skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no lawyer, but I guess would be that:

A) Prosecutors and judges are generally NOT elected or politically engaged. Nor are they politically appointed, with exception of some higher court judges.

B) Police in many countries are required to conduct an independent study. The must present all evidence; and so contrary to the US what you say can be used to your advantage (that still doesn't always make talking advantageous).

C) In civil law systems judges are often far more empowered to seek the truth. Where as in the US (common law), judges mainly facilitate an argument between defense and prosecutor in-front of a jury.

D) prosecutors in other countries are often tasked with finding the truth, they are not elected, and the whole system is less adversarial than the US.

E) Politics is less dysfunctional, and most European countries have civil law, which makes it easier to comply with the law. There isn't 10k statutes on the books.

F) Police is better behaved; well trained; typically governed at country level (not by local politics).

G) Many countries have a functional public defense system.

All of this differs from country to country. Some countries might not have functional public defense (G), but on average it's my understanding that western European countries do better in these ways.

That doesn't necessarily make talking to the police a good idea. But there are a lot of fewer traps people can fall into.

And so I personally would feel more comfortable helping a European police officer. After all the downside of not talking to the police is that crimes won't be solved.
Thank you. Need to spend a bit more time grokking this.
Without specific details it sounds pretty unlikely.

Maybe they were meaning within some (unknown to us) budget? That'd make more sense.
Please quantify the energy use of the conventional approach — many people want to make the same point as you, but there don’t seem to be any (easily referenced) numbers estimating the energy cost per transaction of the alternatives.
Why what? Why does increasing block size increase propagation delay? Here’s the research paper on it: http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/file/49318d3f56c1d525aabf7fda78b23...

Tl,dr: each additional kB after 1mb adds an additional 80ms in propagation delay. It’s not just bandwidth that’s the problem. Nodes need to validate the block, then communicate that block to other nodes who also need to validate. Big blockers are drinking Roger Ver koolaid. The man doesn’t even know how to program, yet has convinced an army of redditors he knows best.
Just 100x?
Good story, except Bitcoin isn't anonymous.
Probably, but I'd have to explain the whole thing and do international postage and whatnot, and it wasn't worth the hassle.
Trump is just exploiting a weakness media companies created themselves with sloppy work and a reliance on cheap talking heads shows. They made it easy for him.
I've been sleeping in my car in Mountain View (it's legal here) for about six months now. A couple things I've learned:

- Police are allowed to lie and coerce. Do not even admit to doing something legal -- if they think you're an easy target, they'll feign ignorance of its legality to blackmail you into talking more. Moreover, good cops only come to get you to talk or gain your trust. Unless you change your behavior, you'll get the bad one eventually, and it might even be the same guy.

- There is no way to structure a good police force without statistics-based enforcement. No cop has stayed on the force after making zero arrests in a year. No cop is there to "make sure everything's okay". Police are going to profile you and there's no way around it. It sounds evil, but it's actually the way things have to be.
Did you have a source for that? Wikipedia disagrees with you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
How do I use this to mine bitcoin? K thanks.
Pods, Pots, and Potions: Putting Cacao to Paper in Early Modern Europe
Also, you can compile a Lumen file to JS/Lua by running `lumen -c file.l -o file.js`. More info at `lumen --help`.
Universities tend to be strongly influenced by liberal thinking and values (or are at least perceived to be). They can in fact be quite aggressively anti-conservative. If you're from a very conservative background, that isn't an environment you're going to feel at home in.
Using an HTTP based search engine should be explicitly opt-in, imo. Moving it to https by default seems like the right choice for non-technical users.
And don't panic.
Either sounds awesome to me.
>What's humiliating is that we have a budding Hitler in our midst...

No we don't. That kind of hyperbole isn't productive.
I think what the OP meant was that you accept the contract and the EULA when you buy/install the product. Anyone connecting to the database and using it does not have to accept the same.
Why not the universe? (Star Trek Discovery reference, I assumed)
No it doesn’t. All it assumes is that both parties prefer having more money to having less money.
Hmm.

I’m not convinced anything we know about can do what a warp drive needs: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/can-a-casim...
Do you use HN often? It looks as if you've just created this username today.
If that religious behavior led to products that people loved, is it really wrong to be religious about it? What's the alternative? Believe that you can't truly know anything and not build anything worthwhile?

As I've grown older, I've come to believe that holding strong opinions and being decisive is extremely important and impactful. It comes with the caveat though that as soon as you find you're wrong, you need to be able to change direction and not cling to your disproved beliefs.
How do you know for certain that the scientific method works? You only know it via anecdotal evidence, because you can't use the method to test itself, since that assumes a priori that it works. So science cannot be used to investigate certain questions about itself. Instead they fall into the topic of philosophy of science, and have no definite answers.
The only non-Apple tech I now use is my PC that I use for work and gaming. I also use DuckDuckGo 99% of the time for web search.

NOT giving Google my data is a good starting point IMO.
You continue to ignore the actual research.

http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/file/49318d3f56c1d525aabf7fda78b23...

The above directly demonstrates how block size results in significant propagation delay.

I ask you again: can you show me the research which demonstrates increasing blocksize won’t result in significant propagation delay?
Who Nudges the Nudgers?
Unless it's affixed to a structural element, a small safe will be a prime target in any theft.
"Version 1 was internal and not good enough, we waited until version 2 to start selling"? I don't see the issue.
The destruction of Sappho's works
Only you know what job it is you want, and only the employer knows if they will hire you. Certainly, some company out there will hire you, whether they meet your standards is the question.

My recommendation is to find a job that interests you and send a resume with an explanation that you're looking to make a change and hope they will let you know what more it takes, if anything, to get where you want to go. This can also be done less formally at meetups or online.

Having seen a few people make this transition, my guess is that you probably have abundant technical skills to take on anything, but will need to spend time understanding the work flow and business environment you'll be a part of. Just keep an open mind and go after what you want in your career.
I don't think they are really decoupled from iOS. Updates are still delivered through iOS updates. I think it's in the App Store because when people remove it from their homescreen, the logical place they're going to search for it to bring it back would be searching in the App Store. But it's not an actual app delivered by the App Store, if that makes sense.
[citation needed]

Article 8 of the ECHR seems to require a court orders of some kind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_8_of_the_European_Conv...

Not all European countries have the same exact rules as the US, some have stronger privacy in some areas and some have weaker in some areas.

But the US isn't exactly a poster child for privacy. Granted US rights on unlawful searches are for the most part decent.
Please remain civil. Insulting language of that sort has no place in this discussion.
You don’t need intel ME for full disk encryption? Or is that a Windows only requirement I’m unaware of?
You a found graduate student's college paper with the Odyssey in the title.
It is interesting to see which systems get thriving home-brew communities. Anecdotally I see a lot of posts about Game Boy hacking, but nothing about Sega Game Gear hacking.
This graph also has something to do with it:

http://cepr.net/images/stories/report_images/no-vacation-nat...
Alright, so it is a particle composed of a particle (an escaped electron) and the hole (simulation of positive particle = sum of all other electrons influence) it left in it's valance shell?

If I got that wrong (and possibly even if I got it right), can someone ELI5 this and its applications (if any)?
Take a summer internship at a software company, or take a leave of absence from your program. You can easily get a 6month leave.

Also, ask yourself, do you enjoy programming? All the parts, working inside an editor, syntax, structure, getting all the code to compile properly, running and debugging errors etc... all of it..

Yes you can get hired. Do some leetcode.com problems.. as you are working on them ask yourself if you enjoy doing those.. that's how you'll get a job at most big software development companies.
I am surprised as well, especially the point that they must own so much furniture that it is specifically mentioned in their assets sheet.
> But refusing to speak entirely and pretending you have an attorney is likely to just anger them (if you’re poor), and they do have the power to subject you to our criminal justice system, and people do get treated unfairly and wrongfully imprisoned all the time.

You're not pretending to do anything. You're invoking a right you actually, absolutely have. They know (or should know) the difference and that they have an obligation to do certain things in that situation.

> Being young and poor and interacting with the police.
> Their behavior changes when the other upstanding members of society aren’t in the room.

I believe you. But I also believe that you have societal protections you're choosing not to use. I understand that I'm probably not going to convince you of this in the face of your lived experience. I just think that if we continue to perpetuate the idea that some people can't and will never get what in fact everyone is entitled to, we're never going to solve the problem.
There is nothing random about the world's most powerful retailer wanting the basis of virtual retail to be based on an 3D engine they control, and not one controlled by an independent third party, such as Unity.
Growing pains. Think about it, it's been less than ten years since bitcoin was created. Give it time. The code will change and it will be able to scale. We now have multi-millionaires that have a very strong incentive to make sure it never fails. 20 years from now the bitcoin code and network will be very different and many of the bugs will be worked out.

I was a disbeliever but now I am a true believer. Bitcoin is here to stay. The only danger is that countries will make it illegal. It really is a danger to the way countries manages their economies. But only time will tell. Keep the coins and enjoy the ride. You won't be sorry. Lucky you.
Which does not take into account xthin/compact blocks which cuts down propagation time a lot. In the future graphene will further reduce the time necessary.

How you can conclude a 9min propagation delay for 8MB blocks is beyond me as miners are basically directly connected to each other. This is the only thing that matters decentralization wise.

Bitcoin Unlimited are successfully testing 1GB blocks: https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-unlimited-reveals-gigablock...
Hello fellow DMV resident. Where in the area do you hope to find a municipality more tolerant to basic biodiversity? Out towards Harper's Ferry, perhaps?
> But git never stores diffs between old and new content; it just creates a new blob every time the content of a file changes.

Git pack files compress objects by storing them as diff files going backwards. That is, it stores the most recent state in full, then uses patches to go backwards. Because you're more likely to need a recent version in full than an older one.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Packfiles
If you thought this was interesting, you might also like Margret Atwood's "The Penelopiad"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17645.The_Penelopiad
Exposure therapy seems to be pretty solid science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_therapy
But a timeline is of seriously limited value. You can't burn down on time. You can't combine time estimates. You can't work uncertainty into time estimates. The list could keep going.

I agree no estimation process is perfect. Nor do I think you should do comprehensive estimates on new work. However, the thing you want to know it's how much work there is. Not necessarily when you'd like to release a year from now.

Odds are high you have a deadline. So the incentive is high to keep the estimate below that line.
It depends on the state, but what I've read of so far is mostly expanding the range of eye diseases that can be treated with medication, and expanding their prescription privileges. Some of it focuses on lasik surgery, which probably merits more scrutiny, but certain states already allow it.

E.g.,

http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article75185362....
https://www.reviewofoptometry.com/article/new-york-ods-push-...

Here's examples of discussion from the physician side, which tends to be a bit more FUD-focused, and to be biased in how certain topics are approached:

http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2010/12/pfor1-1012.html
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullartic...

One of the articles starts by discussing psychologists, where similar issues arise. The typical AMA/physician group argument goes like this:

Profession X has specialized training in area A but limited to that, and not in area A+B. Physicians, in contrast, have training across a wide scope including B, and then in addition specialize in A.

The problem with this argument is that it presupposes that the only way to obtain training is by going from B, and then adding A, and ignores the argument that one could go from starting with A and then adding B. Optometrists aren't saying "everyone should be able to do lasik, or prescribe everything without training," they're saying "we are qualified to learn how to do it." Psychologists aren't saying "everyone with a license should prescribe," they're saying "people who have a license and then get additional training can prescribe."

The other problem is the physician groups tend to vastly undercharacterize the amount of training that often accompanies e.g., psychologists or optometrists. A psychologist was recent interim head of the National Institute of Mental Health, and many of them do research in psychophysiology, interventional and observational brain imaging, pharmacology, and so forth, and enter with the bio backgrounds. Conversely, the amount of actual coursework in medical school is increasingly less and less, and because they are covering so many areas of medicine, the amount of training they get across areas is relatively small.

My point isn't to belittle MD training, it's just to say that people have to be careful in the assumption that going from broader -> specific is necessarily better than going from specific -> broad, or that you have to start with certain education and then specialize, as opposed to picking up additional education along the way.

The issue is really a monopoly of (a) specific educational and training model(s) in the health care setting. Licensing is not actually competency-based, it's credential-based.
“I had to beat the hell out of the nursing-home director” and "Do what you have to do... We’ll deal with the consequences later" sound like vigilantism to me
My point was that VCs are not heroic risk takers that invest their own money but often invest other people's money and live off the fees.
Artificial Lighting and the Blue Light Hazard (2011)
Assuming the association between high IQ and various mental/physical disorders is true (evidence for which has been shown in several scientific studies), there seems to be a simple explanation: the hidden variable is gene networks which are responsible for both effects, which tend to lead to individuals who are on average as phenotypically fit wrt survival/procreation as those with simultaneously lower IQs and lower rates of disorders.
What a nice classic Perl code. Actually the Perl ecosystem has a number of classic mature libraries for making HTML easy, such as the TT (http://www.template-toolkit.org/) or the old CGI module (http://perldoc.perl.org/CGI.html). From my feeling the community moved on and I know nobody an more who writes modern web applications in Perl, unfortunately.
Got any examples? Googling for benchmark enterprise database X doesn't give anything useful.
That "mistake" aspect is addressed in the article.

Multiple sources make it unlikely it was "mistake". It was almost certainly disinformation. The "mistake" was running with unverified information.

Consistently making "mistakes" that go in one direction indicates lack of integrity.
Yeah, i'll go so far as to correct you there and say its not a sign of declining culture. It IS culture, period.

Its arguably even the case that it could be argued to be the sign of a particular kind of ascending culture, since being able to reinterpret the past and spread your own cultural norms could be said to give weight/momentum to a particular culture's propagation...
Completely agree. We have always rescued animals either from the pound or street (our 2 cats were found as kittens outside when my wife was capturing feral cats to get them spay/neutered). Once my wife found out more about puppy mills, and how the dogs were treated she decided to do whatever she could to combat mills. Until the laws are changed though, there isn't that much that can be done to stop them. The best an individual can do is get pets from the pound or other legit rescue, and never from a pet store (some stores partner with pounds which is fine).
If you listen to the video, the professor says that nothing you say to the US police can be used to defend you later.

From your quote we see that this is not the case in the UK.
Something you say can later be used in your defense, so clearly if you choose to say nothing -- you have less that could be used in your defense.

> I imagine there is a sizable amount of injustice in the UK due to not having a 4th amendment like rights.

Compared to the US?
- The wheel of the seasons

- You run the dogs over

- Ant lions have their way
This is ridiculous.

The word "Odyssey" means journey. The way the author conflates it with sexism and privilege seems like she's just trolling for clicks.

It's a story about a man trying to get home, and a woman staying faithful in the face of uncertainty. Anything else is reading too much into it.

Just like if you're not yet confirmed dead in a war, your parents keep your room the way it was.

(EDIT: re: keeping the way it was, they'll come by and vacuum and dust once in a while.)
I thought picking it up was a bit extreme until I realised krylon was talking about daddy long-legs spider.

Fair enough. If there was a pick-uppable spider I think that would be it.
Whatever you’ll do for work, you always end up working for someone. A boss, clients, customers...

Being a freelancer ? Your clients will be the one you’ll work for. And as some others said: they’ll make money on your work.

Being an employee ? That’s your case, you know how it works.

So entrepreneur ? You say you’re not comfortable with it. And at the end, you’ll have to please your customers or else you will otherwise not earn enough money.

So I guess you have to choose the less hurting path for you.

The good point is that if you want to change your situation, you can start doing it without leaving your current job and see if it leads somewhere before making a drastically decision which will impact your life.

Try a side project, or several. Start looking for what exists in freelancing on your domain of expertise.

The first step is always the toughest one. You’ve got a paid job.

Try!
You mention a couple times that your work has a significant impact on the company's sales/revenue. If you can actually quantify the value of your work, you are in a much stronger negotiating position with your employer and others. It is rarely done by engineers and sets you apart.

In addition to fair compensation, you mention "stressing over issues." I've noticed more than once that I've been stressed over problems my clients didn't really care about. It's not easy, but it's important to keep your stress levels in line with management's (or lower).
Basically what foolrush is saying is that humans have a desire to understand their world through stories, which leads us to invent believable stories even if they don't line up with reality.

The suggestion is also made that Foucault had a different explanation for how scientific advancements are made, and that explanation suggests that the progress is guided by the society the scientists find themselves in.

Personally, I don't believe either is completely accurate. Whilst I agree that storytelling is a fundamental part of the human condition, which can lead us to jump to false conclusions, in general scientific knowledge is often built up iteratively, we build on what we already think we understand to explore what we don't. Society may influence which frontiers we're most likely to explore, but you can't decide on the impact of new discoveries, and what other new frontiers they unlock.
How'd They Use to Build a Fireplace and Chimney Without Bricks or Mortar?
Efficient C02 removal is top priority. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_removal Our hope hangs on technology we've not invented yet.
I can only speak for Uber, but in my experiences they're extremely pro-consumer if nothing else good.

When I've reported drivers for rude behavior, I've been swiftly refunded for my ride, and in cases where a driver has requested I cancel it from my end, I've filed a report and received an apology along with any money lost from a cancellation fee.

It may be a case like Amazon where it's easier to refund riders and move on than actually remove the driver (or remove counterfeit products in Amazon's case), however, similar to Amazon, I must admit that I nonetheless feel defended by the company in these situations.
The only normal way for an investor to 'pull their investment' is to sell their stock to another party. If the stock is worth more now than it was when they bought in then there is a chance the investors will be happy to sell but if the stock is worth less they are more likely to want to take the chance on the longer term to avoid the write-off.

Of course that opens them up to an even steeper drop in value.

And then there are the shareholder agreements that may limit what they can do with their stock as well as lock-up terms and the various authorities.

Shareholders are usually not in a position to claw back their investment unless this has been agreed upon up front and the conditions for such a clawback have been triggered and the company still has the money. If the company does not have the money then some or all of the execs may be personally liable for it but I have never seen a case where that succeeded.
it's one of the only usecase that matters if you're talking about using it as a general-use currency...