skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived/worked in Shenzhen 2011-2012, and even then, young companies, founded by westerners and locals alike, had started targeting the domestic market. Companies in the hardware/manufacturing space had realized there was no need to spend time and energy pursuing western clients when there was such a large, underserved demographic locally.
If you lived (in a decent sized city) in Germany, you could do without a car altogether thus helping the environment even further :)
There used to be a disk cloning tool called Ghost which was written by an independent developer (I think named Ghostsoft) and amazingly useful in the late 90's. They were bought by Symantec who turned it into more of a backup tool - useful, but not the same thing.
Provide proof or it's just anecdotal.

I've done this with 2 browsers looking for a car on the same site and they will have different prices. I generally never log in on chrome anywhere and only use it for twitch so it was a lot cheaper than my firefox that's logged in everywhere. Like $150 on a $300 ticket.
Not for perfect scores, but for a 4, sure.

It was pretty easy to game the written portions of the test if your teacher had grading experience.
Ha, I was wondering how every palette looked way too good to be random. Still, I wonder what one could do with a deep learning algorithm on ColourLovers' dataset.
very nice! Thanks for the tip!
The government doesn't need to coerce the average person to stay in line. The government is the instrument through which the average person forces the fringe elements to stay in line. The average person, thus, has a lot more to fear from corporations than from the government.
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I think this is not right -- since references aren't reseatable, this would effectively make the data structure (but not necessarily its contents) immutable.

Shared pointers or raw pointers are the options that make most sense, in my opinion.

Edit: forgot to say, if you use shared_ptr beware circular references. e.g. in the case of a doubly linked list. weak_ptr could be used to break the cycle, but I'd probably use raw pointers here.
> ...if you want to support a political candidate...

That is the false choice, also commonly found in the form "the lesser of two evils" or "the most electable".

> That's the only way to torture this analogy into shape.

I can think of a better one, better because it actually happened. An anarchist starts making a bunch of noise about how 3d printers enable individuals to produce extremely low quality guns in the privacy of their own homes. Liberals are outraged, propose legislation to ban such activity - then float the lead balloon of 3d printer technology regulation. Like the burning garbage analogy, externalities are used as justification for liberty curtailment, but unlike burning garbage - such externalities are not a certainty (in fact home firearm production has been legal for a very long time). The liberal's real beef is with the threat to the state's authority, the more often the state's regulations are sidestepped - the weaker it appears.

So the short answer is this: liberals, like conservatives, are fine with private activities that don't threaten their world views. Unfortunately liberals have a very detailed idea of the way the world should work, whereas the conservative imagination doesn't go much further than approved penis destinations.
In a way, you're correct, but in another, you're stretching it by a significant margin. Those expenses come out of payroll and is categorized as mandatory spending, in any case. The discretionary spending, to which I implicitly referred, is the principal thing under discussion here, I believe, and is remarkable in its primary output.

Ref.: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...
+1 for newsblur, I switched there from Google Reader. I read feeds a LOT less now, but, mostly for lack of time, not because I dislike newsblur.
They rolled out a go back to browsing mode in the us a few months ago on checkout. I think they looked at the data about how often people want to add one more item especially with the hated "Add on item" and prime. Also how often carts were being abandoned anyway to add more items.
I did a double-take on that as well, so it might.
Testing is designed to fail schools and break the unions by introducing charter schools.

Charter Schools enjoy the benefits of government bonding along with the benefits of making the owners wealthy.
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The composability of queries that an ORM like ActiveRecord seems like too much of a good thing to give up. Getting the same functionality by cutting and pasting bits of SQL together is much more fragile and far less flexible. Soon enough you find yourself abstracting the various parts of the query (select columns, where clauses etc) and you're on the way to building your own ORM already.
I am enjoying using J for fun. What kind of work do you use it for?
The little social media bar, when it pops up (which appears to happen at random) unavoidably obscures the left side of the text when reading in landscape mode. Please consider removing it.

Also, please read up on scroll jank and fix the javascript event handlers (or remove them -- why are you handling scroll events at all?).
I imagined drug commercials for execution drugs.

Side effects include dizziness, headaches, vomiting, and on rare occasions, not-death.
I don't see how that's relevant. The whole point of the government is for it to have a monopoly on law enforcement. They're supposed to be able to do stuff you and I can't do.
So what do you call "wanting the death of cultures alien to you because you don't understand them"?

I see you complaining elsewhere in the thread about the use of the term "racist". Yes, I'm with you, it's not racist. I said it was xenophobic in answer to that. People confuse the terms a lot because often enough they can be used interchangeably. But the very etymology of xenophobia is "fear of what is alien".

This thread is a very, very clear example of that. You don't like it maybe because you don't see it, or you don't understand how inconsiderate it is to take somebody's language - an essential tool of communication, built over thousands of years with immense and incredibly diverse legacies - call it "useless" and wanting it gone.

I would love to discuss the practicality and side effects of "standardizing on a single language". Why it's not that simple. Why it won't have the effects you'd be looking for. Why languages even exist in the first place. But this thread started rotten and got worse - nothing good can come of it anymore.
People are saying this guy accessed databases illegally, but what about Shodan? They crawl, port-scan, access, and index everything they can find, not just HTTP servers. They are what made it possible for this guy to find these unsecured databases in the first place. They even counted the total size of the exposed databases' records.

Why isn't Shodan being sued to pieces for illegally accessing private databases and being a "Google for black hats"? I've even found them port-scanning my home DSL connection.
> Elasticsearch

Yea. I found that surprising when it came time to use ElasticSearch for my own purposes. If you want security, you need to setup something between the ElasticSearch server and the clients to moderate.
Haven't you guys ever seen The Wire? Is this seriously a surprise to anyone?
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It must help Chinese startups that many SV companies are blocked from competing in China. For example no competition from Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Youtube, Gmail, Dropbox, Vimeo, SoundCloud...

more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_C...
I think it's a good idea to get used to wearing sunglasses.

This next paragraph is a bit offtopic, but I think we will look back with regret at how free we were with our picture being taken.

Right now--I don't think it's acceptable behavior to be clicking away. It used to be cute, now it's just teenage behavior. To the Shutterbug who can't go anywhere without taking your pictures--at at least don't automatically post? Or, maybe put the camera/phone in your pocket? Enjoy the moment? Or, at least let the people around you enjoy the moment?

If anyone cares the microphone in the courthouse light was for these realeste investors whom were rigging foreclosures in Alameda, San Mateo, etc. They were paying other buyers to not bid on foreclosures. I always felt not enough people show up at these auctions. Just don't violate The Sherman Anti-trust Act.

https://www.fbi.gov/sanfrancisco/press-releases/2015/two-nor...
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Everything has been said by Richard Gabriel long ago - Lisp is too good, and "packers" don't need or even appreciate refinement and excellence, like most of folks don't appreciate beauty of DNA and related machinery.

For them PHP or Java are tools for getting shit done. There are huge piles they have produced, like Hadoop or whatever it is.

The last great Lisp was ZetaLisp from Symbolics (just read the docs!). Common Lisp is already a bloatware suffered from the kitchen sink syndrome, nevertheless it is way better than anything else (multi-paradigm, mostly functional, strongly-typed (type-safe enough) meta-language that compiles to native code with pattern-matching, OO and other fancies as DSLs).

But who cares if one is satisfied with writing

RepetitiveStupidityFactory myStupidityFactory = new RepetiriveStupidityFactory;

for living.
I agree with everything up until the reading part. I took Latin 8-12th grade and reading it, but with the assistance of our professor, was one of the most enjoyable experiences I've ever had. We topped off the last year studying Virgil, book 2 of the Aeneid, and Juvenal. Hard, but so great
> So, why haven't they been?

Grsec upstream argues that only accepting part of the whole is worse than having their patches outside mainline in bulk, because it would give developers and users a false sense of security to only provide some of the hardening grsec does.

See this[1] LWN article from 2009, which is a kernel developers post with a comment retort by some grsec developers.

[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/313621/

The frustration is that we are now seven years later and the situation has only gotten worse - plenty of kernel exploits have emerged, no distro is shipping grsec comprehensively, grsec itself had to stop providing stable releases, and it has become more religious than logical as to why many critical features, like the internal bug prevention functionality, never will be mainlined and will be re-implemented with much less thoroughly tested surrogates.
That's not the whole point of government, that is a radical statist perspective.

See, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles

> the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Cops in The Wire made an extreme point of getting warrants for limited targeted surveillance
So do it in your spare time over a few months, release it and charge 99 cents, and maybe make a little money
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All rust String and &strs are UTF-8 encoded, there are also other string types.
Anytime I see anything names my-asm or mini.asm or anything like that, it instantly yanks me back to college. We had this awesome teacher who had been at DEC for decades and taught at night. He'd bring in chunks of core memory, and tell us all about the old days in between course work. God I loved that class.
> Wat.

It is true if it is true for you. Let's pay attention who says it: "Jeff Harp, a KPIX 5 security analyst and former FBI special agent"

That is absolutely how FBI and large parts of the executive branch see the Constitution. This annoying piece of paper, that prevents them doing their job, and enables criminals to get away with crimes.
Other electric cars from other companies are in development...
This is sad. Probably smart, but the culture jerk companies and DAs have bred is one of rightfully fearing being the messenger because he always gets shot.
I feel that car license plates are a reasonable compromise.

A car provides you with an ability to inflict a lot of damage AND with an ability to escape from the scene quickly. Think hit and runs, road rage, dangerous driving, drunk driving, driving without license, etc.

I'll definitely take lack of anonymity when driving over having to deal with the millions of unaccountable assholes.
The reason is that Ruby supports non-Unicode encodings that are not subsets of Unicode. Not possible if your string is Unicode.
Ruby encoding stuff changed a lot over its history; it was one of the big changes from 1.8 to 1.9.
Debunked by what exactly? Can you prove/guarantee it's not happening?

While I don't have any other evidence than my pretty specific anecdotal experience to prove it's true (in addition to what friends in the airline industry told me), it is common knowledge that price discrimination is a pretty fundamental aspect of airline pricing so this "myth" is not that inconceivable.
Perhaps you are mistaking the ideal government from the actual government. Governments are repeat offenders, and they lie to the public constantly. Its no secret - look it up. Yet they are so powerful, that it happens anyway.

Its also no secret that the people who control the government have interests in retaining power and accumulating wealth. Politicians don't even deny that they can be bought, money is free speech after all (http://www.amendmentgazette.com/how-spending-money-became-a-...). Congressmen spend more than half of their time fundraising for a reason.

The policies and actions of the government are not intended to protect you, even though sometimes your interests are aligned.
There's a _lot_ of stuff in this space: mrusty, ruru, Helix. It's exciting stuff.
The article does not corroborate your claims at all.

> Rather, Ford cars have several on-board services such as "Sync Services Directions" (a navigation device that works with drivers' phones) and 911 Assist, which users have to switch on and opt into. And employers can use a service called "Crew Chief" to monitor their corporate car fleet.
Isn't there a huge problem with the resolution of the rift/vive being that of a monitor but it's got to render a monitor at distance thus losing pixels and being equivalent to an old vga monitor?
Akira Matsuda actually suggested at RailsConf that maybe Rails handling non-UTF-8 encodings was not necessary, and maybe phasing it out was a good idea.

I wasn't present for the talk, just saw his slides.
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Funny, I gave a tech talk at the Chekku (Garage) cafe a few years ago, and even then it had a pretty impressive energy in the place. The host that set it up expected maybe 15 people to show up, over 150 did.

China was and still is lacking some very important infrastructure for successful business development: a stable legal and contracts system, strongly enforced property rights, institutional access to capital, investment focused on demand rather than supply (see also ghost cities), and a well regulated stock market more based on revenue than pure speculation (not that the events of the last 10 years in the US stock markets haven't shaken my opinion on their strength).

Chinese entrepreneurs make up for these business problems the same way people that lack resources do in the states: through hard work and sheer tenacity. They're hungry for progress, and at the end of the day, that's what builds an economy.

I met some great people at Garage cafe that night, and they left a strong impression on me that Chinese entrepreneurs are going to do some really impressive stuff over the next ten years.

If you're ever in Beijing, I highly recommend spending an evening there. It was the highlight of my trip.
> Surprisingly low numbers, considering how many hundreds of students ace their calculus tests in college.

A meter that is always pegged tells you nothing.
That is true, the maths is very basic and it doesn't go into why it's blazingly fast. The reason for this is that it doesn't fit the idea of this series at all.

However that would be an interesting post, it will be a good one to write, but not part of this series.

Thanks!
That would only apply if the jurisdictional predicate (effect on interstate commerce) were met, which I don't think would be the case here.
The event that was Facebook in it's hot phase; that massive net that captured everyone, EVERYONE, young, young-old, old; that excitement and newness is damn near impossible to replicate in this day and age at FB scale.

It could be done, but at what cost, at what point in time, and from how do people buy in.

Facebook spanned generations, spanned social classes, spanned continents, and mingled everyone in the process. People have deviated from that main network in the subsequent years, but every now and then, those that 'left' for other pastures always come back to facebook to see 'whatsup' see 'how's the old crowd doing' and see 'how is so and so doing'.

No one else can do that, no one else has that power. The social tree always recurses back to facebook. What that means for markets, new prospects etc, i don't know. But behaviorally speaking facebook is far, far from out of the public mind, and as the years grow longer, while it may exist at a lower level in our day-to-day lives than some hip platforms, it persists as strong as ever.
Guys, I think we got out in the weeds a little bit with the google thing. The question is if someone puts up a web server on the internet with no authentication and no notice that it's not open for public use, can they get me for "unauthorized access" if I download content from it? If not, what makes HTTP special - why not SQL or SMB?
If you followed PoI closely enough (if you did not: spoiler alert!), the main characters do not have to disguise themselves from Samaritan because they snuck in a patch that literally makes Samaritan blind when it sees them. For one reason or another, Samaritan or its accomplices can not locate and remove that patch. That, of course, does not prevent Samaritan from figuring out where they are by other means (like tracking their actions, accomplices, vehicles, etc.) and from Samaritan agents to see them in plain old ways. But by the time a team of dozen commandos comes in guns blazing, it's too late to get the hat on. They would probably disregard the hat.
I find a great answer in this area is Crystal. I consider it 'go in ruby clothing'. Like go, Crystal is a typed language and outputs binary executables. They kept the beautiful ruby syntax and made better internals. http://crystal-lang.org/
It's harder but not impossible. An email can be on a domain with anonymized WHOIS and a burner phone paid for with cash bought at a place without surveillance cameras. Hell, I do that sometimes and I'm not even doing anything criminal.
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When "every single person is a criminal",

That is tyranny ^
My best introduction to any asm language is just my C compiler putting out asm (gcc -S, I think). I can create small programs to do what I want, and see what the compiler puts out.
The piece of code is called Open Genera and it is available from pirates.

Some sources and excellent documentation are on the bitkeeper.

There is also the MIT Scheme, as seen on TV in the Wizards Lectures (1986 Abelson & Sussman SICP lectures).

BTW, the guys who designed and developed early lisps, up to 80s, were bright people heavily influenced by discoveries of "modern science" of the time, which were genome and protein structures, basics of cell biology, signaling pathways, early genome sequencing techniques etc. Their designs has been based on right principles. Erlang is another example.

Another obviously successful project is called (surprise, surprise!) GNU Emacs. Non surprisingly it is a continuum of early emacses, such as Zmacs.

Recently, Eitaro Fukamachi (a true hero, in my opinion) have bootstrapped a few remarkable projects, which should mark the beginning of the Common Lisp renaissance, but these projects also went unnoticed by packers. Why Clack when we have PHP or Java Server Faces?

As for Erlang syntax - the pattern-matching on receive with variable binding for simple, terms-based protocols is, again, too good for mediocrity to grasp

{ok, Val} | {error Why}

etc.
Previously covered on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10582392

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Get a monitor like a Dell u2715 and turn it sideways. Basically a double tall square resolution monitor.
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It's a statist perspective, but hardly radically-so.

From your link:

> The Home Office has explained this approach as "the power of the police coming from the common consent of the public, as opposed to the power of the state. It does not mean the consent of an individual. No individual can choose to withdraw his or her consent from the police, or from a law."

That's the difference between the police and private citizens. Interactions between private citizens must be consensual. Policing, at some level, must necessarily be coercive.
> I'd love an implementation of a Lisp with a Hindley Milner-esque type system.

I am not certain of whether it is more Hindley-Milner or more "esque", but you may find something of interest in Shen [0].

[0] http://shenlanguage.org/

Edit: I submitted this reply an hour or so after opening the tab, during which interval several others mentioned Shen (which is good, as it deserves a bit of exposure).
I had a conversation with a prof from Harvey Mudd and another prof from somewhere else who was an AP calc grader. The HMC prof said they quit giving credit for 5's because not all recipients of 5's could do the work. The grader commented that he could understand how, as the range of 5's is quite broad. My take-away was that there is insufficient granularity at the high end.
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To address your point on Person of Interest (an absolutely wonderful series, recommended to the entire HN audience): There's several instances where the main characters disguise themselves. But it's not practical for general purpose - There is more than facial recognition at play - voice recognition, process of elimination etc and there is no trouble tracking already-identified targets.
The quotes from the former FBI agent, showing complete disregard for the 4th Amendment, send a clear message about how deep illegal behavior runs in the FBI.
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Interesting point. In regards to wiretaps https://www.privacyrights.org/content/wiretapping-and-eavesd... seems to imply that no, Federal Agents when investigating are not bound by State law but by federal law:

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Courts have held that the California law does not apply to wiretaps by federal agents authorized by a valid federal warrant. For example, federal agents may go to federal court and obtain a warrant to place a wiretap in California, even though state officials may be barred by state law from obtaining a wiretap under similar circumstances.

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In general I suspect they cannot be prevented by local state laws from doing their jobs.