skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds appropriate.

• Acting on a protected resource without authorization (one assumes she had read rights through receiving credentials from him, not delete rights or other rights to tamper with the data)

• Identity theft (impersonating the professor of the other school with the underfunded acceptance email)

Doubt any of these would be prosecuted given the burden of proof needed in any criminal courtroom, but the civil judgment seems to make sense.

This is the prime reason for why I never share—nor wish to receive—credentials for systems I shouldn't access. Sharing credentials exposes me. Receiving credentials burdens me in the event that something happens with the account for which I know credentials. It's best to operate with a need to know, even if it's just for plausible deniability in the event that anything goes wrong.

(Disclaimer: not an attorney, just a security/privacy lead)
Please stop doing this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
According to the book, this was one thing that particularly bothered the lead scientist, Ian Gibbons, who was subpoenaed to testify in a patent case:

> IN APRIL, Theranos informed Ian that he had been subpoenaed to testify in the Fuisz case. The prospect of being deposed made him nervous. He and Rochelle discussed the lawsuit several times. Rochelle had once done work as a patent attorney, so Ian asked her to review Theranos’s patent portfolio in the hope that she could give him some advice. While doing so, she noticed that Elizabeth’s name was on all the company’s patents, often in first place in the list of inventors. When Ian told her that Elizabeth’s scientific contribution had been negligible, Rochelle warned him that the patents could be invalidated if this was ever exposed. That only served to make him more agitated.

Gibbons was the Theranos chief scientist who committed suicide in 2013:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3776888/Award-winnin...
I’m not entirely convinced what they were trying to is impossible. More that they went about it in a preposterous way.
NEVER. SHARE. PASSWORDS.
Interesting take. It's certainly possible that you are right. I based my thoughts on my impression from listening to her in a couple of interviews. I like to think I have a good BS meter, and it seemed to me (and apparently to her investors) that she believed in what she was saying, and was deeply passionate about the issues her company was trying to solve. I think she probably had a healthy dose of naïveté, and thought that with enough money, anything was possible.

Regardless of what was going on in her head, she seems to have made provably false statements in order to induce massive investments in her company. That's fraud, and she'll pay a heavy price for it.
Thorazine is an antipsychotic, for schizophrenia, stimulant overdoses, and stuff like PCP.

Ketamine is more of a dissociative; it's a little like long-lasting injectable nitrous oxide. It causes hallucinations, but more like a loss of connection from reality than seeing things that aren't there.
That's right. I'm not a patent lawyer, but one has told me that to be listed as an inventor, you have to be an inventor. Now, if the patent has multiple claims, you only have to be responsible for one of them.
I've seen this happen before. Especially with startups, I think it's a mixture of:

- CEO ego.

- Although patents by employees are assigned to the company and unequivocally owned by the company, many early stage (and especially paranoid) CEOs worry about the optics of having many named inventors leaving the company. If you're Google, IBM, etc with 100K employees filing 10K patents per year no one cares if X number of those employees in listed filings leave the company. If you're a relatively small, early stage company with a few hundred patents losing just a few key employees named on filings raises red flags for investors, journalists, etc as they could represent a substantial portion of your "inventors"/IP/brain trust, etc and thus, your valuation. Of course this kind of action is very transparent but with her own "reality distortion field" I wouldn't be surprised if anyone who reviewed these thought she was actually responsible for some portion of the invention.

- Some companies have a very broad policy for who to include as a named inventor. She could have been part of a single conversation/meeting/etc and required listing.

- CEO ego. Not a typo, I listed this twice because in this as in many of these cases, ego is likely 90% of the reason she's listed on these. Frankly this kind of behavior is insulting to the other named inventors that actually did the work, but what recourse do they have? Is battling the CEO to get her name off a filing worth leaving your job for?
Overconfidence is one of OPSECs biggest vulnerabilities. He was much safer in France but clearly felt he was completely under the radar. Using LocalBitcoin accounts directly is a big sign that he didn't fully understand how deeply he was in a mess.
Ý nghĩa của vòng tay gỗ sưa phong thủy – Forum – Agrocart
But it's not crazy or irrational at all. Two people love each other and want to spend money on a big wedding. What's crazy or irrational about that?

Yes, I wouldn't spend money on a big wedding but that's just me.

See? I can make the same point without a cliche saying.
Is there any library for detecting clear area and tracking movement like in Snapchat app?
Rational people recognize that real world humans are not rational and have irrational wishes and needs. If you never fill any of your irrational needs, you will grow resentful, angry, frustrated and jealous of other people happiness. Actually apply to stoics and ascetic too, through their irrational needs are sometimes unusual.

In any case, dream wedding is not necessary something you cant afford. It is something you dream about.
It will be a sad day for a lot of people when UPS moves to automation.

Theyre one of the only companies left that still supports the 20th-century idioms of corporate loyalty-- with only a high school degree, you can start as a truck sorter and work your way up to a vaunted driver or stationmaster position over the course of your career.

Robots might improve a few things though, like safety. If they can not only account for spatial positioning but also weight, automatons might ensure trucks arent over- or unevenly-loaded.
Their theory seems to be that if i don't back him, then him or his cohort will throw me to the wolfs at a bad moment.

Sadly this line of thinking just reinforce the mentality that the police is at war with the public, in that the only people they can "trust" (in a tit for tat sense) are fellow officers.
Minneapolis police previously had no policy addressing the drug, and the department manual classifies it as a “date rape drug” for its powerful sedative impact and ability to erase or alter memory.

That's funny, because the World Health Organization classifies it as an "essential medicine." I'm being somewhat disingenuous as I do understand it has potential for abuse, but "date rape drug"? I've never once heard of ketamine used for that. Meanwhile it's being looked at for treating depression and other things. This over-the-top drug war rhetoric is so frustrating.
Ellen Page had a travel show and I think in the first episode she visited Japan and explored the gay culture there. One of the older Japanese gay men expressed a sentimentality, maybe even a preference, for the time when everything was more secretive.

The show was otherwise interesting but that scene was a standout.
I have been riding taxis for the last 1 month because DMV refuses to renew my license until my work permit (visa) extension is approved. Nearly half of the drivers I met were from another continent. They are here legally and can work and live here without fear. But, just because I am from India, I cannot. I have to constantly live in fear of one day being told to go back. My employer asked me to go back to India 2-3 years back. I felt really horrible during the last 3 months. If this is how one feels about going back, I don't know how I would feel in my death bed.

I pay my taxes, I pay social security for which I get no benefit, I have to pay US tax for income I make in India. I cannot understand why I am less valuable to your country.
Quick note: my favorite way to extract columns is:
`cut -d' ' -f1, 5`. You won't be getting a running total but for selecting columns I find it useful.
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I'm drawing a blank to which company but this reminds me of when a huge worldwide shipping company was hit with WannaCry and did everything by paper.

The loss of efficiency was way less than they expected. They did have to spend weeks though fixing containers sent to the wrong location.
> conveyer belts

Speaking awhile ago with an expert in this kind of automation, I was told that conveyor belts are much less reliable than I imagined.

Your idea also could be implemented using different tech: Think of the Amazon warehouse bots that lift entire shelving units and bring them to the people who pick items from them. Preloaded racks could be delivered into their places on the truck.

> Is this one of those problems ... ?

It also could be one of those problems that isn't a bottleneck and isn't worth automating.
The ending is a bit weird. As if blocking on social media will make her impossible to find.
exactly. some time ago saw prototypes of packages tetris-like organized by delivery order and other ideas
Infoworld: "We care about your privacy"
That is the headline, in an interface which allows me to scroll 32 times so that I can disable sharing my personal information to all the ~300+ different parties they share it by default.
I'm fairly certain the OP was being sarcastic.
Ask HN: If I Close My Data Centers, What About the People/Jobs Lost?
(throwaway account)

I have a chance to basically migrate 90% of my F50's data centers to commercial providers. The cost savings are awesome, but what about the people currently doing legacy stuff? theyre doing stuff like manual config, and future state is everythign automated as much as possible in the cloud and shutter the data centers.

I think the harsh truth is that many wont have jobs post move, but maybe I'm being cynical. maybe theres a chance to retrain the employees, but even doing that automation generally reduces the workforce.

whats your take? what do I tell current employees? how many can I realistically be able to save from being jobless?
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I have like, a dozen patents, and I'm nobody special. Some companies, like the one I worked for, have a real culture around patenting anything and everything that seems even halfway interesting. It's all about volume. None of my patents are BS, they're just rather mundane and very limited in scope. I suspect it's the same case for Holmes.
I think a big part of it is that people wanted it to be true.

The idea is very compelling. Who wouldn't want it to be true/possible? And it's obvious to anyone how valuable such a thing would be.

Plus...
Young woman founder/CEO (& paper billionaire as a result).
Dropout from Stanford.
Silicon Valley.
On the cover of magazines.
Big names on the board.
Association with Bill Clinton, etc.
This will sound cynical but many patents are not for IP protection as much as for showing other people that you're a real tech company. Investors and customers are both groups that might be impressed by your having a patent.
Similarly when these folks hang out in countries that would happily extradite to the USA. The smarter ones thought ahead about such matters.
Once it gets within a few tens of megameters, pulsed radar systems could easily distinguish an incoming projectile thanks to the 2.4 second round-trip-time to the moon. Metallic objects have ideal visibility. If you are concerned about solar thermal radio emissions bouncing off the moon and reducing SNR, that could be an issue -- a phase-of-the-moon bug in the system, if you will. But based on what I’ve overheard from friends working on 21-cm radar teaching telescopes, I doubt the luminosity of the continuous background is high enough to pose a big problem, assuming you have a decently large antenna.

I’m more concerned that there’s nothing much you can do to redirect such an object in the few hours it takes to fall on your head. By that time it will have reached 4km/s.
For those interested in paying for a product that does something like this, there is https://sense.com/ for residential or http://verdigris.co/ for commercial/industrial applications.
Afaik, there is some benefit in soldiers being married - soldiers with families suicide less. Apparently, it helps to have something you value at home to keep yourself together in difficult active duty situation.
The world record top speed at sea level is less than 1000mph. It's like flying in soup by comparison.
Depends on the country, but likely a judgement that will follow her her entire life unless she declares bankruptcy and forfeits all her assets. He really should push aggressively to collect on that, for the rest of her life. Based on the article she really seems like a horrible person.
Worked at UPS from ‘03 - ‘05. I can tell by the labels and codes on the packages I get that not much has changed since then. Didn’t know anything about programming at the time, but I still spent plenty of shifts daydreaming about how the job could be automated or at least done by trained monkeys. 15 years later I can look back and pretty confidently say that it’s a much more difficult problem than I thought at the time.

Loading semis is basically 3D Tetris where you have to consider not only shape (boxes, tubes, cylinders, and everything in between) and size (fits in the palm of your hand up to 2- 3m long), but weight (basically 0-75 kg) and rigidity. Humans pretty easily develop and intuition for these things. I certainly unloaded plenty of semis that were for all intents packed to capacity. In theory you could probably have some kind of fully integrated system that let you know ahead of time the details of every package so you could model the entire load and figure out how to fit it... but doing what humans do loading on the fly would be damned hard.

Loading package cars (the brown delivery trucks) drops the need to maximize volume carried and adds constraints about the order and location of packages so the driver can find them. Again though, it’s a fairly loose system. In theory the load is pretty well distributed across the truck’s numbered shelves by the planning system... except all the days that it isn’t. A loader ends up making a lot of on the fly calls to overflow shelves and rearrange things so they fit on the truck and the driver has a reasonable chance to find them.

tl;dr - Anything is possible, but automating that part of the process is an enormous challenge IMO.
How did they account for the additional, unpredicted energy?
Agreed. It does seem weird not mail something along with emailing it for something that big of a deal.
I hope Google learned from the Google Glass fiasco, and makes sure their ARCore Terms of Service Agreement strictly forbids posting photos of yourself in the shower.
Humans find symmetry pretty, and fortunately experience has taught us time and again that often the more symmetric solution is the better one.
Average flag colour by latitude
It's important to note that warranties and returns are different things.
I'm not a patent lawyer, but I have several patents. From my standpoint, the prestige thing is of potential value because it means I'm capable of coming up with inventions that someone is willing to spend tens of $k's to patent. In other words, my idea put a smile on some manager's face.

It's also an alternative to peer-reviewed journals for "publishing" your ideas.
Conveyor belts are designed carry packages, trucks carry pallets with 20-80 packages on them. Packages are loaded and unloaded onto transfer trucks in pallets. Conveyor belt will be useless in a truck bed. They could do one of those floors that cargo airplanes have where entire floor is tons of balls that enables you to slide anything across the area but then again special flat bottom pallets would be needed and those metal balls will make truck a lot heavier.
Sure, but "doing their job" is a bullshit excuse for taking somebody's life away. Honestly it's worse IMO. They know it accomplishes nothing except making them look a tiny bit better to their bosses. Destroying a person's life for career advancement is quite different than making a worthless gdoc that nobody will read.
It's funny you should bring that up because, come to think of it, I've never actually seen a bunch of apples spoiled by a bad one. They seem to rot from the outside in, maybe on account of their relatively thick skins. Softer skinned fruits like berries and those which tend to mold on the outside (like citrus) do tend to spoil the whole bunch, though.
And that's how you are discriminating on the basis of geographical area of birth.

Why isn't the system oblivious to one's country of origin?
The article seems to be missing a lot of details. FedEx ground has a more modern capital plant because they bought an awful carrier and just completed a multi billion dollar capital program to build out facilities.

It also doesn’t mention that Fedex operates two companies ground and express. Most of the B2B stuff is via FedEx express.

IMO the actual information here is that UPS approached the market based on their long term plan and maximized utilization of their capital investments. Now they’re looking to invest in modernization. The question is, was it smarter to stay the course, learn from Fedex’s experience and lock into tech at a lower price, or should they have scrambled?
they found so much on his laptop, he didn't even bothered to encrypt his stuff? it seems that he have made so many mistakes for his job
Yes, and is being downvoted for it. My reply was agreeing with him but without the sarcastic shtick.
I think OP's question was more along the lines of, if there is a controversy, it doesn't seemed to be contained within the article....so, is there actually a legitimate controversy on the topic and might it be found elsewhere? I don't think he could have possibly gone further out of his way to project politeness.
Forget wireless glasses, any AR system capable of rendering "infinite monitors of arbitrary size" will require so much processing power and bandwidth that anything wireless will be out of the question for the foreseeable future.
>It is interesting/surprising to me that there isn't the suggestion of auto-loading/unloading the trucks themselves.

Surely UPS has already solved the logistics planning of putting the right packages with the right drivers, so what's left is prestaging the next truck load for a bot to pick and shift as soon as the truck returns. Although you could argue this means fewer jobs loading it could also potentially mean more jobs driving and frankly if a bot is doing the loading potentially less package damage from careless handling.
I built a memory dump system of my own for the TRS-80. The reset button on the machine launched an RST operation on the Z80 CPU, which was the only non-maskable interrupt (in other words, software writers couldn't disable or prevent it).

Unfortunately due to the memory mapping of the TRS-80, this set the CPU to an address in ROM, meaning I couldn't get at it to do anything useful. I put together a small veroboard circuit with a 2716 EPROM and a nand gate or two. This was hacked into the memory decoding circuit on the TRS-80 so that in normal operation the original ROM would be called, but if the address range was in the first 2k (the smallest block I could map), it would take instructions from the EPROM.

A friend then hand copied the entire first 2k of memory from the ROM (in hex) and cooked it into the EPROM (funnily enough using an Apple). However, we modified the code around the RST instruction to leap to RAM, where the memory dump program could reside and then be executed.

As the machine couldn't reboot properly until our dump software was loaded, we added a toggle switch to enable/disable the memory mapping hack and return the machine to normal.

Presumably like the "Wild Card" did it, we dumped the memory and register contents so they could reloaded later. Fun times.
I brought this up in a comment downstream, but it was a Dec. 17, 2014, blog post by the now defunct Pathology Blawg that arguably led to the downfall of Theranos. The Blawg author was contacted by someone feuding with Holmes at the time. The Blawg author eventually contacted the WSJ reporter in secret:

http://archive.is/BGtRJ

One of the compelling things the Blawg author did was note this passage in the New Yorker story [0]

> Holmes also pointed me to a pilot study published by Hematology Reports, an online-only peer-reviewed journal; she is listed as a co-author. The report, released in April, concluded that Theranos tests “correlated highly with values obtained” from standard lab tests.

He looked up that journal, which he had never heard of before, and found that it was an Italian company that charged $500 to publish. He found the Theranos study [1], which actually did contain specific scientific detail, but not the good kind:

> So, to summarize, the study to which Ms. Holmes referred that showed Theranos “correlated highly” with standard lab tests looked at one biomarker (C-reactive protein) in a grand total of six patients and was published in an online-only Italian journal.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/blood-simpler

[1] http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/hr/article/view/...
The question I have is, why would it be preferable to extract Uranium from seawater (where it has a very low concentration) rather than finding a deposit of Uranium somewhere and mining it?
This is the same phenomenon as when you open your phone and for a brief moment you don't remember why you did.

With phones its worse because all the pretty icons confuse and beckon you to fall back on opening whatever app you habitually open when bored.

This property of our cognition is why we should better scaffold intentionality into our devices, though that is an difficult design challenge.
That type of automation will probably knock out 1 in 5 jobs, or more.
The workforce will change. And those who don't move up the value chain (become robot technicians and programmers) will be pushed out.
I totally sympathize with the union and understand it's motivations. When things like healthcare are linked to having a job in America, replacing people with machines is rough.
Yep, this (financial security) is why Indian marriages stick to gold and silver, because it has a defined market value.
I think it's fair to discriminate on skills than geographical area of birth. We call the first merit, and the second some ism.

Also, if we discriminate on merit, then racism is also fine? Maybe we should only discriminate on an individual level and with the attributes that individual has under his control.
Hover over pocket area on new tab, click the '...' in the top right, click "Remove Section", done.

Firefox is about letting you control your browser experience, that's why the ability to easily remove options you might not like will always exist. If/when this ever changes, that would be a significant departure from their Mission statement.
People do complain about FBs feed but they don't really care. If I were to ask you whether you'd like to sleep one more hour in the morning then you answering "yes" wouldn't imply that you don't get enough sleep. A technically better solution alone isn't convincing. They need a service that delights at least some people.

And so I think their chances would be higher (but still pretty low) if they were spending serious amounts of money on a campaign to promote RSS and a service similar to google reader. That way they'd at least get tech-savy people on board who would then act as evangelists for them.