skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Darpa Wants a Memory Prosthetic for Injured Vets–and Wants It Now
I once used Cthulhu mythos monsters. It turned out to be a bad idea: those things are horribly hard to spell.
It shouldn't be punishable at all.
Except only in the US would this kid face a 5 year mandatory minimum sentence for each image (if it were a federal case). I don't know what he's facing since it's Virginia rather than federal charges.
> Adams says the irony is that uncensored versions can still be seen on Google Play (its online store) and YouTube, which is owned by the company.

Forcing partners to censor the same images that you're serving. Classy.
Cheap, aging used cars are a risky purchase if you don't have savings to pay for the inevitable repairs.

Besides, once they had that cash in hand, they'd no longer be eligible for food stamps (you need to prove you have no savings or assets). They'd either have to stop collecting food stamps and burn up the excess capital on groceries, or commit welfare fraud.

Being poor in America is rough. Regardless of the "but the poor still have cable TV!" argument, US culture (and the systems created by that culture) takes an almost punitive approach to poverty, where the poor are seen to deserve it and not be capable of making rational decisions.
I read that article very carefully and the whole crazy claim comes from the defense lawyer, who has a vested interest in portraying the prosecution as massively overstepping their bounds. I'm skeptical that they actually threatened to drag the kid down to the hospital and give him an involuntary erection so they can take photos of it. And I'm even more skeptical that they'd actually try to do it.

Note the quote from the Commonwealth Attorney: Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul B. Ebert said that police told him “these allegations [by the lawyers] lack credibility.” They're saying that it's not credible that the threat actually occurred, which likely means that even if it did, they realize how stupid it would be to actually follow through with it at this point.

Don't get me wrong, I'm against the idea of them prosecuting the kid for sending dick pictures, but I'd like to see that fail on its own (lack of) merit.
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Freedom in the metaphorical sense, not practical sense. On Linux you're free to do anything metaphorically, but practically you have the least options relative to Windows or OS X.

But, yes, if your time is worthless utilise Linux. If time is money then something better.
Honestly, the extra $10k they might have spent on the car pales in comparison to the $100k they lost on the house due to the market crash. So it's a bit absurd to even focus on the car so much when it clearly was not the main culprit.

As for the house, if they lived in any sort of metropolitan area, $250k is not extravagant. In fact, while their income was comfortably over double the median US household income, their house price was right at the median. The average American household leverages their income twice as much as this couple was.
I'll disagree with the other reply and say that it is fantastic knowledge to have, no matter if you do OS work or not.
No, they are collecting data because that is how they make money. And I rather suspect that if you compare what the NSA knows about you, personally, with what th' Goog' knows, the NSA will come up well behind.

I'm not trying to minimize what the NSA has done; what they do is supposedly done in our name, which is offensive, and they have more power than any company to do harm with what they collect, which is frightening. And I'm not trying to attack the companies; they have every right to what I give them, most of which is not private even if I would wish it to be, and they do provide useful services with that information.

But if you are upset about an organization collecting information to use in some way that may be other than your best interest, the two are pretty equal.
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I just look for any excuse to post something from the Sopranos that might be even slightly relevant. I don't know enough about this lady to make any judgement's regarding her financial decisions.
Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, the Minix book that is sort of famous for inspiring Linus Torvalds, is more targeted at those who want to move into OS development.

Modern Operating Systems is an amazing book but it works at a somewhat higher level. You'll basically read about stuff that happens, or might happen, in an operating system. You'll learn about threading, the elevator algorithm, dining philosophers, how virtual memory works, how a memory allocator works, and a bunch of other stuff.

It's a very well written textbook. The thing that struck me was the way it introduces things at a theoretical or high level and then trusts students enough to present them with real C code and real problems to solve on the next page. Just an excellent textbook.
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I think we do need technology for all the other reasons described in the log post - like the limitations of paper forms, running out of space to add important information, transcription errors and so on. Sure, the digital version could generate problems of its own but many of those are predictable and preventable as they're well known from other systems.

Retraining people to have better handwriting in adulthood is difficult, and arguably it's not a problem of competence as much as conditions - trying to write on a clipboard balanced on your knee or in a rush before seeing the next patient.

It's complicated by the fact that reporting/recordkeeping requirements are not always medically based, but derived from best practices decided by administrators/ regulators/ legislators which are usually put in place with the best of intentions but without full regard for transaction costs. In the medical context, economic friction is often a function of time rather than money; doctors are trying to deliver a certain standard of care to every patient each shift, and administrative work eats away at that time, resulting in an opportunity cost. Filling out a form for each patient doesn't seem like such a bi thing, but the costs of any inefficiency in the form design etc. add up.
Bribes to individual police might be "cheap", but so might some minor trade concessions to a tiny nation that exports very little, in absolute terms, to the USA. Alternatively, perhaps the USA embassy can issue a few dozen more student visas than they were planning on. Is diplomacy illegal too?
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Url changed from http://blog.ycombinator.com/interview-with-ycs-kate-courteau, which points to this.
The complaint made by the girl's mother merely made the state aware of the situation. The state is prosecuting. It is free, and some would say obliged, to prosecute the girl as well, since it has the same reason to she has committed a crime.
Nicely done, good work. I just tweeted about this, you deserve traffic and kudos.
Hmm, the federal law might actually apply in this case as it's a text that presumably crosses state lines. However, I grew up in a state where I could legally have sex at 16; even then there were romeo and juliet laws that would allow sex with an older individual if they are close in age. It's a little crazy to find that you can have sex but not over the phone.
They should have gone with Yotato. Clearly a better name.
chroot + buzzwords (but it does ultimately have a legitimately simpler interface/workflow)
And it is still going strong!
http://www.minix3.org/

Minix3 has adopted/is adopting parts of the NetBSD codebase (packages, libc, coreutils, etc etc) and is closer to the *BSD platforms than ever before. It can be considered a BSD microkernel nowadays.

There's still a lot to do and packages to port/features to add, but it's getting there. Since the release of Minix3 (I think it was in 2007) the project has gone more towards the pragmatic and practical world, instead of just academia.

Good stuff.
Is satire allowed?

I was responding to a comment that was humorously self-deprecating, and I thought my response's satiric tone was clear.

I'm sorry if you or anyone else perceived it as a personal attack.

Also, it's a personal attack to satirically compare someone to a vampire, but it's okay to compare someone to a lamprey? Is there some list of blood-sucking creatures I can refer to, which indicates which ones you will consider a personal attack, and which ones you will not? Mosquitoes? Ticks? Patent trolls? :-)
I think it's specific to heroine or drugs that chemically work similarly.
What could possibly explain injecting a teen at a hospital to induce an erection? It's just plain disgusting even if there is a legal explanation (highly unlikely).
As far as I understand, the only way to get a type that's not nullable is to make a struct. How do you specify that a function can take a non-nullable string?
2 children, just born, underweight. So really, let's just disturb them twice a day so Dad can take Mom to work and home again. Oh, and this is 2008/2009 when lots of people were truly happy to have any job, especially after one of their two incomes just disappeared unexpectedly (layoff, not firing). Mom can't take the car to work herself because Dad might need it for errands or medical issues with the kids. They owned the Mercedes (and no debt was mentioned for the unreliable Honda). Why sell assets that are paying for themselves in terms of actual money (getting her to work), and relieving emotional/financial stress (confidence that they aren't totally fucked if one car fails).
The whole point is that somewhere along the way of being rich enough to buy it (if that was ever truly the case) to being poor enough to need food stamps, they should have sold it.

Being "hard" to sell isn't an excuse. Real poor people sell any asset they can get their hands on.
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Manassas is in northern VA, not that far from DC. It's not exactly a bastion of puritanical fundamentalism or anything. I really shudder to think that this kind of behavior is the sort of thing that would bolster your career there. If there are people there who are ready to vote for officials because they pull shit like this, then I have lost all hope for humanity.
Pomodoros, sprints and CrossFit are not games, just structure (that many people find useful).
Actually, in many countries the courts are much more reasonable with regards to interpretation and application of the law. Not just that, but they care about balance between intent of the law, effect and means.

There is no way that say in Germany today the police could get away with trying to induce and photograph a teenage boy's erection for a sexting incident. It is such a fundamental violation of human dignity. I cannot even begin to imagine the press coverage and criminal indictments of the people involved.
"really small" means limiting power which reduces the effects of corruption.
I've heard of people getting put on the sex offender list for taking a leak in public. I guess if your wang is out for any reason you are a sexual predator and must be punished as such. stupid.
>Tichleman brought the heroin, injected Hayes with a lethal dose and simply watched as he slipped into unconsciousness and suffered an overdose
The article doesn't cite a motive for this crime. Does it mean they are still trying to figure it out?

It's a sad story overall. This could probably have been avoided in a country where prostitution is legal.
Ah... I really enjoyed the courses by 'ast' at the VU Amsterdam: Computer Architecture, Computer Networks and Modern Operating Systems. With respect for the other teaching staff, but Andy somehow was the modest, funny and inspiring hero of the CS department. The clarity and completeness of the books, the relevant assignments and the humor and kindness in his lectures... let's hope that his retirement doesn't stop him making contributions to the field. Unbelievable that he's been at the VU Amsterdam for 43 years.

Signing up for farewell lecture now...
And this is why the modern legal system in most countries, but particularly the US, is completely broken.

I guess it is because it is a for profit business, now. Since you can have your lawyer randomly sue people, have them spend thousands in lawyers to defend it, and end up settling anyway because the costs of lawyers over an exacerbated court case with an ignorant judge who will rule however the fuck they want can cost way more.

And honestly, the only way I can think to solve it is the public subsidy of lawyers in general, except in cases between the state and private individuals. In cases like this one, where its between two private parties, you should get at least free legal council, and even then you should be reimbursed for your time in court because it is wasting everyones time.

If the gov't wants to make an overbearing insane "justice" system that allows wanton abuse that creates a legal market as large as most useful commodity markets, they should pay for it. Which means we all pay for it. But at least then people can complain about the insane tax rates to pay for millions of lawyers and judges over literal bullshit.
A platform like "not subjecting your kids to insane prosecutions" would be a pretty good one, I'd imagine.
I didn't make the hard to sell argument, so don't put that on me. I'm making the "it was a reliable asset, and apparently a valuable one as it turned out, so why sell it" argument.
ah, I stand corrected. What I should've said was the defense contracting industry learned how to game congress.
> A state court forcing someone to do something is not Congress

Which is why its not an independent First Amendment issue, but a Fourteenth Amendment issue, however, as it is well-settled law that the scope of the rights considered fundamental to the concept of ordered liberty and thereby incorporated against the States under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment includes the entirety of the protections of the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment, the usual legal analysis of religious freedom issues, whether state or federal, is under the First Amendment logic applied the same way whether the government involved is state or federal.

> nor is it making a law.

It is either (a) enforcing a law that Congress or a state legislature made (which law, if it violates First Amendment religious freedoms, violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when a State does it or the applicable clause of the First when the federal government does it) or (b) depriving someone of Constitutional liberty without a basis in law in the first place (which also violates the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment when a State does it, and the Due Process Clause of the 5th Amendment if it were a federal court.)
He didn't say to use a functional name, he said descriptive. If the machine is an hp bladecenter 7000 series, reflect that in the name. The functions may change but the silicon will not. If you're paranoid about security, create class names that refer to classes of hardware and number identical/similar ones.

Also it's useful to put the dc and rack number in subnets after the hostname (hpbl7x0001.r55.la.example.com). The next time you're running around the cage reading every single 1U's tag name going "AARRRGHFHH WHERE THE FUCK IS SLIMSHADY.EXAMPLE.COM??", you'll thank me.

(i have no idea why, but it's much easier to get a dns admin to create a new A record than it is to get a NOC employee to update the network inventory database)

(also: good luck using your network inventory db to look up a rack location when the rack/switch that's hosting the network inventory db is down...)
> Parents are happy, society is happy.

Except the kid, who will now have to live with legally sanctioned sexual assault.
Just as I said, the code has to look good in one font, not N. When I read a paper written by someone else, the first thing I don't do is casually change its font. We invent so many unreasonable reqs to justify the continued used of archaic type writes fonts, sad.
> Papers coming out of China and Taiwan need to be regarded skeptically

Do we know that China and Taiwan are worse? There are scandals in the U.S. too, such as papers funded by business interests without disclosure.
Good point. I think homeopath is a load of bunk, but behavior modification deserves to be in another category. Especially considering the independent variables (going to an AA program) and dependent variables (substance abuse) tend to be clear in this case.

For example, saying "I put cumin oil in a vaporizer and now I don't get colds as often" is different than saying "I joined an AA program and now I have been sober for 10 years".
You're right, I should have said "complained."
Disrupt potayo.
Star Trek: TNG characters. Excluding Data to avoid confusion, of course.
> With lazy evaluation, I can pass also around the expression `head []` to different places, and it won't complain until I attempt to evaluate it - much like a language with null won't complain until you try to dereference it.

It won't complain until you try to evaluate it temporally, but the stack trace will point to the call to head.
So if the OP's idea was a Twitter clone and they put "marketing and promotion behind it" it will "work out?"

In my view the idea is the most important part. It doesn't have to be a "great" idea, but you have to have some kind of basic concept and have to look at the market to see if there is any kind of need. That's particularly important if you're spending $1K/month behind this concept and need it to give a return.
>Additionally, go fuck yourself.

I am sorry that I am a little biased. My grandfather died in middle age because he couldn't afford medical care. My mom once picked up a snake instead of a pen while she was studying in the dark by candlelight because they couldn't afford electricity.

So, yes, fuck me for thinking someone should've saved money for the future by buying a cheaper car instead of driving around in a Mercedes and then expecting hardworking taxpayers who themselves are struggling and making do with an old Kia, to foot the bill when hard times roll in. I am surprised you're not advocating the government giving them a Tesla so that they can get out of their depression and feel better about being suddenly "poor".

If there was no WIC or food stamps, would they have sold the Mercedes to feed their twin babies and tried to use only their Honda?

People should be more fiscally responsible.

But, yeah, fuck me for thinking so.
Dislike of Hollywood's output, for sure. But "slipperiness" is a great term. As I said, it's hard to predict small groups. Are you saying Hollywood can't do a better job of figuring out what we want to see in big budget films? Cause all we are getting is the same crap over and over and over.
Url changed from http://retractionwatch.com/2014/07/08/sage-publications-bust..., which points to this.
Going to the US to meet him or sit in his lectures was never going to be a winning strategy ;)
Hey, thanks! I'll check out that issue with adblockplus too.
Yes, as a counter-point, look at Latin America, where they are simultaneously more religious and more relaxed about sexuality.

But it's about the kind of religion. Conservative protestantism has always dominated the religious landscape of the US.
> I think the alternative to AA meetings is usually jail time - so it probably is to some degree voluntary.

"Do this or go to jail" is pretty much the definition of something which is -- legally speaking -- compulsory, not voluntary.

Its voluntary in the trivial sense that a conscious choice is involved, but not voluntary in the legal sense (or the substantive sense of a free choice made without threat of force.)
Personal attacks on vampires?
While I agree with almost your entire line of thought, your () makes me facepalm. Wanting to see a 17 year old naked does not make one a pedophile. In this case it's definitely wrong, a misuse of power, and breaks the law. However, he is definitely not a prepubescent child.
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I get what you're saying, but even when sentinels are used inside a function, returning a -1 to the caller seems like a pretty bad API. It's OK to raise ValueError! I had thought the idiomatic sentinel value was an instance of object() you could is against, anyway.
You sell it to buy food so you don't need food stamps. Poor people don't own luxury cars. Period.
Thanks for this link: http://namingschemes.com

It's one of the two hard problems, you know. Help is always appreciated.

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
You're not naive. It's just that with pot becoming legal in more and more places, something has to be done to sustain the American terror mindset.
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"The numbers are looking good and we haven't even added any gamification [to our game] yet" - a Chief Product Officer
> The preferred tool for writing Haskell though is emacs.

That's news to me. Emacs is a popular editor for Haskell and in general, but I don't see any reason to say it's "preferred". Unlike, say, as it is with Agda or Coq. I use Sublime Text and Atom mostly (although occasionally emacs), and it's perfectly happy. Then again, all I really ask for from an editor is syntax highlighting, basic tab completion and sensible automatic indentation. But for those who want more, there's the SublimeHaskell plugin, although I've had mixed results with it.
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Heh, I don't think parent's point is that minix is the most practical small UNIX option now so much as that it was a big deal for them back in their Atari ST days.
Don't know about enterprise gamification in general, but in the context of health, gamification is just taking off (especially in places with employer-based health insurance).
I'm guessing in your world they don't own houses or microvaves or refrigerators either. They should sell everything for food before they go on the dole. If they have a single resource other than their physical body, then fuck them.
Thanks a lot! Not all if us publishing out of the PRC are corrupt, and any bias by PC members based on country of origin would be unethical and probably racist!
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I think a case can be made for a system like this that uses "consensus nodes" but at the end of the day this approach leads to something like an amphibious car: It's not the best car, and it's not the best boat.

I think it's better, instead, to use bitcoin for some activities and to use a central payment processor for other activities. The central selling points of Hyperledger are "transaction speed" and "low fees"... Why not just use centralized Bitcoin off-chain transactions for these situations, which are even faster and likely even cheaper?

Usually if you want a transaction to be confirmed in under 10 minutes and for a small fee, you're dealing with a transaction under 100 dollars, in which case trusting a central server that is driving off-chain transactions is not a problem.

EDIT: Reflecting more on this, I think a case can be made for a hyperledger-like system beyond a centralized off-chain mechanism, but the problem it solves is small enough that I couldn't imagine using it in the short term. In the long term, something like this may be useful.
In many cases, Docker can be treated like a more lightweight Vagrant. One important benefit I get is more efficient use of machine resources. Running 5-10 fully virtualized Vagrant instances on my laptop hurts. Running the same number of Docker containers is trivial.

The ability to version your images and easily build on them is nice too.
I like the suggestion on the first link that these naming schemes should be used for kids. An amusing site :)
I can't wait for their data to disappear.