skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see any of these things as "fresh horrors." They were either already known, or entirely predictible given what is already known.

I'm sure the record count will be revised upwards several more times.
>> What's left out of the rebuttal is how Oracle (or really any vendor), often sells solutions to problems that customers don't have.

I interviewed at Microsoft for a field position and the Director I interviewed with basically said this in response to an answer I gave "We don't ask them what they need, we tell them what they need."

It just feels dirty coming from the guy they called to help with their technical problem. I'm there as Technical Consultant to solve your problem, not upsell you a different set of problems.
I imagine he is saying that he would have to confess a crime if he answers that question. But IANAL and everything.
Maybe I didn't word my comment correctly. But I thought of politically neutral as not left-wing nor right-wing, not openly supporting capitalism nor being openly against capitalism. I wouldn't be surprised by Mozilla pushing privacy, free speech and copyright related political agendas, but I am surprised by it supporting a left wing organization.
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"The standard procedure is to put your disclaimer within your comment as people typically don't automatically lookup a commenter's profile when reading his/her comments"

No, it isn't. (it is if you are a journalist with a conflict of interest, which he isn't).

The second it is, i'm out.

Because there's no reason you should care.

It's just another excuse for people to be able to dismiss what others say without having to think critically about it.
If you want to engage on the merits, do it.

Everyone and everything is biased. Both consciously and not. If you want to say "hey, i read the article and i think your take is wrong", awesome, do that. His take isn't any righter or wronger because he's an uber engineer, and the whole point of a discussion forum like this is, in fact, to have critical thinking. Otherwise it's just another worthless echo chamber.

(I'm going to completely and totally ignore the "people also aren't their jobs" part of this).

So instead of caring about his day job, IMHO, you should do the critical thinking and engage in the discussion for real.
> Fifth Amendment only applies to criminal proceedings

No.

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/178/does-the-us-fift...
Even a cursory look at some stats says that is completely untrue:

- 6 of top 10 "DB-engines" are open source: https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

- web servers are 83% nginx+apache: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/web_server/all

- all top content management software is open source: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management...
> The USG can never develop, support
or secure products economically or at scale.

I guess we should stop using the [government developed] internet then.
ZFS on FreeBSD does not fit the definition of 'third party'.
That’s a fascinating premise. Revenues generated from the use of ones data is taxed like anything else (unless routed through Ireland ;-) ) but I don’t think assets are taxed at rest. I could be wrong.
A simple rule that I follow:

I disclose all affiliations when there is a reasonable chance that others might consider it deceptive if I didn't disclose my biases and they were later discovered.

In longer format:

Sometimes, it isn't even an affiliation with a specific company and I'll simply type something like, 'I admit my bias(es).'

For the former an example might be, 'I was an early investor in Tesla and continue to own shares. This may bias my opinions.'

Basically, if in doubt, disclose affiliations and biases due to those affiliations. Sometimes affiliations mean the bias is a negative reaction, it's not always a positive response. 'I have previously worked with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and my opinion may be biased based on those experiences.'

If someone could later learn you were affiliated and say, 'Well, that explains their post!' it's probably better to have disclosed the affiliations in the first place.

This post is just meant to share how I do it and why I do it. You can, of course, disclose what you want. I think it is customary to make such disclosures on HN. It is in your profile, but I'm not sure many people check profiles.
I think Singapore's cabinet ministers are overpaid for the "value" they offer.

The previous health minister (who's currently the transport minister) is a joke among Singaporeans, since he took credit for managing the SARS incident that happened before his stint as health minister [1], and couldn't manage to fix rising house prices or the failing public transport system in his subsequent portfolios.

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No way!!! Holy crap balls will this get interesting. To be clear, is this what mflatt's racket7 repo is all about!? This is what I found from quick Googling.

https://github.com/racket/racket7

Is this like research work like Pycket (Racket on PyPy) or is this a blessed project and Rackets official implementation will cut over
> 2.5 million people is minor?

It's relatively minor. Equifax's preliminary estimate was off by less than 2%, Yahoo's ~300%.
Why? I mean you're still sending the referer header, right?
I agree with your sentiment. As reported people who lose their faculties do not control their assets. The appointed guardians are supposed to jealously protect the assets from the family because this is supposedly in the best interests of the incapacitated. Sadly people do not make their intent clear when they are still capable. I think people down vote you because without express consent it can be construed as theft even if the incapacitated would have made the same choice if they were still capable. To avoid this tragedy we need to discuss with our loved ones and make our intent clear (and with legal power) while we are still lucid.
Careful there tiger. You're starting to sound like a Sovereign man with your corporate federal account.
That's her side of the story. Which I'm not saying is wrong. But, again, it's awful hard to advise people who don't have any direction.

I also didn't notice if she went full time or not. I had many students who took 4 years to get a single degree, because they only took 3-5 credits a term. Our program was 68 credits. They worked 40 hours a week.

I had young adults in my class who would attend every 8AM class - never missed a day. But they never turned in work. I asked a few of them why. Same story: "If I'm going to school, my parents stop harassing me." Other students didn't know what they wanted to do, but being in school deferred student loan payments, so they just kept enrolling on purpose, kicking a can down the road.

There are a lot of young people who do not know what they want to do in life. Heck, there are older folks like me who still don't.

I miss the hell out of teaching, but I don't miss seeing students go into massive debt aimlessly floundering their way through school. And I don't like that colleges take advantage of that fact either.
>>>The commentary doesn't specify, but what private sector use of OSS might be declining rapidly? Does this claim have any merit? It seems like almost all web stacks rely heavily on OSS

The trend for Open Source has been for a long time to Open Source Tools, Libraries, and other code that is used to create propriety closed source software for companies and individuals to consum

This is why you see a massive decline in GPL and other copy left licenses and a Huge increase in Apache, BSD and MIT licensed code as there are no legal issues with including Apache, BSD or MIT code into your Proprietary end user application

SaaS, and PaaS (aka Cloud) are also leading the downward use of Open Source as most of these applications are at best Freemium where the supported version of the Software is closed source paid for and they might have a "community edition" that is open (if you are lucky)
Personal information is less valuable on the black market due to the difficulty in monetising and extracting the cash. If I have your bank account login details I can move cash out of your bank, but almost no hope of sending cash from a U.K. Domestic savings account to my friendly philapines bank over the web UI. That's why Nigerian Princes still send out emails - the find the one idiot willing to walk into his bank and move the 5million that just arrived in his account

Alternatively you need real criminal gangs - dozens of people willing to walk up and down a London street withdrawing 5k at a time from a 1000 Pre-prepared cards and put the money in their rucksacks. They don't come cheap. And its still cash and still in the U.K.

Get Amazon to send you two dozen laptops to the same address with two dozen cards. All as "gifts". Yeah right. Now you gotta sell them - fences run at 10% if you are lucky.

The lowest effort are simple impersonation for loans, but still you have to take the money and move it somewhere. Into cash? Into the phillipines? See above problems. Open a credit card account? How to intercept it and the PIN number sent by post?

All in all, it's actually pretty darn hard to take personal details and monetise at the "real money" level. These things stop being scalable. You could probably fund a student lifestyle off any combination of the above but millions - not really.

Cf interesting Microsoft paper on this a few years back
You could apply your exact same argument to elections. Why would the government let the people elect a different government?
Mammograms are pretty bad for cancer detection in most women. Most of the time it is really hard to tell from it (too much noise) to say anything conclusive. So doing it earlier or later does not change the fact that its a very imperfect method.
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I think the problem is that there are many things that come with size. For example, a larger country is more heterogeneous, thus it's more likely that it'll be harder for people to agree on how to solve a particular issue. Also, I think most of the problems you mentioned would be ameliorated if the US had a smaller population.
You don't expect people to exercise their rights?
To be fair the director in charge of my group said to me at the start "You should help the customer. If it's not an Oracle solution that's fine. We'll eventually sell them something, we're too big with too many products not to." So at least he had the right intention. I did see the friction surface with reps though because they don't have the same agenda :-)
Ah, okay. Thanks.

A judge can kick a specific attorney out of the courtroom, but I think the standards are pretty high for doing so. I don't know if that's just custom or an established rule.

Judges have some awesome powers inside their courtrooms. I find law to be a pretty fascinating subject but that is a long post for another day.
Knock yourself out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Socialism_by_country
https://github.com/njuljsong/wsjUnblock
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Filed under "Claims made with no citation or data to back it up from a lobbyist."
Yes but they were prevented from participating to various trades, which means that even if they moved somewhere else they would have lacked the know-how, this was not trivial in that era, given that formal education was not available to the vast majority of people, and given that the usual way to learn any trade was to be an apprentice at your parents' business.

In addition moving to a new place was not trivial, you would have been questioned as to why did you move by the locals and you would have had no land to start with.

All of this changed only with the industrial revolution, when moving from your ancestral place became "normal".
`utils.time` – micro library that makes time calculations simpler
I just open-sourced a library that I use from time to time. If you've ever written something like this:

`let oneDay = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;`

... to represent the number of milliseconds in a day, then you should find some use for this library, after all.

Test it out and tell me what you think about it! If not, that's okay too. Have a good one!

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/utils.time
Source: https://github.com/yeskunall/utils.time
Ask HN: International address verification API solution?
Looking into potential international address verification solutions (think billing/shipping address validation for e-comm) and the one's we've found so far seem prohibitively expensive.

Most recently was playing with lob.io (https://lob.com/pricing/verifications) and we'd be looking at several hundred dollars a month, quickly falling into the overages for some of their plans. ~5 cents/API call seems crazy to me - but I potentially don't understand the logistics of making a service like this happen.

Just wondering if this is par for the course and just the cost of doing business or if there are better alternatives out there.
"Could be even more dangerous in the long run" is about on the same level of plausibility as vaping actually being healthier than not smoking or vaping. Sure, it's possible, but there's no good reason to think it's true.
Australia Has Slower Internet Than Kenya, Russia and Hungary
This is a great idea. Mostly for the marketing angle, but it also will start to show people what is possible. It's like a taste of a entirely new network, which will have capabilities that we can't even imagine right now. The blockchain space is really hot for a reason, lots of hype, but also lots of promise because it offers a glimpse of systems that will disrupt many entrenched companies.
> On top of that, the Nobel committee is limited by the rules of their foundation

The article address this argument though and says that the Foundation has already stretched the rules.
The Fifth Amendment applies to statements which could conceivably show up in a future criminal proceeding. Here is a more precise statement of the principle:

A witness has traditionally been able to claim the privilege in any proceeding whatsoever in which testimony is legally required when his answer might be used against him in that proceeding or in a future criminal proceeding or when it might be exploited to uncover other evidence against him.

And for references see http://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment5/annotation07.html...
Why does the doctor's office ask for SSN?
For me it's pretty easy. I want to start hearing and seeing positive anecdotes about real time communication with Google Cloud support. That is to say, I want to hear people start saying things like "I rang them, and everything was sorted out" ideally with a platitude attached like "it was actually a pretty good experience".

I hear this about AWS all the time, and I've even experienced it myself. One client some time ago had an AWS novice who was confident they could handle setting up the auto-scale groups. They made a small mistake, which lead to the scaling trigger being permanently on, and it auto scaling to 1024 ec2 nodes within the first half hour. Immediately after deploying a fix for the scaling trigger, I phone AWS to see if there was anything that could be done about the cost of this accident, and I had a small monthly credit to compensate, and a respectable discount on the next appropriate AWS training course so that the novice could learn more and hopefully avoid future mistakes.

THAT is the kind of story I want to start hearing about Google Cloud. "I used it and did not have problems", and "It works and was cheaper than AWS" is just not enough.
"The COTS industry is under an anti-commercial attack". Oh no, not the COTS industry!

> In my experience, the most technologically savvy F100's are all VERY familiar with utilizing in-house dev, and as recent releases from AWS/Azure might suggest (SQL Server on linux, Aurora support for postgres/mysql, etc) OSS is a key part of this as well.

Ding ding ding fries are done! Oracle is deeply concerned with losing customers to PaaS and Saas providers. Part of Oracle's current model is to push its mixed and private cloud offerings for their customers--AWS and Azure have a huge share of that market already.

It's Oracle, though, and they have a huge presence in the gov't sector... They're trying to reclaim that as much as possible by moving in on the Trump Administration's transparent give-aways to favored parties.
If it's any consolation, donald frequently contradicts himself.
Just because this is not a criminal proceeding does not mean one could not follow, where his answers would be testimony against himself.
The problem comes when company A wishes to ensure that its interactions with company B involve individual X, and not some other individual Y or Z.

It's well and good for a given organisation to have its own internal identifier. And virtually all do -- that's what your account number, or customer ID, or payment number, etc., are. That works fine for internal operations.[1]

But it doesn't address the inter-organisational problem.

________________________________

Notes:

1. Well, sometimes. Actually the hijinks that can happen within an organisation with identifiers are ... numerous.
The important part of the reply:

> As noted in public records, the short-term contract was awarded to Equifax to prevent a lapse in service during a protest on another contract. The service relates to assisting in ongoing identity validation needs of the IRS. Equifax provided these identity proofing services to the IRS under a previous contract.
> Because there's no jump between the operator and the pc2 = pc+1, the CPU can compute jmp_off during any time from entering the op1_offset (and this is why you have an HLT opcode, also 32 bit opcodes are much more compact than 64 bit direct threaded CGOTO).

If you're relying heavily on the indirect branch predictor of a Haswell-class CPU for performance, the exact details of computing the address probably don't matter that much. The CPU predicts the branch and continues executing, validating the prediction later. While it's definitely possible to exhaust some internal CPU resource waiting for old predictions to be validated, that is unlikely to be affected much by minor scheduling changes of the address generation sequence.

> I'm not sure if the inlining of the jmp to_top_of_loop can be done by the compiler itself or if it is done by the lower levels of the CPU.

A C compiler can definitely do it if it so desires, but it would also have to inline the required bounds check in addition to the indirect branch. If the compiler properly scheduled this branch, the fallthrough would always be success, and it would just be an always-false branch away that any branch predictor can handle. Of course, you could hit a CPU resource limit for outstanding branches and eventually stall, even if the branch is always predicted.

I'm not aware of any currently available out-of-order CPU that does the sort of linear trace formation that might be considered "inlining" of the switch logic. Pentium 4 famously used such a mechanism.
Can you ask him how a virtual currency can also be a security? Tulips could be a security, OK; but, didn't the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 exempt currencies from being considered a security?
What are your thoughts on this paper?
Really? Because the largest Proprietary Software vendors have the very very worst reputation for their support, and often sky high prices to even get that support above and beyond the cost of the license to use the software

So no I do not believe Customer support is what makes it popular.
So, all he intends to say must be:

“Use of closed source software has been increasing rapidly in the private sector”

Edit: AFAIK, open source and closed source teams are working hand in glove with each other.

This quote comes to mind: "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"
> Substantial custom software development efforts were the norm at large commercial enterprises, until it became obvious that the cost and complexity of developing technology was prohibitive

Pardon me but this is one of the most bullshit things I've read in a long time.

I work for the fortune one. The idea that open source is in any way decreasing is a dangerous lie. I can think of one closed source app that's any good right now. Splunk. Everything else I interact with is garbage that slows our business down.

I am shocked that in the same document Oracle is pushing back on technical competence in the government. I shouldn't be but I am.

Closed source is the Cobol of a fortune 50. It exists, it's going to be a while before we get off it, and basically nobody is happy to be running Cobol, Oracle, or Tibco.
I'm a statistician and I read medical studies and experimental studies pretty much daily. My advice on a simple rule of thumb that is likely to separate out quality research: are the data and statistical code made available? Another, are if the study hypotheses and design are pre-registered. The Cox model is VERY popular, but you have to ask two things: is the hazard reasonably proportional? If you thought learning to code meant you had to be careful about mistakes and typos, statistics is another layer of a similar size.
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It's not true in all instances of private enterprise I've been involved with.

If anything, most people have wanted more OSS.
I lived in Australia for 5 years. Internet in Sydney was pretty fast and cheaper than US.
I'm still on my mid 2013 Air, i7, 256gb, 8gb. The ram is the only thing holding me back but upgrade options are fairly limited in terms of value gained :/

Second the self installed battery option. I did it just over a year ago and it gave my air a new lease on life
Fake News is an attention economy problem
There's a "Past Recipients" section on the MOSS page: https://www.mozilla.org/moss/
Too much money on stake. Publishers will surely bribe or apply pressure somehow to the judges, or anyone on their way.
“cybersecurity experts from the law firm King & Spalding“

Did it strike anyone as disheartening that legal was the first call?