skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One cannot be unmindful of risk. Those with family money know they can afford the risk. It is really that simple.
I started a venture, and assessed the status after a period, and had kept a stop loss for how much I can afford to lose. I closed at the limit and shut it down.
I must of course mention that business schools teach you to a project feasibility report first and then proceed. But quite often, I suspect, misguidance and insincere encouragement makes one launch a project without a strict and impassioned appraisal.
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Yeah...pretty much everyone with a vaguely ISA/EISA/MCA box in those days just shipped a 99% unchanged reference port of i386 SVR4. It was interesting that one of the exceptions was, of all folks, Dell. They had a really nicely done SVR4 distribution with a hugely improved installer, a lot of open source stuff prebuilt and lots of bug fixes. Ran it for a while as my primary desktop and liked it alot. Shame Dell didn't stick with it.
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>You don't seem to know what Keynesian economics is.

I'm really not the one who is confused here :)

>If you think I'm wrong, please show how to use a Keynesian theory to predict "real wages fell by 40% but employment dropped". Good luck.

Simple. Reduce aggregate demand enough (e.g. by slashing government spending like Greece has done) and employment and real wages will both drop.

It's neoclassical economics with its idiotic presumption of 'full employment by default' that can't account for real wages and employment dropping at the same time. According to that theory, wages will just keep dropping until everybody is employed.
Maybe this: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/25/its-like-a-gh... ?
It looks like someone didn't read Paul Grahams essay: Change Your Name[1].

As far as the service, I feel inextricably linked to PayPal right now. I used PayPal through the early Ebay years and while I don't have any money in my account; It still pays for my Uber and I have a few friends who haven't updated to Venmo yet. There are also a few items which I've purchased online where I use PayPal as a proxy so the company doesn't get my CC info. I'll probably end up setting up an account just to hold my name, but I doubt I'll use it much.

[1] - http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html
Having dealt with and printed a lot of very large images, e.g., 60k x 60k pixels, I have been on the lookout for image processing software that never decompresses the entire image into ram, but instead works on blocks or scan lines or blocks of scan lines, but stays in constant memory and streams to and from disk. For example, the ImageMagick fork GraphicsMagick does a much better job of this than ImageMagick. What other software is out there that can handle these kinds of images?
> I resisted the recommended workspace configuration, as described in How to Write Go Code. Don’t bother, especially in the beginning

I've had the same dev folder structure across platforms, languages, jobs and decades. I basically had to abandon that structure when starting Go. I fought & fought and at the end of the day it is just easier to use their expected workflow. It was (is?) galling but it was the only way to stop fighting the tools and get work done.
On the bright side, they're typically getting far more power efficient, and cooling them becomes easier.
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A python example:

def decompress(data, maxsize=262144):

dec = zlib.decompressobj()
data = dec.decompress(data, maxsize)
if dec.unconsumed_tail:
raise ValueError("Possible zip Bomb")
del dec

return data
I do something similar to this. My right prompt shows a small fork symbol when I'm in a sub-shell (based on $SHLVL). However, this does not help me much when I'm several levels deep, which is why eventually I started hooking in on changes to $PWD.
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There was also the trick of infinitely recursive zips that kept decompressing to a copy of themselves.

Zip-bombing was such a problem for our corporate network in the late 1990s that inbound e-mail attachments were deliberately discarded for a while. Chaos ensured.
My uncle was in the CIA. Before that he used his Yale psychology Ph.D to sneak into the OSS (20/200 vision and medical disqualification couldn't stop him). He wrote an excellent account of his time training spies in Britain then leading resistance movements in Vichy France. His book is titled "The O.S.S. And I" and his name was William Morgan.

I consider it an essential read for understanding group dynamics in unfamiliar territories. People tend to act in archetypes when put in controlled situations. For example, one of the training/vetting challenges was to cross a pool of water without touching it using supplies scattered around the site. It took three planks to do it properly, although two would work if you were extremely slow and careful. One plank was easy to find, one was hard, the third was extremely well-hidden. You can see from that example who will examine all of the options and who will get frustrated with 2/3 of the supplies and try to wing it.

Another interesting facet he brought up was how different tests could show aptitude in different people. For example, Polish recruits tended to be poor at individual tests but they excelled as a team because they were far less prone to bickering over who gets to lead.

I consider "The O.S.S. And I" to be a better guide to management than most white collar crap we see these days. One of the candidates who got impatient and failed the water-crossing test, by the way, was an American executive from a multimillion-dollar company.
It works in Canada, which might seem really obvious to the world, but we counter-intuitively get left out of a lot of USA services even considering our proximity and similar market. It doesn't help you, I know, but I thought I'd just chime in for those that come after.
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Ultimately it's going to require a malloc to get the space for all those pixels. That is where things should fail. If not, how is one to specify what the image size limits should be? Ever try to open the Blue Marble images from NASA? In a web browser? Back in 2001?
It looks like SSH is completely down, and some people can't connect over https either. Overall status page:

http://status.bitbucket.org/

(Notice the spikes in the past hour or so.)
Definitely the unaddressed elephant in the linked article.

The mobile-first design, the '.me' address... all of this points to an answer to Square Cash.
PG also went to a no-name public high school at a blue collar steel town outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10158352

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10158498
This is really great. I wonder if something like this could be compiled for other great people respsective to their industry. e.g. Carmack FAQ or Musk FAQ
I'm a sucker for reading these articles rather than working on what I should be doing.
Actually, it decompresses into a 1.4MiB file, which decompresses into another 1.4MiB file, recursively.
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This is a very good point.
Your email address was already your own personalized URL...
Can cookies really make flight prices more expensive?
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this was recommended to me: All that is Solid by Danny Dorling
http://www.dannydorling.org/books/allthatissolid/
Guardian article: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/01/berlin-group-be...
Slim chance that any Estonian startup will though. No-one is willing to dole out the cash for the legal side of a payments company. There also most likely is a lack of competent CISO-s, as most PII in Estonia is public and not a lot of places need to protect payments data.
This isn't a decompression bomb, but here are some fun virtual disk images I found using AFL fuzzer. One of the files is 329 bytes, but causes qemu to consume 4 GB of heap trying to process it. This has interesting consequences for the public cloud, where people can upload any old stuff and it is usually processed immediately by 'qemu-img'.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1462949

(I have a big collection of these, but most of the bugs have now been fixed in qemu)
New court ruling has some concerned of over regulation.
"I wonder if people will ever realize their morals are wrong despite being popular."

Yes... their morals are wrong.
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> On a scale of 1 to 5, which number is your favorite?

> 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Chuckle...
Zip bombs, a relative of the fork bomb.

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

The billion laughs XML attack is also lovely in its simplicity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs
I just checked on my phone and there is exactly no information provided on the sharing. I naively assumed that my rating would only affect the rating average seen in the playstore, and that would be all. I never left a comment because I don't want my identity to be advertised.

There is also this hard to find check box where I explicitly request not to share my recommendations : https://plus.google.com/settings/endorsements. I unchecked it as soon a it was advertised some year ago. From my perspective, Google is not respecting its contract.

If there is some text explaining me that the info is shared, could you tel me where I can find it ? I would expect a link would be visible in the dialog where the rating is performed. There is none.

Can I opt out of that ? More precisely, can I opt out that people tracking me against my will and control on Google+ see what Android apps I rated on my personal phone ?
> the Private Eye article only shows the data for England

The data also includes Wales.
So, if Go is as bad as the comments so far make it out to be, what are some alternative languages? Specifically, a compiled language that can be deployed without worrying about dependencies. That's the feature that has had me looking into learning Go. I want to be able to just copy one file to my server and run it, no need to install anything extra on the server to make my program work.

Actually, can Go even do that? I think it can...
See I'm not so sure about that. I like the idea of more integrated packages especially because it makes better quality graphics available to more users. This enables better experiences to more users who buy lower end machines.

And anyway, people who need more power know the difference between discrete and integrated chips.

I think this is about pushing the overall baseline experience of users up.
The downvotes for the original poster in this thread are probably due to the rather vitriolic sounding language used.

But, setting that aside and responding to your question :

It's ironic that if you had ever followed Private Eye, you would have read all the details of money laundering through London; the original article is really about exactly that and how people can use anonymous companies (often in Nevis) to launder huge sums through London property and the lack of action by UK authorities even when egregious abuses take place.

So, a starting link is http://www.private-eye.co.uk/registry - EXACTLY the one that this discussion is about.
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The part that confuses me is that a lot of pointers are taken implicitly. Method receivers depend on the method definition, and maps (and interfaces?) are always pointers. So it can be hard for me to tell the difference between pass-by-value and pass-pointer-by-value.
Their TV ads were mostly ignored, but most people ended up accidentally clicking one of the Chrome ads, and then actually tried it out. There were days where every single YouTube preroll ad was for Chrome, every side ad was for chrome, every ad in the bottom of the video was for Chrome, every single ad served by AdWords was for Chrome, on Google.com were ads for Chrome in the top right with an animated arrow, there were ads for Chrome below and above the search box, etc.

It was horrible, and I really believe this was unfair competition. Especially as people using AdSense complained that they got paid next to nothing or nothing for people viewing and clicking Chrome ads.
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I tried a lot of things and the only thing that seem to be working is putting all websites on HOST file (Win/Sys32/Driver/etc) and blocking them there. I block all addictive sites all week except Friday Night and weekend. It worked for 2 consecutive weeks. Today I got another laptop and can't do the blocking (don't have admin rights), so I'm back to surfing again.
The key is not to store it in raster form in RAM. Either tiles (like GIMP) or I prefer Z-ordering. Then a user can zoom in and pan around easily - you let the system swap and it won't be bad at all. If they zoom out though, you probably want to store MIP maps of it.

Swap works well for this as long as your data has good locality. huge raster images don't.

But no, I'm not aware of any software that handles stuff like that well - except the GIMPs tiling, but that's not going to help when zoomed out.
There is a number of widely spoken languages that lack a grammatical future tense. Chinese and Japanese spring to mind, but there are more, like Finnish and Hungarian. There must be an extensive body of research comparing cultures that have a future tense in the language to those who don't.
Prices in Vancouver and Toronto are absolutely insane when one considers incomes in the region.

Vancouver has hints of insanity, but Toronto's pricing is entirely rational for the current financial reality -- more and more people, and more and more money, bidding up a fixed amount of housing. It has significant ongoing migration from around the world, so if you're a new grad who wants to live downtown, well your dollars are competing with dollars from around the globe. That's how those things are supposed to go.

The fly in the ointment is, of course, low interest rates, and minor movements would be catastrophic. Which is exactly why I think low interest rates are essentially the fundamental reality in the US and Canada -- they have been structurally stratified, and any increase would cause economic devastation that would cause the rates to drop again.
The first line of the linked article is "If you have a US startup called X and you don't have x.com, you should probably change your name."

Pretty sure Paypal owns paypal.com. Also pretty sure Paypal is not a startup. Not sure how this article is relevant.
This is a great complement to a book I loved: “The Essays of Warren Buffett,” a compilation of Warren Buffett's shareholder letters, organized by subject matter.

http://www.amazon.com/Essays-Warren-Buffett-Lessons-Corporat...
Yeah I'm not necessarily arguing that the government should be able to make huge changes in a week. Just that this is how it works, at a glacial pace.
Sandbox them. We once created a 1024MB, 6GB disk single-core VM and built a tiny API around image decompression and scaling. Never had any issues with it, but it was a simple way of preventing things from filling up the regular web servers.
I agree a lot with what you're saying, but ...

> Sure you can outsmart the market. But there are a lot of really smart traders and programmers and robots working against you. Why would I expect to beat them in something I only give a few hours a week to?

The goal isn't to beat swing traders, options guys, hedge funds and other people. The goal many people have is to just do better than a Vanguard fund (or whatever index you like).

But you're right, if someone doing this for 40 hours a week only beats an index fund 50% of the time, how will you do better doing it an hour a week?

(Full disclosure: sometimes, I do try to beat the indexes. I view it more like tax-deductible gambling.)
Either I have a very different idea of what London's "City Centre" is, or the numbers above for London look quite low. That said, for some people, Zone 4 is "central" and for others only Zone 1 is. Curious how the SF numbers compare in this regard.
"They seem to care about their data somewhat, which of course means they have off-site backups."

I don't think a reply of "there are classes of data that one can care about and still not have backups of" is unreasonable.

"...I can surmise is that they're confused"

Again, I think showing a few cases in which users can have perfectly non-confused reasons for using these filesystems is pretty straightforward as conversational gambits go.
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I don't agree with the money angle. What is hurting the US isn't money, but the complete break down of the family structure. And no, I'm not talking about the religious 1 man 1 woman family, but the 2 parent family. Kids need discipline and someone to guide them to make good choices early on. I don't see that as much anymore and you get to where we are today.

I grew up without much of anything. Neither parent finished college and both worked all the time. Yet somehow they drilled into me hard work, education, and don't get a girl pregnant while in high school. I am by no means rich, but have done much better than my parents.
I would venture that, if a few (essentially no-op) .so function calls are likely to affect performance to a point that you care, allocating and de-allocating heap memory under those same conditions might be a bit more of an issue.

Depends on the detail of the use case of course, but assuming that NULL cleanup is more the exception than the rule this is definitely a case of profile it first for me.
Say you have a 10 days job, and you can only start it when you have just 2 days left. What will you be doing the first 8 days? Why don't you do some other productive thing during the first 8 days?

I guess, if you are like me, the problem is in your head and you are thinking about it all the time - until you achieve the clarity on what exactly to do OR you are forced to start since the time is fast running out. You may be browsing HN, but, the problem solving is happening in your brain as a background thread. ie., some amount of procrastination is required for some of us. But, it is debatable how much of this is necessary.
For me it was in french while i live in the Netherlands (where we speak dutch). Somebody needs to get a fancier IP db maybe.
While I can't say I'm happy about weaponized drones, at least North Dakota dodged this for the time being:

"[Sheriff] Rost said he needs to use drones for surveillance in order to obtain a warrant in the first place."

The more I read of drones in use for police situations, the more I feel like they simply make it too easy to invade situations that used to be comfortably private. "If you have nothing to hide" is always a horrible argument, and here I feel like it could have horrible consequences too.
I think we're long overdue a tool like this (maybe it already exists?) that will reformat code. I have been so bored beyond tedium about endless debates over tabs or spaces, 2 spaces or 4 spaces, semi-colons or no semi-colons, etc. etc. ad nauseum.

Let users check out a repo formatted using whatever indentation they like, then commit back in a standardised format. Then we can all stop talking about this utter nonsense and do some real work.
I'm not advocating design by committee. I'm advocating justification with data. The designers should propose candidate designs. But the decision about which one to go with (or whether to redesign at all) should be supported by whether going with it furthers the business's goals.

You point out the need to pick the right measurement, and I agree, but it could be as simple as "What's the effect on conversion?" It has to be something! You can't just say "We're re-designing because I'm a HMI genius."
Wizard of Earthesea always stuck out to me as one of the few coming of age stories in which the main character severely fucks up. He makes a HUGE mistake, owns up to it, and deals with it. Nobody kisses his wound and makes it better, he betters himself. It's a story about bootstrapping life and dealing with your problems head on, I've never read another big story that deals with that idea. The base conflict in the book is Ged's fault and nobody elses.
You mean any compiled language with static linking? Don't they all support that?

I mean you can even get the jvm/java apps bundled as a single binary if you really want to.
Your definition of how you 'play the stock market' seems to lack any aspect of 'play'.
The text/markdown Media Type
Thanks for that! I didn't see a note anywhere on the website. It's nice to have some clarification :)
I seem to recall Microsoft toying with the idea of sending data as electric pulses through the human body. One silly example was a shoe that would send your business card when you shook hands with someone.
Has techcrunch become complete cancer now? My Safari keeps freezing trying to render that pulp.
Awesome idea! It would be great if airbnb did something like this... They already have the infrastructure in place, they could support NGOs etc and probably get a tax break!
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Found out that gnome 3 has some keybinding for dynamically changing screen resolution. I don't know which keybinding that is, but I found it during the mash the keyboard test.
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