jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
From your post I can't tell if you come from a biochemistry or a computational background.

If you have a biochemistry background: I'd recommend that you use your strengths, and maybe concentrate on something that will help in the wetlab. The biological background required for algorithmic problems such as the statistics of protein and dna sequences is a well trodden path for people who know computer science. However, we know nothing about the wetlab and most of the software I see there is ugly, closed and expensive.

If you have a computer background: One suggestion is to install R, Bioconductor (bioconductor.org), and start playing with microarray data in the form of CEL files (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gds/).
If you aren't, (or worse, can't even imagine), doing something without being paid, people won't want to pay you to do it unless it's a real shitty job. People call this "passion"; I call it being what you say you are. Otherwise, you're just phoning it in.
John,

This is great. I love the simplicity of it. That said, while drag and drop is super easy, I think you should still offer a more traditional upload method in addition to it.

Often times, I have several windows open, none of which is a folder full of images and no desire to re-purpose one or open more. Drag and drop is great if you want to share a bunch of images, but if you're just uploading a screen shot for someone to quickly review or what have you, having to stop what you're doing, open yet another window, browse to the folder, drag browser windows around so that you can then select the photo and drag it into the browser is significantly slower than just clicking a browse button, selecting the image, and clicking upload.

Drag and drop is pretty idiot-proof, and for bulk uploads, it's faster, but for single images and multi-tasking users, it can actually be a lot slower.

Having both options would be ideal.
My first thought reading the headline was “wasn’t there recently a show HN about this exact problem?”

Glad to see it near the top - saved me a search.
> When I send a text message and it doesn't arrive, my messaging app lets me know

Signal does let you know, it never gets the delivered mark.
MMT claims that money creation happens when the government spends money, and it is “destroyed” when the government “taxes it back out”.

This differs from traditional theory wherein the banking sector, specifically central banks, play the primary role in managing the money supply.

Proponents of MMT also advocate spending to maintain full employment, to the point when inflation occurs, at which point it becomes necessary to cut deficits.

Note that this policy prescription is only the case when a country actually controls their own currency.

Also, anyone who says things like “it means money printer go brrr” likely has spent close to zero time actually attempting to understand even basic facts about MMT, and likely gained anything they know about MMT from memes or shallow criticism.
Interesting. I wonder if this is a problem for some people in-person, as well, or if the video specifically causes the speech to not get processed right the first time around.

If it's a problem in both environments I could see remote work with closed captioning being a big benefit for people with certain types of neurodivergence.
I haven’t followed Peloton closely. How did they get so popular than crash so hard?
> The Justice Department announced Tuesday it had seized more than $3.6 billion in bitcoin allegedly stolen as part of a 2016 hack of Bitfinex, saying authorities have also arrested and charged a husband and wife in New York for allegedly trying to launder the cryptocurrency fortune.

> Officials said Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31, were arrested on charges of conspiring to launder money. They are accused of trying to launder 119,754 bitcoin that were stolen after a hacker breached Bitfinex, a cryptocurrency exchange, and initiated more than 2,000 unauthorized transactions. Prosecutors said the bitcoin was sent to a digital wallet controlled by Lichtenstein.

From the actual charging statement (https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1470186/downl...), the Feds have more details and fascinating traces through the various methods which the accused laundered the funds. Raises the question of whether they would've attracted so much attention if it were "only" a $70M hack instead of the multibillion dollar one due to BTC appreciation.

> In or around August 2016, a hacker breached Victim VCE’s security systems and infiltrated its infrastructure. While inside Victim VCE’s network, the hacker was able to initiate over 2,000 unauthorized BTC transactions, in which approximately 119,754 BTC was transferred from Victim VCE’s wallets to an outside wallet. At the time of the breach, 119,754 BTC was valued at approximately $71 million. Due to the increase in the value6 of BTC since the breach, the stolen funds are valued at over $4.5 billion as of February 2022.
Same. One place that was otherwise quite lenient and tended to let people use whatever (allowed both Teams and Slack) explicitly barred Zoom completely, considering it a security risk.
The market cap of bitcoin isn’t even $1 trillion. This is not even the size of one major tech company. I think for what it does and how it’s used, it could be worth a lot more.

You and many on HN are very ignorant. You don’t understand the tech. You are shaking your fist at a cloud. Just ignore crypto if you don’t want it! It’s voluntary. The extreme hate on HN towards this tech is exhausting plus the market has determined you are 100% incorrect.

Imagine if every time an article on rust was posted, I replied with scathing nonsense about how worthless it is despite a zillion metrics showing how widely used it is? Just shut the fuck up already! No one caresssss
Vastly overestimating the average programmer.
Morgan Freeman is wrong in that very old video. That he is black and famous doesn't make him any less wrong. If he holds that opinion today he'd still be wrong. Pretending that we don't see race and yet operating in a world deeply defined by it will do precisely nothing to address structural racism.

Structural racism is both real and documented both in laws and policies [1], and its geographic and demographic impacts [2]. No amount of imagining race away is going to change that.

Also, Morgan Freeman is not an authority on how to combat structural racism that is tied into our economic, healthcare, housing and educational systems. He's a damn great actor, though.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining https://www.investopedia.com/the-history-of-lending-discrimi...

2. https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/135/2/711/5687353
The new interface doesn’t look too bad, seems to align with Apple’s look and feel. You can see an old prototype here https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/media_vlc/att...

What’s more scary is that they are looking at ways to monetize the program. I don’t want ad supported streams, don’t ship me that crap. I literally just want to play media files.

Maybe Microsoft should buy this company before they destroy it with greed (eeesh that felt weird to type, but I think Microsoft can be a good steward of open source)
I'm fairly certain everything you said is possible except for custom CUDA kernels in pure Python. You'd have to write the kernel in C++ and use it in your TensorFlow/PyTorch code. [0][1]

[0]: https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/create_op

[1]: https://pytorch.org/tutorials/advanced/cpp_extension.html
I've heard the same story from others, and it's my story too. I type fast enough and accurately enough to get ideas out of my head. I tried to type "correctly" way back in junior high (on a typewriter, no less!) but found that my personal technique (developed since first using Apple II's at 8 y/o) worked better (even on a real typewriter).

Thirty-six years typing this way and never any pain.

I know what you mean re: the muscle memory being burned in. It, no doubt, contributes to my frustration when developers change keyboard shortcuts in systems I've used for years. When Microsoft decided to change "Log off..." to "Sign out" (in Windows 10? 8? I can't recall...) I lost my go-to <CTRL>-<ESC> <ESC> <ALT>-<F4> <L> <ENTER> shortcut for logging off. Now I have to look at the screen to make sure my <S> isn't getting "Switch User", "Sign Out", "Sleep" or "Shutdown". (I guess I was the only person in the world who found the keyboard shortcuts for those choices being dis-ambiguous to be valuable...)
It was mainly to track strength of different decks we all played, since you could check ELO of either. It was the strongest player who was upset by it, since once people realized he won 50% of 3 and 4 player games he was always targeted. But yeah, I wouldn't do it again.
Will we finally get gapless playback in the Chromecast's native music player? I've tried to use my Chromecast for music, but the gaps between tracks are just complete deal breakers for many albums. I had just assumed audio was not a priority for google.
Another one?

I'm originally from that part of the country, and I swear my mom sends me a story like this every couple of years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/09/science/cardinal-sex-gend...
A car is so enormous, I don't understand how car theft even happens. Surely it can't be hard to go through the finite number of facilities in a city capable of chopping up a car and find some evidence.
This needs a [2019] in the title (it's cool, but hasn't been touched in years)
WE DEVELOPED AND DEPLOYED SEVERAL VACCINES TO A NOVEL VIRUS IN LESS THAN A YEAR.

The year over year progress on computing power/efficiency/size is beyond impressive. Modern computer hardware is an amazing feat of engineering.

The first complete sequences of the Human Genome was completed in 2003, as part of the Human Genome Project which started in 1990. Total cost of $100,000,000. That's actually not so expensive given the payoff is literally a complete copy of our own genetic code. Today, less than 20 years later, the cost of sequencing that same genome is about $1,000.

The LHC? Super fucking cool.

We do build cool shit. Incredibly cool shit. WAY cooler than dumb ass killing machines like fission bombs and space-age fighter jets. And BTW, going from fission in theory to something actually useful for doing something other than killing people did take a couple decades (first nuke power plant turned on in 1954).

We can build all that cool shit you want, too. Flying cars? We've been able to do that for decades. You don't have a flying car because you'd almost certainly end up killing yourself or someone else and probably couldn't afford the fuel to operate it on the daily. There's a reason you can't just rent a Cessna and go out for a joy ride without any training.

The "no cool shit" thesis always uses killing machines and rich person toys as examples. I don't want stupid rich person toys that even rich people don't actually use when they get them (flying cars). I want to be able to Zoom with my parents during a pandemic.
Being insensitive to those concerns is not necessarily wrong. The level of concern about being targeted by criminals seems to have almost no relation to the level of risk.
Isn't the driver seat on the wrong side?

US should be on the left side right? The figure shows right side...
Not just crypto. Pretty much everyone is having difficulty upgrading to the 3000 series for PC gaming too. The cards regularly sell for hundreds of dollars over MSRP in the secondary market.
I think he was bluffing... but it obviously worked.
The prof pointed out that one student out of the 200 fessed up (I'm not sure whether anonymously or not) shortly after the fact because their guilt got the better of them.
A/B plots were common in musical comedies at least as far back as the 1940s...
If I didn't know that the government is manipulating social media all the time, I totally would not think you're a shill trying to discredit these news reports by claiming that Jake Appelbaum is a non-technical journalist.

* Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-ope...)

* How Covert Agents Infiltrate The Internet To Manipulate, Deceive, And Destroy Reputations (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...)
I thought the source of some of this data was Snowden's access at his own discretion, with his own keys and others' that he obtained?

I say "some" since Schneier has stated he now considers there to be at least 3 leakers...
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/08/the_us_intell...

The other two leakers got their information from somewhere, and it could have also included access at their own discretion.
> And I of course remember when that became untenable and changed to "climate change".

Really? When did that happen? What year?
In the USA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell is a later but more familiar example due to his work on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth
Autoclaving components of the medium separately has been done since the 1970s. Here's a paper published by my dad in 1975 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Look under Materials and Methods, Media. It's mentioned like it's no big deal. They had tried a number of combinations, this is what worked best for them.

http://authors.library.caltech.edu/11146/1/SUTpnas75.pdf

EDIT: My dad has Parkinsons now. It's great to see him light up and talk about his work.
There are plenty of lazy and derivative British sitcoms, but I wouldn't call The Office a one-off stroke of genius. A great many British sitcoms have similar depth and substance - Gavin and Stacey or The Inbetweeners would be good contemporary examples. Going back further, you have programmes like I'm Alan Partridge, Blackadder, Porridge, The Likely Lads and so on. None of those sitcoms could plausibly have been produced in the US, they're just not sufficiently marketable.

British TV commissioning isn't perfect, but it affords a level of creative freedom that is largely absent in the US, and that is necessary for programmes like The Office to come into being. British commissioners really do think in terms of artistic merit rather than purely commercial value.

American networks are excellent at producing huge international hits, but there's no room in the system for smaller, quirkier productions. The BBC and Channel 4 tend to take a lot of small risks on cheaper productions rather than always swinging for the fences. Success and failure is far less binary when there isn't the pressure to recoup a huge budget. Some of those cheap experiments will be total flops, some will survive as lowbrow primetime filler, some will find a small but loyal audience, a rare few will be huge hits. None of those outcomes are career-ending catastrophes, they're just part of the process. Commissioners expect and allow that level of variance.
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Thanks Jeff. It might have something to do with Google running slow (with Gmail and other applications having the same challenge). I will check and see what's causing it.
I understand what an event horizon is. What I don't understand is how you could remove one.
Unfortunately, the better the software is at disabling this or that, or cutting off the internet, the harder I will try to beat it. Just for fun, really.

It would be like an escape artist locking himself in a cleverly secured cell to make himself work on something.
hang out with us on #startups on freenode :)
I have a couple problems with this:

* Don't trust an OS you can't examine the source for.
* Don't trust binaries you can't build from source, no matter what OS you run them on.

I wouldn't trust iOS, OSX, Windows or any other closed system with any kind of encryption these days.
By that logic, no one else in the industry (Adobe, Mixpanel, VWO) has competent statisticians. That's silly.
> Those things are a means to an end, the company doesn't exist to hold people's money

Yet. Like the OP said, "Next up they'll probably offer interest and loans/mortgages". Who knows what else they'll divert their attentions to (hint: it's probably where the money is).

Coinbase seems to be going for the Payment Processor route, now with the USD wallet who knows if they'll offer you a CC just like Xapo. Guess who else offers you CCs?
Sorry, if you get the third argument of strncpy wrong, you are right back in the area of trouble.
Well said, though, I think there is reason to be concerned about the continued centralization of bitcoin payment processors. In a world where bitpay and coinbase are processing the vast majority of bitcoin payments, it's easy to imagine how a coordinated denial of service attack could temporarily cripple the bitcoin economy from the consumer's perspective.
Your post has been closed as it does not describe a real problem but is instead suspect to opinions.
It's also not clear what has been "reinvented," unless of course you mean re-inventing things that have already been invented.
Unchanged.

The job required to fire a missile is somewhat prestigious but relatively simple - the command comes in, execute a pre-planned sequence of events that have been drilled into you by that point.

At that point it's no different from following the assembly steps for a hamburger at a fast food restaurant.. though with much greater consequences than a stomachache afterwards :)
Diffraction limits are most visible for small apertures (high f-numbers). For surveillance cameras, I would expect* sensor size to be the bigger issue, because as long as sensor size is fixed, signal to noise will be limited by photon noise (the noise created by the randomness of photons themselves), no matter how good the sensor is.

Realistically, if this is a goal, then manufacturers will just increase the sensor size until the goal is met. This isn't a cell phone, so the sensor size constraints are pretty forgiving for this platform.

* Note: I am no optics expect, this is just what I've picked up on my own.
Use the find function: CONTROL-F, COMMAND-F, etc. Come on guys, we are meant to be software professionals...
Send an email to api@venmo.com if you would like to play with our beta API.
What would happen to wildcard SSL certs which depend on the main site being at www.example.com as opposed to example.com which a wildcard cert does not match?

Likewise with restricted cookies, most browsers fail to allow you to restrict a cookie to example.com alone (this restricts to all subdomains also). Restricting to www.example.com gets around this problem.

These complaints seem unfounded, the real problem is people not using permanent redirects on example.com to www.example.com
Spawning a service on a random port that lets unauthenticated users write arbitrary files to your system is a very bad idea. ;-)

If you have shell access via SSH, why not just use SFTP? Presumably it's configured as well.
i believe dbshards is a similar solution
http://www.dbshards.com/dbshards/
What's mindboggling to me (and what should be the day one lecture subject in every Marketing course on the planet) is how Apple can take an increasingly commoditized market, like consumer computing, and whip people up into so much of a frenzy (in either direction) that it seems like every product release is going to start a riot.

Even when you think that selling iPads at Wal-Mart or iPhones at Radio Shack would dilute the exclusivity factor or shift the consumer attitude away from "hip, fresh, and new", it debuts another new thingie and BOOM! The frenzy starts anew.

They sold 18 Million iPhones in three months. They're selling more computers than ever (4 million now). Naysayers went from "they should just close and return all their money back to investors" to "they can't keep growing forever".

"Apple as it grows defying expectations has to both make sure that future iterations of its products can keep enchanting their customers as well and stay innovative"

Jobs perhaps won't be able to see the continued success by thinking up and touting, as if a carnival barker, their "magical" new products, but they can shift into an aggressive expansion into new spaces. Cisco is famous for doing just that, eating up companies voraciously to move into spaces like consumer networking (Linksys) and set-top entertainment (Scientific Atlanta).

If Apple can't out-innovate in the long haul, they could really shake up the consumer space with some killer acquisitions. I see them making smaller buys like TiVo to bolster their Apple TV product, then go after larger (more complicated) buys. I like them acquiring Nintendo, for example. I see them scooping up either Coinstar (for Redbox) or Netflix (or even Blockbuster, but that just has bad memories of VHS and late fees that even Apple couldn't, er... polish).

I could even see them buying a service like Kobo for eBook marketshare. Hell, they could buy Barnes and Noble for their bookstore, ebook marketplace, _and_ the low-end, low cost tablet (Nook Color). Now that would be taking a swipe at Google.

Here's where my crazy theories go full-crazy, though. I see them ridding themselves of the bloat and dependence on iTunes and buying Amazon for both the digital market, the Kindle (which will be rebranded the iBook since they already own that trademark), and the website itself becomes their "iTunes". No more plugging into a device to sync; it's all OTA over Amazon's existing cloud infrastructure. Buy books either on your device or physically. It would be the biggest coup acquisition ever IMO. Too bad it would probably never happen.
It's great that you are excited about the future. That's probably the most important thing.

Having graduated about 13 years ago now, I guess that the thing that I come to realize is that if you're not happy now, you probably won't be happy at the next "phase," so enjoy the ride.

Also, there seems to be an inverse relationship between happiness and responsibility. I don't fear or dodge responsibility, but I try to better understand its diminishing return in the scope of my life/happiness.

I could be wrong, but I don't think at the end of it all, I'll be wishing that I would have taken on more responsibility, earlier.