skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the records were burned because they were full of mold, a health hazard

This sounds exactly like the perfect kind of lie that the general public would believe. A plausible sounding health/safety reason. I'm not an expert, maybe it's true, but it rings false to me.

Surely historians, librarians and archaeologists have faced mold before and have methods to deal with it.
It's not just torture that's taking place on TV, it's violence in many forms.

When my sister asked me to described breaking bad series, knowing her so well, the first word that came out of my mind without seven thinking was: Violent.
Windows Phone-Android dual boot devices: Not as crazy as you might think
walks.io looks really interesting. I've just moved to London and was looking for ways to get out and explore the urban jungle. That's really nifty.
"I don't care" is not the same as "nobody cares", and especially not "nobody will ever care".

Why would somebody care? Well, C++ gets used a lot in embedded systems. There, you can have different storage pools for different specialized kinds of memory. But if Go isn't trying to solve those kinds of problems, then Go doesn't need the same machinery that C++ does. It doesn't make C++ stupid, it makes it designed for a different environment.

Also note that C++/STL templates default the allocators and comparators, so you don't need to supply them unless you really need them. That's pretty much what you're asking for... until you try to read a compiler or linker message.
To a German ear it sounds like pigeon milker...

I actually don't fancy this sport or hobby. You just have to pay attention the "feral" pigeons running about in the cities. Many of them have exactly one crippled leg, where their band originally was. After the pigeon doesn't return home, this thing cuts into the leg over time and in a slow and painful process the leg falls off...
Developed countries will probably eventually get some kind of basic income system but it won't be simple :) I'm sure it will be very complicated and there will be still lots of mean tested programs to accompany it to make sure a large bureaucracy is still required.
I posted a reply here before HN crashed but it seems to not have been brought back when HN came back up.

Here's the gist: it's not that posting an opinion online is hubris, it's what your opinion entails and is based on. You have no facts about the deal, and no qualifications to speak on good business acquisitions. You call the product "worthless" while teams of people at Facebook and Google seem to value it very highly. I'm going to have to assume that the people FB and Google hire are all very intelligent and capable at their jobs, and they see value in purchasing the company (which is why they made the offer). You, however, with no information have decided they're all morons and you know better because SnapChat is "worthless". That, my friend, is indeed hubris. You assume that you know more than everyone else who has far more intimate knowledge of the company and product.

Here's the moral of the story: just because something seems "worthless" to you doesn't mean that it has no worth to anyone else. If other highly trained and educated people say it's worth quite a bit of money, then, perhaps, you should re-evaluate your viewpoint.
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Why don't employers in Colorado consider offering more remote working positions? Employees that enjoy their Colorado-based job might be more inclined to consider relocating....
we should definitely find a way to get cash to the poor, but I think there may be private market solutions like a taskrabbit for social projects that employee the underprivileged to do social good financed by the wealthy.
Ask HN:  Can your boss do your job?  Is this important to you?
Hmm. It's not really about having the resources of a news organization. The "resources" are the inertia and hard-won philosophical reasoning behind having a free press. An individual's free speech has just the same amount of weight behind it as a large organization's.

So he's hardly fending for himself - he has the backing of all those who support free speech behind him. There are rather many of us.

Also, if your opinion of journalists is that many of them act this way, may I respectively suggest that it would benefit you to upgrade your news sources?
> Did you try a professional / teacher as well?

yes

> Did others also think you didn't become better with practice?

Yes

As to your last two questions, I think there is some kind of reward/work element here that did not click for me. Normally if I put in a certain amount of time I expect to see a measurable progress. With the violin initially that progress was there and then at some point (relatively quickly) it reached a plateau and after that the amount of work for a given amount of progress seemed to me to be disproportional. It's the hardest instrument that I've ever really worked on trying to learn how to play it and maybe one day I'll overcome my resistance and I'll try again but I really feel like I've met some kind of personal Waterloo there and the chances of this happening are very slim.

(I actually tried twice already with much the same result, I'm not one to give up easily).
Versal steers away from the YouTube model in online education
The publicity should be early, to prevent the damage.
By season 6 of 24 they nuked a city in USA just to get Bauer to go back to work.
Nvidia admits Monterey County crop circle was a publicity stunt
Look how awesome apple is, and to argue about that, I'll just show how much money it's passing around !

I don't really understand how relevant that is to the HN crowd, really.

People already have a $400 iPhone, with an expensive data plan, of course they'll buy whatever it's compatible with.

If you sell glitter, there's no limit but the stars. People will buy anything if it's under $10, so no surprise if so many people have iPhones.

What I'll always criticize, is the real amount of innovation that surrounds the iPhone and the software that it runs. Of course it pays developers, but an iPhone is just a very small wirelessly internet connected computer, with a dedicated software store, and a short battery life. The software is the same if not worse. The only difference is that Apple just had a business model for an app market, and to be honest, compared to what freeware and open source already offers, it doesn't feel attractive.
Wouldn't "intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else." apply in this case considering you are holding onto a bunch of domain names that you are not using? It is implied that someone is going to use that URL as a trademark of sorts, since it will usually describe their project/business.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticybersquatting_Consumer_Pro... says "The law was designed to thwart “cybersquatters” who register Internet domain names containing trademarks with no intention of creating a legitimate web site, but instead plan to sell the domain name to the trademark owner or a third party.[3]"

Isn't that you?
Because $3600 is NOTHING. I need $15k in the bank to feel moderately safe as a bachelor. If I wanted to support a family I'd want a fallback account of $100k+.

Edit: this is a reply to yummy.
How is the determination made that the subject does have the sough-after information. Because the subject may give what ever information the interrogator is biased to receive.

The following pdf "http://www.cgu.edu/pdffiles/sbos/costanzo_effects_of_interro... makes the case much more eloquently than I can in this comment section. Reading the "Conclusion: Consequences and Alternatives" section is very instructive.

Also the guardian article "http://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/no... is very instructive.

Furthermore, I feel using torture is inherently immoral and we should strive to achieve a better world even when we know that our adversaries are not playing by the rules.
"my base (Amsterdam) [...] Some stuff I’ve done over the years: [...] designed a windmill"

Fitting
Oh, so I am not the only one :-)
Godot Unity like game engine going open source
A man picks the side of violence, and is destroyed by it. Works better if you assume the final episode was a dream
Artificial Intelligence Set to Deliver 'Wow' - Innovation Insights
Well Apple did go from a $81B market cap when then app store was first introduced to the $500B market cap of today.

Arguably that was due to the success of iOS. I don't think it's ridiculous to suggest that the app ecosystem contributed to that.
Thank you! Only website I've ever built that's been slashdotted. ;)
How it's now possible to fly (as a passenger) over Antarctica
Even with the much lower cost of living, Colorado salaries cannot match those of California.

I personally would need an extra incentive to live with snow again. Haven't seen it it years and have no reason to.
Now I have this image of someone throwing a million dollars multi-ton machining center at mach 2 on a ballistic trajectory at his neighbor in the perfect combination of act of war, artistic performance, rich kid play and geeky curiosity ("do the GPS in this thing has the lock?").
There are 314 Million People in the US. We can't afford to give everyone enough money to have a meaningful impact on poverty. Seriously people, do the math! It's basic arithmetic.

In order for the welfare state to be effective, it needs to be targeted towards the people that need it.
For those of us who are interested but don't quite remember every TNG episode episode, it was "Chain of Command" from season 6: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_Command_(Star_Trek:_Th...
I've long been of the opinion that poor patenting (and/or an abdication of responsibility on the part of the parents) is a major contributing factor to an awful lot of society's ills...
Mold threat?! Hahahahaha, this is what archivists do. We rescue and restore shit. We fumigate books with bugs living in the pages. We are to this day still piecing together charcoal smudges from the infamous 1973 St. Louis fire, to reconstruct scraps of salvageable information from WWI military records. We fight with archives in Eastern Europe that are staffed to this day with corrupt former KGB members who would rather stonewall you than give you your great-grandfather's shtetl records even when you are willing to pay them for access.

Even in the very worst case scenario, all we need is a hazmat suit and a digital camera and a couple of hours so the data isn't 100% lost -- as it was lost in Franklin county.
There is a shadow of McCarthy's red scare in the suggestion that no NSA affiliated people be allowed to participate.

How would you determine if a participant had affiliation? How many degrees of separation must there be before a person is trustworthy in their neutrality?

As well, it would require an approval process for new participants, closing the working groups. Even should the folks decide to abandon the current model of participation, how would you determine someone new wasn't affiliated, and who has the right to decide who is trustworthy?

It's argued often here that extreme transparency is the cure for shadowy practices, and I don't think it gets much more transparent than group review of any changes to any specs.

To expect that excluding publicly aligned NSA folks would solve any problem is fool-hearty, given that it's an intelligence agency and I'm sure fully capable of installing clandestine participants.

Therefore, I would argue that exclusion is very much an illogical choice. The logical thing to do here would be to increase scrutiny on any changes.

(To note, this comment is not about removing the co-chair privileges from Igoe; if the position is really as powerful as some say, yeah let someone else do it. I'm just saying don't start suggesting people be banned from participating).
"Designation for destruction in 1964" is a textbook example of how discrimination is still perpetuated here. We try so hard to be a progressive state (ex: RTP) but the fact is our heritage includes the enslavement of a race, and individuals today still say things that make Don Yelton look tame.
My Internet (by Jonathan Lethem)
Keyboard business creates functional hackable keyboard business card
Thinkpads make rock solid GNU/Linux machines. I highly recommend the X220. It has some issues such as not being Coreboot compatible and needing nonfree firmware to drive the wireless chip. The former has no fix, but the latter can be fixed with a little hack and an Atheros chip.
Machine visions: James Bridle on drones, bots and the New Aesthetic
"But is it propaganda? to me, it was more a way to please the audience."

That, or it's purely coincidental that "24" debuted following disclosure of Bush's torture programs, and "Person of Interest" debuted ahead of common knowledge of the extent of mass surveillance.

It may not be propaganda officially ordered and authored by some Ministry of Information, but it's the same thing no matter how many layers of abstraction it goes through: a way to shape the narrative and facts that inform the common person and allow them to form an understanding of an issue.
Never noticed heat in mine, or for that matter, the fan running, except when I compile stuff.
Inline Skating Brake
The Motion Picture Association of America has joined W3C
Facebook Hit With Lawsuit: Could This Spell The End Of The Social Giant?
How to Argue Effectively
New Clemson University technology could change the future of voting
Duke Chronicle Goes Open Source
Maybe making things more intelligible would help instead of using language that is extremely obfuscated and confusing, and unaccompanied by any actual mathematics?

Take this sentence from the email for instance:

"Even AES-GCM got screwed up: nonces should be counters, but all implementations make them random, introducing an artificial birthday bound issue due to truncation in the standard."

I have no idea WTF this means, but let's go over it:

nonce: I know this is a randomly generated number that can be only used once -- now why should it be a counter? No idea.

"but all implementations make them random": wait, aren't they supposed to be random by definition? According to the above line though, they are supposed to be random. Damn, what I knew must be wrong. I wonder if this person on the internet has submitted some sort of explanation about this somewhere.

'artificial birthday bound issue': Assuming this refers to the birthday attack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack). Why is it "artificial"? Can we see some mathematical proofs attached please? I sort of get the idea here -- because the nonce is random, it is vulnerable to being recreated after a certain number of attempts, but there is nothing concrete attached here. Or I could be totally wrong in this interpretation. God knows, and maybe this chap.

"...due to truncation in the standard." -- Do you mean some sort of mathematical truncation, i.e. "my number was truncated to 16 bits", or truncation of the standard itself "the last section of the standard was removed"? Please be clear.

Same goes for most things related to crypto -- if you want stuff like TLS to be examined by more eyeballs and find more bugs, you have to first try and make it more accessible. The sentences above are, in my opinion, a complete communication failure.
Sadly in this litigious world where states and companies have suffered huge financial claims related to mold it's not hard to understand a mid tier local government official panicking after talking with a local attorney.
This is a popular fallacy for supporting torture, but there are a couple things wrong with it.

Firstly, the most likely outcome of torture is false information and multiple sources from the CIA to the FBI and various levels of rank[1] have said that one of the most problematic issues with torture based intel is the extreme amount of time it takes to verify anything because most of it is made up. So in a ticking time bomb scenario, torturing someone you think has information may make you FEEL better, but it is a waste of time (which, by default, is in short supply).

Secondly, and perhaps more importantly amongst this crowd, the logic doesn't work. Statistically speaking, ticking time bomb situations do not actually occur in real life and basing institutionalized acceptance of torture on a fantasy what if scenario is intellectual fraud. Georgetown law's David Luban has an excellent 2005 essay "Liberalism Torture and the Ticking Bomb"[2] that takes a deep dive into the psychology behind this argument as well as the real-world applications. It's linked further down in these comments by @elipsey[3].

[1] http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4498/does-tortur...

[2] http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7017729
Sometimes does work? You mean, like guessing? I mean, "sometimes" throwing a coin to decide if someone is a criminal will work.

The problem with torture (from a point of view of information) is that the information is NOT reliable AT ALL. Someone under torture will often not only imagine facts, it will actually believe that they are true, and will confess false crimes, especially if presented by the torturer. There is a famous case in Spain in 1910 (a movie was made about it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crime_of_Cuenca) that two men were charged for a murder and tortured until they confess. 12 years later, the "murdered man" reappeared, having spent the time on a nearby town. There are more real life examples showing that people under torture says mainly what the torturer wants, not real life facts.
Even in the presented case (the tortured subject truly has some critical information, which is somehow a "tricky case", real life is not that simple), the resulting information can be fake or inaccurate.

Information is more easily obtained in more reliable ways. Aborted terrorist attacks typically aborted in real life because someone will alert the authorities, or someone is being watched, not catching a "bad guy" and torturing it.
But these experiments don't really prove anything w.r.t. basic income, do they? Of course, if you give a small, isolated group of people more money, their lives will improve. But that doesn't generalize to the entire population, especially since that population has to come up with the money to begin with.
> they will have to pay the workers more to entice them in, and provide better working conditions.

Source? Widespread BI is usually proposed alongside abolishment of the minimum wage. This means that you'd expect wages at the low end to start reflecting job comfort more - crappy jobs (trash pickup?) would have to be paid more to entice people, but cushier jobs may well see pay go down.
This is not surprising, violin technique is deeply rooted in the body (especially bow technique) and is difficult to learn past adolescence because your body/brain cannot adapt as well in adulthood.

Source: I learned violin around age 13 after already reaching an "expert non-professional" level in piano, found it very challenging and eventually gave it up after seven years of study.
I don't remember a multitude traditional torture scenes in fringe? There were some "weird things up the nose mind reading" bits?

I remember a security guard near the finale, but that's about it. Was it more common than my memory tells? What does that say about how little it impacted upon me?
That misses the point, I think.

Of course functions can cause a program to crash, and there are all sorts of bad things that happen that cannot be caught at the language level; Haskell doesn't save you from memory corruption, for example.

But those things don't violate the language's guarantees about type correctness. A crashing program simply ceases to run; it's not like an Int-returning function can somehow crash and return a bogus Int value.

In this sense, Haskell is no different from languages like Java or Go. It's completely orthogonal to the null problem.
> purposefully place people in permanent poverty

They're already there, this is just a less brutal version of it.

> The danger is that far too many people will accept this standard of living.

It's the best possible outcome for people rendered unemployable by automation. We can either invent degrading makework to waste their time, or acknowlege what the market is telling us--our civilization is productive enough we no longer need everyone able-bodied (and some who aren't) working for their whole adult lives.
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They do support Go for Glassware development, too, but these are just exceptions. If you search for jobs in Google you are not going to find any vacancy requiring Go programming, while you can find such vacancies in companies like Soundcloud, Cloudfare, Songkick, or Reuters. Also i would like to see Go natively used for Android development. Then i would probably reconsider the "behind it" statement.
You mock us now on HN but when those extra-terrestrial masters show up at your front door later tonight to silence you we'll have the last laugh!
I had one of these for some months and I'd say the only culprit is that there are only 1 mini DP and 2 USB ports and nothing else: no SD card slot, no Thunderbold or Firewire. Even a third USB port would have been nice. There isn't any kensington lock port, either.

The screen is glossy but for some reason, it's not actually catching too many random reflections (so it's much better than my MacBook which can hardly be used when sitting back to the window).

The touchpad feel isn't as good as a MacBook but it's large and much better than those from most other PCs I've tried. Overall a nice machine.
Paragraph 1 states 46.2 million people lived below the official poverty level, and 10.4 million of those were working, so you conclude that the remaining "choose not to work". But the next line states that that first number includes children (at least 14 million http://www.nccp.org/publications/pub_912.html) and adults (including those unable to work for legitimate reasons).

Your other link doesn't show its math either. I'm feeling trolled.
Sure but it happens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI_effect
Distrtibuted systems are hard (vnodes don't scale to hundreds of nodes)
To be fair, the political leaders are damned whatever they do on this issue now.

On the one hand, we have the principled argument of H. L. Mencken, "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."

On the other hand, we have had a few very high profile cases recently where it's hard to see how even a generous interpretation of proper human rights safeguards should protect someone, yet that person has won legal battles time after time in court using technicalities and weasel words. In most cases, those victories are ultimately won in the European Court after failing in all national courts here in the UK. And these are the ones that make the headlines and force politicians to react.

What is easy to forget when looking at the latter cases is how often the European Court has also told a current UK administration it had gone too far, often in granting sweeping powers to police forces and security services in recent years. A majority of voters might have agreed with those decisions if they were pointed out, but the related stories aren't always front page material.

In short, I suspect a lot of the talk about getting rid of ECHR and the Human Rights Acts is populist politics. No political party is seriously proposing getting rid of those without at least introducing some other form of human rights legislation instead, but then at least they've done something. I'm guessing that being the politician who didn't do anything after stories about Abu Hamza not being deported have been on the front page of the Daily Mail for years is probably not a good way to win your next election.