skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true, but I think it's a bit misleading. All of our generations of cells ever are always going to be functioning under the same genetic code, and our individual genetics are what serve as starting templates, or vague rule/condition sets of sorts for everything else. Mutations may arise here and there (if rarely), but DNA is really our fundamental thread of continuity as far as we know. What's to say that this similarly continuous notion of 'consciousness' we have isn't just some emergent property of our genetic code?
> danenania's point remains valid if the Israel part is omitted.

You mean "only if". The Muslims who hate Jews (and via extension Israel), are happy to hate America without any help from America's policies.

It makes no difference what Israel does - they will hate Jews and Israel without reservations and without end. The only thing Israel can do is make them scared, which will hopefully keep their hate in theory and not in practice.

Danenania: Are you really naive enough to believe that if Israel makes "peace", and/or gives up land it will help? Israel made peace with Egypt, and gave up tons of land - but the people there still hate Israel and wish for its destruction.

Israel made peace with Jordan and gave up land and water - but the people of Jordan still hate Israel.

You really think it's America's policies that cause the hate? It's not. It's what America stands for - primarily freedom of religion, and the acceptance of secularism.
Isolationism and non intervention are two divergent ideals...
They probably didn't say "mushroom cloud"
I've experienced this any number of times, mostly when backpacking in the Adirondacks in overcast conditions. I've woken up in the middle of the night with no feeling of vision at all -- no sense of light or dark. It can be extremely disconcerting and similar to the feeling of drowning, for anyone who's also experienced that.

The article also suggests the phenomenon is temperature related, which I'd confirm. The times I've approached true panic for feeling "blind" have been between -20 and 30 degrees Fahrenheit, while I've always seen more of a mid to dark brown at warmer temperatures, from 50F up.
> One would think that the leading figures of these pools know each other. One would think it's outside the realm of conspiracy...

No it is not outside the realm of possibility that people could conspire to perform a double spending attack, you are completely right. What you have to consider, however, it is not very likely that people conspire to undermine their own economic interest. That doesn't happen very often in this world, it is not in our nature (but it is a possibility).

There are much cheaper and easier attacks that could be pulled off right now by a single attacker, lower hanging fruit (like flooding the network with transactions with above average fees, this will effectively block most other transactions for as long as the attacker can afford).

If a double spending attack was to occur at the mining pool level, you wouldn't even need to have a conspiracy to make it possible, just a single large pool operator with a period of extraordinary luck would be able to get 6 blocks in a row (it has happened before, it will happen again).
Furious? He just got a pay day — I'm sure he can find a lawyer to take the case on contingency. Should be a pretty quick settlement.
Flight tickets: should you buy two weeks before even during holiday seasons?
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What likely happened:
Developer needs an official MBTA map. They do an image search. That map is one of the first five results. They take it from there and use it.

Seems like getting "fucking furious" is a bit overkill.
> As for sources, IF they got enough HEU they could most certainly manufacture working gun assembly nuclear weapons; as usual the trick is getting the fissionables, but are you entirely, "You Bet Your Life" sanguine about Pakistan's control over its nukes and nuclear materials???

I will note that Manhattan Project scientists were so confident in the gun-assembly nuclear bomb, that they didn't even bother testing it (in the age before computer-aided design, no less!). The first working gun-assembly bomb was detonated over Hiroshima. In other words the first atomic bomb ever dropped in anger had never been test-fired, that's how confident the designers were that it would work.

The real magic of the Manhattan Project had been the industrial-scale development required to piece together all that weapons-grade nuclear material in the first place, not the design itself.
Neat find! I really dislike the feeling that 'seeing' this causes. I can only describe it as helpless and vulnerable, while I search for light.
That's where he lost me as well, I've written a few parsers and seen a lot of compiler implementations, and almost never is a regex library a part of the equation.

Regexes aren't powerful enough for a full language, so you'll have to write your own lexer/parser anyway (or use a parser generator). And once you're going down that road, it's pretty awkward and unnecessary to try to jam in a regex library to only parse subsections.
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the DEA has some technology people

I'll step out on a limb and say that given their annual budget of almost $3B, they have a technology person or 2 on staff.
I use to do some spelunking and on many occasions lost light while underground (usually failed batteries, one time my light took a bad hit. Thankfully I always had backups). I wouldn't really describe the color as "gray" though, there is too much randomly colored static for that. More of a very dark soupy brown. Sort of like construction paper perhaps.
> If someone using the work you published on the internet is a big problem then contact them, and if they won't remove it then file a lawsuit.

Sounds like exactly what he's doing:

"I am attempting to open communications with them now to ask where they came across the image, how it ended up in their game (with very pointed questions about their approvals and legal process), and what kind of compensation I can expect for the theft of my work."

Not exactly "childish" whining.
Er, sure, whatever. I don't know much about HK in particular, but official designations of "city" boundaries are often pretty arbitrary, and can be downright misleading (e.g. don't reflect the distribution of population/commerce/transportation), so I dunno exactly where to draw the line... When in doubt it seems better to include more information.

[Tokyo "the city" is much larger than HK "the region", but also includes enormous sparsely populated areas... and on a practical level, the entire Tokyo-Kawasaki-Yokohama area is really just one humungous city, with a completely different shape than anything official... deciding where to draw the line is difficult, and depends a lot on what your end goal is.]
Dripping with irony:

Persons wanted on felony charges, such as Mr. Snowden,
should not be allowed to proceed in any further international
travel, other than is necessary to return him to the
United States. Because of the Privacy Act, we cannot
comment on Mr Snowden's passport specifically.

Maybe, after HKSAR's closing jibe[1], they think it's a game?

1. http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201306/23/P201306230476.h...
Yea, I think the author could have approached this issue with a little more grace.
He should have tried to contact Naughty Dog and try to work something out before spiddling his rage into that post.

Then, if Naughty Dog chooses to ignore the author's claims of copyright infringement, he could make a big stink over it. Personally, if I was the author, I'd be honored to be in a game of that magnitude at all. In other words, it should be a good selling point for the author from now on.

"Oh yea, you know that best selling, perfect game, The Last of Us? Yea, they used some of my art in there... Oh yea, no big deal."

Truthfully, if they had contacted the author before incorporating it into the game, and they found out it would cost money, they probably would have found another map, or make one of their own. A company that large has the man power to make a subway map.

I won't argue that the author has a right to be upset, but don't just start some type of flame war against a company that people love right now.
getblocktemplate (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Getblocktemplate) pretty much solves this problem by making it completely transparent what blocks miners are mining.

If pool operators conspire to double spend or change the protocol there will be a mass exodus of individual miners from the pools.
Agreed. Having done a lot of language work, I don’t find regexes suitable at all. State machines are generally simple both to write and to understand, can be made more efficient when you don’t need the full generality or dynamism of a regex, and force you to be explicit about things like which Unicode code points you actually meant.
Interestingly - in the past few weeks the Genius Bar in most locations (I can confirm boston/cambridge) has gotten a calibration machine letting them do a screen replacement in store for $150 (cheaper and done by apple). Refurb is $229.

Tough to compete with that.

http://gizmodo.com/the-apple-stores-new-mystery-machine-help...
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> "[as there was] no legal basis to restrict Mr Snowden from leaving"

What exactly does the US think that Hong Kong should have done? Break the law?

What a bunch of hypocrites.
> This is the same Supreme Court that enabled Obamacare, a law that allows the Federal Government to force every american to buy something.

That's exactly like saying the Federal Government forces everyone to get married and have children, since they'll charge you higher taxes if you don't.

As it stands, I can remember a greater perversion of authority: the USA PATRIOT Act...
There is something missing from this post. It seems from the previous thread that people knew what the course involved - so why did he sign up for it in the first place if he philosophically disagrees with it? What changed/what new information came up?
I wish he'd just handled this in private. If they refuse to settle then sure, complain online. But this could have very well been on honest mistake that could have been quietly settled out of the public eye. Now this is going to end up being far more of a big thing that it really had to be.

Also the use of the screenshot without permission may also be copyright infringement.
Seems to me like LISP might defend itself as a mobile language through relative ease of GPU integration, given the parallelization possible through OpenCL/CUDA, the difficulties of using them with traditional languages, the mobile platforms' challenge of electrical power consumption, and the limits of CPU-based processing.
Someone buys drugs and gets caught, and has property seized. How audacious.
What's the Hong Kong book called?
That is more correct, yes.
I will now use this example going forward when someone asks me to explain what I mean by "a team of one is the most efficient possible team, just not the most effective."
lol, you interpreted it to mean that bitcoin itself had been seized? do you freak out and check your wallet when you read a headline that says "cash seized by authorities", too?
Sure, here's a court order compelling you to turn over N BTC by such-and-such a date, or you'll be held in contempt of court.

I suppose you can file a motion to quash, but now you'll need to submit evidence that you no longer control those Bitcoins. Good luck. Maybe you'll say the passphrase was destroyed. You might be lying, but in any case, they're as good as seized, because if the Bitcoins are ever spent, we'll see it in the blockchain.

And that's all assuming that the loss or destruction of the Bitcoins even matters to the court. Maybe the current USD value of N BTC is just added to your non-dischargeable debt.

Bitcoins raise some interesting legal & law enforcement questions, but it's wrong to assume that they somehow exempt their users from the law, or prevent all enforcement of the law.

People have been trying to bypass the law for millennia, and it rarely works: The law just isn't that fragile.
I wonder how that is connected to phenomena like visual snow. Many people including me see similar effects not only in dark environments but troughout the day. Some resembling swarms of color, some seeing snow or something that resembles television static. For me there is no evenly colored surface anymore because a very faint swarm of colors washes over them.

It affects my vision rather negatively and the darkness magnifies the effect immensely making it hard for me to be aware of the countours of objects.

There are forums on the net were people experiment with various drugs with bizarre effects, spontaneous healing or no improvement at all were others see immediate effects.

My doctor send me to the optometrist, his assistant wondered why he didn't send me to a neurologist, the optometrist dismissed it because there wasn't anything wrong with my eyes.
This may have been a case of careless storage. It is easier to hide bitcoins from would-be thieves (DEA, in this case) than it would be to hide gold or cash.
The regex engine is small potatoes in the larger scheme of things, but the reason it's so problematic is the two bigger problems in the CPPGM: the questionable architecture and absolutely insane project plan, which both appear to be "convert the spec directly into code, in printed order".

This is no way to approach a complex project with serious technical risk, and willingly signing up for the death-march enterprise project from hell is the kind of thing that disqualifies you from being qualified to take on a project of this scope, let alone a grandmaster, whatever that means.

You can see the outcome coming a mile away: "We cut some corners, but it's 80% done. Now all that's left is the impossible part."
In my admittedly limited experience, I've never seen anyone parse languages with regex for compilers. It doesn't take long to figure out that it'd be unwieldy and hard to be thorough.

LL / recursive descent seems to be the most common.

But anyway, yeah, how the heck do you sign up for such an absurdly huge task and worry that a lack of regexes is the main problem you'll be encountering?
It is just a PR piece to get attention of potential funding sources. As I mentioned previously in my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5272017, I don't believe numbers add up. Business is unlikely to be scalable or around in next 5 years.
As someone that has numerical code at the bottom of my research applications, Numba looks really exciting to me. Shaving off a constant factor means more experiments etc.

But one of the nice things about NumPy is that it allows you to make very complicated operations largely transparent thanks to broadcasting. Just compare pairwise_numpy vs. pairwise_python on the blog post you linked. I don't think anyone really favours the version that you can apply the Numba JIT to.

I know that I will cave eventually when I am desperate for speed, I already do write C99 extensions at times (not for numerical code though). I just wish there was a way to use expressions rather than going full imperative to gain some of that speed.
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> Where I live the temperature of the water is about the same as the temperature of the air

How do you manage that? By me the water comes in from underground pipes and is always the temperature of the ground, which stays pretty constant (and cold) year round.

> suggest washing in salt water

And aside from the other things you mentioned, most people don't have access to salt water. In the US it's only available on the coasts, but the coasts are usually premium land and not available for industry.

I do think we've basically come to an agreement that it depends mainly on the process used for washing the bottle.

With two points of disagreement: I still think the extra labor needed tips the energy balance away from reuse. And I think that trading water for energy is worth it.

> reduce the demand ... you need fewer bottle factories.

It's much easier to make a factory larger than it is to build a whole new one.
What's wrong with the kids these days?
> You made a map, then someone used the map. Isn't that nice?

Yeah, if that map was free to use, then sure. But that's not the case.

It's become all too common I see this type of argument used in cases where big name studios rip work of others without attribution. This is an extremely weak (not to mention somewhat offensive) argument which is analogous to telling a rape victim "you should be happy the rapist found you attractive."
How do you suppose that line of argument will pan out when someone uses it this way: "You made a game, then I downloaded it and used it! Isn't that nice?"?

I think the guy is right to be furious - the game industry depends on copyright and actively litigates copyright infringement. To do that while also being actively involved in copyright infringement is the height of hypocrisy, and fully deserving of sneering public ranting.

If you want to live by the "copying is theft" interpretation, you need to be prepared to be held to account for "stealing".
Nobody has ever completed the course, and it's not taken seriously in C++ programming circles at all.
The biggest flaw in all of this is ... Who says you need a course or a certification in order to write a compiler? Go, write a compiler. Use a well-recommended textbook or web-based resources if you need to. But there's nothing to stop you from going out on your own and doing it.

The other is... Not going to write a compiler because you don't have regexes? That sounds like major whining. You might as well say you won't write a compiler because you already have a compiler. If learning by re-implementing low-level details is what you're after (in my experience a very helpful exercise), don't complain because you have to do low-level details. OTOH, if you take my first suggestion and not bother with a course or certification, you can define your own rules and you don't have to feel bad about using an external regex library.
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> Personally, if I was the author, I'd be honored to be in a game of that magnitude at all.

You'd be selling yourself short then. If you had any confidence in your work, you would not be flattered just because some project that happens to have been created by hundreds of people ripped you off.
Definitely mirrors my experience.
The title is disingenuous, these are physically broken iPhones, not cracked (as in jailbroken).
I'd even add more technical controls on top of accountability/oversight compliance organizational changes:

- Any data collected under a general warrant is encrypted immediately.

- Access to this data is audited to a WORM-style server.

- Decrypting the data requires 2 persons to provide a key (I believe there are crypto schemes that do this in the literature; if not I'm sure NSA could figure it out).

- The process that decrypts the data after the authentication creds are provided also notifies a random 3rd party within NSA (or even a Congressional/FBI/etc. panel setup for this purpose).

On top of this there need to be changes to how NSLs and FISA warrants are treated. They are secret only so long as needed for the law enforcement purpose.

Afterwards, if there is still an issue of sensitivity from a counter-terrorism standpoint (e.g. enemy groups would learn too much about our capabilities if fully detailed NSLs/warrants were public), then they are scrubbed as little as necessary to allow for public dissemination. This could mean aggregate reporting, sunset provisions for gag orders, etc. But having permanent gag orders is not befitting our Republic.

Finally I agree that having NSA write its own rules is not a good idea. I would require Congress to set overarching policy and limits on NSA's actions and prevent Congress from delegating that into the Executive Branch. I think even the Dems and GOP could hopefully get along long enough to ensure national security is being guarded...
The US can't prevent regional conflicts. Getting involved just helps them to spiral out of control and simultaneously puts America's own neck on the line.

If there were actually a situation where a so-called adversary presented a legitimate threat to the US if left alone, it might be a different debate, but that hasn't been the case for many years. None of the states that the US is currently fighting in could hope to threaten it militarily in their wildest dreams. Iran, for example, which we are supposed to be so frightened of, has 1/45th the gdp and roughy 1/100th the military budget of the US.

The US could cut its military budget by half and go into full defensive mode and still be completely untouchable by state actors, while removing the primary motivation for non-state attacks. True, the taliban might still kill people, just as plenty of regimes that the US supports like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain kill those it opposes. The US can't fix the world. It has enough problems of its own to worry about.
IANAD but that sounds serious to me. Visual field distortions are often brain issues. I would go to a neurologist to be sure. Could be a tumor applying pressure to your optic nerve or something.
I wouldnt have thought that that map was a single persons property- I thought it was a city made map. Way to be a drama queen about it.
Ask HN: would you use an API to create attractive infographics?
> We can argue all day if its worse for civilians to be killed by drones or the Taliban, but they are still dead.

Except in one situation it's not "us" killing them. Or our tax dollars paying for the flying killer robots that do the job.
I was traveling in Laos last year and I fell while riding a scooter through the jungle and my iPhone cracked. As I reached Cambodia, I walked in a random phone repair shop in Phnom Penh and had my screen completely replaced in 10 minutes for about $40 (probably overcharged for being a tourist). Still using that same iPhone now, one year later. I would imagine phone repair shops everywhere can do this, or not? While watching the video, I almost felt like watching The Onion.
This is, at most, a bureaucratic throat clearing, or a shot across the bow, if they decide to go after BitCoin in a serious way. This is not even them trying yet.

BitCoin enthusiasts would be well advised to consider this as a chance to get themselves together and figure out how they're going to respond if it does come to that. You do not know when the last such opportunity will emerge. The BitCoin enthusiast community would find it incredibly ill-advised to think that they are in such a good position that they can be as smug as you sound.
Interesting that the Privacy Policy page contains references to Harvard Connection. Did this really happen with the original FB that MZ launched or was poking at the situation?
It's kind of sleazy but I guess given the topic that I'm just happy for the words to reach more eyes.
Maybe a wysiwyg infographic tool. How would you do this with just an API?
I wonder if he realizes (I imagine he does) how Vignelli-inspired his looks.

I think the childish part is yelling to the world his complaint. Sure, lodge a complaint with the company, then, if they ignore you, go postal on the internet, in the meantime, give the infringer the benefit of civilization.
I've been doing work in OpenCV lately which really only has good support for Nvidia.
Because visual snow has nothing to do with your eyes. More related to migraines than anything.
I think this is a load of baloney and a huge flaw in the "copyright" system. Those maps are everywhere in Boston … in tourists' photographs, floating around on the street, on peoples' phones.

If that's not public domain, I don't know what it is. It seems like this guy is just upset that he feels entitled to additional compensation when in reality he's already had his work licensed by the MBTA for their system … which is available to the public. Is that not public domain?
I can appreciate US government caring about privacy.