jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Nowadays, 7 big blinds per 100 hands is considered a very solid winrate at midstakes games (2/4 through 5/10). This is actually described as 3.5bb/100 which is read as 3.5 "big bets" per 100 hands, which is the traditional system used for limit hold'em, where a big bet is two big blinds. I remember way back in 2003/2004 when PartyPoker was the most popular site and people were posting graphs of 10bb/100 (big bets) winrates at stakes as high as 10/20 over hundreds of thousands of hands. The fact that having a winrate like that is impossible today even at stakes as low as 1/2 shows you how much tougher the games have become.
As a programmer from the outside Google seems like a far better proposition overall given the diversity of what you could end up working on. Not every programmer at Google though can work on the most interesting stuff though so for them it could be about the work interest.
I don't know the motivation behind it, but I know that well lit areas are less likely to be vandalized. No it isn't environmentally friendly, but the alternative is muggings, larceny, assaults, etc.
Don't forget the "grass is always greener" in people's minds rather than reality. And supply and demand tells us something too, these people are some of the best in the world and the economy needs/wants them elsewhere and is sending a price signal. The company is showing them that it values them, needs them, and responding with a price signal of their own. What's unusual? Google has tons of cash, their main infrastructure is their people. I don't see why people start wringing their hands and buying into the tech journalism hyperbole over all this. What other actions could Google take that wouldn't have people filling out blog posts with breathless speculation? I suspect none.

Also, Facebook's "vision of the web" is pretty crummy if you ask me, so I am surprised they have so much buzz. The only worse thing I can imagine than Facebook becoming the dominant player on the web would be Apple somehow acquiring or merging with them in an unholy alliance of evil.
I've gotten full text search working using techniques similar to those described here:

http://www.billkatz.com/2009/6/Simple-Full-Text-Search-for-A...
In my experience "instability" with GAE means you are pushing it beyond where it wants to go. If you a have code that just completes within the timeout, then guess what? When the system is under load it isn't going to complete.

You can use all kinds of techniques to protect your application from things like variable datastore performance. For example, nowdays I usually use a pattern where user-facing servlets only ever read from the datastore - all updates go via a taskqueue, which means that even if the datastore is in maintenance mode the updates will eventually be applied.

GAE isn't for everyone, but the first step to getting the most out of it is accepting it isn't anything like a typical frontend plus database architecture.
" I think people have already determined that the sub-$500 computers don't do very much."

They got a lot of people into the game.

I couldn't afford an Apple, but I could afford a C64.

Learned C on it.
The difference between NFS and iSCSI should be fairly small at this point. Anything by IBM, HP, or EMC will cost at least 10x as much as local disk, which is death for most cloud providers. Unfortunately, stuff like DRBD or Sheepdog may be only 2x the cost of local disk but doesn't look ready for prime time.
I once saw this demonstrated live on a kids' TV show. The guy was basically a crazy scientist with very little idea what kids could actually understand.

His trick must not have been vetted before he went on, so as he started putting screws in the microwave and trying to explain things, the poor hosts were getting more and more flustered and concerned. It was hilarious.
Whether they can or can't build the infrastructure means nothing. They built this plant in 18 months (allegedly), what do you think is going to come up at the UN?

They've got two responses - 1) no this has always been there, your inspectors are incompetent. As everybody, even you, knows NK doesn't have the ability to do this kind of project normally (IE outside funding our last ditch effort - regardless it's out of the norm) or 2) Yes we built this plant in 18 months to enrich uranium, the power plants are under construction now and the grid will be ready for when the plant commences operation.

This is so out of character that the response is either "yeah right dumbass, like that happened" or "dumbass, the rest is easy".
Anyone thinking of working with him on a housing project should consider his attitude toward contracts and paying rent:

"Here's how you deal with big apartment complex property management companies: just lie. Seriously. And give a friend's phone number as your "employer". Make up some fake paystubs in quickbooks. Big property management companies usually hire stupid people that sit in the office all day, do nothing, and collect a paycheck. They don't verify income, or any of the other things they request. Since they don't care, neither should you. Fuck 'em.

Another final comment about big apartment complexes: at a certain point, if you know you're going to move, just quit paying rent. Apartment complexes take a hands-off approach to evictions and actually file real eviction proceedings. As such, you can sit there and live rent free for an entire month or more while they file the legal paperwork against you. Save that rent money you're not paying and save it for when you do find another place." -citizenkeys

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1892706
what's the black bar 2/3rds of the way up?
That would be fantastic. They could also give you a discount for large deposits; i.e., deposit 3X your average monthly usage and save 5%.
You imply that they don't understand this. Are you sure this is the case? It could be that their priorities are simply elsewhere. Things will take time, even with funding because any crypto/security mistake will be so incredibly more damaging for them than for any other software shop. This goes especially for conversation backups.
If it got to a trial, they would just get the original from Facebook with a court order.
They had no problem tear gassing protesters this summer even though they were outnumbered.
Is there an actual effort? I thought a few dozen people made announcement. That’s a start. But it’s far from traction.
If they started small and suddenly started making 80% of revenue on user data, they might suddenly find themselves becoming a data mining company. On the other hand, they might really come through and prove that they will stick to valuing user privacy even when the possible paycheque is so big.
We don't know what kind of "seeing" they were doing though - "dating" someone in modern lingo can mean anything from casual sex twice weekly to having breakfast every morning together. There's a huge variance in the type of information you know about someone between those two types of relationships.
Just remember that negotiation has two sides. You're perfectly welcome to go into a negotiation stating that Google pays $X for the equivalent position in Mountain View. And the company you're negotiating with is perfectly able to come back and say they're not Goggle and they're not in Mountain View. Nothing says that two parties need to be able to come to an agreement.
Old Joke:
In India you have to watch both sides while crossing a one way street.
And please, read patio11's famous and log post about salary negotiation.
Location is simply a convenient cudgel. It would be just as defensible to trot out family size based pay (greater pay for more mouths) or net worth based pay (greater pay for lesser existing privilege) or the like.

Location just gets those in power what they want: higher personal comp and lower employee salaries.
"If I worked remotely for Facebook and wanted to move somewhere central where rents are three times higher, would Zuck give me a raise? Somehow I doubt it."

I can't speak for Zuck, but Sundar does. I work for Google. We also have local market indexed compensation (which I support, but not relevant to this point). If you move to a city with higher labor prices, you get paid more. I've seen it multiple times with people in my team. It's a total non issue, just paperwork. Very very standard.
Thanks for your feedback and the kind words as I have great respect for magic-wormhole as well! I watched your talk at PyCon 2016 several times as I was building pcp.

> [...] it creates a libp2p keypair, uses the first 44 bits of the pubkey as the transfer code, use the first 8 bits plus a rounded timestamp as a DHT channel ID, then.. publishes its libp2p contact information to a DHT slot under the channel ID and waits for the peer to connect?

That summarizes it really well. There are actually three types of records you can store in the DHT of IPFS: Provider, IPNS and Peer records [0]. What pcp stores in the DHT are:

- cid("/pcp/{unixts}/chanID") -> peerID (provider record)
- peerID -> multiaddresses (peer record)

where cid stands for the content ID [1] of the given string. So the receiving peer first searches for cid("/pcp/{unixts}/chanID"), finds the peerID and then searches for its associated addresses. These addresses can contain the public address of your home router (if NAT traversal is possible) or relay addresses.

All of this complexity is pretty much hidden away by libp2p, which is amazing!

Regarding your points about using PAKE/Public Key etc: I thought of making it even harder by tying the random code to the identity - but this is indeed flawed. I'll change the logic to your suggestion!

Honestly, thanks for your write-up and the valuable input!

[0] https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/dht/
[1] https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/content-addressing/
I'm not sure what you are claiming here. Are you saying that I'm wrong in questioning calling KTH "elite" because I used one anecdote in a larger argument?

You can look up the admission statistics yourself: it's very easy to get in to KTH. Maybe there are some programs that are more competitive than others.

When I finished high school, the admission criteria for example Electrical Engineering was roughly "you need a non-failing grade in all high school courses". How is that "elite"? Compare with medical school where it used to be "you need the best grade in every single course otherwise you're not getting in". Or the Opera school where there's an admission test in front of an audience.

I can guarantee that MIT is more difficult to get into than KTH.
>Is this where there was a problem? But the retail trading platform takes zero financial risk as long as they don't allow their customers to trade on credit (which is an entirely different issue).

From matt levine:

>This means that the seller takes two days of credit risk to the buyer. I see a stock trading at $400 on Monday, I push the button to buy it, I buy it from you at $400. On Tuesday the stock drops to $20. On Wednesday you show up with the stock that I bought on Monday, and you ask me for my $400. I am no longer super jazzed to give it to you. I might find a reason not to pay you. The reason might be that I’m bankrupt, from buying all that stock for $400 on Monday.

>Generally if you buy a stock on Monday you still want it on Wednesday; even if you don’t, we live in a society, and you’ll probably cough up the money anyway because that’s what you’re supposed to do. But at some level of volatility things break down. If a stock is really worth $400 on Monday and $20 on Wednesday, there is a risk that a lot of the people who bought it on Monday won’t show up with cash on Wednesday. Something very bad happened to them between Monday and Wednesday; some of them might not have made it. You need to make sure the collateral is sufficient to cover that risk. The more likely it is that a stock will go from $400 to $20, or $20 to $400 for that matter, the more collateral you need.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-29/reddit...
Reading that, I'm confused about the conclusion. The wine tasters were looking for flavors, and said they found them. If they weren't there, they should have said so.

The inescapable conclusion is, the supposed differences between white and red wine are imaginary. They are not in the wine, but in the taster's head. In the 'mental flow chart', the chart they use to make up words about what they're tasting.
United is already one of the most hated companies in the country, they don't need to care.
> And I hope I never end up using any application developed this way.

Slack [0] has entered the chat.

Jira [1] has entered that chat.

I could go on but I don't need to. Many web applications that people use store an unnecessarily obnoxious amount of data locally. I can only imagine how much of that is used just once or possibly even never (like images in settings windows that were never accessed).

[0]: On one instance of Firefox on one computer, app.slack.com has stored 1.9GB. On another instance of Firefox on another computer, app.slack.com has stored about 633KB. On a third instance of Firefox on yet another computer, app.slack.com has stored about 600MB.

[1]: Jira doesn't load _at all_ if you've got any secure settings enabled (like... no CORS and no cross-domain cookies and no cross-domain XHRs and ... the list goes on). So Jira loads in an incognito window in a VM. But suffice to say that its local storage is even more _fucking obnoxious_.

> Tokens stored in those storages you mention can be read by any javascript code, even third party.

I don't doubt you. But I am not a javascript developer. I'd like it if you could link to some demonstrations of how that can be abused.
You can also store a JWT in localStorage and require an additional secure signature for it within a cookie (http-only). Best of both worlds.
I'm guessing they're referring to Linus' ranting on Intel here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwOkH8RH12Dzs=hT3e7eS3Ckz...

> The whole IBRS_ALL feature to me very clearly says "Intel is not serious about this, we'll have a ugly hack that will be so expensive that we don't want to enable it by default, because that would look bad in benchmarks".
Where are the calls for government intervention in the comment you're responding to?
Why are we using a centralized list for determining who's an eTLD and who's not? Why don't we store this metadata in the actual DNS records?
> very much not a "Maker" attitude

At the bottom of the page is a link labeled "Go to Next Page", which leads to Pay for the Printer, written by Philip K. Dick the year after, 1956. Read that and see if you change your mind about PKD.
github had support for installing ruby gems and then dropped support. Hope this doesn't meet that fate
Does anyone actually use that thing? Except Facebook of course.
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> But they don’t have the enterprise sales team, just like Google.

Paraphrasing OP: Google knew how to sell ads, not how to sell cloud...
> They could build a cloud and then require any 3rd party apps that work with Facebook to use their cloud

That sounds like an antitrust investigation waiting to happen. (Or it should; that Google hasn't been murdered by prosecutors suggests that the system isn't working as it should)
There’s a lot of jobs open within Ubisoft right now, depending on what path you want to take of course. We have two studios in the UK (Reflections in Newcastle, and a smaller studio in Leamington Spa).

I also have a lot of job openings in Sweden if you prefer; https://massive.se/career
While we're reminiscing what made Hamachi great; am I missing something or is it not possible to connect different accounts together with the 'Solo' Tier package of Tailscale?

Also I couldn't find an 'Exit' button anywhere. Is deinstallation really the only official way to close the application?
A lot of people rightly point out the melodrama in this post, and that the OP has it better than he realizes.

There's still some truth here. I'm 28, and doing ok now. I'm financially stable, and have 2K a month in recurring revenue + what I earn from short term engagements.

My peers now think what I'm doing is cool, and my parents now appear to accept that I'm not a hobo.

But, for the first year and a half, it was very tough emotionally. I was doing fine materially, but earning far less than I would have from a job.

I knew that what I was working on had potential. In fact, my short term (6-12 month) predictions were pretty spot on.

But that was based on my understanding of my niche. Others couldn't see inside my head. It was very, very hard for my parents to see that what I was doing would be worthwhile.

Now that I have externally verifiable metrics of success, it is much easier to convince people that what I'm doing is a good idea.

That in turn makes my work easier. I always felt that what I was doing was worthwhile. But it's a lot easier to work on something when your peers agree with your assessment.
> (or their company, for the sake of themselves)

But not their governments? Isn't "America is number 1" still a profit motive?
As a Brit I agree wholeheartedly with your first paragraph.

Re your second, you are a much more mature and compassionate person than I am about this. I am completely ambivalent about his death. He was a very old man who lived a spectacularly privileged life and had little to no worries. I care not a jot whether he found peace.
Interesting. I am disappointed because while Youtube was blocked at the bank I work at, I could still access some things relatively easily through google video.

While I don't think Google would ever consider shuttering Youtube and moving the content to google video, the idea of moving some of the longer videos from Youtube and creating a separate type of video library through google video is very interesting. There might be a market for this. It would be a place to view difficult to find films and a place for aspiring artists to post their work in a constructive forum.

I don't know if this is a sign of things to come under Page or not, but I hope that the resources that are being freed up will be put to use on something more exciting. Google's real worth, I believe, remains in the power of their innovation. Google videos wasn't dynamic--it just was. Let's hope we see something more exciting come out of this.
Please change the name before it's too late.

- a friendly request from Ruby community.
I'm not really convinced that StackExchange is the best system for that. You'd really want one StackExchange per person; otherwise, the one-answer-per-question nature of StackExchange, with voting for "correct" results, which result in bizarre gaming behavior and impossible-to-follow discussions.
No. Given eg the police in Michigan using devices to dump phone contents on a regular basis [1], there is an enormous difference between unencrypted data on a device just sitting there and anything requiring a subpoena.

[1] http://www.mobiledia.com/news/87523.html
I want to believe this is satire... but i can't tell.... bravo
Hi! I'm here. Definitely in that camp, and I've just been complaining about it this very evening, you know, instead of doing anything about it.

There's just always a reason not to - if I tidy up I'll be happier and focus better; if I build that desk I've been meaning to first, I'll be more productive; if I cook, food's sorted for a bit; if I get an indoor bicycle trainer I'll be able to take an energising break between work (from home) and my own projects; etc. ad nauseaum. Or perhaps ob nauseam.
This whole thread shows that HN disagrees. I can't understand how you all think compensation works.
For those who didn't click the link:

This is a 1984 argument from the Cato institute that an act limiting liability to nuclear power facilities should not be renewed.

I think wissler is implying that this shows that the government does "not exert[ing] sufficient regulatory force against bad actors in the nuclear industry"

I think many non-libertarians would agree with that analysis, but would add that the existence of bad regulation does not invalidate the idea that regulation is appropriate.

To be clear: most non-libertarians are less inclined to agree with the idea that this use of government force is illegitimate.
view-source:http://www.yahoo.com/ -> comscore code is on the home page at least of yahoo.com/ but it is not on google.com/
Gold currency was only ever a "promise" to pay. Banks could invent money out of thin air just as easily with gold-backed currency as with pure fiat currency, and banks did just that since the founding of the U.S.
Eh, that's why I prefixed it with 'mythical'. There isn't one large group of clueless people that need to receive a message - it's that propaganda is so incessant that for every topic, it overloads a significant fraction of critical thinkers and tricks them into supporting that broken system because they crave simplicity.

Also, I had a tinfoil covered basement once. It was pretty sweet.
I no longer fly since the TSA started. I have also looked into taking the train, once from Ft. Lauderdale (where I live, close enough) to Las Vegas (where some friends of mine live). To say the results were amusing is an understatement.

First, it was easily three times the cost of a round-trip ticket. Okay, I'm willing to pay. Second, we're talking about four or five days worth of travel, which, again, might be okay, except that I end up at Salt Lake City (yeah, that far north) on a bus headed south to Las Vegas.

So much for a train to Las Vegas.

Okay, how about Seattle? The company I work for (in Ft. Lauderdale) is headquartered in Seattle. That was an easy $2,000 train ticket taking a week to travel one way.

If I wanted to take the train to Washington, D.C.? No problem there. Same with a train to New York, New York. Boston. In fact, if you are somewhere along the east coast of the US and want to head to the major northeast cities, you will probably have no issues taking the train. Elsewhere? Probably not.
I don't want to become rich off of other people's suffering
Case in point: the existence of copyright licenses.
What is the mesmerizing image at the top of the article ?
Hmm that's a good point, I can see why that's confusing. My thought was that access to the "Free" plan would always be available, and that you could use all of Savviest's core features for free no matter what.

Then those users who wanted more resumes/cover letters/downloads/etc. could upgrade to a paid plan, which is where the monetization would come in.

I'll update the language around "Free Forever" though since you're right that makes it sound like we're trying to monetize user data or something similar.
I came here to say the exact same thing, but I want to extend it a bit more.

I've seen some developers, including myself, looking at some code and complaining "who the hell wrote this mess!", only to find out in repository history it was themselves. lol.
Capitalism is a system that builds some form of increasing prosperity using people's selfish behaviors.

Historically, outright capitalism at scale had outperformed outright communism at scal. Europe is actively experimenting with small admixtures of communism / socialism to overcome some of the shortcomings of capitalism, as they see it.
That said many topics are deeply fascinating in their own ways, and we just haven't stopped & looked close enough to discover it.
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