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> Particularly obsessed with anything from Islay.
...
> from the island.

Never actually had japanese whiskey, but definitely have had islay and highland varieties of scotch -

Wondering if preference bias for islay style is the factor here, where the selling point is not 'subtlety' or 'smoothness'..

much in the same way in the beer world that e.g. the smooth/subtle flavor of english bitters are underappreciated stateside because we are hop-crazy for nuclear IPAs..
PayPal recipient spoofing vulnerability
Why? The people we don't want to use it (NSA, FBI, local police) are going to do it anyway.
IMO AppImage is better for his needs. Snap, like Flatpak, are as much distribution systems as they are packages and they are not widely enough adopted yet to make packaging for each worth it vs just providing the binary to download yourself.
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Wow, when a foreign government tries to influence our elections, you handwave it away, but when American journalists weigh in on politics, suddenly they're being "adversarial".

Think long and hard about what you're saying here. You're dismissing foreign interference, but critisizing domestic political involvement.

The key difference here is that Russia isn't the United States and has no say in our policies, while American journalists are citizens and voters who have a societal duty to participate the democracy. When the former gets involved in an election, we call it "foreign interference", when the latter gets involved we call it "democracy".

So which do you prefer? Foreign manipulation of public will, or democracy?
Agreed. This one is my favorite. Getting harder to find these days though.
What is a webhook and how to create one
Funnily enough, Paris isn't a particularly organic layout. It was centrally redesigned and "modernized" starting in the reign of Napoleon III. For sure it was designed with horses and pedestrians in mind, so very different from most US cities, but also different from someplace like central Prague, etc.
It’s the most secure, most developed, most widely accepted coin with a vibrant ecosystem of support.
Here is a direct link to the analysis: https://storage.pardot.com/517431/114459/FaunaDB_Correctness...
Thanks for your genuine opinion, 4-day-old account in a heavily bombarded thread.
> There are plenty of models that don't work well modelled relationally.

There are plenty of data shapes and access patterns for which existing RDBMS implementations are inefficient, as I acknowledged. That's not a feature of whether the data is or is not relational—“relational” is a feature of a data model, and any data can be modelled relationally—but rather of the available RDBMS implementations.

> Wide table with 100K analytical features keyed against a customer. Now if you need to combine a few dozen of these features for predictive purposes then how do you do that in SQL ?

In terms of both the relational model and the SQL language, this is trivial. In most concrete SQL implementations, it is both inefficient and requires a concrete schema that diverges from the abstract relational model of the data, because you need multiple tables with a common key rather than a single table, even if abstractly it is a single relation in a normalized model. There's nothing fundamental about either SQL or the relational model that requires this, its just not the usage pattern common RDBMS storage implementations are optimized for.

> Time series data can be many orders of magnitude faster in JSON document stores where you can have embedded/nested records.

Yes, that's an efficiency of access patterns issue, not an “is the data relational” issue.

Of course, outside the strict relational model of data, SQL based object-relational databases like Oracle and Postgres have supported embedded and nested records (via the combination of composite and collection data types) since before “JSON object stores” existed.
The quote there mostly defines what a natural person is, not what "relating" should be taken to mean.

Does it refer only to facts about a person, or does it include opinions and business decisions made by the company about that person? If one employee tells another by email that they dislike a particular customer and asks to have them banned, is that the customer's personal information in itself?
There are two technologies at play here. Face Recognition (who you are). Face Detection (where the face is in frame). There really is nothing bad about Face Detection. That would have to be paired with other data in order to uniquely identify a person. But Face Recognition can give exactly who you are which should probably get regulated.

We have a lot of protection for identification of people out there I don't think this should be an exception. Although educating congress is going to be a VERY tough job.
Why not support a law like GDPR instead? Why does every market needs its own special regulations? Is there going to be a separate law for voice recognition, too? And I could go on.
Here's an example from one of my projects: https://github.com/vmchale/polyglot/blob/master/atspkg.dhall
I am an AWS true believer but I hate DynamoDB. It is far more limiting than Mongo DB.

MongoDB works great with C#. Using a JSON based database with a statically typed object oriented language goes hand to hand. You don’t have the object relational mismatch and the languages type system helps enforce a “schema” on the database.

With C# you work with a MongoCollection<T> And all of your inserts, Linq queries, etc are statically checked by the compiler.
They already do, in the 2018.2 EAP there is support for touchbar. Since it's already in RC state I think the stable version will be out in a couple of weeks.
Agreed. Rare instance of corporate and personal interests aligning and what not.
> allow a one- or two-programmer team to achieve massive scale without hiring devops

Know what isn't massive scale? Subjecting yourself to the off switch of a single company. So in that light, AWS-specific or Google-specific options are the worst scale you could ever have.
Nice idea mate. Good luck. :)
I stoped after the fourth paragraph just to tell you that this article hit the nail. Really interesting article so far.

Thank you so much!
This is great. I thought i'd use this platform to discuss the most important topic of this week — whether Kylie Jenner's wealth is self-made or not:

https://www.kialo.com/kylie-jenners-fortune-is-self-made-168...

;)
Hi there!

Since there are plenty of articles on how to consume webhooks, I thought it would make sense to write one on how to start producing webhooks as it seems like the best way to illustrate the difference :)
Perhaps that is why other heads of state choose their words carefully... there are places where snark, innuendo and sarcasm are in poor taste.

What is the purpose of said “joke”? Did it enhance your life in some way? Did it advance the interests of the USA in some way? What are the limits? Would you consider Strozk’s texts as “jokes” as well? Why or why not?

To bring this back to hacker news, would you prefer a language syntax where you could insert meaningless statements that the interpreter or compiler could selectively decide to execute or not based on some non deterministic property? Lord knows we have enough problems with UB in C already ;)
I hate the idea of ubiquitous facial recognition spying on me everywhere but I also love the idea of some AR future where my wearable AR contact lenses project into people's names and other info next them them at a meetup or party or other social gathering.

If nothing else I'd like it to be able to remember the faces of people I personally meet (so I don't need to share their data but I do need it saved in my device). I don't see how that would be compatible with data privacy laws regarding facial recognition though.
I've looked into it a bit. I don't think "easy" is the right word here. :)
Would be good to see -- problems/issues that needed code fixes? maybe caused you to rethink (or regret) implementation decisions? I'm sure Kyle's report will have something good. I always root for Jepsen...and I haven't been disappointed yet.
Amazon’s share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%
At Bitcoin’s peak, a single block was worth almost a
quarter million dollars and miners may view the current
market as a way to accumulate more Bitcoin at lower prices

Don't understand that last sentence. They create money via using electricity and amortizing ASICs, not the other way around
Relatedly -- Much of the Russian hacking infrastructure was paid for via bitcoin mining from new machines in order to hide its origin. At least one use case that I'd be shocked if other countries weren't using too.
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Except it's universally true that the most "successful" people in the world did "follow their passion."

A different way to say it is that, people who make big impacts on the world are obsessed with the right problem at the right place, and the right time.

We all know the crank who has been obsessed with some problem or some technology forever, but was just at the wrong place and wrong time to be successful with it.

The VR field has many of these people floating around all pissed off that Palmer Luckey got the glory.

Both people followed their passions, being "successful" just happened to line up for one of them instead of the others.

The reason "follow your passion" is awful advice is because there is no way for an individual to really predict what is going to be a sustainable way to live and most "obsessives" end up only marginally contributing to whatever their field is because the timing is wrong. This pattern seems to hold everywhere, sports, comedy, physics, economics etc...

However I can't think of one example of someone who was wildly successful who was not obsessed or "passionate" about what they were doing. Whether or not you accidentally find it or deliberately seems to be irrelevant.

I for one would like someone to describe how you know if you're passionate/obsessed with something - cause I know for myself I can get obsessed about many different things.
Hacker news has sadly become more like Reddit. "Wrongthink" or questions will be down voted to preserve the narrative, even if it is a legitimate question or interest
Facebook et al. put me in that felon's "graph", and what happens to me? For example, am I -- by computed association -- an insurance risk?

It's coming. Just wait.

But just because one insurance company was stopped, doesn't mean others have been, or will be.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/nov/02/facebook-admir...
You can sell a lie by saying true things. In fact, the best lies are mostly true - but the true parts don't add up to the overall picture, which is the lie. But the lie is the more believable because of the true (and verifiable!) parts.
Most coins are shit coins with armies of people trying to pump and dump.
Oh geez, I literally thought that it took 14 years of research to come out with some academic research resulting from the 9/11 attacks when I read the headline. I think that's pretty terrible on both the source website and the OP's part.
It’s an emergent cultural phenomenon. Who knows how you change it, if you even can. My complaints that my scheduled 24-minute Metro ride regularly takes 30-35 minutes are met by blank stares and “so whats?” It’s like being outraged in India or Bangladesh that you had to make a small “facilitation payment” to access some service. So what? People don’t really care, or even realize it can be different.
There's been a longstanding struggle between the design principles of cryptocurrency - i.e. private payments - and the public policy goals of monitoring our payments infrastructure for criminal activity. What are cryptocurrency advocates saying now about e.g. FinCEN's jurisdiction over exchanges? Is KYC now standard? Do they submit SARs? Do they agree with the principles, or are they opposed to any sort of oversight?
Expect some countries to start charging US IC operators, for hacking and interference in their own electoral processes.

Reminder: the NSA has been hacking into governments and businesses all over the world.
So it's ProductHunt?
Not sure why you're getting downvoted so hard, the sarcasm is obvious.
It's your choice. You can use http or https. You are not forced to use https if you prefer http.
At least they should utilize it with private domain plus run frequent backups of gmail and gdrive stuff. One never knows when one may get unplugged.
Cellebrite's newest target: Your IoT-infested home
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I am using it right now. It works very well, also context aware so that it shows different stuff depending on what you are doing like in the debugger you will continue, next etc.
I've never been "officially" remote but I've had quite a bit of flexibility for getting onto 20 years. At my current job, I did take it as an on-site position. It actually only missed out by about half a mile from being the nearest major tech office to my house.

Modulo a fair bit of travel, I did go in a fair bit at first. What basically happened is the people I work directly with became more and more distributed over time and then I had a new manager who works remote. So increasingly, it just didn't make sense for me to do the 30 minute or so commute.

I still go in now and then but I actually spend more time at other company locations than where my desk ostensibly is.
>It was a very good wine for cheap and wine hipsters loved it.

> Because it is now popular, and relatively expensive, wine hipsters turn their nose up at it.

Could it be that the so-called hipsters enjoyed the wine priced at $9.99 but not when the price nearly doubled?
Ask HN: How do you deal with having “too many” hobbies?
Currently these are projects I have started in some fashion (whether it only be planning stages, purchased materials but not built, or partially built):

- Bartending Robot
- 6 DOF Robotic Arm
- Custom Wifi controlled Lighting
- Foldable 1 Person Boat
- Home Server
- Custom Ergonomic Keyboard
- Basic FPGA modules
- RNN Chatbot

In addition I enjoy doing the following and have the equipment for it:

- Learning Guitar
- DJ Mixing (just for myself, not paid)
- Producing songs / Music Theory (FL Studio)
- Archery

That feels like a lot to me, and although some are things that have no "finish" date, some definitely do and i have trouble finishing them because i am distracted by my other hobbies and always seem to be picking new stuff up. As a result i feel like i never make a ton of headway into any one thing.

Is there any advice you have for how to manage this so that I can feel like i'm actually accomplishing something
I've heard this one a bunch, but it seems to be really hard to find the source. The closest I have found was that it was a study done bye Frédéric Brochet for his Phd in oenology (did not know that was a word until today)

http://web.archive.org/web/20070928231853/http://www.academi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_wine_tasting
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/10/you-are-n...
Owning a generally appreciating asset then selling it generates more income than renting it and leaving. That seems pretty tautologically correct, doesn't it? I don't see how stating basic economic/mathematical facts can be considered a "criticism."
Kind of an unfortunate name, considering that xar (eXtensible ARchive) is already a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xar_(archiver)
In the winter (in MN), I usually wake up to my dog shocking us nose-to-nose while he checks if I'm still sleeping.
i think you need to start with fooled by randomness, it's shorter and i think it prepares you for the black swan. i thought antifragile and the blank swan were life changing, they're on the short list of books I re-read every year because I think they are so important. He is a huge dick, but as long as you can get over his arrogance, I think he has a lot of great insights.
Wait - wouldn't you _want_ the system to retain that information in your first case if you were mis-identified as a terrorist? I.e. you were recognized, but you were confirmed not a terrorist - so you won't be flagged later. Or maybe I misunderstood.

Otherwise, you run the risk of not updating the model to fix the false positive, and you might be flagged multiple times in the future.
github.com and slack.com don't have AAAA records either.
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French online piracy: €1.18bn hit
I think simply giving them the feedback you just gave would be worth it.
I like the Suntory Toki a lot (different flavor than Yamazaki 12 or Suntory Habiki 17). You can find it at a lot of Costco stores (state dependent), BevMo!, etc for around $40 a bottle.
That's weird, because in Chicago, it's getting a lot easier to find.
Can anyone explain what is going on in the first image at the top of the screen where there appears to be a barrel being rolled through fire?
Are we supposed to care if people that get a huge windfall can't stay in their neighborhood? Like seriously, who cares? This isn't a real problem.
One of the HN guidelines is to not be snarky.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I really don't understand how motivated people preferring to marry motivated people is racist in anyway. Can you elaborate?
You replied to my original comment in an itemized way, as if to refute or counter my points about the precarious riskiness of working remotely in a rural area or an area that otherwise has few nearby on-site jobs.

I was just pointing out that your comment doesn’t refute any of that. Those risks would still be material for most people, to such a degree that it would usually make the cost savings of working remotely in a rural area totally not worth it based on potential hardships of finding a new, similarly satisfying remote job in a pinch. Your ability to quickly find a new remote job while living rurally is dramatically atypical.

Since you originally replied to my comment like a point by point refutation of something, I was just trying to point out that you didn’t refute anything, because the experience you described is too atypical to matter broadly in most cases.

I’m not trying to criticize you. Only highlight that what you said is idiosyncratic for you because otherwise it’s extremely easy for someone to read your experience in the thread and mistakenly feel it would be just as simple and easy for them. It’s very worthwhile to take the chance to discuss the fact that that isn’t generally true.
I think the last two are good reasons to short Tesla. I wouldn't touch those bets with a ten foot pole, but they are entirely rational depending on what you believe.

If you don't believe those things, then Tesla having a greater market cap than GM or Ford makes sense, because Tesla's future cashflows would be greater than GM's or Ford's.

Production deadlines aren't very compelling to me except to the extent that they starve a company of its operating budget. Heck, other car companies routinely show off concept cars that aren't only late but in fact never ship. It's not a big deal though, because those companies aren't betting the farm on those cars, whereas Tesla has needed the Roadster, S, and 3 to be successful to continue operating. That will be less the case on future cars though. So it may have been a reason to short up until now, but not so moving forward.
Because there are companies that use facial recognition data that will be bound by these rules.
>As for the hosts, never, ever book with new hosts

Ain't that a bit of a bootstrapping problem.
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It sets precedent. If you're concerned about government actors, that will make it harder for less shrewd prosecutors to enter evidence tainted by the unlawful use of facial recognition.
Waiting to find your passion is a dead end. But seeking out what you're really interested in and enjoy, and making that your career is great advice.

Maybe you don't know what you love yet, that's fine, go figure it out.

I'm coming up on 40 now, and I tell any young person I talk to that they should figure out what they enjoy and pursue that. If you fail, ok but trying is worth it. Life is short and work is a huge part of it. Spending 8+ hours a day on something you don't enjoy just for a paycheck is a tragedy.
The manual page mentions that the program has a command that will calculate the "approximate storage capacity of a file", but doesn't really say what that would be. I'm guessing that would turn out to be the limiting factor here—it seems like you'd either need a really long text file, or a really short encrypted message to be able to use this method reliably.
Yea it's clickbait, but I could easily see mathematicians working on the problem making this joke themselves. I found it very charming.
If you think for one second that not antagonizing the Saudi government by officially calling out their involvement in things inimical to US interests is a consequence of partisanship, you're paying a very selective kind of attention.
>even if it is a legitimate question or interest

Perhaps, but you and I both know this is not a legitimate question or interest. It's a talking point used to deflect blame.
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Thanks for the pointer to sanity. After a quick read over the docs, it seems a really impressive piece of software.
Litigation has historically been an option when public opinion isn’t on your side. I dream of anti-NIMBY impact litigation, but haven’t figured out a good legal theory yet!
0.022%

...all those billions of straws add up to only about 2,000 tons of the nearly 9 million tons of plastic waste that yearly hits the waters.

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-science-amount-straws-plastic-...
This is a bad analogy on so many levels:

- The direct proximity and very small population allows changes to be discussed in person and in detail. A citizen of a nation is not able to discuss changes with his/her fellow citizens and develop anything meaningful out of those discussions due to this inability.

- The types of policy changes a small block of houses would vote on is almost NIL, with maybe an exception for HOAs.

- Your're analogy doesn't consider that that house of 15 people generates 90%[1] of the GPD of the subdivision. This isn't to say votes should be based on wealth generation, but rather to remind you that there's so much wealth generation there because of the larger population, and it's in the interest of everyone to create policies that facilitate the growth of the GPD (and policies that will attract and allow intelligent people of all nationalities and backgrounds)

- A family of 15 is still two parents, who count as two votes, not 15.

[1] 15/24 = 63% --> 63% * 50(states) = 31 states. The top 31 states generates 90% of the GPD
> What I could not glean from the indictment is how they could possibly have identified these 12 people individually. The government must have some other sigint or humint for that? Will this ever make it to trial so that evidence can be revealed?

These indictments are the result of a massive counterintelligence operation spanning many agencies from several nations. In this case specifically, the AIVD (Dutch intel) hacked the GRU offices where a large part of the hacking was carried out and managed to exfiltrate significant amounts of evidence including CCTV security footage of GRU officers coming and going [1]. The evidence proving the crimes for the purposes of a conviction will be made public but unless lawyers for the defendants come to challenge the warrants and get them unsealed, the evidence that led to the public stuff will likely stay secret for decades.

[1] https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/dutch-agencies-provide-...
To me it looks like Clojure and php had a child together :grin:
Easy to thwart: press decoy keys on the keyboard to confuse the thermal reader. I sometimes do this if I know I'm being shoulder surfed and try to poison the well.
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