skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just seeing random cells with "hi" all over them.
This is why we can't have nice things.
> If you don't think telling people to eat less "works", then telling people to smoke less didn't "work" either.

I think my metric for whether advice "works" is whether people attempting to seriously follow the advice have at least, say, a 1-in-20 chance of success. By that metric "smoke less" does work and "eat less" does not.

When people follow the advice "eat less" it seems to have about a 1% chance of success 5 years later, whereas "smoke less" has at least a 10% chance of success. If only one of those numbers is meaningfully positive, only one of those sets of advice "works".
Agreed. It is easy to get high on the idea of a "new"project. 9/10 don't have the follow through. Over the past 14 months I have learned many valuable lessons.

At times I think putting money up should be a requirement. It is easy for people to write off "time invested" if they have the stability of a full time job. Even if you simply pay back the initial investment/money they put in after 6-12 months. A modified vesting schedule in some way.

I think many are just feeling a bit hollow due to the day job vamping their inspiration (sense of fulfillment) and then as soon as the shiny new project starts to seem like real work their motivation fades.

I think a searchable "dead project" codebase or repository would be more beneficial than another one of these "find help here" type of platforms. Along with a wiki style (open source/collaborative) handbook of all the potential issues you may encounter along the way. Everything from marketing/sales to engineering issues.
I'm arguing that its good to 'leave money on the table' if that means doing something positive for the environment or people.
Is the Long-Looming California Pension Crisis Already Here?
That sounds interesting. What did you do and why do you think it failed?
I don't know how that suddenly became about slagging Trudeau, but the best bet would be to start with contacting the Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development—Navdeep Bains—or the Minister of Science—Kirsty Duncan—or the Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) directly.

Public scrutiny is precisely why the NRC is publishing immutable records of funding and grant allocations. The NRC claims to take their integrity in their work very seriously. Having been (co)founded by John Fields, they certainly have a reputation to maintain.

https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/about/ministers/index.html

https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/irap/contact/index.html
Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra-Vectors, Matrices,and Least Squares [pdf]
Keep a ‘smart watch’ on Fitbit
Show HN: Visualize your AWS Data Architecture using a real-time network diagram
If you accused the Chinese government of being oppressive in an online forum in China, would there be a problem?
>>>> They essentially have an entire team dedicated to designing and implementing security measures for their devices.

>>Isn't that the absolute barest minimum for a corporation of that size and infrastructural importance?

>Other than your occasional Google or Apple, I don't think so.

Cisco is a $218.62B company (about 24% size of Apple by market cap, 27% of Google by market cap) which is a "Networking hardware company". (As opposed to, say, McDonald's.)

I'd say it definitely qualfiies as your "occasional Google or Apple" in terms of "size and infrastructural importance."
Not to mention that the banking sector is providing many millions of jobs.
Well, the spreadsheet is for "hackers".
There was also a real-life scare in the 70s around "polywater" [1][2] that some people worried could "infect" other water.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywater

[2] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/polywater-the-soviet-s...
I think you'd be better off with a git repo, then you can review pull requests for data, instead of a public spreadsheet that is editable by anyone.

Sheets doesn't really have a "request to modify" system (that I know of).
If you mean like stock market simulations with fake money, yes they're are quite a few. Some even model the real stock market in near/full real-time, just that you use fake money to see where you get. I'll leave it to you to find them.
I debated switching to Backblaze after CrashPlan's home plan was removed, but they don't appear to have an option to let me send them an external HDD to "seed" the backup, and that's a deal-breaker for me.

I have 4TB of media to backup. My ISP will throttle/penalize me if I download/upload more than 1 TB per month, assuming I do absolutely nothing else with my internet connection. Even assuming I devote 80% of bandwidth to just the backup, it will take me 4-6 months of metered transfers, while paying for their service, before I actually have a "complete" backup with them.
Where do you connect from? Backblaze only has one datacenter, in Sacramento, CA [1].

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/our-secret-data-center/
We have potholes in Florida. No freezing.
Or you are looking at this from an american perspective? Just guessing here. Everybody else on the planet figured out that prohibition doesn't work
Margaret Atwood claimed that if she could predict the future she wouldn't be an author, she'd be a stock trader
An Arctic Ocean Railway Could Link the Northeast Passage to Europe via Finland
Some people use GMail because they have no other choice, but most people who use it do have a choice. If you're going to use the corner cases as a shield for the general case, consider that even foregoing email completely offers most people a better chance at survival than being bombed to bits or gunned down in, say, a war of aggression, be they highly educated people or mentally handicapped or whatever. Not to mention what will be cooked up further down the road if it stays unchecked.

> There are more than a few people, especially among the cultural élite, who still publicly regret the fact that Germany sent Einstein packing, without realizing that it was a much greater crime to kill little Hans Cohn from around the corner, even though he was no genius.

-- Hannah Arendt

> There are people who won't be able to find it at all without the 5 second option.

Such as? How does this even rank compared to the subject under discussion?
> Every company should have a team (or depending on size, at least a person) dedicated to the security of software and infrastructure.

Two competitors in a space. One has 3 developers and 1 security guy, the other has 4 developers.

In 99/100 outcomes, all else being equal, the 4 developer guy will add more features and outpace the other team and win the market.

Security is an overhead and a drag on company resources.. until it's not.

But how many startups fail due to lack of a security team? I cannot think of any from my RL network. I am sure some exist... but otherwise, this is the same as most "safety" measures... unimportant until it is really important.
Recaptcha is shit regardless of whether they use it to train military drones. It serves no purpose other than to infuriate legitimate web users who might or might not be using a VPN or browsing with JS off. It's a test of patience and sanity that doesn't need to exist. There's no fucking way in hell I need to pick out dozens and dozens of buildings or cars or street signs just so google can verify I'm a human. I've given up using multiple sites because sometimes, it never stops even after ten or fifteen minutes. If anything, it goes to show how shitty google's tech is. If this is what they have to resort to, a test a significant portion of humanity cannot pass, to detect humans, they are clearly not at the forefront of anything technologically. Of course, if this technology is used to train military drones, it explains the torture google has been inflicting on humanity with this garbage. While wasting millions, probably billions of human viewing hours is not as big an atrocity as helping military organizations commit war crimes with drones, it's still an ugly, disgusting activity that google forces upon so many, often through thoughtless intermediaries like cloudflare. At least now, I have an even better reason for refusing to fill in these stupid captchas.
> nflation is good not because of inflation itself, but because of what it signals: a growth in demand outpacing the growth in supply.

price inflation is a signal of monetary inflation. you appear to be confusing price inflation with an increase in prices due to increased demand.

> If supply is not outpacing demand, there are no investments in additional capacity.

actually as long as marginal profit is positive there is an incentive to invest in capital goods.

> No, that's how gains in productivity work.

malinvestment is not productive, in fact it is destructive.

> But not vice versa, you don't need monetary policy to have inflation, you don't even need a monetary system, or even "money" or currency. Inflation is just a continuous change in value between two goods due to a difference in supply/demand between the two. If there were only two commodities in the world, A and B, both with the same demand, but A is being produced at faster rates than B, there would be inflation.

'monetary inflation' as defined in basic economics is an increase in the money supply. no one said you need monetary policy for the money supply to increase.

> even need a monetary system, or even "money" or currency.

thats very interesting, do you have a citation?

> As demand increases, multiple agents will invest independently to supply that demand, leading to oversupply, leading to reduction in prices, leading to trimming out of inefficient capacity and a new equilibrium at a higher efficiency than before.

thats how price signals work in a normal market. now consider what happens if a counterfeiter creates a bunch of fake dollars and spends them. people see the influx of cash, interpret it as effective demand, and invest in capital goods. then the counterfeiter gets caught and the money dries up, and all these businesses have excess capacity that shouldn't have been built in the first place. textbook malinvestment.

the same thing occurs when the government inflates the money supply, except the "counterfeiting" is legal and "we as society" accept this because the money is spent in "politically acceptable" purposes. it still causes malinvestment. which is something you can find in an intro to macro textbook.

> That's not a condescension, it is basic economics.

actually its quite condescending and it would help if you guys would educate yourselves on basic econ before presuming to lecture others on the subject. reading a basic macroeconomics textbook would do wonders for your perspective.
Saw awesome-developer-streams on GitHub as well and had a similar idea :-) Site looks neat, good job!
I recently relocated to the UK and LinkedIn has been a great resource for me securing some thing.

If your need to find a job is not immediate, you can also check AngelList and network with employees from NY startups.

If the need for a job is quite immediate, startup recruiters might be more effective.
SAT Solving the NY Times Crossword
Rutherford Chang made a composition of 100 White Albums played at once!

https://gizmodo.com/listen-to-100-white-albums-played-at-onc...
Have you tried enabling more threads (add -o b2.connections=$number)? It improved enough to make it ok for my (admittedly tiny) backup needs. The process of creating a new snapshot is still really slow though, but I'm not sure that is B2's fault.
Yes, probably, but the question is whether things would also go badly for the other 9.
just click the last edited tag and go to a previous version
Maybe Yev can comment, as they have a service like this for their B2 Cloud product.

EDIT: @admiralasshat: If you want to send me a drive, I'll put it on a GB connection for you until it's backed up.

EDIT: @Yev: Fair point :) Was trying to be helpful.
I've been a PIA customer for a year and a half with no complaints. I'm not a VPN power user by any means but it's been solid for me the whole time and haven't had any reason to look elsewhere.
FIS Global | Full Stack Java Developer - Angular and Node | Full-time | Milwaukee, WI | Onsite

FIS Global is the world's largest provider of financial software and services. Here are some links to learn more about the company:
https://www.fisglobal.com/about-us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2j4qsZjItg&feature=youtu.be

Our Payments team processes about 27 billion financial transactions every year. When you take money from your account through an ATM machine, you're more than likely using our software!

This project is under the Payments division. We are looking to migrate our clients onto a single payments platform to provide a more consistent look and feel to our product, and to provide an overall better customer experience for our clients. This is the largest initiative in FIS history, and a very exciting project to be a part of!

We are looking for a Full Stack Java Developer. We need a dynamic leader with 10 or more years of object oriented programming experience. Some experience in Angular 2+ and NodeJS or other similar frameworks is required. This person is going to be needed to be on site 5 days per week in our Milwaukee location. Some work from home opportunities are available as needed.

Please apply if you're interested!
https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_fisglobal/e...

You can also reach out to me at melissa.kramer@fisglobal to learn more.

Hope to hear from you soon :)
Yev from Backblaze here -> We have 3 data centers located in Sacramento and Phoenix, hoping to increase that soon!
Major Survey of IT Pros Reveals Why Everything Gets Hacked All the Damn Time
Not if you count being involved in invading foreign countries. Call me old fashioned, but I'd rather be killed by a Nazi than be a Nazi.
Mail is out! Thank you. :-)
Google (Actually X/Alphabet) started an entire company focused on computer security. They would have whole departments dedicated to this, rather than teams. But I get that maybe this is a semantic issue.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/24/16929320/google-x-cyberse...
The nagoya is often recommended for beginners with Baofengs. I got when when I was starting out and it is better than the stock antenna, but you have to worry about who is selling "real" ones and who has fakes.

Since then I've discovered these: https://signalstuff.com/product/super-elastic-signal-stick/ They are my go to antenna for HTs. I've never had one break, they perform great and they aren't too expensive. I love that I can take it off and tie it in a knot to shove into a small pocket in my backpack. Try that with a nagoya.
In the USA, people don’t primarily buy diamonds for their looks or physical properties, but as a signal to a significant other that they are willing to invest in a relationship.

⇒ If there is a large price correction, something else will replace diamonds (what that something will be is anybody’s guess)

De Beers knows that, but wants to stay in the game, so they market “made by nature” as a pre of ‘real’ diamonds.
The article is definitely not about cubic zirconia or moissanite, which are easier to distinguish. You don't need special machines for that.
How is this not already possible?
thats because they provide services beyond processing transactions.
I 100% understand that it is dynamic.

My point is that that is not how it will work out. As the article points out, people were still mining when bitcoin dropped to $200 even though it was unprofitable. Because they were still mining even though it was unprofitable, they kept the dynamic difficulty high enough that mining remained unprofitable. Why? Because they had the infrastructure and it is easy enough to keep on mining until you are completely bankrupt. You don't quit mining just to make it profitable again for somebody else, so you hope that you can outlast them. That is the tragedy of the commons and it seems inevitable as people spend more and more money on infrastructure investment.
Ice has at least 16 different phases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice

Ice XVII has been predicted: http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/chemistry/ice-xvii-che...
somehow I knew someone would call me out on that. HN does not disappoint.
3/ When building a product team, instill a culture of starting with “why?” Before building things. A clear focus on the job that your product actually does for people and Why that job matters should inform all design decisions.
I wanted to love it but it takes longer than Atom to start up on a new iMac.
But we don't really have potholes in CA, at least not the quantity and quality that I experienced living in PA. It's a minefield there right now, so I would imagine freezing is part of the problem, or at least exacerbates it.
What is the Vaadin Framework?
Adjusted for inflation, that $700 in 1978 is $2,661.15 in 2018 money.

The latest-and-greatest KENWOOD TS-990S is going for ~$7,979.95 (according to HRO)[1]

I'd say you got a deal back in the day. :)

[1] https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-011672
How Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Saw into the Future
Seriously, this. They mention their wholesale rates to neighboring cities is so profitable it subsidizes the local rates.

Anywhere I’ve ever paid for power there’s a supply charge and a separate generation charge. TFA makes it sound like there’s no supply charge, only a generation charge. Well, no wonder they can’t afford to build out their grid?!

Their hydro generation is 3,000 megawatts (woah!). Add a supply charge of $0.01/kWh (possibly phased in after the first 500kWh/mo) and... problem solved? On 1,000 MW that’s $0.01 * 24 * 365 * 1,000,000 = $87 million!

I think I pay $0.15 / kW locally so we’re not even price gouging here.

Having excess electrical capacity in 2018 is a license to print money, this town is sitting on a gold mine with zero carbon emissions or ecological damage and they are complaining about it?
"Economics is not physics."

This point is super important. While you can influence demand through macroeconomic twiddling, an economy is unlike many systems in that not only does it react to stimuli, it learns to anticipate that stimuli as well. You have to adjust your strategy to account for this.
I think a lot of the problem comes from Rails ease of setup. You can get Devise working in about 10-20 minutes. Then you want to customize something and it takes an afternoon to figure out. With any other framework that's par for the course. Yet somehow developers expect rails to spoon-feed them the entire way.
More Accurate Silicon Valley Job Descriptions
People do not view China as a trade partner.

Instead, China is viewed as an opportunity (to be exploited).

Apple, Dell, IBM, everyone, used them as cheap labor to get manufacturing costs down. So that they can sell that sweet iPhone for $1000, and make $800 in profits. Apple stock goes up. Your 401k is more valuable.

Then, there are more iPhone users in China, than there are in the United States. Apple can make more money selling services (music, apps, subscriptions) to them, than they do in the United States. Do you want to take away this sweet money tree from Apple?

Walmart views China as a cheap manufacturer. You can buy more plastic trinkets for less. So you spend more money, to buy more things. Win for you. Win for Walmart. Walmart stock goes up. Your 401k is more valuable.

If you want to kill the lucrative trade partnership with China, then you had better give a good explanation to all the people with their cushy 401k, why their retirement accounts are tanking.

The trade with China, may suck for the blue collar class, but it is very lucrative for the investor class. And for you, your 401k gets a nice bounce, so that you too, can get a share of the profits.
> ‘The cop [would] be able to say ‘Give me the warrant details for Joe Blocks,’...

I’m assuming this site is US based because someone from the UK and especially Lancashire would know that he meant Joe Bloggs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Bloggs
There's a new-ish book, "Secure by Design", that makes this point -- and shows ways for ordinary devs to design for security without explicitly thinking about security.

I really like this book so far (it's still in the early access stage of writing).

https://www.manning.com/books/secure-by-design
Where is the pricing? Quotas?
This article has what seems like pretty good advice: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/lessons-from-my-first-year-o...
I don't know what all you Tunnelbear users were thinking. Do you believe other commercial VPN services are doing a better job of protecting your privacy? Spoiler: they are not. Commercial VPN services offer the safety of coffee shop open wi-fi, in The Cloud, from the convenience of your own couch.

Stop using commercial VPN providers.

Honestly, at least now they have the McAfee security team working for them. There are better teams, but anything is better than getting a single point-in-time audit and slapped "independently audited" on your front page.
This is great, ty. I'm going to add this to my collection of 'words for when'. There are so many strange tricks that people pull on each other that are hard to concisely describe.
That’s not as hard as it sounds. Google maps probably knows the exact location based on the name. Also, the user only needs to know the time at the station and the offset from local time e.g. “train leaves at 3 pm local, the time at the station is about 2 hours ahead of you now”.
> The whole notion of discriminating on fit and finish is its own interesting story when Japan, which was synonymous with "junk" cars decided to compete with American car makers on fit and finish.

In that case, I think there's a big distinction because of the different market segments Toyota/Honda operated in at the time vs. Tesla now. People buying a $20,000 car are more willing to accept a couple of quality kinks. That's not nearly the same case in the premium segment that Tesla still competes in.

> There is an interesting lesson here for people who are able to see it, around prioritizing cash expenditures to achieve the highest revenue (and thus survival), rather than engineering excellence.

That's a possibility -- that Tesla needs to get to profitability fast enough in order to stave off death. But I'm not entirely sure that if their brand doesn't survive that it's a fate worth living.

Also, that doesn't really entirely jive with their behavior. Tesla has been burning hordes of cash investing in new initiatives like the Tesla semi-truck, operating SolarCity, the PowerWall, etc. If they were so concerned about getting to profitability why would they be making those massive investments now? Also, why would they not issue more debt or equity in order to give themselves a longer runaway? Given their earlier bond sales, they easily could acquire more capital at a low coupon.
Protip, don't try and learn it all at once, it's like drinking from a firehose. Go through the tutorial, learn the basic stuff (open/save files, exit, search, replace), and then add new stuff as you actually need it.

I've been at it for over 16 years, and I'm still learning new stuff surprisingly often
The goal is likely aligned more with a different approach to management of drug use. Jumping to stopping drug trade as an immediate goal hits a lot of assumptions on what an effective policy can be.
rain will do the same thing though.
(3)What small firms’ margins of contribution allow, given the competition in their markets.

I for example run a family business that operates in the paint sector in Italy, and you’d be horrified by how compressed margins are (and have become over the past five years of debt crisis and economic recession).

There’s always this aura that a rational firm can arbitrarily add structural (HR) costs to defer some nebulous, future “risk”, but in my experience this is not the case (anymore). Competition is so hardscrabble and survival is such a luxury that pretty much everybody is not only willing but obliged to skimp on everything. Being “with the times” simply isn’t an option, sadly.