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When I was younger, and new to the city, I used to park in a car park where the fines were $22, but to park for a full day was $20.

I got a few tickets. Let me tell you, escalation of parking violations in my state are no joke. I forgot about one or two of them just before I moved, so by the time they found me again they had made their way through the court system and had been there a couple of months. A hefty $300 levy is applied immediately, and failure to pay the fine is now failure to pay a state fine not a council fine, with the next steps being another $750, then suspension of vehicle services (can't register your car) then finally suspension of your drivers license, and you can't travel abroad. Times this all by two for two tickets.

The suspension of my drivers license was how I found out about this silent tsunami of infractions building up toward me, and when it broke across the shore, I was left stranded with my car and yet another $1000 fine for driving unlicensed (news to me).

I repealed and the whole situation went away, as I never recieved any of the letters and was unaware.

I do think it's ridiculous a $20 parking fine is allowed to escalate that far, but I suppose it worked, as I pay my tickets now.
The point of the calculator is to time your sleep so that you wake up between REM sleep cycle (rather than being awoken by your alarm in the middle of a REM cycle, which usually puts you in groggy zombie mode). The calculator works off the assumption that the average sleep cycle is 90 minutes (1.5 hours), so it calculates times that would allow you to wake up between sleep cycles (9 hours, 7.5 hours, 6 hours, and 4.5 hours all being multiples of 1.5 hours).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_cycle
It seems dishonest to hide content that may be relevant to the discussion, especially after teasing it that way. Maybe if it warrants mentioning in your original comment it also warrants explaining why you think it's irrelevant?
> Too few dopamine-injecting experiences

That is an awesome way to phrase that.

I took a 3 week vacation for the first time since I started working 8 or 9 years ago.

Did wonders for me. Should've made the time for a long long vacation a while ago.
Nothing seems to help me in this article. Thanks for posting it. The more we know the better.
> Linking GPL code to incompatible code is against the license terms and since you can't copy/distribute the code without a license you violate copyright if you distribute that code. Nobody, not even the FSF, believes that this means that your code must be under the GPL at that point

Except as I understand it, this is the position pushed by WordPress and other GPL CMS's (Drupal?).

They say that because a theme or a plugin uses WordPress's functions and these are GPL licensed, then you're 'linking' with it and your PHP code has to be GPL licensed too.

To me this is crazy, but no one has challenged it yet.
Can you share how to do this? Anything I can try to be able to launch some of my critical apps might help.

Edit: for those who are curious: https://www.gregoryvarghese.com/reportcrash-high-cpu-disable...
The only way to tell is look at the market capitalization (see https://coinmarketcap.com/)

To compare, if Bitcoin reaches $400.000 per bitcoin, the total value of all Bicoins will be the same as the total value of all gold.
> I got less sick during the winter, and my overall wellbeing improved greatly.

Just out of curiosity, did you work out regularly in a gym before taking those pills?
ksh was not my first shell, but as much as you, it is where I use vi command-line editing a lot. It's one of the first shells I really got to grip with as a young budding system administrator. I didn't know any vim really before I went on a Sun scripting for sysadmin course. My Ksh scripting book has served me well over the many years.
Sure but the Swiss are the most risk-averse people on the planet. In case again a world-war breaks out they need to be able to feed the country without relying on imports. That an important main reasons for subsidies. If somehow it could be guaranteed that there will be no war in Europe ever, my best guess is that the Swiss would immediately drop this "inefficiency" (they love to be efficient).
Yes, but gold has been used as a currency for thousands of years and it does not share many of the problems of Bitcoin — for example it isn't so volatile.

Of course, it's a finite resource and mining it involves dynamiting mountains and cyanide poisoning the environment, but then again Bitcoin mining currently consumes enormous amounts of energy and it can only grow from here. Also countries with no gold reserves have been at a disadvantage, but then Bitcoin mining will require enormous resources as well and countries without those resources will remain at a disadvantage. So personally I don't see any benefits whatsoever.

If I had wealth to store, I'd invest in property simply because properties have intrinsic value. And yes, I'd still buy gold before Bitcoin or any other currency for storing wealth long term.

Bitcoin is currently only useful for speculative gains and I don't see that changing.
Liang was in his sixties and local responsible for Diesel. While he may have been an engineer 30 years ago, I think it's fair to call him an executive today.
Vitamin K can be dangerous for a not insignificant part of the population, many of whom don't realize they might be sensitive to it. It is a very strong addition to the body and affects blood clotting and interactions with many medications.

If you want to safely increase vitamin K, just eat more dark green vegetables like spinach. There's no need to overdo it with K or it could be a regrettable error.
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As a heavy bitcoin/crypto trader, Coinbase and Gdax are one of the worst exchanges out there. Speaking strictly from a technical point of view. Not only their Front-End interface (Gdax) suffers from lag probably due to poor engineering but they also made terrible mistakes at the beginning.

One of them being a lost deposit. The address generated by the site was wrong and thus the deposit never credited. It took a couple months for support to get on this and refund the lost amount. This happened a couple years ago. So had it happened now I'm not sure if technical support will ever get back.

I also failed to contact their technical support about other issues (can't really remember) but there was no way to reach them. They don't have proper support, they just have monkeys that tries to save face on social media. Only.

The best exchange so far from a technical perspective is Bitfinex. It is surprising because it is quite shady. But it is a rock solid exchange; and it is magnificently engineered. No wonder it is the top exchange out there. And Finex has handled the recent surge much better than Gdax or any other exchange out there.
"The day you can pay tax bills to a government in Bitcoin is probably the day you can rest easy."

Japan has started accepting Bitcoin and Ethereum for taxes.

Maybe the author needs to do more research.
Have you ever taken a fluoroquinolone antibiotic at any point in your life?

Look into r-lipoic acid, low dose 100mg (take one per day, with food), from the Doctor's Best brand (available on Amazon). You might consider that for the peripheral neuropathy, it does wonders for some people.
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Correct; see my other comment as well. Vitamin K supplementation should not be casually added to anyone's diet without careful evaluation.
Also a great way to ensure people jam up the court system for profit
Five officers per year is a total embarassment. NSA has (estimated) 40k staff, and unknown additional contractors and outsourced solution providers.

NSA officers already deploy with US forces, so the only reason is to have people in your chain of command. But then they won't have access to the resources of NSA.

It also seems to be a bad career track, because, being restricted duties, they could not command anything significant. The corollary is that there will never be people educated in offensive infosec making informed decisions.
Just let my Mac take in this update, now sitting in front of it watching it say

“About 3 minutes remaining”

And then jump to

“About 29 minutes remaining”
:-( The price I pay for being dumb to let it update during the work day. OSX is starting to feel more like the old Windows....
Well, for an european that is a pretty good salary. Remember, we don't have to pay for a lot of shit us-citizens needs to do.

I earn way less than that (like half and with no bonuses) and I still have the best salary of everyone I know at my age.

For example, my grandfather was flown by helicopter to the hospital, got a surgery and was in recovery for about 3 days and it cost him about $20.
Driver rides with another phone and the hacked account, racks up an expensive drive and gets paid for it. Not sure how easy that'd be to do without getting caught though.
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I completely agree with this, but I would prefer if there was a mechanism to keep offline backups. Currently if I lose my phone I am frozen out of my accounts. 1-time codes do exist but they have issues - either they're very easily accessible in the form of a printed paper or they're very difficult to access like an encrypted backup in the cloud.

I don't have a good solution to this problem - I am mugged while traveling and I lose my phone and wallet. If anyone could share how they tackle this problem I'd be grateful.
The resources people need: ice to cool insulin, food, healthcare, day care, basic housing, etc. are not scarce, or at the very least scarcity is fixable for little money.

You just need to be a little less greedy.
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Should we jail all police officers who fail to catch every criminal instead of disincentivizing crime, too?
Yeah, I just spent a week driving to a few different cities throughout China, and the tolls are unbelievable! Just one leg of my trip cost a $50 toll for a half day of driving (not sure about the exact distance). And that’s US$50, which is a lot of money by Chinese standards. You can stay at a decent hotel for two nights for US$50, or buy several nice meals at least.
"if you are ever holding data hostage and demanding money to destroy it, you're not a pentester, you're a chump."

If you're not getting paid up front, regardless of the outcome, you're not a 'pentester' in the first place - you're just doing free work for a company who will then (in some cases) not hesitate to sue you just for telling them they have a problem. Fuck that. You're taking some sort of moral high ground here; which is to be expected, as you're in the industry, or as we say in Dutch - "whose bread one eats, whose word one speaks". But just because a bunch of people with security services to sell says it's so, doesn't make it true.

"Responsible disclosure" is bullshit. These "bug bounty" programs are just a cover up - a way to retroactively say "but we had procedures!". The real chumps are the people spending days or weeks looking for issues and then being send off with a $250 Starbucks coupon and a pat on the head. The days of 'playing nice' or 'doing the 'ethical' rollseyes thing' are over. Today's internet is an all-out, free for all warzone (security-wise). "Responsible disclosure" is a PR scapegoat, a smoke curtain devised by companies unwilling to spend what it takes to make our eye-wateringly bad state of infrastructure seem... if not good, then at least less crap.

I don't have a horse in this race; I stopped caring about infosec 15+ years ago when the full contact spirit of the scene began to wade. I just assume that anything with a keyboard I type on is compromised and adapt my behavior to match. But it does still make me angry that so many people bought into this whole spiel of blaming whoever finds the issue, instead of holding those that caused it in the first place responsible. It's morally equivalent to the GFC bailouts, except that there's not even a 'too big to fail' argument to be made.
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I know many people think otherwise, but I hate R for many reasons. Here are some of them:

- You can use '=' and '<-' to assign values to variables and both do the same, except in a few edge-cases where you now spend one week finding the error

- It confuses and mixes functional programming and oop not only per entity but also between the usage of them. Want to get a value of entity X? use x.getValue(). Want to get a value of entity Y? Use Y.getValue(y).

- The ide crashes once an hour and does not detect file-changes which forces you to restart it manually.

- People say R is the best and optimized for data-analytics which is simply not true. It's a marketing-lie spread by the creators. There is no data-analytics-task that you cannot do with the same ease in other programming languages.

Disclaimer: My big-data-profs enforced me to use R even for tasks where R should not be used.
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the risk of recidivism is about nil

Why? As far as I know, recidivism in corruption is rather common. And if you send the corruptors home with a pat on the back, it will probably be more common.
One in 600 Americans is homeless on a given night. That is insane.
Digital gold term is utter nonsense and nothing more than wishful thinking of those involved. Gold has huge value, be it national reserves, jewelry, industries etc. and has never, ever lost much of its value.

Bitcoin is a classical ponzi, you don't have more than few bytes of otherwise meaningless data, and only emotions are keeping the value so high. And as we know, emotions change.

Don't insult gold. It will be around long after Bitcoin will become just another part of history.
Postman is great and they've had a standalone app for a while. It should work well for you unless you make use of a 'hosts' file. That's right, the standalone Postman app will just ignore it. Oh, they know about the bug. There's been a Github issue about it for over year with plenty of "Me too!" responses. They've done a ton of releases since then too, fixing bugs, adding features... all of which is meaningless if you need it to respect your hosts file settings like any normal app.
It looks like Vitamin K also inhibits arterial calcification.[1]

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4052396/
A guy tricked Tripadvisor into making his garden shed the top-rated Rest. London
So basically Google says they'll maintain and further develop this technology, so it can't be bad per se.

They will however now reduce the amount of platforms it can run on to a fraction of what it was... But for what reason? (Since it's clearly an OK technology in the eyes of ChromeOS)

This only shows yet again to never rely on a Google-based platform for your application or service.
It's offering sleep patterns that match multiples of 90 minutes. I think this is on average one 'sleep cycle'.

Waking is easier between cycles and you wake feeling more refreshed (I think).
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It is amazing to see the effect of this in the wild - the land owns the people and it is basically impossible to sell. I have seen people who own land worth 10s of million of dollars live like paupers because they are so tied to the land.

I have wondered how much this effect is genetically built into us - there really is something different about how people view farmland compared to every other asset.
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> > if the Postgres fails over, it ensures to disconnect me so that I'm not accidentally connected to a replica.

> HAProxy will do absolutely the same.

well I think that is not the same what stolon-proxy actually provides.
(actually I use patroni)
but if your network gets split and you end up with two masters (one application writes to the old master) there would be a problem if one application would still be connected to the splitted master.

however I do not get the point, because etcd / consul would not allow to still hold the master role which means that the splitted master would lose the master role and thus either die, because it can not connect to the new master or just be a read slave and the application would than probably throw errors if users are still connected to the splitted application.
highly depends how big your etcd/consul is and how good your application detects failures.
(since we are highly dependent on our database we actually kill hikaricp (java) in case of too many master write failures and just restart it after a special amount of time.
well we also look in creating a small lightweight async driver based on akka, where we do this in a little bit more automated fashion.)
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I agree with you in principle, but how would you have punished the banks post-2008, for instance?

Would you fine them $100 billion? While many were already on the brink of bankruptcy, because of the self-inflicted damage? If anything, they received money from the government to survive.

Granted, they should have never been allowed to get to the point where not saving them meant an even bigger crash for the economy. They shouldn't have been allowed to leverage their money as much as they did, and they should have been split up into dozens of smaller banks.

But failing that, it seems like imprisonment of wealthy billionaire executives who thought "they've got nothing to lose" if they risk their customers' money the way they did seems like the best option there.
> One part is obvious: would you rather starve, with no options, or starve in front of a beautiful cheesecake, just out of reach?

Choices made when consequences are so extreme, especially in life or death scenarios, are often different than everyday decisions. A life or death decision would have zero risk tolerance.

For example, in a work environment, one strategy people like to choose is to never say that something is 'impossible', but rather that something has a particularly high price. People are much more comfortable hearing that the effort/costs of doing something aren't for them, rather than feeling like they have no choice at all.
Ask HN: Which crypto would you invest a small amount of money in?
I've pretty much let the cryptocurrency thing pass me by until now, but there's so much hype around it now that I can't help but pay attention!

I have a small amount (£500) which I'm willing to invest in one or more cryptocurrencies, mostly for the fun of it - if I lose the money, so be it.

If you were in this position, which currency/currencies would you invest in, and why? Links to any useful resources (e.g. how to buy them!) would be appreciated!
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What is 2FA? It's 'something you have'. It's not 'one single thing on one device only'. It's just 'something you have'.

'Something you have' relies on physical security, so if you have the same physical security for both your laptop and phone, there's no reduction by having a 2FA token on each device.
> In this case, the financial penalties imposed on the companies themselves seem like a more effective tool.

I disagree with this part. Fining the company just pushes prices up to compensate for the loss. It might cause the company to not be competitive and go out of business but that's mostly punishing people who didn't do anything. We need to hold the individuals responsible for their behavior. I agree with you that prison doesn't seem effective but if we use financial penalties they should be harsh and targetting the individual. I suspect someone who has been very rich for decades suddenly being lower middle class or poor would be much scarier than going to a country club with an ancle bracelet for a few years.
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The study was about Finland. Scandinavia and northern countries broadly often have a variety of bad health effects from very low VitD levels (including eg very high rates of multiple sclerosis). Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, UK, Germany are among the nations with the highest rates of multiple sclerosis, heavily due to their low VitD.

If you don't get enough sun (a minority of people anywhere on the planet do or can), Vitamin D can be an important supplement no matter where you live. It's well worth it to have a simple blood test done to get your levels checked, if you can at some point, just to know where you stand.
Living in scandinavia I've taken vitamin D every winter. But lately started taking it all year.

I've been sloppy and it seems to coincide with periods of poor energy and a bad mood.

I'm not sure if the energy and mood precede the drop in vitamin use or vice versa. But either way I think it's good to supplement if you live up north.
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Quant desks in hedge funds and prop trading companies - like Jane Street, SIG and the like.

In most of those places, 'maths' will involve a lot of data science and machine learning, plus a fair bit of programming, however PhD degree is quite often a hard requirement.

(Source: am a quant)
So you prefer Python, I assume?
Contentful (and similar services) also _can_ invest lots of time to get a good looking and super usable admin interface that can tackle difficult problems well.

Examples: Sorting of ordered many to many relations, WYSIWYG or markdown editors, workflows, versioning, concurrent editing of items - all the stuff that you don't need for an MVP but if you have hundreds of editors and non dev people working on the actual content.
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I'm more surprised opera still has that much market share.
The commend says 'floating ice' the link you point at says 'ice on land'. The commender is 100% right but apparently the HN crowd has a lot of people that just love to downvote (which is why downvoting should be banned).
> The idea of treating containers as secure and isolated as VMs is enticing for non-ephemeral services

Are you saying that security and isolation is not enticing for ephemeral services? I know that an ephemeral container is reset after a restart but I think that it's a bit naive to think that that is a good enough replacement for true isolation.
Depends on the problem to solve.
For calculation-heavy tasks i prefer python.
But these days many use R to create shiny-apps which should be done in javascript instead.
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For (1) there was a really good Planet Money podcast (#665)
I don't have children and I would not even think about producing offspring if I were so poor. But in general, yes.
Cool – I sometimes used a notation like this (the visual form of this) myself to (attempt to) remember melodies I heard on the radio... before Shazam existed
Fair point, speaking of corruption in general. I meant more along the lines of doing specifically this again. The situation has changed such that companies are not likely to get away with gaming emissions in this way anymore. But yes, someone inclined to cheat in one way might be inclined to cheat in others.
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Doesn't make it less lame.
It's worth bearing this statistic in mind as we discuss this:

38,000 people a year die early because of diesel emissions testing failures.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/15/diesel-e...
There's no reason to use R unless you are unable to learn.
JavaScript is almost pythonic
I'm use the Chrome App version of Pocket to download and read my Pocket articles offline on Windows 10. Any suggestions for a replacement?

I'm currently trying Poki [1] but I find it's offline reading features too limited for my tastes.

Pocket hints they may produce a Windows 10 app but that's a vague promise at the moment.

[1] https://pokiapp.com/