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I almost ordered two pvc plumbing fittings from Amazon last week for $13.99. Thanks to some Hackernews skepticism I cancelled my shopping cart. I found the same fittings at my local hardware store for $8.99.

My question is, how dynamic are Amazon’s prices? Do all users see the same prices or is it more like google search where results are “personalized”? It seems like they could dynamically change prices based on user data pretty easily.
I'm a bit worried about social engineering there. "Oh, it's a bunch of gibberish" may pass muster with a support rep (in both of your approaches), leading to compromise.

Lately, I've been making up a seemingly correct, but random response (and different each time). My favorite vegetable? Sea cucumber! I store that in my password manager.
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How much money could reasonably be spent on Skid Row, and why is it in the same sentence as Mars?
Well, I think the distinction is fair, kernel systems programming is largely concerned with things a kernel would normally do (ie, a kernel or µC code), very close to the metal or such. Maybe bare metal systems programming would have been more accurate but I feel it doesn't convey the same meaning.

System systems programming is what it says on the tin; it's about constructing systems, multiple objects interacting with rules on the interaction, etc. An alternative name might be "user space systems programming" though again I think that doesn't convey the meaning as well.
Daniel J. Bernstein discussed the collision likelihoods with message ID and port numbers years ago, which he later repeated on his WWW site; distinguishing between various forms of attackers according to how much network access they have (for snooping the query traffic). From the design of his TAICLOCK protocol one could tell that such thinking had been a contributory factor. 236 bytes are available for (say) a client-generated random number.

* http://cr.yp.to/proto/taiclock.txt

* http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/forgery.html
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> However, the anti establishment movement didn't rise because of the financial crisis

The financial crisis isn't the only cause, sure, but it's played a sizable part. (Arguably, it's still one of the leading causes of problems today).

Wealth recovered from the financial crisis, but people didn't. Many actual humans still haven't recovered yet. Some never will. There's close to a whole generation of people who were permanently set back by that crash, and the financial scars of that will carry with them until the day they die.

I don't disagree with the rest -- political corruption and globalization are major causes too. But it would be easier for people to be "ok" with that, if they weren't also directly struggling on the ground.
The "right thing" in a game theory sense?
The article leaves me with more than a few doubts with this strategy of storing power. One issue that concerns me is the amount of energy that will need to be spent in manufacturing all the concrete and steel drums as well as the amount of pollution this will generate. There will also be the pollution in transporting the drums onto the battery locations. I get that this isn't a unique problem and other forms of "green" power generation also suffer from this such as wind turbines or even photovoltaic panels. Once the drums are onsite there is likely minimal maintenance needed so once the cost of producing is done, there should be a way to figure out how many years or months it would take to offset that.
Funny enough you can order half-portions at many restaurants. That will bring the portions closer to a normal size.
My takeaway is that lambdas are pointless if you’re latency sensitive.

If you’re not latency sensitive, such as queue to queue lambdas, then go for it.
Yeah.

> there’s one basic ingredient to living online that Sweden still lacks.
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> They don’t have access to Amazon.

Uh. Presumptive much?

> while locals clamor

I'm admittedly one mountain range over, but I feel inclined to say '[citation needed]', here.

This whole thing reads like a paid-placement Amazon advertisement.
Xyz company is not your friend. Ok, like we didn’t know they are trying to make money off the other side? When is the last time a company trying to make a profit is our friend?
Can't be sued by investors when you don't have any.
You are comparing high paid jobs to minimum salary jobs. Apples and oranges. There are other careers out there that pay similarly without any of the issues our industry face. There's nothing special or "lucky" about STEM. You can be lucky if you are someone who is not affected by those issues, but that's all the luck there is to it.
I'm not so sure on the accuracy this. It includes expanded homeland security operations as a war cost, evn though these are domestic measures that would be needed even without active military operations, and I don't see any sign that the costs of new veterans created by post-9/11 operations are being filtered correctly from the veterans of past wars. Not a 100% sure on adding interest either considering the U.S's attitude on deficit spending as a whole, but I am open to be convinced otherwise.

Still a hell of a lot more than the official number.
The usual thought experiment for framing the magnitudinal difference between millionaires and billionaires, extended to trillions:

One million seconds ago was Thursday, August 30 (11 days).

One billion seconds ago was Saturday, January 3, 1987 (31 years).

One trillion seconds ago was back during the Pleistocene geological epoch and the Paleolithic era of prehistory (31,689 years).

The quantity of American resources that have been wasted on war is shameful. For my own mental health I try not to dwell too long upon all the infrastructure, research, and social programs that money could have been better spent on.
It's the first response to your second link.
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IRS doesn't have APIs. I've done some work with them, you have to manually upload CSV and download the results hours later. Automating it is against their TOS. For one of the data I get from them, I've the option of getting in printer on paper, DVD or magnetic tape.
There was some clearer signs before the crisis that things were not going according to plan.

I remember hearing about the subprimes one or two years before the crisis (and I'm nowhere near the financial fields).

Also, the amount of money/loans put in circulation was excessive. Basically the monetary mass growth should more or less be equal to inflation+economic growth. It was far exceeding this values at the time. And what is worrying is that quantitative easing is basically that on steroids.
In Germany it looks like Amazon removed a lot of camera gear from comparison sites [1] - and often is more expensive than other large retailers.

I've been a Amazon user since they started in Germany and a Prime user since its beginning. Will not renew in November for many reasons - the primary being Amazon logistics which has the worst delivery service I ever experienced. They moved delivery of many items to 7-9pm to an office address because they target people with an other job as drivers. Lots of calls with Amazon support, they will not change delivery times or switch to DHL.

[1] At least over the last months I didn't find Amazon listed e.g. on Idealo while the lens exists on Amazon.de
That’s an example where there is huge overlap between the distributions. Yes, men are taller than women on average. No, for the most part you can’t tell a person’s gender from their height, especially within 2 standard deviations of the median for either gender.
The idea that we need to establish consensus on a false truth before we can reveal a real truth doesn't make sense to me.

1. We can still agree that men and women are humans and that we all deserve ways rights

2. The inevitable differences maybe show that men are less capable than women in a variety of fronts (wouldn't that be great for women's rights?).

3. Once a lie has been installed into every boy and girl, raising the truth will only become more and more difficult.

Making a decision to disseminate a lie constitutes gaslighting in the way that people will have hunches and experiences that society can suddenly deny. Speaking up will get you instant attention and result in a wreck for ones career. We are already seeing this today. I couldn't imagine posting this opinion except anonymously.
Did they really have an output value of thier secret key and thier access key?
> I've got 20-odd hard drives that have accumulated over the years, filled with backups and libraries from Apple Photos, Aperture, Picasa, several hundred gigs of Google Takeout tarballs, and other ancient DAM apps.

I'm in a similar boat. What I'd like to know is: where are the duplicates and what can I safely delete? Anything that can help me clear it up would be a godsend!
Cool API, I'm probably gonna try playing a bit with this when I get time :)

How big is the selection of songs you're training on and can recommend from or search through (non-demo version)?

How diverse are the languages? Is it mainly English since it offers a text-search?

To have a non-demo API-key, how much do I have to commit? Is there a "pay-as-you-go" model where I can use this as a personal thing, or is the only target audience companies?

Edit: Found the answer to the first question for demo-users in docs "For users with demo API keys, we've loaded a fairly diverse, yet small, catalog of about 20K+ tracks into our backend system"
Yes it can imagine there is no US mil and Saddam Hussein actually took over Quatar Kuweit and UAE and Saudi Arabia and than made a deal with Russia. Whant to calculate effects on US ecomony?
You can't put a price on FREEDOM. /s
Internal math at my org says that lambdas cost about 20% more than an equivalent amount of EC2 power at full utilization. Now hitting full utilization is very hard, but the point is that lambas are only cheaper compared to underutilized EC2 hosts.
"First of all you're slightly modifying OP's comment. He was not talking about actual fascism or racism that was pointed out, but about the abuse of those terms to silence critics regardless if they were racists or not."

Most of the time they are what they are being called.

Ha, again, calling someone racist doesn't turn them racist, makes absolutely zero sense.
I’m skeptical Russia’s financial woes were solely caused by this strategy.
From what I’ve seen, managing and deploying FaaS is also a major train wreck.
Thanks for pointing this out to me. Seeing as I was wrong about the chrome extension support I'll give them another try!
Not sure about that charge loss question; it depends on how often you're cycling the battery, if it's charged and discharged every day then self-discharge losses may be much smaller than inefficiency losses or the wearout cost on the battery. 1% of 20MWh is 200kWh or about £30 of electricity.

The other unclear factor is "C" rate. Is it actually possible to do a full 20MWh cycle in a day?
That's a straight up lie.
I'm doing this in the community where I live and I have discovered that it is super effective. I send an email to each company explaining a security problem with their site (currently focusing on simple lack of HTTPS for form data, and not mentioning the public disclosure because I want to see who fixes things because they care vs. those just avoiding negative publicity) and if they haven't resolved it or replied within a week, I list them publicly on https://www.insecure.org.je.

The site isn't winning me any design awards and needs expanding of the advice articles, but dozens of local companies are immediately spurred to action when they appear in the "Sites requiring extra caution" section. Thousands of local users have directly benefited by the added security, even though they are completely unaware of why it was upgraded.

The reaction from some business has been very predictable, with a mix of hostility, threats, confusion, outright lies, but enough respond politely and want to fix things, and I go out of my way to help those who want to learn.

Source is public and if you want to try this locally, I highly recommend it: https://gitlab.com/tombrossman/insecure.org.je
> Not all software infrastructure is critical infrastructure.

This might be a valid argument if we had a standardized way of classifying critical software vs. non-critical software, that took into account corner cases. We do not.

Instead what happens is that people arbitrarily classify what they consider 'critical' based on gut feelings and rarely considering the situation of people-who-aren't-them, and that the resulting potpourri of judgments produces critical systems where the authors of individual parts thought that it wouldn't be as critical as it ends up being. Then it breaks, and now all hell breaks loose.

In practice, people build critical software systems with off-the-shelf components that really weren't designed to be used for such critical cases. This isn't specific to open-source, either; it happens just as much with proprietary components. There are no certification processes worth a damn, no clear idea of where and why this matters.

And until we get to a point where those processes and standards do exist, there is only one safe assumption to make: all software is critical infrastructure, because you have no idea what it's going to be used for in practice. Hence the 'fury' being justified.

EDIT: Addendum... I've had the critical-systems discussion with many developers. The overwhelming interpretation of "critical" is "I can see a way in which the software can directly kill people". Think drones, airplanes, and so on.

Conversely, almost nobody considers the indirect consequences that might lead to that same outcome (no access to money, no access to healthcare, murderous stalkers, etc.). Let alone serious consequences that don't result in death.

Realistically, barely anybody in the software industry has the first clue as to what constitutes a 'critical' system, or exactly how much damage their software can do. A similar issue exists in the design industry[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0ucEt-La9w
I wouldn't aim for startups. I would aim for larger, established corporations, that have good track-record with internships.

I am biased, but speaking from my experience at RedHat in Czech republic, from time-to-time I would see interns doing university outreach, in our finance department and some taking care of our facilities. Technical-writing might fit your bill as well.

I would look for open-house-days, or local conferences where employees of your chosen corp would present. This might give you a better leg into their doors than just spamming their generic CV inbox .
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I read it again, twice. That is exactly what they’re doing.

Their starting material is CO2-source cement, not some natural “rock”.

Counterexamples are substantially more helpful than downvotes.
Did read, still don't get it. My point is SV/ Open Source is first to adopt newer tech. Enterprise follows by using these open source projects or acquiring companies that use this newer tech or just copying/building over them. I see wide adoption of JS on the server side in enterprise today compared to just a couple of years ago and NodeJS/NPM are the dominant forces in that direction. Some may be vary of NodeJS/server side js, sure but not most.
Depends on who's money your accepting really. Outside money = lots of red tape
My compassion dies when their humility does. You cannot affect attitude towards disclosures by accepting the existing attitude. Compassion is bidirectional. A "we will investigate and get back shortly", or a "our internal team has investigated and here is their answer: '...'" is much more appropriate. Several companies' social media responders are courteous. Excusing corporate condescension mouthpieces just encourages the practice.
Streisand effect in its best :) I wouldn't trust Troy. He was trying to put passwords checks using third-party APIs, Cloudflare and 1Password into Firefox code.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17395342
Well that's why I'm more in favor of big, ugly "bust them up" type moves and force them to split. It's probably harder now due to globalization but it's still got to be possible right? Amazon (and Alphabet and all that) would be easy enough to carve up into smaller businesses cut off from the large central cash reserves. They would still come together to fund lobbying efforts that benefit all of them, but that's a whole other issue that needs to be addressed separately.

It's too bad Trump has made it so obvious that it's personal with Bezos, or he would be in the perfect position to take that sort of action. Obviously if he did that at this point, it would be worse than Nixon's "Enemies List".
>As we move away from traditional family and tribe or community based social organization towards more paid work, our male leadership patterns seem to have become more dominant and we have lost that balance. Women with serious careers are frequently socialized to lead like men and they are sometimes harsher than the men as if to "prove" themselves or out of bitterness.

I'm glad you took the risk in your initial post, as you've very well articulated something that I've noticed for a while - but couldn't capture as well. I'm highlighting this bit, because I think it's particularly balanced and insightful. In recent years, we've read about how broken many men are - how they're emotionally shut off and how depressed it makes them in the long run, but when discussing the ills of patriarchy, there's still a large group that attributes it to whining feminists, failing to realize that it hurts us all. Imbalance will always have negative effects - politically, socially, economically, spiritually, etc..
Maybe we can write this on a bus :

We spend $900M a day on war. Lets fund our medicare instead.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest...

https://screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com/images/8c92ccc...

https://screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com/images/ea01efb...
There are always other guys.
Exploding health insurance costs for all employees that qualify are also being passed on to customers.
I noticed this much more in Canada than I did in New York. I would absent absentmindedly order a large (heck, I'm on holiday) and be faced with more food than I could possibly eat.

I suspect the less cosmopolitan areas of the US are very similar though.
I hope this doesn't come across as me trying to justify what happened but can anyone be explicitly about what laws were broken and who should have gone to jail? I know there was a bunch of outrage but want to cut through all that and get at exactly the issue.
Huge stoner here. I quit for a few years, recently moved to Portland, Oregon and have started smoking again. I'm REALLY enjoying it, especially as someone who has appetite issues.

1. Smoke less. I had the paranoia and uncomfortable feeling problem for a long time and eventually I learned to just know when to say enough. In a group setting people tend to smoke a LOT, because some people have really high tolerance. I usually do a few puffs and then I'm good for a few hours... and then I eat some food, pass out, and sleep like the dead until morning. It is GREAT.

2. Go for strains with lower THC and higher CBD content. CBD is what produced the relaxed feeling and is in some clinically-approved drugs.

OR, don't smoke! I personally enjoy it but to each their own.
I think the logistics get a bit more difficult when dealing with 4m sq miles of the US vs the 200k sq miles of sweden.
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Yeah but this argument I always hear that "our economy needs the military to survive" is utterly ridiculous; if you take it down to the simplest possible alternative, we could just keep paying all the same military employees and contractors the same amounts but tell them to do nothing, and if they "sure did need to get paid that day" well then fine, at least now we've solved that problem without causing a bunch of pointless death and destruction.

Now take it a step further. Imagine if instead of paying all those people to do nothing, you paid them to do useful jobs that actually help the world instead of attacking it. We could all be so much better off than we are now.
Wow, as I commented above here as well, when I tried the chrome store a few days ago I saw a 'Available in Chrome' button the lead to the download page of google chrome. What I didn't see is that when I refresh a few times the button changes to 'Add to Chrome'. Is this a bug in either the chrome store or Vivaldi? Not sure, but now I can use Vivaldi WITH chrome extensions. Thanks for making me try it out again.
I’m always amused when people refer to fast food places as “restaurants”.
Very nice - can't wait to try. What kind of features and distance measurements do you use for the audio similarity? I've worked on that quite a bit in the past.
The article was focusing on fast food. Fast food franchisers work very hard to make the product consistent from restaurant to restaurant and year to year. Fast food customers often don't want surprises or new experiences with their trips to those restaurants.

If I order a Big Mac in New York it pretty much is the same as one in Omaha and is pretty much the same as it was 20 years ago. Necessary changes that are made are deliberately small and the quality is basically the same over time in my experience.
I would hope that Buffet bet is solely responsible for this trend but people are not that smart to accept actual proof that something that they believed in for so many years does nothing beneficial or even does harm.
I'm not in the US but for similar reasons I'm discontinuing prime membership and I refuse to order from Amazon. Everything is available in independent online shops or ebay or aliexpress/banggood (which one I pick depends on how much wait time I'm willing to endure, the first is usually the fastest).
> In March, Insys launched a multinational study of 190 children to evaluate cannabidiol as a first-line therapy for infantile spasms. We are eager to see how well the compound performs when given in the first days and weeks of the condition. If it turns out to be effective, cannabidiol would represent a substantial improvement over current drugs, all of which have serious side effects: One, for example, causes irreversible vision loss in as many as one-third of the children who take it.

Its ok to sell: "a drug that causes irreversible vision loss in as many as one-third of the children who take it"

Its against the law: canabidiol from a plant, or even grow the plant yourself
If you already have experience, a degree doesn’t mean that much - at least in the US.

Also, again in the US, most online degrees aren’t taken seriously by hiring managers.

The best way to learn is by changing companies and learning from other people. You’ve taught yourself this much, stay on that road.
The comment from mercurysmessage is even a good example of shame being used to silence dissent, which is ironic considering that the conversation was about shame being used to silence dissent.

mercurysmessage shamed you, by implicitly calling you a racist, for being of the opinion that people who were not racist were shamed by being called racist.