jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Write them down and keep them in your wallet because you are good at securing your wallet."

I'm having a very difficult time articulating just how horrible this idea is. Now if somebody compromises your password list, by either finding or stealing your wallet, they also get all of your personal and banking information as well!

There is a reason that the government advises people not to carry their Social Security cards in their wallet (http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/446/~/ca...).

I use Wallet, a password manager/generator that's available for OS X and iOS, supports encryption, and syncs between devices automatically. I use a different random, strong password for all of my accounts, and it's easier to manage than keeping lists of passwords. Works for me.
Had I owned one - I'd have already disclosed it. I'd love to raise a pit - it's just that currently I'm in no position to own such a demanding animal. However I love to hang around people who do own them.

As far as statistics go - there pretty skewed: http://animals.change.org/blog/view/are_dog_bite_statistics_... - yes thats a blog post - but I couldn't be bothered to perform a more thorough research, I'm sorry.

I agree that pitbull attacks will result in more damage and are more prone to kill somebody. But thats not because there evil or go crazy, its because when you mistreat a poodle - you get a minor annoyance, but when you mistreat a pit - you get a 100 pound of muscle and bones bomb ticking to go off.

> shudder until your 3 year old accidentally hits the pitbull on the nose.

Pits not reacting to a 3 year old punching them is exactly the reason they are so good with kids. Pits pain threshold is so high they don't mind kids being abusive towards them (lets face it thats what kids do to animals).

I guess that asshats will keep mistreating their dogs and enjoying in making them vicious and that something has to be done. But banning the dog is the wrong thing to do. Dangerous dog handlers license or/and personality screen of owners is the correct way to go IMHO.
So you're in favor of banning any car with more than 200BHP? And lets ban all the other dangerous shit (skates, bicycles, open fires,...). Cause its ok in the name of safety.
You know that the writer that coined the term "meritocratracy" thought it was a vary bad thing
Facebook is a once-promising neighborhood of a bustling city that became a bad neighborhood.
Your two options are becoming bad yourself or packing up.
I recently looked at some of their hiring material, and one of the before after leadership showed a lot of bullshit in the after. The content was nearly the same, but it felt embellished in a way that left me feeling hollow. It was some oncall event, of which I’ve experienced dozens, and the second version just felt oddly misguided for the sake of saying the magic words the interviewer wanted to hear. The leadership principles seems to be reinforcing bullshit. We’ll tell you what we want to hear, and you’ll tell us what we want to hear. Do our principles line up? ‘Who cares? You told us what we wanted to hear.’ It’s effectively a jerk pass filter at that point.

Mind you, there’s some of this in all interviewing, but from some people I’ve talked to, Amazon seems to really love these leadership stories.
> Fundamentally it's because impact is harder to measure than perception.

Absolutely. Another nontrivial variable is the tendency for managers/team leads to get the "credit" for successful work, even if they aren't trying to.

I've had managers before that did nothing but impede a high performing team. Luckily we delivered despite this. But it never failed, the manager would get accolades (often very public) for successfully releases, customer feedback, etc, and would end up promoted up. Meanwhile the team kept doing our thing, getting barely-matches-inflation annual increases and more and more micromanagement from the scrum diehards. Didn't take too long for the team to move on to better things. I have a dream of someday reuniting the super team for a sweet startup idea. Not likely to happen but I can dream :-)
I agree. I think if the US is going to stick with this insurance as an agent for the patient system, then the federal government should standardize the prior authorization process, as well as EMRs and do whatever it takes to make the communications quicker and easier for the patient. I would also recommend dropping the state boundaries when it comes to healthcare, it makes everything literally 50x more complicated for no reason.

There's no reason why all these billing codes and coverage conditions should be shrouded in mystery.
"Developers expect more than two-thirds of users will block tracking when they see a popup appear within their apps."

That sounds like a pretty resounding "fuck off" to me. The lesson taken away from that is double-down, get more intrusive, and whine about how it isn't fair instead of adopting more acceptable methods.

The ad industry never fails to amaze.
Couldn't this be improved with new data types and types of indexes in a relational db, similar to spatial types/indexes?
So just to re-iterate, here are the products you need to purchase to simplify your life

* A notebook

* Some phone apps like Flow

* Bulk toothpaste

* Duplicates of utilities like USB cables

* UNIQLO t-shirts

* A Sonos speaker system

* Ubiquity networking equipment

Gosh it sure seems expensive to live a simple life.
I think the team behind this is somewhat trivializing this change by saying that a UI table library "has no business being in charge of your UI". Is the expectation is that the following are all bespoke, easy-to-implement features that application teams should rewrite from scratch and maintain internally, and should not be considered when looking at a library to deal with rendering tabular data in an application?

* Support for virtualized rows/columns
* Support for fixed headers
* Support for frozen columns
* Support for resizable columns
* Support for re-ordering columns
* Dealing with page / container resizing.
* Support for context menus in the context of all of the above
* Support for master/detail views
* Support for tree data

My take is that the inverse is true. Structure/Pagination/sorting/filtering of data sets is pretty trivial and in most cases the out-of-the-box functionality that libs provide for these is insufficient and ends up being overwritten anyway. The above list is exactly what I'm looking to outsource when looking at a grid library.
Perhaps not in seconds, but certainly minutes or hours or the first day. But that's still not the point I'm making. If bots are a significant reason that something is selling out within seconds, then changing the system from first-come-first-serve to a lottery will probably not significantly increase your chances as a human of getting a ticket (because whoever runs the bots can make essentially as many bots as they want).
Do you need a coach to fix your car? Almost certainly no.

If you’re trying to be absurd or sarcastic then I think you need someone like me to help you with that, and I won’t.
Video creator here. This may have had a shot at the front page if it were an essay instead of a video. HN just doesn't like videos as a general rule.
Seems to be syscalls to allow userspace to manage virtual memory with more power and responsiveness, so as to allow garbage collectors to take advantage of hardware capabilities -- sounds quite interesting.
any jobs in the proprietary trading will definitely make $$$ sense, just look at the bonus they payout each year. look at it this way, it is a good time to build up your savings once again. while you are building up enough savings, you can always work on any ideas which you might have... think twitter, it's started as a side project too.
hmmm, for some reason I can't reply directly to @gaius' comment. I find the I love my BB argument interesting. While he's right, I don't understand the attraction for these people.

I've been doing some BB development lately using a Storm II. Compared to the iPhone 3GS, it's a flying turd. I wonder if these BlackBerry lovers just haven't tried an iPhone or Android device.

Maybe I would think differently if I was testing on a keyboard device like a Bold, but I can't imagine it would change my opinion that much.
A few thoughts:

I signed up and like the ease of signup and the simplicity of the interface. I was a bit annoyed that I couldn't find a page of features/benefits and that I had to signup to see how it works, but your signup was painless enough that I got over it.

I'm currently using manymoon. They have a similar feed style setup, but the killer features for me are Google Apps/Google Docs integration. I don't know if that's something you'd consider or how difficult it is to do, but I personally wouldn't switch over without those features.

They also do a posterous-style email response to assigned tasks, which means you can comment on a task without logging in. That's pretty cool.

If I were to build an app like this, I would expand on posterous-style email task creation/control (I live out of a BB).
>>What’s goofy is the idea that Google would do this — to aggressively change Android from a BlackBerry/Windows Mobile competitor into an iPhone competitor — and that anyone would expect Apple not to retaliate, to instead just sit there and take it and allow all other aspects of their previous buddy-buddy corporate relationship with Google to continue as though nothing had changed.

Gruber is drawing an arbitrary distinction here that never really existed. RIM and Microsoft have been in the process of adapting in the very same way: Look at the BlackBerry Storm or Windows Phone 7. Are RIM and MS suddenly changing markets? No, they're just evolving to meet consumer demand, same as Google did.
The sibling explains it well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8831465
But one example of the dysfunctional situation present in that case. Many other examples of individualistic politics exist.
> That would cause tremendous harm to all the small businesses who operate on subdomains of TLDs like myshopify, and for what?

This was the giveaway that it was an FB person. Parts of that comment is verbatim from FB propaganda ads[0]. Maybe that awkward video from ~last month[1] was targeted more at aligning FB employees internally around the message, not the general public.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/facebook-...

[1] Which I can’t find now
Oh yeah, grass’s too…

Luckily none of them are that severe, but it’s just so many things… I got allergy shots for a few years in my teens which helped a lot, so it isn’t normally that much of a problem, but I’m also a bit asthmatic so exercise outdoors is a big trigger.
Yeah a shitty working environment where people are constantly stressed, is not a good fit for me.
Workload is pretty low in either case...

Here's the function in the Linux-Kernel that's counting the seconds. It's actually not specified if this function is called exactly every second, or more often, or less often. It just overflows accumulated nanoseconds to seconds:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....

The only leap-second specific thing in it is the function second_overflow() called in the line linked above, it's implementation is linked below. seconds_overflow() checks if a flag updated by NTP which means "there will be a (positive or negative) leap second at the end of today" (bits in time_state) is active, and if that's the case the last second will be repeated, or skipped.

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....

So, computationally, keeping the general complexity of timekeeping in mind, leap second processing is completely insignificant, as evident by the comparatively tiny second_overflow() function.
This article http://torrentfreak.com/netflix-cracks-down-on-vpn-and-proxy... suggests that the Android app is experimenting with forcing Google's DNS which would break DNS proxy systems. It also talks about looking at a number of signifiers of time/location (IP address, clock, timezone, GPS) and not allowing to play if they don't match.
I'm not sure why the left and the libertarian right are such advocates of Cuba. Its a hellish system there where basic human rights are trampled with impunity. Sadly, whenever this is brought up, I get the usual whataboutism's about the US.
That's completely ridiculous. I guess people who are frequently abroad will simply go back to pirating.
Assuming there is any validity to this story, I feel this is at least somewhat ironic considering Netflix's position as posterboy for "network neutrality." If one is neutral about the network, it should be of no concern whether the user is accessing Netflix via direct TCP/UDP or an encrypted tunnel. Nor should it matter what the client's IP address is.

I don't mean to imply that Netflix is actually in favor of a truly neutral network—or even whether or not a truly neutral network can in practice exist—but rather to highlight how "neutrality" means different things to different people.
Ah, we are on the same page, then :)
how is it different than every other dating app that matches you based on people nearby. There are multiple. What makes this one better? How will it compete for market share? Is there anything original about this?

These are the first questions that come to mind.
> The F-35 has a lot of problems, but it's already made its way through most of that loooong process. Scratching it and going back to the drawing board would reset that clock, which means that even if 1) they started on the new design tomorrow and 2) it turned out much better than the F-35, it wouldn't start reaching squadrons until 2035 or even later. Which leaves a big, multi-decade gap where the various services have to keep their aging fighters flying until the New Thing shows up to replace them.

The reason this program has taken so long is because its goal is to build an advanced, cutting-edge fighter that eclipses any of the other 4th gen aircraft in the world while simultaneously meeting strongly conflicting requirements. If instead the military developed 2 variants (carrier-borne and land-based), scrapped the STOVL requirement, and perhaps scrapped the low-observable requirement, they could end up with a far cheaper, far better performing aircraft in far less time. For example, the F/A-18 only took about 10 years to go from development to production.

It would still leave a gap of about 10 years but that's better than spending the most money in military history and being stuck with a turkey for 3 or 4 decades.
> Stablecoins enjoy a one-to-one ratio. For Nigerians, this means stablecoin prices are pegged to a certain ratio with the U.S. dollar.

I'm new to stablecoins and trying to understand the situation. Is this not the same thing Brazil did with the URV [0] -- that is, replacing their ruined state currency with a temporary one pegged to the USD -- only coming from the private sector instead of the government?

> Other benefits of buying into stablecoins include: (snip) ...has no central authority which could breach payment... (snip)

How is it possible to "peg" one currency to another without a centralized issuing body? Bitcoins can be mined by anyone with enough computing power, and stability is only achieved via an engineered stalemate between miners, node operators, and exchanges. How do these "stablecoins" achieve their stability without controlling issuance of coins at the top level?

My understanding is that altcoins derive their value from their fungibility with Bitcoin; that's why when Bitcoin tanks, it brings the entire ecosystem down with it. How are these stablecoins any different? If Bitcoin's value fell by 80% tomorrow, bringing down Ethereum, LTC, and Doge, what keeps these stablecoins' value from falling down with it?

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidade_real_de_valor
I am currently working on the Nelder-Mead algorithm. I did not realize that it is that popular. This gives me motivation to implement it soon ;-)

If there are more "must have"-algorithms you could open an issue in Gradient-Free-Optimizers.
I've been working on an API for a while. This idea is for anyone to start verifying passports in their app and now I've finally set up the entire business to try and validate this for real. End users could be (drivers / partners / users / fintech compliance) and then I take a payment per verification.

Excited to start this journey!
Sorry, have you owned a car made in the last 10ish years?
Like I said I really don't want to get into this here, but I really would suggest reading more into this stuff, as you do seem to me to have a number of misconceptions about LTV.
So the code is "valid" on all platforms, but actually crashes on the "Greek" one?
Wallace and Gromit.... Humane pest control is good for growing giant vegetables [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_%26_Gromit:_The_Curse_...
I'm not going to comment on the particular facet of contention here. I do, however, think that there is a severe deficiency in critical thinking skills in modern society. Especially in America. It lends toward making many assumptions and accepting many claims on everything except facts and it encourages leaping to conclusions simply because it's better than an unanswered question.

I am not a well-learned student of critical thinking, either. I'm just another public school cretin. I do value knowledge and evidence, however. I despise when people are reaching a conclusion or supporting a claim in a clearly disingenuous way, though. I don't think I ever participate in this, but I'm certainly not immune, I'm sure.

The greatest way we could benefit society and advance mankind in a single generation would be to embrace critical thinking and teach the skills to every student and then allow them to draw conclusions to things instead of jumping on one bandwagon or another, based on variables unrelated to facts.
In the end they both add convenience not functionality.

You still need to correctly park your car close to the device which is much like connecting a laptop to a docking station. The advantage is simply avoiding dealing with cords and other fiddly bits.

Now connect this with a self driving car and that would be similar to being able to leave your laptop in your bag when you get home.
CSS attributes become camelCased on the style object.

document.body.style.maxWidth = '40em'(

Will work.
You make it sound like bike thieves knowing about the bait bikes would be a bad thing, when in fact that's the point. You want thieves to know about it, and be scared that any bike they make try to steal is a bait bike. They definitely couldn't be the same model, but I don't think that's as difficult as you make it sound. Isn't there a pretty successful program in San francisco starting out?
I completely agree with the more money chasing fewer companies idea. I think this interview with Marc Andreessen explains why there is more money for fewer companies: http://www.vox.com/2014/6/26/5837638/the-ipo-is-dying-marc-a...

The average investor loses in this scenario. Back in the day, retail investors could invest in the growth of companies. These days, the companies don't IPO until they've already grown to be very large. Definitely doesn't help the wealth gap
I like Elon’s take on climate change: (paraphrasing) no we do not have absolute proof that our fossil fuel burning will result in disaster, but is it really a good idea to do a massive uncontrolled experiment with our biosphere to “see what happens” when we do have at least some evidence the effects will be negative and we do have alternatives (and are therefore not forced to do the experiment).

For a long time the global warming skeptics argued that the only alternative was to shut down modern civilization and let billions starve. France, Ontario, and California getting almost 50% of its power from solar show that this is bollocks.
Because there are benefits to the JVM and interoperability with Java
I meant KMM (Kotlin Mobile multi-platform). Not aware of write once and run twice (iOS and Android) apps in these languages.

Jetbrains recently removed working Linux support for KMM as a host platform.
God this guy, loves to drone on, Just because someone can make a successful product/company doesn't mean they are worldly or wise.

This seems to demonstrate that, and honestly, this sort of droning on would give me pause to invest in company he has any leadership role in.

Why is this drivel even here?
I see. I guess I parse his argument a little differently.

I see the SSC argument as "I would like to spend 100 units of resource (time, money, etc) improving black lives. The line between (donating money to malaria prevention) and (black lives improved in Africa) is much clearer to me than the line between (donating money to/attending events organized by BLM) and (black lives improved in the USA). Therefore, I should spend my 100 units on malaria prevention."

Maybe this is what you mean by "arguing against BLM's right for self-preservation": taken to its extreme, this argument says that all of the effort behind BLM should just pivot to malaria prevention. In that case, the argument does look racist, because it's taken all of the resources devoted to agitating for societal change and re-allocated them to narrower medical assistance that's unlikely to produce the same kind of societal change.

I don't think SSC is arguing for a complete pivot in resource allocation. I think he's arguing that more, but not all, attention should be spent on malaria prevention, and he sees malaria prevention as ultimately contributing to more improvement of black lives. But now I think I understand your response better, because it is in the above sense possible to interpret his argument as saying BLM is not itself a worthy cause. But I don't read it that way.
Let's say you and your friends wanted to figure out the best
way to share toys so that everyone is happy.

There's a new method to doing that, pioneered by these
Racket folks, called "Language Oriented Programming".

And what it means is that the first step to solve your
problem is to create the simplest language you can think of
to describe your problem.

So let's create a language where you can list everyone's
toys like this "ballToy", "elsaToy", "blockToy". And then we
can list all your friends like this "Adam", "Emily", "Maya".
And then we can list feelings like "Happy", "Sad"...(going
to skip the meat for brevity)...and then we rearrange these
words until we get the program with the most Happys! And
we've solved the problem using "Language Oriented
Programming". We spent our time not on the computer
language, but on creating a new simple domain specific
language customized for our problem.
Yglesias is a center left commentator, with the emphasis on center.
That’s a really interesting take. The way they seek the lowest common denominator of communication does seem to create a strong sense of community.

What I mean by dangerous is this: as more people flock there more capital will enter the market through that gate. And that’s a lot of money to be directed by whims of a fickle and undereducated community that tends to ride whatever is popular at the time. This time they pump and dumped GME, AMC, and BB. What happens when they do this to a different company like say Amazon? Anything good/bad?
This might be a pretty naive question, but: in a hypothetical world where the vast majority of systems programming is done in "memory safe" langs, what would most vulnerabilities look like? How much safer would networked systems be, in broad strokes?
> Jeff Bezos sold over $10 billion in Amazon stock last year,

Then he also paid income taxes on that.
yeah, the click ones should be trivial I'll add support now
The rust programmer is the one out there ending that phrase with "and this a problem that must be solved".

...

Well, the rust programmer and the nuclear engineer, possibly.
I just ducked all that, and started writing a plain old CSS with BEM like a mad man, and know what with a bit of discipline and good methodology it works as magic.
It is not. Because it doesn't have an emotion to think "I"