skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been in this exact place before. For the two of them, this day will be just about the worst of their lives.

This is ordinarily when hard-core criminals are taken into custody. If their experience was like mine, they had to show up in front of a magistrate with their lawyers, plead not guilty, then go to a dungeon for about 30 minutes while they get handcuffed, fingerprinted, mugshotted, and DNA-swabbed. Then, off they go until trial. It's basically like being free, but you have to stay out of trouble and report all contacts with law enforcement.

Being rich (or from money), they won't have to worry about federal defenders or CJA representation, which wouldn't be near as bad as dealing with a state-funded public defender. There's a small chance they'll have to go this route anyway, since the government can snatch the money in dispute and block you from spending your ill-gotten gains on high-priced legal representation.

Don't let the "sticker price" fool you. They're not going to have to serve consecutive 20-year terms for what they're accused of, even if they take it to trial and get found guilty.

They will probably get their first plea offers in about a year. Most people take the plea. In the event they refuse to plead guilty, trial will probably take about 2-3 years from today.

Holmes will be offered, I'm guessing, about 6-9 months and a joint-and-several "money judgment" (restitution + forfeiture). Balwani, about 5 years and a joint-and-several "money judgment". This may be a package deal too, so Holmes may not be able to take it if Balwani won't. Why the discrepancy? The 28th amendment hasn't been ratified yet.

Before my experience with this world, I would have been eager to join in the collective bloodlust, with the pitchfork-and-torch crowd clamoring for these overprivileged defendants to sit through a trial and rot in prison. Take it from me: I wouldn't put my worst enemy through even just the trial.
I made a tool for columns: https://github.com/vegarsti/csvprint
Widely reported.
It could be useful if you just want to edit a file in notepad and drop it on a CDN or fileshare without any tooling. I don't run a blog but it could be nice.

I'd definitely call it elegant, though not exactly minimal.

I helped run a fraternity website for a bit. If I could say, hey just download the source from chrome, tweak the bulletin in notepad, and upload it back to the ftp page that would have been great.

It also has the text in readable markdown. If you browse without JS it still works!
Looks interesting; can you explain how the hell it works?

I tried writing a script that would extract entries from logs (e.g. if every entry started "====CRITICAL ERROR LOG 2018/06/15====", I wanted it to start there and grab every line below it until it hits the next log entry starting with the "=====" header), but I gave up. Your script might do something similar, if I can figure out what it's looking for.
Wikipedia is always a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectionism#Impact

Edit: It's also worth mentioning that it is unlikely these tariffs are meant to last in the medium-to-long term. This is a trade war so knowing what's a long term strategy vs a short term tactical maneuver is intentionally obfuscated in order to maximize leverage against the opponent.

Each side is just trying to rack up bargaining chips before sitting down and coming up with comprehensive trade agreements.

Or... that's how things could work. You can never know anymore.
Reminds me of (clever?) demo site that disallowed passwords for users if they were valid logins to other common services. That is, it would present an error on registration "Please do not use your LinkedIn password."
Ask HN: What skills does it take to level up to a mid-level dev?
I've been at my first job for 3 years. Doing fairly basic dev work. I'm starting to look for a new job and I don't think I'm good enough to sell myself as a senior dev, but what would companies look for in a solid mid-level developer?
They did. They had two devices, the "Edison" and the "MiniLab".

The Edison was intended to run a full panel of blood tests, both chemical and immunological assays, off a finger stick of blood. It was also intended to allow Theranos to function as its own lab.

The Minilab was intended to run a full panel of blood tests I believe off a larger venous sample, and was expected to be marketed to existing labs (at this point, Theranos had been forbidden from operating its own labs).

In its own labs, Theranos made minimal use of the Edison, which was unreliable and supported only a few tests. Rather, they're accused of taking finger-stick draws, diluting them, and then feeding them into hacked-up adapters for COTS lab machines.
My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me
The article implies the original phrase: Can I search the car?

Google translates: puedo buscar el auto

This translates back to English: I can get the car?
I can't even imagine where I would get enough content to write an article a day. I gave up on my blog after I failed to manage a rate of one article a month, simply due to being bereft of inspiration.

By the way, who buys such as articles at those rates?
http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/22/media/donald-trump-att-time-...

http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/21/media/trump-comments-att-tim...
Dizzy was one of my all time favourite series on the CPC. I replayed one of them recently and it's has aged pretty well all things considered.
ah, so different penalties depending on whether it's an individual or an organization, but same statute. thanks.
Theranos Founder and Former COO Charged in Alleged Wire Fraud Schemes
Interesting. Skinming through the comments, very little criticism, everyone in awe. Only way down there is someone stating how hard it is to get regulatory approval.

I guess that‘s HN still in full fanboy mode, before all those startups started to display their dark sides.
Converting everything to metric and working out the centripetal acceleration, a radius of 1 mile yields a centripetal acceleration of 232g, to an arbitrary 3 significant figures. A radius of 2 miles yields 116g. The acceleration would drop linearly along the length of the "arm" as you move toward the center, so you could calculate (with calculus, over which I can't be bothered at the moment) the optimal way to taper the arm from root to tip for a given end load.

Drag losses on the arm at a 1 or 2 mile radius would dominate, and ridiculously so. Frankly, roughly 100-230g is not severe at all for a properly engineered vehicle at the payload ratio you could expect to achieve if you get the first 2.2 km/sec "free", as you would in this scheme. That's the majority of a factor of exhaust velocity for a kerosene/lox engine, and all of a factor of the exhaust velocity for a solid rocket motor. Multiples of exhaust velocities are factors of e, so you're probably better than doubling the payload ratio. Perhaps counterintuitively, going from 3 percent mass fraction to 6 percent brings your vehicle size down by half. You go from ~33 times the payload to ~16 times the payload. And, while others are talking a good game about drag, this saves you loads in gravity losses, as the rocket is spending far less time fighting gravity with this initial boost. (1g for two minutes is 1.2 km/s, give or take centripetal effects from your curved launch trajectory. Not negligible, at all.) The other commenters seem also to be mostly neglecting that the motor/engine will very quickly reach near-vacuum conditions, not immodestly increasing its ISP.

Much better than a mile-long tether would be, in my not-so-humble initial opinion, to reduce the tether length by a factor of 10 or 100 from "a mile", to give a centripetal g load of 2k-20k g. Again, calculus tells you how to taper your (probably carbon fiber, possibly consumable, most definitely streamlined) attachment rod. And don't bother with the complexity of a vacuum. The Nike program launched vehicles at Mach 10 in the lower atmosphere. That's 3.4 km/s, 1.2 km/s faster than SpinLaunch's proposal. Given that heating goes something like the 4th power of velocity, Mach 6 or so is going to be much, much less severe than the Mach 10 environment encountered by Nike. Why, SpinLaunch vehicles won't even get to glow white hot!
This is an extremely disingenuous interpretation of events, and seems to be given for no other purpose than to shame the clear victim of an abusive business partner. This has nothing to do with how he worked with rust developers, and even Graydon made it clear in that thread that strcat was always justified in his interactions with them. It is extremely dishonest to spin this around and use it to suggest such a ridiculous level of dishonesty.
Storlet engine: performing computations in cloud storage [pdf]
Even if the translation were perfect, the cops absolutely should not have used it without being able to verify it.
And these "startups" would certainly charge a premium for access to their services/zone ... so the "end user" still ends up footing the bill.
Given the forfeiture terms at the end of the indictment, it looks like they'll both be zeroed out if found guilty (which seems like a near certainty), regardless of how long they're kept in custody.
I think that people can succumb to their egoes, similar to why some celebrities commit sexual crimes or are know for doing unthinkably rude actions. Something changes in people who acquire enough power and have the right combination of exceptional drive and sociopathy - which I think can incubate in an environment where they're in control over everyone and never told "no". It's the same mechanism in narcissistic people who hurt others and deny it and even turn it around and play the victim. Somehow they believe in a different version of reality. In Holmes' case I doubt she ever believed she was perpetrating a crime.
While Google hasn't officially said what the purpose of Fuchsia is, I think they have said that Flutter is the tool for writing apps for Fuchsia. Currently, Flutter emits apps for iOS and Android while the work-in-progress builds of Fuchsia run on the Chromebook Pixel rather than phones. This leads me to believe the suggestion that Fuchsia will replace both Android and ChromeOS.
Australia Just Shut Its National Biometric ID Project Down
You also have to be aware that you don't have one, for what it's worth.
Has ANYONE been able to successfully dig up anything online related to Ramesh Balwani? Trying to read more on him...
The implications of how they would need to implement that are a little scary.
> This looks nice. I wasn't able to install it using Brew, which I'm not familiar with. When I installed Brew on Ubuntu, brew doctor gave me warnings, and it also failed to install the repository...

Why are you using Homebrew on Ubuntu? Homebrew is a MacOS package manager.
We will have to wait and see what deal they make if pleading guilty.
Very similar to my secret perpetual motion machine.
> Is there anything from cut I'm missing out on?

It's a narrow tool. Other than the inherent advantage this brings in clarity/simplicity in a script, there's nothing else to it.
scammer
I liked the startup sound, however if i've hosed my OS and I'm rebooting frequently during the troubleshoot it could get quite irksome to people nearby.
From what I read the applications go beyond just making internal applications, who's stopping anyone publishing the random little tool they made?

By the way, "read the freeking description" is against HN guidelines and a little unnecessary.
Holmes is a master obfuscator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqYHwI87cDQ
Personal observation? Shucks. What do you think is distinct about your local sample (your network) that would not make it representative? What about all the data that dating websites have been sitting on for ages?

https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/2014/10/16/how-do-...

Observations like that have been rotating in that market for awhile, including with big players like OKCupid. Women are picky, men are not, but with contraception women can afford to share, resulting in skew.

What you're observing is the criterion for attraction looks like they're grounded in compassion, but that doesn't serve as an explanation against the distribution and is instead subservient to it. For example, it could potentially reflect to what extent men are compassionate is somehow on a Pareto distribution, which isn't out of the question. But considering that this trend holds on websites such as Tinder as well as OKCupid, it seems to be general to all female preference regardless if they're going for carnal or intimate pleasures.
After you've dropped a bridge on dozens of occupied automobiles, your career is ruined, full stop. No one in TFA claimed that the mistakes were "only obvious in retrospect". All 4 experts independently identified strut 11 as being far too weak, after less than a weekend of study. The original engineer whose firm was paid millions of dollars should have performed the same analysis they did over the weekend, at least.
Re: "putting my worst enemy through", I don't know, this doesn't sound as bad as growing up in a war zone or even the ghetto, or getting waterboarded. Sounds like bureaucratic hell, but that's not even close to how bad things can get.
Odds that she cries a lot and claims Balwani is the mastermind that manipulated poor naive innocent her?

Edit: and I don't mean in a sexist way. I suspect she will be ruthless in getting off the hook.
In order to get a full-yield nuclear detonation, yes, but even a "fizzle" still has the power of a good-size conventional bomb.
It's not a strong one. You could say that about any two games in the same genre - "Starcraft is just a re-skin of Warcraft". I would still buy Starcraft.
Didn't notice you were the founder, nice. I'll check out the link.

Semi-related:

I've been wanting to give my customers the ability to write/deploy their own webhook handlers, because that's a big roadblock for those that don't have any web/server experience.

Been thinking it'd be cool to embed a repl for that (with a "starter" handler per-language), to handle editing/deployment, but I haven't dug too much into that to see if it'd be possible.

Been meaning to reach out to your team but I keep putting it off. Like I said, love your platform and been fun watching you grow. :)
xmp tag? Never heard of it. MDN to the rescue!

Obsolete

This feature is obsolete. Although it may still work in some browsers, its use is discouraged since it could be removed at any time. Try to avoid using it.

* It has been deprecated since HTML3.2 and was not implemented in a consistent way. It was completely removed from the language in HTML5.

* Use the <pre> element or, if semantically adequate, the <code> element instead. Note that you will need to escape the '<' character as '&lt;' to make sure it is not interpreted as markup.

* A monospaced font can also be obtained on any element, by applying an adequate CSS style using monospace as the generic-font value for the font-family property.
How do the police not have an official Spanish translation of the Miranda rights not laminated onto a card and stored as a MP3 file on all of their phones?
FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry
I was thinking about doing something similar. There are so many gems to be discovered in HN Comments. Subscribed immediately to your list.

Did you ever do Show HN of this project?
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I bet the message got the point across.
Do you believe Theranos could have beee successful company with less delusional management? (Honest question for a HN colleague for whom I have tremendous respect.)
History never repeats itself, but it rhymes.

They got together, got broken up, then reorganized, but instead of getting broken up again, they got bigger.
To make a sorted hash list as space efficient as a bloomfilter you need compress it by taking advantage of the shared prefix of consecutive hashes.
> awk '{print $2, $3}'

perl -lane 'print "$F[1] $F[2]"'

> awk '$4>3 { x+=$3; print $2, $3, x}'

perl -lane '$F[3] > 3 && {$x += $F[2], print "$F[1] $F[2] $x"}'

Don't know about perl6, though.

Edit: Better syntax per comments.
I've been involved with many vc funded startups and have never encountered a situation where nobody knows how to achieve the core product vision. Nobody knows how to achieve profitability...sure.
One of the solutions to this is matching paternity leave.

If I gave you the choice of two employees, one of whom would take 12 weeks of paid leave and one who would take 2 weeks of paid leave, which would you choose?

If you offered both sexes 12 weeks of paid leave, you wouldn't have to make this decision.
Yeah, I usually start with `cut` - it makes the easy cases very easy - then only reach for awk if it turns out I need more power. Thinking of recent cases from my own experience, that tends to be needs like:

- outputting my selected fields in an order other than their order in the input lines: you can't `cut -f2,1`, for example.

- use a multi-character or regex field separator: -F'<space><star><comma><space><star>' [edit: rewritten in words to dodge HN's formatting] is a real winner when dealing with hand-written CSV.

- use a record separator other than \n: thanks, Windows, for all those times I've written ORS="\r\n" :P - you can even use a regex record separator, which not even perl supports; I don't need that often, but it's a godsend when I do.

- select based on criteria other than "number of fields from the start": I recently needed the last field from lines of varying field-count, and awk '{print $NF}' was just the thing.

But if you don't need anything like that, cut is a lot more succinct - especially if you need to split on tabs only, which it does by default, while awk defaults to splitting on spaces too.
You don't say? That wasn't obvious at all or anything. Good thing the nytimes was able to let us know in this hard-hitting report!
All four experts in TFA independently identified the same problematic strut, "11", after a weekend of unpaid work. That doesn't sound like "uncertainty" to me.
In that sentence, "antimatter drive prototype" is defined to mean "a thing you couldn't possibly have," so don't be a pedant.
It's known as the "inverted pyramid" style:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
What do Unix command names stand for?
You realize there are password managers that aren't cloud based? Also, even if cloud based, they offer TFA. Some offer automatic password rotation/update for your sites. I don't see how the creation algorithm being made public would make my data "just as open as anyone else's, perhaps more so"?
Sorry about that, but if you are going to have an open position, email me the company so I can apply.
The craziest part of the justice system is how dependent on money it is.

I am in a weekly support group for people with the same offense category as me, sometimes crimes not as bad as mine. Most of the members in this group are working class - hourly jobs, no savings, no emergency funds, government lawyers. They mostly had to serve time, had to register as offenders, have strict stipulations.

Meanwhile I was able to borrow money from my parents, got a good lawyer, and all I have to do is check in with probation once a month for a few years.
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It does not show that.

Being familiar with the process, it looks like they're out on supervised release. Non-custody. No point in putting a warrant out for someone when they're at the courthouse to be arraigned.
"Can I search the car?" in Google Translate yields "¿Puedo buscar el auto?", which is the phrase specified in the article.

It's a case of bad translation, although as a bilingual speaker of English and Spanish, I think it's clear what the officer meant. (Better verbs would've been "registrar" or even "examinar".)

I agree that "¿Puedo buscar el auto?" sounds like "Can I find the car?"
Using google translate well is a skill in itself, you have to be explicit, use simpler words / grammar and avoid implicit, figurative or ambigous meanings.

"Can I search the inside of your car?" translates quite well back and forth because the implicit meanings have been made explicit.
Biannual reshare of a pilot I wrote for a TV parody of Theranos: http://www.blakeross.com/pricks.pdf

:)
Paywall bypass:

https://outline.com/dUwMC4
* age discrimination is a thing. I was laid off (with my entire QA team) a year ago, and even though I've interviewed with 20 companies, face-to-face, zero offers. I work on cutting-edge test automation, am recognized for my mentorship, but people see my gray hair and them balk.
* Software developers rarely have any idea what it means to test software. Unit testing is a small, small sliver of the superset of things to test and ways to test. Moving from specialist testers to an "agile" focus on developer-written unit testing and calling that tiny but of test attention satisfactory. Listen, devs are awesome; I've written code, so I'm fully capable of being authoritative on my judgements of coding practices and software architecture, in the same way that you have written a unit test so you know all about equivalence class partitioning or exploratory testing. We're all on the same team, right? People over process.
* You don't know how to interview or hire QA engineers or testers. There are multiple distinct conceptual models around testing software; these differences will have an effect on how your QA hires understand their work on your software. These differences will have impacts on your processes and the effectiveness of testing. By all means make your first QA hire a "senior" QA engineer with two years experience at a single company, where she was led by a development manager who doesn't understand the profession of testing.
* The most important way to evaluate a tester is by an examination of testing skill; skip the recursion code challenge.
This is inaccurate in two ways.

First, 20 years is the maximum guideline sentence available for wire fraud. The Federal Sentencing Guidelines has a points-like system (with points added for various attributes of the crime, like whether the accused took steps to conceal their crime, or crossed some dollar threshold) that heavily counts the prior criminal history of the accused. This is an egregious wire fraud case, but it's still a little unlikely that any one count will see the maximum sentence applied.

More importantly, the norm in federal sentencing is for similar charges to group, and for the longest of those counts to set the sentence. It is not the norm to serve (here) each of the "nine counts" consecutively.

Google [whale sushi sentence] for more details.
I agree completely. I think this effect of paternity leave is under appreciated by men and greatly feared by employers.

I can understand how an employer gets concerned about an employee being gone for 3 or 4 months and whether or not they admit it selecting/biasing against that possibility in hiring rather than just figuring out how to deal with it.
Brian Acton started WhatsApp with Jan Koum in part because Twitter and Facebook rejected him for a job. Facebook later bought WhatsApp for $16 billion dollars.
My suspicion: Holmes heard about microfluidics at school, misjudged its position in the hype cycle (it's a red ocean, not a blue ocean), sold herself as an expert, raised money from people who didn't know better, and let the success get to her head because at some point she would have hired actual experts and they would probably have tried to steer her away from the known-hard problem she was trying to tackle and towards prospects that weren't as high-tech-disruptive but at least had a fighting chance of actually working.