skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That 20k per foreclosure is probably not going to even cover Wells Fargo's legal expenses following this. They're going to be sued not just for the loss of value/equity caused by a foreclosure but for the ongoing costs of loss of a home - possibly more expensive shorter term housing, the credit damage of a foreclosure (and increased costs due to that), legal expenses, possible loss of employment due to having to move or having no stable home, etc.

What Wells Fargo did was take people already on the edge and throw an anvil at them.
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There's another societal trend at play here, and that's the increasing pace of technological change and market disruption. Increasingly, "income stocks" are becoming "death stocks" - rather than companies with stable income streams for the foreseeable future, they are companies whose products and business models have become obsolete and who are just awaiting a competitor to replace them.

The days where the economy was relatively stable and large companies had wide moats against competition are largely over. The last 15 years has seen a large number of huge household names go bankrupt entirely, from Kmart to Sears to Toys'r'us to Chrysler to GM to MCI/Worldcom to Bear Stearns to Lehman Brothers to Wachovia to virtually every airline. Many more are now at risk, from Visa & Mastercard to Walmart to every hotel chain.

All of these huge returns for private tech companies are coming at the expense of their competitors, which are largely the big public companies that many people have their retirement money invested in.
Don't confuse evil for incompetence.
Inflation, bro. It's a killer. You used to be able to retire without taking any risks with your money in the stock markets.
There are stories about people who stopped paying their mortgage and got away with it because the mortgage had been resold several times and there wasn't clear paperwork about who owned it. But these may be urban legends.
How much of the Labor & Wages go to drivers rather than maintenance, security, etc.? The latter are needed even if you don't have drivers.

I couldn't find a breakdown in the paper.
>> Many were little more than party organs.

Why “were”? They still largely are.
Russia has direct access to the Black Sea regardless, Crimea provides them an existing port they don’t want to give up.
The section of people that use it might benefit to a very large degree. Or they can make the switch prominent to push adoption. There are a lot of features implemented and hidden behind “about:config” where you could ask the same question. Many of them are for the security and privacy conscious but come with a few strings attached, for example some advanced cookie settings such as third party isolation.

That said: I fully expect that at some point Mozilla will want to push adoption of this feature, but not in its most extreme form. I’d expect that a default configuration would use soft fallback.
I think the rules are just badly written. Every description I've read of people enjoying the game involves them signalling to each other using facial expressions. And it seems like it would actually be fun to play that way. I suspect it was how the game authors were playing it while play testing it. They just managed to write the rules in a way that didn't describe the game they had been playing.
Yes, it's important to note that the "Right" in Venezuela, aided by the US, is the most likely culprit in these assassination attempts. This is the same "Right" that has a monopoly on certain foodstocks, such as butter and flour and has been stock-piling them, while the US media reports on food shortages as a socialist problem.
The Orville. I feel like it's the spiritual successor to Gene's original vision.
I see. In hindsight my comment about “100%” anonymity was misguided. My original intuition was that a cash-bitcoin payment had to be at least “more” anonymous than the alternative of a credit card, but now I’m not so sure. Presumably tracing a credit card payment would require a court order or hacking a bank account/email, but the bitcoin scenario only needs a big database of faces which I guess you could get by crawling Facebook or something(?). Anyway, your main point about all transactions being recorded forever is well taken. Thanks for clarifying my understanding.
Different times. He stated that he’s only now excited about returning to the role, and hadn’t previously been the last 20 years, because he sees how bleak many people’s outlook is about the world right now. He himself has uncharacteristically begun watching the TNG episodes for a dose of hope. So I think we will find the federation in a state of dis-unification (earth exiting the union? immigration problems?) and perhaps even Picard struggling to find and build hope.
Full anon is very hard. If you have to ask you're not going to be able to pull it off. I did a contract once where my client had to deal with some really scary people.

The steps I took were so extreme. Cash phone, burner computer, custom proxies, relays, delays, fake data, fake traffic.

And you still never know.

Your adversary could have something you didn't even think of and you get owned anyway.

If all you want to do is avoid tracking scripts from companies, however, use a VM on another user account on your computer and write up a script to light up a new DigitalOcean droplet automatically when you browser. Cycle the IP frequently and use a bunch of different VMs with different browsers and OSes. It's enough for 99.99%.
But then isn't it OK to blame and shame those who have engineered and monetized the public loss? It's not just the loss of some Great Truth, but the loss of even honest debate and collective acceptance of facts, or universal disgust at obvious hypocrisy and lying.

Spreading disinformation for profit (and allowing trolls for clicks) is a pollution of a public good. It's as classic an example of a Tragedy of the Commons as any other.

Edit: I am also saddened by the loss of sarcasm and irony. Complexity must be replaced by simplicity again.
The Star Trek-clone "The Orville" is just that - with some added Seth Macfarlane humor.

I expected absolutely nothing from it but ended up really enjoying it. Only one season out so far.
> Many, many people appreciated the US fighting back against a communist takeover.

Actually, the communists won a free election, and US-supported extremists ignored it.

Edit: OK, I misremembered. The 1956 election didn't happen, because South Vietnam refused to participate. And I've read that they refused because they feared that they'd lose.
I strongly disagree. Initially, I've been reluctant to do so myself, however, once I read a bit more of it, it's actually fairly simple for simple things and just a bit more complex for very complex stuff. It's no harder or more involved than setting up a VM on your own. The cost is also pretty much the same for small scale as you basically have free k8s masters by now.

Also if you host a bunch of side projects, it's actually better in terms of resource utilization and separation of projects, it dynamically schedules pods based on resource requests across the nodes it has at hand so you can host several projects fully separate on a single or a handful of nodes depending on requirements.
"A $30000 vehicle can drive 200K miles for the price of fuel and occasional cleaning."

Modern vehicles are incredibly more reliable than they used to be, but this seems to be overstating the case.
Python tox first released was in 2010. Tox project started in 2013. I hope in the future authors of open source projects would do some Googling before deciding on name. The reason is people really get confused which one.

Imagine this situation. Instead of tox, someone decided to named the tox project "Python". Tox is very famous in the Python community. This shows how unfortunate people doesn't care about naming.
They're passing a lot of information through movements and facial expressions. That seems like a more fun version of the game than the game actually described by the rules.
I disagree, you had no actual right to create the property in the first place. It's like trespassing and the actual owner grabbing a dumpster and cleaning out your stuff.

Literally the user has no rights in that case.
Doesn't matter. Naming conflict is the worst thing could happen in open source/foss world.
Thoughts and Prayers for them in these challenging times.
Tectonically stable as well.
On the other side there is Japan where there is very little old at all - the earthquakes and landslides see to that.
It's a big problem. All anybody wants to do in England is buy and prop up some ancient building.
It's hardly surprising we have an energy usage crisis. Everything ends up set in aspic.
Recently apple reached 1tn val. Are the globalized giants eating the rest? Is humanity going to be better off in the long run in oligopoly like in the Cyberpunk dystopia?
Chances are that my framework of learning is going to be different than yours. I find that most materials distract me from my real task - getting efficient and productive with a new tool.

I like to learn by doing projects. I'll usually pick three projects that I find somewhat interesting and figure out how to finish them with the new tool. I usually progress like this:

1.) Build the first project.
2.) Build the second project.
3.) Go back, read the first project and refactor it using what I've learned.
4.) Build the third project.
5.) Add a new feature to the first project.
6.) Refactor the second project.
7.) Add a new feature to the third project.

By the time I've made it through those steps, I'm fairly confident with my skills. I likely don't have full mastery of the language and it's ecosystem, but I have found good resources, learned where to ask for help, and learned enough of the ecosystem's language to be able to ask for more detailed help.

I also try to confine my learning to one subject. For example, you mention that you'd like to start doing some data analysis. If you have advanced knowledge in math/stats, that might be a great way to learn. But, if you don't, you'll have to learn the underlying science while you're learning to use the tool. With the way I learn, that is setting me up for failure.

Here is the thing though. My method works for me and I'm using it now to learn a new tool. But, I'm a sample of one.

A fellow named Zed Shaw has written a set of guides to learning new languages. His Learn Python the Hard Way is quite well regarded. Learning a language like that doesn't work as well for me, but that might be the exact way that you learn. To learn more, check out https://learnpythonthehardway.org . If you like taking notes, this might be a good option for you. Only, you might find that your muscle memory improves faster if you type the notes into a computer!

Alternately, there are some great classes that you can take online. MIT offers Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python through MITOpenCourseware and ItunesU. I already knew Python when I listened to that series, but I learned one hell of a lot through the lectures.

You'll still have to practice and write lots of code, but hopefully one of those resources helps you progress to the point that you feel your practice is beneficial. The key is to find a style that works for you and keep at it.

Programming is hard, so keeping at it is the most important part. It doesn't much matter how you learn as long as you don't quit. You'll learn the most when you're most frustrated, so take frustration as a sign that you're getting better. Depending on how you motivate yourself, you might want to keep a learning journal so that when you feel dumb you can flip back and realize that you were significantly dumber a month ago. :)

Good luck! And don't be afraid to ask for help. We have all been beginners and most really good developers are all beginners in something. Have fun and kick ass!
What are some others please
You also totally give up privacy (and add accountability), which might be very important for some business owners to maintain.
Glad others agree.

Abrams Trek is like watching a football game; Roddenberry Trek was like watching a chess match. Both can be entertaining, but they are certainly very different things.
Thank you for your response. Not that I’m an arbiter or these things but I think you are perceptive of your impact and what you can do to minimize it to a much greater degree than most, and we’d all be better off if more of us in the developed world were as thoughtful.
Privacy may improve security, but usually not. It is a sometimes unintended consequence.

If I want to tell you a secret, I will bring you into a private room. Now we have privacy. If someone wants to listen in on our conversation, they will plant a bug in that room, or listen through the wall. To remain secure, I must add security countermeasures to prevent the bugs from transmitting, or extra noise to make being overheard difficult.

Your ISP's DNS might be more private, but if an attacker can poison your ISP's DNS cache (it has happened to me on my ISP) you won't be more secure. It's more secure to use a hardened DNS service, which is usually not local. But yes, this could be a minor privacy concern with a big enough attacker.

Just because you add privacy does not mean you added security. Just like because you add security does not mean you have privacy.

So please be honest about the motives for things like this. If you want more privacy, say so. Don't say it's a security problem when it's not.
If you live in the Midwest, that "local" university library can easily be 4+ hours away.

Writing the author is a fine idea and could lead to some great correspondence. It could also be a huge time sink if, like me, you look at a few dozen papers on the topic only to find one or two are really applicable.
The changes since 1950-2000 are a bit of a mixed bag - there is much more fairly unbiased information available through the likes of Wikipedia say than there was. On the other hand there's all sorts of biased sensationalist stuff for those who choose that.
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You're absolutely right. There's a long, ugly, and documented history of what can happen when isolated societies slam into each other. The answer is almost always violence, exploitation, and oppression.

Is it possible that this might not have been the planned result of TCP/IP, however? At the time there was just one social bubble and the point was to enable two computers already in it to connect in a more standardized manner. The notion of using the system for malice largely didn't occur, because at that point there was no reasonable way to gain from doing so. People weren't trying to engineer globe-spanning society-merging information networks.

But never mind that. Reasonable people can disagree on questions like the accuracy of our ability to correctly predict the future from 45 years away and counteract those potential distant negative consequences.

Moving on to what I consider the more interesting point: the process proposed. It's pretty clear that this isn't about fostering a conversation. You do not need enforcement mechanisms to foster a conversation. Enforcement abilities - like rejecting papers, which always comes with the risk of killing a paper forever - are about coercion. Maybe there's another way, like including ethical statements outside review processes, with papers that could both foster conversation and not rely on coercion?

You're right again! Fostering conversation is immensely valuable. We are all part of a vulnerable and critically important society. It is our moral obligation to think about that as we look at our work and discuss it with our peers while also being humble and aware of our own limitations. We can, should, and must do this absolutely critical work. The future depends upon it. We are called to the work.
To build off of that, I think what we're really in is "hyper-truth." A lot of people say we're moving away from facts, and that may be the case sometimes. But most of the time, I just think that there are so many facts now, and you can easily grab all of the ones that support your side.
Why does so many people distrust every single step done by mozzilla!?

Sorry, this got me emotional, but since I started following tech news few years ago the amount of fake news on mozzilla I read is astounding.

And proper fake news. Many, as this article does, do no claim that a new feature dangerous per se, but falsely (I don't think with purpose, that is what I find astounding) quote mozzilla blogs to build an apocalyptic scenario
I think your landlord would be pretty upset if you refused to sign a new lease and also refused to move out. Which is why we have a legal process for eviction.

And while there are more protections for residences (so you don't become homeless overnight), there are less for commercial spaces (like an artist's studio) because you're expected to be commercially responsible about these things. If you can't move your stuff out of a commercial space several months after your lease has ended, then the problem is with you, no?
> A $30000 vehicle can drive 200K miles for the price of fuel and occasional cleaning.

That is significantly underestimating the operating costs of a vehicle, especially a vehicle that is used heavily. There is a lot of periodic maintenance required, and the frequency increases as usage gets more stressful. Then there is non-periodic maintenance, be it from accidents, vandalism, or just flawed parts.

It's true that most of these costs come in even if you own, but putting 200k miles on a car over eight years costs less (both per-mile and per-unit-time) than putting 200k on in two years.
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How is hunting and gathering not working?
Roughly 28% of the S&P500's 2017 advance was due to FAANG, and 40% due to tech in general:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-quarter-of-sp-500s-2017-...

Take them out and you're much closer to the historical 10% return, and that's in a bull market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfznnKUwywQ
The search in other parts of the world is already distorted or full on censored across various "morally acceptable bounds". China just happens to have different morality. This is more akin to McDonalds having a different menu everywhere than it is akin to Orwellian thought policing or that being a universal wrong. The morality is different and ethical is subjective. If you don't like it, don't use it, but to say this is some kind of outright evil imposed by the government is to ignore that the majority of Chinese support Confucian morality and there is little concept of Western style privacy. Why should China abide by Google employees morality? That is the bigger question to me. Why should Google abide by their employees morality either?
We will download 70B mobile apps in 2013 (50% Android, 41% iOS)
Only so many words you can use. It’s bound to happen eventually.
OTOH, a lot of companies used to go public that had no business doing so. We went through a period where a lot of normal folks lost big portions of their retirement savings betting on public companies that really shouldn't have been in public markets. Yes, early-stage startups have the potential to return 100x, but they've also got the potential to lose 100%. That's the reason why we have the rules around qualified investors...they're people who are supposed to be in a position where losing their entire investment doesn't cause the kind of impact we were seeing when so many dotcom IPOs failed.
Yes, that's the big issue. Plus, changing to a different resolver is not very simple and most users won't even know.
> That PWT sounds an awful lot like a vtable

Correct; it's the same thing in essence.
It's a free website. What do you expect?
that's great, but are you coming for the ip addresses too (probably the bigger challenge)?
Maybe to see if it works?

Which I think is the purpose of almost all experimental feature.

In the blog it is clearly stated that they hope DoH implementations will become standard and common, maybe that even some ISP start offering their own.
Another way of stating the article thesis that adherence to scientific method is more fragile than many people think. Scientific inquiry in most fields is driven by a relatively small number of people. It's easy to see from current debates on vaccines, climate change, and evolution how quickly their results can be ignored.
The sun emits black body radiation with a 5800K temperature, which means its emissions peaks at yellow-greenish, but it still emits around 90% of blue compared to green
The subject was whether the Play Store was secure. I showed that it is far more secure than the Apple App Store, and you conceded that argument.

Now you want to change to another argument. I am happy to oblige.

> Which Android devices get regular updates for over 2 years? 3 years?

Pixel, Android One, Nokia, and Blackberry devices. People who have enough money to buy an iOS device have enough money to buy an Android One device every year to get an even more secure device.

> Android is insecure by design - since most devices can’t be updated.

There are far more Android device models that can be updated than iOS device models. Those who care about security choose those devices.

> Do you have any links to back up your claims?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=xcodeghost

Meanwhile, your links were for unpatched Android devices that security-conscious users don't use. You might as well post links about unpatched vulnerabilities for the Apple Newton.
I said when the first Abrahms Star Trek came out that it was one of the best Star Wars movies in years.

I guess someone at Disney agreed with me...
Nope, it really happened:

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/business/economy/25gret.h...
The question is, looking back 30 years from now, will there as many (or any) public stocks that will have performed as well then, as MS has from 1986 to today?

Or will all the explosive early gains in future companies' growth be captured by the private equity ecosystem before the companies go public?
Another reason to go public is because the SEC forces companies with 2000 stock owners (used to be 500 pre-2012) to file public disclosure documents similar to being public, so companies typically go public at that point. I’ve heard that some work around this limit by issuing IOUs indexed to the stock price.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/5/500-shareholder-thresho...
> The article doesn't suggest there's something sneaky going on.

The article headline is "Mozilla's new DNS resolution is dangerous", so I guess you are right in saying they are not "suggesting", because they are down right accusing Mozilla of being sneaky.
I’m surprised he’s 78 but not too worried that that’ll weaken his performance. According to IMDB, Stewart lost 21 pounds for the movie “Logan” [0] in order to portray a sickly Prof. Xavier. Dropping weight as a wrestler was incredibly painful even as a HS wrestler, so I think he must be very healthy for a man in his late seventies to even consider such a regimen.

If anything, Stewart’s old age will be an asset. The final TNG movies had him acting as an action hero; now the new show will be inclined to have more cerebral conflicts.

[0] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3315342/trivia?ref_=m_tt_trv_trv
I’m sure thst the robots will never become self-aware and violently rebel at the very least. Westworld Disney is going to be a huge hit!
This is the exact type of experimentation and hacking I would expect from a technology that has a lot of potential and interest from devs. I hope ActivityPub and further decentralization efforts continue to gain mindshare.
Mmmm, underground traffic jams.

I've seen that Dr Who episode.
Sure, that's one of the problems with the current market.

But if understand correctly, HashThis' claim is that the market is not even returning the historical 10% average.
Right, but at least does some Google and ack this is not tox.ini. That's what I would do in FAQ.