skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most likely fisheries. The EU's fishery policy is traditionally held as horrible, and Norway and Iceland both have relative large fishing economies and better-maintained fisheries than the EU CFP.
It was the same in Sweden when Ratsit first opened. Around 2007 or so. And you can still do it for a charge, but the subject will be notified.
Not ones that are trivially added "in user land".

Browsers should add features where only they have access.
I'm so excited and I just can't hide it! ;-)
Would a "bot approach" to searching these records work?

Say you were looking for (to use the article's example) a 9-mm semi-automatic Beretta 92 sold at Annie's Get Your Gun, serial number ABC123.

You have the scans of all the Form 4473s put into folders (or maybe not, maybe just everything in a dump), and tell the bot to go looking for any form that matches this pattern. Importantly, the bot would NOT cache or structure data for later lookups; every search would be virgin.

You'd have a lot of false positives (the O 0 and I 1 problem), it would not be terribly helpful at handwritten forms, but it could reduce a pile of a million records down to, hopefully, a few hundred or thousand.
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As another thing to consider, my girlfriend gets really bad migraines from flashing lights, and literally has to pull over whenever when an oncoming bike has a strong flashing light.
VMware’s Embrace and Extend Strategy
You may want to look into the 2-of-3 escrow with timeout defined in BIP 112.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0112.mediawi...

You want 'the blockchain' to verify payment between parties; these parties will be in charge of verifying satisfactory delivery and releasing funds.
Clickable essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
>PS: this, of course, not getting into the obvious immorality of lacing a drug to harm addicts. Only a mentally sick society could think otherwise in 2016.

It's not to harm addicts. It's to discourage recreational use in the first place. If you're prescribed Vicodin and are warned about the harmful effects of taking more than the prescribed amount, you are less likely to act on the "what the hell, might as well pop 3 or 4 and get a buzz" thought that pretty much anyone prescribed these drugs could reasonably have at some point. So you never start on the path to becoming a self-destructive addict.
Tor’s Branding Pivot Is Going to Get Someone Killed
A few folks in this thread already have.
> This disappoints the worker bees, and leads to incredible turnover and more frustration for us physicians.

I think they are talking about treatment of non-physician employees.
In Portugal they are apparently kind of doing the opposite of Norway - publishing who did not pay the tax: http://www.e-financas.gov.pt/de/pubdiv/de-devedores.html
Norway option includes taking its fair share of refugees along with the EU, and overall following the EU regulations. I thought the point of Brexit was against all that?
There is an assembler in the intel-gpu-tools package [1].

[1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/intel-gpu-tools/
People supporting bad policies like to say there are no bad consequences.

You hear this about Brexit, climate change, bankrupting the government, violence and war, etc. It's the same rhetorical tool used for a lot of propaganda: You can lie in a moment; it takes hours or days for people to gather the evidence to disprove it.

(To disarm this propaganda: It's easy to construct nonsense that sounds plausible - even to you, smart person; don't let your ego be your weakness - and professionals make a study and art of it. Don't take anything seriously unless it has serious evidence and research behind it in the first place; the first claim has the burden of proof. Also, notice that their real argument is in the unspoken assumptions behind it, how the issue is defined and framed.)

Here's why I think it works: Most policy consequences are difficult to notice if you are uninformed. You can't know nationwide unemployment, GDP growth, or climate change by looking around (with some exceptions). Western economies and societies are huge and complex; often changes are subtle and slow; often they affect one set of people - probably not you - more than another set of people. Finally, in an environment that complex, it's hard to provably connect outcomes to actions (is that hurricane due to climate change? did people get cancer because of the factory's carcinogen or because of bad luck?), and the propagandists can pump out enough lies to raise doubts in people's minds (look up "FUD").
Is it math-heavy in practice?

Software engineers usually have to take quite a few courses in calculus, linear algebra, and stats. But that stuff very rarely comes up in practice, at least in most subfields.
The general idea of transforming a data stream into something that can be sensed and can form impressions the way music or video does is very interesting. Netflix has done some recent work on a tool called Flux for visualizing their very complex system:

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/10/flux-new-approach-to-sys...

I think in general sight is going to be somewhat more useful and practical than sound for this use case, but still a very interesting idea.
I haven't had any of those problems... but if you don't like something it does just delete those lines. I'm not hard line about these things, it's just my favourite one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azeotropic_distillation

You can't distill ethanol to 100%, only 95%. To get the last 5% of water out you typically add benzene or cyclohexane, which remains as a trace contaminant in the final product.

Also note that methanol (and other unsavory small molecules) normally contaminate distilled ethanol unless you actively take steps to remove them. For something you intend to drink, you need to carefully control fermentation to reduce the amount of methanol, toss out the early distillation fractions to remove as much methanol as you can, and then let your remaining distillate sit in an open tank for a couple of weeks to let whatever methanol remains evaporate off (along with some of your product).

If you're making ethanol as an industrial solvent or fuel, you don't need to do these things. It's not crazy that under prohibition, taking all those extra steps would be seen as evidence of an intention to violate the law and make drinkable spirits.

But whatever, Slate says it was a conspiracy to poison poor people, I'm sure that's the right explanation.
We need to decrease focus on "the U.S. government" in such history and reporting.

"People poisoned alcohol during prohibition."

Once you get to that point, you realize that the lessons of history apply all around you. Basically, people are still people. And what happened before, is bound -- history demonstrates, very likely to -- happen again.

You learn to view everything with a critical eye.

I guess I can't avoid the meme: "Because people."

OTOH, this also means that the beauty and awe found in history is also to be found around you, every day. You don't have to leave your time and place to... "live in interesting times."

So, have a good Sunday (today)! :-)
Ask HN: How do you get traction with a product that's subtle?
It's pretty straight forward to get people interested in products that have "better specs" like faster, smaller, cheaper, etc., but what advice would you give for getting people excited about a product that is new/better in subtle ways?

Not trying to plug the specific product I'm working on, but as an example consider a device that could quietly inform you about something fundamental to life (like the weather) and still work just as well 20+ years from now (i.e. No wifi, batteries, or moving parts). In the current landscape, other products can win on specs alone (any internet device can view detailed local weather reports), but the subtle differences between something that lasts a lifetime and quietly informs you vs a device you swap out every few years and demands your interaction seems significant.

I strongly believe that the subtle things can make the difference between great, lasting products and short-term excitement that fizzles, but selling subtlety seems incredibly hard because it's not as simple as just saying A is greater than B.

Any thoughts/advice about how to market such a product would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Adam
Totally not negative on this but I'm not a Skype user so can someone please explain to me why anyone would want to go to all the effort to reverse engineer it? I get that its closed and should be open, I get that its security is in question but if you want a more secure communications platform I can't imagine Skype is the only way forward and must be reverse engineered. Why not contribute to an existing open source project?
It's not there to stop people who are already addicts. It's to dissuade the person prescribed the drug for a good reason from experimenting with it recreationally.
So, how will they know "if" I'm keeping some of my income undeclared? Remember - this is the DECLARED income that is public.
Goodbye, Ivory Tower. Hello, Candy Store
You must live in a different part of LA than I did. I spent a summer bike-commuting from Santa Monica along Wilshire Blvd to UCLA. It sucked. The cars were mostly going 50, the right lane was dangerous because of the 405 on-ramp and off-ramp, and the sidewalk was a slalom course of lamp posts.

The only real alternate route was to wind through Brentwood and around the VA cemetery. It was long, slow, and had its own hazard: there was a plant by the cemetery that made little spiky seeds that would deflate tires.

The Big Blue Bus was decent, but somehow longtime Angelenos in the early 2000s didn't believe that people who owned cars belonged on the bus.
Social media are owned and run by someone else, so they are not agnostic tools the way a hammer is.
It is fundamentally undermining of the legitimacy of a democracy to ignore the popular vote in a national referendum. Although the majority now may believe it is the right choice, the precedent would inevitably come back to haunt you.
There's another paragraph in the article which confirms that Dearborn does send more people to prison than San Francisco, not just per-capita, but even in absolute numbers. The headline seems to be accurate in that regard.
It's interesting that the authors aren't clear about fields being fundamental, it's not even controversial.

I noticed that he looked for books with the words "Quantum Mechanics" in the title. The subject he should be investigating is called "Quantum Field Theory". But regardless, anyone qualified to write a text book on QM should be well versed in QFT.
To be pedantic, a butter knife is really for spreading, not cutting.
Most businesses paying a salary expect (and sometimes encode in your employment contract) that it is your sole job. They don't want the stress, mental fatigue, and time commitments of a second job competing with your work for them.

(This is my understanding, as a person living in the US anyway.)
Clarence Darrow, in his autobiography, discusses his defense for Loeb and Leopold. L&L were wealthy Chicago teenagers who read Nietzsche and decided they were Ubermensch. They murdered a random boy to prove they could get away with it. Darrow argued that L&L would not consider murder again, and that their crime was something that would happen only once in 1,000 years.

I found this repugnant. Who more deserves prison than those two? But with reflection my views have softened. At least one of the two seems to have wanted to be good. He lived out his life in prison quietly, spending his time writing an ornithology book. I can no longer honestly say I believe that society as a whole was better served by jailing them. Perhaps they should have been given the chance to redeem themselves by becoming productive citizens, and the chance to earn back a measure of dignity. (Certainly repeat offenders should be deemed a menace and incarcerated for the public good.)

I feel the same confusion about Brock Turner, the Stanford swimmer who raped a woman behind a dumpster. There was a lot of outrage at his early release, but again I'm not sure the greater good is served by keeping him behind bars. I hope he will live in infamy for the rest of his days, as is just. But should he have stayed behind bars for longer, at the public expense? I can't give a really cogent reason why he should (I am not comparing his sentence to that of other rapists, or to that of other convicts by the way).
> The same could be true for household goods, Mr. Weyl said. One possible situation: After you use your espresso machine for breakfast, a drone comes to pick it up, and you rent it out for the day.

A most ridiculous example of 'anything is possible with technology'.
> Castor told Apple reps how amazed she was by the iPad she received as a gift for her 17th birthday just a few years earlier. It raised her passion for tech to another level — mainly due to the iPad's immediate accessibility.

Just goes to show how different things can be between perception and reality. I've worried that the move away from keyboard-based inputs would increase the marginalization of disabled computer users. Now that I think (more) about it, the physical form of a tablet can be similarly as interpretable as a keyboard, with the added bonus that app designers don't have the choice to build (and prioritize) a mouse-based interface -- I'm assuming that mouse-driven interfaces are especially difficult for the visually-impaired [0].

The uniformity of interface that iOS imposes is probably especially useful for the visually-impaired, provided that they have employees (like the one featured in the OP) who are on the engineering and design teams.

[0] http://webaim.org/articles/visual/blind
Nice! My first thought was this is a text-to-speech engine.
More likely they are invoking their famous card. The minority card had no advantages.

Chris Rock pointed out that in being a black actor he is not allowed to make a bad/questionable movie. He makes one bad film and and all of black Hollywood is out of work for a year.
Umm, can't you just use wget in spider mode? As in:

wget --spider --force-html -r <url goes here>

Seems that's much faster, easier? Could be missing something. Will this tool help me fix my broken links too??
Excellent point, and I'm getting there with all the work I've been doing restoring my Bronco.
All on an iPhone 6 running iOS 9.3.5. There's a toggle to turn it off but it doesn't work. I get gapless playback on everything - playlists, albums, etc. I generally only run it offline. Drives me nuts since most of the music I listen to has distinct beginnings and endings, and skrillexing them together ruins it.
Indian PM openly endorses product of an Indian private giant
PKG.CAT: An email application
I used to write a fairly popular cross-platform text editor. Been thinking about open-sourcing it.
Damn. I'm so sorry for your loss. Can't even imagine what you must be going through.
In stock at every Walgreens near me: https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/walgreens-ethyl-rubbing-al...

And at most CVS's: http://www.cvs.com/shop/health-medicine/first-aid/antibiotic...
I definitely see in Norway that people across generations use car less often. One can argue that rise of payed roads, higher and higher fees to enter cities etc. contributes to that. However, those measures are implemented by politicians who are elected by grown ups with cars, as they are more likely to vote.
Hi, author here :-)

> That is unrelated to syslog because it is simply a log transport mechanism.

Only partially, RFC5424 defines the structured data format (that unfortunately is not widely used)

syslog is also the syslog() interface, and as far as I know there is no reference implementation for encoding structured data in the format the RFC describes.

Personally I'd rather it be something like json.

I could patch openssh to log using json, but the chances of that ever getting merged are probably 0.

> See two independent specifications for example:

Well, RFC5424 says it obsoletes 3164 at least. 3164 is just embarrassing, especially the section on timestamps: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164#section-5.1

Adding a year to the date was "not consistent with the original intent of the order and format of the fields". 5424 at least says "Use this specific form of RFC3339"

> Switches/routers/appliances cause even more issue because the custom implementations tend to not format messages perfectly for any of the RFC

Ugh, I know it. As I said in another comment, we run syslog collection as a service so we receive logs from a large number of different devices not under our direct control.
This is called the Peter Principle [0]. Unfortunately, the system is kinda unfixable. If we promote based on achievement in your last job, then at some point you can become unpromotable in your current job as you just aren't suited to it or some other reason. If we want to get rid of the Peter Principle, an inherent 'bug' in a merit based system, then you have to radically change how promotion is decided. Your front-line workers are victims of management that is affected by the sclerosis of the Peter Principle, and they themselves are as well as they are unpromotable and have 'failed' at the merit based system (namely, the internal politics of the Hospital).

Still, it sounds like management just wants to hire/fire at a whim, as it keeps wages down and there tends to be a glut of nurses out there that can be replaced. Again, this is a feature of supply/demand and the job market. Also, if you did raise wages based on 'merit', then you would get the front-line people trying to snipe each other over the money and promotion would become based on internal politics and 'he-said-she-said' stuff. It all comes down to the money.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
If you look from it from an employers standpoint, that employee might not be around for much longer if his/hers side-business kicks off. It can be hard to find candidates that can replace that employee.

If the employee makes more money from that business than from yours, the employee has literally nothing to lose and may start to become sloppy with their work, not take it as seriously as he/she should, etc.

I'd say it's all about control.
The issue with immigration is not xenophobia but economic as Economist Branko Milanovic (and perhaps others) have been pointing out since 2012. Milanovic's now famous "Elephant Curve" shows that the working or middle class in developed countries have seen no wage growth in 20 years. Part of that effect is from exporting jobs to China, Mexico (for US), Eastern Europe (for Europe) and part of that is from importing unskilled/low skilled labor.

20 years ago Britain had 900,000 immigrants.
Today they have 3.3 million.
The British government promised to limit EU immigration to 100,000 last year but broke their promise: it exceeded 300,000.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-27/get-ready-...

These low-skilled immigrants compete for jobs in the UK and lower wage growth. Not those of professionals but of the working class/middle class.

In the US, in 1970 we had 9.6 million immigrants (less than 5% of the population) and 2013 41.3 million (about 14% of the population). That does not include the 11 million immigrants in the US illegally.

http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/09/28/chapter-5-u-s-foreign-...

As in the case of Britain, the working class in the US is suffering from the mostly low-educated immigrants that compete for jobs and drive down wage rates. The 11 million immigrants in the country illegally take jobs with illegal working conditions and illegally low wages since they can't complain.

So, the issue is economic and not xenophobic.

The real issue of BrExit and the rise of Trump is because the political and media elites in both countries (and this includes the Democrats as well as Republicans) have ignored the economic concerns of the working class.
My reflection was "negative". If companies emitted signs of trouble and England seen as the Titanic, I thought the GBP would keep crashing; the fact that it wasn't led me to believe the British market was still fine and could handle more stress on its own in the future.
This information can be used to infer things about you, such as your sexual orientation, political positions, personality type, unhealthy behaviors and so on. Then machine learning algorithms can be used to deny you health insurance, credit or employment based on this data.

Or they can sell that data to other companies that will deny you any of these things. So better be careful with out you say, with which books you read, who your friends are and so on.

Or they can make deals with governments to reveal information about you, in exchange for regulatory favors.

Or maybe you're a robot with nothing to hide, but they can still make mistakes or wrong inferences and hurt you in the above ways.

And advertisement can be improved to bypass your cognitive defenses, or catch you at a vulnerable moment (all things that can be detected with enough data) and manipulate you into making decisions against your best interests.

In short, data disclosure can get you killed, poor and/or sick. If that was not the case, why would corporations be so secretive about their own stuff?

By the way, all of the above examples are not hypothetical. They are all based on things that are demonstrably already happening.
Not my radar but mainstrean indeed.
Being a contrarian is no more valuable than being a yes man.

Neither has any societal value.
> ...alcohol taxes are too low
Citation needed - seriously. Mark Kleinman the "War on Alcohol guy"?!? Arguments about taxation could go on for a very long time. Is the tax having the effect we wanted. Should taxes be used for social engineering? Is the govt even using the money to cure the social ills they promised theyd solve - apparently not for cigarettes because smokings coming back in a big way.

> the taxes are not blood money
Actually they are - here's the definition: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blood%20money
It seems pretty clear that this is more about a clique that is attacking Mr Crockford in order to obtain more power for themselves.

They can now say - "Hey - you have to listen to us! We Matter! Look at what we forced the Nodevember people to do. We're a moral authority!".

To go from complaining about a lack of diversity, to basically saying 'you screwed up and now need to prove your love to us by uninviting this JS superstar'. It's like the stereotypical abusive boy/girl friend requiring their lover to do something they normally wouldn't do to prove their love.

It's simple bullying, really.
Wow. Thanks for sharing. This was beautifully written. A tragic occurrence that you seemed to have handled well.
The numbers don't tell the whole story - Japan also has large non-acceptance-related barriers to immigration, including the massive language barrier, low wages and a poor working environment for skilled workers compared to western companies, and a weak welfare system. Immigration system aside, Japan just isn't an attractive country to move to for economic considerations.

edit: as for anecdotes, I know people who have moved to the EU and US through marriage, and it was a multi-year and/or multi-thousand dollar ordeal. I know people who moved to the US though work and it was the same thing (working in a EU office for a year to satisfy some random internal-transfer criteria). Meanwhile getting a visa in Japan is a $30 fee for ID card issuance and everyone I know here has gotten visas approved in days (marriage visa, not even an interview required) to months (work visas).
This is sad for the UK, but scary as an American facing an election where people want to build a wall and "make America great again." Like Brexit, the rhetoric sounds good to some, but those speaking have no idea how to implement what they are talking about or the likely consequences.

I am not trying to make an argument for or against conservatism. I am saying we need to ask politicians to explain their policies in detail.
I think the bigger problem lies in salary negotiations with a new employer.