skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
KYC applies everywhere that wants to stop, or even to appear to care about, corruption.

I live in the UK. I have been with my main bank since I was a teenager, last century. A couple of years back they wrote to me, saying the KYC regulations mean they need to check who I actually am, they need proof I'm a citizen or my visa status and proof of my address. If I do nothing for six months they'll just cut a cheque for the money in the account and close it. I sent them a photocopy of my passport and driving license.

It seems fair to me, the biggest problem with KYC isn't that it's annoying, but that the crooks it's intended to catch are able to get away without. So if anything we need more, rather than less.

More annoying to me was the time my mobile phone provider, who I'd been with for about 18 years at the time, insisted on government ID as proof I was over 18 before they'd switch off their stupid censorship system for my mobile Internet. (I wanted to read Oglaf). By definition anyone who has been a customer for 18 years is over 18 years old. Duh.
Getting those saucy UI animations for mobile and web
It doesn't imply great confidence, it is literally saying a different thing. You seem to think it means the same thing as "scientifically speaking" or "I have evidence that". It very often means only "related to statistics". That's it. No epistemological claims needed.

"I'm so going to win the lottery"

"On average ... no you aren't" / "Statistically speaking ... no you aren't" / "If you work out the odds ... no you aren't" / etc.

If I ask you a question about some gambling game, you are going to think about it in a statistical way. I mean you will think in terms of populations and samples and odds, not that you will go perform experiments and then do a statistical analysis of that evidence in order to come to a scientific conclusion.
Yep. It's on the roadmap, but the recording is done at the OS level, so Windows and Linux will require some work to get support.
One of the is issues here is Wikileaks taking sides and encouraging things to happen politically, which is beyond just leaking things.
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2010-title31-vol1/pdf/CFR-...
Turbines are not very low-maintenance, too.

At least, electric motors are likely lower maintenance than turbines.
I used to own Flight Simulator ‘98. Which proudly stated “photorealistic graphics” on the box. Technically they were correct... all the textures were photos!
This is one failure mode that definitely exists. Another failure mode is less experienced folks who believe all their code is perfect and take criticism personally.

I honestly don't know which failure mode is more common. I do know that I had the latter problem in spades when I was earlier in my career and that I'm really paranoid now about being that senior person on a power trip.

But if everyone is trying really hard to both act in good faith themselves and assume good faith in their coworkers, careful reviews are the best way I'm aware of for getting great code into the tree.
What makes you think marchenko is not a US citizen?

Regardless, my original comment said "Western Culture", not "American Culture". Here in Australia I have definitely seen comments and heard people victim blame rape victims for their behavior. Don't try and say that it's only an Australian thing, for sure it happens in the USA too.

Why would you accuse me of lying?
I guess it depends on your definition of "significant" but there is a social welfare system in Mexico. There are several programmes, and it's helped millions of people - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Welfare_in_Mexico
Lol. Who cares about the spelling? A rose by any other name still has experience and something thoughtful to share.
The book 'Cod' by same author is also a really good, if not better book. I'm always impressed when someone can make a good story out of a seemingly boring topic.

http://a.co/0tknqbI
Sysinternals has this exact tool iirc....

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/
Theoretically, Twitter would be an entity capable of knowing this information by correlating IP addresses and user-agents, but I agree that would not constitute "hard proof" as that could be spoofed + VPN
RISC-V was made by people at Berkeley and then was released threw a non-profit foundation. It is completely free and open to use.

There might be specific implementation that could be licensed as you describe but I am not aware of any at the moment.
It is Trump that is unraveling the American world order. He dislikes multi-lateral institutions and does not care for values, only interests. Meanwhile, the American government has no cogent response to China's Belt and Road Initiative except for labeling it as "predatory". Something tells me the hard cash of the Chinese will speak louder in Central Asia than American rhetoric.
> If you know what your doing you can write elegant, performance tuned, secure and maintainable code in a dynamic language.

You can! You totally can. But, statistically speaking? You probably won't. Neither will I. And that's why the minimal level of guardrails I'll put up with in 2018 is TypeScript and I'd really rather have better.
"Natives", here, clearly means people born in the country, rather than aboriginal.
I think this has been the case for the case for the past 20 years, probably longer, though I'm optimistic that improvement is possible. E.g., perhaps serverless computing is inefficient today but it could help improve hardware utilization.
> Companies and institutions who need information from people that could be used for identity theft really need to reach people in a way that they won't confuse it for a scam.

Yes! Occasionally I'll get a call from a company of which I'm a customer and they proceed to ask for PII before going on (usually medical companies). I reply by asking THEM to give me the info they have and I'll check if it's correct. Since some won't, I then ask them to prove who they say they are… as I can't tell them apart from a scam. Even though I know it's a broken process, I refuse to go along because this is something they need to fix.

Many companies unknowingly participate in creating an environment of bad processes making a fertile ground for scammers.

On a positive note, my banking institution sends me email notifications about stuff on my account, WITHOUT any links to their site. Yes, it takes a few extra clicks to get to their site but it stops the user conditionning to click on any link they see in an email that just happens to have a logo of the company with which they do business.
Does e.g. Amazon's offering have a way to do that? Or is there still a cold start time? Where do you run the pgbouncer that is always running?
"The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing" --Einstein
Maybe because many people haven't experienced this? The parent poster also said this:

> I wish I could find that company where nobody gives a shit about their place in the hierarchy and everyone isn't constantly trying to gun for other people's jobs to make their linkedin profiles look more impressive.

This does not resonate at all.
It’s a regulatory requirement. Banks don’t do these things just to piss off their customers.

But banks can comply with requirements without botching the process.

It's just a culture of pass-the-buck, bad middle management, and a lack of investment in quality customer service.

Send 'em a dodgy-looking letter and freeze the account isn't the only way to accomplish the goal.
I am in complete agreement.

Physical books are outdated technology that are bad for the environment and outdated the moment they are printed.

Its a very emotional thing to support the library, I'm not sure why it invokes such strong feelings with children/moms, but I dont think its a smart decision to continue wasting space and resources on physical books.

Note: Nothing is black and white. There should be a strong middle-ground here.
It most definitely will, did you read the article? <origin(s)> allows you to define what script origin have access to what features. The example you bring up where a script modifies the page to do something would require the 'self' origin, which is definitely not secure. I prefer CSP's language for 'self' being called 'self-insecure', because using the 'self' origin isn't secure. Defining the origins of which scripts have access is really the only secure way to lock out a 3rd party.
I take before bed as well, it helps calm those crazy before-bedtime thoughts and just lets me dooze off
I was thinking of things like the station in 2001.
To a non-technical expert:

> prevents errors when programs try to access the wrong memory

Reads as "Prevents errors when <wizardry>"
Superman was the ultimate American immigrant, and America welcomed him with open arms. How quickly some have forgotten the values America was founded on.
> trying to cause your marriage to become invalid

FYI, the validity of existing marriages was never really on the table.

> I can't tell, are you disagreeing with my point

I'm disagreeing with "gun control isn't quite analogous here for a few reasons".

What if a leader opposed gun rights, thus removing employees' ability to protect themselves? Or what if a leader supported gun rights, thus making employees' communities more violent?

What if a leader opposed abortion rights, thus imposing an inappropriate level of control on women and their bodies? What if a leader supported abortion rights, thus showing a fundamental disregard for human life?

What if a leader supported minimum wage, thus showing a poor grasp of economics? What if a leader opposed minimum wage, thus hurting his employees financially?

What if a leader wanted increased defense spending, thus recklessly endangering the well-being of the world? What if a leader wanted decreased defense spending, thus recklessly endangering the well-being of the world?

What if a leader has Communist sympathies?

Or let's bring it back to marriage: What if a leader supported rights to polygamist marriage? What if a leader opposed rights to polygamist marriage?

The usual response to this is "Well, OBVIOUSLY X is the right thing." Despite the fact that the country at large does not have anything resembling consensus on these issues. (Just as the supposed "obvious" answer to Prop 8 was evidently very non-obvious to most Californians in 2008.)
In the times of standard code formatters for every language, isn't this just a display problem?

For JavaScript, you could simply force the code to be saved as prettier formatted without any config.

If you display it, however, you can let your editor apply whatever format you like. So you would have one source of truth in the repo and whatever you like in your editor.
Someone running a company selling developer tools (in the widest sense) for millions probably has spent more time and effort thinking about "how to get people to use my software", and talked with more other developers (and customers) about it than "experts too busy writing code". What does qualify those "experts" to talk about it with more authority, even if we ignore the fact that someone making specialist graphics tooling probably isn't a bad programmer either, and solving problems companies are willing to pay for.
Yeah, and there was one episode of the TV series where a reporter asked to see his green card.
I didn't say they have no plans. Obviously they do. But unless you work for Apple, you don't know what they are.

Whatever their plans are, there is some number N of employees who could subvert those plans. It is legitimate to wonder how big that number is, and to note that there is no way for anyone outside of Apple to know.
pure scum, I couldn't think of a single worse company than these snakes. Stay far away from BoA
CRS is an old term from when it was possible to take reservations without a computer. It can also mean "central reservation system", in the sense of "we operate above the level of a single property, aggregating all supply for an entire chain/brand".

GDS was the system travel agents use to access supply (lodging) that's been aggregated all in once place. Its importance has fallen as fewer people are using travel agencies, and OTAs (online travel agencies -- Expedia, booking.com) have created separate pools of supply.

I work in this area. If you need any help, questions, consulting, etc., email is in profile.
> What makes quotability from a written corpus of law not horrible, but further formalization horrible?

Inflexibility. We humans are squishy and imprecise. Which is why the law is unlike mathematics, and I think efforts to make it so and to remove humans from its application are fundamentally misguided.

> The society could unconditionally reward people for detecting inconsistencies in the law before we run into them during a trial after a tragedy thus potentially preventing it (i.e. finding a proof that the law simultaneously guarantees a right for a certain deed, yet also forbids it)

My thoughts here go more to mitigating circumstances rather than inconsistencies. These are varied to the point of the near infinite, and people can judge these better than algorithms ever could as people can infer, empathise and extrapolate.
That's not covered. The OFAC just requires banks to have compliance programs and says that the degree and type of compliance will vary between banks, and to "ask your regulator" about it. As the other comment said, there are less urgent ways to check for US citizenship.
Some niches are indeed impossible to reach. If the niche is extremely small I advise on contacting me first. If I will be unable to deliver I will simply issue a refund.

Candidates are qualified through lead generation tool. You need to specify your audience during the order process. We use that to find them.
Very rational people here.

The moment you tap on libraries, every employee at the library goes on facebook and calls moms to revolt.

Its emotion driven, and as a result a political tool.
A lottery among the academically qualified students would produce a class with many fewer African American, Native American and Latino students which would be politically untenable. Those cohorts score much worse than caucasians and asians on standardized tests.

The data is pretty shocking and closely guarded by the testing people who believe they'd be asked to shut down altogether if it got out.
> I wasn't convinced there was a strong enough engineering presence in theit leadership to make a good product

That seems like a strange requirement. Ultimately for a business to be successful there has to be people that know business, marketing, and slaes. If the leadership team is all hard-core tech engineers, there will be a lack of all of the other social and fundamental business skills needed.
The entire initial arguments of this article are just argumentum ad populum. Just a bunch of bullet points about popularity, finished up with the same round of "good programmers write good code in any language." So, does that include Java, then? No? Ok.

PHP is "designed for the web?" What does that even mean in this context? They never really explain it beyond saying PHP is tightly coupled to your webserver (which is not objectively a pro, not even close). Knowing my early history of PHP, it was originally closer to "cobbled together to get something to work for the web."

There seems to be a weird, baked in idea that Java software is always bloated and PHP software cannot be. In other words, it's predicated on a language-agnostic idea, but it's applied directly to two languages.

After all that, I find this highlight particularly hypocritical, since the article never actually offers any real benefits to PHP beyond "it's popular" and "it's for the web":

> Letting someone sell you on a language (like Java) without having a full evaluation and discussions about architecture and design is like letting a home builder sell you on buying a house you’ve never seen because his contractors use only the latest and greatest hammer (or sledge hammer in the case of Java EE).
According to this article on Wikipedia, it's a linear relationship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_power_dissipation

Edit: maybe this takes into account that when you increase frequency you might also have to increase the voltage to keep the processor stable, as well? But a 4th power effect seems quite extreme.
Continuous Delivery on AWS with Terraform and Travis CI
Leaving aside my general scepticism of basically everything, including the knowability of the truth of a statement, including the statement: "At least one mind exists."

The answer is pretty simple. Gold was predicted to be whitish looking, like Platinium, based on the physics of the time. But due to a phenomenon unknown at the time (relativity) it was gold. That is how we know our minds don't create reality. We seem to live in a universe of consequence, not a dream. There are things we don't understand that we come to figure out, not the other way around.

On the other hand, if by "how would we know?" you mean the fundamental unknowability of everything, yes I agree with you. But as Russel said, "it's boring to stop there" so let's just park that observation and continue on. In this way, philosophy mirrors theology. You take some things by faith and you get on with your life.
Codier – Front-End Coding Challenges and Creations
There’s no real policy that I’m aware of internally for teams to use microservices. Amazon has a lot of tooling to make it easy to spin up services, however.

The first major project after being acquired was to make a pared down Goodreads experience available on the Kindle Paperwhite. Our first services came out of that initiative to provide a buffer between the Kindle traffic and the Goodreads Rails app.

That being said I’ll be the first to caution small teams should avoid microservices at first for fear of creating a distributed monolith.
That may work for my dependencies but not the dependencies of my dependencies. In other words, for that to work it isn't enough for me to change - every npm library maintainer must change.
Showing a Craigslist scammer who's boss using Python [video]
How does a kid realistically do 6-12 extracurriculars, school, sleeping, and eating in a 24 hour day?

If the admissions departments are just looking for higher numbers every year without even considering if they are plausible, that sounds like they are just asking for resume padding or fraud
Because BoA is a terrible institution, and no one should have any accounts there... If it were not for governments "too big to fail" crap BoA would have collapsed a decade ago instead it was rewarded by government for its bad behavior as such it will continue to behave badly
Who cares? It gets shit done.
Happy to post it, but you can thank Corey Quinn from https://lastweekinaws.com/ for pointing me to it.
The more I've learned about Haskell, the more I've come to realize that Haskell's approach to IO really has very little to do with Monads. Fundamentally, Haskell implementations sequence IO actions using hidden magic. (GHC uses dummy world variables.) As it happens, the operations for constructing IO actions from pure values and for sequencing IO actions form a Monad. But that's not really any more interesting than the fact that e.g. (\x -> [x]) and concatMap form a Monad.
Thanks all. Long time lurker, first time commenter.
Out of curiosity, why remain a customer of BoA?

They seem to be a terrible bank to do business with for any reason.
Of course not. It's the desire to freely help and contribute to others' lives that would keep me from monetizing it.
That isn’t inconsistent with BoA’s practice. The foreign passport is proof of citizenship. Presumably a French passport would be fine, a North Korean passport would be a problem.
This seems like a criticism that could be used against almost all products. I continually vet my grocery store's products by ingesting them.
I've also "made" people downvote without explaining themselves, apparently. Maybe they don't know the difference between

"function_name"

and

function_name();
SQL Server IntelliSense and Autocomplete
> where could a 10x capacity increase possibly come from

Eliminating street-side parking single-handedly gives you 2x to 3x on side streets. Tighter packing and better routing does a lot of the rest. You can't do the latter until a zone goes 100% autonomous, which is unrealistic for e.g. Dallas but very much so for downtown Manhattan.

> Add in destroying transit

Nobody said anything about destroying transit. Earlier, I explicitly mentioned rail for within-density transit.
I'm excited to see how the world will turn out with new leadership, absolutely nothing wrong with progress/trying new things.
Isn't nostalgia almost always targetting some fad? Some fads last months, others a decade, but the sentiment remains regardless (and will probably reiterate: we're getting pretty bullish on "cheap"/reusable spaceships again..)
Can’t batteries be charged in parralel pretty fast though? I think that’s what tesla is doing with semi charging.
Though I never played madworld I continue to wonder if the game play is more exciting because the graphics invite your mind to fill in missing details.
How Britain beat the odds to achieve space flight, and then abandoned it
Chat bots have been in Lisp textbooks since 1960s, kinda dated too!
I'm going to reference coding tests specifically, because I'm not against them but I'm against them implemented poorly:

- If I have an extensive github, and my github is on my resume, and you don't have the time to look at it, I don't have time for your coding test.

- If your coding test asks thinly veiled lateral thinking questions, I will not be accepting a job with your company.

- If you spend more than 60 seconds of the interview asking me what I think of your coding test, I will not be accepting a job with your company.

- If I'm interviewing for a position where I'm going to be mostly developing CRUD apps, don't ask me to implement a bubblesort. Interview for the job you're actually hiring for.

- Ideally, let someone else design your coding test. There's plenty of companies that do these now, and they'll be better at it than you are.
Dell XPS 13 now ships with Ubuntu 18.04 Linux
> That being said I’ll be the first to caution small teams should avoid microservices at first for fear of creating a distributed monolith.

What is your heuristic for determining when it is the right time to look at microservices?
Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars
Thank you for this explanation.

liver toxicity aside

That's what I was looking for. I recall a burst of interest/hype (choose your word), several years ago, about L-theanine. One company/salesman (the very prominent-looking, TV type, although I think this may have been via one of those suspicious-looking PBS specials [1]), was promoting it in a topical cream. Apparently, it would pass from that into the bloodstream.

There was little if any discussion in that... "pitch" about dosage limits. 'It sooths you. Rub it on. Rub on some more...'

I wondered. And more recently, I finally started seeing reporting of downsides -- although I didn't see much. Liver toxicity.

Like so many other drugs/supplements (choose your word), a lot of harm to reputation and perhaps also people is done, when no work or discussion is included about effective and safe dosage.

Like the "self-taught" herbalist my acupuncture friend had a (non-romantic) "thing" for, years ago. "Intuitively" brewing up pots of herbal tea for people, in his home. Not wanting to disappoint her, nor offend him, I drank some. And felt like crap for two days. Thank goodness my liver made it through unscathed.

I don't want the FDA shutting down everything on behalf of the pharmaceutical companies (who've played their significant roles in side-lining a lot of effective but unprofitable -- for them -- treatment). But I would welcome more intelligent conversation about and thoughtful approach to these things.

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1. PBS == Public Broadcasting System, i.e. publicly funded television, in the U.S. That's been taking on more and more commercial tinges, in return for corporate sponsorships, as the public money has fallen short.