skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the IT security team would sometimes seed the parking lots with thumb drives that were "infected" with a program that would phone home to them if plugged into a PC on the corporate network.

Which is clever, but given the current level of small scale integration you could just as easily hide the same exploits inside of a charging cable, a USB fan, or really any other small-form factor USB-pluggable gadget. The problem isn't them discriminating between "hacked" and "non-hacked" devices -- it's them plugging _anything_ non work related or issued into their USB ports.
FY2018_salary_data.exe
Graphic design feedback:

- don't use just color to separate card types. Include an icon.

- make it obvious which text is the effect and which is the flavor text.
For really complex queries it can be totally confusing. At least for me it does. I prefer indentation. I like my SQL blocky.
That's good to know -- I think, based on some random article I read a month ago or so, he can beat that charge, because he had concrete knowledge about the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund being interested in helping take Tesla private.

Again, I could be wrong, and I really wish I could remember where I found that article...
Great article. The author mentions all the pain points I went through designing a mid-sized sass base... there's just too many ways to do things and it gets messy fast. It's hard to be both semantic and DRY at the same time.

Might as well just treat everything the same across the board, e.g. tailwinds and reduce the overall complexity of naming

I read many functional CSS articles but this one has convinced me to try it out
I switched to Vscode this year as many emacs veterans did. It's lighting fast. And lightweight. It's a joy to use. I can't imagine a thing much more performant than that.
No, I was referring to the original comment or comments of this form generally.
> But the West in the 21st century has put much more value on diversity and on preserving cultural and ethnic identities...

Only minority identities, and only the approved ones. The West's "noble savage" narratives are almost as offensive as how it treats Wallonia or the Basques. And America loves you if you're Kurdish, but if you're a Yezidi woman they'll prosecute you for being a sex slave (forced concubinage to Da'esh apparently counts as material support of terrorism).
Sending Emails from Lambda Using Python, Serverless Framework and SES Service
Within the US there have been numerous incidents ranging from the delivery of contraband to prisons, interference with air traffic and surveillance of individuals and facilities.
I still prefer upper case and indentation. It's cleaner imo. Lower casing makes everything blend together regardless of modern editors highlighting the text for key commands.
> Everything will eventually be priced in Bitcoin.

Objection, your honor. Assumes facts not in evidence.

We get it, you've bought in to the idea that Bitcoin is the one true currency. (That's why a statement like "1 Bitcoin is still 1 Bitcoin even after 100 years" makes sense to you.) The rest of us, however, are not sold on this. We suspect that 100 years from now one Bitcoin will get you exactly nothing of value. Speaking to us from a perspective that Bitcoin is the one true currency is completely unpersuasive to us. If you want to convince us, you need to tell us something that makes sense in our viewpoint.

> Take any point in Bitcoin's history and compare its value then to three years earlier. There is no case where it was worth more three years before.

That's a decent attempt at doing what I asked for. Unfortunately, I find it less than persuasive. It's an asset that has a total history of 10 years; there's a pretty small sample size here.
> Is that you Theymos?

No

> How many software choices do BTC users have? I know the answer to this. It's one. You've got one choice to choose from

What? There's a bunch of BTC clients. Bitcoin Core is the defacto reference client due to its lineage and presence on bitcoin.org/bitoincore.org, and the fact that the developers work on it in tandem with the BIP process. (There's a process!)

> Governance means if people are willing to talk to each other (and listen), they'll find they have common ground and can make progress and move forward together.

You can't listen to everyone and you ultimately end up having "leaders" to present ideas. Populism does not work. Ideas based on merit will get support by people who put principles above ego.

There were many attempts to get common ground in the block size debate. The ones who attempted to find the middle-ground (ie, Pieter Wuille and Adam Back) had their ideas shot down by big blockers like Mike Hearn, who brought his ego into the equation and tried to make it about "I was here first," and did not want to follow the BIP process. He openly states on the Bitcoin mailing list that he thinks developers should decide the system on behalf of all the users. Other maintainers made it clear that backward incompatible changes don't happen to the rules without broad consensus (of which there was none).
> It's not just Scheme

Agreed. I only mentioned Scheme specifically because Abelson did in what was quoted.
> more nondeterministic data

What does that mean?
We ended up in our current house because my wife wanted a large enough dining room, a spacious kitchen, and a guest room.

The kitchen is much bigger than necessary, though certainly nice to use. We do use the dining room a lot, but only for eating as a family and not entertaining much, unlike how she imagined. What we had in smaller houses would have sufficed.

The guest room was used once, and may never be used again as a guest room. The people she imagined would stay end up staying in hotels instead. It would have been cheaper as a proportion of the cost of our house to buy a cheaper house and to set that money aside and pay for hotels for our guests ourselves.

But that's life. My life, anyway. Live and learn.
If you are using PrivateInternetAccess, you can't login to your NameCheap account. As in, your valid username and password will be rejected. This happens even if you have 2fa enabled. I reset my password twice (even though I _knew_ the original because I use a password manager) before I opened a support case, and they confirmed that they block legitimate logins if they detect you're using a VPN.

I wanted to move off of them, but everyone else is worse. CF Registrar is interesting, but there is precedent for CF revoking its services from non-abusive customers before (whatever that alt-right site was) so I don't think I will support them either. I heard Gandhi is good so I might check them out.
I still don't understand how this device could steal login details. Everything should be encrypted and authenticated through PKI when using any website that accepts login details. Whenever I visit a website with an expired certificate, for example, Chrome gives me a big red warning banner before allowing me to continue to the site.
If using React and looking for a similar approach -- check out Rebass and styled-system (https://github.com/jxnblk/styled-system). Their APIs are a pleasure to work with
"As in many animals, honey bees rely on their gut microbial community for a variety of functions, including food processing (25, 26), regulation of immune system (33, 34), and defense against pathogens (17, 27). Perturbations of this system have the potential to lead to negative consequences for host fitness. "

There have been many unexpected effects from the human introduction of long lived synthetic compounds into the environment. E.g. we had to learn the hard way about bioaccumulation and hormonal disruption. Now we are starting to see more and more cases [e.g. 1] where damage to microbiomes may be causing harm and we may need to make such effects part of safety screening and environmental monitoring. Could microbiome effects explain the crash in many insect populations around the world [2-4]?

1 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2656.12...

2 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/17/where-ha...
3 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
4 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Theo_Zeegers/publicatio...
Oh, please, no-one would fall for that! FY2018_salary_data.xls.exe, on the other hand... :P
AWS Tutorial: How to Change an AWS EC2 Instance Type
This strategy may weed out duds, but it will also occasionally overlook great people. One of the brightest engineers I know dropped out of high school and got a GED, but was obsessed with tech and practiced building things daily. He's 30 and a VP now.
Dare I say there's a mini-movement starting? :D https://www.jasonhanley.com/blog/2018/09/making-websites-eff...

Here's hoping...
So US interests could be harmed by damage to an important US company, itself entirely due to backwards US drug policies? I don't think Musk is the problem in that case...
I was talking about reducing the number of servers to serve 6k/minute. No idea if that was a synthetic benchmark or the current load on the service.
I just hope Musk doesn't end up suiciding cause of all of this. =/
Could the SEC use as evidence the fact that the price went up post-tweet, and down after Tesla recanted? That is arguably objective evidence of reasonable investors taking his tweet as a material fact to their trading strategies (i.e. by buying stock).
You seem to be willfully interpreting the parent post. It's more nuanced than you are claiming.
I bemoan the ideology of others, and you bemoan mine. Perchance we’ve more in common then you would think.
If the moon's gravity was 0.3g, that would be close enough to Mars'(0.38g) that it would be useful as a prelude to a Mars landing/exploration/occupation. Unfortunately the Moon's gravity is 0.17g, so not as relevant.
Why Clean Code Matters
Personally, I like a compositional approach, but the "text-color-white" business is just cringeworthy. There's nothing about compositional/functional approach that requires someone to use silly just-above-an-inline-style classes.

<div class="card notice alert-colors">
Warning: frobnitz is dangling. Please address.
</div>

I gather it's because ridiculously literal styles are the only thing you can offer in an "un-opinionated" functional framework, because you'd otherwise have to engage in some styling.

ETA: And even "alert-colors" could probably be "alert" or the like, if I saw the consistent need to bold the text or whatever in alerts.
This is completely wrong. The number for 200M people are (presumably) how many people can onramp/offramp, nothing to do with transaction rate.

Disclaimer: editor of Lightning BOLT specs, lead dev of one implementation (c-lightning)
Guido seemingly has a strong distaste for functional ideas, so anything that comes from that paradigm ends up getting an almost half-assed implementation.

See also: map and filter being the only 2 other functions implemented and both of them being less performant than their imperative equivalents; outright denial of any attempt at TCO because "Guido doesn't like recursion".
Can one even buy an 8 socket motherboard off the shelf?
After his comment I was curious, but still indifferent to bbq ribs. After yours, I too am craving bbq ribs. Some sort of ripple effect?
Anecdotally, I heard of a toy radio control quadcopter belonging to western military personnel in Afghanistan that turned out to be trying to phone home to ${badguy} when they plugged it into a laptop to charge. This stuff is everywhere, and has been for years.
My ex-brother-in-law is the only reason I'd believe those stories aren't completely fictitious. I wonder if there's a formal psychological diagnosis for "thinks simple math is a genius system that everyone else missed". Because I had money, and EBIL didn't, he was always coming to me with shit like this. I don't know how many times I said something along the lines of, "if it's that easy, why isn't Goldman Sachs taking out loans for $200 million to buy TSLA shares?"
I've used OPEN SRS with a good experience in the past. https://opensrs.com/integration/api/
Cellular phone networks are heavily regulated, and the Feds can shut down public networks during periods of threat.
> With lightning: 200,000,000 people can only send 2 transactions every 660 days.

Citation needed.
I wonder if the new "auto login to Chrome" thing will ever one day lock people out of their web browser with no notice or recourse?
> Let’s be real then. Tesla is actually attempting to ramp energy storage and EVs as fast as possible.

I know we've talked about this before. But +100MW-hrs here and there is nothing. Yeah, 300MW in Australia is impressive for Lithium Ion. But...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/24/business/ener...

This singular $3 Billion project will give 2GW of power. If the lake holds 8-hours of water, that'd be 16-GW-hrs of energy in a single project.

---------

If energy storage is to be figured out in the USA, we need to be calculating GW-hr scale projects, not MW-hr scale projects like Mr. Musk.

Lithium Ion's main benefit was to Tesla, as Tesla would have a 2nd place to sell their Lithium Ion batteries. Its great for Tesla, but its way too small of a scale for me to consider it as a major solution to the USA's energy problem.
The company won't be fine because it'll be trading at $20 per share.

(Yes, $20 is hyperbole, now read the rest)

The real issue will be the 2019 bondholder covenants. Tesla won't have the cash to pay them, Tesla won't have the buying interest to absorb dilution, and Tesla will still need money.

Basically with a lower and lower share price Tesla has fewer and fewer ways to service its debt and do further fundraising. They can, it just won't be good for shareholders. This is called a death spiral.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deathspiral.asp

For a healthy company, a low share price has nothing to do with anything. For example, Tesla without debt and positive revenues would be a healthy company at $20 per share, it would even be undervalued and hurray you are the only person that noticed! But thats not the case for Tesla. Tesla is not a healthy company. And its going to become toxic.
man... i totally agree these things can be abused. co-worker was rewriting a project and went a little bit wild but i found the code pretty readable (for an experienced coder). You can do some pretty sweet stuff using built in python methods. We had a combination of dict/zip/map/lambda that run a ton of processing code and built a pretty complicated JSON-like structure in 4 lines. I personally liked it, you can tell some thought was put into the code rather then blasting out first solution and using that in production
Joseph Poon didn't invent extension blocks; I think you're thinking of Joseph Lau?
Upwork Readies Proposed Terms for $135M IPO
It could be doing viruses and all that but they'd be better off using it for proxying, scraping and ddos
If you’re not a farmer that is recognized and you try to buy quantities of ANFO you’ll find yourself having an uncomfortable conversation.

Ditto for bulk sugar.
I'm going to have to correct you on the solar part, Solar City is a dud. I was listening to a podcast and it was said that Solar City's acquisition would be Tesla's undoing. I think that's Musk's biggest concern, not so much the $420 tweet but the fact that scrutiny directed at the Solar City acquisition that will land Musk in serious trouble.

https://twitter.com/qtrresearch/status/1024254098068176896

Allegedly, ex-Solar Cities are saying they were told to fake sales. Quoth the Raven podcast first brought it to attention but now that the SEC investigation is starting, it will be a matter of time before Musk is under the gun, this time with serious jail time, if the allegations hold true.
I can only speak for myself and I'm more interested in getting a job done. If that means my UI component uses class syntax, and my state and communications channels are functional reducers, so be it.

I love JS because it's flexible and doesn't lock me into a paradigm. I can be as strict as I want to be. In the end, I think it depends on how someone thinks about problems. I tend to bend my thinking depending on the type of problem and how I might optimally solve said problem. When I need something else (often for performance), I'll circle around at that point for that part.
Yeah, they have no intention of getting back to me. It's a shame.
The law says a lot of things. I'm ok with short sellers losing their shirts regardless.
I'm assuming it's meant that a user connects their phone to secure their account, but FB is also using it for marketing etc.
This is cool...and I would back you in a kickstarter campaign...go for it!
I just want to know what on earth people are filling these enormous 2000+ sq.ft houses with! 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms? Even if you have 4 people in your family, do they all need separate rooms, and what is the probability that they all need to pee at the exact same time?
/extremely nautil.us voice
I never uppercase the SQL keywords. If it's more than a one-liner select statement, I format it so the indentation tells me what's going on.

To throw out a tossed-off example:

select
P.full_name, A.full_address, AT.type as address_type_name
from
People as P
inner join
Addresses as A on P.address_id=A.id
where
P.deleted is null
not sur about horror stories but IIRC namecheap only supports SMS 2 factor which is insecure and not recommended by NIST

namecheap also can't handle standard 410 character DKIM records from gsuite since their internal DB only allows 256 character records
Here's what I get from the Python 3 REPL:

peter@localhost:~$ python3
Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 23 2017, 16:37:01)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> def test(x):
... "something"
...
>>> test(2) is None
True

And Python 2:

peter@localhost:~$ python
Python 2.7.12 (default, Dec 4 2017, 14:50:18)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> def test(x):
... "something"
...
>>> test(2) is None
True

If you post such a transcript from your REPL session where you get False, it should be easier to tell what's different between your setup and mine (which is a stock Python install on Ubuntu 16.04).

However, there is another even more direct experiment you could have run at the Python REPL to see what Python expressions return: just type the expression directly at the REPL and see what it prints back at you. In Python 3:

peter@ToshibaSatellite:~$ python3
Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 23 2017, 16:37:01)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> "something"
'something'

And in Python 2:

peter@ToshibaSatellite:~$ python
Python 2.7.12 (default, Dec 4 2017, 14:50:18)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> "something"
'something'

So, in your test function above, the expression "something" does return itself; it just does it inside the function, and that return value then gets thrown away when the function exits, because you didn't return it from the function itself.
That might be technical protection, however the way the SEC gets access to mails is not on a technical level, but by sending out a letter "please send us all your mails on that topic" and if the response on such a request is not convincingly consistent you get into even more trouble.
> Where I live the laws on keeping dogs are more strict than some countries, and dogs enjoy a lot of access with their owners.

This sounds amazing! Where is this if I may ask? My experience in Australia is that there are a lot of dogs and dog owners, but overall it is not very dog friendly at all. For example you can't take pets on trains and it is uncommon to take them to work.
dude I’m talking about how hobbies drones are being used outside the US to kill upwards of 100’s of people per month.

Stop being so US centric. The future is well distributed.
There are a lot of young people walking up the medical pathway, but their notion of the correct early path just doesn't involve "practicing medicine", but rather taking the right classes or getting pre-requisites like math out of the way.

Nobody is telling their kids to become a doctor by reading aimlessly about medicine.
I did read it. :)

I think the so-called Richmond Specials (there are at least 2 on my block--I didn't know the name until reading that article but recognize them everywhere) have aged enough that they've become part of the accepted architectural landscape.

Anything new will be hated by people. But why spend a fortune to be hated when you could spend much less and be hated all the same. San Francisco requires almost every building to prominently incorporate bay windows as part of the facade. (Richmond Specials lack this, which is why they stand out.) Every era of housing does this differently. As long as the pre-fab does it at least as well (very low bar), they'd fit right in. Plus, stucco is an extremely common street-facing exterior finish, and all the pre-fab stuff seems to have similarly textured exteriors.

I'm no architect, but I think if you can mimic the Edwardian or Spanish Revival styles (which are already quite simplified and boxy) which dominate much of the city you can grease the wheels. I don't understand why architects expend so much effort trying to do anything else; all it does is invite more attention.
Any evidence he actually sold stock during the spike, that wasn't already scheduled?
Nice work Adam, I've grown to really like util based CSS, mainly from the new Bootstrap 4 utility classes. Since your article came out before BS4 release, wondering what your thoughts were on Bootstrap now?
Ah it’s every second year again huh? When innovation is dead and nobody knows if it’ll ever be back. Until next September that is...
Yeah, we argue this all the time :) you can’t stick hydro storage just anywhere, yet you can ship cargo containers full of powerpacks to anywhere in the world in a week or two. The Hornsdale Power Reserve was built in 90 days. Tesla is building a 700MW-1.1GW facility with PG&E to replace 3 natural gas generators (in the Southwest US, solar and batteries are cheaper than natural gas).

Utility scale battery storage will lead the day. Raw materials go into your factory, out come battteries good for at least a decade, that can perform energy arbitrage and frequency response for grid services. And every year it keeps getting cheaper to build. Hydro storage construction is always going to be geoconstrained, time consuming to construct, and expensive.

Just my two cents.
Informative article, mostly about how amoral this salesman is. I wonder if most people in sales think this way. Maybe the article was created solely as an ad for the author's company and the content is all lies. I'd have no way to know with out trying the myself and a fake article would be in complete alignment with the author's value system.
Also, none of the benchmarks in the article have anything to do with the CPU.
When I was the wife in a 4 person nuclear family, my two favorite places were both around 1300 square feet.
Yup! Tom Peters - of "In Search of Excellence" fame - advocated the same mantra back in the late 90's. Yes I am that old.

It makes for great copy. Really.

But then, when push comes to shove, the old search for a lego piece that fits with all the other lego pieces continues, so that there's the alibi.

It reminds me of IBM's "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".

Life continues.