skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The investment returns on the funds sounded unimpressive given the time period. I found some info online from the WSJ suggesting the first fund was on track to return around 250% since 2009. Just investing in the NASDAQ would have returned over 500% over that same period. Am I missing something here or is the performance as unimpressive as it appears?
Haha, thanks! I've been called a lot of things on the World Wide Web, but I'm pretty sure this is the first time "kind" is one of them ;)
Why is the headline saying the debt-to-GDP ratio is low like it's a bad thing? I'd expect it to be fine if the debt is high, as long as GDP is significantly higher.
Most Eastern belief systems don't have moralizing gods. So, there are multiple ways how societies can virtualize authority.
> Monte-Carlo seems more akin to how humans play games.

I don't think random choices is how humans play chess, or games in general. I would say it's pattern memory: one learns to play by building a hierarchy of patterns that lead to a prediction of outcome, thus making it possible to select outcome(s) that lead to success.
Codebase refactoring with help from Go (2016)
OP was talking about being forced to unlock devices.

Is there evidence of US citizens going to prison for the act of refusing to unlock a device at the border?
Zuckerberg’s Rules Would Hurt Everyone but Facebook
The article doesn’t make this fully explicit, but The Electric House can be described very easily in contemporary terms: a self-taught technician installs a home automation system for a client, but a hacker gains access and basically wrecks the lives of everyone living there.
Exploiting a Google Chrome 1-Day Vulnerability
Actually removing even the tiniest barrier makes people want to try a feature that everyone thought was useless. Example: WhatsApp voice messages.

They work so well because the barrier is extremely low: it's literally a single interaction, keep the "button" pressed and the message is sent automatically upon releasing it.

And yet nobody was using voice messages when you had to:
- Tap "attach"
- Tap "audio"
- Tap "record"
- Tap "confirm"
Or, worse, use a separate app and "share" to WhatsApp.

UX is important. I assume this service is based on a similar principle.
> I'm not sure they can ask you to break a contract.

Are allowed to? Maybe, maybe not. Will do anyway? Probably yes.
thx.. good summary: http://greatesthitsblog.com/the-black-swan-nassim-nicholas-t...
I worked for a fintech company until 2 years ago.

The CTO/CEO wanted to add a feature that lets users enter their bank password and through a service (Yodlee/TradeIt) lets the company read their stock portfolio and perform actions.

I told them that I don't think people would trust their bank info to some small fintech startup. Boy was I wrong and people with 4M dollar stock trading accounts would enter their credentials all the time for convenience of not having to copy the data over (since brokers didn't have an API with tokens).

Eventually the company grew and it's pretty reputable on its own but I remember this pretty vividly the surprise of people trusting all their money to us.
Last service that I remember asking me for the signup email password was ...wait for it ...MySpace!

It was years ago, but it sounds a bit like a swan song pattern to my ears despite the lack of any rational connection...

...they should find a new WhatsApp or a Snapchat to buy ASAP because sooner or later they'll be too uncool for people to share the interesting content in their garden, so their humongous user base's value will start asymptoting to $0.
Brainfuck is about as simple as they come. If you were to evolve Brainfuck into something like Ruby, you have to add a lot of features.

The poster literally said "[t]he more features the language has, the harder it is to read". From that it follows that something like Ruby is harder to read than Brainfuck.

I disagree with that absolute, and I was trying to say that I think it's more nuanced. Sometimes a feature can be such a natural addition to the language that it explains itself, so to speak, and makes the code easier to read even to those who are new to the feature.
Sounds like a pragmatic and sensible suggestion,
Memoization Forget-Me-Bomb
Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and macOS
public tracking of government money. public ledgers have been used since ancient Athens. This one can be tamper proof.
Second public tracking of charity and how the money reaches correct targets and how it is spent.
Ah, but the flight computer switches which AoA sensor it talks to every time it's booted.

If maintenance procedures for testing did not correctly specify that a retest must start, then restart the system to actually test that the repair was successful, then that replacement may have been tested while the computer was being fed data by the correctly operating sensor. They would have had to attempted a single boot between flights for the next flight to have flown with the untested replacement sensor. If they didn't test at all, then it's possible both sensors had a problem.

This is of course assuming that there is any retest procedure at all in the documentation given that the AoA sensor wasn't classified as safety-critical.

It really seems like the makings of a bad movie doesn't it?
Honest question: do you know where I can find the data to support that?
> “Our results suggest that collective identities are more important to facilitate cooperation in societies than religious beliefs,” says Harvey Whitehouse.

Then it's pretty awkward that the West is engaged in a long program to critique and dismantle its collective identity.
Completely agree with this. It would be very hard to build good tools around float, tables and inline-block which we used to work with.
Also, I do find a bit surprising that browser vendors haven't looked more at what tools like webflow are doing.
Random strangers tend to abuse specific individuals. Governments tend to abuse classes of people. So I'll take the former, if those are my two options.
> This is an ideology.

Well, the first part is science. The desire to preserve it for others may be an ideology. It certainly requires political action.
Thank you for the effort on checking my previous comments as well :-).

Really appreciate it as a non native english writer! :)

I sometimes think it would be nice to have a community correct feature which allows anyone to make simple corrections in a way you, as the author, also become aware of it.
I don't think there is enough evidence to prove this claim but yeah, it's possible. It really depends on the size and culture of the company.
Building a Kamailio Exporter for Prometheus with Golang
Location: San Francisco. Remote: Yes
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6+ yrs of Technical experience including cofounding a startup https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/31/letslunch-launches-and-wev...

Experienced in building SaaS, Consumer and enterprise products in variety of domains. Based out of San Francisco and Willing to relocate for the right role.
Is it a risk if you stay in the airport, in the secure zone? (Whatever it's called...I've flown rarely over the past couple of decades.)
I find a lot of go libraries are very well commented and very accessible, but the standard library and especially the crypto stuff is very sparsely commented.
Fair enough. Updated.
> OK and engaging full blown paranoia mode: What if they ask me to log into gmail and Office 365 ...

Doesn't sound that paranoid to me: wasn't there talk already a year ago about trying to force people to log into social media accounts when crossing the border?
Korean Crypto Exchange BitHumb Loses $19M to Hackers
Original source: https://medium.com/@andreasgal/no-one-should-have-to-travel-...
This is why we need to build a JavaScript-free web. Just plain old HTML and CSS. With no cookies either. And a search engine that only indexes pages that conform to these rules.
The GP's question was rhetorical and his point was that methane can come from both biotic and abiotic processes.

> If you read the article, they explain where the methane is coming from.

This is technically true in a spatial sense, but not at all true in reference to the GP's point. The article specifies only the location of the source, not whether the source is biotic or abiotic.
I think when the guys says random strangers, he's still talking about the police, just that if you leave it to individual police stations then anyone working there can basically wander in, not at every police station obviously, but if they're each doing their own info security, then many of them.

One large database that requires a warrant to access can at least be more easily held to higher standards.
If the Brainfuck to Ruby example is too extreme for you, consider classical Pascal with Object Pascal (Delphi). Object Pascal has a lot more features today than the classical Pascal language. I think that certain code is more readable expressed in Object Pascal than in classic Pascal, due to these features.
I'm not missing your point; I was responding to your challenge.

The point is that if you wish to continue the activity you enjoy, you may well need to be politically engaged.
Htmlgo – A library for writing type-safe HTML in Go
> but at least you probably don't need to trust that Paypal and Mint are both going to store your credentials securely.

Sure you do. They have it in plaintext on their servers. It can end up in logs. It's also not just Plaid - Mint uses Intuit, Yodlee is an option. There's a whole lot of people you need to trust to use these services

For many banks, it also means you need to disable 2fa on your banking account, so using these services directly weakens your security.
Even if they can not, I suppose it's nice to not have to ask for permission for every video.
Substitute “religion” for “finance” and the Roman Catholic Church of the Middle Ages would agree with you.
The process is the punishment, and they know it. The current state is as exactly predicted by those of us who were against creating the TSA in the first place.
> I mean, it makes sense right?

Yes.
Thugs will be thugs but the problem is with those who put them there
What a pleasant surprise this ruling is. The DC area (of which Fairfax county is part) is probably one of the most government tracking heavy regions of the US. This is a curve-ball on par with the CA judge that overturned the mag ban recently. I would never have predicted this ruling.

>Nine states have passed laws limiting how long the police can maintain the data, ranging from three minutes (New Hampshire)

Now that I could have predicted. If any state is going to proactively curb law enforcement's capability to build a dragnet it's gonna be NH.
via: https://github.com/project-everest/hacl-star/blob/fstar-mast...

>EverCrypt is a work in progress -- if you're seriously contemplating using this code is a real system, get in touch with us first!
It seems like a lot of video cards are trending towards blower style designs which don't vent hot air inside the case, so if you have one of those it's probably not a big deal.

On my Asus Z270i, the M.2 that's right there has a heatsink too.
At least with iOS, you can do a factory reset before you leave, and restore it after passing through customs, and for legit reasons - you're paranoid about having your device taken from you while travelling, and you don't want thieves to be able to access your contacts, pictures, whatever.

You don't have to specify that you consider customs agents thieves, that's just up to you if you wanna put that lil' spin on it.

(But for real, this seems to me to be a bulletproof way to both make sure TSA can't access data on your device AND make sure you get pulled aside "randomly" for an extra-long questioning session.)
Ancient teeth hint at mysterious human relative in China
One significant problem as I understand it was the assumption that a failing MCAS would present as runaway stabilizer trim.

When, in actuality, it may not have looked much like runaway stabilizer trim to the pilots.

My understanding is in a runaway stabilizer trim situation the trim wheel (a medium sized wheel near the pilot and co-pilots knees) spins continuously and makes a loud clacking noise as part of the spinning.

This makes runaway stabilizer trim easy to identify. The wheel is spinning (for no identifiable reason) and making noise.

The MCAS failure, however applies trim discretely with intervals of 10-20s. This means it might be very hard to spot the adjustments to the trim wheel if you glance down briefly.

A pilot might notice the control column is heavy, glance down to see if it's runaway trim see the wheel not moving, rule out that scenario and move on to other diagnostic steps.
Most of the inhabited Earth actually... https://blockstream.com/satellite/
As valid as your arguments are, I wouldn't like to mess with India's version of Internal Revenue Service, no sir :)

They have already outlawed bitcoin publicly. That's their official stand.
The US forces you to clear customs regardless of your final destination (transfers included).
> or possibly Google, but they wouldn't ratify MS's platforms by investing resources in maintaining a fork.

While they're not maintaining a fork, it's worth noting that the head of the ECMA C# standards committee is, in fact, a prominent Google employee.
I recently set up a Pi-hole. I've always been pretty extreme in my blocking extensions (everything you listed and more, plus things like first party isolation) and I was flabbergasted to see Pi-hole blocking 10-15% of my requests. Highly recommended!
I think someone would have to donate a datacenter
> Make sure your devices are turned off prior to even leaving for the airport.

Security may ask you to turn them back on, not to search them, but to verify that they are actual working devices, and not a bomb.
The question is what you would have if that product never existed. That's different from measuring how good the product is in a vacuum.

Without the iPhone it may have taken another year or two but the wave of full-screen smartphones had already started.

For Dropbox I'm unsure but they definitely have a lot of competitors doing the same thing at this point.

Maps... had much better scrolling than competitors? Being pretty isn't revolutionary.

Google search itself might qualify.

Cars are not faster horses, but if you removed any particular car company from history we would still have cars.
the ACLU complaint is based on the 4th amendment right against unreasonable search. He demanded to speak to his lawyer and was thereafter allowed to leave, so his 5th amendment rights were not actually abridged. That's how the 5th amendment works, and it worked at the border.

https://www.aclunc.org/docs/ACLU-NC_2019-03-28_Letter_re._El...

> CBP must ensure that its officers comply with the U.S. Constitution. Even at the border, the search of an electronic device is governed by the Fourth Amendment. To satisfy Ninth Circuit and Supreme Court law concerning electronic searches, any such search should be based on a warrant and be limited in scope to information relevant to the agency’s legitimate purpose in conducting the search. The attempted unconstitutional search of Dr. Gal’s devices illustrates that CBP’s policies do not in fact include the requirements necessary to safeguard the constitutional rights of people at the border
Well, I mean, you can write a convolution as a matrix operation. Except, perhaps that's not the most efficient way to do it.
Perhaps to call out the politicians who could do something about the preying on the poorer areas?
I wonder if they actually did. It would be interesting to see a comparison of what percentage of petty crimes were caught in history compared to now.
All flights that stop in the USA require all passengers to clear customs before continuing their journey.
I guess that could have some marginal effect.

But I'd be much more worried about eavesdropping on my electronic communication. Which they apparently already do at will.
> It’ll take a long time to find a way to reliably save data that is served in a distributed sense

That's actually easy - it's literally what blockchains are for. The whole issue is how to manage the tradeoff between reliably archiving everything (and expecting participants in the network to do the same, so that the system doesn't end up relying on a single point of failure), and delivering/serving the stuff efficiently.
> Denmark (and Greece) have the least favourable geography for land transport.

Norway would like a word with you there. Denmark’s got a lot of annoying coastline but at least it’s flat, small and relatively densely populated. One of the things I miss most here on the Norwegian west coast is the lack of useful rail connections.
The article itself includes: "The firm’s first and third flagship funds, $300 million and $900 million, respectively, are already expected to return five times their money to investors, sources say. Its $650 million second fund and $1.7 billion fourth fund are expected to return three times their investment capital, good for the top quartile of firms, and are expected to climb."

Selecting the NASDAQ in 2009 is a bit of a cherry-pick.
The entire movie/captioning analogy is off. Language spoken in movies isn't meant to be adversarial but gameplay is. It's just not an accessibility issue. I hate this argument because it feels manipulative. If it's about accessibility and if you still say no, you're a monster.
Curation is a method of limiting and reducing access, it's true.

I think you're being downvoted because many folks are touchy about the word censor being applied to non-government organizations.

OTOH, when is it that an organization becomes the defacto governing body?
You might want to make the Kickstarter campaign more prominent - use color, make it bigger and part of the main content instead of just part of the top bar.

Anyway, as a mostly backend and native / non-web person who occasionally has to do front-end development, this looks like a very useful tool! Something like this might convince me to start using VSCode for web dev over vim.
For Scots, a Scourge Unleashed by a Bottle
lots of them allocate a percentage to alternatives, and with a low-return environment, there was a push to keep doing it. However, there's also been a counter movement of pensions moving cash out of alternatives due to mediocre performance after fees are accounted for.

It's a mixed bag really, a lot of it has to do with pensions sometimes being run by untrained elected officials, or them buying whatever bs a pe or hedge fund shop is selling them.
The goal is to try it as a team. Having 2 devs on a project with different approaches won't be efficient.

The part I strongly believe is that before writing a piece of code I need to know what I am writing. Similar to a task/story, I need to have an acceptance criteria. Knowing to write a test means knowing what are you writing.

Thanks for your input.
I had the same reaction. I've gotten better returns than A16Z over the same time period just through index funds and picking stocks of companies I like. Granted, I'm investing a tiny fraction of the amount they are, and I don't get to be a mover and shaker in Silicon Valley, but I was really not impressed by the overall return on investment.
The Every Frame a Painting channel on YouTube has an excellent short piece on Buster Keaton covering some similar themes, but with more of a focus on camera frames than architecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWEjxkkB8Xs
Not implying you are one ... but if you're not a hypocrite, that shouldn't be a problem.
Water ice + electrolysis = Hydrogen (H2) and Oxygen (O2)

O2 and CH4 (methane) = rocket fuel

H2 + CO2(from atmosphere) + pressure + heat = CH4(more methane) + H2O
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction

Basically some (SpaceX) have already been planning to use electrolysis of water ice and atmospheric CO2 to create Methane and Oxygen to get rocket fuel via the Sabatier reaction.

Finding existing Methane doesn't change a ton since the building blocks were there anyway, but it may be less energy consuming and complex to mine/melt methane directly and just deal with splitting water by electrolysis, which you were going to have to do anyway to feed the Sabatier Reaction.
Always good to see other people enjoying success with the Pi-hole. I've set up so many of them for people. It really does work.
For those who understand formal verification: how hard is to specify the requirement "no buffer overruns" ? and is that specification generalizable ?
The Value of Bitemporality – Whose Time Is It Anyway?
Drug MSI-1436 Shows Ability to Regenerate Damaged Hearts and Other Body Parts
Show HN: Who Got Game? – A Game of Thrones Death Pool (To Spice Up Season 8)
Seamless Istio control plane upgrades with the Istio operator
Like all sensors out there in the atmosphere, icing is an issue. So not only are they error prone, but failures are sometimes not independent. Airbus planes from the A320 family have three such sensors, but it so happened that on November 5th, 2014, an A321 had two sensors freeze in the wrong position during flight. Two sensors against one win, so the flight envelope protection system kicked in and the aircraft started to nose dive. It lost 4000 feet in altitude before the crew regained control...

Details of the flight if you want to do some research: Lufthansa Airbus A321-200, registration D-AIDP, performing flight LH-1829 from Bilbao, SP (Spain) to Munich (Germany) on November 5th, 2014.
Ask HN: What do you use for passwords on encrypted attachments
Yes, yes, there are plenty of more-secure ways of getting files from point A to point B today, but once in a while a curmudgeonly vendor or someone's misguidedly-heavy-handed policy push us into having to send a sensitive attachment by email.

So, you zip it up with a password or generate an encrypted PDF - but what to use for the password? Absent a side channel to send the password through, you have to use some shared bit of knowledge. Same applies for sending a secure ProtonMail message to a non-PM address.

Most recently I used the message ID of the first message in a separate email thread with the same recipient - but there's no guarantee he still has that message or would have any clue how to get at the headers and track down the ID. I've used invoice numbers plus total dollar amounts on most-recent bills in the past, or strings from design files sent in cleartext previously.

Of course there's always a phone call and a sufficiently-simplistic password.

What's your favorite means of conveying a file password alongside the file?
> Had there been FB pages from the start of the web, you'd probably would have never seen so many custom sites in the first place.

I’m not sure about this. AOL, Prodigy and CompuServe all had vibrant online communities. However, what you could do was much more limited than the federated web, and they were silos.

Without the competition of “I’ll host my own server, and search engines will index it”, I wonder if FB and it’s predecessors would have been able to figure out what to build.
Forcing you to unlock a laptop or phone that doesnt have a battery would fall under a different legal precedent.
Normally no, from what I have read they are very reliable. And the sensors are the same ones used on all 737s. So it seems that there is some other problem with the MAX that is leading to the a false "nose high" indication.
An Oxford researcher says there are seven moral rules that unite humanity
They forgot to mention that raising prices will probably have a net positive impact on revenue growth for the next 4 quarters, help them beat analyst Estimates, and positively impact the stock and management compensation bonuses.

Nothing wrong with that, imo. But, not mentioning it when it's probably one of the major reasons for raising prices is disingenuous.
The unreasonable effectiveness of additive combinatorics in computer science
I'm certain they're allowed to. If the SEC thinks your employer is committing fraud, and asks you to inform on them, do they care that you have an NDA? Not a chance.