skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If one's life is at all realistic, the statement that paper will be gone is laughable.

- Sent mail for something requiring physical proof and evidence of delivery like court related correspondence.

- Sent fax to financial institution demanding medallion signature; they have an app but didn't work.

- Not for a job but for applying for credit, had to send in identifying information via mail.

- Any tax situation that is slightly complicated involves forms not available for eFile, guess what, paper forms.

- Still get tax forms in mail, it's a paper trail that won't disappear in 1, 2, 7, or 10 years and then have to pay $25 to retrieve; plus long-term safe, secure storage of readable data is difficult.

- Not sure what the difference is here; photocopiers are scanners.

- Still use checks for rent because landlords don't care to be raped by processor fees.

- Hotel sends paper WSJ and USA Today every day.

- Physical books, especially textbooks, are everywhere since eReaders can't render math worth sh*t; nobody reads anything serious, e.g. academic literature on eReaders, so it's print and mark up.

Paper is far from dead since there is no replacement for some of these things or the replacement is worse or expensive.
It’s a happy medium until we can improve on the situation.
Transfers can be charged, and often are even within the same country. In Spain it is common to have "up to n monthly transfers for free, then you get charged x%".

Also, I've received wrong payments on a German account from French people many times, and they claim it's because their bank charges the transaction and I receive the sent amount minus fees, with no possibilities for them to specify otherwise (that's happened with dozens of different clients, so I'm very inclined to believe them).
> Between European bank accounts in the same country. Also, not every European country, unfortunately.

Currently there are 34 countries in the SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area

SEPA rules specify that you cannot charge more for transfers between different countries than you would for a local transfer.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/financial-pr...

"If the payment is in euros or Swedish krona, they should not charge you more than they would for a national transaction of the same value in euros.
https://medium.com/@chelsea.komlo/behind-every-serial-abuser... "I firmly believe that individuals (and organizations) who have committed mistakes should be forgiven if they truly understand the harm done and genuinely work to make things right for the future." You have failed to make a link from anything these people want to anything they could get by going to the police. "The second person involved in my assault has apologized and gone through a community justice process." So it's not bullshit.
Whilst I might agree that the GP post is a bit misleading it's still the truth. America has tens of thousands of little banks.

And yes, there were a few months of a bank failure a day. That still means only a very small minority of small banks really got into trouble.

It's also not very strange for little banks to, on occasion, get into trouble close and/or merge and/or get taken over. A normal level for the US would be about one per month. Europe is still at more than one per week, for the EU (and frankly it's going down because EU is running out of banks to fail, not because conditions are getting better).

That said, if you compared the odds of a small bank needing a bailout versus a big bank needing a bailout, you would in fact find that small banks didn't really need bailouts. They also never got them, needed or not, and everything was fine ... well, mostly. ALL of the big ones needed a bailout, and if they wouldn't have gotten them, ... well we won't know, will we. It would have been very, very bad for stocks, certainly.
The British 'firearms units' aren't trained to bring aggression to a situation. They're trained to properly identify targets before shooting, knowing that they will be required to justify their actions in court. Completely different to SWAT team training in the US. Here in the UK, an officer shooting someone dead as soon as they answer the door won't fly in court. The number of police killings in the UK vs US is relatively less controversial by a significant margin.
Can't have a conversation about trailers without mentioning James Carville's famous double-wammy.

"Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find."

With that one quote, he smeared one of the victims of Bill Clinton's predatory sexual attacks AND insulted low-income Americans.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Carville
Yeah, it's kind of weird. The positive things mentioned are definitely true, but some stuff that drove me batty in Italy:

* Your bank account is attached to a specific bank branch. Even after we moved across town, we always had to return there, like spawning salmon. Moving it seemed like we were asking them to give their children up for adoption.
* The hours they were open were bad even by Italian standards.
* Lots of little fees and things. Credit cards cost actual money to possess; compared to the US where you get money back if you use one sensibly.
Why work for a company that you wouldn’t like to work for for those 2 years rather than work for the company you want for the same time period and gain seniority?
I've never played Minecraft, and I had no idea you could do things like this. Add some VR and a few more plugins, and it's pretty much the Metaverse from Snow Crash.
Words have meanings. You can call it accidental homicide if you wish, but any killing of one person by another is homicide.
I've seen links like these on a variety of articles/blog posts. I hadn't considered it's possible abuse with voting rings: I've always thought of it a pointer to where discussion is held, kind of a proxy for self-hosted comments. I can see how it could be an issue, however.
Yeah, you're right. It's usually only people's pets that get killed. Or their kids that need to go to the ER with blown eardrums from flash bangs.

Just a "prank", for the most part... An entirely unforeseen circumstance and byproduct of merely trying to "inconvenience" the victim...
It’s interesting to watch the technology on TOS. You could interact with a computer by talking with it, but it had to sound like a computer, 300 years in the future:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NM4yEOdIHnc
Why I don't go Paperless..

1. Only My paper bank statements posted to me are correct.

My bank statements printed off from the internet and replacement ones posted out are incorrect.

The interest income earned is only shown on the correct dates on the original paper copies posted out, all the others the interest dates are shown in the incorrect month and thus don't match up what should be shown in my income tax return and don't agree with the interest summary by the bank.

2. Only my original posted Credit card statements are guaranteed correct.

I have had changes made by the bank IN PREVIOUS FINANCIAL YEARS!!!! on the online versions of my statements, such as changes to amounts paid!!!!

Without the original paper copies I could never argue my case.
Same. There was one time when I was forced to read it back to the phone operator. Awkward.
And if we don't (to a large, but not quite 100%, extent) we allow for a huge, huge vulnerability in our society. One that could cause it to fail, and has caused many catastrophic failures in the past.
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Online banking isn’t a serious attack vector for fraud, it’s just a faster-updating alternative to a paper monthly statement. 2FA is a silly red herring in these discussions. The problem is fundamentally the transaction model where you pull money from someone’s account simply by knowing some widely-shared secret numbers. These systems are sticky due to network effects. There’s no reason to sign up for an alternative to Visa/MC or ACH when your counterparties aren’t going to.
For context, ChromiumOS is already available on Google Cloud as their recommended Kubernetes host OS. Launching a new GCE instance gives me "Container-Optimized OS 63-10032.71.0 beta (ChromiumOS-4.4.86 Kubernetes: 1.7.8 Docker: 17.03.2)" among the other base images.
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Ah, too bad, that would be an awesome thing to put in a paper!
Mother's maiden name is one of the easiest. If she's on Facebook, odds are it's listed because that's how her high school friends knew her. Alternatively, if grandma & grandpa are listed, you can go there too.

I've been presenting on these flawed questions for years. In one of my demos, we take a volunteer from the audience and we see how many of the top 10 banking questions we can answer from their public Facebook & LinkedIn profiles. I've never gotten less than 4 or more than 8.. and - as an attacker - I'd take those odds.
Remember the part where only two bids were made for the job. It’s the same principle of having Comcast and DirectTV as your ISP choices. They can charge you whatever they want, and what are you going to do?
You're right, I should've included that from the get-go. Included one now, hope it helps :)
It is not, at least in 2017. Qt5 is great, specially with QrQuick, but you need to commit to C++ and that's a problem in itself. (No, the Python binding are unholy with restrictive license and poor docs)

Swing is on a whole other level of verbosity. For anything more complex, you actually need a GUI editor.

Need an actually good looking set of widgets or even simple customizations? You have way less options than what's available in CSS and have to resort to Graphics2d drawing.

And Maven sucks, use Gradle instead.
> bank charges the transaction and I receive the sent amount minus fees

Sounds like horrible UX -- how would people be able to pay their bills correctly if the sent value doesn't equal the received value?
Remind me again how Twitter's investors (the people who those profits are going to) are doing ?

Hmmm, the word "billionaire" seems to get thrown around a lot with those guys.

I'd say Twitter's profits are less of a problem than you think.
That's true in the abstract sense, but this article primarily deals with the weeks, days, and hours immediately preceding death.
Body cam video:

http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192229414.html

It appears that he was shot from across the street as he raised an arm. It sounded to me like an order was given to fire (or a voiced, mistaken observation, like "gun!"), rather than a purely organic reaction by the shooter to a specific provocation. In any event, it's unthinkable to me that an uncorroberated "threat" like this, at that distance and with no observable, immediate threat to others in the home, justified firing at that point.
Taxes in Oakland are increasing from 14.25% to 34.25%, and in San Jose they are increasing from 19.25% to the same 34.25%. [1]

Medical users with a county Medical Marijuana Information Card (MMIC) are only exempt from a portion of this, the 8.5% sales and use tax. [2]

To get an MMIC you first need a doctor's recommendation (typically $40/year). The maximum cost of an MMIC from the county is $100/year, or $50/year for Medi-Cal patients.

So to save the 8.5% sales tax, you need to visit a cannabis doctor, wait in line, and pay $40, then visit the county public health department, wait in line again, and pay as much as another $100.

If you are a heavy user, this could save you some money, but I have a feeling that most people in California who are currently medical users will simply drop the medical recommendation and buy under the new adult-use rules.

[1] https://www.shopharborside.com/adult-use-regs.html (expand the "new taxes" item)

[2] https://www.thegreencross.org/newsletter
It's hyperbole. Millions of citizens interact with police on a daily basis and don't get shot. That obviously doesn't excuse the cases where it occurs, but it's not like this happens on a significant number of calls.
Considering the worst case scenario when being swatted is ending up dead, I think giving them a heads up about fraud risk is sensible.

Speaking to cops without a lawyer is a bad idea in many cases, but this doesn't appear to be one of them.
I'm using ING DiBa in Germany and they lack a secure 2fa method. There are only two options available:

- SMS-TAN, which is vulnerable to SS7 hijacking and name spoofing.

- Index-TAN, aka the enumerated paper slip, which is only "pseudo two-factor": If you computer is pwned, it can ask you for the index matching the attacker's desired transaction.
Actually, Denmark filed claims onto part of Arctic offshore oil reserves, along with Canada, Norway, Russia, USA etc, all thanks to Greenland.
https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/ says Tesla 40812, GM 38699. That's with only 712 Model 3s sold. If the 3 ramps at all, it will not be close.

Edit: GM 38699. I initially missed the 179 CT6s, 21 Spark EVs, and 17 ELRs at the bottom of the table.
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Take the better offer (politely and professionally). It's just business not a play date.
Just because an approach isn't applicable in literally 100% of situations doesn't mean it isn't applicable in most everyday situations.
Can't you? There are lots of higher quality communities out there and if gaming ones were such it'd create pressure for people to improve or stay out. Right now, most gaming communities accept it because of the all-around "well all gaming communities are like this", which contains an implicit "and therefore it's OK and should not alarm you".

Pretty much all issues in life are systemic, this does not at all mean addressing them in a smaller area is ineffective. I'd say most people have a much better chance of addressing it in a smaller area than addressing the systemic problem. I don't see how I, as a gamer, can go modify how "young men" (assuming this generalization is correct) behave, but I can definitely discourage it in any gaming communities I'm a part of.

I don't think some other nice communities I'm in, if they followed the notion of "well, other communities are bad already and it's a systemic problem..." would have been successful.
True, and also some campiness helps video games.

Most AAA centers around killing ennemies and it is hard to write a good story around genocidal characters without an enormous ludo-narrative dissonance.
"Prank" is not the right word here.
So ya that's what all cardiologists thought. Many still think this. They may even be right. But we don't have EVIDENCE that this does anything to prevent death, heart attacks or even reduce chest pain.

To be clear though, they aren't talking about ACUTELY closed arteries as in a heart attack or myocardial infarction, when there is a plaque rupture and a blood thrombus that develops to cut off blood supply suddenly. But rather, when blood flow, which has been slowly narrowing over years, starts causing chest pain on physical exertion, when the heart muscle distal to the narrowing is asking for more oxygen than the artery can supply.

We put stents in a lot of these people, because we like to try to help them, but there isn't much evidence that it helps. It may help, but we haven't been able to prove it yet. Or it may help select people, but we don't know which people to select. But many will still keep getting these stents. Medicine is tricky.
You are surely referring to the last moments of their lives and not the journey from finding out they're going to die until that moment you are talking about. There's a lot of adrenaline and other chemicals being released in such situations. I had a friend pass out 1 second before hitting a pillar with the car (her boyfriend had to pull the wheel and crash into a dog house). The brain finds ways to protect you from pain and it often shuts down in such cases when there's no room to contemplate. I think the subconscious kicks in/takes over.

I was talking about the long wait many have to go through from finding out...to their final breath. From denial to acceptance might be a long road that scares me and I'm not sure if every bit of information can be beneficial or detrimental.
You're wrong and/or confused, it's certainly not illegal to refuse treatment in any free country as long as the patient has all their mental facilitates and there is no danger to public health. Nobody can force you to stay attached to a machine if you don't want to be.

In fact, preforming medical treatment against someone's expressed will is assult or battery and could land the doctor in prison.

I think you're confusing voluntarily withdrawing of life sustaining treatment with physician assisted suicide, they are nowhere near the same thing.
Inefficienct, overpriced US, Exhibit A: The Healthcare System.
But can't you say that about any simulated attack routine? Or is this a special case in your mind because 911 is a service typically run by the state?

If it's the latter, then I want to suggest that this is a strong indicator that emergency services are better built in a manner where the state is unable to substantially influence their particulars.
There's a collection of c-exposed values called the api stack (not to be confused with the function stack). The stack keeps them from being collected, so there's no need for ref counting. OP writes about this.

OP doesn't write much about the GC itself, but I can tell you a little from my dayjob-using-lua experience. It's mark'n'sweep, but (i) it's narrowly tailored for lua tables, not general purpose allocations, and (ii) it's incremental, so you can cap individual pause times and amortise (imp for games).
What does "seniority" buy you as a software developer? I stayed at one company for 9 years and between bonuses being cut and 3% raises my pay at year 9 was only 8K more than year 2. Over the next 9 years and 4 companies, I'm making $70k more. This isn't anecdotal:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2014/06/22/employees...

There is a term for it "pay compression"

https://definitions.uslegal.com/p/pay-compression/
That would definitely be more ideal than a simple phone call but I still can't imagine a police officer / police department finding it anything more than odd which would set off all sorts of red flags.
> when it's really occurring, and isn't just some troll

I don't know how often hostage scenarios as extreme as you describe actually occur in the USA, but I read about instances of 'swatting' constantly. Given the false-positive rate of such reports, it's no surprise that sending military-style squads to 'shoot on sight' ends in tragedy again and again.
I think it's only fair for law abiding citizens to expect to survive an encounter with the police. If a police officer is going to bring a gun to a situation where one is not needed, then the onus should be on them to accept more risk of death than is expected of a law-abiding citizen. Generally speaking, they're paid to do a job, and that job unfortunately currently involves the risk of death in the line of duty. That risk cannot be reduced at the expense of innocent people dying needlessly 'just because' an office might be shot. There are many jobs a person can do if they're not up to the dangerous environment some police depts have to work in.
Another thing I am surprised no one mentioned yet is mothers who didn't change their last name after marrying.
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In the heat of the moment (police suddenly getting a dispatch for a murder / hostage situation at a local residence) I hardly believe anyone involved is going to have the time to thumb through notes like that. Maybe in a really small rural community but I can't imagine there would be much chance of things going properly in any sort of larger municipality or city.
ING DiBa offers banking apps for both iOS and Android, which can also serve as 2FA for online banking via the browser. The main banking app itself isn't all that good but the 2FA feature works fine.
Interesting. Is this a recent change? I paid £10 for transfer from Lloyds 5y ago.
> pointless busywork just to secure the blockchain

Well if it's securing the blockchain it can't be that pointless.

Some good arguments here for why "useless" proof-of-work is actually quite useful: http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/
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If companies don't want good developers to jump ship, it's simple. Pay them market value and keep paying them market value not 2-3% wages when they know if the employee leaves, they are going to have to pay market value and they are going to lose the person with institutional knowledge.
(and not called wiring, not sure what in english though)

Giro is I think the standard English term for this although it is rarely used because it is a push system while (particularly in North America) banking systems in the Anglophone world typically use cheques which are pull based.

Even coming from Canada, I was rather surprised at how ancient the US banking system is. Like it was stuck in the 80s for 2-3 decades. They are only now rolling out chip cards and frequently it is chip and sign rather than chip and PIN.
Hey. One of my all-time favourites :)

And it's a great point- but still, we have more chances with some sort of plan to defend ourselves than without.
> the threshold for the use of lethal force

That isn't the problem (at least primarily). Claiming that there is a serious hostage situation with the possibility of serious violence (perhaps even a potential murder) seriously escalates the risk and hostility of the situation. I didn't say potential hostility; the claim itself directly increases the perceived threat level of the situation, even if it isn't credible. A team of people responding en masse with weapons[1] at the ready further escalates the tension of the situation and the hostility of the room, even if their weapons are never used.

The end result is a very tense situation with everyone - on all sides - ready to jump at anything that might be a threat. Fortunately there is at least some evidence[2] that in "most" swattings, cooler heads eventually prevail and nobody gets shot. However, evaluating potential threats is always going to use the faster but less accurate "System 1"[3][4]. The higher the tension level, the greater chance that someone's mind will make a serious mistake, which can easily result in a cascade of everyone recursively responding in ways that probably compound the mistake, which is when people tend to get shot/stabbed/beaten/whatever.

The solution is that there needs to respond to situations that are less likely to escalate the situation to greater levels of hostility. Once it turns into a "charlie foxtrot"[5], it's too late. However, if a streamer's prior notification to the police that, should any threat be called in regarding their address, if the police pound on the door, they can expect the stream to walk outside peacefully to talk, maybe the dangerous escalation where they breaking down the door and pointing guns at everyone can be avoided. They can always fall back to that strategy if nobody comes out to talk.

edit: added [2]'s missing footnote and URL

[1] of any type - a bunch of people storming a room armed only with batons is still an escalation of violence.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiW-BVPCbZk

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow#Two_sy...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBVV8pch1dM

[5] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Charlie_Foxtrot
Computer tech for an MSP here, sometimes I'll call clients from my mobile with the number blocked so they don't have any opportunity to call me on my own time for "just some really quick help with this small problem". That's my use case for blocking caller id.
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