skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine they spent a lot of time solving crimes, asking questions like:

"Where did they keep all their papers and correspondence?"

"Can somebody come break into this safe we have a warrant for?"

What did the cops do before X was invented?

They didn't worry about X being used to commit or cover up criminal activities while continuing to try to do their job of keeping communities either safe or oppressed, depending on how well they related to them.

I support strong crypto, but I think implying detectives and the DoJ are just too lazy or dumb or whatever to deal with this problem is a little unfair.

Apologies if that wasn't the implication
Schedule 1 drugs are prohibited. Heroin, MDMA, mescaline, GHB, etc.
To be fair, they still don't
Silicon Valley's Guilty Conscience
FWIW, the series concluding at https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2017/adventures-in-jit-compila... build a Brainf*ck JIT in pure C++, then using LLVM, then in Python using PeachPy
One more thought...it doesn't always come off the back end. My mother is obese due to lifestyle choices. She has an artificial knee and hip. She is still a vibrant 67 year old woman, but she lost almost 2 years in rehabilitation and now does and will have mobility issues for the rest of her life. I still don't think when the end comes that she would have wanted to miss all the things that happened (good and bad) during those years, or even as she deteriorates further in the coming years.

Edit: spelling
Indeed. Just for example, the levitating frog experiment is a very clear example of just that.
> it doesn't magically make additional space appear.

Oh, that's an excellent point, I guess my experience with open offices still provide a reasonable amount of space for each person so you weren't crammed on top of eachother.

In 2011 I interviewed for a dev position at Kabam and the layout in their Redwood Shores office appeared to be the sort of middle school cafeteria tables -- the really long faux-wood tables with attached seats -- with people crammed in side by side all along it and this jumble of wires in the middle that is probably still tangled to this day. I grabbed a second free coffee and walked out on that interview.
If you head to the home page there's a tiny link right near the bottom linking to an article about the webmaster.

It appears he was a career police officer in the region who retired just shy of ten years ago!

And the site was indeed begun in 1999. I also certainly created stuff that looked like this in 1999. Those buttons on the home page would have made me proud of myself.

http://www.niagarafrontier.com/netdetective.jpg
It uses LSTM for the line recognizer.
I can never decide if it's "synthwave" or "new retro wave". Is there a difference?
I was interested to see if any of the Rust webservers allow C linking, but a cursory examination shows that they at least aren't explicit about it in their docs, if they do. I thought it would be interesting, because I know a number of them are looking to make sure of Rust's concurrency guarantees and futures-like libraries to provide what it sounds like you want, but would possibly be easier to reason about in the case of errors.[1]

1: This of course presupposes you know, or are willing to learn, Rust. That said, given what you've explained about libuv, the total time to grok libuv's code base and the time to learn Rust may be similar, but learning Rust may pay more dividends?
I wonder if there's a distinction to be made between suburban communities, which are often meticulously planned and cities like San Francisco that have developed more organically over time. Those kinds of suburban communities can be replicated. If there's new demand from potential residents, entire new neighborhoods can be constructed in new locations that are roughly the same distance from city centers. But you can't build another San Francisco because the first one is too crowded.

If someone moves into a suburban neighborhood where everyone is part of the same HOA, I can absolutely see that they'd want to be very NIMBY about maintaining the way of life that they bought into and controlling change.

But someone who bought in SF shouldn't have nearly that expectation of control. Cities are places that are about concentrating humans in close proximity to enable enterprises and efficiency that isn't possible with lower population densities. You have to assume that when there's increased demand to live in cities, population density will go up.
I live near a border town with a no sales tax state. The comparable town on the no tax side of the line has seen increased growth for the 20 years I've been shopping here. The town on my side of the line just opened it's 18th empty storefront on the two main roads I town. It's not the sales tax that kills the town, it's the close neighbor without it.

Obviously it's not just sales tax. The real estate on my town is owned almost entirely by two people. One with a lucrative housing contract with the prisons re-integration program. A great idea but not when captured by cronyism.
I downloaded the Shareware game files and used DosBox to extract them (archive.org had them compressed in a DOS version of the game). I found a copy of sdlquake and had to do some minor modifications to get it compiling and assembling on a 64-bit host. Also something about a null pointer dereference in connection with finding the local hostname.

Compiled a copy of SDL with aalib support. Copied it into the game directory, along with the sdlquake binary.

Ran "DISPLAY="" LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. SDL_VIDEODRIVER=aalib ./sdlquake".

That gave me quake in text mode, and would also run in a regular terminal.
I cannot get this to display the latin, although I select view by default original language and update preferences.
It looks like they should get workers belay glasses as well.
>For example, DDG and others can, for the most part, match Google in quality of search

Even for the long tail? I'm pretty skeptical of this.
I know what all of those words mean, but not in this combination. Props to whoever wrote the title, I'm clicking/reading.
For the ER in our town to take you seriously you would have to have visible bullet holes or severed limbs. Otherwise they dismiss you with a condescending sneer.
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Link to the Mythbusters episode snippet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4jdGf3RzCs
Well, it really depends on where. When much of Silicon Valley was built, I believe land was not really that expensive, and that continues to be the case in many parts of the country.
I don't see how limiting access to a key escrow is sufficient to reduce the probability of abuse or exploitations.

Let's assume we have this "diverse group of shareholders" all with private keys and published public keys. The process for distributing and revoking those public keys adds a lot of complexity and points of failure.

Up to this point, the idea "works" but still provides a non-neglible increase in implementation complexity and decrease in security.

Once I use all those public keys to to encrypt my private key to place in escrow, it is impossible to verify if I have complied with the law and honestly provided an accurate escrow entry without actually having all those share holders decrypt my private key and verify that it correctly decrypts my content. At this point my content is exposed anyway.

It is NOT possible to create a secure, enforceable and un-abusable key escrow system.
> diverse international group

No government would ever agree to give multiple foreign governments/NGOs the veto power over tools that are "important for national security".

More realistically, your "shareholder groups" in any plan the government might actually approve would be existing groups the government is already involved with (e.g. Equifax).
I wrote https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/seven/dragon-taming-wit... about a tutorial-level compiler written in itself. Of course, a recommendation from someone who's learned from it instead of from the author would give a better signal.

I also recommended the same Wirth book as lboasso, and a couple other books, down at the bottom of the page.
Probably because so many communications are moving to encrypted by default, HTTPS everywhere and WhatsApp for instance (as Brazil has found out). If the big players decide to switch to E2E then governments would need to get them to change their products. Better to head them off before it is too late.
An experimental SpaceX rocket engine has exploded in Texas
If you read TFA more closely, they clarify that "affordable house" is a euphemism for "subsidized house".
Nintendo is asking them not to make the game too much like the normal one.
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Nope, we work for the government as Federal employees.
Yet VW won for:

CHEMISTRY PRIZE [GERMANY] — Volkswagen, for solving the problem of excessive automobile pollution emissions by automatically, electromechanically producing fewer emissions whenever the cars are being tested.
REFERENCE: "EPA, California Notify Volkswagen of Clean Air Act Violations", U.S. Environmental Protection Agency news release, September 18, 2015.
> If you expect Bitcoin to increase in value, wouldn’t it be a better idea to just buy bitcoins rather than buy computers and electricity to mine at a (current) loss?

Estimating how much it will cost you to mine X Bitcoin is not an easy thing to do, especially now that each block almost always has at least an extra Bitcoin worth of fees, with the highest having over 4, meaning the amount of Bitcoin you get per block can vary by approximately an extra 1/3 and this extra value is pretty random.

The power to run the hardware is also constant cost, not a one-time cost like buying a bunch of Bitcoin at market price, so while it's easy to say "Just buy when it's at X value and turn off your hardware", the miner has no way of knowing what that value is, and without knowing the future values of Bitcoin they have no idea if waiting and spending all their current savings on Bitcoin at a low price will actually net them more then just waiting it out and continuing to mine the whole time. It's a crapshoot, but the miners presumably know what they're getting into.

My point was more that it is probably acceptable to risk mining at a bit of a loss if you're confident the value is going to go up, you already invested in the hardware anyway, and you think there's a good chance you may make more then if you had just bought some at what you think will be the lowest price. That said, my example is probably more extreme then would be acceptable.
That helped but I do not understand the economic compatibility of a fork. How do they not wreak havoc and chaos on that coin's economy? Do I get coins for each of the new coins or do I have to pick? It all feels really risky and that risk feels foisted upon me. Can I cash out before the fork?
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Day trader indicted for hacking into brokerages and placing unauthorized trades
Clearance rates for homicide have _dropped_ over the past 50 years:

America’s homicide clearance rate—the percentage of solved
crimes that lead to arrest—has fallen considerably in the
past 50 years, from around 90% in 1965 to around 64% in
2012, according to federal statistics.

(https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21656725-police...)
(See, also, https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/06/police-arent-getting-...)

IMO, similar to counter-terrorism efforts (most spectacularly, 9/11), technology becomes a crutch. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if mass encryption leads to _improved_ clearance rates, as law enforcement becomes less complacent. Take this latest example: the FBI agent declines Apple's help because he's convinced the geeks at the FBI lab can handle it. He presumably doesn't bother actually confirming with the geeks in the lab, nor does he attempt to put Apple in touch with the lab. Just utter complacency, confident that the machine (computers, bureaucracy) will suffice.

This sort of laziness wouldn't have been tolerated in Hoover's FBI. Moreover, Hoover likely would have been more aggressive using the tools available to him--keyloggers, etc--rather than whining.
Coinbase is going to only support Bitcoin Cash.
Oh totally agree with the sentiment that they need to agree to sell it first. But in one segment of the video a radio host asks foreigners to "stop moving here". I know it's a bit off topic, I was just shocked to hear it. I thought that was just nationalism. I didn't think that would be celebrated in a video like that one.
I think that the original squake was written against svgalib. So the ttyquake package contains a libvga that's probably a shim, translating the output to aalib.

Most Quake ports use OpenGL, SDL, etc for graphics, and won't work directly with the ttyquake files. Which is why I described using sdlquake to achieve the same effect, in my other comment.
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Systems thinking versus goal thinking, I'm guessing.
It's pretty obvious why luxury development is preferred; anybody, in any market, would prefer to make luxury units.

Yet no other market seems to operate by supplying only luxury units and depending on trickle down. Why are there Corollas, instead of just more Lexuses?
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> Legislate that political news must be regulated.

Not just no, but HELL NO!

You may be imagining that the regulators will censor the news in a manner that conforms to your opinions.

That's not a safe bet.
Ask HN: Do former startup domain names have any value?
What happens to the domain names of former startups that went down? are there any buyers for them? any cases of startups out there that got their domains from a former startup? or the owners of the domain of the dead startup just let it expire?
>Irrelevant. You and the grandparent are making an irrelevant point again and again. Why bring up diversity at all?

Because it's highly relevant when talking about an average value. The more heterogeneous a population is the less likely an average is to be useful.

>I already said there was going to be a "median" example... I was right about that, shocker. /s

Ranking by mean often isn't useful...shocker

>Except Canada and Switzerland and many other countries, right?

Sorry I meant large countries.

>If they are migrants, they're not representing the local education system now do they?

They're talking about long term migrants that represent about 40% of the population.

Look at Australia were 90% of 15 year olds are enrolled in school, vs. a country like Vietnam where 15 year olds routinely drop out and work.

How does that comparison make sense?

Some other examples.

In South Korea parents force their children to spend 4 or 5 hours with private tutors after school each day. South Korea performs very well on PISA league tables, but it probably says very little about the efficacy of the Korean school system vs any other country where parent don't routinely force their kids to pull double school shifts with private tutors.

Finland spends much more time teaching fractions than algebra to 15 year olds. The US outperforms them on algebra questions, but Finland outperforms on fraction questions. But PISA weighs fraction questions much higher than algebra questions.

In the US homeschooling is common. In Germany it's illegal. Home schoolers score much higher on the SAT and ACT, so in the US you're pulling 3 or 4% of the likely highest scoring students out of the pool--of course that's going to drastically affect the mean score.

We can't come up with tests that accurately compare abilities across cultures in the US. How can we possibly do it across 65 countries.

The answer is, you can't do it. Attempting to do it, failing, and publishing data that makes it look like you can is more harmful than just not publishing at all.

The critiques are numerous and come from very respected publications, organizations, and academics.

You can disagree with the critiques all you want, but you can't pretend the debate is over, and that there is some kind of settled science here.
Assuming they're smarter than their surroundings.

Smart people will end up working with equally intelligent people to the point where they're no longer "smarter", they're now just average.
Surely this is just an added feature to a existing program.

Having it inbuilt is useful for testing.

Also not sure whether doing a fastcgi loop and requiring another http server to frontend it really is simpler!
If you want to delve into PKD's... different thinking. A Scanner Darkly, and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich.

If you want another sci-fi detective noir, Altered Carbon fits the bill.
Question 6. How often do people talk about ARPUs with potential hires? I am sure people will tell you that there are 150 million potential users but not their revenue models. It is easy to under shoot or overshoot ARPU.
The Third Bitcoin Fork Has Been Canceled
The "how long" is fits well with some other estabilished measures of security we use. For example, safes are designed to resist entry for a certain length of time. In military, defenses are often quantified by how long they should be able to hold back a presumed attack scenario.
You can draw notes, and then the text of the notes is available for searching. I think it appears in the list of notes as well, but I'm not sure if there's an easy way to extract it.
Are there any supported fastcgi libraries these days? It seems like the official C/C++ one (fastcgi.com) disappeared from the internet.
You mean it doesn't try to redirect you to a crippled mobile version of itself? Or hijack your scrolling?
Few questions:

1. How has been your experience with Blueprint JS?

2. Is it possible to take a look at your work?

3. Would you recommend using it? If yes, what types of apps?
A bitcoin fork is a political decision on the currency, like the ones central banks make.

There are going to be a lot of forks in the future.
They use multiple OCR engines. Some developed in-house and some proprietary ones. A blog post mentions I.R.I.S. as one of the proprietary ones.

They don't offer OCR publicly, instead, they generate a list of possible candidates to match against search queries (fuzzy matching).

From one of the blog posts: "Employing multiple reco engines is important not only because they specialize on different types of text and languages, but also as this allows to implement ‘voting’ mechanism — analyzing word alternatives created by diverse engines for the same word allows for better suppression of false recognitions and giving more confidence to consensus variants."

More:
http://blog.evernote.com/tech/2013/07/18/how-evernotes-image...

http://blog.evernote.com/tech/2011/11/01/even-grittier-detai...

http://blog.evernote.com/tech/2011/09/30/evernote-indexing-s...
The title is misleading, because opioids clearly are better at treating severe pain. I'm not familiar with the particular combination researched here, but Ibuprofene alone certainly doesn't cut it in many instances. On the other hand, I can't understand why doctors in the US are so happy to prescribe opioids.

In veterinary medicine it's slightly different, because we can't use ibuprofene for dogs and cats, but something similar. Still, opioids are a good idea perioperatively, and addiction is at worst a transient problem. The dog can't go out and score some heroin, for instance.
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The probability of that can be made arbitrarily low by proper choice of parameters for the secret sharing system, at least against realistic threats over realistic timeframes.
> But unless you have time to pre-screen every minute of content your kids watch (hint: if you have a job, you don't have time to do this)
...
> Watching hours upon hours of kids content on YouTube

I would argue that if your kids are watching so much of this stuff that you don't have time to monitor it, they're watching way too much of it. "Hours upon hours" is definitely way too much.

Your kids will survive even if they're not plugged in to streaming media 24/7/365. Really.
Just use zsh instead of bash, it's superior anyways.
Depends on whether it's a bar or restaurant.

I'd tend to agree at restaurants (anecdotally). But, when I tip at a bar with cash, it's a buck a drink, even when it's a 2 dollar coors light. If I pay with credit card, the 20% thinking kicks in and that's what I tip. 40 cents on a 2 dollar beer.
On the other hand it WAS NOT Zuckerberg who built the company and hired 20000 people. Zuckerberg hired the first few, those all built the first stage and hired the next round of prople, who built and hired more. The success of FB or any company is due to their combined efforts. And, it’s built over the efforts of hundreds of thousands more who built the critical infrastructure outside FB.

Of course Zuck should reap more rewards for his founding and leadership role. But not to the tune of 75 billion dollars.

And it should not require billion-dollar paydays to incentivize people to build companies.
But thanks to math, we jumped from safes that can withstand hours of attack to math that can withstand every computer on this planet for the next 1e7 years before being cracked.

The problem with what others have posited as "money based encryption" easily scales up with AWS, Azure, GCE, and private clouds. Even individuals can buy a large cloud for 1h for cheap and crack with rainbow tables or such.

But for a real safe, I can go get a thermic lance. It nicely cuts inside most safes. Or I can use a bunch of liquid nitrogen and freeze-shatter it.
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How are we different than the rest of the world - most of the US has tighter controls on alcohol than europe does.
I don't think there's any inefficiencies to be taken advantage of. High Risk means you don't get your money back half the time and so the High APR is needed just to break even on the defaults.

perhaps, some algorithm can better assess risk more accurately and charge a different rate based on the consumer and his or her record. But, my guess is, that's illegal.
The no return policies started with the current cryptomining boom. Most stores I've seen with them apply it to both nvidia and amd.
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It's a fine line. Most of the time, the patient is actually wrong, and that can make it pretty annoying, especially if the medical professional in question is having a stressful day (and aren't they all...).

I have a lot of medical knowledge and I try not to be a wise ass with my doctors. Sometimes though, it pays to pay attention.
Countries are known to do this on big issues, see eg. NATO.
Affirm?
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Yes, if you hold during the fork you get coins on both forks. Yes you can cash out before the fork.
It sounds like what you are looking for is something like Steve Jackon's Sorcery series, but adapted for a computer. If so, you're in luck! It's available for Android[1] and iOS[2]. If you do like it, there's a few sequels as well.

Edit: I see StavrosK beat me to it by a few hours...

1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inkle.sorc...

2: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sorcery/id627879091?mt=8
I doubt it. New ideas develop slowly and can't be communicated or explained until they are ready. If you look at creative intellectuals they work alone or, rarely, in pairs. Discussion to the point of resolution would be more like politics or opinion-leading; perhaps necessary for defence or for sorting out existing ideas but otherwise harmful to progress.