skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got coworkers and a friend who have been contacting coinbase for ~months because their funds have just disappeared into the ether. Deposited money, nothing showed up in their account. Apparently it's common, and they're just supposed to wait longer. I would guess that this is because just like you said, it has problems and is still maturing. But - doesn't that mean that coinbase could just off their accounts?
No, the American govt is too big and inefficient. That problems like this have never been solved by countries the size of the US is not a coincidence.

If power was transferred from the central govt to the states, then each state would be able to function like a small country and better manage local problems like homelessness much like Norway. Socialism nor capitalism function efficiently at this large of a scale.
> they went as far as suing starbucks for using "java ..." for one of their ice cream flavors.

To clarify for other thread participants: that was an April 1st joke by InfoWorld. Oracle didn't really sue Starbucks.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2623819/misadventures/orac...
> They have a very clear problem statement, it's hard to orchestrate reusable front-end code.

I'd love to see that problem statement written anywhere in any of the webcomponent-related specs or sites.

If it were true, they would not have such cumbersome APIs, for example.

On the contrary, WebComponents, as they turn out to be, realise next to none of their original goals: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2011/sessions/web-components-an...

> but react seeks to provide more structure and functionality to the foundation of web components.

React has nothing to do with web components. Until less than a year ago React team was set against WebComponents in any shape or form: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZxArgMwidgCrAbuSikcB2iB...

What React was, and is, is a library with a specific goal that solved a specific problem, and it's basically this: "Build encapsulated components that manage their own state, then compose them to make complex UIs."

No one really knows what WebComponents are, and what problems they solve. I know what Polymer is and what it attempts to solve though.
I think this is a huge problem and one that is going to continue and get worse. How is it the banks were the ones at fault, but the customers are paying for it. They just hide behind AML / Knowing your customer and say talk to your MP.

I was locked out of internet banking for my business account with Lloyds for over 3 months due to a technical fault in the way it was setup. Was paid compensation in the end, but already had moved to another bank. They could not have cared less.

Some people will say no smoke without fire, but if you read on moneysavingexpert about people being locked out of their personal accounts for the same reason. Any transfer that is slightly different from your day to day will be flagged and risk having your account locked for weeks / months on end.

It happens more than we realise. A bit like winning the lottery, it could be you :(

The further we go down the road of electronic payments, and a cashless society it could get really messy.

The only way to solve in the short term is to spread the risk across many banks, and never keep your money in one place. Keep hold of some cash!
That's the thing -- it's (no longer) easy at all. When accessing every other function requires guessing which hamburger menu it's hidden behind, it looks clean and easy to use, but it's not.
I suppose it might; I've spent more time in Dallas and can attest that it doesn't lack for either of those.
don't bank with someone who's been caught money laundering, as they'll treat all their customers like criminals.
Bitcoin snack machine (fast transaction problem)
> EU, why do you sleep?

Lack of alternatives. Even though NL for instance supplies critical equipment to all fabs there is no way the EU could force Intel or AMD to do their bidding because they could not possibly check if what they agree on is what is actually being done.

The EU still sees the USA as an ally (though it is clear the reverse is no longer the case) and this to some extent explains the lack of rigor here.

China and Russia are in a better position to deal with this problem and they seem to have chosen to create their own chips rather than to attempt to make a deal with the giants.

I'm sure France and/or Germany would love a EU processor if only for the prestige but I'm also quite sure that that processor if and when it saw the light of day could not be trusted any further than Intel or AMD now.
Presumably HSBC objects to a for-profit business running a patreon & donations. I can see how from a bank's perspective that could look like something illegal is going on.
"Communism needs one more try"

Anyone wants to take a figurative stab at who or what's behind this movement?
Projects by no-name companies too insecure to open-source their stack but also too shameless not to flog it every chance they get are not worth even considering. Programming languages that aren't fully and permissively open aren't worth a bucket of spit. And I don't provide my business to the latter, either.

Especially when superior options exist, because "C# on the JVM" also isn't even particularly valuable when you're a competent programmer who is capable of learning new things.
Excellent point - and that's where I've always used it to date, as well (monoliths).
This seems to be relevant ;-)

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2017-09-04-lisp-number...
lit-html - HTML template literals in JavaScript
Looks like they want to have certain security features enabled so Android can maybe catch up to where iOS was a year ago.
Looks interesting, does this solve authentication as well? It looks like it but from quickly scanning through the readme I didn't find anything.

Also what's your reasoning for relying on 4 (etcd, consul, postgres, nats) external dependencies?
Chinese man jailed for selling VPN software
move to a desert and start your own community.
Anon grew out of 4chan 10 years ago. The_Donald is (loosely, I think) associated with /pol. The assertion that Anonymous turned into TD is absolutely absurd. Critical thinking depends on making distinctions, not squinting and lumping as much as you can into a bucket.
> Don’t bank with HSBC.

Unless you are a drug cartel, of course.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/us/houston-highway-resili... cites the area of Houston as 600 sq miles (= 1550km^2) and the area of the Houston metro region as > 10000 sq miles (= 25900 km^2). Twice the size of Sydney metro area.

The Houston metro region is the region for which we're talking about transit.
Somewhat of a tangent, but a lot of these reasons seem to boil down to "we don't have the resources". The HomeBrew project does appear to have a Patreon account, but to find it you have to go to the GitHub repo and scroll to the bottom of the readme. It might help to promote that a bit more on the homepage. It might also help to engage a bit more with the community other than "here's a new release".

IOW, HomeBrew seems to be big enough that it needs to start engaging in some PR.
while i feel for everyone, I will openly state that you should not trust me. Its not personal, its life. Heres a tip though, I usually trust the news i find excites me the most, the least, then i take the headline and paraphrase that into google and see the sources that are saying similar reports. If I see multiple sites that have a similar bias as the ONLY ones to dominate the first 3 pages of results, especially if they are the same sentence or article, I trust that to be not real until further credible news comes out. I also take anything that the actions of the people have an odd motive. Like Hilary Clinton running a secret child porn ring from the basement of a pizza parlor and a child sex ring, while running for President. (while the onion usually would print that, we have many friends and neighbors that actually would see that story and go "hate the lady, must be true" (I honestly was shocked and saddened by how many bought into that.) None ask "why would she do that?" Evil or Greed or one word, usually moral flaws as motive, are not actual motivators. No one does something just because they love, no they help the poor because they feel for others and knowing that they did just something to help a needy person gives them an endorphine rush and makes them feel good. Others get that from making money and never spending it. I get it from kinky sex with different people, and organizing chaos into structured data for others to pick apart. We may help others in life but nothing is 100% selfless.

Well i heard that parental thing can make you do things like that, but again its a bio feedback of purpose. Ted bundy got it from killing, he didnt do it to be EVIL. read something other than a 2000 year old book of prophecy. or at least stop making everyone else jump in line to fulfil it. If its a prophecy it will happen regardless of your actions. if you could stop it, not a prophecy.
Many years ago I was like you, and then I discovered this nifty life hack:

Whenever I am in slouch mode, quick come up with the quickest home chore I haven't done. Vacuuming? Washing dishes? Cleaning dining table?

The quicker the chore could be done, the better. And as you about to finish it, come up with the 2nd one. After the 3rd time, your mind is awake and ready to do productive things, like a side project, etc.

It's like bicycle for your mind, the first couple strokes are always difficult.
Takes one to know one I guess.
> the community does pick up the work of patching and maintaining formulae (and casks). However, that's the best case, and low-volume formulae rarely fall into it.

IMO that's self-inflicted by homebrew's policies. from https://docs.brew.sh/Acceptable-Formulae.html :

> We frown on authors submitting their own work unless it is very popular.

I'd expect "very popular" software to have relatively large populations of users capable of maintaining the formulae (and authors less likely to bother with packaging), while in lesser-known software, the respective authors are most likely to maintain long-time interest.
Just curious, has that been discussed on the kernel mailing list?
At the federal level, taxes don't fund anything. Federal government spends first and the collects taxes. This is a common misconception about how government financing works. You don't to raise taxes to fund any program. Taxes one serve to bring legitimacy and demand for US dollar. They don't pay for anything.
He needs to get another one so he can have Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger.
They sort of tried this idea with the LRT running from downtown out to the medical center. The idea was that parts of midtown would revitalize around it but that didn't happen.

Houston is a fast growing city, but it grows at the outer edge. It's the only major metro I know of where you can see large multistory buildings downtown condemned and sit empty for years (decades?) just because the land isn't worth enough to anyone to redevelop.

This city is not geographically constrained, has little to no planning and no zoning. It shows, but a lot of people who live there like inexpensive detached homes even if they have to drive for almost everything.
Not really an issue if you upstream these changes. That's a big "if" though, that can be a painful process.

It also means that you'd have to wait for the kernel to be released and then google to pick it up before you can use an "official" kernel for your device. In the meantime you'll have to ship your own customized version. I'm not really sure how that's going to work.
Very nice! If you wanted it to save to disk instead of living wholly in memory, how would you do that in C?
> Retrofitting a transport system to replace the need for cars is virtually impossible.

You aren't going to manage to fit a nice public transit system (of any kind we know today) on a sprawled city like Houston, but you can do it gradually while changing the density at the same time.

First and most important: fix zoning so that businesses (i.e. work) is where people live. You don't want a city center and some industrial areas, and separate areas with residential buildings.

Next: increase car- and fuel taxes. Add tolls, bus lanes. All of this will slowly make public transport more attractive and long commutes less attractive. This will mean people prefer working closer to their homes (so businesses might setup where people live instead of where other businesses are). Housing prices will go up only in places with good public transoport etc.

Next: stop having school districts determine where people go to school. That system only makes people buy expensive houses next to other expensive houses - because the rich parents have long made sure there is a good school there. Now both parents have to drive a long way to work instead - just so they could get a decent school.

And so on and so forth. There are dozens of reasons cities are badly planned and sprawled, and a few US cities suffer from ALL the diseases and have been for decades (school districts, poor zoning, too cheap gas, ...).
> These were students who, a priori, knew basically no linear algebra, being asked to understand an entire linear algebra course, with some extra stuff thrown in (you know, the differential equations), in six weeks.

Yep, Diff Eq 1 (ODEs) and Diff Eq 2 (PDEs) for us as undergrads were exercises in memorization, even as a math major. I didn't really understand them until after I took a (well, several) linear algebra classes, after which it clicked that it was basically all the same theory.
Once again, this is NOT about forcing anyone to do anything. This is about ELIGIBILITY FOR UNCONDITIONAL BASIC INCOME. You can move anywhere you want -- but you are not guaranteed benefits. Should be obvious!

If you don't allow communities to limit who can join, what is to prevent 50,000 people from various parts of California moving to Beverly Hills the next day and demanding enough UBI to live in a mansion and having private doctors?
Not sure if you're in the US? where that maybe possible. In the UK this is not that simple. Not even sure how you would sue them, their T&C would cover this under AML / Knowing your customer legislation. The problem is the knee jerk reaction from the government on stopping the bank's bad practices without thinking what happens, in reality, day to day.
What does this application provide that the "play" command from sox doesn't already provide?
That should have come up on the initial review if it was a problem.
Ethical Hacking Course: Wireless Lab Session
I'm not entirely clear why the author felt it was a productive use of his time to write several thousand words on this. HSBC aren't likely to be swayed by such an article. They've been fined billions, they're probably not worried about being "called out".

First of all:

Why are you depending on only one bank account to run your business? It's very easy to set up two or more business bank accounts and use them both. Just like you have back-ups for your data (right?), it makes a lot of sense to also have financial back-ups for your business.

Same with the debit/credit card - is that all you've got for business payments? Why don't you have more than one card? Why don't you move things over to a personal card while you open a second business card?

It's too late for that now as the author didn't set that all up ahead of time, but instead of complaining on the internet, why don't they start moving things ASAP. I've found Santander incredibly easy to get up and running with (same day almost), compared to Barclays...etc.

Look, you're running a business, and your job running a business is to keep it running. If you haven't thought ahead to such possible events, you're doing your business a disservice.

So my advice - call Santander, start switching things over, stop broadcasting things online, and focus on keeping your business running. You can always do a recap later once things have died down.

And I agree, HSBC are a complete PITA. It's far too much trouble even getting a personal account with them, so a business account would be far more effort than I would be looking for.

Even Barclays wanted an in-person meeting (even though I've banked with them for decades) to open a business bank account. And the only date they had available was a month in the future. Yup, I cancelled that appointment.

So, build redundancy into your business. At the very least a second bank account. It's easy, but as you can see, so very important. Just IMHO.
I should have published this definition of WTF-8 properly http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/fanf2/hermes/doc/qsmtp/draft-fanf...
I've seen other allegations that it's nominally flat, but informally hierarchical in practice. There are cliques that each have their leader, and you can't get anything done without having influence within the social circle of leaders.
IMO, in the late 90s and early 2000s it wasn't as simple to get Linux working. There was a lot of tweaking involved and a lot of headaches to get your hardware to work properly. Device manufacturers supported Windows (and sometimes Mac), rarely Linux. Big software labels didn't see the incentive in building software for Linux, it was always for Windows and Mac. Once Ubuntu came out this situation changed, and many people began replacing Windows installs with Linux. Specially for under-powered computers that couldn't run the latest version of Windows. This, combined with the popularity of web apps helped Linux on the desktop be usable. But, at that point it was too late, the desktop can today pretty much be considered legacy and mainly used for specialized cases such as content creation and other ultra-high-performance use cases.

Once you look at the post-desktop world, Linux is mainstream. The cloud, mobile, IoT devices. Linux has very large market-share in all of these.
I came here to comment the same thing. Have they even tried Ubuntu? Most Debian derivatives are remarkably easy to use, if not easier than Windows (single GUI to install software, no worries about finding the right drivers 99% of the time).
> Sure an employer could pay less than the union rate by why wouldn't the worker go to a union shop instead

They couldn't. They would be blockaded. Unions demand that all shops pay union rate, regardless of whether employers of the other shop are happy to not be union. So unions decide rates for all employers and all employees.
Dallas is building a light rail system. I was reading about it in relation to this discussion: http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dart-has-spent-5-billion-...

It doesn't seem to be working all that well yet. Expensive on a passenger mile basis with not all that many riders. But not hopeless either.

I guess optimistic transit corridors are something that is a good fit for federal spending. Ever bigger cities aren't really good for anybody, but they also seem to be self reinforcing, where a bunch of economic factors work better when density is already high.
I looked the jpg up, and you are a bit mean!!! I am trying not to cry real tears ;)

I get the busy beavers thing, humans can't do that, nor computers - it says nothing much!

But... are there things that are not computable that aren't formalised either - for example the choosing to determine when shifting system is needed to prove something that may or may not be proved in a particular system?
My experiences are similar. The more time passes the harder (???) it gets to work with Linux. I had to bump my Linode machines forward to avoid getting left behind by the Ubuntu upgrade train and the transition to systemd broke all my services and made everything harder to debug. Not pleasant.

I used to operate under the assumption that I could sit down and use Linux if I needed to - and I started a job that required just that, and it was fine. I'm increasingly less certain of that, because things seem to change rapidly and it's very hard to find documentation that is clear and up-to-date. It's already hard enough to figure out how to do things like add a shortcut to Ubuntu's app launcher.
Jira: The tool that programmers love to hate. Anyways that's how most the programmers I know and worked with tell me (myself included...).
Protecting against massive hurricanes is a hard problem. You can't realistically protect against them completely. An outlier hurricane like this will cause a lot of damage no matter how prepared you are, just like, for example, a 9.0 earthquake will cause a lot of damage even in earthquake prone and earthquake prepared Japan.
I second not dealing with HSBC. They've been fined as mentioned in the article. They've also lost enormous amounts of data through mismanagement and to hackers, so have gone to the other extreme of "safeguarding" their data.

I put safeguarding in quotes because a couple years ago I was responsible for the technical aspects of the acquisition of a small fin. book from HSBC. They did a lot of absolute dictation of governance hurdles which they "enforced" - again the quotes, because they came to our offices and nodded wisely when I rattled through our list of safeguards. But very clearly didn't understand a thing about the controls we said we were using. They also didn't ask for any evidence of the controls. That really surprised me, after all the noise they'd made leading up to that meeting.

I don't rate them technically at all, so have to wonder what their business capability is like...
It is filler for an article that covers part of one section of the AOSP documentation.

I scanned the Kernel section of the AOSP documentation and it appears to be a far more comprehensive summary of the new requirements, as well as some nice background information (such as the kernel development process).

The overview to that section is here: https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/kernel/
Those forces fit exactly into economics 101. The first day is always "What is economics" and the answer is always that is the study of human behavior and choice. The supply/demand curve that makes up most of the class beings with the introduction that choice is variable, but assuming for the sake of argument that we consider them equal, what interesting effects do we observe?

Have you ever taken that class?
The US Census Bureau says that the greater Houston metro area is 10,062 square miles.

It is usually a bad idea to be pontificating when one does not have command of the basic facts. It is really quite annoying to have people who understand nothing about Houston except what they've seen on video or read in an article making claims about deficiencies of one thing, and superiority of others, when they really don't have any non-superficial knowledge at all. It's not helpful.
Sales people entertain clients, this doesn't imply they're alcoholics, only that eating/drinking is part of the job. That said there also are many customers that are led by functioning alcoholics and tend to select vendors they can drink with. It varies.

Enterprise software sales can be a lot of fun (I am in sales engineering, not at Oracle) as it is well paid and ultimately about enabling customer successes. But I have to look myself in the mirror at night, and can only sell something I believe in - things like open source, or cloud computing benefits, etc. Oracle database used to be worth believing in maybe 10 years ago: boring but valueable software. But these days the company is such a blight on the industry that it would be hard to work there.
Maybe that will be the result of the author's master plan of organizing insurrection through the power of software and the internet is successful. But he doesn't say what happens after the insurrection, so there's no real alternative offered other than chaos once the system breaks down. It's hard to predict what system will arise out of the ashes if he is successful.

It's kind of sad, really. It feels like I'm back in the '90s reading Usenet posts on alt.society.anarchy or alt.politics.usa.
Apple leak shows how it decides to repair or replace iPhones
In Safari on iOS, this is what I use the reading list for.