skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is amazingly cool in general. The idea of a lightweight, wearable sensor that can detect gestures is very exciting. I wonder how hard / practical it will be for somebody else to implement this? I'm almost intrigued enough to take a stab at it.
what I don't get is that if there are future contracts, they have to be fulfilled when the time comes, wasn't all this oil bought in advance with future contracts? I guess actual users of the oil have actually ordered it before as opposed to speculators, they need it now don't they?
He's most likely saying that while the MAS is broken, you can still download something via git and build it yourself.
Ask HN: What's it like having a significant other who is also a programmer?
Just curious about your experiences. Pros/cons compared to being with someone who doesn't understand software at all. Amusing stories, etc.
Android?

Without community hacks.
Possibly but why would you want to in an app mostly written in efficient, native code? The typical reason for scripting engines is easier configuration by users or less skilled programmers. So, the user interface made a bit of sense being JS. All this other stuff that mostly stays the same? Not so much.
I believe that they have made attempts to increase its visibility. I don't recall when the change happened, but Apple routed all system updates through the Mac App Store, pretty much guaranteeing that every Mac user will have to open the store at some point.
Why redirect it at all? It's evidence. Put it in a bag, and store it. Nobody gets to spend it until a case is closed.
The issue isn't so much about which marketing channel works best (i.e. traditional vs digital) but about the psychological levers of persuassion. People don't like "conversing" and "engaging" with brands. That's why social media doesn't work. Social media is supposed to be social and not commercial.

As the article said, it's low cognitive involvement that works best, not brand loyalty. That's why advertisers are using the Low Attention Processing Model.[1] With this particular advertising strategy, brand information is 'acquired' at low and even zero attention levels using implicit learning.[2] Implicit learning cannot analyse or re-interpret anything. The information goes directly to the subconscious mind.

If so, then we are silently influenced by ambient images and messages around us. Advertisers could be affecting our decision making and even outlook on life in ways we can't perceive. This has been the driving inspiration for these posters I designed: http://subliminalzen.com.

Essentially, if anyone is going to advertise to my subconscious mind, it's going to be me. And I'd rather acquire positive habits and character traits than an emotional connection to a product.

[1] http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPag...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_learning
In some cases, articles that the HN staff find interesting are reposted at a later date if they don't 'connect' the first time around.
This happened to me a number of times over the last few days. The first time it happened I shrugged and rebooted the computer. When it came back up, it asked me to authentcate with the MAS and those few apps worked. Then, later that night, the same issue happened with a different app. I actually uninstalled and reinstalled the app and that worked.

Hopefully they've actually fixed this now but I was pretty confused about what could be going on. The only other time I've gotten messages like that is when I'm opening an unsigned application Apple doesn't think is good, and the Security settings say to only allow trusted software.
Yes, should probably be downvoted. The fact that a small minority can profit greatly in a downturn has virtually nothing to do with the question of how best to grow the economy.
I would also love to see two other things for Sandstorm, though they might not be a good fit:

- A web IDE

- A container to run web stuff I'm working on (ie hook it up to the ide through rsync or something)
Looks neat. Also interesting is the Pipistrel Panthera[1], which will do 200 knots with a 260hp engine or 180 knots with a 210 hp engine, and also be available with hybrid and pure electric drives. For comparison, a Cirrus SR 22 needs a 310hp engine to get to 180 knots.

(Not associated, just a fan)

[1] http://www.panthera-aircraft.com/technical-data
Rather than try to bring coal mining back to this community as a form of social subsidy - why not just institute a basic federal income?

These folks are not alone - they are just the canaries in the mine. They have literally no useful modern job skills. And while they are the first to fall to this trend, as coal miners in 21st century america, millions of jobs are soon to follow, from fast food workers, to call center employees, to a huge number of accountants, lawyers, salespeople, factory workers - jobs of all kinds.

Rather than struggle with trying to give jobs to people who have no skills, and then trap them into working at these jobs in order to sustain themselves, why not just give them a guaranteed basic income that keeps them above poverty? Is that so hard?
In the fraction 1/6, the prime factors of the denominator are 2 and 3. A base 10 number system has the 2 but not the 3.
It should be, and it is (at least under federal law): https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/983 ("the burden of proof is on the Government to establish, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the property is subject to forfeiture").

What I think causes confusion is the "innocent owner defense" where the burden is on the owner to prove that, notwithstanding that the property may be subject to forfeiture because it is illegal proceeds, the owner came by the property legitimately.
You can always use unchecked exception like RuntimeException and others to silently pass the exceptions back.
In each of these cases, you are pushing at the demand side.

Try increasing supply, instead.

College needs to be more affordable? Build more colleges. Results: more kids go to college, more professors have middle-class jobs, more construction companies build buildings...

Don't increase the costs by enabling people to pay more; increase the supply relative to demand so that the prices fall.
Oh, by "shoebox" I meant a house where the servants' quarters aren't even in a separate wing. I guess our definitions are a bit different.
How does that logic go? "I don't like tyranny so I'm going to join a group of murderers and rapists who are best known for their beheading videos".

I know nothing about the complex situation in Syria and Iraq but I always guessed that ISIL in Syria was more about Iraqi post-Sunni Awakening fallout after being locked out of governing by al-Maliki. Like if you look at a map of ISIL in Iraq you see the area they have is the area that was hostile to Iraqi Occupation in 2007 and the leader of ISIL is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi who was an insurgent from Fallujah. They just took advantage of the problems in Syria and used that as a spring board into Iraq.

The reason the fight against ISIL is going so slow in Iraq is the same reason it was such a tough fight in 2007. They're fighting the Iraqis who live there, it's not a Syrian invasion force.

So why would someone from Damascus be joining ISIL over this problem?
My Sophos Anti-Virus blocked this site, mentioning a 'Mal/HTMLGen-A' on it.
Treble damages is not enough.

The police and everyone involved in the seizure belongs in jail for the term appropriate under Grand Theft statutes.

Though I think there is a case that since they are government officials, the sentences should are trebled.
Unfortunately in Boston they are.

"As he describes his job, he looks through the newspapers and looks at the Internet, looking for news stories of properties that might be forfeitable and brings them to the attention of the U.S. attorney"

http://www.wbur.org/2012/11/14/tewksbury-motel-owner-fights-...
Nice work - your OO style and wrapper is well done. And the OO style makes it easier to do dynamic roles, such as DCI.
I have had 5 people die shortly after retiring (early); stress (was this all?), depression (suicide) and general boredom which leads to depression. I do not think you realise how much time you really have on your hands when you are not in the ratrace and how few people deal with that well.
The problem is not "production code", but library code. I write a lot of business code in Scala, and a large majority of it is very easy to read for the newcomers we have. What is absolutely terrifying is what happens when you look under the covers: If you look at the implementations of libraries, as a newbie, you will want to run away, because you need to understand many language features before you can even understand a thing.

This is why I ended up writing a series of articles on practical implicates. Implicits are pretty much unavoidable, but the scale's website documentation is appalling. But if they are explained through examples, and shows how, and when, it makes sense to use them, we can deal with them reasonably.
> That's the way it was meant to be used originally, and it still looks best that way

Yeah, may be you are right. I will try it.
I really do not see the value in pretending a problem with this degree of complexity can be adequately reduced to such a simple statement.
Another pretty large difference between this an the bank robber case is that when the bank robber is convicted, the police don't keep the money...the bank gets it back.

This whole issue would go away if seized assets were required to either be returned to the rightful owner or destroyed. If we allow police to keep what they seize, we should call it what it really is...pillaging.
Do you review the federal seizures in your county? That is, would you see anything covered by the Equitable Sharing Program? My understanding is that its common for state agencies to use that to make an end run around your point 3.
"I know nothing about the complex situation in Syria"

https://kanvaasi.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/bors151112-1500...
This is both more detailed than mine and uses fewer sentences. My only nit is that I feel like understanding status flags is really important.
Which they did at enormous cost in lives and money. Ditto for Belgium in 1914.

If you had said Czechoslovakia in 1938 that would have been a much better example.
The top x% have been so ingrained with the idea that their money must be invested rather than spent that there is now a sort of economic Schwarzschild radius for money, and the rich have brought all their wealth inside of it. Then it does not leave.

The best investments require healthy businesses, which require supplier production and consumer spending, which are uses of money that compete with investments. If everyone who can afford a Tesla roadster would prefer to buy Tesla stock, then the investment never pays off, because Tesla can't actually sell enough roadsters. Eventually, someone has to buy something. Buying a piece of the company that makes a thing is not the sake as buying the thing it makes. One is actually beneficial economic activity, and the other is just moving money from one pocket to another in the same pair of pants.

All those loans given out for education and housing are not spending. They are just new ways to launch money out on outward trajectories such that it will inevitably return.

Once you are rich enough that you can't conceivably spend all your money via normal living expenses, you have a choice: accumulate even more money that can't be spent, or spend it on abnormal expenses. You can use your money to get more money, or you can use it to buy things that no one else can. You can buy paper from Fannie Mae and Sallie Mae, or you can build a better electric car. You can shuffle paper, or you can eradicate malaria. You can shuffle paper, or you can give a condom to every person on Earth that does not want to get HIV today. You can shuffle paper, or you can buy the swankiest, shiniest luxury yacht ever made. You can shuffle paper, or you can overthrow the government that murdered your grandparents. You can shuffle paper, or you can make sure that your local zoo can afford a new habitat for some threatened animal to whom you feel inexplicably connected.

We get bubbles when the people with money to spare only want to invest in the things that other people are spending their money on. Those people should not be investing. They should be making things to sell, or buying them, rather than trying to make the people who are doing those things indebted to them somehow.
If we want to have a reasonable discussion about this we need to first dis-conflate two things:

1. Is pre-emptive asset seizure justifiable to prevent allegedly ill-gotten gains from being hidden away prior to judgement?

2. Do such seizures unfairly prevent the accused from hiring the counsel of their choice?

My thoughts on #2: If you argue that this will result in an unfair trial and increased likelihood of a false guilty verdict, then what about people who couldn't afford to hire their counsel of choice in the first place? Any argument or system where judgements are biased by wealth is fundamentally not justice. In other words, my answer to #2 is no. The ability to hire good counsel should not be dependent upon one's assets. The outcomes of trials should not be dependent upon which side has more money. Some alternative systems that would be fairer, in my opinion:

A. All counsel is provided by the state and each side gets assigned counsel randomly.

B. Each side contributes as much as they want to a pool of funds. Each side gets to spend half of the pool on the counsel of their choice.

B is the better solution for a free market-based society.
I think the parent comment was suggesting to git-clone or wget and untar source, make and install.

So, instead of buying overpriced software from the mac store, just building it from source.
I keep feeling better about dumping OSX on my iMac. If I didn't need to edit photos, I'd get rid of it on my MBP, too. Debian is faster on the same hardware, and I don't have issues like this.

I still love Apple hardware, but they keep screwing up the software side of things on both OSX and iOS.
Long awaited list of features !
The US has been directly[1], and indirectly[2] providing weapons to Syrian terrorist groups, including Al Nusra (Their local branch of Al Qaeda - with similar goals to what they pursued in Iraq over the past decade) for two years, now.

The State Department has never been skittish about getting into bed with violent islamic fundamentalists, and doesn't care about the success (Or the lack thereof) of the last round of military "fixes." It also doesn't seem to recall how this situation played out in Afghanistan... Circa 1980.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-b...

[2] http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/25/443577215/...
Maybe you're a 'libertarian'?
A bit unfair as Java has BigDecmial.
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http://onc.al/UCfCx is a redirect to https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/devops-democracy/

(?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=devopsdemocracy)
Your comment made me look up 'txr'. Looks like a wonderful tool.

Do you use that often for data munging tasks? How big is this tool in that area of work?
I wish the USA would get rid of the death penalty. Completely barbaric, cruel and unusual. I still think we have the high road on our sides in situations like this.
I haven't said anything about the Federal Reserve. Nor have I laid blame to any particular institution.

I'm saying that when you look at how the dominant monetary systems work, the inevitable outcome is increasing amounts of debt as that is the only way to expand the supply of money. In fact, in current systems, money and debt share an almost 1:1 relationship. Any given dollar represents some one else's debt.

>and not the relative scarcity of global investment opportunities compared to the cumulative stock of global savings

There may be trivial relationships that affect local environments to some extent, but I think almost all effects are probably overshadowed by the more fundamental reality: debt as money.

Savings don't really exist. Savings is isolated money that debtors can't access (making it more likely that they default [as there is simply no more physical cash to meet the next payment obligation]).
> In practice, there was an initial period of everything that wasn't bolted down disappearing from silos, and the response was to fill them with concrete to prevent any further access. What then happened is gangs came in the dead of night with diggers and drills and unearthed silos, and took who knows what.

Yeah, and it wasn't just in the silos, either. The notorious arms smuggler Viktor Bout (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Bout), for instance, built the private air force he used to deliver his goods around the world by grabbing Soviet Air Force transport planes wherever he could. The story goes that his people even pried one off a pedestal that had been placed in front of an air force base as a display piece.
That, and the settings syncing and licensing situation which I think is far more inconvenient than a quick removal and reinstall of cask apps.

I love Cask but I'll choose App Store apps over their counterpart until the app devs can improve licensing and settings syncing.
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> Not really, the US has a nominally 'progressive' tax rate and there are several bumps when various subsides expire where the marginal rate is much higher than the top tax rate.

I'm not sure what the "not really" refers to. Its true that the US system is only progressive if you look at nominal income tax rates, ignore the different treatment of different sources of income, ignore the main tax on income paid by most working people (payroll tax), and ignore, well, lots of other things.

That's kind of irrelevant to the point I was making, which had nothing to do with the status quo US income tax system.

> So, if you pay 2.5k in student loan interest your effective marginal tax rate increases by ~16% from 65k to 80k.

Actually, that's wrong, because deductions are not credits. If you got a credit for 100% of student loan interest paid that phased out over the $65k to $80k range, that would be an effective ~16.7% additional tax over that range with $2.5k of interest paid. But its a deduction (which means it reduces your taxable income), so with the marginal rate in that range of 25%, it only increases tax liability by $625, which is a ~4.2% increase in effective tax rate. (Which still breaks progressivity, since the effective marginal rate of 29.2% is slightly greater than the next bracket of 28%, buts its not greater than the top bracket of 39.6%.)
AFAIK drchrono is the only major electronic healthcare record provider that has a bug bounty program.
More interesting: Russia is publicizing that they are developing a massive nuclear torpedo (unless it really was accident that the information came out).
I really enjoy it - my partner and I will talk about code, I'll explain concepts and share things I'm excited about. I guess if you want more of a clear separation between your work and your home life that could be a bad thing, but being able to share what I'm passionate about with someone who understands it is a big plus to me.
Yeah, that's bad. It's one thing to put stupid DRM on your entertainment products. If a movie doesn't work, well, that's irritating but not a serious problem. Watch another one or read a book or, worst case, talk to your family. Definitely not something you want to happen, but I can deal with it. Software gets used for practical purposes, and spontaneous breakage causes real problems.
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> But no one in the West knows exactly who has this nuclear explosive material, and where they may be

Probably because of this.

I'm also quite certain that the criminals do care very much where the money comes from. Most criminals I know understand this is the difference between a pay day and a prison sentence.
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What is the lesson here?

My take is that loosely assembled teams never really perform well unless there is social connection and a clear, fully shared vision with the team.
He lamented that the government always sides with the corporations. Libertarianism doesn't fix that; libertarian policy would be far, far worse for the middle class than what we have now.
If there is one thing I miss about C++ it's the sheer number of options you have for memory management (except for GC). Sure it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot and a maintenance headache, but the potential for performance and locality is entirely up to you as a developer.
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He blogged about people being arrested by state security during the protests.

It's not clear that he has been formally acussed of anything in particular beyond "treason". Detailed formal charges may be an unessecary formality in Syria.

https://www.eff.org/offline/bassel-khartabil
I never understood why projects like this shut down. Why not just turn them over to a community member willing to run it out of pocket or something? I get that its not going to turn a profit, but if someone was using it why not just give them the reigns?

Such a waste.
Yes, and this is a major annoyance. It seems I get an update for 'Pages' every day, which is why I hate using it. I have to close the documents I have open, go to the store, install the update and re-open my documents. It makes me hate MAS even more
So, best way to store currency amounts? Cents or decimal? Would the answer change based on platform or DB (i.e., Python, Postgres)?
:) Thanks for your response. For other people some context, the GitLab Omnibus packages contains one web server (nginx, but you can also use it with Apache). The CI server is now integrated in GitLab itself (no longer a separate app). And you have the option to run Mattermost (but if you choose not to set this up it will not consume any ram or CPU).

The Omnibus packages allow you to quickly install GitLab without having to do a lot of setup. The installation from source is also official, see https://about.gitlab.com/installation/
> Some terms (opcode, ISA) are not really explained (except in the glossary) before they are used and there are perhaps too much detail in the expense of the bigger picture.

I feel like if you want to get into serious reverse engineering (beginner or not), you should have a basic understanding of computers. Both of these terms are extremely basic, from that perspective.

Opcodes are what Assembly instructions correlate to. ISA just refers to the architecture of the CPU (x86 vs ARM)...e.g. WHAT opcodes/asm applies.
I'm sure Saddam kill thousands of Bassel Khartabil like figures during his time in power. By this logic you should have supported that war as well. I'm not quite sure what you mean by Afghanistan? I'm pretty sure we invaded because of 9/11. If we went to war solely because of things like this we would be fighting a lot more of them.

I think you are too emotionally close to the issue because of the specific subject matter this activist fought for. No, I would not condone a war just for stuff like this, I don't want American's to die anymore then I want Bassel Khartabil to die.
Maybe treble damages would help, but with many areas of the legal system it seems to me that what's needed most is a much more efficient first pass by a neutral party (court) to determine reasonable presumptions that can be challenged by slower and more deliberate passes. In other words, why are the police and DA making this determination? Why can't we have neutral party making the determination as to what happens to seized property?