skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Total isolation is also interesting for some high-security applications.

I Tweeted to them and suggested that they offer -- at a possibly much higher price point -- a physically isolated server that must be manually provisioned by a human being. Any access would require multi-factor authentication followed by the actual dispatch of a person to retrieve the device.

This would be interesting for things like CA master signing servers, etc.
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It is welcome, but is it too little too late? When Hulu first appeared on the scene, there was very little competition for the content they had (namely brand new TV). Since then most of the major networks have created competing paid services to Hulu that already lack adverts. People avoided Hulu+ because the idea of paying AND getting ads was unwelcomed, and they offered nothing else. Seems like they've burnt through much of their competitive advantage.

Can I also just say, Hulu's adverts might not be so bad if they didn't show you the same advert twice in one commercial break, or six times in one 45 minute show(!). I'd be pretty annoying if I was a Hulu advertiser and I discovered they showed my ad twice in a row and billed me twice (since that isn't an effective way to advertise AND it makes people hate the advert). But as a user OR advertiser it sucks.
As a person who's shopped at both walmart and local "mom and pop shops", yes. We also want Uber or Ola destroying the local taxi industry, and providing safer and better service to consumers. We want Flipkart or Amazon destroying local retail, Toyota destroying local automotive, etc.

Big scary (sometimes foreign) players only manage to "destroy" a local industry when the local industry is failing to satisfy local customers.
It would be hilarious until Paypal decides to file fraud charges to make an example of you to send a clear message to anybody who thinks it's fun to embarrass them.
I think it goes for other industries too. My wife who works in finance and accounting makes quite a bit more in NYC than she did in London, even for similar roles in similar industries.

But you may have a point in that London being the only game in town has a lot of competition among the workforce. Also, I believe it costs much more to employ someone there and there are many more protection for employees. For instance, it is very difficult to fire someone in the UK and it is not that way in the USA.
Was strangely fun answering these. Can't wait to chart some of this data on http://chartblocks.com
First thing that came to my mind when I read the headline: "Google has to go."
That is terrifyingly well thought out.
Yeah I was starting to design some visualization for it in my head!
yeah, projects under LGPL (e.g. Qt) include a special modification allowing use of header files so that people can actually use them as pre-built libraries due to the famously confusing 'static linking' statements in the licenses.

from what I understand even LGPL doesn't allow you to use header files in non (L)GPL code in order to interoperate with an LGPL library.
Yes. Part of the scientific explanation of Buffets return is explained in Pedersens "betting against beta" paper. Here, it is shown that investing with cheap leverage in boring stocks (like Buffet) is better than investing in risky stocks without leverage, even when the leverage is chosen such that both strategies are equally volatile.
How did he arm the darn thing without setting it off?
I disagree. I think the commercial-sponsored avenue is the way they want to continue.

When you provide a commercial-free option, the only way to squeeze more revenue out of it is to raise the subscription rate. But if you normally serve commercials too, then you can double-dip: you can occasionally raise the subscription rate (which risks angering your customer base) or you can simply add another commercial or two to a break.

And if that pisses off your customers, then it's easy for them to go to the commercial-free plan.
There are limits, practical as well as rhetorical. Not everyone wants to be lectured about how unconditional kindness is their duty and responsibility. Not everyone wants to be told that this kindness needs to come at significant expense at a time when (insert fiscal problems here, such as Greece or the UK) are already occurring.
The article is honest but the last paragraph makes me question whether it really was..

> India really is not a rational country. The English mushed India together in the panic of independence in 1947, but little heed was given to ethnic, religious, linguistic, historic, national, or geographic considerations which is one reason India has had problems with every one of its neighbors since. India as we know it will not survive another 30 or 40 years. This of course does not have to end in disaster, but it probably will given the chauvinism of its government and the way history has always worked.

Really? A democracy of 1.3 billion people which has held together for > 60 years and endured > 4 major wars will just topple? I find that very unlikely.

The fact is that despite a lot of troubles, the country has managed to remain more or less true to its principles of democracy and secularism, instead of devolving into a chaotic mess that most of the neighboring countries have faced. One reason is that the Indian Military has historically been apolitical, unlike many neighboring countries. I don't really understand how it has managed to stay together this way but I really hope that it does continue.
thanks, just did that
Yeah I suspect google sheets is not obviously vulnerable to sql injection at this point in the game.
Microsoft buries the hatchet with VMware
no idea why i just took that
If the content is good, there's no need for fancy styles or images. In this case, though, the content is not super duber either. But I wouldn't call it a wall of text, especially with paragraphs so small.
This isn't journalism though. This is someone buying something they think is almost certainly a scam with the assumption that either PayPal will underwrite the loss or they'll be a millionaire. What should the author have done? Not buy it, obviously.

Frankly, given that a thorough fraud investigation would have revealed two separate attempts to gauge eBay/PayPal's refund policy followed by the purchase of an asset, followed by the claim, he's lucky he hasn't been accused of being complicit in the scam. A more on-the-ball protection team certainly would have raised that possibility and escalated it.
Just so you know the filter that people who own and trade domains is actually much better than even what the OP (and you) are describing. It's actually more like "a 3 letter .com being sold for $5,000" where the 3 letters aren't particularly memorable and the domain might typically be worth $10k. You'd have to be in the business to really know the risk involved.

With domains you have to make sure you know the history of the domain (which takes a bit of research) and additionally most people in the domain business, at least with valuable domains, tend to use escrow.com as an intermediary to make sure there is recourse.

That said another thing to watch out for is buying a domain which has been stolen from someone which does happen. In that case a domain is priced attractively (not to cheap not to expensive) and unloaded quickly before the real owner even knows what has happened. This can happen as a result of a simple hijacking of an email address (of the rightful owner) or by social engineering the registrar. As only two examples. That is much harder to detect and even in the case of using escrow.com you would still be out of the domain once it gets yanked back to the original registrant.

Source of the above: Me, I've been doing this for almost 20 years and get paid to buy names as well as buy on my own account.
>The new products have led to an alarming public health development in recent years that was unheard of in the many previous decades that people enjoyed caffeine: a rash of thousands of overdoses and reports of addiction and withdrawal.

Overdoses being mostly new, I believe, considering how many cups of coffee you'd have to drink to get a lethal dose. But surely addiction and withdrawal are nothing new. If I let my intake creep up over three cups of coffee per day for over two weeks, I get a severe headache if I go a day without at least one cup. Caffeine withdrawal headaches at least used to be so common that popular headache remedies would include caffeine as well as aspirin and acetaminophen. Is this somehow not common knowledge?
There is nothing inherit to free markets that leads to the phenomena that you describe. It is artificial distortions of the market that lead to inequality through exclusive political connections to public spending projects, favoritism via regulatory capture, elitism via occupational licensing, and other acts of market interference that inject privilege into the system.

Also as a side note, if you're going to carry on with this narrative you may wish to confine it to an intra-national context where wealth inequalities are indeed measurable, as opposed to bringing the 'millions of third world people' (actually billions) into the picture who have experienced unprecedented increases in standards of living due to the expansion of market economies over the past century. Wealth inequality is increasing within countries, it is decreasing between countries.
this looks very cool but it is a shame about the license and a shame about the code style.

STL is a poor exemplar to follow - its a real wasteland of a library and very deficient compared to libraries for other modern languages.

however i will now go and learn these things and reinvent some wheels to make myself a better programmer.

thanks. :)
The Bandwagon Bias is powerful.
I also chose 37, but with the expectation that it would be a common response.
Will your Company survive in a post Uber World?
Some actors in the US government have been trying to outlaw consumer cryptography for decades, and so far they haven't succeeded. See, e.g., the Clipper Chip battle from 1994.
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I laughed at the last one I've done that and I certainly say go for it, there's nothing like uniformity in regards to underdress!
The problem is that for a monolithic system to be divisible, your team has to have been applying a level of discipline that is not verifiable. It's all on the honor system, and (half jokingly) developers have no honor.

Seriously though, all of the problems breaking the system up will be blamed on people who already left the company, whether they deserve it or not, and the patterns that keep you in a monolith will continue on forever.

The only solution I've seen sort of work for this is to make a single binary, but create modules with extremely clear boundaries. Even so far as compiling them separately if the language is statically typed. But even that can go sideways the moment someone builds caching into the system.

I've come to appreciate why external caches are so popular, but for my money I prefer caching at the HTTP layer. You have to solve all the same problems, but you get one level of cache for free, it's easier for QA to understand, and it puts cache eviction in the hands of mature pieces of code that all implement the same spec (which might account for my previous point).
One thing to remember: there is a significant difference between feeling empathy for a person and being willing to devote resources to them

I felt empathy for a beggar on the streets of San Francisco this morning. Yet my money stayed in my pocket. I have other uses for it.
The feedback is of the kind that a language designer can only get from another language designer. The third rule of language design reminds me of python's GIL. Very insightful. I am curious to know how much of these were actually incorporated into elixir.
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"cd" is always a shell built-in. It is not even possible to have a /bin/cd binary which does what "cd" does.
Elon Musk says humanity is currently running 'the dumbest experiment in history'
If paypal won't cancel it, can't he just do a chargeback on his credit card?
Let me help you. Baltic States, Czech, Poland were the colonies.
I hit Enter a few times and I didn't like the jaggedness of the box. So I had to clean up my randomness a bit.
To understand the replication crisis, imagine everything was published
> I would probably optimize for the other extreme of "Apple model" premium/full-service expensive hosting that has fantastic uptime, gear and sales/support for enterprise/startup and IT/web operations... There's some more money in that and less headaches. (The most money seems to be in the upper-middle pricepoint area.)

A few weeks ago, I'd say "You mean AWS", but after this morning, and a few other incidents over the last few weeks, I don't think anyone can do fantastic uptime in a virtualized/cloud environment.

There's the rub, isn't it? Companies want to compete on quality, but if you're supposed to architect your application(s) for failure, uptime becomes a lot less important. You then only have price to compete on.

I know Twilio runs in both AWS and Rackspace, depending on various KPIs for shifting load. Seems to be the way the world is headed. I'm curious if containerization like Docker predicts CDNs running your containers for you at the edge...
Your point about paypal is of course correct.

Importantly though in this case the buyer knew the price was to good to be true and his greed got the best of him. Plus the thing to keep in mind is the level to which a company like paypal can protect against fraud. Might be similar to expecting that a dry cleaner should detect a forged clothing ticket perhaps. Or a restaurant should detect that another diner is using your reservation. Doesn't scale very well.
Damn Interesting did a full episode on the entire event - http://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/

It's really fascinating stuff.
> Anything can be made to look bad by only looking at the negatives, anything can be made to look good by only looking at the positives.

And then you have the faux-"fair and balanced" posts about Go by jerf, which always ends up favouring Go for some inexplicable reason.
Aggregate demand is the quantity of all goods demanded in the economy.

1. Aggregate demand drops. This shifts the curve to the left. These leads to a drop in the price and quantity of goods exchanged in the economy.

2. If firms are producing less goods they need less workers to produce these goods.

3. If they need less workers, the demand for workers shifts to the left.

4. This means the price and quantity of workers drops(wage cuts and increased unemployment)

Price and wage stickiness is one tool that New Keynesian economists use to try to explain business cycles using microfoundations.

Keynesians don't need it they use other routes to explain why aggregate demand exists(Pigou's wealth effect, Keynes interest rate effect, and the Mundell-Fleming exchange-rate effect). The downside to the Keynesian approach is the Lucas critique[0]. That relationships based on historical data are vulnerable to change when monetary policy changes. This started the New Keynesian/NeoClassical/Keynesian dvision.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_critique
We must imagine Sisyphus happy?
I knew "Peristeronic" was a real word, because I'd seen it somewhere before. Turns out it was another xkcd: https://xkcd.com/798/
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100% of us die. Why bother doing anything at all, then?
Then lets open to immigration from Latin America where people are culturally closer to Europe. And Ukraine and Georgia.
I would be considered a "hustler" under the terms offered in your post. As such, I have attended multiple hackathons as a company rep, to support friends, or just to keep up on new ideas. Yes, for me hackathons can be a spectator sport. I do understand the frustration of some hackers that build brilliant applications but fail to win, I have seen it happen. I also have yet to meet a hacker who does not think he/she should win every contest they enter. (that is funny because its true). Like everything else that grows in popularity the original goal may become less obvious over time. Is this a good or bad thing? It depends I suppose. One thing I do know is that popularity brings more attention, which brings more sponsors, which brings larger and more diverse hackathons. Hackers are the heart and soul of hackatons obviously, just don't discredit the business side too much. We kind of need each other. Good luck with your next event
I didn't check if they do, but they should not charge VAT for customers located in the USA. Which means that the price will actually end up being $2.80 (as of right now 2.99/1.2 EUR to USD).
Backups are for data generated by people using applications running on services provided by infrastructure. What I'm referring to is the configuration portion of launching and running a service, not the data generated after a human uses it.

The thing that pops out of this is TRUST. We need to be able to trust an application we are running is the one we want to run, who was responsible for writing it, who's responsible for running it, and all the bits in-between.
Either the switches activate the battery or they activate the trigger circuits (probably both).

I should also note that, unless you had extremely detailed pictures of the switches themselves (or part numbers), you could easily use a combination of switches which appears to do one thing but instead does another, so X-Rays and a wiring diagram wouldn't necessarily be helpful in discovering the actual path of electricity. You could maybe do something clever with a very sensitive electrometer, but that would take way too long.

Arming it doesn't seem like the hard part to me. I think the hard part, with all the foil based triggers and spring loaded screws, would be construction and QA and making sure you don't kill yourself activating the thing because there's some filings completing a circuit you didn't know about.
Jim Rogers exits India, says one can’t invest just on hope
Touché. Every time we hit a new balance in the inequalities we have to re-evaluate all our answers.

I guess what bugs me is not the mind changing (I do that all the time myself). It's that those without a history lesson behave as if this is a bloody revolution, and they have to pick sides. And the people who think switching solutions will magically fix all of our problems.
this is sad. for all the misguided hate against the US there is a lot of very justified hate that comes from these sorts of attitudes coming from its government and enforcement agencies. they should have more respect for the laws of other countries, especially somewhere like Ireland which could, not unreasonably, be called a crime free paradise compared to the US.

its terrifying when law enforcement doesn't understand the difference between right and wrong...
That's an interesting tidbit. Though, with the last paragraph, I wonder how canonical paths worked when you have directories "above" the root.
There were hungry and homeless people when Jews and other minorities tried to flee the Nazis. Yet it is still shameful that more was not done to let those people into safer countries. The situation is not so dissimilar now.

How about the homeless are helped AND we take in the millions of refugees that won't even bump the population of Europe by even 1%.
Re: "terrorists" and India at the time of independence

> That word didn't exist then, but that's absolutely what we would call them today

It had actually existed for about a century and half before that, and had been used in the modern sense (including referring to non-state and subnational actors, often directing violence against a state, rather than the original use referring to terrorism strictly in the sense of a top-down means of state control originating with the French Revolution's Reign of Terror and its architects, the original "terrorists") for about 70-80 years prior to Indian independence.
Seriously, this guy should manufacture tamper-resistant cryptographic module enclosures!
If you want to define free as "do what you want" then feel free to do so but don't expect everyone to agree with it. I for example live in a free country but I am far from free to do what ever I want. The word "free" has in that single sentence two different definitions, which is why the word liberty is better.

But to address one aspect, I do agree that I really don't understand the sentiment to dictate what other people can or can't do with their own software. Suing people for sharing software is wrong, and having EULA's that prevent people from understanding how their software operates is also wrong. The argument that you have to add proprietary licenses in order to earn a living is illogical and only create a world where people don't trust each other.
I'm not interested in C++, not using it, do not care about it. So, I am neither visiting HN links that are about C++ nor taking part in discussions related to C++.

And I'm really curious what drives people in this thread that are coming to say they do not want to use Go, do not like it, and stuff like that?
In a bit of "don't tell me what to do" pique, I typed the cat emoji, .

Turns out something in Google Forms uses UCS-2 internally, so it rejected my whole survey.

EDIT: I guess Arc isn't very good at this either.
Here are some books Buffett has recommended, I'm sure there are tons of other books, these are just the ones that have stuck with me.

Investing:
1) The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
2) Security Analysis - Benjamin Graham
3) Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits - Philip Fisher
4) The Little Book of Common Sense Investing - John Bogle
5) The Most Important Thing - Howard Marks

Economics:
1) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
2) Where Are the Customers' Yachts: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street - Fred Schwed
3) stuff by John Maynard Keynes (never heard him mention exact title)

Others:
1) Poor Charlie's Almanac - Charles Munger
2) Business Adventures - John Brooks
3) How to win friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie

Then there are some things I've never heard him explicitly recommend but I think are definitely worth reading:
1) Letter to shareholders (all of them, you can find the ones of his partnership and earlier ones online)
2) The Snowball - Alice Schroeder
3) Tap Dancing to Work - Carol Loomis
(There are tons of books on Buffett, but these two are friends of his)

Also, if you ever go to his shareholders meeting, there's a whole list of "Buffett approved books". Some that I can remember from this years meeting (other then the ones mentioned above):
1) all of them found on https://www.poorcharliesalmanack.com/
2) Dream Big - Cristiane Correa
3) a bunch more that I cant remember

Finally on his investing, he has laid out a bunch of times what he believes is best for ordinary people who aren't going to devote most of their time to investing namely, buy a low cost index fund (he recommends Vanguards, I believe it was this one https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0540&... )
I'm not quite sure why so little people (that I know) listen to him. It seems that people want to show that they can outperform the market, but rarely do.
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I don't think we're really straining ourselves to handle the amount of refugees we are currently taking. That means, wherever the line is, we're not that close to it.