skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fix the corruption..and you fix the cartel issue.

You have the cause and effect inverted. Everyone has a price. The reason there is so much corruption in Mexico is that we've made corruption so profitable.

> If I were the cartels, I would continue selling my product, this time legal (similar to how companies are outsourcing to China..drug companies will outsource to Mexico). My power would continue or increase, because I could just buy off any cop and/or government official and the violence would continue (ruling by fear).

If drugs were legalized then competition would increase and drive down margins. Meanwhile the government would collect taxes, preventing the lower margins from actually lowering prices and increasing demand. All of which means less money for the cartels.

> It will be taxed and regulated, which means much higher prices. Many people won't want to pay those higher prices and there will still be a demand for a black market (just like software and music piracy).

Tax evasion is a felony. The cost of continually having your employees arrested and assets seized can easily exceed the cost of just paying the taxes (which is kind of the idea).

The sensible thing to do with drugs is to make possession legal but impose high taxes and then significant fines and mandatory rehab for using drugs or being high in any public place. Meanwhile use 100% of the money from the taxes and fines for anti-drug campaigns and free rehab for anyone who wants it and otherwise doing whatever possible to encourage people to voluntarily give up drug use.
The fact that your data is stored on a cloud provider doesn't mean that that provider owns your data. For example, from Google's TOS:

"You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours." [0].

The context of the quote from the court documents you referenced [1] is that Gmail inevitably needs to be able to process your emails in order to send them (and potentially filter out the spam). It is not, as you seem imply, about violating your privacy.

[0]: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/

[1]: https://www.scribd.com/doc/160041493/Google-Motion-061313
"destroy almost every DSLR made today in the quality of the final result" why would you say this? The GR1 has a decent enough lens if you are happy with just one, but 28mm doesn't suit everybody, and f/2.8 is not always very useful, it does guarantee the lens performs reasonably well wide open though (it's not a very ambitious lens), but most (full frame) DSLRs have higher resolution that that camera. You need to use medium format to beat a D810 or Sony A7r today. I am not saying film isn't great, I shoot film, but it's just plain wrong to go through life, or try to convince others that your little GR1 can beat a Nikon D810 at anything. You need to use a lot of scanning technology to eek out much resolution from the 35mm negs, even dynamic range is better in the FF digital cameras now, and as for ISO performance, film cannot even dream about keeping up. The A7s can shoot in the dark, by starlight!!

A hasselblad 500c/m with its 6x6cm negative will have more tonality and even on a flatbed scanner will have slightly higher resolution that a D810, you'll need an imacon scanner to really get the full resolution of film.

The biggest challenge with film, besides the poor ISO performance compared to digital is the cost.
If later it can be proven that you did really remember it and that you lied for convenience, you can be held liable for perjury.
People respond to inventives. We should set the incentives such that we get the desired behavior.
What I'd like to see (been waiting for, for a long time, actually) is "enterprise" or "pro" backblaze, more along the lines of rsync.net or similar. Something that can (willingly) handle backup from servers (at 1Gbs speed). In other words an Amazon S3/glacier-like product -- but with more transparent pricing.

I'd be happy to pay a premium (way over the $5 per computer) for something like that -- I'm sure I'm not alone. Extra if the software was released under the AGPL or something -- so that I could migrate to self-host if I wanted/needed to. I don't think too many would be able to start up and compete directly with you wrt your experience with pods etc... so I think it should be viable. Less sure if anyone would "want" to move off Amazon.
> "decades long conspiracies and liaise with every nefarious group in the world!"

I made no such claim. There is much that the CIA is not involved with. Clearly you have zero interest in civil discourse, so take your strawmen and fuck off.
Logically this makes fine sense, but for whatever reason, I don't think I've ever encountered a popular open source program that required a specific assembler other than 'gas' unless the entire codebase was written for that assembler. I don't think I've encountered it in academic code either.

But for whatever reason I've encountered a few that distribute NASM or another assembler. I don't know exactly why this would be. I'm trying to find out. Do you have examples where requiring NASM (or another assembler) as an external dependency has worked for projects in the past? I'm sure they must exist --- I just don't know of any.
What a shitshow.. I pitched the same technology around the time bitcoin was being developed, 2009. I must have talked to the wrong VC's because they thought ACH over QR was a horrible idea.

Needless to say I've since moved on to bitcoin.
I've been trying to understand Amazon product search. I wonder if you might be open to having a conversation about this off list.
Has that ever turned out well in recent memory?

Yes - UN peacekeepers do have a positive effect. They just don't hit the news much because they're not dramatically beating their chests about it and bragging about how big their guns are. They're not perfect, but they're certainly better than just leaving things be.

Have a poke around here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_Nations_peac...
OOP was a programming paradigm sponsored by big enterprise. Just search YouTube for this string: "steve jobs object oriented"

Apple, NEXT were absolutely the biggest advocates of OOP. The word "object", for a time, literally pervaded all across their product lineups and marketing. Microsoft got on the bandwagon a little later, first with Visual Basic and later with COM (component object model) that was baked into Windows. The latter of which turned out to be an utter disaster.

Object oriented programming was being pushed in the same way that ORMs, RDBMS, etc etc. It was a whole sales pitch to make money. Whether it was actually "any good" is very much still up for debate.
Black budgets alone are enough to make them a rogue agent for all practical intents and purposes.

How do you audit an organization like the CIA without the CIA's cooperation? In order to audit the CIA you must first trust the CIA, but the purpose of the audit would be to establish trust in the first place.

Trust of the CIA cannot be bootstrapped. They cannot be audited without trust. Since we cannot trust them, it would be foolish to believe that they are subservient to us.
While I hate CurrentC because its a worthless implementation that's already late to the party I think there's a bigger reversal risk for unauthorized ach transactions than credit cards. The possibility of fines/prosecution is much greater when you mess with checks.
> If drugs are legalized tomorrow, what do you think would happen? If I were the cartels, I would continue selling my product, this time legal (similar to how companies are outsourcing to China..drug companies will outsource to Mexico). My power would continue or increase, because I could just buy off any cop and/or government official and the violence would continue (ruling by fear).

So, why don't farmers do this? That's pretty much all most drug production is. Perhaps, that a bale of hay isn't worth millions of dollars, has something to do with it?

The comparison to alcohol prohibition is spot-on. You are correct that legalizing drugs would not solve the problem overnight. But again, look to alcohol prohibition as an example: ending prohibition did not destroy the American Cosa Nostra, but it did deprive it of a primary source of funding which, along with some new laws and law enforcement techniques, and time (measured in decades), enabled law enforcement agencies to reduce those organizations to a shadow of their former selves.

So it will go with the Cartels. Yes it will still take time, but you have to start somewhere.

> I'm not against the legalization of drugs, I'm against the dishonesty.

Frankly, the ends justify the means. 20 years ago people would still get hysterical about something as benign as marijuana. If the only way to correct that in the face of a federal government that does (or did, at least, at the time) spend heaps of money reinforcing it, is to introduce 'medical marijuana' at the state level, as a trojan horse, in the hopes of getting people to recognize that, no, in fact, weed will not turn you into a devil and force you to go out and rape women or whatever the fuck else, then I say do it.

I'll point out that marijuana legalization is itself such a trojan horse as well. Just as twenty years ago the mere legalization of marijuana nationally seemed hopeless, right now the full legalization of all psychoactives seems a bit far-fetched. Yet, observing the effects of marijuana legalization (i.e. basically nothing at all happens) will help drive home the lesson that drugs are generally about as big a deal as you want them to be, and not one bit more.
Person A takes drugs, person A is affected.

Person A kills Person B, person B is affected.
Thank you for the recommendation. I've now read it and spread it to those in my own circles who would appreciate it's worth.

I really enjoyed this article and agree with the overarching conclusions even while disagreeing on various specifics.
Shoot me an email. Our startup is helping the medical education field with our first product, and down the road would like to apply the tech to public schools as well.

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Yea, so fucking cool. Also worth noting that this was on a closed course with a known track... That makes everthing a lot easier.

Update: I never saw this video, very cool thanks!
Because UAV has certain connotations in normal parlance. It's like saying that strange plane you haven't seen before is a UFO. A technically accurate but useless description if you want people to understand what you mean.
ReST shows that a person can invent a technical term, write a long dissertation on what it means, clarify any ongoing misconceptions on the web, and have people use the word to mean whatever they like.

http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...

> REST APIs must be hypertext-driven

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj819168.aspx

> Using the REST Services with .NET
> In order to make use of JSON serialization in .NET

This is not new. Codd spent ages talking about why every relational database was not a relational database.
here's a similar thing i wrote while learning the rc shell on plan 9, inspired by the 'confessionals' in THX-1138. http://sprunge.us/QfPG
Unless she practiced OPSEC above and beyond what most untrained people are capable of

Even security researchers don't practice it to that level. I went to a security conference last year, and one of the speakers was talking about his wifi sniffing box. Time came to demo how it worked... and it turns out that the wifi for the venue had crashed, and the security delegates in the main conference room behind him all attached to his box for net access - he was able to demo skimming hundreds of accounts, apparently. There was another speaker who mentioned that the security industry throws up so many 'best practice' recommendations that even security specialists can't cover them all.
I read some earlier books of his that espouse a global internet content monitoring scheme for the sake of enforcing copyright. Draw your own conclusions.
You misrepresent the voting story. Facebook did a GOTV campaign that motivated an apathetic 0.14% of the population to vote.

It was one of many many election advertising campaigns that influenced voters, and wasn't biased beyond the general leanings of its user base, which is already a majority of voters.
Well, for Web Development, I hope it will have mature support for languages and APIs compiling to JavaScript. Emscripten is a nice demonstration on how given the right tools the web can be a great target for porting to. Today it's missing some support for C++ features and libraries but one day maybe we'll not only have the tools with full POSIX/UNIX APIs but Windows, Java and Android APIs too.

As for Web practices I hope everyone embraces responsive design as being served a separate ghetto version of a site with less features is lousy. I hope everyone stops making a app for their site as that's usually just as bad as the ghetto mobile site if not worse because perhaps the developers didn't have experience in that platform.
Unicode wants to go on for decades. They don't want to become a shrine to obsolete corporate logos.

Private Use is a fine place for logos.
>you mock her for not using tor.

Ok that doesn't make sense to me. Her murderers weren't Cyber-security experts who tracked her down. They were a group of thugs who kidnapped her, along with other medical personnel. Only after they had her in their clutches did they realize who they had. She was probably going to die anyway, this way the cartel knew who they were killing.

So using tor or whatever would only have the minimal effect on her situation
So we're shutting down Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Altria, and Anheuser Busch?

It seems as a society we have other thoughts on what the sensible thing to do with drugs is, namely, let users of it use it as long as they don't harm others.

Using drugs and being high in public is as common as coffee on the morning commute, to paraphrase Coca-Cola, getting high in public is the real thing.
> I would also like to point out that legalizing drugs would not solve the problem. The problem is corruption, not the drugs themselves. Look at Miami in the 1970s. It was a war zone, just like Mexico is today. The reason is because you could buy off any cop or government official in the city (check out the documentary "Cocaine Cowboys" for some real news footage from the time).

Really? Your evidence is a movie described as: "The film explores the rise of cocaine and resulting crime epidemic that swept the American city of Miami, Florida,"

The incentive for corruption is greatly increased by the power held by, and amount of money available to criminal organizations.

> If I were the cartels, I would continue selling my product, this time legal (similar to how companies are outsourcing to China..drug companies will outsource to Mexico).

> MJ will not ever be legal in the sense that you can just grow it and sell it out of your house with no government intervention.

So... your claim is that the US government will prevent locals from growing marijuana but will be just fine with the drug companies outsourcing production to criminal cartels with no regulatory oversight? At least try to be consistent in your argument.

> I'm not against the legalization of drugs, I'm against the dishonesty. Supporters were dishonest about "medical marijuana"..which is quite honestly, a joke. There are 10 doctors in my area that will give you a prescription for MJ for pretty much anything..it will just cost you $70. The majority of people that I know that have their prescriptions just want to smoke weed.

The abuse of medical marijuana prescriptions does not make use the use of medical marijuana prescriptions a joke. Similarly, the extremely high rates of of abuse of other types of prescribed medications does not make them a joke.

About dishonesty, please indicate the claims that you believe were dishonestly made by supporters of medical marijuana? Please contrast those with the honesty of claims made by the FDA that drugs such as marijuana or MDMA have "No accepted medical use"

Please stop blaming the mexican government for failing to control the cartels that the US has been funding through several decades of failed drug policy.
>Someone who can prevent their own misfortune by taking known steps yet doesn't take them is exhibiting behavior deserving of criticism.

It is infuriating to me that you would suggest that it is this woman's fault for being murdered. So she's supposed to have a working knowledge of crypto despite being a working woman (in a non-computer related field) in a 2nd world country OR just shut up about rampant murder and kidnapping in her country?

I have no idea what to say to you, or how to express my horror that mind-blind opinions like these are stated on the regular on this news site.
Not just with the voice control - I can imagine something like Siri being able to respond to requests of things like, "Please show me all of my videos taken while I was in Hawaii of 2014."
Sadly, they will switch to alternate means of sustenance. Many criminals already have E.G. Money laundering, kidnapping, murder for hire etc...

The time to legalize was before it was possible for drug producers to purchase an entire country and impose tyranny upon its citizens. Those already in control will now do anything possible to maintain their profit streams.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossacks_II:_Napoleonic_Wars
The blame rests on her. She was rich, able to afford college education and unnecessarily painting the poor equal-opportunity lacking folks on street as thieves.

Instead of tweeting against the cartels she should have tried to build a bridge to their hearts, reach to the root cause of crime and should acted like a responsible citizen. She instead chose adventurism.

US is doing a great service to these people by continuing to have a drug-prohibition and letting their uneducated/unskilled labor get safe citizenship and welfare money at the expense of American taxpayers. She should have learned something from USA.

^^#sarcasm

I hope that she is safe.
Agreed. But most of the pro version features are non-free features for us to offer.
It doesn't sound like they are blocking it on a hardware level. More like their POS system detects that it is an Apple Pay payment and arbitrarily denies it.
People have been taking intoxicants for longer than they have been writing. Cunieform is about 6000 years old, and beer is at least 9000 years old. Intoxicants are so woven through most of the societies that have dotted human history that it's hard to believe your question is serious.
I am only in favor of Gwern doing such things if he meticulously journals and statistically analyzes their effectiveness against alternatives, as is his wont.
Israel incorpora por primera vez la radiación electromagnética
I think we all admire Bill Joy and share his concerns, but his conclusions, for me, feel inadequate. If technology is a dispersed power, how can we possibly hope to herd its usage?
> Tax evasion is a felony. The cost of continually having your employees arrested and assets seized can easily exceed the cost of just paying the taxes (which is kind of the idea).

You do realize that the Drug Cartels are committing crimes far far worse than tax evasion, right? And there have been no repercussions for them. By suddenly charging them with tax evasion, do you think they'll be stopped?
Yeah, most of those are uber screwing over drivers.

Except the one you quoted, which really confuses me. It's not uber's fault if demand is low in a particular location. Heck, that's actually a pretty good rate, full-time minimum wage for only doing a ride every two hours.
1) Your bank account number is relatively public anyway - afterall it's printed on all of your checks.

2) It's relatively easy to reverse an ACH debit. Which protections would I have to give up?
> Well, if you shop for it, a cardholder can get a minimum of 1% rebated back to them, more in cases of special promotions.

The reward level is set by the card issuer and the merchant pays that, too, as part of the interchange fee.

In Australia legislation was passed that enabled merchants to add a surcharge for credit card use. The result was that 'rewards' disappeared from the market.
Data Scraping vs. Data Crawling?
It seems that you have reached the heart of the problem. Most of us are miles away from that sort of threat. When the word is out that people are out there looking to murder you, it is immensely stressful. You cant eat or sleep.

If I was in her place I would have fled to a different city taking a few days off from work or simply given up the activism to reduce it to a level where the mob would not have bothered that much.

Note: Those who think that she could have managed to conceal her identity, why dont you take her work forward ? Whatever she did you too could do it from safety of USA. (Rhetorical challenge of course).
Push API – W3C Working Draft
It's not accessible to try out. How do I access/login to try after signup? User will get invitation as soon as you launch?
Because if a cartel member is looking for a whistleblower and sees that you use Tor, they're just going to respect your right to privacy and move along?

Anyway, tor wouldn't have helped the woman in the article; she was found by them going through her local app.
Murder directly harms other people, while drugs directly affect only the person taking them. The line is if it directly harms others it should be illegal; otherwise not.
Dogestry: simple image storage for Docker
Somehow I don't see Apple doing that
The problem with RDBMS being?
No sarcastic, just curious.
So... your argument is that because 13 years of alcohol prohibition was sufficient to cause the creation of an organized drug network that lasted 50 years after it's repeal... we shouldn't end prohibition of other drugs?

Yes, the cartels are established and entrenched and will be difficult to remove. However, ending prohibition would at least stop funneling large amounts of money to them now. We could then start the generations long process of rooting out and destroying these organizations created by our failed drug policy.
> How many people are there that can raise $200 million to build a project. Not many.

First, you don't need many for competition; you just need a few. Second, there are lots of people who can raise a mere $200 million.
I actually see more and more web software becoming lazy.

i.e. long, single page applications where content is mostly displayed either in cards or in a feed format.
They should have scrubbed off the logos and re-issued them for the brazil world cup
feel free to quote that earlier book you read. Otherwise we can't really properly draw a conclusion can we? Lessig's campaigns and initiatives have been positive from my experience, especially the current one he's working on, to you know, fix government corruption.
Idris 0.9.15 released – partial evaluation and uniqueness types
This is interesting project. I actually may need pictures like these too ) need to check local tennis courts, arenas.
CurrentC - All that's good for us (Retailers) nothing that's good for you (Consumer). It's so bad it almost seems as if it's a giant April Fools joke. As I write this, CurrentC has a one star rating on the App Store: consumers are not laughing.
I just don't think it's possible.

The genre is rooted in what we as humans believed the scary future would look like. The real scary future just wasn't what we thought.
...because that's how addictive drugs work? Drug addicts make rational choices and have lots of money to spend on planning international trips?
plus you know, he's a lawyer and certainly has the ability to talk like a legal contract might read.
I'd be much happier with 30v next to my skin rather than 300v for a nixie, that's for sure.
This looks so awesome, could easily be a spectator sport like the pod racers in Star Wars :D Would get even more intense if you add some motor disablers on each racer so if you "Shoot" another racer they crash lol
so, some sport in the pool? or any activity?