skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Don't dismiss the tracking cookie so quickly. Every dirty marketing technique you've ever heard of from Evercookie to using eTags to accomplishing the same thing make it easier to get "device ids" and coalesce that information to fraudulent user ids as well as the accounts, ips and transactions associated with them.

Most of the more "serious" types use setups similar to FraudFox that defeat systems like these (Although this too causes detectable patterns, new customers with 0 tracking cookies putting in orders less than 30 minutes after initially hitting the site are probably fraud). Don't forget that the Pareto principle applies here, to be able to perform large scale fraud you need lots of cards which requires investment which requires that you're successful.

>Services like MaxMind go a very long way in identifying proxies or Tor nodes as well.

Nobody uses Tor, at best that'll prevent some kids using public proxies (which are worth stopping mind you, but that generally only accounts for a small fraction of the fraud). MaxMind is a joke and struggles against stuff like vip72, and has absolutely no chance against anything more sophisticated than that.

To be honest you could probably replace MaxMind with DNSRBLs and do just fine

>The flip side of that is that actively engaged attackers become easier to identify in terms of patterns of behavior and leaving trails to alert authorities.

Authorities do not give a shit, they might go after card shops but they definitely aren't going to do anything about some guy doing orders to Russia.
Cool, is there an ETA on 2.0?

I remember not being able to find much of a roadmap when I was doing this evaluation, but that's probably just my fault.
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EDIT: Actually, nevermind. Does not matter in the grand scheme of things.
(I'm not an EE, so if anyone knows better?)

Oddly, never had the same problem with a phone USB charger. Which is the opposite of what you'd expect: the USB chargers seem to be entirely solid-state, using flyback transformers[1], while the larger power adapters have room for a real wire-wrapped ring transformer[2], which should be providing better electrical isolation. (I would never expect to be shocked by dirty power coming through an induction ring.)

[1] http://www.righto.com/2012/05/apple-iphone-charger-teardown-...

[2] http://www.righto.com/2015/11/macbook-charger-teardown-surpr...

But if it is the device itself that was faulty, rather than the input power, it's a different story; in that case you want at least some valid ground path, and complete isolation is bad (because then the device will ground through you, obviously.)

Maybe it's just that the power adapter block has a separate ground path and expects to ground it into a dedicated ground pin (and, I guess, leaves the ground pin disconnected when a two-prong adapter is connected? That seems wrong-headed), while the USB chargers, made to assume two-prong usage, mix ground with positive.
"Traffic safety is equally important for poor people and for people with money. But traffic fines, as they are typically imposed, inflict far more pain on poor people."

The first part of that is quite an assertion. Richer people probably have newer cars (thus benefiting from newer safety features), better maintained cars, bigger cars, live in areas with less traffic, have better access to healthcare, and can afford to take time off due to injury. In addition, their jobs overall are probably less physically demanding.

I wonder if that's a good part of why they aren't doing things that would cost taxpayers money, like re-engineering roads to improve safety and lower speeds?
You are correct. I was responding more to this:

> easy to install, relatively easy to use, with good reliability, for experimentation
Empirically, all historic efforts to alleviate the heartlessness of market forces with centralized planning ("us" making necessary changes) have resulted in even worse and more heartless outcomes for even more people. Talk to some Cubans, Russians, North Koreans, or East Germans about how that whole process turns out.

It's not that the free market solution is great. It's that all other possible solutions are even worse.
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Prehaps a better approach would be to convince Myhrvold to gift the machine to the CHM in his will?
You kind of made my point there. This pricing structure will deter anybody from competing in the market that cannot absorb the cost of making it onto the good boy list.
> This rule would unfortunately favor employers in high cost-of-living areas over low COL ones

> It also incentivizes putting as much of the compensation in salary as possible, and as little as possible in other benefits.

Both of these to a pretty ridiculous degree. You would have issues with companies like Amazon (who pay reasonably well and so far as I know don't abuse the H1-B system) getting screwed because they either don't pay as much in cash (they like a stock heavy comp model) or because they aren't paying people bay area money.
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Ah, I guess if you do want to game the system there is plenty of room to do so.
Huh, thanks for the link, I hadn't seen this talk of his. We take a ton of inspiration from the work done the 70's and 80's before we decided exactly what "computation" meant. There were so many great ideas that elevated what we could do with computers, it's sad that 40 years later we're sitting here trying to rediscover them.
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> Afaik newer versions of messagepack added an extra type to have string and binary now seperated.

The problem is that the 'str' type contains arbitrary binary data in an unspecified encoding, and always will, because of backward compatibility. This isn't changed by adding a 'bin' type.

Msgpack decoders in Python, for example, have to give you bytestrings unless you pass an option that promises that 'str's are all encoded in UTF-8.
When I see the above definition of mental overhead associated with these tools I immediately think "JIRA" because it can literally be configured in millions of different ways, and people seem to like to configure the hell out of it.

Unless by JIRA does this now you mean, "JIRA allows for a many confusing setups, leading to the above situation more often than not" I have to disagree here.
This sounds like they were trying to make one format that would fit both "signed int64" and "unsigned int64".
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The article pretty clearly details interceptions as recent as 2012. And maybe it still goes on, we don't know, because this apparently came from the 2013 Snowden leak.
I wonder if something similar happens with avocados - even the "ripe" ones sold in stores normally feel hard enough to smash a window.

Are people planning on making guac buying a week ahead of time?
>Displaying 1 - 100 of 1449

Where each of the (known) breaches involves 500 or more individuals.

Scary!
This feels like the "Perfect solution fallacy".

Fines are effective. Governments are going to do something with the money. Picking a price curve that closely matches actual cost of running the department seems better than what we do now. Yes, officers will have a preference for pulling over a ferarri instead of some beat up old honda, but with all of the automation the article talked about, it seems like the times an officer has a choice between the two are rare. If the policy is pull over everyone breaking the law, officers would have to account for not pulling over cheap cars.

Now, i could see a good argument for simply requiring public service from everyone. The thing we're all limited by is time. 10 hours of a rich guy's time is just as valuable as 10 hours of a poor guy's time (to them at least). Of course, you're not really proposing this as an alternative, you appear to be saying because it's not perfect, it's not worth doing.
Betting on sports teams takes some statistical knowledge and modeling -- there's some skill involved.

Betting on random numbers takes no knowledge -- there's no skill involved.

If the former is illegal and the latter is not just legal, but a business actually run by the state -- isn't this hypocritical?
Earn it, inherit it, or win the lottery. Does it really matter what they did to acquire it?
Yes. That was back in September. Before Pikazo or Deepart even existed.

Let's refrain from making nasty implications about each other, shall we? Thank you.
Hey, remember when the first phone came out and you couldn't even upload a ringtone?

How about how it didn't have copy/paste functionality for about a year- I believe they stole this feature from the first iPhone.

Then their apps used advanced controls like the carousel/panorama but the plebes had to wait?

Then they wouldn't tell even the people who'd paid for beta access what apps would ship, so if you developed one that was similar by coincidence, boy were you screwed.

Remember how they didn't bother to encrypt anything so pirating was as easy as rolling off a log?

Then remember when their upgrade story was RSN for months because they couldn't get the carriers to allow them to upgrade it like they wanted?

Then ultimately, you can GFY if you want to upgrade because they didn't bother with backwards compatibility on the phones as they upgraded the OS' major versions.

OMG- I almost forgot the hw buttons that you couldn't disable so if, in the middle of a game, your thumb accidentally brushed up against it, you were dumped from that app. In theory you could have saved your game state for later, but come on.

Ah-- good times.
Trivial applications require tens of thousands of man hours. Actually, a lot more to make it scale. By trivial I don't mean "it doesn't require a lot of work". Any application requires a lot of work. By "trivial" I meant that they're not creating anything significantly new technology wise, and the value they create is mostly by making existing work/services easier to use and provide.
It's true but it still means we could do better by trying to optimise for nutrition value as well - which seems to somehow hidden from us. You often don't taste or see nutrition value.

Also what does it mean for food recommendation if one strawberry has completely different vitamins/minerals/etc than the other one? Eating strawberry A and B means completely different things now. "One fruit a day" or "One cheap fruit a day + supplement pill"?
I believe the rationale is that there are still Snowden documents to leak, so they will be leaked until they no longer generate revenue.

The public interest ceased to be an issue as soon as the documents were handed off to the media.
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Yap.

No other database I found has build-in master-to-master replications that works as well.

Another strong aspect is crash-only data storage model. Because it uses append-only file writes, I trust it to handle power loss (VM hard stops), crashes etc.

There is 2.0 coming out which will have a clustered option, so it can allow scaling a db easier (vs say making your own replicated topology + load balancer).
Oh, that's awesome! I'd never actually looked carefully at the sync layer, but that seems like a really direct equivalent.
Depends on the city/county. Most in the US are on P25, which has been listenable by clued members of the populace, but many (most?) are now encrypting traffic (usually w/ AES, iirc).
I think I was accidentally unclear: it's not pain I'm experiencing but pain that I've noticed. My project, Kayia.org, is working to alleviate it but I'm surprised at the lack of enthusiasm for ways to mitigate something so clearly painful.
Sorry, I was referring to the magazine, not the video game platform.
They'd have to do something like gate the games behind purchase of a phone-compatible game controller.

2D side-scrollers are great pick-up-and-play short-term experiences, but they are absolutely terrible to play on a touchscreen. Try the Sonic the Hedgehog demo and see if you can stand it.
The fall of DFS (if it occurs) will have serious ripple effects. I know DraftKings alone was spending at least $3 million/day (maybe more) on advertising at their peak last summer, which would make them one of the largest digital advertisers in the world. Presumably FanDuel was similar.
"There are few middle-aged and effectively no old people there".

Well that's just total bullshit. There are tons of middle aged and elderly people in SF, most of whom moved to the city in the 60s or 70s and bought property before it became ridiculously expensive. There is a huge population of aging hippies still in SF. Now if you mean "there are few middle aged people working in the startup world", you might be correct, but I'd guess that's the same for startups anywhere.

Not everything in San Francisco is the tech world, and the city does not just consist of the Mission and SOMA. Most of the city is non-tech families and less exciting residential neighborhoods. People who dont live in SF usually dont see that side of it.
> I'd love to go out to random-rural-county and buy 20 acres of land and a school and turn it into a huge home, but then I'd be hours away from where I need to go to make the money to do that.

Being a rural doctor is a sweet gig. They get paid as much or more than doctors in urban areas, so you can be making $300k in the middle of nowhere, Iowa.
In this context it means that the software was built specifically for Macs. Ie, not a web/mobile app.
If they are earning their living living far away from their old jobs, it's interesting to know how they are doing that.
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> Granting H1 to top salaries mean only big companies will be able to afford these visas.

No, it means that companies-in-general will only use the H1B system for roles that are actually difficult to fill, domestically.

How difficult? Difficult-enough that the pay is high, that's how difficult.
Ask HN: Who's Chewbacca to you?
This year, my team decided to name sprints after Star Wars characters. That said, I've watched approximately 0 minutes of Star Wars ever. So, I've been given the privilege of hosting a presentation of Star Wars characters based on our sprint name (my Admiral Ackbar presentation was alright, Boba Fett...not so much).

This sprint, I'll be presenting on Chewbacca, and thought it'd be a good idea to turn to you lovely people for your five minutes on who Chewbacca is. If you have, or have not, seen Star Wars, I'd love to read your thoughts (especially if you haven't seen Star Wars).
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I suggested how far they need to go in context of Debian's reproducible builds posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182282

That would solve readability, plenty of subversion, verifiability, much of portability, and perform anywhere from OK to good. Not going to happen but academics and proprietary software already did it to varying degrees. As post noted, traceability & verification from requirements to specs to code to object code is a requirement for high assurance systems. My methods, mostly borrowed from better researchers, are the easiest ones to use.
The premise at least is that if you hold kids responsible for their own educations, they'll choose careers and topics of study that lend to paying off that debt. If you let kids mess around in college for 4 years with no financial incentive, they might all study underwater basketweaving.

I don't buy that line of thinking at all, but some surely do.
"exceptional quality code (albeit a bit on the spaghetti side)" is an oxymoron.
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Would moving from Heroku to AWS really be moving off of proprietary infrastructure?
(disclosure: i work for neo4j)

This paper is a bit unrelated to Neo4j. Neo4j is an ACID-compliant native graph database. It is not a "specialized graph analytic engine."

Neo4j stores the graph data on disk (and caches in memory) as nodes and relationships. After index lookups to find the start points in the graph, all traversals of relationships are done in constant time -- allowing it to scale with linear performance characteristics, regardless of the size of the graph.

The referenced paper cites two main reasons that RDBMS would be better for the analytics use cases: (1) ability to express graph queries in SQL and (2) performance of executing those queries.

(1) Cypher is, like SQL, a declarative language. However, it represents graph constructs in a much more natural way -- "ASCII art for graphs." There's significant praise from developers on the web of the benefits of Cypher for traversing graphs, which is why we decided to open up the language: http://www.opencypher.org/

(2) As Neo4j isn't really intended as an analytics engine, its performance characteristics are not included in this paper. However, (expensive) indexes do not need to be created and maintained for every relationship in Neo4j. Similarly, these indexes do not need to be accessed for traversal (also expensive).
The challenge here will be for international undergrads graduating from US universities. How are they expected to find a job when the minimum salary reqd to get an H1 is $150k+? This is why they have Level 1 Computer Programmers and Level 4 Software Engineers. That Level 1 is meant for undergrads so that they can have a chance to enter the workforce. Of course, Indian companies misuse that a lot and do classify their workers as Level 1 as well to save on cost.

Also, you are not accounting for non tech professions. For example, fashion industry doesn't generally pay as well. Do you expect that none of them are granted an H1 in that case?

The solution is much more complex than you have laid out here..
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I always liked the fact that Trello consider themselves to be competing with Excel, and in one of its main usecases, which is storing lists and project tracking, it does a great job of that. Of course, they are NOT taking on the excel as application platform usecase. but it does suggest that the replacement for that probably doesn't have to be a spreadsheet, either.
100 years ago, calories and yield were more important than nutrition. In some areas, just getting enough calories is obviously more important.

General nutrition information is getting better every year, and I think in the next 5-10 years, there will be a mainstream discussion over this issue.
But it really isn't strange. Maybe because there is a lot of value in seeing a real-time, shared, up-to-date view of the issues including status information.
MIT licensed. glider_pro doesn't publish a license, but hopefully that's just an oversight.
When Reaper drones cost $15M and an F-35 costs $200M, it sure seems like cranking out drones would be a reasonable tactic.
I think the ultimate move would be to something like Kubernetes, which (theoretically) would enable you to move to any cloud provider.
You under-appreciate how much control a united, semi-competent C-suite can have over a business where shares are largely held by passive institutional investors. As long as the executives don't run it into the ground they can do pretty much whatever they want. Stock based compensation over a long (5-10 years) time horizon seems to be the best way to align incentives, but is under-utilized. I wouldn't have believed this until I experienced it first hand.
Kudos for doing conflicts the right way!
I have mostly spoken to and worked with people that have left China so my views may be biased. However, it's gotten worse is a fairly common refrain.
Normally I wouldn't note a startup's name for being similar to others.

But Shypmate, in the same industry as Shyp and Postmates (personal couriers), might receive some objection.
Is lifeprotips.com the site you were trying to promote? I see that the banners are really similar.
Yes. Because a currency almost completely controlled by Chinese miners who are strangling the network at 1MB blocks, causing transaction times in excess of three hours at peak and just introduced the ability to arbitrarily reverse those transactions during the lag is totally going to handle DraftKings and FanDuel.
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I suspect it's more of an urban/rural split than a Canadian/US split. I assume you don't own property in a rural area of the US.
>hypervisor has become the OS and the traditional kernel (a Linux one in this case I presume) has become virtually * ahem * redundant.

That's the point of unikernels right there :)
Another example is the yellow in cheddar cheese.

Apparently the yellow-ish color was originally a mark of high-quality milk from grass-fed Jersey and Guernsey cow. Now they use annatto and other spices/dyes to add color to the cheese.

Essentially, when the consumer doesn't have complete information they will have to make purchasing decisions based on proxy information. As you note, this can lead trickery from the person selling the product.
Is it just me, or does the screenshot from the blog post show code with inconsistent open-brace placement near the td selector? I quickly looked at the format section but but didn't see that style anywhere.
Honestly, I think employees say that to themselves all the time. Particularly if you replace "shareholders" with "my team members" or an amorphous "the company."
The original paper in Science by Mathieu Ossendrijver:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6272/482

"Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter’s position from the area under a time-velocity graph"

As gene-h noted, it's interesting because it's something close to calculus but done so early in history.
Thanks. So why would the Israeli Army use, in 2009-2010 , something that was brute-forced in 1994 ?
How do you deal with import duties and taxes? Who gets burnt if the buyer fails to collect and pay duties and taxes?

How will you deal with courier blaming you for any contraband they knowingly or unknowingly import? E.g. knowingly, but inserted in the package provided by you or unknowingly if the vendor provides the contraband in the package?
Pivotal is extremely opinionated. Seems like people love it or hate it. JIRA is totally unopinionated and is what you make of it. I've had awful JIRA workflows imposed on me and it's the worst. My current company is generous with admin rights so we pick the flow we want for every project and it's great.
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I'm on a completely different planet than you, and lately I've realized I'm completely different from the vast majority of commenters here.

I could explain it to you, but it would be an experience akin to a blind man seeing for the first time.

Experience is the mother of all teachers, and while I wouldn't wish my path on anybody else, it certainly has given me clarity on certain topics of discourse.

"Sexism in video games" is an abstract problem because it's basically mental masturbation. Suppose you are right, and there is a problem. What is the net benefit to society? Some privileged child somewhere will feel good about themselves for a brief moment, until they find another abstract issue that ultimately is meaningless.

There are much more pressing problems in our world today, that are ugly, unsightly, and less "rewarding" in the short term dopamine releasing sense. Like income inequality, the increasing erosion of civil liberities, and single moms.

An Ask HN with thousands of replies so you we can collectively pat ourselves on the back doesn't count as solving anything. If anything, it just shows how far we've fallen.