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> what are the legal repercussions for killing someone that's about to die?

The example I have heard around this is that if you shoot, and kill, someone who is currently falling off a building you are still guilty of murder.

The reasoning, I believe, is that anything grayer than "if you killed them, you killed them" very quickly devolves into an argument over what "imminent" is.
That crossover really showed up in the interior of the Dragon spacecraft.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjSb_b4TtxI
Vbox shared folders isn't the only way. You can use any tech that you can with "real" devices too if both guest and host has a support.

For example, when I started with vagrant, after few days of just getting bored with slow thoughput of vbox shared folders, I added nfs sharing. But cifs works as well.
The employee is not below the employer, but the employer is the one who decides if the employee gets hired.

Want a job there? Play by their rules. Don’t want a job there? Have an email exchange like this one.
Ask HN: If you've made a complete recovery from chronic pain, how did you do it?
I've been trying to find a solution to my career-threatening repetitive stress injury (arms and wrists) as well as upper back pain for about 4 years now.

To those of you who have completely recovered (i.e. you're entirely or almost entirely pain-free) from any chronic pain issue: how did you do it? Please include how long you had the issue, what you did, and how long it's been since your recovery.
I expect managers to go to jail, in addition to a financial kneecap that forces other companies to vigilantly pressure their management for security.

Well, maybe not expect. This is America... I expect infuriating golden parachutes. But I certainly hope for criminal charges and jail time.
Main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15195510
> Irrational or corrupt states may do it anyway, but in that case the problem isn't competitive pressure, it's stupidity or corruption.

Well it's both, isn't it? Corporations seek out the most "stupid and corrupt" state with weak environmental regulations that will drive them to ruin, but maximize short-term private profit. Also, not that hard to do when the corporate elite fund elections.

> And then the next state over can out-compete them by offering environmental regulations with a $12M tax credit which the dumb state can't afford because it lost those resources to pollution.

Great. So your corrective mechanism for corruption is, states first have to fail due to extreme environmental pollution. Which happens over multiple generations, long after the corporations that drove the process have distributed profits and moved on. Not a really primo solution there. That is exactly why we have global warming. I guess our next planet can learn from Earth's "stupid and corrupt" mistakes, as part of a natural market correction, right?
Show HN: [JS] Exchange data with Web Wrokers like with a HTTP back end
Dilemma: spend $30 on credit freezes or put $30 into bitcoins?
I think the poster was saying that proper unit testing would give false positives.

Example: If I have a "dead" add() function with a unit test that asserts add(2,2) == 4, then code coverage would report that function being covered even if no other part of the codebase uses it anymore.
Yes, I'm Sure I Want Single Payer
Not sure what you are on about. IPv6 has Unique Local Addressing (RFC 42193) and Network Prefix Translation (RFC 6296). Care to guess what those do when combined?

Now given that the smallest subnet in IPv6 is /64 then you are unlikely to need to bother with port mapping as well. I will grant you that putting 65000 odd IPs on a system may not be the most efficient way of doing things. Anyway at least you get a choice in the matter. Many problems with, for example, VoIP are fixed with symmetric NAT which falls out of this scheme right away.

My problem with IPv6 is how you get "tied" to your initial ISP in an intimate way due to getting all your IP addressing from them. SLAAC does go a long way to fix this but it is a little like ISP assigned email addresses stopping people from moving away.

Also, consider what happens when you have multiple internet connections perhaps for redundancy/backup. You actually need NPT to get that to work in any meaningful way unless you pay for private address space and take a deep dive into BGP etc.
There is plenty of software that is driven entirely by specification. Inputs come in and outputs go out. And you validate that with a test suite, etc.

But even more software is designed not for machine-machine communication but for machine-human interaction. And humans are notoriously bad at knowing what they want and need. In some cases, the existence of software so fundamentally changes the nature of work that humans don't even have the frame of reference necessary to provide full specifications. Yet the software still has to be written, do it's job, and be accepted. I'm not sure I have an answer to your question but somehow I still get the job done.
Backblaze – Extended Maintenance (B2 Down)
This thing called "Identity Theft" does cause damage, but it's important to remember that if fraudsters trick a bank into thinking they are you, it is the bank's fault for failing to properly verify it was actually you. Doing so would cost them more money and it is much easier to do cursory checks instead.

No doubt fraudsters impersonating you is a hassle and you must spend some time and money dealing with it if you are targeted, but do not lose sight of why it happens and who is ultimately responsible.
I really liked Roger Ebert and generally agreed with his tastes although, like anyone else, he had certain preferences I didn't share and every now and then I'd be "huh." I'm petty much fine with scores I can easily drill down on these days. I couldn't name a really dependable critic whose tastes I really share--not that I've made a real effort to calibrate against the major pub critics.
Requiring better proof of identity would create friction to consumer credit transactions.
> people don't buy bitcoin for its use in transactions

I'd beg to differ.. sure there is definitely a percentage of HODL'ers but to say people don't use it in transactions is straight up lunacy.

https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions?timespan=all
https://blockchain.info/charts/trade-volume?timespan=all
Strawman is a logical fallacy, which occurs when someone refutes an argument not actually made.

My argument: he was a teacher, recent grad, and a vandal [the victim/suspect was painted one way, biasing the reader].
Refuted argument: His being a vandal was irrelevant, because death as a punishment does not fit the crime of vandalism.
Which, as crazy as it sounds resulted in some products that were extremely durable because of the huge tolerances allowed for in the design.
You're right it was never meant to be a unique identifier, we need a national identification card, link to a video about it.

https://youtu.be/Erp8IAUouus
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Depends on what you're trying to measure! Arguably we still can't measure many things accurately.
Good old "the vulnerability is purely theoretical". Thank God no individuals on this planet focus on making the theoretical practical, especially not when there is money at stake. That would be unsportsmanlike.
> Tasers are non-lethal ranged weapons, complementing non-lethal close-range (batons/pepper spray) and lethal ranged weapons (guns).

All the examples in that sentence of “non-lethal” weapons are, really, merely less-lethal (than firearms); non-lethal is a factually-inaccurate label used for misleading propaganda purposes.
Ok so how do you de-escalate when the perp charges for you? If you are wrong, again, innocent bystanders and/or yourself may be killed. I'm not saying that everyone who runs or says bad words to an officer should be shot, I'm saying if someone physically strikes or attacks an officer, they have to operate with the assumption that the gun is on the table, anything less is incredibly irresponsible. A relevant article:

https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2013/fall/guns-kill-cops-statis...

The results were published this spring in the journal Injury Prevention. The study revealed information that surprised Swedler. First, an overwhelming number of the officers—93 percent—died from gunshots. "We expected guns to be commonly used," Swedler says, "but we thought that homicides would be perpetrated by other means as well. We were really surprised by that 93 percent." In 10 percent of cases, officers were shot with their own guns. In 43 percent of the homicides, the victims were working alone, often responding to domestic disturbance calls. "They would arrive on the scene and they would be ambushed and they weren't prepared," Swedler says.
A similarly convenient find in London was that the Roman amphitheatre was right underneath the City of London's main museum [1], the Guildhall gallery. Because the museum is on one side of Guildhall Yard, the historic seat of the City's government. Which is located where it is because that is where the Saxon guildhall was. Which was there because it was a nice open space amongst the rubble of the old citadel when the Saxons recolonised London. Which it was because it was the old Roman amphitheatre.

[1] In a sense.
Matrix is a protocol. You can implement it with any client you want with any usability profile you want it to have. Unless you mean the protocol itself is flawed?
Most are falsifiable and they are hard to do over the Internet (and are easier to fake over the internet). Also you can't change the info if there is a breach
The charter cost from PrivateFly looks like it includes allowances for empty-return flights etc.

The actual block hour cost for a 737-800 is a third that rate.
eg. $3500/Hr.

For a small group, something like a CJ3 is more typical.

https://www.privatefly.com/us/private-jets/small-jet-hire/Ce...

$2676/Hr on PrivateFly

Here is the block hour cost for a variety of small airliners.

http://www.planestats.com/bhsn_2017mar

737-800 is $3500/Hr depending on the operator. $6785 per economy seat for a 2 Hour flight is outrageous.
http://blog.fastforwardlabs.com/2017/09/07/to-the-future.htm...
I wonder what the breakdown is then between wired and wireless keyboards? I have to think the wired ones are far more popular.

I've had a wired Logitech trackball for many years, and I worry that on the day it breaks I won't be able to replace it.
Good point about NPM! I'd rather not work with either technology.
Thought exercise: Someone with lawful authority tells you to move. You don't move. What now?
That Werner Von Braun dude got so lucky.
> The job dynamic are likely a predator-prey style relationship of supply vs demand.

I thought about this for a while after you wrote it.

In a stable setting, where there is not a large and pre-existing supply of prey, prey animals tend to have large broods. Many off their offspring are preyed upon or otherwise unable to reproduce, but just enough make it in each generation and likewise manage to have large broods.

This is not a behaviour that seems plausible with modern people. The amount of time required to educate someone prior to their entering workforce is enormous now -- we can't afford to do something like what prey animals do, with regards to work.
Yes, but what would be the advantage of having low level HTML/CSS?

WA gives us performance. Before WA you could already write with many languages and output JS.
New examples have been added to the "Features" pages: https://javascript.studio/features/runtime-errors
Discovering a breach is only a fraction of what has to happen before customers/public should be notified of said breach. It's not very helpful to anyone if you put out a press release that just says "we discovered a breach but have no idea who, if anyone, was affected, we have no idea what was stolen, and we have no idea who did it." There have to be investigations that happen prior to any of that being known/released. Investigations to find this type of stuff out usually takes months, and typically involves the FBI or other agencies, which sometimes will actually ask you to keep news of the breach quiet if it might help them track down the perpetrators. You also want time to fix the issue before you go tell the entire world that there's a hole in your security.

I work in cybersec and I would actually say that under 1.5 months from discovery of unauthorized access to releasing this press release (and already having the equifaxsecurity2017 website up and running) is astonishingly fast work.
If a 200 pound man on drugs is charging at you screaming with rage, a taser gives you a good chance to survive without getting hurt and without shooting anyone.

So do a lot of other methods.
Why not XMPP though? Why hang onto IRC? I mean sure this is cool but it's client specific features with no standardisation of the protocol (correct me if i'm wrong).

If I have to install a special client (quassel) to access these features how is that any better than installing a XMPP client?

Only thing IRC has going for it is the existing userbase, most of who run clients that won't support these new features.
Wasted food could feed a healthy diet to two-thirds of American
I'm kind of of the philosophy that you aught to train yourself to extract the facts on your own. You're unlikely to change the trend and it's a good ability to have in situations other than reading the news, like in conversations.
> Juries are not allowed to research or study the facts about the case on their own.

Do jury members get to go home overnight during their service, or is this actually enforced?
As the Marijuana Industry Matures, So Do the Marketing Tactics
Do you have any proof?

The article listed states 276 related reports of death after taser use since 2000. I'd imagine tasers are used a few hundred times per day across the US, if not more.
Also a pilot of 31 years (jeeze has it been that long!) apparently they should have crewed the other flights with military transport pilots. They would NOT have turned around... how many flights flipped a bitch without trying to find the hole? LOL

All macho talk aside, good on that Delta crew!!! That's worth a case of beer, on the Ada boy scale!
JavaScript ambient lighting library for images and videos
Taking Biotech to the Next Level – How about Automation?
When Texas Tech Investigated Sexist Behavior, It Found No One to Blame
> I didn't write this as an indictment of the recruiter.

Have you heard? Authorial intent is dead. If you write something crappy, it doesn't matter if you meant to or not.

Calling someone a 'lossy filter' dehumanise them; these are people doing an incredibly difficult job & whose work has a huge impact on the productivity and success of companies.

> Structuring the response so that everyone gets the outcome they want, as an acknowledgment of the constraints, and not as a criticism of the recruiter makes everybody win.

I find this a disingenuous excuse: the behaviour you think should change was the recruiter's insistence on specifically 'Linux'. It is a criticism, whether you intended it or not. Your recommendations are to recognise and work around this behaviour, not to understand and accept it.

As a thought exercise, have you considered how a candidate without Linux experience would have acted in this situation? What evidence would the recruiter use to determine if this was a genuine candidate, or a dead lead that wouldn't proceed + waste their time + cause them to miss their quota?
> would have long go have been eaten away in any other ocean

Ahem!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/black-sea-shipwre...
I can't agree with this more. I was the victim of identity theft many years ago. I my case the data leaked from an employee at my company's payroll dept! There was nothing I could have done to prevent it. Anyway I did this many years ago and have not worried about it since. There is some small hassle because people run credit checks for weird reasons that have nothing to do with trying to get a loan or line of credit. For instance when I got promoted to a certain level at my last company they ran one, and while they didn't run them when I got hired, I think later they started doing them as part of "background checks" for all new hires. The other hassle is sometimes the credit agencies change the way you "unfreeze" and I've had some problems with that, or the people running the check don't actually know which of the three credit agencies they are using. However for the once every four or five years hassle it is definitely worth the piece of mind for me. In many cases you can "temporarily" revoke it for a week or 10 days.
"Specifically, we were mapping the vulnerable period of the cardiac cycle. This interval, lasting a mere 0.035 of a second in duration, occurs with each heartbeat. It is the only moment in the cardiac cycle when the heart is susceptible to ventricular fibrillation. Once the chaotic rhythm of ventricular fibrillation ensues, the heart stops pumping blood. Spontaneous recovery is impossible. Within a few minutes life is extinguished. Electrical current, irrespective of intensity, will not disrupt the heart’s rhythm if delivered outside the vulnerable period."

https://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/thumpversion-fo...
This is really well produced, and he's a great narrator! Loving both the hacker spirit and the contemporary music with DTMF mashups.

NPR or someone should pick this up and give it a broader audience.
>The company said that it discovered the intrusion on July 29

Why is this posted now?
Like the old saying... you owe the bank 10 thousand dollars? Your problem. You owe them 10 billion? Their problem.
Sure. The rise of civilization has always had a fairly direct correlation with how efficiently we could extract food from the land. When we all lived as hunter-gatherers, we didn't get much done other than some cave art. With the rise of farming came the priestly class, and Ur, the first city. Plows, granaries, preservation, crop rotation, selective breeding, refrigeration, and so on, further increased the number of people a single farmer could feed. As fewer people were engaged in the act of feeding everyone, more craftsmen, artists, administrators, and so on, could push civilization forward. As a nearby comment notes, over the history of the US, we have increased the efficiency of our farms by a factor of ten, and a tiny fraction of people are actually needed to work the land.

That said, farming is still a brutal business. For being an industry that determines whether hundreds of millions will live or die, farmers are typically faced with enormous debt burdens, long work days, and second jobs. It's a pretty screwed up situation.
Capitalism is cut-throat, there is no other capitalism in the West or the East. The only reason capitalism works a little better is because there is meant to be competitors in times of surplus. Evidently, no one has surplus of water to compete against price gouging and Amazon's logistical operations are unable to handle certain edge cases such as these.
NOAA does not fly their Gulfstream into hurricanes, it flies over them. They use WP-3s (strengthened P-3 Orions) to fly through the hurricane. The wind shear and turbulence can put quite a lot of stress on the airframe, it's nowhere near harmless. Crosswinds also make flying difficult, not to mention the vibration. A non-reinforced plane with a good pilot and 3-point seat belts could probably make it through, but the extra maintenance needed after would be enormous.
This case seems a little different in that it's pretty difficult to not have your personal information in their system.

You roll in to Target or Home Depot, you decide to pay with a check, card or cash. You decide to give them your information or not. You decide if you want to go back after they mismanage your information. Can you opt out of Equifax's business and still get credit or loans? Can you even opt out at all?
Who down modded his comment. Get over yourself, snowflake.
I agree with your points, my umbrage was against the general sentiment in the forum that tools of force are bad and need to go because force is never really justified.
How do you know if this affects you?
>Equifax said that, it had hired a cybersecurity firm to conduct a review to determine the scale of the invasion.

I think most people are unaware of the depth of data Equifax has on them, beyond simple credit scores (e.g. health information).

Which makes the above quote from the article even more unconscionable. There should be no need for an outside firm to figure out what happened. They should have in-house expertise that is unmatched (although third-party audits ahead of time would be wise).
Seems bit odd statement to make as you don't really need any protocol level support to do NAT. You just need to rewrite some headers on the router and do conntracking and there's your NAT.
I think this is mostly correct, but I see it a bit differently. This initial wave of speculation is slowly building up network utility. Use cases like micro-transactions or Web payments become more and more viable as the network size grows. Eventually enough people own Bitcoin that it makes sense for it to be baked into a browser for micropayments, and for it to be used in lieu of Venmo/PayPal. Speculation is the boot loader for real utility
Phreakers were/are telephone system hackers. Back in the day it was possible to hack telephone systems using simple electronics and some technical knowledge. The page being linked to seems to go into some of the history of phone phreaking.

Incidentally, the following clip contains the most impressive demonstration of phreaking I've ever seen, showing a blind phreaker with perfect pitch called Joe Engressia who was able to hack the phone system just by whistling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVZm7I1CTBs

A fair amount of the hacker culture of the 80s and early 90s (hacker in terms of what the common perception of a hacker is) seems to owe its debt to the trail blazed by phreakers.
It's only mostly down!
Become a key figure in the Civil Rights movement?
Scotty, the guy in the video here. Sorry I'm late to the party. It was 165 rmb, so about $25.
Indeed, this is "guilty even when proved innocent".
Me too please.
What is online now is the basic requirement for all of the potential users. ES 6 will follow, Node will follow, and hopefully an On-Premises solution will follow too. The research helped find the right place to start and where to go from there. I can't do everything at once :)
If you are going to write a new client for a chat protocol, why use IRC over Matrix, especially since Matrix bridges to IRC?
Simpler than apache doesn't mean simple. As someone who sets up HTTP servers rarely, I had trouble when I tried out NGINIX.

But I suspect for people who do it more seriously, then it's nginix config hits the sweet spot. To me the language seems sophisticated, well documented and fairly well behaved if you pay attention to the rules.

That's can make it too hard for someone casually trying to quick-start some experimental project. But it's exactly what you want if you are maintaining a long-lived set up that is likely to grow and become complicated over time.
> This is not proof of identity.

What is it then?

I've seen it used as a quasi-password by car hire companies to access driving license history.
I don't think I made my point clearly enough.

Was I, in the 1980s and 1990s, using email, when I didn't use a system which has the features that he says are required to be called "email"?

If I wasn't using email, then he's using a definition which is highly idiosyncratic.

If I was using email, then people before him, in the 1970s, were using email. More specifically, which feature finally made a simple text mail client like BSD Mail become "email".

The concept "usable" is effectively meaningless. You can always change the threshold. Gmail is far more usable than his system was.