skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This significantly changes what must be proved. Under the existing law, if the government's theory of forfeiture is that the property was used to commit or facilitate the commission of a crime, they must show by a preponderance of the evidence that there was a substantial connection between the property and the offense.

There is an "innocent owner" defense that protects the interests of innocent owners to the property. For property interests that were in existence at the time of the illegal acts, an innocent owner is one who did not know of the acts giving rise to forfeiture, or who upon learning of those acts did all that could be reasonably expected under the circumstances to terminate that use of the property. For an interest that acquired after the illegal conduct, an innocent owner is someone is a bona fide purchaser who did not know that the property was subject to forfeiture.

Paul's bill changes the requirement when the government's theory of forfeiture is that the property was use to commit or facilitate a crime to this, and modifies the innocent owner defense to get rid of the parts of it that are redundant in light of these changes:

(3) if the Government’s theory of forfeiture is that
the property used to commit or facilitate the commission
of a criminal offense, or was involved in the commission
of a criminal offense, the Government shall establish,
by clear and convincing evidence, that—

(A) there was a substantial connection between the property
and the offense; and

(B) the owner of any interest in the seized property—

(i) intentionally used the property in connection with the
offense; or

(ii) knowingly consented or was willfully blind to the use
of the property by another in connection with
the offense

Note that under the current wording, if you had, say, a boat owned by three people who take turns with it (e.g., one owner runs the boat during the winter fishing crab, one runs the boat during part of the summer doing salmon tendering, and one takes people on whale watching trips), and one of the owners is also using it for smuggling, then the boat could be seized, but the two other owners would keep their interest as innocent owners. The net result would be the government would end up as partial owner of the boat.

Under the new language, it looks like the government has to show that all the owners were involved with, consented to, or were "willfully blind" to the smuggling. It does not define "willfully blind".

This seems to be a huge loophole. It should not be too hard for criminals to arrange for their major assets they use in their crimes (boats, planes, cars, real estate) to have a minority co-owner not connected to the crime and who has no idea the property is being used for crime and was not "willfully blind" to such use.

Or maybe not...I'm reading (3)(B) as saying that all the owners must be shown to meet (i) or (ii), but it may be possible to read it as meaning that at least one owner must meet (i) or (ii). This section needs to be rewritten.
Ask HN: What do you think of this first employee offer?
A UK hardware company is keen to hire employee #1 (software engineer) at ~£1.4k/month and 2% (4 year vest, 1 year cliff).

The company consists of the founder with hardware experience and a co-founder with marketing experience. It recently finished an accelerator (at $50k for 6%) and has raised ~$150k via crowd funding.

The company estimates they're worth $3-4m, but haven't yet had a formal valuation.

It hopes to raise a further ~$500k by the end of the year. If they receive funding, the company promises to raise the salary to ~£44k/year.

The employee is an intermediate-senior level developer and would be tasked with building a significant part of the product. There currently exists a rough prototype and design docs.

How would you rate this offer? Is it fair for the employee?

Edit: the position will be remote work (the company does not (yet) have an office).

Edit 2: to clarify, I am asking as the potential employee, not the company.
The first step would be to validate the opinion that people prefer to see the books they read. Then you would need to find out how much people are willing to pay for it.

My guess is not much, because people can just buy the book if they want it. Also keep in mind, the cost of an ereader is around $80-90 - quite an expensive cost to add per book.
It's interesting to see all the export/import flows, like exporting to Germany yet importing from DenmRk. I guess it's due to price sifferences?
The article clearly says this is not the case. The searches for "iPhone slow" come when the new version of iOS is released, not when it is announced.

Second, we do studies like this so that one data point (yours) is not used to make general understanding.
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It's actually specific to combined cycle gas turbine plants where the waste heat from the GT is used to generate steam and eventually additional energy. This is opposed to simple cycle GTs where the mechanical output gas turbine is the only source of energy to the grid.
Malcolm X was addressing decades of white-on-black domestic terrorism across the country.

s/decades/centuries
Planned obsolescence is easily accomplished by "not worrying so much about the performance on older devices"
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Yeah exactly what I thought, too, seems to have feature parity with OllyDbg? As well as extras?
This. I live in Serbia and it's the same thing. They approach you as you're entering a voting location and offer you as little as €20 in exchange for a vote, and they ask you to take a smartphone photo of the voting piece of paper (dunno the right term in English) as proof.

Not to draw discussion to political affairs, but literally nobody I personally know has ever expressed nothing but contempt for the currently leading party here, yet they have amassed over 50% of all the votes on the latest elections. I suspect a lot of it was via these methods. So a fraud-intolerant voting system would help, but not tremendously so.
Pay attention to a couple of things in your response. Whatever happens I wish you the best.

(1) You contradicted yourself. What multiple years long translates to as you increase the number of years is death. So it's not true that there is always an option to your goal. At some point you run out of time and it leaves you without options.

If you haven't found this so far in your experience you might find it in the future in your experience. The important thing isn't whether you found it so far or not. It's whether it's true.

If by getting back up you mean returning to the US and getting past visa issues to continue entrepreneurship there, then you said something that's not true: you can't say it won't be hard to get back up. You don't know how hard it will be.

It is true though that reward is proportionate to risk. I also agree with the more general advice: make an option work for you. As long as it's qualified with: be aware the option that will work for you will have limitations another option wouldn't. The closer you get to the truth, the messier your sentence gets.

(2) When you find yourself justifying something with guilty words like "always" and "whole point" ("incredible" for the lawyer, "damn fine" for the university, "too damn good" for the opportunity) it's often to counteract something you subconsciously know is true. Else you wouldn't find the need to try hard to qualify the statement. You would just say the statement instead. You should be alarmed when you catch yourself do that.

After identifying the logical fallacy in (1), the second interpretation I had to reading your blog post was it was a cry for help from your subconscious. That it needed evidence it didn't have to convince your conscious part to reconsider the decision. I don't know if this is possible now that 5 months have passed.

It's also slightly suspicious you defended your blog post with risk. You might have subconsciously done it to camouflage the possibly bigger risk of deciding to stay in the US permanently if you are from India. You'd have to part from your family, possibly for a lifetime, and that can be a scarier thing than returning home. You'd also part with two co-founder friends and a startup idea. I can't know exactly what's going on in your case but if paying more attention to your subconscious helps your journey I'm glad this long response might have helped.

Tricky thing that subconscious:

The vast majority of goals you are pursuing, every day
of your life, operate entirely without your awareness.

- Heidi Grant Halvorson
Tierra evolved— without extensive setup in the representational structure— viruses and other kinds of interesting parasites and countermeasures, including sexual reproduction: http://infidels.org/library/modern/meta/getalife/coretierra....

(this isn't to say that evolutionary approaches are all that useful, they're usually outclassed by other optimization approaches, and where they work it's either in trivial cases or with mind-boggling amounts of computation)
Unbelievable Natural Phenomena You Have To See
This has got to be the most hilariously inept series of sockpuppets I've ever seen. I'm tempted to add some of my own.
For some reason I think that stability is the least energetic state of the solar system.

So it's unlikely to change statistically speaking.

As for violent changes like ejection of a planet, I'm not sure solar system may generate that kind of energy out of planet movements. Unlikely if you ask me.
Maybe this should be marked as from 1999!
There's generally very little call for binary-level debuggers in linux. So everything is oriented towards source-level debuggng. Which makes sense since normally source code is available.

IMO gdb isn't very good for binary-level debugging, which is pretty much a euphemism for reverse-engineering anyway. It'd be nice to have something like that. I tinkered around with building such a thing years ago[0] but I wanted it to be cross-platform (I was using PPC at the time). But found libdisasm to be a bit limited as a disassembler suitable for such a thing.

[0]. http://www.scaramanga.co.uk/stuff/debugger/l33t-debugger.png
Hi. I am the author of MiniMagAsm.
Actually MiniMagAsm is just an proof-of-concept, that can be used for small sites.

I know that the performance can be improved by using some optimization tricks, but I simply don't need (for now) it to be faster. :)

Also, it is true, that x86 hardware can run much heavier web engines, but think about that the same hardware can run more lightweight engines as MiniMagAsm.

Anyway, the future of this project is probably towards using FastCGI or SCGI interfaces and maybe the use of some lightweight database engine - like SQLite.

Ah, BTW, http://asm32.hopto.org is actually my home desktop computer. :) Recently, the whole project has been moved to a commercial hosting: http://asm32.info
I think it's easier to see what is going on without the nested subscripting:

>>> i = 0
>>> a = [0, 0]
>>> i, a[i] = 1, 10
>>> a
[0, 10]

versus

>>> i = 0
>>> a = [0, 0]
>>> a[i], i = 10, 1
>>> a
[10, 0]
I'm definitely interested. Is there a mailing list or something similar I can subscribe to in order to keep up with the progress?
"Would be really interesting to be able to compare different countries with the same sort of data."

Wondering about history and raw data sets.

Excellent looking site for getting students interested in stuff like power generation
"The public perception of the dangers of anything radioactive is quite exaggerated."

Not when you bring the timescales into account, recognize that you'd have to scale operations up massively from present levels (15,000 or so plants vs. the 436 presently operating in the world). This would mean commissioning and decommissioning about a plant per day.

Add to this questions over fuel availability (known reserves are good for about 80 years at present levels of use, 6 if used for all human energy needs), and the need to find some way for creating transport and storage fuels, and nuclear is at best a small part of a much larger energy solution.
It is very unfortunate that the author did not get benchmark data, because the benchmark you have linked to supports this alternative explanation, which is in the later part of the article:

>This data has an even more benign explanation. Every major iPhone release coincides with a major new operating system release. Though Apple would not comment on the matter, one could speculate — and many have — that a new operating system, optimized for new phones, would slow down older phones.

The benchmark data shows an older phone performing much slower with an updated OS.

Whether this supports the conspiracy theory implied in the first part of the article depends on Apple's intent, as the article says.
Just wanted to add a more functional solution:

def miss_pos(a):
b = range(1, len(a)+2)
return min(set(b).difference(a))

It's probably not as efficient, but remember the first rule of optimization: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FirstRuleOfOptimization
The Majority of Today’s App Businesses Are Not Sustainable
Any good carpenter knows metric sucks.
There are still ways to prosecute those criminals without directly seizing their property and creating horrible incentives.
The very definition of a puff piece. An interesting viewpoint that buying a big boat is an act of social giving.
While comprehensions are definitely standard Python, I would argue that if you're not actually changing any value (as is the case here, then just `set(a)`, being much simpler, is more Pythonic.
Where is the job located, wages in London are a lot higher than other parts of the country for example.
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> and each day route a quantity of data equivalent to several hundred US Libraries of Congress

I think it's about time we introduced a new unit of measurement for data
There are two sides to every coin.

Allowing criminals to keep the proceeds of crimes also creates horrible incentives.
So a non-conspirator gets a free most-of-a-boat? I don't mind that happening.

Or you're saying ownership wouldn't be lost by anyone?
Run this on Python 3 or use xrange instead of range on Python 2 and you get N space instead of 2N anyway :)

Also, the average case for set membership testing is O(1), so the average case runtime would actually be O(N).

https://wiki.python.org/moin/TimeComplexity#set
The case of 'salt in the oceans' is poor choice of something we don't need to worry about. The macro mechanics of the oceans depend intimately on salinity.
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/conveyor.html

Messing that up would be catastrophic. It is also the sort of dynamical system susceptible to bifurcation. The conveyor could potentially invert due to a threshold change in temperature or salinity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifurcation_theory
Ask HN: Quick long-ish reads recommendations?
Im currently at an airport waiting to catch my flight from Buenos Aires to Panama and I have a couple hours to download stuff to read on the airplane. What are the best articles you would recommend me to read during my flight? I'm not looking to read a whole book but I rather jump on different subjects and articles throughout the flight.
Backwards compatibility has to be used with care: too much of it and your new product will never have software of its own and will only be a newer version of your old product. The Commodore 128 is a good example of this.
reminds me of this quote

> Her smile tilted. “Mark, you don’t pay back your parents. You can’t. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It’s a sort of entailment. Or if you don’t have children of the body, it’s left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.”

- from "A Civil Campagaign"(The Vorkosigan Saga Series) by Lois Bujold
It'll be remote work (at least to begin with).
Does the language specify that things will work this way, or is it undefined / implementation-dependent behavior?

To me, it smells like the result of a sloppy specification.
Building command line apps in Node.js
Ironically, Rob Pike eschews big shell scripts.

If you want a programming language, you know where to find one.
A disadvantage I can see is that there must be a MASS production of e-ink displays...

Cost of goods will cripple this scheme, because you seem to have implicitly assumed that the price you pay for a book in a shop is on the same order as the manufacturing cost of goods for the book block in your hand.

It's not.

Roughly 10% of the SRP of a book sold through a bricks'n'mortar store is reflected in the cost of goods -- a mass market paperback costs 50-80 cents to manufacture, and a bound hardcover costs about $2.00-2.50, of which a surprising chunk goes on stitching it into the binding, and printing the glossy wrap-around. (Ratios are a bit different in the UK where, for example, hardbacks are perfect (glue) bound rather than saddle-stitched.)

I can conceive of a low-resolution e-ink reader primed with a roughly 1Mb FLASH chip containing a single novel wholesaling for maybe $15-20, if produced by the million. I can't see the same tech wholesaling for $1-$2.

2. A secondary issue: in some genres, readers adopted ebook reader technology early precisely because the other public couldn't tell what they were reading. This was identified as an issue by Harlequin's market researchers -- Romance leads category fiction sales, accounting for about 50% of the total, and Romance readers are a little twitchy about being judged for their choice of reading by other members of the public they encounter e.g. on public transport or elsewhere where they might be reading. This runs exactly opposite to what you're suggesting.
One of my recent proud moments as a parent was catching my 7yo up at midnight reading her favourite book of Greek myths.* I can verify it's not actually possible to tell a child off for doing precisely what you both did as kids and deeply approve of. I actually convinced her she did need to sleep by pointing out how tired she'd been that morning, and she did have school in the morning ...

* http://www.amazon.com/Atticus-Storytellers-100-Greek-Myths/d... - simplified and bowdlerised versions for kids, but a really good start on cultural literacy.
Do people use paragraphs anymore ?
Entry level price for an e-ink device in the UK is now down to £35, i.e. US $55-60, of which 20% is VAT (tax); in the USA it's down to under $50 (in some cases $35 with a mail-in rebate). Furthermore, this is the retail price for the reader. Unless they're heavily subsidized to below cost price, the device itself is even cheaper.
Managed to convince my 7yo midnight reader that she needed to get to sleep so she wouldn't be tired for school in the morning. Sweet reason! It works on kids on rare occasions!
An interesting point is that the meter is off by 0.2%. Not bad you might think, but compare it to the Summerian Kù of 51.85cm of the copper of Nippur and its derived unit SAR of 3600 Kù being 1866.6 meter being only 0.77% off from an arc second of the meridian.

Those ancient scientist did know the square root of 2 and PI by 4 sexagesimal figures. Thats better then IEEE floating point single precision! They did calculate the size of the earth being only 0.77% off the real value.

All this wisdom was lost 333BC, when Alexander destroyed civilization, installed femicide and women segreation, that is still cursing middle eat. Later the Greeks claimed parts of recovered ancient math as their own. So we now know the names of Greek copycats like Pythagoras, but not the names of those who really discovered this wisdom.

It had been most likely a female name, because reading, writing, math had been typical women skills at that time.
You can see Ireland's real time wind generation here: http://www.eirgrid.com/operations/systemperformancedata/wind...

and total demand is here: http://www.eirgrid.com/operations/systemperformancedata/syst...
You mean this one? http://i.imgur.com/GFpwht3.jpg
If keys are such a threat, then the sidelight next to my front door lock is a gaping security hole. Keys are nothing more than an annoying deterrent.
1. Download a podcast app
2. Head to http://www.se-radio.net/
3. Download a couple of episodes
4. Enjoy flight
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That's the way it's done in congress for the official vote, so why not?
In the developed world, while there's ample examples for great public transport, I have a hard time saying what percentage of it has decent coverage (whatever that is). Maybe it's as simple as saying it's mostly shit in the US and mostly decent in Europe, with the rest of the developed world also split, so about 50/50.

Most of the world doesn't have decent public transport because most of the world is -- rapidly -- developing. In the same vein, most of the world doesn't have decent internet access (I'm not saying the two are very similar in other regards). It's a bit early to say whether the developing world will end up with decent public transport. They're certainly trying with some success. They're also acquiring cars at an astounding rate, they're going to have to do major infrastructure works at enormous cost either way, hopefully they're smart about it.

As for the rest; living without a car doesn't require anybody to live in an arcology or in a "hyperdense" urban area. Most of the world (ie >50%) already lives in an urban area. There are lots of medium-sized or even big cities that aren't hyperdense by any sensible definition of that word. I don't think most people consider it hell on earth.
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Cops taking someones property without him being convicted of crime first seem more dangerous to me.
By the way, a really interesting documentary on the expedition (and Méchain's error) exists, though maybe not in English. It's been aired on Arte (and probably ZDF in Germany):

In French:
http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/041693-004/un-metre-pour-mesurer... / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y77kLA1eC0M

And in German:
http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/041693-004/terra-x / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoMvzVLiL94
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Non-US carpenters seem to handle meters just fine.
No one is advocating that criminals be allowed to keep the proceeds of crimes. What they are saying is that the burden of proof should be on the government instead of the current situation where guilt is presumed.
TLS hardening
I think the dilemma you face when your startup doesn't get anough traction or money is: do I spend more time with my current idea or pivot? You can feel that pivoting is not fighting enough so you try harder and harder with a startup that doesn't work.

At the end you are dealing with uncertainties, and trial and error is your basic tool.

A complementary action that I use in my company is having enough cash to play with new ideas until we found the right one. Probably a straigthforward cash cow is not a product but a consulting or development service.
Further reading for anyone interested:
Neal Stephenson's legendary "Mother Earth Motherboard" is related.
http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html
The quality of writing in this paper is quite terrible. I'm not sure what kind of review this went though, but I'm kind of shocked it got approved with data points named "After Prism Revelations". Revelations is an emotional word for that data descriptor.