skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"To my knowledge you can't even trade in stock futures with sufficiently distant expiration dates to do this."

To put this as politely as possible, you are incorrect. When you have more than $1 billion under management there are numerous counter parties more than willing to design bespoke financial instruments to suit your needs. My first role in finance involved modeling the risk associated with the bespoke instruments that people were asking my tiny (<$1 billion) firm to create. If you watch 'The Big Short' 1/3rd of the movie is devoted the creation, acquisition, and distribution of a bespoke financial instrument traded upon layers of bespoke instruments (Credit Default Swaps, Credit Default Obligitions, rolled bond instruments, etc.) Remember when Christian Bale's character gets chewed out for losing so much money a month? It's because he's paying to maintain his bespoke put options on mortgage backed securities.

"What's the time frame you'd be willing to stake your career on for a startup"

I left the industry, I find it pretty disgusting to be quite honest. However you're missing the fact that these hedge funds don't invest in one startup, they invest in dozens in an effort to diversify their risk. Furthermore, if you think a fund manager is "staking their career" by making these bets you missed two important facts:

* 2 and 20, they're taking home 2% under management even if they lose it all.

* By the time someone is in the position to manage that many investments they are both able to retire and sell themselves into any position. There's as many, if not more, investment managers that lose money as make it. Their job is to quantify and tolerate risk, quite often that entails losing money on some investments.

Anecdotally, when I first started in the industry we had a director who lost $30MM in the course of 2 weeks on an investment. We had hit a risk case that exceeded the 99th percentile on an investment strategy he had developed. A month later we had recouped the $30MM with an additional $60MM of profit. He took an educated risk and it could have made us take a loss for the year. Importantly, all of our other investments performed wholly within expectations during that time frame. So, while we were losing money hand over fist during those weeks it was never an existential risk to the company.
This is a false dichotomy, you can be right or left leaning and also be libertarian or authoritarian[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_compass
I browse with JS disabled and your site is just a blank page for me.
How much did you guys pay for that domain? :)
Perhaps the playback tool you're thinking of is asciinema?
https://asciinema.org/
Can you link to this bug? I thought .dockerignore specifically didn't allow whitelisting and only allowed for blacklisting files that weren't to be included.

Are you saying that docker would include files that should have been excluded by .dockerignore? I'd be interested to learn more. Thanks in advance.
AMEX has this almost 20 years ago but they stopped it for some reason. I personally loved the feature.
Cells make proteins. Proteins fold up to do their jobs. Protein folding is O(2^N) to simulate in software, so probably not.
That's probably good enough
Job Hunting, Business and Deployment System - #1
I just want to note that your logo design is fantastic. Such a perfect combination of the name and concept. Really well done.
> What I think is needed is mainly a library for parsing and encoding of HTTP requests and responses (I don't know what there is for C/C++)

https://github.com/nodejs/http-parser

On the parser side, that's about as widely used/polished as you could hope to see.
To their credit, Stripe have previously given public and pretty unambiguous assurances that if you do decide to move away, they will co-operate to transfer the sensitive card data in their vault to another service, subject to some reasonable concerns about PCI compliance and the like. So at least from Stripe's side, that should mean you don't have to trouble your customers about re-entering details.

I don't personally know anyone who's actually done this, so I can't comment on how well it works in practice.
Experts say invisibility cloaks for military tech could breach Geneva Convention
Only a little bit, since it doesn't differentiate between crowded and empty roads.

IOW, that price is independent of supply, which makes it useless in changing demand.

I think the infrastructure investments would be very cheap compared to what traffic jams and new highways cost. The privacy issues are real, but I'm OK with them. remember that it will make bad traffic a weird memory!
Worker Blames Google Maps After Tearing Down Wrong House
I worked on a cattle ranch one summer in high school in West Texas and it was easily a 15 - 20 minute drive to get to the mailbox on the highway (the ranch was 11 miles from end to end, all rough dirt roads and gates every quarter mile or so).

Walking to get your mail in 105+ heat and back would have taken(no exaggeration) almost all day.
Never heard of these. How do they compare to Lightroom's built in features?
Python SSL Woes
That may be true, but I still think there's a negative undertone against DJB's crypto here, even if it's unintentional (if you're going to talk about a crypto monoculture, it may become inevitable to talk about DJB's work and its adoption).

However, I worry many (developers) will get the wrong message from this post: that they shouldn't use the new standards from DJB (even if they are clearly superior in every way), because that would "help create the monoculture".

Also look at how this post ends:

> So the (pending) Bernstein monoculture isn't necessarily a vote for Dan, it's more a vote against everything else.

So it's not a vote for Berstein that he got so much so right? If it's not a vote for DJB's work, then maybe he can point out what's wrong with it (other than everyone wanting to adopt it).

The post could've very well ended like this, and it would've been better for it:

> The impending monoculture (based around DJB's crypto) is showing us that we need simpler, more boring crypto everywhere, but it needs to come from other authors as well.

Something like that. He is after all arguing against non-boring crypto throughout the post, no? So that should've been his conclusion?

Maybe even add a little bit of "DJB has showed us the way - now it's time for others to pick up the torch and take it from here." But I imagine he wouldn't have gone that far.
A lot of banks offer it through some sort of thing in their website or app, I think here the UX is a lot nicer though.
Find the row clicked on.

Find the indent.

For every row that has larger indent (until one with the same indent), set display: none.

For this row, mark it collapsed (even by putting a div around the current content, un-displaying it and putting a "show thread" button/link there).

So indent is width of the "invisible pixel", easy to query, isn't it?

What am I missing?
Sqlize: Command line utility to uppercase your SQL
Machine learning technique boosts lip-reading accuracy
Shouldn't be necessary, from my reading. The charges pass through to your checking account, so they'd already show up in Mint from that.
Please don't comment like this here.
was it ever "alive" among those users?
All those examples are extremely high level abstractions, but cryptography is not - it is a direct application of math to a single purpose.

> ...multiple approaches and techniques and tools are always a good thing.

Only at a very high level. If you switched out "cryptography" with "privacy protection" then you'd be right.
> He is everything America isn't.

Are you sure about that? Because he seems to be everything that America is or aspires to be (loud, brash, opinionated, ignorant, rich, etc...). I personally can't think of a more "American" candidate than Trump...
This comment as well as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11354704 break the HN guidelines. Please don't post uncivil comments regardless of how wrong or ignorant someone seems.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11351657 and marked it off-topic.
Props to The Telegraph for somehow finding a way to blame Microsoft and tech gender politics for this.

If anyone from Microsoft Research is reading this, it might be fun to try training Tay to produce clickbait.
There is obviously no unanimous opinion on how bad he is, even if most people agree it is some shade of "bad". And therefore if we start banning on non-unanimous cases like this, we run a terrible risk.

For example, people that support abortions and people that eat meat are both considered (by different people) to be supporting murder by significant parts of the population. Not figurative murder, literal murder. They feel strongly about that. But we shouldn't let them ban people, or we'll have "A functional programming conference for liberals", "for conservatives", "for vegans", etc. Is that what we want?

And that's just the practical risk of fracturing our communities. The moral risk is that even if we did have unanimous consensus to ban him over personal political views, we are in dangerous territory. The majority has been wrong many times in the past. Tolerating a minority, even if its views (not actions) seem offensive to us, is generally the right thing to do.
Agreed on accessibility. I like the direction they're taking with the Standard and Expanded (or whatever they're naming it), I'm looking forward to it.

I made a conscious decision to monetize in the game early on so I dodged the monetization ramp challenges. Now it's just a problem of not having enough time to devote to ladder climbing.
Stop feeling sorry for yourself and create your own projects. If they're getting a better salary than you, they either value themselves higher than you do or they're genuinely better than you at programming.

If you are bad at getting a job, make your own. Moving to the bay area is a terrible idea. It's a bad place. It's expensive but I guess on the plus side, you wouldn't feel out of place going homeless.

Improve your confidence, improve your skills. Also, "achieving something great in life" is different for everyone.
hey all! here is a quick little gem I made to transform my SQL/PostgreSQL scripts to uppercase. I also had a lot of fun with the README. In fact, I probably had more fun with the README.

I'm a Rails dev turned data sherpa so I spend a lot of time writing SQL now, and am too lazy to constantly shift my pinky over to the caps lock, so I wrote this.

Contributions are always welcome - I would love to add more PostgreSQL (and any other DB system)'s keywords. This is pretty easy; all it takes is a json array in sqlize/keywords directory and a simple class.
Actually as of a few weeks ago, they IP blocked French users from Google.com.
You are right that extra developer time wouldn't be worth the savings.

The problem is that they communicated to me that my business is not worth very much to them. This is a precarious situation for my company to be in because our merchant processor is a key part of our business.

My experience as an entrepreneur has taught me that as a general rule, its not a good idea to work with companies that don't care about you as a customer or for which you are not a target customer. The reason this is not a good idea is because it significantly increases the risk that I will run into unanticipated problems that they will be unlikely to fix.

Stripe basically told me that I am not their target customer and that they don't care about me unless my business is 10x the size it is now. Based on their contact form, I was a little surprised that they were willing to take me as a customer at all.

Perhaps a good analogy is the big bank vs credit union situation. If I was a very large business, I would have a good experience working with a large, national bank. But (I think) statistically speaking, individual consumers are more likely to be happy with smaller credit unions where they are worth more as a customer.
In the footer it also says its accepted everywhere Visa debit cards are, NOT credit cards. That's a huge caveat because debit cards aren't as universally accepted as credit cards.
You might try reading before criticizing.
He's also pro-freedom. He's fought the US government in court. He goes to hacker cons and mixes with us mortals. People who've met him tend to like and trust him.
Must be pretty smart kids. One of the last puzzles is very hard.
whatever happened to those maglev trains that I used to read about as a kid? Oh right, China...

http://youtu.be/c8SqDVUdMtY

http://gbtimes.com/china/beijing-launch-first-maglev-line-20...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_S1,_BCR
Importing and Exporting Google Spreadsheets with Treasure Data
That sounds like a bug

It is a bug, but it also means that Launch doesn't consume negligible CPU.

2.6b2's default behavior is to index too agressively. There are fixes out there, for those (like myself) who want to build their own binaries on Windows.

something to do with your system

Nope. https://www.google.com/search?q=launchy+cpu+usage

I'd give a better link but I'm on my phone.
Except really it doesn't. While it might be unique it's clearly not what the market wants. I found the tutorial lengthy and confusing. The game doesn't have mass market appeal. Did anybody really expect this game to do well?
Totally agree. Not all places take Apple Pay and not all places require chip inserts.
I think in Europe police doesn't assume that something that could be mistaken for a gun is a gun because presence of actual gun on any given random event is minsicule.

If some gun was fired or if they are pursuing known serious criminals they use guns. In europe use of a gun is a planned action, not instincive response to feeling somewhat threatened.
That's very unfortunate. I'd love to see someone else try that model, but I suspect that you are right that many people have a gold rush mentality. Getting paid for doing work is not as good as getting paid many times for having done some work in past. I've had a similar experience with a couple of startups I've worked on. You can show them how the custom development has high demand and is generating revenue, but they want to sell the box and gamble on getting their "multiples". From a certain perspective I can understand it. According to my link, Cygnus was limited in growth because they just couldn't hire people fast enough.
These are among the most common anarchism 101 questions. FAQs exist; why not google for yourself? (Or speaking of capitalism, pay someone to educate you rather than expect uncompensated labor. I've done enough unpaid work resulting from your character assassination.)
Doesn't X25519 suffer from the same nonce-reuse issue?
There's a semi famous aphorism about advertising:

If you're not paying for it, you're the product.

People who pay for consumable in-game resources aren't interested in the same kind of games that I'm interested in. Reading this article made me realize:

If you're not paying for it, it's not designed for you.
Mosh uses ssh to establish a session and then runs its own separate UDP daemon to take over from there. So it would not surprise me if it just works.
There are quite a few metrics to compare on, such as ease of integration (client libraries, documentation), reliability (downtime, SLAs), pricing (blended vs interchange-plus), customer support (response time might be quick but might take several days to talk to someone technical), countries and reporting. Reporting is actually really important and often overlooked, and especially matters when you get big. Make sure it's easy to reconcile all your payments with your processor statements. You'd be surprised at how often payment processors' accounting is wrong, in their favor.
I used to make new virtual numbers from Wamu for each online transaction, setting $ and time limits. Only later did I read that those "one-time" numbers could be charged more than once and the expiration dates didn't matter. That's why I skip this extra useless step these days.
I'm from Kenya, haven't applied but thinking of. Mind sharing your experience.
You can pretty much universally run a debit card as a credit card. It's the other way around that's expensive.
Thanks for the link! I've been working on the same problem as well (reinventing computing)—vastly different solution though.
Distributed version control wasn't Linus's idea. BitKeeper, Arch, Monotone and darcs did it first, and in some ways better. But they all had problems: BitKeeper was proprietary, Arch was baroque and difficult to use, and Monotone and darcs had poor performance (darcs egregiously so, with an unfortunately-easy-to-hit exponential-time edge case in their merging algorithm). Using Git was a vote against these systems. But there's also not as much of a DVCS monoculture: Bazaar and Mercurial are also used quite often, and could be adopted quickly if git were to implode for some reason.
Yeah but I had to download the enhancement suite first to find this second comment...thanks though
Most important, I think, was a great big urgent real-life use case (Linux) to optimise git toward. That's why it's really good at managing a Linux-sized codebase.

(Most of what is annoying and difficult about git makes much more sense when you realise it was literally invented for Linus to handle his email, and anyone else having use for it is a serendipitious happenstance.)
The Oculus Rift has started shipping
Valve actually said they would open the design right when they disclosed the controller project so it was kind of expected.
The new Odoo: all apps are free
Awesome! I really like their HDR tool, although it was pretty much the only one I used.

For anyone interested in the history, this product was the result of an acquisition by Google (I think they wanted the team for their Google+ Photos product). While they don't seem interested in developing it further, it's nice that they continue to make the software available.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nik_Software
[1] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/google-buys-nik-to-...
The writing was on the wall after they grabbed Ruth Porat from Morgan Stanley in 2015.
If you use it, I'll improve it ;)
Convenience is good, but it isn't exactly the same as having the full might of credit card consumer protection laws.
Perhaps the fact that I have never (touch) typed using any layout but Dvorak helps explain why I generally stick to the defaults otherwise: having to twiddle each machine's settings before I can make productive use of it gets old in a hurry.
Desura went bankrupt a few months ago, actually.
Your computer has to download the tweet before it runs the tweet. It will be cached on your computer. Compliance with twitter TOS means you have to clear your cache when twitter says the tweet was deleted. Since you're using the tweet to run code, it doesn't hurt anything if you ignore the "deleted tweet" advisory.
FINTECH: WHY BANKS SHOULD BE FAR QUICKER TO EMBRACE MILLENNIALS
50 Billion could buy a lot of self driving cars in 5 years.... why not just spend it on city owned cars that taxpayers can order on demand?
Tough news for anyone in the SEO industry. Better go ahead and get AdWords certified.
Richard Feynman was on the Challenger accident review committee. He wrote about the experience including interviewing the top 4 rocket engineers at the end of his book, '"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character'

I don't follow why Ebeling blamed himself since it appears he did everything a human being could do to stop the launch, but was overruled by management.
i am not sure i understand how this is supposed to work, if we are being really logical in the financial discipline shouldnt like 75% of alphabet subsidiaries shut down?
Congrats to all for the release. That's a lot of work accomplished.
If you decide to implement collapsible comments, then please make them expanded if Javascript is disabled.
Let's not forget Jon Sterling, linguist, software engineer, amateur mathematician (okay at it), the organizer of the [PrlConf](http://www.jonprl.org/prlconf.html) subconference (note the unsubtle red star), well-known communist and [murder advocate](https://twitter.com/jonsterling/status/707424802496090113).
Europe is a big place, I think the construction norms can differ too.

I was in some appartments in Nantes, France, and the windows could let you hear outside (so things like buses going by in the day). In my Tokyo apartment I hear police cars go by (actually, every Sunday I get the black cars from the fascists[0]).

I think there's some better sound isolation in France rather than Tokyo (at least in smaller appartments), but Japan also knows that making too much noise is pretty rude. Usually you're not allowed to play instruments in your place unless you got explicit permission when signing the contract (usually implies that the unit has better isolation). And you try not to hit the walls too often.

I think it's part "don't be a dick", and part "get used to it". It's likely possible to isolate better but it's likely expensive on smaller units (because of the space required).

Though honestly, even when I was in Texas suburbs, there's still noise from traffic and neighbors. It was easier to get peace and quiet though.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyoku_dantai
Chances are that the people who are just watching the LP version of your game won't buy it.

Sorry, but it's true.
I agree that he should have controlled his dog better, but he certainly wasn't at fault for the conflict escalating to a shooting. It was out of his hands by the time the police arrived.
You may not be aware, but you don't have the one true opinion on what constitutes a fun video game.
I'll just leave this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvknGT8W5jA

I think Dubya talked down to avoid alienating a voters suspicious of intelligent people.
Palo Alto considers subsidized housing for families making under $250,000
Valve Releases Steam Controller CAD Files
Cause that would do nothing to alleviate traffic congestion.
Doesn't that go against the whole point of this?
It supports Windows containers. You still need a Linux VM to run Linux containers.
I totally agree with you on all points. I think its really interesting how businesses have lifecyle patterns, where business build up resources like "goodwill" over periods of years, then management changes and they go into a phase of higher profits where they burn off goodwill. (I think some executives enter into their positions intending to burn off previously accumulated goodwill and funnel the profits into their bonuses).

Right now, Stripe is burning off some of their goodwill, but (based on what little I know), I don't really see an alternative for them that doesn't involve just turning away customers. It would be nice (but a total fantasy) to be able to measure how much the lost goodwill is actually costing over the long term vs. profit from the increase in company size now.
The two largest collegiate championships (football and basketball) this year are cable only. That's been a growing trend over the past few years. The only two sports that are consistently on network TV during the "regular season" are the NFL (except Monday and Thursday) and major golf tournaments.
Hong Kong's subway is profitable and is the best subway I've ever ridden. (fast, clean, easy to navigate)
I don't think the original commenter (if not being sarcastic) would mind. They're basically asking for an unending stream of "ambient" action scenes, rather than a movie per se.
You might not need the road anyways. If a major fraction of the population doesn't need to drive, you can make human-sized (instead of car-sized) roads and have higher density and lower upkeep.

And you can have trains that come much less often (like, say, once an hour) to collect the stragglers. Less wagons in the trains.

Hello, Tokyo has no trains from 1-5AM. So you can simply plan around it (either going home before 1 or knowing you'll be out til 5).