skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a libertarian, so I'm already sold on legalization. Count me in.

As such, hopefully I can quibble with the text a bit.

"Ceasing this hypocritical practice by releasing nonviolent offenders is morally urgent."

Yeah, not so much. Yes, there is a severe moral problem here, but please do not make moral arguments! It's folks with moral arguments riding around on high horses that got us into this mess. Instead, argue from the standpoint of practicality (which she does).

One of the practicality arguments she does not make, which deserves mentioning, is that because the drug war is unwinnable, there are too many laws. This makes folks with the power of selective enforcement lords over the rest of us.

Have a traffic stop? Cops ask to search your car? You have a right to say "no". But if you do, be prepared to wait around until the drug dog shows up. He'll sniff around your car and "alert" the cops, even if there's no drugs present. Then, guess what? They get to tear apart your car while you watch. All because of the war on drugs.

Let's say you are a drug user. You have a joint in the ashtray. In this case, it gets even better. Then -- if I'm not mistaken -- they get to take your car! A few dollars worth of illegal pot, which might not even be yours, and you could lose tens of thousands of dollars worth of car.

It's not that this is morally outrageous. It certainly is. It's that a system of justice cannot maintain the consent of the governed when it turns LE officers into something approaching highway bandits. Selective enforcement of drug laws -- both by cops and prosecutors -- distorts the legal system so much as to make it unworkable. Sure, it's bad, but the bigger point is that it cannot continue working in this fashion. Something's gotta give.

I liked the article. It's good to see public discourse slowly become much more reasonable about drug addiction and its consequences. One caution, though: in my opinion what we need to do is still stay tough on violent, hardened criminals while being more pragmatic about drug crimes. Otherwise we'll end up being slandered as soft-headed and irrational.
You mean suicide brakes? count me out!
Awesome, waiting for the Github repo!
How do you think the system deals with your eyes moving around? So if you move your head left and swivel your eyes right and focus in close... I don't think I'm understanding how all that works together? They are detecting all movements - head, eyes, lens focus?
Oh yes I know about the "haz PDF" option, I was talking about the "legitimate" one (best case scenario under the UCC copyright is life + 25, we lost Peter Landin in 2009, so there's absolutely no chance this stuff is in the public domain)
So more like a token?
"They also found that the disk had been used at the Christ Lutheran Church and the Park City library."

“It’s pretty basic stuff,” Landwehr says about the reconstruction of the deleted information. “Anybody who knows anything about computers could figure it out.”

So how did the disk save the church info??
It hasn't (although some alternative VMs didn't implement it) but Java applets basically died and now I think people don't really benefit from the bytecode verifier, except arguably in debugging their JVM-targeted compilers. (I say "arguably" because generating valid JVM bytecode sometimes requires bending over backwards a bit, so your compiler would probably be simpler if it didn't have to deal with the verifier.)

Many holes have been found in the verifier over the years. More probably remain, although at this point JIT compiler bugs may be a more significant attack surface.
Why are people pushing DNSSEC adoption when it uses such obsolete crypto? What happens when 80% of the web adopts it, and then we find out 5 years later that all of DNSSEC keys can be cracked?

Upgrade the protocol first, then come back telling us how great DNSSEC is.
Scientists still love giving up their rights to Elsevier though. They're as much to blame as the publisher.

Maybe something would start to happen if scientists preferentially avoided citing non-openly published papers. They won't though, because their work is too competitive, but it might help to put a damper on it.
I'd argue that, especially given the social history of how the prohibitions came to be, that it's the other way round: condemning 'vice' starts out as a pretext for social exclusion and blaming the poor for their condition. We don't want to help so we set up a situation where we don't have to.

Nobody suggests testing the financial services industry for performance-enhancing drugs, for example.
NumPy is a protocol that dictates the layout of multidimensional arrays with really fast Fortran code that knows that layout. What needs to be copied is that memory layout protocol so that we get n:m sharing instead of n^2 duplication.
It's still an issue.
Any.do helps you and reminds you your daily and future task. Also "Discipline" should always be imposed.
Agree completely with the idea of your comment, but I have to nitpick on one thing:

> So did the Pope when he sentenced Galileo to life in prison for promoting heliocentrism.

As far as we can tell, Galileo was persecuted by the Pope not because of science, but because Galileo was basically an asshole, who abused his friendship with the Pope and then kept venting out against him. The issue was strictly political. See [0] and especially the top comment[1] under the article.

Also, apparently, Galileo was right for the wrong reasons - he lucked into the right theory even though evidence available at the time didn't substantiate his views.

[0] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/lq6/the_galileo_affair_who_was_on_th...

[1] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/lq6/the_galileo_affair_who_was_on_th...
Can anyone comment on the legality of this?
Riding aggressively doesn't mean jumping red lights and playing chicken with pedestrians
React Native fork for writing OS X applications, based on Cocoa
I'll happily agree to sign away my first-born. First because you can't sign away what you don't have, and second because such a clause would be void where I live (Germany). Yay customer protection laws!
Command-line tool to deploy your static webapps via Dropbox
Prices for anything don't have to be justified. The market decides them. It turns out that people really want to pay those publishers, so they can charge high fees.

It also turns out scientists really want to publish their work in those closed-access journals. Whatever attracts them to do that is what justifies the high prices. What attracts them? Universities use them as a proxy to judge job applicants. Blame universities for using such an expensive "interview" process that permanently shafts much of the worlds scientific knowledge as a side effect.
EMC and VMware Spin Out Virtustream as Jointly Owned Company
Yeah it's this one: https://github.com/cynddl/sublime-text-merlin (The one on Sublime Package Control is the same, but seems to be out of date and doesn't work).
Hackers Can Use Radio Waves to Hijack Androids and iPhones via Siri and Google
Great Infographic: How B2B SaaS Companies Are Investing in Mobile
Are you not yet invested in ‪#‎Mobile‬?!? No. Way. ‪#‎SaaS‬

http://saasaddict.walkme.com/great-infographic-how-b2b-saas-companies-are-investing-in-mobile/
While everything you say is true (as far as I know) it's still the case that being an asshole and complaining about your friends is not an adequate justification for life imprisonment. In fact, even the Church at the time knew that, which is why they used heliocentrism as an excuse, which has to be one of the worst institutional decisions ever.
Have you tried Codeanywhere.com?
Damn that name! Now I have to rename my software for automatically translating GitHub pull requests into Bugzilla bugs ;)
Requests are made server side, which make this unusable for local/dev environnement purpose. Too bad !
The dark side of conferences
>Humans should not speak with such zombified voice.

Why. Not. Let. The. Telemarketer. Have. Some. Fun. At. Their. Crappy. Job.
Somehow this reminds me of the "webring" era of the internet, before search engines and social networking the best way to find more websites was to start from one you knew and look at the "ring" it belonged to.
Ranger service still exists but not in all locations.
Before we really understood x-rays and before ultrasound, x-ray was used to scan pregnant women. Not surprisingly, this resulted in many tragic birth defects and miscarriages, before researchers and doctors figured out what was going on.

Of course, it is a question of dose, but if a pregnant woman is the person of interest/around the POI and subjected to this multiple times, have they even considered that the dosage level could become harmful for the fetus?
Relevant prior art: http://ni9e.com/tsa-communication.php
Man Behind the ‘Back to the Future’ Countdown Page Talks About the Big Day
Hubot script that displays christmas cheer for all the hear
Solu OS is a forked AOSP underneath with a completely reworked UI. But we also have pretty significant changes at layers of the OS to support some of our unique UX practices and deep cloud integration.
As for the cloud concern - you own your data and being a Finnish company we take this seriously. The device itself has a local storage (32Gb in the early prototype, would be increased going forward) but it is being transparently integrated with the cloud storage so that you never run out of space thus we call it "cache". Solu also would allow you to back your data up to the other cloud storage providers (i.e. dropbox, google, amazon, or even your own internet-connected NAS device) as an option.
Rocket Internet: Waiting for lift-off
You can do one without the other.

As I said, the data is clear. The best way to get squished by a lorry (the most common KSI for cyclists in city environments) is by following the rules.
Last time I looked, the stock Festival voices were intentionally not production quality - they were demonstrations of how well the Festvox automated voice building scripts worked without manual tweaking. They're basically academic research that the researchers let everyone use. If you want high-quality voices you'll have to pay for them, because so far no-one that's put in the work is willing to give it away for free.
Do You See #ALDUB a Lot on Twitter Lately? We Have the Answer
Relevant:

Aaron Swartz - Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

> https://ia700808.us.archive.org/17/items/GuerillaOpenAccessM...

> https://archive.org/details/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto
I concur. I owe my whole career to piracy[0]. Now that I earn money I am happy to buy stuff I need and give back to society, creators, etc. But to a teenager from a middle-class family of a developing country, piracy was strictly about access to otherwise unavailable educational material.

It's an open secret that Adobe and Microsoft had a model of non-enforcing piracy for private use, and I think it's pretty good. It's totally fair to charge business licenses, but in the area of education and science, limiting access is holding back the progress of the entire human race.

Greed is trying to capture all the value you create. Don't do it. Let others have some, and then they'll happily let you have some of theirs.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10397694
One problem with that is that, as I understand it (I'm not an academic), not citing a relevant paper makes you look ignorant and can lead to accusations of plagiarism or attempts to steal credit; more subtly, it can lead to the reviewer whose paper you didn't cite recommending that your paper not be published. So it's not about being competitive, exactly; it's more about being cooperative. If you don't cooperate, other researchers won't cooperate with you, and your career will founder.

For the most part, I don't think scientists care about the issue, except for being a bit annoyed with Elsevier. Most people don't care about most things that don't affect them directly. Scientists are people too. So rather than invest effort in activism, they mostly focus on their jobs and their families and stuff.
I don't know technically what the etiquette should be for something like this, but I would call this plagiarism.

They copied the original verbatim, then they put a new date on it, and surrounded it with a bunch of ads.
Scalability Design Principles
My product has an EULA less than 200 words so I feel I'm not being too awful. About half of it is just there because of the requirements of the licences of all the libraries it uses. No reverse engineering - really? I don't care but Intel does and I'm using their library. Can't freely distribute? I don't care but the LGPL and MIT licences do so I have to put it in my EULA.
(6) Support encodings other than utf-8.
It's pretty easy to write a recursive diff function that compares JSON strings, in order to avoid the JSON -> diff by line hack that you're doing. But it's a clever hack that easily translates to the command-line.
Whatsapp's lawyers will complain. https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI

Best to use a different protocol and avoid whatsapp.
Alright, I just tried that, and I do get the "Device will remain locked until you manually unlock it" but the fingerprint scanner still works fine. The only time I've seen it forcing me to use the pin was when it couldn't scan my finger 3 times in the row(which doesn't really happen, the sensor in that thing is really accurate(or really forgiving)).
I'd imagine it'd be the same reasons as to why a TV or projected screen looks great in real life but terrible when it's through a camera.
The Art of Failing a Phone Screen
> which has to be one of the worst institutional decisions ever

That is very, very true. That PR fuckup carried on to this day and age. Three and a half centuries later, people still blame them for that.
This is great advice. I have also done some work on building a good user interface using the Pi, and was surprised by how difficult it was. There's no good Android build available for the Pi, for example – would be ideal for many of the kind of UIs you would want to implement.

In the end I have been using a Go web server with websockets to display a single-page app in Firefox running under X. It's still not totally satisfactory though – UI is slow due to the lack of HW acceleration, and there is no nice solution for on-screen keyboards, so I'll probably have to implement one in JS eventually. Touch screen support is sketchy at best.

Are there other similar platforms out there that might offer HW acceleration or working Android implementations? I also had a crack at the Orange Pi which claims to have functioning Android, but… let's say that's an overstatement.
You and Sam pretty much shredded 'a friend' in words... harsh but accurate. 'Friend' has to reflect on this now.
Fed govt helps its STEM workers with student loans – up to $10k per yr
Illegal stop signs abound in the US. Stop signs should only be placed if they meet a Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) warrant. One or more of the following conditions must exist: (1) intersection of a less important road with a main road where application of the regular right-of-way rule is hazardous; (2) street entering a through highway or street; (3)
unsignalized intersection in a signalized area; or (4)
other intersections where a combination of high speed (directly related to sight distance), restricted view and serious accident record indicates a need for control by the stop sign.

Here in Massachusetts, it used to be the case that stop signs had to be individually approved by the state. At some point, the towns were allowed to make the determination—and they frequently put them up as illegal traffic calming devices because that is what's the locals want (and most our towns have direct democracy).
The Model S infinite mile warranty is only for the drivetrain and battery. All the other parts that people have been having problems with - the doors and door handles, the sunroof, etc - have a 4-year, 50000 mile warranty. (That may seem backwards, but yes, the door handle warranty really is limited-mileage whilst the drivetrain one is unlimited.)
What's even better: EULAs in Germany are mostly useless because they can't contain any clauses that could be considered "surprising". Basically, if the EULA contradicts most users' expectations, it doesn't hold up in court.

A recent example for this was WhatsApp getting into trouble after banning users who used unofficial clients. The courts ruled that a ban was not something users would expect because other comparable services have no such clause and that while WhatsApp was allowed to detect and block the use of third-party apps, they couldn't punish the users themselves.
Have you tried using the SD card as just a pure boot device and running everything else from a USB-attached drive?
Not-so-obvious benefits of writing feature specs
IANAL but I believe such a clause would not be enforceable in the US either.
I did a few second search and it looks like he deleted a file (which is easily recoverable if the disk wasn't intentionally rewritten several times to prevent it) and it was a Microsoft Word file that had been edited by "Dennis" on a computer belonging to "Christ Lutheran Church". There are dozens of services that will recover lost data for you today on SD Cards or Hard Drives.. the FBI surely had that capability.
Giants of IT. The giants on whose shoulders we stand. One each day
I think people in the US don't realize how much better the US library system is than most of the rest of the world. Even the developed world!
Random guess, but it seems that 50% of journals in the fields I've been in are owned by Elsevier, even if it doesn't appear to be at first. And yes, a publication in an Elsevier or Springer journal rather than a new open-access one can make a difference of prestige that could change which university I work for in the next 4 years, for example.
Firefox has this feature as well, on both desktop and Android.
> but in the area of education and science, limiting access is holding back the progress of the entire human race.

Although I doubt Adobe and Microsoft did this out of altruism: By allowing piracy of their software for private use, it became widely used, and at work people wanted to continue using the software they knew -- this time paying for it.
Hopefully we will have an open-source car you can download and print soon!
Seems interesting. Apple only Unfourtanetly.
It's funny to see something of the outside view. I suspect people reading this on HN are much more likely to understand "I can haz", as well as easily relate to the scientists' point of view.
I thought that a month ago, the news was two years old.

Although this deserved incredibly widespread attention, so three HN posts isn't even enough.
An additional link on the Galileo Affair:

> http://qr.ae/R4iSbs
Who has more followers on Twitter?
Is it distribution for the whole product -- could you say no reverse engineering & distribution for these parts?
Wonderful.

Just the other day I needed something similar and was disappointed that I could find it.

I wanted to discuss something with a remote colleague and to illustrate it I wanted a visual diff of two files. I was hoping there was a nice little web app offering this but I was forced to screenshare (I could have terminal-shared but it was more hassle).

I was hoping for something like Etherpad but with a live visual diff.
Show HN: TheMovieBro, a movie recommendation app based on a few simple questions
I clicked on this curious as to whether I had worked on any of these. And yep. 3 of them -- 3 out of the top 4 worst in the Americas. The DoD has some successes though.
Libraries outside the US also offer interlibrary loan service.

Source: I don't live in the US and I use interlibrary loan from the local library.
> Scientists still love giving up their rights to Elsevier though. They're as much to blame as the publisher.

Scientists don't love giving up their rights to Elsevier. Elsevier owns many high IF journals in a number of fields, and publishing in high IF journals is part of how you "prove your worth" and get grants. Scientists give up their rights to Elsevier because that's how the "scientific economy" of their field of study is currently structured.
Things would change very fast if consideration for funding and tenure was based strictly on openly published papers. My understanding of current policies is that they basically force scientists in several different areas to produce content for free for Elsevier if they want to have a career at all.
I'm still not convinced. AR through visual SLAM is not extremely difficult. All the demos here are indoor and from the occlusion handling for the first scene (0:13) you can see a slight shadow on the right of the table leg so I assume it's using some kind of structured light to sense the depth (versus multi camera/stereo systems). Outdoor tracking with this kind of approach is very difficult because sunlight basically destroys all the information.

The difficult part is where the system portrays this information to the user, which they have not shown yet. Their patents indicate some kind of projection directly onto the eye but there are obvious problems with that, such as when you move your eyeball. Also, running visual slam on a mobile device at real time with a respectable framerate is another challenge.
Girl Crawls on Table and Licks Man's Face
Summary:

How did humans sleep before the modern era? Because the tools to measure sleep under natural conditions were developed long after the invention of the electric devices suspected of delaying and reducing sleep, we investigated sleep in three preindustrial societies [ 1–3 ]. We find that all three show similar sleep organization, suggesting that they express core human sleep patterns, most likely characteristic of pre-modern era Homo sapiens. Sleep periods, the times from onset to offset, averaged 6.9–8.5 hr, with sleep durations of 5.7–7.1 hr, amounts near the low end of those industrial societies [ 4–7 ]. There was a difference of nearly 1 hr between summer and winter sleep. Daily variation in sleep duration was strongly linked to time of onset, rather than offset. None of these groups began sleep near sunset, onset occurring, on average, 3.3 hr after sunset. Awakening was usually before sunrise. The sleep period consistently occurred during the nighttime period of falling environmental temperature, was not interrupted by extended periods of waking, and terminated, with vasoconstriction, near the nadir of daily ambient temperature. The daily cycle of temperature change, largely eliminated from modern sleep environments, may be a potent natural regulator of sleep. Light exposure was maximal in the morning and greatly decreased at noon, indicating that all three groups seek shade at midday and that light activation of the suprachiasmatic nucleus is maximal in the morning. Napping occurred on <7% of days in winter and <22% of days in summer. Mimicking aspects of the natural environment might be effective in treating certain modern sleep disorders.
Of course! And it was a win-win situation for everyone.
Guys, here's what it's actually like to be a woman
That sounds like it might be a more plausible mechanism than preferential citing.
the protocol suports both ecdsa and sha-2
I don't feel like I have this motivation, but I also cannot identify a rational reason for still being up at 4:40 am.
Could you elaborate? I haven't seen any differences in the Swedish library system compared to the US one, and my experiences with the German libraries have also been good.
On that topic I strongly recommend the TV show "Narcos". If that degree of violence is the price for prohibition then prohibition has to go.

It is pointless to vote laws that are unenforceable.
Final Kiss of Two Stars Heading for Catastrophe
Thanks for posting! This was the text I actually remember reading most recently, but I couldn't recall where it was posted so I found the LW one.