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Correct. But some of our most powerful players like Google and Facebook sell their end users and not to them. After reading about the Equifax leaks and how our information is being sold around it seems a big part of the financial sectors also depends on doing things behind the backs of end users.
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Hmmn, I wasn't aware. I will have to check and see, but it is probably I have a v1, since I have had it for a while. It has always taken a bit of effort and hunting to find WiFi cards with good chipsets that support monitor mode and AP modes painlessly (for WiFi frame capture, etc.).

Thanks for the info... I am a little disappointed, the ones we have been using are all very reliable and worked out of the box, so we must have the Atheros ones. It also seems impossible to order the older version specifically.
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What about when your server and stuff goes down? Or has a bug or issue that causes downtime or similar issues? Your servers could have better uptime than Bitbucket, but maybe not.
> To me, agile is endless micromanagement.

That is almost the exact opposite of agile. Unfortunately, the label "agile" gets pasted on some things that are very far from really being agile.

For this reason, be suspicious of anything labeled "agile". But don't automatically reject it - there is some real agile out there, and it's a whole different environment when it works.
Level 5 possible without lidar: Tesla has a potentially less expensive driverless system

Level 5 impossible without lidar: Tesla licenses the tech and buys the hardware like everyone else

Looks like two upsides on this bet.
It depends.

Selling is an automatic disqualifier (as you showed you are willing to commit a crime for money).

Past usage is not an automatic disqualifier, and shouldn't be a problem if it was years ago. Lying is an automatic disqualifier, if you get caught (and perjury if they decide to pursue).

However, it is of my opinion that you should only selectively share information, and only the information that they are likely to learn in background checks.

I had a security clearance about a decade ago, and know many others who received them and other who were denied. The ones who were completely honest were denied. However, this was also immediately after college, so there wasn't ten years of clean living in between. (This circle of friends also experimented with pretty much every substance available during college.)
May the warm light of Lisp enlightenment shine on you -- CL blew my mind!!
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Rick needed leadership coaching and he never got it. So, he never learned to be a good leader. The problem wasn't documentation. The problem was, management never taught him about the value of delegation, ROI, opportunity cost and the ability to strategically eliminate certain features for a better outcome. Maybe he didn't want to learn these things, in which case, he should have been demoted to regular developer or if he's having a bad attitude about that, then fired.
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As I've started trying to be more professional about it, the time it takes to produce content has grown quite a bit.

20 minutes of me talking into the camera takes 2-4 hours to plan, outline, film, and edit.

30 minutes of screencast takes about 8 hours to script and film, and edit. The planning/research phase before that takes really long, because I try REALLY hard to avoid dependencies on jargon and specialized knowledge, to make the material accessible.

I'm actually about to experiment with a series targeted at more experienced sysadmins, where I can just improvise and work on a practical project without much planning or gradual explanation of the fundamentals. I'm hoping those videos will be much faster to create.

I spend a LOT of time thinking up and planning material, though -- not really sure how to count that.
Yeah, I'm too short - the glass sits around mid-stomach, much too high for any shenanigans!
The biggest was deciding to work on things I love. For days when I'm feeling distracted, I use Freedom and it works pretty well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty is the most mainstream modern option.
>It also seems impossible to order the older version specifically.

Yep. I've been trying for a while, but couldn't be sure if what I was looking at was version 1. Especially since the Alfa alternative is bulkier.
The easiest thing to do on AWS is just fire off a CloudWatch event. When your Lambda function gets updated, or even on a set schedule, you can invoke your function with whatever arguments you need. Presumably you could cook in a method that warmed everything up, and call that method.
It helps me get into the "flow state" where I can work on just one thing and dive deep into it without thinking of all the other things I have to do or want to do.
The reality is all this is a result of well done user testing and giving users more of what they respond to.

That said, cigarettes were the same thing so I think in the future the solution to "habit forming tech" is simply to create a cultural push back and potentially regulate.
The gold standard, in the same way, formerly removed much of the ability to conduct monetary policy, and it was supplanted because it turned out that counter-cyclical policy was very useful.

Cryptocurrency is similar except that it wastes a lot more energy to accomplish the same thing.

The government, of course, retains unlimited power to tax, so the ability to fund whatever it wants is retained in all cases.
Where are these numbers that go against common sense? Look at my bombs example, which shows the absurdity of that argument even to people who have grown up in a gun culture.
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Thank you. I'll check that out.
The problem is that while Facebook is a product of capitalism, so is SpaceX.

I don't think we really give each other enough credit. For instance not all that long ago ad blockers were a really niche thing. And people using them wondered how all of these fools could continue to subject themselves to the nonstop eye gouging and exploitation of ads at the time. But while some people were slower on the uptake, over time things changed. And that change has in turn also completely reshaped the web along with it in an extremely positive way.

I don't see any reason to expect we won't see a similar change as people begin to understand the consequences and exploitation of social media. In a way I think many of these industries are currently just exploiting naivete. People are easiest to exploit when they don't understand that it's even a thing. A conman in a city of angels would have a field day. And while we're certainly no angels, the idea that simply 'keeping in touch with your friends' could be in any way exploited is something that is not very intuitive to many people.

People will always be exploited so long as there are people seeking to exploit others. It is unfortunate that our system incentivizes this sort of sociopathic behavior, but at the same time our system also enables the most meritorious some of the best chances of 'making it' even when their ideas sound insane. How many approval committees (which any sort of social system is going to come down to) would have thought it wise to give Elon Musk 9 figures of money to go start building rockets because 'I think I can do it better than these companies that have been doing it for decades.'? It was an insane gamble, but his to make thanks to the fact he was able to accumulate a very large personal wealth through his other endeavors. I'd agree with supporting the bottom by all means possible, but I think it is important that companies - even awful ones - are allowed to be developed and thrive.
If advertising were merely a matter of making information available to provide options and a basis for decision, you'd have a point here. The modern history of the field [1] displays no such innocuous tendencies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book) - more or less the original how-to manual, breathtaking both in its cynicism and in its candor.
Good point. However, I don't think there is any data collected in this regard (how many actually fulfill their obligation to serve customers with disabilities). At best we can, perhaps, get anecdotes from people who needed such a service and actually got it or didn't get it.
Also, it leaves me with only 14 wake hours a day, lol
Ask HN: Specifications for a back-office application?
I am building a framework targeted at back-office applications. It's specific to back-office / intranet applications in the sens that it doesn't aim to make it possible to have fancy animations, drag'n'drop or SEO. Basically, it's not good at anything public facing.

I am looking for a complete specification of an application that is somewhat complex that people can easily refer to in order to demo the capabilities of my framework.

I have two example of such apps, but I lake enough domain knowledge to execute it properly, so some specifications might help:

- IP TV package, VOD, subscription management etc...

- HR management, knowledge base, Q/A, onboarding etc...

I was thinking about building somekind of VPS configuration tool ala AWS or OVH but that doesn't talk non tech people.

Can you help?
> Aviation also measure speed in knots, and distances in nautical miles. But those don't have good reasons to be kept.

1 knot is equal to 1 nautical mile/hour, which is traditionally 1 minute of latitude. I assume they have been kept for tradition and also in the event of an emergency requiring manual navigation?
That's not the whole argument, by a long shot.

The dollar has lost %99.99 of its value, and in my opinion has had %100 inflation in the past 10 years (not each year but over the decade) so is effectively half as valuable again.

This is theft from the people. Even Keynes recognized this.

Bitcoin is an exit from that system. It has lot of other features like the ability to send money across borders which is harder to surveil and stuff like that.

I'm also tired of people rationalizing taxes by talking about things like roads which get almost no money-- taxes pay for dropping bombs on brown people. That's the vast majority of where the money goes.

If you're pro-tax, you're pro-murdering brown people. fullstop.
No, I think people who look like gang members who have gun shot wounds are probably gang members.

Neck tattoos, chains, bad attitude, won't tell the police who shot them = probable gang member

Wearing a suit, eager to talk to the police = probably not a gang member.
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If you think that capitalism is the problem I suggest you take an economics class.

The role of government is to regulate when a product doesn't serve the publics interests
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If anyone is wondering if they are affected: https://keychest.net/roca
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Changing the blade in your utility knife will change the likelihood that you will kill somebody if the blade is more effective at killing. P(kill somebody with knife) = P(attack somebody with knife) * P(kill somebody with knife | attack somebody with knife). This is from chapter 1 of a Statistics 101 textbook.

Why are you so opposed to thinking rationally that you point out silly arguments that I neglected to dignify with an answer?
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I'm really surprised how much pushback my comment about "managing your manager" has gotten here. I'll respond to your post in particular.

If you really are some genius, you may be able to write good code and also be more talented than your manager at people stuff such that you can manage your own boss with some seriously tricksy Machiavellian maneuvering.

Well, no, you aren't required to have better soft skills, or be decietful/conniving, to manage up as they say. Also as an aside, writing "good" code has very little to do with being a working programmer, sadly.

In my world view, managing up is better described as "standing up for oneself". Does your boss know the trouble you've had with the build, test, and deployment environments? Does your boss know that Senior Person X doesn't respond to emails or other queries in a timely manner? Does your boss remember they said to do task X before assigning you task Y? Does your boss intend for you to stay late every night for a week to accomplish X and Y or are you just assuming that? Do they remember you stayed late 3 nights last week? Managers are people, they forget things. I am advocating for keeping your activities and challenges front of mind for them. One must obviously must be engaged and delivering, for any of this to be effective.
The number one thing that should be done is to require medical providers to post public prices and their billing to be detailed enough to tell what the charges are for. I have seen bills "Lab services: $12000". How is a patient to tell if this is legitimate or not?
this is why I am rooting for initiatives like PostmarketOS [0] and similar initiatives in the hopes ot break this mentality that every year we need to buy new hardware in order to stay secure.

[0] https://www.postmarketos.org/
Management can't teach what they don't know ;)
Do you use the notebook as a self evalation tool or something else? Can you give any examples?
Some resources for those who want to keep updated on vendor patch status:

https://www.reddit.com/r/KRaCK/comments/76pjf8/krack_megathr...

https://github.com/kristate/krackinfo
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I use this functionality on a near-daily basis, and received an email from GitHub this morning informing me that two of my older, backup SSH keys generated on Yubikey 4s had been revoked. I'm going to start the replacement process with Yubico this morning, and probably share my experience with it here.
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I had my home wifi configured like that for few years. AP without any security wired into network that was firewalled such that it only allowed ICMPv6 and OpenVPN. Sadly this worked ten years ago, but is completely unusable for various IoT-ish devices (for me, Wii was the device that made me to switch to WPA2-PSK)

Edit: also at that time this was at least subjectively significantly easier to setup than wpa_supplicant ;)
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My guess would be resolution. Gravitational waves are not only caused by the actual merger but also from the two masses losing energy while spinning closer and closer to each other. The GRB happens when they finally merge.
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Yes, in around 1997 I believe.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v396/n6708/full/396233a...

My read is that the news here is that this is the first visual counterpart to a gravitational wave detection. (It's also very strong supporting evidence for the leading theory that neutron stars merging are sources of those gravitational waves.)
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Can you expand on this? This seems more like an allegation at this point.

I can only think of taxi unions, politicians and such who would want these services to stay around if not grow.
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> Remember, 'S' in IoT is for Security.

One of the best quotes I've heard in a while.
Yeah, you're right. I definitely take uber at night in the city.
Hospitals are forced to provide services in emergencies like the situation you described, so it's more like "fuck you, don't pay any of the bills we send you and it will be off of your credit score within seven years"

Much less dramatic but more accurate.
You're mentioning Clojure.

Clojure has protocols which are probably inspired by type classes. Just like Clojure's protocols, type classes are a mechanism for ad hoc polymorphism that allows decoupling between data and the functions operating on that data.

Clojure indeed doesn't have monads, but this has to do with Clojure's culture (like all LISPs) of using macros for describing APIs for composing stuff. But those APIs aren't unified and some of the DSLs I've seen do not have a theoretical foundation, which really means they aren't reusable and some of them are flawed.

Due to its evolution and backwards compatibility concerns, some of its design shows its age as well. You can't make operations like "map" work on your own data types because it doesn't have a protocol defined for it.

Don't get me wrong, I actually like Clojure, but that the community is not using types like monads to drive their design is a flaw.
Cool, I'll check it out. I have a few lisp projects in the works. I started making a simple lisp operating system for 16-bit intel by forking MikeOS, which is an awesome project (didn't get that far). Then I developed a Forth VM / Compiler to build a lisp on top of (since compiling to my own forth assembly will be easier than targeting a real assembly). I got the forth compiler and vm, no lisp yet =T
No reason not to use both.
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> You're ignoring a reality where a culture has _figured out on their own_ an optimal way to navigate from point A to B in bad traffic, (mostly) safely while constraining themselves to the _intent_ of the law, if not the letter.

But the intent is not always sufficiently appreciated.

Case in point, urban speed limits at 50Km/h in EU or 35MPH in US. For most drivers (me included), they feel terribly slow and overly precautious. Yet the intent has to do with stopping distance. In those areas, you should be prepared to come to a full stop on a very short notice because a child/dog/ball could be darting out in front of you with zero notice. Not only that but the cars behind you should also be able to stop. Whenever you're driving at 45 in a 35 zone, keep that in mind: not only you need to be ready to slam on your breaks but you must have enough distance with the vehicle in front of you, should they need to slam on their brakes.

Most people only consider the "happy path" scenario, not the "error handling" one.
Serious question: can anyone point me to some good stories where someone just told these hospitals to fuck off when they try to charge hundreds of dollars for a band-aid or an aspirin? I suspect that would be my response. What happens? Do they just wreck your credit by turning you over to a collection agency?

Another question: Can they be sued for price gouging? I'd love to see them legally justify before the court some of this garbage pricing that varies by tens of thousands of percent between providers for commodity items like saline, bandages, and generic drugs.

When I read some of these horror stories, I suspect that I would declare bankruptcy out of principal were I to have this misfortune to get hit with one of these bills. The whole health care industry in this country has become a cancer on society. What's the hidden cost of the stress and anxiety this causes in our day to day lives. When an ER visit can financially ruin you for years, how much better is this than living without modern health care at all?
Then the author does not understand how cryptocurrencies work. There is nothing preventing to have inclationary currency, and indeed many such exists.
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How can someone say that Level 5 driving without lidar is impossible? How exactly are humans driving then? Ridiculous.

I'm still skeptical that it can be implemented successfully, though, given that we still don't have Level 5 with lidar.
I think implementing a Lisp in Lua would be a great problem to learn functional programming with.
Yes, any regulations that make things better for someone's interests will be seen as good regulation. You personally would probably perceive the same for EU privacy and data rights, but would large companies that profit off of data collection and manipulation feel the same way?
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Agreed, but unfortunately if the difficulty of maintaining/backporting/forward-porting binary blobs means that nobody will release ROMs for your device (anymore), your point is pretty much irrelevant. ;-)
But then again, the opposite of this is they're also not equipped to make a judgement for non-critical operations or and they also are provided with absolutely no information as to the costs they're about to undertake for procedures that otherwise would be in their right frame of mind, and they have poor ability to understand how their insurance will work each time they undergo a procedure, whether it's a routine check or a critical procedure. Already prior to the affordable care act people were performing their own medical procedures since they could not get medical coverage due to pre-existing conditions, making equally bad decisions because they had no means to determine how costly a procedure would be and they still lacked the ability to know whether or not a procedure was required.

The information asymmetry is bad for many reasons, as I do appreciate what you're saying that we really don't want people self-diagnosing; but at the same time, should we really have people going into debt just to get a minor biopsy done? My last biopsy cost $6300 when it was all said and done and insurance refused to pay any of it on the basis that it was "unnecessary", never-ending that three separate doctors were extremely concerned as they had no idea what a lesion on my leg was and they were fearful it was cancerous. I'm not really sure how that can be deemed unnecessary; even from a straight cost perspective, $6300 out of their pocket now means saving potentially hundreds of thousands on costs later.

I live abroad and my work colleagues are continually flabbergasted when I explain how health care and insurance works in the US - they cannot fathom the idea of paying for a service that can just decide not to hold up their end of the bargain for whatever reason, or that the answer to the simple question "Let's say I break my leg - how much can I expect to pay to get it fixed?" is "I really can't say, it depends on a lot of things." Here, they're used to pretty dead set figures; an X-Ray is this much, a cast is this much, each follow up visit is $X, and this is all provided ahead of time so that they know the total cost up front.

So yeah, I do get what you're saying - we don't want people just going to WebMD and thinking they have SuperCancer. But the alternative is people terrified of the potential costs and having absolutely no idea what they're getting billed for or why, and an Insurance system that just dictates prices to them.
I'm gonna try that out!
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Isn't it the same as so many "modern" tech ? mainly local hyper optimization ?

internet got to me to a point that when my line is broken I feel better in less than a second.

I have an issue, I'm a hoarder, and internet / socnet are an infinite graph to walk so I have a hard time not walking. Similar to the concept of "not missing things" (forgot the usual term).
> it's quite pointless to expect one library to handle all of it

Libraries don't just come with implementation, but also a use model. Perl, for example has:

Spreadsheet::XLSX

Spreadsheet::ParseExcel

These have very different user (programmer) interfaces -- so different that now there's a Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX which just allows programmers (and programs) used to one interface, consume the new files with very little changes.

This rust library has it's own model, and if it's a good model it makes sense to implement other file formats with this model -- and indeed this is a good way to test if it's a good model.

Other things like CSV are so fundamentally different from XLS/XLSX that they're going to have a different model, and so it makes sense that these require different libraries.
"singular price for a procedure regardless of if the patient has insurance or not. "

this definitely would be helpful.