skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take issue with this:

"but one thing I knew for sure was I wasn’t going to be enjoying good beer,” said Siberry, explaining that in spite of its beer-heavy reputation, most pubs in the Emerald Isle often only carry three beers on tap".

The three beers mentioned are indeed ubiquitous, however many others are available. I'm off to a Dublin pub tonight, which has around 12 beers on tap and countless more bottles.
To be fair to AWS, the top tier “Enterprise” support applies to all sub-accounts; premium support is per-account only.
Q: What’s in your personal investment portfolio?

John Bogle: I’m 50% bonds — 50% Vanguard bond funds — and 50% stocks. Half the time I wonder why I have so much in stocks; the other half, I wonder why I have so little.
YHOO was discounted on their BABA stake largely because nobody believed they could divest that holding without paying a huge tax bill

Even after Yahoo! was spun out and the old corp was turned into AltBaba with only the BABA and Yahoo Japan holding left over it still traded at a discount to the value of it's actual holdings for this reason

Matt Levine kinda explains that part here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-06-08/old-ya...

Second part also: investors didn't trust YHOO management not to keep plunging good money after poorly invested money into more bad ideas - that also had a negative value, until the sale was announced and it didn't

edit: should also mention that Verizon are incentivized to write-down the value of both Yahoo and AOL here for a host of reasons - one of which is to reduce their tax bill. They probably /s are both worth a lot more than zero if being sold on the open market today
>It was from this story that Oweynagat got its name, which is Irish Gaelic for ‘the cave of cats’.

Kinda strange "Oweynagat" doesn't sound like an Irish word . The actual Irish would be "an uaimh cait" ,it might have been anglicized.
Wouldn't gzip encoding (apache/nginx/whatever is used today) compress that anyway?
When the bit you chop off is basically a vault full of cash then yes you can easily value what’s left as negitive if the whole company is worth less than the cash in the vault.
Military in the US is 18% of the budget. SS and medicare are something like 70%.

If you want to live in a country without a military there are a bunch of them. I wouldn't personally want to live in any of them, but of course everyone is free to do as they see fit.
Dropbox now only (officially) supports un-encrypted bare ext4 filesystems. If you plan on using XFS, BTRFS, or even encrypted ext4, you're SOL with Dropbox. https://itsfoss.com/dropbox-linux-ext4-only/
NextCloud and a $5/mo VPS work great for me.
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> And you can also leave for any reason. It's symmetrical. You don't have this right in some countries - I'd be careful about volunteering to give it up.

False dilemma [1]. There's no reason to assume that by giving up at-will employment, you'll also lose the right to resign for any reason. In fact, there are lots of countries where you can resign for any reason, but can't be fired for every reason.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
Good article thanks for sharing
“A process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem solving operations”

A recipe is an algorithm.
This is a common usage of the term. See the JVM linker for example, which performs similar tasks.

A linker historically took multiple machine code files and produced an executable, possibly arranging it in a certain way following some directives, and checking connectivity.

The .NET is a virtual machine, so this applies that same concept on top of that abstraction, taking intermediate representation files for that virtual machine and producing more intermediate representation, possibly re-arranged. Removing unused parts is a kind of re-arranging and checking connectivity.

You could perhaps call it a 'tree-shaker' if you wanted, but the name 'linker' isn't any kind of ignorance or pretence.
>> When private sector fails, it goes out of business and other competent businesses take over.

Unless it is a bank, or an important tool for surveillance (e.g. Facebook in 2020). In which case losses are irrelevant and it is ultimately bailed out by the government.
The author alluded to the link that her second child is autistic and the relatedness with her spouse.

But what's more glaring is that her second conception occurred when she was 37 and her husband 39. There are studies that showed the increased incidence of child autism conceived from older fathers.
Yeah Aol had some good devops folks here and there but it was not an engineering culture.
I'm halfway through the article so far, but I didn't perceive the message as complaining about PKI being "too complex". The author outlines the fact that some aspects of PKI or certificate design are basically remnants of the past that don't make much sense in reality nowadays (e.g. encoding locality, state, and country). The author in fact complains about over-complication and ambiguity of various cert formats, but his claims are not without some merit here.
It's right there in the sentence you quoted.

True enough, thanks -- fixed.

Still a completely bogus definition.
The person I was replying to said 'at-will employment laws ...
I just don't get how we just can't over turn them.' The law is both parts of it. You probably wouldn't want to overturn the law, because you'd overturn your protection as well.
I don't really get why people assume they're chaotic evil rather than lawful evil. This is a large company with lots of lawyers. Modulo bugs, they're going to make sure anything they do is covered by the privacy policy rather than leave an opening to be sued.

So the answer is that I would trust that it (mostly) doesn't happen if the legal terms say it won't.
It is a nice PR article, but if i was working at Bohemian, I wouldn't get overly confident. Sketch indeed did a nice job, and they carved out a market segment, but in doing so they caught Adobe's attention and it now responded by launching XD. As with a corporation that size, the response was maybe slow, but it is picking up steam and I speculate that in a few years XD will be an extremely tough competitor for Sketch. XD is already fairly good (sometimes better), it's already cross-platform, and Adobe has a relatively large and rather competent team of developers working on it. So I have little doubt that they'll soon have a better product on most, if not all aspects (1). The only thing that could derail it at this point is loss of executive support, but there's absolutely no sign of that, and I doubt it will happen.

[disclaimer: I work for Adobe, but these are absolutely personal opinions, nothing vetted by my employer. And I don't work at XD, though I do know lots of people who do. ]

(1) Adobe did that before. Witness e.g. Lightroom vs. Aperture, InDesign vs. Quark. It can be a formidable competitor when it's serious about something. And I get the feeling this time they are.
Those designers would still be irrelevant for whether Adobe has to worry.

Obviously, whether Adobe has to worry from a competitor that's OS X only depends on the percentage of OS X vs Windows users buying Adobe's program.

If N% of Adobe's customers use OS X, then Adobe can still potentially lose up to N% of its users (the OS X using ones) to a competitor -- and whether there are tons of designers "living in countries where Apple hardware is out of reach" wont change this.

(Besides in many such countries most designers will just pirate Adobe stuff too, so they're neither Adobe nor Apple's customers to begin with).
My fairly recent MacBook boots up in less time than Photoshop takes to open.

Photoshop is amazing and I use it daily, but my goodness does it creak.
The most important one!
I always wished to knew someone who had one so I could drive in it.
Can someone explain to me why google really wants me to move my photos out of Drive and into Google Photos? What’s in it for them?
Switzerland has no military, it's not that bad.
> I find it interesting how many smear pieces against Musk have suddenly surfaced ever since he announced he wanted to take Telsa private again.
Ok...I’m no MS fanboy.

But MS OneNote was released right around the same time.

But let’s be serious Google spent millions to brand/launch this, and it’s got to be embarrassing that either: a. None of the yesmen thought to speak up and say hey should we really use a name MS uses for a bunch of their products (One Note, Xbox One, One OS, One Guide); or b. Straight ripped it.
"CBP had paid Accenture Federal Services approximately $13.6 million of a $297 million contract to recruit and hire 7,500 applicants"

- $40k per hire
Chinese Hackers Breach U.S. Navy Contractors
I like the idea, but came here to raise a similar point:

Vitriol - a distributed abuse platform

the snarks practically write themselves
I've been there about 10 or so years ago. It has that atmosphere that I remember from old Soviet movies. Those sorts of olden vibes don't exist on the post Soviet territory anymore. BB was a culture shock for me because it was like stepping 40 or so years straight back in time to Soviet Union of the 70s or so even though I never saw those times. Places like this (another one I know is Russian West Hollywood) is made up of people who only watch Russian TV and films, only eat at Russian restaurants and shops, only socialize with other Russian speakers (preferably those born and raised in the former Soviet Union) and never bother to learn the local language. I met some people who've been living for 30+ years in the states and still don't speak English whatsoever.

I just started reading a novel called Vita Nostra (found it among the SciFi recommendations of 2018) the other day and it strongly reminds me of Brighton Beach.
I cycle past a large and growing encampent of shanty buildings, tent and caravans out the back of Bristol Temple Meads train station every day. Is right on the canal, across the water from a large nightclub and next to a yacht.
It would be interesting to see Artemis applied to an open source compiler or some other large project.

I wonder if the Artemis system has bounds on project size that it can handle, and where non-intuitive DDS optimizations could be made that actually improve a large scale problem. One could suppose that large projects have advanced test suites, so the fitness function should be fairly accurate, if the supposition is true.
Arrrgh, a photo from Kraków showing the Main Square with the Mariacki church is labeled "The Wawel Castle". It's like showing a photo of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris and labeling it "The Eiffel Tower". It's hard to me to even imagine how the labeling process went here... must have been done at least in a big hurry and with blissful ignorance of the subject.
> How hard is it to create a Superbook…?

It’s actually quite simple, though basic understanding of HTML and CSS is required. Each page on the book is a virgin iframe so you can use your standard frontend skills on it. Or use one of the several layout templates to begin writing.

At this point we get involved with the writers directly to help them produce or adapt their work. It takes a few hours to migrate depending on body of work. We’re documenting each step at this stage and also developing the tooling required for Superbooks [0].

> I have been meaning to write a book that explains the connection between math and music visually.

Cool, let’s connect for sure then! I’m at marvinAtBubblinDotIo.

> why not simply call it a book?

Superbook means superclass of a book, magazine or comics here [1]. Basically, longform.

[0] https://bubblin.io/tools

[1] https://bubblin.io/docs/concept
Yeah, this.

Private sector tends to fail at spending correctly for the long term. e.g. the 100 year time horizon required for healthcare.

Government tends to fail at spending on anything that might generate a media backlash (wars excepted) which is probably a good thing in general but can lead to them failing to do the right thing on some occasions. Also extreme risk averseness can lead them to over focus on risk management rather than actually achieving the aim, which makes them vulnerable to exploitation by private companies which can offer the former at the expense of the latter.
Switzerland definitely does have a military.
This came after a quick search, which seems to confirm that if a client had, say, 100 shares of Amazon in a brokerage account at LB he would still have those: a brokerage must separate retail customers investments in other securities from its own money and funds.

https://www.kiplinger.com/article/investing/T023-C000-S001-w...

However, reading more I am not as sure that individual investors holding money in LB investing in other (non-LB) securities did not suffer. I am not an expert and cannot always distinguish between reputable sources and conspiracy theorists. Can someone provide some good references?
I did the equivalent on a Vax in 1988.

The sysop came out and had a chat with me, then gave me operator access to a testbed so I could learn, then made me an unofficial (I was quite young) lab assistant.

It was a different world back then.
> Lol, I would just buy multiple 2 TB subscriptions from different accounts.

If you don't mind multiple accounts and want to optimize on price, just get one 100GB subscription (for the expert help benefit), and lots of free accounts.
Yeah, Yahoo Games was pretty great.
My advice would be not to get stuck on these “philosophical” questions, if your goal is to actually learn math, and instead just press on and keep learning and solving real problems. Eventually the fog will dissolve by itself, and these kinds of questions will seem to you either naive or devoid any real substance, or just uninteresting compared to everything else that you have learned.
Setup your filters correctly and that’s not an issue. “From” is rarely the right header to use for an email list filter.
Switzerland has mandatory conscription.
Cashflow on the Blockchain Part II: A Protocol for Tokenized Debt
A very useful version of it is free. More collaboration features come with paid plans.

https://www.adobe.com/products/xd.html
The existence of companies like Accenture stands as a strong counter-argument. You can fail for a long time before going out of business.

If you’ve been in any kind of business where you have a view of how the business works, you’ll find that nobody has a monopoly on incompetence.

I have worked in Fortune 100, late startup, local and state government. All had remarkably dumb practices. The startups were the most corrupt and wasteful, local government was the most limited in capability. Comparing big gov to big Corp, the workers are much better in the gov and the leaders are better in Corp.
Right, but that's very different from "Adobe XD is free". You wouldn't call AWS "free", would you? (ok, this is an extreme difference, but for all we know, it's only a matter of time until the non-free versions become differentiated enough. It's not like Adobe doesn't know marketing)
It’s having to explicitly tell the computer what you want. C# is obviously not C, but it’s not python either.

By the time we have an app running in Django, we’re not even finished with Entity modelling in a Core web-api.

I do think stuff like Blazor.Net is promising, but we’re not a technology company, we support thousands of employees who only care about how digitisation can make their lives easier as fast and as stable as possible.

.NET isn’t the best at that, at least not for us.

Dont get me wrong, I don’t dislike .NET Core, it think it’s great, I just don’t see how it benefits me.
I get a SyntaxError when embedding it:

> SyntaxError: nothing to repeat

The line seems to be this:

> return l?l[2]?decodeURIComponent(l[2].replace(/+/g,' ')):void 0:void 0},

Might it be related to AdBlock? I'm using Firefox with AdBlockPlus, Cookiebro and the default Privacy settings turned up in Firefox.

Edit: oops, it's clearly coming from the regex: /+/g → /\+/g

https://stackoverflow.com/a/6288596
Their methodology has some serious shortfalls ;)
Switzerland not only has a military, it has mandatory military service for all males.
Sick and tired of registrations tracking spying builtin microphones on new spytv calling it smart tv for who, I get no benefit out this game forced upon all users. Terms and service agreements of bloatware, websites never improve my viewing pleasure or work better forcing users to conform get stuffed. Hit the Back button best voting option I have right now. I have learned to live without G-You-TwitFace, even while on news.ycombinator if website has pop-up sign-up begging, forced to conform and jump through hoops I hit the back button, mostly enjoy reading the comments that's the real story people talk about, and where you find the best information. Thxs for letting us vent, other than that everything is A OK thxs
Photoshop is 'slow to open' because it takes more time than your laptop uses to boot? That's nothing - have you never used GIMP?
Thanks for sharing! Will look into it.
Nice, I can't wait to put everything on my One Drive....wait a minute...
How American Companies Enable NSA Surveillance
That’s an insane percentage of the mean annual salary of all these recruits, astronomically higher than just about any contingency firm.
Both of Google's recommended methods of adding Analytics to a website load Google's JS library asynchronously[1]. Including it has no meaningful impact a site's time to first paint or interactivity.

There's a good argument to say loading 70Kb of JS you're not using is a bad idea, and if that's the case then your smaller script is an improvement, but there's also a good argument to say Google Analytics is powerful and useful and maybe you should be using the features that those 70Kb give you in order to improve you site in ways the user would notice. I guess it's down to your specific use case.

[1] https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
No. GDPR says data is yours to give or not, and direct its use. HIPAA says it has to be kept safe, but it isn’t actually yours, and you can’t just ask that it be deleted.
How about they make it work in multiple browsers instead of just their own? It’s cool that it works in a browser, but only if it works in browsers in general, not just one. And it’s not like this is charity work.
Their Art Raised Questions About Tech. Chinese Censors Had Their Own Answer.
> I'll happily pay you however much you let me buy of a static pile of money for under the dollar amount of the pile, as long as the difference covers transfer fees. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be the only one either.

Why? What does that gain you? You lose the use of the money you put in to buying the asset. You have no access to the money backing up the asset. That underlying asset might be going up or down in value, but none of that value change is being paid out to you.

> This to say that when you state "that's not how it works", that's your analysis of the market, and you're free to rationalize how you think the market arrived at a current valuation, but other people will rationalize it differently. That's the whole reason why different investment strategies exist.

Most investment strategies are shit in the long run, particularly those that are rationalized (i.e., superficially reasonable and valid, but actually supported by unconscious or specious reasoning). Discounting the value of an asset you cannot directly purchase and control is not one of them.
The flavor of tea is much less pronounced than almost any other herb used to make a beverage.
Parking garages still safer than email – Campbell River Mirror
Friedman had a talent for conveying these ideas simply.

The problem with these economicist "stories," as they call them, is that people (including economists themselves) believe them too much.

Once stories like this are embedded in the way we think, we constantly see ways of interpreting the world in a reinforcing way. Every case of inefficiency is found to be an example of principal-agent problems.

Not specifically a Friedman problem or a laissez-faire problem.
Or, they could do what they did but try to make it work with other major browsers as well.
Everyone putting everything they own into one place will help Google acquire more data about its users. It's fox asking all the hens to put their eggs in one basket.

It's optional now. But, give it a few years, and no one will be allowed to use Google services without all their stuff on One.
Recent study suggests the Moon could act as a spacecraft refueling station
Continual pivoting has a name... it's called a death spiral.
> The amount of email addresses about which 'metadata' was collected was obviously quite large

This is the significance that should be read into it.
The "two" books mentioned that were written by Serge Lidin are basically the same book, the latter is just an updated version. So really, there's only one book with two editions.
Piwik (matomo) is amazing!
Sadly, this will reduce my use of instacart significantly. While PrimeNow has offered Whole Foods delivery, it is only for a small subset of items.

And while PrimeNow has been steadily catching up to Instacart, Instacart is still significantly better in many ways.
Q: Any regrets?

A: No regrets. I’m not a “trillionaire” like Abby Johnson [Fidelity chairwoman], who is supposed to be worth [$15.4 billion]. I wouldn’t even know what to do with a number like that. We have a nice, small house. We have shelter when it rains, snows or is windy. The kids and grandkids are well. I have the Armstrong Foundation, which has now reached a decent size — and I feel like it could do some good for others.
Sure! What I specifically meant (sorry, was unclear) is, how long before such activity becomes lucrative enough for hotels to routinely perform? ("hotels" == entities in a completely unrelated lines of business) I.e., there is stable market for these data and the procedure isn't very costly in recurring expenses (no costly extraction from "noisy" support).

Would that be legal by today's laws?
Switzerland actually even has military ships. [1]

[1] Patrol boats of the Grenzwachtkorps.
Hacker like animated text transformation
The choice of photos serves a function, build a certain narrative, and they're not just "huh, look at the bunch of pretty pictures I made". Disavowing that is, to put it bluntly, dishonest to the conversation.
It's not just MIT. The prosecutors are really the ones to blame.
I remember that pictionary type game they had. I would play with a friend in the schools computer lab. when it was our turn to draw, we would share the answer with the other person, then draw the most outlandish thing. of course when my friend typed in the correct answer everyone else was like, WTF.

good times
Exactly. Foisting the decision about tipping onto the customer is a major cop out that reduces the convenience of the service.
>I'll happily pay you however much you let me buy of a static pile of money...

The money probably has outstanding tax liabilities (the Ali stake does), there may be other outstanding claims or legal restrictions on the use or divestment of the money, you have no say in how the money is used for investment or other purposes and no control over when or how the money is divested if ever.

Compare that to just keeping your own money in a savings account over which you have full control.

If I want to invest in Ali am I better off buying Ali shares myself, or buying a stake in a big pile of Ali shares I have no control over? It's not even an actively managed fund so you're not even getting that benefit.
It's much easier to quote Milton Friedman and wave your hands, though.
Creator of Magic The Gathering, Richard Garfield on Meta-Games
Elusive, maybe.
See the edit, I found the bug and the solution :)