skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because we, the people, are the law. And we are free to judge one another as we ought like to be judged. And this tends to be a very good thing. If a law is so absurd as to require a law degree to begin to be able to grasp it, then it's not one anybody should ever be prosecuted for not abiding.

A related issue is jury nullification [1]. Juries cannot be forced to convict, regardless of the weight of evidence against an individual. This gives juries the ability, whether defacto or dejure, to determine whether or not a law is just. So for instance in the early 18th century New York passed a law making it a crime to criticize public officials. But with juries being unwilling to hold up the law, it had no effect. In more recent times nullification has been invoked, even if not by name, countless times in statutory rape, drug charges, etc. As wiki mentions, the recent sharp rise in hung juries (going from ~5% to 20% in recent years) has also been seen as possible evidence of a rise in jurors considering the validity or fairness of the laws they're being asked to convict others under.

Trial by jury enables a nation to express its own value system, regardless of whether or not those who happen be on top agree.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification_in_the_Unit...
A) I would like to put in as much as I can. I'm pretty sure I could do four hours a day - maybe more.

B) It's old, but it's the only public repo I have. If you want, I can give you access to a private repo on Bitbucket. That one is from last year. I haven't done any coding since.
https://github.com/qisine/jobs4ants.com
Gave one to Kissinger, denied one to Gandhi!
I'm not trying to "bothsides." Jones is a clown. I'm trying to get people to engage their systems thinking so that we can learn lessons from China's mistakes before we go down the same exact path.

Of course they're not identical situations. Look beyond the regional cultural standards and different bodies exercising power. Notice that they're both a hegemony enforcing the status quo against their flavor of "fake news".
> However, all the people who won did deserve it, which keeps the prize from being considered a joke, unlike literature (Bob Dylan) and peace (Obama)

Bob Dylan is one of the most influential songwriters and lyricists of the last 50+ years. The idea that "literature" is solely contained in novels and poetry compilations was abandoned decades ago. Dylan is a poet, and he's made countless contributions to literature in his lifetime.

If you're going to criticize the Nobel Prize in Literature, there are sufficient grounds to do so, given the current scandal within the Swedish Academy. But you can't claim that awarding Dylan somehow brought disrepute to the award itself.
Evernote lays off 15 percent of staff, reportedly in a 'death spiral'
'Rare earth' metals are not actually rare. The cost (both capital costs and environmental costs) to refine them are high, but there is plenty of ore available if you have the refining capacity. There are some elements that are actually rare (e.g. tantalum) but there is no reason to believe they will be any easier to find in asteroids and the cost to refine will be even greater.
I don't think it's a mental health issue for me that the tragedy of the commons extends to the Internet. This is not about "not knowing", this is about prioritizing self interest and actively abusing the system.

We know these two things happen, consistently. We have failed to account for them in much of the foundations of the Internet - it's the assumption of benevolent cooperation. Which was great for ARPAnet, but simply doesn't work in the wild. We have 20+ years of proof.

We cannot continue to put our heads in the sand and ignore that, because for better or worse, the Internet has become a major force shaping society.

The idea that naivete translates into mental health is certainly fascinating, but I believe the colloquial translation for that is "ignorance is bliss".
Even if the message contents is encrypted, doesn't whatsapp still log the source and destination and their phone number and associate these with real persons? It should be trivial enough to figure out who delivered which tip by knowing a particular person sent something to that tip line.
>Unfortunately, the founders didn't specifically spell out how to handle a 21th century for-profit prison system in the Constitution, so no go with 'Originalist' judges.

The founding fathers would not have granted the inmate in question Constitutional rights to begin with... so the question is moot. The premise of "originalist" judges in the modern day is more a political fantasy than fact, and would be unacceptable in modern society if taken seriously, even to most conservatives.
There's a great story behind that, of course:

https://medium.com/@Susys/lets-change-this-journalism-motto-...
If it was incorrect I would say so. It is naive because it can only come from an idealistic worldview that has nothing to do with reality.

> Any government that is doing these things does not represent we the people.

It barely ever did and it certainly does not now.

> the government appears to really wish to control our narrative.

As if there ever existed one that did not want to.
Serverless and Recurrent Neural Networks with Fn, GraphPipe and TensorFlow
This is one of those things that I didn't know I needed. An email client made for power users with the speed, simplicity and flexibility of Sublime Text (and now Merge) would be the end of all of my email woes. I would pay a lot of money for this.
There're lots of different GI methods, most of them use spatial acceleration structures such as BVH and KD-Trees after triangulation. Fluids use a grid for discretisation, behind the scenes the PDEs are solved be means of the finite difference methods, it has nothing to do with ray intersection tests.
Tom Scott did a video on this very subject with a decent amount of depth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Rp-uo6HmI
Segment Protocols: Say Goodbye to Bad Data
So jump on Hg, and get everyone to do so. Problem solved.
They may 'accept the tip' and then try to verify/track it down with other sources (and say "I've heard X, can you confirm that for me?"), but no, a reputable journalist will never publish a quote from an anonymous source with no verification.
In a stunning coincidence, this is from today's Washington Post: 'This is what happens to a shy octopus on ecstasy'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/09/20/this-is-wh...
Latinxs Who Design–a list of thriving Latinxs in the design community
Didn't he write the predecessor to Effingo (http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dhay/IND2011.html), more than a decade ago? I still remember his name and email because the service was great, but also difficult to tame. And you'd end up asking for his help.
This seems rather reductive. Threatening economic interests isn't the only goal that matters. There are other issues that also matter quite a bit.

Voting isn't like going to the shopping mall to buy something for yourself. It's something you do because politics also affects other people.
You mean President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho?
FISA warrants come up for periodic review so if it was granted erroneously and no relevant intel is uncovered, it doesn't get renewed. So in the case of a witch hunt there is a mechanism by which it gets stopped.

There is a good deal of oversight in the system already, the FBI spends a lot of time vetting their FISA warrant applications before they submit them. But as another commenter pointed out, there's the issue of parallel construction and how to prevent abuse of that.
Data Laundering
Small Ontario towns pay ransom after hackers hold computer systems hostage
> People seem to forget these days how much Jersey City was shit on up until 2011 or so. It was "jersey" and it was absolutely not a definite that it would gentrify.

Bed-Stuy
Bushwick
Gowanus
East New York
Bronx
Inwood
What made you choose framework7 over something like react native? We're looking at these frameworks so I'm interested in how you arrived at your decision.
I’d be happy with dolphins or whales.
> Those numbers go back to the studies Jakob Nielsen did at the Sun Microsystems usability lab and the results posted in his oft cited AlertBox articles from 1993 and 1997...

Actually, Nielsen indicates that had already been a consistent finding for ~30 years at that point, citing “Response time in man-computer conversational transactions” (Miller, 1968) [0] as the original source.

[0] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Resp...
wrt verbosity:
Haha, I'm the same way, as in:
"Sorry this [email|message|comment|...] is so long, I didn't have time to write a short one."

wrt problem space, yes! In contrast to all the focus on product development and engineering methodologies, somehow customer development generally suffers from a lack of rigor and attention. Ditto marketing -- in the sense of identifying or growing a market for the goods or services on offer.
Doesn't the eye do some object tracking itself?
Javascript is implemented on every major platform. And I do not really see download size as an issue. Many people play games, and the textures used for even a simple RPG take up more space than a javascript engine.

If people are willing to download that much for an entertainment product, then it should be no surprise they are willing to put up with javascript in their work and personal productivity apps.
Yep, the reason ElasticSearch is fast here is that the underlying Lucene indexes essentially form a column-oriented database. This is superb for low-cardinality fields like "object->>environment"; if it has just a handful of values, then only those values are stored, as a sorted list of postings. Intersection with other field-based constraint are vector operations and can be super fast.

I suspect that to make a fast-counting time series mechanism for Postgres, you'd need to create a new index type that used a columnar approach (or even used Lucene unerneath). I don't know much about what optimization options are available to Postgres extensions, but it doesn't sound like it would be impossible.
RIP Aaron Swartz
Mainly a completely different control mechanism and single vs multiple power-sources.

On a multirotor, there are obviously 4/6/8 motor/rotor sets, typically positioned far from the mass centroid, so control is effected by 1) varying the thrust from each rotor (primarily pitch & roll), and 2) varying the speed of each rotor for inertial effects (primarily yaw). This uses a single rotor and thrust vectoring fins to influence the direction and reaction to the thrust.

I'm more interested in how the efficiency numbers work out.

Typically, a larger rotor produces more thrust per unit of energy. However, a ducted fan is also typically significantly less efficient than an un-enclosed rotor. Since I don't have numbers, my question is which effect dominates -- is it overall more or less thrust efficient than a multirotor?

Either way, it is a very cool design & build -- nice work Ikarus!
I'm clearly somehow not communicating my stuff well enough. I'm not into dividing people into categories by IQ. I'm frustrated how people use their limited resource of attention.
(This comment is a reply to two comments here, just to make it easier for me)

The woo part in the GP’s comment seems to be a hidden implication that animal meat is not processed or hasn’t had its nutrition destroyed or not been genetically modified or not been fed “pills that people are skeptical of”. There’s almost nothing “natural” about animal meat that’s sold in stores. And hence the conclusion that some disorders would increase solely because of this is false.

The technical term for your description of the concentration of certain things increasing up the food chain is “biomagnification”. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagnification
I poked around a little and it seemed like the majority of it is related to analytics events (googleanalytics/autotrack)

I suppose the author just wants to know a little about how their blog and writing is performing in the wild

Sort of off topic, but it would be interesting if the browser handled these common cases instead and gave the user a way to opt-in/out. I suppose it sort of does by broadcasting those events to the js listeners in the first place.
Personally, I believe letting every UI or toolchain compatible with git settle on their own phraseology for identical operations will lead to more issues than we currently have. Git is definitely complex, flags unclear, and commands awkward from time to time. Now, imagine trying to figure out the meaning of commands when they don't even translate equivalently across tooling? Sounds like a nightmare to me. I appreciate the effort to stay consistent with git itself.
It depends on how guilty you _look_ to the officer, doesn't it?
Tesla Model X owner says car ‘saved’ them after a plane crashed into his SUV
4 Essential Skills for a Security Analyst
Scenic is a client application framework written in the Elixir/Erlang/OTP
I think the other way; git doesn't have much to offer over Hg, so we should all be using Hg.
I guess the question is whether we want universality over all limit-computable predictors, or only those derived from lower-semicomputable semimeasures. Since the latter class contains its own universal element and also every computable predictor, maybe it's okay? But yeah, I can see how you can have a different takeaway. Sorry for being a bit harsh in the previous comment.
I'm 35. I could theoretically go to university. But I would first have to study one year to pass the university entrance exam. In any case, I would rather avoid it. If university were a realistic option for me, I probably wouldn't be in the situation I am today.
Venmo mobile payments drives exchange for charities, retail (April 2010)
I have been collecting similar guides to improve on software engineering, as I am a recent graduate looking to excel in my career. Here are some other blogs I found useful:

https://recurse.henrystanley.com/post/better/

"Ask HN: What topics/subjects are worth learning for a new software engineer?": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18000410
I've heard a lot of stories regarding security and physical separation.

The most funny was a repair guy from IBM or Cray in the 80ies or 90ies was tasked to repair a broken storage array in a super calculator doing some sensitive computation.

He expected one of the disks to be dead (at the time those were quite expensive) and brought a new one.

He plugged it and it was not that, the array was still KO. In the end it was a broken (and much cheaper) controller card. So he fixed it, and starting to going home. But the guards didn't let him go back with the expensive spare drive and the brand new drive had to be destroyed.

There was some conflicts after that on whether or not the destroyed drive was part of the maintenance contract and who should pay for it (the government agency or the company doing the support and maintenance).
it's not all bad, you still can :)
i recommend the book squid empire: the rise and fall of the cephalopods.

https://www.amazon.com/Squid-Empire-Rise-Fall-Cephalopods-eb...
I would think that he has a strong civil case against the DA from a government perspective and from a personal perspective. Maybe if the DA could lose his house and job in the future they wouldn't cheat like this. To be fair, all sides cheat in lots of other ways too.
How can I as an iOS user know that the message is encrypted? I don't see how.
Hg was pretty mature by 2007 when I started using it.
Show HN: HuggyList: A micro-blogging site in list format (now public)
Gcc for the longest time was the only open source C/C++ compiler. It worked fine, but you really could not consider it "polished", despite a lot of people being affected and interested to make it good. It wasn't until LLVM came around that it got better.

Having one thing doesn't ensure at all that it will be polished. In fact, it's more likely that it will stagnate.
The only developer complaining in the article did in fact abandon the community: https://sage.thesharps.us/2015/10/05/closing-a-door/
You could still use the TOTP Heads validation method with a phone (currently how it works on Librem laptops with a TPM).
I have a friend from Japan. I was attempting to explain to him how racism in the U.S. operates—how it comes in subtle forms, how you can be racist and not even intend to be, how social power can sometimes be so abstract and diffuse that it no individuals can be blamed. After our 3 hour long conversation, I brought up Korea. He explained to me how Koreans are loud, rude, and dirty. I told him, yes, racism in the US sometimes takes a similar form, to which he replied: "No! It's not racism! It's Koreans!"

Yes, this is tremendously accurate. I don't think racism is worse in the US, I think we have more heterogeneity which makes it more visible.
I'm so devastated that Google Inbox is closing down, I decided to recreate it! Feature for feature.

https://inboxzeroemail.com

I simply cannot go back to using Gmail. Can you?
Embeddings@Twitter
Amazon's Alexa assistant now works with over 20K devices
> it’s actually kind of hard to find really good American style pizza here

And when she was good, she was very, very good,
But when she was bad she was horrid

I have to admit Japan is weird like that. Food is either world class (when they "get it") or it's simply awful (when they don't). There's no good Thai in Tokyo, no good hamburgers, no good Mexican, not even much decent Italian (Saizeriya. Dear God). Not really even any good bread, if you like crusty sourdough.

There's a complicated calculus at work between what the market wants, its expectation when it gets it, and what it will pay. When those factors align you will get absolutely world class food. When they don't, for whatever reason, you get absolutely nonsensical garbage. The best Thai that I know of in Tokyo, a city of 30+ million people, I would equate to a 3rd rate strip mall takeout place in my home country. And yet the crappiest 5-for-100¥ gyouza in Tokyo is better than any gyouza in Australia.

The market drives everything, and the japanese market knows nothing about pizza. I've felt your pain. Eat a lot when you get back home.

update: just noticed that you wanted ham and pineapple pizza. I withdraw my sympathetic remarks. I consider fish pizza an appropriate punishment
Early Decision
What is "circumstantial" evidence? Scientifically, really, isn't all evidence cicumstantial, and "circumstantial" just means evidence with some unspecified (low) level of Bayesian weight or something?
Because the person called me, shaking and described what they just saw. The car was half on, half off the curb, after the collision. The cop definitely goosed the gas right before the collision. It was the indiana story. Everyone on the scene was sure he was dead. The exact words my friend used: "I just saw someone die".

What's really shocking is hearing the police department issue flat out lies about what happened.

Edit: after I wrote the original post, due to the fact that somebody caught it on camera it looks like there will be an investigation after all- I'm glad.
As someone who leans libertarian, I tend to shy away from rigid legislative solutions to social problems and corporate overreach.

However, articles like this make me wonder if it isn't time for the government to step in and implement privacy regulations of some sort. I did not consent to have my movements tracked and ads sold to me by privately owned kiosks all over my city of residence.

OTOH, I don't know if I would trust the current government to implement such protections in a way that isn't self serving and possibly counterproductive. Shitshow all around.
Thanks for this really. I never understoon any of the Git Clients and I never has been interested to learning or using them. Sublime Merge is different though. It has enough UI, and you still feel in control. It makes sense.
This is actually a mistranslation.

The original French text (https://clip-os.org/fr/) says "système d’exploitation durci" (hardened operating system) and this has been translated as "secure" in the English version of that same page.
Article author here. Yep, not hiding that fact (I could have easily used a trace with minified code, but I didn't to point this out).

Two things though:

1. I used to work on Google Analytics, and I've created a lot of open source libraries around Google Analytics, which I use on my own site because I like to test my own libraries (and feel any pain they may be causing). The way most people use Google Analytics does not block for nearly this long.

2. I've updated my Google Analytics libraries to take advantage of this strategy [1], and I'm working with some of my old teams internally to see if they can bake it in to GA's core analytics.js library, because I strongly believe that analytics code should never degrade the user experience.

[1] https://github.com/googleanalytics/autotrack/pull/235
Nice! My team was actually looking for a solution like this.
Illegal, another word.

Legally "suboptimal", in that you're confessing to the future victim of a crime that you're about to inflict a crime on him. Not only do you become liable, we've just established conspiracy to commit, rather than just the crime itself. This generally doubles the penalty. Bonus idiot points for doing it over email.
Hg actually cared about the user interface. Git didn't.
> treating PRs as communication

I kind of wish that there was a type of thing like a PR, but marked in a way where you couldn't actually merge it. It'd still get built by CI, if such a thing was configured; but the point of the submission of such a "proposal with prototype" object would be to discuss whether the design represented by the prototype implementation is a design worth going with.

The actions applicable to such objects would be "accept and close" or "reject and close." You'd be able to have several of these objects that live under a given issue (i.e. several potential solution-designs to the same problem), and—as long as the issue has at least one proposal-with-prototype object under it—the issue would be in a "pending" state until one such proposal object was Approved, and Approving one proposal object would Reject the others.

The point of this would be to replicate the thing that people go through with design discussions on mailing lists when they send in code samples to explain their designs—but with those code samples being working, buildable code, such that the properties of the design proposal can be tested against the current implementation and against any alternative proposals.

You could call these objects "RFCs" :)
Agreed. That is why this is called a confidential tip line. For a journalist, a "tip" is an indication to investigate something.
Recovery from what? He claimed to be planting flowers during the murder, but the teacher testified that we was planting flowers 4 days before the murder.
You should always not talk. But if for whatever reason you do end up talking, lying can be dangerous.
Banana for Scale: Determining Banana Size Based on Computer Vision
Sorry to be that guy, but I do believe the actual correct etymological term is "octopizzle".
If you really want to stick it to the man, following the rules is the way to do it. Nothing pisses people off that not liking what you're doing but being able to do nothing. This is why working to contract is a way of protesting at work.
'It's hyped up': climate change skeptics in the path of Hurricane Florence
I fully put out that yes, there is probably some level of crime that would justify it. However, for a US state I'd say that there are maybe 1 or 2 individuals per year at most.

So in any case you're ever going to see in your life: no they don't deserve it. Even for most violent crimes, year-long torture (which is what generously describes the penal system) is not a reasonable outcome.

So in a jury you should always always always vote no.
Wire that to a neural implant, and you almost have the plot of the book "Interface" by Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George.