skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, although we didn't find out for sure until several months later. It was too massive to be an accident.
In my opinion, drunk driving is way over-regulated.

I understand that there's a limit - a point at which driving drunk is truly dangerous, and statistically obvious. But, I live in northern Virginia where drunk driving is a normality. I live in a culture of drunkenness, where the happy hour is the norm. I live in an overdrawn culture of wineries, breweries, and distilleries. There are wine and beer festivals seemingly every weekend. Yet, it's rarely the casual drunk who winds up in accidents (probably of skill at driving drunk). Yet, I see news of regular fatal accidents of those aggressive drivers who must get to work or home faster than average.
Agreed, except that UTF-8B also lets you round trip UTF-8B → UCS-4 → UTF-8B safely, not just via UTF-16.
Ah yes. You are right.
That's not a solution. At all. The contracting companies end up pulling up the ladder so that nobody else can compete in the particular vertical they've managed to commandeer. And then they lose all incentive to work hard. They wind up hiring less and less competent workers and pocketing the difference.

Contractors are a big reason why the US government has the reputation it does today.
It all comes down to insurance, liability and money.
The unintended consequence of this otherwise excellent program is keeping the person within distance of the blowing station, and knowing where they will be twice a day. This is a huge amount of knowledge about a person, and a great deal of control over their movements.

So, yes, I would be for this program if the government agency administering it absolutely forbade all other law-enforcement from using their data to investigate people, and somehow I believed that they would really a) attempt to do protect the data, b) be capable of protecting the data, and c) allowed people freedom of movement.
I'm sorry I upset you. I didn't mean to.
I'm guessing these:

http://www.amazon.com/Krinos-Olives-Italian-Style-Cured/dp/B...
You are right if the measure of success is IPO or money. My understanding is the OP has a much
broader view.of success.
This is great work, but certain part of the comparison is not accurate, probably due to their lack of understanding of Spark.

First and foremost, it would make more sense to compare against the DataFrame API of Spark, which is very Pandas like.

"Dask gives up high-level understanding to allow users to express more complex parallel algorithms."

- I don't think this is true. Their example of complex algorithms (SVD) is not that complicated, and there are even implementations of that in Spark's MLlib directly. Spark's DAG/RDD API is essentially the low level user-facing task API.

"If you have petabytes of JSON files, a simple workflow, and a thousand node cluster then you should probably use Spark. If you have 10s-1000s of gigabytes of binary or numeric data, complex algorithms, and a large multi-core workstation then you should probably use dask."

- Actually a lot of Spark users use Spark as a way to parallelize Python programs on multi-core machines.

"If you have a terabyte or less of CSV or JSON data then you should forget both Spark and Dask and use Postgres or MongoDB."

- Loading "terabyte" of JSON into Postgres seems pretty painful.
Neither does anybody say "What are you doing for the holidays constituted of Christmas Day and selected other days around it?"
This reminds me of the "smooth scroll" scripts that muck up so many websites ... it made me laugh out loud!
Well, physicists are not necessarily perfect. The article says that "...the group edited 51 existing physics pages, including Speed of Light...", but that particular edit was this one:

Recently, there are some tests<1> on the upper limit of speed of light. The test conducted by Zhang et. al showed that single photon still obeys speed limit which is the speed of light no matter in normal material or fast material.
<1>Shanchao Zhang, J. F. Chen, Chang Liu, M. M. T. Loy, G. K. L. Wong, and Shengwang Du, "Optical precursor of a single photon," Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 243602 (2011).

And yes, it was reverted, with the comment "Poor wording. Perhaps someone with access to the source can cast this into proper English?". (As always with text-only communication, it's possible to read-in some snark, where none is intended). I don't get the impression that this little factoid would have greatly improved the article, but the poor wording would have degraded it.

The correct call I think.

Edit: formatting
Matt Might's story of raising a disable child and furthering knowledge
So yes, you are continuing to support Microsoft.
In the US, only low-opiate varieties are commercially available. For heirloom varieties, you need to know the right old folks ;)
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I saw on some web discussion area a post by an Australian who casually mentioned he killed a spider in his kitchen by tipping his refrigerator over on it.

The other Australians in the forum thought that was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

So...a place with spiders so big that people consider tipping over a refrigerator a reasonable approach to killing them, or a place with earthquakes.

I'll take the earthquakes!

References:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDk9FPZVMDQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRV4d9LCawU

http://www.cracked.com/funny-163-australia/
It shows that modest, swift, carefully metered punishment is a lot more effective than the more traditional slow, but heavy punishment.

I thought we basically already knew that? I thought we had already shown in studies that swiftness & certainty of punishment are more effective deterrents than severity.
That's actually a nice library, that could be use for april fools or something.
I think this warrants a comment with a simple "LOL"
It definitely would. "Okay, that's the fourth and final interview; you're hired, salary is within our range, now give us your urine so we can see if you're a heroin addict" is typically not how I like to start major employee/employer trust relationships.

It's certainly not personal. I just think it's bad policy for all but the most safety-critical occupations, and choose to avoid employers who insist on collecting my bodily fluids or health history.
> I believe

if you were correct then the joke would not be funny. if the joke were not funny it would not have been upvoted. if it had not been upvoted it would not now be at the top. because it is now at the top, it had to have been funny, and you must be incorrect.
>How are there security concerns?

It is more about breaking a general principle of not mixing executable stuff and non-executable stuff. I have written more about it here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10063637

>its optional to use explicit variables for clarity

I don't think it is optional. If it was optional, then the behavior would be to interpolate from local variables by default, and do them selectively if an argument list is provided.

So someone, in the past, thought about this and decided that it is best to always require an explicit list of variables for interpolation.

This pep is trying to undo that decision. Why? What was the reason to always require an explicit list of variables? Didn't they think that it would be convenient to automatically interpolate from locals? What was it that made them decide against it? Isn't that reason still relevant?

Without answering these questions, I think it is not wise to continue with this pep.
Such an interesting subject. Anyone have any pointers to the most interesting post-quantum algorithms?
Helping Siri hear you in a party
Project Titan employees have a cover on their badges and pretty much nobody have access to their buildings. I know two new employees who went to Project Titan team that are heavily focused on computer vision.
The stupid part is that drug tests would reject a large percentage of really good programmers, and they are neither abundant nor cheap. That's a big cost for such a vague benefit.
Oh, it's like my iPad when scrolling through PDFs.
It's funny to think of the Batteriser in the context of the recent post about "assuming stupidity" in your competition.

IE "Current device manufacturers are stupid! There's all this energy left!"
I don't know who "we" might be. Do you work for ycombinator? Are you an official moderator? Otherwise not sure why you would say "we". Just wondering.

That said, if we are talking about antagonism and HN, well, when it comes to topics outside of tech it is almost a sport to down-vote or berate anyone who does not align with a certain ideology.

In the over six years or so I've been reading HN I have yet to see any "we" coming down to say "We'd appreciate it if you wouldn't post like this here" in any of those cases in defense of being accepting of alternative points of view.

I go back to USENET days. HN is definitely better than any of that, by far, however, there's an underlying accepted ideology that is promoted here and everything else is rejected and attacked in various overt and and not-so-overt ways. That aspect is not very different from the kinds of things that could happen on USENET. Granted, public discussion boards are horrendously difficult to run. I get that part.

Discussions on HN are thoughtful when it comes to matters of technology. Outside of that HN is very intolerant of alternative points of view. People can find themselves defending from personal attacks instead of engaging in discussing the issues. Something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg

HN is the person with the nail on her head. She is happy for the split second the guy comes in to alignment with her point of view. Outside of that, when an alternative point of view is offered, not happy at all.

Before anyone says anything --because I KNOW someone will jump on the keyboard and attack the choice of videos-- no, this has nothing to do with women. It's just a convenient illustration that came to mind.

Anyhow, time to move off this thread.
I have a harder time controlling my appetite if I don't get enough sleep.

Could these toxins be related?
I meant olives, with extra salt on top of them. Salt, to immediately kick you off, (with no real nutritious support), and olives, for their fat and iron, and nutrients to sustain and feed you. In this case they were greek, but I suppose that doesn't really matter.
Shooting at people is victimless- only when the bullets actually hit people is there a victim, and there are already crimes/legal remedies in place for that.

Consider the case where a shooter sprays bullets in a crowded building wildly, but no one is actually hit.

Rightly or wrongly, drunk driving is considered endangerment of others.

endangerment comprises several types of crimes involving conduct that is wrongful and reckless or wanton, and likely to produce death or grievous bodily harm to another person.

Similar to crimes like attempted murder, we do not allow endangerment even though it may be the case that no one was hurt, because Person A took a high risk with Person B's life and we do not consider that acceptable.
yeah, but presumably its just like other yeast - if "non-authorized users" get hold of just a little bit, they can make as much of it as they want. (There's a whole bunch of bakers here in Sydney who sell "Sonoma Sourdough bread", which - story goes - all comes from the same small batch of not-quite-legally-acquired-and-imported yeast.)

I'm wondering who's going to be the first politician or law enforcement chief to suggest we need to lock up sugar and require government issued ID to be presented before purchase...
Free Obfuscated Source Satire (FOSS)

The JS from https://github.com/benzweig/jankyscroll:

<script>var jankyscroll=function(){"use strict";function n(){var n=Math.round(Math.random());return 1==n?-1:1}function o(){return(5Math.random()+8)/10}return function(r,t){function i(){a&&clearTimeout(a),a=setTimeout(function(){window.scrollBy(0,to()n())},400)}r=r||400,t=t||20;var e,a,c=function(){var i=Math.floor(window.scrollY/r);e!==i&&(window.scrollBy(0,to()*n()),e=i)};window.addEventListener("scroll",c,!1),window.addEventListener("resize",i,!1)}}();jankyscroll(170,100);</script>
I don't think California grows a lot of corn, or any for that matter. It is more into specialized fruits and nuts..and cows of course.
Congratulations on the amazing adoption rate! I've seen this live on hundreds on sites the last few years.
blame apple then

and cry out loud as well
The question I have is what VW did after receiving the injunction? Did they work with their customers for the last two years to fix the vulnerability? Or was the injunction their solution by itself?

If it was the latter case, somebody should really serve them a class action suit. Security by gag is not helping the end customer.
Be careful about the victimless label. Just because an individual action does not cause harm does not mean that it should not be punished as if it had. The act is the same. Whether or not someone is physically injured is largely a matter of luck. It would be horrific if punishments were handed out on that basis alone.

A long time ago I read a statement from a judge sentencing two defendants for felony murder. They both shot and a man was dead, but there was a debate as to which bullet actually killed. "The only difference between the two was aim, and I am not going to let one off for being the poorer shot."

The more appropriate word for such laws are "regulatory crimes". They are meant to regulate behavior to prevent or reduce an evil that does not occur in all cases. This covers everything from practicing medicine without a license to drug possession, neither of which necessarily cause a physical harm in every case.
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If you dig that deep for things to criticize, you'll find them anywhere.
You're right. However, you can't use your own domain with Forestry.io right now (public beta, with a 'submit your email address to be the first to know' form). Also, I'm not sure that hosting on Linode will scale as well as expected for $1/month/user.
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As you said, "what you signed up to do", and "you volunteered to lose sleep".

And you do that, because evolutionarily, you kind of like your kids. Like a lot.

But without kids, under duress, try to not sleep for 3+ days.

Not funny at all.
It's only 8-bit clean if you don't poke it very hard. Try either of the last two loop examples in that page after adding "\xff\x80" to the string; you get two (indistinguishable) U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTERs in the iteration. So the loop destroys data, which UTF-8B specifically does not.

Also, it's a little disappointing that Go doesn't have a type-level way to say that a string is in fact UTF-8, not Latin-1 or something, and preferably that all values that inhabit that type are guaranteed to be valid and well-formed UTF-8. This is the cause of plenty of subtle bugs in Python 2, C, etc., which are all technically the result of programmer error, but in this decade, type systems should be helping us avoid common, subtle programmer errors.
Maybe the reason people keep telling you that you are wrong is not because they're overly emotional or biased, but because you're actually wrong.
monkeypatching is an awful thing. Sometimes necessary, but definitely awful.
You and the Python guys should get together and make your hack compatible, and then pressure everyone else to standardize on it, instead of the horrible nightmare where every string input and output operation potentially corrupts data or crashes.
I just don't understand who the fuck thinks it's a good idea to mess with scroll?

Can you imagine? Someone sits down and decides it's a good idea and then puts in, god only knows, how much person-power to get it included. Christ.
> And what happened with Democrats and anti-Semitism? When did it become okay to see Evil Jews behind every problem?

Evil zionists. It's not the jews who are evil, but their zionists. Netanyahu and his worker bees over at AIPAC, specifically.
Even better: at some of these employers, being treated therapeutically by a doctor with a DEA scheduled medicine forces you to take the urine test, fail it, and then inevitably listen to someone from HR ask you questions about your health history in order to ascertain if you really need to be taking the medicine. It's intrusive, infantilizing, and just not worth it when there are so many better employers out there.
You're the reason I can't use an "'" in my password on Citibank's web site, aren't you? I finally caught you, you bastard.
Except they shouldn't really use Gzip if they are also using HTTPS.... See http://stackoverflow.com/a/4063496/171237 or look up BREACH and CRIME.
Question: it cost about $0.03 per SMS message, right? This seems like a large business overhead compared to web apps.

Are there less expensive ways to send 10s of thousands of SMS messages per month?

I think this is a very cool idea.
> I don't know who "we" might be. Do you work for ycombinator? Are you an official moderator? Otherwise not sure why you would say "we". Just wondering.

The answer to both those questions is "yes".
Is it really garbage? If we want to be true to UNIX's (questionable) "Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface" ethos, our definition of "text" has to admit all possible byte strings to be "universal". And the so-called C locale historically did.
But isn't swerving is victimless too? And running a red light or speeding or driving against traffic on the freeway?

If we only punish people for behavior that results in injury or damage then you're relying on each and every driver to correctly assess the risks of their behavior. People are notoriously bad at doing that, so any punishment will be ineffective as a deterrent.
I use runit. It's great. (Daemontools didn't have the ability to sleep for 30 seconds after my daemons crashed at startup because, like, some filesystem wasn't mounted or something.)
> Perhaps you think the people at the agencies have the ability to ignore the law and carry out their own agenda, and there's no recourse?

You obviously haven't dealt with government enough then. I've done a ton of business with multiple government agencies over the last 30 years or so. My father for about 70 years and on three continents. Thinking that government agencies do not behave badly and above the law is, I am sorry to say, a really naive position that can only come from a lack of experience (and, in that case, understandable). Government agencies are people, not machines, and we are flawed in a million different ways.

If you don't think government agencies don't behave unethically or badly, just read this:

http://www.unclefed.com/TxprBoR/JWWade.html

And there are a million more like that if you dig far enough.
This is a good point. If it's so easy to get longer battery lifetimes, why wouldn't device manufacturers just build the equivalent of the "batteriser" circuit into their devices? After all, longer battery life would give them an edge over their competition. But maybe it isn't really that easy...

For reference, here's a link to the recent "Presumption of Stupidity" post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10034883
Having dynamic memory allocation, let alone garbage collection, in my pid 1 doesn't sounds like a great idea.

(I know, as long as I'm using Linux, I'm stuck with dynamic memory allocation in the fucking kernel. I don't have a plan for how to fix that yet.)

(Also, thank you so much for all your help with Guix this last week!)
PDFs are horrible when it comes to different screen sizes, though. I mean, horrible to the point of near unusablility.

The ebook formats (both EPUB and Kindle) work very well indeed on devices ranging from a small phone screen to a large desktop monitor. They're not "inferior" to PDF in the slightest in that respect.

There are still niches where PDF wins, but that's certainly not the case for casual fiction.
Well, my main doubt is in your ability to effectively control the vehicle unpowered. This could be dangerous in many instances: on bridges/overpasses, steep roads, roads with steep drop-offs near the shoulder, etc. Stalling at highway speeds with other vehicles would not be good, but you may be able to manage it.
Then please take the time to moderate both sides and allow for tolerance of alternative points of view. And, in particular, "we" should not tolerate personal attacks.

I'm done. Thanks.
In biology n does not go to infinity
they also promised the monitoring wouldn't be used on US citizens.
Do they do this on the web too or just the native app?
Excellent reply, sorry I'm so blind. But, maybe this is also just the same question of too much text -- tighten up the copy. At any rate, my apologies for missing it the first time through.
OK, but that's a very large data set that to track - does AV software actually do that?
When I say "desert", I am talking about the technical definition, which is based off of the amount of precipitation.
BREACH/CRIME aren't a huge concern here. Unlike in a web browser, an attacker can't cause a user's browser to fire off crafted requests (because they're only occurring in the Facebook app, which doesn't let third-party scripts run), and they can't easily observe the size of requests and responses (because they're all happening over a cellular network, which is difficult to sniff).
>Even better: at some of these employers, being treated therapeutically by a doctor with a DEA scheduled medicine forces you to take the urine test, fail it, and then inevitably listen to someone from HR ask you questions about your health history in order to ascertain if you really need to be taking the medicine.

Don't grasp at straws, anyone with a brain would bring proof of prescription (or put their doctor's number down!) to the test and that gets sent along with the results.
The line of research that led to L4-based security like this:

http://genode-labs.com/publications/mikro-sina-2005.pdf

And capability-based security w/ persistence like this:

http://www.eros-os.org/papers/IEEE-Software-Jan-2002.pdf

State-of-the-art are projects such as CHERI and SAFE processors that use tags to enforce fine-grained, efficient protection at hardware level. CHERI's path included legacy compatibility with FreeBSD software (CheriBSD) building on capability model like EROS did. SAFE essentially types memory with functional programming and verification. Personally, I thought they should've just ported Oberon to it for something immediately usable. One thing about SAFE, along with predecessor TIARA, is they go for "zero-kernel" OS where everything is deprivileged where possible with hardware enforcement and elimination of context switches.

However, I think their program transformation or microkernels with capabilities are best we can do for traditional architectures (esp x86) with kernel/user mode protections. Hypervisor layer adds additional possibilities but it's still simple, powerful things looking after complicated, weak things. Same stuff with new abstraction and efficiency opportunities. Clean-slate is best investment, though, so we should keep putting money into and building on architectures such as CHERI and SAFE.
I spoke to someone who worked at Apple in the pre-iPhone era, he said similar things about what ended up being the iPhone team.

It honestly just seems like a waste of time to me. That and the fact that I never see Apple employees at conferences etc. - it makes me not want to work there.
There was even a world record set by Randy Gardner [1] who was awake for more than 10 days and he was monitored by a research institute.

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder...
OS X sudoers exploit addressed with 2015-006 update
Running a non-destructive version of what was documented here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10020378 now fails with "bash: line 1: 3: Bad file descriptor"

echo 'echo \\\"$(whoami)\\\" >&3' |
DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE=/tmp/foo newgrp
People at any company have the ability to ignore the law just the same. But the law is the recourse. If you think a government agency is acting outside their purview, sue.