skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amusing bit is that you can't tell the difference between someone who believes strongly that everyone (police and citizens) should follow the law, and the soverign citizen adherents, who believe [1]:

"that they are answerable only to their particular interpretation of the common law and are not subject to any statutes or proceedings at the federal, state, or municipal levels"

The soverign citizens live in a delusional world that wants to pretend that our judicial system has no say over them. Their beliefs and actions range from the mildly worrisome to outright domestic terrorism.

I live in a world in which I believe that understanding one's rights, responsibilities, and limits within our judicial system is important. And also that understanding why we have those laws is useful - a lesson you seem intent to ignore.

There are historical reasons for the powers granted to the police, and the limitations placed on those powers, primarily with an eye towards balancing the need to protect the populace as a whole while preventing specific abuses of power.

Here's one example: https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-files-suit-stop-racial-profil...

(Note: The ACLU won, and the police were fined $2,000 for engaging in illegal racial profiling.)

It's hard to appreciate that case without the context, which is that this behavior was happening _constantly_ in this area of Utah, and in several other areas of the country:

https://www.utahbar.org/utah-bar-journal/article/a-problem-o...

If you can't understand that both citizens, politicians, the military, and police need to operate within a well-defined legal framework, I worry for you. When the Czech Police conspired to expel Romani from housing in Bohumin in 2005, including _cutting off their hot water supply in winter_, the same laws that limit the actions the police can take were the the same laws that eventually led to a remedy of the situation and a fine against the town. The same kinds of restrictive laws, in this case against using the military to spy on civilians, led to the resignation of Petr Necas. Or perhaps you're in the camp that believes "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"? [2] After all, Necas' ex-wife had committed the horrible crime of not wanting to be married to him, so clearly deserved surveillance. Lest you think I'm picking on the Czech Republic, do recall that the Watergate scandal took down Nixon in the US, for similar abuses of official power.

We grant power to the police because people are imperfect, and sometimes break the law in ways that endanger or harm others. We place limitations on the power of the police because police are human too.

fin.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement
[2] http://jacquesmattheij.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide
Text is, kind of, the only truly portable, multi-platform control/interface/thingy/
The thing is, and I probably should have pointed it out in the first comment, sorry about that: I can't find such a book by Cris Date. My guess is you meant "Introduction to Database Systems".
If they actually manage to combine Nigeria/Ghana and Kenya into one site I'm going to be really impressed.

Primarily, because I know from personal experience that a lot of people on the east side of Africa, do not actually care about random news on the west side of Africa (reasonable considering the two sides are approximately 3000 miles away from each other and have utterly dissimilar histories).
I also created a Chrome Extension that searches for the best discounted electronic gift card on Raise.com to help people save money.

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1) farmers everywhere are allowed to use last line/new antibiotics routinely in food production. This is utterly fucking stupid.

Basically, it's exactly the worst thing you can possibly do, with regards to what the theory of evolution by natural selection tells us. Then add in what we know about bacteria exchanging genetic material, and it's like we're trying to inactivate all of our antibiotics on purpose.
I found it interesting to have a discussion about the meaning of life that mentions children and mentions marital affairs and concludes with the hope of science, and still never quite touches on our biological foundation. Shouldn't that be the jumping off point? All life is built to be physically and biologically dedicated to reproduction and the furthering of more life.

"children create meaning for their parents because (in most cases) they outlive their parents and become part of their legacy."

While true for (perhaps) most people, to me that seems to miss the mark a little, it feels slightly awkward to me. Children also create meaning for their parents because their parents satisfy their inherent biological mission to futher the species. Science has proven (as if we needed proof) that we have built in mechanisms that seek out and reward us for mating. It's the same reason affairs happen (another arrow, thus more meaning!): the biological mating mechanisms are strong enough to override our better judgements, we're driven to mate even if it has big risks.
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Achieving Continuous Delivery of Microservices
Resident of NJ here, it's been like this as long as I'm alive(34 years). Now, how much it's enforced, on the other hand...
Oh, so people who pick apart your flawed plans should just shut the fuck up and let you agitate for a global revolution? Because that's what you are doing. You did not argue for better education. You argued for a change in the financial system. One that requires a massive change in people's reasoning abilities in order to work out as advertised.

"Oh hey guys, let's do this very cool thing where we will all live way better. just don't read the fine print which says that everybody needs to be very smart and educated in order for all of this to work." And when they follow you and your idea touches reality and your plan shatters? What then? Because we have it very good now and you want to improve it a bit, but if (when) you fail we will have it A LOT worse. Risk vs. reward is not there at all.

If you want to improve things, go for it. But you are proposing to cure a common cold with a surgery.
Starting a lending business? Tips for designing your collection strategy
This was another reason I went the x86->6502 route instead of just a 6502 backend for llvm - it could plausibly work with any code. Let me know what you find.
Complete Unicode Test Documents
You can code yourself into a corner no matter what language you use. I've not seen much of this beautiful many-seamed code that could suddenly accommodate unanticipated feature requirements without rearchitecture, but I have enjoyed a certain amount of seamful boilerplate requiring much burnishment as changes are made. I don't think I'm anywhere near as experienced as the author but I still think this article is setting up strawmen and knocking them down.
Is there some way to find "of the shelf" enclosures online?
The Kifi Team Is Joining Google
I think Odin was Windows only, there were multiple old versions floating around and how do you know what you're really running? (as Administrator, too)
How about something that prevents purchasing, or forces a 1-day wait. The best way to same money is not to spend it, and most of us don't need half the stuff we buy....
Inital thought:
Wow that company is so great... that they did the right thing...

...Wait a second do i think a company is great just cause they do things the way they should do them.
I agree. If you care at all about a person at a minimum at least call them. Breaking up by Text is pretty low.
http://articles.courant.com/2011-01-11/health/hc-weir-antibi...

Too long. You can get significant mileage out of a 3 year ban but resistance will return very quickly afterwards. You'd need to wait decades to truly reset the clock.

> After three years of banning the use of that antibiotic, the resistance of the bacteria dropped significantly. But because there were resisitant strains that persisted right through the end of the study in 2008, it was likely that the resistance would surge once again if the antibiotic were reintroduced. To safely reintroduce the antibiotic, Townsend said, you have to kill off all the pathogens.

> Considering how important antibiotics have become to human health — from the treatment of strep throat to MRSA to tuberculosis — Townsend says a 45-year ban on most antibiotics would be impractical. Doctors estimate it takes about that long for the resistance to disappear.
Thanks for your great answer!
Hardware infra as easy to upgrade as software
Show me a free alternative to some product show-cased on HN.
Blogspam. This appears to be the original source: https://torrentfreak.com/sony-tries-censor-wikileaks-160709
Don't think it's going to be of much interest to HN readers:

>Yet, a powerful objection has been raised by John Searle, who argues that computational features are observer-relative, rather than intrinsic to natural processes. If Searle is right, then computation is not a natural kind, but rather a kind of human artifact, and is therefore unavailable for purposes of scientific explanation.

>In this paper, I argue that Searle’s objection has not been, and cannot be, successfully rebutted by his naturalist critics.

Computation inaccessible to science? Searle being correct about computation? Waterfalls play chess, as viewed by the right observers?
You mean Honey?

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I agree that his breakdown into A/B/C is instructive. From the outside, one sometimes fails to appreciate that the "B" role (basically, building a robot that will encounter novel problems) is really critical.

This "shower thought" within the report also caught my eye:

Incidentally, it has sometimes been argued that part of the stimulus to laborious male activity in creative fields of work, including pure science, is the urge to compensate for lack of the female capability of giving birth to children. If this were true, then Building Robots might indeed be seen as the ideal compensation. There is one piece of evidence supporting that highly uncertain hypothesis: most robots are designed from the outset to operate in a world as like as possible to the conventional child's world as seen by a man: they play games, they do puzzles, they build towers of bricks, they recognise pictures in drawing books (bear on rug with ball) -- although the rich emotional character of the child's world is totally absent.

It's somewhere in the Venn diagram between deeply perceptive and reductively essentialist, and I can't decide where.
I thought this case was solved in Prison Break...
I think this will happen to some extent, even if just as a result of uncertainty that prevails when nobody knows what the formal situation will be. There is a range of European sentiment, but for sure a lot of disappointment.

All countries in the EU have a keen idea of their self interest at all times, and the UK is no exception. The national interest here has always been wholehearted participation in the single market deepening and expansion and little interest at all in the larger political project, which did not exist when the UK joined the EEC. "Special deals" do not fairly characterise the relationship.

I don't think that EU leaders have an urge to make the UK suffer that is dominant over the desire to have good neighbours and a healthy, stable future. We have all done well out of the relationship and we want to prosper together in the future. Europe needs wholehearted cooperation on the issues that unite us, and that needs good faith and an appreciation of what we still have.
I guess it's parking space that's the reason for why SV office spaces don't go very high vertically?
They're not exactly wrong, it's just that they're subject to those rules and ALSO subject to city-level zoning regulations.
That attack described in the video isn't something the phone is producing and picking up (most phones already ignore what they playback), but rather a sound played by a laptop picked up by the phone.

And further, the attack described is a sentence that doesn't sound to a human like "Ok Google" or "Hey Siri", or whatever
"She said staff time and manpower devoted to the case is diverting from programs that more urgently need attention, so the FBI decided to close its active investigation."

I'm surprised they don't have an (even unannounced) THX-1138 style limit on how much effort they spend on a single suspect. My wife had her purse stolen and about $10,000 extracted from various accounts a few years back, and the amount of effort they spent on the case is far less than a 20th of this one.
Newsradio had an answer to this mystery far before these other shows: http://kentuckysportsradio.com/pop-culture/the-legend-of-d-b...
A lot of that is due to their circumstances and the US embargo. I don't quite see what you are saying here – we may disagree with his policies and ideology, but he seems very candid and truthful here, admitting many faults of his country's system. This is something a "Western" politician would rarely – if ever – do these days.

You also need to be mindful of the situation in Cuba before the revolution, where the people felt that their country was becoming a satellite of the US, and losing control over its own destiny.
The good parts and the bad parts are related. The ACA effectively forces rates to go up for people who can afford it to increase or extend benefits to people who can.
>> They would likely move more employees to other offices, as they faced more competitive market forces.

Which usually means "outsourcing".

Cargill is famous for doing this. They recently "opened" an office in Bangalore and then said they were moving all their US teams to their "new office" in Bangalore. Is it outsourcing? Technically no. They get away with it because the people in their "new office" are Cargill employees.
I read this recently via HN. Congrats, this is impressive.
Firefox builds are also reproducible, so does this mean that stable Rust will generally be reproducible as well?
Thanks, we've updated the submission title.
And just like that, Tommy Wiseau can breathe a sigh of relief[0].

[0] https://xkcd.com/1400/
That made my day.
For the ones who's unfamiliar with this case, there is a very detailed wikipedia page with close to 200 references for this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
I don't get enough people asking for discounts to matter, but I usually give a discount to anyone who asks.

I do this a bit as a pay-it-forward thing. When I was in college, Github was offering their lowest plan (which included a few private repos) for free for educational use, if you emailed them. Well, I reached out to them, they gave me the free account without any verification. I had the account well past my time in school, though I lost it sometime in the last few years.

I'm happy to pay the same sort of thing forward to anyone who asks.
'Hella noms', swag and secrecy: inside the world's largest tech intern gathering
I wasn't completely clear, but: yes, obviously the preferences of the public were a big deal, as was the over-ambition of central planning without the technological or theoretical ability to do it well.

But you can look at that as part of the same system, getting the people on your side, both with actual benefits and imagined ones was a large part of the superiority of the western system.
Somebody had to try it...

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=1970-01-01

We don't have this data before 2014-11-11.

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=3000-01-01

Not there yet.

Nice touches :)
Hi HN, this is Jakub, founder of Estimote, Inc. (YC S13).

We just innovated with a new technique in which the next-gen device (in our case bluetooth beacon) is placed next to the old one to be auto-configured with the same settings. Thanks to that procedure all the existing apps and services will continue to work seamlessly.

With that approach it is easy to keep upgrading wireless infrastructures with the latest hardware in the quickly changing IoT environment.

This proximity-based concept can be easily applied to other devices installed in the physical world such us wireless routers, TV displays, POS terminals, etc.

Let us know what you think?
Markdown has nothing to do with typography. What the output looks like is, deliberately, a completely separate concern.

In the case of using markdown for generating web based presentations, your CSS would be responsible for the styling - just like any other web page.

Markdown is just the semantics and content.
Kifi joins Google
Set up a policy and not a case by case evaluation as giaour pointed out.

Personally, differentiate between charity and non-profit. All charities are nonprofits but not all nonprofits are charities. I'd give a significant discount to charities upon proof of status, say 50% off, but not necessarily for non-profits. Think of it this way, your Home/Condo Owners Association is likely a non-profit, so are a number of exclusive country clubs etc, but they are not charities and shouldn't be seen as equal.

Also, having been an exec at a Charity, make sure you also talk to your own accountant as if you follow a set policy like this, and validate proof of status (annually) I believe you are entitled to some tax benefits as well.
Any idea why PS modchips used to kill the drive laser pretty quickly?
Most DB Cooper references I've read consider him to be some cross between a folk-hero and lovable-rogue due to the audacity of his crime, lack of harm to civilians, and the idea that he might have actually gotten away with it.

But fascinating to read the Wikipedia entry and realize that DB Cooper, and the no less than 15 copycat "parachute hijackings" he inspired in the same year, created a watershed moment in Airport Security that accelerated our steady march to today's over bearing TSA:

"In all, 15 hijackings similar to Cooper's—all unsuccessful—were attempted in 1972.[130] With the advent of universal luggage searches in 1973 (see Airport security) the general incidence of hijackings dropped precipitously.[131]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
Fibernet
> We convinced millions of people they'll feel better if they don't eat gluten. An entire cottage industry created. All without force. All without the influence of politics and fallible men.

How do you make the logical leap from "a big diet fad happened" to "the FDA is redundant and evil?"
Organize your app with service objects – Chris Holtz
>Although the Kifi service and data will not become part of Google, you’ll be able to use Kifi for the next few weeks, after which you’ll still be able to easily export your data for a few weeks.

Seems that their incredible journey is complete.
Thanks for a fascinating and very informative reply. Answers so many questions.
use higher (river dam / tunnel) grade concrete right from the bedrock.
You're right, the other comments aren't incorrect (I wrote that word earlier), it's just in this spot there's federal restrictions on building height that prevent certain developments.

I edited my comment to remove that part.
I run a small dev company. This is the first lessons we teach our programmers. If your code cant be understood by someone else with minimal efforts it is not good enough.
Looks good on the City of Mountain View. All those years of fighting against Google's expansion, awarding building rights to LinkedIn instead of Google and decrying how the city was becoming a "one company town". Looks like that's what they're getting anyway, only now Google gets the sweetheart (relatively speaking) deal that LinkedIn had, while the city loses the benefits of the more progressive Google plan that they rejected. At least they saved a few burrowing owls, though - worth it?
Ad Block Plus, no ads, no desire to purchase the products I didn't see.

Seriously, not buying stuff / eating out is the best way for me to save money, especially if I spent the time that I would have been shopping / going out, working.

Something that might be an idea is linking to a savings account and adding a button beside the purchase link on amazon, etc, like "Save money instead, if you saved $56.32, you'd have $2345.54 in total savings" it would be epic if it went into a GIC or something not very liquid.
> you can build parking deep under ground. Heck, giving the tendency for the quality of offices, you can build underground office floors too :)

Next to the bay? That would be...either disastrous or ludicrously expensive.
Uber’s Manhattan commute card signifies the company’s move from taxis
Subway Deserts v2
The key difference though is the decentralization part. The backend cluster can have downtime or be shutdown, with Ethereum it wouldn't have downtime ever and can't be shutdown either.

It is 'pay-to-play', but the cost is often minimal (half a cent per transaction), nothing is really free either, when one uses something like facebook one is paying indirectly one way or another (though personal information, seeing ads, etc..)
I did some work for this startup - crazy smart team and solving hard FinTech problems. Definitely a company to look out for in the near future.
What does it mean by a language can be multiplexed trivially?
I cannot see the aggregator going on too long with this. The retailers will run the reports and see what's going on and put pressure on the network. Last second couponers do not add any value to a retailer and they are fighting those type of affiliates.
Announcing Andl – A New Data Language
What about when x is 15?
They did that? That doesn't sound like a mistake, that sounds like a CFAA felony.
I just record all my discretionary purchases in a spreadsheet and recoil in horror at the end of the month.

My monthly spend has been steadily dropping since I started doing this about six months ago.

EDIT: I seem to have misunderstood the topic of this thread, but, as another commenter puts it, the best way to save money is to not spend money in the first place.
I wonder how many applications do the same thing and haven't been called out on it.
India and Bangladesh had crazy multi-level enclaves[0]. They fixed it by exchanging the territories in 2015.

[0] http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/india-and-bangladesh-...
Statistics for Hackers – PyCon 2016
Create a chrome extension that somehow keeps people working as if you're busy making money, you're generally not spending it.

Something that disables access to HN would probably be enough.
I was born in Cuba and just returned from the island 3 days ago. I'm pretty mindful of the situation there. There is no one to blame for the dire situation in Cuba other than the regime and it's leaders.