skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It goes something like this "We found this $10K in a car on a known drug route with out of state plates, prove it's not a drug money."

Except, not, because the government bears the burden of proving that it is drug money, assuming you assert a claim that the funds should not be subject to forfeiture. (If they meet that burden and you wish to keep the money anyway by invoking the innocent owner principal, you have the burden of proving that you were not involved in the illegal conduct that made the money subject to forfeiture or acted to end it as soon as you became aware, though.)

> The issues is that it's really hard to prove your money is innocent

No, though there is a legitimate issue that it may be difficult to afford decent representation to do a good job of countering the government's attempt to prove your money guilty if, you know, the government's just seized your life savings.

(This is actually related to the reason I am inclined to think that the right to publicly-provided counsel ought to apply in any legal case pursued against an indigent defendant by the government, whether or not it is a criminal case.)
"For Excel users, this should be a good story to keep in mind before sharing results of an Excel model."

Shouldn't this be an argument for sharing your model before drawing conclusions and sharing those?

Also, maybe using Excel isn't a great idea for building models that will affect economic policy. Complex Excel sheets can be difficult to debug and version when compared to a more traditional programming language.
When Ancient Romans Had Their Clothes Stolen, They Responded with Curse Tablets
I think Rust's approach here makes a lot more sense for the language than Go/CML style M:N would. You can recover most of the M:N ergonomics over time via async/await style syntax. But if your foundation is built on a (comparatively) slow "pthreads in userland" threading model, then you hit a performance ceiling that you can never break through. For a language like Rust, it makes sense to begin in the optimum place and then layer zero-cost abstractions on top to achieve the right ergonomics.
Yelp CEO Accuses Google of Manipulating Search Results
The problem with time and time zones [video]
End of Moore's Law is a good thing: it could fuel the rise of cyborgs and AI
The thing is, none of this is pioneered by the federal government because "it isn't their job/place" because we have the state governments that are supposed to pioneer these things. I don't think that is an argument on it's own. I will add though that I think the smaller state governments add benefit by allowing progressive changes like this to take hold and see how it turns out in a small "experiment".
The vast majority of those situations are where the people are already scientists and experts in their field. We are talking about people who are not experts in physics.
All pages are rendered server-side by default. React Server sends each server-side rendered element as soon as it, and every element before it, are ready, up to a timeout, at which point it sends the late arrivals as they trail in. On the client side, React Server picks up where the server left off, to render client side code as the user interacts with the page.
Thanks for the feedback John. We have launched public beta 10 weeks ago, so we are not yet fully prepared to provide all needed HOW-TOs to both developers and common users, but we are working hard to achieve that goal! Ondrej, Integromat team
I'm guessing you've never seen prices on localbitcoins or other trading sites. There is always a big markup for buying bitcoin with cash. It'd be extremely expensive to buy 5k let alone $50-100k. Then cashing out your bitcoin you'd likely losing money again.

Besides the difficulty in finding people who have $50-100k in bitcoin they want to sell then finding another person who wants to buy $50-100k in bitcoin.

The market simply isn't there for this to be practical. There would have to be a big healthy black market here for people both buying and selling BTC for cash. You'd then have to hide this transaction from the DEA/IRS (on both ends A buying -> B selling) rather than just shipping cash from point A->B.

So without a market already in place for this then you're no better off then before.
IMDB Data Visualizations with D3 and Dimple.js
Generate your own random fantasy maps
And my entire array is 50TB of usable storage space, all spinning rust.... Still far cheaper than the $7K but disheartening haha.
Well, I was thinking you could have all pages server-side rendered in the case of a low-power mobile device, and leave the hybrid approach for desktop browsers.

The user-agent string could be used to decide which approach to use.
Yep, this is the case
Don't expect instant gratification from New Tech
It even includes a Dockerfile and a docker-compose.yml file to get quickly started, that's cool :)
I believe you've seen "Her" movie. Bots are 30 or so years old. There is no useful bot, except it has General AI, imo.
Have kids, haven't had a TV since about 2002. It's 90% garbage, and ever more and more ads. Now past 50 so count as old too. Kids were surprisingly not fussed - a few complaints in the first week or two, no more. Played out more, read more. Didn't suddenly start spending hours more at friends with TVs.

If they're around a TV they'll watch it of course.

YT, Netflix and other streaming covers the few things we do want to watch, and movies. A bigger monitor would be good for movies. Much less overall screen time though.
Thanks for the feedback Silhouette, much apreciated! We are aware of this and new homepage is comming next week. Ondrej, Integromat team
BTW, I also like various classical and especially baroque music. I've never heard of a nightclub that plays Vivaldi or Telemann.
M.2 isn't "intrinsically" smaller, it's just a smaller form factor for drives since it's getting to the point that filling even a the volume of a conventional 2.5" laptop hard drive with flash is producing absurdly large drives for consumers. The inside of these drives are probably already stuffed more densely than you could stuff M.2 drives in the same volume (even reconfigured for optimal M.2 stuffing).
here you have the problem. You see? They are not correctly detected http://imgur.com/iGLT5Ea
You are the one that suggested pedantry and then when given a a response now want to go suggest semantic arguments. It's as if you arguing with yourself.
I suspect their terrible interface is partially to hide how shallow the streaming catalog is.
let mut counter = 0;
let mut increment = || { counter += 1; counter };

increment();
increment();

There is no heap allocation there.
>don't currently use any SCM

It's even easier when you do. For instance, we have RhodeCode (https://rhodecode.com) as an "umbrella SCM" to control permissions for Git, Hg and Subversion repositories. We then mirror public ones to GitHub/Bitbucket.
>If people don't understand stuff they can google it or just not read the article.

Or if you are interested beyond an elementary level, you can Google for more complicated subject matter. There's more than enough out there to wet your whistle.

Do you really think most normal people are going to look further into some random subject they didn't understand? Because that's who the mainstream media is appealing to. One of my pet peeves is coming into these very comment sections and someone criticizing an article for being "dumbed down". If you know the subject matter and find it "easy" then the article was probably not targeted at you. Why ask the author to write a "harder" article?
> I'm not aware of anyone offering an alternative superior to an informal CSP yet which seems to be the reason why Go and Clojure have picked it as well for their concurrency model.

What about Quasar [0] on the JVM?

0 - http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/
Source? Context? Authority even?
Versioning the Software Environment with Docker and Kubernetes
FinTech Firms Should Be Prepared to Plan Their Own Funerals
No way this is selling for $7,000. This is going to be a $20,000 drive considering current SSD storage pricing.

It'll then be rebranded by HP and Dell for enterprise and sold for $35,000 or so for supported server builds.

Yeah, we're not getting this level of storage anytime soon.
You can read and use everything, it's just a warning. We allready responded about this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12268827

Ondrej, Integromat team
Are you sure it's cheaper in TCO, including electricity and cooling?
"They are driven by the same desire to understand nature and make a contribution to science as we are. They just weren’t lucky enough to get the required education early in life, and now they have a hard time figuring out where to even begin."

Any chance of on-boarding via experimental work/data analysis in some way like in Astronomy?

http://www.iau.org/public/themes/citizen-science-projects/
But civil forfeiture isn't criminal punishment, and doesn't have the features for which that protection exists.

It technically isn't, but the intent is to give the government options to punish criminal behavior and criminal organizations without having to meet the same standards of proof or respect the same set of rights they would under criminal law. Traditional civil law deals with breaches of contract and torts where someone has been harmed and needs to be made whole, not the government attempting to maintain order. Civil asset forfeiture is fundamentally "getting a conviction here would be too hard, let's take their stuff instead".

Most people talking about the burden of proof are misusing the term, but the protections guaranteed to a criminal defendant are reduced or absent in civil asset forfeiture. Using civil law in this manner should give us pause, as there are good reasons for the limitations and guarantees of criminal law.
Sounds a lot like Pentaho Data Integration
Great read, thanks for sharing! If readers are interested in open source schema registries, check out:

* https://github.com/confluentinc/schema-registry

* https://github.com/snowplow/iglu

Disclosure, I work on Iglu.
>After WWII a considerable amount of support was put behind Israel (and rightly so).

I'm guessing those who lost their families and homes at gunpoint would disagree with that being "right". Each intervention creates more victims, it's just that some are more easily written out of history.
Many get them to learn to program and get acquainted with a Linux command line. Especially kids at school.

Personally, I've been learning how to utilise my software skills to controlling hardware. Lots of fun.

Also opens up a new horizon of ideas.
How the Government Is Waging Crypto War 2.0
> Mainly because it's hard to actually implement without all the flaws if you don't try to understand the underlying principles. Unfortunately, Scrum books and coaches rarely go through these.

If you are implementing Scrum, I don't see how you do it without the Scrum Guide (which defines Scrum), which is both quite short and does, in fact, go through the underlying principles.
Location: New York City

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Angular2, React, Redux, Node/Expressjs, MongoDb, Sass

Résumé/CV/Portfolio: http://miguelc1221.github.io/

Email: miguelc1221@gmail.com

I am also willing to take on an intern position in order to prove myself as an asset.
Cool idea, I hope to build something one day that I can publish on it.
Building an Elixir Release into a Docker Image Using GitLab CI – Part 1
Deep-Dreamed RickRoll is Nightmarish
Sure, I have VMWare Workstation and VirtualBox running fine, although not at the time time. I could probably do everything I need with the built in HyperV, I just prefer VMWare (and VirualBox!).

Thinking on, the only thing I get frustrated with is the track pad. To the point I carry a mouse around for extended sessions. Other than that I can't think of anything I'd change.
clearly blogspam.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

The Show HN by the creator of the linked site is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12260794
I must be weird because I like music across a wide range of styles, electronica, rock, rap, r&b, pop, world, and all mixtures of them. I get bored being stuck in an algorithmic bubble with similar sounding music for too long. I like music that is "interesting, according to me" but I can't really define interesting until I listen to it.
Hi! Vets.gov dev here. We're not in charge of VONAPP, but we work with them. I'll see if I can't track down a good contact for this.
Hi,

I'm helping organize the meetups in Lagos and Abuja. Hit me up if you have any questions or suggestions. I'd encourage people from neighbouring countries to take the trip down. So I hope to see people from Benin, Cameroon, Togo and of course Ghana

Thanks a lot Kat and team for making this happen! Hopefully it will be the first of many.

Here are the sign up links.

Lagos: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/techcircle-presents-building-a-...

Abuja: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/techcircle-presents-build-a-gre...
http://www.blackblaze.com/
As someone who graduated in 2011, I feel like I really dodged a bullet with San Francisco. I've had managers in job interviews (even living in Boston!) tell me that I was crazy for not moving west, in my position, that you had to be in SF if you wanted to get into tech, do it now while you're young, etc. One person flat out told me I wasn't really serious about tech because I wasn't moving west. Recruiters assume that you'd be willing to relocate to SF, friends are constantly moving there -- there were definitely a few times that I considered it.

All said though, I think I've received much better opportunities in Boston, I love being around a more culturally/educationally diverse group of people, and I'm not sure the social pressures in SF would have molded me into a "better" person. Honestly, I'd probably hate "SF me," and I couldn't have asked for (or really wanted) a better early career than the one I'm having.

Although I have friends who are regretting their choice to move, and that sucks, I have to admit to a certain amount of schadenfreude, watching everything unfold in the last couple years. I'm sure San Francisco will be a tech hub for years to come, and I'm sure other tech hubs will continue to emerge, but it was a great early lesson for me that moving for a career often isn't the magic bullet that people think it is (or that staying put is a death sentence) -- especially in tech.

Certain extreme examples aside (it's hard to be a lumberjack in New Mexico), "career options" should be only one factor in choosing where to set your roots (or whether to set them at all), and, at a certain point, you can only take advantage of so many opportunities in a lifetime, so there is a saturation point at which more of them become meaningless. Also, watch out for terrible advice when you're young :-p
Nitrogen, you can find it in our Help section, for example here: https://www.integromat.com/en/kb/first-scenario.html

And here is a short demonstration of our UI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Q9rh9VWEo

Ondrej, Integromat team
My bad about the incorrect usage. Please disregard the original phrasing, as my point is that all four combinations of [malicious, illegal] are possible, with an attempted-but-botched observation that sometimes malicious things are made illegal.
Yes, clearly one can construct ridiculous examples. On the other hand, one can also ignore clearly valid cases while trying to construct the perfect solution. Sometimes the real world involves solutions that are merely acceptable. Or even individual judgement calls - hence why we have judges and juries.

But since you seem to think that there is a fully-cohesive, non-circular, objective way to judge what is harassment or abuse, please enlighten me as to what it is.

If you fail to do so, then somebody will probably rape and kill your entire family. <-- Not abusive, because there isn't a peer-reviewed Theory of Abuse available.

edit: Just for the hard-of-sarcasm, the last bit is to illustrate the ridiculousness of the argument, not an actual threat.
As much as I respect the NY Times, I still have trouble reconciling why they give space to Brooks & Friedman, who are both increasingly out of touch, hackish, and self-interested to the point of combining their forces to snatch away gobs of credibility and flush them down the proverbial toilet.
Hello, please look here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12268656

Ondrej, Integromat team
I'd like to second this by suggesting the docs include a recommendation on how to incorporate this within an existing React app. Apologies if this is available within the Yeoman generator but if so it wasn't obvious from the docs.

FWIW, I've found the isomorphic render examples within the Megaboilerplate examples for React [0] to be instructive.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11861926
Many base their theories on images,
downloaded or drawn by hand, embedded
in long pamphlets. A few use basic
equations. Some add videos or applets.
Some work with 3D models of Styrofoam,
cardboard or wires.

Actually these are perfectly good ways of communicating ideas and solving problems.
Great site, considering sharing some of my projects.

> Learn how developers are writing their own paychecks.

Would love to see a forum dedicated solely to "indie hacking" for developers. ie. threads related to all the ins-and-outs of independent product development, idea validation, market research, dealing with customers, marketing strategies, founder Q&A, etc.
Eerie he's so prescient there. If only youtube was a thing then we could have all been sending this around.

To give backers of the war the benefit of the doubt, a whole lot of shit changed after that video. Hindsight is 20/20 and we can't back test strategies like the stock market. It would be nice if we could.
I dabbled in designing a cooler/freezer monitoring setup for a local farmer not too long ago.

The 2 biggest constraints I found were power and communication from within the freezer.

One promising approach was
- a BLE enabled temp. sensor beacon with a coin lion battery
- a nearby externally mounted unit (RaspberryPi) plugged into a wall socket as a relay
- a small central 'black box' SSD/Wifi/router ground-station to collect, store and push the data to the internet

The biggest question was whether the beacon signal could get through the freezer walls. If not then I was going to look into the idea of some super flat cable to enable a wired sensor connection without compromising the freezer seal (like a meat thermometer in an oven)
This seems really cool! I installed it yesterday to try it out - I really want something like this.

Your on-boarding is really good. However, when it comes time to create an account, I need to create a username and password. Can't I just create the account with facebook? I already gave you access?

I found it very hard to see what's actually going on. The images on the cities are so big that they obscure the context. The "history bar" is confusing (I figured it out eventually), but I thought it was some glitching, and it made it look unprofessional.

I feel lots of data is missing: you pulled from FB but I didnt see evidence of my facebook history.

My use case is to have "reminders" of my life. I'd love if you can pull data from lots of places, in particular my email. The email headers in my gmail probably include where I was at all times over the last decade. Can you include that in some way? If you can pull the photos from my dropbox account, you'd probably have a complete look at my life for the last 10 years at least, but my phone only goes to 2012. (Everalbum does a good job with this).

Anyway, awesome idea, looking forward to trying it again.
> C++ implementations obey the zero-overhead principle: What
> you don’t use, you don’t pay for [Stroustrup, 1994]. And
> further: What you do use, you couldn’t hand code any better.
>
> – Stroustrup

So, in this context, the idea is that if you hand-rolled your own state machine, you should see no difference than using this library. And, we measured: the overhead in a benchmark comparing the two was 0.3%, that's three tenths of one percent.
Imagine translating natural language into XPath queries. Now that would be something.
Every day we seem to inch our way towads Accelerando...
> It technically isn't, but the intent is to give the government options to punish criminal behavior and criminal organizations without having to meet the same standards of proof or respect the same set of rights they would under criminal law.

The behavior at issue (which often is the same behavior covered by tort law) is not the reason for the additional protections of criminal law; the sanctions available under criminal law are the primary reason for the protections.
Cheap, fast, wireless connectivity won’t happen without more fiber
"pidgen" is "pidgin" in his pidgin.
My experience has been that experts in most fields tend to shy away from using precise, professional language when speaking to a layperson. I think this tendency indirectly results in the sort of dialogs you're describing.
I should've clarified better. I am talking about cases where visa is a non-issue.
A personal diary like Twitter , like Captain's log from star trek
I'd ask a different question. How many professional developer's employers are investing their resources back into open source?

Since tech companies are the financial beneficiaries of everything open from operating systems to databases and programming languages, shouldn't "they" be reinvesting?

Why would we expect professionals to do this for free? When they do it is extremely generous.
Granted. It depends on the project though, I think - If you think that by working on it full time, you could get it to a point where you could have to do no work to live comfortably (either by hiring people to do it for you, or by selling it for enough cash to live off for the rest of your life) I'd say do that.

If it's not that kind of business though, I definitely agree - go the Pinboard route and blog about your trips to Antarctica or whatever while doing a minimum of work.
* I suspect what will happen is that people with money will now be charged for small, ridiculous offences, misdemeanours, as a way for law enforcement to skirt the law.*

That could happen, though I think some reformed laws require it to be a felony, while others require proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the property is tied to the crime.
Did you mean assassination markets, or does "assignation" have another meaning I'm not aware of?
Securing EC2 Instances with Ansible and Conjur
I don't think comparing the Bay Area's boom-bust cycle with the plight of Detroit is very fair.
I like this idea. As a father with little kids, I find myself regularly sidetracked. A bot that reminds me of pending tasks would be great. Bonus points if that bot can also let me know of relevant, local community events that are coming up.
That number almost certainly includes off-brand replacement parts that don't substantially change the performance of the vehicle. Stuff like third party mufflers to replace the OEM muffler when it rusts out.

On older cars your options for repair parts are often either the junkyard or aftermarket companies like Dorman.
The issue is that there are different infinities. The infinity the parent is talking about, the one that you generally run into in calculus class and the like, is straightforward. The research in the past century was about what happens _past_ infinity, e.g. ordinal numbers.

I'm no mathematician either, so I'll stop there before I embarrass myself. The most accessible resource I found was this VSauce video [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrU9YDoXE88
I'm pretty sure that at some point in the not too distant past, these Indian languages had armies.
That's true, and being able to describe complex concepts in a simple (yet still accurate) way is a skill in itself — one that requires a lot of practice. Feynman was notoriously good at this.
“We do REST” is not Enough