skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my previous comment, I was referring to liquidation. This would have happened without government intervention, because it takes money to keep a company operating under bankruptcy restructuring. The money required for this was not forthcoming from the private market, which was paralyzed with fear. Counter-party risk alone was a huge concern.
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This is incorrect. Fed only increases asset value because it increases the value of an asset relative to its revenue generation capacity. Interest rates are a revenue to asset ratio. This means residences are worth more relative to their rents but not that rents are higher.

Rising income may be a second-order effect but the low rate at witch it is happening is because the fed is not stimulating enough and constantly missing its inflation target. If it were, employers would be fighting for employees and wages would grow.

It's true that the wealthy own most of the assets that gain value with fed stimulation. However, they can only capture that value if they sell them and spend the money while the feds are stimulating. The total future revenue generation of assets is not greater, only the relative value of selling and spending the money now (which incidentally creates jobs and raises wages). The other thing that becomes highly valued when central banks stimulate is the creation of new assets, another thing that increases employment.

The Fed does not have "the pedal to the medal" for that it would need to promise to allow inflation go higher which it seems mortally afraid of.
Interesting, do you do much unit testing for code you write?

And you know you can put different parts of the same file in columns too? I often need to write code that is coupled to another part of the same file.
Pay attention to what you're doing, and never make a mistake. Or have anyone in your team/company make a mistake. While you're at it, please make sure you don't put any bugs in the code also.

We're humans. We're imperfect. Sometimes a safety net isn't a bad thing.
Interesting, that kind of data is much easier to get than I expected.

From the Word Bank data, there were 40 countries with lower median tariffs than the US, 4 tied with it, 71 with higher tariffs, and 98 without data in 2013.

Between the countries with lower tariffs there are extremely rich ones, fiscal paradises, EU countries (that have zero tariffs between themselves), and 4 poor ones.

Between the countries with higher tariffs there are basically the poor countries, and Australia. I don't think I've seen any other rich country there.

So, yes, the US is within the countries with lower tariffs. But also yes, every other country that you'll think of has probably lower tariffs than you.
Thank you for the detailed analysis!

Yes, Crystal will definitely need a lot of work. On the other hand, maybe this work is also fun :-)

Also there's the thing that Go has big Google behind it, so of course it's much more advanced (plus they also started earlier).
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Do you have evidence to support that more sugar and salt is detrimental?
Taste is subjective, can't really make general statements.
I like your idea of a language that can compile to Python or JavaScript. I wish there were a straightforward & proven business model that could be applied to programming languages. I have a feeling we would see much more interesting development in this area if there were bigger rewards for coming up with something better than the status quo.
> 80 is such a waste of space on a modern display.

You're assuming you have just one window open, aren't you? There's less wasted space with 80 cols if you have multiple columns (of the same file, or different files). The math is elsewhere in this thread.
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>HN is kinda useless from a "developing friendships" point of view because it's topic hopping

A much larger issue IMHO is the lack of any provision for private messaging (aside from email addresses in profiles).
>Also, Google is not a monopoly. There are plenty of alternatives (Yahoo/Bing/etc). Google is not even trying to buy them.

Whether they are a monopoly (or not) is not really relevant. Monopolies aren't even prohibited per se.

But Google most certainly are in a dominant market position, and under EU competition law that means they must not abuse that dominant position.
Easy way to do this in e.g. Rails:

<body style="foo bar baz env-#{Rails.environment}">

Then use CSS like you would normally on body.env-production, body.env-development, etc.
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I was really curious to see code, but the README ends with:

It would be nice to find support for several month of work to continue investigating the POCL concept.
Just curious why this series of blog posts if getting upvoted so much. After the first few I thought itaniun must be some cool new thing that I should know about, but further research showed that it is being eclipsed by xeon and only used in legacy systems.
Nah not really. Just make sure to use no vowels and get a .io domain.
If you follow that logic then simply taxing American companies on their EU business dealings is a declaration of war.
Thanks for the response!
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It's being done in a completely backwards-compatible manner - clients have to opt-in to new protocol features so it's more along the lines of incremental improvements.
Regarding your last point, it's iteratively true. The number of things that go over 120 is much less than the number that go over 100. One always seems to need just a little more space.
The thought that google can essentially control/shape people's minds is scary.
Except for the fact that you can explicitly contain the potential damage by controlling which accounts can do what. It's not like you have to have one god account with no MFA that has the keys to the city.
...to you.
Of course companies want you to buy their 5 Mb/s down Internet for $100/month and there isn't a law to keep them from doing that.
>>Actually Paris is quite smart, she just plays an idiot for the masses.

People said the same thing about George W. Bush. We have yet to see any evidence for that assertion, both for him and Hilton.

>>There are plenty of dumb rich as even with assortative mating your children will be normally distributed, just from a higher mean.

Quite a bold claim. I'd like to see a citation.
Any summary on what was omitted? I'm not a C++ programmer so going to the source wouldn't help me much, but I'd love to know.
I once spent several days trying to troubleshoot why the public_html module on my web server was working for all except one user's home directory.

It turned out at some point in the past that particular user's home directory had been evacuated off /home in order to free up some space and then was copied back. That process stripped out all the SELinux context information and there was an SELinux policy in place that basically prevented the public_html module from accessing a directory that did not contain whatever the hell SELinux was looking for.

This is not the only example of my problems with SELinux in the past but it was the straw that broke the camel's back. SELinux has been persona non grata on my systems for years now and I still get angry thinking about the time I spent troubling SELinux issues in the past. :-/
Contrarian doubt, climate change denial-style. Do you work for the coal and tobacco industries? ;)

Cutting off one or two stellar founder teams to meet some artificially-low quotas is a lose-lose proposition: awesome founders don't get to meet other awesome founders, awesome founders don't get a chance to pitch awesome investors and so on. Limited flexibility is common-sense, irrational rigidity is value-destroying.
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Objectively, no. Humans have evolved to enjoy salty and sweet things, due to evolutionary reasons. You may prefer well-prepared broccoli over a Snickers bar, but I can guarantee that that's an acquired taste. 6-month old jesseaustin most likely swung the other way. :)
The flaw isn't in zigbee persay, but more in how manufacturers are implementing it. In their desire to have easy interoperability, they are allowing attackers the same ease of access. Not unlike early ICQ where spoofing was easy and rampant.
The surprising part is that they're shipping live bees back and forth overseas.
Not sure if you're just trolling. Regarding sugar, processed foods usually are high in high-fructose corn syrup - yes, there evidence that is bad. On youtube, search "sugar bitter truth" for a lecture from U of California.

Regarding salt, "the experts" don't seem so confident on what levels. In the past few years, the daily recommended intake of sodium has increased.
Yup. Basically, apps that do MS-specific LDAP queries to AD or something emulating it (Samba). It's also often useful for apps to be allow admin users to tweak the actual LDAP queries in case they have a custom enterprise-wise schema. Stanford, for example, used AD as the "single source of truth" with another LDAP setup for *NIX. (In addition to a modified version of MIT Krb5 with AFS integrations.)
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Morality aside, the US government acted in its own self-interest by protecting industries within its borders. It is likely had any major US automakers been liquidated, more wealth would have been destroyed than created.

Extending the organism metaphor, forest fires can be a naturally occurring healthy event that promotes renewal. Sometimes, a fire will burn with enough intensity that the forest itself is destroyed. Should we try to prevent all forest fires, the most destructive fires, or let nature take its course?
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It's a mix. Both of the incumbent providers push heavily to keep the restrictions on the books. In addition, there is a large contingent of voters who do not want the restrictions repealed because they are opposed to public operation and/or financing of a telecommunications system that can serve the general public.

Much like a lot of things, folks here are generally opposed unless or until it directly impacts them. There is a group in Seattle that is pushing for a ballot initiative with accompanying property tax levy to get the city to build an open-access last mile system. The areas of the city that already have good service, whether Comcast or CenturyLink fiber, poll at slightly under 50% support. Areas that are stuck with Wave Broadband or only CenturyLink DSL poll at well above 70%.
Why do you Americans always think about suing someone?
Msys2 doesn't emulate file permissions, at least not since I checked last. Cygwin does. This saves a lot of hassles when working with version control.
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By all means, if you think processed food tastes better, then that's what you should be eating, at least as far as good taste -> enjoyment -> good mental health -> good physical health is concerned. But, it's worth your time to do proper comparisons and not write off unfamiliar things.
Only the first 72 columns were available for code. The last 8 were reserved for the collation sequence. Which was handy if you dropped your card deck.
> So what prey tell is the problem? Laws.

KPUD isn't a "company." It's a public utility district.[1] It wouldn't exist without "laws."

[1] With special powers of condemnation and taxation. See 54.16.005 RCW et seq.
> In contracts most terms are not defined.

The GPL is one that I know that spells it out [1]:

> This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below, refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program" means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".

> This allows the judge to interpret them according to their common meaning

Uhhh....you mean the same legal system that claimed that Ron Rivest et al. were not the original inventors of the RSA algorithm? [2]

I don't know who is counseling you on legal matters but I strongly believe you should define anything that can be ambiguous.

[3] > DO define all technical terms.

[3] > DON'T assume the other party defines terms the way you do. If there is any doubt, include a definition in the contract.

[3] > DON'T accept the other party's oral explanation of a confusing term. Include everything in writing.

[3] > I don't think most people will consider an entire program a patch.

Why not? It can easily be done [4]. Example: here is a patch file to upgrade from CE to EE.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html#SEC...

[2] https://gigaom.com/2013/11/26/troll-wins-newegg-encryption-p...

[3] http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/business-contracts-forms/do...

[4] http://stackoverflow.com/a/9982282/195722
It's interesting, well written, in depth technical content.

And I kind of like the feeling that I'm learning something along with a bunch of people
Fyi (and don't take this as legal advice) such separation is a really good idea in terms of PII/PCI compliance.
Monthly. My, how nimble! Maybe one day they can aspire to Patch Tuesday heights.
My experience is that often even when the user comes with a suggestion backed up with a patch, it can be rejected because either they didn't understand how it interacts with other features in the codebase, or the maintenance burden would be too high for too little gain.

Essentially even when you're asking to contribute a patch, you're requesting that someone maintain some code you wrote for an indefinite span of time.

My experience has been that it's much more productive to say "I can't merge that patch into the core, but here is how it would be implemented as a plugin" and ensure your plugin interface is powerful and stable enough to allow people to do what they want.
>what about the large chunk of the ecosystem you're engineering which is not directly tied into commercial interests, but on which we still depend?

Going even further, what about the side-effects on the very same field?

Pesticides kill insects, but they kill both beneficial (pest eating) and pestilent insects. The problem is the bad guys can bounce back faster - picture the deer population vs. wolf population. This means that, paradoxically, the use of pesticides now leads to a greater need for pesticides later.

The solution is to step back, recognize this negative feedback loop, and address the root causes of pest invasion: dead soil and loss of biodiversity. This is where techniques like cover cropping, interplanting, and inoculating with compost (soil microorganisms) come in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_crop

http://extension.illinois.edu/soil/SoilBiology/soil_food_web...
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Shamelessly plugging a related project, I recently contributed to a game [1] designed to illustrate that wild bee populations have economic value. Jana Vamosi, a biologist from the University of Calgary, submitted the project idea to the Mozilla Science Lab [2] to get help building it. There's a lot of room for improvement, actually, if anyone wants to lend a hand.

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I have fiber optic in China rated at 20mbs but it's really spotty. Downloads can be really fast but latency can be terrible. I realize that browsing foreign sites is sharing bandwidth with a pool the size of China but sometimes even domestic sites time out. I think it's either being oversold or badly misconfigured by the ISP.
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Yep and it makes total sense, there's not a huge changelog since there's a release every 6 weeks. If there were ground breaking changes we'd see more discussion though.
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Ask HN: What are some things you wish you had learned earlier in your careers?
Curious about this as I am currently going through my first job search out of a startup.

Please be as specific as you can, and add as much reasoning or context on how this effected your work and career.
The value of money is completely determined by fed actions and allowing it to drift in detrimental value paths would be the farthest thing from respecting the markets. Economy wide "malinvestment" is not a thing. It entails that a person living off of others is more productive than a person working. It's nonsense.

Although money should be just an intermediary tool for trade and negotiation, an artificial asset that is neutral, in the short run this intrinsically valueless paper can distort the markets, even if it has predictable value, but only if it is manipulated into being a store of value that has a better risk adjusted return than private market stores of value.

Paper money has no intrinsic value in itself. If the fed keeps it predictably devaluing fast enough, always moving it towards its intrinsic value, it acts as a very useful enabler of trade by creating a unit of measurement for value and medium of exchange.

But unfortunately, for fiat to enable trade, it also has to artificially be made into a store of value. If this paper is made into a store of value that retains value better than private stores of value (such as stocks, bonds, or just stockpiles of stuff), it jams the markets for private stores of value. It turns savers into accumulators of pieces of paper or numbers in accounts instead of being holders of things that are backed by economic activity and wealth creation. It becomes a subsidy from investors, entrepreneur, job creators and workers to holders of pieces of paper. It is the worst kind of subsidy
because it blocks wealth and welfare creation.

The only way for central banks to allow private markets to function properly, is to get money out of the way by making sure it always devalues fast enough that it doesn't overly displace private stores of value that are backed by real economic activity.
Usually those other accounts have much fewer people with access=much lower risk of unauthorized access. For instance, I'm a big proponent of a backup acct that the main acct can push to but not delete from. That backup acct can have very limited and tightly controlled access. It's unfortunate RDS does you no favours in helping out with this; you pretty much have to dump your DB and push it off AWS or into another acct's S3 bucket.

IAM is just a PITA is what this boils down to. Create an IAM policy that allows users to push updates to elastic beanstalk but not touch any other resources in the account.. It's a major, major hassle. AWS has no concept of resource groups and each service has different ways of restricting access(ec2 can do it on tags, other services you kinda have to use naming schemas and wild cards in your policies). So you are often left needing to have users with a little too much access, and/or spending a LOT of time testing and crafting IAM policies..

IAM is a really good idea and powerful in many ways but unfortunately AWS's lack of consistency and UX across individual services really shows through sometimes, and with IAM in particular.
I upvoted you only because people should know where companies like gitlab stand on these kinds of issues. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing what he did was right - but it is important to know about it.

I host my own free source code hosting service and I couldn't tell you what I would have done in his position.

This question isn't meant to spark a heated debate (I'm on the fence and could argue either way) - but I'm honestly curious on how you think it should have been handled? I honestly want to know if there is an action that benefits everyone.
Can you break a multi language code using Frequency analysis?
Let say that I wrote a 26 letter alphabet, each letter of my alphabet represent a letter from the latin alphabet.

I'm writing in 3 languages, only I know which languages. Grammar is the one from my native language.

Each time I need to write a word I randomly chooses in which language I'm going to write it.

Can you actually break this code using Frequency analysis?

example :

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
xzcdnefqghijbkslmaoprtuvwy
The sentence :

this is a cherry tree
becomes :

ceci is a sakura
[fr] [en] [en] [jp]

and once encoded :

cfch gi x oxirax