skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one way to look at it.

The other perspective is that most people would not need to learn that lesson in the first place. This employee is unlikely to make this type of mistake again, but broadly speaking, is he less likely to make mistakes than someone who wouldn't have made this mistake in the first place? Doubtful.
TLDR: if you aim for 100x and achieve a 3x, that won't affect my fund much financially but I'll be very happy for you and your team. But if you initially aim for a 3x then I can't invest in the first place based on my portfolio model.

For a good VC fund, a typical portfolio might look something like 30 investments -> 11 fail, 10 return 1x, 6 return 5x, 2 return 15x, and 1 returns 50x. That's a 4x return overall, but most of that return is concentrated in the top 10% of companies. So the investing model only works if a VC fund keeps swinging for the 50x return and occasionally succeeds.

The way I would frame exits from my perspective is that I need to keep investing in companies with 50x potential so that hopefully at least one will reach that level during a fund's lifecycle. But along that path, a lot of companies will predictably exit for 5x or 1x or 0x. Those exits don't have a huge impact on my fund's financial returns, but the companies are still run by people who I like and believe in, and the ideas those people worked on are ones that we (and their employees) believed in. So if a company exits for 0x everyone is bummed on behalf of the founders and their team who went all-in. But if the founders aimed at 50x and came out with 2x I am very happy for them personally. I don't get upset at all that not every exit is a 50x because that would be like always betting on 17 in roulette and being upset every time a different number pops up. That's not how the statistical distribution works. What would bum me out is if someone is clearly on track for a 10x or 50x outcome, but then sells at 2x or 4x because that's good enough for them.
> Then the team showed the worms with the regrown heads where to find food, essentially a refresher course of their light training before decapitation

Would the worms remember without this “refresher course”?
>What is interesting that employee probably meant no harm, but compare this to that SWAT murder a month earlier.

Swatting is intentional, triggering the alert wasn't (at least, so it seems). It's not like the operator pressed the button knowing that it would trigger an alert and expected it not to be taken seriously; he didn't mean to trigger the alert at all.
I envy him, he had the guts to take the fast way out.
> But we're a country that elected a racist President...

Lyndon B. Johnson?
if you are just consuming content owned by netflix or such, a central or decentralised net means nothing to the end user.
> Bootloaders are written in real mode.

Not when the bootloader is an UEFI application. UEFI puts the processor into 32 bit protected mode or typically long mode (64 bit). So when your bootloader that is implemented as an UEFI application is started, you are already out of real mode.
Delayed Admin : A self-control tool for admins
Rather a side point but I've always been bemused by how people refer to decapitation.

"Decapitated body" makes sense. But we mostly consider the head when talking about people (mugshots are heads, etc) -- so why aren't people decorporated rather than decapitated? Lavoisier's blinking experiment after his beheading didn't involve picking up his body!

(yes, yes I know that that is why this planaria experiment is so interesting).

If you don't know about Lavoisier's alleged extreme science experiment: http://www.strangehistory.net/2011/02/06/lavoisier-blinks/
Yes it was, to clear things up a little.
The Cardinal Rule of Functions
> mercilessly fires handgun into a nuclear mushroom
And that's not a gourmet meal? Tell that to starving people around the world who don't see meat even once a year.
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This is known as the "Asoh Defense". Capt. Kohei Asoh accidentally flew a DC-8 airliner into the water while on approach to SFO. No major injuries and the aircraft was repaired. The incident was noted for Capt. Asoh frankly accepting responsibility.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_2#The_"A...
I find some humour in it.
So, web banking does not exist?
Although I didn't read. I'd assume and hope they had some basic controls in place like an untrained worm decapitated and also a trained worm non decapitated
It is relatively easy to do the negotiation in a way that nothing at the factory ever sees the resulting session secret. DH is obvious and in this case secure approach, but even simply generating random key in one or other end of the secure link and sending it in plaintext for the first time will be essentially sufficient (you still have to trust the environment this happens in to large extent).
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The argument that "there are starving people in Africa, so the most unfortunate in the US should just count their blessings" is incredibly tiresome and essentially justifies an abusive system. Can we not do this?
The cheapest car in Europe appears to be the Dacio Sandero, which works out to around USD 8,500. There's several problems with the base trim level that would render it unacceptable on the US market: No A/C, no radio, no automatic transmission, and a truly anemic engine that takes 13 seconds to go from 0-100 km/h. That engine might be acceptable on a city car in Europe, but most US drivers are going farther (and faster). But hey, at least it's certified for collisions and emissions; you can't say the same for the Indian cars we're referring to.

I've seen plenty of computers last >10 years. So, we'll see how this one goes. Even if one component does need replacing at some point, it'll likely still have been the best choice. Nothing else offers that kind of performance at a remotely comparable price point unless you're willing to build a PC from scratch.
If Apple brings the iMac Pro architecture to Macbook, it will be the only mainstream computer that is architecturally resistant to microarchitecture attacks, because it isolates trusted (Apple-authored) and untrusted code to separate ARM & x86 processors. If iOS apps are distributed in bitcode, their binary versions can be optimized for security on the device, as threats evolve.
Replace Google/Android with Microsoft/Windows in your comments throughout this thread, and it will still be correct.

But at least Android is $0, and I have the choice to use a fork.

(not that I would use Android for productive work)
> Why should they volunteer that information to you, not only since giving it such kills their chances in lots of other employees, but in principle too?

Because lying on your application about past crimes will 100% get you fired but being upfront about it leaves a different impression?
You're missing the point. Getting to eat chicken with Fritos is not abuse.
I've had a few Dell's over the years and have never had a problem with them. The trick at first was to buy from their business line - no bloatware and better support. Now I just buy from the Microsoft Store and they come with no non MS bloatware. My 2-1 Dell is a pretty good computer. I just wish it had a 3:2 display instead of 16:9.
If you send it in raw format to a Teletype, it'll print correctly...

Other than that, I don't see it being any more right. But it is a convention that is far older than Windows or MS-DOS. I saw it myself first on CP/M but it was there on VAX/VMS and I expect the Teletypes had it from 1960's.
Here's my thoughts on your situation, based of my own expirience:

>This is correct. I have a criminal record (though hopefully after probation it gets deleted - deferred adjucation)

I can't emphasize enough how important it getting "deleted" can be for your future earning potential. You should of course expect to encounter situations where you'll need disclose and explain the situation in your future, regardless of the adjudication, as it certainly is a part of your history/ life story.

However, by not having the conviction show up on a standard background check, you can also expect to avoid those situations where:
>and bang - background check, and I was out the next day.

By controlling the disclosure, you can ensure the opportunity to offer further explaination.

IME, Humans tend to be much more understanding, flexible, reasonable and compassionate toward this topic in face to face situations. Also, just the simple act of admitting and reflecting on past mistakes can help to humanize you as a candidate, and lead to developing more personal relationships than you otherwise would have.
That's fair and I'm not suggesting that every screw up should just be shrugged off with an "to err is human" and it must be a systems problem. But for a one-off error, the person responsible probably already feels terrible and if they didn't grossly violate established protocols or did something as a joke or whatever, the result should be more along the lines of "Don't do this again!" and making it harder for it to happen.
Being forced to eat chicken and Fritos, in spite of having serious health problems that they exacerbate, absolutely is abuse. This also goes on in the treatment of the homeless in the US where they are told to be grateful to have any food at all, never mind that it is making their diabetes or other health issues worse and will lead to an early death, the need to amputate a foot and/or other horrors.
Is this the same area where you will die of radiation over the weeks following the attack?
Relevant: https://youtu.be/MsbiO8EAsGw
WordPad has supported Unix line endings since Windows 95 ;)
Clearly some mistakes are bigger than others. Simply counting mistakes is overly simplistic. I’m not suggesting that this single mistake is necessarily big enough to deserve an immediate firing, but there certainly are mistakes that do.
> The prankster meant no harm either,

Are you kidding? The people who were involved in this didn’t do it to introduce the swattee to new friends. They did it to terrorize someone who made them mad.
Yes I'm well aware of the irony and not advocating this as a general management practice. Just pointing out that it's a complicated decision and there are rare cases where firing is the least bad decision for the organization as a whole.
I wouldn’t touch Android with a 10ft pole - none of that open source stuff means anything when no human in earth has the time/money/competency to audit it.

I highly recommend an ad blocking VPN so rest of the apps hitting G ad network are blocked as well.
The call center beverages seen in "Slumdog Millionaire" appeared to me to be some sort of hot milk+tea beverage. At the time based on sources I had already read, I thought this would be spiced. I remember that in the movie, each serving was in a decent size drinking glass of about 10-12 oz and the glass was wrapped with what appeared to be a paper napkin. For some reason this is stuck in my mind.
What I read from the ya thatvwe inherited certain processes from viruses which they use to infiltrate us, hundreds of millions of years later.
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Name me a demographic impacted by famine which also doesn`t consume meat.
Please do not be so insensitive on HN, or in other forums. This is an actual person that took his life and you never know who ends up reading your comment.
And then there is the whole dependencies shitstorm, were far too many upstreams have a bad habit of breaking APIs etc as they see fit.

There are ways to work around it, but it gets messy quickly. And rather than clean up their act they start championing things like Flatpak, that is basically a throwback to the DOS days of everything living in their own folder tree with a bit of souped up chroot thrown on top.

I really expect that if the likes of flatpak becomes mainstream in the Linux world having some flaw being found in a lib somewhere will produce a stampede of updates because every damn project crammed in a copy to make sure it was present.
Good, now maybe my month old support ticket will get a response soon for a bit of money they have stuck "pending" in their system.
Insight: http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html
Reminds me of the postscript to this Ben Krasnow video (from about 13:45) which discusses an analogous effect in a circuit using a capacitor. https://youtu.be/xyMH8wKK-Ag
Don’t eat the ice cream: in praise of disobedience to IoT
If you think about suicide and are not just trolling, then don't. Just dont please and rather seek help.
This is very well written code. There are not a lot of comments yet it's designed in a way that it is still quite readable. I believe this is due to good partitioning of concerns, which also leads to an economy of code. It goes without saying, perfect formatting is a must.

"Elegance is not optional.

There is no tension between writing a beautiful program and writing an efficient program. If your code is ugly, the chances are that you either don’t understand your problem or you don’t understand your programming language, and in neither case does your code stand much chance of being efficient. In order to ensure that your program is efficient, you need to know what it is doing, and if your code is ugly, you will find it hard to analyse.” -- Richard O’Keefe, The Craft of Prolog (MIT Press)
Dr. Gregor's research has also shown multivitamins are a distraction... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fgVDT0qw88

But these studies are on general population, different from the prison population which is probably undernourished. And the article cites a study on prisoners which shows vitamins (and supplementary fatty acids) reduce violent behavior: http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/bjprcpsych/181/1/22.full.pdf
Prison is a terrible place to be for many reasons much more significant than food. If the people should not be there in the first place, and if they should be rehabilitated instead of punished, that's another matter and should be solved on its face. Stop trying to make prison itself into a housing program, that doesn't solve the problem.
> and why is the failure rate for starting a bootstrapped revenue generating business much lower?

The best vote for your ideas is the one paid in dollars by a customers.
But if they don't ask, then it should be ok to leave it out.
Was a noogler about a year ago. Story still told.
Yes. In my country we don't have any of the american fast food. I guarantee you if Mcdonalds opens shop there same thing would happen. HN readers seem to be very unaware of how different lifestyle/culture is across the developing world.
Welcome to the luxury biosphere, where the natural world is partially synthetic
Given that Apple had been using Bing for search from 2014-2017, I'm not sure users actually care that much.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/25/apple-switches-from-bing-t...
Android commercial spyware (2017)
Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed response!

I've had the netbook for 1-2 years, but I only use it one every few months or so. Still, it's a joy to type on for such a small device.

The Macbook I've only had for 6 months or so, and I only use it once a week or so (I work mostly on Windows, but need to build iOS apps). I should also have said it's the 13" version.

TBH, I don't really want to try change my typing style to suit the MBP; that kind of reminds me of Apple's infamous "your're holding it wrong" response to users complaining of aerial issues with one of the iPhones from years back :)

I regularly work on quite a few different keyboards (6, I think!) and indeed have worked on several over the years, but this is the only one I've ever had any real issue with.
What would be the reason behind disabling all those protocols?
You're a good man, Ben. Always a privilege to share diner tables with you in Seattle. Happy to do it again if you're around.
Running back home from work, twice a week. I started this last year and it's great ! I have ~13kms which I cover in a bit more than 1h. That's only 10 minutes more than using the public transport and let me tell you that it's much more enjoyable !

I Highly recommend !
It's too bad Aaron and Alexandra Elbakyan never met. They might have made a good team.
I've worked with Home Boy, and you're right, it's a wonderful organization staffed by great people. Unfortunately, for it along with many other great non-profits, they spend so much of their time fund raising (development) and exist year to year, on donations and grants. No npo has scaled nationally. After working in the non-profit space myself, I grew convinced that a for-profit approach could address the breadth of the problem of recidivism. That' when I launched 70MillionJobs.
Traumatic memories are accepted as sometimes being stored in some capacity in human body regions other than the head, I'd be very interested in seeing if this is connected, as research progresses.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/B0...
Yes, but MS seems to disable many of them.
Have you ever been an upstream? What you're suggesting is awfully wasteful. You'd get endless requests for "please add build for XXX" if you ever distribute any binary. Where XXX is anything from arbitrary versions of arbitrary distribution, or any kind of non-linux OSes. And all that for i686, x86_64, various ARMs,... Who has time for that? If you state you only distribute source code and perhaps binary for Windows, you will not get bothered ever again.

Better let the building be done by people who are doing building all day en masse for a single arch, or have infrastructures set up to do builds for multiple archs easilly, than to expect every upstream to have this setup.
Video capable (>30hz) color e-ink displays are on the way too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqn2650CJYc
> In the future we will most likely have an distro-specific basic system build and container apps (snap, appimage, flatpak) build directly by upstream on non-server systems.

I sure hope not. A better system would be something like NIX/GUIX or even Gobolinux, that give us a single package as today, but with the option of installing multiple versions in parallel if upstream has screwed up the API (again).

Flatpak and like will just be and excuse for upsteam to bundle everything and the kitchen sink, resulting in bloat and having to update a mass of paks rather than individual libs in case a flaw is found.
There won't be a hardware fix, you can't patch CPUs (aside from microcode which is just more software). Since this is a pretty fundamental issue wit how certain things work, yes, you'll have to wait for a new generation, and I couldn't expect anything in less than a year at the absolute earliest. It's a multi-year process from design to tape-out and fabrication. Honestly, I'm not sure how far back in the design process fixing this will take, it is something that can be added in as permanent microcode after fabrication/during packaging? Can current designs be "patched" before moving on to tape out? Do we need to go back to square one and rethink a couple key premises? I don't know. But it's not quick.
Apple security is confusing. For example, Find My Mac does not require 2FA even when 2FA is enabled. An attacker can remotely wipe your MacBook with just your iCloud password.

Another example: apparently there is a distinction between "two-factor authentication" and "two-step authentication", the later being a deprecated, but active system. Reading the docs for the older system, you'll soon discover differences in things such as account access and recovery that lead to an entirely different set of consequences and caveats for security. You'll find out that in certain scenarios you could permanently lose access to your iCloud account and iTunes purchases under "two-step authentication*, but not the newer "two-factor authentication". If a user confused the two while reading the Apple online support pages, it could have grave consequences.

Security is something that needs to be documented and marketed in clear terms. Why Apple would adopt names so similar for two distinct implementations of a security mechanism that they could arbitrarily describe either is incoherent with Apple's supposed model of user friendliness. It's what Microsoft does with its products, not Apple. Additionally, all facets of a security feature should be documented, and documented well. It is unacceptable that Apple does not warn users that 2FA can be bypassed in certain scenarios. I hope Apple does further focus on security, and documenting it well.
That's the Physicians' Health Study. Where the study subjects are physicians, not exactly a demographic at high risk for vitamin deficiencies, compared to prisoners.
Pretty much. If you had a desktop that was worth a damn at the time you sounded like a crazy person when you said that nothing was really wrong with Vista.

I was that person in high school who was running a test version of Vista and also the RTM on a pretty powerful Alienware laptop.
It is painful in the mindset of typical unix guy who is used to being able to "just ssh somewhere and vi /etc/something", which is not the way you want to manage large deployments but works even for large-ish ones. On windows there is no real middle ground between use GUI for everything and automate everything.

Also with unix servers various bastion hosts and similar "security measures" are minor inconvenience and usually even supported by automation tools, while on windows this usually ends up being major PITA.
The US has no national siren system; there are just state and local ones. I've heard siren tests every once in a while living in San Francisco, but there's zero public education about their meaning or appropriate responses.

(This false alarm was a push alert sent to cell phones. What about people who don't have a cell phone on them when the alert comes? ... good luck)
Please, it is completely different. One is a health obsessed person taking a multivitamin cocktail. Other is a person, which someone choose what they eat based on price alone, taking vitamins.

Maybe it would be cheaper just to give them healthier food.