skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Instead we dump him with the rest of the dregs of society

You’re really one for the common man, huh?

In all seriousness though, whether or not Reisner would be a productive member of society if released, isn’t the right thing to do to focus first on identifying and freeing people on death row who are wrongfully convicted? And, if we are speaking of justice, nonviolent offenders in prison because of draconian drug laws? And then after that get around to violent offenders whose chance of recidivism is low?

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FactSheet.pdf
Having to work for a living. Though I suppose you want realistic requests?
The article describes an agnostic man being drawn to faith by Bach's music. I am no Christian, but this is my own experience as well. Douglas Adams is correct.
This is about to change dramatically.
I'm baffled because of the inherent risk. Helmets are required, but not supplied. And they seem equally not street legal nor sidewalk legal. Seems one city council vote away from being squashed.
Thanks, I do. However as time goes on, I'm less sure if I will, it's actually become a nice filter for excluding people I'd rather not work with/for.
In each state there is probably one prison worth of people who are capable of earning a college degree. They should be put in one place and encouraged to do so.

The rest are mostly shiftless and incorrigible and prison makes them worse people. They should either be released or kept in prison until dead. They should not be “stewed” in prison and then released upon you and me.
As far as I can see, they have dust reemission class B in EU, which means they are OK, but probably leak some particles.

It's understandable. On a small machine with little power, if they put a better filter (more resistance) the vacuum is not going to have much suction.
Ask HN: At what point is it appropriate to leave startup?
So I'm an engineer working at my third start up.

First startup went through three pivots before I chose to leave.

Second startup never pivoted.

Third startup is on the third pivot and I'm thinking it's time to leave.

After how many pivots do you chose to leave?
What would homeless people do with the scooters? They can’t ride them without paying, because the scooters need to be unlocked in the app, and there doesn’t seem to be an incentive for them to vandalize the scooters.
Bgp hijacking is possible because bgp isn’t really authenticated. It would be difficult to authenticate but if that were done it would not prevent anycast routing.
Helmets should be fitted for each individual's head size and shape. Generic helmets supplied at the sidewalk won't fit everyone.
I'm not sure if it's unfortunate at all. Seatbelt and helmet laws save like 15,000 lives every year. There's a very good reason they were legislated.

I'm all for reducing government overhead and overreach, but I don't think helmet laws are a good example.
Oh - and, if it’s squandered human potential we care about, meaningful reentry programs for those who have served their time, and allowing them to vote?
Nowhere is the FCC acting as the "universal arbiter of space". And no reason has been given for not taking the FCC at face value on this.

And I disagree with the "sociopolitical attitude being bad". I fully believe that this "endanger other's things and don't care about it" attitude given by Swarm is the more dangerous one.
Ask HN: Do you normally leave a job with another lined up or
Do you normally leave a job with another lined up or do you just quit and spend one/two months looking for work?
Coisas que acontecem em Facebook
Genuine question: Are there non-toy-related uses for AR/VR that exist? Or is that typical assumption that the applications will emerge only once the technology exists?
For internal use we had all RSA keys so it was fine. For external use we have to support what everyone uses, and there is a variety as you know. Saying "hey, you can use PGP but all your friends have to have RSA keys" is not a recipe for a good user experience.
Calling this security engineering is a misnomer. Yes, I agree the way you describe it this is pure theater.

I take a bit of a long position, please bear with me:

A lot of engineering is plagued by the notion of theater, forced either by outer or inner (see management) pressure to project an image. Examples: "Everything you see is rendered online", "our investing plan is done by this awesome bot" etc. With security really a lot of times it is hard for people to see the incentive. Loss is hard to quantify for people and then there is the extreme optimism. "Oh we are using TLS and we have our data on AWS, we do not need anything else." It is a field, that is hard to quantify that focuses on rare events.

And then consumers just don't care about non-tangible things like their data till it's too late. What happened to Equifax? If Equifax had lost directly an equal amount of money to the damages it will/has caused with the data loss, response of the public would be more drastic and there would be civil charges at least.

Same for Trustico. A guy decided it is ok to send a crazy amount of secrets over email. Then people realize the guys expose the freaking shell and root. And now Trustico is back in business (still unbelievable to me...). Thus companies have little pressure to do the job right. And companies tend to satisfy the minimum necessary requirements.

A final reason also: too little supply. This field has a lot of specialization and there is a bunch of theory and skills required. And on top of that you need to have a good understanding and skills from the other fields you touch (e.g. linking, compilers, web development, distributed systems,...)

Similarly, to be a graphics engineer you need to know some computational geometry and then a bunch of extra stuff depending on your specialty. I think it is hard for someone to pose as a games engine engineer and have no idea about convex hull operations. However, due to the reasons above a person can pose as a security oriented engineer and say a couple of hot words and get a job in some companies. And from experience management is filled with people like "What why aren't we encrypting passwords?" or "We need to have an option for people to opt out during clientHello and just use HTTP."

Regarding your senior guy: He is not a security engineer or whatever. The way you describe the situation and taking a positive vantage point, I think the management had to sell to some outsider that they care about security and hired a penetration tester maybe gave him a title that could as well be "Lord of the Stars and Black Holes" and went on with their lives. Why? Because they are not accountable regarding this view of the product.

It's hard to bullshit people about an app that is not working. It is easy to bullshit people about an app that is barely functional and sends their data to the pockets of third parties.

From personal experience that is not the case for some serious companies. And there are some extremely good security engineers/cryptographers/... engineers out there.
Servo will continue to be a next-generation browser engine and a place where we'll be doing a lot of experimentation on new standards and implementation techniques. I'm sure the community will also continue to use it for all sorts of cool things!

Joining up with the mixed reality team is more about how the Mozilla staff working on Servo will be focusing their time and some of the desire we have for things we want to do for mixed reality that are a little invasive and early-stage of the standards process to be experimenting with inside of existing production browser engines.

With regards to a full browser, there's still a pretty big gap before Servo could stand on its own in a browser (https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Remaining-work ). Filling that list out is not a higher priority for the Mozilla staff over getting the stuff done we need to experiment with delivering the web on VR & AR devices.
Bird will give you a free helmet. Go into the Bird app, look under Safety and in there are instructions on how to get a free helmet.
> Since riding on a photon is not possible, perhaps this question is meaningless

Yes.
No, they're saying that all of the space-going nations tend to cooperate, and that they generally want to keep things safe for all.
Makes sense in the case of bleach, which when combined with the ammonia containing body ingredients shed off in the shower, reacts to produce chloramine, which hydrolyzes to produce hypochlorous acid, which is a strong oxidizing agent, and I assume said hydrolysis takes place in the lungs, meaning ample exposure to free radicals, which I assume can lead to cancer if inhaled often enough.
Welcome to the cyberpunk future where companies shoot illegal satellites into space

\m/
It's really not, though. It's just associated with something that "seems greedy". I could argue that "nothing useful is done with the computational power used for playing video games or watching and producing films." I could argue that, but I think that line of reasoning suffers the same way yours does. It requires a value judgment and you think that the cryptocoin eco system has no value.

Cryptocoins have tremendous value for remittances alone. We can argue whether it's optimal allocation of resources and I think that is a healthy debate. Mining is required for trustless, decentralized currencies with provably equitable distribution. But we could probably forfeit some of the latter and eliminate the proof-of-work entirely (in fact it's already been done). Another option is to make the proof-of-work of greater independent utility from the transaction itself (also has been done).
Actually, I think that'd be a pretty good thing, especially if that was higher than the local minimum wage.
I would wager they haven't listened to good performances or haven't spent enough time with Bach's music. There's nothing cold about BWV199. Find Gardiner's rendition featuring Magdalena Kozena, it'll knock your socks off.
> Small particles like engine exhaust are a problem (they can cause pitting, etc), not large objects

Tell that to Iridium, who gets too many collision warnings a week to act on them, and lost of functioning satellite. The collision was between 2 large objects for the record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision
Was anyone able to spot which cleaning sprays were problematic?
The interesting thing about this casae, if I recall the facts correctly (I'm sure someone will fact check this, I'll attempt to and update this in a bit), is that in this case the breaking of the law was mostly an attempt to make sure his investors were left whole.

Here's the facts as I understand them:

1) He ran a hedge fund, and lost a lot of money.

2) He didn't disclose to his investors that he lost the money, and falsified reports.

3) In an effort to make sure people didn't lose money (whether to protect himself or to make sure his investors were made whole) he took profits from another company he ran and used them to pay these investors.

4) Almost all investors in the hedge fund ended up making a profit because of this.

It's fairly easy to interpret this as someone that screwed up bad, and then broke the law to cover it up and try to make it right, and by lucky happenstance was actually able to get people's money back, but still ended up breaking the law. That's a fairly good story to have, and I would think lends itself towards a mitigated sentence.

On the other hand, he repeatedly presented himself in an unsympathetic way that antagonized the judge and the regulatory bodies involved.

It is, to put it mildly, a fairly complex and (to my layman eyes) unique situation, compounded by the fact that his behavior may or may not have to do with being socially inept (is it right to punish someone for a social disability, if that is indeed the case here?)

There was a discussion about this when the guilty verdict was announced[1]. Much of my info comes from that article and this other one[1] from the same time period.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14931004

2: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/business/dealbook/martin-...
My point is that the line between disruptive innovation and reckless crackpottery isn't always clear, and the solution to one reckless startup isn't to give up on innovation.
Come up with an analogy to something they'll understand about how complexity has changed. Maintenance on a jet engine vs a horse-drawn cart. Or cooking pasta vs a seven layer cake. Or upgrading the plumbing in an off-the-lot double-wide vs a one of a kind skyscraper. Changing the ID system for an elementary school vs a state university. Etc. You can probably come up with something appropriate to this specific situation.
How is such a business even remotely profitable? Such scooter will cost a few hundred bucks. They're easy to store and drag into the house. Even in a small room in a densely populated city, there is not much nuisance in owning one. Furthermore, these things get cheaper by the year; further calving off any rental market.

Genuinely interested in how such business is able to make a dime.
I think if you want these programs at all, you have to make difficult decisions. The fact is, nobody is going to carry a helmet around on the off chance they are going to use a rideshare. If they have one at all, they're using their own vehicle. I've used Seattle's bikeshares a few dozen times now, and I love it a great deal, but I never would've bothered if I had to wear a helmet - I would've just taken an Uber or something.

I have even seen some people claim that, measured in QALYs other such utilitarian metrics, helmet laws make people unhealthier on average in that they discourage riding bicycles and that the net effect of this is worse than the increased risk, but I don't know how reliable that result is.
Yeah right.

"Chinese Drug Dealers Are Being Sentenced to Death in Sports Stadiums and Public Squares"

http://www.newsweek.com/china-criminals-sentenced-death-spor...

[2015] "On Wednesday, China’s Supreme People’s Court argued that serious drug crimes merit the death penalty. Serious cases involving “drug lords, professional drug dealers or re-offenders” as well as “drug smuggling, organized transnational drug crime and armed or violent drug crime” should all receive capital sentences, according to a circular released by the SPC."

https://thediplomat.com/2015/05/chinas-growing-drug-problem/
I agree fully, as the beneficiaries of the credit reporting services are banks/credit lending services. The customers, us, are the clients of this lender.

Moreover, why wouldn't it be opt-in? That's right, have the data be exchanged when loans are requested. How often do people apply for mortgages, credit cards and so forth? Definitely not 365 days of the year.
They're an American company.

Further, their attitude is basically that of a spoiled child when told they can't do something.
Seems like a pretty even split to me. I'm glad the community is healthy enough to have this kind of debate even though I'm very much on the anti-Shkreli side.
As someone who lives in the UK and has never not experienced DST. It doesn't get any better.
Also don't worry about having high fps
a 10fps 1080p stream is a thousand times better for reading text than a 720p 30fps one
Civil fraud versus criminal fraud is very fuzzy. it often comes down to what you think you can prove about fraudulent intent. I gave the sandwich example because you can create “reasonable doubt” by saying the mistake was due to bad QA, rather than fraudulent intent. The fact that the sandwiches are shorter, by itself, does not prove fraudulent intent.

The mortgages are even harder. The banks are accused of lying about whether borrowers could pay. The fact they couldn’t pay doesn’t prove that. The fact that the banks ignored warning signs doesn’t prove that. The fact they knew about underwriting failures doesn’t prove that. Not beyond a reasonable doubt.
Got it, the article made it sound like there were fixed locations. Also, a sock is just a term for a disposable liner that goes inside the helmet.
Here is the HN discussion to Part 1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16217241

Pretty surprised how much Equifax spent trying to win this case. I'm sure they're doing it to dissuade others from suing them as well but after reading this I really want to sue myself. I wonder if they'll appeal the verdict again.
> Finger wag at India, too. This should have been checked

Yeah, I'm surprised it wasn't. I've heard of dispensers on the ISS being zip tied shut and not cut until confirmation of license.
I have a feeling this could combine really well with John Gustafson's posits. I partially bring this up because of the paper he wrote with Isaac Yonemoto, where the latter uses an 8-bit variant of the posit to create a cheap approximation of the sigmoid function for neural networks[0], but also because for posits one can tweak the number of fraction and exponent bits to suit the needs of the required dynamic range and accuracy.

[0] http://www.johngustafson.net/pdfs/BeatingFloatingPoint.pdf
> what would experience be like were it possible to ride on a photon

But that's not what "space shrinking" represents. The object or person that is moving at close to the speed of light relative to you does not see their own space shrink. Their "space" appears to you to "shrink" (I put the words in scare-quotes because of all the issues I already brought up). So even if "space shrinking" is a reasonable interpretation of something, that something is not what you would even want to extrapolate to "the experience of riding on a photon" (which is meaningless anyway, as I said in my other post just now), because it doesn't describe the experience of the observer moving at high speed relative to you, it describes your own experience, and to yourself, you're at rest.
OK now do SarbOx. Let's use Jamie Dimon as our example.
> Coming in to 2018, we see virtual and augmented reality devices transitioning from something just for hardcore gamers and enterprises into broad consumer adoption.

Every time I see phrases like this I just cringe. As someone who spent a ton of time in the gamedev/3D UI space I've yet to see anything about VR that points to be being successful in anything other than small markets. I think there are some amazing applications in architecture and gaming but I really don't see something you have to strap to you face making the mainstream in a meaningful way.

I really hope this doesn't dilute Servo's effort too much because they've been doing awesome stuff lately.
Yeah, but they also didn't want others to be able to do what they did.

If they really thought they were right, they would be lobbying to remove those medallion requirements for everyone, themselves and the taxi companies. They didn't.
>Genuine question: Are there non-toy-related uses for AR/VR that exist?

No. It's why I've lost interest in VR/AR software development for now; the real work to be done is in hardware. Even the latest HMDs are too low resolution and bulky for any kind of productivity gain. AR will be amazing once the tech is there, but the current design paradigm of "smartphone-strapped-to-face" just isn't going to cut it.
I saw lots of these in San Diego when I visited earlier this year. Seems like a decent idea.
I'm also having similar issues, but I wouldn't say it's getting worse. I've always had these issues. Google sucks about giving any kind of support, too.

I just bought a used PC that I plan to replace my Chromecast with.
I still remember where I was when I first time I saw the piano partitas (BWV 825-830) performed. Gould playing the one in C minor moves me about as much as any music, along with some of the others you mentioned.

Bach's compositions are unquestionably beautiful and technically brilliant, but not all of his music was written to stir an audience. He composed in a different time and for different reasons than the classical composers that came after him.
Guidelines were 27 years.
This is somewhat where I'd like to see https://flems.io going. It's based on the open source Flems web playground (https://github.com/porsager/flems), so doing different kinds of embeds and sharing directly runnable code could be added easily. Currently the entire state lives in the URL, which is pretty interesting for sharing, and it really makes it a true serverless app, but I'm working to support shareable sessions and live streaming of changes as well.
> Also, a sock is just a term for a disposable liner that goes inside the helmet.

Yeah, I know. I thought some places (like kiddie go-kart places) only give you the sock and don't require the hard helmet to go with it but maybe I'm wrong.
Etsy - https://codeascraft.com
He wasn't charged for raising the price of daraprim. That wasn't illegal. Defrauding investors is illegal. I highly doubt the case will be overturned.
Heroin is basically legal in San Francisco. Public injection is 100% tolerated by police (not by most citizens though). Police won't arrest you for buying heroin. DA certainly won't prosecute even if you are arrested.

Hell, you can buy heroin directly in front of the Tenderloin police station. Not across the street, directly in front.

de facto, I'd say heroin is basically legal in San Francisco.
Why do you think the FCC should be involved in this, though?

Do you think the FCC should be able to make safety regulations for, say, airplanes or sailboats?
Funny, because the How It's Made documentary shows them easily being separated by checking two rows of feathers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVf6KXVIZ5I&t=197s
McAfee acquires VPN provider TunnelBear
writ of mandamus?
> And the answer arises from the question: the sets are based on a different criteria.

Hopefully I'll soon find out what the criteria are, if this is the case!
Why do you say they aren’t street legal?
Is that the same as windex vinegar? That’s what we use as our low-level cleaning agent.
Would love technical details and less PR stunts
Seems to me like it would be better to require an opt in from the person having their data harvested so that bad actors could more easily be punished by the market, and to incentivize passing value from the data collection to the person on whom it is being collected.
That's not at all what's being said. There are far more possible cases that could be prosecuted than there are resources to prosecute them, so to better discourage all crime they will tend to go after higher profile targets, in particular those who flaunt their criminality.

Similarly, cops don't spend all their time giving out tickets to every single jaywalker or every single speeder. That would be a waste of their time. But they need to give out some tickets every once in a while or else the law becomes meaningless. Given a choice between giving a ticket to a random person spotted jaywalking, vs. giving a ticket to someone who took out a full page ad the day before declaring the time and place in which they plan to jaywalk and taunting the police for being unable to do anything about it, the police will choose to give the ticket to the latter person, and that totally makes sense to me.

That's very different from going after socially awkward people who don't know when they're being assholes.
> In fact, main() is just a convention of libc.

No, it's not just a convention. 'main' is defined as the execution entrypoint in at least the C11 [0], C90 [1] standards. Both have both these forms defined:

int main(void) {}

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {}

You don't have to follow that convention, but then it becomes implementation-defined behaviour.

C without libc can still expect to have a main. One doesn't imply the other. It's just without a main, you also have to manually link to _start as well.

[0] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf
“Our fund has too much cash. What can we invest it in? These software startups don’t need much capital....”

“I know. Scooters. They cost money, right? And it’ll need a ton of marketing!”
Bicyclists aren't required to wear helmets in CA. As long as these scooters don't go more than 25 MPH I don't see why they shouldn't be treated any differently from a legal perspective.