skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's anyway this is a real email. You'd think they have a little more dignity than this. Revealing ports and passwords is completely insane.
It says 'the value of assets seized has ballooned to $4.3 billion in the 2012 fiscal year' which means that, spread across every American, is an extra $1400 tax which is off the books. For perspective, on the highest minimum wage of $9.32 per hour, that's around 150 hours of work. THAT'S AN EFFECTIVE MONTH OF 40 HOUR WORK WEEKS TO AN ILLEGITIMATE, OFF THE BOOKS, EFFECTIVELY UNREGULATED, AND FOR PROFIT TAX.

Disgusted should not even begin to describe the mood of the American people.

EDIT: My math is bad and I feel bad. Its ~$14 a year which is still an hour but oh my, that was an order of a magnitude error!
Ask HN: Free resources to learn design(for a programmer)
In plain and simple words, how do I learn to design stuff ? I mean, everything online costs atleast $100 to study and I'm a programmer. I learned programming for free online, can't Design courses be the same way ?

I don't know how to design great stuff, and I can't find anyplace to learn that. Help me...
It will approach $0, and then demand will spike, causing prices to rise again. Look at what happened to the cell phone carriers over the last 15 years. Mobile data used to be charged by the KB back in 1999, then by the MB in the 00's, only to become unlimited by the 10's. Then it suddenly became capped and metered again in the last few years, charged by the GB. Unlimited data wasn't a problem for carriers when everyone had feature phones with slow processors and limited storage. With the rise of smartphones and tablets, there was a spike in demand for that unlimited mobile data.

When compute reaches $0, we'll see some new revolution that will find a use for all that compute power (e.g. all those IoT devices will start sending their data to the cloud for analysis, and we'll see more devices like Amazon Echo that have their brains in the cloud. With increased demand, the price will go up again.
The Bill of Rights, Constitution, Constitutional Ammendments haven't been enforced for over 10 years!!
For those that have the money to pursue a lawsuit for the principle of it. Most don't take the time or have the money, or the cost–benefit makes the lawsuit more expensive than the asset itself.
Doesn't this completely go against the trias politica principle? The police effectively playing judge and determining the penalty, without due process and even worse, for their own benefit?

Frankly I'm at a loss for words here. It's wrong on every imaginable level. The most worrying to me is, that there seem to be so many people who do NOT see anything wrong with it.

Do so many people miss a basic grasp of right and wrong, of the building blocks of our society? And what are they doing in the police force?
The likely outcome is that it costs you more than the property which is at stake. It's not that you won't win, it's that it's too expensive to even try!

TFA mentions seizing entire houses? I assume those cases do get filed and won since there's enough at stake. But there's a reason the cops "go for the flat screens" it's a calculated cost/benefit designed to make it just expensive enough to not be worth fighting.

This is why we need large punitive damages awards, but my guess is the law is written specifically to preclude that.
they are submitting forms to https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/empty, source says

<!-- Empty JSP created for faking form submission -->

hmmm
So does this mean that I can sue the Federal Reserve and 'hold' their assets indefinitely until they prove they are not guilty? do I get to keep the interest generated while the case slowly goes through due process?
If you're attempting to find a productive rhetorical truth in a piece about shedding productivity as a focus, you're missing the point.

In fact, you're arguing that she should 1) be able to quantify happiness, 2) consider life-expectancy as a proxy for life quality, and 3) pursue optimizing life by quantifying and measuring it. I think you're missing many points.

The whole idea—the wisdom, if you will—is that you lose an extremely precious thing by focusing on measurement and optimization and increasing quantity and productivity. She has an extremely clear and valid point, which lucidly carries so much truth in it, and is not particularly hindered by slight rhetorical mistakes or lack of clarity. It's that true.

In fact, the clarity and style and beauty of this piece remarkably matches almost exactly how it feels. It's so confusing and seemingly contradictory and paradoxical, yet we know it's true. Even so, no one knows what, exactly, to do with it; so we call it unproductive and go on trying to live our highly productive lives. It's so much bigger than we are, this thing, and resistance seems futile.

And this is when you begin looking into Zen, and things become clearer and muddier at the same time, but you have a fleeting chance, at least, of converging on the ability to hold a thing in your head that's both true and false at the same time, and come just a bit closer, thereby, to the reality of things.
What about something inspired by SFS (see section 2.4 and 3.7 in this IPFS paper)?
http://static.benet.ai/t/ipfs.pdf
It's definitely not an official email, but that doesn't mean the content is not real.
Duped by Innocence Project, Milwaukee man now free
Baby No. 2 Is Harder on Mom Than Dad
How to Learn (Programming)
For sure. I'm thankful that my children and students will not have to spend my decade in the lab. If I manage to tell them in a way that they can hear.
Considering that they are actively hiring in their Mumbai office, I really doubt that they are shutting down.
So, the state seizes your property over what's presumably illegal behavior on your part, and it is not considered a criminal case? Isn't civil law about disputes between individuals as opposed as individual vs the state? Should it be allowed for the police to bring up a civil lawsuit?
True, the laptop and compact apple keyboard lack a right control. I've found that I use the right option key infrequently and use Karabiner to remap the option to control. It definitely helps with the RSI, and makes switching to someone else's machine frustrating :)
http://solidartlabs.com/

Looking forward to reading some reviews once they are available. They look very promising.
I feel it's kind of odd for these people to go to Germany to flee the NSA, since this sort of thing is happening on German soil, through German initiatives (unless you're thinking that Germany is still some crazy puppet state of the USA).

While "consumer privacy rights" mean that you are much more protected against companies in Europe, privacy rights vis-a-vis the governments are virtually non-existant.

If you go back and look through the Snowden leaks, you can see that the UK, France, and Germany have extremely deep spying practices with _absolutely no pretense of privacy concerns_. At least in the US we're trying (or at least pretending to try).

To my knowledge the craziest thing like this that has happened on US soil is people being held up in the airport (I am prepared to stand corrected on this point).

For at least the case of France, I can state with certainty that the NSA has much more restrictions in place than the DGSE has for spying on its own citizens (and others).

By spouting the "US pressured Europe to act on these things" meme, we're doing nothing but harm. We're reducing the agency of these governments in the decisions they'll wilfully take up anyways, and missing some gaping holes in European civil rights.
Was about to clone till I found out the last commit (README doesn't count) was on Nov 27, 2009.
Woozgo: une occasion de faire des sorties entre amis
I'm a recent immigrant to USA, and while I don't presume to know everything about American culture, your comment and this article really resonate with my observations in the time I've spent here.

There is a consistent message pervasive in the culture - you are worth what you produce. You are defined by what you produce. Productivity is the currency that buys you respect in society. I've met many many people who rise above this view, but as a society, this is prevalent. Everything has to be about "winning" in some way - even if you are working out, or playing a game, you gotta "play hard", compete, kick the other guys ass, not feel sorry for yourself, not mope, just WIN. Forget about what you're winning, what or why you produce, as long as you produce more than the other guy. Other cultures may use wisdom, or age, or kindness as currencies for respect/status in society.

And then people wonder why society is becoming increasingly isolated. See, when you tie your worth to what you produce, you must give up everything to produce. EVEN IF "producing" means painting a beautiful portrait in your garage, the compulsion to produce is the problem. It makes people focus too hard on themselves and how they can improve/level-up. Too focused inward to see the people around you and their lives, and the joy that can bring. That isolation leads to addiction, depression, isolation and all manner of mental illness. Because humans have evolved to be social creatures. It is hardwired in our nature. We cannot and should not try to fight that. We should not view that as a sign of weakness or an obstacle to productivity, or money, or fame, or any other idol.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pqy5un1vzcho6a4/Screenshot%202014-...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bswum0iz8ggfheo/Screenshot%202014-...
But surely that's built into the structure of the legal system? People I do business with don't routinely defraud me of amounts too small to sue over: why can't the same legal reasoning apply to these cases?
Why would you remap the left option key to ctrl when you already have two left ctrl keys (caps and original ctrl) ? I do set the right option key to ctrl but only in iterm and emacs.
At the very least there are independents. But yeah, I understand your frustration.
Selfish feature requests:

+Better color scheme by default makes it easier on the eyes than full-saturation RED, GREEN, MAGENTA
+Pick from existing colors to draw new cells
+Time-series charts of per-color population counts
+Draw on chart with default pointer instead of text select
+Reset to default button

Overall this is really interesting to look at. It doesn't really seem like it's that close to Conway's Game of Life, but it's an interesting nonetheless.
NYT, 1924: Hitler's tamed by prison, “no longer to be feared”
From the article:

"CityLab notes that the path is a result of a collaboration between the private industry, the government and academia. ... It was also incredibly expensive — roughly $3.7 million, paid for largely by the local [taxpayers]."

Amazing what you can achieve when you're wasting other peoples money.
I agree completely. The subject matter in the book is worth review but I found his style so distracting it was difficult to finish. It has the feel of a first writing assignment where the suggested format was followed very closely chapter after chapter. Not a book you get lost in reading.
CALEA does not apply to Apple. When you read a US law, you should start with the "Definitions" section. The definitions in a law are binding.
The publication is in Science Translational Medicine http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/6/258/258ra140.full
This is stupid.

The guy said consumption "HAS TO" match production as if it's a law of nature or something. If you stop producing because you run out of money, that's not the same as consumption having to match production. Consumption didn't match your production until that point either, because otherwise you'd still be producing. So no, it didn't have to.

Furthermore, when you stop producing because you can't anymore, that's more like production matching consumption.

If you want to claim something like "consumption tends to roughly match production", that's fine. But that's different from the original claim. It's also worth noting that production comes first. For something to be consumed, it has to be produced first. But there's no magical force that makes the two match, there are just people acting.

Let's call it a day.
From the EFF summary (https://www.eff.org/node/81889) seems to be a movement solely from the German police.

Apparently a group was going around burning things in Germany, and publishing long tracts about their acts. Linguistic analysis seemed to link those tracts to her husbands research papers. The whole "7 words" quote seems to be a (wilful or not) misinterpretation of facts : the writing style was probably similar.

As someone else mentioned, this person used to be a squatter in East Berlin in the 90s , so one could guess a bit of an anti-authority type. At least that's how the reasoning could go.
>>But I do wonder one thing...did we quit on ideology prematurely?

In reality we quit on the idea that society can be engineered, but we nevertheless retain the notation that individual actors can be engineered. For example, we reject the notation that the communist party can build a stable society but we retain social value that you shouldn't judge people solely on wealth.

>>I can envision a society built around the pursuit of knowledge.

Its hard to say what is and isn't knowledge, I shudder to think of a society based on research publications.

This goes back to my first point. Its very hard to engineer a society. We can only hope to make reasonable actors.
I'm very disturbed by the callousness with which he brags about violating the constitution to get extra-legal justice.

I'm also confused why people always (largely rhetorically) wonder why Americans don't trust officials and are withdrawing from the political process when there are ample examples of officials bragging about their illegal activities without any consequence.
Nothing scares politicians more than a million people protesting on the streets of each major city, angry about a very specific issue.

Politicians are lucky that the population is not organized enough and/or doesn't care enough to do that. And they make sure to keep it that way.
Bitcoin vs. Gold – Pantera Capital Report [pdf]
That's insane! God Bless 4th of July and founding fathers!
Reqr.es
I don't know, I kind of stopped reading when the author said that understanding pointers and recursion makes someone gifted in programming. Those are really just fundamentals.
That seems accurate to me.

I do try to avoid 'guys' and 'dudes' in professional contexts, for the reasons mentioned in the OP, but it can be difficult to remember. Most of my closest friends are women, and 'hey guys' and 'hey dudes' are common greetings even when the group is all women (other than me). I don't usually address individuals by anything other than their name, but 'dude' is occasionally used for either a man or a woman, while 'guy' in the singular is clearly only for men.

I mean, 'guy' is male-identified to the point that it's used as an indicator -- "guy stuff" versus "girl stuff", etc. It's not a huge stretch to perceive the plural as only quasi-neutral, addressing women by assumption rather than by explicit inclusion.
It's funny you mention entity framework. That's what blows up tempdb on one of my many environments with some of the stupidest queries I've ever seen hit the server.

Maybe your experience with entity is better than mine, but I personally think it and most other ORMs are complete garbage.
anyone what the "last night with john oliver" special on this ?- he got some great video clips of police employees saying some outrageous stuff.
While it is true that you can "write in" anyone you want, the reality of all voting means that the winner is (Generally) going to be the person who is most well known - and like it or not that means campaigning aka advertising.

So in practice, this doesn't get you anywhere.

What we need is a nationwide NOTA (None of the above) vote option, wherein if the NOTA vote gets a plurality, the race must re-occur with different candidates. Like in Brewsers Millions.
"If we had a military division with the bullet-carrying capacity of these birds it would face any army in the world...They can face machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks."
Bono is a hard-core businessman, not an artist.

This is a guy who raised to fame on giving fundraising concerts to help poor children in Africa, and himself donated ZERO dollars out of 1.7 billion he made on Facebook stock.

God only knows what deals has been made behind scenes U2 vs Apple.

Edit: I stand corrected: first and foremost, he's a hard-core businessman, THEN an artist.
He's not arguing against disclosing financials during the course of raising money. He's against giving minority shareholders continued access to financials. aka information rights.

Asking up front is one thing, being obligated to provide to a minority shareholder ongoing is another entirely.
Yea, I wonder whether there are companies that are really that honest, without the root pw and port numbers of course.
What Is Journalism Anymore?
Ask HN: Would you localize your app?  Why?  Have you done it already?
There have been some discussions on HN recently about how to localize an app. The comments have focused on (i) how to translate the strings in an app, (ii) how to optimise the title/description/keywords in the app store, (iii) why translation isn't enough.

If you have localized your app already:

- How did you decide it was worth doing?

- Apart from translating strings (in the app and on the store), what else did you do, to try to make your app successful in other languages/countries?

If you haven't localized your app:

- Why not?

- What could make you change your mind?
Don't blame the parties. The parties react quite readily when called on something - when the electorate demands it. Look into the civil rights - is there any politician now openly opposing equal voting rights? No. Why - because all politicians are suddenly so high minded? No, because it's an extremely unpopular position and will get one's behind kicked on the election day. Now look at more controversial issue - say, gay marriage. Here we have politicians which wouldn't dream of taking position for or against - in certain places - and politicians readily taking the same position in another place. Why? Is it just random? No, it's because their electorate wants it, and politicians whose position does not match their electorate do not get elected. In fact, the president himself notably changed his position quite recently on the issue. Etc., etc. - I could name dozens of issues where politicians did whatever their electorate asked, and changed their tune when the electorate changed their opinion.

So why civil forfeiture is not an issue that effects change? Not because politicians are bad - they are bad in different ways, but at least in the US, their badness still can be controlled to a large measure. But because US citizens are not threatening to kick their politician's asses if they don't fix it. Like they do with many other hot topics of the day, quite successfully, one way or another. Why is that? I'm not sure. Maybe because civil forfeiture is something that usually happens to people that either linked to the criminal world or live in the places which are "sketchy" or don't have money and connections to raise the hype. Maybe because people are reluctant to criticize law enforcement. Maybe because it is served as a part of "war on drugs" and "think of the children", etc. Maybe there's another reason I completely miss - but whatever it is, the problem is not the politicians, the problem is that this issue is not taken as a serious problem by the society. If you want to blame somebody who could effect the change - blame the press. They probably could raise the profile of the issue if they wanted to. But they do not.

So the answer to the question of "who can stop them" - US citizens can. If only they'd want to.
Living Life Secondhand
Lea – Discrete probability distributions in Python
If you have an army, yes.
Last post in Google group is in 2012 asking if it is dead.
What the article says: Go down the stack in a linear format and check everything

What a Sherlock Holmes story is: Seemingly-unrelated characters could be responsible for the crime

How the story would've been if it was really similar to Sherlock Holmes:

- Check your own software (Already done)

- Go down the stack and check all dependency, platform issues (Already done)

- Check if your clipboard works properly (New)

- Check if the monitor outputs pixels properly (New)

- Check if your eyes see clearly (New)

That would be Sherlock Holmes debugging!

On a serious note, I like the story. I also like the way things are done but I assumed that's how every developer works. I looked at the link to the Scientific approach and IMO, that shouldn't be considered as the de-facto Scientific approach. This should be the Scientific approach.
The challenge here is that people fighting this have to be convinced to pay higher taxes rather than "Stick it to the criminals." When you ask people to pay for higher principles, sometimes they balk. Of course we know about the road to hell, and today it's a drug dealer's car, and tomorrow it's the opposition party's mayoral candidate.
"Y'all" and "folks" carry a bit of a cultural connotation. "Y'all" is identified with the South, and "folks" has a somewhat rural (folksy!) sound to it. I grew up without "y'all" and with "folks" almost exclusively referring to parents and grandparents, so I don't feel very natural using them.

In chat, I'll use "folx". It's a private, unexplainable joke that also helps me feel a little less silly (by being a lot sillier).
Something Called 'The Race to Zero' Is Scaring a Lot of Tech Companies
Last I saw they were writing a VimL->Lua transcoder. I think they'll allow scripting in any language, but Lua will be the core language and have the best support.

I donated to NeoVim few months ago and I'll donate again. Really wishing them success.
That demonstrates again why people should reject the argument of "if we don't do this, law enforcement would be hard" or "we'd do it only to the bad guys, don't worry". Because as soon as it's allowed to do this to the bad guys, it is amazing who becomes the bad guy when needed.