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> bad manners will be corrected. I guarantee that.

We'll hold you to your words. Do so, or the downvotes will follow. ;).
It was in there for a long time, just nobody used it.
You should indeed enable two factor authentication and not only on gmail. It is also good practice to enable account login notifications.
I've just pulled a load of expired my Amex cards. It looks like I got the incrementing digit wrong. On my cards it's the 4th from last that increments. UK Amex FWIW.
More good stuff from 1992:

I wanted to see how much he actually knew about the part so I mentioned
that it was difficult to interace anything to it because the address bus does
not go tristate except during Reset; unfortunately the internal Data RAM is
dynamic and does not get refreshed during Reset. I had, of course, developed
several very successful techniques for interfacing to it.

He said he didn't know anything about it but would look into it and get back
to me.

I informed him that I hadn't asked him a question, that instead, I had told
him something.

This guy doesn't know anything and he doesn't listen. He is an idiot.
Steve Jobs could come back from the dead and he would be utterly helpless to revive the abject piece of crap that is Yahoo.
The President's role as Commander in Chief is arguably not a power, it's a restriction on Congress's (express) authority to regulate the military, to wit, that such regulation cannot make ask our last of the military independent of Presidential command; aside from that restriction, Congress's airport to regulate the military is plenary, so exactly what the powers of the CinC are is wholly dependent on Congress's regulation.

Also, Judicial review is simply resolving alleged conflicts between laws, particularly questions of whether laws are invalid because they contravene laws which have superior precedence under the Constitution. This is obviously within the scope of resolving controversies arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States; there's no need for every particular kind of controversy or method of resolving it to be enumerated.
“Gadget” denotes a different range of tools through the 20th century (2011)
Meh, they started proceedings to deport me over a year after I got my citizenship. tl;dr I moved a few months after getting my citizenship and the INS didn't realize I had become a citizen and got irritated that I didn't notify them of the move.

The INS/DHS is hopeless.
Wouldn't it cost more to go through with deportation (and risk people going into hiding instead), rather than just process them with priority again? Then again, maybe it's too reasonable for strictly applied law?
Facebook’s Internet.org: Zuckerberg elides the facts
> That willingness depends on judges at least justifying their decisions in terms of broadly-accepted rules.

Backed by force.
#SlackDown: A lesson in brand interaction
Late 1900 is the '80s and '90s.

The stuff you linked to is from the 1800s.

Maybe you meant 19th century?
Here's another funny bit:

To: Rick Moncrief	1 of 4
Fr: Jed Margolin
Re: Status Report
Dt: 15 June 1992

"... CUT ... "

Texas Instruments
-----------------
Phil Davis, the TI guy they gave me so I wouldn't bother Thom Dempsey, came to
see me without an appointment.

When I went out to the lobbly he explained that he had actually come to see
someone else and thought he might as well see me, too. (That me me feel
really special.)

I asked him if the 128Kx8 VRAMs had been production released yet. He said
he didn't know anything about it but he would look into it and get back to
me.

I asked him if they had evaluated the dead P15s yet. He said they hadn't
been able to work things out with Rich Moore because of his recent trip out
of the country.

I explained to him that we had been using the P15 for security and no longer
had a use for it since it had been ripped. He expressed surprised because
he seemed to think it was such a terrific part that we were using it to
run the game.

I wanted to see how much he actually knew about the part so I mentioned
that it was difficult to interace anything to it because the address bus does
not go tristate except during Reset; unfortunately the internal Data RAM is
dynamic and does not get refreshed during Reset. I had, of course, developed
several very successful techniques for interfacing to it.

He said he didn't know anything about it but would look into it and get back
to me.

I informed him that I hadn't asked him a question, that instead, I had told
him something.

This guy doesn't know anything and he doesn't listen. He is an idiot.
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Maybe it's the difference between "Right now it costs..." and what it cost in 1995? Also it's not clear if it's expedited with the lawyer, or was there some program to actually get it expedited with immigration - that could cost extra.
Granted it's a very different beast, but this site puts the native Slack Android app to shame. Smooth like butter. I'm not bitter at all. Especially not bitter after I used the iOS Slack App. Okay, maybe a little.
The "24 August 1992" one was good too.
yes but markets these days are anything but free - with the fed (and its equivalents around the world) fixing the price of money then doing their Quantitive Easing tricks I would argue that we have a highly manipulated market now. On top of that the bailing out of banks etc also show that the market isnt free.
> People in this thread are acting as though they were already awarded $15 million.

I don't think so. Personally, if they got awarded $15 million, I would be pissed off at the jury. I'm angry at the kid's family for having the chutzpah to ask for that much money.
> We'll air it out by having Thanksgiving dinner at your house again this year, because none of your kids can afford homes big enough to hold everyone.

That and we can't afford to have our own kids...
Hard labour: the case for testing drugs on pregnant women
Yahoo started as a couple of people who said "This internet thing has a lot of content now, let's try to organize it for people." They should go back to doing that, and throw 20 years worth of technology and cultural growth at the problem. Along with as much manpower and machine learning tech as hundreds of millions of dollars can buy.

I do enjoy the drama of the Mayer Saga, but it doesn't seem like any of Yahoo's attempts at innovation are working. They shouldn't be competing with Google in search. They should be redefining search. Some times the best way to change the game is to go back to basics. Of course if I knew exactly what that looked like, I would be too busy walking the path to wealth to write hn comments. But it does seem like Yahoo isn't doing anything innovative right now. Their most valuable properties, mail and the yahoo home page, are simply good enough versions of products that have become commodities. They began by offering a service that no one else was providing, and have ended up being relegated to being the internet's generic alternative to everything.

It's Hail Mary time. If I were in Mayer's position, I would find a way to burn a few hundred million dollars of the alibaba money on a moon shot before the board had time to vote me out. The odds against may be overwhelming, but it's better than slightly slowing the angular velocity of their circle around the drain. With the recent tone of press articles about her tenure and what that does to an executive's reputation, I don't see what she has to lose.
Although the 20th century wasn't peaceful by any means, there is some evidence that violence has decreased proportionally to the population. Steve Pinker's well researched The Better Angels of Our Nature is a good tome on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...
If you read between the lines, it appears the author's father was bribing an INS official, albeit he claims his father did it unknowingly.
The latest IE for Vista SP2 looks to be IE9, so it looks like it'll continue to receive updates. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle#gp/Microsoft-I...
Apparently they are blocking "deep" links. In chrome, clicking in the url and pressing enter seems to work to reset the referrer (reloading does not).
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I'm pretty sure that, aside from the magstripe security issue, that practice (grades left in public identified by SSNs and/or student ID #s) has been a FERPA violation forever. Or since the 1970s, at least.
I spent a few years as a management consultant. Consultants are almost never hired to provide truly objective analysis. In most cases, they're hired to "back-up the viewpoint of a given executive". This is done by the executive to hedge the political risk required to go through with their action. They can point to McK when they defend their strategy to the board and then throw them under the bus if things don't pan out.

The rewards for the consultant are high fees and living a luxe lifestyle of staying at high end hotels, traveling first class, and dining at michelin starred restaurants (all of course on the client's dime). Plus of course guaranteed future work. Even if the project tanks and the executive is fired, they'll be sure to hire McK again at their next gig.

What most people don't realize is that consulting engagements are a careful collaboration between consultant and client. The findings are almost always driven by an iterative process where you go through review cycles with the buyer until you reach your "objective" conclusions, which by the very nature of how the work is performed, is totally subjective and biased. Doubly so for turnaround projects like this one. (not to mention that consultants are constantly trying to recycle previously performed analysis, regardless if it at all fits or applies in the target project).

Management consultant is the biggest circlejerk profession. Even moreso IMO than ibanking. Classic self-serving MBA type job. Management consultants are to entrepreneurs what food critics are to chefs.
How many stars does Maialino have?
I have an application that generates html export for display in a browser. One of the requirements of the application is that it needs to be able to run on computers with no external network connection.

I recently had to add some auto-scrolling capability to the display to support projector display. Users need to be able to copy the html file to usb devices, and so it wasn't really in the cards to use external images for buttons, so I simply embedded svg images for the play and stop buttons.

It worked well.
Well that was an unpleasant read and it sounds like an absolute horror story for this group of people.

I, for one, am at a loss as to a solution for antics like this. It ends up affecting the entire community when police and fire personnel are being called to locations where no crime or fire is occuring, schools are being put on lockdown, and small businesses and franchises are making orders for people who did not desire to purchase their products. And the idea of having your utilities shutting off is pretty harrowing.

What do you do at this point? I'm surprised they haven't lifted roots, changed names, and moved but that's a tall order.

If they used very generic names like John Smith they'd likely be able to escape into obscurity regarding searches. They could proceed to stay off social media.

But is that a solution? Or forcing innocent people to abandon their lives they spent so long building up for the spat of two teenage/now young twentyish age kids?

We're starting to see two factor authentication become a thing more and more often, and password managers. These seem like they could help a lot of people tremendously but when companies value security over convenience people are probably far less likely to use their services en masse.

And of course where would the advertising revenue come from if client information was too strongly protected.

How intractable is this issue? And will there be a day when an 18 year old from halfway around the globe won't be able to destroy a family over a period of years? And if that day comes, what does it entail for individual liberties and privacy?
What more agreeable syntax could you possibly ask for?
By avoiding triggers, that demotivate you. I see myself as a stupid machine, which behaves like it does in certain situations. If you want change in the long term, you have to change the situation and preconditions instead of trying to reprogram the machine, that will follow. Exercise, eat healthy, sleep enough, see enough sunlight, do what you like. If you have a setback, try to find out, how it started and try to avoid that situation, don't try to master it.
How the Internet talks
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To some degree of people who have fought through this and came out alive. In a competitive situation with someone who got through that a lazy normal person like me would have no chance of survival.
Doesn't seem to have much market share:

https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...

IE8 still has over 10%
Django: user-specified date formats allows disclosure of SECRET_KEY
Backdoors (1997)
Sigh I blame Microsoft's confusing description:

> What is end of support?
Beginning January 12, 2016, only the most current version of Internet Explorer available for a supported operating system will receive technical supports and security updates. Internet Explorer 11 is the last version of Internet Explorer, and will continue to receive security updates, compatibility fixes, and technical support on Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10.

Not a single mention of Vista/etc.
IBM Turns Up Heat Under Competition in Artificial Intelligence
It remains though that defaulting to seeking forgiveness from a third party, rather than the aggrieved, was one of the revolutionary ideas that allowed Christianity to spread very quickly from its inception.
There are a lot of businesses that use older versions of Windows and use Internet Explorer as their default web browser and use group policy from a Windows Server to prevent the install of a third part web browser. Forcing everyone to use IE.

They will be vulnerable to attacks because of this and they will refuse to pay money to upgrade from XP or Vista to go to Windows 10. It will be because their business software only works with older Windows versions. They can't afford someone to migrate to Windows 10 or they lost the source code after programmers retired or got fired and took it with them on their personal laptops because they lacked a source control system.

It is a big mess out there. Colleges are even worse as is the federal government who use outdated Windows Updates by three years and expired antivirus products.
DX12 is already here, they really need to hurry up and ship Vulkan.
> They shouldn't be competing with Google in search. They should be redefining search.

Yahoo is hardly trying to compete with Google in search; they have literally been outsourcing search to Bing for several years now.

The problem is that they're trying to figure out what they should be doing instead, and struggling.
If you enjoyed this paper, you'll likely enjoy this: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/for-a-new-liberty/id380...
The author addresses this:

> It’s possible to nitpick RISC being a no by saying that modern processors translate x86 ops into RISC micro-ops internally, but if you listened to talk at the time, people thought that having a external RISC ISA would be so much lower overhead that RISC would win, which has clearly not happened. Moreover, modern chips also do micro-op fusion in order to fuse operations into decidedly un-RISC-y operations.
_If you want people to stay, give them a decent financial incentive._

Nah. That doesn't work (assuming you're already paying well). Best people will consider this a sign of desperation and leave, and bottom of the barrel will stick around for stuff to vest. Fail/fail.
As someone who is not an obsessed foodie but leans in that general direction, Yelp is better than throwing darts (especially if you read some reviews in addition to looking at the ratings) but it's not great. Zagat is still better although there's a lower barrier to reviews than there was.

Yelp is just more mass market and probably skews to more of a young nightlife crowd than I am part of. Given sufficient volume of reviews, I don't find Yelp to be bad but it's not ideal either.
The 20'th century was probably the bloodiest only because of advanced technology.

Just imagine Attila the Hun with tanks and nukes.
Swatting wouldn't happen if police were a bit more measured in their responses.

Absolutely. It's shameful that HN has become so bootlicking in its love for authority that you've been downvoted this severely.
You do realize that "gigantic load of bovine excrement" describes, like, 90% of Silicon Valley, right? :-)
Can anyone explain the legality of building and using one of these (for your own cards, obviously)? I know there are similar appliances, but do they need to be accredited?
Interesting that the meta tag for this page is "end-of-xp-support"
Ask HN: How many startups are you working on?
I often have two or three projects going on @ once, however, I know that some people pour 100% into one project. Just wanted to see what others thought about this.
Since when does "if you read between the lines" mean "infer the exact opposite of what the author stated"? The author wrote that his father ended up being a key witness to convict Daniel Lee.

The story clearly states that the green cards were legally obtained through the father's work (see fourth paragraph).
Related submission about unikernels from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10603915
> They're paying you to take a ticket. That ticket then gives you an option to ride an airplane. Ticket use is not mandatory, not even ethically.

Fair enough, though I still feel there's an ethical problem with creating waste / disutility.

> I don't understand your optimization comment.

I was thinking about something like this: there are people who want to travel from B to C, but not enough to warrant a new route (or increase in service on that route). So the company figures, if they can get more people to travel from A to C by offering a cheaper ticket, they can bundle them together at B and now there's enough people on B->C route that it makes sense to fly it (more often). I'm also assuming that B acts as a hub - it makes no sense to have direct route between every city due to combinatorial explosion. So here, the cheaper A->B->C ticket exists to attract new people willing to go from A to C.

I guess you're right if you only look at the money made directly on tickets. I don't know if, and how often, airlines get subsidies based on the amount of people they move around but if they do, then having planes flying half-empty may be a loss for them. But personally, I don't consider the money earned by the airline as the most important variable. What matters more is, IMO, the amount of passengers being transported. More people getting to fly = better.

> I also don't understand your "flying privately" comment.

I don't know what's the usual short phrase to refer to people like tourists, who travel in their personal capacity - for leisure, to study abroad, to visit their family, etc. - as opposed to business travellers, who travel to make money, and whose tickets are often paid by their company.

A lot of price discrimination is designed around getting the business customers to subsidize the "casual" ones. My point was, as casual flyers, we wouldn't be able to afford the ticket if it was priced fairly. Pricing discrimination in airlines generally works in favour of ordinary people.
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I don't understand how people like my roommate got into the US with minimal funds and no degree. He's from a village in Russia and just came here on his own, and works as a barista about 30 hrs/week. No lawyers or anything. He's been here for eight years. He said he worked at a national park first, but overall said the process of getting here (and staying) was pretty easy.
NeXT effectively replaced Apple's leadership post-1996. Arguably NeXT affected the single most successful 'reverse takeover' of all time.
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I take issue with the title. His father bribed an INS official. Maybe unknowingly, but the author's excuses for his father don't completely wash. $45k for an "expedited" green card, in 1995? Come on, you know something shady is happening at that point. That's $70k+ in today's dollars.

IANAL, but I think immigration generally operates under strict liability, not mens rea. So regardless of whether his father knew he fucked up, his father was at fault. Same way a chemical plant has to pay damages if it poisons the community, whether or not they intended to hurt anyone.
You could have used a data: URI
Not that the article is particularly detailed, but squinting at the clock diagram for Wave Semi, it appears to be a some kind of token passing, where the token is the clock.

I guess this question is for the semi- folks out there: given any n-bit boolean function, for smallish n, is there a way to implement the function so that the output is rock-stable (within reason) and only flips if given an input flip the corresponding function flips?

Because, if not, I don't see how this clock passing system won't require factoring in logic delay.

I'm sure a lot of details have been elided. Also, if it isn't apparent, I have no logic design knowledge.

All I know, from an outsider's perspective, having a global clock is ludicrous. When will designers finally kill it?! Us software people have had to kill the concept of intrinsic clocks with our consensus protocols for a while now...
> If my results are different at all I would need to notify people downstream.

Presumably your API says what types of data the caller should expect. As long as you don't change that, they should be able to deal with the response changing.

But really it's more about the fact that if you have a single monolith, if you want to make a change, you have to coordinate with everyone at the company, whereas if you have microservices, you only have to coordinate with those who are affected by the change.
AnimalMuppet tied a ribbon around my somewhat unfocused answer! Thank you, AnimalMuppet. Mobile phone limitations kept me from adding the desperately needed context.
DX is not nor ever will be there. It's a proprietary MS platform only API which will never target the range of platforms vulkan aims for.
If you aren't willing to invest in maintaining your infrastructure then it will start to fail.
Response: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/3u68oo/coinbase_ceo_re...
They've said they're aiming to ship just before the end of the year.

If its on-time, it should be released in the next month or so.
Yes. Also Vancouver & Northern Cal. Have Chinese family & am involved in a fair amount of real estate. For reasons I don't quite understand, real estate people are too polite to say that the vast majority of cash transactions in some areas such as Vancouver, Seattle, and Silicon Valley are from China (and Russian in other areas).