skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it fascinating that people seriously argue that the Framers spent whole amendment on essentially saying "the state army must be able to have guns, and the state can not infringe this right!". What thought process could lead to an idea that the state would want to ban its own army from having guns and to prevent this, we need a constitutional amendment? The whole concept only makes sense if we're talking about right that can be - and potentially may be - infringed by the state, so treating it as it is concerning any state function literally makes no sense to me. How is it supposed to work?
Someone mocked that up a while back for a different app. I remember seeing the video for it come back up not long ago.
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Google's use of Java APIs pre-dates OpenJDK.
Anyone is free to fork OpenJDK, as long as they don't call the result Java (unless they fork and choose to pass the TCK). The situation is no different from other large open-source projects.

Unless I'm missing something, this is no longer the case. Oracle is arguing that they own the API and the only legal implementation is theirs (ie, Java). Just renaming is (say... "Android") is insufficient.

Forking is going to be legally on very shaky ground at least.
> There's virtually no evidence for either hypothesis.

Indeed, there's even evidence against them. Why on earth was so much of her blood in the back of her vehicle if it wasn't used at all during the crime?

The show was so frustrating to watch.
> I personally do not care about privacy. I see no reason why I should.

I'd love to know why you don't care.

1) Do you really not care if people watch everything you do? Would you live in a Big Brother type house where everything you do is recorded and shown to the public? That includes you showing, shitting, picking your nose, having sex, watching porn, every conversation you have etc.

And maybe you really don't give a fuck about that. I guess some people could stand naked in front of a crowd and shit themselves an not think twice about it.

But then on the other hand, there is one more thing to consider. What if the current government, or another one elected in the next 5 to 20 years is really evil? And let's say they are against the things you believe in, and they believe anyone who believes what you believe should suffer unimaginably? Or what if you like to complain about things? You post negative restaurant reviews Write angry letters in the newspaper, stuff like that. And this new government doesn't like complainers, because they don't want to be challenged. They could just look at all the stuff you have complained about in the past and decide you are too dangerous. So they arrest you (and your family, because why not?) and then they put you in a concentration camp. Where you and your family are worked to death. Starved to death. Beaten to death. Raped. Experimented on. Burned alive.

I know it's an extreme example, but things like this have happened before. Except now it's easier than ever for governments to round up the people they don't like, and to find out who the people they don't like are. And the less you care about privacy, the easier you make it for them.

Would you still say you don't care about privacy? Or do you just believe something like that would never happen, and so it's not important that we take steps to prevent a future government to do such things?
Many people make that argument. I find that it is a matter of how you normally write; not the value of it.
South Korea and Japan are already under our nuclear umbrella. It would be a major change in our nonproliferation stance to give weapons out.
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I like thinking about this problem space. However, I do rely on awk. Awk has been around since V7, I've not yet found a system without it.

A gap I've spent some time thinking about in constrained unix - how to do socket IPC. For example - building a cgi server. So far I've struggled without either a modern scripting language (perl, python, etc) or else a C compiler. And locked-down or decrepit systems will often lack a working C compiler.

I'd expect someone who knew what they were doing could build an awk tool that would parse a DSL to produce binaries that makes unix system calls. Probably awkward, you'd need to do your own elf packaging. A problem I might one day get around to.
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I feel like users in China will be more likely to install a "don't nag me about upgrading" counter-patch than actually upgrade to a newer version of Internet Explorer.
I wanted to try this out but I haven't yet forgiven Serial for completely wasting my time on a similar sounding premise. Is this better? Before I watch it does it actually dig up new evidence or just rehash a cold case?
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Most NFC based payment systems (google, apple, samsung) require an NFC enabled POS device. Can we not simply use an NFC sticker instead? What are the challenges I am missing to see? Can someone in the forums point me to a relevant article/experience. Most grateful!
Bob ends up with 4.4 billion dogecoins.
I've often dreamed of a decentralized "Twitter" that allows you to subscribe to any Twitter, Facebook, or blogging feed and makes them all equal, first-class citizens (including the ability to reply/retweet/etc.)

aka FriendFeed/Google Buzz. Neither of which were at all successful or exist anymore.

The problem is that there is no incentive to use them as platforms. People just output their other primary sources through them, and then engage on their primary platform.

That makes them horrible for users (who write comments and never hear back).
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http://player.meta-fusion.com/late-breaking-abstract-a-phase...

Pharmacyclics was valued at $42B with one drug in a smaller patient population than Stemcentrx drugs, and without the pipeline. The $5B valuation may be on the low side...
Not OP, but I have some data and an answer of sorts. If you have a workload that is light on CPU but needier on RAM, m4.large is cheaper than m3.large; m3.medium may not do as it has less than 4GB.

Also, in our experience t2.* instances can't sustain any reasonable network traffic, but they do work wonderfully for lightweight RESTful systems. So any workload which serves mostly cached data and needs 6-7 GB per node is best off with m4.large. At least for Ireland, in our experience a single m4.large can keep up with bursts of ~120Mbps and sustain around 65Mbps. We have two as edge nodes for one of our public services, and will probably add a third one soon. Cutoff point for sustained bandwidth is slightly above 70Mbps, after that it starts to stutter. The t2.* instances choke and throttle bandwidth way earlier.

Finding the right instance type for a particular service always takes some time and experimentation.
Dave Eggers' The Circle is perhaps worth reading in this context. I don't actually think it's a very good book and is mostly tolerable if it's read in the vein of a deliberately exaggerated "if this goes on" cautionary tale. But there are a number of speeches by one of the characters (Bailey?) in the vein of why radical transparency is good.
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Why you doubt it? In fact, that is exactly what is done when one wants to make absolutely sure nothing bad happens - a lot of people with guns come and saturate the area. Look what was done in New York on New Year's even or what happens when the President or other VIP like that visits some place. Lots of people with guns are always around. So apparently if you look at evens through the lens of "how many guns are around", "more guns" is the common standard solution for "more security".
The NK bombs carry the -dong suffix on them, so yeah, he was bang on.
>Fear of being scooped;

This prevents a lot of good research from coming out. We should not just rely on publish or perish. Ifa lab makes a net contribution, they should still be rewarded with grants even if the idea gets "scooped".
Sure it has. North Korea has attacked no-one outside its borders, nor shown any (realistic) intention or even capability to do so.

What definition of "worked" are you using? Serious question.
It's not the amount of power that makes it unsafe, but rather its nature. In order for it to be safe:

1. It must be granted through democratic means.

2. It must be under strict oversight by an independently elected or appointed group that's free from both private conflict of interest and popular pressure.

3. There must be reliable mechanisms to quickly and efficiently strip said power away from the authority if they are determined to have used it irresponsibly.
You're looking at AI as if it would be their primary product.

They don't need to compete with Google or Apple on the front of AI as a polished product. Not now, anyways. All they need to do is make something that works. They can get away with building something that wouldn't even be beta-worthy for big tech companies to release. To Magic, AI could simply mean more efficient infrastructure, keeping human interaction in place of UX.

The more efficient they get, the more they can lower the price. The more they can lower the price, the more users they'll have. The more users, the more revenue, the more cash to spend on improvement.

AI doesn't have to roll out of MIT looking like Jarvis just to be useful.
Wouldn't you agree that the real solution is to fix the a) algorithms and b) assumptions rather than c) hiding the data?
I was under the impression that the whole reason North Korea existed at all was because China wanted it to be there?
I think, while I make a reasonable salary, I must be a bit more frugal than the large portion of HN readership in that I can always find 10 minutes of my day to cancel a doctor's appointment as opposed to paying $16 (the cost of lunch and a drink) for someone else to do it.

Perhaps I'm just not as busy as others on HN.
I'll just mention the last bomb N. Korea set off was 9MT, according to Wikipedia.
Yeah, right. And Groovy's risen from #82 to #17 in 12 months. Just how serious can you treat this stuff?
To me, the thread of certainty primarily weaves through the assessment of the bone fragment, and the bullet that was eventually found and whose analysis was contaminated. Shaky.
You would think. But I suspect the few people that have the power to make use of the nation's resources have all the electricity they need.

Since they simply take what they want from the rest of the populous, the desires of the rest of the people simply don't matter enough.
For the curious, looks like more info here: http://www.davecraige.com/magic/
Ad hominem doesn't invalidate an argument, it speaks to credibility.
Wonder if Israeli steel dome anti rocket stuff would be effective

Update: apparently I wasn't the only person to think of this: http://www.nknews.org/2014/07/how-israels-iron-dome-could-he...
I think "they" usually look for radiation signatures via satellites (and other signal collection systems).
> The only way up from nuclear is thermonuclear.

Antimatter. Thankfully we have no idea how to make them yet.
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Do you have a blog? I am currently in Australia, and actually becoming a digital nomad is a kind of dream of mine. Not really sure how to make it a reality though...it seems that webdev/online contracting is such a saturated and race to the bottom pool.
Carlin neglected to make use of the
Bush 41 statement "this will not stand" --
how could Carlin miss that opportunity!
It's not even about "facts". Suspicion is enough because "innocent until proven guilty" is true in theory, but the period between "suspected" and "proven innocent" can be very ... inconveniencing.

And that's IF the internet or real lynch mob doesn't decide to go after you. If it does, then the being proven innocent part is the least of your concerns.
Try this:

Secrecy does not exist any more

Privacy is the politeness of your neighbours.

Now everyone is your neighbour

As such we choose to not be polite to paedophiles

However only a limited number of us choose to be polite to people still in closet. Others will impolitely sell pink insurance, others scrawl hate messages

I am not sure where I am going other than politeness is hard to enforce.
Magic was the first though. All the other hyperminimalistic landing pages are just copies.
> There doesn't seem to be a way to say "I have my big boy pants on, don't let anyone in under any circumstances". This is the first 2FA setup I've seen that still allows bypass by contacting support.

Sadly, this is quite common, especially with organizations that provide phone support[1].

[1]: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/12/2016-reality-lazy-authent...
and credibility seeks proof through authority, i.e not a proof at all.

ad hominems have no place in rational debate.
44KT is basically 3 Hiroshimas.
Super nice, yes, but not essential. Everything essential is more expensive, often by quite a margin. Housing is insane.
"The gun was confiscated when officers searched his trailer on Nov. 5, 2005, and the bullet was found in the garage in March 2006, Mr. Kratz said.
'If they planted it, how did they get a bullet that was shot from Avery’s gun before Nov. 5?' he said."

To me the fact that the police had the gun for more than 5 months before the bullet was found only reinforces the theory that the bullet may have been discharged and planted by the police.

This is reinforced by lack of a bullet hole, or blood splatter in the garage where the prosecution claims he shot her.
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But they could be the end of civilization. And we just don't have enough resources to rebuild from scratch.

Take out the big university cities, big finance cities, some semiconductor manufacturers and some ports and we back into victorian era.
Is the Apache Public License different from the Apache License? I can't find any reference of the former and I've always seen the latter shortened to ASL or ASLv2. Apologies if this comes across as a passive aggressive correction -- I'm really curious if they're different things.
Don't do all the exercises? A lot of them are redundant. Even when SICP was the foundation of Berkeley/MIT's intro CS classes (which is no longer the case), the classes would only do a few key projects.
I can't fix someone else's algorithms and assumptions, but I can hide my own data. Even if I agree with your premise, if someone else is in control of the "real solution," then it's not a real solution for me, is it?

There's also the chance that those algorithms and assumptions are "correct" from a business standpoint (it would cost more to "fix" them than the monetary benefit of fixing them) even if they're not correct for consumers, meaning nobody that's actually in control of them has any motivation to fix them.
exactly - the options are - shot in the garage with a miracle cleanup (with only blood on the bullet, but no splatters in garage) - killed on the bed with no blood evidence at all. In both cases supposedly dragged to the car (why?), to be then dragged out of the same car back to a burning pit, where only bones from part of her body are found.

the case as presented truly defies any credibility or logical sense.
>use the GPLed Java implementation of those APIs

Google did a clean-room implementation. But what about derivatives? Obviously you have to redistribute your source. Does using your patched version magically become legal iff your changes are merged into the upstream? This seems to defeat the GPL entirely, since it doesn't matter that you have a license to modify the source code if doing so means you are violating copyright on the APIs.
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> The state did not take me up on the offer to sell it to them for $3K, which is the way I think it ought to work.

Supposedly Athenian taxes were assessed this way. The government handed out a list of tax obligations, and if you thought your tax requirement was heavier than somebody else's who was richer than you, you could challenge them. A challenge meant they could choose either to swap tax obligations with you, or, if they didn't believe you were poorer, to swap all their assets for yours.
Let me repeat myself -- "you don't have to". C runs well on bare metal, that's why most bootloaders, kernels and low level drivers use it. Of course, you can make as many dependencies as you wish, but unlike high level languages, C doesn't rely on OS for it's core features.
That isn't too far in the future. Using antimatter as a neutron source to prime a fission device is not total fantasy. With sufficient resources it could probably be done today on the bench (ie not a weapon). Such technology would allow for possibly very much smaller and/or more efficient fission weapons.
I can easily imagine such an article, because it happens all the damn time.

"Using the argument of [1] and [2] it can be shown, with brief step x, it can be shown that this theorem holds in xxxx" and then moving onto the conclusions, is exactly the same as "Using the software developed in [3] to solve Eq. 1, we show that our result is statistically significant."

If the claim is probable, it will and does get through review.
I'd say the Fuji instax SP1 works pretty damn well.
Recognize the real source of the problem.

Like you said, someone trying to get information about the topics you mentioned could simply be doing this out of curiosity. Now person A from the government says you are X. However you are not X, you are Y.

Think again, what is the actual problem? The actual problem is not the data which is 100% correct.

The actual problem is people's prejudices and assumptions. This is what we need to fix. If someone searches about topic Z we should think very carefully about the consequences of drawing an assumption.

However, this view is very ideological. Your view on the current state is more practical. I do not disagree with your statements, I simply wish that we can address the real issue here in the future. Even if it takes us centuries.
You are right, I stand corrected! APL refers more to the collection of Apache licenses by the OSI:

http://opensource.org/licenses/apachepl.php

The particular license is just "Apache License" or ASL, in fact.
gobby was/is the testbed editor for the protocol originally called obby (now infinote). As many GNOME based applications of the time, names where usually prefixed with a 'g', hence gobby.
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A similar WP story from 2015, posted to HN in December:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10762326
They could start counting hashtags against the character limit after a certain number of them.
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Seismic, acoustic, and, especially, radiation signatures tend to strongly differentiate natural and nuclear device events.

Earthquakes virtually always develop over both time and space -- the "epicenter" of an earthquake is the center or origin of the movement. Some quakes occur over very long rupture zones -- the 2004 Boxing Day quake off the coast of Indonesia involved several hundred km of fault line, and moved along that fault at several hundred km/hr (this is among the reasons why major quakes can be felt over several minutes -- the rupture is literally happening over that duration, and, depending on the location of the observer, the seismic waves have to travel back to them).

An atomic blast begins and ends within a few thousands of a second -- at the seismic scale it's both instantaneous and a point event.

A bomb will vent radioactive fission/fusion products and their decay products, many of which are radioactive, and have signatures specific to the type of weapon and design used. Even underground blasts will typically vent detectable quantities to the surface and atmosphere.
If as a nation, you wish to be safe from US invasion/arm-twisting, you must have nuclear weapons. It is the best possible deterrent against US interference. Countries that do not have nuclear weapons must depend on US benevolence - which tends to change from year to year depending on the policies being followed by the US state department and administration.

If Saddam really had nuclear weapons, there would have been no Iraq war and no ISIS today.
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I just looked at the source and it's built with Angular and Angular Material. The UI for the Cloud Console app is incredible work.
But evil uses paper is probably going to do less harm than evil uses Tor or a gun or a nuke. Societal control must adapt to the medium on a regularly adjusting basis depending on the perceived level of evil.
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For now, we're starting with a debit card product because they're easier to launch. Eventually, as the product gains more traction, it will be easier to launch a credit product with the advantages you're looking for.

Which that said, there's plenty of opportunity as a debit card product. We believe that no financial product right now really prioritizes spend control and bookkeeping accuracy in the way we do within our product.
Thanks for the link. I hadn't seen that page before, nor the proper noun "Apache Public Licenses." I guess we both learned something :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_mobility and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility are mutually exclusive in real world;
gobby may not be the best editor out there, but as far as I know it's goal was to be a testbed/implementation of the obby (now infinote [1]) collaborative editing protocol. The underlying library is quite easy to use and integrate into existing editors, for example I once implemented a gedit plugin [2] which used libinfinity to add collaborative editing to gedit although it has since gone stale.

[1]: http://infinote.org/
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXzI2dInXKI
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Ask HN: What browser extensions do you use for HN?
What extensions do you use to make your time on HN better?

I remember using one before that changed the colors, and had extra features like folding comment threads. I can't seem to find it now though.
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Wikipedia has it listed at about 10ish kT, with higher end estimates up around 40ish. By comparison, the Trinity test during the Second World War was roughly 20 KT.

Were they actually able to produce a 9MT weapon, it would be more than half as strong as the largest weapons test the US ever conducted.
> P.S. The law of the land is now that when you create an API it is copyrighted.

I look forward to the extinction WINE and PostgreSQL, and the resurrection of the SCO corpse for another tilt at Linux vendors, he said sarcastically.