skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Here's how it works. If a trooper suspects you may have money tied to some type of crime, the highway patrol can scan any cards you have and seize the money.

Given the low-threshold for seizure and how we've seen civil-asset forfeiture exercised by law enforcement, that's terrifying.
Oh gotcha. I started from the article (because I missed the initial furor), hence my confusion.

Yeah, the initial day(s) of the website and account are what makes me uncomfortable, not the ongoing claims. Those seem depressingly widespread and well substantiated.
Maybe a local dev. group/meetup? I haven't been to one in years...But the one I used to visit (focused on web design AND web dev. which agreed was too broad) had often some senior folks, as well as newbies/college students/grads in attendance. Most everyone was very polite and accepting of both seniors and newbies. This of course constrains your search to folks who physically attend these meetups...but at least you can discuss things more easily than electronically, vet them in person, etc.

Or, maybe, this question that you posted here on HN you can actually bring up during one of these meetups, and see if others have the same challenge, what advice they can offer? True, not as scalable as a website (or some similar alternative/online group), but at least your name would get known around the locale, and there's the networking opportunities, etc.
Are you required to surrender your credit carts, etc to the cops during a traffic stop? What if you refuse?
Recent discussion of the news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11787271
Just in case anyone else is looking
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.andrewt.qu...
It works very well, until it doesn't. Then you have a pretty interface, an elegant test suite, and a big black box full of entropy and ignorance labeled "then a miracle occurs".
> The gist behind this case is that the Judge's son owns patent law firm in East Texas where they often represent both sides.

Isn't this a blatant conflict of interest? If this isn't grounds for disbarment, what is?
There's a number of things I disagree with in the article, but it does have a few good points.

Here's what I disagree with and why:

- Portknocking. I've found from experience that it's far better to allow SSH access (for example) from only known IP addresses. Portknocking is far too easy to beat and really doesn't impede much.

- Non-standard ports. Sure if you're only interested in blocking bulk network scanners that limit themselves to known ports. Any manual scan or a solid in-depth scan is going to map every one of the lower 1024 ports, and possibly the rest depending on how interesting the target is.

- The Tank camouflage example. It all sounds fine and dandy until a maintenance crew roam the desert for 10 days looking for a tank they can no longer see. Same with security and IT... obscurity leads to lots of wasted time when newer techs try to diagnose things that aren't as they seem, and are undocumented. Not only that, but the since the enemy know that the new armour requires a special ammunition to beat, they will just throw new ammo at everything that moves in case it is a tank. i.e. you're going to scan for hidden SSID's, your going to nmap every port, etc etc. Takes more time, but you still get in.

- If there's a 0-day SSH vector, it's getting owned no matter which port it's on unless your security team are on top of patching. What if the new-hire that's told to go patch all the SSH servers accidentally misses the undocumented one that's running on port 24? It also doesn't matter if there's 10x more hits on port 22 than 24. All it takes is 1. It's that simple.

I just don't think obscurity belongs in an environment where clarity matters so much.
You have to wonder how this works.

Like how does the officer know how much you have and how much is 'appropriate' to confiscate?

I wonder if it does a series of authorizations looking for some sort of upper limit to figure out how much money is in the account and then they determine what to take from that?

Either way, this goes way beyond reason for what a trooper should be able to do on the side of a road during a traffic stop.
Funny photo: A suicide mission
It really makes me sad that CSV even exists: ASCII defines field ('unit') & record separator characters (also group & file, but those are less-useful), as well as an escape character. With those few characters, all of the mess of CSV encoding could be solved with these few rules:

- all records are separated by an RS character (#x1e)
- all fields within a file are separated by a US character (#x1f)
- all instances of RS, US & ESC within a field are prefixed with an ESC (#x1b)
- there are no more rules

It's remarkable to me that ASCII defines a pretty full-featured mechanism for information interchange (start of header, file transfer &c.) and instead we continue to build mechanisms atop its alphabetic characters.

It's like the original sin of computing is Not Invented Here (no doubt someone will pipe up with a story of how ASCII itself was the product of NIH!).
This only favors rich people when the case is questionable. So it slightly favors them. The current situation massively favors rich people.
How to Use Occam's Razor to Solve Sales Challenges
Bitcoin already is. Blockstream LLC employs a majority of core developers with commit access, and thus can effectively hold the protocol ransom for profit, and they have been doing so for over a year now. Good luck ever getting a fee-less transaction accepted, and even at "standard" fee rates your transaction may not be accepted into a block for hours due to the backlog because they have intentionally kept the maximum block size at 1MB, intending to sell for-profit centralized corporate services that "guarantee" rapid block acceptance on their own lightning platform.
As far as I know, almost all independent (meaning manufacturer proprietary, so disregarding Android Auto here) user-facing in-car systems are using either HTML5 or Qt. In that light it sounds like a smart move to make it even easier to pick their offering.
Bag of Words is not actually a great approach to understand text because it ignores the semantics of the word. For example, 'hotel' and 'motel' which are similar words have completely different vector representations in the BoW model.

A popular alternative is to use a distributed word embedding such as word2vec[1], where similar words are grouped together in the vectorspace.

Edit: If there are few observations, like in this case, we don't need to train the word2vec model on the dataset itself. We can use pre-trained word embeddings such as the one publicly released by Google which was trained on the Google News dataset.

[1]https://word2vec.googlecode.com/
What the fuck is happening to this country?
OpenShare – customizable API wrappers for social platforms
That would mean that, for example on crates.io, you couldn't create a `libm`, because `libc` is already very popular. I don't think that works.
>Because it's a possibility that consciousness is not merely observable actions or even internal thoughts (the "output")... but the feelings which guide/cause those actions...

If it's actually "caused" by something, then that something must be a physical process which could be simulated. E.g. imagine there is some law of physics that says brains in a certain configuration will say they "feel consciousness" or whatever. That would be a real physical law we could simulate in a computer, and create a simulated brain which behaves exactly the same way.

If our behavior isn't caused by anything, if "consciousness" is casually disconnected from the world we live in, then it's irrelevant. It doesn't explain our behavior in any way, or have anything to do with us.
You seem to have misunderstood what I said. This wasn't at all me being sexist or asking others to be sexist. It was meant to get people to question those rules and motivate men to practice solidarity with women without directly violating the rules and immediately being punished by Hamas. Hamas kills people for the kind of tactics you proposed. If you want to fight Hamas directly, better make sure you have lots of people behind you or at least a good number of trained people with guns.
Just a note: http://www.springer.com/gp/marketing/yellow-sale - sale on Springer math books at the moment.
It's good to raise awareness, especially on the users of the play store (I mean, the developers).

For example I learned a lot from this video: in case I decided to sell an app on any store, I'd better contact my lawyer to get advised on where and how to incorporate my company.

I don't know if it can be easily resolved by incorporating in another country, but the difficulties of an international litigation should discourage trolls.
Very cool, thanks for posting.
This seems looks like it was designed to be abused. If this is used, their must be additional training for cops on how to make a seizure decision, and major repercussions if they seize money from a person who is then proven to be innocent.
>The largest part that we have found ... the biggest benefit has been the identity theft,

Oh, so if I have a card in someone else's name, you'll charge it, thus causing someone who doesn't even know about it to lose?

Any lawyers here want to weigh in on whether this would be identity theft/credit card fraud/etc on the part of the police and hence illegal? Isn't scanning/charging a card without authorization illegal?
> I missed the initial furor

Here you go, in a way:

https://github.com/Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor/blob/mast...
DNS: Basic Concepts (2013)
> Applebaum is an abuser, as widely reported by multiple independent witnesses

And who are those witnesses?

"Anonymous" witnesses don't count. If Appelbaum has done harm to you, whether you're a woman or man, come out and say it. You can't just say "we heard from anonymous sources that Obama raped someone" and expect to be taken seriously.

Also, you could use your logic to say:

"Who is right here? Thousands of government employees who say they haven't broken the law and haven't done mass surveillance, or this just one high-school dropout guy who fled to Russia?" (obviously talking about Snowden here).

I don't know if that's how Occam's Razor is supposed to work, but if that's how it works, then it's clearly a pretty flawed theory, that at best can be used as a "guideline" not as as hard rule.
What does "recommend bookmarks it thinks you might want to read again" mean? How does that work?
I am not sour at all, I love the country. There are always going to be a few bad apples anywhere you go in the world.

Here is the guy just in case you ever come across him

http://spinworksstudios.com/
Just people trying to find new ways to make money.
It's not the fakir it's the Catholic Churches
Turning law enforcement into highwaymen.
From isobutanol. In a process similar to ethanol production from corn. Which I guess sounds less link-baity than 'from fermented corn'.
Isn't DeepMind just an umbrella term like Watson? I would guess that AlphaGo and the software that learns games like this are distinct.
It could be done that it is not loser pays by default. Instead, if a case is won, and the case was deemed frivolous, only then could loser-pays be enacted.

But it still doesn't solve the idea that the "Law is more equal the more money you have." .
I don't mean to condemn the accusations, or attribute this to a shady three letter agency (Farr's piece ought to give lie to that claim at the very least).

My only intent was to say that the initial nature of the website and twitter account were fairly alarming, and seemed to show a pretty bad faith intent to misrepresent their nature and identity. That doesn't speak to who set up any given thing; it could be the victims, but it could equally well be a destructive third party, or even a false-false-flag attempt to muddy the waters to undermine the charges.

All I really mean to say is that the initial misrepresentation of identity is something I'm uncomfortable with regardless of the charges, and that it's something I hope well intentioned supporters of the victims won't engage in (I can hardly ask 2nd party bad actors or 3rd party trolls to change their behavior). The situation is a mess, and I can't do much more than discourage certain tactics and offer sympathy to the victims.
Both the strong rule of law on ownership rights and the sofistication of finance operations that enable these arrangements seem to me more related to a highly capitalistic society where two parties can arrange such contracts, than a socialist or communist one where property is a more "flexible" concept that can be overriden when it is deemed adequate by the government - and that discourage people with money into entering such agreements.
yeah, I guess next Apple devices will be Bluetooth5 compatible.
It's about 2500 years of refinement that brings this art to the extreme. The texts on the bamboo shows some extreme ideas, and apparently those pointy edges got smoothed out over the years of imperial ruling.

History, and the culture, is written and shaped by the winner after all.
Javascript targetting languages have source maps to link back errors at the lower level back to the pre-compiled source. Clojure dealt with the dual nature of errors (clojure exception from java exception) by partitioning messages in sub-groups to facilitates reading.
I picked $1 trillion because I've read that as an estimate (actually read $3 trillion, so was trying to be conservative).

Where the money comes from is important though which you point out probably wouldn't just be printed (injected from nowhere), but pulled from somewhere else. So where DOES it come from? I'm assuming one way or another it comes from the rich or from companies -- where else would we come up with that kind of money? But that doesn't change the idea that 330 million (I'm using USA numbers) people suddenly have significant more money than they had before. What will they spend it on? Everyone can't upgrade their housing -- the housing available is finite, and supply pretty much meets demand. Giving everyone money increases demand, but how will supply change to meet that? Go through the same thought process on cars, food, electronics, toys, clothing, transportation, energy, raw materials, etc. Increased demand on everything will increase prices pretty much across the board. It's Econ 101.
Five Commandments for Data Scientists and Engineers
>Being able to mimic a human's behavior is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having subjective experience.

I am arguing that it is. Once you move past the "giant lookup table" idea to actual algorithms that explain human behavior. In fact once you find the smallest such algorithm, it must necessarily be an exact simulation of a human brain, and all of our internal experience.

>How do you know that an algorithm "feels" anything at all, the way humans do?

It must feel exactly the same way humans do if it produces exactly the same output.
Yeah, can't be a very good phone if you have to scream to be heard!
I translated the OCamel code to java with derive4j, takes <60 lines, took me ~15 mins: https://gist.github.com/jbgi/2d26c2b30b658ea84b3e458cc8e846a...
Do not bother writing a "builder-generator" for algebraic data types: it already exists: https://github.com/derive4j/derive4j ;-)
Having worked in a couple, maybe even a few hundred RFP type B2B submissions as the Proposal Writer (aka RFP PM) the one thing that was out of my control and was most frequently the last thing completed was the actual price to put on the submission. So many stakeholders. So much drama. So many times of saying "I understand this needs to be the right price but if you miss the deadline then WE LOSE 100% of possible revenue. SEND IT TO ME NOW...please Sir/Madam..."

Comparatively speaking, the lower on the totem pole, the easier it is to get compliance. It's the higher-ups of the world who, in my opinion, tend to think of themselves as exempt from "getting with the program" until somebody pulls rank. I hate pulling rank but if the chain needs a yank, it's for the project and company, not me.
The phone is only a dumb modem in that setup, all the processing happens on a connected PC. It's really impressive, and a cool project to play around with, but it's not a replacement firmware you can load on an old brick phone and have a functional mobile.
This can't possibly be legal or even technically feasible. The victim can call her bank and report a fraudulent transaction, which pits the bank against a warrantless seizure that's impossible to defend in court. Surely banks can catch on and frontload an "identity protection" mechanism that'll simply block transactions from anything matching "ERAD" or however they identify themselves to the ACH.

It's doubtful that local or state PDs have enough political pull or money to battle banks over this through the court system.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest Accounts Hacked
Smallwall (http://smallwall.org), the successor of M0n0wall: not many 'moving parts', rock-solid. Saves a lot of time comparing to building it yourself (software-wise).
True- levenshtein isn't the best algorithm for the purpose. Is there an algorithm that takes key proximity into account? Like, 'libm' and 'libc' are sufficiently different to preclude typos, but 'lib[n/j/k]' or 'lib[x/d/f/v]' are not?
nice - could do with a none option on the template engine
One thing is plainly evident however, with a probability of 1: what you're proposing is a false dichotomy.
Sorry, what do you know about Standard Chartered exactly? Have you worked there? Have you discussed this with the designers of their language (called "Mu")?

Mu is strict because it was designed to target an existing strict runtime for which plenty of code was already written (in a language called Lambda, the letter before Mu in the Greek alphabet) and which was already deployed to many users through the corporation. The decision to be strict and not lazy has nothing to do with any downsides of laziness.
After watching this awesome Defcon talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqxaKGA9Lnc I wondered if there was any use cases for bit/typo squating in crypto. This is a pretty cool one! Not crypto but interesting none-the-less :)
My understanding with asset seizure is that you can show why the money was yours, and it is returned. What happens to the 7.7% taken by the servicer? Is it automatically returned as well?
It's good to remember that the best places to stir up trouble are the ones where real trouble already exists. Anyone from strongly-invested bad actors to random trolls have an opportunity to create conflict here, totally aside from the status of the core claims.
This reads like The Onion. I can't believe they're serious.

>"If you can prove can prove that you have a legitimate reason to have that money it will be given back to you. And we've done that in the past," Vincent said about any money seized.

... Legit reason? How am I supposed to prove where every cent came from? What happened to "innocent until proven guilty"?
That was my impression too. Sad given that Jaffa is part of Tel Aviv.
Sounds like you already have a solution in mind.
I found some recent articles interviewing him:

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-09-06/news...

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/all-pm-h...
Still in Finland it seems according to his twitter:

https://twitter.com/sanaledamaruku
Agreed:

"We've seen single mom's stuff be taken, a cancer survivor his drugs taken, we saw a Christian band being taken. We've seen innocent people's stuff being taken. We've seen where the money goes and how it's been misspent," Loveless said.

It boggles the mind that this doesn't violate due process.
Thank God, all of this should be coming to an end any day now.
I think we will have to rely on crypto hash in some form. Similar to download checksum. It won't be convenient, but it will be safe(r).
So we can't carry cash, because they'll seize that directly. This device could probably do some sort of run around the new chip system in cards. Bitcoin is nearly useless in the real world. So where does that leave us? Google & Apple Pay on our phones? At least our phones can be password protected.
This is essentially how it works today, from my understanding.

If you lose and your suit was 100% without merrit, you can be sued for lawyer fees.

From what I understand, the problem is the bar for meritless is very very very high. Not sure how you legislate that. I think most lawsuits are meritless. A lawyer may have a very different opinion.
I can't think of a better reason to stay out of Oklahoma.
Make sure it's a sturdy one. All of the standing desks I've worked at were only supported by two poles, and weren't particularly stable along the long axis. I wouldn't want to use them for electronics work, bench supplies and oscilloscopes are a lot heavier than monitors and keyboards.
Internships at HUGO BOSS: immerse in the world of fashion
This seems like pretty unethical research to me.

Also, doesn't point out that the bigger threat is that this is wormable.
Ask HN: Does anyone have a “git push origin” celebration dance or is it just me?
Celebration dance gifs, GO!
I use VyOS (www.vyos.net) for my home router. Linux based, but has a command line interface that something you would expect in a dedicated router platform. Your entire configuration is easily backed up to a text config file that makes setting up the same configuration on new hardware easy.
On the Other Hand
I suspect it's hard to hire Californian rock star developers on the low-bidder driven platforms as well for exactly the same reasons.
So, how are Live Photos different from 3-second video clips (other than resolution)?

There is no technical reason this shouldn't work with short clips or sequences of still images.
DeepMind is the name of an AI company that was acquired by Google.

https://deepmind.com/

AlphaGo is the program that beat Go. These game playing algorithms are variations of Deep Q Learning Reinforcement Learning algos.
Nice article, thank you!
I thought this was an insightful blog post about how communities (don't) deal with abusers:

http://pervocracy.blogspot.nl/2012/06/missing-stair.html

It may be relevant here, maybe not, but an interesting read nonetheless.

For the easily offended: it's regarding a BDSM community though it's not at all central to the post.
Thankfully this article squarely places the blame on the Catholic organizations. In Indian media, Hindu groups become the scapegoat for abuses of intellectuals.
I think part of this is just shoddy reporting from a local news source, I believe this is tech they're talking about.

https://www.erad-group.com/fci

While the implications here are certainly pretty creepy, this seems more like something to use in investigations of money laundering, etc.
Isn't this the federal court system? Not sure: is Texas even able to do anything about this?
Ask HN: Is Anyone Running C# Apps on Ubuntu in Production Using .NET Core?
I'm guessing the answer is no for production, but what about for internal tools and stuff?
I'll accept it's possible the claims are (mostly) real, but with other 'interested parties' jumping on to stir up shit.

As you said, a false dichotomy.
With that much power, he was only ever going to leave in a coffin.
Still I wished they had a html interface wrapped around it, for convenience.
Thanks for the feedback! Agreed, it makes sense to refactor those routes into its own Auth controller. I will open a GitHub issue. However, some of the code is intentionally written that way to keep things stupid simple and easy to understand for developers of all skill levels, which you would normally encapsulate into a service in your own app.
I guess as much as someone pointing a toy gun at someone else while going "pew! pew! I swear this is a real gun!"
It's called a flyover state for a reason.
Maybe the firm doesn't represent both sides simultaneously. Maybe they usually represent the patent troll, but if someone needs a patent troll defense lawyer they'll do that too. Basically, as long as patent litigation is in town, business is good.