skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First:, I used notable names instead of notable persons. If that caused a confusion or misunderstanding to the point you believe I was segregating or second classing anyone, pardon me.

Second: My intent was to reply to Kiddico's message which says "I find it interesting how many of those are attributed to project zero members" That's the relation of p0 with my reply

Third: Ben Hawkes(NZ), Tavis Ormandy(UK), Ian Beer(UK) and Matt Tate(UK) are often credited as notable members of the project zero team.
> I myself have an 11 character surname from the Baltic States.

What exactly is a Baltic surname to you? Russian origin? German? I honestly think you should be ashamed of what you wrote. It's deeply offensive to those of us with roots in other places.
Why would a central agency even have everyone's private key? All they ought to have is a record of whom a given public part of the key pair belongs to.

If you lose your private key or leak it you don't go to the government to get it back you just pay some money to have a second key issued and the original declared to be invalid.

All debt assigned to the original public part of the key pair would be transferred to the new one unless you could show that it is fraudulent much like you would if your debit card number was stolen.

Additionally the private key shouldn't ever be shared it should be stored on a physical device and proof of having the public key ought to be the only thing transmitted.

Its true that there are logistical challenges involved but they are the boring and tedious kind. Work that nobody wants to do.
I am currently using Stolon with synchronous replication for a setup, and overall it's great.

It gives me automated failover, and -- perhaps more imporatantly -- the opportunity to exercise it a lot: I can reboot single servers willy-nilly, and do so regularly (for security updates every couple days).

I picked the Stolon/Patroni approach over Corosync/Pacemaker because it seems simpler and more integrated; it fully "owns" the postgres processes and controls what they do, so I suspect there is less chance to accidentally mis-configurations in the fashion of what the article describes.

I currently prefer Stolon over Patroni because statically typed languages make it easier to have less bugs (Stolon is Go, Patroni is Python), and because the proxy it brings out of the box makes it convenient: On any machine I connect to localhost:5432 to get to postgres, and if the Postgres fails over, it ensures to disconnect me so that I'm not accidentally connected to a replica.

In general, the Stolon/Patroni approach feels like the "right way" (in absence of failover being built directly into the DB, which would be great to have in upstream postgres).

Cons:

Bugs. While Stolon works great most of the time, every couple months I get some weird failure. In one case it was that a stolon-keeper would refuse to come back up with an error message, in another that a failover didn't happen, in a third that Consul stopped working (I suspect a Consul bug, the create-session endpoint hung even when used via plain curl) and as a result some stale Stolon state accidentally accumulated in the Consul KV store, with entries existing that should not be there and thus Stolon refusing to start correctly.

I suspect that, as with other distributed systems that are intrinsically hard to get right, the best way to get rid of these bugs is if more people use Stolon.
> Nobody, or next-to-nobody, would want to have that.

I think you substantially underestimate the apathy of the broader consumer market...
You're doing it the wrong way round. Who needs mathematicians? What can it be used for? Find the appropriate people on forums, github or whatever and talk to them about it. Not HR, people who are involved in whatever you want to be involved in.

Maybe get to know this too: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/features/scientific_tools....
One of the biggest questions people have is how loans and debt can be handled in bitcoin. Since it's deflationary by nature, how will loans be easily recovered from the borrowers when it becomes harder to pay back the amount of BTC as the cost of BTC goes up?
Bandwidth providers in Australia crack down more on piracy
This is becoming a joke. Meanwhile, transactions times in both BTC and ETH are getting ridiculously slow.
Please see my reply to lisper
They are also harassed for debt that never actually existed, so it might not be any relief at all.
> Facebook

Obama ran great campaigns, including social networks where his opponents did not -- won in landslides. Same with Trump and Hillary. Winners targeted, with laser focus, on individuals. The messages resonated; people DID listen to the other side!

Meanwhile, especially in the last two years, traditional media has totally faltered. News agencies rocked by fake news scandals, Hollywood getting #metoo'd up the keister, Amazon acquiring WaPo. YouTube is TV for a lot of kids. It's a huge shakeup going on.

> Gerrymandering

Hillary was a terrible candidate. There's no excuse for losing some of the states she lost. I don't get the opposition to the Electoral College system, it's a check on large population cities/states running the board. Hillary would have creamed Trump if she had any substance.

> Wait what? If you mean that if working poor made more money they would need less benifits????

No, I just took your "Case in point" about increased wages and benefits as equating to less tax revenues being collected (you had "less government spending" on the right, which I read as govt having less to spend.) Maybe I misread your point as it pertained to repubs, sorry if I did. I agree repubs are all talk on cutting spending.

> Your asking a political science question. Economist don't get to say what our tax rates are but our politicians and there isn't one economist in the bunch.

It really shakes my confidence, what are any of these numbers based on?? It's a miracle anything works at all.
The one in Mountain View, CA is like this as well... It's so great!!! No stress in any way to go to the movies, or even getting up to go to the bathroom. I've easily gone to the movies 10 times as much over the past few years because of it. And I pretty much refuse to go see a movie anywhere else. I'm sure many people have the same feeling as there's rarely an empty seat. I really hope they're making money as I would hate for this to be a short lived trend.
looks $ flowing out of alts and into bitcoin, which is somewhat surprising given the concerns over high transaction fees
I was one of those people who didn't understand it enough to think that an increase once you got to a new bracket applied to all your income. In that situation, it's logical to be careful not to move to the next tax bracket accidentally. It wasn't until later that I understood that the bracket applies only to the amount of your income that is above the bracket amount. I think it's a common assumption to make if you don't research it more carefully.
I wouldn't think a math background would directly apply to law. I'm thinking it might translate to someone who can build a solid argument. I'm aware that logic in the manner familiar to a mathematician would not apply. It's all about rhetoric and knowledge of the law. That's been my take away from conversations with legal professors/students.

I appreciated your insight. My thoughts were formed with much less knowledge.
With newer payment systems such as EMV, your entire payment information is not handed to the merchant. You're just signing the single transaction.

That said, I can't currently put my EMV card into a card reader on my computer and purchase things online. However, many credit card networks have created tokenized payment systems, where the merchant redirects you to your bank, the bank authorizes you and validates the single transaction, and then redirects you back to the merchant with the signed transaction information. Not many merchants use these systems yet though.
It probably net extended lives by allowing those benefitting from the better gas milage to enjoy a higher standard of living.
Sure, but to say that is to say that bitcoin's "unique investment opportunity" is akin to that of pieces of irreplaceable artistic value ... or tulips of irreplaceable biological heritage.

Once people believed bitcoin could be a currency, a medium of exchange that could be used for the ordinary transactions people used ordinary cash for. Now, it's an "investment vehicle" hurdling down the road that gold, natural gas futures and similar things went gone after 2008 when the Fed began QE in earnest.

And sure, "it's different thing time."
That might be true, but once people start downloading the binaries automatically, e.g. in their CI/CD, that doesn't say anything anymore...
Weizenbaum's rhetoric is powerful, especially during his takedown of "if I don't do it, someone else will". Although I think his view is from a pretty "high" technological perspective . . . his warnings probably don't apply to those of us who are working on less impactful software/engineering pursuits than the ones he describes.

Also, his argument that computers have been a force for conservatism is new to me. I'm not sure how true that is today.
That's what the fines are for. That is essentially money out of shareholders pockets.
Not really. All of my team mate in sysadmin team have degree in computer science or informatics
One can write a string copy routine using two instructions, assuming that the source and destination are already in registers.

loop: MOVB (src)+, (dst)+
BNE loop

Suddenly the C idiom

while (*dst++ = *src++);

makes a lot more sense!
To my recollection there was a meaningful amount of evidence that this wasn’t a bug. Rather it was optimizing for the test in such a way that it essentially faked the results, and the company was aware it had been done.

So, yeah, where I sit this is a good thing. If it were simply a bug that the company was open and honest about, then lets fix it and move on. If they cover it up, then there’s a solid ethical case for severe consequences in my mind.
Yeah, when Tesla hypothetically defrauds customers and governments, my 1000 shares is going to carry a lot of weight at that shareholders meeting. Oh, did you mean mutual funds and the like? Like the one your 401K might hold? How hard did you think about this before posting?
Ripple, the currency that is being investigated by the SEC ?
The list idea was part of the "you really don't need this overwrought solution" thread. Oops I gave away the agenda!
Seems like a significant portion of the capital is coming from Asia, mainly South Korea, with just Bithumb BTC/KRW trades making almost 11% of today's volume.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets
Indeed. I read this piece primarily as a primary source of recent math (education) history. From that perspective, it's very interesting.
The sentence was severe for a non-violent crime in part because restitution is not practically possible.

The damage has been done to the environment. Lives were shortened in amounts that are fairly precisely quantifiable. Competitors were economically disadvantaged. The market for fuels was distorted by a criminal act. This was all done intentionally, to cheat a system that was supposed to improve air quality, throwing such efforts into doubt.
Typo. As far as I can tell. Sorry!
German-American here, I haven't followed the case in the German media extensively, but there is a widespread public opinion that this was a welcome opportunity to punish a pesky German competitor, by throwing the book at them by the US government working together with the US auto lobby. If the same had been done by GM for example, they don't think anyone would have went to prison for even a day.

The other half is asking when the German justice system will finally start their prosecution.
That’s not comparable. A commute kills perhaps a millionth or a billionth of a person. It’s sensible to focus much more attention on individual decisions that kill hundreds or thousands.
The highest number in your threshold drop-down (250 at the moment) is far too low for my taste. I'd have signed up if I could set it to 1,000.
I do not understand how the second paragraph of your reply is related to the first. Computer programs (currently) do not respond to incentives, nor do they react to available resources in any way other than the way in which the resource provider explicitly changes them. So the idea of "deserving" does not apply, but it does apply to entities that respond to incentives or consume and make use of resources in complex/emergent ways.

If we had strong AI, then yes, certain strong AIs would be more deserving of resources from the commons than others - that's exactly what MIRI is working on.

And if you step back from "program" to "project" (meaning the whole system of code + the autonomous decisions of humans, including groups of humans working as companies, to continue developing the code), then yes, certain projects do deserve to be fixed more than others do. A particularly difficult crash in Python 3.6 is much more worth debugging than one in Python 2.4, which in turn is much more worth debugging than one in GW-BASIC, because the net benefit for humanity in exchange for the opportunity cost varies widely.
What are anybody's real-world use case for proxysql?

I have been toying with the idea of using it for local devs to access our prod DB for reads (for accurate data) and using a local DB on their machines for writes.

Not sure how to handle UPDATEs, though.
Highway 101 Managed Lane Project
Isn't that mostly the situation we're in with the places that are getting hacked?

BitcoinBank holds your bitcoin. Keeping the bitcoin safe is their responsibility. They get hacked and someone takes the bitcoin from them. They're liable to compensate you for the loss, but they don't have the money to compensate you with - someone stole it all.

Is the difference that a bank like Bank of America would have non-bitcoin assets to compensate you with? That is to say, the hypothetical BitcoinBank gets $65M of bitcoin stolen and that's 100% of their assets so you're out of luck. BitcoinBank owes you money, but doesn't have any. However, if Bank of America had $65M stolen, you could expect them to have other assets to cover that loss and make you whole.

I think the issue is that would cost a lot of money. Would you be willing to pay 2% of your bitcoin per year for this insurance?

I think one of the reasons that our current financial system works well against fraud is the ability to undo many transactions and detect fraud in addition to swallowing losses. If you try to spend $10M, that's likely to cause fraud alerts. If you're shipping goods to someone else and they're expensive, you'll again get fraud alerts. If you're transferring money between banks, it can have certain fraud-protection oversight and has a certain ability to be undone. A lot of this comes from lack of anonymity and limitations. A $5 transaction isn't suspicious and doesn't carry the same risk as a $5M transaction. Most bank to bank transfer systems have daily and monthly limits on them. The banks know who owns the accounts and can confirm if it's the same person. Banks generally have some latitude to undo transactions. Banks can see where you purchase things and determine whether it's suspicious. Banks have centralized places where they determine whether to permit a transaction.
Thank you for the clarification

(TYFTC)
Which 1.0 are you using? I'm on 1.6
Multiple copies and store them in a deposit box?

Like it’s not as complicated as people pretend heck encrypt it again so the wallet file cannot be profiled and store it on a cloud service.
> However, the Himeji Castle, which was built in Japan 700 years ago and still stands, employs a different strategy. It is not very hard to enter the structure. However, the castle is a maze. It is difficult for attackers to get to where they want to go, and it is not easy for them to get out. Moreover, the castle is full of traps and places where defenders can hide and attack.

Most western castles were built with similar design concepts, they just don't feature in our hollywoodized depictions of them.
You've got an awfully rosy view of American politics if you think any of the issues he mentioned aren't depressingly controversial. I'm not sure how you can remain so naive with Trump in the White House.

(Of course Feuerstein was awfully naive to think that all his readers would joyfully embrace this sort of thing. I'm not clear why he was surprised that controversial politics cause controversy. But that's tangential to your point.)
This really, really sucks. I have a business credit card that I have to update 20+ sites for every time there's a compromised card issue, and I'd really love to be able to use one card # for each business I work with. They were going to launch a business card in the future but apparently that is now scrapped.

Are there any alternatives out there for doing this?
If everyone pays less, where is the money coming from then?
That seems like an argument to introduce incentive systems against driving to work, not an argument to remove incentive systems against other things that kill.

(It doesn't have to be jail time: it could involve expanding public transit, or promoting urbanism over suburbanism, or introducing congestion charges, or regulating car ownership heavily, or lowering speed limits, or lots of other things.)
The gacha formats are very specific (e.g: how the probabilities are distributed).

In many countries it is required by law to specify to the user what is being purchased. Because of this, it is very easy to track / verify that one system is equivalent to a specific form of gacha.

Then, it is widely accepted that loot boxes are based on gacha. The Wikipedia article for loot box has more context in this regard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loot_box#History
I think it is worth pointing out that it is not exactly equivalent, in the sense that if you pay Steam via a payment channel (for simplicity, a one-directional payment channel, so they don't need to lock up any cryptocurrency themselves), they don't need to settle on-chain, but if they don't do so they cannot use the "money" the received from you to pay someone else (eg their lawyer).

In the very long term, if we get to a point where most people's and organization's income is roughly equal to their expenditure, then this won't be a problem, but until then there is still pressure to settle on-chain because of this.
We had a terminal to a PDP-11 70 in our middle school library in 1977 when I was 12. The terminal printed on green and white striped paper and no one at our school knew how to operate it until a friend and I began to play with it. I hand-typed games from this book: https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=c...

which eventually led to me writing my own programs.

The actual PDP 11 was located at a local college. After learning a bit more about the architecture, we two twelve-year-olds called the administrator and asked for root privileges. Sadly, he said, "No." :-)
Not taking property and mortgage interest into account, this tool is misleading at best! I just did my projections. This calculator shows our family will benefit slightly, when in fact our taxes will increase approx. 25K or 40% per year.
Oliver Schmidt, the person the current article is about, is a former engineer, now executive.

James Liang was previously convicted. He was an engineer working at the VW test center in LA. His group was directly working to keep CARB and the EPA from discovering the defeat device. My understanding is he was really a mid level engineer.

My source for this information is a book about the scandal and also the history of the VW/Audi engineering culture called "Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal". Its well worth the read.
I'm sure it will for some people. That said when I was 21, I was diagnosed and treated for stage 3 melanoma and I can assure you the drugs that I took during that year were not cheap. At this point, it's been more than a decade and I'm wonderfully healthy, but I'm considered a high-risk because of my past with cancer.

Now, there's a very valid moral question as to whether or not I'm entitled to have my healthcare subsidized by others in a pool and I'm fine having that conversation. From an economic point of view, I'm just shy of my mid-thirties with an advanced degree, been in the black with a self-funded business for the last 4-5 years, and have the potential to release products in the near future that could return millions in tax dollars. However, I may be robbed of that opportunity if I'm unable to purchase health insurance that covers cancer. Certainly, that's a frustrating proposition given that the only major misstep that I had was being unfortunate enough to become afflicted with a disease not under my control.

And, just in case someone is curious about high-risk pools, I actually currently carry insurance from one because the ACA marketplace in my state does not offer PPOs and I have one regular appointment out of state. Anyway, the coverage and cost of high-risk pools varied wildly from state to state. As an example, since I'm familiar with TX, prior to disbanding the pool, the law allowed high-risk individuals to purchase insurance at twice the prevailing rate from the pool. If I recall correctly, its pool used a PPO, which is no longer found on the exchange, so we'll use a gold plan EPO to approximate. In Harris county, the current premium for that rate is $429/month with an out of pocket max of $6350. If we went back to the old model of twice the prevailing rate, I'd have to budget $16,646/year, which isn't all that far off from what it used to be. Now, that's just TX and different states had different rules. In the state I'm currently in, the 2018 premium will be $514/month with a $5000 out of pocket max. And, to be clear, there is cheaper health insurance available, but my perspective of coverage and costs changed dramatically after my illness. Health insurance doesn't mean much if it doesn't cover the doctors you trust for a price you can afford.

Anyway, my point is that just because someone is in their 30's and healthy doesn't mean that their coverage will become cheaper or even attainable. Further, this has broad economic implications because it will quite simply force many of us out of the self-employed market because it's not responsible to carry an insurance plan that does not provide comprehensive coverage. This tax plan has been touted as helping small businesses, but it may end mine depending on what happens to the market in 2019.
PayPal? Is it this strange service based in USA (of all countries) which requires me to send them a utility bill? Seriously?
You're right, ANI.
Thanks. Again there's no explicit EV indicator being proposed in identify-on-first-POST: just a single UI with the highest amount of info known about the site's identiy. Re your examples:

1.

> This is the first time you've visited this site. The owner has been verified as some-company.com

"OK. Have I heard of these people before? The dash is a bit weird. Not bad, not good - which is reasonable for site that isn't telling me anything."

2.

> This is the first time you've visited this site. The owner has been verified as Other Company [United Kingdom]

"OK cool. I live in the UK and I know who is handling my data."

3.

> This is the first time you've visited this site. The owner has been verified as some-company.com-fake.uk

"Euw gross. I'm out of here."
NiceHash down due to hacked crypto money