skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That the credit agencies are allowed to charge you $10 (each - that's 3 + 1 smaller one) both for freezing and unfreezing your credit make me wonder if this leak was had an ahem unintended side effect of increasing revenues due to this activity.

143M accounts - lets just say 2% are rich/active enough to consider freezes. That's almost $3M over the course of say a week - for each such agency.
Never underestimate the power of the placebo.

That being said, there are many ailments that aren't adequately treated by Western Medicine - either because we don't know enough yet or are still constrained by the profit motive to find solutions to symptoms, not cures and whole well being.
Heads, I Win. Tails, You Forget We Had a Bet
May I suggest compiling software? For people without access to distributed build and test a box like this is really nice. I do have access to a huge distributed build farm but even then I use a beefy HP workstation because the software that drives the build farm is itself a bit of a pig, and massively multithreaded.
I had my "identity" stolen by someone who tried to open accounts at local banks after somehow managing to swipe a copy of my drivers license (from our mail box, as far as we know) and seemingly only was able to rent a Uhaul in my name (unbeknownst to me until I tried to rent one to move).

The banks kicked him back and he tried forging checks from others (not me).

I filed the reports with the police. And checked my credit. Nothing serious happened as he seems to have been pretty much thwarted by most places he went.

But then he got caught when he was pulled over for having a brake light out.

All in all I suffered no real harm from this guy. Seems like for the most part the system works...
It should come as no surprise that you can do this with Emacs and org-mode.

Specifically, you can tangle a code block, jump to the code it created, edit it, and have that edit go back to the org file you tangled from. I believe I used that in this page, http://taeric.github.io/DancingLinks.html

I still hesitate to recommend literate programming for a team. But I have also grown to hesitate recommending/requiring large commit messages for the team. The reality seems that most folks do not write large messages, and fewer check the commits. It has literally been mind blurring to see folks that did not check the commits around a line of code to see why it was there.
Thanks. Yes, I understand.

But if you started with (e.g.) Linux, and turned off all of the compile-time features that you could, isn't the end result very similar? Say you run your application as PID 1, etc., etc.

My point is that a fully "generalized" unikernel is actually almost the same as a standard monolithic kernel. The technical differences are 1. memory protection, 2. scheduler (maybe), 3. single binary? 4. different and less flexible tooling around runtime debugging/admin.

I mean, we all want a fully featured unikernel that boots instantly, consumes no memory, etc. But there's no reason to believe that a unikernel with all of the features necessary to run, say, a database, won't have overhead similar to Linux tuned for that same role.

(Not trying to worship Linux here, I'm just holding it up as an example that has had a lot of eyeballs over the years.)
Credit has little to do with income. I have over $70k in various credit lines and have never shown any proof of income whatsoever. I just name a number and they accept it (after checking my all-important credit score).
Are you in a position to purchase their product? If so, at what scale?
You install VirtualBox or Ganeti on it, create 100 VMs for various purposes for your company. Build Agents, Spikes/PoCs, any and all purposes. Its like a cheap local cloud.
I'm curious if you have examples of times when the narrative changed dramatically.

I have found that it is easy to rat-hole thinking you know the entire structure and starting on the narrative of how you are writing it. I'm convinced most of even Knuth's programs were written a bit more holistically, and then a narrative emerged not necessarily of how the code was written, but how the code could be explained.

And really, this is no different than the other abstractions we have at our disposal. It is rare that the original function layout of the system survives for long. Why would you think your initial narrative would?
EMV Artifacts on Customer Receipt at Trader Joe’s
> features necessary for a startup to succeed will be APL, and part of the open core; a feature which is primarily useful only to an already successful company will be CCL, and part of the enterprise product.

This sounds like an excellent guiding principle to strive for in an open-core development model. There's definitely still a fine line to walk to determine how to apply that principle to each new feature, but it's encouraging to see that they've at least put enough thought to arrive at a reasonable-sounding compromise to hold themselves to.

I personally still vastly prefer to use and build products that are entirely open, funded through hosted SaaS services and support contracts, but that model definitely doesn't fit very well for infrastructure products like databases where a very significant portion of the user base would prefer to self host.

And speaking as a pragmatist, if a open-core product's paid features genuinely only become useful once a product reaches a scale where licensing costs become insignificant relative to the revenue generated by the product, and the source code for those paid features are readily available to be inspected and extended, then as far as I'm concerned it's as good as any fully open-source alternative from a licensing perspective.

I'd much rather see companies use a open-core model like this that makes reasonable compromises in order to sustain their business rather than close off their product entirely. This is especially important for core infrastructure products like databases, where the difference between open-core and fully proprietary often means the difference between a product worthy of a cautious evaluation and one that's simply a non-option for many developers, myself included. And that's always a shame because there are some very promising proprietary products like this that I simply refuse to consider using in a early stage product due to feature/scaling/deployment/licensing restrictions (Datomic being the one that's always lingering in the back of my mind).
I've been learning Mandarin for about a year... and I find it much easier to read with spaces. Maybe once you're fluent it's easier, but as a learner the spaces are really helpful.

Another confusing item in learning the language is that so many people are named after things, so sometimes it's not obvious in a sentence that you're talking about a person rather than an object and you have to reparse the sentence a few times. Obviously the language works because there's a giant country using it without people constantly having to second-guess each other, but as a learner, it's one of my pain points.
Thx, sorry to hear about the business.
>What is it about harassment that bothers people? Why don’t people like being subject to sexual harassment?

I can't answer this question. That's my point, I have no clue why people care about what they perceive as sexual comments being directed at them. It just doesn't make sense to me.

Here is my thought process; if words can't hurt people physically, and I personally don't care about anything anyone says to me, there must be other people in this world that feel the same way. If this is the case than harassment must be on some level subjective, but a objective analysis of common reality would come to the same conclusion. It's a simple fact that what is sexual harassment in America today is not the same as it was 10 years ago, or the same as it is for a tribe in Africa, and I don't believe an objective definition of sexual harassment could ever exist. Therefore sexual harassment can not be universally banned in the workplace or otherwise. At least not in a non authoritarian rights based system.

Of course if all you care about is your perception and your subjective reality, and you believe it's ok to push this on people, my point is moot. I just lean towards basic rights and leaving the subjective stuff alone. It all depends on how you view reality. Personally I feel reality has a common base of extremely simple truths (science/normative ethics), and all else is essentially arbitrary. Is this right or wrong? I'm clearly not qualified to say, nor is anyone else.

Edit:

It's like trying to find an answer to the equation "2+2" if you don't know anything about math. Some people say the answer is between 14 and 20, some really strange people may say it's 2,000 and they know it for sure. Personally, I think it's best to say it's between negative and positive infinity and wait for additional information.

The question of the ethics of sexual harassment in the workplace is "2+2", and nobody on earth really know anything about "math" in this regard. So defer to the least restrictive answer.
The traditional meal of beans, rice, meat and veggies, is much better than a lot of countries.

Even the "junk" foods you mention are still considerably better than empty corporate garbage like cheetos and soda pop.
> That's why Spanish is actually spoken by more people than English.

Spanish has more native speakers than English, but when you include people using secondary languages, there are more English speakers in total than any other language.
I've always felt, "while thinking about it, kick off a brute force attempt."

Though, this is really only applicable to "one and done" tasks. Which is the majority of tasks you will run interactively.
It is a gigantic SPA using Vue, VueMaterial, and D3. It has around ~300 components. I don't know if it would be possible to lazy load some of the components
That can still be fixed by having them set up a service that they have never seen before. Like "oh, you have MySQL experience only? Let's see you set up Postgres," or whatever database service is different from their resume or something along those lines, which is also something that actually happens on the job. It just doesn't make sense to me that white boarding is seen as "creative problem-solving skills" when it is literally the exact opposite of how you would solve a problem in the real world 99 percent of the time.
I'd be sleeping in a lead lined Faraday cage for sure.
Wow. This whole thing looks like a massive joke. Thanks for the link!
Chopsticks makes more sense, certainly. Although still, who shares chopsticks (much less trades individual chopsticks with other diners)?! I doubt this dinner ever actually happened. :P
Scott Sumner: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2017/09/how_do_we_evalu.....
> Take for example how the GDP is measured: the total value of 'everything produced and sold' PLUS government spending.

That's incorrect; GDP is the total cost of everything produced and sold. Government spending isn't added (if it was, there'd be a substantial double counting, because a lot of things produced and sold are bought by government.)

(More precisely, it's private consumption + private investment + government spending + government investment + exports - imports.)
That paragraph certainly is hard to read. Sounds like something a high school student with a thesaurus might produce.
My first job in 2012 at RIM in Waterloo:

Junior Developer / RIM / $70k base (didn't stay long enough to get any bonuses)
8mb is nuts. Is this the minified & gzipped size? Either way, code splitting and dead code elimination are your friends. I wonder if you're including multiple versions of the same libraries, or pulling in heavy libraries for only a handful of features?

Is your code available somewhere for us to look at?
Really tired of mainstream hit pieces against cryptocurrency.

I wouldn't call myself a bitcoin fanatic (I hold a very small amount, just for the fact of making myself learn about blockchain and cryptocurrencies), but these articles are not well-researched.

They don't understand the difference between Bitcoin and Dogecoin, let alone the difference between ICOs and Bitcoin, not to mention their misunderstanding that blockchains are a technology, not Bitcoin.

The article even admits Dogecoin's creator was always skeptical and made the coin as a joke, so him suddenly saying he is skeptical is just about the least shocking thing.
I wouldn't argue that we should legalize killing infants and toddlers, but I would suggest that the tendency for the whole society to lose its collective shit about infanticide is related to our discomfort with the legal status of abortion. Ethically, there doesn't seem to be much difference between an infant one day before and one day after birth. Of course, ours is not an ethical society, so killing one is perfectly legal while killing the other will inspire a vituperative media circus, widespread hand-wringing, and decades in prison. Why is that? It seems that mothers who kill their young children function as scapegoats, so that we may have a focus for the hazy sense of guilt that many of us feel about abortion.
Can someone explain me why memory is costing so much? And would it make sense to buy memory separately?

I am kind of playing /w configurations to see what I can get.
I'm an OpenShift Consultant for Red Hat. Super awesome to be able to run or build from scratch a 9 node HA OpenShift cluster without incurring an AWS or other infrastructure costs.
> and actually shows his vision through his own execution

As Steve Jobs reportedly was fond of saying, "Great artists ship."
It's impossible to tell how many wallets there are with a certain amount in them. A wallet consists of multiple addresses and you can't tell which of them belong together. It is very common for money to be spread over multiple addresses, which are part of the same wallet. I probably have several hundred addresses in my wallet by now.
Small thing, but wasn't it JP Morgan's clients buying bitcoin through their brokerage service, not actually JP Morgan?

https://twitter.com/ToneVays/status/909032026455642113
Chase CEO is a fraudster. Boycott chase!!
Yes, and you are aware that you are free to use other libraries not supplied by the OS vendor, right?
I Hear the leaf's (Leaves? lol) are going for cheap. But im wondering why? do their battery packs degrade quick or something? Great bargain if they dont!
For a back pain sufferer, the comment about your body becoming stronger after walking 4-5 miles is a really encouraging one.

And frankly, even if the system doesn't work for everyone, the way you have deconstructed it into 45 degree angles is something I have never come across before, so kudos to you for figuring this out.

I have the same question as the sibling. Where did you read about this stuff?
Indeed, and since this is the NYTimes, it's worth remembering Gell-Mann Amnesia once again:

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
I'm curious: say you freeze your credit and then take an action that should negatively affect your credit, e.g. skip out on paying a doctor. What happens? That's nearly identical to what a fraudster might do, except there is no fraudster.

How does the system differentiate between someone showing up and doing something in your name vs you actually showing up and doing something negative?
Easily code a virtual reality web experience with A-Frame (WebVR) [video]
One of the reasons I'm put off by their name is because I know that they know a lot of people don't like the name. Them knowing this AND keeping at it means they don't care about losing out on tons of users because of this trivial matter, which means they are not being professional. When it comes to something like a database system, I want to use something that's built by a professional team.

When I say they don't feel professional I don't mean their tech is unprofessional. In fact I'm sure their tech is excellent and that's why they're so confident enough to keep at this name. But what I'm saying is I don't believe that the executives or whoever is in charge of the business is reliable enough to keep the business stable.

I don't know about you, but I don't feel comfortable buying a piece of enterprise software or service from a company whose CEO thinks it's OK to have a brand name that turns off tons of users and don't care.
Ah, good point. Well there is still some irony in that!
Search for "timetabling". Googling for "scheduling" isn't very helpful because it can mean so many different things, but "timetabling" will give you lots of info on a problem very similar to yours.
First off, an annoyance: I'm annoyed that there is no DHCP option to specify "This is the current UTC time". That would let the DHCP server tell the client what the current time is, with enough accuracy for most things. I mean, if you're already trusting in the info already provided by DHCP, you might as well trust this, too.

DHCP Options 152-155 (from http://www.iana.org/go/rfc6926) might work, but that's part of a different standard.

Anyway, the main thing I wanted to note is that your ISP likely already has NTP servers that you can use. You might even be getting them, via DHCP Options 4 and/or 42 (though 42 is more appropriate). At least that way, your NTP queries don't go out to the wider Internet.

If you have your own network, then you should have an NTP server. The bigger the network, the more NTP servers you should have. Each NTP server should be getting time from 10 different upstream servers (stratum 1 or 2). Ten is the maximum number of NTP servers which NTPd will check at once. Querying more NTP servers will allow NTPd to identify and exclude "falsetickers", which are serving bad time.

Ideally, your NTP servers should have a local source. "Local source" means you are getting time from a device which queries something like GPS, GLONASS, WWVB, etc.. That way, when the local source is working, your NTP server becomes stratum-1; when not working, your NTP server becomes stratum-2 or -3, but can still serve time within your network.

If you have multiple NTP servers, each one should have a different local source: One checking GPS, one checking WWVB, one checking GLONASS, etc.. You can tell NTPd that each of your servers should peer with the others, to increase accuracy. You could even have multiple local sources on each server.

All of the is still unencrypted, though, but it is mitigated by keeping the NTP traffic within your own network. And also by having so many different time sources, it's possible to identify bad ones.
My usage is for building IaaS software. With a machine like this, I can have VMs with VTX passthrough turned on, and simulate a cloud, without a rack of physical servers.

As a remote employee it allows me to most of my development locally, and then use larger environments for a shorter period of time later on.

Combine 3 or 4 of them, and I can have an actual cloud running under my desk, for testing things like kubernetes deployments, with enough capacity for a few concurrent test environments.

As I said above they run basically silent, so I can use them in a shared office space without annoying my neighbors.
>Either the reporter didn't do their research or twisted the facts to fit their story.

It is quite obvious it is both.

- Dogecoin creator was always a cryptocurrency skeptic. The article even admits it but papers over it.

- Blockchain =/= Bitcoin. The article insinuates that any blockchain-related startups are built on top of Bitcoin.

- ICOs =/= Bitcoin.

- "early adopters often used it to buy drugs, weapons, or other illicit goods on the dark web"

- "including Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, who last week called Bitcoin a “fraud,”" This line makes it clear what NY Times' outlook is, they quote an opponent of cryptocurrencies like he is an expert.
Do you know anything new about the Radeon Pro SSG? I haven't read anything since the announcement.
If you are talking about srlf-build, there is reason to avoid that for people who can afford. It is called warranty. Hardware rig like this goes through testing and the support package usually is pretty good. I don't have first-hand experience, but I know Oracle would send engineers onsite to troubleshoot if required. Unless you are ready to tackle the build, the testing, and the support of the hardware rig, you want to avoid. You don't have to be Dropbox or Netflix (I don't believe they build custom servers like facebook and Google does, perhaps they buy from other vendors or from opencompute project).
Could be a solid strategy compared to the competition.

Their current biggest problem is that they have anything you can search for, so if you want to stream something for free, their search isn't that useful since it throws off false positives for a ton of stuff that you'd have to rent or buy.

Netflix wants to be mega-sized HBO, but having that much original content under one umbrella seems to be straining them - the signal-to-noise ratio is low, and I can't be bothered to sift through the number of originals they put out these days to find the interesting ones. Sub-channels that operate more independently to build individual reputations for genres or themes seems like a much better model.

Vue, Sling, DirecTV Now are hobbled by the fact that they're tied to the same original source restrictions as traditional cable, so you get commercials, "edited for content" versions of movies, and all that nonsense. Too many layers of indirection between them and the content makers.

Hulu has a good thing going with their own originals + HBO/Showtime add-ons, but their live TV offering seems like a confused step backward, since if you add that it introduces all of the above problems to part of the library. Soon you end up in the same place as Amazon's current problem of search being too cluttered with the wrong stuff.
If we get real benefits from disabling ex. memory protection, could we just use a deliberately crippled kernel from Linux/BSD? (rump kernels come to mind)
I'm wondering the same.

>If you use our service in a way that affects anyones health or safety, we reserve the right to suspend your service.

The only possible reason I'd be interested in hearing about a service that has dozens of well known alternatives with much better reputations, is a guarantee that my domain would never be removed, nor my privacy compromised, even if the current mgmt. in charge of the company didn't agree with my site's political views.

Or in other words, are you guys going to buckle when the mob demands my white supremacist* or misogynistic site (as determined by a random tweet) be removed?

*I don't have a site like this, just using the comparison due to the whole Stormfront fiasco.
The theoretical property those hacks were aiming at showing is called the transitive reduction. And you don't need any hacks to calculate it, graphviz comes with the `tred` tool to do so.
Exactly. The narrative was all about strangers on the internet, so it would have been inconvenient to mention that the project is headed by the former CTO of Mozilla. Or to mention that the Brave browser was built long before the ICO happened.

Both of these facts mitigate the risk that the creators are scammers with no intention of using the funds for the designated project. But it doesn't fit the narrative!
I can't tell what you're trying to say -- is it that you're against the commercial success of Stevens because of the fatwa? What does it matter that your dad has no opinion of him, or that you have Muslim friends?