skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And they can sell your stuff after 60 days!

While there might, somehow, be some arguments that the temporary hold to prevent attracting thieves is neither a deprivation of property without due process (prohibited by the 14th Amendment), nor an unreasonable seizure (prohibited by the 4th Amendment), nor a taking for public use (prohibited by the 5th Amendment) -- though I still think its likely to be at least one of those -- I'm having more trouble seeing even a remote argument for how taking personal property from an unlocked car and selling it, with the proceeds going to the government, can fail to be either a deprivation of property without due process or a taking without just compensation.

Moreover, its exactly the same kind of permanent deprivation of the owners property that the policy is notionally supposed to prevent. "In order to stop your stuff from getting stolen, we had to steal it."

Really?
People se faces in clouds. So it would be likely that we show empathy for something that reminds us of a living thing.

I am always reminded that children put a lot of emotion into their teddy bears and power rangers. When we grow older we kind of loos that naivety because we know rationally that a teddy bear is not a living thing. But it's only skin deep and you put us in unfamiliar territory and we start attaching intent and emotion to seemingly alive things.

It's not that robot hands need to be specifically real it's just that we are naturally wired to have empathy for "life".

This is a vice article so I can forgive it's superficial interpretation of empathy. However it's important to realize that empathy is not just about feeling others pain but about feeling their anger, joy and jealousy.

Somehow along the way empathy became synonymous with people who care about other people and can feel their pain. But its so much more.
To quote Tommy Boy: "Hell, I can take a crap in a box and slap a guarantee on it for you"
Ask HN: Share an idea?
If you're like me, you often have a lot of ideas that you don't have the time or resources to execute on.

If so, why not write it down for your fellow hackers' enjoyment?

Topics can be anything: product ideas, service ideas, blog post topics, stand up comedy skits, research initiatives you wish could get funded, etc.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9836508
You said "The biggest danger is indeed purity".

Nothing that you referenced says that. Yes, it is a part of any drug use and is a big reason to legalize, but purity is not the biggest danger. The physical and psychological dependance are the biggest problem.

Adulterants are nearly impossible to study, given the unknowns.

Sorry about the "put up or shutup".
Yeah I'm still not sure how that works. My phone will randomly charge really quickly on the wall adapter for weeks, and then at some point it decides it's going to charge slowly for the next few weeks. Same adapter, same cable.. it seems to be wacky. It's all original from Samsung.

The micro-USB connection is also really loose with this particular cable<->phone combination (cable is fine with other phones; phone is fine with other cables). Used my old Nokia micro-USB for this reason and charging was always slow, then connected the Samsung one and it was a lot faster.. for a while.

I never knew the cable could do something like this, unless it's something like being way too long. From your comment I take it that you do need a certain amount of copper in those wires to work? So more expensive cables might actually be better? (I always laughed at "gold plated extra quality HDMI cables of 30cm for 30 euros because HDMI is a digital signal.)
It was chosen as the language of the GNU project in the mid 1980's. It's just taken a while to gain adoption. :-)

2016 will be the year of Guile on GNU/Hurd.
Our goal is definitely to give administrators the control they need through the API, but I'm very willing to believe there are things we're missing. :-) Is there something specific that's not already part of our Dropbox Business API? (https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http#teams)
GET requests can have a body but by spec they aren't supposed to parse it with the request

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/rest-discuss/conversatio...
Thanks for the feedback! This is definitely already being tracked as a feature request, but I don't have anything to share about if/when we'll add comments support to the API.
Baseless paranoia?

Have you read the news this year? There's never been a worse time to be unaware and unclear of what software installed on your device does. Companies are so bad at security they lose people's private information by the million, Dropbox themselves didn't even validate passwords for a four hour window once upon a time.
Networking :) I was invited to join a tiny community of product bootstrappers a few years ago, which led to me helping them out with various things, and them in turn helping me out quite a bit with my own stuff. This led to some paid engagements, which then led to the retainers.
In all seriousness, though, it did make my brain tilt about 15 degrees to see the words "JavaScript" and "SDK" next to each other like that.

AWS has two JavaScript SDKs.

https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-browser/

https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-node-js/
I love the perl I write, I hate the perl anyone else writes.
We have fifteen years worth of client and proxy implementations that do not support GET with a request body. This ill-conceived spec change violates "be conservative in what you send" just to avoid adding a new idempotent request method that actually defines usable semantics for its body.
Amazon link?
A fully decentralized alternative to DNSSEC that isn't Namecoin. Specifically:

- Use EdDSA (i.e. Ed25519) for digital signatures
- Use BLAKE2b as the hash function
- Keep record sizes small
- Recursive resolvers should use DNSCurve with pinned public keys

We would not only need a solid implementation, but a formal RFC for the IETF to consider/approve.

The idea here is to make it so that no government can influence or control domain name <-> IP address allocations.
FYI, endpoints that could actually take advantage of caching (e.g. downloading a file, preview, or thumbnail) do support HTTP GET with ETags.
In defense of offense (2011)
From the other comments here, I think I'm in the minority, but I find this offensive not because of the potential for abuse by the police, but because it legitimates the idea that it's OK to steal from unlocked vehicles. Maybe it's because I'm old and rural, but I'd prefer to live in a society where the societal convention is that "theft is wrong" regardless of whether it requires breaking a window, rather than implying that the victim is to blame for failing to to push a button to properly signify their desire that their belongings not be stolen.

What are the limits to this approach? Should the police break the window and empty the glove compartment, on the theory that windows are easy to break and one shouldn't keep anything valuable in the car? Should the police try out their bump-keys on empty houses, and pro-actively remove the valuables from the 90+% of houses where these work? Should they "kidnap" the kindergartner who is in public without chaperones so that no one else does?

Or should they figure out ways to punish those who break the law rather than those who are obeying it?
Nope. Commuter service in Chicago is contracted out to big players like BNSF and Union Pacific. If they were to lose the contract to run Metra trains, they would be fine.

And it's not like there's some other company or agency waiting to make PTC happen for millions instead of billions.
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My interests focus around programming languages, compilers,
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I am looking for an interesting project to work on.

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Wow, what a page! My personal favorite is "Creative commons licensed", which you apparently shouldn't use because it's universally more important to distinguish the license based on the FSF's definition of free.

Also replacing various biased, propaganda terms (fair point) with "corrected" biased, propaganda terms (less fair) is an interesting choice.

edit: typo
Drawn pornography depicting characters deemed to be under the age of 18 is banned - specifically, anything lolicon.
Another Ingress player here. I know several people who managed to destroy Anker cables due to Ingress, but all in all Anker still seems to be the best choice. Almost everything else just breaks much faster.

One exception to this are the cables which came with both my Motorola Moto Gs phone. They charge very fast and I use one of them for over 1.5 years and it does not show any wear. I really wish I knew where to buy more of those specific Motorola cables.
>But I get the feeling they are trying to be intentionally obtuse, either to show off cleverness or as performance art

Same here. I really don't see the point of renaming well known and defined concepts
I wonder if it would have been better to have changed the name of PHP - maybe follow the fortran approach and tack on the year.
The Stories of ‘Women in Tech’ That We May Never Hear
Weren't aliases proposed ? what would you think ? The SRFI system is not user friendly. It feels like typing binary cpu opcode.
I don't see how this would be any different than trucking companies competing on public roads. There is certainly competition in that industry. Are there regions where two railroad (companies) have built competing infrastructure?
If the cost of creating a collision is $75K, it's far too late to be deprecating SHA1.

Even if everyone were to somehow remove SHA1 instantly now, there is stuff that has (for example) been authenticated using SHA1-HMAC over the last year which will still be relevant for years. It's not hard to think of cases where spoofed messages from a user a year ago are useful to a malicious attacker.
Previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10505324
Have you tried Keeper Enterprise? We have AD/LDAP integration - it was a mandatory feature for us too. In regards to on-prem, Keeper uses zero-knowledge encryption - which means the encryption keys are stored locally on the end-user device. We have over 3k businesses signed up, many of them in the Global 2000 (and 9M consumer users). Our enterprise customers are happy with our cloud architecture because of the zero-knowledge encryption and regular SOC-2 audits.
So much this. Plus, we have certified CentOS servers that are only allowed to run 5.4 for the next years to come. Not to mention that the syntax and stdlib are a nightmare.

Thank god, we convinced our bosses to rewrite our legacy systems in elixir, since ~10years of iterative php progress grinded to a halt with lasagna layers of spaghetti code of homegrown-everything. Unmaintainable now, but the feature request keep coming in, and will do for years to come.
Really? But these plants are not being grown for aesthetics but as a food source. Nutrition value (read vitamin, mineral content, et al) of contemporary produce is considerably less than it was 50 years ago. If interested see a sample low-tech Scientific American article on the subject.

URL: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-and...

And for the sociology: what percentage of the population are responsible enough to take the now necessary dietary supplements to maintain a healthy, productive physiology?
Awesome. I worked on Guile almost exactly 20 years ago. It's probably very different from what it looked like back then. Emacs-on-Guile was one of Stallman's ideas back then, as well as using it for a GNU tcl implementation. Sounds like we're half way there!
I agree with CoralineAda on her views, however her approach to these issues is almost always wrong (the two of us had discussion on this many times). With that being said, I wouldn't personally contribute to Opal because of Elia.

The way I see these projects--if I get involved with them--is that it's like a virtual workplace, and everyone else working on it and participates in discussions or otherwise is pretty much a coworker.

If anyone feels this strongly about a certain group (like Elia), they will find "devil's advocate" (for a lack of better expression) reasons to disagree with them simply because they don't like them, or otherwise try to diminish the person in various forms to deter them from contributing. The worst part is that they might not even do it on purpose or even ralise it, so they'd be innocent in their self-perception. Not to mention, that some of the other contributors who've been acquainted with him would likely go to his defence (as is the case with meh[1]). Shit like this has been happening all the time; saying that it does not would be ignorant.

[1]: To a certain extent I also agree with meh, that there shouldn't be any politics/religion/general-bullshit topics within a software project, however Elia's Twitter profile managed to do exactly that. If he's going to have hate speech (call it what you want, but that is hate speech) and talk shit on his Twitter, he shouldn't promote his involvement in a respectable project, because this will happen. Elia is a shitty fucking person and he's put a stain on the project (but, hey, that's just my little, worthless opinion).
Yea, this is a much better criticism because this comment actually allows for the the conversation to move forward.

For what it's worth (i.e. not much) I didn't get the same sense from jonesb6's comment that you did. It would have been nice if jonesb6 went into a little more detail about the supposed misrepresentations, but talking about misrepresentations of facts and statistics (should they actually exist) is a far cry from complaining of tone.

Finally:

> Is it ad hominem if it's true?

Definitely. Most ad hominem arguments are true -- that's not what's wrong with them.
ESR claims Ada Initiative members tried to frame Linus with sexual assault
Dining with Alligators
CoffeeScript is largely just a shorthand built on existing JavaScript idioms, so the output is more or less 1:1. In order to provide some of the capabilities and behaviors that you would expect to find in a real Ruby environment, Opal has to use a fair amount of runtime code. As a result, the tracebacks and error messages that you get from Opal are often very unhelpful.

I also found that quite a few of the libraries in the Opal ecosystem (like the opal-browser library that wraps a bunch of important native web features) are fragile and under-documented.

That said, Opal worked far better than I actually expected. I built a simple demo with it a few months ago and was pleasantly surprised by many aspects of the experience. There's a third-party React wrapper called React.rb that is quite impressive.

I wrote about my Opal demo app here: https://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/ruby-opal/

And here are the slides from a talk I gave about full-stack Ruby development: https://speakerdeck.com/segphault/realtime-web-apps-with-ret...
>How is someone who was more likely to be harassed by LEO's going to have a different outlook on the engineering/programming of an internet-based social media service?

One potential example would be that someone who has unfairly been targeted by the police may have higher privacy concerns and also be more aware of possibilities for the government to abuse information and even violate rights; things that can happen with regards to social media profiles.

For a more concrete example, a gay individual who grew up somewhere where being gay was punished (either codified in law or where the law turns a blind eye to the discrimination) is likely to be far more concerned about systems that can leak sexual orientation, for example an eye tracker/pupil measurer that makes an attempt to determine who a subject finds attractive or not. The average heterosexual may understand that leaking this information could be embarrassing for some, but they may not be as aware it could be life threatening.

Yes, an aware individual not of that background could develop the same concerns after thinking long enough, but they will not have the same immediate concern about any system that interrupts a person's ability to 'pass'.
I would love to know how BNSF constitutes a monopoly in the US?
> While the police are entering private vehicles, it's in the pursuit of reducing and preventing crime

The only argument supporting the claim that it is "in the pursuit of reducing and preventing crime" is that they are removing attractive, easily stolen property. There's really not a significant difference between the cops wandering through a residential neighborhood, looking into houses from the street, and if they see anything through the windows that looks attractive to thieves, checking if the any exterior doors or windows are unlocked, and, if they are, entering the house, taking the item, and the calling the property owner listed on the deed (who may or may not be the current occupant of the real property, or the owner of the item of personal property removed; similar issues exist in the case of autos) to let them know that if they want to recover the confiscated property, they need to turn up at the police station during limited hours and present ID, and if they don't do so soon enough, the property will be sold and the proceeds pocketed by the government.

> I also think the notion that this is all a front for probable cause is a bit far-fetched and cynical. For one, do only criminals leave their cars unlocked with valuables in plain sight? What exactly would the "cover for probable cause" strategy accomplish?

Its not so much a cover as a substitute. Since under this policy they can enter the car to "confiscate" easily stolen items, they no longer need the probable cause they would need for a search, but this gives them an excuse for entering the car and conveniently "noticing" items that would not be apparent without entering the car, or for seizing and inspecting items that they would not have had probable cause to enter the car to inspect closely.
Check out Keeper Enterprise. We have delegated auth, 2 factor, AD/LDAP sync and centralized user management with a policy engine. And much more :)
I am not saying anything about legalization. I am arguing that heroin is known to be hugely dangerous, and sometimes classified as the most dangerous drug to use.

Yeah, alcohol, meth, crack all rank similarly and should be avoided unless you know are very sure how you will react.

People seem to be confused what my position actually is. That is mostly my fault though...
Letting Metra fail would cripple Chicago's economy. It would be more or less impossible for a large portion of the workforce to get to the office.
We're not trying to be intentionally obtuse. In general, we try to only create new names when the old names are for a sufficiently different concept. Perhaps we go slightly too far in doing this, but much of the "the terms are alien" feeling comes from the concepts beings actually different than you're used to.

This is the start of a bottom-up style tutorial, but if you're interested in a top-down tutorial, may I suggest this one from one of our open-source contributors: http://hidduc-posmeg.urbit.org/home/pub/hoon-intro/
Poor phrasing on my part. I'm not sure projected spending outstripping projected income is any better than being paycheck to paycheck though.

Definitely agree with you that SSA is not at fault here.
How Nutanix Acropolis 4.5 is making datacenter infrastructure invisible
May I ask, why this was downvoted? Isn't the idea of vbox's shared folders to provide a convenient data exchange with the host OS? If one puts ssh into the docker container, the host may mount a container's directory into its tree.
I see many people here being skeptical about the arguments for diversity, and asking what the utility is for Twitter. But part of the question is about the utility for minorities as well. This debate is really about minorities being shut out of yet another high-paying industry because they [didn't have a computer growing up/couldn't get in to some brand-name college/didn't have a supportive childhood environment/other systemic inequalities]. By the time the white kid and the black kid get to the bar, the game is already rigged in favor of the white kid.

So maybe the bar is right, in that it selects the most high-performing asset to execute the requisite keystrokes in a cost-effective manner. But maybe the world we should strive for is not one where people spend their lives in anxiety honing their resumes, getting into the right schools, the right clubs, getting the right internships, and having the right connections through daddy. God forbid there are any complications in your life along the way, or if you were born in a place which set you up for failure from the get-go.

I think one great thing about tech is that you can learn it, if you're intelligent and you get shit done. Maybe all you need is somebody to give you a shot to set you off on a trajectory toward the moon.
No it's good, you don't want to be bait-and-switched. So many job ads now say "Haskell/OCaml/Erlang..." But they're actually Java shops. Better to put the warning up front.
Typical EWD. He has his approach ("the postulational method"), and anyone who doesn't use it cannot really reason about programs and programming languages. It's especially funny to see EWD get so snotty about functional programming.
Why so many ‘big’ global ad ideas just get lost in translation
The supremacy clause is, however, the basis for why state statute can't brush aside the protections in the federal constitution, including those incorporated against the states by the Fourteenth Amendemnt.
Some Sanger and some NGS for work we do in-house. Most of our DNA Synthesis providers have moved to NGS, but I can't say with certainty who has and who hasn't.
My point is that in complex systems 'get' use cases come up that don't fit well in urls.

Suppose you have too many accounts to list, so you start taking predicates in the API, or you start returning a pagination token that's passed back in on a subsequent requests. You quickly overwhelm URIs and have to start serializing complex objects in headers or query params. Eventually you give up and switch to POST so you can just post a json body and be done with it.
Out of curiosity, do these major donors receive partial control over Watsi in return? If so, what's the mechanism for that? Board seats?
Literally one person politely asked you for more information, and you call "sealion" on that? You're not going to convince anyone of the rightness of your cause by reaching ways to dismiss and shame criticism instead of answering it. If your points are correct, they will stand up to scrutiny without the need for such things.