skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several of my friends are college bartenders who check these IDs regularly. Most fakes are easy to spot but its generally more of a hassle to actually bounce someone then let them get by. If a bar gets any heat, like a higher percentage of incidents outside in a given month, they'll step up their rejections. Attractive people, and specifically attractive women, are let in much more often.
No, I can't imagine wanting either of those people to win.
If memory serves correctly, this was one of the numerous ideas floated by the administration at the time.
Same in Austria, a pink piece of paper until a couple years ago.

http://diepresse.com/images/uploads/5/e/b/1299947/ansturm_sc...

p.s. your link is broken:

> The owner of this website (flawlessfakeids.com) does not allow hotlinking to that resource
Every country has this issue. In this global universe we live in all "native" foods merge with local culture to produce something new. For example "Mexican" food in various parts of the US is nothing like the food I ate when I worked in Mexico, yet even there regional differences are almost as different. Even "Chinese" food is wildly different dependent on where you are from in China. I grew up eating "German" food that is only barely like any restaurant I've seen in the US, and nothin like what you find in Germany today because it came from my parent's remembering what they ate as kids and my grandmother's what she learned from her mother. Food is not a static item and never has been. Trying to say the food you remember or eat is "yours" to talk about is sort of ignoring that it is a very personal concept as well as rooted in time and place.
Why don't you require real names while you're at it?
Love the brake light idea, simple solution. A radio signal would be one of many, the one directly in front of you needing to be differentiated from the one behind or to the side or on a side street requiring a much more complicated system and protocol that might never be agreed upon and be expensive to implement for retrofitting legacy cars. It makes up for in simplicity what it lacks in features and that could really drive adoption.
Quite a statement. What does it take one to become a "hero" nowadays? And how is he in any way connected to the working class?
Ask HN: How to encourage my service to improve security?
The pattern of the company with risky password policies that doesn't respond well to criticisms has become pretty cliche by now.

And I learned today that a pretty important service I use has such a policy. Rather than berate or try to shame them, are there any techniques for feedback that are likely to effect change, or is it most likely a lost cause?
But how is addressing a gender imbalance a solution to that problem. There are many ways to address a shortage of talent in an occupation besides moving people from one gender from one occupation to another, especially the naturally talented (nb: intelligent is a highly heritable trait). Furthermore that solution will likely just result in a talent shortage in the occupation you're moving people away from, requiring other solutions like bringing in talent from abroad.
it's a shame, but to get more women into STEM they have to start somewhere.
Why are Facebook and Twitter so bad at parsing RDFa metadata?
Sadly I don't think there is any market for secure hardware.

Simply no one care; not even enterprises and governments.
When I was younger than 18, many of my friends had fake IDs to buy alcohol.
AFAIK the only guy who did jail time for crashing the world's economy and wiping out retirement savings of millions of people was a guy who copied some utility code to dropbox when he quit Goldman Sachs.
Whilst I agree with you about the need for people to know gun safety rules, your requirements seem unrealistically reactive.

Most gun owners in the US barely if ever shoot their guns, and the number of accidents or deaths that result from unsafe handling is negligible. You would save more lives by requiring training every 2 years for an license to buy aspirin.
18 year olds can only gamble a bit: Some states have the ages set at 21, and I guess if the casino serves alcohol on the gambling floor, they must be 21 to go there. They can buy lottery tickets. I'm not sure how things like betting on horse races works, though.

And it doesn't, but it can be slightly harder for a 16-17 year old to get a fake ID without alerting their parents.
Can you provide evidence for the specific claim that women, in particular, are statistically-significantly less strong at the software engineering industry, in particular?

(I buy the argument that there are statistically-significant differences in some strengths that apply in some industries, yes. I'm curious to see how this applies to software engineering in particular.)
The partial eclipse will last about 2.5 hours. I don't know how much air conditioning would be impacted, but it's not just the totality at work.
No, reducing medical bankruptcy was an explicit goal of expanding access to insurance.

Here's text from the legislation:

Half of all personal bankruptcies are caused in part by medical expenses. By significantly increasing health insurance coverage, the requirement, together with the other provisions of this Act, will improve financial security for families.
I suppose that if a company is going to try to artificially hire a greater number of a single group then naturally the bar must be lowered.

Take this hypotherital:

Bob's factory employs machinists to make parts. Of all machinists, 20% belong to group A and 80% belong to group B. When hiring, Bob's factory selects a number of applicants who pass the test. If we assume that group A and group B have the same average skill level then naturally the employees in the factory will be 20% group A and 80% group B.

If Bob wanted to hire eaqual amounts of Group A and Group B, then he would need to hire as much of group a as possible and as little of group b as possible. If bob could only hire a certain number of group b, then he would naturally only pick the best few.

Thus, artificially eaquallizing the work force in bobs factory must neccecarily lead to a skill gap.
I've used Versionista in the past. And I believe you could also use Pingdom for that. Use code ATP for 20% off.
Posting about my son all over the internet
Criminal laws as legislated by criminal politicians...
Pardon my ignorance, but why drink if not to get 'drunk'? Alcohol doesn't taste very nice, so the only advantage I get out of it is that I feel more of a 'buzz'. Is it common just to drink as if it were something that tastes nice, like juice?
Facebook to add 3k people to community operations team to improve moderation
Edit the genes or whatever. I'm not buying the fact that nothing can be ,Cured, since what, penicillin. Asshole doctors.
I'm having a hard time seeing autonomous vehicles significantly undercutting the price of existing rental cars, which is definitely something that keeps me from getting out of town on a regular basis.

Sure, renting for a long weekend is still significantly cheaper than actually owning a car, but compared to other costs (taking a walk to the closest inner-city park, cycling to a larger one, or just having dinner or board games with friends) it's actually a pretty high threshold.

What I am looking forward to is the night heating feature that allow electric cars to function as a makeshift "hotel room" for overnight accommodation. Once I have access to that via carsharing, that should lower the cost of a weekend trip enough to do it on a regular basis, with no camping gear required.
Bit of an aside, but why haven't you guys listened to your users yet? Based on all the negative feedback about the recent updates, what are you guys doing?
Yes, and they paid by the issuers of the securities they're rating. Surely a conflict of interest...
Well air conditioners are set to keep houses at a certain temperature. If the five minutes of darkness will have a measurable affect on temperature then air conditioners won't have to work as hard to keep houses cool.
I wonder if Chrome providing a headless mode could somehow improve things.
Facebook to hire 3,000 to review posts with hate speech
Which totally makes sense from a game theoretic standpoint. I rent a car while mine is getting fixed. I stay in a hotel for a week while a renovation is done. I rent to own while I look for the right thing to buy.

The cloud is literally rent-a-wreck or rent-to-own furniture. As a cloud provider you constantly have to be adding more features and "value", otherwise the customer will build in house. And not just to cost reduce but to get transparency of ops. Clouds are opaque, companies are wise to launch on cloud then bring in house for lots of reasons.

From the cloud providers side, view each individual customer as ephemeral. When you have a single huge customer, you aren't a business anymore, you're a contractor.
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You can still lower the bar below "hiring straight out of college in droves".

Hiring more self taught and bootcamp people is often advocated as a way to increase diversity, and a lot of roles don't require a college degree (plus a lot of self taught and bootcamp folks are very good). However, on a large enough dataset, they will be weaker candidates. So if you use those sources to improve diversity, you'll end up with a correlation between diverse hires and more junior devs. Which screws up with every other metrics you'll look at.
If I recall correctly, they're doing more than just giving you a graph of bandwidth consumption. They're giving you views of the data that show which apps are consuming the most data among other things. I can imagine why this may need additional processing - maintaining a mapping of addresses that make up "Dropbox" traffic as an example.

I always saw it as an attempt to put analysis/QoS tools into non-technical hands. You can absolutely do many of these things by yourself, but that's not who they're targeting.
Yup, as a Chinese I find seafood selection in your typical US supermarket borderline offensive if not so pathetic.

In China even a small city with 400000 population (that is small in China, don't argue.) located 1000 miles from sea would at least have fresh clams and a few live sea fish in watertanks at walmart.

In America all you average consumers buy are vacuum-sealed squares of bland fillet.
Yes, the constant bailouts are disrupting a necessary mechanism for markets to function, price discovery. Subsidize the losses, privatize the profits, so why bother pricing risk appropriately (which may also include not pricing it at all because it's impossible to predict 10, 20, and 30 years into the future, see pensions).

>The difference is Chicago and Illinois can raise taxes and make appropriate cuts over the long term

Chicago, Illinois, New Jersey, federal, and most of the other governments will also be defaulting, just not by name because of course you have to prop up the bond markets. What has been happening, and will continue happening, is under investment in infrastructure, education, cuts to promised benefits (which is a default in and of itself), and inflating away a portion of it. Basically a continuous erosion of quality of life to keep the game going.
How US cybersleuths decided Russia hacked the DNC
Enjade: Modern Plasma-based desktop to continue Unity 7
Yes, I've used it in the past.

I don't use it because '&&' is not available. I use it pretty often.
"security proponents will probably have to demonstrate improvements to the bottom line: less maintenance, improved customer satisfaction, or other measurable incentives to bring everyone on board"

In most fields there is little incentive to change things when the company itself isn't too affected in case of hack. Stocks go down for a week, then back up. General population doesn't seem to care enough to stop using the services, and does not understand enough about privacy/value of their data/need for encryption. So why would a company care ?

If being "ethical" and more devoted to privacy becomes a trend, perhaps there will be a stronger drive to follow security experts' advice. Did Whatsapp get a surge in users after enabling end-to-end encryption?

https://hbr.org/2015/03/why-data-breaches-dont-hurt-stock-pr...
Graph Theory puzzle for math lovers
The Music in Microsoft Surface Laptop's New Ad
When Swarm met Steve
Ahah not really 24/7, but you're almost there :) it's my way to repay the OSS community for everything I learned from OSS during my life.
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It won't. You are buying into the mass hysteria.

The UK was perfectly fine before the maastricht treaty and will be in 2 years time.
America and Australia are, to my ear, in the same boat as the UK: accents abound but if you were to transcribe people's speech they would all appear to be Californian

There are regional distinctions in word choice in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_vocabularies_of_Ameri...

And apparently even within CA itself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella
Unfortunately, even Japanese children are native speakers. I wouldn't recommend going into native material unless one has grammar points and some vocab nailed down, even if the kanji is easy or rare.
Occasionally. It's not nearly as common as a summer internship, but there are some extenuating circumstances (for example, when a student's academic program schedules off-cycle internships).
The average price for a new car is 34k nowadays. A used Model S is at least 40k[1]. Tesla has a pre-owned up for 50k. The cheapest new Model S, with all rebates + estimated gas savings, is 56k.

If Tesla really pulls off the Model 3, it's a game changer. It'll start the clock ticking until everyone can afford a (used) electric car.

[1]: https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/l-Used-Tesla-Model-S-d2039#lis...

[2] 85kWh, no less: https://www.tesla.com/preowned/5YJSA1DN1DFP16592
its even more troubling then that. When faced with stiffer ability to get interviews (let alone offers), we practice a ton more to increase our hard skills. more practice does tend to lead to being more proficient at something. my female friends generally got 5-10 interviews a week. me, not so much
Greece had stopped getting any bailout funds way before Varoufakis or the current Government were in power. The IMF had already said that the program had failed.
I need this one.
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21 to purchase from a retail, I believe it's still 18 to purchase from an individual, making it even more backwards.
Well, sure but it's also going to the Europeans that work in that factory, and to the local community through taxation. It probably benefits the local community just as much, if not more, than it would benefit Ford.
as leshow deleted their comment (edit: I can see it again) i'll explain:

* facebook got criticism for not hiring enough women as coders.

* facebook hired more women (probably lots of junior coders)

* they do what junior coders do

* someone turned the code review rejections into a spreadsheet and disregarded seniority (experience mainly), and made the issue about gender.
Not everyone shares your opinion on alcohol not tasting very nice.
I think this is why Indiana quit printing ID's in the county offices. They are now printed in a central location in Indianapolis and arrive in the mail.
The ASUS/Trend Micro feature is not basic bandwidth reporting. Yeah, I've run this kind of basic reporting on a Raspberry Pi before - if that's all that you're tracking, not much processing power is required.

These routers are giving other breakdowns of the data - by device, by service, by application, etc. See sibling comment as well.

Edit: Screenshot of example: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s10/sh/0128aee2-dbae-48c3-b4d...
Thanks for posting. Wasn't sure if folks were interested, but I've found Knuth's fun with Sudoku to be a lot of fun.

I'm curious on how you claim a strong enough solver could have solved this without a "guess."

Also, any thoughts on how treating them as constraint propagation compares to casting it as an exact cover problem?
If the bar is the same, but there are fewer female applicants than male applicants, then there will necessarily be fewer females accepted (assuming standards are applied equally).

Until the number of women in our field are on par with men, efforts to create an artificial balance will mean lowering the bar.
>the current representation of senior female engineers both at Facebook and across the industry is nowhere near where it needs to be.

Where does it need to be and why?
No, the fact someone takes out loans they can't repay doesn't 'prove' they don't understand the terms of the loan. I don't think any of the major actors in this look particularly great but it's not like the Greek government found a giant bag of money on their doorstep one day and nobody told them it came with terms.
Blockstream's Greg Maxwell on the Potential Hurdles to Better Privacy in Bitcoin
I like to meet with people for coffee, so messaging people you look up to (try linkedin) is always a good idea. Ask if you can meet for coffee to get to know them, and over time, a mentoring relationship might develop. As some other people have said, you can't force a mentoring relationship, they form naturally.
Speaking from observation, the claim may be considered true if the primary purpose of investment firms is to exit the position as either a large gain in value, or a complete loss. In other words, investment strategy today causes the outcome of the company to avoid finding a "happy medium" where the company is able to just make enough to pay the employees that work there to build a good product the customers like and which serves those customer's interests, even at the expense of additional revenue.

VCs don't invest in breakeven, or slightly ahead of breakeven companies. They would rather force a product move by the company to try to make more money for the stakeholders, even at the risk the move kills the company OR hurts the customer's privacy/UX experience. Case in point, Facebook.
Great read that brings back some good memories.

As an avid FF fan, I never quite understood why SquareSoft decided to not bring over some of their games to the US market. If anyone happens to know the reason(s) - please share!
Please see my reply to a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14255796
I wanted to throw my shoes at my monitor after reading this.
I think a big part of the problem is that America is very large and very car focused. If you can reasonably walk to where you're drinking (or more importantly, walk home from there), then you're less likely to drive drunk. Many bars in America essentially require driving to and from.
I bet if I went to India and complained about how pathetic the local hamburger places were, you might wonder about my maturity/worldliness/naivete/etc. You might also rightfully wonder why I was so intent on looking for hamburgers (or Chinese-American food, or Texas barbecue, or whatever) in India, when there are so many other food choices to explore. Every place you go in the world is going to be lacking in some things you took for granted at home, replaced by many other things that are new to you. This is a good thing, not something to complain about, and certainly not something to insult another country over.
What problems are you obsessed with?
Tiny core. I use debian or ubuntu where required, but prefer the features and minimal footprint of tiny.
You know, darkness isn't something that just happens every day... wait...
That looks similar to many of the new US state IDs due to increased security requirements of REAL ID. My Washington, DC license has a holograms and a neat translucent panel where you can see my photo if you hold it up to the light. I would guess it is very hard to fake.
I believe the apps only pull whatever information is in the barcode on the back of the idea - only law enforcement can actually check the ID against the DMV database.

I scanned the 2-D barcode on my license using a generic barcode reader on my phone, and it's a PDF417 barcode that contains all the information that's printed on my id (number, name, address, license type, physical descriptors, dates, organ donor) as well as a few other fields (revision number of the card format, and an inventory control number that looks like the concatenation of the DL number, state name, license type, and some other fields)
The only advise I would give on this angle is more that one should carry their passports (or some other form of ID) with them if they want to enter US bars / drinking establishments or even just want to order a beer.

The United States (from my perception) seems to have far more establishments serving alcohol, whose policy is to ask identification for everyone (or if not everyone, a ridiculously over-heavy subsection of their clients, eg "we check ID for anyone under 35"). Probably for CYA reasons.

I don't ever recall any place in Europe asking for ID when buying a beer over in there (even when I visited when I was in my mid 20s). Whereas, I still occasionally get asked for ID in the United States in spite of being over 40.
Definitely not. I've got kids and was only able to quit my job and start working full time as CTO of my startup after we raised seed funding. That being said, an A,B, and C round is different. Seed should give you enough runway to see if your initial idea gets product market fit. Future funding is fuel for the rocket ship. It lets you see if you can scale up sales and marketing around the product.
There is no doubt they are building the profiles.
To be fair, you probably can't get a good burger in Delhi because of the Hindus.
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"Girls"? Jeez... I wonder where the problem lies...
I've seen this before. I've also seen plenty code written from developers at higher levels that really should have been reviewed with far more scrutiny - but because of politics, was practically rubber stamped with hardly a comment. IOW, developers at higher levels don't necessarily write better code, often it is worse.

I think this could be improved by a system of code review anonymization that sends code reviews out - company wide - without identifying author info.
I clicked over to the linked site using Firefox running NoScript in default deny JS mode.

The whole text of the article appeared, ready to read. Granted it is a very short article, but it appeared just fine.
I think the law is flawed when it incorrectly assumes everybody's mental age progresses at the exact uniform rate.

They don't. Some people even at 20s, 30s, 40s, haven't had the necessary mental/emotional development.
Thank you for your perspective. Could you perhaps give me some reading material?

Are you of the opinion that the amount of surveillance conducted on citizens is reasonable in the context of the balancing of civil liberties and the dignity of individuals vs. geopolitics and struggle for power?

I would like to see these issues improved by decentralization (regulation to prevent the centralization of power in private enterprises) and transparancy (making it easier to spot subterfuge for everyone), but I don't yet know exactly how to built such a system and if it could work. The CIA/NSA approach is antithetical to that.

Edit: I personally doubt the efficacy of surveillance because I think it disproportionately impacts citizens, while high-level state actors will generally be able to work around by having good opsec and using high-quality encryption. That's also how I ended the GP, but you don't seem to have responded to that. What is your opinion on that?
Ultimately, I think this is where we are going to end up. Humans will mostly exist for analyzing trends in the market and to improve optimize automation. Almost all manual labor will be eliminated.
Right i wasn't including those in the "bases". 200 counties represents about 6% of the total number of counties in the country, and few of them are from states that "always vote for democrats"