skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't find the source but I remember hearing of some tale of Margaret Thatcher strolling around London or someplace with some Soviet official. Supposedly he was astounded at the bustling economic activity whizzing about them. He asked her something along the lines of "who is your central planner that has yielded all this?", to which she replied something to the effect of "no, one, this is the Free market operated by individuals, etc etc."

Doing a cursory search for the above, I did find this quote that seemed to capture her sentiments against central planning, to which I think a lot of people use the I, Pencil fable to show the folly that some centralized individuals would have knowledge at all times and all places about what goods and services should be in demand and what they should be priced at and that there's an arrogance to even attempt so much.

"The lesson of the economic history of Europe in the 70's and 80's is that central planning and detailed control do not work and that personal endeavour and initiative do. That a State-controlled economy is a recipe for low growth and that free enterprise within a framework of law brings better results…. And that means action to free markets, action to widen choice, action to reduce government intervention. Our aim should not be more and more detailed regulation from the centre: it should be to deregulate and to remove the constraints on trade.”
It is not translating from Japanese>English>korean it learned how to translate Japanese<>English Korean<>English now it knows how to translate Japanese<>Korean. In laymen terms it understands Korean and Japanese so can translate between them without needing examples of Japanese<>Korean translations.
I've been using unix since 1992, starting with ultrix, then going to sunos, netbsd, solaris, linux, tru64, osx, and I think aix was in there somewhere too.
#3 is because the USB-C charge cable only does USB 2. It doesn't have all the wires that would be needed to do USB3 or alternate modes.

The reason is that USB2 cables are cheaper and easier to make longer. The charge cable is 2m and $19, the Belkin 1m is $22, the Belkin Thunderbolt 0.5m is $22, and the Belkin Thunderbolt 2m is $52.

Also, the charge cable is emarked and supports charging at 5A (100W). Regular USB C cables only support 3A and 60W.
> Whenever people buy something which they are completely unable to differentiate from a fake, are they really being defrauded when someone sells them the fake?

Yes.
Given the recent increase in Windows' no-you-can't-stop-me update restart behavior this seems more important every week, at least on my Windows 10 guinea pig system. Being able to just throw some text into a blank buffer and not lose it in Notepad++ has made that my scratch pad of choice these days.
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The Experience of Being a High-Performing Data Scientist
Your friend's boss doesn't sound like he should be managing data scientists or ML engineers
I read someplace an updated version called "I, IPad", but I can't find it anywhere online. It was a cool walk through all the materials and techniques mobilized in this crazy globalized effort to yield an IPad. The original pencil version still conveys the same networks being mobilized to yield a good simple product immediately familiar to everyone.
This is one of the great texts on economics. Together with "Economics in One Lesson" by Hazlit, should be required high school reading all over the planet. These texts immunise the mind against logical fallacies about material progress. They will make mankind come together without politicians or enemies.

"There is a fact still more astounding: the absence of a master mind, of anyone dictating or forcibly directing these countless actions which bring me into being. No trace of such a person can be found." This is one of the beautiful miracles of our kind, a fact that remains unknown to most of us. Including many who figure themselves at the commanding heights.

Every attempt to make this fictional mastermind more powerful makes our fate worse.
The Danger of False Positives
I'd Rather Predict Basketball Games Than Elections: Elastic NBA Rankings
I had the opposite recently. Trying to log into my alma mater's website to get a copy of transcripts, but my account had long ago locked out. They asked me questions over the phone to reset it, but I couldn't answer any of them.

"What is your phone number on file?" Shoot, I don't know, it was an old number that I changed maybe 6 years ago...

"What is your address on file?" I've moved maybe five times since then? I tried "was it in another state?" to narrow it down, but the answer was "I can't say that".

"Okay, we can verify you by classes you took..." Great, now we're getting somewhere! I took Intro to Ethics. "We need to know what term." Okay, this is tricky, it was like 10 years ago... Fall of 2006? "We need to know professor's name." Um. I think I have the book here, I know he wrote it... Professor McLaughlin? "I also need to know the day of the week the class was held and what time the class was."

Are you effing kidding me? I wish I was joking. I ended up just calling my old advisor and he "verified" me with an email to the helpdesk.
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Isn't Silicon Valley's biggest secret its close relation to the US military?
haha, are you quoting Obama in the first line and Hillary in the second?
I once worked with some automation stuff back during the dot-com boom, before "smart home" was a thing. At the time the only players in the industry were "Lutron Homeworks", AMX, & Crestron control systems. A guy in our office used a language called "SIMPL" to create the touchscreen interfaces' UI.

...And, yes they were insecure. I remember the Chinese would take over 1 particular media distribution system regularly, at a local community college. They'd plaster anti-western political messages on every TV in every classroom. Took a week or so tinkering with hyperterminal to fix it. Lol
How Much Does a Cyber Weapon Cost? Nobody Knows
I think the point you're trying to convey is what the author meant - Ellison, Dolby, and Jobs were not lucky idiots, just that some of their peers saw them that way.
That is the entirety of PCI

PCI is nothing more than Security Theater so Mastercard and visa can claim it is all the merchants fault for data breaches and shield them from any liability
This is your man: https://www.google.ca/search?q=chinese+boy+with+long+neck&sa...
Discovering what keeps plants cellular cargo on track
> Ridiculous amount of info

Just to understand, when you said "ridiculous" you mean "a few" or "a lot" of?
I had breakfast with Nolan Bushnell back in 2013 at GameTech and he's been a huge inspiration to me. The dude is 80? and has the energy and enthusiasm for tech that is simply contagious. We talked for 20 minutes over bacon on how he wanted to use his company BrainRush to bring high school education down to take just six months. Everything he does, he does with gusto and a full heart.

He's one of my favorites. If you ever get a chance to hear him speak at a conference, take it!

Disclaimer: I am not Nolan Bushnell. :)
But we are living in a system of literally exploding banking regulation. The amount of regulation bank have are so astronomically high that no human can actually read it. There are huge organisations that try to enforce these regulation but for some reason this does not solve the problem.

Each time there is a issue, there is a new movement for anther Basel. This time things will be different. But they are not. For some reason many people just keep yelling 'more regulation' without any evidence that they actually do or change much.

Yes, individuals do suboptimal things for the long term of the company, but I don't see a massive amount of cases were companies get created for a short time to defraud everybody and then leave. Every company has a intensive to set up a structure so that they can prevent this sort of stuff, its in the responsibility of the owner, who has the most to lose.

Interestingly enough Adam Smith had invested in a bank that went down. In this system you had companies with double exposure. That means that if you had a stock of a failing company you could lose the value of the stock plus pay that much into the bank.

This actually had the effect that banks when failing would try to fail early, now failing banks try to make high risk investments to get everything back and then ask for bailouts if it fails.

I would highly suggest you study historical bank systems. Compare the highly regulated US banking system (US banking was highly regulated from the very beginning, usually requiring a special charter, no branching and so on) to the hardly regulated banking system of Canada. During the Great Depression the US had about 3000 bank failures, Canada had 0-1 depending on how you count. Canada during that time did not have a central bank, but rather competitive note issue by a group of banks (the US had taxed this heavily during the Civil War and reduced it, then finally getting ride of it in 1913 with the Fed).

It must also be said that Canada suffered very heavily economically, but the banking system was stable. Canada was famed for its banking system on to this day have a far superior less regulated system. In the US many people actually wanted to adopt the Canadian unregulated system, but JPMorgan and friends did of course not want to lose their monopoly on the international market (small banks had to use a partner in New York).

You can also go back to England and Scotland. Scotland probably had the freest banking system that ever existed and it was one of the best performing system that we have historical evidence of.
How the f@@@ on the year 2016 we have a 64 character max length password requirement!!
I'd say scratch means from raw materials as found in their natural state on Earth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_material
It would probably not look anything like Esperanto, which is a charliefoxtrot of pidgin Spanish with some Turkish orthography thrown in.

In all seriousness, however, different languages often have radically different concepts encoded into them. For example, in English sentences you might be forced to explicitly give subjects to the actors in your sentences, assign genders to your pronouns, and choose whether actions take place in the present or future, whether they are ongoing in general or happening at this moment, etc. In Japanese you might be forced to choose how to express your relationship with the person you are speaking to, the person you are speaking about, and decide whether a causal relationship is "if and only if" or just plain "if then".

There's long been a hypothesis about whether there is some kind of "universal grammar" (Chomsky) but modern linguists do not really entertain that idea.
You mean, other than law, police and the courts? You're describing an illegal action, under copyright law. If I steal your car and give it to a charity it's still stealing. Ditto, open source. They don't get to keep the car, they don't get to keep your code.

Granted, the courts treat genuine donations and pledges to charities differently than other gifts, and regard them as binding contracts; crediting the good work of charities of consideration to everyone including the donor (whether that's really true or not.) But I doubt your question referred to such subtleties.
I think you didn't get the point blazespin wrote: they said (or I read it as them saying) that since there's no way to get a "test market" in the U.S., rather than blow their "one shot" on the launch version which they can't iterate on before the whole U.S. market sees it, they use a proxy for a U.S. test market: they use a smaller foreign market. They don't care about "burning" those users or losing their "one chance" to launch, since those markets are small or at any rate a smaller launch. They then take their learnings, incorporate them and launch in the U.S. with a first version that is markedly better.

so it's product development. the point isn't about marketing at all. (Except in a broad sense.) it's a product development trick, like a closed beta. I don't think you would call a closed beta "marketing" exactly.

at least, this is what I read the comment as.
Right?!
Can you give an example of solving a problem using code vs coding?
The don'ts list is pretty much a christmas present from NIST. I hate all of those things. Worst is the stupid security questions.
Activists Urge Clinton Campaign to Challenge Election Results in 3 Swing States
Cool. Message me if you have any questions along the way. I'm here to help!
They do hire a lot of C++ programmers to work on cool projects tough. They also pay well.

Also banks.
Dating apps are full social networks too.
> The reason Sennheiser's worked so well is probably because they have a large speaker

The reason I’m singling out beats, and a few other cheap headphones is because those tend to add a DSP to boost the bass.

That’s why it wouldn’t work with them.
Sure. There will be problems with that, just as we have now.

There are ways we are already dealing with it, and we will continue to do so. I don't see what a state can do. If you want security always go to the same company that has done well by you in the paste.

It you want security you have to pay a little extra.

I don't see how a state can do more. If people are actually doing illegal stuff, then there is the policy, just as now.
Slow them down?
I wonder how much I'd have to spend on AWS if I just wrote the acceptance tests for our next project, then ran this in a loop/cluster until it wrote something that passed UAT... :)
I assume he means he uses git worktree to create a directory structure like so:

src/my_project_master/

src/my_project_develop/

src/my_project_new_feature/

Each with it's own IntelliJ project. If he needs to switch branches it's relatively fast to open a different existing project rather than git checkout branch, which can cause IntelliJ to become unresponsive as it reindexes everything.

Not tried this, but I experience this quite often and will have to give this a shot.
Please stop posting paywalled articles. There are all kinds of arguments for paying for quality news and whatever, but I'll never pay for WSJ and I simply don't care enough to bother with circumvention. If people want to try the paywall thing let them build the wall. Lets stop peeking over the top though shall we?
No, that has never been secretive. It has been very well known for decades in the global tech industry. Anyone outside of the tech industry could care less.
Aren't passphrases kind of a bad choice for passwords? If all you are ever really guessing is the symbols that make up someones password, and you know that for example they have 4 words that make the passphrase, then you effectively only have to iterate 4 symbols with a known list of possibilities for each symbol (i.e. the dictionary).

If you compare the permutation space of a short passwords (length 7) with random characters (say ~80 potential symbols), with a long(er) password made up of 4 english words (say ~3000 potential symbols, the most commonly used english words).

character_symbols = 80
word_symbols = 3000
number_of_character_password_symbols = 7
number_of_word_password_symbols = 4
permutation_space_characters = character_symbols**number_of_character_password_symbols
permutation_space_words = word_symbols**number_of_word_password_symbols
print('%.2E' % permutation_space_characters, '%.2E' % permutation_space_words)
('2.10E+13', '8.10E+13')

The words space is four times bigger, but in the same magnitude as the short (bad) password. I'm not an expert here, so I might have stuffed it up, but it seems like passphrases shouldn't really be encouraged?

I do love the recommendation to remove time-based password expiry though.
Yeah, this would be my main quibble with the article. Our literary history has a significant survivor bias. But I think the greater share of impact comes from moth and rot rather than human selection.

The main point of the article stands. Our views of history are shaped by the most literate ancient societies, not the most successful.
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Glad to see the knowledge based questions are being phased out, many are sadly answerable with a cursory search query or leaked in previous breaches.

I didn't see anything in there about security images/indicators, which have also been shown to be ineffective: "was this bank the image of the man snowboarding, or the woman skiing...?"
There are quite a few scenarios where a sustained, hidden compromise is an (or several) order of magnitude worse than a one time obvious compromise.

The first to come to mind is a corporate espionage scenario. Do you want to know what your competitor is up to today, or do you want access to their briefings/CAD/code for the next 12 months? Long duration compromises also allow you to slip data out slowly, so a NAS doesn't show 200GB being transferred off in a matter of hours, but a slow drip of 100MB a day.

At a personal/home use level, long term access to a bank account allows an attacker to build up a spending profile, which depending on your habits, could be used for blackmail.
This is not /b/.
>Basically the idea is rail (and later airlines) are critical national infrastructure, and the country should not be brought to a standstill over minor contract disputes.

I have to ask: why not? That is, since it's only the goods sold by private business being "brought to a standstill", why not? Moving people or military goods under all conditions makes sense. Moving Amazon shipments under all conditions does not.
Which is a real shame. SMS might not be perfect, but it's a real help when I don't have a better means handy. Its better than no 2FA, and it's saved my butt a few times when I get a text message saying "Here is your login code" and I'm out walking in the park.

I get a new phone every year, and Google Authenticator sucks for that, but it's by far the second most common 2FA provider. I just got a new phone today, and had to go disable 2FA on all my accounts then re-enable it to generate a new code. SMS is always a good fallback in my experience.
aqua, parfum

Nobody said the ingredients had to use their common name, or readable by ordinary humans. :)

(sodium saccharin)
No worries! Trump is going to make America great again!

He'll be going right after any business man in this country that is a crooked swindler, cheat, grifter, and any other synonymous adjectives!

If he doesn't, we can just vote the other side back in when they promise to do what Trump didn't!

It'll be fine!
Is there any data on the success rate of companies that aim small? A lot of the allure of the startup is a chance to strike it big. If one isn't doing that anyways, might make more sense to join a big company since they offer a considerably higher expected return on your work.

(Also if one can get funding, it lets one get paid an actual salary more quickly.)
That would have confused the guys in The Wire who eventually figured out the bad guys "jump 5" phone number encoding...
Ask HN: Why doesn't Nintendo ramp up production of classic?
Everywhere is solid out, and with a MSRP of $59.99, they are being sold for 4x or 5x by 3rd parties due to demand. However, Nintendo is not seeing any of that revenue. They should just raise the price to $99 and sell them directly from their website and dropship directly.
You can also build a successful startup not being a slave working 14hr days. Both small businesses and big businesses can be either well run or poorly run. It's mostly a function of building the right culture, having the right systems in place, and having enough resources to not burn your team out.
This is the only thing I've seen that remotely comes close - but truthfully, the reason it's so hard is because it just comes with experience.

https://www.amazon.com/Think-Like-Programmer-Introduction-Cr...
Some systems allow entering your own security question and answer, in which case my security question is always "What's the other password?".
I still get plenty of headhunters looking for Rails people. Popular stacks need maintenance and new features too.
Haskell would be a lot easier to manage in production environments if resource-usage was more predicable - meaning strict by default.
AC motors as well. Lots of brushless quadcopter motor controllers buzz out diagnostic/startup tones from the motors as they power up.
FYI, if you click on the <x> minutes ago link above the post you can get a reply box even on new posts.

When I worked for t-mobile it was last 4 of the social unless the customer requests otherwise.

Few requested otherwise, and usually it was because they were annoyed about people being able to see part of their SSN.
Today you can not buy up a hole group of claims and make a collective action suit on behave of the other people. That is not legal.

There are many other problems with the courts that make the system I proposed currently impossible.
I found that very high at first, but then realized it's probably a pretty fair valuation of his time.

In the sense that you'd be silly to pay that price for that bag, but he'd be silly to sell it to you for any less if it takes him 10 hours to make it.
> that they could pribably get more accurate estimates with far fewer input variables

suggests it meant "a lot"
Java's exceptions are not overly verbose. Blame bad developers and worse architects for insane stack depths.
Ha, I couldn't remember if it was URI or URL and I was too lazy to look. :-/
A one time tax break does not change the fundamental incentive structure, as building a significant business operation is a long term investment.
> SMS might not be perfect, but it's a real help when I don't have a better means handy. Its better than no 2FA

If used exclusively as a second factor, yes, it's better than nothing. However, many systems also allow you to use a phone as a password recovery system, which makes it much worse than no 2FA. Many people have had every account they own broken into, starting with a social-engineering call to their cell service to get their number moved to a new SIM/phone, followed by a reset of their email, followed by a reset of everything else.
Assuming here you mean something like a classic REST-alike "/events" endpoint which returns a bunch of stuff that's changed since the last time you requested it.

In that case, as the number of events grows, the HTTP transaction overhead goes to zero with polling, yeah.

But now you have a bunch of extra things which will impact your latency:

- The third-party service will do more work preparing the payload, meaning that the earliest event on the list no longer hits the wire right away

- related: someone might be holding a lock on event 63 of 100. Now other events have to wait for it before they can hit the wire

- In your application code, you may have to read the entire request before you can validate it or do anything with it (at least, this goes for APIs which speak JSON)

- You probably have to commit your transaction for the previous page of events before you can start your next request. Otherwise, whichever side of the network is keeping tabs on your current pointer in the list, that pointer may end up in the wrong place. Oops!

- If more events happen during the time it takes you to request a page than will fit on a page, then you're really stuck.

- An error anywhere in the super-http-transaction (network, user code...) now means that an entire page of updates has been delayed rather than just one.

It's possible to remove the sequential-ness constraint from our hypothetical "/events" but not without introducing other fun new problems.