skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The 170,000 tons of gold will be unchanged in size and still incapable of producing anything."

I find it staggering that the calibre of a Warren Buffet can demonstrate so little capacity for sound thinking about value, wealth and wealth assets.

Is the Mona Lisa worthless because it's priceless? What about a Picasso, do you expect it to produce crops or refine oil? When you fondle a French castle, do you expect it to respond?

"I ask you, how can currency price gold? Indeed, no price will work!" ~ Another

"how can paper currency that represents "the thoughts of a nation blowing in the wind" be used to value real money of ancient world class proportions, gold? It cannot! Any price you can think of will do, as in no price will work!" ~ Another

Gold could absorb the worlds derivatives debt tomorrow in value and not a thing would change in the world, except many headaches gone. Gold could be managed at around production costs for many many decades since 71 and not a problem was found with this. Gold's currency price is meaningless, it's utility for "inter-generational" wealth preservation at a "giant scale" is priceless indeed. Because it is so unproductive, representing "great wealth" comes at no cost infringing on the "productive economy". Why hoard rice or industrial-strength silver to represent your wealth across currency regimes, social upheavals and technological fads and whims and political and market ups and down, when there is gold that can represent "much wealth" in very small physical chunks! Come on Warren, you gotta be kidding me. This piece must be intentional disinformation. He must have been walking around much old-world wealth in his life, and here he pretends "gold, I'm not getting it, gimme ExxonMobile shares any day" (or why not Enron if you're so into energy?).

Then again, he prefers giving all his excess wealth to charity instead of doing the old-school "intergenerational family wealth" thing, truly American I suppose, so yeah, makes sense he see's no value in gold. Someone like Warren Buffet must truly believe that the American Dream will never expire, its currency never weaken in the eyes of the world, it's stocks always be cutting edge. At his age and with his life experience, can we fault him for that? Guess not.
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> C++ gets often recognized as C.

The disambiguation test for C++ headers is ridiculous:

matches << Language["C++"] if data.include?("#include <cstdint>")
It's almost like you're talking like you think you own your iDevice because you paid money for it.
Former PM here. The Product & Project management jobs vary tremendously by company, and even within a company. Your best bet is to reach out to people who've had similar jobs in the same company and ask them for advice.

That said, I highly recommend The Innovator's Dilemma[0] and Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love[1]

[0]: http://www.amazon.com/The-Innovators-Dilemma-Technologies-Ma...
[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Inspired-Create-Products-Customers-Lov...
It wasn't that much money, but it was a user base that was leveraged many times, and that they could keep on leveraging. By killing Messenger, they disconnected users' ombilical cord to the MS social network, whatever that is.
If it wasn't obvious, this post is a troll. Jenn Schiffer is a twisted, brilliant genius.
Gorilla-arm?

They rest on the arm rest of the chair.
No. They did not become a fractional reserve, they became insolvent. A large portion of the BTC community grossly abuse the term 'fractional reserve', and it's flatly wrong.

Fractional reserves refer to liqudity, not solvency. If I run a financial institution and I owe depositors $100, but have $10 cash and am owed $100 on top of that, I'm running a fractional reserve.

If on the other hand, I'm MtGox, and I owe depositors $100, but have $10 of cash and am owed nothing on top of that, I'm insolvent. Bankrupt. And if I keep operating, I am a fraud.

This is an incredibly important distinction.
The default mode is CBC [1]. Still the fact alone that the mode is not set explicitly and makes it look like the author did not know or think about it gives me a bad enough feeling that I would never use it.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.cryp...
Censor's not happy with magic?
Chrome books are now very cheap?
Chrome books are really cheap to purchase, is this due to there being loads around? Or just the low initial price?
Here's the link to his GitHub page: https://github.com/dhcole
Very popular among consumers. I think large organizations are more likely to pay someone like http://www.prolexic.com/
This has layer3 properties, such as connection rate, and was most likely mitigated using layer 3 filtering.
No, I'm specifically talking about clients who have signed up entering in their ip address that they access from.

"Just have your botnet do a few regular old requests to the network a few days before launching."

Not talking about "whitelist sites that have made access in the last x days".

For example on HN it would be easy to create a white list. They do it now recognizing new people who signed up and keeping track of activity as well (by points).

You could either have people identify the ip address that they accessed from and further limit the whitelist to a certain period of time and activity additionally.

The idea is not to be 100% perfect but enough so that if you are a regular user of github from an IP address at your office (as opposed to wifi cafe) you will be able to get through.

This is, by the way, how registries limit access to their system. It's all whitelist you have to pre identify the ip addresses that you will access the system from.

The whitelist only comes into play when under attack. And for sure yes if you are connecting from a new place you will be blocked. But others will not be blocked and there will be some access for some people.
Indeed, look at Openresty which is async but written as if the code was blocking, using coroutines.
What tablet could you have purchased in 2009?
I thought this was interesting-a year before the iPad, this is what you could buy as a tablet at Frys.
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"...Tank Battle: East Front 1942..."

Mindless pedantry is one of the most irritating features of "hackers". Yes, we know you know a lot of stuff. Do you expect us to be impressed?
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Fine, the total bird death from cats is not a reason to give a pass to windmills for killing large birds that cats cannot kill. It is a "well, their meaner than me" argument.

Once you get a certain distance you out of a birds normal range. Migration patterns are easy to track and plan for.
What are some of the nasty game-theoretic incentives it provides to participants?
Censorship doesn't necessarily imply a government authority is the one doing the censoring.
I've studied Warren Buffet for over thirty years. I love reading his annual investment letter. If you know anything about him you know about his refusal to invest in tech. Says he and Charlie Munger don't understand tech so they're not going to invest in it. He's best friends with Bill Gates but has refused to answer any tech questions even if they're about Microsoft.

So suddenly he's comfortable commenting on Bitcoin? I have a hard time taking his criticism seriously.

Mark Cuban bashed Bitcoin this week too. But Cuban owns Bitcoin and admits he's made money with it. While I disagree with his criticism at least he's making it with a bit of understanding. I think Warren Buffet is finally starting to lose it.
Haha, I was just toying with an idea much like this. Do you have any interest in open sourcing this or doing further development?

PS. I can't seem to save a new Loan. The whole page freezes up when I try.
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Someone higher up (presumably) has already reversed the decision.
I think the assumption by most customers would be that the cost of Amazon prime offsets these costs, ensuring these price rises do not occur.
Intuit strives to keep tax forms unintuitive. Well if that isn't Orwellian then I don't know what is.
You're not annoyed that they don't mention octal or hexadecimal? Base 6? Base 60?
A language learning site that greets me in computer-translated German "Werden Sie fließend in jeder Sprache" makes me hesitate. Am I supposed to turn into fluid?
32-Bit PowerPC Mac OS X Tiger Macintoshes are still in quite common use. My Mom has a G4 iMac, her sister has a G3 iBook. They are both in mint condition; neither has any reason at all to purchase new hardware.

Imagine my great surprise when early this morning I discovered that "Reset Safari" does NOT delete the cookies for the Safari 3.1.1 that's on Mom's 10.4.11 iMac.

That's a potential online banking and credit card number theft exploit.
Your "other extreme" story is basically an experiment--you're gathering a data set to test a proposition, so you have taken steps to ensure that the data set is representative for the proposition you're testing.

But if you don't know in advance what you're looking for, you don't know how to control the data set to ensure it is representative.

I could give you a data set of 1,000 recent lottery winners, and you would find that they are all named Ralph. But you might not know that I assembled the data set by looking for lottery winners named Ralph. You'll find a super-strong correlation, but be missing the context that would disqualify it as causal. You'd only find that out if you asked me how the data set was assembled...only at this point are you starting to pursue scientific knowledge.

You can't trust human perceptions of correlations to be representative of reality. That's the reason the scientific method was developed in the first place.
Amazon is offering 2 day shipping at no additional cost. You can purchase an item for cheaper through a third party, who will probably charge you for shipping which more than likely will bring the total in line with what you would pay if purchasing using Prime through Amazon. Except, they'll probably ship it standard 3-5 business day (possibly taking 7-14 days to arrive) where Amazon is going to ship it 2 day DELIVERY. (Yes, I realize it doesn't always arrive in 2 days. Blame the weather or carriers. I can't remember a prime order that wasn't picked and shipped the same or next business day).
Okay that would solve a lot. I hope he passes the entire text into his EncryptBlock method instead of just a block.

I'm not sure, but even if it uses CBC internally, the encryptions might still be broken by comparing the first block of each encrypted message, if messages are encrypted with the same password (which is very likely). I've always heard that the IV may never be static.
Not inherently true, volume by itself is no guarantee of stability. In markets, volatility can and often does skyrocket on large increases in volume.

Extremely high volume stocks can be unstable. A classic example would be Sirius, which at times when it was a favorite of day traders would swing wildly while moving hundreds of millions of shares per day.

All you need to create instability in a case of high volume, is enough additional volume. Large volume ups the ante on how much additional volume may be needed to cause instability, but doesn't guarantee anything.
Regardless of whether a customer should credulously take the offer at face value, it does strike me as a clearly deceptive practice to charge an annual fee up front for free shipping, and then to instead of offering free shipping, roll it into the item price specifically for customers of the "free shipping" service. If it were advertised as a "complete price summary" service or something that conveyed how the service actually worked, then it would not be deceptive, but who would pay $80 per year for that service? So Amazon apparently have only been able to sell the Prime service in such high numbers due to the deceptive presentation of the service in advertising.
Great points about customer service and return policies. Also that third party probably isn't shipping is 2 Day either.
They control enough to make any criticism a deadly mistake.
Well they're almost all monopoly currencies (not a reference to the game) that are run by people who can increase the money supply.
I would love to read a follow-up of sign-up numbers after you've been sitting on the top of HN for today :)

We've had some really good luck with HN for sign-ups in the past, and if you're being transparent about it, I'd love to hear how the numbers turn out for you.
Threads are more difficult than writing event-loop based code IMO
Seriously? I have an open-source Matlab project from my time in academia that's been misclassified as an Obj-C project in the past. Less popular languages are used all over, especially for more niche industries.
This shouldn't surprise anyone in the industry. It is more the norm that certain segments of software need to last a long time. This is one of the arguments that we need to switch to a 64-bit time in embedded systems now since the embedded systems being deployed today will probably be still in use in 2038.
I think Ember made a big mistake with the router. The most interesting part of Ember IMHO is the data-binding and the components. With those two things you could do very complicated document-centric desktop-like apps very easily.

If you wanted to make a web app resembling Adobe Illustrator, I have no doubt that Ember is better for the task that any other framework. In fact I did something in that vein which, sadly is an internal tool, using a pre-router version of Ember.

Then the router came along around 1.0, and it make everything too complicated. As the OP says, for desktop-like apps routing makes no sense. Also all the levels of indirection and abstraction makes no sense. I'd like at least to have the option to expose objects globally as I please. What I want is one, maybe two global models and a lot of components that have access to those globals. End of rant.
Seems like more effort than it's worth still to deal with project-specific settings. AFAIK the only two things this practically affects is syntax highlighting and repository stats. That approach would be a good tradeoff though if things are important enough.
"greatly affected" is a bit of an understatement.
Having written nodejs for about an year I would never choose it again if I have given the choice.

* No Error handling. The process has to be restarted if something goes wrong.

* No thread local storage equivalent. As a result you can't do simple thing like differentiate log originated from different http requests.

* Callback makes the code unreadable

* Javascript has no real method or in other words 'this' is not attached to a function and is determined by way the function is called. So you have to wrap most of the callbacks with _.bind()

* Mixing callback, promise and event emitter api introduce lot of boilerplate code.

* No stacktrace. Debugging error is PITA

* No preemptive scheduling. So you have to be extra careful that you
never spend too much CPU time.

* No easy way to handle back pressure.
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Why Meteor doesn't use session cookies
I could only see someone DDoSing other services so that their employer would let them back onto GitHub ;)
Yep, you're condescending. Because "buy 1 get free" may be temporary in which case the buyer is certainly benefitting by the timing of a purchase. I don't really get the Amazon complaint but when I pay $79 per year I get free 2 day shipping that I would not otherwise get. On Ebay, "free shipping" incents sellers into minimizing shipping & handling costs (and buyers strongly prefer it).
Did you complain to Amazon? They are pretty good at making it up to you, given that it is guaranteed 2-day shipping, and them not delivering on that is essentially fraud.
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They aren't fixed by rolling out a new currency if they're just repeating the previous process (printing money aka inflation, backed by nothing, etc).
Assert() is the Documentation that Keeps on Testing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKjxFJfcrcA
Your solution would be a welcomed first step... However the "free market" counter argument is "just buy Android", and it's unclear whether Apple's hardware is "yours"; aren't you renting it from your network operator? Are you free to resell it?

Anyway I maintain that if all of publishing is controlled by private companies that are not answerable to the 1st amendment, then there is not much free speech anymore.

The argument that private companies should be free to not publish whatever they want for any reason applies just the same to hiring; and yet everyone is ok with the fact that companies are not free to refuse to hire someone for any reason: some reasons are acceptable, some are not.

I'm just advocating that there should be acceptable reasons to not publish something (it's bad) and unacceptable ones (we don't like what it says).
I know, I'm clearly stuck in the past.
True. But I'll bet you've heard of Matlab, which also uses .m, and is just as old as Obj-C. Matlab is everywhere in scientific computing.
If Microsoft swallowed their pride and actually released a usable Messenger app for the iPhone 5 years ago, they wouldn't have needed to buy Skype.
If you celebrate at 1:59 today, you get more accuracy than July 22 can provide. I also liked Ryan North's take on the matter: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=955
This is awesome. I was just browsing some of my old files and I found a folder called Soulseek with a ton of old DJ mixes that I couldn't find anywhere except there.

Glad this project is still running. Definitely some gems on there.
Hand over your email address to our database, and we'll tell you how to protect your data, like, say, your email address.
The fact that it's on Quora is irony in and of itself, given that couple of years ago TechCrunch was flooded with 'articles' about it and how it'll take over the world.
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Los primeros síntomas de embarazo
Después que tienes el período menstrual es cuando puedes realizarte las pruebas de embarazo ya que en ese momento se te podrá decir con exactitud el resultado. Cuando algunas de nosotras tenemos sospechas de que podemos estar en cinta, la espera puede ser intolerable. Pero mientras esto sucede debes de prestar mucha atención a los síntomas del embarazo en los primeros días, posteriormente a que se ha logrado la concepción.
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Ok, if you really need some arguments have a look here. You will see that JavaScript has 3 or 4 times the amount of complainants that Python does.

https://wiki.theory.org/YourLanguageSucks

On top of that Python has a solid set of libraries for it. In my experience with JavaScript (admittedly a lot more limited than with Python or Perl), the library support is far poorer. Angular is one of the most popular frameworks out there and the documentation is terrible. Compare that to any major framework in Python or Perl and you will see the difference.
Thanks, I didn't realize they had this policy in writing, as opposed to just being something the customer service could give out when you complain.
It's interesting that this should pop up today. This morning I attended a Google-sponsored event where they spoke a little about GSA.

I'd have assumed that another HN reader was present but I'm in a city with a pretty non-existent tech community and the event only had ~30 attendees, the majority of whom were energy sector CEOs and GIS people.
He uses a unique initialization vector obtained from a cryptographically secure random number generator for each message, so there is no obvious issue with the first block, too.

UPDATE: Not entirely correct, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7400183.
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the software engineer is reviled for completely separate reasons outside the scope of this metaphor.
That has traditionally been the main objection to the google search appliance, or so I have been told - but the site now says the thing supports ACLs. Anyone has experience with that?
We now know more about the economics of prostitution than ever
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I've been where you are...I'm now in my mid-30's. I remember listening to a Tony Robbins tape that talked about asking yourself the right questions and how it shaped our future. For example, if you say to yourself "Why should I do X because after all (insert something negative here)". Instead, what if you were to say "How do I do X and have fun doing it?" What this does is change your personal tone from one of despair to one of hope. Hope is the key. Find your source for hope and you will no longer feel fucked.
I read this as 'prilosec.com' and was like "Yeah, if I worked for a really visible organization, I'd probably have an anti-heartburn medication habit."
WTF is wrong with people attacking github and meetup.

DDoSing a government site I can understand, sure. (Aaaand now I'm on a list.)
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Help find the Malaysian plane by viewing/tagging satellite images
Because Google Cloud Platform https://cloud.google.com/
Wait, how were you able to reply if you were hellbanned?

Unless... wait, are you in on it too?!?
Use Erlang or Elixir then. They have truly isolated process heaps. Processes are lightweight and preemptively scheduled. You can spawn 100Ks of them on a single machine, each with its own isolated heap that can crash and not affect the rest of the system. That is kind of amazing.
Well this is why great engineers should opt more for startups—because you get the opportunity to move the needle directly and everyone can see it.

But I don't think that means management is parasitic. The fact is that at a certain size all organizations need management, and a good manager helps you be productive. Whether you are recognized for that or whether credit gets usurped by your manager is a separate question.
I don't understand the complaint and the article's description is wanting.
Last time I saw someone actually A/B test it, telling users to actually click in the link text was superior in terms of click through rates. So this article doesn't seem to be factually based.
By all accounts it's still full to the brim with incredibly rare records that you can't get anywhere else.

It has the niche for music that doesn't exist as part of any kind of album: unreleased tracks, demos, dubplates and so forth. I guess that's why its napster-style architecture still works. There's a lot of trading that goes on between individual users.
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Yes. I forgot the upfront premium you pay for the opportunity to buy things and get 2 day over standard shipping at no additional cost (at the time of purchase).

The other thing we all are forgetting is that prime membership is more than just "free" 2 day shipping, it includes Instant Prime Video streaming. something many people don't seem to care about. Perhaps Amazon needs to break the two offerings out? Prime Shipping ~ $59 / year, Prime Videos ~ $59 / year, Prime Both ~ $99 / year?
I definitely settled on just speaking to her but it's hard because there are so many screens in front of you. Hopefully I wasn't dodgy.
Im not sure about banking but its worked for a couple local bookies I know