skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the same problem a lot of internet properties that crowd-source data have now, which is that they don't have the concept of time and knowledge degrading over time built into them.

For the first 5 years or so, Stack Overflow was amazing. For newer subjects that haven't changed significantly in a the last couple years, it's probably still amazing, but the shelf life on this is much shorter in general, because new subject generally change quite quick (conversely, when Stack Overflow was first filling up, all the C/C++.Perl/Python/Bash etc stuff were long past their high churn stages).

When all these sites were new and shiny and still filling in the gaps, this wasn't a problem. Now that we've gotten a decade or more of some of them, they have the problem of being filled with information that was highly relevant at one point, but as it's lost relevancy over time is still treated as relevant.

As the timeline of major changes to these crowd-sourced repositories of knowledge goes, I think the next major advance will be a good algorithm to degrade relevancy (points?) over time with the ability for people to "vouch" for data as still accurate, or to "refine" data to limit the scope it applies to when the subject has expanded and it no longer is as accurate as it was because of that.

E.g. an answer for a Python which works only for Python 2.X but at the time applied generally because Python 3 had not been released. After Python 3 comes out, that answer either needs to be less relevant because it's only sometimes correct, or refined to note where it does and does not apply, in which case it retains its relevancy and should hopefully not crowd out data for the portions of the subject it does not apply to (Python 3 in this case).

I'm convinced this, or something like it, is the next big thing for crowd sourced data, as it becomes more and more important as our collective online data ages.

Edit: It's worth noting Google has likely already solved this, at least for their problem space. Then again, the way Google could be considered to be a repository of crowd sourced data is slightly different than most sites. That said, I wouldn't be surprised to hear they have a solution, either in place or planned, for how to deal with this affecting the knowledge graph.
I did not mean to offend you. And I am sorry I used that terminology. To me it felt odd that if you reach the front page suddenly eyes are looking at your history and everything you have done.

If you put yourself out there, suddenly eyes are watching everything. That seemed a bit scary (and again sorry for using emotional words), though of course makes sense why it happens.

But in general, I fully agree with you. There are many reasons to do it, and perhaps it's even helpful when something is not clear and you want to understand better where someone is coming from, as you said.

Apologies again.
I suppose you've already looked at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindrical_harmonics

?
There is nothing like writing code in a word processor.
Having done a few assessments in the last year where I was forced to downgrade sev:hi findings because nobody is realistically going to guess a 128 bit random number, I have to grudgingly acknowledge that UUID object keys are a meaningful security improvement. Which I hate to admit, because I'm generally of the opinion that "defense in depth" is a design cop-out, and here's a pretty potent counterexample.
Commies vs Environmentalists? It'll never happen.
I agree with the fact that we are spreading bucks over more planets. I'd love to see a concerted incestment in a consistent strategic direction with a tangible milestone.

But at the same time, there's lots of exciting stuff going on.
Around 20-25 I believe.
A securely generated 128 bit UUID isn't security-by-obscurity, but rather security-by-cryptography. It's still bad not to have authorization checks, because UUIDs can "leak" into logs, browser histories, emails, and things like that. But the security benefit of using crypto-random IDs is neither cosmetic nor superficial.

Most applications don't use UUIDs and many of them are fine and I definitely wouldn't ding an app for using monotonic IDs, but I'm increasingly thinking that it's worth praising UUIDs more.
If the results are positive, the motives won't matter.
What does it mean to be a 'full stack' developer?
China is politically communist. Economically, they still want to make a lot of money, as cheaply as possible, without regard to regulations, be they intellectual property, ecological, or otherwise.

However, I've read that they are taking air pollution more seriously: https://phys.org/news/2019-03-china-air-pollution.html
Is MSSQL's NEWSEQUENTIALID secure? I didn't think it was.
Sure, that's fine. The context of my point about IDs is for user-facing APIs. Note that user-facing really means "publicly accessible", even in the case of private APIs. As I mentioned elsewhere, market research groups will be happy to extrapolate as many metrics as they can from your APIs integer object IDs.

That being said I'm a little surprised to hear about the complexity. Are you able to share which DB/stack you were using? This functionality should be natively supported at two distinct abstractions: your programming language and your database.
What effect would the proposed sales tax on trades we see proposed occasionally have on Robin Hood's model?
Here's the most recent version:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-taxing-wall-stre...
I wonder if this is a repeatable phenomenon wherein a universally-useful resource is more likely to be accessed by a wider gamut of people, thus essentially guaranteeing a judgmental response. That would mean those snarky responses really are a mark of a good and useful question.
I don't think it's really fair to call it security by obscurity. The UUIDs have far more entropy than 99.9% of user passwords protecting them.
He gave an amusing talk at Google in 2007 about creativity[0], where I thought he talked about one of the important things in science is actually believing the data since it seems so outlandish. I thought it was in this talk, but skimming the video I can't seem to find it. The talk is quite amusing regardless.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7M2l-jzRG8
The only people I've seen who actually use robinhood are the people at reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets , who seem like a cohort of dilettantes.
It's worth thinking about how companies become #1 in their respective industries.

A local restaurant becomes #1 by having the best food and/or location, and providing it at a price people are willing to pay.

A car dealership probably succeeds by having the best prices on cars and the best customer service.

Most banks compete on customer service and some amount of product differentiation.

Insurance is some combination of customer service, market share, and correctly pricing things.

To the extent that better software contributes to these core "capabilities", companies will invest in it. Investment means it gets management attention, willingness to spend, willingness to hire annoying top-shelf talent that demands flexible working arrangements and huge salaries.

Many -- maybe most -- business don't have competitive dynamics that software enhances. A hotel is a great example: it's location, price, service, and cost control. The software they use at the front desk has approximately zero importance to whether the place will stay in business, or fold. Owners are right to invest as little as possible in it and move on to something more important, like building a brand.
>You'd probably want fine sand - not coarse.

Why? Coarser particles fly faster, so they should be better?
Whenever you are compelled to upload/send a photocopy of an ID document it is sensible to write the date and purpose / file reference on it. If it appears in a document dump at some later date you know the path and date of the leak.
Lightening /= lightning
You "stepped away from the keyboard", and then edited your comment. I read what you wrote differently than you appear to have intended. It is fine if we simply disagree about this. If you think scanners suck too, we might just not have anything worth arguing about.
I confess, I use them interchangeably and don’t know which one is “correct”
Being in a similar boat to OP at almost the same age, I have to admit that thinking about such facts from time to time can be sobering.

"Didn't want that million dollars of potential income anyways.", as you struggle to get by, your personal life in tatters.

The worst part is that even when you throw in the towel and either give up or defer your startup plans, even the prospect of getting a 9-5 feels like failure, a waste; the death of your own personal identity.

I think part of the reason it sucks so hard is, when you're on your own working towards some insurmountable task, you develop a broad skillset that's also very specialized in some ways, and it feels like a waste to just get a 9-5 that doesn't leverage your full skillset. You also know you'll probably be creating far more value than you're being paid, but that's the tradeoff with most tech jobs.

It's also compounded by aging, and all the usual mid-life crisis stuff that entails, just amplified since often one's 20s are perceived to be wasted if there's a failed startup involved during that time period.

The sunk cost fallacy and the perception of time lost both conspire to really mess with you.
Funny enough, I can think of very few businesses that went under due to fines from regulators.

Most businesses fail because they don't have customers, not because they're inefficient or badly-managed.

They key is right there in your statement: "have to". Good places to work don't build software because they "have to", they do it because it's viewed as an important competitive differentiator and execs WANT to spend on it.
> Also how much does it delve into liberation theology?

Probably not as deeply as you'd want if that is your primary focus. It's a short book, and much of it is about the goats and the landscape. Corbett approaches as a Quaker, and my recollection is that he reports on liberation theology primarily as an outsider working alongside Catholics. This collection of essays memorializing him might give you a better sense of who he was: https://ccc758.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/valleyview_newsle....
I agree with you. Let me emphasize this explicitly: the real failure here is the utter lack of authn and authz. But it is meaningful that the integer IDs are being used.
Yes this seems like the right answer, both results are undefined so they are the same but not equal.
Shameless plug for someone I consider to be the most talented, creative artist I know of today: Isaac Cohen

https://cabbi.bo/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HrSzzm46SM

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKqO1GCq6Ni1qZvv2ysIt8w/vid...

A lot of his VR stuff needs to be experienced to really appreciate, but having spent hundreds of hours in VR I'm convinced this is the most powerful usage of the technology so far. Traditional art has hit a dead end today and this is the path forward.
As a former newspaper reporter who occasionally was assigned to do these kinds of community features (though nothing this well-done), I remember that editors and reporters would frequently get pitches (by email or call) from random folks – because newspapers routinely publish these kinds of stories, and this was well before social media was a viable place for sharing stories.

The irony here is that the author is a newspaper reporter/editor at the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and one of the most surprising things about this to me is how the AJC's website apparently didn't have this story in traditional article format. The only thing I see is a followup -- a recap of the original Twitter thread, with the update that Mr. Martin's GoFundMe went viral:

https://www.ajc.com/news/think-and-smile-hundreds-celebrate-...

But when I think about it, I wonder if a traditional article (full of images) would have worked as well as the Twitter thread? I'm probably more tolerant of Twitter threads as a format than most people are, but this was one time in which the Twitter format – this includes the way we interact by scrolling through Twitter threads – really seemed to strengthen the material.
Are you actively trading ETFs?
Those are system requirements and are not what you do with OKRs.
Starlink satellites passing over Leiden, the Netherlands [video]
Whoa! This is a great idea. Looking forward to the "real" post; I've also done some work on implementing distributed systems over email, so I'll be sure to give this a look.
The rest of us are talking about USA spending during the time that NASA has existed.
Stack Overflow is worse because the questioners are approaching it in the vulnerable state of "not knowing". This makes the smack-downs worse, because the user already had a problem, and now they have haters as well.
Are you kidding? As a father me and my wife joke a lot about our son. Hide and seek hiding behind a chain link fence? Hey I'll save on college!
Yes this was the core of the Enron fraud. I was a bit disappointed this was never touched on as everything else feels superficial.
One would idiomatically use “git checkout <path-to-file>” for the functionality described by the author: “get some file back to the latest version committed in HEAD”.

Stopped reading after I saw this.
I do, but what I ask for is so high that it saves time on both sides.
Mona Lisa made out of 260 smaller Mona Lisas, using a genetic algorithm
Wouldn't some of these bugs we caught by unit tests?
Technicality. These worlds are 5D. Time is a dimension. Your overall shape is represented by four dimensional geometry traced across space-time.

The only difference between time and space is that entropy propogates across time but not space.
Thanks for the recommendation! However, there are a few reasons why Vert.X wasn't considered, the biggest ones being that we're not a Java shop and the service in this blog post isn't HTTP/REST.

While the bandwidth benchmarks are fun to see and write blog posts about, we also care a lot about keeping tail latency at or below 2ms than we do about getting more bandwidth at this point.
If you know the (integer) identifier, and because the bad application isn't secured with authentication, you get access to something you're not supposed to. If you make the identifier a lot harder to know, and you still have no security, that smells like the obscurity part. I can absolutely see your point that the UUID identifiers are not just a lot harder to guess, they may be impossible to guess. But the security is still bad, and I don't think that the impossible to guess-property of the UUIDs should be a substitute for security. I don't think we really disagree, though.
Phpstorm
Fundamentally Enron became the market maker for energy products. They didn't seem to understand that a market maker's role depends entirely on having the confidence of the market participants. Enron then started to do more and more outlandish things whereby they eventually lost the confidence of the participants and that's when it imploded almost over night. Tesla isn't really in a similar situation but Google is.
We switched to https://runbox.com/ Small company, employee-owned, they do email only. https://runbox.com/about/company-values/ Our previous hoster started adding more an more servies, newsletter, upselling marketing and SEO services while the support got worse over the years.
In this case, the proposed tax is meaningless because it's fantasy headline legislation (it exists solely as vote-stirring propaganda) that has no shot at passing. The never-passing proposal will have no effect on Robin Hood's business model.
The answer is tongue-in-cheek. Basically, don't write JavaScript, write TypeScript and transpile.
I ended up having to go with something, because not eating isn't an option. But Pollan doesn't really specify exactly what to eat on a day to day basis. It's only a general principal. I guess having to plan everything out and decide for oneself is a challenge, but also a skill people should learn eventually to stay healthy.

Sometimes I kind of wish I knew someone who I know is healthy so I could ask about precisely what they eat for each meal, what kind of things they aim for buying at market, etc. Not to just copy, but to use as one source of info. I feel clueless when it comes to this kind of thing.
Maybe a few but for most of them it's more about knowing about the problem. It's hard to write unit tests to find unknown behavior.
Those are just the corrections, not the full paper.
How do you handle joint expenses like rent/mortgage and all the kid stuff?
slide 2: CVE-2018-0733 was in the wild for 2 years
slide 5: CVE-2017-3738 was in the wild for 4 years
A bit more information:

https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-of-the-Internet-Asso...

The citation apparently was for:

“her continued leadership in expanding the computer science education pipeline and closing the skills gap for computing jobs in today’s economy.”

which seems overblown at best. The NY Times has some background information (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/technology/computer-scien...) which has Ivanka and Tim Cook doing something with CS education.

It seems to me that there are many people more deserving with much more skin in the game.
“I'm a developer on a team. How am I supposed to know why customers are churning?”

OKRs are designed to exist in levels, “trickling down” in a way that narrows them down more and more as they reach specific teams and individuals[0].

A goal such as “Increase customer retention” could be a legitimate higher-level objective. From key results on that objective, we get objectives for specific teams working on various aspects of the product.

(For example, “Reduce churn rate by X” likely isn’t going to be just about engineering; copywriters and others may be involved. Down the line at some point there may be an engineer’s personal key result such as “launch customer feedback collection system by X date”, or something else specific to circumstances.)

I believe that wholeheartedly adopting OKRs in this multi-level fashion is helpful even to companies with a just a few employees, and how objectives and results are translated across levels is a good measure of management health overall.

[0] Rick Klau talks about it in “How Google set goals” https://youtu.be/mJB83EZtAjc?t=1951 (2013)
Downote is for comments that don't contribute positively to the discussion. Flagging is for more egregious violations of community guidelines.

Whether a comment deserves either of those does not in any way depend on the commenter's posting history and to reference posting history in applying them is problematic in a manner akin to the ad hominem fallacy, in that it substitutes a general judgement of the source of an utterance when what is called for is a judgement on the utterance itself.
Prusa officially forks stand-alone slicer from Slic3r
Claiming some stranger's kid is going to become an alcoholic that achieved nothing in life because they like to play with Rubik's cubes is on whole other level of mean.
> current crop of ads which are usually one of fraudulent, malware, or borderline pornographic.

That doesn't match my experience at all, but maybe you can chalk it up to targeting?
Capitalism is explicitly designed to ensure that those who provide value don't get to keep it. Value is funneled to those who have capital. Hence "capitalism."
50% is “super conservative”?? By what reasoning? How is that more appropriate than 5% or .5% or .05%? Either you have a justification for that estimate or you’re just making something up, which doesn’t mean squat.
Python3 Docker Development Environment
My brew has it in /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/
Live Coverage of Disinformation Against the 2019 EU Parliamentary Elections
You could type "bb" to find it even if it were "www.bb.co.uk".

Completion cannot be anchored to one end of the URL; users would find that frustrating.

When users are searching for a URL by means of a keyword embedded in that URL, it could be anywhere in that URL.
What prevents Robinhood from diversifying? They've figured out how to get a lot of customers fast. They're executing extremely well, IMHO, and that means they have many growth options. A team that can deliver a constantly improving product quickly for a huge customer-base is kind of unstoppable.

And, it is irrational to compare startup valuations to established companies. They're not the same category. If they were, we'd look at F and GM and wonder why anyone would ever invest in TSLA (though, that's maybe not a great example because I suspect F and GM are better investments than TSLA right now, but not because they are more diverse or whatever...but, because there's a lot of risk built into TSLA due to sloppy management). But, it's easy to find examples of old companies beating new companies that seemed to be stronger investments. Google vs. Yahoo, Amazon vs. Borders, etc.

Robinhood may be the biggest provider of 401k services in ten years. Or, they might partner with storefronts to offer banking+ services. Or, they might just keep bringing in new small dollar customers and eking out tiny profits by being more efficient; there's plenty of room at the bottom. Those other guys charge ten bucks a trade (or more)! You can bet all the people tucking away $100 from each paycheck don't want to lose 10% of it to fees right off the top. McDonald's doesn't make a lot of money from each customer, but they have a lot of customers.

I have an Ameritrade account that I've had for 25 years (well, it was Datek back then), and I have a Robinhood account. I stopped automatic withdrawals to Ameritrade a year or two ago, and now all my trading happens on Robinhood. It's just a lower-friction experience. If Robinhood goes public, I'll consider buying, because it's a good and novel product in a market with a lot of money changing hands.
I wonder if this can be useful for say, lithium prospecting?
> I read what you wrote differently than you appear to have intended.

I really appreciate this as this at least concludes that a miscommunication took place, thank you. I'll accept that there's likely a bit too much flourish to what I write for the sake of targeting nuanced clarity.

> If you think scanners suck too, we might just not have anything worth arguing about.

Largely yes, but I do think they have their place. I view them more as platforms to build upon or add to (e.g. custom data rules or enforcing the use of specific best practices) than generalized security salves, but as you'd pointed out, many of those objectives can also be achieved through much simpler means, e.g. just grep the code for things as a commit test.
This is a strange way compare NASA's budget size over time. It mostly reflects the out of control growth of entitlement spending, which was only 20% of the budget in the 1960s and is half of the budget now (https://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/entitlement_spending).

According to your source, at it's peak during Apollo, NASA's budget was only twice what it is now in constant dollars. In constant dollars NASA's budget is basically the same as it was when it was operating a fleet of space shuttles in the 80's and 90's, but NASA isn't operating any now. Where does the money really go?
JANET NRS worked that way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS
If you plan on driving a lot of miles the model 3 is close to the lowest total cost of ownership that you can get. Especially if you can get a bit of government subsidy. The Prius might be close as well but if it's a near toss up why not go 100% electric?
do you think digital security will ever be possible?
Techdirt's Legal Dispute with Shiva Ayyadurai Is Now Over
Good point, I jumped the gun a bit there. I misread the comment and thought they meant the firm didn't do anything about a pentest result, not that they found it themselves.
Now you have me really thinking.
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