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>I can't even begin to believe how&why we let things like this happen.

$$$.
You should write a blog post on it. Seriously..
benzos and amphetamins, easy to get legally as long as you don't try to get thc or some magic forms of amphetamins like crystal.

And when you are an black us citizen, have fun in prison.

It is stupid...
Don't forget another thing the government did: previous bailouts. When large banks were told they were "too big to fail", they heard "your risks will be subsidized by taxpayers", so of course they took on more risk. We should have let the banks fail, if they really were going to.

Another thing: monetary policy causing business cycles, or making them much worse. The recent money-printing by the fed is super scary to me, because it created a new bubble in the stock market.
Ask HN: Is data from Fortnite being used to train AI paratroopers?
It would add insult to injury if we were invaded by a foreign power using robots trained from our own actions in a video game. Has anyone given the Terms Of Service a once-over?
By definition obsolete treatments get removed only when something better comes along or it is proven lack of treatment leads to better outcomes. The least aggressive forms of prostate cancer defy conventional wisdom and are left untreated - putting aside quality of life treating it is more likely to kill the patient who would probably die of something else before it becomes a problem.

The place of doctors is to treat with today's proven means - experimenting is usually left to researchers unless there is little to lose. Medicine is a conservative field in the roll out. Given how many "advances" of newly discovered aspects don't work quite as expected like megadosing antioxidants it is pretty prudent.
We know for a fact that NSA has a special interest in tor users:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d73yd7/how-the-ns...
> If Social security´s COLA actually works

Social security only has a post-retirement COLA, benefits calculation from point of qualified earnings to retirement is wage indexed. While in normal conditions this is more favorable, in a runaway inflation scenario where wages lag, the wage index will be less than a COLA would be, so rapid devaluation actually works write well to reduce SS real obligations, though it had other adverse consequences.
Thanks for the pointer to the French Wikipedia article. I followed the rabbit hole and found this interesting article on the Google Maven fiasco, Microsoft ICE fiasco, and the Amazon Rekognition fiasco: http://www.lefigaro.fr/secteur/high-tech/2018/06/20/32001-20...
Any isle I go in has multiple different pricing of similar products.

Offbrand, brand name, up-and-coming brand name, etc... Most have many different features and obvious differences in quality.

In my decade of shopping at walmart, the only thing that sucked were the offbrand crackers and a 5$ battery powered light.
Yes (I have my own version of this story that involves drilling holes in a mountain top for a tower, pouring concrete, deploying my own solar power system, microwave links, ...) however note that Frontier are making money by not providing you service. There is no mythical better ISP who will spool fiber 30 miles out to you, and will then sit back making money. They will go broke.
How does the Korean War fit in? Was the United States too aggressive to the peaceful North Koreans?
Procedural macros and macros are different things; nom is the “normal” macros (“macros by example”).

The initial procedural macro release is in 6.5 weeks. Nom has worked on stable for years.
No question that played a role, but it's not like the settlement happened in 2011 and then salaries immediately corrected to the current levels and stayed. This has been a steady climb upwards.
No, you had to give out a number.
not only can you see the price increases cross shopping but simply going back through your past orders. I have a few items I purchase regularly; some food items and bird food too; and the pricing changes seem at times random but they only consistently move up.

it has gotten so bad I do not automatically click the order again button. with regards to prime, you don't have to wait to cancel
> "too big to fail"

I guess we're doomed to repeat history, since this was upheld again in 2008.
By the way I should mention: I didn't just make this up, I actually _am_ a "self-taught" engineer working for a unicorn. These are the basics of how I got there. I had a bit of programming background—took 2 semesters of CS in college on my way to a history degree, plus a stats class that used R. Really though, a few months of study after college then jumping into a job in the right company is what can make it happen. These days, I interview a lot of other engineers, and this also includes some stuff that makes them more or less successful / more or less attractive to us as an employer.
I don’t think that’s true. I’d argue the opposite. Especially given the whole melting pot nature. Whoever the current “enemy” is there always plenty of “them” or people who look like “them” living here which means we get things like internment of Japanese Americans or the harassment of anybody who looks like they could be from the Middle East.

There is plenty of patriotism drummed up buts it’s all shallow. Support the troops has more to do with letting your government send them to die wherever they want and less about concern for them.
That's true for almost all herbs. There are few studies because you cannot stick a copyright on herbs so there's no almost incentives for big companies to push for such researches.

There seem to be some conclusive studies on elderberry helping for influenza.

Ex: "In conclusion, the proprietary elderberry extract used here is effective in controlling influenza symptoms and is complementary to current anti‐viral agents. The safety and ease of administration warrant further investigation of its clinical efficacy in children, elderly and other high‐risk patients of the proprietary elderberry extracts."
- http://www.omicron-pharma.com/pdfs/ElderberryClinicalOJPK_Pu...
... and it also provides a dynamic interface too, if you need to work that way. You probably don’t...
I have in fact never been to an Aldi.
Most algorithms questions only prove one thing: whether a candidate has brushed up on algorithms beforehand. That has some usefulness, being a proxy measure for conscientiousness, but offers little beyond that. Maybe that they’re able to follow the reasoning, but it could just as easily be learned by rote and parroted back. The fact is that no one comes up with a from-scratch efficient algorithm for doing anything in 5 minutes, the candidate either knows it going in, or they’re screwed.
I don't currently have a child but in the next two or three years I am planning to have one. Other people in the family have had children recently, though, and I am seeing how they are being helped out and they're getting a lot of assistance, including free babysitting, which by itself is crazy expensive (can be more expensive than one person's income nowadays, which is why some people are becoming stay at home parents now).

I also don't know how I'd be able to afford buying a house if I moved to somewhere like Silicon Valley, whereas I've bought a home here, and I'd rather not go back to renting if I can help it.

Also, one of my professional hobbies is board game design and I have built up a pretty good local network for playtesting and have gotten to know several designers and publishers in the area (even got my first game signed), plus I am within driving distance of the two of the biggest game conventions in the US, where I can network even further, so that's another factor keeping me away from the west coast.

So there are other unrelated factors that are influencing the decision, it's not a total black and white affair. Although I was still making the decision to stick around even before these were a thing.

I do agree with you that people's support networks are probably getting squeezed more than in the past (income inequality is on the rise, tuition, health expenses, etc are skyrocketing, so everyone is getting squeezed). I did say it's not necessarily the best decision for someone to make. It might not even be the best decision for me to make. But I'm still doing it, and I see tons of people do it every day, especially once they have families. I also see tons of people choose to move away from their networks, and again that may be the best thing to do, I just don't think sticking around should be assumed to be the wrong decision in pretty much all cases for the country as a whole, which seemed to be the assumption that was made.
If you were interviewing for a job at a company whose main revenue stream involved transporting golf balls in school buses, that might be a perfectly reasonable interview question.
I heard that similar tactic on some podcast by a services guy. I can't remember the actual field, let's say "lose weight" services. They ask the new client "How committed are you to losing weight?" Let's say the client says "4 out of 5". You might think you should ask: "Why aren't you a 5?" But the ninja move is to ask "But why aren't you a 3?" This forces the client to tap into their own self-motivation (which is all there is, after all) and they start to convince themselves why they are committed to the results.
How we migrated to serverless in a weekend?
While the idea of only paying for what you use seems to be an interesting proposition with serverless. I think the true cost savings come in no longer having to manage VMs.

With that in mind the coldstart problem can be avoided entirely with Fargate and Azure container groups. Sure you pay for an app to be on all the time, but you were doing that anyways.

I’m using Azure container groups and their managed DB service right now, and my CI pipeline is thin and I have had no need of an Ops person to manage VMs.
Then do polls in South Korea.
Good news for Erlang? I hope some of those dollars go to improving the language and VM.
The article does not conclude nor suggests that the 2/3 ratio is a coincidence. What am I missing?
Good luck to you friend! Maybe consider sales engineering. I find that these days, developers and sales reps are pushed to the limit, but sales engineers tend to sit in the best of both worlds. Good luck!!!
Android and iOS are barely sandboxed - at least not in the ways that matter. Apple users regularly bring up moderation as an advantage Apple has over Android - but the whole point of sandboxing is you shouldn't need moderation. The fact that the two platforms are arguing over who moderates better is proof positive that their sandboxes are sub-par.

Flatpak is a (promising) work in progress that is copying a lot from web permissions. I look forward to the point when it becomes ubiquitous and secure enough that I would feel comfortable downloading and installing a random, unverified piece of code off the internet from a sketchy looking site. Flatpak is native finally starting to catch up to the web in terms of user-accessible sandboxing. But it's not finished yet, and once it is finished it won't be cross-platform.

QubeOS is great, but nobody uses it because it's hard to use and cumbersome. Same with VMs. You can sandbox an app in a VM and be very happy about it, but your performance will be worse than it would be on the web. Nobody does it because it's not accessible.

Like it or not, the web is the best tradeoff we have right now between flexibility and security. For the most part, users don't need to be suspicious of random links. If someone shares a link on Facebook, you don't need to go look up reviews before you click on the site. It's not like native, you don't spend your entire browsing experience worried about malware.

To be sure there are problems we're still solving (user tracking, phishing, processor control), but native hasn't even gotten to the point of trying to solve those problems yet. Any app you download to your Android phone is going to be able to track you better than a website can - it's just that you'll be so worried about malware that you won't notice. Website operators are arguing about how to prevent phishing for full-screen apps. Linux, Windows, and Mac aren't thinking about stuff like a zone of death yet - a full-screen app in Linux can easily spoof your desktop. Heck, it doesn't even need to be full-screen, just copy the interface and icon of another app including its title-bar if you want to phish someone's email or banking client.

The simple test is this: suppose I paste a completely randomized link to an Android APK, and a completely randomized link to a website. You might have some reservations about clicking/installing them -- but, be honest, which one are you more frightened to interact with?

How many people here would feel comfortable installing a random program that was linked on "Show HN" if they couldn't get access to the source code or verification about what it did beyond 2 or 3 sentences? How many of those same people are fine clicking on a "Show HN" website? The difference is that for the most part web sandboxing actually works.
If you think anyone 'really' wants to build your shitty CRUD app then you are deluding yourself.

Do you 'really' love your job? Would you do it for free?
Yep, what the parent commenter didn't say was that pumping money into any system almost always results in prices going wayyy up to absorb the new demand. This happens regardless or whether it's loans or direct subsidies.
What makes ReasonML so great?
This was the approach I originally was considering (to do in-place duplicate deletion), but eventually gave up due to the impact of "undiscovered features" in my code.

The approach I've settled on which should work for most people is to establish a new library, with unique copies of each of your originals, skipping exact SHA matches and invalid files.

In your case, though, you'd run PhotoStructure in its "don't copy into the library" mode. Once it finishes scanning your drives, you can run a simple SQL query against your SQLite db to get a list of duplicate files. That query will be in the FAQ.
> No, it's the definition of insolvency, which may or may not least to bankruptcy.

It seems that the only difference between insolvency and bakruptcy is that bakruptcy involves a court order stating how the insolvent debtor will meet its obligations, which is largely irrelevant in this discussion as it's largely semantics.
This is of course not the least bit surprising. The search box on Amazon is a pretty high value place, when someone types something into it they have already indicated they are looking to buy something so commercial intent is well established. Amazon has more third party sellers on their site now than Amazon, so there is a viper pit of competitive selling seething down there. The next step? Let those vendors give up margin over to Amazon by bidding to be in search results.

More money for Amazon both in ad revenue and additional sales (for all its evilness advertising exists because it works).

Interesting question to see how Walmart responds.
> Would their S&P 500 index funds (Such as SWPPX or FFFFX) drop to zero, wiping out customer’s retirement?

I'm no expert, but I wouldn't think so if those funds track the indexes, since the index 'values' are the collective values of the stocks they represent. On the other hand, SWPPX, etc would no longer be maintained. That's a really good question though, I hope someone with more knowledge comments!
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Hey everyone. I wrote a piece on building reliable environments, sharing internal libraries, and migrating major versions in a growing organization. Would appreciate some feedback; LMK what you think, as well as other techniques that have worked for your team.
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> You see, they knew this process sucked - any reasonable person with half an idea about security did - but the internal security team alone telling management this was not cool wasn't enough to drive change. Negative media coverage, however, is something management actually listens to.

It's even better when the internal person tips off the press to initiate the public shaming to take to management. Never happened in an organization that I worked in, but I know security people in other orgs that had to resort to these tactics.
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The worst offenders are max password length limits, especially tiny ones like 8 characters. It's a guarantee that the service does not properly hash and store passwords.
If you are interested in forecasting then the Makridakis competitions are worth taking a look at.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makridakis_Competitions

* https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325901666/download

* https://github.com/M4Competition/M4-methods

* https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?type=printabl...

* https://eng.uber.com/m4-forecasting-competition/
Isn't there a fairly toxic political question buried in this paper as well? Who is going to decide which behaviors are rent-seeking and which are productive?
The second link should have been https://music.amazon.com/ .
If they are I'm sure they are quiet about it. They wouldn't have distribution rights. Bandwidth costs would be high.
It's pretty common practice. I was at a panel discussion at Ruxcon 2012 where selling exploits was brought up. Ranty Ben talked about selling exploits was how he made a living.

The original/official upload of the panel discussion use to be here, but it's been taken down since. :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlJ1DQdjVHM
Indeed it appears to be Drax coal-fired power station in Yorkshire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_power_station), Britian's largest emitter of carbon dioxide.
> Laws can be changed, though.

Being forced to move the goalpost and defraud creditors is hardly a sign that the US's insolvency is a non-issue.
I knew Google did this with ebooks, but this is the first I've heard about Amazon doing it.
> Amazon? I click a few times, possibly put in some information, and I wait for my package.

You can do the exact same thing at walmart.com - not that I advocate shopping with either company.
Windows doesn't encrypt files on lock. You can tell this because your applications keep running...
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http://fortune.com/2017/01/20/public-companies-ipo-financial...

Former hedge fund manager here. This never gets mentioned, but there are fewer publicly traded companies than there were in the late 1980s. There’s more money and fewer opportunities for a hedge fund to differentiate, so it’s harder to get outsized returns without excessive risk. Meanwhile, the finance industry has convinced people it’s “impossible” to beat the index in the long run.
That usually happens on banking sites because their system is backed by an old mainframe that can only handle 8 characters. The second thing you said is right though -- they probably have terrible security on that mainframe.
What government interventions caused the doubling of subprime lending from 2004 to 2006?
> With search, unless you provide some avenue for sponsored results, you will get a winners-win-more effect in which the top 3 results for any given search will capture the entire market.

If a seller really cared about this, they could implement something like a Robson Rotation for search results of relatively equivalent quality for the search criteria.
I thought everybody stopped doing this.
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Typically I hate this kind of blog. More often than not, they get it wrong and tend to oversimplify. This post on the whole is good though.

However:

This guy is a security guy? Why is he dealing in absolutes? The law is a step forward. It's perfectly reasonable to get something on the books, even if it's far from perfect.

It's a rough (very rough) draft of GDPR-like principles applied to security. Being "reasonable and appropriate" is a perfectly reasonable requirement. You will demonstrate it by having evidence of a security-focused (as opposed to product-focused) assessment before you launched your shitty IoT product. That "reasonable and appropriate" is vague is a good thing, not a bad thing. It floats with the current set of threat vectors.
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Especially the part about everyone else sucks is ao true. At least in Europe there have a ton of opportunities to compete with Amazon that nobody took advantage of before the window closed.
>after eight years of a "liberal" POTUS

6 of those 8 years fighting a conservative Congress in both houses. Only 4 months of those other 2 years did he have enough Senate votes to bypass conservative filibusters. He spent that time/capital/effort squeezing ACA through.
Can you understand the perspective from other people who have literally never seen anyone move on from weed to crack cocaine?

Have you ever asked yourself if prohibition was the best way to combat drug problems?

I would suggest reading the book "Rise of the warrior cop" and then ask yourself if you still support prohibition.
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"money really doesn't make you happy"

I've come to this conclusion as well after losing a loved one, helping others makes me truly happy. Good luck in your future endeavors.
If Amazon's reputation for reliability falls low enough, sites like Aliexpress could break into new markets, and then there's no going back for Amazon. "Ordering from China" has a bit of a dodgy reputation (even if many Amazon sellers are the same companies), but if Amazon gets the same reputation, I'm not sure they can compete on price.
As Amazon's ad revenues increase, I expect them to gradually drop their prices, making it EVEN more impossible for other online retailers to compete.

Amazon retail's profit margin is 3.8 percent, on more than $51 billion in sales in 2016. They're probably thinking they can shrink this all the way down to 0, and make up the difference in ads.

The big question for me is when they will get into the search space. The growth of their ads business and Alexa's success is a massive threat to Google long term.
It's just an HN convention to have the year in the title when the article isn't the current year. Not only does it not imply badness, it's associated with goodness, since most things from previous years have lost their interest.
Macros are a kind of function that have the ability to hide a lot of things, including control flow, and often do, which often makes them unable to be composed. That's why I put them between languages and libs. They're a little less flexible than regular functions/methods/classes and they usually have tighter lock-in.
Ouch. So, I'm not in the software business, but either way the point of my Q&A is measure the distance between what an employee wants to during the day versus what probably needs to be done to accomplish the desired result. When the gap is big the hire/job never works out.
Some of the problems are easily solvable.
I use up[https://github.com/apex/up] which is an open-source serverless framework to solve them.

a. it is possible to have multiple environments[https://up.docs.apex.sh/#configuration.stages]

b. you can run code on your machine[https://up.docs.apex.sh/#commands.start]

c. regarding vendo lockin; alternative serveless providers(apart from aws) are planned [https://github.com/apex/up/issues/4]

d. You're contributing to centralization of wealth and power instead of helping small companies and small open source projects.
up is open-source but also has a paid plan[https://up.docs.apex.sh/#guides.subscribing_to_up_pro]

e. It takes the fun out of coding.
I'm not sure about that.
What laws did the government pass which "screwed up" the market?
Business Cycle Theory explains exactly this. When interest rates are too low, people go elsewhere for returns, resulting in malinvestment. What it doesn't do is predict when the crash will happen, or say how to spot which investments are bad.