skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the next question after that about "BFR‑free and PVC‑free" was a transparent, but still 'PR-y' but non-weasel-word way of saying 'yes they contain tiny amounts of dangerous materials'.
Due to a gigantic asteroid strike. Interestingly, crocodiles, which are cold blooded creatures, survived OK.
Thanks for clarifying, peeps! As you understand, I'm selling it at what I bought it for, merely retelling what I've been told. In this particular case, bill was definitely more that $20 and to my knowledge, there was not 2-step auth, just a notification.

I definitely seen it more than once and it also does seem to me that wired terminals are still quite common, but I might be wrong since I, naturally, pay with foreign bank's card and don't have to punch in a PIN.

Afaik, fully cloning a chip card is fairly easily done with a cloning device, one of those you might have seen hooked up to an ATM.

And I'm happy that you guys seem to be content with the way things are. I'd be totally paranoid having to share my PIN even once, ever. I mean, after that some one should be able to withdraw tons of cash and after I see the notification, bank would be in their full right to refuse reimbursement on the grounds that I shared my PIN. And they'd be absolutely right.

Cheers!
Research shows the opposite. Mixing ability levels increases the median mark. The point of public funded education is not to produce a minority of geniuses but a majority of smart people.
Successful startups solve real problems. If you never have a job you won't see any problems apart from the ones that affect you directly as a consumer, or later as a business owner. For example, there are a handful of startups in the container shipping industry at the moment that are really disrupting that space. Could anyone who hadn't worked in that industry first have identified the problems and seen the potential to solve them? No. You need experience of the industry to see what's wrong with it.

Having a job before doing a startup isn't about learning some skills that apply universally. It's more specific than that. To that end, if you have ideas for more consumer oriented businesses that you can build without industry knowledge, there's no need to get a job first.

One small caveat: having a job and being an employee means you'll understand what your own employees feel if your business grows to the point of having any. That would be useful.
Plus you can register multiple accounts with the same number.
I very much doubt they plan to equip POS's with biometric readers, not to mentioned I doubt there's a reliable enough tech to deploy at such scale.
How do you know the devices handed in for recycling haven't had keyloggers installed in all the components?
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Most people are terrible at OPSEC. If your online persona is used long enough and garners enough attention your real identity will almost certainly become known (extreme example: Ross Ubricht).

This is compounded by the fact that people tend to say things they wouldn't otherwise say if they knew they weren't anonymous.

The other issue is it's harder to capitalize on the reputation of online personas in the real world, if you care about that sort of thing.

If you don't care about reputation online or offline then just generating new identities on a regular basis could work well.
I suspect it's because birds fly high and in cold wind, they had to evolve, or they would crash down like a frozen cube (at the very least stiff muscles and wings are not beneficial to flight). Quite the pressure from survival of the fittest.
Comically difficult to understand. Possibly raise the pitch on the voice to increase clarity.
> As far as I know, there's no free way of making inverse whois queries

Whoisology [1] is good for this, though they've been more aggressively pushing their paid options as of late. Also WhoisMind [2], to some extent.

[1] https://whoisology.com/

[2] http://www.whoismind.com/
> There is a direct line of causation between European and American interventions in the Middle East and the bombings in Boston [...]

Oh yes, the caucasian Tsarnaev brothers, born in Kyrgyzstan, who came to the US as asylum seekers from Russia, decided to train in Chechnya and blow up innocent people at the Boston Marathon because of the bombings in the Middle East.
I had presumed.. from the wording, it was going to be marketing for some competitor to Ansible.
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Re: time investment

I think it's because the target audience was "bored kids who live in the suburbs." For all intents and purposes, it was like living on your own island, and you had a ton of free time.

Nowadays though we have the Internet, as well as smartphones, much more variety on TV, and many more things competing for attention. Most gamers today are casual gamers, therefore most games are pretty shallow.
I have bipolar II and definitely see it as a slur.

See, I go into hypomanic states and do things that are what you'd typically see from a "crazy" person. Buzzing my head, getting into bad financial situations, intense obsession, etc. When I do those things, I'm usually aware that what I'm doing isn't 'normal', but since the rationalizations flow pretty thick, the corrections are nearly impossible to act on. Medication helps, but everything I've tried has significant side effects that are almost as bad as the illness itself. Being called crazy, or receiving comments or looks that imply craziness rather than applying basic empathy skills... fucking sucks.

"Hah, what are you, schitzophrenic?"
"That guy's nuts"
"Why would you do that, are you insane?"
"Noise sensitivity? That's fucking weird.."
"I'm quitting because people are calling me crazy my back. It's just childish.." "What? Grow a thicker skin!"

It's out of our control and we do the best that we can to avoid the problems we have, so being called "crazy" is just another slap in the face. It effects our daily lives, our job prospects and, well, every aspect in our life. It's similar to issues of race, regligion, etc, but since it's an enormous aspect of our thought process, it's just.. different, so the social stigmas are almost incomparable. Not to mention that it has a near identical stigma to a homeless person screaming on a train. It fucking sucks.
Pick a different bank. Almost every bank I walk by offers free checking with $100 balance, or even less
>It is government not businesses who are responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths in the past century alone.

This is simply untrue. You cannot blame the concept of government for what people in governments do. I can be against what a private industry does without being against the concept of industries altogether.

>I find it ironic that you believe private businesses would do you personal harm, but you have no similar concerns for government.

I said no such thing. I said that I have more of a say in what happens in my government than in a private business.
The main difference, and reason why your analogy isn't entirely accurate, is that while with games you can see when things aren't working, when using ML or stats you will _always_ get a number. Whether or not that number is meaningful requires some amount of domain knowledge a lot of the time. I have a degree in stats and someone at work who does not was trying to use these frameworks to analyse log files. When I had a look at it, his results were showing that they were statistically significant, but the data didn't look anything like a linear relationship and fitting it to a regression wasn't a valid move. That's a simplistic example but even in the relatively simple realm of linear regression there are more difficult traps to spot, like heterostedasticity or error normality.
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As someone who's called "crazy" because of mental health issues, I use "crazy" all the time to describe things that are colloquially "out of this world". That said, I would never, ever use that word to describe another person. It's a very, very harsh word that I, and others, unfortunately hear very often. Like I said in a previous comment, it fucking sucks to hear. Usually it's from a third party telling me after the fact, which for some reason, makes it sound even worse - probably because it took a lot to get that person to even bring it up.
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Are these really frequently asked questions? I'm more interested in environmental and working conditions of FoxConn.

Or: what is the biggest environmental problem that Apple is facing right now?
Are you unaware of the connections between the North Caucasus and Middle Eastern terrorism?
"Crazy" even when not strictly about mental health implies lack of self-control or good judgement, which will be insulting for people who pride themselves in self-control and good judgement.

"Weird" or "bizarre" is perhaps a little more neutral.
Sigh. No, I did not suggest that all other initiatives should be put on hold. The pivot, fulcrum, etc. for my comment was the use of the word "audacious" in the article title. Since the use of brevity has... muddied the waters:

I don't think the deployment of yet another digital payment method that allows for the highly centralized storage of personal information, in a country that does not yet have enough toilets (yes, there is an initiative under way) or reasonable access to fresh water, qualifies as audacious.

I suppose I may have pulled up short on the Audacity Scale by copping low with sewage and water, instead of mentioning crime and air pollution.

Of course, YMMV.
But why via witholdings? I don't take witholdings and then just cut the appropriate check come April. They're basically a zero interest loan to the government.
Actually a regression analysis is a great example of something people often use incorrectly.

I have a degree in stats and someone at work who is self taught from a 'use the tools' perspective was trying to use these frameworks to analyse some log file patterns. When I had a look at it, his results were showing that they were statistically significant, but the data didn't look anything like a linear relationship and fitting it to a regression wasn't a valid move. That's a simplistic example but even in the relatively simple realm of linear regression there are more difficult traps to spot, like heterostedasticity or error normality.
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Whomever is responsible for the boxes that follow your mouse ought to have their commit privileges revoked.
Also they will use the original un-edited blog post.
Last I checked, just one AWS database instance would cost us $20k+/year if we pre-paid for a reserved instance, and that doesn't include all the usage-based fees (storage, iops).

And it's only a headache if you dislike spending two days in the car / colo / car / colo.
> You just tail /var/log/apache/access.log which all of them write to by virtue of PIPE_BUF semantics.

I can see how this would be convenient. That's fine and I have nothing against it. It's just not a problem I consider interesting, because there is no inherent need for all 100 writers to write to the same file. You could just as easily have each write to a separate file and have a separate process that merges them together if you want a single file for convenience.

> I really don't see how any of this is relevant to the original point of having "log" files.

Maybe you're not aware: every major database keeps a commit log, and writes it to a file called a log file (sometimes "write-ahead log file"). That is what I think of when I hear about "log" files in the context of file durability, because this is the case where file consistency and durability actually affect the consistency of the system. Here are some examples:

https://www.sqlite.org/tempfiles.html#walfile

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/wal-intro.html

https://leveldb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/impl.html

This is a much more interesting problem (to me) because it is harder and relevant to the consistency of any database system.

> Now you're talking about DB transaction logs and blockchains, which really don't need to have their nuances implemented in terms of POSIX file semantics. They can just have a single process that manages those expectations.

You do realize that SQLite can't just corrupt your database because you ran two SQLites concurrently, right?

SQLite has chosen to support concurrent SQLite processes all writing to the same database. Maybe you think they shouldn't do that, but they find it useful. And even in your world where they shouldn't do that, it's still not ok to just corrupt the database because the user didn't follow the rules.

> Everyone's expectations don't have to be implemented on the filesystem level

One of the kernel's key responsibilities is to arbitrate concurrent access to shared resources. It provides primitives that makes it possible to build higher-level abstractions. What I am describing is a primitive that allows for lock-free appends to consistent transaction logs. It could be useful for a lot of things, and makes at least as much sense as plenty of other things that are already in syscall interfaces.
We did indeed live tweet it. Just wanted to keep our users aware of our movements, and avoid the "camel has died forever" fears.
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No, the article explicitly states that it is unknown which species were endothermic.
I've heard the same thing, and effectively the reasoning seems to be "we don't have to worry about user account security then, we let Google/twitter/Facebook handle that"

I'm with you though, it isn't that hard to have good password hashing, login rate limiting, etc and you aren't inherently depending on some external entity that has less than zero interest in your needs or wants.

The "security" argument to me is as ridiculous as the people who claim that a client-side app that uses Aws/etc services is "server less". Honestly if no one on your team can impliemnt a simple authentication later I don't have high hopes for your success.
I agree that dollar didn't become an international currency because the bankers had foreseen the advantages. Its largely an artifact of WW2 loan repayments and stability. But it would be naive to think that they haven't realized the advantage yet and are not actively trying to keep it that way. China is just now getting into this game but not making much headway.

Even now some of the oil to India (from Iran especially) is being payed in rupees (albeit priced in dollars).
Sorry for the double post, I just wanted to comment on your last point.

Holy shit. Just because someone has a mental health issue doesn't mean they're violent. Everyone I know who has mental health issues are the friendliest people I know. This is the exact sort of attitude that makes issues with HR incredibly difficult. And trust me, it is unbearably difficult. I can't explain how many times and how frustrating it is to explain this to so many people. We're mostly sincerely good people, albeit, 'off'. Sorry for my brain, yo.
Under the UK scheme, for an ordinary employee (basically the kind of person the cheap and free editions of TurboTax are designed for), you're simply paying your tax as you go. It's not really a zero interest loan to the government; it's just paying off what you owe one paycheck at a time.
I would describe very few mentally ill people as crazy.
I think there's another thing "different" now vs the 80s/90s: The decline of good computer magazines, and despite places like hn, the relative scarcity of good technical resources to replace them. No Byte, No Dr. Dobbs, and while there are still a couple of magazines dedicated to Linux, I find their quality versus the magazines for the Amiga is a bit uneven.

Personally I grew up reading Dr. Dobbs, Byte Magazine, a slew of Amiga journals and Scientific American. I probably started reading the latter at a point where I understood maybe 40% - but it was a great way to learn English.

On the plus side, you can now go and play with and read the code from the likes of Bernstein, Percival, Torvalds and things like the entire Solaris system. And there are great resources, like the Arch Linux wiki, the FreeBSD documentation and dev/user lists. But the good stuff is increasingly hard to discover in an ocean of mediocre stuff. And I have yet to find any good canonical resource for "the good stuff". One of my biggest disappointments with college was that academics appear to be doing a terrible job of keeping up to date, or helping students seek out good extracurricular resources, despite the fact that these resources keep growing and growing.

I hope that the trend toward open publishing of research will continue, and maybe see some sister-resources in the form of free popular science resources pop up -- I could easy imagine universities and research institution pooling resources in order to help researcher edit and publish popular science articles in addition to their standard papers -- as a combination of general science education, and to rise awareness/advertise research.
Absolutely agree. I've visited website and github, and still have no idea what is it
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Get content is protected, but error status is not. For example a site can check if an image that is shown only to logged users of some other site loads successfully (this leaks if a user is logged).
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Seriously. I can't count the number of times a day I see something marked NSFL and think, "nope, not even gonna look."

But these people have to. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
The big difference here is that indoctrinated MS kids ended up being stuck with that as a work tool later in life.

Minecraft, actually teaches logic, and other skills that can be applied anywhere - and these kids will naturally move onto other tools for work in life - I don't see anybody stuck using minecraft at work (which did happen with MSO).
Depends on the size of the components though. I got to take a short SMD soldering course while I was in the military. And down to a certain size, it is indeed easy. But as miniaturization continues, and some point manually placing components becomes really hard - much like working with clocks.
That's not how public figures work. Influential public figures are influential largely because they are credible. Credibility requires history. Anonymity precludes history.

Take Jeff for example. Jeff has a history. Jeff is a credible game developer with an impressive development history. He's a known factor in the creative community. He's got credibility out the wazoo. As such, we give his words extra weight because of that. In an alternate universe where this article was written by internet-man-of-mystery Bleff Blogel, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion, because he would have no history to back up his points. It just wouldn't have the same impact.
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The[insert relevant law enforcement] could subpoena the VPN company for your IP address. So that wouldn't be 'anonymous'.

Telling the blockchain about your bitcoins and their transactions would also leak your IP.

To be anonymous you need to do all transactions from anonymous internet and get all your stuff anonymously.

Perhaps a purchased ebook downloaded from TOR.

You can wash your coins of course, I think it currently requires trust in the company doing it and if not done correctly might still leave a trace.

Of course the real world is different, would the FBI do enormous op sec to catch a small time crook. It's more about risk management.
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I'm afraid you've missed the point. :)

Prop 13 caps the rate of property tax increase... only if there is either no new development on a property, or if the property changes hands in one of the ways that triggers the property valuation reassessment.

A city should be strongly encouraging the periodic demolition and/or radical improvement of existing structures... whether they be commercial or residential. New construction and new improvements get taxed at their "market rate" valuation. Given how insane prices are in the area (and how very, very little teachers make), I find it hard to believe that tax revenues from new construction wouldn't cover the costs required to support new families.

> Look at the development in Palo Alto over the last ten years. It's largely commercial and this isn't an accident.

coughredliningcough :)
> I assume that it's true that such people are more likely to be the target than the perpetrator, but I don't care. I care about whether they're more likely to endanger me ...

nice, man. The combination of your egoism and [lack of] empathy reminds about that rant of an SF techie against those homeless people because their presence affects his enjoying of life.
> Ross Ubricht

He initially used his real name for a StackExchange account, which was later linked to DPR and SR.

But you're right about downsides. If you want online personas and real world identity to be unlinked, you can't capitalize in ways that link them. But you can still capitalize in parallel. In the real world, I have no interest in privacy etc. Here, I don't draw on my real world reputation. It is sad, though, that I don't get to meet online friends, attend meetings, etc. So it goes.
Your sets of online friends and meatspace friends must not overlap.
I wonder if there could be a protection ring [1] model of moderation and content classification--one that protected business interests yet classified objectionable material based on content while letting service providers retain common carrier status.

In such a world, service providers would choose a level of filtering that fit their business needs, but would also let the free market decide what minimum standards were acceptable. YouTube's moderation expenses would simply focus on keeping them at level X (with a clear separation from some other site). Consumers, producers, and law enforcement would simply tune their dial to the level of content they found acceptable.

It seems like it would promote competition while effectively pricing free speech.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_ring
This is the bug:

https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-23