jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> All these articles about naked short selling seem to be missing a simple point: Alice owns 100 shares of some stock. She lends them to short seller Bob who sells them to Carmen. Carmen now owns 100 shares, which she lends to short seller Dan, who in turn sells them to Esther. Esther lends her 100 shares to short seller Fred who sells them to Gloria. At this point, the short interest in the stock is 300 shares (Bob, Dan and Fred sold short) but it's only Alice's 100 shares that made the rounds. And nobody broke any rules.

In other words:

1. Alice owns 100 shares
2. When Alice lends them to short seller Bob, Alice no longer owns 100 shares. She owns an IOU from Bob, and Bob owns the shares.
3. Then Carmen owns 100 shares.
4. When Carmen lends the shares to short seller Dan, Carmen no longer owns 100 shares. She owns an IOU from Dan, and Dan owns the shares.
5. ...

At the end of the cycle, Alice owns 100 IOU from Bob, Carmen owns 100 IOU from Dan, Esther owns 100 IOU from Fred and only Gloria owns 100 shares.

It's basically fractional reserve, for shares. If Bob goes under Alice owns nothing.
But becoming a multimillionaire is not the American Dream. The American Dream is coming to America with nothing having a middle class life.

And how is the American safety net thread bare? It’s 60%+ of the federal budget?

Like I said, dude is welcome to pay as much as he likes in taxes. But being a millionaire doesn’t make you a social policy expert.
Ship them off to where? A system that also can be accessed with your ssh key?

If not, can an attacker gain access to your email server or DNS with your ssh key? If either is true, they now have access to everything not protected by 2FA that uses an email address they now control.

There's so many things to get right.

You can design a system such that there's a very high likelyhood even a nation-state attacker won't be able to intrude without leaving traces - if you make no mistakes.

Or you know, you could also just rotate your ssh keys in addition to everything else. "I have logs" is really no excuse to forego something that is this easy.
The story hasn't really ended. I've traveled for six years in Europe, Africa, and Asia and met fans of RailsApps and my 'Learn Ruby on Rails' book everywhere. The tutorials and the book are all online and available for free (but long overdue for updates). There are now over 10K fans but I'm not attempting to monetize the interest. Now I'd like to build a more sustainable business that reaches more people. I still like Rails (and the wonderful Ruby community) but I'm diving into new passions that could have more impact.
Please don't let us come back to Rails
I’m pretty sure that if all the ads in the world were unblocked you’d still see inordinate amounts of SEO bullshit everywhere.
Nuclear power is (unfortunately) the ultimate example of regulation and 'safeguards' blocking real improvement. The old saw about 'the perfect being the enemy of the good' applies here.

I think nuclear would be a great path forward, but it's unlikely to carry the day.
> If you look at the Chinese chip industry, then you see that a lot of money comes from the private sector. Huawei, Xiaomi, etc are investing a ton of money in semiconductor companies.

Where do you think those "private companies" got the money to build their businesses? Notice also that it's domestic (i.e. controlled by the Chinese government) "private companies" doing this.

China isn't allowed to just nakedly subsidize everything under trade agreements, so they have to do money laundering like that in order to get away with it.

> Clearly it's not all government money.

It doesn't actually have to be. All it has to be is enough government money to put competitors out of business.

> There's also a big difference between investing in an industry with the goal of dominating the world and eliminating competition, vs the goal of becoming a sovereign equal. Why is it necessarily the former, and not the latter?

Because the former results in one country being effectively the sole source in the world for certain products, e.g. cell phones, whereas the latter results in a domestic industry but not the destruction of all foreign industry in that market.

> The US is trying to kill the Chinese semiconductor industry

The US is trying to prevent the world semiconductor industry from becoming monopolized by China the same way they've been doing to so many other industries, because semiconductors have significant national security implications.
There's no actual ban on poor people investing in SEC-registered securities. What is at issue is an exemption to the usual SEC disclosure requirements, which is available in limited circumstances. In cases where a company's investors consist solely of a small number of "accredited investors", Congress enacted an exemption to the usual SEC disclosure rules, on the assumption that such groups of investors have the resources to conduct their own independent investigation of the offering.

A company can choose not to use that exemption, and instead do things the official, open way: issue securities to the general public accompanied by the required disclosures. That allows the company to take investment from anyone, while also protecting the public by ensuring that that the offering is above-board and accompanied by enough information for the public to make an informed investment decision.
Translation: "People won't work for the near $0 we want to pay them".
I was going to make point that Baidu should serve his analytics-js over https only.

But thinking about it, there are fails on so many levels.
Exactly! If you have a sane build process everything is always synchronized anyway.
> Maybe like me you use Fresh

> and you have a OCD of hitting save every 2-3 seconds as you are thinking

Please stop with this "OCD" bullshit.
> most of the public content is under free licenses

Is it? I've read reports that all but a fraction of Github repos are single-commiter code dumps.

> the TOS explicitly dictates that you grant certain licenses to other users for free

Where?

https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/

The only stipulation I see is:

> By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories.

Unfortunately, the TOS doesn't provide a clear legal definition of fork. Does it go beyond clicking the fork button and copying the repo across Github servers? Does it including cloning the repo to a local disk? Or running the code? Or maintaining a derivative project?
Update: Still no help.
That's nice, but at the same time, while an investor can wait 20 years for a startup they've invested in to succeed, is it reasonable to expect a human being to invest 20 years into a startup that doesn't look like it's succeeding?
The byline is "Daniel Eran Dilger", which takes it beyond the "we think the world revolves around Apple" that you would expect and accept from any such targetted website and into full on info-war against the infidels territory.
It might be always positive like news in DPRK, but seriously,
it does not matter positive or negative - as soon as they do not touch real issues (healthcare, fraud in courts etc.)
That isn't a reason against incest per se. It is merely an objection to certain forms of incest - specifically, those that lead to children.

With freely-available contraception and abortion, it's hard to think of any good reason for the absolute cultural taboo against all incest.

One of the goals of literature should be to challenge cultural taboos. Any good bookseller should realize it.
Someone care to translate?
True, in general--but not so much in this case. If a client is paying you to be their expert, they will (usually) understand and expect that you know more than they in this area. Part of what they should be paying you for is your experience, advice and guidance.
The only sites I can name off the top of my head with .me are:
about.me
threewords.me

I can't name any .co sites.

I had the opportunity to buy a perfect domain name with my country's domain code but I decided against it. It would be confusing for anyone in a different country.

Funnily enough, I got a domain I wanted years ago because the owner had let it expire so I am delighted!
[2002]

Though his argument about cache does still hold.
That's not as helpful as you think.
Apart from "The Work Outing" and "Moss and the German" which are two of the best episodes from any season.
Made this a while back because I was sick of the way Amazon's instance info (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/) and pricing info (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/) were on different pages in a hard-to-browse format.

Hoping this helps people compare and choose new instances following yesterday's troubles.
Thanks for posting this. Makes me feel slightly better since I will be coming out of college with only a decent degree.
Firefox and others are good at blocking ads. But what's their replacement? What's the plan here, to starve everyone of the only viable source of income? (If you believe this is not true, try finding a way to accept micropayments to a website). The endgame here will be that sites start blocking firefox. At least Brave is trying something new.
It may just be that my experience was a good while back and VS has improved since then. At the time the built-in static analysis really wasn't up to scratch.
> if she is already having medical problems then the new plan would likely refuse to cover it because it's a pre-existing condition.

They can only deny coverage for pre-existing conditions if she let her coverage lapse.
When he talks about emotion, Gruber is not referring to a rabid fan base in love with a company. He's talking about the simple satisfaction that comes from flicking a UITableView and watching it scroll with inertia. I have an iPhone and have observed a lot of friends/family (who don't know or care a whit about Apple or Android) just take pleasure from flicking around the contact list or using multi-touch to resize a photo (that always draws wows). Hell, kids even enjoy the UI gesture to unlock the phone.

Android does this to a certain degree but it's obvious from the level of polish that their focus is not on these small things.
And, BTW, that's fine - for someone like me, I'd rather see the stuff that Android is making progress in - but for many people, the iPhone UI still has that special 'something' that can't be described or measured.
I don't see dilution of the definition as a problem. Video games used to be geeky. Now everyone plays video games. Everyone is geeky. To paraphrase Gordon Gekko, 'Geeky is Good.'

And for the record, many of them consider themselves geeks for legitimately geeky things, not 'playing angry birds on their phone' as you so derisively mention.
The Rails Tutorial screencasts (http://zfer.us/EKm97) always combine audio and video from the same take (using ScreenFlow, natch). I can't imagine achieving a good teaching cadence any other way. I also love the verisimilitude of hearing mouse clicks and keyboard clacks synchronized with the action on the screen.
It's not the absolute amount that matters most, especially for a company with Microsoft's size and cash flow.

Google's 2009 revenue is over 23 billion dollars and its operating income is over 8 billion. Considering the market size, two billion is not over the top. Not to mention online is a growth market and its strategic value is paramount. They're not a startup and they can invest really long-term to capture part of a market this significant.
I'm not arguing with you personally, but I have a question the general form of the explanation you cite. If the choice were between losing billions to have a foothold in home media or having no foothold in home media, their strategy would be expensive but interesting.

However, if you look over in Cupertino, you see a company with a foothold in home media that made money while grabbing their foothold. Therefore, I wonder if what we have is mediocre execution of a bad plan to grab a good market?
It's not a lack of libraries - there are probably too many libraries, and all of them subtly (or blatantly) incompatible and difficult to use together.

Clojure, though, is a nice option.
Many of the transition effects stink of excess.

One person's excess is another's necessity. I haven't spent more than 10 minutes with an iPhone, so I'll comment on what I'm familiar with: Compiz. A lot of hackers call the wobbly windows effect in Compiz a waste of resources for a purely visual effect. Without wobbly windows, however, everything feels stiff to me. My workflow is more fluid with wobbly windows, making me more productive.
I do something similar for my resume (http://antrix.net/resume/). Started with a template by timbray [1] which I 'imported' into Google Docs by directly editing the document CSS & HTML. Finally, export from Google Docs as doc, pdf, etc.

The HTML version on my site has additional print specific CSS to switch fonts, background colour, etc. making the print output more pleasing.

[1]: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/11/12/Template.h...
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life (Masterminds Series) (Paperback)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Why don't we yet have XMLj?
Yeah, it feels like things are improving from my perspective, too. I'm a sysadmin for a factory and it does seem like our incoming orders generally correlate with news about the economy. Lately, there's been more talk of new business and such, which makes me feel like things are on the rebound.

But like you said, perspectives vary.
For cans, you want AKG, AudioTechnica, BeyerDynamics, Denon, Grado or Sennheiser.

But you'll have to try them out, all of them have several lines with different sounds, and each company has distinct characteristics.

You'll need to try them out.
I like Django quite a bit, but the mind boggles at how many developer hours have been spent trying to organize settings, or deal with migrations, or setting up deployment scripts, or coming up with a sensible project layout.

I mean, doesn't everyone have to solve these problems for almost every project? Django seems to try too hard not to make decisions for you, when it would make more sense to make easily ignored decisions.
Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_appliance and http://www.layer7tech.com/products/xml-accelerator

Astounding, is it not?
This week, I bet you could get away with shifting the blame to Amazon!
I just sent this out to a friend who was trying to figure out whether to build his simple app in ruby vs. php. Think it made up his mind.
> These techniques are extremely easy to bypass.

Especially considering nowadays you can automate IE with PowerShell [1] . I've used it myself to automate account creation on a legacy system at work.

[1] http://www.youdidwhatwithtsql.com/automating-internet-explor...
you'll also notice some editorializing the topics (venture -> venture capital)

the lda features are already grouped, that's exactly what an LDA does, however, translating a group of words into a "summary" (whatever that is) is non trivial. You'd find need to define what you're looking for. A visual summary for example might for example be a word cloud, another might be the use of ontology tagging if you consider those a salient summary.
I foresee regulation changes where a pilot of a commercial aircraft requiring multiple pilots cannot be left alone at the controls. Humans can be entirely unpredictable
SheepIt has a similar community model for rendering Blender animations and images. Everyone can render anything, it just takes ages. So people upload their creations to SheepIt, and other users split the task up into pieces (obviously not possible with Stable Diffusion, but you get the idea) and render their piece. The pieces are then combined together.

The submitter pays a certain amount of credits to the people who rendered, based on how much they rendered. The crucial detail is that you receive 2x (or some other multiplier, it's been a while) the amount of credits that you paid, and that you are allowed to go into negative credits - you just get heavily de prioritised.

This model works because the vast majority of people leave their computer running SheepIt so they have large amounts of credits to use should they want to. The vast majority are never spent. This creates a model where it is easy and cheap to render, even if you have a slow PC. That makes projects that people would otherwise not be able to do - for example, delving into making a photorealistic black hole - accessible to those who otherwise couldn't afford the compute power. And by tweaking that multiplier you can ensure there's always enough compute to go around.
FWIW, Tesla Motors is out of cash and may fold or be sold: http://venturebeat.com/2010/05/27/elon-musk-personal-finance...
I'm sincerely hoping that the next generation of the Nexus One has a slide out keyboard. I suffer from pretty bad shakes due to the cocktail of medication I'm taking and often typing on my iPhone is an exercise in futility. Luckily, there is hope for us yet!

"Google Inc executive Andy Rubin said on Friday that the next version of the Nexus One phone, which was made by HTC Corp, will be for enterprise users and might have a physical keyboard."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60809H20100109
Isn't the real question what is the probability of a giraffe swimming?
Can anyone give me a technical reason to deploy on a IIS and ASP platform instead of Apache/Nginx and one of the dozens of open source solutions for deploying a web application? From where I'm sitting, it seems to me the reasoning is "I drank the Microsoft Kool-Aid". Surely there's a better reason than that.
I guess the trouble and expense outweighs the curiosity. In particular, I bet the intersection of people who have a spare giraffe and people who don't mind an ASPCA/PETA protest is very small.

Another example of an easily testable issue: Do people swim faster or slower in a more viscous fluid? Newton and Huygens, among others, argued back and forth over this, but no one bothered setting up an experiment until 2004. The paper went on to win an Ig Nobel Prize. (Answer: Viscosity doesn't seem to affect a person's swimming speed.)

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040920/full/news040920-2.htm...
While I find a lot of the author's ideas useful, there's quite a bit of emphasis on certification. I think certification of programmers tends to be a mistake in that I've never heard of a credential (CS degrees included) that actually serves as substantial evidence that a person can produce usable code on demand. I find the comparison of programming to writing[0] useful here: passing a grammar test is not evidence that someone can write articles, essays or novels. When hiring a writer, one should examine samples of that person's writing.

[0]This is not my idea, but I can't find the original source to cite it.
The mathematical explanation is surprisingly simple. A 2 layer neural network consists of 2 matrices A and B and an activation function f. The neural network computes this function where in and out are vectors:

out = f(A*f(B*in))

where f is applied to each element of a vector. You can see how this generalizes to more layers.

Neural network learning algorithms are given (in,out) pairs and try to find A and B to minimize the mean square error, for example by using stochastic gradient descent.
That was my first time visiting the UK.

I told them I intended to work on my company and they weren't bothered by that. They were mostly concerned that I didn't have a job elsewhere that I would have to go back to.

But you are right, it is a matter of luck.

Getting a visa may save you a lot of trouble. You really don't want to spend a night in a California immigration facility with MS-13 gang members [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-13
I don't disagree with you but it makes me sad that we accept it as axiomatic that any law change is completely untenable unless it financially benefits some business sector.
I think their argument is there's no way in heck that security would have been underprepared if it were some other group protesting. Maybe they were lulled into complacency because this is the "Blue lives matter" group, maybe it was sheer incompetence. Hard to say.
I am not against requiring people to put in more words to get better results.

mouse => computer mouse | house mouse | feeder mice | common mouse diseases

president => PTA president | US president | lizard president
If it was a shared machine in a conference room, wouldn't it already physically be accessible to e.g. cleaning and other staff?
Well back in Win 98 I used "My documents" a lot ahah. Now on Windows 10 Documents/ is often automatically backed-up in Onedrive (it is for me) so I started using it for saving some documents that I want to back up in the cloud.
That is 100% not true. In 1868 President Andrew Johnson pardoned all Confederate soldiers. He definitely didn't do it by name.
> attempt at a coup

You have a very very low bar for what you think an attempted coup was.
Why are they making such a big secret about their user numbers?

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/kt91qk/signal_p...
Carrying a gun in a war zone is plenty of evidence (way less than the US would usually require) to treat you as a combatant and I could have no sympathy for an armed medic who got shot.
There are various "ethical" indexes, but pretty much none of them exclude google or facebook (which would be at the top of my cut-list). I want to do my own individual research on each company, and come to my own conclusions.
Leave everything in the breaker box and communicate out with wireless or optically isolated connectors.
Why is it wrong wrong wrong? What's the relevant law on linked claims?
Easy way to prove it isn't true:

Has there ever been a criminal case prosecuted in the USA where the FBI entered or revealed intercepted VPN data as evidence?
The submitter works about 15 away from me, for what it's worth.
and now i get an error when i try to change my username from the default random hash you gave me.

no offense, but don't post until you have the basic stuff together... people don't give you that many chances to impress
Having all those powerful photos watermarked with 'totallycoolpix' in the corner is really throwing me. It's a complete sentiment mismatch.

The photos are important. Many of the events depicted, however, are not 'totally cool' in any sense that I read the phrase. I know it's just website branding but it's bothering me.
I thought I'd got most of the big pieces, but I was apparently tired last night when I did that. grin

Point humbly taken, though I'll try to get those fixed up ASAP.

(I used a new authentication framework on this project and haven't quite gotten my head around the edges, it seems)
Free. An internship is used to prove one's self. If it's remote relocation, then you should offer to pay their moving expenses (if any). Usually, however, internships in development are time-limited, and you may need to check IRS regulations recently passed regarding internships.
If this sort of thing were ubiquitous on the market for years, it would eventually become common knowledge that laptops brick themselves after being stolen. In which case it would very probably reduce laptop theft.

That's an awfully long haul down the road from here, though, and quite a few concerns to deal with along the way.

None of this is carved in stone, of course. Intel's software-readable CPU serial numbering raised privacy concerns and was retired, for example.
On the contrary, using noise-cancelling headphones is extremely common.
At a persona level, sure. (BTW, I am running Linux on that same machine.)

But that's not what this is about - he was actively discouraging people from even trying.