skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of them probably went to do similar work at other bodies such as 3GPP - which have managed to produce successful protocols and networks.
The chemist involved was believed to have tainted over 40,000 cases over the duration of about 10 years and they'll only get 3 to 5 years? Seriously? Weev who was involved in the arguable AT&T data breach got a 41 month jail term, people who've been caught selling counterfeit DVD's have been given similar sentences.

Dookhan should serve the sentences that she was responsible for, every single case. If anything, I think the death penalty is fair. Imagine all of the lives she ruined. all of the families and children who grew up thinking their dad, mother, grandparent or relative were convicted criminals. Not to mention the trouble convicted inmates have when they get out adjusting to reality and getting a job, credit, etc.

What about the main prosecutor involved here? Is he going to be subjected to a court case as well? Or will the system prove itself reliable once again and the chemist will be vilified and blamed.

This is appalling.
> still puts the UK amongst the safest countries in the world

This is true. I hope no one is suggesting that UK authorities kill journalists.

But still, detaining the partner of a journalist who is carrying materials to that journalist is something that the UK must not do. Respect for journalistic materials is written into some UK law.

This kind of thing might be, compared to other countries, not that big a deal. But it's still scummy and sleazy.
So, the thing is (and it's quite ironical that progressive Slate can't see that) is that growing your hair long, smoking weed and reading Keruac was just as much ""breaking the rules" without any real rationale other than disdain for the rules. Disruption for disruption's sake."

This is the youth of today protesting the status quo and Slate is dreadfully reactionary and conservative.
It's a mediocre essay, and you're right that it's a little bit paint-by-numbers, but "pride cometh before the fall" has been proved right before and will be proved right again.
No, they aren't. I did not say "A person's tested genetic code never changes", I said exactly what I meant, which is that genetic codes can be changed. Retroviruses do it. Further, on a grand scale, chimeras [1] exist, with human chimeras often entirely unaware of it (while my priors would suggest I am not one, I can't even come close to proving that to you with the rather meagre medical tests I've had done on me), and on a smaller scale, small mutations in cells can easily propagate out into the body over time, even before we ignore the matter of cancer.

Most of the time, this doesn't matter, but if we're talking about taking hashes for security, suddenly it does.
Having spent far too much time lately reading politics discussion online, your comment made me smile. Enough pointless tribalism, back to producing...
It still seems hard to beat the size of the parse tree as a test. (Characters would not be as good a test.)
It's a small internet. I started the older version of this book yesterday after this [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFo6eyEsDoA ] talk on user interfaces referenced it.

So far it's a wonderful read, and a good example of thoughtful systems design... Incidentally, it's also shows one of the real benefits of Literate Programming, cause although the source itself doesn't really concern me, the text is gold.
"You mean there is no ecology or atmosphere on the moon."

I believe I said: "In the way most people mean the term, there is NO environment on the Moon..."

I stand by that.
Why is your focus on the chemist despite the fact that she was basically bribed? This is a conspiracy and the prosecutors and DA should be investigated. But of course, they're going to be the ones bearing the case against her, and taking the spotlight off themselves. And the only ones who will correctly investigate the DA/prosecutors would be the FBI, I really doubt anything is really going to be done here that will be substantial other than a political panzy-dance.
By funny, you mean intentional, right? I am fairly sure there are parties trying to upvote and/or post these articles to get BTC price up or down, whatever their need is. Currently, it's clearly "down" so they can buy again.
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Yes, please. The last thing HN needs is a Reddit-style Boston Marathon fake manhunt.
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Not really, the vast majority of gold being mined goes to some use other than just being a store of value. 2/3 of gold mined goes into Jewelry. About 1/9th of gold mined goes to dentistry. Some of the remainder is put to industrial use.
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> 2013 will be remembered as the year that brought proper concurrency support.

> But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Haha, good one.
PSA: Stop using the term "use case" when you mean "use."
Among many malapropisms metastasizing across this community, the terminology "use case" is a particularly annoying one. Stop using it. It is not a compound noun equivalent to "use" [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_case
So there's a political incentive to not make cars entirely safe, even if they're self driving: maintaining plausible deniability for high level criminal activity.
To state the obvious: female rape jokes are everywhere, all the time. Both are terrible, of course.
5 years? That's a lot of awesome game titles to miss out on. I doubt we'll see a new game console in 5 years, it took 7 years for Sony to release the Playstation 4 after releasing the Playstation 3 in 2006. The current next-gen consoles will last at least close to 10 years with incremental storage upgrades inbetween.
yup, all those carriers who have consistently reported major growth in subscribers and revenues due to having the iPhone
Any C++ programmer knows not to use std::list anyway.
Interesting to see the monitoring tools in place... New Relic, Mixpanel and Chartbeat. Would like to have seen more detail included from these, seem to be focused on backend. Where's the real user monitoring data or front-end performance via tools like http://www.webpagetest.org/ or http://speedcurve.com/demo/
Why's that? Enterprises want internal social media to promote communications (or at least the appearance of communication) but they don't want to pay for infrastructure (or spend the time) to support it. Enter Yammer.

There's a whole galaxy of apps out there that to consumers seem redundant, but cater to enterprises. Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, etc., etc., etc. all have competitors that are targeting the enterprise market they have either ignored, abandoned or burned.
It was bought by Microsoft but continues to operate.
How were her crimes discovered?
They aren't betting on them stealing the community,the email line "the company behind Node.js, founded by the Node.js core contributors" is just how they are playing up the company. How they go from that to the only way the VCs get their $8M back is by stealing the project is beyond me.

Nothing to see here just a linkbait article
This isn't a judgment on bitcoin, but on your logic:

The fact that some farmers can turn even a small profit on the tulips they're rewarded with demonstrates that the utility they provide has positive market value.
Reddit is actually selling brain-rot, not content. So I agree.
Yep, I always thought that driverless trucks will come before that kind of cars. Better safety, lower costs, faster shipping, because there are no driver breaks.
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OpenGL 3.3 (plus many extensions), in fact. :)
Your argument is one of semantics. He is a defender of those who have not deprived others of their right to life. This is the reason why both the word murder and the word kill exist. There is a fundamental difference that you don't appreciate.
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I've only recently started C++ development...why is std::list abysmal?
Computer-driven cars will introduce tons of new hacking possibilites from the malicious actors, some possible news headlines:

The car unexpectedly accelerated and killed 5 people, an accident or a murder?

A new ransomware demands 1 BTC to start your car

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Fitch's Paradox of Knowability
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The flaw in this argument is that if it isn't for the public good of the whole public then the government shouldn't be doing it in the first place. The reason the government has to do it at all is that the benefits are so diffuse within the population that private collective action is incapable of overcoming the transaction costs.

In order for the government to fairly collect based on the utility of the roads, they would have to go out and pay all the transaction costs to determine the correct amounts -- how much should someone without a car be paying for the roads for the benefit of allowing mail and packages to be delivered, or of having goods they can buy delivered to local stores, or of having a timely emergency response? Shouldn't people more likely to need an ambulance be paying more for roads ambulances can use? Shouldn't trucks that deliver necessities be paying a higher toll since the recipients clearly benefit from them more than trucks delivering frivolous things? How do we determine what proportion of the value of some delivery of goods or other use of the road is attributable to the existence of the road, and what do we use as a reference to calculate the alternative in each case?

Apportioning the value of the roads to the people who find them useful is utterly hopeless. And if you're not going to do it right, and doing it wrong causes both unfairness and economic inefficiency, you ought not to do it at all and just fund it through general taxation.
There are energy efficient ways of securing a block chain. Proof of Stake does not rely on vast energy consumption and in fact is better at securing the network, something one of the newer currencies Peercoin takes advantage of.
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He could donate it without de-anonymizing himself.
An interesting side issue you didn't consider is at least in the initial roll out phase you simply make an automated "train" with ten trucks, and the lead truck driven by human (or at least has a human on board).
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Superficially I have to agree with you that I look like a hypocrite.

The government is the body which has a monopoly on violence. In other words, they're the only people who can legally do things to people that nobody would volunteer to have done to them, like going to prison. It's the government's job to provide courts through which disputes can be resolved, since you aren't supposed to take matters into your own hands. One class of those disputes is the government vs citizens who have violated the government's rules or the laws.

When those kinds of cases are going through the courts the government should be extra careful to be impartial because everyone can tell that it's potentially a situation ripe for corruption. The government is adjudicating a case between the government (the DA or prosecutor) and someone not in the government ("normal people").

Given the choice you wouldn't choose your wife's parents to settle a dispute between you and your wife; but this can be a very real fear when being prosecuted.

The problem here is even though you can name the different parts of the government and call them separate (courts, prosecutor, forensics, etc) ultimately we find out that forensics and the prosecutor are both "on the same team" and that when the courts get involved again to try and fix the mess, that the forensics person is still "on the same team" as the prosecutors and maybe everyone else.

If you're in the class of people called "the government" you have to be extra right, extra careful, and extra following-the-rules so that ordinary people get a fair shake when dealing with an entity that has virtually limitless funds to prosecute versus their usually meager funds to defend (unless you're in the top 1% to 0.1% or so, then it's just "lots more" rather than "infinitely more").

Here's a case where not only was the forensics person not extra careful, right and proper, not even sloppy and foolish but malicious. And not just a little bit either, she didn't tamper with one case that involved a cheating ex or something. She did it systematically over thousands of cases depriving people of their liberty wrongly. You could build a strong case that she perverted justice in a very horrific manner.

If you add up all the person-years of people's lives that she conspired to help imprison and divide by 100 year in a life (round numbers) you'd get to the point where she's effectively "taken" tens if not hundreds of lives. That makes her in a roundabout way something akin to a very impressive mass murderer. In that case I'm not sure that the death penalty is an over-reactionary knee-jerk kind of punishment.
He worked at Atari during the 80s. He's debugged programs using a print readout of CPU registers. He has done more work then you. He has worked with the FBI at one point. He knows his code, otherwise Valve wouldn't have hired him.

Jealous much? (;
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I still have a WRT54G from college. I didn't realize I had it until I had to work on my parents' network and found it plugged in. It did not survive the visit.

They were easy to set up and ran well at the time. Now, yes, definitely not something to pick up given all the vastly better alternatives out there.
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No, I wouldn't call instinct a memory, but I really think you're focusing on the wrong thing here.

The relevant distinction here is not how "completely and directly" something is "explained by physical attributes"; to be honest, I'm not even really sure what that means. All behavior comes down to physical phenomena, after all; whether or not we can currently make that reduction explicitly is more a property of our current state of knowledge, than a property of the physical system itself.

The relevant distinction here is the fact that this behavior, like a memory proper, was acquired during the mouse's lifetime, not inherited, and yet passed on to offspring anyway. And yes, as you've noted, instances of that had already been observed -- this wasn't something revolutionary -- but still this wasn't a case where people expected to see that.
Grad students are primarily motivated to graduate so that they can be treated well and paid commensurate with their expertise. That is accomplished via the usual academic channels. Grad students that want to found companies are better off doing that. Yes, there is a huge gap between research papers and marketable products, but universities usually are not funding that conversion. Spinoff companies might, but universities want to get IP rights before the spinoff happens so that they can get royalties. Where is the risky investment in research that patents are supposed to be making possible?
Exactly! Sorry I missed the sarcasm tag. :-)
Go check Robert Sheckley's Ticket to Tranai - it had the opposite - utopia created on the basis the human nature is flawed and some creative design. Fun read.
This is brilliant and I think I'll be giving this a try. In the era of nosql databases, people often forget that nosql databases are essentially just spreadsheets.
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Yes! Even if he is a thief, he is still a human being. No one deserves to be killed for some stupid drug money.

Tomas, better call Saul!
Here's a couple more stylistic quirks that jump out on a very cursory glance at Nakamoto's public postings. (Disclaimer: I know nothing about Bitcoin but am a pretty experienced copy-editor. None of these are remotely conclusive, just more incremental evidence.)

Satoshi Nakamoto uses double spaces after sentence-final; so does Nick Szabo.

"Interestingly" is a distinctive word, especially at sentence-initial. Both Nakamoto and Szabo use this.

Hyphenated "e-mail" has been on the way out for a few years; I still use it but I've been in a minority for a long time. Again, both Nakamoto and Szabo use this.

(I'd be interested to see if anyone can find Szabo starting paragraphs with "Right, ...": that's a definite tic in Nakamoto's postings.)
Emotionally it does matter. Economically there's no difference between having the $2000 cash and buying 100BTC at $20 versus having 100BTC at $20 and choosing not to sell it.

I would strongly recommend rereading skwirl's post and introspecting on the ways that emotions rather than the hard calculus of the market may be at influence.

I say this as someone who is long on BTC (and purchased right before the last great crash, where it dropped 30x in an instant). I've known the entire time that it's a wild gamble, and having a few coins just in case it becomes absurdly successful sounded fun (it's been very successful for that, watching the highs and lows, talking about it with friends and coworkers, even if it crashed again I've already gotten my money's worth).
>Congestion avoidance will speed traffic and save fuel too.

Perhaps we live in different worlds, in my world self-driving cars will create more traffic jam, lead to higher road-use taxes and to harsher economic times due to people in trucking/delivery/cab driving losing jobs.
In my opinion, what is driving the vaccine schedule is a combination of things based on various motives. One motive is to help children. Another motive is profit, and yet another is politically driven. The connection between the vaccine makers, politicians, and the CDC is easy to find ( former CDC employees tend to go pharma), and you don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to at least understand where there could be some possibility of priorities being crossed.
It's a like button, effectively. Not a Facebook like button, just a 'I like this post' button.
> Angular is not something to just replace a few small bindings in a your page while you do the rest of the stuff in 2005 way.

If we're talking about the jQuery way, let's at least say "2006", since that's when it was released, though it arguably didn't become "the" way for another few years afterwards. The big news in 2005/2006 was still Prototype.js.

> most of them are badly coded rubbish compared to what you're supposed to write in Angular style.

Or we don't have the benefit of 5 years of hindsight about what's problematic (or, "rubbish", if you will) when it comes to Angular style.