skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This became a full-time job for a handful of our most senior engineers, and resulted in a six month project before we were ready to put it through our QA testing.

So let's say that you pay your senior engineers $150k, 6 months is $75k per engineer, say 3-5 engineers, that's $225-375k. Plus QA time, etc.

It might have cost the company $500k just to implement a program that would reduce their revenue by letting people by in at a lower price.

I'm not saying this is the case here, but I often see companies I've worked for not do this kind of math, the opportunity cost of implementing a feature or product.
How about since the dawn of mass media? It was always either ad supported, investor supported, or both. Print, Radio, TV, have always been in bed with, and at the behest of advertisers. Corporations sell with good feelings, not reality. At first, the web seemed to dis-intermediate brands from products, marketing from reality. In a couple decades we've gone from honest online reviews to SEO spam and reputation management; publishing raw ideas to Facebook's endorphin optimizer, maximizing revenue per session and usage at all costs.

Adjacency is the core precept of advertising sponsored media. The advertiser gets some of the juice of the media brand, and the media brand's decisions about what ads to allow materializes an aspect of their brand. Digital advertising at scale takes away the relationship between publishers and advertisers, and instead rely on brokers who define what is an 'ad safe environment'. Having worked in programmatic ads on the buy and sell side, I can say with confidence the system sucks for all. Publishers are constantly having to police which ads appear on their pages, advertisers wind up spending money on Eastern European spam domains without their knowledge. I think life even sucks for the ad exchanges, which have to try to balance the interests of all parties with profit.

A new model is certainly needed. Its shape has yet to be determined, but I can't imagine we'll be doing header bidding in 10 years.
> On Tuesday morning, the NY Fed launched what's called an "overnight repo operation," during which the central bank attempts to ease pressure in markets by purchasing Treasuries and other securities.

It was my (perhaps mistaken?) understanding that the Fed operates an overnight repo facility regularly - like, every night. It reads like CNN is reporting this like an exceptional emergency maneuver. Is the newsworthiness in fact just the size of the liquidity injection, and CNN is a little confused about what the ON repo does? Or am I mistaken about the Fed making overnight repo agreements regularly?
> The fact that she's not including the police's response is fishy.

According to another story (https://nypost.com/2019/01/31/nypd-is-an-old-boys-club-thats...):

> But when she reported the rape a few days later, officers were at first “insensitive” about her trauma, then ignored her during the investigation, and finally said her case was “too complex,” according to court papers.

She's now suing the police as well. Which doesn't bring us any closer to understanding what happened, of course!

(It's interesting to note that in her lawsuit against Lyft, which another commenter helpfully linked, https://www.levinsimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Levin-... she seems to describe the police investigation fairly positively, but claims Lyft was "wholly uncooperative", although with no details of what cooperation was requested and refused.)
It's a little unclear what Lyft's response to the driver actually was. One article ( from heavy.com ) says that "Lyft continued to allow this driver to continue driving for Lyft under a different name", which suggests the possibility that the driver may have been suspended and re-registered under a psuedonym. The implication is that this is fine by Lyft, which is unclear.
Please don't take me as being unsympathetic, I certainly am not. Here's some food for thought: If you were falsely accused of a crime of this nature, heaven forbid, your life pretty much depends on you receiving the full due process of the law granted to you by your rights as a citizen. Cases like this can take years of litigation to resolve, which is very unfortunate. This is not because the legal system does not care about women, it's because the legal system cares about the rights of the accused. Unfortunately sometimes this can mean guilty people being able to fall through the cracks, but if you can think of a better system for guaranteeing individual rights we'd all like to know. Until proven guilty you are presumed innocent. Unless remanded to custody, you are free to go about your life in the meantime. If you were fired from your job at the first hint of accusation, the ramifications for you as an individual could be very severe.
In this case it sounds like the driver was guilty. However, I'd advise you and many other people to resist the urge for lynchings, kangaroo courts and witch-trials.
Yeah, I did mean I was “surprised” in a good way, though the policy obviously wasn’t helpful in this specific situation. Do the drivers still get to keep the overcharge?
I'm curious, couldn't they have warned the police or alarm security company ahead of time so they dont get accidentally shot by confused responding police? Or were they so confident/cocky that they assumed this wasn't a possible outcome? At a minimum you could warn the top managers the night in question.

Especially at a serious government building that's typically always has law enforcement during the day as security there in important. As opposed to some mid-level corporation office which they'd normally hit up.

Some precautions in the situation just sound prudent.
Silicon Valley is throwing Trump a fundraiser. They’d rather not talk about it
There will usually be many security fixes with each new release, so I have no choice.
Unfortunately, in today’s world and even right here on HN, the emphasis on growth and valuation and ignoring profitability. I’m glad to see any company whose business model is to charge enough for a product to (hopefully) be profitable.
I'm still waiting for real answers to my questions.

Uninformed opinions are cheap, StarTrek is fun, downvoting is easy. But the truth, that pesky truth, is just so darn inconvenient...
What harm to you could possibly come from re-applying? If you like this company, then give it at a go. If they say no again you are no worse off than before. Who knows, they might say yes, if you give them another chance.

edit: Re-applying for the same position right after the have rejected you will not be successful i my guess. I have been in my current job for 17 years now. My first interview was not successful. I reapplied after 1 year and got the job, so yes, it is possible to get the job the second time around. Good luck
Should any random complaint without evidence be grounds for terminating a driver's source of income? This allows for easy abuse of the system.
As a counter example, see all the people who complain every time Netflix raises prices.
The company in question is Coalfire. This company assesses who can become FedRAMP compliant. They also have their pentesting team in-house, and they are fuckig sharp. They know their contracts, rules of engagement, and exactly what they are and aren't allowed to do.

These folks do this stuff for their livelihood. They test contractor, state, and fed systems at all scopes and levels.

And if 2 broke in (yes, you work in teams ABSOLUTELY onprem), they had the contract explicitly allowing physical penetration ON THEIR BODY. That contract is the difference between felony trespass and 100% legal.

I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall and watching the conversation between State IT and the public safety community there, and especially with the AG, who will have to release them.
> At that point, neither she nor Lyft knew that the main issue wasn’t just user error, but an apparent kidnapping and rape.

Did you intend to write that she--being Alison Turkos--didn't know she had been kidnapped and raped?

Perhaps I've misinterpreted what you've written, or you've made a mistake?
Living off the grid is nice for you. How many other people can do the same or want to do the same? I legitimately dont know, but my guess would be that it isnt the majority

That being said, there is a difference between true rural, like you are talking about, and “rural” in the sense of exurb mcmansions on 2 acre lots, which I think much of the “i hate urban areas” folks have in mind.
When you say "$boring_reasonable_politician" I think Joe Biden. <yawn>

If what Trump did last election was getting them fired up, then this election they are going nuclear. Check out the massive waves of people at his rallies versus the trickles at the Dem's gatherings.
GitLab is far more than just source control like Github or Bitbucket. Servicing the entire software pipeline from planning to delivery has been their entire mission.
College should have taught you how to study and learn do to something like this or any other new process.
The dots idea is already implemented in most printers to track documents for forensic purposes.
The court is claiming it wasn't a prearranged part of the test that they were aware of. It will be up to the company to prove that it was

It should be pretty straightforward to determine if the contract explicitly specified electronic penetration or left some ambiguity. Unfortunately it looks like they won't release the contract so we won't know. (I'm sure the defense will get to see it, unless they go to Kafka land, though presumably they also wouldn't have charged these guys if there was such a large hole in the contract language.)
The American Tabletop Awards
This just makes me more likely to read the book
HK is definitely a spring board to democratizing China.

China can follow a model like Taiwan (ROC) and be very happy. People in Taiwan have democracy, social services, and feel great pride in their country.

China has choices it can make, it's the people's choice. If it really wants to be great, it will entrust the power in its people by giving them human rights like EU and liberties like USA. It will respect intellectual property laws and have an open internet. It will pay reparations to the people of Xinjiang and Tibet and give them their sovereignty.

Hong Kong is proof the system works, but the system can't work when they let property flippers from the mainland drive up real estate prices. The people of HK are suffering greatly because of the greedy few.

The jist of the HK situation is this: China is trying to subvert the democracy in HK by taking the voting slots so they're all bought out to Beijing. But HK is an international city.
...and many would say that’s because us humans are bad at imagining optimizing agents without anthropomorphizing them. This is a reasonable, even typical suspicion that many people share! The best explanation I know of why it’s unfortunately wrong is by Robert Miles in a video, but if you prefer a more thorough treatment, you could also read about “instrumental convergence” directly. If you find a flaw in this idea, I’d be interested to hear about it! :)

Robert Miles’ video:
https://youtu.be/ZeecOKBus3Q

Instrumental Convergence:
https://arbital.com/p/instrumental_convergence/

Now afaik nothing in this argument says that we can’t find a way to control this in a more complex formalism-but we clearly haven’t done so yet.
This 'hidden security features' explanation sounds a bit like security by obscurity. Mouse movement fingerprinting? Browser fingerprinting? Locking people out when they get a new laptop doesn't sound like a good time
In Pulse SSL VPN, since submission didn't mention what.
It doesn't bother me as much on social media, as it does on tech articles where other developers are the primary target audience. When I'm at work, I really don't need to see a reaction GIF every 5 paragraphs. Not only does it add nothing to the article, it also makes me uncomfortable, as people might be passing by and see this on my screen. It makes me look unprofessional, and to be honest, it makes the author look unprofessional.
Yeah, when I say Crashplan couldn't reliably get a backup, I guess that "slow" would be more technically correct. 90 days after I hooked up my new MacBook Pro, it still did not have a complete backup. Just trickling data. I gave up and got Backblaze and it was fully uploaded in a couple days.
You are burning an innocent men alive with all his legacy just because you believe that he might be wrong when defending a friend. Not even the worst dictatorships were as evil as you. When you think about fascists, think about you .. doing what you think is right as the cost of everyone elses.
There is a sizable contingent of customers who don't care if you make money and want bottom barrel prices or are just around for promos. This group can often be quite demanding without any real justification for being as such.
Absolutely not. But they have ways to see easily whether or not she was driven 80 miles out of the way. So, if this is true, either she's telling some version of the truth, or they allow drivers and/or riders to just do whatever. If that's the case, it's on them for not having such restrictions in place. That seems like a day one level safety check.
Again, the provenance of a particular morality is bounded by space and time, but the application of it is not; the american judges the chinese with the american morality, irrespective of what chinese society might say.

It is valid, and normal, to discuss morality of actions occurring in different places, without including the morality of that place itself; in this case, stallman isn’t talking about the remote island’s morals, but the morals of where he is and how it applies to events elsewhere
I used to be one of those keyboard fanatics until i realised swipe typing was much faster, so it was an actual improvement overall.

with bluetooth it's not a great comparison since the only improvement is that you don't have to deal with annoying cables anymore but everything else is a step back:

they cost more.
you have to charge them.
the battery will degrade over time to a point where they will be unuseable while headphones from 20 years ago will work just fine.
even if the battery lasts you might run into compatability issues at some point in the future (different bt versions etc).
they drain more battery from your phone.
they have connection issues.
they are awkward to pair to new devices.
you cant share your music with someone sitting next to you.
Here in Canada the prosecution would have quickly withdrawn the charges. It's pretty clear that they were acting under the color of law, given that the State admitted they hired them. If they went beyond the contract, it seems pretty clear they did it under the mistaken but reasonable belief that they had proper authority to enter. I understand ignorance of law isn't a defense but ignorance of the facts is and it seems pretty clear that's what happened here. It seems unreasonable and unnecessary to hold them in jail and unnecessary to take this to trial. I don't see how proceeding with a prosecution like this could be in the public interest.
On the plus side, your VPN server now doubles as a file server!
She did include the police aren't responding.
I replied to another comment, if you care. They should be able to tell whether or not the driver went 80 miles out of the way. That'd be a great starting point.

Another user commented on paid leave. That sounds like another fantastic option. Or something as simple as pairing the driver with only day time, male riders during the investigation period.
What is puzzling about the media lying to you, either directly or indirectly? Do you really think professional journalists and editors did not know those headlines would be confusing, they have intentionally conflated him speaking in support of a personal friend and defending the ring leader who he never met, that is intentional on the part of those publications, they know what they are doing. The implication of the headline being Stallman supports Minksy, Minsky was allegedly associated with Epstein so RMS defends Epstein, I'm not sure if that is considered a strawman or an abuse of modus ponens but I'm sure there is some term for that sort of misleading statement.
It's pretty incredible reading the comments on that bit, and noticing how the battle lines are drawn almost perfectly along gender (with a few male defectors, but no female)
Step 1: Don't associate yourself with a country that brutally oppresses basic humans rights.

(not saying my country is an angel)
How did you handle the delay of moving coins between exchanges?
That is what Alison Turkos claims, yes. According to her, she initially had no idea anything had happened. Her first clue was the unusually large Lyft bill, which she contacted them about. They couldn't provide any info, suggested the driver may have forgotten to mark the ride as complete, and refunded the excess.

It was only after this she began to put two and two together, realised she was very still and sore, noticed persistent vaginal pain and bleeding, went to the police, and eventually during the course of the investigation realised she had been raped.
Calvin peeing on the MSIE logo and a 3D dancing baby.
Thanks. I was intrigued by the story and comments, but have zero interest in subscribing to medium.

Also, since she chose to make it a 'premium' article that means she will make money from it right? Makes me have an eyebrow raised.
Lyft has a GPS with time on the path, with timestamps from both the driver and from the passenger. It would have been extremely easy to do the basic sniff test to see if it does to the pile of "investigate asap, potential big problem" or "unlikely to be the case". I bet they simply did not think of it at the time.
Engineers Have Just Finished Drilling the First Geothermal Well in the UK
I still have a lot of cynicism at the "trustworthy" top-tier outlets, mainly because of their so-called editorial independence. [1]

1. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/new-yo...
The police aren't supposed to be shooting unarmed people.
Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement [pdf]
If you go farther back, there’s no record of a tradition of a wedding ring at all.
We know who hired them. Read the article. Iowa’s State Court Administration contracted with Coalfire, of which the two men are employees.
My eyebrows went up when I read "It was early 2017." I'm pretty sure I remember chatting about this at work in 2013 or very early 2014 and even then my understanding was that it was too late and that automated cross-exchange arb trading had already been done. It's exceptionally difficult to squeeze any profit out of this kind of very crowded trade. There have even been Twitter bots that have come and gone which automatically identify opportunities and broadcast to the whole world how an aspiring entrepreneur can lose a lot of money trying to make fractions of a penny if they act now.
Couple of industrial suction cups and a coat hanger and I'd have them in within a minute or two.
Backblaze is not a competitor to S3. S3 is meant for object storage that is easily accessible and it definitely doesn’t give you unlimited storage for $6 month.

And if you want to get a copy of your backup shipped to you from AWS, it’s a lot more expensive and convoluted to get a snowball prepared and shipped than the free service that Backblaze offers.

If you need an S3 like service though, Backblaze offers B2 which is much cheaper - and less redundant.
Ya, I've spoken with Coalfire employees in the past and have respect for them. I'm very curious to follow-up on the outcome of this case, and I feel for the employees sitting in jail right now. Hope it ends well for them
Even Ars Technica the content writers and editors only control the article bodies - the headings are made by other people who do AB testing.
Thank you. This is such an important topic and I wish more Americans understood and discussed this.
Here's an overview:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturers_Aircraft_Associa...

https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2018/06/article_0007.h...
Legitimate question: is there anything wrong with having a law like this in the books in case an (elected?) Sheriff needs to activate it in some emergency? I could see it theoretically becoming necessary in a small town in the event of a legitimate disaster.

(I didn't even know what a posse was until I read this)
a sample.

I would love to be able to browse their entire collection with a mark indicating free or Pro.
> That's a lot like saying the whole reason google exists is to help people find information.

No it's not.

> There are greedier reasons for these organizations to exist.

Any “greedier reason” for the Fed is a particular application of managing the money supply; it to exists to manage the money supply, independently of whether it exists to do that for the public interest or “greedier reasons”.
Omg the good vibes I feel when I hear the words Compaq Presario.
But they can be forced to join a Union. No one should be forced to do anything against their will.
It was possibly overflow from the Edison which is a separate club in downtown LA. Cliftons is Cliftons
except you are ignoring the fact that the newer technologies we're drastically better. usb drives were far greater than floppy disks. cds were better then cassettes. Bluetooth is better than 3.5mm in a few small ways but inferior in every other way.

there was no reason why phone manufacturers couldn't leave the headphone jack alone until Bluetooth was ready but it was mainly a money grab to force customers to buy their bt headphones
This is the agreement that assigns royalties to the United States.
We’ll be doing the same about today’s computers in 70 years time.
not much, I'm on 1.5M entries and that db is on 1101.0 MB
The answer is in the question: defaults. If the app developer didn't conscoiusly provide the starting directory for an open/save-as dialog it will use the system default. On Windows this will often be the directory containing the program executable which is quite useless. Blame the File open/save dialog api.
I was with you on car crashes & lead paint, but how do allergies come from a wealthy society? Or do you mean that only in a wealthy society are there resources/medical infrastructure available to diagnose them?
What's interesting about this is Tobias, the author, earns a living making an awesome skin for wordpress called Semplice. I've been using Semplice for the past couple years and as a designer who used to code, it makes making my portfolio site a heck of a lot easier. There's still a lot of time sunk into it. I just don't have to fuss with some of the details. So in theory, he helps me keep my personal site alive, even if I am now using the crutch of WP.
I don’t know what to say. Anything I say will likely offend someone. So no reasons, just my opinion. That’s all.
He's pointing out that there's a link to a full-size PDF sample of one of the templates on the landing page if you scroll down a little bit.
I was really hoping we'd get to hear the computer operate at some point.
Pocket Casts is making its podcast app free and launching a subscription service
> (not saying my country is an angel)

Then we both know how difficult it can be :(

Based on slicing social opinion polls by age though, one could say that progress advances one funeral at a time.