jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It shouldn't be possible for an intern to leak a password, or if it is, the blast radius should be limited. In other words, it's the job of senior people to make this sort of thing hard or at least not super damaging when it occurs.
Corporate servers can have strict rules about what software is allowed to be installed. It all depends on the corporation and what the servers are doing. Financial and health care companies are extremely risk averse. Even if the downside of installing something like murex is vanishingly tiny, the fact that there's any possible downside is enough to give them pause. Even if the new software is genuinely more productive, you may have to make the argument before a committee who's primary incentive is CYA above all else.
Getting early views of an order book and trades does not allow you to skim. No matter how close you are to the servers, you’re still seeing the data after the order has gone in and has either been matched or entered into the order book. There is no way for them to beat the order.
Overwatch is done with ECS, there are GDC talks from the devs explaining the tech behind it.
Thank you for taking the time to make this. I was delighted to see some of your top choices, Jerry Weinberg and Eli Goldratt for example, and will be sharing this with several team mates who are working toward leadership.
It literally doesn't matter if custumers can't afford to pay the fixed price, much less the "true" price. And they can't.
Well, exchanging cash for an overvalued stock does not drive up prices for long. I have mentioned negative examples above
That poor mother with two kids is disproportionately likely to be overweight or obese, and that $25/week of soda is only making things worse. Due to medicaid/SCHIP, her health care costs are the problem of all taxpayers.

It doesn't bother me to force her to internalize some of the costs she is inflicting on me.

Similarly, I don't mind taxing polluters in proportion to the pollution they emit.

(As of 2014, this argument applies to all Americans.)
I was responding to the poster I responded to, not Zed's post. Specifically, I think most famous programmers (at least among other programmers) are famous for what they coded.

That said, I can actually name 4 core contributers to Linux although I'm not sure what the significance of that might be (Linus, Ted T'so, David Miller, Andrew Morton).
"Big newspapers" are not getting the returns from online advertising because they are lazy. The days of 'fire and forget' advertising where you stick a few banners and google ads on a what the money roll in are gone.

You need to find ways to bring your advertiser's products to the attention of your readers in a way that is both useful and interesting.
Yes, the first thing I did when trying Safari 5 was try to type a google search in the main address bar.

Its funny how quickly Chrome has reprogrammed me.
Proprietary vs free software isn't just about money. It's about freedom, control and security.

I've often found myself needing to patch the software I use to get it to work just right. Even when a proprietary software vendor gives you source code the build system often sucks and the code is not hacker friendly.

Also the licensing would restrict you from doing all sorts of things you wouldn't have to think twice about with an open source web server (e.g., auto-scaling in a cloud configuration)

Unless you need the backwards compatibility with Apache don't use LiteSpeed. There are excellent open source alternatives which are just as good and perhaps superior. Minus the Apache compatibility.
> BC banned private MRI clinics a year ago.

Would you mind explaining why they'd do such a thing?
@IAmDevloper has a great album of lofi.
But they do lie, and sometimes we learn about it and they get fired.

Pyramid of trust:

- cited sources

- anonymous sources

- off the record sources
It takes work to support trading if a coin. Coinbase in particular is conservative about listing new coins because they don’t want to run afoul of sec rules and list coins that qualify as securities. They blogged about what factors they consider when listing new coins a few years back. Coinbase is often the last to list a coin and rarely the first so if you only use Coinbase you are getting in later to n the game. The exchanges that list every junk coin under the sun though are often offshore and hire risk in many regards.
The media is known to exaggerate things without bothering to understand the issue

I completely get why he put that there
I took up to painting as Im involved too in computers as my day job. The contrast is wonderful, there is freedom in it, there is a sense of limitless possibilities and no pressure or hard deadlines. I’ve often said to myself if I went to art school I’d probably have been interested in computers now. I have also become disillusioned a while ago with computers and I think there is a limit to any interest without taking a break. But recently about an hour a year ago I started to become interested in programming again and one was using racket/lisp/scheme and second was Linux. I’m a new Linux user I am very stoked about it.
Looking forward to this IPO. Besides the "crypto comes to main street" cultural aspects. The dark horse may be Coinbase's venture arm. This is quite the portfolio:

https://ventures.coinbase.com/

Number one priority with the new cash: addressing downtimes in periods of high trading activity / market volatility.

https://www.coindesk.com/how-coinbase-is-worth-100-billion
I think you are kind of conflating what's theoretically efficient, what you personally seem to value, and what you think top performing employees will be able to dictate to the company based on what the competition offers.

I think it will be more complicated and subtle than this. A few things to consider:

* What's theoretically efficient may never actually materialize.
For example, India has ~70 million English-speaking college graduates - that's close to the US in absolute numbers. They can be paid (probably) an order of magnitude less per person. We've had the internet and teleconferencing for decades, yet outsourcing did hit quite a hard limit at some point, and counterintuitively companies before 2020 still hired in the most expensive areas in the world (e.g. SF & Menlo) for fairly routine web programming, and paid $500k comp for what in theory could have been done remotely with English speakers for 1/10th of that. (What happens now? We'll find out)

* Hype of the day - companies making waves extending remote arrangements or conversely bringing everyone back, we'll see how that plays out.

* Social aspects - but of a slightly different kind than some refreshing friendly banter - if you want to get promoted, you need to show your face and be on top of your boss's mind, which is best achieved with regular physical presence and that's an unfair advantage that the onsite people will have.

In pure meritocracy that wouldn't matter of course, but how many places are run as pure meritocracy? At Uber a few years back people bitterly fought for promotions (top 20% would get X times the stock and bonuses) and back then, the rare remote people had to either put up a major extra effort to remotely fight for themselves, or get left out (and eventually let go, I've seen remote people let go mostly because they did not have a major presence in the office). I think it's a bit different now obviously with everyone remote for the time being, but in fiercely competitive environments whoever is closer to the boss wins.
It also sounds like they made a lot of thoroughly unreasonable requests for a completely modular platform that could outperform everything in all branches of military at once.

The concept of modularity is a sound one. Imagine this: You buy an F35 and it comes with 2 sets of wings. It has a empty bay just behind the pilot, and it also comes with a lift engine and a spare fuel tank, and a tailhook that can be easily slotted into place if you want it. A trained ground crew, in a couple of hours, can swap parts around and turn it into an A, B or C variant, and then into another one for its next mission.

The problem is that the materials needed to create such a F35 kit don't exist and won't for the foreseeable future. So what you end up with is 3 similar looking aircraft that happen to share the same name and have a vague resemblance but have surprisingly little in common, for triple the price.
Absolutely, the only thing they need. Because the barriers to entry are so high!
I think if the author were concerned about her privacy she would not have written an article for LA Weekly about the experience.
I found it here: http://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/13/13-3329.pdf
Maybe he doesn't care about 'making a name for himself' and just wants to eat?

If you use software for a commercial purpose and the price is lower than what it would cost you to make it yourself then buy don't make is where it's at.

If he wants a 'portion of whatever money you make with his scripts' (that's called a profit share) then I think he's over-estimating that cost by a considerable margin, also he's building this on top of ImageMagick which is a very extensive suite of programs doing all the heavy lifting and these scripts tie those programs together.

If you don't know ImageMagick enough to string together 6 commands then this might be a useful resource, if you can then it might serve you as inspiration just by looking at title and documentation and never downloading the script.

Either way, it's out there without any obligation on your part, for hobbyists it's a boon.
My first reaction is that Anne Frank's diary would have been much shorter had this technology existed then.
There are plenty of pages online that explain how to do it yourself:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Laser-Surveillance-System-fo...

http://hacknmod.com/hack/how-to-long-range-laser-microphone-...
At the end of the week I'm setting out on something similar. I work for a startup that lets employees work one month a year from anywhere. I'm flying to Hong Kong and then onwards to Koh Lanta in Thailand for a month. Beautiful beaches and (reportedly) decent wifi. There's even a coworking space. The company offers a cash bonus to cover some of the expenses and I used frequent flyer miles for the ticket so I'm only out a few hundred bucks from my own pocket for this excursion.
Stupid website asks to subscribe or login to read every time. Can't read it.
Traction. Enough of it to quantify moving forward.
If you're gonna trash talk Groovy, at least get your facts straight. Note: Static typing which has existed in Groovy forever.
Is that dependent on the airport? I've flown as recently as two months ago, and I went through four pat-downs over the course of the trip. I never saw any green/red indicator when they tested the pat-down gloves.

Regardles, I wouldn't exactly put it past the TSA to make up a positive hit. It's not like we haven't ever had a police officer claim someone committed a traffic violation on someone based on appearance and ultimately find drugs or some other criminal behavior.
Even more relevant, isn't this Microsoft's strategy in this space anyway? Provide Windows and Office super cheap to schools and make sure it's all that gets taught?
Yes I have a Patreon link on the footer.
As you said: for MRR you simply divide the annual amount by 12. https://baremetrics.com/academy/saas-calculate-mrr (in the "common mistakes" section, first item).
Very excited to use this for my project
I needed a way to port program to Windows with accurate POSIX, like Cygwin, but without the Cygwin paths and virtual file system and other user-visible quirks.

In under twenty or so fairly simple commits to a fork of the Cygwin DLL, I got it:

http://www.kylheku.com/cygnal/

This is another useful tool in this general arsenal.
I disagree. "Most of the world" has a hard time understanding hierarchical structure like files and directories. Once you introduce git, which basically adds a time dimension to that hierarchical structure--good luck understanding that. It doesn't matter how user-friendly the tool is if the fundamental concepts cannot be understood.
That’s the thing- it’s an idea of a house, rather than a house:

* how much does it cost?

* what’s included? What are the specs on the windows? What kind of toilet? What’s the flooring made from? What are the screws that hold on the bathroom mirror?

* how long is the warranty?

* where is it located?

Obviously these questions don’t apply to a spec house listed on an architect’s site.

But more generally you find when attempting to purchase an off-grid house or even a small/tiny house, that they leave as many question marks up to the buyer to DIY as possible.

I’m advocating for the reverse: sell me the cheap Xiaomi phone of houses: something mass-market, with sane trade-offs, and all the boxes checked in advance, including the parcel where it lives.

Go ahead and put a price tag on the whole package, builders. Customization = bad (for me).

If somebody else wants the modular custom-built PC of houses, that’s fine.

Me, I’m good with mass-market.
I feel that pain! I knew MySQL so well that it felt risky to use a different database, yet if I used it on a non-serious project, how would I get real-world experience?

I learned a lot from a book from one of the core contributors to Postgres - https://theartofpostgresql.com/. It has actual real world examples with realistic datasets to experiment with.
> Without the patents. Because let's be real: zero carbon is more important than the ego of a monopoly-rights -holder, the propertied-class owner of a bloated company which has made use of publicly funded research from day one.

I'm trying to parse your sentence and having difficulty. It sounds like you're trying to say E-Ink is abusing patents and has benefited from publicly funded research. Is that what you're saying and if so, I'd be very interested to see citations to back up the two claims.

I know E-Ink had some founders from MIT, Stanford, and some other big unis but I've never heard that they benefited from or directly use publicly funded research exclusively in their products. At least anymore than any other display industry manufacturer like Samsung, LG, etc. I also see lots of claims on HN that E-Ink is abusing patents and since I happen to work in the display industry and I hadn't heard that myself, I asked the posters for evidence of it. Thus far, I have not seen a positive response, only lazy replies like patent thicket and when I asked do they actually work in the display industry, no reply, so I'm pretty sure these are just people who don't really know what they're talking about.
> See what people are demanding then create a pro version and put that stuff there with a small charge. Continue to update and improve the pro part. Advertise. Hire people. Get big. Sell out. Go to the next thing.

I like this plan.
I hear this a lot, and I likely don’t disagree. But I never see career pages with $$$ next to the job listings. So I’m not sure how most companies get this across. Most I’ve talked to want a phone screen before they have the expectations talk.

Generally I’ve just gone by industry reputation, for where to go. But I wonder if there are any hidden gems out there.
It did not impressive everyone. See https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/sorrows-werther .
You don't but considering he works for AWS, he was probably a part of the Cape Town AWS team doing EC2 stuff before moving.
FIBUA = Fighting In Built-up Areas
There are actually several suggestions, which were repeatedly discussed a decade ago in multiple SARS studies (see my post below).

First is prophylaxis for front line health care workers, who are suffering grave infections likely exacerbated by long hours and low morale. Long term use of chloroquine or alternatives is a concern for this audience. There were fatalities last time, just like this time.

The second is for the patients themselves, who will otherwise endure uncontrolled viral replication for up to two weeks until the adaptive immune response recognizes the pathogen. Reducing transmission requires an earlier end to this stage.

Is the data from the previous studies worthless for these goals?
I don't think this work is inherently morally questionable. I just got weird chills when I saw it got actively removed from the front-page of HN. There is another thread asking why this happened. If it turns out that there is a good reason then I am willing to accept that.
The EC2 project was started in Cape Town.
Also Amazon's CTO has some links to South Africa (or maybe he is from Amsterdam).

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/
That's not why. From now on PG should only write about things he thought about in the shower.
Security through declaration. I'm sure Target would have responded similarly prior to their POS breach that exposed millions of credit card details. "We are confident in the performance of our POS terminals - used in more than 5 zillion transactions since 2008 - and routinely monitor the security of our POS terminals to help ensure customer confidence."

Unfortunately they weren't routinely monitoring the security of their HVAC systems, which is partly how the attackers gained access to the POS terminals.

And automotive systems like these will eventually be breached via the insurance companies' HVAC systems, or something equally and superficially non-related, or by the dealer's unrelated systems, or by drivers' smartphones, otherwise known as drivers' internet connected and therefore compromised computers, or even drivers' music-containing USB thumbdrives (one of which is plugged in to my vehicle's sound system right now).

These days a car is merely a computer, or collection of computers, with wheels. Now that they're networked, either in real time or periodically, the fun begins.
More than once a traceroute has shown traffic stopped at my home router, and a walk outside and around the house showed the comcast man fiddling with the junction box. No knock on the door or "hey, I'm going to be yanking the cable out of your house. hope you saved that file you were editing in vim"

I mostly sometimes remember to use gnu screen now.
I was a software engineer for a company doing open-source backup software for two years. Almost all of the code I worked on was released under the GPL (there were a few proprietary components I worked on).

It's entirely possible to find a salaried position where you develop open source software professionally. However, your employers will most likely not consider that a factor when assigning work.
One thing that's interesting: Steve dogfooding that single button mouse. Image was from 2004, but still – figured he'd be using a multi-button mouse like the rest of us were back then.
Out of curiosity, what is your ranking and what did you discover about your play?
This kind of analysis has a major flaw: these two countries are apples and oranges, by sheer size. We've seen this before: when pundits comment on relative outperformance of infrastructure, education, etc., they forget that the US is a really, really, big place-- and things may not scale as well.

Israel has 2 international airports. The US has quite a few more. So the solutions presented here may not scale well as there is no true "funnel."
A clone is not hard, almost by definition. I could make it for you--what's your budget? Better yet http://mashable.com/2010/04/12/12-chatroulette-clones-you-sh...
Engine yard pays Charles Nutter and Tom Enebo work full-time on JRuby as well as Evan Phoenix and Brian Ford on Rubinius.
We don't need a strong police presence. There are armed people storming the Capitol building, this is absolutely the time for a military response.
> offering no incentive for changing one's mind

What offers even less incentive is when someone knows they will never be held accountable.

Give them some credit when they give a mild amount of evidence that they have actually changed their ways. Doing the right thing in a single instance is not enough evidence.
BLM they had military out in full force, even though BLM was non-violent protests. Flip side this terrorism event was known to be coming and they did very little to prepare for it. Nor are they stopping it with any great haste.
Well, as someone who has saved my company's ass multiple times to the tune of millions of dollars I think technical solutions are orders of magnitude more impactful and foofoo talk bullshit is incredibly limited. So I guess we will have to agree to disagree. Maybe noob coders "produce a day's worth of code" and that's all they can do, that's your perspective.

I've sat through dumb two hour meetings about deciding which words in a document should be capitalized. Is that what is meant by "make sure your team/business is doing the right things?"
Ideally, I wouldn't have to write any custom scripts since PHP and nginx are fairly well known
This is very beautiful, and it's great -- no, essential -- to think of your users!

But speaking of that, please THINK of your users and despise loading times. Hate them with a passion. As they say, kill them with fire!

Do NOT make them prettier, it only makes it easy to think it's OK. It is not OK! Your app can load faster. Way faster. It's easier than you think. And even if it's not, it's worth it.

When you have done everything you can do to speed up the loading time, NOW you can think about loading screens.

Except, don't make it a loading screen. Fake it. Make it look like you loaded faster than you did:

- Let the fastest content load asynchronously with the slower content.

- Is caching for your entire app too hard? Start by caching the entry points from previous visits and show that (although beware of unsettling flashes/jumps in data!)

- If that's too hard, fake it with a screenshot from the last view the user saw (it's been done -- iOS apps).

Once you've done all the above, and exhausted every other idea that you can think of because you know your users better then I do...

... then, only then, you can think -- for maybe an hour or two -- about making the gap a nicer experience. But remember, it must be a NICE experience. BEAUTIFUL does not always equal NICE.

And until that gap is gone, never cross this item off your list!

[Disclaimer: To the creators of this module, I'm not saying your time has been wasted. I'm only talking to app owners, not to you! Thanks for thinking of how to make bad things better! ]
Sounds like an interesting book, so I checked the Amazon page and all of the two-star reviews follow a similar theme:

"In the hands of a writer with a flair for the dramatic and the ability to turn a phrase such as Cornelius Ryan [Wrote The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far] [...], W.E.B. Griffin, Tom Clancy, or Donald Burgett [Wrote "first-hand accounts" and is one of the subjects of Band of Brothers], this book would have been a compelling read. However, Stephen Harding managed to turn [this] into a dull trudge of boredom."

They seem to have difficulty distinguishing fiction (and popular non-fiction) from history, to be complaining that this is in fact a history book.
I'm on my tablet, just checked Netflix. Turns out The Master is unavailable in the UK. Presumably I could work around that, maybe even legally for now - but it's an obvious weakness with the argument about Netflix. Sure it's affordable but these media companies seem determined to keep their archaic licensing systems in place to the detriment of any service that tries to be legal.
I only became aware of this word just now. I'm glad I wasn't aware of it before. I am also hopeful that the headline is accurate and that it is, in fact, dead.
Datadog looks awesome and was incredibly easy to setup and use. Thanks!
Yeah, this. Didn't realize people actually saw this as an issue worthy of worrying about.

The Matasano Crypto Challenges I did way back when were in Go and the ones involving ECB were just done as for loops over the standard library AES Decrypt/Encrypt methods, something like this:

for i := 0; i < blockCount; i++ {
start := i * blockLength
end := start + blockLength
aes.Decrypt(decryptBuffer, input[start:end])
output = append(output, decryptBuffer)
}