skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's another background article: https://www.readfrontier.com/investigation/two-truths-and-a-...

Note that despite all this "innocence" talk, Richard admits to lying to police, instructing cleaning crews to avoid the room, robbing his employer's car (after the murder?), and, it seems, pretending to help with the search even though he knew the body would not be found there. From what I've made out of the timeline, he only reversed his statements after it was clear how things were going down. So it would appear that he was trying to cover up the murder.

While one person's testimony shouldn't be enough to add the "for hire" enhancement, why are people saying he's innocent? Certainly his actions that he admits to would be enough to pin an accessory or accomplice charge of murder.
Forget post-its, sketch something
Here are instructions to get started in a virtual setup.

http://openswitch.net/documents/dev/quick-start
Heh, I just realized I unwittingly made the "sufficiently smart compiler" argument. The only reason a library OS would outperform a non-library OS is that software can do things faster than hardware. This compiler/VM would have to outperform the cpu at executing ... cpu instructions, which is never going to happen, or it would have to optimize better than the hardware can.

In theory this is possible, in practice, in low-level optimized piece of software, like the kernel, this is never true. This just can't work, at least for the next few decades, but potentially forever.
Strongly agreed with your sentiment, but eyewitness testimony is far less reliable than 24/25, so it's not just the conviction rate that's totally screwed up.

I assume getting death penalty is also big-swinging-dick status for the prosecutor.
I love the idea, but would it make money? Lower returns would require lower risks. But with lower returns you'd have fewer resources to invest in picking and supporting the winners, which I'd think would push risks up.
How big is your organization? Is it possible for you to switch teams to get away from this guy and is that something you'd be interested in doing?
Mostly they aim to divert military expenditure into other things like education, healthcare, or research.
Fair enough, but I was more referring to "changing my wallpaper and rearranging my widgets" kind of stuff.
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It's not true - he's not innocent. Richard admits that he lied to investigators about the murder. He covered it up. That alone is a crime, is it not?

He could very well be innocent of the "mastermind" or "for hire" charge. There's no evidence other than one person's testimony. This case wouldn't be notable at all if he'd been sentenced to life for assisting the murderer.
I'm pretty sure this is a joke, and #5 is the context; The layout of 9gag is very similar to this one.
Great, so instead of starving to death they can live long boring lives full of grueling work enriching assholes who don't even let them have internet access or freedom of mobility within their own country.

There's a good reason the vast majority of rich Chinese people move to the West. It's an awful place to live if you have a choice.
Perhaps dont share information if your career/life depends on it?
>Are you implying that a contract, legally entered into by a democratically elected government, should be able to be rescinded without need for compensation

Yes. The idea that contracts should be sacrosanct is bullshit.

>This is the type of thinking that leads to nationalization of property without compensation

Remember when they freed the slaves? Slaveholders wanted compensation too. They almost got it too.
I think it takes a lot of cognitive dissonance to apply that principle to this case.
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People think everybody has retina like displays, meh!
This is not on the same league. Your unit-test coverage example is closer to the Toyota incident. Surely, it was a catastrophe, and lives were indeed lost, but no one actively inserted a "speed up when driver hits the breaks" feature into the firmware.

A closer analogy to the VW case is if the build bot actually did exist, but you wrote some nefarious unit test that just spit out all OK results regardless of what the exercised code did, so that you were allowed to merge whatever crap your team produce, as long as it actually compile.

If that is the case, we can discuss different possible assignations of responsibility, but you cannot claim that some good intentioned people just slide into misbehavior due to not paying enough attention. Someone had to be aware they were actively cheating!
I think that's going down the wrong path: you can get "pretty good" software if you get the best people and just let them work on it. But it'll still have bugs. You need more process and stuff like verifiable software and all that kind of overhead to really start getting close to bug free.
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Now the ATM vendors that opposed Microsoft might get some security updates and improvements. And run on a microkernel, too. Interesting lol.

Edit to note: open-source updates and improvements rather than eComStation.
:)

Unless you work in a corp that locks down BIOS.

:(

Also note the size and placement of the delete key. It just seems a little bit bigger and easier to reach. And I'm sure this is due to corporate use of email, where pressing delete quickly speeds up the day no end.
Why not abuse them. If they let themselves be led to the slaughterhouse that easily and voluntarily maybe they have to feel the pain of being abused to learn?

I get more cynical by the day, the more I read/hear such accounts.

I am/was an idealist, but I catch myself every so often to think, that these people do not deserve anything else. Everything is clearly visible - that possible paths are not that hard to understand. The consequences can be dire if nothing is done - non the less. They keep giving away their and everyone else's privacy in the blink of a thumb-flick on "what ever the next big app is called".

Have I given up? No, I try non the less to inform people surrounding me. Do I believe in positive change? Sadly not anymore.
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You only get to vote for a tiny number of people, the groups with early access to pick who runs have far more power than the 'popular' vote. "I voted for Kodos." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_and_Kodos

PS: Obama might have been a better option, but I disagree with over half of what he has done.
You know when websites ask for consent to share data with third parties? This is mostly how they do it. What you view on linkedin goes to fb and vice versa.

I had used a chat service only once to call some guys and the day after all participants were suggestions on linkedin.

To most of those free service a product is you and they monetize your graph in this way.

Then you have subsidiaries. You may gave not given facebook or messanger access to you contacts, but what anout whatsapp? Any app with access to your contacts may have sold them. And even if you have none the other party might, or even a third party.
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"A law" is not like "a line of code".
Just responding to a ridiculous level of exaggeration. You guys appear to be seriously arguing that there was no easy way to keep in touch with friends and family before 2004.
I tried using DDG... I used it for over a year. But I gave up - the search is seriously lacking. It's minor for large things, but really noticeable for more obscure searches. I went back to Google when I made my new computer 10 months ago and I will never take search for granted again.

Now, to have a little privacy with Google, I just use SEARCHONYMOUS which automatically avoids using my signed in email account for search and YouTube.
So I look at a random source file, and find:

https://git.openswitch.net/cgit/openswitch/ops-arpmgrd/tree/...

/* Build hash key for a given vrf name and ip address */
static int
get_hash_key(char* vrf_name, char *ip, char *key)
{
sprintf(key, "%s-%s", vrf_name, ip);
return strlen(key);
} /* get_hash_key */

What could possibly go wrong?

Definitely not thinking hard about security over there.
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>There's no reason to believe it wasn't trivial for Skype to wiretap individuals.

You could still glean info from monitoring the network communication (although i personally haven't done anything).

Also if the leaked docs are to be believed, the fact that the agencies boasted a 3-fold increase in intercept-able traffic post-acquisition, then it is reasonable to assume that wiretapping was non-trivial before.
There is a world of difference between an elected representative giving up democratic oversight and an elected representative transferring democratic oversight.

IIRC one of the judges in the "supersedes-supreme-court-rulings" ISDS dispute resolution mechanism is actually appointed by the investor.

I'm sure they'll be fair.
You misunderstand. Android users are different from Linux users. :)

Android runs Android applications each as a different Linux user.
I actually kinda like it, for subreddit discovery I think it's a decent way to go about it.
For me the bangs are a killer feature.

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

Does Google have an equivalent?
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> Murder is rare, but it has a very high impact on society and the surrounding people.

How do you know? What metrics are you using to form this opinion? Or are you using the same gut impression that the article alludes to and the GP specifically states?

By my math each murder could affect 10 people as to leave them in a state equivalent to death and still not come anywhere close to the impact as smoking.

Let me put it another way. Odds are that you've never known anyone that was murdered but there is a pretty damn high you've known someone that died from smoking. BTW, the number of people who die from second hand smoking alone dwarfs the number of people who are murdered.
Interesting how deeply integrated Google services are becoming in Android. With Android at something like an 80% marketshare, I wonder if and when they'll get hit with an anti trust action a la Microsoft in the early aughts. MS got in hot water for bundling IE with Windows, but here we have Google basically making the entire OS default to Google services for device-wide basics: voice recognition goes through Google by default, Google-branded search is the default on your home screen, etc. etc. (At least on Nexus devices and in OS images; I haven't used anything else.)

Curious as to how they're getting away with it. Maybe because it's open-source, so someone could replace the default if they worked hard enough? On the other hand, in the MS anti trust days it wasn't hard to choose a different default browser--and it was certainly easier than changing source code.
The problem now is, if some app requests access to my contacts, it will not only gain access to them but also the ability to upload them to some shady service.

This alone is the reason I will not use Android 6 before they either change this or there is a good firewall available (and I am able to root my device)
> Where as in Annex, all I have to do is touch an option.

The issue I can see is that I need to do multiple actions.

Worst case: Pick up phone, unlock/pin, find and open app, wait for a moment, find option and press it.
Best case: swipe on reminder, unlock, tap option.

The issue with the best case is that the 'cancel' action still has way less friction than the other. It is zero friction to ignore it but still 1-2 steps to do it.

The optimal case would be to be presented with the options on the lockscreen.

Perhaps you could schedule a minimum amount of notifications and display them at the same time?

Like at 7pm:

I am cleaning.

I am making dinner.

Etc. This way only one swipe would trigger the action (+pin). But it might be hard to get just right. But you see my point.

Anyway good luck. And for what it's worth, I'm still developing on an iPhone 4 as well :)
I disagree very much. The fact that concentrated interests win out over dispersed interests is not some failure of the population to educate itself and vote hard enough. It's an extremely basic game theoretical inevitability.
Ha. Kind of like PHP's function name lengths being used as a "hash" back in the day.

But, what contexts is this function used in? Is it supposed to be one-way at all? If not, then this is just a simple way of distributing vrf/ip pairs into buckets. Still smells funny, though.

EDIT: This comment looks like I'm defending the implementation here. I'm not. Seems like it'd me more uniform to just add the bytes in the vrf/IP pair and mod them with something. Seeing a hyphen in the format string of sprintf() is really weird, considering that just he string's length is being used.

Again, assuming this is in no way security-related, then this is just a general, run-of-the-mill WTF.
I think technology has a key role (as a tool) to play in reducing poverty. Obviously poverty is a complex problem and technology is jut one tool to be used as part of solutions. As Kentaro Toyama wrote in his excellent book, "Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology" [1], technology is an amplifier of intent.

This is why we started engageSPARK (a not-for-profit social enterprise), aka "Twilio for Non-Techies", where we're building technology tools to help Non Profits/NGOs, Governments, and Civil Society Organizations globally amplify their work to engage the poor in ways that haven't been feasible for them before. These organizations already have money, intent, and people on the ground, but they don't have access to good technology tools to be more effective in their work.

Because most of the poor now have access to a mobile phone (note that most do not have smartphones nor regular access to the Internet), Voice Calls (pre-recorded in local languages) and two-way SMS are key mediums - which many people forget.

Some examples using interactive Voice & two-way SMS to engage the poor:
1) Education using Soap Operas delivered via phone calls: recipients get a phone call, answer, and hear a soap opera dialogue. A quiz at the end is used to reinforce the lesson and measure comprehension. In a study for 20,000 people to encourage them to save money, savings rates increased by 106%.

2) Information Retrieval: people dial into a phone number (or do a free Missed Call to get a call back) and press keys to retrieve information "Press 1 to learn about preventing Ebola, Press 2 to hear symptoms, etc".

3) Surveys: collect information from people quickly via SMS or Voice - "Press 1-5 to rate the training you received last week. Press 1 if you feel positive about finding a job, or 2 if you don't. Press the number of times your family had a meal last week".

Imagine the use cases in Health, Agriculture, Finance, Governance, Disaster Preparedness & Response to help the poor live healthier lives, grow better crops, increase income, have a voice in government, be more resilient to disasters, etc. - all by engaging them more effectively by leveraging technology.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Geek-Heresy-Rescuing-Social-Technology...
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Right, but would the hundreds of millions of destitute subsistence farmers of China have become more secure without the foreign investment and "job shipping" of developed countries like Japan, North Am and Europe?

Would Africa be emerging as much without the Chinese foreign investment?

How does India plan on getting its poor on better standing other than inviting firms from developed countries to invest in Indian manufacturing with the lure of lower labor costs --even syphoning jobs off from China now that China's workforce has become more expensive as they have become a rich country (the second largest economy in the world).
"Software construction itself is immune to replacement by software, because software can generally not be constructed by other software." - I stopped reading after that sentence.
First off, nicely designed site, and nice description of how it works.

This is something I was thinking about early in the year, and as a result, I started taking notes while reading. Though, that assumes I'm a good note-taker, which I may not be.

I'm not a fan of your pricing model, I'm sure you've thought of freemium, or affiliate models, and personally, I think that you'll get more traction with that.

It also appears that only you create the quizzes. That's interesting. Why not get the community to build the quizzes? That gets you more books, and if the community can update each others quizzes, etc. likely you will end up with a better overall quiz along with more of them.

My father always said that teaching somebody else is the best way to ensure you know the material. He used to be a teacher, so I guess there is some truth in that.

If I were you, I'd make the site free to use. Free to take a quiz.

After I have taken a quiz, you know what book I've read, so you can make recommendations on books that I should read. How many books do I have to buy via affiliate links to get you the same revenue as your $10/year?

I'm not ready to convert yet, but I'd like to give a quiz a try at least. But I'd need to know that you have quizzes for the books I've read. I think that is your biggest hurdle at the moment. Crowd source it.

Keep up the good work.
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> I think you just agreed in a slightly angry way with plenty of citations.

I am not sure what you mean? The citations I included, I agreed with and included them to substantiate my claim, which was:

It is not dumb or irrational to get to $1b, I disagree with Sam there. This allows you phenomenal free marketing, exposure, access and capital. It is rational to continue to take money and increase your status as the market is placing a huge premium on reputation and hype. I do think a horrible equity structure would be a bad compromise to make, but given that these markets are private your value is basically your old valuation (which prices in extreme future growth) and your status/pr/exposure. So depending on your value you can fake your way onto the unicorn list.

PLS Logistics is a inc 5000 company, I do not know the valuation. I suspect it is much less than the article I cited stating the dropbox deal terms >$10b. To be clear, the article, which I agree with, states this is well overvalued, but the "price" is around that number by the market. Box stock has liquidity, less uncertainty (known financials), more enterprise customers (stickier) and is valued less. I think storage is a bad business to be in and it is likely in the twilight of 2016 price parity is reached between SSD and HDD drives, a terabyte SSD can be had for $300[0]. Consumers can use free solutions like google and apple, or a 256GB thumb drive and enterprise companies will migrate to locked down internal private networks.

Regardless, freemium and non-monetizing service companies are in bad shape. Investors and founders have an incentive to get their pseudo-value up, and I was addressing that point. Status, in a market with limited transparency or liquidity, is passing as capital and given the rate hike that is coming and the likely failure of a few of these companies creationg a series A crunch, it wouldn't be unwise to cash that status in for currency.

If you were referring to my other comments about the Samwer bros. I apologize for the long winded spiel above. Those were really bad punny jokes and allusions to Bloomberg not editing the story and referring to it as 'Y Contributor' which sounded like a knock of version of YC.

edit: If you meant that the:
> It's an arbitrary number of digits in base 10 numerals.

I disagree in that, much like in a Casino, the value is def. not realized until you walk out. That amount of arbitrary digits when that bell on the IPO day, will make them anything but arbitrary. Having that number start high and go up is good, and even if they are loosely based on something, people will used past values as a benchmark, at least initially. By then some wil have cashed out. Depends on what others are optimizing for.

Digits aren't wholly arbitrary, but they will become important.

[0]http://www.networkcomputing.com/storage/ssd-prices-in-a-free...
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How is it bad? Business doesn't have to be original.
There was an article recently suggesting that they're being investigated for exactly what you describe (by EU officials, I believe).

I don't mind Google's bundling as much because you can still use Android without it. Old versions of Windows and current versions of iOS are irritating because can't remove those default apps. They're just always there, and sometimes you can't even replace them with alternatives.
I don't know much about DFS but it seems to me there is a simple solution to information leakage problem:

1)players construct their line-ups and have a local program compute a secure hash of it (with some player specific data in it like arbitrary 10 digit number at the start)

2)only hashes are posted before the game starts (or once a deadline for submissions is reached or w/e)

3)then a player is allowed to post a matching (to the hash) line-up

Failing to do 3) results in a loss.

Are there any problems with that solution?
Exactly. It won't be good for us. The I.P. effects and ability to sue over lost profit have already been devastating in the precedent situations. Same types of elites involved in this legislation. I have less faith in American voters than he does. Hope the situation in Canada makes them break from it and maybe delay/end the whole thing.
As a progressive, I would support a plan of re distributive basic income. The plan I would support would involve shrinking existing government.

As a progressive, I support removing the costs of worker healthcare from labor costs to industry.

As a progressive, I support reducing the over-all social cost to higher education by eliminating the federal grant and loan processes, and simply block allocating per-student rates for state schools.

As a progressive, I would love to see Corporations dehumanized; Speech equal speech; and commercial activity limited to the interaction of autonomous entities.

As a progressive, I would support returning the sovereign responsibilities of application of force to the government, and in doing so reduce the actual per-body cost of warfare and law-enforcement. (Ending cost-plus contracting) (Returning prisoners to the states from private enterprises)

If given free reign, every industry would cloud it's cost externalities, such as the environmental repercussions, or the needs of the dependents that work those convenient company towns. Quarterly balance reports rarely see the value in education, healthcare, or decent food in those locked-in labor units.
While true, I think there could be significant merit in defining one where no complex decision is made by a machine at all. When trying to read these legal documents I struggle a bit with holding all the various bits in my head, a section only applies if A and B are true, and C is over 16, but not if ...

Those same definitions will be used several times. Could they be extracted out? Could we have something that we're able to turn into a series of questions that a lay person could have at least a crack at? I've seen some of those done for tax law in the UK and it really simplifies things (although these are made manually).

Basically, keep humans making those decisions of what is malicious or wilful, and have the law written in such a way as to allow (but not require) a computer to take and combine those decisions.
I'm glad they've abandoned the negative proposition of "Don't be evil" though I would be happier if the new precept were simply, "Do the right thing", Spike Lee notwithstanding.
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