skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't see how the contents of a person's brain can be discovered by a court. That's a fact which (so far) can only be known by the defendant. Even if a week ago they showed someone that they knew the password, they still could have forgotten it in the last week.

Mental states -- including knowledge of specific facts, intent, belief, etc. -- are necessary elements of many offenses are determined by courts in the same way as any other facts.

> It'd be like trying to determine with 100% accuracy what a person's favorite color is.

No, its not, because even the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard for criminal prosecutions is not targeting 100% accuracy, which would be unattainable for any class of facts (not just mental states.)
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You're mixing up Snowden with Manning.
Yes, I agree, I'm hoping that I can move the architecture to an LXC based setup to make it more efficient, and to allow instances to have unlimited hours (that's the destination).
This is amazing!!!
Slate is taking steps to reduce its page load time by 75 percent
The key point is that Android will never be on par with the latest version of Java. Scala has a lot of great features but its size and the learning curve is bigger than Kotlin. It's easier to start right now to develop with Kotlin instead Scala.
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It's really just the blog author's subtle way of saying that a particular individual (probably Tony Morris) is an asshole.
My four-year-old watches this show, whence I've learned all about logging: http://www.amazon.com/Mighty-Machines-In-The-Forest/dp/B0000...
Ask HN: How do your Post-mortems work?
I'm trying to figure out what the most productive way to do a post-mortem is. If our projects are not necessarily back-to-back-to-back, things get lost in translation or in simple dead space. What do you do to make sure you're always improving?
Also compiler calling conventions, the memory map, program initialization, the GC subsystem...
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It once looked like a swimming pool. From the wikipedia entry you linked:

"According to the USGS topographical map published in 1977, the area was approximately 0.25 km2 (62 acres). However, in recent years the pond has shrunk considerably. The maximum depth in 1993–1994 was described as "a foot deep" (30 cm). In January 1997, it was approximately 10 centimetres (3.9 in) deep; in December 1998 the pond was almost dry everywhere except for an area of a few tens of square meters."
Thanks for the kind words. I'm definitely thinking along those lines. Your example is intriguing and certainly worth looking into btw.
Evidence of brine 'flows' on Mars: water study
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In particular, we'd like to know from other teachers if they

* consider the idea (web-IDE, automatic grading etc.) useful

* use other tools (which ones?) as part of their teaching efforts
Also, they need to register an agent at the Copyright Office if they want to have DMCA Safe Harbor protection.
How come one can use other modern jvm languages on Android, but not newer Java? E.g., if you can make Android support Kotlin, why cannot Java8 be introduced the same way?
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For what it's worth, the excellent Python micro-framework Bottle includes a simple template engine taking about 150 lines over two classes: https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle/blob/master/bottle.py#L34...
It's often hard to determine whether a vulnerability is merely a denial of service vector, which is one reason the descriptions are kept abstract.
I emailed Adrian Dubock (via the contact email on the website) and his reply was that the philippines will still be included.

My guess is that when they started the philippines and other rice producint countries where on that list (couldn't find for previous years), but from what he said, its a "project of need and goodwill". Take away what you want from this, but I think its a case of the inventors not foreseeing these countries would not be part of that list back in the early 2000s. Syngenta have the rights to the distributions (the original inventors have the actual patents), so it might not be much of an issue to change those terms.

"if the humanitarian use license did include any that could, it forbids exporting golden rice - it's strictly for internal consumption only. The page you linked makes this restriction very clear."

So you're going from the premise that those countries dealt effectively with VAD with supplements with the one that says that Golden rice is bad because they can't export? How does a restriction on export mean that you can't enjoy the benefits of Golden Rice? The point is that poor farmers grow a rice that is a source of vitamin A, without having to grow/buy vegetables or get vitamin supplements. They don't need to export to get the benefits, they just need to eat rice with added Vitamin A. Your argument doesn't make any sense.

edit: missing word
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And I assume they publish in peer-reviewed journals, so there've been a few others with the actual manuscript.
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Fortunately, the source code and test data we're working with are not considered sensitive. As a matter of fact, the separate, less restricted part of the network approach has also been proposed. I don't know what's been holding up that proposal, but assigning responsibility for that separate part of the network can be tricky.

I had always figured DO was the wrong approach because ssh isn't an option, but I suppose if you create a droplet with the VNC over https stuff already set up, then it could just be cloned by everyone else. Thanks for the idea!
I saw this talk in person and it was really good, I would highly recommend the time to watch the video.
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Carnot had a lot to say about theoretical efficiency WRT input and output temps.

For example if I did the math in my head correctly, the peak Carnot heat engine efficiency of an oven cooling down would be 30%, dropping to 0% as it hit room temp. Only way to boost the theoretical Carnot limit would be to boost the temp... sear more steak, bake less bread, etc.

So if pessimistically it took a tenth of a kilowatt hour to heat up a kitchen oven, you'd get maybe a hundredth of a KWH out of a cooling engine (the rest goes to waste heat). Its going to be hard to environmentally amortize the cost of the heat engine. Spending the resources on better insulation would have a much higher payoff. Similar problem with the structure, you could collect energy off the hydraulic door closer, but it would be way better for the environment overall to dial up the weather stripping and door insulation than to gather a watt or two.
This is Sallie Krawcheck's next big project
If you come up with a tool that will pick up on a diagram in a readable ascii format in the middle of a document, let me edit it, and then patch in the updated diagram without making any kind of changes to other portions of the file, then we'd be getting somewhere.

Even then there'd be issues, as e.g. I might want to modify descriptions elsewhere in the file in between modifying the diagram. As a concrete example, I am doing that these days with a spec for a system I'm planning. I'm using a custom Markdown based processor with a filter that takes Graphviz/dot syntax inline, and while I edit the diagram, I'll also then often want to write something about what I've added to it. So if I was going to use an external program, the roundtrip from text editor -> diagram editor -> text editor would need to be very fast and smooth.

Though to be really useful for me, it'd need to work for me via an ssh connection as well...

It's really hard to beat plain text for some of these use-cases. At least without first getting more graphics capabilities back into our terminals.
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Nobody has made Android support Kotlin. Kotlin compiles to Java 6 bytecode. If someone made a Java 8 source or bytecode to Java 6 bytecode compiler, including support for the changes in the standard library, that would also work, but nobody has done that, so it doesn't.
Well, the first commit on github is 4.5 months ago, so that is how much the actual coding took. Keep in mind that website is still in beta, so there's a lot that needs to be done. I will need to do a lot of debugging and refactoring, and I'm still working on many necessary features.

Beyond that, I already had .psd files with design(I had them for a long time, I asked a freelance designer to make it for me for my previous blog).

Also, I wanted to become a successful blogger for a long time, so I've spend a lot of time thinking about how the perfect blogging platform for me would look like.
Do desktop systems have faster RAM? That would make the cache less important if so. Just a random guess.
Pretty sure it features in Kim Stanley Robinson's Antartica (AKA "White Mars") - where an unfortunate character takes a taste of the pond and everything tastes of salt for quite a while afterwards.

NB I learned about the nearby Airdevronsix Icefalls from Antartica - they are really quite impressive:

http://www.wondermondo.com/Countries/An/Antarctica/Antarctic...
NASA confirms that liquid water flows on Mars
I strongly agree with this.

I've heard a few people put it this way: Pablo Picasso knew how to draw a normal person, before he decided to put eyes on the same side of their heads.
It also contains all his blogposts (the bundle.js file). Not good on the long term
Can you share your experiences of better alternatives? Not hard to imagine VNC has been substantially improved on.
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Or join Three in the UK and get free roaming anyway.

http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Phones/Feel_At_Home
This is a good point wrapped in a fairly bad article. It conflates source code with machine code, calls the rules "totalitarian," refers to the opposition as "drones," and implies that VW only kept their software secret to hide their scam, despite the fact that every automaker keeps their software secret.
I wish the non-obvious joke ones could be trusted. Some product categories are effected higher than others but in a few cases I've seen something like ~80% positive reviews are fake.
New app puts real-time human translators on the phone
That's interesting, because reading about Feyerabend immediately reminded me of Rick.

"Sometimes science is more art than science, Morty. A lot of people don't get that."
Not sure how much traction this will get but it is a good start. In particular the 'bad building materials' meme, if it can be pushed, is easy to explain to regulators. My brother-in-law tells me that, all civil and structural engineers have to publish their models and analysis that proved to them a material was "good enough" for the intended structure, we need to convince the EPA and others that the source code for these integral pieces of our infrastructure needs just as much transparency.
So that would imply thirty or so KW of heat at 75% efficiency and a hundred delivered. I suppose road icing and snow accumulation would not be much of an issue at those levels.

On hot summer days, during traffic jams, a slowly rolling 30 KW heat source might cause road softness issues, something to think about.
To produce an Android app the Android build system converts Java byte code to Dalvik/ART byte code, and currently that conversion process only support converting Java 7 and lower. If you wrote the new code needed to support Java 8 byte code to Dalvik/ART byte code then you can get Java 8 support, but Google has no plans to do that at the moment as it would take quite a bit of effort.

These JVM based languages are able to support the latest and greatest features however because they end up compiling down to Java 7 byte code, which can in turn be converted to Dalvik/ART byte code.
Found this in the README: "... pick them at random when checking out ..."

Isn't a Round-Robin-based checkout better than randomly picking pools to checkout from?
dot describes graphs. Sequence diagrams aren't really graphs in my book.
As a new author looking to get his work out there I was interested to take a look around ... and slightly disappointed that you don't tell me anything about the site! (the kind of stuff you explain below, where you say you want to "make fictionhub a perfect place for writers to post and discuss fiction. It is like a blogging platform with discovery system and community features of reddit.")

I would suggest including an easy to find About page where you explain the value of the site to people (both authors and readers).

As it is, I looked around for ten seconds and wondered what the value proposition was.

Good luck!
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You don't know me. How could you possibly know if I am a real man or not? Ditto for the attention (or lack thereof) I get from women. Of course if you want to argue that any women that happens to fancy me is not real by definition, you have shown already the quality of your logic.

And, speaking of general principles. Take a look to the template-argument: "Because <group X> are inherently different of <group Y>, they get treated differently and that's the way it is. Therefore, any member of <group X> that complains about the status quo only makes things worse". Whenever you see that, you can be pretty sure the people who floated that idea in the first place, must be taking unfair advantage of group X (though not necessarily has to belong to group Y). So, a counter argument can be made that every member of group X that believes in such argument is brainwashed and acting against the interest of group X in general.

Speaking of gender roles, there was a time still on living memory, when wife-beating was socially acceptable. I know for a fact, because I have spoken with a number of old folks, that even if those times, there were plenty of decent guys who would never hurt their wives, but when they learned of a jackass kicking the crap out of his wife, they would not move a finger unless (maybe) if it was clear that her life was in imminent danger.

Now, the sad thing about that history was not that there were jack-asses half a century ago (there are plenty of those today, too), but that the victims were shooed down by society at large. And the really sad thing is that the individuals doing the enforcing and keeping the beated wives quiet were all other women applying the logic of "women that complain about their husband's methods of discipline make matters worse."
Scientists have found new evidence of water on Mars
Screen readers definitely support Javascript: http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey5/#javascript

HN had a pretty good convo about accessibility a few years ago where some screen reader dependent community members dispelled the myth once and for all, for me. We tend to talk about screen readers here like they're just `curl example.com | say`.
There's a lot of people out there that wouldn't know how to mess around with SIP protocols
Oh, so when you take photos and record videos, the data doesn't touch the CPU?
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R.S.L.s are treated as special regions that NASA’s current robotic explorers are barred from because the rovers were not thoroughly sterilized

We're not going to sterilize our research equipment going to Mars and we're not going to search likely sites where we could find life because we don't want to contaminate them. And yet, looking for signs of life native to Mars (or even water which might support life) is the top reason we're there, judging by the headlines. Seems like someone in NASA needs to work out this conflict.
Nasa confirms evidence for hydrated salt on Mars
No, they're in an admin application, which has no reason to be the same "thing" as the site you're authoring.

This is what I'm talking about, people are so engrained in the way things currently work that can't see obvious things like this. It's code, you can do whatever you want.
Kotlin compiles to jvm 1.6 bytecode, so even though it is a different language it runs the same as Java 6 on the devices.

Supporting Java 8 requires updating the vm & OS, which is difficult to do in the Android ecosystem. It may happen in the future but backwards compatability will be tough since the phone manufacturers lag so badly on platform upgrades. I'm not even getting into the Oracle v Google spat that may slow down adoption of a newer version of Java.

For that reason Kotlin is a lot more viable today than Java 8. Maybe someday Java 8 will make it to Android, but that day is definitely not today. Even after it is released in the newest devices, it probably won't be widespread for 18+ months.

edit: no one should downvote the parent question it is a legit technical ask without an obvious answer.
Nobody pretends that bugs in rustc are impossible. :P Go peruse the issue tracker if you don't believe me, though many of the soundness bugs there are so obscure that I think you'd have a hard time exploiting them in theory, let alone in practice (and they're also liable to be fixed well before Rust starts getting deployed en masse).
over-the-air updates for safety-critical components of a car is a risky practice at best.
Keep in mind the world's largest operating system is stuck with Java 6.
"One option for making auto software safer is to open it to public scrutiny. While this might sound counterintuitive, some experts say that if automakers were forced to open up their source code, many interested people — including coding experts and academics — could search for bugs and vulnerabilities. "

This is simply not going to happen.

Firstly, the majority of automotive control systems on an ECU are running generated code from toolschains such as CATIA Systems, Dymola, MapleSim, OpenModelica, SCICOS, SimulationX, Vertex etc etc etc.

To validate against vulnerabilities requires in-depth knowledge of a particular manufacturer's modeling practices & standards. The code is not readable, the model is.

Which relates to the second reason, the IP in these models is very closely guarded. Competitive advantage and product differentiations are pretty much all software now. Even suppliers and manufacturers share black box models & systems back and forth for fear of leaking IP.

In a world where say BMW hands Bosch a set of requirement, Bosch supplies BMW HW and BMW validates in simulation and analysis with neither getting insight in to the other's design. You're telling that needs to now be done in the open?
I'd thought previous poster was providing the P/E for the specific HCV drug used in the HuffPo piece. Which is what was being implied should be kept lower then 100x in this thread.
Thanks! I agree, I should write the about page and tutorials for the new users. I'm on it, and it will be done soon =)
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Salty water seen flowing on Mars, not far from Curiosity rover
True, but that is still better than Vogon poetry
This article seems overly deferent, the tech prowess required for making this an actual pleasant and workable experience for $135 or so isn't obviously easy to obtain.

The article implies that "it's not like customers are speculating on this" because they have units "almost" ready to ship. That's dubious -- nobody has tried one of these things.

Just anecdotally, my experience using portable wifi hotspots, like the products from CLEAR or Boost Mobile, suggests that having a pleasant calling experience on one of these things is far from a guarantee. Getting voice calls to feel and sound non-annoying over some type of relayed data connection in a foreign country is a non-trivial problem to solve and there's no real actual evidence in this article that they've solved it.

With that said I sure hope they do, I would find this product very useful. But it seems like the jury is very much out.
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'sploded =(
The article mentions how equipment that needs to be sterilized is baked to a very high temperature - but I wonder, can it not be sterilized with radiation, like we already do with food? All electronics on a rover are already radiation hardened, after all Curiosity has to work while having a chunk of plutonium strapped to its back. Is this not an option of some reason?
I wonder why the reporter ("Joseph Cox") decided to publish the (presumed) truenames of these hackers. That decision seems to undermine the political statement "he" makes when he refers to "the failed War on Drugs" — "he" has done the investigative work that the DEA and FBI needed done in order to deter hackers who might consider working on future sites like SR.

(Is there a difference between doxing and journalism?)

Or perhaps it's misdirection?
Also licensed under BSD, according to the github.
Speaking a few extra languages certainly would be handy. That said, I think there many ways to make distributed work. My thought is to only hire remote staff, from now on. It’s nice to have access to so many talented folks, and for them to be able to stay where they’re happy.

And you’re right. Slack’s moves all seem well considered and impeccably executed. Stewart and his people appear to have a remarkable ability for exciting its user base.

Thanks for looking at Officehours, and considering offering sessions. It’s pretty neat to watch people connect on there, and create new relationships. (It’s sort of surprising to see how even 10 minutes of one-on-one interaction can start to build something.)
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Yes, they can.

Modern mobile devices have single or dual channel, DDR3L-800 through 1600. I'm not seeing any relevant mobile devices still shipping with DDR2, although sub-$100 tablets and anything that is a router still do.

Modern desktops and laptops are dual channel and DDR3-1600 and up, or now that DDR4 is a thing, DDR4-1866 or up.

Gaming machines/high performance workstations are DDR3-2133 and up, or with DDR4, 2400 and up is becoming popular.

LGA-2011-based stuff is quad channel, and LGA-2011 stuff can be multiple socket (its a waste not to populate dual socket E5s with at least 8 sticks).
So someone has a database of art phrases and madlibs them together next to pieces of art? Are we supposed to feel superior to people who create art now? I don't. Why is it that people who claim to be 'analytical' always just use it as an excuse to claim anything they don't understand is meaningless?
I’m not that well versed on the topic, so I can’t really say. That said, I’ll pass this link on to Andrei, and ask if he can share his thoughts on the matter.

Alternately, you could get a one-on-one with him on Officehours, and get some more direct insight: https://officehours.io/people/abs
1) I was not made aware of this, but that's good.

3) my point was that telegram was "no better" but has better market penetration, while being essentially the same thing.. why have more standards.

4) this is also true, but it's less real world advertising of that fact, you don't order tor, you don't order GPG, and you don't have a physical device which proudly announces that you do. If you're doing security online right, nobody can tell you're doing it at a glance.
NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars
Gatsby author here: Blogs are basically the TODO app of the static site generator world. They're a simple well-understood pattern that let's someone easily evaluate a new framework.
Hmm... I haven't encountered many writers who really dislike fanfiction, so I haven't really thought about that problem.

But it is very solvable. I will make it possible to subscribe to and unsubscribe from categories("hubs"), they will function just like subreddits, so all the things you are not interested in will be hidden.