skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The validity of checkpoints has been upheld as long as they stop all cars and only look in the windows and ask for license/registration. It's used everywhere for DUI policing, not just immigration checks.

Doesn't mean it's not shitty, just that it's a different matter than border searches.
So your statement was just a guess, just checking. I don't know the data from the record companies because I wouldn't bother reading it for fear of bias, I just know that a lot of the 'anti piracy' groups never actually put money back into the music industry, its just more money to fund more lawsuits.
Mesh networking app Firechat downloaded by 40,000 Iraqis in censored Baghdad
SimFS (VZ/OpenVZ) Security Vulnerability (CVE-2014-3519)
Have you tried Haskell?
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But the number of households is strongly influenced by people's personal social decisions such as divorce or living with relatives. Thus the household GINI is strongly influenced by people's personal decisions in addition to their economic circumstances.

More concretely, if I divorce my wife and we become two households does that mean that US economic inequality has increased? I would say not, but the household GINI would say that it has.
My wife has alopecia universalis, so I'm going to get my hopes up ;)
It also shows 25, 50, 75, and (in some cases), 90 percentile, so you can have some idea about standard deviation and skewness.
Thanks :) In fact, jrnl started as exactly that: some bash functions over a text file. But then I wanted encryption. And I wanted fuzzy date parsing. There we go...

I agree that the * is not perfect. Turns out there aren't so many characters that are accessible on most keyboards (also non-US layouts) that are NOT already special characters on most shells. Suggestions welcome!
Last time I checked, commercial manned aircraft were regulated but not banned outright. In this case, FAA is banning commercial unmanned aircraft altogether, so unless you consider banning altogether to be a regulation, I don't think your comparison stands.
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The wikipedia article on Income inequality in the United States is surprisingly detailed and I highly recommend it if you have any interest on wealth. It's such a polarized topic that the comments almost immediately turn into inaccurate or out of context talking points.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United...
My suspicion is that it may be due to the inflation adjusted real wage effects, which hit the bottom 25th percentile the hardest, as that is generally their only source of income, and their resulting margin for wealth storage is so much closer. [1] Honestly, real wage income has been flat since about 1965, and for many has been going down since the great recession. [2] And if you only got high school or less, well, you're just boned. [3] (Note, take sources with a grain of salt, as they're 5 minute Google searches)

[1] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aGE47oMJAQw/UhZtjjtKorI/AAAAAAAAJz...

[2] http://www.pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/~/~/media/A130E85DDC064B81...

[3] http://www.frbsf.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/1106bb.gif
>'How effective are MOOCs really?'

I've done quite a few MOOC courses. The best courses demonstrate what I believe the future of higher education should be. They're better than anything I've at an accredited university. Of course, it bears noting that I'm dealing with courses at a public university versus MOOCs by the likes of MIT and Stanford.

>'Do you know anyone who really learned a subject by taking a MOOC?'

No, but I see no reason it couldn't happen. If the best courses I've taken were stacked together and extended to half a dozen semesters of escalating content I think they'd produce formidable results.
I saw a chart a few weeks back depicting this. Starting in the early 80's it started heading downward. I can't find it at the moment, but if I do, I'll post a link.

A lot of factors contribute but housing was one of the major factors. "Net worth" was/is tied directly to their home and the 2006/07 crash. With the government screwing with the markets and investors buying homes as rentals, we just might see another sharp decline shortly...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-24/americas-most-impor...
Parent said this is the safest way to do no-knock. Everyone in this thread agrees that no-knock is a bad idea most of the time (at least), and clearly in this case. Up thread, there was question of the particular tactics in conducting the no-knock entry.
I think the interesting and more important questions that stem from this are around the consequences of not having free will. Are we punishing people for doing things they were unable to NOT do? As Sam Harris said in his talk on free will, if a crocodile bit your hand off, you wouldnt 'blame' the crocodile, you wouldnt demand it be put down, and you may even take your family to see the crocodile saying 'See, thats the bugger who bit my hand off'. If we have no free will, then a human killer is as much to 'blame' for killing as the crocodile is.
Converting home equity to consumption is my guess.

Remember HELOCs?
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Thanks, I was just about to look for this.
I would say that yes, US economic inequality has increased, quite concretely! Unless you both have precisely the same income post-divorce, as a couple you were more equal than when single.
CEO pay is interesting. We tend to focus on the outliers, but I guess this is the average CEO at the average company.
Income and wealth are quite different topics...
Unless you're a twelve-year-old showing off your Minecraft mods or your new styling tips. Then you're getting non-monetary value (friends, fun, reputation) from creating content, and you're unintentionally competing for the attention of kids and tweens that used to buy comic books and Backstreet Boys albums.
I'm not sure what I expected from comments on Wired, but that is pretty amazing that all the most highly-upvoted comments are calling Glass users "glassholes", pedophiles, and encouraging violence against them and/or their Glass devices.
Alternatively, we could keep :visited, and remove most of the expressive power of css/javascript that allow these exploits to exist. It would be like time-travelling back to the mid-90s, when visited-link-coloration was invented!
Yeah, I'm a little mystified at how they get off demanding that labels make their entire catalog available. That seems like a contract of adhesion to me, in which one side leverages an enormous economic differential to impose unconscionable terms on counterparties - if you want to put anything on YouTube in hopes of monetizing it, you must put everything you have on there.

I'm not expert on contract or antitrust law, but this seems like its sailing very close to the wind. I can see a consumer benefit argument for YouTube, but I can equally see an argument that it's just an incumbent entrenchment strategy designed to keep content providers locked in, a poison pill that prevents them entering into an exclusive arrangement with any other distributor.
So, a bunch of armed men breaching a door and rushing into a house is less likely to provoke such a response? No knock entry is dangerous, period. It should only be used where threat of violent opposition is well established. Once you're going in no-knock, the notion that flashbangs is the safest way sounds plausible.
Supporting 1 person on x income is harder than supporting two people on 2x income. Put simply, a couple does not need two stoves, and any shared trip is less expencive etc. There are a few edge cases at the individual level for things like end of life care and taxes, but the overall economic bennifits are huge.
Your chart shows income distribution, while the linked study is talking about net worth.
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I'd be interested in hearing more about the practices you engaged in that 'blurred the lines between startup and corporate marketing'. I personally have always found that after something like this waiting a few weeks and giving yourself an honest postmortem evaluation can go miles in helping you improve and strive for greater things in the future.
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If social circumstances make for a increase in divorces or a change in the fundamental structure of the family, I don't see why it's not something to take into consideration beyond "personal decisions".

Could it be that conservatives might actually be right about that?
Ask HN: How does firechat accomplish mesh networking?
I was very impressed when I tried it out on the Android. I can't help but wonder, how did they manage to solve the problem of peer to peer mesh networking between iOS and Android devices? They are mum on the whole thing.

Alljoyn SDK seems to offer same feature but not sure how different they are compared to Open Garden's technology.

I'm just throwing this out to see if it's possible to pull off what firechat is doing in terms of their cross platform p2p peer meshing capabilities.
If you take a minute to consider the demographics involved and the nature of wealth, it is neither depressing nor surprising nor even "bad".

Consider, for example, that many people have negative wealth.
1. Oil production goes under mining.
2. Oil is a globally traded commodity, the fact that some of it is produced in the US doesn't affect the local (=in the US) price.
>"Oh yes, mathematics, astronomy, physics, physiology, psychology – these all started out as philosophy, and once we philosophers got them whipped into shape we set them off on their own to be sciences. We figured out how to ask the right the questions, and and then we turned them over to other specialists to answer."

To this I might add a rhetorical question: how would science have gone about discovering the scientific method? Indeed, in which discipline would that question fall even today?
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No, thats not accurate, not having free will means we dont consciously choose what we do next - not that there is only one choice we will make in any given circumstance.

For example, I chose to ride a boat today, but it was raining, so I read a book instead.
I'd be very interested in knowing more about how the technology works. It's pretty difficult to assess it without more information. Specifically it feels like the good old software protection conundrum where you have to give the keys along with the lock. How do you prevent a bot operator to send the right signal (or not send it) to the (whichever) measuring party ?
Not necessarily. Most people are going have the headset hooked up at a desk because that's where the computer lives, so you'd need a really big field of view to see hands while seated up close to the desk. My webcam sees my face reliably, but it definitely doesn't see my hands.

Additionally, controllers that you wave around don't do well with blindness to your surroundings. If they make a controller I'd expect it to be more similar to Razer's Hydra, though hopefully cheaper.
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You said 'creators and consumers of niche products' which implies commercial intent to me, and we are having this discussion in the context of music publishing. You're not wrong, but I think this is a loss of focus.
I believe they'll err too far on the side of caution for small drones, stifling potential innovation by requiring expensive airworthiness certification, ADS-B, and flight planning for all drones which fly beyond line of sight, even those which are small enough not to pose a major threat to commercial aviation or bystanders.

The FAA's roadmap here:

http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/uas/media/UAS_Roadmap_2...

indicates that they plan to implement these requirements for all drones which aren't sUAS with a line-of-sight requirement.

I believe these drones should be authorized for testing and commercial flight over unpopulated areas below 500ft and possibly above in certain airspace classes - basically, that the existing, frequently ignored hobbyist "recommendations" should be enforced as "rules" and applied commercially.
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I'm having early onset white hairs on facial hairs. Small count, 4 or 5 but so noticeable... very unsettling.
Also, as a rule of thumb, fuel consumption per unit distance is proportional to speed squared. According to the chart, the "Double Bubble" cruises at 490 MPH, while the 737 cruises at 596 MPH. The "Double Bubble" achieves 145 MPG, while the 737 achieves 100 MPG.

(490/596)^2 * 145 MPG) = 98 MPG

737s are already on the slow end of airliners, but it seems like all the fuel savings in this design study come from just flying slower.
A study like this one? That found that illegal downloading INCREASED sales, not decreased?

http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/study-confirms-illegal-downloa...
The author does see. In fact there some other fantastic HN person already saw this and submitted a pull request (https://github.com/maebert/jrnl/pull/175)
or better, have separate visited database per origin (i.e. rather than tracking state of `url` track state of `(url, origin)` tuples). This way e.g. links visited from HN would be marked as visited on HN and on HN only.

It wouldn't disclose any information the site can't already get by tracking clicks.
On the other hand, 1 person with x income pays less income tax than 2 people with 2x income.
HELOCs are back and bigger than ever!

Home-equity lending surpassed 2009 levels in 2013, with $111 billion in new home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) opened. In the fourth quarter, new lending increased 43% from quarter four 2012, according to data from Experian-Oliver Wyman Market Intelligence Reports and Experian’s IntelliView tool.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/helocs-made-a-comeback-in-2...
The chart that showed the movements of the various percentiles showed an interesting thing, where in 2003, the 25th percentile's wealth started to drop, while at the exact same time the higher percentile's wealth suddenly went up, before dropping after the recession hit. I have a feeling there's a link
That would explain only a slowing in the rate of wealth increase, not a decrease in wealth.
> What the hell does the term "free will" even mean?

Great question. You've more or less just articulated the philosophical problem of free will.

Why do we care what the term 'free will' means? Mainly because the concept features heavily in the way we think about (and judge) human behaviour.

If I fail to save a drowning person because I can't swim or am tied to a tree, most people would not judge me as morally responsible for them drowning. If I could have saved them, but didn't, most people would judge me as morally responsible. A theory that explains what "could have saved them" means in that context is a theory of free will.

Accepting that we have free will means that "could have done otherwise" explanations have a legitimate place in our moral thought. Rejecting it means that we need to find alternative explanations for the moral difference between the two situations I described (or just deny that there's a relevant difference). Which is certainly possible, but counterintuitive to many (/most?) people.
You should read Wikipedia, IEEE, ACM and of course hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

Or you just keep calm and enjoy the experience…

you got the interview, cause you sounded promising.
Why might you think it woukdn't be?
"What you actually just did was entered a group conversation to tell almost everybody there that they are bad programmers before doing a humility display for everybody to see."

No, I was talking to the person who asked the question, not you, so I didn't "enter a group conversation". Yes, I did say most programmers are bad programmers because that's definitely the case, and that's the case in every single creative or technical discipline humans do. To say otherwise is nothing but pandering to the people posting here and does nothing to improve the education of people trying to learn.

What does improve their education is to show the reality of programming, which is that it's hard and most everyone sucks at it, but that you can improve, and that's why it's also fun to do. This is only a demoralizing belief if you're arrogant enough to think that you're better than everyone else. Real practitioners admit that they're barely capable most of the time and accept that they have to work hard to achieve their goals.
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This is very detailed. Pretty similar to what I have seen in industry. A few comments from a guy who has been involved in several ML teams for the past few years.

1. Hire depending on your team. There are candidates who are amazing data scientists but do retarded shit like select * from table order by rand() on a ten billion row table and bring down the cluster. Sometimes, it is OK because your team has incredibly strong engineers who can work in close combinations with these people. Sometimes you can't really afford that. At my current workplace, my manager did a really good job of hiring people who are fullstack (data + backend + viz + ml) while having strong preferences in one direction or the other. So you might have an incredibly strong ML engineer who can roll his own ML code out on Spark, while also being open to writing back-end infrastructure code once in a while. Or you might have this guy who thinks in data pipelines all day long, but will spend a bit of time thinking about mathematical model. The teams work well.

2. Hiring for ML teams is really really hard. When I was in San Francisco at my previous job, we used to screen quite a few candidates everyweek. We would see failures similar to what you posted. Either engineers who knew fuck all about ML or people who were good at the theory but didn't know how to code. Somehow, at my current job in NYC, we lucked out because we have a bunch of really awesome people who moved out of finance but want to continue to live in NYC.

> They may (or may not) have a very deep understanding of one tiny piece, but lack a decent understanding of the breadth of the field.

This is close to what I have seen from both sides of the table. But, one thing that annoys me is the number of teams where people have pet algorithms that they are obsessed about. They keep asking questions about those pet algorithms and ding a candidate for not knowing that specific algorithm in depth. One should be able to be flexible while doing this.

> They don't know deeply at least one or two techniques and tools.

I think we see people from so many different walks of life that for junior people the goal is to make sure that they know the shit that they have in their resume and drill them if they don't. As in, we don't hire for specific techniques or tools because the team has its own collection of tools/libraries (Spark/Hadoop/Python/Word2Vec/CF etc) which you will be able to pick up fast if you are good enough.
Was this reply destined to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7934758

(Slightly confused by this board.)
In the same way business does it - offer different services. There are two extra problem with this business though. Labels were stubborn to change, but I think finally they accept the fact that content is commodity. Secondly, musicians are artists not business people. There is an ethos of a poor artists that devotes live to sacrum.
And what's with all the diacritics in the text?
You're absolutely right, and honestly I have no idea why I used SHA256, I should know better. Will fix.
Libre.fm

I knew I wanted to make a free last.fm but with no code and a name I started it, crowdfunded the domain and began code a few fays later.

5 years in, still going, lots of users, well supported by the apps that might support it.
I don't have access to the internet. It's like I am connected to the los alimos intra net.

I finished God's temple.

Now, we wait for God. chill
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You know what else can steal your passcode with a glance? My eyeballs.
This type story would make me hesitant to hire him after throwing his last employer under the bus (the usual response to this type of article). But with only one side of the story...you can't draw too many conclusions.

I checked his linkedin and it looks like he was at Pivotal from March to sometime recently. Lots of details are brushed over in this post so...maybe a more extensive post-mortem would be helpful.
There was one posted a few weeks ago. 128 bytes is incredibly impressive. You may not care, the world may not care, but reducing code so much is a work of art
> About 99% of all devices "just work" out of the box, the other 1% either are very obscure/specialty hardware, or are new hardware

Well if you count most GPUs under speciality hardware then I guess you're right, but most people don't. And most linux GPU drivers still pale in comparison to their Windows versions.
Encryption currently only works for plain text based journals; DayOne journals can't be encrypted (since DayOne can't deal with encrypted journals either). I hope they'll change that though, as they promised loooong time ago.
Such a scenario is not so far fetched.

Except that it is. This is not a discussion about self-driving cars because they don't work that way and are a long way off potentially working this way.

This is the age-old trolley problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem), which was never really satisfying as a philosophical problem. You create contrived examples and try to transport that situation to a wider world.

The trolley problem seems to be popular for self-driving cars because it's easy to create horrible situations without engaging with the way the technology actually works. Moreover, you can make the decisions for the computer to fit the situation without having to think about how that'd apply generally.

Or at least, if you're going to do it, go the whole hog: http://www.mindspring.com/~mfpatton/Tissues.htm
Biometrics are just passwords you can never change. In "something you know, something you have" the second probably shouldn't be something you can never change if compromised.
I think this is the biggest thing beginners try to avoid. Especially if they're ambitious and want to be capable now.

I'm currently at the theory of becoming capable is a mixture of study, practice, and hacks. You study the things necessary, then you practice them producing results to evaluate, and then you find hacks that amplify your efforts. But, I have zero research to back this and it's just what I try to do.
I wondered the same thing about Nest/Google the other day.

It could also be an abstraction on the part of Google/Facebook to hide their associations with the brand, to avoid brand reputation damage of some sort.
I agree, it works, but we need to keep pressing those guys... or contribute. Cask still doesn't have reinstall/upgrade. As far as I know, Homebrew can't upgrade packages with head versions, and, worst pain of all - Homebrew doesn't support Yosemite or any unreleased OS X version. Being a tool for developers primarily, all the above are must-haves!
2003 was when the stock market recovered.[1] The wealth of the rich is highly correlated with the stock market.

[1]http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5EGSPC+Interactive#symbo...
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What's the home ownership rate in the bottom quartile of net worth? The closes I could find was rate for the bottom 90%, which was apparently 66% in 2004.
Neat. It's probably difficult to tell but do you have any idea what usage is like?
If they were going to do a magnetically tracked controller like the Razer Hydra they would have bought Sixense by now, or at least partnered with them. I'm pretty sure they're not going to do that. They want sub-millimeter absolute tracking accuracy and magnetic tracking can't deliver that.