skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may not be a popular opinion but why doesn't the government fingerprint every citizen by default? After that there wouldn't be any need to do all these "checks" by every company. Just punch in your employee's SSN and you're done.
Well, that's wrong.

"Schedule III drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with a moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence. Schedule III drugs abuse potential is less than Schedule I and Schedule II drugs but more than Schedule IV. Some examples of Schedule III drugs are:

Products containing less than 90 milligrams of codeine per dosage unit (Tylenol with codeine), ketamine, anabolic steroids, testosterone"

http://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.shtml

https://www.erowid.org/ask/ask.php?ID=2972
Software should absolutely try to account for these kinds of errors and routinely does. When was the last time you saw a word processor or spreadsheet bork a machine so hard it needed to be restarted just because an AV scan kicked in? ReadFile and ReadFileEx both hand you a specific error if some part of the file you are trying to read is locked by another process because it's hardly rare. 'Halt and catch fire' is not generally considered a proportionate response. I've no idea where you're getting this 'unplugged the disk' thing from, AV software does not work this way.
What's known as "caller ID" is just an add-on that phone companies glued onto the system to have a feature to sell to the public. Another such feature is ANI[1] which was originally meant for billing purposes but is a feature sold with toll-free (800) numbers. It is much harder to spoof, but even ANI is not guaranteed to be present.

I would really love to hear a telecom engineer explain why the true origin info isn't accessible to the called person. A telephone call is a two-way connection -- the path in both directions must be known otherwise you won't have a two-way conversation.

A telephone call is not email or an old-fashioned letter. Both of those are one-way communications, so if the intermediaries don't carefully track the email or letter as it progresses through the pipeline, you have spoofed email or untraceable letters.

But at the lowest level of the telephony protocol, the true and correct path to the originating caller has to exist. Otherwise your voice won't travel to the other person. I'm curious to know why that really deep reverse route has never been made available to public (as an API or a purchasable feature or in any other form).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_identificatio...
The same thing 99% of the human race does and always has done, and the 1% who are wasting their lives trying to become astronauts or movie stars should also do: accept that the job you ideally want is not available, and learn to enjoy a job you can get.
A basic implementation here: http://webpass.rkeene.org/

A couple of difficulties your writeup doesn't cover:

* password expiry/rotation - webpass uses the "sequence number" for this, and sequence numbers can be saved in localStorage or shared online through another channel

* policies. The "Site" dropdown references a json structure which can specify min/max lengths, character type rules etc

The implementation is pretty simple, but that's kinda the point :).
Definitely. Each component should do its best to keep on keeping on. The display program should keep displaying something, even it's just the most recent data with a big "connection lost" warning. The device should ring-buffer the data and upon reconnection the screen should show as much as possible. The OS should have a strong opinion that the surgery app is very important, and that should the app fail, it should be restarted instantly.

Moreover, this is the kind of thing that should come up in robustness testing. Things should get bumped and wiggled. They should get unplugged and turned off. If the software is really going to run on random Windows boxes, then it should be tested on random Windows boxes. (At which point somebody will hopefully say, "Wow, this sucks, let's make it an appliance.")

No matter what happens, it shouldn't result in a "mysterious crash right in the middle of a heart procedure when the screen went black and doctors had to reboot their computer".
Focus towards recovery rather than preemptive prevention; once medical immortality and mind-backups become available and routine, anyone who dies from "terrorism" and other violence or accident could just be resurrected.

Data, financial and whatnot, can already be restored. Architecture can already be rebuilt. Once nobody is able to inflict any lasting damage on society, everyone can just chill and maybe no one would want to try any terrorism, knowing how futile it would be.
Use "D language" and it googles no problem.
I'd also like to know the answer to this, it seems rather unlikely to me that secretaries of state are running their own email servers, or using something like gmail for confidential emails.
> There is a project called Parrot VM that was an attempt to do just this, provide a generic IR format for executing dynamic languages, but it never took off, probably because it was originally tied to the tragic development of Perl 6, and thus didn’t gain traction outside of that community.

The parrot story was a bit different. The tragic element was new parrot maintainership who destroyed it, and not perl6. perl6 was always fine and never tragic. And perl6 always kept the lead on board, in contrast to perl5 and parrot, where they left.

To the point: A lot of people are writing language runtimes.
And some of them even target multiple languages. But no one really cares about pluggable bytecode, as parrot did. rpython the only comparable one, standing against the jvm, clr and llvm. Most people care about an efficient compiler and run-time for their language. And that's what is being done. Even more so in the last decade.
Esp. with llvm getting more and more usable for those.

Nowadays lua influences a lot of the smaller runtimes, btw. the spot which used to be Scheme/your tiny lisp in the previous decades.
Sorry about some of the formatting, especially on mobile devices. Blogger is a bit... special... When it comes to line breaks and spacing :-(
Maybe they are including things like health care, 401k, etc? With that it wouldn't be hard to cross $25k.
strawman
Leave aside the wrongdoing too - I am deathly scared of her terrible opsec.
A Ph.D. in a field where the only thing you can do with it is teaching it to other people is no more than a pyramid scheme.
Wow, that's pretty good! I'm an Australian citizen starting a PhD in the US this year, so I'll keep an eye on any postdoc openings Down Under when I'm nearing completion. But I'm kind of worried that there won't be many opportunities for the field I'm in (circuit design).
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I found the $25K per employee per year estimate difficult as well. However, having been at Google while things were being 'scaled back' I did get a chance to see how some money was not being well spent.

I am constrained from giving exact details however snacks (at least at the time) ended up going through a number of distribution "hands" each adding a bit of mark up which was doubling or tripling the cost to the company. At the scale of their consumption direct connections to manufacturers would have cut a ton of expense out of the snacks.

Still, if we assume that the number does not include the wages for 11 paid days off and 2 weeks of vacation, (nominally "perks") 25,000 / 50 weeks is an even 500 a week or $100 a day in consumables. Paying for additional staff for massages etc adds up quickly but its tough to hit those numbers.
Pushing dinner later is just a signal for people that the company doesn't want them to have social lifes. Most cuttings from this list can be OK, but I think dinner time isn't strictly about cost cutting and I am not sure that's a good way to increase productivity either.
Yeah every time I get into my car from 1972 I think, " I'd o hit something this steering rack is going into my face"
No, all signatures were gathered in person.
first thing I noticed: missing E! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(programming_language)
Tangentially related but the comments are the best part IMO:

> Anton Korn 2 days ago

> I believe that there should be some sort of a software based limit on the maximum acceleration for new or unexperienced drivers.

> No 18 year old should be given the option to drive a supercar. it is just too dangerous.

>> Kerry Manning > Anton Korn 2 days ago

>> I believe that the software has been around for quite a while. It is an advanced neural network commonly referred to as "a parent". :)

>>> Going Knightly > Kerry Manning a day ago

>>> Said software, unfortunately, only controls the vehicle as long as the drivers are within observational range. Once the vehicle leaves said range, the software is defunct and is running on the backup operating system "Wishful Thinking 2.0".

>>>> Kerry Manning > Going Knightly a day ago

>>>> Actually parenting is more about teaching your kids to do the responsible thing when nobody is watching. Without that it's not "parenting" it's "babysitting"
True, but that's a strange definition for perk then.
The European tests include other things unrelated to a car's front crash results, and even include things unrelated to the car itself, such as potential damage to pedestrians.
Part of it is acknowledging that the Top Gear show was truly awful though. It was unfair for sure, and I can see why someone who was only familiar with the blatant anti-Tesla Top Gear episode would be distrustful of these sorts of arguments.

Yes, there was an anti-Tesla conspiracy going on a few years ago. But I don't think we're at that phase anymore. Certainly not with these Consumer Reports surveys or Edmund's tests, which seem to check out as legitimate.
off topic: Can everyone stop spelling "Tor" with all caps? https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#WhyCalledTor
So... I also used PCI based NI (Digital/Analog I/O) cards in the past (around the year ~2000), which then were supported by "comedi" (open source linux data acquisition drivers).

On the other hand, I recently got a few USB based I/O boxes from NI where no documentation on the USB protocol (or, god forbid, even open source drivers) exist.
Erlang's raison d'etre is not message passing but fault tolerance. From Joe Armstrong[1]:

> The work described in this thesis is the result of a research program started in 1981 to find better ways of programming Telecom applications. These applications are large programs which despite careful testing will probably contain many errors when the program is put into
service. We assume that such programs do contain errors, and investigate methods for building reliable systems despite such errors. The research has resulted in the development of a new programming language (called Erlang), together with a design methodology, and set of libraries for building robust systems (called OTP).

[1]: http://ftp.nsysu.edu.tw/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/erlang/armst...
I'm also enrolled in Baruch to take a few language classes at night - interesting to find a HN commenter as well since it's CS dept seems more IT focused.
It does say 1 letter languages not 1 character languages. But then if they were included, there'd be a comment on how C# is two letters, a discussion whether # should be counted as a letter or not, which really is one of these "look, we're arguing axioms now" discussions.
Thunderbolt was supposed to go optical. You can read about it here, under "Copper vs. optical":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)
I would replace the head of their IT and any senior IT staff

It's a very good bet the senior IT team were following orders from somewhere else in the chain here.
Lenovo fixes serious flaw in pre-installed Lenovo Solution Center
>computational citizen science,

This is actually a good approach. As a former bio PhD now in software, I am working on some side projects in the area.
Used to think this was good, but not sure if this is a good thing in the long run:

Sooner or later they need to work together anyway.

I'd rather suggest being honest about the fact that statistically speaking boys and girls are different and both have to respect each other.
I don't think the contents in the link back up the claim in the title, it seems to say that if you've been suspected of a crime and you run Tor then the fact that you've used Tor increases the scope of the warrant in limited ways. The warrant is served because of the crime you've been suspected of, not because of the use of Tor.

That's it. It's not saying that just using Tor is enough to be served a warrant. There's really nothing that crazy about any of it.
If it makes you feel better, someone actually did run a potato powered server for a while in response.
This isn't animation, it's painting. And animation is composited in layers so it wouldn't need any of this (poorly done!) scene segmentation. You really think Hollywood hasn't done these sorts of obvious shader experiments and tossed them out because... well, they look like schlock and middle America doesn't get the art history reference anyway?

If you want to make something look like an oil painting dig out SIGGRAPH papers from 20 years ago. If you want to cop the style of a reference painting (fad!) then code it up properly inside Blender and render something. Even if artists decide to use this approach, this isn't the way the technology will be deployed in animation.
The blog says that HNK (the purported antidepressant) is a known metabolite of ketamine, but then claims:

> However, getting regulatory approval for such a study, which would technically (as far as I know) be a first-in-man trial of HNK, might take a long time.

I don't understand this. We already know that when we give ketamine to patients they are exposed to HNK. Is there a real risk that it is more dangerous in isolation?

Even if caution is required in the first patients, why do we accept as normal that developing treatments like this should involve years of waiting for bureaucratic approval?
One of Mao’s ‘little generals’ exposes horror of the Cultural Revolution
Each result is shown separately, how about looking at the crash results score and read the detailed information. Your comment makes no sense. Anyway, it's better to watch real world videos too, how those cars perform in real crashes - as several car manufacturers designed their cars especially for common crash tests which mean little in real world crashes, if you don't hit the other object in the same angle.
Complexity. The fact that we know the basic laws doesn't mean we know how complex systems behave. For example, we can't predict the weather more than a few days, or the place a toddler will be at in 1 minute from now, even with all our physical knowledge.
The uber review system is a good protection against a driver who is rude or unprofessional to most of their customer. It does not do anything against a repeat sex offender who will randomly assault a customer every few months. Fingerprinting would. Two different systems for two different purposes.
You'll need data to back that up.

So long as opiates are used for acute pain, not long term chronic pain, the chances of addiction are pretty low.

It does happen, with about 30K people addicted in the UK total.

The reason why its much harder is that unless you have lots of money you'll have to persuade your GP that there is a medical reason for continuing. This is much harder in the UK where patients are patients, not customers that must be pleased.
According to the State Department, Colin Powell as well as high level aides to Condeleeza Rice handle classified info on their personal email addresses. Clinton is the only one who set up her own private server though.
Open bar + unlimited guests was mentioned. I also believe I recall a stat that providing food service in SV is about $20 per person per day.
> For example, we can observe supernovae. We don't have satisfactory model of core-collapse supernovae yet.

Toddlers. We don't have a model of toddler collapse either. See her now, in 10 seconds - poof! How can we predict that with our current physics knowledge?
Well, the project is not open source :(
I agree. People's fear over Uber drivers makes absolutely no sense. It's rooted in prejudiced fears of taxis which did make sense in the older context of taxis (no GPS, no log of who you're picking up, etc.).

If you are a nefarious individual, the last thing you want to do is drive an Uber. If you try to commit criminal activity, there is a complete log of who you picked up and everywhere you went.

Of course, there will still occasionally be incidents. But there are incidents with taxi drivers. There are incidents with people who have to undergo even more intensive background checks. Past behavior is no guarantee of future legality.
However, one of the nasty side effects of long term K use is having a tiny bladder.
The Black Book seems like a fun read. I'm having a problem finding a copy in english (spanish, french, and chinese so far) but it's definitely now on my finding/reading list!
How I learned to stop worrying and love the JSX
So it sounds like you're saying that the issue is availability, pricing, and legality. We're in agreement.
Presumably they lived far far away.
> I'd love Microsoft to be a bit more open about what their C runtime actually does before a program linked to it loads. Of course, perhaps they are, and I've missed it.

The source code to the CRT ships with Visual Studio.

> Basically, the entrypoint for Win32 isn't actually WinMain, but WinMainCRTStartup.

The entry point is whatever appears in the PE header and you can name it whatever you want. It just so happens that the default linker settings point it at CRT, which calls into you. You can change this with linker settings.
>Actually, the chart shows a pretty damning story for selection bias: despite all the selectivity of schools, there's no sign of improvement in returns for more selective engineering schools.

But since we're talking about ROI and not salary, you very much want to get into the most expensive, most selective engineering schools. If I invest money in bonds these days I'm going to get less than a 5% return - if I can get a 12% return I want to invest as much as I can borrow.
Earlier you wrote:

> it was discovered that they had never been Canadian citizens in the first place. Their parents lied to them and told them that they were Canadians

You misunderstood a key fact from the article: They were born in Canada.

"You are probably a Canadian citizen if you were born in Canada", according to:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizenship/rules/index.asp

where "probably" means there are very obscure exceptions that only a bureaucrat can dream up.
Only people that read headlines and don't read the article have to pay.
> It does not do anything against a repeat sex offender who will randomly assault a customer every few months.

This would never happen. The first time they assault a passenger, they'd immediately get kicked off the platform and likely referred to police.

You can commit a crime as an Uber driver, but there's no way you're getting away with it. There's a precise log of who you drove and where.
Heroin isn't that cheap, and the availability is sporadic, if you take quality control into account. Factored into this is the legality aspect, meaning a patient might not be able to buy when the need arises. It should be as easy to get as alcohol or Tylenol.

Look at the prices of morphine on goodrx: I don't think unlicensed manufacturers and retailers approach the low cost legit ones do.
Did you read the article?

It mentioned unlimited guests to meals, with an open bar. As well as something like a gym washing service. It's clear in the article that there were more than meals, with these given as specific examples of cuts.
Does anyone remember what that was like when the .NET framework first came out? It's literally just a TLD..
> Does it have telemetry data they can use post accident to figure out speeds and things?

I would be surprised if not.

The problem is that unlike years ago, the cops can now use the data of your own car to screw you over for speeding, improper turns, running red lights... and insurances already offer heavy discounts to those who let themselves be data mined for every meter they drive.

Hello 1984.
We need an accurate, neutral title for this. Suggestions?

Edit: or if it's a dupe, as some comments suggest, please reply with a link to the earlier thread.
https://youtu.be/vuet3t9geXo?t=11m59s

Start with this.

The size of the asteroid they thought would be the size of Staten Island, NY. The impact would generate a huge shock wave and high temapture, fire everywhere, so killing animals nearby (say 100 miles) within minutes.

Tsunami came next and wiped out everything nearby hundreds of miles+. The smoke and dust covering the air (think of volcano) so sunlight cannot enter Earth so there was a long cold winter, killing even more animals.
I've spent so much time picking a font for my sumlimetext. The one I use and love is Pragmata Pro: http://www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/
Why buildings collapse
Everyone says this. Problem is, no one ever talks about how much money they make. So when Dropbox bumps up your salary, you feel slightly happier in isolation, but it doesn't improve the company's visibility in any significant way.

Contrast this with perks. When Google starting giving all their employees free food, it only cost them $100/week/employee, but everyone talked about it, and how awesome Google's perks are. The amount of positive PR and word-of-mouth that they got out of it, far dwarfed any efficiency improvements they might have gotten by simply giving their employees a slightly higher salary.
Getting mailers does not at all mean you have lobbying power, and even spending large sums of money on a campaign doesn't mean you have lobbying power. Often times power comes from who you know. Uber and Lyft are not local like cab companies, so they have no local precedent or representation in local governments. People have this Aaron Sorkin view of government lobbying where dropping dollars from helicopters can get you anything, that is patently false, even in DC.

Look up "regulatory capture," a Nobel was won because of it. It's exactly what's happening here.
I think it might be due to Endo's release of a similar drug, which was then withdrawn a couple of years later after a settlement with Purdue.
They have violent cartoons in Japan too, and look at the level of violence they have!
I came here to say this exact thing.

I've worked in VOIP quite a bit, and even built a product based on the fact you can fake caller id over SIP i.e. "keep your number but lower your outgoing call rates"
or in CA it is - 25% White American, 25% Indian, 25% Chinese, 25% European
What are the chances of one of them being called "Jebediah".
Looks like [1] the only letters not yet taken are: H, I, N, O, U, V, W, Y, and Z? Changes depending on whether you're allowing characters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages
It is very impressive to younger college graduates. When you go from eating cheapest pizza and pinching pennies, something as simple as free dinner sounds like a lavish perk. Throw in free shuttles, massages, etc, you'd find they'd be really happy and tell their friends too.

It is probably worth it to the company in terms of keeping people there, having them enjoy their day etc more than just paying that to each employee as part of the salary and have them buy their own dinners.