skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is used today in the high security vault industry.

Safes often include rubber pellets in the concrete pour between steel casing layers. Cutting into the safe with a torch or plasma cutter will cause these rubber pellets to burn and fill the room with noxious odors and thick smoke.

It doesn't necessarily increase the physical resistance to entry, but it makes the environment extraordinarily unpleasant.
We survived those - changed, but in tact. The very basis of the Constitution could very well not survive this one.
Nothing wrong with the parentheses, I find myself doing that a lot as well. The issue is that the majority of the parenthetical statements are not useful information and not necessary to the point they are trying to make. That compared with seemingly nonsensical abbreviation and overall lack of coherent punctuation makes it an experience to read.
How about vimperator? Vimfx is OK as a stop-gap but that's one extension I wouldn't want to lose permanently.
If this is indeed the case, I really hope it backfires. That would be very interesting to see.
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Differences in free speech law geographically? France & Germany are a western countries, have a constitutional protection of free speech, and ban Holocaust denial. The USA is a western country, has a constitutional protection of free speech, and Holocause denial is legal. France, USA and Germany disagree if "banning Holocaust denial" counts as interfering with free speech.

For cinema in the USA, a 9-0 Supreme Court case in 1915 found that movies weren't covered by the First Amendment. That was overturned in 1952 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Burstyn,_Inc._v._Wilson )
I've used the developer channel and regular Firefox side by side the entire time and haven't noticed a difference to be honest. One extension I use (rikaichan) froze in e10s, but was fixed.
More like having the first pitch at your first at-bat be a grand slam to win the world series.
This is probably already possible in several language implementations just by telling them to turn off their garbage collector.

After all, the essential rule behind garbage collection is that all variables are available to a program for ever - yet the implementation is allowed to clear up memory if it can prove that a value can never be retrieved again (for instance, because all references to it have gone out of scope).

It has also crossed my mind that a large number of small, terminating programs might well be better off running to completion without any collection taking place. But language implementors are pretty smart - probably quite a lot of the small programs you have in mind already /do/ run right through without ever doing any garbage collection.
Windows 10 updates going forward will use the same method.
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That's a very US-centric approach. American first amendment is about government censorship. Free speech is about free exchange of ideas. That's the usual benefit and justification.
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As if "strong" and "weak" weren't overridden enough when it comes to type systems, many people will use "stronger" and "weaker" when talking about the relative amount of guarantees a static type system can give you. "C has a fairly weak static type system, and Haskell has a very strong static type system."

Since the "strong" vs "weak" axis of type systems is already not extremely useful, as very few languages are truly weakly typed, it's usually fine.
It would appear that it has resisted recovery because there's probably nothing there.
> "[At the hospital", they wait for somebody to give them assurance that they will pay the bill."

How can such low levels of humanity be reached at a hospital?
Is this a issue specific to uBeam or wireless charging in general? There is also a YC company working on the same thing : http://www.madebysupply.com

Are there similarities/differences between the two?
Especially when the submitted title contains relevant context for the article. Can't be having that.
>> I think the idea of non-state actors using force...

Especially the groups seeking to have the state's legal power of force to be used on their behalf under the guise of fairness.

>> ...but multiple groups willing and able to use deadly force at the least offence.

I believe we are already there with the US Presidential campaigns this year.
I don't think its an 'epidemic' as the poster exaggerated, but it does happen.

I don't know about the US, but in Canada the Jian Ghomeshi trial is one recent example that comes to mind. Both the Ghomeshi trial and the Canadian trial of Gregory Alan Elliott show that there are indeed types of people out there who lie to bring charges, or increase the weight of charges bought against someone. And it shows they will lie all the way up to and through a court case, until cross examination (or in Elliott's case an insider tip off of conspiracy) unravel the lies.

I don't know what to think in this case but it is not something you can rule out completely.
Usually markets like ebay have reputation systems for both sides, and it is easier to enforce disclaimers and arbitration agreements.
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Canada has blasphemy laws [1]? I knew they had "hate speech" laws which basically meant that they could prosecute you for saying anything that some might find offensive but I had no idea about blasphemy.

Scary.

[1] http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecac...
> (a) We have all become very marker-prone, but shouldn't we nevertheless admit that, in the end, despite all we try to do, the most effective "marker" for any intruders will be a relatively limited amount of sickness and death caused by the radioactive waste? In other words, it is largely a self-correcting process if anyone intrudes without appropriate precautions, and it seems unlikely that intrusion on such buried waste would lead to large-scale disasters. An analysis of the likely number of deaths over 10,000 years due to inadvertent intrusion should be conducted. This cost should be weighted against that of the marker system.

Wow. reminds me of the ford pinto case:
http://users.wfu.edu/palmitar/Law&Valuation/Papers/1999/Legg...
"If you don't read a newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read a newspaper, you are misinformed." --Mark Twain
I've only watched the first 20 minutes of the documentary, but I'm impressed. It's probably one of the most accurate portrayals of what it's like to be a foreigner living long term in Japan that I've seen. Like always, documentary directors usually like to be controversial, so I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop ;-)

In terms of "don't involve yourself", I wouldn't say that's really true. The very few times I've seen anyone in trouble, people have rushed to come to their aid. I live in the countryside, though, so it might be different than the big city. Social duty is a big part of Japanese culture, though, so I can't really imagine people ignoring others in distress.

As a brief diversion, I recently went to Tokyo and was surprised by how many more homeless people there are now than there were roughly 10 years ago. People seem inured to that kind of distress (as they are in any big city, I guess), which is too bad.
So why aren't the journalist who wrote about the surveillance programs being arrested? Maybe because the government understands that that is their right / free speech.

Snowden is not the same as the journalist. He took that contractor position knowing that he couldn't talk about what he saw. He signed a NDA saying he understood his position would expose him to classified material AND he understands that talking about such information with uncleared[1] people is illegal. If you are interested to read the exact NDA he signed you are freely able to, https://www.fas.org/sgp/isoo/new_sf312.pdf, is the approved NDA for all agencies that administer security clearances[2].

Snowden does know all about illegal speech, because he did break his NDA and he knew ahead of time what the consequences were going to be. Journalist were not bound by such a NDA with the US Government, so they can go and write about whatever they want to without fear of being arrested.

[1] Just because you have the appropriate level of security clearance doesn't mean you get to see any classified materials. You must also have a "Need to Know".

[2] You will sign one of these MULTIPLE times throughout your career. You sit in a room while the security manager reads it to you, after every paragraph you are asked if you have any questions and if you understand what that section means.

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uBeam is most likely vaporware that violates the laws of physics - at least in what they propose on a product level - but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be funded to try working on a really hard problem. Maybe in their R&D they fall short by a large margin on the product side, but still make some meaningful contribution.

I think where everyone loses their cool is when the company purposely gets massive amounts of PR to glamorize themselves (and their founder) as if it's already a success [1]. IMO these guys should be keeping a low profile, like the people working on Jetpacks and similar things. Make some noise when you have a demo.

[1] - e.g. "Top 30 under 30". Seriously? Prove yourself first. http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mef45eldh/meredith-perry-foun...
The problem is that today's suppression of "free speech" by private organizations helps shape public opinion about the government doing it tomorrow. I.e., when a generation have grown up believing Google, Facebook, etc. silencing "free speech" on their platforms to be reasonable actions they may become more amenable laws being passed in the future ("Facebook bans hate speech and it's a better place for it, I think maybe federal laws against hate speech would be a good thing").

It's a worthwhile thing to be concerned about.
Curious as to what the issue was since that might help people make more informed recommendations.
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Sure but the definition of anything is subject to interpretation/context/intent etc. If you dealt only in absolutes it would be impossible to have any laws at all. Even defining something like "murder" has plenty of room for grey areas. But still I hope we agree that having a "no murder" law is probably desirable in society.
More of the British pilots parachuted into friendly hands because majority of the air battle in the "Battle for Britain" was over Britain. The Germans started to face a pilot shortage. Arguably the British should have focused on pilot and crew survival (vs. aircraft survival) at least for the fighters. The US rotated pilots back from front to train the next generation while the Germans continued to fly missions leading to more German aces but arguably better trained US pilots (on average).
And yet, this article often refers to Google possibly taking down search results.

The article also talks about individual people committing murder, something that's already a crime, rarely about state actions. If a lone murderer & criminal counts as a "threat to free speech", why not talk about who owns the space?
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I agree with you. There was a cascade of low efficiency stages. Making UHF sound in electrical form - a wave train - into a speaker or transducer to couple to the air = overall efficiency of 3-4%. Beam into the air as well focussed as possible - 10 feet away, less than 25% there. Turn that sound into electricity with another transducer with 3-4% efficiency = over all under 1%.

So a honking great ultrasonic horn using 10,000 watts of power will transmit around 10 watts of usable power. The whole area will become an ultrasound cooker(you dare not walk through the beam = dead and cooked if you stayed for long, blood clots in a second or less. and for a large area bats will hate it and dogs howl
Recent documentary by Peter Galison and Rob Moss:

http://containmentmovie.com/
I'd really like to see them use neovim to interpret commands. IIRC there's an Atom plugin for just that.
Never had a 'bad trip' myself. I did find it boring the last couple of times I tried it, so that's when I stopped.

I think your interpretations of the subjective effects are spot on, and I'm pretty sure that's how I felt back then too. I'm sure it is useful, introspectively and subjectively.

I'm just not convinced it's going to save the world :)
How about fan death? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
Same. Deal breaking for me. Pretty hard to use without ci commands.
Ask HN: What's the right subset of the C++ language?
Some common complaints that some people have with C++ is that the codebase often becomes unmaintainable and that people use the "wrong" subset of the language.

What's the right subset of C++ to work with? What's the wrong one? Any references would be appreciated.

Thanks.
"Submit an issue or post to the mailing list before starting a significant amount of feature work so that your work might be wasted" is a pretty common refrain in open source circles.

That said, like most tribal knowledge, it's the people who already do a lot of this kind of thing that know this kind of thing, and it's getting new people in that's the tough part.
I double-confirm this, but with the exception of charity and government hospitals. There are several such hospitals in every major metropolitan city in India. Of course, the 'nearest' hospital may not be one such. The private hospitals operate on pure capitalism and patients who cannot pay are always delayed and then later declared as brought dead on arrival (DOA).
First, OP said nothing about kidnapping - there's a lot of intimidation that can be done that isn't explicitly illegal. Even more that won't be prosecuted when say the "private organization" and "government" enjoy a cozy relationship.

But that scenario is based around "independent" reprisals. The real threat we are facing today is directly connected consequences...

> [government] can legally do far more things than private organizations

This completely misses my original point - both government and private organizations can do things that effectively punish. For example, a mall can kick you out and banish you for wearing an offensive T-shirt. This is not a problem when malls are but a small part of society, but form a restriction equivalent to government if one's entire society is made up of malls.
> Why? Don't I have a right to free speech (on Facebook)?

Absolutely not. Your right of free speech applies only to freedom from government censorship and that's it. Facebook can do whatever they want on their website, you have no rights at all on their website. Please go read the first amendment.
A most clever ruse, to be sure.
Pantone is a example of how a good standard can generate value; in Pantone's case it's the standard for print color consistency. It's a shame that the standard is closed and proprietary but it's a good example nonetheless.
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If one is too afraid to use First Amendment rights because of non-state actors that the state does not stop, do we really have First Amendment rights?

What if the laws are being ignored and violence permitted by the state? If a group can threaten another into silence regardless of laws of the land with the state not involving itself, one could argue that the oppressive group has become the arm of an oppressive state.
I don't disagree in general, but today I believe there is cause to worry. Consider that there is positive correlation between campus outrage and tuition at the college. The richer the students, the more they are outraged. Consider rape in this context. Private colleges are generally relatively safe for women and girls, yet students at these universities regularly protest the "rape culture" they perceive themselves to be enduring. This reflects an embarrassing lack of self-awareness and compassion for women in rural meth centers and decaying urban areas.

Anti-semitism is rising as well. Students at these elite institutions are eager to condemn Israel and her supporters, as if the struggle in the occupied territories were morally black and white. If only the Jews would quit being mean the problem would go away.

What about the young woman at Yale who cursed at her dormitory head for his unwillingness to police Halloween costumes?

Are you sure you're OK with this? I thought the comparison between Islamism and campus authoritarianism in the article was apt.
> other crimes have been committed and distributing it is de facto complicity by association in those crimes

How do you feel about news broadcasts showing murders?

Or trespassers?
They sell color books. You have to (according to them lol) buy a new one every few years because the samples fade and change over time.
If the barrier to a decent firearm is knowledge of how to work and maintain and older CNC, that seems like a pretty excellent means of limiting firearms. "You're free to have what you can make from scratch, up to a certain point."
Using Chrome, I could only see two examples, but they were cool. Thanks!
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Can you point me to some resources for learning how to do this? Starting with capturing my wi-fi traffic to running the right tools to crack it? I'd like to see how long it takes me to crack my own password.
> In order to discover places where we currently are wrong, we need to be tolerant of people expressing dissenting points of view.

I agree, but I distinguish between tolerance & acceptance. Tolerance means you do your thing & I do my thing; acceptance means we do the same thing. The problem is, if we each have opposing ideas of the good then we can't accept one another's ideas. Acceptance of opposing ideas can only really work by pretending that the ideas themselves don't matter, but tolerance can respect the importance of the ideas themselves while agreeing to disagree.
It's important to distinguish between rights and values. Yes, they have a right to restrict speech on their platform. If they value free speech, they shouldn't. The legal guarantee of free speech is just one expression of a more general value.
There's this one:

https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/739672273783652353

https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/739672512720576513

I recall seeing a few other claims along these lines on Twitter, but Twitter's ability to search your own timeline is atrocious.
The legacy of Nazi Germany is a national shame. Millions of people cannot be un-murdered. It could have also resulted in much worse conditions for Germans and national sovereignty (like America's domination of Japan's postwar constitution).

Banning holocaust denial is the national equivalent of recoiling one's hand after touching a hot stove. Most Germans really, really do not want to go back there.
No I'm not making a mistake. I know very well that my calculations are skewed. That is precisely the point I was trying to make: Taking a statistic in isolation presents a wrong picture (that is also the reason I said: 'So by looking at these calculations India "seems" to be a lot safer than the US'. Note the stress on "seems")

Hope this clarifies my intent :)
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Yup the only reason I'm currently using Atom over VS Code is because of the VIM bindings, even though pretty much everything else about VSC is better (including feeling more snappy)
In fairness, x11 emacs is literally the snappiest thing I have ever used on any platform. It is totally nuts.
I'm not sure I understand. What do you have to be right about? I would assume if a brand has a registered pantone color they know the code? Why do you need a book?

I'm no designer but it seems like Pantone created a solution then convinced everyone else there was a problem.
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Really cool. I'd love to hear about what technologies you used and what issues you encountered in getting it to the fast/smooth state it is today. Really great work, thanks.
This is why paper checks are still useful. I had problems with Citibank who in the 2008 crisis kept doing things like resetting my pin, mailing my card to the wrong address, assigning the pin to the wrong account, etc. Then they told me I had to visit a branch in another state, four hundred miles away to withdraw. I just wrote a check for cash and deposited it in another bank.
how does racism explain why people in India won't help other Indians? I know Indian has a wide diversity of languages and religions but even at the very least I would expect people from the same group to help but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
I think it's a piece of software. That's all I know. I don't know if it's something you run on your own computer or distributed on a blockchain or something. I guess it's supposed to be obvious. It's not obvious to me.
I might be Forest's biggest fan!

Forest couldn't be much easier to set up. We've been using it here at Willing for a while and we're really happy – it took less than an hour to set everything up and add a few custom actions.

On average, we save 4-5 hours per week by giving our customer support team the ability to safely perform actions that previously would have been handled by the dev team.

We haven't yet taken full advantage of creating data visualizations in Forest, perhaps @seyz can show some off.
>any government is isomorphic to a perfect "Libertopia" where a single corporation owns everything.

Do you not think the common belief that governments are of, for, and by the people, compared to the common belief that businesses are self-interested, results in differences in what those organizations can actually end up doing?
When first visiting the US many years ago I was warned always to carry with me proof of insurance, for otherwise a hospital might not treat me until I could provide some proof that I could pay.

I wonder if that was true, whether it's still true, and what the situation really was or is.
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I would argue that the consistent principle is to protect the right to freely express ideas, arguments and points of view, no matter how stupid or poorly supported they may be. _That_ is what should be protected; not the literal interpretation of "anything that comes out of a mouth".

Most of the things you list are not about expressing ideas or making arguments, they're mostly about breaking contracts. Those that are not, e.g., holocaust denial, are precisely the contentious and dangerous ones.
I've been using it for a month, and it clearly helps a lot: in less than 5 minutes I have managed to have a complete admin for my apps. A huge improvement when you want to advance quickly.

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Decisions about color are made all the time in some industries.
There are definitely oral traditions that are very old.

Yes stories evolve, but there is a core that makes them unique, which can be traced almost like DNA. There is real evidence that a lot of fairy tales are thousands of years old.

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/on-the-or...