jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Most things running on Juggernaut/WebSockets/Flashsockets.

So: real-time chat, real-time games, constant-update documents and collaboration. More, I'm sure, but that's what immediately goes through my mind.
TL;dr - People "log in" to your site using your "login" page. You use your "login" details to "log in."
Also, "pedant" is a noun.
You're right. If you can't accept my examples as a demonstration of the point that nothing has a quantifiable value, there is no point in continuing the discussion.

You're certainly free to guess at any value you wish for any thing you think of. The validity of your guesses will always be directly proportional to the limited extent of your knowledge on the thing. Ultimately, you appear to assign far too much value to the concept of value.
Wouldn't oversold imply gold is a good buy right now?

In terms of your requirements, the precious metals seem to be the best item. If you think gold is too high then silver might be a good choice too. It also depends on how much inflation you think needs hedging. If you are talking hyperinflation then John Williams over at Shadow Stats is recommending cases of whisky. You could stock pile some incandescent light bulbs since the average American does not know that they have been outlawed (effective in 2012?) and there is sure to be a run on those when people finally learn about that (but that's more speculation than inflation hedge). Oddly enough the best inflation hedge is to go into debt on the longest period possible. When inflation hits you pay it back in deflated dollars. Buy a new car on a 5yr 0% interest loan, sell the old one and put the money in gold (bullionvault.com) or buy inflation adjusted bonds (TIPS). Pretty low risk as long as you can make the payments. Even better is a house (30yr loan at 5-6% interest) will almost certainly be a bargain when high inflation hits.
From experience, Mandarin and Cantonese are fairly close to each other, in my opinion. But Shanghainese (and basically the Wu dialects) is not intelligible to me. 我們 (wo men = "us" in english) in Mandarin is not so far from 我哋 (ngo de) in Cantonese, but is pretty far from colloquial Shanghainese, 阿拉 (a la).

It seems some people are keen to diminish the role of Mandarin in China and exaggerate the differences among Chinese dialects, perhaps wishing a fragmented linguistic landscape would lead to a fragmented and weaken Chinese nation.

That is nonsense, people are people and will do what makes them happy. If they don't care about Mandarin, nothing will stop them from not using it. Personally, I totally enjoy the fact that there are different dialects, each with it's own flavor in expressing certain concepts(especially profanities!). For example, everyone's favorite profanity in Cantonese, 仆街 (pok gai/pok kai) "go to hell" (transliteration is "go lay on the street (and die because you'll get trampled/ran over)". Over time, this has bled over to English and the English bled back over to Chinese speakers into PK. And in today's Taiwan reality shows (I'm sure mainland China uses this term today as well), we have PK rounds where contestants get eliminated from the shows. In these contexts, PK has turned into a term about competition!

Sure, having a standard is good so that there can be less ambiguity in communication between people, but at the same time, diversity is what breeds new ideas and innovations. Take computers, programming languages, designs as an example; 1 processor to do computation and graphics? "unifying" everyone to C# be such a good idea? Is a centralized versioning system the most awesome?
re: residential moorings: I looked at canal boats in London. You can buy boats that already have moorings, otherwise you have to get on a 5-year waiting list. Actually buying the mooring on its own doesn't seem easy. Usually its either buy-the-boat-and-mooring or get on the waiting list.

But even with a mooring, you still pay rent for it.

Here's some example numbers:
Saw a lovely boat moored in residential moorings near Kings Place (really central london). Price was £90,000, which is a lot but when you compare it to flats in the same area it becomes attractive.

But ... the monthly mooring charge would still be around £600 a month, which is like paying rent anyway. Actual boat-on-its-own was valued around £50,000 which means you're paying an extra £40,000 for the mooring and then have to keep paying £600 a month to keep the mooring. A bit like paying a mortgage, but without any capital gain. If you give up the mooring, you're boat is instantly worth 40k less. Also bear in mind that its hard to get mortgages to buy boats.

I know a chap who's got a boat without mooring and its a lot of fun but yes he does have to keep moving it.

edit: for fun, foxtons search of houseboats for sale in London
http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?search_type=SS&openhouse=&oh...

tldr: boats and stuff.
Microsoft's licensing schemes are riddles, wrapped in enigma's and covered with shit. I'm actually surprised that Windows doesn't have In App Purchases. You want to search? It's only 2.99! You want the desktop? It's only .99!

I've never encountered the issues you have with MSDN. I believe you only because the team that dreams up their licensing/key schemes, should be forced to use them.

The jury is still out on Windows 8. Having left my enterprise setting prior to Windows 8 become widely available (hell I left even before we moved to Windows 7), I wonder how Win8 is to manage in an enterprise setting. Most users that I've encountered, would have had a hell of a time transitioning from the traditional Windows XP/7 desktop, to Metro. My office would have been queued with "Where is the Start menu?"
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"... its transformation to a devices and services ..." doesn't seem to mention software.
I know.

I had to go with the implication of what you said because the bare bones of it were too obvious to have been worth posting.
The people leading often represent the best options on hand.

Only if you first assume that there has to be a "leader"--that a single person at the top has to "run things". In fact, it makes no sense at all for the allocation of huge amounts of resources to be dependent on a single person's decision--or the decision of an extremely small percentage of the people affected, for that matter. Do people just not understand the concept of a single point of failure?
I don't use console.log when I can. It's better to roll your own logging function which adds timestamps and automatically stringifies the object (preferably using a stringify function which handles cyclic objects).

The prolem with using console.log(object) is that in Node.js the object is not stringified and on browsers the debugger displays the current state of the object, not the state when it was printed. I found that out the hard way..

And when you're using your own logging function you can use a proper logging framework like winston to save the logs to a database and a file in addition to the console (we also send client-side logs to the backend using socket.io for easy debugging).
Questions of system versus human failure are not as fuzzy as they first seem. Systems are just rules-based solutions. If following the rules wouldn't result in the desired outcome, that's clearly a system failure. If the rules are not fault-tolerant, such as when a mistake causes substantial harm, that's a failure of the system; no redundancy.

When the people operating the entire system simply disregard the rules in a massive scale, that's a human failure. No rules-based solution can work, or be blamed, if the people are ignoring it, and "flying by the seat of their pants." All good systems have redundancy/fault-tolerance built in, and will tolerate some cheating. When the people, including the auditors (government employees) choose to throw out the rules, that's a human failure.
Yeah, historically it has had a 100% mortality rate but there is a significant chance that things will change. eg. uploads

http://www.inquisitr.com/1883084/mind-trip-humans-to-live-fo...

and the like
Lately my 3 year old's favourite passtime is to come sit on my lap while I'm trying to work (or surfing HN or whatever) and ask, "Can I press this key?" (Shift? "Uh, ya, sure.") "Can I press this key?" (Ctrl? "Sure.") Some of them make you think though. (F2? What will that do in this context?)

It's not among my most productive times, but it's fun. :)
Thanks! Nice observation :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107450
Sadly, I do not think your willing participation would a requirement. This seems like the sort of thing that would be imposed upon you by the sheer force of adoption.
NYC took steps to unclutter their parking signs a couple years ago.
http://www.wnyc.org/story/283907-nyc-unclutters-parking-sign...
I'm pretty sure you missed the point of the article.

The focus was mentioned in the email from Schiller to Jobs:

> ... secondary message [of the ad] that can’t be missed is that it is easy to switch from iPhone to Android.
Absolutely true. And here's a photo to prove it.

http://blog.reinventdemocracy.org/2008/08/truth-about-mass-transit.html
Arguing over who had the bigger role seems foolhardy to me. The masses of Soviet manpower were critical to defeating the Nazis, as were the masses of American war equipment (which the Soviets used extensively). Take away either one, and the war looks much different (and much, much worse).
The models are incomplete.

This is the same reason as to why Econophysics, despite all its promise and grandeur, has yet to yield any useful results.

Interdependent human beings are a lot more complex entities than particles or flows.
Have you considered that you simply aren't understanding the reasons, which are quite clear and unambiguous to a relatively large population? That is, maybe the issue here is your difficulty understanding, rather than anybody else's ability to explain.
STOMP

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Exactly. And since we might carry more than one model of camera with dissimilar memory cards, the Mac could need 3 or 4 slots. That’s why the good pro photo USB-C adapters have 3 or 4 slots.

Further, those readers seem to be made /just/ fast enough to read ahead of the current speeds, so when new speeds come out, you need a faster reader. That works fine if you have a USB 3.1 or USB 3.2 adapter, but not so great if the reader is built into a laptop with an otherwise much longer life.
Perhaps you are unaware that the Pinkertons have a long history of union busting behavior. The most infamous being their involvement in the 1892 Homestead Steel Strike.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike
As cool as this is, it's a DOA product with no real market outside super savvy consumers. Uninformed consumers already buy the cheapest laptops they can find on Amazon or in the store.

If repairability is super important to someone, what incentive is there to buy this over a used thinkpad? You can get skylake thinkpads for less than $200 on ebay - replacement batteries and displays cost less than $100.
I think the end of your second paragraph is a good way to put it. I think you could get to 1998 securely, for what it's worth, but your expense number seems dead-on.

Nate Lawson used to tell me (I assume he'd still tell me) that companies trying to ship secure software need to budget 10x for verification what they do for implementation. The best companies in the world don't even budget 1x. I'm not sure it's reasonable to ask them to. I think we'll know stuff in 10 years that will change how we look at things.
While the demand is cyclic and volatile in this industry (compared to software), the huge demand and influx of capital is very exciting for those who care about the advancement of computing.

Note that there are only major shortages of leading edge nodes, not basic electronics on older nodes that people aren't as excited about using. So if some critical safety system needs a basic sensor, there is plenty of 65nm capacity available. That's why Global Foundries isn't experiencing the same growth and bookings as the leading edge fabs are.
Simple - you give candidates assignments you've designed solely for interviewing. Ones that you clearly state up front are not real, not based around current project deliverables and commit that the code will ever be used in production.

Then it's no different to the rest of the candidate's time spent interviewing - it's cost of doing business that no one expects to be remunerated for.

The other benefit is that you then keep a benchmark of deliverables by having each candidate complete the same task (you have to change tasks over time as the details of the project get leaked/discussed).
>>*Also, $50,000 sounds like a lot of money. *

OMG do you want to hear war stories about SGI?

Turning SGI machines into keg-or-atores at Lucasfilm when consolodatiting to the presidio when all these Octanes and others were at ILM in Marin?

Yeah - many a machine was turned into a bar...

Heck the team building exercises at FB were to "build a bar for your team..."
Absolutely disgusting abuses of this technology / science. I hope this never comes to light
I don't think it is necessary to reach failure every workout, in fact I find it detrimental to your gains.
Parenthesized sexprs are easy to parse (by both machines and humans) and Lisp text editors already have many convenient ways to work with them. There are though some interesting alternatives such as sweet-expressions[1] and wisp[2], but not too many people care about these.

[1] - https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-110/srfi-110.html

[2] - https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-119/srfi-119.html
Yeah, it's amusing how often that works. I remember taking the amateur radio exam which involves some path around impedance and power. The answers were always in the form of 0.5, 1, 1.414, 2. It's always 1.414 (or 0.707, its close cousin).
First they get fired J.D. (he who must not be named, or you would get banned by the mods if you dare to) by leaking internal docs and celebrate that like a new year. Now they leak other people's calendars, get fired for that and cry for help. I don't understand who they have as their allies.
Summary:

It's because companies that appoint Women to their boards make a fuss about how they are now "diverse".

Investors take that as a signal the company cares more about diversity then about actually making money. (i.e. that they care more about having a woman on the board then about finding the best board member.)
Interesting. I turned off HDR on my AppleTV last week specifically because The Mandalorian appeared too dim. I had no idea this was the reason why. Now it makes sense.
I have never understood why would people want to broadcast their personal lives on the internet. I guess the notion of privacy is different for everyone.
There also used to be an IoT network called Pachube.
Lets just hope that intel security teams are better than Sony Pictures' ones.

After the sony hack ... lets say that I feel less secure about anything.
I prefer ORMs, but they're a lot of overhead to get set-up so I don't blame others for using strings where appropriate... and every parametrized query API I've ever used has been a tremendous PITA which is why people throw up their hands and say "screw it, I'll just escape the quotes!". And of course, the database API could provide a good method to do that but nobody ever does because it's impossible to do it securely (and that's definitely a fault in SQL).
Have you used it in a real application? Is actually quite good.
I just share the link via email to myself, with title and a few notes or pasted quote so I can search for it later. I seldom look at them again, but I do it to quell any anxiety that I'll never find $interesting_thing again if I close the tab.
FFVII evokes such a deep and profound sense of childhood memories It’s become an almost religious experience.

FF tactics was unique but an overlooked and underrated entry in the series IMO, with one of the best soundtracks and storylines.
So funny startup story that is tangentially related...

For a while, we didn't have an unsubscribe button at all!

Not because we were malicious or intentionally adding a dark pattern, but because critical stuff was breaking literally every day and we didn't really have the bandwidth. It was fine because we had few customers, and on the rare occasion one of them churned, they just shot us a quick email and we immediately canceled the subscription for them.

Well on the day we actually had time to breathe, we decided to finally buckled down and add the unsubscribe functionality. Turns out, it was as simple as flipping a switch in Stripe. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
For anyone curious, this seems to be a re-implementation of said tool: https://github.com/QuentinAndre/pysprite .
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1973 contribution World on a Wire was ahead of its time. It's well worth a watch.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070904
It appears that health clubs are already highly regulated when it comes to memberships, so perhaps it seems like this law would be confusing to overlay on top of those regulations: https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/protect-yourself/consumer-ad...
Or go commercial:
http://www.digitalintelligence.com/products/rack-a-tacc/
First of all, this isn't PayPal's logo, it's just a button, and if anything "The safer, easier way to pay" may be their slogan. The button itself is just a web graphic that contains their logo. I'm not trying to be pedantic, but to designers/marketers (me), this stuff is important. Think of someone trying to offer the general Hackernews user some insight by discussing some aspect of Microsoft's Internet Explorer search engine - makes you grind your teeth.

Anyway, to comment on the actual content of the parent, I would say having the PayPal button designed to look like a recommendation is definitely the case. All calls to action should be designed to be as enticing as possible (Within ethical limits of course - stray outside of those and you break the UX.) The really interesting part comes when you ask, "Is it designed to look like a recommendation from the site hosting the button or from PayPal itself?"

I'd say the intent is definitely the former in this case and the button was specifically to designed look like a recommendation from the button's environment as well as an endorsement from the company itself. Is it ethical? I don't know, but I think it's pretty smart.
between believing that fugly text is part of a logo, or part of the page, I think a lot of people would subconsciously pick the page. Most people don't know AA is something that their computer does and simply expect images (especially professional logos) to be higher quality.
Since the concept of "culture" is so vague and no one using it seems to be able to describe what exact set of criteria it represents, it appears to be whatever a hiring manager wants it to be. If you don't like someone's skin color, religion, cultural background, the fact that they don't like drinking or going to team-building trips every weekend, or you just don't like the color of their shirt, it's easy to reject them on the grounds of not being a "culture fit". Who cares about their professional skillset when you're obviously looking for a paid buddy.

Curb your hubris and start treating people like human beings. I've worked for a number of "world changing" startups managed by 20-something year olds like you and the fact that it always devolved into a high school popularity contest made me sick to my stomach.
I'd love to see what those exact same students would say if the prevailing attitude changed and a massive wave of right-wing ideology took over campus politics. I'm sure that they'd be crying about how their self-evident right to self-expression was being horribly violated. Poor things.

This kind of attack is completely unnecessary. How is anyone supposed to respond to this comment when you've already constructed a straw man for your opponent and trivialized it?
Your argumentation makes sense and I enjoyed reading it, unfortunately you just followed Godwin's law.

Your parent comment could have just wanted to point out, that the western world is not perfect and we should be (as always) careful when judging. He or she could have found a better example, though, directly comparing religious legislation to religious legislation.

Being reflective does not always equal cultural relativism.
How do you suggest we do that without disrespecting the far greater number of Americans who voted in good faith in a free and fair election for Joe Biden? Democracy makes losers of us all once in a while, we need to learn to live with it.
Very opportunistic of Twitter to ban him now... after all that has been said. Politics aside, violations of said framework should be held accountable when it occurs, not in post review. No one has special treatment. At least they shouldn’t.
I appreciate your point and I don’t have anything to add to the conversation but your italics comes across as condescending.
Well, protest is the language of the unheard [1]. Or you are suggesting that Floyd protests were terrorist attacks and organized via Parler?

[1]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-protest-is-the-language-...
I have barely seen any footage of it, I would be curious if both sides could show representative videos.
Section 230 specifically does not apply to federal criminal liability and the circuits are currently (sort of) split about whether a platform could be held responsible in this situation.

The 9th Circuit ruled Sec. 230 did not shield a platform from civil liability arising from their “failure to warn” a potential victim of a violent crime. Meanwhile, the 2nd Circuit found Sec. 230 did protect Facebook from civil liability for hosting terrorism-related content.

And both of those were civil cases. In the context of potential criminal liability Sec. 230 couldn’t even be raised.
You forgot Kamala Harris, who encouraged the extremely violent and destructive BLM riots that killed more than 25 people and caused over $2 billion in property damage. That didn't seem to get Twitter's attention. She even set up a bail fund for the terrorists who participated in those riots.
> I don't think Civil War is an exaggeration any longer, unless the Biden admin clamps down on the armed insurrection boiling over in the reddest parts of the country.

I don’t know the path forward to ensure peaceful governance, but I’m 100% confident that this is not it. All that this will accomplish is to polarize those currently sitting on the sidelines to choose and commit to a side.
If you're saying they don't have a good reason, but you dont like the guy so you're glad it happened to him... don't you see how this is a problematic precedent? If trump supporters were in the majority would it be ok for them to censor democrats?
Why joke? Thats a viable way to do it. No social network shoild be so large that massive global events can be shaped by it's executives.
I come from the background of working on the Go project for five years. He really doesn't see the trade offs we made when choosing to base the core Go implementation on the plan 9 tool chain, and seems oblivious to the work already done to alleviate some of his complaints. A poorly researched article with no actual insight at best. At worst, a thinly veiled personal attack against the Go authors.
To the best of my understanding, probably no.

* It's very hard to make changes to bash without breaking anything given the existing amount of code written in bash.

* If I remember correctly, bash does not have garbage collection and something tells me, it will not be easy to agree on or to add. Hello, structured data...
A bank/exchange with far fewer regulations than a bank/exchange.
100%. Younger devs are more eager to work and prove themselves as well, and that's very valuable for a lot of the lower level work. Those are definitely the reasons for perceived and actual ageism.
Dalia doesn't appear to be a kid.