skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has any research been done on potential benefits of widespread micro blood transfusion as a result of mosquitoes? The diseases are the obvious downside, wondering if resistances, etc may be an unrecognized upside.
Non competes can't normally be enforced unless the company specifially compensates you for the non compete. Punishing someone by not allowing them to be able to make a living is unjust and unfair.
This has not been my experience at all. At every place I've ever worked, when I pointed out things in the employment agreements that I objected to, I was given a very stern and unambiguous "Sign it unmodified or GTFO." I've pretty much stopped asking. There's always a line out the door of people who are in equal need of the job and will sign whatever is put in front of them.
I would be much more eager to use Enpass if they made the code available to people who pay.
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Google ngrams shows not a single occurrence of "flight attendant" in their British English corpus. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Flight+attenda...
I am somewhat disappointed that the BBC has to resort to clickbait titles now. At no point is the aircraft door actually opened, the title is completely false.
I have friends who always go to Disney World in Orlando; although that is over the top for me, but to spend time with them we go there too. To have an annual pass makes it relaxed, if you travel around and they are inside the World perimeter to just come back at night and have dinner and drinks at Epcot etc. If you have to pay for it you would not do that, but now we did just that a lot for a few hours and then get back to the hotel. I rather go to difference places but I have friends, which includes them, who just always go to the same place (camping in France, resort in Greece and Disney world to name 3 families we hang with).
Well, that part of the population has an interesting perspective then.

And it’s not about charitable donations, it’s about giving away responsibilities of governments to entities that are controlled autocratically.

Google is controlled by its two founders, and once they’re dead, their children will have none of the idealism, but all the power.

A major part of the social contract of modern society is that for everything, there’s either a market with many roughly equally sized companies, or, if there’s only one or two options, those options are under control of the people, elected.

With Google, Amazon, etc we’re getting a situation similar to the US ISP and media landscape, with a handful of companies controlling major parts of the economy, and our society relying on these companies without having democratic control over them.
My point is that this is dangerous. The security of this method is equal to the strength of you master password + the least secure website you use. If that website has a password breach, the only thing standing between an attacker and a compromise of every website you use is the strength of you master key. (And GPUs are pretty good at brute forcing PBKDF2 - so it has to be really strong.)

This is unlike a stateful password manager. There the security of the system is related to the strength of your password + the strength of the security of the place you store your password db. If you pick a place that is serious about security, your almost certainly better off. Critically, a compromise of some random forum you signed up for doesn't impact the security of your bank account in any way.
Chou romanesco is probably a regular thing for people living in southern Europe, but coming from central Europe, it blew my mind the first time I've seen it in a grocery store :)
You should be sending status updates to your team's email list anyway, not just to your manager, as they are useful to all of your coworkers. I can't even begin to count the number of times that, upon hearing in a daily stand-up/status report that someone was working on or was about to begin working on a specific thing, I was able to give useful direction on it that saved hours of work. Teams that go off to work in isolated silos don't have good velocity. Sometimes the five seconds it takes to say "Yeah I tried that approach already and gave it up, so I recommend Y" can save days. And this will come from your coworkers more often than it will from your manager, so always send status updates to the whole team.
Twitter wasn't designed to enable good conversations - it was designed for rapid, viral growth thanks to a gimmick which limits message length and sensible, nuanced interaction.

Have a look at Lyra - it's a nonprofit conversation service designed with respect for language and attention.

www.hellolyra.com
Yes, because Go couldn’t do all that on compile, which is the entire issue. It can’t prove the type safety of your SQL query at compile time, or the type safety of your generics usage.
To be fair, they do describe what happens when a door is opened.
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Ah the company behind Pocket Casts (love that app). Well I searched through their blog and could only find Amazon App Store drama.

I'm going to assume the original statement is FUD as accused. It does seem incredibly unlikely a dev could draw such a link even if Apple were doing that kind of penalisation (which makes literally no sense to me).
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> You say this as though liberal arts is bad, perhaps that's what some people want to do.
Currently in the US you have no choice (if your going to college) as to whether or not you get a liberal arts education. Pretty much every school in the US have strong general education requirements. So perhaps some people want to do liberal arts, and that's great but Imo it is being imposed on the entire society.
It's a lot faster if you use python's itertools and operator itemgetter:

def gen_stats(data):
start = time.time()
stats = []
data.sort(key=itemgetter(0))
for p_id, p_items in itertools.groupby(data, key=itemgetter(0)):
num_orders, _, total_quantity, total_price = map(sum, zip(*p_items))
p_id, num_orders, total_quantity = map(int, [p_id, num_orders/p_id, total_quantity])
stats.append([p_id, num_orders, total_quantity, round(float(total_price/num_orders),2)])
end = time.time()
working_time = end-start
return stats, working_time

Results:

Dataset size 55096 records
[[1, 8, 340, 22.55], [2, 4, 94, 15.83], [3, 2, 97, 3.89]]
[[1, 8, 340, 22.55], [2, 4, 94, 15.83], [3, 2, 97, 3.89]]
All results equal: True
Runtime (s)
gen_stats_slow: 28.489468574523926
gen_stats_fast: 0.06000018119812012
Integrating with legacy systems (that one cannot, or is difficult to modify) a vanishingly rare case? Thats... quite an assumption.
There is plenty of research showing that the patterns and atmosphere a platform promotes can have huge effects on conversation and discourse.

This is what we're doing with Lyra (www.hellolyra.com): using a respect for language and cognitive load to create an open, sensible conversation platform.
> That's it.

Actually, you scratched the surface, but it goes so much further than that -- that sadly most of our modern universities have lost sight of. I've posted this in previous comments, but universities are actually suppose to help build more just societies -- an idea Plato describes as the purpose of university, and echoed by many chancellors across the country.

"The goal of university education is to help build a fairer, more just society" - Steven Schwartz. [0]

"Plato regards education as a means to achieve justice, both individual justice and social justice." [1]

[0]: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/comment/columnists/the-...

[1]: http://epublications.marquette.edu/dissertations/AAI9517932/
I'm curious about the motive. Was this guy just angry or mentally ill?
I'm very disturbed by your comments. 0xFFC has not been uncivil, nationalistic, or even particularly political. He was merely pointing out that Maryam was representative of a society that is more diverse and tolerant than many people imagine -- an issue that she herself cared about and occasionally addressed. That is fair and on-topic social statement; his only nod to politics was the words "despite our theocratic regime", which I'd also add is a perfectly fair comment.

And yet you slap him down and not davidf18, whose response is, in fact, overtly nationalistic and entirely off-topic.

I would kindly ask you to rethink how you moderate this.
you can also encrypt the db file it self (before putting it on dropbox) with something like EncFS.
tl;dr: Hello is just like Poke, except more visible and possible to do with non-friends. The "much riskier" part is if, when browsing a random person's page, you hit the Hello button. Quite possibly the dumbest take possible; OTOH I learned that the Hello feature even exists
All the examples are from network-effected services.
While I have GE (I would have a Clear if I flew more) my intelligence still feels insulted every time I travel. I pay a fee to the TSA every time I travel. I paid again to get the GE which is because the fee they charge me apparently doesn't cover an adequate number of screeners to ensure a quick trip through security. All this hassle and expense and I am pretty sure that they are unable to perform their job.

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/travel/new-tsa-chief-vows-im...
Do most people really not realize this? Teach your kids to be human and capable, not princesses and scared of everything.
This is why you are "disappointed" with the BBC? The fact that they are and always have been a major producer & distributor of Elitist and Globalism Propaganda never "disappointed" you?
If the door is opened when armed, the evacuation slide will be inflated. When it breaks off the aircraft it can be sucked into the engine or damage the tail.
Former U.K. worker and lawyer: Gardening leave for sure happens, but basic non-competes (or "restrictive covenants" as they get called over there) without any kind of remuneration are fairly common in U.K. employment contracts for skilled workers too.

Successful enforcement is almost always a question for a court to decide, and many times an employer simply won't bother trying, but provided the employer can demonstrate a business interest to protect, the restriction isn't too widely defined and that the time scale is not "unreasonable" they stand a good chance of succeeding. I'm by no means endorsing this - it simply is what it always has been in the UK for a long time now.
What is hard for me to believe is that other passengers didn't immediately respond to the conflict. Post 9/11 I assumed US passengers would use if anything too much force to respond to threats against the aircraft. While stuff like the UA fight club is happening too, once the aircraft is flying and something looks like it would either bring down the aircraft or cause a shoot down of the aircraft, a reasonable person would act to end a threat.
But in the US, you're constitutionally protected for having any ideas you want. You can have the most dangerous, damaging ideas. You can talk about them, as long as you don't incite anyone to violence.

Regardless of the societal harm or ultimate consequences, ideas are not the same category as harassment.
I agree. But I don't think it's Twitter's fault per se. It's just a tool. Sure it can influence, have an effect, but I'm not so sure it's powerful enough to create something from nothing. Especially given the fact it has a limit heavy user base, a fair number of casual and then a whole lotta non users.

My point is, I think the tendency for sound-bite intelligence (hold the applause, you heard it here first. Lol) was already there. I mean, Orwell gets at it in directly in 1984. Also, given the number of non Twitter users, I think this also helps explain why the whole culture shifted. Sure, there are Twitter users with offline influence but that many? I think not.

In any case, to blame Twitter is meta. It's a symptom of the problem itself. That is, less thinking and more simplification is the sign of the times.
> Many people make the mistake of thinking that college is a jobs training program, or a career readiness program - it's not. It was never intended to be. College is supposed to give someone a broader perspective, a more complex worldview, exposure to a vast array of topics and ideas, and to develop habits that are generally beneficial to any life or intellectual pursuit. That's it.

In short, it was designed as a luxury for rich kids who didn't need to contribute to society or provide for themselves. That militates towards setting up a "start something" fund (and maybe that "something" is setting up a Subway franchise or a construction company!) for your kid rather than a college fund.
The local article from the day of the event makes it pretty clear he was having some sort of mental breakdown. This BBC article has a lot more generic details about opening a plane door but the local article has a few more details about the incident:

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/florida-man-c...

> Hudek, who was sitting in first class and traveling on a “dependent pass,” ordered one beer before takeoff and showed no signs of intoxication, FBI Special Agent Caryn Highley wrote in the complaint.

> About an hour into the flight, Hudek briefly went into the lavatory, according to the complaint. He then went back out and asked one of the flight attendants a question in the galley area, the complaint says.

> Hudek returned to the lavatory for about two minutes. After he walked out he lunged toward the emergency exit door, grabbed the handle and tried to open it, the complaint alleges.
> The security of this method is equal to the strength of you master password + the least secure website you use.

Not exactly. It's equal to the strength of your master password only. Even if one of your passwords leaked, this function does not compute fast enough in the forseeable future to brute force your master password, as long as your master password is strong.

> And GPUs are pretty good at brute forcing PBKDF2 - so it has to be really strong.

Interesting, thanks for telling me this. But how much better? I mean, a GPU with 1024 CUDA cores surely cannot surpass 1024 CPUs. So all we need to do is bump up 100000 to a slightly higher number to make it GPU-proof if that's the case, no?

> There the security of the system is related to the strength of your password + the strength of the security of the place you store your password db. If you pick a place that is serious about security, your almost certainly better off.

The problem is that it's difficult to find some places that is serious, and that you trust to be serious. Most people will end up putting it on Dropbox or Google Drive because there isn't anything else that is accessible to them and easy to use on a phone. Also, what if you're on vacation, PC rendered in an unbootable state, and you need to reinstall your OS? This has happened to me at least 3 times.
Pro-tip: The best weapon you have available in such a situation is repeated full-armed swings to the head with a laptop, aimed in such a way to impact using the corner of the laptop instead of the flat. That's the most effective weapon you're likely to have with you on an airplane. Someone is not going to be able to shrug that off like they will a wine bottle being broken over their head (which, in breaking, dissipates most of its energy).
Sorry early morning here, I actually fixed that before I saw your comment -- more like 6 bits per character. In any case more than good enough.

I actually am not a fan of 2nd-factor authentication (e.g. phone). If you lose the physical thing or it gets leaked to a stranger, gunman who mugs you, leaked by security holes in the thing's own embedded OS, it's no longer helping your security. I'd rather authentication depend on only what's in my mind and body and nothing external. Also, I lose stuff and forget stuff pretty easily, so I often just avoid carrying anything.
> The idea that we live in a meritocracy, and intelligence and novelty are rewarded more than being a corporate drone.

But this argument assumes that financial incentives actually encourage and yield good work. Studies have shown this to be false. When you provide monetary incentives to achieve a goal, the outcomes are worse than the outcomes from people who pursued the same goals for no financial incentives.

Without financial incentives, people do work that gives them purpose and meaning, which ends up helping other people more than any financially incentivized goals.
I used to do that when I used purely Linux. However, once you bring iPhone and Windows into the picture it doesn't work anymore.
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I'm not sure what the various methods are called or what they are -- never really researched it. I just memorized about 10 digits every day over the course of a summer. Every day I practiced typing out the entire thing a few times as well as practiced the most-recent 100-block several more times.
Any analysis is incomplete if all it look at is the protagonist without looking at the mirror image that is the antagonist. Each film is only as good as its villain, so what does a typical Disney villain look like and what gender/attributes do they have?

In Pocahontas the antagonist is the exploiter, the disrupter of natural order, and the destroyer, and male. In Hercules he is the manipulator and manifestation of evil. In Mulan he is represented as the mindless horde of destroyers. In frozen he is the liar, the cheater, the bully. In Aladdin it is the mustache-twirling, eye-rolling, leering, and old man.

There is a small minority of Disney movies that have a female antagonist, but they are all version of the same evil witch stereotype. Old, infertile, predator of children.

So what does this teach children about social behavior and crime? What about who deserve sympathy and who is redeemable? About conflict resolution and handling of blame?

Disney movies aren't the best places if we want to avoid stereotypes, and that include the newer movies like Frozen.
If you want good role models for girls the book Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls might be interesting.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Night-Stories-Rebel-Girls/dp/0...
Actually, export restrictions on encryption are still there – you de jure need approval from the DoD.

There was a huge thread about it on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10835045
Here, have a karma! We need more people like you downvoting these types of pieces into oblivion.
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"Pretty much anything that can be remembered can be cracked."

Randomly choose 6 words from a 10k English dictionary and you're set. Hell, make it 12 words. Still insanely easier to remember than a 12 character alphanumeric/symbol password, and much more difficult to crack.
Why do his motives make you curious?
Just get a browser and some form of networking to run and you've got a pretty usable OS for a lot of people.
I am much more interested in what was going on with this guy. Appears to be a psychotic episode, and if so, brought on by what?

In high school, PCP was a thing and would generate stories such as taking a wine bottle to the head without effect. Maybe it's just morbid curiosity, but I fly a lot and am as concerned about mentally ill passengers as I am anything else...

If he had a tendency to behave this way, or a serious mental illness, was there any way to know before he boarded a plane? Did he take a prescription med and have an unexpected side effect? Or was it illicit combined with profoundly bad judgement?

Or did he just have a really bad day and decide to end it and take a plane load of souls with him?

Hoping there is follow up on this story with an explanation.
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> If you have an opportunity to make money, it can be a great motivator to take risk and innovate.

Artists don't have a financial motives. They're often poor, and yet they continue to pursue their art. People will do things that give them purpose and provide them meaning, that will never change. But if the financial incentive is removed, you won't crowd the field with people whose only purpose is to make money.
for those people, high density is desirable.

but, for others, the drawbacks of high density, often outweigh the advantages. these are the people who go to local neighborhood council meetings and scream.

also note that, in Los Angeles, the city council and the mayor can, and very often do, approve changes to zoning in accordance with the wishes of real estate developers (who usually donate to their political campaigns).

it's not like LA's NIMBY homeowners are a tyrannical group with infinite power. they're very often overridden by the politicians.

much of the drive behind LA's NIMBY movement is the absence of true city plans for homeowners to rely upon. the name of the game is spot zoning variances: a developer proposes a project which requires a zoning change and then pays off the local politicians with campaign contributions.

homeowners, caught by surprise, react vociferously ... and then lose.

that's LA's version of a "planning process".

http://www.laweekly.com/news/city-halls-density-hawks-are-ch...
Why do they suggest the plane was at a low altitude? It was an hour into a flight from Seattle to Beijing; by that time they will be cruising above 30,000 feet.
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I agree with Schneier's quote, but you're also forgetting about password hashing. If it takes 10 seconds to derive the key (assuming the use of a strong hash function), anything with a good enough amount of entropy (60-90 bits) should be fine.

When an attacker acquires a leaked database, they're not cracking high entropic passwords.
As I am currently a LastPass user, could you fill me in on the security problems?
Thank you for saying "traditional media" and not using the word journalists.

Wanna bring my blood to a quick boil? Have a news program that pulls content from Twitter. And usually completely unvetted. Who needs legit sources?

It this regard, Twitter is an idea shit show. You can find just about anything said about anything there. So to pull more or less randomly is, to me, unimaginable and too often inappropriate and upsetting.
I don't know what they are now but I satisfied the gen ed requirements of my engineering degree with 2 classes of Spanish, 2 classes of economics, 2 classes of philosophy and 1 class of history.

I tested out of the Spanish (approximately by knowing "perro", that is knowing some basic vocabulary) and still got 8 credit hours for it.

Math, chemistry and physics (4,1 and 2 classes) are technically liberal arts, but they were also sort of applicable to my degree.

I suppose there is an argument to be made that 1.5 semesters is a "strong" requirement, but not really, especially when it includes 3-4 beginner classes that are mostly surveys.
I agree. The browser plugins used to be much cleaner and snappier when I first started using LastPass a few years ago, but it has progressively gotten worse to the point of making the whole thing nearly unusable. It feels like some 4th grader tried to reimplement drop-down menus using a crappy home-made JS framework.

I stayed with LastPass through the various security incidents they've suffered, but recent UI updates finally made me cancel my paid subscription and switch to 1Password -- a standalone app that integrates with the browser through a very lightweight plugin.