skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly because Equifax's Chief Security Officer (CSO) might not be the best fit for the job. Here's their LinkedIn profile: https://imgur.com/a/dkjzD
The advantages may be obvious but it all comes down to unit economics. How do costs per MW compare to something like coal, hydro, wind, or solar? And let's not forget the risk assessment that needs to be done in case the supervolcano does in fact explode, or even hiccup. Will it destroy or incapacitate the energy generating facilities?
Wow, $79-300 a month is expensive for a feature like that. Not sure who they're targeting at a price point like that - many who can cough up a budget like that for a small point solution are going to have the capacity to build their own.
"what I really wanted to know about in silicon valley is less lead-up, and more the development and the technical innovation."

I think a way to help understand the success of SV is to understand the differences between there and Route 128, ""America's Technology Highway". Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Route_128#.22Ame... ):

> In 1955, Business Week ran an article titled "New England Highway Upsets Old Way of Life" and referred to Route 128 as "the Magic Semicircle". By 1958, it needed to be widened from six to eight lanes, and business growth continued, often driven by technology out of Harvard University and MIT.[15] In 1957, there were 99 companies employing 17,000 workers along 128; in 1965, 574; in 1973, 1,212. In the 1980s, the area was often compared to California's Silicon valley,[16][17] and the positive effects of this growth on the Massachusetts economy were dubbed the "Massachusetts Miracle".

It had many of the same ingredients as SV, but it's no longer the powerhouse of technology that it once was.

Personally, I don't have an answer for why one succeeded and the other failed.
You should definitely try out container tabs.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec...
https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers/
QBE: Embeddable Compiler Back End
ID == Authentication Error

When I got my first driver's license in Georgia USA, 1986, the license number was my SSN. Every system used it to identify you: banks, doctors...

But things started to get weird. As other have already commented, everyone got confused, and let "Identity" = "Authorization".

Perhaps in a world of paper records, this system would have been ok. But always more transactions from remote locations. Many stores required you to write the last four digits of SSN on checks, or credit card slips, because they had no way of authorizing the transaction with your bank. Large vendors had these little modems that could dial up and talk to your bank, but small shops only had paper.

Anyway, it was in the banks' interest to roll out Point-Of-Sale transaction tech, because USA banking laws committed the bank to pay the vendor.

But fraud increased as the tech got faster. Someone noted that Social Security, by explicit law, cannot be used as ID in any situation that is not directly involving a Social Security pension or insurance.

The banks and medical systems rolled a lot of the shift away from SSN under their huge Y2K projects.

Here we are. Now they all ask for other publicly-available personal information, and still confuse ID with Auth.
L'etat, c'est nous.

(Yes, that's a joke in French, but I'm not really about to type a treatise on popular sovereignty in the Spanish constitution for two reasons. Firstly I'm on a phone, and secondly I know nothing about it)

I do wish one day we could have a discussion that didn't have to argue the existence of gonvernment and taxation from first principles, but today is not that day.
This isn't okay. Don't dox this guy.

Besides, lots of "hacker" hackers are self-taught.
If the risk to such a thing failing is so large, this seems a point against your argument. We MUST be able to reduce the risk of such systems failing, and do so provably. If we cannot reduce the cost, we must reduce the risk, such that the calculation makes the system affordable again.
> Are you saying that Apple or Google don't operate in Spain or France?

While technically they do have offices in Spain and France, they are mainly service offices. The critical operations of Google are carried out in the United States, and to a (far) lesser extent, Canada, Japan, and various other places.

> What the heck has to do your claim of Spain or France being corrupt with Apple or Google declaring losses with record revenues?

It's called expenditure, the vast majority of the wealth Apple and Google generate involves spending a lot of the wealth they made in the past. This is explicitly protected by the tax codes of basically any nation worth doing business in.

Spain, for example, has a rather meh economy, meanwhile the state is funneling public funds into things like a concentrated solar plant which will probably never generate more revenue than expenditure. If not corrupt, then that is at least decadent.
On fexprs and defmacro (2011)
In a situation like this it's safer to say that your profile is safe only if that specific identity is on a white list of known safe identities. Thus things like test will by default, Show as unsafe which is better because it hides information about who is unsafe. If designed right, random form data will simply return unsafe silently. Maybe you could try testing for that.
A lot of western instrumentation and test equipment used to come with full circuit diagrams and assembly info. The understanding was that your HP spectrum analyser or Tektronix scope cost so much money that if it broke then you would have it repaired, and to do the repair you need the circuit diagram.
A concept can exist independently of a word.
FWIW Campton Place in SF is a two star Indian restaurant
The examples I gave show that it doesn't matter what the law is - we probably have the most extreme free speech encoded in the US Constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court and it still requires vigilance on the part of those who are not in power, plus a little bit of cooperation of one of the three branches of government - if the judiciary sided with the executive branch interpretation of these laws, it doesn't matter what the US Constitution says, it's whatever the party in power decides.
Ask HN: What are Your Thoughts on Live Online Group Classes?
I've been kicking around this idea for a live online group class website. I'd love to tell HN about it and rip me apart.

The website would be a marketplace of live online classes for creative millennials and young adults. You would use group video chat to connect students and teachers from around the world.

A big problem with learning online is that the experience is lonely, boring and frustrating since you're learning alone without an instructor and classmates. The best way to learn is with others. Social experiences enhance learning and nothing can replace a great teacher or exploring ideas with fellow peers!

Here's how the site would work:

1) Browse for a live group class based on needs, schedule and interests.
2) Enroll and pay one-time fee for class.
3) Attend the class and learn via a live video group chat.

Here's a prototype to convey the idea: https://invis.io/ENDE1LGXT

What are your thoughts and feedback on this? Brutally Honest Feedback is totally encouraged! :)
> Google benefits from approximately no government infrastructure in France, Germany, Italy, or Spain

They directly depend on the infrastructure to reach their customers. And they indirectly depend on the people having a high standard of living which also requires infrastructure. If your country is a 3rd-world shithole without infrastructure you'll have a very hard time selling your products which sit high on maslow's hierarchy.
Oui !
Only a few emails per day. We're not doing anything strange that I'm aware of.

If I was doing something strange Cloudflare should probably point that out instead of pretending everything here is normal.
I agree in part, but I think there are a few things about this scenario that highlight the problems with software. First is its extreme mutability: you can endlessly patch it, and often have to when vulnerabilities or flaws are discovered. Unfortunately this tends to lower the bar for a first release. Second, if you want to be cost-effective you must leverage many existing components of mostly unknown providence and quality. Finally the security aspect is extremely difficult because both the cost and risk of mounting an attack are extremely low.
Well, when I used to work in a call center we were instructed to just keep repeating "I do not consent to your recording this call" or something to that effect until they said they stopped or they hung up.
Surely, if publishers wanted to fight AMP, they wouldn't implement AMP - or am I missing something here?
This is not about taxing revenues instead of profits.

This is about taxing EU-wide profits in EU countries proportional to the revenues generated in that country.

At the moment, many big tech companies use bookkeeping tricks to make it look like all their profit is generated in, for example, Ireland, while the revenue is generated in other EU counties.

Unfortunately, Ireland has special tax rates for these companies (the legality of which is contested), so their EU-wide effective tax rate is often ~1%.
You can add all the security layers you want, but if the web server needs to display a piece of information, the web server must have access to that information. The keys must be in the car somewhere.

Also... even with multiple layers, what do you think the backend stack would be? Unless it's built by a separate team deliberately using a different technology platform, you're stuck with the same Struts (or whatever) vulnerability.
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I'm sorry, but each of the bullet points in the top answer were known at least 100 years ago and I'm not sure why it got so much recognition.. My take-away being, human thought won't be better understood by transferring research on statistical optimization models back onto popular or even state-of-the-art neuro-philosophical representations of the brain or the mind or the unconscious or the claustrum or the homonculus or the.. etc. . It's going to be as successful and as much a misplacement of resources as that fable of when the farmer asked a king to place a doubling number of grains of wheat on consecutive chessboard tiles..
Even if the whole workforce had formal computer science degrees, most of us still wouldn't have formal engineering education. The CS programs turn out computer scientists, not professional engineers.
Ah, you're just joking, got it
We currently have drones with missiles and quadcopters with grenades.

They can be piloted remotely by a human.

The day that someone sets up a quadcopter controlled by AI and computer vision....

Is the day we should probably fear robots.
Isn't the Yellowstone eruption essentially the same as the dinosaur ending meteorite event? Wouldn't most humans die except for those that could live off of stored foods/what could be raised off of stored food for a couple of years until the sun is visible again ala The Road (besides immediately killing a large percentage of Americans)?
But those courts are still infrastructure, no?
And they won't for a long time, our deep neural networks are still very rudimentary in comparison to the brain. They take a ton of tweaking, and very specific setups, in order to achieve acceptable results in a limited domain. It is progress though.
This is my content breakdown in the Cloudflare Analytics dashboard:

JSON: 45.1% (most user requests are for data from the API)

JavaScript: 28.7%

HTML: 12.3%

Other: whatever remains
Yes. Same core idea as Identicon although original intent behind that was to use it for visual distinction, not recognition.
Two things. In response to your request for suggestions, maybe a little more explanation about how it works. For example, does my code have to manage the dispatch to the "flavor"? Or is this in the client-side ablator libraries.

Second, this is a feature question or suggestion. Does the client side library track exceptions or have a way to report errors in a particular "flavor"? Or how does one decide to increase the roll out coverage of a new feature?
Decadent? I take issue. Google, like virtually every large corporation in the world, spends a significant amount of time and resources finding the optimal way to pay the least amount of taxes, through loopholes, borderline or actually illegal schemes, lobbying etc. We're supposed to blame the countries for being defrauded in this way, not the multinationals doing the defrauding? Come off it.

You want to do business in a country, you abide by the laws of that country. Governments serve their citizens and their interests. Whatever is convenient for corporations has (or should have) _zero_ bearing on any decisions. In true liberal style: if they don't like the rules they're welcome to go elsewhere.
Néanmoins, nous ne sommes pas l'état.

A tax on Spanish and French revenues is a tax on Spanish and French consumption, which is already charged. If it is advertising revenue, then the tax will be charged on the advertised products and services and likely also on the charges to the advertisers.

L'état, c'est certains d'entre nous!

> I do wish one day we could have a discussion that didn't have to argue the existence of gonvernment and taxation from first principles, but today is not that day.

I'm not arguing for or against taxation as a whole in any sense, with or without first principles. I'm arguing that this particular instantiation does not fit the justifications for the existing tax regime, and serves no purpose but to increase the price of services to the people in these countries (and in order to fund something which has not even been defined).

This taxation, not part of law in any of these countries, is effectively a transaction tax. If the goal is to discourage transactions, then well, go ahead and levy it. Pat yourself on the back knowing that your citizens are doing less business and more of their money is going to the state for whatever purpose the state sees fit.
Yes it is, but that is much harder to prove, and not something I can do in small claims. Nor can I easily get the local AG to do it for me in the area where they operate (I've tried, they just laugh at me)
Testing tools for Kubernetes
Hi all, I am looking for ways to test my code before going through the cycles of integration tests in CI. The code i'm working on is part of a bigger project, 40-50 containers, some are Java based (memory consumption can be high);

I can unit-test my code but it's out of the application context so it gets me so far. Run time of the entire application may be too long and require a lot of resources for me (others) to run it frequently enough to test every code change.

I tried to "minimize" the app and used Minikube but it does not scale high enough for the tests i need to run.

What other alternatives are available if the test requires more than one kubernetes node, or the load is greater than what a laptop can hold in a single node (which is what Minikube lets you run)?

Thanks.
Which extension do you use?
Hadley Wickham suggests using "then" for pipes. SO we take object x, then perform f(y) with it.
so rad
The parent submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15173354) is entitled "We Are At War For A Free And Open Internet". What, exactly, did you expect in the discussion?

You continually flag and hide and dismiss a lot of my stuff when it gets under your skin, and I'm as tired of it as you are.

> we're going to end up banning you.

If you want to ban me go ahead and do it--be a bully, purge another user pour encourager les autres since you don't agree with them. Afterwards, feel free to talk about it with the rest of your friends and colleagues and congratulate each other over how progressive and open-minded you are.
As interesting as this is, Japanese kaiseki, while having some aspects in common and influencing some chefs, is not really the origin of modern fine dining.

French fine dining comes from the aristocratic courts of Europe, and if you go to one of the old temples of gastronomy in France, it's easier to see the influence. You start with hors d'œuvres, then move to entrées (appetizers), then typically you'll have fish and/or meats, often cooked on the bone then carved tableside. Then you move on to cheese/dessert carts. That's fine dining.

Anyhow, the more modern style of many plated courses is largely a result of the wave of fine dining that came out of Spain, where chefs started serving many tapas in succession. And when the Spanish and French influences mixed, voilà, you have where we are today.

However that's not to say there's nothing similar in other cultures. Kaiseki is of course similar (however also differs in many ways) to Western fine dining. Dim Sum is quite similar to tapas, yet different. Sushi is also similar to tapas in many ways.

Anyhow, while there are similarities between lots of cultures' dining styles, the origin of Western fine dining is without a doubt French fine dining + Spanish tapas.
I think it could have something to do with the openness of silicon valley. For example, california banned non-compete agreements.

Boston was used to the corporate mindset where information is an asset that can't be shared. That free flow of information in silicon valley made innovation progress much faster.

This is a great explanation: https://psmag.com/social-justice/innovation-thrives-richard-...

"The boston area was organized around these big, vertically integrated minicomputer companies — dec, data general. They were classic postwar american companies, with vertical hierarchies and career ladders. Planning and research happened at the top of the organization and then funneled down. Whereas in silicon valley you had, really by chance not design, a series of flat companies, with project-based teams that moved around. People moved between companies much more fluidly. At a time that technology and know-how were sort of trapped within the vertically integrated companies of route 128, they were being continually recombined in silicon valley. That gave them a real edge in innovation."
> Spain, for example, has a rather meh economy, meanwhile the state is funneling public funds into things like a concentrated solar plant which will probably never generate more revenue than expenditure. If not corrupt, then that is at least decadent.

I recommend you sit down, evaluate what you are saying, and try to figure out what on earth that has to do with corporate taxing.
Many American companies (including most or all YC startups) do the same, incorporating in the low-tax state of Delaware for favourable tax treatment even though the company's offices and bulk of revenue-generation are elsewhere.
That's ignoring things like Chinese BBQ and dim sum, which are about as far from stir fried as it's possible to get.
I don't think they are - I think they are narrow assistants - order things, search for things, turn things on and off. They aren't there to have a discussion about your brothers emotional response to the Aphex Twin.
>What if management doesn't hire a security team?

That's clearly negligence.

>What if management hires incompetent security team?

That's harder to do because you have to establish competence,
which has led to a bunch of hazing rituals via whiteboard for general software development and a lot of other insecurities. Being a security professional isn't regulated by law, so you can't check the law to determine if someone's competent. So who's opinion do you trust, and why do you trust their competence? An expert witness, maybe?
If I could set arbitrary key/value on both users and features, that should be enough to make it work.
"Do not sign up for credit monitoring; it is a great revenue source for credit reporting agencies but almost never a good purchase for consumers."

Further to this, UK customers can get free access to their Equifax credit report via Clearscore.com anyway. And the experian one via moneysavingexpert credit club.
Oh duh. Thanks.
It doesn't matter if it is, it will easily scare off a lot of people.
It was merely one example of the phenomenon. I am not generalizing from it. Rather, the example I provided is a specialization of the general rule.
I wonder what the impact will be on these companies' ability to compete against entrenched players in those EU countries. For example, will this make Amazon's prices non-competitive with European bricks-and-mortar retailers?

I also wonder what the impact will be on their stock prices, because taxes on top-line revenues have a disproportionate impact on profit margins. For example, a 5% tax on revenues would render Amazon unprofitable in the EU and would cut Google's 20%+ net profit margin by about a quarter in the region.

Finally, if this goes through, will other jurisdictions around the world follow?
Firejail and Chromium
Get thee to github, there's a bunch. Not least the whole cannon of Tensorflow, but in terms of research all of the GAN stuff last year was on git as the papers hit.
Probably refers to earthquakes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale).
Thanks, why do you need to spin if there is no contention for the lock though? That sounds counterintuitive.
Which infrastructure? What infrastructure in France, Germany, Italy, or Spain, which is used by Google to reach their customers, is built and/or maintained by the governments of those countries?
If you have headquarters in California you pay tax here as well as a bit in Delaware

The reason to register in Delaware is because of business friendly courts there. I don't believe there is a tax advantage
Cloudflare is never one to miss a marketing opportunity. Case in point here.
Rust application that converts C++ libraries to single self-contained headers
I find the whole system lame. I feel web giants of today are not making the web better, just different, more structured and massive. Instead of taxing them to grab a share of their earnings (whether it makes sense or not), I'd be happier if more people would write longer and denser web page as it was until the late 90s. Give incentives for people to produce.
Visually reminiscent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munching_square

More recreational math from Cambridge students here: https://www.archim.org.uk/publications
My judgment is skewed by having a Surface Book, which is 13.5" (3:2), which makes reading PDFs very comfortable in almost all the cases (exception being only the badly edited PDFs with extremely small fonts).

I am very surprised though, that there are essentially no large tablets on the market, as I think 12.* is the minimum for comfortable reading, and I assume there is plenty of people using tablets for reading.

I understand that cramming a Windows-capable machine in 13.5 inches and 700gr is reserved to high end machines, but I wonder why they don't do that with ARM CPUs (I'm aware of the Chuwi, but it's 1.1 kg, and 700 is barely the limit for reading for hours).
The counter argument is that they actually have, but we call them corporations. Artificial quasi-sentient life forms, with superhuman powers and in many cases, rights beyond those of humans. With the rise of the internet and ecommerce, it's possible for them to transact with each other with no human intervention. Think about a whole ecosystem of DAOs.
This just looks like an attempt to get geothermal energy from Yellowstone. The 6GW power getting out of the ground now is really nothing compared to the energy that's down there. Thermal conduction and fluid transport are what allows the energy to the surface. Adding geo-thermal power generation would increase energy dissipated but would do little to actually change the geologic situation.

I suspect if you asked power companies if they'd go for it they would jump at the opportunity, but TFA jumps the gun and suggests that the government may need to offer incentives to get started.

In short: Let's use peoples fear of global calamity to get them to allow drilling and building in a national park and get free money from the government too.