skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, legalized theft. Civil forfeiture works to fleece the peasantry (and the criminals) equally. The DEA and police use this method to fund their organizations, because in most cases, they're allowed to keep most if not all of the money seized. That's an enormous conflict of interest that has caused many innocent people to get shafted by the government, as has been shown here (and elsewhere) in prior stories related to civil forfeiture.

TL;DR: Never travel with cash, gift cards, or cash cards.
Good observation, and fixed! As I noted in the issue, I initially was going to go with a fourth "preset" option but I decided against it for some reason. Added it to the code and blog post.
What are you using for configuration / orchestration of both the container servers and the tasks? CF? Terraform?
While the benchmarks are looking a lot better than many other similar Rust libraries in this space, I'm not sure the code is in a state where they're actually meaningful yet: https://github.com/alexcrichton/futures-rs/blob/master/futur...
Any tips for going from a project board to a PCB?
i'm curious why these two professors will remain as adjuncts, despite having pulled in what appears to be significant research funding.
The whole thing is a sham really when you consider the heritage from the Wiring/Processing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiring_(development_platform)

Arduino is a commercial version of somebody else's academic work.
One small step for blockchain, one giant IoT leap for the Isle of Man
> There is a substantial category that this leaves out, that I wouldn't call "pathological": commercial or otherwise proprietary software where the source is provided as part of the deal.

This is not "open source" software by the open source definition. Free Software advocates claiming that this demonstrates that "open source" software is not free software is like open source advocates claiming that the existence of free (of charge) software -- "free software" in a manner of speaking, though not by the definition set by the FSF -- being available without the source being released under a license which meets the open software definition means that "Free software is not open source".

The FSF definition of free software and the OSI definition of open source software are practically identical in real-world application, as is demonstrated by the fact that essentially all real-world licenses on which both the FSF and OSI have taken a stand as to compliance with each entity's definition of the class of software they are concerned with fare the same under both definition.
I realize that the article url in text is not transformed to a clickable url, here it is as a comment: http://edmdigest.com/opinion/the-cybersecurity-bug-bounty-cr...
To say this:

> I agree that the FCC is a federal governmental organisation that should not have precedent over a State's rights. Something which has been abused by the courts for the last 50 or so years.

...and then say this:

> Can you remember a time when you voted that you were familiar with all the candidates for both state and city positions? I know I can't. Not even close. I usually just vote a ticket.

...makes me think you don't really care about states' rights.
In case you didn't know, you can pipe A LOT of things to IRC with https://sameroom.io/integrations/irc-integrations
dupe, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12267124
I don't think that's how racism works
They should, at least, rebrand themselves. "BuzzFeed" toxicity is so high, I can't see why they wouldn't get a massive malus for it.
I still don't understand why they could not locate it.

Sounds falls off with the square of the distance. A single, localized measurement can have a hard time pinning a direction, but a series of sample over an area will give you a 3D curve of intensity with a maxima near the source...
Microsoft Creates Backdoor in Windows, Accidentally Leaks UEFI Secure Boot Keys
>I don't think it's unreasonable to point out that a) racist and sexist abuse are a thing

I understand that "racism" and "sexism" are things without mention of and/or blaming "straight, white men".

>that the volume of such abuse we see ourselves is much lower

I'm not sure how the fact that because specific demographics witness fewer abuses they should somehow be assumed to be part of the problem.
> Motorola Mobility was huge blunder.

Is there public info from Google available stating the goal of the Motorola Mobility buy?
The GPUs that hosting providers are buying need to support vGPU features, which are only support by the higher-end workstation and server products.
I think even farther back with the overthrow of the Shah in Iran it started
I'm not sure the Nokia analogy applies here. Nokia faltered because others came along and made better phones, where most of the 'better' was because of the app ecosystem of the underlying OS -- but still, they were beaten at their own game, and they only made phones. If you didn't buy a Nokia phone, Nokia was out of your life for good.

Google makes many different kinds of things, making it less likely that Google will be thoroughly replaced in people's lives.
I am working on a write up on a project for CAN bus messages to CCD bus messages for old Chrysler vehicles. A mixture of reverse engineering and vehicle bus interfacing.

Note: I am using a Teensy instead of an Arduino, but using the Teensyduino Arduino IDE plugin.

https://github.com/Alexia/CAN-CCD_bus
Albeit not all of IRC, just networks that resemble Freenode (https://sameroom.io/limitations#irc)
I don't think it's better, just different. There are things I'd use an Arduino clone for that wouldn't be achievable on an esp.
Can you hyperlink to higher-resolution versions of the charts? They are unreadable at that size.
An Audi dealer in Dublin.

I don't know the actual specifics, just that my boss came in to work one day raging about it. I suspect the dealer was just looking for excuses to not do the fix.

But just a cursory read around the web seems to imply that this is happening more and more and to be honest I think it would be unwise to assume that manufacturers wont make it an official policy at some point.
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Except Twitter don't want that either - as evidenced by their unannounced censoring of certain AMA sessions, and panicked deletions of trolls of famous celebrities. It turns out that they are just another company driven by commercial demands.

I imagine if there was competition and a "Twitter but with anti-trolling mechanisms" network sprung up most people, and the vast majority of women and ethnic minorities would flock to that network.
Finally a nice async/io interface for rust, always felt that it was a big missing piece, couple of questions for peps familiar with async in other languages :

1 - Isn't the state machine approach the same as C#/.net async/await is using ? But the with the added convenience of the syntactic sugar ?

2 - no allocation : , does'nt the lambda closure need to be allocated somewhere ?

3 - I would have love some comparison (booth performance wise and on theory) with C++ up comming coroutine work, from my understand the C++ approach is even more efficient in term of context switching and have the advantage of even less allocation.
Similar feelings.

While the FCC's top-down approach to affecting change here would have probably been the most efficient; realistically, this type of change will probably need to come from the residents of the various states (bottom-up).

I suspect part of the problem is that people don't know that there are state laws, local ordinances and a lot of money changing hands to ensure the monopolistic behavior stays intact. And the reason they don't know is because
1) current options are "good enough"
2) status-quo bias makes us think change is too hard

I live in CT. I have only one option for broadband (which stinks, but its good enough). However, after reading about this FCC judgement... I'm kind of interested to see what effect that would have had in CT and my local town if it had gone through. I suspect its not going to be an easy process to dig this information up. Thoughts on places to start, what to look for?
That's a nice thought but the majority of what "anybody" posts is mindless nonsense with the added benefit of not even pretending they're trying to be informative.

It's like how cell phones put a camera in everyone's pocket so now when we have natural disasters or a 10 car pileup we get photos, but about 3/4 are idiotic selfies.
Paralysed patient walks again in astonishing medical breakthrough
It's bad for the market makers that the HFTs disrupted.
Microsoft acquires Beam interactive game livestreaming service
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12254680
I wonder why Nairobi, Kenya isn't in the list. Africa is a humongous continent to only have Nigeria in the list.
I wasn't talking to the HN crowd. I was talking to you. I'm well aware that rapport is not just from NLP. But thanks for clarifying for everyone else.

Your point on people-pleasing: that if they are too self-absorbed to form rapport, then they are not really people pleasing. In my experience talking and interacting with people, that is exactly it: folks will see themselves as pleasing others, but in reality, they are not actually doing so, because they are not doing so in integrity. That is the read I on "people pleasers", and that is the read I get from that article. For me, if someone is pleasing others and they are doing so in integrity, I don't see the issue with that. In general, that that rarely happens.

As for the recursion, that is the basic path but it isn't as simple as that. For one thing, fhe intellect alone is inadequate for the task. This was why I was talking about awareness, not intellect. When there are deeper rooted issues, the emotional attachment might even hijack the intellect to come up with rational explanations on why the deeper issues should not be explored.

My exploration of this comes from the meditation / shamanic / psychonaut approaches, and not clinical psychology. Where you can go if you dig impeccably and with an open mind will go to some really strange places. I'd love to see or talk with someone to see if the implications from those strange places changes or inflects effective altruism and infinite ethics.
Targeted abuse goes both ways:

https://twitter.com/lesdoggg/status/755218642674020352
IPv6 Support for Amazon S3
Custom PC Building Guide for Photography and Video
Is this forum a cesspool? (No.) Is it an open public conversation by anyone in the world? (Yes.)

You can have conversations without it becoming a racist, bigoted mess.
The article explicitly calls out their lack of product development as hindering the process. The example given is of a feature they've been discussing for 5 years(!) where it would favour displaying replies made by individuals the original tweeter follows.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11473890

Another less recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9529292
YC Tech Stacks
I had an acquaintance that had the police seize $10k in cash from him after he had gotten in a car accident, along with bags of clothing he had bought at the mall. After court and everything the clothing was never reported and the $10k became $4k. It's not just money they'll take, it's anything of value they feel like.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12254680

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12258024
Avoiding duplication of source code across Federal agencies is nice, but it would be better to eliminate duplicate agencies and functions within the bureaucracy.
I like reading the investigative stories at Talking Points Memo's Longform section (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/longform), and I'm also a fan a lot of the original work at Pando (https://pando.com/). I tend to follow the source links on a lot of the more popular sites and see if the original is worth a RSS subscription.
Uber and Grab to be legalised in Malaysia by the end of 2016
While not specific to Twitter, organized online harassment/bullying is a somewhat new phenomenon. Usenet and forums mostly had individual trolls.
Where can we voice our opposition to this?

If people really want their bulky IDEs to give them maximum help when introspecting a codebase, there should just be a TypeScript like superset of Python that those people can use.

This syntax is awful and will seriously cause antagonism in terms of what people consider "pythonic" and "good code".
Chrome IG Story – Bribing the Instagram Story API with Cookies
Nope, the esp8266 is a microcontroller featuring a 32-bit Tensilica Xtensa LX106 running at 80 MHz. It can be overclocked to 160 Mhz, but that sucks for power.
From the article: "It turns out credit cards and student loan debt are the main reasons Americans are ending up with a negative net worth. Mortgages are a minor factor, the New York Fed found. Only 19 percent of people with negative net worth are homeowners"
Ask HN: What kind of chatbot do you need?
What chatbot would you like to have?
This could be a chatbot for Messenger, Telegram or Slack. Tiny and specific bots are okay.
I agree that good benchmarks are important. This is the Techempower benchmark, which only requires this, and is how it's implemented in most languages for Techempower. See https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/180d... for example.

Extra tests for more complex stuff would be great.
I think you know what i mean, but you like to twist my words.

I m not american. This is a cynical view from Europe. Believe it or not it's closer to the truth rather than believing that having elections suddenly would fix all the problems in countries like egypt, libya, syria.
It's generally valid to say Thing 1 is more A-like than Thing 2. The problem is believing that everything is either A, or not A.
And personally, I think that these countries got this right. But if your debts will weigh you down, why take them?
a good book is 'flash boys: not so fast' which gives a needed counter-perspective from an HFT insider. It might help.
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This seems very well executed, at least the interface UX. I'll spend more time playing with it tonight to test the rest.
What does the MS Secure Boot Issue teach us about key escrow?
There are a few reasons, but one of the most difficult is that federal legislators and bureaucrats (hell, we could even include those at the state level) are in a position where they don't actually see that there's a problem.

There are a number of telecom companies. Not a lot, but we're certainly not talking about the situation with Standard Oil. At a macro level, there's clearly competition: Comcast, Verizon, Google Fiber, etc. No one can deny that, and that's the level where legislators interact with them. But the problem is that consumers don't actually get to choose between companies; they're largely locked into a particular provider based on geographic location. Franchise agreements, high barriers to entry, etc. all see to that.

That's not really an antitrust issue. Utilities, by definition, are functional monopolies. The problem is that broadband is a utility, but a unique one. You can't really differentiate water service or sewage, for instance. But there can be a drastic difference between ISPs and the type of broadband service they provide. At the same time, it's still subject to the same economic factors as any other utility service, making new competition very unlikely. So you wind up with a very dysfunctional market, despite the competition at the macro level.

It's a somewhat counterintuitive distinction, but what you wind up with is basically an industry with multiple competitors that don't actually compete with one another at the consumer level because they're just like any other utility at that level. You don't get a choice in water providers, sewage, etc. Everyone is locked within the confines of their particular borders, and while those borders can and do shift, when they do it's more like the trading of pieces of territory than encroachment via competition. And all of this is made worse by the sheer scale of the barriers to entry. As Verizon FiOS and Google Fiber both learned, fiber rollouts are a capital-intensive proposition.
SoftEther VPN Project
I would argue that this site is not quite public in the same sense that Twitter is. Sure - anyone can register and post comments and articles, but the community of this site is extremely self-selected to those with a specific domain of knowledge.
I recently attended a meet-and-greet with a local candidate running for state senate in California. He explained that he would have the freedom to be independent in the legislature and vote based on his convictions, unlike the rest of his compadres.

The reason is that he comes from a wealthy, populous district. It is easy for him to fundraise from liberal constituents. For the rest of the state, he explained, many legislators are forced to fundraise from lobbyists in Sacramento - 90% of their fundraising instead of 10% like him. This results in lobbyists having extreme control over much of the legislature. E.g., the tobacco lobby, which has almost no actual business in California since very little tobacco is grown here, instead has enormous influence because they can easily buy legislators.

States are much less powerful than the federal government. They can be played against each other. The elections and laws are much less closely watched. Individual billionaires can easily control an entire state, where they might struggle on the federal level.

Of course, none of this is terribly different at the federal level either - Congresspeople are pretty cheap, and lobbyists have tons of cash. The American form of government is thoroughly rotten.

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As for hope, I like: participatory budgeting. I think all municipalities should be using this in some form. This has apparently been used with some success in Porto Alegre, where the basic form is: each neighborhood sends a representative with a project proposal and a request for funds, e.g., we need a library, we need to repair sewer pipes, we need to build a sidewalk, it will cost us $X. Some fraction of the city budget is allocated to be spent on such projects (say, 10% or 20%). All of the neighborhood representatives vote on which proposals should be funded; the funds are used.

The mechanism is simple, extremely democratic, and forces some neighborhood organizing, all of which seem like they would be great things for municipalities.
I love elastic beanstalk (minus it's mediocre docs). Agreed here, does elastic beanstalk support setup of new-style elbs (without me doing extensive customization)? When will it if not?
Like low frequency trading, HFT makes the market more efficient, at least theoretically. The same logic that makes low frequency trading beneficial makes HFT beneficial, although HFT may not be as beneficial as low frequency trading.
How two people saying the same thing will be inferred differently
Well (as another Federal coder), one problem is the unfunded mandate issue. If this comes with resources to maintain public repos and updates, sure. Otherwise, if someone emails me I share the latest snapshot but only as my time and duties permit.
This is such an absurd fallacy that FSF nuts have been using since at least the early 90s.

The GPL does not ensure jack squat. It ensures source code availability as much as the BSDL does.

Consider the following function:

defmodule Jail do
def jls() do
System.cmd "ls", ["-la"], into: IO.stream(:stdio, :line)
end
end

Regardless! of which license that code is released under, that function is now open source, for the entire world to see and use. Period. It is never going away, it's never going to be unavailable. Or locked up. Or "closed". And "closed"? How stupid a statement is that about open source. Look, you cannot close open source! You can use it but the same open source code you are using is still out there and available! You can't make it disappear.

What you CAN do is ADD to that code. It's called adding value.
And that added value code is yours to do with as you wish. Release it open source or not. I don't give a crap, my function is still free, still open source, and still available for anyone to use no matter what you have done with your copy of it.

So don't give me this crap the GPL ensures code "remains free", it doesn't. That is a load of hogwash. And always has been.

The point of the GPL is to force others to release their value added code. To virally infect non free software to become GPL licensed open source code. And before you say "no one forces you to use GPL'ed code", you are right no one does, but then don't also claim your code is free. It's not.

The bottom line is the GPL accomplishes nothing the BSDL does not already accomplish. Except forcing anyone who uses it to license their value added code under the GPL and play by some socialist zealots rules.

The GPL is a one way technology blackhole. It sucks up other code licensed under more liberal/free terms but can't be used by them in reciprocation.

And your last statement is classic GPL thinking! "Play by MY rules or I am taking my ball and going home!" How freedom loving. We could all learn to embrace such a wonderful concept of freedom as that.
HFTs are normally market makers, I worked for almost 5 years for Virtu Financial, one of the biggest electronic market makers in the US (look them up yourself).
I haven't seen it either, although if serious academic publishers are switching to Word that's only going to hasten their slide into ruin. I've seen conferences that don't ask for sources though, just PDFs. So there's no reason in principle you couldn't use groff, except that nobody does it and there's no template. I guess my question is what the experience of trying to write an academic paper with Mom would be like, compared with LaTex.
1. I am not sure exactly how async/await is implemented, but I believe it is very similar. Some people are also working on implementing similar sugar in Rust, but it's not done yet.

2. Closures are on the stack, not the heap, by default, in Rust. If you don't see a Box, they're not heap allocated.

3. I agree!
Exciting! Disappointing that you can't route based on hostname yet, though. I've got 5 ELBs set up to route to different microservices for one app, and because we couldn't do path-based routing before, that's all segmented by hostname. As soon as ALB supports hostname routing, I can collapse those all into a single LB.
Seems they missed the golden opportunity to treat keyword sets as the adwords of location. Who wouldn't want to live at: banana.capitalone.waterslide?
The recent housing finance crisis converted a lot of negative net worth homeowners to not-homeowners (whether of negative net worth or otherwise) -- by both procedurally streamlining and reducing social stigma attached to various methods of getting out from under mortgage debt.

(Of course, it did so only after first producing a lot of negative net worth homeowners out of people who were positive net worth homeowners, so its not clear where the net effect is.)
People expecting continuous growth are in for a shock at some point, it's just a matter of when.
I've often felt I'm not smart enough to be a theoretical physicist, but smart enough to know the difference between a real explanation and word vomit.

And that is extremely stressful for me. There is a desire to feel like you can understand some key part of the world you live in.

Failing to get into academia feels like I've personally failed at calming this desire. And I hate it.

Sometimes I think people refuse to believe this course of life is necessary, it feels elite and exclusionary. Knowing your world shouldn't require this, it cant't.

But it does.
Nice, could you try it with an irregular city? Like Rome?

thx
Almost universally, these company blogs are on a subdomain and have no obvious link back to the actual site. I don't get it.
Setter and getter methods in java with example program
If the top level is the same you can use a wildcard (*.example.com) cert.