skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My brother called me about 15 minutes ago to tell me this hit his student e-mail as well.

I'd be curious at the postmortem how quickly this thing spread.
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Ouch that review
Absolutely.

Governments are stupid to borrow money and waste it, but banks were supposed to be even more stupid to lend money to these reckless institutions called governments, and it's not wrong if these banks pay the price of their stupidity.
I'd say it can help.

You can have 10 million USD in crypto and live a normal life: pay rent, drive a usual car, etc. Nobody will notice you, not even the IRS.

If you want to move your funds in another country, you simply have to move yourself and spend them there. You can't do that with fiat.
I'd expect the lack of actually seeing the bystanders to weaken the bystander effect.

Lack of physical proximity to what is happen might lessen the urge to act.
Pressing 'report abuse' is really easy, but calling the police based on online material is a lot harder.
U.S. Marine Corps live test of unmanned amphibious landing tech
There's a statehood faction, an independence faction, and a big "don't upset the gravy train" faction that likes the status quo. If Puerto Rico became a state, US Federal personal income taxes would be imposed. If Puerto Rico became an independent country, immigration to the US would be stopped.

There have been referendums on this. The next one is June 11, 2017.
Bad actors don't invalidate the technology or the opportunities it brings about.

ICOs open access to funding to companies outside the usual VC-preferred areas and sectors. They also allow pretty much everyone to invest (though the ones that follow regulation tend to disallow participants from US that are not registered with the SEC).
>Google's LIDAR technology is obsolete spinning-scanner gear, mostly from Velodyne. It's something you'd use on an experimental vehicle, not a production one. The production LIDAR systems are coming, they're all solid state, and they come from big auto parts makers like Delphi and Continental. So by the time the Uber case gets to trial, it will be moot.

Google's LIDAR technology is obsolete? Didn't Google just come up with a new system that reduces the cost of a LIDAR system by 90% ?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-08/alphabet-...
Sounds like a rookie mistake. I always make sure cases are filed against everyone involved, the organizations involved, misspellings of those people and organizations, aliases, etc.

I've had county clerks delay proceedings against one defendant simply because the CLERK mispelled the name in the docket. Nope.

Let the court remove people from proceedings. Even in a summary judgement I'm not going to collect from uninvolved defendants (although yes many people are not so prudent)
I didn't claim it was the only cause/contributor. I only pointed out that by now, there is a growing body of research demonstrating that it contributes to such problems.
Hint to the uninformed: don't look up "bitmap" and wonder why anyone would index them. Look up "bitmap index" instead. This will save you many clicks in the github project as well as in your favorite search engine. It's about databases, not pixels.
It doesn't count as American culture until the guy who is pushing it clears a million dollars.
They could use some proper, standard license, though. Then people wouldn't complain. Like Apache license.
Analogies are always good in law, I kind of got lost in yours but if you looked at my law text books you wouldn't find notes but pictures in my margins, likewise they may not help you but the process no doubt helped me flush out the ideas/concepts and remember the same.

Even running it thru my mind I do see the practical examples of distinguishing between the restoration of property and liberty when they have been deprived based on conviction and later overturned.

In fact I am sure I could provide examples where even people on here might agree the property should not be returned to the defendant after the overturned conviction. A lot of those examples would be where the defendant is actually guilty of the crime, but the conviction is over turned and the victim is forced to return restitution on top of seeing the defendant set free.

Nevertheless, in theory victims have another remedy in civil court at a lower standard than the beyond reasonable doubt of criminal court, but I could see that being traumatic to the victim in a lot of instance and likely so let down by the system they would never pursue it or if they did and won they may never be able to collect again.

It is very tricky no matter what the law is I'll find a set of facts that when applied results in an unjust outcome.
Unexpected automatic deserialisation of Java objects: MySQL Connector/J
It managed to trick me. It was sent by a woman who is co-editing a writing anthology, I had just submitted a final draft a couple of days ago, and as a group we've been using google drive and google docs to coordinate everything, so it made total sense that she would share a google docs document with me. Oops.
I don't think these Japanese Maple and lavender and Carolina Reaper seeds are going to become invasive. :)

They aren't seeds originally found in China, they were just obtained elsewhere and then grown there cheaply and put on AliExpress, I assume.

As to worries about seed contamination from stray seeds from other countries like China, where do you think all the seeds in your seed catalog come from?

http://themindfulhome.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-definitive-gu...

"It's safe to say, a fair amount of what we purchase from distributors probably was grown in China." -Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds (rareseeds.com)

"depending on the seed variety and specific lot, we may have seed that was sourced from China." -GrowOrganic.com (aka Peaceful Valley)
> The Constitution does not guarantee any of this [1].

That depends very much on your interpretation. Habeus corpus. The right to bear arms. The right to confront witnesses against you. Trial by jury. Equal protection. All those seem like "positive rights" to me.

Furthermore, it seems to me that you are doing exactly what the 9th amendment prohibits: you are extrapolating from the enumerated rights to make inferences about non-enumerated rights, and to conclude that because all of the enumerated rights fit some pattern that you discern, all of the non-enumerated rights must fit the same pattern, and so you can deny and disparage those non-enumerated rights that don't fit your perceived pattern.

Well, no. The 9th amendment was specifically intended to prohibit this kind of reasoning. Some of the framers didn't want a Bill of Rights at all because they were afraid (and apparently rightly so) that people would mount exactly the kind of argument that you are mounting.
3M Instacart orders open sourced
How was the speedup? That's what I would use this for, not some small minification gains.
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> Another example from the book: Madagascar. The French invaded, and took out their Queen. Then imposed taxes on the population as to get back the money they invested in the invasion/war. wtf

We currently charge imprisoned people for room and board for their jail stays.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34705968
When I was 14 years old I engaged a vocational school maintained by the Brazilian national railroad company.

There I learned a lot of metal working including welding and operating lathes. Spent 3 years there and ended up as a certified maintenance electrician for diesel-electric locomotives (never worked in railroads after that but several skills were useful both at professional and hobby situations).

Now the laws are more aligned with the USA and that school is closed. Such laws are said to be more "protective" as if teenagers are incapable of handling sharp tools. Brazil wastes no opportunity to dumb down.
I find it difficult to adhere to the meaning of guidelines like this, because I don't know exactly what they intend. For example, I would say what I did in a face-to-face conversation, and I don't think I'm being gratuitously negative.
If someone has already defaulted on a loan, that will make you not want to lend to him anymore, perfect.

If the Puerto Rico government defaults now, no banks should lend money to it again ever. Perfect.

This outcome doesn't affect other lender-borrower relationships.
There are many ways to "fail to do X", most of them much more complex (and possibly damaging) than "won't do X", especially in a program whose state is now corrupted. So limit that surface area as much as possible.
This should have a big impact on the "cost of small modules", as outlined here:

https://nolanlawson.com/2016/08/15/the-cost-of-small-modules...

Which is to say, one of its most effective use cases will be making up for deficiencies in Webpack, Browserify and RequireJS. Which I'm a little ambivalent about - I wish we could have seen improvements to those tools (it's possible, as shown by Rollup and Closure Compiler) rather than adding another stage to filter our JavaScript through. But progress is progess.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HMDprogramming/ is about discussing programming inside VR. Not a lot of activity. Current headsets are still equivalent to MCGA solid-angle wise. Best so far for programming seems to be the "Pimax 4K VR" https://medium.com/@n4ru/mobile-full-stack-development-in-4k...
Exactly. Do we really want to create a society where the lenders have to do an inordinate amount of background research to determine whether you are a default risk? Bad for everyone in that case.
Being introduced to Miranda was a revelation to me back in the day. I still prefer aspects of Miranda syntax over Haskell. For example, the formatting of guards in Miranda:

gcd a b = gcd (a-b) b, if a>b
= gcd a (b-a), if a<b
= a, if a=b

versus Haskell

gcd a b | a>b = gcd (a-b) b
| a<b = gcd a (b-a)
| a==b = a

I know it's a small thing and you can get used to such differences but since FP became just an occasional side interest for me, I never made the switch as a heavyish Miranda user to Haskell. For a long time even getting a Haskell compiler to run was a massive pain.

So I started using Mark Jones' Gofer[1] interpreter which was trivial to build and still is 20 years later assuming you can find the source tar ball. It kept the nicer syntax of Miranda and added most of the power features of Haskell. I particularly liked the generalized list comprehension feature which really should have made it into Haskell; things like combinator parser code reads beautifully with it.

I know it's what you're used to but Haskell code always looks ugly to me in comparison to Miranda or Gofer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gofer_(programming_language)
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Not sure about AI since I am still skeptical about "incredibly powerful" AI around the corner. AI is definitely going to have a big impact in the not too distance future but my sense is that the AI need not be all that powerful, it just needs to be capable of eliminating human input.

Self driving cars on the other hand are right in front of our eyes, we have seen them driving around and are rapidly advancing in terms of their level of autonomy...in terms of timeline for widespread adoption, I'll look at utility. The utility of self-driving cars is just too great for them not to quickly replace manual cars once the technology is fully ready. I can't imagine too many people would want to be stuck fiddling with their cars in long commutes when they could be reading, watching TV or taking a nap...just as smart phones dominate now because of their utility, self-driving cars are likely to unfold the same way.
Bitbucket Server won’t support Mercurial
> If they don't want to deal with the possibility of bankruptcy, they shouldn't lend out money.

This only works if lenders are private groups and if they have the ability to set the terms of the loan (or deny it altogether). Neither of these generally apply at the government level.
lol

And I wholesale reject your idea.

You have stated a preference. A wish for world to be a certain way, with no proof that the world behaves that way, all the while world is behaving exactly opposite of how you claim it to be.

I am a law abiding citizen. You are affecting my chances of survival. You intend to use police force to negatively affect my chances of survival. You intend to outlaw basic right to fight for survival, updated to work with modern era weaponry and challenges. I see you as detrimental to my well being without proper cause or ethical reasoning.

I reject your idea and your preference. Feel free to try again with a better version, if you like.
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So what? The market will fill the gap (and Uber already has credible competitors like Lyft). If that was good enough for the incumbent taxi monopolies to be disrupted despite the difficult consequences for some individuals who participated in good faith, then it is good enough for those who were misfortunate enough to get mixed up with a company that appears to have repeatedly operated in bad faith.

Corporations abuse the public and individual persons because corporate charters are hardly ever revoked. Why is there so much horror over killing off a brand that has become a byword for mendacity? Why should we glorify corporations that sweep all before them, but treat them like helpless infants when they march deliberately towards a tragic end?

I'm sure your concern for the people that work there is sincere, but realistically, they can get other jobs, although having worked for Uber might involve answering awkward questions about what they did there. Good.

There's something wrong with society where human life is considered disposable for a wide variety of reasons but the dissolution of an organization is greeted with horror. If the allegations against Uber are true, kill it.
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> TV, which so far has not really been touched by the internet,

uhhh, wasn't I reading pieces about how the internet was really shaking up TV about 5 years ago?
WhatsApp is down?
Yay, thanks!
Did you mean to classify radishes as a hanging fruit? They are very clearly root vegetables, and you should literally wash the shit out of them before even thinking about eating one raw.
Ask HN: Is there a Kaggle-Notebook-like tool in Java (instead of Python)?
Exactly like the sibling poster showed, there are multiple examples of this not being the case.

Melbourne has 4.6M people in 3800 sq mi.

It has a tram/light rail network of over 160 miles of track on 24 separate routes, and nearly two thousand tram stops. It runs a network of nearly 500 trams, and carries 200 million passengers a year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Melbourne#/media/File...

To give scale to that map, the radius of those routes (you can see something of a circle around the downtown area) from the city center averages about 15 miles (East Malvern, Box Hill, etc), and stretches near 25 miles at points.

Using your St Louis example and recognizing that certainly, not all of the Melbourne urban area is serviced by light rail, well over 700 sq mi is 'very well served'.
> We aim to be compatible at least with VT100. All the programs (emacs, ssh, vim) should work as expected.

At work, I use a VT100 cartridge for my Atari ST. It's not entirely VT100-compatible but I know for a fact that the vast majority of ncurses applications (not even to mention tmux) don't work and cause the terminal to be so corrupted as to be unusable.

Many applications rely on specific behaviours of newer terminals, so a better target would be xterm (or similar) compatibility. No one is targeting VT100 anymore.
Probably recreating the tax climate that attracted pharmaceutical manufacturers and was allowed to lapse would be more effective than trying to gin up tourism (although in my opinion probably that wouldn't be all that helpful either).
Maybe I've read too many science fiction dystopias, but I think it will be interesting to see if any breakthroughs that this company makes are kept back to benefit the Google elite or shared with the rest of society.
BitCoin?
You are the only person talking about mindlessly supporting something. I do not regret any of my original support for the firm, which was well-founded based on the information available, and whose existence solved a real problem in the market.
>Lots of people are leaving the island, which just compounds the problem (less revenue).

This is one of the effects of Puerto Rico being subject to US minimum wages. Since it's illegal for large portions of the population to receive pay commensurate to the value they're able to produce, and it is legal to move to the US, guess what folks do?
Gasoline is cheap only because negative externalities aren't part of the price. If global climate change stays on the current path, that could lead to a considerable increase in fossil fuel prices.
https://thelegocarblog.com/tag/saturn/
Ask HN: Is whatsapp down for anyone else?
Am currently not able to send messages in South Africa. Is anyone else elsewhere experiencing this?
Interesting, I've read this before but it connects to some things I've been thinking about and discussing with people recently. A comment I made earlier today was about the value of static/expressive type systems, and how that can let you quickly go from specification -> code. My point being the relatively short semantic distance between many specification languages and the type systems in Ada/Haskell/others.

You get a similar effect in connecting between intent and code when using a more algebraic language versus the Algol-lineage and Lisp-lineage languages. You reduce the semantic distance (especially paired with a good type system from above) from your specification to your executable code.
Regarding # 4. This product is by one the current largest banks in South Africa. Standard Bank of South Africa is big in S.A and operates in many other African countries.
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Limited companies go bankrupt all the time. Do we consider it an "ethical failure" when some VC funded company folds, leaving a whole bunch of people they owe money to with nothing?
Where have I stated any intention to use force?

There's a difference between stating what I believe would be best for society and having any belief that society will actually choose that course of action.
I don't time the market. Studies are really clear that people suck at it. You may be convinced you're the exception. I'm convinced that I'm not :)
You also explicitly claimed that the practice of civil forfeiture doesn't include forfeiture of property whose owner is known:

> 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
IMO Cardboard / GearVR is so different from the Vive / Rift+Touch right now that it is more useful to look at them entirely separately even though they are both technically "VR".

Cardboard and GearVR are relatively convenient and inexpensive but do not seem to be a very compelling product, since it is inconvenient compared to a monitor and frequently causes motion sickness, while offering few advantages. I have both and barely use them.

Vive and Rift+Touch are incredibly expensive and inconvenient (cumbersome set up, tethered, not portable). But a lot of the content basically never causes motion sickness (even for sensitive people). I think there is at least the beginning of a compelling product since I've had a chance to let a variety of non-technical people use it. Even if they're reluctant to try it at first, there is usually one of the programs they enjoy and keep using for quite a while.

I don't want to oversell the Vive - there are a lot of problems starting with the low resolution. But the problems with the high end systems will inevitably improve over the next few years - there will be more content, the resolution will improve, the cost will decrease, it will be more mobile etc. Also, I'd expect the Vive to be a relatively low capability device in the future - there's a lot of tech being shown off these days with eye / facial expression / body tracking that hasn't been integrated into a mass market product yet. It will be interesting to see what applications benefit from those.

The current low-capability systems seem like a dead end though, they've been available for a while and don't seem to have taken the world by storm, and once more capable mobile systems come out that will be the end of that UI paradigm. Simple things like reaching out and picking something up or moving it aren't possible, for interactive content the differences are really fundamental.

As far as the comfort issue goes, the weight distribution can be improved a lot without waiting for next-gen display technologies. PlayStation is the best this generation with a rigid band the headset hangs down from, and LGs upcoming one can flip up without taking it off all the way. Certainly putting all the weight on the face is a bad idea though and harder to avoid for phone-based systems.
Do these go onsale at midnight on 6/1? Are Lego sellouts common?
I don't have ton of experience, but I've gotten about an interview a week since I started looking for a job. I started by applying to 20 or 30 jobs a day, once I got a few interviews I slowed down.

I'm currently interviewing with a small company and I'll be doing a face-to-face with them next week.

I know it's hard to get feedback when you don't get an interview in the first place, but how does your resume look? You can have a lot of great stuff on there without giving enough specific points to generate interest. Or, you could not be applying to enough jobs.

Job searching is tough and un-fun, good luck out there!
Yes. :(

Edit: I'm in San Francisco.
My biggest concern and issue with the federal government backstopping pensions is that the vast majority of people would now be paying for benefits for people who rendered services in areas they didn't live. Because the populace of one city voted to give certain benefits to public sector employees why should I be held accountable for that decision? I neither had a vote nor partook of their services.

I am sure I am being very naive here but this seems to me to be the essence of taxation without representation.
...is disingenuous

$government_initiative

also, asinine
We could have built more housing in cities. And upgraded public transportation.
>>If someone has already defaulted on a loan, that will make you not want to lend to him anymore, perfect.

Yep, for example this is why no American bank will give loans to Donald Trump anymore. Too many bankruptcies. So he isn't worth the risk.
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I love how simple this worm is. They haven't exploited any security holes (other that looking like Docs), it literally just asks for full access to your email address.
Then the operator of the constellation would just shift to using Arianespace as launch provider (which is equally expensive at the moment).