skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been enough of these stories over the years that literally the only item of interest is likely to be the author's bio:

Max Colchester is a U.K. banking correspondent for the WSJ in London. Previously WSJ correspondent in Paris covering fashion, nuclear energy and politics. He is @MaximColch on Twitter.

So the main thing is, the author - because of his background - likely has no idea that this is a recurring theme over decades, that the world nevertheless hasn't run out of COBOL programmers, and that it's an IT job companies today are as likely to outsource to the lowest bidder as any other job (whether that's a good idea or not).
I see karma as a bank for paying for incredibly trashy comments: for every upvote I vow to write at least one thoughtless hot take and defend it to the death
First thought I had as well. Aren't quarks matter too?
A couple I've learned from (I've left out heavily topic-specific books like Cryptography Engineering since I assume you're asking for books about general information security):

Hacking, 2nd Edition - Introduces the foundations of memory and network exploitation

[Security Engineering](https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html) - An overview of a huge array of info sec topics, from "E-policy" to nuclear command security.

Advanced Penetration Testing - Focuses on simulating APT attacks, using the author's penetration testing experiences to illustrate each point.
No it's not racist, it can easily be implemented in the US today without issue.

Don't be so patronizing to minority groups, they are just as capable as everyone else and already have to get ID for numerous other activities.

The US is less racist than most other countries on Earth, yet somehow it is the US that couldn't properly implement voter ID cards?

Racism in America has dropped dramatically in the last 50 years according to multiple lines of research, the perception that racism is on the rise is false and misguided.

It's a shame voter ID can't be implemented on a nationwide basis in the US just because people have concerns that are longer valid.
> So, how much you wanna bet?

You're not resigned enough to be on an infosec team, and if you're not on an infosec team you probably don't know the true percentage of how many employees are failing over and over (it's a ton, it's always a ton).

I'd go big :)
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Any evidence of that pegging?

The relatively stable exchange rates can be explained by entirely orthodox inflation targeting together with purchasing-power-parity pretty well.
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"Stardew Valley had no marketing."

Bullshit claim. They did really clever marketing where they provided the beta release beforehand to few prominent twitch streamers, and in my knowledge also did all kinds of other pre-release hype, community building etc. I'm pretty sure also the other titles invested quite a lot of time, smarts and money towards marketing.
Voting machines are a solution in search of a problem.

The whole point of automation is to save on labor, at the cost of simplicity. Machines are excellent at handling complexity that some experts can come up with and can execute it reasonably well. Except that this is precisely the opposite of what's desired in an election.

Voting is one situation where it is DESIREABLE to have many people manually involved in a simple process. Auditing voting machines requires a pretty in-depth knowledge of information systems and experience with a lot of edge cases.

Proprietary voting machines only make auditing worse, basically hiding all flaws behind a curtain of marketing and legal threats. Over 95% of the citizens have no way of auditing the integrity of the results and have to put blind faith in for-profit corporations who are (1) disincentivized from disclosing flaws and (2) do not suffer penalties when security flaws are found to be present by researchers.

In a paper scheme, it takes more human effort to tally an election, but every citizen can participate in that process, and the others can safely observe and easily understand what's going on. The only downside is that it may take a few hours instead of seconds. But latency is infinitely preferable over opacity and potential inaccuracy.

I used to think e-voting would be OK if there was a requirement to use open-source voting software but even that is problematic. As a software engineer, it would be my pride to be able to help, however that would still be depriving non-software people from the ability to participate in the process, and I feel that is wrong. Now that my focus at work is on building resilient systems, I believe paper is the way to go, especially considering one of the other requirements is secrecy.
I just now (30 minutes ago) changed my mind about something based on a fact, and it wasn't even something that someone pointed out to me. I just realized on my own that I had been wrong:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18111870

I wonder if this fact will change anyone's mind about the idea that facts never change anyone's mind.
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And yet Dead Cells does the Metroidvania Roguelite thing and has a plot.

In fact being a Roguelite is woven into the plot, characters aren't surprised to see you, after all you were just here last session, the mounds of festering corpses prompt you to remark that they're all the same... They're all you.
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I'm actually kind of speechless to see this on the top of HN.

This is a colossal scam. Not just scammy or unethical, but an ACTUAL scam.
I could be wrong, but if it Tron is indeed a scam, why take the money earned by selling at the high, and reinvest into the company? Why did he not just exit? Tron has dropped ~90% since the bull market high as have most alts, why are they still hiring developers and opening offices?

While I acknowledge the white paper was a fiasco, and they have made plenty of errors, it appears that the project itself is still actively under development and working towards some sort of goal. I am not vouching on the talent of their management though, I do have concerns there. I have a hard time calling a project that is under active development and investing in itself via developer hires, new offices and acquisitions a scam especially when the opportunity to exit was there.

The project had an inauspicious start but I feel the word scam does not belong here. Just my 2 cents. (Disclosure: I have a small bag. ~$150)
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I do believe there's an abstract principle that we share with anything that sustained its structure. Not a specific thing like a set of genes but the underlying set of chaos-avoiding rules that makes living forms living forms.
Some books on Semiconductor Devices. Not in any particular order
1. Physics of semiconductor devices by S. M Sze, Kwok K Ng
2. Modern VLSI Devices by Taur and Ning
3. Device electronics for integrated circuits by Muller and Kamins
4. Solid state Devices by Ben. Streetman
5. Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals by Robert F Pierret
Letters and numbers
Ask HN: Who is hiring (October 2018)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of your interview process would also be helpful. Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.

You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519
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Maybe it's because visual development tools work much better for beginners.

There are visual languages that let beginners/non-programmers create real mobile apps, games, business apps with a relatively short learning curve.

But creating a visual language is too much work, it probably requires a large group of people, and there isn't a tool to simplify that process, afaik.
There were large scale demonstrations held on September 8. Hundreds of thousands of people marched and demanded change around the world. You didn't hear about it? Not strange. Zero media coverage.
> a non-language

It has a BNF that’s different from any other language, so it’s definitely a language. A language isn’t defined by its runtime.

> Think PHP for scripting.

PHP is a language...

> J2EE wasn't just a framework

What language features did J2EE introduce?

> You can't argue that it's not all bloat, as the resulting JS it produces runs fine without it all

Yeah, just like C, which compiles yo machine code, is complete bloat.
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New money that is anticipated will lead to anticipated price rises. So it doesn't matter (too much) who gets first dibs.

The Fed mostly buys government bonds, the markets for which are very liquid and efficient.

(The government however does benefit from the Feds buying their bonds, instead of injecting money into the system some other way.)
Here's a thought. Perhaps viruses are picking up DNA from host organisms and transmitting them to new hosts as they pass from one to the next. Viruses that transmit advantageous DNA will survive in our genome. Viral DNA can be particularly useful when it has an impact on the morphological development of an organism, i.e. as it is developing from an embryo. If this is true it is not surprising that we find a lot of activation of retro viruses during embryonic development.

This also provides us a clue about how cancer develops. These retro viruses are associated with the changing of form and function of the cell within which they are contained, since they impact this within the development of the embryo. When they are activated within adult cells they drive similar functional changes. Which might be why many cancers, seem, to me, to look like distinct entities, like the tissue has suddenly switched to a different functional mode. It's not just one characteristic of the tissue that has changed to make it dangerous, but a whole constellation of changes that together seem to form a unified whole. I.e. we are looking at groups of changes transported into the genome by a virus that has propagated because those changes are advantageous to the host organism. These changes do not suddenly arise within the body due selection pressures on the tissue, but are activated and mediated by the virus.

This kind of cross species transportation of DNA, could well be analogous to what we see at the microbial level, where horizontal gene transfer is an important driver of evolution.
Reminds me of the old educational graphics programming language Logo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
Which is why it's garbage. Because of they actually did it, then they just confessed to federal crimes against their real identity.

Sort of similar to all the Republican shills who get caught trying to commit in person voter fraud while "proving" how easy it I'd to commit.
> Court documents[0] reveal Durachinsky wasn't particularly interested in financial crime but was primarily focused on watching victims, having collected millions of images on his computer, including many of underage children.

[0] https://www.scribd.com/document/389668977/Durachinsky-Indict...
Ironically enough, out of the several dozens of wars the Dutch and the English/British fought where both parties were involved, in more wars we fought together rather than against each other (I forgot where I read that the other day). So in that sense the commonly held idea that we're 'long term rivals' is not correct. (I also don't remember if that accounted for 'number of years at war against/together', that may skew things).
can anyone make a suggestion for economics and investment in assets? understanding stock/bonds/ETF?
Lua might have little features and have a small footprint, but it's not simple to understand
You could also argue that it was Republican's refusal to address the needs of immigrants that lost them California.

But only American citizens can vote. And I can't seem to find any data on the increase of the California population from naturalized citizens.
I have been using it for the last few years and found it to be the easiest simplest and fastest library to create an app with.
Serious question, what state is this? I have only voted in 3 states. All of them treated voting day like any other work day.
Why does it work in Bitcoin and other PoW blockchains?
Yes thank you for this clarification - I wrote my initial comment having just woken up.
I did a 10 month hike of the Eastern Continental Trail that runs from Quebec Canada to Key West, Florida. It took me 10 months and changed my life. I wasnt sure I could do it, so except for my brothers I didnt tell anyone. A couple of months into the hike, I realized I could do it and enjoyed it immensely.
An excellent way to destroy a country's productivity.

Listen, if you want the government to incentivize having children, then establish tax consequences. Same way as the government can force you to pay a tax penalty, the government could force people older than a certain age who are still childless to pay a "societal development" tax. The proceeds of the tax go towards paying for free childcare.

/not sure if I'm serious about the above or not
Until about 6 weeks ago I commuted an hour one-way so I filled my two hours with podcasts. In the past weeks I haven't been as avid a listener. Regardless, I spent five years tweaking my list for my taste.

- SANS Internet Stormcast https://isc.sans.edu/podcast.html

- NPR Up First https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510318/up-first

- The CyberWire https://thecyberwire.com/

- Daily Tech Headlines http://www.dailytechnewsshow.com/category/headlines/

- NPR The Indicator https://www.npr.org/sections/money/567724614/the-indicator

- Casefile https://casefilepodcast.com/

- Historical Figures https://www.parcast.com/history/

- Serial Killers https://www.parcast.com/serial/
Isn't paying with credit card over phone weird enough? Anyone eavesdropping on the phone line gets full access to your card details, not to say that the person on the other side of the line gets it.

Normally I would expect an https-protected webform of a trusted payment processor.
I live in New York. As another sibling posted it comes with some stipulations. http://www.elections.ny.gov/nysboe/elections/attentionemploy...
Don’t be so ignorant about the motivations and techniques behind American voter ID laws. The people writing the laws have literally studied the demographics of who possesses which kind of ID so that they can write the laws to accept forms more likely to be held by white voters and reject forms more likely to be held by minorities. And then they’ll shut down or limit the hours of ID offices in minority areas to make it more difficult for them to remedy the situation.

We absolutely could properly implement voter ID. We just don’t.

Edit: I would encourage skeptics to look up the history of voter literacy tests. How can a literacy test be racist? Are you implying that minorities can’t learn to read? And yet they were highly effective at suppressing the minority vote for a long time.
For a decade or so, Dokuwiki has been my "go to" application for a personal wiki. Simple syntax, quick and easy to get up and running, and doesn't even need SQLite -- your pages are just plain text files in a directory and, yes, you can edit them in the browser or $EDITOR.
Ask HN: What is a good alternative to Confluence?
There are lots of wiki systems, but most of them have poor usability, strange markup languages and very few social functionality (comments, alerts ...). And many of them are just ridiculously ugly. The only wiki suited for non-technical staff, I am aware of, is Confluence. But I can not believe that it is the only one.

What alternatives to Confluence do you know and recommend?
why is it out of bounds to ask them what they are doing

It is not, I didn't say that. But you could phrase it in a nicer way. And definitely not assume they aren't doing anything.

does "we" mean what it always means in these discussions....someone else?

No. Thinking that way is overly pessimistic.

will even one person here commit to not flying for a year?

Maybe. I haven't been on a plane in years myself.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! I noticed that one of the books that inspired you was Traction. Which growth channel worked best for you?
> Or as perfect a sphere as one is likely to find in the physical world.

That's precisely the point. One may argue that the sun being a perfect sphere is a fact, but someone else may also point the facy that the surface of the sun shows significant deviations from the perfect sphere, thus the facy being that the sun is not a sphere.

The thing is, they wouldn't be discussing facts but instead personal opinions based on observations. Thus both would be right and wrong while the facts were still the same.
I'd never even heard of the cooking Dutch Oven until the internet and hearing Americans refer to it. They're not particularly common in the UK at all in my experience.

I would expect 80%+ //edit// UK people to immediately think of farting under the covers if I asked them what it meant.
> Unfortunately, the current alternative to e-voting is long, tedious and non-realtime.

Who cares about all this, when we can avoid hacked elections with said alternatives?

- specify long. It already takes >8 hours (here in France) for voters to all come cast their vote (8am -> 4pm, and sometimes later in large cities). What's a few more hours for the final count?

- specify tedious. Taking shortcuts can't cut it, and sounds like a recipe for disaster. Counting envelopes and ballots is not the most exciting job ever, but it can be made easy if you have lots of "voting neighborhoods" with e.g. <750 voters

- non-realtime. Who cares? If TV and radio want to spread the news, they can question people coming out of the voting building. In France, we know that final vote counts are published on voting day at 8pm. (Or is it the day after?) Anything published before are estimates, as should be.

Also, why would you give any control of elections to third-parties (and require financial audits, technical limitations, etc.)? The people (e.g. randomly drawn) + the current municipal staff can handle counting envelopes.

Why trust every single voter individually (peer into the glass window), when you can have a "hive" check what they do? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18111861)
Hey, congrats!
We are going a similar path with https://fulfilli.com/. We haven't raised funding to this day, hence a few questions:
1) do you plan to raise money from now on?
2) Do you have any traction in the US and is your ambition to become a market leader there?
3) Do you think it's possible to get a significant traction in the US without "being local"?
There should be something like this except functional/immutable
Yes, introducing SERP rules intends obligations. The obligations could be enforced by legals or by union of “angry” users who will stop fighting with each other for SERP but start fighting with Google instead who treats them as useful idiots.
> That's exactly what Theranos was, until it wasn't.

You conveniently skipped the part where Magic Leap isn't actively engaging in medical fraud.
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See that story: Did I just waste 3 years? [0] on a failed indie game.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18092108
> Basically a go to culinary tool for old ladies and young outdoorsmen.

and, oddly enough, for artisinal sourdough bread hipsters.
What’s so bad about it being long, tedious, and non-realtime?
>And the problem is it gives people more excuse to give up - to not engage with someone who is wrong, or to dismiss someone who is right (that they think is wrong). Because, studies!

I know someone who is the victim of a professional conspiracy theorist. This guy has figured out how to pull people in with explanations of why your typical conspiracy theory is wrong. He'll happily refute that 9/11 was an inside job in public. So his marks think "Great, rational guy! Let's learn more!"

But that's when you have to pay. All "hidden secrets" are on Patreon of course. But now his marks are literally and emotionally invested. I read once some conspiracy theorists feel like they have a special position because they know something the public doesn't.

Between that (if it's true) and the fact you've literally paid for whatever hogwash this guy is selling you'll soon find yourself (as my friend did) explaining that every study quoted by The World Health Organization is flawed because they profit from vilification of Monsanto. How does he know? Studies that refute the studies! Written by whom, you may ask?

In which case you'll be challenged for challenging "the true skeptics" who totally have it figured out. And the burden of proof is left to you: if you can't refute the studies that refute the studies well you must be wrong and now must accept The True Facts.

It feels very much like a conversation with my friends in cyber security who see a boogie man behind every tree. I am willing to entertain rational fears. But when you don't like something new and reject it for an undefinable reason, or even worse because then it could reveal secret squirrel knowledge only cyber may know then don't be surprised if I too am a skeptic.
In truth, Jira is not our main platform. Our plugin isn't so valuable in this case, because Jira has a built-in ability to track time.

Such platforms as Asana or Trello or Basecamp converts much better. Yes, there were other solutions, but our clients decided that we are better. And objectively we offer some very unique and competitive benefits.
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can you give me a recommendation on bonds? in particular us treasury bonds.
I (kinda) disagree. For me, the wiki style doesn't feel as browsable as it should. Not sure why.

I personally feel like I need some visual map of the connections between ideas. You're right that the attempt here falls short in many ways but I'm glad someone is giving it a shot.
Although I'm not intimate with the BBC hardware this kind of thing doesn't necessarily indicate a hardware mode switch - the renderer could use double width pixels in the HUD simply to lower draw times(simpler rasterization loop) and conserve memory.

AFAIK really complex scanline tricks mostly appeared on the Atari and Amiga platforms first because they exposed explicit programmability that made it simple to define exactly what you wanted the memory layout to map to. Other hardware could do similar things, but needed to code a cycle-exact loop - a feat that was certainly known in the 80's, but also relied on a good understanding of the timings of all the hardware.
The Debian GNU/Linux distribution has it's own tartan too, the interesting detail being it contains morse code:

https://wiki.debian.org/Tartan

https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartandetails?ref=5936

"This is the tartan of The Debian Project: an association of individuals who work together to create a free operating system that is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short. In 2007 Debian held its eighth annual gathering of developers from all over the world in Edinburgh, and the tartan was designed to celebrate that fact. The colours are references to various logos: Reds for the Debian swirl, Blue for Captain Blue-Eyes (the old Debian logo), and Yellow, Black & White for Tux, the Linux logo. If the image is rotated 180 degrees, the White can be seen to be arranged so as to spell out DEBIAN in Morse code (with a correct 1:3 ratio for dots to dashes, and for the pauses in and between letters)."