skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should they be free to allow what they like? I don't know of any culture where there is an assumption that private property is absolute - that's a pretty extreme view.

On the other end of the spectrum, though, you will find plenty of examples of cultures - and nation states - where there is a historic assumption that the public good and/or liberty requires substantial restrictions on property rights, on the basis that land is a scarce resource and that while some property rights are necessary, or even desirable for the economic benefits it may bring, other such rights severely restricts the liberty of everyone else by depriving them of access, or actively harms society (e.g. most places place restrictions on carrying out various dangerous activities on your property without appropriate permissions).

For my part, the shock of moving to London (from Norway) where many parks have gates that are locked at night, was something I have still not quite gotten over - 17 years later. It feels oppressive, after being used to open spaces - most parks in Oslo have no gates or fences, and most of those that do have large gaps and any fencing is largely to block specific routes. Part of this is more public lands, part of it is a culture where fencing in semi-public private spaces is largely still seen as offensive restrictions on others freedom, helped by extensive rights of access ("freedom to roam") outside urban areas that gets people used to expect to be free to access open spaces.

To me the idea of liberty in a society with strict property rights makes a total mockery of liberty.
¡Hola 2018!
The hacker turned around and sold stolen VERI right back to the ICO investors, so he/she got ether back right away.
> We try to make it hard to sleep in public spaces to push homeless people to the margins.

It's much more complex than that. Every homeless person I've every offered to help has already rejected the systems in place to help them. Maybe they should have for various reasons. Reform and innovation in this kind of social work is sorely needed. But the whole story isn't that "society" just wants to give dirty people the boot.
I think you forgot the /s
> Oh please, a lot of people keep saying this, but the reality is that Ethereum and Solidity devs simply didn't do enough research.

FUD.

What are you talking about? Solidity is not so unsafe, nor is it correct to imply that Vitalik "didn't do his research". MAYBE he did his research and came to a different conclusion? Maybe hhis priorities were different? Regardless, he's exceptionally bright and by no measure just a hasty dev trying to make a quick buck.

And your link does not point to any inherent flaws in Solidity, just opinions on language fit.

Ethereum development IS in it's infancy. It WILL improve over time - like it or not.
I think I've read fewer than 5 programming books in 30 years. For the most part, I don't read about programming. For certain specific problems, I'll read articles or watch talks by people in my field who I respect a lot. Mostly, I just write a lot of code, observe what I don't like aesthetically, and think about how to make it better.
I highly recommend playing with Elixir or another purely functional language. I've only gone through the Programming Elixir book[1], but it has fundamentally challenged how I think about solving problems in other languages.

[1](https://pragprog.com/book/elixir13/programming-elixir-1-3)
What is that Japanese system?
LOL. An account with these as the only comments and no submissions? Man this place is so weird. It's like you're at a party, and then some guy can scream at you from across the room while wearing a Richard Nixon mask and everyone goes "Oh yeah that is true." Never questioning why the guy is wearing a mask at a party.

Anyway, I think you need to look up the words "tirade" and "incomprehensible"
I tried to play with slightly similar idea previously: https://github.com/FastVPSEestiOu/Antidoto but decided to keep my eyes on DDoS mitigation only.
List of 28 Hp models that come with in-built keylogger
I would imagine as well it is sometimes (in the UK at least) part of the planning consent from the local council to provide these spaces.
Thanks for the elaboration! May I ask why you're a former neuroscientist?
The data is going in an APPn jpeg metadata block (jpg "comment"), max size of 65k. You could use multiple comment blocks, but this doesn't implement that.
The article is long on words and on Concern, but short on actual compact statement of the problem. Can you help me out here and list some of these problematic private rules?
So that's what the tree logo means. I saw it all over the place, but I never realized what it meant.
Why Prediction Is the Essence of Intelligence
It still does - you have to set up the from and to colour, and then use the eraser with the right mouse button
Use Style Sheets (Tim Berners-Lee, 1997)
ESCORTS KRISTINA – ESCORTS – ESCORT ATHENS – ESCORTS ATHENS
English does not fulfill the neutrality ideal of Esperanto, which many people that speak Esperanto think it's very important. Currently, if you are born in an English speak country, you have such a great advantage over everybody else (starting with you don't have to spend lots of money to learn English, and few people attain native speaking levels later in life).

But it is true that the current purpose of Esperanto is more ideal than practical. I study Esperanto because I really like its internal ideals. I study English because I want to eat.
To Ensure a Smooth Project Start, Sweat the Boring Details
Try pulling out a camera. On public land you may run into idiot police officers that don't know your rights, but mostly they won't bother you. On private land they have the right to tell you to stop and make you leave.

Given that e.g. large parts of the pedestrian routes along the Thames for example are private, there substantial stretches where you can't even stand and take pictures of the river where no part of said private property features in the picture, because the property owners have instructed their security to just blanket refuse all permission to take pictures.
Are you sure that's accurate? Chrome Platform Status says it's enabled by default in Chrome 59 on Android: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6691520493125632
One of my favorite early constructed languages, Volapük, was essentially doomed by its extensive use of umlauts. Non-German speakers found them difficult to pronounce (and strange sounding) but the creator responded to all criticism by insisting that a language without umlauts has no soul.
I don't hate my job; I just hate how much time it kills.
Can confirm. I spotted a plane towing an Amazon banner over my city on Prime day.
> Sure but you spend a good chunk of your life at work, so it's difficult not to want it to be meaningful.

not.at.all.

What is this obsession with only doing what you love to pay bills? I've seen only miserable people with this mindset, because it's extremely hard to find niche where you can sustain yourself (and often family) and avoid mundane, boring, tiring tasks that naturally come with it. I am sure there are some which are not miserable and achieved what they wanted, but never ever seen those in person.

I propose, based on my humble experiences, an alternative. Not claiming its for everybody, but it works for me. Ignore work for a minute and let the stuff you do in your free time define who you are. For me it's adventures, exotic travelling, activities like climbing, mountaineering, diving, ski touring, and recently paragliding. Whatever works for you. Get out of your comfort zone, and don't come back until you are 70 or on wheelchair.

With this setup, I couldn't care less what happens at work (in corporate IT, none is truly horrible, usually it is actually OKish), I enjoy the good parts, move through bad parts, and I simply don't care. At the end, it's just work.

Simple, easy life.
Check if RAM upgrade is needed with sar, vmstat, etc.
Yes, Anna estas bela is the recommended form. 'est bela' is incorrect.
hello@conferencelist.co
Both definitions are commonly accepted, for certain values of 'common'. The positive definition is limited to the tech industry, of course. I don't think that there is any appropriate situation to try to correct other people's usage, but I'm sympathetic to the idea that one should use the word properly on this site.
> Marc is a partially closeted rightist

Closeted?
I am very intrigued by this FunFair technology. Do you know when the next Token Event will be held? Or how I can get some? I read I can do development work for FunFair tokens, but don't see any more details.
Oh Baltimore. The park I walk in every morning has a dog park with no signs. They just put up fences, didn't announce it. I really appreciate having that off leash area everyday for my dogs, but they could market it a little better. (This is technically in Baltimore county.)

They have trash cans in the dog park but no one was collecting them. I had to flag down the trashmen a few days ago and ask them what needed to happen for them to get it. They thought the dog park was a locked area.

A lot of the nicer streets in the more neglected areas are nice because residents go out and pick up the trash. I've given people shit who I've seen littering in my neighborhood, but at the same time, there aren't trash cans on every corner for them to use.
Crimes don't work like that. The government must prove there was a crime committed by someone to call that someone a criminal, otherwise it's not a crime. And I'm pretty sure this is the case almost everywhere in the world.

As for why people use tor - you can monitor tor metrics and read news from the countries where you see growth, you'll notice that most users come to tor just to circumvent censorship.
Not over the last 10 years vs the prior 10 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function / Sigmoid function's look exponential, but there is no longer a lot of room at the bottom. When things where 10,000 atoms wide dropping that to 1,000 was no big deal yet massive speedup. When they hit 5 atoms wide we what use 0.5 atoms?

PS: Arrays of low power processors like GPU's are still making progress, but we are rapidly approaching the point where there is more than one core per pixel. We might be able to use 1,000 cores per pixel, but I doubt it. EX: At 1080p SLI GTX 1080 Ti = 289 pixel's per CUDA core. Sure, 4/8k will push this off for a while, but monitor resolution has not been going up all that fast.
@siddhant's recommendation to use the algolia search is probably the best way for simple searching of what you want. You could also always use the API and build a UI that better suits your needs, should existing ones not suffice.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API
As a few others have already noted, this is also an issue of interest in New York. Here's a dataset of privately-owned public spaces from NYC's data portal:

https://nycopendata.socrata.com/Housing-Development/Privatel...

(it's a MDB file of around 275K, so I imagine it just holds point data as opposed to full shapefiles)

One of the most well-known debates over the use of privately-owned public spaces was in 2011 when the Occupy Wall Street movement took over Zuccotti Park:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/opinion/zuccotti-park-and-...

The relevant part which describes how these spaces come with benefits to the developer, even as the developer is left to come up with "reasonable" rules:

> Among the better spaces is Zuccotti Park. The developer never received a floor-area bonus for the 26,000-square-foot park, although it did receive other valuable zoning concessions. The current owner, Brookfield Office Properties, voluntarily installed trees, seating, lighting and art over the last decade. (It also changed the space’s name from Liberty to Zuccotti Park, after John E. Zuccotti, one of its co-chairmen, creating a personal interest in the park’s quality.)

> Nevertheless, the events at Zuccotti Park highlight the continued inadequacy of the laws regarding privately owned public spaces. Other than the requirement that this space remain open 24 hours a day, the owners were left to promulgate their own rules; the only limit is that they be “reasonable.”

> Until last month, Brookfield’s rules barred skateboarding, in-line skating and bicycling, but said nothing about long-term occupation by any group. New rules, announced Oct. 13, permit passive recreation only and prohibit things like camping and lying down on the ground or benches if it interferes with others. The rules remain unenforced; no one is sure what will happen next.
Comcast’s Foray into Blockchain
I don't code, I do financial reporting, but I figured I'd answer anyway.

When I am doing tedious tasks that don't require much brainpower, I listen to hiphop/R&B (my favorite genre).

For actual hard analytical work, I listen almost exclusively to lo-fi hiphop. I need the drums for pacing and energy, but the instrumentals are very soothing and non-distracting. I'd seriously recommend trying lo-fi out if you like hiphop.
The problem is you don't know if it's "Same product, different model numbers to prevent comparison shopping" or "Inferior product with similar model numbers to make it seem like a better deal than it is." This stuff goes both ways and you don't know for sure unless someone has actually gotten their hands on both versions.
spoons can break
Thinking about it, send me an email if you are interested :)
Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming – Peter Norvig (1996)[pdf]
Uber and Ola may soon have a new competitor: the government of India
What Is Causing Seattle's Slide Toward Being the Next San Francisco?
Messenger.com chrome extension for those who love to move using keyboard
MapD predates good virtual (unified) memory support on GPUs and so we built our own caching mechanism where each GPU has its own buffer pool and pulls from a CPU buffer pool (i.e a network of buffer pools). This approach still has the advantage of giving us a lot of control of where we put data, how much we leave for other processes, as well as allowing us to pin data in VRAM on a specific GPU.
Immediately reminded me of this from 2014:

http://www.startribune.com/man-arrested-in-st-paul-skyway-su...

A father waiting to pick up his kids from day care sits in an ambiguously public-ish place. He refuses when an employee asks him to leave. Then the police arrive.

At that point he voluntarily gets up and starts walking away, but the cop follows him and continues pestering him to identify himself, etc.

It doesn't end well. I'm sure you can guess what he looks like.
My first ride on the Elizabeth line
There's no link to the landing page.
I assumed you meant water piped to a home as broadband is cabled to a home.

I can't go out and buy a bottle of WiFi to use how I see fit.
I was really hoping this would implement some complex algorithm or at least be an interesting implementation, however, it seems to just divide the image height/width by the aspect ratio:

https://github.com/xkeshi/image-compressor/blob/master/src/i...
If 0.07% of their company is really worth $8.7m, then the company itself is worth $12 billion.

That seems pretty impressive for a company that, from what I can tell, does nothing and has no product.
Ask HN: What's the first “thing” you ever made?
Not necessarily a product, but even as just a child.
real estate / land value
New 3D printing plastic lets astronauts print spacewalk tools
One thing to keep in mind: when you go to the emergency room as a relatively well-off individual who has insurance and pays their bills, you're not only paying for your emergency room visit - you're also paying for the visits of people who don't have insurance and can't afford to pay their medical bills.
I think they are sticking the encrypted message into a jpeg metadata field?

I've been thinking for a while that a subtler version of this -- where the encrypted message is overlayed into the picture data -- would be very hard to detect.

I'm thinking down a path where using strong encryption would be illegal and all communications are monitored, so hiding the fact that an encrypted message even exists is important.

The idea is that the encrypted signal would be essentially indistinguishable from random noise so as long as the message isn't very dense relative to the picture it would be hard to determine it was even there. Also, people naturally and normally send all kinds of inane pictures back and forth so it seems like it would be hard to even infer the existence of an encrypted conversation from data sharing patterns.
Ask HN: What is your greatest life accomplishment?
> I remember buying a Nokia wall charger so I could charge a second (and third) battery given that the OpenMoko consumed batteries quickly.

If I recall correctly, the OpenMoko didn't have working CPU frequency management; it was always running at the maximum CPU frequency.

I actually wrote something to manage the CPU frequency for the GTA01, but never pushed it upstream; by then, the GTA01 was a dead end, and the GTA02 used IIRC a different chip.

Edit: for the curious, here's the code: http://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/s3c2410-cpufreq.git/refs
Another point of the article is that the majority of the land owners refused to answer the question. You don't even know what you can and can't do until you're trespassing. Please RTFA.
Ask HN: Tutorials for building services in Scala?
I'm currently working on a team who are building microservices with Java and Python, and lately we've talked about introducing Scala.

For my part, I've benefitted a lot from the Python community's many great tutorials on building apps with Flask, Django, etc., and I'm wondering if there are analogues in the Scala world. Could any of you recommend resources for learning to build services in Scala?
Bitcoin Options Exchange Wins Approval from CFTC
Well...I'm a Windows user since around 1992 and have done pretty much all my coding typing on a keyboard connected to a Windows machine. However, I have to say that in recent years I have experienced similar hassles to the parent -- general unreliability, sleep/resume problems, machine just won't resume from sleep, endless WiFi driver bugs, touch screens that randomly stop working, pens that randomly stop working, and on and on. Initially (3-4 years ago) I assumed this was all due to lazy hardware OEMs not fixing their driver bugs so I switched to Microsoft hardware (Surfacen) but to be honest the buggy unreliability didn't change much.

I don't use Macs so I can't say if the grass is greener there. I do have a feeling that if I were using Linux on the laptop it would be much worse than Windows, but that's just a hunch based on my historical experience with Linux and device drivers.

I use Linux servers extensively and all my code runs on Linux in production fwiw. Linux on the server is almost at Solaris-level reliability today. The comments above relate to desktop/laptop machines.
What Are the Differences Between PNG and JPEG and How to Choose Right One
Please understand no judgment being passed just clarification.

No, the FBI confiscated AlphaBay's money because facilitating the sale of illegal goods is a crime. The fact that Mr. Stanley was in the process of making a purchase through their website is in itself unfortunate (ethical or unethical is not relevant). When you, Mr. Stanley, transact business with someone (in this case AlphaBay) who is committing a crime you take a risk. It this case you rolled the dice and you lost.

If people want to do business on the dark web that is purely their right/business and they do so knowing that they are taking a risk with their money, etc. The people working for the FBI ar just doing their job. Based on your commentary you have an issue with the law and the political power that is based on that law. Ethics does not really come into play, IMO.
Ask HN: Any interest in a SaaS for DataOps?
We're thinking about building out a SaaS to automate Data Engineering and DataOps. We're at the user research stage.

It would be interesting to hear what people find difficult in this space.

Would love to hear thoughts and comments.

We also have a survey here (https://goo.gl/forms/AmjHPxl39zpspSPp1) if you have a few minutes.
I think it should be tested in court. Many ICOs are the textbook depictions of Ponzi schemes. When there is stealing, possibly self-stealing, involved the word "fraud" comes to mind.
I wanted to download a few hundreds of files, but the server was enabling only 4 simultaneous connections.

I did a makefile like

file1:
wget http://example.com/file1

file2:
wget http://example.com/file2

file3:
wget http://example.com/file3

And used make -j4 to download all of them, but only 4 parallel tasks at once. It starts another download when one finishes
I'm not the original parent but I'm doing the same. I'm using Oanda for forex data and building my platform in Elixir. I'm able to get historical pricing from Oanda for currency pairs so I'm able to eventually backtest that way.
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When will this be incorporated in Firefox Mainstream release ?
I'm sure I could find the last automotive cleaner, diet foods, and more locally, if I cared to spend the time driving to places that might have it and checking. I'm also pretty sure they'd be cheaper there.

I've also bought games and computer parts on Amazon instead of NewEgg because I dislike NewEgg's shipping system and customer service. I'd rather pay a little more and have a nicer experience. And if I have to return it, I know it'll be easy to return to Amazon without a restocking fee or shipping charge.
To build a development you need planning permission. This will often include an agreement that public open space will be provided as an amenity for the community. Sometimes this will be as mitigation for loss of other space. Or just as a something the local authority wants. It is probably better than stricly gated communities that exclude the public community, which is what the councils want to avoid.

Also, the council may not have the funds to properly maintain the open space if it was handed to them. It makes commercial sense for operators to do landscape work themselves if that is something that matters to them. People want retail, housing developments or high end office blocks to be attractive and well maintained.
In places like Edinburgh it's all a bit complex - there are public parks that are always open, public parks that close at night, Royal Parks that are always open but that have funny rules [e.g. no "commercial vehicles"], large private gardens that are basically private parks and a general right to roam on private land anyway.... (with some common sense restrictions).
My partner is middle-class and was able to pursue education and a career more freely because she could remain on parent's isurance until age 26. By the time she hit 26, she was on her employer's insurance.

Consider also the not middle-class recipients of medicaid expansion.