jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The ratings were obviously unregulated. The oversight committees that received reports that agencies were slapping AAA on garbage outright ignored those complaints.

The unregulated derivatives were a necessary instrument to obscure the risk of the underlying assets. I don't know how you could imagine institutional investors being conned into thinking trash tranches of subprime mortgages were safe investments without derivatives obscuring their contents and ratings agencies blessing garbage as AAA.

If the bubble only wiped out speculators, it would have been the sideshow. The money that chases high risk is a rounding error compared to the money that can only chase 'safe' investments.

Without derivatives and fraudulent ratings the bubble couldn't have ensnared nearly as much money, the banks couldn't have become so precariously leveraged and the system itself wouldn't have been on the brink.
Note: this exports as HTML. The XML export is arguably more useful.
I've been happy using Google's simple bookmarking service: http://google.com/bookmarks
Nope. Not by default, anyway: http://i.imgur.com/n6iqN.png
my problem isn't with the DMV aspect, since they can't do anything with it....my problem is with the insurance companies, who might just decide to factor this into their rate calculations.

And since the rates seem to be taken from thin air, they could raise your rates without you ever knowing that someone reported you.
Waves (such as EM waves) imply the change in some field, which is what they are trying to detect. After all, we already detect gravitational fields - after all, we are standing on the earth - what they're trying to detect are very specific changes to gravitational fields, thus waves.
The different gasses have different densities, as well as different colors!
As long as interactions between people are governed by the consent of all parties rather than unilaterally by the rules of one: pretty darn well. If what you're doing only affects you, only you ought to have jurisdiction.
"A) It's kind of presumptuous to show up in an esoteric lisp community and ask them to adopt C-style comments for your sake."

haskell isn't a lisp.
I upvoted you, but cussing on HN is a serious turnoff to me. Usually, that would get a downvote from me.

I thought that you brought up accurate and true statements, even though they seem more like an argument against compiled languages as a whole.
Well with Clojure you get something that's more Lispy. With scala you get basically a mashup of Java + ML.
Hypomania can affect mood.

Hypothyroidism can also affect mood.

Exercise can affect mood.

You need to speak with your doctor about all three (or more since we are all different), and you need to find out if you need medication to get you out of the rut.
It may sound crazy, but there's people who get married with an ugly woman/man to feel better in the couple and be perceived by others as the coolest. In this case, the reference group is the spouse.
It's a website subscription service that I'm trying to pack as much value as possible into.

I think it's worth $50.

My question is what are the best resources on this topic?

I suppose i need 2.5 as many times the members at the $20 rate to make generate the same revenue. I've got 100 users @ $50, but will I get 250 @ $20 ? If I did get 250 at $20, the revenue hasn't gone up.

$50 seems like the better plan to me. Ofcourse, if I ask the users who haven't subscribed and still use the free model, they think $50 is too much and they would be more likely to pay $20.

I'm sure there's lots of discussion on this topic out there, but as soon as you type in "membership subscription" at google you get garbage like pay pal and netflix, and not any nerdy discussion on the topic.
Eh, I freely accept my share of the blame in being exploited. It just isn't worth prioritizing fixing though. I have to find an hour or two to deal with it.
If that's true, it's more evil than just being bad at investing. Leveraging other people's money to make contrarian bets as a hedge to the investments you believe in enough to put your money in, when the reason those people are giving you money is to align their money with yours, is ethically if not legally fraud.
> A terrorist, I seem to remember, is someone whose main political tool is the spread of terror.

The definition has shifted, especially after 9/11, but for the sake of discussion let's use the one you've proposed.

> A bombing is not terrorism unless used in the pursuit of political gain.

The point is that only certain political goals (the ones that the US wants to de-legitimize) can qualify an act of violence as terrorism. If Pakistan were to conduct drone strikes against the US, you'd bet they would be considered "a terrorist state" by the US, even if they never hit a single civilian (which is more than the US can say for its drone strike program[0]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan#Civi...
Trickle down, whether it's in the economy or here, is bullshit.

Spending a trillion dollars on a program may lead to some good coming out of it, but it's about as disingenuous as saying that spending $3000 on a shitty computer that crashes all the time is OK because the cat got a box out of the deal. Yes, it's technically true, but completely unrelated.
Yeah, totally. I'm anonymous enough here and not going to out my former employer, but one of the things that turned me off and a reason I'm not there any more was finding email trails intentionally suppressing findings from trade studies suggesting the government could get applications deployed faster and cheaper if they didn't use the ridiculous giant framework we'd managed to rope them into years earlier.
What's the product? That would help me decide whether it's worth it. If it's a hot backup mechanism for a graph db, I'd be interested. If it's a better kind of grape jelly, not so much.
Do you fail to understand what "in a hurry" means? Slapping together a sandwich is fast, microwaving something is fast, cooking is not fast. I could be out the door before the water even warms up.

> Well we're talking about people who seem to find boiling an egg such an ordeal they're giving up food altogether as it's a "burden of being biological", I don't think the difference is going to be a deal-breaker.

Yes it would be, eating a meal replacement doesn't change the way I like my food prepared and an un-rested steak is just awful IMHO.
Sure they have; they can explicitly authorize it.
As a consumer, I don't like the direction where streaming services are headed - many small services with limited content (original or not).

I've been a Netflix customer for years now (I also had Hulu Plus, cancelled it due to their then-horrendous interface). While in the past I was very impressed with Netflix's selection, I now find it... meh, despite all the original content. When I pay Netflix, it's not for one, two or ten specific shows, no matter how much I liked House Of Cards or Orange Is The New Black. It's for a big, diverse, easy-to-explore library, in which I can discover new content and I always have something to watch.

And as much as I like HBO programs, there is no chance I'll pay 15$/m for their streaming service, especially after I've already watched most of the content! I understand everybody wants a piece of that streaming revenue pie, but as a consumer, I can't but feel that this situation is bad for me.
What the report actualy says:

>It’s actually extremely difficult to cross the street in Wujin, which doesn’t bode well for the argument that it’s a ghost town.

Did you read it? The linked article is pointing out that these cities are not ghost towns at all.
I could handle it if it was Modern Perl.
But inline styling belongs with Cthulu, asleep in the deeps.
When my wife and I moved into our first home (an unfurnished rental), we felt it was larger than we really needed. So one bedroom became the living room, one bedroom stayed the bedroom, and the actual living room was emptied of all furniture.

What did we do with all that space? Plonked down a full-size ping-pong table and became bloody good at the game over the next year or so. Good times.
I have a feeling this will be the real zombie apocalypse. Be vigilant and ready people. (And would make for a great youtube/tv series.)
> I don't think ECL uses GCC as a JIT; most common lisps use an incremental AOT compiler, which is different

https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/blob/develop...

What is the difference?
Don't know about parent, but latin-american keyboard is like that.
The MIT license encourages freeriding and impoverishes the free-software community, which reduces overall freedom.
I have a soft spot for https://jsonnet.org/ myself.

https://github.com/mbrt/gmailctl uses it for example.
My point is one should feel unhappy about the lack of social safety net, not the programmers working on automating things.
All "American Cheese" of that type is labeled this way. Check any package at the supermarket, from Kraft to the house brand. The phrasing is likely an FDA requirement of some type.
What blogs these days don't have RSS?

Unless they rolled their own CMS, just about every blog these days has at least basic RSS feeds. They might not advertise it, but throw the website's URL into Google Reader and it'll detect the feeds and add them anyway.
Oil is going to get expensive; there's no particular guarantee that energy is going to get expensive, though. (It will if we mindlessly continue our current policies, but expensive energy will have a way of clearing our minds about certain priorities.) And given that we're talking decadal time scales, how will "sprawl" be affected when we're using time-shared automatic-driving electric cars (and generalized transport network)?

I think there's a lot of fervent hope from a lot of people that sprawl is doomed by expensive energy, but personally I rather expect that technology will end up "saving" it in the end, a further testament to the trend towards decentralization, not erasing it.
Very interesting. This is the sort of augmented reality application I'm interested in pursuing. Hacking colorspaces is a novel idea to me!
Can the add a feature that will turn the entire field of view black when you are in danger? This would be awesome as I would like a more relaxed attitude to danger.
Groupon has revenue of at least $500 million.
Don't try doing any real work with it at first. I made that mistake a couple times, only to learn that trying to get anything done using a tool I don't know (no matter how great and useful it is) can only lead to frustration. Give yourself a day or two to just play with it and get comfortable, go through the built-in tutorial, write a few small Hello World-like programs, etc.
Well, the point is that now I can have a hubble deep field image as my background for google search, which is a enough reason for me to stay logged in to my google account at work, which I normally don't.

So it's good for their stats department.
I strongly disagree with this HTML5 standards test from Microsoft. They have included only a small subset of the HTML5 standard, and have excluded important parts, in particular the HTML5 canvas element. As a result, Internet Explorer 9 will lead to an even more fragmented web where browsers interpret standards differently.

This is why we started the Internet Explorer 9 HTML5 canvas campaign: http://freeciv.net/internet-explorer-html5-canvas-campaign.j...
This is a job .... for Dr. House !
I wish I were that clever. Unfortunately, I'm too honest to be clever. ;)
We call it the Windward side, not the East Coast.
In addition, there is a sewer line running down most of it. It overflows every time it rains too much.

Maybe on Maui, or Kauai, or the "Big Island", but not here.
Same here, in fact I try to keep my tolerance of caffeine at such a level that whenever I have to pull through I can get by with coffee. It really helps and don't think it's a placebo.
Um, you can see it on the surface of the entire earth. How many other man-made things can you see at that scale?

At a small enough scale, even pretty small is pretty big.
Hey, at least the meters take credit cards now, right?
Amazon Cloud Drive is useless because it has no synchronization. You need to manually upload and download files whenever they change.

Useless!
True. Though it's a safe assumption that if you suddenly have a large number of spotty satellite users and they're DOSing your site it's probably something malicious.
I wouldn't get too excited. With only 256MB of RAM, it's still going to happen on the iPad :/
I'm having the exact same experience with the $150 Android Tablet from KMart - the Augen. Wireless works, but the touch screen is really hard to use, and the battery dies fast, even when off, so every time I turn it on I have to plug it in.
Even less space is required. Dropbox stores duplicate files only once. So if many users store the same files the cost per user is practically zero.

That's also the reason why uploads are so fast. If a file is already on the server it isn't uploaded again.
Don't miss the Mixergy interview with the (book) author:

http://mixergy.com/click-ori-brafman-interview/
There are crap copy-cats from china all over the place. go to dealextreme and you will find 200 models of windows mobile tablets!

i have one to run GPS in my car. cost me $50 and has a 7in screen! works perfectly... for the price.

but the first ones where just crappy. unusable. slow. battery was as good as that one. look for some old reviews.

With that one it will be the same.

As soon as there is real competition in the android tablet/netbook market the chinese copy-cats will start to show up some really good products.

mark this: android will only be a HUGE hit when those devices that does not goes out of their way to prevent hacking start to hit the market. and it is starting

The little android momentum had so far was a mistake on the part of manufacturers. they by accident let android be hackable. and are fixing it, for android loss.
pg: "There's a background process that runs every 45 seconds and picks a random loaded user to update the average of. Empirically, not more than every couple days, at best."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1875635

Also, pg posted the code to calculate karma/comment average. It doesn't include the karma of your last 5 posts or your highest ranked comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853688
Such as support for contenteditable? How long has that been promised for now.
I have been using recruiters for the last 10 years and I agree that it is very easy to be taken advantage of if you don't know how to use them.

First, go to the recruiter who can give you the best deal. That means, don't say yes to the first person who calls you. Tell them you'll get back to them and then check out the boards for whoever else is in the running. Apply to them all, talk to them all, and then decide which one you are the most comfortable dealing with. Even if the company isn't mentioned, it's fairly easy to compare requirements.

Second, know your price and be willing to walk away. The only reason you get screwed on rates is because you allow it. If you are not willing/able to walk away when your price isn't being met, then you have already lost. The competition for candidates is fierce so if you stand firm and you have the skills, you can often get the recruiter to submit you even if your price is above where the client is willing to go. Get your resume in front of the client and have them reconsider their price. If they still don't budge, walk away.

Third, they are a necessary evil since many jobs can't be accessed (or with great difficulty) without them. This is not because the headhunter makes it difficult, it's because the hiring company doesn't want to deal with the recruitment process and give headhunters an exclusive on the job.
Tell that to Craig Walker[1]:

* Founds telephony company Dialpad, sells to Yahoo. (I think it was the basis of Yahoo's search-via-phone-call service.)

* Founds telephony company Grand Central, sells to Google, is basis of Google Voice.

* Founds telephony company Dialpad (he bought back the name and domain).

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/google-voice-founders-raised...
The visible light we see with our eyeballs - produced by electron transitions in atoms - has an energy of 2-3 eV; the atmosphere is transparent to them. It's mostly opaque to the reported energies, produced by the decay of the the nuclei of atoms.

The universe is also opaque to these energies, because they interact with 'background photons' (and possibly electrons) in their travel. We're lucky that only a few 'make it through' (and require sensitive scopes to detect).

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/320/5884/1752

(The energies in the new report are 10 times higher than those in the cited paper from 2008.)
Why is the author picking on the tuning fork? The author even quotes Kondo explaining why the tuning fork has importance for her. Is it just that the author does not agree with the explanation?
To play Devil's Advocate:

Maybe the reason why this junk is so expensive is specifically to discourage people from cluttering their lives with it? Some of the more-obviously-useful stuff is more reasonably priced (organizers, soap bottles, etc.; there's a markup, sure, but it ain't extreme for a "premium" brand like Marie Kondo might be trying to establish). Meanwhile, the useless-looking junk is almost universally priced high.

Marie Kondo's playing a joy-sparking 4D chess game while we're here playing checkers.
> He was aware of the field of economics and didn't think it was worthy of a prize.

I doubt you have evidence of this, beyond the simple fact that he didn't personally establish a sixth prize. If such evidence existed, I think it's unlikely that the Nobel Foundation would've agreed to administer the prize in the first place.

That said, at this point, I'm not sure what the difference would be anyway. The Nobel prizes (including the memorial one) have become a globally admired celebration of human achievement, the personal beliefs and shortcomings of the 19th century arms dealer who established the prizes notwithstanding.
You might prefer just reading the report, which is a PDF - which doesn’t necessarily mean there‘s no tracking, but probably less. https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/POL3014042019ENGL...
I wasn't trying to discuss whether or not PGP is a good or widely used technology. My point was that even if something like it were widely adopted and made seamless, it would not be able to solve the problem of bootstrapping the verification connections without eventually become social media itself.
Web hosting is pretty bad about these affiliate link filled 'review sites' too. Virtually every company rating hosts is in it for the affiliate revenue, and features the same few (well paying) companies regardless of actual quality.
Or, the content just wouldn't exist
You start investing in things. You'd be amazed how fast the money can go.
40 lbs in less than 6 months represents a massive drop in your weight. Anytime you're losing more than 5lbs a month you're asking for trouble, especially when there isn't some kind of significant and readily identifiable reason for previous weight gain (e.g., hypothyroidism, limb injury, etc).

While sudden drops of weightloss right at the start of a major lifestyle change are pretty normal, if you continue at this rate you should talk to your doctor.
How quickly can you do that / react to these things.

Could you 'beat' / get the shares sold before the price dropped dramatically?

And let's assume you get them sold / what happens when you just dumped bunch of shares out there and the inevitable price crashes? What value can you ever provide those share holders?

But in the first place I kinda wonder if just trying to cash in would trigger the drop...
Great to hear! Thanks!

We are exploring a few different models for rebalancing. One is to rebalance with new contributions only, another would be rebalancing with each investing (through both buying and selling), and the third would be a more tax-aware rebalancing where it only happens quarterly or annually (perhaps after you've locked in long term capital gains).

Since we lean prosumer / DIY platform, we feel like perhaps we should support a few models. Curious which you'd prefer?
That's pretty hard to imagine. The whole point of a publicly traded company is that the public can trade it; investment firms can (and many do) stick to private markets if they don't want to deal with that.
Most of it comes down to shoving 10X traffic down a 1X pipe. You can write smart fast software, but if your wires are saturated...

There is one common problem, and that is that the major transit carriers/ISPs allow you to spoof your source IP. That allows some attacks to be done easier than otherwise. But that's more of a special case and doesn't matter when there is hijacking going on like in this attack.

Blocking attacks at the source is probably not a solution either, since you'd have to have a distributed way of getting filtering rules out to every ISP.
I'm not against teaching/requiring GE courses for all graduates. I'm against selling liberal arts as a viable career. There are lots of people out there who studied at a liberal arts university and are unhappy with the occupations they've had to settle for because there is no market for their skills.

From my experience people go to university mainly to make themselves marketable in the broader economy, not so much to come out as well rounded individuals. People who want to be well rounded individuals typically are able to pursue those interests on their own. That's not to say that there might be an occasional student who does want to become a meaningful critical thinker, but for the most part people who go into liberal arts do it because they saw themselves as not up to par in STEM so decided to take a path of least resistance but also gave them some credibility.
There's a whole list[1] of banned subreddits...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti...
I'm not sure "Cigarettes will kill you" was ever meant to stop smokers from smoking. It was part of a generations long campaign to change the entire perception and culture behind smoking. And it seems to be working very well.

I think there are parallels here. I see a focus on getting _current_ users to stop tolerating naked privacy. I think that ship has sailed. But in time the entire culture can shift where future generations do not accept naked privacy.
Maybe you misunderstood the article? These default fallback servers have been in systemd-resolved for ages (at least since I started using it 3-4 years ago). This article is about a change made by Fedora recently that disabled them.

Additionally, resolved isn't "not obeying" your DNS - this is the fallback that is only used if DHCP doesn't provide a server and the user doesn't configure one. DHCP and user configuration always take precedence.
Atleast XMLHttpRequest was google searchable.
There already are a number of platforms that make deploying and operating apps very simple! Heroku, AppEngine, Lambda, so many others.

Your 5-person startup does not need a DevOps engineer. Your 50-person org should start thinking about it. Your 500-person company probably needs multiple DevOps engineers -- having every dev team independently figure out how to handle things like deployments, reliability, and security is chaotic and wasteful. There are a lot of details that only start to matter at scale, and both Kubernetes and dedicated infrastructure teams are for this use case.