skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I've learned recently is that most people only read headlines when it comes to Supreme Court cases, and the headlines are written to be intentionally misleading. Most Supreme Court cases have a lot of nuance to them that most people miss.

For example, in this thread, people keep saying that United States v. Ursery upheld Civil Forfeiture, but it did no such thing. The case was about whether CF is a criminal punishment for double-jeopardy, but it did not address the legality of CF itself.

In this case, they are also not directly deciding on CF. They are deciding on whether the 8th amendment applies to the States based on the 14th amendment. If they decide that it does, then the case goes back to the Indiana Supreme Court, who will have to decide if the fine is excessive, like the lower courts found.

But every other civil forfeiture case will still have to argue in a court whether the forfeiture counts as an excessive fine.
I did that for a while until I became completely disillusioned with them. They're in the pocket of corporations and the White House (they actually suppress news if the WH doesn't like it). Find a more progressive outlet than them if you want to pay for media. They can certainly use the cash.

EDIT: Here's a recent case of NYT suppressing newsworthy clips: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/20/administration-of-hate-t... Search for "The Daily" in the transcript.
"Bitcoin has unquestionably provided folks looking to work outside traditional financial systems (and governance) value."

It's also provided a modern day example of why many of those regulations exist.
Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17395493.
I'd love to get a copy of this game. Google turned up nothing.
Don't get your hopes up. This is about cryptocurrencies, not crypto.
It does kind of poke a whole in your argument because the dow drops companies that aren't growing. So when it actually down there's a tremendous change. Otherwise they drop companies that are hurting, like ge.
Hah no, I meant I'd rather be fired than to be on the other side of a jury. I don't like how the sausage is made.
On what is this analysis based? No offense to the parent, but I've learned that analyses of law by non-attorneys, while they can be valuable in regard to principles, are about as accurate as an attorney's analysis of a software project.
Indeed. And more to the point blockchain doesn't do a damm thing to improve trust. If someone in step three tosses the carrots out the window and uses a different batch the blockchain isn't going to get that information.

The blockchain in this example doesn't add or reduce trust at all it's just a time stamped database of stuff people said. We have those already.
Team's E-Whiskers May Be a Touchstone for Future of Electronic Skin
Was Japan already beaten before the August 1945 bombings? (1946)
> 25% import duty on trucks

Commonly known as the "Chicken Tax", this was imposed by LBJ in response to French & German duties on imported chicken meat. Congress lumped light trucks into the bill because LBJ wanted the support of the UAW, who didn't like the importation of the VW Type 2 pickup as well as Japanese utility vehicles.

At the moment, the tax on light trucks is the only remaining part of this bill. And it's pretty toothless as Honda is now building trucks in Alabama, and Ford/GM are building fullsize trucks in Canada & Mexico (which don't get taxed because of NAFTA) yet somehow get classified as domestics.
I am not a philosophy student, but I think you have that backwards. My last comment was fundamentally a utilitarian one as it is about maximizing efficiency and minimizing waste. You don't see utilitarians walking around talking about "a sufficient level of good for a sufficiently large group of people".
If it runs on MS-DOS, it most probably isn't hardcoded to use "LPT1" (the DOS device), but instead is hardcoded to use the exact I/O port and IRQ normally assigned to LPT1 (according to Wikipedia, I/O port 0x378 and IRQ 7). Other than filesystem and disk access, software running on MS-DOS nearly always accessed the hardware directly.
The article says it's the due process clause (the 14th Amendment) which extends Constitutional law to the states.
You can do a lot in blue states/towns, but it involves pushing the Democratic party further left (Medicare for All, Abolish ICE, Affordable housing, and more) if that's your cup of tea.
Suppose you were planning to retire in 2018, and you sold in 2008 or 2009 after the economy crashed. Bad things would happen. No one knew if or how fast the stock market would come back. Better to sell a little bit over time and move to safer investments. But there are many studies showing no one can time the market.
The whole reason Bitcoin uses a hilarious amount of energy is that it barely uses trust (you have to trust the core maintainers and big miners not to screw themselves...).

Distributed trust is the little cash box by a vegetable stand on the side of the road.
That article does not seem to have a date. Since this is a very time-related subject, it would be very helpful to have one.
> My main gripe is with the concept of "country" which didn't really exist until relatively recently.

Yes, it did. The concept of nation-states as a general norm is relatively recent, but the concept of a country is ancient.

OTOH, the video covers extent of political domains, not countries; the two being treated as near equivalents is a product of the modern nation-state norm.
Go back to 2015 and use Ionic/Cordova/Angular? (Still a good framework imho to build apps).. or just build native if you have the time. I guess you also could try Flutter, seems to be the popular hyped framework of the moment, but I don't think react native is quite dead yet.
Shouldnt showing your work take care of this??? Hell if the student can work backwards from the answer and show their work ... kudos

Make this mandatory ... say shiw x consecutive steps, x integrations , x factorings
Cruel but not at all unusual.
This isn't all. Sometimes, even when you're not a _fire-worthy employee_ (for lack of a better term), just to fuck you up, the manager could choose to mark you as "least effective" in the year-end / mid-year review and not really put you up for a PIP... Now... even though you performed good enough, there's no jury to appeal to. What happens next is that the manager could then systematically deprive you of quality work and come year-end / mid-year review, s/he has a solid case to PIP you and throw you out. Note that, being marked "least effective" essentially means that one can't transfer internally to other teams unless someone wayy higher up the management chain approves of the transfer.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't see this seemingly happen with multiple people across multiple Amazon development centers.

This place is toxic and puts way too much power in the hands of the managers, and the net result is that the managers have their favourites, and that the engineers are nothing but puppets, and that engineers are busy back-biting each other, and the managers enjoy the shit show from the sidelines. Despite not having any moral high-ground, all managers in an org review every reportee in that org with absolutely zero fairness, there's no integrity whatsoever, from what I've heard.

And I'd be lying if I said this _thinking_ didn't take it roots right at the very top of the management hierarchy (...according to employees I've spoken to).
> Renewable energy sources are already cheaper than traditional nuclear energy

Again: only when looking at the cost of generation alone. It's more expensive if you factor in the storage and/or long-distance transmission necessary for high utilization (even the study I'm responding to says so, though by a smaller amount than I've seen elsewhere -- ~13%).

> well, nuclear power does not seem to be so economical at all.

Nuclear power isn't economical under the current regulatory environment and set of political realities. There's no fundamental reason that that need be the case. More people die from wind and solar per year than nuclear (mostly installers and technicians falling off of things), and obviously both are dwarfed by orders of magnitude by coal once externalities are factored in. If we were as risk-averse with those sources as we are with nuclear, they would be expensive too. Coupled with the slowness of construction eliminating economies of scale or effective market competition, and you don't have a great situation.
I'm not sure if you read the comment I was responding to, but it sounds like if you had, you would agree that it was presenting a totally irrelevant argument.
DeepNeuron: an open deep learning toolbox for neuron tracing
That really made me laugh out loud ! Thanks !
Perspectives can differ. One of the greatest soaring sites in Europe (Aspres in the French Alps) is fighting for survival against a solar farm. An irreplaceable loss, given the topology in the area. Which is also why a flat plateau at the top of a mountain is suitable for solar production. Economics wise of course a small bunch of glider pilots will not stand a chance against the inevitable economic needs of the area. So yes, a solar farm can be a land wart, depending on where you stand.

No panels visible here, but they are marching towards sacred ground:
https://goo.gl/maps/8kagR6UNXXG2
Decision theory and zero-sum game theory, NP and PSPACE
I know unacceptable things happened in PR and NO, but did people die from starvation? Was there "complete chaos"?
Technically you're right. The 10th amendment has been largely neutered by selective incorporation, a very broad reading of the commerce clause, and other decisions.

That said, the world in which the 10th amendment is very strong and the fourteenth is weak is much worse for civil rights. Suddenly the states can declare official support for Christianity, ban dissenting speech, shut down newspapers they dislike, search you or even imprison you without a warrant, or quarter troops in your house.
Was recently in terminal 3 of Newark airport and they had a bunch of table seating throughout the airport with tablets mounted at each seat.

You could order food through the tablet from the restaurants close by.

I loved the experience. You could browse the menu, fine tune an order, get a drink, then pay (with tip) on your credit card. Someone then brought your food to you in under 10 min.

Seems simple enough, but Jesus it was a way better experience than a normal airport restaurant. Avoided all those problems you mentioned.
I think there's a difference between what you're saying (doing it right is possible) and what the critics are saying (doing it wrong needs to be impossible). There's nothing that best practices can do to prevent a motivated novice from throwing together a minimum effort contract that "works" by whatever test criteria they thought up over the past five minutes.

Imagine surfing the web, but instead of showing a 500 error a broken page would withdraw a random sum from your checking account. It doesn't matter how good the best pages are, no one in their right mind would ever open a browser.
Dude. I wrote an ELI5 for a non-American to get the idea of what 10A and some factors around it. Not everything needs an in depth dissertation.

Feel free to reply to him with your expert analysis that contradicts my simple overview.
Just wondering how he must feel now!
Small economies that have to import almost everything. When you have to import so much, having import tariffs is a dumb idea.
update, its now less than $5,000 and greater than $2,999...ever wonder why the debit/cc cards for poor can only have cash loaded on the card less than $2,999?
You're ignoring how most users need things in front of their face. Most users are not privacy or security "aware" in any manner. Putting it in the UI or actively promoting these services is beneficial to the common web user.

And if it fails, it's at least worth it to learn why it failed. Was the UI bad? Did it not promote the service in the right way? Did users not understand the purpose of the tool?

I think the juice is worth the squeeze.
I care, it's useful to gain insights into the lives of the extremely powerful and politically inclined and see where their thoughts are going; for example seeing that "predictive policing" is a theme they felt important enough to include in their politics larping is something I found interesting.
Latest news is a patent grant to Lockheed in March. Not much else recently.
Someone at Cornell wrote that 2A was incorporated then, but that's ridiculous as if ANYTHING it would have been incorporated federally during 2008's Heller vs DC. If someone attaches the name of a university to something do you automatically take it as fact?
How I had a bygone 72-pin connector remade just to play Duck Hunt
Prototyping Tools for Game Writers
This reminds me of another paper about proof-of-work blockchains called The Blockchain Folk Theorem [0], which has a similar conclusion (aside from the main conclusions):

> Another issue relates to the negative externalities arising in proof-of-work blockchains. First, as shown above, when choosing individually optimal computing capacity, miners fail to internalise the negative externality their investment generates for other miners by increasing difficulty. This implies that equilibrium capacity acquisition in proof-of-work mining is excessive. Second, proof-of-work mining generates greenhouse-effect negative externalities, whose order of magnitude is significant. As of January 2018, the electricity consumed for Bitcoin mining was equal to the electricity consumption of over 3,400,000 US households, with an average consumption per transaction of around 300 KWh. Pigovian taxation could curb overinvestment in mining, but it might also be difficult to put in place, given the international decentralisation of mining.

The crux of the below paper, though, is that actual game theory shows that miners are incentivized to create and persist alternative histories of the blockchain, thus jeopardizing the blockchain's key function, that is to produce a stable and immutable history of transactions. We've seen this in practice with the dozens of Bitcoin forks and with Ethereum Classic, and how unstable exchanges were during the forking process (eg. lost customer funds, double spending, replay attacks, etc.).

[0] https://www.tse-fr.eu/sites/default/files/TSE/documents/doc/...
Basically imagine inputting text with your mouse like this:

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/images/newdasher.g...
KVM (nested virtualization): privilege escalation in L1 guest
I've been through a few of these, and I disagree with everyone else. It's a game. At least, it's a lot healthier to think of it as a game.

Life is full of ups and downs, some of them economic. Yes, this is just another one. Don't despair, things get better. Value your family and friends, and everything will be okay.
This is just an advertisement with no content. It's a link to a whitepaper / sales funnel for the service titanvest.com.
When i’m doing all the work and someone at the counter just hands me food, they get a token $1 tip. If everything goes well.
Why Intel won't patch TLBleed vulnerability, despite serious concerns for cloud
The honest answer is that it gives conservatives the ability to be racist and imprison minorities for minor offenses.
Even before that, there was a case where the federal government had limited the amount of wheat a farm could grow (to control prices), and came after a farmer who exceeded those limits for the sake of feeding his own livestock. This is, to the best of my knowledge, the earliest supreme court case where purely personal use counted as "interstate commerce".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
I think if you asked a lot of server’s they prefer the below-minimum wage based plus tips to a “living wage”.

I know plenty of servers who pull in an equivalent hourly wage of $30 on a good night. They’d get screwed if tips went away and they were paid a living wage of $20 per hour.
They're treating people as objects to be measured and quantified. The sentiment analysis thing at the end sounds borderline sociopathic.

I would personally be terrified of anyone who thought this was an ethical or acceptable thing to do.
I'm not sure you've framed the problem and solution correctly, but here is one obvious societal problem solved by Bitcoin:

How does Scihub receive funding to support the service it provides?

If you tried to fund it using Paypal, Visa/Mastercard, etc., it's quite likely that those payment systems would have already blocked the payments from reaching the service providers.

Because it is substantially more difficult to prevent Bitcoin transactions from being added to the blockchain, you can move "payment system" further down the list of "things to attack." Now you've got DNS and some others at the bottom of the list.

Furthermore, Bitcoins can be used to pay directly for things like VPS and other tech. I see over 92 Btc received at the address that pops up on Scihub's website, so this is a pretty big deal. (over half a million $ at today's going rate.)

So whatever the downfall of Scihub will be, it is very unlikely to be due to an attack (even a coordinated one) against the Bitcoin payment system.

That is the most obvious extant application of blockchain technology that provides a benefit to society:

* mostly publicly funded research locked away in proprietary databases

* illicit public database digitally publishing that publicly funded research

* Bitcoin used to pay to run the service that makes the public research available to the public

I don't think that is at all worth all the hype, energy, and money being thrown at blockchain technology. Nevertheless it is a real answer to a real question.
These days I mostly work in JavaScript, and say what you will about NPM, at least it provides a consistent, reliable, central strategy for retrieving and organizing external dependencies (assuming you haven't just built them into your bundle). The same is true of Maven for Java, to some extent. It seems like at least in Linux, the package manager will get your DLL's for you and coordinate all that, but as far as I can tell there's nothing similar for Windows? Do Windows programs that rely on DLL's just have to manually check what's already there, whether it matches their needs, and copy files over during the installation process if necessary?
PoC||GTFO 0x18 [pdf]
> No, you shouldn't use PPP adjustments in this situation. The price for laptop is what it is. And the only money they have to buy it is the money they have (without any adjustment).

Yes, you're right. My error, though much too late to edit the GP.

> So the laptop is more like 3 months of salary. For a typical US programmer making $120,000 a year that's (kinda sorta) equivalent to buying a $30,000 car.

The parent does say "kinda sorta", but I want to emphasize: For the US developer that $30K isn't needed to for food, shelter, and health care. The impact isn't nearly the same.
Hyperthreading under scrutiny with new TLBleed crypto key leak
I don't think you read the article because it clearly states that the restaurants they are talking about are in San Francisco where the wage is $15/hr + medical benefits. When you factor in the required medical benefits that could end up be closer to $20/hr which is much higher than the $5.50 you are quoting.
The income distribution is very uneven. It might appeal to the more well off but not extra wealthy. It's probably to much for your average Cambodian, and the extra wealthy probably get real macs from Singapore.
It is interesting how the default assumption is always that the employee is at fault. There's a reason why high quality employees always consider the specific manager when evaluating a job offer.

I understand why that presumption exists though, because blaming the manager is an obvious strategy for an underperforming employee to follow. Bonus points for alleging violating some protected status.
> I like static linking. But code these days is getting extremely complex and bloated, so people needed an alternative. Instead of focusing on making their code more cleaner and lean, they started thinking about they can share this huge piece of complex and bloated code across several applications. If you think about it, if your code is small and clean, you wouldn’t feel the need for shared libraries.

One person's "bloat" is another person's "critical feature". When I see this word thrown around, I'm always left worried about what is going to come next. And then the author proposes avoiding shared libraries in favor of what sounds like a single-system microservices model. Such a model doesn't resolve any of the versioning issues of shared libraries but does add in all of the issues faced by a distributed systems combined with dramatically higher invocation overhead.

The stuff about plan 9 is interesting - but I'm left wondering why exactly this is being reposted now.
Already priced in and layoffs have an opposite effect.
Bingo. I still don’t follow how blockchain solves current problems. If the problem in your country is a lack of good record keeping, that’s not a technological problem. It’s a political problem. Cheap solutions have existed for centuries. The real question is why haven’t they been adopted? Why would those in power allow blockchain to be adopted but not existing technologies?
There are two PDF versions of this release, both are also valid ZIP and HTML files, and they share the same SHA-1.
> Downvoting doesn't change it, and you don't get to have opinions about it.

You wrote:

> Did you even read the link? [..]

Which is against HN netiquette:

"Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."" [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Well, the employee is depriving the employer of something as well.

Given that the employer is trying to get rid of the employee, this assertion seems questionable.
How? My math is wrong or you disagree with rounding off 6 cents?

You infuriate me. Your vague dismissal of my comment adds nothing to anything and it is wrong. The steps I outlined are totally mathematically sound. How could you possibly read that and say "the math is wrong?" How? Do you say the math is wrong to anyone who rounds numbers? You have caused me to become insane

How is this flagged? Can a mod please remove this flag?
> make sure your holdings are prepared for a recession

Make sure your bond / stock / cash / etc holdings are properly balanced. Don't overweight in one area. If you've not paid attention to your risk exposure over the past while, it's a good time to do so!
JavaScript library that provides a useful functional helpers. Add your own
That was intentional when I rounded off 6 cents.
Let's be clear: This is a general problem with distributed infrastructure. Not necessarily docker. Any org that scales beyond 100+ engineers/services/artifacts is just not going to hire same proportion of infra people to toss application configuration over the wall to.

In the past, we have done:

* Let applications write librarian-chef cookbooks, have a chef server aggregate them

* Let applications write ansible playbooks, aggregate them in a central repo using galaxy

All of them carry the same pitfalls. If its not the OS, then you have to decide how to patch the version of OpenJDK that the developer hardcoded. If its not OpenJDK, then its maven or npm.

We have seen both sides of the arguments:

* Sysadmins cry "security"

* Developers cry "freedom"

The root cause of both arguments is fear and control. The end goal when these words (security vs freedom) get thrown in is not to find solutions, but rather to make the discussion end. Sysadmins will gladly sweep maven/nexus problems under the rug as long as they are the ones doing automation. Developers will gladly disregard all infrastructure engineering principles as long as they have full access to do whatever they want with their application.

Automation is the solution to both. Call it SecOps or whatever bullshit term. But in the end, automated security practices are necessary one way or another.