skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because GA has no challenge nor authentication to dump your TOTPs.

Define "dump". GA won't challenge you to display the one-time TOTP code, no. It would be incumbent upon you to lock your device. But as far as dumping those codes out into a state such that a malicious actor could then take them and import them onto another device, no, that is not easily doable. As the distant parent noted, Google Authenticator stores the stuff in an encrypted sqlite database that is not extractable without root access. I don't think even run-of-the-mill adb debug commands can get it out.
Richard Hamming did a neat lecture on N-Dimensional Space, in the context of engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU_Q2a0S0zI
Should the government also ban the possibility of ad-supported websites? Technology costs money and if there is a way to subsidize or remove the cost faced by consumers that isn't always a bad thing.

Transparency of "this is how we are able to provide you a free app/service" could be improved, though.
what's the point of this when there's clearly prior art[1] by almost a decade? to patent-troll and stifle competition? i doubt it would work for them; it'll only take 1 bitcoin millionaire/billionaire philanthropist (see pineapple fund) to shut them town.

[1] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
iOS (as of version 11) gives you an option to force "Only while using the app" access for location services.

The change was probably triggered by Uber's creepy "we're going to track you for several minutes after you get out of the car" thing last year. Generated a lot of media attention and Uber has since stopped doing it.

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/06/07/ios-11-restrict-locatio...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/29/547113818...
I feel like the author is mixing together some important differences between 401ks and pensions.

------ Pensions:

- "Your" money and everyone else's money is lumped into a single pool. If previous retirees were given too much money because of poor planning, "your" money will evaporate

- Your future benefits are fixed, regardless of market conditions. Unless the pension can't afford to do so because of a market crash, and declares bankruptcy. In which case, anyone left holding the bag will be screwed

- Zero financial literacy/discipline required. Your contributions are pre-determined, and the pension managers will take care of all investment decisions

------ 401ks:

- Your 401k is 100% yours. There is no risk of your 401k account "going bankrupt" because too much of it was given to others.

- Your future benefits are dependent on market conditions - unless you choose to buy an annuity.

- Financial literacy and discipline is required. If you don't contribute enough, or make bad investment choices, you're screwed

-----------------

The article completely ignores the 1st and 2nd differences, which is why many people like myself are uneasy with pensions. The 3rd point is what the article mostly focuses on, and that's a valid point. I'd love to see "full-service" 401k plans, where employees are forced to contribute at least X% of their income, and all of it is managed by the equivalent of a pension-fund-manager (ideally, invested into low-cost diversified index funds)

Too many people lack the financial discipline to make sufficient contributions, and the financial literacy to make good investment decisions. So full-service 401ks as described above, could be a net positive for society, without all the baggage that come with pension funds.
Takeaway from this Libertarian website article is: Government handouts are bad because people in India (reportedly) feed granny to tigers in nature preserve and then move body to field just to claim compensation from government for tiger attack.
Because I was still naive. Because I bought into a narrative I no longer buy into. (Note to the reader: Which narrative do you think I buy into right now? Your answer is data on your biases.)
interesting. Not one single shred of evidence (that I could see) that an iPhone caused any of this. No fire department or arson investigator report or anything, which is standard practice, at least here. Nothing like that whatsoever. Just a bunch of baseless claims and someone asking for nearly $1,000,000.

This whole thing sounds really fishy.
Ever heard of Hollywood accounting?
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> I may express here a crucial point, LIFETIMES ARE HARD TO DEAL WITH, so try to not use them to often.

While this can be true, you are always dealing with them if you have a reference to something. Sometimes the compiler will elide them for you but other times you need to explicitly write them. The code snippets in this blog need lifetime annotations for example.
What about the requests that are processed by a core that's doing a GC? Wouldn't that cause a higher P99 latency exactly as you'd expect?

Spending 2.5% of cycles on GC doesn't mean those cycles are perfectly distributed. The distribution of GC work onto cores is bound to have some cores doing more work than others, which would (I would think) manifest itself as some requests that land on an unlucky core getting more latency. Isn't it totally expected that this would cause a P99 latency spike?
> What we need is for supplemental annuities (above SS amounts) to be offered by the federal government at cost

The U.S. government already sells 30-year Treasuries and savings bonds [1]. Spinning up a new government program is complicated. Just authorize the issuance of 50, 70 and 90-year Treasuries.

[1] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_eebonds_g...
To appease shareholders.
Cassandra uses G1GC by default.

If it was as simple as tweaking a few GC settings to get 10x improvement pretty sure Datastax would've done it by now.
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A monthly subscription cost for "unlimited" movies priced lower than the price of a single movie?

Mind you, my mum wouldn't understand that at that point she's the product. However, the ol' "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" is something everyone should know.

I don't agree with MoviePass' approach - which is the reason I haven't subscribed - but unless it's blatantly illegal I think it's safe to presume they'll do anything to make a buck.

MoviePass is too good to be true. Let's not be naive. Let's cut back on the fake outrage.
I'm thrilled to see pinball making a resurgence in popularity, especially among a younger millennial crowd. The side effect is that my project games are way, way more expensive and hard to find now, but I'm still pleased to see people interested in something I thought was dead and gone after Williams closed in 1999.
Yes. Look for "Support for Decentralization Protocols":

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/01/26/extensions-firefo...
> Bonus point? No complicated tax reporting. No tax avoidance or evasion. Everything is simple.

In many countries, VAT fraud is actually the biggest, and it is literally stealing money from government. In Poland, it is estimated to be in billions of dollars a year. Go read about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_trader_fraud
OP did say, “speaking about math...”. The operations on polynomials and dealing with polynomials doesn’t have anything to do with units of measurement. It may be the case that when used in some areas and in some contexts that the units matter but I think it clouds issues to bring them up.

The intuition for operating with polynomials is best obtained by not worrying about units.
OK, so I get that the first "LiveCD" was Adam Richter's Yggdrasil. Maybe it was a brand, but Yggdrasil has been dead for over 20 years. And I had never heard of it before now.

Maybe I was innately more susceptible to advertising than most. And maybe that's why I've developed such extreme defense mechanisms.

Even before the Internet, I routinely ripped ads out of magazines, before reading them. Or added sarcastic commentary to ones with article copy on the back. And I remove logos from clothing and such.
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> There is a notion that Googles usefulness has made it a utility.

This is a fantastic argument against Silicon Valley - that the institutions that it created have too much power.

However, that is not the argument being made in this subthread. Having this argument requires consideration of the institutions that it replaced, and whether or not the concentration of so much market influence in a corporation is a good thing. That's the problem at hand, not the particular politics of such a corporation.

> YouTube is targeting conservative ideas. The Sandy Hook conspiracy theories are perhaps an example of good censorship. At which point in the future will Google censor the next genocide?

I am of the understanding that the problem Sandy Hook conspiracies is not their content, but their presentation - my understanding is that they libel, and accuse victims of the shooting of conspiracy and murder. This is, by many definitions, harassment, and is against the TOS.

> The article I linked about Nazis are to explain the idea that censoring bad things can sometimes backfire.

If we really want to go down that tangent, may I remind you that this strategy of dealing with Nazis backfired spectacularly in 1933? We allowed them to speak, and big surprise, that did not stop them from suppressing the speech of their opposition, as soon as they seized power. Not that anything else could be expected from a movement that is built on no foundation but violence.

Tolerance is not a suicide pact. [1]

[1] https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1...
> We all knew the $10 a month plan was not going to be profitably by itself.

How is this kind of "growth hack" not simply dumping[1]? The only new development here is that dumping is no longer limited to large companies with large war chests thanks to the availability of venture capital.

The more interesting question is can healthy, truly profitable technology companies develop in an environment where they have to compete with startups that are ready and willing to undercut them by losing tons of investor money. I don't think the current status quo is good for the long term health of the valley.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
No explanation yet as to the cause, other than to say via Twitter: "The outage was not caused by a DDoS or any other type of attack."

https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/970781128331214849
a lunch sandwich meal can be had in chicago for ~10-12
Social security is fine, but there's no way to over-contribute to intentionally up your benefit. In fact it's sort of the opposite -- the more you contribute, the lower your marginal returns. If the US government allowed voluntary SS contributions that paid out on a fiscally responsible schedule that might be a good solution. But I'm not sure it would be a better one than just letting private companies implement them.
Agreed. Seems like an app for common sense would make a couple gazillion and then some.
> but if I can do it voluntarily

The catch here is that no customers of theirs were given a chance to do so voluntarily. They purposefully misled customers so even though it's nice you don't care, others who do fell into the trap. That's fucked up.
Regardless of how tiny or slimy the little guy is, or how much they "punch up" at their mainstream competition -- isn't "punching down" effectively stooping to their level? You're either admitting you also engage in activism, or you're admitting to hard knock competitive practices.

I did not mean to imply it was illegal, or even immoral. But their sharing the same industry is facet of the story that many commenters seem to be glossing over.
At this point you should really be looking into Google's Puppeteer - https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer

One of the most active browser automation libs out there and it's just a pure joy to use =)
not sure about Android, but on iOS you can customize which apps have access to location data all the time (eg google maps) and which ones have it only while using (eg moviepass).

So if you open the app only to check-in in the theater, they shouldn't be able to access your whereabouts before/after that.
Not sure I get your point. This is how accounting works, you need to allocate the actual costs of creating and operating a business.

And this isn't any special for tech. Tech companies are not asking for special treatment, they are currently treated like any other company in accounting terms. Governments are trying to treat them in a special way.

If you have a company that makes a chair in France for $20, ships it to Spain (let's day for free) and sells it in Spain for $0, how much profit did this company generate in each country?

This is exactly the same accounting as the tech companies, but their services have a very high fixed cost and a null variable cost, while the chair maker is the opposite.
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> or you use special pattern rules

I used make for years before I understood pattern rules, even though they're pretty simple. I kept trying to use foreach loops all over the place. If you're using foreach loops, check whether a pattern rule can do the job.

> The popular clamour is that the autovars are too short & confusing.

I finally realized, after years of using make and then learning pattern rules, that the three autovars listed here are visual mnemonics. $@ looks like a target, a ring with a bullseye. $< is pointing left, so it's the first prereq. $^ is like a horizontal bracket that groups all prereqs.
> The "well I guess we gotta replace this with a C++ solution" sentiment smacks of poor software engineering practice, despite the results.

On the flip side, recognizing when you are not efficiently using your time to solve a problem with the current approach and deciding to switch to another one is what I would consider a vital part of good software engineering, and also one of the hardest things to become good at without a lot of experience.

I'm not sure that's the case here, but I don't doubt it's possible they could easily have wasted more time testing and tweaking Java than it took to implement this solution. Whether that's how it would have (or possible even did to a degree) played out is an open question.
Where do you get that? SAP's 2017 financial statement says the company paid 970 million euros in income tax on a profit of about 5 billion €:

https://www.sap.com/integrated-reports/2017/en/primary-conso...
This isn't a patent of bitcoin. It is an attempt to patent a new transaction scheme. Something similar to block-chain but with different mechanisms. They even mention in the application that virtual currencies already exist as prior art.
There was a notice buried in the TOS that they could restrict movies but the marketing material and press they did when they switched to $10 plans was that any regularly priced 2D movie at participating theaters was allowed. This week they started actively blocking certain new movies like Red Sparrow and Death Wish in order to try to direct users to other movies or specific theaters.

It is clear that this weekend was a proof of concept for MoviePass to see if they can alter the bottom line for specific movies and theaters. If they got positive results from this weekend's test, you can bet the data will be forwarded to every theater and studio in the industry to show how much of an impact MoviePass has and then it becomes an extortion racket.

This was all expected from the start, but it doesn't make it any less disappointing that MoviePass is now making that pivot from a company that sells a service to the general public to a company that sells the general public to other businesses as a service.
Vyvanse is just a prodrug that metabolizes into the shittier enantiomer of amphetamine, L-amphetamine.
> As I asked in my reply above, why should investment in country A come at the expense of tax revenue in country B? That isn't right.

That's perfectly right, unless you're suggesting that every country should have only local companies and should block every foreign company from operating there.

Not only it is right, it is very, very good for society. In the past 60 years, poverty went from 60% to 9% dues to that.
Not intangibles in general but websites in particular make it very difficult. I think there's just not detailed enough reporting available to associate revenue and costs. And if you would create much more extensive reporting frameworks you would likely put a huge burden on small companies.

Let's take the facebook news feed as an example. Loading just the page might cause requests from CDNs in three different countries. Then the frontend might have been written in the UK and the backend in the US. The ads manager for the ad you just clicked worked in Germany. I doubt any modern IT company can track expenses on that level of detail. And associating costs with revenues is non-trivial either: Did the front end contribute to the revenue generated with the ad click? Did the backend or just the work of the ads manager in Germany? There's so much leeway for companies right now.

IT companies like Google and Facebook have one single product (ads) that generates most of their revenues. The country where the revenue occurred can be easily established (eg. an ad sold to a German company). But the costs to create this product (the whole platform) have been accrued all over the world. Without intimate knowledge of the corporate structure and the technical setup companies can basically tell you any story about where these costs were incurred.
I was a MoviePass subscriber for about 4 months. But I noticed that international movies and few theaters are blocked, can't reserve tickets ahead of time as per TOS. With all these restrictions I didn't even watch any movies for a couple of months. So I just cancelled and subscribed to Sinemia (I am in no way related to this service).
I agree, even with the often quoted "the inventor of 401(k)'s doesn't even like them anymore" it always fails to identify the primary concern as being one of personal mismanagement and not the vehicle itself.

There are some decent arguments that need to be made about investment education and regulatory simplification but this article doesn't make them.
Do you have a link on that or are you talking about the current article? I believe you but I wasn't one of the early adopters of MoviePass so by the time I joined I skimmed the contract, nodded, and thought "Got it, you spy on me and I get cheap stuff."
By they do you mean the NSA or the CIA? ;)
That's not a subsidy. That's progress payments. Many industries other than space have progress payments.

In fact you see some private contracts which are exactly like that NASA contract: "We want to pay you to create a much cheaper product than we can already buy, and here are some early progress payments so you don't have to finance it yourself."

You may think this is a moot point, that's totally fine. The difference between subsidies or not is important to others.
Heh. I prefer Android and my wife uses iPhones, so if I want to run any iOS apps I have to make do with her old iPhone 5. So maybe not the pinnacle of consumerism, but I'm certainly lucky to be able to hoard old tech.
As I started preparing home-made kefir, I realized that full-fat milk has a balanced protein-fat content, and is rich in some other nutrients. Fermentation to kefir reduces the lactose content while increasing some of the good things (vitamins, amino-acids).

In my calculations, about 3L of kefir per day should satisfy the energy and protein needs of an adult; for under $3/day.

If that'd work, it would be the first complete diet made from only one ingredient!
I'm throwing out a generalization, but developers tend to have destructive personality traits when it comes to collaboration. I've never seen mentorship discouraged for those who work well with other people. It can level up a team and compound productivity. If you are seen as easily triggered or judgemental, your manager is wise to limit your interactions, since you can still be a productive individual contributor.
I'm surprised it took this long for an innovative digital payments company to think about innovating digital payments.
> How is this kind of "growth hack" not simply dumping[1]?

"Dumping" is bad because it harms unsubsidized competitors. (It also pits foreign governments against private companies.) I fail to see who MoviePass hurt except its own investors.

> Can healthy, truly profitable technology companies develop in an environment where they have to compete with startups that are ready and willing to undercut them by losing tons of investor money

Lyft seems to be doing fine.
Aren't the inflation adjustments entirely based on the cost of common goods like flour?
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Hahaha ok if that was supposed to be an upper bound then something is very wrong!
I will second this. I've lived and taught (and tested) English in continental Europe for a decade. The idea that most people in continental Europe speak English is a misconception, and one should take population-level statistics on language proficiency with a grain of salt.
Its called being human. There is nothing wrong with you. Attention isn't a given, it is earned by being interested in what you are doing. People who pay attention to everything, even the most boring drivel, are usually uninspired prudes. There's nothing wrong with being bored and unfocused by unengaging content. That is actually how the brain's reward system prioritizes tasks.
No worries. That explains things, either way.
“How fast can you go when you turn that baby on?”

“It’s hard to say, because I just pin the speedo at 140 miles and hour, laugh hysterically, and then hope the cops don’t nail me.”

“Now, can you drive around the surface streets of California with that jet engine activated?”

“You could do it, but I don’t know what would happen. My runs are at night. I’ll leave the office late at night, and I’ll spool it up and nail it on a highway, and then sorta drive back on the gasoline engine and... go to bed.”

A fine engineer, for sure!