skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being the sort of person who enjoys a regular tipple, when starting a startup (and conserving cash whereever possible), I got in the habit of blind testing wines and beers to find my favorite of the cheap ones.

For beer, especially, the main distinction between basic German pilsners (I live in Berlin) was the social class that they're marketed to. Price is a pretty poor predictor of quality or taste, but you can choose to spend anywhere from about 50 cents to €1.20 to get almost indistinguishable beers. That doesn't mean to say that some aren't better than others, but that price isn't a good predictor of where they fit on the quality scale. (With craft beers things are pretty different, however.) There are very obviously working class beers, professional beers, etc.

With wine, my impression that almost everything that was sold at a grocery store broadly fit into the category of generic cheap wine. There is a weak correlation between quality and price, but if you sampled a bunch of them, it wasn't hard to find bottles at €3 that were better than the average bottle at €6, and bottles at €6 that were as good as the average bottle at €12. (They don't get much more expensive than €12 in grocery stores here. Note, wine is about twice as expensive for the same quality in the US, in my experience.) Notably, none of those wines would be truly interesting, just better expressions of their archetype.

The most interesting way to taste wine that I've found is at high-end restaurants that do pairings. Having a professional that just picks out interesting wines that they think fit with particularly quirky dishes has yielded more interesting results for me than the handful of wine tastings I've done. They'll bring out stuff that's truly weird and interesting if you're used to grocery store wine. And here at least, once you've, ahm, stomached, what you're paying for the meal, the glasses of wine aren't exorbitant -- about €8/glass, even at a place with a couple Michelin stars.

Relative to the other categories of booze, the place where I have genuine expertise is whisky. I have a large collection that's, well, worth more than my car. The beautiful thing about whisky, however, is that you can keep bottles of different things open for years and compare them to each other. That makes it pretty easy to figure out where you get the best bang for your buck. Over about €35/bottle, there's not a particularly strong correlation between quality and price. There are even some fantastic whiskies below that that punch way above their price-class (e.g. Laphroiag Quarter Cask, or Rittenhouse Rye). While there are some particularly unique and great expensive whiskies, even for a trained tongue and nose, it's absolutely no guarantee that a €100 bottle will be better than a good €40 bottle. Often it will just be rarer, and stroke the whisky-nerd ego to a greater extent. ;-)
With manual trading? Or holding the right coins?

Do you trade full time?
Ask HN: How to protect yourself against keyloggers?
While I am by no means a security expert, I try to follow good security practices as much as I can. I use unique passwords with a password manager, I use SSH keys for logging in to any remote machine and I use PGP to encrypt any sensitive files on my machine.

However none of these will protect you against a keylogger. Ultimately your keys/passwords will be protected by a password. I understand that if your system is compromised it's pretty much game over, but what are some good practices to protect yourself against a keylogger?
One could argue that the headers comprise a very important 0.1%, but any wasted time the client spends waiting for and parsing headers will almost always be utterly dominated by the unavoidable wait for HTML parsing,
JavaScript parsing, painting and so on.

I could see the argument for pruning useless headers if, say, the method for generating them relied on some high-latency database call or filesystem access, but that would rarely be the case.
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> When you buy a house, your name and the purchase price are public information. Any one at any time can look up who owns a house, how much they paid for it, and how much they pay in property tax every year.

Uh, really? Where?
that was a fun read, thank you!
It's a problem, most desktop PSU, even from recognized brands produce coil whine, especially after 3+ years.
On a related note, what's the best way to test if my mechanical keyboard from China isn't logging everything I type and selling it to the highest bidder?
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Thanks for posting. Well before my time. But powered some legendary video game consoles such as SNK Neo-Geo and Sega 16.

http://www.sega-16.com/
It's a US or at least California thing. In many countries this is not reality.
Ah, I should be clear, I'm not on board with most synthetic pesticides either. I was referring to just the additional list of electrical fields, etc.
I ended up helping a somm friend out once with a high profile event they were a man down for. She told me me to always throw in a tasting note of "Medium - Medium Plus acidity" and then to reference abstract things as flavors, such as a crisp fall afternoon. It's 90% telling a narrative and having a story to put into people's mind and 10% actual tasting.
How many of them had strong connections and opportunities back home? How old are they?

I could move to rural Texas and live like ... well, better, maybe ... but there's no opportunity there, I'd make about a quarter of what I do now, if I could even find a job I wasn't overqualified for and not know anyone.

If I moved to the West Coast, I could up my pay, maybe, but that's about it. I'd still not know anyone.

All that stuff plays a part the older you get.
>> companies lie to me about salary structure or working conditions

That is the rule rather than the exception unfortunately.

What recruiters need to watch out for is the candidate (like the one described) that can't control their lies as they can do lasting long-term damage. Everyone else is just tuning their risk-reward calculation.
I don't day trade, but buy & sell from time to time. I always went all in, which is apparently a bad practice that I try to avoid now.
I don't know, if you read the IRC chat's it doesn't actually read as I Commit CP, in fact if you take a lot of it at face value, i've seen the same jokes used online (granted in bad taste). The only real question is the point where he watches a video to determine it's nature and says, I don't know you can tell the age. I hardly believe that the evidence here is entirely clear that it was intentional. It's quite plausible that he has a backup image from a server (No older than 2008 based on his TAKEN reference) and there was suspect content. That doesn't excuse his lack of responsibility for it, but i'm not sold that it's entirely a case of someone that was a CP collector.

There are a lot of details missing, a lot of analytic notes on the forensic investigation as well, that when provided would possibly guide an independent investigator to provide other doubts.

I would say that if it was cut and dry, it would have been tried and closed by now, my guess is the evidence there can't be disproven as a negligent backup.

I'm not ready to say he's guilty, but If is determined that he is, I do believe they should throw every charge at him.
My machine is almost completely silent.

Semi-passive power supply, passive GTX1050 and a noctua CPU cooler that is just barely audible when the room is silent.

The coil whine is irritating though.
Depends on the culture of the people. I have experienced numerous instances where an Indian candidate is not who they claim to be. Person X is hired, person Y shows up. Person X conducts the phone interview for person Y. And so on. And this has happened for not just me.
I know this; but can I teach every potential user of my scripts this same fact through documentation I have to maintain? What if: I write the code so that documenting it is easier?
The base rate fallacy [1] and the false positive paradox [2] seem to be much more on point for using face recognition for screening seem to be much more on point than the prosecutor's fallacy.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox
We’re missing 3 ingredients from 2008: adjustable-rate mortgages, high risk mortgages (0 down, interest-only, no doc, etc.), and unemployment.

Most mortgages written in the last 5 years - that is, the ones which might be underwater - are fixed rate and have meaningful down payments.

Even if unemployment rises[1], as long as homeowners still have the same monthly payments, and have a meaningful down payment, they’d stay in their homes as long as possible.

In cities where appreciation has been strong, I think the likely outcome is a small (5-15%) decline over a few years, then flat appreciation (ie, a decline in real dollars) for a few more years, and relatively few sales because most folks would stay rather than sell while underwater. This may decrease geographic mobility. Basically, when rates rise closer to historical norms, 5 years of appreciation is already priced in and anyone who doesn’t need to move doesn’t move.

As with most assets, don’t put yourself in a position where you absolutely need to sell.

[1] If mortgage rates go up significantly, employment is still probably relatively low or the Federal Reserve would loosen its monetary policy and that would affect the mortgage market. I’m ignoring the wildcard case where the Fed’s monetary policy moves no longer have any impact.
A system that says "Oh yes, you're entitled to a trial... But if we go to trial you're facing a minimum of eighteen years in person, instead of six months, also you're going to be held in prison anyway for six weeks, hope you don't lose your job" isn't giving you a "right to trial" in any meaningful sense and they know it.
And you lose a 250-500k capital gains exemption if you sell the house and it's not owned & lived in by you directly AFAIK

The issue with this system is it also lets people look up where you live by name alone, which can be bad if you want to own your house and have a stalker problem. The map works 2 ways.
There's no definitive rule for determining whether a card is using rhe reference PCB design or not, but generally, any card using the reference cooler (1) and most card SKUs released on a new GPU family's launch day will use the reference PCB design. As for why you's want the reference PCB for water cooling, well that is easily explained by looking at water cooled GPU heatsinks (2).

A Graphics Card is composed of much more than the GPH itself. They basically stuff all the components of a mini computer (power management, memory, processor) onto a single board and each one of those subcomponents needs cooling in order to achieve optimal performance. A GPU heatsink that neglects the VRMs or memory will not be able to be overclocked as far as a GPU where those parts are actively cooled and in a liquid cooled system, there is typically very little airflow within the case. Slap an all-in-one water cooling system intended for a CPU onto a GPU and you'll often get memory issues right off the bat even with stock clocks and overheated VRMs will lead to throttling after a relatively short time in heavy use. The fans on a GPU provide enough direcf airflow to keep those components within spec, but remove the fans and replace them with nothing and you lose that necessary airflow. Since each card manufacturer uses their own PCB layout (once they figure out what to improve or lower costs on versus the reference design), there is no way to guarantee a heatsink will work with anything but the reference design. Card manufacturers place their VRMs all over the place and sometimes even stray from spec in memory placement so heatsink manufacturers can't standardize on anything but the one design guaranteed to have a market presence which is the OEM reference PCB.

1* Here's an article covering an old Nvidia reference cooler design: https://techbuyersguru.com/founders-edition-vs-open-air-vide...

2* Here's a GPU water heatsink: http://www.phanteks.com/PH-GB1080.html
Ask HN: I don't like playing games, can I be a game developer?
I'm a full stack programmer(Clojure/Java) and I wrote lots of backend and frontend code, mostly web apps.

I want to try something new but I'm confused. I thought building games might be interesting but I'm not that sure because I really don't play/like games.

The thing is I want to improve my programming skills in a different way and it should be fun so what is your suggestion?
I'm never going to rule out the candidate without online profiles, but it would have been a nice way to get some confirmation or another perspective on what I see in the CV.
Without access to your profiles I'll just have to work a bit harder to get references or evaluate how truthful your backstory is.

In NZ my own linkedin is perhaps enough to help with that. Perhaps if you aren't using linkedin yourself, you don't understand how it can be used against you, or how it is helping other candidates? (just thinking..)
There's an easy fix here. Criminalize looking like a criminal.
It isn't. I rarely send sensitive messages, however, so I feel that some surveillance potential is acceptable, to save time and effort. The few times where I did, I first verified both ends.

I perform the safety number verifications in exchange for forward and backward secrecy. GPG isn't enough to establish a truly confidential communication channel, I think. (Unless you erase keys after every sent message, maybe.)

I'm not happy with Signal's dependence on a phone. Ideally I'd like to use a pocket-sized SBC for secure messaging. Come to think of it, that sounds rather like a phone. Just, uh, without the cellular hardware, and with a user-installed OS.
I don't understand the problem. When buying a domain you do so in ICANN's jurisdiction, under their terms. Actively and voluntarily forfeiting your right to privacy should trump statutory privacy.

And if that isn't enough, ICANN can fix this without compromise. One mass email. "Respond expressly allowing us to publish your PII, or lose your domain."
Maybe I'm misremembering, but wasn't bite mark evidence used to catch Ted Bundy?
Exactly. Taste is subjective. If you remove the color, the packaging, the story, and dull the flavor by chilling it, you haven't eliminated variables in some pseudo-scientific taste test, you have effectivity eliminated the taste itself. Isn't it a bit absurd to deprive people of their senses and then tell them their senses are lying?
Well I'm not running for a popularity contest. A players like to work with other A players. My jobs is to make sure we maintain that environment. If that means being very selective and exclusive and hire based on merit only then so be it.

You'd be surprised how many engineers actually find that approach a breath of fresh air in this age of diversity and inclusivity.
I have an MC68000 User's Manual edited by Prentice-Hall with the HP logo (and an HP 9800 Computer Systems sub-title) that says December 1981.
Frontend architecture as a forethought
Agreed. It really annoys me that I can go to the grocery store and get all sorts of IPAs (and some brewers have more than one!) yet I can only find a handful of stouts.

And no, Guinness doesn't count. Except for their Antwerpen stout--that one is actually really good...but I think it's only available in their 200 Years of Stout in America pack. Their foreign extra stout is okay too.
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a great approach that I'd like to see more of. I don't think there are any (useful) labeling standards, though, which makes it harder to promote as an alternative to organic. It really comes down to trusting the farmer...
And yet, in a post referencing a fan-less "Macbook" it's almost certain that the "Macbook" in question is the only fan-less laptop Apple produces, which is coincidentally called simply "Macbook."

It's unfortunate that Apple has confusing brand names, but the fact remains that the Macbook indeed has no fans so the original comment who hears fan noise is obviously using a different model of laptop.
Why wouldn't I rewrite the script to avoid the cd instead? The point of `set -e` isn't to insert all those pointless guards, it's to point out "hey this might fail, so think of a way to do this that doesn't rely on cd".

For your extremely thin example, if it (say) removed some files, I would only remove the files from the current directory or an absolute path.
> the place where I have genuine expertise is whisky

I like really peaty, smoky whiskies. What would you recommend on the cheap end?
Who said anything about banning something? It looks entirely plausible to me that football will die out within my lifetime simply because people don't want to play or watch it anymore.
I really wish it wasn't so lazy these days. Computers getting faster shouldn't excuse to use less and less performant programming practices. But then from my experience in the field thus far this opinion seems to be in the minority.
Wow the rabbit hole goes pretty deep there. Update on the execrable Zinser, who fired Deans [0]. One has to assume that for every case like this that comes to light, many other cases do not...

[0] https://votesmart.org/public-statement/962803/misconduct-of-...
I think these social networks are really important for candidates like this catfish, but for those of us who know WTF we're doing, I kind of doubt it. It's certainly a trope that developers are antisocial. If you know what you're doing, it won't be hard to manifest people with credentials who will talk about it.
Wow GUN looks promising !!! I'm going to follow this closely !
Slightly off topic -- What do tourists do when they go to Sweden? When I go to a foreign country, I bring at least enough currency with me for the first few days to pay for transportation from the airport, tip the bellman and the room service and maid.

Do people just pick up a local cash card, like getting a local bus pass at a kiosk or a tobacconist?
I spent some of BUILD trying to nudge rumors out of folks. I wasn't successful, but I tried, because I care and because I was one of the few people left with a 950 in my pocket.

Most employees I talked to about it had already fallen into switching to Android, but there were some near tears about it. The only "official" Microsoft answer about it I got (from multiple people, so it sounded like a "Party line" and thus why it felt "official") was that "Microsoft was just too late to the market".

A lot of slides still had phone-sized devices on them, though admittedly some of that was probably just graphics reuse from previous years. Fluent Design documents all still reference phone-sized and phablet-sized devices (and even Band-sized devices).

I enjoy chasing all the rumors on CShell progress, as that does sound like a key to future mobile support. (The one time I think I got close to a wink/nod sort of thing about it at BUILD was when I responded to that "too late" party line with "Or was it just too early for Windows 10 on mobile? CShell was expected to be developed faster than it has turned out to be, hasn't it?".)

I know a lot of people seem to be enchanted with Surface Phone rumors, especially the recent "Courier" folding/multi-screen concepts we've seen from Patent applications.

Personally, I've been excited about "HoloPhone" rumors, some of which I believe I started accidentally by connecting obvious dots, and just hear come back to me through the telephone process of rumor mills. Alex Kipman of Kinect/HoloLens is rumored to be the owner of whatever the next mobile/handheld computing device project is, so I certainly expect some Mixed Reality/Holograms fun.

Anyway, nothing but rumors and hope, but as someone that's been on the platform forever (my last non-Windows phone/handheld computer was an iPhone 3GS, a million years ago), I want to believe, as crazy as that is getting to sound.
I think the big difference here is how much the typeface itself is touted as being being new or distinct from others as a foundation for their style going forward. Perhaps that's just the impression though. For the airlines' use of Helvetica, that design choice was deliberate. How unique the choice was from others wasn't the main thing going on.

I'm not sure I've effectively communicated that thought. Seems tricky to convey. Again, it seems like maybe I'm getting an impression that isn't intentional.
The violence that is conducted by people who mutually agree to inflict it upon each other has nothing to do with the violence that is conducted upon those who have made no choice in the matter.

Perhaps empathy isn't so useful if you're lacking objectivity. Or perhaps failing to understand why people do the thing they dos means you don't have as much empathy as you think.
Frog Fractions? http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions/

Edit: Just replayed it to that point. It's not talking about chess boxing, just (a very incorrect history of) normal boxing.
If you're going to count all possible side channels as output mechanisms, then I'd imagine that it is indeed impossible to build a computer without an output mechanism.

Unless you limit your scope to say, Earth, and somehow build a computer outside of Earth's light cone. It is thus causally disconnected from Earth and has no output mechanisms that can be read from anyone on Earth.
Who's hiring? At the junior/entry level?
Cost of moving: Lost income while looking for a new job at the new location, security deposit, first and last month's rent up front, moving truck, loss of income while moving, lack of security at new job, emotional toll if also moving children, loss of pay due to a different cost of living...

Sure, why not move all the time?

The cost of moving is never trivial, and it requires you to be prepared with sufficient money in your savings account. If you don't have that savings and you don't have a support net to catch you, you're not going to be able to move and remain off the street.
Thanks for the pointer. I was unaware of 1. how important midwesterners have been to Silicon Valley, and 2. how old the Silicon Valley-Wall Street cultural divide is. Plus, just a fun read.
We Did It All for the Cookies – Our First Nutanix Customer Hackathon
Are you being purposefully dense? The reason "ethical" or "natural" wine would be more expensive isn't because it would taste better , but because it costs more to produce (or present, in the case of "hipster") in a specific way that's appealing to the consumer.
Again, you can be sure, by comparing the safety numbers. It's the same as comparing SSH or GPG key fingerprints. If someone else masquerades as Bob, the numbers won't match. See section III-D3, key fingerprint verification:
https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2015/papers-archived/6949...
> They all say, "yeah, but you can definitely tell, like when it's good wine or bad wine." And yet virtually any time a blind test is done the results say differently

BS. You can't tell the difference between expensive wine and cheap wine, but I bet some wine tastes significantly nicer to you than other wine. Wine that tastes good is good. It's just very subjective.
They may have changed it in recent versions, but for a long while, functions were public by default (i.e. anyone can call them). Defaulting to open is a huge security flaw and the reason behind the Parity bug https://blog.comae.io/the-280m-ethereums-bug-f28e5de43513
Meet the Norwegian who's scored more Champions League goals than Ronaldo
> Swedish bank robbers and light-fingered cashiers have gone the way of ABBA hit singles.

I guess Swedish police should be ready for two bank robberies in December: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/abba-record-first-ne...
The threat is a DOS against a group of CDNs as a whole. Particular CDN customers are only vulnerable to the extent that they require an affected CDN's services. If the CF link isn't clear, click through to the paper they reference:

http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/cdn-loops.NDSS16.pdf