skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no accountability. In the US there is generally no real internal accountability inside the uniformed units for their behavior towards people outside the unit (if you are a policeman, federal agent or military, you will be disciplined if you steal from or kill a co-worker, but not a civilian).

Only the judicial system sometime takes action against uniformed people. In the case of the CBP, by nature there is no judicial oversight, since most of their actions are not covered by the constitution, and the Executive power doesn't want to provide any due process or any kind of right to the population they are in contact with. There is no system in place to moderate their behavior.
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This is true! And when Uber demonstrates that they deserve the benefit of the doubt, I will give it to them. Because I'm not a court; I'm a person.
I remember a strategy game called Majesty that worked in a "declarative" way as well. You didn't order your units around, you could just place bounties on things and your soldiers would go out and kill/destroy them
The Google version is supposedly coupled heavily to their infrastructure and therefore would give little benefit to opensource without also open sourcing a large portion of their infrastructure.
This. The UI is the final step. Right now it's about experimentation and determining the ideal game mechanics. The obtuseness means that the most obsessive and hard core are your play testers. This is a bad UI as part of good game design for what the current goals for dwarf fortress are.
I think that can be explained by who Donald Trump is. He is financially independent, held no previous office, and already had a reputation of making baseless claims. Whereas most politicians are self preserving, Trump has nothing requiring preservation. The media continually and incorrectly predicting his campaigns demise, actually gave him credibility with his supporters, showing his resilience. It also hurt the media's credibility with his supporters because he was able to conflate the media's predictions as attacks, instead of being based on events that have precipitated previous campaigns ending.
China is considerably different as well. My completely non-techie first wife could still quite easily use VPNs and knew what they did, for example. If you are in a culture where the government interferes with network access, constantly watches what you do, censors you, and sometimes even confiscates property, then the work arounds become much more common place knowledge.
ISIS has seen some successes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po8bfnvbRyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRC0mZDnCsA
For some of the operations highlighted, which are (naturally?) selected to impress. For others, the multiple is in single digits.

WordPress doesn't run 100X faster on Peachpie, but it'd be very interesting to see "real" benchmarks. Even a 2X improvement (vs the latest PHP 7, of course) would be compelling.
The US military isn't a totalitarian despot that is willing to kill any and all civilians to maintain power in the middle east. So really it hasn't been tried.
I first saw it because someone made a calculator within their fortress. That interested me, but I don't know of any particular thing that made it popular with "the masses".
Good point about the acid rain, the washout. I wonder if there's some way to dope solid rocket booster fuel to produce SOX at higher altitudes? As we launch more and more, maybe we could harness that to ease the burden on something like your blimp idea... thus avoiding the need to nuke the planet.
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The release candidate works great however what ultimately turned us away from this product was the fact that they only offer source code for the client components, you don't actually ever get to see the source code for the server, which is a big nono.
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Sigh. Why do we keep perpetuating this myth? From the words of the greatest genius of the 20th century

“Right. I don’t believe in the idea that there are a few peculiar people capable of understanding math, and the rest of the world is normal. Math is a human discovery, and it’s no more complicated than humans can understand. I had a calculus book once that said, ‘What one fool can do, another can.’ What we’ve been able to work out about nature may look abstract and threatening to someone who hasn’t studied it, but it was fools who did it, and in the next generation, all the fools will understand it. There’s a tendency to pomposity in all this, to make it deep and profound.”
– Richard Feynman, Omni 1979

Stop the pomposity. Please.
It's under 7k lines of code, and what it needs to be doing is pretty straightforward. I'm very much hoping to be able to use Rust in the kernel someday, but really it's overkill for this.
>This is a fine example of why we need IOT regulation.

This sort of thing almost (but not quite) always results in things that are no more secure, just more bureaucratic. Large companies keep building the same insecure crap they always have but can afford to hire an army of lobbyists and paper pushers to get "approval". Small innovators who could actually fix the issue are kept out by the high cost of useless paperwork. The industry stagnates at a dismal low point.

In short, prematurely regulating an industry is usually a fantastic way to strand an industry at a local maximum far below its potential.
That's crazy. Almost every couple I know is single income, in order to better provide for the kids. It's not a requirement.
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Here is a discussion with some information on such data repositories as I mention in my other reply: http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/85722/what-is-th...
Trump: "Sorry, can't"
Putin: "Yeah, Obama never would have done it either..."
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CNN: US ground troops enter Syria today...
I think they are equally affected -- 200 miles is about 20% less than the good weather range of 238 miles.
Oh boy. When I lived in San Francisco the Python community had this on their coffee mugs :O
Dungeon Keeper used to play quite a lot like this as well. It was an interesting aspect that set it apart from other strategy games that were around at the time.
Your comment made me think of neural nets. My knowledge is admittedly quite surface level but there seems to be an analogy to the emergent behavior of trained network. Also, I'm thinking about the recent (latest?) SimCity with it's much discussed ability to track each individual actor, which apparently became a computational crutch that limited the size of the cities you could build.

It seems like there are some interesting game mechanics possible (as you suggest) that could also benefit from the recent GPU enhancements for neural nets.
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It can be negative and still light-hearted. The phrase itself has become a meme, usually applied to stuff like KFC's Double Down.
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This is a pretty good explanation of the state of lattice cryptography.
>Quantum Key Distribution relies on an authenticated channel that is simply assumed to already exists. How do you get that authenticated channel

It does already exist, there are several quantum networks already. Though, there are also signs that the first generation may have technological issues. And the entire benefit is that using it will allow you to detect if the channel is authenticated, it does nothing to ensure that it is.
I'd leave the multimedia content types - they can be useful.
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Hi! I recently started my career and I work a lot with data (R, SQL). Recently, I've been learning how to code (JS, HTML, CSS). I studied business in school. What kind of skills would you think a young professional entering as a data analyst would need? Which skills should I develop so that I'm better suited for the job market?
Interesting point but it's not exclusive to Dwarf Fortress there is a whole category of this kind of (management, simulation) games from SimAnt to Football Manager.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on Unshackled Ventures?
Just discovered the Unshackled Ventures - VCs who fund startups made by immigrants, and help them to get the visa and to relocate.

I'm a startup founder and my life's dream is to build a company in the US, so this looks very appealing to me. But before I apply, I wanted to ask your opinion.

Do you guys know about them? What is their reputation? Is this really as good as it seems?
same, I had to zap the pram, or whatever, bc it wouldnt boot. also have problems connecting external monitors through miniDP, sometimes the monitor doesn't work.
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Do they use any specific tools or practices to protect themselves?
I think they do mean harm, they want to distress the people because they know that people in distress tend to self-accuse. They go as far as they can on the spectrum from verbal abuse to torture.

Moreover 1) there is absolutely no need to behave that way even to a criminal 2) people on the international zone of an airport have not yet had the opportunity to commit any local crime, since they are not yet in the jurisdiction, the entire premise is flawed if they are not returning. And if they are returning and accused of a crime, there is a different system in a different room for them.
That's not a correct interpretation either; it's noted in the linked article that GCE uses a proprietary VMM instead of QEMU which itself was "ripped out" of the standard KVM+QEMU arrangement.

I probably would have chosen gentler phrasing.
As someone who'd been a skeptic of "lawsuits are killing us!" arguments, I actually thought the most convincing explanation of the many that were offered up after that SSC post is that uncertainty bred by too little (or too inconsistently enforced) regulation that leaves too much of enforcing good behavior up to litigation is the biggest driver of the problem.

It neatly explains why the US suffers from it far worse than other OECD states, I'd say—uncertain, relatively weak regulatory environment, easy lawsuits. The uncertainty encourages, at both the personal and institutional levels, extreme risk avoidance (CYA, if not actually risk reduction) throughout private industry and government, adding a percentage to costs at every stage of any project while also slowing things down (so, more costs there too) and killing innumerable potentially-cost-saving innovations in process before they can even be attempted.
Smart idea, don't know how it will affect the quality of games moving forward as it seems that titles that would sell for lets say $40 a piece will now be included in a bundle and probably get a fee out of that $10 a month.

On the other hand yes subscription/rent is the way to move forward. You lease a car, you subscribe to netflix, prime, hbo, now you subscribe to gaming libraries etc at some point will happen with food if its not there yet.
Inspired from passwordstore & recently featured on HN : https://github.com/justwatchcom/gopass
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Which way of passing the password to the browser is better?

If I use the clipboard, many apps can read it (there's no foreground-only clipboard permission on Android).

If I let the password manager be my accessiblity service, I've given it power to do literally anything on my phone, and introduced a new interface between it and other apps (which can try to exploit it by producing confusing screen layouts).

If I let it be my keyboard, I'm giving it everything I type. This might be the least bad option of the three.

Are there any other options?
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> is not a legitimate way to do business.

You're not the arbiter of this.

> but people who don't want to pay aren't doing anything wrong.

Not wanting to pay isn't wrong. Circumventing the Youtube's restrictions is though.
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there is zero percent chance of suing, they are not acting under the Constitution. They have no legal limit to what they do.
I agree, but for people to step up and complain, there needs to be a system around them that supports it.

The crazy part about these stories is not that Uber has a few awful people, and it's not that there aren't people who will speak up and complain. The crazy part about these stories is that HR seems to be systematically supporting the few awful people and antagonizing the people who speak up and complain.
Can they really afford it?
> So is the user's prerogative to use their downloaded content in any way they want, in this case not consuming immediately but saving for later.

It's not their (the user's) content.
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I want to watch the superbowl from twitter: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/technology/with-nfl-deal-...
I have no idea how to watch the superbowl and I tried several apps. I had cable tv for like 1 year of highschool, and haven't felt any reason to purchase for myself since, but some things, like the superbowl / Olympics / World Cup etc. would be really great to be able to watch - no I'm not going to deal with cable / buying a TV just for 1-3 events yearly.
I guess they'll have to wait.
Getting paid to do a job = 'misery' now, apparently. Maybe we should all go back to working in the fields from sunrise to sunset and avoid all this 'tedious work' for regular pay, benefits, vacation time, lunch breaks and closing bells.
Excepting the dimension of privacy, none of those alternatives are as useful or capable as their mainstream competition.
Yeah, we took some minor capabilities away from pedestrians:

1) Ability to enter the roadway at any time, rather than after checking that it's clear.

2) Ability to walk down the middle of the roadway instead of the sidewalk.

And in exchange, we vastly expanded the amount of commutable land per travel minute, resulting in more space for most people. Also affordable inter-city travel and the National Parks. I'd do it again.

Just as suburbia is seen by some contemporary progressives as a great social evil, the crowded conditions of urban tenements were the great problem of our time to progressive visionaries back then [0]. Walking as a primary form of transportation, and the extreme density it required of the working class, was not a scalable, long-term, or humane solution. We should have leaned into streetcars instead of personal cars in order to spread out, sure, but then it'd just be some other kind of vehicle making the streets dangerous for pedestrians.

No great social problem is solved by drones being welcome at low altitude over crowds. News and public safety organizations already knows how to use real helicopters in that context. There isn't some latent use case for aerial photography that we're all suffering without, it's a nice-to-have, and the decision that it isn't worth the tradeoffs is much more clear-cut.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Tenement_House_...
That's exactly what I think does not work.
You can't see the future. Of course a simple project want to have that, but a big project is unpredictable. You should make it flexible by having a great test infrastructure to move forward fast, but you should try to create something that doesn't exist yet. Maybe it is needed, maybe not, it's just too unpredictable to write code for something that doesn't exist in the customers head.
> For PC/Laptop OSes, you can use Linux

How many people who had no relationship with a university have you gotten set up on Linux? There is a solid chunk of people that just cannot afford the cost of running Linux once you take into account the risk of having to spend a bunch of time mucking about with your package manager or something else with a high cognitive cost.

Granted, I switched from OSX to Ubuntu back in 2013.
Oh, cool! Haha, that's unfortunate. Maybe I should have done a better job finding an original name. Good luck to you anyways!
Sponsorship can take forms other than display ads. You can't block text-link ads and guest posts.
I agree that a big share of responsibility lies with consumers not choosing privacy-minded alternatives.

I wouldn't write off software developers completely though. There likely are some who simply do what they're told without speaking up or questioning the decision, even though they know better / think differently. They stick Google Analytics on a site instead of raising the idea of using Piwik instead. Or they add Facebook and Twitter share buttons without asking whether they can be optionally loaded. Maybe they'll be shot down by a superior, or maybe the superior doesn't even care and allows the software developer to decide. Depending on the size of the software's audience, that small decision could make a substantial difference in privacy.
There is a popular fork of the telegram android app (used e.g. by f-droid)
https://github.com/slp/Telegram-FOSS

Maybe this repo compiles.
Apple is changing the iPhone's charging port again
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Finally an article about self-driving lawyers.

My belief is that we won't have (real) self-driving cars until long after we've automated lawyers -- legal work being a much more constrained, simpler problem without too much potential to kill people.
It seems a bit pricey. If they would throw the Xbox Gold sub with this, it might be worth it. EA Access has a great library and you can find an annual key for that for less than $30. Though this is definitely better than PS Now since you actually download the full game rather than streaming it.
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Can you beat the article's 800 concurrent connections & 12GB RAM used to scrape 100000 pages in 15 minutes, with just one process?

Not close to a real comparison without the same URLs, but still fun to compare.
Facebook to Appear in Polish Court, Censoring Pro-Catholic, Nationalistic Posts
People looking to promote their products or services are always looking for good sites. They'll find you.
The necessary implication of individuals with power enough to rival governments is that, well, they can rival governments.

Do you think this is a bad thing? Personally I quite like the idea of having enough wealth / power to rival a nation-state, since I trust the average nation-state exactly as far as I can throw it.
They all do, don't they? I don't imagine some Password Manager saying "We're kind of secure. We take security seriously-ish".
How often do these deadlines get missed?
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* The article makes some great observations about energy levels. I think you can definitely run a company more productively if employees had more leeway about picking their own hours as long as the job gets done. Anecdotally, I'd get far more work done if I set aside just around 9-midnight every night for coding from home rather than waking up early and slogging to an office.

* The article presents some opinions without really justifying them. According to who exactly does the 40-hour work week not work anymore? It works great for some folks, it works badly for others. Personally, I'd rather see more people working less, and I think more jobs should be more flexible about things like remote working and letting people pick their hours when possible.

* This article also erroneously gets some history wrong. People like to cite some of Ford's management innovations as some magnanimous gesture on his part to give employees enough cash to buy more products. The reality is that he was initially having a problem keeping employees because assembly-line work is so monotonous and doesn't leave much room for human contact and many employees would quit or inconsistently show up to work after a while. He was trying to make working conditions as good as possible to reduce employee turnover/absenteeism, greatly reducing his recruiting/training expenses in the long run and making things run smoother on a daily basis. It was in his self-interest to do this because once you got a great Ford job you wouldn't quit or just not show up to go to a baseball game or whatever people did back in those days. I believe some people erroneously got this part of history wrong because there's a narrative out there that the free market is some kind of predatory exploitative thing that needs to be completely controlled or it will work to destroy people. To me, that's incorrect because employers also need to compete for employees' labor. Going forward, innovative and smart companies will increasingly offer things like remote working, picking your own hours, limited work week, etc to compete for the most talented employees. Some companies might want butts in seats at 9AM and will compete by offering cash. That's fine too, let people have a choice.
> I work in an open space office where terrible music is played through its sound system the whole day. I have a hard time focusing and staying focused. I am now a 0.4x programmer.

Slightly off-topic, but you might try some white-noise to defeat the bad music.

If you run linux, here's a nice little one-liner in a terminal:

play -q -c 2 -n synth brownnoise band -n 1600 1500 tremolo .1 30
The folks over there work really hard and care a lot. I'm sure that's the same with all the password managers too, but I know personally having worked at LastPass how much the founders care.
- Keep it as a pure and simple timeline. Don't show me tweets I may have missed. Make me chase them down.

- No character penalty for URLs

- Let people play with the data and metadata, exposing fake accounts is good for all

- Encourage bots to be bots

- Stump the chumps. Make this type of charade harder to pull off: @rea1DonaldTrump vs. @realDonaldTrump
Limit restrictions on free speech as much as possible.
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Sweden tested a 30 hour work-week and found it to be too costly. For some professions it just isn't realistic (e.g. supply chain/logistics industry).

For the professions where it is more realistic, maybe give them the option of finishing up the week at 30 hours but don't set a hard cut-off. I've found that the more work-hour freedom people are given, the better quality work ends up getting done.
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There's no such thing as "anti-realityism." Yes, we really have this many deluded and/or mentally ill people in our world.
There has always been a financial-legal-accounting complex that has accounted for some large percentage of the economy. That used to be a large part of the labor-capital compact -- at least some of the proceedings of capital were going to well-priced labourers who could build the foundations of the upper-middle class or slightly above.

Capital and its holders are getting more and more naked in their attempt to save costs. Individually, this is great -- spurring automation forward certainly frees people up. In aggregate, however, if political/social factors aren't taken into account with automation, there will be a spate of people who think they will have been robbed of their rightful earnings and their purpose in life -- and that will have consequences, intended and unintended.
Charge $0.01 per tweet and this also suggest people be more succinct and thoughtful in their posts to make the service a little better