skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
:) oh come on, every field has the problem of faker and pretentious practitioner. Because studying everything takes serious effort, hence if you're lazy, you get empathy, but if you work hard while people around you don't, you get the hypothesis that you're elitist and fancy. And they have ground for that hypothesis, because It's true that faking wisdom gets some glamour too.
One of them could take all of the other's business in Austin by integrating with a background check service, but they were both either too stubborn or too slow to implement integration with such a service in case their proposition failed. Now they're both losing business on top of the money already lost campaigning.
Lyft could try to take market share by complying. They can even use it to differentiate themselves. "The Safer Ride-Share Company!", "We Know Who are Drivers Are", etc.
Because where such checks are required, they are usually required to be done at a state-certified location of the state of the jurisdiction imposing the requirement, with checks against specific state and federal databases.
In my experience, the better option is to seek work with a better pay and then learn to enjoy that. If you find joy in doing things well, almost any job that challenges you will bring you happiness.
Getting in a car with random strangers is a perfect case of information asymmetry. Passengers aren't going to be repeat customers with the same drivers. Each driver is pretty much an unknown that the passenger has little control over choosing.

On the broader point about what the government should be regulating: One of the worst things about living outside the developed world is how careful you have to be. You have to be careful what you eat, who you get in a car with, where you go. The consequences of not being careful are significant. In the developed world, the government ensures a minimum level for pretty much everything, and it's amazing. It's civilization.
Thanks. I had vaguely heard of Voat before, but for some reason thought it was a script for self-hosted Reddit style sites.

dang, I assume you meant stop bickering, but if you absolutely mean no more posts, sorry for this. It will probably be the last anyway.

I'm just curious, since you (ferrari) and anyone else still reading this have more knowledge or experience about this, has any site, or even HN, ever tried making the usernames people who upvote and downvote publicly visible?

I think people would put more thought into what they up or (especially) downvote if they could not 'hide', and their usernames were attached to it. Likewise, if voting had a 'cost', say, 1 karma to upvote and 1 or 2 karma to downvote.
In Philly, the UPS Store does fingerprint checks. There are several locations in the city, and it seems to take under 10 minutes to do. The UPS Store also serves as Notary Public.

I assume the same is true in lots of other cities.
India rejects Apple's plan to import used iPhones
You may be right, I'm not sure. Personally, I would only want for my custom desktop. As for laptops, I've looked at other vendors and as nice as the new XPS 15 looks and has a type C connector that could be used for external GPU, I can't help but remember the XPS 15 that I used as my main for a year where within that time, the wifi became hosed and the battery required replacing. Forget that. As far as laptops, the MBP I bought after that laptop is the only one I've had any real confidence in.

As such, waiting for a new 15 MBP (current is 13) with Type C connector(s) and then will upgrade.

OSX being available on non-Apple hardware would just make it where my desktop and laptop could play nicely together.
> I also feel the city has a right to enact ordinances that the populace believes will help keep them "safer".

But there's a limit somewhere, right? You don't feel that a city has the right to enact an ordinance keeping black people out even if it made them feel safer (I assume), so there has to be some line around a city's democratic rights?
In the Facebook Aquarium: The Resistible Rise of Anarcho-Capitalism
No..in fact hell no.

Ketamine is schedule 1 or 2 I believe everywhere in the US, so that is definitely a felony.
"But then Uber needs to maintain an office (or a set of offices) in every city that provides convenient parking and some kind of fingerprinting system. So it puts uber in a business that they're not in..."

Aren't there companies that that Uber could contract with to do the background checks?
Looks like it mostly targets onion sites/eepsites to me, but it's really broadly worded. Damn.
The state uses regulation for health and safety purposes all the time. Valid or not, the state, affirmed by democratic vote, wants fingerprinting as an additional assurance of driver fitness.

Let me turn this around: what in particular about driving passengers for profit means they should be exempt from regulation? Or do you simply reject regulation on some sort of absolutist libertarian principle?
It's interesting to note that, while in this case it was classic arcade game collectors, were the right connections to be made there might be a dozen other enthusiast groups around who'd have given their right arms to come relieve the ship of its, say, chandeliers or its plumbing fixtures or its antique shipping charts or what have you.

It's always surprising how many niche pursuits there are, with people around the world pouring passion and time into them and going largely unnoticed.
As a somewhat frugal person, I feel really uncomfortable when companies buy me unnecessary things (that could be going into my salary...).

But it wouldn't go into your salary. As far as I've always understood it the goals of perks is, besides attracting new talent, to keep people on premises as long as possible.
Normal software does not crash the entire OS because the antivirus was looking at a file it wanted. We expect better of text editors, for God's sake. There is absolutely no excuse for a life-critical system to fail to meet that rock-bottom standard.
You're very misinformed.

I live in the area. Uber/Lyft have campaigned really aggressively. I've got stuff from them in the mail, they contacted me at my unlisted cell, they've been canvassing hard for months. I've never even seen an "anti" ad.

The "pro" Uber/Lyft PAC spent north of $8m, while the "anti" PAC spent 1/40th of that [0]. This is by far the most money ever spent on any election in this city's history, by a factor of about 5. And all of it is Silicon Valley money, which is just weird.

Quite frankly I have no idea whether the regulatory reforms Uber/Lyft wanted were sensible or not. I don't know whether they were really necessary for Uber/Lyft to continue operations or not. I just know a bunch of SV investors spent an absurd amount of money trying to convince everybody of that, and Austinites are a very skeptical bunch who decided not to take their terms.

[0] http://qz.com/677908/the-future-of-uber-and-lyft-is-at-stake...
> Do they need to fund the background checks? Are they too expensive?

I've been getting a $1 safe ride fee when using Uber in the US. So they do pass on the background check cost to the customer.

There is some other reason for this. Maybe like the poster said in a later comment - about their classification the drivers. Or just them throwing a fit because it did not got their way.

Here in India, couple of states have been telling Uber (and their competitor Ola), that they can have surge pricing recently.
Instead of drawing on a single example and claiming that the truth must be in the middle somewhere, try coming up with two examples, preferably contemporary if possible, one from the right and one from the left, one where the weight of the facts and of history are clearly on the side of conservatives, and another where they are on the side of liberals. Then, compare how various parties act when this issue comes up either in the media, or in government, or whatever, and how you think they should act.

The reason I say this, is that the very way you have framed this gives no one any reason to be reasonable or non-partisan. You may not realize it, but you have described an adversarial relationship where both sides on the issue have good reason to be as extreme and intransigent as they can, with a view to dragging the conversation more in their direction so that the final compromise favors them. If, instead, we cared more about facts and results, and were actually willing to call out one side as being totally wrong and off-base, and undeserving of a seat at the table in negotiating this or that point of policy, everyone would have an incentive to act reasonably lest they be cast out entirely.

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.

And don't get me wrong, I'm totally aware that American culture is a long, long way from being able to do this. But it should be a goal, anyway, and your advice points us in the wrong direction.
Talk about a relevant piece of news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11652751

You probably already saw it on the front page, but I just thought that was an interesting coincidence.
What is the point of Interview when your decision is based on Reference/Recommendation letter?
If I don't think airline passengers should be fingerprinted as a condition of flying, is it because I simply reject regulation on some sort of absolutist libertarian principle? Or are some regulations (don't bring a gun on board) ok, but others (submit to biometric scanning) not?
You need fingerprints for a number of occupations including real estate agents, teachers and foster parents. There are multiple businesses offering fingerprinting services. It takes 10 minutes and I think it cost me $12 last time i had to do it.
This is actually terrifying to me.
I wasn't making an argument about whether or not the government has the authority to do this. Of course they do, and of course the people have the right to vote for it, and the companies are bound by it.

I was arguing that the regulation itself is inadvisable, and I don't think the position is particularly absolutist. The government should step in to regulate areas that pose a significant risk to the public, but that the market does a poor job of regulating on its own. Things like food safety and environmental protections are prime examples of this. Taxi driving is not.

The damage causable by a single rogue taxi driver is, at its worst, minimal and not much different from the damage that can be caused by any random malicious citizen. If a rapist or murderer wants to rape and murder, being a taxi driver helps them in so doing marginally at best.

Do you know what does do a pretty good job at regulating taxi drivers? An instant, non-optional review system.
Why? They'd do the same as they do with all, effective but off-patent drugs: produce patented variants (e.g. Modified release, like in this example, or combinations with other drugs) and market the hell out of them.
It's Schedule III: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine#Legal_status

"Ketamine is a "core" medicine in the World Health Organization's Essential Drugs List, a list of minimum medical needs for a basic healthcare system."
Opiate specific arguments could be reasonable.

But the post I responded had no such arguments.
Everyday experiences of discrimination (such as being treated with less respect or receiving poorer service) are common and affect black people in the US more frequently than white people. http://qz.com/334366/why-black-americans-cant-sleep-at-night...
I couldn't disagree more. Whether or not a passenger is a repeat customer of a driver is irrelevant, the drivers are rated by each passenger (at least for uber, this is non-optional), and if their rating gets too low, they stop getting fares. This system is infinitely more effective, efficient, fair and maybe most importantly, up to date, than any background check or fingerprinting system ever could be.

And not only is it effective at protecting the public, it actually incentivizes the driver to be better than the bare minimum (which is what is encouraged by simple background checks).
Title seems to bury the lede if I'm not reading this wrong. The rules would seem to provide warrants to remotely break into computers in unknown jurisdictions ("location has been concealed through technological means") in order to seize data. As in US FBI breaking into computers in other countries.

And look at (b)(6)(B) -- tell me that doesn't say the warrant would be to break into the victims' computers. 18 U.S.C. 1030 is the CFAA.
‘Researchers have found that CBT is roughly half as effective in treating depression as it used to be’

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/03/why-cbt-...
I really think the fingerprinting is a red herring. I think they were just trying to set a precedent to simplify their regulatory landscape.
Yep, just the usual portability issues.

POSIX is stuck in the days when UNIX software was plain CLI or daemons, with keyboards and teletype as devices.
I use awk only if it's a trivial one-liner. The only awk I can remember is selecting specific columns in whitespace-separated text. If it's just a single column, I'll try to use cut(1).

For anything more complicated, I'll use Python. Because if it's something that is going to have a somewhat long life, and that I would need to feed into plotting, I'd rather use Python. Because I remember the bad old days of plot(1).
they are fighting a legal battle to win back their Canadian citizenship, stripped from them six years ago. They believe it is unfair and illegal that they are expected to answer for the sins of their parents

This is mis-stating (I suspect deliberately) the situation under Canadian law. They weren't "stripped" of Canadian citizenship (as can happen to war criminals who lie on their citizenship applications); rather, 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; but the fact that they were harmed by their parents' fraud is not a reason for the fraud to be made reality.

On the other hand, the Canadian government does seem to be wrong when it comes to blaming them for the circumstances and annulling Alex's student visa. The fact that have they lived in Canada and identify as Canadian seems like strong considerations in support of an application for a visa or even permanent residence; the fact that they were tricked into thinking that they were Canadian once doesn't mean that they shouldn't have the opportunity to truly become Canadian.
So, your concern with password managers right now is that losing your master password means you lose everything?

You wish to design a new system where the threat model includes losing the master password? I think your implementation only adds 3 bits "more" security than a "basic" implementation that is: hash web site name || root password.

Say, in your implementation, the attacker gets the root password and "salt based on another random password" (it's likely that they get both at the same time because they would be stored in the same place. If they're not stored in the same place, you just discovered a weak form of 2-factor auth). All the attacker has to do at this point is guess 10 values (30-40) and try each one to get the account password. That's your 3 extra bits of security from the 'basic' implementation.

But if you just look at the two "features" you presented of your scheme, I don't know any popular password manager (LastPass, 1Password, etc) that doesn't have them. Can you explain?
http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes has some cool tips
> You should never be able to confuse an error message for anything else.

Exactly. Which is why "Can't read file sensors.dat" is way better than just crashing. Crashing is one of the worst error messages you can get because you don't know what happened.
They were born in Canada so they should be citizens independently of their parents.
> If it was fiction, people would say it was too implausible.

I'm in I'd think the upper 10% or so of earners in society, as probably are most other people on this site, I work largely unsupervised and can come and go as I please.

Yet for some reason it seems reasonable that I have to sit in a tiny stall in a dead quiet room to do my natural business while a coworker sits less than two feet away, separated by only a tiny wall with a foot gap between the wall and the floor (to facilitate the free flow of odor and sound I assume). Am I a prude or is this a bit ridiculous?
This was posted a few days ago. I recall that what it actually says is that you can get a warrant to break into the machine even if it can't be proven that the machine is in the jurisdiction of the court giving the warrant, because it is hard to do so when TOR is in use. You still need a valid warrant, it just can come from a different state then where you reside.
>But even if everything she did is true the issue is around malicious intent.

That's completely false even though that talking point has been oft repeated in the media lately. Intent is not required to be guilty of the crime of mishandling classified information. The Relevant law is 18 USC 793

>793 (f) specifically makes it a crime for anyone “entrusted with … any document … or information relating to the national defense … through gross negligence (to permit) the same to be removed from its proper place of custody.”

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793

Aside from the fact that intent isn't required in order for a crime to have been committed, even a cursory examination of the emails clearly prove intent.

>one email thread from June 2011 appears to include Clinton telling her top adviser Jake Sullivan to send secure information through insecure means.

>In response to Clinton’s request for a set of since-redacted talking points, Sullivan writes, “They say they’ve had issues sending secure fax. They’re working on it.” Clinton responds “If they can’t, turn into nonpaper [with] no identifying heading and send nonsecure.”

http://media.hotair.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/hillar...

Nothing says intent more then a clear and direct command to strip classifying headers off classified documents and send "nonsecure".

>That will be the key factor in whether she is indicted or not.

The only factor in whether or not she is indicted is unfortunately the fact that our legal system has entirely broken down. She will not be indicted by the Obama administration no matter what she does. It seems much more likely she will be impeached by the Republican Congress if she wins the election.
So about $480 a week per employee? What kind of perks are they getting?

Now for a rant. I know perks are suppose to help make companies attractive to potential employees they are trying to woo and boost morale. But I think it's crazy when I see the perks we get, while at the same time have to go begging for a mobile device to test on.
The company owns it, and they handle operating costs and maintenance.

At this time, there are no plans to transfer ownership to the community.

Ownership transfer has been done before, notably by some NGOs, and to my knowledge it has always ended up with the system failing due to lack of maintenance (either due to skills or funds) and being parted out.
It shows that we need a better IPC api, and also some primitives for dealing with graphics cards (Linux deals with it through ioctl, for example, which is a hack).
I live in the area too, and it is known that politicians involved in the bill have conflicts of interest with the cab companies.

Here's JDI's response to Mike Maples argument that mentions it.
http://josh.jones-dilworth.com/post/138468651784/in-response...
I'm not sure what you mean by "should" here. Are you arguing that I've misstated the law, or that the law is stupid?
Yes, Co-codamol (paracetamol and codeine) is cheap and available over the counter in the UK. They have "Three days use only" in large letters on the front, like cigarette packet warnings.
Usually, there are existing providers of such services (including often local law enforcement offices), and employers subject to a requirement for fingerprinting just have applicants designate the employer as the recipient, go into the established fingerprint center, and get it done.
Back in my raver days, when this was still doable, one of my boys started driving to Mexico and buying K there and bringing it back in cheap water bottles to get by the border DEA.

One day he shows up at the club and says, "hey, check out my car trunk" and was like "uhhh ok that's kinda weird" but I went out and presto, there was 4 one-liter water bottles full of ketamine.

Thats a shitload of K, considering a vial is 50ml and costs around $100. So I started selling it for him, and man did it go fast. Almost everyone loved it, including myself. Oddly enough, even people who did too much the first time and had a really wack k-hole experience would try it again.

It was rather miraculous to me, and surely did some sort of transformative rearranging of my brain while I was dosing it. I think what I remember best was that it became my self-described "drug of choice", which, honestly, was a pretty huge achievement in my life.

I liked it because it removed my desire to do other, much darker and destructive drugs somehow, and it wasn't just a matter of typical substitution, but something much more fundamental, so studies like this are very unsurprising to me, and I really hope these researchers keep at it.
I use the term "ride hailing" for this, because for the most part the "sharing economy" has no actual "sharing" whatsoever.
Well, afaik antidepressant doses of ketamine seem to be lower than 100 mg - which is quite a bit less than the most drastic of recreational doses - I don't know (but would love to see research conducted on) whether that's actually that risky.

Tianeptine is a mu-opioid receptor agonist, so it has abuse & addiction potential above therapeutic doses. It's also rx-only in many countries, according to Wikipedia.

Additionally, ketamine works for a week whereas it's not uncommon for people who use tianeptine to split their daily regimen into something like 3 separate doses throughout the course of the day.

At least neither require several weeks to reach efficacy while initially potentially increasing the severity of depression...
This is why I'm doing my research Masters. I have no interesting in pursuing a long-term career in academia, but I love research and this path keeps me reasonably well-funded for the next few years to focus on a really hard problem that I find interesting.

I figure that I have the rest of my life to work in industry, so spending a couple years doing paid research into something I am really interested in sounds good to me!
Similar to Twitter's Digits, which has been around for a while and seems quite popular. https://get.digits.com