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>This tweet is the exact reason I choose to live in the UK, and not the US

Why are you stereotyping work ethics among western countries? That's clearly wrong because most of them have the same structure. Believe it or not the worst work environments exist in "poor" countries like India, or Pakistan, or even Balcan countries like Romania. White collars are suffering there that's why their only dream is moving to USA or Germany.
"Since 2009, Facebook has been under investigation by federal authorities and American senators in the wake of a series of incidents involving the sudden change of users' privacy settings, most notably Facebook Beacon, which shut down that same year."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/future-changes-t...
Thank you very much! I will look into this.
It happens to recent college grads every day, they buy renters insurance or get their parents to co-sign.
Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19236328
Please believe us, not multiple security researchers and governments, they know not what they speak. China is good for you, we love you and your money. Come to us, let us feast on your data. What BGP hijacking...these are not the routes you are looking for
Looks like they are using the US history book on industrial revolution as a field manual.
Any algorithmic strategy will cease to work once it becomes generally known.
The difference is that avoiding nuclear war just required not nuking each other. The default climate path is toward catastrophe.

We needed to be taking urgent action on global warming 20 years ago. Now, we need to take even faster action and also try to invent scifi negative-emissions technology.

I feel very sorry for young people. We've failed them.
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My favorite thing has been `| ruby -e "puts STDIN.to_a. ..."`, allows to run any kind of code on the standard input, much easier than remembering awk/sed various options and much more powerful.

edit: same thing can be done with Python/Perl
> I feel like the art of UNIX is slowly fading into oblivion

I think that by itself isn't a problem, but fading right along with it is the capacity to decompose and structure the problem domain.

Even if one ends up writing a solution in a different language for whatever reasons, starting out by mapping the problem with UNIX command line tools will result in a better understanding of the problem; an understanding that is language agnostic and can be transferred to any preferred method of implementation.
Arguably this does/can lead to tolerance escalation and addiction - but most people are fine with that.
Also this old first mention at HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9906623
I think if you're going to commit to an offering like this, you need a strong team and they should be able to debug such issues.

Your performance issues are only really going to be related to the VM tech, overlay network,storage layer, the orchestrator settings, or logstash itself.

Given that to can switch these in and out, you can isolate the problem and replace the broken part. You can also trace the app to see what syscalls are taking so long.

You can have similar issues with pretty much any environment if your team can't debug that, and if that's the case you should probably go for a popular vendor supported solution, but you'll be in a sad place when the vendor doesn't have the staff to debug their solution, so pick carefully.

This post isn't supposed to sound insulting to you or your ex colleagues, just pointing out that there is a gulf of knowledge between the guys who can get things to work, and the guys who can tell you why something doesn't work, and this gulf only really presents itself when shit hits the fan.
Develop calculated risk taking and stop your head from saying “it already exists”.
From the graph in the article article, trend following has been abysmal for the last decade.

> Between 2008 and 2018, Societe Generale’s main trend-following index made only 3.7 percent, compared with an average gain of 62 percent for hedge funds and a more than tripling in the S&P 500, including dividends.

The market performed incredibly well over this period. These algorithms didn’t even keep up with inflation.
I think getting a bunch of smart people to work on making automated trading strategies 24/7 is a tremendous waste of talent
Yes =) both @tom_ and @mattigames are right. I'm not a native English speaker, pardon my English usage. What I mean is, this guys achivement shows his self-motivation, dedication and knowledge level at a relatively younger age. (Maybe for some, he is old enough.)
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If someone gets a cancer, we don't judge them for having weak DNA replication.

If someone gets an infectious disease, we don't judge them for having a weak immune system.

If someone becomes addicted to a substance, we shouldn't judge them for having a weak physical or psychiatric system.

Addiction is a disease and should be treated as such. All of the xA (Alcoholics/Narcotics/Gambling etc) Anonymous are fine communal assistance groups, but addiction is not about will power.
If an algorithm existed that could predict the future value of stock prices, that same algorithm could be relatively easily adapted to see the future. Not only is that tech impossible, it's also depressing to think that a true Oracle's primary function would be to help traders make more money.
I assume you mean acknowledging the different credibility of different sources, instead of just not believing anything at all.
It's just as with the academia thing. I don't think the solution is to dismiss formal research and consider it unscientific, but to acknowledge it's weaknesses, specially in specific fields.
> Federal Police are using a cloud service from Amazon to store videos because the internet company is the only one in Germany with a certificate from the Federal Office for Information Security.

> "At the moment there is no state infrastructure available that meets the demand," the Federal Police said.

TL;DR: Government department uses an approved vendor, news at 11.
This might be my raw unfiltered bitterness talking, but as someone who's a few weeks off from getting their associates I'm 100% in for the peacocks tail theory of education.

>This doesn’t mean that everybody without a formal education can’t understand complex ideas or everybody with a formal education honours them. But raising the level in a communication is always good.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/06/against-tulip-subsidie...

"And to paraphrase Dirkson, $200,000 here, $200,000 there, and pretty soon it adds up to real money. 20,000 doctors graduate in the United States each year; that means the total yearly cost of requiring doctors to have undergraduate degrees is $4 billion. That’s most of the amount of money you’d need to house every homeless person in the country ($10,000 to house one homeless x 600,000 homeless).

...

This is why, despite my reservations about libertarianism, it’s not-libertarianism that really scares me. Whenever some people without skin in the game are allowed to make decisions for other people, you end up with a bunch of elderly doctors getting together, think “Yeah, things do seem a little classier around here if we make people who are not us pay $200,000, make it so,” and then there goes the money that should have housed all the homeless people in the country."

Look, the problem here is that people feel (and probably are) economically disenfranchised, so they're angry. Then on top of that the level of trust in our institutions is so low that people would rather trust some shady crank website on vaccines than the CDC. When you combine the two with a bizarre tendency to just believe whatever nonsense is put in front of them, and zero-marginal-cost global telecommunications; people believe and do stupid things. 'More formal education' doesn't solve this, I'm not sure anything solves this. In Clarke County it took an actual measles outbreak to convince people to vaccinate their kids, suggesting the only remedy we have right now for widespread stupidity is the gods of the copybook headings.

http://deadstate.org/vaccinations-increase-500-in-anti-vaxxe...

EDIT: Having had a few minutes to think it over some more, I think part of what might have happened here is that trust in 'large institutions' as a category has fallen faster than peoples trust in their fellow man. There's a tragic optimism to the situation then: people are skeptical of even the most basic ideas coming from governments, non profits, corporations, etc, but will throw common sense out the window over a well written appeal from an ordinary person. I'm not sure how you'd test this hypothesis, but I'd really like to see the results if someone did.
I used alcohol as a social lubricant in college but it was a hit or miss as you said due to do randomization of those weights.

What worked for me years later was to actually work out and lose weight and people start looking at you differently.
Your first post is very dishonest and misleading. In conclusion you are comparing long vs short passwords but attach the hash algorithms to them to fit your narrative. Both points in conclusion are wrong and as noted in the comments: you would run a dictionary attack on your chosen longer password. Which is a bit ironic because this "lulls you into a false sense of security".
But does the future it sees include the purchases its about to make?
You can do your own research about that by yourself if you have a real interest in the topic. Anyway, here is a book about this issue in sociology (written by two researchers of the field): Gérald Bronner et Étienne Géhin (2017), Le Danger sociologique, Paris, Puf, 252 p.
Thanks that made some things clear to me. I had to spontaneously think about Rust’s Iterator interfaces where you also have a map which you can use with closures.
People want it. They may not want what the geeks designed, "what the tech is for" but it meets and emotional need / desire.

Think consumer level, mass adoption of email in the beginning. People didn't get it (and the very expensive hardware, difficult new knowledge, etc) to communicate - none of their friends had email yet. They did it for status and self image. The cost and difficulty of the task were part of the benefit at that time.

New tech must meet some emotional level desire - even B2B stuff. Someone needs to take a risk to adopt it first - there needs to be sufficient payoff - emotionally - for that to happen.

Superior tech, by itself, rarely is enough to make new tech "promising".
> one of consumers’ biggest concerns in this domain.

I hear privacy concerns mentioned by people a lot, but in the non-tech crowd I see nearly zero online behaviour that values privacy.
One of us is making incorrect assumptions about user behaviour and privacy wishes. I hope it’s me.
Many of the GNU tools are reimplementation of already existing tools.

For example the initial implementation of AWK was in 1977 [1], a few years before GNU even existed [2], so it _is_ a Unix tool.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK#History
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU#History
awk predates GNU by at least 7 years. It is most certainly a UNIX tool.
Exactly. After every submission in fact.
I think the limit is more in the double digits TB range right now.
The OP is not requesting that HN be more addictive. They're asking why it is already.
As opposed to some poorly run operation by T-Systems? Yes please!
Any website that employs a karma system uses a positive feedback loop to encourage continual engagement. That, plus the cultural distaste many here have for the "mainstream", particularly social media, leads some to use HN as their primary, if not only, source for both news and online social interaction.
No. Although the email parser as a service idea is nice, it has a couple of major downsides.

For starters, it’s now a GDPR world: I want to avoid the risk of breaches on your side affecting mine. Secondly, today you want to send nice compensation emails, tomorrow (under pressure from your board) you start mining the emails for competitive research and increased monetisation. I wouldn’t want to put the reputation of my service on the line for this.
Thank you for the analogies here. I must admit that I've always struggled to understand just how addiction works. I was one of those that always put it down to 'lack of willpower' due to sheer lack of understanding of the depth of how this condition works.

Also, I am thinking that coming from a POV where I don't have any addictive tendencies makes it all the more harder to put myself in the other persons shoes. Not being pious or getting on a high horse here - it is genuinely like someone who doesn't have ADHD or autism trying to understand what it is like for someone who does. Analogies like the above makes it easier to comprehend though.
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A compilation of related concepts and references, with some overlap to this article:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28ge14/on_nons...
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See? As I said this not easily definable. A single HDD is though. What you could do is a single RAM module.
I wouldn't. I think they're both a bad choice. It's just that the media seems to exclusively focus on huawei. And I can somewhat understand the American media doing that, but it's no different here. We've had like what, three Cisco backdoors in the last couple weeks, but who besides tech gave a shit? Actually, there isn't anything published yet that would suggest huawei products contain any. Nothing besides "they're evil commies so it must be true"

And I mean, we even do have European businesses in that sector but it seems we're not even trying.. Unfortunately.
This article's primary example is a single static text file with 5M lines. Sure, in that case, awk works great, but how often does that come up? In the real world, those 5M lines are growing by several hundred thousand every day, and after a few months, grows beyond what a single computer or awk can handle. Further, users want real-time results, not just a few times a day when your cron script runs.

Unix commands are great up to a few GBs of data, Excel is even better if you're dealing with less than a few tens of MBs. But to deal with Terabytes of data quickly and efficiently, these tools totally break down.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19280425
I know I'm late to the party and this is probably the stupidest question in the world but one never knows unless one asks, yeah? How did he/she know the binaries were packed with upx?
I read the first article.

Passphrases give us the ability to easily remember high entropy password values.

Passphrases are not high entropy once you take into account that they're words in a specific language.
The nodejs modules are what makes nodejs great. It encourage sharing code and modularization without complexity.
Smells like a Zuckerberg answer when he was asked if Facebook has shadow profiles (tracking through websites which embed FB elements): "I'm going to have to ask my team and get back to you on that, Senator.". And then he tried rattling some answer about cookies and the Internet (or should I say Twittersphere?) took it as him trying to explain the Internet to some old folks. No, you idiots, he was evading answering the question he knew the answer.
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I have never understood the concept of victimless crime. If two (or more) people are free to choose to have sex together and such parties are free to enter into a commercial / labor agreement how can the combination of the two be a problem?

It seems to me that it's a way to keep women from capitalizing on the area in which they have unique value over men.

Obviously I'm not talking about forced sex - or forced anything. Kidnapping, slavery, and rape are illegal and certainly apply in forced prostitution.

But in cases when it's a choice freely made by all parties concerned legal status can only help make it safer for all.
This submission seems weirdly relevant.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19271135
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Willing to relocate: Yes

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Tableau, PowerBI, Python, SQL

Résumé/CV: https://vaishali-raj.github.io/

Currently working as Data Analyst at Telstra, Melbourne, for Customer Contact Center, helping the management to track the business critical KPIs for multiple projects and WIP reports.
It would also be unwise to blindly trust these institutions, or to grant them respect or credence as a whole without considering the problems and biases of specific fields.

And it should be remembered that the amazing gains in knowledge humanity has made have often been opposed by academia, as Max Planck observed: science advances one funeral at at time.
To tell you the truth I don't have time, energy or knowledge to find the sources of all news and research I see and investigate and assess the credibility of them, so I simply don't believe anything.

This problem has existed since forever, and back in the day I believed something like reddit would work because real humans would do the curation for me and call out bad news/research/etc, but we all know how that turned out.
Oh if its run by T-Systems there will be no more privacy problem ;) Half the time the services will be not reachable and the other half it will not work correctly xD
Yes, easier if you know ruby..
sed/awk is good for munching strings in small scripts and it is also always installed on a unix system (AFAIK).
The big difference between U.S/Cisco and China/Huawei is that in the U.S., the government broke into Cisco's systems without their help or consent. In contrast, it is largely understood that Huawei freely assists and cooperates with the Chinese government. The combination of a major tech provider with a powerful government provides too much temptation for abuse.
The GNU coreutils are a reimplementation of the Unix utilities. With some caveats, the same tools are available on BSD and Solaris derivatives which are both Unix.

So while GNU is obviously an important project, it would not be correct to say "xargs" is not a Unix tool.
Soaking in a nice hot bath, reading a book. I draw my bathwater just short of scalding hot, jump in the tub, and sit back and read. Sometimes non-fiction - albeit not generally highly technical material (eg, no "Python Data Analytics" or anything of that nature) - but usually fiction if I just want to "turn my brain off" and relax.

Outside of that, just listening to music. I find it very relaxing to just sit and listen to one of Chopin's nocturnes or something of that ilk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUdoxvigIl8
While I'm a big fan of native modules, I find the constant use of the adjective "modern" in new JS project descriptions somewhat disturbing. Being modern in itself is not of any value. If it loads faster, or if it obviates the need for a bundler, or if it makes granular upgrades easier, or if it reduces the amount of configurations or tooling, we should put those benefits first.
What are you on about? I can't think of one Unix command that manipulates structured data and doesn't offer a delimiter option. Furthermore the entire point (if you take a moment to think about it) of pipelines is, instead of all commands supporting your preferred delimiter, you need one command to translate (I don't know perhaps something named tr? ) in the pipeline to deal with such limitations.

Do you seriously think non-whitespace separated structured records is a novel idea which the simpler times of Unix didn't have to deal with? Have you looked at the passwd file? /rant
> But does the future it sees include the purchases its about to make?

Yes, absolutely. Go back to Greek mythology (or even the Matrix movies). Many predictions the Oracle made only came about precisely because the Oracle made those predictions.
That and figuring out which ad to show you...
Googles data collection certainly is NOT transactional at all.

They track you across the entire internet on unrelated websites via Google Analytics, their ad network, reCaptcha, ...

They might not directly sell this data directly to third parties (for now), but they sell it in the form of more targeted ads thanks to a better profile.

They certainly have a lot of data on you that you never intentionally gave them.
As there is no second equivalent social network that friends and family already use with a strong privacy focus so no wonder that you see no such behaviour.

As a hacker news member we are first movers. Privacy concerns become bigger with scale. When we join a service we have a choice and we see no privacy issue. OTOH at the scale when privacy becomes an issue there is no longer a choice.

Pair that with the need to grow the user base for investors above all other metrics.
I will forever remember anecdote about Hole Dawg from "In the beginning was the command line" [0] from Neal Stephenson. It's long, but worth reading because it accentuates the way in which tools can be powerful and unsafe at the same time, not their unsafeness per se.

"It is difficult to explain how Unix has earned this respect without going into mind-smashing technical detail. Perhaps the gist of it can be explained by telling a story about drills.

The Hole Hawg is a drill made by the Milwaukee Tool Company. If you look in a typical hardware store you may find smaller Milwaukee drills but not the Hole Hawg, which is too powerful and too expensive for homeowners. The Hole Hawg does not have the pistol-like design of a cheap homeowner's drill. It is a cube of solid metal with a handle sticking out of one face and a chuck mounted in another. The cube contains a disconcertingly potent electric motor. You can hold the handle and operate the trigger with your index finger, but unless you are exceptionally strong you cannot control the weight of the Hole Hawg with one hand; it is a two-hander all the way. In order to fight off the counter-torque of the Hole Hawg you use a separate handle (provided), which you screw into one side of the iron cube or the other depending on whether you are using your left or right hand to operate the trigger. This handle is not a sleek, ergonomically designed item as it would be in a homeowner's drill. It is simply a foot-long chunk of regular galvanized pipe, threaded on one end, with a black rubber handle on the other. If you lose it, you just go to the local plumbing supply store and buy another chunk of pipe.

During the Eighties I did some construction work. One day, another worker leaned a ladder against the outside of the building that we were putting up, climbed up to the second-story level, and used the Hole Hawg to drill a hole through the exterior wall. At some point, the drill bit caught in the wall. The Hole Hawg, following its one and only imperative, kept going. It spun the worker's body around like a rag doll, causing him to knock his own ladder down. [...]

But I never blamed the Hole Hawg; I blamed myself. The Hole Hawg is dangerous because it does exactly what you tell it to. It is not bound by the physical limitations that are inherent in a cheap drill, and neither is it limited by safety interlocks that might be built into a homeowner's product by a liability-conscious manufacturer. The danger lies not in the machine itself but in the user's failure to envision the full consequences of the instructions he gives to it. "

[0] http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/in_the_beginning_was_the_com...
Yup. Totally agree with OP. Early on in my career I had to generate on the fly reports for hundreds of GB of data and all it needed was to throw some *NIX commands around and eventually piping them to awk to do the final bit and it was blazing fast.

These days, these are called big data. No it isn't...
It's not at all obvious that rounded rectangles are superior to sharp edges.

Sharp edges convey precision, rounded edges convey approximation. Many mechanical knobs and buttons have clear notches and clicks to make clear to the user they are in control of the machine.