skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Except for some rare circumstances (special deficiencies and illnesses)

You're begging the question by labeling vitamin deficiencies in this population as "rare." But that's not true.

"Vitamin D deficiency occurred in 50.5% of blacks, 29.3% of whites, and 14.3% of Asian inmates (p = 0.007). Black inmates had significantly lower serum 25(OH)D level than white inmates at the maximum security level (p = 0.015), medium security level (p = 0.001), but not at the minimum security level (p = 0.40). After adjusting for covariates black inmates at a maximum security level had a four-fold higher risk for vitamin D deficiency than white inmates at the same security level (OR 3.9 [95% CI 1.3–11.7]."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3944727/

Why Vitamin D? Because the 600 IU RDA (the amount prisons must legally put in their food) is way too low.

Considering how cranky I get if I miss my vitamin D, it's not hard to posit a link between deficiency and increases in aggressive/violent behavior, especially in populations with a high rate of pre-existing mental illness.
Wait, in India I thought that the person-whose-birthday-it-is would be the person that 'treats' everyone else. Typically, you hide that info on your birthday, at least among non family members.
I'm allergic to chicken- I wouldn't be able to keep it down. So it would be pretty awful for me personally.
When news reports quoted the White House saying it was an exercise (which they did) I was naturally inclined to take that at face value. Here is one example.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/368907-white-hous...

Furthermore, allow me to quote from the NY Times story on which we are commenting:

Officials said the alert was the result of human error and not the work of hackers or a foreign government. The mistake occurred during a shift-change drill that takes place three times a day at the emergency command post, according to Richard Rapoza, a spokesman for the agency. (emphasis added)

Now you're accusing me of lying. Previously you thought my disagreement with your dismissal of the issue was shitty and you accused me of being irrational. You are in no position to complain about civility.

Please retract your false accusation.
You're completely right. UAC was too aggressive (they admitted that was their mistake) and a few other bits needed tuning but it was actually quite an improvement over XP. 7 was what it should have been.

All those glitches though came from MS's far too aggressive and unrealistic plans for Vista. A couple years before it launched, 2003 I think, I was heavy in the Mozilla world, and had a high-ish profile in the community (I ran MozillaNews.org and was a long time triager). Robert Scoble tried to hire me to be a bridge between MS and Mozilla, a tech evangelist for features of Longhorn (as Vista was known then) that could help Mozilla, or really features that Mozilla could be a showcase for and be a tech ad for MS. I set aside my suspicions and gave it a try, learning about the technical side of Vista. I learned a lot, and wound up not taking the gig. I told him I didn't think these things has any real benefit to a cross platform application like Mozilla, and that I had real doubts they'd have any real impact on the market even if they were delivered, which I had strong doubts about.

The three tentpoles MS wanted Mozilla to use were:
1. Avalon/WPF
2. Palladium
3. WinFS

1. I told Scoble that I saw no benefit in Avalon yet as in 2003/4 Mozilla wasn't really about to dedicate lots of time and attention to coding for some new graphics API that wouldn't be launched for years. He said it would be out much sooner. I said I had my doubts given it's rather early stage of development.

2. "Imagine users knowing their online banking and purchases are 100% secure thanks to the hardware and their OS!" I said I thought the idea was rubbish, a nonstarter, and I hoped it failed.

3. WinFS. My arguments were simple, "apps like this don't care about the FS. Plus, it'll never launch. I have zero faith this feature will be out before 2010. Filesystems are hard, and MS has a long history of cutting features to get products out the door. This is a prime target to be cut."

He argued it was solid and amazing, etc, as a good tech evang should, but in the end I said no to the whole deal. I couldn't in good conscience try to push tech that I didn't believe in and didn't even think would ever release. They were hell bent on shoving all this and more in Longhorn, rather than a smaller release in 2004 and finish the other features later. And thus, we got Vista. Lots of great tech, rushed out the door, and poorly configured.
But they're _all_ already there via the WLSS (Bash on Ubuntu on Windows) if you want them.

Not to mention that the PowerShell equivalents of a lot of *nix commands are _much_ better. "Everything is an object" is a brilliant philosophy and it's a joy to use.
I really like this piece, but your font size is WAY too small, especially on mobile.
The long-lived secret for TouchID is generated in the SEP, using the UID of the SoC (a secret known only to the SoC) and the serial number of the respective sensor. That key is then keywrapped with a (symmetric) key known to all TouchID sensors and sent to the fingerprint sensor. It unwraps and verifies the key and burns it into fuses.

That key is then used for establishing a session key in the field. The session key uses entropy from both the SEP TRNG and the TouchID TRNG.

Your threat means someone would 1. need to know the TouchID global key 2. slurp off all the keywrapped blobs for later, at all iPhone manufacturing sites. This then gives them to ability to either decrypt fingerprints, or feed 'fake' fingerprints to the SEP. Given that there are far easier ways of stealing fingerprints, that leaves the feeding fake fingerprints to the SEP. If you're in a position to do that you might as well just feed the phone a fake finger.
Why would I as a founder want the tap rate be controlled via consensus? It could hinder certain purchases if they are time sensitive.
Well, when there's political reasons to make prisoners eat as badly as possible ("government spends taxpayer dollars on good meals for prisoners, news at 11!") then vitamins might be a stupid but expedient way to keep prisoners healthier without provoking vindictive public sentiment.
You give a 3rd party ATMs permission to withdraw money every time you use them. If they wanted to, they could store the data on the stripe of the card and your pin, and steal all of your money.
But there are certain jobs where the job is to get it right 100% of the time. This sort of mistake is extremely damaging in the unlikely scenarios that there would be an actual alert. A significant proportion of the population will ignore it next time because of this. You can’t take the “shits happen”, “break often and break fast”, “it doesn’t matter because we learn from our mistakes” attitude with everything. And in general with anything that has to do with nuclear energy & weapons. Or take a swat team to take another recent example of a really bad mistake.

https://www.xkcd.com/1428/
I really like the point about considering cloud computation costs. It would be great if individual developers could get feedback like, "This patch caused X% CPU cost per request, resulting in Y% monthly cost increase to keep projected usage below alert trigger levels." I also like the note about the headless abstraction, although I think it could gain some strength by talking about AWS Lambda or the actor model.

But, I think the dedication to writing perfect code without executing it is misguided. It's 2018 - we have interactive debuggers, excellent profiling tools, and unit tests. Most developers have a computer with 4+ cores and 8G+ of memory. It would be foolish not to take advantage of that.
I'd also be keen to know. I had assumed it was https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical .. which is pretty good, but I just discovered comp.lang.javascript only goes back to 2001 there, so my posts from the 90s are not to be found :) Other groups do go back to the mid 90s, however.
Same here buddy.
> I'm not sure why people think electronics would be an exception

I'll take a swing at this.. one reason is that modern electronics contain - both directly and through remote access to other systems via stored cookies, etc - far more private and/or commercially-sensitive information than almost any other widespread physical object that may cross a border. In the 1960s a (non-spy) traveler faced a search of some clothing, cash-on-hand, and perhaps some food/snacks and prescription drugs. Far different from facing a search of every photo you've ever taken, every private message you've written to your spouse, or the full IP of your successful software company, etc.
I was in that situation once. But I was the experienced programmer and the rest of the team wanted to use C. For a web application and gui code. They overrode me but given the number of segfaults and memory leaks the application suffered I was right and should have stood my ground. However given the description of your situation I doubt you'll lose that much productivity by choosing Python. Imho, you are at least twice as productive in Python than in C. But no language exist in which you are twice as productive compared to Python.
Dabya posted to the article telling the story of the lady who was fired for an insensitive tweet about hiv in Africa.

Although Spolsky didn’t call it out, I agree with you that his sentiment is likely that she shouldn’t have been fired. And that’s almost my opinion too.

However, to conflate that to meaning support for Weinstein is a rather large leap and one that I don’t think is constructive to the discussion unless there is more evidence. As not it’s largely speculation, so it’s impossible to resolve if we go down that path.

This goes toward Spolsky’s point that social media (partially HN as well) leads to more shrill discussion. Perhaps ubconsciously so, I see things commonly conflated with their most extreme possibilities and then arguing against this extreme straw man. For example, “you don’t think the hiv comment lady should have been fired? How can you support Weinstein? How can you think nazism isn’t bad for America. Your silence is part of the problem.” And then tens of thousands of characters pro and against. While most sites then rake in ad revenue from the rage.

It’s hard to think of ways to change your own behavior. For me, it’s avoiding commercial social media sites and favoring simpler sites like HN.
The fact that they are laughing at you does not mean that you are not actually living in lala land. The whole 'prepper/suvivalism' movement took a big hit after Sandy Hook. To date survivalists have caused more deaths than their preparations have saved.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16140761.
Show HN: Unlimited HTML Email Templates – SaaS for Designers and Marketers
What did SOPA have to do with Net Neutrality?
Squeezing SQLite INSERTs
I'm a bit skeptical of derivative-based stablecoins in general, but Dai dropped briefly and then went right back to about a dollar, currently $1.02. I don't think they ever claimed that their price stabilization mechanisms would work instantaneously.
Yes, because the primary cost to the company is the cost of developer time, not the download bandwidth cost or the power cost for increased utilization level of the user’s CPU.

The craftsman cares they can accomplish the task without needing a large library. The business cares that it can get to market quickly and profitably at minimal cost. “I prefer your competitor because their code was lovingly hand crafted instead of being shipped quickly with the features I need” said no customer, ever (witness that we all use compilers rather than hand-coding the machine code in an assembler... all the same arguments were made against compiled code back in the day, and compiled code was the right answer, then and now).
software development != web software development.

Processing efficiency is still extremely important in the embedded world. Don't think that the embedded market is small, practically every product you buy has s/w in it.

When you make for example a million units of a product, every single byte and every cycle counts as there is a large multiplier to take account of.

Efficiency counts, just not in the web world.
> It's the protestant puritan spirit.

It could be that, or a 1000 other things. Not one debate about historical causality has ever been settled in web comments.

However, in a society primarily organised around inculcating greed (brought about by another set of complex historical causes), I'd propose highly-profitable privatised incarceration as an a priori plausible candidate for a causal factor.
Given the OP says he was 22 when getting hired the first time again, I doubt it can have been a serious crime, unless he had committed it at a very young age, which would put everything into another light, too.
To be frank I prefer him distracted, as opposed to overreacting and deciding to launch a retaliatory strike. I'm disinclined to trust people who announce themselves publicly as 'a very stable genius'.
Kind of a cool hack: I believe HN used to record upvotes through a CSS rule that (when clicked) caused an empty image to load. No JS required.
I think someone convicted of financial crimes would be a much bigger concern than, say, a DWI.
Hi,

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My model is to give teams an ability to test their ideas and to make email templates quickly.

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Unlike the stand-alone, isolated mainframe era, our applications today are interconnected.

In an academic environment, perhaps the author didn't experience intersystem dependencies. In production environments, however, there was arguably more interdependency with (and, therefore, risk to) other systems and users.

Take a manufacturing environment. Shop orders take in inventory information, labor detail, assembly progress, facilities and supplies usage, etc., any or all of which can involve independent systems. In turn, each production step can create information that needs to go back to each system.

Any error or change in those inputs and outputs could force a rerun of all systems downstream of the first error. This is especially noteworthy to the guy/gal being called in at 3AM to unravel such hairballs.

I'd daresay that most interconnection with external systems in the modern mobile environment is primarily used for social media, tracking and other privacy suckage. (Ghostery output can be quite surprising, for example.)
...but giving the design a bit more thought to end up with something which either is more performant or can be easily optimised at a later stage does pay off in the long term.
gangs have an hierarchy, experience with violence and disregard of ethics. if you and your "brothers in arms" are veterans you have pretty good odds otherwise not so much.
ICAN got nuclear weapons banned? I.e. they got a bunch of non-nuclear states to sign an agreement about nuclear weapons? Maybe they’d be getting more funding if they weren’t so damn worthless.
Well, this transformed from a sad story into a comedy. I didn't even know Aaron Swartz had a yuppie startup bro brother. That's probably why he killed himself. lol, i crack myself up.
This can't be a serious take, except perhaps for a single person making above $60k/year. One, your marginal labor cost is $0. Most people don't want to work more than their normal job. Two, if you have a family, the idea of eating out for every meal is a non-starter financially. I just cooked dinner for our family. Nothing fancy, just hamburgers. Total cost for four of us was approximately $7. Fresh ingredients, healthy beverages, etc etc. 1/4lb hamburgers, not wimpy ones like McDonalds. If I took the family to a decent restaurant (not fast food) it would cost me at least $40, not counting travel costs.
API keys are stored on the computer (even accidentally pushed to github, etc)

Credentials for web interfaces are stored in our heads.

People are still able to use their own computers - via the web interface, which is under the full control of the banks.
I don't consider Aaron's death a suicide, either. It was not exactly a Magnitsky-style beaten-in-prison death, but overly-zealous prosecutors trying to "make an example" of him had more to do with his death than mental illness.

Note what happened, in that context, when someone who was not an American political activist did what criminal prosecutors were going after Aaron for:

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-woman-has-illegally-upload...
Hawaii Panics After Alert About Incoming Missile Is Sent in Error
That is in fact what you should do during an earthquake, which is the closest equivalent to a nuclear blast in terms of suddenness and potential destructive impact.
Image Segmentation to Distinguish Between Overlapping Human Chromosomes
I've used a variation of this that catches other signals as well:

trap 'rc=$?; trap "" EXIT; cleanup $rc; exit $rc' INT TERM QUIT HUP
trap 'cleanup; exit' EXIT
Some lines, like part of the M1 metro line in Warsaw, are somewhat prepared to serve as a shelter.
Well said, but embedded developers already know this and behave as if their compute resources are scarce. I read the author as speaking to developers generally, which I think was his intent.
> They ship 7.55.1, while 7.57.0 was the latest version at the time. That’s just three releases away so I consider that pretty good. Lots of distros and others ship (much) older releases.

Indeed. I am running latest High Sierra and:

curl --version
curl 7.54.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin17.0) libcurl/7.54.0
LibreSSL/2.0.20 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.24.0
such drama from bloomberg. traditional media is not up to date with crypto. that was a planned update that took longer and now trading is free for the rest of the month
the big question to answer is, are prisoners short enough on vitamins and nutrients to increase the likelyhood of disease?

If yes, then a Vitamin pill Might fix the problem - although vitamins pills are impressively high in vitamins and minerals, the absorption in the body could be quite limited. but, if it does fix the TB and disease problem, then its probably a great investment. I mean you can get like half a years worth of vitamin pills for just 30$.

But, if Vitamin pills aren't being absorbed properly, then we'll need to feed them foods high in vitamins. Depending on the deficiency, we can find the foods that are the very highest in a nutrient using my tool here: https://kale.world/c

This tool can find the foods with the very highest nutrient density for vitamins:A,b,c,e,k and lots of minerals, etc.

For instance, we all know Vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy. So, if you use the tool, you'll see that the top sources for vitamin C are: red peppers, broccoli, kale, cauliflower. They are so high in vit C, they would only need a small amount of it, to reach their daily recommended amount. As little as 40 cals of broccoli gets you to your RDA.
Was this a test drill? I haven’t seen anything stating that.
I sent a support request a few weeks ago asking for CAA recently too, they didn't even indicate they were planning to add that.
Prior to their purchase, I recall my dad spending some time trying to persuade my headmistress that the RM Nimbus was a bad choice and we should have "real PCs" in school instead. Unfortunately it turned out the powers that be had a contract with RM and the choice of machine was basically forced upon schools.

With that said, beyond the odd software incompatibilities, I found it an interesting system. Its BASIC was pretty good and it had a music chip integrated at a time when almost no machines had sound cards.

Anyone else remember "TRAINS"? :-D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvwoPUqDCa4
The long-lived secret for TouchID is generated in the SEP, using the UID of the SoC (a secret known only to the SoC) and the serial number of the respective sensor. That key is then keywrapped with a (symmetric) key known to all TouchID sensors and sent to the fingerprint sensor. It unwraps and verifies the key and burns it into fuses.

That key is then used for establishing a session key in the field. The session key uses entropy from both the SEP TRNG and the TouchID TRNG.

So an 'evil' Apple couldn't crack the session key unless it had been evil all along and storing the generated keywrapped blobs. In which case you're sorta screwed no matter which way you slice it.
everything is up and trading is free for the rest of the month. </drama>
> The business cares that it can get to market quickly and profitably at minimal cost.

And then the successful business, in contrast, actually looks at total cost of ownership.
The Criminal Database used by the FBI and federal agencies is shared with Canada as well (probably with European organizations if they bother to ask). Which is why its sometimes important to see if the crimes you're accused of might have a more strict interpretation in other countries.

e.g. DWI in Canada is considered much more serious than in the US. One of my friends pleaded no contest to another misdemeanor charge to escape the scrutiny that would come with having to deal with DWI on record by arguing that he would have difficulty in traveling to Canada.
The emulation scenes are... odd. Not quite free software. Egos and entitlement on the part of the users a lot of the time.

The GameCube scene was excellent, however
One thing I hate about the modern disregard for resource consumption is that I can't tell whether a given app or program is merely sloppily inefficient, or if it's ma!ware-laden. (Too often, it's probably both.)
This gets towards an answer to the question I've always posed to computer scientists seeking to emulate brain function in a program: what is the basic unit of memory?

When you drill down to the fundamentals of computer science you get to the bit; all complex data is essentially a representation on top of bits. I've always wondered what the quantum of human memory is though. What's the smallest thing that you can remember?

I always think about this because my living memories are rich-media with sound and sight and smell and feel. I suppose facts can be a smaller bit of memory, but how is that actually encoded? Maybe we'll know in our lifetimes, maybe not.
Well, the US wasn't always like that. But if I look at the prison population statistics, someone seemed to have figured out how to make big bucks off the prison system sometime in the early 80s...
We are completely on the same page there, though I would say “care about the risk adjusted total cost of ownership.” Early on, the business doesnt know if the product will succeed so the risk is high and any developer time/dollars invested are disproportionately high risk adjusted TCO. Once the product is successful, the operational costs dominate and the risk factor of time/dollars spent on dev time to optimize the code falls, justifying time spent to improve the efficiency across many measures, but those things don’t kick in until there is some measure of success in the market. Until then, risk adjusted TCO for dev time is very very high and needs to be aggesssively minimized to achieve that minimum risk adjusted total cost of ownership.