jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No, its the acquisition process and administrative overhead.

If you give smart people with a good idea a lot of resources to chase it while insulating them from people who want to measure/validate/manage/mandate, you often get good results and sometimes get complete failures.

It is a problem of middle management interfering with the development process, red tape, trying to do everything at once, and requirements that constantly change.

I read a headline and article like that and my immediate reaction is the military leader probably wants to make a name for himself spearheading a new plane – ambition on the part of customers in military acquisition is a real problem. (why are navy ships so big? because navy captains wouldn't feel as important with more, smaller ships)

The problems have little to do with the end-stage production manufacturing, and a lot to do with the engineering R&D.
Define many?

When your operational area is most of the planet, you obviously need more than one! I could describe 25 as "squadrons" but that wouldn't be too many.
FAANG companies offer a bunch of things:

* Excellent pay

* Good benefits

* Stability

* Prestige (looks good on resume/opens doors later)

* Smart coworkers

* Huge customer bases

* Lots of internal transfer opportunities

* Well established competence in handling foreign hires

Now, obviously plenty of companies offer a lot of those things too...but not many offer all of them.

And even then, often there's the visibility issue: maybe there's a bunch of ~200 person companies that do, in fact, offer the same things -- but will {Random Engineer X} actually be aware of that? With a company like Google, where I work, there's been enough written about it to have a decent idea of what you're getting into before you even apply. Discoverability is a bigger challenge with smaller companies.
Well, now we see the true color of some of the visitors:

None of these points make much sense after some minimal amount of facts and reasoning. But I’ll add more counter points to these items because of typing on iPad.

Why I am doing this? Because I am a CCP buyout!

No, unfortunately, anything important is never that easy. I was indeed called that before, for stating facts as well.

I have to make facts straight, because I am a Chinese immigrant to US. For that I have to clear out the facts. I am not going to let some mental bias and laziness threaten my family’s chance in this wonderful land.

And, US deserves the openness and rationality that made her great! I am not letting it gone without some fight.
$100 million (assuming he still has them)!
All vaccines are properly approved in the EU. There are millions of people vaccinated world wide. I'd say the sample size is big enough to be sure. And long term effects take effect not years after the vaccination, the carry on that long. So any long term effects manifest within weeks and months. And so far there haven't been any. At least not beyond what other vaccines and medication has.
I really like this kind of minimal programming. If you like this check out /r/tinycode
The case against <insert non-mainstream language here> for most people is the chicken-and-egg problem of the mainstream adoption of the language.

It should be relatively obvious at this point that the outright merits of a language have little or nothing to do with its popularity, at least when compared to things like the corporate backing and will behind a language (see: Objective-C / Swift), and other factors such as positioning and luck (e.g. Javascript). So, you cannot start from "this language is _clearly_ better, so it will certainly become more popular".

And this is the problem for most people / dev shops choosing a language. Popularity brings a huge amount of good things, such as good quality training materials, job security, easy hiring, good quality libraries, etc (and a few negative things), so it is kind of a big deal.
Out of curiosity, I looked up the original data source for the search and found this: http://www.s-anand.net/blog/the-calvin-and-hobbes-search-tak... . I think he deserves as much credit as the guy who created the search engine.

TLDR: Some guy manually transcribed every single Calvin and Hobbes strip only to get a takedown notice and remove it.
points not discussed well in western media:

1) they do crashing clusters very well based on this paper.
wellhttps://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.28.20029272v...

2) Why packed train in Japan still hasn't caused outbreak
They don't speak despite the high density in train (remember - it is utter silence on public transportation in Japan) and all wear masks.

3) Intensive use of chest CT scan to find out critical conditions. They have highest number of CT scan per 1000 people in the world. https://data.oecd.org/healtheqt/computed-tomography-ct-scann...
Plus, remember, PCR has high false negative and testing everyone is waste of resources (look at Italy. they tested everyone regardless of severeness of symptom and totally fucked.) You can test a lot only if well-prepared like Korea with SARS experience.
I honestly don't understand why European cities don't go nuclear against AirBnB. There's so much money to be made in fines and instant political approval from virtually every tenant.
There was also a poll this week that showed only 37% trust what he says.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/17/816680033/poll-americans-dont...
Which city? This is not at all ordinary in my experience (at least in social settings - it’s normal in business settings).
It predates golang significantly. C and C++ bioinformatics tools have used single dash long opts since the 1990s, unfortunately. I expect the transgression didn't originate in the bioinformatics community.
Someone looking for attention
False. With technology the means of production are in every one's hands. Not even strict marxists would attempt such a similarity.
> If you left the private key in a file that is right next to your encrypted configuration file, then it remains as I stated previously: No security except false security.

Shut up and read the goal of the project already. It is trying to protect secrets that are stored in a repo and it achieves that goal.

Secrets on a deployed host will always be in the clear on that host, it's just a fact of life. Many barriers can be put in place, but at the end of the day, a program will always need access to the plaintext version of the secret at some point.

> It is sensible to type it in while the system is still in single-user mode.

No it isn't. Services have to restart all the time, saying that a human has to be ready to type in a password at any moment is not practical.

> This is not the forum for an education on programming.

But it is a forum for you to post invalid criticisms of a project and act like a dick? That's bullshit. This is "hacker news", it's a perfectly fine place for a technical discussion. If you thought there were problems with the project and this wasn't the right place to discuss it, then file issues on the github project.

> A library that states it was written as a learning exercise with a request for criticism will be treated that way. A library proposed to solve problems recognised in the linked article will not.

There is no difference, you're just trying to justify your bad behavior.
Please don't do this here. Resisting extrinsic provocation is key to thread quality.
The old one is easier for me to read and easier to grok as a map. Is this a case of design aesthetic winning over functionality?
A quick response from Posterous. I'd expect nothing less.

Posterous:email spoof detection
PayPal:credit card fraud detection

See the section in Founders at Work on the value that better fraud detection created for PayPal.
And now, you can even fix this with zpool import -F. It will find the last consistent transaction in the array and roll back to it. Saved my buddy's ass a few weeks ago when he went to replace a drive and accidentally pulled out 2 SATA connectors at once (on a raidz1).
You are missing the part where only the small number of people who have enough shares in the S-Corp to soak up 40% of their income get to take advantage of this loophole. The rank and file employees of an S-Corp, even if they're getting "first-employee" levels of equity, don't get to play this game.

You're also dancing around the fact that the IRS can already determine by fiat what "reasonable" salary is. I'm not an accountant. We're an LLC filing as an S-Corp. We have professional accountants. We have not been advised of any "60/40" rule. What I have been advised of is that tax courts interpret any compensation an employee of an S-Corp gets for services rendered as a wage, and wages are subject to FICA.

My hunch --- and that's all it is --- is that this 60/40 business is less about what the tax courts interpret the tax code as, and more about what will prevent your returns from getting caught in the IRS dragnet. That doesn't mean that taking 40% of your wages as distributions and skipping FICA on them is actually aboveboard.

The big differences between S and C corps is that C corps pay federal corporate tax and C corps have preferred stock.

I also have to add, at severe risk of getting smacked down by 'grellas, that I think your argument about "the reasons why S-Corporations get this break" is unsupported by evidence. In fact, when I read the "Opinion" sections of court cases involving decisions about distros versus wages (every one of which I found finds for Revenue and not the company owner), I see things like:

Dr. Sadanaga performed substantial services on behalf of petitioner. The characterization of the payment to Dr. Sadanaga as a distribution of petitioner's net income is but a subterfuge for reality; the payment constituted remuneration for services performed by Dr. Sadanaga on behalf of petitioner. An employer cannot avoid Federal employment taxes by characterizing compensation paid to its sole director and shareholder as distributions of the corporation's net income, rather than wages. Regardless of how an employer chooses to characterize payments made to its employees, the true analysis is whether the payments represent remuneration for services rendered. Spicer Accounting, Inc. v. United States, 918 F.2d 90 (9th Cir. 1990); Joseph Radtke, S.C. v. United States, 895 F.2d 1196 (?th Cir. 1990).

The question doesn't appear to be "does your company deserve a break". Rather, it's pretty straightforwardly: "is this money you're earning as compensation for your work, or is this money you're earning as compensation for the downside risk of an investment you hold".

I'm sorry that you feel like I'm calling you shady. I don't even know you. I don't think you are shady. But this business of allowing S-Corp owners to exempt themselves from half their FICA obligation just because of a quirk in how they file taxes is, as I see it, shady.
I liked the story (paraphrase) about him closing the deal to invest in Foursquare and saying "Okay so give us your checking account and we will wire the money" only for the answer to be "Err, we don't have a checking account".
We hear you. Listen, security is a super important piece of our product. And we wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night thinking about product.
He's aware of your skill- you need to read between the lines. When he says, 'it looks easy', he means that based on the work he's seen you do, it looks like something that you could easily do. He obviously believes that you possess significant skill in coding if he's jumped into a start up with you. I'd suggest hiring a co-op student or volunteer (many people will work for free for programming experience) to do some of these 'easy' tasks. This will enable you to teach others how to program in your style, and allow you a mentor relationship which will GREATLY increase your coding and management skills. Your designer may also benefit from taking a student under his wing
Yeah, I am. I'm looking at the database right now.

I would assume they had more, faster computers. And the passwords they broke were only the simple ones -- I would assume your password is not password1.
Does anyone know what sort of a license does this picture carry ? I want to 'reblog' this to my own blog, just for future reference..
The problem is that it's relatively easy to brute-force attack even a salted hash today.

On the first day, people stored passwords in plain text. If someone got access to your database, they had all the passwords.

On the second day, people decided to hash the passwords so that people couldn't unencrypt them. Then the attackers created rainbow tables that correlated each hash with its associated password since the password would always hash to the same value (so you have "109BCA" in your database, but they have a table that has that hash and that "12345" hashes to that value).

On the third day, people decided to salt the hashes to render the rainbow tables ineffective. Now, each password would hash to a different value so they couldn't just look up the password for a given hash. However, as computing power increased it became easy to just brute-force the password. You have the hash and you have the salt so you can just try every password with the hash until you get a match.

hashed_password = "ACBDEF1234567890"
salt = "12345"
possible_passwords = ["password1", "ilikesheep", "micro$oft"]
possible_passwords.each do |pass|
if Digest::SHA1.hexdigest("#{pass}#{salt}") == hashed_password
real_password = pass
end
end

The problem is that code like that has gotten really cheap to run and it's incredibly parallel (you can have loads of machines each take a piece of the workload - oh, and hopefully no one will make a joke that you'd never write that in Ruby; I just felt that would be easy pseudo-code to demonstrate). You can just try combinations of passwords at random, but there are lists of more common passwords that you can try first making it go even faster. Hashing algorithms are meant to be fast because they're meant to be usable on a large piece of data. As such, it also becomes fast to brute force check all sorts of combinations.

On the fourth day, people started using things like bcrypt because bcrypt was made to be slow. The fact that bcrypt is slow means that if someone wants to brute force it, it will be very slow going for them. If one can check 10,000 SHA1 hashes in a second, but only 10 bcrypt hashes in a second, it will take 1,000x longer to crack the bcrypt stored password (those are just made-up numbers as an example).

Salting is better than not salting because they have to brute force the password. However, as computing power increases it isn't so much better because brute forcing is becoming easy. One needs to use a slow algorithm to make sure that cracking it will also be slow (prohibitively slow). Bcrypt also allows you to specify how much work you want it to have to do. This way, as computing power increases, you can increase the amount of computing power needed to compute the bcrypt. By contrast, hashes are meant to go fast and so every day they're getting less secure.
Reminds me of this clip from Mass Effect 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GqqDCe4Yrs
It happens. PHP turned into a decent language when I wasn't looking.
This was apparently last updated in 2009:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networ...
This is great that they are doing it again. I have Braid on Steam but bought it for my Linux. Also awesome that they give away soundtrack for Machinarium and Revenge of Titans, mini album for Osmos.
First they separated messaging from the Facebook app where you can have games and apps and stuff and now they are integrating all that back. Why? Personally I absolutely prefer a slim messaging app not bloated with more or less unrelated stuff.
> "We're trying to create a new type of IT company, one that never focuses on maximising profits, but instead provides value to society,"

This is dreadful. The Free software movement has existed for decades and Telegram brings nothing new to the table that Google hadn't already a decade ago (open yet crippled protocol, proprietary servers). There is nothing new here, besides the fact that Telegram basically makes no money. Which is also nothing new, since Google Talk and Voice never made money either!

I don't mind it, because we know the protocol and can reengineer the clients easily in the event they betray their users trust. It is much better than WhatsApp or Skype being a whole-pipe black box. But at the end of the day, XMPP has existed, has improved, and today provides all the features of all these other messaging transports and more, the problem is there is no money to be had in providing an easy signup XMPP service, so nobody advertises them. Which makes Telegram perplexing, because their only valuable resource is their userbase, and they are not directly monetizing it at all. Contrast that with Duckduckgo having an XMPP server @dukgo.com that basically got a blog post and hasn't been talked about much since, that I use all the time on all my devices.

But fundamentally none of this absolves how stupid all these companies re-implement a wheel poorly (XMPP) because the old wheel is so well known and understood that you can't lock people in or profit off the users using it.
I dunno. I've got 150% scaling on my Surface Go with a 10 inch screen. The VLC UI is a mixture of partially scaled elements for me right now: https://imgur.com/a/1j4wWUd

There's a registry option to double the scaling of Qt widgets, but that makes everything too big.
WWI[1] - the pandemic ended up being called "Spanish flu" because Spain was the only country publishing accurate statistics since it was neutral in the war. The belligerents were heavily affected, but were muzzling the press due to wartime censorship.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
> When the French government raised fuel taxes in order to ameliorate climate change, there were mass street protests

To be fair, in France protests are a pretty common occurrence. They often turn violent as well.

https://www.france24.com/en/20181207-france-yellow-vest-prot...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unr...
Let's imagine how this will play out for a minute....

Assuming 1 person knows 100 people, it would take 1 million deaths to seriously warn 100 million. And since it takes 3-4 weeks from infection to death, during which the warning still wouldn't be personally grave, and infections continue to spread. Thus, the population will be infected until herd immunity is sufficiently high (~60% of population if R0 is ~2.5). [1]

If hospitalization rate is 15% & Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) is 1%, then 9%/0.6% of the population will be severely ill/die within 1-2 years, respectively, just from this one disease. One can do further arithmetic for a given country.

The 'solution' above is clearly unacceptable to the vast majority of people.

[1] Herd immunity threshold Vc= 1 - 1/R0, where R0 is basic reproduction number of a disease
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity#Mechanics
This pandemic is now a grand experiment on so many levels, social, political, medical, economic, environmental, and more. These events will be studied for decades to come, and it will shape policy for longer still.

On the bright side, it will provide irrefutable evidence of anthropogenic climate change, and proof that drastic changes can produce immediate and drastic ecological improvements, and also the social and economic importance of vaccination. Hopefully science will be taken more seriously by the business minded that have been primarily driving policy.

Then again, we didn't learn much from the last crisis, so maybe I shouldn't get my hopes up that we can make a lot of positive global changes from this disaster.
This inspired me to finally figure out how to be able to one-click Zoom links, with no external protocol prompt or leftover useless tab in Chrome.

https://github.com/tristandunn/one-click-zoom
Recorders are underrated (although, the ukulele is IMO the most underrated instrument, probably because they’re easy.)

I have a slightly more expensive Yamaha soprano recorder that I absolutely love. My living room is all hardwood and I keep most furniture and anything soft out of it just so I can enjoy the sound.
Ok so why are there not upside down tracks in formula 1 this just seems like the obvious next step.
The only thing that this shares with the bloomberg terminal is that it can do equities and is on a terminal.

Sort of irks me because a bloomberg terminal can do so much more: level 2 data, trading capability, damn near instant news alerts, options, debt instrumentals + so much more

- and I get it, this isn't meant for that same crowd and this is pretty well flushed out for a retail investor. But the comparison with the bloomberg terminal is a bit of a head scratcher
the process is literally posted on the Bureau for Labor Statistics site [1], it's like the second result on Google

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm
> They are funding proxy wars throught the Middle East.

Would it be more honorable if they just invaded countries in the Middle East instead, the way the US does? Of course the US is funding proxy wars as well.

If a beligerant and much more powerful country came across the Atlantic and invaded Mexico and Canada, I know I would want some nukes as a deterrant.

Iran couldn't even defeat Iraq during their brutal eight year conflict. Even if Iran wanted to take over the ME, there is zero chance they would be able to.
How can one track these acquisitions? Does crunch base offer such a feature?
I did open ports I thought I needed for K3s and MicroK8s but I may not have caught all of them. Any simple online tutorial should get you to where I was!

It'd be really great to show developers they have a place they can make toy clusters without having to worry about gotcha charges.
A lot of medical software was written in Delphi and still going - it was written by Doctors and grew.
the one click is secondary. What is more important is the toolchain that bridges marketers + developers using nextjs.

It may happen you wont be able to make this too generic - like all kinds of Vuejs, gatsbyjs, etc etc etc. The toolchains will be different. I would say pick one toolchain and perfect the "developer+marketer collaboration tooling"
> But I think that most parents know deep down that it's wrong, and that they are doing it for themselves, not the baby.

I'm definitely not in that group. I have no such deep knowledge of it being wrong. I really believe it's actually better for some kids. Like mine for instance. It's not a compromise for me.

I believe OP is saying not to worry about what other people are telling you about how to parent. I didn't infer any relativism from the post.

What I'm reading from you is that sleep training is bad for kids. And that its practitioners just aren't trying hard enough. But I really believe that for some (like my family) it's actually better.

So by the same token, just because you're suffering more doesn't mean you're doing a better job.