skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a negotiated settlement and apparently the government preferred getting a higher total and more money for relief than a lower total that was not tax deductible. It's not hard to see why.
The laser is definitely a weapon at the powers they're talking about
It's hard. The general rule of thumb is that you make database changes independent of code changes, and you always make the changes in such a way that they are compatible with the current deployed code AND with the next version that you plan to roll out.

For example: let's say you have a feature that uses a column, but you want to move it to using a separate table.

Step 1: design the new table

Step 2: deploy the new table - existing code continues to run against the column

Step 3: run a back-fill to ensure the new table has all of the data that exists in the current column

Step 4: deploy code to use the new table instead of the column

The above is the best-case scenario - but it often doesn't work like that, because you need to ensure that data added to the old column between steps 3 and 4 is correctly mirrored across. One approach here is to deploy code that dual-writes - that writes to both the old column and the new table - along with extra processes to sanity-check the conversion.

GitHub's Scientist library is a smart approach to these more complex kinds of migration - which can take months to fully deploy. https://github.com/github/scientist and http://githubengineering.com/scientist/
MBAville builds games for business education. Our first product, Project Quant, teaches Accounting, Analytics and Economics in a gamified pizzeria setting. We find the classroom to be boring and un-engaging.

I have taken MBA courses. For the most part, I found the classroom to be highly engaging, especially when case studies are being presented. I suspect, I, like many people that have gone through graduate management programmes, will disagree with your fundamental premise. Mind you, since my concentration was operations, I have both played simulations (and loved them) and had to develop simulations. So I am not unfamiliar to games and simulations as learning tools. However its only one of many tools. Perhaps you should change the tone of your proposal since I think it would alienate the audience that would most likely buy your product.
Absolutely agree with you - I think CrashPlan/BackBlaze are acting entirely reasonably when they delete old hard drives, particularly if they give a bit of grace after sending the email that they are about to nuke them.

It's that just for some of us, who like to archive something like a 100 GB Hard Drive onto Amazon Glacier, for $0.007/GB/Month. (Roughly $0.70/month + $5 upload fees for a 100 GB Hard Drive Archive) - and just leave it there, presumably for decades, are better served by Arq + Glacier than we are by CrashPlan/BackBlaze - they are entirely different tools for different purposes.

On the Flip Side, backing up users two 5+ Terabyte Hard Drives on S3 with Arq gets a little pricey... How crashplan/backblaze manage to do it for $5 is beyond me. Presumably it's because most its users are sending in < 100 Gigabytes (after deduping)
Would it not be possible just turn the whole layout into an accordion on mobile?
It's really weird that Google isn't dealing with them

It's never "weird" for a company to choose not to attack its own revenue base.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people not "in their right mind" that work in I.T.

About 18 months ago, I was asked to look into an issue one of our customers was experiencing (we're primarily an ISP but we also provide some managed services to our customers as well). They had several Windows (2003 and 2008) servers sitting on the public Internet, with public IP addresses, not behind a firewall.

Among several other "WTFs?", their primary domain controller was being used 24/7 in DoS (amplification) attacks by way of the DNS service. Of course, every other port that Windows exposes by default was open and accessible to the world on this machine (and several others).

Don't underestimate the clusterfucks that can happen when so-and-so's nephew who is "good with computers" is allowed to run things.
That was basically what i was talking about in the second part. They started out with GLX, but then switched to KMS and going directly to the hardware. Best i can tell, this was done because GLX was seen as holding them back somehow.

Then again i have found the whole compositor thing unreliable at best. I still have it turned off on my (aging) XFCE install.

Anyways, i think the primary reason they want X11 dead is the whole security thing.

It seems there is not a week going by without some blog or other warning about how anything can sniff and/or insert keystrokes in X11, never mind screen scraping, and how Wayland will fix all that.

Never mind that one man's security issue is another man's feature...
Maybe it's time for Amazon to decouple AWS accounts from Amazon shopping accounts.
I actually started browsing HN using Links the other day. Neither Links nor w3m really work with the comments though (they aren't properly nested). Plus points to w3m for having mouse support. I don't see go-hn supporting comments either though I haven't tried it yet).
I'm another person in their 40s that (tries to) primarily listens to Indie. What are you tips for discovering music?

I primarily am using Pandora and it really depends how much time I spend thumbing music up or down. Once I zero in a station it doesn't seem like I hear new artists or songs very often.

I'll also add that in my personal case, pandora led me to finding and buying more music. Spotify and smartphones over iPods (and buying a house) are why I don't by albums very often anymore.
Any of you know how to get your license code for an upgrade? I have the original email from when I bought Arq 4 in 2014, and it contains a license file. This is an XML with sections like 'id' and 'licenseKey' but neither of those are working.
I'm not sure about Instagram, but Facebook is a fan of rebasing in general. Nothing should ever appear as a commit in master that isn't something that should be used in production - ie, should never intentionally be broken in isolation.

In general, feature branches are relatively very short-lived, and will be code reviewed, rebased and landed as a single commit onto master.

Features are often feature flagged off anyway, so it is acceptable to commit partially-functional features to master while that feature is flagged away.

There is a concept of stacked commits, but each commit in the stack needs to be a working step towards the end goal, and as such can (and will) be landed in isolation as they are code reviewed.
For a second there I thought it was a comet, and the thought of those leaving shockwaves in space was very confusing.
It is still expensive even for companies compared to other much more essential services such as GitHub, for example. Honestly, I wouldn't pay more than $4.99/user/mo. Okay, $9.95 the most, but not a penny (literally) more!
Why so many cameras?6 or 8 aren't enough?
If we're going to drop assumptions, then let's remember that context matters and not everyone on HN is a computer scientist or familiar with communicating sequential processes.

If the context is not "computer science" but instead "web technologies" or "computer security," then CSP most certainly stands for "Content Security Policy." It's perfectly possible to know one meaning but not the other; as someone with a CS degree working in internet security, I'd heard of communicating sequential processes once or twice before, but they were at the back of my mind in comparison to content security policies.

But of course, since not everyone on HN works in security or on web technologies, it would've been more "widely understood by others" if the title expanded to say "Content Security Policy" instead.
Right, but UVU is also not that expensive, ~3.5k a semester. I guess my point is class is still affordable if you are willing to get away a bit.

Edit: These are meant to be example of cheapness in an area where I live. I don't think it's completely unique to this area. College does require planning ahead, and a year of living in a state and applying for residency can reduce the cost of college a great deal.
A simple News search shows otherwise. Defraud is a specific term, different from robbing.
can't you just use an open source library for this? how many feature flags would you even need for this to be worth it?
If he is advised of something then the UK government should start him and try him on a court of law. If found innocent then he should be freed. If guilty he just send his sentence.

Either way, the US needs to stop it's robotic war, which it quietly wages "on our behalf" but without our direct knowledge. They assume that out of sight is out of mind, but in reality, their actions breed hate and distrust of the US and it's allies. It is a hate that prolongs the "war against terror", lines the pockets of the military industrial complex and wastes tax payers money.
They may not have that data in a form useful for comparison, and the data may conflict with your assumption. Intra business politics / desired integrations / engineering reasons can dissuade teams from a pure data-based decision.
Yes. Yes, we really have. Yes. On a network large enough to have an important AD DC, internal network access is always game-over.

Some of our largest and savviest clients would pay us to do "internal network penetration tests". Despite these clients having huge security teams and despite internal network security being so important to them that they'd actually spend consultant dollars to test it, those projects were invariably a bonanza for the testers.

I think this explains some of the reaction on Twitter from software security people: if you've done consulting work, you already assumed these networks were totally insecure.
If you paying by the 10 minute increment or less, you just have a 4th server for a few minutes. Something like:

1) Add 4th server at new version

2) Drop 1 old version

3) Launch 1 more new version

4) Drop 1 old version

5) Launch 1 more new version

6) Drop 1 old version

This way you never have less than 3 servers serving requests, but you never pay for more than 4. Should only cost a few cents for most cloud providers for this temp server.
I'm sure you wouldn't be the first person to try that, especially if he tries to justify the speeding as a business need.

The difference of course is that you would get audited and maybe go to jail. Goldman Sachs's friends in government have written the law such that it's not even illegal for them.
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Until people actually go to jail for like 30 years and until fines far exceed any profits, companies will continue to indulge in this type of behaviour.

The rewards are just too good and the downsides too easy to live with.
Wow, kind of a crazy idea. I don't know how you get started on this. I do recommend learning to code yourself; at a very minimum, showing progress on learning to code will help you attract a technical cofounder.

How much money can I make for answering trivia correctly?

What is the history of trivia in advertising? I think it would be engaging, but I have never seen it (that I recall) on mainstream tv, so I can't imagine how I would react. Basically, why is nobody doing this already?
Rust doesn't do any special insertion/deletion, but take an expression and add a ; and it becomes a statement.
Dabrowski’s Theory and Existential Depression in Gifted Children and Adults
It would be more similar to having the option of paying a higher total fine, but with a portion of it in the form of a charitable donation (which is deductible). Higher total dollar amount, but the same as an overall lower fine that wasn't deductible. The government gets a big juicy number which is apparently what they wanted (in addition to being able to control where the money goes without having Congress involved).
kubernetes seems like it could be overkill for many situations.

this seems like it has fewer moving parts.
It is a sort of in-joke in my family. The men die soon after they retire. Needless-to-say, I have not considered retiring at the "normal" age.
Why roll out to all servers at once? What if each new commit went out to 1% of servers, then spread? At most you need to rollback a small % of servers, as you clearly see which servers are acting bad.
Doesn't iOS force HTTPS-only connections from within apps?
For testing just use a local install of boulder server, https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder . It is very straightforward to run one especially when using their Docker scripts. That is how I check my setup against letsencrypt during development/testing on my laptop.
Apparently you can't collimate sunlight because it's not a point source.

But I've been unable to find an explanation as to exactly why which I can understand, because this aspect of optics is deeply unintuitive, but the magic phrase to search for is 'conservation of éntendue'. If you find one, let me know.
While avoidable with training, that brings up its own issue: What if what's being asked of the people taking these calls is outside their pay range?
I think the problem here is considering penalties an expense.
Not only is it not secret, it's printed on every single check for that account.
The problem I think, is that Godaddy only does hosting so has appropriate controls in place. Since Amazon does shopping and hosting and did the former first they have policies designed for the customers that are shopping.
>Most people would restrict credit.

Like many things, most people would love to restrict it...for others. Of course, they alone would love to have the ability to borrow and lend as they see fit. Being able to extend or accept credit is a freedom, and it's misuse is part of that package.

What's with the down-voting brigade?
They're part of the same medical establishment, as far as laypeople are concerned, and they're licensed by the State exactly the same way MDs and DOs are, so they must be equivalent.
What does "official support" mean?

Serious question. I've never found anyone able to say exactly what it means for AWS to "support" a platform.
Absolutely not unethical. The damage is already done, and you're just doing more damage by not using it. It's irrational.

There's sufficient disincentive to conducting more unethical research by the simple fact that you'll go to jail. This wasn't a consideration in Nazi Germany.
It's pretty nifty on a drone. Instead of just shooting some small field of view, fly a path over a cool area and let the viewer decide where to look.

I don't remember family holiday videos being that cool when i was younger!
This is funny. The latin american left always complains that "USA imperialism" is what prevents their countries from being fully developed nations. Cuba is free of that imperialism and then people complain the embargo is the problem... You can't have it both ways.

By the way, Cuba has always been free to trade with every other country apart from the USA...

Hyper-capitalist Honduras?! The 113th country in the Economic Freedom Index now qualifies as "hyper-capitalist"?
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Putting this here just because it's something I often find people aren't aware of and it's somewhat relevant:

If you want to run 10.3 on Google Compute engine, official images from the release engineering team are available.

Quoting the release announcement:

% gcloud compute instances create INSTANCE --image freebsd-10-3-release-amd64 --image-project=freebsd-org-cloud-dev

% gcloud compute ssh INSTANCE

(See https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/announce.html)
I'd be kinda hesitant about relying on a ground-based receiving station. How stupid would you feel if after 40 years flight, you missed the return signal because your receiving station happened to be on the wrong side of the Earth?
They don't deduct the fine from their tax liability, they deduct the restitution payments from their tax liability. They are essentially being forced to "donate" $1.8B to those they wronged by their actions. Imagine if an individual were forced to make a charitable donation (in addition to being fined a certain amount) as a part of the the ruling. Despite being forced, it's still a tax deductable donation.
http://www.ruebarue.com/iphone-app
Man, I know I shouldn't have taken his videos seriously, but I got a little careless playing with my Nixie Tube Clock project with 170Vdc on it, thinking that it wouldn't hurt me.

It hurt A LOT. Granted, my hand was wet a little, but man it fucking hurt.
They will pay a 5 billion dollar fine out of the hundreds of billions of dollar they made. That's just the cost of doing business then isn't it. If a regular person is found guilty of fraud they generally wind up inside a jail cell. If a wall street bank does the same, its settled by writing a check behind closed doors and then everyone goes to lunch.
Interesting idea. I'm having the classic reaction that people had to Amazon when it was new (don't people want to shop in person, touch the stuff? what if stuff needs to be bought same day?) - but am not sure if this means you're onto something :).

How would a farmer and a buyer find out about this marketplace?
yup, you can easily do this programmatically
Sure, but they agreed to pay a bigger fine because portions of the relief was deductible. The government wanted as big of a number as possible for their press release. The general public will go "wow that's a lot" while the investors will do the math and move on with their day.
Not that a firewall needs to look pretty, and yes, I know it's Bootstrap, but the new UI is so much more pleasant to look at! Worth it for this alone.
> Continue your passion! Neuro is so cool and we need comp-sci people, at the least to process the data and help out with connecting VGA cables (I shudder at bio people's hard-coding).

What do you mean by the connectome is stereotypical? I was reading up on connectomes and was pleasantly surprised to find out that model organisms like C Elegans have been fully mapped but I haven't heard of any large insights being derived from this.

In general what are the computational stumbling blocks in Neurosci at the moment? (I have a genomics background)

I'd like to do a Phd in Cog Sci or Neurosci (computational) but I've been so stress free ever since moving to industry (from academia) 10 months ago I can't really see myself going back for the long haul.
The one thing I can never wrap my head around in the banking industry is why this kind of behavior is tolerated by _customers_.

Imagine if wherever you work had to settle with the SEC / FTC / ABCXYZ for fraud. Wouldn't this devastate your customer base?

Yet when a bank gets fined, it seems simply like business-as-usual. Even when a government agency levies a fine for fraud, or emails are released in which employees actively mock their customers for being suckers, investment banks' abilities to find customers seems unhindered.

1) Are my perceptions wrong? Do these events damage reputation more than it seems?

2) If banks acting in this manner is the standard... why? Why isn't a firm carving out the "niche" of not being assholes?
There's an abundance of references to 'gifted children', likely due to the context in which it was written for (a site about 'the nation's brightest young people'). Regardless, it still provokes a lot of thought and delves into some thoughts, attitudes and behaviours I've experienced myself.

Most notably:

When their (gifted children) intensity is combined with multi-potentiality—giftedness in several areas—these youngsters may also become frustrated with the existential limitations of space and time. Although they try to cram 27 hours worth of living into a 24-hour day, there simply isn’t enough time to develop all of the talents and interests that they may have. They have to make choices, but the choices among so many possibilities feel unfair because they seem arbitrary; there is no "ultimately right" choice. Choosing a college major or a vocation is difficult when one is trying to make a decision between passion and talent in areas as diverse as violin, genetics, theoretical mathematics, and international relations. How can one be all that one can be? In truth, one cannot be all that one “could” be in every area. This realization can be very frustrating.
Whether you are writing semicolons or not. Don't start a new line with (, [, /, +, ++, or --.
And never have a line break after return, break or continue.
If different people keep chopping into themselves with a power tool it's probably wise to consider a safety guard.
The problem is that it sounds less threatening, more sophisticated. It's meant to obscure the crimes that were happening.
It showed me an album page on Android too. And a Google ad for a free to play Flappy Bird clone (called Flappy Bird).

Clicking on the ad I was greeted with a landing page, with tiny gray jpeg letters telling me that this free game service costs only 5 Euro a week (automatic renewal). The company behind it, Mobster Ltd. leads me to a dead end on Cyprus and a whole lot of internet complaints.

So please do not click that link or Google may be forced to block imgur. Sorry.
I didn't find the link for all the specification about how to build one at home. Is it really open source ?
Off-topic: I have few friends but they all have a preferred chat medium. One I keep in touch with via SMS; another via WhatsApp. Others via IRC.

Is there a good iOS app that is essentially Pidgin, enabling communication via multiple protocols?
How were those pie charts generated?
It seems like a reasonable comment. I don't work in finance, but he seems to describe a feedback loop that's at least plausible. He links to a paper with a lot of numbers and charts in them, written by some Economics professors. It seems like a positive comment to have around.

The only thing weird about credit agencies is that they're sometimes written into state and local laws as being the sole judge of whether some money can be invested in a certain way. The law shouldn't depend on private companies.

The other thing is that because pensions are managed in aggregate, the individuals investing in them don't have much choice in what to invest in. It's the same problem with Social Security. It's a weaker but still valid concern with 401(k) retirement accounts, since your employer determines what you can invest in. It's just a bad idea to let other people manage your money for you, especially at scale.

Nothing about the credit rating agencies needs to change(by force), but I'd say it's important that people not be forced into trusting them. Once that's in place, it's on you if you blindly trust a credit rating agency. They're just a private company, so it (should be) legally the same as paying my bartender for stock tips.

I don't know - do credit agencies ever issue contracts guaranteeing their ratings? If you get one of those, the bartender analogy doesn't hold.
Didn't JungleDisk (http://jungledisk.com) kind of start this "backup to AWS, control your own data" movement? Does anyone use them anymore? I recall that they started as pay one price, then switched to a subscription model too...

I wound up on Crashplan, though it's not perfect either.
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Do you drive a car? If so, you're choosing to use a technology with a catastrophic failure mode triggered by obvious mistakes. So the answer is clearly "yes".

Given that we have designs for modern nuclear power plants which are not cooled by water and are impossible to meltdown, we can have our cake and eat it too. Now let's do that.
Seriously. Gandi is the only registrar I use anymore.