skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is the nature of the stock market to make money slowly and take some of it back quickly.

It corrects, retrenches, and in time, exceeds its prior high.

Not trying to time the market is boring, and doesn’t sell clicks. But not trying to time the market is the only strategy guaranteed to win, unless an asteroid hits the planet, in which you don’t care about your USD anyway.
This is the correct answer. An "unfilled" job is a misnomer. There is a market-clearing price for everything.
Aside from MacOS/iOS native software, IMHO Apple software for Windows has become unusable.

I tried using iCloud for Windows, but the sync behavior is unreliable, and I found myself without critical files on more than one occasion. This is not to mention the absurd background CPU usage.

iTunes on Windows is even worse. The built-in updater seems to fail on every major release, i.e. for 12.4,12.5,12.6 etc. Even under normal use, there are times when iTunes just refuses to launch. The background processes are running, but there’s nothing on my screen.

I’ve resorted to delaying my iTunes software updates until absolutely necessary, and then doing a clean install of iTunes. This is not to mention the myriad issues with authorizing computers to download previously purchased content, or the fact that iTunes will quite literally prompt you for the same password multiple times, with no UI notification telling you that you’ve entered it correctly or incorrectly.
It's professional PR all the way down.
Equity aside I don’t see any good reason to go public other than raising some capital. You no longer are free to operate as you wish and instead have to focus on dividends and pleasing the holders.
A mystery trader just made over $200M betting on Volatility
"Have middleboxes do something" as a method of solving problems has historically created more problems than it solved.

The current dark age where nearly everything uses TLS/443 has been the net result, because for a significant minority of networks nothing else can get through. People are now even running DNS over TLS, even though DNS itself is allowed and DNS over TLS is complicated and inefficient, because the middleboxes prevent the DNS protocol from evolving to have better security.

Inviting more interference would only create more problems. For example, suppose I want to create a multipath UDP-based protocol where the acknowledgments can be consolidated (and so only sent along one path). That proposal would break it and force me to use something less efficient. In general it creates asymmetric routing problems at the ISP level.

Middlebox "solutions" cause problems that are hard to predict and even harder to fix after the fact, because once 20% of networks are doing something it's hard to get half of them to stop even after the problems are discovered.

And it may not even solve the original problem. What happens when the DDoS is just a botnet acting like a huge number of normal users?
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A couple different romanizations of the same Korean name, plus the extremely common convention of taking a common "American" (English) first name. It's not a red flag.
Not if the founders have majority voting rights.
Charges filed, details emerge for arrest of Counter-Strike’s co-creator
Ok, they took responsibility... But they took about a month to notify clients via email and didn't notify the public until Techcrunch inquired for the purposes of writing this article. So -1 for not being upfront with end users and clients.
If it's on a tablet, it probably has a front-facing camera taking snaps every now and then.
That's the maximum. They didn't mention what they will recommend. If I had to guess I would say 10 years.
If you want to see the entire collection:

https://www.wdl.org/en/search/?collection=zhvandun-magazine
Taking an "American" first name (one that sounds vaguely phonetically similar to the actual first name or not) is a common practice.
It's not a bullshit job. It's 3.5 million supposed jobs, many of which are bullshit. All sorts of unrelated things are being lumped together.

a. compliance
b. red teaming
c. actually trying to secure stuff
d. trying to find holes to exploit
e. etc. etc. etc.

Some of these involve lots of code. I posted one of those in the "Who is hiring?" thread, and that one takes some serious hard-core coding ability.
Ah so all the x86 bytes that the actual text generates are basically just filler for the actually relevant sections of the paper (i.e. the jumble of bytes that appears)? They're never actually read or executed by the CPU?
> They never had a common carrier argument that held water.

Agreed, they're not a phone company to begin with. But they did try to use that argument and they definitely did not help themselves.

A better argument would have been to claim they don't have the technical capability, that might have bought them some time but then too they should not have shown first that they do have that capability. All in all a less than stellar performance.
Doesn’t it seem ridiculous to anyone else that the copyright on most software will outlast the existence of any computer the software was designed to run on? Part of the intellectual property “bargain” is that the right will one day return to the public, who can finally benefit. The extreme length of time appears to circumvent that end of the bargain.
The evidence of wire fraud is very obvious in the original blog post: https://medium.com/startup-grind/i-got-scammed-by-a-silicon-...
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Yes. It was an extremely stupid move on his part.
Ha, I'd seen the 3 line #if 0 version but not this! If you don't care about the fact that execve won't work, then this is pretty great.
What I want to know is why more blogs aren’t don’t resort to mining crypto using their users browser. It can be light weight and less intrusive than an add and you still get paid while embracing the future.
I can't help but think that some of this is a direct result of Wall Street f\ckery. When your prime directive becomes "engage in financial shenanigans to make this quarter's results look good, to prop up the stock price because shareholder value," your actual business becomes irrelevant.

Contrast Family Video (privately held and still going strong) vs. Blockbuster Video (no longer a thing). Sure, video rental may not have enough money in it to satisfy the Wall Street vampires, but there's still enough life in it to make money. If you don't have to keep vampires happy, you can invest your profits into your business, or even into new ventures.

Hilariously, there's a Family Video in my neck of the woods that moved across the street into the former Blockbuster location. They retained ownership of their original building* and are using that for a new business venture (a 24-hour fitness center). EDIT: In their new location, and many others, they have a Marco's Pizza attached.

* There's another whole issue: owning your real estate rather than being beholden to a landlord.
Faceswapping, Unethical Videos, and Future Shock
The difference is that I can point at the ways that GT fails, in terms of
specific grammatical and semantic errors, whereas you can only report some
examples of people who agree with you. Not trying to be offensive, but your
definition of gibberish is subjective whereas mine is objective and
quantifiable (in one word: ungrammaticality).

To go back to an earlier example of learning to solve mathematical problems
with machine learning- let's call it machine arithmetic. Say we developed a machine arithmetic
system that consistently estimated the sum of 4 + 4 to be 7. That's
consistently close to the correct answer, but it's also consistently not the
correct answer.

So, to pose yet another question: a system trained to solve maths problems who
got it almost right 100% of the time, would be considered pretty rubbish. Why is GT
not? It's computing language, not maths, but its computation is still very
often completely wrong in specific, measurable ways that really leave no
room for subjective interpretation.
That has been Matt Levine's thesis for a while, "Private markets are the new public markets". The public markets used to be the biggest source of capital, subject to stringent rules and regulations. Now you can get just as much money from the private capital markets, and it doesn't come with all the pesky rules around reporting.
I remember full page ads for Cache in Datamation and similar IT-management-oriented publications, in the mid 1990s. They called it a "post-relational database" without ever really explaining what that meant.
FWIW, data centers do have guards.
Who is "they" referring to?
I've written a bit of Scheme in production. What I've found is that S-Expressions are unambiguous, and easy to learn, but Scheme doesn't railroad you with them. There's other options as well.

A more recent project used the traditional syntax for macro-files. We seperated those out, a bit like C-header files, because it was easier for a macro-traceback library we created.

Most of the main files were in Wisp, which decreased the learning time for our Pythonistas.

Finally our hot-paths tended to be Cish. That is, they were compiled C at release, but Scheme with a C reader macro at development. (Based around Racket's c-lang).

Of all of these, I prefer Scheme's traditional syntax, maybe with the curly infix extension for dealing with OO when I have to (like interfacing with Java).

I know a lot that swear by Wisp, however.

Finally, a lot of people like Cs syntax.

I think syntax is something that people look for familiarity in, just as much as useability.

Reducing cognitive load is important, and background is highly influential.

For me, I've yet to see something beat S-Expressions. But I don't expect that can be true of everyone.

I wish pluggable syntax appeared in a wider range of languages.
>Care to explain why you think intrusion detection is bullshit?

If they're signature based they're not better than antivirus. I have zero faith in signature based systems.

For the stuff that uses machine learning, I have to admit, I have no idea how that stuff performs. But in general I wouldn't trust a machine learning model to not be fooled.

Edit: Add to that HTTPS, I don't buy any claim that they can spot malware traffic from malware that isn't dumb, and I don't think MITMing all traffic is an acceptable solution.
Gratis actually has been adopted as an English word, it's just not used very much.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gratis
Would this be able to make a device acting as a USB mass storage device work as a network storage backed USB Drive?

I don't see any one command from this guide that the utility could be run before to enable this. https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/pi-zero-w-smart-usb-flash-...
The problem with this is that once every vote is "10 or bust" your signal saturates and becomes meaningless.

What they really need to ask, if you're right about what they want to measure, is "Was your experience today better / same / worse than last time?" And then they need to stop pushing for you to click "better" every time, "same" should be the usual response unless they've actually improved notably.
Does Wix optimize its images between upload and delivery?

I'd be inclined to believe that this is a side effect of Wix's target market not being aware of how to optimally compress their images for web delivery.
Take away a few more for not noticing the problem for nine months.
Worked with a security solution, spammed company’s distribution list specifically for this work with alerts. I ended up analyzed everything and found not just false positives but also wrong analysis from their analysts... this is to say the intention to selling security solution out could be good and genuine, but the values in return can be nothing. So why companies pay? 99% is “let the experts deal with the problem, if shit happens, we know who to blame, we have done our due diligence so one more thing to check off on auditor’s radar.”
There's different ways you could do it, like calculating some hash of the value and picking the one with the greater value. If the hash function is good, then you get an "arbitrary" result that would still be consistent regardless of order.
They notified their customers, not the people whose passwords they collected.

They did minimize how many people they told. Lol.
Every single photo you linked to, the clouds are visible over the moon. It can be subtle, sure, since you end up with very wispy clouds that have a similar color to the moon, but the clouds are still clearly affecting the appearance of the moon.

The bpotu photo is the one that looks the most like the moon is over clouds, but I think that's just because the right side of the moon is so bright and the clouds there are so thin. But even there it does appear to be very slight discoloration caused by the clouds intersecting the moon.
when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail
If you're a normal person, not a day-trader, the time horizon your investments should be on the order of years, not months. If you're a day-trader, then this is just one of the risks of that choice.
Startup mergers and acquisitions are also trending downward.
Translation for tech employees:

- If you accepted a lower salary in exchange for equity, you most likely got a bad deal.

- If you worked somewhere long enough to vest 100% of your options, you're probably underpaid (because people who hop around tend to earn more).

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/05/markets-are-strong-but-big...
Indeed, and that's why I was careful to say "most." There certainly are legitimate needs for fancier vehicles. But I'd guess 95% of personal vehicles purchases go beyond what the buyer needs. Which is totally fine!
Using this case as leverage to a man who pulled the same on me. A “simple” personal loan with months of lying and ultimately a fake wire receipt.
Buying insurance might be the most cost effective strategy. If insurance of $2MM would cover your liability, why incur 3MM expenditures and still only be reasonably secure?
"that the most important information from any location comes from the number of frowny presses, which not even a dishonest employee would be able to undo."

So possibly pressing the happy face doesn't compensate. The article also mentions that there's a reset delay to prevent people from pressing buttons repeatedly.
Even outside of the dotcom context the technology nowadays rewards consolidation.

All publicly listed internet portals of the 90s (Yahoo, Infoseek, Excite, Ask Jeeves) have been essentially overrun by Google. Retail had to either consolidate, slim down or delist due to a private equity infusion, with AMZN emerging as a clear winner.
I have a vague understanding of pivot, never really needed to know more than that. Sort of glanced through the article with a "meh" attitude, but after reading your anecdote, decided I should read it properly and added it to my reading list (which actually does get read!). Thanks.
Here's another resource that I've been following the past few weeks. Andrew Ng recently launched a Deep Learning Specialization (Understanding of an into to ML course is a prerequisite) under deeplearning.ai [1], and I really enjoy the content so far.

[1] - https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning
Yes, as I said, that part of the business is now Keysight for the electronic test equipment and Agilent, which focuses on life sciences equipment.
Just kind of laughing at the idea of people making $1.4M having a tax "burden" like it's weighing them down.
The thing that really annoys me is when the question doesn't match the way the data's used. My ISP asks for a rating out of 10 for "how likely would you be to recommend <ISP> to family and friends" after every support call, but the phone operators explicitly tell you that they're rated on the score that you give them. Those are two different questions - I'd like to rate the phone operator highly, the back-end technical administrators as average (they once assigned the same IP address to myself and another customer - it's disappointing that this is even a manual process!) and the ISP as a whole as 'could be improved' due to their lack of upstream bandwidth at peak times.
I hate Wordpress and I'm deeply suspicious of Google motives, but I think this is a good thing.

WP is very popular, but it is terrible from an engineering standpoint. My company decided to move to WP and every time we engage a WP developer or consulting company, and I give them my engineer requirements, most of them pass. I'm talking about things like command-line deployment, publish to test servers with git, things like that. So far, only one firm has not balked at this, and they seem to be very expensive. I don't think Google will put up with this type of thing.

And, don't forget, WP is OSS. Blogger wasn't, so that's why the comparison to it are not apples to apples.
Very neat idea - but trust HP to incorporate a disposable, proprietary ink system with a product like this.

Reminds me of the infographic comparing the cost of HP's black ink to other liquids, the next most expensive shown (at half the price of the HP black ink) was human blood: https://thumbnails-visually.netdna-ssl.com/ink-costs-more-th...
Yes, that was posted here late last year, as I recall.
> Because of the way Google services were implemented, the government could not block Reader without also blocking GMail and Google Search, which was not an option.

It's interesting that they didn't block gmail and Google search. The Chinese government did that a couple of years ago, which surprisingly didn't cause widespread criticism except among the highly educated group.
You've got some good shots, but they're a bit grainy when you zoom in. With a staged scene you can use a flash or use the position of the Sun to make sure you have enough light so things don't turn out so grainy. I just Googled "Bird Photography Setup", and all of the top links had plenty of info about how it's done. Below is a video from a local (to me) guy, I learned of the technique from a colleague of his who he does workshops with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeKEEUBMHyY
I can’t see how that argument would hold water. As a DNS provider, removing DNS records is clearly something they are capable of, regardless of whether they have demonstrated that ability.
> Startup mergers and acquisitions are also trending downward.

That's not what the TechCrunch article actually says.

The article says that the big mergers and acquisitions are down. But the big M&A are the economic equivalent of luxury real estate deals. Do you really care that a Hollywood celebrity can't sell his or her mansion at a nice price?

Most people are interested in their segment. In fact, smaller M&A deals are on the rise: http://www.successfulacquisitions.net/ma-today-smaller-deals..., and the chances are, your startup, if it does not go belly up, will end up in this category.

Huge M&A are difficult to pull properly. The fact that there are fewer is a good thing. It will also make the evaluations more reality-based and not based on "but mommy, I wanna be a unicorn too".
I agree, but if you are really safety minded you should have a metal pick/club to break the windows anyway. Can't rely on doors being operational during accident and can't wait for emergency response. Of course I don't have one :]
Isn't it most likely that the codebase is just like any other huge one. It gets to be a house of cards and getting all the bugs out becomes an impossible task, so you have to do the best you can. Would be nice if they would repatriate some of that overseas cash and increase their QA efforts but that doesn't help revenue in the short term. Also their competition is far worse in this area so nobody's breathing down their neck.
I just made a wiki article for this magazine. Please add any info you might know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhvandun
> To underscore our point, concatenation on strings is not associative, either.

I think you mean commutative. It certainly is associative.
Business class is close but unless the cabins are separated you still have to mix with the unwashed when they sneak in to befoul the toilet. The mouth breathers really all belong in cargo. But that would be unkind. Maybe they could be sedated for the duration of their trip. I'd also be okay with sedating myself in first class so I could get a good nap in.
Improving performance with Cache-Oblivious data structures
Love2.io – an elegant open source document sharing platform
Scholars who believe nurture trumps nature tend to doubt the scientific method
Future generations will have to pay for the deficit in SS and Medicare shortfalls, so voters today don't care.
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Flutter's dev tools are built on intelliJ.
> . I'm talking about things like command-line deployment, publish to test servers with git, things like that.

If you're wanting to do that, why not just use Drupal, which has drush and drupal console. Also, drupal.org uses git for all those third party modules and themes.
I don’t think that’s the user’s responsibility if its designed for non technical people.
What’s worse than closed is that it doesn’t correlate your closed as duplicate bug, with the bug it is a duplicate of. If they correlated them so you could see the status of the “parent” bug, then it would be miles better. I might even start logging bugs again myself.
I think your view of the GDPR is naive. 99% of people will just consent and that’ll be that. The second they want something the site offers and they have to register (the point at which they’re handing over PII), they’ll be forced to consent, and just like everyone does for cookies and TOS and privacy policy and whatever else, they’ll quickly be trained to consent and move on. I could be wrong, but that’s what I expect. The assymetry here is incredible. That data and the consent has a perceptual value of approximately zero to the consumer, and millions or billions in aggregate to these companies. They’ll figure out a way to get people to consent. Or most of the web just won’t be usable to you.
I get that; what I was trying to say is that it's "different enough" that most people would call it a pseudonym rather than a transliteration. Hence, two names.
That is not true, you need a plugin to enable AMP.
But why hasn't it happened already?