skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok everyone: Someone here has enough free time to do this, and then buy an island with the proceeds.

Set up a web page that will automatically opt out of the settlement and file a small claims court suit against them seeking $1K in damages. $1K is lower than actual damage done (in wasted time) for most people. It is also lower than the cost of defending against the suit in court.

~143 million people were impacted, so that's ~ $143B in liability. Their market cap is $17B. Problem
solved.

Even better, most victims never consented to doing business with them, so there cannot be any binding arbitration issues to get in the way.
Seriously right? smh. The frustration from that is where my HN username comes from if anyone is wondering...To this day there's no real alternative encyclopedia that is a legit competitor to Wikipedia unfortunately.
Copy table into excel, sort as you want.
Latency could matter. Perhaps you're storing an image and want to ack that the image is written to disk before responding to the caller.
The energy requirements to influence a hurricane are on the order of the entire output of the US power grid... At a minimum.
It's not that 'the poors were duped'. It's that until very recently, a piece of paper was a very effective salary multiplier.
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Just convince them it's world changing super important work that they should do for lower pay.

Don't actually take lower pay yourself tho.
Demo page states "Your browser may keep a connection open for a few seconds and re-use it for a reloaded request. If it does, you'll get the same target", but when I attempted to abuse the power of F5, I was alternated between ice cream and bumblebee.

If you are going to look at it, attempt time - ~04:50 UTC, remote address from 88.119.128.0/20 network
It is dangerous when college becomes, instead of education, indoctrination + a piece of paper + high debt. This is not always the case, but many people evaluate their own situation and rightfully don't think a college degree is right for them. Since almost everyone in high school is constantly pushing for the students to go to college, anyone that figures that it is not right for them is likely correct. In the US one can always go back to school later, if you decide you want to.
> A large part of the reason my country (Denmark) is as rich as it is because of education

No, it is because they have marketable (in demand) skill(s).

If the whole country received a degree in history, would Denmark be as rich as it is today? They have an "education" right?
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The politics of being outright evil assholes has gained a lot of traction lately.
I don't buy this. Why are most of these people men then?
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You mean slander by banks, not slander of banks. The term you propose is ambiguous.
Better off depends on what your workload goals are.
If you want path or host name based routing, Application load balancer may be a better fit as it natively supports WebSockets.
If your goal is long lived sessions (weeks and months, not minutes and hours), Network load balancer is probably a better fit.
And the meat-man with a vengeance shows up.

Yeah but he only showed up because the vegan made the discussion about veganism. People who eat meat aren't going around making every discussion about eating meat, they just appear when vegans do that.
Another portion of meaningless revelations. Just shut up and do your work Tesla , your bragging about trivial stuff is an insult to normal business and engineering
And even given the power and technology, what would be the effect on global weather?
> For a wide range of common statistical tests, transitioning from a P value threshold of α = 0.05 to α = 0.005 while maintaining 80% power would require an increase in sample sizes of about 70%.

This seems unintuitive and the claim is unreferenced. Can anyone explain why this is the case (if true)?
> I invite you to find out more about Bitcoin Cash and join the conversation, which is largely taking place on r/btc.
We will not censor your opinion (unlike r/bitcoin) if you disagree with us.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6wa5vt/just_got_ba...
That distinction holds up only if real Alice isn't inconvenienced in any way.
Stop pumping excess heat energy into the atmosphere.

EDIT: While this won't stop them from happening, this is definitely not helping things.
I am a native speaker of Telugu and working to grow digital knowledge resources in the language. So, I am also a Telugu Wikipedian. I would like to present few insights of Telugu speaking world. Telugu, like some other Indian languages, has a lot of colonial influence, especially in the fields of education and knowledge sharing. Telugu Native speakers learn Engineering and Medicine only in English Medium. No college offers a course of Medicine in Telugu, this is true with other Technical, Higher education courses. Majority of Telugu Native speakers educate from their middle or primary school in English Medium. This resulted in a negative phenomenon where you can find virtually no knowledge source about some Scientific and Advanced fields in Telugu. Many Language activists are worried that current generation and upcoming generations are brought up in an environment where they can speak Telugu and can be a doctorate holder but couldn't literally read and write in their native language. But as the language is spoken by millions 74.2 million native speakers, Entertainment (Telugu Film industry is so popular in India), News & Media, Literature, History and some other such fields persist to produce Fiction & Non-fiction works and knowledge base in Telugu. But as I mentioned above, A Scientist, who is a Telugu Native speaker won't publish his works in Telugu and unfortunately, that work even didn't get translated generally into Telugu.
Telugu Wikipedia, as a free knowledge collaborative project, helps language in improving one of its biggest knowledge repositories and partly trying to fill this specific gap.
I don't know if this context represented well in this article, but this is the context of the story.
Nice to know. I've still not seen many in the wild, while I've seen plenty of misc brand wireless headphones.

Conductive is the future I think, I'm never sticking anything in my ear again.
But in Denmark are you paying $100,000 + interest for your shiny paper? Because that's what we charge in the states.
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Which is yet another reason to keep learning and adapting. Going to university should encourage continued intellectual curiosity, not be an end-point.
That's all great news to hear. Thanks for the informative response :)
How about a really, really big fan?
>I apologize to consumers and our business customers for the concern and frustration this causes

What a cop out. "Concern and frustration" are not the problem here. Identity theft is.
We could easily do it with a dyson sphere then. Seriously, we still pale in comparison to the energy nature can leverage.
I've wondered the same thing about tornados in Kansas, yet we still wrecklessly mix our warm moist air and cooler dry air with disregard.
> Presumption of innocence doesn't mean what you think it means.

Really? What I think it means is that he shouldn't be punished until it's actually been eatablihed that he did something. It seems to me that the process here was different.

So what does it actually mean?

>Rape and sexual assault are the only times when consent is assumed and its lack must be proven.

Which is eminently sensible, since it's almost never rape when two people have sex, whereas it's almost always assault when someone punches you on the nose.
How does it take 16 days to go from buying this domain to getting to public disclosure?

https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/

whois:
...
Domain Name: equifaxsecurity2017.com
Registry Domain ID: 2156034374_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar URL: http://www.markmonitor.com
Updated Date: 2017-08-25T08:08:31-0700
Creation Date: 2017-08-22T15:07:28-0700
...
Amazing, I was just using your templates for Packer PoC stuff at work today. Your Ansible, Packer, and Vagrant stuff is topnotch and a great cliffnotes for quick experimentation. Keep up the good work!
That's not going to stop hurricanes.
You can do that and still be emotionally invested. If you're emotionally invested in a specific outcome, you'll be biased towards it; but if you're emotionally invested in the problem, it just means you're motivated to find a solution.
Apologies for the issue. There's an issue file on GitHub for this and we are working on a fix: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/4339
If you don't have empathy then the best course of action for policy makers is whatever gets them the most power without getting kicked out of office. While current politics around the globe look more and more like they are following that path, let's not confuse what's actually happening with what is actually good
Seems to remarkably decrease latency (380ms -> 109ms). Running some tests:

# ab -n 400 http://nlb-34dc3b430638dc3e.elb.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
Time per request: 108.779 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)

# ab -n 400 <public server via ELB>
381.933

# ab -n 400 <public server via ALB>
380.632

# (for reference) ab -n 400 https://www.google.com/
190.536

# (for reference) ab -n 400 https://sandbox-api.uber.com/health/
107.680

If you're wiling to terminate SSL, this looks like it could be a solid improvement.
If I had the choice of loans for a college degree or skipping the degree, I'd personally skip the degree. My "hack" when I knew I couldn't pay for MIT was to get accepted and then just not pay -- I got to take the classes up then got retroactively deregistered around finals time. I kept that up for about 2y until I found a great startup opportunity. If I had been saddled with $100-200k of debt, I would have been pushed into taking a high cash comp/high stability job rather than doing crazy startups. Ironically unpaid tuition directly to the bursar vs a loan is just regular debt, and would be discharged through bankruptcy (although MIT just forgave mine).

For the very rich (for whom tuition is still insignificant) or the poor and minorities (who win from various forms of non loan financial aid), it seems like college is a rational choice. Otherwise, unless you really need the degree for a specific credentialed career (government, law, or medicine), I would probably discourage college.

I do wish I could do a phd in infosec+economics somewhere today, but that is really the only thing I can't readily do without an undergrad degree.
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Not on the AMP page. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleat...
Put on your tin foil hats, but think about it:

- BTC terrified the established finance community and governments as it upended the way currency traditionally operated. I.e. Controlled by the government and traditional finance community.

- it also stoked interest in the established financial community and governments. As always "hey we can make money with this ourselves" / "hey we can control this ourselves"

- infiltrate the community, promote a fork with far more institutional controls and structure

- naysayers and those not up for the new agenda: discredit and destroy that community. Deploy resources to make that happen, after all they have limitless resources.

Seems a pretty typical playbook...
I'm a Materials Engineer that works in an industrial plant (Steel Mill). Similar issues in this line of work.

Latency is a huge issue here. What you put into the Blast Furnace can take 8+ hours to propagate through. So when you are trying to react due to a quality issue can take a long time until you see the effect of the change you've just made. Online modelling and process simulation plays a big role here.

Supply is an issue as well getting an ore/coal shipment in can have 20+ day lead time. These boats are huge can take days to fully discharge them even things like docking space on the berth needs to be optimized and appropriately scheduled...

A lot of people can't grasp the sheer scale of our operation it is one thing to read a number on a page and another to walk the length of a conveyor and see what 500 Tonnes Per Hour actually looks like as it is going past you...
It was a piece of plastic... You really believe that much teeth pulling surrounding the removal of a jack was the rational alternative to a less accurate altimeter?
Thanks. This point does stand out as an important takeaway from all that I've read here.
It for sure won't, but it definitely isn't helping
Hopefully a renaissance in vocational training will follow. We have plenty of English major burger flippers as it is.
I wish there were a way to do th labs as an outsourced thing, sort of like hacker spaces. Doing a few weeks or months of lab work together with a group of people would be great fun and a useful adjunct to other education -- I've done this for various technical skills (firearms, armorer, machining, medical, diving) and expanding it to more academic topics would be awesome.
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I don't disagree at all! But that is a larger point than the question of whether it will improve the job market in that locality for people with the right skills: it definitely will. What I'm saying is that I don't think it is wise to downplay the job creation aspect when arguing against things like this. You have to make the counter-argument despite the job creation potential.
I assume this is one of those systems where a potential entrant types a code, and the systems calls a pre-provided number for the occupant of the unit who provided the code to the entrant?

The common denominator on the PSTN is listening for inband DTMF within a G.711 "encoded" stream.

The "security" in this system is the condo entry phone device dialing out to the PSTN (via some mechanism) to the destination number, which is routed via SS7 to the proper owner.

This security mechanism is somewhat similar to those used by two-factor systems that send SMS via SS7 to destination numbers. It's not without fault, there have been many demonstrated attacks against the SS7 network.
Why not just harvest a hurricane's energy to weaken it?
There are ways of finding out more...
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/518372/senior-software-devel...
You are addicted, but there are worse things.
Define very recently and effective for whom. University of Phoenix has been around since 1976 and has been popular with people who didn't have the resources to get into traditional colleges since at least the late 90s. I think with nearly 17 years of success and probably millions of for profit alumni can safely be defined as duped.
Agree with your point on Experian absolving itself, but there are many scenarios in which Alice is also the victom of the thief. With enough info about someone, you can steal digital assets too.
ALB can term TLS for h2 and wss: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/ sounds like that's what you might want?
No not really.
> Lasers or magnets might work though...

Actually if you can merely slightly resist the heat exchange that will kill these storms just fine. 0.1% difference in heat exchange ? They're weakened to the point of irrelevance. What would happen if we caused an oil spill on purpose ?

We would need to create a circular oil spill where the air is going up (around the eye), in a way that would slightly decrease (slightly is more than enough) the heat exchange and thus the flow of air towards the eye. So an oil spill surrounding the eye of the storm should kill the storm.

Of course the earlier you do this, the more effect it would have. You'd effectively have to do it constantly to avoid having to do it for massive storms.

Alternatively, you could nuke the air above the storm, or otherwise heat it up. That would kill the reason for the funnel to exist (cold air relatively low in the athmosphere on top of warmer water). The advantage I guess is that you could decide to do this and it might kill the funnel in a matter of minutes. We have nearly fallout free nukes nowadays (fallout measured in grams, which when spread out over 1000 sq. km isn't going to do anything).

Of course, this would be climate engineering. If we were willing to do that, we could easily have solved global warming by now. The issue is, what if it goes wrong ? Who will seriously risk doing this, and therefore carrying the responsibility afterwards ... Because we all know, nobody gets blamed for doing nothing, and if you do something and fuck it up ... wow.
Is it consistent to want the best public policy for everyone, but also blame empathy for the creation of terrible policy?
Big difference between, say, a MIT Physics grad (essentially qualified for anything not requiring psychiatric stability) and a third tier or for profit "Information Systems Management" grad.
> If there's a history of these execs selling similar amounts of stock in other quarters

That's what 105b-1 trading plans are for. If they had used them there would be no questions to ask.
Maybe just compassion: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/02/paul_bloom_on_e.htm...
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In the US the cities don't get to collect personal income taxes, though.
This is true in absolute terms, but not true at the level of each locality. Those jobs will still be created without tax breaks, they just likely won't be created here (for nearly everyone's definition of "here"). I totally agree that these incentives are yucky, but I don't think down-playing the benefits to the "winning" locality is the right way to argue against it.
Fair enough. Thanks to the internet, going to college to study is definitely an antiquated idea.
Everyone should have access to an education. Period.
I see a lot of people talking about the increasing cost of college being part of the reason people are losing faith in degreees. I too, agree that this is a large part.

However, did nobody else experience the dumbing down of colleges like I have? I was told growing up that college courses were taught by educated, experienced professors. Yet every year I was there though I got more and more adjunct professors who were working second jobs at supermarkets to make ends meet and TAs who were required to teach a course for their graduate degree but should have never passed the course they were teaching in the first place. The absolute worst I had was an economics course where some TA spent _every_, _single_ class at the whiteboard muttering to herself and trying to draw the charts in our textbook from memory but failing utterly to do so.

The entire class complained to the university and they didn't even respond. We all just stopped caring because we given decent grades anyway and pushed through in our degrees.

It is no wonder that people lose faith in the colleges when they let that happen and still award you with a degree like you learned something
Blizzard will claim the charge is in no way fraudulent, my proving it is in court would take years.
if the DAC only exists between the logic board and the analog jack then there is a good chance it isn't being piped back in to the lightning port. Even then, I really doubt an entire pin on the lightning connector is dedicated to analog signal, so a DAC would have to exist on the other end of your lightning cable anyway; I suspect this is where your difference in quality come from.
The American Education System is nothing but a slave factory for the bank system. I mean whats the percentage of students in debt? Pretty sure above 50%.
Want to be a MD to save lives? Sure here is your 250,000$ student debt oh and don't forget malpractice insurance etc.
Or maybe my taste is strange. I saw it in the theater and was very bored. I was tempted to leave the theater midway through, but watched the whole film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(energy)

The energy needed to evaporate the water Harvey dumped on land (33 trillion gallons) is roughly: 40.65 kJ/mol (Latent heat of vaporization of water) * 210 mol/gal * 33x10^12 gal = 2.8x10^20 J. That's over half the entire world's energy consumption (not just electricity, also fuel for transportation and such) as of 2010. In about a week. And ignoring the energy in the wind.

They're simply really, really, big. Causing substantial change to them once they've formed is effectively impossible. Stopping the formation is effectively impossible because weather is chaotic, so small changes in one place can cause large changes elsewhere. You might stop one hurricane forming only to create a different one.

The real solution is to kill all the damn butterflies. /s
Ask HN: Y Combinator startups by country?
Just curious how international & diverse YC startups are

- how many yc-funded startups are outside USA?

- how many are from non-English speaking countries?

- top 20 countries, in terms of # of yc-funded startups

- how many yc-funded startups are in China?
I really should find my wallet and make myself the 50 cents richer as a result of heating my apartment one winter using my video cards...
Trump's wall can keep out those hurricanes ...
And in fact it's the 15th most-spoken language worldwide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...
There must be some magic happening somewhere, because otherwise outgoing packets would have the wrong source address.
> But academia not only teaches you tested methods it also teaches you why you use them and how to determine which ones are best suited for a given situation.

IME academia absolutely does not teach that, most academics wouldn't know how to determine that. What tool to apply for a given situation is something I'd say is only learned with and can only be learned from industry experience.

For example, my day to day work would be much more pleasant of academia didn't go overboard making students create OO hierarchies for everything.
Isn't there a technique involving custom fonts, to detect history, that's server side detection thou
This [1] is the NHC report for Hurricane Andrew just prior to landfall in August of 1992. Andrew was small as hurricanes go, and even then, you are talking about hurricane winds (72 MPH/116 KPH at the low end, Andrew was 140 MPH/225 KPH sustained winds) extending outward from the eye (typical eye diameter is 20 miles/32 km) 30 miles/45 km. So you are talking about disrupting a cylinder of wind and rain some 50 miles/80 km across and what? 4 miles/6 km high? That's a lot of energy to disrupt. And that's for Andrew, a small hurricane. Irma has hurricane speed winds out to 75 miles/120 km from the eye, which itself is 23 miles/37 km across.

Good luck.

[1] http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/storm_wallets/atlantic/atl19...
ALBs are great for WS and can term SSL for WSS. Just use "HTTP" and "HTTPS" protos on the target groups and it'll work. It's a bit confusing but it works.
An even more analogous experiment would have Alice take out a mortgage with BigBank, then receive a fake notice of debt reassignment to BiggerBank, which is actually Mallory. Alice makes mortgage payments to Mallory for many months. Now BigBank is wondering why Alice fell behind on her mortgage.

Who's the victim?
Some businesses improve the business climate. A Whole Foods-headlined plaza has higher property value than a liquor store-headlined plaza. A city block with Four Seasons hotel is likely to be valued higher than a similar city block with a Motel 6.

Businesses don't want to be victims of their own success, where immediately after they plunk the money down for buildout and development they're reassessed at the value they themselves added.
Just FYI, Telugu is spoken by like 70 million people. It's nice that there are 365 more articles written in it, but there is also a wide variety of media being churned out in Telugu every day, like Tollywood cinema.
Coz there is no such thing as a hurricane.
Sweet. I love vagrant.

I recently got to program again and set up a box and was pleasantly suprise that it does self provisioning too.

I wrote up ansible script and self provision my box.