skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's several things to worry about:

1. ALPR, when positioned strategically, can be as effective (if not more so) than GPS. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that police need a court order to attach a GPS tracker to a suspect's car, but no such order is needed for ALPR. They're also passive, so there's no way to detect them, and you can't really avoid them when driving. They can also be combined with stationary cameras to increase the surveillance area.

2. The mobile phone data of a carrier is only searchable with a warrant. Some agencies use Stingrays without a warrant (thanks, Baltimore City, for the heads up) to track people illegally, but they would need many deployed throughout an area to triangulate, and they wouldn't be as accurate.

3. You can turn a phone off, but you can't make a car invisible. (You could change the plates, but 99.99999999% of the citizens being tracked have no reason, nor access, to do this)

4. Access to the data is basically unrestricted to the police force, and they can keep it for a long time, and they have no oversight. The ACLU says that in 45 states there are no laws on how long police can keep the records.

5. They can be abused easily:

"In 1998, a Washington D.C. police lieutenant pleaded guilty to extortion after blackmailing the owners of vehicles parked near a gay bar.[45] In 2015, the Los Angeles Police Department proposed sending letters to the home addresses of all vehicles that enter areas of high prostitution.[46][47][48]" [1] In NYC, they used it to track people who went to a mosque in Queens, amongst other places. [2]

What's funny is that private companies have been operating ANPR units for years, and have private databases you can pay to search, similar to other data-selling companies that people like private investigators and creditors have been using for the past 15 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recogni... [2] http://www.ap.org/Content/AP-In-The-News/2012/Newark-mayor-s...
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11685052 and marked it off-topic.
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Would a system where the liquid fresh water was stored at a significant altitude be feasible? Via evaporation + condensation you could create a battery during the day to use at night.
Speak for yourself. I think the sciences are just as subjective as any other field. There are some semi-objective moments, but the bulk of the work is just cultural traditions playing out without any sort of introspection. Scientists tend to discourage any kind of meta-awareness which arguably makes it less objective than other practices. The fiction of objectivity inhibits study of the origins of knowledge.
Or was it to protect him from parking fines? Like asshole teritory?
They had 5 plants in 2015 and now they have 3? Did you read my article?
It's definitely possible, but I'm not sure why they wouldn't? The data from millions of users from all over the country / world would be a lot better than a small number of users in a single place. And they still push it as a sales feature, so showing real improvement over time sounds like something they would want.

Still, I hope you're right; I do agree that it's a big part of the future, and seeing it flounder is frustrating.
Correct. I find it relevant because it shows you if new ones were added since you last checked. I'd like to keep up with these postings but might miss one. Having them organized in one place in the order that they were selected makes logical sense.
The answer to #1 provides some insight as to what might make this play a little more interesting. Reading into the truck page, check out this gem:

"At Nikola Motor Company, we’ve decided to invest in American energy. Nikola owns the rights to its own natural gas wells along with the Nikola One fleet that transports the natural gas from the wells to the stations. With 7 wells on a single property, Nikola can pump out millions of gallons of clean natural gas each day. Nikola plans on having more than 5 well sites for redundancy throughout the United States. Complete vertical integration removes market uncertainties and allows Nikola Motor to control its own prices and keep them that way for Nikola customers. Nikola bypasses all the gas companies, liquifies the gas on site, then delivers it to the station through its fleet of electric trucks."

The trucks appear, in part, to be a method of arbitraging future LNG prices which have been going down, and can be expected to continue to fall for the foreseeable future as more and more wells keep coming on line.
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you're doing the lords work... hitler used the same diversity scores on the jews.
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That's where I think where most NoSQL proponents start to miss the value of relational models and the closed Relational Algebra it allows.

As I understood it, SQL was a language for describing the Relational Algebra which was a closed mathematical concept.

You can take the syntax, assign functions to produce output from a non-relational model, but it's no longer SQL...and it's underlying power (the closed Relational Algebra) is no longer present.

So in a sense syntax and being relational are orthogonal, but syntax isn't the defining characteristic of SQL (or why it's so powerful). I think a more insightful statement is: SQL (Relational Algebra) and being relational are codependent and relational and non-relational are orthogonal.

Which, if I am not mistaken (and again I am still trying to understand the finer points which is what motivated my original comment), NoSQL people fundamentally _cannot_ offer a query language similar to SQL based on the closed relational algebra.

They can mimic the syntax to make it more intuitive for new users coming from traditional RDMBS environments, but it's fundamentally _not_ SQL/relational algebra.

But again, I am just a cursory admirer/learner and I am still trying to iron out my own understanding of the underlying theory. So all additional information/clarifications welcome :)
Swype and other keyboards with similar functionality have been available since iOS 8's release. It makes sense they'd highlight the new functionality over that.
As I understand it though, because the result is random you can't actually transmit meaningful information faster than light. You can know what the other measurement was but because it was random it's rather useless information. But I don't know maybe I have it wrong...
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In the small case I'm all for it, but when systemic changes are made to the economy I think it would be reasonable to consider helping the translation by redirecting some capital toward that realignment. The existing method of using transfer payments from the new growth to sustain the displaced resources as you wait for them to reallocate takes to long and is itself inefficient.
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Sounds like having to pay an unexpected parking ticket that you weren't budgeting for ;)
I just got exactly the same setup working this past week, after deciding to move from ad-hoc setup to a clean Dockerized setup with minimal custom config. It's great!

The thing I like about this setup is that it seamlessly supports multiple vhosts, including SNI for the SSL. I can just create a new container that serves a new domain and set a few environment variables (VIRTUAL_HOST=mydomain.com and LETSENCRYPT_HOST=mydomain.com) and within a few seconds there's a new cert and all requests on that domain are proxied appropriately.

My setup script is here [1] for anyone who wants to do the same.

[1] https://github.com/cfallin/dot/blob/master/doc/setup-grey.c1...
It is my default whenever I'm on Windows. Everyone loves to close the "trial" window on software when there's usually a better open source alternative. The hidden gem in 7-Zip is you can set file association, it's just not enabled by default which makes it seem more complicated to newcomers than it really is.
These measures will work for a while, but eventually there will be a video log of everywhere you travel. Unless you wear a mask, disguise your gait, and mix with other people doing the same thing, They will know.
I am certain it is greater. BB(n) grows super-exponentially.

In fact I would be willing to bet serious money that BB(n+1)/BB(n) is greater than BB(n) if 3 < n.

(This is, of course, assuming that one assumes that BB(n) is well-defined. That is an interesting point of philosophy given the existence of Turing machines which can't be proven to not halt.)
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Yes, there are trust levels associated with running untrusted code, and processing untrusted data. It's possible (but often hard and annoying) to access some external/untrusted resources such as the internet and items on them without running untrusted code, it is not possible to do so without processing untrusted data (at a minimum it's going to traverse your network stack and display/disk drivers).
Someone mentioned the V2 here. Interesting contrast between post-war careers of Von Brown and Zuse.
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Absolutely. But at that point we are quibbling over syntax instead of semantics, which is not that interesting. In practice you can do hierarchical models in SQL just fine (cf Oracle's ANCESTOR features, or AsterData's regexps), and bag-of-features stuff using JSON. Graph models are more awkward, but graph models are always awkward.
Curious how many gallons can be removed from oceans before it causes significant impact.

I realize it would require a massive amount but given the insatiable need for clean water, over a century it could add up?
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Well now blogs and feed based websites have mostly replaced the end-user need to craft their own websites.

The convenience does not come at zero cost, though. This is putting power in too few hands. A few people decide how the web looks like, what is possible and what is not.

Facebook is now the new Internet Explorer, an unavoidable entity that dictates what the web experience is like.
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Building on a bleeding-edge JS framework for the sake of bleeding-edge is poor practise. If there is some advantage to using that framework, though, the customer may well care. What development monkeys, attracted to whatever shiny thing comes along, are you describing?

You're not gonna get much enthusiasm here for negative dev stereotypes, especially if you're gonna cast sales as noble protectors of the business in contrast. Many devs (especially in "enterprise") are quite conservative. In fact, I've seen sales/management sometimes care more about the latest buzzword shiny than development.

> salespeople are perfectly capable of grasping

Doesn't mean they'll care, especially if they'll be out, commission in hand, by the time the debt hits.

> The salesperson is the one that says "you're not going replace horses with automobiles, unless they're faster or more reliable than a horse".

I'm not sure cars were either of these.

And the point is, how do sales know what the customer wants, if the customer doesn't know what they want?
Hi. I worked on Facebook's anti-abuse infrastructure for awhile (I'm still at Facebook, but working on different things now). So while I didn't personally fight spam/fake accounts, I worked closely with those who did. I'll be blunt: based on this and your other comments, you don't know what you're talking about.

I'll go a step further and give you some unsolicited advice. The anti-abuse community amongst internet/game/tech companies is actually fairly close knit since it's one of the few places where everyone is on the same side and lots of "secrets" are shared (including, even, at the spam fighting conference we organized last year). I would bet a lot of people just rolled their eyes while learning of your company for the first time. You're already entangled in one argument from someone calling you on this silliness, but I assure they're not alone. I'd probably suggest reconsidering this approach.
>I tip based on experience. I'm sure most of us do... not based on what color your skin is or your sex.

I'm not sure how you tip based on experience, do you interview them on their job history?

Most people are tipping based on pretty fuzzy criteria, and they wind up tipping people that are familiar to them more.
Agreed. A spec is supposed to be enormously detailed. 2 pages sounds more like a summary blog post.
> First, the share of California's total megawatt hours of power generated by burning coal dropped from 1% in 2007 to just 0.2% in 2015.

> Second, in a report that the agency released last week, California saw a 96% decrease in coal-fueled electric power consumption during the same time frame. That is the steepest fall by percentage of any state.

That reads to me like the title is correct but incomplete - coal energy production and consumption are both down significantly.
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I'd still rather earlier code reviews... design reviews about 1/3 of the way into writing the code. Enough time to have passed to have discovered the dragons in the whiteboard design, but not enough to have written code that could only undergo minor fixes in a code review.

I prefer the idea of a code review happening at a time that it could still steer the ship... too many code reviews catch bugs, but don't correct poor system design. That's also where the greatest benefit/education exists for the author... not minor changes, but "what about approaching it like this".
If the world you live requires you to be a hyper conformist, to lead a peace full, happy life, will you raise your children as a free thinker?

For example, will you encourage the child to question you and talk back when you ask him/her to do something, if encouraging it might cause them problems/conflicts later in life?
Facebook didn't issue you your face, and people didn't necessarily sign up for facebook intending for all of their photos to be trackable through facial recognition. The government did issue you license plates specifically to be able to track you. I understand people being paranoid that they've gotten better at their job, but that in and of itself isn't abusive.

A headline like "Feds Are Spying on Millions of Cars With License Plate Readers" implies that the government is doing something nefarious that it doesn't have a right to do, which isn't the case. They're entitled to track your license plate as much as they please.
Your daughter's story about the squirrel is A+
I remember when bandwidth was at a premium and 1200 baud was fast. There were pleas everywhere to use simple html, white text on black. Images were links to download if you wanted to view them and encouraged only if they added to the content. Nobody was trying to make the web into television.
Thanks for the vid. Is there a specific reason why the protection system doesn't detonate the projectile further out to avoid any damage whatsoever?
go and read some of the affiliate marketing forums. Instagram is being abused more than you would guess. People are talking about getting a million followers on there etc and selling shutouts. I barely use Instagram anymore, and I enjoy photography.
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PeaZip is like a friendly version of 7zip, and uses the 7zip code. 7zip is not very well maintained, whereas PeaZip has regular releases.
> a feature that some of us will never buy.

Don't worry, it will be included in the price. Of nearly every thing worth more than a few hundred bucks (and counting down).

The Kindle having a built-in GSM SIM was just the beginning.
> became roughly the 29th person to enter

Roughly?
Measured when and on what coal plant design? It's not like all coal plants can be generalised in such a way.. or can they?
I think with a situation such as this it may make the prioritizing of only damaging enemy combatants, of course this is suggesting the term enemy combatants being based around people engaging directly at firing weapons towards those that the us military or those who are employed by the military are in charge of protecting or themselves.
There go the jobs in the middle of my home state.

... to another profession, as is how structural unemployment works in general.
> Quality of life drives entrepreneurial activity

Err... no, sorry. That is obviously not true.
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We have the rest of the Universe that is untouched by human hands
As Carl Sagan would say, there are "billions and billions" of stars each with its own solar system.
We have a long way to go before contaminating everything.
Some people find reasons to be depressed.
They are using blockchain for decentralized payment system and IPFS for decentralized file hosting but they have rejected the hashcash algo which is the basis of invention of blockchain, by not using PoW.

They solve this by providing a paid-membership. So basically, a content creator is paying this fees for availing the network affect of akasha.world instead of publishing it for free on their own blog and putting in an address.
I'm still trying to grok the "record" feature.
Start interviewing and get market rates.
There is a saying: "you don't put a $100 lock on a $50 bike". I think the same applies here.

If to block a $300 RPG (hypothetical cost, i don't know what the cost is), costs $10000, then they still win.
> If we can kill 1,000 people with 0 deaths, however, the ethical bar for how we apply that force should be held to a stricter standard...

What do you mean "if"? We've already killed thousands of people with drone strikes. And sadly the ethical bar on that is not held to a stricter standard, indeed it's held to a lower standard. Some people are targeted based on social networking algorithms that are hugely flawed. The ratio of "collateral damage" deaths to "good kills" is perhaps as low as 50/50, maybe even worse, since there's very little investigative followup.
I could have picked better examples, I suppose. I went to a state school as an out of state student because it was still reasonable (James Madison was 10k a year).

UNH is a bad example and I shouldn't have used it. It's expensive even for in-state because the state is not funding it as much as they used to. But my point was that I wouldn't spend Ivy money on Bates or Colby when going there is not clearly better than a state school as it would be with an Ivy.
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Cool, but disappointed his name at the end links to Twitter - he just undid everything he just said.

His name should link to his homepage or about page, of which he has no links to from the article. These pages are IMHO a million times more interesting than the frankly awful mess Twitter has made of profile homepages. What with the big fonts on some tweets - I don't know why some tweets have large fonts. A good interface would instantly make it clear why.
Your first and only contribution to HackerNews is this comment. Your story seems a little big fish...
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Depends on the circumstances.

Need a fix in the next hour option a)

You are going to be working with a large team on a long term project, no deadlines are immediately pressing option b)
The vulnerability isn't to do with what file system you're running, it's to do with using 7-zip to view the contents of archives in those file formats. Which means if someone wanted to view ala DVD ".iso" which used the UDF specification, then they could be vulnerable if they use 7-zip.

I remember it used to be common place to open .iso files with WinRar back in the 90s. I wouldn't be surprised if a sizeable number of people now use 7-zip similarly
Not if blocking a $300 RPG for $10000 prevents $100000 of damage to the intended target of said RPG.
Wanted to check out his root site.
Not really sure if he is walking the walk https://justinjackson.ca/
We need to start having conversations about whether the law compels people to go home from work and school at that sort of temperature.
You disagree with most things NIMBY because it is generally used as a pejorative. However, the basics of the term is pretty benign.

E.g., people who are pro urban density tend to be NIMBY on things that expand car usage. Then they label anti-density people as "NIMBY", as if that really means anything. The fact is that they're both NIMBY, just on different issues.

Everyone is NIMBY on something.
I haven't had a serious look at it yet, but the Ruby/Rails ecosystem is really big. I'd bet Elixir isn't quite there yet. I like what I've seen so far, though.
Thanks for getting back to me. I have vague memories of the logical, reasoned approach helping to squash the irrational fears, so can see a little into how you handle it. Will check out your vids later, excited to see them.
Now this is a case for sandboxing. A decompressor has one input file and one output directory. It should not have the power to change any state outside those files.

A key point here is that not all code needs to be secure. Some code just needs to be kept in a box.
If it's true, I wouldn't be surprised at all, just amused.
Also, I wouldn't be surprised if other countries do it too.

Professional Sport, like the rest of society is corrupt as hell.

Cycling, Athletics, Soccer, Baseball .. you name it.. mainly because it's not about the sport, it's about the money.

The more money involved, the more incentives to cheat.

Now when someone cheats and doesn't get caught, you either cry wolf, or shut up and cheat too. If they do, we'll do it too. There are millions on the table up for grabs.

After all, why is it so wrong to dope? Who's affected ? The TV viewers ?

They just drink their beers and eat their chips and get fat watching sports, then go out and buy all the crap that's shoveled into their minds during the commercial breaks.

Because "sports" is not about physical exercise, it's about advertising.
It's not about being healthy, it's about getting high blood pressure and diabetes from sitting in front of the TV screen...

It's all a big charade anyway.. so, nothing surprising here.
But were they endangered before we knew about them?
Unless I'm misremembering Android asks you for permission to do that. So the might actually realize.
The longevity startup is stealth and he has an NDA with the gov.
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Not really sure why you would need regular releases for handing zip files, though.
Despite higher top marginal tax rates, federal tax revenue as a percentage of GDP has been pretty stable post WW2

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/FYFRGDA188S