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> FTP also interacts badly with firewalls and network administrators (both the competent and not competent versions of them).

Passive mode FTP works fine with firewalls that allow outgoing connections. Even active mode can work using something like Port Control Protocol.

It's only a problem when the network is tightly locked down. And when everyone's answer to that is to use TLS/443 for everything, how is that better than just leaving the unprivileged outgoing ports open? You end up allowing everything either way, but with the everything-over-port-443 outcome you can't even selectively block things anymore.

> It also interacts way too well with the NSA and ISP eavesdropping.

You could say the same about HTTP, which is why they both support TLS.
I understand these things. I explained that explicitly. I had already seen that post.

But I explained that I'm a developer. I used the term 'implausible', and, yes, given legal requirements and whatnot there would have to be some extremely shady activity going on, but what I'm trying to explain is that whatever is going on has nothing to do with text or anything except spoken voice and occurs on such a regular basis to not just myself but other friends of mine that even though I absolutely know from a scientific perspective it's almost technically impossible, I literally have troubles believing it's technical implausibility/impossibility over the fact that it is simply happening.

That's how messed up and creepy it is. And I'm certainly not the only one saying or experiencing this. Many of the incredibly intelligent and talented developers at the major bank I work at have also experienced this and have extreme troubles explaining it. Many of the brilliant minds here at HN are having to say similar things.

It's like something out of Scooby-Doo. I want to pull the mask off the bad guy, but it really feels like one of those one-offs where the monster is real.
1. Raised platforms would allow using automatic doors and all-door boarding. Right now, doors can't be automatic because you don't know which ones board at platform level and which need to have the builtin stairs dropped down to track level. As it is, not only does it take time for a conductor to drop the stairs, but staffing is a major part of the T's operational expense for each ride.

Also, the passenger throughput per door is higher when they can just walk off, instead of having to teeter down stairs. (Not everybody can just hop down the stairs)

Oh yeah, frustrated passengers opening the door and lowering the stairs themselves is a dangerous no-no.

2. Electric trains accelerate and decelerate much faster, cutting time off the trip. They have more rated HP and can "burst" up to something like 2x the rated HP when accelerating from a stop.

(Except on those fun fall days when the train slides on the wet leaves...)

Source: personal experience as an MBTA commuter rail rider (reverse commuting to Concord) for four years, former occasional NJ Transit rider (on the electrified Northeast Corridor)
Mitterrand–Pasqua affair
If it is truly this corrupted (youtube comments were already horrible) then YouTube should turn off adding and viewing comments before the election.
Well, no; in economic terms, it's entirely /broken/ to have price illegibility in the way medicine does. There can't be a market for something which has no public pricing information but for which, in most cases, someone will pay all they can for - because to do otherwise is to die or be completely miserable.
Nonsense. Nothing in that article says that developers can't implant the malware themselves. Apple would be just as powerless to find it. This article just gives one more source of malware that is unique to Apple caused by the slow speed of obtaining its developer tools.

Worse, Apple left the malware on users devices and didn't remove hundreds more affected apps from the store until third parties reported them, showing that they were incapable of even simple static analysis of the app binaries. Meanwhile, Amazon and Google had been doing automated static and dynamic analysis of apps uploaded to their stores for years.
[Google] Keeping people safe with AI-enabled flood forecasting
Was your house built on an ancient burial ground?
Thank you. I'm not married to my plan. I only bring it up because people were talking about tax loophole. I'm perfectly willing to let it die. I can't say retailers are exempt from my plan. I definitely cannot say tax domestic revenue minus domestic expenses. There is no way we can get all our trading partners to synchronize on a date to start doing this at the same time and without that synchronization I think this is against international trade agreements.
You do more than £500m a year in sales in the UK?!
I've commented on HN specifically about Stanford billing in the past. I will stick my neck out and say that I believe it is straight up fraudulent.

I am convinced, although I have no evidence, that there is a kickback somewhere along the line back to the insurance company for approving the inflated bill, knowing that they can kick 20% of it over to the customer as co-insurance.

I had my own Stanford bill for a child's ER visit which included a basic blood chemistry and a single shot of insulin that turned into a 5-figure bill of which they wanted me to pay 20%. They "coded" the visit as intensive care, even though my child never left a basic exam room, and the only treatment was a subcutaneous injection. The good news is that after a year of fighting they wrote it off and I paid nothing. But it took about 100 hours of calls, letters, and threats. Patients should not have to go through this.

I blame the regulators. I blame the insurance company. But most of all, I blame Stanford Hospital. They should have their non-profit status revoked, because in fact, they are one of the most profitable hospitals in the country.
I haven't read much in detail on this, but it seems to me like an unintentional stress test for asylum seeker accommodations. Doesn't really matter how you consider Assange as a person. If you agree his claims for asylum are valid, he should be accommodated like anyone else, not just ignored as an exceptional case because he's showed jerk qualities, made serious journalistic gaffs, and the most powerful governments all hate him.

By the way, Ecuador’s ex-president Rafael Correa called the treatment of Julian Assange as "basically torture"
HN is now relationship advice?
What, they couldn't figure out the state in which Bangalore (India) is located?
The sub heading says property and pensions have replaced work - what are the differences between the USA and UK for pensions? As an American I think of a company provided retirement plan benefit, and this is not very common here outside of government work, so are they referring to the general system providing for retirement benefits (so that would include USA's social security/private retirement plans)?
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

Why should we aim to have future generations of artists and leisure enthusiasts, only so the cycle can begin anew?
It will not “hurt” people in the UK. If that tax passes through and is applied, it’s possible that the price transfer will only apply to UK residents. In that case, the Treasury will have more money to spend on services for UK residents which would hardly be hurtful.
>When was the last time that you caught a significant bug with a test?

This happens at least once a week, and that's just for me on a ~15 person team.

I work on a compiler and most of our tests are in terms of user visible effects from running snippets. If any of them break, it's either a rare test harness failure or a real bug.

Whether or not any particular spec violation is significant is another matter of course, but they're definitely genuine bugs.
This is really good to know.

On a related note, I finally got a hardware survey on one of my Linux machines! Was even running SteamVR at the time.
Checking Facebook became the digital equivalent of looking in the fridge. You already know what’s in there, but you look anyways. Eventually people get over this. I notice far fewer of my friends seem to be posting and using it.
Tax avoidance

I imagine if you registered your tax evasion scheme you would receive a knock at the door in short order
Wow, this is actually an incredible breakthrough, even though it's really only a breakthrough in information sharing between discplines.

But I look forward to using this technique for quickly identifying the structure of unknown organic molecules. Just gotta wait on the hardway now I guess.
It'd be interesting to build a private hospital from the ground up to run on a cost-plus business model (and then refusing to negotiate with insurers because your rates are already reasonable; or, alternately, after figuring out what you "want to" charge, setting a 30x top-line multiplier on that so that insurers can't complain that they don't have the cheapest rate; and then giving everyone besides them an automatic 30x "negotiated" discount, with the negotiation occurring between the hospital and a patient ombudsman before the patient ever arrives.)
Vimeo now lets users upload native videos to LinkedIn
Seems like the $50k "bill" might just be sneaky way to get the patient to fork over the 1.5k instead of the 300.

All the rest is a hand-wavy misdirection. Is it even possible to know if, after all the shells stop moving, the insurance company really "paid" anything like they said they did? Or was the real cost of service the 1500 and everything else just expensive theater funded by the insurance "premium"?
>"Did you read the actual memo?"

There is no link to the "memo" in the Reuters article. Maybe it was removed? Might you have the link?
While many aircraft have been lost due to what you're suggesting, we know from the investigation report that this is not what happened in the case of AF447.

As difficult as it is to believe for anyone who received their training in almost any other program, the crew of AF447 had never practiced a single stall recovery in an aircraft before that flight.

In addition, the transcript shows that they were not mentally frozen in a panic and unwilling to act, but that they were poorly-trained to correctly identify the problem, something compounded by terrible CRM as they argued about it such that even those who had correctly diagnosed the problem were overruled after the time to test their hypothesis had been wasted in argument.

Instrumentation issues also compounded the above, among other things.

Lastly, the pilot who attempted to apply correct control inputs to recover had his inputs negated by a dual-control input system so mind-boggling that it could only have been conceived by a company with such a culture of arrogance-driven ignorance as Airbus.
I think this would make a fun max4live sequencer tool.

My first play: http://turtle.audio/play/9qz2ni
Last year they released the native video upload feature for youtube, facebook, and twitter. They have now added it for LinkedIn
I lived in Quincy not far from the north Quincy redline stop. Aside from the typical delays it was pretty affordable and there is grocery and shopping in walking distance for the most part. Waltham has gotten a bit expensive the past few years.
I would expect that the FB client app does a lot more than you would expect it does. There are probably features in there for gamers, businesses, marketers, sellers, etc.

Yes you could build out 90% of the app that most people use in a smaller download in a couple months, that's not really noteworthy though.
Never had Facebook, never will. Have fun, all.
In fact even those adults who do play chess more often than not don't really know the rules beyond a passing familiarity ;)

There was this funny piece at chess.com quoting some of the complaints they receive from angry users about capturing en passant: https://www.chess.com/article/view/his-pawn-cheated-and-kill... :)
This looks cool. Unfortunately it is Common Clause licensed and therefore not Open Source. My organization would never consider a Commons Clause licensed tool.
Volkswagen, Intel, and Mobileye will launch a self-driving taxi service in 2019
That explains why the Grosvenor Family, a family who've owned the same company for 100 years longer than the united states has been in existent, is so poor.
That's a charitable way to look at it. A less charitable way would be the CEO is shooting from the hip and doesn't have a clue what the company needs.
The UK government seems to have recognized he sunk cost fallacy as a fallacy when they stopped the 24×7 “grab Assange if he leaves” watch.

Presuming Ecuador doesn't telegraph the timing of the ejection, I don't think there's a whole lot to justify that the UK government hasn't already clearly accepted the risk of needing to justify.
It's a beautiful quote and sentiment. But seriously, how unrealistic is that? The bad guys are still going to be here three generations from now and the world is still going to need people with hard skills.
I still use the app but lots of people that used to post have stopped so isn't as interesting any more. Its a bit sad as I have friends and relatives all over the world I never see and FB was great to keep track of them all.
The mechanism of this malware wouldn't have been affected by such a change.
Have you read When Helping Hurts? It's a really good exploration of this dichotomy of blame between the people and the systems.

In truth, both are broken.
Freedom until you offend a drunk rider who gives you a 1 star rating.
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There is no published research cited in this article
>Those companies will just raise their prices to cover the tax

How exactly will Facebook raise prices in a way that it will hit the average consumer?
Why so many reposts of the same article in such a short period of time

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ejroller.com
Being a 28 year old billionaire. If you notice, it's kinda going around right now.
It was in reference to an acquisition of Docker, Inc. itself. They've worked quite closely with Docker, Inc. but (so far?) haven't acquired them.

But correct, there have been related acquisitions.
Gotta pay for the Brexit fuckup somehow.
Good commentary by a chemist here that should be understandable to non-chemists with some scientific background:

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/10/18/sma...

It's interesting that both these new techniques and recent antecedents rely on a lot of computing power as well as new concepts and instruments. Cheap, powerful computing is the so-common-it's-invisible enabler for a lot of analytical techniques.
Are you sure that your friends haven't searched for whatever FB suggested? Perhaps not even the exact thing but something similar or associated (e.g. searched for dog treats, sees ads for dog beds)? Have you visited a place that sells that thing with location services enabled? Do your friends express a lot of interest in the things advertised (posts, pictures, comments on any FB platform)? Do you spend a decent amount of time with these friends? What about other people that use the same home/work networks that you do?

Being able to accurately predict what you might be interested in, or at least interested enough to click on is how FB makes their money. That is where a bulk of their R&D spend goes. Couple that with the fact that humans are creatures of habit and relatively predictable, and you can end up with the notion that FB or Google must be listening in on everything you are saying.
It is amazing what this community advocacy group is accomplishing in Boston. If you want to improve transit in the Bay Area and beyond, starting with SF, there's a group of people volunteering at Code for America working on similar things as TrasnitMatters for MUNI and Bay Area public transit. Not meeting on Halloween this Wednesday, but the following Wednesday and each week at 115 9th St (a few blocks from Market Street) at 6PM - ~9:15PM.

The group: http://opentransit.city/
Part of SF Code for America: https://codeforsanfrancisco.org/

Currently using GraphQL, Node, Cassandra, HTML, CSS, JS, Bootstrap, and React.

Always open for developers, data scientists, product and marketing people, transit people, and whoever else wants to improve public transit in the Bay Area.
Most people think heroin isn't like candy.

The physical dependence is the same, and there are 4 times as many deaths that can be linked to sugar as drugs per year in the US.

The only difference is that heroin is illegal and costs a lot more than candy.
at least can be halted by the disapproval of antitrust regulators.

That's the key though, they can continue to try until someone sits up and takes notice. Depending on the regulatory climate at any given time a company will have varying degrees of success with this before they are stopped outright before buying any more competition. Either that or they suddenly start abusing their positions such that people/other companies complain enough for regulators to take notice of them.
> They're just using it as a point of negotiation for a new US trade deal after Brexit

I suspect it's got more to do with countering Labour
Code reviews have been both a useful medium to share new learnings among team members that actually makes the code elegant or perform better, and an endless threads about conventions and nitpicking.

I think it makes sense to set premise or template for a good peer reviewing exercise. New team members should be educated about these guidelines.
Maybe HN types have a particularly techie way of responding to ghosting. In before Norton releases AntiGhosting.
facebook owns whatsapp too. I already did all 5 of thsoe steps some time ago... but I have friends in certain parts of the world where whatsapp is the only app. Not sure how to curtail that one.
I'm sure Trump is going to bend over backwards for Silicon Valley.
Canada also has two entries
Exactly. They're not consumer facing. But I do think that selling off ThinkPads hurts their image as their logo is no longer on devices. Last time I saw an IBM logo on a device was at T.J.Maxx on the cash register that looked very dated.
Southeastern Wisconsin as a whole only has 2.1 million [0] of the state's 5.7 million residents as of 2014. 600k of that is Milwaukee itself.

[0] https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/population/southeastern.htm
The tech giants are free services! Adding 2% to the price of Facebook leaves it still free!

I know it's a dogmatic talking point that you have to make to pretend that tax incidence is pointless, but it doesn't work here.
Thank you, absolutely agree. Everytime I hear someone say that supposed "liberal" institutions are "biased," I genuinely struggle to come up with an answer to the question "biased towards what?" other than "objective reality."
Once they have a printed paper, they can decode it and find out the printer serial number. This serial number is included in the invoice that you received when buying that printer, thus the printer company knows who owns a printer that has a particular serial number.
PornHub Launches a Mirror Website to Fight the Latest Indian Porn Ban
Even with lower taxes I'm sure we more than make up for it with the cost of health insurance. I have the cheapest option available to me (working at a company of ~1000), and pay $500/mo out of pocket for health insurance.

At my previous job, I paid $1100(!!!) per month for health insurance out of pocket.

Note that these numbers are family rates, not individual.
My recollection from earlier stories covering this deal is that "subsidy" actually means "tax break". If that's correct, then the tone of this story is very misleading.
If Amazon raised their prices to cover the tax they're not currently paying High Street retail shops would at least stand a fighting chance against them.
More ad/content ratio
So...why not just build the dump pit instead of using an existing natural resource and "building some wetlands" afterwards?
All fair enough but I'd just like to point out that some people discover that the long game is not going to pay out for them. It's really horrid, I know people don't like to hear it, but I had two close friends die in their late 20's. Both had been good, saved, worked... both saw no return at all on that delayed gratification.

Live! At least a little. Life can be short.
Yes, obviously, we should strive to not improve anything. Having the occasional bright spot punctuating the gloom of history is such a waste of time.

/s
> I think free markets are important but I'm not sure if any of this is free market at all ...

For reference, I worked in a large medical billing office for years.

It's not a free market, it's the opposite. Completely socialized, just in a very round about way.

Medicare pays roughly 10% of any bill that's charged. It's a flat rate now (but remains about 10% of what insured people pay). Essentially anyone with insurance is "taxed" by having to pay 100% (then negotiated down by the insurance companies). You legally cannot not have insurance, if you make over a threshold (in part due to Obamacare), which has made the issue worse.

The above combined with the inability to see prices beforehand and the way the U.S. foots the bill for the worlds medical research has made it pretty insane.

IMO the ideal solution is to make insurance illegal. Hospitals then need to manage the cost and risk of running procedures. Yes, this means some people get worse treatment, however -- they also only get paid if you live and are happy. The incentives are then aligned, and the hospital manages the risk so better hospitals stay in business longer.

There may be some middle ground there, but having worked in the industry, it's the only "good" solution I see.
I suggested that to deeppomf a while ago (I was thinking of simply using unlabeled anime images from https://gwern.net/Danbooru2017 with random area deletions to simplify the model & training process as much as possible) and his belief is that because genitals are such a small fraction of any images, and the rest of images vary so much while genitals are a fairly small narrow domain, a generic inpainting/denoising CNN will learn to inpaint pretty much anything else possible and neglect genitals specifically.

Presumably if you trained a really big inpainting CNN a lot, it would learn genitals (along with everything else), but it's understandable that he would try a much more targeted approach.