skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's nice, but whenever I see lists like these I always say the same thing: If your checklists can't be automated on the CI server they are worthless for developers. I'm not a huge fan of Go, but it needs to get credit where credit is due. Writing code quality tools and linters is extremely easy with that language. Which helps keeping codebase quality extremely tight.
An accounting company (Arthur Andersen) created $100B revenues out of thin air, internet bubble money sounds like a very useful ingredient for high level 'creative accounting'.
Most airlines I've flown recently still have plastic wings for kids. You just have to ask for them.
"The word 'capitalism' doesn't mean what it used to," said Zach Lustbader, a senior at Harvard involved in conducting the poll, which was published Monday. For those who grew up during the Cold War, capitalism meant freedom from the Soviet Union and other totalitarian regimes. For those who grew up more recently, capitalism has meant a financial crisis from which the global economy still hasn't completely recovered.

"They're not rejecting the concept," Della Volpe said. "The way in which capitalism is practiced today, in the minds of young people — that's what they're rejecting."
Isn't the more immediate concern that the power supplies are going to run out?
I have a bitcoin debit card. I use it every other day. I call it my magic internet beer money card.
That's weird. I would fire up strace and check what's really happening. musl/glibc shouldn't have visibility into the queries you're making. My suspicion is that something at the app level is doing something that it shouldn't, not musl.
Voyager is probably the most badass awesome thing ever.

Every single aspect of space travel is an engineering/mathematic/scientific marvel. Not only did we plan, build, launch these, (before I was born) but we're still communicating (until we can't).

I'm reading links people have posted here, trying to understand how we communicate with these probes. It's fascinating.
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Where the heck do you work? How long did it take for you to get to that position? What was your role as a junior?
A lot of comapanies have "A" teams they send in when necessary. The US Digital Service was one example of this.
Damnit, I liked Vidme and thought it could potentially become a decent competitor to YouTube.

However, with the business troubles related to a video site, I suspect there are only three plausible ways to compete here:

1. Have the video sharing site treated as a loss making venture run purely out of a love for the community. This is unlikely to happen when a corporation is involved (unless the CEO is a deeply religious/political individual who thinks it helps their spiritual/social goals), but could happen if you had an extremely dedicated, semi wealthy individual whose entire life revolved around running a video sharing site for fun.

2. Run the video site as a niche version, which is only open to a certain community and focuses heavily on a certain type of video. This was how Twitch took off, as well as how Discord originally marketed their chat service.

3. Somehow make the service decentralised so no one pays all the costs. This is how BitChute functions.

Either way, it's unlikely a startup or general business venture is going to be what topples YouTube here.
> You can destroy whatever you want pre-lawsuit

Per the article, legal experts seem to agree that the above is not true:

However, companies have an obligation to preserve records that may be reasonably seen as relevant to litigation or that fall under data retention rules set by industry regulators. In Uber’s situation, chat logs that could help get to the bottom of the trade secrets case are now inaccessible. Uber also faces a criminal investigation over the alleged theft.

“It’s a knotty question for courts and lawyers on when the obligation arises” to preserve records, said Julia Brickell, general counsel at the legal discovery firm H5. But “if someone uses a communication device to specifically hide information from litigation because you knew it would result in litigation, that would be foul from the start.”

...

An app such as Wickr “could be a way for Levandowski to communicate ‘By the way, how did we do that back at Waymo?’ and all that vanishes in 30 seconds,” [Judge] Alsup said. “To me it’s plausible that it happened. And the evidence is gone now. Because it was an intentionally set up system to not leave a paper trail.”

Federal civil court guidelines enable judges to tell jurors that they can presume that information covered up by a litigant and now missing would have been negative for that party, Brickell said.

Such a declaration could hurt Uber, as its primary defense has been that Waymo has turned up no concrete evidence of the trade-secret theft. Now, Waymo can claim that such evidence was simply deleted.

“That they were so concerned about covering things up meant that they could have known what they were doing was a crime,” said Nick Akerman, a lawyer at Dorsey & Whitney and a former federal prosecutor in Manhattan. “To me, that’s very powerful evidence.”
I'm half-joking here, but one reason we might know it isn't true is the "argument from cash flow": Snap is still hemorrhaging money, to the consternation of investors, mainly because they're paying astronomical sums to Google for GCE hosting. Given the amount of data that passes through Snapchat every day and the cost to host it, I can make a decent guess that they're not hanging on to it, or else their infrastructure costs would be even greater.
That's definitely a thing in Germany. Pretty much all job posts there have that.

It's there because of anti-discrimination laws. Job titles and occupations in German always have a gender associated with them (it's just the way the language is), but companies aren't allowed to discriminate. So it's shorter and easier to put (m/f) at the end rather than having to always list both gender forms of job titles every time the job title comes up.

English still has some of those gender forms for older professions. For example, there's waiter/waitress so instead of always writing "waiter/waitress" they just write "waiter" and then put (m/f) at the end to indicate that they will hire either gender.
I agree that management fucked up to allow this to happen again. But saying it's purely management's fault is another extreme.

In big companies there are layers of 'management', including down to dev leads and tech/virtual leads who are devs by title. Knowledge of codebase/systems/deployment increases as you get down to the leaves. There are architects, release managers, product managers, etc. that should have provided multiple checks/balances. It's easy to point at "management" in big companies just as it is easy to point at "developers". But there's a whole bunch of nuances in the middle.
Bitcoin fees are pennies. I paid 25c for a txn yesterday, and that's just because i didn't want to wait a week for the chain commit, which normally i couldn't care less about. The value of bitcoin is already greater compared to the amount i transferred + the txn fee.
How does one email you?
I cannot find you email anywhere.
SSH is not affected.
Exactly my thoughts. The expectations regarding taxation of virtual currencies have been known for years---they're just getting around to enforcing it.
>"That's the messy part of the transition: There's kind of the implication that past decisions weren't correct. It's easy for people to get emotionally involved and take personal offense."

Thanks for highlighting something I missed in my post. Some of the time yes, the decisions might just be wrong because generalists may not be experienced enough to know the right way to do things. But quite often, they were in fact the right decision at that time and circumstances change.

So any sort of process and culture that helps take the emotion and risk of personal offense out of those situations is really critical to gaining the benefit of historical context in a positive manner.
Sshtalk screenshot: an ssh based chat made in assembler
I hear you! I have resorted to "wait for a month or two, and then update". Usually a few point updates are available by then. Explaining security to my family and friends doesn't work (most think passowrd managers and autofill are a bigger security hole than using same password everywhere).
Now that's very interesting!

According to his wiki page, he reduced Maxwell's equations from 20 equations (in 20 variables) down to the 4 iconic equations we now refer to as Maxwell's equations. Imagine having to learn EM theory with 20 equations... as if current EM theory courses aren't tough enough already!

One of his creations, the step function, is also a key part of many proofs and equations in signal processing.
I think it would make things worse, the only advantage I see is that if you got it to work at all you could do away with the requirement that you'd need three base stations on Earth. A single Geostationary satellite should be able to keep both the base station and the Voyager in sight at the same time. But that's a lot of money to spend for very little advantage.
Market power/concentration can be both common/usual relative to some context (eg the US) and yet too high to maximize consumer welfare, or too high relative to another context.
One thing I've heard from people is that they would buy something with bitcoin, then exchange traditional money to replace the bitcoin they spent.
Did you say the same thing about Enron when they were in the news essentially every day from August until December 2001? It's a big corporate scandal with frequent new revelations; there's going to be lots of posts about it.
You are still going to have peak hour traffic.
Re point 2.. I am a bit of an Evan Miller fanboy, but would like to make a shoutout to Wizard anyway. https://www.wizardmac.com/ is a fantastic piece of software.
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The beer that i buy using my bitcoin debit card doesn't taste fake.
It’s a marketing play. Appear innovative and differentiate commoditised accounting services. Sell advisory services to governments and big business on crypto. Good idea really.
Wireless is going to make all this moot: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/americans-abandoning-w....

> And 15 percent of households earning more than $100,000 are mobile-only, versus 6 percent in 2013.

These are households who can easily afford wired broadband. But a growing number of people simply find wireless to be fast enough and place a high value on mobility.

5G wireless is going to make wired broadband obsolete, and also solve the competition problem. Unlike laying fiber, it's easy to have several different competing 5G networks in the same place. Once you get above about 100 mbps (and LTE-A is already there in some places), the mobility advantage is going to totally dominate any incremental improvement in speed for 80% of people.
Serious question: How is BTC going to ever achieve the price stability required for a currency?
Well, companies can just convert instantly to Bitcoin on transaction.

They can hold with their other money.
That snippet (hn_seach.js) is to search not to fetch all pages; or what snippet are you talking about?
Systematically studying a range of issues supported by voters and comparing them against actual congressional votes is not blustering. It's rather methodical and data driven.
>I'm not familiar enough with the OS X sandbox, but I would guess that sandboxed applications aren't allowed to fill in login prompts. I might be wrong though.

Oh, right. I tend to kind of forget that the App Store serves any other purpose than to deliver software updates as most of the applications on my Mac are from other sources. Yes, I agree that sandboxed apps are almost certainly prohibited from filling in login prompts by default. There does appear to be a system by which sandboxed apps can ask for addition permissions but I'm not an OS X/macOS application developer so I have no idea how this permissions system works.

>Surely not. In real life LPE bugs are far too common to matter a lot to anyone.

LPE bugs might be common but they're rarely as extremely straightforward as typing "root" into a login prompt with no password and pressing enter a few times.
Writing concise, useful culture statements is hard.
Scarcity and demand drives worth. As well, interestingly, scarcity itself can drive demand for certain goods...
People don't consider EY Switzerland as one of the "Big Four". You're right though EY Switzerland did this same move roughly one year ago.
... or the transaction volume?
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Games can have strategic depth that is only mildly helpful in improving the odds of winning. Arguably Carcassonne is like this.
> There are architects, release managers, product managers, etc. that should have provided multiple checks/balances. So to say it's purely "management" isn't quite correct to me.

The fact that all the architects, release managers, and product managers that you mentioned do not function as a coherent structure capable of eliminating the occurrence of critical defects is the definition of management failure. NASA also had plenty of architects and directors when Challenger exploded. Such catastrophic failures, especially on repeat, are indicative of systemic disfunction. That is always the fault of top management.
Probably.. but with Bayesian methods at your model/data updates its priors, rather than you effectively embedding your prior beliefs into your models via selectively choosing tests that support them.
If customers were categorically willing to pay for and expected nicer features then the nicer features wouldn't be optional, they would be standard and the prices would rise. The fact that we are going in the opposite direction with more and more standard features turning into options with correlated price drops supports my theory.

Similarly, if users cared about quality then budget carriers would be dying rather than exploding in popularity.
Legitimately curious how a bitcoin debit card works
Yep. Every two weeks when i get paid i put aside my spending money for the next two weeks by transferring to my bitcoin debit card. Then i use that card. The thing is, it is increasing in value faster than my pretty average spending requirements. Holding the money in my spending wallet in bitcoin just means it increases in value rather than being debased.
Why are people so obsessed with stability? Prices can float freely.
> "I'm a competent, high performing generalist who can work autonomously and self-sufficiently with enough confidence in my capabilities to have a high risk tolerance. In my current company I got tossed around from starting under a marketing manager, to getting shifted under the CTO after stepping on IT's toes too often, to getting pushed into a newly formed Operations group, to finally just reporting directly to the owner. While officially I manage a data management and BI team, in practice I'm the guy you escalate random problems and needs to. Creating a BI team was a byproduct of being a generalist and being the first person that needed a consolidated view of everything (and having the ability to execute on that need)."

Your job and experience sound very similar to my current role. I don't have an accurate job title anymore, and I very much see myself as the oil that makes the engine of the company run more smoothly. I wear about four or five different hats, all depending on what fires I need to put out. Good to meet someone doing something similar.
Here's link to digital versions of magazine and archives: http://lj.mybigcommerce.com/categories/Back-Issues-%252d-Dig...

Anyone can help by buing something. They should start kickstarter or donations.
The study isn't blustering. Claiming that America "is getting closer to a communist dictatorship" is.
Your link is to a story about an employer who uses a test which is a proxy for intelligence (they even give the rough equivalency between the test they use and IQ). I think that supports my point that intelligence is one of the more important things employers are looking for. Most employers don’t have the resources to develop a hiring screening test and then certify that it is not discriminatory, so they use educational attainment instead.

Another way to approach this is to ask yourself: if not as a proxy for intelligence, then why do some jobs require a college degree?
The volume will increase in line with adoption.
because it doesn’t provide remote access, you’re right. But it’s been released publicly before there was a patch available, on an OS that’s only used as a personal computer, not as a server. And is immediately exploitable by just anyone, with 0 technical background. I think that makes it a very big deal, no matter what CVE usually use for a scale. I also don’t remember any macOS security breach getting that much publicity.
The U.S. economy is characterized by oligopolies, and I think there is a rational position that they should all be subject to regulation. I happen to disagree, but it's internally consistent. What's not internally consistent is to say that cellular is so concentrated that it requires regulation, then to say that there is plenty of competition in smart phones or search.

This is not "whataboutism." People who think that search or smart phones shouldn't be regulated, I think, generally have a notion of how awful government regulation can be. So they say that we should only do it when the concentration, and thus the potential for abuse, exceeds a certain, high, threshold. Their view is that the threshold is not exceeded in smart phones, or search, or parcels. This is, I think, a really common view. Under that view, it's relevant that the market concentration in cellular is comparable to those other industries.
>most think passowrd managers and autofill are a bigger security hole than using same password everywhere

Argh. My thanksgiving dinner in a nutshell.
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Zoning and housing development affect a large portion of household spending. Municipal elections typically have terribly turnout.

Would a prize for tweeting your photo at polling place improve turnout? Change policies?
2017 and on is the year when you run Linux on the desktop, the Windows desktop it is.

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It the same reason I close email and chat apps during periods of work to get stuff done.

You have to create and control your own context switches. I also disable email notifications on my cell. This let’s me check email outside of work but doesn’t force it into my view every moment.
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> I think the problem is that when tools like Slack are engineered in such a way as to make people dependent on their product

It's a chat client. It's an addictive medium. It sounds to me like you're shooting the messenger.

Skype, Hangouts, or any IM client wants your attention. Slack is just a better version of all the other IM clients I've used (for work).

If you don't want to be disturbed you close Slack.

I suspect that if you've got problems with Slack, it means that there's a problem in the culture of where you work.

Where I work, individual @ mentions are barely used, maybe 0-5 per day. But there's nothing that's written in stone, or ever been discussed, it's just that colleagues respect each other's focus. Then the rest is less important that all can be ignored unless you're not concentrating on something.
Sshtalk: An SSH-based chat made in assembler
It took my Nexus 40 days
Currencies, at least traditionally, are a store of value. You don't want stores of values to be volatile.

Though I suppose the end game for BTC could be a transfer mechanism that no one actually holds. It would still be subject to flash crashes, though.
Put x$ in bitcoin on card exchange. Put y$ in card account. Use card from y$. 15 minutes or so later, y$ account is topped up from x$ account. Txn never touches the chain. Sure it's a risk having a bit of money on an exchange, but that is the price of convenience. When the amount on exchange is too high, i shift to my bitcoin wallet.
They might want to check that your wallet isn't on a blacklist.