jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yeah, interest rate risk and increased debt service costs bankrupting companies is a bigger issue than slowing or stopping QE. I hope the Fed can figure a way out of this without hyperinflation, but it’s a distinct possibility. I agree that they’ll wait to raise rates until inflation really starts cooking above 3%.
When you own things, i.e. assets, inflation is not really an issue. Of the rich, only lenders are affected by inflation.

Also wages have not been rising enough to counter trends.
The reality is it’s not the 1% it’s the 0.1% and 0.01%..
Looks nice but I dislike the animations. Also maybe clicking anywhere in a div should open up the comments?
If Solar Winds CEO, CTO, and everyon below them had taken the responsibility of security even slightly seriously, they would have made the system secure against such leaks. Some really simple steps:

1) access restrictions such that even malicious interns, and certainly careless interns can do little damage *when* the inevitable leak happens

2) Actively scan everyone's online presence, and let them know that this is a requirement of employment.

3) Require 2FA

4) Much better training so it is reduced

5) Internally firewalled and airgapped systems

I could go on... but none of these were done

The fact that they blame the intern shows that they are insanely unqualified for any job related to any sort of security. These CxOs are active hazards in the industry.
Exactly. Much worse syntax choices. Would not want to spend my time with it, when I have much more with 101.

But it least the VM is much faster than 101
Yeah there is definitely some mental namespace pollution between EC and ECS where, as you described, you have “EC systems” (Entity-Component systems) and “ECS systems” (uhh “Entity-Component-System systems”).

Actual Systems in practice have dependency chains and other things, to make sure that updates are done in the right order, scheduling mechanisms, and ways to make cross-component talking safe, and performant.

Do you know if there is a formal term for this kind of dependency chain and update order scheduling is called? I’m interested in ways this kind of checking can be done at compile time, or at least a run time guarantee that things won’t be done in the wrong order and fails to compile/generates run time errors when you have a cyclic dependency rather than having to map that all out by hand.
As an intern? I would find it somewhat worrisome if an intern at some random company would be given access to mission critical systems and data within a week. That would definitely qualify as an oversight failure, and 'small' is a pretty relative affair, if the company has four people then I could see your point - maybe - but if it had 30 or more than it really isn't ok.
Can we maybe get a list of company blogs that are legit? As in they practice what they preach?

Facebook, Amazon, Netflix Google, Microsoft comes to the top of my head but someone is free to burst my bubble.
Oh, I haven't seen that one, thanks for the pointer, it's also a new thing, started last August. https://e-resident.gov.ee/nomadvisa/ there's a monthly gross income threshold of €3504 so for struggling freelancers it's not going to work.
On the contrary, I'd give a rib to go back to the office. I'm completely fine doing just 2 remote days.
> TL;DR http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png

> This is what I sent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqn-EmU5KPw

> This is what they got back to me with: http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png

> [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treo_600 (gallery of 2-6,8-9 here: http://imgur.com/a/Gu70R) [2]:http://i.imgur.com/xVdpUST.jpg [3]:http://i.imgur.com/2Yy8fkM.jpg [4]:http://i.imgur.com/nZ7GwC1.jpg [5]:http://i.imgur.com/OJuZmh3.jpg [6]:http://i.imgur.com/z9mNkHt.jpg [7]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid1 [8]:http://i.imgur.com/9VKcxlY.jpg [9]:http://i.imgur.com/5KeI9TI.jpg

(links as comment so clickable)
Yes, I can't recall where I first read this (someone's comment on HN most probably) but it was very enlightening.
I think a lot of candidates also forget this, partly because they "need a job".
Couldn't you say that hard drives, SSDs, tape backups, etc are all still physical mediums? While these mediums lose data over time, forensics will still be able to recover partial data, similar to other physical mediums (pen and paper, photos, etc).
One of the major problems with Yelp and other services is that people review different things about every experience, yet each place only has a single rating.

People, not being professional reviews, don't approach reviews like one, and are prone to attach different meanings to the star rating. For example, restaurants: On Yelp, people will frequently give a one-star rating due to due waiters, loud guests, wrong food delivered by accident, slow door-to-door delivery, lack of accomodation for some primadonna request, imagined slights, etc. — "...but the food was great!". Such star ratings are nonsensical.

Zagat (when they existed in their original form) had the good sense to distinguish between different aspects of a business. I can accept rude or indifferent service or a poor atmosphere if the food is legendary, for example.
It's not the moral downsides so much as torture is a race to the bottom. It's like, which side can be more awful.
> Oh it's not even just Referral leak it's actually it the request in some cases, so blatantly intentional.

Be careful about throwing the term intentional around. There is nothing to suggest this is the case. It's just a shocking breakdown in security/testing processes and/or a bug. We see security/privacy issues everyday. They are almost never intentional.
I imagine it would be difficult for earth-based entities to enforce jurisdiction in far space. If you already have possession of an asteroid, it doesn't seem like there's much terrestrial governments could do shy of import tariffs. And whomever holds to material has one massive advantage in terms of MAD: they're sitting high up in the gravity well.

Certainly SpaceX has an air of "tool builders" about them -- they'll build the shovels and pick axes of the space economy. As evidenced by their current economic successes, they're banking on the evolution of the industry -- not a quantum leap 100 years hence.

A great (related) scifi novel: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein
Cool feature to add would be mobile and tablet versions
I didn't say that; but I'm still not a lawyer.
I'll add it to the list. Would customizing the width and user agent allow you to do what you want?
Rent for a studio apartment in his city is around $200, it is $300 to $500 in bigger cities like Delhi and Mumbai.
Ironically people sometimes intentionally use the word expat to avoid the "western people are expats, non-westerners are immigrants" terminology trap
is it really unbelievable? companies this big tend to prioritize hiring a shit ton of middlemen (VPs, project managers, developer managers, offshore managers) in order to avoid paying out for talent to build and constantly maintain the project. I guess paying a shit ton of money to 1 person to manage 10+ poorly paid contractors works out for them, accounting wise.

If one really examined the accounting for GTAO, I would bet that most of the billions of dollars that were earned in micro transactions went to marketing, product research, and to middle management in the form of bonuses.
Wouldn't have necessarily had to be nearly as bad as IE6 for security, either. Just lock the special browser to facebook.com only, or even just the ads API, and there's not a lot of room for exploit.
non-paywall = copied

I don't care if and how the rich got richer if it was above the board.
This is nothing new from them. The NYT, as the "paper of record" for America, has always been mired in politics and power. One of my favorite pieces from NYT is their blistering condemnation of MLK after his famous anti-Vietnam speech.

Never forget that there is a side that benefits politically from telling you that the NYT is being taken over by "woke radical authoritarians". The NYT is a political organization playing politics, just as it has been since 1851. I still mostly respect them because they tend to report facts accurately and mostly follow the ideal of journalistic integrity better than many other media outlets. But there are certain topics now, just as always, where their prevailing politics shines through loud and clear.

https://www.nytimes.com/1967/04/14/archives/dr-king-and-the-...
> enforcing interoperability.

It's called "common carrier immunity".

Telephone companies have had it for decades, maybe even centuries. It works great. They're not responsible for words spoken on their telephone network as long as they don't regulate that content in any way.

Section 230 simply should have offered common carrier immunity to websites when they act as common carriers. Problem solved.
I suspect Europeans are the odd ones out here. As an Asian I don’t find anything strange about Americans in that regard at all.
I don't think relatively few billionaries would effect this kind of average much mathematically.

But I'm not really sure how they calculate this number in the first place, the USDA page's only citation is "for more information contact", which is kind of lame. It seems likely that it's based on a survey sample though.

It makes sense to me though; we have whole categories of expense that our grandparents just didn't have, they had a lot less stuff than we have. But they needed about the same number of calories. (On the other hand, I bet average % of income spent on rent has gone up...)

Apparently Americans also spend less % of income on food than most other countries, which is kind of odd.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/02/389578089/yo...

For this discussion, the reason it matters that less % of income is spent on groceries -- is that it makes a CPI based on groceries not as good a metric of relative buying power overall.
> The tone and tenor of the investigation has always been to find a way to absolve local politicians of responsibility for their incompetence in managing this issue by blaming China.

I think you have this backwards. The obsession has always been first and foremost with US domestic politics because so many americans on the internet have an unhealthy obsession with domestic politics. Present discussion is a yet another example.

There's an unsolved mystery we would like to see solved. Specifically right at the heart of one of the most traumatic and pivotal events of our lifetime. Why do you care so much about finding ulterior motives for people interested in that mystery?
I always see people using something like HTTParty or open-uri for pulling down the page. My preferred (by far) is typhoeus, as it supports parallel requests and wraps around libcurl.

https://github.com/typhoeus/typhoeus
The study measured the ability to "mindread" and that sentence simply states that the women in the study performed better in that test. It's not a generalized statement about women.
But those are pretty short to write (explaining the category theory machinery behind it takes several book chapters tho :) )
You are assuming acquirers are based exclusively in the US, which very much isn't the case. B2B software product that makes it easier to develop apps? I can think of a lot of large EU corporations that would be just as interested as US based companies to acquire (SAP, anyone?).

Furthermore, you don't need to be US based to be bought by a US company. A product like this probably will need a US presence at some point, since it sounds quite sales/evang heavy. But again, that doesn't mean you need to start in the US.

I think you might be viewing the world through fairly rose tinted glasses. I suppose I could meet a "valuable introducer middleman" while I'm in the park, but given SF it's probably more likely the stranger I just met in the park wants to tell me about the forthcoming alien invasion.

To use an analogy: if you want to be the film business, Hollywood is by far the most popular place to be. But that doesn't mean that being in Hollywood makes it any easier: there are more connections and more opportunities, but there's also far more people trying to use them. To that end, many successful people and companies in film are based outside of Hollywood. The Bay is the same: it's the place to be for tech. It's not the only place, and while there are advantages to being based there, there are also disadvantages.
This is a general comment. I am not defending Facebook at all.

One of the problems with feedback systems is that they truly fail to present a balanced view of the user or customer base. The people with the motivation and drive to post reviews and feedback in ecosystems such as the App Store and Amazon are those with problems. And so the rating that is produced isn't a true reflection of how well an app is received or how good a product might be.

We happen to have both a physical product business operating on Amazon and an app business on the Apple App Store. Based on this experience I'll say most apps and products receive feedback from 1 out of 500 to 1,000 people who purchase the product. Put another way, the rating figure is based on the opinions of approximately 0.1% of users, if that. And it is also far more likely that the review-posting population is highly biased in favor of people experiencing difficulties.

In other words, based on my experience, I think these rating systems that consist of a linear vote count equation are deeply flawed as they fail to capture reality in any measurable way.
I'll write more about it later, but silicon actually has a nice way to deal with databases. It currently only support sqlite, but it has:

- a sqlite middleware: See the example here: https://github.com/matt-42/silicon#middlewares

- a sqlite ORM middleware: https://github.com/matt-42/silicon/blob/master/silicon/sqlit...

- a generic CRUD implementation (relying on the ORM):
https://github.com/matt-42/silicon/blob/master/tests/crud.cc

The mysql, redis, postgresql equivalents will come soon.
"All men are created equal" except if they happen to be non-americans
yep, this is another pain point. (thanks for asking :()
> Unless we expand beyond this planet, I suppose

The asteroid belt has the resources for millions of O'Neil cylinders and Stanford Toruses -- we'll be fine.
So in the example if E is in NY, does C have to pay NY income tax on _all_ employees or just employee E?

If E is a salesperson is it complicated because they’re bringing contracts to C in NY or because they might work on Commission?
I don't understand NFT. Why would I care that there's an entry in a blockchain that says "$USER owns the thing at $TOKEN_URI, here's its $HASH"

I could say "I have dibs on Lake Louise" and make a blockchain entry that echoes this claim via some token... and so what? That's supposed to be worth something?

I'm not grokking this. If anyone can explain how NFTs are a thing at all or worth anything? Heads up: if you use the word "fiat" I'll know you're a hustler.
I got pretty excited when you made me think it was Thursday afternoon.
Is junk food addictive?
Yes, and the entrenching tool is still in the hand to hand manuals.
Edit: "smoking" --> "on fire"
Bottom line -- if you don't pay your bribes in China, don't expect to do business there.

For anyone who has every done business in China it is plain to see that all of this hassle is designed only to extort money.
Yeah, "minus" is math and sounds wrong on the command line.
I have the same question. This benchmark seem to be comparing apples and oranges. I'm just moving from sysops to dev, so I hope someone can explain, but here is how I see the three items being compared:

Django- a python web framework
Node.js- a javascript server framework
Tornado- a non-blocking webserver
I find around a 32 hour work week is the sweet spot for me. I have been in the position of working less than that and I don't really find it rewarding. However, the few times where I have tried working 40 hours a week it has been ok for a few weeks and then I started to become unhappy and get pain in my body from sitting too much.

To the OP, if the Microsoft article inspired you, you may also want to read this article about Henry Ford moving to a 40-hour work week - http://www.worklessparty.org/timework/ford.htm

Unfortunately, as you mentioned, you run a services company so you are rewarded based on the numbers of hours worked and not directly on productivity.
I don't know if any of y'all picked it up, but I personally find I'm way more productive when I was at school than when I'm working. I think this can be attributed to work environments tend not to afford you the luxury of a quiet environment.

I think one of problems with the work environment is that they don't know how much they leave on the table because of the environment, and without a cost, there can be no cost/benefit and no impetus to change.
I think the problem here is that people are confusing HTML (basic syntax) with HTML5 (it's underlining engine and features/abilities).

Microsoft is just saying that since they don't have a cross-compatibility layer to deal with, they can tweak and optimize the rendering engine and the code, since it's using the native Windows API and not some middle layer.
>You have to store it

Store what? Commodities are typically traded in futures.
Ask your people what they want. Honestly, I think having to work weekends, whether or not it's on pet projects or workshops or whatever, is too much. People need time away from work to decompress if they're going to be effective developers over a long period of time. Even here in the United States it feels like two days off is too little.

You say you have 50 developers. What's your turn-over rate?
You can buy the chromebox which is somewhat similar but not as compacy as a chromebit

http://www.amazon.com/Asus-CHROMEBOX-M004U-ASUS-Desktop/dp/B...
SHA-1's vulnerabilities are entirely irrelevant to its unsuitability as a KDF, making SHA-2 no more suitable. As others have recommended, use scrypt or PBKDF2.
Cisco sells way more than just routers these days, perhaps as part of their hedge strategy after 2001. Mostly through acquisitions maybe, but it's still impressive. Examples that come to mind include Linksys (home networking), Scientific Atlanta (cable TV & broadband gear), WebEx, and Tandberg (video conferencing).

The list: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/corporate_deve...
That's a good way to think about it. Thanks weel!
Nothing.

Look at the source to amazon.com, netflix.com, google.com, bing.com. It's hard to find any big site that doesn't use tables for at least some layout tasks.

CSS is a really, really shitty method of doing layout. Fanboys will come out of the woodwork to try and prove that statement wrong, but in my opinion, it's true. I'm not sure how we ended up with such a terrible tool.

There are times when I have spent 10 hours trying to do some trivial bit of layout done with CSS, and finally resorting to a little table got it done instantly.

There are entire classes of things that you can't do with CSS, or you have to resort to bizarre hacks to get done (negative padding, etc).

I'm not claiming that tables solve every problem, but presented with the choice of spending hours figuring out some css hack and testing it in the dozens of browsers / mobile browsers that are out there now, and just making a table, I will just make the table and move on.

Edit: You should use CSS 90% of the time. Tables often let you do something easily that CSS has lots of trouble with, and I recommend resorting to them at that point.
I'm a little disappointed by the opencl/cuda support.
I was hoping they'd be fully integrated with native algorithms in mma. Instead you need to change your code to call CUDAfft[] or whatnot. It should just choose the right fft to use, or supply a checkbox in preferences.
Thanks for that post, excellent.

It's quite comforting, yet scary at the same time, to realise that the stuff you know you don't know is probably going to grow throughout your life, but that this is a good thing! Because it beats the hell out of not knowing what you don't know. Although I wonder if that would lead to a simpler life sometimes.
In fact, in one of the news accounts they say they will bounce emails from non-contacts.
Well, YC does make money from their investments, so revenue stream likely isn't the problem.

My question would be what would be the benefit of hiring a person to run YC?

If it grows to the point that it needs a dedicated manager, I'm sure PG would have no problem getting a great person to do it.

But from the sounds of things, PG really enjoys the day to day operations of YC and keeping deep contact with companies in the fund.
> " The only difference between them is how they are created or displayed, and that's a UI feature."

That's incorrect IMHO. It's also completely different how people use them.

If I want to ask my wife to get something extra from the shops, I won't email her. I'll SMS.

Each medium carries with it 'urgency', whether you expect a response now or in the future, whether it's open for discussion in a group, etc etc

These things didn't just come about by chance, they came about because users want several different methods of communication depending on what they want to say, and their expectations regarding response/discussion etc

It's like saying that the internet will make books obsolete. They serve completely different purposes.

To an engineer SMS/email/forums etc may be the same. But socially they're completely different.
If you are going to credit SNL you have to credit Chevy Chase.
as long as you don't store your config then in the same repository as your code, that works fine for me.
Heuristics and progressive challenges are definitely the best option, but beyond scope for a lot of developers. Rate limiting is the simplest option, and the only real "major UX issue" I can think of is locking someone out of their account after three password attempts, which can definitely be a pain in the arse if you're trying to log into a site you don't frequently visit.

But the solution is pretty simple: rate limit to one attempt every few seconds, and if you want to lock the account, only do so after a lot of unsuccessful attempts. For example, bruteforcing is impractical if you can only try one password every five seconds, and essentially impossible if you only get 100 bites at the apple before you get locked out.
Yes. Yes! As a developer myself, the value of writing has been earned 1,000 times over.

If you need some help getting started, try this: http://john.do/today/

And, here's my thoughts on the importance of a Developer's Blog: http://blog.desk.pm/dev-blog/
> the meat of the item

Imaginary meat. Sure, you can talk about the implications of the actual header, but you must first acknowledge that this has nothing whatsoever to do with the context of 'elegance'.
It's not superfluous. The navy doesn't base its aircraft on improvised forward landing strips.

Naval aviation is of extremely limited utility as a result of a short range. If the fighting starts or moves inland the carrier is mostly useless.
I find people that say "I have nothing to hide" often haven't thought it through. Easiest example is porn habits, it's not necessarily something people keep private, but many people want to, yet it can skip their mind when they say "I have nothing to hide". IIRC the Snowden leaks included stories of political dissidents being kept in their place by threatening to expose their porn habits (not necessarily anything illegal, just potentially embarrassing).
Yes but I would expect my strings to behave as a scalar variable, not a list or set.

I prefer the Perl way of having one function push, and specifically referencing the list if you want it stored that way. That has caused me far less confusion in Perl than the Python way of doing things.
>PHK simultaneously complains that HTTP/2 doesn't go far enough e.g. replace cookies with a stateful mechanism, while also complaining the header compression and other mechanisms in HTTP/2 introduce the requirement for the server to maintain state.

Sounds valid to me. Either retain state or don't.