skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of course, all that goes away in the case of subsonic rounds.

I'm pretty sure that presents a problem. Many handgun rounds have subsonic muzzle velocities, and most are subsonic within 50 feet. And according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports[1], almost half of all murders are committed with handguns. Rifles are used in around 2-3%. (For comparison, 5-6% of murders are committed with bare hands.) Those numbers underestimate the ratio of rounds fired by handguns vs rifles, as being shot with a rifle is far more likely to result in death than being shot with a handgun. If the victim doesn't die, they won't show up in those FBI stats.

1. FBI Uniform Crime Report on murder weapon type: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/...
I would not be surprised if most friendships resulted from pressure to fit in. It's healthy to let those types of people go.
The story of open source so far
Quite sure that the link I found was not the one I was thinking of. But I believe it probably was a link concerning the same paper.
>“We are not going to criminalize people for being poor,” he said. “That criminalization is only going to make it harder for them to get out of poverty.”

I don't understand this attitude -- policing crime and taking actions to reduce the number of victims isn't "against" those in poverty. If you're poor and committing non-trivial crimes, it's your personal choices working against you, not society.

Maybe I'm too "east coast," but I'm also not comfortable with the idea that criminal acts should be excused if the perpetrator is under some income threshold or got himself/herself hooked on drugs.

For those "voting down", please explain to me how my worldview is disagreeable. I'm not against changing my mind based on solid arguments.
> You're not going to ride a shitty bike if you're riding that often.

Yes and no. If you ride that much, you won't be riding a shitty bike. However, it is NOT the case that if you ride that much, riding a "non-shitty" bike means you ride an expensive bike. Bike manufacturers would love for you to think that you need to pay a lot to get a decent bike, but it isn't true. You can easily spend $50 to $300, trick out the components for another $50 to $200, and have a _fantastic_ ride that can beat the pants off of most bikes out in the wild, including bikes that cost thousands. And, the more you ride and the longer you've been riding, the more likely doing this comes easily.
In what context do you use them?
An Acquisition Is the End of a Dream
Implementing both sounds like a price to pay.
> Amazon’s automated system for reporting abuse was equally frustrating to navigate, Vickery said. It repeatedly asked him to submit irrelevant information. [0]

This is generally a problem I've come across multiple times. Small hosters are usually quicker to respond ( or they don't at all), and then actually try and handle malicious hosts on their networks.

The large ones like Amazon or CloudFlare (especially CloudFlare) have a semi-automated process, where the impression I get is that I am talking to a really stupid bot. Or when I get through to a human, that they are so overworked that they aren't able to comprehend the sentences that write to them in plain english, so nothing get's resolved.
Or they just forward my info to their customers, which in many cases is a real security risk.

[0] http://www.dailydot.com/politics/amazon-mexican-voting-recor...
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11449610
Pardon my ignorance, but what should it be instead?
The report seems to rely on the then-widespread usage of CB radios to preserve post-attack civilian communications, but that technology seems to have largely been abandoned except by truckers.

Would we have a harder time today in a post-attack scenario maintaining communications as compared to the late 1970s and the CB craze?
What sort of QA function is there? How much trust in the data can we have? Can I claim to be the real genius behind Unix, or will someone catch me? Reckless exaggerations in resumes aren't uncommon....
NYPD Running Stings Against Immigrant-Owned Shops,Pushing Warrantless Searches
I noticed that this hasn't been mentioned yet, so I'll bring it up here. While RF-based noise generators can be influenced by outside sources, using an RTL-SDR with https://github.com/pwarren/rtl-entropy can be a great way to get environmental RF noise.

In actual reality, the generator won't be influenced, because it will require a strong signal, close by, likely transmitting illegally on the frequency you are listening to (of course, the attacker would need to know the frequency you're tuned to). Simple monitoring tools and scripts can be used to test the quality of the generator output. If the quality of the randomness begins to fail, as would happen with deliberate RF interference, then the script would stop outputting bits, and alert the administrator. Or, even better, switch to a different frequency, chosen at random by the kernel CSPRNG.

What's great about using the RTL-SDR as an RNG, is these devices are cheap (about $20) and can output 3 MiBps, which vastly out performs any USB HWRNG that I have personally tested for the value (bits per second per dollar).

FWIW, random.org uses RF noise as the basis for delivering random numbers to the Internet.

Anyway, FYI.
B: is my workspace partition, and `purgatory` is just the name of a folder I use for files and folders that I will eventually either delete or include in an existing project (helps when I'm in over my head with git). Underscore is there to show up first in explorer
Then why was this such a huge deal?
http://www.databreaches.net/191-million-voters-personal-info...
Where did you move to?
I wonder if this is something that is limited to a 32-bit kernel. Solaris gives each process the full 4 GB in userspace, and I think that a 10-20% performance degradation compared to Linux would be noticeable.
Use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random

http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/
When I lived in NYC, I thought the NYPD were bad. Then I moved to SF and got to experience the wonderful treatment of the SFPD.

Can't wait until my lease is up (another 5 months to go) so I can gtfo.
Ruby. Rails is the web framework, Ruby is the language and thus the thing that is interpreted.
So this is essentially a 1-1 chat app that connects an "expert in any desired field". Self-described as "real-time wikipedia".

One thing I find annoying right off the bat is that this is an app only: there's no web version.

If you did want to actually spend your time answering questions, you'd be forced to do it on your phone instead of something with a full keyboard, screen real-estate and multi-tasking.

I'm not sure how they find experts (seems like they'd just be normal users who happen to get high ratings), but I wonder how they plan to prevent burn-out?

I know I am not alone in hating answering the same questions over and over. I actually make a very conscious effort at work to answer questions people ask me by updating our documentation (tickets, wiki pages or source) whenever I possibly can, even if they send a 1-1 chat message. It takes more time than answering directly, but it takes less time than providing that same answer a second time.

In fact, you see on communities like StackOverflow that some people seem to almost delight in closing questions after they've hunted down the duplicate.

So that seems to me to be a big barrier to sustainability. Enough user volume and churn is probably the only way to combat this -- keep bringing in fresh people willing to answer the same questions -- but that can only go so far.
>I don't see why any of those desires should be in conflict with my progressive ideals

This is precisely the origin of the problem.
They're used quite extensively in GPS/positioning.
There is no tl;dr for crime, society, and geography. Even if there were I think San Francisco would still be an outlier. Regardless, arrests and incidence of crime are separate things. Making it easier to look at data is certainly useful and thanks for helping in that respect, but that doesn't provide answers on its own.
Ask HN: Hacker news for science?
I was wondering if there is a "hacker news" for source of recent scientific research in general or a particular topic. If you are involved in scientific research, how do you keep track of latest development in your field, or just use Google Scholar? Related, I have actually learned about some breakthrough research in neuroscience from Hacker News; I used to be in software development but I am new in this field.
At the end of the article:

“Police are barred by city ordinance from installing surveillance cameras in San Francisco”

This just seems bonkers to me - every few days hoodline is reporting a stabbing / shooting in the TL and they never seem to have any leads, I guess this is why. There should be security cameras on every cross street in the TL.
I can't see an argument here for why the standard should be changed. memcpy() does one thing and memmove() does another. Changing the standard so they are the same just because memcpy() gets misused in real-world programs doesn't make sense to me. If people misuse memcpy(), then have a compiler flag akin to -fstrict-aliasing where memcpy() gets rewritten to memmove() unless people compile with -fstrict-memcpy.

That seems a separate issue though from what calls the compiler should emit. I am not following why LLVM would emit memcpy() when the semantics it actually requires from libc are memmove(). Am I missing something?
I am not sure I follow your reasoning.

Key loss would require re-issue - under the present system that uses real details or a biometric these cannot be revoked so cryptography seems better.

The current system the UK uses is a Nation Insurance Number, which is just a key in a government database but once issued it is not revokable either.

Solutions like a back up reissue key, or quorum of those who signed you key verify it is lost and then it can be resissued, or an trusted official like ones lawyer - or you have to take some ID to a post office.

It may be inconvenient but less inconvenient than identity theft today.

As for privacy this is solved by crytography too, so I don't follow your first point.

If I wanted to message you privately, I encrypt the message with your public key and then you and only you can read it - just like PGP today.

Of course this hypothetical system unbackdoored cryptography would be fully legal so we could have keys just for privacy between us / or verification.

A bank could issue a key per account, the key ensures your banking cannot be eavesdropped and ensures the identity for this account.
I use a Spybike (http://www.spybike.com/)

Unfortunately, the company seems to have gone bust.

They have stopped responding to emails - and their tracker is 3G only - many countries have started to shut down their 3G GSM trackers.

There was one on Kickstarter before called the "Bike Spike" - however, it turned out to be a fraud, and the creators ran away with backer's money (I didn't back them).

The Spybike isn't bad - the big issue is getting a GPS lock in urban areas, long GPS lock times from a cold-start, and battery life.

Definitely keen to see what else people are suggesting these days.
Luka built chatbots that talk like the Silicon Valley (HBO) characters
"About half the cases here are thefts from vehicles, smash-and-grabs that scatter glittering broken glass onto the sidewalks."

This is way too close to home... Was in SF for GDC 2016 about a month ago when my crews vehicle window was smashed (in the Moscone Center Parking Lot) and 5 backpacks full of MacBook Pros, iPads, cash and an expensive digital SLR with even more expensive lenses were swiped in the blink of an eye. We had dropped our stuff there and grabbed a bite to eat when we came back to the horrific site of our rental vehicles window shattered all over the ground.

Just the night before we were noting how incredibly quiet SF was at night after 9:30pm. Apparently a quiet city is NOT a crime free one.

The security guard and guys in the booth at the parking garage were less than helpful despite there being a variety of security camera screens/cameras. When we called the cops they said we could wait there for an officer but it might be hours so we best just go to the nearest station and file a report. A month out and we've heard nothing on the case despite there being about $20k of belongings grabbed. We didn't really expect to hear much based on their response.

Yes I realize it was incredibly stupid to leave that amount of valuables in a vehicle in the city. Lesson learned there. In our city (Boise) you can practically leave your keys in the ignition without any concerns. Thankfully we paid for the no hassle insurance on the vehicle and our company insurance covered most of our stolen goods. It was still a big loss though and a major hassle. I'll never be so naive again. Hopefully someone reading this can learn from our mistake as well.
>Never before had such a plan—known as “fiscal equalization”—been tried at the metropolitan level.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/the-mira...

tldr: the twin cities tax businesses and put the money into low income communities to prevent crime, and in the 70s and 80s, 70% of subsidized units were built in the wealthiest white districts, to prevent ghettos from forming.
Unless you're really rich and can literally isolate yourself from all this, SF really isn't worth it. Of course, if you're really rich, you can live down in Palo Alto, around the same neighborhood Steve Jobs lived in, or someplace like Los Altos Hills, Atherton, etc and avoid all the (literal) shit in SF.
Good question. How trust worthy is LinkedIn? Does LinkedIn verify the data people enter? I could be wrong but I don't think they verify data either.

"Can I claim to be the real genius behind Unix, or will someone catch me?"

You can initially, but unless there's proof we'll probably add an 'unverified' tag to your submissions that are related to really well known items like 'unix' and other modern marvel.

It is definitely a known issue, most of the industry, that we'll be tackling more in the coming months.
I have one of their products.

It's not a bad product - but the company seems to have gone bust. They've stopped answering any emails, and the last news was that their Seat Post Tracker was meant to launch in 2012/2013:

http://www.bike-eu.com/sales-trends/nieuws/2012/8/spybike-se...

Their current trackers are 3G only - and most countries are shutting down (or have already shut down) their 3G GSM networks.

I'm definitely on the lookout for any replacements.
Doesn't basic income take care of that? The idea being that once companies have to compete with the entire world (as opposed to a few other companies) for your time and attention, flexible hours (and many other changes to the relationship between employees and companies) will become the default.
I think someone who believed in earnest wouldn't state it so plainly but yeah, Poe's law.

The real sin of my comment was not being constructive. But it's awfully hard to be constructive when the reward is to be written off for not being a member of a politically privileged class.

Thanks for pointing out that comment got killed, which demonstrates those incentives. Things (on HN at least) do seem to be getting better - it was at least upvoted before the thought police got here. It's funny how short "nonconstructive" comments elsewhere are basically ignored, but apostasy of modern religion simply cannot stand!

I advocated for these issues back when that served the goal of mutual understanding. Now their general form is used to perpetuate a lack of understanding - just another peacocking distinction for the age old groupthink bullying. I do feel sorry for the individuals who are actually different, currently serving as talking points by the clusterfuck of feel-gooders. They are the ones who will personally have to endure the inevitable closed-minded backlash after the popularity spotlight moves on.
> Once your competitors go out of business you're the only guy left in town so you raise your prices to the moon and profit.

Has there ever been a case of this happening?
"The standard" ... where do you fly out of? I fly out of BOS (roughly twice a month) and I'd estimate 1 person in 50 uses a phone.
Was there ever an update around Ian Murdock? I think his beef with Oakland PD, not SF PD, but I would definitely be interested to know if there was a conclusion to that story.
Not for static websites, but I've definitely done very similar with Knitr for repeatable analyses in R (except for autogenerating the makefile). I create R scripts, markdown templates, database extract jobs, and even take care of sending the analysis results via email. I've left the job where I was responsible for those reports, but they're still in use with a distribution list that goes up to the SVP level at Amazon, so apparently they've been pretty successful.
In San Francisco, if you leave anything worth more than a couple hundred dollars in your car, it's as good as gone.

It took me a while to get used to the level of crime in SF too… it's so different from even North San Jose or Mountain View.
What irks me is the hypocrisy of the city supervisor who is speaking out against the capitalist ethos of the new arrivals who disrespect San Francisco's liberal traditions. Seriously dude, a city where you pay > $1K to live in a kennel is as dog-eat-dog as a city can get.
Spacemacs[0] is neat, but I found myself longing for a full-fledged IDE again. It's very extensible however (and so is Vim).

Granted, I am not yet a hardcore Vim user, so I've been trying to get there via using the IdeaVim[1] plugin with whatever JetBrains IDE I happen to be working in. It seems like the best compromise presently.

I may be working in Visual Studio soon, so VS + Resharper + VsVim should be interesting.

[0] http://spacemacs.org/

[1] https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim
"...bunch of big guys wailing on each other..."

Add in death and dismemberment and you have what war actually probably looked like for thousands of years - pure, unadulterated mayhem.
I have seen xkcd #927 used to dismiss discussions of standards on HN so many times that it is the only xkcd comic I can recognize by number.
Yeah pretty much this. Even though it seems OK from an "objective" standpoint to lend your aid when it seems obvious that you can do it and it is not too much cost to you, this doesn't really work in the making friends dept. Yes there are maybe 5% of people who will catch on to what you are doing and click but that is not good odds.
Everything Can Wait
I see where you're coming from. But you have to keep in mind that there a myriad of offences that you're not susceptible to commit if your living standard is above a certain threshold.

Say, loitering, because maybe you have no home or a crowded one, so it's better to spend more time of the day on the street. Or petty theft, for people who're really poor. If you're a druggie and need money for a fix. Or say you're in the country illegally.

And I am sure we could come up with more. The point is none of these behaviors (well, except loitering, I don't get why that should be criminalized) are desirable for society as a whole, but it's not correct to pretend that the laws applies to all citizens equally, when there a forces that prod some people towards classes of crimes. That goes the other way too, for example considering tax evasion.

The question becomes then how to we manage these behaviors, and I'm not sure that an increased pressure by the state to enforce existing laws on a vulnerable population, actually solves anything.

Yeah you might have some moral ideas about whether "getting yourself hooked on drugs" is a good idea, from a policy standpoint that's irrelevant, what matters is to manage the fallout that this has on society right now and how to deal with it in the future.
I've read the article and still have no idea how the title was approved by an editor. It makes no sense.
3 Reasons Why I Gave Up the Ghost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly#Historical_monopolies
Martin Shkreli & Turing Pharmaceuticals comes to mind as a recent example.
SF is past the tipping point IMO. The absurdity of paying $3000+/mo for a 200 sq ft "micro-apartment" finally sunk in I guess. Some other place is going to be home to the next batch of unicorns (well, maybe the third-next batch) and SF will be done for. The city will panic and frantically grant the building permits and provide semi-workable solutions to the rampant crime and traffic problems to try to get some of the glory back, but it will be too little too late.
You are not gripping the blade bear-handed: you would usually be wearing some kind of glove.
But that's completely different. Shkreli's plan worked because everyone else was legally prohibited from selling his product. There was never any period of "dumping", either - he bought the only vendor for a drug, protected by a legal pseudo-monopoly, and jacked up the price.
Are you seriously suggesting that progressive ideals require tolerating elevated risk of suffering violence and property damage?
Granted that people should obviously be to held responsible for their actions, acknowledging the fact that there are many people that would do something in a desperate situation which they wouldn't otherwise do is very important in my mind.
Email isn't the thing you are bad at
Genuinely curious - why do you see a problem here? Typically its the 'progressive' countries like northern europe with the highest taxes and the safest, cleanest streets.
That's an excellent point. I had heard of the Ben Franklin effect, but not this. Yeah when I try to give my help to most people, they get resentful.

Am I special/broken in that if someone does a favor for me with the implication I don't pay them back, my opinion of them goes up? Perhaps I'm just not used to the phenomenon lol...
San Francisco is a failed city. The failure of its prosperous element to do anything about it is an indictment of its entire culture.
Please identify something in the article that matches this description.
I think you misunderstood the author . What they meant was it will return 00000000 and some times a 7 if it is stressed . Then in Tuesday it will return results that will brick your printer and the rest of the week under no stress it will return a random result from the following pseudocode

{
int superSecure;
return 42;
}

-fin
Microscope uses artificial intelligence to find cancer cells more efficiently
The liberal utopia. Where no one has the moral confidence to do what must be done. Where people are so worried about being nice that they forget to be good.
> De Beers is well known for its monopoloid practices throughout the 20th century, whereby it used its dominant position to manipulate the international diamond market. The company used several methods to exercise this control over the market. Firstly, it convinced independent producers to join its single channel monopoly, it flooded the market with diamonds similar to those of producers who refused to join the cartel, and lastly, it purchased and stockpiled diamonds produced by other manufacturers in order to control prices through limiting supply.
Same with 538 for me, though it's more often a mention of the "$5 wrench" than a link.
Blockbuster video was notorious for this around the year 2000. Put small video rental shops out of business with 99 cent rentals, then jack it up to $4 once the competition was gone.
Or as Anatole France put it,

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the
poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
Sure, I realize that. (Although "subsequent calls are not independent" means it's not actually refusing to respond "at random".) I'm just pointing out in a facetious, emoticon-marked manner that "it behaves randomly" is kind of an odd insult to level against a source of randomness.
I use NewBlur but never tried the social features. How does this community work for you?