skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't bode well for political prisoners.
There has been plenty of talk and evidence of forced organ harvesting in China, and experimentation could occur in this environment.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-carrying-out-millions-of-illegal-organ-transplants-annually-report-finds-a7107091.html
Just chiming in to remind you that you were right.
That's definitely one of the more anarchistic approaches, especially if you combine it with adverse possession. The absentee owners will either have to worry about the squatters "stealing" their million-dollar houses or will have to hire locals as security guards. Either way there's some more money being recycled back into the local economy.
Oracle shut down java.net and a lot of Oracle focused projects and other open source projects moved in. Extract from Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5cfh08/go_rust...
Let's not tolerate the use of "poached" either; it implies (in a "ha ha, only serious") way that people are property, and it's been a long time since there was any excuse for tolerating that idea. The proper words are "hired" or "recruited".
stop letting the media dictate your actions
Wills aren't accessed until well into the process of handling a person's death. It would still be a sort of chicken and egg scenario - does their will apply, as they're not technically deceased by this State's laws?

You can get medical bracelets for certain things, maybe something along those lines?
Do people really want recommendations?

I personally want to just have an RSS reader that gives me the articles from the sites I freaking asked for. Not what some service thinks I'll like. Google, Pocket, and other sites are already doing a great job of thumbing through what I read and trying to sneak in their "suggestions": that's the kind of invasive data-combing that I want to avoid.
That's up to law enforcement to figure out. It's none of our business.

We live in a society with rules, and laws. We can't have law enforcement, or anyone breaking laws to catch a criminal. We were suspose to be following the constitution, or at least using it as a guide.

That's what makes law enforcement challenging. I would rather have law enforcement make arrests without breaking laws themselfs. I don't even like RICO statues. I think they took the easy way out.

Law enforcement is paid by taxpayers to catch criminals without taking shortcuts. It should even be a grey area. It should be black and white.

For as long as I can remember, sadly they have taken the easy way, and stomped on the constitution. Every state has differnt statues.

I never liked it. Every time I get pulled over for driving past 11:59 p.m. on a Friday; I'm reminded how inefficient, or law breaking---law enforcement is, or just lazy. Yes--just lazy.
For my hobby projects I admittedly don't do much testing - simply because no one is paying me to. Only in rare cases do I intentionally write a test when something seems complex. And I do run address sanitizer etc. where that can reasonably be done (e.g. not on microcontroller code). Anyway my point is, my code has considerably less bugs than what you'd get from reasonably proficient programmers even if they DID write tests.

For example, I'm currently writing a TCP/IP stack for embedded systems [1]. While it's not quite complete yet (misses some essential code like fragmentation and congestion control), I'm very confident that it has (and will have when complete) much less bugs than related portions of lwIP; see for yourself all the bugs I've found in lwIP [2].

Again feel free to find bugs in my code. I very much appreciate people pointing out bugs, as it helps me make even fewer bugs :)

> We live in a world of exploitable 1-byte buffer overflows.

Indeed. But buffer overflows are so easy to avoid, just don't write over the end of the buffer. I doubt I've done a buffer overflow in years. The bugs that I do make, are much more complex.

[1] https://github.com/ambrop72/aprinter/tree/ipstack/aprinter/i...

[2] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?go_report=Apply&g...
Swift looks a lot like Typescript. This is the first time I've read swift code and I'm taken by surprise by its elegance.

I'm gonna give it a shot
There are several million outstanding votes in CA. The popular vote margin is going to grow by quite a lot.

The power is anyway going to shift to cities. If it doesn't happen in the 2020 census, it will in the 2030 census.
Interesting. So it sounds like after some period of time, an MRI or CT should be able to show that a 'beating-heart cadaver' is truly brain dead.

My understanding of comatose/vegetative patients is that it is a different case, where an EEG would actually show some activity. Is that correct?

As for the patient you mention... Wow! Fascinating!
What is the definition of 'awake' in his case, how did they not know, and how did they discover??
I do agree with you here. My point is paralysing the monkey didn't help them collect data about how a monkey walks, quite the opposite.

Reasonable observations would consist of using electrodes to monitor left leg movements vs right leg movements. Running vs walking, joint extension etc.

Build a waveform generator and compare the generated waveforms vs real waveforms and iterate.

(The scientists did actually do this.)

Once you've got a fair degree of confidence then you can try apply your work.

Paralysing a monkey just to replay captured data when we already know we can interface with the nervous system is totally unnecessary.

Edit: It should really go without saying that when it does come time to apply your work you do everything within your power to avoid harming a non-consenting creature. Does applying the work even require paralysing a monkey? Can it be temporary? What about sedation and then interfacing with the nervous system whilst sedated?
Ahh, now if I were a man who liked reading into things people say, I'd go with inferring that you believe I am a trump supporter. You are incorrect if that is the case.

Now, on to the point. I'm dead curious. Here are my words:

> Literally everything in my life is more important to me than any aspect of your mother

Where is the question implied in there? I endeavor to speak precisely, and I have heard it posited that it is incumbent upon the speaker to eliminate misunderstandings in the listener, so let's put it to the test. Demonstrate how that virtue signalling question you inferred from my words comes from my words and not solely your head.
Anyone else got goose bumps? Not a fan boy but those are genius things that only come out of love and desire.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2822059
Here's some interesting data on trump supporters.
To save some people the click -- minimum warming potential by a few less-than-randomly selected sources:

Coal: 770
Gas: 410
Rooftop solar: 26
Offshore wind: 8
Nuclear: 3.7

So, the word "vastly" above might be overstating things.
Solar certainly isn't the most efficient, but it's pretty damn efficient compared to anything produced by biological processes.
From the wiki article. Never heard about a eq score before.

Mean EQ for mammals is around 1, with carnivorans, cetaceans and primates above 1, and insectivores and herbivores below. This reflects two major trends. One is that brain matter is extremely costly in terms of energy needed to sustain it.[19] Animals which live on relatively nutrient poor diets (plants, insects) have relatively little energy to spare for a large brain, while animals living from energy-rich food (meat, fish, fruit) can grow larger brains. The other factor is the brain power needed to catch food. Carnivores generally need to find and kill their prey, which presumably requires more cognitive power than browsing or grazing.[20][21] The brain size of a wolf is about 30% larger than a similarily sized domestic dog, again reflecting different needs in their respective way of life.[22]
Is your app gigabytes in size? Docker can't help you with that, but nothing else is going to help you, either. There has been a ton of momentum lately in getting Docker images pared down to miniscule (e.g. ~25MB... megabytes) image sizes with for example alpine. If you're using something like "ubuntu:14.04" for your images, this is absolutely a problem you can solve.
Representation Learning and the Information Bottleneck Approach
Digg RSS Reader has been unbelievably good. The best thing about it (so far - knock on wood) that they don't tinker or change anything, because everything is working like it should. I don't really see a reason to try anyone else.
That's less of a problem than you might think. The most popular oss have associated non profits. Otherwise just keep the money.
Can Linux containers save IoT from a security meltdown?
Build a chat app with SocketIO and Angular
Quora at RecSys 2016
World's mood in real time, according to the music shared on Twitter #nowplaying
A little worse than that: Even once you do all that, the feed is empty. It seems to only get stories posted after your account creation, rather than pulling the existing feeds like most RSS readers.

So after doing all this setup, I had to go back to the site later to actually try out how it arranged content.
Ask HN: US Election: Who did you vote for, and why? (Why I voted for Trump.)
Here's why I voted for Trump:

The Art of the Deal: read it all as a kid and saw Trump stand up to NYC politicians and thought, "Why can't we have someone like this to be President."

The Apprentice: Watched regularly, saw Trump raising money for charities and making business accessible, and thought, "This guy is going to run for President. I hope he wins."

Law and Order: My wife is an immigrant. Her family, from Ukraine, are all citizens now. Immigrants here illegally are abused. I empathize, but they need to follow our laws and go back to their home countries.

Trump was the underdog: No political experience, vastly inferior infrastructure (or so I thought), and was doing all the wrong things. Half the money as Hillary, news media concluded Hillary guaranteed. Social media SJW bullies trying to make his supporters shut up and go away. The Republicans would barely pay lip-service. Democrats were paying instigators and provocateurs. His vocal supporters were trolling or worse. College campuses with dozens of liberal speakers ever year were canceling the only conservatives because SJW bullies couldn't handle someone they disagreed with.

Reservations: Russia and him wanting a less active global leadership role. I'm also a bit worried about protectionism. Not only do economists demonstrate we're all better off with free trade, but who are politicians to tell us who we can't buy stuff from?

Relative to Hillary, getting VIP treatment from the FBI, AG way too cozy with her husband, the emails I think she should have been sophisticated enough to know better than to mix personal with work, the deletions after the subpoena, the biased treatment she got from the press, SNL, talk-shows, and everyone in her party supporting her - I felt like she was being forced onto us.

When I make a decision, I like to have lots of reasons for my decision, and few against. For me it was a no-brainer.

So who did you vote for and why?
XPath Tips from the Web Scraping Trenches
When you say "it isn't enough", what exactly are you referring to? It isn't enough for what?

It doesn't have to do everything. But it's something, and something you can personally choose to do. As opposed to, oh, for example a geothermal facility, which I can't exactly put in my back yard.
> Trump won't do what's needed which is the one thing that will ultimately set the country on the right course: abandon capitalism.

If we abandon capitalism, what alternative do you believe we should adopt instead?
Hah, that's a trick question. Probably for less, given how deeply Debian tooling depends on perl5.
Kaspersky has no VPN server feature. Its only VPN feature is a client[0] that will auto-connect to one of their servers. So the only thing it really has on the built-in Windows VPN client is the supply of servers.

[0]: https://support.kaspersky.com/12726
I think it's a nice idea in theory to provide cross-compilation support by means of emulating all possible target architectures on the compiling machine.

Then I remember that I'd be managing a custom heterogenous compute cluster just to compile some code.
Looks like the game is basically Risk but with a different mechanic for adding armies to territories: instead of choosing where you add them you get them where you stay still. Is this right? Very nifty!
Iphone 5
I bought a iphone and has a activation lock and owner never responded, and Help?
AI-complete, I believe, means 'full AI'. An AI-Complete problem is a problem that can't be solved without creating full human-level (or above) AI.
Failing to resuscitate someone is not the equivalent of killing them in my mind.
Do you know of a good resource to catch up on this "modern" Java for someone who dropped it in the early 00's?
Computational Neuroscience student here.

Research of this nature requires reading the electrical spike trains of small sets of neurons (often even individual cells).

EEG will give you a measurement of the combined electric field of every single neuron that is active in the entire brain. You can use multiple electrodes and run machine learning algorithms to get a qualitative measure of a macroscopic chunk of brain activity. So, terrible spatial precision.

MRI gives you anatomical information.

fMRI gives an idea of blood flow in the brain (about millimeter precision which is also not good enough) which is a time-lagged (a few seconds) _response_ to sustained neural spiking in a region.

Think of it like this: The brain is a computational organ where there is very little hardware-software separation. We're not going to be able to patch the software (say, to treat paralysis) without patching the hardware (say, with implants)
That I did assume - but only because you misused virtue signaling twice in two sentences, which is a Trumpie tell. You might have just picked it up from Twitter?

Also, don't post an excised version of your flagged tweet and then expect me not to catch it. Nice try, troll. Here's your flag, I was game right up until you were intellectually dishonest and sloppy on top of it.
I compiled it down and did a quick profile. Looks like a lot of the time is spent on line 96, converting a Character to its ascii value.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13740348/Screen%20Shot%2...
Trump tapping anti-gay Ken Blackwell to his transition team
Actually spend more than 5 minutes checking out the issue and you'll be surprised. Literally all public services that rely on urban networks like water, electricity, and natural gas are the definition of a natural monopoly. Unless you think it's competitive to have 20 unrelated urban gas pipelines or water services.
VWO is evolving into a conversion optimization platform
One strong suggestion, don't fall prey to the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect (http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gel...). Once you realize a source is sufficiently wrong, completely remove it from your list of "normal" sources.

Maybe follow other's links to it, maybe check it out for Their slant on things. But never, ever, trust it again, even to the limited degree of trust we're talking about.

Search for those you can trust, those who don't cut corners or lie, and treasure them.
Blackwell - “I think homosexuality is a lifestyle, it’s a choice, and that lifestyle can be changed,” Blackwell told the Columbus Dispatch at the time. “I think it is a transgression against God’s law, God’s will.”
US Election Simulator – Electoral college bullshit editon
Does anybody know why the demo application is 52mb?!?

I mean, yes, its statically linked but 52 million bytes for a window, a button and a pop-up?

Shouldn't this fit into 5-10 mb? Is the whole qt lib linked into that binary?
Silicon Valley critics cautiously open their arms to Donald Trump
If that's the case, and it's also the case that Trump supporters showed up at rallies too (not that it's okay for one or another)...

my solution would certainly not be to say "beat them up, and I'll pay your legal fees for you".

Because paying someone to protest is one thing, inciting others to actual, physical violence and offering to pay 'costs', is a felony.
> What you propose, companies creating a system of open reporting

Sorry if I was unclear, I wasn't actually proposing that. I am saying that I think they'd be likely to get away with it if they did.
Going Serverless: AWS and Compelling Science Fiction
Introducing the Taskfile Format
> Blah blah blah, announcements of a plan to create a committee to create a committee.

You're willfully ignoring things I wrote up there to paint a very dishonest narrative.

> Every year, the President’s budget continues to invest in the crucial programs that will keep the United States at the forefront of clean energy research, development, and deployment.

Read this -- research into clean energy requires funding from the federal government. Much like the moonshots projects in the 60s in space and defense, we need something similar in a way that's not entirely dependent on the Wall Street markets (who are focused on short term gains).

Don't you think this is much better and actionable than a committee?

> And solar grew because it got massively cheaper. Guess what, it'll continue to grow under Trump.

Why can't Obama claim credit for that? Do you think it would have happened independently of his administration's viewpoints on solar?

No doubt, if he holds status quo, solar will continue to grow at the same or higher pace. But if he subsidizes coal further, I would be skeptical. But we will know whether your prediction was true or not in a few years time.

> Don't get me wrong, I did vote for Obama

I'm not getting you wrong, you're getting me wrong. You're just dismissing reasonable conversation. And you voting for Obama doesn't give you a blank cheque to parade inarticulate arguments nor does it give you the freedom to cherrypick what you liked and disliked about his election.

> http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/09/politics/supreme-court-obama-e...

Read that. His administration has been hampered by Republicans on partisan lines from 2010, and maybe even day 1 depending on whom you ask.

Don't get me wrong, I welcome criticism about his transparency, whistleblower treatment, and spying.
It's certainly a concern, deserving of thought and safeguards, but not a reason not to do it. Any more than "the right to have an abortion" devolving into "you need to have an abortion" is a good reason to ban abortion.

(I actually see this as a very close parallel.)
Show HN: Urbaner – Find out what is going on in your city
Edit to the above: Somehow I cited the name of the book wrong. It is, of course, "The Undead", not "Brain Dead." And +1 to the Mary Roach book recommendation. You might need a strong stomach to get through that one, though - it's pretty grisly.
Image Segmentation using DIGITS 5
I never said I would have picked that battle. I simply said spending boatloads of money to shut down the entire publication in response was a strong arm bully tactic.

See my response to the parent comment if you want some actual examples instead of just cherry picking the one you don't like that they famously were shut down for.
Hmm. This isn't twitter, and I quoted my entire post. What, exactly, are you on about?

Edit: ah wait I see, you think I'm trying to karma bump my sentiment, but to what end? It's parented under the flagged version of itself and I hardly care if I accumulate more internet points. I'm just trying to figure out why you think flogging your morals at me is worthwhile.
4 things Vue.js got right
I think you answered your own question, if it is statically linked to qt then it is statically linked to all/most of it no? I don't think qt or any gui library is divided in many small pieces like javascript libs.
A Quantum Leap for the Web (Mozilla)
And isn't he working on Piston, high performance JIT Python, which is python2.7 compatible?
Ask HN: Secure backups under windows?
How do you do them?

Any recommendation matching my wishlist?:

- (local) encryption

- cloud or not, I'm undecided

- incremental backups of selected folders with file changes

- OR high frequency incremental drive image backups

- OR at least staged backups (1 year ago, 1 month ago, 1 week ago, 3.5 days ago)

- system drive image backups (can be unfrequent)

- reminders to plug in my HD

- option to verify backups

- option to browse backup

- preferably an file open format

I tried the windows file history, but can't verify backups, can't encrypt (?), can't do images, miss the subtle reminders, can't backup certain program folders, it's not very transparent, you can't even see whether a backup is in progress...
I've read this three times now and I'm still not clear what you're trying to say.

Since you're retracting your Wells Street comment, could you add some additional value and maybe explain to people not privy to our conversations why I might believe that Japan is far more racist than the US?
Counterpoint:

~60,000,000 people voted for each side.

868,000 is less than 1/60, and this assumes everyone who shared it believed it. Some may have realized it was false, and shared for the lulz. Also, it assumes that all of those people actually voted.
[Copied from my comment on a duplicate post -- there seems to be random tracking junk at the end of the URL that prevents these from being detected as duplicates!]

I appreciate how practical these tips are and I hope people will follow them.

I have two quarrels with this:

> Andy Grove was a Hungarian refugee who escaped communism [... and] encourages us to be paranoid.

I'm pretty sure that Grove was referring to business strategy, not communications security.

> Congratulations — you can now use the internet with peace of mind that it’s virtually impossible for you to be tracked.

Something I've seen over and over again is that Tor users tend to have a poor understanding of what Tor protects and doesn't protect. The original Tor paper said that Tor (or any technology of its kind) can't protect you against someone who can see both sides of the connection -- including just their timing. Sometimes, some adversaries can see both sides of a person's connection. As The Grugq and others have documented, Tor users like Eldo Kim and Jeremy Hammond were caught by law enforcement because someone was monitoring the home and university networks from which they connected to Tor and saw that they used Tor at exactly the same time or times as the suspects did. (In Hammond's case, recurrently, confirming law enforcement's hypothesis about his identity; in Kim's case, only once, but apparently he was the only person at the university who used Tor at that specific time.)

As law enforcement has actually identified Tor users in these cases, I think people need to understand that Tor is not magic and it protects certain things and not other things. In fact, I helped to make a chart about this a few years ago:

https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https

This chart was meant to show why using HTTPS is important when you use Tor, but it also points to other possible attacks (including an end-to-end timing correlation attack, represented in the chart by NSA observing the connection at two different places on the network) because many people in the picture know something about what the user is doing.

I've been a fan of Tor for many years, but I think we have to do a lot better at communicating about its limitations.
Yes. That also makes it difficult to scale up to energy production - now you need to route a bunch of cooling water plumbing and heat exchangers around it, engineer it to transfer the bulk of the reactor heat output to the cooling water without melting any heat exchangers, then build a turbine/generator rig to attach to it. Might possibly need an extra water loop too, depending on how much neutron flux ends up hitting the water and plumbing when running at a reaction rate sufficient to generate power.