skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Volkswagen made a much bigger blunder, as you might have heard. Sometimes companies fail to comprehend the consequences of their actions.
Hardly "new". Smart people have been identifying it as protectionism since at least Benjamin Tucker (Ca. 1880) and probably before, too.
Statewide Ranked-Choice Voting Question on Maine November 2016 Ballot
> So in practice they made it non-free software [free as in Stallman definition of free].

Not at all. RMS isn't philosophically pro-trademark, but he has said that trademark and free software are separate issues (meaning that 'free software' doesn't confer on the user the ability to rip off a trademark).

> but now if anyone wants to do binary redistribution of their product

You CAN redistribute Ubuntu, but only in its whole form. You just can't rip out/add pieces to it and still call it Ubuntu, because then it infringes trademark. If you want to change it, you can, but then it can't be "Ubuntu".

> He criticized Ubuntu for unwillingness to clarify the trademark issue.

Which is stupid, because trademark is a legal term, defined by the laws of the land. Canonical can't change the way a country interprets 'trademark'.
"Who are they?"

"Top. Men."
Your comment brings to memory the book 'Diaspora' by Greg Egan.

There is in the novel some mathematical space that represent all the possible theorems, but it cannot be mined automatically because it need some conscious being deciding what problems are "interesting".
The bigger a company is, the more places there are for bone-headed blunders to go unnoticed.
It's the new Microsoft, they do OpenSource, too, and make awesome Laptops.
I'll point out that the extent to which you disagree with rayiner is basically why a surveillance state can't be trusted. Sometimes you'll agree with the watchers, but often you won't.
Seems like it would be very hard for it to catch everything from the outside. I've seen malware that only presents itself to clients with a Referer from Google or an iPhone user-agent, for example
The selective reading might be on you although I'm thinking it's how it's worded rather than readers' fault. Anyone reading your link would catch this line:

"But instead we have many uneducated people saying: 'Yes, it increased hardware utilization, and it improved security too'. And that's complete and utter bullshit."

Whereas, as I referenced, many VMM systems did increase security via isolation with something simpler than the arbitrary OS and monolithic software contained. Lowest TCB I saw with minimum necessary features was in 50-100KB range. What's OpenBSD's + VMM's TCB size, again? :P

Taking 2nd link into account, it still has that thing about it claiming virtualization can't improve security posture, prevention or recovery. That was repeatedly proven false in academic and production systems with some surviving pentests by pro's that regularly tore through UNIX OS's and commercial fodder. So, his statement against security potential of virtualization is "complete and utter bullshit."

Note: As with other link, it becomes true if one is talking about common offerings, esp on x86.
"There is nothing wrong with making a project as safe as possible"

This is crazy, it will leave us with space projects that will never be finished.
Didn't mars one prove that people are willing to die on Mars to get there first? The cost of getting people to mars is trivial compared to the cost of getting them back.
We spend so much time on safety we have become totally immobile in space. The whole NASA budget should be given to the private sector!
FYI, "FYI" is not a suitable replacement for "IMO".
Use of LSD-25 for Computer Programming [pdf]
I have seen how Promises' concept was abused in a project at work. All the promises were just returning Future objects, and they were exposed everywhere. And, in case a future fails for some reason, there was no way to have a new Future: all users were doing future.get, resulting in an exception thrown to the caller.
What a mess.
Because the journal article being discussed in this NYT piece is not actually linked from within, let me share the link:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/25531231/
One vote is statistically irrelevant. It's like farting in the wind. No federal office has ever come down to one vote. It's lower than the margin of error in most voting systems.
You massively underestimate the complexity of animal husbandry in some species.
Yes, but they've probably been at least UL (or CSA) certified to not burn down your house.
"Still, boil down all the numbers and caveats above and you arrive at a simple fact: In the United States, in 2014, more cash and property transferred hands via civil asset forfeiture than via burglary. The total value of asset forfeitures was more than one-third of the total value of property stolen by criminals in 2014."

Ah, these are some really revolutionary statistics. People who were not accused of any crime were robbed by the police for larger quantities of money than actually taken from homes forcefully by the traditional image of "criminals". Via this information we can say with confidence that the law enforcement agencies are the larger criminals when it comes to direct monetary abduction from the public. This leaves us in a shitty position, because we can no longer rely on law enforcement to provide support for our society.

We know with confidence that American LEOs will steal, spy on, beat, dehumanize, ignore, and murder the public without righteous comeuppance from the political or legal systems. To be clear, this kind of endemic bad behavior is what reliably drives people to vigilanteeism and anti-police violence. Barring that, I think a rational response to law enforcement abuses is in order.

There's a few prongs to this strategy, the most important of which is political pressure, meaning organizing direct monetary bribery of politicians via campaign donations near the time of elections; loudly donating large sums of money to radical police reformists running for public office will go a long way in solving the problem, as this signals to other politicians, the police and the public that people are serious about solving the problem of villainous law enforcement. From here, things get real: I suggest a boycott of assisting law enforcement with information technology projects in an attempt to handicap their efficiency, making them realize that the public will resist them if they continue bad behavior. I also suggest shaming and social exclusion of people working in or associated with law enforcement-- I know this won't go far, but it's worth a shot. At least it's nonviolent.
Are you smart enough to be a programmer?
> Maybe that's why we haven't worked out P and NP.

Great exposition on the state of the art of the P=NP problem

https://www.quora.com/What-were-the-best-attempts-to-solve-t...
At the very least, ISS should have a module or two dedicated to growing food. Right now.
I don't understand why they're neglecting this technology.
Wild guess: Only because the data shown (in the article) goes back 10 years. As Civil Forfeitures started as part of the War on Drugs, I suspect it's been rising since the 1980's.

The revenue from Civil Forfeitures are used to offset the recent (decade+?) decline in funding that local governments have.

A recent segment on Last Week Tonite[1] on Civil Forfeiture highlighted local police using it as a way to shore up their coffers.

Edited to add: Youtube Link

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
Thanks, this wiki article is actually pretty interesting. I'm looking through their numbers, and while I don't doubt them, I wonder if there's any more reference information (books, etc.) that corroborate this data.
It wasn't just PSN accounts, but tons of internal details that involved lots and lots of employees.
Every administrator of a state is not there to represents who elected them but the ruling class.
That. Exactly that. That goes so far that even when it is only the choice between the original pharmaceutical product and a generic, doctors will think twice out of fear to be sued if something goes wrong. I have one very scientifically inclined doctor in my family who fully understands that the chance of a generic being less effective is negligible. But, depending on the patient, she will prescribe the much more expensive original. Financially she does not profit from this at all, writing a prescription can be billed in her country but the height of the bill does not depend on the price of the prescribed medicine.
We are still experimenting (though we are profitable), but my startup[1] is working on an open source toolkit for building cooperative businesses. Our eventual goals are to build a diverse network of coops across multiple industries and to lower the barrier of entry for being a business owner/co-owner.

I would love to see coops everywhere! Unfortunately they can be a bit complicated to set up and operate. I really hope we can change that.

[1]: https://infinite.ai
New auditor's report say that humankind is not ready to leave the cave. We should all stay in the cave.
Mechanical switches are incredibly reliable and durable. After that its really just about how configurable you want your keyboard: switches, keycaps, layouts, layers, programming the firmware, etc. The hype is about 50/50 hardware and aesthetics.
Apple Pencil Review Written with an Apple Pencil
But that argument works both ways. It's also illogical to single out a movement for being small, given that every movement starts small, and most movements fail.
Word2Vec is exciting because of its result, not particularly its method. This paper is a pretty straight forward extension of word2vec by combining it's 'unsupervised' result with various labels to make it more useful. You can think of word2vec as a kind of independent representation of language (which is a stretch for the purists but for sake of conversation I think it's okay) that can be applied to various domains by 'supervising' it.
Blot.re is what? Something about colors and a social network for the internet of things?

His tree's site is empty, but it looks sort of like a Twitter for toasters.
He's a pretty incredible programmer, and is probably the best example of "outsider art" you'll find in computer science.

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

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/gods-lonely-programmer

He has also been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
I actually agree with the first sentence (well, before you revised the post -- it was concerning community-level regulation). However, practically implementing this would require extremely decentralized decision making (like individual neighborhoods exempting themselves from or choosing to enforce drug laws). As it stands, such a level of granularity is not available and its implementation would mean radical restructuring of how police forces work at a minimum. Otherwise, "community" becomes too broad to be of use.
The primary reason why the individual citizens of a country create a political structure is a subconscious wish or desire to perpetuate their own dependency relationship of childhood. Simply put, they want a human god to eliminate all risk from their life, pat them on the head, kiss their bruises, put a chicken on every dinner table, clothe their bodies, tuck them into bed at night, and tell them that everything will be alright when they wake up in the morning.

This public demand is incredible, so the human god, the politician, meets incredibility with incredibility by promising the world and delivering nothing. So who is the bigger liar? the public? or the "godfather"?

This public behavior is surrender born of fear, laziness, and expediency. It is the basis of the welfare state as a strategic weapon, useful against a disgusting public.

http://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/sw4qw/index.shtml#twentyfour
Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Networks
It would be more interesting to see asset forfeiture compared to armed robbery, since that is essentially what happens when police, with a gun on their hip and the right to use it, take your assets without legal judgement.
Show HN: Chat autoreplies for gmail forwarding accounts
I don't think they're talking about the PSN hack, but rather the release of tons of internal company emails. Just to cite one example of how this can ruin lives, Charlie Sheen's HIV-positive status was referred to in one email [1] (though it wasn't discovered until after he publicly announced it).

[1] http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/charlie-sheen-hiv-posi...
Yes, the exclamation marks were more in the line of "WTF". However I need to give credit to them for trying a ... creative... solution
So, dumb question here. As I understand it, the main reason for increased efficiency in LEDs is decreased wavelength of light output, focusing in visible spectrum. The bulb itself is a bit cooler than incandescent, but LED bulbs have these massive heatsinks for the electronics. It seems like there is still a lot of energy being lost as heat -- is much of this expected to be recoverable, and efficiency to continue increasing?
Yep, I feel the same way. I don't really like tinkering, though. I don't like the mindset of tinkerers, either. Every tinkerer I've come across has never finished anything of substantial size, and every one I've met had terrible programming habits, or such strongly opinionated views, you couldn't work with them or discuss something you liked because it wasn't inline with their holy views of writing god-awful code.

When I pursue a project, I work on it in terms of 10s of thousands of lines of code over a 2-4+ year span of time. When I take up small projects, I make sure they're useful for production purposes.

I often think about the portfolios of people like this, a large number of repositories to show for, and nothing ever particularly useful. Everything is a gimmick, and nothing ever took serious architectural decision making on a grand scale.
Graffiti is a computer program which makes conjectures in graph theory, written by Siemion Fajtlowicz. Research on conjectures produced by Graffiti has led to over 60 publications by other mathematicians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(program)
Fecal transplants: why one person's poop is another person's soup
GBPUSD Declines with Eyes on 1.5026 Zone
100%. Although in this case the html posted in the blog post is present on all requests, all the time.
Web Developer Job Opening at StoryCorps
Karmic. Straight from Dell's website:

Dell is serious about your privacy

Worried about Superfish? Dell limits its pre-loaded software to a small number of high-value applications on all of our computers. Each application we pre-load undergoes security, privacy and usability testing to ensure that our customers experience the best possible computing performance, faster set-up and reduced privacy and security concerns.
Can you clarify?

In golang, by convention, you only ever use asynchronous functions that return values. So there is "only one color." (You also have the option of writing callback spaghetti or implementing promises, but why would you do that?)

In elixir, you have the option of blocking on a Task. So you can do the same thing you do in golang, if you want. I don't know enough about elixir to say what the culture is like around this.
This is exactly what I had imagined. Very cool, I wish you the best of luck!
You can't think of one because "it hasn't happened". You can construct your definition of free trade to be restrictive enough that no countries fit the bill and it looks like evidence that the proposition is untrue (I'm not necessarily arguing that it is true).

Furthermore there is broken windows here, you don't know how those economies would have done if they were freer.
Yes, exactly, increase cost of sprawl.

BUT also decrease cost of density... pretty hard considering the momentum behind sprawl. Sprawl looks less attractive when it's more expensive. Density looks more attractive when it's cheaper.

I'd love it if I could wave a magic wand too. This is going to be a generation long effort. But it's taken a generation long effort to build car land.
You're thinking of the wrong Sony hack, this article details Sony Pictures. The organization as whole has been in the spotlight for this a few times now.
More like how the landing on the moon spawned SpaceX, Scaled Composites, etc. - It made people keep shooting for the moon.
I've posted about this before - my wife is a highly specialized surgeon. This article really only scratches the surface of the issues with surgery around the US, as a software developer working in a pretty transparent and open industry I'm always horrified at how surgeons practice in the US. In my opinion the core of the problem is the lack of transparency in the entire system. There are just very few pressures for surgeons to really improve like they should have to. If, as a surgeon at a academic center, you want to just cruise along, no problem, you can just publish a few papers each year, be nice to patients, and you will be considered a leader in your field - even if you have terrible outcomes. There is little to no data out there to help patients objectively evaluate a surgeon, and to force surgeons to become better.

Speaking of things that I found strange - my wife was blown away at her current practice because for every operation they 'pair-surgeon' full time. This seemed very normal to me, but outside of surgeon training this is considered bizarre - when she tells other surgeons they ask her if it is something to do with billing! (it is not, they can't bill for the second surgeon). She loves it of course, it forces her to up her game and gives her someone she can bounce her thoughts off of during the surgery. I've asked her if she could go visit another surgeon in another facility somewhere and work along side them for a few days to learn, but because of the red-tape and state licensing, this is extremely difficult. The cross seeding of surgical expertise becomes glacially slow after your initial training in residency, you pretty much hope you were trained well and stumble along with a bit of help here and there.
All professions have a focus on their strengths. Second opinions have a way of opening the direction to take.
Now imagine that you're living paycheque to paycheque, barely making ends meet, and your car breaks down and you can't afford to fix it until next month. How do you buy groceries? You walk over to the corner store talked about in the article and pay $5 for a gallon of milk.

Speaking from my own (not super broad) experience, people who live in suburbs are often better off than the people that this article is talking about. Having to drive to get groceries, while necessary, isn't the same kind of hardship. And most of the rural folks I know have two things that help: a huge pantry down in the basement full of canned goods and a deep-freeze or two full of frozen food, and a good enough relationship with their neighbours that they could get a ride or tow into town to get their car fixed.

It's weird in my city. There's a pile of apartment buildings right downtown, but there hasn't been a grocery store there for probably 10-15 years. I lived there when I was a student (it was a short-ish walk to the university), the only time I managed to actually buy groceries and cook was when my roommate and I happened to be home at the same time and we could use her car (when it was working). Otherwise, the easiest food to get was Subway which was less than a block away, or eat on Campus before I came home. Transit was a waste of time, it'd take over an hour each way to get to a grocery store. It was pretty much the definition of a Food Desert, and it sucked.
Ask HN: Does anyone still use QR codes?
These seemed to be big a few years ago, but I haven't heard much about QR codes recently. What is the preferred way of sharing a link in the physical world? NFC?
I haven't read the book, but here's another product of Disney's that helped me see movement and animation with a new perspective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_basic_principles_of_animati...
There's been lots of practical work on this including a math coprocessor with 100x claimed acceleration. I posted a list of links below for general purpose analog:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/07/friday_squid_...

The field has more potential than most think. Needs more research. One angle I thought about was applying it to neural networks somehow. Turns out there's a Deep Learning company doing that right now. ;) Many possibilities left to explore.
OK, fine, what if we changed it to "as safe as practical"?

The point is that those who are willing to die should not set the safety standards. We should surpass their personal risk tolerances, and make it safer than that.
The U.K. is quitting coal. Poorer countries aren’t. What's that mean?
Rational conservatism. Dependability trumps everything else when you're crawling into a fire.

It takes a lot of engineering effort to design a flashlight that will run continuously in 500°F heat. It costs an lot of money to get UL, NFPA and MSHA approval. You can't just stick the latest Cree die into a metal tube and hope for the best.
Yes, I do believe I addressed that-- "<from MS3, through residency, then fellowship for most surgeons, ~7-8 years>". (Though I'd argue a residency is far more time-intensive than a traditional "internship", and after you pass USMLE S3 you're a board-certified Medical Doctor until your 10 year card comes up)

My point was that you're going to have hacks at any sort of field which involves operational mechanics, or for that matter any craft that involves a mastery of a skill. I'm a life-long tennis player. Competent enough to hold my own against a recreational player pretty safely, but cognizant enough to know I'm not Roger Federer. If we were to graph any trade/craft/art/profession practitioner, I'd imagine "good" (for any metric of good) can be depicted by a normal Gaussian plot. You'll have geniuses, hacks, and average folk.
Now the next step is to build a replica of his house and this specific room down to the details so he can turn the lamp on in game which turns on the lamp in the real world.
what do you do for fun? it is okay that people do pointless shit in the name of fun, right?
The censorship on HN is outright disgusting.
They're selling how great Azure is, not how great Windows/Edge is. I don't find it all that strange.
Seems like gradual introduction of new asset forfeiture laws. See IJ's video and information:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hytkAaoF2k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhAa2vep1z0

http://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit/
Yes. In elixir and erlang, you can call a function without knowing whether it will wait on an asynchronous message. The function you called will not return until the message is received or a timeout is reached.
Guerilla gardening for the startup office
By not take-off, I'm guessing you just mean there's not many people buying these:

http://www.anadigm.com/fpaa.asp
I've often seen two things conflated when it comes to cancer & Mars.

The first is that if we send people on a one-off return mission their lifetime risk of cancer will increase by X%. This is obviously a concern, but as others here in the thread have mentioned we could get people willing to accept the risk.

The second is that if people stay on Mars for generations you have the risk of cumulative damage to DNA over generations. Now it's not just a problem that instead of living to 80 you die of cancer at 60, but rather that after N generations the population's DNA might be damaged past repair.