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> brilliant off-beat thinking

Those words must have new meaning since he was citing as an example a language that's existed since the 70s. Ternary booleans are far from a unique or novel concept. The main difference is that for most languages, including Javascript, that third value exists at the variable binding or expression level, not the value level. Other languages that don't allow nulls encode that third value in a Maybe type. SQL, being a thin abstraction over data storage that needs to be able to encode nulls, doesn't make that distinction. That his idea was poorly worded to state that the actual Javascript value would have a third possibility rather than the comparison expression being nullable doesn't add to his credibility. The distinction between an expression evaluation, variable binding and a value isn't exactly a newbie concept, but for someone with the credentials he's claiming, I'd expect him to know it and be more precise.

> since the people he's talking to have shown that they don't understand.

Perhaps you should go back and read the exchange. The comment he was replying to was specifically about the mixture of Javascript and ternary booleans, not just ternary booleans. Also, if you re-read the comment that you're calling ignorant in the context of the authors original confusing of expression evaluations and values there's at least the possibility that he's making a very valid point, albeit in a way that can be read as confrontational. Javascript could already add an otherwise block without adding a third boolean value...all that would be necessary is to allow comparison operators evaluate to null or undefined and then execute the otherwise block in that case. Adding a third value would mean that a boolean variable binding could now have 5 values, true, false, not_true_or_false, null or undefined. That's nonsensical and deserves to be called out. It's bad enough that the language has null and undefined, since it causes a ton of confusion that could have been avoided. Adding some special "not null but sort of null" boolean value would just add more confusion to the language.
Absolutely, and it's the reason why even something as lucrative as like white truffles or huckleberries can't be cultivated very easily, if at all.
They will simply refuse to do the work. It's better to lose a job, than to lose a license.
It's going to take more than an envelope, if your site gains legs. There is also the expense of printing and shipping. Paper is heavy. You mentioned the idea of delivering them in person, you may wish to get some press and legal council.

Reach out, should you need financial assistance.
It's also illegal to sell a debt when the owner has knowledge that it is fraudulent.
Yeah I loved that video. The radio tower image in that other article you referenced is because this was the technology worked on in the war that lead to all of these ideas. And you do have a fair point. There were many factors that lead to the settlement of Silicon Valley and why all the talent wound up there.

However for me I what I really wanted to know about in silicon valley is less lead-up, and more the development and the technical innovation.

I fixed that statement you mentioned about Arthur Rock to specify it was the first private firm. Definitely a good distinction. Super interesting that Arthur Rock was a student of George Doriot.

George Doriot was the first person to take advantage of SBICs (government funded small business investment companies) that was created by the SBA to encourage more entrepreneurship. Where I think Arthur Rock was particularly innovative was that he raised all of this money from wealthy individuals looking to do private investing. While I agree the VC industry wouldn't have been started if it wasn't for Doriot, I think private money being used to fund startups is really the inflection point in the industry. Government money can't last forever.
Ask HN: Is Cloudflare ripping me off?
The reason I'm asking here is 9 days ago I asked Cloudflare to clarify the bill and I STILL haven't received a response beyond effectively them saying "I don't see the problem".

Cloudflare's latest invoice to me shows a bill of $1 for load balancing (I'm leaving out the billing for other services). The small number is not what's important here, so don't focus on that.

The Cloudflare load balancing service gives 500000 DNS queries for free, then $0.50 for each additional block of 500000 "authoritative DNS queries against Cloudflare's name servers": https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005254367-Billing-for-Load-Balancing

The bill shows 1.2 million DNS queries. If that is true then the pricing is correct.

The problem is there were only about 2.2 million total HTTP requests that went through Cloudflare that month. When you consider that most visits to my website result in over 30 HTTP requests over the 3 minutes the average user spends on the website, AND that most of my visitors are active users who regularly visit the website, I find it hard to comprehend that over HALF of ALL HTTP requests resulted in an authoritative DNS query.

Furthermore, the Cloudflare document I linked above says this: "You can reduce the number of authoritative DNS queries by configuring your Load Balancer as "proxied" (orange cloud) for your HTTP(S) services". All my requests go through the "orange cloud". So if that wasn't the case, how many DNS queries would there be? All 2.2 million HTTP requests?

Maybe I'm missing something here? Hence the Ask HN.
When Google or Apple declares losses in Spain having record revenues so they have fiscal benefits when that country has a very big crisis then we have a big problem.

But hey, those countries ajust want to get their grubby hand in those poor companies.
"The Ants" by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson.
We gave up. The business was selling geographical data services. Most clients wanted sample data and far over 50% of the time spend was creating those, so we'd invest a lot of time and still risk the client bailing. Any strategy to sell regular updates (e.g. every three month re-extract the road network of a country) didn't work out. All clients prefered "let's see how we use the first extract first" and never came back. With one exception all clients wanted different data and not enough scripts/systems/logic was reusable. On top the largest clients took longest to pay their bills.
Should the world eat more like the Cantonese?
Engineers say "no, we can't build it that way" and people respect it because they know that engineer: knows their work and has recourse through their professional society as well as government oversight agencies if undue management pressure compromises safety. I don't see it playing out the same way for most software teams.
I'd agree with you comparing junk food to junk food, but the claim being contested here is that Japan's average is better than the best available food in New York, which is just an insult.

>Funny you mention mayonnaise also because white Americans are stereotyped with eating mayonnaise sandwiches.

I'm not even going to pretend that I didn't grow up eating fried spam sandwiches with mayonnaise and government cheese, on white bread no less. But that's neither here nor there.
I don't know why people are trusting the checking service since it was built by the same company that leaked the damn info in the first place.

This isn't even taking into account that it's a bare metal WordPress installation with a shitty (aka, free) ssl certificate
The tiger-repelling rock in my front yard works really well, too. Haven't seen any tigers around my house in ages.
What do you mean by, "you can't touch their money"?

You can spoof their identity, to instantly acquire material goods / lines of credit.

And, if you are extremely persistent, you can spoof identity documents and hack bank accounts.
Cyanobacteria would still use oxygen when there is no light, and other nutrients. By allowing them to burst in numbers they would easily suck it all out of the sea.
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Quoting directly:

> Oh, and BTW, before you completely dismiss the idea that my suggestion might have merit, you might want to look me up.

He wasn't saying "I'm right because I'm me." He was saying, "I'm me so don't assume I'm wrong." It's still an appeal to authority. Had his credentials been part of the first line, where he was confirming that he was serious about his previous post, then your interpretation would be correct.
You're surprised that large companies are incompetent?

My experience has been that the main product of most companies is management politics. Actually shipping product is nearly irrelevant to everyone's daily activities. In some cases, people get punished for being competent.

One company I worked with made it clear they had no interest in listening to competent people. People were promoted for their ability to suck up to management. They got promoted when the projects they managed were delayed, buggy, and generally non-functional. Any competent engineer was summarily drummed out of the company for causing trouble.
But some of us might move back if Amazon were there..
Agreed, Chinese dish, on the other hand, always appears as stir fry, no matter how different things are actually made...
JSON is for serialization, YAML is for configuration.

I agree, trailing comma's and the lack of comments is extremely annoying in JSON. However, I think the underlying problem is tools using a serialization format for configuration to be the real problem here.

That AWS CloudFormation has added support for YAML is a great example of this and it's a great step forward. I think other tools should follow.
It depends. I'm not a tax accountant, but if you make under $100k, most definitely. Above that, you are into ge foreign tax credit and can get screwed, except Swiss also has a high cost of living and you can leverage foreign housing deductions, so...it's complicated.

But if you actually buy things, pay rent, etc...you will spend a lot more than in the states, so it's really a wash. And like I said, Swiss still have taxes, just not high income taxes...again, it's hard to compare.

Disclaimer: I lived in Lausanne, not Zurich, but I expect they are similar.
Like PCI compliance?

Ask people who've gone through that process how rigorous it is...
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They benefit from having the market; the entire set of infrastructure and society that makes it possible to make money there. Google has no divine right to sell into that market without taxes or tariffs any more than European companies have to sell into the US.

But there's a very particularly European problem here, that of cross-state revenue recognition. A gross receipts tax or similar is one solution, which is also present in four US states: https://taxfoundation.org/state-corporate-income-tax-rates-a...
But it does affect the "has paid off x% of loans"
With this many people affected, it'd be political suicide to enforce such a claim - ideally. The ideally bit is because we may just have reached a point where judges no longer have to worry about doing the right thing.
> utter my name and address as identification (no other ID needed),

How do they know that you actually cast the vote for you? Say my 5 best friends all tell me, "Nah, I'm not gonna vote. My vote doesn't count anyway." I then go to each of their districts, claim to be them by giving their name and address, and vote how I want. What's to stop that from happening?
It's like the Keystone Cops are running Equifax. They are now a complete joke. And it's sadly not funny.
Sure but this car is not a Toyota Corolla class of vehicle, it's more in the BMW 3 series range. Every buyer would know that going in.

But even still compared with an ICE vehicle the Model3 would have much lower gas and depreciation costs.

Sure compared with a lease it looks like a lot more but with a lease of course you're not buying the car, you're only renting it. The Model3 is not aimed at the segment of consumers that are confused by this distinction.

The cost per mile of the Model3 is still very low compared with most alternatives.
Depends on the seriousness of the call.

If you're entering into an actual contract verbally (e.g. applying for insurance or a mortgage over the phone), they'll typically go out of their way to ask if you're okay with the recording. They don't want even the slightest admissablility issue, and they want you to know you're giving a binding verbal signature.

If you're just talking to a low-level customer support rep, the stakes are a lot lower.
>abiotic algae

What specific species are you referring to?

>Blue-green algae produce oxygen.

That is only true during daylight. At night algae consume oxygen.

Independently, photosynthetic activity can increase pH values drastically.
Swiss consumer prices are super high except for cars, gas, and cigarettes compared to neighboring countries (France/Germany).
Until Firefox has a method to easily switch between profiles, I'll stick with Chrome.

I have a few different clients that I have seperate logins for and I like to keep all that completely separate while still only using a single browser.
So you can take Googles content, intellectual property, or patents and do what you like? France, Germany, Italy or Spain law enforcement wont do anything?

This is one of the key infrastructure that government provides and Google depends.
From TFA it sounds like Envy was version control that people didn't find skull-crushingly painful to use, which establishes it as pretty different from CVS or ClearCase.
I want to switch to Firefox because, lately, I've been trying to lessen my dependence on Google and Google services. All I need is a method to easily switch browser profiles!
Well the enlightened human being are so small a fraction of the population, that this argument probably doesn't even ends up being made aware to the vast majority of this nation...
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Follow up question:

What if I said "I am recording this call" while I am in an Automatic Voice Response system waiting for an human to arrive on the line and talk to me?

As far as I am concerned, human representative or the automated voice response system, both represent the company that I am interacting with. It's not my fault that the voice response system that the company used to talk to me (to answer my questions, or just make me wait) can't understand that I am going to record the call and act appropriately. The business is perfectly fine with using the automated system to take critical actions, then it should be fine with me telling it I will be recording the call, not my fault that their automated system failed to recognize that.

What do you think?
Just a thank you to patio11 - I got a phone call from a debt collector yesterday, over something I thought I had finally persuaded the original owner was incorrect. (Mobile phone bill iymk)

I was going to call them Monday, but of course, now I will write :-)
Because you can hang up if you aren't. Additionally, I imagine upon reaching an individual immediately stating you do not consent to being recorded will likely trigger the appropriate outcome.
I think this government failed to educate people the important lessons
That's bullshit.

Even after rent, you still end up with more money than most people earn in other places.

Those who make such claims usually seem to be those who get coffees at Starbucks, eat out every day, travel multiple times a year, get Uber rides everywhere, drink at bars regularly, buy the latest gadgets, etc.
A blockchain is public. You want everybody's credit public?
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How does this work in civil engineering or construction in general. It is also a team based endeavor. The way I understand it only engineers or management needs to go through certification. Basically people who direct the project.
Also an article here on impact of sand mining on rivers in India:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/magazine/sand-mining-indi...
Thanks I'll keep my eye on that question. Like you I probably won't care about my credit back home for the next decade or so but I don't know if I'll move back in the future.
It's rigorous, but in all the wrong ways.

At $DAY_JOB our security falls into two buckets (1) PCI and (2) stuff that keeps us secure.

IDK if it's possible to have a widely accepted security standard that isn't checking nonsensical and out-of-date boxes.
If you not okay then you simply hang up, no?
Chargebacks and protection and against fraud are the biggest reasons I think.
Camels are worse.
I am not a lawyer, but I have taken a bunch of law classes.

IIRC, the judge doesn't need to recuse themselves of any/all cases where they are impacted, only that they must recuse themselves where they would be unable to be unbiased, or where there would be an appearance of being unbiased.

In the lower courts, when in doubt, that's decided by other judges. At the SCOTUS level, that's decided by the individual judge on an individual level.

So, yes... They will find a judge.
What does professional even mean (from her past)? To me it means useless middle management that accomplishes nothing apart from moving numbers around to make them look good.
The companies on the other side of your transactions.
You do give your consent. Everytime you deal with a financial, or credit issuing institution.
What if management doesn't hire a security team? What if management hires incompetent security team?
Given that silicon's the second most abundant element on Earth, it seems like it should be trivial to mine without causing environmental damage.
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You focused on explaining how many everyday objects could be described as robots, but you left out any discussion of the phrase "taken over."
The sheer scale is incomparable. Comparing a doctor's mistake during a surgery doesn't quite compare to losing the data of 147 million.

"Critical systems" developers would need astronomically expensive insurance to even exist, and therefore prohibitively high salaries.

I personally believe there should be some measure of a corporate death penalty to emphasize the responsibility involved though.
$70B works out to less than $500/ person.

I imagine that the firm will take 25-50%.

Also, Equifax will likely just go bankrupt vs. paying 4x what they are worth.

Perhaps we should seek to have the company turned over to the people, at which point a blockchain based credit system can be implemented.
To iPhone 9, obviously.
Note the statement by the New York State Attorney General: https://twitter.com/AGSchneiderman/status/906195350532304896. Not enforceable.
Right, of course not. They're idiots.
Cleveland would be a cheaper and more reasonable centrality.
The government is not the market, the people are the market. If the government is in the business of selling the public to multinational corporations, something is truly wrong.
Firefox Nightly is at version 57, why are you talking about v58?
Very nice!

Please consider uploading it to

Http://notebooks.azure.com

It's a free service for running and sharing Jupyter notebooks. That way the can run it immediately w/on installing anything (has anaconda).

Lots of teachers are using it. For example:

Http://notebooks.azure.com/richie

Disclaimer: I work on this :)
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Or Equifax became unresponsive while they investigated, but didn't reveal what was happening. Related, but not via inside info about the hacks.
No, their courts are guided by treaty to expose citizens to action on the patents of other countries, just as courts in other countries are guided by those same treaties to expose theirs.

As far as I understand, all treaties of this sort are bilateral.
I have no idea what you mean by "m3", and I did some google searches ("m3 volcano" "m3 drilling") and it's still not clear.

If "m3" is jargon related to volcanos, geology, drilling, or geothermic power generation, I submit to you that most HN readers will be unfamiliar with the term.

Or maybe it's just me.
No - everyone very definitely does not already do that :-) in fact this is something I have pushed to some degree or other at every place I have worked and only where I had CTO level authority did I get it taken up

Count yourself lucky if it's common for you :-)
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While I agree, how do you apply software engineering practices in a field where a good chunk of the workforce doesn't have formal computer science education?
I think Lotus Notes also used to something similar when you typed in your password. Its been a while (thankfully) since I used it though.
Google is not responsible for the corrupt and decadent governments in countries they don't operate out of; they're hardly responsible for it where they do operate. When China manipulates the markets so much that they collapse, and when Sweden spends its way into poverty, it will not be Google's fault, nor their responsibility to pay for it.
I submitted this a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15207727. Basically the steps to file a small claims lawsuit.
The broader history of the Amazon latex rubber trade is covered here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_rubber_boom

A great interview of Charles Mann, author of "1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created" (audio):

https://audioboom.com/posts/4984449-1493-uncovering-the-new-...
The ratio seems odd, but without detailed logs it's impossible to know if and how the requests got generated.

Is there lots of e-mail traffic through your domain, or is there other uses for the domain you might not be accounting for apart from the website? Web requests aren't necessarily the only cause of DNS lookups.
I haven't been government-cleared for anything (as a matter of principle I won't do work for the federal government), but I've been background-checked repeatedly, including by major exchanges, and never once had a problem.

I'd like you tell me more about how you think I've been lucky with respect to my disregard for my credit score. I don't think I have.
Are you saying that Apple or Google don't operate in Spain or France?

What the heck has to do your claim of Spain or France being corrupt with Apple or Google declaring losses with record revenues?
Safari won't be the new IE until it has an IT department enforceable compatibility mode which breaks everything forever.
that's actually not that unlikely.

You have: 140 million * 10 grams * 10% * 0.01%
You want:
Definition: 14 kg

one standard US envelope is about 10 grams, and assume 10% of affected sign up for credit monitoring and 0.01% use your service to send the opt-out. you might even wind up with multiple bags!

140 million is a lot of SSNs.
For a mortgage?

I'm asking because the hubby is I'm the military and he's the primary on our mortgage.
No, blockchains are magic technology that makes money appear out of nowhere and hides all activity from evildoers.
I think you've missed the point of this subthread, which is admittedly a tangent. I'm not suggesting that I'm less impacted by the Equifax breach.
Nope. Once its energy is drained, it will become dormant. This will take a lot of gradual deep drilling.
>Who exactly is responsible for unrecognized vulnerabilities? Everyone? No one?

Here's a quote from Equifax's early release on the breach [0]:

Equifax said that, it had hired a cybersecurity firm to conduct a review to determine the scale of the invasion.

So, to your question, I'm going with "no one", at least internally.

It's beyond belief (well, not really anymore); but, not only do they not have security covered internally (criminal in itself), but they don't even appear to have a regularly engaged cybersecurity firm. They had to go out and hire one post facto.

[0] https://investor.equifax.com/news-and-events/news/2017/09-07...
Yes, your meta interpretation is what I was getting at.
Thanks for this! What if I don't have an equifax user id? Never signed up for any of their services
Cubic meter?