skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bank itself is probably not doing the KBA; they're buying and integrating a KBA dialogue solution from one of the vendors. So might be the same software / font / question bank at work.
Why people seek reasons beyond the two well known reasons planes fall out of the sky is beyond comprehension, except that it fits the zeitgeist of today: conspiracy theory sells more than occam's razor.

Occam's razor suggests that the simpler solution would apply: It was controlled flight into terrain i.e. pilot action. The second choice after this, is a significant failure in flight.

You would have to walk a long long way past this to get causal chains which made conspiracy theories the best choice, and almost every time you have to take something we know, like systemic corruption in Malaysia at all levels which makes people lie about things, and use it as a 1 == 0 rule to justify they knew about the conspiracy when a more likely answer is, they simply are lying out of policy and practice.

Obviously "somebody knows more" but it will be about a very pedestrian thing like falsified repair reports, a spare part bought on the black market to save money (Malaysian Airlines has been in significant financial trouble in the past and bad spares are a problem in the industry worldwide) A black mark against the pilot for personal reasons. It won't be about a large international 'lets do this' thing and the reason is quite simple: There is good evidence that large, state actor conspiracies do not remain secret. Things which neccessarily demand hundreds of people remain silent, do not remain secret because hundreds of people either cannot remain silent or leave causal chains, evidence around them.

We know about secret US bases because of fitbit GPS.

We know about Israeli super-secret device hacking.

We know about the Russians in Syria.

We know about Iran-Contra.

There is no 'wake up sheeple' story here. There are of course small conspiracy moments, like the people who sold the forged spare parts, or the people who knew the state of mind of the pilot and don't want to talk about it. Thats a different kind of conspiracy of silence: they have strong motivations to remain quiet, and less of them exist, and less evidence is likely to leak.
Scalable Web Architecture and Distributed Systems (2008)
They claim they track it, I obviously don't run their warehouses but I don't think they'd explicitly claim it works one way if it doesn't.

Why do you think keeping stock separate instantly solves a counterfeit problem?
What level of equity are Uber and Lyft drivers given in the company? Any?

Are they "earning shares per mile" or anything like that?

If not - then screw both companies, and I hope they do poorly in the IPO -- even though ridesharing is such a wonderful service - I really hope they do right by the literal foundation of their existence, which is the drivers.
came here for chinese apologists....was not disappointed.
I wonder how much litigation is costing them.
I’d add that survivor bias applies both to technologies and developers.

Creaky old software tools from the 70’s that are actually still in use have fought off decades of competitors that attempted to improve them.
Civil contempt can be generally viewed as (not) doing something for the benefit of the complainant. In criminal contempt it's for the benefit (or protection of the sanctity) of the court itself.
Yeah except Snap didn't have nearly the revenue stream that Lyft does. I'm still not sure what Snap's main source of revenue is, but Lyft clearly has tons of revenue pouring in and you'd think they'd be able to dial back their rapid expansion at some point to become profitable.
I’ve now seen bootcamps that previously taught python/go/java set up courses for COBOL.

E.g. this free (!) intensive course in Sweden: https://www.academy.se/artiklar/tieto-och-academy-startar-ko...

My hunch that consulting jobs that require COBOL are primarily looking for experience (especially with finance systems) than for 40 years experience specifically with COBOL.
This seems like a serious concern. What's a possible solution to this problem? Should all orientations be considered valid types? so in this case the image should be both a duck and a rabbit as the response?
In one hour, you are supposed to determine what will happen if they are left alone in their office to work for a year. How can you do it?
I don't get the sense that the true details of the latter part of his life are publicly known, and perhaps aren't even documented. That makes me somewhat uncomfortable to speculate about it. It fits my view of his character and public persona that being known as "the guy who lost to DOS" (or "the guy who went flying and blew off IBM"), rather than the actual "loss" itself, would be the biggest source of discontent for him. (For too many people that's all of Kildall's legacy, and that makes me very sad.)
Third and final article doesn't appear to be linked from the others but is online. https://towardsdatascience.com/human-like-machine-hearing-wi...
Yeah, I wasn't looking into how realistic that $500 number was, I just accepted it from the OP as a given.

But I think electricity tends to be more expensive in other parts of the country.
How so? If I don't like my internet provider, my only other option is dialup. If I don't like Google, there's multiple alternatives for all of their services that I use
Secret Grand Juries have been used to prosecute activists for decades now. In fact, there's been a historical movement to do exactly what Chelsea is doing and resist them.[0]
I have a friend who did just this and was held in contempt for a year or so.

What's odd about Chelsea's case is that she's decided to _refuse_ to testify straight up. Normally, various resistance activists would have a statement of resistance that they would answer to any of the questions that the Grand Jury would have.

To give some insight on Grand Juries, you're not allowed to have a lawyer present during questioning and you _must_ answer the question or be held in contempt. They've been used to violate our rights for decades now.

0. http://grandjuryresistance.org/
Totally. I hope I didn't come across as saying my reluctance to adopt new techs is JUSTIFIED. I absolutely need to do it to be any good, and even those techs that DO end up being flash-in-the-pan can leave me better off for learning them. I'm just saying any reluctance is UNDERSTANDABLE, not "correct".
That would be useful even if you're not keeping a particular diet, but just want to have food and not want to have to think about it when you've got a new baby.

We stocked the freezer by cooking a lot before our baby was born... and then in a sleep-deprived haze I left the freezer open.
> you should leave the bay area now, not later

Curious, why? I am having no problem being hireable right now at all (literally just joined a FAANG recently).

As far as I know, it would be impossible to get the same pay I'm getting now anywhere else. Even after considering the high cost of living, the spread between income and cost of living is very high, and allows me to stash away a significant amount of savings every year, to pay for my future freedom. I really doubt I'd be able to save that much if I were working anywhere else.

What else would you suggest?
I'm confused as to your argument. Are you saying that because someone was attacked that means they SHOULD be emailing this news? I'd bet that most people , being social animals, would rather be told in person, face to face. One outlier doesn't change standard operating procedure.
Amazon allows you to use a checking account for payment.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
> but the whole point is that you sometimes don't need these guarantees for reads.

If that was your point, than sure. If you drop consistency, you can drop coordination too. But typically people expect reads to be consistent in consensus based systems, which requires coordination.
At what point will people be able to sue airlines in the US for causing health issues with how cramped seats are?
Should 16-Year-Olds Get to Vote? Absolutely
Elastic rocks! I've been using it for a new project and am really digging it.

You guys should build in some better profiling tools for logstash. I'd love to be able to see how much time each filter rule took to know where to spend my time optimizing. Since its all in a java virtual machine its tough to see things like how many threads are working hard vs idle and how much memory each is using etc.
It sounds like it might also require a company to give cash purchases the same discount they offer to consumer credit card purchases.
No, and the fact you think it is anything like SecureID means I did a poor job explaining it.

It replaces cardboard cards with a SSN on them, with a cardboard card with a longer randomly generated key on it. There's no electronics involved from the consumer's perspective at all.

The key is provided on your e.g. loan application. The financial institution sends that key to the government via API, and receives back a Unique ID assigned to you as an individual that never changes. The financial institution should then dispose of the key you provided them.

The Unique ID is essentially used like an SSN; but the major differences are:

- The consumer never provides it directly

- The consumer's version of it (key) can be rotated freely

- If the Unique ID itself leaks it has no value, since the API Cycle (i.e. Key -> Unique ID) is part of the system that financial institutions would use, supplying the Unique ID would just throw an error (since it isn't a valid key).

So it completely different from SecurID, and is more akin to SSNs with most of the core issues resolved. Issuing cardboard cards with numbers on them isn't inherently complex, and is what we're already doing.

The most challenging part is getting financial institutions to implement the API calls and update application forms. You'd also have to remain vigilant that they aren't storing the Keys themselves longer than absolutely necessary.
When my daughter was born during the recession, my wife and I went through a stretch where money was pretty tight. One obvious expense to cut was eating out for lunch every weekday. So I switched to bringing in lunch.

For several months, I brought the same thing: granola, yogurt, and chopped melon. I love food and love variety, so I was really surprised to discover that I simply didn't get tired of it or resentful. Every day, I looked forward to having it.

Every now and then I would have a bowl of canned soup instead, but that was literally the only variety I had. Like others in the article, I found the peacefulness and simplicity of not having to stress out about where to go for lunch more than made up for the monotony. In fact, knowing all day what I was going to have for lunch led to a greater anticipation of it.

I think this worked for me because I was only doing this for lunch and not for every meal of the day. So this actually increased the meta-variety of my eating: dinner meals were varied and lunch meals were not. So I got to experience both repetition and novelty.

It was a really interesting experience that I'd encourage others to try. In general, I think repetition and ritual tends to be undervalued in Western culture, but has always been an important part of the human experience.
You can see SQLi in pretty much every system that supports SQL (even including MS Access!), although the impact tends to be worse where the Database engine has more functionality for things like running operating system commands, where it can lead to total system compromise.
It really is a function of how often you fly and perhaps your age/health and what condition you need to be when you get to where you are going (e.g. can you take a day off to recover).

If you are doing three international flights a year for work, economy class is fine (I can catch up on movies). If you are doing them once a month, economy all the time can easily become rage inducing. Business class at that point becomes a matter of whether you retain that employee (who you need to travel a lot) or not.
We could also reduce inequality by blowing up the planet. Instead, how about trying to raise the quality of life for those at the bottom?
I know some banks actually do check them. Last year, my wife paid a contractor with a check from Ally, and the check bounced because the signatures were not close enough.
Ask HN: IoT M2M data tariff recommendations?
Global/roaming support would be nice to have.
I think it's more along the lines that most new technology is not fundamentally different from the old solutions. Like how different is HMVC from PAC for example. How different are cool language x's Mixins from Lisp or C#. How different really are channels and message passing in golang compared to erlang.

If a new technology is good or seems like it has potential I dig into it, and due to experience I can generally pick up something to the point of productivity in a day or two that takes junior developers weeks or months to reach. Or at a minimum know enough to figure out how to trouble shoot blocking bugs others can't solve by knowing where to look for solutions and what those solutions might entail. So to an extent I keep up to date in that I read the value propositions and reviews on new technologies so I know when they might be an appropriate tool in my toolbox to tackle some solution or other, on the flip side i'm not in a rush to pick up every flavor of the week framework or library that is more than likely to vanish with out a trace in 3-4 years.

Meanwhile outside of a persistent google recruiter whose been asking to do an onsite for the last year I've gotten dear john'd for something like 3 roles in the last month including one where i'm personal friends with the SVP of engineering. Is it missing keywords on my resume, my age, my career path, education, wth knows but unless the market has tanked it strongly differs from my experience a few years prior.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/haod1gpfjd723lg/Keith-Brings-Resum...
Those are great points. I didn't break my main thoughts into those two smaller thoughts. And I also appreciate this comment:

> It's also not generally agreed upon that economic efficiency should be the goal of government

I think you managed to sum up my thoughts much better than I did.
Youtube is Google.
What bypass ratio are your turbofans? Your argument seems to be that because it's a turbofan (bypass > 0), you've "solved" all of the issues with turbojets. But at this size, you've still got a bypass ratio that's much closer to a turbojet than a modern commercial airline engine.
If you can see that clearly smart, experienced developers aren't very good at leetcode problems, what makes you think an aptitude for leetcode problems is a good measure of a developer?

The question isn't how much you should hold it against older developers, but how much you hold it against leetcode as a way of assessing developers.

Seems like basic logic to me.
Same (41). In my experience, most of the money seems to be in paying down the technical debt acquired by projects when they were in the startup phase. So I spend most of my days deciphering antipatterns in order to get down to the abstract logic, then fixing issues using as few transformations as possible since there is no budget for a full rewrite.

So most of the issues I fix are due to mistakes I never would have made, because I already made them 10 or 20 years ago.

The worst part is that I no longer think in code, I think in piping data around and working functionally or declaratively because my brain is so apprehensive of side effects. I've found that younger programmers don't tend to realize how dangerous imperative programming (especially object-oriented programming) can be in the long term.

So what I really struggle with is motivation, because it can be so disheartening to not be listened to, or to work hard on an implementation only to have the elegance of its abstractions muddied beyond recognition by developers who don't take the time to understand them.

It's probably too late for me. I cling to a fantasy though of saving enough money that I can take a step back from programming and work on some of my own demo languages/frameworks that illustrate the flaws with the status quo. Because of handwaving and cargo culting, today's apps and websites encode so little core logic in proportion to lines of code that I'm hopeful I can make a niche for myself working at a higher level of abstraction and bidding less money on contracts someday. But it might just be a fantasy.
Also: superoptimization. Would anyone pay for SOaaS?
>The hate new music

That's a different issue. New music really is garbage; the entire industry has changed over the last several decades. There's a reason so many younger people are listening to classic rock.
Because of churn and driver recruitment incentives Lyft pays the driver more than it charges the rider. For example a new driver gets 80% of the fare plus $8 per trip in the first month. If you can pick up 155 people per week, Lyft also eats the entire cost of your vehicle. Also, Lyft is paying 100s of millions of dollars to Amazon and Google to run their app.
What monopoly do these companies have? What customer harm is resultant from their monopolies?
It wasn't literally a ban, but it was at least a serious impediment to their operating in the way they want to operate. The TX legislature overturned Austin's regulations with superseding, much more Uber/Lyft friendly regulations, and they are back now.
I have all the privilege. Some events are more diverse than others. It’s rare to meet someone under 30. Events skew towards the demographic of the location in which they’re held.
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I meant "up to, at any given time".

Yep, 240 daily departures is about right, 8-14F is easy too because of their consistent fleet. They've also got load factors around 77% [1].

The first class terminal is inside Concourse A (and IIRC, it's a long way to any other concourses). There's 12 gates at Concourse A IIRC (each with direct boarding from the lounge). Assuming each is an A380 with 12F, that's a peak of 144 people, or right around 110 assuming F load factors are consistent with their fleet average (although I seriously doubt it).

It's napkin math obviously, without access to internal data. It's also not so easy as averaging because Emirates operates a partially banked hub at Dubai so there's a whole bunch of arrivals and departures clustered together (check their early morning departures).

The "not having to see/deal with other people while you're waited on" is the value proposition of the DXB F lounge. Each of the top-tier global airlines has a different service philosophy for catering to high-value pax. For instance, Singapore waits on you hand and foot hoping to anticipate anything you could want. Cathay Pacific on the other hand FAs tend to leave you alone assuming you value your privacy, and you're supposed to use the call button (which is basically a starters pistol -- seriously, they'll be there in 7 seconds flat).

[1] https://www.emirates.com/media-centre/emirates-group-announc...
I've never heard either of those before!

Even if it was literally full of gold to its cargo capacity of 248,600 lbs with gold, that's still only in the region of $4.7 billion at current prices. Surely a drop in the ocean (no pun intended) for a nation/actor capable of carrying out such a disappearing act.
>Umm, no. If there have been secret accusations and secret courts and secret trials against someone for almost a decade

No. There have been 0 secret "courts", unless you're intentionally trying to stretch the term "court" to mean something it doesn't. There have been standard grand jury proceedings. Technically speaking, there have also been 0 "secret" accusations, because an official accusation is an indictment, which is public, and made after the grand jury.

Standard grant jury proceedings are done in secret, yes. That an accusation is made in secret is fine. If the government "secretly accuses" me of some crime, and then there's a grand jury that convenes, and they find that nothing happened, then that's the end of the discussion.

If the grand jury agrees, then, and only then, is the government able to make a public accusation and do important things like go to trial.

What you're asking for is the ability for the government to publicly defame anyone based on no evidence. "Secret" grand juries prevent that.
If it's the same as uber, they are subsidizing the cost of rides. They also spend a lot on advertising and promotions, which is necessary for awareness in new markets and to attract more drivers. Or in the case of uber, to convince people they're safe, respectful, etc.
Yeah PHP has been a rich source of SQLi issues in the past, but it can crop up anywhere.

I've seen it most languages/database engines and even where an ORM is in play (e.g. ActiveRecord in rails) you can get it with bugs in the ORM implementations.
Also has really, really beautiful nature in the outskirts. And the weather is great outside of 3 months/year.
As a person who drives down 35 a lot, I've seen plenty of midnight traffic jams.
Texas may not have income tax, but property tax is very high, and property values are pretty high by Texas standards.
Interestingly, for air travel, there's another strategy:
Rely entirely on GPS and commanding from air traffic control (with systems and structure in place to minimize damage in case those systems fail or are insufficient).

That's what Zipline uses for their fully operational medical delivery system in Rwanda.

The drones are completely blind, directly, but they travel in pre-defined flight paths and communicate with one another and follow directions from flight control.

For self-driving cars, a similar situation may be extremely good GPS geolocation combined with network-wide sensor fusion and mapping. In principle, you could even do real-time optical or synthetic aperture radar from orbit or via persistent aircraft to allow the central controller to identify hazards and obstacles and to update maps in real time without much at all happening on-board except low-latency reactions. Most highways already have much of their length covered by cameras for the local Department of Transportation, and even many intersections and sidestreets have surveillance cameras. A low latency connection to that system, upgraded with higher fidelity, could significantly help autonomous systems. Might be another very helpful public good for cities to provide, much like GPS is provided.

...and on the engineering side, you can have vehicles designed specifically to reduce pedestrian injury, such as not having those large, boxy grilles on SUV. Such things are almost entirely cosmetic and reduce efficiency, so Tesla doesn't have them on their cars. Going beyond that, external airbags may help as well. Zipline uses a foam body and a fail-safe parachute to stop the vehicle if there's a problem.
Sure. The alternative is to spend the rest of your life in jail.
I was typing up a comment and couldn't get it right. You nailed it.
Ugh. The article completely contradicts the click-bait headline. Yeah, NEAT is a thing, and it's basically what people mean by "faster metabolisms".
> So if everybody knows your SSN/DOB, I'd say that makes a very good identity system in the sense that we can all unambiguously refer to the same person.

If that was all it (SSN) was used for, a "unique-id", it would work ok for that usage.

The problem is that far too many companies also make use of SSN as a "secret only you know" to authenticate that you are in fact the individual identified by the SSN. I.e, your "login name" is identical to your "password". It is this miss-use that leads to the problems around SSNs.
I had a similar issue with Chase calling me, as a follow up to fraudulent charges on my card. They were asking for basic identifying information, but I didn’t feel comfortable so I hung up.

I then called Chase and asked if it really was them that called, and they confirmed it was actually them. But then they also apoligized and resumed the previous call from where I hung up.

It was just nice to not be judged for being cautious.