skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a peg to the USD, banks will be happy to take your real money and hold onto it while the exchanged Berkshare remains in distribution, because they know that at worst they only have to pay back the original money. But as soon as the Berkshare is able to move against the dollar, participating banks assume some risk because they may be forced to pay out more than 1 USD for a single Berkshare. There's even some risk that the bank could run out of "foreign currency reserves" (USD deposits) to defend the Berkshare, causing it to collapse.
You can use a credit freeze: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faq...

> Also known as a security freeze, this tool lets you restrict access to your credit report, which in turn makes it more difficult for identity thieves to open new accounts in your name. That’s because most creditors need to see your credit report before they approve a new account. If they can’t see your file, they may not extend the credit.

I've never done this, but it sounds effective - although if you want to open another line of credit, you'll have to temporarily suspend the freeze.
> how aren't there already federal agents searching every square inch of the company

Usually reserved for criminal cases, not civil ones.

> regulation in the way the data can be stored and processed

Have it.

> regular checks need to be conducted to ensure their adherence

Have it.

> I can already hear Americans preach to me how the free market is great and solves all your problems.

Please quote me the "solve all your problems" source.
More like a replacement for any wsgi server.
And Schrute Bucks
http://theoffice.wikia.com/wiki/Schrute_Buck
Although there is a case for still using select(). If you're looking at avoiding porting headaches and aren't dealing with a large number of descriptors then select() still works fine.

The alternatives are mostly necessary when you're dealing with large numbers of connections (thousands), which most people aren't.

Of course there's also the slight problem that select()'s interface with the file descriptor packing macros and the unusual requirement to figure out which file descriptor is the largest numerically that might push people to the alternatives. That is also a valid reason IMHO.
Turns out, eclipses have everything to do with solar flares and every other phenomena you observe: You.

All of these things happen to you. We've been trained to look at reality as something 'out there', but truth is that reality happens inside your consciousness and it's unclear where mind ends and 'reality' starts. It's unclear if there's anything but consciousness (note that the 'brain' might also be a construct of consciousness).

Shamans - not the con men - devote their life to studying and sharing the relationship between consciousness, mind, nature/universe, what was before birth and what follows after.

There are tools and practices to take you on these voyages where physics and rationality don't apply and if you go there once... to put it lightly, things won't look the same as they did before.

Not a time and place to go deeper, some answers come when we go on to the next stage, but there's a lot more than what the textbooks teach.
Probably this one: "Cycles in family tree software"
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6163683/cycles-in-family...
For those interested, development is done in the open here:

https://github.com/18F/identity-idp
If they've linked specific hashes to known CP content, then presumably they have those files available. They can still present that as evidence, then have the experts testify that those specific files are known to have been on the drive.

Going to the Supreme Court specifically on the forced-decryption issue sends a pretty strong signal that that's what they actually care about.
Incidentally, even SSNs are not universal. You are not required to have an SSN, and some religious groups opt out.
The author suggests that good things take time (there are no shortcuts), and focus on a primary goal is how you achieve.

Then his instagram bio;

I write, run a business, podcast, draw, run, and lift weights. Get my free ebook that teaches you to 2X your productivity.
It's a third year course! If you want a more leisurely treatment I hear good things about Cox's book "Primes of the Form x²+ny²". Even if you don't reach the CM part you will have gained a lot of motivation for it, all the way back to Disquisitiones.
Agreed.

Even if 100% of the electricity was produced by coal, anytime you reduce the sources of pollution from millions of tailpipes to a few thousand power plants, you can easily regulate and install scrubbers to reduce the pollutants.
Ask HN: Kaby Lake or Coffee Lake?
I'm gonna build a new desktop pc.

Should I wait for the new line of processors (Coffee Lake)?

Plan: Intel Core i5 7600 non K version.
Ask HN: SSD hosting vs. CDN service?
If you have a limited budget, what would you prefer: SSD top hosting or a decent cheap hosting with $$ additional CDN service?

I know, the both are the necessary, but if you need to choose, what if you need to choose among them, what do you choose?
That reason being, of course, that they can keep him in jail indefinitely until then, and then jail him some more.
I use a mix of Excel sheets, Google Keep, and various other tools.

I choose a rough slot of time, and start looking flights. Cheapest flight decide the city, then room from booking.com. An excel sheet logs and guides my preparations for Visa Application, another one lists the documents required. One more helps me to pack the items/things.
According to this[1], he is staying on as an advisory of the now "excellent" team. I do not doubt that korg has more than just him to hold responsible for their gear, but sometimes the charisma of someone can inspire... Hopefully he can still inspire from Cologne now...

1-http://www.factmag.com/2017/02/17/tatsuya-takahashi-leaving-...
Don't conflate the free market with zero regulation.
We had a dedicated Luxe team at my workplace for valet services and it was pretty sweet until they discontinued, likely due to cost.
I thought the app and service was pretty good.
That is not going to happen in the US - mugshots of suspects are public way before people get their day in court. I know at least 1 European country (can't remember which) that won't allow the publication of suspects' names (or was it photographs?) until they are convicted.
Any and all of them.

An insurance company would likely offer to cover all self driving accidents for free. This is because it would be a small cost to them, and would encourage you to use the self driving mode more often, which would cause you to get in less accidents.

Why WOULDN'T an insurance company cover all this stuff for free? It literally would save them billions.
I just went to Bulletproof.ai and on their front page they stated their registrar .ai AKEP told them they had to drop ds. So not that bulletproof.
It's the dried (and ground) sap of a plant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asafoetida
I personally sat in a courtroom and watched this unfold. In some cases the PD shows up at the last possible minute with some scant details about the case, asks the defendant how they want to plea, converses with the judge, then leaves.

I never made an insinuation as to the "why", just the "what". Are they overworked? Definitely. And yes this is a large city, where the cogs are moving fast. I'm sure in a smaller jurisdiction there is more attention to detail.
Suddenly Color and Clinkle don't seem so outrageous.
The Republic of Estonia uses such a system to identify members of its e-Residency program, even with no physical presence. Each e-resident has a public numerical key that serves as a unique identifier, and a corresponding private key that is never revealed.

So an example to emulate then!

Except: Estonia suffered an embarrassing blow to its much-vaunted ID cards that underpin everything from electronic voting to online banking [...] a security risk that affects almost 750,000 ID cards and that would enable a hacker to steal a person’s identity.

https://www.ft.com/content/874359dc-925b-11e7-a9e6-11d2f0ebb...
You also have to pay Equifax $10 to do this. Insane, right?
I served on a jury recently, so I got firsthand experience in a different way.

I'd disagree with 4. We did arrive at a guilty verdict so you might take that to support your thesis here, but everyone involved seemed genuinely interested in giving the defendant a fair trial. The judge who presided over voir dire and the judge who presided over the trial were rigorous, affable, and sincere in their desires to be fair to everyone. The public defender fought well for her client. The clerks didn't insert themselves. I was really taken by the lengths that everyone went to in order to ensure that we weren't biased by certain facts. For example, it came out in cross-examination that the defendant was on probation. We wouldn't have known that otherwise.

We deliberated for hours, so the outcome was far from pre-determined.

Some other marginally relevant impressions:

1. The courts need more state funding. Your post actually makes me reconsider this, since it could increase corruption. But I think that if you had more judges and courtrooms, it could remove a bottleneck that might lead defendants and prosecutors alike to take the plea deal and move on rather than getting tied up in the courts for a long time. There are probably corrupt interests that make the current system the way it is, but I know that one reason people push plea deals is because the system would become paralyzed otherwise. More money could maybe go to public defenders as well or provide incentives to go to trial and fight hard. I have to think public defenders push towards plea deals because they have too much on their plates already.

2. Everyone should stop making "get out of jury duty" jokes, and jury duty should be more heavily incentivized. It's a lot harder to get a trial by your peers if you're lower on the socioeconomic ladder, because people are trying to get out of jury duty since they can't lose the money from work or perhaps even the job itself (that's illegal de jure, but de facto? Who knows). I'm not sure I'd want my jury to only be there for the money, but there's always gonna be a risk that your jury has bad motives.

3. People watch too many crime dramas. This isn't as relevant to what you're saying, except that it might actually be a counterpoint to your argument. Jurors can be unwilling to convict because the guy didn't confess to the police, get caught on video, AND leave DNA in five spots at the crime scene. It has to be harder to get a conviction now than 30 years ago, for better or for worse.

4. It's amazing how charges can get slapped onto someone. One crime could end up having three or four different charges attached to it. I could see how that'd be scary when it's time to plea bargain, but what can you do here? How can you have a variety of charges to choose from to adequately cover justice for different kinds of crimes without using them as a club to beat guilty pleas out of people?
G4 geomagnetic storms. (I'm just parroting the chart I linked.)
Citus Data Is Hiring a Content Marketer
Seems to me we got both pervasive state tracking capabilities AND poorly secured private systems too.

And it's interesting to note that the use of an identifier like the SSN spread not because its wide use was mandated (in fact, it spread despite being discouraged) but because it turns out organizations both public and private have the same incentives that drive them to want increased legibility throughout their systems through such an identifier. And most individuals also have a motive to want them to be able to positively identify and authenticate them (and negatively rule out imposters).

It's almost like it'd make a good utility, though that's not the only possible solution.

And the anti-govt bend is odd for at least two reasons: in a democratic republic with an elected representative government, it's pretty weird to treat the feds as a hostile occupying power. And two, even among those that do, their opposition often seems to have a cargo-cult focus on certain lines as tokens of liberty (firearms, national id, taxes) rather than frequent demonstrations of insight about the balance between having a useful federal apparatus and different ways that it can be (and is!) limited and checked.
My hope is that this opens a larger discussion on the business practices of these credit bureaus, the kind of data they collect, and ultimately their harm to the public good.

As far as I'm concerned, they stole my data first, then they packaged it up neatly and gave it to shady persons.

Yes, I'm aware that I "consented" to their collection of my data when I signed up for a credit card, or a car loan, but it's not a system you can realistically opt out of. If I want to rent an apartment or, sometimes, even get a job, I need to consent to a credit pull, so I need to have a positive credit history.

So, we have a private sector monopoly that I am coerced to give my data to, for free, to function in society. Seems like a good business to be in, but as an outsider I'd like to see something drastic happen. Perhaps nationalization, or breaking up of the big three with deep regulation.

*edited to add omitted "three" in last sentence.
G4 geomagnetic storms, not flares.
Or what if the insurance company just offers to pay for all of it for free?

It would save the insurance companies billions of dollars to do this, as it would encourage their drivers to stay in self driving mode which will be way safer.
I wish I would be holding a lot of coins... even if bitcoins drops 50% is still worth a lot, I know the privileged elitist HN guys hate it for some reason, while probably is saving lives as we speak in Venezuela, but my tone is probably due experience dealing with Chinese, and their efficiency in farming every bit of value form everything they touch, for example their recently started to farm pubg.
I agree, GPs aren‘t always helpful. I was thinking more along the lines of an orthopedist, a neurologist, or a physical therapist — people that have a lot of experience with the kind of problem you have. They can usually tell you in seconds what‘s wrong with your google diagnosis that seemed to fit all the symptoms. That‘s my experience, at least.
How many channels does LoRa have?
"and even if you do go the experience won't be the same."

Off topic, but say someone is a late-20s/early-30s guy who for financial reasons wasn't able to do the "backpacking Europe/Australia/NZ/whatever" thing, how does the experience significantly change throughout the 30s/40s? I know a few people who still do this.

"maybe even poor people should have some fun and the push to save is part of a massive collective delusion to pretend we're not mortal."

This ties into something I've thought for a while and while reading the article. Basically "premium mediocre" is just another variant of materialism. That somehow material goods (of a sufficiently high caliber) are an intrinsic good, and that obtaining/consuming them brings about some intrinsic benefit to one's life, just a variant shaped to the particular existential angst of millennials. But there's an out: maybe the most lasting and significant experiences of one's life are one's that take place/are primarily a function of one's mind. From the outside it may seem much less substantial or obvious, but why can't millennials consider spiritual progress, mental self-discipline, grand experience, or cultural exploration (say bumming around Europe for a while) to be a primary aspiration, even if it leaves them relatively broke at the end of the day? To an extend they do, and I'm not sure that's such a terrible thing.
There was a good Odd Lots podcast covering this:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-27/odd-lots-...
They do, it's called corporate dissolution. Not sure what precedent there is for a class action suit that results in dissolution, but it would be a pretty good precedent to set IMO.
Why are they moot? Also, the team is arrogant, incompetent, and dismissive, and r/Iota is heavily moderated by them.
Regular cars need this.

Leave a car for months, and you'll get back to a dead battery. Keyless entry won't work. You can't roll down the windows. Settings may be forgotten. There is no way to start the engine.

Leave a car out in the Sun in a place like Arizona, and stuff melts. If you get in the car, the seatbelts cause burns that blister. Having the car run a fan would be nice, and the more you need it the more power there is available to do so.
> how aren't there already federal agents searching every square inch of the company and interviewing key employees under oath? But no, nobody is securing this evidence

Do we know that there aren't? Would it be public knowledge if there was an investigation?
> Usually reserved for criminal cases

Is this not? If that's the case I need to get out of this dumpster fire of a country.
Yeah, and even with that extreme measure taken, Bulletproof found them a new domain on the .at TLD, check the whois for dailystomer.at
A Stanford professor’s advice on surviving the a**hole at your startup
I wouldn't call Manage Account "teeny and hard-to-notice". I spotted it immediatelly as I'm used to look up in the right corner for logging in on for example reddit.
Show HN: Book flights for 1/10 of the cost upfront
I built a flight booking app/website that lets you book flights immediately and pay for them over time. http://bliss.flights

I got frustrated after being unable to afford an important trip ($1000+) while ass-broke in college and realized it’s a big problem for other young people who don’t own credit cards.

Besides financing payments, Bliss has "GTFO Deals” similar to Scott’s Cheap Flights, where we notify you whenever we see unusually cheap flights flying out of your city (i.e. $250 roundtrip from New York to Madrid).

Would you use it? Any feedback?
There's the fake news calling the fake news, fake... politico is rancid.
Even more simply, a prosecutor can point to settlement or damage amounts as a measure of their 'effectiveness' and there won't be much analysis beyond the dollar amounts involved.
Mine's easy and sorry if this isn't helpful.

All of my vacation time is planned around going to Blackhat/BSides/Defcon. I book whatever the defcon hotel is for the full block of dates.
future payments are usually discounted rather than inflated (IE money you have to pay now is more of a burden than money you have to pay in the future)
Yeah, you would think the tax dollars spent on prisons vastly outweigh the extra dough it would take to actually try everyone who goes through them.

Plus, the innocent who aren't jailed pay taxes and do productive things for society.

This is all ignoring the human cost of the equation.
IDK whether it has the potential to be, but that's how it currently stands.

I can tell because criminal cases are prosecuted by the state; civil cases are prosecuted by private parties. (And class action is always civil.)

But by all means, move to somewhere less dumpster-firey where large businesses and governments don't get hacked.
The 9/11 Commission's final report (https://9-11commission.gov/report/) is very good.

Also good is Edward Tufte's "PowerPoint Does Rocket Science" (https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...), on how NASA's deck-centric systems of internal communication led to the loss of the space shuttle Challenger.
Coordinating the response here is the key part here, but "massive number of suits in small-claims court" is probably better for threatening Equifax with an existential legal threat.

Equifax employs about 10,000 people worldwide. A million small-claims cases has each Equifax employee handling 100 small-claims cases. I don't think they can handle that level of distributed legal aggression. It just takes too much time by too many people, especially if people refuse to settle for anything less than $1000.

Probably the best way to crowdsource it is to go through the process yourself, write a step-by-step guide to what you did, and post the results on social media.
Even in Canada, where we’ve had the chip + pin for far longer, the ATM eats your card. After a certain amount of incorrect PIN attempts, or the bank flags the card, it will not release the card.
I guess this is fine if he is new to this. But playing around with buffer overflows and injecting a payload ( with a healthy dose of NOPs ) and having that open a app ( maybe even a shell ) would be far better.
Congrats on shipping! I've bookmarked this site for the next time I'm looking for a sideproject.
Not saying it doesn't. I'm saying Eric Schneiderman, alone, is a douche.
You're absolutely correct. We should move to a well designed identity system. However I'd SWAG the development and deployment of such a system around 10-15 years if all of the involved parties were on-board. Equifax could provide the SSA a pile of money and the victims could have a reasonably effective defense against identity theft within months.
RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News
That sounds like extortion to me. Equifax are running a protection racket.
In addition to the points flavio81 made, checking at runtime because unless the language is dependently typed i.e. has types as first class citizens(for example Idris) a lot of the information about your code you want to prove to be correct is not available at compile time(for example, you have an integer but is it a non-negative integer, a list but is it sorted). It is not about being reliable, it is about being possible.
I'm in that same boat. Reading the title wasn't very interesting, but then I saw Fabien's name and I knew I was in for a very wonderful treat.

Hey Fabien, if you read this, you're super cool and you write amazing articles.
His other interests, yes.
Facebook started as a clean alternative to MySpace. Facebook has now become even more bloated and painful to use than MySpace was.

One hypothesis for why Google+ and others did not "catch on" is because Facebook has orders of magnitude more users, and therefore has reached a "critical mass", meaning no significant amount of users will ever use an alternative.

My hypothesis is that there simply hasn't been a significantly superior alternative yet.

New alternatives can also use Facebook as an advantage by creating a compatible API. Facebook, of course, will "fight back" by making itself incompatible, but the only way it can do that is by making its own platform less usable.
Browsers typically use a few connections to load a page so that it can load faster. Each of those threads has a different source port, and thus may route to a different target.
In Colm's demo, it depends which thread your browser uses when requesting the part including the CSS which decorates the object.
In my Chrome on Mac I see 6 TCP connections to the demo NLB

tcp4 0 0 192.168.100.101.49615 54.69.111.179.80 ESTABLISHED
tcp4 0 0 192.168.100.101.49614 54.69.111.179.80 ESTABLISHED
tcp4 0 0 192.168.100.101.49613 54.69.111.179.80 ESTABLISHED
tcp4 0 0 192.168.100.101.49612 54.69.111.179.80 ESTABLISHED
tcp4 0 0 192.168.100.101.49611 54.69.111.179.80 ESTABLISHED
tcp4 0 0 192.168.100.101.49610 54.69.111.179.80 ESTABLISHED

Each of those will be routed to the same target, so it's up to your browser to decide which to use for what.
I'm not saying that it's not better net, I’m saying that, insofar as there is an internal or external risk of compromise or abuse, a single government identity provider poses the same kind of risk as a single government profile would provide.