skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During a period of unaccountable killing, I wonder if any leader can resist a list of political enemies. If the list of corruption goes up to the police, legislature, and the judiciary, does that mean that only the appropriate public figures will be killed? Will only corrupt senate members be shot?
> > Think of African or American colonisation for example. Local opposition had to be removed.

>Right, let's just say that that is probably not the strongest argument you could have made.

Are many of those countries being run better now?

One of my older servants here in Guatemala used to speak fondly of the "genocidal" general Rios Montt. During his time, she said, things were so safe. If someone robbed you, say, grabbed a purse, he'd be shot on the spot! Even now, I hear people express desire for summary execution. They're just so sick of the shittiness of these countries that due process doesn't get consideration.

I don't think many of these countries are very capable of attacking the root problems (which seems to mostly be just sheer incompetence at every conceivable level). At least not on any useful timeframes. It's almost certainly a better deal for them to become protectorates/colonies of properly run countries. Maybe on a 50-year term.
> DRM usage has nothing to do with (honest) business cases. They are all crooked or Lysenkoist in nature (i.e. based on completely wrong / ignorant reasoning).

Can you explain this? The argument and terminology are unfamiliar to me. Wikipedia says:

> Lysenkoism is also used metaphorically to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives.

The goal of DRM is, ostensibly, to be paid for the hard work of creating something that is easy to duplicate after being created. That's a reasonable goal, but really hard to do when the software is executing on a machine in the control of the user. Requiring a remote server is a logical way to accomplish that goal, with unfortunate side effects when that server is inaccessible.

What part of this logic is crooked or Lysenkoism?
Thanks - when I posted, all I had was the email (noted in another comment).
It still wouldn't have been worth reading though. If an article uses a click-baity question, but acknowledges that its premise is a dumb one that people have used for years, that doesn't forgive it and suddenly make it a worthwhile article.

(Yes, I did read it, and wish I had closed it sooner.)
I've gotten used to seeing walls of warnings/messages when compiling things from source.

It's almost a case of boy-who-cried-wolf at this point. You get lots of warnings, but it works!

And they're not always due to the programmer being negligent. I've had many cases where something compiles cleanly on one box, but throws warnings on another because of a slightly different version of a compiler or library.

When I compile something and it runs through the entire process with not a single warning, it's truly a "...whoa" moment.
Yes. Mostly because you are not infringing on the rights of person Number 1. But you cannot use it convict Number 2 (pun not quite intended) for the crime N1 was convicted of.
This would be very reasonable if the feature was not experimental. You specifically turn on experimental feature and then purposefully ignore instructions on using that experimental feature. This is obviously manufacturer's fault.
This isn't really a topic we should need to guess about - there are a few countries where child porn is/has been legal. I think Japan in particular only outlawed it recently.
Why is staying single cheaper? My girlfriend and I save a lot of money by being able to share an apartment and splitting the rent, internet connection etc. Living alone would be much more expensive for each of us.
Initial comments on this article indicate it elicited a persecuted response: Commenters are defending their use of headphones. This was perhaps due to the tone of the article (phrases like "catastrophic social decline" don't help...) and/or the tone of media in general which treats every topic as life and death.

The existence of all the headphones though raises more interesting questions that are fun and interesting to think about in a sci-fi way than "is it acceptable for you to react in this way?"

There are hints of it in the article, but they don't come through well. The key questions are mostly of curiosity. First, there is simply "what are people listening to?" Is it always music, what kinds of podcasts, meditations, lectures, spy recordings?

I am particularly interested in shared experiences via headphones. It is okay in my book to not want to hear unwanted machine and person noise. Now what are the creative possibilities for making, e.g. mini groups of shared listening? In a sense, we are all sharing the same podcast, albeit time-shifted. What about group music-composing on subway trains? What about several people on the same bus or walking path to listening to the same thing together at the same time? What about historical tours, etc. This could be fun. And having all these headphones around might actually help it happen.
Now on Starbucks' menu: Less health coverage
Why the downvote? I'm calling it a democracy, which is a very generous assessment for a place where the president directs the population to kill without due process.
In this case it is a city match:
http://geocode.xyz/Aveyn,%20G%C3%B6teborg?geoit=xml
<geodata>
<latt>57.67100</latt>
<longt>11.97980</longt>
<standard>
<addresst/>
<prov>SE</prov>
<city>GöTeborg</city>
<postal/>
<confidence>0.70</confidence>
</standard>
</geodata>

The geoparser also looks for city names, and by checking the response you can see that only the city name was matched.

Having said that, it is also true that we have less data coverage for Sweden (compared to some other countries that provide open address data). Our responses will be about as good as the data we have, and openstreetmap does not have 100% coverage in Sweden either.
Defense is not working for the government and can use any evidence illegal or not.
Promises are great for prototyping, but have significant overhead (http://thanpol.as/javascript/promises-a-performance-hits-you...) for some high performance APIs it may be advisable to use async.

Async also supports nodejs callback patterns which can reduce the need for wrappers (promisify)
What Jesus said was that he came not to abolish the old laws but to fulfill them.

Another thing Jesus said about the Old Testament law was that it was a lowered standard. "You have heard it said" not to murder, but Jesus said being angry (unjustly) is committing murder in your heart. In the same way, lust is like adultery.

And again, in conversation about divorce, the religious leaders of his day told Jesus that Moses allowed them to divorce, but Jesus said "Moses gave you this law because your hearts were hard".

So it's clear that in Jesus' eyes, the OT law was not the ultimate moral standard, which he said was summarized in "love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength" and "love your neighbor as yourself". If we truly did those things, of course we'd not murder, etc.

It's a bit like rules for children. I tell my toddler not to pull his sister's leg, but I want him to someday mature to the point where he doesn't need that rule, because he loves her and wants what's best for her.

The OT law, with its low standards, was still too hard for humans to keep, pointing to the need for Jesus to fulfill it for us - and He fulfilled not just the low-standard law, but the true one.
> The Data Controller reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page. It is strongly recommended to check this page often.

I laugh.
Is it just me finding it very strange how such child predators have "diligently kept a ledger" of their acts, with names?

I am obviously not a criminal psychiatrist but this seems all too convenient and the paranoia in me screams that such evidence might be planted. Then again, maybe these monsters need to periodically validate themselves by looking through that "ledger"...
My method which is my least favourite but most successful was to marry a quite frugal woman. I was never the type who had any money left at the end of the month but have just put a 55k€ deposit down on a new house and have money left to furnish it (about 2 yrs of saving). I also have a young child, live in a nice area with high rent, have a car and have many hobbies which I enjoy regularly. The main savings have come from cutting back on expensive impulse purchases, the second would be cutting down to one coffee a day and bringing my own lunch to work. Next on my list is to quit smoking which should also greatly increase my savings ability.
Even if you got commission ?
Scientists unearthed a trove of 700-year-old stone tools – used by monkeys
Could you make a python rumpkernel with this?
"The disarray was typical of a predator’s home."

Is this true? Do sexual predators tend to live in wildly unkempt and unwashed homes?
Sure, that's a good analogy. Human rights are a currency printed by the West. They have a lot of weight because of the political and economic weight of the west. But they're still fundamentally Western, and not everyone accepts that currency.
It seems to be the same $500 setup fee, but $120/month + $9/per account... so $120 + $N more per month.
>For six months, the police provided strong incentive to actively commit new child abuse

Do you really think that? It seems to me, the incentive was to document child abuse. I don't think abusers would stop abusing just because nobody is asking them pics. In any case, that issue should be investigated.
Would you be willing to invest time/money into a platform you knew would likely shut down in a month or so? I like the idea of a "last chance", but I definitely would be much less likely to use a platform on its last breath. The functionality would have to be really compelling.
Good idea, Not working though :(
My opinion is that it should not be illegal to posses any information. It should not be illegal to have a book, drawing or an image of anything. In some countries it's illegal to have drawings of such pornography - and while I agree that individuals who enjoy it should probably seek treatment, I find the fact that you can go to prison for possession of a drawing to be absolutely insane.
Taxis where I live aren't as good as yours are. That's why Uber is nice — it brings taxi service in my unassuming suburb to the quality you take for granted.
There is some basic info on the vehicle and its payload at [1]. "The spacecraft will also carry a color camera, called JunoCam, to provide the public with the first detailed glimpse of Jupiter's poles." - so like you say, not a priority. More on JunoCam at [2].

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/spacecraft/index.htm...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JunoCam
There really isn't any crisis in data storage and analysis of sequencing data. The data isn't really that large (sum total of all sequencer data is in the exabytes (per year), but most of that data isn't retained, nor does it need to be retained after processing).

I founded the Google Cloud Genomics project and at the time, people were citing some very scary stats about the growth of sequencing data. After doing some analysis most people were concerned about retaining the original raw data files from the sequencer, usually saying that they wanted to go back and reanalyze the data when the algorithms got better. But nobody wanted to pay the (commodity) storage costs to keep all that data around.

Well, the first thing to be realized is that the quality scores (which represent about 75% of the sequencer data post-compression) were overly precise. Simple quantization techniques drop the value space of quality scores tremendously with no relevant effect on the resulting variant calls.

The second thing to be realized is that keeping tons of old BAM files or FASTQ files around is typically wasteful. Few people go back and reanalyze, and even if they do, they get only marginally better results; in those cases, it's better to not spend the money to bank exabytes of raw data.

Next, once people get away from thinking they need to store exabytes of raw reads, suddenly the costs shift from "$X/year to store a bunch of archival data and a smaller amount on the data analysis" to "nearly all the money is spent on analyzing a relatively small (tens of petabytes) data set". And that shifts things from storage to CPUs. I can assure you, Moore's law is still quite ahead of sequencing data analysis- the sum of all genomic data processing is just a tiny fraction of what it takes to run a medium-sized Google service. Most processing algorithms are fairly naive and unoptimized, but when I built processing algorithms that ran using Google's BigQuery, I got results in minutes.

As to your second point, I honestly don't know what the outcome of large-scale sequencing and disease correlation analysis will be. it seems like, as was suggested quite some time ago, sequence data is very limited in its ability to produce actionable medical data for human populations, and will continue to be an ancillary tool, rather than a silver bullet, for the foreseeable future.
i3wm all the way
In the UK Uber has to compete under the same regulatory framework as all other pre-booked cars for hire. Their prices are perhaps marginally lower than the existing car services (of which there are many), and their convenience (when they're actually available) is considerably higher.

So, at least here, it's pretty obvious to me that they do have a viable business model. There's thousands of hire-car drivers and mini-cab companies already making profit in the space. All Uber is doing is making the process of getting a hire car to pick you up significantly more convenient.
Remote Work is the Future
UK leading participation in Horizon 2020 FET projects
With Tesla in the picture, there is a lot of pressure on the BMW, Volkswagen etc to invest in the EV technology. So they would be chuckling now because with Tesla getting out of the competition (or with Tesla becoming weaker), they would have an easier task pushing their dirty-gas-guzzlers and of getting loads of easy profits.

With Tesla out, they can even squash the entire electric car efforts altogether and will plunder the money thus "saved" in the form of fat bonuses to the higher-ups (ala Volkswagen style), which they would have to invest in EV research otherwise.

I may seem exaggerating, but with the recent Volkswagen pollution scandal, many will agree with this. Tesla is better, Elon Musk is better in terms of innovation and their direction seems more promising for the public good. They are disrupting the fossil fuel giants who are hellbent in garnering as much money as they can at whatever costs.

I know I may (turn out to) be a foolish naive believing too much in Tesla and Musk, but I find myself helpless here.
Unlocks binaries in use at bin/ folder at build time
Huh, I loaded all the way back to Pycon 2015 videos CTRL+F "Josh" or "Triplett" didn't find anything on my laptop. Strange

Anyway, thanks for the links!
Not sure if it is related (could be a Cinnamon problem) but when I run the Cinnamon desktop environment in a VirtualBox VM it says it is using software rendering.
OK, Google: 160 valuable voice commands for Android
>none of the bills given to him as ransom have ever been found in circulation, anywhere.

It seems unlikely that in 1972, or even today, you could inspect anything but a minute portion of the cash in circulation.

He definitely could have spent it without it being detected, especially overseas.
"VMM: many more fixes", "GUI: various bugfixes and internal cleanup", "Audio: various bugfixes and infrastructure improvements" - who know what that means. If nobody disclosed it externally as a vulnerability, they could just call things "bugfixes".

But it's not like they don't get any security issues at all: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=virtualbox
Don't forget, doesn't service large swaths of the city either by population or location.
Something tells me this guy will do the same.
I think it also needs AP confidence indicator, so the driver could get ready to pick up the wheel.
It is possible that like Foxconn, they are depending more on robots for their manufacturing. Perhaps they're preparing themselves to be bought out.
if you need a hacker for hire contact cryptlyonhackers@gmail.com
Google's new report on piracy: YouTube is a boon to the music industry
Would you mind giving me your name and address? I want to report you for spreading the mental image of a police officer with a slit throat.

You are reproducing a forbidden idea. It is no different to posting links to child pornography and support for terrorism.

At this time we all need to pull together and back the blue.
Yes. There are many UIs for git [1] of which in my opinion Tower ist by far the best.

If you prefer git on the command line then it's maybe not for you. But I personally prefer a good GUI over a CLI.

"subset" sounds like there would be features missing in the GUI that you can only access on the command line. Maybe that's true in a strict sense but I did not need to use the CLI in years since using Tower.

[1]: https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis
Active.com false claims
Fast Transaction Log: Windows
People supporting Trump (right wing), people supporting Bernie Sanders (left wing) and BLM (both) don't agree with this. But yeah, you have a great piece of America's population that got a lot from this world-wide regime.
that is one hell of a jump in pricing. free to 239 euro p/month
I'd get rid of it. Why would you add more confusion to your product? It's hard enough to grasp as a novel concept without adding misdirection.
Visualizing Hash Functions (2013)
Least interesting thing I have read this year. I'm starting to think that use of the word 'performative' is a dead giveaway for pointless navel-gazing.
A beard, large sunglasses, and a hoodie can obscure all but your nose. Do you really believe a burka is that much different where one should be legal and one should not?
DigitalOcean launches SSD Based Block Storage
An apple bred to stay crisp for a long time on the shelf and give a nice crunch when you eat it might not make the best applesauce.
Greenland lost 270B tonnes of ice per year, between 2011 and 2014
Beanstalk is a simple, fast work queue
The big problem was that they're profitable at the hundreds-of-millions-per-quarter level but have been trying to spend into the billion+ range.

They uses to have tons of ideas and innovation until they locked the API in preparation for the IPO, but the ways they expected that to generate revenue obviously haven't happened at the scale they hoped for.

Their quarterly reports consistently show that the losses are caused by stock-based compensation and simply having staffed for a much larger business.
The police can already ask any individual to produce their identification. What they are wearing doesn't matter. If the person is wearing a niqab, a female officer can privately verify her face matches her ID photograph.

It seems to me that the demand for 'public recognizability' is really a demand for effective mass surveillance. It's not about being able to verify identity, it's about being able to monitor and track large numbers of people via camera and facial recognition.

It makes sense that the police would want this, as they want their jobs to be easier. But the police should not get to dictate the law.
Gluon: A static, type inferred and embeddable language written in Rust
Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music
> VMware seems to have mostly abandoned Workstation.

There were just updates for Workstation[1] and Player[2] less than two months ago.

> The team was fired.

The team was replaced, and not simply to do only maintenance patches: "They’ve got a great surprise lined up for Q3, something very interesting for Q4, and something very big for H1."[3]

[N.B. I work for VMware, though not in End User Computing]

[1] http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/workstation/11/works...

[2] http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/player/7/player-714-...

[3] http://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2016/07/meet-the-team.ht...
FWIW, as far as I know it hasn't infected 3rd party clients, or at least Tweetbot is still unaffected.
Betteridge wins again.
I'll be honest I didn't think that one through. I guess I just figured they wouldn't mention "this is a last ditch effort before we close down" without thinking of how dishonest it'd be to do so.
It is quite obvious that its a joke, with the fork bomb and the response...
US Holocaust museum urges Pokemon Go players to stay away
That's very odd. I'm quite new to VS Code, so this could be confusion on my part. I am running on the latest TS (typescript@beta and typescript@next before that), so perhaps that's why I see the version number.
I think corobo was saying that if they posted a Show HN (without mentioning shutting down), maybe they wouldn't need to shut down.
> and Vulkan, the new replacement for OpenGL, defines a vendor-independent bytecode format for representing GPU programs.

Vulcan's SPIR-V, however, is more like a compiler's intermediate format than an ISA to be interpreted by either a program or hardware. It's probably more similar to AS/400's TIMI encoding in how it's supposed to work.

(Also, the mention of SWEET16 and the way of making parts of low-level programs more palatable reminded of the invention of Forth in late 1950s/early 1960s as well.)
I like it... that and the 404 error:

[root]$ ls moo

ls: moo: No such file or directory
The other one I like is, "You can always make money back, but time you can never get back." My dad said that, and he was poor for a period of time in his youth. He later was an entrepreneur (but not of the tech kind, and not of the rich kind, more the independent kind that had $0 and no job, and later a staff of around 20, in the span of a few years).

I cannot relate to the extreme savings world that isn't necessary. For example, I had a friend who made much more than me but quite enjoyed the 'optimization' or 'life hacks' mentality including reducing his electrical expenses throughout his house, living in a studio, being vegan and finding tricks to spending no money on stuff. He had a system where the farm would deliver (in NYC) organic produce based on what was available seasonally, for a subscription fee, making his food experience cheap. He would sign up to those free loans the banks would give, the ones where they'd send a check and you had no interest for 8 months, and he'd put it in a CD for exactly 8 months to pocket the interest and pay it back. etc. And he made a lot more money than me (and still does).

I can't live like that. On the other hand, I'm not the impulsive/blind spender that needs a wife/husband/'life hacks'/software to keep his spending under control. I'm also a privileged tech worker with a comfortable (but not braggable) income.
I understand the importance of this mission, but after the Curiosity skycrane, the Pluto flyby and the Rosetta orbiter, I'm really jonesing for something cool.

What else is in the pipeline?
Wait, did you build your garage for the car? What were you doing before self-parking cars?
In 5-10 years i see self-driving on freeways and maybe other main roads that have standard junctions, markings and signs. Maybe with lanes only for self-driving.

A self driving vehicle would do the long-haul and a human would do the tricky city/country lane leg of the journey.

Automating the whole journey is a long way off as you say.
That's a forkbomb, if memory serves? haha
But a headline can be correct or incorrect. That they changed the headline shows a lot of users thought it was incorrect.