skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh man. I read his column in Byte religiously. And read all his novels, especially his collaborations with Larry Niven.
I think it's an allusion to boiling frogs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
I posted this on another less popular thread about the topic; Equifax stock was down about 14% overnight from yesterday to this morning but held pretty steady today...

"This is not financial advise:

I remember a few commentors on HN recently saying they have made large gains by buying stock of companies after the news of cyber security breaches significantly reduced the share value, then waiting for the dust to settle(reaction-news-cycle to complete) and price to return to similar value after a few months."

Hopefully this time will be different, but I doubt it.
Paying out anonymous folks that demand ransom of copyable data is futile. There won't be incentive to not leverage the data even if the ransom were to be paid.

The reality is that BTC helps to facilitate various criminal behavior, some of which would not exist otherwise.

If 4100 were to break today, there would be greatly increased probability of accelerated downside. This is deserved since BTC is leveraged by criminals such as in this case. Don't be surprised if this ends up becoming the case as a form of public penalization of such criminal behavior.
Stop sharing spaghetti plots of hurricane models
Old people have Medicare, they're almost completely insulated from healthcare costs.
We agree.

Perhaps our point of disagreement is this: I believe that justifying objectively blatant criminality via the "discretion of the state" defense is counter-productive to changing this situation.
you mean it is different in the US? what a joke.
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To clarify, the companies he penetrated were the ones that hired him in the first place. Red teaming is when a company hires you to perform physical pentesting. You're legally allowed to break into their company within a set of defined rules. Usually the rules are straightforward: no breaking stuff (though sometimes there are exceptions), achieve the objective, carry a "get out of jail" envelope with two emergency contacts from inside the target company who will verify they paid you to break in if anything goes wrong. Other than that, you're free to be as creative as you want in achieving whatever the customer asked for. Think Ocean's Eleven.

These gigs are highly paid and secretive. The coworker I mentioned went on dozens of assignments like this. Admittedly he was legendary, but only because he was so experienced. If you were motivated and malicious, you could do many of the same things to attack a target network. People rarely do that, but it's the ultimate proof that none of us are secure against motivated adversaries.
I've actually never read any of his novels, but thoroughly enjoyed his column in Byte.

What might be a good starting place with his books?
I sure did. He nailed it. RIP, Jerry.
Isn't it the other way around? The bank is issuing a zero interest loan to the currency user? What benefit does the bank get from there being more Berkshares out in the world?
In which case EV wouldn't get you anything, right (since presumably it would be verified and issued before the site was taken over)?
In general, nested orchestration (k8s on Mesos, OpenStack on k8s, Docker on VMware, etc.) is an infrastructure smell due to the significant overlap and impedance mismatch between the systems.
I mean GP that you're replying to literally said N~=dozens, meaning probably 25+

Side note, that sounds like something one of my old bosses would do on his red team excursions (he also told me to get my teeth pulled without anesthetics at all, so... yea).
Show HN: What's the user doing (.js)
awesome, it will make understanding data structure fun.
Atlassian Stride
Many people want to make software for the public good via the public sector. For some, the opportunity to do that outweighs the benefits of earning top-of-the-line paychecks.

It seems deeply cynical to correlate geographic areas with salaries and infer that the best engineers in the world will be drawn there, bar none. There are other incentives. Some might even say that engineering of this sort is better executed, or more trustworthy, when performed by people with civic motivations rather than mercenary ones.
I probably should have been more specific. People like NYC for different reasons, like the nightlife / club scene where the SF Bay Area doesn't compare at all. There's also culture that you wouldn't find outside NYC like the fashion industry and even art. That said NYC isn't for me either but it is for a lot of people, which is why people endure finance to stay there. Since we're on the subject, LA is another comparable place but not similar place. My point is that you can't these qualities in the boonies and that's why it's expensive to live in these places.
No single raindrop is responsible for a flood, either. But collectively it does matter.
Hurricanes reach to 60,000 feet.
I didn't say anything about "common sense" though, even a little. I also didn't say anything about marketing or advertising not working, I'm just talking about this specific situation which is pretty laughable.
That's a good question. I've only read his non-fiction stuff myself. The books I feel like I've heard people talk about the most though, are a couple of the ones he wrote with Larry Niven: Inferno, Lucifer's Hammer, etc. I think I'll try to track those down and read them soon, as my little way of paying tribute to the man.
Yes! Touted on the cover as the "1st & last edition".

There are two versions of page 111, with an apology (and an apology for the apology) if you thought the first was offensive.

There is also Illustrating Basic (1977) and Illustrating FORTRAN (1982) by Donald Alcock from Cambridge University Press. [edited to fix publishing dates]
This is the most "out there" thread, involving emerging technology, that I've seen on HN in a while.
Database Learning: Toward a Database That Becomes Smarter Every Time
Even if an attacker doesn't benefit, it's still possible for them to mount a denial-of-service attack. That could be very damaging. Or, they could use the threat of a DoS attack for extortion purposes.
Of course it's different. A bad dictator can single-handedly ruin a country. A bad president needs collaborators to ruin a country.
Fully agreed. We live in the Bay Area as well, and put in solar a couple years ago. Due to the shape of our roof, we were only able to put in a ~68% system (the rule of thumb is to target generation at about 80% of your average use for best ROI) but even with a slightly-undersized array, our savings have been immense, as we no longer need to pay Tier II or Tier III rates, even in the middle of summer.

AFAIC, if you own your home, it's a complete no-brainer. And our time to payoff is going to be around 4 years, tops.
The EquiFax thing would only be good PR for Trump's administration if they used it as an attempt to push through legislation that would prevent these kinds of things from happening in future - like a reasoned and functional (and minimum privilege) national identification service - while Alex Jones-types would normally be up in arms I think they would support it it Trump sold it as the system additionally to make it easy to identify illegal immigrants and members of the "alt-left".
City proper - outside of the lakefront - is not prohibitively expensive either.

But I'm just weirded out by how the article discounts Chicago based on assumptions about, what, tax policy? Where is this coming from? The Rahm is lobbying hard, and he's very pro-bigcorp, as McDonald's new 500,000 sqft world headquarters in West Loop can attest to.

Regardless of where Amazon lands (and I don't really have a horse in that race), Bloomberg's weird hang-up about Chicago are no more than a distraction. It's bad enough that Michael Bloomberg is personally spending $millions on TV ads to support the Cook Cty soda tax in a state where he doesn't even reside. Ugh.
It's hard to say that our government really protects our privacy by scattering copies of our information across a constellation of bureaucracies. And protect from who? Who's really more dangerous than our government itself?

login.gov is obviously a good idea. Can you imagine how awful government website's internal authentication software must be? This is like Auth0 for government agencies. It will probably be 10x worse than Auth0 but 10x better than the atrocities probably being committed right now.
Those are valid points, but I think they miss the point of the question: are you more scared about data security in an online identity provider provided by the government or Facebook et. al.?

Your answers were more about things the government can do to screw you over. It can do those things if your data is stored in Facebook as well: search warrants, compliance orders, subpoenas, etc. will all result in the government having access to your data unless strong encryption is used on your data (which, as we've seen with Apple, is still not enough sometimes).

I think (though I may be wrong) that the question had more to do with whether you trust this solution to be more secure against external/accidental breach than a solution offered by Facebook. I don't know the answer to that question, though.
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You could use magnetic loop antenna for transmitting. They're pretty small but only work at once very specific frequency.
I just checked his site today like I do every few days. He just got back from DragonCon, complaining of a flu bug he caught sometime during his trip. He signed off his last post, "Bye for now". I will miss him and his writing.
Cough-induced rib fractures (2005)
Maybe, but where "hacking someone else's" might just be issuing a search warrant, the difference in difficulties is like the difference between swatting a mosquito and swatting a gnat.
Tampa Bay’s coming storm
It does seem pretty fundamental to me. I do think communities should be allowed to organize themselves in basic ways that are not discriminatory against protected classes.

Zoning is pretty important. A neighbor recently subdivided his large lot into 3, and having enough frontage on the street meant they could do it without zoning board approval. The houses they are building were designed precisely to push to the max against every possible zoning bylaw; setbacks 1 inch above the minimum, building height-above-grade 1 inch below the maximum, lot coverage ratio 1% below the maximum, etc.

Then their proposed septic failed perc testing at ground level, and since they didn't want an "unsightly mound" in their backyard, they brought in about 80,000 cu yards of dirt and raised the whole lot up by ~20 ft! Because the bylaw was written as building height calculated against finished grade, not natural grade there was nothing stopping them from creating their hill. Well, they did have to build a substantial drainage system around the perimeter because it's illegal to increase stormwater runoff from a lot in the natural vs. finished state, but we'll see how long that lasts...

Builders will cut every corner, push every limit, and develop to the absolute highest density to maximize profits. Of course building codes and zoning bylaws make housing more expensive to build. Getting a glimpse at what builders will do given the chance, to literally my back yard, I really, really wouldn't want to see what would happen if zoning boards could be overridden by outside developers wanting to "increase supply".

For example, most of the new construction in SF is rental units. You can't buy it, you can't own it. It's going to be mostly corporate housing, run by corporate property managers, with cookie-cutter units, probably poorly run and poorly maintained.

I've been on a condo board for ~10 years. Building a community is hard work! But as the rental ratio in the complex climbed from 0% to 32% over the last 10 years, there's a stark difference between renters and owners in how people treat the units and common areas, treat their neighbors, and the level of involvement and care they have for the complex itself. Certainly some owners create problems, but having a vested interest makes a big difference vs. certain renters who could give a shit. And, problematically, when the owners move away and decide to rent, they usually stop giving a shit too.
I wish every menu would come with pictures for every item, if only because portion sizes are so unpredictable. Yelp has pictures sometimes, but they're crowdsourced, so it's usually only the popular items that have them.

Maybe the cost of getting good pictures and making longer menus is a factor. Or maybe it's just another part of the "psychology of food menu design."
PEP 557 – Data Classes
? Yes they do. It's a real problem. There are a lot of people working to make things better, but there is a lot of work to be done.

I find this fellow's assessment accurate, if you want a brief overview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdsb2wwn-7g#t=3m9s
This looks very cool. Thinking of using it for my lecture notes. I like the math support and that it seems to support d3 albeit with a bit of extra work, am wondering how easy it would be to bulk convert from another format say. LaTeX using something like Pandoc to markdown and then to idyll? Would rather not cut and paste everything.
>Attorneys' fees in a class action have to be approved by the court, and for large class actions the percentage fee tends to be lower than what a privately-retained lawyer would receive.

>$5.7 billion settlement, about $500 million in attorneys' fees, or less than 10% of the fund. $160 million worth of time invested by the attorneys to get to that point.

How often to private retained attorneys get $320 million in pure profit. Additionally the 'time invested' already has income for all of the involved lawyers.
Reddit teams with Lucidworks to build new search framework
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In the late 90's he did a review of a video card for Linux that allowed dual monitors. This was an article in Byte magazine and dual monitor setups for Linux were hot shit back then.

I wrote him because I was having trouble getting it to work with XWindows and he actually wrote me back with some tips to get it working. Don't remember the name of the video card, but I'm sure I have that email around somewhere...

I really appreciated it and remember thinking how special it was to get a personal response from a writer at Byte.

Good bye Jerry.
"Well, I wouldn't shed any tears over the dissolution of Equifax and other credit agencies"

In Project Mayhem we have no names.
Time to get rid of credit agencies as a whole. They are entirely useless. Make a Government agency that handles it instead of trusting the private industry to make as much profit as they can to the detriment of damn near everyone.
The second page of the comic acknowledges they took plenty of ideas from other browsers.
Presumably you can switch between idyll and Jupiter notebooks using note down and nbconvert with a bit of extra work.
I mean I'd assume it would be of at least some help. Their venom isn't deadly at the very least.
At least you're getting something back. When the channel between Dover and Calais was bored, one of the boring machines was simply left underground, because it would have been to expensive to retrieve it.
If it's anything like China, they'll be worn out in a few short months. There is not much of a culture of building maintenance in China. Source: Asian family, homeowner in China.
http://www.smuggled.com/AJHIP1.htm

Still publishing.
This is the basis for the "taxation is theft" argument. It's very weak and wry.

The state exists as the means for ensuring positive societal outcomes, such as providing services that the private competitive market cannot or will not supply (tragedy of the commons, game theory, etc). One such possible service is an identity service - and we already have that through a hodge-podge of things like SSN, driving licenses, passports, etc. A consolidation of these services means greater efficiency, less waste, and therefore lower taxes.

I'd respect the libertarian position more if it were framed as "greater utility of government" instead of the dogmatic "less government".
I suspect that only works because those cities are already relatively walkable/bikable. Unless you live within walking/biking distance of the closed-off street, and the route between you and the street is pleasantly walkable/bikable, you are faced with the choice of:

1. Drive and park close enough to the closed-off street, and fight with other drivers for parking (very common experience around, say, farmer's markets in the San Francisco peninsula).

2. Don't go there; drive to the mall instead.

3. Walk/bike there anyway, putting up with the shitty/dangerous experience of doing so.

I.e., to apply this in the United States would basically amount to "redesign entire cities to be more walkable".
Due process has been somewhat lacking in practice. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/justice-depar...
> Plenty of people, even in the US, operate without any of these things

After my company crashed, my wife divorced me and then I got cancer -- things were pretty grim on my credit-worthiness story. Net-net: I went without a bank-account for a few years and learned to live with pre-paid phones, money-orders, cashing checks at pawn-shops and pre-paid debit cards, and (for medical and other reasons - not able to drive. Good news: I saved on car insurance, gas and parking). All-in-all ... not a lot of fun (it's very expensive and time-consuming to be poor in America!).

But! As you say: it is do-able.
Uniting Interfaces: dmenu and fzf
Bitcoin lecture series (2015)
Paper receipts are crucial to voting.
If by full experience do they mean locking my browser up with JavaScript?

A lot of these sites really deserve AMP, the normal viewing experience is awful.
FYI, Brian Wansink's work has been found to suffer from numerous, substantial errors.[1] A recent investigation found ~150 errors in four papers on a single set of pizza experiments.[2] I would be skeptical of any result he publishes without first understanding the methodology.

[1] http://andrewgelman.com/2017/04/06/dear-cornell-university-p...

[2] https://peerj.com/preprints/2748/
Thank you for that. Brought back memories.
>It's not just the salary. It's also the opportunities to do things as in for the SF Bay Area we can go to wine country one weekend, go snow boarding another, sail, surf, hike; there's a lot of stuff to do here.

You can do all of those same things just living an hour east of SF.
It depends on how well the proposed multi-billion dollar lawsuit goes. It's reasonable that the stock price would include a risk premium.
Fuzzy brain. But I learned I think from one of his byte columns never to mix my business income and expenses with personal ones.
Oh man there are decrypted HTTPS headers? I can stop using Wireshark then!

https://jimshaver.net/2015/02/11/decrypting-tls-browser-traf...
Well . . . 85.7% (6/7). On Sundays, it's Amazon's: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-30/it-s-amaz...
Wikipedia says he was involved in missile defense under Reagan which suggests to me he may have been one of the "opposed to big government except when it's people I like" variety.

But though I will also classify myself less than appealed by descriptions of his politics and I voted up davidw above I want to be clear I think it would be uncool to bash him for it at the time of his death.
> A bad president needs collaborators to ruin a country

collaborators? trump seems to have a good supply of such collaborators

how trump got the Muslim ban, transgender ban, quit Paris agreement. oh, let's don't forget his ongoing efforts to build the wall, kill the public healthcare, stop global trade...

US democracy is nothing else but free Internet entertainment
How so? It is one of the very few constitutionally enumerated functions of the federal government, and I don't remember it being privatized?
> Naming species forms the foundation of biology

No, it really doesn't. It really, really doesn't. People study biology all the time and get useful levels of skill without ever being aware of species classification. Taxonomy is a part of biology, but it's not a foundation of it. If you want to study physics, you're not going to get very far without 'distance' or 'time', but you can learn heaps of useful biology without ever uttering a latin phrase.

We, as humans, have a long history of studying biology with little in the way of taxonomy: hunting and farming. The quoted bit is an annoying premise for the article, because the whole thing is written as if biology itself is potentially going to crumble, just to add a bit of needless drama.
TIA alternate:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170909012110/https://www.jerry...
Take a look at the various amateur radio HF digital modes like JT65 and WSPR.
Communism has nothing to do with it. China is a capitalist nation. They have an authoritarian government that can muster tremendous resources and quickly set them towards it's goals.
HTC makes good products? why they stopped making "good" or "half good" phones?

They don't make good products, they were just lucky and had an early start in the smartphone business.
Time to Clean Your Audience – Ways to Spot a Bot on Social Media
I had lunch with Jerry at DragonCon this past weekend and he was enjoying himself. He was using a walker but only when necessary. He told some of the same stories I heard at Space Access but they were still enjoyable because they were his. Because he was there. I'm going to cherish that memory forever.

Rest in peace, Dr. Pournelle. We will carry on with the fight.
A total nit pick, but why do people have such a hard time consistently naming something as simple as a boolean variable? If we remember that naming is one of the hardest things in software engineering, why don't we put more thought into it?

From the documentation in the README: https://github.com/18F/identity-idp

disable_email_sending: ‘true’
enable_load_testing_mode: ‘true’
telephony_disabled: ‘true’

Multiple directions, multiple naming conventions, strings?!?!?. Just seems like a recipe for failure. I feel like this would be more clear:

load_testing_mode: true
send_email: false
telephony: false

When you write your conditionals, it makes it so much easier to read:

if !disable_email_sending
do_send_email

vs.

if send_email
do_send_email

Here is the line in actual use...

https://github.com/18F/identity-idp/blob/df549cf9a1fc2c21e3e...

I'd personally rather have the positive condition first as it is easier for me to follow logically in my head.
...and thus begins BerkCoin... a name which surprisingly hasn't already become a cryptocurrency.
They would if allowed to continue and brought in legally.

Right now they are paying taxes on hydro, water, property taxes and income earned, employee related taxes, insurance and some are charging hst.
I guess it's just bad Chinese restaurants regarless of who they target. I personnally rank Chinese food as high as French one; these people really are genious when its come to cuisine.

Two of the best restaurants I ate at were in Taiwan (Kaohsiung) and almost everything was delicious. The only challenging dish for a foreigner was chicken-feet (jijiao) and century eggs (pidan). But I was warned beforehand by the people who invited me and I tried them for the fun. But hey, it was pricy for the country (25€/person) so I think the problem lies in the lack of expensive Chinese restaurant in the West.

Edit: if you want to try a good Chinese restaurant and do not mind travelling a bit, this one was very good: http://www.dfy.com.tw/