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>In other words, don't tell them "give a criminal a second chance." Tell them that many people with criminal records simply shouldn't have them...

That's a very interesting approach, but I believe a hard sell to potential employer. As true as it may be, an employer is more likely to appreciate the individual who says this is my background, this is what I learned and this is my vision of my own future...rather than, it's not my fault, I'm a societal statistic.

In fact, despite the ideas of US prison overcrowding and for profit drive conviction rates...I'd argue the opposite, that it's very likely the employer has already hired individuals who have committed various "crimes" and could but simply don't have records.

I know it's stance but all you need to do it look at the number of reported crimes (serious, not victimless like many would argue about drug possession) and the total prison population.

Example:

prison population = ~ 2.2M inmates

Every year in the US 60,000 children are sexually abused; ~220,000 adults sexually abused or raped; ~19,000 military members experience unwanted sexual contact. [1]

US prisons only seem over crowded until you see the number of violent crimes in the country, it basically works out to a sexual assault/rape every 90 seconds, it's pretty disturbing.

[1] https://www.rainn.org/statistics/scope-problem
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USA's system of "plea bargains" where you can be literally threatened with death penalty and tortured to forced a confession out of you is such garbage I'm speechless whenever something like that (innocent mentally disabled people getting pushed into confessing) happens but many people are okay with it and applaud it since it'll never happen to them and they hate mentally ill anyway.

C.f. Japan where a confession itself is not enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Jap...
That's some really useful information, thanks! Need to add this to the readme
Testing out the Job Search functionality, there seems to be some room for improvement for returning more relevant results first. Doing a quick test against a keyword search for "developer", I would much rather see all results with developer in the job title first. Instead seeing a lot of top results that are not relevant, some which I can't find a form of the word "develop" anywhere in the full job description, much less the job title.

Great concept and great start!
"Have no convictions for any felony..."
> If America doesn't do it, China will, and in a generation will be swollen with a population so much more fit as to make the question of the US standing toe-to-toe laughable.

Or, in a generation they'll be suffering under the crushing burden of unintentional side effects of to-early mass adoption of a novel technology.

More likely, in a generation, they'll have a slight lead in research.
Do you include your compensation histories on your resume/CV?

That said, public-sector positions often do state ranges (In the USA, anyway).
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This is what happens when you base actions against others on beliefs (of harm, of heresy, of treason, etc.) instead of on evidence (of harm, or of secular ethical violations)
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Sometimes I think Europe's chief export is incredulity :)

> And secondly, if a good is faulty, not as described, or unfit for purpose then we have a right to a refund under those terms also.

None of this applies here, OP simply wasn't happy with their purchase. Does it really make sense for the seller to have to pay out of pocket for round-trip shipping on a heavy iron pan because OP didn't bother reading the listing or looking at the pictures?
There are two different kinds of estrogen receptors. Up to a certain amount of soy it affects mainly the receptors not associated with harmful effects. So a certain amount of soy per day is safe & healthy. But beyond that it can be problematic.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-much-soy-is-too-much/

It should be noted that feeding babies milk from cows is an "experiment" too and there's a lot of evidence it's not good for them.
Here's what looks to be his main project, which was digitally recreating parts of the ancient city of Palmyra. Parts of the ruins were being destroyed by ISIL in 2015-2016 (from what I can tell?), but it sounds like that's stopped?

http://www.newpalmyra.org/

Otherwise, can anyone find more of his digital ghost? I looked for a GH but didn't find one.
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I thought the protocol required you to have the keys in hand while scanning the block chain, in order to be sure that all addresses that were generated with your keys can be recovered.

I don't know how I reconcile that with clients like electrum, is that using an implementation of UTXO? Does this just keep a record of any unspent transaction outputs at any given time, scan them, and try your keys on all of them?

I think you can do a similar trick with bitcoin core if you have all of the blocks, but you have a new wallet.dat. You can delete the index and it will regenerate it with the new wallet in mind, recovering all of your unspent transactions.

(You do not need to literally download all of the blocks again, unless you actually don't have them anymore. It is sufficient to rescan them. But this takes time too, and it does require that you must store a copy of the chain somewhere on an ongoing basis.)
This looks very cool, I'm gonna get at least one of my friend's with kids to try this!
>> The management (including the team lead which is otherwise a great leader and an awesome person) didn't want to assume any blame for this.

Not assuming any blame is a trait neither of a great leader or an awesome person. But given the hell hole of a review process, I am not surprised the company has most likely imposter great leaders!
America, historically, has been defined by a Protestant culture which places a lot of religious and moral significance on conceiving human life, and on God's role in creation. Chinese culture does not, as far as I know, have the same stigma against genetic engineering (I admit that while I have traveled for some time in China, I am relatively unfamiliar with any moral, religious, or cultural issues they may have on this topic).

It's natural for the GP to assume that his or her morals are the most correct. How could they behave be otherwise? If they believed that Chinese morals were a higher standard, they would adopt them. Everyone reads the article from their own perspective.
There's even a couple of kernels for IPython/Jupyter.
The best I've seen so far is
https://github.com/Calysto/calysto_hy

I'd like to move to Hy for much more of what I currently do in Python, but so far I've been too lazy to find/create good editor support for it. For actual projects of some size the loss of context help, documentation, various completions, etc seems like too high a price to pay.
So you needed to get 'your' BTC into a real wallet (and not an exchange) to be able to have pre-fork BTC that would act as BCH.

While similar to both currency and commodity, this is one of the situations where cryptocurrency acts as more of a fungible contract than either the currency or commodity. IANAL, but it seems to me that there isn't a whole lot of law written on that. I'd argue that Coinbase expended its fiduciary duty by warning their users of the fork.

Coinbase/kraken/et al., however, don't create/issue the cryptocoins, so it's probably a misnomer to call them exchanges. At best, they are brokerages.

Now say that a bunch of users decided to instruct their broker that's holding their security in trust to so assign the security to the user, and the brokerage sat on that transaction rather than perform the request in a timely fashion? I'd say that potentially counts as a whole host of other actionable events, depending on the intent of the brokerage operators. Not sure if I'd call that front running, but that sounds like a good start to investigate.
This is a pretty common American attitude found in many "non red" states as well: As soon as someone commits a crime--any crime and just once--they become a criminal. It's as if their species permanently changed from human to something else. They're not a human that made a bad decision, they are an "other". Since this new thing they have become is not human, all kinds of inhumane and terrible things can be done to them and justified, including permanent removal of rights, brutalization and rape in prison, permanent loss of employability and access to normal livelihood. All of these things are seen as OK because it's a criminal we're talking about, not an actual person.
Any idea what that may mean for H1B and F1?
Sounds like you refuse to even consider other possibilities. Okay, but there is still the question of his genesis as a terrorist and a murderer. Do you refuse to discuss that too?
And ultimately it leads you back to targeting the IT operations centre for the business where they provision equally to say both AWS and Azure for redundancy. At that point you can knock all of the biz cloud capacity off.
For instance to send messages from client only web applications where the only thing you have is an AJAX call.
It seems inevitable. I always think of the doctor visit in Gattaca.... that's a pretty appealing sales pitch he gives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYJNv8wZvDk
> but many people are okay with it and applaud it since it'll never happen to them

I don't hate many things, but I do hate this aspect of The People At Large. Also the presumption of guilt simply for getting caught up in the system.
Let's say we have a sixty second shot, where two actors throw ten lines of dialogue back and forth at eachother. Let's say that one out of ten takes on a line is good.

It will take far more then ten minutes to film this. The actors may nail line #1 and #2, but flub #3 or #4, or #7 or look at the wrong thing, or the director won't like something about their emotions, or whatnot.

You have to do an entire re-take, whenever one little thing doesn't go as you want.

Compare that to a short-shot film. Have each actor fire off twenty takes of their four second line. If they got tongue-tied on the pronunciation of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, they didn't waste an entire take.

Hell, with short shots the two actors don't even need to be in the same building for filming a scene, let alone on the same set at the same time. Do takes for one on Monday, do takes for the other one on Tuesday. It works better for everyone's schedules, and we can't afford to pay Scarlett Johansson to hang out on set any longer then she has to. Three months later, the director will decide that they really hate one of the shots, and it can be re-filmed during post-production.

The reason that this happens is because filming is expensive, budgets are bloated, celebrity actors command multi-million dollar salaries, editing is easy, and audiences will happily lap up action schlock like Michael Bay's Transformers (With its average of 3.2 seconds per shot.)

My SO works in musical theater. They don't have the privilege of stitching together a show from perfect four second intervals. They have to perform it right from start to finish - a two hour ordeal. This requires many, many weeks of grueling rehearsals... And each performance has many, many mistakes.
I don't feel it amplified anything in me. How is it that you have such strong feelings about it?

We also read excerpts of Mein Kampf at school. I did not have the feeling I needed to kill Jews afterwards. Maybe the text is not the problem here?
For those who want the trick: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/03/27/polynomial-trick/
There is a similar-ish thing in Poland but I don't know how widely it's used or the details of it. You can formally ask to be punished right away. The prosecution must agree too and the court must find that what you said proves that you did what you claim you did. The upside is that it's quicker for you and you can try to get your punishment to be lower, the upside for the court and the police is that they don't have to do a lengthy procedure as they would if you tried to fight back. You also can't do it for crimes that are a "zbrodnia" ('fedolny, sort of, minimum 3 years in prison), just for ones that are defined as a "występek" ('offense', .. again, sort of).
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Try Deis. It's a little more constraining, but it uses Helm under the hood, and it uses a git commit as the basis of each release.
Like a lot of legal matters, it's probably more dependent on whether you can afford to have it done.
How do you determine the dollar value if there aren't solid exchanges where people are buying and selling the coin?
Something to note is that 93 percent of soy grown in the United States is genetically modified [0].

[0]: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-genetical...
I think the highest cost is really collaboration with others. If you ever want help with your project or if people even want to use it you are dealing with only Hy users and disregarding regular Python users. I do like the concept of Hy though.
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I'm not a fan of floods of MBAs, but surely the degree serves some purpose other than class signalling. It seems like an exercise in typical engineer hubris to think <other field> is a trivial pursuit <engineer> could learn in a week.

Suppose you take a veteran engineer heading into management, and send him/her to get an MBA. Will they come back no better for it?
The last such chatbot I used was M-x Doctor. I haven't seen much improvement since then.

IMHO on specific limited matters like obtaining a permit, customer support etc. chatbots can go a long way by using traditional methods. I think if we can map the subject in a big decision tree and apply some good-old Bayesian probability, we can achieve a working conversational chatbot.
There are no balances in bitcoin. It's all deltas.
That might explain the two red light runners I've seen in the last two days with Uber stickers on their windshield. One nearly struck me and would have if I didn't slow down my approach.
Sometimes, usually depends on the source domain.

For instance, if it's a science article from a very-mainstream news source, I'll usually just skip the article altogether (unless I expect there will be pictures).
But, now you have a stateful application running in the cloud, vs an immutable blockchain. And that implicitly means you are now trusting authoritative nodes to hold that state. This is basically moving closer and closer to just a bunch of nodes running a database with some consensus mechanism, rather than an actual blockchain.

(I'm not personally sold that this is actually a distinction that matters - after all, we are already implicitly trusting "authoritative nodes" to deliver the blockchain, and the same mechanism that prevents alteration of the blockchain right now would also prevent altering the database state. Namely, that nobody else is going to accept the version of history where I own infinity bitcoins, regardless of how we record that state.)

A middle ground might be to have the full state available to nodes that want to verify, but also implement a "checkpoint/epoch" mechanism on top for "fast clients" who aren't overly concerned about a massive concerted-but-silent attack on Bitcoin escaping notice.
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This fork was foretold weeks or months ago. Sure, the precise timing of the fork wasn't known until July, but everyone has been talking about "bitcoin's gonna fork" for ages - even hit hacker news multiple times.

Bitcoin holders need to take responsibility for their own holdings, especially when there is no FDIC or any type of assurance that your coins are going to be your coins.
Who said it was a single gene? Do you believe that because there is a risk, no study of these methods or this idea in general should continue?
> And something like 20% of them outsourced part of the projects to developers in South Asia, security risk.

How do you not notice something like that happening on your end? So many of the problems cited by anti-remote bosses are not problems of remoteness at all. Sound like management was very checked-out.
To make it extra ironic USA has a history of creating secular democratic governments where such a system can't exist: http://japan.kantei.go.jp/constitution_and_government_of_jap... (Article 38)
"This may even allow us to survive on Mars or any other places if we actually know how to edit the gene."

How in the world did you make that leap? What's the one gene we can edit that reconfigures human physiology to run off of CO2?
Comic code was a reaction to early and very gritty comics, US comics are still very tame by comparison.
I wouldn't say milk is harmless. It really depends on the person.
>10 loads at laundromat

>1. Put 10 loads in 10 washers.

>2. Move 10 loads from 10 washers to 10 dryers.

>3. Move 10 loads out of dryers and fold.

As if. More like:

1. Arrive at the laundromat and realize there are only four washers free.

2. Start three loads because the fourth one doesn't work no matter how many coins you put in.

3. Wait for a dryer when the the three loads finish. Because washers are faster there are already two people waiting for a free dryer. You realize there's no point in hurrying to do the next three loads, since your first three are only making the dryer situation worse.

4. One dryer is finished but nobody is there to unload it. What's the etiquette at this place - should you take a stranger's load out and put it in one of the dingy carts? You wonder how big the owner of those clothes is, and if he's sane.

5. Eventually you get ten loads of clothes through three washers, read an entire three year old issue of Glamour magazine upside-down to make it last, and get all but the last two loads through the dryers before deciding to dry the last two at home by draping them over your furniture.

Total run time, a little over five hours and ten sanity points.

There's probably another cloud analogy in here somewhere.
Where do you draw the line though? Anyone can invent new tokens and grant them to bitcoin holders; should Coinbase be required to support every one?

This is not a hypothetical question. I particpated in two airdrops this year, Stellar and Byteball. I immediately sold the airdropped tokens and increased my bitcoin holdings by 3%. But I don't think Coinbase should be required to support Stellar or Byteball just because they did airdrops to Bitcoin holders.

Byteball in particular seems like just some guy's random project and only has value because of the current investment bubble in anything that looks like a cryptocurrency. I wouldn't trust it to be secure or work properly. What if Byteball is just a huge scam, and the creator can secretly mint tokens at will? Now Coinbase is participating in a scam!
Also the fact that she doesn't like getting stuck with a needle.

Now, nobody -likes- getting stuck with a needle, but it really isn't as terrible as many make it out to be (unless they miss the vein for an IV - over and over - but that's just up to incompetence or being unlucky).

Certainly not so bad as to perpetrate something of this magnitude.

That said, I tend to wonder if it is possible at all (that is, within the realm of what our technology currently allows for, or what can be done with potential near-future technology) to be able to do the kind of testing at all?

Basically - can you take a drop of blood, and analyse it in such a manner to do all the tests touted by Theranos (even if only in a lab setting and "by hand")? I know for some things it is possible (we all know of glucose testing for those with diabetes, and I've seen something similar for testing of LDL/HDL levels) - so can that be extrapolated to other things - and all with one drop?

I don't know - but I'd love to know. Personally, I don't mind having blood drawn for a test - what I don't like is having to go to a special center to have it done, or to have it done as a separate appointment or whatnot. It would be much more efficient if the doctor or nurse could just poke my finger, get a drop, and stick it in a hand-held machine or something and get an instant reading.

But so far, that seems like it's still in the realm of science fiction than possible science fact.
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We have revamped our UI based on user suggestions. Many features are in the pipeline and we intend to release an app by the end of the month to notify users if their URL status changes.

Would appreciate feedback from this amazing community. :)
It's great to see projects like this on HN. Congrats man, well done!
Yes there is, to ensure a well regulated militia is possible.
Yes and no. By design it's not big, it just seems big. With relative RPO and RTO anyone can failover to other regions. And if you aren't leveraging multiple AZ's within a single region you need to rethink how you are using AWS.

The very nature of AWS requires Amazon to build in capabilities to handle failover. But, as they say at Amazon, "everything fails, always".
It has nothing to do with Quebec. These warrants can be issued anywhere in Canada and in many countries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Piller_order#Canada).
By "run", I more meant "distribute data" (probably with digital signatures to detect tampering, and probably also with encryption).

Even in the sense of "running" sites in a computational sense, projects like Ethereum and BOINC seem to suggest the feasability of such a distributed model without necessarily requiring TC. If the computation itself is actually performed in parallel by different nodes, then outlier nodes (e.g. ones trying to tamper with computation) can be ignored.

Of course, there's the possibility of an attack where the attacker has control over the majority of the nodes running that particular computation. Hopefully such a system could grow to the point where such an attack is infeasible.

Even with that aside, though, most websites nowadays already run to some extent on untrusted hardware (thanks to JavaScript), thus warranting measures to handle untrustworthy IPC.

All in all, it's a hard problem, but not one that's impossible to solve. We already have quite a few of the tools on hand.
I assume they mean most of the features that were once in separate apps are now built into the OS.
Thank you for the clarification. Do you also hire entry level product/program managers ?
My main use cases: Doing data analysis using Numpy, Pandas, sklearn. Calling AWS API using Boto. Calling GDAX API using their Python code samples.

I also use it for small personal scripts.

My first choice for one-off scripts would have been Clojure. But the long startup time for Clojure apps makes it unusable for quick command line scripts. Hy gives us the best of both worlds.
Another full stack dev here, I would also love to help with something meaningful. Feel free to PM me in the future, if I can be of assistance. Remote, from Canada, Pacific timezone.
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If you outlaw genetic engineering, only outlaws will be genetically engineered. Then they'll take over the world.
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The Anton Piller order does not gives the right to the agents of the corporation to enter the citizen's home. The citizen can still refuse.

The order is ordering the civilian to allow the agents to enter his home. You can refuse. However, by refusing you very likely become guilty of contempt of Court.

As for the "deny access to his lawyer" the law says : "The defendants have a right to contact their lawyer within a reasonable amount of time". There is however a supervising lawyer present during the search. This lawyer is neutral to the case and is there to take note of what has been seized or searched.

(Not a lawyer.)