jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Something like this already exists: it’s called MGRS, the Military Grid Reference System.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_grid_reference_system
I used to trade bonds (amongst other stuff) so I can tell you how it works for bonds. Presumably it's similar for stocks:

As you know, going short means you sell the bond/stock. Generally going short implies you are going negative, as opposed to selling inventory you already own. So if I go short 100 million 10y bunds (German government debt) this means I sell 100m bonds I don't have.

The guy I am selling to doesn't know I am going short, he just knows I've sold him the bonds and he expects delivery at the end of the day (or possibly in 1 or 2 days time, depending on the definition of "spot" and various other things).

So I have to deliver him 100m bonds I don't have. Where do these come from? This is where the "repo" or repurchase market comes in to play. Very simply, the repo market is short-term buy/sell market: Party A agrees to sell Party B some bond at some price, AND additionally agrees to buy it back a short while later for a slightly higher price. What Party A has effectively done is borrow money from B and put up the bond they own as collatoral.

So what happens after I short my bond is that I go to the repo traders and say "hey - I'm short 100m bunds, you need to do a repo trade to flatten my position". So these guys will loan out some cash (around 100m euros) and take as collateral 100m bunds. These I use to deliver to my seller.

Edit: In reality I don't tell the repo traders I've gone short a bond. It's their responsibility to make sure all positions are repo'd out. They see a netted view of all bond positions across the bank and repo just the net positions.
Moral equivalent is, If you knew a self employed guy needed to sell his boat to keep his mortgage current, and you bought similar boats and sold them below cost so the guy would go into foreclosure and then you bought his property.
With that many processors crammed into such a small case isn't heat dissipation a problem? Or are the Atom chips used not as power hungry as a standard commercial cpu?
it's not only hyperloop, "Musk said Texas could be a contender for future Tesla car or battery factories." And I am sure he will build them there as he needs plenty of them in order to produce millions of cars "by 2025"
So many submissions, so little discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8907045 (cnet.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8906120 (cnet.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8905562 (thenextweb.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8905474 (businessweek.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8905277 (businessweek.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8905059 (theverge.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8904435 (businessweek.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8903658 (engadget.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8903450 (geekwire.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8903135 (businessweek.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8599177 (rt.com)
This is why I lie about my birthdate by a couple of days on anything where it's not something like a medical record or where I am required to tell the truth for whatever reason. I also never provide my social security number unless it is required by law.
The fact that the truck looks like a Warthog from the Halo video games aside, I feel that this truck is destined for the defense market.
Overly sturdy frame, bulletproof windows, no gasoline.
Electric vehicles that can self-charge through solar seem to be a massive logistical advantage. You can reduce the need for fuel supply lines.
I live in a city and have used my pick-up truck for 15yrs constantly to move furniture, haul trash to the dump, and bulk material (mulch, dirt, sand, pavers, etc) for myself and friends. It's a major time and money saver. Yes, parking is a PITA and the gas is horrendous. However, with the population density, the utility need to haul materials is compounded - especially now that you have increasing #'s of DIY renovations and things like urban farms.

The thing I find interesting about this truck design is the angled body. It looks like it's designed for minimised radar cross section (RCS) signature, which is a military application benefit.
I hate when people use this metaphor. Not because it's inaccurate to say that speech can cause imminent harm in some circumstances. But because its origin was a Supreme Court opinion that argued against the right to speak out against the draft in WW1, which I don't think too many people using this analogy today would agree with. Also, this legal argument has been rejected since then.

Point is, this exact argument could be (and has been) used to justify some pretty bad ideas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
Does a general public really needs bulletproof cars with unbreakable windows? What if there's a traffic accident and passengers are caught inside, how do you get them out? (assuming you don't have a handy metal ball laying around somewhere :P)
:0 So that’s how it can go to 60 so fast, damn
The solution is not to censor. The solution is to not allow targeting. If you change your message based on who you're talking to, everyone should see it, and get to call you out as a liar.

In a system that permits free speech, the solution to bad speech is good speech, not controlled speech.

"Select is not broken" in the parlance of Pragmatic Programmer.
This is probably the most accurate statement in this whole thread.
Those aren't going to be super useful as the shift to electric continues.
> non-laywers can lobby just as well as lawyers.

Lobbying costs money. Using the same sort of analysis as in the article, it's easy to see that the available funds for lobbying are heavily biased in one direction.
Seems it would be worth it to run a lightweight server on :80 solely to redirect to the www host. Sounds better than "foo.com" just not working.
It's a side effect of the way iOS implements scrolling--as soon as scrolling starts the web content is "frozen" and only resumes once the scroll is complete. Only way around is to imitate the native scroll using CSS and JavaScript.
What is "Job and Family Security"?
This is fairly blatant self promotion. That said, these are really good ideas.

Decomposing a task into what needs to be done to do it is really effective.
The short of it is that Joel is wrong. Git and Mercurial use similar data structures and neither of them store changes in the way that Darcs stores changes. Maybe he knows that full well but is telling a white lie to get a teaching point across.

If you make a change to a file in Git and commit it, the new version will store the full updated contents of that file (delta compression is an orthogonal issue). Indeed, my use of the word "version" is revealing. That concept is secondary in Darcs; changes are what have primary ontological status.
I like the feel of it.

I tried putting "gold" and it kept going back to spa.

I would remove the e.g. or eg; just put the item that you think your ideal customer would look for.

You might create an array with several and randomly populate the value field so each time they come they see a new suggestion of items to search.

Also why not start with the main page that already has a item searched, then the person can change it. This way I can see what you have to offer. It also gets me thinking of what I might want to search for:
http://www.dealites.com/search/delhi-ncr/?phrase=jewelry

I love the counter.

Your design has a good feel to it; I love the name. Good job! Do you have a marketing strategy?
Yeah WTF! I didn't realize canoes were so dangerous! That almost can't be right.
One thing I recently discovered when moving to a new area is http://www.meetup.com . It works on so many levels, both socially and work related.

Not sure it's for everyone as it can be hard initially going to a place to meet a group of strangers, but then you have to realise, they really want you there. You're key to their continued existence. It works both ways.
> "we need to be able to have backdoors", not "ban encryption"

They can't reliably have backdoors without banning crypto that lacks it.
If someone ever comes up with a practical method of creating reliable software then everyone would use it. You can always find a programmer who will claim that they would of done it better... For all we know whatever Toyota is doing is way better than what everyone else is doing and this is their only safety critical bug (assuming that the bug actually exists)...

In the end the software is either correct or it is not.
I'm going to guess that the applications you refer to are "simple" at the level of individual functions, but that's only because the complexity has been spread out so much that it becomes difficult to understand the whole. That's exactly why I think cyclomatic complexity and related metrics are of little benefit, and may even be harmful - "refactoring" to reduce "point complexity" can result in increasing the complexity of the whole.

I've always wondered what the cyclomatic complexity of TeX is. While Knuth is a bit of an "edge case", it would be fun to see what static analysers think of his code... complete with copious use of global variables, goto, and very, very long functions. Give someone who has never had any experience with TeX the results and ask them what they think the defect rate would be, then show them the fact that it's one of the most bug-free pieces of software ever written.
Whole disk encryption is built-in all you have to do is enable it during install... here's a how-to... OpenBSD frowns upon howtos, but here it is anyway: http://16s.us/OpenBSD/softraid.txt
I think you're looking for something more like prey : http://preyproject.com/
Yes it does scan surrounding wifi SSID because Google Maps uses Skyhook ( http://www.skyhookwireless.com/ , belongs to Google) to geolocate users faster than just using pure GPS signal. So does Apple which also use Google Maps geolocation services on their iPhones.

My guess is that Apple is gathering all those data in order to build their own Skyhook. It makes sense, specially when you keep in mind that Apple bough the mapping company Poly9.
That's our goal :)
> Employees were also expected to "live within commuting distance" of offices.

I can't see how the must-be-in-office companies think they win this in the long term.

All the companies that want to poach from FAANG will offer remote work
Where did I say it was? Can you perhaps quote the part?
Betteridge Law seems to not apply in this case.

Anyway, are people engaging with flat Earthers being serious? Which is worse, being part of a cult X or complaining about X?
Information Theory is the ur-science. It's the theory of mapping observed data onto models. In other words, it's how to fuse inductive logic into deductive logic. In physics, this is especially salient, since many of the models are of low-information systems. See, e.g. Wootter's paper "Statistical Distance and Hilbert Space" [1], which gets pretty close to deriving the Dirac formulation fo quantum mechanics as the physics of low information systems in those explicit terms. (It doesn't seem to explain why it's a complex Hilbert space.)

[1] https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.23.35...
I know someone who did law school career counseling at one point. The glut of lawyers has had a downward pressure on law salaries, but pay and even hiring tends to be highly correlated with the tier of the law school a lawyer grated from. I'm not sure I'd call this class tribalism, so much as a great filter. People who get into top law schools tend to be super competitive and are going to tend to be competent as well, so you're at least partially filtering out people who are likely going to be willing to work for low compensation. If starting pay dropped low enough, these lawyers would be going and getting other jobs. My friend used to laugh about the low end internships complaining about why students weren't rushing to fill their position, and she had to constantly remind them that if their pay was even marginally close to the local minimum wage then her students had better options elsewhere.
Stability. Roads very often have curvature built into them for rain/runoff/erosion mgmt. If your road surface is an arch, having a wheel at the apex is not gonna go well. You gon' tip over.
Were there any revelations on how the Turkish intelligence managed to uncover the murder?

There were claims that they listened through his Apple Watch but this claim lacks any substance, they must have bugged the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul where the murder took place.
Thats not what I mean - I mean the column content itself should resize, and then the window to fit. Auto-fitting seems obvious, but its not happening anywhere in OSX.
I actually put a basic description of what I intend to do with the repo in the message of my empty root commit these days. Helpful for remembering if I lose momentum and come back to it later.

I'd actually love to start doing that with starting a new branch, but I use rebase -i too much and it really really dislikes empty commits in the set you're working on (it just throws them out).
State laws still trump that.

Credit card surcharges are prohibited in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma and Texas.

Thus in those states, the markup will be added/absorbed into normal price and you will pay the credit card markup whether you use a credit card or not. (Some states may still allow explicit cash discounts, but very few merchants use that.)
What about the citizens that dont have 'fourth amendment rights' just because they're not US citizens? As far as I know, Tor is not something that 'belongs' to US, nor 'exists' in US soil so it is very interesting what about the rest of the world.
In some games it could find an equilibrium where it could keep the game going on indefinitely by moving back and forth, for example (which won't work in a game like Go[1], though).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_Go#Ko_and_Superko
Deep fakes are pretty good. It's kindof interesting....ML has allowed computers to generate realistic images that humans cannot discern....while image recognition remains woefully hopeless compared to human perception.

So rather than competing with the human brain...AI will try and trick the human brain instead.
Since I learned about Shodan, I'm convinced that the (subjectively) increase in reported data breaches is just due to an increasing amount of people looking through Shodan results, and doesn't have anything to do with any trends in security.

Security standards at any company have always been low, but now it's easy even for a layman to find leaked data.
I have excellent results with a subdomain. Even though PDL probably has a lot of data on me, they have (not yet?) been able to glue it to my primary mail address. That one only has my name, gender, github, country and name of my employer. They can't seem to map the remainder to anything else.
Recognizing simplicity requires familiarity with complexity.

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FWIW, Category Theory provides a mathematical formalism for determining when your system is "as simple as possible, but no simpler".

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> “average programmers” have difficulty understanding complex languages

That's not pejorative IMO, that's practically tautological: If "average programmers" have difficulty understanding a language, isn't that an indicator that it might be too complex? Anyhow, trawling though e.g. Stackexchange provides adequate evidence, IMO. Or a thread about Haskell with all the people complaining about how hard it is to understand FP, etc.
Are you serious? Or are you satirizing the "need to defend IP or lose it" meme?

I seriously cannot imagine the word "postman" falling into genericide on this basis.
> I double-dog dare you to go to a Jewish wedding and ask about circumcision.

I've been to Jewish weddings and the community themselves make jokes about circumcision. It's not like it's a subject for which they have to be tricked into showing their true colors on like the latent racism and sexism that Cohen exposes in his comedy. In fact, circumcision is the subject of a lot of of traditional Jewish humor.

> Or to a tech conference and ask where the women are and why everyone is single.

I suspect you'd get a lot of laughs from the attendees, because after all, most normal people can laugh at themselves, and even at caricatures of themselves. If some of them end up shouting mysoginistic stuff in response, that's on them.
> I would gladly have gay marriage legal throughout the United States. But overall, like David Hume, I am more fearful of the intense preferences of minorities than not. I do not wish to encourage such preferences, all things considered. If minority groups know they have the possibility of buying up votes as a path to power, paying the quadratic price along the way, we are sending intense preference groups a message that they have a new way forward. In the longer run I fear that will fray democracy by strengthening the hand of such groups, and boosting their recruiting and fundraising. Was there any chance the authors would use the anti-abortion movement as their opening example?

This is the punchline for me. At the end of the day, the whole point of democracy is that the majority is in charge. Majority control is the general rule; protection of minorities is the exception to the general rule.
Very nice. I appreciate the tip!
Something cool you can do that I recently found out about is use libgfshare to split a text file using whatever C and T shares you want. Then use scrypt on the split shares with a password you won't forget. Once encrypted with scrypt simply take a JPEG and `cat` the scrypt encoded share to the end of a JPEG and send it in an email to a friend, doing this for each share where you know you'd be able to get enough original copies back.

There are some tricks to do this correctly but once you have enough shares copy the scrypt binary data back to individual files and decrypt it. Then combine the shares and voila your friends have helped you keep something secret that even if enough of them turned on you they would still need the scrypt decryption password.
So Facebook's revenues are approx $80b, and they're going to pay $1b over 3 years, for all of the real news content they rely on to drive traffic on their platform.

0.4% of revenue sounds way too cheap for that. If FB lost legitimate content, they'd have to make do with just their bubble-fuelling crackpot user-generated fake news, and that would surely drive away many of the less rabid FB users. They need legitimate news, badly.
Neither C nor Go has generics, preprocessor based or otherwise, built into the language and compiler.

Both C and Go can have (and, in fact, it has been done in both) some degree of generics implemented in a preprocessor-based way using only features built into the language and compiler.

So, again, I would maintain that "no generics" is no more valid of the Go status quo than it is of the C status quo.
Having designed a decentralized social networking system, I have become firmly convinced that - unlike bitcoin - it actually helps to have a server for each conversstion, in order to both have efficiency in the network topology as well as much more easily implement things people har come to expect, such as fair message ordering and no client able to mess up the others in a conversation. Mental poker is possible but clients still need to trust each other. May as well designate one as a server then.

The CAP theorem is likewise addressed by partitioning all the messages by conversation. There is little need for total consistency between conversations, only within them.

If you want me to elaborate further, you have to email me because there's too much to say.
But with sub-orbital hypersonic craft, you cannot get around the fact that they move very fast and thus carry a lot of kinetic energy and can deliver it before anyone can stop them. That's just how it works. You can't "advance" past that without a warp drive.

I believe that the phrase is "functionally equivalent to a kinetic impact weapon".

I think that Mr Stross has relaxed his thinking on sub-orbital hypersonic craft, i.e. he suggests that they might actually be allowed, but only if they come down far from a desirable location.
It seems the usefulness of this varies from field to field. It's generally easier to reverse engineer software from binaries or even rewrite it from a plain English description than it is to reverse engineer the patents.

Whether it "slows progress" has got to be an empirical question with results that vary from field to field. The "with patents" case in software forces not only rediscovery but reinvention and engineering around patents (which exists in the pharma case as well).

Now, a software patent system that involved filing a copy of the source code with the patent? That would be a great way of preserving tools in the public record. But that's not how it works at the moment.
It'd be better if they put the date on, but I don't see Amazon or Facebook or Google sharing their reliability data. As long as backblaze is more open than the industry standard, I think that's as a good thing regardless of their motives.
Exactly. Consider ... lead paint, everywhere. Leaded gasoline was the norm, EVERYWHERE, with little exception.
Great comment. The critical part is "show consequences."
Now add a code so that you can scan with your phone and it will tell you if you can park there.
Also to fuel the conspiracy theory we have a recent ABC Nightline piece[0] which has 28,404 downvotes and 1,028 upvotes about the contentious issue. Also heavily censored comments where some of the removed comments only criticize the content of it and don't attack any specific persons in it. While comments like "4:05 That is nightmare fuel. How is it possible for a person to look so grotesque?﻿" still aren't censored.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAyncf3DBUQ
Looking at his user info, it looks like this might be it:

https://github.com/julienchastang/dotemacs/blob/master/setti...

It looks like it's meant to be included directly as a config file, which seems like deep magic to me. :-)
It struck me as ridiculous when I heard the story, but I can somewhat see how it happens -- first, civil-war era means that it is /old/, which makes it seem less dangerous unless you know about the age->instability relationship with explosives; second, it looks like an inert ball of iron, so there is nothing that really screams 'hazardous' to an uneducated viewer.
Probably one of those situations where the city can't afford to have people fighting smaller fines regularly, so they try to discourage people from doing so.
It's not "detailed and nuanced" to claim that raising white children to be white is wrong, nor is it to redefine whiteness as a kind of ignorance and and evil knowing this will be taken to mean white people (as commonly defined) are ignorant and evil.
It's called "rhetoric"
This class of drive will typically have a design life of 5yrs at 100% duty.
The Long Tail by Chris Anderson seems to fit the criteria extremely well. He must have figured out the MGB method before you.
How is a poll about a barely week old phone and a phone the world is yet to see going to be objective?

We can as well replace EVO and iPhone4 with windows/linux and let the internet slug it out. Once more.
What is N,Y,Z and how does it relate to SA?
If I recall correctly, Qik for Android was bundled with the HTC Evo 4G, and supports video calls out of the box. I recall reading about Qik momentarily shutting down due to the extreme number of video calls on day one. I think John is extremely misinformed on this one. The software stack supports video calling just fine.
Given how fixable (http://blog.jgc.org/2010/05/british-computer-society-pioneer...) many online polls are, who cares?
How to read a "Malcolm Gladwell Bestseller": start in the middle; read 20 pages or so; see sloppy reasoning and general lack of substance; don't read it or any of the author's other books again. You'd save yourself a lot of time if you did that, jgrahamc.