skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they'll treat it as a secret since telling you the magic formula for established accounts will compromise their anti-abuse regime

This is accurate.

>> Online customers with established payment history...

> What exactly qualifies as being "established"? In the first example, additional stipulations around billing arrangements are imposed, but in the latter it remains unclear.

They can't tell you. Bad actors will even binary search the parameters of your fraud detection (source: I worked in fraud detection). Minimizing the information feedback loop to the baddies is super important to avoid becoming a loss function they can optimize against. This is true of every fraud department.

Abuse detection is cat-and-mouse. Say as a provider I track your true IP through proxies by embedding some flash that calls home. You figure it out and block flash or do some clever sandboxing. I work with proxy providers to build blacklists. You somehow get the blacklist and just avoid all proxies on it. Etc etc.
What's the difference between a persistent universe and an MMO?
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Isn’t Noise the exact opposite of what we should providing developers? We need near-zero choices for non-crypto-expert developers and a misuse-resistant API:

secure_connect(endpoint,my_keypair);

And pretty much nothing else. No options. No choices. Even nonces and message serializaion are handled by the API. What NaCl should have been.
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> when I asked an old timer about the IDC field format, I was told they were that way "because that's how they were on the previous paper forms."

That's not actually surprising, since the current insurance/billing situation easily predates the prevalence of EMRs (the recency of which those of us in the computer industry may have forgotten).

> But this is prolly a bit of a tangent. Standardized forms and coding are actually a huge benefit to efficiency.

I don't doubt standardization is a boon to efficiency by some measure. However, it doesn't necessarily translate into better medicine (which was my tangent). Less tangentially, it may not translate to cost savings, especially for a cash-only business, where it may be merely a premature optimization.

Least tangentially, there's little reason to believe that continuing with existing standards, skewed toward insurance/billing (which I admit more describes CPT than ICD), is more efficient for a cash-only provider than an alternative.
In Europe, on the Continent, standard sizes are 180cm by 2m, and 2m by 2m (or about 78.75" by 78.75"). When my wife and I lived in Belgium, we bought one of the German 2m by 2m beds, which was quite expensive. But it was still the best bed we've ever had.

Here in the US, we were able to find a store here in Austin (Austin Natural Mattress) that helped us find a solution with three separate layers that can be replaced as necessary, and design the bed to our exact requirements. This is the closest we've ever found to our beloved German 2m*2m bed, and since each side under the top mattress cover can be replaced as necessary, we each get to choose how hard or soft we like our side, or how cool or warm we like our side.

Given our recent experience, I would never again buy a bed that did not let us choose individually how we want our side of the bed to be.
i understand why fraud detection mechanisms need to be opaque. i don't understand why the consequence has to be "we will delete your account"
Their hypocrisy? Apple says privacy is a human right yet they're complicit in exposing all of their users data to a Chinese state run company. If privacy is indeed a human right then don't operate data centers in China until they change their policies.
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Items 1, 2 and 3 pretty neatly cover federal government level stuff. At the more local level (City, County and State), the procurement/purchasing departments of each organization generally have a process for posting RFP/RFQ for specific projects. Basically the same idea as fedbizopps postings but on a smaller more local scale.

If you want to bid on things like this at the mid-sized-city or county scale, it's usually a process of first being set up as a legal business entity in the jurisdiction, then making sure you meet all of the other eligibility requirements, and then contacting their purchasing/contracting departments to register yourselves as a vendor and actually participate in their RFP/RFQs.

But I am not sure how much any of that would apply to a ML/healthcare thing where you want to propose new novel solutions/technologies which are not explicitly called for in an RFP/RFQ. State projects tend to be much more like "we are looking for a general contractor to erect a 150 ft radio tower on this mountaintop as part of the highway patrol/emergency communications radio network upgrade project", or "we are looking for a contractor to build some giant concrete half pipes over top of I-90 and then cover them with dirt+landscaping to create a wildlife overpass". Where they already have a very clear idea of what they want before it gets to the RFQ stage.
Dalvik is discontinued, replaced by something called the Android Runtime. Though that might also not support said reflection ways.
This is one of the reasons why you will see Alaska native corporations winning US DoD/fedbizopps contracts. They essentially act as a GC and then implement the project using eight different specialized subcontractors for all of the unique tasks.
I'm grabbing at a single point here, but this really jumped out at me:

> Solutions that work great on your computer might fail completely in the field running on a 486 with a radio internet connection.

How common is this sort of thing in the field? I've read the "popular" stories about old C64s and Amigas still being used to do things, but not enough real-world data surfaces to be able to build a realistic/practical/robust mental model of what to expect.

I'd fully expect old equipment in eg an industrial control context, but besides that it might come as a surprise.

By the way, what sort of "radio connection"? APRS?
Widen your idea of life.

What if another species has figured out a way around death? What if the idea of a single "life" isn't really a thing, and alien lifeforms instead live as a single "consciousness" among them all forever alive. Then the idea of spending millions or billions of years traveling around the universe isn't necessarily a "one way trip".
I do find it interesting that when BlackBerry was known to allow foreign governments to house the servers for the Internet edition of their device it was considered a huge security breach and there was an outcry in the press. The circumstances were the same, it was necessary if the company wanted to sell devices in those markets. However, there's no significant outcry when Apple does the same thing.
Part of the issue is that if there are no choices for common scenarios, developers go and invent something (poorly).

In an https competitor style situation, what is my_keypair from your example? The server doesn't care who you are. You do however care who the server is, so you need an input for server identity.

If I'm starting a chat session with anonymous people I might only care about the endpoint, or if we care about everyone it would be more like secure_connect(endpoint, their_keys, my_keys).

Pretty soon you've built this matrix.
The Macallan is kind of a special case of sherry barrel aging nowadays.

Because of US laws that require aging bourbon in new, freshly charred, American oak barrels, a large quantity of the barrels sold to distillers across the globe are "ex bourbon."

So, now, an awful lot of booze out there -- and not just whiskey, but also American brandy and some Caribbean rums -- tastes sorta like bourbon.
Well personally my drinking has increased steadily as my hopelessness with the future has increased. Not much to really look forward to when you're stuck with a debt where half your payments go to interest and you work a job where either your back's going to go, you're going to snap from spending 90% of your time alone with your own thoughts or the toxic dust your surrounded by every day is likely slowly giving you cancer or silicosis. Where one hour of your work is worth about $2000 to your boss but $22 for you. So, beer's pretty great at helping you not think about this as you finish yet another day and spend about two hours awake doing things you enjoy 6 days a week before you look forward to another day one more step closer to death.

Oh and the entire world seems to have gone fucking psychotic...like honestly, there's a criminal businessman/reality TV star running a country that's done nothing for the entirety of my life but destroy and oppress a good number of the countries in the world and every day all I see is a bunch of fucking idiots arguing about left and right bullshit while a bunch of insanely rich technocrats slowly work to a world of nothing but artificial, technological bullshit and a bunch of fucked up neo conservative/liberal I dont even fucking know any more rich people are slowly turning the world into a giant prison of war and strife with their money making wars and geopolitical insanity.
Zuckerberg Tries to Clarify Remarks About Holocaust Deniers
> While we debated that exact thing for a long time, the reality was that we knew customers would want to dig deeper and understand HOW we wouldn't let it happen again.

One saying I’m sorry isn’t an amends. Neither is offering a contrition-free remedy for past bad acts. Amends requires both contrition and a remedy.

For example, inserting the following (or anything similar) after the first sentence would have demonstrated some contrition: “We have truly been humbled by our prior lack of insight, and we are very sorry for what happened to any customers affected in any way by our shortcomings in this area. We realize we need to regain your trust and with that in mind, have thoughtfully examined all the feedback we received.”

Learning you all actually thought it through and consciously chose to save face does not inspire confidence. Nor does the underlying subtext that customers big enough to pay by check and get an account rep get a free pass, while little bootstrapped guys like me can still have the hammer dropped on them, albeit with slightly more scrutiny than last week.
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sometimes when I stumble upon Ebay for some reason, I have to check that I'm not using the "Wayback machine". It feels like the site has not been updated in 10years.

Hard to believe that (presumably?) a large team actively develops it and that Ebay is a $38.8bn company.
But in that case, doesn't the "second" constant change (or the coefficient) and a metre remains the same length?
>clear cut level of Holocaust denial

'Denial' isn't clear cut at all. You could deny it by saying it didn't happen at all, or that it happened in a different location, or by different people, or that the number of dead doesn't match the stated total(s). Is it denial to disbelieve a specific person was killed, or was killed in a specific manner? Is it denial to disbelieve some of the particulars of someones story? Free speech means exactly that; you're free to speak or you aren't.
In the context of cloud instances, accounts allocate resources. If they never deleted fraudulent accounts, they couldn't release the allocated resources, which is a huge problem. Imagine bad guy x who steals 100k credit cards, then uses a botnet to spin up VMs on 100k fraudulent accounts; if each VM has 10gb of data on it, you've just frozen 1 petabyte. Say there's a 90 day appeals process; those resources can't be deleted or reclaimed for 90 days, which is already tremendously expensive. If that expanded to forever, you would just have to close up shop.

In reality bad guys operate at even larger scales than this, doing all kinds of things. Depending on what company you are, you might not even be able to pull the compute resources away from them right away; so in addition to burning disk alloc they're now burning compute units. It depends on the product too -- what if they spin up pubsub instances and leave messages in the queue? You might have to freeze those queues so that if they're valid customers they don't lose data. The more offerings you have, the more potential loss.

But yeah, they don't delete accounts right away -- there is indeed a grace period, and they do keep all your stuff (I suspect legislation may have something to do with it too). Last I remember it goes to appeal process (human review), and your data can't be deleted / resources reclaimed for quite a while. So it's not zero recourse for the user. Sounds like they're adding even more humans into the loop to ensure they don't unfortunately flag and then delete valid users. But it's non-trivial.
But YAML supports comments multiline. You can't just say everything bad about JSON while neglecting the article's intentions in the flaws of JSON
Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks for sharing!
In 2017/2018 the Air Force released a video of fa/18 pilots intercepting 'objects', which is rather interesting.

A good place to start is Project Blue Book however, it has years worth of information that was reported by members of the public etc that the government looked in to. I don't believe it was conclusive in proving the existence of these objects, but rather proof that the government was taking some level of interest in it.

https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos.ht...
Because of the scale and reach of the operation. The convict profited from his enterprise. Not everyone across our country thinks that dealing hard drugs on a large scale is so innocent. It was a nationwide operation.
Google Maps (the version that doesn't exist ;P) probably offers an exact solution for this. It's probably only available to (and advertised to) defense contexts though.

I unfortunately don't remember the bit of info I read that (with some extrapolation) made it obvious that this existed, and my bookmarks are an unruly mess so I know it would take me an entire day to find it >.> my apologies
>You can remove the whole standard library though, leaving only the built in operators, variables, functions, and control flow.

I just choose not to use them, and limit myself to tables or an API that generates tables when using it for config files.
This sounds like a monumentally terrible deal for the creditor. There's nothing securing that loan, if the debtor went bankrupt the creditor would lose all of it. If it was secured by something like the value of a home then that's just a regular reverse mortgage.
Exactly, standard keyboards are pretty bad for your left hand because of the way the keys are typically offset, so even if you hit different keys to the "standard" with your left hand things are shaped poorly.
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> At most concerts here in the US the crowd is too busy taking a video of the show instead of getting into the music and moving

If you take your phone out at most punk shows, expect that phone to be knocked from your hands within 30 seconds. See better bands, then the phone thing goes away.
> If I was Mark Shuttleworth, I'd go to Facebook and offer porting WhatsApp for free

Microsoft tried buying app support and it didn't save their mobile platform. It generally resulted in crappy apps that were never an ongoing priority for their creators. If anything it cemented the status of the OS as a second class citizen.

You can try every way you like, but nothing completes the picture than to say that there were good things about Android that made it survive as the competition to iOS where everything else failed. The OS being "good" (on a relative scale, there were obviously some bad things about it) is, like everything else, necessary but not sufficient.

In my view, the real reason Android succeeded is because it was customisable by the OEMs. They were staring at a future where they were completely locked out of doing any customisation of operating system and totally at the mercy of Apple. They would do anything to prevent that future and Google gave them a lifeline to do so. That customisability was a byproduct of Android being open source, but obviously Google could have made it closed source to the public but licensed it to OEMs with a proprietary license allowing customisation too. I think the latter wasn't viable because it would have required too much trust in Google.
my company name is the result of a hangover, not a discernable moment between inspiration and telling my associate who sadly didn't come along because he was emigrating to Malaysia.

But I found hangovers equally assistive to quiet linear, procedural tasks, specifically reeling in telephone sales closes. I would say there's a combination of narrowed creativity, to talk around any already understood but surmountable objections, and the step by step almost rote procedure of confirming the customer's interests and the concessions where you have applied any, terms, and the okay, this is what I need you to do to deliver you x today.

Admittedly sometimes I found a excess of creativity arising from gallows humour, particularly if my customer happened to be likewise hungover - I would tease my favourite customers that they were getting my call in the morning, regardless of whether they signed by the end of a junket we held the night or weekend before. Colleagues kept immense Outlook calendars of sporting fixtures and rolled a feed individually for the latest on their customer's team affiliations.

I'm curious how many people on HN have been in corporate sales ever. Personally, I really enjoyed the experience. But I wasn't stuck with it, I was seconded to make sure that technical arguments actually were supported by the operations and development guys. I reckon if sales functions could level with the experience of the dev/ops teans, prior to calling, close ratios would be up all around. That's what my job was, basically.
Ask HN: Should you always prefer pure functions?
In general, I prefer following functional programming principles. This leads me to default to writing pure functions and only writing impure functions when it's absolutely necessary (meaning that the program would not work unless the functions were impure).

On the other hand, I try to avoid dogma and assess situations on a case by case basis.

Are there cases when you would prefer _not_ to write pure functions even when you could, or should you always prefer pure functions? In either case, why?
Ask HN: How hard is it to delete old code at your organization and why?
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Gotta love Disney. In my humble experience with that company, it very often requests (and obtains) special treatment from business partners. It's magical.
I've got a bone to pick with the article - it makes it sound like the Scottish only invented whisky in the beginning of 19th century:

> So it was only a matter of time before the Scots started storing their local moonshine, a clear distillate called uisge beatha (“water of life”), inside them. “Around 1800, distillers in Scotland realized that putting this clear spirit in a barrel not only made financial sense, but also made the liquid look and taste better,”

whereas Scotch whisky has been around for at least 500 years. In the second half of 18th century and early 19th century making distilled spirits was outlawed in Scotland, so, naturally, people turned to moonshining - much less risk in that than storing casks for decades to mature into proper whisky; that's the reason for the prominence of clear spirits.
It doesn’t make sense to me that a city has too much parking if a parking structure is more lucrative than housing. What is distorting the market if this is happening? (For those who haven’t read the article yet, this is not a question about the ordinances that require retail to provide a number of free parking spaces.)
Yes, your desire to not use virtualization is pretty fringe. Modern hypervisors easily achieve performance almost equivalent to bare-metal. And virtualization comes with numerous benefits making it outright preferable to bare-metal for many use cases.

I think you'd be perfectly happy using something like KVM if you have the right hardware and are willing to figure a few things out.
See also the recent change to the Google salad emoji to remove eggs and make the salad 'vegan friendly'. https://www.cnet.com/news/google-removes-egg-from-salad-emoj...
I can't understand such long sleeping, because​I found the very fact of being interested in learning something new or solving a problem, keeps me alert and awake, literally a adrenaline rush.
Yeah, the raw sensory input is pretty different. But how different are the basic incentives?
I think the story has already come out in full.

Read the book American Kingpin Nick Bilton. It's really a fantastic read and very hard to put down.

While I agree that this would be a harsh punishment for operating a website, Ross attempted to have people murdered. While this charge was dropped, it factored heavily into his sentencing. This linked page wants to gloss over that which is extremely disingenuous.

The agent that stole the bitcoins didn't really taint the investigation IMHO, although what he did was obviously wrong, and which is why he is now in jail.
Good choices. I was thinking of Bad Brains, who started out as a fusion band, and Craig Finn's early stuff, but that probably gets into more post-punk.
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Is this course suitable for hardware products? There's some ideas and prototypes I have done that I always wanted to bring to market but not sure how to go about it.
But the very existence of this matrix will make Noise insecure in actual applications.

It’s like WS-Security/OAUTH/PGP/JOSE all over again. Another overly-flexible “framework” that’s a minefield of footcannons for people to misuse if they’re not trained and experienced in crypto.

If the security bar is going to be raised, repeating history isn’t the way to do it.
> without the consumer being coerced into signing up for services and handing over their private data

These days I feel like that happens regardless of whether the "customer" is paying or not. Any compelling reason to believe otherwise?
I recommend "The Promise of Sleep" by Dr. William C. Dement of Stanford. I don't know if it covers your interest, but I found it informative.
but can they "game" those fake reviews? we live in a world of fake news and fake reviews. Craigslist is a start up for scammers.
I think it does matter broadly, but I understand your point. I'm actually studying the problem in graduate school, I was just trying to get an understanding of the actors on this particular stage. My apologies if it came across as naive and trivializing.
With respect to natural resource extraction and producing globally traded commodities, yes I think corporations generally benefit from fewer regulations, but much of the economy doesn't operate like these industries.

Regulations generally limit competition to regulated firms, and increase economies of scale advantages, by imposing fixed costs like lobbying and regulatory compliance.
I've made two suggestions then that are not contradictory.
Poor business decisions, strategic mistakes, and improper spending? The usual reasons, probably. $1B loss so obviously huge spend with little return.