skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Won't mean squat because one of the leading reason for these people to likely offend again is that government rules and regulations lock them out of some benefit programs.

Federal law passed under the Clinton Administration prevents those convicted of drug offenses from receiving welfare or food stamps unless a state specifically allows it. Really.

So on top of the onus the felony conviction gives them, on top of state regulations limiting jobs they can have (look it up, some states won't even let you do the simplest of jobs) we have laws that prevent them from receiving benefits until they can get a job, meaning they have no food or money except from family or charity.

If we are changing sentencing laws the retroactively vacate the felony convictions of non violent drug offenders. This will immediately remove them from being subject to that 1996 reform law
Probably integrating the live-streaming api-less app Periscope into one of our products at Eventbeat.

We had a large client asking whether they could load up a Periscope broadcast of a launch party in NYC (where all the big names were) and stream it to their press event London.

My first act was just catching the stream - all JS were naturally minified, though some M3U8 files (a playlist of video URIs) were coming through and fortunately from an insecure HTTP source. This lead to warnings of mixed security in Chrome's console; we could essentially isolate the link and load it in VLC!

Because this had to be actionable by a non-programmer during the event, I hacked in some temporary functionality into the Announcement feature of Eventbeat to listen for an announcement title "Periscope", and the message was expected to be the hash of the M3U8 video stream that I trained them to grab from the console.

Turns out that on the night it worked really well, fortunately, though they ended up only using it for ~10 minutes.

Fun little hack to get going though, not sure if they're serving the video over SSL now.
I currently live near Dayton and grew up near Pittsburgh. If you don't have ties to either city, I would take job with better benefits and manager in Pittsburgh. Both are nice cities with a surprising number of tech jobs. Housing is a little cheaper in Dayton but not dramatically different. If family doesn't factor into your consideration then there are more lifestyle options and things to do in Pittsburgh.
...which is what happened to most geeks I know who've tried, in fact this sums up their exploits rather well: https://m.xkcd.com/1570/
Ask HN: Have the char limits for responses in the YC application been removed?
I've applied before and I remember there being character limits, but they're not showing up when I load the application. I'm working on my application now and my responses might change depending on the limits.
Microsoft's New Surface Book Strikes Back with Crazy Laptop-Tablet Mashup
Prime Minister David Cameron told a conference in
Singapore in July: "We are one of the most open and
welcoming economies anywhere in the world and I want
Britain to be that country. But I want to ensure that all
this money is clean money. There is no place for dirty
money in Britain."

Based on this and other reports, it sounds like Cameron has a lot of work to do.

With motoring offences in the UK, if a car is fined the owner identifies the driver so the driver can be fined - and if the owner claims they "don't know who was driving", the owner gets the fine. So you can't dodge a fine or get a lesser fine by "forgetting".

We should apply the same logic to white collar crimes. If lawyers or corporate service providers are setting up companies with fake details, acting as directors then claiming they "don't know who controls the company", whatever punishments are due to the company's owners should transfer to whoever touched it last.
So do I, for the same reasons.

At a previous job perl was used everywhere. As a language, it's quite nice. CPAN is horrible, though. No staging/stable/whatever versioning, new modules requires updating versions of existing modules which frequently broke - it's just not something that's enterprise friendly.

I tried but failed to find a company that would support and curate a subset of CPAN modules properly. Does one exist now?
How much of the compiled code that runs day to day is shipped with a PGO build? How many packages are compiled at O2 instead of O3 in the average linux distribution.

Even then you assume the profile resembles the real program input. Not always true.

So GCC supports PGO but nearly no one uses it. On the JIT side at least all programs runing on the common JVMs and .NETs use PGO.

Even with PGO, one can't make all the optimizations one can in a managed runtime. e.g. null pointer exceptions -> dereferencing a null pointer is handled in the rare case in the JVM by segfaulting and dealing with it in a signal handler (after 3x this code will be deoptimized and turned into an if null check). This is an approach GCC cannot take as it cannot install signal handlers, so at best it can do the check and mark the segfault path as unlikely.
As a related note, it's interesting that we (society) know the name Neil Armstrong more than Richard Arenstorf[1].

Armstrong climbed down a ladder and walked on the moon. His actions were something that could be televised. We could relate. Most of us have climbed down a ladder from a bunk bed or used a ladder to get something from a high bookshelf and then walked around a room.

Arenstorf solved a really hard math problem. Showing a person "thinking" or writing equations is not telegenic.

I think the number of people on the planet who had the mathematical creativity to simplify the 3-body problem and solve it to enable a Moon mission is less than the number of physically fit pilots that can sit in a rocket ship.

In this case, we don't remember what's more rare (Arenstorf type intellects) but what's more telegenic (Armstrong type pilots).

History will replay itself with a Mars mission. There are unsolved intellectual problems that the best scientists are working on. However, none of their names will be known as well as the first astronaut to step foot on Mars.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Arenstorf
AI machine achieves IQ test score of young child
So statistically no one?
Discussed here recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10317198
> Moldova did not have a professional army at the time because it was in the process of leaving the Soviet Union.

Not under dispute. I cite lack of professionalism only because it's generally accepted to increase the likelihood of abuses. And I'm not saying any such abuses or war crimes or genocide happened (as soviet propaganda claims) or were even planned or likely. But I do genuinely think the danger was real and the Soviet troops that were there and intervened imho were not doing so because they wanted long term levers over Moldovan politics but because they had genuine immediate concerns for the ethnic Russian and Ukrainian residents (which in many cases included themselves). Note again: if Russia wanted to, the Russians could have they could have annexed them any time in the last 20-some years, they could have sued for independence easily but they just sued for peace.

And 20-some years later, while there has been some violence, it has been relatively peaceful, certainly the complete opposite of (say) what we've seen from Russia in Chechnya. So that's why I believe that, in retrospect, the early Russian involvement was probably the right call.

Perhaps there's a best case counterfactual scenario where Russian troops are called off and Moldovans end up killing a few hundred separtists and it's over (this is slightly fewer deaths than we saw historically).

There's also much worse counterfactuals where the Moldovan irregulars engage in war crimes or the rebels hang on for years and you have long bloody sieges or they go underground and you have terrorist bombings that go on for decades and harsh Moldovan responses and maybe the Russian army gets involved anyway just thousands more end up dead.
It's roughly 3% of federal prisoners.
There are multiple tools to do this on your own, with CPAN::Mini and friends, or Carton.

I also don't know how long it's been since you last tried, but cpantesters and the other odds and ends of the ecosystem have helped tremendously in reducing published bugs. ( http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=System-Command%201.115 )
This is also something the CPU's branch predictor can figure out and do the same optimization on. This decreases the benefit from AOT-compiled code.
"There is no place for dirty money in Britain."

Quite right - that's what the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man are for.
The form is broken doesn't work as it is supposed to

`bundle.js`

```
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```
Son.gg – share tracks across music networks
In the age of corporate and government surveillance, cash has many advantages:

* It can be accepted without the help of technology

* It can be stowed away in a secure place (in contrast to money on bank accounts, which can "evaporate" in case of a bank failure)

* It is very hard to trace and provides a good level of anonymity

* It can be sent through the mail or transported physically form one place to another

And on the less serious side:

* It can be piled up into a giant mountain and burned

* It can be rolled into nice wads and used as props in ganster movies (ever seen a gangster wave around his black Amex in a film?)
It feels a lot like Wall Street in the 80's. I'm not leaving, but I needed to find the currents out of the main cultural flow to stay sane.
iBeacon Business Cards
+1. Actually, the awaited advancement is here already (hg instead of git), but for the accolytes' adherence to the buzz. The cargo cult of `SCM == git` seems at the height of its power.
Building a PhantomJS Cloud API
Yes, same as with Go 1.5 - this comparison is very dated.
Why would caring for yourself be "more logical" than for others? I don't think the concept even applies.

Logic concerns itself with the validity of reasoning: Given X and Y, you can validly infer Z - it doesn't concern itself with the goals. So, unless there's an underlying axiom that supports the assertion that you should promote your interests above others', it's not "more logical" to do so than to dedicate your life to others.
It says that Fortuna is "owed" that money, presumably in exchange for some goods or services, that would be an interesting invoice to see!
Most install the software on their own hardware. Definitely wasn't the case back in the day hence the moniker "terminal" for the desktop software.
>and trying to decipher what on earth code was doing

I have the same feeling when gcc shit itself STL compiling errors.
Yeah - exactly my question - that's what this whole escapade hinges on but absolutely no details
"Pensions are much higher than in Moldova, lots of people from Chisinau when they get old buy here appartment and move over."

Oh, it sounds so better economically! What do you have to say about the fact that Transnitria did not paid anything for the gas it consumed for over twenty five years now (and was left on Moldova's bill note)? Or for a lot of other things for that mater? Now about the immigration, are you serious? There is so much effort directed at keeping the outsiders out, so much scrutiny over anyone (even on locals), you understand why the claim that someone can just come not only for a few hours but indefinitely is just surreal?
Ah yes but it is mainly because many languages borrow C-style syntax so you can understand it without many brain gymnastics.

You are correct, however. I did try learning Japanese and was just as unsuccessful at that as with Perl; I did maintain an old Perl codebase at one point and learned enough to get by but I would never jump at the opportunity to do it again!
What do you mean exactly? I mean that the status symbol aspect of a cargo cult is a crucial part of its self-reinforcement mechanism.
Inside the Creation of the Microsoft Surface Book
That's a really good point, maybe it could hamper a child's imagination in some ways. Although the technology itself is really impressive.
Introduction to FiloDB
Source repo: https://github.com/kesiev/wright
I still have that, but thankfully get to use clang instead which has more helpful messages (although you do need to look about 5 errors deep in the error tree to get to the nub of the problem).
> But barrister Jonathan Fisher, QC, one of Britain's
> leading experts in this area of law, says that legally,
> nominees would be as responsible as
> any other director for any wrongdoing.
So we've gone from "outright austerity" to just "reducing the level of service". That's okay by me and by the UK public that secured the current government an overwhelming majority in the recent election.

Those people experiencing the reduced level of service never deserved the red carpet and gold plating anyway. A 4 star hotel is still good; but yes I can see why one might be upset if they were forced to downgrade from a 5 star hotel. Running out of analogies now.
> This is also something the CPU's branch predictor can figure out and do the same optimisation on

The benefit of this optimisation isn't correctly predicting the branch, which is the only thing the CPU branch predictor can do, it's removing the untaken branch from the optimisation pipeline.

if (x) {
y = rand();
} else {
y = 14;
}

y * 2;

In this code if x is never true then not only will the branch not taken be removed, but the code following the if statement can be optimised knowing for sure that y is always the constant 14, and then the whole thing can be constant folded.
The comment on ankle weights was interesting. I'd like to see some event where ankle weight is measured and all runners get added weight to bring them up to the heavies ankle weight.
I don't think this is how races should be run but it would be interesting to see the results if you adjust for this. Might even be possible to calculate some ankle-weight coefficient and apply it to race times to get an interesting data point.
> "Twilight of the Gods"

Taking all context into account, it's the “dusk” variety of twilight.
Ask HN: Powerline Ethernet Adapters for VoIP Phone Setup?
Does anyone have any experience with setting up a small office VoIP setup using Powerline ethernet adapters? What is your experience?

Thanks!
You are confusing how the attack is done. PKI has nothing to do with it. Try this with Chrome -

1) Log into a site on one computer

2) In the javascript console (tools->developer tools) type 'document.cookie'

3) On a separate computer visit the same site but don't log in. Open the javascript console.

4) Paste in the cookie, i.e document.cookie="keyofcookie=valueofcookie"

5) See if your authenticated using the account you 'stole' the cookie from without actually having to authenticate on the second computer

(Rather then using two computers, you could use two different browsers on the same computer)

Nowhere here was PKI used.

One way to mitigate this type of attack is to store the users IP address server side and detect if they change IPs during the same session.
Zoning won't allow it - the suburbs are not built up intentionally.
You're not blogging, my friend. And that's a problem
I can't find any sources on the internet in English to corroborate this, but a Swedish friend told me a few years ago that they passed a law requiring all merchants to accept debit/credit cards for any transaction. Anecdotally, when I visited last month I found that to be the case everywhere I went, even in smaller shops and with small purchases. If that is the case, it could explain in part why their trend line for cash reserves looks so different than everyone else's on the graph.

Here's a bit more information on payment types in Sweden: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-27/stockholm-...
Any idea why the functions do not return promises?
> An AOT compiler can decide to compile a JIT code generator into the binary, so even in theory AOT beats JIT

That is not AOT. That is compiling some code AOT and some JIT[1]. It's not a contest. Those are two very common compilation strategies, each with its own pros and cons.

> In practice it almost never makes sense to do this for a language that isn't full of gratuitous dynamism.

What you call "gratuitous dynamism" others call simple, general abstractions. BTW, even Haskell/ML-style pattern matching qualifies as "dynamism" in this case, as this is something a JIT optimizes just as it does virtual dispatch (the two are duals).

[1]: Also, a compiler doesn't generally insert huge chunks of static code into its output. That's the job of a linker. What you've described is a system comprised of an AOT compiler, a JIT compiler, and a linker that links the JIT compiler and the AOT-compiled code into the binary. Yeah, such a system is at least as powerful as just the JIT component alone, but such a system is not called an AOT compiler.
This is the same myopic view expressed by PG: you're only seeing what's right in front of you. There are plenty of web developers who aren't in gaming and use Windows on a day-to-day basis. This business of "future" and "past" is exceedingly silly. The right choice is the tool that you can do your job best with.

For lots of people, that's Linux. For lots of other people, that's Windows.
> you're probably easily in the top 5% percentile bracket for income world-wide.

Either that, or your job requires you to be on a flight every month. There /are/ such jobs.
> a place that cared about its community and free speech

And, of course, ethics in game journalism.

Free speech is a deep subject with many different interpretations even in the freest of societies (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech)

Political philosophy aside, personally I am saddened to see the same noble freedom that was once demanded to protect the expression of novel, perhaps subversive ideas and the speaking of truth to power invoked to defend the asinine, violent utterances of mobs of bullies as they attack their victims. People, obviously, shouldn't be arrested for public displays of ignorance or mean-spiritedness, but calling that "freedom of speech" makes me sad.
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You are right, but the idea that government expenses in their our currency are a totally different thing of household expenses is not well know and understood.

I would suggest that, for avoiding (some) downvotes in the future, you add a link and some clarification. For instance:

https://petermartin2001.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/how-to-bala...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_monetary_theory
Could be yep. Hence "shining beacon".
They use it in their papers: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/libtls-fsec-2015/mgp00001.html
Allure and exploitation in post-Soviet ruin photography
Happy to debate it rationally if you want to make a serious point
So the $1 billion is actually just a small portion...this video says the total is $20 billion. Amazing.
Nielsen, ComScore, and Rentrak: Keeping Score in Media Measurement
Does it support Chronos/Marathon natively?
If you only gathered the same data on a regular basis, then you might have a startup on your hands. The name should somehow incorporate Fear and Loathing. You'd also want metrics for addiction, (in)ability to carry on everyday activities, etc. and graph that to find the sweet spot for best bang for the buck. Possible integration with Siri, Cortana, Google Now, etc. "Siri, I want to get high." "Sure, just see Terry on Market St. He's got some snow at a great price. For your current body weight, you should buy 5 grams to have a good time tonight."
Everyone make sure you follow the advice on documenting everything. Never feel ashamed about asking people to help you with that.
It's ridiculous how much trouble and angry/crazy/malicious person can cause you. And when that happens, suddenly every record and document you have will be invaluable.
I believe the traditional 'logical' argument is that "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few"...
That's an interesting data point, for sure. I've never had a Redfin agent turn down a showing because of price, but there are too many variables involved to read too much into it.
How much of the reference docs and available books did you read? Or did you, like many, just read code and hunt for the bits that weren't obvious?
Trusted Domestic Cleaners in Atlanta
When you add scare quotes to the word asylum it's pretty obvious what your political leanings and corresponding objections are.
Why are you quoting Cameron?

I'm sure he does not expect anyone to actually ask him to enforce his promise[1]. I doubt if he takes himself seriously, when doing statements like the one mentioned.

To quote "Yes, PM"[2]:

Hacker: Humphrey, do you see it as part of your job to help ministers make fools of themselves?

Sir Humphrey: Well, I never met one that needed any help.

[1] https://www.google.gr/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&es...

[2] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yes,_Minister#Episode_Six:_The...
Twitter to monetize Moments
Probably because it is PHP.
I'm playing devil's advocate, but isn't it the proof that democracy is functioning?

Where I live, I believe a majority of people are for harsher sentences, or even death penalty (which was abolished a long time ago against popular opinion). I find it sad because I think it's both cruel and ineffective, but I often wonder how to reconcile this view with the idea of democracy.
From Italy with Love Through Santiago de Compostella with Mr. Owl
I like this, I thought containers were just some stupid fad of the day. But this explains what they are and makes me thinks ahhhh! Of couse they will still be overused and so on :)
"Horror" is about the right term. I wouldn't want to wish them on anybody, except perhaps the politicians in my country.
Interesting. Each of the games is defined within a single json file¹ that's parsed by the game engine², with a scripting language³ of sorts mixed in.

¹) https://github.com/kesiev/Wright/tree/master/tapes , look for tape.json in each of the subdirectories.

²) https://github.com/kesiev/Wright/blob/master/js/wright.js

³) For example, https://github.com/kesiev/Wright/blob/master/tapes/tentris/t...
My wife and I moved to cash for just about all in person transactions about a year ago. We use a credit card for gas and online shopping. It's amazingly convenient.

Right now, I'm on vacation. You know what's great? When I return I'll have zero bills coming in.

There's no advantage to having cash in the bank. It's pretty easy to secure cash, and even my "high yield" savings account yields 0.75%. I've saved 2x that by not spending as much.
Rogers is a partisan chicken hawk. There haven't been any wars, or nat-sec proposals, or anything else along those lines that Rogers wasn't beating a drum for. He has recently retired from congress to be a talk-radio host and political pundit.