skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i was thinking this too. carving or manipulation time frame methods would be good but out side of possible tools used i dont see it yet and even then it gives a time frame and posibility not neccissarily an actuality. this is an interesting piece though non the less.
Samsung, Hynix and Micron Slapped W Class Action Suit Over DRAM Supply Collusion
> they literally couldn't print out their badge

I still don't quite get how this doesn't work. Why are they handling "NULL" as a special case? What's coercing "NULL" into null?
“Next time you make a seemingly obvious mistake, don't feel too bad. Even Twitter did it.”

There most infamous “mistake”, at least as I see it, was neglecting to backup their database data. That was just unforgivable.
People in that kind of setting don't care about your identity, they care about your contributions.

People are encouraged to stay on-topic (nowadays known as: cyber-bullying) rather than spamming the site with irrelevant personal details.
Guess you'll be even more surprised to learn that Venmo absolutely does chargebacks! Go read their user agreement:

https://venmo.com/legal/us-user-agreement/
You are correct. Your method of keeping the starter will over time select the culture that is best suited for your method of keeping, from available gene pool.
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National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) Recruitment 2018
> We already get to live 2-3 times as long as our ancestors

Not really, at least those that survived long enough to become our ancestors. When you take childhood mortality out of the mix, the numbers don't look that different than our current life expectancy. The other thing pulling the curve down in previous eras is the high rate of death for women in childbirth.

If you dodged those bullets, and didn't get knocked on the head or cut down by a major epidemic, living into your 60s or 70s has pretty much always been possible.
A more plausible explanation would be the that South Korea's Conservative hawkish president Park Geun-hye was replaced by Moon Jae-in who is more open to negotiations with North Korea.
I didn’t think people like you actually existed.
Wow. Problem one: applicant writes "no plate" instead of leaving it blank or writing in a crossed line. Problem two: so do the law enforcement officials! The former is a silly mistake; the latter should be a learning opportunity.
Google brings a lot of design changes to the Chrome on Windows 10
Not death, but aging. From the "Moral" section in the end

> Our situation with regard to human senescence is closely analogous and ethically isomorphic to the situation of the people in the fable with regard to the dragon
Fischer Random / Chess960 is my favourite variant because it negates the rote learning of opening sequences, but still captures the rest of the game. It’s really fun.
That ironic feeling when crony statist capitalists already have complete and total control over the economy

It's just socialism by another name, and with different recipients (namely corporate execs instead of the median human being)
Apache BookKeeper 4.7.0 released
Sourdough cultures are not only about how they produce taste directly but also about how the yeast and bacteria interact and how quickly they grow. For example, yeast that grows faster will produce different results than yeast that grows slower. It depends on you whether you want fast or slow rise times.

For example, I prefer slower rise times, my doughs frequently ferment at room temperature for 24 and even up to 48 hours in extreme cases and still produce nice bread.

I do this for aroma but also for convenience. I like to be able to shape the dough in the evening and don't worry about it and put it in the oven in the morning. It grows so slowly that it can easily accommodate few hours of change in schedule or 1 or 2 digrees shift in temperature.
I don’t think there’s a problem with their retraction. Shall the original story remain there, (and maybe also indexed by Google,) won’t that do exactly the same harm to the alleged site owner what the story claimed to had been done to the “victim”?

To unpublish the story may lose some informative and educational value for the public, but since NPR's notice is detailed enough to explain what happened, such value should give way to the protection to the wrongly-indicted site owner.
DataSketches(Yahoo): stochastic streaming algorithms
Except the Swiss didnt invent chocolate. South Americans did.
The cookie law only affects you if you'd otherwise be tracking your users/visitors. So if you're just using cookies for login sessions and other primary functions of your site you don't need to ask for permission. And honestly, I'm happy to be aware of the tracking websites do.
Money laundering regulations are one of those things that started out with good intentions (prevent people who obtain money via theft or fraud from being able to spend it in the legitimate economy) but has now morphed into a kafkaesque burden that isn't obviously a net positive for society.

This is one of the reasons I'm a big fan of cryptocurrency. Your service would not have been shut down by the payment processor if you were able to handle the money yourself without relying on a third party.

The world probably hasn't reached the point where going cryptocurrency-only would be viable for your service, but onerous anti-money laundering regulation is just pushing more people towards cryptocurrency, at the margin.
Ahhh, interesting! I literally only googled the problem earlier today. It seems venmo's site lied to me then. It quite literally said

"It is not possible to cancel a payment without the consent of the payee".

Aka, if i give you money and you say you don't want it, you can cancel the payment.

But on Amazon or Ebay, you pay me for an Xbox, I ship it, and 3 days later "IT'S BROKEN" and I lose all my profit + shipping fees
Seems somewhat irrelevant, he was sentenced for selling ”counterfeit software” but what he sold was fake branded recovery discs. That is to say he sold a tool that could put the operating system into a working state, not cracked install cds.
London: Homicides up 44%, robbery up 36%, knife crime up 21%, rape up 18.39%
Your list is missing one key point, although it is alluded to between the lines:

> American agriculture, like much of American industry, has optimised [a select number of food items] for the highest possible production at the lowest possible prices.

It should be a lot cheaper to eat healthy. The current market makes little economic sense: the prices do not reflect the resource intensity of producing meat vs the same amount of healthier plant-based foods (I'm not even arguing that we should all go vegetarian or vegan - there simply is a huge lack of leafy greens in the Western diets).
I think a comment is also an appropriate response. For reference, see your response.
USB regulation imposed by the EU is a fantastic idea (in theory, at least). The amount of waste in the form of old proprietary device chargers is quite staggering and it poses an environmental problem. If all devices use USB, then this waste is somewhat reduced.

‘Almost every household is believed to have gathered a number of old chargers – estimated to generate more than 51 000 tons of electronic waste per year in the EU.’ [1]

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/electrical-engineering/re...
To save us talking about ill defined social policies, I'm going to quickly define them (I'm not being condescending, it is easy for people to infer meaning from things like this)

* Capitalism is an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

* Communism a theory or system of social organization in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs.

* Socialism is a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

Doing any single one of these is a possible disaster, I won't get into the theories here, but lets assume extremes are unhealthy.

Now, you're inferring that Europeans are "lax commies" which would mean that the goal is to get everything into the public hands. That's not quite the case, in fact it's not the case at all honestly, so it's not communism.

Secondly, you refer to Europe as one political and economic model, it's not, there are many for instance the Nordic regions have their own model which is often referred to as "Nordic Capitalism" or "Nordic Social Democracy"[0]

Finally, and I know this one is quite hard: Europeans typically are not nationalistic. Given that the rise of nationalism is seen as being very closely followed by facism; nationalism is a dirty word, and if you were to be described as "nationalist" it would be considered an insult in many European countries by the majority of the population. The principle problem here is that "patriotism" is synonymous with "nationalism". And Americans are very "patriotic", meaning any criticism of the country as a complete functioning system is met with hostility because so many people are so sensitive of the subject.

I know it's hard to be objective when you've been drilled that your way of life is objectively "better" or "freer", but its often good to take a step back and look at the system so that - at the very least - you can hold your government to account for "why can't we do healthcare too, since we pay more per person for it in taxes anyway".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
One has to be really in thrall to an ideology to write
" (a manifesto) ... needs to have the power of a Beethoven symphony, urging us to become agents of a future that ends unnecessary mass suffering and to inspire humanity to realise its potential for authentic freedom. No manifesto has better succeeded in doing all this than the one published in February 1848 at 46 Liverpool Street, London."

How about an evidence-based cost/benefit analysis?
> while cooking is more about knowing your ingredients and tasting as you go, baking absolutely requires strict adherence to a recipe.

I am not sure I agree (or maybe I don't understand).

It is fairly common to mix a dough and have a recipe step like "when it's smooth and doesn't stick" or "when the consistency is of a thick goo".
Ambient humidity, what sort of surface you use for kneading, temperature of your leaving chamber or fridge, age of the yeast etc... all affect dosage and process, so you need the equivalent of "tasting" anyway, it's just that you check stuff with your hands rather than your mouth.

And the same ease applies to cooking: you can make an edible stew as easily as you can make an edible loaf of bread.
It's just when you try to make harder/better stuff that you need to stick to a recipe (think: pate a bombe for tiramisù)
Plain text is already a numeric encoding of information. Any file is just a big number in binary. If it is illegal for me to sell your credit card number in plaintext then surely the same should apply to encoding the same information in some other trivial way. Talking about "illegal primes" is supposed to make it sound ridiculous, but you could just call it illegal information exchange. Most people would agree at least some forms of information exchange should be illegal - threats, stolen passwords or stolen private pictures for example.

Context and intention matters for the law - if your message is a numerically encoded death threat and the intended recipient already knows how to decode it (e.g because you sent the key in a previous message) then it would be reasonable to call the cops.

Whether the CSS key should be illegal to share is a different discussion.
Look at my karma! I'm clearly oppressed, too. My down-voters are the reason I am experiencing great distress, needless anxiety, etc. Do they care? Of course not, but they expect me to care about their well-being.

P.S. You actually have been down-voted. Hilarious. Some people are seriously deluded.

EDIT: Immediately down-voted, shit, I'm going to continue whining about it instead of not giving a crap. What a hostile, and racist environment! I might as well be black, you bully! Stop giving me mental distress with your down-votes! I feel unwelcome!

EDIT 2: This comment has been flagged and people are unable to see the irony in that. Fascinating.

What if I really do experience mental distress and all of the above? I could literally copy paste those whiners' comments and still get down-voted while they are being protected. Why am I not being protected on the same basis? :(

Is it because you believe I'm lying? Am I not weak enough for you?
Define "kind" and define "better for everyone".
Apach Joshua Incub. statistical machine translation
Thanks for that. Tech jouralism really is dead I guess.

In the articles I read nobody seemed to know you need an OEM cert to activate an OEM key and nobody bothered to read the exhibit where they talk about ebay'ing discs for $30-$40 and getting a steady cash stream.
Not sure how you would launder money through crypto. Let say a drug dealer has $100k worth of dirty cash. He or she could buy $500 amazon gift cards from most stores and launder it through their market place by buying the books.

How would someone do it with crypto? Know your customer(KYC) laws would require legitimate bitcoin sellers to verify you identity. I assume this even true for bitcoin ATMs. Trying to launder $100k this way would a generate suspicious activity(SAR) report to the government.
The whole death-worshipper thing in this fable is so deeply flawed that's its fatal to the whole argument.

The author frames the "death worshipper" as wrong because the dragon is an obviously artificial threat that came along one day and imposed its will on humanity, that there was a time before the dragon that the worshippers are ignoring.

As an analogy for death, this is a crock, frankly.
It's almost as if "they literally just have to show you 280 characters" is a bit of an oversimplification.
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Seems like the upper end for my skillset is $168k with an average of around $130k

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-infrastruct...

software developer is even less paid it seems:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-software-de...
I think the key point here is that a solution that may work for some people is to be disciplined about working with the grain of your mind, instead of against it.

In exercise people often think the harder you work the stronger you'll get. But actually eating, eating at the right times, and resting are just as important.
The copyright infringement on the packaging is blatant, but valuing recovery disks as full operating system installers is an equally blatant lie.
But how is money from a fraudulent Amazon account actually "laundered"? I mean, wouldn't you want to launder such iffy income?
This is not a helpful argument.

Please try to rebuff his points if you don't agree with them.
But a lot of us like freedom and democracy. And given than my grandpa stilll has a number tatooed on his wrist, I really wish people would start taking human database as a threat. The potential for abuse is way too great to be ignored.
Capture One 11.1.0.135 for Mac with Crack Key
“I’ve come to view degrees as primarily acting as precommitment mechanisms”
http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php

First sentence, “An array in PHP is actually an ordered map.”
> The original license holder cannot transfer the OS license (unless a company is being bought by other company) so using the serial on the sticker of a refurbished PC by the new owner is generally illegal.

Wow. That's godawful if true.
> Probably the damages for MS come from refurbishers "assisting" their customers to install OS from repair CDs using serials from stickers left from previous PC owners -- clearly not legal.

Is this true? By this logic every PC bought on craigslist would need a new Windows license. I think the license follows the computer not the user, thus you can't transfer a license between machines but it is valid for the original machine it was purchased for. Maybe not relicensing Windows after purchasing a used machine is illegal-- I don't know, but virtually no one does this and likely only pay Microsoft if they need to upgrade from a previous version not covered by the original license.
Any two sided marketplace has the potential to be used for money laundering. This really ought to be something everybody that runs a two sided marketplace is aware of.
2018 Open Source Rookies of the Year
Sounds like the old "linux isn't linux, it's gnu/linux/x/firefox" debate.

If people use sage to get the work done, they are using sage. I don't see intel wanting recognition for every scientific paper ever written on their chips.
Glassdoor estimates are low, and they do not include equity, bonuses, etc, which can easily add up to more than the base. How do you think all those people are paying their insane rent? The best set up is to get Bay Area money without living there. It’s doable. :-)
The TechCrunch article completely ignores huge chunks of the Microsoft post. The emails (https://blogs.microsoft.com/uploads/prod/sites/5/2018/04/Ema...) from Eric are pretty damning. He makes it obvious he’s trying to evade customs, that he’s trying to mislead wholesale buyers into thinking the discs come from Microsoft, and that he’s not happy about the amount of money he’s making.
Is there anyone with a TSB account that is not encountering issues at the moment? From what one can read online it sounds proper dire for the bank.
Is it worth it for a launderer to give up 30% to Amazon, and then of course pay taxes on the income? Also I assume you can't launder cash this way.
Reminding me that typescript is from the same makers as sharepoint and office356 doesn’t bring my esteem of sharepoint up, if you know what I’m saying. What comes to mind is more the stories from when oracle bought sun, but don’t worry: I don’t want to write javascript anyway.
I was all set not to believe you, but after I read Eric’s emails, I agree with you. It appears both MS and Eric are overstating their altruism.

Emails: https://blogs.microsoft.com/uploads/prod/sites/5/2018/04/2LU...
Some countries do expire some convictions on the public criminal record legally available to an employer. And consider it a violation on employment law for an employer to source gray market date when hiring.
Back when micro-usb was a thing, I accumulated an ungodly number of cables, way more than can be explained by obvious logic such as 'one per device'. At the time it was great because I never seemed to be more than ten feet from the cable I needed. Then came usb-c so I had to start all over, but I kept hold of all the old cables because of some weird hoarding instinct. A few weeks ago, I had to downgrade back from usb-c to micro and I am hugely relieved I kept all those old cables!

Moral of the story: never throw out old cables ... (maybe)
Source for this clearly not being legal? From my knowledge, OEM licenses allow exactly that: transfer a PC and the license transfers with it, unless the motherboard is changed. In contrast full retail licenses can be freely transferred between PCs, and volume licenses are bound to a company, but can be moved between PCs owned by it.

But of course it's possible they limited that at some point, and nobody would accuse Microsoft licensing of being transparent.

EDIT: it's just microsoft support forums, but one reference in support of "the license is tied to the motherboard": https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10...
> does not change my judgement about the Bavarian police

Still irrelevant to the article, however.
Please correct title
I would like to point out, however, that aside from Norway (which sits on a huge barrel of hydrocarbons) all of the countries mentioned are significantly worse off in terms of per capita GDP (PPP). So it might just be that capitalism is not such a total disaster as you suggest.
Obviously? You can't imagine what % of money you could lose when you launder using other methods. Also this one is totally safe... compared to some other ones ;)
Mate, no offense, but there’s nothing to rebuff. When you are that far gone, people should have the right to mock you. Spouting meaningless platitudes does not an argument make, and we’d only be feeding his stupidity by answering any of those, frankly, ridiculous points.

I mean, just look at the fantastic discussion your rebuff started.
Telegram moved to the public cloud providers Google Cloud Platform and Amazon, meaning Russia was blocking a significant proportion of those providers IP Address space as Telegram moved servers around.
I’ve got a lazier option.
Get some starter, add 70g of flour, 100g water and leave it overnight.
Then stick it in the fridge and use it like you’d use a very slow working shop bought yeast (and maybe 20g at a time). Don’t feed it till it gets low. Treat it mean, any more effort on it is wasted. Mine’s coming up on 10 years old now and is just fine. I accidentally put it in the freezer and lost it for a month, I think it improved it.
CAs seem to be able to keep their private keys safe. Why should phone companies be less competent? They certainly have far more money to devote to it.

In any case, Ozzie’s proposal shows that the technological argument has always been more of an attempt to circumvent the political discussion.

The tech community loves the idea of subverting the law with technology when it doesn’t suit them. The Federal,Reserve is just a private bank run by Jews to enslave America? Bitcoin! I wanna trade drugs and child porn? Tor! (And bitcoin).

That dynamic is undemocratic. Whatever you may think about the US government, it is still far more legitimate to make these decisions than some guy in a basement and the CXOs of Google and Facebook. Moving the center of power from the public sphere to mighty techno-wizards may seem appealing as long as you can culturally identify with them. But if it comes to pass, it will be Comcast and Lockheed Martin that control the networks, not you and me.
Weird, https://linux.die.net/man/1/install does not tell anything about this behaviour.
Reminds me of some artists who included a script tag in their book title so that when the book got listed on online shops it would make the page spawn a JavaScript alert()
Kotlin/Native v0.7 released: smoother interop, frozen objects, optimisations
Background on Oracle’s Contribution to Jakarta EE
Funny thing is that MAC does not stand for Macintosh but for Mandatory Access Control, source: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/mac-backg...
Should Safety-Critical Software Be Written in C?
Point taken. He briefly talks about “policy” in the beginning. Policy is the instrument through which the ruling class gradually strips away individual freedoms. We need to prominently feature freedom in these conversations, because ultimately that’s what at stake here.
Why do we need 4 classes for atomic updates in Java?
Human content moderation: A necessary evil or a job of the past?
The type of flour and the temperature it’s kept at make the most difference imho. You can notice a change in the smell as seasons change.
Local Type Inference Cheat Sheet for Java 10 and Beyond
Now, yes, but after git became more popular than hg, github already had a long lead by the time bitbucket added git support. This was the determining factor in who got ahead due to the network effect.
Maybe it is part of crafting an article but did anyone else find the contrast of the looming tech disaster and team champagning really unfair?

The issue was obviously a systematic one, and that 18 month slog would have been a horrific death march for the people actually working on the project so why shouldn't they be able to celebrate it being "over"?

Granted, it was a failure, but I'm not really sure what the floor staff - the actual "software engineers" who were pictured had to do with it when they were set an impossible goal to begin with...