skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Excluding evidence is the method we have of enforcing the ban on illegal collection. ... so instead we have to ignore what they find when they overreach.

There should rightfully be public outcry when this does happen as well, because essentially the police bungled the investigation and let a (likely) guilty person get away with the crime. OJ Simpson is a well-known example of this (brought up elsewhere in thread).
Honda Has Developed a Hybrid Battery Without Chinese Rare Earths
No SHIT! I just figured they were reaaally cool and I was super out of touch with kids these days.
Yeah, the new font is HORRIBLE!! I have to move back from the screen about 12 inches to read it without my eyes hurting.

Way too wide!
Either I am reading this wrong or something is not right here.

Buffered:

windows = 0.006
linux = 0.03

80% Win for windows?

But where do those numbers come from?

The time in ms for linux was 522, the time for windows was 410. That's not an 80% win.

where does the "Write cost" number come from?

In general for the other numbers I don't think they are comparing the same things. I don't think it is a coincidence that the two systems had write times of both about 10s and 20s for the different tests. Where linux took 20s and windows took 10s I'd bet that they were comparing different behaviors.
Reminder that you have to act on abuse notifications sharpish. You're providing a service, it's on you if you ignore abuse notifies.

"We received notice on behalf of a trademark holder that a customer of DigitalOcean was hosting infringing content on our network. DigitalOcean immediately notified our customer of the infringement, and the customer was given a five day period to resolve the issue. The infringing content was not removed within the specified period even though several notifications were issued. Per DigitalOcean’s terms of service, a final reminder was issued to our customer and, when no action was taken, access to the content was disabled. The infringing content was subsequently removed by the customer and all services were restored in less than two hours."
Very unfortunate name since "Gluon" is already a commercial entity, sort of a Java counterpart to Xamarin, and almost certainly has trademarks that would overlap. Even if they didn't, it's still a pretty uncool move.

http://gluonhq.com/

Did nobody run a simple Google search before picking the name?
I just want to see "the vehicle again alerted the driver to put his hands on the wheel" followed by "and Autopilot then pulled to the side of the road, turned on the hazard lights, and required the driver to take over."
The internationalist elite are trying to use the internet as a data-driven lawfare machine to augment their existing models of globalism. They believe that nationalism in any form whatsoever is a threat to the demand curve since nationalism eventually turns into mercantilism, which is the death knell of globalism, and thus, their ability to control the productive flows of billions of people with interest rates alone will be severely compromised.

To their credit, I'd take a zero-tolerance policy, too, if my simple tool to steer globalized humanity was under assault... but the thing about suppressing nationalists is that the means of force doesn't inspire fear... it inspires envy.

Just to give you back-room context of how such conversations can go: "Look at how the Jew suppresses us! We, too, should have weaponry and influence like that...!"

Expressing concern that a Jewish cabal of bankers are using dirty tricks to suppress you and your loved ones... and then sending armed police forces to kick in your door for expressing that concern... doesn't exactly negate their concerns.

In detail, what you are seeing the contention between the globalist model vs. a nationalist model.

http://cultstate.com/challenging-the-profit-motives-of-globa...
I tend to agree. The preventers of making progress that waste millions of tax payer money in the name of civil liberties have many valid points, but don't offer any implementable alternatives.
"If you want a voice, you have to make compromises."

"If you want free wifi, you have to make compromises."
Then they've chosen city services that definitely could stand for some drastic improvement.
I really hope this encourages other programs like Sony or Microsoft to open up their developer programs more. Last time I looked into, it was a nightmare to try to get started up with Sony.
My question was in reference to the Player version, not Workstation. Does that make a difference in the grand scheme of things?
Next you're going to be telling us to get off your lawn.
Her images were / are very widely distributed.

The abuse started when she was about 4. She blanked some of it, but not all of it. Here's her victim impact statement: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/20100202-...

She knew there were images because she remembers him taken the images. She knows they're on the Internet because of his prosecution.

Her case had some important legal stuff, around restitution for victims from people possessing, but not creating, the images: http://www.texaslawyer.com/id=1202443241449?id=1202443241449...
These are mostly mistypings caused by carelessness which occasionally play oddly with C/C++ syntax, not the kind of logical bugs which plague most software.
There exists a related and impressive body of work towards understanding the geometric structure of elements of music theory, see e.g. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://... and references therein.
Both (all?) countries could benefit from doing one thing: legalize everything.
I can't wait for this to roll out to more regions.

This is EXACTLY the thing I need for some stuff I'm working on!
Laws are not moral and right just because they are laws.
Max Tegmark is a cosmologist who writes ~5 serious papers and then one "out there" paper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Tegmark
That's right. If it's the law then it must be right. It's a simple way of thinking that has worked out very well in many situations.

Meanwhile: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/15/angela-merkel-...
That's a really horrible thing to say. They presumably worked hard to help people connect. I'm sorry if you don't like their selection criteria, but people meeting and interacting in the real world is better than them not, no?

If you would like to start a competitor which helps bridge 'elitist' to 'non-elitist' please do, until then, please don't hate on someone's attempt to make their part of the world better.
We could just wait until we completely understand how the human brain works, then replicate it directly. It would take longer but be (supposedly) safer than going for a novel but faster approach involving machine learning, genetic algorithms and the like.
Thank you. I understand why you wouldn't disclose the specific algorithms used, but perhaps issue a set of guidelines for not falling afoul of them?

For instance, I always access HN via a public VPN service, and I suspect coming from a shared IP may have an impact (I'm guessing, anyway). If this is a criteria, it would be nice to know.

Again, thanks for the clarification.
Ask HN: I Watched “Money vs. Currency” (Mike Maloney in YT), Would BTC Save Us?
I hear one of the biggest issues regarding the economy is the depreciation of currencies, if that is true, then dont the use of BTC would mean the world would enter an unprecedented prosperity.
Just like moving to the PC was a downward spiral for IBM?
At Bytemark we've done network as standard since 2012, so we can do 100GB of higher-capacity storage for £2/month, and all discs are expandible / migrateable online: bigv.io/prices
If you want to know more, I suggest checking out this site:

https://www.thelayoff.com/seagate-technology

People at my company had said they don't lay people off. I found otherwise on thelayoff, so I check it periodically to see if there's anything to worry about.
Architect Christpher Alexander has developed a beautiful theory that is absolutely applicable to this topic (dare I say, second to none?) in his work 'A Pattern Language' and especially in his 'The Nature of Order' series. It's painful to think how little attention his work seems to get when you think of what could come from further exploration of the ground work he has laid in regards to understanding and creating meaning, that which comes from the heart and life preserving / nurturing processes.
What should your company stop doing? Ask!
that's what I thought. > 50% of the questions I was presented with were misprint errors which likely would've been caught by unused variable warnings.
Forgive me, but I'm less impressed by the paper. As far as I can tell, they've only really shown that (1) language is recursive, which we know already; (2) markov models cannot capture recursive languages, which we've known; and (3) RNNs can, which we've known. But so can PCFGs and many other formalisms from the past 25 years, which they ignore.

I did not read it very closely though.
I tend to avoid those config management tools other than for basic bootstrapping exactly because while you can use those too to recreate from scratch, when you don't do that, you leave the door open for undocumented, unknown state, since most of them basically take a system in an unknown-but-hopefully-mostly-consistent state and try to bring them to a known state.

But they'll only be in a known state in that case if your setup is extremely comprehensive.

In practice I've seen too many config management tools where long running servers have ended up in unknown states because changes have been applied, and subsequently changes have either been made outside of the toolchain, or changes have been done to the config in ways that doesn't let the tool know what has changed, or the tools simply doesn't have a way of comparing machine states without comprehensively enumerating everything on the server (e.g. people running Ansible playbooks that adds X, subsequently removing the requirement X from the playbook, and going about without considering whether or not X will interact with Y which they've added later).

As a result, I see rebuilding from scratch as largely orthogonal to whether or not you use a configuration management tool or e.g. build VM images that you replace wholesale, or whatever you do: You should rebuild from scratch regularly, as coupled with a test-suite it's the only realistic way of knowing whether or not you've left anything out of your build process.

My biggest caveat with config management systems is that they tend to end up encouraging live changes to a setup, instead of a build-test-deploy cycle. Sometimes that's necessary, but to me that's a last resort.
I came here to say something similar. I've seen many people using them all hours of the day & night. People are watching music videos, charging their phone, getting directions, and surfing the internet. The people using them are often those that don't have the luxury (necessity?) of walking around with a nice smart phone and a big data plan.

Do they have ads on them? Of course. So do the bus shelters which are funded using a similar public/private partnership.

If you are worried about the data collection, don't use them or the wifi provided by them. But you are basically saying you trust Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile/Sprint with your data more than you trust Sidewalk Labs/Google. Is that an informed tradeoff?
Tesla says autopilot involved in second car crash
> Like quite a bit of other Win32 APIs (WriteGather, for example), it looks tailor made for database journaling.

Indeed, WriteFileGather and ReadFileScatter are specifically tailored for writing from and reading into the buffer pull. The IO unit is the sequential layout of an extent (8 pages of 8Kb each), but in memory pages are not sequential so they have to be 'scattered' at read and 'gathered' at write.

You also have to keep in mind that the entire IO stack, Windows and SQL Server, was designed in the days of spinning media where sequential vs. random access was ~80x faster. SSD media has very different behavior and I'm not sure the typical 'journaling' IO pattern is capable of driving it to the upper bound of physical speed.

As a side note, I was close some folk that worked on ALOJA http://hadoop.bsc.es/ and it was a very interesting discussion I had with them: the default configuration for Java/Hadoop was providing, out of the box, the best IO performance on Linux. Same configuration was a disaster on Windows and basically every parameter had to be 'tuned' to achieve decent performance. This paper has some of their conclusions: https://www.bscmsrc.eu/sites/default/files/bsc-msr_aloja.pdf
That's the whole point, it should not be illegal. Suppression of speech which does not explicitly advocate for violence is oppression. Plain and simple. You may disagree with the speech, it may be distasteful, hateful, or whatever, but no government should be allowed to oppress the free expression of ideas. You should have freedom of speech, not freedom from speech.
> They're telling you that they can use your IP address, which is essentially you, and all of the pages you've viewed or searched for, including how long you visited them, to serve ads.

You don't bring your own IP when you use public WiFi, so this feels like a very confused argument.
> The humans looked straight to the windows to answer this question, but the machines, for some reason, looked at the beds instead.

Maybe the machine wasn't sure if most important thing in the question is "window" or "cover", so it looked at a bed looking for bed cover?
Um, so the best cell phone camera on the market is within a factor of 2 in linear resolution? I think that qualifies as "basically".
We already have the technology to replicate the human brain, you and I and everybody else were born with it.
That's an argument against highlights.

The Plan9 community has to defend no highlights to n00bs.
The problem I see with this is: how do they know someone is who they claim to be on Facebook? There's no indication in the article that they collaborated with Facebook and an ISP to link a user's post with their (possibly dynamic) IP address and home address. There's a big leap from "it appears someone posted hate speech using your facebook account" to "you are guilty of posting hate speech on facebook".
I'm guessing that her worst fear was realized: Someone saw the pictures and recognized her, and told her about them.

I can't process the logistics of how that happened without the person getting arrested... Or how it could happen without a pedophile in the mix... But I can't think of any other way for her to find out.

Edit: I suppose it's possible that the police found the images, managed to identify her, and felt it was their responsibility to inform her.
> And in general the justifications needed for torture would be so high that you would probably be able to convict without it

It's so high that IMHO the only possible place for torture in a civilized legal system is as punishment for torture by someone acting in a position of authority; if you're at the point where the moral calculus favors torture, you give absolutely zero fucks about what happens to yourself afterwards.
Moose or Elks don't 'bounce over the top' on a small vehicle. They crush it, rip the roof off, or go through it. It may depend on antlers, angles, speed, and so on.

I've tried to pick the least graphic images possible:

http://img.radio-canada.ca/2015/08/09/635x357/150809_kr04b_v... from http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/saguenay-lac/2015/08/09/0... -- which ended up killing the two occupants of the car.

This one is interesting because you may very well hit the moose facing forwards: http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/moose.asp

I don't think there is much to be gained in terms of safety. Let's not forget that while you may have large moose, there's a range where they can still be much smaller while growing and still damage smaller cars fairly easily.
Yeah I hand't realized they did this. Pretty cool! I hope the boaty mcboatface people don't get wind of it. They might crash it into the big red spot!
HORRAY! You can use a Chrome extension to put the font back :)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-old-github-fon...

https://github.com/rreusser/the-old-github-font
In some parts of the city, there are sidewalk tables and chairs which are set up daily.

Those have apparently not been coordinated with the kiosks, where a variety of boxes, broken chairs, and random objects are being used as seating and obstructing the sidewalk.

If the tablet had been placed on the flat side of the kiosk, instead of the edge, city residents' kiosk seating would not reduce sidewalk traffic flow. That would also enable two tablets, doubling the seating capacity of the kiosk.
You do however bring (and broadcast) your MAC address, which was mentioned as permissible to collect.
The short video game. Literally the only thing Vine does.
By looking at the random generated credentials, it seems the entropy is low.

In the source code [github], base_convert is used, the documentation write :

WARNING: base_convert() may lose precision on large numbers.

My PHP is little rusty, but should probably make a pull-request.

[github]: https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSOAuthServerBundle/blo...
Curious why you choose extreme sports as your example.

I know that a lot more people die at the easy end of the spectrum when kayaking. The ones who do it at the extreme level know what they are doing are usually very aware of their own ability.
I'd question why rolling a stop sign allows them to get a warrant to search a car as well. Stop and ticket, absolutely but a search seems too far.
Which is pretty spoofable.
Freedom of speech to the extent that we have in the US is not very common. There are tons of laws in Germany specifically the limit free speech due to being very sensitive about Holocaust deniers and people who try to incite mass hatred.

Even Canadian free speech laws are much more limited than the US. See the ridiculous "twitter harassment case" from last year/early this year.
Laws that oppress the free expression of ideas, which are not expressed to advocate direct or indirect harm or violence, are bad laws that should be broken.
I loved it until I hit save and saw the monster of a URL it returned.

These URLs aren't something I'd be able to quickly tap in on another device to save messing about with accounts & logins. If the URLs became short and/or pronounceable I'd use this service daily.
Fine, so it is not about Trump, such a great news :)

Nice project, if it work, but you must publish a Survey soon. I want to give my vote.
Show HN: Inkbot, a Rorschach image generator
Both are part of the regime, but people that support them do it because they don't feel included in the political system.
It's always better to use non-illegal activities when constructing examples. After all, why is it a bad thing that police are more efficient at catching criminals (I'm a strong supporter of legalization btw, but recognize that as long as it's illegal, the police need to do their jobs).

So whys is parallel construction a bad thing? Here's a different example. The FBI uses machine learning to develop models for predicting whether an individual is involved in terrorist activities. You are an innocent civilian who just so happens to a) be mulsim b) be an immigrant c) have recently visited a suspected country and d) work in agriculture and had to buy a lot of fertilizer recently. The FBI's system has labeled you a thread and that info was shared with the local authorities.

At midnight on a Tuesday, your home is raided based on this info. The local police use the fertilizer purchase as the reason. The rest came from the FBI. It's a no-knock raid. A family member is injured or killed in the process. You end up in jail for several days during the interrogation. Turns out you are a closet homosexual. Various other things surface. You go to trail. You're innocent. Much of the evidence is fabricated or spurious, so it's thrown out. You get found not guilty.

Your life is ruined. You are a disgrace to your religion. Your wife has divorced you. Your child has a permanent disability. You've lost your job. All because due process wasn't followed.
Apache Spark and Zeppelin on Google Cloud Dataproc
The real problem is, how do you actually design a test that will catch these issues. If you have 3 crashes in millions of miles, you are pretty unlikely to find those errors during testing.

I wish Tesla was more open about the way the actually test their Autopilot software.
I wonder how strong the Type-C connector is, especially to off-axis abuse. The 3.5mm is a pretty solid piece of metal, and the part that usually breaks is the solder connection from the internal jack to the circuit board. And this is easy to repair. I suspect a damaged Type-C jack will not only be unrepairable, it will leave you with a phone that can't be recharged (can't even be used as a phone anymore).
Some state intervention (e.g. drug prohibition) creates issues (in this case mass violations of civil liberties, militarization of police, vast numbers of incarcerated minorities, criminalization of medical conditions) that are measurably worse than the original problem it intended to solve. I don't know whether that's the case here, but it's worth asking. You'd better be certain that hate speech online is a serious enough problem that it is worth the cost, and you'd better have a good idea of what the cost will be.
A usb-c to 3.5mm adapter will almost certainly be inconvenient. It has to plug into the usb-c port, which means that it will protrude from the phone, and the 3.5mm plug will stick out past that. Integrating it into the phone was much better since you didn't have the additional protrusion.
For scale, Io is almost the same distance from Jupiter as the Moon is from Earth - about 400,000 kilometers.

That's about 0.3% the distance of Earth to the Sun.

For a good sense of how enormous these differences are, try the video "Riding Light" - https://vimeo.com/117815404 - Jupiter shows up at the 43:10 mark (Earth's at 8:17, for size comparison).
I think tech is helping us understand how some of the brain works, or at least helps us to model it. (my own idea, no "proof" or sources)
Meaningful training is not required to get a driver's license in the U.S. In most states it is completely adequate for a parent to teach you to drive, with no minimum number of hours in a classroom, public or private.

Pilots also receive ongoing currency training. This doesn't exist for automobile drivers. Maybe some states require a written test every few years? But in the three states I've lived in, no written, oral, or in-car test it recurrency training required since the original was issued when I was 15 or whenever.
As someone who has experienced this from the inside let me share with you exactly what is going on...

A large part of anxiety is the result of basically running mental simulations of the world with "negative" assumptions. Thus, people who are better at cognitive simulation (i.e. high IQ) are naturally going to have a greater capacity for worry. That being said, if you train your mind to stop running simulations all the time (mindfulness) or just start running simulations with positive assumptions, that anxiety can be eliminated without any impact on intelligence whatsoever.
Build a device lab stand using Lego
without the google referral link (pdf)

http://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/geometry.pdf
Pretty detailed and well written article.

This is good for audio-conscious consumer, since it allows greater specialization via a custom DAC. It's likely mixed for the consumer, who will end up with lower-quality (but possibly cheaper) aftermarket DAC/headphones.
CHEATING DONALD
Show HN: Hydra OMS – First open-source order management system
> If someone says Composition > Inheritance it is like saying Screwdriver > Hammer, a complete non-sense.

You're stretching a bit too far. Inheritance is nothing but composition with some default implicit virtual method routing. You admit as much in your comment. If you want tools, it's more like a hammer vs a mallet and a prybar. Same tools, same purpose, just one is bundled.