skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your argument is that cypto and guns should be viewed as equivalent

Whoa there, I never said they were equivalent. I said that they have some similarities.

> ANFO possession and use should be as unrestricted as gun or crypto possession and use, yes?

I'm not saying that. And moreover, I have zero desire to re-enact the same old gun rights vs gun control Internet flame war yet again. Please don't try to slot me into either side of those standard arguments.

What I am saying is that (1) there are similarities between the two technologies and their potential for misuse, (2) it's not surprising that many people want to ban or restrict both of them, and (3) it is surprising (to me, at least) that there are so many people who feel so strongly that one should be banned and the other unlimited.

Maybe a better way to say it would be this: If you support limits on the kinds of firearms and explosives that people are allowed to own, why don't you also think there should be limits on the kinds of cryptography that people are allowed to own? The closest analogue seems to be weak "export grade" crypto from the 90's -- RC4 with 40-bit keys, etc. Or maybe key escrow.
Just a little bit of meta discussion: HN is generally good about this, but at the time I'm writing this, this comment is greyed out. It's a reasonable question that I might have asked 5 years ago. They're not bringing down the level of discourse, they just didn't know something that is common knowledge. I feel like software people, if anyone, should be sympathetic towards people with holes in their knowledge, because we are confronted daily with how large the gulf is between our intellects and memories, and the extant complexity of the world we live in.
We were always told (as far back as being 15 year-olds in Driver's Ed.) if you get pulled over and the Officer suspects you are impaired, always decline the field sobriety tests and ask for a Breathalyzer at the station. This does 2 things:

1) It provides a definitive test which would later stand in court (if needed).
2) Gives you more time to "sober up" if you actually have been drinking.

At the time, I remember thinking it was good information. In hindsight, it's rather funny to think it came from the High School teachers who were teaching Driver's Ed.
Seriously, go and talk to your marketing guys ... Everyone comes out better if there is a third horse in this race, but Google needs to step up your marketing etc. AWS has a massive presence in terms of conferences, documentation and mind share. Azure has a massive sales team that are offering huge discounts to buy business. Google has ... what exactly?
According to his github it's https://www.gearlaunch.com/
Is Software as a Service serving well
But they are not written in cool languages therefore should be rewritten :(

In all seriousness, I am struggling a bit to see a point in porting everything to JS (beyond a weekend project because why not, let's learn something).

I might be a bit out of the loop since it's been a while that I worked on Windows (and have been using msys2 instead of cygwin back then), but how come DDL and native compiling are the issues in cygwin?

And the 1/15th of the size bit. It's largely simply negligible with hard drives (and even SSDs recently) nowadays.

No snark intended (well, other than the first line, sorry), just genuinely curious.
I fly yearly or more to many of these airports.

LHR is down to what you are flying. If you are flying BA, you land and take off in T5 and it will be quick and painless, leaving you time for a nice meal at Plane Food. In one instance, I turned left out of the aircraft, went through empty security (as the only transferring passenger) and had a quick chat with the immigration officer about whether Plane Food was open yet (no :( ), and literally 3 minutes after deplaning, I was next to my gate. Make that 20 minutes if you have to go back to A gates (or whatever the ones with the restaurants are). Last time I got bored and decided to walk between A and C gates, which was a fun if eery experience down an empty tunnel several km long; sort of beats the crowded gate train.

If you are flying not-BA, then, you're not LHR's priority and it might suck, especially with a terminal change. I haven't done this in years for precisely that reason, but I remember cramped terminals, impossibly complicated options to get between them, and generally bad service throughout. Somehow there are always works at LHR, just like with the tube in London, where you check not to see which lines are down but which are up today. Last Christmas, the inter-terminal transfers were done via a free shuttle bus that used the motorway...

I hear you on the FRA walks. But Lufthansa reliably flies A380s internationally, even if the food sucks. And that's a guaranteed quiet flight vs the 50% chance of a crummy old 747 on BA... still, it must be at least 1-2km! And this time you have no time for the much better food options, and a lot of people are walking with you.

ZRH is reliably halfway between those two - the big plane and small plane buildings are separated by a medium length walkway which is always the same. However food is so damn expensive!

I would fly AF if I could just for the better food (and free flow champagne, even if it's bottom shelf) and guaranteed A380 again. But every single of my CDG experiences has indeed been a horror story. The place is like a study on how to screw up an airport. In one case, the only airside toilet was blocked for cleaning, which wasn't ongoing because the cleaning lady felt like taking an extended break, reading her paper and insulting those like me enquiring about whether we could possibly use the toilet before immigration queues...

For Americans living in New York or Washington, I'd recommend having a look at GVA. It's a small, very efficient airport with a lot of connections all over Europe and the Middle East (including cheap ones as an EasyJet hub) and has decent lounges. I think both United and Delta fly direct from these cities. Plus, if your layover is long, you can always get out and take the (free) 6 minute train to the city.
Cool! I'm no expert, but optics, aerospace, and defense mainly that I'm aware of. Airbus has a huge wing manufacturing plant in Broughton which I'm sure helps anchor the industry, they have massive tie-ins with the local universities through apprenticeships. Prototype mirror segments for the E-ELT project are also being built here[1] (last I checked; there's been some budget problems). I don't know everything that goes on of course, but my own job searches have turned up both interesting-looking embedded work and more run-of-the-mill web stuff, despite my earlier comment. I've seen lots of datacentre/hosting type companies kicking about as well.

It's no Silicon Valley - Wrexham, the population centre, isn't quite (though very nearly) big enough to hold the interest of the intellectually curious - but it's a lot more vibrant than you hear about. Here is the business directory of the business park in St Asaph where they're building the mirror segments:[2]

[1] http://www.glyndwrinnovations.co.uk/articles/latest_news/the...
[2] http://www.stasaphbusinesspark.org.uk/directory/
Hahaha they haven't seen all the past instances of lotteries being rigged? And they don't think it will happen in the future?
>I find it very difficult to believe any Big Corp would allow a purchasing manager to accept any kind of personal kickback from a supplier, period.

Why not? Lots of big corps allow their staff to keep stuff like loyalty points so its not too big of a jump. Plus big corps run on policies...and there is rarely a policy in place to cover 1 head honcho.
The women fighting back after acid attacks
The two libraries I've created both use a combination of 3to2 and pasteurize to convert the python 3 code to python 2.
The only issues I've run into are new error types that I could not use.
But there seem to be quite some issues open: https://bitbucket.org/amentajo/lib3to2/issues?status=new&sta...

In case you want to see the scripts I use to change the python3 code to python 2 and make it work with pip:

https://github.com/JelteF/PyLaTeX/blob/master/convert_to_py2...

https://github.com/JelteF/PyLaTeX/blob/master/setup.py
Seriously, this. I can't tell you how many folks I know who have never met their neighbors, don't even know their names. That is so strange to me, I am not especially social, but I know quite well all neighbors in both directions for at least 3 houses. I can say this sort of thing comes in handy in the event of any emergency (you both know who to trust and who to avoid..)
Why not just have travel compensation? $X per day for being away from home? It's almost certainly more valuable/efficient.
Maybe a different technique of enforcement?

In the state I live in: "No person may endanger the safety of any person or property by the negligent operation of a vehicle."

If you're endangering people and property while dead sober, you get arrested anyway. Why does the content of their blood fundamentally matter?

If someone is swerving around and kills me, why should I care if he was drunk, stoned, or just not paying attention? I'm just as dead. Its not like I'm any less dead if he was stoned or more dead if he was drunk.

Remember its not 1930s era prohibition anymore. Plenty of video recorders, cheap.

I'm willing to trade "arrest stoners who haven't crashed yet" for "also arrest dead sober idiots who can't drive"

I'm just not seeing a problem. Other than the criminal justice system, who benefits by DUI laws? Clearly the general public isn't any safer because dangerous driving is already illegal via the negligence law.
The EFF may be able to help you.
I would prepare a document with the logs/info that you have in addition to a copy of your privacy and data retention policy. You may also want to doublecheck to see if the submitter IP is a Tor node, that'll make everyone's lives easier. I believe the FBI has a special taskforce for this should you contact them.
German Govt Has New Trojan Horse Malware to Spy on Citizens
On my search page, I just saw exactly one search result after 4 ads and a Google "summary" grid. And the first search result was spammy.

Fucking joke indeed.

Edit: just switched my default search engine in Chrome to DuckDuckGo, 2 Ads and 6 decent search results on the first search page. Let's give it a shot and see if I ever go back.
Decapping:  the last-ditch hardware method of extracting iPhone data
AWS employees may not speak out very often, but they hardly need to. AWS is a marketing machine, from Jeff's regular blog posts, to the volume of free information they provide and to the conferences that they are running everywhere. I think Microsoft is starting to catch on with Azure promotions & conferences, but it's like Google didn't even know that the there was a race .... and they left their running gear at home.
I assume this is the same as subvocalization, right?

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

Or is there a separate notion of hearing a voice over and apart from subvocalizing? (If I had to try to think about them as different concepts, I'd probably say that I never subvocalize, and usually don't hear a voice when reading quickly, but perhaps do hear a voice when reading slowly or focusing on individual words.)
If something is truly a universal constant, then it's part of the definition of what it is to be the universe. That we can imagine the constant being different is really just an artifact of the imperfect symbolic language we've developed to describe the universe.

Edit: It's hard to come up with a good analogy because obviously I don't have that "perfect" language at my disposal. But for example, a triangle fundamentally has 3 angles. We can imagine polygons with more angles, but it doesn't make sense to imagine a triangle with any other number of angles. If "the whole universe" were synonymous with "triangle", the notion of "universe with 4 angles" would be absurd. The ideal description would not even allow for that possibility.
Good to know. I wonder how those ended up differing.
This can be said about almost any inefficient transfer program. Even if the agency has to burn 50% of the value in order to move to people, and could instead just give it to people in their paychecks, they have a special attachment to it and feel something is being taken from them.
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Seems googlers are down voting massively.
The worse of the modern surveillance zealotry is the fact they claim they'll leave people with non-mainstream opinions alone yet I've seen all kinds of arguments that even people who support anarchism should be placed under close observation or in prison. This troubles me because the whole idea that even if you're an anarchist that doesn't mean you are violent or willing to be so disruptive as to become a terrorist. I'm a mutualist anarchist and honestly I don't care if the government exists or not since there's not much I can personally do to it. Just espousing my ideas seems to rub certain people the wrong way even if 99.9% of the time they're purely academic in scope. The fact that technology exists to allow them to spy on me means they can constantly harass me and others like me into silence or complete seclusion. So much for a liberal society, eh?
Signal, Not Solution: Notes on Why Sci-Hub Is Not Opening Access
Pi is mathematically pure, independent of physics. Mathematics is full of pure numbers (obviously).

The fine structure constant is physically pure.
I posted this elsewhere, but I didn't get an answer. Since you work you work for DDG, you might know.

How long would duckduckgo have to grow at its current rate to become an actual blip on Google's radar? On the one hand, you're small. On the other hand, keep up a fast growth rate long enough and you get bigger faster than people's intuitions' expect.

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
iPhone can be hacked without Apple's help
Say 'No' to Home Technical Tests
I never have.

This may have something to do with why I can only appreciate poetry when read aloud.
Goog luck hacking in my Ubuntu box with latest patches and an iptables firewall...
The only reasonable way to obtain people's data is to lock them in some Guantanamo like infrastructure and get their password.
Betting on weak security as a mean to control people can't eventually prevail because open systems get patched at faster speed than vulnerabilities found.
Doesn't require conspiracy. It's in the best interests of retailers to peddle gift-giving, so they do. This peddling increases gift-giving, or the retailers would stop doing it. Therefore it's safe to assume that gift-giving rates would be lower if the retailers did not peddle it.
Start Delighting Users
Attackers drop web exploits for macros and trickery
So do I - which is why I think the only appropriate citizenship dress that properly demonstrates Canada's commitment to diversity is blue boot-cut jeans.
Apple's defiance angers prosecutors
How does it compare to Windows RG?

http://www.deanliou.com/WinRG/
> I believe ... there are little mind programs that run on
> our perception that smooth out reality for us

http://psychedelic-information-theory.com/The-Control-Interr...

Our cortex’s main role is to provide inhibitory control on thalamic activity. The serotonergic activity of psychedelics blocks this control signal, and thus prevents the swift extinction of qualia once the triggering stimuli (whether internal or external) is removed.

The OP article cites it to explain lingering visuals, but the source generalizes the mechanism. How would we ever sit at a desk all day or argue about Javascript on HN if we didn't evolve inhibitory processes to dull life down?

It's a thought easy to marvel at when you're on acid, and a mechanism easy to appreciate when you take too much.
On charging $20 for a game
My wife is Australian, and when we arrived in London from Sydney, I'd pop through the e-gates with my biometric Shenghen passport, and then settle down in the cafe opposite arrivals, and took my time reading the paper and enjoying a (not so) fine English breakfast. Usually had time for a third of a book as well. Then she'd finally get out.

I never understood why LHR had to have such long immigration queues. The solution is pretty simple: add more officers. Those booths were never fully staffed. I suspect some kind of labour dispute is involved.
AWS is often competitively priced, but Azure is usually around twice as expensive.
How a Group of MIT Students Gamed the Massachusetts State Lottery
There is an article from wired that talks about it here http://www.wired.com/2014/10/twitter-fabric-sdk/

Getting your company ingrained into a larger part of the app market has huge benefits. Now if people aren't using the Twitter app, Twitter can track them and get data from them if they use an app that relies on Fabric.

The benefit is purely integrating themselves with larger and more diverse user bases.
On nuclear safety, consider that France runs on something like 80% nuclear power. Hardly anyone knows this, because French nuclear plants are run well, and haven't had any disasters.
Perhaps we only perceive a "voice" when someone makes us direct our conscious mind towards analyzing, describing, or remembering the reading experience.

I mean, consider reflex actions in response to pain: Plenty of people will (quite honestly) tell you that "it hurt, so I pulled my hand back" but the lower-level neurological evidence suggests we're fooling ourselves.
Just for clarity, someone told me that 5-MEO-DMT is sometimes mistakenly called "DMT", but it is totally different from the "machine elves" N,N-DMT version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-MeO-DMT
Their job isn't to be good. Their job is to convince the masses that they are. In order to sell that idea, it is beneficial if they believe their own bullshit, and that selects people who are not very good.
XBOX Live DOWN: HACKERS COULD KNOCK NETWORK 'OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH'
This might be true but I think the issue is that many AWS employees actually want to speak out or respond to issues personally.

I used to work at AWS and the things we could say were very controlled. It could just be my team/managers though.
So it sounds like BigQuery was the deciding factor in this case?
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The FBI has asked Apple to crack at least 17 devices since October
"edibles" is referring to marijuana snacks, stuff you can eat, like brownies, but more typically little candies and gummies.

So the parent comment is saying that all of the variations/flavors of these pot candies can be disorienting.
I have a special attachment to things like free drinks, more comfortable layovers, and seats that recline into a bed
It's relatively rare that lotteries AREN'T rigged. It's a bunch of money sitting RIGHT THERE to the people implementing the lottery. And like any other situation where human beings have a GIGANTIC incentive to commit fraud, they often do:
https://thehornnews.com/authorities-lottery-may-be-rigged/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/lottery-employees-r...

"State lotteries in Colorado, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma have confirmed they paid jackpots worth $8 million to Tipton associates, including his old college roommate, Robert Rhodes. Investigators are looking at payouts in the other 37 states and U.S. territories that used random-number generators from the Iowa-based association, which administers games and distributes prizes for the lottery consortium."
NOTICE THAT 40+ STATES AND US TERRITORIES ACTUALLY USED ONE RIGGED RNG FROM THIS CORRUPT DUDE IN IOWA

I don't know what they these curves are used for, but, if there is anything at stake, it's worth looking into whether some of the people working on this project had college roommates that are now in lottery sinecures.
True, but it can do, if you set precision etc.
I'm very skeptical bout this whole area. I'm looked at the site. They have "conceptual videos". Do they have a working prototype???

They say that they can focus the energy in the devices... What happens if you are holding the devices in your hand or it is in your pocket?
This sounds like a bug - a business is not clearly safer or less safe a credit risk doing the movement described. Perhaps a business opportunity there.
One issue is that it's at least as much about the status perks as the actual miles which some reasonable $$/day can't replace for frequent flyers unless the company is going to suddenly give them upgraded flights everywhere.
should add a well deserved head tip to:
@superlevel
https://twitter.com/superlevel/status/702134669500923904
Why -4 downvote?
NFL and React
Why did i get -4 vote here....
I guess the idea is that negligent driving isn't always obvious either to people watching or to people doing it, since most impaired drivers don't cause accidents on most of their trips (and many won't visibly weave back and forth). If some kinds of impairment significantly increase the risk of an accident but aren't easy to detect from behavior or from introspection, it might be a big benefit to safety to say that you can never drive a vehicle under those conditions.

And I think the introspection part could be important alongside the enforcement part, again because the idea is that people might routinely be overconfident in their ability to drive safely after consuming intoxicants. So they don't necessarily think they're endangering others as much as they are.

(That might be possible to measure empirically, and it might turn out that some existing laws are too strict under that rationale.)

I remember a children's museum exhibit that was about reaction times, basically trying to justify to kids why they shouldn't drink and drive when they got older. The interesting issue that it highlighted was that fast reaction times can be very important for avoiding some kinds of accidents, and even a small impairment to your reaction time could increase risk a lot in a way that you might not anticipate. But I also remember that when I saw that exhibit, I thought "hmmmm, why don't driving tests test someone's baseline reaction time to make sure that everybody who's a licensed driver can actually react to stuff quickly?" and "hmmmm, why don't they make a toy that you could use to test your own level of impairment before driving, rather than only relying on estimating your blood alcohol content?".

Edit: someone already suggested both of these ideas in another thread above!
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Insane web traffic doesn't actually cost you much. Au contraire, my friend, it brings in the dough. What costs you money is the long tail, those deep, obscure searches which you have to answer to be perceived a worthwhile competitor to e.g. Google. To answer the long tail yourself you must have it in the index, which makes for a _very_ big index. And then you also have to figure out how to get the relevant results out of there in a hundred milliseconds (or 50ms if you're Google, and you have instant search), and update all that goodness to keep it fresh, so that it doesn't take three months for new pages to appear. If you think this wouldn't cost much to a startup, you don't know much about search.

And you don't need to doubt that figure, Microsoft discloses it in its financial results.
For sure, it's pretty obvious.

The other consideration here is that last year Google announced that mobile queries had surpassed desktop, so the overall impact to advertisers is actually going to be smaller than they think.

Limiting the number of traditional paid search ads is the only way Google can continue to maintain a balance between SEO & paid search while enabling them to test new products/paid ad formats. Think integrated voice results, video results, etc.

Google can only maintain its market position as a business if they continue to deliver the best search experience. And to do this, they need to continually improve their search product.
That's pretty much exactly what my perception is. Add to that, you're account gets shut down and/or frozen without warning and only a kafka-esque system to find out why you were shut down.

It makes sense that isn't true but I have to admit it is what comes to mind.