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David F. here, with the best true Unix command-name story ever: In the late 1980's, Frame Technology had 50 or 100 employees, and as our product ran on Sun 3/50 workstations, not only the engineers, but many of the admins had them; and of course they all ran the SunOS version of Unix.

One day, Laurie S. from the business side came over to ask me for some help with her system: "I think I've filled up my disk, but how can I find out?" "Well, the 'df' command will show you that info." "But," she replied, "won't that just show me the files in your home directory?" "My home directory??? Why would it do that?" "Well, my initials are LS and that shows my files, and DF are your initials, so that should show your files."

I was super impressed.
Even speeding tickets or anything most normal people would find a burden are nothing to super rich. But making few days in jail mandatory is a major deterrent.

Then again even people texting and driving are not swayed by fines. In my region of the world a $3,000 fine is not a deterrent to many people. I say jail time would change that attitude.
Well I don't have the legal authority to do this. The DOJ would have to look into this. I guess people don't remember how it went down. There was an emergency meeting at the whitehouse, I remember Bush and Nancy Peloski, and a few senators. After the meeting, one of them (perhaps a congressman) was interviewed on the whitehouse lawn and basically said that Paulson told them, if they didn't do this, the entire economy and country would collapse. So he said it in a way that would give him plausible deniability, but if there was evidence that he knew otherwise or coordinate to create a crisis situation, (that is probably the stretch you are missing to connect), which I allege -- because later on we found out that the banks were both buying and shorting securities knowing they would default (and this is a fact), I think this would be evidence to charge him. This is a specific area in the Patriot act for dealing with terrorism threatening financial crisis. Since there is no statue of limitations on this, it would be an avenue to charge him. There is no provision in the Patriot Act for normal citizens to kidnap people and have access to Guantanamo Bay, that's a bizarre and bewildering statement/counter argument to what I am saying. Perhaps people are to young or don't remember how the financial crisis went down. There are plenty of people at Zerohedge that remember.

Edit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYrDtpAkppM
Interesting, the enclosure need only be big enough to cover the tubers themselves.

> ...conventional farming practice of clearing trees to make fields. Instead the yam vine uses the trees as scaffolding to climb on, allowing it to reach the light in the forest canopy.

The vines would have to climb a long way, depending on tree height.

(Obviously unacceptable for "primitive technology", but) cooking in aluminium foil avoids loss to charring, and is reusable,
> The service would likely accept a hash, not the raw password.

Either everyone would use the same unsalted hashes (bad practice) or everyone would use the same salts (bad practice). In either case, this requires widespread use known bad practices.

If you're not familiar, these are considered bad practices because they allow for the construction of rainbow tables - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table
These are bad because they allow hashes to be reversed.

> If it's rate limited more aggressively than the normal login endpoint, I don't see how it could be any more dangerous.

Given a little bit of time, rate limiting isn't actually that big of an obstacle. Especially if you don't need to compromise a given account and can use a botnet to trawl for accounts in general.

> Anyone on the internet can already query any site with a guess for your username/password - if they're right, the request will succeed. How is that different?

This imagines a central service querying N others with credentials to see if each service knows them.

Imagine compromising one service. Then people are sending you usernames and passwords for hundreds of other services. You won't need to query any other service, the credentials will come to you and the user will have no indication!
I think you are misunderstanding what a regressive tax is. A tax can be flat AND regressive (in fact, those are usually the kind that are). It is about the BURDEN of the tax being unequal, not the dollar amount.

For example, a speeding ticket is a regressive system, because a $200 dollar ticket is a lot more damaging to a poor person than a rich person.
No. I reject the methodology of the psychologists who do these types of studies.
Most of all, this is an inditement of several SV VCs. They should know nearly as much as anyone.
There's no reason an online hosted Web IDE can't work perfectly well in an offline mode too. Offline-capable Web apps are essentially a solved problem.
ICO scam with made up volume..

https://news.bitcoin.com/study-finds-3b-worth-of-faked-crypt...
Basically the gov't employee, son, and likely others we don't know about lost their jobs and even blacklisted.

I say 90% of VC back companies are blowing smoke to the endpoint investor, public and consumer. 100% of those companies have miracle products that scale forever and work... In 1 specific ise case: the demo booth. They oversell. I see 2 out of 10 startups bring a viable product to the global 2000 table.

Spacex: we can go to Mars, but haven't even launched a Mars rocket.
Google: AI is here, and the product? Waymo, logs millions of miles, is just sunny conditions?

The common strategy: lie(aka promise), sell the future, hopefully you get the solution and hit time to market. Holmes was following the same playbook, BUT just gave up, and that's got her investors and comsumers furious. If she apologized, AND stuck with it, investors would still back her, and the public flac would have subsided....VCs were sold on her future.

On the opposite end, aside from real mistakes is a company like Apple: they sell the future and deliver.
Uber bets on developing world growth with low-data Uber Lite
Context-controlled summarization would also help https://vectorspace.ai/datasets/example_context-control.html
> optional things people choose (having children)

Note that having children is something that only women choose.

Men and women choose to have sex. Women choose to abort or have a child.
Or found a sticky with the password on it when they raided his office.
My guess is that the GP's example is to get all HTTP status 200 lines from a web server log file. In that case, a precise match for "200" is fine.
Your suggestion made it to the latest update. Thanks once again!
Life with Unix (1989) [pdf]
Supposedly rm is not shorthand for "remove" but rather it was the initials of the first and last name of the owner of the file that wrote the command, which combined several discrete tasks into a cumulative sequence of events that performed the full set of steps necessary to properly delete a file from the file system, while including some additional options, which weren't always required.

The person's name is allegedly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_(cryptographer)
https://github.com/lh3/bioawk
I like how the name of "yes" promises that it will say "yes", but it actually says "y". But "yes no" makes it say "no"!
True, that.
It's all in the power saving software.
I mean, he probably does.
This is one of the reasons the concept of informed consent is necessary in medical an other important situations. Life is complicated, and a lot of harm can be done if important questions understood incompletely, hastily, or even not understood at all. If it's important, there is a duty to take the extra effort to verify there has been a true "meeting of the minds".
Chip Dis-Integration
U.S. Adds China’s Internet Controls to List of Trade Barriers
Purely speculation, but maybe because it makes a typo way more likely to invoke an actual command?

If say, "rm" was just "r" and "find" was just "f"... well those keys are right next to each other on a QWERTY keyboard after all. Oops.
Great, a scooter in the rain, cold, wearing a suit/dress, and avoiding traffic and people. Carrying nothing...With crappy tires.

Yep, a unicorn business...
Typical HackerNews quibble to set the tone adrift. The context of the article is not as necessary as the punctuation and pronouns.

...Lets twaddle away...
When they searched his car, with his consent, they found quite a stash of meth and cocaine.

I get that they might have to let him go due to the 4th amendment violation, but I also think that he should be given probation or rehab or something. Just because the criminal portion has ended doesn't mean the public health/safety angle needs to be ignored.
I once asked Gumby if he and John Gilmore and Michael Tiemann named their company "Cygnus" as the result of typing "grep gnu /usr/dict/words". Without missing a beat, he replied that if they'd thought of doing that, they would have named the company "Wingnut".
Tangential question:

http://reddit.com/r/loadingicon and similar places list interesting (if not especially useful/practical) concept art ostensibly useful as loading graphics.

Is there somewhere I can similarly find good small sound effects useful as startup chimes? I'm only aware of the Mac and Indy boot sounds, which obviously surface due to their reputation as being used at boot time. Surely there are other cool sound effects, I'm just not sure where to look for them.
I think you're agreeing with me but, actually it's not clear that Joe pushed back or that "I'm a sucker"... it's that boss Fred has kids too and gives some slack to people like himself.

And the reason your brother-in-law has such a system with paid overtime is a union... which is unlikely to affect IT until AIs organize and demand work-life balance.
He reset about 6 videos with a new location, but yeah, it's awesome. My kids love it too.
I just meant it'd be nicer if, we didn't have to move to Europe for a Denmark styled society, if we could just move to Vermont, Oregon, California, Hawaii, etc...

If the bulk of taxes were paid to the state, not the federal government like 80% of every tax dollar was paid to the state and state's took care of most things, and the federal government just regulated trade, maintained military, etc.. and only as far as the budget of 20% of tax would allow. States would handle their own welfare plans, education systems, etc... I think there's lots of states that could fail if everything was upto them, but some would be booming successes, just like countries in Europe, some are booming some are struggling, each is different in how they attach society's problems.
There's dozens of videos of UK police detaining people carrying machetes and other weapons without lethal force. A police officer shooting at someone coming at them with a melee weapon is a combination of laziness and cowardice IMO.

I've been on raids with British police where the suspect has a violent criminal history. They just put on helmets and had shields ready in the van. No guns, no tasers, just batons and pepper spray. On one occasion the suspect had previously gotten arrested for brandishing nunchucks in public, and in the pre-raid briefing the sergeant said "if he comes at you with them, just retreat and wait for him to either knock himself out or tire himself out, then hit him a bit". He was only semi-joking.

It absolutely comes down to better training. Even failing that, I see no reason why a taser could not have been used in this situation. And ultimately if a police officer gets injured, tough shit: it's what they get paid for and they're well aware of the risks when they sign up. Maybe ditching the "shoot anyone who poses a marginal threat" mentality would be good for the police too, I reckon there'd be a lot less power hungry cops in the states.
There's another channel called kiwami japan about a guy who mostly is making knives out of things or other silly metal crafts. He also doesn't talk in most of them. I think the sound of banging wood or polishing metal is just very relaxing.
I was born the year with the most births in my country. We're paying my parents' generation retirement now. But when we will retire in 15..20 years, it's my son's generation (much less people) that should pay for us. Also we live longer and longer.

So unless drastic measures are taken now, crap retirement is waiting for us. No need to be a math genius to see. Some people is confident that the problem can be solved with taxes, but that's just wishful thinking.

Obvious solution: increase people that will pay in the future. Problem is we have a sky high unemployement. Even if we allow more inmigration, there are no jobs for them.

Another one: using a "capitalization" system. Instead of spending, save what we pay for later. Problem is no party will do that. A few weeks ago there was a massive demostration demanding retirement is updated with inflation. Everybody agrees that our elders deserve the best. Even a gradual transition to capitalization (the most reasonable measure) would cause the party defending it to sink.

Edit: in my previous comment there's a "that" where there should be a "than", maybe that caused a misundertanding?
Just to add on to the fantastic article: Designing Data‑Intensive Applications is a great book which tries to bridge the gap between distributed systems theory and practice.
Well, without knowing the liquidation preferences it’s impossible to tell what the common stock is actually valued at.

Better to think of it as the price of a call option on equity at an (unknown to us) strike price (the liquidation pref). And then when you pretend that’s the price of common stock and extrapolate out you get a $B, or two.
I've known a few people who've done this. I've also recommended to a couple people to do this when they're having a hard time finding work.

Here's the thing, most businesses don't make it and many people in this position are trying to bootstrap something with virtually zero money. So you can use these circumstances to your advantage -- use the business as an investment vehicle to build you as a product so that you can sell yourself later on.

What this means is that you should take the time between filling out applications and wasting time in multi-day whiteboard interviews to start to build up a portfolio of what you can do. Start a blog, on some topic you find interesting, engage on twitter at least once a day. Write a couple simple but good looking web apps using cheap/free tiers on hosting providers. Check some code into public code repos. If you manage to launch something live, contact the press email address on every major news site you can find -- a surprising number will put a short article up about your app -- which you can then also advertise on your site/blog/twitter feed.

All of this goes on your resume, except now you get to claim "Founder/CEO" on your resume with stunning bullet points like:

- Led social media marketing strategy

- Designed web applications for <insert vertical>

Take screenshots of all this.

Use this work as part of your resume. In an interview it's much better to claim "I tried to start a company but I just couldn't get it cash-flow positive, so now I'm back on the market." than to try to figure out how to work around a large resume gap that implies you're unhireable.

This works because companies will see you as entrepreneurial and multifaceted, capable of career growth and tackling many different kinds of problems at various levels and making independent decisions. And the best part is that, as you do this, it will become TRUE!

- So the worst case is that you just build your resume for a while (instead of it accumulating jobless gaps) -- most people I know who've done this end up in better jobs than they expected after this exercise.

- Best case, your company takes off and you just built yourself a career -- I know 2 people who've managed to do this and ended up running pretty large enterprises.
> I'd be surprised if GitHub doesn't follow in tow

Xray, GitHub's experimental possible Atom successor, seems to be designed to support this usecase, per https://github.com/atom/xray#web-compatibility . Seems like they want to be able to use the same code to power both a desktop and web IDE, and would support collaborative real-time editing in both.
> Isn't wide dissemination "about espionage, theft, forced technology transfers, and mandatory joint ventures" enough a deterrence for companies to stop going into China? Apparently not.

You're right, and at the same time, that's not the point. The USA has been granting China favorable deals, which has resulted in trade deficits. The expectation is that the China will at least follow and enforce international trade law. The USA decided that the Chinese government is not doing this and is instead actively subverting it at the expense of US companies. This is a response to that.
It might also be a technical problem, because there are a zillion foreign keys pointing to that user record in the database. It's a problem common to every application, worse at Facebook scale. All technical problems have solutions, one is to replace customer data with fake ones. Still, some patterns could give away personal information. Example: a spike in the number of posts on a timeline gives away the birthday date. And when I delete my account, should everybody's else posts on my timeline be deleted as well (maybe evidence about why I deleted my account and I'm suing some of my FB's friends for harassment), or my shares on other timelines, with their comments. Should they deleted the events I created, which other people joined and commented to?
YOUR SALARY!

Let’s stop pretending that this is some fantastical idea. Good employers in the United States do this today. Employers across the world do much more than this. Or perhaps you’re ignorant of Sweden’s 240 days of paid parental leave per parent?

https://sweden.se/quickfact/parental-leave/
I was wondering if that was so, after reading a couple of paragraphs here.
> Are there still functional political machines in the US?

Rahm Emanuel, Michael Madigan, and Lisa Madigan come to mind.
A tip: turn on captions. The creator somewhat famously doesn't talk, but does provide really informative captions for each step of the build/experiment process.

Related: if you like this and want more I recently read a book series called Bonesetter that has a protagonist who lives in primitive times and it tells the story of a person kicked from their tribe, but who prospers by building Primitive Technology type inventions.

https://www.amazon.com/Bonesetter-Book-1-Laurence-Dahners-eb...
Those situations can often be solved in much the same way. If someone is giving out malicious references due to an enforcement action, you report it to the EEOC or other agencies. That is also a violation and can result in further action on your behalf. Many states have statutes on the books against blacklisting and you may be able to engage the state DOL or other agencies to help you. These agencies have the full weight of the federal or state government behind them and are not in the habit of losing enforcement actions.
Yes, yes, just look at the world today, built by Harvard graduates. It is the best of all possible worlds, isn't it?
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Huh. Turns out HN doesn't display it, but you can enter it. Wonder why the field is there at all, or what magic incantation will make it appear.

Anyway, NYC is not going to work :) But thanks for the reddits, I'll check it out!
Humans have always had the same/similar capacity for intelligence, but the modern world creates people with IQs significantly higher than the median would have been only 150 years ago.
Why would you even be able to retrieve the number of posts of a deleted account, much less other metadata? It seems like that is the most trivial to hide. The posts of a deleted account should be replaced with some sort of deleted marker and impossible to index from old profile or account. Technically trivial to implement even at Google or Facebook scale of replicated world since they do have a unique account ID. The contents would only survive if directly quoted. In case backups are restored, it would be scrubbed again from a blacklist of removed anonymous ids, and that would expire after a reasonable time when the backups should be gone completely.

Hiding behind "too hard" is a dumb cop out. Regulatory agencies should not buy it ever.
Behind a paywall.
Would anyone kindly help me with a link that's free?
Thank you. I've been resisting moving last five years, mostly because the kid. But now that he's approaching uni age, I'm running out of excuses :)
I'm guilty of the first one, mainly due to how badly either money or work is handled at most places (IT in particular). It seems that most places hire whoever has a degree without actual knowledge of implementing things which turns into the old must know $VENDOR tool.
You stick with your friends through the bad times.

You mean like Canada and the EU?
Survival Skills Primitive is a very similar channel (not as high quality, but more quantity) that has some interesting videos.
Please start commenting civilly and substantively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There was plenty of demand for electricity though, and electric cars are definitely not a new technology(0)

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car#History
That is exactly a profile, constructed by collating metadata and protected by GDPR.
Crosslinking and collating personal data such as your name is processing it.
No, you have misinterpreted.

The US does not declare that US forces should just go and kill anyone, rather, 'anyone' can be considered a target, which is perfectly reasonable policy while fighting an insurgency.

In normal rules of engagement, the women and children running out of the village are obviously out of bounds. They are civilians. You can't fire at them for any reason.

In a 'free fire' zone, anyone can be considered an enemy combatant if the situation indicates as such. The woman running out of the village with an AK-47 - is 'in bounds' as an enemy combatant in an area where villagers are considered on the side of the insurgents. Obviously, random civilians are not.

The misinterpretation of 'free fire' or the 'loose application' of it are considered 'war crimes' by the US and it was absolutely never intended that the policy be used by soldiers to just shoot up people - your implication that it was used this way is completely false.

The My Lai massacre was a war crime, not an intentional act sanctioned by US forces.

Also: war is dirty. There are no wars without war crimes. Once the bad genie comes out ... it spills all around, the best we can do is contain it.

FYI that's one of the hardest things to do, i.e. make those kinds of calls in the field - often it's not obvious.

Go and watch one of the documentaries that delve into US forces wrangling over a decision to drop munitions, and consider how tricky those decisions are ... so many factors.
+1

ML requires you know exactly what you want. And not what you need...

If you're not exact, disaster is imminent. Uber accident comes to mind.

Yes, rolling stones reference too.
> I'm writing from Canada. Mother and/or father can share up to 35 weeks of paid leave under the national insurance program. This maxes out at, I think, approx $500 per week. It's not a lot. But it helps.

This. I'm writing from Australia- it looks like we only get $622.10 for 18 weeks, but it seems like a nice middle ground to support new parents. At that low price I would probably agree that 35 weeks is reasonable.

I get confused when people argue strongly against the middle ground position. I don't even want to have kids but I don't begrudge the use of public money in this way- it's a direct investment in the future of society which shields both parents and businesses from undue financial stress without being profligate or forcing too much ideology on the rest of us.
Here’s my guide:
1. Put your money in a wheelbarrow.
2. Set it on fire.