skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO the nixes have a far superior CLI, but Windows' GUI is (at least pre-Metro, i.e. Win32 desktop) superior to the many disjoint alternatives that the Linux/BSD/OS X/Solaris/etc. world has. Instead of Qt, Gtk, and all the others, Windows just has Win32 and all apps have basically identical look-and-feel (except for those that go out of their way to reinvent the standard GUI elements, but in my experience this is much rarer on Windows) and it's relatively easy for them to interact.

(I've been writing Win32 apps for over a decade, so maybe I'm biased that way, but I definitely prefer (ba)sh over command.com/cmd.exe. My ideal environment would be a pre-Metro Windows GUI with a UNIX-based filesystem and command prompt...)
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This is, of course, the sustained point of the middle part of this article.
The Wired headline is less misleading than your comment. Information about transfers of ownership will be recorded on a private ledger, and a hash of that information will be inserted into Bitcoin's blockchain, one hash inserted for each transaction.

In other words, the private details of each transaction will be recorded on a proprietary ledger so that those details can remain private. But the fact of each transaction's occurrence will be recorded publicly on Bitcoin's blockchain, and recorded in a form that allows parties privy to the transaction details to verify cryptographically that the entries in the proprietary ledger correspond to the sequence of transactions published to Bitcoin's blockchain. Basically, this scheme uses Bitcoin's blockchain to provide security (immutability) and public accountability while keeping private information private.

(This insert-a-hash scheme is typical of "colored coin" implementations even when privacy is not desired, since each Bitcoin transaction can insert only a small amount of data into the blockchain.)

The amended S3 filing [0] spells all of this out in detail. The most relevant section starts on page 35, and the first paragraph of page 36 describes the core of the scheme:

In connection with a digital securities transaction, the
tØ software will publish the transaction to the proprietary
ledger ... . Concurrently, the tØ software will electronically
publish the proprietary ledger and commence the process of
embedding in the Bitcoin blockchain information necessary
to mathematically prove the validity of available copies
of the proprietary ledger. Specifically, after a set of
transactions in our digital securities have been executed
and recorded to the proprietary ledger, the Pro
Securities ATS will send a de minimis amount of Bitcoin
from an ATS-controlled Bitcoin wallet to another ATS-
controlled Bitcoin wallet using the blockchain protocol.
This blockchain protocol provides for an editable field
that can be used to implant code or other data within the
Bitcoin transaction that will be embedded into the
blockchain, and the tØ software will use this field to
implant anonymized cryptographic hash functions for the
digital securities transactions reflected on the
proprietary ledger into the Bitcoin transfer made by the
ATS. The blockchain will validate this de minimis Bitcoin
transaction and embed it, together with the implanted
anonymized cryptographic hash function, into the Bitcoin
blockchain. As a result, once the Bitcoin transaction is
immutably embedded into the Bitcoin blockchain, an
immutable record of the digital securities transactions
reflected on the proprietary ledger is also recorded
within the Bitcoin blockchain. ...

0. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130713/0001047469150...
Actually, I just meant that opinions in general are not tolerated anymore (not only mine).

Look, you have to understand that I grew up in the 80s and 90s. Having an opinion and expressing it was a big thing, back then. But, these days, it's all about conformity (or seems so, to these eyes).
That doesn't seem like a big enough hurdle. Card testing is already automated with bots, and this method can be easily defeated with a simple tweak (e.g. use a catch-all address and then automate the link clicking).

I know you wrote that it's just "out-running you, not the bear," but you probably won't be outrunning others for very long.

Edit: I have no problem with measures that could help protect against fraud even just a little, but this one also introduces friction for legitimate customers, so it needs to be sufficiently effective to be worth it.
There's also the issue of Floridians pumping fresh water out of a very porous aquifer that then fills with salt water and erodes the bedrock even more. Most of Florida is sinking.
The CPD's ability to react to data like this is severely hampered by the public employee union that is the real governance for the force.
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Nope, not just you. I suspect it's because most readers are afraid of fractions.
The name came from Whoscall; an app to look up caller info, and I've no idea what else should I name it.
Most driving is fairly routine, but without strong AI I don't see how a self driving car can handle things like:

There is a car accident on the side of the road, and there is a human cop waving cars one at a time to drive past on the wrong side of the road.

I am part of a funeral procession, or a police escorted parade and I need to drive through red lights in order to stay in the procession. (That at least I know from the start to take manual control - except google wants a car with no wheel, and in a world with lots of such cars people won't know how to drive.)

Or, there is an ambulance behind me sirens wailing and in order to get out of the way I must drive illegally for a moment (through a red light, or on the wrong side of the road).

How about something as simple as driving the car up some ramps so I can service the car. How would you do that without both a steering wheel and experience in how to drive?

I don't see how a self driving car can handle any of those.
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I'm using the Play framework. I run it on dedicated hardware, so the few extra MB of disk space doesn't bother me.

I know you don't like talking about it, but do you have something to share about its performance?
"Philips Hue is based on ZigBee LightLink, a low-power, safe, and reliable technology to control your lights. New features and improvements are continuously added to the system to make it even more useful. Software and firmware updates can be done wirelessly and directly to your lights. The Philips Hue system can be easily integrated with other ZigBee-based systems for additional home automation."
http://www2.meethue.com/en-gb/about-hue/what-hue-is/

That phrase was up there before the DRM, during the DRM, and now after the DRM. So yes, they were advertising the functionality.

They openly tested and added 3rd party bulbs to be controllable by the system in the past:
https://twitter.com/tweethue/status/567368692452048896

They were advertising it and committing open actions to support 3rd party bulbs. The community interpreted their actions as shit rightfully.
Devops weekly archive stops at Nov2014.
Is it still active?
> Instead of Qt, Gtk, and all the others, Windows just has Win32

No, Windows has Qt, Gtk and all the others, too. Virtually any regular user Windows install has 2-5 Qt apps on it. And Windows has been infamous for apps reinventing standard UI elements with skinned monstrosities.
> They're the ones who say we're not allowed to have jobs if we think the wrong thoughts or have the wrong opinions.

Yeah, like that crazy leftist Joe McCarthy, and his modern-day ilk that try to get teachers fired for being gay or atheist.

No party has a monopoly on nutbags; it just seems that way because of selection bias.
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Show HN: Relevant 2.0 – A better GoogleNow for iOS, probably
Google Is 'Disappointed' with California's New Self-Driving Cars Rules
When it comes down to it, what are universities really for?
I return at least a few hard drives that have failed for customers that are still under warranty per year. I tell them they can send the unit back or can pay me a little to send it back. Quite a large percentage of them just give me the drive and don't worry about it.

People, in general, hate dealing with warranty returns. For many items you have to follow pretty specific instructions to avoid your warranty being declared void.
Some people (like me) have invested a lot of effort learning how to use Windows. Some of those aren't particularly interested in technical superiority. The just want to use a computer in the sufficiently good way that they already know. Personally, I find Linux difficult to approach, because of the overhead involved in just getting back to my current level of proficiency. If I needed to learn it for a job, I would. I might even do it independently, eventually.

It's similar to the dominance of QWERTY.

But even I would much sooner learn how to use linux, than embark on a crazy project like this.
I sadly got bit today. I bought a Freedompop hotspot. After entering my billing information, and after the processing screen, a screen showed an offer for a $30 phone.

I intended to click Skip, but my mind clicked Accept this offer, because it was the primary button. Its a $30 loss, but inevitably, I will save hundreds with the hotspot.

After the accept this offer, there was no confirmation, just finished the processing screen with no way to cancel the order.
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I would argue that everyone wants to be in the "innovation group"—it's where all the challenge is, it's where all the stuff that looks good on their resume is, and it's just plain inherently more interesting subject matter—and that those who end up "exploiting" rather than "exploring" feel like they've lost out because of this. Plus, R&D engineers frequently have less oversight and better pay.

The real problem is that the decision-process for who ends up in R&D—and who ends up handling dumb production bugs their whole life—looks more like the military officer/enlisted split than like a single career track. We have extremely talented, extremely experienced engineers who are 20-year "Non-Commissioned Officers", still stuck in the bullpen, while some of the newbies mysteriously end up fluttering away to be Ensigns.
No. Does that make me less wacky? Do you have a wackiness scale documented that I could check out?
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EU agrees draft on pan-European data privacy rules
As the parent comment says, this is now fixed. Android has moved to an iOS style permissions system in 6.0
It's because of parallelism. Not the computing kind, but the writing kind. Sentence constructions like "AMP pages load four times faster and use one-eighth the data" or "AMP pages have one fourth the latency and eight times better data compression" read awkwardly; try reading them aloud, vs. the original sentence. You're taught in writing class to use equivalent constructions for all clauses within a sentence. It's much like the stylistic rule in programming languages to not mix camelCase and snake_case in the same file.
Has everyone given up on making the air in Beijing better?
You can also change the memory layout to that of a binary heap, instead of the usual sorted order. That puts the next index at either (2i + 1) or (2i + 2). With proper alignment, those will be in the same cache line up to 4 iterations in the future, regardless of which way you descend the tree. So you can do a branchless prefetch version with much better than a 50% prefetch accuracy. This only helps once you're hitting L3 cache, though.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10410676 for previous discussion.
There is obviously an economic impact from not paying workers a living wage, irrespective of how certain arguments can be parsed. There is also obviously an economic cost associated with paying a living wage.

The alternatives to the minimum wage that you listed are pretty much variations on the mimimum wage in that they seek to achieve the same goals and also have attendant costs. They are, essentially, no more or less moral vs. economic in nature than is the minimum wage, though their invocation may be less charged at present.

The latter point is evidenced by your juxtaposition of the "moral" minimum wage with its presumably amoral (and thus economics-based) alternatives. But, in truth, if any of these have valid economic arguments, then so does the minimum wage.
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Thanks.

1) Expecting a human to be on deck within some fraction of a second in challenging times will not fly.

2) Perhaps software in cars can be independently safety tested. Just like cars are collision tested today.

3) Understand about human reaction times. My question is about making moral choices: hit a pedestrian or sacrifice the driver?
Classic example of the government preventing innovation.
You're right, especially about the reinforcement bit.

There are some characters that I can recognise, because I've seen them often enough on Taobao, but don't come up in every day conversation. So, I don't know how to pronounce them, and wouldn't recognise them if someone said them out loud.
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Anyone who is interested in maximizing the output of computer hardware should read this. 100% of times I've been able to significantly speed up a piece of C++ code, I did it by using a technique from this document. Cannot recommend highly enough.
Two atoms make quantum memory, processing gate, and test of entanglement
When was the last time you used maps?
Startups and huge multi-billion dollar companies have different priorities.

If you have lots of money to hire a bigger team and you want to be able to handle lots of users on fewer machines then Java (or even C++) makes sense.
I'm guessing that it's just a research "meme": the result of scientists talking to one-another at conferences and spreading ideas about promising avenues of research.

Then again, I'm Canadian myself, so I'm not to be trusted here ;)
And he started doing this in his 30's/40's when he had stopped contributing to physics. Maybe you grow more senile the more you age.
> beardy invisible man living in the sky

The only things actually pertinent to monotheistic doctrines are "invisible" and "living".

> Scientists do not believe in parallel universes, dark matter and all the other stuff you mentioned.

Of course they do. They create models and then try to interpret them using what looks more like philosophy than hard science. What they get sometimes is nothing short of unsubstantiated belief in absurd things. But as long as they don't try to pass that as the scientific truth, we don't mind. Crazy beliefs might lead to new discoveries, specially in that nebulous phase of hypothesis formulation.
Is it? The paragraph that the GP purportedly objects to:

> The “few bad apples” theory of police violence posits that a small portion of the police force is ill-intentioned or inclined to misconduct or violence, while the majority of officers are good cops.

One of the middle paragraphs that I believe you are referring to:

> In addition to the outsize number of complaints, Kalven said, repeaters have broader, cultural impacts, both within and outside of the department. Within the department, repeaters might normalize misconduct toward residents, pushing other cops toward wrongdoing. Outside of the department, the behavior of these officers can turn the community against the police. “That’s what the ‘few bad apples’ theory doesn’t capture: the kind of compounding, metastasizing arms that flow from the impunity of bad cops,” Kalven said.

If the OP -- and the people that the OP cites -- has the correct interpretation of "bad apples", then the very point of examining the "bad apples theory" would be to capture the "kind of compounding, metastasizing arms that flow from the impunity of bad cops"...the way that quoted graf is phrased, it's as if the "bad apples theory" (and I think "theory" is being used incorrectly here, perhaps) were something different than the idea that bad apples cause the good apples to rot.

I skimmed the article twice but didn't see any chart, stat, or anecdote that alluded to examination of the impact of an officer on their precinct. That is, when a "bad apple" moves to a new precinct, does that precinct's rate of complaints increase in addition to the bad apple's expected rate of complaints?

The OP is mostly concerned with controlling for factors to argue that bad apples really are bad apples and not because they are in bad environments:

> Even after controlling for neighborhood, however, individual officers with more complaints in 2011-13 remained more likely to have complaints filed against them in 2014-15.

Which of course...is very important to analyze. But it seems straightforward to do a event-time analysis in which, after a major disciplinary incident, or even just a string of minor incidents, in which an officer is apparently unsanctioned, does that impact the rate of misconduct complaints among the other officers in the subsequent months? This could be applied to both bad officers who are being moved around (e.g. Prezbo-style as in "The Wire") or who, for whatever reason, don't get moved around.
In his famous Stanford commencement speech he said he quit because it was too expensive.
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I experimented with cmov for a lot of cpu-bound graphics routines years ago and found that it was rarely faster than branching and never faster than a branchless version w/o cmov. The folks on c.l.a.x said this was due to cmov being microcoded on modern CPUs and so under the hood your still just branching and the only benefit really was instruction cache.
Sure, you can be annoyed with my tone or even not like me personally. But, down-voting me just for one of those reasons - that's just a form of suppression / censorship.

But, on the other hand, I know I violated the guidelines, so I took a risk. Just trying to prove a point.
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Religious flamewars, which is where this thread is headed (indeed crosses into, below) are off topic on Hacker News. So we detached it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10747716 and marked it off-topic.
Self-driving cars should only need to handle 90% of driving tasks. For the rest, a qualified human can and should be required to take over.
I think I'll vote with my dollar and never buy a Lexmark product again.
Haha, just 14 lights year away. As soon as we get that warp drive online and the worm hole opener all set then we have a backup plan for when we burn this planet out.
Given that the number of users for whom it's "fixed" rounds to 0 (and the proportion of apps targeting the v6 SDK probably also rounds to 0, so even if you are running Marshmallow it won't work for the vast majority of apps) I think that specifying that it's "fixed" is a tad overstated.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/android-6-0-marshmall...
The Associated Press article about the California Department of Motor Vehicles proposed new rules for cars with autonomous driving features[1] suggests one reason to be pessimistic about the vision of rentable self-driving cars becoming a reality as soon as Google would like. (I would like it to be a reality soon, too, but I have to wait for what the technologists and regulators involved can do together to make that a reality for me.) A company that rents out rides to paying riders has to have a market to operate in, and any state could (and, if California is an example, maybe would) regulate that company in ways that might not make it a feasible business. A follow-up article on this news[2] says that Google is "disappointed" by the newly announced California rules.

[1] "California: Self-driving cars must have driver behind wheel under DMV proposed rules" (16 December 2015)

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_29262037/california-s...

[2] "Google 'disappointed' by proposed restrictions on driverless cars" (16 December 2015)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2015/12/16/google-di...
That leaves humans without enough experience to actually know how to drive. It takes years of driving to get good at it.

If people drove only 1/10 as much as now no one would ever get good at it.

It's called "The Paradox of Automation" and it's a huge problem.

Basically the better the Automation the less often humans do anything, but it means that when humans do have to do something it's much much more critical than usual. Which is exactly the situations the humans have no experience with since they take control so rarely.

Basically some automation is good, but a lot of automation is actually detrimental to safety. For each industry you have to calculate that cutoff point and do no further automation past that point, until you are able to reach 100% perfection.
Or October for non-developers. Was that half a year ago? Oh and it only works for apps targeting the latest APIs, which is how many apps?
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But according to recently tried cases, something as mundane as incrementing a URL can be construed as a violation of CFAA.
I get what you're saying, but FWIW I honestly have no problem with the non-parallel sentence constructions in your example. It's a technical article. I want a high amount of information in a concise and clear package.
I'd call them to cancel. If they refuse, or don't provide a way to contact them, I'd probably try a chargeback.
Spaceballs.
My partner died 3 months ago, presumably due to complications of a tonic-clonic seizure. She was in the room next to me with a door closed because she was feeling unwell with a headache for the two days prior and so was dozing in bed. I was either doing the vacuuming or playing a video game at the time. This technology may have allowed me to save her as I would've seen/felt the text message and been able to provide first aid to her immediately.

For those of us who have to live with a loved one who suffers seizures, thank you to the author for making this and thank you ingve for sharing it. Hopefully it can avert a tragedy like mine for someone else in the future.
So tax capital income twice? Once at the business and once for shareholders? That's the reason why we have low capital gains tax.
So? Your criminal liability for incrementing the URL is totally situational. If you're reading a catalog and you tick the URL to see what the next product is, you aren't going to be liable. If you see a URL used for XHR in the frontend for your bank and you increment it to see other people's bank accounts, you will be.

We don't have a law against "hacking" in the US; we have a law against "unauthorized access", particularly when that access has consequences.

According to one recently tried case, by the way, and one where the sentence was ultimately vacated.

And finally: CISA has almost nothing to do with criminal law (it defines no new offenses does not change CFAA or its sentencing). If you want to have a discussion about how totally broken CFAA's sentencing is, I'm right there with you.
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Generous of you. What about the effect on pension funds that hold this now worthless stock? Grants to employees? The thousands of job losses?
Sure, don't mind.
I see. I don't think I caught the nuance of your point until you put a spotlight on it.

I do very much agree that spending motivates most "do-good" groups more than simply doing good does. In that sense, I agree that global warming and other such causes are very political. That indeed is a similarity between politics and academia.
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