jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Only if you are dollar cost averaging over long periods of time.

The primary reason most people save/invest is for retirement. So if you start saving at the age of 25, after schooling, that's forty years until the 'traditional' retirement age of 65.

> IMO, you invest strategically. Build cash positions over time as you ride the business cycle.

The odds are stacked against you when buying the dip:

> Why is this true? Because buying the dip only works when you know that a severe decline is coming and you can time it perfectly. Since dips, especially big ones, haven’t happened too often in U.S. market history (i.e. 1930s, 1970s, 2000s), this strategy rarely beats DCA. And the times where it does beat DCA require impeccable timing. Missing the bottom by just 2 months lowers the chance of outperforming DCA from 30% to 3%.

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...
I think the expectation is that the locksmith would have to travel twice, once to setup the safe cracker, and once to pick it up. ( $150 x 2 ) + $300 = $600

That said: If the safe is old and the locksmith is pretty good, there's a legit possibility that the locksmith could just crack the safe. I had an old safe worked on and the locksmith told me he could open it without the combo just from the feel of the tumblers.
I made a similar open source self hosted tool for sharing logs or analysis from several machines, hosting internal versioned documentation, counters and time-series graphs etc.,

This was from a few years ago - https://github.com/sairam/daata-portal/tree/master/daata-ser...

When people working in ops or with remote CLIs would have a great need for such a tool.
As is relabelling of honey from countries where the US has banned honey imports (like China), due to health and dumping concerns.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/07/173737521/nation...
If anybody else read this and, like me, immediately wanted an implementation of it to play with, the closest I could find was a part-implemented cljs version here: https://github.com/asolove/Sketchpad

Does anyone know of a fully implemented graphical editor that supports constraint satisfaction like this?
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Davies has showed up on my blog a few times. It's possible you will enjoy these miscellaneous notes on _The Manticore_: https://blog.plover.com/book/Manticore.html
I spent 2 hours last Friday trying to wrap my head around what UTF-8 was (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim is great, but doesn't explain the inner workings like this does) and completely failed, could not understand it. This made it super easy to grok, thank you!
I feel like debates (especially on BS) are (or have to be?) repeated way too often, why is that anyway? Why can't it be one single tree, consisting of branches on multiple platforms, collecting, managing and curating?
I guess that's ArsTechnica's fault; other NUCs come with non-applied stickers in the box so I guess with 5i7 it's the same as well...
They did follow due process.
An industry body bought off some politicians who passed a law making attacks on their business model a matter of national security.

That's been standard procedure since at least 1776
What the author is trying to imply is closer to, "Come on, people need to wear the right hats on the job. Sikhs can wear dastaars on their own time, let's not exempt them based on 'freedom of religion'."
Sometimes advice sounds perfect for any situation but actually needs to be applied judiciously. It is easy to succumb to the "wow" factor of another person's story of their success. I will use Henry Ford to counter nielr1:

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
You could also look at any big non-profit/think tank and find a similar list of corporate donations.
The article does not say that they sequenced the whole "ancient" genome and indeed it is quite unlikely that they did so. They probably matched lots of isolated segments, however.

As for contamination issues... Nothing beats the original article when working out the odds of such a thing.
I think funders are generally fair game to consider when looking at someone expressing an opinion that directly impacts the funders. There are good reasons that conflict-of-interest rules exist for folks like judges and even schoolteachers. We don't have legislatively-mandated conflict-of-interest rules for pundits and think-tanks, but imo it's still fair for individuals to consider whether conflicts of interest might exist.
So, where do I verify sourcewatch's creditability and neutrality?
I get it. Sometimes ISPs realize that making your life difficult is easier than fixing the problems that can occur where lines go bad. No matter the provider, edge cases exist, and 3-5% of the time a company sucks. Anecdotally I can say comcast is that provider for me, but generally speaking they were not much worse than AT&T or my current provider, consolidated. All have been decent 95% of the time.
Suppose that instead the shock was intense enough to kill half the chimps and wasn't turned off. Now the chimp that "gets out there and grabs it" causes many deaths.

The real moral here should be the importance of passing down the reasoning behind certain actions. Information would allow future chimps to weigh the risk/benefit of touching the electric meat.
A JIT is just more attack surface. Change my mind.
The merchant is pretty much always liable for fraudulent card-not-present transactions, so bulletproof security in this case is not necessary if you can just dispute any fraudulent transactions and get them reversed.
Highly specific to Dell XPS laptops, but I used to have a similar issue to this. Eventually realised that the display wasn't actually turning off sometimes when I closed the lid. After much mucking around, it eventually turned out that in some of these laptops the magnet in the lid that triggers the "lid closed" action can become physically unstuck, and move around in the display housing (on my XPS 9350 this is in the bottom right corner of the display). Using an external magnet to jiggle it around both allowed testing to trigger the sensor and confirm the issue, and also to move it back to its proper location. Seems to work properly again now.
Doesn't work if the first move overwrote a file, or if $2 is a directory.
Ah, I myself am what they call an Excel wiz. I’ve been building all kinds of tools with excel since I started working in finance in 2007.

Excel has been both a miracle and a curse. We could make super complex apps in hours, but these were insanely unsafe. People would leave typos all over the place, and there was zero way to audit changes.

This is THE major reason for this tool to exist.
Does lisp have native bigints, or would something like (+ MAX_INT MAX_INT MIN_INT) still suffer from operator precedence issues?
Yes, they are listed here: http://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr4.4
Only for sufficiently powerful systems, I believe.

Things like first order logic are too simple to introduce the kinds of statements Godel used to prove the incompleteness theorem about arithmetic.
Glad he mentions the macro collapse possibility (which is out of his hands, and therefore irrelevant to his career except as a binary "shall I stay in this business" decision). I think any talk of bubble in tech should mention the direction of equities as an asset class, and particularly the very cheap capital available at the moment.

So when you are taking a directional bet on "the tech bubble" (including deciding to make a career as a developer or startup founder) you are really taking a position on China's economy, and global interest rates for the duration of the bet.

Hypothetical question: how many of today's startups would make it through their first five years if interest rates were in their mid-70s levels? What happened to other asset classes during the high interest rate days and what would a savvy investor have done at the time?

It's becoming a very real consideration for many countries; see the fall in AUDUSD since 2013. In 2011, the majority of online e-commerce in Australia was cross-border, because the exchange rate was so good [1] and wholesale prices in Australia could be as high as 50% higher than the rest of the world. If you're a domestic online retailer today, raising capital abroad and competing against foreign retailers (say, you're The Iconic, financed in EUR and selling in AUD, competing against ASOS selling in GBP and shipping in USD), life just got a hell of a lot better.

[1] can't find the link now, but the Commonwealth Bank of Australia crunched the numbers on over a million customers' accounts and published a fantastic report showing where the money went. In some sectors, over 90% of revenue came from abroad!
30-50m for ./manage.py migrate seems way too long.

Are you collapsing your migrations?

Unless you need to maintain multiple production environments with different versions of your software you should be doing so with some regularity.
I think the performance comment is in regard to the single-threaded common case. The reason the GIL is still around is that Guido has said that a replacement is only acceptable if it avoids performance regressions for single-threaded code. Most of the Python world seems to have concluded that that's not possible in practice.
I never could really commit to AA, the organization, but... I met some great people there. I ended up in AA, thinking my life was over, but when I heard what other people had been through (awful awful things), I was very humbled. The people and their shared experiences helped me gain perspective.

Although I mostly solved the drinking problem myself, outside of AA, AA still helped me.

I compare it to attending Church. I am not a fan of organized religion, nor am I religious, but I have met some great people there.
Never saw any flamewars on KDE forums. Users there are very helpful.
Think about it for a moment.

1, Facebook automagicly tagging you in pictures based on facial recognition.
2, Geotagging pictures becomes common place.
For what it's worth, here are the top engineering (graduate) schools ranked by US News & World Report in 2010:

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...

It seems clear to me that just because an area has a top engineering school nearby, that doesn't necessarily make it a startup hotbed...
This came up in the first entry. Netflix would apparently dispute your take on their core competency.

http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/four-reasons-we-choose-a...

The problems [Amazon] are trying to solve are incredibly difficult ones, but they aren’t specific to our business. Every successful internet company has to figure out great storage solutions, hardware failover, networking infrastructure, etc.

Their third argument for virtualized infrastructure was "We're not very good at predicting customer growth or device engagement", which strikes me as a compelling problem to solve. Having to change their approach to managing service dependencies and failures doesn't seem like too high a price to pay.
Your MacBook does have a home key, it's just not labelled any more. fn+left arrow is home, and end is the obvious counterpart. fn+up/down are page up/down too.

I use ctrl-a and ctrl-e too, but sometimes you're using remote desktop (or synergy) with a Windows machine...
Ctrl-a ctrl-a toggles between screens; ctrl-a a sends a ctrl-a sequence to the terminal.
That's what mock objects are for. You mock the object that would normally call the remote system, have it artificially fail, and use that to test clients of that object.
Pedro's DJ fork[1] has worked quite well for me. What didn't go well with it for you?

[1] https://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling
Negative Nancy. Ever heard of the "Backlog too deep" error? That's a scaling issue, not the error you mentioned.
Long story in short --> its July 28, 2011
Ah yes. My apologies.

Our current burn rate is about $20k a month, which includes modest founder salaries (not quite enough to pay the bills, but it helps).

Most of our burn is actually for third-party data providers, which are essential to our business at this time.

We do think we're close to revenue, but it may be a few months longer before we're actually cashflow positive.

I'll be honest -- there's a divorce between our heads and our guts at this time. From a business perspective, it makes sense to keep the lights on and see where this thing goes. If we walk away from this deal, we put the company in serious jeopardy unless we can find an accelerated path to revenue. So the head says yes, but the gut says no.
This is where a lot of the problems come from. To many "designers" think that they're also usability experts and information architects. The main problem comes from the fact that those disciplines can be subjective in their nature. A lot of decision making in those roles is about personal "opinion" as in; "Well, I think the search box should sit in the top-left corner of the page". What's easier than stating your opinion? And we all love doing that. A lot of employers simply do not understand this.
If my metrics look too good to sound real, want to buy a website? You know for a fact its owner undervalues it. ;-)
It would just turn into a place where nobs ask questions, and you really want that done in the proper place. And you also have the moderator overhead.
This is really weird. I went to UCF and it was regular practice for instructors to either give you the tests beforehand, previous test for reference, or tell you to find students that may have taken the class before and look at their tests for reference.
Its clear that its the first part of a series of articles. Are you saying he shouldn't have blogged about it until 6 months down the line when he has all the subsystems in place?
It seems to me that Feature Macros will be trivially implementable as a library once Feature Expressions land:

#+clj (def *host* :clj)
#+cljs (def *host* :cljs)
The site isn't worth much if advertisers don't want to be associated with the content.
Which pretty well proves that the city wasn't in it for the money before they sold the rights.
And also barszcz biały, litewski, francuski, jabłkowy, ogórkowy and of course, the most important: barszcz do picia :)
I seem to recall similar stories from Louisiana and Florida, except the Florida one also involved digging up bodies from unmarked graves around the "boot camp" for delinquent juveniles. My memory is suspect, so maybe do your own research.

There's also the movie "Holes", the book it was based on, and the reality it was based on. "Boot camps" are plagued with corruption, abuse, and neglect all over the US. Wherever you are, if you dig deeply enough, you are likely to find someone profiting from children's misery.
I often have to add an "Amsterdam" in there as well.
More representatives is not the solution. They are already paying too much. We don’t need have more so they come up with new ideas to spend more money.

The solution is keep representatives local. At the age of internet, there is no reason why they need to be in DC to allow lobbyists to access all of them in 1 place.
Yep. Puppeteer is the state of the art wrt headless browsers. There's money to be made selling B2B wrappers of OS software though. Not to trivialize the author's work...
While it should be enough, torture is not just a bad idea because its inhuman, or that the information supplied under torture often is false. Torture is bad from a military standpoint, as has been explored by books like "The art of war" and other works from that time-period until now. If the enemy know that surrender means torture, they will fight until the very last man with all the effort of desperate people.

Sun Tzu warns thus: "Soldiers when in desperate straits lose the sense of fear. If there is no place of refuge, they will stand firm. If they are in hostile country, they will show a stubborn front. If there is no help for it, they will fight hard."
People are only reaching out to encryption from private companies because the justice department is not being kept in check when it comes to getting warrants. If he wants companies to stop incorporating high levels of encryption into their products, stop making their customers(also called citizens) feel like they need it.
I wrote the native-code assembler for the 4004/4040 Intel Microprocessor development system which was compatible with the cross assembler system that ran on IBM 360 hardware. Tom Pittman wrote a eprom-resident assembler for the 4004 development board notable because the opcodes were chosen to allow the table in which they were stored to be executable code in order to save space.

Coding for the 4-bit limited resource 4004/4040 necessarily involved being very close to the machine. At the 2nd Asilomar Microprocessor Workshop the virtues of coding for the 4004 in split-octal was hotly debated with Matt Biewer of Pro Log, an early embedded systems house, arguing in the affirmative. Those of use who supported higher-level programming languages were in the lunatic fringe. Some even thought that assemblers were confusing.
I'm going to have an impact on google's internet bill this month.
It's legally dubious as to whether or not translating someone else's text is piracy.

But that's irrelevant: this is supposed to be a legitimate business. Legitimate businesses aren't supposed to build a business model around selling others' works without permission.

Unless you're claiming that Crunchy are just as equally "thieves" as the pirates they supposedly work against, in which case I agree.
You've touched on a challenging question. Daniel and I spent some time trying to figure that out. Studying additional startups would help. Our guesses:

- The connections are able to and do make a large number of intros. The distribution was starkly bimodal - connectors with less than 3 intros yielded nothing, and those with over 10 intros yielded 940K. Will this hold across other startups? Not sure, but it's an interesting thing to think about.

- Several relationship characteristics influenced the downstream result: previous relationship, mode of contact, etc.

- There are many intangibles that founders can sense when they're meeting with people. Sensing their capacity and interest in a skill.

I don't think it's possible to know it exactly in the midst of the process, but focusing time and energy on the high potential connections is a good strategy.

As an aside, there's nothing wrong with post-hoc understanding that can help the next round/others in the same situation.

Good question,
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Thanks for the feedback and encouragement! We've created the timeline such that it looks beautiful on an iPad, filling up the full screen. However, we have our eyes on a native app as well.
It's really difficult, I find, to come up with something that hasn't already been done before

There were plenty of Twitter tools that'd let you schedule tweets before TweetingMachine was developed. If you have competition, it means there's money in that space :)
Perfect. You communicated it much better than I could. Thanks.
As a call centre drone I was required to sign a non-compete for Nokia saying that I wouldn't work for any other mobile phone manufacturer for a period of three years.

In practice I no one cared what their phone goons did after they left, but I suspect it was applied to everyone they hired, either directly or through outsourcing (like I was).

In fact, after the outsourcer lost the contract several of the people I worked with immediately went to do phone support for Samsung or Motorola (all three were in the same building).
More safe havens for wealth are the last thing a world suffering from vast economic inequality needs. "Safe haven" isn't a positive thing, it's another way in which Bitcoin makes the world worse, along with funding ransomware and other crimes and burning more electricity than Argentina to conduct as many transactions as a small town.

And in response to the list of of Bitcoin's negative impacts, the only defense is that it might protect someone's wealth, which only reveals how little its proponents care about anything except their own wealth.
I had forgotten about Microserfs. A reread is in order to see how Generation X and Microserfs have dated.
Healthy adult hippos can fight off most predators, so they are largely immune from predation in their natural habitat. There are lots of videos on YouTube of them injuring or killing lions and large crocodiles, although a pride of lions might get lucky on occassion. However, baby and juvenille hippos and old sick hippos are vulnerable.
It’s long enough that Google tripped its own security warnings.
Certificate pinning has made this a pain in the arse.
Google scrambling behind the scenes to rip privacy invasive code out of their apps seems like the most likely explanation to me
In pitest mutations are seeded into your code, then your tests are run. The assumption is: If your unit test don't fail after changed code, it may indicate an issue with the test suite.

In fuzz testing, the mutations are seeded into the inputs. Depending on the fuzzing approach, those might be seeded from random, patterns, application behavior, etc. Jazzer is based on libFuzzer, meaning that it's feedback-loop is based on which coverage metrics are reported during run-time.

Integrating important JVM projects is work in progress ;-)
it makes zero sense that the space bar is the size that it is.
The way I view it is muscle memory is important because you use the tool so frequently. For the same reason, continuous minor improvements can add up quickly.

People definitely go overboard but I think it’s worth it to experiment a little bit and see if you can gradually optimize some things you do a lot. I’m a big fan of the Ergodox keyboards and having a decent number of layers. For example, holding W turns my right hand into a window manager. Holding F turns my right hand into an app switch (H = Chrome, J = IntelliJ etc). All of this is on/near the home row so it’s minimally straining.

Learning curves on new keyboards are awful though!
I google stuff my co-workers find funny but my boss doesn't.
The problem is that you need to tailor your problem to the core thats actually running, which means you can't really develop on any old NVIDIA gpu and expect optimal performance on the cluster.

But on the other hand a developer who works for 8 hours a day is going to cost about 22 dollars -- which isn't that much when you take his salary into account.

In other words: stop being cheap and start saving money.
Is there any physical analogue of this type of thing, perhaps in some computing museum? Some kind of giant mechanical CPU that I can walk inside of and inspect the registers and logic gates as computations are being performed?
There's some places listed here where you can use bitcoins:

http://www.bitcoin.org/trade

There are also other directories and services which you can find in the bitcoin forums.
The thing that annoys me the most about this new TSA rebellion is that Americans realized TSA policy is way over only now that people started touching (or even just scanning) their boops and junks.
bitcoin generation is rate limited such that one 'block' is generated every 10 minutes or so. Generating a block produces 50 coins. As more computation comes on board the difficulty increases to try and keep the average around that.
They seem surprised that mathematicians, who deal very strictly in almost pure logic, ply their skills in the philosophical realms. I highly doubt this has anything to do with math's "mystical tendencies" and more to do with similar skill sets.

Also, apparently they haven't taken even moderately high level math courses, which give much more concrete definitions of divisibility. 17 is prime because it matches the definition of "prime". It also doesn't match the definition of "even". What of it? Blue is blue because it's blue, not because it can't be arranged into a rectangle.