skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Physicians who cure must abstract person into functions. They threat the illness, not the person. And persons willfully present themselves as functions. Indeed, what sustains the enormous size and cost of the curing professions is the widespread desire to see oneself as a function, or a collection of functions. To be ill is to be dysfunctional; to be dysfunctional is to be unable to compete in one's prefered contests. It is a kind of death, an inability to acquire titles. The ill become invisible. Illness always has the smell of death about it: Either it may lead to deat, or it leads to the death of a person as competitor. The dread of illness is the dread of losing.

> One is never ill in general. One is always ill with relation to some bounded activity. It is not cancer that makes me ill. It is because I cannot work, or run, or swallow that I am ill with cancer. The loss of function, the obstruction of an activity, cannot in itself destroy my health. I am too heavy to fly by flapping my arms, but I do not for that reason complain of being sick with weight. However, if I desired to be a fashion model, a dancer, or a jockey, I would consider excessive weight to be a kind of disease and would be likely to consult a doctor, a nutritionist, or another specialist to be cured of it.

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They are properly raytracing soft shadows, no need for AO.
Long years of supporting NUMA in kernel seems to pay off now.
Forgive me if this self evident or discussed in the article, my head was reeling by the time I got to the end. I'd appreciate if it anyone could confirm that I understand the situation correctly:

1. The buffer overflow identified exists in a JPEG parser that was written by HP from scratch. Therefore this exploit may only apply to the specific models of HP fax that utilise this firmware (and HP have already patched it, so a fix is available).

2. Disabling colour faxes would mitigate the vulnerability. (I've just scanned three years worth of fax logs from our fax server and we've never received a colour fax).

3. These mitigations aside, the principle remains that fax is often present without any kind of security attached directly to the network and thought should be given to isolating fax infrastructure to reduce exposure to exploitation. (Additionally the constant and ongoing lobby to management to permanently retire fax should be maintained).
Careful with the "we". This is very much just an American thing.
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This article is extremely alarming. The process the author is calling "cascade billing" is money laundering. This exact process of disguising the nature of transactions to get banking institutions to transfer funds is literally what the feds took down Backpage for recently. I am very familiar with the details of that case and am surprised to see someone be so cavalier with the details publicly.

Many adult services providers are burning through hundreds of merchant accounts, getting them closed/actioned, and repeating as long as they aren't prosecuted. The moment they have to deal with any criminal prosecution, however, there are going to be a lot of problems now that the feds have learned to prosecute this as money laundering.

EDIT: Holy shit, the author cops to being an accomplice to wire fraud in the comments: https://i.imgur.com/S5UWBZZ.jpg. He needs to take this post down immediately. This is why programmers need to learn about the world before they do things to it.
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Sure. An interview is a two way process. Do I want to work for a company with a broken hiring process like that? A company that doesn’t respect a candidates time prior to the interview certainly won’t after they are hired. It’s implicitly an ageism filter too - looking for recent graduates or people with few out of work commitments. Similarly extensive homework assignments. All red flags.
You can have a look at Richard Bird's book _Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design_. It's much more accessible than his earlier influential book _Algebra of Programming_.

In this book, many well-known algorithms, e.g. KMP pattern matching, are derived from naive implementations by step-by-step applications of algebraic rules of (functional) programs.
AWS and GCE as well, they can put them in their datacenters and run them 24/7, with their customers either renting it for a few minutes to hours for the odd task, researchers for hours / days to run a huge task, and the spot market making sure they never go unused. For them it's more of a matter of how much they're used in terms of % of time, and how much they can charge per compute hour. They can earn the investment back within a year.
Tamagotchi also ran on the 6502.
Android from scratch (without IDE)
Fascinating stuff. I think I should study the code to understand the language better. I speak both Turkish and Azeri and most of times I'm unable to explain how the grammar works.
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AO and soft shadows are orthogonal and are often used simultaneously. A few direct light sources (point lights, spots, infinite) with soft shadows and additionally an environment light (dome or half dome) with AO.
> We took the early eye structure from one frog embryo, and implanted it onto another embryo’s back. We were interested in two things: First, would the recipient be able to see out of that implanted eye on its back? Is the brain plastic enough to be able to actually see out of it? Second, we wanted to know, what is this eye structure going to do without a brain nearby? Where is it going to connect, and what are the neurons going to do?

Oh my. This is both amazing and a cliché straight from a cheap horror movie. The actual results are even more surprising - apparently yes, the implanted eye can be made to sort-of work.

Is anyone here aware of more research in this area?
I suppose this is a conference for the daring folks.
Had a recent experience where there was no continuity of care. Every nurse did something different, despite specialists assuring us that instructions were on file. Were the nurses even reading the chart/orders?

Definitely worried things would have been worse if we weren't both present and lucid.
This is law, so:

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png

Except the guy beating you with the wrench (more likely bankrupting and imprisoning you) is doing it with full legal authority, and zero recourse to you (though the Australian police certainly isn't shy about getting in a few shots while they're doing the bankrupting and imprisoning stuff [1], and I seriously doubt that in prisons, where you're totally at their mercy, they behave better).

Parliaments think they're omnipotent, and any company that doesn't want to run the above risk (Just ask Kim Dotcom), has to comply.

Oh and no worries, if the company itself is safe, are you sure all it's employees and family members of those employees are safe from that government too ? [2] "But it can't happen here, our police is better". [3] (is a link to police officers threatening entire families of immigrants, for years, and when they are finally found out, the government protected them from prosecution, instead simply asking them to resign ...)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJWeSh_aKLw

[2] https://www.meydan.tv/en/site/news/21238/

[3] https://www.smh.com.au/national/sydney-crime-arrests-the-ins...
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I think it was intended as a joke...
Something like Stellar should have a great market here, and in the legal cannabis market as well (check out the first commenter on OP's link). Every new innovation in the websphere starts from porn, so why not cryptocurrencies as well.

https://www.stellar.org/
Just because they're interesting doesn't put them above the law; Marcus was arrested under suspicion of creating, spreading and selling the Kronos malware. That is a federal crime.
At least explain why you think it's horrid.
150 specifically just happens to be the military requirement? Not 100 or 200, but 150, which just happens to be the distance that Amazon offers?
You're trying to make it sound like AirBnB would be a better option, but just no. A hotel has accountability at least. AirBnB as an organization has and takes none, and you have to deal with the individual and their house yourself. A hotel chain has their reputation to maintain, a random guy renting out his apartment doesn't.
Explained like that, it does just seem like a really hard to implement wiretap. Not necessarily the worst thing if it’s per user with the right warrants etc.
Discovered today that Wikipedia has a front page. SMH
Well, another obvious takeaway is that even if you're "very good at saving" a divorce can still wipe it all up... or an illness or accident, and several other such emergencies...
Where did you get the notion that it's normal and accepted? Have you read the article? Have you even read the title? "Debacle" does not mean the same as "normal and accepted".
Finland is moving quite a lot of power lines underground especially in the middle of forests, because falling trees are a problem during a seasonal storm[0]. I'm not sure how this cheaper than cutting down the trees though. Sadly most of the information is in Finnish.

>In reality, the difference in the status of power lines between Canada and Finland is not so clear-cut. As things stand now, 11% of power lines in Québec (my province of Canada) are buried, while this number is approximately 42% in Finland. The main difference though, is that Finland has an active strategy to increase this number to 65% by 2029. Helen, the energy company for Helsinki, already operates a power network buried at 97,7%.

The new law seems to demand that power outages must not be longer than 6 hours within cities or 36 hours on rural areas[1][2].

[0] https://www.tys.fi/power-lines-buried-finland-not-canada/
[1] https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-6927938
[2] https://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/tekniikka/katkoton-sahko-vie-...
Agreed. Ligatures seem like a much more elegant solution.
If you are pursuing that approach, why not publish it on Arxiv? Or put it up in a blog and get doi for it using figshare.
Fair enough, but porn companies billing under another name wouldn't change any of that.
Warrantless search only applies if it was the police going in there; if it's hotel security, and if the terms and conditions of said hotel indicate hotel security can enter your room at any given time, then you'll have nothing.
The problem is with startups which are, from day one, meant as #3, but they advertise themselves as #1.
Fair enough for split ticketing, but they prosecuted someone last year for overlong ticketing. It only failed because they got the facts (as opposed to the law) wrong.
What I meant is that cravings for sugar and salt modulate taste covariantly. Which you seem to get. None the less, salt still has am enjoyable taste inherently, before being amplified/minified.
If this was an attempt at showing this tool is unnecessary, you just did the opposite.

Each of your examples use different flags, inputs and print methods. The last is particularly good at proving the point!
Tbf it is probably for the chinese market
>The court (in CA, at least) looks to maintain the children's standard of living DURING THE MARRIAGE until the child is 18 or emancipated.

Why? Standard of livings can be preposterous and dependent on previous economic status (which might not be the same post divorce -- and in many cases it isn't).

The court doesn't care for the millions of kids who fall on standard of living without a divorce (or even while having been had out of wedlock), or who start and end on a low standard of living to begin with. Why should it care for the "same standard of living" in the case of divorce?

A decent standard of living (housing, food, etc) yes. But "maintain" the pre-divorce standard of living is BS.
The title of the article is misleading, it's not programming that is the real issue, it's billing (the progamming issues are just a part in the article).

Since the Credit Card companies & banks create lots of problems as soon as sex is involved (see FetLife's misadventures in HN previous articles for instance) in addition to the big chargebacks issue, and given that customers lie a lot (because they can), I think that the best solution for pornsites would be something similar to prepaid cards used for Google Play, consoles networks and the like.

You buy a card, this puts a limited amount on your "PornPlayButDontSayItIsForThat" account, it's easy to control, anonymous, limits risks even if the account is compromised or the porn site dodgy (hidden automatic renevals & the like) since at most you'd lose that limited amount, then you can buy porn without the issue of the SO (a big problem it seems) and without any banks (or whatever) knowing about your -still badly perceived- habits.

In fact, I'm surprised such a system (not specific to a porn site/network) is not already widely available. Of course, it would not present itself as "the Porn Prepaid Card" because of the stigma... Note that some sites/networks accept gift cards already (I've checked), but it's not very practical (not fine grained, you must use the whole card) and they don't accept ALL cards, what do you do when you're living in France and they only accept American gift cards? You can also buy "tokens" in many sites (especially Webcams) but they still require a CC, so the problem is not solved. A more general "ePurse" system would be better.

This is much more realistic -IMO- than using Bitcoins or the like (too difficult to use and too volatile).

Of course, to REALLY solve the problem you'd "only" need people to stop seeing sex (and porn) as bad, dirty, taboo, etc. But this won't happen anytime soon :-(((
Erm yes, so do I. In fact I gave a talk about this and I'm involved in the software side. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxbpJzU2gkw

These things don't happen by force of nature. They happen because people do the work, and we're doing the work, not moaning on HN about things that haven't happened yet.
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Isn't it obvious?!
Most Airbnb hosts seem to care about their review history.
On the other hand Black Hat Asia is freaking awesome and pretty much the best BH I've been to and I keep hearing about CCC being way better thsn Defcon. There are options outside the US!

Also if you're into crypto you should go to the summerschool in Croatia or the workshops at Eurocrypt!
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The entire idea is a bit wacky. But then it really demonstrates why "coding interviews" that consist entirely of algorithm questions and puzzle questions are pointless. If your interview can be studied for then you're not hiring the best engineers, you're hiring the people willing to devote the most time to studying such things. At that point why not just ask the person to turn over a grade transcript?
Really interesting article. This for me is the crux of it:

> "Being psychotic is not an exercise of free will. It is the inability to exercise free will.”

I get why people are nervous about state power. But there are a variety of conditions, including slavery, addiction, and psychosis, where people may voluntarily enter them but then cannot leave without help. It's a dilemma with no simple answers. But if we're serious about freedom, I think it's incumbent on us to grapple with the complex, inevitably messy issues involved.
That's true but the sad thing is that random people renting out their apartments are, in practice, more accountable via airbnb reviews than a major hotel chain who can implement an evil policy like this across their properties and do a lot of damage before it's reined in.
Couldn't lifecycles of some parasites be considered circular dependencies?
I generally agree, but in this day and age, there is also real horrid, vile stuff... just follow banner ads on random free porn sites and you'll find a lot that is more an excessive dehumanization arms race than anything to do with sex.

People don't have to be ashamed of it in the sense that they didn't choose to get so damaged to be attracted by it, but abuse and it's consequences is a major elephant on the couch of the porn industry, and I also don't feel a shred of shame for not lumping it all together into one giant bag of "it's all fine", just like I can't lump it together as being all bad.

To each his own also means that I see what I see, and judge it as I judge it.
You're looking for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paysafecard. It's pretty common here in Europe.
Western wealth is based off exploitation of Africa and other colonized peoples and their shared resources. Our “innovation” is a boom and bust side show, itself based on exploitation. Folks profiting from colonialism are promising “investing in innovation” as an alternative to justice. Because that justice would hampern Western enrichment.
Without sarcasm, I wonder how long keyboards will still be relevant.
As an American, I would raise hell if a hotel owner searched my room for no reason.
Wow, great stuff!

Did you give more thought into the address cleaning bit? Or does anyone have an idea how to go about transforming mangled addresses into coordinates?

I have a problem that's been bothering me for months, similar to what you have here: people from an emergency service call-center are inputting the addresses of the emergencies. For emergencies that happen on the public domain, there is often not a specific address, but rather names of landmarks. Something like "Street StreetName / Opposite Train Station Y", which can be written like "st stName / opp tr st y" or some other infinite variations.

I don't have any after-data to corroborate, but I do have previous instances where the operator inputted the same address better. If I can extract the correct landmarks, I think I can do a Google Places search for them, with a cleaned query, like "Store Amazon, Best Street, Ohio" to get coordinates that can fall into an acceptable area.

PS: in the example you gave with Lake Shore Drive, I think you could easily correct the names with an algorithm based on the Levenshtein distance
No, they fine at exit.
The same goes for airfares.

A round-trip can be cheaper depending on direction of travel.

One-way trip can be significantly cheaper if you are flying through a major hub like FRA and starting your journey from a less wealthy country.
Great reply. Also, it's very clear Yorick is a smart guy.

And who doesn't fuck up?
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I'm reasonably sure that in UK FOIA requests have to be handled at cost? It's that true in Chicago.

Mind you the company responsible probably said "the database schema will cost $2k to put in a PDF".
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I noticed there where so many people in my environment who suffered from psychological problems like a burn-out or feeling down but couldn't find the right help.
Cause psychological help is expensive, there is a long waiting list, and often no chemistry with the psychologist.

At the same time you got so many skillful students psychology who have a master psychology but can't find work.

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The Economist was generally quite consistent about it, including in its American publishing (which is mostly written by American authors). I was reading The Economist at the time, and so the housing bust did not really surprise me; and I don't remember any false positives at the time. (They called it a little too early, though, as a lot of the "smart" money did.)
The good thing about Turkish language besides its grammatical structure is the way you pronounce it. I am a very fluent English speaker (and have been living in the US for 8+ years now) and occasionally i am amazed at how some things pronounced compared to root of the words (though when you get the hang of it, you eventually develop an intuition as to why).

With Turkish, it's very trivial.
> with policies that amount to tenure

You've identified the problem.
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Maybe they need to go back to 'old fashioned' law enforcement - i.e. haul in the suspects for questioning, put out media adverts to urge victims to come forward, etc?

The example provided is pretty poor: "Enquiries showed that he was contacting these females and offering them drugs in return for sexual favours." - so their enquiries showed that and yet the only evidence that could secure a conviction is supposedly on the phone that law enforcement can't unlock? I call BS.
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>I've been looking for a good invoicing solution

Thats what we do :P But its closed source and very localised so not much help. Invoicing is one of those things that looks easy but in practice turns out to be quite tricky and varies by region and vertical - especially when integrated with payments.

> Would your project be OSS as well?

If possible, yes. We have a paid closed-source product also in finance but there is solid rationale to contributing to a localised FOS bookkeeping product. All of our clients are on cracked versions of old accountancy software - we cant integrate with these so the clients end up doing a bunch of unnecessary work.
That's really a nice idea.

One of the possible issues here is that some of these cards, specially anonymous ones, may take time to validate. Users may not want to wait 24hrs+ for their digital content to arrive.

This should be a solvable problem, though.
This effect gives interesting perspective on pre CGI movies. You see how movie makers conveyed emotions, effect without very limited toolset and built great movies without rubbing the visual organ constantly.

I find a lot of movies today are falling in the Lucas trap: too much CGI (cost reign supreme I guess). It's a bad soil for movies...
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- Ban it for everyone; if you need it, temporarily grant power to the admin to fix something.

- Only if they take a completely trivial amount of time
I find this product anticlimactic. I'm gonna go back to my 8bit grayscale console.
You're insinuating FAANG = ad companies?
If you have a picture of the solution it can tell you how to put the pieces yes.
We run ads, Sir to quote a certain guy during a recent hearing.
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It's really curious how free speech for all was a widespread liberal value until they got control over the platforms. Now, it's free speech for me, not for thee.
Are you reading the graph wrong? It says "Seconds, Less is Better".
Interesting results. Anyone know why the difference between the different Linux distros? (Ubuntu in particular)