skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally agree with you and I'm generally very critical of the police and I think they handled this very poorly, but I don't think we know enough to say they shouldn't have been involved at all. If Derek is telling the truth that his stolen laptop with lots of personal information on it has turned his life into a movie then it sounds like there is a lot more to know.
Only if you are trying to give the users of your MRI an aneurysm. Which is a bit of irony, I think.
The example URL they list from w3.org website (http://www.w3.org/1998/12/01/chairs) is now broken. Great deal of irony.
love. this.
The union can demand it but they won't get it. Why do you think states just go around spinelessly giving in to fabricated and absurd union demands?

I just read this in the news too, amusingly enough: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-36305132
Go look at any story about white murderers, and you'll find baby pictures as well. Of the shooter, not the victim.
Yes, they do. The problem is that Flash adds a layer of risk and the associated costs of risk management onto the web stack.

Adobe does not bear the cost of maintaining flash integrations, and doesn't bear the cost of the liability for shipping these vulnerabilities. If a user gets hosed because of Flash in Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome, they blame their browser.

This externalization of the costs of securing the product, coupled with externalizing the cost of maintaining browser integrations means that it is harder to build a secure browser.

Flash needs to die, and with a very narrow subset of functionalities, it is no longer needed. Best to let it go so that we can have one less vulnerable client downloading and executing untrusted on our computers.
reports about other news reports, at least some of which already have seen lengthy discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11687548
Why?

He's in possession of data deemed contraband, but apparently not linked to distribution. The police need to demonstrate possession and can do so when their search is complete.

The police did an investigation, obtained a warrant to search for the contraband and seized the hard drive. The defendant was ordered by the judge to decrypt the drive per the warrant, and refused to follow the order. He's in contempt of court, and he can get out of jail very easily -- by complying with the order.
I think it's important to recognize that the violence of gladiatorial combat was both legal and accepted in Roman culture, where as dog fighting isn't today. So, it's a little unfair to compare the two as if they're equivalent moral issues.

Of course that hinges on the fact that you accept that morality is a cultural construct and not absolute, which is a philosophical rabbit hole.
Electropocalypse – iPad App to learn electronics hands-on
Call me cynical, but I feel like Greenwald is heading into the territory of just milking what he has now. All of the big revelations have been dropped already, but whenever the Intercept/Greenwald need more clicks or media attention, they just trickle out some more documents.

I detest having to defend the NSA here. I mean, the internal newsletters and other stuff may be an interesting curiosity, but unless they are documenting government crimes or violations or rights, I'm not even sure its right to release them. The NSA does actually an authorized function besides spying on Americans, and that function does require some degree of operational security.

The fact that the NSA provided assistance to interrogations at GITMO is not surprising at all and would be expected. After all, if the CIA is interrogating suspects, the NSA obviously wants to know about phone numbers, methods of communication they're using, passwords, so they can target their SIGINT, so they're going to be providing the CIA/FBI with a list of questions they would want answers to.

On the scale of damaging information, most of the damage has already been done, and I don't think these newsletters really hurt NSA operations. But one wonders, what else does Greenwald have that could be really damaging, and when they run out of other things to release, will they risk releasing stuff that has nothing to do with the abuses that lead Snowden to take action.
Texan.
The difference is of degree and not kind. When you add reality to content it makes it both morally and psychologically worse. In between the real and the completely fake is the very convincing. Snuff films fill this niche. In between snuff films and Gladiator would be your fringe anime.

Fake content isolates negative aspects of experience and presents it in a comforting bubble where you don't have to contemplate all of the nasty context surrounding the portrayal if it were real. As content acquires more reality that bubble is progressively burst.

I've watched lots of questionable content over the years, but the things I've seen that have left the nastiest impressions were always real or based on the real. The audio of the Jonestown massacre was among the most horrifying things I've ever came across.

If you're watching real content of real kids really getting abused, that's probably one of the worst things you could ever do short of actually doing what was in the video. But the difference between enjoying that and the less graphic is one of degree and not kind.
"Ok, Google" and "Ok, Siri" integration is built into all new iPhones and most new Android devices.

Also in these scenarios, all of these devices (Alexa, Android, iPhone) are only locally listening for a wake word, usually using dedicated hardware to detect it. Until you say the wake word, nothing you say is being saved or sent to the network. You can verify this by monitoring your network.
> Similarly, Apple moved very slowly in introducing the iPad even though the under technology had been available for years.

Apple did introduce the Newton, many years earlier. Their slow pace for iPad may just have been due to lessons learnt.
We use CoreOS but I'm still not sold on automatic updates. We've seen too many issues running disparate versions of etcd or docker. To their credit - it seems to be getting better but still not prime time.

Plus, we really want to push for an 'immutable' production model which is counter to automatic updates.
Distributed UX teams: Early lessons learned
It also had an advantage of being a friggin' fast browser. I switched in 2009 and never looked back beside occasionally trying out FF and nope'ing back to Chrome.
It makes the company look like they are doing poorly when they are not recording GAAP profits but are increasing things like their user base and intellectual capital which are not reflected in the GAAP profits and losses. Say you start from nothing and get a million users paying you $10 each for some info service and you spend $10m in advertising to get there which you expense. That will show, roughly speaking, a GAAP profit of zero but your user base of 1m people paying $10 will be worth ~100m ($100/paying user) so you really will be wealthier by nearer $100m than $0.

Basically change in intrinsic value of the business is often a more useful measure than GAAP profits (or EBITA or all the other stuff). It's what counts to a business owner. GAAP profits are what the government forces you to declare so they can charge corporation tax on them and smart CEOs like Bezos will often try to keep the GAAP profits down so as to pay less tax while maximising the intrinsic value of the business which is what makes you rich.
How much hardware and how much time was used in training?
Promises are much each to compose. Promise objects can be passed around and reused. (Multiple things can wait on the result of the same promise.) Code is much easier to read with flat .then() and .catch() chains, versus sometimes the "pyramid of doom" callbacks can create. Code is much, much easier to read with Promises when you can use async/await, and getting everything wrapped to promises now makes it that much sooner you can use async/await.
IIRC, theres a section on ProGit[0] about GUI Git clients

[0]: https://progit.org/
I suspect they're also for the people who see a black man's face and react untrustingly.
ah yes! This behavior is also supported in Javascript but not as natively as in GO. But there are CSP libraries out there :)

http://jlongster.com/Taming-the-Asynchronous-Beast-with-CSP-...
To further this: what happens if a Taser is shot close range? I assume the barbs could penetrate the spine. I don't know what would happen to the brain if shocked that close.
My observation is that community moderation seems to be working for one of those cases but not the other. Therefore an increase of meta-discussion on goofy posts might be expected.

If tpacek downvotes a crypto post it probably shouldn't sit on the homepage all day. But that's not the structure here.
'tech companies became marketing companies that employed tech' is the money quote for me.

It is huge blinking neon sign that screams 'get out now'. Unless you are also doing the marketing of course.
The question doesn't work because I'm leaving a footprint a mile wide already. Anyone who uses Facebook in a serious way has already said "yes" to your question.

It has often occurred to me that my own children could be reading through my comments years from now. Probably not. There's a lot of them. Of course if they can search, well, who knows.
Same thing happened to me. I had my laptop stolen in Miami while I was there briefly for work. Spent half the day waiting on police and they wouldn't even write up a report for me. Told me to take it up with insurance when I got home. Of course when I got home, the insurance company said they couldn't do anything for me without a police report.
Yeah, that's pretty unusual. In my experience the police prefer to have the victim as hands-off as possible to avoid further drama. (And the S/N is still printed on the bottom of the case, right?)
He was detained. Thus he was released after.
> The first candidate I'd propose for the top slot is diffusion of responsibility stemming from a US obsession with localism

If it were only localism, there would be localities that were fantastic at investing in their own infrastructure. Responsibilities, even funding local schools, have been nationalizing slowly over the years without an explicit change in the U.S. Constitution. So the national government has to 'hack' the system with grants and taxes to indirectly get national policies enacted. It's a corruption of the system to work around the Constitutional protection of federalism.

One solution would be to amend the Constitution to make things like education national policy once and for all. Another would be for the national government to leave things like building roads and funding schools to the local governments.
It's your entry in Apple's global customer database.

/s
For playing video HTML5 is too slow for old intel core cpus. They should spend more time optimizing whatever video codec it uses instead of depreciating a good existing solution.
> The architecture student is the son of Goldie Taylor, a political commentator and editor-at-large for The Daily Beast
Interesting that you anglicized one instead of the other, that is, why not use "French Academy" and "Kendriya Hindi Nideshalaya".
Feels stupid, but somewhere inside of me it also makes sense.
It also depended on who was counting. Another company says that Chrome has no where near 50%: https://www.netmarketshare.com/
Companies already need licenses to produce software for various safety or life critical applications, such as medical devices.
"Linux Car Speed Detector" might be a more accurate description, since nothing about this seems to be specific raspberry pi hardware. Honestly, could just say "Car Speed Detector" since I'd imagine this would be pretty easy to replicate on other platforms and the OS isn't really part of it either.

Really cool project though. Now I want to start playing with OpenCV. I wish i had something more constructive to add :/
Then perhaps we can put to bed the stupid "Engineers or developers" argument
Yeah, and thats when you know "tech" has actually changed the world instead of just imagining it does.

A civil engineer pointed out to me that the licenses come when it really starts to affect people and infrastructure. Programming does this by proxy, but not directly enough yet.

New York State's bitlicense was the closest to burdening software engineers with licensing requirements, until the one person at the head of the financial agency clarified it wasn't intended to be interpreted that way, and modified the wording of the law.
Did any of the other jurors calculate the probability of the result being by chance?
The same and also Chrome Sync is basically the most reliable piece of software I ever saw, specially when connected to the mobile Chrome. FF (or anyone else) doesn't do that.
My best guess is that Thiel secretly supports neoreactionary politics. He's gone on record saying he's opposed to democracy and thinks things started to decline when women got the vote.

Neoreactionaries like the idea of government by CEO.

So Trump's strongman misogynistic views would be a natural fit if Thiel has indeed become more neoreactionary.

The problem is that neoreactionaries are secretive, so Thiel is never going to come out and say he's a neoreactionary.
Yeesh. I know I would react badly to having a weapon pointed at me by someone who is not in uniform. I hate hearing that this stuff is becoming more commonplace because I know if it happens to me I'll react badly and it will be my own fault when I end up dead or in jail. I guess now I have a super compelling reason to practice more mindfulness.
I'll bite: Wrong tool for the job, just like using a scriptable remote document viewer as an application platform.
anywhere i go without an adblocker begs me to install chrome and stop using whatever horrible outdated browser im using (according to the google ad), and how youtube, etc work best with chrome anyway

thats quite a lot of powerful advertisement, on the sites people browse every day. its not too different than being part of the default install IMO ;-)

and of course - chrome is a pretty good browser (though edge is actually quite good and firefox is pretty much ok as well despite not yet doing sandboxing)
Compilers already reason about values like that. They can prove certain bits in an integer to have certain values, etc, not just about ranges. Actual checks could be optimized away pretty often.

Simple example: Say, you multiply a number by two. From that, the compiler data flow analysis knows the lowest bit can only be zero. So it can safely optimize away anything that checks that bit.
Pretty nifty, but please consider allowing creation of an account with a simple email address, or even anonymously. I really don't want to have to connect my Facebook or other social-networking information to your app in order to use it.

Thanks for allowing one to try it out without logging in via another service; it'd be great to be able to actually have an account.
>Let me guess: you're a white male, aren't you?

This is an extremely shitty and racist argument to make, particularly on the internet where you shouldn't make assumptions about who people are.

Were the cops wrong in being overzealous? Obviously. Is the poster automatically a "white male" because they consider an alternative perspective? No, they just have a different opinion than you.
I would like to see screenshots and a list of supported languages/frameworks.

Also, the homepage says "Run it, commit it, and move on". Do you have native support for git? (And if you do, is it just github, or do you support gitlab, bitbucket, etc?)
> Whenever you get to an alarming conclusion like "this means forgetting the password to your laptop means life in prison", chances are, you've missed relevant details.

Was OP's comment edited after you replied? I read nothing implying the OP concludes forgetting one's password means life in prison. I read a seemingly tongue-in-cheek, obviously hyperbolic bit of nonsense about using this as a vector for watching the world burn because people couldn't prove otherwise. Sure, OP is stretching for effect, but it doesn't seem OP missed relevant details.
You straight up don't know what you are talking about. Every browser development team wants flash to die because of the security risks, performance, stability, and usability problems it induces.

The reason the flash market has been shrinking is because browser vendors, starting with Apple have been moving towards deprecating Flash for many years because of these reasons.
For engineers who have to sign off on matters related to regulatory bodies, that's been the case more or less forever. I assume that includes software engineers who approve software that has to be approved by regulators. It's certainly true of construction plans, etc.

In my first engineering job (offshore drilling rig design and construction), pretty much all the senior engineers had PEs.
Windows and OS X ports also available.

The author, Winston Wolff, credits[1] The Incredible Machine[2] and Rocky's Boots[3] as inspirations - many HN readers will probably remember or enjoy these puzzle-solving games.

[1] http://stratolab.com/misc/learning-games/

[2] http://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-incredible-machine-1mg

[3] http://www.myabandonware.com/game/rockys-boots-cp
you're thinking google did not pay adobe for this, adobe is doing this just cuz they like it? are you mad
How was it treated differently?
Snips – Your Intelligent Memory
Religious flamewars are not allowed on HN. Please don't post comments like this.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11714407 and marked it off-topic.
You can pretty much consider Opera 12.10 100%. The only thing missing is "parseInt ignores leading zeros", which is such a minor issue (octal bugs I assume).
The attitude of "license all the things" comes from two places.

Existing groups use licensing to shut out newcomers. They are largely anti-competitive, and anti-capitalistic.

The other is where unlicensed activities results in people dying. The outrage from such events often ends up with "license the people", so that Bad Things can't happen.

That's arguably a better approach, for mechanics, nuclear power technicians, etc. Perhaps even hairdressers, who work with toxic chemicals and need to know basic safety.

For me, the "health and safety" requirements make sense. Anything outside of that is typically anti-competitive, and likely rent-seeking.
It's not merely lack of professionalism, using a taser constitutes deadly force, like having a knife placed in your back. People have died from taser-induced heart attacks.
> Why was he handcuffed and had a taser on his back?? Why was he treated like a criminal in front of everybody? You don't put handcuffs on someone unless you want to detain them.

Because he was suspected of handling stolen goods.
firefox uses firefox sync (which predates chrome sync) to sync your bookmarks, passwords, addons, etc. it also syncs with firefox for android and firefox for iOS...
Most law enforcement Tasers have a "Drive Stun" mode, intended for direct contact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taser#Drive_Stun
html5 video playing is pathetic on slow machines.
There's a palpable excitement around Hyperloop and I can't wait to know if this will reshape our world or not.

One of the largest problem I can see is not technical. The consensus is that a "standard" Hyperloop track (between 2 cities, 300 to 800km apart) would have a ~1,500 passengers/hour max capacity. High speed rail, such as Eurostar, would be around 10,000 passengers/hour.

Even if Hyperloop managed to get built at half the price of HSR (which would already be a feat, there's zero chance they'll do it at 10% of HSR price), this makes a very thin passenger flux to deliver reasonable amounts of operational cash.

Where HSR can deliver $7M to $14M daily with $150 ticket price at peak time, Hyperloop would max out at $2M daily with $300 tickets during peak hour. And those prices would probably kill their market anyway.

And that's with an entirely new transport platform to fund with many unknowns such as metal fatigue for pods in near-vacuum at those speeds, passenger tolerance for accelerations and lateral movements etc.

Maybe the business plan for passenger planes and trains was also that hazy back then?
And yes, the web has deeply ingrained security problems, but so has every single platform for downloading and executing untrusted code. At least most of the major players are now actively engaged in standardizing and improving the security of the web as opposed to a single company with a fairly atrocious record on application security (Adobe).
There is a middle ground. Have the OS enforce only running, signed executables, but put the user in control of the certificate authority list. Then if you want Apple's style of security, just put their key in the list. If you want more freedom, add you own key and sign away.
That hinges strongly on the meaning of the word 'all' in your comment, if all is < 5 then that's not a very strong argument at all, if all is > 100 then it probably is (but it would still need analysis of a much larger volume of calls of pairs of phones to determine how often that situation would occur due to chance).
Except for all the other ones like Tk, Rebol, CLIM, now Qt/QML....

Seriously, if anyone thinks HTML/CSS is easy to write UIs with, try Tcl/Tk or Rebol.
(For one year, then the top sites whitelist will be removed)
I'm seeing the beginnings of it, yeah. It'll take a while tho - still plenty of positive Go articles show up on the front page.
Why would you nest try/catches? At worst you get try/catch parades:

try {
await thing1()
} catch (e) {
console.log(e)
}
try {
await thing2()
} catch (e) {
console.log(e)
}
// ... and so forth ...

That's still nothing like the pyramids you get in callback world.
great point - that I hadn't thought of!
This, to me, is the real problem. Not that they investigated an accusation of a crime, but that they immediately resorted to serious threats of violence.

Police officers are trained to do this. The level of fear they carry with them is massive, and so they have an absolute need for control. Watch some police training videos and you'll see, many of them follow the same template of "officer managing mundane situatGUNFIRE!!!", driving home that any suspect could attempt to murder the officer at any sudden snap moment. So the officers are trained to be paranoid and demand complete constant compliance. Every unchoreographed, unexpected movement by the suspect could be preparation to kill, so the police must demand control of every possible movement of every person involved. Imagine how terrifying it would be to be, for example, in a suspect's house with many uncontrolled people wandering around, with that mindset.

I understand that police are trained to control every situation, but the level of violence we read about constantly is disproportionate and ludicrous. It also colors every other interaction with the cops - even when an officer attempts to "control" the situation with the firm voice and glare that we've all seen, what should just be an attempt to project authority is instead an implied violent threat.

With that in mind, it's no wonder that spot-checking/carding programs are getting banned across many major cities. Many police forces have created the impression that it is simply not safe to even have the casual interest of an officer.
Brian from Backblaze here - so far none of the drive manufacturers have done anything like that. Part of it is the manufactures flatly refuse to let us purchase from them directly (based on we need an order of 10,000 of the same drive in one purchase to buy direct). So the manufacturers have zero control. We always go to one of the hundreds of resellers or distributers out there (like CDW or Ingram Micro). Since we buy from the resellers, the resellers just want to make money, the resellers don't care if we report drive stats.
Could be, I wouldn't rule it out, but if so I've got serious doubts that it would be the full Swift language - the Objective-C style "dynamic" dispatch seems rather inappropriate for kernel space.