skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Drug War doesn't have a sound moral basis"

Drug War is immoral because drug laws almost exclusively enforced on the poor and minorities. Big banks getting away with funneling money to cartels is the heart of why the drug war is immoral!!
It's not the same isotope.
> Who would you prefer to have designing and selecting standards for exchanging financial information?

I think democratically elected governments would be much better. Banks will design something that serves their interests only, merely overlooking other priorities in some cases and actively promoting their own in others. It's human nature, and also they have a long track record of sacrificing all other interests, including those of the global economy, taxpayers, consumers, and even their own clients.

No institution is perfect, but at least a much broader range of people have a seat at the table government.
We need to have single-sex classrooms again. Maybe they weren't such a bad idea.
I still do not have a clue what a BLT drive might be... Bacon-Lettuce-Tomato ??? How is that possible?
> There is plenty of pressure in Mexico to decriminalize/legalize drugs as a result of cartel violence.

First, what Mexico wants has (unfortunately) very little connection to what the US will actually do, and it's the US's drug policy that matters here.

Second, this is like saying that the arrests and drug-related violence in the US creates pressure for legalization. It may in a way, because it raises the stakes, but that's not necessary to create pressure for change. And it's a rather horrible way to do so, because it involves putting people's lives at (even more) risk in the meantime. On top of that, it also further empowers the people who profit off of the status quo, providing them with even more money (and therefore power and influence) to maintain the status quo.

For comparison, it's a good thing that police violence has gotten attention recently, which may ultimately lead to substantial reform. But that's not to say that facilitating (and profiting off of!) police violence in the US is a noble act.

We can argue about whether the connection is nonexistent or simply 'very weak', but my point remains that it's hard to defend a profit-hungry bank funneling money into the hands of violent murders so they can profit off of more murders, all on the grounds that it will eventually translate into fewer murders later on. Especially when there are much more compelling ways of addressing the issue directly and immediately.
Overheard while visiting an office:

employee: My computer keeps shutting down randomly. I'll be working on stuff, and it will just fritz and I have to push the power button to get it to turn back on.

IT: Oh, it looks like you've got Google Chrome installed. It's malware, so I'll remove it and that should fix the problem.
not any more - there are few sensible hold outs
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Isn't the Mail a UK publication?
"Hackers" wasn't accurate but it did bring about awareness for the need for computer security and strong passwords.

I think Hollywood should reboot it for the modern times.
Looking at some of the treatment that SystemXVI has received so far, I'm not sure that it's entirely a sad thing. (-:

In happy news, nosh has a picture and a Burns allusion:

* http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwa...

* http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwa...
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Node is well-suited for this type of thing and there are numerous libraries to help.
Here in Germany a lot of the public debate is still about "new media". The Internet largely gets thrown in a single bin with telco and TV. The most well-known startups are in e-commerce.

Good luck founding GitHub in 2008 Germany.
love the film to pieces, never for the accuracy (tho it did accurately introduce many to the concepts of phreaking etc, simple stuff, tonedialing etc.whether technically displayed properly.....oh gosh it's all coming flooding back now)

There was a quote from Softley in the Art of the Title article about the opening titles http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/hackers/ where he says it was a Bridge. Being of a certain age, this totally was part of it. It was for the most part the peak of the modem/bbs days... and there was a transition between the more analog days to the real digital days, the days of the internet - where alot of the hacker culture, and things like the demo scene etc...became diluted.
Anyways, never took it that seriously, I mean the characters alone are so out there, but it was inspiring from the whole computer thing to the music (legendary soundtrack, introducing a lot of ravey/UK type stuff to ppl, on the cusp of the whole electronica thing) and just the 90s nostalgia/tech nostalgia - it's great!
And come on! Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller alone...the former going on to such massive success....
Thanks. Well, this does make me wonder if we are doing something wrong or we are performing actions that are slowing down the crawling. We have a good server (I believe).
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Anybody here actually make it all the way through "Decline and Fall"? I've tried a couple of times but given up each time.
No. It is unlikely private citizens will even have access to mine on the banking blockchain. Banks are looking at using it for intra-banking ledgers and commercial transactions. Longer term, it may replace the outdated ACH clearing house.
^ This is the most american thing I've seen all day, and earlier I saw a Chevy with an eagle and the US Flag painted all over it with a rifle on the inside.
(not uncommon in North Carolina)
> Allegedly this practice goes on in America, without the consumer's knowledge.

source?
This is the greatest thing since ... tmux.

If only @resurrect-save-zsh-history was implemented.
That's the joke. Dade was utilizing social engineering to obtain information from a security guard.

Realistic or not, it's a great example of how technology is never stronger than its weakest link, and often that link is human.
We're not talking about dodging a toll booth or throwing a hat over the security alarms while walking out of a store. I ate a sample at Costco without buying the product. I got a spray of cologne at Macy's without asking what brand it was. I went to 7/11 on "free slurpee day" and got my free slurpee and nothing else. I'm an extreme couponer who walked out the door owing nothing.

I'm not taking anything from you because you gave it to me for free. Pirating is one thing. You're getting something for free that the distributor expects you to pay for. You're going out of your way to get something for free that you know you have to pay for. My ad blocker doesn't get me into Netflix for free, nor does it get past the NYT's paywall. It doesn't do anything fundamentally different from hitting "Reading Mode" built into my iPhone. Hell, it doesn't do anything fundamentally different from the Chrome extension "Cloud to Butt". It doesn't get me for-pay content for free. It couldn't possibly be any further from pirating MP3s.
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TLA+ is one of the most successful formal verification tools in the industry (probably because as far as verification tools go, it is relatively simple yet very powerful). It is used at Amazon to formally specify and/or verify their AWS services[1], it's been used by Intel and Compaq to verify complex cache-coherence protocols, and it was used to formally specify and prove the distributed Raft algorithm.

[1]: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/4/184701-how-amazon-web-s...
"PowerPC, RISC-V, MIPS, SPARC, and other kinds of RISCy CPUs, however, don't fare nearly as well. These CPUs provide primitives that are far too atomic, and thus, to emulate a stack CPU, you literally need to translate each Machine Forth primitive into a sequence of RISC instructions."

More evidence that maybe we should stop using Forth for this stuff. It's a weird language we don't otherwise use that enforces a specific model that majority of architectures don't even support. A simple, imperative language with macro's and inline assembly should do just fine. Maybe time to dust-off Modula-2 or something similar. It worked on constrained, diverse hardware. Astrobe put Oberon on ARM microcontrollers and is porting it to RISC-V so I'm sure it's doable.
Please, not with John Travolta and Hugh Jackman...
Until in 1987 they made the Amiga 500 unit to compete with the 520ST, going back to the C64 the case is the keyboard design.

One thing about the Atari ST is that it was considered the real successor to the Commodore 64 because Jack Tremiel was behind it. Nicknamed the Jackintosh with the Magic Sack software it could run Mac software with a Mac ROM chip on a dongle.
This hate is well earned in my opinion and the global banksters worked very hard to attain this privilege and therefore no one should fight them and try to take it away from them.

We believe in meritocracy, egalitarianism and equal opportunity disdain for all bad people after all.
> Kowtowing to the lowest common denominator shouldn't be done lightly

Certainly not when you put it like that! But you might also call it "communicating effectively with your audience." So maybe kowtowing isn't so bad after all when it just involves responding to the linguistic conventions observed by your readers, and the goal is simply communication.

I also don't know that people who read quotation marks as connoting doubt, in the absence of any other evident reason for them, can fairly be called "the lowest common denominator."
I made a self-watering plant container a couple of years ago: a moisture sensor senses the moisture level in the soil. When it gets below the treshold it sends a signal to a small pump, which extracts the water from a little container in the pot. I had plans to make a water level sensor so that I would get a SMS when it was time to fill the container, but I never got around it. Arduinos rule, BTW!
Lots of the modern giants like Google are based on software and computers. Computing, electronics and semiconductors benefitted from being heavily invested in by the US government long before commodization of the technologies took place in the form of military applications and the like. Cultural and technological headstart in computing is one good explanation.

Most of Europe was in ruins after 1940:s, whereas the USA emerged from the war mostly unscathed and with a freshly mobilized manufacturing industry.
We are trying to enable graph query into our library too. Currently working on subgraph matching, but might expand to more general graph query. I think in general, graph with rich attribute is quite difficult to deal with on the GPU. Thanks for your interest.
I wonder if that's possibly an east coast vs. west coast thing. We always said point (south east).
The abuse of acronyms causes wetware buffer overflows, I guess.
Think of the carbon footprint these banks will have if they invest into mining.
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Banks don't require pseudonymity. If you remove pseudonymity from the list of requirements you no longer need mining, you can just run any consensus protocol to agree on and cryptographically link pieces of information.
Ugh why them? The main characters in Hackers were teenagers who went out to explore cyberspace and see what was there and hack into it.

They had a "Hack the Planet" message in that movie.
Every one of them is also, nominally, signed by a lawyer. There are words for lawyers that don't have records of the things they've signed and 'responsible' isn't among them.
He looks at his sandwich before he says it; he's showing that you don't even need accurate information to get people to do what you need.

sound potentially important, hurried.. and desperate for a favour- and people will try to help
Money Interpreted as an IOU
Quintana Roo is also where drugs come in and out of Mexico from the Caribbean and narco-states like Venezuela (they travel over water into Mexico where they are shipped over land along established trafficking routes to the US). The tourist areas stay pretty quiet because the cartels own most of the resorts so it would just be bad business. But Cancun (the town a mile inland, not the tourist area on the water) is a very violent place where a number of mayors, reporters and even a Mexican army general leading anti-trafficking efforts have been murdered in the last 5 years.

It's only quiet because both the cartels and the government have a vested interest in keeping the violence out of the media (they have intimidated and killed journalists to keep them from reporting on cartel violence in the area). But make no mistake, the cartels own the area and I wouldn't go sticking my nose in anything illegal, even as a reporter. The police are more likely to work for the cartels than they are the government.
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"Egalitarian" and "HN" do not belong in the same sentence. Unless the sentence is "The zeitgeist of HN tends to a profound contempt for the ideas typically associated with egalitarian thinking".
I'd like to believe that, but can you cite some web-app or webview-based example applications?
Banks working together is a scary idea. This was the notion atop which the recently disbanded Payments Council (UK) was based - an organisation that failed to deprecate BACS/CHAPS, had to be told to implement Faster Payments, came up with the 'innovative' pay-by-mobile-number scheme, and replaced swipe & sign card payments with a JavaCard that knows it's own 4-digit PIN.

Feast your eyes, ladies and gents. What you are witnessing is the formation of a cartel.
Why don't you think institutions can be modeled as an aggregation of the participants? I have no problem seeing the behavior of ants as collectively purposeful even though individual ants make poor conversation partners. You might as well say that individual humans have no capacity to feel, only individual cells within the body are capable of reacting to stimuli.

I'm not being a contrarian here; while I don't want to write a wall of text to convince you I absolutely believe in the notion of collective consciousness ass an emergent complex phenomenon that is amenable to quantitative analysis under certain circumstances (eg institutional persistence vs. ad-hoc flocking behavior in crowds).
More to the point, they act on the basis of contracts enforced by state authority.
I think this is great.

For Bitcoin to really be a useful currency, it needs 1) full faith and credit of something; 2) mostly not proof-of-work; 3) sub-chains. Right now it is what I might call an "ur-currency". Paying for everything with the equivalent of a wheelbarrow of pennies.

Right now Bitcoin only has the backing of Bitcoin enthusiasts, which is a terrible way to start a currency. No sane person would invest their money in something that could become worthless if people decide that instead of Dogecoin, they want Kittycoin. Until there is some way beyond "it's Bitcoin" to know that Bitcoin will stay valuable (and "9 banks say it will have value" IS a bona fide reason here), I don't think it will ever have mass appeal.

Also, right now any actual economic value Bitcoin creates will be burned by mining CPUs. I think it's obvious that the steady state is that Bitcoin miners make zero economic profit, and all the transaction fees and blockchain rewards are simply turned into electricity bills (and thus, more indirectly, turned into needlessly lighting coal on fire).

Finally, from a more technical point of view, all this talk about "the size of the blockchain" is absurd. There's no reason that there needs to be a limit on the transactions. But when every transaction needs to be in a single chain, that's the only way. If we have some smart way of doing sub-chains, this becomes less of a problem. (I know some altcoins use this now, but the popular concept of Bitcoin is of a single definitive chain).
I hear they salvaged some of the Saturn V rockets from the ocean so they could reverse engineer them. Fit then with all new technology to replace the old 1960 technology. Learn how the engines worked and improve on them.
Libertarianism in what sense? The contemporary American understanding of the term or the international one?
Maybe those with non-conforming views simply decide to keep their mouths shut for fear of some kind of retribution which could be either written or downvotes by the majority that are reading a particular story or comment thread.
It's a reference to Swordfish.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfy5dFhw3ik Because, you know, that's how hacking works...
I don't quite understand why you need some of the strong cryptography properties when you have a small, known group of players all of whom are tied together by enforceable contractual relationships.

What can this private blockchain do that a vanilla shared database with change logs can't do?
This theme appears in a recent New York Times article: www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/opinion/sunday/allison-arieff-the-internet-of-way-too-many-things
Simple because I came across teamocil first, as someone recommended it to me. It is actually teamocil that led me to tmux!

I have since come across tmuxinator, which is almost identical, but from my reading of tmuxinators docs it seems it is more flexible in how you can configure it.

I'm adding tmuxinator support to iTermocil. :)
> Besides, there's little debate to be had on what's the best model.

Are you saying there is no debate that functional is the best model because that is what is going on in the hardware?

I haven't heard that point of view before.

Does Knuth's use of MIX in the AOCP mean he doesn't share that view or does it mean something else?
Sort of surprised that the Viterbi Algorithm (1967) doesn't make the list. The simplicity and efficiency of the algorithm for finding a maximum likelihood sequence is astounding.
Wikipedia to the rescue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_algorithms

(Interestingly, some of the algorithms mentioned in the article are missing from the list. It also doesn't list many algorithms from 19th century.)

And indeed it seems, there are not so many recently, though I think AKS Primality Test would qualify as a great algorithm of 21st century.
I think there's a difference between rigging numbers and launching an attack on the network. All that it would happen is that the other peers would detect the increase on hashing power and shut down the nodes.

The problem with a public blockchain is that you don't know who is hashing. On a private network, you can tell each node to only hash at a certain rate, and monitor the total rate to detect cheats.
How would you specify the starting time of execution in HTML documents?
Don't forget to check your connection too; maybe you are filling it up or have latency issues.
And here I thought, "Steven Levy's book has been out longer than 20 years..."
I know. I was just referring to how Swordfish was so much worse than Hackers, even with the latter's inaccuracies.

It's time for a Jeri Ellsworth biopic anyway. With Flying biology books and car racing!!!
I have trouble accepting any of the conclusions in this piece when it has significant factual errors or at least false implications.

Here are some of the EU rules listed in an apparent attempt to show Europe has more onerous regulations than the U.S.:

>There are rules for the curve of the cucumber to the bendiness of bananas.

This hasn't been the case since 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/world/europe/12iht-food.4....

Also, according to the U.S. Congressional Research Service, "U.S. imports of some fresh fruits and vegetables also are subject to federal marketing orders that... create mandatory
grade, size, quality and maturity requirements that apply to domestic and imported products." https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34468.pdf

Just to take one example, here is one document where the USDA regulates potatoes for their air cracks, bruises, dirt, enlarged lenticels, external discoloration, flea beetle injury, sunburn, and growth cracks, among many other things. http://www.mipotato.com/CMDocs/MPIC/usda%20grade%20standards...

>Recently large vacuum cleaners and incandescent light bulbs were banned.

The EU has not banned incandescent light bulbs but is phasing out many types of incandescents. As it happens, so is the U.S.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_ligh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Lighting_Energy_Policy#In...
Here is a recent map of all the nations in the world phasing out such bulbs. Notice the U.S. and EU are listed at the same level of prohibition: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/the-overly-dr...

>Recently the EU was looking into banning cinnamon used in cinnamon rolls because of a too high amount of coumarin, known to be causing liver damage if consumed too extensively.

Wildly incorrect, although there have been some misleading headlines so perhaps forgivable. What happened is that the Danish authorities ruled that a type of cinnamon swirl ("kanelsnegle") was not a specially exempt traditional or seasonal food. This meant it was subject to EU recommended daily limits on the ratio of coumarin per kg of dough. The Danish Food Administration had done a survey and found half of the nation's fine baked goods were probably over the line. Cue hysteria about the beloved rolls being banned (never mind that bakers could just cut back on coumarin, for example by changing quantity or type of cinnamon). Anyway what ended up happening is that the rolls were reclassified as a traditional national treat and thus exempt from the recommended limits.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/12/25/256602581/whe...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/20/cinnamon-intake...
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/denmark-food.wo7

FWIW the FDA regulates how much yeast, citric acid, Sarsaparilla, Sassafras, tallow, green walnuts, unmodified starch, and vanilla can go into foods, among many other ingredients. (see http://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/FoodAdd...)
Yeah a lot of Greek Myths started out because Zeus couldn't keep it in his pants.

I'd say the Greek Myths were a lot like the current Game of Thrones series and books.
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I was recently in Kiev and I happened to see the movie being broadcast on a small kitchen TV with VHF rabbit ears. So there was tons of static and it was dubbed with that deadpan style Russian that they typically do in movies without even trying to replicate the actors' emotions. I don't know exactly why, but it made me laugh out loud.
Heard of Libor?
I think it's a fairly safe bet that they did, and I'll explain why I believe this.

1. The NSA has access to more info on both good crypto and broken crypto

2. Hacking Team's software & infrastructure were clearly vulnerable, otherwise they wouldn't have been hacked

3. Leaked docs show that NSA hacks everyone they possibly can, to get as much information as they possibly can.

It's really not a big leap to assume that NSA infiltrated Hacking Team's infrastructure, if anything I would think it's harder to believe they wouldn't have.

So if some Joe Schmoe broke into Hacking Team's system, I think it's pretty reasonable to assume that NSA did as well

But just so I can understand what you're saying, why do you think it's a big assumption?

Edit: Formating.
I think that is a great point. So is it that because of the market in the US it's easier to establish enough momentum what when you move into Europe you have the power to establish yourself there despite the different languages?