skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so beautiful... what I was trying to say here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10384748

In brief, then, the doctrine that telegraph authorities may be
required to produce private messages, on the application of third
persons, is objected to, on the following grounds:--

1. That it defeats the policy of the law, which invites free com-
munication, and to the extent that it may discourage correspondence,
it operates as a restraint upon industry and enterprise, and, what is
of equal important, upon intimate social and family correspondence.

2. It violates the confidence which the law undertakes to render
secure, and makes the promise of the law a deception.

3. It seeks to reach a species of evidence which, from the very
course of the business, parties are interested to render blind and
misleading, and which, therefore, must often present us with error in
the guise of truth, under circumstances which preclude a discovery
of the deception.

4. It renders one of the most important convfeniences of modern life
susceptible at any moment of being used as an instrument of infinite
mischiefs in the community. It is not necessary to enumerate these
mischiefs. Any one can picture to his own mind what would be the
condition of things in any neighborhood, if its whole correspondence
were exposed to the public gaze. A single instance, in which the veil
of confidential secrecy is thrust aside, will introduce some of these
evils, but it will suggest the possibility that any moment all the others
may follow.

Inviolability of Telegraphic Correspondence.
Supreme Court of the United States.
Thomas Snell et al. v. The Atlantic Fire and Marine Insurance Company.
February 1, 1879
NSONE is cheaper and has way better geofiltering
(x_1/a_1)^2 + ... + (x_12/a_12)^2 = 1

It's the obvious generalization of an ellipse in 2 dimensions.
Didn't solve my problem. PyPy still retains multi-threading and GIL stuff if I remember correctly.
That seems less of an issue about privacy, and more like a case about badly used genetics/statistics. DNA is fallible, at least with the currently used technology, and police have to get that into their heads. It's not the fault of 23andMe or others if police and prosecutors don't understand the implications.
Some Americans went rioting and looting and blamed the cops for killing someone. Fuck the police, you see.
"Yes."

Non-facetiously, I think a weaker currency for country like mine (Australia) is advantageous – which is probably a good thing given our currency has lost ~30% against the rest of the world in the last two years. Imported goods costing more encourages you not to buy them: much as I love $LATEST_THING, I don't _need_ it.
Good to know (/me makes note to avoid purchasing anything by McGraw Hill in the future).
I apologize, I didn't look up any estimates/figures for Theranos and I think I mistook the funding number for revenue. I also haven't gone to Walgreens and taken a theranos test, although I do suspect that if Theranos is actually at Walgreens their ratio of valuation to revenue does not end with a divide by zero error.

Regardless, there are so many biotech IPOs based on literally zero revenue that this isn't even worth mentioning. Off the top of my head, these are the public biotech companies that I know of that went public with no revenue to speak of: Genentech (yes, THAT Genentech, biggest acquisition in histoty at over $50 billion by Roche), Celgene, and in the last year alone, Axovant Sciences, CytomX, Strongbridge, MyoCardia, RegenX, and Global Blood Therapeutics (I'm almost certain that "in the last year" in actually "in the last few months")
Don't forget artist-mode! http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/emacs-artist.html
1. If Pakistan is paranoid about India then it will have concentrated its air defences facing India, not Afghanistan. The USA also has the resources to know the location of Pakistani radar sites and thus plan routes to avoid them.
1&2. Just because it is a garrison city, and if the Pakistani air defence noticed, this is not going to be a situation in the playbook. The local watch officer doesn't have a set of standing orders to deal with this, which means people need waking up. A full on invasion has plans and procedures, two helicopters don't constitute that and there will be rules of engagement etc. Especially in a country with a history of military coups you don't delegate to local forces the sort of decision making process to go and deal with a situation like this. Plus the state within a state aspect of ISI cuts both ways, the local army's reaction can also be explained as "I want nothing to do with whatever secret stuff is happening over there".

3. I can absolutely believe that. Guards attract attention and are a massive risk in terms of extra low level people having information that they may accidentally leak.
He was the most wanted man in the world, how would guards have helped? He was facing nation states not gangs. He survived all those years because he kept a low profile with a tiny number of people knowing his location.

4. Why would it be released? It isn't like anyone is claiming he is still alive.

5. See 1. But also bear in mind that many of the options available to Pakistan would have had severe repercussions. If they knew (or heavily suspected) it was a US raid then they were hardly going to shoot it down. It could have taken a decent amount of time just to run down the "are you sure this isn't us?" line, proving a negative takes time. Once the information necessary to make a decision was received it is entirely possible someone senior made the deliberate call to be deescalatory and deal with the situation diplomatically - which is arguably the right call.
As for the police why would they interfere in what is clearly (someone's) military operation, something which is likely to be a career or life ending move.

You need to account for human nature, military bureaucracy and never attributing to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
response to your response: it's a good idea but would there be margin of error? Would have to be. And how could you do a recount on close issues?

What makes more sense is to allow online voting (with appropriate safeguards) and then restructure the process so the votes actually mean something, i.e. break the two party system as a start.
The definition I'm aware of is being hacked together (rapidly and cheaply) and flimsy, as opposed to engineered and robust.

Not to be confused with something that is "engineered" (as in, plenty of resources are dedicated to it) yet still flimsy, like so much of the software we know.
"I haven’t tried to engage with the political system before"

Now that's just inaccurate, unless you mean merely that he's never run for office. He has engaged with the political system on numerous fronts over the span of a couple of decades, sometimes effectively, sometimes not. He's made real positive change in the world (possibly as much as anyone else running, if we're being honest), occasionally through political means.

But, more importantly, I genuinely trust him to do what he says. Which is definitely more than can be said of the vast majority of people vying for the title on either side of the fence (the entirety of GOP field is particularly villainous this year, but the current leader for the DNC isn't exactly a pillar of virtue).

But, you're right that he is running a losing race. Several commentators on the first debate said they would have preferred to see Lessig on the stage, and perhaps if that would have happened, things would look different. I don't know. That said, I think you're missing the point of why he's so thoroughly unlikely to even get fair treatment by the DNC, much less taken seriously as a candidate. Despite his impressive fundraising for a "nobody" in politics, and despite being clearly smarter and more broadly competent than some of the other DNC candidates, his desire to tear down the very system that feeds the DNC (and the GOP) virtually guarantees he will never be taken seriously.

A reform candidate in a thoroughly corrupt system stands no chance. Short of pitchforks and the guillotine, our system likely won't be reformed.
Who was your professor?

Would just like to check out his work.
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Why notta?
Wanna quit your job and become upwork freelancer? Do not do that
Thank you for your great feedback! We surely worked with APEX and it's really powerful. But it's also one of the reasons we are trying to make the fully open source alternative. If you have any ideas to discuss, pls, welcome to our gitter chat: https://gitter.im/allcount/allcountjs. We would appreciate it!
"running in a primary with a bunch of weak other candidates"

^ I think your political bias is showing through.

In my opinion this is one of the strongest sets of candidates for the Republican primary in a long time. And I am far from alone in that assessment.

Yes there are some weak candidates (there are always weak candidates in both parties), but it is far from "a bunch".
MinimaLT http://cr.yp.to/tcpip/minimalt-20130522.pdf
Good news.

The non-fiction kindle books are a mess with all of the fake reviews.

Amazon is not suing Fiverr.
The company noted in the court filing that these kinds of
services are banned by Fiverr’s terms and conditions and
Fiverr has tried to cut down on the practice.

Fiverr must not be trying too hard, the first result for the search "reviews" is for "AMAZ'N REVIEWS - I will review your book including erotica" followed by a page full of "I will provide a verified kindle review for you" providers. [0]

As in the previous lawsuit, Amazon alleges that these
reviewers often arranged to have empty boxes shipped to
them in order to make it look like they had purchased the
products.

They should also sue (ar at least ban/suspend) the marketplace sellers who shipped empty boxes so the fake reviews would have a "Verified Purchase" qualifier, that's something I look for to determine if a review seems legit.

[0] https://www.fiverr.com/search/gigs?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_in=...
I try not to use offensive language on HN, but are you fucking kidding me? You actually expect a single company out there to not keep your personal information? The type of system you are looking for will never exist. Ever. The only reason a company wants your DNA to begin with is either to profit from its data, or to perform crowd-sourced research that requires keeping your information indefinitely. Your comment goes far and beyond a fantasy. There will never be anything positive to gain from having your DNA analyzed. Corporate, hospital, "non-profit"... there is no such thing as a secure outlet from whom to obtain your DNA profile. There will always be a record, even if it's "erased" but still recoverable from the raw disk. Either you don't understand how corporations and modern government work, or you are insanely naive about the possible benefits from DNA analysis compared to the politicians and corporate psychopaths who will find a way to benefit from it.

If you're willing to hand over your biological fingerprints to anybody, you may as well walk into your local police station and admit to a murder you haven't committed. Even if 99.99% of people submitting their DNA for analysis never see any negative consequences, the other 0.01% are going to have their lives ruined because of some supposed family association to a criminal. These days, suspicion is equal to guilt beyond a doubt. If one out a million people are falsely chased down based on something like DNA, that is one person too many.

The possibility that you have some horrible abnormality that can be detected via DNA testing is so astronomically low. Stop thinking about the interesting science behind what you can learn about your body. Instead, be very concerned about the fact that there are people out there interested in nothing other than having power over others. Nobody should be submitting themselves to this horrendous risk.

I cannot imagine how someone would even consider submitting themselves to such a process. I took a season pass to my local amusement park; they strongly suggest you provide your thumbprint instead of taking a photo for your ID. It's insane. Obviously the police or state government can force this park with hundreds of thousands of fingerprints to submit to database searches. Who the hell offers to provide their fingerprints to an amusement park, in order to save the 5 minutes of inconvenience required to go have your photo taken? "Stupid sheep" is the only phrase that comes to mind.
This is more a problem with vote distribution.

The parties outside the main two cannot win because they're always going to be a minority. If a minority could still hold a minority of the seats for getting a minority of the votes, the landscape would be vastly different.

Instead, we have an average vote system based on geographic region that can only allow for major parties to hold seats.

This is not the case in all democracies - most european parliaments have more than two parties because of the difference in the way minority votes are handled.

This is a failure of US-flavor representative democracy.
Lack of independent thinking may indeed be a problem, but the reason for a two-party system is mostly due to the mechanics of our plurality voting system [1]. People don't vote for third parties because voting for the lesser evil with the best shot to win produces a better outcome than voting for true preferences that are likely to lose.

This problem of plurality mechanics could be largely addressed by instant runoff voting [2], which allows people to vote for their true preferences without fear of throwing their vote away. Of course the people in power don't want to make it harder to retain power, so getting something like this implemented is very difficult without a referendum.

This is just my speculation, but it seems that a two-party system removes most of the incentive for pursuing nuanced, independent thought. The depth of the decision you have to make is choosing one team or the other, and defaulting to their stances on most issues, or by a mix of resignation and cognitive dissonance, ignoring the areas of disagreement. And once you've made the decision for which team to be on (or inherited from your parents), it's usually set-it-and-forget-it.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
is there any science behind those statements?
Sure, Rust is the way to go.
I'd say that retention is a lot better in the IT sector, definitely a lot better than in the 90s or early 00s.
Ancestors 'had less sleep' than we do
See: reservoir sampling [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_sampling
BlackBerry announces an Android phone with a sliding keyboard
Last year, Tim Cook's salary plus bonus was $9 million. But his total compensation was $65 million.[1] So what? Why should I care? That's up to the Apple board to work out with him.

I'm still buying Macbooks and iPhones and iWhatevers for as long as I think they're superior to the competition.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-17/tim-cook-s...
Good news !
I have resubmitted this. I believe that this is a revolutionary new technology that has the power to change the way we watch movies and tv shows. If the mods do not agree, please remove the submission.
Are you saying that an equilibrium is Cournot-Nash if it does manage to "simultaneously minimize both the expected commute cost for the group and for each individual"? Not sure that's right...
That would be the equivalent of structuring. It might work, but if USCIS ever investigated you and then found out about this little scheme, you would most likely be banned from the US for 10 years or life.
From what I hear (IANAL) fair use doesn't trump DRM anti-circumvention laws. It would therefore seem that this ruling creates even more incentive for publishers to drop non-DRM'd formats.

If true, I'd count this decision as a net negative. (Sorry Google, your balance sheet means nothing to me.)
> who isn’t against child labor, in principle?

Tons of people. They need their children's income.
If anything has been "ruined" it is the public sphere. Does the Kardashians really have anything to contribute to humanity? Twitter is a plague and it will be better for all of us when it implodes.
"HN mods have had this tool at their disposal for quite a while, but they've used it rarely until now."

Not as rarely as you think.
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The can't change it, because 160 chars is the limit of a single SMS and you need some for overheads.
It isn't the near universal belief in the government's version of the OBL saga that concerns me. What I find more worrying is that the moral framework is believed in. In former times we had things like 'innocent until proven guilty' - a moral code. Then some office blocks get brought down by some crazy civilians on some civilian airliners in a couple of the larger U.S. cities and then, as if by magic, quaint ideas like 'innocent until proven guilty' get to be completely forgotten. Recently some Labour politician was 'lynched' by the media for suggesting that OBL deserved a fair trial. A fair trial - e.g. court of law rather than government assassination - should be de-facto, yet it isn't, and anyone who steps out of line with that might as well write 'terrorist' on their forehead.
Doing anything for which one would normally expect to be remunerated counts as work. If you volunteer for a project for which no one is paid and will not be paid (and no one ever expects to be paid), that's not work. But "working for free" is work and so is volunteering if others in a similar role are paid.

At least that's how it's been explained to me.
Neither part 1 nor part 2 contains the words "email" or "spam." Apparently you didn't bother reading the article, since you marked "sending email should be free" and "mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected."

The article is actually about something like eBay's reputations for buyers and sellers, implemented on a p2p system. Your copy-pasted text doesn't apply to that sort of thing at all.
Show HN: CloudScrape – Cloud-based web scraping platform
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Smith’s STEM Education Act Signed into Law
I suppose you have a valid point. I have one question, though: aren't political TV ads actually illegal in most European countries?
Really good RDBMS GUI for Linux (and other platforms) https://www.jetbrains.com/dbe/
Something–we’re not sure what–is radically dimming a star’s light
"The MRA for each Representative is calculated based on three components, including personnel, which is the same for each Member ($944,671 for each Member in 2014)"

"Each Member may use the MRA to employ no more than 18 permanent employees, a level that has remained unchanged for nearly four decades. A Member may employ up to four additional [part-time] employees "[0]

So each congressman can hire 18 people for about a million dollars total, including both district and DC staff and not including himself. That's a good size startup. Congressmen who do spend a lot of time fundraising (not all of them -- hundreds in safe districts don't bother) are like the CEO of that office raising the money while staffers do the work at his direction.

[0]http://library.clerk.house.gov/reference-files/114_20150106_...
Doesn't a TLS terminator proxy solve this? E.g. I usually put my application services behind HTTPS-enabled nginx and it works wonderfully.
It's not clear to me why environmental pressure would increase weaning age, or, for that matter, why hunting pressure would decrease it. Anyone care to explain these suppositions?
Don't forget the cuckoo clock perpetually parroting the line:

> ...bin Laden’s burial at sea
(carried out in accordance with "Islamic custom"!)

Yes! Yes! Of course! Naval traditions are the first thing that springs to mind, about a religion born of a region mostly known for its deserts, and not very much at all for naval conquest.

But go ahead, someone correct me, with some obscure technicality about the ways of Islam and The Sea. What do I know, land lubber that I am?
At least I never seen anything like what Jon Stewart showed. There are political TV ads during the official campaigns, but that's two weeks before the elections and it's just 1h where the ads run all in a big block.
"I try not to use offensive language on HN, but are you fucking kidding me? You actually expect a single company out there to not keep your personal information?"

Yes, I do, actually. This kind of response is exactly the kind of attitude that perpetuates the fly-by-night shady handling of our private information that's all too pervasive these days. This bullshit stops only when laws are on the books that bring down the rain of hell if a mere squeak occurs outside regs - HIPPA is a great example of this.

I've had a 23andme test kit sitting in the closet for years now at this point. I never was able to push past the hesitation they would have my data, forever, and would more than likely be persuaded at some point down the road by the almighty dollar to distribute it, as it didn't come with HIPPA protection.

I don't have all the answers, but I absolutely am game for being a part of the solution.
A Creature (worm?) in SVG
FarmBot plants seeds for the first time
What's the best way to find a co-founder?
I'm an Australian that works in the professional services industry, so I don't have time to go to incubator meetings which are typically held during the work week. However I am keen to meet some like-minded folk that are interested in starting a business - at the start as a project outside of their day job.

How does HN suggest I go about meeting such people? Unfortunately networking in my industry won't be possible due to restrictions in my contract.

Keen to hear your thoughts.
Let's say that Larry Lessig succeeds. What would happen then? Would it be primarily journalists who would influence the government then, rather than corporations and rich people? Journalists tend to be left-leaning. The left is probably better on some issues, such as the environment, however, they aren't always so good for the economy and entrepreneurs. Personally, I'm really not sure whether the US would be a better or worse place without money in politics.
Typically if you wish to limit the number of goroutines you would spawn N workers and have them read from a single channel. If 20k of your incoming connections want to do something they send on the channel, without spawning a goroutine themselves.

Did you try something like that?
I'm assuming half of your point is humour and the other is the fact you don't like his glasses.

It is on this second half I'd like to comment.

It shifts the focus on form rather than content.
Sure form has its non-negligible role, but in politics and most domains it should never take precedence over content, the actual message itself.
And here lies one part of the problem Lessig is trying to go after: the corruption of our mind in its ability to be seduced by form at the expense of content.
It is that kind of corruption that makes it possible for movie actors without real political substance to become president.
It is that kind of corruption that makes the present political system a democratic farce.

If we want him to succeed we have to do our part too, and it's precisely because we haven't for ages, that we have such situation today.
Even if he succeeds and changes the rules of the political game, if we the people also don't change the way we think, then this can start all over again in 4 years without us even realizing.

So maybe he could do with another pair of glasses, but we the people also need another pair of glasses.

Deal?
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