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While there was no world-destroying core meltdown, it was still super-annoying to deal with. Lots of code needed to be touched. I'd really like a comeback of a fixed TLS-SNI challenge as running a port 80 HTTP server just for LE sucks somewhat.

DNS challenges exist and are useful but have more extensive infrastructure requirements. Nothing beats the ease of use of "just put the box up and it'll retrieve its cert as needed".
It's open to recent grads as well!

Edit: Sorry I totally misunderstood the question. Yes, it is available to self-teaching job seekers!

We say students for simplicity because the program is designed for your early career and university/new grad recruiting.
Google doesn't allow ads for legal medical cannabis or headshops.
If you had said "climate science" I would agree.

I mean, I'm a lukewarmist, not a denier, but since the 90s people have been saying "science advocacy" when they mean "advocacy for my politics". Everyone's (correctly) for Darwinism and contra modern creationism but no one seems to be in favor of IQ advocacy.

And I mean advocacy for the low IQ cohorts that are being technologied out of a social role. But hey, you would have to admit IQ exists.
Discussions about people's feelings should be off limits and flagged here on HN, in my opinion, instead of the no politics policy. It's the race and gender stuff that wastes everyone's time and ruffles feathers on both sides.
Great introduction, thanks! Are you thinking about expanding this at all? If so, how?
> always been a community made up of shady folks

This is so clearly false that it overshadows the rest of your comment. You _cannot_ claim these things without proof and your point is so easily disproven that it's not worth the time to even do so.
This seems too good to be true. If they could actually predict football results with better-than-random accuracy, then why wouldn't they just use this themselves to make loads of money on betting markets?
Mike Pompeo: “Edward Snowden should be given a death sentence” (2016)
Planets orbit around the center of mass. It's coincidental that the center of mass is (at least in our case) at the sun's location, because the sun has most of the mass.
The evidence is on the side of the parent poster.

Incredibly experienced programmers write C without those tools, and with practically no exceptions memory issues, crashes, and vulnerabilities surface if the code is large enough and the project used enough.

An easy example of this is the Linux kernel. They historically had relatively few verification tools and have one of the largest C codebases out there.
There's a new vulnerability related to memory safety every two or three weeks.
There's a bug fixed due to C memory management at least daily.

None of those bugs would have happened in Rust. Most of them couldn't have happened in well written C++ (whereas this well-written C is chock full of them).

Note as well that the kernel now gets some of the most exhaustive verification of any project (such as from google's syzkaller, etc), and it still has tons of C memory issues.
Because Musk is a self-made man who gathered a huge amount of wealth, and then multiple times risked it all in attempts to further the species, instead of just continuing to hoard wealth at the expense of the rest of us.

Tesla, Hawking, and Sagan are lumped together because they were brilliant scientists who's work furthered humanity. Those are attributes that we wish for others to emulate, so we put them on a pedestal.

Over the last few decades our society (usa) has been shifting slowly slightly further towards an everyone-for-themselves (and unequal) type of culture. So Elon's story, as described above, is another example of intelligence used in pursuit of human furtherment, that many would want similarly put on a pedestal for emulation.
It’s not hilarious if your teams focus is retail related.
Bah, got mixed up. The overall point remains the same. They have to be granted that power, not restricted from it.
I haven't actually seen "guaranteed to go up in value" pitches but I believe the ones that do work on certain people take a more subtle form.

It's a bit like how poorly written spam makes professional-looking phishing look more convincing to the average person.

The most effective scams are the ones that fool people who think they couldn't have been fooled. Heck, you see it all the time with car advertisements, etc.
Correct. Further, even if I did believe that, I wouldn't wish it in practice:

Criminality and psychopathy are tightly correlated, particularly with fraudsters. Psychopaths are excellent at faking remorse and other emotions that they do not actually feel.

I would not want the punishment of a criminal dependent on their acting skills.
Yep. I experienced many such situations. Like I said, I still use boost because the benefits outweigh the baggage, but I try to avoid it as much as I can.
Ask HN: What eastern or midwest companies would you add to the Breakout List?
Breakout List has a disproportionately low amount of companies from the East Coast or Midwest (or other regions) compared to the West Coast. What companies from other regions would you add to the list?
No, it doesn't. Maybe it did in 1978, but modern C compilers have to go to heroic lengths to do things like alias analysis that would be easier if the aliasing rules of C weren't so subtle. In Java the question of "can pointer A alias pointer B" is simple (unless typeof A derives typeof B or vice versa, the answer is no). In C, due to TBAA, it's hideously complex.
All federal prosecutors are part of the United States Department of Justice[1].

Here is the law and reasons: https://www.justice.gov/usam/usam-9-27000-principles-federal...

Here are the statistics https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=63

1) https://www.oas.org/juridico/mla/en/usa/en_usa-int-desc-guid...
As far as I know you don't need your customers opt in if you have a contract based on a standard contract
This whole fake news/ads can be solved by allowing consumer's to see which company/person posted the ad.
How come sails aren't making a comeback? Seems like an ideal complement to electric ships. Use the wind to recharge the batteries using generators or to propel the ship forward. When there is no wind, run on the energy stored in the batteries.
This discussion of ciphers vs puzzles has reminded me of one of my favorite books growing up. It was Helen Fouché Gaines Elementary Cryptanalysis. I found it in the library in 1962 and treasured the copy my Aunt purchased for me.

This book predates the age of computers so every chapter introduces the common ciphers, including, military and diplomatic ones, in use at the time (I believe the first edition was written in 1943) along with the methods used to attack them.

Over time I worked my way through the exercises that appear at the end of each chapter. Computers make light work of these challenging puzzles now, but it’s still fun to write programs to break these old cipher systems.

Around 1987, I approached a very prominent professor in my CS program about being my Ph.D. dissertation advisor for a research project on Cryptography. He said that I should work in another area because cryptography had all been figured out and it didn’t look like there was anything interesting left in that field!
Well my uni in Canada has less than stellar co-op program. Definitely would have helped me back when i was a student or a recent graduate.
> I have a hard time seeing most places wanting to accept payment in an asset as volatile as Bitcoin.

I have an even harder time seeing any of those people who invest in bitoin using their coins for purchases.
I agree.

I'm curious though--is it true that Go brings its runtime? I'm of the impression that the runtime is only compiled in if you actually use it, but if your library is just `func Add(a, b int) int { return a + b }`, would linking against it still bring in the runtime?

And to reiterate, this is only a curiosity. Even if you could take care to avoid importing the runtime, I wouldn't think that it's worth the while.
I would think I'd rather avoid the whole issue via nerfing hitscan and high-velocity-projectile weapons, and buffing lower-velocity-projectile and melee weapons.

There have been successful FPS games with that formula (Tribes comes to mind). There are cheats/hacked clients, but they're on a much less problematic level (mostly around visibility).
Can you elaborate? I've never had problems debugging it, you can use lldb or gdb to do it.

You have a hell of a lot of control over its performance and behaviour. Are there instances where you found that wasn't the case?

As far as the understanding of C goes, I can agree with that. But we are discussing rewriting sqlite in something else after all.
Fair point. But it'll still be in the same ballpark.
How does that make the above statement any less ridiculous? Isn't that exactly what he or she is pointing out? That the system is explicitly preventing these people from serving jailtime?
no, I am not. Attorneys at the SEC made this determination based on everything they had on Holmes. Calling their decision biased against poor people vs rich people, etc, political rather than legal, etc. without any evidence is bullshit.
Yes, that's the one.

One of a very short list of films that remains with me through life that I think back to every now and then.
Thanks! This...makes a lot of sense.

Since you're focused exclusively on startups, is there any chance y'all can write up a "tools" guide for people just starting out, not just for bookkeeping? i.e. "Here's stack that new companies have a lot of luck with, that minimizes headaches and saves time: Pilot, Expensify, Gusto, Stripe etc." Speaking of which, any recommendations for things I can do now that will save me headaches down the road?
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If your language has no possibility of ffi, that's kinda an issue on that language.

Good luck using portable libraries.
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(The late, great) Pieter Hintjens wrote a short book about psychopaths, which I found fascinating. It's available for free on his site: http://hintjens.com/blog:_psychopaths
The point about Quickbook being hard to use as a barrier of entry is correct. It is indeed a feature once Quickbook is already widely used.

On the other hand, should we intentionally make a software product that's hard to use? How does it get off the ground to the point of being widely used in the first place?
Are you honestly trying to say that being black, and running a crypto scam are the same thing?
Two words: Terry Tao.

I amateurishly evaluate Terry Tao on an order of a Poincaré. He's the actual "genius" thing concept person.
We can estimate the value of AWS and marketplace by comparing to Azure, eBay, etc. So it's not that hard to put a number on those businesses. That leaves the legacy business, selling stuff on the internet. The history of "integrated" businesses is generally poor. Has your bank tried to get you to invest in a mutual fund or buy life insurance? It's natural adjacency and yet no bank has managed to make it work. Here is the former head of Amazon programming basically admitting that Netflix is impossible to compete with. Multiply across every other product category.

https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/973382126992175104
Federal agencies are explicitly affirmative authority grants. Their powers are laid out in those acts.
They can only do those things.

They cannot do other things just because "no law restricts it".

The exact authority grant is complicated.

You want:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/78d
and following sections, plus a whole bunch of stuff enacted elsewhere.

The part you are probably most looking for is:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/78u

There you can see most clearly their civil authority and what they are allowed to do.
You can see it says "Whenever it shall appear to the Commission that any person is engaged ... in acts or practices constituting a violation of {a bunch of stuff} .. it may in its discretion bring an action ... to enjoin such acts or practices ... .
The Commission may transmit such evidence as may be available concerning such acts or practices as may constitute a violation of any provision of this chapter or the rules or regulations thereunder to the Attorney General, who may, in his discretion, institute the necessary criminal proceedings under this chapter"

It then goes on to add additional monetary penalty authority that you see exercised here.
I generally agree, but I think the article goes a bit far:

> Such questions will help us to get a better grip on reality than trying to check directly the reliability of the information at issue. In a hyper-specialised system of the production of knowledge, it makes no sense to try to investigate on our own, for example, the possible correlation between vaccines and autism

There is middle ground between trusting a source because of its `reputation' and conducting trials yourself. Relying too much on reputation is also known as the "appeal to authority" fallacy.
What is the baseline accuracy if you just took a measure like team ELO and predicted based on that?
I'm going to take the cynical approach: assuming that all politicians are corrupt anyway, a newly elected senator might accept a huge amount of cash in an envelope in exchange of legislation/contracts/whatever. That will make any other senator laugh: you have to be way way way more sophisticated about it. Be paid to do a talk at some random conference (after your term), get a nice cozy seat at the board of said company you helped (after your term), etc.

If the article is correct, what this guy did is just plain stupid. But I'm not claiming you can't get away with doing something similar with good enough legal advice. This I do not know (IANAL).
I don't think Penrose's position is that you need new physics for intelligent behavior, but rather that new physics is needed to explain consciousness. There's a big metaphysical difference between the two.
You can't do that with C code either unless your project is in C (or C++?).
I really hope you weren't a product manager at Intuit.

>Second, the fact that Quickbooks is so awkward and inconsistent to use isn't a UI problem, it's a feature. This is an important lesson in designing software that people use for their jobs. When you make elegant, intuitive software that almost anyone can use in short order, it stops being an impressive item to put on a resume. And it stops being a barrier to entry for competing professionals.

A good professional product does not have "awkward or inconsistent" UI. It has consistent, useful UI that can expand as user's sophistication grows. i.e. it has a learning curve

The curve for learning an "awkard and inconsistent" UI you highlighted is useless and a detriment to SMB's everywhere. A proper SMB accounting approach would to have standard patterns for doing simple accounting with the ability to grow and extend as sophistication of your org grows.
Mono-repo -> we're focusing our efforts on few large repos

Mono-tone -> The first cryptographic Merkle-tree distributed source control system, which was a large influence on both Git and Mercurial.

Monotone was written by Graydon Hoare, who later went on to design Rust (I think he was actually designing proto-Rust at the time), so the reference to Monotone is to both Mononoke's function and implementation.
Awesome, thanks!

You said you are measuring gain from negotiation as one of your metrics. Will you be teaching the customers about negotiation techniques or actually negotiating on their behalf?
papers which are not available/are being downloaded will give that message. You can try after sometime
Declaring the internal combustion engine dead? You’re speaking too soon
Unfortunately, it's just not feasible. Salespeople are just not necessary for many day to day purchases, and the costs of a giant big box store don't work out.

Also, the information obtained from various online forums, reviews, websites and youtube could be more reliable and complete than from a salesperson. There are specialized products where a good salesperson can do wonders, but just not for much of retail.
"slang for an individual, typically male" is in the first sentence. I would assume that's the more prominent intent.

Googling "Is dude gender neutral?".... why would I even have that question if my entire community has never called that in to question in the first place?
>The true Curse of Lisp would be that Lispers are constantly de-skilling themselves.

Bollocks. You'd be surprised by seeing how many Lispers actually have great knowledge of low-level. In fact it's almost a "fashion" in the Lisp world.
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Jim Al-Khalili is an awesome science communicator - his BBC documentaries are inspiring and his enthusiasm contagious. The BBC in general has much more engaging science communicators than the US does. (Of course, Feynman lectures are still wonderful, and Phillip Morrison had some documentaries in the 80s that I remember fondly.)
The comments here betray how much of the software economy depends on developer productivity. The fact is that SQLite style verification is not practical for almost any software, very much including "mission-critical" software.
You say "tone policing", I say being respectful.
We already know this. They have a mandate for total information awareness. Collect everything. They just claim they haven't collected the data until someone views it in their database for a specific purpose, but that's misusing the word "collection" so they can pretend they aren't shitting all over the 4th amendment.
So this was complete bullshit too?:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGfaJZAdfNE
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I don't think they're claiming their statistics-based predictions are necessarily more accurate than the bookmakers' odds
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>Lisp isn't any more powerful than Javascript. Sorry.

Would you please elaborate?
"just because I disagree with you"

I asked a question. I'm not sure what there is to disagree about.
Times like this when I appreciate big government and bureaucracy. This is exactly what they should be doing. This is in the interest of the public.
I disagree. It is significantly easier to determine the semantics of arbitrary Java programs than C programs.
Regarding your first paragraph, I don't think that necessarily implies consciousness as an additional thing (not that consciousness doesn't require some explanation that is not forthcoming). You could be talking about a configuration of matter. Not an exact configuration, but one that would be recognizable to a powerful pattern matcher.
All her tweets on the subject are great

>Internet rando 2: What about people who live under oppressed governments with unsound currency

>Me: Only if the problem with their currency is that it's not volatile enough and the transaction speeds are too fast

>"People are sick of the Federal Reserve, sick of bailouts, sick of inflation. You know what we need? Internet money with the usability of PGP and the stability of BART service"
rust panics when out of memory, that would not be acceptable to sqlite3.
Many Ebay stores are operated this way. Many are sole proprietorships with themselves as the single employee. All profit goes to them but they still often barely have enough to scrape by in day to day life. Whether its called "profit" or "the cost of paying your sole employee a living wage" is mainly a semantic difference. Are these companies operating "at-cost", or earning a profit?
This is a great point (as far as it relates to demonetization). Ultimately the advertisers (and arguably the consumers those advertisers want to reach) are the ones with the power.
If I made a name for myself in journalism with honest indepth reporting that didn't skimp on the technical details, and someone said "that dudes awesome," I'd feel a little pissed.

If you saw me at a bar, forgot my name, and said "hey you're that dude from the other day" I wouldn't mind.

All about context. She's a professional and this is a professional context. "Chick" isn't a huge deal, and I'm sure you didn't mean to be offensive. But it reflects a level of informality that isn't appropriate for the situation.
The visualization he links to is pretty nice: https://rebecca-ricks.com/paypal-data/

"Credit reference and fraud" companies are pretty much tied with "marketing and public relations"; the latter seems to be about half "tracking pixel providers". Fuck ubiquitous advertising. The Space Merchants was supposed to be a satire, not a manual.
Legally obligated by what? Aren't people deported back to their country of origin all the time.

By treaty.

Why make strong promises then?
Because when he made those promises he had a Democratic Congress and a reasonable expectation of fully fulfilling his promise, which he still managed to almost fulfill despite the most hostile Congress in history.

At that level what rights are we talking about. US had been droning people including American citizens, so sure they could have taken them back and shot them.

We're not talking about civilians or soldiers. We're talking about people who deliberately and avowedly took up arms against the U.S., renounced their citizenship (U.S. and non-U.S. alike), and raped, tortured, and murdered civilians and soldiers without any attempt to follow the various treaties established for wartime conduct.
How do they know that "GUS99PWR-T BILL.COM" is a marketing expense? Do they use the fact that other users have previously classified "GUS99PWR-T BILL.COM" as 'Marketing'?
Ask HN: Why and from/to what VCS did you switch?
I'm wondering who of you switched source control systems, from and to what version control system you switched, and how you convinced your team/company? What is the size of your team? Did you convert (all) of your history? What pros/cons were the deciding factors?

About 7 years ago we switched from CVS to SVN. Primarily reasons were tooling quality and the limitations of CVS (not being able to remove folders for instance).

Currently we are considering switching from Subversion to Git. The reasons are, again, tooling (Visual Studio + Code Lens, TeamCity feature branches, nice server software in the form of Gitlab), better merging than SVN, and better client features like stashing. We also like to employ forking in some software implementations.

I love to hear what your stories are.
I'm not sure what you mean. Haskell is a small language.
1. In the contract, students agree to something called a Tax Information Authorization (https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-8821-tax-informati...) to allow us to view their tax information to verify payments if necessary. This is fairly standard practice for income share agreements.

2. Same answer as question 1. Also, just to add to this, most students are pretty honest since we're likely to be friends at the end of the program anyways.

3. They normally pay through a share of their monthly income. If they are laid off, and therefore don't make any income that month, they don't pay us anything. However, the payment is then deferred until they can pay again, for a maximum of 2 years, after which everything left is absolved. The goal is to never have anyone have to pay money they don't have.

4. 7% of the total income received. They still pay through a share of their monthly income.
That too. The deflationary nature of Bitcoin makes it really unsuitable for use as an actual currency, and of course the amount of speculation going on.
> based on everything they had on Holmes

... and a decision on when it is worth it to pursue a case. Unless the chance at conviction is zero, there is some politically determined risk threshold involved. Not only is the decision on the threshold political, but the risk itself is determined by the resources at the defendant's disposal. I am not saying that their decision is necessarily biased against poor people, but I am pointing out that there is a political stance involved no matter which way you come down on this issue.