skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably also has a lot to do with the corruption scandal with Bridges, Force, and possibly even more dirty cops - which is why the other set of murder-for-hire charges in NY were dropped in 2014 before the trial...

It would be a prosecutor's nightmare to try a case where you have several of the principal investigators stealing funds, money-laundering, tampering with witnesses, selling internal info to the suspect, and who knows what else (we still don't know who scammed Ulbricht for the other hits, and Variety Jones has claimed that at least one more dirty cop is still on the loose). And let's not forget that FBI agent Tarbell, who 'found' the SR1 server in Iceland, beat a very hasty retreat to the private sector after what should've been a career-defining triumph, and no one wants to discuss exactly what bug supposedly spat out the IP address... I once asked a pair of FBI agents what was up with Tarbell leaving so fast, and they looked uncomfortable and didn't reply. (This is part of why Ulbricht's defense team's decision to not claim the Iceland server is widely regarded as a trial-losing mistake.)

Not only would there be little point, but any trial would likely be hugely embarrassing and discovery reveal things that the FBI and IRS and DEA would very much prefer be forgotten.
We had this debate with all Ryzen CPU's already. This quirk of windows isn't particular to threadripper by any means, we debated this with the 1700/1800 cpus
Enterprise sales cycles are long. Apart from internal politics we've seen contacts go on holidays, switch departments, leave the company just to having to start the whole conversation again. The sourcing department might take weeks to get you into their system (we had to sign an anti-slavery regulation waiver once) and lastly the accounting department can take weeks, months, or even multiple reminders to then pay the bill.

Not to break your motivation, it's just reality, and an underfunded startup or bootstrapper will need a long breath and patience.
There is a huge difference between 1 minute and 15 minutes. And "use a free site" is not an acceptable alternative.

I'm talking about payments in general. In a transaction online, there is a certain level of distrust. Both sides are trying to verify to the other that they are legit.

> Yes, but for this discussion, it is completely anonymous.

Why not make credit card vendors completely understanding and customers completely trustworthy as well for the discussion? Then they can just use Visa.

> Your wife cannot figure out the owner of the porn site's wallet ID.

Bit sexist. Assuming that it's the man purchasing the porn and the wife isn't savvy enough to realize that either there's no damn pizza or that you paying pizza half with regular currency and half with bitcoin is just kind of dumb. And would effectively make it double the price since the charge on the card is the price of a normal pizza. If you're going to lie, do it right. Just say you invested a small amount. And when questioned later, say it tanked, good thing you only tested $100 or so. That might buy you 5 months of a site that charges a $20/mo subscription fee. After that, you're on your own.

> the value is going to change less than 1%

You hope. Bitcoin has dropped over $1000 in 1.5 hours. And you're ignoring the transaction fee of the payment and whatever the exchanges charge for cashing out. So you're looking at probably around 30 minutes turnaround from the customer saying "I will pay you" to you collecting any actual money.
Working from a standing desk & performing daily sun salutations completely eliminated my chronic back pain.
It's a fair point that it's very difficult to avoid conflict of interest when doing your job better might mean your department has less money to use.

My suggestion: Remove the incentive by divorcing all fine (and similar things like seized goods) revenue from the government budget. Perhaps stipulate that it gets distributed to charities, or is split equally among taxpayers as a tax offset.
Right. In many contexts it makes more sense to use 1/T. Then there's no discontinuity and as things get hotter you decrease smoothly from positive, through 0, to negative.
Yes, but HN likes to pretend that he's a hero, because he's a white guy who got rich while doing a mix of harmless things that should be legal, and attempting to have people murdered.
Its not at all simple as that ...

Taking on debt in your currency means you won't be able to access international markets, and international market are not just going to allow you to sell bonds in your currency without an extremely steep interest payment, some players won't even invest due to the enormous risk they would be taking.

Your point 3,4 makes it seem you are unaware of how money or wealth works - would you like it if every three years the govt just striped you of your ownership of your house ? All debt is someone else's saving, introducing a ”sabbat year” on the debt side also reflects on the ownership side - it would not be possible to own anything long term.

Your point 4 would mean companies like Amazon, FB, Google would literally be impossible to create. Its very hard to distinguish between good and bad debt ( its the reason analysts are paid so well ).

I agree with your last two points.
You and Your Career – aim to be a force multiplier
Apart from potential performance issues I can't think of any other reason why not. Keep in mind however that games are made to be fun and sometimes ability to predict actions of not-so-smart AI opponent might be better that facing unpredictable and too intelligent AI.
The idea is that political freedom begets, enables and protects economic freedom and subsequently entrepreurship and dynamism flows. I think it's generally accepted that the western democratic economies are more dynamic than those of more repressive states. I also think that China is a strange one. Based on my anecdotal experience, people seem quite free at a micro level in China and incredibly entrepreneurial and resourceful.
This would be a huge improvement in the quality of these stories.

There's a meaningful difference between something like Red Shell, where a few games gathered data that most others don't collect, and the stream of "apps log events!" stories which find some examples and present them as company-specific outrages instead of a nasty practice across the industry. Without understanding that, it's hard to have a useful discussion about tracking.
Drive: Dropbox
Backup: Backblaze B2
I like this answer. It presents a framework for reasoning about why it turned out the way it has, and why it likely won't change.

I think also the motivation for (advertising) profit is what is driving the innovation on the other side.
They tried under Clinton, the Republicans didn’t like it. There is a good point about takin on debt being good for USD liquidity, but the debt should be productively invested somehow so that it can pay off later.
Ask HN: I'm depressed, what should I do?
I am 30 years old, working in customer service. I don't like that job at all. I always feel tensed and depressed. I always wanted to become a developer. In last 10 years I tried to learn several programming languages such c++, visual basic, c#, php, JavaScript on my own. I failed to learn any of these lanagauges. I know a bit about building websites. I am very much interested in learning any programming language that can help me build good future. I don't know what to do. I am looking for advice.
Are you at FB?

One of them did tell me this after his round (said we got further than he thought we would), the other one explicitly said my solution was optimal and what he was looking for.

The 2 questions per interview "rule" is an open secret now among people that have interviewed there. I've never heard of someone who only answered 1 per round get a follow up or an offer.

*Also, they generally don't move onto a second question if they don't think the first one was good enough.
Hard question to answer without knowing what compiler was used to build the binary, what version of the code was built, what build settings were used, etc. Video and audio encoding tools are the perfect example of software that will have wildly different performance characteristics depending on compiler optimizations; making comparisons between different operating systems a really unscientific process unless you use the same toolchain across all of them.
I've used Signal for a while and I think it's great although admittedly I don't use video calls on it very often (mostly because the people I need to video call are mostly not on Signal).

For Drive the best alternative I've found is Dropbox. It's not free but at least the business model isn't (yet) about monetizing your data.
> I'm finding it difficult to believe this given that it's known that pornography is known to be an industry riddled with violence, hard drugs, human trafficking and so on and so forth.

Known by who? Source?

> Edit: As soon as I posted this I see the other commenter outed you as having an inherent benefit from tricking people into believing pornography is a reputable industry.

What are you talking about? I see nothing like this anywhere in the comments section.
FWIW, Fastmail filters spam very well for me.
Microsoft Unveils Azure Virtual WAN and Azure Firewall
Almost never. I use a whiteboard, but only to draw architectural diagrams. Very few engineers at google actually do hardcore CS on a regular basis.
I’d recommend taking a look at https://www.privacytools.io. It has quite a few recommendations for different services that respect your privacy, many of which are FOSS.

For e-mail, calendars, and contacts I’ve migrated over to FastMail. In my opinion the web client and help articles are far superior to Google’s offerings. You can even use your own domain along with 100+ aliases.

For cloud storage I have migrated from Google Drive to iCloud Drive. Obviously this is not FOSS but it gets the job done for me.

There are some Google services that are irreplaceable for me though so I continue to use them. These are Google Maps, Voice, YouTube, Translate, and Docs.
I'd argue it's more lack of organisational innovation. You can be incredibly talented but if your organisation doesn't sign off on anything innovative then you'll be stuck writing menial code. Governments are some of the most change-resistant organisations around, ignoring legally mandated changes.
Crypto Confusion: Why Isn’t Good News Moving the Market?
Not sure why you are being downvoted as this is a very interesting question indeed.

Social networks tend to kill each other due to network effects as people are flocking to the most used network since there's the largest value for everyone. So having multiple networks might not really work well.

It wouldn't have to be several networks though and it doesn't even have to be your own government running it to provide the value you're looking for (social networking without users being monetized).

Image for example Twitter being bought by a country with good reputation, strong privacy laws and sufficient economy to sustain it in the long term. Iceland with some additional funding from the EU or something like that.

Does not sound too bad, in my opinion.
A slightly different framing:

https://www.livehouseautomation.com.au/blogs/news/75760388-w...
Again, the law doesn't care about "could". As it shouldn't.

How would you ever convict a thief if "someone else could have stolen it, had the defendant not been there first" was a valid defense?

You need to look at the concrete situation and in that situation the drugs came via Silk Road.
Does that mean it doesn't take more energy to accelerate an electron to the speed of light than a tennis ball?
How can you trade mark Turing the surname of Alan Turing the inventor of the Turing machine?

Is this trademark violating the Lanham act 15 U.S. Code § 1052 section?

Lanham act
"Consists of or comprises immoral, deceptive, or scandalous matter; or matter which may disparage or falsely suggest a connection with persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols, or bring them into contempt, or disrepute; or a geographical indication which, when used on or in connection with wines or spirits, identifies a place other than the origin of the goods and is first used on or in connection with wines or spirits by the applicant on or after one year after the date on which the WTO Agreement (as defined in section 3501(9) of title 19) enters into force with respect to the United States."

"A mark that is primarily a surname does not qualify for placement on the Principal Register under the Lanham Act unless the name has become well known as a mark through advertising or long use—that is, until it acquires a secondary meaning. Until then, surname marks can only be listed on the Supplemental Register."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1052
> A bridge that was the direct precursor to this one, collapsed after a few years

Do you mean the one which was hit by a supertanker?
If you're building a commercial product, a 3k dev board sounds incredibly cheap. My company spends orders of magnitudes more on licenses for an IDE extension (resharper).
This situation could happen to any country. Since I am no financial/economic expert, I would like to learn from the community how this all happened? How a country A can destabilize country B's currency/economy so easily? I know Turkey has external debt but so on the US.
As someone whose cohort is either X or Boomer depending on the meaning of 1965, the "millenials are dumb" argument will pass once your successor generation is old enough to make adult mistakes.

Having said all that, I dropped $5 a couple of days ago on a little pink pig keychain for my girlfriend. It probably cost $0.10 to make. But it was a vacay trinket and kinda cute.
I had this question as well and asked someone who did a FOIA request. There is no listing. It's just that, if you notice or can logically conclude that a certain kind of data exists, you can request it. In this example, it is fairly logical that the city has a record of parking tickets that were written out, and so the author requested them.

I'm surprised he asked after license plates, though. I don't know if that is different in the USA, but in Europe that certainly wouldn't fly because of privacy. I wouldn't even have asked because I shouldn't want to have such data. Perhaps one could get an anonymized version to be able to correlate how often a certain plate got a ticket, but not which plate that was. Anyway, the general concept of a FOIA request is the same. (Edit: Oh, someone else remarked this as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17754396)
Sorry, it was solved too long ago, I can't read what it says.
Because governments are generally incapable of delivering large software projects. Because any such facility provided by a government will be automatically labeled untrustworthy due to real or imagined involvement by four-letter agencies or their international equivalents. Because there are good reasons not to waste public funds on whimsical projects; funds that could and should be used to actually improve living conditions, energy security, healthcare, and so on. The list of real wrongs to be righted is too long to recite here.
What happens in a country 1/5 the size in population and 1/10 the size economically shouldnt be expected to perform the same on something literally 10x bigger.

You likely are much closer to your political representatives than we are. The amount of money flowing into your politicians pockets are less.

Here I expect the government contract to be unfavorable to the population at large. I expect the leading politicians to benefit greatly and the company contracted to do a subpar job that barely meets specifications.

I trust my local government, but I do not trust the federal government to be competent.
The CEO of Spotify is 'ruthless' about his schedule
To carry forth the analogy, if I sell a handgun to a known felon, and they kill someone, did I "cause death"?

Presumably illegal substances are illegal in part based on risk, so even participating in the transaction you're assuming that risk.
I'm assuming you mean available to the general public, run by the government? There probably are smaller, niche social networks for gov employees to collaborate. If there aren't there probably should be.

But to answer the assumed question, it's because there is no practical way they could compete with private companies. Sure, theoretically they could dump tons of money into developing cool new features, slick UIs, and obtain top talent. They would also need to spend billions to crush or acquire upcoming networks to maintain their dominance (Whatsapp, Instagram). Or legislate them out of existence. In practicality there is no way this would (or should) ever happen.
I don’t think so; as far as I know, I’ve only read his story that was adapted for Arrival.
I wouldn't be able to answer this question in the time allotted and would heavily discount its signal if I were on the hiring committee with this question in the candidate's packet. It tests for algorithm memorization which is not a hiring signal.
Einstein’s equivalence principle updated with a dash of quantum
Yep, the market distortions the government has created here are terrible for everyone.
Mapping cargo ship routes around the world
I use iPhone SE and my fingers are relatively fat. Yet I have no troubles to enter the strong password on the phone. Or do you mean that you do not use Touch ID?
Programmers need ethics when designing technologies that influence lives
> if they're too hard they can never be solved in 45 minutes, again yielding no useful information

I strongly disagree with the assertion that you get no useful information from an unsolved problem. The goal of giving a candidate a problem should not be to have them solve it. The goal should be to learn how they approach a problem, think it through, and work on solving it. Actually coming up with a solution is the least important part.

As an interviewer I've intentionally given people problems that would take more time than they have. I'm always upfront about it, making sure they know they may not solve it and that they should get as far as possible while explaining their choices.

As an interviewee I've been dinged for not solving problems. The reason why was because I spent most of my time talking through my approach and planning how I'd solve it. Without proper planning you get sloppy code, technical debt, and miss deadlines. Planning seems to be greatly undervalued in tech, especially in small startups.
I know, I've lived in NL most my life. Must remember Poe's law next time.
> Social networks fulfill all needs.

not physiological needs... food, shelter, water, sleep, etc

> That is why the ultimate form of punishment in our society is to isolate the individual from all human contact.

it is a severe punishment, but again not as crucial as physiological needs. most would (and should) choose isolation from human contact for much longer than isolation from water

> Why does it matter that the medium is digital?

You can't eat it
How is this any different than Tesla?
The other comments for this post seems to cast doubt on your assertion that they all can.

Also, solving them in an interview is radically different from solving them for fun.
I recall that we always had to break stride when marching across bridges, but I also recall that this has long been debunked, a properly designed bridge is in no danger at all from people marching across it in step.
Most grand industrial projects in 1920s-1930s indeed were built by the West, or bought from the West wholesale. They were paid largely from proceeds of selling the confiscated grain, which led to famines taking lives of millions.

So tell me, are you keen to invest into a tractor plant if it takes the lives of your family? Improves productivity for those that survive alright?
If you drive a "getaway" car in a crime where a death occurred, by most state laws, you will be charged with murder.
Malware has no trouble hiding and bypassing macOS user warnings
Tutorial: build a JavaScript/WebGL webcam face filter on the theme of Matrix
There are government run (even if by proxy) social networks. The are worse that Facebook.

https://vk.com/ is government run.

The Chinese "Credit Score" is run by Alibaba and Tencent, which run all the social networks in China and therefore have access to a vast amount of data about people’s social ties and activities and what they say. In addition to measuring your ability to pay, as in the United States, the scores serve as a measure of political compliance. Among the things that will hurt a citizen’s score are posting political opinions without prior permission, or posting information that the regime does not like.

There are plenty more too. Just hope the US doesn't make a government-run social network.
What advantage is there of a government-run social network over one run by a co-op?
Bayer stock plunges after jury awards man $289M in Roundup cancer trial
Yes, you can manually set cities, but the article cites automatic weather updates. That's the part that requires your location. Knowing where you are is the only way this feature can work. You don't need to use it and if you're happy with "browser autocomplete" vs a widget that shows the current weather then by all means use the browser.
From the FAQ at http://www.clifford.at/yosys/faq.html:

> 2. What synthesis targets are supported by Yosys?

> Yosys is retargetable and adding support for additional targets is not very hard. At the moment, Yosys ships with support for ASIC synthesis (from liberty cell library files), iCE40 FPGAs, Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs, Silego GreenPAK4 devices, and Gowinsemi GW1N/GW2A FPGAs.

> Note that in all this cases Yosys only performs synthesis. For a complete open source ASIC flow using Yosys see Qflow, for a complete open source iCE40 flow see Project IceStorm. Yosys Xilinx 7-Series synthesis output can be placed and routed with Xilinx Vivado.

[emphasis mine]