skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other hand, essentially all this does is provide law enforcement a means to potentially quickly identify violent criminals via physical traits as opposed to the contents of their mind such as forcing someone to unlock a phone which I am very against.

That is far from all it does. We have had massive historic and ongoing issues with the correct presentation and interpretation of forensic evidence by experts. There are a number of potential issues that can arise, but the deepest issue is a gradual shifting of the burden of proof onto defendants.

"Perhaps the greatest concern in all this debate, has been the subtle shift in the burden of proof resulting from misunderstanding or misuse of streamlined DNA profile match reports; with assumptions made and inferences asserted that a DNA match could only have resulted from the allegations, unless or until a defendant can demonstrate otherwise."

https://keithborer.co.uk/news/dna-profile-matches-their-use-...
Here you go:
http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/02/facebook-apologizes-for-...
I think they mean indiscriminate antibiotics (in foods). At least vaccines aren’t included in there.
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Even further a self-driving car can relocate itself to meet ad-hoc demand. This means privately owned vehicles (assuming they are self-driving) could be enlisted to service this additional demand.

Most vehicles sit idle in a parking lot but could be doing meaningful work.

(Queue SitCom script where someone tries to leave a party but forgot to turn off the feature and their car won't be back for 30 minutes...)
There is a separate Facebook Container extension if you only need to contain FB browsing (that's basically a single container extension)
Honestly planned to but was character-limited
And the printing press. But that's unlikely.

I'm just trying to understand where this feeling of impending doom is coming from, and how it's being rationalized.
It is usually how these things work. The human engaging in arbitrage is a crime or something a corporation cries foul over. A corporation, or sometimes just a rich human, doing it is "just good business".
> $6K per month in rent/mortgage.

Seriously? A 1BR can cost like $2.5k in Sunnyvale. Even in Boston/Cambridge I could get a really nice 1BR for $3.5k max.
It would be beneficial to your friends and family, and probably your own quality of life, to start considering whether those who do not meet the above criteria should be subject to oppression, while those privileged by birth and wealth live in paradise.
pretty fast and loose with the numbers there, don't you think? 6k rent/mortgage + 3k living expenses sounds flat out glamorous.
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In terms of transport security, ensure you control the server on your end and enforce TLS and certificate validation of the servers you converse with. Postfix+Dovecot are a popular solution for personal use or small orgs. For a business, consider CommuniGate mail server. If you can't host the mail server, then use a mail provider you feel you can trust from a legal and jurisdiction perspective.

In terms of payload security, gpg encrypt your messages. Exchange gpg public keys with the other parties in a secure manor. Avoid gpg key servers if you are privacy conscious.

Disable HTML, CSS and Javascript in your mail reader. Enforce plain text. Use an application firewall on the machine your mail client resides and ensure it can only connect to your mail server and nowhere else.

If feasible, use plugins on your mail server and/or on your mail client that convert all manor of hyperlinks and URL's into sanitized links that are not clickable. Strip out all forms of HTML.
Applied online, but no suitable field to mention about Hacker News reference. Can you help? Thanks.
The one thing I try to do is make sure whatever password generator I use for these produces pronounceable passwords in English that are relatively easy to spell, because so many of the places that want these really mean "Phone password".
NSA's official guidance on firmware security
None of the numbers in the article seem unrealistic to me.

Keep in mind the big tech companies (FANG et al) are really a tier above in terms of pay, and also that the numbers given here include both RSUs and a projected performance bonus.

If you think this guy/gal is overpaid, well, get a load of this table: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-facebook-alphabet-most...
I agree with the gp that consecutive full reboots definitely shouldn't be necessary. That Windows forces your hand on when to reboot just worsens the case.

The state of Windows update is terrible to me. Say what you will about Linux, but updating on most distros is a breeze compared to Windows.
Sites are already styled according to the user's preference, by default. If you want to respect the user's preference, stop overriding things with CSS.
I know lots of people that get that as new grads.

Companies like Facebook, Google, and trading companies do it quite often.
That would still significantly increase commute times.

By definition, public transit can only serve a specific segment of the commuting population.
No way all this takes 200 hours. If your gut is telling you 200ish I’d go ahead and double that estimate. I don’t doubt your skill and confidence, but I do doubt your time estimate and management skills. That’s a whole different beast that comes along with more experience!
23andMe, for example, only shows your information to people that it identifies as being related to you (typically ~1000 people). And that's only if you have open sharing turned on -- otherwise they need to send you a request. That's quite different from just sharing your information with anyone who searches for it.
And the UK will miss out.
> If they lie to you about that, can you do anything though?

I mean, no. But you can't do that about any question you ask in an interview.

(Though, I do wonder what happens if you are given options or RSUs, and the company has given you false information.)
Just to break down your complaints.

1. Conan does not require a server. If a project contains a conanfile.py with build instructions, you can also run `conan create` from a project's source repository (no server required).

2. You can easily force build dependencies with the `--build *` flag
It’s probably signed by Apple or something like that.
If I go by what I see on Twitter, it seems they're mostly cutting LGBTQ+ people and writers of color. Whether that's good or bad depends on your perspective.

edit: I said "If I go by." I didn't say it was the case. It's a non-judgmental observation.
Link to the dataset and exact challenge here: https://kelvins.esa.int/satellite-pose-estimation-challenge/...
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What are people's experiences around having requiters you submit a competing offer for them to negotiate against it?

I've had recruiters tell me they need to see a copy of an offer letter in order to match against it. I assume this is to minimize people lying about competing offers to squeeze a few extra percentage points out of their offer and to give the recruiter maximum negotiation leverage.

What response do you get if you just tell them "no"?
I think Atom has components in C++. VSCode is Javascript only.
Go interview as an Amazon L5/L6 (You'll probably need some competing offers), Google T3/T5, Facebook E3/E5 and pass it. Easy as that.
That was a typo, thanks for catching it. As to Virgin, yes the national rail service was privatized, and various contracts to run it have been passed around since. Notable for unreliable schedules due to underinvestment, apps and systems so Byzantine even the people at the till can’t tell you what the lowest fare is, bus replacement services galore, and a general lack of profitability.

One place to read the horror stories would be:
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.virgintrains.co.uk

A typical “whoopsie” on the fares here:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/dec/21/virgin-trains-...
Currently, all cars speak OBD II.
> IE, it can't go point to point, and is instead stuck in a movement pattern that isn't changing.

That's not inherent to public transport. You can easily imagine a public network of bus transit where users send in a request for transit an hour or two beforehand; software coalesces the set of requests into a dynamic set of routes and stops; and tells the user to turn up at a stop (relatively) near the origination point and drops them off at a stop (relatively) near their destination point.

Whether it's economic or feasible is a separate issue. But funding mechanism, transport form factor, and autonomy are all distinct parts of a transportation method, and it's a mistake to think of "private autonomous cars" as competing with "legacy human-driven buses with set routes."
Finally! Do airports next. ;-)
About 40-100K VRChat users wear HMDs – I.E. probably the most-used VR game
They are, but all my other expenses are objective and quantifiable. I could make up a salary for myself, but it would kind of be pulled out of thin air.

I've thought a lot about what the dollar value is of my time and I haven't come up with any way of reaching a number that I find practical. It can't be my earnings, because that's negative. It's not 0 because I do value my time. It's not my opportunity cost from not doing consulting work because that would just tell me that I should outsource everything. I could just make up a number like $50/hr, but I don't know that it would help me make decisions that I couldn't other make.
Never been bothered by it in practice but good question. The newish filesystem (apfs) feels faster in daily use so your experience might be outdated by now.
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The West particularly the US, if it wants to restore its image as a proponent of freedom and democracy and counter the growing geopolitical influence of China at global stage, will have to reconsider its relationship with KSA. There is no way in which West can acclaim its moral policing stature in the global arena if KSA is allowed to continue barbaric customs and practices as rules of law. West has made severe human rights abuse allegations against China. Meanwhile KSA literally chops off heads in public places with a fucking sword, stones women to death in public places for adultery, treats women as second class citizens by compelling them to always be in custody of a male and many other barbaric laws and yet the entire West calls KSA its ally. This kind of double standards makes people question the West's sincerity when dealing with human rights abuse. It makes people think that human rights is just a propaganda tool that the West props up when-ever it wants a regime change and the West doesn't really care about human rights. West already lost its war of ideas in Syria where governments from Brussels to Washington couldn't muster up public support to oust a ruler who was gassing children. People just asked "well if you are so for human rights, then why dont you take action against KSA?." The establishment couldn't muster up a convincing answer to this question and couldn't rally its electorate for a war.

Also KSA's cozy relationship with West and how KSA makes US fight its war signals to other countries that as long as you have pockets big enough to buy politicians, lobbyists, bankers etc, US will be your ally even if pedophilia is legal and practiced in the country. Sickening and damn shame.
Everyone hoping that the whims of the ultra-rich will once in a while align with a common good is no way to structure a society.
Snow Crash, obviously.

(it really is kind of the most ... human ... and thus most likely )
A user in /r/conspiracy posted the other day their school is offering free dna tests:

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/alwd5r/my_high_...
One reason could be that people of those demographics are more outspoken on twitter.
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Reality continues to parody Atlas Shrugged
I don't believe that for one second. Would it be cheaper for me to take a taxi to work every day than drive my own car? Absolutely. Do I want to? Absolutely not. The comfort of having my own vehicle that is set to my own preference and loaded with my stuff whenever I need it trumps the cost argument. Shared vehicles are just gross.
IP address, ever heard of that nearly impossible to anonymize thing?

Facebook can also build a profile based on loads of their logo image using the IP... Including rough geolocation if it is shared.
Tell them that you signed an NDA and can't send them internal paperwork of a competitor.

Talking about salary is one thing, but giving them the documents themselves is different.
Going by what you see on Twitter is probably the bad perspective.
If it'll get newspaper to snap out of reporting their opinion pieces and baises, I'm all for it. I don't wish the layoffs on anyone, however, they don't seem to push a great value for their customers.

I want to see good quality reporting, and I don't want them to try to inject their selective editing/political agenda in it.
Almost the entire population of Canada lives within 50 miles of the US border.
Then I guess we just disagree, and it's more a matter of opinion than it is a fact.
You mean: designed to be useful, not pretty?
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Right now we have parking lots full of cars without people in them. Seems like sitting ducks for bored people with rocks, right?

Why would anyone have windows in their house if someone could just throw a rock through it?

In reality, people are usually well behaved. The fact that self-driving cars have cameras and sensors like mad means that even fewer people would risk the jail-time they'd get by throwing rocks at them.

The idea that suddenly once cars are driving without people there will be a significant enough uptick in vandalism that it will deter cars from driving around is absolutely laughable.

If this were a realistic threat, we wouldn't have parking lots now.
Can the same vehicles handle both tasks? I don't want to commute in a truck, and I bet shipping depot workers don't want to load cars.
1. It's the federalist, so okay. Here's the link to the "misleading" Snopes story in question: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cnn-washing-machine/

2. They said that a satire story was not true, which, of course it isn't. They said it was satire, which it is.

3. Facebook automatically took action against the fact-checked site, the very agreement that Snopes is now pulling out of.

Which of those bullet points means that Snopes is bad?
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Rich people fighting each other to decide who will subsidize my transportation forever? Sounds good. It also sounds like something that won't happen, or at least won't last.

So I think the GP has the wrong picture.
I don't like calling it "inferior" (and we didn't, at the time). We solved a much more general problem in a slow and only approximately correct way. They found a much more limited problem that they were able to solve perfectly and blazingly fast. That's a feature! There was definitely room for both approaches.

The multi-height thing was a real annoyance, by the way. For example, my path-finding code really wanted to be 2D (and of course it was mostly expressed in 2D) but had to understand that you could do things like take a bridge over (or even jump over) a gully and then walk around and cross under your original path.
There’s a meaningful difference between the government getting a warrant to look for a specific person’s DNA and searching everyone’s DNA to see if it’s a match. Why should the government get to digitally “stop and frisk” three hundred thousand people because they have a hair sample from a murder scene?
The HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) favors the article title w/o numbers, in this case "Insights From Analyzing Fandango Ticket Prices"

HN specifically discourages clickbaity titles. (in this case, your title "I scraped all of Fandango's movie listings, here's what I found" is also misleading; you didn't scrape all the listings)
I keep a Debian VM around with Samba exporting my ~/src directory to the Windows host. That way it’s possible to avoid file system issues while still being able to use editors and other tools (Adobe CC apps in my case).
Opinion pieces and biases are the thing that will stay. They are cheap and easy to write.

Good reporting costs money. A lot of money.

Also, don't confuse our prevailing normative social biases with a 'lack of bias'.
I fully agree with your analysis -- the whole of it, including our wrong focus as hackers.

And you're right about Ballmer: he made risky moves that are now paying quite well.
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That's not how tax brackets work!
The theater near me charges $9.25 for an evening show, but it's usually worth it to drive 10 miles or so to another one where the same ticket is $5. (Their concessions are considerably cheaper too, which in most places is as big a factor as the ticket price, if not bigger.)
Obligatory Spack reference: Spack is also worth checking out if you want to build everything from source. A lot of the national labs use spack now because you can specify all the dependencies for a tool (eg, g++8, boost1.68, opempi3) and it will build out any of the missing tools/compilers for you in one command. It doesn't solve the build system stuff like buckaroo, but it works with whatever build stuff I want to do (cmake, make, sh).

https://spack.io/
That's basically the fallacy of predatory pricing. It doesn't work. Sure, you can raise prices after killing the competition, but only so far as to not revive the competition. Your price ends up as the fair market price. Cost of entry is irrelevant here, it's a cost like any other.