jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Explain if I’m wrong but last I checked the transaction fee to transfer from 1 Bitcoin wallet to another is like $30 Australian dollars? My bank charges less for an international wire transfer much less non bank. https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees...

Can we stop pretending it’s a future payment system?
For example, nVidia's chips are made in Taiwan and Korea, and end up in devices sold globally. It's true that a large % of the assembly of circuit boards and electronic products are made in China.

We make control system computers. It's very, very niche. Typically, what we sell to one equipment company, we can sell to others. It's very difficult for companies that are outside of the sub-supplier ecosystem to break in. The controllers are usually customized to some extent, then we sell a few hundred annually of that design.

'A few hundred a year' is a home run product.
Popular Mechanics has been sensationalizing UFOs for at least 35 years.

The second most recent example is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Mechanics#Criticisms
> Seriously?

Hehe no, no, I was joking. I clearly don't think that armies of flying nanobots are actually a potential solution to this problem.
Happened to me too. I'm glad it was a proactive measure and not some script kiddy trying to access my account.
The people buying the pesticides aren't the ones bearing the costs of the adverse effects so whether or not there is a warning label is completely irrelevant.
It appears it's actually an iframe'd webpage that's out of quota

http://youtube-rewind.appspot.com/
> Another fairly interesting paper titled "Evaluating the dynamic behaviour of Python applications", shows that programs in dynamic languages with these runtime modification behaviours often stop modifying their behaviour after a certain amount of "load time".

I find that deeply reassuring, since that's the core idea behind Magpie, the language I'm working on. It's a dynamic language with a static type-checker. The idea is that it runs dynamically at load time so you can imperatively and dynamically build your types and then after that, it statically checks the results, then invokes main() and (presumably) runs in a more or less static fashion after that.
I used to think the same thing about people here on HN, but I realized that a lot of accounts are tied to peoples' real names (and professional lives). So there's a filter that keeps people from discussing anything outside of politically-correct, nice-guy stereotypical talking points. But if you went "off-the-record", you'd probably find quite a few men open up about things like PUA techniques.
I wonder what the performance benefit of adding optional type hints to ruby or python would be.
I thought Nokia was having some financial difficulties? They closed their flagship Manhattan store and EOL'd a bunch of their products (like the Maemo) directly after launch.
I came here to extoll the benefits of stem cell therapy with bio-matter obtained from the proper sources... but you beat me to it. :)
When I read the comments I can't help but feel that Hacker News is 99% male because all the comments are written from a male perspective. Not just that, they also address the community as though the entire community is male. E.g. "is really no different than us looking for a girl with big tits," "Don't think of her as a potential mate."

Does anyone know the gender ratio of HN members? I'd be curious to know if it weren't overwhelmingly male. I think we'd all be better off if we got to see both male and female perspectives.
Yes, this blog entry is old (ca. '07), but the reasoning is pretty lame. In particular, the paragraph where he uses a LISP syntax tree as the runtime representation is a hoot.

I'd suggest he sit down with a copy of LISP IN SMALL PIECES to see how a Lisp (or any bytecoded vm for that matter) interpreter can be implemented efficiently.
I'm from Slovenia, but I think most European faculties (colleges in Europe) don't charge students for degrees. We pay that through taxes. I hope that answers your question.
You are right that the fantasy needs to be played out and its duly mentioned in the article about the woman already expecting a diamond even though the diamond is a surprise gift. This suspense 'game' was what De Beers invented. I mean they could have marketed black rock if it happened to be their line of business.
Actually, I believe that the store asks you "By clicking OK, you agree that you are at least 17 years old." or something like that and if you click Cancel, it won't download.
> a woman that is looking for a man with a nice income, is really no different than us looking for a girl with big tits or with an interest in a special that.

I hear this connection a lot, but I think it's a bit flawed. A person preferring a certain kind of physique or build doesn't necessarily indicate anything about his/her values. But a desire for comfort and luxury indicates a hell of a lot about a person's values.

I think more equivalent would be saying a guy who looks for a woman with large breasts is similar to a woman looking for a very tall man, and either partner looking for money/luxury/comfort/status/inheritance/titles is the same thing.

I'm a rather great admirer of the Stoic tradition, I have not so much use for luxury or comfort, and I think it's potentially corrupting. I've been with a few women who prioritize luxury and comfort and things like that, but it's clear pretty early on that they're going to be funding their own luxury and comfort, whereas I'm more Spartan and would rather enjoy nature, reading books together at a cafe, laying in bed listening to classical music, and things like that. There is no fine dining, shopping trips, or things like that with me - because frankly, I'd be miserable doing that sort of stuff and a man shouldn't be miserable with his woman.

If you're strong and set those groundrules early, you can usually have a pretty good few year run with a girl who is only mildly interested in luxury/comfort. A girl who is obsessed with it, maybe you can't get on her official boyfriend -> fiance -> husband track, but that's a good thing for the man who doesn't want to be immersed in consumerism, luxury, and comfort.

So no, I disagree with the looks/money equivalence - most people have a preference for a certain set of looks which doesn't necessarily indicate anything, but a strong desire for luxury/comfort is a big red flag to people who don't want that life - though it might be perfect for a guy who does like fine dining and luxury too.
Jeez, Louise. Again: It was A JOKE. Why do you think I put it in inverted commas?
Right—they ask it to make sure that you're at least saying that you're 17 years old. They don't require it to be true; it just has to make any lawsuit you could later file get thrown out.
I think you're absolutely right. I'd say that's the difference between a developer and a hacker-founder. Look at the YC App-- YC optimizes for people who game systems because BUSINESS rewards people who game systems.

If you leave low-hanging opportunity on the table because your software business won't lower itself to things like sales, marketing, SEO, PR, etc-- you're doing a disservice to your investors and your co-founders.
Malcom Gladwell wrote an article with a similar viewpoint in the New Yorker a few years ago: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/15/081215fa_fact_...
To add to your argument...

Most of the infosec people I work with would score exceptionally low on the questions in TFA. That's because to do their job they have to argue with management, get buy in etc. Unless there's a gaping hole they're going to go with whatever the product does. They're not going to get involved with key exchange algorithms because the tool abstracts that. They're going to get involved with compliance. That's why we have things like FIPS-140-2, Common Criteria, EAL, CAPS etc.

Is that a bad thing? Possibly. One would hope that such products do a proper job. The realisation is not always so. We've broken two FIPS-140-2 products in the past 3 years, one of which was used in the Chinese olympics bid with dangerous results.

Personally I think knowing your boundaries and being able to express them (for example whenever people mention crypto I tell them I'm not the right guy, and if it was transatlantic I'd definitely say tptacek would be someone more worth talking to in that area) is more important than attempting to be a one-stop shop for all things security.
$1,000 a month includes a team of 3?!?
Thanks for the great feedback!

Will definitely keep you in the loop.

I think I'm going to yank the FFMPEG encoding for now as there isn't an easy binary install for users, but it definitely will be in the V2.

Thanks again!
Who enters the menu data for the restaurant?
Silverstripe. Open source BSD licensed built ontop of a quite nice MVC php framework that takes a lot of influence from RoR.

Is a dream to build both basic and powerful CMS driven sites in. And has a templating language that is like a simpler Erb. No I don't work for them, I just think it is by far the best CMS I've come across
implementing linked lists the way the linux kernel does, that is: each node contains one pointer for each list it can be part of, that pointer's position is determined using some offset_of( field, name) macro.
People said something just as harmless about x-rays in its heyday, too.

That's a ridiculous statement. Before understanding QM, no reasonable person would make any such claims.

Anyone who claimed that these "x-rays" (named "x" because we didn't know what they were) had no effect on matter, except to be absorbed by it, was a moron. I don't think any credible scientist made this claim, but feel free to cite one. Once we understood they were EM waves at higher frequency than UV light, it is very simple to deduce they might cause ionization.

Once we developed quantum mechanics and time-dependent perturbation theory, it was just a matter chugging through the calculations. Literally millions of experiments have confirmed that QM works really fucking well. If Ephoton > Ebond, you get O(I) ionization. If Ephoton < Ebond you get O(I^2) ionization, which is really small (unless I is huge).

I stand by my statement: if you disprove this, you will overturn the past 100 years of physics. We will need to throw away every single QM textbook written since the 50's. You will receive the next Nobel prize. Future textbooks will forever refer to "Newton, Einstein, and hackermom."
I feel like the job of "paying people do things then taking the profit and credit" isnt the best allocation of resources
Why all the down votes when the company is doing a bait and switch with their pricing?
What are you referring to? This is a blog post and the talk that she refers to in the first paragraph has full audio/video available here: http://jsconf.eu/2010/speaker/the_jquery_divide_by_rebecca_m...

Hope that helps your hate.
I think this separation between what different recruiters want actually makes for an easy way for the applicant to filter out the companies whose culture doesn't fit their own. Make your cover letter and resume fit you, if it gets dropped because it isn't what the recruiter wants (too short, too long, etc.) then that company probably wouldn't have been a good fit anyway.
They pay more than I'll ever get paid.
> leaving each state making their own decisions for covid-19

It's so infuriating that this BS would pass for some sort of Trump accolade. The country is in full-blown crisis, the likes of which we haven't seen in a century. Why should the president do anything? He let the states handle it. What a great leader!
It depends on the project. Some projects (can't think of examples off the top of my head, sorry, but they have come up here on HN) do reach pretty widespread usage without anyone being paid to work on them full time, and potentially with only one unpaid developer on the project.
This is such a god-awful take.

They rushed through barricades of the legislative building during a session. This session wasn't merely "some bill" for gun control, or abolishing taxes, or amending the Constitution, or what have you.

It was the procedure of finally and officially certifying the results of an election that has been improperly questioned by the incumbent. This election has been concluded to be free of systemic fraud, or any level of fraud sufficient to flip any state. And yet these seditious citizens broke in with the intent to stop such a vote from occurring, to the extent that representatives had to flee to safety and several people died.

I personally did not support the level of property damage from the summer protests, but the differences are large. Protesting for political change through collective action, and being attacked in many instances by the very force they claim is oppressive.

The protesters in DC were attacking the will of the people, based on lies and the encouragement of the sitting President - and pretty much welcomed in by local law enforcement.
Just wanted to say I second your comment. I have absolutely zero love for Trump and his clownish supporters, but the partisanship on display here is truly absurd. I really worry for the future if these are the individuals at the heads of major tech corps.
It became unnecessary for survival.
It would be fun to try and do this with CSS transforms, transitions, :target selectors and a bit of javascript.
but the whole idea is... every one has their own notion of likes and dislikes.... am i missing something here?
I’m building an open source accounting system with rpc endpoints being the primary method for inputting data and a SQL database that can be queried easily.

GoDBLedger:
https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger

For the most part that backend of the system is working how I want. I now need to build more front end ways to communicate to it.

One of the front end methods I’m working on is programmable journal entries. So you write your journal entries in a JavaScript file which gets executed in the context of the accounting system so you will have full access to the account balances. However this is still early stages:

Yurnell:

https://github.com/darcys22/yurnell
Yeah, sorry buddy, I'm not going to get tested like that.
Isn't this why "Alexa, add flour and olive oil to my shopping list" supposed make it so useful? You know when you are using something that you are almost out, and easy to say out loud to add to a list. It doesn't need to be so granular so something gets a reorder when there is only 2oz of olive oil left.
The beauty of capitalism is "we" don't decide CEO pay. The owners of the company do, and it's paid out of the owners' pocket.

Anyone is free to start a corporation, name a CEO, and pay him whatever they want to (from their money). They can even name themselves CEO!
You can't even customize the layout of the screen, it's limited in ways that are not worth fighting against. Nowadays you can get much better for very little money. on Mac you got Garageband that's leaps better and free, on Windows you got Cakewalk for free. There's others too. This one isn't worth even looking at.
I'm working on https://www.fastorslow.com/ - provides website performance from 13 locations globally through browser simulation.

Soft launched this week. Already getting some exciting results. Working through an issue with the South African based server this weekend because we think the ISP we're using has a crappy network and may have underspecced their servers severely which is causing results to drift way out of the mean. But could also be an overloaded internet over there. We'll probably take ZA offline until Monday. Everything else working great!
Funny how NYTimes calls the elected leader - despised by Trump et al - as a dictator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Venezuelan_presidential_e...

And how when there was a coup in Bolivia they said Morales resigned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Bolivian_political_crisis

At least on foreign policy regime change Trump and the NYTimes are on the same page.
Are you aware of any studies on this specifically? Sounds very plausible but hard to weigh against the benefit of catching expelled droplets. I imagine the calculus changes depending on age, and whether your primary concern is preventing your own infection vs. transmission to others.
What if the projection space were mobile? One of the applications is to put projectors on moving objects, and project onto static (or moving) surfaces, assuming the system gets small & portable enough. How about one or more projectors mounted on each car of the Haunted Manison ride, or projectors mounted on flying drones aimed at the Spaceship Earth (the geodesic Epcot globe) during the night light show? Combine multiple projectors and a position tracking system, maybe even viewer head/eye tracking too, and I think there might be some amazing possibilities...
> storage costs of whatever CO2 is sequestered

CO2 is not spent uranium.
Facebook could not afford not to as they would lose a huge amount of users. Apple is just doing to them what FB does to people: Accept these terms, be tracked everywhere, or miss out on all the people providing us free content on our platform. Many people accept that because they don't want to be unable to communicate or view things in their garden. That is leveraging their huge scope to push less favorable terms.

So FB has Apple with some leverage over them saying accept this or else. FB is in a weak position because it would be hard to tell your users hey leave Apple because they won't let us take all your data without permission. I don't feel for them at all.
More comprehensive pre-flight screening could not have stopped the Sept. 11 attacks, because they did not involve sneaking contraband onto the plane. The cardboard box cutters that were used in the attack were allowed at the time.
I may try to translate the examples into Javascript (CommonJS platform, not client-side .. on second thought, I may simply do it on NodeJS with Coffeescript) - just so I can learn the topic better. I find that much like taking notes during a lecture, it helps me retain the knowledge better.

Maybe you should try to do the same with python? :)
The Beatles being made available in MP3 17 years after the invention of the MP3 isn't exactly noteworthy.
in the 2000s, only Eminem sold more albums in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

However old the fans may be, they sure do buy a lot of music.

And there aren't that many other bands with their entire own edition of Rock Band.
Agreed. I was hanging out with Friends last night in Foster City, CA, and I had decided that I was going to spend Thanksgiving in Reno. A few of my friends said "Is there anything to do other than Gamble in Reno?" So, I did what any silicon valley denizen would do, an whipped out my iphone. I typed in the following:

What is there

That's it, just three words.

Third line down on my screen, courtesy of google, was:

"What is there to do in Reno"

Scared the living crap out of me.
Perhaps a little background will help explain why some consider this a big deal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
Or colonize it like Australia was.
>this is not sexual assault

And tomorrow I bet we're going to start hearing claims that "she was asking for it anyway".
The man throws out an excellent plug in the article: vimcasts (http://vimcasts.org).
Drew Neil (the man who creates/narrates them) does an excellent job of explaining not only the basics of vim, but also the intricacies of it as well. I consider myself a fairly seasoned vim user, but even I picked up a few tricks from his vimcasts. Try them out.
I don't know what to say — we're super aggressive in my company about promoting talent to technical leadership roles. I run a small (22 person) product/professional services company.

I think it might be the companies you're working for. If you're talented, and you've talked to your boss about it, she/he should respond in the shorter term with an opp. to accomplish your career goals. Or you need to leave the company and get a technical leadership job.

You might just be too tolerant to the paycheck.

I think that's why so many posters are suggesting you start your own startup. Get aggressive (politely) about what you want. Once you know what you want, the world either responds or whatever limits that circumstance goes away (if you're really clear).

My 2c. Startup or be clear with your boss or company switch.

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The linked article makes this clear:

> In case you need a refresher, cement is a powdery lime-and-clay substance that is combined with water and gravel or sand to make concrete.
Another option: https://threema.ch (no phone number required, fully anonymous, fully open source)
What sort of tasks?

FWIW, I had a similar configuration to yours (just an older MBP) and installing an SSD helped immensely. I can hit 200% CPU load and not even realize it until the fans kick in…
Sure, but the flip side is the incredible day-to-day flexibility you have to engage in whatever interests or random fun activities that pop up. I can easily take afternoons and days off, or sleep in until 11 if I want.
Nexus One- It was designed as a hacker phone and a developer phone. I love my Droid, but for developing, the N1 takes the cake.
I just said on another post that I wished someone did this with more modern languages like Python or Ruby. I guess someone did, and someone heard me!
Stack exchange is more for a quick questions and answers than having conversations. Thats why it fares better for technical topics than topics like theoretical physics.
Aside from donations, some get hired directly by corporations to develop the projects further. Obviously, there is some pressure to move the project in a certain direction when that happens.
There's an open secret in the Information Security industry (at least here in the UK), which is that the Payment Card Industry don't care about your security. What they care about is shifting as much of the liability onto the consumer, the merchant, anyone other than themselves as is possible.

We have a system in place here called Chip and Pin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_and_PIN) which was supposed to protect people by requiring them to type in a personal PIN code. The only problem was that there were plenty of ways to commit fraud without knowing the PIN, and until new regulations came into force the banks would reject claims of fraudulent transactions and require the victim to prove that such transactions weren't fraudulent.

If you want to see how bad the card industry and banks can 'do security', just look here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/banking/
I don't think the average airport taveler and the average american line up that well. Someone making 7$ an hour is going to fly far less than someone making 70$ an hour.
Wait, are these just ebooks or does this stand for the print copy as well? Oddly, the receipt doesn't specify at checkout.

*Edit:
Just confirmed, it`s for ebooks only.
It's called lynx.

Man I feel old.

Back to my Gopher session...
We're heading into the time of year that I've always struggled the most with my chronic depression. I really have to force myself to get outside and get sunlight, exercise, and eat better than usual. Those three things go a long way. The short days and cold weather really make it hard.
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One can get a higher multiplier effect from other types of programs than from tax cuts. You can look this up. The rest of what I said was an opinion because it was in response to the Krauthammer article that said that liberals should be happy with what Obama has done. I'm a liberal and I'm not happy and I stated why.
Depends on what you like. The Dune and Foundation sagas are excellent (although a bit dated). For a more modern feel checkout Alastair Reynolds and Peter Hamilton.