skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should be pretty reliable metric, they're not an asset-heavy company (aka they don't own a lot of property etc.) so depreciation isn't likely to be a major part of their expenses anyway.

Most companies are evaluated based on EBITDA as well anyways
Thats a great link giving a perfect description of the messy situation.
Yeah, if you read release notes for 2.8 [1], pretty much all of the features explained are things you probably don't want to use for every-day code. I'm pretty sure a lot of those additions were done for supporting different things in existing frameworks like React and others.

The problem is, as soon as you provide those features, people will want to use them to add "type safety" to code that could otherwise be very simple. Sometimes simplicity is a better approach. This is why I say you will probably want to pick a subset of TS and leave the advanced types for interacting with legacy code or 3rd party libraries.

Also, I'll leave this link here :-) [2]

1: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/t...

2: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14833
No more insane an idea than the reality. Cameron called the referendum to put the right wing of the Tory party back in the box.

We were "supposed" to vote remain. Rees Mogg would have still have been an unknown on the lunatic fringe if we had.

Cameron's reaction to the result was priceless. As was the damage done to the country and our politics. I expect history to rank him down with Eden and Lord North.
The problem is education. Most people are afraid of the word "nuclear," reacting with knee-jerk fear and dismissal. Most people don't understand how radiation works or the difference between different kinds of waste.

Even people who have a reputation for "knowing better" spread misinformation, like John Oliver, who did a video on nuclear power with a bit essentially saying, "Look at all this nuclear waste we have! It covers a whole football field to three stories!" Without any context of other waste from solar panel manufacturing, or even easy ones like the X billion tons of particulate matter we breathe out of the coal plants.

The other problem is humans are famously bad at estimating risk, combined with the "everything is a profit-investment" mindset we all have. When people say "nuclear is so expensive" what they really mean is "it's hard to turn a profit before twenty years, I want my money back sooner than that, lets build some more gas wells."

We need some kind of national organization, with lots of capital, to take on the initial financial risk and spread it around so no one person is left on the hook in a life-destroying way. Imagine if that organization had a department with decades nuclear operations experience.

(I'm talking about the government, and the Navy, btw)
That very strange. If you don't have 2FA then you can just reset your password via hacked email.
You need to remember that the data world we live in today is very new. And the understanding of data privacy and its implications are mostly only understood by those in the realm of technology.

For the average person knowing that Facebook listens to them and shows them ads about what they search and talk about, probably doesn't care because they don't know what the impact is to them, or perhaps they don't see an immediate impact. Realistically, in the world of surrounding problems and concerns that we each have in our daily lives, Facebook showing me ads based on what I search for is probably quite low on the list.

I work in IT & Cyber risk and one thing I have learnt is that just because something sounds bad doesn't mean it realistically is. Everyone of us lives in a world of risks that are individual to each of us each day, some risks we rate higher than others for various reasons based on their consequence and likelihood. Therefore for a risk to be large enough for people to take action or mitigate, it needs to have a tangible impact on people's lives first and foremost. People have different risk appetites and therefore I may choose to mitigate the risk by putting less information into my Facebook account, you may choose to completely stop using the service and delete your account.

I could talk all day about the potential reasons why its a bad idea for Facebook to provide advertisements based on search history. But I don't have enough time in the day to take into account everything that people say I should care about as much as each person thinks I should.
Brexit itself can of course be delivered, but the larger promise sold to voters - that the country would be able to negotiate favorable trade deals, that it would directly result in increased NHS funding, that it would lead to reduced immigration without affecting free movement for workers, that customs and border control would be seamless, that European court of justice would stop having jurisdiction in UK affairs etc. - was the lie.
I think people lose sight of this. You don't make (or keep) that kind of money by being stupid. Ethics is a different story.
College in 1993 and then an address at my own domain, which I still use as my primary address, in 1997.
This is an excellent summary and manages to articulate some of the aspects I struggle to link up, thank you.
Well, they could just as easily use a "real" UUID [1] variant, and all the concerns of this topic would still remain the same.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier
My mom has done it with my help. From what I've seen, it's a bit more profitable than renting out directly, but also very time consuming (especially cleaning and housekeeping). If you factor in the time it takes to manage the Airbnb it probably isn't much more profitable than regular renting, unless you manage a large number of Airbnb's or have a large amount of free time and enjoy the whole hosting thing, like my mom who is retired and loves meeting tourists.

I would also add that the city and location probably influence the economics and profitability of it a lot.
You're saying the opposite though: you said some referendums are in fact "different", specifically "re-dos" are "bullshit". That is inconsistent with democratic principles that regularly subject major decisions to some additional levels of verification that it's what the people really want in the long run.

Democratic procedures often build in some protections against short-term passions, fraud, poor turnouts, etc. and these verifications are scaled to match the magnitude of the decision. As others have noted, the kinds of "few dozen vote" contests you're talking about in the U.S. are themselves re-voted upon every few years. Follow-up referendums are perfectly consistent with democratic principles and happen all the time in the U.S. and elsewhere. Bypassing these kinds of verifications of the public will usually require supermajorities -- a direct contradiction of your claim that "the size of the voting margin is somewhat irrelevant in a properly functioning democracy."

Also, nobody put words in your mouth. They are your direct quotes.
> What's wrong with a $1 profit?

It's hard to react to unforeseen conditions in the market and/or grow the company when you have no war chest. You could borrow more money, then you'd no longer be 'profitable' for at least some amount of time.
What I find annoying about that, is that it's not even in the same place all the time. This is on a PC using the web interface, mind you, not some app. But I find that the "Continue Watching" section floats around in a range from "top of the page" to "about midway down the page, below 7 or 8 other blocks of entries". It's annoying as fuck, because the ONE thing I almost always want to see first is exactly the "Continue watching" section.

This is the one thing about Netflix that I do find flat-out infuriating.
I wouldn't buy a separate residence for this - the regulatory environment in general is highly biased against that use case, so it comes with an unacceptably large legal risk IMO.

Instead, I'd suggest buying a primary residence that is a duplex or is larger than you need, and subletting out the extra room(s) or other half of the unit. Your financial commitment is much less (just the difference between purchase prices of larger vs smaller houses), financing via mortgages is much more reasonable, and legal statutes that cover this use case tend to be more favorable to you.
It's unclear (to me, at least) that "use runoff to reallocate the last place option votes" would be the best method here. And if such a three-option ballot were to take place, choosing (and explaining) the ranking/counting method to be used would be a crucial element.

In particular, "reallocate the last place votes" could lead to quickly rejecting an option that is hardly anybody's first choice, yet is everyone's second choice (or preferred fallback if they can't have their first choice). That doesn't seem like a desirable outcome.
Apparently the UK is able to leave at any time if only they're willing to accept unfavorable EU terms. If they want a better deal they need to negotiate.
Having a "do over" referendum and finding opinions have changed is entirely different than what the OP suggested which was ignoring the results of the referendum entirely.
Python is fantastic if it requires functions or anything over several lines. I'm not a Python dev but I can very quickly find standard library examples or well-documented packages.

Perl/Ruby are too clever for me.
If you want to port such a project:

Start by moving code into bash functions if it's not already doing that.

Declare variables with `local` to reduce the amount of global state.

Once you have code in functions, you can factor code into independent scripts. Anything that runs in a subshell can move into its own script, so anything:

1. in a pipe | line

2. running in the background&

3. in a ( subshell )

4. that doesn't modify global variables

You can then work on those scripts piece by piece.
Well, .net was for a long time only available on windows (since 2002 and development in late 1990's).

I think making the tools cross-platform after such a long time is not that easy/fast.
Just wait for devices with 5G modem.
They will skip your network control entirely.
Cannot second the never show this to me again and I've watched this option... Also, I liked when you at least had a chance at curated categories.. now it's just a blurry mess. I also don't like the bent to the documentaries they have (which flows to the organization as a whole). I find that Amazon at least has a bit of balance.

I cancelled after they dropped the Marvel shows. It's really one of the few things I liked/watched on there.
> you cannot force the EU to accept an unfavorable trade deal

source?

The deal failed inside UK parliament and not at EU.
So Apple is morally bankrupt because they operate in China and obey Chinese laws for Chinese jurisdiction?
The voting process does need to be done with confidence.

In the first vote Leave were referred to the police for illegality, and they still haven't provided a full account of their funding - at least some of which seems very likely to have come from foreign sources.

This is explicitly and very clearly not legal, because foreign money has no business trying to influence the vote in a sovereign British matter.

So a People's Vote would be the first honest vote.
It bewilders me that people, including elected MPs, don't want to understand how electoral/representative democracies should work. The will of the People, yeah, right. It's like pub talk on a Friday. Grab a lukewarm ale and a bag of crisps, and cry about how great the empire once was. MPs should represent the best interest, not the lunatic dreams of their voters.
Google "online identity cleansing"
The Labour party (at least it's leadership if not its MPs) are as pro-Brexit as the current government so even if we had another general election and Labour won (which seems unlikely) nothing would fundamentally change.
Bloomberg terminal ECDR keyword.... or https://www.marketwatch.com/tools/ipo-calendar
Ethereum Constantinople fork to be postponed
It's not like paper in boxes don't have their own maintenance costs.
Just count the number of bug reports. That seems like a more useful metric anyway. If the users aren't complaining who cares.

(about 75% serious)
What makes the UK follow EU regulation when they export outside of EU?
Hedging is when you act to counteract [part of] a bet. So you're right, insurance is like hedging a bet. Which makes it roughly the opposite of betting, in most uses.

(If you "hedge" so far you're unbalanced in the other direction, you're not actually hedging your bets any more. "Hedge funds" aren't really for hedging if you use them as a primary investment.)
SureFly Octocopter pitched at Detroit auto show as the drone anyone can fly
Solar, wind, and storage can do the job, too. Storage is tricky, but it can surely be done with enough R&D.

And nuclear isn't a magic wand. We either need to suck it up and use plants that can fully burn the fuel (by reprocessing or otherwise) to eliminate long-term waste or we need to come up with something useful to do with the long-term waste. The USA has failed pretty badly on the latter, and the former needs engineering and, as I understand it, some degree of willingness to accept increased proliferation risks.
1. I don't think it had much to do with nationalist sentiment. EU historically had a bad press in the UK, and the greek debacle didn't help. At the same time immigration has been an increasing concern (not just in the UK, everywhere in Europe, and in the US too). The UK has seen a massive inflow (>1 million in 4 years) of eastern european nationals immigrating, which I think is the primary reason why leave won (rightly or wrongly). But none of this is UK specific. The EU is bracing itself for a rise of populist, eu-skeptic parties in the coming elections.

2. I am not sure how you can claim the majority of the populace is against leaving the EU. A national vote demonstrated the opposite. And it's not clear that another vote now wouldn't yield the same result (the recent polls are roughly where they were a few months before the first vote).

3. May is the prime minister. The head of state (the queen) being essentially an honorific title, she is in charge (she has control of the red button!). But parliament has more power in the UK than in the US and she answers to parliament.

4. The terms of trading between the EU and the UK, as agreed with the EU, requires the UK to abide to EU laws without having any say on them. Brexiters are against as they don't accept this loss of sovereignty (they typically would like a free trade deal with the EU but without loss of sovereignty). Remainers are against as they don't really want to leave the EU in the first place, and are trying to force a way out of Brexit.

I don't think you can call the result of referendum "stupid" and ignore it. That would seem very anti-democratic to me. I don't know how the whole thing will play out. Right now it seems that the potential outcomes are:

a. Brexit being postponed from March to June (unlikely to be later as this is when the new EU parliament starts after the spring elections, and unlikely to help in any way other than kicking the can down the road).

b. May being defeated at the vote on Wednesday, new general elections, whoever wins will have to deal with the same problem and likely with the same outcome (the EU is unlikely to concede much).

c. A new referendum (but May repeatedly ruled it out, and again nothing says it will yield another result)

d. The EU making significant enough concessions in the short term that could help PM agreeing to the deal. Germany hinted they would be open, while France ruled it out today.

e. Leaving the EU without a deal, resulting in short term trade disruptions and an adverse economic impact on the medium term.

f. Parliament cancelling Brexit. Many MPs would probably prefer that option, but this is ignoring the result of a referendum, which is a really worrying outcome for a democracy and would likely boost a populist vote down the line.

There aren't any obvious good solution, everything comes at a cost. Which is why the public opinion is terribly divided.
Let me refine. The reason why I say “keep asking” is that what would happen if the 2nd referendum resulted in leave? It’s hard to tell if that would make me comfortable enough to not want another.

And what about the leavers? What justification would be sufficient for them to not call for a 3rd referendum.

I didn’t know that the UK used ranked ballots or how common they are.

My concern is largely that it’s hard for me to understand well given that all of these issues existed before the referendum and are not novel.
I wouldn’t be so sure about that,

> One of the few things known about the Kill List is that it’s compiled in part by algorithm.

> In 2014, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate, “We kill people based on metadata.”

> According to multiple reports and leaks, death-by-metadata could be triggered, without even knowing the target’s name, if too many derogatory checks appear on their profile. “Armed military aged males” exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place can become targets, as can someone “seen to be giving out orders.” Such mathematics-based assassinations have come to be known as “signature strikes.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...
In 1997, Wales held a referendum on forming a National Assembly with devolved powers from Westminster. The result was 50.3% in favour of devolution. Theresa May and a large number of other Conservative MPs voted against the establishment of the Assembly, contrary to the result of the referendum. The Assembly was eventually established in 1998.

In 2005, the Conservative party manifesto included a pledge to call a second referendum on the Welsh assembly, with the option to abolish it.

The people who are saying that we should respect the result of this referendum have a proven track record of not respecting the results of other referendums.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-46863044
I Hacked Play-With-Docker and Remotely Ran Code on the Host
First email was at a now defunct ISP called AsiaOnline, and was a combination of mine an my father's name (as he bought the modem haha)
Consumers of services for the most part couldn't care less whether the back end of their trades is carried out by the London, Paris or Frankfurt offices of HSBC or Deutsche Bank.

On the other hand, it's a nice little boost to French or German politicians to be able to talk about financial services industry growth and have a bit more tax revenue to play with.
Exit Club [podcast]
This is pointlessly pedantic. You know full well what the GP is trying to say, and you are being willfully obstinate by ignoring the obvious context. We are rendering the world uninhabitable for a frightening number of species—most likely including our own—through environmental collapse. Instead of bothering to discuss that point, you've decided to try and derail the conversation by playing semantics and arguing over the meaning of "destroy" and "our" and "planet".

If you're not willing to or capable of engaging in these types of discussions in good faith, maybe Hacker News isn't the site for you.
> Just using an existing word makes understanding hard.

We've somehow figured it out for several hundred years, I think we'll be fine.
But there are lots of situations where you can't do things even with root access on a unix-like machine. I gave one example already -- root access doesn't give you control over the operation of system firmware. But there are others, too. For example, root access doesn't let you write to kernel memory, it doesn't let you bypass SELinux policies, etc. The way you are defining root access here essentially doesn't apply to any modern computing system.
Currently, I say into the air "ok Google, navigate home" if I don't know how to get home. If that's what I continue do for the next 40 years, it may be instinctual enough to continue through my senility.
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Constantinople enables new Reentrancy Attack
Putting money in holdings like stocks, funds, and other investments seems like the closest thing to “passive income” based on how I would expect “passive” to be defined. It’s getting paid to park money in something for some time. If it’s simple investing like in mutual funds and ETFs, then almost anybody could handle the level of personal resources that goes into maintaining that source of income which is mostly just checking the performance and filing taxes once a year (pretty much this could be accomplished with price notifications and something like turbotax).

I don’t know, maybe that kind of “passive income” is no longer cool or desirable.

Every form of passive income requires periodic blips of input, but the magnitude and frequency of those blips could vary a lot depending on the business. There’s some forms of passive income that are really like part-time jobs or require a full-time job worth of effort to launch something. These don’t seem very passive to me.

I see people preach on the internet how they found some golden opportunity that lead to raking in thousands of dollars on a monthly basis with minimal oversight. I’m sure instances of this exist, but frankly I think there’s a lot that is still unsaid about what was required to pull it off. There’s a group of people that are instead looking for the snake oil fountain that allows someone to live like their retired in their 30s but without doing any work. This is no longer “passive income”, and is instead just another “what’s the easiest way to become rich” search. The reality is that identifying and executing a high-ROI opportunity that recurring brings in money with low input is not as easy as following an A->B->C guide or else every market entrant would have like a 90% success rate and everyone would already be doing it.

If people genuinely want passive income, then financial investments or monetizing hobbies (to the extent it’s still enjoyable) seem like a good place to start for providing a good lifestyle/income balance.
Are you talking about "agile" or about "2 week sprints" specifically? That might help clarify your position.
My newly forming pet peeve are cheatsheets that are long scrolling documents with way too much whitespace.

Cheatsheets are dense, well formatted items that either demonstrated a thing or reminded you of a thing. Ideally they would be printable in either letter or A4, possibly double-sided.

We need a different word for what this is. Tips/hints blog post?
These are probably the 3 I find most useful:

Copies the directory of the current git dir into the clipboard.

which pbcopy &> /dev/null
if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
CLIPBOARD_COMMAND="pbcopy"
fi
which clip &> /dev/null
if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
CLIPBOARD_COMMAND="clip"
fi

cpgitdir() {
GIT_DIR=`git remote show -n origin | grep "Fetch URL" | sed -e "s/ Fetch URL: //" | tr -d '\n'`
echo "Copying git dir to clipboard: $GIT_DIR"
echo $GIT_DIR | tr -d '\n' | $CLIPBOARD_COMMAND
}

Allows you to split your .bash_profile into multiple .bash_profile files for clarity

if [[ -d ~/.bash_profile.d ]]; then
for file in `find ~/.bash_profile.d -type f`; do
source $file
done
fi

Simple calculator

calc () {
bc -l <<< "$@"
}
Meh. Voter records are all basically public and most have full name, address, phone number and even sometimes party affiliations.

I'd argue that keeping those public is also a net good for society.
So i've heard this refrain for years to come but then there are so many counter examples. Amazon for one. They've never posted a profit yet they've managed to react and out maneuver most companies with sizable war chests.
I think I agree with your definition, but it’s pretty hard to know the true will of the people.

My ideal state is where the government executed the will of the people in spirit but not in letter. (Ie, people want heroin literally but happiness and freedom in spirit)