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Re:Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL
on Saturday April 09, 2022 @07:03AM (#30966968)
Well isn’t it better to safeguard things in the British Museum than let them get lost forever?
Re:Why are so many people going ‘goblin mode’?
on Saturday March 26, 2022 @05:39AM (#30810487)
Intentionally dressing and acting like a bum is a very American thing and it’s been a gradual descent towards that point. People used to dress up in suit and ties just to leave their house, a trend that began ending sometime in the 60s.
Re:Ask HN: What tangible benefits did you get from spending time on HN?
on Saturday March 06, 2021 @10:33AM (#26368061)
I learned about Bitcoin from HN in 2011.
Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, ...
on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:48AM (#25941663)
I agree. This seems like illegal market manipulation on the part of Robinhood.
Re:Parlor does not scrub exif data
on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:38AM (#25728687)
Parler*
Re:Just three percent of adults own half of America’s guns
on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @08:31PM (#15405965)
Classic power law distribution.
Re:Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash?
on Monday August 07, 2017 @07:04PM (#14952024)
5% of the returns is the profit being reinvested (for example stock buybacks), 2% is inflation, 2% is real gdp growth.
Re:20 year old jailed for 15 months for encouraging a friend to commit...
on Thursday August 03, 2017 @06:46PM (#14924664)
Well during fraud someone is being misled with false statements, so the victims don't know they will lose money until it's too late. In this case on the other hand, the guy knew he would die when he took his own life.
Re:20 year old jailed for 15 months for encouraging a friend to commit...
on Thursday August 03, 2017 @06:31PM (#14924560)
I would have voted not guilty if I was on that jury. Seems like the First Amendment should protect your right to give advice.
Re:How I implemented my own crypto
on Thursday August 03, 2017 @09:57AM (#14919583)
I disagree. The way you get experience is by trying things. If everyone followed that advice then nobody would learn anything.
Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:51AM (#14838875)
I wonder if they check the usage statistics before getting rid of it? Because surely there are millions of people using it every day. Don't they care about the users?
Re:Big Banks Had a Spectacular Quarter Despite All the Rules
on Friday July 21, 2017 @10:43AM (#14820900)
It's difficult to say if there will be a financial crisis, but multiple current economic indicators are not predicting one any time soon (meaning in the next 6 months).
This isn't counted in those indicators, but also S&P 500 earnings are predicted to go up a lot by December 2018, according to S&P Global. Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Report predicts a 5% annual increase in wealth among all adults globally in the next 5 years.
Houses in major metropolitan areas have gone about 6% annually on average, counting recessions and popping of bubbles. Timing the market could help but it's very difficult. I predict they will keep rising at a 4-7% rate for the next decade, but I could be wrong. A recession is possible but I wouldn't delay buying a house right now. But I would definitely buy within your means and don't expect prices to rise, because the future is very difficult to predict.
Re:CoinDash’s ICO Website Has Been Hacked
on Monday July 17, 2017 @10:59AM (#14789066)
Why is gold worth $5 trillion market cap? If someone steals your gold, you can't even get it back easily.
Re:People Who Hear Voices Could Be on to Something
on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @12:56PM (#14655823)
If you want to hear voices, just take 400-500mg of Benadryl. Enough to hallucinate, not enough to hospitalize you.
Re:Take Naps at Work
on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @07:49AM (#14653294)
Offices are much less natural than afternoon naps.
Re:Diving into the world of hash tables
on Sunday June 25, 2017 @09:24PM (#14633328)
Sets are just like hashes where the value is always "true" for each key.
Re:Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy
on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @10:08PM (#14600127)
If A.I. can't fold my laundry, I wouldn't trust it with my car.
Re:Catfish Programmers
on Thursday June 15, 2017 @06:22PM (#14564966)
>Taking breaks to play games, chat around coffee, or taking a few minutes to walk around the office is a non-existent element of life. An 8 hour work day is exactly that: 8 hours of pure work.
I don't understand how some programmers can supposedly work for 8 hours straight. I often have to take breaks to think about how I want to best implement the next thing, or what exactly I should be working on.
Re:Why Whales, the largest animals on Earth, got so big
on Thursday May 25, 2017 @11:20PM (#14421783)
Well there could potentially be bigger animals in the future.
Re:Where have all the insects gone?
on Friday May 12, 2017 @10:31AM (#14324225)
80% decrease isn't that much on a log scale. 99.99% decrease would be more worrying.
Re:strncpy() is not a safer strcpy() (2012)
on Saturday April 29, 2017 @02:53PM (#14228104)
It doesn't copy the null terminator because it's using memcpy. It's only copying the string without the null byte.
Re:strncpy() is not a safer strcpy() (2012)
on Saturday April 29, 2017 @02:41PM (#14228020)
Your code will only work if malloc() pads with 0s. Otherwise it will be missing the null character at the end of the out string. So I would switch it to calloc() which is guaranteed to pad with 0s. Or use memset to set it all to 0s.
Re:United Airlines Announces Changes to Improve Customer Experience
on Friday April 28, 2017 @02:05PM (#14221681)
>I would be if I was asked to leave after getting on the plane but once the authorities get involved anyone beyond 10 years old should know it isn't time for a temper tantrum.
So it's fine for police to beat up non-threatening people when they don't comply with a business manager's decision?
Re:Should I fire an engineer for working on his side projects during o...
on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:08AM (#14219469)
The biggest problem I see here is that employees can see eachother's screens. Give your employees more privacy and don't treat them like children. Measure them by their output.
Re:Let me take you through my dream office
on Friday April 28, 2017 @08:33AM (#14218857)
Why do you need sprint planning? Just always work on things that are high priority.
Re:‘Stealthing’ Is the Dangerous Sexual Practice That’s on the Rise
on Thursday April 27, 2017 @09:47PM (#14216327)
Doesn't seem relevant to HN.
Re:Swift architecture at Uber
on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:36PM (#14207972)
It seems the Uber app was extremely over-engineered. Call me crazy but I don't think you need 100 engineers to recreate the front-end of Uber.
Re:Prominent Venture Capitalist Chris Sacca Retires from Investing
on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @01:10PM (#14204913)
>I think its your responsibility to keep reinvesting a portion of it in high growth startups.
Well then it wouldn't be your money if you are obligated to spend it on certain things.
Re:Do you have a pointless job? [video]
on Friday April 21, 2017 @10:08AM (#14165726)
>Maslov's theory we have other needs as well
So you think every hunter-gatherer is extremely unhappy?