skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who can afford to are going to begin hiding behind shell corporations. Houses, other assets, etc. will be corporate-owned, with suitable non-descriptive names and corporate addresses.

In fact, this is already occurring, although a prime driver has been a form of trust that reduces taxes particularly inheritance taxes.

I'm not familiar with what e.g. Hollywood celebrities do, but at a guess many of them are likely also doing something similar.

Need to restrict access? Introduce a layer of indirection.
> A better idea, if you're in AWS, is to use a VPC and just VPN into your environment;

Is it though? Is having your (and your co-workers) desktops/laptops/and possibly more directly able to access production servers at a packet level a good idea?

I would posit that it is not. A bastion host can be used to lock down more than firewalls, and reduces the attack surface living on your network considerably.

> VPN terminator in the VPC serves the same purpose as a jump box.

It certainly serves the same network separation purposes a jump box does, but is not able to dictate the access environment nearly as much. If only your jump box has access to servers (and production servers properly filtered), every bit of remote access must go through that single ingress/egress point. And that point can have security policy built-in as well for multi-person teams. For example: I can enforce certain key types being utilized on remote hosts, logging of ssh sessions, etc.

I also agree the "single packet authentication" is silly though. Most bastion hosts these days will be behind VPN already. Just another riff on port knocking really.
I think this is a legitimate question. Personally, it would be cool to scan lists of API's for idea inspiration but this doesn't really provide that functionality. Now what would be cool here, is if the APIs returned here had docs presented on the website with a consistent UX/UI. But then you would need an API for an API :)
Nope, I've never seen it either.
You're either being inane, dense, or you're just plain inexperienced. Coding, like math, has an element to creativity to it. If you don't think math has creativity, you don't know anything about more advanced math. However, despite how technically brilliant, how sublime your solution may be, if it doesn't actually SOLVE the problem you set out to solve, it's not very useful.
I thought the explanation of wave dashing was pretty clear: you jump, and then immediately cancel that jump into a downwards dodge; this makes you slide across the floor. The video explains that in basically those words, and pretty clearly shows that you can wave dash faster than you can run, which gives you greater mobility.

L-canceling was pretty clearly shown to be a technique that cancels the recovery of the move; this is shown by not only the side-by-side comparison, but also the players who literally say "He knew about l-cancelling before us, so he was able to do moves, like, you know, l-cancel his moves to stop the delay on moves before us". They don't explain why it's called "l-cancelling", but that's not going to add more information to the explanation of the utility. It's a documentary, not a tutorial.
> The difference in amount of work accomplished is staggering.

It's a shame this isn't more obvious. I was recently given an old laptop at work as well. So old, that it took 7+ seconds from the time I clicked "Inspect Element" in Chrome for the window to open. It was weeks before a purchase for RAM was made.
Did you see the video of the Unity 2014 presentation? That's a PR push aimed at developers where they have literally nothing concrete to show.
I'm doing development work on a 5 year old laptop with 4GB of RAM. I constantly have performance issues, so I put in a request to bring me up to 8GB of RAM at a cost of $73. My manager says "is it really worth it if you're getting a new machine in four months?"

Well, I guess that just depends on how productive you expect me to be over the next quarter.
>can you clarify on the metrics you were using?

Well, simple click-through rates were the starting point of engagement, and there was much fall-off there. Conversion rates, once on our site, were effectively constant across channels.

I think it's a sheer problem of visibility and intentionality while people are on FB.

>Facebook can actually be a pretty effective tool for building awareness and peaking initial interest...

I'm not sure about this, or at least from a cost-benefit perspective. I think FB ads are much more likely to be completely ignored, so you need many more impressions to build that awareness. And, you know, it's not a pure CPC model, so you're paying even when people aren't engaging.

I think the ads simply drown in the content that people are actually there to consume. FB tacitly acknowledged the issue by attempting to make its ad format more prominent and news feed ads certainly help, however, our experience has been that people are still more likely to ignore (or at least not engage with) a FB ad vs. a search result ad.
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The advantage of the modern approach is that anybody using Twitter or Facebook almost by definition is not in the middle of doing anything useful.
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Best word I can think of to describe it...messy. Liked the old one better.
The apis.json format this looks for contains fields for formats like http://www.swagger.io/ which it could then pull in (or someone else could) to render the docs in line.
Usually but not always. For example, I was just searching for a weather API and apis.io was really helpful.
And the Maps navigate functionality has gone from being so nice it single-handedly justified the cost of a smart phone to just barely working. I tried to use it on a 90 minute trip a few weeks back, and it did brilliant things like try to start me over from my original starting point rather than my last known location when it lost the GPS signal 45 minutes into the trip...
Google is aggressive in recruiting; I still get emails from Google[1] asking if I'm willing to relocate yet (I'm not). If small companies want good people, they're going to have to dedicate some time and effort towards getting those people. I've lost three very good techies to Micron recently. Good talent is out there, you just have to know where to look.

[1] - I'm not bragging or anything; I was declined an offer after my onsite visit, but that was also three years ago.
My go-to practitioner:
Jean-luc Doumont: http://www.principiae.be/X0302.php
I highly recommend his talks (he tours universities in the US quite often) -- they are full of small practical nuggets on data presentation.
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With Docker, in regards to PaaS support, we are expecting developers to bring their own pre-built Docker images. This unfortunately means that we are going backwards and now telling developers that they must create their stack themselves outside of the platform. The low-level system dependencies within the container are once again in the domain of the developer. Time spent figuring this stuff out is redundant, not the best use of this engineers expertise and therefore prone to error.
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These are highly personal associations which I don't share with you at all.
Comparing it with Apple is totally unfair of course.

Even Apple does pre-announcements (e.g. for the iPhone and WATCH) when it makes sense. That said, given that they have patents on some of this stuff, you'd think they'd at least show some demos when they're trying to get developers interested in the technology (see the Unite 2014 presentation).

Personally I think published demonstrations of working products should be a requirement for obtaining patents (and, where appropriate, source code should be placed in escrow and released when the patent expires).
Congratulations to all involved with libuv for creating such a nice piece of software!
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It isn't specified in our version since a founder buys all the gifts, but you could just say in the thread "who wants to order it?" or come up with a more specific method.
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Is there any sort of standard for describing protocols?

It seems like the sort of thing that would be developed for high throughput screening, but that's a pretty limited case.
Yeah, as a dev I would have to get some huge book of specs. It would make things very tedious. And, of course, take a huge amount of time to create and follow.
The parallax can only be used for things inside this galaxy (and until very recently, only in our immediate vicinity within). It's the very first step outside the solar system in the cosmic distance ladder. Other methods must be used outside the galaxy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder
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How old are you? People's views do change.

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

― Muhammad Ali
For me the climate and people are more important than the pay strip. I'd choose something like the south of France, the region of Provance, cities like Avignon, Manosque or Grenoble (if you are into skiing).

I'd dessuade you from living in the Northern Europe.

I lived in Denmark for a year and I'd not go to Scandinavia but for holidays ever again.

The taxes are so high it's almost not worthwhile to make any effort or try harder.

These countries have one of the smallest income gap between those who earn the least and the rich. On the top of that it's dark, cold, the language is difficult to pick up, stores close early on the week days and are closed on Sundays.

Read about "Law of Jante" on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante

Everything is damn expensive. Owning a car is a luxury.

People are friendly, but that means just "helpful" kind of friendly, not necessarily friendly like in "warm, carring and thoughtful". At least that's my impression.

They drink a lot and drinking is a must if you want to socialise. The stereotype of drinking Russians should be superseded by the drinking Danish youth. Perfectly dreadful.

The original Legoland in Billund is closed in winter :(

And trains are often late.

However, the nature is fabulous, and the streets and houses are meticulously clean. And these countries were not destroyed during the great wars - the last time Copenhagen was besiged, bombarded and plundered was in the times of Napoleon in 1807 - unlike Berlin or Dresden. That gives the city a special ambience.

On the other hand in Provance it is warm most of the year and you can easily get to Rome or Paris, or pay Spain a visit. And it has Alps and Mediterranean and palm trees all no further than 70 km drive!
Secret sharing systems are a good solution to this.

I wrote a basic command line only one[1] a few years ago, but command line UI doesn't really make for "usable by everyone". It would be nice if there were something like this that had a good UI.

1. https://github.com/ryancdotorg/threshcrypt
I wonder why the prices are low compared to the expected returns?

Perhaps there aren't many buyers out there, or there are just too many stolen CCs that the market is swamped by them.

OTOH, maybe the payoffs for CC fraud are actually lower than you might expect... could the banks be getting better at blocking cards sooner?
Awesome. Thanks for digging that up!
So add comments (or updated answers) on the original questions/answers. Those are the ones with the search engine juice anyhow!
Main thing that's useful is that if it can pull in all the elements (def portal, specs, etc.) you get deeplinks to everything. Google also doesn't help finding some APIs easily since it just treats it as content or they aren't linked.

In the long run hopefully a lot of the fields in the apis.json files this pulls on will be machine readable (e.g. meta-data for things like major T&C provisions), pointers to libraries etc. so you could filter on that.
> pretty clearly shows that you can wave dash faster than you can run, which gives you greater mobility.

If they did show that then they showed it without even pointing it out. I do remember them saying something about a jump and a slide, but that part was very fast, and even after looking at that bit again i can't see where they show the comparison to normal running.

> this is shown by not only the side-by-side comparison

Again, only shown for an extremely short time. By the time i figure out which one was showing the L-cancel they were done with it already.

> They don't explain why it's called "l-cancelling", but that's not going to add more information to the explanation of the utility.

You think that. I do not.

> It's a documentary, not a tutorial.

There can also be a middle ground. This documentary utterly aims at one extreme though.

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More importantly note that these two things, and the explanation of the percentage, are the only times they actually bother to explain anything about the game in the first two episodes.
So what are you suggesting?

Contemplative meditation?

Spirituality?

Religion?

All these may or may not increase happiness, but they certainly to not increase one's closeness to the truth that is reality, although they certainly seem to have the effect of making some people feel like they are closer to the truth. But if these things do uncover truth, why does there seem to be so many difference versions of the truth?

As for my thoughts on the matter, people get overwhelmed by reality, and that's OK. Life is such a harsh and stark thing at times no one can be blamed for feeling the weight of a limited existence.
Using user agent sniffing for responsiveness...
I think you meant "gorgeous and usable" UIs but that's a pretty funny typo.
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"I plan to have fun without encombering myself with things that would reduce my freedom"

Be careful with that. It sounds like an objective function heavily weighted toward one particular conception of one value ("freedom") among many. It might be smart to diversify your portfolio.
How "immoral" is it really, facilitating the sale of stolen CC info? Clearly, it is a bad thing to do. But it seems to me that the CC companies are at least as much to blame for having such a crappy system. Anti-fraud is one of the few things that they can point at as justifying their exorbitant fees for sending a couple of packets. The fact is, their system allows fraud and they are not doing anything about it.
How does the volume of water needed differ from the ambient temp vs the chilled temp?
I guess two reasons:

- the population density of extra-galactic stars is super low

- outside our galaxy we're only discerning a fraction of the biggest nearest stars anyway

You're looking for the odd ball at the remote end of a huge concert hall packed with regular balls.
Thanks for those two suggestions -- will take a look at both.

What I particularly liked about Jure's article was his storytelling -- the TL;DR at the start is a great hook, as is the link with the New York subway signage, and so when he gets to the scientific figure standards (and presents a very thorough commentary) you're interested enough to take in the details.
No, that's what I see too, though I can't will myself to not see it.
I get a stronger effect with the colored version on this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebbinghaus_illusion
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I completely agree. Another bad design is bathrooms. I think they should be designed and be sealable like the inside of a giant dishwasher, and then just turn on a cleaning cycle to clean the entire bathroom.
I agree, we should show more examples.

AQL was indeed inspired by XQuery. We made some user acceptant tests at the very start and used a version which was using keywords from SQL and a more descriptive approach with keywords from programming languages. At least our test users were mostly confused by a similar SQL-syntax but slightly different SQL sematic.

We talked to the JSONiq guys. They had a look as XQuery and AQL and made a similar decision.
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It's a non-profit serving the public interest so I had assumed donations from individuals and foundations would be a bigger source of revenue. It looks like they have collected less than $2.2 million in the 8 years covered by the financials. This is nothing for a organization that spent $150 million last year.

I hope they got a generous deal from Yahoo - who has a ton of Alibaba cash burning a hole in their pocket - but the fundamentals of a shrinking desktop advertising market and share don't look good.
You're right, but the journalist probably selected that word for the 'Science!' association with the QM term.
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It looks like it's part of Equifax, which also does credit reports -- they already have name, address, social, etc. Not sure how they would get the salary info, though, unless the company or the IRS disclosed it.
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> “In three years of research and talking to hundreds of people and everyday users, I don’t think I heard anyone say once, ‘I love Facebook,’ ”

Does anyone really buy this? Who cares what people say? It's all about what they do. People say a lot of things. It's cool to not love FB. Yet somehow, some way, it remains one of the most addictive and stickiest products for an ever-increasing and huge number of people.
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Why I hate (and love) visualizations of mathematics
So if it's not propaganda they will not air it?
I also started to read the article and one every third sentence thought "if it were true, Carmack would already work on that and tell us all."

It does sound suspicious to assume that they magically solved these hard problems.
$150-$200/month from ads on a few simple web apps to generate international shipping documents. Needed something better to use at my regular job, so I made my own. Turned out to be a decent demand for them (few hundred visitors each day). Narrow niche targeting businesses, so that helps with search engine rank and per-click Adsense value. Might be the potential to productize it.
so if I am reading this right this is a potential competitor to patreon?

Interesting concept. Let me pay some money that gets split between the sites I actually visit and get out of seeing ads - I wonder how many users of adblock today would use this instead. I guess the problem is that google isn't the only ad network.
Couldn't they just access the data directly from the databases?

Something they couldn't access then. Are they talking about passwords for 3rd party services? Or perhaps passwords for encrypted hard drives?
Or management that continues to blindly believe everything that is free on the internet is absolutely worthless in terms of quality and support. And forces you to clone already existing freeware tools -_-
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> "Writing good specs is important" - it's also really really hard.

Yes, this is a very good point. Unfortunately it's also a point that many non-software developers miss. Writing software is hard. Very hard. We, as an industry, should be pointing that out more.

> But if you're doing agile properly, you shouldn't consider a user story a 'spec' - a user story should be a placeholder for a conversation.

I'll submit that there's no way to know whether you are doing agile properly or improperly, unless you move to another company.

> It is unrealistic to expect a non-technical stake holder to deeply and accurately describe anything but the most trivial feature. It needs a developer mindset to poke the idea, see what holds water, see where it falls apart, foresee the consequences.

This smacks of elitism and it is what makes non-developer scoff at us. Developers are not gods, we're not even the smartest people.

We are simply the people that have to crystallize the requirements into a computer that only understands logic. Non-tech stakeholders can completely describe business requirements and also be made to understand the how their requirements fit into the logic of a computer. Non-technical people are not stupid, they just have different interests.

> You can't do that in a spec. It needs to be a conversation.

The spec is the output of the conversation.

> Have a conversation, understand what's needed, build good software.

And this is the most important thing said.

The trick with adhering to your statement is to define the parties involved in each step. Minimize those parties and then implement each step in order as fast as possible without sacrificing quality.

Remove the word "Agile" and the concept of software development, and what you've just described is how work has been completed for thousands of years. I fail to see how Agile comes into play.
If any of your personal info is on the internet, it has already been saved where you cannot remove it. This is a personal conundrum I have been trying to wrap my head around, especially as it relates to pictures of my kids I'd like to keep offline (but other people take pictures of them and upload them, and it's too late at that point...)

A company I'm familiar with was attacked by a blackhat. He sent the company owner all his personal information including SSN, address, etc. It scared the owner enough to pay off the blackhat, but he also asked the blackhat how he got his information. The blackhat sent the owner a website that you can go to, pay around $4 in bitcoin, and search for anyone's information.
https://www.arangodb.com/key-features#aql does a relatively good job explaining it. The examples are all fairly simple, in a real world app you have much more complicated queries and it's here where arango really shines imho. With SQL it's very easy to write inefficient queries by accident, whereas AQL is a lot more explicit.
I see. So I still can't quite jump right in and start making a basic app. No worries!
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It's kind of like expecting people to go "i love my shopping bags".
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It's because actually cashing out is extremely risky.
Very cool idea!

Maybe make it so that teams of people get assigned to giftees, but maybe not _everyone_? So that, if I want to play with 12 friends, there aren't 12 separate email threads I need to track. Instead, give me 4 (or an adjustable) number of giftees.
I hope you're doing anything@subdomain.example.com otherwise you'll get catchall spam.
In my experience of building new things, rather than modifying existing ones, "Changes" would make less sense, as there is little or nothing to change.
Calling fwknop "hand-rolled auth" seems like quite the stretch. If passing around requests via GPG signed and encrypted messages is "rolling your own crypto", then what isn't hand-rolled?
Deciding not to have kids to get more freedom is an oxymoron. You are just saying you are not free to have kids and pursue other ventures.
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