skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something tells me that no matter how high he may get, no matter what he sees up there, it will still somehow be evidence of the flat earth we live on. It's always that way with these folks.

(Also: Is steam-powered rocketry a real thing? Hmm.)
I mean that is definitely possible.

https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/bitfinex/

I put some btc on bitfinex to quickly buy some NEO and move it off the exchange this year.
Taking money away from a bad company helps stop that company from doing bad. Similarly, voting for a politician who will try not to kill civilians helps prevent civilians from being killed. Both of these are correct actions to take. Moving out of the country is comparatively less effective, and continuing to give money to the bad company is not effective at all.
This! They basically validated the market for any tech video entertainment giant to copy their idea and completely destroy them.
Let's not forget that Amazon just released those echo buttons which are basically the IoT version of a trivia game. So they already have a declared intention to pursue ideas around this.

To not go that far, even Snapchat can add something like this to their app with no difficulty. They already have the right infrastructure and context to pull this off.
It's actually kind of brilliant -- you're fining them in time instead of money. They've already demonstrated that they value being able to use money to buy time flexibility, so this is a fine that hurts.
2FA doesn't help if they used SSH access
If ever you need evidence that people see really large numbers and lose perspective, look to this conversation and how many people completely glossed over the use of trillions instead of billions, a mistake so small it puts HSBC revenue in the realm of well developed nation states...
Rewriting history is worse than these guys' behaviour. Future generations need to read about both the good and the ugly, if only to avoid repeating the latter.
The shallowest feature of NoScript – content blocking – is the only useful thing it provides. The rest of it, like the XSS filter, is poorly-written misfeatures, or stuff that’s available in about:config. (To be fair, µMatrix has its own misfeatures – looking at you, UA switching.)
Churchill’s Historic “Fight Them” Speech Wasn’t Publicly Heard Until After WWII
Good luck with that strategy but how should you you place your buy orders though? to another exchange :)

Also remember this saying: "Don't catch a falling turd."
Well, it’s 0.88 percent of a trillion...
Well, I spoke to his friend, Wilson, who said while he was on the island he had a ball.
Fully agree! This is the important point to stress here in my opinion. Was a bit surprised to not see more comments about this aspect of the problem here.
How about financial plus the CEO, and any management lower provably found negligent, can't work in a role where they have responsibility for data handling (which includes not being superior to anyone who is data handling).
How Big Sugar Killed a 1968 Study That Pointed to a Heart Disease Link
>not paying what the "work ethic" is worth

My mind is blown at reading this sentence.

My 'ethic' cannot be measured (or compensated, or matched) with money, no matter much money is offered; I dearly hope yours' the same.

If I don't think the pay is fair, I will just quit the job. I won't bother with complaining to the employer about money=work ethics.

I will decide what my ethic is, thank you.

Edit: And I am getting down mod for saying my ethics can't be bought. Jesus.
The milk is payable the next day during drop off. The point is to discourage parents to _never_ be late. It often ruins the staff's plans.
> laundered trillions of dollars

> 400m dollar fine

> isnt even .01% of what they made

...why even use numbers, a concept literally defined to quantify things, if you're just going to use utterly incorrect ones?

HSBC did not launder trillions of dollars over a decade, that figure is three orders of magnitude too high. HSBC is being fined $1.9B, not $400M.[1] HSBC also did not earn 19 trillion dollars over the course of a decade, which is what would make $1.9B your 0.01% figure. Even a $400M fine would still constitute earnings of $4 trillion.

Not only are your numbers incorrect factually speaking, their relationships with each other are entirely out of whack for measuring HSBC's profit, even in an absurd hypothetical scenario in which HSBC did launder trillions of dollars.

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1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-02/hsbc-judg...
BTC is special because it's designed and desired to be a pure transaction system, separated from all of the "soft" skills like human trust. It's EVE Online with real money.

Thus, everything that makes BTC interesting for use the real world -- trying to use it to buy stuff, to put it somewhere safely, etc, it fundamentally broken by design, because none of that real world stuff has the mathematical strength of the core bitcoin protocol, and all the players are trying to operate on the assumption that none of the stuff that makes the real world work is important in the BTC world. It's an anarchic paradise, bubbles and scams as far as the eye can see.
As I noted on reddit, I am not surprised by this at all. Google's entire incentive to maintain Android is the troves of data they collect about users. Why would they let you turn it off? It doesn't make any sense. If you're surprised as a user, you've been really naïve.

Imagine this: would apple ever let you not pay for a new iPhone? Its entire incentive in making iphones is to sell them for money. So it will never allow you to get phones for free.
Same here unfortunately.
Because it’s basically free money for the departments the ticket money goes to
> When Troy Hunt is testifying before congress you know that at least some part of the government is functioning

That's if it's not just a ruse to lure him to the US where they can then arrest him for being in possession of too much illegally-obtained personal info.
Indeed. There is plenty evidence that there are a ton of shit C programmers out there, as well. It's not very hard to take a random OSS C (or C++) project and find bugs or potential bugs in the form of undefined or unspecified behavior. Correctly performing signed integer arithmetic without introducing undefined behavior is surprisingly hard. Additionally, most people never bother to do it correctly in either C or C++ because, well, it's a pain in the ass and it slows the code down.

Linus's argument against C++ is basically akin to Dijkstra's argument against `goto`. Like any tool, it can be abused. But they've seen too many abuses for their own taste, so they ban the tool completely despite the advantages the tool may have.
Can you bake a loaf of bread worth $10k?
Yeah that is good point. Either way we need a universal password.
Why does volume matter? BTC is failing as a currency because it's in a speculating bubble. So, volume is just BTC circulating among traders and storage systems, not being used for anything.
Then they manage the company and make sure they have someone in charge of overseeing InfoSec that does.
I suspect the real reason in most cases is because daycare providers are often small companies, sometimes 1-2 people. At the pickup time you've been working 9-10 hours, and there's often cleaning to do afterwards. Making more money is nice, but committing to working 12 hours days five or more days a week in perpetuity is a tall order.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OSHA
In about 2014 I noticed that the logged in API request, on Uber's website, included full driver info nested under the ride JSON object. It included the drivers full address, license, phone numbers, etc. They patched it a few months later, but it was the worst data leak I've seen.
So I'm going through this thread and what I'm reading over and over is "huge penalties", "personal responsibility for people involved" and what I'm wondering to myself is if you've all gone mad.

Okay look, I get it, it is absolutely despicable what these companies are doing. But think about ordinary website operators for a minute. A lot of the proposals in this thread would basically criminalize running a basic web forum unless you're some kind of security ninja. Please, think before you write.
Except those ARE both fairly extreme fisheye lenses, and you can tell whenever the horizon goes above the midline and the curvature inverts (see 22:10 on the MiG video).

Neither the MiG nor Baumgartner were high enough for the extreme curvature visible on these videos to be an accurate reflection of what you would have seen in their shoes.
Surely you are joking?? Why would you agree to such a thing?
Like Kinder eggs. They should ban them too.
Problem is that turning off location makes no difference to this location tracking.
How does the EU calculate fines? And is there a reason we can’t just copy that?
Musk: "[Author of story] never actually ran this story by me or my assistant. It is total nonsense." - http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-responds-assistant-...
Looks like a marketing ploy by a company which is comfortable being meta. The headlines giveaway what it is.
CACert is a weird example because their model was completely at odds with how everybody else (yes now including Let's Encrypt) does things.

CACert says this is trustworthy because you have to know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody etcetera. The profiles with a single photo of a swimsuit wearing young woman and a generic-sounding name that say they know me from school on Facebook every few weeks can tell you what happens to that idea at scale.

In contrast all the trusted public CAs (commercial or not) have a bunch of employees either directly making validation decisions according to some company policy or writing software to automatically make such decisions.

In theory maybe CACert's model really could work, but what it definitely can't do is work the same way as everybody else. So it was very hard to get anyone to give them a chance, still less after they started to have internal squabbles.

You are correct that gaining trust takes time, but what a conventional CA does (with the exception of maybe Verisign and Thawte which are _really_ old) is they first get an existing trusted CA else to sign a subCA certificate saying they trust the new CA. The ordinary "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" certificate is signed by IdenTrust (it says "DST Root CA X3" on it but the Digital Signature Trust no longer exists). There's another copy of the same certificate signed by ISRG, but that's only trusted in much newer software. Modern Firefox, current macOS or iOS, but not say, Internet Explorer 10
I never denied it was complex, I denied that it was an attack on free will which is impossible. I think it is a real psychological problem and I think blaming capitalism or the "the system" or "the man", etc. are themselves rationalizations and misdirection that prey on people susceptible to suggestion or manipulation, i.e. emotionalism, to advance political agendas.
Another happy LineageOS user, on a Samsung Note 2 (old phone but fast enough to be my daily driver). Works very well and love the Privacy Guard fine-grained controls for apps.
The parent argument is that without transparency it's difficult to actually know.

Apple's true incentive is to provide value for their shareholders.

If they can improve the value provided to shareholders by hoovering up information while also maintaining consumer confidence and sales then why would they not?

I think that Apple's incentives are better aligned with my desires for privacy, but it's only an assumption.
The stolen Tether are unredeemable, and thusly worth nothing.

They pose a certain risk with accepting dodgy transactions though.
Are you using a custom ROM?
It is certain that US law enforcement will come down hard on Tether eventually. Anyone pretending to transfer dollars outside the banking system will meet the same fate as Liberty Reserve. When it happens Bitfinex will be toast, and Bittrex and Poloniex may fall too.
You say that like you are insulting her, but to most people in the world, "MBB(?) consultant turned manager turned startup CEO one-hit wonder." would be the best thing that happened to their life. Your description is someone who is very good at running businesses.
I think what you'd find is that people would just start using a different service which didn't treat them like children.
I have noticed the uptick in quality of services owned by foreign companies over services owned by US companies.

Maybe foreign companies are not under pressure to achieve constant growth at all costs and that allows them to focus on quality metrics instead of quantity metrics.
DJI threatens legal action after researcher reports bug
The idea behind using S3 or other PAAS is to not run and maintain your own servers. While minio is great if you want to run your own S3, depending on it to use a different PAAS is not the most convincing use case
Scientist finds UK water companies use 'magic' to find leaks
> Being Multi Butt with Buttflare

I recently reinstalled cloud-to-butt, and it's so amazingly on point for most tech news.

> A few months ago at Buttflare’s Internet Summit, we hosted a discussion on A Butt Without Handcuffs with Joe Beda, one of the creators of Kubernetes
The important distinction is where the critical information on where the device offset is encoded from. Before it was specified by whether a partition or parent disk device was used; now it is always the actual disk and a partition number. It's not a bad change, but IMO it was made recklessly.

From this patchset, there's now at least four different fixes: tags referring to it in Linus's tree. The patchset itself was broken and intermediate states didn't compile, making bisection annoying. And there's many other callers of this function that are potentially getting bad results, along with other cousins like bio_clone_bioset that are still unfixed.

This was not a fun experience for a new maintainer. It turns out if you had created a fresh bcache on 4.14, like most of my tests do-- you're probably fine. And not all environments will experience problems. It went in a couple of weeks before I became maintainer, and isn't in the bcache code itself (and wasn't reviewed by anyone who worked on bcache, and was never sent to the linux-bcache mailing list.) I've learned some new things to add to my test suite, and I guess i need to read all the block diff to make sure people don't break things out from under me.
Notice which four words were quoted in the only follow-up comment! These things punch way above their weight, which is why they need to be excluded.
Implementation Details Are Coming to Kill Your Experiment
Godspeed, sir.

"I'll prove that sabre-tooth tigers are actually vegetarians by attempting to scratch that one behind the ears" said one of his caveman ancestors. And then people learned.

People like him are the unsung heroes of civilization.
I think some combo of "Breaking into tech sales"; "Closing and Selling B2B SaaS" and "Sales 101" would interest me.
If it has a cell radio, it's broadcasting your location to the tower (since that's how the phone company knows where to route calls to). So the phone company will always have your rough location, regardless of the OS you run.
And you're still being tracked in the way described in this article. Google play services just needs to be present on your phone. Doesn't matter if you login or not.
What else can you do, if the system refuses to use anti-trust properly?
Note that if you're trying to habituate to the tinnitus, they recommend that you keep the masking noise just below the volume of the tinnitus. That way, your brain learns to ignore the noise in a way that it wouldn't if it were masked out entirely.
My contact info is on my profile page, ping me.
I have all those already; it respects my setting 24 icons (4 rows of 6) rather than giving my prior 3 rows x 5 of page previews.
I don't get what your point is. Are you saying that only those who abuse others know how to run companies?
You think that the person who created the system that controls most middle-aged Americans news and emotions doesn't have a handle the electorate's feelings?

What's next? A movie star running for President?!
> See, my kid's day care charges a mere $600 per hour late (billed in 1 minute increments).

WOW, I'm in the wrong business I think. What else charges that much per hour? I don't even think a neurosurgeon could command that sort of rate!
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15752395.
Thanks for the response. I was really just curious, I didn't mean to set off a mini-storm. It's just interesting who reads this site, since the topics are pretty highly directed towards startup and developer culture.

IT support in a rural area is more or less what I was suspecting (yes, Springfield is Country). It's ironic that the tech age was supposed to bring in an era of telecommuting, when in fact it's brought in an era of greatly increased centralization. Small towns needed doctors and lawyers, they don't need software developers or high end tech support.

In theory the increase in cloud services could change that, but I don't really see the trend changing.
I'd buy the new iphones in a heartbeat but I simply cannot spend that kind of money and put up with weird compromises like no haedphone jack or no fingerprint reader. I wish Samsung would have an option to run tizen on its flagships.
I feel like I'd buy that in the short term - that's what VC money is for. (And perhaps in the long term too.) The hard part is the live streaming; sending <1 kilobyte of data to 170k concurrent users every few seconds isn't a fundamentally challenging problem (it's on the order of 1Gbps outbound traffic). YouTube has a live-streaming API I'd be inclined to build a proof of concept with and see how far that gets me; if not, a couple minutes of Googling finds me Ustream, owned by IBM, charging $99-$999/month for their "professional" tier, and Livestream (.com) charging $799 for their "enterprise" tier, with both having a call-us-if-you-need-more tier. That's cheap enough that you can fund the tech side on this on even just the old-school YC $20K until you have enough traction to do a better job of it.
What would be the tax implications of this in USA? I imagine there isn't a bill given by another entity, but this is rather a bitcoin/cash transaction. In my country this would mean this payout would be hit with all the taxes [1], pretty much doubling the cost.

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[1] Income tax, unemployment insurance, healthcare, and maybe even pension. All going to the benefit of the country as there is no identifiable human on the receiving end.
If there was a shortage of pilots and you "happily" offered to fly me safely to my destination for $100k, I'd happily ask the security personnel to escort you off the plane. Nobody is flying that day, and your naive idealism can't change that.
If you've followed this at all you know that poll is not at all an outlier, it's very much in line with all other polling on the issue.

You're correct that too many people don't understand what "net neutrality" means, but when polled on descriptions of its effects that 80% level of support is very consistent across the board. Here's a couple of examples, you can find plenty more if you take the time to look.

http://time.com/3578255/conservatives-net-neutrality-poll/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/11/12/wonkb...

I stand by my assertion that your claim "this is what people voted for" is utterly, completely incorrect.
Thank you. Seems like a nice approach.
about:reader?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.janesoceania.com%2Fsuvarov_tom_neale%2Findex.htm handles the garish design.
> [C++ is] made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it

Thing is, it's a very real issue. C++ as written by the best of programmers might be a very reasonable language for the kernel, but in practice what happens is the additional abstraction and indirection mechanisms mean it becomes very hard to decipher with any confidence code written by mediocre or merely average programmers.

And this is a real issue in practice, I saw it when I was at Google with code written by other programmers at Google, and honestly the majority of the code in the Linux kernel is at about the same level - some of it really good elegant code, more of it ugly and hacky but working, and a lot more (especially driver code) mediocre crap.

And when having to decipher and refactor the mediocre crap - because let's be honest, that's the majority of the code - I'd much rather have to deal with C than C++.

The reason this is such an issue with C++ is that - and it's been said before, but it bears repeating - C++ adds a lot of new ways to shoot yourself in the foot and it doesn't take any of the old ones away. With C, you can generally read a chunk of code and have confidence that it does what it appears to do - you can understand it in isolation. With C++, just figuring out the flow control can be a nightmare.

Rust would be a different story. I am 100% in favor of using Rust whenever possible - it has some of the same issues as C++ or any other polymorphic language in that figuring out flow control can really suck, but it provides much stronger guarantees w.r.t. how code can screw you over that make it well worth it. C++... not so much.
"Hughes only recently converted to flat-Eartherism, after struggling for months to raise funds for his follow-up flight over the Mojave."

I think that sums it up.
If load/unload time were a big $$ problem, I can imagine one could design a system which effectively threw containers on and off the ship. ie. acceleration at 1G upwards on the way out, and freefall on the way in.

The same acceleration rates can be used for the automated clamps which lock onto the corners of the containers for movement.

Assuming a dockside + ship is 100 yards wide, a one second lock/unlock time for clamps, that should work out at 14 seconds per container. Assume we have a grid of cranes over the ship, able to pick up every container on top at once.

Assume the worst-case complete unload of the whole ships capacity (10,000 40 ft containers on the largest vessels), and reload of another complete load.

That comes out as 8 minutes!

Current loading times are multiple hours for even a partial unload of a much smaller ship. That tells me that there isn't enough $$$ involved to get serious engineering efforts to make it quicker.
Seattle Considers Zoning for More “Family-Sized” Apartments
If they are chronically late, and the person feels like they are being slighted as a child, this is also a decent way to "fire" your customer. You don't need customers who don't respect the agreed rules of your service.

Another alternative is calling the police, because at what point is the child considered abandoned?

I think I would prefer the light hearted milk or toilet paper errand.
I didn't see any mention of ride info in that link, maybe the text has changed since you posted it.

It is frustrating that the page doesn't enumerate what information is deleted and what's retained.
It would help enormously for Seattle to eliminate single-family zoning altogether: https://www.theurbanist.org/2017/08/09/broadening-seattles-g...
Actually, it's very rarely complicated. 90% of those cases could be eliminated by simply asking the person before you go in to touch them.
When Joanna said nothing like Qubes existed, I told her INTEGRITY PC was doing it around 2005 using separatiom kernel approach with stronger security. You must have worked on that one given 10 years remark. Im curious about your experiences with that. Email me if you want details confidential. Rarely meet folks doing the kinds of architectures I research and push for further adoption.
Thank you so much for the link. Really appreciate it.
Heh. $50k isn't too bad, is it? Don't nurses start at that?
I think it somehow depends on whether the OS is installed on a spinning disk or an SSD. I know it's stupid but this is my theory based on observation. Would love for someone to verify it.
Hypersonice aircraft would likely show up on radar.
Feyman was the original PUA.