jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Your theory seems reasonable to me, and I know you're not defending them, but ...

How difficult is it to keep the right amount of bitcoin and USD in deposit? It seems pretty simple to me. Customer deposits $1.00, then I keep $1.00 in deposit in my business account. Customer deposits 1 bitcoin, I keep one bitcoin. The account for customer deposits will only ever be touched by automated systems processing these transactions.

If I'm charging fees as part of depositing/withdrawing/trading currencies or BTC, then those fees are immediately swept into a separate account, the entirety of which is revenue. Kept strictly separate from deposits. I'd regularly audit both accounts to confirm that the dollar amounts of each deposit/withdrawal, as well as total, match the records of actions in my systems.

Mt Gox only ever handled about 40 trades per second. Seems like you could keep everything balanced with a typical database, using transactions to implement atomic trades / deposits / withdrawals. Perhaps interfacing with money transmission systems is slightly more difficult, but once a transaction has reached the point of having probably-completed, you initiate the transaction to modify the customer's balance of bitcoin and currency.

So I guess I'm agreeing with you that if they failed in this way, they must have been incompetent.

P.S. I'm just making all this up. I've never worked in payments or accounting. I expect a good security or finance auditor could suggest much better controls. I'd pick up an "accounting for dummies" book and learn about the basic control principles used in accounting to prevent fraud. Perhaps I periodically download statements from my bank, print them out (or receive them in the mail) and audit those records against my own systems, by hand. Do the same electronically on a continuous basis. Set up an off-site write-only logging system to capture all transactions, and regularly audit to ensure that the system logs match bank transaction logs.
God I wish I understood GIT. The screenshot here doesn't help me in any way. Tempted to stick with gitx. What is the advantage of this software?
That's why I read HN comments before following posted links.
The Secret Service has two responsibilities: protection (e.g. of the president) and preventing/investigating financial crimes.
This long requested feature is partly implemented in Android 4.3.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/07/25/app-ops-android-4-3s...
Most code written in the US/UK does not care about multiple codepoint used to represent one glyph. But that does not change the fact that the String representation inside Java are actually encoded in UFT-16 since Java1.5 (i.e. since 2004).

Actually dealing with multi codepoint characters is hard in any programming language and most people ignore it as often GUI stuff already takes care of it.

By the way any string encoded in UTF-16 is an array of 16bit unsigned integers. It just has variable length encoding which UCS-2 did not have. Just like UTF-8 is an array of bytes just like 8bit ASCII.
but you still need a high family income to send the kid to a school (private) where there will be a teacher who will have the connections with ivy league schools so they can write a letter of recommendation that will be read and not summarily discarded

at my (private) school the ONLY way to get into an ivy league (no matter how high your grades were) was to get a letter from the teacher with the connection to Harvard ... or the (other) teacher with the connection to Stanford ... or the (other) teacher with the connection to Yale

students even decided early on which courses to take so that they would have exposure to these teachers early on
I'd love to be able to see a table/grid listing my installed applications along with the permissions they've been granted.
The number of Dermatologists trained in the UK is entirely decided (and paid for) by central government. UK Dermatologists have for many years highlighted the need for training of more consultants.
> The price of a USDT is 1 dollar. They give out new USDT for $1 a piece.

That's circular logic isn't it? USDT is $1 USD and $1 USD is 1 USDT, therefore it is "stable".

That sentence in and of itself is meaningless.
It seems to be hidden enough that it's not added to this comparison.
Intent matters, simply collecting data to support the features you are providing is not inherently bad. Collecting data for third party ad targeting on ther other hand...

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25684491
Yes, our application compiles it's own sub applications. It is win32 software.
I am not sure I would advocate for this but, from Python 3.8, this is an instance where assignment expressions could allow the first code without duplication.

first(x * y
for x in nums
if (y := 2020 - x) in nums and x != y)
That is a negative, not a positive. The amount of breaches, fraud, etc. that has happened in that category is insane. Would you say the same if it were Equifax?
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Zwift is pretty boring, unless you're racing, but it's at least SOMETHING.

I find that I'm mostly using it to drive the trainer, since I mostly watch a movie or something on the second tablet.
CompCert (compcert.inria.fr) kind-of gives C formal semantics.
I believe that disambiguation pages only link to other Wikipedia articles. There does not appear to be an article about this song, only one about the band:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Live_Crew

That page does not mention the song you named, so linking to it from the disambiguation page would just be confusing.

If there were an article about the song itself, then it could be listed in the disambiguation page.

I wonder if it would be acceptable to add a line like this:

Song Name [not linked], a song by Band Name [linked]

If you are so motivated, I would start by asking in the Teahouse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse
For people who are interested in the decentralized web:

Technical explanation of the Scuttlebutt protocol they are talking about: https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/

The scuttlebutt social network built on the scuttlebutt protocol: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/

A peer-to-peer log store built on top of the protocol: http://scuttlebot.io/

Some other protocols that are aiming for the decentralized web:

Dat protocol: https://dat.foundation/

Technical explanation of the Dat protocol: https://datprotocol.github.io/how-dat-works/

IPFS: https://ipfs.io/

Also see my comment about the use of DHT(Distributed Hash Tables) in these decentralized web/protocols so that things like .org doesn’t happen.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21612307
No, I'm not saying that. I can't rule it out, but based on other symptoms I've had for a long time I think it's more likely that it was "just" making everything more stressful and reducing my ability to cope in general.
> It's cheap to get that salary, too. All you have to give up is your dreams.

Don't forget the effect of compound interest: they want your soul as well, and you burn out more every year for as long as you stay.

In my early career, a headhunter came after me to interview with his London bank client. I did a few quick sums at that point, and it's not nearly as attractive a package as it looks.

I'm in Cambridge, UK, so we have quite a few guys around here who get approached by the big London banks or who choose to interview there; a few of my friends did. Without exception, the ones who took the jobs get up early, commute down on overcrowded trains, work long hours during the day itself, and then commute home on overcrowded trains. By the time they've done that, they are so tired that they often don't want to do much on weekday evenings any more. The only thing that might improve the situation is moving to London, but that pushes your cost of living way up.

I don't earn as much money on my decent IT contracts as your £150k+bonus friend, and I've been working a bit longer. On the other hand, by the time you figure out an hourly rate including things like commuting time, I bet I'm not that far off. By the time you factor in the costs of commuting or getting London accommodation, I'm even closer. Oh, and I still have a life Monday-Friday.

I can understand people who go straight into that kind of environment for a couple of years after university, when you're young enough to take it and you're basically making an investment of 2-3 years of having no life in exchange for more comfort for the rest of your life. But I can't understand why anyone would want to stay there for much longer, even with all the financial reward: money is only worth anything if you have time to enjoy spending it.
Interesting. So are you so down-to-earth that you consider philosophical speculation on the nature of mathematics (or anything else, I suppose) to be nonsensical?
I agree with you that their software is the most compelling part of the Mac. But the reason people tend to say Apple is a hardware company is because that's where the money is made.

It's not wrong to say that the software drives the sales of the hardware. The software is outstanding, and compels people to purchase the profitable hardware.
It's a rather long article, but has good observations by someone who has tried different tablet OSes.

I personally believe that we are on the verge of a fundamental shift in computer UIs. And it starts by scaling up from a simpler solution (e.g. iOS UI, Android, Meego), not by scaling down from a more complex solution (traditional desktop UIs).

Now the interesting question is that when we need to support a lot of different kinds of actions/tasks in an application, how will this be supported in touch UIs. Russ mentioned Photoshop as a good example of such application.

In our upcoming iPhone game, we have played around with circular context menus and at least in that setting they seem to be quite promising. However, you can really only have a few choices (4-5) in circular context menu on iPhone. However, on iPad or tablet, you could have several "rings" of actions. Traditionally, in mouse-based systems, circular context menus haven't have several rings because of the Fitts' law, but on the touch based system, I don't see that as a problem.

Any thoughts of possible directions, where touch UIs will evolve?
he's firing vortex rings at 200mph from an acetylene powered cannon

Which, while sounding impressive, apparently is only powerful enough to knock down things that are equally vulnerable to being bumped into by a toddler.

Perhaps it's just that the reaction of the host in that video seems a bit out of proportion to the actual accomplishment?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Little_Pigs
Ideas is what matters the most in my opinion... go for it, buy a book and get your hands dirty. Another option would be to leave the technical stuff to a co-founder.
"I also think that it would benifit Apple to start thinking about shaping OS X to work on a mobile platform. Think about it. OS X running on a cell phone or a pda? F*ck!ng awesome!"

In hindsight, I agree.
It sounds like they're pointing to Patreon and related sites. You give them a credit card, they mail you the content.

It's not a "blog" in the original "web-log" sense, since it's email. It's not pay-to-read, but at least pay-for-content. Maybe old content goes up for free, to encourage people to pay to subscribe.

There's also the Medium model, though I'm not sure how that works. I gather that it's some kind of pay-to-read-all-you-can model.

It would be nice to solve the real micropayments "if you liked this page tip me a few cents" problem, which is still unsolved.
Do you really believe that a C++-specific package manager (PM) repo would somehow be much more up to date than an OS one? Why?

Any PM repo will eventually be missing something you need, and then you will have to compile it yourself, and if you've done that a few times you should have an idea of the difficulty involved in providing a set of compiled dependencies for one system, nevermind multiple versions of multiple systems.

I don't doubt the usefulness of the Python, Ruby, and Node PMs, but those libraries mostly depend only on the interpreter and other interpreted code. It's just so much simpler. The fact that it's all going through an interpreter (compiled specifically for that system by the system PM in most cases!) solves so many of the problems.
So why is the Go compiler still faster than compilers that do have incremental compilation? The implications of your wording is confusing.

Also, Go does have incremental compilation at the package level.
Nvidia made a run of defective GPUs somewhere around 2007-2008. Tom's Hardware claims[0] that all G84 and G86 GPUs other than warranty replacements produced in late 20008 are defective.

It's not a BGA solder issue like we've seen on numerous laptop GPUs over the years, but a problem with the internal interconnects. Heating it, as if to reflow a BGA does temporarily solve the problem, but in my experience, the period of time it keeps working after heating gets shorter each time.

[0] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-g84-g86-chips-overhe...
I don't read the 'pilot' paragraph that way. It leads in with "Carr's basic premise is sound" and the following sentence about the pilots is used to support that first sentence. I do admit that I only read half-way through the article as a whole, though; I found it pretty light on substance and more trouble than it was worth.

On a tangent, regarding the self-driving vehicle, I would venture that the critic referred to already has a... cough "self-driving Carr" cough ...
Original question:

> What's a parameter to what?

Answer:

> Application in Haskell is left associative so its

> ((Map String) Any)

Which looks crystal clear to me. This is also the part of the answer that user waps later quoted.
2 weeks is the responsible, non bridge burning way of giving the company warning.
I've no horse in this race, but the comment..

"I have written production level code in Erlang, namely a BitTorrent client good enough for everyday use"

...seems to be going some way towards proving the Acharya's point #4 for the following reasons:

1) No reference to any actual users of the code apart from the author himself.

2) No link to where the code is available.

3) Code is a single-user client, when Erlang's strength is usually considered to be in multi-user servers.

It's not obvious that the author understands what is meant by "production level", since the project mentioned does not even appear to meet the most liberal possible interpretation of this term, which would be "shipped".
It'd be a small annoyance but literally every Emacs user customizes Emacs and has a config file. The veterans would grumble and drag their feet to upgrade to the "broken" version, and then we'd simply bind C-[npfbae] and forget about the switch. Changes can be made there just needs to be a lone decision maker who can say "this is the way it's going to be, like it or lump it".
Isn't installing Ruby from apt-get ok, since RVM just manages that as the 'system' ruby alongside all the other Ruby's RVM can install and manage? Not sure about gems or other packages though.
90% of Judaism practitioners have higher IQ because they're jews. Makes sense...
Congratulations Steve! Great to see progress being made =)
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/czech-republic/101209/hom...

the article's source.
Love that name.
I can't see how the GP is anti-American.

Being "mind-blowing" is good thing, at least that's what I remember from Steve Jobs.
Sounds pretty dumb. The answer is make a lot more energy through sustainable methods rather than band aid solutions. The global population is declining aside from a few undeveloped countries. You can calm down.
We used to send/receive magnetic tapes via plane for interbank settlements since our data center was located in a different province to all of the other major banks.

Now there is a real-time settlement system for the entire country.
If the company he gets hired at immediately loses half of its value then I think we can say it was him for sure!
I just use Chrome's "Create Shortcut" feature to make my web-apps instead of downloading a bloated Electron app for the same thing.
I haven't found anything better than classic foam earplugs - 3M, Mack's, any good brand will be a safe choice. The biggest difference comes from using proper technique to insert them.

Mask-wise I really like the Tempur-pedic sleep mask. I dislike their mattresses intensely but the mask is really good, especially for airplane sleeping.
That is an extremely old list. XSLT3 removes a number of those “can’t do” items.
Why would they get more money when the price dips?

Property tax rates should be fair to all property owners, not favor those that got in first which is what prop13 does.

>Also, what’s wrong with being able to call a place home and be able to live there without being driven out?

Nothing, just don't make others pay for it. Prop13 has created a distorted housing market that hurts many more people than it helps
> That's interesting. The popular sentiment in programming world seem to be Unis don't tech practical stuff enough,

I think the point might be that there might be a sweet spot somewhere between

- demanding Java code to be created by students using only Notepad and javac

and

- just teaching the latest js trends

I think it is fully possible - and a lot more motivating - to teach theoretical problems hand in hand with practical problems.
That makes me wonder if that was how the product originated. Dyson realizes its fans have a problem. Engineers suggest an air filter. Marketing see an opportunity.
Same. Last two jobs were through LinkedIn recruiters.
Again, Tesla makes climate change worse by investing in Bitcoin so if climate change is the driver they should sell ASAP. I think you're overestimating the average speculator's love of the environment.

Yes, this time could be different. Past performance is not an indication of future performance. That said, it would be the first time something's gone parabolic upward (while lacking the fundamentals) without retracing, and I don't see any reason this time would be different.

[edit: Check this out:
(1) https://imgur.com/a/HATGeWr
(2) https://imgur.com/a/umQLsnK]
"String" has multiple meanings in this context. In the context of that manpage, it means "nul-terminated array of char" which is the C language meaning. In the context of what you're replying to, a "string" is a sequence of bytes (octets) in a specific Unicode Transformation Format. Those are very different things when it comes to programmatic manipulation of those things.
A housing stipend is taxable, unless you are staying at a work location for your employer's convenience.

But yes, Accountants can help you evade taxes in ways unlikely to be audited or caught.
Oh that’s great to hear, I’ll reach out to find more
Even on TurboTax they're required to provide the basic 1040-EZ form for free all the way to filing, they hide that fact below a LOT of bullshit though to make it hard to find the actually free version of the service.
Yes, I use the link here:

https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...

It’s all electronic. You get an email confirmation.
From the community manager, on the atom slack:

> Lee Dohm:
@aviatesk This is a temporary status. Atom’s pace of development has always fluctuated over time as developers join and leave the project, take parental leave, have vacations, etc.

Reference: https://atomio.slack.com/archives/C044E54H0/p157003367010460...
Many of the popular 3rd party ROMs have this feature. I think it's not in stock because it can break apps that expect "this feature that I require before installation should be here", which then blow up when the feature is not, in fact, there, but I guess that the assumption is that if you're savvy enough to run a custom ROM and to revoke permissions, you're savvy enough to place blame where blame's due.
What you've done there is called taking a comment out of context. The next sentence is:

Most importantly though, I was not sure how big of an opportunity it was

The market for SAT preparation is limited to students sitting for SAT in a given year in the US. The market for Dropbox is everyone with a computer and internet. Yes, the online storage market is super-competitive, but when it's that big it increases the likelyhood that chasing it is worthwhile.
I'm reminded of an interesting way babylonian merchants used to do business. They would bargain for a deal while intoxicated on alcohol, thus proving to each other that they are being honest.

Perhaps we should force all politicians to do the same thing? :)
The authentication token can be generated and managed by the software. It would then be protected by the account password, if any (Windows and MacOS X offer this feature).

Doable, and even better, you can make that a 30 € / month corporate option. ;)
>It did not happen, because it simply couldn't

Sure it could. I think a lot of people expected Apple to pull a rabbit out of hat (because they've done that time and time again), but instead it's just a relatively minor (compared to the state of the art) upgrade to the iPhone.
What? I have a poster of Mark Pilgrim on my wall.
I have seen few recent poll posts. My question is how to create poll on HN?
Actually I'd love Froyo on hardware like the iPhone 4. It's never going to happen, but I can dream can't I?
I think you misunderstood my point. Matias Duarte is "famed" UI guy that just left Palm/HP's WebOS team for Google's Android team.

I'm not sure about Google's ability to retain talent... but I'm hopeful that Matias can bring Android some UI/UX love.
On the other hand, it's a significantly lower percentage than, say, The App Store, or Android Market.
I was trying to be sarcastic there. Guess it didn't work
Tor is not the only tool out there to protect privacy/circumvent restrictions. It has flaws by design, such as all traffic has to pass through limited number of known exit nodes, and you cannot easily filter out unwanted stuff, so a CAPTCHA in one form or another is pretty much the only solution. If you suggesting to just replace it with some easier implementation, it would be automated.

So the solution is on the users' side. Just choose another approach that works for you, such as VPN. You won't get CAPTCHA'd, privacy still protected, problem solved. One way or another, technically inclined users are not the ones experiencing problems with restrictions.
I switched to nginx because it was leaner than apache, and the specific use case I had for it was load balancing (and eventually proxy caching) and static content. Apache is great because of the amount of options it has, it's the swiss army knife of web servers. However, if you really don't need your web server to do a lot, I've found that other systems are a more efficient choice, especially when you're trying to squeeze a lot out of small VPS machines.
Actually, I'm inferring that the sentence was written by someone who is assuming the reason why folks don't do as he'd like wrt the homeless and responding to that reason.

The reason that I say that he's assuming (in most cases) is that people typically don't explain themselves, they just do.

More to the point, that sentence expresses a dissatisfaction with said "do", regardless of reason. Is it beyond the pale to question that dissatisfaction?