skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it's even easier than that. They'll just ban you.

http://time.com/money/5288702/amazon-return-policy-ban/

It's like card counting at a casino. Even if you're technically within the rules, you'll still get walked to the door.

As an aside: I canceled prime long ago. Couldn't be happier. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16937290
Haha, I don't know either Duke or UNC ! (but I'm french, so there's that I suppose...)

Around there, GAFA is what you said except it's Amazon and not AirBnb
I didn't claim that the cost for stack allocation was zero. I claimed that the cost for stack deallocation is zero. Thats where the stack wins against garbage collectors.
The winners of the js13kGames competition
I think these attacks are theoretically real. I don't think these specific instances of the attack as described by Bloomberg are real.

The only plausible scenario in which none of Bloomberg, Apple, and Amazon are knowingly lying is one in which only a select few employees at Apple/Amazon knew about this and were talking to the FBI, as you suggested. Except this doesn't make sense. The only way in which a select few employees would know about this and nobody else is if these employees are subject to a gag order. But the only way they could be subject to a gag order is if the government came to them in the first place, said "here's a gag order, now that you have it I'll tell you about the attack". But according to Bloomberg, a random spot check by Apple employees found the chip, and IIRC they said a third-party security audit ordered by Amazon found the chip on the Elemental servers. In both cases, this attack would have been immediately reported up to the highest levels at the company prior to even beginning talks with the FBI. There's no scenario in which an employee at Apple or Amazon was made aware of the attack, reached out to the FBI, and received a gag order, prior to notifying their superiors and having the information make it all the way up to the executive level.

Of course, you could claim that Bloomberg was wrong about how the chip was found and right about everything else, but that's not really plausible. Why would they be wrong about that and right about everything else? How would it even be possible for the government to have determined that Apple and Amazon had their hardware compromised without Apple and Amazon's knowing cooperation? The government doesn't have access to these servers, only Apple and Amazon do.
The x-ray picture would contain information sufficient to detect that thing, but it's quite plausible that the process/procedure of analyzing that x-ray would not find it. If they're looking for extra hardware, they're going to detect it, but if they're looking for bad solder joints, they're going to detect bad solder joints but not extra harware.
Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers
Its ironic, since Java and Linux used to be the absolute kryptonite for Microsoft in the 00's
Even if you don't know a word German, it's Mark Twain, and therefore well worth a read. If you don't know German, the essay makes you want to learn German so that you, too, can suffer along with the author.
> With GitHub Pages, Read the Docs, and other places to host generated documentation for free

> If your documentation is generated from source code, I am immediately skeptical

Looks like another self-important troll. Those statements are just lolwhut.

I'm not going to learn (or force others to learn) a tool to read documentation. Put a /docs folder in the appropriate project directories and have the team that handles it, decide what to put in that (even if it's a URL to somewhere else).

Disregarding existing documentation because you dislike the organization/formatting is such an act of blind ignorance, I'm surprised he thinks he knows anything about it. Documentation is not a solved problem (although it's easier than testing).

> If you included all of the things needed to document a project in source, your code would be unreadable.

That's only because modern IDEs haven't implemented inline-documentation methods yet. One day we'll get companion documents with every sourcefile that will allow developers to read notes and link to associated content from orthogonal comment files.
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This article seems like it was written 10 years ago.

BI, Technical Account Managers, Sales Engineers, and Finance People should all have a decent excel grasp at minimum.

Is it that common for there to be desperate needs for minimal competence in organizations?
Amazon has all of eBay's problems but with a site that is product focused vs. seller focused. So you have all these categories of problems avoided on eBay like multiple items on the same page(), mixed reviews and the unknown of which seller is more likely to ship a good product.

eBay has some newer product-focused pages and features, but they don't create the kind of problems you see on Amazon.

It also seems somewhat harder to keep creating new seller accounts on eBay. I've been ripped off several times by highly rated sellers on Amazon that disappeared after a several weeks long case pending against them. Amazon resolved it satisfactorily, but it meant that I would have gotten the item faster from China.

All my personal experience, of course.

Of course ebay listings have multiple products, but not in the same super confusing way you see on Amazon.
Presumably productivity is roughly money saved on rent, plus appreciation, minus taxes and maintenance costs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFSf5YhYQbw#t=1h1m

He is fast typing but I've seen spreadsheet jockeys do a lot more work much faster. They know all the shortcuts. They know all the obscure functions.
Heck, this could be an excel workbook itself!
While he doesn't always come off very well here, I think you're being too hard on him. He states outright in his earlier linked post[0] that he would prefer that modified gravity were true. He's at least familiar with TeVeS: I watched a video of a lecture he gave where he went into a fair bit of depth on it (i.e. way over my head). And he also seems to have done some small amount of modified gravity research himself (linked at the bottom of [0]).

My takeaway was that since the CMB spectrum seems to require dark matter, it's going to be there even if some form of modified gravity is also true. I've barely heard either side of the debate mention this in layman contexts. What's the modified gravity perspective on that?

[0] http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2011/02/26/dark-mat...
Awesome software!

On the note of self-promotion, here's a simple Mandelbrot explorer to get started with - but this time, it's animated!

Not comparable to anything above, but good to start playing with / coding fractals.

(Web, desktop only.)

http://romankogan.net/math/processing_js/mandelbrot.html
I have reason to believe that Apple and Amazon (and intelligence agencies) silo some data internally on a need-to-know basis wherever possible. A leaker shouldn’t be capable of leaking everything.
I'm not sure what is 'remotely not being said' and I have some vague understanding of the idea HN is not one person.

But there are definitely two (among many) strong tribes of HN-popular belief - let's call them the Gell-Mannicheans and the National Security Epistoleros. It's weird (to me) that they rarely meet in threads on stories concerning both! That could be because they live in different timezones or have different interests. It could be that the Epistoleros are just that much more numerous or that for some people epistolerism trumps gell-mannicheism. Or something else altogether. I find it a curious thing to observe and think about - it's not some underhanded 'zomg lolz, I have caught you in logic error' comment.
And even worse when you make full featured applications with it...

But the absolute worst is when people turn excel based apps into a grid on a webpage.
You were banned not for "sarcastic jokes", but for taking HN threads into political flamewar—not what this site is for—and ignoring a large number of requests to stop. We told you we banned you and why. But you forgot to include links (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=linkless%20martyr&sort=byDate&...), and HN readers like to make up their own minds:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14960370

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14938232

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14748150

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14453935

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14101988

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14017705

I'm glad to see that your good comments are getting vouched for, though. That is the vouching system working as intended. If you decide you want to follow the guidelines and use HN fully as intended, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com.
What's the alternative?

Microsoft leaves Access out of many of its Office license plans, so it's an extra cost add-on to most people, hence uninteresting.

Filemaker is very nice, but even more costly in most cases.

I've never used Base in LibreOffice, but I also don't see people sharing their Base files, from which I infer that it isn't very popular. (Could be my myopia, though.)

Even if LibreOffice Base is gaining users much more rapidly than I think it is, they're missing the cloud component for offline and mobile users, which acts as a brake on adoption, given Office365 and Google Sheets pushing people to stick with spreadsheets when they want to share tabular data across sites and to mobile users.

Collabora Online is moving LibreOffice into the cloud, but they haven't done anything with Base, as far as I can see.

Apple's iWork web apps are very nice, and they have native clients on many of the platforms I care about, but there's no GUI database component at all.

Without a free, cloud-capable, normal-person focused GUI/web database system, I don't see Excel-as-database going away.
And looking at the video, I'd say that's a slightly above average level of excel skill compared to what you can find sometimes on trading floors.
To be fair, these features don't appear to be doing a very good job of preventing collisions for Tesla vehicles either.
Bump allocation is efficient and fast in single threaded
programs but almost all Go applications are multi
threaded

This operation doesn't require locks, just an atomic add, and a branch to ensure you aren't allocating past the end of the current "arena" where memory is being allocated. Trivial optimizations are providing thread-local allocation arenas which remove the need for longer pauses as locality is improved (less cache coherence protocol work for the silicon).

OFC these schemes require some kind of relocation, but they make allocating blindingly fast. The only way you get faster is by pre-faulting the arena, and hinting for the _next_ chunk of the arena to be loaded in L1/L2 cache.
It doesn’t matter if you “turn off AGPS” completely on your phone. If you are on a cell network, the cellphone companies are selling your location

https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/us-cell-carriers-se...

Of course you have to opt in for apps.
Excel is "presentation first, data second, function third" mode of information input for most people. It is a great starter, but when it gets intense, it a perfect example on teaching when to transition to Access, or at least organize data better in excel.

Similarly, I used to struggle SO much with learning PHP frameworks because I had a "presentation first, data second, function third" methodology of doing things. After realizing how people were using Excel compared to my Access approach, sure I began to respect them more but that helped advance my own learning of frameworks.
Does being good at excel mean that one knows the shortcuts of navigation? The video indeed showed that Martin knew his ALT+, CTRL+ etc., but is that what differentiates an excel pro from a newbie? I thought that 'knowing' excel goes much deeper than the navigational shortcuts: solver, array formulas, powerpivot, vba etc. etc. - this is what I'd call more sophisticated excel features. If someone clicks the number format dialog or hits ctrl+! and then goes from there, surely shows if someone uses excel every day but not if he 'knows' excel.
I used to throw my blackberry at people. One time it missed and it skipped over a natural slate floor like a pebble over water - no damage. Also dropped it on cement many times. Never a scratch (sometimes had to pop the battery back in)

Compared to my first iPhone 3G w/ rubber+shell case which I absolutely demolished in my jeans longboarding my first time. I still feel bad about that.

At some point phones became less durable than my own body. It's just different.
Indeed. I actually really enjoy teaching and mentoring, and do a lot of it. I’m also quite experienced with Excel, used to be an analyst before I became a dev, so I’m often the “Excel guy.”

When other devs come to me for help, they generally want to learn, and I’m happy to teach them. Most devs are really into learning technical skills. Same goes for MOST product managers, sales people, etc. But there are definitely SOME people on the business side who actively DON’T want to learn technical skills. They have some report they have to do, it involves Excel, and they just want me to do it for them, they don’t want to learn how to do it themselves. Generally I’ll help these people once or twice, but after that it’s “Google it.”
I'm not sure which is worse. Being that awk/sed guy or being that Git guy.
"Tech Support"
E.g. somebody that wants to rob you could just stand in front of your car (or put some small obstacle) knowing that the car will stop (to avoid damaging itself and/or whatever is in front of it).

They'd also have to disable any manual override controls.
> I do not understand the mindset of not wanting to help other people.

Not to pile on or anything, because that phrase seems to have touched a nerve - but, I don't mind helping other people at all. I do mind when I spend 8 hours at work helping other people, and don't have time to complete the work that I was actually supposed to be doing, and then get criticized for not getting the work I was assigned to do done. It doesn't help to err in the other direction, either, though - once everybody knows that you know how to do "x", even if you're swamped with other work, you can't turn them away, or it'll haunt you on your next performance review. Hence the article's original advice: never let anybody know you're good at "x".
Is it possible that some 3rd party unrelated to HN or YC is running these ads? Weird...
Me too but throw in MariaDB as well (I'm not exactly bi-lingual but can speak both with a dodgy accent and know some words better in one and some in the other.) I use Libre Office because Excel doesn't work very well on Arch Linux out of the box.
This particular use case sounds like a MATERIALIZED VIEW, and views in general for doing what you're asking for...
I guess I'm in the minority here, since my Amazon experience has been pretty decent still. Its certainly worse than it was in ~2010 or so, but every time a package gets lost, or something goes wrong, Amazon corrects it. My perception might also be insulated by the fact that I live in an apartment building without open access, so packages are somewhat secure (unless someone in my smallish building wants to be a dick).

I still order most of my PC hardware off Amazon, and unless its significantly cheaper to go else where, I'm sticking with them.
The law only appears to apply to factory default passwords.
Yeah but now the law creates the opposite problem:

Me: Let me serve you targeted ads and you can stream this video you want to watch, deal?

You: Nope, I'm just going to stream your video without the ads, LOL

Me: That's stealing my bandwidth

You: Nope, the EU made it legal so it's not stealing, LOL

Me: withdraws from EU
> building a sane web application

Every time I build a sane web application, the first feature I'm asked to add is: "can you add an 'export to excel' function?"
That is a commonly accepted position. As any prosecutions under an NSL would presumably be kept secret in order to keep the NSL itself secret, I strongly suspect that governments in general will take a dim view of such loopholes. The aforementioned secrecy means you are unlikely to find out.
I disagree. You tell them how to do it. You ensure they have no questions. You have them show you that they know how.

Then you destroy their work area with a hammer when they come back for more help on the same thing. (obviously humor)

It's just like teaching.

Source: I'm the 'excel guy' in my service area. I tell them I'll show you twice and I'll make sure you don't have any questions. Then I'll show you youtube videos. I'm not in the business of 'doing' for anyone.
And we know what happens after that. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...
No. THere's plenty of case law establishing that you cannot be compelled to outright lie.
If the task is both undesirable, difficult to find people to fill, and yet widely sought after and greatly needed, the word you're looking for is "lucrative."

Example: plumbers.

Excel wizards: quit your whining and go make bank.
The cost of communication has fallen much faster (quantity of discourse) than the cost of education (quality of discourse). I don't just mean monetary cost: time, effort, and attention required to communicate is much less than the amount of those three required to keep yourself informed.
I gotta say, though, that the Digital Foundry crew at Eurogamer consistently put out excellent technical analyses of current and (usually every Sunday)retro games. I love it. No politics, no drama, just an in depth look at the tech under the hood.

https://www.youtube.com/user/DigitalFoundry
GitLab Issue Boards tracks capex?
No, they were checking buy orders but these were canceled after refunds. The fraudsters had a scheme with several American pension plans which where bogus trading with each other. It's a fraud.
> The default GC in Java HotSpot has one main knob

Do you write that from theory or experience? Because from my experience this was never enough. There are actually whole books written about tuning GC in Java.

> I have yet to see any evidence that bump allocation in the nursery would not help Go.

I can revert what you wrote here and it would be true too.

> Yes, and my view is that they're coming to incorrect conclusions.

I will ask again as someone did before. Did you reach to the Go team about your views and explained that you think they are coming to incorrect conclusions? You can do it easily by writing here[1].

I've seen you are committing a lot of time to write those things about Go in multiple submissions. The best way would be to spend this time talking with Go team and showing your view with proper argumentation. This would be better spent time than writing same thing over and over again on HN in my opinion. If you are right (which I doubt, but I can be wrong too, we are only humans after all) it would benefit whole Go community.

1. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/golang-dev
Walmart demands smart home vendors support Google Home
Those aren't clear at all. They're clear to you because you don't see the weasel wording.

"Apple has never found [...]"

So what about third parties/reports/partners/contractors? Have they found anything and is Apple aware of those findings? Not disclosed here.

Are the QC processes in place sufficient to lead us to believe that Apple would/should have found this issue? etc. If not, who cares if they haven't found it.

Before you complain about the semantics, Apple specifically uses the phrasing "We are not aware of any" in respect of investigations, yet they don't use that all-encompassing language in reference to attacks.

"malicious chips, “hardware manipulations” or vulnerabilities purposely planted in any server"

What is a malicious chip - could the inserted piece be classified as non-malicious or simply not a chip? What is a hardware manipulation - are they saying they've literally never found any deviation between spec and what they've received? Why place 'purposely planted' as a qualifying requirement there?

"If there were ever such an event as Bloomberg News has claimed, we would be forthcoming about it and we would work closely with law enforcement."

They don't indicate what was claimed. They reference a volume of correspondence with a variety of claims instead of the claims. We assume, contextually, that they're referring to the specific chip insertion, but that's not borne out by their statement.

"No one from Apple ever reached out to the FBI about anything like this, and we have never heard from the FBI about an investigation of this kind — much less tried to restrict it."

This is fully plausible and means nothing. They restrict their denial of contact with the FBI to outgoing, indicate they haven't received notice of an investigation of some kind, which doesn't mean there's no investigation - collaborating with the FBI specifically on this point wouldn't involve the FBI disclosing the full scope of the investigation to them.

None of these statements actually deal with the issues claimed. They look like they do, but they don't.

Want a real statement? "Upon being notified of the potential issue by Bloomberg this past year, we have analyzed all of the SuperMicro boards referenced to determine if any unauthorized chip insertion occurred and have found none of the alleged inserted chips or any evidence of associated suspicious network activity."
A leading Holocaust historian just compared the US to Nazi Germany
In your statement you omitted the fact that they fired the very people they need to bring this "strategic decision" to life.

Spending money on upgrades is not the problem. Firing people who know about your systems is.
I've been meaning to look into that program. I've heard a lot of good things about it here and various other places on the internet.
unreal tournament and counter strike for sure. Unreal tournament had an option to limit the number of life, not that is was common to use.

Unreal and Fortnight are made by the same company by the way. It's really a reskin with adjusted gameplay settings.
Bloomberg specifically says some of their sources are senior national security officials from the Obama administration, and the conversations date back to the Obama administration. It doesn't make sense they would have been planning this leak for years in anticipation of Trump winning and a trade war with China.
Yeah, that's better, but of course it means that you either can use that button on the steering wheel for AC, or you can use it for something else. And I am not sure if having reprogrammable buttons in a vehicle is a good idea.

If I am recalling it correctly, ergonomics started as something to pay attention to when airplanes suddenly started crashing -- apparently a shape of some control has been changed, and pilots, using muscle memory, would do a wrong thing.

Putting more reprogrammable buttons is better than nothing, I guess, but in the end it is trying to fix, with more technology, self-inflicted problems caused by using more advanced technology than was warranted in the first place.

And judging from the number of comments I see on HN about Teslas lacking physical volume control, discoverability of the interface leaves much to be desired.
There is a paywall sadly.

I myself have stopped using excel for the last 3 years. My company runs on GSuite, and I love how there can be one source of truth updated in real-time for 1 document. For the better and the worst, some of our internal processes are Google sheets centric now.

I believe the next generation of business will be "fighting" google sheets intrusion in operation processes. Some processes are fine in a Google sheets, but not all of them.
The point is, it's stealing to forego the targeted ads in order to consume the content anyway.

The fair thing to do would be:

"I don't consent to targeted ads, so I'm clicking the back button and using an alternative"

Not:

"I don't consent to targeted ads, so I'm opting out of them and by the way, you get to foot the bill for whatever I decide to do next"