skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Doxing isn't good, even for accused criminals.

Sure it is, a cursory search of a person before going into business with him is wise to do and places like forums often dox serial scammers. This guy is going to continue to scam and it will take a long time before law enforcement actually does something. Having that information out there might save some people from getting screwed over in the future.

>You could get sued or even (rarely) trigger some kind of vigilante justice overreaction.

To be fair you could be sued for just about anything. By the sound of it, I don't think this guy is going to be able to fund a legal team. Also, unless you enticed a vigilante to 'go get him', I don't think you're liable posting details and an account of your experience. Blur out nonpublic information like his drivers license #, passport #, or SSN.

EDIT: I should add, I was a very early OTC bitcoin trader. We had these assholes that could come in and scam $10 paypal trades all day everyday. Part of having the details out for members like 'bitscotty' was so law enforcement could see it was a long and documented pattern. People who didn't research still got scammed, but their accounts afterward would get added to the pile and eventually the police actually took action.
I already do that, I travel only once every 2 years or so. I'd be able to do it way more frequently, but preffer not to.
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"handshakes and rate control start"

This is a common way to describe congestion control which is a bit simple and reductive.

Given 2 endpoints on the network, you want to compute a congestion window for the entire flow rather than per-stream. Because
1) You can more accurately compute a single congestion window given aggregate stats from N streams rather than computing N congestion windows given stats from 1 stream each.
2) The congestion window is a shared resource across streams, which permits better network utilization

The other benefit of QUIC, coming from multiplexing streams over UDP rather than TCP, is that the "blast radius" arising from the consequences of a lost packet is better contained. It only impacts the stream that contained the packet; the rest of the flow can make progress uninhibited. So head-of-line blocking is not as severe.
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WhatsApp was an incredible success for its investors. Not so much for its acquirer. Look hard enough and you'll find M&A doesn't always pan out as expected, even at the $1B value range.
So which specific policies are you advocating?
So this article is the only thing this poster has ever submitted, which is a bit suspicious in itself, but additionally the account being non-civil in attacking my criticism has basically only commented on this one article. Pretty strange I'd say.
I love Singapore, and visit there often. The cleanliness is definitely one of the things that brings me back, even though I love travelling through most SE Asian countries (I was born in Malaysia).

However, I recall about 20 or 30 years ago, the cleanliness was much better, probably while Lee Kwan Yew was still in charge. I would see businessmen in suits stop and pick up cigarette butts in the street and bin them.

But in more recent visits, I notice locals walking past litter and butts more casually. It is still better than most cities, but I think the fastidiousness has worn off a little with the latest generation?
It is normal in Asian countries to not have public drinking fountains. Water coolers in some shopping malls is as far as you'd get in terms of public water source.
This is why you go through an intermediary.... becuase you don't want to be in the camera renting business because of all the risks etc -- which is why the intermediary should have covered this.
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Yeah, I think of it as one of the dumb ways to be smart.

Anybody can always find some way a victim could have averted the bad thing. Dramatically and jerkily pointing that out lets them perform smartness and superiority.

I get that. I too have been that asshole. A lot of us here grew up being praised for being smart. We can't control IQ, of course, so it's easy learn to do things that accentuate our appearance of smartness. I've spent decades trying to unlearn those habits, but things we learn as kids run deep.
With nod to Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things,” including the chapter “Human Error? No, Bad Design.”

For reference, an article he also wrote with that title, discussing design and human error in major transportation accidents:

https://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/human_error_no_bad.html
Exactly. The manipulative and unproductive nature go hand in hand and were the two things that made me quit all social networks except for LinkedIn (where I see the value that I get is higher than the time that I invest there).

I think some people unconsciously know this, but they fail to act on it due to the addictive nature of the product, creating false excuses to justify their account (it doesn't matter how important you think you are, no one cares really).

Others are completely oblivious to what Facebook is doing to them. I don't think there is any hope for them. Facebook will continue to use them to squeeze every bit of free time they have into pointless egocentric activity.
A guy working for McDonalds and living in a small run down apartment in a bad neighborhood definitely has less to lose by going to prison then a billionaire.
I use amazon smile and am happy it exists, but I’d challenge Amazon to do even more. Walmart does $300M a year in giving; Target, Microsoft, and Google do around $150M each.

http://fortune.com/2016/06/22/fortune-500-most-charitable-co...
Digression: anyone who's used Wire. How is there video/audio and more importantly conferencing software. Any good?
Most rentals are probably less than $4,000 and the high value rentals are the ones most likely to get stolen.
It would be really neat if we could start using a progrmming language-like syntax for logical expressions instead of English.

Sure there would be learning involved, but not nearly as much memorization.
I did the same thing with trying to avoiding politics and entertainment, and just following programmers and development thought leaders. Yeah... They almost all wind up being political too. I simply cannot find a way to find interesting accounts that don't wind up talking about politics and current events. I don't care. I don't want to use Twitter for that, but apparently, Twitter doesn't want me to use the service for anything ELSE. (And, before someone suggests it, yes, my list of muted words is already long.)
Yep— Ravel will absolutely negotiate commercial licenses. No later than 2024, the entire corpus will be available for free for all use cases, including commercial.
Nobody is saying black dads don't care about their kids.
The point is that it's a fair assumption that having over 70 percent of black children grow up without fathers robs them of the advantages of the author immediately. Some of the fathers are incarcerated. Most are not, and likely care deeply about their kids, but can't get along with the mother or can't deal with the stress of parenting.... We don't know, and can't know, because political correctness doesnt allow scientists to ask the obvious question:
Why do poor black families have a lower percentage of present fathers than equally poor Latino, white, and Asian families? The data tells us this, and knowing the answer could help empower more black children to achieve their dreams.
I don't think it's a good idea to watch movies in an iphone in the dark. Your eyes weren't build to focus in a small screen full of light in a dark room. There's nothing good coming out of it.
This makes the openSUSE Leap -> SUSE Linux Enterprise supported upgrade strategy interesting, because if someone started out with openSUSE Leap 15.0, they can trivially attach a SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 subscription to it and convert the system, and remain fully supported by SUSE in the process.

So with that available, if SUSE isn't completely stupid on how to go to market, they'll actually figure out a way to capitalize on that.
I apologize -- I think I'm missing the question...

The working hypothesis now is that if the root cause is pathogenic, then suppressing the pathogen(s) should delay or even prevent onset of the disorder by warding off collateral damage from the innate immune response. Applied: An indefinite (Val)acyclovir supplement should suppress recurring outbreaks of latent Herpes-class viruses, thereby avoiding the immune response which is speculated to eventually lead to Alzheimer's and Dementia-class disorders. All the other ancillary links (e.g. cortisol -> increase in risk, sleep deprivation -> increase in risk) may be explained through the same vehicle (e.g. cortisol -> increase in Herpes-class virus reactivation, sleep deprivation -> impairment in processes used to flush the brain, hastening onset of collateral damage from immune byproducts e.g. beta-amyloid), and it's the many different connections which may have thrown researchers off the scent.

If it took this long to potentially understand the connection, it would explain why "If it was easy to kill, it'd be dead by now" doesn't apply here.

Hopefully I answered your question, but I should restate that I don't quite understand what you asked :/
I've been wanting to read this book but there's not a digital version yet. I wonder if it's to avoid pirate copies everywhere.
On the other hand, Signal works. Messages get delivered and phone calls get established.

All the open/interoperable solutions that I found were sufficiently broken that I no longer use them, since it felt like I was spending more time debugging them than actually communicating.
I disagree. Very, very few people, CEOs included have that little disregard for human life. Most CEOs aren't that different from you or I.
Compare:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

With:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Samba/SambaServerGuide

The docs are just that much better. The server packages are much more reliable. If you want specific software versions, and you're not on docker, you get those versions. It's a breeze to sysadmin a centos machine. An Ubuntu machine is a pile of nightmares.

(Also, very few people actually run RHEL with the support package, most run CentOS, which is patch-compatible but has all the trademarks removed.)
I was just pointing out the fact that reCaptcha v2 was only on a few pages by design, and now Google wants us to put it on many pages. It's fundamentally changed its purpose from being a gatekeeper of spam/abuse on forms to a "Citizen Score" reporting "agency". I won't even engage with your troll-like point that I must hate cloud software.
> Not sure what violence in Seattle have to do with whether you need to get politically involved.

Violence against minorities has significantly increased as the extreme right has gained power across the USA.

> There are lots of reasons why people get assaulted most of them have nothing to do with sexual orientation.

We're talking about growing threats here, the rate of assaults and murders against LGBTQ+ and numerous other minorities has significantly increased in the past 3 years, people feel emboldened to hate.

> Yes, you can decide to do something about it politically but you can also choose to just not come to those places again just like a family who can afford it would move away from the ghettos. That doesn't mean you have to be politically involved, it's a choice.

Wow, holy shit that is a privileged view you have. Most people can't afford to uproot their lives and flee the neighborhoods they live in.

These assaults and murders are happening in "safe" neighborhoods, by people who are rolling in with their prejudiced beliefs and taking it out on the first non-straight person they see. I don't see how the fuck we're supposed to move away from them when we are already in the safest places in the USA to be LGBTQ+.

> Don't get me wrong I don't mind people getting politically involved but in my experience confusing virtue signaling on FB, Twitter and Reddit with actual political involvement leads to more disappointment than progress.

Perhaps you have gained an idea of why those of us who are actively hated by certain groups in the USA can't just "ignore politics". It isn't a bad habit for us, the outcome of many recent political decisions has directly affected us, and things may get worse. If we fail to pay at least some mind to politics, it may end up where all but the rich are shoved back in the closet, or fed to the wolves.
Brewing 2nd and 3rd order signals. Machine learning, innocuous public information sources ...
(reposting from another thread) Being very very optimistic, they entangled a molecule in a bacteria with the light in the cavity. I think this is essentially at the same level of the quantum effects in the chlorophyll. They are very far away of entangling a whole bacteria.
I -- just spitballing numbers -- can't see how the intermediary can cover $4.5k in equipment while being paid $14.25/day. And, tbh, that should be pretty obvious.
> And then, you have to wonder, if you have to substantially change the software in use at the client and server (and possibly even write custom code, per your Apache+$LANG suggestion), are those significant changes really worth it just to save on one extra port open on the firewall?

Oh, sorry, I didn't make it clear before. I'm fully admitting that in the case of record-oriented file requirements, especially on the client side, FTPS probably doesn't have a better solution available.

I was just noting that a vastly simplified firewall configuration that both doesn't require multiple ports opened (or to somehow read the PORT/PASV or EPRT/EPSV commands and open ports dynamically) is simpler, which is an advantage. It doesn't necessarily make up to the record-oriented storage problems that would have to be dealt with in those cases though.
Yes, they do. Poverty creates desperation. They also have less to gain. Most any billionaire likely understands that earning a few more billion will not change their life that much.
There is no silver bullet.

Actors are overrated. Either you assume that any message may get lost, and you have to deal with failure, which is always painful. Or you assume the sender and receiver share a failure domain, and you're introducing asynchrony for no clear reason.
In all honesty, I would dislike this author much less if they received a single one-time lump sum of $500K rather than a lifetime stipend of $28k.

As it stands, this entire piece feels like fingernails dragging down a chalkboard screeching “I’m
So virtuous and privileged but I announce my privilege so that gives me the right to express my opinions and tell you how to run capitalism better!!!”

There is something about the open-ended lifetime of life support that really turns me off. This is a weak person with low personal responsibility, childlike even. I personally would have declined this offer from my parents, I am not a child, I am an adult. It would insult me to be in this arrangement past the age of 20.

I received around $120K from my parents when I was 23. Through investing, I have turned it into $500K and never spent any of it on myself (vacations, food, rent etc). I paid for all my base needs, including my wedding，out of my salary.

From the time I received the money, I taught myself to be a software engineer and worked my way up from $55K to (now) $350K / year. It was very difficult to do that. I even tried to start several startups, which was a brutal amount of work and worked several jobs at once.

I decided I would not spend the money that was left to me, I felt that would represent a weakness in my personal character to do that. I don’t intend to ever spend it, in fact my plan is to triple it in coming years trading stock options into the coming recession.

Seeing this author go off on tangents about universal basic income and providing free money to struggling artists sets me off. This is someone who has no personal accountability to themselves or to society.

I love art, but it isn’t valued in the marketplace. I wanted money so I learned a valuable skill.

Don’t take free money from your parents as a grown adult and turn around and give us all a lecture on how to structure society!
Http/2 makes this less important. Perhaps still worth it for CSS, but higher effort things like image spriting might not be as attractive now.
Came to what conclusion, specifically? Did they come to that conclusion based on a process established beforehand? Is this process documented publicly?

Or maybe this was just a calculated risk assessment, thinking more about PR and avoiding internal drama than a search for truth?
A design patent and a utility patent are utterly different things; about the only thing they have in common is the trace of the Elizabethan term "Letters Patent".

Q'comm is asserting that Apple isn't paying for utility patents.
> You can rate limit login attempts, exponentially increasing rate limit (or just locking out) IPs that exceed allowed login attempts and analyze your logs to ban abusive IPs.

Rate limiting and bot blocking are two totally different things. Rate limiting only increases the cost of a bot attack. Either they need more IP's (which are dirt cheap in the black market) or they need more time--either way it is increased cost. But it won't stop a bot. Just slow it.

Banning IP's might have worked back in 2000, but these days it is useless. Bypassing an IP block is trivially easy for even a low-sophistication attacker.
Write fast, efficient low level code and don't put developer experience above users. The carbon cost of modern bloat is immense.
Yeah but a majority of us believe it should be taxed and not just cross our fingers that some jobs are created for a while.
Contract manufacturers here means Foxconn and Winstron alike.
If KitSplit wanted to pursue this, they could just sue for the unpaid rental at the daily rate. E.g: at $95/day after two months, KitSplit can sue the customer in civil court for $5700 in unpaid rental fees. Likely they're just overwhelmed with all kinds of crazy things going on and are short on cash to follow up.

I don't believe them when they say this is not illegal.

Here's the statue in NY: This is unambiguously a crime.
> https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/165.00

> NEW YORK CONSOLIDATED LAW SERVICE
PENAL LAW PART THREE. SPECIFIC OFFENSES
TITLE J. OFFENSES INVOLVING THEFT
ARTICLE 165. OTHER OFFENSES RELATING TO THEFT

> § 165.00. Misapplication of property

> 1. A person is guilty of misapplication of property when, knowingly possessing personal property of another pursuant to an agreement that the same will be returned to the owner at a future time ... (b) he intentionally refuses to return personal property valued in excess of one hundred dollars to the owner pursuant to the terms of the rental agreement provided ...

While the victim is in NY, dev is in LA. So if NYPD were to call LAPD, he can be charged there as well with Larceny:

> https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
> Part 1. Crimes and Punishments Title 13. Crimes Against Property Chapter 5. Larceny § 484.
> ... a person has leased or rented the personal property of another person pursuant to a written contract, and that property has a value greater than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and is not a commonly used household item, intent to commit theft by fraud shall be rebuttably presumed if the person fails to return the personal property to its owner within 10 days after the owner has made written demand by certified or registered mail following the expiration of the lease or rental agreement for return of the property so leased or rented ...

So all the victim has to do is send certified mail requesting the property to be returned. Otherwise the renter gets charged.
It isn't even the same thing and you damn well know it.
Opt-in typing indicators and read receipts would go a long way towards that goal, I think.
Ask HN: What questions do successful engineering leaders ask themselves?
I'm writing a book about useful frameworks for functional leaders. So, I'm looking for the set of questions that engineers often ask themselves. Some examples might include: "How do I decide between working on new features versus improving stability?" or "When is it better to develop a tool versus using something off the shelf?" Obviously the answers to these questions are all "it depends." If you also have a framework you use to come to an answer, please feel free to share that as well.
I’m so glad that this is for ElementaryOS. It’s a good sign that their package management system is gaining popularity. It’s the only Linux based OS that I’m comfortable installing on friends/family old PC’s that can’t or shouldn’t run Windows 10. Runs fast enough and decent UX. I haven’t had much complaints from the non techies I install it on. Normally I’ll make Firefox the default web browser and throw on Ublock Origin and Privacy badger as well as installing LibreOffice before I hand it back to them. Great simplistic concept for an OS that I can really support.
> My theory is that Apple rushed APFS and its implementation isn't in a great shape for the public review.

The rollout of APFS was _incredibly_ well done; I don't think there is even a remote comparison to how successful it was. A new file system was rolled out to millions of devices in an automated fashion with very few issues. I don't think anyone else has even considered such a thing. I highly doubt the code is that rough, I can't imagine pulling this off without fairly solid core code in place.
> Or Sublime Text, from launch, opening a 1MB text file, modify 10 chars at the beginning, save, and exit. Edit: NVM, it's written in C++

It doesn't use a "gap"? Or some other appropriate text-editing data structure?
It astounds me that Facebook still has as many users as it has but that there isn't also an exodus of employees from Facebook. You have to be really drunk on the koolaid to think that your company is doing anything good in the world. Twitter the same.

How is it with all our technology, the cutting edge are these digital septic tanks (or sewers if you live in the city)?
It's also your problem at $7, because extracting that isn't worth the time it takes.

For $7,000 you can use small claims and probably make it their problem. But the range where it's in your favor might be pretty small; they can afford a lot of lawyers.
> Signing in puts you at risk of getting sucked into pointless internet comment arguments though.

....says a person signed into HN engaged in pointless internet comment arguments....
I don't think it's intentional. I think it's due to aggressive hill-climbing optimization engine driving to the local minima of "increased engagement" of the hyper-engaged subset of populace - combined with the intensely myopic view of investors (as viewed from the incubated startup within a startup which it is).
Singapore is (I think) the only country in Asia that you can drink water from a tap. But even so, people here still boil water before drinking it.

So outside people will buy water even if a fountain was available.
Generally accepted and the US government continually passes legislation that doesn't agree. I'm not sure I agree with "generally accepted".
I guarantee, as someone who just bought a used 24-70, that anything you get for 600 is going to be in a pretty mediocre condition. You're looking more like 1300. Glass doesn't lose its value. Similar with the body, there's more to it than "used" vs "new", quite a bit more.
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