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Slightly off topic, but does anyone know why this is so low on HN? It has more votes and is more recent than anything except the "How I didn't make a billion dollar company" post, but is at rank 11.

https://imgur.com/a/bifDABu
And most ISPs were sitting doing nothing, until Google Fiber introduced gigabit to the masses. Major execs said on record that "no one needs Gigabit", only to deploy it not long after, because they got scared of GF.

Too bad GF sizzled out, but it had a good positive effect to disrupt slumbering monopolists.
A 3 day cancellation for contracts is absolutely not standard.
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I think the operative word in blackmail is threaten. Not so much what you happen to be threatening with.
> I think Bloomberg can stand to be down for 8 hours to simulate a disaster.

Do you know what Bloomberg does? It powers equities trading markets around the world, 24/7. It isn't just news.
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how long have you had this?
If you cite a few of the specific studies you're talking about, I'll be happy to explain why they're either 1) not actually concluding what you think they're concluding, or 2) simply incorrect. I can tell you very confidently that there is no academic consensus claiming alpha does not exist. It's rather the contrary, actually, and it's far more nuanced than your comment implies.

Outside of academic finance you can also find pretty obvious indications that alpna exists. Berkshire Hathaway has averaged about a 20% return between 1964 and 2018. Over the same timespan the S&P 500 averaged about a 7% annual return. Smaller funds have done even better than that.

When you actually do the math on some of these firms' performance, you see that the likelihood of their returns emerging by chance is too small to be explained by the number of hedge funds that has ever existed. There are funds which haven't lost money for 20 - 30 years, and whose returns are multiples of the market over the same time.
I have symmetric gigabit at home too. But that happened only thanks to namely Google Fiber making gigabit a norm in common perception.
The paparazzi own their photographs though. In copyright, the person who takes the photo owns it.

These photos were stolen.
Ha! I completely understand and agree with that viewpoint.

It's only mildly reassuring to me relative to how loose I know most providers are with leaking user data. And because, having interacted with it from the advertiser side, I can tell that they not only recognize the long term value in protecting user data, but that they also invest the resources to design their systems and processes with that fundamental premise in mind.

Conversely, I also recognize just how much they do know about me, and just how privileged of a position they're able to take due to their market-dictating scale. The thought of their growth ever stalling terrifies me, since it can give them cause to re-evaluate that fundamental premise if they ever need to shore up their numbers.
Yes - https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/themes

(I also recall the process being rather user-unfriendly in earlier versions)
Do you know which clause gives it extra-territoriality? I didn't see one in my pass over it.
And if you are going to do it. For fucks sake, do not put it in writing...
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So I'm curious - is this considered blackmail if the object isn't money?
Google's original business model was selling ads against search terms for users who aren't even logged in. They sell ads in a lot of other ways now, and do what they can to keep people logged in. But if they had to go back to it, they would still make lots of money, because a search query is still a really good signal of the user's intent to buy something.
Sterile robots don't have naked selfies floating around.
Maybe. It’s usually better to get ahead of bad news.
Based on the appearance of Helm, this is probably referring to Kubernetes, which really does have per-environment things that can't be represented in any form other than namespaces. For example, you have an app running (that's a deployment in k8speak). You want network traffic to get to this app, so you set up a load balancer. The load balancer config needs to know the name of your app (or more precisely, a selector for "pods" that are created by the deployment), which will change between environments, so now there is that common variable that has to be updated in both places. That's a simple example but is why people are templating their k8s configs. Yes, you could work around it by giving every environment its own namespace and using the same set of objects in every environment (differing only by namespace, which should probably be in the file... but since you can't edit the files, you can pass it in to kubectl probably), but there are other cases where even that doesn't work.

You do need some way of saying "this is the base configuration and this is what we change for staging and production". Helm is a way to do that, and a popular one, but it's pretty ugly. Hence this article.
This is an overoptimistic view. Yes, people are trying to create ways to zero things reliably, but all the machinery meant to improve performance is doing its level best to undermine that.

It has to be solved at all levels; each level gets a chance to sabotage it, and will.
Although, it did, I assume, trigger the divorce which will cost him a couple billion dollars
They also already have a London-DC A380 flight almost daily.
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Trade options. Save up $300K, and then doing 50% is not really hard to do. If you are trading options, you can do 100% per year, but just aiming for 50% is a good number, making sure you cut losers, and let winners run.

$180K is a high salary to aim for though. For example, what I recommend is $30K if you want to double your account, but you would go into 5 plans at once, for $1,000 per plan. So if they all fail, you still have 4-6 more attempts (some plans can go for $2000), to rebuild the account.

With a $300K account, going $20K per trade, is reasonable enough to do 50% per year. It's risky, but exciting, and doable.
I think the systemd case is ok.

But PBT_APMSUSPEND is not necessarily. There's a 2 second timeout before Windows suspends or hibernates regardless. It's possible for the event handling thread not to run until after the timeout has passed, that is, after the system has returned from suspend or hibernate.

That's important considering the adversary might induce this kind of scenario to steal the secret.

Kernel mode driver does not have that limitation, because it can't be pre-empted.
I'm travelling a lot, spending about half year every year separate from her. I usually go to hotels, use laundry service and have cleaning lady come multiple times per week.

I realized some time ago that I hate house work so much that it's just not worth for me to do it and leave it to other people who like it more than me. Also for me it takes about 3x the time to do the same house work as other people.

The great thing in specialization is that everybody does what he/she is good and efficient at and/or likes.
I worked on this problem a few gigs back at Polyvore! tl;dr: It's nearly impossible to solve.

As you may already know, "Standard Sizing" is a misnomer. There is no single standard for a size. US vs EU vs JP vs other are all the same number (size 4) but different nominal sizes.

Add to that the chaos of standard sizes between brands (brand A size 4 != brand B size 4 != brand C size 4) and even within the same brand (brand A product 1 size 4 != brand A product 2 size 4) and you find that there's no single answer to matching a human to a size.

Even your suggestion of measurements won't help without more data around it. Clothing shape and fabric type matter nearly as much as the measurements, since one may be a form-fitting 90cm and another may be a breezy and stretchy 90cm. Personal preference matters as well, so you may prefer breezy while I prefer form-fitting.
> What about air travel prevents you from entertaining yourself?

Discomfort and being surrounded by total strangers.
> For example, the maximum value for CPU utilization that you can have regardless of load is 100%.

I'm surprised it can't use load average to estimate the true resource demand.
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Agreed. Along those lines, it blows my mind that the "hello world" for GraphQL apps is a real-time chat app.

The "on ramps" aren't gone, the bar just moves forward.
this is why you spoof your MAC. not so you can blackhat, but so you can hide your PII from abuse.
I wrote a pared down version of YAML because while I like the basic structure I hated the complicated bullshit like the "we also parse JSON" layered on top:

https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml

Worse than JSON though, is the Norway problem.

If you remove this stuff and start validating it properly it becomes much easier to maintain.
we're working on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yepPOznakk

http://codesolvent.com/config-node/
> Is it possible for Rust to have any new or surprising mechanisms that cause loss of constant time execution?

I believe it's certainly possible. And the precise consequences of writing this code in Rust have yet to be fully explored. The `ring` (Rust port/fork of BoringSSL) library still links to constant-time primitives implemented in C.
All the money in the world can't buy your pride / dignity back, especially if some "embarrassing" evidence get out there.

It's something in the way people would look at you, talk about you, etc ...

If you combine that with the Streisand effect, there's no way a public figure can take this kind of hit and walk away unphased. It's very much human nature, and that's why Jeff's move is bold.
Facebook regularly takes down multiple data-centers at a time to stress test this. Its users rarely notice (which I think is the point).
The problem is that small businesses either don't have the money to pay for a quality static site or don't want to. If you want to get into this industry as a dev you're competing against sweatshops that shit out these garbage websites in 2 days for $200 apiece. They're not optimising for easy-to-use tooling or a quality end product, they're optimising for stuff they can copy/paste as quick as possible. Back in the day when I was learning HTML/CSS, that meant a bunch of shit jQuery plugins. Today I imagine it's React components or something.
Strong disagree. How is reality even remotely close to what your comment predicts? Only 40 years ago we thought one processor will be enough for all compute tasks, then we learned how to make software for bunch of CPUs, then we realized there are things that benefit from bunch of weaker cores and wrote software for that, then we realized you don't even need a single computer and you can parallelize your program to N computers with M processors.

Your argument fails because it assumes everything is automate-able. It's not. Programming is not automate-able, at least not now. If you wait your C compiler to generate code that will run in L computers with N to M threading model you're gonna wait too long. This is what we software engineers are paid for. And it does seem to work, as explained above.
HN penalizes post randomly sometimes. The last time I had one of my blogpost pretty high on the front page, it lasted an hour and then went directly to 5th-page. It gave me an impression that everything on the FP is heavily handpicked.
couldn't keep it under the zipper,eh Bezos ?
Well, now your dirty laundry is fair dinkum for all the slave driving you've been doing at your warehouses . . . Sanchez just wants a piece of your action Jeff, 1 or 2 bil is enough take home for a 2nd divorce . . .
I used avisynth a few years back to restore my family's old 8mm movies. It is amazing how effective it is.

Here is a side by side of the before/after on one scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNQy36hcTNU&t=3s

After finishing up, I wrote up my procedure. Skip down about 75% through the article to the section "Restoration Details" to read what the steps are. It is amazing that by correlating the information across multiple frames, the resulting image is significantly sharper than any one frame. I mean, it makes sense in the abstract, but it is neat to see it actually work.

http://thebattles.net/video/8mm_restoration.html

My avisynth script was 95% based on the work of "Video Fred":

http://www.super-8.be/s8_Eindex.htm

From there you can find his youtube channel and see more restoration efforts:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_k0IKckACujwT_fZHN6jlg/vid...

Given a budget and a team of talented and motivated people, I'm sure Jackson was able to wring a lot more juice out of his old films.
At minimum, this type of post would intensify a very expensive legal battle, which Bezos admits in this article he's looking forward to.

For anyone else, going bankrupt in an attempt to fight blackmail would be a pyrrhic victory in the best-case scenario.
A couple of comments:

First, this is about the UK, which is a more "class-based" society than the US. It probably also applies to the US, but perhaps a bit less.

Second, they note that an architecture firm didn't operate the same way, because results mattered, and customers could tell whether they were being snowed. Many of us here are in programming, which (at least much of the time) is a similar environment. We're fortunate to be able to escape this kind of stuff. However, we should be aware that it may be more prevalent in society as a whole than we see and experience.
Jeff Bezos, if you're reading this:

Do a Playgirl spread, for charity. Spreadeagle.

Defang them.

--------

Edit:

defang them (pun intended... get it? "fang") by doing Playgirl now, and publishing those sext images alongside.
And do it for some great charity.

Everybody will have a huge laugh over it, Jeff will be a hero, and National Enquirer will have nothing to publish.
I actually paid $100 for a trip to the emergency room with this strange pain under my left pectoral and got told they couldn't a damn thing, probably just muscle pain. I think its related to how much I'm seated throughout the day.
"Some cars are now coming straight from the factory with 'do not track' stickers already applied. As such, we cannot know for certain whether an individual driver actually wants to be tracked. What does Do Not Track really mean anyway? We have therefore chosen to attach tracking devices to all vehicles that visit our premises."

"Some letterboxes have 'no junk mail' signs attached, but it's often unclear whether these were even placed by the current occupant. The current resident may be completely unaware that they're missing out on our great deals. Therefore we have chosen to deliver to all addresses regardless of signage."

What an incredible way of thinking. You could rationalize anything this way.
Probably got flagged by some users.
You can, but it’s not visible to the hypervisor (it’s an OS concept) so you have to publish that metric from an agent on the machine. Then you can use it for autoscaling.
He actually seems to understand the relationship of publisher to newspaper in a way that fairly traditional. He ( in the form of Amozon ) has made it very easy to subscribe to the Post and helped raise it's paywall. But has assiduously left the editorial side of the house to the people he has hired to run it.
Mind reading is not the goal of this conversation.

The response you said might happen - "OK well, what do you want?" - would indeed be a desired response. The reason is that the response leads to a conversation, where they can both talk about possible solutions. And the solution doesn't have to be "don't go DJ tonight," although that could be one.

Imagine if the conversation instead was this:

Girlfriend: "I don't want you to DJ at the club tonight."

DJ thinks: "What? She knows this is really important to me, but she just wants me to stop going. What the heck. She doesn't want to support me in this now, after I've done it for so long?"

DJ says: "This is really I important to me. Stop trying to control me, I don't try to control you!"

Girlfriend: "I'm not trying to control you, I just want you to stay home tonight!"

DJ: "Sounds like control to me!" huffs out of the room

Giving the DJ some amount of context can help avoid anyone feeling accused, and can help someone misinterpret why someone wants something.
This is especially true because it isn't a matter of hypocrisy: Bezos isn't a political figure or religious authority claiming high moral standards.
I think there is value in a back-testing module, however, sharing an algo doesn't make sense to me, until unless someone wants to buy mine for an absurd amount.
We must disagree with what "readable" means then. I find JSON readable (as long as it's nicely layed out, e.g. by piping through 'jq "."'), in the sense that I can skim over the structure looking for [/]/{/}/". If I want to read some of the content, like a string, I just need to read '\"' as '"' and '\\' as '\', which is a small constant cost per (usually rare) occurrence.

With YAML it's difficult to even know the structure of what I'm looking at, due to anchors and extensions. It's also hard to discern structure from skimming, since strings can appear unquoted, and may contain unescaped lexical tokens (depending on which particular symbols it started with); hence we must carefully consider each and every character, rather than just skimming for the next token.

If I know I'm looking at a perfect YAML file, than I should be able to guess the gist of what it says, since I can make assumptions about what the syntax means. If I want to be sure, I'd be Googling for cheatsheets. Yet as a programmer, I mostly look at files when they're buggy, meaning I can't just assume that, say, an unescaped quotation mark won't terminate the string; or that a certain piece of text is allowed to run across multiple lines; or that the indentation corresponds to the nesting; etc.
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not exactly tabloid blackmail, but 'revenge porn' was and is still prevalent on the internet, and I don't doubt that a lot of small scale blackmail happens as well, and if I would guess I think many of the affected people have very little recourse.
I don't mind YAML. I dislike that something things become strings and sometimes they become other types:

foo: bar # {"foo":"bar"}
foo: "bar" # {"foo":"bar"}
foo: 42 # {"foo":42}
foo: "42" # {"foo":"42"}

Other than that, no major complaints. My editor understands YAML and shows the indentation level in the background (highlight-indentation-mode) and auto-formats files so they all have consistent indentation (prettier-mode). As a result, it is not much of a nightmare to edit, despite the fact that semantic whitespace COULD cause you a lot of problems.
Do they also have backups of account balances across all insured accounts then?
To modify a quote from The Dark Knight:

"Let me get this straight, you think one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, who owns the Washington Post and pays out of his own pocket to send rockets to space, won't stand up for himself so your plan is to blackmail this person?

Good Luck
Given severe lack of competition among ISPs in US, I don't buy the bogus argument that current prices are fair. Simple market logic suggests, that they overcharge, because they can. Therefore they do have more than enough money for their upgrades.

And on top of that, most simply prefer to pocket them instead of investing into the network, with "no one needs it" excuse. Something they would never have done with healthy competition.
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Earwolf up next?
I agree.

One thought did occur to me is that he is basically daring AMI to release the pictures. What if he knows the providence of these pictures, knows how they got into AMI hands, and knows that if AMI publish them he can sue them, Gawker (not Buzzfeed) style, into the ground?
I've been flying Raleigh to London nonstop every 2 or 3 years since 1995. I don't know if there is a direct to Paris flight.
> And we'd get to choose between 7 hours in a tiny metal tube with the seat-back of the person in front resting on your knees, or 24 hours on a slow blimp with a bed, the ability to walk around, and social areas. Kind of like a cruise ship in the sky.

The big differentiator is what you want to pay for. Even on a 787, 777, A350 if you choose first or business class, you can really be comfortable. On the other hand, I would bet that even with large blimps, the blimp companies would try to cram as many people as possible into it and would quickly approach the cramped experience you currently have in airplanes.
Kubrick has a better example in Paths of Glory. It's still not very gruesome, but in the single combat scene of the whole movie, the soldiers don't get to fire a single shot, they just advance and die.
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If you educate the poor and disadvantaged, they will demand equality.

If the disadvantaged were to be competitive, then it's harder for those at the top to hold onto what they have.

This is undesirable for those whose position in society requires hierarchy. Capitalists hate competition.
I’d love someone who knows the details to explain how that claim process would work, because while the FDIC would insure in the event a bank goes under, in that scenario there’s usually records.

What would happen if there were no records? Surely there’d be lots of people making significant deposits in between snapshots. If you’re “paperless” I’m not even sure how you’d reconstruct your balance.

Would certainly be time consuming, and in this case time would certainly be money.
> 20 years after they were both conceived of, it's looking like the hub-and-spoke model is the future.

That seems like a typo. Did you mean the point-to-point is the future?
It doesn't matter if it's worse. Going through a public divorce doesn't make one stop caring about an invasion of sexual privacy. It doesn't work like that.
I can't recall who it was, but there was a big outage due to a data center running a monthly generator test and having a major customer go dark. The data center had 7 generators for 4 server rooms: 1 per room, a backup for each pair of rooms, and a backup for the backups. The primary and then both backups failed, so out went the lights.

You're pretty much damned if you do and damned if you don't. If you touch things that are working you could break them. If you don't touch things you never know what'll happen and you get fewer opportunities to learn. Move your servers around geographically and you might improve the odds that anything is working by reducing the odds that everything is working.

I don't think we're quite to a place yet where having servers down can be characterized as a non-event. Even if the customer can't see a behavioral difference, business units still tend to get quite anxious, and sometimes their theatrics put the whole process in jeopardy (not unlike trying to rescue a drowning man). It just hasn't been normalized yet.
Generally, yes, but you might catch a charge for something else. If they're not asking for money, what they're asking for has to be illegal.

Blackmail for Theft: Conspiracy to commit Theft.

Blackmail for Fraud: Conspiracy to commit Fraud.
maybe he considered his audience, and it's not the genpop, but tech people who read such things?
The python library Backtrader is popular and has good intro docs.

https://www.backtrader.com/docu/quickstart/quickstart.html
Pretty much. Here's to hoping for a long and profitable future for Google on it's current path. Because the alternative is too terrifying to contemplate.
It worked swimmingly for Gawker.
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