skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I googled "machrone's law" and found this:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1545383,00.asp

Fun article from 2004! Article subheading:

> Get used to the idea of a terabyte-plus server in your home. It's closer than you think.

:)

And Machrone's law is: the machine you want will always cost $5,000.
That's irrelevant. Those decisions are approved and closely monitored by federal agencies responsible for national security.

The state may dictate the way federal laws are translated or adopted on their level; everything else is under federal juricstiction. The electronic voting machines were not covered under any 'law'.

The FEC is just another arm for the FBI. They share the same block; if not the same building and security clerances. Neither operate on state level.
Who upvoted this? It has nothing to do with my comment.
That was not my experience working at a defense contractor, and it was obviously not because I do drugs. I haven't found military service a relevant signal for levels of sexism, either positive or negative.
It will look bad they are two years behind.
IE isn't really a browser I use heavily personally. Has Microsoft carried the feature forward to Edge, or are they relying on extensions from the Store for that?
In these cases, condoning them creates and contributes to an environment in which they are acceptable. The only way we are going to remove sexual assault and racism from the world is for every one to understand that these things are never acceptable in any context. Thus, while not equivalent, allowing it to be condoned in private groups is directly contrary to our goals as a society.

Bear in mind that this argument is not intended as an argument for "thoughtcrimes" to be made illegal, it is made as an argument for creating and encouraging strict rules against this behaviour in privately-owned spaces. Facebook is not a 'public space', they just choose to give you those rights.
Although IIRC Chrome and/or Firefox had all but guaranteed tail-call optimization (not a source code-level feature, obviously) first.
I wish google would give us somewhere to report sites that are doing this.
Yes, that is a bummer. It means that all those NFC iphonse 6/6s in countries without Apple pay will never use the capabilities. Just stupid.
Age

The benefit accrues over many years, similar to rent control. As a result, the benefits flow to long-standing landholders, who skew disproportionately older.

The result, at least for me in San Francisco: I pay twice as much in rent for a bedroom in a four bed apartment as my grandmother does in property tax for a 4000 square foot mansion. She bought her place over fifty years ago; by definition, I could not have done so. Indeed, with the direction things are heading, huge categories of people are locked out of all segments of the SF housing market due to excessive prices; there's nothing level about that.
Ask HN: Investor wants access to Google Analytics/MailChimp/Quickbooks etc data?
We are raising our first round of investment and have been in business with lots of ups and downs.

Talking to a a VC firm in East Coast; they want their team to go through our accounts, social media metrics, GA and history of orders etc.

What are your thoughts and advice? Should we disclose with them it all. I don’t want to share it with him, but it might put the deal off since some of our detailed metrics are not good enough.
"It will make people less socially inhibited, which means that tiny dickheads that normally have decent self-control will behave like big dickheads."

Even at the offices I've worked at that were beer friendly, you'd find yourself in deep trouble if you drank enough to get that drunk during work.
Reviews for the Journal of Open Source Software
Over time, you accrue a large tax benefit as a homeowner, if the actual value of your home increases more than 2% every year. By moving, you reset this benefit, which is a disincentive to moving.
It's especially brutal that unemployment tops out at 450 a week even if you can barely make your rent you have to try to pass brutal engineering tests when you're not able to eat for days or weeks
I had a roommate once who was a molecular biologist. I told him I was excited about the CRISPR developments and his response was "Yeah, man. Fucking CRISPR." -- in a tone of voice which I read as "I'll wait until the hypetrain passes on this one before sharing your enthusiasm."

I guess his domain knowledge allowed him to foresee challenges the rest of us are now becoming aware of.
Location: Illinois, USA

Remote: Yes (Preferred)

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Available: Immediately

Seeking: Full Time Preferred (or Contract > 50K)

I'm what you youngins would call a Full Stack developer. I consider myself a software engineer, period. I can adapt to anything you can throw at me given the time. If you're looking for a Senior Level engineer, I'm your guy. (interested in junior or senior roles)

I also have tons of marketing and product experience. In the last 4 weeks I took a script from TamperMonkey level to a polished and released product. (already made some sales) In the last week I created a separate licensing API for Gumroad which the product is now using that includes product level trial periods and Install Key creation beyond what Gumroad provides by default.

Here's a short list of my tech set with approximate first touch dates and my own self assessment rating on a scale of 1 to 10.

Technologies: AJAX 2008 (9), Apache 2005 (8), APIs [Web] 2007 (9), AWS [+CLI] 2011 (7), Bash 2011 (7), CentOS 5/6 2010 (7), CLI 2007 (7), CSS 2002 (8), Digital Ocean 2016 (7), Docker 2015 (6), Highcharts 2011 (8), HTML 1999 (9), HTTP 2005 (9), JavaScript 1999 (8), JSON 2009 (8), jQuery 2008 (9), Jupyter Notebook 2017 (5), Linux 2005 (8), MySQL 2007 (8), NGINX 2016 (6), Node.js 2016 (6), Perl 1999 (8), PHP 2009 (9), Python 2014 (7), R 2017 (5), Unbuntu 2016 (7), Wordpress 2005 (7), XML 2004 (8)

I'm on board to learn whatever you need and will do so in short order... Rails, React, Angular, Ember, Vue, and so on.

Specialties: APIs, Data Analytics, Product Development, QA, Server Management (Sysadmin), SQL, Troubleshooting, Video Related Tech

Résumé/CV: Just started looking after being self employed. Upon contact I can point you to my main project from 2009 to 2016. I built this project, a Social Analytics site, from scratch and grew it to Billions of MySQL rows and Terabytes of data. I can also point you to the aforementioned product's sales page. Skype screenshare to show you under the hood is also doable.

Email: midispring [@at@] gmail.com

Caveat: Just to set expectations, I can't agree to wide ranging IP ownership clauses. I have some interest in various products and have to be able to maintain them without ceding rights. I am perfectly happy to agree to focused IP ownership clauses. (ie you offer red widgets, I can't own red widget related IP)
Is Ethereum in a Bubble?
My neighbor pays half the property tax that I do, despite our houses both being worth the same amount. My new neighbors pay %25 more than I do, also in a similarly valued house.

That's what parent is likely referring to. I'm not making a value judgement either way. Prop 13 was intended to address the real issue of people being forced out of their own homes due to rising values. But it appears to have the side effect of pushing the values even higher by restricting the sell side of the market.
I'd say that Chicago goes bust before Illinois does as their situation is more dire, and there's no way that the state would be able to take on their pension debt.
True, but:

$ echo exit | time python2

gives an average time of 0.015s on my laptop, and

$ echo exit | time python3

works out to about 0.039s. If you're spamming hundreds of processes from a looping shell script, the Python 3 overhead would probably start to grate. For anything manually launched, 40 milliseconds is still substantially close to instant.
Perfect, the shopping carts await.
Apple removes Facebook and Twitter integration from iOS 11
And your deploying on MAC hardware? Serious developments have identical hardware for dev and test to that used for prod. Its all about removing risk.

I have worked at places were the dev test and prod systems where brought from the same sun production run so that the systems where identical down the rev of the motherboards, our networks and sysadmin said he would have liked to buy all the Disks (DASD) from the same production run as well.
Knowing Apple, but not being able to see the video, one huge question comes to mind:

Will I be able to chat with my customers if they have an Android device or Windows?

Because in most industries today, if you can't interact with your customers with Android devices, you're cutting out half to 90% of your market. So that means that Business Chat is yet another thing that I need to implement twice over, one for Apple's walled garden, and once for the rest of the world (which is mostly Android, but could also include chats directly to customers browsing the store web page on Windows).

In which case why wouldn't I just use a cross-platform solution so I could integrate it just once?

Correct me if I'm jumping to the wrong conclusion here.
Doesn't Electrino basically try this?
Ah, my bad. Sorry if I was being condescending in my previous reply then.

I suspect it was a design decision, yeah. If outputs could be spent multiple times then you'd need to traverse the chain of outputs backwards to see how much an output has left in it. Bitcoin's implementation is less complex and more elegant, imo.
"Tidal locking (also called gravitational locking or captured rotation) occurs when, over the course of an orbit, there is no net transfer of angular momentum between an astronomical body and its gravitational partner."[0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking
They discontinued it in Edge, unfortunately.
We've been here before too. The Long Depression of 1873-1896 featured similar persistent unemployment and similar secular changes between industries. It happened when the industries of railroads, textiles, mass production, steel, oil, shipping, meat-packing, and mechanized agriculture were growing fast, and in the process completely killing the old trade guilds & professions of coachmen, weavers, artisans, blacksmiths, whalers, sailors, longshoremen, shopkeepers, butchers, and farmers.

What we didn't realize then is that all of the great 20th century industries - airlines, airplanes, automobiles, trucking, radio, television, department stores, plastics, household appliances, department stores, electronics, computers - had yet to be invented. They couldn't be, until enough labor had been freed up from their previous jobs that they were ready & willing to take up jobs building new things.

We're at a similar point in history now: the new technology has eaten the old, but hasn't yet invented the world that we will live in afterwards. It's a dangerous & turbulent time to be in, because most people don't deal well with change, but historically, predictions of the end of history have always been false.
So what's a good machine to play games with kids 4-6 on? I have a wii, but the games suck, and a steam tv streamer thing but by the time I habe the remotes configured correctly they are back to playing with their legos... Are there any machines with an hdmi connector that have a bunch of games appropriate for that age?
I think that file is just clearly unnecessary and it just shows sloppy project management to leave a file like that in a production (open source) codebase.
I'll take that; that's progress.

Here's what this kind of thinking has done in the US: The left has crammed themselves into cities, effectively reducing their voting power outside of those cities. This sort of thinking has been "effective" -- in that Donald Trump is now president.

And if we can get people to stop making "but free speech!" arguments against it, and start talking about free association, it'll have a much more widespread effect.

What you want, is for "your side" to infiltrate virtually all of the ruling boards of all non-governmental organizations in society and have them start enforcing your particular views, on pain of marginalization and expulsion. We in the US once had that widespread condition with the form of the belief system called "Christianity" and such tactics were often used to try to coerce so-called "proper" behavior from atheists, homosexuals, and polygamists. Would you justify having such widespread social coercion once again, because this time, supposedly the "correct" side would win?

Progress throughout history has been made through commerce and people coexisting and really talking to each other. One group enforcing its will over another has always resulted in overt injustice, or covert injustice -- even in the case of the Civil War. (The victims I have in mind in that last reference are all black people, despite the clear progress of abolition.)

I'm all for people talking about "free association." Infiltrating all of the ruling committees of otherwise politically neutral non-government organizations and issuing edicts for what you shall believe, on pain of expulsion, is not at all supporting of or supported by the notion of "free association" -- anymore than using one's status and authority to get someone else to say yes to sexual intercourse is truly consensual sex. True freedom is truly consensual choice, and it's not really consensual if the big motivator is fear.
I'm not disagreeing. I was attempting to show how you might make the housing market less rigid. Even if the numbers of units for sale is low, you could at least get people to rent them. A larger rental supply would help meet the demand in California and keep prices for renters and buyers lower. I completely agree, though, that Prop 13 isn't helping the situation.

But politically, we might as well accept that it won't go away. Your best bet is to save up enough to afford a down payment, and hope that property appreciates and you too can also reap Prop. 13's benefits down the road when you're older. And if you're house is worth 10x as much then, you won't lose it for being on a fixed income, like most retired people are.

...I'd still prefer not having Prop. 13. The more fruitful discussion is how to best navigate a world where it continues to exist. Voters will never approve its repeal; if politicians try to do something about it, they will get thrown out the next election cycle.
Not out of the box, since normally the payment terminal is the reader.

Theoretically this could be switched such that the payment terminals would send out a unique ID over NFC, which the iPhone would then relay to the terminal via a server.
Totally depends on their lifestyle.
You should really do some more reading on what exactly transpired leading up to, and during, the bank meltdowns in 2008-2009.

The banks "provided value" like a person with a gun to your head is "providing life".
This 2013 article sums up nicely why quora is frustrating to be directed to while seeking enlightenment, and as others have pointed out they use some unpleasant anti-patterns to lure in (potential) users.

http://jesuschristsiliconvalley-blog.tumblr.com/post/4896203...
> First time I used an IBM PC I thought it was awful.

It was a great business machine, though obviously you needed two floppy drives or, in my case, the massive 10 megabyte hard drive in the PC/XT.

You got a really great keyboard and a superb green screen, it was fast (for its day), and you had your pick of software. Lotus 1-2-3 was obviously the key program, though you needed a separate monitor for graphics. Word Perfect soon became the key word processor. Borland's Sidekick was a great utility.

You could add loads of expansion cards, and I added an extra 512K (which came as 18 chips in two plastic tubes) for only £999. This enabled the PC/XT to run Microsoft Xenix, which was the most popular Unix at the time.

I'd had an Apple II before that, with two external floppies and Apple's really crappy green screen monitor (no lower case). The PC/XT was a massive upgrade, as a business machine.

Of course, you couldn't play Choplifter with two paddles, but that wasn't a job requirement. However, you could get Microsoft Flight Simulator and, later on, DOOM and Civilization etc.

However, there was a period between the XT and/or AT when the alternatives were better, I had an Atari 720ST and a Mega 4, an Amiga 500 and a 1500, and an Acorn Archimedes. In fact, I still have some of those. It was the arrival of the 386, Windows 3 and CD-ROMs that started to finish those off.
I've been lucky in that my Hackintosh's working 'uptime' has been pretty great over the past 3 years. That said, I've had a couple of OS updates putting my desktop out of commission for a day or two - I would never consider it for a work machine.

With today's MacBook upgrades, I've ordered a 'real' Mac and reverted my desktop tower back to Windows gaming box duties - the 'fun' of hackintoshing quickly fades once you've done it for a few years and just want to know your computer is always going to boot when you press the power button, especially if like me you use OS X 99% of the time.

Maybe I'm just stupid, but as far as I'm concerned folks with hackintoshes who haven't had a boot breaking issue occur are either lucky, or it has yet to happen to them. I deliberately built the most 'golden' of mainstream hackintosh builds (close to identical to the Dan Benjamin one folks are linking here), no custom kexts, used Clover, still had the occasional issue.

Given Apple are moving to ever more intertwine custom hardware into Macs (touchbar, touch id, secure enclave etc), I think the future of hackintoshing is probably going to be harder than it is today.
But many Google users do see the content. I wish Google knew that I paid for subscriptions to WaPo, WSJ, & NYT and ranked things accordingly. I never want to open an ad supported story when the same thing is covered by a publisher I subscribe to.
Geek culture has always been sexist, and much of it included malicious, objectifying sexism. Ask anyone who's been going to cons for 20+ years and you will hear stories that curl your hair. Even in the programming sphere, just look at the Mythical Man Month: it assumes the only woman on the team is the secretary.
Why would Google know who is and who isn't a WSJ subscriber? Would WSJ subscribers want Google to know that information?
I don't know about Google search being as great and flawless as you're implying here. I run a website which is dedicated to one particular topic, and Google won't list it at all ("no more results after like 198 hits" of lots of outdated and superficial content), even though the site is registered via Google search console. On other topics, I get pointless "123000 matches in 0.23 ms" results. Not impressed at all; a naive keyword count as rank criterion would do better

You can check it out yourself by searching for "SGML" and compare my site http://sgmljs.net/docs/sgmlrefman.html.
They won't line up cleanly. I'm left with a desk that looks all cobbled together.

This is another "pro" in name-only machine I suspect. The fact that it's an all-in-one implies to me that I can't upgrade any part of it.

I don't want an all-in-one... I want a computer, with upgradable parts, and at least two monitors that match -- preferably the can use the same stand.
They've also got to handle photos with borders, screenshots, and such, which may or may not work better as PNGs. And anyhow, why wouldn't they want to handle un-photo-like photos and un-logo-like logos optimally too?
The real world keeps derailing his Laundry universe. The next book, due out in July, was delayed because he had to rework it to accommodate Brexit.
Different content to some search users. All WSJ subscribers see the same thing as the Googlebot.
I am not sure your reference really contradicts what I was saying; it is talking about what 'platform' do you develop for, not what OS you use to do your development (I mean, AWS is listed as the #4 platform, which is not a desktop OS).

All the servers that run the code I write are Linux machines, so I would say I develop 'for' the Linux platform. However, I use a mac laptop to type that code.
Not sure on a machine, but Steam is getting a lot of great indie party games these days that might be appropriate.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2012/08/microsoft-lo...

Then, in June 2004, Steve Jobs announced that Apple was releasing its new operating system, called “Tiger.” And inside Microsoft, jaws dropped. Tiger did much of what was planned for Longhorn—except that it worked.

E-mails flew around Microsoft, expressing dismay about the quality of Tiger. To executives’ disbelief, it contained functional equivalents of Avalon and WinFS.

“It was fucking amazing,” wrote Lenn Pryor, part of the Longhorn team. “It is like I just got a free pass to Longhorn land today.”

Vic Gundotra, another member of the group, tried out Tiger. “Their Avalon competitor (core video, core image) was hot,” he wrote. “I have the cool widgets (dashboard) running on my MAC right now with all the effects [Jobs] showed on stage. I’ve had no crashes in 5 hours.”
One issue with GUI's is that you're sometimes stuck telling someone how to use a GUI that you didn't develop, for instance having a user manipulate settings in the device manager, which was created by Microsoft.

One thing that's rapidly improving on the command line side is Search. On my modern Windows computers (8 and 10), I don't search for things by hand in the dialogs any more. I press the Start button and start typing text.

For instance, Start plus "device manager" brings up the device manager, whereas I have no idea how to find it in the menus.
The whole issue also depends on your customers.
If your customers are in countries where the governments are speculating about backdoors the business may fail since it does not help when the business is in a safe area but the customers not.

Why don't you start a new political party ?
Hey...that's not exactly true - we did not physically change the voting information in the machines - that would be totally unethical. We just had the right people killed, and allowed the right people who were doing the killing to grow extremely wealthy until they were no longer of use to us. Nicaragua, Chile, Panama, etc's elections were always left up to the citizens of those respective countries.
But YubiKeys are built on a hardened hardware security module instead of a general purpose phone operating system with full network connectivity and a huge attack surface.

Having a UI does not increase security in a meaningful way. The attacker is just going to wait until the victim connects to an interesting target server and then hijack that connection. The ControlMaster feature makes that trivially easy, but it's not hard to do real injection [1].

If the workstation is compromised, it's over.

At that point, all you can do is to prevent an attacker from copying the key or using it without user interaction. A YubiKey does both - you can optionally set it to a mode where you have to approve each signature.

With a bank transaction, the whole transaction is part of the approval process and can be verified out-of-band. With a SSH login, this is not possible since you're still going to trust the workstation as soon as the session is established.

I'm not saying this project is useless - IF your phone is actually more secure than your workstation - which may or may not be the case - AND you've been previously been storing your keys on your workstation, then it's definitely a step up. But really, at that point, just buy a YubiKey (and properly secure your workstation!).

Otherwise, you now have TWO single points of failure instead of one. If either your phone or your laptop is compromised, it's over.

If you want login approvals that show the server name, do it as a second factor and use something like Duo Security with push approvals. This actually increases your security - instead of having, an attacker would now have to compromise both of your devices.

[1]: https://github.com/seastorm/PuttyRider
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