skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found their website, and a page describing the service I believe these police are using. https://www.erad-group.com/fci

Also, I noticed that site:www.erad-group.com doesn't return anything on google, but it does on other search engines. Did ERAD request that it be removed from search results? Why would they do that? Why would they also not have a robots.txt if that is the case?
That's a shame. For a human, each game played helps to make the person better at all games. Play enough adventure games, for example, and one begins to recognize so many of the patterns and tropes at work that the solutions to puzzles jump out obviously and immediately in a single play-through.

Moreover, we already have machines that are extremely proficient at solving very complex games when given enough context: expert systems. One very notable example is the bot which successfully completed the game NetHack [0]. Would DeepMind's novelty-based reward technique work for NetHack?

[0] https://github.com/krajj7/BotHack
Measure twice cut once perhaps? That's what I took from it.
1) Civil asset forfeiture was created to seize the assets of drug cartels where the believed owner of the property in possession is in another country and has a modest army preventing extradition to stand trial. However, any government entity seeks to expand it's revenue first and foremost and this is a tremendous way to do that and it's being(predictably) abused.
2) Every country has a narrative about itself that isn't 100% correct, consistent or logical. That isn't how people work. Hopefully this ideal will help the revocation of civil asset forfeiture soon. The trend seems to be going that way.
As a consumer maybe $30
Ask HN: How does your company recognize yearly employee anniversaries?
At Huge, Inc. they get an axe (an axe!) at 5 years. At twitter design they get cool wooden blocks. Some places it's just acknowledgement, which is great. What does your company do for it's employees when an employee hits another year or milestone?
Harry Brown lives in the U.K. unfortunately.
Ranque-Hilsch Vortex Tube
The IRS should NOT be a special case. They should also pass trough a court (for what it's worth).
How to build your own JavaScript view library in ~30 min
I wonder if the same companies that make these cards also make the devices that allow extrication of money from seized cards.
Technically, the main point for sudo is allowing non-root users access to a limited set of commands. That said, if you needed this, you should be using an actual MAC system.
more info here:

http://news.mit.edu/2001/dinosaur

We use series elastic actuators, or springs connected to motors, and low-stiffness control, so the joints are looser, and more biological."

HOW IT WORKS
Troody, which weighs about ten pounds, has 16 joints and 36 sensors. "Every joint has a position and force sensor," Mr. Dilworth said. The robot also has a vestibular system -- the equivalent of an inner ear -- that it uses for balancing, and an onboard computer that automatically runs a walking control algorithm.
How to say you’re sorry – Signal v. Noise
Wow, congrats WP!
I'm a machine learning and have done work with Bayesian methods for modeling dynamic systems. I've been considering jumping into a synthetic biology company in industry. I've been searching for statistics and machine learning problems that need solving in synthetic biology. I suspect that there are two problems where a statistician or machine learning expert could contribute. The first is building data-driven models of metabolic pathways. The second is implementing an active learning approach to organism design -- basically building a robot that iteratively conducts experiments that maximize information while minimizing cost. But I also suspect that synthetic biology companies like yourself and Zymergen are more concerned with scaling up your business in the short term, and that implementing machine learning or computational biology-types of processes is a long term "optimization" task, not important to the core business in the near term. I'm afraid of making the jump if this type of work isn't important to the organization. Can you please comment? Cheers.
> The city isn't being bullied, Uber is.

I said both are bullying each other.

> The problem isn't the lack of a standard policy, but a policy at all.

"Standard" policy, or just "policy", same thing. The solution to this problem is for the parties to talk it out.

> The policies are all designed to protect incumbents and funnel money to the city

That's a good thing. City officials are incentivized to bring in more tax money. It's good for the city, and it is more likely they'll get re-elected if they do so. They also need to balance public safety and consider public perception of these issues while constantly sharing facts with the public. It's not an easy job.
1) The history in the U.S., it is probably fair to say, is primarily tied up in various prohibition laws, most recently drug prohibition. Though some of the precedent apparently can be traced back to British Maritime Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...)

2) Not if they're intellectually honest about it. If one reads the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution in context and in their spirit, it's hard to countenance that civil forfeiture is at all consistent with our founding principles. In fact, the practice is highly contrary to those principles.

(This is not to say that those principles have ever actually been properly applied consistently since day one of the Republic. Still, a damn good effort to do so ought be made.)
Rejection of MIT alumni program slights disadvantaged LHS students
Impractical to raise chickens in cities where it's illegal to butcher them. The egg laying tapers off at 3 years, but they'll live to ~10 years. That's a pet, or a freeloading chicken you have to feed but don't get eggs from. So...? Yeah, not terribly practical unfortunately.
Pretty neat stuff. I think that MS should just create their own Linux Distribution & port all MS products. Get rid of the Windows NT Kernel. I believe it's outdated & doesn't have the same update cycle that the Linux Kernel has.

Why run a Linux Application/binary on a windows server OS? When you can just run it on Linux OS and get better performance & stability.
Nothing. The article mentioned Indian and China and trains and I learned from some Geode guys at a talk a while back that both their government use Geode as their ticketing backend store.

I just thought it was a fun fact. I haven't used Geode myself, but it looks fairly well designed.
In my cases, I felt that the court spent time on issues that were not only minor, but the court left them unopined. This just encourages laywers to keep doing it, it earns them more money.

For example, and since you are an attorney I'll let you research this rather than give you the answer, does a signature on a shareholder petition under corporate by-laws require the word "certify" to be a valid signature? How much should be spent determining the answer to that? Seems pretty cut and dried to me, whether it is or is not required it's hardly breaking new legal ground. What's the answer? (and no weaseling out by saying "it depends". If you want to say "it depends", you need to finish the sentence, on what, and in that case the answer is what.)
Nice plugin
DQN is stateless, so at every point it's reacting to just the current frame (technically, the average of the last 4 frames IIRC) being fed into a CNN and outputing a motion. It doesn't care about ordering all that much because it has no memory. In this case, it's probably learning stuff like 'if there's a key, go towards it' and 'if you have a key, go towards a barrier'. If each screen keeps working the same way, then I guess it would achieve about the same performance as it does now. New screens with new layouts/patterns of enemies will test how well its learned heuristics generalize, though.

Personally, I think that someone should be trying a DQN with an RNN rather than CNN in it to see if that helps on the harder levels. Or better yet, combine it with some of the memory mechanisms and see if it can start doing some real long-term planning.
Ask HN: Where can I find MySQL Libary for DOS?
I am trying to compile a Program that talks to MySQL this works fine in Windows and Linux but I would like to add DOS support for this.

It is the Client I want to have in DOS Not the server. Does anyone know if I can get the DOS library for MySQL for FreeBASIC (that is the language I am using)
"Sorry, the otherwise 100% valid and reasonable name you've selected for your project is invalid because an algorithm has determined it is arbitrarily too close to this other unrelated project. Try again."

Who would use that?
WP Mobile Detector is the plugin name
Another anecdotal piece of evidence, my wife switched to Fi from ATT, I stayed on ATT. It's extremely common for my calls not to register on her phone, it just rings through to voicemail and she gets nothing showing on her Nexus. We've also had issues where text messages were delayed by hours, with no indication that it didn't go through.

It's cheap, but I guess you get what you pay for, we're in a major metro area.
NodeChef for my Parse.com app – lessons learned
No, iteration is fair game, but `for` is an API name patented by Oracle. Legally, a patent troll would have to write a `whenceforth`, `do...thither`, or `oft` loop.
I'll also add that if they have to partner with an American automaker, Ford is surely the best choice as long as they don't stick that ugly blue oval logo on their cars. Ford has a lot of experience partnering with other brands in mutually-beneficial relationships: they did it before with both Volvo and Mazda. In both cases, it seems like all 3 companies benefited from the arrangement.
The biggest technical problem in general for synthetic biology is predictive design. Most of the technology we are building is to enable massive numbers of designs to be tried in parallel b/c the complexity of the cell rebuffs predictive CAD models. This will change as we get more data which is what foundries like ours generate - lots of data.
A trivium: the first electoral vote ever cast for a female candidate went to Tonie Nathan, the Libertarian Party's VP nominee in 1972.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonie_Nathan
Agreed. I'd love to see Austin set up a gofundme with specific goals, milestones, a well defined team and strategy. We'd contribute if it's something that would bring about real change.
> Civil asset forfeiture was created to seize the assets of drug cartels where the believed owner of the property in possession is in another country and has a modest army preventing extradition to stand trial.

No, it wasn't. In the early US (which imported the legal concept from British maritime law) it was first used as a means to assure collection of customs duties. It expanded during prohibition, but even then was deployed primarily against domestic bootleggers, not kingpins residing in a foreign country with protection against extradition.
Edward Snowden shows VICE how to make your phone go black. (Full episode)
Interesting choice of examples: Single moms, Christian band. (By the way, I know lots of Christian bands that are pro medical-marijuana).

(Edited to change "marijuana" to "medical-marijuana".)
In practice, America isn't universally the land of the free and never has been. However, it has founding principles that many people believe in which do advocate widespread freedoms. These principles have not been and still are not applied properly.
Just like with the vast majority of project forecasts the "few days" is what you say to get the sale - internally or to outside clients. If you think it is that simple, well, I would like to sell you just a few days of machine learning expertise if you have a project... :) Even very simple tasks that you can let the intern do can - and often does - take days longer than projected.
sudo predates most (all?) Unix MAC solutions. Nowadays, PolKit can do most of its job in a more fine-grained way.
Can you restate your thesis?

Is is that HTTPie should be merged into the cURL project?
I really like go. I just love that it compiles to a native binary and is so easy to distribute. I love the way interfaces work and that types specify interfaces automatically without explicitly specifying that.

I love the "strictness" of the language - for example the code won't compile if you declare a variable and not use it, or import a library and not use it. I love that there is a standard gofmt which means code auto formats to a standard format. These features really help set some "discipline" when working in a team.

I love the way concurrent code can be called easily and the use of channels. I love the performance - it has been more than fast enough for my use cases so far. I love that I can get started with an HTTP server using just the standard library, and the most popular web frameworks in go are micro frameworks.

Overall, there's a kind of a simplicity about the language that underlies all of the above things, and that is what makes me excited about go.

I have used go in some minor projects that have been running peacefully for months without any hitches, and am using it in a big project mostly in the form of microservices and scripts. It has become my favorite language now.
There are a few reasons why I didn't agree regarding places that I've turned down. First, if the family situation continues to require on-going financial resources from me (likely), then it's literally not sustainable for me to accept an offer where the compensation/benefits are substantially worse than what I earned previously. Yes, if the situation becomes dire enough, I may have to, but until it does become dire, I would be setting myself up right away to struggle to make ends meet in that new job, and I don't feel comfortable doing that.

Secondly, taking a job doesn't fully solve the problems that you claim it does. For one, because I have a short stint on my resume followed by a long gap, that makes employers skeptical. If I just take the first job I can get and it turns out to be mind-trashingly horrible to the point of literally, physically not being sustainable to live with it, then I'll have to quit again, making another short stint and gap on my resume.

Most people think that about the 1-year mark is the shortest reasonable stint, so whatever job I take next, I have to believe at least that it is live-with-able for 1 year (my last job emphatically was not) before I am at the point where I could send my resume out and look again. Based on the experiences I've had, this is a fairly significant risk. Not to mention that my earnest, true goal is to find a place where I actually fit in and can focus on investing time in a real career for a long time frame.

Finally, I know reasonably well what I am worth based on past jobs, offers I got in prior years when I was already working. I suspect in at least one case that a company was intentionally trying to use my situation as leverage to low-ball me, and that just won't work. It communicates up front that they aren't excited about me, don't plan to treat me in a minimally healthy way, etc., and is just a massive red flag that I should avoid them for the sake of protecting myself and by extension also my family from what could happen if I take the job and end up being treated very badly.
For more generalized information on how you bring a machine from state A to state B, you may want to read up on Control Systems [0], one of which is the PID controller [1]. It's used in everything from industrial water heaters to quadcopters. It wouldn't surprise me to see them also being used at some level with more advanced robotics.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_system
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller
You would get some boost if you use a NN factored to have game-specific module feeding into a universal game-playing NN: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06342 " Actor-Mimic: Deep Multitask and Transfer Reinforcement Learning", Parisotto et al 2015

> The ability to act in multiple environments and transfer previous knowledge to new situations can be considered a critical aspect of any intelligent agent. Towards this goal, we define a novel method of multitask and transfer learning that enables an autonomous agent to learn how to behave in multiple tasks simultaneously, and then generalize its knowledge to new domains. This method, termed "Actor-Mimic", exploits the use of deep reinforcement learning and model compression techniques to train a single policy network that learns how to act in a set of distinct tasks by using the guidance of several expert teachers. We then show that the representations learnt by the deep policy network are capable of generalizing to new tasks with no prior expert guidance, speeding up learning in novel environments. Although our method can in general be applied to a wide range of problems, we use Atari games as a testing environment to demonstrate these methods.
You can eat it after 3 years.
Huh, I did not know until just now that US Cellular owned their own network. I could've sworn that Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint were the only four network owners in America and US Cellular was an MVNO. Guess that says something about either the quality of their network or the quality of their marketing.
Could Artificial Intelligence Destroy Capitalism?
That made my day as well. I'm actually debating subscribing — it's not often that you find someone who tends to that level of detail.
In other news, Hulu raises their prices by 40%.
Its still a subscription, it just allows an indefinite unpaid period until something breaks. There is no upgrade discount.

> For that much money, you could use Adobe Illustrator every January, May, and September!

Illustrator is $19.99 per month paid monthly, so a little easier to handle but 2.4x more expensive. Illustrator has a lot more support but the difference in price just got reduced ($99 for about 2+ years versus per year).

Its about a 2x jump in price for Sketch.

I'm most saddened that neither company cares about customer loyalty in a money way.
One more reason to keep a reserve of Bitcoins. With a hardware wallet like a Trezor your bitcoins are secured on a physical device with a PIN and password. The police in the US can do civil asset forfeiture on gold, cash, and now bank accounts so obviously a more secure asset is needed. Bitcoin is that secure asset that can be moved in a few minutes in any amount to anywhere.
Its not a particularly surprising choice of examples for a Republican politician upset about the practice that wants to highlight targeted groups to whom his constituency is likely to be sympathetic.
This is great news, as we have quite a bit of coverage by them here (Midwest). I feel like I see a lot of people mention issues with Fi on the web, I must be one of the lucky few that have not only had no issues, but stellar performance all around.
Quite right. It's just like css. It may enhance a page, but pages should always fail back gracefully to basic content if a user cannot support it.
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?

If there is reason to believe that someone is in possession of property that doesn't belong to them it seems perfectly reasonable for the police to confiscate said property.
The inability to butcher the animal is definitely a problem. I'm not well versed in this area, is it typical to butcher a chicken after the egg laying tapers off, or does it typically happen before/much after?

If you're doing this for convenience, it may be worth making a trip out of the city to have someone butcher them when the time is right. If you're doing this to save money, it's likely you don't have an easy means of transportation for something like that.
Why would they fix product search when they can charge you to advertise your app in the search results instead?
The macrofarm will be able to afford innovations before each microfarm will. Suppose a tool is developed that harvests vegetables better than existing methods. Let's say it's less likely to crush the vegetable it's picking. It's new technology so it's expensive, but if you're operating at a large enough scale, it might be worth the cost.

In this case, each microfarm will produce less vegetables than a macrofarm of the same size.

I wasn't trying to be a jerk by linking to the Wikipedia article. It seemed to me like you weren't familiar with the concept.
Ask HN: How do you pick your next book?
I'm working on a new personal project which I'm super excited about. The landing page is here: www.booknshelf.com. I'd love to get some initial feedback from awesome HN community on how you generally find your next book to read, whether you care about what other people read, or you care only about reviews, etc. Thanks so much!
Hey, if a corporation is a person...
I'm definitely willing to relocate, but cannot do so unless the company provides relocation. If I can move for a definite job, that's one thing, and I can make arrangement here in the family situation to handle that. But I can't put the family stuff on hold just to move on a whim and maybe find a job. Even when I was already living in Boston, I didn't have much luck there and especially found the start-up working conditions quite poor.
Users of languages that have excellent support for first-class functions and exception handling will probably not agree with you, sorry.

Lower-level code often doesn't "know" how to handle a situation when it is not able to complete its job. The executive decision about how to proceed is somewhere higher up.

Returning an error code that has to be propagated through several levels to the appropriate place is blub programming that belongs to the 1960's.

Higher order functions are useful for error handling, but only when coupled with a dynamic control transfer. The low-level routine invokes a callback, which is some closure belonging to a higher level. For this architecture to be useful to its full potential, that closure must be able to make a jump (for example, a jump to the surrounding code in the function where that closure was created, to effectively abort all the frames between that function and the low level where the error occurred).
I'm on a prepaid t mobile plan, and I also notice data not working on Bart, despite full LTE bars
How does it help you if your potential customers avoid your software like a plague? Subscriptions border on restricting somebody's financial freedom. Imagine your plumber was forcing you to pay yearly for once/here and there using their services?
some more info:

http://sandbox.softroboticstoolkit.com/book/series-elastic-l...
"Rule of law" is supposed to mean that, absent adherence to its letter, self-defense with weapons of your own is not only proper but essential in order for liberty to persevere.

Although your anarchic mindset is appealing to me, I'm less ready to give up on the phrase and concept of "rule of law," which I think still has a place in a free information age.
Ask HN: What is the next Moore's Law?
Moore's Law (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law) has led the technological revolution for many decades, but now it looks like it is coming to an end. What are similar phenomenons (inside and outside of processing speed) that either will, or already are advancing technology at the same rate?
Patent lawyer or no, you're still more qualified than the average participant.

I'm not sure what criteria you're using to judge that the proposal would be worse for a less wealthy litigant. Surely the proposal would be better in cases where one side is clearly right? The cost of patent litigation is currently huge. The only way a non-wealthy litigant can participate is with lawyers on contingency. No?

But I suspect fixing the legal costs is only a part of the patent problem. My understanding is that cases like the OP regularly go to verdict and find for the troll.
Pest v0.2.0: fast PEG parser generator in Rust
Tim O'Reilly: The Oracle of Silicon Valley