skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He had first applied to the Connecticut State Police and was failed for deception about occasional marijuana use as a minor. He then tried again with a police department in New Britain, where a polygraph test showed him lying about his criminal and sexual history.

> This time he had failed the New Haven polygraph for something cryptically called “inconsistencies.” “[But] I’m not hiding anything,” he said at the hearing. “I was being straight and honest and I’ve never been in trouble with the law. I’m not lying about anything.”

His argument seems to be that all of the polygraph tests were consistently wrong and that he didn't do any of those things. This is consistent with later comments by other people in the article:

> While undergoing a polygraph examination for a position at an FBI field office in New Haven in 2010, a black man was told that his recollection of using marijuana only a few times in high school was showing as deceptive, and that he should change his answer. Later, he wrote: “I was convinced that [the examiner] may have made an assumption, based on a stereotype about African Americans and drug use, and used that stereotype to profile me. I also realized that what [he] was asking of me would reflect negatively either way—if I didn’t change my answer I was being deceptive, and if I did change my answer I was lying on my application.”
“I’ll still wake up sweating once a year, worrying that we’ve just gotten lucky forever”

For good reason. It's amazing the amount of intelligence and effort that gets wasted in finance. (Other fields too of course.)
But Bloomberg is reporting thousands of affected devices and Apple/Amazon have said they've already done extensive investigations and are totally denying it. That means they both would certainly have to be lying. And there's an enormous cost to that. Very different from being vague or leaving an "out" when the truth comes out.
Every time I've heard of this happening it's because the pension fund has been raided beforehand.

I guess it's like that "fairness experiment" where monkeys would rather deprive the other side of 8 berries than take 2.
I don't think it's going to happen, due to the stack+heap per process and lack of shared memory (ok yea ETS sure) which you need for fault tolerance, necessarily requiring more copying than conventional languages. I think there are different tradeoffs that make good CPU bound performance (like Java or Go) on BEAM pretty much impossible.
I wonder how many major corporations just ordered up motherboard audits.
Interesting. I remember in high school history we'd often get the exam essay question to prepare. As a boarder, I used to break into one of the school classrooms, re-arrange all the furniture so the chairs formed a giant circle, and I'd pace around it memorising what I'd prepared.

I'm now wondering if the added chair-balance while walking enhanced the approach you're describing.
knowing about it and willfully facilitating it are two different things
I don't think most of this is true... the Go core team is at least 20ish people, and that's just engineers not PMs, Managers, or other support staff. Plus the tools and kubernetes/gcloud teams. It's also kind of disingenuous to call any team lead by Rob Pike and Ken Thompson "small"... yeah they might not have hundreds of people but they can certainly wield a hell of a lot of influence.

Google also spends quite a decent amount promoting Go and donating to OSS that promotes Go.

You're not wrong about the comparison to Ericcson/Erlang though, or most of the reasons for Go's success, but you can't discount the Google factor.
It's tricky because I interpreted the paragraph differently: the _polygraph_ has deemed him of lying about these things, not that he -actually- lied:

"He had first applied to the Connecticut State Police and was failed for deception about occasional marijuana use as a minor. He then tried again with a police department in New Britain, where a polygraph test showed him lying about his criminal and sexual history."
Here is the link on their site: http://ir.supermicro.com/news-releases/news-release-details/...
>If the company does screw you (like replacing components for something cheaper) they typically will not be thinking they are doing anything wrong. They are just testing if you notice and if you do not they will say it makes no difference for you but saves them costs.

They don't pass the savings to you so they know very well what they're doing, just playing fool to see if it slips.
Ideally, it shouldn't be too hard to build a side project in such a way that these sorts of infrastructure things are not only a decision that you can defer indefinitely, but also one that you can change later, if you figure out a better way to do it on down the line.

I don't really want to get into a debate over the relative merits of k8s or any other way of doing things in production, but I do want to throw out a general observation: The technologies we use always solve problems that we have. This cuts two ways: If you have a problem, you'll find a technology to solve it. On the other hand, if you have a technology, then soon enough you'll find a problem that it can solve -- even if you have to create the problem for yourself first.
Except that it still cheaper to pay a pile of bucks to IBM and Unisys to keep those systems running than re-write them.

Which by itself shows how much money such re-write would eventually cost.
Evidence for a large exomoon orbiting Kepler-1625b
It gives employers a way to "scientifically" justify their hiring practices against discrimination lawsuits.
Agree. Bloomberg is taking on the two biggest companies in the history of capitalism and China. And they doubled down on their claim after the initial refutations from A&A. So I’m pretty configent they made double extra sure their facts were correct before they published.
A really neat project (written in haskell) for turning a postgres database into a restful API:

https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest
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JS is honestly just plain ugly and a pain to read. The same program I write in JS, I could write in C in 3/4 the time or python in 1/2 the time. Classes, this, functions, function factories, anonymous functions, etc. are counter intuitive and confusing.
I'm surprised a 1930's era pseudoscience is still hanging around professional law enforcement circles. The optimist in me hopes it's a clever ruse to screen people who simply aren't team fit. The pessimist tells me they're the caliber of people who also think calling in a psychic to help with murder cases.

Modern fMRI technologies can tell if people are fabricating stories. There's actual science behind them.
You mean like dropping the documentation and schema validation tools that REST still wasn't able to match beyond what Swagger kind of offers?
They should hold off since Apple and Amazon basically denied all of that Bloomberg article. I'm curious to see how this plays out.
True, the 13M isn't the fee but its money that you need to have to start a bank. You don't need to spend it but you need it in case you have some damages/reimbursements.

I'm closely looking at partnering with a bank. I could possibly look at banks that traditionally don't have a lot of debit card sales and see if they are interested in what I have to offer.
Well, eleet would be $31337.-

However in Google's case their top bounty is $3133.70
Yeah, I read it several times, and it still came out to me as addressing only the final application. But now that you point it out, it seems more likely to address all applications.

Regardless, that's about as far as I got because my two personal experiences with polygraphs tells me they're about on the same level as dowsing rods. "Have you ever used marijuana?"

"No", he said, higher than a kite having smoked a bowl an hour before the test. It was asked both times, passed both times.
I'll look at this. I didn't think of this, I am a little skeptic about Reserve Bank of India allowing this. Thanks for the lead.
Experts offer evidence and testimony, and the offender is given a chance to refute.
It's not corruption, but a lack of professionalism. I'll assume police in the Netherlands see their job as just an occupation rather than an identity. Some people in the U.S. imagine police officers as this 'lawman' figure like a young Clint Eastwood in a poncho rather than just a citizen with a shift job to work like a garbage man. This notion ends up normalizing the artificial 'us vs them' thinking that leads to so many of these escalated situations and tragedies. It doesn't help that movements like blue lives matter seem to be actively engaged in supporting this thinking.
Probably because no google engineer recognized it as an attack vector.
I googled around a bit, and it appears that most of the criticism comes from those on the right who aren’t a fan of the narrative.
Yup, just another needless TLA.
So why not pure SQL, which everyone knows already?
And that was after receiving nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
How Self-Driving Cars Could Communicate with You in the Future
The PayTM guys really took off with demonetization and they really rode the wallet wave.
Tronc changing name back to Tribune Publishing
How would you do this in Go? If not Go, what language has the capability?
How solid is Tim’s plan to redecentralize the web?
Because it came from Chinese manufacturers. Did you read the article?
Can you only look at your widgets from the springboard?
Selfie deaths: 259 people reported dead seeking the perfect picture
> Most of the flexibility and declarativeness of SQL,

does graphQL support aggregate functions like count,sum,average and co?
> So, in the world of concurrency, are imperative languages good for every person and every use case? :-)

Clearly, no.

I think it comes down to the question of shared mutable state. Functional languages say "don't do that, it's evil" - with some justification. If the problem doesn't push you toward shared mutable state, then consider functional languages.

When could the problem push you toward shared mutable state? I worked on a video router. You had maybe 100 video sources, maybe 80 video destinations, and six different sources of control. All six sources of control needed to see the same state of what inputs were connected to what outputs. So the fundamental nature of the problem was one giant shared mutable state.
> That is my question as well, without getting their hands on the machine, how do the attackers start the attacks? And in case of AWS, since everything is so virtualized, does it make sense to install a hardware backdoor if it cant even map to your true target？

Nation states have the manpower for spray-and-pray attacks. They have less need for precise targeting.

> It could probably make more sense as a backdoor when the hackers get hold the access to the physical device, it is however quite incredible to me that this hack is designed for a remote network access, and could go unnoticed from infosec within the company if it is truly sending packets outside the firewall...

How is it incredible? Infosec isn't perfect. Equifax was hacked in part because their IDS system was offline due to an out-of-date certificate [1]. That system would have caught the exfiltration of data if it had been active.

Also, Amazon AWS must have all kinds of crazy traffic flowing through its network due to its customers. My gut feel is that it would be incredibly hard to characterize that traffic in order to proactively detect many kinds of nefarious traffic. The Bloomberg article stated they were easily able to find the traffic from these implants...but only after they knew what to look for.

[1] https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/postmortem-behind-equifax-b...
Josh Elmans advice is really great advice. I'll try to contact the smaller banks that don't have a lot of debit card sales.

Coming up with an "offer you cannot refuse" feels a little tough given its just the too of us wanting to do this after working for one year after University.
Phone numbers are awful for authentication. I stopped using my Russian phone number once I moved to the US and mobile carrier just reassigned that phone number to some other customer.

I found out when I saw myself in my Telegram contact list having other person's avatar and I assume people who had my old phone number in contacts also saw a new account in their Telegram contact lists under my name.
Wow both of those are very cool. I had no idea Shortcuts could even scan barcodes. I don't buy physical books any more, but I wonder if I could get the same info from whatever Books.app provides in the share sheet for the bookstore? I'll have to play with that.
You're right, I'm a tool! I mean "up to" not "at least". Good catch, thanks. I tried many patterns. None helped my sleep.
That's exactly my point. They have MASSIVE amounts to lose - that's why they don't want to admit that their datacenters are compromised. Super Micro's stock is down -41%.
> Note that this is solely in the context of a static data set. That makes this a relatively limited idea

Not if you use the event sourcing approach.
Being selective about the language you work with is entirely valid. But why would you go to an interview where they're not looking for your language and try to convince them otherwise? It seems futile.
GraphQL has a lot of advantages over SQL, API-wise; namely it's a lot more natural to describe what you want to get back. But without getting into that, the point is that you usually don't want to give direct data access, with all that entails.

You still want to be declaring the fields and properties of the data that users will be querying, and that usually sits a layer above your raw data.

You can make it a SQL view if you like, and give access to those instead. But it's just a lot of hassle to solve a solved problem in an unfamiliar way.

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Edit: Clarifying my stance on SQL views. I'm not dismissing it as a "bad tool", but there's good reasons it's not a popular one today. Writing SQL is not easy for everyone, and it's especially not easy for potential API consumers.

The best APIs are those you grok. If you grok SQL, congratulations, but most devs don't, and APIs are usually designed for most people.

Obviously, if SQL is the right tool for the job, use SQL. But don't start doing stuff like this for ideological reasons.
They mentioned it in the commentary on an MGS1 speedrun video on Youtube. They use the PC version because it contains features (such as first person mode) which fundamentally break the game, as well as other bugs. I'll try and find it.
Notes on the linux kernel VM subsystem (2016)
How many organizations actually watch what is coming in and out of their DNS?
An ML researcher on how humanity will hand decision-making over to AI systems
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> But maybe I envision my side project turning into full-time startup some day. Maybe I see all the news about Kubernetes and think it would be cool to be more familiar with it. Nah, probably too expensive. Oh wait, I can get something running for $5? Hey, that's pretty neat!

He says it's fine to do it if you want to learn the technology, but points out (rightly, I think) that if your concern is that you might need it at some point down the road, worry about it at some point down the road and not when you're trying to get started.
What's the best non-Apple phone to upgrade to from an iPhone 7 these days, that isn't in the same price point?

I break my phones too often to want to pay for premium (with/out insurance), I don't want to do FaceID, I don't like notches but it's not my biggest gripe, and I do like cameras, but I take the photos I care the most about with a DSLR.
"The simple concept to remember is: if you need $13M to start this business, it's a business you can't start right now; it's instead an opportunity for larger businesses"

True. I should look at the smallest thing that I can do that can provide value and that can somehow pivot into a bank.

Good luck with your startup :)
That's sounds like the best theory I've heard so far but I'm still skeptical. I've only worked with simple embedded PCB components like resistors or an inductor substrate, but in my experience if there are high speed signals anywhere near the passive, the design has to account for it from the beginning. There's a few clever ways to monkey patch unpackaged silicon into an existing board but AFAIK they all require access to some precise equipment to create a space for the wafer and wire bond it without causing some obvious physical modifications.

Edit: Based on other posts in this topic, it appears that the chip wasn't embedded in the PCB - it was just placed on top of an empty footprint for recovery flash. If that's the case, then this hack is technologically uninteresting.
If you think Elon Musk is crazy, you have to listen to Gwynne Shotwell [1]

She wants to meet other people in other solar systems, I presume while she's still alive.

https://youtu.be/Dar8P3r7GYA?t=1257
He does. He referenced it when referring to the color of functions: "I've enjoyed Bob Nystrom's What Color is Your Function[1] for explaining how annoying the model of "non-blocking only here, please" is."

The linked article [1] explains his take on why those futures, etc not good enough.

[1]http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...
Disproved?

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The contrast! My laptop can consume as little as ~3-4w when I'm just scrolling a webpage.
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The Newsweek that published that article and the Newsweek that built the brand reputation are entirely separate entities.

The current Newsweek is no more formal journalism than Gawker is, which is to say occasionally they'll get big scoops but most of the time they're in the mud trying to get clicks/eyeballs.
What you're talking about is fantasy.

"The US Government could easily find it in its self-interest to make a deal, involving the SEC, on a national security basis, to allow Amazon and Apple to go the denial route with the US Government giving them guarantees regarding fallout."

Can you point out a legal mechanism for this to be possible?
Pence Says Google Should Halt Development of Chinese Search Engine
But then all twitter would have left is Trump..
At that point you are not simulating physics you are simulating minds. From a practical standpoint it's viable, but introduces the possibility to notice the simulation. To counter that you could add overhead detect when when something would notice the simulation, but that's not going to be cheap computationally.

Further, simulating worlds vs keeping real people in pods to see those simulated worlds seems to favor people in pods. Especially if you alter the biology of those pod people to have real physical brains operating on some hardware and little else. Philosophically you can argue about simulations vs "FPGA" boards ruing minds, but direct minds on "FPGA" boards still introduces direct impacts from the real world vs pure simulation.
why not both? Why can't we be a Boltzmann brain that happens to spontaneously configure in such a way that we make measurements confirming our existence to be the result of a simulation?

Is that really any different/less likely than a Boltzmann brain with any other "understanding" on a topic? It seems just as likely to me as a Boltzmann brain spontaneously forming that understands our existence to be the result of religion or any other origin story.

And ultimately I think Boltzmann brain doesn't get talked about all that much because it's unfalsifiable by its very definition (as some might argue this hypothesis is), but it doesn't have all that much to talk about other than "yeah, I guess that can happen".

Similarly if it were "proven" true in any instant that a Boltzmann brain were to exist it would be inconsequential because the brain would cease to exist in the very "next" moment, there would be no purpose for the observation.
A ton of airlines now offer economy plus seats with roughly 4 inches of extra legroom (and a few other perks) for a nominal fee ($30-$50 generally).
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Hue is a Cloudera project, not even an Apache project. Sentry is an Apache project but primarily developed by Cloudera.
Every programming language has a runtime, even Assembly if the CPU is micro-coded.

How do you think that the GC, go-routine scheduler, cgo marshaling get managed?
OK, but this is a point made in the article the comment attempts to refute!
A CEO shopping a private startup has every incentive to lie to his employees in that scenario and little reason not to.

On the other hand, Apple and Amazon have huge reasons not to blatantly lie about this. The plaintiffs bar would be all over both companies for material false and misleading statements if this turned out to be true (see also Elon's recent experiences with the SEC).

Apple and Amazon are certainly incentivized to not admit bad facts, to spin facts, to issue misleading unclear statements that read as a denial but are not, etc. But I really don't think the legal teams at either company would let executives get away with issuing such full-throated and clear denials if they were untrue.
Interesting. I feel the opposite. I can write JS way faster than C or python. JS is much more forgiving and less restrictive than those other languages.

edit: gotta love the downvotes for voicing your opinion. LOL
> "I would claim that nobody pays attention or verifies that there are no unexpected attendees before starting a meeting, specially for longer ones."

I know for our work Skype for Business meetings we interrogate unidentified guests and boot them if they fail to appropriately identify themselves.

I have thought that long running recurring meetings is a security risk because of the use of the same pin
I just checked the review with Sci-Hub, and you are correct. I was much too hasty. The memory effect is still plausible, they write:

> "Although the more general prevalence of “desirable difficulties” (Bjork, 1994) is beyond the scope of this article, several research groups have found that disfluent fonts improve performance on memory tasks (Cotton et al, 2014, Diemand-Yauman, Oppenheimer, & Vaughan, 2011; French et al., 2013; Lee, 2013; Sungkhasettee, Friedman, & Castel, 2011; Weltman & Eakin, 2014). Though some have also failed to replicate these effects (Eitel, Kühl, Scheiter, & Gerjets, 2014; Yue, Castel, & Bjork, 2013), the balance of evidence suggests that disfluent fonts may aid memory but not reasoning—presumably because reading words more slowly benefits memory, but not reasoning." (my emphasis)
The human brain is a hell of a lot more powerful than a computer.

https://bgr.com/2016/02/27/power-of-the-human-brain-vs-super...
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People say that and worse about pineapple on pizza :(
One of my jobs was for a subsidiary of a European plane maker. Some of their critical systems were written in Fortran 77 and was decades old in some cases. I have no clue about F77 or aircraft engineering, but my team was told repeatedly that these software ran flawlessly and nobody was ever to touch it (we made some fancy JAVA UI and called F77 executables in the background). I guess a time will come to sunset, but just not yet.

As above, may be these COBOL systems have been battle tested for a long time and they are good. Other reasons could be, "if it ain't broke then why fix it?" or that there aren't enough people to act as a bridge between the old and new systems so it is hard to do such projects (as other comments have pointed out)