skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, using references from other threads, there are degrees of severity for "sex crimes" - everything from urinating in public, to consensual statutory rape (i.e. Romeo and Juliet), viewing child pornography, making child pornography, to actual assault and rape.

Which causes a greater public harm: urinating in public or robbing someone's home? Is being beaten into unconsciousness obviously worse than being groped? Is being killed kinder than living with rape?

There are shades of grey that the sexual offender list does not capture - offenders are simply punished for life if their crime involves genitals.
I've always wondered if there is a side-channel that could be used instead of a warrant canary. More specifically, my understanding is that witnesses have Miranda Rights. Therefore, couldn't a company promulgate a process whereby they'll publicly solicit bids for legal counsel should they receive a NSL? If they start asking for bids, you can assume they've received a NSL. If not, then no NSL has been received.

Any lawyers in the house?

* Edited slightly for clarity.
Selling 1000 units at $2000 is only more profitable than selling 500 units at $2500 if those units cost nothing to build. That's very far from being the case.
The entire thing seems fishy, sure, but playing devil's advocate, you'd wonder if they wouldn't screen out all the confidential emails. Of course, Comey did say even with the filtering, he did not see intentional obfuscation.

The only thing in question now is how the public will view this, and I'm pretty sure the only people who will be convinced are Hillary supporters.
And then we had two world wars.
Ah, yes, that makes sense. Thanks for clearing it up for me.

To me, it's a bit like the relationship between an author and a platform like FB or twitter. Whoever owns the customer relationship is in the driver's seat.
Yet there are pepperonis that don't curl (which some pizzerias allegedly prefer) as discussed in the article. It appears that the way the pepperoni is stuffed, so that the meat forms a U if you take a cross section, gives it a propensity to curl in the first place.
The 26 life-expectancy is an average, not when people actually die. It's brought down by high infant mortality.
it is a disturbing commentary on our rights in society that we have to actually think about these things as a normal part of life. it is remarkable our ability and resolve to continue enforcing our rights in new and creative ways, but we should actually all recognize the fact that our right to privacy has been completely violated, as well as our right to self-incrimination.
there were ~1,200 new emails released yesterday.
This is worse. This is a secretary of State hiding her correspondence from the american public (eg. FOIA requests), letting it get stolen by foreign governments, lying about it, colluding with an existing administration to avoid prosecution while running for president.

Bush "war crimes" were not political in nature, were bipartisan (evidenced by how little has changed under Barack Obama), are subject to FOIA, and did not put state secrets at risk.
Subjective? I disagree. From everything I know of the hacker scene, working for the NSA to invade people's privacy for Uncle Sam is not good karma.
But if you make that assumption from the beginning, you can't use any of those services. It's like assuming that every building you enter is on fire.
Btw, @dang: Can't you just automatically turn every jzw.org link into one redirecting through href.li or donotlink? Or maybe even to the archive.org version?
hey @ldehaan i'd love to hear more about the shortcomings of Loki, i never had a real-life need for really high volumes so I would greatly appreciate some insights in order to improve it.
Haha, some might argue that he has a point.
Lets be honest, 99% of people who disable javascript are programmers who take great honor in complaining about every website that is more than 200k in size. This is a non-issue for most companies.
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It's easy. You just live in a small 2-bedroom apartment with 3 other people. $40K goes a long way if you're willing to have no space to yourself.
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Not better for your or me, just that it's better or comparable to the most of the world who lives in poverty and squalor.

As far as measuring happiness, one method would be levels of stress hormones in the blood.
I'm not sure why you think single is a positive if you're trying to save. It's far more cost effective to be married to another high-income earner.

Living in a cheap location is also not everyone's dream. It would be life changing for me to retire to Costa Rica, but it would not be a positive change. I live in a pretty expensive city (Seattle) because I like it here.
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I want to set the tone by saying, I can tell you feel strongly about this so I want you to know that most people here (IMO) don't think the registry is a bad idea, they just see poor implementation in places and think that updating the rules surrounding it is an obvious step toward improving justice.

EDIT: >> Juan Matamoros had been charged with two counts of Lewd and Lavacious behavior at the time of that article being written. Pretty highly unlikely that they were both from the single incident of public urniation. When you're publicly exposing yourself repeatedly, maybe you should be a sex offender?

Wrong, it appears to be pretty likely actually. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2007-03-21/news/VOFFENDE...

"Haverhill police arrested Matamoros the next morning, charging him with two counts of "open and gross lewdness," a charge used when a suspect exposes or touches himself with the intent to shock or scare people."

Looks like he was charged with two counts for the one incident.

>> And ignoring that the registry has been wildly successful at reducing child sexual abuse is a huge oversight. These edge cases, who in many cases have legal recourse, outweigh the lives of rape and sexual assault victims?

Resources? Sounds like a WAG on your part... But lets assume it's true.

Just because I can defend one portion of this article does not in any way mean I fully agree with it. A registry is a GREAT idea in my mind. I want to know about people who should be on there. I take issue with stale laws and what I consider lazy legislation that allows for stupid situations where it is possible for someone to be placed on the sex offender list because they urinated in public. It also dilutes the efficacy of the registry by including people who really shouldn't be on there

>> outweigh the lives of rape and sexual assault victims

In what world does it have to be binary? I want the law to make sense! I expect that our regulators find issues like this and close loopholes. Yes I expect that we can keep people who deserve to be on the registry on there, while removing idiotic loopholes that place people on the registry needlessly.

Lets agree that
1) the registry needs to be there
2) it has a net positive effect
3) we must protect people from rape and sexual assault

I propose
4) pissing in the street not 2 or 3 (we may not agree on this one)
5) laws need to be updated and include common sense when a "bug" is found, this one is no different

Please see my other comment for more context:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12038643

P.S. in my quick google search I found another anecdote by a man who had to pay 14K in lawyer fees to get his charges dropped to disorderly conduct. That's ridiculous to me! It seems like such a simple thing to fix.
That's not really a nitpick: in case of the Internet, it's the main modus operandi - with various warlords carving out a temporary fiefdom here and there (remember the Browser Wars, when IE had 90%? Brace yourselves, we're headed for a re-run with Chrome), but no actual rulers or enforcement.
Actually, spatial dimensions are maintained across convolution layers by adding appropriate padding - only the pooling layers change spatial dimensions. I believe "padding = SAME" argument takes care of this in Tensorflow(?)
Haha! My friend is in the Chicago Tribune today for his new pizzeria in Chicago and he managed to sneak in a reference to the grease chalice: http://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/restaurants/ct-paulie-g...
Sadly, you're correct, but not for the reason you mean. People don't care about their rights anymore, having traded them in for convenience. Because "war".

EDIT: maybe the downvoters could respond with how I'm wrong?
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> To warrant a criminal charge, Mr. Comey said, there had to be evidence that Mrs. Clinton intentionally sent or received classified information — something that the F.B.I. did not find.

Interesting, I won't pay the taxes this year and I will prove that was unintentionally and see what happens... I am quite sure the outcome is going to be different.
The article addresses both of these factors and introduces an additional important factor your comment doesn't mention. It may be a harder question than you think.
To clarify, TS and TS//SCI clearances do not end the day you leave office, and your NDA still continues to apply.

I have not read the law that discusses whether a person in this situation is eligible to be stripped of clearance.
Also note the original (pre-Mencken) version's reference to "merciless Indian Savages".
Why not? The mashed potatoes have settled into something that's shaped vaguely like a bookshelf and less likely to collapse into a pile of mush than most of the alternatives. If it's that or pile books on the floor...
You shouldn't be able to influence a lottery outcome. Presumably, you can influence share prices if you work for a company that you have an ownership claim on.
Use QT if you want stable API. GTK3 breaks compatibility even at minor releases.
For n <= 3 dimensions, you may have the beginnings of a great SoCG (pronounced "sausage") paper.

Generalizing to n >= 5 dimensions would expand on the well-known Sausage Conjecture.

[1] http://socg2016.cs.tufts.edu/

[2] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SausageConjecture.html
The rsync.net warrant canary has been issued monthly, with news headlines, for over ten years now.[1][2]

We split it for each location - SanDiego/Denver/Zurich/HongKong. Further, the individual location canaries can be retrieved from the actual storage array itself - that is, you can just fetch it via sftp/scp/rsync/whatever from (whatever system your account is on).

Finally, our canary is machine readable/parseable and nicely formatted. So much so that the maintainer of "Canary Watch" has told me that he wishes all warrant canaries followed our original format.

Oh By[3] will have a similar canary soon, modeled exactly after the rsync.net warrant canary.

[1] https://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

[2] http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2010/08/the-warrant-can...

[3] https://0x.co
I think with the claims you are making the onus is on you that one could get away with this.
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23% (~1 in 4) of SF's homeless became homeless elsewhere, were brought here by homeless non-profits, and subsequently ejected to the streets.

http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/2015%20San%20Franc...
Kenji is not only an excellent writer, but his recipes are terrific too (eating his pressure cooker mushroom risotto as I'm typing this).
Oh it has radically. The amount of work done, and the ages of those working, has change significantly since we moved from a pre-industrial agraian society to an informational one. Why, these days, it's not uncommon for someone not to be employed for the first /twenty years/ of their life!
Can someone explain how a canary is implemented in software exactly?
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central banks really don't care about anonymous bitcoin trading. the question is whether or not you can trade bitcoin for another major currency.

i mean, reagan outlawed unregulated private barter clubs in the 80's so the IRS and TREASURY CARES but the private central banks don't really care because they remain firmly in control. how so? consider what happens when a central bank prohibits money services to bitcoin.

Let's take the EU.
Once the eu closes the gates for the euro, it is because the euro is going to be debased rapidly, which means, this is a signal that people will sell euro for dollar, gold, swiss franc, krona, and possibly some of it going to bitcoin in a one time push out of euro.

however, rest assured, 'closing of the gates' is bad for bitcoin so long as bitcoin remains a speculative asset unlike gold or the dollar.

eventually the federal reserve will close dollar-bitcoin money service. and that is the REAL x factor.

the presumption that global coordinated debasement is good for bitcoin may be true, but only in an environment where one can readily convert bitoin and currencies legally back and forth or easily in large volume (miami cash or euro 500 notes).

once this window closes, BITCOIN BECOMES LIKE THE RUSSIAN RUBLE ; a very weak currency that no one wants to store value in because it is isolated and cannot easily be used to purchase assets around the globe.

that bitcoin is not subject to rapid debasement remains a HUGE bonus on its side for SURVIVAL AT A BASEMENT PRICE. it DOES NOT guarantee the price will go up indefinitely.

bitcoins single largest risk to price drop remains the ECB, BOE, and FED coordinating an end to bitcoin-(major currency) money service
And the vast majority of them is trivially defeated by a bug inline with your USB keyboard.
Thankfully I'm lazy enough not to buy bottled water. In my city the water is good, but tastes not so good (many many minerals. If i dry my black trousers the wrong way around I'll be left with lines of minerals on the outside (like dried sweat)). With tea the taste is very obvious.
Cleveland doesn't have much going for it, but our parks and trails are truly incredible. The Cleveland Metroparks are a definite source of pride for North East Ohio.
> I find this true today as well.

It has literally always been true, since the very beginning of the country.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think you almost definitely can't do that. The law is not an algorithm, at some point a human judge is going to decide if you've broken it. If the law says "you can't tell anyone" and you tell someone, you've broken the law. It doesn't matter if you told someone through the medium of a press release, or a predefined "unrelated (wink)" process.
> Unlike the lottery, knowledge and skill play a role here.

True, but that's not quite the analogy I was going for, the analogy was how survivorship bias is used in both cases for promoting the idea-- everyone picks the winners and remembers / tells / markets those while disregardign the losers. I do it too, it is just a natural human tendency.

In both cases, if every time someone heard about a successful startup they also heard about many failed ones, they might have a different perspective.
The law is quite complex. The specific things they were charging her for had a Mens Rea component, or in other words the intent to do wrong.

Other things that you can do are strict liability (or no Mens Rea component). The simplest example is speeding, which can be a criminal charge without a Mens Rea test.

Also note that many civil things don't require a Mens Rea test either, such as tax dodging.
I'm totally OK with that actually. Organic sponsorships have the very important quality of being vetted by the site in question, which greatly lowers the risk of malware being delivered in a way that the site owner can't claim responsibility over. I think tracking of these types of sponsorships would also be fairly trivial (server-side code to report back pageloads or even access to youtube's analytics for sponsored videos) and shouldn't need to involve third-party software running in the user's browser.

It's third-party javascript (and flash) that I mostly object to. If the site owners have to serve the script in question, they can inspect it for shady behavior, and make informed decisions. I believe the practice of tossing a third-party iframe in your template/css and calling it a day is the most dangerous trend on the web right now.
> The authors romanticizing such lifestyles are free to build a cabin in the woods.

I don't think the author is saying we should all become hunter gatherers. I think the author is using those hunter gather cultures as examples of one where a lack of constant work doesn't bring negative consequences.

You are nitpicking the author's (somewhat poorly made) argument, but not making a counter argument of your own.

As far as I can tell, the counter argument runs this way (please correct me if this is not the argument you are trying to make):

1) People need to work to feel purpose and be happy. 2) People will only work if it is necessary in order to feed, clothe and house themselves. 3) Therefor we must make access to food, clothing and housing contingent on work so that people will be happy.

I have several issues with this argument. The first is that 1) and 2) clearly do not apply to everybody, but to some unknown portion of the population. There is little evidence as to what those proportions are, which makes the argument difficult to evaluate effectively.

My second problem with this argument is that the underlying assumption that we should deny people the choice to be purposeless and unhappy. This seems like an very presumptuous and authoritarian premise. To allow people the freedom to pursue happiness necessitates allowing them the freedom to choose unhappiness.
The unique part of SF is our extreme inefficiency. We spend huge sums of money without much to show for it.

Homelessness is a crisis that is growing all over the US.

Homeless crisis in Hawaii sparks state of emergency
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/homeless-crisis-in-hawaii-spar...

L.A. County supervisors call for a state emergency declaration on homelessness
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-emergen...

Mayor, county exec declare ‘state of emergency’ over homelessness
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/mayor-coun...
Looks fine here. Are you running HTTPS everywhere?
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Great to see an alternative to old MonoTorrent! I'm curious why you didn't use async/await instead of the Begin/End/IAsyncResult pattern?
They talk as if the only concern of someone using a VPN is to pirate Netflix.
Working on it. You can check out our progress at http://worldtourfamily.com

I'm working on getting the rest of the photos and videos. I've basically been in land mode for the past month: visiting family we haven't seen in over a year, job hunting, boat maintenance. And we're trying to get settled but haven't gotten really comfortable at being landlubbers.
You are assuming the company sticks around you with that salary for 20 years, but that the options never become valuable.

It would take incredible foresight for a company to correctly manage to pull off such a feat.
Yes, many politicians in general like to waste government resources on all kinds of things(republicans, democrats, and third parties).

That doesn't have any relevancy to whether or not Cromey specifically is doing it to avoid waste.
Man, you're completely insane, and I'm going to answer you for the last time only to keep at least a minimum of coherence in this "discussion" if someone reads it in the future.

> First, let's stop with the name-calling. We can do better than that. I am not discussing with you to score internet points. I am actually trying to engage in a conversation to see if your arguments have any merit.

You were the one that jumped into the discussion name-calling, so I'll agree with you in letting it go.

> - I am asking for a argument for your claim.

Tencent (owner of Wechat) Employs more then 30,000 chineses² in high tech jobs. Facebook don't here 1/10 of it in any of the countries they operate besides US. This is one company, so you have indirectly another hundreds of thousands of jobs, in education, in infrastructure, in services to attend this well-paid people. This is my "one argument" for the claim. Please, if you're going to dismiss it, do it properly, with good argument and references.

> hird, I understand that you think that a closed, protectionist policy is better for the people than an open, global economy. But it seems to me that you are arguing in circles - "WeChat has more users in China, WeChat is controlled by the Government and closed, Government control makes it easier for "national companies", therefore "national companies" are better for the users"

I never made these claims and I can only repeat myself saying that you are retard.

> Fourth, you've said things here that are provably wrong - e.g, the thing about taxes being reduced during FHC. When you are getting such basic information wrong, couldn't you at the very least check your sources and re-evaluate some of your preconceptions? Could you be so kind and show just a little bit of humility and take a look at if you are engaging in an intellectually honest conversation?

Do you have real understandings of economics and politics? Or you are more or less aligned with the average?
Do you understand the implications of making 1 REAL worth 1 DOLLAR? And how FHC made it artificially, and just after que got reelected, he undervaluated our currency to 4/1², making all of our debts in dollar (most of it, of course haha) explode! Are you saying serious that you understand what happened that time?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent

2. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/01/business/international-bus...
I'll just leave this here. Eerily similar: https://www.fbi.gov/sacramento/press-releases/2015/folsom-na...
Tennessee Williams certainly agreed with buckbova:
“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland.”
It would be nice to see some stats from more vpn providers since Netflix started blocking efficiently.
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Also the spam filtering was years ahead of it's time
I don't think that can happen. I don't know, obviously, but despite our support for popular uprisings in other countries, I can't imagine the federal government not engaging in battle with the "traitors" knocking at their gates. I don't know what it looks like for the US military to engage its citizens en masse, but I'm guessing that happens before capitulation.

Other speculations?

Edit: I mean, the FBI, CIA, NSA, Secret Service are all built up around protecting the government from its people, right? The US government had been setting up a firewall between itself and its people for decades. (The NSA ostensibly not, but we know they were spying on Americans since at least 1945 [0]).

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/23...
This kind of article is exactly what I think of when I think of great HN articles that are not about hacking or startups. It's just plain interesting for people curious about the world, it doesn't have some kind of political point or message, and it doesn't generate lame discussion.
What kind of mysterious structure is this?
Nope. There's usually plenty of work to do; supporting IE4 (or FF 3, or whatever Webkit shipped on Android 1.6) just makes it longer and over the budget, while squeezing out other projects.

In a word: busywork.
Hey netgusto, great work! I'm building an awesome list for full-stack development and design. If I wanted these to be added to your list do I just make a pull request?

[0] https://github.com/kevindeasis/awesome-fullstack

[1] https://github.com/kevindeasis/awesome-ui
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