skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Robinwood's target audience seems to be younger generation, most of whom are not hot about investment, not to mention whether they know what Wall Street did a long time ago (aside from 2008's financial crisis).
What the hell are you talking about? Im not encouraging weak behavior. The goal of the videos is to convince public to change law and policy. It's proven fact that more of public will buy into the cops being the aggressor if the activist isnt actively trying to piss them off by doing them dirty or threatening them. Im advocating doing what helps the cause instead of what makes you feel like an alpha-male/female in heat of the moment.
Curious as to what makes this "beautiful".
I'll choose a boogeyman you can perhaps appreciate: You bluetooth lightbulb is enabling pedophiles with anonymity, and you may take the fall when you're mistaken as the source of the requests. (You can swap out the boogeyman with terrorists, spammers, credit card thiefs, etc)
Truckers may not notice if the problem is at the rear trailer, as it was in the video. The water curtain, although unusual, is not expensive. It's just a sprinkler pipe and a very bright slide projector.
The seasonal variation of solar power is a big problem if you want to rely mostly on solar power, though. Seasonal storage is insanely expensive with any of the usual methods. I mean, let's say to get daily storage, you need 8 hours of batteries. To get 4 or 5 weeks of storage, you need more like 800 hours of batteries. It's literally 100x the cost.

So yeah, if you want to run on natural gas for half the year, then solar in the nordics isn't bad.

But luckily the nordics have lots of hydro and don't need any gas or even solar.

But on the equator, the seasonal variation is small. The Global South will have a big energy cost advantage as solar costs keep dropping.
I didn't believe you until this brought up the parent comment as the only result:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=xrdp+libfxcodec

Shortest Googlewhack(-ish) I've ever accidentally stumbled upon myself, for sure!

try: https://github.com/neutrinolabs/librfxcodec
If you liked this, you might also be interested in this project by The Caretaker. He has been diagnosed with dementia, and is producing music over several months to try to capture the progression of the disease. I recommend giving it a listen:

https://thecaretaker.bandcamp.com/album/everywhere-at-the-en...
the last job I quit was at a small company that went from having an autonomous, highly agile engineering team (of which I was an early member) to having 3 tiers of management overseeing an engineering team that had less people in it than the management hierarchy above it.

the emotional corrosion that this causes can't be understated. bad management, even without explicit abuse, is a serious driver of burnout.

burnout is a SERIOUS fucking condition and it should be acknowledged as a tier 1 health risk. people kill themselves because of it.
Just FYI, the site doesn't have a valid HTTPS certificate.
How do newer banks do it? It certainly doesn't take 100 years to bootstrap a bank. I also mathematically can't get behind the concept of reproducing a known state taking longer than the time it's taken to get to it.

I can't find the post now, but some folks from the US govt who frequent HN talked at length about the ongoing replacement of mainframe-type services with newer tech. What I gathered from that is that the cost isn't ridiculously low at all when you take into account the impact it has on the organization's ability to get things done.
It's only 50 miles by sea from Eurasia to the Americas. People got to Australia around 40,000–60,000 years ago by boat so it seems unlikely that people needed a land bridge to get to the Americas.

Remember, the globe also looks like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo#/media/File:Inuit_conf_...

PS: I suspect the Americas where well known in the 1700's, but nobody was talking to the Russian Far East when map making.
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My Result on What Kind of Personality Do I Have
Well that's not too hard: it's because the right-wing party and its helpers push an ideology that rich people are better people who worked hard for their money and deserve it all, that wealth "trickles down" to poorer people, and that the reason these people are poor isn't because of plutocracy, but rather because of immigrants and minorities "stealing their jobs". We saw this in spades in the recent election.

I'm getting downvoted because this site is a haven for alt-right and libertarian people who believe this stuff. One of the key people in YCombinator is Peter Thiel, a noted libertarian right-winger and Trump supporter. And the tech industry in general is a hotbed of right wing politics and the closely-related libertarianism, which is why all the news about misogyny in tech workplaces is no surprise.
But I am just as unsophisticated whether I am using Robinhood or Fidelity, I am just avoiding excessive fees instead.
Blocked on my work's network? Whats on here?
Ads removal and "git/simple file structure" are mandatory features for me (PDF export is optional though).

But first and foremost, it should be an open-source tool, I forgot to mention it. I don't want to be stuck because (as already said) a company/website closes. Yes backups are possible, but when the tool is gone, it's gone, and backups are not really useful. People will have to spend days trying out to figure a new tool and how to import existing data. Open-source protect from such kind of issues.

I don't say this tool is bad, it is probably really nice for some people. But at least for me it does not fulfill my wills/needs.
Okay but why does a dialysis machine need to be on the internet? Even if it's done to forward reports regarding the usage of the machine that can be done in a daily dump when you swap it out I'm guessing, right? So, it doesn't need to be an always-on device with respect to its NIC. Plus, there's no benefit to the user to have their life giving machinery be online. It's just another thing to overcharge the hospital for all in the false name of productivity.
i think you're 'quite obviously' wrong ;).
Kobble can be used for much more than just note taking. It's more of a general purpose content creation and sharing app.
The title is obviously editorialized and making a statement of some sort.

But the linked page is a long FAQ that seems reasonable after a cursory read. It's not the ideal setup for everyone, but they don't seem to be hiding anything.

What am I missing here?
An army of robots to stop ongoing wars.
It's an invite only image bookmarking site.
You can count me firmly in the skeptics category. However, it is interesting, and human beings have been around a long time. It would be a bit surprising if no one ever made it to the Americas until "recent" times.
Currently to restore your data you need to provide your private key:

> As you prepare a restore, you must type in your private passphrase into the restore server.

Seems like a pretty fundamental architecture fail here.

Later the site goes on to acknowledge this:

> We actually want to improve this to provide a password encrypted ZIP file for download, and then the FINAL improvement is to actually allow you to download the private encryption key, download the encrypted files, and provide the pass phrase in the privacy of your computer. We hope to add this functionality in the future.
> No viral licensing like the GPL or jesus shit on a stick, the AGPL.

This GPL hatred is completely orthogonal to your point. In fact, GPL/AGPL ensures that other services won't turn your lovely free software project into an open core product. See ShareLatex for a similar free software business and project that uses the AGPL and appears to be working just fine.
> not an investment performance measurement need.

Can you please expand on this? Genuinely curious as to what the metrics are in this case.
$199 device that sends data to some servers elsewhere and gets the job done in seconds

$2000 device that takes up space and electricity to do the same thing, but in minutes

I personally like the second option a lot better, I wish we had an open source version of all the google apps that did it's own ML on your own servers.
"just cut the cables"

Not that easy. Furthermore, it's the same for any large power plant of any type. This is a very poor argument against solar. It's also a stretch to imagine that Europe would rely on a single power plant for its sustenance.
Many VG funds are also traded as ETFs. You can buy those like any other stock. Most brokerages also have a list of commission free ETFs that can be purchased. These typically many include low cost index funds. I agree with you completely, that if someone wants to invest, open a Schwab account (the checking account is one of the best out there and free), and just do it there.
I agree with the sentiment, but there's an important caveat.

Simpleminded sexually exclusively is not generally a good thing.

1. you waste time and energy breeding with unfit people

2. you do not accelerate evolution.

Clearly these are not good things. It's important 1 gender is more advanced-minded when it comes to sex to avoid this. But only 1. If both sexes were advanced-minded, then people would likely stop reproducing as much, and this trait would die out.
> What kind of stupid person would think that we could have a cooperative, functional society where I can just be careless with my bike, right?

Isn't this actually a really common sentiment, though? I've lived in several places where leaving a bike unlocked for 5 minutes, or sloppily locked for an hour, means you're going to lose it.

That doesn't make the theft acceptable, but if a friend borrowed your bike and left it unlocked you'd still get mad at them.

Reshaping society so this stuff doesn't happen is great, but on an inside-view level we treat crime as sort of an inevitable "someone will do it" force.
Same dataset? Mind telling me the uncompressed byte count?
FTA:

"FFFFOUND! is a web service that not only allows the users to post and share their favorite images found on the web, but also dynamically recommends each user's tastes and interests for an inspirational image-bookmarking experience!!"
I unfortunately buy a new MBP every year (except 2017 because I've got a 2016 and the upgrade didn't have the 32gb I expected). I have had problems with sleep/wake on probably every single machine.

Did you leave it on to where it got to 0-5% battery and shut off? When I do that it takes me about 10 minutes to start actually using the thing again it's so throttled regardless of the fact that it's now plugged into an outlet. Even restarting it at that point doesn't help much. I have to just sit there waiting for it to hit 8% or 10% or whatever it hits to stop throttling everything.

More often than not when I plug in my two monitors one won't come on until I do it again. Or maybe the third time.

Then about 30% of the time when I close it and unplug everything and remove my headphones the thing is still running and my music blasts through the office.

No manufacturer is infallible but this is the kind of stuff I would've quickly replaced my laptop and gone to another brand over if I wasn't so tied into OSX.
130,000-year-old mastodon could rewrite story of human arrival in the Americas
This was a giant mood board for designers, with built-in exclusivity. You could see what others had liked and posted, but invitations were mysterious and scarce – they were seen as a badge of honor among top designers of the mid-2000s.

Funny how memory can be so unreliable – wikipedia says the site was started in 2007, yet in my mind it's been around a lot longer than that. That places it only one year before Obama ran for president – which feels like yesterday, but is also nearly a decade ago.
It is a place of found artwork and other neat design things from around the web. As a result there is some nudity.

For example page 2 has everything from a topless woman on a window sill to an old black and white photo of someone bowling. Etc.

Years ago I did development in a small design shop as a student and all of the designers had FFFound up at least once a day if not more.
Analyzing the DOUBLEPULSAR Kernel DLL Injection Technique
As I mentioned in another similar comment I think this is the key point for me why it makes sense:

> Having explicit pointers also resolves type system awkwardness between simple and complex data types.

That is it appears to be worth it to have explicit pointers for data structures (and the manipulation of those data structures) and probably more so with a concurrent language. That is when the programmer sees things that don't have pointers they can make some generally assumptions (the struct or whatever is generally immutable).
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/26/ddos-atta...

Very few people that use the internet were unaffected by shitty IoT security. And that seems like it was just the start of it's capabilities. Something needs to be done to destroy these cyber weapons. If your stupid light bulb is recruited into a cyber weapon, then it should be prevented from harming others.
Everyone is free to pick their fight, sure, but when people have accumulated great power there is great responsibility, no?

And if these people come from a philosophical and cultural and political monoculture, I think it's reasonable to be suspicious about them. FWIW, I feel the same way about the energy execs and crooked politicians--except in the case of at least Trump, there is at least a mandate of government granted by the people that voted for him.

Who, exactly, voted for these millionaires? Nobody.
Ah yes, I'm sure terrorists are planning things on Twitter in public tweets and replies.

You know who actually publicly uses Twitter?

Political activists.
and yet Bill is completely fucking up public education in the US.
This is a bit of puffy PR coup for twitter, right? It can crow about protecting users' privacy from government surveillance while continuing to allow (naturally well-intentioned) companies to pay for the very same access.
As it stands, the stock market is 50% being average, 49.9999% being unlucky.

But hey, at least we're making debt available to more people.
Is it not quite amusingly ironic to be giving general advice that advises you to ignore general advice?
The author makes a good point about the difference between merit and luck in social outcomes.

But, here in America we need not have Food insecurity. With a bit of good financial planning, you can live off 2$/day/person or less. There's so much food you can buy for less than 1$/lb: Corn, Oatmeal, apples, banannas, etc. With many of these combinations, you can reach 2000 calories for less than 2$/day.

And who needs a super expensive cell phone plan? I make do with 9$/month using USMobile. Driving insurance can be less than 25$/mo if you get metromile.com There are many ways to be more cost effective. When i was growing up, my parents would clip every last coupon on the magazine, to get the best deals.

The biggest problem for the poor and everyone else too: is Housing. This is a huge hurdle that we still need to tackle. There's millions being evicted from apartments, and most people have to pay way too much housing. But this too is mostly a manmade/govt/voter issue. With the right land use policies and a massive reduction in regulations we could open up the floodgates to housing innovation and allow the price of housing to come down.
I'm not sur at which level you ask this. For storing the images, Base64 encoded in the HTML files. For making them useful, I don't think it's the most important feature, but if need be it is possible to think about using OCR for extracting text, or Deep Learning for describing them [1].

[1] https://research.googleblog.com/2014/11/a-picture-is-worth-t...
I grew up in West Virginia. You could not get elected in that state if you told the truth about coal jobs never coming back. So our politicians continue to pay lip service to the idea that "if we just de-regulate the coal industry, we can put WV miners back to work".

I didn't grow up in the coal mining regions of the state and I've since moved away, but it is depressing watching the citizens of my home state consistently vote against their own interests due to outright fabrications and lip service paid to them by gutless politicians who lack the backbone to tell them the truth.

West Virginia has a lot to offer and I do believe the people there could pull themselves up by their bootstraps if they accepted the fact that coal is the past and the state needs to move forward into new industries/the future.
A sometime co-worker, probably in his late 20s, emailed me from the Data Science bootcamp he was attending to ask a question about COBOL. He is not interested himself, but somebody else in the class has heard that it pays well. I gave him what I thought was the email for our shop's last (now retired) COBOL guru, and recognized GNUCobol as a place to start.
The model is very similar to other popular apps, like YouTube or Spotify. Instead of organizing songs or videos into channels, you organize tracks.
I feel like you and I don't disagree, but for some reason you think we do. Natural gas is replacing coal for base load generation because it is cheaper.

from wind-watch.org:

> "How does wind power affect base load? Wind power has no effect on base load.

https://www.wind-watch.org/faq-electricity.php
Since you are here, would you mind doing a quick comparison between Redux and Vuex? I settled on Vue/Vuex over React/Redux specifically because Redux seemed to have more complexity when it came to mutations, promises, etc. Why did Redux choose the path it did and what is the advantage of using it over Vuex (of course other than the rendering libraries they work with respectively)?
>"sorry, not today"

How does this not encourage more panhandling (aka "bad behavior")? You're implying that maybe you'll have something for them tomorrow despite the fact that you never will.

Does saying that do anything other than make yourself feel better about not "actively ignoring someone"?
Why Facebook should be making productivity tools, not Stories
Stanford just abandoned Java in favor of JavaScript for its intro CS course
Hah; my workplace has a firewall rule for connections to India. Seems bizarre.
Or maybe people stop building all this shit in the cloud?
My randomised user-agent happened to tell it the truth, but browserprint 'detected' that I was instead using a different OS and browser.

I'm also using a fingerprint-blocking plugin, which seems to be doing its job!
For a skeptical point of view, see the second half of Jared Diamond's article: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27111
https://staticman.net/
Yea, I'm sure losing your home, wife, and family, or getting served papers by your ex and declaring bankruptcy, would work wonders for your mental health. Events like that never drive somebody to suicide. Nope.
Without labor laws to back something like this up, all it does is get engineers fired. Non-software engineering fields do have such laws, I believe. An MBA cannot make a civil engineer build a bridge that is unsafe because they want to save money. After all, it's the project engineer's signature on the final work. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) On the other hand, a large proportion of startups are doing something illegal or unethical and the only recourse for the engineer there is to quit or be fired. In some egregious cases, that may be worth it. Mostly, it's not. That's how our labor system is set up. I've always said, if you want to kill someone, start a corporation. It's the easiest way to get have someone else do it for you and get away with it. Anything less than murder in business is not even a consideration (unless the business gets punished which it most likely won't be).
I use Robinhood and NO ONE should use margin if they don't know what a Margin Call is.

Having understood that, the effective yearly simple interest rate on my particular Robinhood margin (extra buying power) is only 5%/year so all I have to do is earn higher than a 6% return each year. This last year, my return rate was 14%, so that margin was worthwhile.

If new to investing and you aren't sure what to invest in, I suggest investing in: VTI, VYM, or QYLD depending on your risk tolerance. I'm invested in all three.
Why is it not a good thing?
Glad to hear!

I like the HN community, it gather a lot of enthusiastic people!
>Wouldn't want to enable people to make their own decisions with their money, would we?

While we're on that subject, Pattern Day Trading restrictions[0] are a fine example of how arbitrary regulations created with good intentions can lead to negative outcomes.

How it works is that margin accounts must maintain an equity balance of at least $25,000 in order to day trade freely. Otherwise, you're allotted three round-trip day trades within a 5-day period before there's serious consequences. Cash accounts are subject to long settlement periods, so the restrictions are moot in that case.

What this means is that you can't trade equities with any sort of frequency on an account that has a cash balance below $25k—at least not if you want anywhere near full utilization of your capital. That also rules out algorithmic trading on anything but medium or long timescales.

The "protection" afforded to the uninformed retail customers it was designed to protect is questionable at best. For example: it would be perfectly acceptable to allocate 100% of your portfolio plus leverage to a single stock just before market close, become subject to after-hours and pre-market price movement, then sell the next morning. Repeat by buying a different stock that same day.

Yet, round-trip trades during market hours are heavily discouraged to the point of prohibition beyond any number that isn't trivial.

In fact, I would argue that PDT restrictions create a perverse incentive that holds people to bad trades which they would otherwise prefer to exit, subjecting them to dangerous after-hours price movement in the process.

It also creates incentive for novices to abandon equities entirely in favor of forex markets. Not exactly risk reduction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_day_trader
It's simply difficult to secure devices. It's hard the same way engineering is hard.

I know it's fashionable to blame the MBAs instead of blame ourselves, but at the end of it, we're the ones who write insecure code. And I don't think that if you give an engineer an extra week or two to focus on security that you'd end up with a measurably more secure device. Securing something is a different skillset from building it.

Pentests are probably the answer.
They should provide the encrypted backup to you, you decrypt it yourself. Backblaze should never see your unencrypted data.
Weird, this was a site that I used to hit pretty regularly, and then it seems that one day I just forgot it existed? And so now linking to it I remember having gone to it, but I don't remember what it is.
what, do you have 'real evidence' that we're the same person? if so i'd like to see it and also know how we pulled off our appearance at H2HC a few years ago. let me guess, we must have hired actors and bought them fake papers too? ;)
Same could be said for solar? The sunbelt is/was heavy on coal for energy production. Solar is a great fit for the sunbelt. The federal government subsidizing solar adoption is a direct transfer of money to southern states as well as a direct negative on WV/WY economies.

What is the relative value of marginal votes from those different areas...
Also, there are plenty of other tools that store data locally and sync to GitHub. This isn't a new idea. Perhaps it's the best implementation of this idea so far (I haven't tried it), but the novelty doesn't seem to be there.