skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On that note, I know a person working in an anti-money laundering office in a major bank. It's like a private detective force. Their system throws a bunch of automatically flagged accounts, they go through each one, looking for signs of not paying taxes, money laundering, crime, etc. They not only look at what you do in their bank but also they'll look at your social media profiles or anything else they can get their hands on. A lot of anecdotes of people receiving lots of small payments and when you look at their Facebook profile you see their selfies with guns and drugs. They would then compile a dossier and pass that on to the real cops.

Apparently, 9/11 is relevant here, because the bank through which it was financed just stopped paying the fine a few years ago. It was a pretty big sum. The bank was guilty of not policing its clients well enough.

One way in which a lot of terrorism is financed relatively safely is simply by switching banks, because banks don't have an adequate data-exchange mechanism. So for example, you fool one bank that the money being sent from Saudi Arabia to UK is an uncle sending money to a niece studying abroad. That looks normal. But then that money is sent from the niece to some third person, which might be suspicious. But if that third person uses a different bank than the niece, then this third person's bank will actually have no idea that one bounce ago the money was in Saudi Arabia. If the bank where the money first landed in UK didn't react, the money was moved successfully. I.e. the chances of it being traced back to Saudi Arabia are slim. Add a few more hops through different banks and tracing theses transactions becomes a nightmare.

This mess has two reasons, as far as I can tell. One is that there isn't a good way for banks to exchange data. They pretty much have to call the other bank and ask. The other reason is that they're policing themselves. Why do we have a decentralised money police?

That last question sort of leads me to my last point. This person I know confided that the distressing part of the job is that often you're helping put people in jail for dabbling in small crime (think selling some weed), but you're instructed to not pursue the big clients. In my friend's words, that's because the bank makes money off of the big clients, but the small ones are numerous, therefore expendable. They have to be able to demonstrate that they are thwarting money laundering and terrorism financing, meanwhile the big money crimes slip by unnoticed. So for the bank it's advantageous to do the policing themselves, because then they can discriminate.
I'm just saying for this to be even better I'd like some transparency from manufacturers about their password generating process.

If they do it properly then there should be no problem with surfacing their methodology and I'd have less hassle by actually being able to trust those complex individual passwords the device comes with out of the box.
You could develop software for customer#1 and use the same software for customer#2 with a non-Copyleft license too. The question isn't "does the license enforce that the source must be distributed", it's "will the customer allow me to release the work as open source to begin with". About the only way Copyleft applies here is if you can make a strong case that the work customer#1 wants you to do necessitates (or would be much more expensive without) using a piece of copyleft-licensed source, and therefore the whole work must be covered under a copyleft license. But as a developer with a long work history I've never hit that case, or personally know anyone who has.

Really about the only scenario I can think of where I'd reasonably expect to hit this case is if I were tasked with building the software stack for some kind of appliance that would be greatly simplified by throwing Linux on there. And even then, the custom software running as a process on the box would presumably not have to be Copyleft-licensed, just any changes to the Kernel or any other bundled GPL'd software would have to be made available (if in fact there are any changes), and if GPLv3 is involved then the box would have to have some way for the user to replace the software (but the Linux Kernel is GPLv2 so that may not be an issue).

Barring that scenario, if your idea is "I'll develop something for customer#1 and slap the GPL license on it, then customer#1 has no choice but to release the source and I can reuse it for customer#2", unfortunately that's incorrect. Work done for hire is owned by the employer, not the employee, so you can't slap the GPL license on work you do for customer#1 unless customer#1 authorizes it. And in fact if the entire work is built in-house (rather than pulling in GPL'd libraries), then it doesn't even matter if you claim that it's GPL'd because the customer would be the sole copyright owner and would be able to relicense it. The only reason they couldn't relicense it is if it pulls in third-party GPL'd code or libraries, but if I were customer#1 and I hired a developer who pulled in GPL'd libraries without permission in order to try and force the entire work to be released as open source, you can bet I'd be firing that developer on the spot.
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Mine was an account for Plivo.
Do you monitor your vitD blood levels? Regularly supplementing that amount (2.5xUL) is not recommended if your labs indicate sufficient levels.
My theory is that they're stuck between (cost of fixing it plus the cost to their pageview metrics if we suddenly didn't have to dig so much) and (cost of slowly simmering customer resentment from terrible UI).

I imagine there's just no manager willing to charge the hill of better search when they'd have to die on the sword of plummeting pageview metrics for succeeding.
Don't know about your example, but Germans tend to pack more information into a sentence, particularly in the written form (as Mark Twain rightfully noticed). Actually, I find English somewhat clumsy to write technical documentation in. Using short sentences, I frequently end up in restating things and having to find alternative words and idioms to avoid repetition. Moreover, using relative clause in English isn't quite as powerful as in German. But probably it's just me not being an English native speaker.
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It doesn’t make sense to prioritize that over the clear majority of Christians.
We have the fabs for it. Some are owned by defense contractors, too.
Yet, the greatest philosophers after the Greeks were all German-speaking (Hegel, Kant, Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche, Mach...). Also, physicists, mathematicians.
As one of the people grumbling in the bit "ugh, Amazon" thread earlier today [1], I'm delighted to see somebody tackling this.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18147063
Well... the lie about his personal life was under oath, and about sexual behavior in the office during a lawsuit about sexual harassment. I think Clinton was a pretty good president, mostly, but this seems like impeachable behavior to me.
This is from 2014 and says they make about $2B per year.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/310-microsoft-patents-used-in-...

But later reports suggest they're making a lot less now.
In my experience it's less that people don't grasp it and more that they have no interest in learning and hope to survive as parasites forever. I've worked with people who will try to stop you from teaching them almost immediately and interrupt with some nonsense that amounts to "can you just do it for me, though?". A lot of the time this happens when the task is time-sensitive and they're likely afraid of missing a deadline by trying to figure something out themselves, but you'd think they would recognize the pattern after showing up with the same frantic plea enough times.
Parking valets in ultra-cramped garages come particularly to mind for me, after having watched a group of attendants perform an elaborate repositioning of a dozen cars in one of those mechanical-car-lift parking areas with barely enough free space to fit a single car at a time.
Interesting. I thought the pixel screen looked terrible compared to the X.
TempleOS has a fork called "Shrine"
Node.js actually has separate docs[1]. The only documentation you'll find inline in our source is documentation for other developers working on the source.

[1]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/master/doc/api
It would be nice if there was a local alternative though. You can’t always put all your data in a cloud service which doesn’t work offline or interact with the local file system.
I took 4 years of German in high school, so I'm no expert, but I do disagree about it making sense any more than any other language.

There are at least 3 ways to say "the". Der, die, and das. Which one you use depends on if the object you're talking about is femanine or not. To top that off some geographic areas use "das" for everything.

It also has words that are similar to English; toilette (toilet) and hast (have) as a couple similarities.
What I like about English is that it naturally supports gender neutrality. For example: "the user should upload their photo, and then they should press enter", instead of "the user should upload his/her photo and then he/she should press enter".
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They likely need to be able to mount your filesystem for some of their features to work. That's how they can reset your root password, write out network configs, etc etc.
That's odd. I went and vouched for them all.
Ok, very interesting, will pass it up to some friends, thanks!
Amazing. I did not know this, thanks!
I know that writing good documentation is hard, and that a lot of devs don't like to do it, but I completely agree with TFA.

If the project isn't worth the time to document properly, it's self-announcing that it isn't worth using that code. Why would anyone use throwaway code posted on GitHub? Even if it's been written by a "rock star," the risks are too high.

The philosophy of OpenBSD is the correct one, I think: incorrect documentation is a bug and should be fixed with the same energy that is directed toward bugs in code.

If it's only going to be used by you, great! Don't be offended if someone else looks at it and says, no thanks because of the lack of documentation.
English has a lot of unwritten rules as well. Which sounds correct?

I have a large red ball.

I have a red large ball.

I imagine german has the same, and I wonder if it's one of those cases. For example, to a german speaker, it would be completely clear that Dave is the one who forgot the book because the first subject mentioned is always the relevant one, or something like that.
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I think he somehow accidentally got spam-filtered. I vouched for him, so hopefully that's enough to stop the spam filtering.
What's with the flamebatey "millennials" which appears only in the headline?

(Vim should be left to die anyway. It distracts some people away from Emacs.)
Microsoft doesn't need to be pushing their own Android distribution to be successful here. They're building a very compelling set of software that runs atop Android on any device, and this can be done while complying with Google's requirements for having Play services. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft's existing relationship with Samsung evolves into something where you can buy a Samsung device through Microsoft that comes preloaded with Microsoft Launcher, SwiftKey, Cortana, Edge, Office, etc while still including Google Play. They could also pursue this with other manufacturers or even with their own devices if they absolutely had to. Microsoft wants to get Android devices integrated with their services, but they don't need to be the app store in order to do that. That strategy is doomed to fail as Amazon already proved with Fire Phone.
also very interesting:

> Plenty of legal scholars on both sides of the aisle have, for years, argued that the US goes too far in embracing judicial review; few other countries give their Supreme Courts the power we give ours to strike down democratically enacted laws.

and:

> Even in Canada, the parliament and the provinces retain the power to reverse Supreme Court decisions with supermajority votes.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_33_of_the_Canadian_Cha...
Can we remove this article on the clickbait title alone?
It's not a definition. I'm sorry, I should have said "per definition" instead of "by definition".
They'll probably put something on the CAN bus for manual maneuvering.
I don't think anyone should be trusting any password generated by anyone but themselves. To me, the only viable option is the second option in the California bill: the device requires the user to generate a new password before it can be accessed for the first time.
I guess exploring around with setups like this is part of the command-line-and-lots-of-email-subculture's current zeitgest. I hadn't heard of mu as a CLI tool before, though I knew that mu4e was one of the emacs mail-reading options.

I'm currently playing around with mblaze, which is another command line mail-reading toolkit (https://github.com/chneukirchen/mblaze ), and building some notmuch-friendly tools on top of that ( https://github.com/dannyob/mblaze-much ). I'm not sure it's the right way forward, but it's proving to be a fun experiment.
FWIW, Honda builds more two-wheeled vehicles (scooters and motorcycles) than it does cars. About 19 million motorcycles a year vs about 5 million cars.

Their core competency is probably engines, especially small engines. They make more engines than anyone else globally.

(I agree with your point generally on momentum. Just saying because I was somewhat surprised to learn it.)
I kind of do a tornado approach of reading a lot about researching and reading about things I'm trying to learn and just doing it. Back and forth. I pick reading when I feel like reading, and doing when I feel like doing, so it keeps me motivated and I don't get too bored of doing/reading.

Like I'm trying to make a clone of a game I used to play in the 90's so I started using Unreal Engine to just start putting stuff down. I realized I knew way too little to even get started so I started reading their manual. When I got bored of that I went back to just trying things out myself. Same with 3d modeling and blender. Watched some youtube videos, found a beginners series on how to do some things. Then I just applied my knowledge and made a half-assed model for the game. It's not a great model, but it's enough to at least learn how to import it into Unreal and keep going from there.

I guess it's kind of like agile for learning. Short loops, evaluate what you're doing and why, and what your end goals are. Don't get stuck doing one thing for too long. This also helps short circuits my perfectionist tendencies. Directed chaos.
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Didn't google block various Amazon devices (like Echo Show) from accessing Youtube?
It's about choice. 2 billion people with Androids aren't sysadmins. The phones work fine out of the box. The parent likes choice, while some people don't miss it. No need for strawman arguments.
Android doesn't really have much similarity to Linux beyond the kernel so this doesn't make much sense. They are 2 quite different userland operating systems.
If anyone who will be within plain sight of the router should not know the password, then obviously you should not use the default password that's printed on the router. You should set a new password yourself.
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It does — the Pixel 2 XL screen that is. The Samsung manufactured Pixel 2 screen, on the other hand, is pretty good.
I've managed far more than one box, and far more desktops/laptops than servers. The servers have been far more reliable.
Ok, I’ve switched to this account in the meantime. I guess you can ban it too if you want. But I’m just going to write mostly about Lisp, so that would be unkind to the poor cons cells.

https://imgur.com/jNSnTf5 I made a book cover for an updated version of On Lisp I'm working on. I think it's time to revise and combine SICP + On Lisp for 2018. They were written in the 70's and the 90's, and no one gives them much attention anymore even though they present a lot of fascinating ideas.
This ^^. As a woman entering late into the field, it was often the comments on HN that guided me away from bad environments and tools and towards the like-minded data-driven places where I can thrive.
Some of these look like cottages/cabins. Shouldn't they be solely supported by trees to be considered a proper treehouse?
2.5GHz is far from crown. Need 2x more to compete with Intel.
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This doesn't help them get users on their services. It would just be another Fire Phone. The next step beyond their current strategy would be to sell devices (regardless of who manufacturers them) that come preloaded with both Google Play and their launchers and services.
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The funny part is that, based on your tone, you can't imagine a case where: 1) that's possible and 2) Apple may not be a willing colluding party.
'The greatest' ?

Slight exaggeration.
But engagement is what makes them the money! The profit for them is in never seeing that this is a problem. There may be no way to fix this.
Being good at excel means knowing your shortcuts, plus knowing the content of this website by heart:

http://www.decisionmodels.com/calcsecrets.htm

Straight from the 90s (which is cool, functionally excel hasn’t really evolved since)!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law :)
Thanks! We've recused them from the spam filter. It's best to email us at hn@ycombinator.com when this happens so we'll be sure to see it.
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I was really impressed with Xbox 360 security. I wanted to use it as a tamper-resistant, PPC desktop. There just wasnt enough demand for underpowered, overpriced desktops secure or not. That happened to folks selling laptops running separation kernels, too. Hardly any people would buy them.

Cool you had the idea, too, though. At this point, Id rather see someone just fund a Freescale implementation of the security parts on their communications processors. Can get more mileage in the market that way.
One question: how do you hold an existing line low without drawing lots of current, and without cutting that line first?
They could have prevented it by not buying a self-driving car.
Personally, I think Amazon's original advantage was definitely in a high-quality experience. (FWIW, I've been a customer since 1997, but didn't join Prime until 2010.) They used to have pretty reliable reviews and real products. They used to have better prices. And they used to have a much better user experience.

What I really want is shopping as a utility. I want to spend the minimum time possible and get great results with no worries. Speedy delivery is sometimes part of that, but not always. If there were something as reliable as the Amazon of 2010 but defaulted to 3-day delivery for free, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
it's not excel that's the problem - it's you or your replacement 6 months later trying to reverse engineer the iterated solution that you willed into being... ;-)
I have a story that may amuse you.

Recently I worked on a contract doing some data ingestion that the resident team didn't want to deal with.

They had been provided a JSON api to get what should have been a batch file. The owner/api creator said "this is good enough we won't accommodate you." So much for sensible data transmission and batch processing.

Because I have had to deal with these sorts of things before I have a fairly robust tool chain to hammer api's with requests to get the data in a reasonable time frame. In this case my client went full tilt - and simply hammered the API till its owner gave in and started sending batch files.
There actually are "rules" for adjective order in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective#Order

For example, size precedes color, hence "large red ball".
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Some people blame the tragedy of 20th century on prevailing idealistic trends in German philosophy, including the ones you mentioned.
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There are "rules" for that, even if they are just descriptive: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/abo...
I agree. I’ve learned immensely from using tools like mu and offlineimap, writing utilities for a maildir, and it can be great fun...but I need direct and unmediated access to email, I need it to ‘just work’ and let me copy-paste html text and images and drag and drop attachments. I have to use email to get other stuff done, I can’t spend time focusing on email itself.
Would it be technically feasible to have such a small chip which would transfer data out via cellular network instead? Presumably that might not work well in the DC itself, but perhaps for compromising company laptops from supply chain side?
Hence the name serial numbers. Often times they are actually assigned 1, 2, 3, 4, ...
Write down the hours you spend as a consultant to teammates. Then discuss with your boss how you should best spend your time. It’s not complicated.

Source: am manager who deals with this every day.

Edit: I understand this advice is worthless if your manager is a dolt. In that case run for the hills.
Do you know about Mozilla Common Voice?

https://voice.mozilla.org/en/new
I'm afraid you'll have to ask someone with a much grayer beard than mine to get a good answer to that.
If you talk on a cell phone all day and hold it a centimeter from your head maybe you deposit enough energy into your head to raise the temperature by a degree or two.

Being addicted to Facebook or mid-core games probably does more damage to your brain though. Driving or walking while distracted on your phone poses more danger to your body, and the bodies of others.

Nothing in the home has that combination of high power and proximity to the body so I wouldn't worry about it. The "high frequency" data recording might be a million or so times more than checking it once a month (if your utility can be bothered to even do that) but it still maybe 8 bits of data per second and shouldn't take much power to get back to the tower.

I think fear of smart meters is just the next fad now that anti-vaxxers are on the run.
Yes, sometimes the grammar of German will make obvious something that would be easy to lose in careless translation, but not always. Using an example:

Dave and Andy each went to London with a pencil and a book. He forgot it at the train station.

Dave und Andy sind mit jeweils einem Stift und einem Buch nach London gefahren. Er hat es im Bahnhof vergessen.

Here it is NOT clear who forgot (they are both male), but it is clear what was left behind, because 'es' refers to the book (neuter), otherwise a different article would have been used for masculine pencil.

In careless English translation one loses the distinction because English uses "it" for all inanimate objects.
I'm sure plenty of people can also answer "yes" to the question "did quitting social media bring anything valuable into your life?"