skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm aware of all of these things. But as your second citation points out, an officer legally entering a building during an exigent circumstance may confiscate and/or use as evidence anything found in 'plain view'.

> Requiring a warrant in all circumstances where the government wants to search and/or seize evidence is a cornerstone of a free society. Warrants are a trivial barrier if there is a legitimate investigation with any evidence at all. The "probable cause" requirement is a very low barrier.

We just went over a variety of obvious exceptions to the warrant requirement. You can argue that these are exceptional cases to be sure, but it is certainly not true that a warrant is always required nor should it be (as the comment I was responding to said).

A very slightly less clear-cut example is BAC, as the parent commenter mentioned. It is completely impractical to get a warrant in DUI cases. It would either be a completely meaningless waste of everyone's time, or it'd literally be a rubber stamp, where a cop calls up and receives the warrant with zero interaction or consideration from the judge. And I don't know about you, but i'd rather not open the door to true rubber-stamping of warrants. Because once you start doing that, it's only a matter of time until they start doing it with things that aren't so trivial.
Your comment to which I responded with mine suggests a dichotomy between morality being "objective and real" through religion and it being "invented delusions that can be ignored". What I was pointing out was that if the evolutionary argument holds true all morality can't simply be ignored in absence of religion: the bloodlines of those who do die out. This evolved morality does not amount only to following your society's agreed upon norms and neither does it derive from them; rather, only those societies whose norms follow the evolved morality thrive and others wither.

The obvious comparison here is to divine retribution. You can borrow a turn of phrase from the Declaration of Independence and say that the punishment comes from Nature/Nature's God. It is encoded in physics itself. If you take the form of moral realism where morality exists in the mind of a god (though not quite the God of Christianity and absent an afterlife affected by your earthly decisions) the parallel seems clear to me.
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> Social media platform users have no right to free speech on the site. They do have a right to start a competing website that allows free speech, though.

And then the new website becomes popular, and then authoritarians start demanding that the new website ban speech they don't like, and then people who want free speech say that we don't want that and you come back to tell us that they're a private company that can do what they want.

They're also a private company that can do what we want.
Artists who use Linux always seemed like a crazy bunch.

Btw, if anyone needs a simple image editor for Linux, I can't recommend Pinta enough. It's basically Paint.NET. Gimp didn't have the one feature I need - drawing lines, squares, circles, etc. and Kolourpaint doesn't have layers.
I think you’re underestimating the addressable market. StackOverflow has 45M unique users [1], and yet Evans Data [2] and others put the number of developers at around 20M. So there are tens of millions of people looking for help with programming issues who aren’t professionals. I think a lot of them, and professional developers with side-projects and quick scripts to write, will find utility here. The typical Git workflow best-practice is something of a one-size-fits-all at the moment, and we think it’s not a great fit in some circumstances. So this is just another option.

On persistence - each HyperDev project gets a DynamoDB. It’s definitely trickier to use than we’d like, so we’ll be getting to that, but for now here’s an example project you can remix that uses it - https://hyperdev.com/#!/project/typhoon-pine. Or there are other options like one that uses a free mlab MongoDB - https://hyperdev.com/#!/project/navy-flower that’s pretty easy to get going with.

But I think you should just try building something with it - here’s a good excuse: https://hyperdev.com/blog/developer-contest-get-back-nature/. From what I remember from Aavardk’d [3] you’re a keen photographer so it should be your thing!

1 - https://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com
2 - http://www.computerworld.com/article/2483690/it-careers/indi...
3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NRL7YsXjSg
I imagine that in 20 years, they will invent something that plugs directly to the optical nerve or your brain to simulate virtual reality.
hg is DVCS though.

I think CVS and SVN were easier to understand than git. But then again, the understanding of those miserable stuff often lead to anger, then hate and suffering.
>Krita is for art, not for simple things - comparing it with paint is kind of disrespectful even if meant as a joke.

That doesn't even make sense.

First of all, it's not "for art" as some abstract ideal, it's for drawing and graphic design. Which includes "simple things" like drawing perfect circles and triangles in the day-to-day requirements.

Second, nothing about "art" (even high art) precludes it being good at the things the parent mentions. If anything, they should be a prerequisite. Artists have used rulers and compasses in real life since forever.
I'd love to ship my software on a little SSD like that.
If these could fit in a 1u chassis on a PCIe slot without a bracket, that would be awesome!
So you think that any non-democratic country is totally irresponsible for what happens inside?

This in the world where China and Saudi Arabia are top players.
Itseez is the company behind OpenCV
On the other hand, GIMP supports palette-based editing.
What are the very obvious downsides to using these, lifetime or cost?
>The Mafia loves to give us options that we can't refuse, to make us offers we can't refuse.

Send us a fat portion of your workers' pay to fund our Utopian vision. Or else.
Autofill: What web devs should know, but don’t
The article states 3 seconds is a view. If I'm on desktop and stop to read a post above or below an autoplay video then it would likely count as a view. I'm sure some people do watch video without sound but I agree the 85% figure is likely misleading.
I'm going to say this because I'm in a similar situation now.
For weeks, I've been having pains in my chest, back and sides. I know for sure something is wrong. And I fear I may be dying.

But being unsure where my next meal will come from, I can't even visit a clinic to get a test done.

I keep praying to get some money so I can go check myself before I leave my young family without a caregiver.

So yes, whatever you guys argue here today. Make sure people like me in future can be cared for. And that they don't have to worry about food, shelter, Healthcare.
The Citigroup Plutonomy Memos
> I'm a DVCS believer, yet I've recently introduced submodules into our company.

Huh. Why would you do that?

> Why would a DVCS believer be a big-repo diehard?

That's the opposite of what I said?
I thought hn prevented dupe link submissions. Im glad this slipped by since I missed the other ones. But how did it slip by in the first place?
The thing with this DVCS debate is that for years people have been going (and going, and going) "Oh, you simply _must_ use this marvelous new shiny swiss-army knife, it is _so_ much better than your beat-up boring old-ass screwdriver!"

"No it isn't, not if my job is tightening screws ..."

You give that talk to a tradesman, you get your block knocked off for your pains, but programmers apparently are more easily intimidated into being fashion victims.
Indias un-scientific war against pollution
Agree 100%. The strong connections between FP and maths make the programming in an FP language very much like doing maths. Usually very simple maths, but that's a good thing.

You might like the Bootstrap curriculum: http://www.bootstrapworld.org/ It's developed by the PLT research group behind Racket and How to Design Programs. Very good stuff.
Note that there is (virtually) no terra nullis any more, and likely not enough wilderness to accommodate today's world population living the kind of lifestyle one can live on without interacting with other people.
I am not sure that is possible in an experiment. You can however eventually (or even now within society) create systems that lead to people becoming better humans, more compassionate; education and social interaction opportunities would be the main ones that come to mind. Basic Income is a better foundation to start from anyhow.
Microsoft opens Windows Holographic to all devices
It's 16mm x 20mm, you could probably lose it inside a PCIe socket.
It's BGA, so it's soldered onto the motherboard/logic board. Non user upgradeable, and if the SSD dies, you're in for a costly repair. Another step in the direction of (very) disposable hardware with little to no service options.
The situation could be even better if the proposition and proof could be written in a machine verifiable form using a proof assistant like Coq.

Potentially you could have a section in a maths journal which 'papers' (in the form of computer readable propositions and proofs) are immediately reviewed for correctness by a computer. Post-publication, humans may then assess the impact / significance by voting (perhaps with propositions from significant conjectures potentially configured to instantly go to the top of the significance rankings).
Microsoft sells patents to xiaomi
First off, how would anybody but you know that you had edited a comment?

Second, why would you care?

Every single comment I post (including this one), I read over before and after posting, and make edits so that it reads better. That is how people write things. It's not something you should be embarrassed about (or whatever it is that compels you to post this).
Probably both at first, but eventually there will be no downsides everything moves move into single ASIC/SOC eventually.

If you can get your memory density high enough there is no need for multiple chips, if there is no need for multiple memory chips then a discrete controller doesn't makes sense since it only needs to communicate with a single chip in that case the extra die costs can easily be canceled out by cheaper packaging costs and the fact that you can now sell SSD's to system integrators that could not use them before.
Apart from being soldered to the board? Not much, I suspect; the tiny form factor probably keeps costs down. It'll be several chips wirebonded together. It's essentially a microSD card with BGA pins.
Hosted/Cloud solutions vs. Premise based solutions
'Mafia expert', isn't that an interesting job title.
The bay area. The best, brightest, smartest, pedigreed, hardest working most motivated people on earth. And we cant solve the simplest problems in the Maslow's hierarchy. American Indians solved the housing problems with Teepees and Wigwams - so much for being "smart." There was an article recently where a google employee was living in a 24 ft truck in the google parking lot. This Bay Area mess is a self inflicted joke. What I find amazing is Tokyo. Tokyo, 1945, burned to the ground, population 3.5 million. Today, Tokyo is at 13 million and the Tokyo-Yokohama urban area is 37.8 million. And if you've ever been to japan public transportation is functioning and the society seems to nail basic needs much better than smarty-pants bay area.
I installed it for the first time today and it will likely be my primary drawing / sketch tool going forward on linux.
Realistically no Basic Income could be assumed to be for life. After all, governments and policies can change. So rational actors should always assume it is just for a limited time, and have a contingency plan.
UrbanCode is still absolutely huge and IBM will be serving that market segment for some time.
That page says "BGA SSD not only integrates NAND flash memory, but also a NAND controller, DRAM" - which makes sense as they need 3 different types of different silicon processing.

We're not quite at the stage of putting the controller in the chipset and just soldering Flash to the board for PCs, although that is how it's done for SoC systems.
Is technology killing curiosity?
"you’d be hard pressed to find probability or number theory"

When I was interviewing we were always asking basic probability and combinatorics questions. They should probably only talk for themself.
the second part was more interesting https://charity.wtf/2016/05/31/operational-best-practices-se...
> Unless you are saying that you use assembler even though you don't need to.

Yes, that's what I am saying. The use of assembler is historical legacy, so that's similar to how my mother does embroidery for restoration work (and also for fun!) even though she could just use CNC loom or something fancy like that.
$7000 Facebook XSS vulnerability
Crowd Valley Integrates E-Residency to Enable Fully Digital Finance Services
It's also true that 90% of users only need 10% of the features of your software. If you decide to drop some features that introduce huge complexity that is not apparent, you might find out that users don't really need (anymore? ever?) that feature in that form, and you might make them achieve the same goal through a different features set that doesn't affect the architecture and code complexity that much.
If true (and I have my doubts), this is particularly funny in view of the British PM's recent comments accidentally caught on mic in which he called out the most corrupt countries in the world by name.
Plenty of people get by without it. It's not all that popular because it requires discipline to get people to lock the minimum they need for the minimum time, and of course occasional administrator intervention when someone locks a file and goes on holiday / leaves the company.
While I believe a lot of the points are valid, it also demonstrates a worrying trend in software development:

Experience counts for little - the new generation will solve the problem in a 'better' way.

Sure, things have changed and 'best practices' are constantly evolving, but it's a very dangerous path to see 'new ideas' as being better than experience.

Software does not escape the tragedy of history repeating itself.
One of these in 128Gb (16GiB) might be cheap enough to be stacked below the RAM/CPU combo on the next raspberry Pi. That would significantly increase the performance and reliability of an rPi, I'd love to see that!
Sorry, my poor English got in the way of comprehension; I thought 'sop' meant something else.

As for why would I use submodules, we have a modular system from which different client packages are produced, and we need to manage the lifecycle of each module independently for each client.
I believe VoltDB only supports pre-compiled queries in order to statically optimise them together.
That's what politicians do.
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Even if all the tougher regs were removed tomorrow, very few builders with the large $$$ it takes to build housing are also stupid enough to risk government seizure in the future. The population will keep growing. The demand for housing will increase. The city leaders have already proven that stealing control of someone's personal asset is something they will do. (the personal asset in this case is a pre-1979 mom-and-pop rental property)

After 1979, long-term tenants moved in and the supply of rent controlled units dropped to nothing very quickly. Then what? You can't tell the entrenched 'fast movers' who got there first with the cheaper rent control units "move out and give someone else a chance."

Once a government shows a willingness to steal control of someone's personal assets, NO one who is smart enough to afford to build housing is also DUMB enough to build in rent control zones.

Only enticements get builders to build in those areas. And most builders see this:

- in Southern California there was a move to 'move the goalposts' and instead of pre-1979 rentals being rent controlled, now everything built pre-1995 would become rent controlled.

- here recently on the Peninsula the same topic came up -- re-classify candidate rental properties for rent control up to 1995.

Both of those were defeated. But it signaled to developers that the goalposts can be moved.

Until leadership stop stealing control of people's personal assets, it doesn't matter if all building code/zoning/etc. rules are removed -- very few builders will put a new project in a rent control area, where city leaders have already stolen control of personal assets.

"You like to steal control of assets that don't belong to you? I won't be building assets near you."

SIMPLE AS THAT.
The article at the head of this discussion is about Andl.
I'll bite. How do I know that and more than what?
Does the other packages give you this ability? The other fine pitch parts are also very difficult to change over.
Apparently I'm in a good position with a double major in physics and CS.
Riyadh, but wasn't in aaramco or military. We lived in the middle of the city. Small 5 villa compound. Saudi neighbors.
> Before the CLR was open sourced you could investigate how things were implemented by using decompilers on the MSIL code or later shared source, but but investgations often stopped at a InternalCall just as things started to get interesting. Now you can see the whole story of how abstractions are implemented part in C# and part in C++ when the runtime needs to "bend the rules" of what C# would normally allow.

Yep, that's a large part of the motivation for me writing this post, although after looking at the source, I then went back to WinDBG and the Microsoft Symbol Server, which I could've done before it was open sourced!!

Thanks for the clarification on what the JIT is doing to optimise the string length. So far I've not managed to find the time to look at it's source, it took me long enough to find my way round CoreCLR!

In the post, I sort-of hand-waved about what was happening there, it's nice to have some more concrete details.
It isn't a coincidence that commuting time and price of a sq-ft of space are negatively correlated. I guarantee you if someone built a 5 min connection from downtown to Staten Island, the real-estate on SI would very quickly be developed to the exact same state as all the other places that are 5 min from downtown. The thing you want (affordable, spacious, fast transit) simply can't exist.
> To me basic income sounds like a way to create a dependent underclass - very dependent on the state for that matter (and will probably vote for the party that is most likely to continue with the basic income policy - so it will likely be a politically agitated group). And that's not quite conductive to the idea of personal happiness...

We already have that - and it's currently very hard for people on welfare and/or disability to ever pull themselves out of it. With basic income it becomes possible to start working 1 hour a week, then 2, then 3..., without having to worry about losing your benefits or getting in tax trouble.

> Basic income is an attempt to deal with a growing number of people who are unemployable in the modern economy. I think a better way would be to find meaningful work for these people - maybe in such areas as caring for disabled and elderly or in education (i think we are out of luck with automating these tasks).

If people find those things fulfilling to do themselves, they will do them (and basic income allows them to do it unpaid). If other people want them to do those things, they will pay for it. If no-one wants them to do those things, there's no value in them doing it.
As someone working in the industry, would you care to guess how many years away we are from being able to do this at an acceptable level? Is this something for the next gen of hardware or is it much further away?
I think you should spend some time talking to people in Fintech and Adtech in London, you will have quite a few interesting conversations.
As rich as he is I don't think he would care. Still, gawker's blatant disrepect pisses even me off, and I'm fairly thick-skinned. But to have attacked someone because they are not a hetrosexual is as lame as it gets and gawker is about to get 'more than a mouthful', as they say.
"... longest and deepest rail tunnel ..." and "... delivered on time and within budget ..."

Only in Switzerland, I guess. :)

I wish there were better write ups of how the planning for this came together and what differs from other somewhat similar huge projects.
I'm genuinely amazed people can use git at all without understanding it completely. The mnemonics make zero sense without background, and the operations are completely arbitrary looking.

Remember, most things people use every day without understanding them completely. This is a huge barrier to entry and effective use of git; you can't require people to spend weeks learning it before they commit a single line of code. So yes, people learn sets of runes that work, and know that if you step off the path there's no easy way of working out what happened let alone undoing it without blowing away the local copy and going back to the master.
The UK is the second country with the most intermediaries (banks, accountants, lawyers…) listed in the Panama papers. The first one is Hong Kong, a former British colony.

"More than half of the companies listed in the leaked Mossack Fonseca documents are registered in the U.K. or its overseas territories [...] If we want to understand modern Britain, we first need to realize that our primary economic function in the world today is probably our network of tax havens."

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/04/britains-empire-of-tax-e...
Pure assembly in the forest of Panama (Inline x86 assembly in Java)
What does your question mean, exactly? Corruption from a developer perspective? What would that look like?
Exactly! Keith Devlin also made this point in an article (from 2003) in Communications of the ACM called "Why universities require computer science students to take math" (pdf) ftp://ftp.gunadarma.ac.id/.upload/Communication-ACM/September-2003/p36-devlin.pdf

Sample quote: "Once you realize that computing is all about constructing, manipulating, and reasoning about abstractions, it becomes clear that an important prerequisite for writing (good) computer programs is the ability to
handle abstractions in a precise manner."
AMD's Radeon RX 480 brings high-end graphics to the masses for just $200