skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find it amazingly short sited that antivirus software is even allowed on a medical device to begin with.

Well... Then you should consider yourself blessed to have never had to deal with the bureaucracy of a hospital IT department and administrative staff.

Who owns the medical device? Who paid for it? If it's a glorified Windows machine and it's attaching itself to a hospitals WiFi network... Who has to use this machine? Physicians, surgeons, anesthesiologists, radiologists, other specialists, nurses, staff? All of them need to be trained on it's usage, no doubt. They don't get that training in schooling. Who provides it? This and a million other things stack up. So, well, I mean it can start to make sense how these things end up with random AV software installed on them, right?

> How is it you "go hoarse having the same conversations?" Do you not have to meet FDA compliance criteria? Are you in the US?

Yes, we are. Yes, we do "have to meet FDA compliance." I can't define "have to meet" and I work here. Of course, I'm just an engineer. We have legal, executive, and other staff for those matters. I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be an asshole... I'm just trying to be honest about where I find myself in this situation.
Very strange to see this here. I was personally blown away. Did you watch the right video?

And even if you dismiss the quality, there's still a huge opportunity to use this to inspire "real" art. It's bigger than a fad.
> We're all adults - we don't need to be coddled. If someone is clearly in the wrong, they should have that explained to them. After that, if they continue to assert that their wrong opinion should factor into policy somehow, they should be ignored.

This would require people to acknowledge objective reality (for starters), and from where I sit the likelihood of that ever happening is getting slimmer every day.
Yeah I remember that post. One thing I didn't ask that I meant to. Does anyone know what kind of implications this would have if a warrant is granted for a machine that turns out to reside outside of the USA?

Extreme over the top example scenaria: An employee of a foreign government installs Tor on their work machine, does some things meriting an FBI warrant under this decision. The FBI finds a way to access this machine, and in the process accidentally discovers classified information belonging to the foreign government and that government finds the data breach came from the FBI.

I may be mistaking, but the decision sounds like an awful lot of trouble preparing to happen with regards to foreign relations.
Twilio likes makes revenue on inbound, or enough breakage on the $1 to not have it be an issue. This is a perfectly legit usage of the number.
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The Tesla belonged to her father.
You sure have the answers, pal.
> Why? Like, I read the whole article twice, and I'm still confused. It's being presented as "Uber is literally unable to operate with this rule in place", but why? Do they need to fund the background checks? Are they too expensive? Would their drivers refuse to undergo them? Would their drivers fail them? Do taxi companies face the same rules? How is it they can maintain service?

Because proposition 1 contained other parts. Not just the background check stuff: http://kut.org/post/explaining-exactly-what-yes-and-no-vote-...
Have you ever had to get a background check? I have. The FBI background check requires ink fingerprints which you get at a police station. Takes 15 minutes and I think $10. Georgia State background check accepts an electronic livescan which i had done at a UPS store. This is easier than getting your car emission tested.
More interesting would be a crash against a tree or a concrete pillar - then one could argue if the crumble zone of a Tesla S is better compared to a traditional superior class Volvo or Mercedes with a front motor. Ignoring the videos of certificated crash test, the Tesla S doesn't look that special: https://www.youtube.com/results?q=tesla%20crash and even in certificated tests it isn't in the top range: http://www.euroncap.com
In case you didn't notice, it's not about fingerprints. It's about the principle. It's a fight between business and government. Government wants money and control, businesses show they can't be blackmailed like that and pull out. There is literally nothing Uber or Lyft did wrong. They have all the right in the world to take their business elsewhere.

If I believed in democracy, I'd say people should be voting better next time, but I don't.
Different languages have different ways to describe color
I was looking at the C Runtime Library the other day and found the following series of article on how to remove msvcrt.lib:

https://hero.handmade.network/forums/code-discussion/t/94

Basically, the entrypoint for Win32 isn't actually WinMain, but WinMainCRTStartup. To replace it you need to reimplement a few things, including an implementation of memcpy() and memset(), some allocation routines for 32 bit code under 64 bit systems and some floating point routines.

Curious to know what the new universal runtime loads up. 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.

Edit: looks like someone was pissed about this lack of documentation in the beta Vususl Studio beta:

http://levicki.net/articles/2015/12/03/RANT_Microsoft_Visual...
From the linked report :

Based upon the available information, the cause for the reported event was due to the customer not following instructions concerning the installation of anti-virus software; therefore, there is no indication that the reported event was related to product malfunction or defect

I beg to differ. I'd consider a momentary loss of file I/O due to lock contention causing a machine to require a reboot a shocking defect in - say - a word processor (which, notably, do not have this problem). That this risk is apparently known and the vendor's sole mitigation is to document a 'Don't do that then' is absolutely 100% an indication of a product defect, even in the absence of an actual occurrence.
I get it, governments that forcibly redistribute are infringing on freedoms. I agree. Luckily, we now have the technology to compel redistribution without force. Blockchains allow the people to define value, and if most of the world is completely fine with redistribution, they will define value in a way that excludes people who don't redistribute from their economy. You'll be free to transact in the rump economy of dissenters.

Welfare states don't require states anymore.
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People who drive for Lyft/Uber need a newer car with insurance and registration. The cost and regulatory burden of getting a background check is not significant in comparison to a car payment.
"A critical medical equipment crashed during a heart procedure due to a timely scan triggered by the antivirus software installed on the PC to which the said device was sending data for logging and monitoring."

That should be untimely. The opposite of timely.
The article mentions the applicable exception:

> Everyone who is born in Canada is eligible for Canadian citizenship, with one exception: those who are born to employees of foreign governments.
One company I worked for was very big on breakfast meetings. You would grab a muffin and a coffee, then go listen to some VP waffle about something.

One day, the muffins were all sliced in half, and a sign up to only take one half each.

Not long after that the company laid off 6000, including me.

Pay attention to these early warning signs, is my advice.
You seem to be arguing as though the current situation is preferable and consumers just need to be convinced of that.

My whole stance is that it's unknown if it's preferable because people don't know what the long term costs are - as no one has told them about it.

Clearly they are gaining value from utilizing these systems or they wouldn't be using them. What isn't understood is if they would still use them if they understood the potential long range privacy implications.

Firstly, the user is not in control of the contract. They have no realistic means of modification or exerting pressure, nor resisting or requiring changes. Take it or leave it is not control.

In the case of private services, it most certainly is control. Irrespective of that however, these systems aren't basic services or things that people have a right to, so your control argument is in the wrong context. Facebook et al. are frivolities - not needs.
Winter is coming..
Though, transporting across the ocean is virtually free, it's the changes of transport mode that cost.
TvOS at six months – where are the apps?
As an Austin resident I think the real lesson to learn is how poor of a job Uber did of gaining supporters. I went from being a vocal supporter to an almost hostile opponent based on their behavior.

They spent a reported $8 million in very confusing ads. They sent text messages and push notifications to customers. All of this felt very disingenuous and deceptive. I will be sad to see them go but they are their own worst enemy right now.
As others have pointed, the UPS Stores provide fingerprinting services in many places.
"De Rham cohomology", "simplicial homology" and "Poincare duality?" might all be simple concepts -- but the jargon will need to be unpacked for most readers of HN.
The Spy Handler book ( http://www.amazon.com/Spy-Handler-Officer-Recruited-Hanssen/... ) written by the KGB officer, who handled both Ames and Hanssen, explains a bit how the whole thing looked like from inside the KGB.

The KGB along with the party and the Soviet Army were kind of the ironic counter part to the balance-of-powers system the US has. Each one had its strengths and weaknesses and they could keep an eye on each other. KGB was special because it had the information, the best educated people, it knew were resources were, how to get to them etc. When people talk about a conspiracy cabal that would control and pull strings behind the scenes, it was that cabal.

Because of the KGB was best positioned to take advantage of the power vacuum and many had turned to grab as many resources as possible after the fall of the Soviet Union. The most patriotic communists had turned super-capitalist practically overnight.

But at the same time, however, by late 80s and 90s few really believed in the "cause" so to speak. They probably all just wanted cushy jobs, fancy apartments and big pensions when they retired. And of course there were a lot of defections.

Even this group of spies from the story, remembering how many were making fun of their stupid and outdated methods, or praising the FBI for uncovering them, was ultimately betrayed by a defector. So was Hanssen.

Wondering if perhaps now SVR is in a better position today, as at least there is no need to pretend do believe in any great communist cause and then be disillusioned later, and defect. Perhaps now it is just business -- "You get a good job and if you betray us we'll find you and sprinkle some Polonium-210 in your tea".
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Well this is it folks, to be honest I don't really blame em'
lets assume food (lunch, snacks, coffee, soda, water, carbonated water) runs $25/day. That's high, based on a previous employer, but let's run with it.

$25 * 5 * 50 = $6,250

What the hell are they spending $25k/year/employee on? I share your skepticism.

Edit: I can't fully tell this story, because I remain anonymous on HN after a prick / top 10 poster here threatened my employer over my opinions on software development. But the partial story is still funny.

A former employer had a cool toy in the office. It was something people noticed. There was a techcrunch story with wankers going on about wasted money, extravagant bullshit, the usual. The speculation on cost ranged from $25k to $100k.

I had to register to point out that actual cost was well under $1k. How do I know? Friends/coworkers and I built it over the course of a couple evenings with tools borrowed from an employee's father. Parts ran well under $1k on amazon, even including the couple of six packs of beers we drank during construction.
To add to the list Flynn does all of this without the added complexity of Kubernetes.

Disclaimer: I work on Flynn
The military can run well on petrol.
Luckily, 'programmer with thorough knowledge of X' is almost always a desirable skill set, for any given field X. But seriously, I never knock a job that someone is happy about.
"...flunitrazepam, ketamine, or any other Schedule I or Schedule II CDS is a Class 6 felony."

http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/criminal-defe...
I'd certainly take 480 a week over 480 a week in perks.
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I'm simply talking about scenarios where one API needs to talk to another to get a resource it needs to act upon in some way. This can get vary hairy very quickly especially when each microservice ends up with copies of resources owned by other microservices that it now has to update asynchronously via pub/sub any time there is a change. This was the biggest challenge. And I think any teams willing to switch to this type of architecture need to look at it from this angle because monitoring and troubleshooting such systems is quite an undertaking.
Why should I take a tabloid story that refers to a study which is unaware of profound cross-cultural differences in what depression is seriously?

Like obesity, it is an acquired, habitual disorder due to certain "standards of life", overconsumption and resulting pathological behavioral patterns, similar in nature to autoimmune diseases, BTW. It is due to major environmental, not genetic factors.
If anyone else had done what she did they would be fired at least; indeed many individuals have been fired or worse for infractions much less egregious than hers.

It's like when a celebrity or athlete gets a pass in court, which we regular individuals know we'd never get away with. It just so happens that she's running for president, and half the country has to take her side while the other screams bloody murder.
Ask HN: Want to pursue higher studies(MS) in distributed computing
I am married man with graduate in electrical engg with 6 years experience in developing web apps in India . I am fascinated by the way netflix , facebook etc others scale and i am interested in learning about distributed computing.

0) Can i do Professional MS ? Does that land a good job in org working in that area ?

1) Can somebody give me list of colleges which would admit me with a GRE score of around 315+ with a SWAG of the expenses associated

2) Can i go with my wife there ? How expensive it would be ? She is a banker in a govt bank in India , Can she find a good job there ?
There was a case centered around the fact that the defendant maintained a TOR router and occasional exit point in the city I live in a few years ago.

I didn't follow it obsessively but general gist I walked away with was that the authorities were using TOR as an excuse to go after people who had gotten their attention for other reasons, perhaps so simple as annoying people who are simply friends with people in power. And then subject them to a shockingly large range of intrusive police activity (including extended surveillance, pre-dawn raids using specially trained heavily armed police forces), and drawn out prosecution for a litany of minor or petty violations they happened to discover in the process.

At the end of the trial it came out that they never did really try to prosecute any of the TOR related "offenses" and judges were apparently happy to leave TOR usage in some sort of legal grey area.

So it's not just the Americans and the FBI that get up disingenuous shenanigans when it comes to TOR.
Is there any chance that you would wish to initiate research part-time in your field? I would presume any self-funded research program would need to be limited in scope and heavily weighted towards computational citizen science, which seems to be where your growing skillset can be readily applied.
The article mentioned C++ and Objective-C under the C language, and C# under F#. They may have done well to mention C++ and maybe Java's influence on D. They completely neglected E too.
Until you get in an accident, and then you better have them.
It's possible they're looking at the long-term picture and investing heavily now to aggressively counter anything that looks like stricter regulation. If they capitulate in Austin today, then tomorrow they'll be railroaded into doing it everywhere else, which will end up costing them not-insignificant amounts of money and drivers over time. Having mandatory background checks also significantly raises the barrier to entry for casual carpoolers, which is a market that Uber is keen to capture.
I don't think you can judge such a decision as being a mistake. Usually, if it turns out well, then it is not, and otherwise, it is! I think it is important to pursue what drives you and follow your curiosity! I wish you all the best, it is refreshing to hear that you look forward to going into work, I feel that that excitement makes all the difference! Good luck!
Volvo pillars are apparently so strong that emergency crews have to carry special equipment to cut them if needed: http://www.fullerroadfire.com/TrainingAndEducation/Universit...
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Maybe you don't need to, if it's still supporting your weight and not being damaged further.
> If I think of South-East Asian traditional dress, I get an impression of oranges, yellows, and reds for the women (who do tend to wear the most colourful stuff).

Thanks for that info, I wasn't aware of those traditions. Indeed yellow to red is the range of hues that some human females might be able to discriminate better than males. That is, the idea is females see these colors more distinctly or are more visually "sensitive" to these colors.

"Pink" is relevant because it's merely red "diluted" with white, that is, lower saturation of a red hue.

No doubt cultural influences are enormously important re: attributing colors as symbols of gender identity. I was only writing about the possible genetic/biological factors contributing to selecting which colors are assigned to males vs. females, and such factors could certainly be quite secondary.

OTOH the info you contributed is intriguing because it appears to support the hypothesis I was referring to.
It was a very bad campaign, which makes me suspect that they did it on purpose. If they won this campaign, they'd have to win again in every other city that tries this. If they lose, pull out of Austin for a while, and make sure it's national news, other cities might think twice.

But it could just be incompetence.
I really wish modern language creators would take googleability into account when naming their languages. Even with rust, I occasionally have to use "rustlang" to avoid result pages with mostly plumbing sites, I imagine the situation is far worse for D, F and M.
C# = 2 (letter + symbol), Objective-C = 11 (10 letters + 1 symbol), C++ = 3 (1 letter + 2 symbols) so its not odd :-)
You used the correct term - bioavailability describes the fraction of a drug dosage that can enters the bloodstream.

Your example however makes an incorrect assumption. Bioavailability from snorting a powdered drug is higher than oral ingestion. When snorted, the drug passes through the thin lining of the nose and enters the bloodstream directly. When ingested orally, the drug has to make it through the chaos of the stomach and small intestine, get through the hepatic pathway (stomach and intestinal lining to liver to general bloodstream) before it reaches the rest of the body.
I would imagine that anything that's mostly open air and not rigid enough to punch through the firewall (or whatever it's called on a Tesla) would be harmless at worst.
I thought the same thing, the rainbox gummy bear is amazing, would love to see more.
Electric rockets still have a long way to go...
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Not only do you try to fix the competition and then hide the fact, you're now trying to do the same with legitimate questions. This isn't responsibility nor transparency and surprisingly unbecoming of a organisation like YCombinator that supposedly value merit.
The author also didn't get the history of C right. 1. it wasn't Dennis and Brian who wrote UNIX but Ken and Dennis. 2. B wasn't an internal language of AT&T but a language designed by Ken. 3. 16-bit words weren't immense at the time...yes, the PDP-11 had addressable bytes (unlike any other PDP) but I don't understand what this had to do with 16-bit words being "immense". 4. It was only Dennis not Dennis and Brian who developed B into C.
Then, like any culturally-mediated behavior, it changes over time. People responded to CBT before, now they respond less. Chemical interventions sometimes work. I'm confused by your stubbornness on this point.
I wonder if one could buy insurance against the deductibles vanishing?
There will also be the salaries, offices, etc of the people whose full time job it is to administer the perks system.
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There was a guy named Jack Kerouac, among many.

One could literally see how it works for others.
It's probably a bad gamble. Lyft wants to catch up to Uber, but they also need to grow fast enough that upstarts can't unseat them from second place. Accepting regulations that slow their growth is a bad deal for them, too.
how does tesla compare to byd?

http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/?p=5603
http://www.byd.com/news/news-313.html

i think byd had pretty big claims when they started out into cars too..but went quiet after awhile...but somehow they'd survived and its been more than 10yrs since they started...
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Not only do you try to fix the competition and then hide the fact, you're now trying to do the same with legitimate questions? This isn't responsibility nor transparency and surprisingly unbecoming of a organisation like YCombinator that supposedly value merit.
Giant bags of mostly water: Securing your IT infrastructure
Uber and Lyft to leave Austin after failed vote
And what's the percentage increase on student debt?
Dibs on the first web framework.
This has been the case since I was a kid. My dad told me that I could verify[0] the identity of a caller by calling back to a number that was known to belong to the entity in question.

[0]: for some level of security. My father was a farmer at that time and I know he wasn't talking about a nation state adversary ;-)
can't they just run their drivers through the goodhire api or something?
Currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11652614
I think this pretty much sums it up...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU1QPtOZQZU
Not necessarily. Have you ever run Linux in a browser on OS X or Windows? http://bellard.org/jslinux/
Not quite on topic, but this headline is a good example of false precision in converted units. Did they precisely measure it to the foot? Of course they didn't. The article makes it clear it's 25 metres, which is probably an estimate within 5-10 metres. 80 feet would have been a more helpful conversion.
You are getting a lot of deserves downvotes for the last part part your comment, which looks like it is purposely made to be inflammatory by posting an obviously non-solution which discriminate against a large portion of hn readership, since the effect would be that men would have longer bathroom lines (serving men plus whatever spillover from the women's)

The entered thing isn't new, trans people have, presumably, used bathrooms of the gender they belong to so long as there has been gender segregated bathrooms. You just don't notice, because they pass.