jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You borrow from large institutional investors. These funds just own large amounts of stock in the hopes of achieving a profit through dividends and growth of the company. A trader who wants to short a stock can borrow some of this stock for a fee.
Everybody wins this way. The large institutional collects the borrow-fee, and the trader can profit from a decline because he has borrowed the stock.

[pet peeve]
Note that naked short is actually mathematically equivalent to (naked) long only with a minus sign. For example: every publicly traded company is naked short it's own stock from the day it goes public (collecting a huge heap of cash in exchange for selling the stock). Another example: Everybody owning stock (or anything really) is also short cash (unless they borrow money to buy it). So all people long [insert company name here] are short [insert currency here] i.e. they will profit when [currency] drops wrt to [stock]. Those unpatriotic bastards!
[/pet peeve]
I think you're missing the forest for the trees.
uber let the cat out of the bag… this model might not exist forever, but maybe it’ll last long enough for someone else to capitalize on its ghost
Off topic, but a site straight out of 1997 makes it harder to take this seriously.
If you don't want your stuff to end up in weird places, wipe the hard drive before sending the computer to repair.

The computer could get lost/stolen while in shipment. The repairment isn't the only potential leaks for your personal stuff.
This one will probably be obvious but everyone seems to enjoy it when I tell it:

I was hired out of college to work for a NYC-based startup called 'Games Media Properties' that ran a video game tournament called the World Series of Video Games (both horrible names, I didn't come up with them).

We spent roughly 300-400k per event to throw these huge productions, then another 1-2 million to film a TV series about it. There were 7 events, 3 in the US and 4 international.

The business model was a mix of ticket sales ($80 competitors and $5 spectators paying to come in), and ad sales (pay and be a sponsor).

Each event attracted around 30,000 attendees and we were asking for $1 million to be a 'title' sponsor of the series.

You can do the math on your own, but it essentially equated to $1 million to reach 30,000 people (assuming there was 1 title sponsor per event).

At the same time, we were building a few websites around the tournament. One for news coverage, one an actual 'tournament' site, etc. We had the idea to sell ads for our online sites with a near-inverse value proposition: Spend $30,000 to reach 1,000,000 people.

Needless to say, we stopped doing tournaments about two years in once all the advertisers flocked to the online model.

That company is now called Giant Realm and is an 18-34 male-focused ad sales organization that was recently acquired :)
None, because I don't have an android app. Sorry.

But have you considered selling the app, rather than giving it away for free/with ads? It seems that most apps aren't used after 30 days, so you may make more total profit by charging a small fee:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/19/pinch-media-data-shows-the-... (Feb 2009)
Agreed.

They just amended their S-1 to explain how they account for the costs of production for content.

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101223/demand-medias-ipo-which-...

Rather than expense the costs on payment (like every other publishing company), they are trying to amortize it (like a machine or factory) over a four year period.

If they treat costs like every other company in their industry, they are losing a significant amount of money each year. (More importantly, in real world cash accounting, they are burning through significant amounts of cash each quarter.)

If they go public, investors who don't understand the underlying risks of the Demand Media Business (like Google changing their algorithm) or understand why this type of accounting artificially inflates profits will get burned - and it will hurt the overall technology ecosystem (much akin to the everything.com IPOs of the late 1990s)
The questioners -- each of whom was a member of Parliament -- might have been using a superficially-polite circumlocution to raise (what we would now call) the GIGO question.
Yeah, it is horsepuckey. Large groups of people have learned that there is no social censure for stealing certain types of goods. Stealing is strictly superior to buying for them. They'll steal it if it is possible. I have both trials and a very generous refund policy, and my downloadable app gets stolen frequently. (And my web app gets stolen never, which should be a preview of coming attractions for people who are going to wake up one day and wonder why nothing functions without an Internet connection.)
Almost all modern video drivers provide 2D acceleration (including Intel's X.org driver). From firsthand experience, I can attest that running unaccelerated X is painfully slow.
How well has the installation process been tested for userland-only (non root) installs?
This is a great story.

I love having examples like these around. It seems like every other day I get dragged into a conversation with someone (usually someone I care deeply about) about being successful, or just making things. In the end the conversation typically ends when I say something like "the only thing you've tried so far was coming up with excuses not to do something". 95% of times, the conversation itself is inconsequential.

5% of times it results in something big. New jobs, more cash-flow, or just people being happier with themselves and what they do. I guess some people need a small push to start making things happen. (Others, apparently, need a push bigger than I can deliver.)

edit: I realize that I strayed a bit from the topic of your comment, wallflower, apologies :-)
You're both being dogmatic. Steveklabnik is claiming that Carnegie could've done more to be an ethical leader, Axiom is claiming that he couldn't.

The truth is, both are possible. I am baffled as to how either of you thinks the question can be answered without looking at the specific history and the specific choices Carnegie made and deciding whether he was willfully destroying lives.
Actually, PPP over Websockets has some really interesting implications. Raw TCP/UDP in your browser is a potentially powerful thing. It's like a VPN client in your browser - once you're connected, you can bridge private networks, or establish pure TCP connections to any server on the internet, without special-case wrappers or browser-imposed WebSocket restrictions.
In other words DDG continues to shoot itself in the foot and lose all value to anyone willing to use the search engine.
Oh, I'm glad I checked back in here to read that. A month or two ago Dangerous Minds posted a late 70s Wire concert from Rockpalast (German TV show which is now perhaps the greatest archive of punk-new wave bands at their peaks) and it was stunning. It's been taken down, but there are still clips up.
Thanks for the reply.
I like that you’ve chosen a scripting language, it makes the book much more accessible. If it were in c / c++ / rust etc, I would never read it.

Thanks for sending the writeup of why you chose Python.

As for javascript readability issues, IMO those are non-issues and actually in some ways beneficial to have one language, no need to context switch.

The web workers issue is perhaps a problem, but maybe it makes the implementation easier, even if it doesn’t look much like real browsers?

I don’t understand the networking issue you highlight, you can build any networking functionality using NodeJS, it’s actually very good in networked application settings.

With so many people that write code online in javascript, the book would be so much more accessible. It would be a great compliment to the Python version or any C / C++ version.

I’m interested to hear your update, what’s the best way to get that automatically?
That was actually refuted by the guys Kripke cited:

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/264345529_Reply_to_E...
unfortunately I could not find it again it was newspaper like Atlantic or something like that
maybe it was censorship.
Whoever is in charge for this decision at Google, this shows very poor branding, customer and marketing skills. This looks like improvisation motivated by despair and panic. A junior's move...

I am switching to the www.google.com/firefox home page, it still has the lean dan mean looks.

As they say in French 'On ne fait pas le bonheur des gens contre leur gré', which translates to: you can't shove happiness in people against their will...
tmux has tiling window manager layouts (the same ones dwm and XMonad use) built into it.

Having two narrower columns visible at the same time in the text console (with easy copy/pasting) has been really helpful for me on several occasions.
Hey, nice point. You still need something to compare it to though, to know the actual percentage. But it would show anomalous changes,
"But when comparing different car companies you usually say BMW 325xi."

That was exactly the point of the grandparent poster. Obscure numbers enforces brand recognition because you have to say "BMW 325xi" if you expect everyone to know what you're talking about, thus enforcing the BMW brand. If Apple did this you would have to say "Apple MBPi750" every time just to tell people you're talking about an Apple MacBookPro. While it might help Apple's brand recognition it's a major fuck you to consumers as we appreciate simplicity over corporate brand recognition.
Google should have learnt from Buzz. People do not like to opted in without their consent. If they had made changing background exclusive, a lot of people (even those complaining now) would want to try it out.
If you allow a little bit of shameless self-promotion/

I (co) made a related app (android + html5)
- draw / handwrite (vector data format)
- ability to synchronously co-draw in real-time
- docs stored in the cloud

we're not fully ready for beta, but here goes
http://write-live.com/
What's your email? Let's connect man.
Please note that this is for EBS backed instances only.

If you want something similar for ephemeral instances, do what we do: min 1 max 1 auto scaling groups. We've found that Amazon is pretty good at catching bad instances and terminating them, although on occasion we do have to terminate an instance manually. The autoscaling group takes care of the rest.
Which is the bug things like Soilent (not that I support Soilent) are trying to fix. In this day and age, science should be able to fix problems like this so we can have fast and healthy food. You're begging the question.
I always thought pi "shaped" knowledge is best, as it helps you build networks interlocking like proteins.
Not having quit yet does not a team lead make
Agree that music is best appreciated by actually focusing on it, but I was
generally put off how anybody could be confused why silence might be
preferable for concentration.
I think it would be nice to have a design language:

def port 0,0 100,100:
L 10,10 90,0 90,70 70,70 70,90 20,90 20,70 10,70 10,10

def bank 0,0 400,100:
port 0,0 100,100
port 100,0 200,100
port 200,0 300,100
port 300,0 400,100

def router 0,0 1100,200:
port 50,50 150,150
bank 200,50 600,150
bank 650,50 1050,150

router 0,0 1100,200

I was thinking it would be cool to have an "about" page in openwrt showing your router with all the ports labeled in svg. Should be simple, but I couldn't figure out luci.
3D printed firearms have drastically improved in the last couple years. Here is a 3D printed glock https://ctrlpew.com/freemans-g26-3d-printable-glock-frame-di..., there are also 3D printed ar/ak lowers.
It depends on your technology. One of my friend raised funding for his security startup and the investor requested an algorithm review (code review) before term sheet. On the other hand, we raised an angel round for our B2C idea recently without any need for code access.
> if you look at say, athletic selection for a sport like basketball or athletics, you'd find that race is inherently a criteria, because certain races seems to have an inherent advantage (or more correctly, certain races seems to have a _disadvantage). But nobody ever says anything in those cases.

I think a charitable explanation for why this is, is sports is pretty much always a voluntary activity, so it's natural to not get as worked up over either implicitly or explicitly favoring a race, compared to, say, doing the same thing in employment or scoring someone's credit, which will almost certainly impact everyone in society involuntarily.
Turn off local news too. It's been taken over by other interests
Are IT departments worried about this analog hole that could enable employees to siphon away data from work? At some bigcos that worry about theft CD drives and USB ports are disabled, but the headphone jack works.
> Each function definition is preceded by documentation of its purpose and side effects.

That's the Tcl style:

https://github.com/das/tcltk/blob/master/tcl/generic/tclStri...

Tcl's C code is very nice.
I wonder how well food truck businesses stack up in this category. I'd expect them to be more nimble, more accessible, with better web sites.
So true. I designed a site for a restaurant while working there as a delivery driver. The site, sucks, and I'm aware of that, but for the hassle of physically meeting with the owner to get the specific on an update about a Christmas party update or the unwillingness to pay something worth 10 hours of work per month I'm not really going to try to improve it.

I have a job at a web agency now and doing anything better than what's there simply wouldn't make since.
I sometimes switch my new Win8 machine to BIOS mode and boot FreeDOS from a USB stick and then run 8088flex with the /Q switch. No sound, but you can still see the videos.
How long would you spend in the "another user has this password, please try a different one" loop before getting fed up and leaving?
'Rabbit starvation" https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning

pemmican fixes it, a mix of 50-50 protein-fat plus berries.
The law is fuzzy and different from country to country, even within the EU. In general, it needs to be clear to customers when they make the buying decision that it's not dairy-based cheese. So, on the product page and on the product packaging we need to call it "cheese alternative".

But those laws are stupid and pushed by the dairy and meat lobbies. To every sane person, it's clear within 1 sec that this is a plant-based cheese without animal milk.
Kraken has USDT/USD markets. I'm sure there are plenty of other places to trade USDT for USD.

https://www.kraken.com/prices/usdt-tether-usd-price-chart/us...
/u/lutusp can attest to that :-)
I driven 80,000 miles between CT, NY and NC with 0 accidents* in the last 3 years (almost 70,000 in two years, COVID obviously put a damper on recreational driving)

Right now I live in NYC and I can tell you leaving tons of space (outside of zipper merges) is just going to leave you slamming your brakes for overaggressive drivers all day, and if you're unlucky someone will hit you or swipe you.

That's not saying you need to tailgate people until you can smell their breath, but the ideal following distance at highway speeds is 6 car lengths at 60 mph for example.

6 car lengths between the car in front of you here would leave people treating you like you have a disabled car, rushing to fill that gap immediately in a mad rush.

It sucks, but at the same time that's how people drive sometimes. To me the safest way to drive is to not to have hard and fast rules you follow regardless of situation, but to adapt to situations quickly.

For example, if trucks start passing me on the left, I'd rather be in a "left-er" lane than the one I'm in, even if it means giving up some of my ability to make space. The action of the truck switching lanes twice in close proximity is creating more risk for me than driving at the same distance the rest of traffic is

-

Also in most pile ups like the one mentioned following distance isn't even the main issue, it's things like target fixation, where you come around the bend see a giant crash and "lock up"

Space will buy you more time to get over the fixation, but I'm willing to bet most people wouldn't be able to handle that in 6 car lengths at 60 mph.

Early in my instruction on performance driving, the thing that created the hairiest situations, even on an closed course with not a single car for another few turns, was always target fixation.

It's not easy to get over, and I feel like a great antidote is to not think in terms of "I have to make space, this space is a safe zone" but "what if this is not a safe zone, what are my options" and continuously think of that

* one accident happened when I was not in the car, parked car got smashed by a driver confusing their pedals
Agreed. I felt a bit like I'd accidentally clicked on an ad. Came here to see if I'd missed something.
In the US, up-vote for Challenger Schools (at least circa 1980's). They teach successful behaviors and are worth every penny. (Reaching and accelerating kids early is important.)
Making up a stream of arbitary numbers doesn't explain anything to anyone.
Do astronomers actually complain about leap seconds? I was under the impression they had their own timescales that were independent of civil timekeeping. The real objection to leap seconds comes from legacy systems like US Air Traffic Control, who complained in the 70s when leap seconds were first instated. And rather than, you know, upgrade their systems in the intervening 40 years, clearly the best approach is to keep complaining about them until they go away.
If you think of well-defined as combining the most subtle aspects of Javascript semicolons and Python braces, I agree. As hobby projects, I have coded a significant fraction of a Haskell parser and a majority of a Python parser. It was good I did the Python one first. The Haskell rules include a clause which says if you don't yet have a syntax error from your tokens, and you have a syntax error by adding the next token, and you would not have a syntax error if you added first a closing brace and then the next token, then insert the corrective closing brace. So you can't just tokenize, infer what's missing, then parse the tokens.
My GF built a small business with $12K MRR on top of Facebook and uses Facebook/Instagram ads. Apparently there are swarms of businesses like hers; buying and selling crystals.

I am against Facebook, but they are not lying at all. Facebook’s walled garden offers a robust advertising platform for small businesses that actually evens the field.

I do programmatic advertising on top of the open web, and your experience is correct there, but FB is different.
I lived in Buffalo for years and cannot in good conscience recommend that anyone move there. Crime is rampant. Police are the most racist I’ve ever experienced anywhere in the world (and I very, very rarely use that word). Oh, and yeah, it’s cold as shit in the winter.
Maybe you could output a warning on files with perms like 600?
Good for him. Civil disobedience in defense of our liberties isn't just a good idea, it's a moral obligation.
Millions of passwords are moving around in plain text at any given moment in time. Most websites do not have an SSL certificate. Heck, those websites are primarily built by people sending the files containing plain text database passwords to FTP servers with plain text login credentials. Why is this so surprising all of a sudden that these notices keep popping up on HN?
Am I the only person who found Reddit generally quite unpleasant?

It really is heart-warming to hear of all the good that those on Reddit have done. But I can't help feel that it's the exact same mob mentality which made me want to leave Reddit in the first place — discussions got extremely polarised very quickly and there seemed to be very little room for reasoned dialogue.

The article makes it sound like a good thing that "comments are generally downvoted by dozens or even hundreds of people with remarkable speed, pushing their noxious posts down into obscurity within minutes". But, since everyone can downvote — hell, I have even see non-controversial statements get downvoted heavily — the quality of dialogue often ends up being at the level of the lowest common denominator.
Let me be clear because here it seems I get a waterfall of downvotes for daring saying something against an apple product.

Multitouch = innovation

Apple store = innovation

GPS = innovation

UI thought for mobiles = innovation

Apple came out first with those things. Then people catched up. This time what is the innovation? A bit more pixels on the display and the farmville client? Are you kidding me?
Hello from outside America; we don't have AT&T.
That is certainly my hope.
iPod touches are traditionally updated when the iPod line is refreshed in the fall.
I can see it being useful for family stuff, "mom's on a business trip but she's going to read you a bedtime story, OK?" sort of thing. The limitations are going to go away pretty quickly I'd bet. Well, except for doing video over 3G but that's only because AT&T doesn't seem to understand how much hatred they are earning.
That doesn't eliminate the problem of interference from all of the other networks on the same channel (or on the neighboring channel that shares part of the spectrum), which are all using omnidirectional antennas. It can help, certainly, but 570 Wi-Fi networks in one ballroom is going to be hell on any network chip trying to sort through all the noise.
This is actually a very timely article. I built a web-service in Rails over the weekend that has turned out to be much slower in production than I had anticipated...

The catch is that it spends 96% of it's time waiting for network responses. 10ms in the application code, 289ms waiting.

So now I either re-write the application in a language more suited to the task (node.js) or I work to build async capability into the current app. Personally, I'll take the second if it's not stupidly hard.
it has all been a result of smoke 'n mirrors

The reasons a lot of things don't happen sooner are often "smoke and mirrors," so it's a fitting remedy.
FTA: "He said he also leaked three other items to Wikileaks: a separate video showing the notorious 2009 Garani air strike in Afghanistan that Wikileaks has previously acknowledged is in its possession; a classified Army document evaluating Wikileaks as a security threat, which the site posted in March; and a previously unreported breach consisting of 260,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables that Manning described as exposing 'almost criminal political back dealings.'"

GP probably means the diplomatic cables. Sure they can be abused, but generally speaking, they are secret for good reasons.
FYI the second use is just assignment, that's why it's not caught by the unused variable rule.