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Hello, developer of RImind here,

I manage 4 AWS accounts for a few clients and keeping tabs on expiring RIs has been a frustrating issue for a while (not just for me it seems [0][1]).

I originally wrote RImind for my own use but over the last few months I've been improving it and making it ready for others to use.

Hope you find it as useful as I do, I'd love to hear any feedback or questions.

[0] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=53873
[1] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=217131
For Telegram haters, this means Telegram actually cares about your privacy comparing to WhatsApp, Messenger and any other IM working in Russia without problems. Anytime US government asks to share data, WhatsApp can provide it, as they probably did in Russia (guessing of course)
I'm curious what you mean by "makers" here. To me the term means end users who tinker and build their own gadgets for fun, education, or because nobody produces the thing they want. Cheap parts from China are a benefit to that group, not an expense, although shipping should be priced sustainably.
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It has already been used once in the UK:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/05/met-police-f...

I would suspect if there has already been one public announcement then it will actually have been used covertly for quite a while.
Fragmentation != decentralisation. All those XMPP servers are talking to each others, so doesn't matter where you have your account you'll be able to reach the rest of the network. Emails are working the same way
> I said graph, I didn't say which graph

You said "that graph" which, in context, I took to mean the git graph.

> Both systems still use graphs

True

> The abstraction is still the same

Not at all, since those graphs mean different things. Each makes some things easier and some things harder. For example, time is easy in git ("what did this look like last week?"). Changes are easy in Darcs ("does this conflict with that?"). Both tools allow the same sorts of things, but some are more natural than others. I think it's easy enough to use either as long as we think in its terms; learning to think in those terms may be hard. For git in particular, I think the CLI terminology doesn't help with that (e.g. "checkout").

> if you have problems with Git, you're going to have problems with either of those tools as well

Not necessarily. As a simple example, some git operations "replay" a sequence of commits (e.g. cherrypicking). I've often had sequences which introduce something then later remove it (bugs, workarounds, stubs, etc.). If there's a merge conflict during the "replay", I'll have to spend time manually reintroducing those useless changes, just so i can resume the "replay" which will remove them again.

From what I understand, in Darcs such changes would "cancel out" and not appear in the diff that we end up applying.

> Where is the exaggeration?

The idea that "uses a graph" implies "equally hard to use". The underlying datastructure != the abstraction; the semantics is much more important.

For example, the forward/back buttons of a browser can be implemented as a linked list; blockchains are also linked lists, but that doesn't mean that they're both the same abstraction, or that understanding each takes the same level of knowledge/experience/etc.
My guess is that it's almost guaranteed that you will see it in your lifetime. Probably not too far away.
"Creating a public institution with no pressure to make profit is a disaster waiting to happen."

Why?

Schools are not for-profit institutions (well, not everywhere). Police don't make a profit. Nor does the fire brigade. Or the military, for that matter.

Are all of these disasters waiting to happen?
I can get anywhere in my local city in the time it takes me to jump in my car and drive there. Comparing that with walking to a bus stop and waiting for it to get near my destination is not even remotely close, _and I wouldn't want to even if it was faster_. Talking about speed (while important) ignores the ability to instantly change your plan.

Your experience might work in a closely spaced situation (hence your odd comparison of moving at a magnitude difference velocity), where most people pick the same mall and live close to eachother, but that's not how large countries work.
In an ironic twist, complaining about the wealthy has been the Democrats’ rhetoric for as long as I can remember. Here’s some pre Trump complaints I recall...

The wealthy don’t pay their fair share. Trump: New tax plan just took away a huge source of federal tax deductions.

The wealthy ship jobs oversees. Trump: attempting to put reciprocal tariffs in place to level the playing field.

The wealthy use the government to subsidize their business. Trump: let’s stop subsidizing companies doing bulk mail and abusing the system.

The wealthy use cheap labor and we need to bolster unions. Trump: cuts work visas and attempts to remove undocumented workers that depress unskilled labor wages.

I guess this goes to show that the medium is the message. LTDVB.
In the UK I suspect this is already in place and will become more and more accurate as time goes on. That's inevitable. What concerns me is that in the US it won't be the government doing it, but it will be private companies, targetted adverts will appear as you walk past billboards (Facebook Shadow profile 12491123 is approaching billboard 9874, switch to hemorrhoid cream advert)
Of course it’s not in the fascist Obamacare and single payer model widespread in the West.

The profitable model is to work with the state to milk the taxpayer.
Um. We're engaged in 5-7 foreign conflicts at the moment. No one I know is distracted.

Tweets are cheaper and far more effective. That said, Stormy Daniels was one of the best distractions yet. Sex sells...and it distracts? :)
I'm often struck by how excessive it has become when seeing photos from history of any town.

Where once spaces were for people now they seem to be spaces to shout at the people. Marketing, ads, signs get bigger, brighter and every available surface has been turned into an ad spot. Most high streets and tourist spots have now become as attractive as a Geocities site using every available tag and font.
Slimy hit piece at Trump. But it does raise some interesting points for discussion.

As a consumer, I love Amazon. The convenience and selection are incredible.

But jobs have clearly suffered. (This is a point often raised by those on the left side of the political aisle).

What's the right thing to do, regardless of who's president?
I wish.

Providers of popular chat apps force you to use their clients only. The little XMPP support that existed is dwindling now.
Growing up in Brazil, Orkut was as popular as Facebook is now; most people had an Orkut account.

Personally, I made a few new friends, connected with some high school colleagues and met a long term girlfriend.

I miss its simplicity. The lack of a news feed was a feature, not a bug.
Couldn't they have written a better headline? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinaman_(term)
Surely, "Chinese man" and not "China man". The latter sounds close to chinaman which I think these days would be considered derogatory.
Drivers actually cannot turn on Autopilot anytime they want: it prevents you from doing so in noticeably adverse conditions.
I don’t think they leave out citations due to laziness or difficulty. It’s because the general public glazes over as more of the detail is presented. Which hurts revenue.
It’d still likely represent you better than a regular politician.
I would be content too, with deflation and the distinct lack of multiculturalism and other leftist nonsense prevalent in the West
" I could see lines in the night sky going north to south. It was deterministic, like clock work."

Even though I am open to alternative explanations, I would say it is also possible, that your knowledge of where north and south is - and your knowledge about the magnetic field - might be enough as an rational explanation.

So to prove - you would need to be able to do the same in an enviroment, where you do not know the directions ...
Can you share a source for "Russian Twitter bot armies" that can "destabilize the rest of the world"?

Also, if that was the case, I'm pretty sure a state actor (you know, the one with the supposed "bot army") wouldn' get blocked since it's state itself you wish would block Twitter.
Two reasons... it’s tranfers postal revenues to federal cash flow via bonds, and key GOP lawmakers want to make the service unsustainable to enable privatization.
"Chinese Man" would've been better yeah. I had to read it a twice before realizing that it wasn't about a China-themed super hero.
Isn't this already happening? I seem to recall similar tech being used in Superbowl, and in other cases.
If people start using these this will mean that they have accepted that public space is a hostile environment you can't enter without protection. We are building a pretty sad future society.

Addition: and our best and brightest are working at Google and Facebook to develop the necessary infrastructure.
Ha! I had precisely the same thought: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16829083
If you're looking for a traditional editor then Froala is worth every penny. It has 10x the features of all these more modern versions and still outputs solid HTML.
Literally moving the wheel or stepping on the gas stops Autopilot -- I'm not sure how that is unknown if such an action will be "correct".
Here is a relevant DEF CON talk that I found very interesting:

Surveillance Capitalism Will Continue til Morale Improves
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn5VN72ZjDE)
What is the goal?
Interactive computational neuroscience – part 1, spiking neurons
I depended where in the world one was located.

The Portuguese university where I graduated from, had an agreement with Microsoft Education, I remember visiting it several years later, and getting positively surprised that all compiler design classes had migrated to CLR as target platform.

The same classes where the first ones several years earlier to adopt Java, alongside JavaCC, soon after they got released.
Missile have their own very complex on-board guidance systems that don't require GPS at all. Newer missiles might use GPS as an extra layer of calibration, but I doubt they rely on it and most likely discard it if it's way off (otherwise GPS interference could potentially jam a missile).
Check, probably not shared for me and my friends.

That's not surprising though as I'm from Germany. And of course it's "not shared" for most Facebook users. However this is highly misleading as this is just one example of data harvesting on Facebook.
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You sure this is only for web? I got the impression that a story authored with Oak could just as easily be vectored to the web, newsprint, or magazine. Clearly video and audio content don't apply to the latter two but I can see where Oak-authored content is sucked into the print layout app(s) and more metadata (fonts? formatting?) applied that are only relevant for the dead-tree versions.
To quote from the text:

"Focus on the repeat offenders. The ideas that you keep coming back to. When I think of a new idea, I get deeply infected with it. It takes over my mind. It’s all I can think about. Over time, most of the ideas fade. But a choice few keep on coming back. Pay attention to those. You know you’ve got something good when you’re thinking about it in the shower.

Tell your friends what you’re doing. This accomplishes two goals. First, you’ll refine your idea. Conversation is a very powerful way of sharpening your own thoughts. Second, you’ll find yourself more motivated to finish your project. Another common refrain I hear is “I’m not good at self-motivating myself”. All this means is that you just don’t see the benefit of doing a certain thing. You can hack that feedback loop by committing to others (especially people you respect), who you won’t want to let down.

Make sure you enjoy thinking about it. Your primary edge as a founder will be the number of hours you spent thinking about the specific problem. Over time, you should accumulate more hours than almost anyone on earth. This will only work if it doesn’t feel like a chore. If you genuinely are fascinated by the problem."

The problem is: I love to think (and sometimes solve) deep mathematical questions. I also love to talk about them all the time. The problem is: hardly anybody except me seems to care about them. So it does not seem like a good startup idea, even though it satisfies the critera.
Gait recognition.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528835-600-cameras-...

Note that if you completely change everything about you, a system could detect that something is fishy because it can't match you with anyone.
A work-around would then be to instead mimic someone (and make sure that the someone is not being seen by any camera at the same time as you, and that they could realistically be in the same place as you).
it’s not what trump is doing, but why. It’s because Bezos owns the Washington post.

You can be sure if he owned the Washington Times, he’d be giving Bezos a discount.
The bigger question is why are China advertising this

1) Was the man actually caught by someone acting undercover and they want to protect the agent's identity with plausable deniability

2) Does the system not actually work very well (say a 1 in 100k hit rate), but they want people to think that if they are wanted, they can't hide, so they'll either turn themselves in, or be less likely to do the (unspecified) crime in the first place

3) Is there pressure that this project is overrunning/overbudget and they need a PR win to keep those higher up in the government happy
Lol, being downvoted for suggesting an OSS software I have zero affiliation with to solve an user problem. May I ask an explanation of the reason, if any?

I'm 100% aware that writing about being downvoted brings more downvotes, and I don't give a monkey's multicolored ass about it. If I can't even suggest a software to solve an user's problem then Houston we have a much much worse problem than downvoted users being downvoted for writing about downvotes.

BTW, the image I linked is the only one that comes out by searching "claws mail dark theme", just in case someone thinks I'm affiliated with that other site and is too lazy to check.

HN: what about forcing users to give a short reason for downvoting? This time I know I'm 100% right but newbies (including myself when I landed here) have a hard time figuring what's wrong in their fading posts without any explanation. Post ratings should strive to be accurate because everyone benefits from it; I can't think of an useful information being hidden because some trigger happy users or their bosses don't like it.
> deliberately implemented in a manner which allows the operators to intercept the vast majority of the chats on the platform.

Could you elaborate on this please? Are you just referring to the fact that the default settings don't enforce encryption or is there more to it?
Mind you, I have a biz address for the important mail, 95% of what comes to my home is junk mail. I don't need that daily.

I would imagine 3 days a week (M+W+F and T+T+S) would be fine for residential.

The problem is, that entails jobs being cut. That's a political no-go. This will never happen any time soon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-Zenith_Satellite_System#...

"QZSS uses three satellites, each 120° apart, in highly inclined, slightly elliptical, geosynchronous orbits. Because of this inclination, they are not geostationary; they do not remain in the same place in the sky. Instead, their ground traces are asymmetrical figure-8 patterns (analemmas), designed to ensure that one is almost directly overhead (elevation 60° or more) over Japan at all times."
>>Without their 'hustle' and willingness to take steps which were risky, relatively antisocial, and often illegal (e.g. entering cities illegally first and asking for permission later, organising pretty challenging pressure campaigns against local politicians, authorities, etc.) they'd not have made it past a year, let alone revolutionised an industry.

Are you kidding? If SpaceX was able to break ULA’s monopoly on launching god damn rockets to space and do it in a way that doesn’t break laws and regulations, Uber certainly could have done the same in the taxi industry.
I think it’s no different to eg Florida man...
Robot cognition requires machines that both think and feel
There's a space between the two words.

'China man' seems like a good way to suggest both the nationality and gender of the person, and the location of the incident, towards the beginning of the headline.
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It included the Sonos One, but none of their other models because they aren't smart speakers.
YouTube is littered with mass-produced videos made by automated bots
> I didn't know Backpage was a thing until this news cycle, I guess I assumed that people who knew about it also know about other sites. Was this the only site online facilitating prostitution?

It was the big name. It was the only one I'd heard of other than craigslist, and I thought craigslist shut down that section years ago.

> Some of the stories by sex workers talk about using Backpage to network and vet Johns which implies to me that most users were regulars.

It implies most clients of the kind of sex worker who participates in these discussions were regulars. It wouldn't necessarily be the same for trafficked women and children which is the case we're actually trying to stop. And even if it is, presumably there's some level of turnover; making it harder for new people to get into unconsenting sex slaves is still a win even if it does nothing about the existing client population.

> likely end up on another site with even more features and less oversight

Sounds like no oversight would be better than the oversight backpage had, if all that oversight did was hide that ads for children were for children while still letting those ads run.

> operating on TOR

I very much doubt it. Tor is a massive faff to use; maybe some people will move to a hidden site but it will be a big barrier to entry if so.
10 years (by law) for structural issues.
If the headline had read "Chinese man", I would have assumed the incident took place somewhere in the US.
Perhaps they already are
The most well-written review from Amazon is also the sole dissenter. And the one I trust:

“I'm a few chapters in and it's hard to keep going.

The idea that I'm left with is that Tim Draper is absolutely insufferable to be in the same room with. In every story, he is the "hero", an amazing crusader who never makes a bad decision and is prescient about tomorrow. Some of the stories are interesting, but if you took Guy Raz's question on "How I Built This" and asked Draper about how much of his success was luck versus skill, the impression is that he does not believe in luck.

Case in point - the chapter on his bucket list, and how many things he has done on it, comes in at 25 pages.
The very next chapter is on treating people well, and it is 4 pages.

Which type of person would you admire?

If you want to read stories of an age gone by, where he is the star of the story for being in the right place and the right time, with lots of privilege (including family money to start a venture fund, and a HBS degree), then this is the book. Also, if you want to read poetry that he has written and included at the end of each chapter, this is also the book you are looking for. I just can't imagine that he didn't know someone who had the courage to take him aside and say, "Tim, this is a dreadful idea. Don't put poetry in your book." But having money means you get to do stupid things and people won't stop you.

The current top positive review mentions behind the scenes stories on a bunch of big named companies that he noticed when he "flipped" through the book. That must have been all that he did, or he would have noticed the stories have as much substance as name dropping at a cocktail party. Tesla, Skype, etc. "I met a guy, who knew another guy, and I wrote a check. I'm totally amazing." If he were to compare the stores of the also-rans, the ones that didn't go alongside them, he would have my respect, but this isn't a book worth the digital paper it's printed on.

I had hoped for so much more. If you read the intro and feel similarly, Ben Horowitz's book is likely the one you are looking for.”
...And there you have it, in seven crisp words: a succinct explanation of why and how "health-care" becomes "health-exploitation" when it is primarily or exclusively a profit-seeking endeavor.

In theory, competitors would step in with cheaper, faster cures, preventing the exploitation of patients.

In reality, many if not most patients find themselves at the mercy of medical offices and hospitals which are themselves seeking to maximize profit and therefore have strong financial incentives to prefer expensive, ongoing treatments over cheap, fast cures.
"The divide aims to tackle problems such as major population growth, sky-high housing prices and increasingly congested commutes."

All three problems are self inflicted. Some have labelled Australia a "Population Ponzi". We could just stop doing it to ourselves. But then house prices might collapse, followed by the banks, and no land owner wants that. Apparently just reducing the intake is not an option. [1]

[1] https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/four-corners-fails-...
But is the real official the script or is it the person/persons running the script?
Anecdotally, the zestimate on my home purchase (in 2016) was off by ~30% (the zestimate was too high).
> It's much simpler to only hold references to a user (UserID) and then if you need to forget that a user you simply burn whatever is behind that UserID.

But if someone was a user of your service and your services included say photo or video hosting, and you delete their name, their phone number and such, but all of the data you don’t delete still reference a common user ID, then that all of your data can still be related back to an identifiable person.

If instead of holding reference to the user id on the data themselves you have separate table for data ownership that is one step better.

I.e you have all data stored separately and each piece of data has a guid, and you have the user profile separate with a guid and then you have separate tables tying data guid to user guid and when you delete a profile you delete both the user profile and the tables that tie data to that user profile guid.

However I think even that is not enough.

Yes it’s hard to implement full deletion, but you are the one that chose to accept data in the first place. If you can’t implement a system where the data can be deleted you shouldn’t be accepting that data in the first place IMO.

Because even if you delete the references to the data, the individual pieces of data can still be tied back together with data analysis. For example by looking at meta data in pictures, or looking for artifacts that come from lens scratches.

Also, even if you delete references of ownership of an image, probably you aren’t deleting records of comments that other people made on the photo, because if you went to that extent you probably could have just deleted the data proper, so then with access to the image and knowing what other people commented it will likely be possible to determine who originally uploaded that photo.
Young Japanese are surprisingly content

They are less so when they think about the future

That subtitle completely changes the context of this article.
Storytelling Trends Will Be Future Success in SMM