jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's a great idea. My housemates all use a notepad and pen to write their weekly/monthly budget out and like you say they seperate that into different categories. Their bank should provide a form for them to write in their budget and then like you say they should then get alerted when they are about to go over their budget.

This is partiuclarly the case when someone approaches their overdraft limit. In England if you go past this limit you get charged £38 even if you a few pence past the limit. This has been heavily in the news over here and banks should help customers by alerting them when they get near to that limit.
I think the best we can do is ask that when submitting a story, the submitter makes an effort to make the content as easily accessible as possible.
So, honest question, isn't public investment in shaky tech companies exactly what led to the early dotcom bubble?

Except now that it's before they even IPO, isn't it even more risky?

Genuinely curious, I was only 13 in 2000, so I didn't exactly know what was going on.
See my other comment on the same point in this thread.
Uggh. I pretty much never use Chrome on my Mac, but when I borrow someone else's computer and want to quit Chrome I always get bit by this one! No other application have I seen that makes you hold down ⌘Q to quit, except for Chrome. This is not conventional on Mac apps! It's probably configurable but why make it the default?
Hard disk drives are a commodity component and the main buyers of He nearline drives are the most sophisticated companies in the world. It’s not a trick dude.
That dates to 2005, so you are not really contradicting grandparent's point that this was mostly outlawed in 2011 (and that this has accelerated hyperpartisanship by removing an incentive for compromise).
It's not really any different from C++ nerds doing the same with the template system.
In this case, where you're typing the URL in a form, presumably as some sort of content management system, you're not telling your browser to go directly to the URL but rather saying 'I want to use this resource, it's at this URL'.

Before it uses that URL for anything, the server should process it, and if it's missing something like a protocol, add in a good default like http.
This is fantastic! I am definitely going to try this out. My employer sells enterprise software that, in its current iteration, is horrifically complex from a UX standpoint and we're forced to take a gazillion number of screenshots for training materials. This seems like it will definitely save time.

Any plans for screencasting down the line?
Yes. Parents and really not much else but parents. They care the only thing that scale.

Great teachers will do a lot but great teachers don't scale.

It is the parents involvement in their kids education, their insisting on them to do well and to always be on the teachers side rather than on their kids.
Yep. Java=serious enterprise software, and they've got all their IT organization built on IBM servers running J2EE Enterprise Java Bean containers and they actually understand it, or at least think they do. Rails=toy hacker stuff, and scary because they don't know what it is.
Also the main argument this group was making for the last 2 months was to disenfranchise much of the US voting population. The people voted, and this group attempted to say it wasn't legitimate. They proved nothing in court to their claims, but persisted anyway right up until they got worked up into a frenzy and stormed the Capitol.
Why would an API ever return a literal JavaScript statement?
They asked why the Capitol Police weren't reinforced by the National Guard. You replied the mayor declined help from the National Guard.
That's all swell and dandy until one of these cultures controls the media and government and shuts down the other via every means possible, from non-stop propaganda and censorship to witch hunts and persecutions on ideological grounds. We are in '1984'.
Yeah, but I used less words.
Oops. Skipped.... several digits there. My basic math skills are in decline. I'd delete this comment if I could. Please downvote.
My brother and I occasionally send each other little computer-based puzzles back and forth, mostly for fun or to show off some new steganographic technique we've thought of. I felt pretty proud when it took him more than a couple days to find the hash in the audio file's spectrogram.
>we'll want to make sure that the President is warned in time

WHY? How about warning whole population?

This always amazed me about US. President is not a god, he is just a function, there is a hierarchy of replacements. Why do you keep making one man above all citizens?
Or a nuclear tipped supersonic missile like the Mach 3 Sunburn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-270_Moskit), or back in the '80s I heard of the concept of using SLBMs in a "depressed trajectory" mode, where they didn't really get up high but used their rocket energy to travel horizontally really really fast.

Putting these sorts of defenses in D.C. is in part about avoiding a "decapitation" attack.
You can also opt back into the working time directive.
Nah the poster above you is right for all cases. Reg NMS only protects the top of book quote regardless of the time in force specification.

Source is page 140 of the following SEC publication on Reg NMS:

http://www.sec.gov/rules/final/34-51808fr.pdf

"Over our dissent, the majority voted to adopt Regulation NMS on April 6, 2005, approving a trade-through rule
protecting quotations at the ‘‘top of book.’’"
Your account appears to have been hellbanned for whatever this comment was, which has also apparently been deleted.
Crowdtilt (and by extension, Crowdhoster) sets the standard for crowdfunding commercial projects and represents a maturation of the of crowdfunding movement.

When we launched the Lockitron campaign last year we had no idea if going off platform (i.e. not using Kickstarter) would work. What we found is using a self-hosted crowdfunding solution has a number of benefits which make it a better option than using Kickstarter or Indiegogo.

1) You capture long tail traffic. Launch day press directs to your site, and you can continue making sales after your campaign closes. For customers not willing to provide payment information you can still capture leads with an email signup. I won't disclose numbers here but this is hugely significant. There is a reason it is point number 1.

2) Order creation dovetails nicely into account creation. Managing shipping and payment information after a campaign closes is hugely stressful but can be even more so if you have to go through an intermediary that limits access. Getting people to create an account independently and as a second action months after they purchased the product but before it ships is unnecessarily painful.

3) You control look and feel. Not just important for establishing brand, but also for A/B testing, retargeting, and meaningful analytics.

4) Mitigate risk. You select your payment processor or can use multiple if necessary. A handful of crowdfunding campaigns have been torpedoed for both legitimate and illegitimate reasons. Kickstarter capped Lifx's raise a few days into the campaign after a few negative media pieces saying the company could not deliver what it promises, citing Phillips $5 million R&D expenditures as proof. At this point in time it appears Lifx is on track to deliver, but it is unfortunate that they had their knees cut out from under them. It is not unimaginable that your own campaign could be threatened by a spurious patent troll.

5) No arbitrary guidelines. In order to make an honest effort to be a donation site and not a pre-order site, Kickstarter prohibits you from "selling" items or offering "rewards" in bulk. These linguistic gymnastics get in the way of clear communication and prevent you from capturing multiple purchases. Lifx for example was only allowed to "reward" backers with a single lightbulb rather than allowing them pre-order multiple as most people would expect to do when buying lightbulbs.

6) Less risky than you would think. At this point there have have been a number of $1 million+ self-hosted crowdfunding campaigns. See Lockitron, Soylent, MYO, and Tile.

When people ask about building their own crowdfunding solution I point them at Crowdhoster. They have taken the work we did when we released our Lockitron crowdfunding code (Selfstarter) and turned it into the standalone solution it needs to be.

If you are crowfunding a company which needs to capture long term users and not launching a weekend project, self-hosting your campaign is the way to go.
Oh, a certain level of human error amounts to the same thing as fudging. Because only errors in the unwanted direction will be chased.
Replying here because I can't reply to SmokyBorbon directly: your account appears to be hellbanned.
I am one of the persons behind https://www.torservers.net/ , a collective of non-profit organizations that run Tor exit relays thanks to your donations. :) I am not aware of any "arrests" anywhere, although some exit relay operators have been raided and their equipment seized in the past. I understand this might scare away some people from running exit relays. You can still contribute to the network by running non-exit relays.

Hidden Services use only the internal network and don't rely on exit relays at all. All communication is end-to-end encrypted, so all relays will only ever see encrypted content.

If you have less than a couple of Mbit/s of upload capacity, you might want to run a bridge. Bridges are especially useful for people in heavily censored regions, and only provide an entry point to the Tor network.
In my experience (speaking from the employer point of view), SO Careers has been pretty good. Most of the people who applied were looking to work remotely (which was fine by us), so that might skew the experience (as in, not sure what the response quality would be if we didn't select "remote work ok" given that most of our respondents wanted to work remotely).
This is a bit unrealistic... asking someone what spacer.gif was used for could in theory work the way you describe, because it was something wide-spread and doesn't require you to recall too much details, just a general idea. On the other hand, issues like this xml mime-type thing are just too specific to recall after all that time. Frankly I don't remember half of the things that I've read last week and this was decades ago...

On the other hand, asking theback-end programmer what is a shebang line is totally legit in my opinion, nothing BS about it.
To be fair, here's a choice Snowden quote:

"""
I'm no different from anybody else. I don't have special skills. I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watches what's happening and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide, the public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong.' And I'm willing to go on the record to defend the authenticity of them and say, 'I didn't change these, I didn't modify the story. This is the truth; this is what's happening. You should decide whether we need to be doing this.'
"""
The ability to ignore things has no bearing on whether those things exist.
Using a closure:

function foo(s) {
function generator(i) {
return function () {
return i;
};
}

var r = new Array(s);

for (var i = 0; i < s; i++) {
r[i] = generator(i);
}

return r;
}

console.log(foo(1000)[42]());

Using Function.prototype.bind():

function foo(s) {
function generator(i) {
return i;
}

var r = new Array(s);

for (var i = 0; i < s; i++) {
r[i] = generator.bind(window, i);
}

return r;
}

console.log(foo(1000)[42]());
The 'make this work' examples are kinda silly, no?

var add = function (x, y) {
return (
y !== undefined ?
x + y :
function (z) { return x + z; }
);
};

var duplicate = function (a) {
return a.concat(a);
};
> I would have ended up teaching them how to do the bulk of the job had we hired them.

Is that really a bad of thing? If they're good programers and quick to pickup new technologies wouldn't you be better off getting them, training them, and when they succeed making sure you're compensating them enough to keep them onboard?

If what you wanted was someone completely versed in all your technologies and systems to just pickup and do the task, I'd say get a contractor who has the skills you need.
Shift-Control-Eject/Power. Very quick to just hit those keys as you get up from your desk, and your mac is locked.

And Command-Option-Eject/Power will pout your Mac to sleep.
That has absolutely nothing to do with net neutrality. Plus there are serious logistical and moral issues with forcing companies to produce apps for a certain product.

Let's take this statement:

> Mr Chen said the same should apply to apps on smartphones, so companies would be legally obliged to make versions of their programs equally available for all handsets.

I have a Nokia from 2001 which supports Java "apps." These are terrible little programs developed on the old Java Mobile Framework, and have serious restrictions placed on what they can do, and run on a terrible little 128 x 128 pixels screen.

Is Mr. Chen suggesting that my Nokia get a copy of every single popular app produced for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone? And if not then where is the line. Why should Blackberry get an mandatory app but not some random grey market phone? Or some out of date handset produced five years ago?

To be honest Mr. Chen's comments are idiotic. They are just dumb. I fully support Net Neutrality, and additionally if for example Apple started requiring developers for iOS not to produced apps on other platforms (including Blackberry) I'd want to see that made illegal for being anti-competitive.

But right now Apple, Google, or Microsoft place no restrictions of app developers creating apps for third party platforms. So developers are free to produce apps on Blackberry, the only reason they likely don't is that Blackberry doesn't have enough users to justify the cost of doing so.

If Blackberry can make an anticompetitive argument, they should. However this is not it, not even ballpark.
"Wiping out major diseases"

This is great, obviously, but overpopulation is a huge problem and regrettably that problem will now get worse. The predictions for the maximum population expected at mid-century have recently been adjusted upwards. Resources will be depleted ever more quickly if poor people get as rich as Bill predicts.

I have no answer. Surely we cannot withhold medecine from poor people to prevent overpopulation. But two decades from now overpopulation will be the major worry on everybody's mind if this trend continues.

Edit: The assumption of negative growth once countries hit a certain level of development/stability/richness has recently stopped being true [1], I probably should have mentioned that in my first comment

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growt...
I thought I remember seeing the gophercasts videos in Kajabi. Just to be clear these are different right?
The article talks about using a ferromagnetic liquid and magnetic fields to make adjustments to the surface of the mirror, so a magnetic liquid mirror is possible.

Use the magnetic field to keep the mirror on the desired surface. No atmosphere in space, so there's no other use/necessity for the technology, right? And we already have proof of concept:
"Today, Brousseau and buddies reveal a next generation liquid mirror that gets around these problems. The proof-of-principle mirror is just 5 cm across but sits atop a honeycomb of 91 actuators that can deform the liquid. […] And they've overcome the the non-linear control problems by superimposing a strong uniform magnetic field on top of the field created by the actuators. This has the effect of linearising the response of the liquid."
not every rockstar programmer has a fan-following, famous blog, and tons of open-source projects

This is a problem with the term. 'Rockstar' has pretty strong connotations of fame and confidence. 'Rockstar toiling in obscurity' or 'underappreciated rockstar' are contradictions in terms.
alistapart is not a group blog; it's run actually quite like a print publication, with copy editors, style guides, high expectations and 5-month (!) lead times between submission and publication. Aside from being published on the web it is nothing like a blog.
I agree. This discussion prompted my question.

I just read your comment there and I take it you think a week or two before following up with them is a good length of time?
They also learned that having a good union makes it difficult to be fired.
Also another piece of advice...I would aim for at least 60k$ a year in your next job (but tell them 65-70k$) based upon your 2 years of experience and you are not in a major metropolitain area...but due to the fact that you do not have a completed degree, especially a university one, I would expect it to be harder to negotiate salary terms.
It looks like it's not just Apple Pay, it's excepts any card payment, the protection has to be on the merchant's iPhone.
LostPhD,

Consider cultivating your programming side by working on an open source project, by helping to maintain code, implement fixes etc., in a language that you like, and don't quit your day job until you have something you want lined up. In the meanwhile, keep improving in whatever area you do research in even if it's not programming. You're memory I'm sure is not weak, but you're rusty with the specifics of that interview question, that is not a poor reflection on your character. Hang in there and work on incremental improvements in the different areas you care about.

Brian
I believe the author is right - This is the reason why I'm spending my final ECTS points on statistics and machine learning.
Dropbox for me. The seamless multi-machine syncing just adds another dimension thay makes it a must have for me.
I'm not an expert but it seems to be legal and even constitutional. It's offensive, but if you mad-libbed the story, I'm betting it would seem less offensive.

The US Government siezed __number__ of __noun plural__ because of suspected __illegal verb__.

I was upset when I read the headlines as well. Mostly because of what I inferred -- not because of what happened.

My only worry is that one sad effect of this precedent might be people having their domains taken from them because a small number of users use the service for illegal activity.

EDIT: There's another post on the front page right now which says what I wanted to say much more eloquently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1946154
Don't be too quick to overlook Dropbox. I use it for almost everything.
If there's no due process, it's not constitutional, period.
You really think resolvers are going to be willing to forge the AD (authenticated data) bit when the data isn't authenticated? Even when it's so easy for a client or downstream caching only server to be set to validating and thus discover the forgery? Once you've determined that your server is willing to forge AD surely you'd have no reason to trust any other response it gives.

DNSSEC deployment seems to be going rather well to me, compared to a year ago the root servers are signing, several major TLD's are signed, and common registrars support signed zones in those TLDs. Individual zone signing really isn't that difficult, and besides, almost everyone uses third party DNS hosting. Once a few major DNS hosters start signing zones by default you'll see adoption skyrocketing, don't you think?
I haven't changed yet the reply functionality, only "add comment".
You are right, probably I will increase the timer.
Tried Carbonite and CrashPlan, but have settled on Mozy to cloud backup my 2TB RAID network drive. $5/mo or $55/yr, unlimited storage for one 'machine'. Good client tool for the Mac with bandwidth throttling and intuitive file picker. And fast indexing.
My pet theory is that corvids and canines were best friends long before humans came around, and that we have hunted all three together, for mutual benefit.
> Mint scrapes the sites and stores passwords in plaintext

Incorrect:

> How secure is my login information I store in Mint?

> Your login user name and passwords are stored securely in a separate database using multi-layered hardware and software encryption. We only store the information needed to save you the trouble of updating, syncing or uploading financial information manually.

Ref: https://mint.intuit.com/how-mint-works/security
amazing work! the canvas iteration is way better! it has spatiality and that's always an added benefit
> All these “free” products out there that seem great have Venture Capital investors

Not all of them. Some, like unroll.me, blatantly tell you they sell your data - and people still give them access to their entire E-mail inbox.
It’s fiction. No one is a master. There’s always stuff to learn.

Competence is a better term. What it looks like is being able to make things happen quickly with minimal errors or problems.

Unless you’re talking about the most extreme cases ..... Fabrice Bellard and John Carmack .... genius developers who are true masters. There are few of these.
Didn't the eu explicitly forbid this ? I wonder how their lawyer found a loophole. Or did they did the math and the fine is cheaper than the gains ?
FB leadership shouldn’t be in the business of endorsing specific curfews - the one in DC must be respected, but you can violate others.
Check out - https://github.com/google/riscv-dv

There’s pretty strong support for RISC-V and open source hardware in general at Google.

Are they doing it to try and capitalize / control the market? Somewhat. But I don’t see it as necessarily a bad thing. The ecosystem benefits from it ultimately which is my primary concern.
Because they mostly don't matter.
Where is a practical, real world exploit? (This means not POC that works under perfect conditions.)
yes, it's only for trademark and even then it is rare. Frisbee still has their trademark somehow, even though everyone calls all brands of novelty flying discs frisbees

ianal, but im pretty sure im right.
No, they literally weren't. Poll Watchers were allowed in every precinct. In fact, one of the only lawsuits the Trump admin won was one that allowed poll watchers to stand closer.

Stop just regurgitating conspiracy theories. Seriously, go volunteer to be a trained poll watcher and go watch an election and then tell me how our elections don't happen under incredible scrutiny.
Naturally these things are mutually reinforcing in a vicious cycle. It's a little bit of all of the above. We probably can't point to a single root cause, or a single cure. Until we learn how to reason about massively distributed complex social feedback loops, the best we can do is try to address each systemic problem using our best selves.
For 99% of humans, an attacker breaking into their home to pick their safe lock is not part of their digital threat model, so that’s pretty sane.
Have fun staying poor if you gonna short Bitcoin.
> And of course there is another possibly — maybe hundreds of startups collectively decided to stop announcing their funding rounds?

There is also a much simpler explanation... there is a lag in when seed rounds happen and when they are announced. The fact that the most recent data point stands out as a massive outlier is a strong indication of this possibility. Simple to check as well, we can look at this same plot in 6 months with the back filled data and see if the conclusion is the same.

Jumping to conclusions for the sake of a headline is fine, that is Techcrunch's job after all. But for those of you that do data analysis for your own companies, be careful when jumping to conclusions. If you see a massive outlier on your graph like this, more often than not it is a data collection/sampling issue than a giant change in the world. And of course if you do think it is a giant change in the world, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. So there shouldn't be a caveat, which if true, completely disprove the whole conclusion.
I don't know why the state has political authority, and I don't know if you know. I was asking because I thought it might be related to why we are or are not bound to the founders' principles.