skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you follow that link all the way back to the original source, you're back at Bloomberg, and the writing of Matt Levine.[0]

It provides additional context, some entertaining footnotes, and is generally just very much worth the trip.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-07-11/cynk-make...
> You're under no obligation to the bank

Yes you are. You signed a contract. This gives you an ethical if not a moral obligation. You have a legal obligation to pay in all states, which is why the lender can foreclose on you if you fail to do so. In some states, you also have a legal obligation to make the lender whole if they can't recoup their loss with the foreclosure sale.
Yeah ycombinator should really improve their diversity by kicking out gay people.
> First things first, the victim has rights too.

This is a pointless and inane sentiment. Which of the victim's rights were violated here? US law, for better or for worse, recognizes no right to justice, nor protection. [Edit to add:] Of course the reported crime is completely unjust in an ethical sense; that's why letting someone get away with it is difficult but effective. We can't say, "oh, well we can't enforce the 4A law in the really important cases, so we'll just let people get away with petty theft in these cases but not any serious crimes", because the police, just like us, don't really care about petty theft all that much. If you think that we should avoid this solution with truly heinous crimes like rape and murder (and, in practice, I think you might find fewer successful 4A challenges in those cases), then you sure as hell better let "mere" domestic abusers successfully defend their rights. I realize that's a horrifying sentiment, but again, the more horrifying this is, the more effective it is and the more it tends to prove my point.

The officers may not have a crystal ball, but the implications of Fourth Amendment case law is crystal clear on this point. I've not heard any claims that the defendant was sitting in front of the computer actively deleting the video, so "flushing the evidence" is not a relevant comparison. If he had been then the outcome should be different. Otherwise, we could conclude that because any digital evidence is more easily destroyed than physical evidence then the Fourth Amendment just doesn't apply to digital evidence. I have no evidence to suggest that that conclusion is not every bit as absurd as it seems on its face. The police shouldn't be worried about how the judge will rule, toeing the line as closely as they can; but they should instead adopt a conservative approach ensuring that they actually follow the law in all cases to avoid this exact scenario. Therefore the police were absolutely out of line, because their actions were likely the direct and sole cause the defendant was not convicted.

I don't feel bad for the defendant, not even a little bit—why would I? He's probably getting away with something he shouldn't get away with, because the police just couldn't do their damn job. His rights were vindicated, as they should be. If the prosecutors could have convicted him without the video, then I hope they would have. If on account of his status they chose not to do so, then I would agree with the unspoken sentiment of preferential treatment, and I would condemn that. However, I tend to take the evidence before us at face value: the prosecution offered a lousy plea deal, so they probably didn't think they could do significantly better. Now, I won't deny that it's possibly thanks to a good lawyer and the prospect of a sympathetic jury that the prospects for a conviction were so low, but it was first and foremost due to an unlawful search by the police. Unless you'd like to abolish the rights to counsel and jury trials, I think we just have to deal with the other aspects as they are.
I have this exact example in FD.js (https://github.com/srikumarks/FD.js), plus Sudoku solvers and others.
Am I the only one who wondered just who this Cory Doctorow person is?
Perhaps those who wanted more than that out of life had less genetic fitness than those who wanted exactly that out of life, so most people want that out of life.

On the other hand, I'm not sure how to explain the presence of homosexuality in a population when the theory of evolution predicts that any such trait (which leads to much lower genetic fitness) would have disappeared a long time ago. How does it stay at this level from generation to generation?
Are not most of your customers (at least for tech companies) in the US? Wouldn't the weak Canadian dollar help you in that respect? I understand taxes are higher in Canada, but in the US most tech companies have to contribute to medical insurance.
It's clearly a touchy subject (pun intended but the comment stands on its own).
Is Go based on llvm? It doesn't seem like it, but would be curious to know why not?

Isn't this the point of llvm, to separate the "language component" from the "cpu component"?
Yes. Do the course first.
By platform economies, they really mean walled gardens. Instead of setting up an e-commerce website (which can actually be pretty challenging with security and PCI and administration), people are using other peoples' engines to sell shit.

Even New Egg is a resellers shop now, similar to Amazon and eBay.
> I suggest giving Ruby a try too.

If you like Go, I don't see much reason to try Ruby except intellectual curiosity. Ruby is clearly a language on its way out and it is not just a lot slower than Go, it's also dynamically typed.
Kerala’s first bird atlas
Imagine the author had first tried psilocybin, then no one would've gotten cancer from reading that borderline sociopathic, materialist screed.
How's that war on drugs going?
This objection applies to essentially every warrant application. In this case, the answer is not only, "yes, in part because people are stupid enough not to destroy evidence, and in part because there are plenty of judges who would be happy to be woken in the middle of the night to rubber-stamp such a warrant at a moment's notice", but also "yes, and the court agreed", and "it doesn't matter, because the police not being able to do whatever they think is best whenever they think it's best is the whole point!"
It is entertaining to read NSA's recommendations on how US govt should secure its data. Because you always wonder if they'd know of a vulnerability if they'd still advise using that technology. That is, if that department which writes the guide talks to the department that does the exploits.

I imagine due to heavy and intentional compartmentalization this doesn't happen.

Perhaps it depends on the nature of the exploit. For example, I consider the weakening of Dual_EC_DRBG devilishly good: because of the chosen P and Q they knew it was weak but also were the only ones who had the key. They would definitely not tell anyone about that.
It's not based on LLVM. I don't know how recently the official FAQ was updated, but they say [1] that while they thought about using LLVM, they thought it was too large and slow for what they were looking for.

[1] https://golang.org/doc/faq#What_compiler_technology_is_used_...
> If you spent one day working at Google, in the worst case you can now be called a "former Google employee". Next time you hand out resumes, you can just hand out a blank sheet of paper that says "I worked at Google" scribbled in crayon and you'll still get interviews.

Pretty funny and also sadly true. The author is the same person that is currently building a C compiler for the one page CPU: http://recc.robertelder.org/. Suffice it to say this person should just be hired on the spot. Any interviewing is a waste of time for both parties.
> no sane hedge fund will short the stock without also buying a call option

Short plus a call is a put. If you can buy a call you can just buy a put. Thinly-traded stocks such as this one would not have exchange-listed options.
There need to be someone who is selling/writing put option before you can buy put option.
I second the recommentation for the Eudyptula Challenge although the "rule" about not asking/posting for help is probably why I have been on Challenge 5 for about a year.
Broken: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/commit/11116c2467710c9b3df3...

Fixed: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/commit/99837fae4746db48b656...
Not sure. I tried with Windows 7 compatibility mode as well, but no use.
It's satire, bro. Chill out.
Because it is an investment.

If you live in one house and buy a second to rent out, the second house is clearly an investment. If you rent an apartment to live in and buy a house to rent out, that house is also an investment property for all the same reasons as the second house in the first scenario. If you mortgage a house and live in it, this is actually the same as the second scenario. You just happen to be renting from yourself.

I also fail to see how your first house could at all be considered covering a short. Buying a house is a bet that the value will go up. If you want to short the housing market, you rent.
Which would have been a wonderful fact to include as supporting evidence, yet it was not. Like I said, I'm not defending Thiel, I'm condemning accusations without good evidence. I wouldn't have had anything to complain about if that was included.
It seems right to me (American speaker). "Released" functions as an adjective, with similar meaning to "available." "Go 1.7 is available" would be grammatically correct.

"Go 1.7 has been released" would also be correct, but uses the present perfect tense.

So the question is, can "released" be used as an adjective? "The released version has a bug" seems correct to me, and "released" clearly functions as an adjective there.

All that said, the present perfect version seems clearly correct, while I can't make a great argument for the adjectival version.
A really bad security bug report is going to get a lot more attention than a feature request. Threatening them with "I will use a competitor" means loss of a single customer. Not quite the same as "my entire company was compromised and we lost millions of dollars due to a security bug"
Yes, but the article is deceptive. The sailor:

1 - took photos of classified materiel;

2 - admitted he knew that they were classified and that he wasn't authorized to possess them;

3 - after being confronted by law enforcement, destroyed evidence

Clinton

1 - at worst only accidentally had classified material;

2 - the state department disagrees with the cia/nsa over whether the 110 documents that were unmarked yet classified at the time of sending/receipt should have been so classified;

3 - did not destroy evidence.

A far better comparison is General Petraeus. He [1]

* was a 4-star general;

* knowingly gave classified information to someone not authorized to possess it;

* lied to the fbi (a felony all on its own, even if what you lied about wasn't a crime! Never ever talk to the fbi without your lawyer. For any reason.)

* committed adultery

Petraeus got probation, a $100k fine, and to keep his rank (which controls retirement benefits.)

The differences, as the fbi director pointed out when discussing Clinton, revolve around knowingly taking classified material and lying/destroying evidence. One has to conclude the lawyer used Clinton to be sensational rather than as a genuine comparison.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/02/...
There are llvm (and gcc) implementations of go but main/reference implementation was written from scratch in C and later moved to pure go. IIRC the authors wanted to achieve really fast compilation and a few other things that required them to start from scratch.
You can find a good analysis of this problem from a Game Theory perspective by listening to Professor C. Christine Fair. She has written a couple of books, and you can find her talks on Youtube.
Rowhammer
I also see a lot of perl in the screenshots. If only being the target.
The TL;DR was TL;DR. Ho, seriously. About halfway through, the buzzwords and jargon got to be too much for me. Let me know if there's anything interesting Wining.
> In fact a good firing has proven 100% effective in preventing repeat offenders.

Not when they can simply be rehired elsewhere. In any case, the court doesn't have this power, nor the power to implement "career-slowing disincentives". Now, if the police unions come in and say, "You know what? We're tired of criminals getting away with crimes, so how about we agree to implement real punishments for rights violations, in exchange for not throwing out evidence when mistakes are made?", then I would be entirely in favor of the courts seriously considering such an arrangement, even though some might argue that it subverts the rule of law. There's an alternative for you.
Another sign of Slavic speakers is the incorrect usage of "is" where "it is" would be grammatically correct.

> Q: What is in auction files? A: Is secret.

> Q: When does auction end? A: Unknown. When we feel is time to end.

A native speaker would say "it's secret" or "it's a secret", or "when we feel it's time [to end it]".

Granted, the text seems a bit like someone imitating a Russian who speaks broken English from the movies. It may well be misdirection. It's possible that non-native speakers from other languages also make this mistake, but I have seen it commonly with Slavic speakers.
Paradoxically, water is one area where there is agreement between the two countries. I wish it were just an issue of water or agriculture!
'It feels like a gift': mobile phone co-op transforms rural Mexican community
Not a fans of VBR MP3. VBR is great. But as some has shared maximum compatibility is much more important.
Let's do some maths ( Correct me if I am wrong )

At 128Kbps that is 1MB per minutes, an hour would means 60MB. Since most podcast uses 64Kbps we are talking about 30Mb, a saving of 20% means 6MB per client, 10,000 listeners saves you 60GB per episode, assuming a Weekly episode, that is 240GB....... on an 2015 Est of ATP listeners around 80,000, that is ~ 2TB of Transfer. That is the transfer a $10 Linode would give you.

So is it really worth the risk of VBR concern on a little saving worth $10 to $20?

Since i didn't exactly listen to the podcast, I wonder what problem does he has with AAC. Because the argument about most having a newer devices with proper support for VBR MP3 also works for AAC. And AAC sounds A LOT better.
any -> much

Referring to the source code of some of the major components. Any python source was stripped of comments, which is surely interesting, but not as interesting as the source of the binaries.
Elevator description:

- Open source, 6 years old, backing from Google

- Nice for concurrency and service implementations

- Not nice for generic types

- C like, modern, minimalist, garbage collected

- Becoming more popular
anther log for the fire - sometimes the estimate isn't so off by itself(although it often is)

somehow we fail to account for the other things. background bug fixing activity, writing unrelated future work out on the whiteboard, reworking an adjacent component. not being on your game, expecting something to already work when it clearly doesn't

so yeah, those are developer failures. but at least as often, i think technical management has failed by laying out a plan with a fixed end date. for all the reasons above and more, the end date passes by, and another date is laid out, and so on.

i think we all need to do a better job of adapting to circumstance and continuously measuring the progress vs the passage of time. where we can settle for less than what we planned, and how to express the truth of the matter. the worst trap we all fall into is thinking that perhaps we aren't as far along as we should be, but a couple days of solid effort will put us back on track.

'just two more weeks' is the death knell of many projects
Runaway drone that caused air battle
> why do people even take acetaminophen anymore?

- why did you stop? If you're an otherwise healthy person (not an alcoholic or don't have liver disease) then paracetamol is a great drug. A low level anti-inflammatory that doesn't cause GI upset or have anti platelet action
Use "burner" to create a virtual phone number for just that site, and configure it to forward wherever you want.

Done.

Same deal with credit cards -- use privacy.com.
TBH, I am hoping somebody pushes a decent implementation of this to github.

I am personally not willing to pay monthly, and definitely not willing to share brokerage credentials, with a SaaS version.
Owning a home is functionally equivalent to renting from yourself. So if a rental property is an investment, then so is owning your own home.

I also don't understand how you can claim there's no rate of return. Home values have historically trended upward reliably. Does the stock market also have no rate of return?
But they've just wasted 1 year. They should have tried to figure out if he has the required curiosity in the first interview itself.
Extract Chromium's base code to a independent dll
>This is of course ignoring the psyops operations that teachers themselves directly run.

It always struck me as a conflict of interest to have government employees teach young voters what to think.
Sounds like a horrible person living a horrible life in a way that will never affect me in any way. I'm okay with this.
"without the permission of those who made it."

Well, no, the person who made the tape (not the "star"(s)) absolutely gave "permission". He sent the tape to Gawker himself.

Guess what? He was sued, and Hogan settled with him. For $5,000.
Google Duo, a simple 1-to-1 video calling app
Would you be this Kasian Franks? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasian_Franks
Tiajuana, Mexico? Siberia?
Sounds like the makings for a 'Red Dawn 2: Putin and El Chapo" where Trump is holed up with the NRA as patriotic rebels protecting Hillary, the POTUS ;)

The 2012 film remake of Red Dawn made China the bad guys compared with 1984 original Red Dawn where Russia and Cuba were the bad guys.

But seriously, could this be used to launder money, or the scam wouldn't allow for it based upon the setup of the short squeeze? Could money be put in the system this way and cleaned and turn a profit at the same time?
What does monogamy have to do with sexual orientation?
I speak a few languages including Russian, and am inclined to think that level of brokenness sounds almost deliberate. Yes it does sound Slavic, but over the top. It is almost how South Park would make a Russian-sounding character.

Also I am guessing in a group of computer literate people, from Eastern Europe, they couldn't find one person with a better handle on English grammar and phraseology.
Be careful. Buying an ETF from another vendor that tracks the same index, like say an S&P 500 index ETF from Vanguard vs. Fidelity, can still trigger a wash sale. Granted, it's harder to find through simple transaction matching, but an audit might trip you up.
I'm also in favour of OTC codeine with appropiate box warnings etc. (it works very well for me [currently prescribed], and the difference between an analgesic dose and a fatal dose is fairly wide - 15-60mg vs 100s mg). That said, calling potential addiction a non-issue is a little on the optimistic side. Codeine combinations (with ibuprofen or paracetamol/acetaminophen) are OTC in the UK, and problematic addictions (ever-increasing doses, dependence, impacts on work/family) are certainly not unheard of.
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Opps didn't see that. =)

Using hashes like you are suggesting you wouldn't even need ZK proofs. There is a simple trick you could do with the keys such that you post a single 128 value which is checkable with a tree of OP_HASH and OP_DUPs and would, with very high probability, reveal all the keys.

As pointed out below the problem with this scheme is that you could hash the same files with a little randomness added and make it look like you have more data to sell than you do. I think with some GC-based ZK proofs you could show this isn't true and each file is legitimately different (for example demonstrating randomly selected bit relationships or word frequencies).
Because it's new and very different.
Our intention's to post it in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12202865 but something's wrong, and this is what happened. Would appreciate any help. Thanks!
Anyone here used MobX (https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx) ? Would like to know about pros and cons compared to redux .

I haven't used any of those but would like to know about them before I start using any of those.
I'm no financial expert, but I'm pretty sure your idea of an asset is wrong. An asset is anything that has value. An asset can be depreciating or appreciating or neither. An investment is just a place to put money. You can buy stocks in the hope they'll increase in value rapidly. You can buy gold hoping that it will outpace inflation. You can buy bonds with negative yields in the hope that they are at least safe. These are all investments. They are also all assets.
You guys take yourselves too seriously. I think this article is funny as hell.

"You briefly use mobile Safari to browse for Vipassana retreats — you hear a 10 day retreat in Soquel may be the ticket to shake things up. You realize it’s not going to be possible. You download a meditation app. You turn it off. You don’t have time."

TOO REAL
I've been developing a hobby game engine and did a 7-day roguelike with it last year: https://github.com/rsaarelm/phage

I'd say it's about on par with C++, effort-wise. Big learning curve to get something as complex as a game off the ground, and you need to think about the design, but I can't think of many long-term annoyances. The ecosystem is still sparse, so viable game projects will probably skew towards 2D and otherwise modest scale.
there is government employee testimony proving the true hackers are unknown. It's easier to paint it as a known boogeyman. Have to keep advancing western geo-political agendas and must continue building up the military industrial complex.
you know. thats legit. some people will respect that and find other questions to ask that will convince them that you'll help them out alot.

and some people will be disgusted, and they probably aren't that great to work with. it would be sad if you couldn't find a job, but i doubt thats the case :)
Laser Sequencer Uses Arduino to Enable Super-Microscope
> This point by readams is also true. The closing price of a stock isn't special — it's, as (s)he said, simply the price of the last trade of the day. The fact that some ETFs are marked by the price of market close makes their trading price "special", but that doesn't imply anything particular about the closing price of the asset(s) they're based on

The closing price is special -- there's a special procedure to set the price and determine which orders execute (quite similar to the opening procedure), NYSE has a closing auction, NASDAQ has a closing cross, I'm sure most other exchanges have similar.

If there's no market/limit on close orders for a given stock, then the closing price would be the last trade; presumably the same for a stock which had its trading halted earlier in the day.
Hopefully in the next 2 weeks. We are considering just being able to do it via AWS Lambda.
How to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana:

- First of all you force him to drop the banana

- then, second, you eat the banana, thus disarming him.

- You have now rendered him ’elpless.

http://rump2010.cr.yp.to/c659ebaf681758e01ccf824fd58f3c42.pd...
And Angela Merkel herself dissuaded the sheikh from lending Porsche money!