skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there is no such thing as "anonymized data".

Of course there is.

I work in a business today that collects highly personal consumer data and does advanced analytics. We strip personally identified invention once the data is brought in so there is technically no way to to deanonymise it.

We are hardly unique.
>Code is data and data is code.

This is true. It does not follow, however, that the concept of code and data is meaningless. Ask anyone who's had to deal with user data unserializing into executable code whether the truth you speak is a blessing or a curse.

> I don't want my Lisp programs crippled by a "dumb" config file.
Why should a config file not be "dumb?"

The purpose of a config file is to store state. Why should that be Turing complete? What purpose would it serve?
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I don't see what that has to do with basic income. I never mentioned paying people based on their sexual orientation, but upon things that we almost unanimously agree to.
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... so they didn't meet the deadline. The deadline is for a released fix, not a theoretical fix that nobody can install in reality. They could, and should, speed up their process. But they won't, unless they get pressure from outside.
set -o errexit (set -e): exit script when command fails

set -o nounset (set -u): exit script when it tries to use undeclared variables

set -o pipefail: returns error from pipe `|` if any of the commands in the pipe fail (normally just returns an error if the last fails)
The second comma in the second sentence has got to go. "on files, usually structured" <-- that one. There are some other ones too. Other than that this is really great!
> Even if you make everyone drive at 20MPH inside cities, you'll still have people exceeding that limit and getting into accidents.

The key is how you make everyone drive 20mph. It's been pretty well established that speed limits do a horrible job of forcing drivers to slow down and are even counter productive since a small minority of drivers will actually follow them. This creates a delta between them and the majority of drivers and deltas between drivers, more so than absolute speed, contribute to an increase in accidents.

However you can actually slow drivers down by making the lanes narrower. Drivers may complain, object and lobby to revert back to wider lanes, but they'll actually slow down until that happens.
Ya, it's so useless it's one of the best selling gadgets on Amazon!
Not saying you're lying, but to rule something out as "useless" just because it doesn't work for you (and the closure of your acquaintances) just makes you look stupid!
Watch, the trial lawyers association and the trolls will bring out the big bucks too. Harry Reid killed the last patent reform bill based on a call from the trial lawyers association. The GOP has no love for the lawyers so we may see some progress now.

So the largely liberal Silicon Valley may actually see some tangible economic benefits from the GOP controlling Congress.
Ya, the Netherlands is nice. Population densities are much lower, however.
Do we know if they do code review? Are pull requests blindly accepted?
For those of you who aren't familiar with Egan's work, I can't recommend it enough. All good scifi indulges in world-building, but Egan's is the most scientifically well-thought-out I've seen, as well as containing some very plausible depictions of post-humanity.

Many of his works are available in their entirety on his (delightfully 90's) website, http://www.gregegan.net.
I would expect that a lifeguard watching someone drown would qualify as depraved indifference and would be tried as second-degree murder (in most US jurisdictions).
> One big blade massively outperforms eight little ones.

taking just blades into account - yes, though not that "massively". But the moment we consider the whole system - attach the blades onto a shaft, connect that shaft to reductor, to gas turbine, etc... ie. if that system is helicopter than bigger blade is still better, but if we change the whole system, ie. octocopter built using electric motors - the equation starts to change and we have good efficiency with octocopter and, which is more important, - much better control (eight electric motors with some of them allowed to be tilted gives precise control compare to very sluggish system of one big rotor driven by one big gas turbine), which addresses your point about " hovering around a minimum of a ton" - impossible task to do safely for helicopter in urban environment and pretty easy to do with ducted octocopter (you can't really have ducted helicopter precisely because of the size of the blades)

As far as i see, the lack of good control (not efficiency, range, payload, etc..) and direct danger from unshrouded blades is that doesn't allow to fly helicopters in any (even close to)urban environment, and especially for regular people.
Agreed. Thankfully this is the default on many systems (I'm guessing recent coreutils).

Unfortunately dumb lines like "rm -rf $HOME/$STEAMDIR" still get through unscathed.
It's a bashism. Open up "man bash" and search for "Remove matching suffix pattern".
Are you claiming that jury members select a verdict at random? That there is no thought process happening in each of the individuals on the jury? Regardless of whether the juror's beliefs correspond to the actual reality of the case, that individual will still require some reason (evidence) for believing a particular thing. If you are trying to convince a juror of something, you will need to interact with that individual on such a level that you provide them with sufficient evidence for them to believe the claim you want them to believe.

This is separate from the rule of law in the US where a prosecution must prove its allegations beyond a reasonable doubt. It is true that a defense is not required to make any claims or present any evidence. However, depending on the jurors selected, in order to instill or preserve a reasonable doubt, some claims may need to be made. In order for a juror to believe a claim, that individual juror will need to find or receive some evidence sufficient for them to believe the claim.
While really valid, you also have to take into account what kind of hosting services are provided on Tor. Of course, one could host the solution themselves.
When I lived in Lausanne, the local police were definitely giving tickets to pedestrians for crossing against the light. So its not all European countries (though the Swiss are more law and order than most).
I recommend checking Pixie out https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie
In both cases you instruct a machine to take a picture of you.
silkroadmarket.org was registered on February 28, 2011 [1]. According to a forum post [2], Silk Road was launched around three weeks before March 1, 2011.

[1] http://who.is/domain-history/silkroadmarket.org

[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3984.msg57086#msg570...
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>> The tank filled with hydraulic fluid that powered the fins enabling them to rotate and steer, ran out of fluid before landing.

Nit, but this is the most difficult sentence I've had to parse all year.
I think Valve should be sued over this, and lose. Sure, there will be clauses in their EULA stating that they aren't liable, but morally, those clauses should not be valid in any licensing agreement. Their commercial software caused damage to people, and they should pay through the nose for it.
Then you have the gated communities of southern Florida, which are much worse.

Actually, China has gates, fences around everything, there is no such thing as an "open" campus or open apartment complex (unless it is very very urban). It is annoying to the say the least (especially when the gate you want to use is locked).
50 minutes each way on the train + 10 minutes by bus, in Singapore. Hence, 50-60 minutes each way is normal to me.

I'm guessing that you drive, and have to focus on traffic, but do you listen to audiobooks and stuff along the way?

Crowded trains aside, I try to make use of the commute time as much as possible - reading, emailing, etc. If there's a comfortable sling of some sort where I can strap my laptop to and work in the train, I'd buy that in a flash!
Looks like a French sentence: The ideas are in an order I'm used to.
Check out https://www.openreferral.org/ -- maybe ysnmn could participate in developing the standard & integrate it into the site?
This is good; perfect for that time you fat-finger it and end up adding drives as top-level vdevs instead of adding them as a mirror pair.
The amount you tack on as a fuel charge is based on what the market will bare not what your actually paying for fuel.

http://yrc.com/fuel-surcharge-us/ Note there updating there numbers on a weekly basis and they have nothing to do with the actual costs.
Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space
It would be ironic if the gold standard for decentralized, anarcho-capitalist currencies turned out to be more centrally controlled than the USD....
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I think a large portion of this was to make the people who make policy about surveillance also feel surveilled. Any one who was there will have to ask themselves about what places they visited, what emails they read, and if leaked, what impact that can have on them personally.
That's exactly my point: both ex-cartel employees and everyone else who wound up working together outside the cartel may have gained from the cartel's stinginess.

It's only the people who stayed put, at one of the cartel companies through the whole era, who have a strong case for estimatable monetary damages.
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I think Westerners underestimate value in IP, it is extremely important and China is beginning to realize that they need to enforce protections. They have already begun to open up courts for IP.

We're all over-hyping China these days, as they get larger, they will become more like a Western country (unless they want to experience the riots of the middle class, like Turkey, Brazil, etc). I think people fail to realize that China's authoritarianism is incredibly unsustainable. As they open up their markets, country, etc., the channel of ideas and information becomes larger and much more harder to regulate. Just take a look at the comments Weibo, NetEase, etc. There are a lot eye opening anti-government comments before the sensors come in.
I still don't understand. Those waffle irons are not needed at low speed. They did grasshopper landing without them right? Or perhaps they interfere if they are present and not working correctly? Either way, why did the rocket hit "hard" as Elon said? Rocket velocity shouldn't have anything to do with the waffles right?

I've been thinking someone forgot to include the height of the GPS in some code somewhere, and this whole hydraulic issue while true, is a handy way to not publicly disclose a simple mistake. Don't wanna look like the mars probe that crashed due to unit conversion issues...

So really, how does the hydralic issue affect the impact velocity?
Bay Area? Many of the mid-west bay towns run crosswalk sting operations along El Camino often.
That's interesting - so the named parameter for required data in routes.jsx is something you're planning to add? (I can't see it, just has the standard name/route/handler at the moment)

I've been trying to do the same sort of thing - currently I'm parsing the routes separately in koa and setting data directly on the stores before the React components load, so they're pre-populated with data. Seems a shame to do all the routing twice though.
If we really cannot control whether the computers we specifically commission, verify, and employ to solve our problems do not posses off buttons or not, then there is no point in having a discussion about AI anyway.
> so you can say anything you want in a courtroom without being arrested, unless it causes immeidate danger (e.g. yelling "FIRE!").

"F@$% you, your honor!”

“Bailiff, please arrest mr. nthj for contempt of court”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_court
That's really bad reasoning on the part of the investigators. Registering a .org domain name similar to the name of your secret underground site is a stupid and completely pointless thing to do.
So you're complaining that they're being disingenuous by describing their mission as a partial success instead of a complete success? Really?
This is awesome. Making a historically secretive industry more open. Elegant.
Houston put in a light rail, and for some reason decided that its drivers were competent enough (hah) to deal with that fact:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV2rdGX4JYc

Funny thing is, despite its relatively small size, it's one of the most heavily used rails in the country (last I checked).
It helps if you assume good faith of the application developer. Part of developing an application should be defining what permissions you need at install time. This won't help against legitimate malice, but it would defend against this type of mistake, and (if it is configured such that the app cannot change its own permissions) will also mitigate any exploit of the app.
Bad news for me. I usually write like this:

The tank filled with hydraulic fluid, powering the fins and enabling them to rotate and steer, ran out of fluid before landing.

Hopefully the above reads more clearly. It is how I parsed it on first read.
Could someone explain why a journal would say "XXX does NOT publish papers that rely only on existing published data. In other words XXX does NOT publish papers that correct, [etc.] We only publish papers with original experimental data."

Where are comments and corrections supposed to be published?

For example, in my own field I read a paper a couple of years ago which didn't cite previous work (apparently blog posts on the topic, and implementations in two widely used free software packages don't count as previous work, because it's not really "academic"). It also incorporated data from the literature, and commented that a few of them were in error. I tracked them down and found that several were due to typos on their part. They also didn't cite all of their sources.

This is not serious. At worst it's mediocre scholarship. The conclusions weren't wrong, and in fact agreed with the previous blog posts.

This is the sort of correction that would go in a letter to the editor section. Only the publication doesn't have a letter to the editor section; only full papers, which must meet the normal criteria, and have an open access fee of about $1,000. Which is silly for something that's at most a page long.

Some journal do have comments on their pages. My experience is that no one reads them, the URLs are not stable, and they are not indexed by journal search engines.

I agree with the author - journals which don't allow corrections aren't following the scientific method.

BTW, in looking through the older literature, one of my favorite papers starts:

> This is a research report. None of this research was performed by the author, and nothing reported in this paper is new. It is the product of [many people]. ... This paper is an attempt to cumulate in one document some principles of information system design and planning. - http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/c160012a004
More seriously, regulation takes some freedom away, but you have to look at the big picture. Smoking is harmful, even second-hand smoking, and public health efforts to reduce its effects should be applauded and not lamented.

Oh great, then just ban it completely. And ban alcohol and sugar, and all sorts of other things that are "bad" for us.

And it's silly to try and convince someone to applaud vs lament. Do you seriously think you're going to change anyone's opinion?

Some people just hate individual responsibility. You would think that on HN, it would be different, but even this place has been infected with destructive, freedom-hating statist thinking. What a shame.
To those name-calling the author of the script:

The product/update is hyped and the release date is set in stone. Tensions are high and your boss has already let you know that you're on thin ice and not delivering on the project goals.

A last-minute showstopper bug comes in, caused by file leaks. Everyone is scrambling, and the file belongs to you so its on you to fix it alone. There is no time for code review, and delaying isn't an option (so says management). "I'm afraid if we keep seeing these delays in your components, we might have to consider rehiring your position".

The rm rf works -- it's a little bit scary, but it works. You write a test case, and everything passes. Still, you add the "scary" line for good measure. You have two more bugs for fix today and you'll be lucky if you're home by midnight and see your wife or kids. You've been stuck in the office and haven't seen them in days.

Are you an "idiot", "talentless" engineer that "deserves to have his software engineering license permanently revoked"? How do you know this wasn't the genesis of this line of code?
This is true. I suppose the Pacific NW is the only place I've been where it's actually enforced by law and custom.
There are several problems with your ideas. The most important one is that programmers only call themselves engineers until it comes time to take legal responsibility for their work; then suddenly they're artists creating works for hire. Programmers have worked very hard through the years to create the current liability-free environment; people die because of health care programming bugs, pilots crash because of avionics bugs, and people lose fortunes -- or welfare checks -- because of finance programming errors, but programmers just throw up their hands, and say that programming is hard.

The other problem here is the concept that commercial software should be held to some higher standard of liability than noncommercial software. If some random group of strangers build a bridge, which then collapses and kills someone, they're still very much open to lawsuits. So far, the programmers of the world have fended this off by shouting in all-caps about warranties express or implied -- but eventually (I hope) the world will get sick of their shit and hold them accountable for failure. When that happens, whether or not the software is sold should have nothing to do with damage liability (outside of any sale contracts that my apply).

A man can dream.
Hydraulic systems are usually closed, can anyone explain why hydraulic fluid is expendable in this case?
I don't think anyone's actually seen this in the wild yet?

Also even with this enabled I think you'll still incur the ranking hit for startup perf.
Sandboxed applications in OS X can read/write to arbitrary locations if they use the system Open/Save dialogs to ask the user about those files (after opting into sandboxing, of course). See here [1].

For files and folders the user cares and knows about (documents, projects, etc), this shouldn't be a problem. For files the user doesn't care about (caches, configuration), you can just leave them in your sandboxed container.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Securi...
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>As for the prop wash of an octocopter,

with correct design for the frame and ducts, the same airmass down flow would generate 20-30% more of static trust than the same airmass flow in case of helicopter. And that airflow will not have that blade end vortex which causes helicopter crashes and is just straight efficiency loss until that.

I did spend my time with trust calculators and some other systems :)
So there are 3 issues [1] against OS X, released a while ago, and one against Microsoft. Why the HN focus on the Windows bugs? At least Microsoft is communicating with Google, and have patches planned, just not on the exact timeline of the arbitrary 90 day deadline. Is there something about the OS X ones that doesn't warrant the same exposure/discussion?

[1] https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/li...
If you can't orient your rocket correctly you're going to have a hell of a time getting it to slow down to the correct speed while also maintaining the correct position for touchdown.

I'm not sure how the waffles help with that, but I'll believe the article if they say it's used for steering/rotating.
Sometimes I wonder if humanity will finally wake up when some ecosystems start to collapse. How will we turn around the freight train of capitalism raping externalities? Fossil fuels, fracking, overfishing, etc.

Makes one wonder what will happen in 20-30 years and if they should have children...
Too many IT supporters either have no idea what they're doing or have no interest in helping improve their product. I'm experiencing the same with highly specific and expensive commercial product, so it doesn't surprise me with Steam at all.
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It's not just patent trolls (shell firms with no products of their own) that are the plague on this world. There are also the extortionists (IBM, I'm looking at you), and the litigants (Apple - threatening to kill VP8 by using MPEG-LA)!
Interestingly, when pedestrian crossings were being introduced in the UK it was decided that a statement like 'DON'T CROSS' was problematic. There was no legal basis on which pedestrians could be prevented from crossing a road and the instruction was therefore being given without due authority! The town council had no right to tell a law-abiding Englishman not to cross the street! So, we got the 'Green Man' signs intead, and of course there is still nothing preventing you from crossing the street wherever you wish here in the UK. Another interesting snippet was the fact that in East London it was thought that signs on crossings would not work due to the large number of Russian immigrants, since "[...] these people are excitable and ill-disciplined."
See this article for more information http://www.cbrd.co.uk/articles/pedestrian-crossings/
I wonder if this play will hold up? When they busted Ulbricht at a public library, didn't they catch him in the act of talking to agent DerYeghiayan via Pidgin who told Ross to check out a support ticket? I thought they had screenshots of the chat as well as Ulbricht being logged into the site itself. They have conclusively linked Ulbricht to the site, however, they have failed to conclusively prove that he is the mastermind of the site itself and that there weren't others involved.

So my limited understanding here and what this case is actually about is that it is not so much trying to prove that Ulbricht had anything to do with the site (because the association was proven), but rather who actually was the mastermind behind the site (and pocketing large sums of cash from transactions). Seems association with such a site would carry a lesser charge than being the one who was profiting off of the marketplace and behind its original conception (this is my limited understanding and it could be wrong).

This story is absolutely insane, it will be interesting to see where this case heads. From what I gather, the bust in the library, screenshots of the chat and admin panel of the site and supposedly a few scrunched up pieces of paper found in the bin of Ulbrichts home are all they have (that we know about). There is nothing that actually proves or disproves that either Ulbricht or Karpeles, are the owners of Silk Road.

Now we just need the defence to come out and claim that Karpeles is actually Satoshi Nakamoto and then we've got ourselves a super interesting case. There is undoubtedly a movie script in here somewhere once the case is finished.