skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is with how user acquisition is done on the shady side of the industry.

At the top, there's a lender. In this story, the lender is Yellowstone. The lender actually gives money to the customer.

A lender like Yellowstone has 200+ brokers they work with. The brokers are independent companies - "Business Lending LLC" or some generic name.

The brokers do whatever they can to find customers interested in a loan. They package that customers info into a loan application, and send it to Yellowstone. Yellowstone then decides to fund it or not. If they do, the rest of the contact is between Yellowstone and the small business borrower.

How does the borrower know which broker they worked with? Fax letterhead? Fake generic business name. Email of the rep they worked with? Possibly some random gmail. Etc. They get super unlucky and get fined? Declare bankruptcy, make a new company called "Business Lending 2 LLC".

It's not impossible to catch these guys, but it is hard enough to enforce that no current agency is especially interested.
Need is determined by the customer. You might be able to explain to them that they don't need it on their way to a competitor. May not be fair or rational, but redundancy and its peace-of-mind has real benefits in most systems compared to cost.
The best part about this story is that it is entirely plausible that a 4 year old found the problem, unlike a lot of stories where we are supposed to think there is a 6 year old wunderkind submitting code patches to some OSS project.
Until a 4-year old can deal with the efficacy in which Linus communicates with other humans they should not be allowed to submit patches.
"I figured some products would exist already to solve this problem, but I wanted to make my own."

But why? You could've used so many different products. You could've even used Google Docs.
Honestly, the answer is only relevant if you actually have zero experience deploying any stack, or orthodox LAMP stack.

If you have no experience with (stack Z), then you will have to go out and get some experience before opting to use (stack Z). The problem is, many people hear this and stop there.

While there are some barriers to experience and production-readiness, they are not insurmountable, and there may be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. There is a cost for everything. Sometimes it's an opportunity cost. (Sometimes the cost can also come from not acting.)
the difference between a community and a workplace is its tolerance, and need, for whimsy...
Paying conductors a living wage isn't nearly as expensive to the agency (and the state, and we the taxpayers and riders) as mismanaged and corruptly nepotistic multi-billion dollar contracts for construction.
I kept wondering where to find the change. I didn't initially realize it is apparently included. But this seems to be it here (from the bottom of the page):

1.9 Ext4 file system parameters
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> it should just be called "watching" or "recording". also does it stop being called "Sousveillance" if done on a plane? or hiking above a certain altitude?

or if it's done with a drone it's almost terrorism as many politicians would like you to believe. The concept of sousveilance can never be implemented in any meaningful democratic way on a day to day life because individuals are always subordinate to the state.
I really hope that next time when somebody tries to paint Linus as an asshole and a toxic force for the community because of his rants, someone remembers to link this email too.
In this case, Linux would get wider adoption if it could attract some large software vendors. Good for everyone.
My initial reaction to this is one of outrage: "How the hell is this even legal?!" Though the article makes it clear that David Glass has found loopholes in the legal system, and that therefore it is technically legal, it strikes me as utterly contrary to the spirit of the financial regulations he's managed to dodge. I would shed about as many tears for him and similar predators being smote by the courts as I shed for Prenda Law.

There's plenty of "WTF?" to go around in this article, the usurious interest rates, the confession of judgement, and that people are falling for this.

I am sadly not surprised that the banks are offering up their customers funds if said bank has an office in NY, even if not based there. I imagine the banks' legal departments are risk averse and consider that they'd have more to potentially lose fighting such bogus claims than just offering up their customers' money, whether said claims are legitimate or not.

IMO, the New York practice of the marshals is some abuse-ripe legal cruft that needs to go.

I do find myself wondering if remedy for this couldn't come from a federal angle. The US Constitution says that once affairs cross state lines, they become a federal issue, plus there's Wickard vs Filburn that's been used to make anything a federal issue if the fed wants it to be. I wonder if claims of violation of due process or the usurious interest rates could be used to smite Glass and other predators in this financial space.
Huh, I haven't found Docker to be a pain at all now that I sort of vaguely have an idea of what I do.

A docker file takes maybe ten minutes, and is really documentation more than anything.

That with a tmuxp yml file to set up a tmux session for developing can pretty much outline both how the product is released and how it's developed for anyone coming into the project.

Pretty neat, super easy, very cool.

I'm not really doing docker to say I'm doing docker but because once I realized how easy it is to containerize things it's not much more than a few steps to have a development environment as well as a production environment even for my crappy little website.
Hey thanks for bringing the data privacy topic up. This is something that's going to be very important for me in the next months now that I turned the app into a business I can live off.

I'll be plain honest, the ToS are outdated and it's something I need to invest some money in the near future. It was just a bit too early for me to invest when I built the landing page. I want to follow the steps of Maciej from Pinboard and be privacy-first. I have absolutely no intention of allowing third-party apps to get access to the data. This is a bootstrapped business with no ambitions of glory, I'd just love to get it to a point where I can comfortably live from it and make people's lives a little bit better every day.

I know this might mean nothing to you right now and I'll totally understand if you don't want to start using it until the legal bits are fixed. In any case I appreciate that you brought the topic up since I have strong convictions on the matter and I realize I should communicate it better on the landing page. Point taken!
why? Why is what you do with your money different than what you do with your speech?
David Ackley, who developed the two-dimensional CA-like "Moveable Feast Machine" architecture for "Robust First Computing", touched on moving from 2D to 3D in his retirement talk:

https://youtu.be/YtzKgTxtVH8?t=3780

"Well 3D is the number one question. And my answer is, depending on what mood I'm in, we need to crawl before we fly."

"Or I say, I need to actually preserve one dimension to build the thing and fix it. Imagine if you had a three-dimensional computer, how you can actually fix something in the middle of it? It's going to be a bit of a challenge."

"So fundamentally, I'm just keeping the third dimension in my back pocket, to do other engineering. I think it would be relatively easy to imaging taking a 2D model like this, and having a finite number of layers of it, sort of a 2.1D model, where there would be a little local communication up and down, and then it was indefinitely scalable in two dimensions."

"And I think that might in fact be quite powerful. Beyond that you think about things like what about wrap-around torus connectivity rooowaaah, non-euclidian dwooraaah, aaah uuh, they say you can do that if you want, but you have to respect indefinite scalability. Our world is 3D, and you can make little tricks to make toruses embedded in a thing, but it has other consequences."

Here's more stuff about the Moveable Feast Machine:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15560845

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14236973

The most amazing mind blowing demo is Robust-first Computing: Distributed City Generation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkSXERxucPc

And a paper about how that works:

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~ackley/papers/paper_tsmall1_11_24.pd...

Plus there's a lot more here:

https://movablefeastmachine.org/

Now he's working on a hardware implementation of indefinitely scalable robust first computing:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1M91QuLZfCzHjBMEKvIc-A
Whoops, that was an error rather than misunderstanding. Anybody selling naked options is playing an enormously dangerous game. Any investor throwing money at a game like this knows the risks, or they wouldn't even know the firm exists.
>And so people don't read them. You can't.

It's even worse than you say. Standard english words have secondary meanings as legalese. You might read "The cat sat it the box" and think "Ok, I know what this means" or maybe look up the bits you don't know in a dictionary, only later to learn that "sat" has a special legal meaning in your jurisdiction.

You literally can't read these yourself because everything has special hidden meanings that you won't even know exist without special training.
Where is this outbreak? The site doesn't give many details.
Snap to Release New Spectacles with Two Cameras for $350
subsidized ridesharing?
This is such a great comment and very true. Looking at the speed and attitude that maintainers handle trivial PRs with can act as an indicator of the project health and will definitely make it more inviting for new contributors!
> master/slave usually implies who's in charge, not a spatial relationship.

Spatial relationship aside, there are plenty of less problematic ways to depict who is in charge.
umm, you could buy Bitcoin?
i think that's literally ones of the objectives of under-funding. then privatise. then monopoly rents for those that can own shares. while still under-investing - who cares about trains? just uber a private jet/helicopter.
Topkai22, I love your attitude. This is exactly how we should look at visual programming languages. They allow people to create something, which was so far not accessible for them. In surprisingly many cases, it's completely enough!

I also understand why people dislike this idea. In many cases, it's really hard to extend something created by non-professional-programmers. I'm one of the founders of Luna ( http://luna-lang.org ), which is a visual programming language blending the boundaries between visual data-flow designing and conventional textual programming.

As a contrast to the mentioned article in this topic, I'd encourage people to also read our blog post about why visual programming could actually be very useful: https://medium.com/@luna_language/luna-the-visual-way-to-cre...
Huge spoofed orders: https://hackernoon.com/meet-spoofy-how-a-single-entity-domin...

Huge influxes of Tether: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/technology/bitcoin-price-...
> Of course it won't scale to massive projects

Most projects aren't massive -- at work, 2 years on, we're still using a single instance of a single node, with the only component that needs to be reliable stored as static files in S3.
>Nassim Taleb often warns this is a dumb idea because in the long run something bad will happen from which you can't recover.

Specifically, this is called ergodic collapse.
Reminds me of the article about the people (and a judge) taking over the financials of elderly people and forcing them into nursing homes. Draining all of their accounts and charging them for their stay in the home.

Putting people put in positions like that and sending gloating "I will f you up" messages is almost an invitation to be murdered, to people who are about to lose everything.
I think now would be a great time to open a new account. What could go wrong? https://www.optionsellers.com/accounts/
No, the people whose money it originally was gambled it away, by giving it to him to gamble away. The minimum investment with him was $500k. I don't feel sorry for people who have that much money, but can't take a moment to understand the implications of what they choose to do with it.
Legally they just gave him permission (power of attorney? I think) to trade on their behalf (and create a margin account with a third party on their behalf), they didn't give him money to trade.
Yes, you're able to realize that any given RGB mess-of-pixels printed somewhere is "likely to be encoded data", but maybe, you'll think, there might be multiple standards for RGB-encoded data (there are) and so, what standard does this code obey? Is it one your phone can parse?

QR codes are able to be recognized as QR codes, which means you're able to think "I could definitely scan that", rather than thinking "that is some data there, that I could maybe read or maybe not."

It's the same as the difference between saying that data on the wire is "a TCP packet" vs saying it's "HTTP." Yes, either way, you know that you've got some packets—but if you want to parse them, you'd better be able to recognize the format of those packets.
Link is dead, merely an hour later.
serious q: what alternatives exist besides buses and taxi/rideshare? Is walking/scootering a material number of people? If not, why about taxing rideshares to fund the subway?
IMO this is the laziest kind of fearmongering. There's nothing wrong with being skeptical of government claims, especially ones that are unverifiable to the average person (are there WMDs in Iraq? Who killed JFK? What happened in the Gulf of Tonkin? etc). However, this is not one of those unverifiable things. You can get a geiger counter on Amazon for less than $200.

It seems, well, socially irresponsible for the Physicians for Social Responsibility to make statements about radioactive contamination that contradict both government and independent tests.
The NYT had a great article on how the subway got in the situation it is in.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
60 Minutes also profiled Andy recently. They even show a machine (over 100 years old) to move train switches, by manually pulling antique levers. Scary to think how these things operate.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mta-why-has-the-nyc-subway-gone...
Thanksgiving is coming, black Friday and Cyber Monday. 2 things are happening:

- 1. people are cashing out any gains and closing things out this year prior to filling taxes.

- 2. people are getting more fiat to spend this week and get some good deals.

You can't tied the monetary value of crypto and its utility all together. These are 2 separate things. Just wait for the end of the holidays and you'll see Wall St will jump on crypto since they've been waiting for a big discount to get on board. As far as utility goes, tones of very talented people are working heads down on crypto as we speak. They don't get bothered by charts.
You have a source for any of that? It's one thing to say labor costs are a primary driver of costs. It's quite another so say Labor Union costs are the primary driver.
If you keep on with the unsubstantive flamebait we'll ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I mean, nobody can manage volatility 100% of the time when they are selling naked options.
This, Tumblr simply doesn't do enough to guard against the problem. The simple steps they could take that would have avoided this are:

- Clearly word their TOS/AUP to forbid any depictions of minors in a sexual context. They are a private organization, it is well within their rights to exclude any content regardless of whether some might have fringe legal status.

- Assign even one single moderator to pro-actively hunt down obvious keywords, blogs, and content.

- Have an easy 'report post' and 'report blog' functionality. Ban false reporters accounts.
This claim I found really confusing. The subway has been more crowded the last 5 years than I've ever seen it; that's an anecdote of course, but if you search "NYC subway crowding," you'll see the MTA has been claiming that the subway is more crowded than ever these days. Not sure how they explain that discrepancy.

As for the alternative options like Lyft and Uber they mentioned, those are only viable for privileged upper middle class commuters, so it really can't go that far to explain a claimed drop in ridership. And it's just crass to claim that there's a statistically measurable number of fare jumpers.
Hi! I'm Wojciech Danilo, one of the founders behind Luna language ( http://luna-lang.org ). I'd love to share with you our blog post about why actually visual programming languages could be very useful: https://medium.com/@luna_language/luna-the-visual-way-to-cre...

We've been building visual languages in the past for people in different industries, including Visual Effects one. Watching people with limited programming skills to create outstanding things on their own is truly amazing.
the scope of the comparison was to a single rack, not all of Google or Facebook.
This man has no right handling other peoples' money. This is sheer incompetence.
On the other hand, paying living wages to thousands of unnecessary workers is quite expensive, regardless if they are employees or contractors.

Unions work on both goals simultaneously, increasing wages but also providing job security to their base, inserting strong restrictions on who can perform certain labors etc. The more employees, the higher the power of the union, it's not like a competitor could spring up and kill their host.

It's not a white/black issue, laborers need protection but should not use a privileged position in the economy to seek a rent at the expense of everybody else.
Really? What do your dockerfiles look like? Most of the ones I've seen in the wild look something like:

FROM debian:jessie
RUN apt-get install -y somepkg
...

What happens when the "debian:jessie" image changes (as it does weekly on dockerhub)? What about "somepkg" in debian's repositories?

The answer is that `docker build` will produce a different image. In fact, very few docker image builds I've seen are idempotent. They're not declarative, they're not reproducible, merely the output (the docker image itself) is itself able to be run reproducibly. The actual image definition, not so much.

Creating idempotent shell scripts is no harder than creating an idempotent dockerfile. Both are the same problem. A dockerfile is almost entirely the same as a shell script; it copies files around, it runs commands in an environment, and that's all.
No other cultures? The Chinese recorded a "comet" in 5 BC that appeared for 70 days. Maybe the "comet" was a supernova. https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E6%BC%A2%E6%9B%B8/%E5%8D%B70...
You will never stop being treated as a machine, especially in big corp.

As for the anxiety, stop trying so hard. Your goal is to find people that you actually like. You can’t really be friends with people that you despise or have nothing in common with.

Look for what people say or do in common areas as a kitchen or a chat and try to relate without pushing yourself.

Play the game on your own terms and keep in mind that it’s not really a competition. You’re trying to have fun.
> 4. an code-focused ops team (as opposed to a mouse-driven ops team) with extremely strong diagnostic skills and the bandwidth to babysit a service with a potential pain-in-the-ass ceiling around that of a Cassandra cluster

Here it is running fine... running fine.. running fine... aaaaand there's a compaction-and-gc cycle of death and fire and lost data and tears. Thank you for this terrible memory.
No judging here. I'm curious why you pivoted away from health tracking?
Right. Perhaps comparing the coo to checkpoints isn't an apt analogy. However, the intent is the same. Without a coo, transactions would be probabilistic and confirmed once they went above a cumulative weight threshold, but the transaction volume is still too low to prevent a Sybil attack, hence the coo. It's still an open question whether or not the tangle can function coo-less, but it makes for an interesting experiment.
You're sadly mistaken if you think a New York, one of the largest and busiest cities in human existence, is "just another large City", and that the solution to their transportation woes is to just lock it down and work on it.
text-based representation is visual.
In my experience, you can read a (large) code base all you want, but until you get in there and start making (breaking) changes, you're not truly going to understand it.

I think Linus's quote largely reflects my opinion/experience. A new comer's changes won't always be good or right, but get in there and try things out!
I've submitted many such small corrections to OpenBSD to help keep that standard high. No one will place those contributions on the same level as real development but I like that I've helped. And I know I appreciate it when even the documentation is kept at the same bar.

One of the reasons I fell in love with OpenBSD was the commitment to correctness throughout the entire system. This is a lot harder with Linux because they only control the kernel and not the entire distribution.
He published in a tiny journal that was only in print for a handful of years, which was read by very few people. Bell himself said that no one contacted him or even mentioned it to him until four years after its publish date, and that researcher only came across it by pure happenstance. The whole story is detailed in Becker's book; it's fascinating.
$2.75 sounds really cheap to my British ears. How far can you go on that?
I'm sorry but there's no way the 4 year old learnt anything from this. Maybe the adult did, though. Is that the point?
I’m sure it was “cheaper” or they were friends/acquaintances and he just said “I can make you money” - because he wasn’t a “real” (eg with the presumably expensive accounts and control systems) it was probably easiest to have it set up that way.

Question for people who understand things better than me: isn’t setting up an LLC in America quite cheap? Couldn’t an individual make an LLC to hold their investment funds, and then give him control of those accounts? Wouldn’t the LLC protect them? (Not saying that such a layer is free, but it seems like a relatively cheap protection)
Am I reading reddit? There was no reference in OP's post to the current prices.
Dell BiOS fixes the Windows Calculator being launched by pressing “Left+Up+Down”
Regulators said to be investigating whether Bitcoin was propped up illegally
"All of these requests used only four domains in
the HTTP Host header, as shown in Table 4.
Three out of four domains contain more than one bit error, ruling out a simple
mistype of fbbdn.net for fbcdn.net. "
If you’re looking for a simple way to manage web apps on Linux, check out https://github.com/rcarmo/piku

I wrote it as a sort of micro-Heroku/Dokku replacement to run on small ARM boards, and ended up deploying a few apps with it on Intel boxes (I also use Docker Compose, but for simple stuff it’s overkill).

It uses uWSGI and is heavily Python-oriented, but I’ve run other stuff on it (it’s basically a supervisor with automatic reverse proxy setup and a Procfile approach to specifying what to run - git push to it and you’re in business).
>this sort of folk
You mean the teenagers (ie minors) posting pictures of themselves? You act as if Tumblr is attracting pedophiles, when it's really just failing to moderate the platform.
I was going to say "we've all been there," but we haven't, and that's the deceptive thing about the five-minute-demo culture that a lot of "devops" has gotten into.

Everything is easy when it has nothing riding on it. When it isn't is where the value of a tool comes into focus.