jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You might grow to wish you didn't have it. It's a pain to hold a physical stock certificate with actual value.

Put that sucker in a safe deposit box, if you haven't already. If you lose it, you'll be in for a bureaucratic nightmare of indemnity bonds (which are expensive!) and notaries to get your money. And on the happy day you get to exchange your piece of paper for cash, you get to live through the unique experience of trusting a huge sum of money to the postal service.

It's a like backing up your computer on a local hard drive because you don't trust cloud providers: the chance that a law firm will lose your certificate is a lot lower than the chance that you will.
Whoa! Thanks for that tip. I am amazed I never tried that as well as sure grateful to now know it.
Not without DRM, I'm sure.
This is a similar strategy I used the other night when I asked my strangers to help fill out a survey. Here's one in a google doc form if anyone wants to help figure out a good reason to choose one domain over the other.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=d...
Translation: We need DRM in HTML5. They don't quite say it, but they come very close and this isn't very much of a "translation".

DRM doesn't belong in a standard like HTML5. On the freedom side, the argument hardly needs to be made around here; on the Netflix/DRM-users side, you don't really want to standardize on DRM because then you're locked to the standard if it doesn't work, and, frankly it solves no problems for you anyhow. DRM and Linux are not going to fit together no matter how many standards docs you write and how hard you thump on them. And when the standard fails to work for you because it has been hacked, you will leave the standard anyhow.

These are pretty words but I can't see anybody actually getting anywhere with this, not just because the standards bodies really shouldn't do this but because it doesn't seem to be in anybody's interest to create an HTML5 DRM standard.
aww man... didnt see this....

just if by any chance any free book for html newbie learning?
I wasn't aware of this. I was pretty sure DHH was working at 37signals for a few years before Basecamp started.

Update: Yep, he was working there for two years before Basecamp according to DHH's bio. http://www.loudthinking.com/
Sales-driven everything.
By the article's own logic, the examples of Twitter and Gmail probably wouldn't have come into being if they were sales-driven side projects.

I don't think Vinicius' article was making a general statement about side projects being bad. His experience was that they can be dangerous distractions while you are still in the "startup transition cycle".
But now I'm getting runtime errors at 3am :(
...and all the Hoos down in Hooville will cry BooHoo!
Weird syntax, frankly.
> Programming is not just hammering away in [language], it's deconstructing a problem into smaller, less complicated problems, to generify and abstract away common properties to allow for repetition in similar contexts.

This is exactly what you learn in Excel. How to take some data, transform it slowly (column by column), check your work, save intermediate results, etc.

In minutes you can go from your idea to some crude version of it. Then you refine it.

Look, Excel is like LogoWriter. We're not asking people to design rockets with it. But it's a hell of a lot better than sitting them in front of a terminal and asking them to learn about variables, loops, print statements, etc. Excel is type and go.
If only the elected officials would see it the same way.
Steve Losh has some good articles on vim already. Highly recommended.
Is it worth trying to foil this attack? My understanding from talking to alarm installers is that wired alarms, which are more common, are trivially defeated by burglars, and that really the point of having an alarm is simply to avoid being the only person on your block that doesn't have one.
> . . . to me Coinbase has always been just another Rails startup (not necessarily a bad thing, but they made tons of mistakes typical of having web developer talent only).

Re-read that with the word 'internet' in place of the word 'Rails.'
I know Vimscript is sort of terrible, but as someone who's written a Vim plugin recently I found Learn Vimscript the Hard Way to be an incredibly valuable resource. I wish it went into even more depth with each of its chapters, but for someone new to Vimscript/VimL it's fantastic.
Yeah, my dad is a black belt in Aikido, and actually used it to make the training program that all New York State court officers go through. Definitely some good techniques in there for fast control.
The only reason one wouldn't be able to demolish the house in the US is if it was designated a historical landmark, that I know of.

Otherwise, if it's still zoned for a single family home, then the owner of the land has the right to deconstruct and construct a single family home, per the updated building codes and whatnot.
Performance per watt energy was a lot worse a decade prior.
That is way better. Annoying that it wasn't in the first few search results for me.
That is not just any "single" dam, but the world's second largest.

The largest dam in Sweden, which is my reference, a country where hydro is the biggest source of electricity, produces 2TWh/y.

(And sadly much of that energy now goes to heavily subsidized Facebook and Google servers because it is cool to have those companies in your town, and collect income tax from the 10-ish people that work there)
If, except I didn't. A great barrier reef, a Saharan Dune or a pack of whales is exotic, but something most of us can see at least once in our lifes if we wanted to.
Only in a trivial syntactic sense. They're better understood (IMO) as combinators, though even that isn't absolutely accurate.

Of course ultimately a word can mean different things; did you have a more specific question about what a decorator or a closure does?
What really? I haven't read through this yet, but my initial thought was the annoying syntax in Rails. Sometimes you have 3 freaking ways to access something which is dot syntax, brackets with a string, and brackets with a symbol. I hope its better than I expect.
Why is the author going to school?
My theory is that we have too much diffusion of ownership. When Foo Corp is majority owned by four dozen mutual funds which are in turn owned by ten million different people, there is nobody minding the store. The mutual fund managers are picking a stock to make up ~1% of their fund, and they have the same perverse incentives as the executives. The individuals who are the real parties in interest don't even know what companies their money is invested in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
"However, the major allied victors of World War II, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union, all agreed the area belonged to the French."

"On 6 March 1946, Ho signed an agreement allowing French forces to replace Nationalist Chinese forces, in exchange for French recognition of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam as a "free" republic within the French Union, with the specifics of such recognition to be determined by future negotiation. The French landed in Hanoi by March 1946 and in November of that year they ousted the Viet Minh from the city. British forces departed on 26 March 1946, leaving Vietnam in the hands of the French."

Vietnam belongs to the vietnamese people. There would be no "South" if vietnam was allowed to rule itself.

To stop communism, misguided US leaders decided killing several million innocent people was justified. These leaders should be held responsible for the death of US soldiers in vietnam. It is tragic that these US leaders were not charged with war crimes like the Nazis.
I assume it was you that asked the question about Secure Boot at the end of this talk at 31C3?
For the love of all that is holy, please use any forum software other than phpBB. We have Discourse, NodeBB and Vanilla forum now.
Thanks! I'll email him and ask for details.

However, I can't see how that would be possible. While it is possible for the BootROM to block reads to ROM once it is done executing or not execute external Optional ROMs but both of those would be detectable by the external accessory.

It is not possible for the ROM however to return a different set of data than what is in the ROM.

The only thing I can think of is if the PCIe bridge had aperture/remapping registers and it would alter those to point to RAM instead of ROM and copy a "good" ROM into that range but that would be detectable by writing to the address over PCIe and seeing if the region is writable.
Firstly Bitcoin is a fantastic experiment.

It has created a new way to send money across the world with very small fees. This may not be such a big deal for Americans, but in some countries being able to send money to/from abroad when they can't access a bank account or Paypal account is a big big thing.

It does have it's weaknesses though. The first is that you need a good knowledge of security to successfully manage your own bitcoin stored offline. For example how intuitive is it that spending from the same address twice is a potential security hole? Or that your RNG isn't good enough.

Otherwise you store it online, but that has a lot of risk as we have seen with so many successful attacks in myriad different ways.

The other problem is no one really trades in units of Bitcoin. The value of something is in a fiat currency e.g. USD which then needs to be converted to Bitcoin, and so when your Bitcoin crashes to 50% of what it was worth yesterday, it becomes high risk just to hold it. It has no intrinsic worth.
I'll have to find the data sheet, but it should be very possible to pull a pin high or low to disable writing to the chip itself. I doubt they do any checks for being able to write to the chip in software, that would just wear out the flash unnecessarily.
I can't wait for the same demo next year, but wireless. I wish I were joking:

The WiGig Bus Extension (WBE), which can enable a wireless
version of the PCI Express (PCIe) slots used to connect
everything from video cards to hard drives. WBE is now a
published specification available to members of the
consortium.

WiGig Bus Extension (WBE) aka PCIe over Wi-Fi, coming to a laptop near you.
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sea-level rise

+ wild fires

+ tropical storms

+ pollinator die-off and pest booms

+ crop failures

...all adding up to migration pressure, food supply shocks, and infrastructure losses.
Still isn't a ruby issue. Likely an issue with the control flow doing things in a way that locks the front end and runs an expensive process.
Per capita may not be the best metric. China’s population isn’t going to shrink any time soon. If the environment is the concern the total emissions seems like the appropriate figure.
The "students" were enrolling in a university that had "had no teachers, classes, or educational services" as a means to game the F-1 visa program. Their goal was to falsely claim they were enrolled in education in order to avoid deportation.
I don't want to waste any CPU or network generating and sending anything. And it leaves a potential attack surface open to be abused.
> India's per capita CO2 output is tiny.

being tiny now implies incredible room for growth given growth rates of those countries, which is actually an arugment for more action not less.

> Per capita is the only way we can talk about CO2

Wouldn't it also mean India and china won't have to do anything for decades till they get to same per capita as USA ?
Homebrew is built on the assumption that you should always be running the latest version of homebrew and the latest version of all the packages you've installed. If something doesn't work, you're forced to update everything to the latest versions and hope that fixes things.

In general I don't like this constant pressure to abandon old versions of things, it doesn't really benefit anyone. A fragmented world is a decentralized world.
But without the 13% much of the 87% would disappear. Each dollar received from an export ends up getting spent 5 to 10 times internally.
It's the combination of the extra cost of having machines in US West plus the cost of keeping the data synchronized between them (which is a lot) plus the added development overhead of making sure that things work cross region.

We'll get there one day, but we aren't there yet.
WoW did backtype read our minds ? XD just after deploying our devscore I read HN and find this :)

We have released today our DevScore at masterbranch.com based on your github repositories and other forges and also with private code at github with our webhook.

How do backtype calculate the score? we look at files, commits, projects and period of activity. Our total DevScore gives smaller numbers than backtype's.
You left out Nova, which is also paid.

I don't want to come across as "nobody should give Laravel money," to be clear. I'm just observing that Laravel is essentially a commercial open-source enterprise in a way that Rails and Django aren't. Models like this seem to be a bit more common in the PHP world. (e.g., Sensio Labs makes their money by teaching and consulting on Symfony, Laravel LLC makes money from Laravel add-on services, but Basecamp makes money from the SaaS applications they're building on top of Rails and is not trying to monetize Rails itself.)
freedom of speech.
Libraries and museums often put imge collections online.

The British Library / British Museum and Library of Congress would be good starting points.

Anything published prior to 1927 should be public domain within the US. Status elsewhere may vary.
They also could rent large tow trucks from US who don't have the same reputation to manage with the trucking companies, maybe?
Last hn discussion of North Korea, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1927038, in which I suggested that we bomb the shit out of them, and InclinedPlane demonstrate just how much a threat North Korea is to Seoul, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1928289 and how naive a suggestion that would be.
Java will be definitely an option when we consider developing a web application. However at the moment we are not exactly web startup (developing android application).

Since we come from enterprise environment Java is the second mother tongue to us and I have got accustomed to mighty autocomplete and refactoring features of eclipse. The main reason for diverting from Java would be purely of taking intelectual pleasure in learning new things and checking if python/ruby frameworks live to the expectations.

We did some contract work on french social startup using a very lightweight web framework called Stripes (http://www.stripesframework.org). It was much better experience that using component based UI frameworks like JSF.

Needless to say - for quick web hacking I still fall back to PHP.
This gets into deeply philosophical, unanswerable questions. If we didn't bring them into the world as food, would they have existed in the first place? Is is it better that they existed for a shorter period of time than not at all? Do the animals we eat for food have the capacity of preferences? Due to their brain capacities, is it more humane to eat fish and birds versus pigs and cattle?
hopefully it doesn't escalate any higher....def puts everything else happening right now in the US into perspective (like TSA pat downs)...
I believe that one of the reason is lack of good web-applications framework for quick development. There is nothing like django or rails, so if you need to have non-trivial application created in minimum time java is not the best platform.
In case when your team consists of plenty different skill level developers java is much safer platform.
Performance of the application and hosting is not a problem.
Hosting of java application usually is much easier than everything else and performance of jvm very good comparing to other platforms.
We are a London Startup, mainly building products off the back of web crawling & data mining, using Java for all our development, whether web or server-side. As our web framework we use Tapestry5, which is a great framework, with fast development times & minimal coding (Howard Lewis Ship has really put a lot of thought into the development of the T5 framework). Server side our crawl infrastructure, and other application processes are all Java. We use hundreds of Java open source libraries, including HBase, Lucene & OpenJPA. Addressing your issues
1) Lack of hosting support - we hire VPS, cloud or dedicated server infra on which we can deploy whatever we want - I don't see how this could be an issue. Even a cheap $10/month VPS gives you root these days 2) Performance issues? I won't get into a performance discussion but unless you've got google levels of traffic it's not worth worrying too much whatever platform/language you choose, a bigger challenge early on is attracting customers ;-) I used to work in banking & Java was performant enough for our high frequency trading infrastructure, where performance really does matter. 3) We have been going 2.5 years now, a lot of what we do is server-side processing and data munching and the open source Java libraries we leveraged along the way really helped us get going, things like HBase, Lucence, Bdb, Natural Language Processing (OpenNLP), Neural Nets (Encog), Stats packages, HTML processing (Jericho, JTidy). I know there are API's and ports of these in other languages, but the Java open source community is enormous, just because it's been around for so long, so it's always easy to find someone who'se done it before.

EDIT (Summary): We knew Java well early on and so used it to prove a market, leveraging open source libraries along the way. Do I think Java the language was a particular competitive advantage to us? No. But do I think any of PHP, Ruby or Python would have been either? No. (Lisp - probably yes! but we don't know it well enough to use professionally). To be honest, our main concern early on is to release early and prove the market, with whatever tools we can use.
Yes there is: grails.
You seem to have omitted the part of the model that would explain why you want the price to be higher. You specify that

> your region's generators are only able to supply 75GW of power maximum no matter what price you offer.

Want 100GW all you like, you won't get there. What are you trying to accomplish?
Unfortunately, all I get when I navigate to the URL is "Access Denied". It's a pity because at the rate we're going we'll have guessed most the known scripts pretty soon.

My own guess, sight unseen, is "Bird-worm seal script"... purely because that was the answer the last time I saw this question.
Yes, it is. I think the one thing Facebook fears even more is Google. What if Google does the same to Facebook?

Apple is in so far highly interesting for Facebook, since there is a trend, that iPhone users overall have more money. I know many sellers, who lost high volume leads due to the latest changes to iOS.
The git CLI definitely leaves room for improvement and thus for projects such as this one but I personally feel that the git plugin for your preferred shell and a custom set of git aliases adjusted to your personal workflow will get you most of the benefits an improved git CLI can provide. This also yields a better understanding of git itself which will be beneficial if you have to use git in an environment without any extras.
Depends on the language for me. In Perl it takes about 6h.
I wrote a long guide about saving money in Germany. It made me look more seriously at my budget.

- Eating out is a big expense. I eat quite well on 5€ a day. Eating out would cost me about 25€ a day. That's a 7k€ per year difference.

- Housing is a huge, but mostly unavoidable expense. Yet my rent went from 950€/month to 550€/month when I moved out of the centre.

- Health insurance is another big expense. At one point I paid more for insurance than rent, because I'm self-employed.

- The things I tend to skimp on (subscriptions, quality food) make nearly no difference.
I'm stoked for this to be usable on things like PyTorch.
"Dollars Against Democracy: Domestic Terrorist Financing in the Aftermath of Insurrection"

https://financialservices.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.asp...

It's a virtual hearing and you can apparently watch it live on the Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srCtXCY9GNg&feature=emb_imp_...
Not really euphemism. More of an Orwellian term.
> Why do I think it's OK? Well, it's a long list. First, the airlines will not allow dogs over 17 pounds as carry-on, even in a carrier. They won't let you buy an additional seat for the dog, even in a carrier. 18lbs = under the plane. 2 hours early, dog fucking terrified, so you probably have to Benadryl the pup, and they've been known to freeze to death under there. Nope Nope Nope.

Have you considered getting a dog sitter, or pet hotel?