skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best investment I have made was investing in sending my younger brother to a 3 month rehab program. I have made business and real estate investments that have paid off well but none can compare to investing in my brother.

I was very unsure when I first made it. He is 1 1/2 years clean and doing extremely well. I don't think he would be with us today otherwise so I consider it an investment well made.
Protectionism in my opinion is key to helping an economy that is developing to catch up.

What Should happen instead is quid pro quo trade agreements. But in Google and Uber's case Chinese industry isn't exploiting the US market, so the US companies have no right to complain.
Amazing. Care to share the names?
Array thinking: Animation of snow and rain fall in APL
Coding bootcamp. Paid itself off in <4 months.
Google's Project Wing and Amazon's Prime Air are great projects and their advancements should be encouraged not discouraged. Now as far as the feasibility goes, "delivery by drone" should be limited to remote areas only where traditional delivery services do not have good infrastructure and network. Think a ranch in eastern Texas or Colorado vs a condo in Austin or New York.

No one need these guys swarming the skyline of Manhattan when the city has one of the best delivery networks in the nation as many other major metropolitan cities would enjoy.
Clearly jet.com's primary user base isn't from the tech crowd. Looking at the comments, seems like a lot of people don't understand that Jet's user base is probably value-conscious consumer's that shop for household items on a recurring basis. Without knowing any numbers I'm surprised at all the backlash in the comments.
Agreed. Learning how to learn is vital, and certainly not easy.
My families are locals and they know the government plate prefixes and say government member cars are all low key, usually Chinese brands.
If you have accumulated 10-15 years worth of savings, that money should be somewhere it is earning a return (easily beating out inflation). It certainly should not be in your savings or checking account at the local bank.

I have roughly six months worth of expenses in cash, that I could go take out of the bank right now should something happen. I'll be fine as long as the remainder is somewhere I can get to (some of) it within six months -- and it is.
Wow, this is an interesting definition of investment. I've always considered my wife to be a blessing, but you are right -- a good wife is a great investment as well.
Based on my past/present/projected salary minus a normal salary I would be able to earn without an engineering degree. I'm not saying it's a perfect calculation, but even if it's only $2 million, it's still a 10X return.
You have to enter an email address to download the slides?

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> People don't go and check whether the fact iself, uncontextualized, is true

This used to be exactly what I went to Snopes for. There's a million places online where people interpret facts and tell you whether or not they should be a cause of outrage.

Context in the article is good, but the top level "True/Mostly True ..." classification felt sacred to me. This one seems like a clear "Mostly True"
> If it was easy to cheat, someone would claim the public bug bounty by giving themselves all the coins.

But giving yourself all the coins means demonstrates that the system doesn't work conclusively, and guarantees that no one will accept the coins for goods and services, so while giving yourself "all the coins" destroys a lot of value, it doesn't actually capture any value. So, if you wanted to profit from an exploit you developed, you would not do that (if you wanted to discredit bitcoin and had developed the exploit, you would do that.)
There are two that immediately come to mind for me. The first, and clear winner, was buying $200 of FB at ~$24, as I was currently running Facebook ads (which ultimately totalled $2M that year) that were wildly successful. It panned out extremely fast, as the rise in stock price had just begun when I purchased. I sold enough to break even when it tripled, sold a bit more around $100, and still have a bit.

The other one is somewhat tongue in cheek, but the ultimate ROI was essentially infinity. In 4th grade, I bought a pack of Pokemon cards. I got a Blastoise. I sold it to a classmate for $32. I then bought another pack. It contained a Blastoise.

EDIT: To clarify, I purchased that $200 in FB very early in my career, when it was a very major purchase. I own more than the original purchase now, as I bought more later, but I'm speaking solely about the original investment.
If anyone is interested, I wrote a blog post detailing the cleanup branch approach: http://blog.launchdarkly.com/how-to-use-feature-flags-withou...
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Taiwan is not China. Where in China is TSMC building cutting edge semiconductor fab?
Shorting JPY when the LDP came back into power. I was dead certain that currency devaluation would be a major policy for them.
> Bitcoin is artificially blocked from accepting more customers and grow.

There's no such thing as a bitcoin customer. And by growth, the only obstacle is number of transactions/block which is limited by design.

But there's no tps limit that we wouldn't blow through in a day if it were free. Building a distributed DB? Nah, just dump it all in the blockchain and make the world hold it for you. Without a limit, and the prices that come from approaching that limit, the system would never reach a balance.

The goal is that transaction costs pay miners. That only works if blocks are small enough to reasonably process and scarce enough to justify paying for.

For everything else, build a sidechain and do your micropayments on it - link to BTC every now and then for larger fund transfers.
Individual NPM modules seem way too granular for individual distro packaging. apt(1) et al are just not built to handle sources with 10mm packages, or systems that want 100k packages installed.

Also, Node's require() works in such a way that you can require(foo-1.0) and require(bar-1.0), and then bar can require(foo-1.1) and that works, and you end up with your module and the bar module each having their own version of the foo module loaded into the Node runtime.

Distros really aren't set up to handle that: a distro expects a package should be able to be upgraded independently by the sysadmin to whatever the newest version is. There are one-off hacks done for each of the (very few) packages that are set up to run "beside themselves", like python2 and python3, by making them entirely separate packages; but having "foo-1.0" and "foo-1.1" together is basically impossible.

Both of those problems are basically pointing in the same direction: that distro-level packaging and development-dependency-level packaging are semantically different acts and trying to map a package-hierarchy 1:1 from one to the other just doesn't make sense.

It makes far more sense to me, personally, to vendor all the development-time deps of an app or framework into that app or framework, and then package that whole release bundle into a distro package and sign that.

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Or, to put that another way:

npm(1) is meant to be a build tool, in the same way that make(1) is a build tool. It makes perfect sense for building a Debian package to require calling npm(1), just like it makes sense for it to require calling make(1).

But npm(1) shouldn't need to be there on the deployed system, just like make(1) or any other part of the compilation toolchain shouldn't need to be installed just to install and use binary packages.
Probably. This wouldn't be a new theme for Star Trek.
Very cool! What bootcamp?
You will not be the only one. Join the community at r/financialindependence
Isn't that what the culture of a business is? A bunch of people who think similar things. If you take a bunch of similar people and apply the same rewards, behavior would tend to be similar.

partially why consultants can come in and clean up shop. They don't care about following the conventions.
I'm assuming you mean that you loan out money to students? Otherwise, that's likely a skewed calculation.
Yes.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?end=2015&...
> No, but how many people out of the general computer using population do you think qualify as "well informed"?

Very, very few.
>Last visited/popular site list

Don't both Firefox and Chrome have it, right in the URL bar?
Oh, we have our priorities alright. We want to be financially comfortable and secure before bring children into this world, and if that means "running the corporate treadmill", freelancing, what have you, so be it. Due to how precarious incomes are today, single-earner households are often too fragile to raise kids, so "focusing on the family and support my spouse" (not necessarily husband, mind you...if single-earner households are the solution men should take it more often) is an unfeasible choice for many. "Having it all" is not a decadent luxury--it is a necessity in order for children to have a stable family life. It's not selfish, and I resent progressive-haters more and more for saying it is. We're not out of touch (except to a 20th century society that no longer exists); we're in touch with the challenges of life and parenthood today.

> Would you really like to live in a world where people routinely assess the idea of getting a surrogate to have their kids for them?

I would love to live in such a world where parents aren't restricted to their own genetic material or gestational capabilities when conceiving a child. I'd much rather delegate the incubation than the raising; I'd gladly ditch the nanny and pay for the surrogate.
Betteridge's law still alive and well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6490949

They got 138 points on their launch and lots of positive comments. Then they received $18 million. I'd say that's pretty positive reception in the Valley.
Then it was a bondholder bailout. Many bondholders should have lost a lot but came away mostly unscarred..
Swift encodes this with a noreturn attribute, and I think it's a "standard not standard" C attribute as well.

(in case you were wondering who else does this)
CEO and cofounder of Sift Science here. I think we are complementary, actually. Wallarm focuses on security vulnerabilities (like a more automated HackerOne), and we focus more on "application abuse" (user-level fraud).

Great job, Wallarm!
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I won something like $1500 on the Seahawks winning the Super Bowl 2 years ago, but I don't consider gambling an investment (mentally, I treat it as purchasing entertainment rather than something with the chance of panning out). Also, $400 of that came from hitting the second quarter and final score squares.
Are the Oculus Touch controllers motion tracked? And by motion tracked do you mean e.g. how the Vive controllers perform?
Yes, and farming on small scale is actually more expensive then buying produce at shop. (When you include all the investment required for hobby scale gardening initiative). Speaking as a farmer and hobby gardener.
Also: they registered a domain to wrap a YouTube video?
Lack of studies doesn't mean it's not true. Anecdotally, whenever I see a new dentist, the first thing they say (usually the assistant) is "I see you're a flosser!". Then they comment about how healthy are my gums. I'd guess every dental employee on the planet thinks flossing helps prevent gum disease at the very least.
My goto is https://www.squarespace.com/.
>You should save until you have at least two years

It is a little late to be doing this.

I have pretty bare-bones expenses (Fine, my apartment is 40% of my income) but I would struggle to save 24-months of expenses any time soon.

Unless you are making like $250k and living on $50k, I would say it is a little late to be stocking up to survive a downturn. I could do it if given probably 5 years, but I couldn't pull that off in 1 year.
> What surprises me is that in many European countries, you can now order ALL of your groceries delivered.

In the US my local grocery (Harris Teeter) has a service where you order online and go through a drive through to pick up. The cost was $4.95/order or $99/year. They have recently added full delivery for $14.95/order (not sure on the yearly fee).

I live in a medium sized city.
Your point about science reporting is also one of Dr. Ritchey's points. It's actually something that comes up fairly frequently on the SBM blog.

As for the paper you cited, it seems (from what is publicly available) to conflict with the Cochrane review he cites. I can;t tell if the review looked at that particular paper or not.
OK, thanks! That's very interesting feedback.
No - Many sellers that sell on Jet are just re-selling their Amazon inventory in a new market. Amazon will happily ship it for you to Jet company through the MCF program.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...

Jet had a rule though - No boxes with competitor logo. So you had to pay Amazon $1 per box to ship it without a logo.

An Amazon email just went out they are discontinuing the unmarked boxes for $1 program. Likely directly to fight Jet.

Let me know if you had any more questions about how any of this work.

Source - Worked at a startup that let people sell on places like Jet with Amazon inventory.
That's what I figured, I was just hoping to get a bit more nuance on the security vulnerabilities.

I actually thought Hackerone or Bugcrowd would be first to market with a product like this.
To be more explicit, it isn't a guarantee as much as an implicit government economic policy which, it seems, boils down to:

It is the individual's responsibility for their own financial security, and the larger economic scheme of the United States should continue to support and encourage profiting off of moral hazards.

That said, there does seem to be some US consumer backlash, where individuals are basically attempting to stay out of this system altogether. Millennial house buying rates say it all: these rules are unfair, and the next generation don't want to play.
Prime Digital Academy in Minneapolis, MN. Luck played as much of a part as anything else. The tech scene here is very much an applicant's market, and I doubt I would have gotten as high a paying job, as quickly, in another city.
> I can't imagine a situation where Google would steal trade secrets from a competitor via Google Drive and not get into a carapton of trouble for it. Has this actually happened?

I don't believe it has happened, but that it can — and because it can, eventually it will.

> As far as being available on any OS, MS office has a browser based version of their office suite, as well as native apps for Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android.

It's a convenient browser-based augmentation of an Office installation, but no more than that; there are far too many features missing. It can't even completely edit a Word document; for some things you have to open the document in Word itself to edit certain parts!

> I believe that covers a "pretty much any OS" description.

There's Linux …

> the question of "does Google read my docs/email/etc.?" has been completely dropped.

The question has been dropped, but reality remains the same. That folks don't discuss the elephant in the room doesn't make it disappear.
China's GDP compared to it's population is interesting. 3-4 times the population of the US but 80% of the GDP. To me it only seems natural that they will eventually overtake the United States in GDP. India should too, as should the EU
Right, they'd trickle them in to keep it secret. But that doesn't change the bug-bounty nature.
Putting this out there: This is one of those threads that would be interesting to go back and read 3 to 5 years from now... at that point we'd have at least one killer app that redefines what VR is, we would have a sense of what the emergent mechanics that resonate with folks are, etc. Similar to reading old mobile threads, before the inflection point hit and we got the killer apps / patterns we have today. Or reading about the web when it was just "brochure-ware". I would say it is less about killer apps and more about emergent behaviors and new "n+1" techniques that redefine what VR (and AR and MR) means. Exciting times ahead.
I usually check the hashes of all software I download.
How do I check the hash if the vendor doesn't publish it, you might ask? Simple, calculate it and Google it. If you find what look like legitimate hits associating this file with this hash, call it good.

And it does work in this case - try googling both the published good and bad hash :)
About the only thing I agree with Donald Trump about is that we should be more aggressive with China. They're clearly protecting their domestic industries very aggressively via tactics like the Great Firewall and subsidizing of domestic companies, but any protectionism on our end would apparently be a trade treaty violation. Very, very unfair. But nobody wants to challenge it because too many American companies are still getting rich off cheap labor in China.
Vive regularly, Rift on the shelf.
The first part is actually the more daunting one. How do I find work in the first place? I'm only a student with virtually no connection in the industry.
Thanks for feedback!

1. Customers analyze traffic with locally installed NGINX-based instances (there is not DNS take-over). They send applications/traffic statistics to Wallarm Cloud so we can run machine-learning stuff. We had a lot of work done for initial training of the system using our own experience in web app security (more than 250+ pentests for top-tier companies + a lot of researches done by our team like SSRF bible). We also use different honeypots and now statistics of customers with a high volume traffic.

2. There are some details about ML technique covered by Ivan for another comment

3. We have different tasks with SiftScience. SiftScience provides a fraud-detection. Wallarm protects web apps and APIs against data breaches. But these tasks are related for some of our customers.
This is exactly what they do. You aren't supposed to include prices but some people forget.

The more items you buy, the bigger cut of the commission Jet gives you off. The buyer almost never pays the same cost as what the seller got paid.
I tried to shop for Gatorade and Clif Bars on Jet recently, knowing that it's promoted itself with home products and such. What I found were comical prices ($127.10 for 21 oz. of Gatorade mix) for a poor selection, so I gave up on it. I don't really know what value Walmart gets out of this purchase other than a heavily promoted brand and the ability to go back to focusing on Amazon. It feels like Yahoo and Tumblr.
I think it would be worth it. I use the Oculus Rift. I wish there was some kind of group collaboration stuff that could be self hosted and use Oculus Rift.
>Non-US access got blocked with a captcha

Walmart.com blocks the VPN I use with a generic 403 Forbidden.
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The seller messed up and violated the Jet TOS to do that.
Surrogacy on top of actual harvesting is very expensive and time-consuming and painful if even possible without donor sperm/eggs. I doubt most people are able to make up the $100k+ needed with earning potential differences in the 10-15 years of waiting that you are talking about. Maybe couples in tech and other fields making six figures could save that up, but that's JUST a basic pregnancy, forget any parenting costs, and most people are not making six figures. A lot of folks start considering adoption before they'll do surrogacy with or without donors just due to sheer cost.

Even if a couple decides to go at it with IVF that's easily $10-20k/cycle (and older = more likely to want PGD etc. adding to costs) and a lot of emotional/physical hardship and time sunk into the effort. After a point there is just no luck on your side either no matter how much money you throw at it... I have cried with too many friends over their failed cycles. And some of them discover this in their 20s, not even 40+.

If you want to have kids, it's going to cost money and time _somewhere_. If you want to have bio kids, it's likely to be far less painful and far better (in terms of cost, maternal outcome, child outcome, etc.) to do it while younger if possible. Maybe there are tradeoffs - and as a pregnant 20something woman in tech that struggled with infertility treatments but thankfully not all the way to the pain that is IVF and beyond, I'm acutely aware of them - but that's a personal decision to make. I also had older parents that were not as lucky as yours and find it to be a hardship I refuse to put my own children through.

It is not necessarily a crazy or bad idea to have children earlier if you can and want to.
> Only in bitcoin land does it make sense to blame laypeople for storing their money with financial institutions.

Uh, yeah. That's the entire point of Bitcoin.

> Only in bitcoin land is it a best practice to secure your money using a password written on a piece of paper.

God no, at least not a password intended for human consumption. That's not what a cold wallet should be. It should be a key.

> Only in bitcoin land is it reasonable to expect consumers to do a better job of keeping their money secure than corporations with on staff security experts.

No, non-expert consumers should be using off-the-shelf security solutions made by a staff of security experts that they can use locally (i.e. physical Bitcoin wallets). It's just that not many people are working on that stuff, because most of the companies making Bitcoin stuff are catering to speculators trying to get rich quick.

There are a lot of really smart people working on creating centralized Bitcoin solutions, but frankly, that's just a bad idea, as evidenced by almost every centralized Bitcoin solution having been hacked at least once. A centralized system has too wide an attack surface and too high an incentive for attackers, and defeats most of the benefits of Bitcoin anyway.

Sure, it makes Bitcoin a poor choice for speculators looking to get rich quick, but I don't care in the least. They're outsiders who don't understand the tool and aren't on board with the philosophy of why Bitcoin is important.

If you don't understand decentralization and you try to be in Bitcoin, you're going to have a bad time.
WP is a classic worse-is-better icon.

WP built a culture, which mostly works, not just a product, which - by any reasonable standard - is utter crap internally.

Once you build a cultural monopoly, it's damn near impossible for a second mover to dismantle it. You have to wait for a new niche to colonise, or for WP to implode under the weight of its own awfulness.

A new niche is hard to imagine in blog land, at least while we have today's web. And awful as it is, WP isn't quite so awful it's likely to implode. If it was, it would have done it by now.

Your friend is making money because he's thinking like a business person who can offer a service, not like a developer who primarily thinks about tools, not cultures.
I recommend all people interested in philosophy engage in it, but go to classes for critical theory. This is where most of the interesting philosophy of the last 50 years has taken place, including the entirety of queer theory. His view is so backwards from where the jargon he uses comes from I wonder if european philosophers are even aware of the field of queer theory.
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>> Though I have 14 years experience with technologies that are suppose to be in demand (Ruby On Rails, NodeJS)

> I don't know why you've been grayed out.

Because we oldtimers know that ruby on rails and especially node.js hasn't existed for 14years. Ruby on rails had it's first stable release about 11 years ago.

Actually used to be a recruiter joke/meme : young rails wizard wanted, minimum 10 years experience (back before 2005 :-)

That said, I didn't downvote, but I suspect this is the reason.

Edit: removed this, I might have misread the post as pointed out by others -> (not being careful with facts, massive hyperbole)