skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit: forgot to say that no, this won't have a direct bearing on civil asset forfeiture of the kind you describe, because that only takes place where the identity of the property owner is unknown. The result in terms of not allowing the state to take money from people whose criminal convictions are overturned is great though.

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The idea is not asinine, it's perfectly rational.

Cops do a drug bust and all the criminals flee. (I'm personally opposed to drug prohibition but it's the law and the easiest example so I'm going with that for simplicity's sake.)

At the scene: 3 bricks of cocaine and $1m dollars. Cocaine is contraband so the cops don't need permission to take it, they can just help themselves to a few fat rails and then throw the rest in a furnace, resell it, or whatever.

What about the million bucks? It's property. there might even be a legitimate reason for it to be there (eg suppose it had just been stolen from a bank but the cops had yet to connect the bank robbery with the drug deal). The cops can't just take it, because if that was allowed then cops could just help themselves to any property they see and how would people ever know what happened to it? OK, so there must be some sort of process to document their taking possession of it until said possession is successfully challenged. That's a court's job.

On one side, the state entity that employs the cops. On the other...who? The (presumed) drug dealers fled so it's not obvious who the other side of the case should be. American law is built from the ground up around adversarial argument between parties with conflicting interests, so for administrative convenience we'd like to have the case be 'Someone v. someone else' like every other legal case. If we don't know who, let's treat the unclaimed property as its own entity until someone says different. Hence 'State of Jurisdiction v. $1 million.'

Practically speaking, this works fine most of the time. If you keep up with legal case news, in any port city you'll see a lot of cases like 'US Customs v. 1000 leather handbags' - sometimes because the handbags in question are knockoffs, sometimes because the paperwork got lost and a shipment ended up in the wrong place, to be later claimed by the rightful owner with documentation.

Asset seizure by police has been abused to hell and back, and I have no hesitation in saying that many police officers and institutions are corrupt. But the legal mechanism for classifying abandoned property is not the problem. That's a purely administrative convenience that is entirely neutral in nature. If you didn't have it, then cops would just label the money as 'evidence', it would disappear, and the problem would be worse because there wouldn't even be a paper trail to follow.
How about this one: Automatic set-aside of a percentage of all purchases into a "self-insurance" fund. Could also probably enhance it by excluding certain merchant categories, such as gas, groceries, medical, etc.
> Not to mention they will probably use legal means to hamstring this if possible.

I wonder how this could work. It's not like, e.g., Milwaukee has any legal oversight over LEO.
I completely understand your concerns. Your emails aren't sent anywhere; they are processed on our server. We have our own ML model so we don't share any of your data with a third party. Moreover, we don't store the content of your email. We just give emails scores based on various attributes and those scores are used to make all the predictions.
I've used Java very little. But about 1-2 years ago, on a long trip, and after learning about Kotlin on Android (iOS developer here) I decided to create a prototype of our iOS app on Android using Kotlin. Apart from some weirdness on the Android API (which Java, Kotlin, Groovy, etc) don't fix, I found myself very productive and created a fun prototype over a 14 hour flight that got me the OK to develop the first version of our Android app.

If you have developed in Swift (and probably other languages), Kotlin will feel very similar, the only thing you need to do is learn the native API's, but logic/model code is so similar you can just copy paste from swift->kotlin and vice versa and just fix 2-3 syntax issues
Between this biometric ID system (Aaadhaar) and demonetization, India is a great example of how quickly utopian tech ideas that appeal to corporations become tools of government authoritarianism.

I wrote about this here: https://hackernoon.com/i-boycott-paytm-5df93d189356

And I like this article about the general issue: http://www.medianama.com/2016/12/223-year-end-rant-2016-tech...

Interesting fact I came across: the UK government destroyed their biometric ID database a few years ago https://www.gov.uk/government/news/id-card-database-destroye...
> If you use this project, you're using it to experiment with a new way of working with the terminal, not to get screaming fast GPU accelerated screen rendering.

Screaming fast GPU accelerated screen rendering _is_ a new way of working with the terminal IMO. All hail alacritty. That's the kind of innovation I support. Trying to max out RAM and CPU for a slightly better looking UI is not something I am even going to consider trying out.
If this is true, it's kind of a brilliant scheme, you know, in an evil "I'm going to take over the world" sorta way.
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... almost entirely off their stake in BABA. YHOO was effectively just an ETF invested in just one stock, their actual business had negative value.
If they'd been able to balance the budget, they wouldn't have been in that state in the first place!
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> Texas isn't really part of the "Deep South"

I dunno, it seceded to protect slavery from twice as many countries as any other state in the South; that's got to count for something.
Every time someone says "optimizers are harmful, just write fast code to begin with" I ask if they've written "x / 3".

Optimizers are there to help you write maintainable code instead of unmaintainable micro-optimized spaghetti. Use them.
Nope, they will almost certainly default on a large proportion of it.
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i think this has more to do with tax optimization than location of work, many companies outsource everything to avoid taxes, otherwise they would not be able to provide competitive salaries for direct employee doing same work
> What illegal thing were you doing?

Unauthorized use of a copyrighted work. Translations are included under the category of derivative works, and those have a requirement of lawfulness. They have to be somehow licensed or authorized from the copyright holder of the work they derive from.

The Shannara books were unoriginal, but not to a degree that they'd be considered derivative works.
Looks like this is fairly widespread.

This is what the attack actually looks like: https://twitter.com/zachlatta/status/859843151757955072
Android actually now has some Java 8 feature support out-of-the-box [0] though most are API 24+.

After porting our code base to Kotlin we found it provides more benefits over Java than just being less typing / "syntactic sugar". To name a few:

- First class functional support (streams feel clunky in comparison).
- Extension functions [1].
- Nullable types (compile-time null checking).
- Less verbose as types declarations are optional in many situations.
- Great interop & tooling from JetBrains makes a slow transition from Java -> Kotlin pretty seamless.

[0] https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/features/java8-...

[1] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/extensions.html
Yeah @SwiftOnSecurity warned about this, lots of people/orgs affected
Because otherwise you have to include in your application the config necessary to:

* Enable compression, if desired.

* Redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS.

* Add headers for security best practices like OCSP stapling, DH params, HTTP STS, HPKP, etc.

Those are really things best handled in the edge and not by your application. Your proxy is probably going to do a better job of these things than you are and the config will be simpler. Not to mention if you have to update any of those settings you can do a hot-reload of your proxy's config -- your Go app has to be recompiled. And oh yeah, the moment you have more than one Go app sitting behind your host you need a proxy anyway.
> C++ is a superset of C, and that virtually any legal C program is a legal C++ program.

This is not true. One example, void* pointers are not automatically converted to "narrower" types in C++ as they are in C.
This article is a couple of years old but it appears LS is Load Store: http://blog.geni.us/2013/12/06/parameter-cheat-sheet-for-itu...
Ah yes - I remember the day I had an ad show up telling me that the very niche item I purchased in another state at a retail store was the subject of a class-action lawsuit...

edit: and it probably wasn't the class action you're thinking of :)
To get an impression I think it's a good idea to start with these pictures taken from the ISS [0], which is at about 400 km altitude (it varies a bit but not that much)

- https://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/nasa-earth...

- Spain: https://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/nasa-earth...

Note that they are to the side, straight down you would see a much smaller area!

So the SpaceX satellites would be three times higher. Still, you can see you may need quite a few stations on the ground, and also why you need so many satellites. They will fly over the area very quickly and by then the communication will already have to have been handed over to the next one. There is so much earth to cover, with satellites much higher up you cover a much wider area and you can have them in a stationary orbit. Earth has a diameter of 12,742 km, I have to keep reminding myself that even the ISS is barely above the surface if you were to look at earth from a distance.

[0] Source: http://twistedsifter.com/2015/04/earth-day-gallery-by-nasa/
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> The One Laptop Per Child people thought it would be the killer app for laptops.

No, they didn't.

They thought laptops would be a useful enabling technology for a particular model of education, but did not think that education would be the killer app for laptops (a product that was so we'll established by that time that thinking about it even needing a "killer app" at that point is senseless.)
You are correct that he is all drama but we need to see more substance. None of his positions were actually original, and his actions are constantly divisive. I m sure he s interesting as a superstar tv person, but, other than his storytelling about the eurogroup meetings, his thought is not that coherent, it changes often and he often attacks strawmen (eg his critique of piketty). It makes him a lively interviewee, but doesnt gain him academic credit.
Unfortunately, I've seen some people get burnout that really sticks. Some found success with a much longer break (3 weeks - 6 months). I've also heard that certain types of talk therapy can unravel the burnout drivers, so one can address them "on the fly," without interrupting work too much. Finally, something else may be going on, so you may want to check in with your personal doctor or a psychiatrist. For example, a hidden vitamin deficiency can do all sorts of wacky things to quality of life.
I just received one of these as well. They seem to get their targets by compromising a single user and then by monitoring the people who are viewing the same Google Docs as the infected victim had in the past.
ITT: talking about poor incentives, doing basic threat modeling, etc.

The answer has always been professional licensing.

And no, just because there's always a new flavor of the month language or framework, doesn't mean the fundamentals change all that often.

* Sanitize inputs
* Secure data at rest and in transit
* Never store secrets in plaintext
* Set up IAM properly for your organization
* Use 2FA whenever possible
* Principle of least access
* Update frequently

Why, again, can't we conditionally license professionals on knowing the basics, and threaten disbarment for knowingly neglecting security?
Trade surplus is neither evil nor a problem in itself.
I quite like http://echo.labstack.com

I quite like it because you can access the net/http constructs (ResponseWriter, Request, etc) if you really need them, but in most cases it removes a lot of boilerplate.
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Apple is an example of why your last paragraph likely isn't true. It's about the end-to-end experience, not the parts that compose it.
(1) is entirely debatable. imho your prescription is bad advice. it is very helpful to have []uint call stack pointers (i.e. not a ton of data) associated with errors for the 1 in 10 chance you'll need that information, especially when dealing with libraries you don't control that generate errors (which for most programs is the majority, things like lib/pq etc.)
I was lucky enough to grow up as the third child of a family obsessed with lego. Some of my fondest memories are digging through all the loose parts my mother kept in rubbermaid containers and building anything I could imagine with my brothers. Those pieces all started life as a bunch of different sets, but the whole point of lego for me was that the sets can be a springboard to create anything you can imagine.

Plus, nothing's stopping you from buying lots of loose pieces. I'm not sure if it's still the case, but you used to be able to just buy whole boxes of bricks of different colors or shapes from lego.
If you enjoyed this paper than I highly encourage you to read Wadler's 'Why calculating is better than scheming' where in he critiques SICP for it's choice of using Scheme, arguing that Miranda would have been a better language to go with.

https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/wadler87....
I've seen this but I don't think it is fair. Look at the amount of VC $$ going into CA vs. KS. Easy to create economic expansion when money is invested in your state.
This is true [1] but does this matter if even only 1% is incredibly innovative and world changing? I think a limited number of these will almost certainly be successful operations.

That said, I do not plan to invest in anything beyond ETH (ethereum currency) because I have low confidence in most of these ICOs and it's hard to pick out the right ones.

[1] It's true most of these are hare-brained schemes by people hopelessly over their heads, including a fair number that are scammy. However, given how little most of these promise (beyond saying something along the lines of "we're building X and if people use it there will be an automatic payout to coin holders") I think it's unfair and close-minded to just label them all "frauds" a priori- Something can't be a fraud if no one is lying- Terms like "pump and dump" and "scam" for some of these I think is fair though.
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what's the best way to insure I can get one of these ? without spending hours writing a bot for it ...
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This is burning through our office right now. emailing all clients! diablo!
Seems to not support some implementations of require() - did you have any problems?
Another cool resource:

https://github.com/rigtorp/awesome-modern-cpp
EDIT: According to a Google representative on the reddit thread, this application is now blocked. If your account was affected, you no longer need to do anything.

If you fell for this, changing your password is not the right solution - you want to log into your google account and remove permissions from the application.

https://myaccount.google.com/permissions?pli=1 should show a list of apps connected to your account.

Also, if you fell for this, you sent a bunch of emails to people like the one you received, so maybe tell them not to click.
You had me at "Facebook has a reputation to keep". Indeed, yes!

It's worth nothing that everyone who works at Facebook, including the CEO, are random strangers. That I know (some of) their names doesn't help me sleep well at night.

Incidentally, I don't have a facebook account, and I sleep fine.

Edit: didn't Mark Zuckerberg once say "people who trust me are dumb fucks", or something to that affect? Screw that guy and the horse he rode in on.
Our support team is getting spammed a lot from our customers. We're in the education space, and it's spreading pretty quick.

On initial inspection the URL looks harmless, but it's got some malicious params in there, mainly

redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fgoogledocs.g-docs.win%2Fg.php

It appears to request read/send access to your email, and then spam all your contacts
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They have an AWS offering also https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile?id=5829a41... . I tried it a year or so ago and my Clojure app "just worked". (I am not affiliated with Zing/Azul)
amazing how large this is, our company just a massive wave of those. all from "internal" addresses.
In South America, tax evasion has evolved so much that there are software packages with built-in "under the table" accounting, and dual accounting (one for the state and the real one).

Paying actual taxes is a fast way to bankruptcy here :( , the above-board companies look for tax loops, smaller ones make do with dual-accounting and understating income.

Government figured out that income tax is the most difficult to fake and heavily hammers employees :(
It's a pretty nasty one, since it uses their standard OAuth flow with an app "Google Docs" to have users grant full access to their email and contacts.

1. I can't believe Google doesn't have basic filters to disallow developers from registering an app named "Google Docs"

2. Perhaps there should be some more validation/limits associated with allowing apps on the platform that can gain full access to email. A secure email account is the One True Source of authentication in the digital world. Google should make it way harder for people to get tricked into granting full access to their inbox.
Reported as a service disruption on the status dashboard:

> We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Drive. We will provide more information shortly.

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=4&iid=c7...
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Since part of the premise of the KS tax cuts and others like them is that they will attract business investment, the fact that the imbalance you point to continues to exist is not an excuse for the failure of KS tax cuts to produce positive economic results, since that's exactly what they were sold as changing.
I spend a lot of time trying to boil down bodily functions to the evolutionary imperatives behind them.

This is a really interesting idea, but I think equally valid is the notion that a hunter gatherer really is only seeking out short term gain. I think people are very drawn towards immediate, stark energy, which is why sugar and simple carbs are such an epidemic. Overeating seems like a byproduct of avoiding scarcity.

I definitely believe that people crave certain things given certain nutritional deficiencies, though.
There hasn't been any problem enforcing it PRECISELY because cryptocurrency technology didn't previously exist.
This is good news for the USA, but it's GREAT news for countries where the government regularly cuts off and controls the Internet for political purposes. If receivers can be as small as a personal laptop, expect a thriving black market in them in places like Iran and Egypt.

Such receivers can also act as backhaul for mesh networks, providing access to un-censored information in times of turmoil and peace alike.
A certain commander in chief has in public espoused that:

"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."[0].

There are plenty of misinformed people that will gladly tell you there is no such thing and if there was human activity has no effect. Pretending that there aren't and even if the issue is complex there isn't a set of clearly wrong opinions is disingenuous to the extreme.

[0] https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/26589529219124838...
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Much the same way they enforce that every crypto exchange that wants to touch US dollars has to follow US KYC/AML rules.

(And even then, banks can be touchy enough that you still can't get any ActualMoney out of Bitfinex.)
The publishing house at the time bought the rights to translate JKR's work, so I think it's probably a gray area at best. I don't think people would make as big of a deal now as they did in the past, though.

It was novel - before the work done by the team, most websites in Vietnam only posted books retyped/digitalized by hobbyists, but no one other than the anime fans who did new translations. It was unsurprising to me to look back, many of the people who helped on the project were anime people. At one time we were having sister forums, Harry Potter and Anime.
Yeah, ignorance is really demotivating. I don't fear criticism even if it's negative, but it's pretty hard to get people to react to something. I'll think about the things you wrote, I'm truly appreciate your replies. Thank you again!
Hard to regulate it because it has properties of a scarce commodity, currency, speech, token used to access service, plus more.
The person you're replying to isn't talking about minors. The age of majority in every state in the US is 18 with the exceptions of Nebraska and Alabama where it is 19.

The activities listed - getting married, serving in the military, etc. are related to no longer being a minor. It is completely ridiculous that people who are not minors are barred from purchasing alcohol.
What I wrote is going to be super harsh but I'm being purely analytical and this is not to be taken personally:

You definitely don't sound confident at all and I feel like your problem is much deeper one where taking VC money or not isn't the issue.

It's clear from reading you would've spent the money on non-marketing as the hindsight speaks for itself.

Marketing is a small part of the equation but shouldn't be most of the funding goes. Depending on your business and industry, it will vary greatly.

I really don't see any negative impact on you. It might feel that you missed out but maybe it was never a good fit.

Of course, today, you are wiser and know exactly what to do with it, so consider it a lesson that can't be taught in schools.
I believe Animats was referring specifically to disruption of industry incumbents and failed to clarify that.
I genuinely don't understand how IBM is able o recruit or retain either employees or clients at this point
Beats the crap out of the Saturn Vue model.
Juggling simulator sounds awesome...I've always wanted to learn how to juggle!

I'd definitely agree that design challenges are worth nerding-out over...and probably the most difficult aspect on VR development. You don't even want to know how much time we've spent tossing around interface ideas...

That being said, I disagree that UX is less important for enterprise. UX is maybe even more important for enterprise. As a gamer, trying VR is an obvious next step. For enterprise, not so much; the bar is much higher for getting someone to start using 3D software whose functionality currently works on a 5" diagonal screen, a la mobile phones.