skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. In E-Health you have to be able say who and what was queried for. There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable_messaging
We store every message and every response so you can tell what query was run and when.
Presumably the ticket is tied to the purchaser's id in some way (picture, name, or payment info) and at the event ticket holders need to present such information. It'd be a trade-off against people who can't make it to the event being out of luck (no way to resell), but stopping more of the scalper's bad behavior. You could alleviate the trade-off by tying the ticket to a second factor like a CC that you could entrust to a friend for the event, or allowing more refunds before a certain date.
I sure am glad I live in a country (the U.S.) where my movements, purchases, and public movements aren't tracked!
And yet, it does not mean you would not re-run queries to confirm even if you did.

I have encountered very few (not saying it's good, just that's how it is) companies with detailed database query+results logging that was stored for long enough, in any usable way...
I'm confused that they had a business BEFORE their data breach. That the same people who thought it was a good idea to publicly search and advertise for a secret affair would continue doing so after a privacy breach is less of a shock.
I speak as an agnostic, but I think you have to distinguish between strict literalism / fundamentalism and religious belief more broadly.

Literalism / fundamentalism is something that's hard to believe in without willful denial of huge parts of reality. You have to believe in a young Earth and a lot of other incredibly improbable or impossible things. Details will vary by your religious belief but I'm not aware of any that don't contain total falsehoods when interpreted literally.

Not all Christians or members of other religions are literalists. In fact I'd say it's probably not even the dominant position theologically. Its popularity in America probably biases many peoples' views.

More philosophical forms of theism don't suffer from that problem. Theism broadly defined amounts to the idea that there is some consciousness or analogous entity or process behind the universe. The root of theism is the same as thesis and theory. It amounts to saying that the universe is or was created by something teleological or with some goal or idea in mind.

This is probably an unfalsifiable idea, so it goes beyond what science an deal with, but it's not impossible to entertain rationally.

Edit:

I also have to point out that non-belief in God does not imply or necessitate rational beliefs. I see a ton of atheists that hold extremely irrational beliefs about all kinds of things. Atheism just says what you don't believe, not what you do.
This practice has a very bad look, and my heart is with the freelancers. But I also know human psychology is fickle and there is a functionally identical way to pay freelancers that would generate far less ire:

The client quotes the freelancer a due-on-receipt, net-zero-days price and then offers a "no hurry payment" bonus of twenty-five or thirty percent or whatever that comes with net-30/60/90 terms.

If a freelancer doesn't ask about payment terms when negotiating payment with a new client, he or she will quickly learn to do so. You don't need to experience the sting of learning that your client intends to pay you net-120 more than once before you focus like a laser on payment terms and conditions.

When I engage with freelancers or small businesses as vendors, I make a point of making sure the accounting folks know a particular vendor should not be subjected to "cashflow optimization," which I have known AP folks to elevate to an art, a sport, perhaps even a tenet of a fanatical religion.

A couple of related items:

Why Variable Pricing Fails at the Vending Machine:
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/27/business/why-variable-pri...

Coke’s Segmentation Error:
https://pragmaticpricing.com/2010/05/15/cokes-segmentation-e...
In our continuous integration system at work, I've enabled sccache with the S3 backend. This reduced the compile times from 20-25 minutes (tests and release build) to 8-9 minutes. Still longer than I like, but it's possible to ease the pain somewhat.
Wait, wasn't JavaFX dead? Or maybe that was just webstart? I just seem to recall looking.. A year ? Back and not finding any recommended, "this will continue to work" gui for Java?
I totally agree on the security aspect, but I think we're talking about different threat models.

Security matters if your concern is the data leaking to a potential malicious actor. The concern that I'm speaking to is the intended use of the data. Google is definitely going to use it for ad targeting and building a "shadow profile", but a small developer probably won't. This one says they won't, but even if they do they're likely to be much less effective than Google would be.
How much can he get out from this? any way to hedge his exposure to this until lockup expires?
I'm fine with welching, thanks, been using it since long before anyone suggested to me it might have origins such as you infer. In fact since you're the first person I've known to be offended by it, then unless you're Welsh, I suggest you take a break from virtue signalling, it's really boring. Never heard the term gyping until you mentioned it though.
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I am more thinking about going. There is no reason why we wont soon begin to see implementations where you can find interact-able elements without looking by simply dragging your finger around on the screen.
> But given the ridiculous levels of scalping that goes on every day (including all the companies that attempt to normalize it, like StubHub), doesn't it all imply that the fair market price of a lot of tickets is way higher than what they sell for? Obviously demand is way outstripping supply or people wouldn't pay $500-$1000 for $100 tickets on a daily basis.

Scalpers are the ones choking off supply by monopolizing huge numbers of tickets. A market with too few sellers gives those sellers price control. If Ticketmaster put a stop to the practice, prices would likely drop.
TBH, I love ranch but never eat it on salad.

I like using ranch as a dip for nachos. It goes especially well with the chips that the toppings somehow miss, and it still goes pretty well with the chips that are loaded with toppings.

I've also found that it works very well with bread (the kind of bread that's served with dinner, not sandwich bread). I discovered this not too long ago, because my company likes to cater executive and sales meetings and then after the meeting, they put out the leftovers for the rest of the company to enjoy (this is famous within the company, and the phrase "the [Company-Name] 15" gets mentioned a lot... I've even seen it pop up in our Glassdoor reviews). Sometimes, these leftovers include dinner rolls or pieces of Italian bread, and sometimes they include salad with a bowl of ranch on the side. If I'm lucky, sometimes they'll include both. You see, I like bread, but it can get dry by itself... and I like ranch, but I don't like salad. So one day I decided to combine the best parts of them. I took some of the bread, cut the pieces in half, and started spooning ranch over them. I liked it so much that I've kept doing it every time both get brought out. The ranch works best with Italian bread with thick crusts, because it helps soften them a bit, but it's fine with dinner rolls too.

Ranch as a dip for pizza is also pretty popular, but when I have a choice I'll use clarified garlic butter instead.
We use it for React+Redux, and the molecule/organism split is actually the best defined one for us: Organisms are connected to the Redux store, molecules and below are not. Organisms are for specific parts of the site, and tend to be tied to that part, while molecules and below are all much more reusable and so we have to avoid tying them to specific data from Redux.

(Mostly at least, there has been some leakage where we broke this pattern, but it's true for like 95% of our components)
Some artists want their concerts to be accessible. Not every creator is in the maximizing profit mindset.
What is the first thing you think we should fix?
Funny that they don't spend their efforts on cars that actually kill people.
Just like the previous mention of Enron, Worldcom engaged in systematic large-scale accounting fraud. Very different from the Equifax breach situation.
They've been there and done that:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/7/16923616/ticketmaster-veri...

> The most elaborate (and controversial) example of this so far was Swift’s choice to offer “boosts” that could be procured by buying her album several times (on her website, from Walmart, from Target, from iTunes), buying merchandise, engaging with sponsors on social media, or watching her music videos. The boosts supplement Verified Fan and sort fans into a line, with the most dedicated — measured both in time and money — bumped to the front.
Interesting, but I think Dawkins has a point: religion does interfere with scientific matters.

Maybe, if one doesn't take the Bible literally, but as a metaphor? But then again, for thousands of years the Church said we should interpret it literally.
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You do not store query returns in your audit log it’s not only a nightmare from performance and storage standpoint but it’s also disallowed by the same GRC requirements you are touting.

The last thing you want is PII or other regulated date sitting in splunk in fact each large organization that handles such data will have systems to ensure that this does not happen as the regulatory requirement is simple - do not log sensitive data there are tons of both client side and server side plugins and tools for common logging frameworks and log aggregators that search and delete sensitive data or sanitize it before it being logged completely and usually you run a combination of both.

On the storage/performance side since you need to keep access logs sometimes for years if you store query results you’ll need storage 1000’s and 1000’s of times the size of your DB to store those logs this isn’t feasible.

What you log is often the query how many result did it return the user and or app that run the query.
Yeah, you have to simulate the attenuation from different directions - HRTFs (head related transfer functions)[1] are used to do this. They're already supported by some games, and you have to use them for VR audio, since the user is in control of the camera position and angle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-related_transfer_function
Now that Oracle has withdrawn resources from the project, I wonder what its future is going to be.

I was really hoping it would become a Swing replacement, but so far there are still too many unfilled gaps for it to replace our (fairly extensive) production usage of Swing.
I’m pretty sure being able to afford shouldn’t be the issue for buyers of premium brand cars like BMW and Mercedes-Benz. If it is, the buyers should really reconsider their life choices.

But let’s see first if they colluded. If then hopefully proper penalties are applied, I have the feeling car companies are rather softly handled by the EU...
Surprised at most of the comments here. If the line error had been for $82,000,000 would you have expected them to honor it as well?

Whenever there's doubt side with the customer but this was such an obvious error that any reasonable better would have realized it. Had the better lost the money I'm pretty confident they would have refunded the bet as well (since the bets were voided).
And so, the clock starts.

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/222444675116711936?s=19
If you could track pageload time and show a distribution of that per page time - I would buy this in a second.
You set up a lot of speakers and a decent computer. Two decent computers if your room isn't ideal.

>Music Research Centre's Arthur Sykes Rymer Auditorium is equiped with a sixteen speaker Ambisonic rig. This rig cosists of four high speakers, eight horizontal speakers and four speakers below the audience in the air conditioning plenum duct, which was designed to allow for this. The rig is driven by a Firewire audio interface (Focusrite Saffire Pro) which can be accessed from computers positioned in the performance area via Firewire. This rig can do up to third order horizontal with first order height.

https://www.york.ac.uk/inst/mustech/3d_audio/ambisyrk.htm

Here's some more York uni ambisonics stuff - https://www.york.ac.uk/inst/mustech/3d_audio/ambis2.htm
Pink Floyd's (or, perhaps more correctly "Roger Waters'") "The Final Cut" made extensive use of the binaural recording technique (or, perhaps, more correctly "holophonics").
I tend to skip the "Why I did X" articles. They usually are less of an analysis of the technologies involved and more of a story of the decisions made in a particular project.

I could tell you why I chose to use POE access points in my house instead of plain Ethernet, it wouldn't tell you anything about when you should.
Nicked.. British English is fun.. is there a compendium of phrases like this?
Yet somehow the entire world moved from °F to °C without freezing to death or dying of heat.

Honestly, it only takes one generation, they'll deal with the change and then the rest is history. of those ~300 million people, 20% are old and will never change, they'll always use legacy time, and 40% are young enough it's no big deal. The remainder will be inconvenienced, but will get by.

Besides, it'll give people something to complain about.

One of Obama's biggest missed opportunities was day 1 declaring the US was metricizing. This would've given conservatives something other than tan suits and mustard to rage against for the subsequent four years.
They are kind of open about their priorities, strategy, and roadmap. For anyone curious:

https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/

https://about.gitlab.com/direction/
I find no shortage of young engineers who’ve never experienced offices expressing a strong preference for open plan working arrangements. Sure it’s not all of them, but it’s a significant amount. Everywhere I’ve worked, if/when the topic of office layout redesign or move has arisen, the young folks desires for “bull pens” or big shared desks or similar has always won out.

I think popular culture has almost made the open plan office aspirational for some too, which is kind of hilarious.
I found out about this feature while using GraphQL. When going through Apollo's docs I saw a bunch of gql`templateString`, which is used for defining typeDefs. The first time I saw that, I was so confused. Personally, I think it would be more clear if they just did gql(templateString)
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I can't foresee this backfiring at all!
The private keys for DNSSEC signing must be stored safely. It is common to use a hardware security module (HSM) for this. However, this is not the only way to store keys safely. Keys can be generated and stored on encrypted disks, and if access to a server is restricted and limited to only certain functions, then it is acceptable to use such a setup.

What? No, those are not comparable solutions at all. Rather, the latter solution, of relying on Linux FDE, defines the problem that HSMs solve away.
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Quoting:

... an important distinction that I did not
know before writing this blog post: a value
is a chunk of data in the computer’s memory,
whereas a variable, like squares, is a way
to refer to that value from the code.

To one who grew up with machine code (in some cases not even assembler) and who looks to understand existing languages at both levels - the high level abstract and the low level implementation - this is always jarring. I know full well that many, perhaps most, modern programmers actually don't know much about how the languages they are using are implemented, but when someone doesn't really know or understand the difference between a value, a variable, and a reference, I find it rather disturbing.

It will pass - there will come a time when only true gurus will know how things actually work. To some extent I've been privileged to live in a time when I could work at (nearly) all levels of the system.
If i remember correctly, webstart has been deprecated together with pretty much anything that had anything to do with browsers and plugins. JavaFX is a bit more generic in its applications, I believe (not really my field of expertise).
Never.

Competitors show up once in awhile. If they see anyone with improved technology, they buy them. Otherwise, they have the market power to box competitors in.

The only way they will ever lose is if some sort of regulatory action made it impossible to get exclusivity agreements.

Taxis are the most overrated cartels. In most geographies taxis were just conduits for Medicare/Medicaid money who also gave rides to drunks and to the airport. Ticketmaster has more control of the market, and has it on a national scale.
This is a common occurrence on BBC Micros: a couple of capacitors from the power supply blow up. No harm comes from it. You just have to replace them. I hope this is your case.

I saw a picture of an Exidy Sorcerer on a The Centre for Computing History post a few days ago. I had no idea what it was.
Right, binaural is very good but it only works if you keep each ear in the same place. Ambisonics record the sound pressure from every direction so you can turn your head and still get directional sound. At least, assuming you have several speakers to recreate the sound field reasonably well. If you only have two speakers, the approximation will be kinda rough.
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I used QGIS extensively in my dissertation research and I actually prefer it over ArcGIS. I found ArcGIS unintuitive and clunky, whereas it was much easier to figure out things in QGIS. QGIS is not the greatest UI ever, but ArcGIS is miserable (for me anyway).

Completely agree though, it would be really nice to have a proper QGIS interface library.
Nice point.

Science makes the assumption that we are real, and the universe exists.

Perhaps religion makes other assumptions in that space, which science don't mean to solve but rather accept as truth to move on to more practical applications?
Oh, I get that it can help. I actually really like the feature. What I didn't get, was how it could help you use it without looking. Touchscreens require you to know what is on the screen, pretty much period. Right?
This is almost as scary as all of the people that insist on not using semicolons in JS.
That generally tells me that this tool is meant for developers smarter than me to make the appropriate abstractions for me to use. Not for me to consider this a core part of my web app development toolkit. :)
UTC only has leap seconds to keep within 0.9s of UT1, which is the mean solar time at 0° longitude (based on Quasar measurements). GMT is essentially equivalent to UT1 (and in modern usage either means UTC or UT1).

UT1 essentially doesn't need leap seconds, because it is the correct mean solar time and not an 1Hz approximation of it (which UTC pretty much is).
Alternatively, they would offer you a fair salary what allowed you to move to a city with higher wages (and a higher cost of living).
That's the one with Elon Musk. This is Schiff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by1OgqQQANg. And this one too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u7kDfEtKfs
Looking at the example screenshots of Sciter applications, it is now apparent to me why the GUIs of Anti-Virus applications all look so similar.
It would have to apply to all vehicles because any new vehicle which enforced either would be unmarketable to a large number of people. Honestly, as much as I hate the idea, I do like the fact that the value of my non-nanny vehicles would likely increase if such a thing were to be mandated in new vehicles.
Likewise. Our team just transitioned from trello + github + jenkins to only gitlab. It's definitely missing a few things, but having all our development workflow in one place has been amazing.

Not sure its worth 1bn, but I am excited to see whats next. Github has been resting on its laurels for some time.
What if it were a 1% fudge above normal? That's frequent. Is it the liability of the pundit to check global markets? A billion to one odd would be unusual granted, but where is the cut off? Clearly this argument is not appropriate.

Conversely, bookies do not have to take into account whether pundits are likely making a mistake. Betting schemes thrive on the appearance that the bookie made a mistake. Either way, the places I know limit possible wins (e.g. 1000$ for a bigger, casual one). And even if not, they should be allow to take bets only if they can back it up.

That a pundit could not nullify the bet for the same reason is an edge the bank system abuses to no end. It's institutional. Since they don't have rigid rules for liability in computer security (e.g. in IOT and all the data ex-filtration cases) or code correctness only means the court would resort to opinionated decision on a case by case basis and precedent would only mean they can, not that they should, if the situation isn't exactly the same. There is bound to be precedent for exactly this case, which would open an avenue for abuse by the bookies. I don't think it's clear at all.
Probably not, because they won't be technically able to see them. So maybe they are not for them in the first place?
No. Rich people can allready afford a scalpers price, and dont really care if their tickets are 500 dollars or not.

In capitalism, high demand and limited stock means that you (as a seller) should set the price as high as you can, while selling all stock. If you set your price lower, you're loosing potential income
You have to factor in the fan relationship. You don't want to gouge your loyal fans, that will quickly destroy your fanbase.
I did eventually pay with Paypal. However, I do know that at some point in the last few months, I attempted to make a transaction on some web site and had issues. It was either:

1. I tried to pay with Paypal and failed. Paid with CC instead.

2. I tried to pay with my CC and failed. Paid with Paypal instead.

I don't remember for which site this happened, but the paranoid part of me is wondering if it may have been Newegg and item 2 above.
If all existing laws were 100% enforced, you and I would both be in prison.
Self hosting is a big one. Having control over your source code and a core component to development workflow is important to some people.
My hope is that eventually we would be able to buy a trustworthy computer.
I agree. Because of that, I've made it clear to my team that the immediate responsibility for out-of-the-blue requests is triage, not solutioning. There are plenty of tasks for which 15 minutes fixes the problem. There are also requests coming in that represent days of work and need to be prioritized against existing commitments. What I need is for the team to do enough to know which is which, and make me aware of the latter so that I can get that prioritization discussion moving.
Yeah, it sounds positively dystopian to us. But replace "Hu" with "Alex Jones" and see how many in the west keep up their sympathy.

>In 2015, Hu lost a defamation case after he accused an official of extortion.

>Hu’s social media accounts, where he published much of his investigative journalism, have also been shut down.
In my first 1:1 with my current manager (who is also my favorite manager, albeit only my 2nd "real" manager in my short career) I expressed my career aspirations and my style of work / learning / contributing. I expressed my ambitions and he was able to guide me to projects that I could contribute to and/or lead to earn promotions.

He does a great job of communicating top level decision making to us and keeping us in the loop, he's also great at shielding us from upper management.