skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah your number's surprisingly (to me) actually not far off.

Use of Tasers varies pretty widely from department to department -- according to [1] the Richmond County SD reports about 0.053 uses per officer-month, Miami-Dade PD about 0.0074 uses per officer-month, and Seattle PD about 0.056 uses per officer-month.

Extrapolating the RCSD value across the US, with over 800k officers total [2], it comes out to about 43k uses per month. Given the ~200 months over which this data was gathered, that's 9.2M uses, which makes the 276 fatalities only 0.003% of all incidents (as a best-guess).

Obviously that in no way implies Taser's behavior was ethical; but it's actually a surprisingly low fatality rate for a weapon still considered somewhat lethal.

[1] https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/231176.pdf

[2] https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/csllea08.pdf
It sounds like this would alert you to potential fraud, but not prevent it from happening. You'd still have the headache of undoing the damage, although that may be easier if you find out sooner.

If you freeze your credit, it basically prevents anyone from opening any new credit under your name. The reason for this is that any lender (car, mortgage, credit card, etc...) first would want to see your credit history, to determine how credit worthy you are. If they can't do that, they will not lend.

I'm waiting for the headline one day soon that hackers were able to unfreeze people's profiles and commit fraud under these accounts anyway. It's just another database entry somewhere, which says "freeze". All these systems are vulnerable and can be penetrated.
It could also be related to how they sell things. Given how commonly they redistribute this data I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be something like a customer portal where they can say it wasn't core because the attacker couldn't have altered data, etc.
Can anyone with a legal background or have connections to news outlets validate this? I read through the terms and this really does seem to be the case. However, I am certainly not in a position to decide this. It would alleviate my concerns if a trusted source could publicly report on how the impacted (pretty much everyone in the US) should respond to leak.
Sure, I spent my time figuring out COBOL code (thankfully, code printouts were already going out of fashion back in 1998, when I had that job. I can't for the life of me picture someone reading a printout today. Then again, I still occasionally see middle-aged people reading printed emails in the subway. Go figure) and of course solving problems is exhilarating!

I'm just saying being forced to use COBOL sucks, because it's uninteresting and outdated technology, and mostly nobody would choose it of their own volition, so most COBOL use falls in the category of "being forced to use it". Interest in retrocomputing aside... and there's better retro stuff to be interested in, anyway!
I've worked a bit in the industry and around the industry, the worrying thing for me is that it doesn't seem to be working for anyone apart from equifax/experian/call credit.

I have separately worked with one of those companies with a client and their IT staff were utterly incompetent (I won't say which). Loads of different sites, lots of little fiefdoms, utterly inconsistent security policies on each site, blaming everyone but themselves because only half their sites could access a video on a major commercial video provider (not-youtube). We ended up having to host it on AWS cloudfront as none of them had blocked it yet. Their sharepoint could only host a 50mb file, which made their CEO look like a blockhead in the 20 min high def video.

Utterly incapable of hosting a simple video file so all their staff could access it in 2010.

I've also worked with a company one of those companies acquired for $100 million+, holding millions of people's personal details in the UK, with some very sensitive data. Some of the worst IT engineering I have ever seen, a bunch of tools written by the worst out-sourced IT teams I have ever seen (if you've ever worked with C#, these idiots made a project per .cs file. Yes, PER CS FILE. They also wrote the worst SQL I have ever seen, all of the stored procedures seemed to be duplicated but the duplicates had op_ before them. I eventually realised the op_ stood for optimized! They were still terrible and half the program used one set of SQL, the other half the optimised. Whenever I re-wrote one of these 'optimised' queries, I usually knocked it from seconds to milliseconds. Outsourcers in the naughties really did suck that bad, young 'uns).

We've given up huge amounts of privacy, but the scores are utter bullshit and the 2008 crash show what a load of nonsense they are.

A friend even told me at uni he'd got a £1000 loan out to get a good credit rating. You just put the money in an account, pay the capital off every month, lose a little bit of interest and in 2 years you have a shiny credit rating even though it means zilch.

equifax/experian/call credit basically get given all our personal spending habits for free, sell it on to everyone else for crazy money, don't add anything to the economy and as far as i can tell, are a huge security hole.

EDIT: Another anecdote on how incompetent these people are, a couple of years ago someone used my details to scam a few free phones. I got alerted to it when I started receiving insurance contracts for those phones in the post. The phone companies sorted it pronto, almost immediately admitting they'd been scammed, but I wanted to make sure my credit rating hadn't been trashed. In the UK these agencies must provide you with a credit report for a nominal fee so you can check for incorrect details, so I applied to the big 3.

One of them accused me of trying to hack their system because I'd forgotten a security question, eventually told me to fuck off after passing through various layers, then sent me a letter saying they'd detected a hacker trying to access my details. No, you idiots, that was me. Still never got my report from them.

Yes, they still use security questions.
Boost has 3 different coroutine libraries (Boost.Coroutine, Boost.Coroutine2 and Boost.Fiber).

Boost.Fiber has Go-like channels[0] for example, and Boost.Coro has facilities for using coroutines like generators (by using Boost.Range)

[0] http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_65_1/libs/fiber/doc/html/fib...
It's because the key takeaway with a newly 3.5mm jack-less iPhone 8 will be 1. no headphone jack and 2. 100% screen.

Because they did this before on the iPhone 7, Apple execs are hoping that the key consumer takeaway for iPhone 8 will be 100% screen
Because a significant percentage of anthropogenic warming is down to the direct heating effect of CO2, and the positive feedback of that direct heating raising evaporation of water, and the direct heating effect of water. i.e. it's based on simple calculations from core scientific principles. If there's going to be no effect, it requires some negative feedback effect which is not adequately described. So there is a baseline of warming which is very likely to occur, and over time that kind of evidence of rising temperatures becomes undeniable.
I find RT good at identifying bad movies, not so good at properly rating what is actually good.
This is a loophole that exists, yes.

10b5-1 plans set up by the company will sometimes have a rule that no changes are allowed for 30 days, which solves the problem. Not sure how widespread this practice is.
>The lightning network has no security (protection against double spend)

That's not true. By locking funds into a Lightning Network payment channel you solve the double spend problem _in the channel_ (the person receiving your payment knows that in order for you to double spend the channel, the payment recipient would need to approve the double spend). The risk of being double spent still exists on the underlying blockchain though, which is solved with a smart-contract structure that allows the counter party to the perpetrator of fraud to revoke a fraudulent double spend.
> No there is not a law against giving legal advice if you're not a lawyer.

In most (all, I think) US jurisdictions, providing legal advice is practice of law, and doing it without a license to do so in the state is prohibited (usually, a crime.)

This isn't not legal advice and I am not a lawyer. Consult an actual lawyer licensed in your state before deciding whether or not you should provide legal advice.
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What is your take on what you've said above when you factor in unpaid labour?

I was struck by my grandmother's stories about the sheer amount of totally manual labour she had to do in the early years of her marriage. Now I have automatic washer/dryers and don't have to make all my food from total scratch.
> In no way was Alice's identity stolen - that's tautologically impossible.

I see this as you being too strict with your definition of "identity".

We, as people, have multiple identities. We have one with our government, another with our employer, another with our friends, another on pseudonymous websites, etc.

"Stolen identity" in this sense means Alice's attributes (the ones which Big Bank uses to identify a person) have been compromised by a 3rd party. It's not that all of Alice's identity has been compromised -- only a subset of her identity. Sadly that subset almost entirely consists of "something you know" (which the internet usually also knows) rather than "something you have" (like a government-issued ID) or "something you are" (biological traits).

I totally agree about the rat race. I think the credit bureaus are complicit in keeping the burden of credit identity low and the availability of credit reports high in the US, both of which lead to perverse incentives for {credit bureaus, consumers, creditors, governments, etc}. But they aren't alone. Credit card systems {VISA, Mastercard, AMEX, Discover, etc} and credit card merchants have done the same, causing the US to fall far behind other developed countries in consumer security.

Additionally, I've heard horror stories about the effort required for consumers to "prove" to credit bureaus that their identity was stolen. It sounds a lot like the insurance company's policies in The Rainmaker.
Good analysis over at Krebs on Security:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/breach-at-equifax-may-im...
The future of fMRI, data and cognitive neuroscience [video]
This was discussed a couple of times recently, but answers seemed contradictory. ELB requires pre-warming if you expect sudden high load. But do ALB and NLB?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15085863

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14052079
Points to the wise, always keep your credit FROZEN. All three of the big credit firms make it simple to do and it has been easy to unlock when I wanted to do so. if I know I am going to want to use my credit for a new account I identify which one the bank/merchant/etc will use and unlock it for 48 hours.
Middling scores are not super important. The value is on the very low scores.

I see a lot of movies in the theater. Movies like Baywatch and Emoji Movie were awful on any scale, and rotten tomato ratings will keep you away.

This whole discussion is a distraction from the larger problem -- studios are slinging out shit sandwiches as feature films. I should be getting a better film experience in a theater than on a made for Netflix movie, but I frequently don't.
Check out this recent post by Simon Brand on this subject - https://blog.tartanllama.xyz/learning-cpp/
Sure! Would love to. I don't think we can use your java bindings. We have our own off heap memory management and a lot of other stuff going on under the hood.
Email in profile.
It likely is a result of "copy-catting" to some extent. For those that _are_ lawyers, giving legal advice without first clearly stating to the recipient that no implicit attorney-client relationship is being created can create just such a relationship (i.e., and therefore potentially subject the atty. to possible malpractice charges, etc.). So actual attorneys always preface any statements with the "not advice" comment. Because of that, some non-lawyers may have picked up upon the practice and started restating it as "I'm not a lawyer ..." from some belief that there is a legal requirement to do so.
Intent doesn't need to be proven. If you knew of the material non-public information and you then decided to execute a trade you're guilty of insider trading.
Nope, this is more likely all kinds of illegal!
Given the current release manager works for me at Google, probably not related :)

I thought Swift still had parts of LLVM forked anyway, IIRC.
Sure, because of their stellar record protecting PII?
Its not that Rotten Tomatoes is solely at fault for pointing out that movies are low quality, its that Netflix now provides a very simple alternative!

Before, if you wanted to see a movie, you'd settle for the best of the worst and still show up to the theatre. Now, the alternative of binging a new series or some other hosted content is likely far more appealing.
Initcwnd is set 10 in just about every distro and has been for some time now. Initcwnd only comes into play at the beginning of a new connection, it isn't as important for LFNs as TCP buffer sizes. But at any rate this post is concerned with edge networks so there shouldn't be any LFN network at all.
"But my intuition about a thing and what the law says don't always match"

I wish more people on this forum recognized this
This is a great description of what is going on with "identity theft". I don't usually like changing the name of something to try to push an agenda, but calling "identity theft" "bank slander" would be good idea.
IANAL, but I'm not sure that you are correct. The agreement refers to claims "arising from or relating to the subject matter of this Agreement or the Products", and the title of the agreement is "TrustedID Premier Terms of Use".

Doesn't that mean you're waiving your right to sue TrustedID, Inc. in a class action for grievances related to the TrustedID monitoring product, not your right to sue Equifax for the data breach?
There should be a way to freeze all 3 (and/or all significant) from a single web site, and it should be free. It's mind blowing to me that this isn't codified into law yet.

Actually, if someone did this (well) as a service I would probably even pay a small amount of money for it. Startup idea?
It takes 7 years for a bankruptcy to clear your credit record in the USA.
It's not that clear cut. Otherwise, no one in the leadership of a company would ever be allowed to buy or sell stock.
I'm with you mate.

However, disabling something that you don't understand and is enabled by default on a system for which it probably wont work fully anyway isn't too bad an approach.

That said, I will be using IPv6 to route around the sheer naffness of 192.168.0|1 at customer sites. Quite a few businesses have a networking legacy, shall we say. I currently use OpenVPN and a 1:1 NAT (see https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/OpenVPN_NAT_subnets_with_s...) With IPv6 and a little DNS work I can make routing work again - smashing!
Where I am (Ontario, Canada) I believe it is illegal to give legal advice if not a lawyer, and to impersonate a lawyer [0]. I'm not a lawyer and could be wrong of course... but the disclaimer costs me nothing and makes it moderately less likely to be illegal (and less likely to be prosecuted even if it is illegal)

[0] https://www.canlii.org/en/on/laws/stat/rso-1990-c-l8/latest/...
They just don't ship the runtime library, no?
Forum post answer, so not 100% official, but it is from an AWS employee.

"Yes, while you should see performance increases on ALB in general, for major traffic surges we still recommend a pre-warm"

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=746774
Was this list automatically generated in some way? I'm trying to prune a large list of inactive coins right now, and manually checking their activity has been tedious.
It doesn’t have to be. You just need copy-paste to a pastebin or upload site, and need clients to support embedding content.

Then it doesn’t matter how each client does it.

This already works between Textual, IRCCloud, QuasselWebserver, and a handful more.
I live in SLC, Utah and I generally agree with this. I'm constantly shut down because I say that "Happy Valley" will never be able to attract high quality individuals, mainly because it so horrible out there.

Shutdown like this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaltLakeCity/comments/6yqfgw/after_...
The price could depend on where you live.
The first (2010-vintage Apple Airport Extreme) and second (2017-vintage TP-Link something something) I'd done IPv6 with behaved this way by default if you enabled IPv6. I don't see why Comcast or AT&T would likely do worse. Sure they could, but this is not the likely scenario.
Using round robin DNS for load balancing is almost never a good idea.

What is "the DNS delegation trick"?
I've never talked about this with anyone who knows the industry so it may be stupid in some obvious way, but I would gladly accept the inconvenience of having to go to my bank in person, carrying official ID, when opening lines of credit, if it would make the whole process secure. Banks could serve the process of relatively slow but reliable authentication for specific financial transactions, and communicate those authorizations to each other. Individuals who need more flexibility could opt out or do something more complicated, at the cost of some risk.

There's some cost to this, but I still suspect quite a few people would accept it.
If that was interesting to you, I recommend taking a look at Louis F. Fieser's (yes, the Harvard chemistry professor) book "The Scientific Method: A Personal Account of Unusual Projects
in War and in Peace".

It has a first-hand account of Bat Bomb testing, as well as accounts of developing more effective weapons of World War II.

http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/the_scientif...
And that's why we need good tools for reasoning about and specifying systems.

Amazon and Microsoft seem to trust TLA+ for designing some of the most complex systems in production today. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have pulled it off without formal methods (Amazon released a paper about their use of TLA+ and MS has mentioned it's role in the development of Cosmos).

Software systems can be specified using precise, robust blueprints. Those blueprints are expressed in math and I believe from my own experience that they are immensely useful.
How Does Amazon Stay at Day One?
the only plane at the airport right? full dedication of available personnel
What's a practical use case? It sounds like you have to deposit a balance into a lightning channel, meanwhile wait for the block to be accepted, and once the funds are in the channel any activity still needs to be verified by another block being processed and accepted into the main chain..

This process effectively doubles the required amount of transactions and time spent for the 'lightning' transaction to take place?
This will motivate me to get everything into VPCs, which I should have done a while ago.
This is definitely not reliable in large cities, and it would have privacy concerns not to mention failing to handle people who don't follow the same naming conventions you do or who don't have day-level precision on their birth date.

See http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b... and especially http://latanyasweeney.org/work/identifiability.html

Numbers have the nice advantage of not assuming structure, character set, etc. and allow changes for edge cases such as someone escaping an abusive spouse — see the full list of reasons at https://faq.ssa.gov/link/portal/34011/34019/article/3789/can...
I use beego.me for https://typely.com and It's great so far. It has a lot of features but I use just a few which worked great from day 1.
Agreed - I switched to "Backup and Sync" a few weeks ago, and it's effectively the same.
Shared filesystems of any sort are too slow for most application development purposes, especially if you've got a process like NPM on one of the sides trying to read and write 2.5gb of Javascript files.

We saw a 30% speedup in one of our apps by switching from NFS to two-way syncing between "native" filesystems using Unison.

See mitchellh's blog post on the subject:

http://mitchellh.com/comparing-filesystem-performance-in-vir...
Because I believe in private property -- the right to do as you please with your own property to the extent you are not violating someone else's person or property.

Government taxation, by definition, is a violation of private property, it is not voluntary, people have no choice but to comply or be jailed.

If you don't believe in private property, but instead believe in a socialist or communist society where the means of production and private property are controlled by the government, then you will not share this belief.
That's a blast from the past. Should the year tag 2012 be put in the title.

I am not denying the usefulness of this post. I came across this when I was setting up stow myself.
Corporate leadership is usually reluctant to trade in the company's stock outside of a 10b5-1 plan because of this sort of problem.
Where are you seeing the LLD benchmarks? I'm very curious about the prospect of LLD performance improvements for the benefit of the Rust compiler, and having benchmarks would be lovely.
here are the sells

http://google.brand.edgar-online.com/?sym=EFX

All of the guys in question all own 40,000 more shares than the few thousand they sold. Doesn't mean they weren't insider trading or avoiding losses, its a good defense though.

Selling outside of a predefined schedule is always at risk of some scrutiny, because they always have inside information.

Given the size of these sells, they probably need it to cover a margin call, since its common for people to borrow against their shares. Would suck if thats what it was because its damning for civil and criminal liability and would have been likely necessary for their solvency.

Enjoy
Not sure about ALB, but from the linked blog post for NLB:

> Beginning at 1.5 million requests per second, they quickly turned the dial all the way up, reaching over 3 million requests per second and 30 Gbps of aggregate bandwidth before maxing out their test resources.
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Another Slack clone that's not end-to-end encrypted. Why even bother?
Yes you have it right, `unwrap()` is equivalent to `%%`. It will panic if the result is an error.

Error values under the hood are just unsigned integers and are returned on the stack. In fact, the granularity at which allocators are exposed in the stdlib makes any possible dynamic allocation very explicit in the language.

This link [1] provides an overview of errors and some of the surrounding control flow.

[1]: http://ziglang.org/documentation/#errors
Seems like this limitation has been for long time (since 2009). Curious to know how everyone has been using ELB. To me, ELB seems to be an unfinished product. It must be painful to first predict heavy load on your application and then notify AWS well in advance.
You just put the money in an account, pay the capital off every month, lose a little bit of interest and in 2 years you have a shiny credit rating even though it means zilch.

I don’t really get that - doesn’t it mean that the person who took a loan is relatively responsible and was able to pay their loan back on time?

Any system can be gamed, but I don’t get the impression that credit agencies are attempting to eliminate all risk - after all, it’s obviously possible that someone who has had perfect credit for years might simply run away with your cash! But the system doesn’t have to be perfect, or detect all outliers, to have value.

It seems intuitively obvious that lending to someone who is frequently late with credit repayments is riskier than lending to one who isn’t, and this is the mechanism by which that information is shared.