jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
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Software engineer with 5 years of professional experience in web development, technical leadership and project management. Much of my professional experience is in PHP and I have focused my open source and project work on learning Python. I have a special love for clean code, architecture and automation. I'm interested in backend/full-stack positions.
My reading of his argument is that bitcoins primary function will be as a medium of exchange, not as a store of value. Thus when any indiviudal has a significant amount of bitcoins, he will convert them to an asset class that does store value.
The bar is higher than needed to fill the positions (several people in the thread say they work in senior positions at a FAANG and wouldn't pass the interview). So good enough candidates are being rejected, so they shouldn't need special visas for people from abroad that are intended for real labour shortages, it would seem.

(but I'm not from the US so don't actually care)
I believe that the current legal situation goes further than just keeping people from being compelled to testify. Pleading the 5th also can't be used as evidence against someone (because that would be a form of compulsion), or even as probable cause.
Also, there aren't very many "high-level" animator jobs at the end of the line, either.

The ideal career path for an ambitious, hard-working, and politically savvy animator is to switch over to the producer track as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
I'm not sure I really understand the implications of this. It doesn't seem like this is an inherent weakness in computer recognition of images, but instead a weakness of a particular DNN? Or am I way off base?
>> homomorphic encryption for anonymity.

>You lost me there

Intuitively: you can add a list of encrypted numbers and then decrypt only the result. Additionally, you can prove that the decryption is correct without revealing the private keys. Decryption keys can be distributed so that no single person can decrypt the votes directly. So, you track your encrypted and signed vote until it goes into the counting process and then you verify the zero-knowledge proofs that tell you the counting was done correctly, but the counting itself doesn't tell anyone anything about individual votes, just the sum of votes for each candidate.

> But then I say paper requires less technical skills and is an order of magnitude less expensive than the cost associated with a safe and sane voting system ?

Right now? For national elections every X years? With our current understanding and computing infrastructure? Absolutely! I am not in favor of online voting right now (except perhaps for a limited number of remote votes for nationals outside their countries, possibly with reduced anonymity).

Where secure electronic voting could shine is in direct democracy systems, where you vote on at least some important resolutions directly or where you can revoke an administration's mandate at any time by getting a threshold number of "votes of no confidence" on it. If you have to vote every week, or every month (let alone daily...), then paper voting is unworkable.

> Wow. That is indeed a good example in favour of electronic voting system.

Actually, we have had electronic fraud before as well (in the global counting). So, I doubt electronic voting would fix democracy in Mexico either. At least not by itself. Just pointing out that the system being replaced is not infallible either...
If you haven't yet read "How We Got to Now", I think you'd really like it. What you've concluded is one of the major themes of the book. I thought it was fascinating.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00INIXU5I/
I've got an android phone that costs the same (within 10%) of an iphone of the same screen size. You can usually get a step up in storage space in the same price bracket as an iphone, but they are on par with each other from what I've seen.
What's the difference between soft-bots and hard-bots?
Unions have no necessary connection to the process.

The elected official's opponent in the following election simply runs a "JOHN SMITH IS SOFT ON CRIME, JOHN SMITH IS BAD FOR US AND OUR FAMILIES" campaign, and people who think public-sector unions are the devil will still vote for the opponent, because now you're pressing their bias (which is in favor of "tough on crime, lock 'em all up and throw away the key").
You check the certificate chain and compare it to a clean version. Obviously that's going to be a solution limited to very savvy users.
At $2200+ to emulate tube sounds, with significant resale risk, it's a pricey option for non-professional players. I've got a few small-ish tube amps and a limited pedal board that covers most of the styles I'm interested in at acceptable volume levels. If I ever decide that I don't like one of my amps, or I want something different, I can sell it and recoup most of what I paid for it - there's not really any chance that Fender will release a new amp that will cause my Princeton RI to suddenly drop in price drastically. The same can't be said for digital gear.

I've tried some less expensive digital gear (Line6) and, while it's nice enough, I feel it leaves much to be desired compared to a well maintained tube amp, so at my gear budget (and since I don't really have any space constraints) I think tubes are a better choice for me - and I don't think I'm terribly atypical. In the long run, if gear that provides the quality of Axe FX drops in price significantly, I might change my mind.
I believe it's very hard for any startup entrepreneur to realize the company isn't going anywhere or there is no real business in what was set out to be done. Sometimes entrepreneurs don't know when to quit on old efforts and re-focus the mission of their startups. Entrepreneurs can only expect to see flat growth for an X amount of time before they have to accept the reality and brainstorm for more ideas, and I believe this isn't stressed enough in Silicon Valley related (bootstrapped) startups.

I think what drags most entrepreneurs on for the longest time is the fact that they think their startup's going to be a big hit tomorrow, next week, or next month.

It's like eating chocolates, people think I'll just eat one more or two more, but before you know you've wasted a day eating the whole box; the end result is nothing (left).

All entrepreneurs should never be afraid of change, because everyone still has their brain at the end of their day as Steve said.

My question to fellow hackers:

"Have you ever folded a startup? Please elaborate, if possible."
Piracy is not theft because you didn't lose anything and I wasn't going to buy it anyway.

Piracy is still theft because you are freely taking value from something that I'm not willing to give. Maybe a better analogy is invasion of privacy... I don't think pirates would be as proud if they were referred to as "software peeping-toms".

Piracy is not theft because buying your product is more hassle than it's worth to me. Besides, I'm giving you free advertising by sharing your product with my friends.

Piracy is still theft because how poorly I price, distribute and market my product are my mistakes to make. When you make these decisions for me, you are putting my livelihood at risk. That's my job, not yours.

These issues are much softer than material theft, but they are still issues. I don't condemn pirates. I just regret how much harder it is to make good products because of piracy. For every 1000 pirates claiming to be helping developers against their will, there is another small developer that telling stories of how much their sales increase for a few weeks each time they update their anti-piracy measures.
So a phrase including a "but" will be contrary. Got it.
It is nice, I agree that there should be some sort of difficulty level to select. I got paired with someone much better than I and lost pretty quickly. I am not a total newbie, but I'm far from being good :)
Would you consider the distribution of a secret recipe, obtained via unauthorized means, as theft, given the potential blow to the business of a restaurant famously known for said recipe?
On a less trollish note, I had always been puzzled by the related question you discuss: why Manhattan Distance does not converge to the Euclidean distance.

I'm pretty uneducated about math, so please let me know what trap I'm falling into.

Your answer isn't yet helping me because you just note that Manhattan Distance remains the same no matter how many twists and turns there are. Yes, this is the premise of the question!

But turn up the twistiness to infinity. Now the Manhattan Distance line is identical to the hypotenuse. There is no point on the Manhattan distance line isn't also on the hypotenuse and vice versa. They both have an infinite number of points, of the same aleph-number, I think.

You mention a hypothetical path that doubled back on itself -- it is easy to see why that would result in a different answer. But the Manhattan Distance line is not doubling back on itself. Every point is a step towards the goal, and it doesn't cross itself. All of its deviations from the simple hypotenuse are infinitely small.

So why are the distances still different?
Some other threads (and news articles) mention a video clip in which the professor claims he will write the test himself. By doing so, this professor implicitly declared the test bank (and everything else on the Internet) fair game for studying from.

The students probably messed up big time by not reporting that the test was publicly available first, but I think we're missing some important facts and only seeing one man's edited version of events here.
Hah, nice. Didn't check the resulting code. Know what the other optimization levels do? I'm don't really know x86 assembler.

I do still side with the optimization though, in that the .NET-VM could do this as well. The loop is pretty simple, and can be optimized away. Why shouldn't it?
Dup, with some discussion already:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1918221
Not only are they dense, but they are "most" continuous functions! (For an appropriate interpretation of "most", of course)
Disagree. But much better for domestic consumers to get the best prices and highest quality. I don't care if a Chinese or American magnate becomes a billionaire. I care that millions of middle-class Americans get the best deal possible.
The letters and spacers 3D-print as individual pieces. Rearrange them to form your message and slide them onto rods that snap into the body frame.

With the supplied letters and spacers as examples, render the font of your choice as additional models to 3D-print.
nhashem, great point. i think its important to get users as fast as possible, and what investors really care about is what you LEARNED from those users (what they like, don't like, data that supports your hypotheses). better a poor product + hundreds of early users than a polished product that hasn't been launched, imo
This seems like a completely different point from your previous comment.

The answer is that CEOs can be good or bad just like other types of employees, but (just like other employees) you have to pay market rate to hire one, even if they turn out to be bad.
How is this even remotely surprising? The iPad is a popular consumer device. Only the religious Linux fanboys think that the Linux desktop has a significant market share.
The lasting record of science is made of publications. The process of science is made of people. If our current system is making scientists who are too specialized to do the science we will need in the future, we're doing it wrong.
Will do later ;)
Yes, but the metric should be quality, not quantity. Both do matter to the current system, but there is a perception that it is quantity that has taken precedence.
It is not overly difficult to transform this story about one form of utility (Starbucks coffee) to being about needing to get to a location to perform work (another form of utility).
Amen, and the way our business-friendly politicians try to frame these debates is revealing.

Physicians have a duty to act in the best interests of their patients, on individual, community, and societal levels...regardless of the "profit-and-loss" of business entities.

I had an attending when I was in residency training who would absolutely blow his stack if any physician ever referred to themselves as a "provider", or a patient as a "client". It's a much different relationship.
> But it defeats the point of building a forward-secret system.

Such thinking defeats the actual purpose of the program: to serve users. I don’t want to delete at least some of my history. It’s like Windows, which know better than the users what they want.
Excellent interview with Formula E founder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrTbdKe0XTo

Best quote, when asked if he thought we could end our dependence on oil:
"The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones."

Really important to understand that this is just the first iteration of their plan. Goal is to get to single car for a full hour race within a few years. Agag says they now have many major cities approaching them about participating in the second year of Formula E, including San Francisco.

Also, the cars are louder than most people realize, at 80 decibels.
Agreed, but this could have just been a tweet.
He is using the neighbor's guest hotspot not his own.
I wonder if something like this could be paired up with ReactNative?
People like him should be "attacked", if you want to dilute the meaning of "attacked" to include non-violent criticisms of character. If he's going to litter his article with first person pronouns and make it personal, then he's "fair game."

I said the article conflated STEM with "Asian educational systems", which are conflated with memorization. Read:

>But technical chops are just one ingredient needed for innovation and economic success. America overcomes its disadvantage — a less-technically-trained workforce — with other advantages such as creativity, critical thinking and an optimistic outlook. A country like Japan, by contrast, can’t do as much with its well-trained workers because it lacks many of the factors that produce continuous innovation.

>Americans should be careful before they try to mimic Asian educational systems, which are oriented around memorization and test-taking. I went through that kind of system. It has its strengths, but it’s not conducive to thinking, problem solving or creativity.
I don't think this qualifies as an act of war, not by a long shot. But that does raise an interesting question: what would be considered (or rather should) an act of war in cyberspace?

Should the target be a whole nation? Or maybe enough of it to affect their ability to function? How much commerce disruption equates an act of war, even if no shots are fired?

You'd need some pretty good proof and how would you respond? With another cyber attack? Or escalate into a shooting war? Or by disconnecting the attacking country from the internet?
All F1 rejects are in Formula E now.
A long cold cyberwar http://www.flourish.org/2015/01/long-cold-cyberwar/
Much the same situation in the UK - left and right are remarkably quiet on the issue. Any political party that has held the reins for a term or two has ridden close enough to the devil to know the deal they must make.
my entire office uses vnc, reason is helpdesk sometimes needs to see what you're doing in order to help you. But you most definitely have to be on the network and we have a password, albeit very weak.
I recently worked as an expert witness and had to write a report, I haven't written anything since University ~15 years ago. Writing a technically accurate report about source code for a non-technical audience was amazingly difficult. It was fun, but stressful. Each sentence has to be able to withstand a cross examination, sometimes it took hours to write a single sentence.

I'd do it again, and I recommend anybody that gets the change to do it as well.
Are you using the old RealVNC bug that allows the password to be bypassed by ignoring what authentication methods the server advertises and using "none", or only hitting stuff that actually says it supports connecting without a password?
That's in Syracuse NY, an emptying city with lots of vacant real estate.

How could this work in California? Build a town of tiny houses somewhere with low-value real estate, like San Bernardino or Lodi, and ship the SF homeless there?

Add-on feature: free drugs and free training. 1 in 1000 doses is lethal. Everybody is clearly told this up front. In three years, the druggies have been filtered out and the rest have useful training.
1. I doubt Kindle is a quality product, NC seems a better product than that. You can't install Kindle for Android in an unrooted NC. The cost factor works for B&N since they own retail distribution. That alone gives them a 30% advantage over other tablet players. In the past few months, Amazon shutdown their Kindle SDK program and opened an Android store. So not exactly a great backing of the Kindle product.

2. True, but will there a big enough market for all these features?. Apple can make the greatest tablet, but if their margins are challenged and the customers flock to a low cost good-enough device then I don't think Apple will be pleased with the result. B&N made a profit for the first time in many quarters. They sold a boatload of Nook Colors. I doubt they are losing money on NC.
But I think the implication is a lot more than just being the second.

Once you're the second, you can't easily dictate anything anymore. Just like having multiple buyers, the seller has more options to sell the product.
perhaps using a translation service as a proxy irks those who enjoy translation?
Good advice and presentation Jason. I can't wait to see it in action.
That was indeed my problem, now it's fixed
I looked at the cited page (http://www.humorwriters.org/startlingstats.html) which is a weird writing workshop article that gets its information from a site that "helps writers get published." I smell something fishy here.

I also searched the publishing site and found nada. Of course, I didn't do an exhaustive search, but still...

Just as an aside, I wouldn't be surprised if some college grads never read a "proper book" after college. I don't think that means the end of literacy - we do read a lot on the internet...
Before saying your parents don't want one, it might be worth waiting to see what exactly is presented at E3.

For instance, what if the four controllers can essentially function as light tablet computers networked centrally to the console?
Could be this: If two sellers have the book, and are setting the prices algorithmically, and then one of them sells it offline (like in a used bookshop) and removes it from sale, how does the other seller change their price to be more realistic?
seems like the FBI was investigating for another unspecified reason, got the warrant for access to his cloud accounts, encountered encrypted files, and spent the next few months brute forcing or attacking the encrypted files until January 2022. they had marginal success with that effort but fortunately the files they got open were the jackpot with private keys and all sorts of damning things.

this is a strange one, because the IRS agent is the one that made the call.

so FBI, DOJ and IRS are involved.

The IRS agent actually suggested wire fraud and CFAA along with money laundering and defrauding the US (an IRS thing about revenue its owed), which makes sense, but DOJ has only moved on "conspiracy to commit money laundering" and "defraud the US".
This if fantastic!
I made an account to answer this question.

I work at a major bank, >50k employees, this is where you want to be if you don't want to do anything. Most bank managers and executives are old, print out an excel sheet and use a ruler old. The bar is also set so low at most banks that with 2-3 hours of work you'll get stellar reviews and managers will think you're a god.
although I think it's fair to say that not all retractions are the result of fraud. I'm not sure about the ins and outs of this case for example http://retractionwatch.com/2014/12/26/nature-cell-biology-in... but I think it looks like a straightforward revision due to more up to date information. This seems to be a good example of how science should work i.e. scientists posit theory, scientists receive new information and update or revise theory in light of this.
If you're really so far overweight that you have to "work the rest of your life" to be presentable, then seek a doctor's advice. They can (legally!) give you powerful medications (in the US, methamphetamine) which can drop weight very quickly.

Not that weight is the only health metric, but it seems to be one you are complaining of. Nor is medicating perhaps the best way to lose weight, but it's powerful and might give you motivation to keep at it once you get some easy losses.
> quite a few bypasses

the longer it exists the less bypasses left. it is really good at preventing simple reflective xss.

> talking about web apps that customers had.

Remark - we are talking about interface-based xss only, not all of them. It's really rare for segment this product is targeting (online banks etc).

> but it doesn't seem like something anyone would accept if their app had any social component

the goal is to make it work for everyone out of box, including widgets and social components. and there are no unsolvable issues.

> Maybe there is a market for "citrix for web apps"

the market here is huge - everyone who cares about security the most. It prevents all 0days except those that can be exploited via interface.

Absolute 0day protection. Doesn't it sound epic? Yes, securecanvas's stack itself is another layer and may have 0days but its attack surface is small.
I think you're letting your personal beliefs/circles affect your view on the FOSS ideology. Free software has nothing to say for or against commercial software. Commercial software doesn't need to be proprietary. I was there in the late 90s and early 2000s too and it was a minority (of proponents, many opponents would slander FOSS as a form of socialism) that somehow equated open software with socialism.

We're talking free as in libre here, not free as in beer.
I just did. I'm never going to run one of those things again in my browser.

After Firefox prompted me to enable icedtea, I clicked through some warnings about unsigned applets, and then my browser slushed up. No applet appeared to be running. I closed that tab, and it took around a minute for the tab to disappear. Meanwhile I tried to go to other tabs, and the title bar changed the indicated tab but the tab didn't actually change.

Closed the browser. Waited a decent interval. Tried to open firefox but I got the "I'm already running!" complaint. Waited. Complained. Waited. Complained.

pgreg. htop. No indication of firefox or java or icedtea running.

Eventually the blockage passed through the system and I could run Firefox again.

Firefox? Java? Icedtea? Incompatible jvms in a "write once, run anywhere that the jvm that I developed my applet on is running" ecosystem? DKDC, it's not at all important to my home or work life (fortunately).

EDIT: To be minimally fair, I play Minecraft on the same Linux as I was running above. It's a java desktop, not a browser app.
“From the PR links of each highlight, we can know that most of the eight highlights of Kong Gateway 3.0 are earlier implemented by Apache APISIX.” Wow!
I meant for hosting providers. If you are on any type of a hosting provider that doesn't have dedicated IP assigned to them, such as in case of "shared" hosting. If the service support SNI (Server Name Indication) then dedicated IP is not necessary, only complication is that if your site needs to support older browsers and/or OS, SNI may not work.

StartCom (or any of CA) doesn't care about IP address.