skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi all,

I learned to program, then completed a rough draft of my first project, a visual approach for organizing and analyzing financial data formatted in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL).

It was built using python, PyQt, and additional software. I welcome any questions or feedback, either publicly or through private messaging. MSI and ZIP files are available for download. I haven't yet paid for code signing, but for now have provided digests of the download files, which are on the website.

The full version of the software is currently for sale, but at this point I am primarily seeking valuable feedback for improvement in future releases. For this, the trial version should work on 64-bit Windows 10 machines.

Thank you!
Chris
Through this short story I also learned that Fermat's principle is just one example of a variational principle. I'm not an expert, but if I understand it correctly, many physical laws can be restated as variational principles.

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_variational_princip...
I've generally stuck to "Hi [Name]" for managers and employees with whom I had a strained relationship. Otherwise "hey" felt fine. This is in East Coast software companies and academia.

Overall I'd say I hey'd about 80% of bosses and 95% of employees at least some of the time.
Check if you have enabled GCM. With microG, anything that requires calling home is opt-in.

If that's not it, report it. Every app I use works with microG, and any minor issues I had earlier were being resolved pretty quickly.
But they're then imported into Ulysses right? It's not that the original file is modified if you change the file within Ulysses. Am I mistaken?
Honda Accord Hybrids are pretty close to this. The wheels are primarily motivated by an electric motor. Much of the time the ICE is simply a generator that turns on to charge the battery. When the battery is exhausted or the car needs more power, a clutch plate closes between the ICE and the motor. There's no transmission in the car otherwise (they advertise as e-CVT, but there's no actual physical CVT, software controls the balance between the ICE and the motor to simulate infinite gearing). [1][2]

At low speeds you're basically driving an electric car that stores the electricity as gasoline instead of in batteries. They get all the electric motor torque and such that you'd expect. Range is between 550-750 miles [3] on a tank of regular 87 unleaded and costs under $30k.

If the ratio of gas tank to batteries were reversed we'd claim it was an electric car with a range extending ICE.

1 - http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2014/02/review-2014-honda-a...

2 - https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2018-honda-accord-hybri...

3 - https://www.boston.com/cars/cars/2017/04/05/2017-honda-accor...
>"Anyone can download the software free. So you, too, could discover a record-breaking prime number — if you have enough patience."

Maybe mining zcash is lucrative, but finding a new big prime number sounds pretty nice
You don’t need to unlock to call 911. But clearly if the phone isn’t working or you can’t press buttons then it’s a problem.
Having looked at a couple it has lead me to also consider their meaning of book. There may be books on here but there are mostly pamphlets and papers.
I have a testimonial about that. A friend of mine is County Counsel in a California County. He goes after illegal grow ops and shops, shuttling them down. Permits and license fees are required and many choose not to do that. He’ll go after anyone, some are just dumbasses who didn’t check the laws, and others are hardcore criminals with long, gang-related rap sheets.
I also have experience a drop in my basal anxiety since cutting out Facebook. I also learned, since being gone for a month or so, that many of those people aren't really interested in talking with me if it takes leaving the Facebook ecosystem. They can stay. Good riddance to all of it.
Could any radio engineers weigh in on how practical ultra-directional radio antennas could be for this? I'm imagining collimated radio beams (like lasers) which could bypass the need (not necessarily the existing legislation) for spectrum regulation. What if every house had a few microwave drums on the roof?
I wouldn't be so sure. "To make due" seems correct to me, as a foreign speaker, because the grammar suggests a noun phrase as object, because it works en lieu "to settle debt". It's easy to see how french-illiterate anglophones would mishear due as do. So I guess you make do now. And I have to ask how are you making do today?
If it's a young 2-person startup that just got a modest $120k investment from YCombinator

I didn't know it was a thing that anybody should be hired from YC seed. I thought it was just to support the existing team.
This looks very interesting. How real is this? Looks like they had targeted Nov 17 to ship. Anyone know if there are units out in the wild?
You're probably thinking of just your top marginal rate on income tax?
Aren't consumers technically voluntary, if we assume no one's getting addicted to heroin at gunpoint?
It may take some years for mid to large sized corporations and enterprises to transition from F5 & A10 L7 hardware load balancing (and the like), to router/load balancing as a service, or even to software-based solutions.
Organized crime has typically been highly diversified, and it seems odd that the most successful organized criminal organizations would ignore those opportunities. Typically so-called vice crimes such as illegal prostitution and gambling are the base of the pyramid, with protection rackets, violence for hire, and whichever dugs are in demand. Human smuggling is another source of income, although I don’t know much about those practices in the Americas.
Tether might be a good candidate.
What exactly is the definition of de-centralized trading? Peer-to-peer transfers? With no market in place (since markets are centralized), isn't this like outlawing all exchanges?
This is a very interesting case, but I'd be cautious about it. Its not that the surgery that costs 60k, will cost 16k if you don't have administrative staff.

Its true administration is a huge expense, but I doubt it can make medical care cost 1/4.

Also healthcare services can never be "all round service" because any complication could mean a million things from scans to medication. Even on primary care you cant really promise to give 100% service for a fixed fee without ending up working like an insurance.
I would love an affordable eInk monitor. A lot of nights I want to do textual work on my computer (coding or writing), but my eyes are so done with the brightness.
Steve Jobs changed the future of laptops 10 years ago today
Are most planes leased? Do the manufacturers try to resell them when they come off lease or are they inspected to be used for parts for repair?
What's its authorization story?

More generally, how good actually is authorization in graphql?

Official docs seem to essentially say "not our problem!", while various tutorials say "here's the best hack we could come up with".

(just my impression. I really want to believe in graphql, but often the topic appears mostly bypassed)
It is a bit nerve racking seeing the distribution of coins to such few addresses: https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses....

I wonder if there is any collusion among the top 2000 addresses. Mind you one person can even have multiple addresses.
Its pretty ridiculous to have a single fee that includes airfare, doctor's are not travel agents...
I agree that the red tape hell started with Indira. But I can't agree with the bit about context. It's plain to see that inequality is considerably worse now. Only a small Elite were in any position to benefit from the liberalization and the rest have never been able to catch up. Overall, left leaning economic policies and communist influence have done enormous harm to this country.
I have found that touch screens work pretty well when covered in blood.

Using my phone is the last thing I would be doing in a sinking vehicle and preferably outside of the vehicle.
I wish we can collectively "mine" solutions for questions that are currently un-solved.

Like Larger prime number, or create a hive mind that acts as an AI.
That would be a problem, I can't even withdraw more than €1000 from an ATM. Most of my transactions are plastic or digital, like 99%.
I second your sentiments, albeit unfounded by a source. The employee morale at Facebook must be suffering. I have stopped caring about being hirable there ever since I realized the negative impact their product has had on my life.
What distinguishes an opposing party from a terrorist?

(My answer would be, the success of their terrorism. If you are mostly unsuccessful, nobody needs to negotiate with you.)
France Comes Out Against Bitcoin and Digital Currencies, Wants Tough New Laws
Maybe this is a west coast perspective but I would have guessed that even before it was legal the vast majority of the marijuana market was served by domestic producers versus imports, whereas cocaine is all imported.

Edit: Some googling produces estimates ranging from 30 to 70 percent imports, depending on the point the article is trying to make, so let's just call it 50% domestic nationwide.
More efficient in what terms?
I don't believe those are real users after the crazy amounts of bots I saw during the US election.
Comparisons on the lowest price makes a certain amount of sense if your main goal is to make it affordable.

Also, readers should note that they didn’t include AT&T or Verizon in their analysis because the website’s T&Cs prevented it.
I have two questions:

1: How do we know it's the largest known prime number? What qualifies as a 'known' prime number? Is there an official registry somewhere?

2: Are all prime numbers smaller then this one also known? Or could somebody still come up with an unknown 'not very large prime number'?
I'm not the OP to your question, but I observe what you are asking about each day. Here are the steps that can facilitate your example. If you are imagining stocks(instead of futures), replace the word "contract" with the word "share" in the example below.

1) The last trade price is $9950

2) Alice calls Bob, confirming she wants to close 500k long contracts by selling them to Bob

3) Bob bids up the price to $9999

4) Alice says "Ok Bob, let's go", and offers the maximum limit offer quantity at $10,000. This maximum varies by instrument(example 5000)

5) Bob bids 5000 at $10,000, consuming all of Alice's offers

6) This process repeats(very, very quickly) until 500k has been exchanged, or until another participant with size starts knocking out Alice's offers.

Edit:
When you see this behavior on the volume profile, it looks like a long horizontal bar that doesn't belong. When you see it live as it happens, it's pretty scary if you have a position open. That's when you realize that you are a rubber life raft, and there are 2 gargantuan oil tankers colliding in the space you occupy.

The other way these happen(in futures at least) are called "upstairs" deals. It's when you want to exchange a quantity of contracts large enough to disturb the market, and the exchange will facilitate the trade to avoid Bob or Alice(accidentally) knocking the market several ticks. I don't know how crypto currencies could have a similar scenario for those deals, but since CME is involved with BTC futures, it might be possible.

Source: me, active futures trader in NQ/ZB/CL land.
So...this is deregulation working?
It seems like almost every startup funding system is predicated on early engineers being decieved about the value of their equity

I'm about 10 years on from learning this lesson, and I've refused offers since that try to plod the same trail. It's a red flag that doesn't appear until after you've been taken. I would say "scammed," but I do assume companies aren't just out to rip their employees off, they're just going with conventional (received) management wisdom.
Indeed. Prototypically, penny stocks.
The paper is written rather... colloquially. Not necessairly a problem. But it seems mostly concerned with telling the story, and that a huge buyer in the market causes prices to go up. That's not market manipulation.

However, there is also the claim that the buyer did not actually have to pay for the BTC they bought. Well, that's certainly a (very strong!) form of manipulation, but it's not what people traditionally mean when they use the phrase. There is normally an expectation that you have real money and are following exchange procedures, but simply behaving in a way that is frowned upon or considered unfair/detrimental to the reputation of the market. As far as I can tell, people are still worried about traditional manipulation in Bitcoin markets, for things like marking the close. The behaviour described here is more akin to hacking/traditional fraud - it is not zero-sum.
> It is silly to argue that how those bills were acquired is not a factor in your claimed ownership of them.

Robbery and online downloads are worlds apart. The first is a violent act that deprives someone of their property. It's an unjust action that harms one party for the benefit of another. Downloading a ROM from the internet, for a game that the downloader already owns, lacks all of the negatives that make robbery repugnant. Legality is a different question entirely, of course; legally, it matters how I acquired the ROM.

> Nintendo says nothing about making ROMs from official copies. It does not claim they are illegal.

False. They claim that making ROMs from official copies, as well as the devices that allow you to do so, are illegal because they can be used to illegally distribute the games online. Quoting from Nintendo's FAQ:

Are Game Copying Devices Illegal?

Yes. Game copiers enable users to illegally copy video game software onto floppy disks, writeable compact disks or the hard drive of a personal computer. They enable the user to make, play and distribute illegal copies of video game software which violates Nintendo's copyrights and trademarks. These devices also allow for the uploading and downloading of ROMs to and from the Internet. Based upon the functions of these devices, they are illegal.

> A copying device is illegal if it tries to circumvent this DRM. Therefore if a game has DRM, there is no legal way for a person to own a ROM of that game.

That's not Nintendo's claim, but it's a claim with stronger legal support than Nintendo's. It's also moving the goalposts, IMO. Take an NES game as an example. There was a game lockout system (and similar systems in the SNES and N64 consoles), but those don't prevent access to game data, just cause the console to reboot if authentication fails. Those are 3 of the major systems that I'm thinking of when I think about getting copies of ROMs.
Most aircraft of that size are leased new - and then re-leased or sold to budget carriers.[1]

New models come out and the airline may want to switch/upgrade, and it's a lot of capital tied up in one aircraft if they were to purchase them outright.

[1] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/2374/2294
You know what they call women on the rhythm method - mothers
>>People take a dim view of developers who don’t do anything outside of work.

To me it depends on the developer's level of experience. For more junior developers, I definitely prefer those who drink from the proverbial fire hose and try to expand their professional knowledge outside of work.
Quantum Information Science I, Part 1
There's a limit to scalability at airports, especially the big & busy ones in western metropolis: JFK, LHR, FRA.

It's easy to build a new runway, or a new airport, in the desert, or when you can evict anyone in the way. But try doing in a country ruled by law, when the city has long engulfed the airport build in the 60s.
https://www.mersenne.org/primes/

For Mersennes at least, which right now are the largest primes.

A prime is known once you've shown it is prime, i.e. no factors other than 1 and itself.
This Quora answer is a good resource too:

https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-airplane-leasing-business...

The TLDR is that leasing allows the airline a lot more flexibility in acquiring aircraft (and returning them if demand changes). It's cheaper to break the lease than try to sell a used aircraft on the open market. In the case of A380, it's probably keeping a few airlines out of bankruptcy.
A bit off topic, but thanks for the link to what3words It's a great idea. Commenting from near concerts.also.could
I'm quite happy the Airbus hasn't adopted "move fast an break things" yet. Because those "things" would possibly include my femur.
He was an asshole in real life as well.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1983/3/7/the-truth-about-g...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/03...
The stated reasons for keeping the code closed seem rather silly to me ( https://www.reddit.com/r/cemu/comments/3ou88k/rcemu_is_now_o... )

I wonder if there is code in there that was perhaps acquired in a way that wasn't totally above board/not written in a total clean room?
I've been told that even some authorized arcade emulator releases actually use bootleg MAME sets because they lost the original code that ran in the "protection MCU". If you don't know what that is: to delay bootleg production, arcade vendors used to put some bit of important code inside a microcontroller, so that just copying the ROM chips produced a broken game and bootleg vendors would have to reverse engineer it and reproduce it in the main CPU program, sometimes leading to gameplay differences (IIRC, the generation of the "EXTEND" bubbles in Bubble Bobble was an example noticeable to expert players).
> Putting public pressure on Emirates, by Airbus's outgoing sales chief.

Why is making a private conversation public like this a good sales strategy? (I'd argue that it would have the opposite effect by generating distrust.)

I'd think "leaking" a conversation like this would be aimed at parties not directly privy to the talks.
Airport capacity scales with number of planes. Major airports are often running at capacity already and can't handle more planes. Increasing airport capacity is a very non-trivial problem.

It's a tragedy-of-the-commons situation, like traffic congestion on a roadway.
I guess they're just added for tradition then? Superstition maybe? Obviously it's not for liability since everyone seems to hold the UX designers liable here.

They're meaningless when they're meaningless, context matters.

As I said in another comment, if you are approaching a missile strike drill the same way you approach your FB ToS then YOU are the problem.
You should maybe read the article then since it's about something else.
Pretty sure they can take a debit card, which even in the U.S. is a chip + PIN transaction, with a minimal transaction fee rather than the substantial percentage applied to credit card transactions. Anyway, by cash they mean full payment now, rather than invoiced to an insurance company.
"Paying cash" in this context doesn't mean a briefcase full of $100 bills. It means direct payment from the consumer to the provider. That direct payment could be in the form of a check or credit card.
An open mind.

I have many personal growth experiences, all of them candidates to be the most influential. Perhaps each was most influential at the time of the experience.

But there was one thing common to all of those experiences, having an open mind. With maybe a little discernment. One can say “No” and still maintain an open mind, if the “No” is more of a “not right now”.
A DOGE-ETH bridge by TrueBit and CoinFabrik is being developed
When I moved from programming into management, the hardest thing I found was to change from flow-driven work to interrupt-driven work. I started with the golden rule: "Manage people the way you would like to be managed." That lasted about ten minutes. I changed it to "Manage people the way they want to be managed" which was much more succesful.
The crypto markets are pretty close to OTC markets. Any significant flow will shift markets. The only problem, IMHO, is that traditional investors are looking at it.
Sure, I look at my phone then say, “hey Siri, call 911”

I don’t press anything.

Try imagining a solution that works instead of one that doesn’t. Wearables, for example, will be an even better solution:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/28...
Isn't that the point of projects like folding@home?

And hive mind AI is literally skynet.
Quote from the Article: """The figure is calculated by multiplying 2 by itself 77,232,917 times and then subtracting 1."""

Would HN agree that multiplying 2 by itself once is 2⨯2 = pow(2,2), twice is 2⨯2⨯2 = pow(2,3) and N times yields pow(2,N+1)?

The Mersenne Prime found is pow(2,77232917) − 1, hence the article got the number wrong?
Betamax vs. VHS
That’s a good point, but it does feel like a poor analogy to me. Obviously nuclear war is not as inevitable as thanksgiving.
They are not leased by the manufacturers but by aircraft leasing companies like AerCap and GECAS.
How You Can Control Your Dreams with Virtual Reality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi_(film)?

:)
Have an upvote. I don't agree with you, but those group downvoting are really mass bullying, to me.

Regarding the topic, I wonder what part of revenue for game console creators is in selling the console, and which part is to licencing games, that is, allowing them to be built for the platform. I would presume console creators get some royalties or something on sells for their platform? Anyone know about this?

Of course, the real piracy problem is game isos.
Finding a vulnerability in a website and PoCing can be very much a crime.
Finding a vulnerability in a product you own can also be constituted a crime under the DMCA or any other legislation that protects intellectual property and specifically prohibits reverse engineering.

The only difference is that companies elect not to file complaints which lead to charges being filed when this is done properly.

I've handled bug bounty payouts on both sides, I've sat on a advisory board for a national CERT (my employer held the seat not by name), and I've seen quite a few cases of bug bounty and reported submissions go wrong really fast for as something as silly as poorly constructed language or someone being overly pushy.

The OP here found a vulnerability that discloses PII of other users, if this is actual PII as defined by law in their jurisdiction well then they again just potentially commited a crime.
By the nature of the vulnerability "iterative exfiltriation of PII" I'm assuming they found some direct access to a resource like a profile page, invoices, or something similar which means that they've found a vulnerability, exploited it during a proof of concept and retrieved PII data, all of this falls under unauthorized and criminal access if not handled correctly.

Usually when you have a vulnerability which requires actionable exploitation to prove and you access any type of information especially one that is regulated by law you want to document everything you've accessed and provide those details in the disclosure as they would have to notify the people whose information has been exposed in the least if not their entire customer base.
Purely personal, but if my only options in Easton, MD were the municipal and Comcast, I'd probably choose municipal. The 800Mb speed doesn't make up for the fact it's Comcast and their horrible service.
My eye got caught by the author's signature on the side: "Standards hacker. Mozillian. Loves talking about turning the web into an OS."

I'm personally going the opposite direction, I started using browsing with JS disabled a while ago and found my browsing experience improved.

With the recent security issues, is that really the way we want to go?