skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The court cares of the defendant is an asshole. You will get a higher sentence for being remorseless.

I agree that two years is a really long time. But then, I think a single year in prison for dealing heroin on a corner is also a really long time, and the people who get imprisoned for doing that had far fewer options and opportunities than Keys did, so it's hard for me to imagine Keys being anyone's cause celebre.
No I blame it on "state capitalism" which is the dominant economic ideology today.
I hope more people will become aware of her book "Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster". A sad witness of a human tragedy.

http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Chernobyl-History-Nuclear-Disas...
From the announcement:

"Separately, Google and Microsoft have agreed to collaborate on certain patent matters and anticipate working together in other areas in the future to benefit our customers."

Last time I heard that was with Apple and was more like "I won't sue you for this and you won't sue me for that"
Which control panel do I need to open to get that "polished" feature you're mentioning, the Metro or the old one ?
In the early 90's I posted on some game developers forum that when consoles got more powerful processors it would be possible to write games in C instead of using assembly language. Everybody told me that I was an idiot.
In some of the photos the bokeh looks right weird. But for a version 1 of a product I think this is really cool.
Race can't be changed. Politics can. The comunist manifesto also nether calls for any kind of violence, violent people just chose to use it.
No, we dropped it because Nixon printed more dollars than he had gold and the system collapsed.
Just got a second rpi for that purpose only. That submission couldn't be more timely as I didn't see it after my day of Googling.
I haven't used 10 yet (or even 8). What UX trends are you referring to?
I can't see the point beyond simultaneous (rather than consecutive) bracketing. If all you want is quality - get a bigger lens and sensor.
7th generation LTO is coming
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You leave a job, you keep the keys to your office, your employer forgets to take them back, you then deliberately copy the keys and hand them out to vandals. What court in the world would put any of the responsibility for that on the company?

Trib didn't spend millions in cleanup, but if any breach investigation were done --- to rule out the attackers having done things to retain access after credentials were revoked, and to ensure Trib's clients that no PII was taken --- would easily run into the mid tens of thousands.
Those two are very large, general subs. You find sexism and racism in them as you would in any other semi-randomly sampled population extracted from the planet. You're actually angry that the subs are large enough to contain people whose opinions you don't agree with, which is exactly like the real world.
Too invasive. GraphQL actually needs to be implemented on the server, which is a no go for me. The client should not dictate what the server api should look like. I understand it works for Facebook and it's fine, however this thing is so hyped right now developers are jumping into this and promoting this without actually talking about the drawbacks of this tech. And POST requests everywhere? excuse me but it throws away any "natural" http caching.

To me it is another example of something that may benefit a project that has 500 million daily users , that is useless for 99% of projects out there, yet is advertised as a silver bullet that will make a poorly optimized app magically scale.
By "Serverless" we mean the developer does not have to think about servers. They exist, but Amazon manages them.

Instead, the developers deals only with Lambda, an event-driven compute resource. You upload your code and it runs when triggered, scaling horizontally and massively, out-of-the-box.

The workflow rocks because it's endpoint/function isolation, not just application isolation. Every piece of logic is in its own container. Best of all, you only get charged when that code is run (!!!).
>Why, why would these commercial roasters allow a "news organization" to analyze the air?

It is sort of bizarre. Maybe they were naive, or thought it would be harmless. Or, maybe they were genuinely curious above what could be a potential health issue and said, "have at it". The validity of the test aside, the issue will now get attention (probably too much attention).
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Porsche, Audi and Daimler are amongst the diesel engine manifacturers who are able to build proper engines for the right price and don't need to cheat. VW most important goal is to cut prices, not to build good engines.
Your general statements are correct but your example of Wiles is quite wrong. Wiles ideas and their developments in the general area of "modularity of Galois representations" (which this comment box is too small to explain) led to a huge explosion of results. Taylor's work on the Artin conjecture and the Sato-Tate conjecture, Khare-Winterberger proof of the Serre conjecture,...
Her writing is vivid and terrifying. Her _War Does Not Have a Woman's Face_ is at the top of my list of books to unread. It's a collection of accounts from female survivors of WW2 trenches. It is not pushing a feminist narrative in traditional sense (wasn't a thing in USSR) but is haunting in its honesty. Think _Saving Private Ryan_ without the humanistic takeaway.

She's a part of Belarusian late 20th century documentary realism tradition, where authors build around authentic, traumatic biographies of the war generation. In literature, Vasil Bykau, her contemporary, even better known domestically. In cinematography, Klimov's _Come and See_ perhaps the most known work.
Ask HN: Self-learning an entire computer science syllabus?
I currently work in software development but without a related degree (I studied biosciences), so I have some quite large gaps in my knowledge. It's patchy and while I have been working in the industry for quite some time, I've just been picking things up as I go along.

Therefore I'd like to teach myself an entire, modern CS syllabus, in my spare time on evenings and weekends, so that when I'm done I'll have the equivalent knowledge to someone who worked hard at a CS degree from a decent school.

Can anyone suggest any good, comprehensive resources that might help with this? I was thinking of diving into discrete mathematics and algorithms first of all.
How do you spend gold on gold? You can't spend money on gold when money = gold.
My initial search turned this up:

http://www.stratigery.com/nt.sekrits.html
Great to hear that. Still lots of people do not know us. So spread the word :)
Honestly, funding a research team to develop a science ranking engine that was both being continually developed to thwart gaming and effectively independent of university and science-funding politics would be a truly excellent use of YCombinator's money.
Well you're right, forced Stalinist style collectivization was a murderous failure. The poverty reduction was still made by a communist regime was the point I was trying to make. It's a poor example for what I'm trying to prove, Voluntary collectivization would be what I endorse. More like the kibbutzim of Israel.
Obviously I have no idea how they've implemented this camera but right off the top I can see several advantages to being able to have multiple sensors firing at one time. The first obvious advantage is HDR photography, where each sensor would use a different setting, then software would combine the images, using different settings for different lighting areas in the picture. Similarly, this same tactic could be used for different focal ranges and depths of field. Personally, I'm just happy to see that someone is trying to rethink what a camera is. Other than being digital, cameras haven't changed much in how they fundamentally work in many years.
I believe graphql can be added on top of your backend, even more - it can layer on top of multiple microservices backends to provide single api endpoint
The "UNIX shell" is a simple, clean solution to a text based interface. PowerShell is what a programmer thinks a shell should be like.

PowerShell really is (or should be) obvious to a programmer but the concept isn't as simple to explain to a sysadmin that doesn't know/understand OOP programming concepts.
I completely agree. In colloquial English, "An American" is someone from the United States.

I don't think I ever heard anyone from outside the US being referred to as "an American"
This is a really cool idea! I'd love to see more specs on the 16 individual cameras, but the theory seems solid. The only image I didn't like in the gallery was the macro shot of the chessboard. If you look at the pieces in the background, you can sort of make out different layers (which I presume come from the multiple lenses), and it looks a little unnatural. But for anything besides macro photography, this looks awesome!
Trying to regulate 5V across 14Ga wiring isn't anything anyone would do. If 48V became some sort of DC standard then devices would work off 48V. That might not make sense of course and how much sense it might make could depend on line voltage (120V vs 240V).

There is a cultural thing here too. If you live in a place where all heating is done with combustion then there is no particular reason so not do everything with low voltage DC. Now that lighting is LED based there wouldn't be anything that would need the higher voltage and power.
When spinning on an atomic operation, you should add some kind of yield operation. The "pause" instruction in x86 at least. On newer CPUs a "monitor" and "mwait" can work a little better (but may not be available in user space). Do not use thread_yield or other kernel calls, because at that point you're better off using a mutex.

When spinning on atomics, the interconnect between cores needs to do a lot of work synchronizing the memory. When adding a pause or monitor instruction, the core will give an opportunity for the other hyperthread in the same core to execute, reducing the amount of churn on the interconnect.

Counterintuitively, adding a "pause" in the spin loop will make the program faster by yielding the CPU core for a few nanoseconds.
You don't think simultaneous rather than consecutive bracketing matters? I guess it wouldn't, if subjects were all perfectly still and cooperative, but that's hardly what real life is like. Giving a greater effective depth of field for a single shot is pretty cool IMO. It would be even cooler if they'd address over/under exposure to do single-shot HDR at the same time, but maybe they're saving that for v2.
Microsoft's offerings still seem under-designed to me, on a second look. I still can't order Surface Pro (or Surface Book) with cellular modem; only Surface 3, an older and supposedly lower end device. I can't order Surface Book with 1TB drive, only a Surface Pro 4; despite the former being a more expensive and supposedly higher end device.

Why so? As far as I understand, Microsoft still goes with the templates their hardware OEMs already have: Surface is based on a tablet template, while Surface Pro and Surface Book are supposedly based on different laptop templates and the available options are thus defined by the OEMs. This also explains why the 'Pro' versions 1 and 2 had cameras inferior to the 'non-Pro' versions.

I wish Microsoft got their act together and gave more attention to design, while they are at it. If they are saying this is a tablet that can replace my computer, let it have what those tablets that can't have: cellular module. If it has a non-removable hard drive, let me have it in the greatest available capacity, sepecially while you already offer that on a lower-priced model.
Judges on a tier below a decision are bound by the higher court's ruling. This is mandatory precedent.

Judges on the same tier are not strictly bound, but in the interest of consistency (the law always seeks to be applied in the same way to the same situation), will look to the rulings of other courts on their level if no higher court has ruled. This is called persuasive precedent. The Supremes often take a case because the lower courts, (Circuit Courts of Appeals) have ruled differently on the same issue. This is called a circuit split.
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IMHO, it was not about fingers. Palm PDAs were vastly superiors to me in terms of UI because, unlike Windows CE, they did not try to mimic a desktop experience.
The problem is that the law is written for bank wire cyber criminals and this guy did the real life equivalent of opening up the fire escape to let in a raving homeless person.

Yes he should get punished. Fired, fined, maybe even a couple days or weeks in jail. But the justice system has not caught up to the internet.

We have have a thing called assault. A thing called battery. A couple things called murder. Morality is a grey scale.
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See my comment elsewhere in this thread. This does indeed happen in some trial designs.
> the attackers used it to modify stories

_A_ story. For 40 minutes. The prosecution couldn't even prove anyone saw the story in that time.
We considered libjpeg-turbo, but the performance of jpegtran there is much unchanged. If you look at the Huffman encoding function it is exactly the same. Applying the optimizations to libjpeg-turbo also yield a 2x performance improvement for our usage.
How is anarchism a "totalitarian" ideology?

I have been reading in the press about how the NSA, the CIA, the FBI etc. want an encryption backdoor in everything Americans use, so we can be spied on at will. I don't see why this isn't totalitarian and somehow anarchism is. Anarchism means no state, whereas totalitarianism means total state control, yet you're saying no state control means more state control. It makes no sense.
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> "As compared to Apples ecosystem, or Android, or?"

As compared to most/all open-source OSes (Android being only partially open source). This includes mobile OSes.

> " All of it is there to improve the experience for most users, and possible to turn the chatter of such that it shares next to nothing. What more could you ask for, in a system that aims to make is simple and feature rich for the average person?"

Did you not see the stories about Microsoft collecting data even after the settings to disable the features in question were used?
From the article, it sounds like the news organization offered to pay for an industrial hygienist, associated with the local university, to conduct the study. The human interest side of the story discusses how the founders of one Roaster were interested in the well being of Mexican coffee farmers, which could imply that they would be interested in the well being of their own employees as well. This is further confirmed by that Roaster working with National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to prevent the high exposure levels found in the news agency study. Also, there were some papers published implying that the levels would be high, so if the news agency did their homework they could be chasing down a likely lead instead of just randomly looking to cause trouble. It sounds a lot like asbestosis, which is a horrible way to go; raising the public and industrial knowledge about a preventable cause is doing humane good.
"The Microsoft consent decree was about restricting browser choice by shipping their own browser as default and claiming it was unremovable"

But it was technically unremovable, in those days you could open a windows explorer and type an URL and then you suddenly have internet explorer right into your window. It was an awful design flaw that costed them lagging apart after the post IE6 era.

The other thing is that wouldn't matter if Netscape were superior. Actually, it didn't matter because that was still the case and once better browsers came up (Firefox, Chrome), Internet Explorer turned in technical debt.

So still now the whole "the browser comes as default" sounds like a whining excuse to me.
The rpi sea is vast and moving. From a distance it's not easy to follow.
And then you get violations without the exclusionary remedy, which seems weird to everyone.
Laws such as the CFAA that impose draconian penalties for what amount to harmless (or nearly so) infractions with computers are just another symptom of the low prestige of technology professionals. Yes, I know the offender in this case is a non-technical journalist and not a technology professional, but he is mere collateral damage and doesn't represent the people the CFAA was meant to keep in line, namely us.

Contrast the legislative treatment we receive with that of doctors, who according to that same publication can apparently get away with literal murder and maiming for years before finally being punished:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/25...
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Absolutely. Try answering the question "what is pain" to see how complex this phenomenon is.
The worst thing is, that according to the report he's both claiming that giving a login to strangers to "fuck it up" is "an act of journalism" and simultaneously protesting that he's completely innocent and it must have been someone else using his login to pass another of his logins to hackers whilst masquerading as a person with a grudge against his ex-employer. It's basically the reductio ad absurdum version of all the more sensible arguments people have made about computer crime legislation not upholding free speech and giving insufficient attention to burden of proof.

I agree that this is the sort of low level vandalism whose sentencing time should be measured in days rather than years, but it doesn't really help the case of civil liberties when the usual supporters of the cause rush to make someone so undeserving a martyr.
The damage figures the prosecution is using aren't based on the story itself. Tribune cites a $17,000 cleanup cost, which is, for a breach, cheap.
Representative councils which ar democratically elected by ordinary citizens.
This article was actually my first time hearing about him.
Slavery was de-centralised evil on a massive scale. The genocide of the Native Americans was largely decentralised, as part of the "cost" of land acquisition. Global warming has de-centralised causes.

Relying on people (government or corporations) to do the right thing won't work. You need a system that cannot fail by design. Some checks and failsafes to guarantee the worst cannot happen at the government or individual level.

As an example you can look at studies tackling accounting fraud. Whether the accountant is managing thousands or billions of dollars doesn't change his/her odds of stealing from the company much. Adding a second accountant to sign off on large purchases and check each other does.
But my point was that there is an, admittedly polemic, abstraction that match all the human tradition: money is a token of debt.

In this view, one important consequence, is that the material of the token is not relevant. The use of precious metals is just an added security measure against counterfeit, but not the thing that make it valuable (that would be the debt that represent).

If this is true, part of the debate about strong money vs. fiat money just become pointless.
So why are you programming in microsoft culture?
I have seen stories, however, I haven't seen my own Win10 machines being chatty with MS outside of what I ask it to. With that in mind, I have no reason not to trust MS when they say they're not collecting data unless it's enabled.
" I still can't order Surface Pro (or Surface Book) with cellular modem; only Surface 3",

Can you order a Macbook Air with cellular modem? because that has always been the range they designed the SP for.
Can someone with more crypto experience than me explain what a "freestart collision" is?
Were they using the same placebo? Perhaps 20 years ago they used a inert placebo, like (a sugar pill) and now they use an active placebo that mimic the side effects of the drug (for example, heartburn and indigestion). Both are placebos, but may have changed the supposed inert drug.
I'm sorry but I feel like you have to do more than whack some icons on a bootstrap page for something like this. That level of simplicity requires exceptional presentation for it to be valuable.
I'm not an expert but here's my interpretation.

It doesn't seem so. They still require that the SHA-1 is given different initialization vectors (if you look closely you'll notice IV1 and IV2 are different) so I'm thinking this is what freestart means. Git objects tend to have a stricter format so injecting an initial state may be a bit further out of reach.

What it does mean is that the triviality of a full collision is greatly increased. I'd not trust arbitrary git DAGs anyway... I'd double check but I bet you could forge a pack with some objects that are given invalid content addresses. An integrity check would pick it up but I would also expect most git code to not check that on every operation.
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I understand this concern. This is where JAWS comes in. The best way to do Lambda development, is to make AWS Lambda a thin wrapper around your own separate code, to keep that code re-usable, testable and AWS independent.

JAWS generates scaffolding to encourage this for you. As a result, your code ends up looking just like a traditional application framework's code.

I just did a talk on JAWS @ Re:Invent to over 600 people. The line was out the door. Honestly, I didn't hear "I'm only going to use this for a hackathon project" once, except for now. Instead, all I heard was, "OMG we don't have to deal with servers!!! We will use this for everything!!!". And there were huge enterprise companies there.

I'm a Docker lover, but Lambda has a huge head start in many areas. Super fast spin-up times, orchestration handled for you, the ability to containerize functions/endpoints not just applications, and pay per use pricing. All of this comes with Lambda out-of-the-box.
We had a long discussion (106 comments) about it last week at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10321206 .
Sad stories, many thanks for sharing them, it can't be easy. I hope you have found solace and meaning somehow, somewhere.
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Out of curiosity, is it fair to assume you use hardware and software by a source you consider more ethical then? (your classification above rules out Apple and Google as well since they've both done less-than-stellar things )
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Who said anything about protecting? It is simply a statement about how men feel when other men are interested in their daughters.
Indeed. Even at the time it seemed like the silliest possible thing you could get upset about. I remember not being able to parse why anybody thought it was bad.

They had the unmitigated gaul to include software with their operating system. Kinda like wordpad, file manager, hearts, calculator and dozens of other things that you'd expect to find on a computer. All those things had (and still have) alternatives that you can replace them with that may or may not cost money and may or may not be better. But somehow having a web browser installed by default was so obviously different as to be completely inexcusable even 20 years later.

As a customer, having a web browser installed on your new computer by default is a Good Thing. Removing it from the install could only possibly make things worse for end users.

It made no sense then, and even less sense now.
Be warned, none of her books are light reads. I put a summary in the other thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10352263
That's fair, I am also like that. However, what you describe is the common practice of pretty much every north-american corporation. My motto is to be with an eye open not matter who is the actor
Is there a 2nd amendment flowchart? I feel like we'll be needing one soon.