skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am always fascinated by the fact that in a remote village in India I am eating with a disposable spoon which I deem cheaper than wasting 10 seconds washing a steel spoon.

That disposable spoon comes from a local shop which buys it from a distributor in a factory 100 miles away who buys plastic raw material from a seller 1000 miles way who brings the crude from middle east (10K miles) to make that plastic. Someone has built Oil rig deep into ocean spending billions of dollars to extract that crude oil.

More importantly people of all castes religions races are working to achieve this none of whom have any special love for each other yet everyone benefits.
The story currently has 14 points after 43 minutes, which is a much higher vote velocity than many other stories on the front page.

It also doesn't appear anywhere on the first 9 pages.
Your points would be more persuasive if you took the effort to mask the contempt you hold for those that disagree with you.
There are some companies that make you choose from a list of answers too. United Airlines is one.
Accidentally built a (successful?) social network. Now what?
"Several" isn't really a reliable number. I know of three people with new MBPs, and none of them are experiencing any of these issues.
That was the point I got from it. My point was that it sounds a lot like what's done by the people I know who work in marketing at big companies. Marketing is not just (or even mostly) advertising.
Wow, that's disturbing.

Perhaps I should say that my first pet's name was "mellower retry audited grieves" rather than "esrhciaiyzhkj". (Both are random, and both have very close to the same information content given the dictionary I used.)
You should try Realm. We radically simplified the architecture of our app by using Realm as the authoritative source of data (equivalent to a redux store) and then having all the views reacting to changes in the model. This also allowed us to have all writes happening background threads.
working 3 hours a day over 200k/yr any day

A business that you own and which makes you any money on 3 hours a day may be even more rare than a unicorn. In most cases you'll be spending those 3 hours per day on administrative stuff alone.
Agree with you coming back to the point when 5% Indian owns 80% of wealth why they aren't the target. Only targeting 20% wealth owned by over 80% common Indian won't bring any benefits.
I'm not surprised. Zuckerberg tried to get Facebook employees to read the propaganda novel by the current President of China.

Does anyone else find this ironic that Facebook is trying to stop fake news and then create tools that essentially create it?
I suspect a lot of people that never replied would be people the signed up but never got around to trying the product properly or people that immediately saw that it wasn't ever going to solve their problem.

Would be interesting to correlate the emails with how engaged the user was after signup.

Personally as a user the only time I would try to engage the creators is if the product was very close to my use case but certain aspects didn't work the way I would need. This being for B2B where a potential customer is going to be more engaged, B2C the reply rate to those emails is likely always going to be tiny.
What is docker and how it's used
Well, I would start by assembling a Z80 (or 6502)-based machine (because I know the toolchain, it's widely available, and something like an atmel's got so much built in that it almost defeats the point). Then, I would cheat (slightly), by speaking SLIP or PPP down a serial line to a router of some sort, thus avoiding the CAT5e problem. But no more cheating! From there on out, the chip will receive no external assistance of any sort.

Or you could just use a newer chip, and avoid this sort of problem altogether.
I agree with the author's opinion with the master password being compromised, you're done. I have found an elegant solution for managing my passwords with http://masterpasswordapp.com/ the iOS app is a breeze and I also use the export feature to backup my login names, hashed passwords, custom passwords, and stored secrets. This app in particular solves the author's third point. For the second point, I save the iteration X of a password as a stored secret when I need to revoke a password. It doesn't sacrifice the user experience in my opinion.
What you really need to take this to the next level is to be able to crowd source some content. Maybe check if you have a response that you think will work and that you haven't used yet and if not ask a pool of users for suggestions. You could use the fork suggestion above to do some testing among the proposed responses.
The States that college grads are most likely to leave?

Why, after recent political events, them United ones of A.
The Right Way to Resist Trump
And Nate Silver:

- To follow: some _very_ quick analysis which suggests the claim here of rigged results in Wisconsin is probably BS: http://nym.ag/2gI6YLP

- Run a regression on Wisc. counties with >=50K people, and you find that Clinton improved more in counties with only paper ballots. HOWEVER: https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/801221546685661184/...

- ...the effect COMPLETELY DISAPPEARS once you control for race and education levels, the key factors in predicting vote shifts this year. https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/801221907609579520/...

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/801220813890277376
The 3000 never ran Linux: http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-03-15/business/0200...

but maybe you were thinking of Xenix on the Model 6000? The 6000 had a System3 variety of Xenix with the Z80 as an I/O controller and a Motorola 68K as the CPU.
I haven't had time to take this course, though I'd like to. It sounds like it is exactly what you are looking for.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithmic-thinking-1
That was a comment on the scenario the expert described, where such an operation would be "very complicated and expensive".
> The hardest part for me, currently, is trying to learn music theory on my own

As someone who is currently learning piano and music theory as an adult, I can recommend the youtube channel of Shawn Cheek. This guy has posted something like 3000 videos on various piano and music theory subjects. A good starting point would be his series on the Circle of Fifths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdF-uIeM33o

I find this guy to be an excellent teacher, I like his teaching style, and could listen to his accent all day :)
Yes; as in "unspecified which choice".
Here's a link for people who don't want to run so much JS just to view a bulleted list of text

https://archive.fo/VgNuv
More than 1 hour of no Google services (at least) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, maybe more. Including the search, Google docs, CDN (js libraries, fonts) and DNS (including popular 8.8.8.8)
Yes, there's text below one of the charts that says: "Those who grew up in one state, went to college in another, and then moved again are counted as migrating from the state where they attended college."
"Note: Those who grew up in one state, went to college in another, and then moved again are counted as migrating from the state where they attended college."
That is disappointing.

@sctb or @dang, could you fix it or comment on why it happened? It's not fake news or a conspiracy theory, but backed by serious expertise.
oh, you recursive bastard!
Right underneath the article's chart:

>Note: Those who grew up in one state, went to college in another, and then moved again are counted as migrating from the state where they attended college.

Also, I'd imagine that this methodology doesn't affect things too much, considering that around 70% of high school graduates go to colleges in-state.
Don't forget that we use a gazillion languages here. They'd have to either produce separate packaging for each country / language region or attach a brochure to each tube of toothpaste. These Latin/English-based names are the lingua franca of the ingredient lists on this kind of products specifically. I'd say it's better than having absolutely no idea if the shampoo you bought on vacation contains stuff you're allergic to.
You're making many assumptions about poor people having access to bank branches they can walk into (not always the case in remote areas, esp. now that co-operative banks are being left out of the process), about everybody having PAN cards (which you now need to open a new bank account), etc.

> Right and you don't have a problem because you saved up over time and so it is accounted money.

Here's the problem: I saved 5L over 10 years - reasonable, right? I don't have records of my expenses even if I have all my salary slips saved. How do I show the taxman that these are legit savings and not something I received as a bribe last month?
This really is a great piece. Hard to believe that someone could just drop out of the world like that, without anybody noticing for that many years.
Like the Outsiders of Known Space.
Well, understanding calculus and being able to compute indefinite integrals or solve differential equations analytically on paper are very different things.
Yeah. It's unclear to me what's being shown here. Sure you can construct selective narratives. Young people are moving to Portland and Seattle even faster than California because they can't afford to live in California any longer and the cool urban west is where it's at!

But then you'd have to explain why South Carolina and Georgia have such high net immigration and why the Northeast generally is so negative. I suspect, as you say, that you need to factor in colleges explicitly.

The methodology is given but it makes me question what this show in a meaningful way.
Exactly. Perceptions of there being a large reserve of army of labor lasts far beyond the end of its existence, and employers not only expect it to be there, but actually have it start impacting their worldview in some cases: the "you should be happy to have a job / I could replace you tomorrow" attitude isn't exactly a rational business calculation.
Apple can't guarantee that write caching is disabled on every removable storage device out there, even if they send the correct command to do so (some devices ignore it to improve their performance benchmark scores). The best they can do is flush the data on unmount, which requires they be notified in advance via a user action. What else do you expect them to do?

BTW, Windows and Linux have the same problems. The fault lies with the storage device vendors.
So in the KY->MA->KY example that would count against MA and not KY, no?
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Sentry is outstanding for this! There's an open source self hosted version available too.
...and the shell company that has no assets doesn't even show up in court. That's the problem I wanted to know how to fix.

Courts can't solve everything and they certainly can't prevent a great many things. Especially when there's such a simple way to avoid responsibility (shell corporations).
Something I never see mentioned, and something that's honestly the biggest barrier to me adopting an appropriately licensed third party library or framework, is code style. If you use several libraries with significantly different coding style, your own code becomes a horrible mishmash of random capitalisation, calling conventions, allocation/deallocation/ownership conventions, etc. and your ability to easily interpret your own code goes out the window.

What I usually end up doing is wrapping each third party library with a thin wrapper which uses my own conventions, to isolate the differences, but still, this is a pain. When you add this pain to the pain of finding a library that does what I want, and the pain of figuring out how to use it despite often poor documentation, and the pain of having to debug weird edge cases that the developer never encountered, you get a pretty sizable disincentive compared with just implementing your own.
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These days, of course, a micro is what a CSAIL hacker of 1983 would have called an ultrasupercomputer. Even a Raspberry Pi has amazing storage, I/O and computing capabilities.
That's a minimum maximum requirement. It says that the password must be allowed to be at least 64 characters long, not that they be at most 64 characters long. Combined with the forbidding of composition rules and the demand that all ASCII and Unicode be allowed, 64 characters is more than enough.
The stuttering that you describe when scrolling sounds very similar to an issue I discovered recently where the automatic brightness adjustment feature occasionally causes all multitouch gestures to be very choppy (including scrolling, but also swiping between desktops, activating mission control, etc. -- all of it).

I understand you returned it so you can't exactly test this, but it would've been interesting to see if that particular issue was fixed by just disabling automatic brightness adjustment.
Congrats to Mozilla for not only creating a programming language research project that engaged the community, but also growing it into a successful language that's useful and robust for real-world projects.

Mozilla sometimes gets flak for its experiments (or abandoning them), sometimes deservedly, but by doing so many of them and not being afraid to cancel them, they occasionally get big wins like Rust.
Would you as a company rather you fire 1 person or 99 people?
What your saying about the quantities makes sense but your comparison to ESP32 is strange as that isn't an open core at all.
The points are already highlighted by the author with facts and data. I don't think there is a room for discourse when every issue has been reduced to me poor and those rich adversaries as always portrayed by Mr. Modi in every occasion instead of any real data or facts.

Asking 50 days suffering without providing any solid research for its effectiveness. Based on how previous RBI governor was forced out of office, there is little room for discussion. Its just if you are not with me, you are an enemy of country that is what game played by current govt and its leaders in India.
Zuckerberg agrees to censorship to enter China market
Correct. They expressly call that out as being a disadvantage for MA when pointing out certain types of locations are doing better on average with a few exceptions.
It's usually taxed when its sold, rather than when the increase in value happens. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax
>Forth's a good choice, and will teach you lots of assembly, but it's not really a compiler, and Z80 Forth's been done to death.

The Z80 itself's been done to death. If I wanted to go super far off the beaten path, I'd build a 6809 computer (something I actually do want to do, but it's hard to get 6809s). But this is good, because I can base it largely on other's designs, which helps me get to the software bit faster (which is the part that actually excites me), although I will have to make some modifications. This is also good because I suck at electronics. Hopefully, I may suck a bit less by the time this project is done, but that's not the point, really.

But yes, a B compiler might be fun. I'm sure I can at least take it as far as assembler. Mind, it will probably suck, but I'm fairly confident I can make it work.

Provided, of course, that I put in the effort, which isn't a given: a lot of what I set out to do doesn't happen, because I got distracted by something else. The comparison to Leonard of Quirm is obvious, but unfair: he's a genius, and fictional: I'm real, and no genius, just easily distractable.
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I'm not sure Algorithms & Data Structures will help you all that much in the real world. In most modern languages, all the algorithms and data structures are already implemented in the standard library, and while having heard of them is beneficial, you won't get a lot of value out of knowing how to do a binary search.

The problems that I see most junior devs struggling with are at a much higher level. How do you organize large scale programs? How do you make sure that different parts interact flawlessly? A book about design patterns could help here, but without experience you won't appreciate what the patterns are good for.

But by far the most difficult part to wrap your head around is concurrency. How do you make sure your assumptions all hold up when multiple threads / processes / users are all doing stuff in parallel? That's really hard to understand, and you need a combination of theory and experience to master this.

I'm not sure what my point is. Software development is hard, a bootcamp and an Algorithms book is probably a good start, but after that you need to still put in a lot of effort to reach your full potential.
I doubt friends want the same handbag through! It's an anti-viral feature: Personalization.
We actually have a data point: this is exactly what happened during the financial crisis, when ratings agencies sold fraudulent ratings on mortgage-backed securities. There is no way to structure a compensation structure so that reliable ratings information can be provided on the open market because there is no way to restrict the flow of information only to those customers who have paid for it. Perverse incentives of some form are thus inevitable.
And speeding the program up, too: because each line had been tokenised on input, the interpreter's work at runtime was much less.

I miss my Amstrad.
I'm probably the least knowledgeable person on HN so please understand these as questions more than objections, okay?

I would think the first link doesn't affect me since I use a fairly strong unique master password and haven't set an insecurity question.

As for the second link, much the same. I mean I'm fairly certain I can create an encrypted plaintext file that withstands extensive cracking attempts with standard Linux tools. These kinds of attacks would suck for people using 'lastpassword' as their master, if the stored vaults were unhashed and unsalted. Even then, how would that circumvent 2FA? Without my phone or Yubikey or whatever, you still don't get in.

As for the last one, and generally for most criticism: these tools give you the means to be more secure, they even encourage you by asking things that must annoy the average user. There's no unlimited trust for devices or browsers, the security checker is actually quite helpful in identifying possible problems - like my banking password being capped at five digits by design... sigh - and telling you when you're getting dumb ideas, like permanently storing your master password on your phone. So in the end, it's up to the user isn't it?

It's not using it by itself that makes the concept an increase in security, it's using it thoughtfully that is.
Just a nitpick but I think you meant "disclosure" instead of "disclaimer". Disclaimer would be to signal you are not sure the job figures are accurate for example. Disclaimer: English isn't my first language.
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So what happened to all the talk before the election about accepting the results as Democracy?

...What happened is that the people that said this expected to win the election..but didn't.

It really shows me that most people are phonies and they only believe in their own self-interests. The founding fathers were brilliant when they designed the electoral college. It stopped a criminal from becoming president.

You would think that the Democrats would learn from their mistakes. Rather than being bigoted, painting all opposing viewpoints with the same brush (while expecting more acceptance in return), and censoring free speech, you need to figure out why people voted for Trump.

Otherwise, we will have a 2-term president with no Democrats in sight for many years.

edit: The downvotes proves my point. Thanks! :-)
You might not need to be careful.

I find it pretty disgusting that the products don't seem to contain the stuff they claim to contain. So avoid some products on this principle, certainly, and hope the others hold up to their ingredient list: Alternatively, an aloe plant will help a little or for sunburns, something with lidocaine if you aren't opposed to that will actually work (FDA drug label and all those protections with that variety).

However, it seems that the article mentions that a food additive seems to be the preferred substitute - it is likely that the products are safe, even if they weren't the aloe they were claiming. Furthermore, they probably work for immediate relief and moisturization (though possibly not in the healing bit found in some studies [1]). Unless you've skin sensitivities, buy away if whatever happens to be in the product meets your needs.

[1]https://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/herb/aloe
See ratings agencies during the financial crisis. They are the perfect example for private organizations that should have uncovered problems but instead were corrupt. Of course hardcore libertarians will say that they didn't do it right....
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I believe they're in Switzerland, so you may want to be careful with that – or VSCode may become the most expensive software you're using this year :)

IIRC, there was/is a frequent stream of pizzas being delivered over the German-Swiss border because of the price difference – it got so much that they actually started to set up customs checks.
The methodology makes the whole study suspect. New York, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Pennsylvania have lots of universities that attract out of state students. They get dinged for out of state students who go to college there and leave the state for work, but get no credit for out of state students who come for college and stay.

It's possible that the overall effect of out of state students is small but we have no way of verifying that with the data presented.
My favorite thing about react/react native development is the unidirectional flow of data. Specifically I like how it gives you:

1) Deterministic View Renders
2) Deterministic State Reproduction

I think the following article gives a good overview of why this is a good idea:

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/10-tips-for-better-redux...

Quoting from the article:

"When your view render is isolated from network I/O and state updates, you can achieve a deterministic view render, meaning: given the same state, the view will always render the same output. It eliminates the possibility of problems such as race conditions from asynchronous stuff randomly wiping out bits of your view, or mutilating bits of your state as your view is in the process of rendering."

ComponentKit is another example of a native library inspired by react (also developed by FB):

http://componentkit.org/
I'm failing to find anything on it now, but I remember rumor from the 90s that the NSA was an early SUN customer. If true, Eric Schmidt is all the more interesting.