skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can’t you just sign a crypto wallet address with the gpg key of the contributors as determined by the project?

That’s likely the simplest way and doesn’t require PayPal or revealing identities of maintainers.

Also works well by nesting encrypting the wallet private with each maintainer so wallet can only be used with all maintainers in agreement. Or establish a smart contract, etc etc.

This seems easy to set up. But many won’t pay.
How about this?

https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/12/technology/concrete-carbonc...
The title says writing compilers, not using compilers.

It's almost the case of "one compiler to rule them all", though IMO pervasive changes (like adding a type system) are better done at the compiler-level rather than the macro-level.
If it's the same as here in Switzerland, then it is not about "being caught." It's not a fine. It's a fee. Even if you declare your goods and pay taxes, it costs you a fee every time they check your package.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/aug/06/financial-c...

>"Let's hope we're all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters."

Thats just what people put in email. Given that being told to not talk about certain topics via any recorded medium is not unheard of in companies, there is likely far more than this one notable example.

Even if there's not, the fact that even this person, who outright stated that this was going to collapse and kept at it anyway, has not gone to jail is just an extreme breakdown of the rule of law.

When you start making rules for thee and different rules for me, then people start wondering why they follow the law to begin with. It's a basic tenant of political science
So do physical stores. Is it really so different from Heineken paying for prominent shelf space in the supermarket?
If you have a large customer-facing website retail website, redoing the whole thing in something "modern" (which will only be "modern" for a year or so) is actually very expensive. Have you ever migrated a non-trivial website from one platform to another?
PayPal Mafia
An only slightly altered version for Common Lisp.
The LABEL syntax is slightly different to make it valid CL.

https://gist.github.com/lispm/d752d5761f7078de4041d4e453e70c...

Tasks to explore:

Check that it is actually equally to the published code.

Check that it can interpret itself.

Understand the language it implements and the consequences of no error checking...

MCLISP 139 > (mclisp:mccarthy-repl)
mce> (label example (lambda (foo bar) (cons (cons foo 'nil) (cons 'bar 'baz)))
'qix 'qux)
((QIX) BAR . BAZ)
mce>
Don't know about Germany but in the Netherlands, Belgium and France the rise of the right wing parties started way earlier than 2008.
'Actively managed etf' is an oxymoron.
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Ebay is also crap and yet it attracts millions. We may preach good practices all day long but the truth is that if your site is useful users will find a way to navigate it. Even if you keep moving things around like Amazon.
I'm currently experiencing this:

We are investigating a small portion of our users unable to access the site.
Unless you know exctly brand/make/model you wan't to buy on Amazon, the search is useless. Hundreds of similar results from dozens of vendors of varying quality.

I liked it better when they sold things themselves, now they're just an eBay clone selling cheap knockoffs trying to hide the fact.
Most banks don't require you to be physically present anymore. I don't know about Banco do Brasil, but I had accounts in Bradesco and Santander, both have a line to call your manager in a call center, and you can do pretty much everything besides getting physical cash from the phone.
Target will also price-match.
Perhaps rather than assuming you know what the author meant you should actually read the book.
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IPv6 has a slight head start, the 128-bit address format and notation were decided in 1994-1995.
https://www.sbf5.com/~cduan/technical/ruby/ycombinator.shtml
Or use it to build homes, which still keeps it out of the atmosphere
the worst of all are those that allow you to paste the password when you setup the account, but not on login.

this leads to a situation where I have a 100 digit hashed password I have to type in by hand.

usually I just create a new account, preferably somewhere else.
That might be quite likely.
If treated and maintained right it can last hundreds of years. So this is not really an issue and if you replace it with new wood it will still store carbon.
And WASM has a human readable text form that is just as readable as unminified js.
>"We're these loan sharks prosecuted? Probably yes,..."

How about definitely not, other than one guy?[1] Additionally, while it won't bring back the GDP it will send a message that the laws will be enforced and that this behavior has consequences. Currently the message we send is that if you do low level crime we'll be harsh on you to make an example. Crash the global economy and harm the entire country though? Ah, how could we hold you accountable for that?

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/magazine/only-one-top-ban...
Or just be able to buy a book for a relative and have it added to their Kindle.

Maybe it is possible but it isn't obvious how to do it.
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I was very uncomfortable with Pwned Passwords until I read how it works. And even then, the true comfort blanket for me was writing a script that talked to it myself, so I could see exactly what info I was sending, and what info I was receiving back.

I'm now entirely comfortable with this product/service. Read how it works.
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A) That's not what a loan shark is

B) No, they were not prosecuted, because for the most part they did not violate any laws (I'm sure you could find some that did)

C) Let's avoid speaking of "percents of GDP" as if they're lives we've lost. The economy is doing better now than it was in 2008.
+1 for the link about Andy Gavin's work on Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter. This past winter I dusted off my PS2 and started playing Jak and Daxter again, the first time in about 15 years. I noticed something I had never noticed before: even though it is one of the first games released on the PS2, the game loads almost instantaneously when you hit the "New" or "Load" buttons.

I had to know why, and came across that exact link you referenced. AG had figured out how to do a lot of preprocessing while the game boots up, obviating the need for a lengthy "Loading..." screen. Naughty Dog wrote some very impressive software, that is for sure!
This is a good thing you're going through. Yes, really. It's time to trust your instincts and remove the shyte, the cruft and unnecessary burdens from your life. "This shit life, we gotta chuck some things," said Michael Caine's character in the movie "The Weather Man" [1]. (Highly recommended)

But, my friend ...

Step 1: Stop calling yourself names. Please stop. You're not impressing anyone.

Step 2: Reach out. You may have "burned many bridges" but I'm sure you have one friend who you can talk to. If you don't have this friend, pick up that phone and chat to Dad or Mom or your guardian (hope they are alive). Those are fireproof bridges. Time to use them. Say exactly what you've posted here. Including the name calling of yourself. See what they say. Time to belong again.

Step 3: Time to spend more time with your kiddo, with homework and projects and play. Time to become a kid to be with the kid that matters the most.

I pretty much burnt out at age 39 too and quit a lucrative contracting job. Everything else besides the money was crumbling around me. Poor health (packing on weight in the middle), steadily increasing my drinking habit, distancing relationship with the wife and kids and lack of perspective on what I wanted to do with my free time and career. I changed that one day after I couldn't take the drive to the office. Stopped at the roadside, thought for a bit, turned the car and headed back home. I phoned in sick and later that evening wrote an email that I wanted to take some time off. Like permanently. I spent 6 months doing absolutely nothing from an earnings point of view. I joined the gym, I spent time with wife, learnt how to reconnect with my eldest teenager and took activities with my youngest. I even flirted with the idea of a startup. Still flirting... :-)

I have hobbled, tripped, fallen, injured, suffered and then recovered after 5 years on the income side but I have emerged on the whole a bit wiser, a bit bearable (ok, debatable!), a bit forgiving (mostly of myself), a bit less volatile, a bit accepting and a bit fitter. I cherish mostly what I learned about myself: that I can tolerate some things and some things I cannot. I now know instinctively whether a movie is worth it in the first 5 min just as much as I can tell whether a gig will be mentally and emotionally nourishing for me or not before I start it. It ain't just the money. If my instincts say no, I walk away. Chuck some things. This is what you are developing now. A sense of what matters and what doesn't. Don't fight the learning process.

Take care, Little Prince!

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384680/?ref_=nv_sr_1
(Don't go by the hopeless IMDB ranking of 6.6. That's a travesty for Gore Verbinski's work of art.)
2001: A Space Odyssey is probably my favorite film ever. Our IT teacher made us watch it as part of the computer science classes (awesome teacher).

Very recently Seth Godin talked about it in his podcast, pointing out the poor reviews it got from the press. The argument was "don't worry about criticism, people even criticized that amazing movie, how can you escape criticism"
Here is Google shutting down another API (which are forever until they're not), and still no sign of a Google Keep API.

Come on Google, you can do better than this.
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See what the EU has done for you
There's a named phenomenon to describe what you're talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocqueville_effect
I think most people are fine with regulations when they feel they're evenly applied, or that it's unlikely their competitors will be able to break them without consequence. It's when they feel that regulations will affect them more than others or that their competitors will be able to ignore them while they won't that people start getting loud.
I always figured hedge funds thrived in more volatile situations. The years of consistent-yet "boring" growth that we have seen since the recession is not a fertile environment for alternative strategies.
Well, considering that "work" as it's commonly defined means "tasks done at the orders of a superior", it can hardly help but be mentally harmful. Any task done under the control and for the profit of another is in some sense abuse.
> The second thing that troubles me is security "best practices" today may not be best practices tomorrow. Some of his example companies are using practices that were "best" 10 years ago. What happens in another 10 years when Troy's current advice is outdated? More pitchforks?

Absolutely. To expand on your comment, some of his example companies were using practices that were never secure to begin with. What happens in 10 years when they still aren't being secure at all and more information is in the wild because no one held them accountable?

It's best practice for every data-holder to adjust their defenses when any security situation changes, ever, not just Troy's advice.

Anything less is just letting laziness rule.

(Bring Trump's tweets into this is a total non-sequitur. His 'shaming' has nothing to do with the real world, only his moment to moment delusions.)
> The security treadmill is hard for even the most modern tech companies to stay on.

It's not hard. It just requires you to give a damn and actually treat it as an important aspect of your process, rather than as an afterthought. And that's where most companies go wrong.

> I think the infosec community could go a long way to helping itself by making easier to use tools, and writing canonical guides for common scenarios.

That I can agree with, and behind the scenes, I've been arguing with infosec people about this for years now. But it's not an excuse not to get your security in order.

If anything, that should be driving more investment from companies into security, to collectively produce more usable mechanisms and documentation... but that doesn't happen.
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"How I got paid to travel the world while learning to code".

^ The above is a pretty compelling story and the audience is there because a lot of people want to become digital nomads. Plus you have a pretty big amount of uniqueness. Most people might try that move when they are 20, but you can say "look, I was 40, I hit rock bottom and said fuck it, 3 weeks later I took my life savings and booked a 1 way ticket to Thailand".

Now you just need to figure out how to monetize it, and suddenly your backpacking trips aren't just what you want to do, it is the real world.

I think if you documented everything in the open (blogging, youtube, etc.) and then rolled it into a course once you had enough content / feedback, you'd have a pretty good shot to make some money out of it. Just based on your reply, you have the ability to write.

There's a huge community of digital nomads so I'm sure you'd be able to find some type of mentor who could help you out with the coding aspect while you do the majority of the learning on your own.
I’ve always found the experience of using shell within Emacs to be poor. I spawn a lot of shell tabs in my workflow as well. If I want anything to do responsive compilation or testing, I’ll just have a separate tab open running some conttest command.

I also find when I use tmux, I avoid splitting windows or panes. It’s always just one singular, dumb window per each shell tab, and just multiple sessions. I’ve tried and tried with it and the overhead of manipulating window placement is just worse than flipping between shells and treat it like all possible windows are always equal to the full shell window.
Not round here.

The big Tesco nearby has a single combined queue for all the 20 or so self-scan checkouts. They are rarely all in service. With a few items it is now always faster to go to an operator checkout unless you go in at 4am. The express lanes of "under 10 items" or "cash only" are a memory of a former, much faster time.

There is often an employee aggressively marshalling people to the self-scan checkouts at every available opportunity and trying to pull them away from the staffed lines.

In the local Pound shop they tried replacing all checkouts with self-scan, getting rid of all others. They had to reverse this a month or two later and put back half a dozen, now brand new, staff operated tills - ripping out a few weeks-old self-scanners to make space. They are again slower thanks to rarely having staff nearby to handle the steady stream of staff authorisations and errors, so there's a big delay every time someone wanders over from the back of the store to wave their bar code and immediately disappear again.
Yeah, none of the MIFID compliance stuff is easy and it's to the point where you don't want European investors if you're an American entity.
Time for disruption again, I guess... but it'll be very hard to beat Amazon/Ebay.

I have an idea for some niches, it'll probably be implemented by the major players after it's been validated though.
Your reference supports my thesis.

Because they ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Evil, God gave them the boot because they then might eat from the Tree of Life.

So yes, you can get me on a technicality, maybe if the Tree of Life did not exist, maybe they wouldn't have been punted ... but ... it was their 'eating from the tree' that was the action that really got the ball moving on the eviction notice.
> strongly typed language designed from the ground up to replace C++ and Fortran for HPC programming ...

sounds like Julia to me ...

> ... in cluster environments

this is where it may be differentiating itself, AFAIK Julia has not been very focused on clustering from start, but I'm assuming it's now getting better.
This is a relevant answer. Thank you.

We're using Integrant already so yes, I can mostly work in a REPL without restarting. But the restarts are more like 15 seconds. I'll have to measure and see what's so slow. My rdev platform is Cursive on a 16G MBP.

And while I'm commenting, yes, we have a reason to run on JVM (a lot of legacy Java code we probably want to interface with later on). So thanks to other commenters for suggesting Node.js and Common Lisp, but not possible. :)
I think you mean 'active index fund'.
Yes! What does it say about internal security if a bank leaves its mailbox unlocked. (The postal equivalent of not using SSL.)

For those that would prefer other methods because public shaming doesn't fix everything: Let's look at some scenarios what (successful) shaming of publicly available services could do:

1. lead to audit and discovery of the issues in the internal services
2. bolster the argument of internal people who argue for security improvements
3. reset priorities to fix issues in public instances instead of fixing internal ones
Sorry, got the number wrong. It was used in the first Mortal Kombat: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMS34010
Get a better router (maybe need a better ISP too). I sent this over a PPPoE link with an MTU of 1500.
Yes! I've been fascinated with GOAL / GOOL for nearly a decade. I ripped a copy of Last of Us and tore through the game data looking for the lisp code, but unfortunately they only ship the compiled output.

What I wouldn't give to see the source... And Viaweb's source, and HN's source, and gosh there are so many amazing Lisp systems out there.
When you ask for help finding Corona the staff doesn’t ask if you’d like Heineken instead. No it’s not the same.
Do you have any sort of documentation about this (although I am in the USA)? I'm starting a mini hedge fund now with so much less money (under 6 figures) and perhaps I'm missing something?
IndexedDB used to be slow, but is it still yet?
Not so sure, performance does not seem that bad (see http://reyesr.github.io/html5-storage-benchmark/ )
Do you have some benchmark that shows it is indeed slow as of today?
Trump sent another tweet to show off his achievements and he was once again beat
When there's a recession suicides are up and people can afford less care that extends there lives. There's explicitly a link to lives lost with the suicides. With the degraded healthcare, is it fine if you steal a few days from a few million people when that adds up to thousands of lifetimes?

Giving a pass to that sort of distributed harm because it doesn't hurt a single individual massively is a common problem in the modern world that is leading to more and more egregious behavior in the pursuit of profit
>now they're just an eBay clone selling cheap knockoffs trying to hide the fact.

I've moved almost all of my online purchases BACK to ebay actually because of this. At least ebay's trust system is easy to understand and harder to game than what amazon has in terms of reviews.

I'm interested to see if this is a trend, or if my circle of friends is an outlier.
I believe this rule changed years ago when airports introduced 100% luggage screening.
"Mixed with that and the liberal social welfare system in Europe and PC culture which claimed any critical voice was facist, racist etc. That's why the antiestablishment came about not because of 2008 and wallstreet."

Oh come on, this is ridiculous.

Pointing out fascism and racism doesn't turn people fascist or racist. If you think there aren't some problems with racism and fascists I don't know what to tell you, because there is lots of evidence.
Is it ever valid/legal to accept multiple content-types like this? Or is this a regression bug that was introduced?
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The thing about Trump isn't the shaming - sparing the very many appropriate snarks for him. The trouble there is the position of authority and implied threat of him and his following.

There is a fundamental difference between for instance "Apple stores their password data reversibly hashed in the clear in 2017!" and "Apple won't create backdoored encryption/create jobs in the heartland instead of in China!" One is promoting security by calling attention to an objectively bad security practice to store whenever not necessary (passing to the larger store of the hashed one). If people disagree with it no harm done. People will just roll their eyes if there is no technical merit like if it was that the password allowed o,O, and 0 or emojis in passwords.

The other is an attempt to cudgel and bully for personal gain. Regardless of merit it is an attempt to do harm. Even if he is right in the circumstance it is an inappropriate use of the office. Since if there is actual wrongdoing involved actual action should be taken by departments. Perdue apparently has a food poisoning scandal for instance? Form a team to investigate the issue and call on justice department if it was illegal or congress if it was technically legal or should have been uncovered or enforced way earlier.

Really passwords are a bad security practice to be avoided in my opinion - high grade keys are the way to go. We tried phone and email 2FA and it was inconvenience and another attack vector and the differentiation requires enough volume that a password manager is needed anyway to track everything they may as well use key reserves. We have been trying to avoid it but it is inevitable and right now it is shameful that an empty Amazon EC2 instance is more secure than my bank account.
Even a small number of produce items takes a long time because of the time to look up the number or find the sticker to enter and then weigh.
Amazon was extremely late in Europe. Most European countries didn't have established players but mine did so they were never able to growth hack. Next day delivery isn't hard when the country is one big urban area that you can drive from one end to the other in 3 hours, at night at least.

Honestly I expect more competition from ali express than Amazon at this point.
Get off computers and the Internet for awhile.
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Of course you're not getting skyscrapers from them but nowadays you can build at least five floors which is not that bad. Most buildings are below that I think.
This is a true story -

I went to a regional passport office to get my Aadhar card about 2 years ago. I sat in front of a desk with an employee - she was logged in to a website to that let her upload my picture/biometrics and info into the Aadhar system. The desk had a post-it 3 feet away from me with the login username/password written on it.

Since the operators also need to verify biometrically to login, that alone wouldn't be enough to hack it. But if you think about the general level of understanding of IT among the public, and probably even the people who wrote the software, its pretty unsurprising to see it hacked.

Even so, I don't think its really possible for a huge entity like the government (or even a large company) to learn all the practices around security/technology without making mistakes and learning under situations with real consequences. As long as they learn from these mistakes and accept failure, rather than trying to cover them up, we will get there in time.