jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What is “suspending”? Like what https://github.com/maaziz/cryopid does? No OS uses such a technique for production process management. (Well, I guess you could say that Genode does if you consider VMs to be processes.) Processes are too non-self-sufficient for this to work with full generality. (For example, what would a process do if it “freezes” in the middle of executing within a shared library’s code section, and then an OS update is applied, replacing that library on disk? The “defrost” process would presumably re-run the dynamic loader, putting the new version of the library into memory; but now the defrosted thread’s PC points into the middle of an instruction. Oops!) CrypPID-like techniques only work in controlled environments, like if you’ve got a machine serving solely as a Docker container host and you want to “pause” containers.

On the other hand, if by “suspending” you mean “the OS asks the program to persist its running state to disk, which it can easily do because it’s using GUI-control and scene-graph frameworks that know how to serialize out their current state”—and then, when it has done this, the OS considers the process “clean” (like a clean page of disk cache) and therefore discardable—then yes, the OS is suspending processes.

Keep in mind that you need to add a flag to your application’s OS-readable metadata (the application manifest in Windows; the Info.plist in macOS/iOS) opting into this behaviour, signalling that your process is okay with being shut down at any time when it’s in the OS-visible “clean” state, and isn’t, say, a host for an RPC server that other applications are expecting to have a stable connection to.
If it is difficult, then it's not a very good business.

Serious question: Why would you want to run a business that can only survive by paying people poverty wages?
I'll email the met and tip them off right now. Lets see how evenly we enforce the law in this country.
He was on Reddit being a total douchebag too when I and others notified him that his great feat of engineering was just FIGlet done 20 years too late.
I've done it using a $100 Cryptostick (Now Nitrokey). Here's a guide from Mozilla: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/02/13/using-cryptosti...

https://www.nitrokey.com/
Another small practical tip: Instead of asking questions 10x/day, arrange a daily chat (maybe half an hour) so you can combine them and interrupt only once a day.
What sucks is when you have all these things that have to run for __your__ piece of code to work and something goes down, it's another team that has to deal with it and they're not available.

For example whatever handles oAuth in a local domain/test environment. When that goes down and the entire app/test harness doesn't work... at least there are other domains to use in our case but sometimes those are down too.
> Is it perhaps that the limelight is less on mathematicians than it was during the early 20th century?

Everything make sense looking backwards. It is quite possible there are people who exist today in various fields (think AI, crypto, space, vehicles) who will go down in history the same way. Kids will look back in 50 years citing their names, just as we cite Dirac, Einstein, Feynman, Heisenberg, etc. To us, these people are just "scientists", and "engineers" who are also alive at the same time we are. The reward is reaped years later.

Quantum Mechanics' reward was computers and health tech for the most part, but most of that truly started popping off long after the Manhattan project celebs died.
I'm pretty sure the (good) custom web design agencies just rely on word-of-mouth for new work. I used to intern at one back in my undergrad that does what you described "sit down with me and plan something specific out". I just tried and literally could not find them on Google with generic web design keywords + city name. I had to use their actual name before being able to find them.
I'm pretty sure he meant the actual documents and not the header text.
No need to be a dick about it.

They made the paywall easy to bypass intentionally.
>Everyone agrees in hindsight that it was bad to do it that way.

I, for one, don't. Better Javascript, with all its warts, than the W3C taking 10 years to create some standard language that was a comitee monstrocity (as they used to do a lot, until HTML5).
I met a lot of cases; in some of them I was on the slow team side and in others I was the lone cowboy.

The problem is not if it happens, the problem is that our industry still sucks a lot.
> Apparently I didn't need that pizza cutter after all

A plain old knife would be enough for cutting pizza, wouldn't it? But then again, I've used the same knife for unscrewing screws, with a 50/50 success rate.
Using Swift for sometime here. The language itself is great and I find myself generally more productive.

The annoyances are not with the language, but with the tooling. Slow auto-complete and lack of incremental compilation are my wishes for Apple to fix soon.
> pedal, greasy, unhealthy food

Just like so much of the American food market, then. In fact, most of it.
I moved countries a couple of times too and it was educational how much stuff I didn't miss, all my books for example, all my memorabilia as well.

At the same time over time I did replace tons of stuff. Examples: Had to buy scissors, a tape dispenser, knives, pots and pans, lots of tools, serving dishes, cupcake sheets, cookie sheets, craft utensils, etc... All stuff I already had before I moved.

As for the jacket I've just been carrying it the last 19 months.
This is the mechanic story all over:
Guy takes his car to a garage because it keeps breaking down, and the mechanic leans in and listens to the engine for a minute. He goes and gets a hammer and listens to the engine again, and then raps sharply on the engine casing. The engine goes back into sync and stops breaking down.

The mechanic says "that'll be £500, please." The guy's outraged: "But all you did was tap it!"

Mechanic replies "it was a pound for the tap, and £499 for knowing where to tap."

Edit: Crap, beaten to it.
This parable is somewhat untrue, as it pats over the "good students engineers" shoulders, while throwing "cowboy programmers" out in the cold.

Unless you are producing libraries or frameworks, management don't care about internals of software. It's an engineers' problem next time they ask for a modification.
Management care about having their problems solved. That's why relations between management and engineers are so notoriously dysfunctional: engineers want to produce art, while management wants to sell stuff to customers.

A manager inspecting a code? Really?
A manager congratulating with engineers for releasing a half-working software while going off budget? Seriously?
Managers hate engineers as much an normal people hate lawyers: they make everything sound way too complicated to squeeze more comfort zone to roam into.

Lone cowboy programmers that can conjure working stuff in a minimum time are praised by management, and insulted by colleagues.

And, since this parable was probably written by a disgruntled, good scholar engineer, I think this whole story is a little biased...
Not saying that Google itself does this (I doubt it, honestly), but browser fingerprinting does exist and your browser is, more than likely, unique:

https://panopticlick.eff.org

It isn't entirely unconceivable that a site may use browser fingerprinting to track you even when not signed in by associating your unique browser fingerprint to your account.
But note: 'jaunt' is already a longstanding English word, for "short pleasure trip". (It's also been reused in a bunch of sci-fi to mean teleportation.) That makes secondary connotations recede somewhat, compared to if 'jaunt' were a truly new coinage that everyone needs to reason-out from roots/sounds.
Say no to masqueraded pointers! They require a specific coding convention that can't be checked by compilers since it is effectively a linear (or affine if you are pedantic) type. Put in the other way, masqueraded pointers make many otherwise non-destructive operations destructive without you realizing.
How is it even connecting to the Internet in the first place? Surely the OP isn’t willingly plugging an Ethernet cable into his dryer or giving it his WiFi password.
The punctuation in Erlang mirrors English so closely I find it frustrating when people complain about it.

It's incredibly simple. Comma means "and", semi-colon ends a clause, full stop closes out the entire thought.
You have to use it with caution though, otherwise it just becomes an excuse to never get rid of cruft.
I can't help with your main question, but there are a few important details you're missing.

The blockchain doesn't contain any price information; it just shows crypto moving from wallet to wallet but there's no way to know what price (if any) was associated with those transactions. The blockchain isn't equivalent to the ticker tape for stocks.

"Legit" exchanges like Gemini and Coinbase don't put every transaction on the blockchain; they process trades internally and the blockchain is only used when crypto enters or leaves the exchange. Thus the public can't even verify that legit exchanges are legit; they're no better than Robinhood in that respect (or Robinhood is no worse). So the problems you're worrying about really apply to the whole crypto world.
I think they might. And we might be in a hacker news bubble with our wish to stay remote.

Overwhelmingly the developers in my organisation are happy to work remote forever. Deliver people, product people, design people all seem to want to be back in the office. Upper management as well.
I don’t understand why you think that consistency in itself is a moral obligation. In any case, the consistency argument, even if successful, doesn't show that the NYT was wrong to reveal Scott Alexander's real name. It shows – at most – that it was either wrong to do this or wrong not to publish Virgil Texas's real name. That is why the only interesting question here is the one that you've finally addressed.

>He asked for it, and his reasons for asking for it were reasonable.

His reason was basically that he might suffer some negative effects from the publicity. But almost anyone whose name is mentioned in the NYT might suffer some negative effects from the publicity. It’s “all the news that’s fit to print”, not “all the news except when someone asked us not to publish it”.

In the end the NYT has to come to its own evaluation of the merits of anyone's request for anonymity. The paper can't simply grant anonymity to anyone who asks for it. So just because Scott asked and the request wasn't granted doesn't mean that something has gone wrong.
> From what I've heard, you have to show up physically for most bank stuff. Is that true?

That was true until maybe 10 years ago? Today you can easily open an account online and never show up to a physical agency. If the bank you chose even has one.

But due to the way France works, with the different administrations forbidden from sharing information between each other and no central citizens repository, processes work on the customer themselves passing documents back and forth between the different administrations or companies, which makes it more difficult as a newcomer. Say, the bank will ask for a proof of identity and a proof of address, you have the proof of identity but the proof of address must come from an ISP or utilities company, which in turn requires a bank account. So you have to first find an ISP that will accept payment from your foreign account, etc.

It's different for example in Belgium, where once you're a resident all your information is there in a repository of the federal government and tied to your national number, so you don't need anything more than your identity card to sign up for a bank account. It's much easier but on the other hand, I don't really like having all my information in a single place like this, I just find it a bit unsettling that the police can look up your car's plate and call you on your cellphone to tell you that your car is badly parked.
I a not making an argument, I am explaining the situation, which is true regardless of what people think about it. I'm also not saying "just update the application." It's up to you how to maintain your software, but if you don't, the situation was just as bad with the JRE.
I know that China moved to paper money extremely early. Like, classical period in Europe. They were able to do this because of a uniquely strong central state that was able to dictate terms to not just the peasantry but the aristocracy as well.

I think silver tarnishes a lot more than gold but I'll need to go and check my chemistry homework for that one. Plus, yeah, silver mines.

I'm now reaching back to a couple of books I read a long while ago, but Gold was especially important in Europe because no European state ever really managed to monopolise gold mining. If lots of nations are using Silver, but you can't access silver and its use enriched your rivals then you can switch off its use.
The heise forum sadly has been a cesspit of trolls for a long time. In the last 5 years it got even worse because some of the conspiracist and nazi trolls from the Telepolis forum came over to the tech forums an I think heise don't know how to properly deal with them.
Of course, I didn't mean to imply that the big corporations just suddenly decided that discrimination is bad - it took centuries and centuries of activism to drive that point in. But that's still ultimately because that position became profitable. They don't give a shit in reality. It's why BLM was filled with empty gestures like that, it's why the likes of GitHub make noise about scrubbing problematic terminology and promoting inclusivity while continuing to work with ICE.

No matter how wholesome its branding appears to be, no matter how many rainbow avatars it uses on social media, no matter how many times its executives kneel for photo ops, a big corporation doesn't actually give a shit about anything besides profit.
> He added that the data indicates the Pfizer vaccine, which was developed in partnership with Germany’s BioNTech, is even more effective two weeks or more after the second shot.

That's wrong. BioNTech was the developer, Pfizer only was pulled in for manufacturing and clinical tests.
> just logging in and saying "yes" to the computed value

Holy crap, so if a h4x0r breaks into that website they can see the income and assets of every citizen of your country? That's nuts.

The IRS sucks, but believe it or not they're smart about keeping data secure. The massive mainframe into which all that employer-related data gets loaded is not web-connected.

In fact, not even IRS employees can access the data in there via the web. The only connectivity is through (fairly) dumb terminals with a chip-card slot. The chip-card signs each query before it's sent to the mainframe. Yank out the card and the terminal will cease to respond to your commands. The chip-card is also their employee badge.
If your blog post adds literally no value whatsoever and is on a blog that is almost 100% repost spam, yes.
And from 4 days ago: http://ejohn.org/blog/pulley/

All that hard work for nothing. Damn, another company listening to the needs of their users. What are they thinking...
> How many times would they need to interconnect with a particular ISP? Once?

It's right there in the link. You'd have to interconnect with Verizon/Comcast at every one of their regional interchange points. It would become very expensive very fast for a single small website, but it would be reasonable for a transit provider or a very large content provider that already has servers everywhere (like Google). There would be no free riding, everyone would need to pay for their own way, either by directly physically connecting to the interchange points or by paying a transit provider that already does.
Interesting thought, I'm not sure if PointerEvents would be handled correctly with a trackpad that would have traditionally used as Mouse input either. Seems like the developer would have to know how the trackpad is being used more than anything else since mouse/touch are very different behaviors.
Capitalism - that word again. I don't think it means what you think it means.

PS: Post-capitalism implies capitalism was or is present and unless the author wrote this piece in Hong Kong or Singapore he should not even remotely apply that word any present or past "economic system"

PPS: Much like democracy.
One of the key goals of the project is to be able to aggregate and downsample from raw high precision data. That means we want a framework in which we ship the code to where the data lives, not the other way around.

The abstractions I've seen that have the database layer and then some services on top all miss this. They transport all of the raw data over the network and then run the computations and return the summary ticks back to the user.

Our framework lets us compute the summary ticks locally and send only those back (is many cases, but not all).
Reading this thread to find interesting things to learn.
I've never seen a woman do this so I suspect this is just your stereotype-based expectations biasing your interpretations. Peoples' memory of events are notoriously unreliable and extremely susceptible to the power of suggestion, like the suggestion that women are more prone to emotional outbursts, which is an age-old trope. http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2012/mar...
Can you clarify what you mean? The three parameters are year, month, and day. Which I think is fairly intuitive.

The problem is not with parameter ordering. Year and day are literal, month is zero indexed. So you wind up with (month -1) representing the actual month.
How comfortable do you feel giving up raw fruits/vegetables in favor of Soylent? I feel like that is my main question about the product, and I would be curious to hear from a vegan what the experience is like.
Yeah, anyone who posts their degree in their byline is going to be less than objective when writing a piece like this. Nobody likes to feel like they've been ripped off. Maybe in the future the college degree will be thought of as the Thigh Master of our generation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamirs_Secret_Sharing

Write parts of your password down in several places, collect some of them (say, 8 of 10) to reconstruct it (completely!) if you've forgotten it; let someone who finds your wallet with one part of it know nothing.
This is largely correct, but "largely" isn't the same as "entirely" and there are some major blunders. (For heaven's sake don't use it for that tattoo!)

The first big one is that there is no letter for 'c' in any Elvish alphabet. Elvish writing systems are phonetic, so English 'c' has to be written with the character for 'k' or 's' as appropriate. (The character this site lists for 'c' is what Tolkien usually used for the English 'ch' sound. The character later listed for 'ch' corresponds to the sound in the word "loch" or perhaps German "ich".)

There are a number of similar errors later on, most of which boil down to the same issue: Elvish alphabets aren't just a substitution cipher! They're a distinct encoding of linguistic data.
Just mention all the synergy you have and they will know whats up
Based on my own experience, kind professors can be more inspiring, and are often times successful people.
SPF is already baked in. You can't set up an email account without understanding the ins and outs of that stuff. It is one part of an arsenal.
Your point?

The Register isn't affiliated with the Pakistani Police and their decision to investigate Facebook; they just report news.
I would imagine that a lot of them have jobs that may be from home but require frequent meetings in the area.

Other than that it might be for networking, or they might have all their friends in the area.
Yes - the length of a password is approximately proportional to the time taken to perform a naive brute force attack against it. Mixing different characters into passwords is a technique to limit the effectiveness of dictionary attacks against that password. Both techniques should ideally be combined for really strong passwords, but length alone is a good place to start.
Thank you :) I didn't know that, found it here as well https://piwik.com/
Gutenberg is great for website development.
It's overkill for editors writing blog posts.
I can't imagine more than 1 in 20,000 helicopter commutes every day in the US, but I couldn't find a number.
I understand now, thank you for clarifying :)
This is shocking behaviour from this industry. Who would have thought it? If they are capable of this then what else have they been up to? Sponsoring political upheaval to gain trading advantages? Slave labour?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/08/brexit-back...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-mp-raking-cash-s...
Looks like this generates HTML-friendly documentation on your Flask routes automatically.
Specifically books with lots of code: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/282470/which-books-have-r...
> and I've heard stumpwm is great, for all you lisp lovers :)

IIRC, the creator of ratpoison is also the creator of stumpwm (though I could be mis-informed).

> gnus for mailer: probably. I've heard it's even better than
> mutt, but I don't use email often enough to warrant the
> switch yet.

A couple of years back I tried to get Gnus working, but I ran into: (i) confusing documentation, (ii) not much help through blogs/Google, and (iii) Gnus users on IRC telling me "not to bother" trying to learn Gnus because there were better solutions out there. I've also heard complaints on a number of occasions that Gnus is a dog when trying to load up large mailboxes (and that mutt is better at this).
How is this not for hackers?

Pocoo have created an impressive "ecosystem" of reusable open source libraries and applications, which mostly are mature and well documented. As far as I know they are not a software company but "people from the Python community that are working under one umbrella", as stated on the page.

Google is mostly just "free as in beer".
In the presentation it was mentioned they will release some software in 2011. He also mentioned there are papers + pseudo-code on the website for research purposes to play with. So for people really interested in it (and it does sound very interesting and promising), it should be possible to make those kind of demos/comparisons. Though I have to agree with you that one demo would have been nice.
I was not a downvoter but I think that your comment is a bit problematic.
First of all, saying that not all geeks celebrating Christmas is at least obvious.
In addition, think of this hypothetical question and you may understand the downvoters:

- Ask HN: Which Apple product do you desire the most?

- Answer: Not all geeks desire an Apple product.
I agree. It's all dependent on what your brain sees first. It so happens that the absence of visual detail makes it easier to decide the mask as seen from the front instead of from the back. The moment your brain is told that it should not be seeing the concave face a switch turns on telling you how to 'see' the mask.
I love AltDrive.com. But I'm partial since I created it...and took 5 years doing so. I think tarsnap is good but it seems more for hackers and IT types. Reading their blogs, they do seem to well understand security and encryption.

AltDrive has a free two month trial for either home or business users. You can control your own encryption key too. It is highly secure and uses AES-256 EAX mode encryption. It works in Windows, OSX, Linux. Plus other OSs for business users. It is easy to use and is full featured. There is also a white label offering for the business service.

Check it out. http://altdrive.com
I'm always looking for feedback of any kind that would help improve it.
Aye, Tick data is needed for HFT, no doubt there. I was actually talking towards this thread which mentioned that they should try algorithmic trading first. Which you can build a successful system around daily closes, as long as you plan to hold your equity for over a 24hr period.