skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you are storing currency, that is legally defined as currency by your legal jurisdiction (usually the state level) then there are very specific rules for money transmission and money service business licensed businesses. And your accounts are insured upto the legal required amount of $100,000 by the FDIC.

Wrong. If you have money stored in a bank that is insured by the FDIC (and pays depositor's insurance), then you are insured.

If you have a cash deposit with a brokerage that is not FDIC insured, and their CEO spends customer's money (that they are not allowed to), and go bankrupt, you are absolutely not insured by the FDIC, and will have to go to court to try to reclaim assets. This happened, see MF Global. In that case, the CEO (Jon Corzine) was very well connected and was able to sidestep prosecution and jail time.

I'm going to bet that this clown is not well connected. Fortunately for him, all he embezzled was this bullshit toy currency, so hopefully, for him, its so irrelevant that he gets away unscathed.
How much is this thing?
Most music CDs default to "all rights reserved", Movies on the other hand usually have an agreement only allows personal use, as in You cant open a theater and show DVDs.
Probably just confirmation bias given the fact that a) you mostly read articles/blogs targeted at SWE professionals, and b) software engineers are far more likely to blog about their career experience than any other profession.

I'm sure if you read some trade magazines targeted at lawyers, etc you'd find similar sentiments.

Another, slightly more cynical interpretation is that software engineers are "special snowflakes" who are much more likely than legal/financial/medical professionals to complain about long hours and/or burnout. Interestingly those three professions all have gruelingly long hours and require you to "pay your dues" early in you career. Yet those professionals seem to complain far less, perhaps because the long hours are an expected part of their culture. After all, in finance people typically brag about how long they stayed at the office. So there is clearly some difference in work culture between the professions.
Hype driven development appears in many disciplines. Javascript is exacerbated due to its lower barrier to entry (htmls/css hardly require cs degrees) but also how young everyone is, due to being mostly new developers.

There is some truth in this article. Younger people are more concerned with looking cool or smart. Due to the tone though, I suspect the author conpletely misses the point of many js frameworks.

An analogy i've been thinking about is tools to cross distance. From walking to cycling to driving to flying. No one will argue that a plane is just a fancy form of flying, with years of schooling and experience being unnecessary. However hardcore runners may look down on cyclists as they can have similar speeds yet maintain the flexibility of 2 feet for climbing, jumping, etc...

In this analogy, rather than distance as attrition(you can technically walk from sf to la for example), it's state complexity. I don't think complexity has grown to plane vs walking levels yet, and it's possible to consume your tools benefit by taking the long way b/c you can move faster (adding unnecesary complexity to use the complexity management tools). I think it's still important to understand and separate the original purpose of tools and their potential, and separate it from how it's actually used (often naively).

The article in the end is trying to create a schism and stratify developers rather than create understanding. That's something I highly disagree eith.
Many analysts have crunched the numbers, and come up with similar results, but Brad Templeton has been thinking and writing about Robotaxis longer than anyone else, so I'll link to his numbers:

http://ideas.4brad.com/robotaxi-economics
U.S. Strikes China Trade Deals but Leaves Major Issues Untouched
https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
Internal work filter kills the link. Is the website on a blackhole list somewhere?
It looks like that's not the default, though? https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/arm/mem_alignment
Can you cite an example of a firm operating along Blackbird's structural business model -- except adhering to a policy of asserting only patents that carry a plausible claim to validity?
Django REST framework 3.6.3 now released
The GPL has such strong terms, I think there is good reason to avoid ever reading any GPL codebase. Tainting yourself may imperil any code you write for the rest of your lifetime. And to that end, I think github should place a large warning on any GPL repo before letting you see it, as well as delisting them from search results (or at least hiding the contents)
I'm sure some secret agency has backups of that data.
My recovery included a regimented sleeping, eating, and exercise plan that I introduced in stages. If you have to pick just one to start with, it is a toss up between going to sleep at the same time every night or going for a walk every day.

I also never work overtime anymore.

Still not totally okay, but not completely burnt out anymore.
Better GitHub Searching
Writing simple-check, a QuickCheck library for Clojure (2013)
It's quite a lot of money to spend as a joke.

And multiple payments could occur if the software has a pre-populated list of addresses rather than generating a new one for each infected machine.

Of course, it could be the attacker sending money to himself to try to make victims think other people are paying.
I doubt people are sending ~233 British Pounds(~300 USD), according to current exchange rates, as a joke.

Edit. Corrected currency to the Pound.
I do see an issue with storing your nation's critical data in a OS with security backdoors enforced by a foreign country.
Ars story:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/nhs-r...
TL;DR: clickbait.
Or both nature and me produce no plans, our actions are the result of some set of variables that have led to this point. This isn't proof.

And you're still focusing on too narrow of a spectrum, you can't even be sure that life must follow these rules just that it has in the one example we have.
557k USD
Bash is all about shelling out: it's a shell. I would happily use grep here, and if I had an array:

printf "%s\0" "$@" | grep -qz needle

> much more performant

I believe that performance-critical code shouldn't be written in bash. I have seen pipelines be much faster than tweaked bash functions, simply because they run in parallel & thus the cost of forking is paid once, up-front.
> what if there was some device attached to that workstation keeping someone's machine on?

Then it shouldn't be connected to a non-secure network / the internet in the first place.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14324129
I agree as to that it sounds moronic. Maybe it even is.

However, think about a levee about which you know that it will not hold when a storm comes, but people don't believe you and are not even willing to listen to you. Would you think it's moronic to welcome a storm as a shot across the bows so people realized what you are talking about?

The constructive solution to this problem is to find a way to convey the message such that people are willing to listen. But that can be very difficult.
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The E970 only supports LTE bands 4, 5 and 17; T-Mobile uses 2, 4 and 12.
Can you tell me why you weren't impressed?

I have a 2008 Toyota Tundra with ~96k miles on it, no problems except standard maintenance schedule.

I have a 2008 Toyota Highlander Hybrid with ~112k miles on it; again, nothing but scheduled maintenance. I did have to just replace the brakes and rotors for the first time because they rusted out due to disuse; battery regeneration is so effective they're only used in panic stops (mostly).

My next vehicle is a Tesla, but I'd buy a Toyota again (used, from Carmax) if I needed a vehicle sooner.
Banks operate in a predictable, fairly transparent framework. Inflation devalues your money but the process of inflation is well understood and the occurrence/details are public knowledge.

Cryptocurrencies values can fluctuate rapidly and there's a strong precedent for your money disappearing in an exchange or otherwise.
I think it is more likely to be a mistake made by someone new to using bitcoin.
No politician is going to vote for this. They will be voting against their buyers. This means that next election, their campaigns don't get funded.
This is just entirely untrue. We have plenty of nuclear warheads, enough to nuke the thousand most populated cities several times over. All humanity would be dead or dying. those not killed immediately have to deal with fallout and new weather patterns caused by huge amounts of dust blocking the sky.

It is conceivable a few might live, but it is also entirely possible the survivors would be too irradiated to sustain a breeding populations. Vast plant populations would die off, only those not directly blasted and able to survive a few years of artificial global winter survive. This presumes the dust is also non-reflective, because if it lowers the Earth's albedo enough it could trigger an ice age. If that happens then pretty much no individuals survive the triple threat of nuclear blasting, perpetual winter and loss of vegetation, unless they have some uncommon radiation resistance and incredibly low nutrition requirements. In this last paragraph was I talking about humans or insects? Doesn't matter; the cost of nuclear war is too high for us to talk about it lightly, because it is an awesome power that can destroy us if used lightly.
What is data size (how many GB) that needs such frameworks?
Now this extension requires new permissions that seem to be unneeded for the goal... why that ?

See the icons from my pages and see which pages I visited ?
Elon Musk's Boring Company Begins First Tunnel
The alternative is massive investment in security, which would raise costs to insurers/patients, and introducing procedures that would slow down the speed of medical practice, which is already too slow. One example i've seen is the "medical system", a conglomerate of healthcare providers under one brand.

At a high level, the priority is simply to swallow up as many healthcare solutions as you can, to reduce cost and increase profit, and make healthcare process more seamless for the patients.

At a medium level, this means you have 50 different organizations connected to your network, and you may or may not have centralized control over any of them. You don't have the cash, time or resources to go in and overhaul all the networks. So you tell them all to connect through your central office and throw every single transparent filter or proxy at them to try to catch all the crap flying out the door (and there is a lot of it).

At a local level, doctors are already stymied by the complex process of providing care to patients. I've worked with them to try to find tailored solutions to speed up simple things like returning lab results. It's surprisingly difficult to improve on. Add new security procedures and their time shrinks even more, adding on top of all their existing procedure.

Healthcare is just always going to suck at security. The alternative is more costly and slower healthcare.
> If you've got my Jesus shaped collectable potato chips in storage you can't sell them to keep your business afloat.

With examples that small-fry, you're getting into 'small claims' territory, which basically amounts to you having your little slapfight in front of a judge until he tells one of you or the other to knock it off.

> This is more akin to paypal, or some type of digital wallet

Minus any of the user agreements, established business licenses, regulations, and other financial grunt work that it took to get PP up and running (and even then, they have free reign to freeze your account with little to no recourse if they think you're out of line - plenty of stories of people being burned by this)

This is "more akin to" handing off your trading cards to the guy at work running the betting pool and trusting him not to fuck you over, except (A) trading cards are much easier to explain and (B) in this case you don't even know the guy.
> It can be implemented badly if neither party truly understand the requirements, which looks to be the case here.

On that I totally agree with you. But my main point is that the law is so poorly written, almost no one, including most auditors, don't understand it, and you end up with a lot of "better safe than sorry".

If you're someone who truly understands the law then I applaud you and I wish you were my auditor, but is seems that almost no one is as well informed as you, which is the crux of the problem.
and Iberdrola and Natural Gas
A lot of the additional requirements year on year are driven by mandates from the PCAOB. If the audit firms do not comply then they are hit hard during the PCAOB reviews of their audit files.
iPlayer catchup service will require user login within weeks, says BBC
Maltracker entry: https://maltracker.net/analysis/file/ed01ebfbc9eb5bbea545af4...
Honest question: what security principles does this violate?
Distrust of experts happens when we forget they are human beings
> Backed into a corner he tried to leverage a businesses asset holdings to keep it a float in time to recover. Depending on your jurisdiction this is something banks do all the time as part of your balance is not liquid and invested elsewhere.

Except banks are insured in case shit goes south and the depositors get their money back.

This is why I don't touch the "coins" with a ten foot pole. Yes fiat currency is also made up nonsense, but it's made up nonsense backed by nations, not some guy in a trailer in Nevada.
Even the other films are nothing like European films. At best formulaic oscar bait crap.
Introducing Standard Events in Unity
>Soon thereafter I got a Motola Moto G (XT1540) and even in podunk mountain towns I get LTE connections with the same Tmobile service.

Band 12 (700mhz) made a HUGE difference in rural coverage in areas it covers.

Speaking of proprietary standards and stuf... Band 12 was held up in device support by AT&T (and some hw vendors) that claimed channel 51 television stations would interfere with their network without a new signaling standard and filtering. So they conveniently created a proprietary band 17 that cut off the lower-A block of spectrum that T-Mobile and other rural carriers owned. This had a filter in hardware so no devices supported Band 12 until early 2016.

AT&T of course, helpfully said they'd move to band 12 now that things are resolved. Didn't want to look anti-competitive or anything....
> I'm afraid that makes no sense to me.

Ah, because I wasn't very clear.

> A high P/E is the quintessential play for the long term future rather than next quarter's profits.

I agree there. But the question then is, what is a high P/E? We can look at Amazon, who is known for playing for the long term future, and we see their P/E ratio is currently ~180, but usually in the 500-1000 range. So that'll give us a good idea what "high P/E" looks like.

And then if we compare it to the S&P 500 average, which is about 25, but usually in the 15-20 range, is that high enough to qualify as evidence that their shareholders are playing for the long term future? And I'd say, no: it's evidence that they are not. If 200, 500, 1,000 are "high P/E", then 15, 20, 25 are low.

Looking at specific companies, you would get a different picture, but it seems like, as a whole, stockholders of the S&P 500 at least are not investing in the long-term future.
In a similar vein Karl Marx is said to have been pro free trade, as it would lead to what he believed would happen to capitalism much faster. Also the colloquial expression "kick in the teeth". Often actual change requires drastic consequences.
where do you see k in the article? It's £300, not £300k
not sure why the IT department wouldn't have a backup.
I'm pretty sure it is a really good chunk. Probably only trumped by drug deals.
Their evolution lifecycle would be vastly quicker than ours
Ask the right people and "Pesticides can also improve the nutritional value of food..." -
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3108117/

Pesticides contain warnings about being carcinogenic, related to brain and heart failure, harmful to children, deadly to pets, harmful to plants, and destroys helpful bacteria.

But other than that, it's part of a balanced breakfast.

Reminds me of the "firefighters" in fahrenheit 451
This site is sick.

I mainly use it for finding nice logos for my github projects, and they really do not disappoint.
Well wouldn't be the first time Wikipedia would be inaccurate.
Tunde Kehinde and Raphael Afaedor started Jumia in 2012 and got bought out c.2014.
It belongs to Rocket Internet now long with its partners. HQ is in Berlin, Germany.
https://www.rocket-internet.com/companies/jumia
Curious, which state is that?
Where is Uber available on the secondary market? It's not available through either EquityZen or SharesPost.
Elon Musk's Boring Co. Begins Big Dig to LAX
For $300, even per machine, it seems like a cheap "mind your backup/restore system" lesson.
Seems like it would be pretty to fake up one of those screenshots and put it on Twitter, in the hope someone would pay it.
(Note: this isn't true in most civil law jurisdictions)
I was once young and part of a union (an electrical union), and while I didn't directly appreciate it then i see it better now. It allowed me a $15/hr 40hr/wk summer job with overtime available instead of $6 working at an ice cream truck or minimum wage retail... My experience aligned with the findings of this report: http://www.epi.org/publication/briefingpapers_bp143/

But back to Walmart... sans unions, only a consumer boycott over morals would change anything, and if it didn't [0] happen yet [1], I feel like its not going to... or hopefully it'll boil over in a few years. Personally, I've shopped there twice in the past 10 years - which i guess means i'm stupid since i'm paying a tax for them regardless, but maybe that's cancelled out since i participate in the stock market getting those dividends? I'm confused easily on those things.

[0] http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/boycotts/boycottslist.aspx#w

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal-Mart:_The_High_Cost_of_Low...
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14315446
In almost any case, the optical zoom is going to give a more detailed result than cropping an image from the stabilized wide-angle camera; that's not really a high enough zoom factor for stabilization to become an issue, except perhaps in the relatively narrow range of situations where there's enough environmental vibration to produce noticeable image degradation, but not so much that the stabilization motors can't compensate.

Admittedly, I'm basing this on my experience with a DSLR, rather than any hands-on time (which I haven't had) with an iPhone 7+. That said, since a lot of what I shoot is wildlife, I very frequently use a 70-300mm tele (on a DX body, so 1.5x crop factor and 105-450 35mm equivalent) that isn't stabilized, and it's really only beyond about 250mm (indicated) that I start to have shaky-hands trouble. Anything less than that, and there's not enough detail in the image for stabilization problems to be perceptible. Since the 7+'s tele camera, as best I can find, seems to have a 35mm equivalent focal length of about 56mm (thus 56-112mm, taking the 2x zoom into account), the lack of stabilization doesn't seem likely to pose too much of a problem.

(And if it is, you can always brace the camera and take multiple shots - this latter, in particular, I've found to be a pretty good workaround for the lack of stabilization in my own tele, and when an equivalent lens with VR costs half a grand, a pretty good workaround is nice to have! Generally I find that, taking about two exposures per second at full zoom, about one in every six is sharp enough to be a keeper. Something similar would probably work with an iPhone, if stabilization at full zoom proves to be an issue after all - and burst mode would work really well for this.)
> workstations of common workers. Windows desktops mostly used for spreadsheets and playing solitaire

As a physician and researcher, this attitude from IT people is why you find physicians who don't like you.
... and two minutes later the name of the brave person will be manure. Not because one's egregiously wrong, not because of lack of ethics, but because it'll be affecting many powerful people and their emissaries in the academia. Common story in the GMO industry. Oh, and it doesn't hurt to be prepared for all the ad hominem hit pieces: "Left loony" "commie" "anti-science" ...

The conquering grounds for the corporatocracy is also the developing world, a place which naively swallows whatever any of the reigning superpowers throw at it (hint: India is not/never will be a superpower). Very sad this.
Have to leave to pick up folks at the airport but as a brief note off just the title - my go-to examples/running list for the US possibly quashing innovation has historically been airless tires, but there was another example I'll try and dig up when I get back (maybe someone else can in the meantime) was one circulating about innovative needles for hospitals to prevent accidental injections among healthcare professionals - I believe it was brought up on HN, might sound familiar.

If the title-based judgement is unrelated, apologies. If it is not, I'd love to hear more examples of this, been wanting to get a list going for further study.
What's the benefit over a more mainstream scripting language?
"Question: Is that what Stallman intended to accomplish with the GPL? Pay a fee for GPL source code and bypass the GPL? (I apologize for my ignorance here.)"

I've often thought that this was a pretty ideal way of licensing OSS.

It provides a revenue stream for improving upon open source from those with the deepest pockets and the greatest ability to pay which clearly works (QT, for instance, probably wouldn't exist without this model).

Moreover, it doesn't remove others' freedom to be able to develop free software from it.

It's telling that the biggest whinges about the GPL often come from large (often abusive) corporations with deep pockets, an inflated sense of entitlement, paranoia about "their" intellectual property and a desire to get freebies from ordinary developers.
This is affecting pretty much all Europe. We are shutting down everything here: France, UK, Italy, Spain, Sweden, ...
Telefonica Is Target of $600,000 Bitcoin Ransomware Attack
That's fair. I probably shouldn't have said "I would NEVER..." because that's false. It's more a problem that I don't frequent Steam Greenlight enough to see the kinds of things that I'd be interested in.

The point I was trying to get at was that I wouldn't buy an unfinished game (or anything else) and expect a "final" product. If I ever do buy a steam greenlight game, it'll be for the same reasons I bought Star Citizen.

I also should have mentioned that I bought Banished well before it was finished, but it was after I read a lot of that guys development blog, and was interested in the content of just that part, and wanted to support that. It was a fun ride, and in the end, a (I feel) very polished game came out of it.