skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it's $12 instead of $15, so 20% off. But keep in mind that for a small merchant, besides the 3% processing fee, there is also a base fee, and when you talk about a haircut for $15, the base fee eats up a whole lot of the profit.
> Ten thousand rape kits tested. One hundred twenty-seven convictions won, 1,947 cases investigated, 817 serial rapists identified.

This is crazy. I wonder how much it costs to test a kit; this could be a very high-utility charitable donation.

Looks like there is a charity that is pushing this issue (linked from the OP): http://endthebacklog.org

[edited to add, looks like $8,893 per kit, from http://endthebacklog.org/backlog/why-testing-matters. Not as cheap as I hoped, not as good an investment as mosquito nets (http://www.businessinsider.com/the-worlds-best-charity-can-s...) but I suspect that's a pretty good return on investment if you want to donate to a US charity.]
How traders 'pump and dump' cryptocurrencies
Why does your country have an army? A police force?
“I want to buy some Lucky Charms but I only want to pay for the marshmallows because I don’t eat the other bits.”

“I want to rent this apartment but I don’t use the oven so I dont want to pay for that portion.”

“I want a whopper from BK on a bun from Mickey D’s, And I only want to pay for one burger with that combination.”

“I want iOS on my new Galaxy.”

I’m sorry for mocking you but I find your stipulation for paying for journalistic content absurd. However, this is not the first time I’ve heard similar conditions requested for things that are not the speaker’s to place conditions on. I’m wondering where this line of thinking comes from. I seem to hear it from the younger generation (20s/early 30s). (I’m not tying to be purposefully ageist or overgeneralize.)
If the President (any of them) posted here at HN, and starting saying things against the site and community rules, then I would 100% hope that the moderators would "police his speak".

The President is a person, not a god. If they want to use a private platform to speak, then they have to accept that platform's rules, just like anyone else. If they don't like that platform's policy, then they can use any other platform in the world.
I think it is worth to mention that their team at UNSW is hiring and has PhD scholarships available. About 30 positions are open.

I am not affiliated them, but noticed the listings at http://www.cqc2t.org/employment
What wicked webs they weave. Are they gonna ban the sjws and alt rights alike... Triggereds
Because price obfuscation is a real operational advantage.
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You should read the actual post, not just the comments.

> This policy does not apply to military or government entities and we will consider exceptions for groups that are currently engaging in (or have engaged in) peaceful resolution.
Actual logic design is done using standard cells so metrics describing standard cell size are more useful.

Is it really the case that all logic designs use standard cells? I would have expected full custom designs to maybe use a standard design for the transistor but the placement and sizing of the gates is completely custom (e.g. not on a grid).
Well, that's quite a double standard.
there really isn't a perfect solution for running/jogging/etc... so far as players go...at least for me. I don't want to carry a phone to go running.

My "good enough" solution was to buy a sansa clip, install rockbox, and just use that. It's only possible because I don't care about having a huge variety of music to listen to while running, so I can just outright purchase the tracks/albums I want, load them up, and enjoy running with music and basically no extra weight.
As far as I can tell, there's not much of a reason to use an instrumenting profiler over a sampling one. Is there some niche use case? Maybe to experimentally validate some claim about average case computational complexity?
>git yolo

I hope you do not work on missiles or on passenger aircrafts!
Maybe there will be a time in the future when the necessary factors will all coincide. Improved battery technology, slowing Internet speeds (for Reasons), and change in the public's attitudes (probably starting with those generation or two below us).

Anything attempting to solve the problem before this time could be cursed as "before its time".
But, it's not just a problem with Detroit. It seems to be an issue everywhere.

http://www.endthebacklog.org/ending-backlog/state-responses
Sounds like a lot of the proponents cite improvements in machine learning, which if powerful enough might be able to make improvements.
Ah it's the Japanese chain taking its operational playbook from HQ (I think, though it'd be interesting if hey deliberately made a decision to exclude tipping)
Are you thinking of chaotic systems? The time and length scales for climate simulations are such that it's one of the most-classical simulation domains I can imagine.
The difference is whether I have a contract.

If the contract has, "This is what I pay", I am willing to pay that. I agreed to it, it would be dishonest to do otherwise.

If there is no contract, I am free to choose whether or how much I pay. I err on the side of generosity. But if you spill my drink on my clothing, then fail to serve my child, then I see no reason why I should voluntarily reward your incompetence.

Incidentally even if there is a contract, you would be amazed at how much leeway there turns out to be if you have a problem.

For example if your restaurant gave me steak with Brussel sprouts served with it, I'll send it back because I'm allergic to cooked Brussel sprouts. I'm willing to pay for the meal even though I can't enjoy it, but you'd be amazed at how many restaurants will take it back, and offer me a different meal for free.

If the new tires that you just installed immediately spring a leak and I complain, you'd be amazed how many tire shops will replace them for free.

And so on. If you have a real problem with what you received, and you're polite about it, frequently establishments will try to make it right.
It's hard to imagine how things could be different, but for many services you don't need a middleman. For a long time, banking was thought to be a necessary middleman because you "have to" trust at least some actor to verify the transactions. Turns out you don't need to, with distributed ledgers (Bitcoin, etc).

When it comes to search engines, two things shake the centralized assumption: (1) you can crawl DHTs like https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico does for BitTorrent, and this can be done self-hosted, (2) too often we assume that searches must be global, but in many cases you are implicitly constraining your search space to regional boundaries or interest boundaries. E.g. as a westerner you are probably not interested in content from Vietnam or Pakistan. Also, when searching the Web, rarely do people browse through multiple Google search result pages. As a consequence, things like `awesome-*` lists ( https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness ) are a good starting point for a decentralized curated catalogue that could cover that use case. So you could imagine a curated catalogue of programming websites compiled as a few hundred megabyte file, it could pretty much cover your interest boundaries, and as a file this can be shared over Dat today very easily. Want to search another 'interest boundary'? Run the same search software but on a different catalogue file. These things are possible.

In other words, centralization is overestimated. Maybe there are a couple of genuine centralized-middleman use cases but most of use cases can be very well covered by decentralization.
A co-worker of mine, upon reading this, opined that my face was carbon-rich gunk.
He's not wrong.
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I dunno if I'd agree that it's a lot of overhead, for what you get back. Hell I'm a one-man team right now and I'm using source control. Some of my little experiments go horribly awry. Some of my deletions are a bit too aggressive/arrogant. Sometimes you need to diff shit. Version control frees me to be bold.
This post is a good example of why spacing is important. Everything after the colon should've been on multiple lines, to separate "ban" and "no ban".

You're being downvoted because people think you're pro-antifa, which is sort of sad. I had to undown your post because it was too difficult to parse initially. Thankfully, your other posts in this topic showed that my parsing was incorrect.
When I was there ('09-14), the senior executives would say "20% time means something different to every person you ask".

From Larry's POV, 20% time was supposed to be an escape valve to find the next billion-dollar business. He knew that good ideas often look like bad ideas and that there was a good chance the next great idea wouldn't come from him (after all, crucial elements of Google's success like the ad auction system didn't come from him), so he built in a mechanism where smart engineers could go around his back and work on a prototype without him knowing, and then only take it to him once there was a demo worth looking at. This unfortunately didn't really scale as the company grew bigger, because with more employees, the chance that someone other than Larry would shoot down your idea before it got to him got high enough that basically no good ideas were getting through. (The last 20% project I'm aware of that became a true product area was Google Now, started in 2007 and graduated to a full-fledged product around 2011.)

Craig Silverstein viewed 20% time as a way to build social ties across product areas and avoid siloing and trust barriers. The idea is that if you spent 20% of your time working with a team that had nothing to do with your main project, this created a parallel network, separate from the reporting hierarchy, that allowed information to flow across different departments. This usage of 20% time was still alive and well when I left, even though Craig Silverstein had left a couple years earlier.

Many managers and employees viewed 20% time as a way to "try out" a new team: if you were thinking of transferring, you could do a 20% project for the new team and they'd vouch for the transfer. This mechanism was also still alive and well, for those employees savvy enough to take advantage of it, when I left.
Can you please explain what makes it quantum resistant?
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I know you said lightweight, but have you given TeamCity (https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/) a look? It's much easier to configure than Jenkins in my opinion and very powerful. I've used it at my last two jobs and so far there's nothing it hasn't been able to handle, including some complicated inter-project dependencies, and it's been relatively easy to set up and use.
In the days before Facebook, simply picking up the phone could well result in fun conversations with our neighbors. Fun times were had by all.
I appreciate you taking the time to summarize all this; I've only begun writing in earnest this past year and I'm glad to know that the habits I'm working on developing now are sustainable for the long term.
I agree! For Windows, getting symbols was trivial: you just pointed your debugger to the publicly-available symbol server[1]. You can see this attitude continuing in [2]: a beginner is warned away from using a debugger to understand the kernel behavior.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee4...
[2] https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/2016...
Some packages ship with both importable module as well as a global CLI. So it’s hard to categorize packages on into a single category.
Self repairing nano-bot hull?
> Q: One of the most astounding findings here is that you've identified 817 serial rapists. That's 817 people who attacked more than one person — and crimes that could possibly have been prevented if those people had been caught.

> A: This is how I try to put it in context for people: There are estimated to be 400,000 untested rape kits in the country. In one city, in one county, in one state, we had 11,341.

... so a bit of back of the envelope math (assuming these number are generalizable), that means we could have somewhere in the neighborhood of 30k unidentified serial rapists in the country.
IOTA isn't even resistant to differential cryptanalysis.
Strange that a company with $30m in vc funding would be sold for just north of $40m. Not sure if that's accurate
My feeling: The author does not understand the human psyche well enough. People don’t buy coke because of the taste only. They buy coke because the way they feel, whenever they drink coke. A branded coke gives a whole different feeling than a generic one, which depends on several factors like brand image, price, peers, etc. Works even with pain drugs.

See “Predictably Irrational” by Dan Ariely for several examples of this effect.
http://archive.is/BOf2k

if you get stuck behind the paywall like me
The county is only 40% black. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/waynecountymich... And the kits were put in storage from 1984-2009, during which time the demographics of Detroit changed very rapidly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Detroit... It wasn't always 80% black.
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I'm not sure how Single payer could ever be less efficient then our current system.
One of the top 5 bloggers in tech.
Raman's always do thing in threes anyway so we'd have two more chances.
There is a substantial demand for money laundering and purchasing things like drugs that traditional payment processors will not allow. Bitcoin works for this now. Another crypto currency could replace bitcoin, and destroy the value. If the value goes down enough, miners will switch currencies and this could leave bitcoin as unusuable with a frisbee on roof attack. To destroy crypto currencies in general you would need to solve the underlying issues and reduce demand or block money laundering and payments for illegal goods.
The point is that this is a city with a large majority of blacks, and it just so happens to have terrible police. That isn't a contingent circumstance.
auto-generating Makefiles produces awful Makefiles in the same way auto-generating code produces awful code.

If it was the only way of creating Makefiles, it might be a valid complaint against Makefiles, but it isn't. It's not even a useful thing to do.
Hm interesting -- what parts of it are tied to Windows?

I recently strated playing with uftrace, a tracing framework for C++ using instrumented binaries. I got it working on CPython and I like it so far.

The CLI seems to be well done. I haven't looked in detail your tracer (a README would help), but maybe there are some ideas that can be exchanged.

This thread has a link to the repo and a video:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/7djre...
They survive through violence.
I found this interface a while ago: https://hckrnews.com/

It has something like infinite scroll and tells you what's new since you last visited. I find it much easier to skim than the top page, or even sorting by 'new'. I usually scroll through it 2 or 3 times a day, look for big numbers on points or comments, and read those :)
There is no overhead for typings. Type information in TS is (mostly) gone in runtime.
Any projects we do where npm packages are a dependency inevitably end up with frequent transient build failures. npm install will kick out with some warning or error that's buried well past the 4MB log limit from CircleCI. Rebuilding the project always works.

I haven't been able to determine if this is an NPM issue or CircleCI issue, but short research periods seem to indicate the former, and I find the availability of packages in the manager to be 'unreliable'. That's not really something that I want to deal with in software that is managing my dependencies, but that's the state of the world. Apt repositories have a tendency to do the same thing, actually.
Be wary of Mastodon for their Embrace/Extend of GNU Social, as well as their banning of entire chunks of the federated network.

Find a good GNU Social site, and bask in the freedom. it feels like Twitter when it first started.
Well, if you took the risk of sounding snarky, I might as well take the risk of offending a number of projects as well. The following is my personal opinion only.

From touching this stack quite a bit over the past year, my lasting impression is that most people don't actually need it, but that at the same time one shouldn't decry the value of toying with a new tech stack.

(By the way, I get the same impression from many Hadoop users who carry this large infrastructural debt from building out much too early.) Many people gravitate towards these things in order to learn them better, which can be wise on a personal level should they become more popular.

For me personally, I think the value with Kubernetes is if it becomes a provider independent cloud platform. Bascially what Openstack couldn't deliver, Kubernetes takes the core of and delivers an orchestration platform on that is actually useful. So while you shouldn't invest resources in it solely because it's a new stack, the design is sane and the community is there.
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> organic ices – such as frozen carbon dioxide

I'm pretty sure that CO2 isn't classified as organic.
What is the purpose of an anonymous rape kit? From your post it sounds like it doesn't really have a purpose to any criminal investigation, but if that's the case why are they even collecting it in the first place?
Good point about protein folding. Right now it's simulated with classical physics on conventional computers; quantum chemistry algorithms on classical computers scale too poorly for use with macromolecules. But a many-qubit computer could be excellent for that and other molecular-scale calculations. (Not that getting good protein folding models would cure cancer, but it's reasonably likely to aid biological research.)
crypto-currency is not about scarcity of numbers its about proof of work. Bitcoin started with relatively little computation power and has now scaled to where more power is spent than a small country uses in the mining operation... Its unfeasible to mine bitcoin on a cpu or gpu because ASICs are just so much more efficient. None of this scaling in hashing rate really changing the underlying concept which is that you prove you did some work in order to add blocks. If quantum computers do in fact result in a couple of thousand orders of magnitude raise in the hashing rate... well then miners will use different hardware the difficulty of the network will adjust each 10 minutes as new hardware gets added, and after the change you'll just have a large army of quantum miners instead of ASIC miners.

Remember the exitsanse of quantum computers does not prove P=NP, which is to say, even with quantum computers you can still have the class of problems which are difficult to solve but easy to verify which is the essential component of proof of work.
i agree it sounds like a great tool, and epic and cerner leave huge unmet needs in terms of productivity and also cost. seems like marketing is the huge challenge

id imagine this is really for independent physicians at least in the most-near term, as the sales cycle at big hospitals is brutal, and youd have epic / cerner folks scaring the hospital admins about real / imagined security concerns.

but marketing to independent physicians is brutal. from what ive heard you need at least an inside, and sometimes field, sales force, and getting through all the marketing noise docs get is really hard. would love to hear your thoughts on how to market this more widely

edit: my post mostly concerns US physicians, but id imagine marketing challegnes would be just as big or greater for developing nations
Agree, Set is a disappointment.

I think the “Why” is because it’s easier to get everyone to sign off on small changes than large changes that can never be removed.

The web platform has to live for a long time and be backwards compatible.
Ask HN: Cryptocurrencies value depends on existence of transaction ledger. Risk?
The following question has been wandering my mind for quite some time and I am highly interested in HN communties thoughts, since I don‘t find this question discussed anywhere:

If I buy any kind of asset (e.g. gold, stock etc.) basically the worth of the asset is independent of the exact transaction ledger. That is I can buy it offline or online, P2P or via a broker or an exchange etc., and in each case no matter what happens to the transaction ledger - e.g. broker / exchange / counterparty - it doesn't impact the worth of my asset once I own it.

However with cryptocurrencies their value is interwined so closely with the transaction ledger / blockchain, that basically I have no choice but to transact via the transacation ledger / blockchain of the respective cryptcurrency. As soon as the transcation ledger / blockchain becomes unavailable (for whatever reason) my individual coin ceases to exist.

Isn‘t this a huge drawback and risk related to cryptocurrencies that is hardly discussed?

tl;dr: All other assets' value is independent of transaction ledgger. Not Bitcoin et al. Isn't this a large downside / risk of cryptocurrencies that is hardly discussed?
Not to diminish the magnitude of this, but those numbers appear to be an error on the part of boingboing. Thankfully the source has been updated, and says:

>One of the most astounding findings here is that you've identified 817 serial rapists. That's 817 people who attacked more than one person

>A rapist rapes on average seven to 11 times before they're caught. ... Of our set of 817 ... over 50 of them have 10 to 15 hits apiece.

Still horrifying.
Can ulimit help here?
There was no (space for) discussion of methodology in the article. In reading about these cases one should keep in mind that a forensic DNA test does not uniquely identify an individual, and, if it's used to match for someone in a large database, you must beware the epidemiological fallacy. It's also possible that what appears to be a single "serial rapist" may be more than one criminal.
+1 hg. I see it mentioned so seldom here that I'm actually worried it may go away.
Dear Twitter,

If I'm a member of a visibly protected minority group (Black Muslim) and I tweet "Death to Zionist Sodomites occupying Holy Jerusalem" would I be suspended? Asking for a friend.
I started carrying cash when I moved to Manhattan, because so many bodegas, street vendors, etc only accept cash for small amounts. Its convenience here far outweighs anywhere else I've lived.
This is not my field, but IIRC dilution refrigerators capable of sub-K temperatures are nowadays available off the shelf from a number of commercial suppliers. Which is a pretty cool (har har!) advance considering not many decades ago labs had to create their own, at great expense.

So in principle, there might not be any really fundamental issues preventing such things in every home, with mass production economies making them cheaper and more reliable.

The real question IMHO is whether this will be useful in some way compared to just connecting over the internet to some data center running them.
Circle-CI (https://circleci.com/) have a macos system for building things like xcode projects. I've not tried it myself but it's cloud based which saves self hosting. Unless you want to self-host in which case this may not be a great option.