skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we can all agree, that when an dividend is issued, particularly one that is significant compared to the "Valuation" of the company, that the stock price (excluding normal day-day market and stock volatility) will drop an amount very close to the amount of the dividend. So, for example, let us say that we have a nice monopolistic utility with (for the sake of argument), very little competition. For example, the Electricity and Water Utility in Dubai, UAE. Let us say that the population has stabilized, and that it has $10 Billion in cash, has a nice stable cost structure with no major depreciations in the future, and are generating $10 million in FCF and profit every year, on assets that are worth $1B, and that the risk free interest rate is 1%. If I were an investor, I would pay $11 Billion for this company. The Cash is worth $10B, and the Business is worth $1B (1% of $1B is $10 million).

Now, let us say the business issues a special Dividend of $10B. Can we all agree that a rational investor, on the ex-date, would now only spend $1B on this company, instead of $11B?
I imagined this with the voice of Wallace Shawn from Heaven Help Us for some reason.
Does this mean that I can use this to call upon a band of strangers to bully (or whatever it is they do) someone of my choosing?
How exactly do you know it's not accurate? If you're saying that because of Google trends, keep in mind that Twitter is a website, Snapchat is not. Lots of people still google "Twitter" to get to the homepage. Pretty much no one would be googling snapchat...
Unfortunately, the stack grows with the length of the goto chain! Each goto starts a new call to the jump function, which never returns: the embedded eval contains another goto which invokes the function again, and so on. The function and eval frames will pile up and eventually blow the shell's stack. Associated with each eval frame is a copy of an entire suffix of the script starting at the target label, too, held in the string variable which captures the output of sed.

I have just coined a name for this crude technique: "trumpolines". Under this nomenclature, the program is said to construct a trumpoline by extracting a suffix of itself beginning with the label into a local variable, and then effectively branches to it via eval.

This is vaguely reminiscent of "trampolines" in compiled languages like C, whereby machine code is constructed in local storage (on the stack) and then branched to (requiring an executable stack). GCC uses trampolines for indirection on pointers to GNU C nested functions.

Trumpolines are so named because they will trump the process's memory and stack resources.
Nice site! You should put the list of languages up front so we all stop pointing out what's missing.
Maybe you should be serious. But, like cryptography, it only works if many people (majority?) use it.
Definitely spot on pick for the inflection, but not the tone.
But static linking could mean that function will be inlined.
> They never said how they would offer you support

Did they not say they'd offer "security fixes", and not "complete UI changes, deprecation of perfectly working runtimes, shoving of new runtimes". The former is support; the latter, is finalization of misleading marketing.
The runtime in this case is compiled into the binary. With php, the runtime is all contained in the php binary that runs your scripts, in Go's case, the runtime is copied into every binary it produces.
IMHO: Facial recognition, along with other software and analysis techniques, have already ended anonymity. We're just waiting for the world to catch up. Anonymity may still exist in this world, but those are outliers, no longer the rule.
"In a study they plan to present at the Privacy Enhancing Technology Symposium in Germany this July"

How would this enhance privacy? It seems like it would do the opposite?
> "Facial temporary tattoo"
In both cases, there is a group (call them X) who's speech is disliked. X engaged in illegal actions. A lawsuit was filed against them and funded by third parties in order to hinder/shut down X. The plaintiffs emerged victorious, suggesting the lawsuit had merit (i.e. it wasn't a frivolous lawsuit).

I stand by the analogy. And yes, I'm asking if you oppose SPLC the same way you oppose Thiel.

I actually do oppose Thiel here (though not the SPLC) since I'm opposed to revenge porn laws. However I'd support Thiel if he were targeting Gawker for something I think should be illegal. But I'm asking because very few of Thiel's critics seem willing to actually bite that bullet.

(Incidentally, I was opposed to actions like this way back when the victims were completely sympathetic innocent females and the perpetrators were giant jerky perverts too. https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/defending_hunter_moo... )
They also use METRIC TONS of ultra high-end storage.

Actually that's not saying much, because a single cabinet is around a metric ton.

So it was unintentionally accurate.
> What's not... allowed... is using the echo to call people to harass and threat a specific person.

Wouldn't the layman interpret all 'echo's as a call to action? Do you hold one user accountable for drawing attention to a user who is now receiving messages from third parties?
Couldn't you make this argument for literally any product at any period of time?
But that might be because you can rent, for a surprisingly small amount of your company's ownership in the right circumstances, the advice and backing of near-billionaires who have, you know, a little bit of experience in that IPO thing.

It's true beyond a doubt that if you bootstrapped a $100mm in revenue company that can profitably grow from reinvestment you don't need VC money, and in fact if you want to IPO, you can you do that without giving away any upside at all (until the IPO day that is, when the bankers get their cut).

However, getting to that point might be easier with the aid of some wise and well connected folks.

At least, that's the good part of SV.
Actually, yeah. They added them on Foothill Blvd in Tujunga a while back. I seriously have never seen anyone ride a bike in one, and I drive around there at least weekly. Vineland between Lankershim and the 101 is also a good example, but that's a bit denser. The lane is just huge though.
> Your cell phone is much worse

1. You assume another person has a cell phone, a spying cell phone at that.

2. Even if your assumption is true, that makes Microsoft's actions okay because ... ?
If you'd read the article, you would have seen that they have - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/31/facebook-...
Dynamic linking also lets you update libraries due to things like security issues, it's not just a memory thing. Kinda agree on the space thing too (plus much less chance for things like buffer overflows..)
Not being able to protect an API as a whole is bad. What is an API if not a blue-print and a structural representation of the underlying Software. Wasn't it Fred Brooks who said something like, "show me your data structures and I can tell you what your program does, show me your code and I cannot".

Reimplementing an API is like recreating Mona Lisa by painting by numbers. It requires much less effort as the creative thinking and ideas are already laid out for you.

The ruling in this lawsuit is also worrisome for those that create open-source software and rely on the GPL to protect their code and keep it open.
The following strategy seems to result in consistently 50% or less, typically ~45%:
If it got the previous guess correct, swap the key, otherwise keep the same.
Fake UI
No surprises here. Snapchat captures the use a common person wants. Twitter's really just good for tracking celebrities.
From a gaming industry perspective, Jonathan Blow gave a great presentation about his problems with C++:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9VCN6UkyQ
you forgot they are running a multi trillion dollar industry on free-as-in-beer software.

I doubt they would pay $5 per user. or even a <your yearly salary> year flat fee.

and since they will not pay, you will have to run it on ads. And supporting online/mobile offerings (that do not have their requirement of local client/local logs) will always give you more money.

it is a lose/lose situation.
An addition, not a correction: But, like cryptography, it only works for as long as isn't broken and does not break.
Do you have a source?
What's the point of something like this is a world where flex box is a standard?
No, they're eager - I had this mixed up too until Erik Meijer set me straight:

> Now back to your question. I do not understand what you mean by “observables being fundamentally lazy”. I’d need to understand what you mean by that before I can give a coherent answer. Iterables are essentially lazy, because nothing happens before you call “moveNext”, but I’d categorize observables as (hyper) strict since “onNext” gets called wether or not the consumer wants it (so to speak).
Can't tell if you're being facetious?
SWIFT threat to suspend members with weak cyber defences
The Gray code turns out to work if you require the n-grams to be aligned to n-character boundaries. So if you interpreted "00001111" as containing only the two 4-grams "0000" and "1111", you're OK; but if you allow arbitrary alignments, so that "00001111" contains the 5 4-grams "0000", "0001", "0011", "0111", and "1111", the Gray code doesn't work.

For example, the 4-bit Gray code (under this interpretation) when concatenated into a single bitstream begins "00000001", which then contains the 4-grams "0000", "0000", "0000", "0000", "0001", so the predictor gains an advantage right at the outset. (I didn't check whether it then loses its advantage over time... that's an interesting question.)
As a Southerner, I can tell you they would wear balaclavas.
It sounds like whoever built your QlikView dashboard may have not known what they were doing. Maybe they just loaded in the data without doing any data modelling. QlikView is extremely fast because all the data is held in-memory. It will always beat querying a database on disk or Tableau which holds data in a mixture of on disk and in-memory.

The query language you mention is used in the UI, but you can use full SQL queries in the loading of data into the dashboard and also for creating a data model.

Yes the visualizations of QlikView are now out of date, which is why they have released their new product called Qlik Sense which looks good, modern and completely web based.
Presumably the 2fa is just for the login, and the user would already be logged into paypal on their computer.

Your paypal account getting hacked isn't a Big Deal, you aren't going to lose any money over it. In fact, managing that is paypals entire business model.
One needs to understand how to thwart privacy in order to gain their own.
I believe they were saying that they have 2FA on TeamViewer, not on PayPal.
Mostly modified/custom .dll (nameless things) and some games, though many will work if I jump through some hoops.

Starcraft 2 was broken for months and I still see occasional reports of it crashing. It crashed for me back when I had given W10 a try. It appears to be driver dependent, but many visual novels don't function or will crash or need to be ran in a compatibility mode (and may be missing audio when if that is done).

A few things I rely on have been updated to support, others will never be updated (due to dead development). For example, QTTabBar (a shell extension for Explorer) has been updated for nearly a year.

I use W10 at work and have no issues with it. I will probably be purchasing a W10 laptop soon for when I travel. But I have to jump through far too many hoops to update my home machine.

My real issue is I should be using a UNIX machine that gives me total control over everything without ugly hacks and disabling half the OS (almost literally...) to do what I want it to do. :) However, back when I built my machine, the games I was playing wouldn't run on Linux so I was stuck with W7. Now my station is so customized that replicating it on Linux isn't worth the effort in my eyes....
Stem Cell Brain Injections Let People Walk Again After Stroke
When I first saw the ((( ))) meme, it was being used something along the lines of (((triggered))), and I thought it was shorthand for a trigger warning.

Unfortunate to learn how it's used; I thought it was really clever at the time.
I guess it can make sense to give a lecture about war on a peace conference.
I concede I was probably inaccurate in my statement about evolution and the species level; note, however, that I disagree with people who believe that the gene is the unit of evolutionary selection (I would refine it to say "functional region" rather than gene because I believe that mutations in enhancers and other transcriptional activators play a bigger role in evolution that mainstream science).

On to your second reply:
I basically agree. We're mostly arguing about where that certain point is. Problem is: cancer is a disease that is closely tied to many necessary functional parts of multicellular organisms.

In a sense cancer is what gets people who weren't got by something more acute earlier, and probably evolution is addressing the more acute issues with a higher priority.
For all the talk of Snapchat being confusing, I think that Twitter is more confusing and hostile to new users than is Snapchat. And I'm also in my 30s.

I've had a Twitter account for like eight years now and I'm still not sure how to have a conversation with someone. And trying to read a conversation with many replies confounds me every time.
Dynamic linking wasn't invented as a premature optimization though. And if it didn't exist today, it would still not be premature to invent it, because dynamic linking does not only concern how large and fast your program is, but also how it is interacted with.

So here is my point: optimization that can affect the relevant interfaces of your software is not premature because deciding on the interfaces your software exposes is not premature.
Ive found Twitter goes beyond celebrities. It's great for live events like conferences or debates or whatever, even ones that are too small for major media coverage. When something is happening, you get live journos and bloggers live tweeting the breaking news, and the surrounding discussion is good too.
You just have to run littlesnitch, and see all the AWS servers that Apple applications hit. I don't think it's a secret that a ton of Apple applications are backended by AWS.
Seriously, downvotes?

If one builds their house out of a foundation of sticks, what do they expect to happen?
Farewell letter is such a simple thing to write though. Communication is such a key skill as an engineer I feel like letters like this should be personal.
> Posting more than once or twice a day to Instagram/Facebook seems excessive

I've been using Facebook all wrong ...

How did you solve the problem of "Nothing interesting ever happens on Snapchat"? Maybe I have bad friends, but my feed is like a vast emptiness of nothing happening. Except for the 2 or 3 people who have decided that Snapchat is their new marketing channel. They post a lot and they post a lot of the same stuff over and over so I rarely watch.

Basically, my problem is that I can smell Snapchat is great. But it soooo rarely gives me a reason to come back that I miss most of the things.

Almost feels like I'd have to religiously "clean out my inbox" once a day. But it isn't interesting enough for that.

What am I doing wrong?

PS: I'm in my late 20's and I've had Snapchat installed ever since it launched but ... ugh. It just doesn't click.
This assumes you are only photographed willingly or knowingly. I think that case is an exception, and not a rule. I'm not afraid of Facebook, Mastercard probably has a more intimate database on more people. Think CCTV.
It doesn't matter if you think it's your responsibility or not. A fundamental rule of the Internet is that spam and abuse make everything suck.

Therefore all large Internet sites (and some small ones) have to moderate or police it one way or another. Even if they started out fairly libertarian, eventually they'll get dragged in, or else they'll lose users.

(4chan is the closest thing to an exception, and even they have rules. Most websites don't want to be 4chan.)
Photos uses AWS for storage.
Because he's a white nationalist and he admitted down below and he's proud of it.
I agree the threading in Twitter is a train wreck. I like Twitter because it's great for super-local things, but it definitely fails at conversations even beyond the length limit.
I guess we will know in 24 hours what happens with Qlik then.
Disaster Recovery for Public-Facing Applications
New+Out+of+the+Shadows+Clip+and+TV+Spot+W/+Krang+and+Casey+Jones
So, this is one of the things that's so disturbing about Trump's rise. It is causing people with repugnant, undemocratic, ideals to feel empowered to be much more open about their beliefs, and more likely to take public action in support of them.

There's always been an attempt to normalize hate speech as mere difference of opinion, but now that a popular national politician has tacitly endorsed the extremist arm of the American right, things are getting frightening.

Reasonable Republicans and conservatives, of which there are many in tech, should be particularly concerned about this shift.
Trying to access some APIs I work with (DEP,V PP) earlier today and seeing 'akadns' as the common providrer.
The last person that guaranteed me something about the NSA is now exiled in Russia ;)
Microsoft Removes the 'X' from Windows 10 Update Leaving No Way Out
I'd be willing to bet they'd pay for a seamless transition to a service that lets them keep their username, contact list, has the same UI, and basically works the same way as it did before.
> My new to this problems space view

I'm going to be downvoted because this isn't particularly on-topic, but nonetheless I'd like to suggest you try hyphenating phrases like this to make them easier to read, so you don't construct garden-path sentences where the correct parse exists but isn't obvious.

Thanks!
Just out of curiosity, what is the largest # of consecutive hours you have been responsible for a young child? I love my son and watching him progress over the last 11 months has been amazing but the day-to-day of raising a child can be mind numbingly boring.
This is exactly the reason they would never consider lock-picking techniques at lock symposium.
The lost art of duckpin bowling
Ask HN: Google search correction
I don't want to get political, but I am a bit worried about how Google is (indirectly) censoring some of the searches. A conservative friend of mine noticed that when you searched "Clinton for prison" it would underline prison in red, as if it is a misspelling. I found it odd because I could put in just about every other word combination I can think of and it seemed ok. It was almost like the algorithm was "if starts with 'clinton for'" then 'prison' is not a word"... Anyone have any insight on this? Perhaps it is just a coincidence?
Fun toy, complete with Big Bang Theory mode. ^_^
> Do you hold one user accountable for drawing attention to a user who is now receiving messages from third parties

Inciting violence against a person makes you responsible for the violence that follows; let's not pretend this is something different - it's not.
To expand on this further, most (i.e. not all) of the reddit reports are meaningless as on any given day there's going to be tens of thousands of examples of this kind of fraud.

Unless the reporters have some specific evidence that teamviewer is at fault, it's overwhelmingly likely that many of them were hit by some totally unrelated fraud.
My understanding is that it does for anything that comes in bulk by boat. Copper, met coal, etc.
You are choosing to focus on the "premature optimization" wording, which is fair, it was said. I'm focusing on "as a community would we choose to reimplement and universally adopt this optimization?" (emphasis mine). I think it would be implemented, I do not know of any evidence that makes me believe it would become universally adopted given modern resources.
My 77 year old father forced himself to learn Twitter. Why? Financial news. My journalist friends live on Twitter. Why? Breaking political news. People I follow in national security circles... on twitter. After a certain number (age or users) its not about quantity but quality.
MySpace accounts leaked, among the user info leaked with LinkedIn and Tumblr
I guess I'm on a similar camp.

For some reason the idea that I would be posting my day to day seems to me very "un-private" for a person like me that doesn't want to voluntarily broadcast my every waking second.

I use Facebook and I post from time to time, but mostly re-shares of other interesting stuff and very very seldom something about myself. I even try to stay untagged as much as I can because I find very creepy the amount of info one can get for the purposes of fraud calls, kidnapping (I live in a country where this is a very real threat) or other malicious acts.

In the end I'm aware that there's a limit on what I can do without going "more dark" (i.e. only Tor browsing via VPN from internet connections not in my house, using Qubes on a laptop bought over the counter, with cash, etc etc), but I hope that by using things like PasswordSafe with a YubiKey 2FA for my passwords (32+ random chars) and having the usual, uBlock HTTPSEverytwhere, DoNotTrack, PrivacyBadger, etc I can at least lower the attack surface.

Like they say "I don't have to run faster than the lion, I only need to run faster than you".

I just hope that all this really does make a difference, even if tiny, at least against your regular online-savvy asshole/criminal (I know that I'm really a sitting duck against a state actor)... otherwise it's just one big mental masturbation scheme.. :(
> One way to look at this is that people won't feel embarrassed by things they do in public.

I've heard this theory before, that once there are no more secrets, we won't be embarrassed by our social missteps anymore, or able to use them to attack others because the attacking party will be equally guilty. I think it's a load of BS. Humans are nasty, shitty little hypocrites: if they have dirt on someone else they'll shout it from the rooftops without caring one whit if they're just as bad. Similarly, the people consuming the gossip won't care one bit if they have equally embarrassing stuff in public, before using that data to pass unalterable moral judgment.

Have you ever seen an internet comment section filled with Screaming Moral Outrage at some faux pas, even though most of those commenters are probably worse people? That's what the future is going to be like. Picture a shame mob stamping on a human face, forever.
TFA also has:

Yet, we've heard from people who have used passwords unique to TeamViewer, who have enabled two-factor authentication, and have found no malware on their computers, losing control of their systems in the past few days via TeamViewer.

Apparently TV disagrees, but in this case I'm inclined to believe their unfortunate users.
>make lives better
By some sense of the word. I think we over-value convenience, which is all most of this tech really gives us.
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Ask HN: How do you backup your DB?
Feel free to include where your db is stored (bare metal, cloud, managed), how often, how you do it and a short story about recovering your db.
Don't most implementations at least use TLS for their implementations to preserve a modicum of sanity there?
I can't understand the point of this after looking at it for 1 minute. What does this have over a blog?