skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he represents an interesting whiff of the much older, deeper beings in the world which are only fully covered in The Silmarillion. The fact that he's such a being and also simple and light-spirited speaks to the underlying purity of goodness in the world that is the underlying theme of The Lord of the Rings, and I think that's beautiful.

I do sympathize with the decision to cut him from the movies; his chapter was a large and neatly isolated part of the story, and the movies were strapped for screen time as it was. But it was still a loss.
I would love to find a service like this. I, and some individuals I know, would definately pay for this.
At the hotel you're not paying utilities and are getting free breakfast every day. How much is weekly maid service in London?
Clickbait article. Ignore it and read the slides instead:

https://i.blackhat.com/asia-19/Thu-March-28/bh-asia-Goryachy...
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This reply doesn't persuade me to belive that persuasion works, thus proving that people can't be arbitrary persuaded into ideas that they don't agree with.
Most of the economics community's criticisms were apparently mentioned in the article. I'll bet the actual reference is to the Financial Times' contested coverage mentioned on the wiki': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...
There's a highlighted "turn this stuff off" button in the header.
Is-number NPM module with 20m weekly downloads
You are two years ahead of the rise of jquery again. It fits so well with the idea of not writing a custom 6 line function over a simply function chained.
I'm seeing a lot of signals on that site that throw up red flags and honestly the content is confirming those assumptions. I find this talk radio guy and his guest Phil Magness of George Mason to be the ideologically blinkered ones as I follow their arguments and cross-reference them with what was written in Capital.
Synopsis: Face Recognition with Ghost Imaging
The flipped classroom model doesn't work with unmotivated students.
> If not, is this a million-dollar start-up idea?

The niche market of folks with enough security-savvy to know they need the services of a pen tester is pretty small. That said it's also a pretty wealthy niche, so a boutique "personal security coach" business could probably thrive.
Hard, yes, but you should start a business paying people developer salaries to load and unload boxes and we will see how well that works out for you. Also that job is soon to be an anachronism - robots are perfectly suited to replace humans for this task.
Possibly related? https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/11/21/exclu...
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-science-histo...
Yea I meant lock free and ready for multi-threaded use without a GIL. I didn't mean to dump on Python either, I write a lot of Python and Java but comparisons like yours aren't really fair because the JVM is just considerably more powerful than Python's runtime. I could take a huge list of words, hand subsets to threads and let them all update the same map using the same API and without needing a lock.
Why do you think it’s even a remotely good idea to tell people when, where, and how they spend their time and energy?
Or it could be that he is unremarkable in most of his appearances. As the article states, he is presented as the epitome of hobbithood: a jolly old man who loves song and drink and rarely leaves home, who just so happens to live near a dangerous place.

If Gildor and Farmer Maggot met him, they would have found him entirely unremarkable: just another hobbit with a strange taste in homesteading.
I mean, you go for variety. There are countless games / type of games to choose from. You can also watch shows/films/educational content. Read interesting stuff on social media / hn. So many different interesting ways to spend your time. And online communities can give you the bit of social validation you need without being productive to society or justifying aspects of yourself.

To me the bigger cause of not enjoying it was/is external life getting back at you, notably worries about the future. I don't want to go to far into personal details, but I enjoyed it long enough to be confident I could indefinitely, if our society would be supporting it. This might be fine for a "robots do all the work" kind of future, but I have my doubts about UBI.

Anyway, after some point you most definitively want help to get out. As for mental health, there are probably reasons that made you retreat, but it likely caused new issues as well. But that's just one part of a well functioning support network.
> - Elrond knew of Tom Bombadil.

the text does not say otherwise. But the text is correct that Elrond does not seem to have clear memories of him. From LOTR itself:

> [Elrond said,]‘The Barrow-wights we know by many names; and of the Old Forest many tales have been told: all that now remains is but an outlier of its northern march. Time was when a squirrel could go from tree to tree from what is now the Shire to Dunland west of Isengard. In those lands I journeyed once, and many things wild and strange I knew. But I had forgotten Bombadil, if indeed this is still the same that walked the woods and hills long ago, and even then was older than the old. That was not then his name. Iarwain Ben-adar we called him.

He is not even sure it is the same person that the hobbits are referring to.
Flag all April Fool's nonsense.
There is something to be said about PHP's staying power. The early versions of the language weren't considered "right". Except maybe they were right for the problem at hand.

The way I see it was PHP captured the vector of change, and left ample room for future developments. Both internal changes (hello, bytecode; hello, JIT), language level features (hi there, namespaces), and runtime level features (oh hai, countless built in classes and functions).

Moreover, unlike many framework that shone brightly and burned out quickly (Rails?), PHP captured the essence of the environment: HTTP is stateless, and URLs aren't uniformly routable from either end, and well-formed HTML/XML/JSON is just a subset of tag soup.

Worse is better.
> developers are unlikely to ever learn those things on the job

On the job, you're probably right. But if someone happens to be the type of person that sees a link about a new asymptotically fastest multiplication algorithm and ends up spending an hour reading about karatsuba multiplication then he or she is likely to catch up after too many years, and then pass the formally educated that aren't so inclined.

So if you'll take a friendly amendment I'd say:

- If you want someone for a six month stint, go self taught

- If your company is using the tournament model and you churn through juniors in two or three years on average, go with CS grads (careful of those sharp edges though)

- If you are looking to invest in employees for the long term, go with lifelong learners regardless of credentials
Good suggestion, I'll work on it, thanks!

I'm trying to keep the comparison apples-to-apples, and I believe only their dedicated instances ($50 and up) provide the PostGIS extension. That's kind of a requirement for the projects I'm interested in, and it seems like a strange omission.

https://www.elephantsql.com/docs/faq.html#postGIS

Edit: just added ElephantSQL, the update should be out in a few minutes.
How to protect your elvis sightings (search for 'Elvis' on page)
No, sorry. Given the terrible job scenario and way too suppressed wages, "voluntary" is too much of a reach.

Seeking alternatives in tandem with regulation?

Yeah. Us all saying these over exploitative companies are OK?

No way.

Fact is, these companies, and many others, simply do not have to be as toxic to people as they are, and because of that, I am perfectly fine with attempts to clean things up.

Or, they can do it.

I do not care which, only that improvement happens.
I'm curious to know what OS his phone has and how did they managed to hack into it.
Google releases final report on Android security
Reminds me of when the US assisted Iraqi poison gas attacks during the Iran-Iraq War.
The older Intel version was actually on the ARC architecture, which was embedded in the north bridge:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_(processor)

Later versions of the Intel ME switched to an internally-designed 80486.
I thought its pretty hilarious. First I was worried I've been hacked (or SO has been hacked) then I realized they must start early with their April fool stuff. Liked the guestbook at the bottom!

Nostalgia FTW!
You probably can't reasonably pay someone to attack third parties that protect your information. For instance, at several of the startups we run security for, even with your password, a suspicious new pattern of login anomalies will generate an investigation that will consume resources on our end, and we'd be pretty pissed to find out that we'd done it because of a stunt you paid for.
There's more to it than that. A bad manager is bad, but a good manager in a company badly managed by the senior leadership might have his or her hands tied, too.
Your blog's users can be a technical audience.
> if you are putting a tool out there for others to use (not just software but any tool), then you are responsible for its wellbeing and maintenance, regardless of whether you charge money for it.

I think there's also room for software that's dumped on the internet like a free couch left on the sidewalk, but it should be treated similarly: probably full of bugs and not worth your time. I agree that software maintainers shouldn't feel entitled to gratitude without obligation.
Shh! One does not speak of the secret scam!
Well, at least for one day a year they are honest about it.
Sounds like my perception about majority of vendors at recent RSA conference.
> modern functional methods like map/reduce/filter/group

"Modern". Lol.
You seem to be invalidating your own argument that we don't need teachers.
Russia’s Shotgun-Wielding Drone
Unfortunately doesn't render in Firefox mobile.
It seems to me that this "tax dodge" means that ETFs work the same way basically every investment in the world works (under US taxation). You invest money in a thing, thing goes up and you hold: you pay no taxes; you sell the thing: you pay taxes on the gain.

Redeeming ETF into and holding shares of the underlying index also acts the same way: you pay taxes on any gains when you eventually sell the underlying shares.

I'm not seeing a "dirty little secret" here. That Fidelity's mutual fund is not able to accomplish the same level of tax efficiency as the SPDR or iShares ETFs reads to me like a flaw in Fidelity's execution, not an illegal dodge on State Street's or Blackrock's side, IMO.
"If you're not playing with 36 bits, you're not playing with a full DEC!" -Doug "DIGEX" Humphrey (Pro-PDPer and Anti-VAXer), teasing the 32 bit VAX weenies at DECUS.
It's a lot better than the status quo. What's easier for the teacher, motivating a student during practice or getting them to pay attention to the lecture?
Ask HN: I will pay you $2000 and code the MVP for your side-project
Premise 1: Investors/Incubators over-estimate their ability to pick good ideas/startups.

Premise 2: Software by a lone developer is not pragmatically different from software by a big A-team. It’s the market fit and marketing / sales that makes or breaks the project.

Premise 3: Most freelancers will not build and/or follow-through with their ideas, because they are not sure it will sell.

Premise 4: HackerNews has a decent number of people who know how the world works, and how a little glue would make it better.

Based on these premises I present The Proposition 2.0 (following version 1.0 [1]):

I’ll pay you $500 for your “real-life problem that needs a software fix” idea and market validation / research. I will build the MVP and give you another $1500 to bring us our first paying customer(s). We split the resulting product 80-20 as co-founders.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5037694 [2] https://www.simonnouwens.com/hn
Wow, I read this only a few days ago, on some kind of Tom Bombadil kick, which I think might have been triggered by a Bombadil-related question in the StackExchange sidebar.

The memeworld works in mysyerious ways.
I totally agree. But, I wrestled with putting the AWS numbers at the 1-year commitment level when none of the other vendors have that requirement. In the end I decided that was the level of commitment I'd put toward a side-project.
Things you probably never knew about the first Ameriacan space station
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/05/30/piket...
Exactly. I find Sam from Game of Thrones to be in a similar spot.
PHP also didn't make the mistake Perl did. A shame because Perl tried very hard to make the right thing easy with security.
Bombadil was the remnants of a children's story left in an adult book. That's why he's a weird character, doesn't really fit anything and is quickly forgotten. He should have been edited out.
Except for providing education opportunities to those who would otherwise not have them.
Long Term Care insurance was a massive miscalculation in the insurance industry and shareholders paid dearly for it. It was super smart to buy it in the 80s and 90s but most insurers have gotten out of the business. The rest have raised rates so high as to make it not worth it.

Genworth’s stock more than halved when they announced they had to take additional LTC write offs a few years ago.
Thanks Graphguy, I didn't know about that. I'll check it out. Finding out about other options was part of my motivation of putting this out in the world.
When I look at the examples and seeing how verbose some of the natives examples are I would probably end up writing something similar to jQuery to keep the main code simple. Maybe that's the way to go.
No, I'm saying there's no need to throw resources at the lower 40% of the student population. The educational system is already babysitting for them. The smart and motivated students can already learn far more on their own from textbooks and online resources such as KhanAcademy, edX, Cousera, etc.
should be... "One of Wall Street's Dirty Little Secrets"

note: title was changed from its original posting of "ETF Tax Dodge is Wall Street's Dirty Little Secret"
It's definitely best that Tom was left unexplained. We humans (or maybe just me personally) love being mystified by unexplained, other-worldly powers and beings.

Tom is presented as someone both powerful enough to take the ring and protect it, but also someone who'd forget about it and lose it in a swamp. He's not playing by the rules that Tolkien established for the rest of the characters in the books.

He could have power beyond comprehension, or zero power, because Tolkien just didn't know what to do with him. But it's up to the reader to make that decision.

Is he One Punch Man, or is he really just a nobody?
> URLs aren't uniformly routable from either end

What do you mean?
Taiwan to block Tencent and Baidu streaming sites on security risk
I generally support teacher labor movements. However, I think it's important to consider the effects that even the smallest disruption. For example, last year in NC the teacher's groups organized a "Rally for Respect." What they did to bypass strike laws was they encouraged every teacher in the state to request unpaid personal day, which is normally rubberstamped by the principal as you only have a couple. When half the school wants leave, that would be when you stop signing them. But instead, to avoid that conflict, nearly all major districts cancelled school entirely, treating everyone taking leave as a foregone conclusion.

So, one extra teacher workday, barely even worth noting, right? Well, it just so happens that the day selected was the day of the AP Lang exam that year. By the time they saw fit to announce the non-strike, all of the exams had already been ordered and students and teachers had been planning for the normal date. Thanks to the non-strike, the state had to pay $45/exam to get late exams, and it could have caused some students to miss the exam if they had to take a conflicting exam late for a legitimate reason. Oddly enough, College Board wouldn't have charged if it were a real strike.
The author presupposes the goal of being an entrepreneur is getting rich. Yet his outlier examples all infamously eschewed lavishesness. They were about building something to impact humanity.

No doubt many successful entrepreneurs have a goal of wealth in mind, but for what aim? I can justify my efforts at financial independence to live freely and not to live under any conditions which compromise my personal ethics, as one priceless example.
5-8 weeks? Most places I've worked it's been an informal 2 weeks plus sick days.
Wow. Here is a story about that story:

https://www.informationweek.com/desktop/updikes-passing-reca...
But isn't that the whole problem? You quickly run into the case where the required sample size is larger than the entire population size.
This is the RFC with more technical details https://wiki.php.net/rfc/jit.

I believe their plan is to emit low-level code directly via DynAsm, without their own intermediate representation.

This kind of approach has been tried again and again and again and every project doing this either not got the results they wanted and given up or has had to go back and add a proper intermediate representation.

Examples include Rust adding MIR before emitting LLVM, Rubinius trying to emit LLVM directly from Ruby and not getting good results so giving up, JRuby adding an IR before emitting Java byte code, Dropbox's Pyston implementation of Python that emitted LLVM directly where they gave up entirely, etc, etc, etc.

Low level backends are not going to do the kind of key optimisations such as scalar replacement of aggregates that are table stakes for making a dynamic language perform well - they just don't have the high-level semantic model of the language needed to do it.

Maybe they've got some new ideas, or maybe simplicity is a key constraint for them, but I predict from experience that they will need an intermediate representation to get the results that they want.
> I can find pentesting services for companies. I can find some which claim to test the security of CEOs and celebrities. But I can't find anything for ordinary people.

I'm sorry to be harsh on this person but this is quite a dumb post. What is the difference between hacking a celebrity vs an ordinary person? None.

Any penetration testing / security consultancy will be able to do what you're asking for, provided you can pay their rate.

> Does this service exist? If not, is this a million-dollar start-up idea?

No it is definitely not a million-dollar startup idea. It also wouldn't be a startup it would be a consultancy. Penetration testing firms can easily charge clients up to around $1000 / day. How many individuals are going to pay multiples of $1000 to see how secure their online data is?
I agree with just about all of your post except using Rails as an example of something that burnt out quickly. It was the most popular web framework around for the best part of a decade and is still being chosen for new projects.
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animCJK is great, but it only covers the most commonly used Kanji and Hanzi. For example, it doesn't have 鱚. If you need a database that also has hyōgai kanji, KanjiVG [1] is a better choice. (鱚 can be seen here [2]).

There's also the Kanimaji project [3] to animate files in the KanjiVG format, which could be used to get results similar to the Hanzi Writer project. If you use it to produce GIFs rather than animated SVGs, the resulting files are somewhat large though, so I wrote my own (ugly) renderer [4] to get better compression.

[1] https://github.com/KanjiVG/kanjivg

[2] https://kanjivg.tagaini.net/viewer.html?kanji=%E9%B1%9A

[3] https://github.com/aehlke/kanimaji

[4] https://github.com/Yorwba/kanjivg-gif
This sounds like a "leadership" problem. I put leadership in quotes because there is a difference between leadership and management, so I'd say it's more of a management problem (with a lack of leadership).

Check out the books "The Growth Delusion" by David Pilling and "The Tyranny of Metrics" by Jerry Muller if you're interested in this topic.

I think this could potentially be a foundational problem in some western countries. Does a focus on GDP growth serve the people of the country, or does it serve someone else like (potentially foreign) shareholders?

Things like a mother staying home and taking care of her child instead of sending it to daycare, cooking meals at home versus buying from a restaurant both don't show up in GDP. The example in the article is breaking windows and having to pay to get them fixed. Doesn't really seem like a great measure of wealth to me...
I imagine that if there was a larger market for this people like you would allow personal pen-testers to pre-register their attempts. Just out of necessity.
make the right thing easy with security.

All other things being equal, security is usability[1] anti-pattern. You don't get to make clever hacks (in the original sense) on a secure system.

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
- Doug Gwyn

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[1] at the very least for a power user or a developer
tldr: Making it by doing your own thing is most likely going to fail. You are better off being successful working at a high paying job and investing in the stock market.
Your API works less well in concurrent map scenarios, though.
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But the greatest commandment is this ... love one another.
JPL wasn't making a fashion statement
StackOverflow uses it. Delivered by the googleapis CDN. They really should write it out.
I have some problems with that same quote. The "disproportionate price appreciation of housing and the land it sits on" seems to me to be primarily a factor only in some (maybe most) large cities; outside those cities, price appreciation, perhaps excessive price appreciation, has occurred, but it's nothing like that in those few cities. My feeling is that, sure, the effect of real estate prices are large in real terms, but compared to the rest of the economy, they are limited in effect by their limited distribution. (I haven't looked at Rognlie's research; I could be wrong.)

Further, my feeling is that real estate appreciation is an effect, not a cause. Consider the 2008 event ("circumstance?" "shenanigan?"): it was purely driven by the financial industry. It had, really, nothing to do with real estate at its core; it was caused by bad financial behavior, and the failure of the real estate market was simply how it was translated out of the finance world into the rest of the economy.

Likewise, my impression of the situation you describe is a result of the growth and success of the financial industry and the pursuit of a very limited class of real estate assets by that resulting block of money.

Tl;dr: High rents in San Francisco? Caused by the venture capital industry---a purely financial operation---and its insistence on having all of its investments physically co-located with where it wants to live.