skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. FBI investigations are not a "first point of contact" when a complaint has been made or someone has a question.

Some law enforcement agency has already determined that there is something worth investigating, but they don't have all the tools required to investigate it fully, so it has escalated to the FBI.

For law enforcement an FBI investigation is at least the equivalent in development terms of a priority ticket with Managers subscribing and asking for daily updates.
Only the absolutely dumbest Americans are Wells Fargo customers at this point. Or, maybe, they can't read the news.
The US employment rate is so high that the risk of being long-term unemployed is pretty low, outside some special groups and places (e.g. coal miners, coal towns).

Interest rates are also historically low.

Thus the effective discount rate on money is super low. It's a good time to take a European vacation, particularly when you are young and child free. It's gonna cost a lot more later, and you might be less secure, not more.
The Equifax Hack Didn't Have to Be This Bad
Anyone have any boot camps they think are "best-in-class"?
> Being a good software developer has absolutely nothing to do with "important entrepreneurial tech skills." Knowing how to tackle problems, envision loops and algorithms, write pseudocode, understand the basics of how requests on the Internet work, or how your computer accesses databases or files; these are skills of a good software developer.

I disagree. Knowing where to apply your skills at a company is just as important as having those skills. If your stakeholders aren't happy, it doesn't matter how beautiful the code is. You've failed to deliver. That being said, it's a balance you have to strike. You can't just focus entirely on making stakeholders happy, other wise you'd have a patchwork quilt of an application.

Also, that's why I like side projects, you're the stakeholder and can focus on the tech/what you think is important.
>Nick Kacher of the Schumacher Center has discussed the possibility of pegging its value to a basket of local goods in order to insulate the local economy against volatility in the US economy.

Is there a name for pegging a currency to a basket of goods? I can't find any examples online.
It says that here - but might be a simple omission

https://www.crowdcheck.com/sites/default/files/CrowdCheck%20...
I get where you are coming from, and I also think there is a line where it seems you can't say anything without having to qualify it so much that it becomes annoying.

It was not clear to me whether gcp's statement was supposed to be limited to a comparison between C++ and Java/dotnet/python (and I addressed that in the post that you responded to). I felt it was worth the qualification for the sake of discussion, and I still don't think it was being pedantic to ask (especially since I addressed the possibility of it being the above comparison). I wasn't just nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking. And my question was a far cry from asking him to "defend a mathematical thesis", IMHO.
BBS and Usenet discussions back in the day had another point of view, even if that wasn't part of the respective author's intentions.
Streamlio bundles open-source projects into real-time streaming engine
I'm curious, does the US government offer any way for you to change your SSN after its leaked?
I think what you're saying is that if a manager can't adequately track what their team is working on and how they are doing, they put the burden of that gap in communication on the developers.

This is a valid point, some kind of asymmetry in the communication.

I don't think this contradicts what I said, rather branches off into another subject, whether your reporting manager is doing a good job or not.
It could come quickly and from without if the rest of the world (eg, China) cut off oil supplies. Regime would be gone in a matter of years.
I'll try and explain why Jains do not eat garlic (along with other rooted vegetables like onions and potatoes):

When taking out the entire plant, you also take out any organisms like bugs and such from their ecosystem, killing them in the process. Jains try and limit the amount of violence they cause (Ahimsa), so in turn they try and avoid eating rooted vegetables.

On top of this, by removing the whole plant you prevent them from sprouting again, which is effectively "killing" in Jainism.

All of this being said though, modern agriculture techniques kind of make this reasoning insignificant. Mass farming practices mean that all plants are effectively killed along with any organisms in that area when harvesting.

And to top it all off, many Jains do not follow this practice, at least in the US. Many of my family eat all of these things, maybe trying to avoid them during Paryushan (holy week).
The first question (economics) is one we've thought a bit about. Not affiliated with Filecoin/IPFS/Protocol Labs, so these answers may be wrong:

Filecoin creates a market for storage. The price of B2 is an important variable in this market, because it creates an arbitrage opportunity where you can use B2 to mine Filecoin.

But why not just use B2 directly? Three reasons.

One, B2's replication isn't perfect (at least, not as perfect as S3), and both B2 and S3 have nonzero political risk (a sovereign could order them to destroy your data). B2 plus a layer of blockchainy replication could be quite attractive to some low-price-sensitivity customers.

Two, to work with B2, you need a business relationship with B2. This is obviously no big deal in the normal world of multiuser, single-server apps that we live in today.

However, if we can somehow migrate to a world in which users have their own servers, it's much easier for those personal servers to have simple, maintenance-free automated relationships with decentralized token-based services. Think about how many centralized service providers a typical startup has relationships with (and how much they cost). This design can't really be scaled down from industrial computing to personal computing.

Three, Filecoin has an interesting consensus design in which the word "miner" is used in two senses: "miners" participate in storage transactions, and also receive block rewards based on proof of stake, where stake is defined as the storage of the whole system. The effect of this on the economics of Filecoin is extremely hard to predict, but it can only be positive.

The one point that seems unresolved about the economics of Filecoin is this interesting interaction between FC as a cryptocurrency and FC as a payment mechanism in a storage market. It does seem that you could take FC's storage market and port it to an existing blockchain. But there may be more subtle technical requirements from a blockchain -- a storage market is certainly a demanding application.
At this point, it would be more newsworthy to see what Uber is not being investigated for.
Could lead to actual legislation which IMO is needed. If companies like this fail miserably to protect data it's a sign something bigger is needed and missing. It's like the how Aurthur Andersen represented how accounting firms should not act, and failed miserably.
What they do in bootcamps is really good, a lot better than what they do in college. But the problem is what they charge and what they promise! Most people join bootcamps because they either want to pivot or they want a better job and that comes with a huge cost in everyone's life. If people join bootcamps purely for educational purposes then bootcamps are perfect, but people join there to up themselves. Bootcamps charging huge fees fail to well defined free MooCs
>One thing that rarely gets mentioned is how abundantly SAFE opiates are. If you know what you're getting, know what dosage it is, and know it's not adulterated with other substances, you can use opiates for decades without significant health complications (aside from constipation).

It rarely gets mentioned because it's false.

First off, opiates are usually inefficient for long term pain management. We, at least, have no evidence they are effective for long term (>2 months) pain management and if you actually talk to pain patients the problems with long term opiate use are very obvious. I'm not talking about junkies on the street either, I'm talking about normal people who are obtaining their medication legally through a licensed physician, not the black market.

Patients often rapidly develop tolerance and then dependence. The can also induce hyperalgesia - a paradoxical increase in pain caused by long term opiate use, this is why patients on high doses of opiates usually feel less pain when weened off the drug. Additional side effects are disruption of hormone production, lethargy, listlessness, and sleep apnea.

There's just SO MUCH we don't know about long term use bit it's very clear there is significant harm with questionable benefit in a subset of the population.

>Fundamentally there is one group of people who is angry that other people are using a chemical to feel good because they feel that if other people aren't suffering as much as they have then they were cheated somehow

Total nonsense.
Unfortunately we are currently on a custom TCP-based protocol (we're in the game space). But yes, this is more incentive for us to consider h2 or wss.
> Why do people think a 12 week course will make a non-technical person ready for a junior developer role?

I'm not sure many people do think that. But it was an experiment. If you assume that the tooling around "programming" or "product building" or whatever you want to call it will eventually be good enough that you can slot a generic human into a well-defined role then these bootcamps might make sense.

We may get to a point where building software is more like building a car, and we just need humans to work on the factory assembly line. But we're not there yet. So the experiment failed.
I think having to have that special git alias just bugs me as being a bit unnecessarily complex, but different strokes for different folks I suppose.

FWIW I don't actually use stow, I just wrote a simple Python script to do it[0]. It doesn't handle deleting things but it just means I don't have to mess about having a special non-standard git repo in $HOME, I can just treat my dotfiles like any other git project I have.
Wow, they cost $26K!!?? For what they offer that seems like an outrageous amount -- and largely unaffordable for most of the target customer base.

Since the for-profit education industry had rushed in, I assume they just went for their typical milk-the-student-loan-system scam
Oldschool telephone lines.
YES!

Most people don't realize this, but credit checks are standard with many employment applications, apartment applications and utility connections (cell phones, electric, gas, etc).

You may not have an open line of credit, but by virtue of the fact that your SSN/PII was queried, it creates a stub profile in the database. Your SSN, address, license number, whatever you provided are now within potential scope of this leak-- you just have no credit associated with your identity.

Armed with the PII the fraudster can have gleaned from this leak, there's nothing stopping them from opening accounts in your name.

(FD: ex-employee. This is not a pitch in favor of their solutions, only an advisement that you should not assume you're safe.)
Their business revolves around selling access to that database. So no, not worried about them selling data that they already sell. Very annoyed that they exist to collect & sell the data, of course.
I don’t really buy that either but the premise (why they would do this attack in the first place) the article suggested was degrading the US’ capacity. What I’m saying is that I don’t think they don’t have this ability. Any such attack would not impact the US' power over North Korea in any meaningful way.

The part about the US absorbing an attack on a territory or nuclear umbrella ally is flimsy too. More to the point, it’s flimsier because of their “conventional inferiority.” The US actually can degrade North Korea's abilities (to put it lightly), possibly to the point of complete failure before sustaining an attack. It's dangerous for the US, but nothing like a conflict with a Major Power.
Are you talking about Gadget for iOS or desktop?
Am an attorney.

You could create a system that'd help you file SCC complaints quickly, but to have it detailed enough to pass the defendant lawyer's complaints about the deficiencies in your documents would be difficult.

The size of that problem, however, decreases with the narrowness of the subject matter you want to cover/make claims about. If it were a 'Sue Equifax For The 2017 Data Breach' service, then it might work (the whole point about class actions being that they're similar - commonality, typicality etc - enough)
"Certainly if you expect to have good economic prospects."

But I think the idea is that maybe this is true even if you expect to have _bad_ economic prospects. If I worry that the future is grim no matter what I may just say "screw it, I'm having my fun. We all wind up in the dirt anyway".

Traditionally we're told we should have expensive thing x ["homeownership", "retirement account", "family with kids in private school", "beautiful objects"] but if x is impossible I'll go with y ["traveling around Europe", "nice musical instrument", "bit more hedonism than I might have otherwise", "nice craft beer and dinner"], because I might as well spend my money on a good that's attainable. If you can save up a down payment for a home in only 20 years then why the hell bother? Hell, you might wind up buying a house just to have flood insurance jump 10,000% because the seas are rising.

*http://money.cnn.com/gallery/real_estate/2017/06/07/how-long...

Put in other words - for the person who has no prospect of ever owning a home, why should they save for a down payment instead of using it in some other way?

Of course, there is a continuum and plenty of folks are threadbare in retirement and regret not saving. I just think there are probably also plenty of folks who:

• saved and lost it because of political or economic instability (note the examples I cited), wishing they'd just had fun with the money.

• saved and had money to spend while their bodies rotted away so it didn't do them any good.

• didn't save and lived an austere life in their later years but figured it was worthwhile.

• died.
•• We don't all make it to 75+. Once I hit my thirties I was startled as more of my friends and acquaintances started dying. I'm more willing to spend money on travel, friends, etc. as a result.

but we hear their stories less often. I don't know whether this is because they occur less often.

I'm not endorsing completely throwing away the idea of saving but I can see how when someone finally gets the chance to do what they want they figure they'll go for it because the goals we're ostensibly supposed to strive for are never gonna happen.

Also, we see everything through the lens of our own experience and my own is substantially biased by having spent a lot of time in the bay and LA not getting anywhere (admittedly my skillset was smaller then), then striking up a conversation over the pronunciation of JSON with a random guy in a pub in Dublin during the aforementioned farting around Europe and getting an interview out of it and now having a decent job and over a month off a year that I'm not guilted for using in a city where I might reasonably expect to own a home within the next couple years, not the next couple decades. YMMV.
That is not the change I mean, that is short sighted and how we would end up with a humanitarianism crisis where people die by the million.
A more just, peaceful and opportune world won't be attained through the use of guilt-by-association tactics. It's ill-advised to convert otherwise totally-understandable anger against credible perceived existential threats into the targeting of any non-agreeing entity. History shows that the only possible outcome to this is that, in scaring onlookers about the turmoil in their community, it hand-delivers the justification for the boycott's censure to the government on a silver platter. This doesn't mean that the onlookers are always morally correct or never complicit, but they are always useful for invoking 'security measures'..

Not to mention that you're also more likely to (all in the name of defense against the Daily Stormer) unwittingly target a group also targeted by the Daily Stormer if mere non-action justifies retaliation, because of the Daily Stormer's lack in number compared to the breadth in scope of conditions of the boycott, all applied at a popular level.

If you want to make someone fail in public, actively give them a pedestal so they might do it in front of an audience. The side effects of devoting so much to the excision of such a small cohort comes at a bigger cost to the bigger party - unrelenting pursuit of a couple guerrillas is ruinous.
Probably for good reason. $500 per class member is an insanely high damages estimate. 99.9% of people will suffer zero damages because their identities will not be stolen. Even the ones who do have their identities stolen will likely be made whole by the credit card companies.

The real damages here are going to be to the banks and credit card companies that will have to absorb the costs of all the fraud.

As to the Ticket Master case, you can read the complaint yourself and see if $5 or so per class member settlement value was reasonable: http://www.ticketfeelitigation.com/docs/Fourth_Amended_Compl.... The theory was that TicketMaster didn't disclose that it was marking up fees for things like UPS delivery and order processing, and that if customers had known they wouldn't have ordered the tickets. That's a weak damages theory, because customers don't care about line items they care about the bottom line. Either they'll pay $X for the tickets or they won't. Unsurprisingly, that weak damages theory lead to a small per-class-member settlement.
We are in complete agreement then :) GameMaker without GML is an extremely constrained environment to make games in.
Premium mediocre is food that Instagrams better than it tastes.

That's brilliant. Olive Garden and Starbucks are the pioneers in this. There's a whole market sector of fake upscale. Now we have a name for it.
What a bunch of crooks. Isn't it illegal to use such a term?
I disagree. While the terms "lower middle class" and "upper middle class" are perhaps unnecessary, the term "middle class" itself is an important economic (and socioeconomic) distinction, although its exact definition is highly contentious.

Here are my own definitions (it's important to note that sometimes people don't fit neatly into a single category):

Lower Class (also called the Working Class, or the Working Poor): They live paycheck-to-paycheck, usually at job(s) that have low pay, shifting schedules, no benefits, low job security and no possibility for long-term career-building. They own very few assets, if any, and rent/borrow most things. They are usually one medical emergency away from financial ruin (at least in the USA). They are too worried about tomorrow and the next week to worry about further into the future.

Middle Class: These people have fairly stable jobs that have decent pay and benefits. They often build careers around those jobs and it becomes part of their identity, which can be seen in the way they think of themselves and introduce themselves to others (e.g. "I'm an accountant"). They own or make payments towards owning core assets such as house. They sometimes own small businesses. If they lose their jobs, they can use their skills and connections to find another, but it can take some time. They tend to plan and save for the future, at least passively (e.g. 401k accounts).

Upper Class: The upper class is defined primarily by wealth. Even when upper class folks don't have "fuck you money", their wealth enables them levels of comfort that can only be dreamed of by the Lower Class, and is looked up to by the Middle Class. Work tends to be optional for most, and tends to be about prestige and social class rather than a necessity. When they lose their jobs, it's mostly because of corporate politics or some sort of scandal, and they can trivially find another job using their connections (usually an email or phone call is sufficient).
just remember this when watching investigations as well, those tend to only be news worthy when high profile figures are involved but the rules are the same. you don't have to be guilty, just not rich enough to defend yourself.
The PhD and MS stuff is not being asked in interviews. Yes, that stuff is hard.

Tech interviews are 40 minutes max. There is only so much stuff that can be asked and programmed in such a short amount of time.

The stuff being asked in tech interviews is "traverse a tree in this interesting way". There are only so many ways to traverse a tree.

And no, I am not talking about crud interviews, I am talking about Google interviews, and similar. (Although Google hits the very high end of difficulty, most interviews are much easier).

Perhaps there really is a way to do the mythical, problem solving, IQ test of a whiteboard programming interview. But that is NOT the way the industry does things currently.

The way that the industry currently works is that literally half of interview questions are almost word for word listed in cracking the code interview (I counted!). And the ones that aren't are still quite common.

When I did tech interviews with a dozen or so companies just recently, a full 90%! of interview questions were ones that I had been asked or studied before. Interviewers are lazy, and whiteboard algorithms as things are CURRENTLY is just about who can cram the most.
I believe the majority of these people would be against the Federal government requiring such an ID. They are likely fine with their local government, that they have more control over, handling such IDs which would be required for voting.

But, of course, there's not much preventing the local government from sharing the info with the Feds.
Qinba 'Stir Fried Greens' Chao Qing, 2017 – Chagardens.com
RMS Titanic: Fascinating Engineering Facts
But only 'git pull' is web scale!!!!

(sigh)
A couple reference points, among many, could be the 1968 film "The Swimmer" or the 1999 film "American Beauty". It's probably best expressed through fiction: reading factual descriptions may prove useless.

It's an American thing to idolize the middle class, and it's a human thing to be deeply discontented with what you have idolized, so really you have a lot of choices in the genre.
If it's scrambled by the miner's public key, why can't the miner un-scramble it?
I believe boot camps got a bit of traction because of the price point compared to a college degree. Once people realized they didn't learn enough and didn't get that sweet three figure silicon valley job, the hype started to fade.

We don't see the same trends in Europe, where university degrees are mostly cheap or free.
I hear QtCreator mentioned on Hacker News quite frequently. A couple of questions, if you don't mind.

1) How well does it work if you are trying to stick to C and not go the C++ route?

2) They are GPL licensed, so not very permissive, or quite expensive for a commercial license. Is there a significant difference in feature set between the open source & commercial versions for someone that just wants to take it for a spin?