skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"News 9 obtained a copy of the contract with the state.

It shows the state is paying ERAD Group Inc., $5,000 for the software and scanners, then 7.7 percent of all the cash the highway patrol seizes."

This is truly disgusting. I have no words.
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Agreed. They should fight this patent, especially since Be Inc. had an online app store back in 1999.
It was a dumb bit of trolling, but I think it's time for us to learn as a community how not to react to these bits, since doing so invariably makes the discussion worse.
FileZilla is a legacy win32 app? I understand what you mean but that's a poor example considering it runs on Linux and OSX as well and is still updated quite frequently.
Yes, they have the best rural coverage in the Midwest (Verizon, thanks to AllTel, is a close 2nd.)
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Maybe you can, but maybe you shouldn't.

That is, you do this if you want a block to run without the GC interrupting it. That is, it's a really high-priority (realtime, or close) block. When it needs to run, it's the most important use of the CPU. But if you demand that the GC makes progress, you're saying that it also is important. And it is, but it's less important than the critical block. If you don't say that, then you wind up with "everything is important", and that way lies madness.

But you may be able to do it. You need enough CPU bandwidth that you can run your critical sections and spend enough time outside them that the garbage collector keeps up. (And then, every time you add to your code, you need to make sure that the CPU still has enough time...)
One practical thing one could do is to forward this to an influential tech journalist, ideally to a mainstream publication that has a technology section, like CNN or WSJ.
In that case, wouldn't it be evidence? I genuinely don't know all the details of how this works, but I do find it disturbing that the police turn around and spend the forfeited cash. Should they be allowed to do that with the sack of money from the bank, in your example?
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Ok, we added U.S. to the title, though this is not a very substantive response to a historically rich article.
I am also using and loving Google Fi so far. No manipulative billing practices designed to obscure the true cost. Reasonable metered data prices.

The only downside is having to use a Motorola phone. They seem to always break within 1.5 years of purchase.
Material design acting as vehicle of infiltration, contaminating the minds of users on other platforms, making them abandon their devices to join the rival tech giant? That's a good one.
I want to address two things, here:

1) You're absolutely right: Pricing matters. If I charge you $10/mo for my app that sends you a text message every time there's a full moon, that would be way too expensive and you'd be well within your rights as a consumer to spend your money on something else. As far as I'm aware, Apple will not force you to subscribe to any apps.

2) "... subscriptions are immoral..." Bullshit. And you don't "own" software you buy and pay for once. Operating systems change. Companies and developers come and go. If you value a piece of software, then you value the developer and should desire that they maintain and improve the app.

What is moral is creating a system by which software developers can support themselves by creating products that are useful to the community. I'd say the App Store is currently broken in that regard (with a few high-profile exceptions). If popularizing subscription-based pricing will help fix that, I'm all in favor.
How would the insurance policy differentiate between patent trolling and legitimate patent abuses? Because I could foresee a company purchasing this insurance and then willy-nilly violating patents to their hearts content.
My view is admittedly a bit on the extreme side (to put it mildly) but I'd see it as similar to hunting Somali pirates or Congolese poachers for sport. There are things a human can do to set themselves apart from the rest of humanity, and patent trolling is one of them.

Patent trolls don't rise (sink) to the level of child molesters, serial killers or ISIS terrorists, but still... I wouldn't shed any tears if something really bad happened to these people, whether by accident or design. They attack the best of us while contributing nothing. We don't need them.
The fact that this can be used on a process even if you didn't plan at launch time to monitor memory usage is awesome. The main concern I'd have about using it in a production environment is performance impact. There may be no way around this (ptrace is expensive if gdb's impact on running applications is any indication), but the cost of backtracing all allocation sites is also very expensive. You may want to consider adding statistical sampling similar to what tcmalloc and jemalloc use for heap profiling, to reduce the performance impact and make it feasible to remain attached for longer periods of time.
Again from the human viewpoint. If they don't comprehend the world like us, they are not 'sentient'? It gets circular at some point.
My fiancée and I give each other a book every month. She picks things she thinks I might like or that she thinks I ought to read (in a good way). It's a brilliant way of discovering new things to read that I'd never have even heard of otherwise.

Plus, over the four years we've been doing our little gift exchanges we've created a fantastic library that charts our relationship. If we make it to 50 years together it'll be something to behold. Assuming books are even a thing then.
> CloudFlare is not end-to-end unless the server already supports HTTPS.

That's literally what this article is about.
Network bandwidth doubles every X months. (6, maybe? It's really fast.)
From their html source:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, FOLLOW" />
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX, NOFOLLOW" />
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW" />

Not sure what they are intending here. But my guess is they don't either.

[edit: submitted too soon by mistake]
One problem with that is government work, especially day-to-day law enforcement, already has a challenge in recruiting good, talented workers. The pay is generally lower than private industry and there's not much prestige to be had. Adding personal liability to the mix makes this situation even worse.

Not to say there can't be reasonable steps to move the needle toward accountability. Lowering the bar for perjury charges would be a good first step.
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It is not factually incorrect. Sure, nobody could prove it with certainty, but you can't just dismiss it like that.

...Especially when you're trying to convince someone who saw it with their own two eyes.
Can you include something like this?

"What states does ERAD currently have contracts with? With what states does ERAD anticipate contracts to be signed in the next 180 days, and for all of these states, what percentages will ERAD be earning on funds seized?"
> works with DARPA to produce probiotics that will help U.S. soldiers stave off stomach bugs

Will there be synthetic probiotics in the future? (I understand that some probiotics are already heavily engineered.)
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calm down. Newsletters drive Internet business. If you don't know this... Don't walk outside, it's an even scarier place out there.

Don't like pop ups? Close tab, move on.

Or... Throw a childish hissy fit on HN over free content. You know, whichever sounds better to you.
Yep, US Cellular seems to be the only cell phone towers I can get on roaming when an area is "middle of nowhere" and I'll see a small dealer/shop in small towns. Like you said, they seem to specialize in markets that other carriers wouldn't bother with, like remote parts of Alaska, or small mountain towns.
I'm quite excited to try it. Unfortunately (or fortunately) i'm on T-Mobile, with a no contract $30/m Unlimited text/data plan (very few minutes), and that's just really hard to beat.

Note that this plan might not be available anymore.. not sure really, but i know i often get flack for being on this plan from tmo. It clearly isn't making them enough money, but my god, i love it.
I disagree that it was insightful; it's a collection of clichés that appear here frequently. The phrase "west coast startups" is particularly spurious, putting down a specific region. Generic comments about idiots are bad enough, but provocations about idiot distribution are worse.

The specific experiences you describe in your comment are another matter. That kind of thing is substantive and can be the basis of a thoughtful comment.
As Netflix attempts to limit VPN use, IPv6 users lose out
Maybe because the way they stated it it would be a much more attractive technology. Seems like an attempt to regaining ground in the server market.

This would be really useful for distributing Windows apps as Linux binaries. It would make it easier to develop from Linux and target Windows. Need the same for OSX.
Wired used to be a really interesting magazine. Now it's just a dumbed-down catalog of high-tech gadgets. Like a SkyMall catalog.
>As of this article, lxss.sys has ~235 of the Linux syscalls implemented with varying level of support.

Is there a list of these syscalls somewhere? It would be cool to check it against the recent Linux API compatibility paper [0, 1].

[0]: http://oscar.cs.stonybrook.edu/api-compat-study/
[1]: http://www.oscar.cs.stonybrook.edu/papers/files/syspop16.pdf
Currently, they don't have plans. just use cloudflare.
> Most recently, Ronald Reagan's take on the War on Drugs.

The Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 - which started all of this - was introduced by a Democrat and passed through a majority Democratic House.

All sides are guilty of opening this genie's bottle.
Could you just confirm that for me - a deed of covenant is unable to restrict the keeping of hens in UK law?

I ask because I'm pretty sure out deed of covenant says 'no chickens'. It might also be 'no sheep'. Don't suppose the Allotments Act covers sheep though.
This is so cool, thanks for sharing and good luck!
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I haven't been to Canada with Project Fi, but I got LTE all over London, Madrid, Copenhagen, Berlin and Málaga with them. I'd think that Canada has similar infrastructure in place :)
The argument-via-AWS probably indicts sudo, but it threatens in addition to indict any sort of command line access to production hosts. Why are you fixing your server with a typed command? Why not just kill it and spin up another?
That's the output though, they're not changing anything in Linux. The "Windows subsystem" they're developing will act as the translator to get there.
Cloudflare wouldn't be e2e in the sense that the SSL would terminate at Cloudflare, which would then open a new SSL connection to GitHub. Everything would be properly encrypted, but Cloudflare would indeed have access to the plaintext (i.e. it isn't e2e).
Here are some, or maybe this is not part of the NT Kernel...
1. The use of drive letters A-Z for file system access.
2. Creating symbolic links to files and folders, like you can in Unix/Linux. You have to set a setting somewhere to enable this, but there's a security risk.
3. Standard functional/usable non-gui terminal application like Unix/Linux ssh. PowerShell doesn't come close.
4. Ability to SUDO or su Admin like Unix/Linux.
Maybe these are not kernel related above, but the OS specific layer.
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It'll be good for truly last mile users, I imagine SF bay area has plenty of options (although I know they want Google too), this seems to provide a possible broadband ISP option for those that would otherwise have none.
The natural sex ratio of chickens is 50/50. Chicks are sexed when a few days old and excess males are disposed of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_sexing

There is strong evolutionary pressure that keep sex ratios at close to 50/50 in the vast majority of species. Some species (e.g. clown fish) have environments and traits which push this equilibrium away from 50/50. Fisher's explanation for this phenomenon is widely accepted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_principle
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> I for one hate renting things, I prefer ownership.

I applaud your idealism, but with this attitude, you might as well not buy any apps at all. When you buy an app, or TV show, or pretty much anything digital in 2016, you're purchasing a license, not the thing itself. You don't "own" anything.

Even if you can download the app you buy in 2016 in 5 years from now, what are the odds that it still works on whatever operating system is still available, on your 2016 hardware? What good is ownership when you can't even use what you own?
One of those post-bucket list things to do, maybe, after you've been diagnosed with a terminal illness that still leaves you a month or two of personal autonomy.
To save someone 8 minutes:

Tl;dr: He visits the listed offices of several dozen patent trolls in East Texas, including one directly across from the court house. Each one is empty with no sign of human activity. One has a secretary who claims the address is the accounting firm for those businesses. Then one person comes out to say that he is "a representative" of the businesses, and that those businesses "are based in East Texas" though. He recites one sentence about patents being property and then the video creator is kicked out.
I think one guy got a bonus for 20 years other than that nothing
Thanks for this, hopefully I'll remember to watch the next part.
I was _only_ pointing out, through _one_ simple example, the flaw in your conclusion of Go errors being tedious. I was not discussing other languages nor how to incorporate extensive and fluid error handling in Go to be as capable as any in other language. And since you've raised several points that weren't pertinent, it seems you simply want to disagree with me, so i'll end my side of this discussion. Have fun.
I was pointing out a thought process that I thought would work better and more rationally (it's the way parents adjudicate disputes, i.e. what's really at stake here, and yes, parents do get to legislate) rather than making an "official proposal".

But inasmuch as it was an official proposal, the proposition was not that the all costs would shift to one party; it was that if you lost the preliminary ruling on the main point you could decide if you wanted to spend money on further litigation or look for a settlement; in a more nuanced way, if the preliminary ruling was 80-20 culpability/damages conceivably the winner might also wish to litigate further. I wasn't shifting the legal costs, I was educating the decisions along the way.

There potentially is something to be gained from more "loser pays" legal fees, but I was not making that proposal.
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It's a subsystem of Windows for running part of Linux, so Windows Subsystem for Linux. :)
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IMHO, it would be even better to have this as a servic that I can submit media to and receive these kind of results. Does anyone know of such a service? No knock on Motion Stills, I think Google has made an awesome app.
If the police catch a person running away from a recently robbed bank holding a bag of money do you think they should have to convict the person before taking back the money?

Yes. The money may be held in escrow pending the trial, but appropration by police is unjust -- and should be illegal if the person is not charged and arrested.
so most of your cost was the coop. You could just put any old fence in a corner of your garden and you'd be fine. And you can feed them all the leftovers of the day.
On my severs I often use “sudo -s“ in a separate tmux window. I've changed my PS1 to give me a red prompt for root. Over the years I never had a situation where I accidentally did something stupid as root.
Not if you are unable to butcher them.
$5 seems to be the price for a carcass. In the video, dead chickens are tied together and draped over a bike for transport to wherever they are being sold.
Well you say you get what you pay for. I live in a high-tax, highly liberal college town. Our community has a great relationship with the police - it's the campus safety pricks you have to watch out for - and the department is well-funded.

It should be no coincidence that literal highway robbery is being sanctioned in a state as allergic to good government and logical tax rates as Oklahoma.

You have a good point about personal liability and quality of service, and that's why any proposal of mine should should have very limited conditions, like unlawful civil asset forfeiture.
Linux version in the works?
I have been in a similar situation before. At that time I took whatever I could get and downplayed my qualifications which were orthogonal to the work. It was literally a short-term, moderately dangerous laborer job so enthusiasm and talk about my exercise regimen helped me the most when applying. At the time I didn't have to support a family so I was more flexible with income.

I'm sharing my anecdote to illustrate that maybe it's worthwhile to accept some red flags for stable employment for a year or two. I don't know your situation in detail so there are likely many factors I haven't considered. I wish the best of luck to you.
Yeah I wouldn't want to find myself in court hearing

>17000 computers were forced to execute [unauthorized] arbitrary code

Certainly a crime in the US, not sure about Germany.

Nice execution though!
This isn't perfectly reasonable though. Presumably the bank gets their money back when the cops catch a bank robber. But the police keep the money that they confiscate through asset forfeiture. They had no right to it in the first place so what gives them the right to keep the confiscated money? It's robbery.
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Data service is great, voice is terrible, at least in my experience in the Bay Area. I can even use my phone under the Transbay Tube (which I couldn't when I had AT&T). I also have problems with shortcodes taking forever to arrive (but they usually do show up). Voice however is horrible. All kinds of fade outs and drops happen when talking for more than a few minutes. Overall though I'm way happier with them than I was with AT&T.
I would totally want this too, but legally, can Google do something here when they are not a party in this litigation?
The next time I'm forced to write C code...

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Because this being a civil case, the legal standard is "balance of probabilities". In other words, if they can give a convincing explanation of how your money is likely to be tied to some criminal activity, so long as it's "more likely to be true than not true", they win - unless you offer a convincing rebuttal to make it less likely.
I think this is way out of line. (I also keep chickens, though not with the tractor I'm about to list):

Here's a $300 chicken tractor, complete package: https://www.aosom.com/pawhut-96-wooden-backyard-hen-house-ch...

Depending on your situation, you might not need much of a coop. I would expect you could get away with $100 in supplies, in the US--not using scavenged wood--if you didn't need an enclosure etc, and just a small coop with nesting boxes.

Chicks are $2 and less, so it seems absurd to pay $20 for a laying hen. In my area I think hens are worth about $6-$8.

Your 12 eggs/week (for 5 hens) was a bit low, but of course that can vary greatly by variety. Many hens can lay for 4-5 years, though, and slow down as they go. I'd expect near the end you'd get 12/week. FWIW I had 9 chickens and was getting 3doz+/week. If it was winter, you might have needed a light in the coop to extend 'daylight' hours. They lay more slowly in the winter.

My feed runs about $12/month in the winter, $3/month right now. I seriously can't see how you could feed 5 chickens $20/month worth of feed. Around here 50lb bags of layer pellets go for $10-$12. Plus I throw them scraps from the table, which would be waste anyway. I bought one thing of straw that is going to last about 2 years for $12 at TSC. I don't count my time--and actually, these days my six year old does nearly all of the work to take care of the chickens (releasing, feeding, locking up at night). The straw need not be purchased, though--plenty of substitutes could be had for free or cheap. Shredded newspaper would probably work.

For your $500 + $20/month I think you should have been able to handle about 15-20 hens and therefore triple your production, or make your money back in about 30 weeks. Even at 100 weeks, it's not a bad investment, IMO, given that it just generates money forever after that.
Operating systems change, and companies/developers come and go, but not all software really needs ongoing maintenance, and some of it really can work indefinitely. I still have DOS games I legally purchased in the 1990s that run fine today. Why shouldn't that be true of mobile games? If the company stops updating the game, fine, but I should still be able to play it in 5 years if I bought it. Or at least, legally be able to; if it stops working for technical reasons, fair enough. I think the shift away from that is more to do with business models than technology— even book publishers have been trying to move from a sale to rental model.
I understand the pop up.

However, the sign-up should not take me away from the article. I mean, putting in my email took me to another page in the same tab (not a new one). Also, The landing page post-giving-you-my-email gave me another sign-up pop up. Both these things are super annoying.

Content is good though.
Key proximity on which of the hundreds of keyboard layouts?
You're conflating the rationale for the exclusion of those separate subgroups. Felons are not excluded for being "unfriendly" (agreeable shorthand). They are excluded because of a (perceived) risk to public safety, demonstrated by their conviction for criminal behavior.[1] To make a similar claim about foreign-born residents would be even more flagrantly xenophobic and racist than merely calling them unfriendly.

[1] Keeping in mind that especially for non-violent and non-vehicular convictions I don't buy into the whole "felons are bad, mmmkay" business, nor the argument that felons chose to exclude themselves from civil society by their own actions, but that's not the discussion we're having.
I don't think the argument is "police shouldn't confiscate [stolen] property from somebody they're detaining because of suspicion the individual has committed a crime", it's "police should not take property unrelated to the crime and, in the event the individual is cleared of any wrongdoing, return _all_ property", the latter of which isn't happening.

If it turns out the guy running away from the bank just likes jogging with a bag of money the police should return his money and whatever else _immediately_ after the person is released.
If you are handing out USD, there won't be any inflation. And I don't think there is anywhere in the developing world that USD isn't seen as good as local currency (if not better in many countries)
> Is it really simpler for you to type sudo all the time rather than having one terminal tab open with a root shell?

Yeesh. Privileged work I do is typically interleaved with commands that do not need to be privileged. Actual security considerations aside, I would rather have the guard rails afforded me by a normal user account for things that don't have some specific reason to be privileged.
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