated to HN, since HK could be confused with e.g. Hong Kong and I have no idea how popular Elon Musk is in Hong Kong. :)
Ah, makes sense. I guess I'm sensitive on the militia issue, because I think it would be awesome to set up a militia to provide the non-combat military services (communications, medical, maintenance, operating airfields, water, etc.) in a post disaster environment -- and doing it in a way with organic security, so you could go in directly to a place like Haiti or even Somalia without delay.

The "light infantry fighting in the woods" militia is dumb, though.
What I don't get is: if the guards aren't to be trusted, how can the spies safely tell them x?

I suppose this is why public-key cryptography was invented ;)
I'm not finding the experience of watching it on my computer screen all too impressive.
Similarly, "squirreled" is considered by some to be the longest one-syllable word in English (rhymes with "world").
Is that "contact us" link correct? It adds an e-mail address to the end of the URL, which conveniently opens a comment page, but it still seems wrong.
This reads exactly like the 'why iPhone will fail' articles when it was first introduced. Apple would have had no idea about the actual world of telecom and blablabla.
I'm using linux. It talks about a Global Settings panel, but clicking on that just takes me to a help page. I can't find the actual panel.
Will you be as happy as if you had a Jaguar?
Decentralized and self-organizing systems aren't always good things. For example: climate change, financial crises, fatal stampedes, etc.
Think so? It's not a word and doesn't mean anything to me. I can't imagine having to tell it to someone in person. Anytime you have to specifically spell out your startup url, I think it's a problem.

Cool site though.
Yes, I'm still smarting from this default behavoir that pressing "return" sends the message instead of starting a new paragraph. My thoughts usually run to more than one paragraph, and I like to edit before I send.

I supposes that's not "chat", but then again written is not oral.

(side note-- again, two paragraphs, plus self-commentary)
I'm sure the people who wrote gotofail https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html would disagree with you on how "clearly" you can see those kind of braceless structures.
The key (nor a hash of the key) is sent over the air. It's a challenge. Since both sides should know the key they can challenge each other by saying things like "encrypt the word 'horse' using our secret key" ... then they can compare the result.
Agreed. I always find it baffling that people are deeply concerned about one type of bias, but not the other. Explanations, I find, are usually rationalized.
I think it has a much simpler reasoning. Most experience programming GUIs were in object oriented languages with the original Macintosh showing the problems of not using one. It fit because it grew up with the concepts. The 1990's was the era of the new UI (e.g. Windows). If Microsoft had said that functional programming was the way to go, then OO would not have taken off. Instead C++ and Java with Sun's amazing marketing won.
I take it that you're completely unfamiliar with the concept of "undefined behavior" in the context of C. You're not qualified to discuss the language at this level until you understand that. It's possible to invoke undefined behavior in your function. Undefined behavior can mean something never terminates. Thus, it's possible for your function to never terminate.

If you don't believe me, I pose the following challenge: give me an implementation of this function. I will then provide a chunk of code that calls it and causes it to enter an infinite loop.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is about mis-rating yourself with respect to a known field, such as one's abilities in reasoning, grammar and humor compared to the average distributions of skill in that area (the original areas studied).

This article talks about things completely unrelated, such as misjuding one's own skill at Street Fighter because one is unaware that a hardcore scene in that game even exists. If that scene did not exist, the hypothetical amateur Street Fighter player would be none the wiser--yet he would no longer be "misjudging" himself due to his own "incompetence".

It looks like the author himself is suffering the Dunning-Kruger effect, spouting pop psychology nonsense in an authoritative tone.
Sure, but why didn't they use directional antennas to get a demo-dedicated network on the stage? Which would be a good permanent feature for any big conference room come to think of it.
You and many others are missing the point of why this is epic. When was the last time a device with so much market penetration and insane adoption rates allowed video chat in such a simple way?

The reason it is epic is because this is the first time it'll actually work. Who cares about N900s? Does my grandma know what an N900 is?
Isn't some form of competence a prerequisite for having a core competency?
If they added a camera, then you might not have a reason to buy an iPhone.
You're preaching to a choirboy! Some of the unemployed have been laid off because they were the most expensive people on staff when a company needed to cut costs. Sometimes that means that the best people were let go. Other times entire departments get the ax because of a power play, so it's a reflection on the lack of political knife fighting skills of a manager several rungs higher up the ladder.
June 24. Pre-orders starting June 15.
Us Aussies neither, it seems :)
It's not smart phones that do this legacy video chat, it's 3G feature phones, which are pretty much non-existent in NA. Pretty much every [candybar, flip] phone in asia has 3G and a front facing camera, so you can video call anyone, anytime. Part of the reason people don't is because it costs extra.

Actually since these phones were around before youtube and real mobile browsing, the main marketed reason to get a 3G phone originally was video chat.
Seems to be due to Twitter folks making fun of them, rather than the appearance of the substring "cum" in the URL, however.
When the car has a human driver, plugging it in when you park is easy. If the vision is self-driving cars that drop you off and then go park themselves, an autonomous charger becomes a lot more useful.
I can't understand this at all. I use multiple windows quite frequently -- I would estimate 40% of the time. Usually I have a document open in one window that I am modifying and another window in which I am searching for information -- browsing, reading other documents, etc. If I am consuming only (and not generating content) then one window at a time suffices, but creating usually requires me to have sources open and available. This is one of the reasons why I can use tablets to consume content, but not really to generate it.

Am I unusual in this? Or perhaps is window use becoming less common because people are producing less content, either because they become passive consumers or because they are interactively engaging with systems (playing a game, online banking, etc) instead of creating?
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind?
I wouldn't say plainly misreading. If you actually originally meant what you just clarified, it would be a misunderstanding, but not a misreading, certainly not a plain misreading. What you wrote was:

I have to say that the only reason I made through the system as far as I did was that, aside from a healthy amount of distraction... I really was studying, or thinking about the content of my studies, pretty much all the time.

That's literally all you said. Think about that: I really was studying, or thinking about the content of my studies, pretty much all the time.. I'm saying that's the wrong answer in my opinion. In my view, there is a kind of socialization you can only get in college, and only if you participate. If college was about learning, we would have geniuses coming out of their undergrad and you could never get a skilled labor job without a diploma.

I'm not saying you're flatly wrong. You're wrong in my opinion, but your approach is a valid one to take for some people. I just wanted to offer a dissenting opinion to yours.

I do agree with you 100% that being an outcast in high school will likely have no long-term negative repercussions. High school doesn't matter once you've hit college. I don't regret a single night spent studying rather than partying in high school because I don't remember anyone from high school. But all my college friends are still my best friends, and I've gotten jobs solely because of who I went to college with.
Have you read the entire Salon article you linked to?

"So apparently, if Palantir’s new version is to be believed, a 26-year-old engineer went off on his own and — without any supervision or direction — participated in the development of odious smear campaigns intended for two of the nation’s deepest-pocket organizations (Bank of America and the Chamber), potential clients which the emails repeatedly emphasize would be very lucrative. I’ll leave it to others to decide how credible that version is, but I will note that several facts undermine it: ..."

"The leaders at the very top of Palantir were aware of the Team Themis work, though the details of what was being proposed by Barr may well have escaped their notice."
sweet!!

I'd love that htop work with this

ref: http://man.cx/htop
If the average salary in my country would be $1 I would be happy to get that $10 from Amazon. I live in a country where average salary is about $500, I know what I'm talking about. And yes, if things will become really bad I will prefer to live in the village with my mother and grow potatoes rather than committing a suicide. :D
They seem to be symmetric in compression and decompression. In most workloads you actually need to decompress way more often than compress.
That is a very useful resource; thank you.

Some cities make shapefiles available for urban growth boundaries and city limits. It's worth enquiring. But be aware that some cities city limits are not simple polygons; depending on local ordinances you can see islands, internal voids and peninsulas attached with zero width stems.
What Android really needs is a way to accept/deny each permission separately. I see some apps. asking for some permission they clearly do not need to function, and you're left with a choice of either not installing the app. at all or having to give it the permission you don't want.
This is great. The best way to see if someone can do the job is to give them a job to do and pilot test. Introducing variables, like interviews, logic games, etc. reduces the likelihood that a potential employer can figure out whether or not you can actually do the job.
Can you imagine how it would have went if he didn't do that? I mean, ya, sucky choice, but when the Republicans are ready to pounce on him for being weak on national security ("see we told you Obama was a weak"), I see how it is hard to go backwards.

If there is one thing Americans hate more than they gov killing Americans abroad, its Americans getting killed by terrorists at home. Ya, this is a very abstract threat, but politics revolves around it.
And even if it had said "location" it'd been reasonable to interpret that as

"approximate location, don't worry we have thought a bit about security",

i think.
Results are spectacular, but as always and especially with OpenAI announcements one should be very cautious (lessons learned from GPT3). I hope that the model is not doing advanced patchwork/stitching of training images. I think that this kind of test should be included when measuring the performance of any generative model. Unfortunately the paper is not yet released, the model is not available and no online demo has been published.
Recently a team of researchers discovered that in some cases advanced generative text models copy a large chunk of training data-set text ...
oof, thanks for sharing -- was hoping it wasn't this but looks like this:

> I was in the QA org and was embedded as an SDET on a particularly well-functioning product team and had a lot of independence to solve problems as I saw fit with support from great forward-thinking devs. I got their e2e/integration tests to a point where it was super easy for devs to add at least some new tests themselves, which freed up some of my time to slowly build out a performance test.

is hard to find sustainably happening in the wild.
Same for me. It's like the feeling you get in a dream where things seem normal and you think you're awake, then suddenly you notice something wrong about the room, something impossible.
What’s so ironic about GoFundMe is that it’s basically a diorama of how socialized medical care would work (minus the cost savings), and yet nobody has any political objections to socialized funding when it happens there.

I recall debating with a friend who was against socialized healthcare recently, and then seeing them promote a GoFundMe campaign for a mutual friend’s medical bills on Facebook a few days later.

The irony was lost on him. I think the key is that Americans love to dream of themselves as wealthy philanthropists (no matter how poor they actually are).

If there was a way to make paying taxes feel more like philanthropy, maybe we could solve this. Maybe it’s as simple as giving everybody a certificate with a list of anonymized names and what treatments they helped pay for, so they can brag about it on Facebook.

“I helped pay for a child’s chemotherapy” instead of “the government took my money”
Also, of those options, only Qt works on mobile, and only since version 5.1 in late 2013. Qt licensing is also a bit complicated on iOS.

The web enjoyed a fairly long monopoly as the only cross-platform option if you cared about mobile.
"RAAAAHHHHHXANNE, you don't want to run that red light!"
I have an auto-immune disease. The medication prescribed has the side effect of making my "bad" LDL cholesterol skyrocket. I tried everything from diet, to exercise to bring it back down but nothing worked. I'm now on a Statin medication which solved the issue but I'm not thrilled about yet another medication.

Before my disease I ate like an average American (sugar, meat, dairy etc.) and my LDL cholesterol was high. I was diagnosed, changed my diet and my LDL dropped to healthy levels. Later I started a new medication (JAK inhibitor) and it jumped back up, but my diet did not change.

I read this article twice and have no idea how it applies to my situation.
ah, indignant as well.

GCP is not a loss leader. the unit economics are fine.
I have this on CD. Their version of La Fiesta is one of the most joyous things every recorded.
> If you want to learn how to build a SaaS/web application in Golang...

> Read... https://www.amazon.com/Build-SaaS-apps-API-first-application...
There's also -1.0x programmers - those who make others leave or are just an overall burden on others
Exactly, in the canvas API this is written like:

<path d="M 10 10 H 90 V 90 H 10 L 10 10"/>

ctx.moveTo(10, 10);
ctx.lineTo(90, 10);
ctx.lineTo(90, 90);
ctx.lineTo(10, 90);
ctx.lineTo(10, 10);

Not much better.
No worries, I should have just said she "eats healthy".
This is an excellent point. I only see the best British shows because those are the ones that Netflix picks up and/or that are recommended to me.
The idea of "game" is emergent from "competition" which is the bottom principle of markets. Further, markets discover
"price" which is a measurement of "balance of power" or simply "power" which is a base principle of "people"
This looks great! Are the designs portable? Do I get Gerber files,etc?
Even just using text files surely? Even a single document can benefit from git-- or are you thinking that tree-history and other things which are sometimes provided by editors are enough?
This just means that the CEO doesn’t understand security risks and must be fired.

Any company that continues to rely on Solarwinds after this, if the CEO is not fired, is accepting that their security is only as good as a SolarWinds intern.
Is that the McDonald's headcount or the McDonald's plus franchisee headcount?

If it is direct employees, some of the explanation would be that they sold locations to franchisees https://www.wsj.com/articles/mcdonalds-revenue-falls-as-comp...
Yes but AFAIK we don't do it. Incentive structures can be treated as causal structures if you simplify by saying that incentives "cause" people to act a certain way. The disciplines involved in fixing or improving causal structures are systems theory and cybernetics. But these tools are extremely under utilised.
At a company I used to work for, if someone left their computer unlocked, we'd send the donut emoji into the #everyone channel on slack from their computer, and they'd have to buy donuts for the office
Further, have you really listened to his explanation of why he isn't bothered about locking his computer?

It might be that in your organisation this is a cargo-cult security practice that he's not bothered by because he knows it's not an effective practice.

Or it could be that he knows he doesn't have enough permissions to do any damage, so he doesn't bother locking his computer. Trusting him with a little responsibility might change that.
What you should have mentioned is how many years since the start of the personal computer.

People simply cannot be computer-illiterate in the modern world without eventually being screwed. Nearly every computer ignorant person I know has a virus/spyware/adware ridden PC sitting at home while they're just waiting to find a "computer guy" who can fix it.
Alternative link albeit with censored headline http://vimeo.com/22053820
I don't recall that Yahoo was ever the top search engine, by the way. In the late 90s, AltaVista was the search engine of choice. Of course, it could be different if you look at hard numbers... Yahoo is ranked #4 on the list mentioned in the article, yet I don't know anybody who (deliberately) uses it for search. But anyway...

Facebook and Google usurped their predecessors from out of nowhere. They both wouldn't exist if their founders said to themselves, "I'm not going to try to overtake Yahoo/MySpace -- they're unkillable."

I think Facebook and Google did exactly that. Facebook was just another "me-too" social networking site at first, targeted at a limited audience; I doubt that right from the start they thought they could be the #1 site on the internet, or even the #1 social site. And AFAICT, Google's initial goal was to provide a better search, not to supplant all other search engines.

In fact, in my opinion, what they have in common is that they both didn't aim for the top at first; rather, they carved out a niche, then worked from there.
Indeed he is. He could have sold Facebook to Microsoft. They would, inevitably, rename it "Windows Live Facebook" before canning the whole thing.
Time magazine lost large amounts of subscriptions after Khomeini won in 1979, that's what happened.
I think it would be enough to get hold of the 1,000,000 most common passwords and tell the user it's not allowed.
It's Wired. The only reason we care about them is that sometimes they report badly on something others don't report on at all.
Thanks, I'll fix the "no restrictions" label for the .eu TLD.

But in general, "no restrictions" means there are no rules as to who can register the TLD, or how the registered domain has to be used.
A complete and total disregard for coworker's personal space and privacy.
Because he doesn't force your morals onto others he's the bad person?
I think a lot of people get mixed up by the idea that "physics determines your actions", as if that's contradictory to "you determine your actions". I love the way https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NEeW7eSXThPz7o4Ne/thou-art-p... puts it, that "you are within physics" necessarily bridges these two explanations.
Yes, that's the "transactional interpretation" of quantum mechanics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation
I do think there needs to be something that fills this position though.

It doesn't even necessarily have to be that complex. What's wrong with:

1. Graduate with a bachelor's degree

2. Work for 2-3 years

3. Go back to school with practical experience

I think this would be a good model for all post-undergraduate educations (not just professional ones like business, or law). A few years of seasoning out in the field does everyone good.

EDIT: Updated for formatting
I hate articles like this.

Outages happen. Stuff breaks. Plan for it. When it happens in a way you don't have a plan for, update your plan.

Last I heard, reddit was operating with 1 sysadmin. If they had to employee the staff to run their own hardware AND own their own hardware, I suspect we wouldn't have reddit: it wouldn't be profitable. I'm also part of a startup, and thanks to AWS, we were able to be in two separate data centers from day 1. In the past companies, it's a struggle to get one up and running.

Plus, if they were running their own datacenter and had a 'network event', don't you think it would be down anyway? In fact, I'd expect more outages due to less available capacity to fail over to.

Running your machines on EC2 is no less risky than running them at Rackspace or any other non-cloud hosting providing. If there is an outage in core infrastructure, you're going to be down. If you think a 99.999 uptime guarantee means anything when the shit hits the fan, you've probably never worked with hosting providers before.
Yegor Gaidar's book is on Amazon:

"Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia" http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Empire-Lessons-Modern-Russia/...

The description and reviews are very comprehensive.
I reviewed plans with a health insurance broker in Washington state in September, who openly mocked some Regence (Blue Shield) coverage with a fifteen hundred dollar annual limit

That's not high-deductible, it's low-benefit. A high deductible plan would have you pay out of pocket up to $5k or $10k, and then cover everything above that. I agree that a plan that caps benefits (at something less than $1 million or so) is practically worthless, because the sort of events you actually want to insure against get expensive really fast.
Totalitarian societies have existed for thousands of years in Europe. Socialism seems to be pretty popular in the US (Medicare, SS) and seems to be working out okay in EU.
"Quora‘s staff started off answering as many questions as they could. This helped create a site that had activity on it, which encouraged other users to participate. Suddenly, they didn’t have to spend hours answering questions themselves."

This reminds me of something one of the speakers (I'm pretty sure it was Quora's founder) said at Startup School - It's OK to do something that doesn't scale if it strengthens your position.
In many architectural and engineering companies where CAD drafting is a core part of the job, the interview will often end with a drafting test.

You are given a plan or even a set of requirements and are given typically 15-30 minutes to complete/get as far as you can.

This is important because someone may speak well etc - but when it comes to actually completing work (which is typically done by billable hours) some people just wont have the speed or skill to produce the work product.