skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually the term does have meaning:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornering_the_market

"Although there have been many attempts to corner markets by massive purchases in everything from tin to cattle, to date very few of these attempts have ever succeeded; instead, most of these attempted corners have tended to break themselves spontaneously."
> Before I get to the details of the vulnerability, I would like to make it clear that I have not been paid a bounty by Ledger because their responsible disclosure agreement would have prevented me from publishing this technical report.

Ridiculous. Ledger, pay him the bounty that he quite clearly deserves.
Try getting an uber with a child seat.
I'm really curious to see what the statistics of early-onset macular degeneration will be in 30-40 years, when a large portion of the population will have been looking at screens 10+ hours a day, for 30+ years. I suspect humans current eye-usage habits will affect the numbers.

results in this area of the field can't come fast enough!
Silicon Valley. Usually no dots between the letters like that but I was quoting another poster.
> Firemen came to my house they had a portable digital EKG with 2G data line to push the graph to a doctor remotely. The thing couldn't get cell reception, probably a weak modem/antenna. One of the guy hinted at 5000$ unit cost.

If only. As someone in Fire/EMS, a moderately equipped LifePak 12/15?

$14,000 to $40,000 depending on configuration - https://www.ogs.ny.gov/purchase/spg/pdfdocs/1260522835PL_Phy...

But to also be fair, there's a fair amount going on beyond all that. Defibrillator, including pacing, non invasive measurement of carbon monoxide, certain drugs and chemicals, integrated printer, weather sealed (gotta be able to operate outside in the rain), ruggedized for drops.

But still, $40K... oi.
that would depend on where you draw your bottom line
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We have introduced recidivism as part of our performance metrics. Currently, contractors are paid per day, per person. We believe it creates the wrong incentive. The best way to correct is to incentivize companies to have people not reenter the system.
BTW does anyone know how Viber and WhatsApp (both are very popular there) operating in Russia?

Do they cooperate?
Yes. If you're curious what the present-day FB settings are that control this sort of information sharing, see here: https://i.imgur.com/6fyLx18.png

It's located in the user's "Apps" settings [1] under the section, "Apps Others Use: People who can see your info can bring it with them when they use apps. Use this setting to control the categories of information people can bring with them."

[1] https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications&ref=setti...
It just has to be better on average, though, for the broader social implication to hold: allocating capital to able people isn’t just about rewarding them, it’s about what they go on to do with that capital.
why is this being downvoted?
saying you think that people acting in a commercial setting (and they just are, even if you consider them self-employed, not employees) should abide by the law regulating commercial activity seems like a valid point...?

are people confusing "they" in the first sentence to mean the customer? or what's the angle here?
If FSB really wants access - and sooner or later they will, as Telegram keeps growing... As long as Telegram founders still have family inside Russia, they are vulnerable
The Podesta e-mails have conversations between John Podesta and Sheryl Sandberg about meetings to help elect the first woman president. So, while I think Facebook is morally reprehensible, this latest media outrage because of connections to the Trump campaign feels a bit like an economic hit job more than anything.
The Iridium constellation would probably be one of the first casualties in any major future conflict. They're in LEO so fairly vulnerable.
Isn't facebook embedded in iOS to some degree?
> Seems to be a thing of the west to take elements of yoga, tai chi, daoism et al, and distill them

Well, traditional systems take actual effort. You cannot market to the masses if 90% of your customers are going to stop coming after a handful of sessions.

... Unless you do a January promotion, pay the full year and get 50+% off. In that case, the wannabes subsidize the actual students.
That would be great. We very much appreciate it. You can email us at founders@joinpromise.com
My immediate thought reading the headline was, "Drivers are or Uber the company is?" so there was some ambiguity for me. Especially since I just took a Lyft ride with the parent of someone with cerebral palsy (we talked about it during the ride)
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Imagery and location data with others are among the feature set of JTRS. So yeah. A bit more work.
I'm sure they're shocked - shocked! by what some low-level, ah, CEO was saying to potential customers.
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But that brings up the question if an Uber driver with a severe dog allergy has a disability that needs accommodation?
To add to this, SpaceX has said at some point that they are planning to land the BFR directly back on the launch clamps to remove the need for landing legs.
> choose someone to do it their way and everyone else help out

If you choose wrong you are going to have a team following someone that nobody else thinks it's right.

The solution is to have an arbiter,some one that makes sure that compromises are reached and the design moves forward.

Document all decisions and stuck to them unless a major problem doesn't allows it. Some people will try to reopen closed discussions if the result was not the one that they wanted.

To find a great solution requires a lot of time, and trial and error.
Don't get to change all the system at the same time. Do small improvements in the agreed direction. Get feedback often about the quality of the changes. If there is any major flaws you will need to go back to design.

In the future is better that redesign is part of the normal process. Don't let the project get old. Technical debt accumulates easily, remove it as soon as possible.

But it's going to be difficult depending on the state and size of the project. Follow up all decisions,and support the team if they break something while doing the improvements.

Depending on the size you can read The Phoenix project. It's a book on how to work with improvements to big projects.
First priority should absolutely be to get rid of the bail system, which is horrifyingly slanted towards imprisonment of the poor, and doesn't accomplish much of anything beyond that.

Your calendar thing might be useful. But not as a part of the bail system. Bail must go.
Uber's whole business model is finding ways to dodge the regulations. The price of dog handling is priced into regular cab fares. Why should Uber be able to undercut those prices by not providing the same service?
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Do the founders have family in Russia? I'm not really up to date with Telegram as a company or the people behind it.
We spent most of our professional lives in non profits and the last 6 years in for profit. We believe the business will better serve people with the structure for many reasons, such as hiring, not having to deal with foundations or individual donors, etc. We believe good people can run and create good companies.
Not really surprising, I never really trust these encrypted messaging apps.
I think I understand now. Isn't that how things are already run in Washington DC?
Translation for metric units users:

22 lbs ≈ 10 kg
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WhatsApp cant cooperate by design they don't have the keys although they do have some metadata, not sure about Viber.
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No it doesn't. There's no law granting the right to work as an Uber driver.
Luckily, that wasn't the only option.
Too bad no one will end up in prison.
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The Lasp programming system also has an eventually consistent key-value store built-in (and, we've scaled it to 1,024+ nodes).

Project home:
https://lasp-lang.readme.io/docs

Results on scaling:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.06423
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One possible business incentive is that if Promise's outcomes actually cause an increase in crime, governments will be far less likely to hire them.
Your response is worse than tinfoil hat territory: ignorance of the history of Russia, Soviet Union, FSB and KGB, and Cold War; and a preference for beliefs over the available facts, as a result of cognitive dissonance.

RT the very same week said this is what happens to people who are traitors to Russia, count on it. Have you watched any of the recent interviews with Putin about this? He laughs when asked, and says he doesn't care while also saying the people involved weren't government people. This is a very clear message, yes we did it and so what? What are you going to do? Huh? What are you going to do? Exactly. Nothing.

And that has in fact been UK policy for over a dozen suspected hits.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/from-russia-with-blood-1...

Russia is risking the necessity of a disproportionate response, an unfair response, just like any playground bully. It's not enough to just punch them back. You have to wail on them, break the nose, make them bleed, and most importantly? Embarrass them. Only then do they stop.
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Thanks! I actually failed at this myself just now, he's 11.2kg (as of last week) so more like 24.5lb.

From Australia i think in kg but constantly convert to lb for everyone else.
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We agree. It is also really troublesome to make the case that poor people who cannot afford bail should be kept incarcerated for public safety, but people who have the money to bail out, can await trial at home.
Silicon Valley, located in the vicinity of San Francisco Bay.

The Bay Area area is noted for anti-military sentiment, especially given the history of UC Berkeley during the time of the Vietnam War. Naturally, some of this spills over into anti-veteran bigotry.
Re: features, I'm planning to get 4K HDR for my next TV, which appear to be all smart. But all the smarts I need are already happening in my receiver and various devices connected through it, so anything other than displaying a single video input is unneeded (and unwanted).
it's undeniably "not your fault" if you car literally can't handle it

If you are working as a commercial driver or employing commercial drivers then yes, complying with the law is very much "your fault".
I've been with SO since the very early days when Joel and Jeff were very involved. In the first few years, I visited daily because it was like a community of developers working together to help each other in a professional yet cheerful fashion. Now that Joel and Jeff aren't as involved (if at all), its like the focus of the site has changed. As many have said, moderators appear too stringent. So much to the point of removing value from the site. Removing value removes users. I now rarely visit SO because it doesn't feel like a group of developers wanting to help it's community. Asking a question has almost become a provocation of hostility from either moderators or 'answerers'. There are many controls to limit the asker. Perhaps controls should be put in place to limit negative answerer sentiment or moderator dominance or SO could lose it's place in the developer community.
just to prevent more "but the driver has an allergy, too" comments:

yes, some might. and we can have a debate about that.
but most don't, and an allergy is explicitely not the reason all of the drivers in this case gave. so it doesn't apply here.
> Do you know why we never had private prisons before?

You mean, before 1852?
Whether a cryptocurrency is centralized or decentralized has a specific technical meaning, namely whether a party is, by design, in control of the security or trust of the currency and can unilaterally make decisions. By that definition, Bitcoin is decentralized and Ripple is not.
> "There are a lot of counterexamples to the “failure” scenarios I described above, both for first time and repeat founders."

As a reminder the two failure scenarios are (1) idea -> pitch -> raise -> start company and (2) non-technical team.

What are these counter-examples? I can't think of any, although I have the vague feeling they must exist. In particular, counter examples to (1) must exist since the MVP/lean/validate idea wasn't as prevalent even 20 years ago, and counter examples to (2) must exist especially outside of technical startups where there are other moats.

Can you think of some?
Consider the Lucas Critique [1]. To paraphrase, the general idea is that it is natural for organizations to seek to optimize their ability to navigate any regulation, or any impediment to maximizing their profits, or otherwise maximally seeking their ultimate goal. Its advice is that it is counterproductive to try to reign in the behavior of sophisticated organizations with exact targets of compliance, as you are simply giving those very organizations a blueprint for the necessary optimizations for both minimal, often semantic compliance, and a continuation of the actual behavior the original regulation intended to curb.

The application to this subject is the very idea that companies such as this are motivated to optimize their methodology of convincing judges or whatever ultimate adjudicator exists, to exonerate their clients.

I don't see any indication of Promise being a nonprofit, so we have to assume their primary goal is in fact profit.

Bad actors shouldn't be able to throw money at the optimization of skirting the law. To the extent that Promise is successful, that conclusion can and will be easily drawn to great effect.

Will every employee of Promise need to convince their state bar association of their character and fitness?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_critique
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Thanks and interesting, i passed it a URL but it gave me a b64 version. I am wondering if something changed. I certainly didn't provide it b64 previously.
Why not the source title? ("Cambridge Analytica: Facebook row firm boss suspended")
But why host it somewhere reachable at all?
I've seen many economics101 arguments against these tariffs but I actually am cautiously in agreement with them. These are similar to sanctions and China has been gaming the market in it's own favor in various ways for a long time. Hopefully a longer term solution will see both countries making concessions and hopefully come to a political and economic agreement.
they haven't
Why do you want to migrate?
More interestingly perhaps:

Telegram as usually refuses to give encryption keys to anyone.

While there seems to be a lot to say about Telegram crypto at least their priorities seems to be aligned with mine unlike WhatsApp that is owned by Facebook.
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Maybe they could provide access to the phones data though. In more or less the same way WhatsApp Web works.
When you are in jail or someone you love is in jail the choice to get out with a smartphone app and support is pretty clear. It is interesting feedback about monitoring but when it is you or your family, you want out. The most folks reaching out to us, have families who are trying to help their loved ones.
Just apply man :)
I don't know what it's like in the US, but in the UK people with disabilities are tired of asking nicely and have moved onto using the courts to enforce the long-existing laws.

With cars it's very clear: you can't refuse to take guide dogs.
The IDE has some interesting ideas but I'm not convinced that the language itself is actually particularly intuitive. I would love to see a JavaScript IDE (Atom extension?) with features like

- "Prose-style", where comments are a first-class citizen and code lives inside blocks. Seems like this would go a long way to encourage thorough commenting.

- The checkbox-style thing, where you can easily mix different pieces from different files on the screen at once. That was incredibly slick. The general idea of abstracting code constructs away from the literal files they live in is something that's been bouncing around in my head for a while.

- The state export was pretty cool, though it's not clear to me that could easily be implemented without controlling the language itself.
Agreed bail must go. We are working in Kentucky, where bail is gone. However, it has not solved the problem.
> Believe it or not, many of these people never even end up being charged with or convicted of a crime.

Where could someone find any #'s / data around this?
http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/27/meet-telegram-a-secure-mess...

> Meet Telegram, A Secure Messaging App From The Founders Of VK, Russia’s Largest Social Network
I like that the article ends with the author's PGP fingerprint... and is served over plain HTTP. Bold move.
Is "Naïve" an accurate word here?

A lot of hay has been made over Zuckerberg's "They "trust me" Dumb fucks" comment, but however it gets exaggerated, it shows he understood the power of this information in the very early days... a complete lack of naïveté.
Japanese companies bought into US real estate, infrastructure, corporations etc. in the 90s then had to relinquish much of it at cut rate prices. Same will happen here I imagine.
Creating another layer of bureaucracy, even when covered in the veneer of startup tech, can definitely make things worse. Here are some open questions that may show how that's possible:

* What will happen if nefarious actors discover how to hack or game this system? Will you be able to pay the mob to get hacked out of jail?

* On the flip-side, could a nefarious actor put you in the penal system, or at least make it look like you were arrested?

* What protections are there around malfeasance within the company? Parole officers are public employees, but what's the liability within a LLC?
Trezor's design does have problems of its own:

https://medium.com/@Zero404Cool/trezor-security-glitches-rev...

Which to my untrained eye looks more severe.
Clearly the idea (or the solution) is important - my argument is that knowing the right solution day one isn't very important. Airbnb and Twitch are great examples of this.
My understanding is that law requires backdoor access [111], you cannot just shrug it off as "we are end-to-end" encrypted. You must have a backdoor or not allowed to operate in Russia.

[111] http://news.softpedia.com/news/russia-wants-encryption-backd...
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Not really sure why you're getting downvoted, I agree completely.
This is slowly changing. In Texas and Florida, for example, "software engineer" has similar requirements as plain "engineer".
There has never been such a thing as end to end encryption on a cell phone. Carrier "debugging" tools such as CarierIQ hook at a lower level and can intercept and log everything that any application can see. CarrierIQ was acquired by AT&T and doesn't even officially have a name any more. They would tell you it only runs if the phone is in debug mode, but the dial home to the carrier can enable it via a simple header.

Perhaps the difference here is that Russia does not have access to this data?
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Read the blog?
People with allergies are also protected by the ADA, so I doubt the answer is as clear cut as that.
Sorry for late reply. Depends on what is in the package. Docker is just a thin separation of processes, so the situation is very similar to size of packages on host Linux OS. What matters is the size of binaries and loaded data, which I guess is not that different between distributions.
> that they work with Promise as an alternative to being in custody

great, you've invented the penal workhouse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workhouse
It also would have had much worse usability in the most common case: when government agencies aren't a real risk factor, but you want conversations synced between different apps.

Seriously, disregarding trade-off between security and usability is exactly how we ended up with very secure, 20-digit passwords, containing every possible unicode symbol, updated every Monday, written on post-it notes hanging on the wall.
No, it means they have to be prepared for it, possibly with face masks they can wear and epi-pens if necessary. How do they deal with walking down the street when there are dogs coming around a blind corner? Do you expect people to not ever own or walk dogs because people on the street might be allergic? Besides, most proper cabs have bullet proof glass between the front and back seat, so it's probably not really an issue anyway.
Re: his silence - Isn't he a presidential hopeful (at least in his own mind)? If he's considering a run, perhaps he's trying to appear clean. [edit: clarity]
Don't Uber already provide that? I saw it in NYC (maybe they pick few cities now to test this out)

https://help.uber.com/h/3abcbae1-132b-42a9-8277-0dab00fa3879
The thing where this fall apart is try to get away from imperative, predictable code.

That will NEVER (ie, to be on mainstream) work for large scale software OR attract non-experts.

Try to make a "virtue" a "callback-hell" with other names is a futile idea (apart some specific scenarios). If is hard to debug, is hard to have a mental model of it, period.

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The other parts of the idea sound well, but is not clear how the magic is made or how create the "data store".
Except an encrypted seed in cold storage. If you want to spend it you'll have different problems though.
Crime in Chicago is very much concentrated. In areas where your average HN reader would live, I very much doubt that your chance of being a crime victim would be any higher than in SFBA. And in most suburbs (from which you can get to Chicago much easier than to SF from SV) it would be significantly less; reading NextDoor here is downright scary.

Certainly, California has more diverse nature than most of the Midwest does. But culturally... as far as theaters, museums, music etc. goes, SF is behind not only New York, but Chicago as well. Food scene, once you pass French Laundry and couple more places in Napa isn't Chicago either, just more expensive. I've left far less money at Alinea than at Atelier Crenn, and while of course this is highly subjective, there really was no comparison between the two.

Weather is nice, but the second year it became incredibly boring; I like my seasons. But then, I've moved here for personal, not professional reasons. And professionally, while I was making quite a bit less money in Chicago, I could live in a hot area, 1 minute from subway, 15 minutes walk to work, 10 minutes walk to NEXT or Moto (yes, I like my food) and somehow had far more money left to squirrel away than I do living in some cheesy apartment complex in a middle of San Jose nowhere.

Certainly, if you get into a startup that actually makes it, gets acquired, or something like that, you have a better chance of striking it rich than in Chicago. But as far as I know, most people don't. And it's not that work here was that much more interesting -- doing yet another JS framework du jour, or yet another noSQL database (because rewriting MUMPS, just not quite as good, is always fun) isn't that exciting once you get old enough and stop jumping at every new and shiny thing. I'd much rather do something interesting at Wolfram (well, if Chambana weren't just as boring as SFBA) than doing yet another chat app in SV...
The entire point of disability discrimination laws (which have existed for many years now) is prevent this kind of segregation.
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