skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being burned at stake would count as "having one's liberty taken away", and is therefore a case where, as I said, "innocent until proven guilty" is the appropriate standard.

Why is it the appropriate standard? Because as a society, we believe that taking away an innocent person's liberty is far worse than letting a guilty person go free. For the expected value (in the statistical sense) of the legal system's benefit to society to be positive, the prevalence of the former should be a tiny fraction of the prevalence of the latter. (How tiny that fraction actually is, in the US or anywhere else, is debatable - you could look at the number of convicts who were proved innocent upon the advent of DNA testing - but that's not the point.) Thus we should only convict if the apparent probability of guilt is extremely high.

But if I as a bystander believe an innocent person is guilty, it's not as big a deal. True, if a lot of people believe that, it causes some reputational damage, which can be bad. If someone with a connection to the person makes decisions disfavorable to them based on that belief, that's quite bad. But this risk is mitigated by the fact that soon enough the police will be required to present their evidence in court, which should help drive our assessments with more certainty to one possibility or the other. And in any case, these harms are far lesser than the harm of subjecting the person to prison, or worse punishments.

Perhaps I misstated the ideal standard for bystanders. Perhaps it should not be literally whichever possibility is more likely; perhaps we should give people some "benefit of the doubt", due to the above harms. But there's no need for the extreme standard demanded by the actual justice system. A reasonably high probability of guilt is enough, at least to treat guilt as a working hypothesis.

In a legal system such as the United States', "if the police took him" (specifically, indicted him), I'd say there's a high probability - at least 75% or so, probably higher - that there's a "good reason for that to happen". (At least in the sense of "he did what they say he did"; whether that thing ought to be illegal or not is typically more subjective.) It's not certain; there could be some sort of corruption or unethical behavior by the police, or they could simply be mistaken. But it's enough to form a working hypothesis, to use until we gain more information.
It's somewhat challenging to get to the Caribbean without risking IRROPS in USA.

>Extradition before the event was feasible

It wasn't feasible for political reasons. By attempting to extradite yet another sympathetic character from the UK the US would have risked undermining the extradition treaty for no gain.

Anyway, I don't understand how extraditing him from the UK would've been any more honorable.
>But I also know people and companies that were so nice and generous that people and customers learned to bleed them to figurative death.

Are there examples an average person might've heard of?
Aaron Swartz?
I've worked in a small startup with a lazy CEO. That's not the descriptor you're looking for. A good CEO lives and breathes the company, and also delegates.

A lazy CEO does things like not supply payslip information because he couldn't be bothered, or spends the afternoons watching sportsball next to his colleagues who are working.
She said "very little" Norman genes, not none at all. Given that the normal story of the Norman invasion is not about mass invasion, but the replacement of one ruling class with another, so relatively few actual people, this would not seem to be surprising.
Also more excited about Raiden. Sad there isn't much more information about it.

From my understanding, the thing I like about payment channels is that the capacity of the payment channel depends on how much of the cryptocurrency is deposited/locked away under it.

So with everyone competing for a payment channel toll, they have taken large amounts of crypto off the market, constricting the supply, while distributing the marketing out for their own use case, some of which will be successful at increasing the demand. Any limited supply commodity performs the same under these circumstances, up, and that is exciting because the capacity can also scale for the new attention, while the "centralized" payment channels stay optional ways to transact on the network at all.
Optimizing Hash-Array Mapped Tries for Fast Immutable JVM Collections (2015) [pdf]
Writing malware is not a crime. Using it is. What gets me about this case is that, if I understand it correctly, he is being punished for writing software.

I've read the indictment but we'll have to wait and see how the government argues its case when this comes to trial.
Oh give me a break. The guy comes off as charasmatic in a YouTube video so you want to ignore his act of fraud? (Yes, I realize raising drug prices isn't illegal. That isn't what he was convicted for)

You know who else was charasmatic and could get people to like him in light of all his actions? Adolf Hitler.
It's quite possible that it's just my laziness in figuring out how to do it.

All I know is that hitting 'F5' in VSCode builds the binary and runs it under the debugger.

How would I debug the equivalent of `go test` in VSCode?
there is a company behind the package; i'm sure they'd take your money.
My understanding is that "ISRU" normally stands for "In Situ Resource Utilization", which can include mining asteroids (if your locale is 'asteroid belt'), but also includes using fuel that can be generated from resources found on a planet or moon.
If you're building some sort of ad supported and public site, using Google or FB accounts is fine, but it's not always workable if they're paying you a monthly fee. People will want administrative control over accounts, and they'll call and demand you fix things when they can't login.
Bitcoin-style blockchains have Lightning, same thing
Fred Wilson’s 6 Years as a Blockchain Investor-Resilience, Patience, and Criticism
India's Government Wants to Ban Self-Driving Cars to Save Jobs
It definitely is. It's a more thoughtfully written "haters gonna hate" status post.

That said, I do sympathize with her for the things she talks about having experienced. I'm not even successful by HN's standards, just a CS grad working their way up the tech ladder in some decent companies, but every time I've experienced any level of success along the way I've always been met with petty resentment from not just peers but some I, at times, thought of as friends. Some people are just bizarre.
I spent too many years working for the government and I can assure you that is exactly what we do not need. Anyway, we already have that if someone wants to make a discrimination claim and they are called the EEOC.

I choose to think intelligent, creative individuals can find a solution to an issue such as this rather than beat each other up. Maybe I just need to take off my rose colored glasses.
> He told me that that was pretty easy, boring work, but I guess good enough to pay the bills.

I've been told a lot in my side projects a similar thing: that the problem I solved wasn't the "valuable" one to solve, and that other people were far ahead in the "real" problem. It drives me absolutely insane. People diminish the success of others just so their project can be "superior," despite when it's actually far behind in the department that one excels at.
If you tilt the candle to be lit, rather than the candle that is doing the lighting, then the lighting candle does not have that problem.
> However, the machine does freeze (almost) completely when left idle for a while (usually > 1 hour).

Try disabling the C6 power state from BIOS: https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/6rklcf/ryzen_segf...
Ask HN: How do you validate the idea/s for a startup?
Is there a system that you follow in order to filter out the idea around which a company can be built? How to differentiate b/w ideas worth chasing and the ones which are merely good to have?

Any books/teachings that may have helped you in this?

Looking out for all the serial founders here to share their wisdom.
FDA-approved closed loop artificial pancreas.
You are in control of that- doesn't your watch let you configure notifications?

My watch is always on mute (vibrate only) and it has only a subset of the notifications that my phone has. My experience is it is less demanding of my attention than my phone.
Is selling Trojans illegal? If so, why are companies like Punkbuster and nProtect allowed to develop anticheat software?

A lot of AC software runs in ring0 and behaves a lot like a Trojan. I remember nProtect specifically injecting DLLs into explorer.exe among other nasty "black hat" techniques.
I hate to admit it, but I fall into the resentment camp. I don't belittle others, but I do envy their success. I know this attitude is counterproductive, but that doesn't motivate me to change. I suppose this is one of the many reasons the author is successful, and I am not.
Summary: "I don't like people who don't make me feel good"
> I'm not an expert, but I tend to trust them.

and blockchain proponents want an infallible system audit-able by the public, instead of having to trust anyone. they haven't figured it out completely, they push towards it.

in any case blockchain networks can function without computers. very cumbersome though.
This is very likely a "lost in translation" or "false friend" moment.
The French "exceptionnel" means: one of a kind, typically due to extenuating cricrumstances.
(When your local bakery is closed because the baker broke his leg, the note on the window will say "fermeture exceptionnel"..

The Culture Ministery's comments are therefore quite accurate for this case, and not so much pomp.
That inflection point in a couple years where SSD is just cheaper than spinning HDDs. A whole class of problems kind of goes away, low end consumer performance goes way up, and archival platforms get faster "for free."

I'm also excited about NVMe and on-the-horizon, faster-than-flash solid state technologies like 3d xpoint, etc.
I have a little brother and a brother in law who each went from bad financial situations to making a lot of money in a relatively short time. By a lot I mean much more than I make, and I do pretty well. I found it strange that I was both happy for them and resentful at the same time. We got along well before and after their success and I never felt like they became arrogant or condescending. I think my resentment came from having to face up to my own mistakes and weaknesses. Maybe there were reasons they were more successful than I was; that it wasn't just luck. Thankfully the resentment has long since faded.

The experience also made me think what would happen if you were at a party with a large group of friends. God appears and gives everyone with a birthday on an odd numbered day a million dollars then leaves with no explanation. How happy for their friends are the people who didn't get anything? They are no worse off but I can't help thinking they would be happy.
JFYI, Elysium is currently in a lawsuit with its supplier of the two key ingredients for its Basis product.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/16/a-new-lawsuit-alleges-anti...
It's ok to brag on Hacker News, as long as it gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
A fundamental underpinning of open source.
You've been casting a lot of stones in the comments.

If you've really never torrented a song, used a friend's Netflix account, snuck onto the floor of a concert, took an extra travel bottle of shampoo from a hotel maid's cart etc. etc. etc... Then I truly commend you. The world needs more people like you.

But I highly doubt that's the case. Meanwhile I'll be the monster over here creating a terrible society by using some free wifi and a place to charge my laptop to get some work done halfway through a long trip.
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As far as I understand it the cache is a server-side thing, so the update server is polling github every 15 minutes, not the Electron app.
Is there a good lecture series on Coq? Or maybe introductory project?

I've seen a video intro [0] and poked a little bit around the reference manual [1], but I'm not sure what's "between" basic understanding of the commands and being able to extract a complex verified program.

It all seems to be either the theory (which I mostly grok) or completed projects, not a lot about the engineering details.

...Or does that just not exist?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngM2N98ppQE

[1] https://coq.inria.fr/refman/
I can't tell if you're being serious, but will the costs to the taxpayer and possible unintended consequences and invariable corruption be worth it to add more layers of government to our slowly eroding free interactions? Since there are plenty of job markets outside of Silicon Valley, maybe it's good people are looking elsewhere. These markets could use the boost.
Indoor smoking, 110F weather, and universally crappy, over-priced food.
It'll be glasses then contacts.
Seems awfully unlikely.
This doesn't seem to do any actual updating, it just tells the client the download URL of the latest github release.
Oh the resentment is perfectly natural, but it's pretty easy to overcome. It's like skipping the third beer or not buying the chocolate bar when you walk past it.
Please understand what I am saying, I do not think older workers want nor deserve special treatment. They simply want a chance to be considered. If an older applicant is willing to work the hours and for the offered pay, it appears they are not even being considered along with the younger applicants. At least that has been my takeaway from the many news reports on this issue.

To make a job offer based on a protected status (in short to hire a mature applicant simply because of their age) is as discriminatory as it is to exclude someone because they are an older applicant.
I've created a really basic server + client tutorial here:

https://github.com/theogravity/graphql-apollo-server-client-...

I actually have stopped using Apollo on the server side (outside of the middleware) to build the GraphQL definitions.

I use the vanilla graphql-js lib instead with the join-monster library for queries + batching + paging and objection.js for modeling + mutations.

join-monster is built for using your database with graphql (I use postgres). Objection.js is great for mutations because of its insertGraph / upsertGraph functionality, where you can feed in your entire mutation input as a nested structure and it will perform the right insertion queries to multiple tables based on your objection.js models that you've defined.

I've learned much more since then (eg authorization / authentication / mutations / implementing paging via relay connections) that I'll probably start up another project in the future talking about how to build a full-scale GraphQL server.
> It's interesting how so many new CPUs have breaking bugs.

Dan Luu observed the same thing, and thinks it will continue to be very likely: https://danluu.com/cpu-bugs/
I'm kind of amazed at how seriously people are taking this.

The guy is the editor for a literal conspiracy theory website that condones the idea that Sandy Hook was staged by the US government. And long list of even more ridiculous and appalling things.

They make their money selling pseudoscientific "wellness" products of the kind that Gwyneth Paltrow sells on Goop.

The main star of Infowars recently admitted it was just an act of entertainment because if he didn't a divorce court would have ruled him a danger to his children based on things he says and does.

Back to the matter at hand, he's literally proposing a conspiracy theory, based on an educational cartoon, for children, about the Roman empire. Just let that soak in.

The BBC are, in this theory, intentionally promoting "mass uncontrolled immigration" to children via animations about the Roman empire. Step 2 ???. Step 3. White Genocide.

It's an embarrassment to us all as a species that this passes for political discussion today.
One of the financial uses for AR is the ability to show a user how a product will fit in their life before they've purchased it. This has a lot of potential for any large purchases that need to fit in your home (furniture, appliances, renovations, TVs, etc.), and once we have access to high quality full body tracking it could be applied to fashion as well. Lowe's innovation lab is doing a lot of this already on a variety of different devices for both at home and in store (https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2016/03/18/microsoft-holol...).

Beyond that, with AR you can make certain classes of digital goods and marketing "exist" in the real world. The margins for AR merchandise will be significantly higher than real physical merch, although I'm guessing the prices will be a lot lower. Selling virtual items that you can see in real life opens up a lot of cool and fantastic options as well as more mundane stuff or a mix between the two.

If AR becomes ubiquitous it gives big tech companies a lot of data that no one currently has. Specifically you would have a detailed, 3D map\point cloud of most of the real world at various points in time. You could build an awesome developer platform on this, use it for VR tourism, simulation, license it to film or games producers, etc.

There are already many use cases for industry and enterprise customers when it comes to training and data overlays for workers.

A boring, but lucrative use case happens when resolution and tracking get good enough and assuming the form factor gets to eye glass size. AR could potentially replaces all conventional screens and be more comfortable to use than smartphones.

Note I'm using AR more broadly and including Google Glass\HUD style stuff, ARKit\Vuforia SmartPhone AR, and Hololens or Magic Leap style MR or "holograms".
Wouldn't be happy, I think you mean in your last sentence. You're almost certainly right. Resentment is built into our DNA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg

Of course, it doesn't mean we shouldn't try to be better people than shitty, jealous little monkeys.
Is there a PDF or epub version of this?
It probably affects Windows and every other OS as well. It's just less likely to be seen by their typical user workloads, or more likely to be written off as some other issue when it does happen.
Slightly related:

The lack of an easy to use debugger is a huge issue for me when working with go.

Coming from PHP, I spend 90% of my time in the debugger running my code line by lines (with xdebug coupled to phpstorm).

A debugger is especially useful when working with other's people code and large softwares. For example, contributing to large Go projects like Kubernetes can be daunting due to the very steep learning curve. This curve would be greatly reduced if we had a good reliable go debugger, which doesn't seem to be the case at the moment. (I'm aware of delve, but last time I looked, it was still fairly complicated to have it work).
I think I'm going to have to settle for this or similar for non-phones (tablets, desktops). I kept looking for a simple messenging app (username, password... maybe email account) to avoid having to share my number, etc. The first thing Telegram did (like many others) was pull my contacts and display other users in my contacts (based on their number) that were also using telegram.

There just doesn't seem to be anything out there that's friendly, old-school messenging (except for complicated stuff that would be difficult for other users to get setup).
Not very many!
He makes some good points, but the "few airlines are profitable" claim seems a bit dated. Pretty much all the big US airlines (Delta, American, United, etc.) are enjoying healthy profits these past couple of years. Falling oil prices, consolidation, robust demand, and cost discipline have all played a part.
OpenOffice is much less annoying so I keep using it. Does everything I need to do. I haven't even upgraded to the most recent version, the one I have is fine. Not-for-profit orgs like Libre and Mozilla have their own motivations for pushing people to stop using software that is free and works, with no ads (no, not saying Libre has ads, but OO doesn't either, so why disparage it?)
so..not Go :P
if it runs remotely, then why doesn’t the app just pull from github directly. why an intermediary? something doesn't add up
>`a | b` can be written as: `if !a && b { a = true }`

`a || b` ...

The repository does have multiple cases of `a || b` and none of the `a = true` kind, so perhaps the author realized it after writing this blog post.
Cool. I'll be able to replace my laptop and cell phone with an iPad and a watch!
https://www.file.pizza does not connect

https://file.pizza/ does connect
Better link with more pictures here: https://hyperallergic.com/394056/archaeologists-discover-a-l...
Right. Ted Bundy was the picture of charisma, and charm, personality.
Ask HN: Aggregation of JOBS Act Title III Investment Options?
Does anyone know where I can find an aggregate of non-accredited investor investment options, such as SeedInvest, Republic, Wefunder, etc., ideally in a spreadsheet/database format? Thanks!
There is genetic evidence of people from the Balkans migrating to Wales during the Roman era: https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/molb...
Not naming it Yogo was a missed opportunity.
Retrophin was a company and not a drug, right? The comment is saying things like "Retrophin isn't a widely used drug" which is really confusing me and makes me think either I or the writer (or both) don't have any idea what he's talking about. I'm trying to make sense of it compared to what I'm reading from other sources and am completely failing because of this.
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You literally call out "the left" for bigotry in the same sentence in which you complain about them calling people out for bigotry.

How can you square this logically?
Me! It's an idea I've been thinking a lot lately. I have some ideas I would love to discuss if there are more people interestes in doing this.We can get in touch if you want.
I feel like you just described the business model of every anti-virus company ever.
> Why not both?

Because doing so would kill people?

> He committed early on to give financial aid to those that could not afford the new drug's price.

Did he actually do this or just say he would? As has been noted by others through this thread, including by folks who like him, he's prone to lying.

Also, are you really claiming that people of all incomes have equal access to expensive private schools?
> However, win32 doesn’t have anything to help you layout things on the screen. Manual positioning is painful.

Ooooh, yes, I remember that. My first experiences with GUI programming was a tiny little of Perl/Tk, then Gtk 2 in Perl, Python, and Ruby.

And then I started working as programmer, doing maintenance on an line-of-business application suite written in C/Win32, and I was shocked people would actually put up with this. Fortunately, the overwhelming majority of my work dealt with the deepest guts of those programs, and I only needed to deal with Win32 directly on a few occasions.
You have Wu-Tang to thank for that.
Thanks! ;-)
Then go after Wu-Tang. They engendered this 'hurt'.
> proper const/mutability qualifiers

I really like Go, but on the const/mutability front, it does no better than C, unfortunately.
Also the candle burns out long before the legend ever does. Everybody knows that's how it goes.
I honestly got more bothered by your comment than the one you were replying to. Why did you have to phrase it in such a smug tone?
They should put the battery in the watch band.

(Or do something else to make the watchband more useful. Antennas maybe?)
Yes, talk to who the users would be/are. Then talk to them some more. And then some more. If your users are excited, communicative, give feedback, and telling their friends about your product, you are onto something. If not, you need to work on it further or on something else altogether.