jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> The Fed does NOT hold stocks.

Correct, this was my mistake.

> And dollar denominated bonds as backing for the dollar are basically a short-circuit.

The difference between dollars and dollar-denominated bonds is the time delay. Suppose you issue 100 kineyCoins and give them to me, and we have a contract that I have to give them back to you in a year. Then those coins will have value to third parties, because they know that if they hold them then as the deadline approaches I will have to buy those kineyCoins back in exchange for whatever those third parties value.
> Technological progress has literally existed for thousands of years before capitalism.

And it moved veeeeeeeery slowly [0]. We had two ages named after a metal and one after rock. Post capitalism there have been Space ages, various revolutions, computers, etc, etc.

> For example, everything to do with the base of computer science has been created in academia and the military sector, before it was donated by government to private corporations.

And, again, if they hadn't handed it over to the capitalists there would still be all of a few tens of thousands of people using the internet to swap academic papers and no more. Everyone made the right decisions on that one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_technology
I go with a) as well, and I add a very generous time allowance on top of my estimate. But you can't really do much when you're told to 'get it done this week'. First to go out the window is TDD, of course.
He's completely wrong; it doesn't.
Domain validated certificates do not require a new protocol however.
The title alone is worth a point: Violence, fear, Dongles (?), satanic Spawn, and a finale of Carnage.
I think they're likely in deep tech debt. They built their original trading system in Ruby. A trading system in a language as slow is Ruby is a completely insane choice and I have to wonder if it's now hamstringing them. I know they're transitioning to Go, but it seems like they need to poach some wall street people who have built much better systems for stock markets to get the performance issues ironed out.

From what I understand, matching engines don't scale horizontally, so you really need some people who can craft highly performant C, C++, or Rust. The algorithms are pretty interesting, and can process a very high number of transactions on even a single core if implemented tightly. I've watched some videos on exchange architecture (from the likes of Jane Street), and their systems are able to handle the entire stock market on a single machine!

At any rate, I think they'll get it sorted out, they certainly have the profit to throw into engineering. And I must commend them on their security, almost everyone else in the crypo space has been hacked, so they've done something right. I'm sure the IPO is going to blast off on day one, and it's an easy 10xer in five years given the current crypto markets.
This is a feature that is missing from Google Home. You can broadcast (with varying degrees of success) to other Google Homes, but nothing like an intercom. Seems nuts to me that with all their engineers they haven't implemented such a simple but powerful feature.
> When ordering online, always, always, always use a fake number, it's not required

Don't do this if you order anything that doesn't ship small parcel. The freight company may need to contact you and it will complicate matters and delay your final delivery.
I get different results from this and HIBP
It looks like the idea is to be very selective about who gets fined. CPS Utrecht ("Veilig Thuis") also got a data leak. Everything got leaked: from files on children, medical files on children and adults, phone calls, emails, ... the works.

The fine? It wasn't even mentioned that a fine would be forthcoming. Until city hall took steps to replace the organisation they refused to modify their systems and stop the still-in-progress leak. It got to be a scandal.

So clearly: the idea is to fine only people they feel like fining. Anything even tangentially related to the government (this is a private for-profit organization (running quite a decent profit I might add, as well as paying management very nicely) that merely works for the government) does not get fined, even for leaking much, much more sensitive information.

Needless to say, CPS has still not changed their processes to better secure medical files. They are still being sent, without any encryption or authentication, over email. So it's not just that they weren't fined: the whole purpose of the data protection law, actually keeping the data safe, was ignored entirely even when they got caught spreading extremely sensitive information around and storing it without encryption.

https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/tech/artikel/4672826/jeugdzorg-data...
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201191

Isn't "iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2020)" actually the current release version you can buy from the Apple Store?
I personally use Pagure[1] for mine. I use it because Pagure is fairly easy to install and maintain and it's packaged in virtually all major distributions[2][3][4][5]. I can easily develop my personal projects in them, have my own kanban boards for task tracking, and all the project data is stored as Git repos, which makes it easy to archive and replicate (with full project history).

I've got a personal instance running on openSUSE in a tiny 1 vCPU+1GB RAM VPS, and it works really well. It's fairly lightweight on resources, too (my VPS instance rarely sees significant load).

[1]: https://pagure.io/pagure

[2]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/pagure

[3]: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/pag...

[4]: https://packages.debian.org/sid/pagure

[5]: https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/pagure
Neurologist was the one me try adderall. I have autoimmune disorder Sjogrens, but didn’t know it at the time.
At time it felt like he was trying random things to see what helped.

It was amazing for focus and energy. Enough that I could work for a time.

Course it left me in horrific agony most of the time.
Firefox 87.0 (64-bit) on Win10. It is reproducible. Disabling uBlock Origin didn't make a difference. Let me know if I can help debug!
Tape over camera originated with the spate of online webcam blackmail attacks a few years ago.

Lots of young girls were being lured into installing malware and had their bedrooms recorded.
iMac, Mac mini and Mac Pro all have upgradable Memory slot.
This is awesome, good luck!

It's a project/business that I've suggested a few times on the mailing lists and I'm truly surprised it's taken this long for someone to start one up. I'll be interested to see how/if the price points change over time.

The pro tier is approximately equivalent to <= 5 hours of developer time per month. At a minimum it gives useful information to developers trying to communicate the cost of delay to management. I think my org may have opted just to pay at one stage, considering the migration from 1.8 to 1.11 was measured in weeks not days.
This is a completely bullshit justification. The behavior is identical to Apple's.
“This action was taken on Dec. 15, 2020 after being notified by Amazon of traffic delays. The action taken is routine for traffic signal operations, in that signal timing plans are adjusted to be as efficient as possible.” Doesn't say how long it was a problem though.
Maybe it's like teamblind? IIRC you need to sign up to them using your work e mail. And it's authwalled so can't really be read without an account.
I ran into issues several years ago where the IP of my DigitalOcean droplet always seemed to be on block lists or banned for abuse from various services. As a result it made it impossible to use as a VPN server or mail server. The early ability to spin up and charge hourly rates made them good targets for spammers compared to companies like Linode, who at the time didn't have hourly rates.

I have to imagine things have gotten better, but it did taint my view of DO as more of a dev playing field than a reliable hosting provider.
Risk factors don’t mean “this will definitely happen”. It means this is a known risk for the system underpinning their profits.

A more likely scenario is that the keys to those coins are compromised, somehow, given their unbelievably high value.
People keep making this parallel to “well they said this about the internet.” People also said that about pets.com, about bloodletting, about horoscopes and communism and hydroxyclorquine and Lizardpeople.

It doesn’t replace mail, it isn’t used mainstream for anything but illegal activity and casino speculation, and I’m not sure what productivity boost we are talking about here.

At some point you don’t get to make the internet or the “Henry Ford said they’d ask for a faster horse” comparison.

At some point you have to deliver the goods. Has coinbase made a shitload of money, sure. Has blockchain done any of the things its prophets have promised? Nope.
A deer jumping in front of your car and totaling it doesn't imply that the deer is keeping the car running.

That said, I'm all for what's happening with $GME. They've been cheating the public for years and now the public has turned a cheat (naked shorts) around and is going to get rich off of it. Fair play.
do you have links to the other ones - would be useful to see the other comments.
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is fascinating, and you can trust that the information you hear is valid. http://www.theskepticsguide.org/
My employer changed a material term of my employment that I negotiated for when I joined the company and by doing so, saved themselves ~20-25% of my all in cost. I used that opportunity as a jump off point to renegotiate my compensation. They said they'd consider it and came back to me very quickly, saying there was nothing they could do.

6 months later, I had a new job offer. On the day I was going to resign, they gave me a raise (they probably knew a about my displeasure, but not the job offer). I thanked them, showed them the offer and told them I couldn't ignore the difference in comp. Then, I asked if they could do better. So, they gave me another raise. Then, I asked them if they could do better and...

You get the point. I am good at my job and before this point in my career, got recognized in every way possible, other than financially. However, for whatever reason, the only way I could get any financial validation was to have leverage, which in this case was another job. In the case where you are negotiating a new opportunity, your leverage is whether or not you'll take the job. In my case, my leverage was another great opportunity for a lot more money.

I suspect I'm not the only one on HN that focuses on doing a great job and not on directly advancing their career. So, my advice to you is always have leverage when negotiating and don't be afraid to use it. However, there are 2 caveats.
1. You have to be willing to take the other job - your company may not be interested in retaining you.
2. Having a job offer is very different than just being disgruntled, from the company perspective. But, tread lightly, you want to come across as wanting to stay, but unable to ignore the financial or professional disparity
Beer better be cheap there :P
Probably because the headline of his blog is no longer "Zed's So Fucking Awesome", with the attendant imagery that complimented it so well.

He's remarkably relaxed these days. :)
Why did Roman numeral notation change in the middle ages?
Apple used to be the underdog fighting against "the man" Microsoft, but these tactics are reminiscent of Microsoft's heavy-handedness that landed it in so much hot water. It's hard not to see these things are start seeing Apple as the bad guy.
I'm wondering why the "Export to iBooks" option is missing...
There's some good tips in there as well as some bad ones, but none of that is the point. The point is simple: spend money on things you care about; spend nothing on things you don't care about. The author doesn't care about eating out, but that doesn't mean no one else should. People are different. Any financial advice that doesn't take that into account is missing the point.
Thanks for your answer. I'm very excited about the project, esp. with a future server sync api (as mentioned in the roadmap). Perhaps I then could finally write a decent evernote client for linux. :)
Apple's already working toward replacing Google Search with Bing. Maybe they're already planning for that eventuality. However, I don't think Google will ever completely pull out of iOS, there's too big of a market there.
screenshot of the Heroku homepage: http://twitpic.com/1v2300
I once thought about writing something that adds a layer to a browser that allows a user to customize the layout of any webpage, to remove ads or any other visual clutter they didn't want (extreme personal itch). The ease at which content providers could switch around the html was one reason why I decided not to.

If this happens (very user-hostile, btw), it might turn into a cat-and-mouse game where you have some sort of AI trying to figure out what is relevant content and which are ads.
I think all this is relative. It depends how "low level" the code is. I appreciate I have it in source control but I will leave it there for a few builds before getting rid of it. If its closer to the UI in terms of code then I will generally just get rid. I suppose it depends how much code depends on that code.

I know if I made a massive change in my httphandler code then I would definitely comment it out. I would like to be able to go back in, uncomment and rebuild in the instance old "tried and tested" code needs to be put back up. You generally do change code for a reason and it's generally to improve or because you find a bug but if you have had code running on that function for years and its just cropped up then uncommenting works for me.

Like I say, after a few builds and seeing the new code in action I will delete it but I think it does serve a purpose.

If you put a line of comment above the code explaining why it is there then that would help anyone browsing over the comments.

Just my 2 cents
I believe it results in high quality bits but I understand it doesn't get enough attention because it's not sexy like "I'm using the radioactivity" and doesn't appeal to lazy -- the equipment must be calibrated.

Still it's worth reading, at least this part should matter even to people who wouldn't like or know ow to do the calibration:

'“Whitening” Considered Unhelpful'
Jungledisk lets you choose where you want your data hosted. You can choose Rackspace over Amazon IIRC.
do exercise before bed time, lift weight, eat a bit more and just before bed time have a cup of hot milk with banana or just hot milk....
I'd say LibreOffice is a better name. 'Open' is one of the most overused and diluted terms in tech. 'OpenOffice' sounds like a floorplan or an error state when the last person leaves without locking the door.

And, for the average user, does it matter more that the software is 'open' (whatever that means), or that it is 'free'/'Free' (as hinted by Libre)?

I'd say Oracle did the fork a favor by zealously guarding the old trademark.
Using Geo IP wouldn't have been foolproof as you've pointed out, but it would have at the very least shown an intent to comply with the laws in the US.

The poker sites did not use Geo IP because they did not want to lose the revenue stream from the US, not because they thought it was technically insufficient... and thus the problem (or part of it).
I've used the c7000's, and HP didn't require us to use professional services to install them.

I haven't had any problems with the mezzanine cards, but I do have problems with the VirtualConnect Flex-10 - applying configuration changes seemed to take an increasingly long time the more devices in the configuration. The other big annoyance with the VC is that the blade needs to be off to add more virtual NICs - so now I normally just add them all when I provision the blade and leave them disconnected.

The c7000's also seem quite picky about the versions of firmware installed on the various components.

I believe you can chain several c7000's together for management to reduce the pain a little. And you can always invest in HP's management software.

A plus for the c7000's is the flexibility of the blades: you can get HPUX versions (if you're unlucky enough to need HPUX), half and double height versions. Using the different sized blades does require some planning, as they impose some constraints - but even with this it does introduce some flexibility.

I used Dell's bladecenters a few years ago and they were okay, I know IBM/Fujitsu/ have them as well, so I wouldn't say there is no competition in the market.

I played with a UCS system (just one chassis) in our lab (~6-12 months ago), and I can't say I was hugely impressed. The documentation wasn't what I expect given my experience with Cisco's switch gear, and we had to update the firmware a couple of times to get past bugs. Maybe this is no longer the case. I didn't play with the API.

It's my understanding that if you want to do multihop FCoE then you have to stick with the same vendor for your switches, due to the different ways they implement FCoE.

IMHO I think the UCS cost is a big turnoff, maybe if you're in a huge environment (100's of chassis) the API is enough of a win to overcome the high cost - or maybe you can get a big enough discount.

WRT to Cisco staying in the market, I think they will for two reasons. The first is it increases their ability to sell more switch gear - you want FCoE or better link utilisation then, you need data center ethernet, which means you need new switches - and Cisco can now sell you both. Secondly it allows them to push FCoE and disrupt the FC market, which means they can sell more switches again.
Transcranial direct current stimulation - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct_current_sti...
Of course I did but like any other process if there has to be complete adoption the benefits need to be clearly visible and significant. The problem with pure TDD (and remember that's what I am talking about - writing / updating tests before writing any code), is that there are diminishing returns as soon as the code base becomes a certain size. In fact, at some point the costs flip around to be higher than the benefits (ie: updating code before tests becomes significantly more efficient than the other way around).

In my experience, it has always been easier for multiple developers working on a code base to write the tests once the implementation has been fleshed out and a significant portion of it is 'ready'.
An app owner can already pull all kinds of scams, it's Apple's job to enforce that they don't as much as possible, otherwise why are they taking such a large cut from my apps + 100 dollars per year?
My brain extracts the meaning

Other people have been to Russia than I.
The fact that patents require time and money makes this even more pathetic and appalling.
And a lot of material isn't good enough, sorry, I had to step in. Since I am self taught.

Mozilla MDN and maybe Freecodecamp have the answer. But there's so much more around it.

I'm using books.
Wait, why are you surprised to see "low quality" from a "weak newspaper?" Shouldn't that have been expected? Did you misspeak or am I missing something?
If you need to use a guide, then it is B.S.
No shortcuts to taking classes, doing practice problems, and tests.
The main ting the modernworld offers is some nifty animations to illustrate these equations. We didnt have such in my day.
Or you could just install zsh and Prezto/Oh-my-zsh
Everything you do needs to involve building a process to hand off to someone else

Derek Sivers also discusses this issue in Anything You Want (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936719118), which one of my favorite books, ever, and highly recommended.
Strictly speaking, it has to be knowingly untrue for it to be a lie. It is possible to just be wrong.
My comment was rather negative, and I agree it's possible, personally I try to keep to a few small but busy clients and avoid agents when I can.

However when you're having a bad period, or just get tired of it all, the temptation to pack up and do something else can be very tempting :)
This article is a little misleading because it conflates a few things.

The low base rate prediction problem is a problem not just because of lazy application, it's because the numbers make it impossible to do anything else in some situations. With a low enough base rate, you have to have a preternaturally good indicator to make anything but a negative prediction.

Then you have to resort to utility theory and decide if false positives are worth the cost.

Incidentally, the hiring example is poor because it's just not the same situation at all. The fact he's equating it to the other scenarios maybe says as much about the real problem as the scenario does itself.
Great, except people don't use stickies on a corkboard. They use push-pins. If you had custom push-pins, that would add something aesthetically. Also, if you could embed something on the corkboard, like a scribd document, that'd be very useful.
And what if that server needs to be rebooted some day? What if there's a hardware failure and it has to be powered off?

Something as big as PSN has multiple servers reading the same DB and must be able to tolerate failures without forcing everyone to re-enter their CC #. The keys must be stored persistently somewhere.
You'll be just fine. As someone who has employed a number of translators in my professional career, the biggest issue is trust. Translation is scary because it's one thing you have no ability to self-validate. While duolingo is incredibly smart, they're going to have to go a LONG ways towards building trust that what they're producing is truly what my app, brand, whatever wants to convey.

That's going to take awhile.
depends how competitive those keywords are, but yes, still possible to rank well & quickly with an exact match domain/relavent content.
I like it. I don't think this will replace my stickies in OSX dashboard...but overall well done.
So, what I find more interesting in this is that Reddit did bring in a "new" general manager.

What worries me is that it's not actually someone new. Neither is Alexis, for that matter.

From the outside looking in it would appear that while Reddit has been great at building a community, ramping up page views and engagement ... they suck at making money. (And this has limited their ability to hire and has spread the existing team very thinly.) From from what I can tell, they've always sucked at making money. So by promoting their community manager and bringing back the original CEO as an advisor, it would seem that this would enhance the parts that they're already really good at, but will they be willing to stir things up enough to bump up the revenues (even if it pisses the community off some)? In an armchair-quarterbacking sort of way, I'd hoped they'd bring in someone that was more of an outsider.
I've worked at 75% of FANGs. My method was basically just bone up on algorithms and data structures by going onto the Wikipedia list and trying to implement them on pen and paper. Practice thinking out loud, practice space management(no backspacing on pen and paper). Be honest if you've heard a question before. Know how to analyze runtime of your algorithms.

I chose to interview in python, even though I know other languages better, because it is fairly dense relative to, say java or c++ and easier to write by hand.
Heck, even if one can afford paying that extra, not buying overpriced nonsense is a good principle.
I think it's trying to be the one-stop-shop for tooltips, wheras jQuery is HUGE with a library of other features.

I like it.
Yeah, I'm getting that too.
> a doctor, threatened to report me to the bar association. I responded by reporting him to the medical board. His license was suspended for making threats.

So, threatening to report a laywer to the bar association is not allowed by the medical board?
> and sued me when I refused -- no joke

So they sued you. Didn't that cost you?