skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I give the bank a fairly obvious fake last name they could spell without asking me, since it's famously attached to a bumpkin. I get a lot of strange looks for that one. I can barely remember how to spell my mother's maiden name since it wasn't anglicized.

Interesting to note that overseas support really struggle with a lot of these security questions. So many are central to the Western world and they can't seem to spell it at all because they aren't familiar with our culture.

I never once felt like those security questions are secure at all. Some are just horrible, especially the maiden name one and birth city. Granted, the password manager works well for technical people, but it doesn't work for non techs or anyone who's had a bank account for more than ten years or so.
ICE garbage trucks brake all the time. They get up to speed, go a very short distance, and then put on the brakes so they can make their next pickup. There is no way they can let off the throttle and glide to a stop in time. Nothing is more stop-and-go than a garbage truck in a city.
Actually going inside seems like it should be the last resort

and they did not go inside to shoot the victim.
I think death can never be prevented. Just made less probable. Or forestalled. Even the universe dies at some point and I don't see anything outliving that.
Sending armed officers to someone's house under the pretense that the resident is an armed threat does not result in 'inconvenience.' Inconvenience is a hundred pizza guys being sent to your house delivering stuff you didn't order.

This may be the first death as the direct result of a prank call, but it is far from the first accidental death as the result of a swat team being deployed.

If inconvenience were truly the goal, a prank call to child services that launches an investigation would work much better. But that's not the outcome the caller actually wants to see happen.
Anybody have favorite sites for music discovery? Soundcloud any good? Reddit? Blogs? NPR Tiny Desk?

Years ago, I used to use the "similar" feature in Rhapsody and found some music that way, not sure what people use today.
> does he lose all his rights?

You've just created a pure strawman. Cops should never lose their rights! I am not making such an argument, and I don't see how you got there from my points. I would never argue such a claim.

The cases I'm talking about are not self-defense. They are like the story above. If A murders B, and A is a cop, then A should go to jail regardless of the fear A had in that situation. But this is not what happens in the United States. Cops don't go to jail for shooting perfectly innocent people because the cop can claim they were afraid for their life and thought that B had a gun.

If I'm a civilian, that defense doesn't fly. But if you're a cop, then it does work. That is a flaw in our justice system that needs to be corrected because a perfectly innocent man can be killed by the state and no repercussions are felt.

The state should never be able to kill an innocent man. If they are shooting at you, they aren't innocent. But if you think they have a gun (especially in an open-carry state like Kansas or Texas) then they are innocent and should not be killed.

EDIT: I am saddened by the downvotes. Does the state have the right to kill innocent people if those people own a gun? Doesn't the second amendment protect against this? I simply do not see the legitimate argument for allowing such behavior. This just seems like rabid tribalism for police.
Are these notes available as part of a freedom of information act request? Because one should be able to have written verifications these notes exist for when the inevitable breakdown in communication occurs and the note is not passed along to first responders on the scene.
The *use* of lethal force was the mistake here, but the *presence* of force was justifiable.

That is very well put.
> Denmark uses Greenland for fishing, it is really important for them for eating. This is basic strategic decision. Food is a priority over anything else.

No, the need to eat in no way represents the strategic importance of Greenland to Denmark. The article also makes this pretty clear: Greenland is a net cost to Denmark. Judging from your comment it sounds like people in Denmark are starving, and that's not the case at all. I doubt fishing in Greenland contributes in any significant way to Denmark's economy, but feel free to share any references to prove that point. I don't think any revenues generated by this activity would get close to Denmark's annual block grant to Greenland.

> Another thing, Greenland is part of Europe, which is industrialized and needs raw materials. Selling to the US would have meant making Europe even smaller and weaker, and making the US even stronger.

That might be true in the sense that there's a close cultural and political association between Europe and Greenland, but technically Greenland is part of the North American continent. In any case, the US <> Europe geopolitical consequences of such a transaction did not play a significant role in the decision not to sell.
I don’t think we disagree. There’s plenty of tastemakers, just an overwhelming amount of noise to cut through.
There was a huge scandal in the last year with more than a few Chinese car companies taking advantage of EV subsidies with bogus projects, so they basically had to do a reset on their plans with the quota instead.

https://apnews.com/466f3f8a95594e6287af9a806c2ebf29

https://www.theicct.org/blogs/staff/subsidy-fraud-reforms-ch...

BYD has done well enough, I've ridden in an E5 taxi more than a few times. This and the Model S were the only electric passenger cars I saw in Beijing circa late 2016.
People should not rely on that to any degree more than they would rely on colocated processes on a VM being isolated. The easiest way to be safe is to assume that all containers are already broken out of - what would you do then? Make sure processes are running as non-root, use various protection layers (pick your poison - SELinux, gresecurity, etc.), take away capabilities, and don't run workloads you don't trust.
Agents, jet, Quantico? No.

Collect some evidence? Absolutely.
“Nigerian Prince” email scammer arrested in Slidell
Selling bitcoin and cashing out are two different things.

The exchanges will happily let you deposit, buy, and sell, but when you want that wire transfer there are magically a bunch of hurdles to jump. BTC market cap is currently $233,616,547,500. The total USD held by reputable exchanges is probably in the low hundreds of millions.
Complexity Explorables
I was thinking of the latency of updating the caches. Presumedly you just batch the updates?
Ask HN: Experience using Cloud HQ? Is it safe?
I'm looking at some cloud synching solutions and came across a company called Cloud HQ. Their products look great. Does anyone have any experience with them? Are they safe?

I'm interested in two particular products:

1. Chrome Extension to sync emails to salesforce

2. Backup dropbox to Amazon Glacier.

Does anyone have any other companies/products to consider for these capabilities?
Where I live, the trash collection trucks have a hydralic mechanism on the side that grabs a trash can, pulls it up, and dumps it over the top. And to to do that, it comes to a full stop.

The system you are describing sounds dangerous and uses far too much labor. Maybe your city has a trash collectors union with too much power.
...or whose mothers never married at all... Or people who don't even have mothers at all.

The assumption is also that your mother's maiden name is different from your own name. Which is a very questionable assumption.

We certainly show our cultural biases when coming up with these questions.
Well, the exploited code used unsafe interfaces in unsafe manner. It is effectively equivalent to calling something like reinterpret_cast<T*>(user_ptr.get()) to bypass the safety provided by the compiler. How do you avoid that with C++ alone? I guess you will need some external static analyzer. Linux kernel does have one: Sparse. IIRC, it can report casting out __user declarations from pointers.

As for stubbornness, C can be used safely with proper discipline. Kernel development does require a certain amount of experience and discipline, so arguably C can be used by kernel developers in mostly safe manner. That's why some view it as a feature: if you don't have the required discipline then just stick to userspace development.
That may work in cases of online password resets, but I believe it has been demonstrated that they are not great for social engineering reasons. A hacker can just say, "oh I just mashed the keyboard for that" or worse, the agent thinks it is an error or glitch and let's the hacker in.

I think best to use a real, but different last name on all your sites.
Junking an older car with a newer electric car won't decrease your carbon footprint but increase it. But if you are in the market to buy a car going electric or hybrid should be the way to go. Obama fuel efficiency rules were good but didn't go far enough by now car manufacturer should not be allowed to sell non hybrid fuel cars at all.
A fence only matters if you have a guard on patrol and that easily offsets the electricity cost.
I'm similar to the poster you were replying to. I think there are two big reasons I use paper. 1) is that I can very quickly format.my notes however I want, draw diagrams and pictures quickly, there's just no restrictions as opposed to using a text editor or notetaking program. 2) is that when I write things by hand I tend to remember them better, and have an easier time understanding concepts when I sketch them out by hand. I really wish I could replace paper with a suitable program, but so far I haven't found it.
This works great until you call your bank for some reason and they ask you for your moms maiden name. Urgh, it sucks.
Not yet, but a full game is the plan.
The economics in Europe are very different from the USA. In the US, the retailer would bite the electricity/infrastructure cost to drive traffic to their stores. In the UK, they wouldn't do that...heck, why would they even provide free parking? Instead, there would be a charge for everything, and it wouldn't be cheap (because nothing is). The same with scoring an off street parking spot, you are probably going to pay a lot for that already...
I completely agree, and I wanted to add that the paragraph where the author suggests that money is 60X more valuable to Denmark doesn't make a lot of sense... Last time I checked, 1 USD was worth exactly 1 USD, exchange fees notwithstanding.
A wire transfer(IBAN/BIC transfer) is different from an ACH transfer.

ACH(EFTS in EU) in the US is generally free, but has a delay for clearing and has some mechanisms for reversal. This is primarily a digital check, and can be initiated by the receiver in that way.

A wire transfer is nearly immediate by comparison and offers almost no option for reversal. This option does usually have a fee and is generally reserved for large purchase transfers and emergency situations were verification of receipt is required. Such as buying a house. These transfers are processed via Fedwire inside the US and SWIFT out.

The guideline in the EU is that interstate can not cost more than intrastate, so most went to 0.
Another victim of swatting, John Crawford [0], because I’m getting tired of the media saying this has been the first victim.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_John_Crawford_II...
Making a Gameboy emulator was one of my favorite and most instructive personal projects.

It's worth noting that there was actual extra hardware built into the carts, so you need to implement certain features like extra RAM based on the cart ID in the ROM file.
I'm impressed! Very clean code. I had no idea a Game Boy emulator could be expressed so simply. Thanks for sharing this, sacert.
Perversely, initiating an ACH credit is apparently seen as more risky than receiving an ACH debit. I believe this is ultimately due to the originator being responsible for any transaction that turns out to be fraudulent.

In general I think the US is comfortable to limp along putting band-aids on broken systems, because the failings are seen as being intrinsic to the "natural state" of things (see also: common law and court precedent reigning), and the losses are ultimately sustainable. The possibility of a fraudulent transaction can never be eliminated, so therefore it's whatever party facilitates/blesses the transaction that fully bears the responsibility. Meanwhile the EU doesn't seem afraid to create new foundational semantics - eg get rid of the concept of "pulling" money, and then dictate that banks cannot charge customers for the equivalent of initiating an ACH push [0].

[0] Bank of America actually charges for this. They also charge for walk-in cashing of checks drawn on themselves - meaning they are inducing their own customers to write fraudulent checks!
I’m sure there’s plenty of market manipulation but this is definitely more conspiracy theory than fact. I highly doubt Coinbase as a company was trying to insider trade on Bitcoin Cash with predatory bots to pump the price. They make enough money off all their fees, and they already have more users than Charles Schwab; they’re not some shady exchange based off-shore.
Does it really matter which synonym is used? They cite a 1992 PLDI paper that uses the term "replication". The term "tail duplication" is pretty well established from the VLIW compiler literate that tries to form longer traces of code for scheduling purposes. They probably already had a pass in HotSpot that used similar terminology for that reason.
My First 10 Minutes on a Server (2016)
You're both right. While it's extremely unlikely that OP would have any kind of injury at the hands of police in the U.S. (just like in any other country), it is not a secret that the U.S. suffers from an exceedingly disproportionate likelihood of dying at the hands of both fellow citizens and police.

It's hard to overstate how completely alone the United States stands when the stats are compacted: [0]

Australia had 94 fatal police shootings between 1992 and 2011. The U.S. had 97 in March of 2015.

England and Wales had 55 fatal police shootings in the last 24 years. The U.S. had 59 in the first 24 days of 2015.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/the-counted-...
I'm sure, ATM at least, that Greenland is costing Denmark money every year more than it is bringing through in any taxes. Perhaps it will eventually turn out to be another Alaska, but the economics aren't that simple.
Ok I will engage in this conversation.

First let me look up the author. Let me also just say that I have nothing against this author. I respect his entrepreneurial spirit and I believe he has a great future. But I deeply believe this sales page here is just plain wrong https://www.effectiveengineer.com/book and I strongly feel that experienced people like myself have to speak up when situation calls for it. It is fundamentally sleazy thing to do to other younger minds seeking proper guidance in the tech valley.

Authors resume

https://angel.co/edmondlau

First things I noticed. This person has not stayed at any company for more than 3 years. No strong engineering role titles like architecture or design or scaling roles. Mostly soft engineering roles like testing and growth hacking. as a 30 year experienced person like yourself ask yourself. What kind of serious engineering product can one build in that time period at a company with that roles and how many? In many respectable companies I worked for, a person with this experience level cannot even hire/fire people, interviewing someone is not same as hiring.

Next look at the the github profile vs quora profile.

https://github.com/edmondlau

https://www.quora.com/profile/Edmond-Lau

You can notice, this person is more of a content writer compared to code writer. What sort of engineering skills and expertise do you notice about the author that makes him write a sales page like this?.

https://www.effectiveengineer.com/book

Just like how I said it before, this is an effective nonsense garbage content marketing. The author has no qualifications to be writing a book on effective engineering. It is an insult to people who do actual engineering.

This person is milking his past job experience role at brand name companies to an irresponsible extent. This is not illegal but a very sleazy thing to do.

To people who really care about this topic, please get a good mentor in and around your workplace. Just do not fall for this click baits and gossip about tech companies does not make you effective anything. Engineering skill takes a lot of practice and patience, I am afraid there are no secrets and shortcuts.
> I don't know how often hostage scenarios as extreme as you describe actually occur in the USA

Often. Mostly domestic violence barricading scenarios, which are usually handled by front-line officers with sidearms and negotiation. SWAT deployment is usually discretionary at such a scene, predicated on an active shooter, and anticipates forced entry. In an active shooter scenario, front-line officers will typically defer to SWAT to force entry, given the risk.

But yes, it does happen. A lot of domestic violence ends badly.
I agree with his advice and not yours. Good candidates are a good reason to hire. Overworked is a good reason to reexamine priorities.
That's very interesting! I hope it signals the start ofa trend.
It should be obvious that the fact that IQ score correlates with success doesn't mean it measures genetic intelligence.
Curious why this comment would be downvoted — if you have a response, or evidence in support/against what I mentioned, feel free to share. We don't downvote whenever we disagree; this is used to indicate that someone is not productively adding to the conversation.
I also generate them with a password manager. FWIW, I always start with “it’s a long gibberish string” and no one has ever been satisfied with that. I’ve always had to recite it. Anecdotal I know.
Bootstrap Marketing (2011)
> None of the banks I have accounts with ever gave me a chequebook.

We have to request them and pay a small fee for them. They aren’t typically issued when you open the account. You just receive a debit card.

Exceptions may exist. This is only my experience.
> For example if a million people move there over 50 years, perhaps seeking isolation or lower population density vs mainland Europe.

Or you know, if global warming turns it into a...green land.
Blender does the same thing. Every executed command get added to the info log as regular python snippets that can be copy/pasted into a script or the python console if/when you need to automate something that you have just done via the GUI.
You should watch this video of an EMP's decision to start telling people the truth (i.e. that they're dying):
https://www.ted.com/talks/matthew_o_reilly_am_i_dying_the_ho...
I mean you could ask your neighborhood search engine.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-10-13/irs-audit...
Paper cheques do exist in Germany.
Great! The CPU.c code is quite instructive since I'm writing a toy VM in my free time. Starring this :)
Wow... just... wow. That sounds horrible and I can't imagine having to go through that. No, I haven't lived that and in my case the medical staff (nurses specially, but even normal hospital staff) always went above and beyond their duty.

Do you mind if I ask what country was this in? It might be because I'm specially sensitive, but any system that allows that to happen to terminal patients and their families is definitely broken.
My First 5 Minutes on a Server (2013)
Artists were still expected to be self-promoters back in the pre-Internet era. I'd suggest, with only a few exceptions, the artists that got signed were the ones that knew how to play the game of self-promotion. There were artists that bucked this trend (Nick Drake springs to mind first, and I'm sure there were others), but for the most part the act of getting signed required some level of hustle. If you don't believe me, how many 20th century music artists can you think of that didn't have a distinctive appearance?

As for developing talent, we may have lost the multi-album development deals that allowed artists to take risks whilst still being supported financially, but the development of artists doesn't have to be confined to music studios. Artists get real-time feedback on their music when they play live, and they can still make a living doing so.

The last point I'd like to make is that the services labels used to offer are still available, and there's greater flexibility for the artist when it comes to picking and choosing which services to use. Want someone else to handle distribution? It can be done. Want someone else to handle promotion? That's possible too. Want to hire a studio and a music producer and an engineer? All fine if you've got the money. Previously, if signed to a major label (some indie labels had different business models), you gave up your song rights and part of your creative control in order to secure a loan to make an album, a loan which you'd then be obligated to work off. Nowadays you have no obligation to go into debt in order to release music, it's completely up to the artists to choose how much they engage with the labels.
The person you replied to did not explain why not to rent concrete slabs, and so did not raise the point you're pretending it raised.

In general, it's unwise to agree with those who shroud their violence-fantasies in truisms. Also, since english is not that person's first language.
Greenland is very useful and have both oil and is an important strategic point.
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I use diceware-type passphrases (a bunch of entirely random real words) for security questions for this reason. Bit weird to say "I was born in 'correct horse battery stapler'" but it doesn't seem to bother banking phone reps much.
parent didn't say s/he wouldn't want to work for Netflix. just sayin'
Indeed. One of the big caveats of quantum computing is that the results are usually probabilistic. This is doubly true for today's noisy qubits.
I'm confused, "first day"? Wont you start in only a month?

Pretend everything is ok and announce you are quitting just on the first day, that would be unprofessional.

Confirm and sign with the other company and inform that you will refuse the offer of the first one as soon as you have this confirmation. That's professional.
For complex ebooks tablets are good to use. Similar for comics, which might be the main reason many students have them in the first place.
Do most websites have call centres where you can try to trick agents? Also, how gullible are call centre agents at financial institutions? If they're really giving out access to random people claiming to have forgotten the security answer, it's pretty clear-cut the bank should be on the hook for damages if money gets stolen. Nothing like the prospect of having to pay out damages for gullible call centre agents to motivate training agents to be smarter.
> Imagine the hash rate of the BTC network going towards some useful calculations.

https://curecoin.net

"""
CureCoin Reaches #1 Ranking on Folding@home

As of the afternoon of August 29, 2017 (Eastern Time), the Curecoin Team 224497 earned the world's #1 rank on Stanford's Folding@home - a protein folding simulation Distributed Computing Network (DCN). In a little over 3 years, the team (including our merge-folding partners at Foldingcoin) collectively produced 160 billion points worth of molecular computations to support research in the areas of cancer, Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's, Infectious Disease as well as helping scientists uncover new molecular dynamics through groundbreaking computational techniques.
"""
Then use a passphrase with no spaces.
I'm having a hard time conceiving of a radical alternative, and it's not because I was previously invested in a Leninist model. But if you run across any (even in theory) I'd be delighted to hear about them.