skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a conservative & conservationist, I feel that they mean much the same. I want to conserve, preserve & improve nature for our benefit, and I want to conserve, preserve & improve our culture and government for our benefit as well.
The legal system is different than code in a very important way: the law is written to be applied by intelligent people working (mostly) in good faith. This is why judges have discretion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_discretion), and also why tort law exists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tort).

The attitude in your comment, that the law should be interpreted with perfect strictness and machine-like lack of concern for obvious blunders, is in my opinion really hurting the United States today.
Depends on your definition of "discipline" in context.

Anybody can work on their "discipline muscles"; it'll be easier for some than others.
UK Cops Can Now Remotely Disable Phones Even If No Crime Has Been Committed
Do you think it is good (or an "advancement") to eliminate cash?
Hey, @louwhopley. So cool to see this project on HN! Signed up for your early access a few weeks ago and hope to get access soon.

I think there is a lot of opportunities still within
Africa for the informal sector with technology. However, the FICA guidelines make it quite difficult to operate in this space. Do you see a future where we can service this sector better whilst still be compliant?
Surprises after using .NET Core for six months
Show HN: Yala, a social media scheduling robot
Yes, that's called in rem jurisdiction (power over objects) and the resulting cases can sound very comical

United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins

United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola

United States v. Ninety-Five Barrels, More or Less, Alleged Apple Cider Vinegar

One 1958 Plymouth Sedan v. Pennsylvania

United States v. 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Articles Labeled in Part Mrs. Moffat’s Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness

Marcus v. Search Warrant of Property at 104 East Tenth Street, Kansas City, Missouri

United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls

United States v. One Lucite Ball Containing Lunar Material (One Moon Rock) and One Ten Inch by Fourteen Inch Wooden Plaque
People are more likely to notice the inability to install traditional Windows apps than what search engine they're using.
Hey HN,

I'm so happy to share our product with you folks - it's been a while since we released v1 here on HN, and it's now time for v2.

Yala is super simple - you send her content via Facebook Messenger or Slack, and she publishes it to your business' social media accounts at the perfect time to maximize engagement. It's pro social media scheduling in a friendly package.

One last thing. We adore transparency, and would love to share our stats from the past few months with y'all. If you share your email (1), I'll send you this month's investor update - and ONLY that. No further mailings at all.

Really excited to hear your feedback. :-)

(1) https://madmimi.com/signups/74fde67c562a42f29a66cb1c14086e5e...
Design is outstanding.
To quote the FAQ:

>The single license annual subscription price for Zing is $3500 USD per server, with significantly lower prices for higher volumes and longer-term subscriptions.
Maybe in your crazy legal system.
If you like this kind of thing, just go in and give it a shot! The NES is a great place to start, just three registers and simple instruction set. The display unit ABI is well documented and there's a couple of NES debuggers out there.

Starting with no experience, I wrote a program to dump level images straight from a ROM:

https://gitlab.com/mcmapper/mcmapper/blob/master/main.c

https://tcrf.net/Proto:M.C._Kids
I specifically said it's not malicious, it's in reaction to my level of creativity. It's how I operate.

> Honestly, you don't sound professional.
> if you feel comfortable being that shameless and unethical

If you can work at 100% capacity at your job all the the time, great for you. If not, then you are either completely honest with your employers about it ("I didn't get anything done this week because I'm burned out") or you do the exact same things and are taking some sort of moral high ground in your post to feel superior.

It's fine if you don't agree with me giving honest advice, but keep the moral judgements to yourself when they are most likely based in hypocrisy.

EDIT: Also, just want to reiterate: this happens once in a while. I'm not doing this every day. Maybe you should re-read my post?
What vehicle you use and what you invest it in are different questions. You could put your whole 401k in JNUG (a 3x-leveraged gold miners ETF that will regularly have 20% up/down days).

So 401k is very good advice, but then you have to determine what your 401k is invested in.
Reminds me of the Buckminster Fuller quote:

>We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors.
Not necessarily. As always, the answer is "it depends".

If you're looking to get into high-end, room-scale VR with hand-tracked controllers and high-fidelity graphics, then yes. You need a Windows 10 PC with as much RAM, CPU, and GPU as you can muster. Plan on spending at least USD 2000 on a custom-built PC.

If you're looking to get into smartphone-based AR, you can use practically anything to write the code, and there are plenty of tools to be able to build completely cross-platform apps. But you will want a flagship phone, whether that's the latest iPhone or one of the Androids with a powerful CPU and GPU. AR is very CPU intensive. While there have been demonstrations of SLAM on GPUs, all of the implementations I'm aware of are doing it on the CPU.

Where should you start? Well, without hand-tracking of some kind, I don't really consider it VR. Google Cardboard, Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and Oculus Rift without the Touch controllers are all glorified 2D interfaces. They don't provide anything actually new in terms of being able to interact with the application.

Smartphone-based AR apps will probably reach a wider audience sooner than VR. But if Microsoft's approach to headsets and Windows Holographic pays off, I think that is not a perpetual state of affairs. Ideally, this gets down to the size of a pair of sunglasses (which is very nearly the case already). At that point, smartphone-based AR is going to be a quaint novelty.
Did you read the article? It's as much if not more for economic reasons: Airbus realized that it could get more lucrative US military contracts by having local bases and chose factory locations partly for historical trends (of having facilities serving military-industrial complex) as well as other factors like lower cost and tax subsidies from choosen locations.
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A well-engineered and open source ASP.NET MVC application?
I would love to hear what HN userbase considers to be a well-engineered ASP.NET MVC application. While this term is vague, I am fairly confident that majority of you here used the term "well-engineered" or something to that end. There is a ton of blog posts/articles about various principles, patterns and best practices, but I have yet to see a single open source web application which truly covers everything. Please submit a link to the repository and discuss why you consider the application to be well-engineered.
Is your family like that? Sorry.
At the moment, if you want the real VR with positional 6 DOF tracking, yes.
I love stories like this - right from Sneferu in ancient Egypt to a driven high-schooler - drive leads people to great things. And when we see the output we are just left to wonder what fueled it and how we can harness that same drive.
Structural analysis of the cannabis industry
Unfortunately, everyday programmers mostly know very little about security.

If you really want security, it's something that every programmer should be thinking about, at least in the back of their mind, on every line of code they write.
It's not yet ready for production, so there are some bugs and cases where we should reject a program but don't do that yet.

Having said that, it's quite safe, but won't be undetectable. Code using eval could detect injected identifiers, we don't currently aim at preserving function names, and the method bodies you get with toString() are altered. That should be roughly it.
I read /r/financialindependence and daydream haha, that's where I learned about all this stuff.
Thanks, I'll check this out. I always just sort of noticed it and recognized it as something that happens. Never really dove in to why.
I keep saying this to anyone who will listen — I doubt very much that he's interested in running for anything. As CEO of Facebook, if he's not as powerful as a US president yet, he very well might be in 5 or 10 years. He hinted in his globalization "manifesto"[1] that he wants Facebook to become what the UN could not be. I recommend everyone read it in full, as well as some critical commentaries.[2][3][4]

If anything, it's much scarier to think he sees this as a necessary part of his job as Facebook CEO.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-glob...

[2] https://medium.com/@CharlieBeckett/facebook-grappling-with-p...

[3] http://www.roughtype.com/?p=7651

[4] https://stratechery.com/2017/manifestos-and-monopolies/
Studies have shown that riding on the sidewalk is considerably less safe than riding on the street (due to link rot, I can't find the studies I'd read, but google brings up plenty). Cars do not expect bicycles to be crossing intersections from the sidewalk, so your risk of being hit by a car goes up considerably unless you come to a complete stop at each intersection you cross. I've never met a bicyclist that does this as it will break your momentum considerably. Whats more, pedestrians and dogs often walk into the way of sidewalk operating bicyclist. Please don't do this.
Ask HN: Do you regret not taking investment?
I thought it would be interesting to ask the opposite question after seeing this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14254550
I would go even farther here.

Without an established culture of adaptation and refactoring, your team lacks the perspective necessary to know what the 'right' architecture is.

The paradox here is that people who could extract the most benefit from a rewrite don't have to ask for one, and those least equipped to benefit constantly blame their problems on the lack of one.

At the end of the day, the rewrite or 'perfect architecture' is a dodge. You get to be left alone for 4-8 months with nobody hassling you, which means the perverse incentive is:

rewrite = peace and quiet
First they should ask if you want to get into VR. I mean, there is a certain crisis, as the hype did not live up and obvious problems (sickness) remained obvious.
I like it.

Shameless plug: https://github.com/websitesfortrello/classless
Am I missing something? If I hold `a` it zooms in on my location almost down to the street.
This sounds like a great idea!
I'd say its more like mom telling billy to go do what his buddies are doing since its making them mad cash.
I do believe RO takes out fluoride and pretty much everything. Bottled water doesn't have fluoride either to my knowledge.
It's because the only accepted way to distribute software for Android is through the Google Play store, outside of China.

Many companies even distribute their internal tools over the Play store. You can't expect normal users to go find some arcane setting and accept security warnings in order to enable standalone APK installation. Incidentally, the option is hidden in completely different submenus depending on Android version and customizations by the manufacturer.

The developer agreement for the Play store even comes with an "anti-competition clause," explicitly forbidding anyone from distributing software that could compete with Google's app distribution business. Unless you do it outside the Play store, in which case you have yourself a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem.
Trump was successful not because he was unapologetic for being rich, but rather because he said things that a large plurality of voters wanted to hear and was able to win states that gave him a big victory in electoral college votes. The only people who didn't think he had a chance are those who cannot hear or understand those voters, and what's disturbing about that is that inability to understand those voters is supposed to somehow delegitimize his victory.
I don't know what macro economic impact it had. Pretty much all the currency came back through the various loop holes in the rules. The liquidity crunch continues to create lot of problems to majority of the country who do not have access to banking and financial services. Nobody really knows the cost of all this and all for what? I still see unaccounted money floating every day and nothing seems to have actually changed
That's a legit name.
Next time I hear someone talk about "JS fatigue" I'm showing them this.
Check out the Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream if you have a compatible smartphone. If you don't you can use Google Cardboard (I believe even with iOS).

From a development standpoint the main difference between mobile headsets and PC headsets is that mobile VR doesn't track the physical position of your head or hands. However you can still learn a ton and make a lot of cool things with them.
Is there a timeout for approving/declining transactions? I'd be interested in setting up a sort of 2FA for large/over budget transactions where I'd have to manually approve it before it goes through.

e.g. "You've already spent over your monthly Amazon budget by X amount, are you sure you want to make this $200 purchase?"
> The development of VR has been surprisingly tied to science fiction. Authors in the field have envisioned the futures that engineers set out to build

Incidentally, the high romanticism of VR one of the reasons why I am highly skeptical of the industry. The article argues "VR will also enable immersive concerts, reinvented museums, and live, court-side sporting events", but what is it doing now outside of games, which have been hit-or-miss? (the Samsung Gear VR commercials make VR look ridiculous, IMO)

AI is a similarly romantic industry, but the difference is that there are many practical, non-gimmicky applications of AI now and already implemented on your phones/PCs.
I'm well aware. That is unrelated to how I think it's crazy.
I find it interesting that this is the first answer, so I started an alternate Ask HN: Do you regret not taking investment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14258278
Who Are the Founders of University Spinouts?
> It's much easier to kill a person with a gun than a KitchenAid mixer.

KitchenAid makes knives as well.

> Also, most US states make one pass a test to prove that one is capable of operating an automobile to some minimum standard of "not killing people".

How many car thefts are there per year?

What makes you think that that process you describe for a test to prove one is capable of operating an automobile ensures that car won't be used as a weapon? If anything, it ensures that person with such intentions is properly trained at using the car up to the point of using it as a weapon.

Even if those test do somehow check for "minimum standard of not killing people", Why do you think someone who just wants a car to be used as a weapon would put herself through those tests instead of stealing one?

You must grant that stopping people from committing crimes is an unsolved hard problem. It's OK to work on that problem, what's not OK is to act as if it is a solved problem. Till the problem is solved, we must allow people to have an option to defend themselves with guns if they are so inclined.
Someday, Amazon wants you to have long talks with Alexa
I buy twinkies and freeze them, just in case they go bankrupt again, laugh now.
> many people do seem to be lacking basic nutrients in their diet

What's the evidence of that?
Huh but that is the job of security auditor to assess risk level give report with level of threat and then product owner job is to take responsibility for implementing fixes based on that report. I do not understand way of working where you have security team that dumps report with bs on developers heads and say fix all now or we die.
> It's not natural to love or even like your work.

This makes no sense to me.

It's "natural" to feel how you feel about your work, whether positive or negative (or oscillating). There's nothing un-natural about loving/liking your work either, which makes statements like this meaningless and unhelpful.
In certain states, the title proves the transfer (sale) of the vehicle.

I didn't read the whole article, the paywall is blocking it but if there is no legal document to prove the sale has taken place, then the car still belongs to the name on the title, regardless of what happened. In other words, it doesn't matter if he got paid 10K for the car, if the purchaser don't have any documents, he is SOL.
> Sure, but there's probably no incentive for legislatures to implement this fix

The incentive is the same as the incentive for them to do anything: democratic process and popular pressure. If this is such a no-brainer it should have wide support among Colorado voters. This is much better than having unelected federal judges thousands of miles away declare the issue by fiat.

> The loophole enriches their constituent law enforcement organizations

A. It's not a "loophole", it's simply the lack of any explicit law directing refunds.
B. I'm not familiar with Colorado state finances, but I seriously doubt that refunds from vacated convictions would have any significant budgetary impact at all.

> ...if the law as written is encouraging abusive behavior from law enforcement

Again, this isn't "abusive behavior". It's simply lack of a law authorizing what the petitioners demand. I wouldn't be surprised if it was simply that nobody thought to write and pass the law, given the relative rarity of vacated convictions.
This is why I think a shift to remote work culture is more likely to be a major reduction of congestion than self-driving vehicles ever could. It's just too bad a remote work culture seems less likely, because it isn't a technical problem but a political/social problem.
maybe related to the rumor?

https://qz.com/882475/facebook-fb-ceo-mark-zuckberg-hires-da...

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/zucks-sure-acting-like-someone...
Using VR makes me sick...
I'm not sure that this approach to economics of 'beatings will continue until morale improves', it's a so good idea.

If fact, I think that, as the data show, it's in the same league of 'Trickle-down economics'.
"ahead of the West"

Ahem, ahead of the US, really. Canada and the EU can be cashless already, with chip cards and direct bank withdrawal at the POS a reality for 99.99% of merchants.
The real litmus test: Does FB use it in production yet?
> At that time Vietnam has just signed the Bern copyright convention, and my indie translation was the center of attention. In the past book translation, we gave out our real names or real nick-names, however the translator wanted it. We had about 4-5 chapters churned out before we realized that we were in big troubles. I remember one night I received an email to my personal mailbox at 10 PM from a journalist asking something along the lines of "Do you know you're doing something illegal?"

What illegal thing were you doing? If Terry Brooks can translate Tolkien from English to English without running afoul of copyright, I don't see what copyright would have to say about translating from English to Vietnamese. You're certainly not infringing on the author's original wording.
Random question but it really bugs me that FNB and I think most other South African banks still use SMS/Email based secondary authentication OTPs. Are you guys planning on using TOTP by any chance?
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Advice like just buy Vanguard or US treasuries is not really all that great of advice.

One of the biggest mistakes people make in investing is country concentration. Telling people to "dump 100%" into Vanguards S&P 500 is just, well I'll use misguided but I should use stronger language.

Telling someone to invest just in the US equity market if you live and work in the US there is just an broader way of telling someone to invest everything in the company they work for.

You still have risk like 2008 where you can have the double whammy of both your company and your investments both getting beat up at the same time.

Everyone should have exposure outside of their own country, especially American's. Or Put another way, if your whole investment portfolio is based in one country that's better than investing in a single company but not too much better in that you're still making the same investment mistake of significant portfolio concentration
It has TRADE surplus. You were talking about funds. There is a substantial amount of money flowing from Germany, France and others into less fortunate countries via EU governed programs.
Buried somewhere deep inside their 1,000 page employment agreement is probably something along the lines of "you willingly agree to subject yourself to this obvious psychological torture and we are in no way responsible for the mental problems which will inevitably result from your job duties."
The craziest part of it in the US, to me, is that everyone involved knows it's BS.

Most vendors/bouncers in a college town are going to know the kid handing them a florida ID thousands of miles away from florida is almost certainly a fake - the fakes being produced by IDGod and most of the other college vendors are pretty terrible. They don't care though, it's enough to keep them from being fined/losing an alcohol license should police become involved. Hell, most of the local police departments in college towns are relatively unconcerned about underage drinking unless they can use it as a way to shut down other behavior they deem an issue. Most parents in the US are fine with their college students drinking as well.

The optimist in me thinks our insane drinking laws are the next to fall after widespread legalization of cannabis, but unfortunately most of the influential people in politics are so far removed from that period of life that they're apathetic towards it being an issue.

The better question is among those who plan to drink in the US, who actually waited to be 21 to drink? I don't know anyone.
Yeah, I've had the same experience mobility wise. It is a pretty heavy laptop. I always have it plugged and on a table, Never in my lap :)
If you can "just" convict people of anything no matter what, we probably have bigger problems.

Not that I particularly agree with Thomas, but assuming that it's trivially easy to convict anyone you want of a criminal offense is quite a big leap. (And it doesn't just require a compliant judge -- people could always ask for jury trials).
Or not as all the studies I've seen that look into it find no clear relation between harshness and deterrence, in fact it may even backfire and cause more problems.

http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/nrc/NAS_report_on_incarceration...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810025245.h...

What does work as deterrence is the risk of being caught.

https://nij.gov/five-things/pages/deterrence.aspx
It doesn't seem like this tool supports global level objects.

For instance, a common pattern being:

(function(w) {
console.log(w.location);
})(window)

This results in issues because it's unaware that window would contain other methods. Is it possible to exclude certain objects in this case?