skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One funny thought down these lines is that after 50+ years the gold in the vaults has been cold welded together. Gold is soft, malleable and heavy and after years maybe it's effectively a solid chunk of metal.

Would explain the logistic challenges and the need to re-melt the bars if they had robbed chiseled apart.
I doubt that Godel was indispensable for the discovery of the incompleteness theorem. It was one of Hilbert's problems so clearly people were thinking about it. Moreover, a few years later Turing came up with his notion of computability from which Godel's incompleteness their can be easily deduced.
The Earth's Most Customer Centric Company? What's behind the meaning of that?
Only if you can persuade the gang they can't get more gold from killing you than working for you.
Seems to me you simply fail to grasp the nature of science. You think science doesn't question it's assumptions and biases, you don't understand science. Science is a process for validating the validity of ideas, any ideas from any culture, the process has no cultural bias and no blind spots. You aren't developing an idea that permits a new approach, you're simply assuming simple questions haven't been looked at because you lack any depth of understanding about what's already been studied and don't realize your questions are simplistic and unoriginal. They assume wrongly that scientists are ignorant and didn't think to check something as simple as basic correlation vs causatiion.
I hope this backfires on these "offended" companies, just like the Charlie Hebdo attack backfired, sparking presumably thousands of more caricatures of Mohammed.
If someone is looking for resources/art work for creating nice storyboard, you can find some great templates with characters, backgrounds and objects at

https://experience.sap.com/designservices/approach/scenes

All released under CC4.0
I sit very close to our "Snow White" storyboards that map the journey for Guests on our platform and a separate journey for Hosts. It's a reminder to think about the "key frames" that we are trying to impact with our product and constantly remember that the online experience is an enabler of a more emotional offline interaction.

One other thing that Airbnb does that I haven't seen done at other companies nearly as much is a focus on producing videos/stories to tell our story both internally and externally. When I first joined it seemed crazy that we would spend so much time and effort to produce a high quality video (almost a short documentary) to talk about why we were launching a new initiative on our platform. After watching one though, it's clear that video is a much more effective medium to communicate emotion/feeling and that helps employees understand the deeper human element that we're trying to impact and continues to drive employees to champion the mission. Sure, you could have just thrown a bunch of words and stock art on a slide and call it a day but the story doesn't come across as effectively and you don't get the same impact on the feels.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14225602
People not starving to death, a very good news story.
I have been to the NY Federal Reserve Building and seen much of the gold - from the outside of the open door of the vault. This is the highlight of the public tour of the FRB in lower Manhattan. There are many different cages inside the vault - some containing just a handful of bars, and some with gold stacked near to the roof. But we are not told which cage corresponds to which country - that information is secret.

All the bars look identical, to me anyway - there are no stacks of coins or goblets etc. that I could see. (Not all the cages are visible from the vault entrance).

The Fed states in the tour that sovereign nations can keep their gold in the vault, virtually free of charge. And take it back at any time. This is basically a service to the world that the US has provided since the second world war, when much of Europe wanted - for obvious reasons - to move their gold to a safe haven.

As the Federal Reserve is a very secure place, and great value for money, I think most nations have been fine to use that - much cheaper and easier than building a facility that is equally secure.

So personally I'm not sure about the conspiracy theories saying that the Fed refuses to release the gold; to me that is easy for any nation to test - just ask for it, it could be done publicly except that you signal to any thief the date/time of when to attack :-)
I take issue with calling it a frustration. Especially since trying to get good page layouts with html is frustrating to me.

That said, if you need any document, be it a résumé or anything else, and you need it tomorrow, use the tools you know. And don't feel bad about not knowing other tools. Trying to get up to speed on anything that is worthwhile quickly on a new too will almost certainly be frustrating. Even word processors.
I'm curious as to why American-Chinese food changed between the 1970s and 1990s. In my area, I started noticing the change in the late 1980s. Egg foo young largely disappeared and egg rolls were replaced by spring rolls. My impression of the newer style dishes was that they had less meat, were greasier, and were generally more well-done. The last time I had good egg foo young or egg rolls was almost 30 years ago.

I had assumed the change was due to a massive wave of immigration in the 1980s. But if all of the food was a deliberate creation for the American market, why didn't they stick with what was already popular?
It was a "recovery" and not a crack if you store your password somewhere and lose direct access to it it's not really cracking when you guess.

But to get on topic: This was one of my favorite ways of recovering passwords when I had a blind SQL injection somewhere. I wrote a nice perl script that brute forced (yes the guy in the article also brute forced) the field through the SQL substr command. Happy, simpler times :)
I love this collection and have worked my way through most of them. It ranges from the easy and instantly enjoyable (untangle) through to those which even after a lot of playing the higher levels can be frustratingly hard to solve (eg towers). In the middle are some you can learn the tricks for (eg maps) and others where theres always something different (eg galaxies). Theres also a good mix of the familiar and unfamiliar.
Some instructions are microcoded, right? That would mean some have a much smaller transistor impact.
> What happens if they have a big recall like Samsung had?

They have enough cash reserves to keep going for a long time, as well as other product lines that were successful enough to get them to where they are.
Do you mean make a story of the emotions/steps someone goes through when engaging with an awesome dashboard? I wouldn't storyboard that. First, what is the Qliksense dashboard monitoring? What is the key metric you're trying to move? What is the core reason your product can move that metric? Storyboard how users use your product to enable them to solve problems, not the dashboard that measures that impact.
I watched the roof reveal and Elon made it clear he was comparing to prices of high-end roofing material.
I don't think so. I'm pretty conservative myself. You have to recognize the people who are just cargo culting, of course, and not waste time with them. That's most people no matter what side of the aisle they choose to associate with themselves.

If you can make an argument that supports entrepreneurship without overt hostility to the basis of commerce and capitalism, there's no reason it wouldn't be well-received by people who are actually interested in thinking about these issues and not just repeating what the talking heads say. And there are plenty of conservatives who are that way.

The best way is to show them the inconsistencies in the corporatist party line. It's pretty easy with telco and ISPs. Conservatives typically don't believe government force should be exerted as a shortcut or to favor or disfavor specific enterprises, so why is it fair to give the ISPs free rein when, in many cases, their monopoly is legally enshrined in the municipal code? And so forth.
Genuine question: how can the privacy of e.g. Windows (that sends back _some_ data, supposedly mostly telemetry to MS) than an environment that runs fully inside Google?
The resistance is proportional to the length/width ratio as you suspect. You can find resistance numbers for doped silicon, but the value depends on the doping level. So you can get a rough idea.

Because resistances can vary 20% from chip to chip, analog circuits generally are designed so the ratio of two resistances controls things, rather than the absolute resistance. So you probably don't need to figure out the absolute resistance.
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Windows is much slower on such a low spec device than ChromeOS. And if you install anything on your Windows device, god help your loading times.
That's really interesting. I never check academia.edu. Few of my peers have ever mentioned its existence. Whenever I find a paper to read it is either from google scholar or a works cited of something I've read.
> A lot of free software licenses such as the GPL v2 spell out explicitly that they have nothing to do with anything except copying/distribution or modification

Check out AGPL. It exists specifically to remove the "loophole" of using the software without distributing it.

> Really, if you use free software you can just completely ignore all the licenses

For some very narrow definitions of use, maybe. But not if your usage includes building upon it, which is what OSS world excels at.
Nobody explained him who paid his checks in 21 years?
You may have just forgotten Poland...
>I'm embarrassed of our leaders, and those who continue to support them.

Don't. Many countries are in a similar situation. Populism has already won over major countries (US, UK, Turkey, Russia, ... ) or is on a close #2 in many other countries.

In fact, I'd recommend to not even try to fight it head on at the moment - it's much wiser to sit back and try to understand why this is happening and what we can do about it.

The world is entering a very dangerous period - it might not be possible to stop this wave, so then maybe it's wise to think about plan B - what do do after the dust of the populist reign falls back.

Stay safe, stay wise, refuse violence regardless if the cause is 'good' or 'bad' (violence is always bad).
> check if a user with the said email exists, if it does - return it, if it doesn't create it and return it" ... Mongo - not so easily

Can't you easily do it with upsert in Mongo?
One problem is that ACH transfers are inherently quite insecure and the banks don't want to be held liable for fraud. It's in the bank's best interest to make transfers difficult and to check the source and destination identities pretty thoroughly.

Sarah Jeong wrote about her experience with ACH fraud here, where her bank account was emptied when someone found her account and routing numbers: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/why-i-hate-securi...
Lua's not equals `~=` gets ligatured to ≃ instead of ≠. Expected but unfortunate.
In this particular case I think we can do fine without.
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Ask HN: Visiting internet giants, startup scene or nostalgia in San Francisco
Hello all, I was selfishly wondering if you might have any recommendations for visiting internet giants, the start-up scene or computer nostalgia while in San Francisco. I am based in The Netherlands and making a personal visit to San Francisco in 10 days, and would really like to be able to physically connect with the world I've felt a part of for the past 15 years. I've built several IT companies, graduated cum laude in CS, currently oversee technical operations for a NASDAQ quoted company in three European countries. Any recommendations?
In the undergraduate level computer architecture class I just finished, it was pretty much stated as fact that the simpler design and fixed instruction format of RISC based architectures makes them much more suitable for pipelining, and hence leads to better performance than those based on CISC. Why are x86/64 processors used for most high performance applications then?
> In my experience you can't really appeal to many conservatives along any axis, because they're already sold on the "businesses can do whatever they want" paradigm and if you knock down one pillar of that, they'll erect two others in its place

Conservatives definitely understand that businesses do things for profit.

I think when you can point out when and where this particular profit-only motive can hurt your quality of life, then you're getting somewhere.

I agree that for many issues, this is predetermined for ultra conservatives. There are also some who change sides election to election.

Since this is a new topic, there's a new opportunity to educate about it and reach out to those who might be open to learning a little bit of tech knowledge from you.

> So while the point I suspect you were trying to make was "find better ways to appeal to conservatives", what I take away from it is "convince more people to be anti-corporate".

That's too big a goal. Finding a way to appeal to moderate conservatives on this topic is possible. Convincing more people to be anti-corporate is beyond the scope of educating about net neutrality.

> Conservatives are a lost cause IMO.

That's pretty defeatist. I don't know why you comment or try to stop others from educating about net neutrality. If you're really on the side of open internet and you plan to do nothing, the least you can do is be supportive of people's efforts.
I've been using this in IntelliJ IDEA for about a month.

The experience reminds me of adopting an anti-aliased font for coding, for the first time (many years ago). First half an hour of unfamiliarity and skepticism, then it just seems very natural, and reading code feels smoother and easier and more productive.

I absolutely cannot stand code in non-monospaced fonts, so I don't think there are any alignment problems. (The look of Fira Mono / Fira Code isn't really to my taste though, so I'm hoping for the same things to start popping up in other fonts too!)
I'd love to see this guy do the cartoons on the web, free from corporate oversight, and make a shit ton of money telling it how it is.
Should say (2016), this happened a year ago.
If you just want to put words on a page and print it out, sure, use a word processor.

But if you have to generate more than one document with the same formatting, or a very large document, LaTeX is the way to go.

I use it, interfaced with SQLite-generated CSV files, to compile 50 page reports for work with no effort at all. This process used to take hours.

Another thing I do for work is using SQL to actually generate LaTeX documents programmatically, using premade macros that are stored in a class file.

The power and consistent behavior is what makes it better than word processors.
Oh yeah? Which one?
I think that fiat money is backed by the state's ultimate monopoly on violence.
Freedom of the press threatened not just by government censorship but by monopolistic corporate censorship, viz. threats of pulling of advertising.

Yes, it is entirely legal, but that does not change the effect on the freedom of the press.
Actually, it's clear the author doesn't understand how to list an Ebay auction to accomplish what they're trying to do. Here's how you could have done this EASILY:

1) Allow local pickup as an option on your listing (Does not cost anything!)
2) Put a Buy It Now Price and open it up to Allow Offers to be made.

I'm not sure why a buyer has an incentive to go off platform since after all there is no fee for a buyer to pay through Ebay. The seller pays all the fees so for a buyer to ask to go off platform usually is a red flag for me (scam, wire transfer, etc.).
I think the point is that it only applies today.

Also, nobody has actually pointed out an instance of this happening. The FBI has had several extremely high profile cases in the last year; if they are incompetent, they have managed not to be totally useless.
School's online systems tend to be woefully behind the times. Usually online portals and e-textbooks are little more than patronizing nods to the students that have come to accept tech in their lives as a necessity rather than any meaningful attempt at bettering education.
How Cities Can Survive a Retail Meltdown and Repurpose Vacant Structures
What comes next in the fight to save net neutrality
> Why are x86/64 processors used for most high performance applications then?

Modern Intel cpus are actually risc under the hood. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode
No, in fact it is not. To help you understand why, if the US were to switch back to a gold-backed currency and somehow do it relatively seamlessly, it would need to find enough gold to back a money supply of about $7 trillion dollars (or $20+ trillion, depending...). All the gold in the world is currently "worth" less than $7 trillion dollars, and the US would be lucky to land 15% of that, or about 25,000 tonnes. In this scenario, that 1,200 tonnes would be worth $336 billion, and probably a lot more because "seamlessly" is a huge assumption.
One thing I can remember was the automatic query advisor.

It was actually good and very easy to activate. If you did activate it though you could expect a sizable extra invoice after next audit.
Quite true. But I think I'm gonna be sick :-)

(in general, I'm not a fan of Object-Foo-Mapping, but then I've used dynamic/runtime typed languages on and off since the 80s)
Why did VHS prevail when Betamax was a superior format? Why did TCP/IP come out on top when other more capable protocols existed at the time? Why did the FAT filesystem end up becoming so wildly popular?

x86 took over because of a number of factors, and over time improvements made it more RISC like internally. Read up on modern CPU design to see how RISC, CISC or whatever is just an API of sorts to the internal workings of the CPU. The two philosophies have become so blurred few people even use the term RISC or CISC any more. It's irrelevant.
Yes. It's still not possible to email money to an arbitrary country in 2017.

Unless you use a currency like bitcoin of course.
This is from last May, he was rehired in July.

http://cartoonistsrights.org/monsanto-mocking-cartoonist-ric...
I'd rather recommend you use TOR, buy online and benefit from ratings and other such quality signals. Online sellers have their reputation to lose, whereas some unknown person knows they will never see you again and have nothing to lose from selling you whatever they want. Also, but a testing kit.
I've learned LaTeX by taking all lecture notes in LaTeX and googling all the stuff (or just leaving comment to google it later). Math was especially hard, but after a semester and a half I'm almost not googling and writing relatively complicated LaTeX as fast as regular text.
Well can't speak to the horror of the design as I'm not a really proponent of that particular design. Just clarifying the parent's statement a little. Though the rancheros design is not particularly worse than what systemd does now, based on my recent experiences. It's all one giant (poorly?) implemented binary either way. From a pragmatic standpoint I don't see a difference. What's the difference between one opaque binary vs another, except possibly one's written in Go which I find easier to read if needed and is less likely to have buffer overruns. Really cutting out one crapshoot seems logical as at least there's only one system you'd need to learn. Still I'd like a non-either of those options approach.

Personally I prefer running SmartOS and Triton containers. Their system seem much more stable than any of the Linux containers and/or systemd setups I've tried. It sticks a bit more to traditional unix design which makes sense to me. Items like the caching layer for containers build on ZFS snapshots, a well tested file system layer, rather than ad hoc userland tools. Triton also runs all of the orchestration layers in separate zones (containers) like RancherOS is trying to build. But each component is a simple(ish) service, it's easy to `zfs list` and check on a container's file system or fix it or backup, etc. Same with SVC or VM machine management which both have small simple tools that do one thing pretty well.

To that note, docker has been moving towards breaking out and using smaller daemons haven't they? If that continues it might turn out more modular in the end wherein RancherOS would end up being more modular than systemd Linux setups. Imho, that'd be great.
Very good! I can cross off a platform from the stuff to learn list.
This is my "getting a job at Amazon" of 9+ years ago: http://brunozzi.com/2008/05/22/how-i-got-hired-by-amazoncom/

I hope you like it and find it useful. I think it's still relevant today.
This isn't a fantasy novel. We have well established since WW2 that there will not be another global conflict like the world wars. There can't be. We are nuclear. We will continue to see regional proxy war conflicts between global superpowers, but outright declarations of war between NATO and anything else would be extinction.

Too many checks are in place on launch codes worldwide to let one lunatic end civilization. We were much, much closer to annihilation 40 years ago. This is little league instability.
So far this font has worked really well for me for Haskell, C++, Python. I find it very readable
Who are you to tell other people how to live and what they can and can't enjoy?
You can't just try to buy 1200 tons of gold and expect to get the current "exchange rate" for all of it. You will be paying massively more as you buy out the cheapest offers.

NASDAQ claims a gold market volume of barely 5 tons at this time. Good luck buying 1200 tons at a decent price.

Edit: Whoops. I meant to reply to your parent.
Ihave both Academia.edu and Researchgate accounts. For themost part, everyone I know uses it as a kind of cv and repository for preprints of articles published in the usual suspect journals, and not as a replacement for journals.
Nobody said a thing about acting to rob anybody of anything. If you're trying to reopen the ad-blocking debate, I'm not really interested in that. I'm saying and I believe the grandparent is saying, sites with those features are to varying degrees less-good, precisely because of those features. Since I'm under no obligation to funnel myself into that site, I'll tend to ignore it, and I'm more likely to ignore it the less value it actually offers. (And the net value it offers, does decrease because of ads and adtech tactics.)

In my case I'm also saying, commerce itself is basically boring; I can find it anywhere.

I believe your use of the word "rob" is inappropriate since you can't be robbed of something you don't own. (My attention, the content of my web browser, etc.)