jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Simply put, a short sale is borrowing a stock from an institution, and selling it on the market with an obligation to cover the sale (return the value of the stock back to the borrowed party).

Now if the price of the stock goes up after you sold it, depending on how wide the margin becomes, you can stay in the contract, but guarantee more cash to the provider so that they are confident you will be able to cover it the future.

If the stock goes down, you can close the contract and return the value of the sale back to the institution, and effectively pocket the retained cash value of the purchase from when you first sold the stock short; turning a profit from a decline in price.

Often times there are companies out there that are running on fumes, overvalued, or are partaking in fraud; short selling is a useful tool that can help the markets discover new information about possibly shaky institutions.
Can anyone comment on whether this affects MonoTouch?
A "complicated spreadsheet" isn't a requirement, it's a roadblock.

You're making it harder for yourself by putting obstacles in front of yourself and then wondering why it's so hard to make progress.

This is true on so many levels. To get started, I really only need a basic spreadsheet, but I've been fantasizing about complex Pivot Tables, sparklines, VLOOKUPS, most of which I've never even used before! I think I do this so that I can tell myself I'm doing something even though I'm really accomplishing nothing. Story of my life.

"In case you don't have something you must do, then just do something, anything. The process of doing will probably help you find your mission. The processes of thinking, preparing tools, and dreaming about money probably won't."

I do this All.The.Time. Like the taxi driver in 'Collateral', I'm thinking how everything has to be perfect, while 12 years pass by. I think, and talk about money constantly: How nice It'll be to buy a Mercedes, get my own apartment, and not having to answer to a boss. I'm hiding in the server room typing this right now-he likes to sneak up behind me.

edw519, thanks for the kick in the rear. Hurts, but I need it.
Also you get a poor user experience when the service fails because their scraper domain gets explicitly blocked.

Scraping in general is not system you can base any service anyone might ever want to "rely" on.
I don't agree with that. Yes, most people interpret the word "random" as "uniformly distributed" or "unpredictable", depending on context ("pick a number at random" vs. "some random glitch"), but statisticians and mathematicians interpret it as "nondeterministic".

That's not at all the same as "predictable", but the goal is usually to be able to characterize the phenomenon statistically such that certain properties, such as general location on the number line, can be identified. If such properties cannot be identified, that doesn't make the phenomenon any less random - just less understood and by extension less predictable.
True, that is a good place to start. Every company I've had serious contact with has this problem, but the list of companies where I have a good high level contact to pitch this idea is somewhat small. But I agree, people I know is the place to start.
Not if you know where the gold is buried and no one else does (which is what their purpose is). In your analogy, the shovels would be something like Meteor, or one of those "learn to rails in 24 hours!" startups.
I must admit the questions of the JetBlue assistant also made me wonder how often they have problems with religious fanatics.

I don't envy the people on either side of that story.
When I was at a startup many years ago, we were so busy that no one had time to take advantage of the various entertainment and cultural offerings of the Bay Area or Silicon Valley during the week. It was only on the weekends that we might have time to take a break and go out to a nice restaurant, or a show, or a club, or whatever. Best someone might do during the week was catch a movie.

Given this, what's the point of putting the company there? We could have put the company in Modesto or Stockton, where people could live in much nicer homes during the week (and the company would pay a lot less for office space), and they would save so much in living expenses that even if every weekend they drove to San Francisco and stayed in a nice hotel and ate every meal at a nice restaurant, they would still come out ahead.
Very good counterpoint. I completely agree. I did say it was a funny thing.
not to mention, each product iteration is much faster than the previous
I'm pretty sure that was the NYPD. Unlike the TSA searches, you can refuse to comply with those.
I have proof and past experience with dishonest government employees. Please take your arguments for chemtrails elsewhere.
This was probably a pretty easy decision for Bing to make.
Really, how much ad revenue are they missing by not showing adds to students at school:)
Yeah, Apple doesn't seem to have much interest in selling little plastic tiles to people.

They've avoided selling their own HomeKit gear, they're licensing AirPlay to be put in TVs so people don't have to buy AppleTVs, and they stopped selling routers long ago. Even when it comes to dongles which everyone thinks Apple loves selling, they have a meager selection and have outsourced many of them (e.g. they don't have a first-party USB-C Ethernet dongle)

With the MFi Program, they still make lots of money on third-party products, without all of that costly R&D and support on their own end.
While horrible, that's not YouTube Kids. It's just normal YouTube content by someone who thinks this kind of parody is hilarious.
In my experience, most people really do not understand how fundamentally unsuited cars are to solving urban (or dense suburban) transportation problems. Without really staring at the underlying geometry, it is hard for laypeople to understand that automobile-centric development patterns are by-and-large incapable of producing the kind of human-scale, dense, walkable areas that are (1) instinctively pleasing to be in, (2) generators of economic value, and (3) much more environmentally sustainable than the alternative.

All this being said, I find it hard to fault 'environmentalist' politicians for their embrace of the electric car: politics is "the art of the possible", and the conventional wisdom, at least in the States, does not yet recognize automobile-centrism as a key problem. There are a lot of entrenched interests in favor of the status quo - not just the traditional car lobby (auto manufacturers, suburban developers, oil companies), but the ~half of Americans who live in suburbs, hence having their lifestyle and wealth reliant on cars remaining a dominant form of transportation. If the choice is between gas cars and electric cars (as, for a mainstream politician it basically seems to be), I am at least happy we are moving towards the latter, even though neither are the right answer.

Shameless plug: I recently attempted to visually explain the first issue (why geometry makes cars unsuited to dense transportation) on my nascent blog: https://digital-cygnet.medium.com/a-quick-visual-illustratio...
Nasa has also contemplated using human feces as shielding. The mixed use, dual purpose systems for spaceflight are a special case. What really matters is mass. Sand is cheaper than pool water.
Self-hosted VPN (if you're physically away from home) + directory sync app (in my case, SyncMe [at the moment; might switch to SyncThing]).
Yes. The sustainable future of transportation is not the 5,000 lb electric car that drives one person around for 90 minutes a day, and stands idle for the other 1350.

The sustainable future of transportation is the electric bus, the electric trolley, the electric train, and the electric scooter. We need to be taking more steps towards it.
This was the suspension, and is what triggered the union to file lawsuits on her behalf
What's talked about is only making the 30-40 of the 3500 mosquito species that carry malaria extinct.

Ecologically, they can normally be replaced by some of the 3460 others.
> If you make a gene drive you are a scientist.

These days, introducing a known mutation via a CRISPR gene drive is engineering. The hard part is scaling it so your mutation doesn't die out, testing to ensure that it is actually propagating, etc.

> Hopefully whoever decides to just go do it has the sense to only target mosquitoes that preferentially feed on humans.

You have to repeat a considerable amount work for every single target species. I highly doubt they'd target more than one.
> If uncomfortable drivers were good drivers tanks and fork lifts wouldn't have seat cushions.

Wrong kind of discomfort. You want drivers to be wary and keep them thinking about navigation enough that they don't zone out.
Well, I have no reason to doubt the government just yet. I think they're being fairly clear in their daily briefings.

I think people aren't really listening. Tubes are still being used in London and people are treating self quarantine as an opportunity to have a day off, and go to a park. That's a bit scary.
Time to stock up on popcorn. This is going to be good.

When I think of the Internet, I see it as a worldwide communication medium that equalizes (or tries to) the distribution of knowledge. These leaks will be the Internet living up to this goal.

I hope WikiLeaks doesn't release these docs on Friday, as the coverage will be drowned out (in the US) by all this shopping BS. I hope they wait till things quiet down, and do it later next week.
Not on a competently-run (multiuser) system, which will have process limits etc in place.
I don't think there is anything simple about learning PHP to find a few blog comments, or learning to use a 3rd party DOM parser when you are already familiar with tools that apparently work for this one-off application.
If you're a media outlet and you don't want to lose your 'access' you should not be doing your job too well.
I'm sorry, what's so special about this bit of code?

It doesn't seem very interesting unless you weren't aware of JavaScript's functional nature, and it's actually more complicated than it needs to be, unless I'm missing something. Here's how I'd do it:

function startSlideshow(ms) {
var index = -1;
var count = $(".change_link").length - 1;
return setInterval(function() {
index = (index + 1) % count;
$('.slideshow').blinds_change(index);
}, ms);
}
I'm glad folks are finding this interesting. However, this is pretty much common knowledge to anyone who has taken music theory. It's usually not given a great deal of attention as most musicians using the standard 12 tone don't care much about what's going on under the hood. They're a bit like programmers who use a high level language and an IDE and don't know how a compiler or assembly works.

Just a bit funny to come across it here, it'd be a bit like finding out musicians were talking on a forum going 'wow, computer programs are written using structured text files!' or something of the like. Not trying to be rude..
a) this is wicked cool
b) in person, these guys are rockstars, esp aaron
One really easy way of getting remote access is to ask for it. Local exploits and DoS attacks are important not just because other exploits may let you run code remotely: there are many situations in which computers are not single-user devices. At my university anyone can remotely log in to any of the machines used as lab workstations and there are numerous shared fileservers you can log in to as well. People also still routinely purchase "shell accounts" on shared hosting providers.
unlike Kurt Vonnegut's fictional ice-nine, it is not catalytic. Phew! :)
This! If you have dc-info, you can ignore intra-dc lookups.
Well, to be fair, some people that have imposter syndrome are actually imposters.

Not implying this applies to OP, but in general.
To be fair, it is much more common that these new softwares add a dash of crypto to spice up their marketing than it is that they carefully approach the problem of creating secure channels.

People that want to do the latter should go out of their way to avoid appearing to be the former, not call up Techcrunch to show off their unicorn.
For the second time, I didn't claim they could write secure software! I'm not even claiming I can write secure software, it's a hard problem.

What they can do is use existing, secure constructions, which at least gives them a fighting chance. Inventing new stuff does not.
Life is too short to spend it like that. Find a team that accepts you as you are and is willing to grow with you. The learning available from coworkers like that is not positive growth.
Now you've just changed the scenario from "rogue pilot crashes airplane despite efforts of other pilot" to "rogue air traffic controller crashes airplane despite efforts of pilots."
Another way of gathering data would be a js-snippet that participating websites can include, which would run a random subset of the tests on some share of of visitors, and report back to your service.

It'll be more realistic then DC -> DC queries.

- http://www.w3.org/TR/resource-timing/

- http://googledevelopers.blogspot.se/2013/12/measuring-networ...
For well over a year, my Comcast account has had this note:

Note: Enforcement of the 250GB data consumption threshold is currently suspended.

(427GB so far this month...)
Judging from what I've been exposed to from HR departments, this is a seriously underdeveloped area...

(I mean the content, not the selling of it.)
You went to /r/sideprojects, not /r/sideproject
Many factors can be the cause of this:

You're not really free to pursue long term projects since you have to be available to work/look for a job. You are also stressed because the future is very uncertain. You do not earn money so you have to do activities that are really cheap. You are looking for a job, but a lot of that is just waiting for replies on resumes you have sent out. There is also some social isolation because of the negative stigma that comes with being unemployed.

An example:
It's hard to start a business with no money, that you might have to give up next week because you might have a job then and won't have the time for it. It's not making any money yet and you need to pay the bills! You need to focus on looking for a job. Meeting the right people would help get it started, only you're socially isolated and most people are working during the week. You can't think of all that right now. Your mind is preoccupied with job and money related worries. You watch some TV while you wait for replies from companies, it's free and stops your mind from worrying.
Sorry to barge on this thread - but does have a reasonable varnish config that works for a wordpress site behind https nginx and W3 Total Cache ?

It seems strangely hard to configure something like this.
Lead generation service for mobile developers:
iOS Leads - http://iosleads.com & Android Leads - http://androidleads.net

Have an assistant that helps curate freelance/contract positions from around the internet and through opportunities I hear about offline. I'm a mobile developer, so it's an effective side business to be working on.

Many people have scored new clients and worked on interesting projects through the service. Some people find it's not for them. Definitely offer a money-back guarantee if you're working on something digital/saas. No reason to be taking people's money if they're not getting value out of your product.

Another valuable lesson: we did really well with podcast advertising thanks to Release Notes (http://releasenotes.tv/). If you can find a podcast with 10,000 - 20,000 listeners that serves a niche, you should be able to produce a nice return. IMO our landing page is terrible, but it converts quite well.
Something to think about: Based on the answers here and in the related Reddit thread it seems that information products (e-books, targeted blog posts, link collections) still generate better revenue (either sales or ad revenue) than pure software products as side projects.
From the fine website http://www.shenlanguage.org/

Shen is a portable functional programming language that offers

pattern matching,
lambda calculus consistency,
macros,
optional lazy evaluation,
static type checking,
an integrated fully functional Prolog,
and an inbuilt compiler-compiler.

Among other things, it's an attempt to create a Lisp that incorporates some of the things you find in functional languages like Haskell.

Here's an essay, from an invited talk for the 2009 European Conference on Lisp, on the motivations to create Qi and then Shen: http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/nextlisp(1).htm
I didn't have to do anything special (that I remember - this was many years ago).
That's approximately 2 hits per second. If you're serving static content (or heavily cached) you could handle that with a Raspberry PI. Heck you could probably do it with an arduino.

Edit: this depends heavily on your traffic pattern, of course. Super bursty traffic from Reddit, TechCrunch, etc is going to swamp your IO, but CPU will never dominate the equation.
It's both effects. If we had an Orkut map it would be like this but with the brightness much amplified. The coast and the South would be as bright as (say) Mexico.
You do need a licence to watch 'live' programs via iPlayer:

http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_tv_progs/...
You should promote this to users of whiteblaze.net. Huge community there, if not a Web 2.0 one.
Indeed. It would be nice if dd-wrt or a variant supported a wonder-shaper sort of fix..
Designing w/ Web Standards, 3rd edition by Jeffrey Zeldman

Dom Scripting by Jeremy Keith

Eloquent Javascript by Marijn Haverbeke - http://eloquentjavascript.net/

Learning JQuery by Jonathan Chaffer

"Dive into HTML5" by Mark Pilgrim - http://diveintohtml5.org/

"CSS - The Definitive Guide" by Eric Meyer

"Javascript - The Good Parts" by Douglas Crockford

==========================================

Those should pretty much cover everything you must know if you are starting now. Start with Zeldman's book first and end with Crockford's book, besides that go ahead and choose your own adventure by reading the rest in any order you want.

While you will probably get more practical usage out of reading Learning JQuery before DOM Scripting, I think you will get more value out of Learning JQuery if you read DOM Scripting first.
Nonsense. I am well aware of the problem with hash functions.

First off; it is not a primitive, but a protocol, it is still a bad idea to design those yourself. But they are not; they are getting the advice of an expert.

Secondly; this is in a specific scenario where you are left only with the fast digests (shockingly, this is still a common situation). Introducing an "artificial" slow factor is accepted practice.

Thirdly; this is definitely not my idea. The iteration suggestion was from tptacek who months ago answered a similar question to this with something along the lines of "if you must insist on using fast hashing for gods sake iterate it a number of times" (I can't find the quote off hand, it was some time ago, but I entirely agree). The rotating random salt is an old old idea.

It's very easy to recite the mantra "always use bcrypt, follow the first rule of crypto, digests are evil", but it's even harder to use that knowledge in practice, I find. :)
No, no, no, no. There is no technical solution to this non-technical issue. I understand the frustration of "but surely there MUST be a scriptable way out of this," but IMNSHO there isn't (short of strong AI).
A madman with a gun is only ever told things that stop him from pulling the trigger.

This is true of any hierarchical power structure, but is especially bad in overtly authoritarian ones.
I wonder if that author was misquoted. He has a PhD in glacier hydrology.[1] He has to know there just isn't enough potential energy in falling ice to melt it rapidly.

[1] https://udayton.edu/directory/artssciences/geology/haritashy...
It's interesting that instead of posting the report itself, or even a detailed article that criticizes the report, the top article on HN is a bland summary of an accusation from a third party with no direct quotes or attribution. It's basically a press release.

The only article that I can find that actually tries to levy complaints of obstruction is this one from the NYT[0]. However, several of the WHO investigators quoted have gone on Twitter accusing the NYT of twisting their words[1]. Makes me pretty doubtful that there was any obstruction.

On one side we have a country with half a million cases that has since December been accusing China with "coverups" without materializing much evidence, despite document leaks and now an international investigation. On the other side we have a country with orders of magnitude fewer total and per capita cases, whose case demographics have matched up with numbers from other countries, and whose export numbers in neighboring countries has also been consistent with their reported numbers. At this point if there was some sort of obstruction or coverup the Whitehouse would have a smoking gun by now.

Other comments here talking about the "lab origin" theory pretty much hinge on theological logic. "Well it could come from a lab, and there's no proof yet that it didn't, so I have faith". It isn't Bayesian reasoning if you don't bring up rigorous statistics to prove your point.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/world/asia/china-world-he...

[1] https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/02/caught-in-the-act-new-...
FWIW, fixes/improvements for some of those fundamental issues are coming and/or available in preview releases.

Like new+custom data types:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/10/2...

And LAMBDA for custom functions:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lambda-the-ult...

I get the impression that in recent years Microsoft's become more willing to make fundamental changes to Excel. Still early days but I'm cautiously optimistic that things are getting better.
Personally, I kind of like the idea that we could know in advance if a tiny mutation could turn a known disease into something that wipes us all out.

Only inside level four labs, of course. But early warning (and this work on mitigation) seems important.
It's much too intimate a relationship, in a sense. You're throwing your imperfections, or maybe for a better word your total presence at a person. It's kind of like those people who when you ask "How you doing?" at a checkout counter really tell you how they are doing, right down to the colonoscopy they are having next week.

I mean personal space, man; it's visual too you know? I don't need to know you have liver spots on your left buttcheek or the size of your wang when I don't even care to ask you your name.

edit in response to yours: You know what would really make me feel free, safe, and comfortable? If that party of drunk guys staggering dangerously close to me were also naked, too. I think I'm okay with giving up my freedom as not to make people uncomfortable that way, especially women.
This is precisely the problem: differing views not just on what is actually humorous, but the role that is should play in conversations, written or otherwise. Better to just avoid it all together #s ::I think we're off to a good start replicating the usenet scenario::
> journalists can't ethically agree not to share his name when it's already very public information

Can you elaborate? What is unethical about not sharing someone's name? Even in the published piece, they do not mention that Scott Alexander is ethnically Jewish. Is it unethical not to share the subject's ethnicity?
If people have to be naked, most would prefer to strangers to friends and extended family. Probably because a shame / judgement fear exists.

Why would you want to be naked at all? Better sun covering, skin can breathe, etc

Why would you want to be naked infront of anyone? You are comfortable with yourself, perhaps pride in latest fitness routine.

With covid I don't really want to be around strangers..
That's also a pretty bad definition of effective altruism. For how much they spout "do the most good" you'd think the author could just use that?