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Would this have appeared here is it wasn't hosted on github?

Don't get me wrong, I am quite interested in fermentation (I make my own sauerkraut for probiotics), but it seems strange for it to appear at number one on the front page of HN.
I would strongly recommend getting a digital kitchen scale (cost is under $30) and measuring water and flour in repeatable weights. A volume of flour is just not a consistent weight - it can be packed loose or tight.
> fairly certain you can't use Microsoft downloaded iso for an oem

ISOs downloaded through Microsoft's Windows Media Creation Tool [1] will read the product key from the BIOS of OEM PCs that were sold with Windows 10 and will auto-activate when connected to the Internet.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10
Eh, yes, ueber is a great example for progressive captialism. Take a pre-existing buisness model, hijack it from its tenants, wrap it in a run of the mill app - and proclaim yourself da Vinci, for the heist.

PS: Sorry, i think your choice of ueber was ment ironic?
Every argument you just made goes for the other side too, I have equity and bonus' which are not tied to my salary which double it fairly easily.

So, at the end of the day, it's all about purchasing power. Which is very different depending on what economic band you're in and what place you live.

For instance, there's no question that Bill Gates would be worse off in the Swedish tax system than the US one.. but that's not true of all people.
Applied ~2 years ago for a frontend job there, spend half a day answering the initial questions, never got ANY response from them. I mean - a short "Thank you, but no thank you" note would have been just fine. Landed the perfect remote job shortly after.
Corporate execs organize companies that deliver value to society ... or they won't be execs for long.

Socialist bureaucrats ... they "justify" their place in society the way the people at the DMV do.
Those suggestions have nothing to do with merchants. Those would be changes to banks and the financial system.
Their debt is already rated junk. Any new debt comes with huge interest rate. Tesla's whole future is tied to Model 3 sales. They don't have another change if it fails.
Ask HN: Stripe where users pay for time they spent in the App
Are there any services like Stripe, where users don’t need to buy monthly subscription? Instead they will pay only for time they spent in the App. Payment protocol on “crypto currencies” provides an ability to do that. User will be not overcharged, app’s owner will be sure that he will receive money from user for the time spent.

For better explanation please see,
https://blog.request.network/introducing-continuous-payments-a61132332984

Does anybody need that service? I need a feedback from you guys
One of the 28 is the Commission President (currently Jean-Claude Juncker) proposed by the European Council[5] and elected by the European Parliament.[6] The Council of the "European Union then nominates the other 27 members of the Commission in agreement with the nominated President, and the 28 members as a single body are then subject to a vote of approval by the European Parliament.[7] The current Commission is the Juncker Commission, which took office in late 2014."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission

Council represent individual governments and European Parliment is elected. Commision is also elected by above. This system ensures that power is distributed between executive and legislature. By extension of the democratically elected European Parliament, legislature sooner or later trickle down to individual countries.

Compare this to the US with total chaos. Where president did not win by popular vote. Elections are rigged by gerrymandering. Senat is pushing for a legislature that is ignored in half of the states. President is doing executive orders that are either illegal or overreach his competences. FBI is messing with elections by running the public show.

Maybe EU move slowly, but I like this process.
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I love this geek / hobbist way to approach cooking. Do you know any other books / websites / youtube channels with the same format?

I enjoy watching French Guy Cooking [1] (he even has a video series about making your own bread which is quite good) but never found other sources with the same format.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/FrenchGuyCooking/featured
From the README:

>Learn how to master the art of baking the programmer way. If you love programming, you will also enjoy breaking some bread. A/B test, iterate and ultimately become a self taught baker. This repo is dedicated to becoming your bread manifesto with useful tricks and hacks. Furthermore the goal is to illustrate how easy making bread is and that you can get started today without expensive tools.
This could even be 2*N.
> When TSB split from Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), a move forced by the EU as a condition of its taxpayer bailout in 2008, a clone of the original group’s computer system was created and rented to TSB for £100m a year.

> That banking system was a “bodge of many old systems for TSB, BOS, Halifax, Cheltenham and Gloucester and others” that had resulted from the “nightmare” integration of HBOS with Lloyds as a result of the banking crisis, according to one insider who had extensive access to and intimate knowledge of LBG and TSB’s internal systems over a prolonged period.

That sounds completely crazy. If you've got £100m a year in IT budget, why on earth would you buy a clone of Frankenstein?

You could hire a fine team of devs to build you a modern system. Then again, I'm not the kind of guy who believes in "never rewrite" which seems to be the advice.

> On Thursday he admitted the bank was on its knees, announced that he was personally seizing control of the attempts to fix the problem from his Spanish masters, and had hired a team from IBM to do the job.

This doesn't give me much confidence, either. Hiring outside help is a Coase problem. You're going to find frictions dealing with the externals. And it will cost you, I'm guessing, at least £100M a year.

With that kind of budget, and with IT being more or less all a retail bank does, you should hire hundreds of experienced staff, make them integral to the business, and let them solve the issues as they appear to the business units. When things happen they will have an idea of what the priorities are. There are plenty of software people who understand how banking works, and what systems are needed. Go and hire them.
> 2% bp not total weight.

Where bp stands for... what?

> Should probably clarify since this isn't a baking audience.

Yes please.
> at some point the boards of these banks should realize that technology is a core competency

The regulator already has. Some years ago they fined NatWest after an IT issue because the management processes and technology risk management was not robust; I'd expect that they'll take a very hard look at this case.
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You can buy gift cards with the
cash. Gift cards as a concept are so funny to me. As a recipient, I would always want cash over a gift card. As a gift giver, I'd think "if I was receiving this gift, I wouldn't want a gift card, so why would I give it to someone else".

But they exist, and they're huge. Obviously merchants love them for the float and captive customer spending more than the gift card balance. Businesses might love them to give out to employees since it's not taxed income, and similarly, money launderers would like them.

I guess I could see some niche use, like wanting to give a child funds for a movie ticket, but to avoid them using it for other purposes you restrict it by giving a movie gift card. But I don't see that supporting a large market.
Perhaps in volume, but do not forget that China puts out vast quantities of fabricated or stolen work.
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A personal anecdote, yesterday I was thinking about using Maxima versus R (using rstudio) for a three session of 1.5 hours (total 4.5 hours) to cover statistics and probability. Using dice = sample(1:6,100,rep=T) and table(dice) you hit a wall, there isn't an intuitive way to extract the counts, and you need something like as.data.frame(table(dice))$freq, which I don't like. Maxima use ":" for assignment, R can use "=" or "<-". I would like to see "<-" as a general symbol for assignment and using "=" in maxima and R for other uses like equations and default parameters. I prefer seq(1,10) or 1:10 to makelist(i,i,1,10). What I am trying to communicate is that all those open source projects use different syntaxes and that is not a good design for users. Mathematica wins in this field because it unifies the syntax. But Maxima and R are both inspired by Lisp, and Julia has also some macro capabilities. If someone is able to unify the syntax it would be great. We have data.frames and data.tables and non standard evaluation and a lot of concepts that to be useful must be framed in a common context, otherwise we are doomed to a babel tower, or in more practical terms, users are going to choose propietary software because it is designed to make them productive. Python with numpy and pandas is another option but for 4.5 hours I prefer the simplicity of lm(y ~ x) to create a linear model model to other options. I don't know if a smooth transition can be established between a simple language (rich context) and a general one.
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Yeah that's for Windows 10 (and 8)with UEFI and secureboot. This is a recycler and the systems described are mostly win7 and xp sp3. I don't think that installer will work for SLIC OEM keys in oldskool bios.
This isn't new..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16428671
Agree. Though from my point of view I would say that the damage to Microsoft might not be the loss of sale (as the article points out, if those thing do not cost a quarter, they shouldn’t cost much more), but the reputational risk to Dell and Microsoft of someone printing disks with their logo on it which for all I know could contain viruses.
> CPU/GPU resources and mine your own currency.

There is no need to money launder money you have mined yourself.
Ask HN: Stripe where users pay for time they spent in the App
Are there any services like Stripe, where users don’t need to buy monthly subscription? Instead they will pay only for time they spent in the App. Payment protocol on “crypto currencies” provides an ability to do that. User will be not overcharged, app’s owner will be sure that he will receive money from user for the time spent.
For better explanation please see, https://blog.request.network/introducing-continuous-payments-a61132332984

Does anybody need that service? I need a feedback from you guys
You can't just say 'hey guys we'll build you a new system, see you in two years'. It's about the migration path, it always is, building new systems is easy.
I have an account, tried logging in the other day just to see how screwed it was and actually had no issues at all so I guess not everyone is affected (I tried on like Thursday so after the worst of it was done I believe)
Oh? So you mix it and just stash it in the fridge for a while?
Identity vs. Permissions
I grow weary of the spate of X-driven-development methodologies that have sprung up over the years. They try to simplify the problems faced by a very complex analysis and construction process down to a single thing. I don't think it's ever one thing...
That was the system they already had, spinning out a clone of the old one they were using was presumably seen as the easiest way to separate the two banks. And for all the negative press it got in that article, it did at least work...
He’s telling people about his experience of applying to Zapier in the comments to a post about Zapier. It’s relevant and no more gives the impression of being sour grapes than the people who don’t interview at Google after two rounds of apply again next year when Google recruiters email them.
How is “use cash to buy computing resources, mine bitcoins and keep them, convert them to cash as needed” money laundering? In that case, the much easier “keep the cash in a box and take it out as needed” solves the problem in a much simpler way.
And for that you believe he should be put in prison for 15 months?

At most this should be a civil issue between 2 private parties where monetary damages are awarded, not a criminal case where a person faces prison times.
Having read A Death in the Andes and 1492 and having spent a few months in the Andes myself, it didn't surprise me to read that this child sacrifice included llamas and was likely an attempt to appease supernatural forces as plagues and natural disasters threatened precolombian civilizations. The Andes are a very strange superstitious place even today. Native cultures and traditions are still present. Llama sacrifice is extremely common and can be seen regularly in the open. When I was there I even heard plenty of rumors that human sacrifice is still practiced fairly regularly. Usually they'll sacrifice the mentally ill, homeless or other societal outcasts, luring them into pits that have been dug to lay the foundation for new buildings. It's believed that burying sacrifices in a building's foundation will protect it from harm and bring it prosperity. I wonder what kinds of studies have been done on exact how common these types of sacrifices really are now.
Tax on money from unknown source is 75% in my country. Plus probably police investigation if it is bigger sum.
> Carrillo’s arrest highlights pitfalls in ICE’s digitally driven search for the deportable. At the core of the hunt are massive federal databases containing records on citizenship, crime, foreign travel, education and work.

ICE should not be using these databases for this purpose. This is a really low quality way to do police work. The amount of water you need to pump through the baleen to get a meal has to be enormous and foreign key relationships will be some substring match. Using these databases as the source of the crime will be so rife with errors as to be unethical. This is not unlike the famous case, Buttle vs Tuttle [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/nWbIxFKtTmE?t=91
BIOS embedded Lic started to appear with windows 7. Windows XP did not have have BIOS embedded Software Licenses but windows 7 did via some vendors (Dell was one of them)
... until you think about what this means for CPS, and mental health services/institutions. Then the police actions seem positively polite.
Before the law some legal persons are more equal than other legal persons.

This seems to be yet another case of non-natural legal persons having more rights than natural persons.

Whenever in 'doubt', rule in favor of the more generous tithe collector...
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Look into food science and biotech journals and other industrial literature. Heston Blumenthal's cookbooks also read more like lab manuals than most, and he takes advantage of common scientific instrumentation to create precise and reproducible recipes. Just learning basic lab methods is enough to make you a significantly more insightful cook.

If you're mostly interested in bread, I found Daniel Leader's books to be excellent guides. "Local Breads" in particular goes into the many different levain and biga/sponge methods and the regional sourdoughs that use them.
Same in France, prescribed by actual medical doctors.
Tramps, hobos and bums are probably far from the interests of most HN readers. I've had my share of experience with the American "down and out" class, and John Free's stories were wonderful (and sad) to listen to. It reminded me of old friends, and that a documentary photographer is a human being first and foremost.
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Show HN: Generating fun Stack Exchange questions using Markov chains
Hi everyone, I hope you like my latest side project!

I'm an astronomy student who likes programming in his free time. This time I wanted to write something that handles larger amounts of data. And as I recently came across the Stack Exchange data dump including all questions and answers I had the idea of using them to create Markov Chains for (nearly) every Stack Exchange site.
The website displays the resulting content, which is often surprisingly coherent and entertaing, and allows upvotes/downvotes so that the best questions get to the front page.
And as a bonus, I created a quiz where one can guess which site a random question is based on.

If you are interested in my other projects, check out https://lw1.at, if you want to see the code, everything is Open Source and can be found here: https://github.com/Findus23/se-simulator

Please excuse the very minimal design, but after writing a lot of Single Page Applications I wanted to go the oposite way and write a website with less than 25KB.
I see people repeat this lie often, it is completely false

the OEM Licensees is tied to the Mainboard of the System, it is forever linked to that Mainboard, you can transfer that mainboard to other owners with out issue and it is still a licensed copy of windows.

Please stop spreading this lie
The fact that developed nations spend 10% of GDP on healthcare belies this. (That fraction is significantly higher in the US.) The potential market for viable treatments to extend human lifespan is in the trillions. Maybe some individuals don't care about death because they are carefree people, but society as a whole seems convinced it's something to fight. It's a revealed preference, from how much money we spend to stay healthy.

Let's put it another way: do you think pharmaceutical companies and academics aren't trying hard enough to attack this multidimensional problem? Who seems to be lacking urgency?
Surely this is primarily a question of willpower. Before you go to bed, commit to this action: when the alarm goes off, I will immediately get up. It quickly becomes habit.
At most this should be a civil issue between 2 private parties where monetary damages are awarded, not a criminal case where a person faces prison times.
Agreed. It was much worse before. Items were sold on craiglist or gumtree. They are completely filled with scams, send cash by mail and never receive the item. Noone sane would buy an item online.
And shut down your entire operation while said team worked?

The problem is that the average banks system is a kind of Frankenstein tree that have grown inside and around every policy, procedure and task the bank performs without any coherent design and with several dozen loosely coupled component each with is own poor and fragmented documentation.

And while it's typically only required to remain up 16-18 hours a day you have a zero allowance for unplanned downtime and a fairly high peak load which along with the age and complexity of some of the components make the entire systems a nightmare to run on a tight budget.

And it's worth nothing that the system that failed was not the Frankenstein system they inherited from Lloyds but the new one they tried to import from Spain.
He shouldn't be in prison, but it's a well established bit of law that copyright infringement as a business is a criminal offence, and not just a civil tort. This is present is several jurisdictions.
More or less - bulking up the starter and putting it in the fridge (7 degrees) but leaving some in a new batch of bread at 2o degrees.
If you try bulking up a starter with high grade white flour you notice a difference pretty fast too.
CVE-2018-1308 XXE Apache Solr 1.2 to 6.6.2 and 7.0.0 to 7.2.1
Having gotten hosed in the past by a Shangainese tailor (largely my fault - wasn't nearly specific on my ask), I'd actually really appreciate the reference. Contact details in my profile if you really don't mind.
Yeah I see what you mean. I guess it helps define the edge once the rest of the red comes in.
I don't unfortunately know. Their Purpurhvedebrød [1] is very nice with walnuts and cranberries. It got me thinking I'd like to try making it. The recipe mentions 'young sourdough'.

[1] https://www.meyersmad.dk/lav-mad/opskrifter/purpurhvedebrod/
When presented with a selection of vegetables and other ingredients a good cook could make a nice meal by just making stuff up. Want a thicker sauce? Reduce it more, or maybe thicken with flour, it's up to you. You can just taste and adjust as you go.

You can't do that when baking. If you add too much liquid to a batter you can't just add flour to make it perfect again. You'll ruin the other ratios. You can't just bake it at any temperature in any sized pan for any amount of time. When it comes out will either be cooked or not. If you burnt the outside then it's ruined.

A good cook can consistently produce great meals without any recipes whatsoever. A baker cannot.
You're right, code generation is not a new concept, and the fact that it isn't used more indicates that most developers who have experienced it find that it creates more pain points than they're willing to deal with:

- It tends to be done ad-hoc, often by that developer who left the company two years ago, and now no-one now really knows how to improve it, but they aren't willing to throw it away either due to the re-work required to move away from the generated code.

- The generated code is ugly, or in obscenely huge files.

- Developers can too easily find their handwritten code overwritten, without even a warning.

- Otherwise simple tasks are complicated due to the generated, "impossible" to change, code getting in the way.

- Code is generated off of models in formats which don't play well with source control management software.

Despite these pain points, over the years myself and people I have worked with on LOB projects, have found it invaluable and contributing not only to very substantially faster delivery times, but, more significantly, resulting in substantially improved software quality.

Without trying to make my comment about promoting it, the above paragraph is why a bunch of us, all of whom had experience with code generation, decided to create a startup to build a product to which overcomes all the above stated problems.

So I am very interested to hear more about your experience with your "big version control hell", because we feel we are well aware of that problem and feel our solution is good, but that's just our own opinion.
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Maybe try car plate sql injection. :D
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I can vouch since I live here too (sadly), there are barely any news of this worldwide and even internally, but consumer-wise it is complete shitfest - PSN is blocked, part of Google is blocked; amazon, akamai, digitalocean - partly blocked and the pool of blocked addresses grows every day.
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I worked in two big banks.

It is not easy. Many regulations and existing legacy systems result in systems build around FTP and flat files. Bussiness side also does not have a clue, sometimes it is very difficult to tell why someone made a decision 10 years ago since nothing is documented.

The only hope is to replace systems one by one and make gradual migrations. Problem with this approach is that you need to add new interfaces to existing legacy systems and add some crazy stuff to the new system.

Above would be possible if you can hire top talent and retain it for many years. With current IT market, it is not possible. Even google and facebook that pay way above market struggle to retain people for more than two years. Additionally, business domain is boring and technology is outdated.
It reminded me of a Wired article from 2015 about a guy with the last name "Null" - https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/