skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's very naive to think that highly intelligent people don't know or care about what they regulate.

These may be highly intelligent people, but what they are highly skilled at is the art of obtaining and keeping political office. That does not necessarily say anything about their knowledge of the industries they regulate, or their ability to write regulations that are free from disastrous side effects.

> Think about who this benefits. You are just viewing it from one side. Who stands to benefit from all this?

Maybe you could actually say something, instead of just hinting?
Start with the stock series from jcollinsh (financial blogger)

http://jlcollinsnh.com/stock-series/

This gives a good intro to why index funds are probably your best bet. If you are willing to put in a lot of additional time and research, you may be able to do better picking individual stocks, but probably not.
My number one piece of advice: invest in the market, never invest in individual stocks.

Find the best index fund you can, and let your money grow with the market.

If you want to get into things like individual stocks, or even angel investing, do it for the fun and the experience, but don't do it for the wealth. "Get rich slowly" is the best advice I've ever been given.
Ive found many of these, and reported them to the vendors. Sometimes they are happy (swag!!!), sometimes they are not.
This is a great article that explains the issue and work arounds.

Your friend is strings blah | grep PRIVATE KEY
Run it over your fav bins today!
You’re gonna want to follow plane-Jane bog-standard investment advice. Remember, youre not a full-time Wall Street central banker and can’t devote all your time to due diligence. Go the buffet route and create a long-term, diversified portfolio of cheap low-fee crypto currencies and don’t touch it until retirement.
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I think that more attention in terms of funding and research are helpful, but a better conversation at a societal level could be incredibly valuable. There is so much stigma and shame associated with mental illness and suicide. I know this is said so much it sounds cliche, but it is real and important. So many people could feel better but don't because they are ashamed of others reaction, or because our society's (US but probably others) attitude toward mental illness makes people feel they are bad or broken for experiencing mental illness. A more open discussion and acceptance of mental illness could be incredibly powerful
That makes sense, can completely see that perspective. I think at this point it's more just semantics that I'm saying the thought and choices given to what tech you work on to "give more options" is a political and moral decision, one many engineers ignore. When I hear someone in tech say "they want to stay out of politics, I think often they use it as a way to avoid those problems. Thanks for the in-depth conversation here!
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I've had this problem as well when using a Tor proxy with Firefox. A
page is displayed that says "Prove you're legit." Disabling other
privacy plugins so I can accept a tracking cookie isn't my idea of a
fix. Is there a threat model that includes anybody in his right mind
attacking HN?
As others said, physical stuff is still sharable; since only one can use it at a time.

However with app-store (no physical disc) stuff, that can't be shared. Basically the same as on PC when using Steam - you get single account lock-in because it is all software only.

(Steam has implemented limited sharing, but it isn't all that great).
Definitely true. However for me personally the value has been less about the cost financially and more about the overall delightful experience you get. It just doesn’t compare. Show notifications, cloud recording, and multi-device support just to name a few. Also, in the past, I feel like attempts to do similar cloud-based TV services have always lacked network selection quality - none of the good stuff was on there. Not the case with YTV - so far it has every show or event that I'm looking for without having to pay for add-ons or additional networks (ie NBA TV).
Anybody with relevant character flaws can behave this way. It's just that popular approaches for diversity are easily exploitable by such people.
https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/
No, never do this. I will find your keys, and I will have your certificate revoked.

*also misread, I was considering the DNS case.
Lightly, dont do this for the hosts file example either.
As far as I know, both Hack and Flow are unsound and don't do any runtime type checks to preserve soundness. It's a lot easier to migrate dynamic code to a static type system if you have the luxury of just ignoring the type system when you want to. :)

In Dart 2, the type system is sound and checked at runtime in cases where it can be proven statically safe (downcasts, variance, etc.). That makes it a lot more work to migrate because the code actually needs to run correctly without violating any of the dynamic type tests.
I've been using Terraform (https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/tls/index.html) lately for local CA's like my homelab. It's nice when you want to keep everything in configuration management. Example of a self-signed CA: https://gitlab.com/failmap/ca/blob/master/ca.tf
The original Palms were Dragonball machines (68000) and CE actually ran pretty well on MIPS.

Palm and CE are 1996. Like I said, they did ok, but never sold in the volume that the iPhone and later Android achieved.

I dearly miss the 68000 and seriously sometimes wish the whole PowerPC thing didn't happen in favor of continued 68000. If the x86 proved anything its CISC / RISC wasn't exactly clear cut. The 88000 wasn't that bad except for a price that makes me think they were doing a bit of hallucinogens. I never got to play with ColdFire.
"Rich Dad, Poor Dad" is pretty much the only "finance" book that's useful to the common person that I know of. Explains the basics.

"The Intelligent Investor" wasn't helpful to me at all, and I could actually understand what he is talking about, having a heavy background in finance.

P.S. a college degree or being a CFA won't help, from personal experience, though every other finance grad claims it will. The moment I started doing fundamental analysis is the moment my portfolio went to shit.

Helpful tl;dr: "index funds".
You underestimate the depths human ingenuity.
thanks for the broken link pointer, it will be fixed.

the "So Much More" button is a link to the docs:)

Here's the ConfigNode doc:
http://codesolvent.com/doc/config-node/

The platform doc:
http://codesolvent.com/doc/webapps/

If you're interested, send me an email (in my profile).
HMNY was up 26.7% yesterday, all in the last half hour of trading. It's now down about 8% (or 3¢) on Monday's close.
Ask HN: Why are Cryptoexchanges so easily hacked?
2 exchanges in S. Korea in June alone. There are always exchanges getting hacked and coins stolen.

Is it a social networking thing?

Poor IT security?

Lack on knowledge on IT security?

An inside job?
I've been having the same thoughts recently, to the extent where I've wanted to post "Ask HN: How do you search for independent bloggers and forum discussions?".

I may as well throw that out here now, how do I find individuals and their thoughts/comments/articles/websites rather than the typical results which are full of big companies?
> SnapChat, as far as I know, has none of the cryptographic implementation of Keybase. And yet it has likely protected hundreds of thousands of kids from severe bullying.

Is this true? (Asking with no implication of criticism or being a leading question - I just genuinely don't know the answer)

I can believe both that these teens were going to sext each other anyway and Snapchat is keeping them safer, or that they weren't going to and Snapchat has convinced them that it can be done more safely than it can actually be done.

Has anyone done studies on this? (Is it even possible to do studies? I suppose you'd either need information from Snapchat itself on how often they detect screenshots, or from high schools on bullying cases over time and whether Snapchat is involved + hope that bullying cases that get escalated to adults at high schools is a meaningful proxy for actual bullying.)

I'm inclined to buy your argument that because of the implementation making stored pictures not the default, and the social pressure not to take screenshots, probably Snapchat's disappearing messages are better than iMessage. But this seems like the sort of thing that's dangerous enough (in either direction! if the technology works and we refuse to deploy it, that's bad too) that hard data would be useful.
Come on, don't pretend that cryptocurrency is standard investment advice. If you meant to say "index funds" your advice becomes standard.
One resource, to get your feet wet, is to get a Paper Trade Account. Take a look at interactive brokers. Read some books, get ideas, and test them out in a Paper Trade Account. Then when you are ready, and comfortable, move into "Real Life" trading.
> I discovered JSON. I do not claim to have invented JSON because it already existed in nature. What I did was I found it, I named it, I described how it was useful. I don’t claim to be the first person to have discovered it. I know that there are other people who discovered it, at least, a year before I did. The earliest occurrence I found was there was someone at Netscape who was using JavaScript array literals for doing data communication as early as 1996, which was at least 5 years before I stumbled onto the idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C-JoyNuQJs
Don't worry, linked graph shows 64% renewable energy generation. 48% Wind / Solar, ~2% other, and ~14% Hydro.

I know bad reporting is common, but this is ridiculous.
I pay $75 a month for 300d/30u. Plus $35/mo for YouTube TV.
Realest HN comment of the day. Damore ignored all natural laws (re: conform or get ostracized) to try and make a point about how natural laws will always assert themselves. Ironically he proved his own point that natural laws will always assert themselves by failing to conform and then getting ostracized.

The rest of his argument was pretty incoherent tho.
Bogleheads is a pretty good place to learn about conservative investment strategies based on minimizing risk and taxes.

If you want to take a very brief look, start at: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Lazy_portfolios
Hi all,

I'm the CEO of Symless, the company behind Synergy. I wanted to chime in and let everyone know that you can ask me anything (reply to this comment).

I've been working on Synergy as the lead developer since 2006 (before I started the company). Synergy 2 is an early beta and is still under development (the final version will be quite different to what's you see now). All users have access to Synergy 1 (https://symless.com/synergy/downloads) which is the recommended version and is still being developed. If you need a refund, that's absolutely fine, please get in touch: https://symless.com/contact

Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help you.

Thanks,
Nick
I love Dart and used flutter for a few months but once I hit the lack of native support for maps, I had to switch to native iOS development. It was a great learning experience for prototyping quickly but hitting a wall with maps was not OK for any high fidelity app.

With Airbnb’s announcement around React Native, I feel like native dev is still the way to go.
All feasible measures should be implemented simultaneously. Colonizing space seems like the least likely solution.
React is not a stack. It's a component of a stack. Which is never the same anywhere.
Is Microsoft already killing off Windows 7
To add to sister comments, I'm also one of these people.

My account became re-locked behind a 2 factor validation step, at some point, asking me for a token they claimed to have sent me. Asking to resend results in a server error. I went through 3 support ticket trains before I got "blacklisted." All 3 support agents stopped responding eventually, and after the third, I never got another response back to an initial bug (made with ~1 month increments). This was ~ a year ago.

I made similar posts in the past and will echo the sentiment now. Coinbase is a fantastic example of how we've gotten into this state of the world where businesses, including ones touching the most sensitive aspects of your life (financial, private communication, private data storage) have almost no accountability to their users if you fall under their "not enough to care" epsilon. Unfortunately, that epsilon was likely derived by looking at the impact of failed tickets, so I'm pessimistic there will _be_ an impact. If there was, they'd be incentivised to change their behavior.
"Under an accounting system based on emotions and feelings"

Fixed that for you.

We're nothing more than an extremely specialized animal. What we do is (whether you like it or not) a product of nature. Our use of technology is just the large-scale version of a bird's nest, or an ant pile.

We've done far less damage than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Deal with it.
Did you... read the article?
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Serverless just means that we don't run the server ourselves, and that we often get a direct connection between the client and a database like FireStore, without anything in the middle.

Many tasks can be done with reduced security privileges directly from the client, by setting up some declarative security via something like Firebase Security Rules.

We don't even need a server for handling File Upload, that is handled by something like Firebase Storage. Of course that there is a server somewhere, its just that don't develop it ourselves but we instead use it as a service.

For tasks that require increased security privileges, or for things like video or image processing we can still spin up a node server if needed using something like Firebase Cloud Functions.

The end result is that we only end up writing minimal server code, and almost all of our code is client code. This does not mean that there is no server though, so the term is a bit misleading but it still captures well the fact that we only have to write a reduced amount of server code.
The story of how I ended up on the team is probably too random to be actionable. I believe we do have open headcount, but I don't know how the hiring process works for getting a new hire on to a particular team.

Email me and I'll see what I can figure out.
Aliens could harness and move stars to keep powering their civilisations
Always disappointed to see " index funds " repeated ad nauseum in these threads.

I assuming op wants something creative and new advice. Not index fund advice.
I’ve always liked the concept of a localhost’d web app talking back to a localhost web server. It seems like a great way to get the cross-platform ease of use of developing the UI without having to do everything in browser, so you can optimize the heavy lifting and don’t end up with an Electron app pulling 8Gb of RAM and 100% Of 16 cores.

But I could never quite satisfy the nagging feeling that the localhost server could adequately be secured against outside network requests being routed to it, or as TFA mentions, inside network requests being routed away from it to an outsider!

This article helped enumerate some of the difficulties of securing such a service. Things like a memory-safe parser, checking origins, etc.

I wonder is there a definitive guide someone had setup, or even better a sample Golang or similar localhost server, which demonstrates the dozen-odd layers of checks and protections and magical incantations necessary to have such a server “secure” in the sense that a localhost UI is able to make requests to it to receive sensitive data but it should be safe from external attackers trying to spoof the same requests?
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Fine, but I never want to receive one of these. How do I turn it off?
Mr. Money Mustache. Ignore the cult bits, read it anyway.

The millionaire next door.

This question keeps coming up by the way.
When’s the last time you saw anything about “index funds” on the front page of HN or LinkedIn? How many YC startups are built around them? I’m assuming he wants to follow strategies that are appropriate for the future, not the past.
Depending on how much time you want to spend, I suggest a subscription to Real Vision. If you just want to invest in an index fund, then it's probably overkill, but they have high-quality, interesting content that is definitely worth the $15/month.
I have never claimed that I was on a quest to perfect Ulysses, or to edit a "definitive Ulysses," or to concoct any "perfect edition".

New York Times Magazine author Jack Hitt simply made that up, as he seems to have done with several other things attributed to me by him. Or maybe he has an uncredited source that inspired him to romanticize my mundane drudgery as a tropical textologist and translator.

The term I prefer is "authoritative," which is not a claim of "error-free input," something Hans Walter Gabler wrote that had attained in his 1984 "Ulysses : A Critical and Synoptic Edition."

In 1986 the claim of non-erroneousness was repeated twice in a gushing review of Gabler written by Geert Lernout in the _Revue Belge de Philologie_, which ends with these words : << It seems that Joyce finally got the error-free text he waited for in vain during his life-time. >>

One nice symmetry of Then and Now is that Lernout became the first academic in Europe to assail me as having weird ideas about Joyce. Gabler's work is, we are told twice, "error-free," and Kidd, we are assured, is an eccentric crank who "has a whole series of pet theories . . ."

1986, 2018, Nothing new under the sun, Gabler-Kidd-wise and Kidd-Gabler-wise. Lernout literally declares, "Kidd is the kind of person who . . ." It does not get more ad hominem than that.

I would be interested to learn if anyone can find online any pre-2018 claim that I sought to produce the impossible "perfect edition" of any book. That false claim seems to have appeared first on the web on June 12, 2018. The online version of Jack Hitt's New York Times Magazine profile of me is called "The Strange Case of the Missing Joyce Scholar," but the paper publication with a cover date of June 17 is titled “In Search of the Perfect Ulysses.”

What is stranger or more eccentric than I myself supposedly am, is a journalist of such high intelligence as Jack Hitt attributing to me beliefs that he does not sustain by a single quotation from my published work, whether it be Joycean or Jungian, or a even poem out of my youth.

Come to think of it, Jack Hitt's beautifully written essay fails to give the title of any of my works. Those curious about what Hitt skimmed over without dipping his beak into the salt green sea, may consult an old CV of mine by Googling this phrase, enclosing it within quotation marks : "Curriculum Vitae of John Kidd"
I've worked on some really large cross-cutting codebases, probably the largest of which are these two:

- an integrated aircraft and radar simulator that was originally written in the 80s and has code from multiple languages, added and morphed over time by many generations of different staff, and still in heavy use at least as late as when I worked on it in the 00s.

- a suite of different search engine services for a large (Alexa top 400) ecommerce product search engine and online store.

My experience after working on these huge, legacy, complex codebases is that if you need a "go to definition" feature in your editor or IDE, it's a symptom of a notably bad codebase (not just regular bad with all the usual suboptimalities that come up in corporate software, but notably worse than that).

It's particularly bad when you have to use it to chase down an eventual base implementation in a hopelessly convoluted stack of inheritance.

The pieces of software I've seen have the longest shelf life have been written with exacting and unforgiving focus on simplicity and separating units of code, in such a way that the details of an implementation are never far.

It's sort of like the code's design is a conceptual KD-tree, so conditioned on being in a sub-section of the code, you know for sure anything you depend on is nearby and not far away, and certainly not hidden in a stack of inheritance.

This is not an argument against "go to definition" capabilities in editing tools. I just take a little issue when the author says,

> "Text editors can’t and don’t have features like autocomplete, go to definition, …"

> "This usually shows up in the same discussions where Emacs is a terminal program. It also usually comes up when someone says an IDE is needed because of the features above. I don’t program without them, I think it’d be crazy to."

I use Emacs and I never want autocomplete or "go to definition" features. I hate them. In the cases when I unfortunately need them it's a symptom of exceptionally bad software, not an endorsement that these features are themselves good things generally, except in so far as they offer help in exceptionally bad codebases.

Insecticide is not a good thing generally. It's a good thing in bad cases when there's an insect problem, but if you find yourself in that situation really often, and you need insecticide so often that it becomes as familiar to you as your morning coffee, then it's a sign of a much bigger problem.
Relinking binaries running on a phone sounds even less profitable. How much battery energy are you willing to waste here?
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What if the worker stayed, expecting that the company would make things right, but when it was discovered that companies simply don't DO that and haven't since the 1980s, files a lawsuit or otherwise takes aggressive action to force the company to treat them fairly?
It's at least worth asking if the streaming future you implicitly envision here -- where one service, presumably Netflix, becomes the gatekeeper for nearly all commercial streaming content, dictating what is available to us to watch and, by virtue of their market power, effectively dictating what producers will be paid -- is really all silver lining and no cloud. (There are also downsides to advocating piracy as the solution, and whether it's convenient and easy is definitely in the eye of the beholder, but that's a different discussion.)

For MoviePass vs. AMC Stubs Plus or whatever they're calling it, the market dynamics are different from streaming, anyway; while there are movies that are released exclusively to specific theatre chains, they're few and far between. So in practice, very few people are going to feel compelled to subscribe to both services in order to see all movies -- they're going to subscribe to one or the other.

Also, last but not least, there's strong evidence that the value to moviegoers that MoviePass represents comes from a "the more you use our service, the more money we lose" model. I am not sure that I would sneer at AMC as a "special snowflake" for questioning the wisdom there.
Coinbase customer service still sucks
I’ve been using python enums to store static, non sensitive config lately. Let’s me store my data in dict/JSON like format while being able to write comments. Plus no need to do any IO to access variables! However, not really sure if this is was the intended use case for python enums.
FlexCar for Servers.
Variable Capture Considered Harmful (2015)
While interesting, glancing through readme/limitations just furthers my (view)point based on experience.

Since then, I do by and large dive into new languages but don't use them. What I do is bring back home some of the practices which I think are of benefit to me.
I think he was joking :)