skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of school...SCOTUS already made it perfectly clear that the only important aspect of the 2nd Amendment's wording is the second part. In their language from DC v Heller:

"The Amendment’s prefatory clause announces a purpose, but does not limit or expand the scope of the second part, the operative clause. The operative clause’s text and history demonstrate that it connotes an individual right to keep and bear arms."

They already admit that the right isn't unlimited:

" Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those “in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons."
I don't really follow how having money in stocks, bonds and a house is somehow capable of being wiped away by the market when a savings account in a bank wouldn't be in dire straits with such an economic upheaval to render those 3 investments useless
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Yeah; I remember that one too. The Smisek one was just more recent, and Smisek was also a much more visible CEO than Nacchio given United's place in the airline industry. From what I can tell, the Smisek issue may have genuinely involved some wrongdoing, but Smisek may only be involved because the ultimate target is Chris Christie. But he was a titan of his industry, and when he left there was no retirement party or farewell video: just a new guy sitting in his chair and a short press release explaining that a change had been made. Nobody is immune.

But yeah, that's the jist of it. Refusing to comply with an NSA order will likely just end you up in jail on something else because the government has the power to lock you up. So we can't hold the companies who complied with them entirely responsible, as those companies are made up of individuals who have families to think of.
I am really confused on what excatly it does. Does it generate ways to solve a problem?

I would personally would like to know how many other people have searched what I was looking for. Say I was allergic to peanuts and looking for alternative and I find out there are so many other guys are searching for the same thing....then I know its a common problem.
> I'll just search for it and get it directly from their website.

Ah, but not all businesses have a website though. Of those that do, not all have a website that is ranked on the first page of a Google result.

Ahead of the real thing are spam pages with junk info, many of which are deliberately designed to look as if they might be the official website.
There was no potential for a 25 year sentence in this case. The statute caps any possible CFAA sentence, but that cap captures a wealth of factors not at play in this case: no intent to make money or commercialize the attack, no priors, &c.

The 25 year maximum describes a case where someone caused damage to critical infrastructure, helped stole a zillion credit cards, and potentially caused loss of life, but due to the idiosyncracies of the case, was only able to be charged under CFAA and wire fraud law. That's not this case.

Ken White has pointed out the discrepancy between DOJ press releases and actual sentencing procedures at length. See [popehat whale sushi]. White is, again, a former white-collar crime prosecutor, and is himself no friend of the DOJ.

On the very, very remote chance that the person who signed up as "matthewkeys" on HN is actually "matthewkeys", and acknowledging that I am not a lawyer: it is probably a fantastically bad idea to be commenting on this case on HN prior to sentencing.
Does savings include 401k? If not then I would fall under the less than $1,000 only because I made a large purchase a few weeks ago.

If I had over 10k in savings I would try to invest at least some of it in something that would give a marginal return in a few years. It would be better than just letting it sit in a savings account.
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PPAPI is Chromium-specific and unspecified. It is the result of Google going their own way with the creation of a new API after rejecting the proposals made by the other browser vendors on the plugin-futures mailing list [1].

[1]: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/plugin-futures/2010-April...
These days I use Google Maps scoped to my neighbourhood and do a search that way. Trying to do the same with web search is an exercise in frustration.

The one nice thing about the yellow pages is that it does provide a results filter, in that you're going to find local businesses willing to pay money to show up in a book.

Having a filter for "serious, local-only businesses" is a useful thing to have. IMO online yellow pages doesn't have that. Yelp and the like are sort of close but their UI and search-locality aren't as tight as they should be to serve this purpose.
Author of the project. Yes this happened, not with birds but with dead mice... And I did not realise it until like a week or so, not a pleasant cleaning operation.
We've moved away from Storyboards, mostly for author reasoning alone. Usually only have 2-3 people on a project at once, but merge collisions on Storyboards are a mess. Really could use some improvement by Apple. Never mind that working on complex storyboards is a mess, especially if you need to work on a laptop screen for some reason.

A project with many single XIBs isn't the best, but I helps with conflicts, and probably better than writing all UI in code. The biggest issue with coding out UI is that our designer is always going to have trouble with that complexity, and we need him to jump in and make changes.
I keep reading all these scary stories about how unwelcoming people from Seattle is; I moved here back in February and my experience until now have been completely the opposite: almost every Seattleite I meet is super friendly and talkative, at the point that it feels almost like being in a small town.

Maybe I am just lucky? but I think Seattle is one of the coolest cities in the US, except of course for the traffic.
As a tech recruiter this does not surprise me. I have met exactly 1 CS PhD in the last 9 months that was a US born Citizen.
Netflix will use EME video in 64-bit Firefox. Mozilla is working with Adobe and Netflix now. EME for 32-bit Firefox is available in Firefox's pre-release channels. 64-bit should be available in the next couple days.
True, I had not thought of that. Any shortcomings?
It's probably worth pointing out to him that there are other benefits such as not having to worry about losing the money or having it stolen from you. I agree with your assertion though, it wasn't that long ago that my savings account was netting me $7/day and thus covering all my commuting expenses for the month.
> But that's what I mean, fair enough if the screen was too small and kickstand fiddley on the SP2, but the SP3 fixed that completely. But then the goalposts shifted...

I see it the other way. The SP2 was too small to use as a laptop so the lack of a proper hinge and keyboard was secondary. SP3 was big enough to use as a proper laptop, so the lack of a proper hinge and keyboard became more glaring.

In any case, the whole narrative is a bit revisionist. Here's me complaining about the Surface 1's lack of "lapability" almost three years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4869442. It was a common complaint at the time.
AWS and Azure.....I would go with Azure!
How predictable. Personally I am hesitant to buy anything ever from them.
I don't think that's the case here at all. You're talking about people that are both savvy enough to have a savings account and familiar enough with investments to know that a savings account is bad compared to other investments. On top of also knowing another place to put their money (many people completely fear the stock market and all index products). The average American is just not sophisticated at all here. We're talking about a nation that isn't familiar with balancing a checking book (thanks to debit cards everywhere).

Many people that can invest elsewhere simply don't. Because they do not know about investing. They may be lawyers or doctors. But their money just accumulates.
Cruz has been pretty easy meat for some of the sharper anti-Right political journalists - the parody writes itself. So I have to wonder how effective any analytics are.

From experience, it's easy to delude yourself into thinking you can do linguistic analysis without being an actual linguist.
> Or turn my stove on.

Can we step out of the technology bubble for a minute and agree that not everything needs to be connected and controllable?
That would be a novel defense of littering... Free speech should not mean you can throw 1000 pages of ads on my stoop.
>If you look across the average of the market, real estate is crazy when compared to wages.

Is it? I've been looking at places that aren't the coast recently and was shocked to find how much house you can still get for $300K in most places.

What do middle-class people do with the rest of their money when they can buy a house with $300K?
Well, it's also a lot easier to validate their choices - you and anyone else who are fluent in English, Russian or a number of other languages can go pick up a copy of Voices from Chernobyl, say, and give it a try. (It's amazing.) You will have a harder time validating the chemists' work.
It's at the bottom of the front page.
> Alleged criminals.

Not even alleged criminals; the right to self-defense usually requires that the threat comes from someone without a legal privilege for the act, but the requirements for actual criminality (particular mens rea) are not necessarily required to trigger the right to use force in self-defense, even lethal force.

And this makes sense: the right to self-defense is not about the criminal culpability of the one against whom violence is permitted, its about a limit on the criminal culpability of the user of violence.

Now, one can argue that in some jurisdictions the details of the rules on self-defense are drawn overly broadly, or that they are applied selectively and in a discriminatory manner. But I don't think the general principal that people will not be held criminally accountable for use of force reasonably scaled to deal with an imminent threat which had no legal privilege to be made, independently of whether the one making the threat met the legal standards for criminal culpability in so doing, should be even slightly controversial.
wow. I used it last month. Don't want to imagine how it was.
Upvoted this. Vast majority of people on "the street" are not your typical software devs/engineers who continuously use their brains to get ahead and have an analytical perspective on things.
The hackers are the ones actually responsible for the damage that occurred, as evidenced by the fact that they did not do as much as he asked of them.

You leave your bike propped up against a wall, unlocked. Someone starts shouting "Hey, steal this bike! Steal it!" When you return, your front wheel is gone. Someone tells you about the shouting guy. So you sue him for the loss of your front wheel. You are able to get a recording of that guy complaining that only the front wheel got stolen. It doesn't matter. He didn't steal your wheel. He could have wanted someone to steal your whole bike and your wallet, but the fact remains that he didn't do it.

Now suppose that you did lock up your bike. But you used a TSA-approved luggage lock. Now the guy passes out copies of the TSA master key along with the shouting. But anybody could have had that key already. He still didn't steal your wheel.

Now instead of a known-insecure lock, you use a good lock, but you had at some point given the shouting guy a key to it. After you two have a falling-out, you keep using the same lock. While on the surface it looks different, this is the same situation as the TSA lock, because your lock is not truly secure if its keys are not controlled by you, and you alone. He still didn't steal your wheel. At worst, you can recover from him the cost of replacing your u-lock, as he made it unfit for its intended purpose.

Wishing misfortune on others is not a crime. It isn't very nice, but it is not criminal, and does not create civil liability. I can say as often as I like that I would be happier if Bank of America's corporate headquarters were destroyed by a lucky meteorite strike. If an arsonist tries to burn it down instead, I am in no way responsible. I didn't give that guy any tangible benefit for doing the crime. I could not have harmed him in any way if he did not do it. The person was not acting as my proxy. If the arsonist cannot be identified, I am not an acceptable scapegoat simply because I wished harm upon the victim. I have malicious intent, it is certain. But I have not performed the malicious act.

(I won't be able to respond further, because "HN: You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." It looks like tptacek can post about 10 times more often than I can, so I can't meaningfully participate in a discussion with that account.)
What? Let's assume he's intelligent and has good diversification (eg. he mentioned bonds, stocks, home, and cash -- probably in a investment account). If all his financial positions got "wiped out" in a broad-sweeping financial collapse, then "cash in savings" would be equally worthless.

In the meantime, he has a home to live in. Plus, most investment accounts give you easy access for withdrawals (eg. debit cards) or the ability to borrow while transfers or sales settle. I fail to see how it's precarious.
I think you're implicitly doing an asset allocation for the poster.

> Cash on hand or it's invested in stocks, bonds and my home.

That could be $100k on hand in checking, $600k in stocks/bonds, and $200k in home equity, with $0 in a savings account. Asset allocations that don't use savings accounts are not necessarily 'precarious'.

Also, it's worth noting that most financial advisors do not recommend that you keep a significant portion of your assets in savings accounts. Primary reason is that by not being in assets that deliver returns, you are losing money to inflation, even at these low levels of inflation. (Also, you have to save a ton more if you don't let your money multiply.)
A big chunk of people just don't have any money held in reserve:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10354263
>I wish there were products like Pixelmator and Sketch for PC.

Sketch hasn't really been replicated on PC yet exactly but I think web tools are now getting there. Webflow, Pinegrow and this new webbased one called "UX App" come to mind.

For photo manipulation, getting something like pixelmator is pretty simple on PC I think. I mean you have the corel software, serif software, xara software plus now Krita is a pretty good and fun painting program. You also have manga studio (aka Clip studio paint) and a bunch of other little ones. PD Howler, formerly known as Project Dogwaffle. I think even adobe released another recent photoshop elements too, which I would think could take care of a huge number of things that pixelmator does.
How do you recognize data ? Is it an OCR or a human-in-a-box ?
That is a much better line of questioning since it avoids the arguments about what is meant by savings. Also clicking through I found it avoids the followup argument of "what about credit cards"? To quote the whole thing: "47: The percentage of Americans who can’t pay for an unexpected $400 expense through savings or credit cards, without selling something or borrowing money, according to the Federal Reserve."

But there's still a problem in that the $400 is "pay immediately". The other study from the same article showed 50% of Americans could cope with a surprise $2000 bill that they had 30 days to pay, in 2009.
Of course. Fall guy 101. Not some tinfoilness, but expedient politics of surviving corporate death pits.

The sort of shops where most every discussion is double top-secret: happens in-person, quietly, behind closed doors and the email trail is kept to strictly vague coordination details, at most, since it's subject to discovery. Oh and information is hoarded, because details create weaknesses.
They just announced a cron-like scheduler for Lambda, so that may make for a decent alternative.
You are saying that welfare systems successfully alleviate poverty, to insinuate that welfare systems not needed to alleviate poverty?
My Internet bank doesn't even offer savings accounts -- all accounts are checking.
The vast majority of the population is not saying "I have nothing in savings" because all their money is tied up in yachts and Manhattan real estate; it's because they have no money.
I think of savings as nothing but a safety net. Obviously you get past your immediate savings needs (say 3 months of expenses) and then start putting your money where it gets the best return.
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Not really, if you look at the statistics of people who have had difficult births they're not much more likely to grow up to be disabled. Especially if you exclude certain categories.
What I really like, and possible the West, is that in the East we can see ruins of a world where 'poetry' and utopy had a possibility of exist outside books. In the western/democratic world everything must be economically rational (give profit) to exist.
Those accounts that you mention are not liquid - if something happens and you need money tomorrow yo don't have immediate access to those funds. Also, sot retirement accounts levy fees if you pull funds out before you are 60.
> I really expected VW to do better in handling this.

Ignore whatever comes out of the VW USA guy. The investigations in Germany will most likely be more fruitful especially because police is involved.
Swimming pools are much more dangerous (100 times more deadly) than guns when it comes to accidental deaths; should swimming pools not be banned before guns?[1]

[1] http://freakonomics.com/books/freakonomics/chapter-excerpts/...
When you have 0 interest rate people will park/invest their money _anywhere_ but saving account.

checking accounts, investing, real estates etc, check all of those big-data then you can get the real picture.
writing out constraints can be quite verbose in code

Out of the box, yes but Masonry/SnapKit[1] make this almost a pleasure.

[1] https://github.com/SnapKit
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I'm sorry you don't follow, but it should be fairly obvious that stocks can crash, bond markets can collapse, and home prices can plummet, whereas money in FDIC insured savings accounts would only be lost in the event of a catastrophic, country-jeopardizing event, in which case we'll all have bigger problems.

I'm not meaning to attack anyone personally, I just think this survey is trying to suss out what percentage of Americans are in a position such that an economic downturn would hurt them severely.

I also don't know much at all about finances, so take what I'm saying with a jar of salt.
It's common I'd say. And I live in a small village with lots of room.

Here are some real images (including hard cases): https://github.com/JoakimSoderberg/catcierge-examples/tree/m...

I got lots more, just haven't uploaded them
I remember how I was surprised to find that you can implement compare-and-swap purely in software (with some caveats :) but still, IMO, preserving the idea). See, e.g. Peterson's algorithm. It does have a lock, but only for finite (and brief, if you will) moment, and, wrapped as procedure, is externally lock-free.

You still rely on ability to locally order operations in time (i.e., you have to be sure that you - the CPU - reads from that memory cell strictly after it completed writing into this one) - so there are restrictions for modern CPUs. You might have issues if you want to synchronize many threads/processes - as the locking delay may become too long. But still.
Exactly. I don't buy this one bit. If those engineers feared for their jobs because the cars wouldn't pass, I bet those engineers could have left VW and found better jobs. Nobody needs that kind of stress.

I think it is cowardice to blame them.
These are worrying times for VW if the new CEO to say something like this. Many VW engineers will be considering leaving if VW is going find a couple of engineers as scapegoats, and not be back them up.
It must be fascinating and challenging to work on the Netflix CORE team.

37% of evening web traffic under your control. Wow.
Now look into the availability of jobs in those places, and into what those jobs pay.
I think there's a bright future for smart cooking appliances. Cinder (https://cindercooks.com/) has made its way around HN a few times, and I'm pretty excited about it.

It's not even that it needs to be controllable from my smartphone, but I think it'd be cool to put some cookie dough into the oven, tell the oven "cook these so that they are just slightly crisp on the outside but gooey on the inside", and the oven would have sensors and the temperature control mechanisms to do this, then notify me when it's time to take my cookies out.

It makes sense for such a device to be able to download updates (new functionality, recipes, retuning algorithms, etc) from the internet.
You're right that subsidy tends to increase prices, but the rate by which that happens isn't fixed the way you describe. Vouchers result in an average increase in buying power. Over the whole population of renters (those eligible and those ineligible), this would be a marginal increase. And yes, it's likely rents would achieve a new equilibrium consistent with that aggregate increase in buying power.

But, on the other hand, the voucher programs would increase the buying power of the absolute neediest people at a greater marginal rate than for the population as a whole. The end result is that poor people's ability to participate in the housing market still improves, in that their ability to meet rent becomes more commensurate with people more affluent than them.
>We gun owners would also fight it very hard, since we'd see it as a prelude to rolling this out for us.

Arguments for the legitimacy of gun ownership tend to focus on deterrence and self-defense. This makes no difference at all in the deterrence scenario, and legitimate self-defense has no reason to be secret or anonymous.

When the gun community argues for a Constitutional right to commit murder and get away with it, then maybe we can finally stop taking it seriously.
You're the second person to say this, but how would "cash in savings" be equally worthless? Maybe I'm not understanding, but it's pretty difficult to actually lose money in a savings account, that's the whole point.
too many Amazon cloud news.
It's important to highlight open source alternatives to AWS products. If you are looking at AWS IoT and wishing you could run it on your own servers, the Couchbase Mobile stack is open source and used for mission critical deployments by customers like General Electric, for IoT applications: http://www.slideshare.net/Couchbase/offline-first-how-ge-int...

More info: http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile

There is a lot going on in this space and we are a general purpose database. If you're looking for native open source implementations that give you access to the whole stack, and interop with other tech like PouchDB and IBM Cloudant...