skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internal documentation has a handful of patterns. There's the cookbook patern, which corresponds to a "how-to." There's the "readme" pattern, which is meant to conceptually get you started on a project. There's the "architecture" pattern, which is a conceptual design and talks about the rejected alternatives - this is not used everywhere but is a key deliverable in both outsourced and waterfall applications. There is the "small chunk of information that is hard to organize" pattern that has multiple solutions, be it FAQs or Etsy's bot.

Immutable documentation, at its essence, isn't new. Wikis are in many ways immutable documentation due to the diff. The interesting thing here is trying to organize the "small bits of hard to organize" information around slack. More often, however, the real problem is that we need to properly organize this documentation at the point the organization becomes more evident.

For a tool, that should be obvious: --help should be obvious. It's not true in all cases.
Presumably the news is the investigation. We switched to the HTML doc title, which makes that clearer.
Ok, see if I were a government official in charge of reviewing comments from the public, I would consider it my responsibility to ensure that those comments were an accurate reflection of public sentiment and had not been manipulated by an interested party to benefit themselves.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree about what sorts of responsibilities government officials have.
That's not "analytics"; that's order internalization, something almost every retail brokerage does†, both because they get paid to do it and because it improves outcomes for their customers.

† You could argue either way about whether IB gets paid to "internalize" orders or whether the order flow rebates they get are something else.
Not the same kind of loop, but a few years ago I had to quickly fix email sending in some PHP service. Being rusty in PHP, I at least managed to write a for loop iterating over the list and send mails. Or so I thought. I had forgot "$" in front of the "i" in the for-header, making it never terminate, since of course that's still valid php.

Luckily it was only my private email in the test-list. But I still got so many thousands of mails my Gmail account was blocked for days. Also lucky this didn't affect the delivery of our future mail (not blacklisted).
It's death by a thousand cuts, but somehow the coal fire contributes to not one of those cuts? I read the author's argument as "here are a few more of those cuts" myself.
"Breaking the API" is what we call "refactoring" in the (extremely common) case where your code is only used in a single project, and not part of a reusable library.

And yeah, if you radically rework how you make your boxes work, that's a good time to do a refactor. But there's no reason to anticipatorily add in a bunch of complexity so that you don't have to convert a value to a property at some hypothetical future point.

(I mean, among other things, if you put your area property behind get/set methods, you still have to go and change all the setters anyway, since in your brave new width 'n' height world, setting area is nonsensical. So your API still breaks, and you still need to change your consuming code. What was the benefit of the getters/setters then?)
Those are shady steps taken by MS but I don't experience them with Windows 10 Pro. Maybe it's only isolated to Windows 10 Home?

I still double check all of my privacy settings after a major content patch, but so far so good. I keep nearly everything disabled too (basic diagnostics, limited access to my webcam / microphone, Cortana is disabled, no timeline, etc.).
Holy shit, the comments calling for literal execution of Ajit Pai get upvoted and this gets downvoted.

Well done!
The actual work is cheap, but laying down the fiber is the most expensive because the incumbents purposefully make the process long and requires jumping through a lot of hoops.

Even if laying fiber would cost $0, it is still not a good idea to do it. The way things are currently if there are 10 competitors one would have 10 have then fiber cables go to their house, or every time one would change an ISP you will have to wait for new wire to be laid, potentially coordinating with neighbors, if it would have to go through their property.

Most people will only need a single fiber.
Any time you're not resting on a surface, hanging from something, or otherwise being held up against gravity, you're in freefall.

("Zero G" is admittedly a bad term, since there's no such thing as "zero G" literally anywhere in the universe. It's all freefall.)
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Apple has a strong and well known history of vendor lock-in and control.

These people are discovering, and hopefully coming to terms that they never owned any Apple device. The device was always a slave to Apple. It follows the orders of its master, not the foolish human who thought they owned it.

And its master has chosen not to have external nvidia devices work anymore. The lock in will continue. The walled garden will continue to encircle.
I like the style, in that I like mixed development and midrise density, but I agree. A lot of this stuff is being thrown up with little thought to longevity.
I’m still up 12% (although down from 30%) in this bull market. The trick to buy an array of better companies and to not sell/trade them. Every trade you make gives the HFT MIT quants an opportunity to take money out of your pocket! Hold at least 1 year for the substantial tax advantage, 2 years for gains to materialize (Peter Lynch’s Advice), or indefinitely as Warren Buffet has advised.

Also don’t touch or put more than 3% in options or crypto. 80% of traders lose money with options and crypto doesn’t usually generate interest or dividends. Also crypto taxes were absolute difficult nightmare for me last year.
It's also possible to do this using shell scripts, with e.g. BATS: https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core
I don’t think that’s accurate. It’s primarily to make it clear to people that securities can lose 100% of their value. There is no guarantee.

But cash in a checking account is not going to suddenly start showing negative returns.

The only example I can think of what you’re referring to is the new Betterment checking account which is basically like a security masquerading as a riskier savings account.
Ask HN: How to get customers for a new IT services company?
Since the company I currently work was not happy with their IT services provider, I made a gamble and offer them to provide them the services they need through my own company (yet to be created at that time). To my surprise, the gamble worked and they accepted.

Now I have a new company with exactly one paying customer, providing the following services:
- Basic help-desk
- Local network and server administration
- Cloud management (EC2 instances and other AWS services, Office 365, Web)

I have rudimentary marketing and business knowledge, knowing my target market, pricing, business models and such, but I am no salesman, therefore I would like to ask HN on ideas to grow my company and reach new potential customers.

Some options I am considering:
- Content market (articles on the company website and social networks)
- Professional networking groups (BNI International is quite strong in my country)
- Some sort of weekly newsletter/briefing/clipping on IT for business owners and CEOs.

We are nearing the end of this year, so I have some time to get a plan ready to go by January and any insights would be tremendously helpful.

Thanks a lot!
Disagree, because the article/studies essentially indicate that if you're (for instance) a black female who got into MIT but chose to go to State U for cost reasons you'll see an incredible hit in terms of career progression and future earnings. It argues that if you're poor, a racial minority, or female you should go to the top school you can manage even if it causes temporary debt because the payoff will be large. If you're well off and white and a guy you might as well save on college costs, as the career and earning gains are marginal.
Despite the front page on the BBC brandishing this story I feel underwhelmed and I am sure I am not alone. This may be Branson's biggest expedition to date but I don't think it sets the world alight in the way that his previous exploits have done so. In 1986 he captured the Blue Riband for fastest crossing of the Atlantic:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/26/new...

This was very good for the Virgin/Branson publicity machine and important for the image of his airline and other ventures.

However, much like this new 'Galactic' effort, this was kind of done on the cheap. The Blue Riband had previously been contested in the days before the jet age by very large passenger ships carrying hundreds if not thousands of fare paying passengers. Branson's effort had just himself as a 'fare paying passenger'.

Sadly for Branson the efforts of Musk/SpaceX have downsized the publicity potential for what has gone on here. That time that SpaceX landed two of the rocket boosters was one of the most exciting moments in space thus far, the Tesla 'Rocketman' was also quite crazy. This should have persuaded Branson to throw in the towel on his 'space' ambitions but we all have our pride.

If you really want to see the edge of space then I am sure that if you ask the USAF nicely then they can oblige with a flight on a U2 plane. The view is pretty much the same on this tried and tested plane as what Branson offers with this 'Virgin Galactic' thing, which is far from Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' or Apollo's 'Earth Rise'. Top Gear presenters have had been to the edge of space (70 000 ft):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May_at_the_Edge_of_Space

I am sure the Russians could offer similar passage. you could even grease the palms of someone with a 50+ year old English Electric Lightning in private ownership to get you up to 70 000 ft. But nobody is beating a path to the door of those with planes capable of this, to come back to earth and demanding to go that bit higher. Consequently I very much doubt there is a market for Virgin Galactic. Maybe Virgin Galactic will have as much impact as the Virgin F1 team, canned after a few seasons lollygagging at the back of the grid. But Branson seems okay keeping these fun adventures going and good on him for that (even if a few test pilots die on the way or if he himself ends up free falling without a parachute). As billionaires go he isn't a bad chap but I ain't no fan-boy.
I have not had those issues, and I'm actually using guake with KDE atm. You might be able to get yakuake working on non-kde. What DE are you using?
This is true. On the other hand, many of the approaches that get kicked around as "hedonism", like Epicurus, are pretty far from "bitches+bling".
Interestingly there are significant differences across fields, and the data do indicate that this effect in mathematics, for instance, is much smaller than in the humanities.
It's covered on Microsoft's website at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/basic-level....

Whether or not their documentation is exhaustive is another issue, but they do at least provide non-ambiguous wording on what's being collected. There's also other links to see what's collected using full instead of basic (check the sidebar).
Of course. But is your business in the center of a major metropolis and as a consequence of that, pais for labour a multiplier proportional to other costs in the area, like rent and services? I doubt it, you might have higher costs but you don't pay 3x the average waiter salary.
> Internal documentation has a handful of patterns.

This is a great way to articulate something I've been trying to talk to people about for a while - is this something you've thought of for yourself, or do you know of anywhere that talks about these patterns?
A data point for your consideraton: One month ago, I briefly flirted with moving to Las Vegas for tax reasons. I was shocked at the expense (and shabbiness) of high-end housing there. Construction costs were similarly high--I was quoted $450-$500/sqft, on par with NYC. My realtor explained to me that rich Californians were "stampeding" into Nevada and causing some serious dislocations in real estate. She thought the market was eventually going to crater.
My favorite feature of Scrum on paper, as designed, is the idea that any change to the requirements for a sprint means the sprint ends right there, and a new sprint is started. It's great for "Just leave us the hell alone for two weeks, and we'll deliver what we promised we'll deliver over these two weeks".

Of course, it never works that way. The sprint becomes an arbitrary schedule, and the work of the sprint becomes mutable. Ugh.

Sudden, OMG THIS IS IMPORTANT WE MUST DO THIS RIGHT NOW changes in direction are the bane of productivity.
Creating a Design System for Words with Friends
Kombucha mother for $15. Now I can homebrew and enjoy Kombucha, a fizzy, sweet, low caloric, high probiotic beverage while coding.
I'm not even familiar with soup-soup! What was it?
why not just drink roasted barley infusion?
I don't think it contains caffeine, and while very different from coffe or tee, it's quite palatable.
I assume you agree on the need for securing DNS (DNS over TLS for example).

Just watched a UKNOF presentation on DNS changes. Sounds like google/mozilla were fed up with the sluggishness of standards bodies, network operators, and OSes in securing DNS, so have gone for their own version. Charitably I'd like to think that this is a wakeup call from Mozilla, "sort out your shit or this is the future, but with google owning it"
This is a facile analysis. If you believe HFT internalizers are taking money from retail traders, try to outline the series of orders that results in money from the retail trader's pocket going into the HFT's pocket, and precisely how the retail trader could have made that same money on their own.

The reality is that market makers price non-retail flow more conservatively (ie: costing traders more) because they have to anticipate informed large block trades wiping them out. Since they don't have to do that for retail flow, their cost basis for those trades is lower, and they can (and do) split the proceeds of that reduced cost with brokerages.

It's overwhelmingly likely that any other brokerage you use does the same thing, and simply doesn't tell you or pass any of those savings on to you.
Apple hasn't quite tightened the noose of lock-in on OSX as much as they have on iOS.
Little to no availability of homes. It's happening in the Boston area now. Too many people, not enough space.
That it does not do it every time that there is a risk does not outweigh the fact that it is equipped to do it and the warship apparently is not.
I did mean FAANG companies, yeah. At the same time I feel what s/he's saying is also right; in fact I am slowly building up repos on github while I work on my masters and hopefully I'll start contributing to librabries I use so that I can show all of that off to potential employers.
I also feel like having a website in your name works wonders, but I am not too sure companies are really interested in that.
I remember reading the article linked in this one, from the Village Voice, at the beginning of this year. Strongly recommend reading it for you armchair MTA critics: it has a lot of tinder for your tirades.

https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/03/13/the-trains-are-slowe...

If my memory serves me well, it made a pretty convincing argument that the MTA was deliberately and publicly misconstruing the "slow train problem" as a result of "congestion", effectively blaming the success of the city for the failure of its public transportation. The Voice article rendered this commonly-touted line of defense not just misleading, but flagrantly incorrect.

From my perspective, it seems that the reversal of policy reported now, only came into existence because of the line of investigative reporting that began with the Village Voice piece.

Credit for your commute's speedup probably belongs, at least in part, to the Voice's fantastic investigative reporting (a full 2 months before the linked NYT piece). Even more reason to support your local journalists! :)
How does this work with JSON.stringify? Could I convert an object to a string and then scan the string to get the value of the private fields? (I am not great at the details of JS correct me here)
Evidence behind EPA’s obligation to regulate greenhouse gases stronger than ever
Mostly. It does add some novel new features which could be reused on other platforms, but many of the features are tightly linked to the .NET base class library, and would not translate cleanly over to other platforms (certainly possible to simulate them, but you would probably want something which integrates better with your VM)

For example, the whole type system is based on .NETs type system. interfaces, subtyping and generics, properties and indexed properties, which are quite different on the JVM and other platforms.

F# usually relies on having attributes (annotations in Java) for compatibility with other .NET languages like C# where certain features did not fit into the OCaml syntax and semantics cleanly. These also wouldn't transfer over to other platforms very well.

Some features which F# has that could transfer over to other platforms include measure types, active patterns, and type providers. I believe some of these have already made it to other languages. Gosu, for example, on the JVM had a feature similar to type providers before F# got them, so you could argue that F# borrowed that feature.
Which is largely bullshit. There's complexity in managing failures at scale -- but strip away the scale, and you strip away the complexity in managing failures. You just get normal, bog standard server-grade hardware, with the usual downtime.
The FCC must "consider" the comments. The comments can then be ignored. All tidy and legal.

If the FCC was "considering" known forged comments then it is probably actionable, even if the result is the same. If the FCC never considered the comments (which is most likely) then that's actionable, too.

[There's some quote about the Odyssey not being written by Homer, but another person with the same name...]
Oh you're right, thanks for the correction.
I deploy Windows 10 Enterprise and I routinely see the goofiest of settings set back to defaults.
I'm an Australian with no degree who got poor marks in high school, and I got a job at Microsoft (software engineer doing C++ dev and some light reverse-engineering) after about 5 years of freelance work, with zero qualifications.

IIRC my education history came up once in the interview process (I was interviewed by 6 different people that day and only one brought it up), and that part of the conversation basically consisted of:

Interviewer: "You don't have a degree?"

Me: "No, I'm self-taught."

Interviewer: "Oh okay, that's cool."

Literally nobody that I work with talks or cares about where you went to school or what your grades were. YMMV I guess.
this is brilliant, needs some local robot code to argue..achem "converse" with the commenter. bonus points for multiple robot personalities, misspellings and foul language.
> corporations, and to a larger extent, governments, are Medusa.

You mean Hydra. Medusa would turn anyone who looked at her to stone, Hydra would grow two heads to replace any one that was cut off.
I think that was the point -- if you could make a better living some other way, why be a waiter in SF?
Another way of picturing this, is what happens when you throw a baseball. You typically aim at about a 45 degree angle, let it lose from you hand, then from that point on the ball experiences free fall until it lands on something (well, not exactly, due to air resistance, but close enough).
Sumerian is a pretty cool language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H-Vhsma7ck
Your point directly contradicts the conclusions of the paper you linked.

The paper concludes that while there were deficiencies with the modelling method (as there are with any model), input manipulation was at greater fault than inherent failures of the model itself.

"These results support the arguments of Donnelly & Embrechts[4] and Mackenzie & Spears[12], that Li and the Gaussian copula were not to blame for the Crisis...Instead it appears that the gaming of the model beyond its original assumptions, the outsourcing of CDO risk management to credit rating agencies, and the failure to perform holistic risk assessment seem far more to blame."

"The simulation results in this paper show that it is more important to focus on parameter estimation than copula choice. This leads to the observation that when it comes to mathematical financial modelling: in order to avoid a disaster, the cooking is more important than the recipe."
But there's stocks on the other side that represent real things that increase in value. E.g, compare Google 20 years ago with Google today and see if you think it's more valuable.
Why Retirement Communities Are Perfect for Self-Driving Cars
It makes me wonder what would happen if they tried `counter[“#value”]`. Hopefully still an error, but also hopefully not SyntaxError, because it certainly isn’t one.
People still have checking accounts? In 2018? And that’s a completely serious question.

I literally haven’t seen a check used anywhere the last 25 years. I doubt any place I frequent would accept one.

In fact I don’t know a single bank which issues checks...

I assume most university students these days wouldn’t even know what a check was, if given one.

So where is the market? The past? I mean... you’d need a time machine to use these, right?
The cost savings are mind blowing!
I second this book. Every single page is enlightening. It's a pity that some people relegate this to a "conspiracy" when the concerted effort to make cannabis illegal in the early 20th century was very open and well-documented.
Our documentation is split into around 2 parts due to this.

We got runbooks/ - these are hard about how. And they are prone to some degree of decay, I won't lie about that. Thus, runbooks/ is encouraged to be changed, extended, modified, clarified. runbooks/ isn't anything pretty, runbooks/ is the oil- and coffee stained notebook with more loose paper than bound paper somewhere on top of a machine and we're all going to die if you lose runbooks/.

And on the other hand, we have doc/. doc/ doesn't change without a lot of discussion, and doc/ defines hard standards. doc/ won't generally help you with an immediate problem. doc/ explains why things are defined the way they are - or if this is just an arbitrary naming convention.
"We hit an issue" is still using "hit" as a verb. And making it metaphorical doesn't help the problem of the iceberg being the subject of that interpretation.

Using it as a noun is like saying "before the hit" or "before the issue". "Iceberg" is an adjective describing the type of hit.
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Wouldn't non-existent inflation be a reason not to increase rates?
Astronaut training is done the same way in a modified Boeing 727(? IIRC), nicknamed the "vomit comet". As a student pilot I used to love doing heavy-G steep climbs then pushing the nose over and enjoying a few seconds of weightlessness....
They both do. The only difference is that WSB accepts losing money while /r/robinhood loses money and then claims it's Robinhood stole their money.
It was incredibly obvious to anyone paying attention that they were manipulated. 2.8 million comments were identical and were from a pro-net neutrality site called "Battle for the Net". That's not organic.

Do you think he should have blocked comments from there? Or what, specific, actions should he have taken?
That's exactly why it is risky. How do you know you're at the bottom of the crash? How do you predict the next crash? If you think you can, you can make a lot of money, but if you're wrong, you stand to lose lots of money.
Hemp's been used extensively in many industries for thousands of years, I would hardly say it's a "discovery": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp