skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have 5 firms with ROIs of -10%, -5%, -3%, 1%, 14% and 31%, then 50% of the firms have negative growth rates and the median firm loses money.

However you can observe that if you invested $100 ($600 total) into each firm, you would end up with $636.

Median return isn't a very useful measure of the health of a sector. It is a predictor for risk, but not a very good one.
In the US at least, the info needed to transfer money to an account is the exact same info needed to silently transfer money from an account.

All of it.

At once.
My impression was that "hard coded variable" meant a named constant, i.e. something that was not run-time configurable.
https://youtu.be/akiVi1sR2rM?t=2m41s
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> Square cash, venmo, Facebook cash, snapcash.

We don't have anything like any of those in Canada, if someone wants to try :)
"Straightforward" meaning what? Just bluntly dismissive of undue hype? What statements has he made to this effect?
Doesnt suprise me at all

USA = Lets make shiny stuff in lavish facility somewhere in California and then sell it at over inflated prices

China = Lets make stuff at very low cost in mass factories which don't care about looks or people, then sell it at a good profit much cheaper than the US.

The only way for China to do this without the Social Justice people beating their drums is to Automate the facility, thus giving the SJW's nothing to complain about and still selling cheap stuff, thus the spending on AI and Robots.

Seems like a pretty logical outcome to me
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The reason for the emphasis is that the article isn't clear on two points.

- By definition, his method of finding domains only finds domains that aren't in active use. (domain servers in the ns records return fail/refused).

- It uses the terminology "taking over", and you're saying "complete control". However, if the real owner of the domain wanted control back, they would simply log into their registrar and change the NS records...very low effort.
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After being burned by ATI and Nvidia driver installs gone bad I'm reluctant to use anything but the defaults. Software SDKs too seem especially brittle when installed apart from the recommended options.

So it's not only casual users who prefer the default.
This will probably get flagged for politics, but thank you for sharing this.
Then how come when the failure happens it is more often in the firmware rather than any of the mechanical parts.

For some reason we take more care when building mechanical devices, because we can observe and measure the complexities and wear and tear of use.

Software on the other hand, with firmware being a variant of software, can apparently neither be properly observed nor tested.
Avoiding comments or diagnostics/logging, because these two will be picked on every single time.

"Don't have it debug log 'Foo'd 5 bars', make it 'Foodulated five bar things'"
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Meh...

IMO, the name really means nothing at the end of the day. Especially for a product like this, where your targeting developers.

If a product is good and it delivers on what it promises; the name means nothing to me. I'll remember it / bookmark it and use it.

If it's just another clone of something else popular and doesn't cause me to look at it again a second time; a good name won't change that.

Few names explain what the product are now a days. Gone are the days of finding a product name like Microsoft or Rackspace or AWS or Facebook - those names are "descriptive" in what they do. Tell me what Digital Ocean does by just it's name, or CloudFlare or Apple for that matter. The name is a place holder; a point of reference. The products features and quality determines if it's of value.
Michael Crichton, who wrote and directed the original Westworld (also of Jurassic Park fame), describes the same idea in his novel Prey[0], which is about emergent AI from swarms of self-replicating nano-bots.

0. https://www.amazon.com/Prey-Michael-Crichton/dp/0061703087/r...
Funny how I'm working on exactly that for my major project in Bachelors next semester. I don't have it figured out but it's a problem I'd like to solve.
Yes that also means the latency is not very long since in normal Erlang processes the process heap is also quite small so it doesn't take long to collect. Even without our planned extensions to the Erlang VM its astonishing well behaved in real world realtime applications.

Soft/hard realtime was always a spectrum and basically the point of hard-realtime is never reached in practice (if your hardware dies or glitches you miss your deadline, caches are hard to model but you't want to switch them off etc).

Even without changed VM one can enforce garbage collection at certain points which moves Erlang on the throughput/realtime spectrum more towards realtime. Not worth it if a non realtime OS schedules you but of value when controlling exactly who can preempt you (under RTEMS no-one is feasible)
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Zero technical benefits for sure, but it may help with ClojureScript's marketing. I've seen many JS developers outright dismiss ClojureScript / Closure because they don't want anything that involves Java - which is completely irrational, but a reality still.
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The halt of otherwise systemic and cyclical mold infestations? There are other documents from that time period which quite explicitly call for the burning of a domacile which was infested with mold.
The only difference between this and a large modern tech company is that the latter has this process automated. If anything, large tech companies have more respect for the need for process, as they understand how critical it is for everything to run smoothly.
The reason for the numbering system possibly comes from the ITIL system where priority is determined as a product of two factors - impact (scope) and urgency. These definitions in most IT orgs I've seen regardless of how poorly executed or immature the org is seems to be pretty consistent and oftentimes include gating factors like other comments in this subtree have been discussing. If some of the most immature and byzantine IT processes can get this nonsense settled, engineers can avoid the bike shedding and goalpost moving, too if they actually put some effort into a sensible system and enforced it.
How do iPhones get exported from China ?
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More groundbreaking than other developments singly - probabably; combined? not a chance. Other 20th century developments include flight, rocketry, the United Nations, quantum physics, splitting the atom, the M.A.D. principle, assembly line production, robotics, analog computers (including those used for AA targeting systems in WWII, predating the transistor), among many, many others.
I hope this doesn't get flagged. Despite being political, it's a pretty big story.
Dumb. Thanks, Apple, your trendsetting has caught on, and ruined things for the rest of us.

I'll never be convinced that removing a well-established standard, especially for something as prosaic as consumer headphones, is "the future". Well, maybe it is, but it's a stupid future.
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Requiring all your constants to be configurable seems like a great way to bypass (potentially critical) code review and QA. I can totally see changing something like "number of months" causing extremely non-obvious issues (e.g. integer overflow in something 20 stack levels away)...once you make it a configurable constant though, changing it won't be QA'd at all.
I just click ok and then don't actually do the rating.
The West didn't listen. It poked the giant a lot. During the 19th and 20th centuries, many European countries initiated wars in China, carving it into foreign spheres of influence.
I was thinking the same thing and Trump is only part of the story. There are interesting articles on the other candidates. I hesitated before posting it but I don't believe it's a purely political article and considering the article ends up on HN annually it wouldn't be right to ban it this year.

Edit: There's an interesting part on 'the hackers' [1]

[1] http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2016-hackers-runner-...

Edit 2: Great, flagged. I'm all for a week of no political news on here but it's a stretch to call this political. If certain users can't engage in civil discussion ban the users - not the discussion.
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So go to your grocery store. Milk is in the corner so you have to all past the candy and chips to get to it. Did they breach your trust? Customers want milk - why isn't it in the first aisle?

Retail stores have done this for years. Why wouldn't an online store do the same thing?
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I'd argue that the UX for up/downvoting is already correct. Vote up if you agree, down if you disagree. It's intuitive and how most people use those buttons.

You can attack this problem from a different angle: Factor the number of reports/flags into the karma calculation and unweight downvoting itself. The report button on Reddit is essentially a "this content is inappropriate" button - why not use it as a part of the scoring system?
Strange. When I talk to recruiters, usually I just link my LinkedIn, and when they ask for a separate CV file, they're usually quite happy with PDF. I never heard them asking for Word format.
Firmware update in the field is important but only a small aspect of a embedded system (one that really needs to work).

But Erlang already offers a lot around releases out of the box and in our case The VM + the whole "OS" is just one file to swap so we don't have a lot of problems one has if Linux + Erlang + Application needs to be updated.

FWIW: for larger Embedded systems we use FreeBSD + nanobsd wich solves a lot of the above mentioned problems. Update image verification and running the update is about 200 lines of Erlang code. And nanobsd comes with the normal FreeBSD system (builds disk/flash filesystem images with multiple partitions for easy update -- runs from one swap to the other)
These issues confirmed by personal experience.

I switched over my father-in-law's laptop to Chromium OS for this exact reason.

(mostly) automatic updates.

no malware.

zero configuration to allow for breaking anything.

no "can I install XX?" questions. The answer is always "if it's in the chrome store".

A good browser does everything he needs.
Ask HN: What side project are you working on?
There used to be these type of posts awhile back and people shared a lot of interesting projects that they were creating. So I wanted to ask again. What are you working on at the moment?
I may be reading more into 'initially he thought' than you meant but Clojure CLR is real and has been around for years:
https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr
This is also the reason for bad spelling/grammar/etc -- most of it's probably mostly intentional.

(Which is really depressing and shows just what awful people these spammers/scammers are.)
This kind of problems could be made public.

Small or big company, government or organisation could define problem, give test input, expected output and performance points (delta size, cpu usage etc); submissions open for all.

Similar to programming competitions but instead of made-up problems, there is a real world problem to be solved.

This could be good for everybody - companies, because they'd get (I hope) the best solutions (there could be some price for top solutions, but still fraction of in-house r&d cost), for people, because they could be hired or at least would have a chance to test their skills on real problems; it could be used as part of hiring process to skip early nonsense etc.

The biggest win, IMHO, would be to have government organisations getting involved in this kind of "Open R&D" - open for contributions and also open for new, not yet articulated ideas.
Of course it can. It runs everything that runs on BEAM, Elixir, LFE, erlua and Erlang
heh, "kid proof". More like usage proof.

Only place i recall seeing such keys were on some industrial machine or other...
Just make sure you weight the opportunity costs, meaning your time might be better spent on something else. If you are an highly skilled and productive software engineer you are one in a million, and fixing one of your problems, even a very hard one, might only end up being useful for a tiny group of people.
Amazing (and very true) analogy.
Isn't this what HN has? Up, down, and flag?
I found it really surprising hearing similar anecdotal stories about banking in the US.

But how does it really work? Is it done on a requester side - i.e. I can request money to my bank account having details of someone's else bank account wholly without their permissions? How could such lax security be allowed in modern age? When paranoid EU banks decline my transactions to my own accounts with other banks, confirmed by 2-factor auth, it's impossible to fathom how one can electronically take money from someone else's account.
There are already similar services established so the choice of name is going to have little to no bearing on your success.
Just call it LivePipe or RocketGrid and get on with it. Toss a coin if you can't decide.
5 to 6 was fine on my G4. I'm not sure how it compares to the Note 4 but the phone is at least a generation old. There is another pending OS update I've been ignoring for a few months, not for fear of being crippled, but just because I can.
Sort of related... http://www.sciencealert.com/tests-confirm-that-germany-s-mas...
Thank you! So some sites use a key even from third-party sites to keep content from being shared. I knew sometimes we can get in through Google if it's paywalled, but I didn't know that other sites used a key.
> even while still using Bitcoin behind the scenes.

Are we sure they were even doing this?
I noticed that nullable nonnull did almost nothing for my Objective-C code. A real bummer, I would love to have a good analyzer warning for that.
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> Watch screens are too small for anything but displaying simplistic stuff, let alone letting the user meaningfully and fluidly control the device.

I wonder if you've seen the rotating bezel of Samsung gear s3 in action, it might change your mind. But the watch UI is not the bottleneck, the constant wearing of a watch is.
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Because business deals in parking lots are famous for working out well.
I didn't say it has no predictive capabilities. You said that. Is that what you think? Because it's not what I think.

I said a credential alone is a pretty weak measure of success. It might be a very strong measure of potential for future success. Do you see the difference?
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And became fabulously wealthy doing so. Part of the reason there was excess capital in England to fund the industrial revolution was because of the Canton trade.
Yes, but the payload to check here is the diff, not the full APK.

What happens today is that the diff is verified, then applied, then the full APK checksum is verified. So the diff is checked before being applied; whether the checksum is verified at APK level or at file level, we have passed the signature checking.
I use that situation as a personal litmus test. If I get no response back or "I can't open this I need Word!!!!1!" I already know I don't want to work there. Why do tech at a techphobic company?
That's a recent development. Recruiters are finding out that you can use Office 2016 to edit PDF, too.
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> Most of those (the good ones, at least)

2 questions: 'good' by what metric, and where are you getting your data from?
Wow. Amazon has some seriously screwed up software running somewhere. Sure hope the right people see this guy's post.
That graph about millennials' declining support for democracy is very misleading
Looks cool, but couldn't quickly try it out. The website for Projector caused Chrome to crash- it showed a "WebGL hit a snag" error.

http://projector.tensorflow.org/
> the info needed to transfer money to an account is the exact
> same info needed to silently transfer money from an account

If I wanted to transfer money to an account, would I need the username/password/credentials for that account?

If I wanted to transfer money from an account, would I need the username/password/credentials for that account?
Glad that it worked for you. We realised a bit late that mouse was behaving rather oddly inside MenuetOS (at least on my Fedora 24 machine). We were seeing three behaviours: 1) mouse works fine; 2) mouse does not move at all (but you see it); and 3) mouse moves automatically to the right-most border at the start and stays there -- sometimes for ever, sometimes just for a while.

Adding the '-usb -device usb-tablet' to the QEMU command-line gave an impression that it's the cause, by working once, but it quickly reverts to either behaviour 2 or 3 above.
can I suggest a question to ask what software they are using. Then append it to your google search. So, it would look like "Excel copy and paste"
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I would love to see a spam-shame site made by people who do this, outing the companies who sell or trade our email addresses.
And here I thought that my years fighting with UML modeling tools would go completely wasted.
My own story time: I found an item selling on amazon.co.uk and amazon.de for much less than the going rate on amazon.com. I ordered a bunch from co.uk. Then I was testing out the amazon.de site, I added a gift credit of 10 Euro. Somehow this flagged the .de account for verification, and that account got locked out. Then, that lockout spilled over to the uk account, and eventually to the US account, where I had dozens of pending orders.

I sent an email to jeff@amazon.com with a summary of the issue. It took a day or two for my US account to be fixed, and about a week for the other accounts to start working. I don't know whether the email helped or whether it would have been verified eventually anyway.

The process is definitely broken, though. Even one day lockout could be catastrophic for a larger seller.
This is a eval board, which is optimized for developer time.

In practice low power and performance are interchangeable (you try to race as fast as you can to the next point where you sleep as deep as you can). The CPU has decent sleep modes so when the system idles it can be made considerably low power.

So since Erlang is a language running on a VM you give up some sequential performance (power consumption). But in real world embedded systems you see a similar effect than with Erlang on the server: it reacts quite quickly on external events which is what most embedded systems do most of the time.

So the same which can be achieved on a server counterintuitively more performance you would expect looking at the sequential Erlang performance one can get in a embedded system. And this can be translated to power consumption directly and indirectly: quick reaction then sleep longer, possible reduction of clock speed or smaller CPU.
It's amazing these companies don't have a "buy your way out of trouble" service. I'm sure this guy would be willing to pay a few hundred $ to have a human resolve it.

Perhaps that option would create a new set of complaint about people being extorted out of support fees for problems that weren't their fault.
> MS Word is the only game in town, like it or not.

That's stretching it. Most companies are totally fine with PDF these days, not in the least because it is WYSIWYG for screen and print and just works. Looks a lot more professional too; especially if you are looking for a job in IT.

When recruiters or temp agencies ask for Word documents, they want this because then they can strip out all your personal data and pass the documents on to the companies (their customers) looking for employees. With PDF they need to do more work.
It doesn't even work, so don't sweat it :D

Getting a "Username is too short (minimum is 2 characters)" after signing up with Twitter.
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Web site doesn't make much sense. What's it about? What's being resumed?
How strange. Around me people without watches are exception not the rule.
I'm actually surprised at the down votes :( and I take HN karma too seriously
I don't think qubes comes anywhere close to what the GP was asking for. It's awesome, but it's far from being a minimal linux system to bootstrap qemu. dom0 is a full Fedora install, and it uses Xen.
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LetsEncrypt only supports their certbot client, so no email support.
LaTeX is a no brainer for anyone with a mind predisposed to programming... E.g people in the software industry. It makes working with my CV a _piece of cake!_
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Indeed. Think about situations like this and that article last night of 6 days to change a line of code. Inflexible processes have consequences. They are setup to prevent fraud, but some sort of appeal or review would make a lot of sense.
As does using C for more complex applications ;-)
It's not rapid cycling until it's rapid, before that it's just a cycle. I thought you were referring to ES5, otherwise I have no idea what you mean - JS tooling wasn't going anywhere very quickly before ~2010
You can talk to a human, but not the department who can do something about it.

Generally the way to get a human who knows what's up is to email jeff@amazon.com.

According to an AMA with a former employee https://www.reddit.com/r/FulfillmentByAmazon/comments/3naqe8...

>I did hear that a few years ago there was Seller Performance phone support and it was simply abusive and harassing for the people on the phones and wasn't really productive.
Kops actually isn't tied to AWS, though we only support AWS right now. We'll likely be adding GCE support next; user requested features on AWS have taken priority so far though...
For those who prefer Facebook to Slack, there is a closed Facebook group for SaaS Founders as well, small, but growing: http://SaaSMasters.com links to it.
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The nickel and diming is one thing but now boarding will take even longer. People clogging up the aisle fucking around with the overhead bins is why boarding takes so long currently, and soon people will somehow have to "authenticate" that they're allowed to use them so it will take even more time.

Also if people traveling together have their seats broken up, they will just bother other passengers to switch seats so they can sit together. (It's implied that if you say no you're an asshole.)

Air travel just keeps getting crappier bit by bit.
Thanks a lot for that link!

I wish I would have known about these problems before, then I might have bought a printer with more ram.
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Ugh.. it was coming, wasn't it? says my cynicism. But that's unfortunate. I wonder how long until there are more alternatives to the big airlines..
That would be a decent option and reduce some of the noise they would have to deal with.
This might help explain things -- it's a résumé site:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Résumé
I forgot to paste the link to prove my bragging point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9364598