skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
.... it would seem to be a fairly extreme interpretation of the 2nd amendment to support the creation of uncontrolled, unsafe, unlicensed, untracked firearms.

The 2nd amendment just says you have to be able to own and carry weapons, with a rough implication that they should be fit for military purpose. The idea that registration or quality or safety requirements are somehow unconstitutional is and has always been absurd.
Maybe part of the reason we won't, (and shouldn't), do anything about Assad is because of the outcomes of our last military "fixes". What we left behind is a lot worse than what was there originally.
“I appreciate you wanting to jump in,” Rick Hampton, wireless communications manager for Partners HealthCare System, said, “but frankly, some of the National Enquirer headlines that you guys create cause nothing but problems.”

This right here is the problem - Researchers unveiled serious threats in the hardware - the ones described in the article could all be used to kill. And the response to that? "Shut up, you're scaring people".

Those headlines should be scaring people because they are scary!
Yes, but in order to have a non-repeating decimal expansion, the denominator must share _all_ of its factors with the base. That is, only fractions that, when reduced, have a denominator of the form 2^n*5^m (for natural numbers n, m) will terminate in base 10. The explanation given could probably be clearer.
@Retra A tool is always only as good as the person using it. The point is webstites and IT can make a difference.
"If you believe -- as many economists do -- that the rule of law is a key determinant of a nation’s prosperity, then you should be worried about this. Stop-and-seize should be stopped."

A good book that talks about this is "The Locus Effect"
http://www.amazon.com/Locust-Effect-Poverty-Requires-Violenc...
There are several ways to do it.

One it so use fixed point decimal with a 1/100 scaling instead of floating point. So yes, integers and then you shift the decimal point when you output.

But you have to watch out for interest calculations, you might earn a fraction of a penny on a daily basis but over a year it adds up and you can't throw away that accuracy.

So you might do all math as floating point, but with pennies instead of dollars.

Or you can do Binary Coded Decimal, which stores each group of decimal number after the decimal point exactly, in many ways it similar to fixed point decimal, since it is a fixed point.
The expertise and hardware would mostly be required to enrich the uranium up to weapons-grade levels. If you can get uranium that's already been enriched, you can skip all that. Hence the concern.
It seems pretty clear to me the problem here is misaligned incentives. If the police weren't allowed to keep seized money, and where it did end up was disconnected enough, there would be little reason to confiscate property without due cause.

Where we could redirect the money that it didn't cause problems is an interesting question, and I'm not sure I know of an answer that doesn't create other considerable problems.
3 Lessons to learn from the guy who handed out CVs at a train station
Ufora – compiled, auto-parallel python
Wow. I'm talking about the webpage.
InfluxDB 0.9.5-rc2 released
Forfeiture was designed for cases like this: A bank robbery suspect is arrested with cash on him. The police have no evidence against the suspect but obtain a written confession - the trouble is they did not read him his rights. The confession is inadmissible, the suspect goes free. Do you hand him his money on the way out of court?

In anti-trust cases damages are tripled as a deterrent, why not institute the same penalty for police? If someone wins their money back from the police they get triple what the police tried to seize.
Who is going to hold the screws to them? As it's set up currently, costs have been rising for 30 years at insane rates. I know I'm biased because I've been in Boston for quite some time (it's probably different elsewhere), but all of the colleges in the area have been spending money on completely non-academic things. Building elaborate new dorms & cafeterias, immaculate landscaping, bringing in various pop stars for campus events. None of it moves the needle on "education", but it for damn sure enriches the colleges.

Speaking for my own alma mater, they spent $8m/year to lure the president away from a California school, because he's apparently very good at luring in sponsorships/donations from alumni (I never really understood WTF that meant). Then the college paid ~$10m for him to have a house in the "hip" part of the city. On top of that, the university spent many millions building new dorms with sushi bars and excellent views.

The costs rose a steady 4-5% a year while I was there, and I believe it's been at that clip for decades now. Sure, you can make the argument that it's to pay for their investments, but remember that the university also received in the neighborhood of $100m to rename an existing building on campus. And of course don't forget the monthly phone calls to solicit donations "for the students of tomorrow".

Unfortunately I think that the idea of everyone feeling that they are "above average" feeds into this--kids who can't afford it really, really want to go to this school. And subsidized loans make it very possible for people to borrow $65k a year to do it. It's a vicious cycle, because as prices rise, the more it seems that politicians want to make it easier for kids to go to any college they want to. Unfortunately I don't really know of a good way to stop people from making dumb decisions. There aren't many careers that can pay off $150-$200k in loans in any reasonable amount of time, and I'm not sure that it would work out well for the government to step in and say that you can't borrow more than $X for college from any source.
There are also many cloud-hosted SaaS companies that offer an installable version of their products:

GitHub: https://enterprise.github.com/home

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/onsite

Travis CI: https://enterprise.travis-ci.com/

Circle CI: https://circleci.com/enterprise

Sysdig: https://sysdig.com/pricing/

CodeClimate: https://codeclimate.com/enterprise

Waffle.io: https://takeout.waffle.io

Coveralls: https://enterprise.coveralls.io/

Sense.io: https://sense.io/enterprise

RollBar: https://rollbar.com/enterprise/

BugSnag: https://bugsnag.com/enterprise

HipChat: https://www.hipchat.com/server

Docker Hub: https://www.docker.com/enterprise/hub/

Upverter: https://upverter.com/enterprise/

CoreOS Registry: https://tectonic.com/quay-enterprise/

Looker: http://www.looker.com/docs/admin/on-premise/installation

RedBooth: https://redbooth.com/en/enterprise/
This hit me yesterday, I use ScreenInk from the app store to draw on slides with my Wacom tablet. Five minutes before my lecture I get this error. Not amused!
Submitter or mods, can you please add the date to this post? This was published in Feb 2014.
I'd add that mercenaries were around, and were a serious problem, from the Late Middle Ages to 1648; some accounts I've read of the Hundred Years' War sound almost exactly like accounts of the Thirty Years' War 300 years later. France, like the Germanies, was reduced to a heap of ruins -- and not just because of the bubonic plague.
But seriously now: don’t let yourself be scared off by “category type theory” and other fancy-sounding words. You do not need all of this theoretical background in order to learn and become a fluent Scala developer. I know, because I have not bothered to look at those things until 4 years with the language. And when I did it’s not like I had an epiphany, throwing out all the code I had written until then. In fact, I was monading all over the place, just had no idea how the things I was building and using were called.

Works for the author, I suppose. Me, I'd prefer to have a solid grasp of the abstractions I'm using -- and an equally solid understanding of how the programming constructs I'm using correspond to those abstractions -- before using them to crank out production code.
https://github.com/ufora/ufora
It's mostly Nixon's fault. Back in the early 70s crime was rising and people were scared and they wanted to hear about how politicians were doing something. Murders were really a matter for local law enforcement rather than the Feds so Nixon came up with the politically brilliant idea of blaming crime on drug use, announcing a war on drugs, and creating new tools such as this sort of seizure of money.

There was a big expansion of this in 1984 pushed by Biden that more or less gave us the modern form of asset forfeiture.

And we're going to have to solve this problem at the Federal level. Many states have laws preventing police from keeping the money they seize. But the DEA is happy to take credit for the seizure, keep n% of the money, and hand the rest back to the department that did the seizing.
Woah, Estonia has a Land Value Tax! Baller! Reading about it briefly, I like the simplicity of it. I guess that's what you get when you can start relatively fresh like Estonia did (see also their e-citizenship and e-government efforts).
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Possibly because your started your comment with "without having to read the article". If someone answers a question with a link to an article, you could skim the article at least, rather than post that you didn't bother to check the article out, and would rather have someone else explain it to you in the comments section.
Yep I try to use `brew cask` everywhere I can, but sometimes auto updates doesn't work when you haven't installed the app from the mac store. Or for example 1 password can't connect with it's Chrome's extension if it was not installed via AppStore.
The downside to printing only 15 is that you then have numbers that print the same but compare as not equal.
Much of assembly programming is variants of these commands:

- mov <dst>, <src> | dst = src
- sub <dst>, <src a>, <src b> | dst = a - b
- jump <label> | continue running at <label>
- jump if equal <label> | continue running at <label> if both sources of
the last command were equal
- call <label> | save the current location, then continue
running at <label>
- ret | continue running after the previous CALL
instruction

<dst> can be:

- any memory address
- any of 8-32 available temporary integer variables called "registers"

<src> can be any valid <dst> or a hardcoded integer known as an "immediate"
Syria is a very much a threat to US interests, because it has a regime hostile to us, friendly to Russia and Iran, and it borders the Mediterranean Sea, giving competitors to the US that could be friendly to Turkey (read: Russia via Georgia) a trade and supply route to the Mediterranean. Because of this, the economics that are favorable to Turkey, in a situation where Syria "falls" to Russia, create interests that conflict with those of the US, particularly during war.

In other words, from geopolitical and war strategy standpoints, Syria is currently one of the more important countries in the world, to the US.
What happened with that guy? Did he ever come back?
I wonder what the modern equivalents are. (Also, how to get an Amdahl mug today)
There are many forms of extortion. Until recently, health care insurance coverage and care were one primary route exercised by institutions in the U.S. (Just one example: Roll over and take it at work, or you'll lose your health care.)

The ACA was supposed to help address that, but, entering its third year, I at least see significant signs of its being weakened.

So... it's not just black hat bad actors. The proliferation of this data, by means legal, or gray, in addition to black, threatens a broad and diverse swath of those who have... less than perfect statistics.

Not just in health care, but in general, I've observed a lot of apathy towards security because corporations and large institutions serve a very significant role in diluting responsibility and repercussions. No one person -- at least and especially and including those with actual power to deploy resources against problems -- is really on the hook. Even in the C suite. Hell, it seems that "taking the blame" has become a significant component of such roles: You parachute out, and someone picks you up to play a repeat performance a year or two down the line.

No one really answers. And there is a lot of pressure -- below the surface -- to continue making this information more transparent and readily accessible. "Black hats" become a straw man for an industry that, in many respects, in the whole is actually trying to move in the opposite direction.

With such discontinuity, is it any wonder that the results are a disaster?
Actually no they didn't if you had recently upgraded xcode, because you have to agree to the xcode terms and conditions to use them.
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I fail to see how deliberately not doing something with a resource makes anything more efficient.
http://watchdog.org/226188/civil-asset-forfeiture-new-hampsh...

https://freestateproject.org/
In the US, there are two major political parties. Those who oppose this kind of garbage need to join both of them (one side per person). Also, you need to be active at a local and state level, not just a national one.
got a biz dev referral for you guys.
This cuddly Japanese robot bear could be the future of elder care
Maybe TV is an ideal medium for brand awareness campaigns, but it simply won't have a large enough audience at some point. It seems like these marketers jumped on digital during the hype phase, and were just ahead of the curve. Now they're in the "trough of disillusionment", but eventually the number of eyeballs on TV will go below the point of cost effectiveness and digital will be what they have to use out of necessity.
I'm amazed that no one in this thread has mentioned Project Sapphire yet. It's my favorite bit of 90's spycraft.

Project Sapphire Wikipedia Entry:

Project Sapphire was a successful 1994 covert operation of the United States government in cooperation with the Kazakhstan government to reduce the threat of nuclear proliferation as part of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. A warehouse at the Ulba Metallurgical Plant outside Ust-Kamenogorsk housed 1,322 pounds (600 kg) of weapons grade enriched uranium to fuel Alfa class submarines (90% U-235). Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the fuel was poorly documented and secured, and in danger of being sold for use in the construction of nuclear weapons.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09...

http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/report/project-sapphire-today
>If you've been programming and using SQL for a few years, it's not a problem.

Years of SQL injection mitigation don't agree with you. Are you sure you just don't prefer it because you are familiar with it?
TLDR summary: Anyone can claim anything

Within the next decade though I think this question is going to take on a more interesting twist. The Senate, and has just passed legislation that says "if you can mine some resource from an exoplanet resource, you own it." which basically enables folks to mine asteroids, and as far as the US is concerned, keep the profits[1]. Assuming this becomes law, you can imagine that someone who landed a robot on the moon, and recovered water from the regolith, would be in a position to make a pretty profit selling that water to the first humans that land for an extended stay. Then there is the whole colonizing thing, if you live there and raise crops (see the reference in The Martian) international law recognizes a colonizing right.

So for the last 250 years this has been a joke because nobody could actually go to the moon for an extended stay, but that will change, perhaps sooner than many people think.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3snvnx/us_congress_l...
[comment made outside of hn]

It might be useful to a user developing a set of microservices locally to commit multiple volumes or snapshot multiple volumes at once?
Some do. I don't.
How does that make a difference? We're supposed to discount his wife's sacrifice because of potential social pressures?

If you really wanted to be a cold hearted bastard about it you could have done a cost benefit analysis on the potential earnings of a theoretical physicist vs a secretary in the early 1950's before you discounted it from being a financial decision, but then you couldn't have made an opportunistic political statement due to a man's death.
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Here is a great interactive tutorial that teaches the basic rules: http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/
I'd recommend checking out senseis library after you've learnt the rules: http://senseis.xmp.net/?PagesForBeginners
Little bit of context:

The "Transistor Man" was I believe first introduced in The Art of Electronics (great book btw, the third edition just came out). An extremely simple model of a bipolar junction transistor in the linear region states that the current going from the Base to Emitter (Ib) and the current pulled from the collector (Ic) is related by: Ic = beta * Ib. (beta is another name for hFE, at DC)

The "Transistor Man" continuously monitors Ib, multiplies by beta, and adjusts the adjustable resistor until Ic = beta * Ib.

Obviously, you can't make a resistor with a resistance below 0, so when it hits rock bottom Ic cannot reach beta * Ib, which models saturation.

Note that this "model" is insanely horrible because hFE/beta increases and decreases depending on the amount of current, by temperature, and most importantly from manufacturing tolerances. Good transistor circuits (like the AoE book teaches you how to build) work the same way regardless of hFE as long as it's in the reasonable ball park.
Right. But I doubt that anyone shifting that much traffic just buys 100G internet service to a certain location.
If you push out that much you might make use of CDNs, if you consume that much Netflix/Google I guess you meet their criteria and the CDNs talk to you (and place their edge servers in your network).
> Previously in the article they mentioned that this 10kg of Uranium believed to be for sale on the black market is a fifth of what you would need for a Hiroshima-type weapon but it's just about enough for a well designed implosion nuke.

With 60kg of HEU I could build Little Boy by myself in my garage with parts I can get at Home Depot and Cabela's.

With 10kg of HEU I could build Fat Man with a breeder reactor, a couple hundred thousand in precision machine tools, several tens of thousands in specialty electronics, and a small team of specialists.

Both are possible, but one is far more feasible to do than the other for a terrorist group. That said, 10kg in a Little Boy type device would still cause a pretty big boom. The damage from the radiological hysteria that would follow its use would be far greater than the explosive damage, though.
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If they still produce more than they cost you, then you should hire more people. There certainly is a threshold where people become too expensive but the questions is when this is reached. looking at sky high corporate profits these days I think people produce much more more value than they are being paid.
Adding interest to the seized money is not enough. In anti-trust cases the US law is that damages are tripled to provide a deterrent to large companies trying to stifle competition from small companies. Why not have the same law in place here, if by some miracle a victim is able to prove their money is innocent they would get triple their money from the police.
You can use [redshift](https://github.com/jonls/redshift) - it's like f.lux, except it respects your freedom.
But shouldn't the burden of proof rest on the government?
Possibly, but that seems to make the assumption that there's a direct correlation between your competitors' success and your own. I'm not certain that there is one.
My two cents: Thing is it's not SaaS software because the value in SaaS is near 0 marginal costs to add new users(outside marketing). Also, it sounds like you have a niche type of user. So, the virility factor would probably be lower(lower marketing costs). Not to say you can't build a big business just outside financing would be difficult and of little value. If you try to grow to fast and can't train your experts properly you will lose customers. And if you growing at a decent pace anyway you only save a couple of years to give up a bunch of your company.
You think the Federal Reserve is to blame for this, and not the relative scarcity of global investment opportunities compared to the cumulative stock of global savings? "Blame the Fed" is a common refrain, but I'm not convinced that their policy choices have had quite the magnitude of effect that people attribute to them.

Though I don't disagree that Fed policy (along with the US government's "too big to fail" mentality) has exacerbated perverse incentives in the American banking sector.
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Yep. It also borders Israel and sits directly on the main trade route between the oil/gas rich Sheikdoms and Europe.
The 13th of a month is more likely to be a Friday than any other day
lolololol obvious troll is obvious

"i disagree with you, thus you must be lying about your experience and actually unworthy of doing your job, unlike me, the superior being" go get your diaper changed
Cruise Control only regulates speed so no.

This car was engineered by people representing Google with the intent to allow it to operate completely autonomously.
Because the police haven't broken any laws and those guilty of anti-trust violations have.
Thank you! I remembered reading this story in the Post years ago, but couldn't remember the name of the operation so my Google-fu was insufficient to dig it up. Glad you shared it.
Or, for that matter, 1.0 + 2.0 != 3.0
The problem is that companies that need developers are on really short timelines. They just took a round of funding and need to get profitable within 2 years, so there's literally no time to spend training or mentoring someone.

As well, software companies are really bad at human processes. They are filled with "heroes", who drop in to save the day whenever something happens, instead of having a process that anyone can follow. This means that whenever a "hero" leaves, you need to replace them with another hero, lest your "city" fall victim to the "bad guys". And if you need to grow, you need to hire more heroes, rather than replicating a process across a number of new employees.
I'm disappointed that the styling didn't include the iconic round, enlarged back button.

It also doesn't have the swipe-from-left to go back functionality.
I think what is meant is that those loyal (20%) Coke drinkers will continue to drink Coke regardless. There is no reason to focus on them. You are also probably not going to be able to convince someone who never drinks Coke to start drinking Coke. There is no reason to focus on them. That means the best area for marginal sales is those people who occasionally drink it. Getting those people to choose Coke slightly more often is probably the most efficient way to increase sales and is the method around which Coke builds its business.
I'm not making a case that they aren't incentivized enough to all do roughly the same thing in the normal case, but that there isn't enough disincentive to, as a whole, make sure that they would never allow a case to go forward. The Police chiefs are largely beholden to no-one in this specific case.

That said, it's the prosecutors that would have to keep the case active if disputed, and there's no incentive for them, except for a possible loss in the case where police overreach is proven. That's all the reason needed to not dispute most cases if they go far enough to actually require some work from the prosecutor.

> Hanlon's Razor is bullshit, by the way.

You and I live in different world then. Obviously, some portion of our worlds is entirely in our heads and doesn't conform to reality. I suspect I'm happier in mine than I would be in yours.
Its official installer doesn't contain a 3 web servers, 1 CI server and 1 chat server?