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The $1.8 billion in consumer relief is not actually a penalty, since most of it is money that has already been lost, and is only being recognised now under the pretence of it being a penalty.

> "The consumer relief will be in the form of principal forgiveness for underwater homeowners and distressed borrowers; financing for construction, rehabilitation and preservation of affordable housing; and support for debt restructuring, foreclosure prevention and housing quality improvement programs, as well as land banks."

The principal forgiveness had to happen anyway in the normal course of business, one way or another. If underwater homeowners and distressed borrowers owe you a billion dollars, that does not mean that those mortgages and loans are worth a billion dollars in reality. At best you can realistically hope to eventually be repaid 60% of that (to pick an arbitrary number), given that these are distressed borrowers we're talking about. So writing down those assets in your books to e.g. $600 million dollars does NOT constitute a penalty or consumer relief of $400 million, since your assets were not really worth a billion to begin with and probably haven't been for years.

Same for the rest of the "relief", for example foreclosure prevention is almost always a net positive for the lender. Finding a way for the owner to stay in the house, look after it, and keep repaying whatever they can afford, will usually recoup more money for the bank than a distressed sale at auction (how foreclosed properties are usually sold).

Principal relief for homeowners who are above water and up to date with mortgage payments, now that would be an actual penalty
> Those are due to programmer error.

How does that help? Almost all security vulnerabilities are due to programmer error.

> You don't blame the gun for killing people, you blame the person for shooting it.

It's more like choosing between a gun that makes it really easy to shoot yourself in the foot by accident and one that is safer.
That's quite cool, I like that idea a lot more. I think I'd still rather a currency that didn't rely on burning power as fast as possible, but using that power for good is, well, good :)
This is very logical.
If you are getting paid market salary, then you are closer to an employee than a founder. If he is paying the salary from his pocket, then he's a founder and also an investor.

Does he expect to be paid back or does he want equity from the money he's putting in? If he's not getting paid back, he's buying some of his equity.
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No and no.
If you discard metadata (e.g. EXIF from a camera) upon conversion, they don't come back after "processing". And bzip compresses a single file, not two; it is commonly used along with tar to make compressed multi-file archives.
And please consider changing the favicon perhaps? (letters too small)
I would target employment agencies providing workforce for project companies. Look at the main players active in your field.
This would give you the flexibility to work part time and/or work from home for a defined period of time.
This would allow you to avoid the client acquisition job.
What do you mean "we don't accept this behaviour in economy"? I believe we very much let experts handle the economy. Or are you talking about the fact that it is a widely criticize state of affair?
Dang, why do you allow these off-topic posts that have nothing to do with bitcoin? Do you think news.ycombinator.com benefits from activists bashing "Republicans" in every thread regardless of the topic being discussed?
This must be directly from the "No Shit, Sherlock" Department
This sort of sh*t scares me. Thinking that software is a purely technical endeavor where an expert can always be "right" and thus ignore non experts.
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Ask HN: What's your favourite CRM/Marketing Automation system and why?
Hey HNers.

Doing some research on CRM/marketing automation systems and would like to know which ones are your favourites and why? Also, would like to know if there's anything you dislike about your favourite system.

Cheers.
I've also used https://github.com/josegonzalez/python-github-backup to backup private organizations.
I gave it much more than the already-high recommended amount of RAM. At one point I tested something like 6GB of RAM for 100GB of data.

As far as I know dedup scatters small data chunks by hash across the disk. Absolutely awful performance when your seek times are non-zero. I was looking at speeds in the single digit megabytes per second. Compared to saturating things just fine with dedup off.

I gave it a chunk of SSD for L2ARC and that didn't help either, and it never wrote more than a few hundred megabytes of data to it.

Currently I'm doing out-of-band deduplication on btrfs and it works great. Dedup uses the same copy on write as snapshots do, and causes zero problems.
Shapes and connectors yes. Capacity no.
The logo has also changed quite a bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_logos

The one of the recent iteration removed the symbol from the Klingon alphabet to be replaced by a Geʿez character, along with other changes.
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> Firstly the claim that freebsd has wider testing is utter trash. In terms of TBs installed ZFS on linux >> freenas/freebsd the amount of money behind ZoL is now surprisingly large.

In that case OmniOS (or any IllumOS based) distribution is a much better choice. It has a more full featured ZFS (features not yet ported to FreeBSD or ZoL) and a more complete set of DTrace probes to analyze problems. Moreover it's still the OpenZFS upstream for all intents and purposes, but that may change in the future. On top of that ZFS on Solaris doesn't try to fit into a foreign kernel. I'm not sure but FreeBSD's GELI or Linux's LUKS may be missing on Illumos (but exists in Oracle Solaris 11), so that can be a disadvantage.

If none of Linux, Illumos or FreeBSD is to your liking, you can try ZFS on NetBSD.
<...> emerge with some useful skill <...> :
Learn to make moonshine or any other type of distilled beverage. I really believe that it would be a great trading coin in a apocalypse scenario.
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This capability has been known for many years. From 2006:

>"The FBI can access cell phones and modify them remotely without ever having to physically handle them," James Atkinson, a counterintelligence security consultant, told ABC News. "Any recently manufactured cell phone has a built-in tracking device, which can allow eavesdroppers to pinpoint someone's location to within just a few feet," he added.

Source: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/12/can_you_hear_me....

I believe (but cannot cite) that this capability became mainstream when E911 & GPS was mandated.

This stuff is a big reason why BlackBerry was so critical to regulated industries and public company execs. PIN messaging on legacy BlackBerry was secure between devices on the same BES, and there wasn't a direct linkage to the user's identity, which made it easy to lower the value of metadata collection.

The fact that BlackBerry designed around this early on leads me to suspect (as an outside observer with an imagination) that mass metadata collection was known by folks in industry back in the 90s.
On one hand it's good things like this are written, on the other hand it's a bit of a shame it still gets written. We should have moved beyond that by now, but adoption of modern C++ goes so slow.. Not exactly sure what the reasons are - sometimes it just seems like stubborness to me - I hear 'legacy' often, and yes if your codebase doesn't even compile with the latest compilers than it's a valid argument, but otherwise: it's not exactly hard to interface modern C++ with C-with-classes. Anyway I've worked in multiple teams and after the initial stage of getting overit and doing the right thing none of useever writes code like the 'bad' examples anymore since smart pointers and collections were made commonly available years ago and they solve most of the problems in this pdf.
What does this require more than the previous rules that makes it an "attempt at free marketing"?
Good money are extremely good at tuning your ethics compass.
Interesting. I started biking to/from work and was wondering why going home always felt harder. I suspected it was because my body was a bit tired just from being awake for the past ~8 hours (desk job, so not the work itself) but I never considered mental fatigue to play a part.

I wonder if this extends into the positive as well, do cognitive boosting drugs (nootropics?) enhance your performance.
Only if you value those differences. I'm not even the type to shop at H&M, so it's really hard for me to see value in boutique fashion.
Most modern AMD processors support ECC. It's purely a artificial limitation as they want businesses to buy more expensive processors from the Xeon line.
I like "foss". It's almost universally understood to refer to free software and open source. These two are really the same thing, but just like "cease and desist" or "terms and conditions", a little redundancy doesn't hurt to get the point across.
I only pay Github money to host my private repos because their platform also hosts most of the open source projects I use. If enough of those projects leave for a service that does open source better, I'll be happy to follow them. Otherwise I may as well be using Bitbucket or Gitlab.
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> I'm not sure whether to be more impressed that Linux made an appearance at all only 3 years after entering existence, or that it was apparently stable enough at that point to not be laughed out of the building.

I was young and so was Linux. I was the only available Linux guy at that time in that organization. The site was running some experiments for military training simulators, so it wasn't uncommon to use technology that wasn't yet mainstream. If I remember correctly, it was just being used to translate some data from one system and inject it into another.
What I don't get ... why do people building free software even consider forcing their users and in particular their contributors to use proprietary development tools such as github? (Or, for that matter, exclude people from contributing to their projects who only use free software.)

Next, we'll see public complaints to Microsoft because MS Word doesn't properly support the way they want to maintain their project's documentation?

I mean, sure, feel free to complain all you like, but how is this not exactly what was to be expected from the beginning, and why do you expect them to care in the future, given that you just seem to have realized that they didn't care in the past, for obvious reasons, and given that their incentives haven't changed, and there is no reason for them to change in the future?
Caffeine is pretty popular for pre-workout drinks.
The cameraman sucks.
There is also https://www.freecalypso.org/ which aims to produce libre firmware for the TI Calypso baseband chipset.

Their mailing list is fairly active.
Safe by convention is a ridiculous notion. I think (and I know this isn't a popular opinion here, but I'll say it anyway) that C and C++ are dying horses; these 'modern' versions and 'best practices' are not adequate solutions, evidenced partly by the fact that we can't even agree on what they should be. The next decade is going to see the rise of systems programming languages with static safety guarantees. Personally, I think Rust has a lot of potential, but we will see.
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> When your target platform is an 8-bit microcontroller or an embedded system with hard real-time requirements, your options are very limited.

You mean like the CPUs supported by MikroElektronika's Pascal and Basic compilers?

http://www.mikroe.com/8051/

http://www.mikroe.com/pic/

http://www.mikroe.com/avr/
Unless the zeroing is defined by the language, assuming it t
is incorrect and shouldn't be done.
Complete straw man? Which YC companies are listed on the NASDAQ? Exploit might be the appropriate word, but most of the SV VCs come from tech backgrounds these days, not finance.

Why? All of YC's companies are worth $30 billion, and it's the resounding success? How many deals that big does Wall Street do each week? How big are the biggest hedge funds in terms of AUM? What about average hedge fund size?

I don't think they're "successful jocks" at all, although I'm glad you have no experience there - I know you think all the best PHD's are going to SV but maybe rethink that.

If you can convince an owner to sell his company, and another company's management to buy it, all with a machine, well, then you've pretty much created superintelligent AI and it's not just Wall Street that would need to be worried at that points, it's literally everybody. You think a machine can convince a crusty CEO of a company to give up his empire building, spend more time with his kids, and hey, maybe accept a slightly lower multiple too? Or rather, a machine that calls Goldman Sachs at just the right time to offer them an emergency credit line on terms that haven't been offered before - only after convincing them that these terms are actually favorable to them and that your standing will be able to help hold them up? Perhaps they, too, can make the decision about storing oil for a storage trade - maybe they can vet the vessels, the captains, the port agents, the inspectors, the storage tanks, the insurance companies, the financing banks, and the counterparties, and maybe then they can build good working relationships with all of them in order to get them to fix all their mistakes when they inevitably happen? Will a computer go to a bank executive and actually persuade him that these activities should be profitable and safe, when it's not always such a sure thing they will be? Will a computer know not to blend gasoline to a certain spec because hey, there's a chance I might actually want to blend it with something else because this guy has a position and I think I can talk him into adding to it? What I'm getting at is, it's obvious you don't understand how Wall St works.

Nobody was talking about jocks. I'm talking about the people running hedge funds, private equity funds, investment banks, and trading houses. If you totally fail to see how most of these are social activities to their very core, with numbers there as support, then of course you think it can all be automated.

What you aren't factoring in is Wall Street is probably on the cutting edge of automating work - DE Shaw, where Jeff Bezos worked prior to Amazon, was implementing many of the same statistical methods that are just getting big now, all the way back in the 90's.

So I complained about PG specifically posting pseudoscience, and you come back saying "well how will jocks feel when they're automated." I just don't see this going far.
Tangential, but:

> I don’t mean sticking with a failed idea for too long. That is a mistake I see a lot of entrepreneurs make in the Seed and Series A stages. That does nobody any good.

How do you actually know an idea has failed, though? Because I feel assessing this is harder than he makes it sound. If you are building it, unless it's a complete and utter catastrophe that attracts no users and makes no revenue, there's always room to improve it even if you are still living off ramen.
Almost any feature you build to protect a system from a compromised kernel is, in effect, DRM. DRM and system protection are two sides of the same coin.

Nothing magical happens when your machine gets owned up by malware or exploits. The machine naturally does the bidding of the user, not the owner. When you get compromised, the user changes. Want to defend an ostensibly single-user system from an unexpected and unwanted new user? Congratulations: you're building DRM.
> Because what's going to happen two years down the road when you need to get that code working on a different platform.

And what happens when the different platform handles overflow differently? Or has non-IEEE floats? Or breaks whatever assumption the C standard already makes?

Here's the thing: C is already built on assumptions, which might or might not hold for a specific platform.

Choosing which assumptions we hold true is a pragmatic choice that must be done. C does it, and does it consciously - but it doesn't mean that it nails every choice.
I disagree that the optimal network doesn't waste any energy - any hash attempt that fails is a waste of energy. As more people compete and the difficulty goes up, more and more energy is consumed.

I understand that this is the way BitCoin protects itself. I want to be clear that I am saying I think this is a bad way of doing things. As someone that understands a bit about crypto - most crypto schemes that are hard to break are not hard to break because the encrypting device has worked so hard at encrypting them. They're hard to break because they have been designed in a mathematically sound way.

I hope this endless grind is not something inherent to the idea of decentralised crypto-currency, but if it is I don't think the decentralisation aspect is worth it, and as we see in this article it can be illusory anyway and the amounts of energy involved are pretty huge.

>> Furthermore, all energy expended mining is eventually transformed into heat

This is just such a cop-out!
I really like your explanation, and especially the final analogy. Sets the tone that we should be concerned with figuring out why all those factories are burning down. That shouldn't happen naturally. But you would generally not get in the way of the fire trucks putting the fired out: urgent and immediate help is needed, even if it's costly. Besides, the bill gets sent to the company in the end.
It's true, though I think it's being hugged by HN right now. So that means slow transfers. It took ~10 seconds to get to 115KB. The good part is that the text loaded after the first 615B, so I was able to read it.
A search for "Erlang" showed zero results.
So you're not in the camp of 'the government will help me' but you're in the camp 'a private company will help me' ?

Only you can know what supplies and know-how you will need for the specific disaster scenarios that you might encounter.

I'm sure you don't need more than 2 hours to make a plan and one hour a month after that to buy the things you would need. If you care enough you should be able to find the time.
TrustZone (by itself) doesn't have the attestation or memory encryption features of SGX. On the other hand, I believe TrustZone can reach outside itself. TrustZone is more comparable to Intel's SMM.
It's more like.. a disaster happens, so police response times have lapsed, dropped to days. Not everyone is stranded on their roof, tons of people have food but the real problem is that now heavily armed and well organized drug gangs are able to operate with impunity, and brutality, seizing whatever they wish (including the food)... It's a power-grab situation for a few days, or for however long the power stays off, or it would be, if combat veterans and ordinary Americans weren't so well armed.
The Fed Chief is put there by elected officials. Same for Treasury. Same for most of the regulatory agencies. The economy is very much handled by fiscal, monetary, and regulatory policy, which is handled by individuals that are handled by elected officials.

Seriously, the amount of basic misunderstanding of all things not programming related here on HN is starting to get to me. I can't read these threads without being compelled to correct such obvious errors. If you don't know what you're talking about, at least phrase it in a way so that it comes across as an opinion, or better yet, research before you type. It's ruining the quality of these threads.
I also lift. You're not going to be able to maintain the peak required for PRs week over week. Don't even try. Take the gains as they come, focus on your training, diet and sleep.

If you feel like you're not improving, change something.

Weightlifting is mostly mental discipline, acquired via training. A very large percentage of the increased weight you can move is due to improved form and increased recruitment of the existing muscle tissue. (This is why newcomer gains are so large.)
Yes! FOSSwatch seems to ring really nicely to me as well.
It would be even cooler if Intel itself wouldn't own the private key to decrypt those enclaves remotely.
Some folks like also "FLOSS" term
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I think most people are totally fine with prepping if it's explained in terms of risk management and basic disaster preparedness.

In my eyes it's a fine line based on risk management. It makes total sense to protect against probable disasters, accidents, and threats (power outages, burglaries, weather events, medical emergencies etc). Everyone can easily be convinced of this.

It makes some sense to put some resources toward protecting against outlier events (100 year storms, riots / widespread violence, great depression level financial instability etc). People can be convinced of this when it's explained in terms of opportunity cost.

It makes no sense to use resources towards protecting against incredibly improbable events. People that have fallback compounds, bunkers in their backyards, multiple years worth of food, and thousands of rounds of ammunition are literally throwing away money.
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That's a,b,c when your pixels are labeled

c b
a d

the same order you write the predictor p = a+b-c.
Indeed, it's too bad that libraries were created as well. Just think of how many other knowledge sharing techniques would have been developed in its place. I know some of the other contenders were "smoke signals", "bird whistles", the list would be longer but I refuse to accept readily accessible, free sources of knowledge. And the smoke signals have been strangely quiet as of late.
Ah, I actually didn't realise this was the case, I've always used `.bind(this)` for this kind of thing.
All of that useless zeroing is very painful from a performance perspective. It just isn't a reasonable option in performance-relevant code like kernels and core infrastructure. The Moore's Law argument doesn't apply because memory bus latencies and case pressure are lasting problems.
I fail to see how re-programming is related to spoofing?
Sure, but if you instead spend them on something "normal" like videogames you've probably also wasted them in an apocalypse scenario.
But that's formal process with input from three parties, not a unilateral decision made by the purchaser. Big difference.
Your $/kWh is important though, $80 in your area could be $200-300 in others