jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> It's more bandwidth to the chipset, meaning you can run double the PCI 3.0 gear off of that chipset than you could before without hitting a bottleneck

Not necessarily the case in practice since that would require some sort of chipset or active converter exposed by the motherboard to mux 3.0 lanes to bifurcated 4.0 lanes. A 3.0 x4 device still needs those four lanes to get full speed so in a PCI-e 4.0 setting you’ll actually be using up four of the PCIe 4.0 lanes, but inefficiently.
My thoughts exactly regarding the NSA creating Bitcoin. My theory is the blockchain gives them a way to do analysis on dirty money. Instead of having to hack or compel the next dirty bank they can look at the open ledger and figure it out. At first I thought it could be the CIA as a way to fund off the books ops but NSA makes more sense.

Either way there’s no way a single person holds on to a wallet that size. It’s also less likely someone/some group in China or Russia could hold on to wallet that size without it being pilfered.
If any country has a chance at implementing nuclear power on a widespread scale, I think it's China. In America, the primary reason we don't use nuclear power is driven primarily by the negative perception and fear of the word "nuclear" (with a bit of help from the fossil fuel lobbies). One of the advantages of the one-party state is if the party wants something done, that thing will get done, no ifs, ands, or buts. China's rail network is an excellent example of this (and that's another thing we've failed to implement stateside due to political gridlock). Should China decide that nuclear is the way to go, then it will be done.
It says a lot more than your passwords are safely stored behind unsalted MD5 :)
Actually Ruby is more popular in hacker/security community. It's the official language of Metasploit.
There's a problem with dependently typed languages, neither of them have a small enough kernel to be verified formally.

As far as I know, the only system which achieves this goal is HOL.
In my opinion, it’s almost mandatory for a well functioning software development environment to have developers on call (next to ops people).

Bugs that get you woken up in the middle of the night are fixed in no time. Documentation that is lacking, or spaghetti code, both preventing you from quickly fixing an issue instead of spending hours on it? Fixed the next day.

If the stakes of writing bad code are low, code quality will suffer. No better fix for those low stakes than being on call.
You are over complicating things. UI state should live in the client. Having the server maintain it is not only more complex but will also introduce a latency. Let's say I click a button to delete an item in the list. The button state goes to pressed, list loses focus, button takes focus, button unpressed, delete animation starts on deleted item, translation animations on the other items to slide into its place, new items devirtualized if the list is too long,...
Now that's 1 user input. Imagine multiple consecutive input like mouse scroll. Or drag-and-drop.

Only state shared between multiple clients should go to the server.
I like Kubernetes, I don't overly like Helm charts because yes, they work, but you can install one without having to think about what's it putting in your cluster.

Also, I don't much like Go's templating syntax.
Indeed, it seems there's a market opportunity there, isn't it?
Same in Croatia, I honestly thought it was standard in the EU with exceptions such as France.

Spending 9 hours at work seems awful even if your lunch break is 60 min instead of 30.
Really? That would mean you’d need a plate for every single page. I feel like that would blow through filament.
Some things were better back in the day. E-mail could not be invented today, it would be a mix of incompatible mail system like Facebook mail, Google mail, Apple mail, Slack mail, some distributed open source mail nobody used, etc.
I definitely have a sense of humour!
That's good advice too, thank you.

My fear (and I know this is common among many entrepreneurs) is to fully lay out an idea for someone, and have Mark say that he is working on the idea for you. When in reality he's secretly building his own application based on your idea.

Maybe it's not so bad to be a Winklevoss. Didn't they receive a $65 million settlement? :)
YC isn't about company transparency.
AT&T DSL will sign you up even if you're too far from the SLAM to even get a signal. Make sure you confirm those details as well and have a tech actually visit your house to do the first setup.
Ah, okay. I haven't heard anything too specific other than him saying "Corporate Capitalism sucks, and we shouldn't do it."

I just tried poking around on The Google, and http://www.ronpaul.com/tag/corporatism/ is apparently 500ing right now.
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I saw this one and at first I thought it would be a good password. Then I realized the pattern on the keyboard. I was thinking the other day, would there be any need to make a password crack program that focused more on patterns on the keyboard instead of vocabulary. xlsow02 uses the ring finger on each hand to type out what should score a strong rating on most password checkers yet is a simple human pattern for easy memorization.
IMO, the presence of (3) from that list will go a long, LONG way in eliminating (1) and (2).

Given an easy way for competitors to enter the market, carrier lock-in wrt devices and features will decrease dramatically. Citation: See the UK and (to an extent) Indian telecom markets.
Google didn't have money for an always up, 100% reliable mainframe. So they built fault tolerance on top of off commodity hardware.

Fast forward years later, why would they pay the mainframe tax and lock themselves to a single provider?
People who know Mexican Spanish may not be able to understand your Spanish, especially the ones who didn't learn Spanish as a first language.

Grocery stores often have international sections, you may be able to find some stuff you're familiar with in the Hispanic Foods section. There is dulce de leche, but it's not the same thing. You can find canned yerba mate tea from the Guaiaki brand. Again, it's not the one you drink, but it's at least something.
Yes. We have noticed these too. And there were videos of silly kids doing silly things (like pretend fighting / chasing). And characters just walking inside video games (like Minecraft). Totally pointless and meaningless videos. Constantly and automatically play one after another.

A single video would appear harmless. But hundreds (maybe thousands) of these? Horrible.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26726269.
That's what I moved our stuff too, because it was just easier for a number of reasons (cookies and CORS stuff being amongst them). Any calls to other domains are done through the API hosting on the site domain.

He does allude to that at the end of the post though: "So are SPAs dead? ... SPAs as in “browser-based standalone applications that do cross-site authentication and API calls in the context of a modern identity and SSO architectures” – yes.". That is a narrower definition though.
"after having had a year to see that they're perfectly capable of doing so"

?

Who says that it worked out?

'Remote Everyone' was a forced experiment, there's no assumption that the situation was ideal.
Even 1 bike per year isn't that bad if you have insurance, car maintenance + depreciation is probably more. Not to mention when your catalytic converter gets stolen.
What's the maximum fine under GDPR? It's some percentage of global revenue, right?
Thanks very much for the info! Moving internationally is difficult enough without the destination being particularly bureaucratic. Maybe I'll target Germany first and just travel to Sweden if I manage to live the dream and move to Europe for a time. I'll also check out Czechia, sounds interesting. thanks!
I've not heard of this and searching doesn't seem to throw up anything relevant. Do you have more details? Maybe a link to the LKML discussion?
OpenShift is most definitely not built on Mesos. RedHat's plans over time are to integrate with Mesos at a lower level for fine grained resource allocation, but for now Kubernetes is used as the cluster scheduling and orchestrations runtime.
But Android and Windows systems cost half the price of a Mac one, there is a quality expectation given the price difference.
People overvalue (democratic) teamwork. I'd like to argue that a good leader with a team of followers is more effective than a team where everyone is equal. For example: the pyramids, cannot be build by one man, but wouldn't have existed if it wasn't for central leadership.

Take Steve Jobs, it was his vision that made Apple successful.

Teams need skill, but they must also be undivided. Democracy in teams essentially divides the team, those opposed and forced to act according to the majority will not be cooperative. The best results are that of a single visionair with or without a team of followers.
that's an interesting view of teslas... anyway, they're not really having problems getting marketshare in europe:

http://wallstcheatsheet.com/automobiles/tesla-powers-a-surge...

And at least when this article was written, China just edged out Europe for Tesla's second largest market:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2014/07/31/analysis-o...
My girlfriend is extremely allergic to animals and if someone took a dog onto an airplane just for the hell of it she would suffer for hours. There are some people who can't physically be around animals for extended periods of time without being drugged up on a cocktail of antihistamines.
That is the standard for DOD clearances in general. No illegal substance use in the past year, and any at all needs to be adjudicated (to use their terminology).
Looks like its using a `sync.Pool` to amortize allocations.

https://github.com/labstack/echo/blob/master/echo.go#L17
The comment above (by rayiner) is completely correct. Cell phone tracking has more to do with third party doctrine and the Stored Communications Act than with this case.[1][2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_Communications_Act
I hope I'm parsing this statement incorrectly, but it seems as though you're rolling your own solution to authentication and encryption, rather than using TLS. According to your organization's website, you're an IoT platform. That's terrifying, honestly. I hope I'm misinterpreting something.
This reminds me of when the google doodle was a mini-pacman game, neat it still works!

https://www.google.com/#q=pacman
If Baidu served everything over https, would that effectively make this attack impossible unless the China GFW mitm'd the connections? I suppose that might add a significant server load to Baidu, but I wonder if we should just start accepting SSL as a cost of doing business on the internet.

Of course, that would require Baidu's cooperation, and I suppose they might now want to raise the ire of the Chinese government. Also, I suppose the government could just use their own heavily trafficked sites to do this, but that should isolate it somewhat to Chinese IP ranges.
From "You and Your Research" by Dick Hamming:

Now Alan Chynoweth mentioned that I used to eat at the physics table. I had been eating with the mathematicians and I found out that I already knew a fair amount of mathematics; in fact, I wasn't learning much. The physics table was, as he said, an exciting place, but I think he exaggerated on how much I contributed. It was very interesting to listen to Shockley, Brattain, Bardeen, J. B. Johnson, Ken McKay and other people, and I was learning a lot. But unfortunately a Nobel Prize came, and a promotion came, and what was left was the dregs. Nobody wanted what was left. Well, there was no use eating with them!

Over on the other side of the dining hall was a chemistry table. I had worked with one of the fellows, Dave McCall; furthermore he was courting our secretary at the time. I went over and said, "Do you mind if I join you?" They can't say no, so I started eating with them for a while. And I started asking, "What are the important problems of your field?" And after a week or so, "What important problems are you working on?" And after some more time I came in one day and said, "If what you are doing is not important, and if you don't think it is going to lead to something important, why are you at Bell Labs working on it?" I wasn't welcomed after that; I had to find somebody else to eat with! That was in the spring.

In the fall, Dave McCall stopped me in the hall and said, "Hamming, that remark of yours got underneath my skin. I thought about it all summer, i.e. what were the important problems in my field. I haven't changed my research," he says, "but I think it was well worthwhile." And I said, "Thank you Dave," and went on. I noticed a couple of months later he was made the head of the department. I noticed the other day he was a Member of the National Academy of Engineering. I noticed he has succeeded. I have never heard the names of any of the other fellows at that table mentioned in science and scientific circles. They were unable to ask themselves, "What are the important problems in my field?"
I can't get over the amount of defending people do here of DOSING caffeine. Your first comment was specifically talking about the psychological effects that you're getting from the chemical stimulant caffeine. You find that going to the pure, drug-only, form of it is better for you. You clearly consume it for the stimulant effects, or why else would you take it.

> someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms

If you can quit caffeine when you're taking 400mg and NOT experience any side effects, go see a doctor because you're a modern miracle. It's a stimulant, you take it regularly. If it's not an addiction... it's certainly a habit that you seem to be unwilling to give up.

Note that NO where did I say it was a bad thing. I mean, it costs money, but I'm sure it's not a lot. I was merely curious if you'd actually tried to stop consuming caffeine. The response taking offense at me calling it precisely what it is... is telling in my armchair-psychiatrist opinion.
Check out Freshbooks (http://www.freshbooks.com)

They have their support team in-house, and they get a lot of freedom to help their customers out and are generally the people who drive the culture you find within their offices.

Fantastic group of people, even better company because of them.
Fun comment, and Dropbox probably is winning by quite a bit, but Dropbox's referral system for free storage could be the explanation for the Twitter traffic.

https://www.dropbox.com/referrals
agreed, not sure why this is comment is getting down voted. Journalists need to disclose such facts. Conflicts of interest are real. For that matter conflicts of interest aren't limited solely to journalism to begin with.

After all, Eric Schmidt had to step down from Apple board when google started to compete in that area out of concerns of conflict of interest. Why does Arrington get a pass?

http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/03/technology/schmidt_google_ap...
Ditto; I recharge myself when e.g. I'm working alone, as Joel prescribes (or at least allows for).

There's obviously some upfront extra consumption of energy in getting to know new co-workers, but at least to me that's well worth the price.
One of the first things I noticed when I started working at Fog Creek is that most everyone in the office is always working and it stays pretty quiet. We rarely have meetings and individuals are able to remain focused on getting things done.

The office is generally quiet except for lunch. Lunch gets pretty loud when Fog Creek and Stack Exchange gather around two long tables to eat great food. Sometimes we talk about work, but most of the time it's off-topic. Occasionally people eat at their desks, but most of the time everyone is together for lunch.

The people I work with are incredible and I'm excited to join them for lunch every single day. Perhaps I get an extra boost at lunchtime because I'm an extrovert, but I think even the introverts enjoy this time together with great people.

I see a lot of comments here about how awful it is that introverts are forced to sit with others at lunch. I suppose that's possible, but I don't get the slightest impression from anyone that they'd rather be eating alone. Since most developers are shielded from distractions most of the day and are heads-down in code, lunch allows them to connect socially with other people at the company.

Maybe you'd have to experience lunch with great coworkers day-in and day-out to understand Joel's perspective. I couldn't agree more with what he wrote.
At the beginning of the century, most people lived in rural areas. [1]

[1] http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/WUP2005/2005wu...
The more experience you have with different technologies the more you realize that there's more than one way to do things in this world.
It's basically in all the "details" pages via the site menu > dedicated (and contrary to what I said, not limited to "enterprise"/ecc ram servers). See for example:

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex42-nvme

Ed: i think the implication is that you can just go ahead and use 300tb/month on a 1 gbps port if you can stand doing that... But that 3 000 TB/month on a 10gbps uplink is not included...
Perhaps the implications there is something wrong with people that are short.
>Is it eliminating animal suffering, reducing global warming as farming is a major polluter, or are they actually just disgusted by animal products in general?

For me, it's both. For others, it's religious. For far fewer, it's health (allergies, intolerances, etc). In all of those cases, if a restaurant advertises their product as meat free, it should be or else it's false advertising.

Further complicating the issue is that burger king has for years sold a veggie patty that is heated in the microwave - using separate tools and is "contamination free".

So anyways, if they want to advertise meat-free, then it should be a meat-free product that is served to you.
It's not a proper answer for HPC without an actual low-latency low-contention RDMA fabric. Typical HPC systems have a large fraction of materials science computation that really needs it. There's an example of scaling cp2k (I think) on Azure, but I've not used Azure to be able to say how well it works compared with an actual HPC cluster where you can also monitor the fabric (which is quite important).
It's still a 'bit' upgradeable. But I think RAM/Gfx will get me further over the next 7-8 years in terms of speed/etc. It's a decent build comparable to maybe a $2000+ consumer desktop for $699. For my use case It'll fly compared to my system now which bogs down when I have 126 browser tabs open.
The person who wrote this article doesn't even know what they're talking about.

>The more bitcoin that is mined, the harder the algorithms that must be solved to get a bitcoin become. Now that over 18.5m bitcoin have been mined, the average computer can no longer mine bitcoins.

The difficulty has nothing to do with the supply, the difficulty is entirely a function of the amount of hash power on the entire network.

I know people make mistakes, but one thing that bothers me is when people write articles about things they genuinely never took an interest in. You've got no business informing people. Also, an article written about something by an author who does not know about said something screams "agenda". This feels like a hit piece on Tesla (for not being green), and a "don't get excited about bitcoin just yet (pleeease)" article.
And by China, and by the US and probably a bunch of other actors.

I mean, software is far too complicated in our current rube goldberg tower of abstractions, and the asymmetry favours the attacker (only have to be lucky once, etc).

Until a few generations have grown up with software, I'm not sure this is going to improve (although in that case, we've probably solved climate change, so that would be good).
> they really don't need Apple other than as a brand

I'd say that alone makes Apple worthwhile to China. I don't think China will be able to make a global brand like Apple in my lifetime.
Grugq is well known in the infosec industry and more experienced in the area than you realize. He's been writing about opsec for years, among other areas.
This is a solved problem. Since 2007, everyone knows the answer to this: the search population is dominated by the ones who can’t.

It’s the same as when you get that bag of mixed nuts and pick out a bunch, put the almonds back in and eat only the pistachios. About ten minutes in, your search for pistachios becomes ever so hard. You take a handful of almonds out, put them back in and repeat, barely seeing a pistachio.
> globally

vs.

> in the US

Speaking of incomparable scales...
> XORing SHA1PRNG against /dev/urandom seems cryptographically nonsensical.

Untrue! Assuming that the two (/dev/urandom and SHA1PRNG) are not correlated, the resulting output will be at least as secure as the most secure of the two. This means that (for example) if SHA1PRNG is found to be breakable, SecureRandom will still be at least as secure as /dev/urandom, and vice versa.
Public education fails against people's psychological biases and social dynamics. Its part of the solution but not a replacement for other top down policies.
People are working on solving built in elements problem on the web including customizability and extensibility. https://open-ui.org/
Making a mod is a really good driver for learning development. That's how I got started. It's good that the goal is so unreachable at the start. There's an awful lot to learn and you need to boostrap yourself, somehow, into doing something remotely productive.

I never finished my mod, but I spent 2 years learning C++, Photoshop, 3DS Max, Worldcraft, and all manner of other tools on the way. It was great exposure and it never felt tedious because my goal wasn't learning how to program, it was learning how to make a homing missile, or a texture for my fort. :)

I wasn't really interested, at the time, in learning how to write a simple bank that could process transactions, or a task list.
That's not how this sort of leasing generally works, it's more of a financial transaction, like financing a car.

Airlines are more likely to buy packages of service from manufacturers (especially engines) and big service providers if they don't have enough scale or experience to do their own maintenance, regardless of how it was paid for.
I do not think that the prose in On Blue's Waters was drab; I loved it. The sequels though were quite forgettable.
The problem that Enron capitalized on was:

1. Consumer electric rates were set by law

2. Utilities were obliged by law to provide whatever electricity consumers demanded at that rate

This meant that utilities had no choice but pay whatever Enron demanded and resell to consumers at a massive loss. This ridiculous catastrophe was entirely a construction of the electric regulatory framework.

It doesn't have any resemblance to what I proposed. What I propose is more akin to how gas pump prices vary every day. Note that there are no laws setting the price or distribution of gas. When there were (back in the 70's) the result was LOOOONG gas lines. The Enron fiasco and the gas line fiasco are prime examples of what happens when government tries to centrally plan pricing and distribution.
I really don't get it, one can simply open a README.md or TODO.md and litteraly do the same thing - taking notes - without installing anything.
The 'and more' in the post above includes product/UX designers. Come help us design incredible developer experiences!
The short answer: science.
My response here is that I think this discussion is naive, as the data brokers themselves already do it.

So who cares about what some engineer at a random new business thinks.

Aliasing isn't new. So this isn't a cat and mouse game that just got started.