skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the 5 had only chat logs as "evidence".

Chat logs and of course the payments, from wallets known to be controlled by Ross, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars that correspond precisely with the chat logs.

From the judge again;

He commissioned the hits, there is no discussion of
hypotheticals, he paid actual funds. He paid hundreds
of thousands of dollars which were, in fact, paid. He is
told when the murders are completed, he was provided
with a photo of the murder scene with random numbers
that he had provided to the would-be assassins. That
there had been no confirmation of any of the deaths
does not eliminate the fact that he directed violence
and directed the use of violence.
I expect that "the entire population" will recognize this before the journalists do.
In my own experience. It is about skills. But if you don't have the skills you need more methods and process. The less skilled is your team, the more processes you need.
Knowing your identity I think would certainly help sales, the same way it does when you shop online.

How?

I suppose you could have store change it's stock based on who it knows has visited it. But that sounds cumbersome and speculative. The store might find itself removing the things people like to buy from that store and stocking things people prefer to buy from other stores and so wind-up selling less.

Kind of like when things I've searched for on amazon reappear as Facebook ads. It don't click through and buy 'cause I've already decided on whether or not to get them.
What makes the author wrong? It all sounds very likely to me.
> That's right, that terribly communist government suppressing its people and free speech, is actually responsible for lifting 500 million people out of poverty over the last 30 years.

Indeed, China's success has been a great testimony to the efficacy of centralized planning and communism...
In what sense is that view incorrect? The cost of access to the political process in America is astronomically high and keeps increasing, and acquiring the amount of money it now takes to be competitive in an election requires adopting a set of positions that are friendly to whatever industries have the most money to give.

What part of that analysis is wrong? What counterexample can you offer?
Heard an interview with the head of the investing arm of the Gates foundation. (Nerdist podcast interview with Bill Gates)

She suggested that in a few years mobile phone technology has transformed Africa more than many more years of charity and monetary intervention. She suggested that services (like payment services) built on top of mobile technologies were the place to look.

The good news is, if you have a great idea along those lines, they might just invest...
Amusingly, after months of pointless bikeshedding, we managed to convince the internals team to throw an exception during the extreme case of a CSPRNG failure.

https://www.sammyk.me/security-changes-to-the-php-7-csprng-i...

You can read my arguments on the mailing list, but basically it amounted to:

$chars = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz234567';
for ($i = 0; $i < 12; ++$i) {
$password .= $chars[random_int(0, 31)];
}

If random_int() returned FALSE, $password would be the string 'aaaaaaaaaaaa' (and you'd have 12 E_WARNING errors in your log).

By making it an exception, random_int() will now fail closed (kill the script by default), but the developer can still handle it gracefully.

$chars = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz234567';
try {
for ($i = 0; $i < 12; ++$i) {
$password .= $chars[random_int(0, 31)];
}
} catch (Throwable $e) {
$framework->template->kill('An unrecoverable fatal error occurred.');
}

Or something similar.

Is it a BC break? Sure. Is it worth it? Oh yeah.
> Sure, the kernel development process "works", but wouldn't it be nice if it worked better?

So much agreed. I find it deeply weird that technical people suddenly be against improving something on the grounds that it appears to work now.

Look at Linux itself. Did the world really need another OS? Does it need all those features, all those patches? Thank goodness nobody worried too much about that. If they had, Linux wouldn't exist. Hell, computers wouldn't exist.
Zuckerberg announces project to deliver internet from space
And in shells. Alt-u uppercases the word following the cursor with vanilla bash+readline everywhere I've tried. So the sequence would be to type "server_retry_timeout", Ctrl-a to jump to beginning of line, Alt-u-u-u to uppercase the next three words.
Ending illegal wars, the death penalty and torture are even more important. Why would our government which has no problem killing, maiming and even "torturing some folks" even begin to care about poverty, illiteracy and disease? You may disagree but as a whole our government has a strong proclivity to violence which implies a lack of regard for life. Dealing effectively with poverty, illiteracy and disease presupposes our government is sufficiently motivated to direct its attention to those issues. Pick any metric you like and it clearly shows our government has other priorities. Poverty is up, illiteracy is up, education is overall declining, university tuition skyrocketing, cost of healthcare skyrocketing, planned parenthood under attack etc. Our government just bombed a hospital in Afghanistan, executed a woman in Georgia who should have served a life sentence instead, is about to execute a man whose guilt is unclear and still tortures people in dark forgotten corners of the globe. I don't think there can be any meaningful change until bad people with no respect for life are removed from office and replaced with good people who do respect life. It's no coincidence that since the warmongers seized control of this country that education and healthcare took a dive. Dr. Strangelove doesn't care one whit about poverty, illiteracy and disease .
A larger format is more versatile than a smaller car. It can accommodate groups of friends, families (huge market not currently using taxis), people going on domestic holidays, and will handle smart-routes.

Tesla also have a smaller-format car to come.

Obviously things like seat and door technology, the snake charger, etc can be applied to other sizes.
Except Draft Kings lets you enter 1,000 games per week so one can use portfolio theory with this information to increase the expected value of playing.
Paul Krugman's take from March:

I’d argue that it’s implausible to claim that TPP could add more than a fraction of one percent to the incomes of the nations involved; even the 0.5 percent suggested by Petri et al looks high to me.

These gains aren’t nothing, but we’re not talking about a world-shaking deal here.

So why do some parties want this deal so much? Because as with many “trade” deals in recent years, the intellectual property aspects are more important than the trade aspects. Leaked documents suggest that the US is trying to get radically enhanced protection for patents and copyrights; this is largely about Hollywood and pharma rather than conventional exporters.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/tpp-at-the-nabe/
We could use automation to reduce the total amount of work we have to do as a society for each individual to be safe and healthy, and then (and this is the hard part) share the benefit of that automation with the whole society, instead of concentrating it in the hands of a few people and kicking every person whose labor is now not essential to the curb.

Incidentally, the answer to this question has been the same since the advent of technology, going as far back as agriculture.
Caller ID for the visually impaired
The best criticism of the concept of an "Operating System" is implicit in Joe Armstrong's thesis about Erlang:

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Such techniques are common in hardware platforms for building fault-tolerant systems but are not commonly used in software solutions. This is mainly because conventional languages do not permit different software modules to co-exist in such a way that there is no interference between modules. The commonly used threads model of programming, where resources are shared, makes it extremely difficult to isolate components from each other — errors in one component can propagate to another component and damage the internal consistency of the system.

...In our system "processes" and "concurrency" are part of the programming language and are not provided by the host operating system. This has a number of advantages over using operating system processes:

Concurrent programs run identically on different OSs—we are not limited by how processes are implemented on any particular operating system. The only observable difference when moving between OS’s, and processors should be due to different CPU speeds and memory sizes etc. All issues of synchronization, and inter-process interaction should be the same irrespective of the properties of the host operating system.

Our language based processes are much lighter-weight than conventional OS processes. Creating a new process in our language is a highly efficient operation, some orders of magnitude faster than process creation in most operating systems, and orders of magnitude faster than thread creation in most programming languages.

Our system has very little need of an operating system. We make use of very few operating system services, thus it is relatively easy to port our system to specialised environments such as embedded systems.

http://www.erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
Currently the US-of-A believes that US laws _always_ apply, no matter where. However that doesn't jive well with EU privacy laws. For example the easiest way to comply with the German privacy laws ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesdatenschutzgesetz ) is to host inside of Germany itself (See also: AWS eu-central-1).

Microsoft has been busily fighting this notion ( http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2015/04/09/our-lega... ) for a while now. Basically all the tech companies are waiting to find out what happens ( http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/us/politics/apple-and-othe... ) because it means the difference between "US Law applies everywhere" and "US companies can comply with foreign data protection laws". Unfortunately these two things are mutually exclusive.
SMSes weren't taking payment one SMS at a time. The amount would be aggregated and you'd pay in a lump sum, either as a monthly account, or as a prepaid lump. We definitely weren't doing a 10c transaction for each individual SMS.
This isn't quite parimutuel, because in that system all the bet totals are published in nearly-real-time. If you wait until 1 MTP to place your bet you have a very good idea what the odds will be. It isn't obvious to me why the sports gambling sites need to keep this information secret, other than to create exploitable situations like those described in TFA.
Foo over UDP
And most of them are sadly going to go right back into extreme poverty since factories are leaving China, capital is are outflowing, rich people are escaping. Then they realize the farm they left has been commandeered to build empty apartments, their environment polluted to where they will fall victim to diseases.

There is no secret to the communist China's playbook. They opened to the world a vast amount of workers, charging for them pennies a day. But once that has been used up and become too expensive, the end game is joblessness and destruction of their environments. And they still have a totalitarian government.
For me, there are different kinds of "works" at play here. If the question is what produces dramatic, short-term improvement, an abusive approach quite often works wonders. But over the long term, that's thoroughly corrosive. Fear isn't a sustainable motivation when people have other options. (Which is why serial abusers also end up being very controlling; they need to eliminate the options.)
Meanwhile,

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/19/humans-cr...
Well, when you think about it they probably associate users who use the same IP address. From that perspective it's difficult to see how they could avoid using this data. It's like not noticing that two different people called you from the same number.
Building a Router with Raw React (no node, react-router, flux, etc.)
The controversy isn't about knowing player price points. That's like the gameboard and it's known to everyone. It's about knowing ownership percentages - which is the overall percentage of lineups in a contest that drafted a certain player.

That info gets published once the contest starts (it's very compelling data), but having access to that ahead of time is the equivalent of insider trading - because you have knowledge other people don't have when they make their picks, which provides you a completely unfair advantage.
> every transaction/request taking place.

It's definitely gotten better, however I think the default view is still just averaging all requests, which isn't very helpful.

For a blocking server (like most Rails apps use) the key insight has to do with which controller actions need to be optimized to prevent slow user-facing aggregate response times.

I don't currently have it in use on any of my apps, but next time I'll give that query a try.
Psychologists (numerically) primarily study the brain; a minority subset of psychologists are clinical, either therapists, or psychiatrists. So your post is inaccurate to refer to all psychologists as a minority subset, but for that minority subset, this is what would happen were they to be successful in treating their patients:

* The patient moves on, spreads positive word of mouth advertising, and frees up time for newer patients that might have a higher demand for the therapist (a new patient is much more likely to have weekly or biweekly sessions than a stable patient that would only need monthly sessions).
* The patient stops having an acute problem in their life, but still wants to retain the therapeutic relationship that helped them out of it to address new challenges that arrive in their life. Someone might start going to a therapist because of a major depressive episode, but after that problem is contained, move on to other aspects of their life they find troubling, like social anxiety, or executive functioning, or relationships...
* The patient has treated all major and minor deficiencies, but still wishes to use the therapeutic relationship to produce deeper self-fulfilment in their life. A therapist might help someone manage the stress of starting a company, or help explore options for personal growth, or otherwise help their clients achieve self-actualization.

You must have a very narrow and biased view of therapy and psychology to make such a statement. Do you really think there is no value in having someone reflect your feelings and thoughts back to you in an analytical way so that you can identify antipatterns and work on solutions?

Beyond that, humans aren't tools that, once fixed, are performing at capacity until broken again. Humans have limitless capacity for personal growth, limited only by our distractions by other more menial needs. Do you think that it is impossible to help other people personally grow, or that it is impossible to grow at all?

In the past, this might have been the role of the pastor or priest or rabbi or yogi or life coach, but religion is rapidly backsliding away from relevance, and psychologists have the power of science behind them, so they will only get more effective while the other groups are increasingly exposed for the charlatans they are.

(I think your problem might originate by associating psychodynamic practitioners with psychology. Freudianism and its descendents are not part of psychology, since they are ascientific. They're not even debunked like say, phrenology, because they aren't falsifiable. So they're more comparable to the religious or spiritual figures I named above.)
From your other posts you seem to have a very good sense of social responsibility, so I'm surprised at this comment.

Multiple identities are incredibly important to anybody in a minority that is threatened by their local mainstream culture. Black people in may areas (even today), gay or lesbian people in many parts of the world, and trans people just about anywhere[1] are some obvious examples. There are numerous others, which bring varying amounts of risk if exposed publicly.

These people are often forced to put on a facade when in public, to avoid the risk of being fired (only a few of these are protected classes), beaten, or even killed. The internet has created a space where these people can be themselves... as long as it doesn't connect back to their real name and identity.

Yes, leaving a job is a good way to avoid a bigoted manager, but that isn't an option for everybody. Your boss isn't the only threat, either: it wasn't that long ago that being openly gay could get you lynched in some areas.

This comes down to the basic concept of privacy. I recommend Dan Geer's definition[2] of privacy in light of modern technology:

Privacy used to be proportional to that which it is impossible to observe
or that which can be observed but not identified. No more -- what is today
observable and identifiable kills both privacy as impossible-to-observe and
privacy as impossible-to-identify, so what might be an alternative? If you
are an optimist or an apparatchik, then your answer will tend toward rules
of data procedure administered by a government you trust or control. If you
are a pessimist or a hacker/maker, then your answer will tend towards the
operational, and your definition of a state of privacy will be my definition:
the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.

Real name policies are, de facto isomorphic with banning privacy. It is saying that people must never experiment with how they present themselves to the world. It's saying that anybody who fears repercussions if they act like themselves must stay in the closet.

It is nice to believe that we are past these problems. I'm often thankful that I have the privilege to live in California, which has been very accepting of diversity. Unfortunately, we haven't solved all of these problems, and they are not going to be solved in the near future. Sometimes an optimist or apparatchick insists that forcing everybody into the public so nothing is hidden and privacy no longer exists will somehow eradicate bigotry and discrimination. Well, bigots are often proud of their beliefs, and most people don't consider the consequences anyway; these problems are not solved by magical thinking.

[1] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/magazine/90519/t...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-TGvYOBpI#t=2415
It seems premature to assume they can fix the problem with code changes alone. If that's the case, the performance drop will likely be beyond acceptable. The required changes could make the vehicles physically unsafe to be on the road (think, being unable to accelerate out of danger's way because now you need 60 seconds to go from 0-50 km/h). If the option for a compromise between performance and regulatory requirements is already possible with the current hardware, wouldn't the cars likely have already shipped as such?

It seems much more likely that there will be parts replacement involved, and we may soon discover that the entire engine must be swapped out. This is unlikely to be feasible for cost, but bricking cars to intolerable driving conditions is also not enough. It's going to be really interesting to see how this develops. Done properly, this would probably be the end of VW. So I'm sure we'll see some half-assed solution that doesn't work for the consumer, but lets the company survive for a few more years until they finally collapse from consumers taking their future business elsewhere.
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Tesla – 620 Miles on a single charge coming
Fishy business makes more sense with sensors
Technology is the main driver of growth in GDP per capita. Technology is what makes wealthy countries wealthy in the first place, and gives them enough surplus that they can afford to help poorer countries (whose problems may not be lack of access to technology per se, but other issues specific to their societies, such as unstable government, lack of education, etc.)

By making the developed world richer, technology helps everyone.
I get that you can get upvotes just for the (gwern.net), but come on, this is one of his worst.

>There is a commonly-believed “strategic model” of terrorism which we could describe as follows: terrorists are people who are ideologically motivated to pursue specific unvarying political goals; to do so, they join together in long-lasting organizations and after the failure of ordinary political tactics, rationally decide to efficiently & competently engage in violent attacks on (usually) civilian targets to get as much attention as possible and publicity for their movement, and inspire fear & terror in the civilian population, which will pressure its leaders to solve the problem one way or another, providing support for the terrorists’ favored laws and/or their negotiations with involved governments, which then often succeed in gaining many of the original goals, and the organization dissolves.

{{who}}? Come on. Not even a single source on this.

It's easy to burn your enemies if they're straw men.
It was kindof a shame when they moved to chiclet keys a few years back. The keystrokes felt much different after that transition, and I can't say it was an improvement.
Yeah, and also: Who gives a shit? It's the convention they chose, just adapt to it and get over it, or program in a different language.

People who like to complain about PHP are rarely the same people who use it every day.
Kristof also conveniently doesn't mention that poverty in the United States is actually increasing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States
Not true. If anything, it's even more useful than the article makes it sound. If you knew absolutely nothing about sports, but had access to this data and a fairly basic understanding of probability and statistics, you could use this data to be basically +EV in any large field contest you enter. The lottery analogy by slg is a great metaphor to understand it.
Not really. Research will tell you it depends on how important the news is. So if you are new and post a mouthwatering post/link, you will get a response.
Also whenever you earn more money, some the tax you pay goes towards programs like this whether you donate anything extra or not. So getting a high paying job alone helps.
This petition strikes me as painfully naive. It should be obvious to anyone that Facebook's user data is what makes it a multi-billion dollar company. That data is worth fuck all if it correlates to superhero names and cat pictures as opposed to real people.
Candidly - their switches in my experience are garbage. They aren't making money, and they know they can't beat Cisco with a traditional approach. If I had to guess they're hoping that opening things up will make them the vendor of choice for enterprises looking to mimic Google/Facebook. This feels like a hail mary with the future of their presence in the network switching space to me.
I sure think this is true! Not sure how you get enough upvotes to stay on the front page. To stay "new" means posting at night and on weekends. Just sayin'
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Just because a language is used to write bad code doesn't mean the language design itself is bad.
I am not actually sure why people have so much against the Samwer brothers.

Have they done anything particularly despicable?

I know their model is to copy any potential idea coming out of the US which I don't understand the issue with.

One thing they really did well was to have a structure that makes it easy for them to localize any company.

I hear the work environment is hard but so is it many other places.

Or maybe I am missing your joke?
Their return is constant and only dependent on the number of players. They have no need for "secret prices"