skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All kinds of evidence analysis belong outside of police agencies and prosecutors' offices. Evidence analysis should be independent and not beholden to the criminal justice system. It should serve the cause of exculpation is that is where analysis leads. Perhaps it should be a branch of a state science office that also serves environmental protection enforcement and other functions.

Otherwise it will inevitably lead to the use of junk science and to systemic and individual corruption.

In the case of IP addresses, such an arrangement should be structured to advise that a warrant should not be issued unless multiple sources of hard evidence point to a particular location.
I've worked on a few street light retrofit projects and the AMA warning is a little overblown and frankly immediately outdated.

This is off the cuff, but it comes down to circadian rhythms being influenced by the color of light. Before artficial light, the sunrise and sunset have a softer light with a lot more red wavelength in it. This would correspond more closely with the color of light from an incandescent, like 2500-3000 Kelvin. The mid day light has a lot more blue wavelength in it relatively, where it is much more of a White light, I think daylight is like 15,000K. The high pressure sodium, HPS, lights have an orange light in the 2,200K range. The majority of LED street lights being installed are 4000-5000K, so they have a lot more of the blue light. Essentially the blue light tricks your brain into thinking it's mid day and messes with your sleep patterns.

The first generations of LED street lights could really only effectively make the 4000-5000K light. With new generations coming out every 3 months or so though they have been able to create models that can generate the 2500-3000K warm red light, but they're not quite as energy efficienct as the 4000K lamps, maybe 10% or something. The 2500K is actually better for the Dark Sky movements as well and a lot of cities are moving to specify these warmer temperature for those reasons.

There are a whole bunch of other things going on as well. The road way lighting standards were designed around the light patterns of a HPS lamp and haven't been updated to reflect the light patterns possible with LEDs, hence a lot of LED projects have too bright of streets.

For the sleep pattern issues, when you're installing LED lights in your home, you want to put the warm lamps, 2500-3000K, lamps in bedrooms and such. Then for living spaces or offices you'd want to put the 4000K lamps to help keep you awake during the day. There are also lamps/fixtures available that will automatically tune the color output of the light to be in sync with the outdoors to help keep circadian rhythms in sync.

This company has been pushing the tunable lamps hard.
http://www.planled.com/archives/portfolio-item/entraining-ci...

http://humancentriclighting.org/ This site appears to be fairly dead, but they were more of an independent group promoting it the last year or two.
You could consider repeat messages as adding insult to injury. For example you can see in the 24-message conversation with the SEO company, that repeat messages seem to aggravate the spammers.
Well, if you're like me and not an expert in the field, you could be forgiven following a sentence like this:

>I originally developed this interface as a tool to explore the latent space of the introspective adversarial network, a novel hybridization of the VAE and GAN which powers this system.
Ah hah! I thought it might be something like that, but figured there was something I wasn't considering. Thanks for the link.
"she is one of the most highly accomplished and sought after IP lawyers in the nation."

Success does not necessarily imply intelligence.
>They didn’t murder hundreds of millions of natives

When we compare morality, we compare morality among contemporaries.
So this guy is a domain squatter?

And all you need to do to become one is add a script? I always assumed there was special access to top tier domain snatchers or they had some sort of high-speed trading thing with a fast uplink.
The parent comment may have been using colorful idiomatic phrasing to advocate for non-violent verbal engagement.
But there's no guarantee that MSRP will go down. More likely that PM will increase.
There is a lot of fraud in DMCA takedowns already. If none of it has been punished, that tells you something about the risk of such fraud.
I think a lot of it if force of habit combined with the externalities of meat production not being reflected in the price of meat, making it cheaper to buy than it is in terms of overall cost. Meat consumption is a cultural element as well as a dietary one.
The first off the top of my head is over the top DA's and police backed by a general authoritarian political class.
> Stuff is going to get even worse when IoT devices begin using IPv6. By design, devices are publically reachable

Is that true? I just setup IPv6 at home yesterday and I don't see the difference from IPv4 in terms of reachability. The default policy on my firewall for incoming traffic for both IPv4 and IPv6 is drop.

Yes, NAT can give you a pseudo-firewall in that LAN devices aren't given publicly routable addresses, but I have no idea why anyone would leave their IPv6 network completely open "by design".
sounds like the self-driving trucks would need to be protected by security teams, otherwise they may be susceptible to out of work pirates.
We don't have self-driving trains yet, except in very tightly controlled environments. So I think it's going to take more than a few test runs to show that self-driving trucks will displace drivers anytime soon.
You backorder the domain. If we get it and you are the only bidder, you pay $99 and the domain is yours.

lol then why bother paying $99. just pick it up from any registrar for $9 after it drops
Related:

http://www.sciencealert.com/1-000-year-old-onion-and-garlic-...

People 1000 years ago were smart, and understood "scientific" practices such as trial and error, running multiple experiments, etc. Since they had little way to communicate with peers, the scientific revolution had to wait another 800 or so years.
Companies will want to automate because if they don't they will go out of business because their competitors will.
I do python where your question applies too.

It is significantly quicker to write code in a higher level language, since the primitives and libraries do more per line of code. The cost is that it doesn't run as fast. But consider these two scenarios:

1 It takes 2 hours to write the code, and 1 hour for it to run.

2 It takes 2 days to write the code, and 1 minute for it to run

Note that "write the code" includes the actual writing, as well as debugging, testing etc. The first scenario is the most immediately productive. But the more you have to run the code, the more the second scenario applies.

Which is why you combine the approaches. Write the parts that aren't performance sensitive quickly in your high level language, and take longer on the performance parts in C. That works better than exclusively approach 1 or 2.
It should be deleted. I was feeling very dark when I posted it.
Literally any other tld right

.dance and .party have been fun lately
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20160925143639/https://krebsonse...
> how can you possibly judge actions in the 50s by what surprised everyone in the 80s

The thing is, your ends don't justify your means. It was Stalin's dogma and boy was he wrong. You can't justify crimes with "or what would have happened". The fall of communism just makes that apparent.
I agree with that. Played a little bit with Hopac (after also using anything from TPL, F# async, Rx, ...), and I think it's quite awesome. However it takes some time to get into it, and the monadic expressions and all those operations really take some time to learn and are not as easy to understand as e.g. Go's inbuilt concurrency primitives. For that reason I don't think Hopac will become mainstream. However it's very powerful, probably more powerful than any often the other things. And the performance is also excellent.

Some other ultra-short comparisons to the other concurrency approaches:

- The rendezvous model with bounded channels is IMHO the best communication model for resource passing between different "actors", as you can avoid situations were you pass a resource but nobody listens for it any more.

- Hopac (like Go) provides selective communication, which is very helpful for implementing some kind of stuff as explained in the Hopac documentation (and avoiding weird "try two things and cancel the second one later workarounds").

- Hopac is a lot faster then F# async according to my benchmarks. C# async/await with good TaskScheduler implementation can however reach a similar performance level.

- Rx has probably the most event combinators. I think it's nice for event processing in some scenarios, e.g. UI events.

- The pull based approaches of TPL, F# async and Hopac provide more explicit flow control (and thereby backpressure) as the push based approach of Rx. I personally wouldn't use Rx anymore for anything where flow control is important. But this is only my taste, the newer Rx versions also provide some backpressured stream support.
The basic premise going back to Jamestown is that if you don't work you don't eat this goes deep into the collective psyche of this country DC is entirely unprepared for these changes they still think unemployment is largely an issue of people having bad morality.
For the prime example of this - look at the global shipping market right now. It's going at a loss right now due to the largest shippers building massive ships to bring down the cost/kg/km down bringing overcapacity to an unsustainable level.
First time I've heard that it is easy to focus blue light.

https://www.google.com/search?q=is+it+hard+to+focus+on+blue+...
Most routers nowadays seem to come with a long random password written on a sticker stuck on the bottom. That seems a reasonable compromise between being hard to hack over the internet and reasonably easy for non techie owners.
In the US, "reclaimed land" and "on top of literal garbage" are essentially the same thing. Discussion of that very thing is in this really interesting episode of 99% Invisible from last week: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/making-up-ground/
it also drops considering his 'business' is selling a ridiculously expensive domain back ordering service
No, a squatter buys domains and holds them. Park.io lets you buy a domain that's going to expire before it expires and transfer it to you and charge you if and only if it registers it before it gets sold.

Some of these domains (https://app.park.io/domains/view/algorithmic.ly) actually look pretty neat, and I could totally see this being a good market to be in.
Allende was a Marxist and it should be quite understandable that they sacrified their democratic principles in the cause of the greater liberty.

I'm not going to defend any specific action especially when taken in isolation but in the large US global hegemony has been massively beneficient.
You may have noticed that whales are big.
It might not be that sudden of a change, you may still need someone watching the truck remotely, so one truck driver could be responsible for multiple trucks. So you could have larger fleets with the same workforce too.
More like a couple of decades.
Because you won't be quick enough to order it, unless you start writing some scripts which isn't viable if you only want a couple of domains. The premium is to guarantee peace of mind. I also find it expensive but I can see its merits.
Park.io isn't indiehackers.com, and it's currently up.
He keeps my attention because he built a $125k/month product.
Why not. I already use flux on my laptop and would love it if my phone supported that too.
Yes, but the only way to know for sure is to do the experiment. Wouldn't it be cool if you turned out to be wrong?
A fast PostgreSQL client library for Python: 3x faster than psycopg2
Why the Father of Modern Statistics Didn’t Believe Smoking Caused Cancer
Regardless, that's not going to help an economy whose primary problem is a consumer base who can no longer afford to purchase goods in sufficient numbers.
I am just digressing, sorry if you see it as goalpost shifting.
At one university where I studied at for a bit around the period of 2009 - 2012, they had and, judging from their Wiki, still do have, finger daemons running on most Linux servers and workstation -- perhaps even on all of them.

Furthermore, the vast majority of workstation computers at the department for informatics and at the department of mathematics are running RHEL, so it's not just a handful of computers.

As for how many were actually making active use of finger and in particular .plan files, that was probably just a handful of people. I was one such person for a while after having learned about it and thinking it was kind of neat, but I eventually gave up on maintaining my .plan file and focused on other ways to share things.
People are rightly warned not to trade in OTC stocks if they don't know what they are doing, but I bet most people understand that warning to be about the companies likely being dodgy rather than about the market itself being rigged.

If the market mechanics mean it's essentially house-always-wins, you bet I'm paternalistic enough to advocate regulation against offering these casino chips to retail investors.
a sucker is born every minute
From the post:

> I asked Akamai to redirect my site to 127.0.0.1 — effectively relegating all traffic destined for KrebsOnSecurity.com into a giant black hole.

Since Akamai was going to drop the "shields" on the site, instead of smashing the hosting provider with the attack, DNS was pointed at localhost.
I'm head of engineering for a company that designs outdoor luminaires for industrial environments, but not street lights. We use LED and other technologies. Like so many things in life, there are aspects of the AMA directive with potential cause for concern, but also combined with a mixed bag of scientific underpinnings. If you have specific questions about LED physics or human vision, I'm happy to give them a go. I also can speak to some of the literature behind the AMA position paper.
Not quite sure what you're saying. The US supports Saudi Arabia in order to promote stability of a critically strategic area of the world. There's otherwise no love lost between the two powers. (Ironically, Iran under a secular government would be a far more preferable ally than Saudi Arabia)
IndieHackers.com is down, not park.io
Saxon-JS: XSLT 3.0 in the Browser
Allies won the war because of manufacturing, the US simply out produced Germany at 10 to 1 and even higher ratios.

I don't see any evidence that the US pharmaceutical industry wasn't unable to produce performance enhancing drugs at scale if they wanted too.

Nazi ideology fits pretty well with performance enhancing drugs, they wanted to create the ubermench.
I don't know how common or uncommon it is. I know in my situation growing up in the US it was uncommon. I was simply arguing over the statement made in the comment, that if something has a name, it is common.
Actually the US and Britain went to Iran and did bad shit. The coup that overthrew Mosaddeq and the National Front party was carried out by both the CIA and MI6.

It's not a stretch to say these agencies were acting as proxies for their home oil company's interests. So logically US and and British petroleum companies went to Iran and did bad shit.
Sounds like it works just like Go-lang, then.

Is there a way to cast something anonymous, just a value read in from JSON, to such an interface? This would allow you to specify an important subset of things that an object needs to do, verify it in one place, then pass around the interface handle to anything that needed the underlying object in that role. Presumably, if the incoming object lacked the desired attributes, the "cast" would blow up sooner, during the assignment, rather than later, when the interface alias was used.
This depends on what the barriers to entry for starting a company. If the barriers to entry are low because you can buy self-driving software off-the-shelf for $20,000 then profits will be low. If the barriers to entry are high because the shipping is done by Uber, Google, etc then the profits will be high.

But you are right that it would increase economic inequality.
At some point in my life I realized I need to apply this to every single claim made by everyone, including people I trust and even my own thoughts. It's exhausting, but I can't not do it.
You're thinking of 'promoting wakefullness' like a cup of coffee that has an immediate effect that wears off when it leaves your system.

'Disturbing sleep' means they alter your hormone production & release, which is something that begins to affect you over weeks and months.

High color temperature lights disturb sleep- without promoting wakefullnes.
> Top of HN traffic peaks at maybe 50-100 visitors per second.

That's true, but HN posts tend to go viral on other tech news sites. It's likely the majority of the traffic spikes are not originating on this site's link. I could be wrong though.
But why deleting the old ones? I mean, it's his right to do whatever he wants with content he created, but seems a radical measure.
I think the point is that he picks it up before anyone else does in your behalf.

He's doing the equivalent of standing in line for you outside the Apple store on iPhone 7 release day and then charging you a premium for his services.
>>Because it works.

So does spam. That's why spammers keep sending it.

Does that mean it's OK? Clearly not.
Forensics is a way to do things (procedure) so that you can use your findings in court.
It is up to the opponent to challenge certain methods, like "you used md5 hashing which is proven unreliable", or something like that.

"They will use that as evidence supporting a warrant to search a suspect's computer"
Indeed, you won't be called to court just because your ip address in on a list. There will be further research which could result in: We found this video on the computer which was downloaded from [source] as shown in the logs from with this ip.
In reality, it's not really drinking it - it's more of splashing a little of it in the mouth and usually on the head - it does seem weird talking about it now, but the custom does exist and it isn't even limited to villages - though again, I've only experienced this in special ceremonies - not as part of daily life.
I'm skeptical that you've identified the primary problem in the US economy. I would definitely rank two things higher:

1) Challenges that come about due to an aging population

2) An overall slow down in innovation (Cowen's "Great Stagnation" hypothesis)
I'm curious of anyone has yet kicked the tires of this - especially from a performance perspective. My browser-side MVC pattern makes use of the browser's native XSLT, which performs quite well.
I've done the same with similar people in Europe. If they don't understand a polite but firm "No", and keep bugging me, then a firm "FUCK OFF" is what they deserve.

Oddly, I've never had any animosity returned. Just a shrug of "Oh well, I tried".
> Still true in downtown Manhattan?

Absolutely. Just look in the grass of any park, or in any vacant lot, or even near the base of many street trees. Basically it's impossible to go anywhere with disturbed soil or grass without finding them.
Immigrants Aren’t Taking Americans’ Jobs, New Study Finds
The child probably didn't have a choice to go the zoo that day. He also probably didn't WANT to fall into the gorilla cage. I'm positive he didn't want the gorilla to be killed either.

If there was a way you could guarantee that the gorilla and child make it out of that cage unscathed I'm absolutely all for doing that. After that, if you're saying there's a chance the child gets hurt, I don't care who's kid it is, I'm okay with pulling the trigger. I'm not being metaphorical, I'm saying I am so okay with the idea that I would be okay if I personally had to pull the trigger.

I love animals, even ones most people don't like. I love the continuation of our species' future more than I love animals though.

The thing that is crazy to me is that people push the idea that animals are pure and free of evil and we are the bad ones in every situation. Can't you push that same image into our children as well? Shouldn't an innocent child be at least equal in the eyes of the public as an innocent animal? And if they start out equally, doesn't the child win because without children we literally cease to exist?
The quoted statement is highly deceptive. It is backed up with "Our average effective tax rate is 27.1% compared with 27.7% for the other 30 OECD countries, according to CRS", but 27.7% is the rate including the US, which is not a sensible comparison. According to the cited CRS report, the average excluding the US is 23.3% [edit, see below: note that these are GDP-weighted averages].

Additionally, the PwC study the CRS uses [1] provides a full list and ranking. The only OECD countries with higher effective rates are Japan, Germany, and Italy. So, the US effective rate is lower than that of only 3 of "our competitors" and higher than that of the other 26.

[1] http://businessroundtable.org/sites/default/files/Effective_...
A qualified pentester can work with, audit, and break code in any language. There are a few that I have not heard of anyone actively pentesting them, and they include RPG III, and the family of Bliss languages.
Rats consume a sizeable percentage of rice production. From an earlier story [1]:

The next call came from Australia in 2006. Biologists there
wanted an adaptation of Mouseopause for rats. Rats, they told
her, were eating 30% of the rice crop in Australia and
Indonesia. If she could reduce the rat population by even half,
they claimed, the crops that would be saved could feed millions
of people.

[1] Man v rat: could the long war soon be over? (theguardian.com), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12542718

Agricultural output is always variable. The world needs more storage capacity [2], and to better support small farmers. There's the ancient parable about "seven years of abundance" preceding "seven years of famine". Only "old" grain should be fed to animals.

For the most part, genetic engineering has been used to sell pesticides. While this C3->C4 innovation might not be as harmful as Monsanto's, it would be better to deal with our other agricultural problems too. Getting rats' numbers under control, and other low-tech investments (such as was undertaken in Thailand starting in the 1960's [3]), would be just as effective as throwing new seeds at farmers...

Haiti demonstrates that politics is the most important factor for determining agricultural output. [4]

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_silo
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_production_in_Thailand
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12531999 - "Why Are Haiti's Coffee Trees So Tall?"
Competition all but guarantees it, if there's competition.
> What templates can do are not a strict superset of what the preprocessor can do.

C++ templates are Turing complete, but the C preprocessor is not.
Yes, the training is to only use their firearms for deadly force. I find the semantics surrounding how to describe it pretty uninteresting.
I guess it will more likely pan out like flying: You still need humans to steer the colossus through cities and other complicated terrains, to keep them running, for emergency situations, for the insurance company and, maybe, for the unions. But most of the time the truck will drive on autopilot.

Slowly humans will fade completely from the picture, but it will not be a hard cut. Also, we are far away from auto-fixing trucks. So at least the repair crews will stay for long while.
I keep hearing this line that only techies understand, but I think it's a problem of historical ignorance. The state education system has little incentive to inform people if its past abuses, so it seems people are blind to the history of state surveillance.