skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree 100% this is a perfect example of where we the people rely entirely on the judiciary to provide a remedy. That such an obviously illegal practice could continue for years unfortunately does not reflect well on any thoughts of swift justice.

It should be possible to get a temporary restraining order against the city in cases like this within days of the first contested case. It should be easy to demonstrate there is no imminent harm of telling the city, you have to stop doing this until we decide it's OK or not, and quite the opposite, cars are an essential and significant asset, and this policy placed a potentially massive burden on the citizens it effected.

In one of the examples, by the time the victim prevailed against the illegal seizure backed by zero evidence or investigation of any kind, they had already sold off his car, and offered nothing in return. A pretty large part of the population doesn't have a spare $2,000 in cash to get their own car back while the city makes them prove in front of a Kangaroo Court that they were driving their own family to the airport... Missing from the article -- is there any hope of any kind of restitution? Can the victims now pursue a civil case against the city?
Punishing the owner for not giving the government access to the contents of the safe doesn't change the fact that the government doesn't have the contents of the safe, so I guess they might not consider it enough.
Hawking on AI
It's probably intentionally vague. They might have a heavy sales driven process which relies on inbound leads asking questions/inquiry.
Look at the memory bandwidth numbers. These completely outclass the Xeon in certain types of workloads, apples to oranges.
I feel the same. Not getting in to Lisp and Scheme decades ago has been my biggest regret, as far as technology goes.
Am I missing something? It seems like all those transactions are merely exchanges, and no wealth has actually been created (i.e. new ipads, hepatitis treatments, Taylor Swift concert tickets, food grown, etc.).
Very interesting. Is there a real-world application for this?
They use less power from what I can tell. The IBM's server has a TDP of 190 watts, and the equivalent Xeons are 135 watts a piece, or 270 watts total.
Political scientists may have discovered why U.S. politics are a disaster
If this has trouble getting traction in engineering as originally designed... Please pivot!

I watched the document section of your introduction video and was struck by how elegantly it would solve my needs for a blogging platform. I may even try using it for that without a pivot.
I was getting redirected to http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/ if I clicked the link on HN.

If I copy & paste the link to a new tab, then it worked for me.
I'm sure you know correlation does not equal causation. It would be absurd to say playing baseball is linked to oral cancer, because we know chewing tobacco is popular among players.

Saturated fat is categorically the same as cigarettes in the popular conscious, therefore it is not surprising that (in general) people who eat more of the stuff are unhealthy.
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"As the Ninth Circuit put it in a case interpreting technical assistance in a different context, private companies' obligations to assist the government have “not extended to circumstances in which there is a complete disruption of a service they offer to a customer as part of their business.”

It wasn't the case with Lavabit; there is obviously some point at which businesses are expected to properly architect their encryption solutions in order to comply with lawful search warrants. Would have been nice for the article to raise that counter-point and maybe try to address where exactly the line is drawn?

The point is Lavabit wasn't an 'All Writs' issue, if you get a search warrant against the company for data held by the company (e.g. the unencrypted iCloud backup) then it's a completely different expectation of compliance.

Does this or the WaPo article address if Apple possessed an iCloud backup of the device?
Most people who randomly get a windfall of money were previously poor. If you’re poor and suddenly get lots of money, you most probably can’t handle it; “#4. Extra Money Has to Be Spent Right Goddamn Now!”: http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-habits-you-devel...

MacArthur winners have two advantages: First, they are probably good at something, and therefore are likely not poor. Secondly, even if they are poor, they are probably very focused on their thing which made them get the prize, and any money goes to their thing, not to themselves, which makes most people a little more rational when deciding things.
I cured myself out of clickbait headlines after I clicked on few and learned to expect no content on the other side. It's a simple association, really. You click on something X-y, you get no reward, you learn not to waste time on X-looking things.
There is an image. Well, thanks for reading through the text if you had time, really just trying to get the ideas out there.

I did not see any whitespace like that on my browsers (obviously). What browser do you have? I will have to test with other browsers and find a way around that.
I knew I read it was the code somewhere but lacked a link past Wikipedia. Thanks for that one! Original claim stays and remains at elite level it was. :)
What are some of the pros and cons between RxJS/Cycle and React?
yep, agreed. and also the macarthur isn't nearly as much money as the usual lottery windfalls
Yes! I can't wait for the next release, which will have GUI support!
Regtest – A regex testing tool for your command line
Then he withdrew his withdrawal:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-10/msg00...
Indian Govt frames rules for cab aggregators like Ola, Uber
Researchers Develop a New Algorithm That Helps Robots Brace Themselves in a Fall
That feels a little like Inception (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception) or the Infinity mirror (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_mirror).
... wow, we live _SO_ in the advertisement bubble! And the first few sentences are just absolutely ridicolous.
Then you rely upon the First Amendment, freedom of speech, and prior restraint of speech is strict scrutiny. There is no way a backdoor survives that at the Supreme Court, there is simply too many cases where strong encryption is obviously required for legal use.

Speaking privately is the rockbed of free speech. Without privacy of speech, there absolutely never be any thought that speech is free. To try to restrict the privacy of communication is antithetical.

Obviously that doesn't mean people wont try to do it 'for the better good' but easily usable strong encryption is reality, just the same as the idea that strong encryption isn't going to stop you from being tracked and monitored.

I'm fairly confident that government doesn't need this, and government won't get it. But partly that is confirmation bias because the idea they just might get it is ludicrous to me. It would be as pointless as it is shameful.
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What do you mean by encode/decode? I would expect TLS is the bottleneck here.
The challenge is that there isn't a single car company making money on electric vehicles. Even Tesla selling their cars at around $100k is still seldom profitable (and when they are it's because of selling credits).

It's tough to say that EVs are the future when it isn't clear that anyone can make money selling them.
Yes, all DRM systems are inherently impossible to make fully secure with only local data.

However, several other options exist:

* Needing to contact an external server to view an image (of course, you could always take the opportunity to save the now-viewable image then share it)

* Charging a large fee / legal contracts for the information on how to decode (security through obscurity)

* Making circumvention illegal and enforcing this with fines or jail time. This is probably the only option that "actually works" as you've turned the technical problem into a social problem. People would still break it, but you could simply arrest them if they try to help others do the same.
If I turn off Ghostery, the link loads for me.

They are probably trying to dissuade ad blocking. It might work better for them if they told you what was happening (instead of just sending you to a blank page).
It's bizarre how you think people would stop making art if they didn't get paid for it.

It's the kind of warped perspective that comes from being happy with the scraps you get, I guess.
I've seen comments followed by inappropriate disclaimers a bit recently, so I'm going to go all old man here and let you know that a disclaimer is a statement denying something, not a statement of credentials.

I'm not sure what single catchy word you want here, but that's not it.
I know. Sometimes on my morning run I don't take the shortest route. I also don't drink the my coffee while on this run.
So are you suggesting that clothed women will be better for them than nude women because ...?

Or that they should not focus on women at all because the internet has everything?

(I am just asking for clarification, not disagreeing.)

Few people have bought Playboy for its pictorials for a couple decades, but that doesn't mean the pictorials didn't have meaning.

The nude women reinforced their brand and made them unique in the magazine world. Playboy was the unapologetic pro-sexual magazine, but with taste and restraint. Who else does that?
I remember that streaming from Youtube on your own website/app is not prohibited by Terms of Service as long as the website/app developer adds the youtube video as embed. If this app shows the embed video in bottom corner (I don't know if it does, it fails to run on my Mac), I don't see it breaking the ToS.
> The very premise of DRM rules out any 100%-solution and sets it as obfuscation.

> I feel it might be stupid idea but it is not impractical.

They are willing to fuck everything up to extract more royalties. Don't worry that you can't have a 100%-solution DRM now. When we get to the level of advanced optical implants or even brainchips, I'm willing to bet MAFIAA will be one of the biggest investors, in order to sneak in a DRM processor directly into your head and then force you to consume content only through legal and paid-for MAFIAA-certified brain chips.
Don't know why people would downvote this. The permission this site is asking is only email address associated with Github. As someone who is always logged in with Github, this saves me from creating another account associated with my email address.
I had to disable my uBlock Origin in order to see the page
why not just save activity info in localstorage?
Why Google Ventures Is Making Moonshots in Health
The topics under discussion back in 1787 were fairly foundational, but we have no shortage of hot topics which would surely end up 'needing' to be addressed in a convention.

It's amusing to think with congress as gridlocked as ever, the idea you could touch the constitution with a 10-ft. pole. And of course that's the point, it should take something fairly amazing and universal to get any kind of change through. Diversely conflicting viewpoints are good for some things.
Or, it just breaks in a way they didn't intend or know about. I've had both Ghostery and HTTPS Everywhere subtly break things, in cases where the author probably wouldn't bother to target those users. I guess we're kind of asking for it, running a client that doesn't comply with standards...
Agreed, upvoted.
>For Windows there seems to be a large selection of available ZeroConf libraries

Not the last time I looked. Apple's SDK seems to be the defacto implementation on Windows.

https://learn.adafruit.com/bonjour-zeroconf-networking-for-w... - hah, looks like you need to get iTunes if you want the newest Bonjour. I might write something to extract it from the installer. I wonder how many EULAs I'd break in the process.
Technical solutions rarely solve social problems
The DoubleEnder Prototype
> At least in video if the system remains uncracked, it's hard to make a copy. You can't just point a video camera at a screen and get good results.

It never was show-stoppingly hard. Push comes to shove, if MAFIAA invents something really good to stop you from copying a file, someone in Shenzhen will make a physical screen recorder that captures subpixels directly off your monitor and turns them back into data.
Ask HN: How do you answer the question “what salary do you expect?”
Currently in middle of job search, and was asked this twice today.

I've heard that whoever "blinks" first is worse off - employee goes first, employer defaults to bottom of range and employee has to fight to get back up. Employer goes first, employee negotiates for top of range.

For now I've deferred it, saying that I can't estimate that until I know more about the scope of the role and how well of a fit I see.

But curious what others say.
Thank you for the link. The original link isn't working for me.

Hmm, I wonder if this is connected to this in the NY Times- http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/uber-is-taking-millions-...
The richest 1% now own half of the whole world's wealth
The word "privacy" doesn't have to occur in the fourth amendment for its meaning to be clear about protecting privacy.
Also: https://developer.apple.com/softwarelicensing/agreements/pdf...
Some people (myself included) find it very invasive. Everyone has different personal "privacy settings."
The visualization reminds me of MUD maps, such as this one for Discworld MUD's Ankh-Morpork: http://daftjunk.com/dw/Ankh-Morpork.png . This type of thing could be an interesting avenue for semi-organic map generation. :P
> No need to maintain orbit. Can't hit anything, either.

If we can pivot this a bit: "The lunar gravity well collects any debris onto the surface of the stellar body. In the case of collision with another object, the debris does not simply spray into space."

(I'm not actually sure how true this is)
One that reflects what I bring to this company, what value the market places on my skills and what level the company is willing to reach to secure my services.
Is grant or award money taxed?

I've read stories about people in the US who win a not huge but not small lottery prize of say $1 million don't do so well.

By the time they pay all the taxes and get bumped up a tax bracket or two spend a few hundred thousand they probably owe even more.

In Canada lottery wins are not taxed but the interest is. But even so many "poor" people and that's a broad term end up blowing it all.

I've seen fishermen who made $30,000 a year go work in oil fields and seem to treat $100,000 like it's play money.
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>If I copy & paste the link to a new tab, then it worked for me.

It worked because you opened it the second time. First time you open it, it places a cookie on your machine so it doesn't show you a redirection second time you open a link on Forbes.

So the solution is to just open it in tabs twice... and close the first tab.
Alternatively, https://levels.io/reset-your-life/
What programs are out there like a MacArthur for coders? I know a bit about Google's Summer of Code, but it's not really the same...
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Great question. I spent a lot of my time at Optimizely running a/b tests on the homepage. The short answer is: you're seeing what performed best on the primary success metric: new leads. For enterprise B2B sales, new leads are the lifeblood of the sales team. Although things can always be improved, I would argue that the homepage provides just the right amount of information to spark your curiosity enough for you to hand your email address over to the sales team.
Just another example of how prohibiting human behaviour instead of regulating leads to over zealous police and undue burden on law abiding citizens.

They should take a page out of London's book and allow minicabs to operate.
There are actually seven rivers buried underneath the city of Detroit. There have been periodic efforts to get the city to surface some of them. The French settlers of the city envisioned it as a Venice of the Midwest.

https://vimeo.com/62514522
"Standards?" Only within the same operating system, and forget Windows. Actually most good things with networks evaporate when you consider the need to support Windows.
Okay, I don't want to sound like I'm making fun of you, but you're on a website run by a company that gives large amounts of free money away to coders to explore ideas...
Yeah, some amateur photograhers are silly like that (source: I know a few), they behave like little children - shoot some photos, put a big watermark on them to both show pride and make sure nobody "rips them off", and then get mightly annoyed anyway when somebody reposts their photo on Facebook without linking back, because they thought it was cool. Only few later realize that nobody really cares who made a photo (unless they're known to make more quality photos) - a work created has social value on its own, and holding it to yourself only because you're an author is actually little antisocial (also, if you don't fight, people tend to appreciate the work as a gift and will often happily attribute it to you themselves; but I digress).
Agree you got to look @ monthly.

Now if you show some growth and want to calculate the growth rate, CMGR (compound monthly growth rate) is your best friend!

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cagr.asp

Do this:
1) X = # of sessions in october 2014
2) Y = # of sessions in october 2015
3) CMGR (compound MONTHLY growth rate) = (Y / X) ^ (1/12)-1

Here's an example:
X = 100
Y = 200
CMGR = (200/100) ^ (1/12) - 1 = 5.9% monthly growth
Double check...100 * (1.059)^12 = 199...damn rounding :)

Hope that helps!
It reminds me of a technique for using recursive self-similar tiles to generate pseudorandomly distributed points: http://johanneskopf.de/publications/blue_noise/

The idea is that you can model an infinite set of points generated by an infinitely-deeply-nested tiling, and then efficiently sample from it at arbitrary levels of detail. This lets you do things like zoom in and out while retaining frame-to-frame coherence, and without having to explicitly store the entire point set. (It's worth watching the full 5-minute video, which explains it better than I can.)

The implementation in that paper used squares with labeled edges to tile the plane non-periodically. This seems like it could be used to do something similar, except with a periodic but irregular tiling. No idea if that would have any practical benefits, but it's interesting, at least.
I think this is very interesting, although I'm still trying to understand it. So excuse my ignorance, but how does this differ from open source projects such as Jupyter, Sage, and JuliaBox?
heh, until
That actually sounds perfectly realistic to me. Those are results you expect to have if you did your job right (knowing the girl was pregnant, not pissing off her father in the process).
Yes, that's always a factor. Larger IVBs will tend to err on the side of their reputation in the marketplace (which may also be a factor).

One could envisage a (horrible) situation where both parties engage an IVB (a practice common in some areas of engineering) and then they both jointly engage another body to effectively vet their processes and pass that joint 50/50 cost into their fees back to you.

Or the court appoints one and you agree to share the costs (probably wouldn't fly in the US).
Why is the regular news reading more and more like my Onion RSS feed? I have a feeling things were always this absurd, if not more so, but the idiocy gets amplified now by the channels being so connected.
And what are you basing this incredibly broad and unsupported statement on exactly? Optimizely is providing the companies that use it with value that exceeds the cost or they wouldn't continue using it.
Since the number presented was world wide, I expect just the US would be a smaller number, but it would certainly be interesting to offer young people an opportunity to participate in a service program which was not a military outfit. So you spend 2 years of service shoring up infrastructure or working to rebuild cities ravaged by flood or other disaster. In exchange you get basic clothes, room and board, and perhaps payback on any student loans you have outstanding.
I completely agree that the Japanese might not be the best model, but as usual, I feel the truth lies in a third path. Not quarterly, not 50 years, but maybe look for a path for the company to survive the next 10-20 years, and always be willing to change. "Plans are worthless, planning is priceless."
Personally I am jealous of my friends in Tokyo who can attend performances of relatively lesser known but musically interesting soundtracks such like Xenogears [1] or SaGa Frontier 2.

[1] Nov 29th in Tokyo http://melodiesofcrystal.blog.fc2.com/
You can build memory elements - inefficiently, but it's possible - out of recurrent logic. You can't build routing.

Actually, now I wonder whether it'd be possible to build memory out of ROM by looping outputs back to inputs...
It's not struggling to make sure you get paid that's the problem - it's people fighting to get paid more, and people who starts expecting to get paid for things they weren't being paid before. Both of those problems, reluctance to accept that not everything you do will bring in monetary compensation, are greed that drives invention of things like DRM.

The only worse thing is people who notice something is cool and decide to come in and monetize it.
It is a tricky question. Never quote a figure. Instead say " I am very confident that if I am the right person selected for this role, you'd make me a fair offer based on the market, my skillset etc." The reason being, if you quote a number, you are locked in and the employer has the upper hand. There is always room for negotiations although they will say they are only willing to pay X at this time. If they really want you, they will cough up the money and bring you on board.
Looks fantastic, thanks! FYI I shared this in Slack and the preview showed up like as "Learn How to Build Fast and Efficient Meteor Apps" - screenshot: http://url.brentvatne.ca/VYvi.png
Along with Hollywood film scores, AAA game soundtracks are seemingly the only place where modern classical music composition thrives.