skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This problem would stop instantly if you could press a button during a call and have 25 cents added to the caller's phone bill and perhaps get a 25 cent credit on your own bill. Anyone know why this rather obvious solution hasn't been implemented?

At a minimum, one could switch cell phone billing so that only the caller pays, not the recipient.
What about someone who commits auto theft? Seems like isolation is actually overkill and more inhumane than other forms of punishment. 24/7 GPS monitoring should suffice to make sure he doesn't steal again. But you still need punishment, else the calculus for the would be criminal is heads I get a car, tails, I get caught, but nothing bad happens to me.
Now that this has fallen off the front page, I'll go ahead and mention - if people have downvoted that comment, an equal number have upvoted it. Its score is "1 point".
And I recommend you go read everything he’s written.
Also all shipping companies also has to report to the uk anti smuggling network.
I like Encrypt.me (Formally cloak). https://encrypt.me/

They don't pretend a VPN is going to keep you anonymous (https://encrypt.me/what-is-vpn/) but rather pitch their platform as a way to stay protected while at coffeeshops and public networks.
There is an AWS region in Montréal.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-canada-central...
Every big company can do this, and it's is precisely why, in a consumer facing startup, tech is often far less important than community building. YouTube or Twitch can build tools to enable streamers, but if your startup is genuinely good to early adopters, and the communities they build, then you can still keep going in the face of an 800lb gorilla.

The tech behind 9 out of 10 tech startups is relatively trivial to clone. The part that's really hard to copy successfully is the people.

It's also worth noting that if you can't do the people bit then even the most brilliant, un-cloneable tech is likely to fail. It's very hard to get customers if people don't like you as a person.

But hey, that's what co-founders are for.
CDO (Collateralized Debt Obligation) origination fraud is a crime. The GFC was not caused by law abiding activities. It was fraud, plain and simple.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/bank-america-pay-1665-billion...

As part of the RMBS Working Group, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey conducted a FIRREA investigation into misrepresentations made by Merrill Lynch to investors in 72 RMBS throughout 2006 and 2007. As the statement of facts describes, Merrill Lynch regularly told investors the loans it was securitizing were made to borrowers who were likely and able to repay their debts. Merrill Lynch made these representations even though it knew, based on the due diligence it had performed on samples of the loans, that a significant number of those loans had material underwriting and compliance defects - including as many as 55 percent in a single pool. In addition, Merrill Lynch rarely reviewed the unsampled loans to ensure that the defects observed in the samples were not present throughout the remainder of the pools. Merrill Lynch also disregarded its own due diligence and securitized loans that the due diligence vendors had identified as defective. This practice led one Merrill Lynch consultant to “wonder why we have due diligence performed” if Merrill Lynch was going to securitize the loans “regardless of issues.”

Disclaimer: I was privy to this having known several mortgage underwriters who identified this fraud, and despite reporting it with extensive documentation (which I personally collated and delivered via FedEx) to the SEC, DOJ, and OCC, were ignored.
No, insofar as they are cooperative members, they're assumed to have fringe benefits (of some intangible, prospective nature) that compensate for the lower pay. The assumption, I suppose (hackneyed though it may be) is that if people are willing to work for lower pay, they must have some other benefit that brings them up to par with other employment opportunities.

And no, Italian law makes desperately little sense.
I wish something like this would take off -

https://github.com/kylehuff/webpg-chrome

We deserve a better userspace from our browsers. The excuse that "users" don't want this because its "hard" is circular.
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A single developer made the fix.
The fix is probably 10 minutes but the deployment process, intake process and notification process took 3 1/2 hours
How many bugs will pop up if we stop having DST?
Yeah I work at a face recognition company and have done a lot of work with sex classifiers and I'm pretty curious.
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They have a dedicated Bug report team that sifts through the nonsense so it can't just be one person..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_link At least they color female chicks a different color.
>They are (usually government-sanctioned or government-protected) producer organizations that set quotas and approval processes to reduce the threat of competition and new entrants, usually relying on official government policy to enable them through import tariffs, "cultural protection" regulation and subsidies (such as tax waivers).

None of the above sound bad in themselves.

In many areas we could do with less competition, more tariffs, and more cultural protection and subsidies.
I think Bouguereau managed to surpass photorealism. It's more real than real, but, from what I read, the techniques he used are forever lost.

http://webneel.com/william-adolphe-bouguereau-paintings
They need some way to unfreeze it, so presumably when you freeze it, you give them a password or keyword or some other shared secret to use to unfreeze it.

They can't have a shared secret with you by "default". But they collect all sorts of private information about you by default... so maybe they shouldn't do that?
Why is personal use 'bad' then?
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Free email based outside the US: ProtonMail[1]. I recommend it as a non-paying user.

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Sure, but would daylight savings be the cause?
If it is such a gestalt, not explainable function. I am almost certain it isn't just visual. It would be interesting to see the level of accuracy with just video of the vent exposure. Even more so, just an image.

The article states the sexers accidentally kill some chicks at first when learning because of the force required to expose the vents. The force required could provide some clue. The way the vent moves under some manipulations could make a difference.

I would rather the whole thing be solved with ultrasonic or some other imaging well before hatching.
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In the serverless space - a few deciding factors we see people weigh (disclosure: Functions PM in Azure)-
* Dev tooling. VS Code and Visual Studio 1st class tooling, including local debugging/breakpoints
* Pricing. No API Gateway layer so these types of high load scenarios become significantly less expensive
* Platform. Azure serverless is much more than just functions. Also serverless workflows (Logic Apps) and Events (Event Grid). Also enable multiple hosting models (serverless, dedicated, on-premises)
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Yes, it normally costs the same as a freeze - so around $10 for me. Equifax is waiving all fees around freezes until June 30 (http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/31/pf/equifax-free-credit-prote...) so take advantage of it while you can.

It's a ripoff, yes, but it's better than spending hours on the phone fixing your credit after it's been stolen. I fully support this federal legislation to make it free.
I don't get the impression that paving companies are around long enough (or have anywhere enough influence) to intentionally rig the system in this way. Infrastructure is absolutely neglected in the US and Canada - municipal and state/provincial governments try to get away with as being cheap as possible, and deferring as much maintenance as possible, and... well, you get what you pay for.
Making it harder for patients to get treatment definitely increases the amount of misery in the world. You don't have to be the toxoplasma gondii parasite to make life miserable for a lot of people. It's enough if you're the other kind of parasite who makes the treatment orders of magnitude more expensive, just for personal gain.

> fallacy

ROTFL - this is like talking about cherries with someone who can's see the color red.
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I found this JWT implementation which claims to replace $_SESSION https://github.com/byjg/jwt-session

Yea JWT maxes out around 8KB vs DynamoDB's 400KB

Also, the CloudFront storage problem exists with many other serverless frameworks like Zappa so I don't blame you for not solving it yet haha.
I do too! It's very frustrating, to the point that I've considered just getting a new phone number. The problem being I've had this number for >10 years and like the idea of an old high school friend being able to reach me without Facebook. Someone online suggested I make a complaint to the FCC but it went nowhere. I never pick up anymore but it's still annoying.
Gruesome, but I would dispute painful. The present state of things is the least bad it could be while still allowing us to enjoy the prices we do.
Maybe not. No one wants fentanyl: they want diacetylmorphine, and will take fentanyl if they can't find morphine. Opiates are all the same.
As you are fully aware you are well within your rights to not approve. But if you call the whole continent America then surely its very southern part will not be Florida.
When I work remotely, having someone "work" at the same time as me makes the situation feel less ... lonely, it's like having a co-worker :) See them work, makes me work.

Also I enjoy hearing other people code, especially the clack of the keyboard.

I remember there were some internet radio streams that had office sounds playing (at different intensities), but I do not think they're online anymore.
> M-w, to do a copy. Or some other hobgoblin that I need to remember, when all I need is just a browse-able menu.

The way you wrote that suggested there wasn't a browseable menu and that emacs forced you to memorize "hobgoblin" commands (two-characters is "hobgoblin"?).

Also, for others, there's CUA mode which makes the standard Windows' C-x, C-c, C-v cut/copy/paste commands available.
Looks like they just searched up parts of the website (in google?) until they found a testing server running the market. Another lesson for the operators there. Protect your testing deployments the same way you do the production web.

BTW, are there search engines that allow to search for HTML code of the web pages?
Who sometimes has a day off, or takes a vacation, or has an illness, so you’re looking at a minimum of 3 persons...
> the judge decided to come up with a HYPOTHETICAL loss

The judge issued a 96-page opinion [1] that details his crimes and the sentencing guidelines. It was not an off-the-cuff decision as you're suggesting.

> This seems beyond absurd and as far as I know has no precedence.

Your lack of knowledge on a subject does not make it absurd.

[1] https://martinshkrelilacksjudgment.files.wordpress.com/2018/...
So is this a case of the co-ops just not making enough to pay everyone a decent amount, or is a higher-up still taking a significant chunk of the profits? If the latter, what's preventing the workers from voting against that?
Sick person: please moderately profitable pharma company, help me.
moderately profitable pharma company: Sure, for $50

Sick person: please insanely profitable pharma company post shrekli, help me.
insanely profitable pharma company post shrekli: Sure, for $5000
Now the public can rest easy knowing that the only person in pharmaceuticals whose business model for increased profits was spending less on R&D and raising the prices of drugs. Growth all around!
/s

The public (including many people, unfortunately, in this thread) will now be convinced that there is no more price gouging in pharmaceuticals, which is patently false. It is still legal, it is still one of the primary business models, and still no justice is served to the sick and uninsured.

Shkreli is going to jail because he almost (whether intentionally or not is to be determined) brought regulation to an entire industry that thrives off of raising prices on drugs needed to treat chronic conditions.
Then that "justice" system should be overthrow, along with every judge who supports that line of thinking.
No, it isn't, which is insane.
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Seriously. Whatever discount design firm they used they should probably just go ahead and charge that one back. facepalm.
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And yet you can't say why. I just should because its "Yegge."

It's fascinating to me the cargo-culting of this person on HN. It's funny that the even questioning this person on HN invites immediate ire and downvotes.

At one point I did go read a handful of articles and I found none of them remarkable. I just found them self-indulgent.
US Govt' lost its fucking mind
Given that it feels like everyone and their brother's camel seems to have access and input into our histories and the (just. holy shit.) levels of information these firms have access to and records for regarding just about everything we do with a dollar this is as good a start as any.

Data hoarding industries like these, those that really have too much sway over individuals' well being and access to basic services, needs to be the second most regulated thing on the planet. Or maybe third.
So besides not having intellisense, you also don't have things such as go-to def/decl, show type info, switch between header/cpp files, etc... Not to mention debugger integration, right? Do you work on large scale projects with this setup?
That's pretty much it; although at higher intensities the calories per unit time is higher, the higher the intensity the more comes from short-term stores (glycogen) than from long-term (fat).

The numbers suggest 60 to 70 per cent of max heartrate (which is pretty easy) is the sweet spot for general fitness and fat burning (i.e. weight loss). For improved endurance, spend a lot of time in that zone; for improved performance spend shorter periods (well) above it.
Indeed. There was fraud committed at all levels which lead up to the crash.
> To give some background on how his sentencing increased so dramatically

It didn't increase. His sentence was never anything else.

> initially he was convicted but since no one lost any money his sentencing guidelines were 0-12 months(most likely no jail time since it was his first offence).

False again. When the sentencing phase began, his lawyers argued there were no legal losses caused by his fraud, and prosecutors argued that losses were in the $9-20 million range. Both sides presented evidence and legal argument to support their position.

> As a general rule of thumb in federal fraud cases sentencing is primarily determined by the what's called the "loss amount" of the crime in question.

This much is correct.

> But a couple weeks ago the judge decided to come up with a HYPOTHETICAL loss and base the sentencing on that!

False; it was not a hypothetical loss amount. The court applied existing legal precedent that “loss in fraud cases includes the amount of property taken, even if all or part has been returned.” [0]

[0] http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Shk...
Exactly. Same thing. Both voluntary business transactions subject to the same rules as any other voluntarily exchange. No one is obligated to sell any particular good or service for any particular price.

I know a lot of people see this differently but I don't think they have an ethical leg to stand on. When it gets down to it they have no particular rule for fair pricing other than "that feels too high to me."
Good thing you weren't marrying the jewelry store then.
That's an intriguing idea, interested to see where this goes - thanks for posting about it!
A career cold start algorithm from a guy who has changed companies twice in his career (Facebook for the last 12 years and Microsoft for 1.5 years before that). Ok.
I hadn't heard of Innovis either until I read the New York Times article encouraging everyone to freeze their credit:

Christina Bater, managing director at Barrett Asset Management in New York, suggests freezing your file at the little-known company Innovis, too. Hey, why not?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/your-money/identity-theft...
I like to watch Jonathan Blow[0] sometimes, just to get an idea of his thinking process when dealing with problems in a codebase (bugs or new features).

I also find it relaxing to hear him talk, while me doing something else at the same time, like playing a game of Civ.

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[0]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCuoqzrsHlwv1YyPKLuMDUQ
Reminds me of this section[2] from "How Engineers Create the World" by Bill Hammack - an interesting but perhaps scattered read.

Well, a pothole is not just a technological thing,
it's also a political entity. Usually we think of
European nations as steeped in governmental regulation,
and the United States as a free market, but actually
the opposite occurs in building roads. In the United States
the government sets specifications and asks contractors
to meet them. Once done with the road they have no
more responsibility.

Contrast this to France where the contractors must come
up with their own specifications and guarantee their work.
This means that if a pothole developers the contractor has
to fix it. But in the united States, once the job is done,
as long as it has met specifications, the contractor is no
longer liable.

1. https://www.amazon.com/How-engineers-create-world-commentari...

2. https://i.redd.it/uthzdyul53fy.png
He understands the justice/social system and its absurdity and decides to have a bit of fun subverting the system and stirring up drama, even if it has detrimental effects on his ongoing case, because he enjoys giving the middle finger to authority and the established order/system.

He's respectful to the interviewers, but he seems to absolutely detest authority (especially authority which seems arbitrary or archaic).
Within the member panel (for now).
Hi Yev,

This would be my sales pitch to your superiors:

1) My 4TB is not really expected to grow much beyond this point. It's the accumulation of a lifetime of hoarding, and the year-to-year addition beyond that will be in gigs, not TBs. So after the first year, it's basically just cold storage. If you guys can profitably store 4TB in cold storage for $50/yr, it should be profitable after the first year.

2) The guys who have enough media and are technical enough to want to seed it are also more than likely going to be the guys who make the backup service recommendations for their friends and families.

Case in point:
http://nothingofvalue.org/backup.html

That's the website I created for friends, family, and coworkers to read, because I got tired of explaining the same stuff to them every Christmas. I very nearly bought the Crashplan Family plan at one point just to make it easier for them--I'm not glad I didn't. But I guess my point here is that the power-users, as irritating as we are, are going to be the ones who spread your product by word of mouth.

3) People with lots of data who take backing up seriously generally don't like switching vendors unless we have no other choice. I don't want a provider that I feel like I'll "outgrow" when I get too much data and be forced to switch to a more expensive plan or to another vendor. So while a user with 100 GB or less might be with you guys for a year, he will probably move to another vendor if they can do it cheaper, since he doesn't have much data. The hoarders, on the other hand, just want to know you'll keep their stuff safe and won't jack up the price on them at some point, and will otherwise be willing to stick with you forever.

Just my $0.02 as a potential customer.
I think people leaving facebook en masse would be a good thing (TM) for society, not a doomsday. Fewer echo chambers, less disinformation, and people forced to make effort to contact each other.
No, judges are not kings. The concept of a judicial branch came as a response to monarchies in which kings and ministers were given unchecked executive and judicial powers. That doesn't mean the judicial branch can operate without having laws and standards to prevent proceedings from falling into chaos. Shkreli and lawyer were made well aware of these laws.
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> None of the above sound bad in themselves.

Actually, all of them are bad in themselves. Government-granted monopolies reduce innovation and consumer surplus, inhibit competition and stagnate an economy, leaving it weak and unable to compete internationally.

> In many areas we could do with less competition, more tariffs, and more cultural protection and subsidies.

No, we could not.
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What about disturbing their Oort cloud analog, spawning rogue comets?
All the options you mention have varying features that give it advantages and disadvantages in various scenarios. What works well in on, won't in others, etc.

That said, I was mostly interested on how this compares to etcd, since the use case seems pretty similar. How does Anna scale out (differing data centers) compared to it being a bad idea with etcd for example.
Ironically, in countries which aren't so vehemently obsessed with equality, there are rarely traditions of 'engagement rings' at all, and especially with expensive diamonds.

They just make do with wedding bands and wear nothing before the ceremony. Seems like the engagement ring is a phenomenon very specific to some western countries.
Couldn't a configurable formatter ship with preset configurations for the major styles used for each language? For most people, who are probably using one of a handful of common styles, configuration would just consist of setting one option.
JWTs are really not a good idea for session storage. I wouldn't consider them secure by any stretch. ElastiCache would be a much better option, and relatively straightforward to configure.
No. Shkreli is going to jail because he committed fraud.
And in all likelihood, someone else monitored the incoming reports, recognized that this was a high-priority issue, and fast-tracked it to the developer. On top of that, I don't know Facebook's process that well, but releasing something that quickly probably involved some coordination to get it out so fast. Maybe someone else verified it, maybe someone fast-tracked it through the approval / launch process, etc.

Even things like bugfixes are rarely entirely creditable to only developers.

Judging by the name of the endpoint, it probably wasn't a super-complicated fix anyway - just disable / blacklist the endpoint that was obviously a mistake / test.
First 6 is shared across the cards a particular bank issues. Its not a secret as you can google the first 6 to find the bank or even the reverse google the bank to see what BINs they use. Last 4 is intended to be human visible so people can identify the card in use. When you factor in the check digit ruling out 90% of the remaining combinations, there are still 10,000 valid cc combinations plus an expiration date you would have to guess just to get a single acct.
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Except that it's not a comparison, it's a statement about Bitcoin, not those other things, which is the key element that makes it whataboutism instead of a valid counterpoint.

Bitcoin mining is wasting energy.

Other potential uses of such wasted energy include not generating it in the first place.
It will only be replaced with another echo chamber.
The polar cyclone systems look like Magic Roundabouts.
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