skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've generally gone online banks over local because I want things to work when I'm out of my hometown. What would "Bank of the James" for me if I'm stuck in England with a declined or broken card?

I'm sure people's increasing need for services regarding their balance/card leads them to choose larger financial companies over a local one. Wells Fargo is well known for fees, fees, fees but they have a solid customer base because you know your card will work in Iowa or DC or Morocco.

When people just needed a place to store cash, and could withdrawal it and travel local banks were fine. Needs have changed a little with the times. That reduces the lending pool too.
Yes, but GP is also cherry-picking cards. Black Lotus was a valuable card back then, but that doesn't make it a good investment. If they had printed other cards with similar powers, for example, it wouldn't be worth as much as it is.

A better comparison would be unopened packs of Magic cards vs the S&P. I don't know how that comes out though.
As you get older and your loved ones (e.g. parents) start leaving, you become much more aware of your own mortality! I lost my last parent this year, and it bothers me a lot that my mom left at 59 and dad left at 70.
Jokes aside, the price on the Souvenir AWP Dragon Lore is pretty crazy. The lowest estimate I can find for a Factory New is somewhere in the 10,000 keys area (keys are 2.49usd/ea).
you are right, i actually didn't check on git, my bad
50k is the median family income in nyc.
Like very simple. Boards like Minnowboard actually have a header that you can connect a Dediprog SF100 to. No deadbugging required. eg. https://minnowboard.org/tutorials/updating-firmware-via-spi-... . Being able to sign that code is the real trick.
WebForms was a beast and a horrible web technology for the web. I was just stating that, since MS intent on killing VB, it was intended to make transition from Enterprise VB Desktop apps to Enterprise Web Apps easier and in that regard it was successful.

The issues with FormState made it mostly unusable over the internet, it was relegated to intranet applications for the most part.
For a competent team, arbitrary dates, generally leaving not enough time, only serve to limit scope. A competent team will produce as fast as is possible, given a specified scope.
> What happned that we still have a similar duperstar culture than 20 years ago?

Perhaps idols have network effects.

Do most people actually want independent structures? They're available to use if you do (see: bandcamp).

I assert most people would prefer a musical common knowledge (even if banal) over more interesting yet isolating music.

In a sense, musical isolation outside the mainstream has gotten worse over time, as the internet has made it easier to follow your aesthetic judgments into deeper and more disparate rabbit holes. The idea of a subculture seemed a happy medium, but these have mostly become "atomized" out of existence. There does still exist an "indie" alternate-mainstream, along with a few others, but for the more engaged music fan it's somewhat of a lonely world.

Hopefully the pendulum will soon begin to swing back toward shared experience and music creation as a means toward community-building (see: prayer), rather than as an end in itself.
Nine out of ten times paying for traffic means that your money ends in someone who spreads malware and controls a botnet of infected machines. The traffic is as real as it gets in this context considering that you get residential IPs from the majority of western countries but in the same time you legitimize the use of malware. In my view, none of these publishers have the right to complain, they got what they deserved.
I'm a bit confused by the authors use of the words entropy and entropic, starting specifically with this point:

> Don’t let entropy get at your daily routine. Avoid entropy-driven work

In a physical sense, my understanding of entropy is that it's a degenerative phenomenon, a lowest common denominator - it doesn't create anything. This point means avoiding distracting or sporadic work, which is a test of discipline. But the rest of this point and others further down using words like 'entropy-driven' work are meaningless.

I'm sure there's a good point to be made here about valuable work in large corporations, but the (over)use of the word entropy has lost me.
Highly dysfunctional people generally become less dysfunctional when they're housed, but they also become your problem. In an ideal world society would see the benefits, but in the real world, you're going to have to deal with an onslaught of problems. The neighbours are going to kick up an enormous fuss if the guy down the hall is stumbling around drunk at all hours of the day and night. The police are going to be all over you if your property turns into a crack den. You've got liability issues if one of your residents burns the place down.

Housing is a crucial part of the response to homelessness, but it's only a part. Some people can walk straight into a home and get back on their feet, but some people will need intensive support and others just aren't ready to be housed.
There was an extremely easy polite way to apply the filter. Just don't use the idea because it came from a lighting guy.
Same here! Wololo.
It still just seems like apples-to-oranges to me. It's perfectly rational to accept the risk of transportation, as transportation is often vital. The same isn't true of things done for pleasure, like sports.
> they were the only apocalyptic sect that had ever taken over an “existing heathen empire”: they ruled over the population of the former Russian Empire, which was overwhelmingly ignorant of or unreceptive to their teachings

I think the Jacobin take over of the French Revolution was similar, both in the totalist philosophy of the revolutionaries, the apocalyptic fervor of it and in the bloody consequences of it.
It is a username and not relevant at all.
A bank spends $1000 on advertising and it ends up with dozens of accounts and credit cards opened and they decide it's a good ROI. So they spend another $1000 on advertising and get the same results again.

Why does it matter that millions of the ad impressions were fake?
That's true but it doesn't effect what GP said.

Many of us on HN are in professions where we are able to save enough money to live without being productive after the age of 65.

But also many of the people reading this will be 50 years old and have the option to purchase a second (vacation home), or a boat, or a fancy sports car, OR completely secure their retirement. Many of us will choose one of these luxury items and hope everything works out rather than saving for a retirement that could last into our 90's.
OT, but: funny, I felt the name was familiar, and turns out I commented on a post on this blog 12 years ago[0].
A reading lost due to the death of google reader, I presume.

[0] How time flies! https://minnenratta.wordpress.com/2005/12/23/le-proporzioni-...
I like reading your comments, thinking to myself, "this is something chimeracoder would write" and then seeing that you did in fact write it.
http://archive.is/P4Kl5
> First, the contractors said, the vendors add between 15 and 25 percent as an “M.T.A. Factor” because of how hard it can be to work within the bureaucracy of the transit authority. Then they add 10 percent as a contingency for possible changes. And then they add another 10-12 percent on top of all that for profit and overhead.

There is the core problem. Extreme horrid bureaucracy in the MTA (or any public sector), combined with the change stuff - it's not unusual for decades-long projects to have politicians demand changes, new regulations (fire protection!), court orders (environmental protection) or the discovery of historic sites leading to, sometimes expensive, change requests.

If I were a contractor, of course I'd calculate with this risk in mind. I'd run bankrupt if not.

> insisting on extravagant station designs

And yet another problem: public projects don't like doing stuff with "standardized solutions". It always ends up with specific weird customizations - designed to e.g. force the project to buy parts from a specific vendor in the home region of the politicians (hello NASA, Airbus), or to prevent political undesirables from getting the contracts.

In addition, with public-sector works there is often a lack of competent in house oversight and planning - and a lack of preventing any small politician to cause change requests in the first place.
Probably much worse; who wants old lands or cards that were never particularly good?
The idea that entropy works on the direction of "hard work -> easy work", instead of "complex work -> simple work" or even "more work -> less work" is a great insight.
> Well an actual worst case scenario also brings down your internet connection.

Not sure if we talk about the same: The last worst case scenario was 2008 (stock crash, banks went bankrupt) but the Internet was still fine.
Notice all the qualifiers? Notice that the above statement, while technically truthful does not tell the whole story?

This is not a time for vague promises IMHO, it's time for specific and clear statements. Why not just say you don't slow phones full stop?
Ask the insider: Eurofighter Typhoon
I agree, especially Stalin was fighting with Trotsky who promoted ideas of the permanent revolution.
If just talking market cap not real value my imaginary bet is on BTC and I guess it will hit it in the 2nd quarter of 2018.
Sheila Fitzpatrick's review of The House of Government is less gushing, or at least it maintains a critical distance from the work:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n15/sheila-fitzpatrick/good-commun...
Yea, pretty cool but bicycles are already amazing at getting people around.

Attaching a heavy battery / motor make the bike heavier and harder to ride unless its engaged and further convinces people that their own power is insufficient.

(also the promo video was mostly my commute and is a lovely ride without a motor).
I think a lot of people who would be satisfied with a small, cheap home such as a trailer. I mean, I felt like I had the space of trailer in my first apartment, but it sure as hell wasn't as cheap. It's just a shame they have such a negative connotation (with pretty good reason).
I was referring to the Silver Line addition to DC's metro system. It mostly runs in the median of 267.
The irony being that worse medicine should lead to more funerals, and hence better medicine.
Systems going back to the first one, SCOMP (1985), NSA certified as secure had to mediate and pentest all software in the system. That includes firmware with SCOMP also having an IOMMU. The typical practice of high-assurance security in the 2000's was using separation kernels or ASIC's to force all input from untrusted subjects to be mediated on every access to a privileged component against a precise, security policy. From Orange Book onto Common Criteria, the fears about malicious management meant they usually put in a dedicated serial port for local, authenticated access to admin functions. Remote admin would need a serial or kvm switch with some security on it depending on what remote meant. If it was long-distance, there would likely be a Type 1 encryptor for link or IP layer.

Yeah, they've known it was a vulnerability for some time. Such a thing wasn't even allowed in secure systems with so-called "High Assurance Platform" being an attempt to mitigate risks in insecure boxes they know market will buy anyway. Stuff like SELinux Trusted Solaris, and so on go here. Recently, for SIGINT and/or politics, NSA is doing 90-day evaluations of COTS products to replace secure, Type-1 gear. The Assurance part that I saw had same requirements as EAL1: so low nobody certified to it to avoid being laughed at. I can only assume bringing in lowest grade stuff across whole DOD when medium assurance is already marketed is a BULLRUN-style subversion to boost surveillance. We don't need smart enemies with these kind of "Defense" policies.
You're literally criticizing the book based on it's website cover? To put it mildly, that's not what effective anythings do.
not to carp, but Apple in 1998 (upon the return of Steve Jobs) is the standard "benchmark". This makes one an event-driven investor. I remember thinking to myself "buy Apple stock" at that time before I really knew what that meant :-)
For those who would like to get a better idea of the cryptography described in this article, here is an overview of the usually encountered computational hardness problems in lattice-based cryptography:

1. Shortest Vector Problem (SVP) - Given a lattice with a basis B, find the shortest vector in the lattice.

2. Closest Vector Problem (CVP) - Given a lattice with a basis B and some target vector t, find the point v which is closest to t.

3. Shortest Independent Vector Problem (SIVP) - Given a lattice basis B in Z^(n x n), find n linearly independent lattice vectors [s1, ..., sn], where si is in the lattice of basis B for all i.

4. Learning With Errors (LWE) - Given integral starting parameters n, m and q, with a probability distribution X on Zq, distinguish between an input pair (A, v) and a vector e in (Zq)^m. A is chosen uniformly from (Zq)^(m x n) and v is (typically) chosen uniformly from (Zq)^m.

In other words, try to recover the secret key s in (Zq)^n by examining a sequence of approximate linear equations. The error introduced is what makes this computationally hard, otherwise it could be done in polynomial time using Gaussian elimination.

5. Learning Parity With Noise (LPN) - Given a secret length l, a noise rate 0 < r < 0.5 and the number of samples q, find the random l-bit secret string s in (Z2)^l using q samples. This is the search problem version; there is also a decisional variant.

There are good surveys that cover lattice-based cryptography in general or particular computational problems in greater depth; for example, try [1], [2], or [3].

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1. Peikert, Chris: A Decade of Lattice-Based Cryptography - https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~cpeikert/pubs/lattice-survey.pdf

2. Micciancio, Regev: Lattice-Based Cryptography (chapter in Post-Quantum Cryptography)

3. Regev, Oded: The Learning With Errors Problem - https://cims.nyu.edu/~regev/papers/lwesurvey.pdf
Yes, but unopened packs hold the allure of possibility. The price fetched wouldn't be based on the certainty of lands, but on the possibility of the uncommon or rare cards that could be inside.
My guess is EMS is probably not primarily auto accident response so population density/tax revenue has more to do with location of fire stations. Along rural 5/99 in California often see county fire responders, versus seeing municipal stations respond to situations closer to towns. Somewhere along the way EMS has switched from independent service seen in that 70's TV show about EMS in my childhood to almost always being attached to a fire station. Anecdotally from a suburb in Silicon Valley I hear the local firestation truck sirens go off multiple times daily when working at home, and there are an average of zero fires a day anywhere near my home.
Why did you leave Zurich? : (

Your profile does not have your e-mail address in it.
> We used to call engineers who do tasks that elevate themselves at the expense of rest of the team as bad team players. Now the advice here is to do high leverage tasks.

You haven't even read the notes, if you're conflating these two ideas.
Gruber says Daring Fireball is always blacklisted from the HN homepage. Is that really the case? If so, why?

Anyway, the worst thing about him is his double standards.

For example, when Samsung announced the Galaxy S III Mini, he said the specs were “rather lame”, with “slower processor and a mere 800 × 480 pixel display”: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/10/10/4-inch-samsung.

A few days later, his review of the iPad Mini didn’t even mention the processor — slower than the iPad’s. And he obviously was much more careful with his words regarding the screen resolution (no “lame” is found in the review): https://daringfireball.net/2012/10/ipad_mini

Here are two distinct uses of the word “interesting”:

- When talking about Gmail for Android: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/09/30/gmail-ads

- When talking about motion sickness and iOS 7: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/09/26/ios-7-motion-si...

And this…: https://daringfireball.net/2012/02/mountain_lion

> Handshakes, a few pleasantries, good hot coffee, and then, well, then I got an Apple press event for one.

Such a big mix of press release and extreme praise about getting a “press event for one”. Talk about second-hand embarrassment.
WTH are you blabbing about?
I still don't understand what's so unrealistic about it.
Simple guide for teens to learn how to code
There is also the open source implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2:

https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2
You shouldn't feel bad for the advertisers, but you should be worried about the content producers you love who provide you free content based on advertisements.

If true fraud levels were exposed it could shift the digital economy in a massive way.

Say you have an unpopular dishwasher and it breaks. It's great to go to Youtube and find someone showing you how to fix the problem even for a relatively niche dishwasher. But if the ad money dries up for that content producer, that video won't be there the next time you look for it.

Or you will be forced to pay $1.00 to watch it.
Two things of interest that the article doesn’t go into:

- Taxes on weed in CA are going to be very high, ~20%. This may drive black market sales.

- Online ordering through Eaze is popular, which might drive the familiar winner take all online commerce market dynamic. A lot of people don’t care for the dispensary experience.

At the end of the day, this is an agricultural product, and a commodity. It was optimistically compared with beer, but beer is made from a recipe, of which there are endless variations to try. Some heavy users care about certain strains and the like, but I have a feeling that for most people weed is weed. The new edible products are a development, but those too will be comoditized.
You have to be careful. I am currently in an org that has embraced this philosophy. Instead of making the survivors feel valued, it has motivated most of them to move into more stable environments. These employees have dependents and don't like the idea of having their health insurance in play on a daily basis.

People read Glassdoor. If your company earns a rep for rapidly and casually dismissing people, you will see good resumes dry up. In our case, the quality of candidates has nosedived. It's not clear why a strong candidate would join a company that opts to fire people so casually.
Don't tell me that I just needed to believe in myself more.

My belief in my ability to succeed was briefly shattered by my dad's employment situation. He was a well qualified engineer laid off from manufacturing. That made us struggle.

I was always thinking about money and feeling the need to optimize for $2 meals instead of $4 meals, and wondering if my car would hold in long enough to be able to get me to school in a week. These are things that only your first, most motivated, category of people will overcome.

I didn't overcome these obstacles. I temporarily dropped out. Don't tell me that I just needed to believe in myself more.

My story only has a happy ending because state schools are cheap and engineering internships are paid.
It's about time the web got a decent layout system.

Every UI toolkit that I know of (wxWidgets, Tcl/Tk, Qt) has some form of layout mechanism (box layout, grid layout, etc), and they'd had it for years/decades.

On the web though, people have been hacking around this omission for ages with tables and assorted "grid" systems (pure css, bootstrap, etc).

The needs for layout management was there for as long as I can remember, and this isn't a particularly tough problem to solve (Tcl/Tk has had "pack" since the late 90s, IIRC).

Why the hell did it take so long for the web to come up with a decent layout mechanism?
http://www.firefightermath.org/index.php?option=com_content&...

"A 100-foot length of 1-inch diameter hose is charged with water. How many gallons of water are in that length of hose?"

Ugh.
By "legal" do you mean within the service agreement? It's probably not, but this isn't something that should be illegal. Ad networks should have realized on day one their business model was stupid and payout shouldn't be based on views and clicks.
I’m a graphics engine developer and I almost always play AAA games with an eye towards analyzing the rendering engine. SoM might be the first game that was so much fun to play, that I never even noticed the rendering. After reading this write up I’m going to have to play it again.
And, plenty of surgeries are done in situations where speed matters more than the quality of the surgery (emergency tracheotomy, amputation, etc.)
This seems like something worth mentioning on the gist.
There's https://www.indiehackers.com, which is pretty popular. They have a relatively active forum (even though it could use some work as a lot of good discussions can go unnoticed), plus founder interviews and a good podcast.
NY to safeguard net neutrality by withholding state contracts from violators
> Does Nintendo actually stand to lose anything if a homebrew community evolved?

Piracy was the #1 reason why people think that the Dreamcast failed. There was no security on the Dreamcast, and no one bought games for it

Instead, everyone downloaded .iso files, wrote them to a disc, and ran games for free.
Against? TBH, I'm not sure there's a need to argue against a political movement with such a record.

It's interesting how a lot of people tries to defend the unambiguously totalitarian party and, at the same time, criticizes autoritarian trends of western democracies.
We are already there. Any candidate without an effective team to back them up (other human beings with a strong suite of software tools) will struggle.
> Stores of value require a predictable purchasing power to be useful

Think you confuse matters: A currency should have "a predictable purchasing power", not a store of value. Latter should rather grow (which requires a deflationary nature/limited supply) and offer stability in times when stocks and/or currencies nosedive. Gold is not that bad for this use case and BTC is even better.

But instead of so much meta talk I would be happy if you let me know which asset is a better store of value than BTC and why (for all kind of countries, also those with weak economies/currencies/infrastructures).
The article describes a real problem, but there are some items that make it obvious a little modernization could go a long way for a few of the businesses.

They talk of cashing checks, and the end of the article makes clear that the peanut process business doesn't offer direct deposit to its employees. Having direct deposit isn't that complex compared to the rest of the business and would eliminate needing to drive long distances to deposit or cash checks.

Another thing, I'm a little surprised that the banks don't offer a drop safe w/ daily or weekly pickups even if they've eliminated a branch in a town. Much less expensive to install and maintain than an ATM, allows your business customers to drop off the cash each day.
"Docker" isn't at fault here either way, as Docker isn't its own "execution driver" (in Docker parlance) any more; that would be https://github.com/opencontainers/runc.

But to answer the spirit your question, each container runtime uses its own peculiar combination of such constructs. It's helpful to know that this attack allows you to break out of the combination used specifically by runc, and thereby to break out of any system relying on Docker (with the default runc execution driver.)
I'd love to learn more about what you're doing.