skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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>Get a proper laptop with fullsize keys and a large enough screen to work on.

No laptop in existence has a keyboard big enough for me. The smallest external keyboards I've used are probably larger than the largest laptop keyboards.

It's not about the size of the keys. It's about the location with respect to your shoulders. Having to angle your arms inwards is not a good idea.

Same for screen. If you're looking downwards, it's bad for your neck. Which is why I always use an external monitor.
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S3 buckets: Not so simple?
I have always heard that Brother is one of the more ethical companies. Disclaimer: I have never owned one myself.
Did the law exist before Lenovo shipped the fish? Did Lenovo know about it?
Indeed. Call me a snob, but I am sitting in 2 to 3 interviews weekly at the moment (looking for a big data specialist) and everyone is a "Data Scientist":

me: You state on your CV that you are a data scientist

Candidate: Yes

me : What is your Phd in?

Candidate : I don't actually have a Phd

me : <sigh> right, no scientist.

I hate job interviews
This sort of communication should not be on the internet. Power companies already have infrastructure to run their own dedicated comms. This is just plain stupid.
The argument makes some intuitive sense (more people buying X over Y makes the value of X go up, which makes holding X more desirable, so more people buy X instead of Y...), but if this effect actually happened I don't see why it would happen with a cryptocurrency and not, say, gold. Nothing about the argument seems specific to cryptocurrencies- it's used here simply as a commodity whose value has historically been going up for awhile, and which people feel pretty bullish about.

There are other reasons, also, why Bitcoin or it's ilk would be particularly bad commodities to show this effect- notably, that the Bitcoin system can handle only a finite volume of transactions efficiently, and while it's capacity can be increased, the community managing it is (so far) still too disorganized to do so quickly (and without dramatic measures like forks and such.) Gold trading, as far as I know, already has none of these limitations, so cryptocurrencies have catching up to do, on that front.
Doh! Thank you.
When I was a junior programmer at 30, it sure felt like I was on the older side. :)

It's a separate subject, but there is a lot of age bias in the field.
IMO it sounds like you've interpreted "pre-order sales" very differently than Shopify does. The below references this document:

https://help.shopify.com/themes/customization/products/allow...

"Pre-order" in that document appears to refer to products that authorize (make a "pending charge") at checkout but capture (make a real charge) later - the merchant doesn't receive the money until the capture, when the product ships. How far apart in time these two events can be depends on the processor's contracts with the rest of the upstream network; the Shopify doc specifically lists a maximum of 7 days. The Guru post mentions "capturing but delivering later", but how much later is unclear.

Combine that with the "no refunds after September 29th as the money will be gone" policy which seems (IMO, IANAL) in opposition to chargeback policy from the card networks and I can totally see why Shopify might not want to carry the risk of your customers.

Also, if this is the first time you've interacted with Shopify support you should've spent some of that "year of development and planning" making sure your partners were 100% on board...
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Speaking a software developer, I think this technique can be quite powerful. You'll often hear people talk about the Pomodoro Technique[1]. I don't always organize my day around promodoros, but when I'm under the gun, it's a great way to maximize productivity by minimizing task waste.

I see a common anti-pattern in myself and other developers that I call the "depth-first problem solving" method. In short, it's when you go down the rabbit hole and loose sight of what you were originally trying to accomplish. Others call this issue "Yak Shaving"[2].

By forcing you to take stock of what you're doing and give yourself a breather, I find one is better able to keep on-task. Also, when doing pomodoros, the side benefits is that you're only working on one thing.

Even if you're not doing something more sophisticated like pomodoros, taking a break every 20 minutes can be very useful even for "in-the-zone" type activities, like coding, which can take some time to get into.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
[2] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/YakShavingDefinedIllGetThatDon...
Starting from fresh these days I would use something 2 way for commands, queries like HTTP REST.

But a messaging system for events.

If i'm using event sourcing use a dedicated event sourcing database with catchup subscriptions etc
Or we could fund adventurer archeologists like Indiana Jones to protect the artifacts by stealing them. Either way, we've probably stepped off into the realm of unworkable fiction.
I think there's a critical discussion about inflation vs deflation missing from this article.

Inflation is bad, but so is deflation because it encourages saving your money which, in turn, hurts liquidity in the marketplace (i.e. the amount of cash freely flowing around). Liquidity is essential to keep the economy moving.

Isn't what we want really a currency with just a little bit of inflation that keeps people spending their dollars today rather than saving them for tomorrow?
Not really familiar with the Boeing architecture, but having worked on similar systems for other commercial aircraft, "firewall" is an understatement for the systems that act as gateways between the aircraft network domains with different criticality levels.

The IFE is in the Passenger Information and Entertainment Services Domain (as defined by the standard ARINC664 Aircraft Data Networks). A basic assumption regarding the connectivity to more sensitive domains is that PIESD is totally insecure and anything can happen.

Finally to people wondering why aircraft designers would physically connect networks with vastly different security requirements: it's for making it possible to share aircraft/ground communication means (satcom...)
A practice run based on this most likely

http://imgur.com/a/RdPTK
From a totally cold, unfeeling standpoint: people are self replicating, ancient artifacts are not.
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Accidents happen. Commenter below referenced Swiss Air 111: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111

They cite inadequate safety standards and an overheating entertainment system.

It's easy to assume that government or the airlines wouldn't allow a faulty system to fly, but just like software it's those extreme edge cases that cause problems. Somehow I doubt hacking the entertainment system is comprehensively covered in the manufacturers safety check. It's probably a remote chance something bad would happen, but we can't say it's 0.
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Ask HN: How do you choose which project to start?
I have a few projects in mind like motion graphics and starting drop shipping. I have ideas for both and I am able to start now. How do you decide on which project to start? Both will take a whie.
Agreed. It should definitely be clarified to at least "database server".

The other potential metrics you mention as well, not really sure MySQL would come out front on (m)any of them either. ;)
The notion becomes a lot more complex if those books are the only remaining copies.
Government bonds are seen as ultra-safe, comparable to cash, and while 2.2% is not great it's better than 0%.

Maybe they think inflation will stay low. My sense is that at the moment there's a lot of money sloshing around chasing not-so-great returns, so returns on everything are low - capital is subject to supply and demand like anything else.
What do you use to store articles? DynamoDB? If so, are you ok with querying and searching data?
What about security? How do you implement it?
To be clear, if the OP proposed intervention to save lives, you would no less call him a colonialist.
It's not your intuition about the IFE hardware that's problematic; it's your intuition about the "publicly accessible system like a webserver".
Based on his body of work as a journalist, my suspicion is that Krebs has (at least) an informal relationship with US federal law enforcement organs. The editorial tone of this piece in light of the weakness of the Hutchins Indictment are consistent with my suspicion.
My point is that unless we come up with some concrete definition of what "work" is, it's rather pointless to talk about its effects. A weight lifter might refer to 'work' as exercising. A truck driver might refer to 'work' as driving a truck. Those two forms of 'work' have a much different affect on your health.
I would not call a nearby chemical dump 'random noise'.

Consider the dean of a tiny school wants to be different where the dean of a large school wants to be better at a wide range of things. The first dean will have a larger impact on a smaller number of things. Further, the dean of the smaller schools choice of focus is going to have a major impact.
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I don’t think higher taxes are something libertarians are generally in favor of.
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AFAIK mining doesn't actually require connectivity until you want to reveal the block. It's unlikely anyone else will discover it quickly, so you can just have someone walk across a border (or get on a flight) and plug it in to the global network from elsewhere.
Yes, I did read the article -- and I reject its premise.

Thank you for the summary and for your pompous and ignorant response to it.

In college, I had a sight-impaired friend with a guide dog. That dog worked around street noise, farm animals, and unruly pets.

To be constructive -- what is your specific solution to the problem? Anything other than "non profit and volunteer, bro!"
Fine, why wasn't another agency involved too then?
I agree that, in theory, at least the avionics shouldn't be accessible from the IFE. I am sure there is a rigorous protocol for making sure this is properly secured and certification for airworthiness. I think the parent comment was more making the point that we don't need a flight full of people scanning ports for fun and profit, and the consequences of doing so are unknown and could lead to things like no wifi or IFE on the flight you're on and hopefully not worse
You don't have to go any further than the Wikipedia article the previous commenter provided to see that no evidence has been provided for how sending packets to an IFE could take down a plane.
Don't you see the difference? The value of the dollar at least partly comes from a government that has forced a demand.
> Disconnect a country from the Internet (or filter the traffic) and you're forking the chain.

Is this necessarily true? Forgive my ignorance but if we're talking Bitcoin, wouldn't the rest of the remaining miners around the world be able to account for this? And would the situation be meaningfully different in the country in question were China (or another of similar size/mining power)?
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Excellent details. Thanks.
Another thing to note is that variable rate mortgages will see their rates increase within a day or two. Mine hasn't gone up yet, but I expect it to increase tomorrow. This does not necessarily translate to higher payments, instead it just means the mortgage will take a little longer to pay off.

To explain a little further: A variable rate mortgage can have fixed payments - every day your mortgage accrues a bit of interest, then when you make the payment it pays off that interest and the remainder pays off the principal. If the interest rate increases that just means that the interest that accrues every day is a bit higher and less of your payment goes against the principal, so it takes longer to pay it off.

If the interest rate hits the point (the trigger rate) where your monthly payments no longer cover the interest, then your bank will call and want to increase your payments. In this case, a rate hike will translate to higher payments.
In essence, if you're got a pessimistic outlook, would you rather loose $10, or $100?
I don't know anyone who believes those claims, which have become a kind of shared joke in the software security community.
> I'm replying this because I'm getting tired of Microsoft's marketing campaigns on this forum.

I just think you're simply underestimating how many people actually like .net and spreads the love by free will. :)
I thought the same thing, the core idea of this article is in direct opposition of its conclusion.

Bitcoin is going up in value, and according to the market predictions it will go way higher, so it's deflationary.

Bitcoin holders will prefer to spend cash money to bitcoins anytime in speculation of future gains.

I see bitcoin more of a speculative investment at the moment, than a type of currency. Only the ones that are riding the bitcoin trains seems to think this is the future of money. Outside that bubble nobody really uses it.
Then you do the "or whenever you can give it attention" part. As importantly, don't care too much about the annoying standup - just get it out of the way.
>not made huge inroads into disease treatment. I think this is because we haven't figured out a good way to describe the diseases.

Perhaps more likely, human doctors are actually quite good and AI has yet to out do them.
We are in an X9.3 solar flare. Massive hamradio blackout. GPS issues too
faulty wiring in the cockpit after the entertainment system started to overheat. electronic device don't start to do arc wiring with a portscan. Stop spreading bad info.

Even if in any other dimension it can be possible, it's the responsability of who design the system for protect against this.
All I can say that sometimes I feel the same.

You have to accept this: you're at the mercy of your managers. If they hate you then you have no chance, OTOH if they love you, then you don't even have to lift a finger and you will be just fine, even if you're slower than you'd expected. Managers usually trust people based on gut feelings. I am still yet to see a competent manager who can evaluate the skills of his subordinates properly.

Also you didn't mention why did you join the new company in the first place? You have acquaintances working there? The company looked interesting from outside? You had met some employees in a tech meetup/hackathon earlier? Now we can only make assumptions.

Also make sure that you know why they hired you! I can't emphasize this one enough. Many times companies hire experienced people to do mundane tasks under the impression that they will do the shit that everyone hates faster. If this is the case, then RUN!!!! If it turns out that the new company has no roles which an experienced developer could enjoy like leading a team, or participating in design discussions or being a product manager then it's again a sign that you should just simply leave.

One other thing: smaller companies have a flat hierarchy. So there is no chance to step higher on the ladder. You should also consider if this is the case. In small companies it might take years or even decades until you can advance in your career. That might explain why they didn't put you in a PM/TL role.

There is one thing that many people in the tech industry overlooks: there simply cannot be everyone a tech lead/manager. The earlier you join a company or department, the better your chances are.

Also, some companies have seasonal busy periods. If they hired you during this busy period you might feel higher pressure. This might ease by time and you shouldn't take it personally (and you can even ask if that's the case).
Not a pilot, but Regarding flight phrase, actually airplane can detect FLARE easily (Airbus even has a FLARE flight law governing the aircraft during flare).

Typically FLARE would be RA (Radio Altimeter) < 50ft, flaps/slats extended, speedbrake armed, and weight on wheel = 0 or something along this line.
Thanks. A few days back was looking for such a list. Most lists only provide about 1 million domains. This looks useful.
Please don't put words in my mouth.
I suspect that is not you who is confused, but the author of the article.

I don't think he has a good understanding of what money is or how it works.

It seems he thinks that there is limited quantity of dollars (or whatever) stacked under mattresses or something and that people is going to start spending them in order not to get stuck with them. It's funny.
All fun and games until someone remembers that there is no air gap on Boeing's in-flight network

> There are places where the networks are not touching, and there are places where they are

Boeing's Lori Gunter

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/hackers-commandeer-new-planes-...
A chargeback (reg E claim) is paid by the vendor not the CC company. The vendor absorbs the risk of fraud.
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I think it's important to appropriate contextualize things like "left" and "right." Most importantly, why are we comparing Silicon Valley to Europe? They're completely different political climates, in different countries. Comparing political ideologies between two countries is a fool's errand more often than not.

Within the context of American politics, San Francisco (and SV to a lesser extent) is one of the most liberal places in the country, probably top 5 and certainly top 10. Even within the context of the California politics specifically (itself the 3rd or 4th most liberal state), it's center left.

Trying to frame San Francisco as anything right of center is ridiculous unless you're comparing it only to things like Communism and Socialism.

Edit: And let's not forget than most people want to frame themselves as either center left or center right. Very rarely will someone proudly say they are far left or far right, regardless of context.
It could be. But it could also be that they all have the same potential of intelligence (roughly), and that it's just he's hit more of his potential than they have, through utilizing and practicing the skills. Kind of like how my brother is better than me at basketball, but I could be as good as him if I actually tried.
Rothbard's History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II[1] wades through hundreds of years of Gresham's Law in action. Special attention is devoted to par laws and legal tender laws in exacerbating the tendency of banks to print more notes than there is metal in the vault.

[1] https://mises.org/library/history-money-and-banking-united-s... (free audio book, epub, and pdf available)
well, it's work that is several steps removed from directly impacting an individual. Nobody's ever come to my lab to tell me I saved their life. (but if our work bears fruit, everyone will have better hearing aids!)

I worked EMS in undergrad; none of my patients ever found me afterwards to thank me, but we _probably_ saved a life or two. (narcan is magical)

it's a fun conversation to have over a few beers.
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My solution (on a desktop) was to temporarily switch from a right handed mouse to using an ambidextrous trackball with my left hand, and a wrist rest for both my keyboard and trackball. I am _not_ ambidextrous. I also wore a custom made wrist rest-splint while working and sleeping. After a year or so, I returned to a right handed mouse and continue to use a gel filled wrist rest for both the keyboard and mouse. If using a full sized keyboard, get one without a numpad.

Get a rest-splint for your wrist. Your injuries will not heal without rest.

EDIT: remembered my wrist-splint was bespoke
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They probably also didn't ask about details on regulation. Techies heard "regulation" and thought Uber/Airbnb, not runoff wastewater, asbestos, and formaldehyde (which is what many other people would think of when hearing "regulation"). I'd guess techies are similar to other liberals in wanting these other things regulated. They just don't want tech to be regulated.
Poker Tracker is the other major program. Both have essentially the same features. Holdem Manager is PC-only, however.
Ha! That's a great visual. I think that explains very well why I like strongly, statically typed languages (for large projects) - the larger a project is, the slower feedback is the farther right you go.
Beside a scan is good or bad, how would they go about finding the source? There wont be an IT officr at landing collecting logs/mac address from any wireless card. I've scanned those systems many times and nothing ever happened - i am just pointing out to the issue that catching a real attacker it is hard not just technically but in practice
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It's strange because it's unhygenic but a strong "social lock in" makes it essentially impossible to abstain without sending the signal of being socially awkward.

As a social construct, there'd be no need for going through the procedure, yet everyone basically has to go through it because everyone else does.

Considering that there are plenty of cultures in which handshakes are not commom (like in many Asian countries), there doesn't seem to be any good justification why it's done elsewhere, other than "custom". But not every custom actually is reasonable.
A neuron has only 1 axon, it may branch to many different places however.

It's more useful to loop at synaptic operations. 1 FLOP per synaptic activation is a vast underestimate of what happens computationally in the brain. Synaptic activations have many homeostatic side effects.

One can also not discount the cost of the memory needed for the tensor core.
As a former student of Allen's, I wholeheartedly agree. I actually started learning programming from him before even arriving at Olin, through his free textbooks (available here: http://greenteapress.com/wp/).

We first met when he interviewed me as part of Olin's Candidate's Weekend. I told him how impactful the book had been. An hour later, he found me again and gave me a signed physical copy.