skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No IPO yet, but participated in a tender offer last year to sell a portion of my stock (no long working there). Employee 13 (jr role), value of 4 year grant (at time of offer) $1.05m at a “low” unicorn valuation (e.g a bit over $1b).
So what?

People will not accept a computer driver, even if it manages a significant improvement on the current rate of car accidents, because there is a real psychological barrier. Your counterargument of "but it's an improvement" would miss that point.

Humans are prone to all sorts of fallacies, especially surrounding "destiny" and our own influence over our lives - that's why ideas like "bad things happen to bad people" are so popular. That kind of problem is not surmountable by statistical fact. You cannot sway the majority of road users to trust a machine that way. They want to be in control, because it makes them feel something that the computer can't - safe in their own hands.
A separatist movement that predates the state?
"This tire fire has been burning for twenty years, there's no reason not to throw this can of gasoline into it."
Chronological sleep stages data appears available via the API: https://dev.fitbit.com/build/reference/web-api/sleep/

What would a good export look like?
In some USA states, a punishment for murder is execution. In some other jurisdictions, execution itself is murder.

The question is whose legal standards.

They will have their own law, in their own jurisdiction. Human communities spontaneously develop language, trade and law. You can even verify this in the microcosm of your own communities, with jargon and customs.

And how does their "catastrophic" war compare to the wars of "civilization"?
Also embezzlement or violation of tax code. Sometimes even racketeering.
About 300 non-occupant (i.e., in the street or on the walk) children a year die from car crashes each year in the US. About a third of those are in school zones. This means two things: one, a solution to force slower driving in school zones would not prevent the majority of fatalities, so if that solution was counterproductive outside of school zones, it would reasonably increase fatalities. Two, 300, or 100 in a school zone, suggests the vast majority of car-child interactions are not fatal or even injurious. A solution that prevented a couple of the existing fatalities could easily turn more of the much larger number of safe encounters into dangerous encounters. And this is plausible because right now, people are watchful and quick to slam on the brakes when they see a child, even out of the corner of their eye. Teaching them that an area where children walk has a “child” they can ignore would weaken that reflex where it should actually be strengthened.

I understand you are concerned about children as well, so I would advise looking into policies regarding parking on the side of the road. Roundabouts in neighborhood intersections near schools also have demonstrated a natural slowing effect that does not seem to have negative externalities beyond the cost to implement the roundabout.
Or bioinformatics. Or bioengineering.
Mark Zuckerberg calls for internet regulation
Many CS programs have machine learning courses, but at least when I went to college they were not required.
+1

One area I've found helpful is focusing on sources of clarity. With the volume of information/data of all levels of quality becoming so abundant to the point of being overwhelming, and that volume used to influence, the more I can identify the answer to these two points with what is being shoved my way, the better I feel about what I do ultimately select:

- What supposed truth is this information trying to uphold or undermine?

- Is this information trying to make me more or less active on the previous point?

Increasingly I'm getting out of the habit of accepting "I've heard something like this a LOT lately" as a positive sign of influence or motivation toward a next step. Any idiot can buy out the podcast ad inventory to sell their buddy's brain genius pills, it doesn't make consumption wise.

(The poster linked to their own blog post, so maybe they'll add their own opinion to either, rather than summarizing two quotes from David Allen.)
I'd pick the distracted driver's currently and for two good reasons:

1) Computer has bugs that will kill the driver 100/100 times if they encounter that case. Driving at the guard rail, the truck decapitation and whatever bugs have yet to be discovered.

2) A distracted driver nay encounter one of those situations and see and avoid, even if drunk or looking down.

The likely case is the current crop of self driving cars are much more dangerous and will remain that until some magical breakthrough happens that was mentioned above.
You're entirely correct. Here's a demo if you're interested: http://vrcade.io/win311
What did it teach you? I'm having trouble seeing the relevance.
And yet I get much more assistance in keeping my login secure from a two-bit social media site than I do from virtually every bank I’ve had an account with (speaking of banks in the USA).

Two factor using something like Google Authenticator? Nope.

Two factor using a less-secure text messsge? Rarely.

An email asking for secondary confirmation when logging in from a new device or IP address? Forget it.

A history within my account that shows all logins and login attempts, along with the request IP address and location? I wish.

I’m sure banks do stuff behind the scenes to secure my account. But it seems they could do a lot more to empower me to help in the process. I understand that it’s difficult to pin the blame on a bank for a password stolen by a virus a customer picks up that had nothing to do with them. But it seems they’d do a whole lot more to help me protect my account.

I’m generalizing, I know, but I find it comical (and frustrating) at how often I see banks attempt to do things in the name of security that don’t help at all, but go a long way to destroy UX, or even decrease security.

- Prevent paste on the password field.

- Security questions, often with ridiculous questions.

- “Security” phrase and image.

- Shocking password restrictions.
Perhaps but people can develop strategies that work for them. It helps if you can mix the mundane with more engaging work or some procrastination.

This is where time management can be very useful. If possible I prefer short but intense bursts of mundane but high concentration tasks. I've been using timers to help train myself to spend a set amount of time fully concentrating on a task and then reward myself with a break (which could involve more engaging work or if might simply be spending time on HN).
I still have this on my desktop, my laptop, as a live wallpaper on my phone, and the background on my spare phone, which is the new 4g version of the Nokia 8810 from the first movie. I'll never give up my digital rain screensavers!
Ultimately, the limit of someone's freedom is violence or contract (including concord).

It is silly to assume you can evade any given state forever unless you actually want to live like a hermit. Or start from scratch, like Americans of old, and even they had to fight and lose wars.
I had a naive theory that there is a limit to black hole size/mass that once reached causes gravity to have a more linear strength instead of the inverse square. This discovery blows out that pet theory.
Given the scale of some of the recent x86 exploits that went totally unnoticed by massive chipmakers like Intel (thinking mainly Spectre/Meltdown but this is pretty bad too), is it even possible to build a secure x86 processor?

Can anyone really say, given the insane pit of complexity that x86 has become?
The interesting thing about rubber is that it loosens up when it's cold, and shrinks when heated
This would have been better with pictures...
Direct physical access isn’t that huge of a barrier. An ordinary user isn’t going to set a password anyways, putting themselves at risk, and even someone who is willing to use a password could have their device compromised before they receive it and have had a chance to set their own password.
https://outline.com/EpGqWm
This is cool, but I think the UI needs a little work.

For example my natural inclination is to click the output of one logic block and click the input of the next. As opposed to dragging the output to the input. Luckily I have a mouse, but this would be annoying on a laptop. The single click doesn't make sense to me because you're not redirecting output to output, which is what happens when you just click (can be hard to delete line)

What I _DO_ like is that they start with easy examples and do a good job of working you into more complex ones. Makes things really intuitive and I think this is a good tool for teaching people.
Is there a way to disable this?
Thanks for the insightful comment. I’ve been considering changing careers in about 4 years. MS is computer forensics. When I retire from law enforcement (as a computer forensic examiner) I will be about 45. I can program lightly in Python and other languages — enough to automate my job. If I want to do software development is it plausible to teach myself in 4 years? Am I hirable at 45?
Taiwan acts as an independent country. That's why they have independent elections for a president, etc. They have different beauractic bodies and welfare programs.

There are many more examples of how Taiwan is a separate country. The distinction is far from academic.
I can draw a map and say this is my country. But, if I don’t ever mention it to the people living there then de facto that land is not part of my country.
Some buildings (or just the owners?) keep the copy for cleaners in a realtors lock box. Doesn’t stop a sophisticated attacker, but probably does the job when you want to fire the cleaner.
Yes, the TrustedGRUB2 doesn't yet support UEFI. I wonder will the guide still work if I simply boot in BIOS mode. All motherboards give you both boot options for any bootable drive.
- prisoners executed in order to harvest their organs
“Choosing not” and “not choosing (by being unaware that some outside entity has claimed your region as its subject)” are not the same.
> But I wish that they'd explained how humans were basically used in computing clusters. For running the Matrix. Not as "batteries", for producing power.

From what I recall, that was actually what was originally scripted, though the explanation in the script was changed after test audiences for the first film responded poorly to it.

But it's also pretty clearly the underlying mechanics in the film, that guide how everything in the Matrix actually works, even after they made the explanation given in character more appealing to test audiences. (And, actually, I think given what we find out about “free” humanity being a system of control itself, having them adhering as an article of faith to a fairly transparently false explanation that they've clearly been fed actually fits the theme fairly well.)
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Letting people get into the locker room or bike room can create issues.

You can get a great lock, but what they lock into is usually a very weak link.
‘Selfie epidemic’: How Israeli teenager fell to his death in Yosemite
My (too simple) TLDR from other thread:

TPM measures stuff, then we put the key in TPM and seal it to PCRs 0-13 measurements (whole boot environment). At boot, TPM will allow tcsd daemon (part of initrd) to read LUKS key once, and only if all measurements match, this is as far as I got.
End result is unlocked volume, without any passphrase prompts, neither on console nor via ssh.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19527493
The history of ketchup is covered in the first 15 minutes or so of this talk:

https://youtu.be/R7RP9rMDnBE
Right. We're treating them like zoo animals. What kind of existence is that?
The article writes that in 2016 the “National Institutes of Health (NIH) made it a requirement for grant applicants to justify their choice of the sex of animals used in experiments.” I can only imagine that some people took this as yet another example of political correctness creeping in to the public sphere. Hopefully the results from this study helps
to bolster more scientific studies using diverse populations (including more funding for larger studies that might be required for more statistical significance).
In my experience boot camp grads are way more likely to wash out on basic programming problems (not particularly algorithmic) than CS grads. I think the "has already passed the triplebyte quiz" factor is really doing a lot of work for this article.
They don't even need engineering degrees to be employed in engineering.
Analyzing IO Amplification in Linux File Systems
It sounds like they got a little overaggressive fighting with the company that had hijacked their themes and were selling them last year.

They were probably obfuscating those functions to hide them from the people selling their themes. Sounds like they were also disabling this plugin as well.

But they definitely went about things the wrong way, including functions like that and obfuscating them is definitely not the right way to do things.

I think a simple, we're sorry we had included these functions in this manner to combat the company stealing our themes last year. We understand this was wrong and a fresh clean version of the plugin will be out this week.

We will do things the right way from now on, you can trust us and we welcome audits of all our code.
These guys put all this evil into their code (PHP no less so easily readable by anyone) and it took this long for them to get caught?

Further, they peddled this into who knows how many themes they sold and never thought they'd get caught?
I have never been able to force true concentration. I arrogantly proclaim that I have strong willpower* - I have very little trouble forcing myself to do something I entirely don't want to do, whether it be study, workout, code, whatever.

However, forced concentration completely blocks off my ability to think fluidly, and I memorize very little from reading topics that aren't of interest to me (I am looking at you GCP docs), even if I don't allow my attention to wander at all for more than a second. (Rote memorization still works, but it's very impractical for many topics).

I have lately found that if I force myself to read something I hate for 3+ hours straight, my brain involuntarily starts wanting to know more. But I rarely have 3 hours to just get in the mood.

* Research has shown that people who think they have strong willpower test the worst on willpower, but I am a special objective snowflake.
Could you please stop posting political and ideological battle comments to HN? They're off topic here, and destructive of the curiosity the site exists for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You made me go back and check the email I had in mind. I'm not sure to be honest. What I do see is that it soft-failed SPF:

> Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning {user@domain} does not designate {IP} as permitted sender)

So I guess you can use that to blame the domain owner, but I feel like the fact that it was a reply to my own email should've been enough to allow it through? Moreover, there are other emails around that time that weren't replies but still softfailed SPF, and they were still let through.
No, it's your tab connectors at the edge of the screen pulling away - those aren't soldered, they're literally glued on and the glue is very temperature-sensitive.

Source: I used to do LCD screen repair for Philips, LG, and Sony. Next to TCON board problems, the most common issue was panel edge IC glue failure.
They provide the headers of the classified message and it seems to have passed through some kind of group expansion; the message provided did not come _directly_ from Stripe. Initially it was received from from a62-28.smtp-out.us-west-2.amazonses.com but then it went through a listserv, through another SMTP hop via gappssmtp.com, then delivered to the spam folder of the recipient.... There could be a million reasons why this happened but it's equally correct to say that "Gmail spam-filters Google Groups" as it is to say "Gmail spam-filters Stripe" based on this evidence.
> It sounds like they got a little overaggressive fighting with the company that had hijacked their themes and were selling them last year.

Some of this might be explainable in this fashion, but not all.

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/peculiar-php-present-...

> Firstly, the plugin includes a content filter that automatically replaces references to Blogerize, a service which claims to be a beginner’s blogging course, with references to Pipdig’s own services.
Piketty implied but came short of saying this very thing.
If so, then Microsoft was not an enterprise and Bill Gates was not an entrepreneur when they started. After all, they bought their software and sold for and established company. Zero novelty involved.

(In that vein, almost all enterprises failed, the second coming of the innovation is where things usually happen. Or later.)
That isn't the type of work I do.
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Generally speaking, this is a bit different in that violating copyright is illegal, not just in the US but in the foreign countries where Google operates. Sometimes in name only, true, but the government of those countries is still ostensibly saying that they want copyrighted works protected. Google is attempting to comply.

I was also under the impression that impression takedowns were not automatically applied worldwide, although I could be wrong. I know I can often view Youtube videos that were taken down for copyright by connecting to a Russian VPN.
I'm getting lots of 500 errors on Google Plus these hours, so maybe they're not getting throttled, just Google servers crapping out.
>talk to Google

Is that even a thing?

Google doesn't seem to want to be talk'n to outside of my information and in some cases credit card.
I think this fits my understanding as well, though I think you could say the same thing about a lot of things e.g. don’t hire an expensive personal trainer when you can just watch YouTube videos and learn to work out on your own. For me, I see benefit from structured learning and accountability. They are expensive, but going back to school for a 1 or 2 year CS masters is way more expensive than a bootcamp in both time and money.
The latter. I'd have to sit and tally it up. It's possible that I'm slightly low in my estimate but not by a tremendous amount. I realize that that's only a couple of days a year. I'm not including getting sick in that swag.

Typically I'd work for somewhere for 5 years and then pocket the vacation when I left. There might be a single week (or two) off and a handful of Fridays off in that time.

I'll tell you when the non-vacation time comes up is when you become a FT contractor. If the money flows, you row.
It's not about about the computers, but about pervasive network connectivity.

IMHO assuming the trustable computing problem is never actually solved, a few decades from now we'll see unfettered network connectivity as a security problem, and firewalls will be based around type systems over PDUs.
Thanks. My crew put this write-up together. We're here if you have any questions. Jem and us published almost at the same time although I think we beat her by an hour or so. We're in contact. Funny coincidence we were working on the same story at the same time.

This has blown up on Twitter. Our team has stayed out of the online debate mostly other than answering questions. We're trying to just focus on the data here.

They took their public repo offline, but we mirrored it before they did that. It contradicts some claims they're making re timing. We're publishing a timeline tomorrow and are recording our weekly podcast tonight instead of tomorrow as per normal because of this insanity. We'll break it down on the show.

I guess what really jumps out at me here is how they're trying to gaslight the thing.
The Meaning of Slaughterhouse-Five, 50 Years Later
Summary:
Cancer cells are competing against each other as much as they are competing against healthy cells. If you use a high treatment dose you select for the drug-resistant cells and long term it can be worse. If you lower the dose of the drug you slow down the rate of evolution of the cancer, even if you don’t kill as many cells. Overall it suggests it may be better to try to “coexist’ with the cancer rather than try to kill every cell.

By the same logic you should not take the entire bottle of antibiotics after an infection, because you're more likely to select for resistant bacteria.
If you're willing to live in a densely populated metro area (where 100k doesn't go as far as you'd think) you just have to learn some hot skill and how to interview.

100k is north of entry level but certainly not a senior paycheck in Denver. If you can explain blue/green deploys, know how http works, and can use terraform to build out a "best practices vpc" then all you really have to do is tell recruiters that and they'll get you lined for interviews where the hiring manager won't balk at 100k.

It feels like there are Devops and Security hiring managers all around who would love to talk to you.
Historically if Google wrongs you, the only ways to get it fixed are:

1. Get lucky and some googler sees your official bug report

2. Know a googler who can file a bug internally

3. Make noise on social media till someone at Google notices
> People will not accept a computer driver, even if it manages a significant improvement on the current rate of car accidents, because there is a real psychological barrier

In your opinion.

We can't know what people will accept, because we've never tried something like this before.

I've pointed out my view, and you've pointed out yours. Time will be the only way to see what people are willing to accept, or not.
I should have been clearer.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07514
Death by selfie: Why selfies near water, charging locomotives etc. are dangerous
Looking at the Companies Register the answer is no, employees do not get equity. That's likely due to how equity-based compensation is treated in New Zealand tax law. It gets complicated so it'd be unusual for a small company to do it.
Surviving is not enough, you need at least sustainability and preferably profit and growth.

That said, a business that is alive for 5 years and not running on VC funding for that time is probably sustainable in medium term.
> including more funding for larger studies

You won't find any experts to disagree with you on this part.
I wasn’t suggesting that you did, just saying anecdotally hear a lot of gripes from mid level FAANG developers whose day to day is that, hence the point that many, but not all, developers are probably overqualified for their day to day role.
None of that says that the facial recognition system was used to identify the tenants. From what it looks like this happened without any use of the facial recognition system. It looks like a security guard staring at cameras all day saw something that looked suspicious.

Here's a thought: maybe if facial recognition was used, all of the people in the halls would be recognized as tenants and wouldn't have been bothered by management? Is that supposed to be a bad thing?
(First published March 2018)