jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
# It was expected

I think it was expected from the outset that this would be a temporary peg/floor. There has been recent hints on this.

# It's not a war

Also, this isn't a 'currency war' in anyway. If there is any adjustment that other countries typically dislike it's devaluations, since that'll make their currency relatively more expensive, causing a short-term disadvantage for exporters [whom often line politicians pockets]. This was the opposite, a revaluation (or correction).

Inconsistently people called this a 'currency war' when the floor was introduced too[1].

# Losses

Sure, a few companies were bankrupted because of risky speculation, that happens all the time. It was foolish to believe that this floor would exist indefinitely, and thus any position making that assumption would obviously be very risky.

Interestingly people lost money[2] when the floor was introduced only 3 years ago. Sometimes memory is short.

[1] http://citywire.co.uk/money/have-swiss-won-currency-war-with...

[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2037632/Kweku-Adobol...
People are always surprised when I mention that the Microsoft devs I worked with had free access to the highest tiers of Visual Studio, yet what they actually worked in was vim and the internal fork of make. I don't know whether that's still true; it's been a decade now.
There was a social component to reader that was very similar in ways to how people share news on Facebook. It was one of googles only solid social graphs. That they wasted that was a real misstep.
Cross game powerups and items. Sold on a third party marketplace. Developers still get commission because it is all on chain. Super powerful.
It feel like it's getting more and more common. There is so much cheap no-name hardware imported where they just slap on FCC and CE logos.

My bet is that it's a cheap power supply, they are the worst offenders.
There's an open issue about this: https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/haxe/issues/9185
I just saw this tweet - https://twitter.com/JustineTunney/status/1365805503561957376

Cosmopolitan is going to be a big thing.
In Soviet Russia, domains name you!
Quote:

An [Atlantic meridional overturning circulation] AMOC slowdown has long been predicted by climate models as a response to global warming caused by greenhouse gases. According to a number of studies, this is likely the reason for the observed weakening. The Atlantic overturning is driven by what the scientists call deep convection, triggered by the differences in the density of the ocean water: Warm and salty water moves from the south to the north where it cools down and thus gets denser. When it is heavy enough the water sinks to deeper ocean layers and flows back to the south. Global warming disturbs this mechanism: Increased rainfall and enhanced melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet add fresh water to the surface ocean. This reduces the salinity and thus the density of the water, inhibiting the sinking and thus weakening the flow of the AMOC.

Its weakening has also been linked to a unique substantial cooling of the northern Atlantic over the past hundred years. This so-called cold blob was predicted by climate models as a result of a weakening AMOC, which transports less heat into this region.

The consequences of the AMOC slowdown could be manifold for people living on both sides of the Atlantic as Levke Caesar explains: "The northward surface flow of the AMOC leads to a deflection of water masses to the right, away from the US east coast. This is due to Earth's rotation that diverts moving objects such as currents to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere. As the current slows down, this effect weakens and more water can pile up at the US east coast, leading to an enhanced sea level rise." In Europe, a further slowdown of the AMOC could imply more extreme weather events like a change of the winter storm track coming off the Atlantic, possibly intensifying them. Other studies found possible consequences being extreme heat waves or a decrease in summer rainfall. Exactly what the further consequences are is the subject of current research; scientists also aim to resolve which components and pathways of the AMOC have changed how and for what reasons.

"If we continue to drive global warming, the Gulf Stream System will weaken further -- by 34 to 45 percent by 2100 according to the latest generation of climate models," concludes Rahmstorf. This could bring us dangerously close to the tipping point at which the flow becomes unstable.
And yet air travel is cheaper and more accessible to more people than ever. A faster plane doesn't do you much good if you can't afford the ticket.
> C, A, and P are not variables you can multiply together or perform mathematical operations on. They are more like booleans.

Right, but I wasn't restating CAP, just wondering about a follow on to CAP that considers the probability of remaining consistent, the probability of remaining available, and the probability of no failures due to network partitions in physical terms.

Is this not an interesting thing to consider? What if someone proves a hard limit on the product of these probabilities in some physical computation context? The CAP theorem is absolutely fascinating to me, especially if it has something real to say about the systems we can build in the future. The future looks even more distributed.

> It is pointful for networks that experience partitions. It just doesn't apply to reliable networks.

Is there such a thing as a "reliable" network when thousands or millions of computational nodes are involved? Are the routers and switches which connect such a network 100% available? If an amplification attack saturates some network segment with noise, what then?

As programmers, we desperately want things to work, and it's easy to greet something like CAP with flat out denial. I know I'm always fighting it. "It will never fail." No, it can and will fail.
I honestly feel like such a mentality is at odds with the overall philosophy of the open source software RMS loves to extol. Community engagement drives such products, and a big part of this sort of communication is disagreement.

It's not exactly "freedom" if we're only free to listen to RMS. His response reeks of self-righteousness; that alone should be enough to disqualify him as the voice of the FSF.

I was hoping for a thoughtful response, but he would have been better off not saying anything.
You're arguing against thinking.
What you are suggesting was the norm 20-30 years ago. Major corporate research centers like Bell Labs and IBM Watson were the crown jewels of their respective corporate owners. Today, these programs are mere shells of their former selves.

Corporate America just doesn't have the stomach to fund fundamental research with a payback varying from years in the future (optimistically) to never (pessimistically). In fact, we have exactly the opposite trend -- university researchers have taken on all kinds of applied research projects that would have been considered far too commercial in the past. In turn, the universities are looking to license out their IP portfolios and take stakes in companies founded by their students and faculty to raise more cash.
Once someone immediately related to you becomes a citizen, they can apply for your citizenship regardless of your immigration status. Do checkup on it in detail, I have a very strong hunch about it being correct.

If not that, talk to a better lawyer about asking your local senator to help you in gaining legal status and see if that helps. Or maybe apply for immigration through asylum due to the military requirement in home country?
I think it shows a profound ignorance of how the world works. I hear it all the time living in Thailand.

To put that in perspective, Thailand ranks 23rd by GDP, has a literacy rate in the high 90s and has an unemployment rate of around 1%.

The average professional does make around half of what they would in the US, but their taxes are lower and their cost of living is also half or less. The health care cost/quality ratio makes many countries look barbaric.

I think "third world" could be safely replaced with "economy I know nothing about" in the majority of cases.
This goes for non-students too. We are very interested in people that have pet projects.
Hi, this is great and I'm already recommending busy friends to it who like to eat properly but time is limited. A big problem on the site for us is that we are all over the city, can you browse by delivery location? It would save a lot of time when choosing a chef.
Where does the "1 in 10,000" come from in that paper? It seems like it might be from papers '7,8, and 9' in the references. Otherwise it's a number plucked from the air.

Whilst there's no doubt you could catch from touching a surface, it's a respitory disease that you catch by breathing in water droplets contaminated with the virus.

Wash your hands, fine. Leaving your shopping in the garden or spraying with bleach? Seems a touch hysterical to me. And I say that as someone that was in a high COVID area, grocery shop frequently, and still haven't caught it from touching a tin of beans on a shelf.
from my experience, Rails is not really much part of the general discussion in Elixir/Phoenix world. Sure, a number of us came from Rails, and lots of 'new to the community' discussions might hit on that, but that's a far cry from being 'obsessed' with dethroning Rails.

If anything, my impression is that a significant portion of the community still uses Rails for many of their applications, and some occasional grumblings aside, it's not a big deal.
Maybe? He's assertive, outspoken, and "tells it how it is".

I can certainly see how to his audience those are signs of a strong man.
Privacy flaw and a security flaw: it is feasible to take over somebody's phone number through social engineering attack on the phone co's tech support. The tech support has ability to issue replacement SIM cards for users, and if an attacker socially engineers them to send SIM card with your number to them, it's a game over for you.

That is aside of the obvious problem of phone numbers being recycled for re-issue after having been abandoned for a stretch of time.
because 1 is not an opinion but a fact. and probably a fact he probably disagree with, like you

people don't care about privacy but it's not exactly his fault. then his job is to capitalize on it. why would he care. you would probably do the same ..
- Life being an eternal struggle due to slipping into drug/alcohol use and doing those very intensely

- Being unable to maintain good habits (e.g. gym) because it feels like you're nearly a completely different person at different points because your desires/wants change from day to day to hour to hour to minute to minute

- Forgetting literally everything due to getting distracted

- Not remembering important stuff someone was telling you as your brain went off on a tangent while they were speaking

- Absolutely zero ability to act based on deferred gratification for any extended period of time (do I want this banana outfit now or maybe a holiday later if I stop buying banana outfits etc)

- Difficulty in monogamous relationships (being distracted by other people very easily because they are stimulating/exciting)

- People getting frustated as they don't keep up with how you dance between things

- Self discipline is basically on nightmare mode

- Ooh yes one more Sunday pint. Oh wait, what's that, I fucked up Monday yet again and now I am fired again??

- Working at 1000% speed but only 10% of the time

- Having to constantly remind self to calm down and be more careful with code/changes/deployment
Perhaps your man the incognito keyboard option? Signal uses it, but no API I can imagine will protect against a malicious IME.

Worse still, even if you block IME internet access on a device with a factory-maliciois IME, they could just upload the data using some other service on the device.

Installing a known-good IME seems like the only fix I can think of?
Interesting that Australia seems to be completely missing
Maybe on github pages?
http://sakurity.com/blog/2015/03/15/authy_bypass.html
> and everyone expected that the price of anything they bought would devalue, they might not buy it today.

I don't see how this is different than today, there are not many things you buy aside from a house that don't lose value over time.
Not being snide, but I REALLY do want to see a picture of a work desk (imagine it would be one of those standing/sitting electronic ones) and a chair and a computer! Or is that confidential info?
Unlike other responses here, I don't think your landing page is bad or your message is unclear. Don't waste more time tweaking your styles now, go spread the world.

How will you do that I don't know, but be aware that you're not alone. There are thousands of nice well-done useful services out there on the internet, all them with little to none users, only because people who actually need them don't know they exist.

For example, it is super-common to some programmer to post here a service built from ground-up that is exactly the same as other existing services, just because he didn't notice the existence of these before starting to write the code. Now, this happens with technical people (who love the internet and know how to use it), imagine what doesn't happen with normal people.
But Silverlight has been retired. The original plan was for WPF to be separated into the Windows part and the web part. The web part failed miserably. It was yet another attempt to make a Microsoft only solution for a common problem.
I think that Microsoft needs to put itself in a position to revolutionize. One of the historical problems of IE is it tried to do things "its way" ignorant of where it was positioned in the browser landscape. That caused a slow but massive loss in market share.

They talk a lot about working on the "modern web", that's marketing-speak for it uses established technologies that IE refused to use. I hope this means that I can develop for Spartan with zero handholding (unlike the IE headache/handholding)- I think this is the "just works" claim they keep repeating.

If I don't have to worry about my site working on Spartan, then Microsoft is in a position that it can start revolutionizing. And from that perspective, focusing on cool stuff for the end user is a pretty good strategy. Throw a bunch of interesting innovations that don't break the fundamental rules of "it just works" and no extra developer work, and they might catch lightning in the bottle.

That might just start crawling marketshare back into Microsoft hands.
> I think anyone who isn't deluded and/or a member of the "nothing to hide; nothing to fear" camp already knows you can't trust Windows

You drastically overestimate the general public's perception. I guarantee you that if you go down the street and ask random people if they trust Windows, they will say yes (or no, and say they trust OSX instead). In HN-land, sure, that can be assumed, but I highly doubt that viewpoint is shared outside tech circles.
No one has claimed they are 'just' revolutionaries. The founders of the US wanted to stop paying as much in tax. In the process they set up the most decentralized system of their time.
Wow! Just contemplating how times have changed.The guy Jospeh Millar worked at the now-defunct FTP Software, Inc.Java was new.There was no google to search for programming help.Linux was totally nerdy.Windows was '95.Redmond was not that important a place.It was not hated that much.
How times have changed.
Why do you keep saying she 'idolized' him? She didn't, she idealized him, which is different. She's drawn to the case because she really liked his statement, 'I'm like the state, what's good for me is right.' From there she plans a story about a character based on his positive traits, but free from his negative ones, his 'degeneracy.'

She writes about the mob because the mob will be the antagonist in her story. She doesn't think the member of the mob in this case had 'worse sins' than murder in their own lives (I mean you could interpret it that way, but it's a stretch, plus is uncharacteristically stupid, plus is something Rand would have actually explained if that's what she meant - she's always crystal clear about explaining her beliefs), but nevertheless it's the same 'mob-mentality' at work as found elsewhere. A lynch mob is different, I'm talking about the crowds of people who turned up to see public executions, basically making justice a form of entertainment masquerading as moral superiority. The worst cases would be witch-trials or execution for 'treason', or counterfeiters, or show-trials in Russia. The modern instances would probably be the Enron or Royal Bank of Scotland inquiries, where although there was guilt, one has to say 'give me a fucking break' when all these former-colleagues or regulators line up to wash their hands and denounce the scapegoat. Then you have the 'celebrity speaks out of turn' stories, where people act like nothing they ever say in private is just as bad. All cases have different details, but the argument is that the mob-mentality is somewhat consistent throughout.

Once again this is a private diary for planning fiction. It's not 'Ayn Rand's Memoirs, Chapter 6: What I thought of William Hickman.' Or 'Ayn Rand: My Heroes.' Rand is in the process of forumulating a philosophy that eschews collectivism and along comes a prominent news story where she gets a chance to study the mob-mentality in reaction to someone who is not a collectivist whatsoever. Murders are very common, but ones which become huge public spectacles are not. It is not sufficient to ask 'why is the public so outraged?' The question becomes 'why is the public so outraged about this instance, but not others?'
Really? hmm. Are you on a smart phone? Which one? If not, which browser? Could be compatibility issues, I've only tested in Chrome, FF4 & FF3.5
A read on Wikipedia will tell you that Coanda effect is not the entire reason why wings generate lift: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_(force)#Coand.C4.83_effect

Lift is generated due various reasons: I recommend a read here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_(force)#A_more_rigorous_ph....

(Yes, they're both from Wikipedia and I feel a bit ashamed that I couldn't find a better source but the description there is succinct and rather complete -- I can vouch with my Aero Eng degree on the information there! :D).
The same as above, only using Pointer Arithmetic instead of Array Subscripting:

*(array + index) == *(index + array)

Further broken down:

*(&array[0] + index) == *(index + &array[0])
I think there should be some check on this, but if a class decides to throw the exam in order to screw the teacher, the teacher probably sucks.

Also, if each students score is part of their record, there is an incentive to not throw the test even if the teacher is hated.
Were you at WePay's hackathon?

If so, I talked to you :-)

(I currently use Google DFP)
Chalked the SHIT out of college campuses, basically IRL spammed as much as I could. Paid for some reddit advertising as well as StumbleUpon. That's pretty much it.

I got lucky with a good name and a ton of early exposure from college humor.
This avoids allocation and is safe (the cost of two extra compares is low because they'll branch the same way all the time, so you'll get branch prediction power)

char *bufp;
uint8_t buf[1024];
if (need_sz >= 1024)
bufp = malloc(need_sz);
else
bufp = buf;
....
if (bufp != buf) free(bufp);
Why don't pay them decently to start with, pay them better if they deserve it, and FIRE THEM if they don't?
Yes, we generally only use mixins. Classical OO inheritance causes coupling problems that composition doesn't.
You mean the "besides I/O" part?
Isn't it the case for all humans? as I'm writing this, I can just sense each of my heart beats vibrations, I don't even need to put my finger on my throat
chitin from bugs.
"Azov's military and political wings formally separated in 2016, when the far-right National Corps party was founded. The Azov battalion had by then been integrated into the Ukrainian National Guard.
An effective fighting force that's very much involved in the current conflict, the battalion has a history of neo-Nazi leanings, which have not been entirely extinguished by its integration into the Ukrainian military."
Just tried that command (wanted to give rebellion a bit of a go anyway) on my dual-core 4GB laptop with an SSD:

real 5m18,721s; user 6m22,607s; sys 0m20,515s

So, given that the SSD seems to make a difference, and looking at the build output, and that my CPUs looked rather bored, I'm wondering if it's the local documentation builds.

Have you tried `raco pkg install --no-docs rebellion` for comparison? That completes in around 44 seconds on my system.

Not sure about good solutions though, I only use racket for prototyping at the moment.
> It's not about anything except just sort of going through this dance of how they tech their way out of it.

I mean, some of us really enjoyed MacGyver!

One of the comments on his post protests that he's painting with too broad a brush by including BSG and B5. I never watched B5, and only watched BSG years after it aired, but I rather enjoyed BSG, the ending notwithstanding. Sure, the whole thing was an allegory for the post 9/11 war on terror, but it was well done.
Counterpoint: I fact checked and corrected an article - the original article author misread the cited source and claimed statistics that were plausible but incorrect. In the process I improved the readability of the paragraph I touched up. My change was never reverted, and it was within the last year on a page related to slavery and human trafficking - so not exactly fringe, and subject to lots of eyeballs.

I would not be surprised if a lot of the people carrying forward the “Wikipedia is uneditable” meme have not even tried to edit Wikipedia at this point.
Not sure - what goal do you want for that new Twitter? It would be set up as a money making machine, and the incentives don't seem to guarantee good content at all. If you want likes to make money, post pictures of cute cats. Another way to generate traffic to your posts is to make them outrageous and controversial. And there would be the people gaming the system by boosting their likes with fake audiences... Do we really need another social media cesspool? Would the money incentive make it the worst of the social media cesspools?
I didn't say you could train for an afternoon and perform at the level of experienced bankers. That would be ridiculous. But I was referring to the training of a banking summer intern, and for that narrow job requirement, I stand by my statement.

And compared to your intelligent banker friends, you could absolutely be up to speed in six months, in terms of technical skill, industry knowledge, product knowledge. If you can master o-chem, you can master corporate finance. Check out the rest of this thread for more descriptions of the work...your qualifications are way overmatched for what the work actually is.
RIM has been offering incentives for developing apps for their store, I'd guess a lot of these were just an attempt to cash in on that.
The one I know is this:
http://juris.bundesarbeitsgericht.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/...

From the GDPR training I did for working as a software engineer in DE, this is all OK as long as its legitimately required for compliance, explicitly disclosed to the full requirements of BDSG/GDPR and not used for anything other than the stated reasons.

This is a huge contrast to the US where it would likely be completely legal to look at this kind of monitoring and then fire someone under at-will employment law for reading too much news.ycombinator.
Why not read both? The WaPo article links to the JAMA report and also to previous ones. It also elicits some comments from other researchers in the field. I am curious why you’re adding “dumbed-down” to “summary.” In addition, in the first comment, I quoted from the original report and inserted a link.
...What am I reading?