jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Valuations are improbably high for a lot of companies. Look at the price for netflix 5 years ago. $50 stock. Today, it's $300 and change. In the same time range, AMD went from a $2 stock to close to $40 these days.

You hardly see that anywhere else in the market, like you'd never see Ford go up 2000% in 5 years without people screaming the sky is falling in every economic publication, but here we are with these tech evaluations. It's almost as if smart money dictating these headline narratives doesn't want retail to stop buying one off shares of FAANGs, and that is worrysome.
Not "re-balancing" per se - but investing a fixed amount at regular intervals (either from a lump sum, or as you earn it.)
For context, I'm very neutral on the matter so take the following as just a musing on the topic. I'm not really familiar with the stats here, so do pardon if I'm starkly mistaken, but it would seem intuitive that having a child in countries A and B would have a different impact based on how developed countries A and B are. If a kid from A grows up to own a car, fly around etc, and the kid from B cannot afford to, the footprint difference between these two individuals would be considerable. This is obviously only looking at a single child, how the fact that people in more developed countries tend to have less children plays into this and pushes the balance one or the other way is unclear.
The job it does has very little operational value, and it breaks things we care about. In just a few months of deployment, DoH has done more to protect DNS queries than DNSSEC has in almost 25 years of work. Any time you look at something that DNSSEC makes harder, your first thought should be, "is the real problem here that we're trying to do tree-PKI DNSSEC in the first place"? I'd content that's always the case.
Zoom's overlay controls are pretty great too
I am feeling the same way mate. I believe it’s only for macOS.
It’s open source. They aren’t forcing you to use their software, and they’re certainly not forcing you to use their binaries.
> No, the point of having their own Lisp, not using the US standard

Why not develop according to US standards?

> Was it a hedge against Lisp becoming hugely successful and helping their computer industries?

That was the plan? What went wrong?
PRO TIP: Do people forget you can lightly tap the home button twice to bring the top of the screen halfway down the screens length to make it reachable with one hand?
A "Competitive" mode and a "Zen" mode.
I download those to dropbox, then either sync them in the dropbox app, or use an app like goodreader or eddy (there are others), which can play from a dropbox folder
This was announced a year ago [0], not with just a couple of months of notice like the tweets claim. The announcement also included the rationale.

[0] https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/google-wo..., the "new storage policy" section.
Congrats to the Wit.ai team! For once I'm glad it was facebook who acquired them. I've been truly happy with Parse and can only begin to wonder how facebook will integrate all the developer tools they are acquiring.
Your analogy was so close! It's Apple comes along and makes an 8 cylinder engine. Since, you know, the other CPUs are 4-wide decode and Apple's M1 is 8-wide decode :)
Windows were broken, that's how the inurectionists entered the capitol.
Several people have claimed this, but none of the news sources mention it
$400 to $600 is the price Hilton/Marriott/Hyatt/IHG negotiated with Tempur Sealy and Simmons for their hotel mattresses. They come with pillow tops and don’t need to be flipped.
What about Postgres native key-store called HStore?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/hstore.html

I love Postgres just as much as anyone but Uber use case still seemed to be a better fit for MySQL. I was hopeful this would kickstart a renewed focus on features / architecture within thr Postgres community and I’m not certain anything resulted from this. Hope to be wrong obviously.
The PoW energy is paid for via mining rewards, which are minting new coins (inflation).

The inflation rate in bitcoin is about 2% right now. That means your wallets real world value is shrinking by about 2% annually to pay for those miners. So far, thats been dwarfed by other reasons for bitcoin to change in value.
While you're possibly right, it feels more than boring to note the posters history rather than arguing against the arguments themselves. Also not sure how the time when someone created an account is relevant, who knows for how long the author been around HN in reality?
It is not even on the main website (https://www.platoapp.com/). The only text is "Your space to hang out, find fun & new friends"
For those numbers you would be going through OTC, not buying on the open market, so the fees would likely be much lower.
It's a Node/express app. The word data is in Postgres (hosted by heroku), user/metric data is in mongo (via mongolab.com). Hosting is from heroku fronted by cloudflare.
I like privacy.com for things like this and you might also. You link your bank account and then you can set up on-the-fly credit cards with any name/address and arbitrary limits. You can set a maximum credit limit, or monthly recurring limits, or other configurations. It's also great for one time payments for shopping online.

I think they even have a rewards program now.

I highly recommend it if you can get over the uncomfortableness of linking a bank account to it. I just created a separate online account for this purpose.

In this case, I'd just create a separate card for each project you want to support with a monthly limit equal to your desired amount. They have an app and browser plugins and the like. It's really easy.
I think what’s hard is that you need to keep doing that over and over, don’t stop. Sometimes I think something is really good, but it doesn’t stick for one reason or another. What I try to do is timebox to a few weeks or months and then try something new. It’s hard to understand all the factors that affect interests, so if my stakeholders aren’t interested I try to work on something new.

I also try to share the metrics for why I think something is valuable. Specifically calling out the quantitative and narrative value to try to have the value be understood.
Call it provocative if you prefer. Actually a more accurate term might be flamewar bait. Either way, it should be obvious that such a title is inappropriate for HN.
Ditto on Moonwalking. I listened to the audio book and found its practical advice incredibly helpful.
>> Or are you really arguing 2012 Macbooks don't get hot when gaming?

No, I'm saying that the 2012s aren't getting so hot that there have even been remotely same degree of hardware failures as with the 2011 models.

My 2011 MBP just died last week (already replaced the logic board once under AppleCare). I never really played any games on it, so the failure had less to do with the discrete GPU itself than the CPU causing the overheating issues.

The logic boards clearly have a design defect in that they can't handle the heat that the computer runs at under non-gaming load. So contrary to what you said, I think I do have a "license to complain when your Macbook overheats and dies".
Though deprecated, https://github.com/yandex/gixy is a nice checker for these kind of issues.
For SPAs, something like this can be quite useful for a few reasons: branding (see Slack's and Asana's cool examples), having in-app authentication on any page (see the login form example on the demo page), and yes, showing some sort of notification while a good bit of data loads in the background.

For the majority of sites, I agree this may be overkill, but if you have a SPA that needs to load a good bit of data on the user's first use of your app (and verify authentication), this can (hopefully) be useful.
SEEKING WORK | Remote and Part-time | Python, Django, Firebase, AWS

I am a Senior BackEnd Developer with more than 6 years of experience with Python and around 4 years of experience with Django. My current tech stack includes Python, Django, MySQL, Postgres, Firebase, AWS, Azure, GCP etc. I also have fair knowledge of Node, JavaScript and React.

In past decade or so, my various roles required to act as a Team Lead / Product Owner, managing the technical side of the projects, building bridges between the engineering and business side of the things, and writing code alongside. I always try to be hands-on, reading up on emerging tech and how it can improve my work and my contribution to the project at hand.

I have worked with startups, SMEs and corporates in industries including Healthcare, Sports, Engineering and Finance etc.

Some recent projects:

- Backend to ingest data from harvesters, store and generate reports (Django, Postgres, AWS)
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- Backend for a food delivery marketplace in Sweden (Node, Firebase, Google Cloud)
- Backend for a digital illustration system for a leading insurance provider (Django, MySQL, Azure)
- Backend for a financial app for employee benefits management system (Django, MySQL, AWS)

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Not yet. The blog post linked in the readme there provides some more background on the motivation behind the project.

I'm hoping to do some in-depth analysis of several brokers at some point, but I want to get the benchmark instrumentation right first.
I use it every day. Mostly good, but clearly slower than ST3. My main gripe is that it is painfully slow at editing with multiple cursors. Multi-cursor edits that ST3 wouldn't hiccup at freeze up atom long enough that OSX asks if I want to kill it.
The GOP opposes it; they are the obstacle. I think such actions by the GOP has become normalized for people, and so they overlook it. I don't see how you can blame the Democrats, who are voting for it.

> If it was priority for the Dems, they'd have done it.

Easily said, but as we know, not easily done.
Seems like its worth a shot as a nootropic. Can anyone recommend a reputable supplier for supplements?

It's really hard for me to trust that contents match labels for anything sold online. Even "third party tested" claims are hard to verify...
For someone who is not a professional app developer it can.

That's insanely expensive for a FOSS side project, if you're in embedded and controls and don't do any pro apps.
In all my years working in this industry I've seen very no boomerang promotions. Definitely not in the same team. In the same team of course, if you leave your current and future positions are taken by others, there is little logic for anyone to bring you in at a higher level.

Plus most shops will filter you out a resume screening level itself.
> “I am shocked,” she added. “I cannot believe this is my country.”

What country will make weapons and not use them? Come on.
https://archive.fo/o9XUf

I will tell you this, the truckers are not hurting for donations to allow bodies to stay and protest in comfort. Trailers full of supplies. Probably 10,000 bottles of water and a couple thousand rolls of toilet paper in Milk River right now. Eating like kings on homebake goods, hot soup, burgers, fries, you name it, someone has donated it and someone is cooking it.

The bitcoins and givesendgo can cover legal fees and tickets.

The Canadian people have already donated so much stuff that when this is over, a local charity is going to get a nice windfall of goods.

Source: first-hand, Milk River, yesterday and today.
Many similar experiences, from having someone say "I was under the impression this was interesting for its own sake" at an applied math talk, or asking a group of mathematicians how to actually implement their biologically (and logistically) impossible solution to influenza containment.
Is it not style.maxWidth in that context?
It's a different kind of hand waving. When presented with a system of ODEs describing a system, a mathematician may be content with some assumptions that make the analytical solution more straightforward, or not be terribly worried about particular values for parameters because they're looking at the more general behavior of the system.

Biologists (or in my case epidemiologists) may, on the other hand, be very concerned about why the value you chose for a particular parameter is 6 instead of 7, and whether or not it's really exponentially distributed.
Oh, also, I'm looking for a designer to help out. So if you're interested let me know :)
Agreed and well stated. However, since, the concept of "familiarity" will continue to change, how will modern UI designers understand what their end-users know, relative to what they should know? In order for the design to evolve, people must often be led. I whole-heatedly agree with you that simplicity is a relative term, but truly finding the nexus of your users' understanding vs. what they need to know is difficult.
I think it's thinking people might read your site when it's crapped up with ads, that might be ruining your site.
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab has much better hardware but Android just doesn’t feel right for tablets. At least not right now.

And people keep wondering why there's both Android and Chrome.
"[I] heard that there are people who tell them that they just need to get over it and cheer up."

I do this. A great many of my friends and family do this too. I'm not sure why you find it so difficult to believe that there are people who do this.

It's basically impossible for people without depression to imagine what it's like to be physically incapable of eventually "cheering up" or "getting over it". This is often compounded by the fact that depression( along with asperger's )is the modern hypochondriac's condition of choice.

Combine inability to empathize with widespread attention whoring by people claiming to have depression when they don't, and it's quite easy to see why many people would react cynically or casually.

It's rather unfortunate for those who are genuinely stricken with mental illness, though.
Steve Ballmer says he is willing to invest 5%-10% of Microsoft's operating income over the next five years on search. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-steve-ballmer-h...
Specifically, assuming Microsoft's operating income stays constant (it will likely grow), it's $5.5-$11 billion.

endquote.
And Less Wrong, and reddit... and my day generally starts in the afternoon, so the day itself isn't very long.
Does anyone know why there's a ten-fold difference between peak and sustained power? I would have thought it'd be more like 50%, but I don't work with HPCs.
Yes. Possibly irrationally (reality is not that simple), I choose to stay alive. It is my life after all.

The problem is with creating new lives. Birth inflicts both a life sentence and a death sentence on the newborn, without their consent. That is simply wrong.
Time ago, I remember being offered the same salary I had, or even less. They (it happened more than once) must have thought I was lying. Those interviews were very brief. Once trust is broken, there's nothing they could do to restore it.
I agree with you. If the product is as flaky as you suggest, then by all means get them together for a concept discussion with some slides mocking up the functionality, but when they see the product, they'll need to be very understanding to be impressed by a half-baked demo, in my opinion.

'this is x' is more powerful than 'this will be x', because 'will' really means 'might' and introduces doubt, whereas 'is' is concrete and undeniable.

You know that adding pretty logos is simple stuff, and that the real challenge is in integrating the data feed quickly enough, but your customer very often just assumes that the functionality will be there, and only worries about the flashy cruft. Get the flashy cruft right! I think it's easier to sell a product that looks great but does nothing than a product which does loads but looks terrible.
I don't see a reason to up-vote that post.

I guess you don't feel the incredible urge to make things. Perhaps making things is not for you then. I don't think its laziness, it's simply that you don't NEED to do anything.
Last week I was refused a cab from the south side of Blackfriars Bridge to Leicester Square, because the driver said it was "too busy" in central London right now. (Fortunately the cab behind him accepted us, and it didn't seem "too busy" at all.) Didn't know this rule applied, thanks!
The term is "cultural fit"
nice execution!
We're doing everything we can to keep the site up. As said below, the direct link to the site is http://justdelete.me
It seems like they're moving towards it. They've been signing deals with cable companies and hiring people related to TV. It's certainly not an easy process, especially as people in TV are wary of Apple.
It isn't really feasible for a service like this, but it would be interesting to know what each of these sites do with your data once your account is deleted. Facebook has recently come under fire for their ghost profiles and I can't imagine they are the only company that keeps data on people who aren't official users.
Isn't UPX pretty fast the way it is right now?
Even I use JSON.parse() without knowing its benefit :3
I don't even see a button class in React Native... but if there was one and it was custom-made from UIViews, it's going to look and act differently than a native button. Turn on accessibility features -- does the button's title get read aloud? If you turn on button highlighting, does the button get an outline? If you turn on bold text or large text, does the text of the button change?

I've spent 15 minutes with React Native so far, and as best I can figure, the answer is no.

If they were building the GUI components from UIKit pieces, they'd get all of this for free. But I understand it would be pretty hard to get all this working with the flexible layout architecture they have... so I'm guessing they'll have to slow add all the accessibility features in over time.
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BIP0039 has been around for a while and generates passphrases strong enough to be the seed of every private key you will ever deterministically generate in a wallet.
quick answer - It's probably computationally infeasable to gain access to any specific account, or all accounts in the database. It's probably feasible to gain access to at least one account in the database, if it has a weak password.

Hashing functions like bcrypt are intentionally set up to be computationally expensive, so that when brute-forcing a password, attackers can only try, say, 1 thousand passwords per second, not 10 million, on any given computational unit. The exact numbers of attempts-per-second depends on the attacker's computer, and the exact setup of their password hashing.

When trying to find the password for a particular hash, which is a hash of a strong password, there's really no better way than trying all possible passwords, hashing them, and seeing if they match.

When attacking a whole database at once, sometimes you get lucky and some accounts have weak passwords, and those you crack quickly.
I think it depends on the structure of the system... If you separate authentication from profile information, then you can run each on separate systems. They were already using bcrypt, which is a fairly strong salted hashing system. As to restricting access, having all access to the database restricted to API servers that provide the limitations you mention, you get a similar level of control, without the complexity of managing per-user database logins. With per-user database logins, you are then subject to whatever system the dbms uses. If you are using systems with looser less fine grained controls, you can be even more limited.
Or at least touch on the rise of the modern un-backed central bank post Bretton Woods. Rich people can more easily shield their wealth from inflation than middle class or poor people can shield their wages from inflation, leading to a perpetually increasing gap between the two so long as central banks continue to use QE and inflationary schemes to fake economic growth and dilute debt. Average workers earning 1% annual wage increases don't tend to do very well when you debase their currency at over twice that rate. A good economic troll would point that out.
I would be more interested in how the hacker got access to their DB and nothing else. Maybe the DB is remotely accessible (unlikely) or there is SQLi vuln. in Slack.
The title "essayist" would suit almost everything Gladwell sets out to do, so can we just stipulate that that's the right thing to call him?
As someone who loved both math and physics, this was why I always found math a bit easier. Everything rests on a solid foundation and you can justify each step. When I got into higher physics, it was so riddled with intuitive arguments as opposed to rigor that I didn't fare so well. I'm sure one can find mathematical justifications for their methods, but it's not part of the curriculum, and almost none of the professors (in a top 10 physics school) knew them either.
It looks like it's trending down now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Unit...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Unit...
Let me illuminate the problem:

s/tall/black/

(inb4 downvotes)
Here's my favorite little bit of Bill Watterson trivia.

He's from the Cleveland area. He attended Kenyon College in Ohio. As he arrived, another famous cartoonist Jim Borgman, who is from the Cincinnati area, was just graduating.

Borgman went on to work at the Cincinnati Enquirer and won a Pulitzer in '91. Watterson was inspired by Borgmam's political cartoons and worked at the Cincinnati Post for a while. The Post fired Watterson and eventually we got "Calvin and Hobbes."

So, two giants of cartooning in the 80's and 90's just missed each other at a small liberal arts school in the middle of Ohio, briefly worked at competing papers in the same city, then went on to reach the pinnacle of their craft, albeit quite differently.

I'm amazed by these little quirks of life.
Like the federal agents who were caught on camera threatening someone that they would be put on the no-fly list and lose their jobs if they didn't cooperate - this was in a case that had nothing to do with airlines.

So we all accept that the TSA has absolutely nothing to do with transport security - it's just a way of intimidating citizens we don't like ?

When you do face a real terrorist threat it's going to be a little tricky to deal with when all your citizens regard 'anti-terrorism units' as a euphemism for secret police.
You're right, people will just continue to plague the blogosphere with posts about how they laboriously drew yet another piece of vector art in 'pure' CSS.
The question is not what happened, but what can we do so it never happens again.

By the time the events you mention happened, my family was still coping with having to leave its ancestral home after WWII and having to move to Brazil as refugees.

We can hold grudges for many generations if we want, or we can learn from the past and move on.
Doesn't the Go compiler flag as an error the fact that there's no "{" after the "if(blah())"? (On the same line, I mean.)
> The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill

Sadly true...
This is sadly hilarious, my time working at a fortune 500 company has allowed me to see this. Looking back it seemed like of the people who were on top they got to where they were by making it SEEM like they added tremendous value to the company, when it was more of an illusion. The people who ended up making those projects work ended up lower in the ladder (i guess spending too much time being productive?)
Considering how they implemented closures, I wonder what that revolution would look like.