skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should just read the trial documentation (there is a shitload of it just a Google search away). Suffice it to say that the trial pretty conclusively established that Schmeiser deliberately created an unauthorized glyphosate crop.

You might not care; that's fine. This link might save us an unproductive round-trip:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10604755
>Having "seen the light" on Shkreli's actions

What light? Can you point to it?
I think the idea is that the bounds are finite but not fixed. The architect of the system could hot-plug in a bunch of nodes to any direction and the playing field would instantly expand. However, at any given time, there are a knowable, fixed number of nodes.
ISIS Has a Twitter Strategy and It Is Terrifying
We can just trust the NSA because they have shown themselves to be untrusthworthy. They already used information on innocent people for personal purposes.
The horror stories are actually what is important in the face of 40 million people staying in various places. Big numbers are big numbers and nothing especially interesting in-and-of-themselves.

That you would so callously discount the discomfort people feel in their own homes due to the profit motive of their neighbors is what should be emphasized as the negative aspect of what AirBnB enables. You care about statistical significance and not the human aspect and I simply can't respect that sort of inhuman profit-loss calculation.
That depends. If I have hundred dollar bills that the wind blows onto your property, are you allowed to keep them, or are you required by law to report found property? I don't see this as all that different, except that it may displace his current crop, so he may be able to sue (someone) for hardship caused by improper containment. Local laws may apply[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost,_mislaid,_and_abandoned_p...
Travelers can't vote. That's an incredibly reductionist answer.
Oxford University bans free speech magazine as “offensive”
Devil's advocate: Ive had little to no problem with Coinbase for a good 80%+ of my bitcoin usage.

The only issue I had is my buy limit decreased suddenly because they added more security I had to verify for my identity and didn't notify me. Once I verified my ID it was instantly reinstated.
Where do you think the balance beyond the co-pay is coming from, though? Magical wish-granting insurance fairies?

Sorry for the sarcastic tone, but your argument, as stated by Shkreli himself, seems to think that people believe that the hundreds (or more) dollars a month they pay in insurance premiums has absolutely nothing to do with this. "But your copay will only be $20 and you won't pay a cent more!"

No, you (or your employer, who could otherwise be paying you that money) will be paying -every last cent- of the price rise. Just largely as an amortized monthly premium, not an out-of-pocket co-pay at the time you pick up your script.

Shkreli seems to believe that people would fall for his argument that somehow the balance of the cost of the drug would be paid by ... I don't know who, exactly, hence those magical fairies ... and not by us.

And in a lot of cases, he's right.
"Twitter is the cornerstone of the group’s digital strategy. 80% to 90% of its social media comes from twitter with a projected 46,000 to 70,000 accounts all over the world that are linked to promoting messages of hate (NYT). There are an estimated 21,000 English-language followers alone. (CNN) Most content comes from 2,000 over-performers that tweet in bursts of 50 or more tweets per day with each of these over-performers having an average of 1,004 followers. The result is an astonishing estimated 200,000 tweets per day. (The Brookings Institute)"

200,000 tweets per day? Who is the ISP in the ISIS controlled regions? Couldn't we just cut their ISP?
https://xapo.com/ offers prepaid card which works everywhere too and is not such corporate asshole like Coinbase.
coinjar. and they've had a Bitcoin debit card for about 6months ^.^
Heh, I choose IDEs based on performance, not looks, and liteide is blazing fast compared to anything else I've used.
That puts disproportional emphasis on quadriceps strength. I had hoped for a broader metric.
jerf, when you write that blog post, would you submit it on HN? I'd like to see it.
That's my point; travelers don't get a say in local politics. Its up to the local populace to decide what they want.
What good does it do to scale something up to the size of the first stage of a four stage rocket? Those other three stages are pretty important to that whole putting-stuff-in-orbit business.

Edit: I see Shavit can also launch in a three stage configuration. My overall point remains.
Interesting, did they keep data on what they tried do you know?
How the New EU Data Protection Regulation Will Be Misused to Censor Speech
> in order to protect one's neighbors from... what exactly?

Drunken guests regularly wake my 62 year old mother up by pounding on the wrong door at 2AM. She's been complaining for many months to Airbnb and they do not care.

An Airbnb guest got into a fight with a tenant of my previous apartment building. Only possible because Airbnb let drunken frat boys party in a building full of families.

The Airbnb host doesn't care, the Airbnb guest doesn't care, and Airbnb itself doesn't care. The people that care have no ability to fix the problem.
A decline in commodity prices increases demand for commodities, so Maersk buys more ships to meet the new demand. Is that possible?

Does the Baltic Dry Index vary inversely with the number of ships presently in the water?
I love that the flif format is totally free, which seems to be the main painpoint here with BPG. However:

1) It doesn't seem very compelling without lossy compression. Moreover, the recommended way to get a lossy version is to use `dd` on a flif file...

2) Even in the FLIF examples, BPG always looks the best: http://flif.info/example.html strikingly so.

This makes me think that, even if using HEVC is a bad idea, reusing video codecs might be a rich source of innovation for image compression.
Ai, that's bad, especially if it is the first snow to be that much. Drive safe!

I think they're going to regret using threaded rods for shaft (much too soft, unstable and abrasive, especially in an aluminum block) if you really are going to build this I'd suggest a cast iron bearing block and a solid shaft from 1" technical steel or whatever the local name is (precision ground shaft). That has a much higher chance of living for a while.
>that they would not allow a cancerous facism to spread

The reason the rest of the government has a system of checks and balances is because humans can't be trusted to not get out of control when it comes to power. The NSA has none of this so they will keep expanding their power as much as they can.
Lie to Congress as a baseball player? Goto jail (in your house).

Lie to Congress as head of NSA? Retire?
EFF Joins Broad Coalition of Groups to Protest the TPP in Washington D.C
Multiple Personalities, Blindness and the Brain
If you had a daily snapshot of the front page of HN at 3:00PM PST from 2011 to today, I think you'd see approximately the same number of political stories.

The difference is that the stories you'd see today are more focused: where before you'd see the occasional Ron Paul story, or something about Israel, or something about the banksters, today you're almost certainly going to see a police misconduct or asset forfeiture story.

What there should be is a clearer guideline. "Don't post stories about politics or religion".
What about the Math Olympians?
Real banks will ask you for Driver Licenses and SSN when you open a bank account with them.

Information on DL has your height, eye color, address, telephone number, your photo, your finger prints. That's why they don't need to ask for your income again.

However, I tried Coinbase and will not use them ever again.
It's "seasonal". People do drive like they have never seen snow or a wet road before though.
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg will take two months of paternity leave
Glad at least one person mentions it albeit near the bottom of the comments. I've been telling them that since before the Snowden leaks. Nice summary of required assurance activities and areas where issues pop up:

http://pastebin.com/y3PufJ0V

The one exception is Ottela's Tinfoil Chat. It needs a robust, low-level implementation instead of Python. Yet, he cleverly dodged much of the TCB problem by creatively applying what he learned from others plus input we gave him on Schneier's blog for high assurance security & general improvements. So, you can build on and use that* but the rest depend on what top-tier and organized crime can buy attacks for. Ridiculous....

* Again, without Python and with TCB enhancements. OpenBSD at the least for its lower 0-days.
The law absolutely requires them to stop doing business with - and report on - people who they have good reason to believe fall into money laundering, terrorist financing and other KYC financial crimes categories. Their safest - and cheapest - way to comply is use rather shallow and heavily automated systems to score their customers and react accordingly.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3325273/CCTV-catches...
Because we can't trust our fellow Americans that much. You can plainly observe the current anti-Muslim, anti-refugee rhetoric and make that assessment yourself. You remembered what public discourse was like right after 9/11. The NSA's dragnet surveillance would be of great help in, say, Donald Trump's recommendation to make a database of all US Muslims.
"The officials said the fish would not have to be labeled as being genetically engineered, a policy consistent with its stance on foods made from genetically engineered crops."

As an aside, what is your reason for not consuming GMO foods if you also trust that many biologists feel that they can be safe? Genuinely curious not trying to be snarky.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10604654
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> Its up to the local populace to decide what they want.

Thinking that's the solution to every problem is rather naive. For one thing, it's a great way to abuse minorities for the minor benefit of majorities.

More importantly, it ignores the fact that actions can have externalities far beyond a local jurisdiction. Just like a town shouldn't be able to "vote" to rob everyone who drives on their highway (or, more realistically, eliminate air quality controls), neither should it be allowed to have complete control over travel regulations. Travelers might not be a constituent in local elections, but travel and interstate commerce does have key externalities.
Except these are sterile females, farmed in inland pools[1]. I agree in general that we should consider the possibility of GM species interbreeding with or out-competing existing species, but this case seems exceptionally safe.

1: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
I appreciate this sentiment but if companies want to be regarded as unicorns when things are going well, it seems fair to give them a cute'sy but ridiculous name, unicorpse, when they're on their way down.

Many startups actively seek out the unicorn label as it helps them with getting press, recruiting employees, etc. Being a unicorn is shorthand to folks that this company might be big and successful. Unicorpse is shorthand for this company is dying. That seems fair.
I'm about 99% sure that Fabrice handwrote the html on his main page for BPG: http://bellard.org/bpg/

The bold choice of 0 CSS just gives this idea even more credibility than it already had.
How is living in San Antonio? I had a recruiter from Rackspace contact me and that seemed like a big negative.
The risk of this GM species escaping into the environment is infinitesimally small.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/fda-approves-first-gm...

Key part:

"The agency also assessed potential environmental effects and the proposed containment method. In accordance with the FDA’s approval, the fish must be kept in inland tanks, specifically tanks at two facilities—one in Canada and the other in Panama. The Canadian facility will keep the breeding stock, and the Panama site will be used to raise the fish to market-size.

Both facilities have multiple, redundant physical barriers to keep the fish and eggs from escaping, the agency noted. Tanks have covers, nets, jump fences, covered drains, and closed septic systems. In addition, conditions of natural water systems surrounding the Panama site, particularly the warm temperatures, are expected to be lethal to the salmon. The Panama site will raise all-female, sterile fish."
"making it the first genetically altered animal to be cleared for American supermarkets and dinner tables"

What is the definition of "genetically altered"? I assume that cannot cover selective breeding, for example.
> Nothing rules out Iran having such a complete turnaround.

The purpose of the Guardian Council [0] is precisely to prevent such a turnaround.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Council
You blame an external boogeyman you call "society" for the sins of the individual parents. I do not.

Just because many coddle their kin doesn't mean all of society does. Not all kids should be treated as if they were once coddled.
Alternative headline: 40% of Non-White OK with limiting speech offensive to minorities
Regardless of perception, local politics dictates property use regulations. AirBnB isn't going to up-end that overnight (if ever).
Would you say the same of "non-whites?" Because 40% of them said the same thing.
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>I don't know what you were taught in Iran, but this is 100% false.

I don't know what kind of Islam you taught, but holy book is exclusively about sex and relationship as well as 99% fatwa's.
You are just stating something without even explaining it . so nice . I would claim it is 100% true. You can study holy book , it almost exclusively about sex and relationship between men and women with stories -unrelated to relation- between them.

Please before giving such ridiculous answer , provide your reasons .
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It's all subjective. Objectively, they have a huge following with many enthusiastic users. Clearly it's not the disaster that you are making it out to be.

I love some PyCharm. It's a wonderful piece of software. It is a little slow to start, and it is indeed heavy on memory, but RAM is cheap and I don't reboot hardly ever. It is 100% a first-class citizen on Linux.
You mean its security or impressions from a pro looking at its code matter less than who backed it? I think not. Its design, implementation, and evidence they're correct matter more than who backs it. It has to measure up before those things are even an issue.
I had a great experience with one of these types. He worked bagging groceries while perusing his apprenticeship and passed the bar with high marks. I asked him why, and he said he loves the law and did not want to be as financially committed as so many were.

He also decided to laser focus on a couple of common aspects of law and absolutely nail them.

Often, when I'm going to use a professional of some sort, I will ask them about their journey to practice whatever it is they do. Many have a quick statement you can tell they have prepped to dispense with it all efficiently.

No worries, I value my time too.

Of course, many ask because they feel they should. But, some ask out of a more genuine interest, and that is me.

This guy told me all about his journey, and I could feel it. He is doing something he feels something for and he wants to do it well. Love it. I know exactly who I am dealing with and what to expect. I can trust the intent too, which is important. Money is nice, but you can't buy well directed passion.

In my experience, professionals who can pick up on that interest and have a real dialog are some of the best to work with. Not that the others aren't. It is just easier to figure someone out and work well, trust and value them when they can or will share on a more real, basic level.

To me, it seems there should be a path for people like this. They often know what they want and they feel what they need to in order to honor whatever it is.

Filtering that out is what organizations like the ABA, AMA, etc... do. And we need them to do that for us too. No argument.

But, doing that does conflict with maximizing self directed people, and I get it. They paid, and shouldn't everyone who is serious?

No, frankly. And there is the rub.

Software is one area where these people often and frequently do shine bright. Arguably, we are better for that.

Not everyone can or will pay. To me, having some intrinsic drive is worth a lot.
C actually has multiple formal semantics. The most recent I'm aware of is Robbert Krebbers' (almost) complete formalizatiom of C11 in the CH2O project.[1] See also his upcoming PhD thesis[2] for more details.

[1] http://robbertkrebbers.nl/research/ch2o/

[2] http://robbertkrebbers.nl/thesis.html
Using the hardware decoder requires creating a new decoder for each size of image you're decoding, and round-trip latency to get the frame back and do compositing on the web page. In addition, most hardware decoders have a limited number of decode contexts available, forcing the decodes to be serialized. Not a great prospect for an average website with tens to hundreds of images.
Why can't we just give up several rights and insanely powering information to NSA and blindly hope that they will do "the right thing" with it with no transparency? I really hope this is a minority opinion.
I would also like to remind people that a lot of services are hosted in the USA and the world at large is also affected by this... The rest of the world should definitely not "just trust" the NSA.
His dog has dreads - very cool
> reusing video codecs might be a rich source of innovation for image compression

As in WebP?
What astronauts are trained to do at the top of their field and what they end up doing are kind of divorced though. They spend an inordinate amount of time turning wrenches really, really slowly.
There's a very precious type of statement: the kind that is really hard to come up with for the first time, but it is obvious when you hear it for the first time. It makes you say, "oh, of course!"

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox

"High Output Management" has an extremely high density of these statements.
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You will need at least two licenses, one from MPEG-LA and one from HEVC Advance. MPEG-LA publishes a list of patents so you can see if there are any covering your country. In addition, HEVC Advance also licenses based on the total revenue your content generates for your website.

tl;dr yes, if you don't pay for licenses for all of the required patents.
I think this could be used for creating explainer graphics.
I'm fine with that being regulated by the property manager or the landlord prohibiting sub-letting (as most leases do). Amsterdam is a unique situation since it attracts people who are specifically there to do things that are illegal in the places they come from. That's not the majority of AirBnB usage. I don't think we need city-wide regulations limiting what people can do with their own property.
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>hardware HEVC support, so we suggest to use it if patents are an issue.

This will not save you from the HEVC Advance content fees, which are a percentage of your website's total revenue related to the images.
"At Facebook we offer our US employees up to 4 months of paid maternity or paternity leave which they can take throughout the year."

He's managed to make his paternity leave a PR opportunity. Acute.
> Academia fights against mullah's, science fights, liberal people fighting against mullah's more effective than any other person in whole revolution history...BUT THEY CANNOT FIGHT WITH INTERNET, WITH TOR, WITH STUDENTS who USE TOR. Give them internet , provide them satellite , Facebook/twitter/YouTube/porn , Show them fucking beautiful women in Texas(with respect to women, I just want show sexual incentives), show them there is no need to kill so many people to get those woman , you can fuck like heaven in earth without killing people. And BOOOOOM this is the sound of explosion of foundation of religion.

I see where you are coming from, and I am in agreement with this element of your comment. Backward, unproductive ideologies will not stand the test of time and will eventually crumble under the pressure of globalization unless they can bring tremendous force to bear against the rest of the world. I think what you say will be useful in the future, but the question is what do we do right now? Do we sit back and let ISIS attack Europe without responding? Do we let Russia deal with the issue? Are we willing to allow further areas to be destabilized?
Plan 9 is the obvious third experimental system to come to mind, more like Sprite in some ways and Amoeba in others.

An important paper to read before digging too thoroughly into this subject is: "A Note on Distributed Computing" [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.41.7...], Jim Waldo, Geoff Wyant, Ann Wollrath, and Sam Kendall. SMLI TR-94-29, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc., Nov. 1994.

"We argue that objects that interact in a distributed system need to be dealt with in ways that are intrinsically different from objects that interact in a single address space. These differences are required because distributed systems require that the programmer be aware of latency, have a different model of memory access, and take into account issues of concurrency and partial failure....

"We conclude by discussing what is required of both systems-level and application-level programmers and designers if one is to take distribution seriously."

As far as systems programming and systems programming languages go (more at http://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2011/11/systems-programming.html), keep in mind that "systems programming" is more about resource management---think of it like programming embedded systems where "embedded" might include the kernel of your stand-alone (or distributed) OS.

"James Iry made a very insightful observation about the nature of the C programming language:

"'Alan Perlis famously said "a programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant." What's relevant depends on the problem and the domain, so a corollary would be that a language that's at too high a level prevents paying attention to some of what is relevant for your needs.'"
All Pulis do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puli
This made me look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard. Creator of FFmpeg and QEMU. And quite a few other accomplishments. Impressive.
>> These are people who are very likely at the top of their fields, have gone through rigorous (and costly) training, and are going up to do very specific jobs

>That is irrelevant to the level safety precautions. Unless you were trying to argue that their costly training makes them worth more than other people. I hope that is not what you were arguing.

I believe GP was arguing about the "a dime a billion" part. They are not worth more than other people in the human sense, but that doesn't make them any more common. It's just the fact that there are very few people with such qualifications that negate the argument of "a dime a billion".

And I guess it's also true that not any of those billions could be trained to be an astronaut for a myriad of reasons.
I'd have thought the market for gene therapy was blindingly obvious compared with the market for computers 40 years ago: theoretical gene therapies being easier to conceive and more fundamental to human quality and length of life than theoretical everyday uses for calculation devices.
It definitely has some nice ideas, but it's very mechanical and dry. It lacks heart when it comes the people side... There's only so much you can get out of people when they are just subordinates to you.