skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's right. What you hear about are the extreme edge cases of society - the places where things fall through the cracks. As a whole the US Justice system is incredibly effective.

That being said, in a population of 300 million edge cases start to add up, and they are significant problems we should figure out how to fix.
You don't need to be an expert to see that.
Yes this would help, but it is not the driver of all these bad behaviours. We need to fix the root cause, not try and treat the symptoms.
Yes. If journals are biased against negative results, then governments should move in. Why do we need "journals" with the implication of a limited page count per issue anyway; in this digital age a database or wikipedia-style format should be able to host any number of results.

And it should not mater that some governments won't fund suchan initiative: all is needed is one, or a single benefactor, or maybe a tv-show à la Mythbusters. ResearchBusters would be a hell of a show!!
After all of Cameron's "let's ban end-to-end encryption" remarks, it unfortunately seems like many key interests are just relieved it isn't worse.

Nice strategy, now that I think of it.
> Downvotes in response to an honest, well-formed, well-founded argument are the lowest form of criticism.

I agree, which is why I singled out poor arguments in my comment.
A failure? Sounds like if it's a failure it's because it's only a partial solution, it's not fair to have these tax laws if you still allow big business to circumvent them. If the loopholes can be closed can you see it working then?
Some of the certificates I've purchased have involved verifying some details of the organization, even though they weren't EV. I believe we needed a Dun and Bradstreet number when I got a certificate from Thawte in the late 90s (although I might be misremembering, something at that company needed that number...). And a more recent issuance wanted some other proof of existence / location, they had asked for a lease/utility bill, but issued with our location found in a state corporation database, before I could get a copy of something they would accept. I won't disclose the issuer of the recent cert, but I would put them in the top tier of reputation (and prices).

I would hope an EV process would do a better verification, but I've never needed an EV cert, so I don't know.

DNSSEC is sort of like verifying to everyone that you control the DNS, near the time of use, as opposed to just verifying to a CA at time of issuance. Or in other words, if it's OK for a CA to trust DNS, letting everyone else trust it would be good too.

At least the concept is right, 1024-bit rsa keys are kind of scary. And DNSSEC doesn't address confidentiality, but TLS with SNI also leaks hostnames.
In this context, $1mm is chump change.
I really like that solution.
Interesting! I did not know this. If their tweaks work, I guess Deluge may have a performance advantage.

We follow the latest vanilla libtorrent sources (not bound by releases), and try to keep our C++ as close to the Windows API as possible. The only dependency we have is libtorrent (plus Boost and OpenSSL since libtorrent depends on those).
You can public companies file annual reports that explain the basic operation of their business.

Infosys reports they focus on the following industries [1]:

Financial services
Manufacturing
Retail, consumer packaged goods, logistics
Energy, Utilities, Communications
Life Sciences, Healthcare & Insurance

I wouldn't hire them, but I'm not Proctor and Gamble so they'll probably survive my disinterest.

[1] http://www.infosys.com/investors/reports-filings/annual-repo...
Mobile App Security – How Safe Are We
Amazon RDB - not exactly the same as a managed oracle, but you get much in the package: backups, transparent multizone failover are the one that I prize the most.
Because negative results are a dime a dozen. If you want to publish a negative result you have to do a lot more work to convince your peers that the thing you did was actually interesting. It's hard enough to do that with papers that show a real effect, scientists tend to be rather dismissive of other's work.
Here's a couple (FOSS) options:
http://polycode.org/
http://godotengine.org
Spam detection of some sort would be a necessity.
"Mental Maps" Of Cities Help Your Brain Regain What It Has Lost To GPS
Reporters certainly pick up "sharing economy" jargon, not aware they have been thoroughly co-opted by marketers.
I'm never in favor of a solution that kicks homeowners who use their property as a home out of their homes.

However, as you say, this mom is a millionaire. If she can deal with a change in location, she stands to make a metric shitload of money.
The issue, as you probably correctly point out, is the pressure to publish too early and take shortcuts.

There is only so much money for scientific research as all areas of science are vast. Is it really surprising that there is so much pressure?
Did you read dang's comment to you here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10545391

Do you understand that dang is a moderator here?
Sure, I guess it depends on your perspective. It's good to look at things over a geological time scale, and to have a broader perspective than the human species, or human civilisation.

Regarding very recent climate change, maybe it is easier to focus on the subset of the timescale that has supported human civilisation -- say, the last 10 thousand years. You'll note the temperature was relatively stable during most of this time. Interesting!

If you look really closely at the right side of the second graph you posted - over the last hundred years or so - you'll notice the temperature is shooting up. It's a bit hard to see on that graph as the change is happening so quickly relative to geological time scales.

If you look at a graph that focuses on the last 100 years, a trend is easier to spot:

http://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/

I've had a go at drawing a regression line by hand myself:

http://imgur.com/ixnuDX4

Hypothetically, supposing this strange recent warming trend were to continue, it is plausible that by the end of the century our planet might be experiencing environmental conditions never previously encountered by our species, and indeed not experienced by the planet for the last 5 million years or so.

Perhaps not much interest in a geological sense, nothing to see here, but perhaps from a shamelessly anthropocentric perspective we might have some cause for concern.
Couldn't you just use an actual device medium?

The fact that a burnable CD should have no parts that can think actually makes using one for input and one for output probably safer (though you would then need the trusted application to include a CD/DVD burning capability).

As an alternative, a 'raw' interface, such as an actual programmable flash device or maybe an SD card could work.
Oracle has tons of "features" that postgres lacks:

* empty string == NULL in oracle

* ROWNUM: it's kinda like a limit, but not

* DUAL: hah. postgres eat your heart out.

And of course there are business practice differences:

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/oracle-customer-explains-a...

... but tongue out of cheek, if you can afford it, Oracle has solutions for just about every database problem in just about every vertical domain. They have really good engineers, really good testing, and they're #1 for a reason
Discoverability. Most people are going to try out "String".length first because that's what most other languages have. Whilst typing, if their IDE supports autocomplete, they'll see that 3 types of "String".length are available.

Most people are not going to read through the entire list of methods of String and thereby discover .characters, .utf8, and .unicodeScalars when they want the character count of a string.

I acknowledge that it may not be difficult to find this information with a quick Google search, but the more that can be done without having to switch to the browser or docs to look something up, the better. Injecting these so that they appear more frequently on the most likely UX path is better.
Good observation. It also looks like only kids has bright coloured clothing.
Nigeria’s president Buhari has sworn in a new cabinet at last
This is interesting approach that works for what EU requires (that data stays in EU). Basically, it solves the safe harbor to some extent. Still, they may have leakage of data or something under the hood that can make this useless, but on paper it has some value.

[ads]Btw, if you need to store sensitive data in EU then you should use chino.io[/ads]
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Exactly. I've seen many captive portals that don't block ICMP.
> can be managed by others under an SLA.

EnterpriseDB, Fujitsu, and others.

> presumably because it's a safer option

Spoken like people who have never dealt with Oracle licensing and compliance. "Safer" for values of "well, I guess we didn't need those millions in this year's budget anyway.
In Alito's case there is at least an argument that the stolen assets were equal to or greater than the amount to be frozen.

But I thought in Kaley the frozen assets were some large multiple of any number claimed to be stolen, and that this practice of seizing everything was common.

Did this kind of distinction come up in the oral argument?
So it's FBI paying the military to do law enforcement work. Not really better.
Like thedufer says, as soon as the real blockers to development get the fuck out of the way, we'll see how well Rent Stabilization and the "Affordable Housing" mandates work in SF.

As it stands now, it's next to impossible to build in the city.

Frankly, subsidized housing succeeds in many districts. Once SF and -more generally- the SFBA decide to stop lining the pockets of real estate speculators and investment firms and start building housing to meet the current and future demand, we'll see a change in the character of the area for the better.
This definitely looks malicious. Is the business model controlling everybody's repos??
I wonder if they could possibly know that a ton of people called this number after reading this article, and to disregard that data from their graph. :) Obfuscation is really difficult in highly effective surveillance states.
It seems to be more of a tactic to get out of the current law case against them: US vs. Microsoft where the US wants access to european servers from Microsoft to get the messages from a european to a european which discuss a drug crime.
I've got basic Skeleton and Pure CSS sites for Jekyll available on GitLab below, since these are my two favorite starting points. My minor changes in adapting them to Jekyll are released to the public domain.

https://gitlab.com/tombrossman/Jekyll_Skeleton_CSS_Boilerpla...

https://gitlab.com/tombrossman/Jekyll_Pure_CSS
And now it becomes obvious why, in the UK, that the Tory government is deliberately trying to shred the social fabric with excessive cuts etc - all justified by their illogical ideology of 'austerity'. The fact is, the tax credits cuts are going to take 4 billion pounds out of the economy - people who get those tax credits spend them, they don't squirrel them away in their pension plans or buy more buy-to-lets properties like the well off... I am actually thinking of moving back to the US, it is getting so incredibly insane here.

But if you are trying to prevent a revolution - setting up the infrastructure for monitoring the populace while creating the conditions that would precipitate a revolution makes good sense.
By next year there will be 6.4bn connected devices
The line is, almost verbatim across multiple disparate sources: "Austria was the first victim of the Nazi's".

Its so striking to hear it as a statement that it has become very much expected whenever I make a new acquaintance and the topic of discussion gets around to Austrian culture. There is so much affinity for the cliché of it, that I think it still persists as a meme. Austrians seem to love their wry, ironic, cliché .. and to excuse the current madness with a brush of "oh, its normal for Austria to have such politics.."
> Why can't people simply publish negative results?

Mainly because it's not as interesting. For every positive result researchers find there are dozens of things they test that just don't work.

Imagine if the first test of "romantic priming" didn't work. Would the researchers really bother trying to publish "Hypothesised romantic priming effect was just a wild hunch after all."? And would the journal accept it? No way.

Of course if you get a negative effect for an established "fact", as in this case it can be published. But you have to be really really sure otherwise the reviewers will just say you did your experiment wrong.
Well, you went there, regarding killing yourself, so let's think this through, using your own assumptions.

Devil's advocate:

I think your suggestion of suicide is perhaps one of the best ones possible if you want to prioritise reducing your personal carbon footprint over all other concerns, and are unwilling to (coercively or non-coercively) influence the behaviour of other people. There's not a lot of difference one of us can make, in terms of individual lifestyle choices. There's billions of us (and some of us, like myself, have carbon footprints of 10x or 40x those in other nations with less affluent lifestyles).

If you are willing to non-coercively influence the behaviour of other people, then if you can convince 200 people to each reduce their carbon footprint by 1%, and that wouldn't have happened otherwise, you've just paid for your own carbon footprint twice over (assuming your footprints are all of the same size, etc). Note that this doesn't need technological wizardry - one might be able to do this merely by talking to people, or perhaps being involved in the odd act of political resistance.

If you are willing to coercively influence the behaviour of other people, well, then you could e.g. kill 200 people (ideally those with large carbon footprints, who were not going to kill themselves or be killed otherwise) and yourself, and by your own logic that would seem strictly better (we're glossing over secondary consequences here, this might cause a huge backlash and security crackdown on environmental groups, which might make the overall situation worse, but you get the idea).
To understand what debt-free money is (and to address how the US money system currently works), I'd recommend this video:

http://youtu.be/iFDe5kUUyT0

Please note that although there are a couple of subtle hints in the video about returning to the gold standard, the video can still be of use as a general introduction into the US money system even if you don't think that's a good idea (I don't think it's a good idea to go back to the gold standard).

Hope the video can be useful for you, I know I found it useful. Feel free to ask me any questions about debt-free money (and how it could be implemented) after watching the video.
Thought every time I go to the theater how awesome it is if they'd designate back few rows as device-ok zone, where people are allowed to text, browse, with their devices, as long as they keep it quiet. Might attract some of solo-movie goers... (Though this is coming from the kind of person who look things up like background info and other random information while watching movie on Netflix, just I don't know how common this type of movie watching is.)
The Postmates and Uber marketing materials look like they were written with lawyers involved. They make the companies sound like third party middlemen. The DoorDash one is less slick. "People can purchase goods from local merchants" sounds like the merchants are on board, which In-n-Out clearly is not.
Are their numbers skewed? Possible but I spent ~$300 on Aliexpress during "Singles day" and hadn't used Ali prior..
Scanning for 10 seconds, no sign of what the sixth amendment is, no way of judging significance, moving on.

For those as annoyed: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/sixth_amendment
To be fair, the internal frame of the upper structure is steel.
http://i.imgur.com/JLIlRf3.jpg
http://media.details.com/photos/5637e54e62b3b75f2bb3e531/mas...

Isn't it a little strange to be comparing plywood with 3" teak? Can you even get sheets of teak that aren't a veneer? Wouldn't LVLs or glulams be a more apt comparison?
I made this Android app to provide instant check transfers off the phone screen:

www.getlightcheck.com

Unfortunately most banks don't support it with their image deposit apps, but in theory, it would be a practicable "check replacement" instead of Venmo. Maybe if enough people want to use it the banks would adjust their photo-deposit apps to accept checks from it.
But that was Unix, and the menu system was a real albeit experimental menu system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn

It was slowed down for the film, in the same way password crackers find a single character at a time, or people who spend their lives typing enter their passwords r e a l l y slowly, or search engines flash up a "Searching now!" dialog.
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> ...but despite our best efforts it cannot be detected...

Keep in mind that virtually every way we have of detecting things involves electromagnetism. If there were to be some form of matter that does not interact with the electromagnetic force, then there would be very few ways we could actually detect it, gravity being one of them.
The PicoTorrent executable is somewhere around 5-6MB. RAM and CPU usage should be low to tiny if I haven't made a mistake and leak memory all over the place :) The reason our executable is so much bigger is that we have a few indirect dependencies on Boost and OpenSSL (via libtorrent).

I'm open for suggestions on how to reduce size.
Good. This latest generation of "doing shit for lazy people" startups really needs a good wake-up call.
Ask HN: Leaving as founder, what happens with equity?
I'm leaving a startup I founded due to disagreements over team/strategy. I worked on it for about half a year.

When we founded the company, there was prior work done, so we vested some equity up front to acknowledge that. Since that time, we've pivoted and also recently added team members. Now that I am leaving, the other founders are asking me to return some/most/all of the equity that was vested up front.

Is this reasonable? Do I have any obligation to return/surrender the vested equity?

Additionally, when I voiced objections to returning the vested equity, they brought up the fact that they may start a new company on the same idea and reset the entire equity metrics altogether. Is this common?
My Android location sharing app[1], while still barely known, has generated a lot of great feedback and personal "thank you" emails.

It's barely made any money (40€ in a year or so), but the great feedback makes it all good.

[1] https://graticule.link/
Encryption does not address the security problems of "cloud" services if your threat model includes eg BND. Traffic/metadata analysis is plenty to find out what you're doing and who you're doing with. Secondly if you distrust the "cloud" service provider, end-to-end encryption for IM/storage is moot if you are still using service provider's client software for X.

(This for one microsoft-applicable meaning of "cloud". It baffles me why tech people have so eagerly adopted such an ill-defined marketing term)
> I agree, which is why I singled out poor arguments in my comment.

And that would be why I specifically only covered Devil's Advocate arguments (rather than poor arguments) in my comment. :)

I've seen many examples of knee-jerk downvoters attack Devil's Advocate comments without consideration for the quality and earnestness of the comment's content.
but don't bring up anything like that in casual conversation lest you get shouted down by the ignorant majority.
I'm really glad for these comments on Udemy, I'll have to give them another look. I must have given them my email address at some point but their constant discount emails are so close to spam I'd written their content off as a scam ages ago. Appreciate the positive comments :)
On the Fence with Dependencies (2014)
The SEI is funded by the DoD and many among its staff and leadership are former military. It's not really 'academia' in the way you're imagining it. Rather, think of it as a government contractor that only does R&D.
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I'm for this in principle, but I have absolutely no assurance that this is the number it's claimed to be. I would not like to be part of a vigilante attack on someone who turned out the wrong person.
They run just fine over cellular networks
All Mac App Store apps stop working as Apple's root certificate expires
Verdict: no true scotsman is true unix.
Apple store is an interesting example. If you put up a giant flyer "Macbooks sold here!" but stripped them for parts, replacing the RAM and SSD with slower, cheaper versions, you might expect angry letters from Apple too.
Seriously?

Is this supposed to be satire?
Chess move compression was an interesting topic back when the games were stored on 360k floppy disks. Nowadays every master chess game ever played in the history of chess fits easily on one DVD, uncompressed.

So it's not clear what the point of compressing the moves, especially since at some points the article is concerned about size and sometimes about speed. If it's just an intellectual exercise then consider the following scheme:

Generate the legal moves for a position, then sort them. However don't sort them using a naive method like alphabetical order. Instead sort them in order of likeliness of being played. For example moves that capture the last moved piece are at the top of the list. So for example 1.e4 d5, now the first move in the list would be exd5, capturing the last moved piece. So the move exd5 can be encoded in 1 bit. Now imagine a 40 move game where every move played was the first one on the sorted list. This takes 80 bits to store the entire game. Of course moves farther down the list take more bits to encode.

This is similar to one of the schemes in the article, but the article gets hung up with fixing bit sizes rather than just using the exact number of bits required for each move which results in variable bit lengths for each move.

This is, more or less, the scheme Chessbase first used for their data files almost 30 years ago.
Have you used Defold?
You get streaming replication out of the box now and you get WAL-based replication assuming you configure a shared drive or use something like S3. The latter isn't super fun to setup automation for. Also not much of a story for logical replication (tried slony, meh, feels like a relic of olden days when every deployment was carefully hand-massaged into existence) and for automated failover.

Nowadays you actually can skip a lot of setup automation with RDS, with backups, read mirrors and automated failover taken care of for you, although you frequently hear folks complain about some of those scenarios not working as nicely as you'd expect.
If you're on trial, there's some significant chance that you're guilty. That's not the same as presuming you're guilty, but it means that you should probably not be allowed to use questionable assets, lest it turns out that you are guilty and the person the crime is perpetrated against is due restitution. I believe there should be some basic limitations on that power, but it makes sense for it to exist in some form. It seems that in this case, the argument is that even if a defendant's assets are frozen, the Court should be required to unfreeze the portion necessary to pay for defense.

There are several negative consequences that arise out of being prosecuted for a crime. I don't think we can say that just because there are some constraints placed on defendants, they've been presumed guilty. If they were presumed guilty, they'd be immediately sentenced and forced to retroactively disprove the claims post-facto.