skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because you should never have first 6 and last 4 in the same place at the same time, particularly to someone who is not the owner of the card!

That leaves only 6 digits to guess to obtain a valid card, and you're given the check digit to limit the search further.
'Stopping drug trade'

LOL
I’m not fan of Shrekeli but the 7 years seems to be excessive relative to other similar cases. For example, Rajaratnam got 11 years in what was dubbed as the biggest trading scandal on Wall Street. (source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-galleon-rajaratnam/rajara... )
Except derivatives that almost sank the country for a few decades in 2008. For some reason selling derivative where it's incredibly difficult or impossible to know what securities they are derived from isn't fraud.

https://www.thebalance.com/role-of-derivatives-in-creating-m...
I don’t think a galactic collision is a particularly serious event for life. The stars are so sparse that the galaxies basically pass through each other. Their large scale structure is disrupted, but that won’t kill anything living in a solar system.
Not sure what OS he used but some operating systems, Linux for example, overcommit memory. You can alloc an 8GB array just fine and as long as you don’t use it no actual memory gets used.

That’s why it worked on his machine. It didn’t work on yours because of the lack of address space.
Added this as a home screen icon on my iPhone... Barely indistinguishable from a native app downloaded from the App Store. Excellent!
Criminal punishment in a republic [0] is exactly the institutionalization of the idea that offending the public has consequences. Hence, in the US, the popular styling of criminal cases as “The people vs. defendant”.

[0] a “republic” in the sense of a regime where government is notionally an institution for the interest of the public rather than a private property interest of a ruler or distinct ruling class; in non-republics, the non-public “owners” are the persons of whose offense consequences are institutionalized by the criminal justice system.
For people who like to watch live coding - in what ways do you find it helpful? Is it to learn about a particular domain, a way of thinking, a new technology? Where would you consider your skill level to be at?

I'd love to hear your perspectives! I understand streaming in gaming contexts, developer streaming is new to me.
Right, but I'm assuming you live in a decent community with decent support. You live in a decent house with a decent job. This is also the reason you are likely not to commit a significant crime-- there is no need. There is no power to be gained, no money that you couldn't obtain legally, no significant anger or behavioral patterns.

But the opposite is true for most re offending criminals. Their freedom from the cage thrusts them into another cage. There is no point in not committing crime, especially if you are part of a gang. The gang affords you power and a kind of familial bond to other people.
Jupiter is deep
I wonder what the performance would be like if instead of running on ruby they ran it on a scalable virtual machine with near-first-class actors (not truly first class, but the engine is optimized to handle them, and the constructs are extremely important in the standard library) like BEAM.
From TFA:

"During their time as black market administrators, the Dutch police only banned one product on Hansa: the highly dangerous opioid Fentanyl. All other drugs on the site continued to flow freely, a circumstance over which Ras and Boekelo seem surprisingly unconflicted. "They would have taken place anyway," says Ras without hesitation, "but on a different market." "
Oh I see what you did there. Nice try squirt. C-x C-c closes Emacs. I mean M-w and C-x C-c are so damn close together it's unfortunate you might mix them up, right?

That sort of crafty edit-a-roo is mighty frowned upon in most circles. And to be so rude! Now that, sir, is crossing the line.

I guess if I'm really dense, I can't purposefully be dense, can I?
Oh yeah! That's a constant minefield for me if I stream.

Next time I do it, I'm going to have a separate account on my machine, where I will avoid having anything accessible that is sensitive.
In regards to 3:

His investors only eventually made money after Shkreli paid them in stock and cash from Retrophin.

Prosecutors, on the other hand, have argued that Shkreli should not get any credit for what they described as stealing from Retrophin to pay off the investors.

source: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/09/pharma-bro-shkreli-to-be-sen...
Except didn't it end up making investors much more?
> Asphalt resurfacing simply involves applying new asphalt over the old. Damaged areas are filled with fresh asphalt, and a steamroller goes over the entire surface to yield smooth, even pavement.

Florida native, I can tell you this is very temporary. Big chunks will eventually come up and you can see the previous pavement underneath. I'm assuming that between the heat here and the cracks mentioned in the original article that let water seep between the layers, this is just a bad way to fix a road.
While definitely immoral and risky I might abide by "no harm no foul" - no one was harmed in this, end sum is positive
Roads are designed, manufactured, used, and maintained.

You can impact road surface wear by tweaking any of these variables. They all affected the surface, there is no single cause.
I am all for teaching empathy. I am all for teaching people to behave well because it is the right thing to do (not because of fear of punishment).

But -- some percent of the population are predatory, or have the potential to become predatory. They have come to believe that the strong (them) have the right to take from the weak. They steal, rob, rape, murder because it benefits themselves to do so. And if you take away any prospect of bad consequences, more people will become predators.

I also think our current prison system is a pretty awful. But if you take it away, what would you do with criminals instead? What do you do with the 20 year old man who robs someone at gunpoint, or drags a woman into an alley and rapes her? I think there are alternatives out there, but IMO they must involve punishment (to deter others) and containment/supervision (to prevent the criminal from preying upon others again). My own preference for punishing something like armed robbery would be something like a sentence of 10 years of doing farm labor followed by a three year gradual reintegration into society.
Whatever happened to mesh networking?
At Yale, an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals
I believe this guy does research on frozen water crystals https://twitter.com/DevilleSy (at least he does tweet a lot about flakes and has written a book at Wiley's or Springer so..)
I read some Russian articles about research carried out about 40 years ago about the most efficient way to survive on limited food if one gets lost in wild nature. Their conclusion was that one should not ration food. One should just eat normally until one runs out of food and then fast until normal amount of food is available. And fast here means literally zero calories. One should not eat berries, mushrooms etc. Those triggers digestion that spend more energy that will be extracted from snacks.
He was arguing the wrong topic; whether or not Shkrelli got a just sentence. That's what we are supposed to be talking about; not the fact that it's legal to monopolize a drug then pursue monopolistic pricing practices on said drug. That's what Shkrelli was infamous for, not fraud.

I may or may not agree with the justness of the sentence, but that wasn't the thrust of my argument, therefore the distraction.
How to navigate internal politics to get the job you want
You're right, the private data that I choose to preserve is objectively worthless. I shall relay your findings to my family.

"Sorry, Mom, I can't help you watch that Mork and Mindy collection on your bedroom-TV Roku. Someone On the Internet informed me that my digital collections are not worthy of keeping, and I dutifully deleted them."

"No, sweetie, we absolutely cannot share your childhood with our daughter and watch my digital rip of Fraggle Rock. Good parents delete their abhorrent digital media and pay HBO Go $15/month for the privilege of viewing it!"

"What are you thinking, keeping those hundreds of CD's and Vinyl's we ripped together on your iPhone, Dad? You can chuck all that crap that we actually own and pay a monthly fee to Spotify for the privilege of streaming it! Unless, of course, the publisher decides to pull their collection off of Spotify, for whatever reason."

"Hey, guys, now that we're all moved out of the house, we need to talk about the Nintendo 64. Mom and Dad bought it for all of us, so I think it's only fair that we keep the physical console at their place so that no one of us will have exclusive access to it. As for the games, I think each of us should be allowed to take the cartridges with us that we individually paid for and/or receives as gifts. So that'll be me taking Super Mario 64, Majora's Mask, Super Smash Bros, Star Fox 64, and NBA: Hangtime; Steve takes Goldeneye, Ocarina of Time, Perfect Dark, and Donkey Kong 64; and Fred takes Mario Party, Pokemon Stadium, Mario Kart, and Banjo Kazooie. Yeah, I know, I do wish there were some kind of legal backup method that might let us all enjoy the games we collectively owned. Oh well. Maybe Nintendo will release an N64 Classic and we can each pay $80 to play the games we already paid for. Assuming the games we own appear on the collection."
I like mined diamond vs lab diamond.
An address of the place in which you will work. Trivial. Hardly anyone does it.
no gpd pocket?
Exercise and relaxing breathing techniques?
>Why not just use vim? Why bother with other editors?

Because I use C# a lot and I really like all the support I get from Visual Studio.
For tactical positions like programming, required skills and optional skills are probably a minimum. However, I have found that the most attractive job ads are those that talk about the culture of the company in addition to what they expect of me. I like ads that communicate that I would be an appreciated member of the team.

Dry lists of bullet points are a turn-off; they give the impression that the company just wants a warm body.

I also avoid companies that rely on hyperbole in their job ads--"rockstar," "ninja," "guru," etc. They give the impression that the one who wrote the job ad and/or the hiring manager have no idea how to truly quantify good talent.
First six and last four are the limits for display set out by the PCI Security Standards Council. The things you should never store with the PAN are the PIN/PIN block or CVC/CVV.

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/pci_fs_data_storag...
Here you go:
http://www.facing-finance.org/en/database/cases/working-cond...

Do you think the global drug trade 'provides work' for more than 500,000?
Neither first six nor last four are considered PCI sensitive data. Not saying they should be randomly displayed, but in the context of many fintech apps they will be displayed together.
Surprisingly common in the Netherlands.
He's an interesting outspoken programmer that a lot of people respect his opinions.
Let me quote myself from the post you replied to:

"steel tariffs aren't a great solution"
Diamonds are bullshit, but body adornment is a human universal that exists in all cultures. So the diamond bullshit is hijacking something very real and human.
"The Lucrative Art of [Grinding Babies Alive]"
What is TC39? And what is smoosh?
I appreciate your response. I’m under the impression that the white men who exercised more had more calcification:

> Instead, Laddu and her colleagues found that participants in trajectory group three, or those who exercised the most, were 27 percent more likely than those in trajectory group one to develop CAC by middle age. CAC was measured during the participants’ 25th year in the study using computed tomography, a CT scan, of the chest. At year 25, participants were ages 43 to 55.
Yes, but that's not the point. The point is the US government has many ways of throwing people in jail it doesn't like, including me or you. That's doesn't equate with a free society.
Isn‘t this a chicken and egg problem? If people don‘t get to know court proceedings when they happen it doesn‘t give them more outrage and justice porn and calms down the overall atmosphere. To compare, Swiss people generally don‘t care about what happens in courts, they care about the next direct democractic vote (and get riled up about it sometimes), but I consider that at least more at the root of politics and not targeted at individuals.
I'm pretty sure the recommended subreddits when you make a new account are based on your browser's reddit activity.
That's not the way federal law works. Beneficial ends don't justify illegal means in the eyes of federal prosecutors.
Ghostscript4js – Use Ghostscript C API with Node.js
Pay, Expected Weekly Hours (especially if it's salary), and Tech Stack are the most important to me.
"And if you think that XCode, Python, Processing, or the shit soup of HTML/Javascript/CSS are any kind of substitute for HyperCard, then read this post again. And if you continue to think so, then you might be an autistic typical software “engineer,” and please don’t waste your time commenting here. Sink back into the cube farm hellpit from whence you came.

Otherwise, sit down and contemplate the fact that what has been built once could probably be built again."

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=568
This seems impossibly similar to be an accident.
That came later, after the incorrect assurances.
I start with something I want to do, say, change the color scheme, enable syntax highlighting for a programming language, or something like that and then I end up tumbling down a rabbit hole, and I get stuck because most of the resources out there that tell me how to do these things assume I know a lot of basics which I haven't mastered yet.
Terrible news. From my experience Grab’s UX and driver ed was much worse than Uber’s.
Took me awhile to figure this out as well, this isn't even a paver, it's a better roller.

IMHO that just makes the difference it produces even more impressive, I thought this was a totally different paving machine.
I'm going to disagree on the basis that segmenting your security personnel creates a lot of difficult social dynamics. However the model is structured, "security" becomes a pain point, and no one wants to see the security guy coming around the corner.

The default interpretation (which is basically the only one that counts) is that this guy is coming around, tearing down _your_ work, and making you look bad in front of everyone, and what does he even know about this thing?

Some people will chicken out, not press the matter, and then the "security people" are just the fall guys, unable to do anything other than take the blame for the other peoples' screw-ups. In my experience, a lot of internal security people end up stuck in that position whether they're trying to fight the good fight or not.

The dynamic is similar to the corrosive POV that sees "dev" and "ops" as orthogonal concerns to segment out, and we all know how well that's gone over. Anyone looking forward to hearing all about "DevSec" in the next 10-15 years, once some startup finds a way to put a cute icon on it and gets a big pile of investor money to burn (cf. Docker)?

Rather than create a tense segmentation, it's better to just hire competent developers who know security well from the get-go. Maybe they can rotate weeks doing security reviews or something like that.

I don't know, I don't really have a good solution. I just know that making someone the enemy by labeling them "security personnel, here to block your deploys, tell you you're doing your job wrong, and generally just embarrass you in front of your peers and superiors" is not going to help much.
Completely agree. I've tried Java/Spring, Python/Django/Flask, JS/Express/Meteor, Ruby/Rails/Sinatra and Elixir/Phoenix. The only thing I've seen that might rival Rails in productivity is Meteor, but that is relevant mostly if you absolutely need an SPA or some kind of realtime support. Apart from that Rails is the most productive framework, and it's perfect for a solo developer or a small team -- and that goes for both novice and experienced developers. I'm currently looking into Elixir/Phoenix –– and I think it has the potential to become as productive as Rails, but so far the ecosystem is much smaller.
IQ test questions are abstract because they designed measure abstract thinking capabilities.

Abstract thinking is the definition of intelligence because of its general applicability to learning. All learning, be it math, language, engineering, music, etc, amounts to recognizing patterns, generalizing them, and applying the generalization to a different problem.

I'd like to point out that basically every academic admission test (SAT, ACT, GRE, MCAT, etc) is an IQ test mixed in with some domain-specific knowledge testing.

No offense, but having the opinion that intelligence is not measurable is roughly as ignorant as believing the the solar system is geocentric. It requires throwing aside or ignoring a massive amount of scientific evidence and consensus.
This whole thing just sounds like a dream for ML. Have anyone tried it yet?
Dividing up the world into monopolies that's vaguely reminiscent of the Merchant Kings[1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Merchant-Kings-Companies-Ruled-1600-1...
Used to watch them as well, really bright guy, entirely self taught. I TA'd organic chem and he might have had a deeper understanding than I do.

He really needed to learn when to stop talking, and where to draw the line with his actions, sadly.
It seems relevant to HN's discussion of the story, because his blog post about leaving Google for Grab got 311 points + 182 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16220666 , and a mainstream media article about that blog post got another 180 points + 89 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16226439 . (It looks like you commented on both threads.)

I don't read the comment above is a reflection of Steve Yegge's importance in general, just as a useful piece of information linking this news to something HN previously thought was important (his move to Grab).
Extract from the article: "The founding principle was based on "common economic action as part of a general vision of society not based on individualism and self-interest".
Another way to look at this is that he got a harsher sentence than he should have on the "stealing from the rich" part which is a crime, because he was so unpopular on the extorting the poor part which (sadly) isn't.

Whether that's how we would like the system to function is, of course, up for debate.
Foxconn has 14 year old workers. Foxconn workers commit suicide over working conditions. Foxconn has violent drunken fights between workers that injure dozens of people (including those 14 year old workers by the by).

It isn't significantly different.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-shkreli/investo...

(Reuters) - One of the investors former drug company executive Martin Shkreli is accused of defrauding testified on Wednesday that Shkreli lied to him repeatedly, although he eventually made millions of dollars from the investment.

This was apparently the guy who alerted investigators to the fraud. He made millions.
I think it's inaccurate and unhelpful to blame the "popular press" and contributes to making a false equivalence about the role of journalism to today's toxic politics (which I find very frustrating). Such a phrase can include everything from: NYTimes, popular tabloids, Fox and Friends, Fox news InfoWars, Slate, the Economist etc etc. There's a huge range of journalistic integrity and quality in that. For all its mistakes, let's not equate the new york times with fox and friends...
You probably eat different from most white men. If you are concerned, you could look for studies that correlate dietary choices or other factors to such calcification.

Exercise is just one factor here and does not operate in isolation.
He didn’t “extort sick poor people”, he extorted insurance companies. If you couldn’t afford his drugs, he was offering them for free.
I'll give this a go thanks
Thanks for great feedback.

- A comparison is currently in the making.
- We will clarify "evacuation" and also add max coverage/deductible for every coverage under the explore button on the website.

I should add that we do provide medical cover, not only evacuation.
I would argue that lack of adoption is likely a discovery and design problem rather than an economic one. In a free market other people can choose to enter into the contracting business. If I have a leg up on my competition (paving better roads for the same cost) I will eventually out compete people who fail to adapt to the new method. This doesn't happen immediately, but you can't fool everyone forever if there truly is a better way of operating.

This technology likely has not been adopted due to difficulty and expense of manufacturing a robust machine and lack of marketing. How many people even knew this solution existed? What is the measurable benefit to paving roads this way? How much does the machine cost vs traditional roller method? All of this work is expensive and there isn't a guarantee of success. While the hypothesis seems reasonable you have to do all the math/science to figure out if this truly is cost effective. Ideas are great, execution is hard.
But your special profitable customers aren't paying anyway.
Along with other suggestions I recommend the free Language Transfer podcast. It’s a quite good starting point for new languages.
That's a pretty asinine way to add a backdoor. I think we can give the intelligence community more credit than that.

Plus, if you're an intelligence agency, the ideal backdoor is one you can use, and only you can use -- one that other adversaries can't take advantage of even if they know it's there. A hardcoded password is the opposite of that; once its existence leaks out, which it invariably will, it's open to everyone.

Having a developer modify some crypto code in a subtle way that happens to reduce the effectiveness of the system such that it becomes marginally more vulnerable to a certain type of obscure cryptanalysis, preferably very resource-intensive analysis that only you can perform, is the direction I'd try for...
> Is this the Azure equivalent of AWS Lambda?

Yes.

> What factors other than some specific affinity to Microsoft makes a company choose Azure over AWS?

Azure has a decent offering even if you don't have any "specific affinity to Microsoft". You can use Azure to develop products that don't use any Microsoft technologies. Although from my own experience, Azure tends to be a bit rough around the edges especially when used with non-Microsoft tools and languages.

See marketing page: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-vs-aws/
This sounds so promising. Reminding me of the new fintechs which are competing against classic banks (e.g. Revolut). I want something like a perfect app and simple fees for insurance!
Shkreli's youtube streams on finance were always pretty interesting and if you omit is trollish behavior, he generally was very respectable and seemed to enjoy teaching people about medicine, mathematics and finance. The videos are available online and I think reflect a different personality than the one he presented in public.
Because you're using more power.