skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To play devil's advocate, I think the point is how that "connection to entities on the SDN list" can be arbitrarily determined. Especially when digital channels are often source-agnostic and you could demonstrate "evidence-backed" relationships between two people who don't even know of each other's existence. In a court of law where technical misinformation abounds, this is not improbable.

Imagine an individual on the SDN list has a fraudulent merchant account, which they use to receive and remit payments while obfuscating origin. These can often be mixed in with legitimate business, especially when the purpose is to avoid suspicious use patterns.

Now, if you've in any way (knowingly or unknowingly) initiated a credit card transaction through such an account, that link is fully documented and "provable."

No DA would press charges on something so baseless, but let's say you were a security researcher of some perceived value in finding the real target... they can, will and have been known to use whatever tactics are available to coerce desired behavior, with no concern to the aftermath; all of the power, with none of the messy aftermath/burden of proof that could affect a 99% conviction rate (ie, a trial).

It's not so much the criminals they are currently seeking to apply this to, but those caught up in the dragnet of a system that doesn't fully understand technology, who are seen as a means to an end.

This is but another tool they can use to exploit these people in the pursuit of that goal.
What about this story is not dystopian? We have a city with a toxic sludge lake created to power our obsession with replacing our phones every year.
Damn it, I was all set to upvote you, and then you had to go attempt the reverse-psychology "I'm sure I'll be downvoted for this" ploy.

Sorry, but that's an automatic "stop reading and downvote" in my book.
It isn't errant, there are just two processors handling different tasks.

This is basically a BeagleBone Black with an integrated Arduino (for low-level compatibility with the Arduino shield ecosystem) that the more full-featured (but less real-time friendly) Linux-running part of the board can drive.

The Atmel ATmega32u4 (the Arduino bit) is 16MHz, the more full-featured Linux/ARM part runs on a 1GHz Sitara AM3359AZCZ100 (ARM Cortex-A8) just like the BeagleBone Black.
Two I can think of ... it includes a low cost Atmel microcontroller so it can be used for prototyping low cost/low power usage applications, in the same way as the original Arduino. Its compatible with Arduino shields.
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There are several advantages:

- both 5V and 3.3V logic, meaning you can use pretty much any part without level shifters

- analog inputs (which are really lacking on Raspberry Pi if you want to use sensors)

- 4 USB host ports (only the Pi 2 has as much)

- the simplicity of Arduino for electronics, coupled with a Linux for other tasks

On the other hand, I expect it to be more expensive, and probably less powerfull than a Raspberry Pi. It is definitely aimed to big electronics project that requires both a lot of GPIO and a full-fledged OS, for which you would formerly use a board running Linux + an Arduino
"King of Kong" is coming up here, but you should know that the editing was selective and misleading:

http://kottke.org/08/02/king-of-kong-a-fistful-of-quarters
Can you elaborate on what you mean by ISP's charging extra? I'm not familiar with what you're referring to. Do you mean traffic shaping?
Sure you can. The AIs behaviour could be as simple as "Always pick box B".

The difficult bit would be designing an AI which, given perfect knowledge of its logic, would pick both boxes despite appearing to be more likely to pick only B.

In that case, you could simply have an AI with a 0.499999 chance of picking both and a 0.5000001 chance of picking B. The expected winnings would be $1,000,500.

But then, once it comes down to probability, the predictor is no longer a 'perfect predictor' any more.
To be placed on the list, a person (or vessel) would need to belong to a category specifically enumerated in an executive order such as this. Similar executive orders were crafted after 9-11 and during the drug war.
Rather, "don't care to understand".
Yeah, it sends a message to the "many revenge-porn outfits" that maybe they should stop.
Given the tone of the thread when I posted this, it felt necessary. Reactions on HN are truly stochastic and if what I said before the defensive comment wasn't meaningful enough for you to upvote then I'm glad you downvoted it, it only reinforces how reactionary people can be.
> This sets a precedent for people who may try to replicate his business model

Yeah, it would be funny to read a business plan or YC application. How could anyone think this type of "business" was a good idea?
I agree. By far the worst thing Obama has done is his continuing of wars, his drone strikes, and the additional military action hes done in the middle east.

Romney probably wouldn't have been better. Its hard to imagine he would have been worse though.

But with regards to McCain, you should go look up some of what he had to say before he was Candidate McCain. I think he's one of the better members in the GOP.

He hates citizens united.[1]

He understands why young people like Snowden.[2]

He understands that our torturing is unacceptable (given he was a POW, this makes sense).[3]

So yeah, I like him more than most of the back-asswards GOP.

[1]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/12/john-mccain-citizen...

[2]: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/11/mccain-young...

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR7qsQDWVPU&feature=share
File this under "On personal level I like the outcome, but I am troubled enough by the way we got there and the wider implications". 18 years is just absurdly high.
The authority the President is exercising here was provided to him by Congress, in 50 U.S.C. 1702, and pertains specifically and exclusively to foreign transactions --- not because the Executive Order says so, but because the law it's based on does.
So... Essentially an UDOO, but less powerful and (or so it seems from the picture) a different pin layout, making it incompatible with existing shields..?
also: 7 hardware PWM outputs (the Pi has one)
There appear to be ideological similarities between the Nouveau Droite (Alain de Benoist), New Right of Alexandr Dugin and paleoconservatism in the US.
Arduino has more digital I/O pins and 6-7 pins that can do analog output (via PWM). This new Arduino has even more pins and can do both 3.3V and 5V logic, though I fail to see the advantage of mixing those up. Overall, Arduino draws lower power too.

In any event, if you're looking for something with more pins, beaglebone black or olinuxino have them.

https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXIno-... (that one has 1GB of RAM, gigabit ethernet and SATA2 capable of running a small laptop HDD off the board's power)
So... it's readable in one out of dozens of possible encodings? And realistically, in that encoding (ASCII), the part following the readable prefix is unreadable garbage. In exchange for this convenience, you add a four bytes of unreadable prefix instead of one.

I'm not sure I see the point.

I deal with outputs from crypto functions on a daily basis. Never once have I intentionally rendered it as 8-byte ASCII. It's most often in hex. Mixing and matching encodings (e.g., prefixing a hex string with an ASCII string) for a single blob of data is silly and just causes headaches whenever you need to change encodings, either by having some data double-encoded or by having to specially handle the prefix separately.
I think the people who really need to understand these things (far before legislative or executive branches) are the people in the judicial branch of the government. Just consider that it's been centuries since the signing of the US Constitution and we're still ironing out the details of what it really means. The judicial branch is both the first and last line of defense against injustices.

First line of defense because things will happen, and conflicts will occur, and lawsuits will be filed long before people may even understand that there's some underlying paradigm that needs to be addressed in the form of new laws.

Last line of defense because even after laws are created by legislative and laws are upheld by the executive branch, there will be critical issues that will need to be addressed when a case finally gets to trial that were perhaps never considered when laws were created or when people were put in jail (in this case assets seized) for their alleged wrongdoing.
It looks compatible with Uno shields, but adds more pins at 3.3V on the side.
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two things about the `null` - the "replacer" function

1. in IE 8, it will choke. it needs to be a function (hopefully you don't have to care about IE 8, though)

2. in all other JSON.strigifable browsers, you can skip it with a falsey value, which is what the `null` is doing here. As a result, you can also use `0` (e.g. stringinfy(foo, 0, 2)), which I like because I can type it faster
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yep. compat mode.
I think the problem with this thinking is that even without explicit fines, the costs of a data breach are already incredibly high for companies. There's the potential loss of sales for a customer-facing business, as well as costs of class action lawsuits, system cleanup, etc. Sony Pictures was crippled by a cyberattack. Target's CEO was forced to resign. So, maybe fines would make this situation better, but CEO's should already be up at night worrying about cybersecurity.

My inclination would be to pursue better security, but also to go after the really sophisticated cybercriminals that are currently outside the reach of our legal system.
I liked your comment up until that point.

See the last two items:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And how 18 years will help reform that guy better than 5 or 10? While some short stints in prison may be a good way to cool off some heads, spending the majority of one's productive life behind bars for non violent crime is troubling. Home arrest without internet is better option.

He wastes government money, he will come out without job or ability to be reintegrated into the society ...
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six counts of extortion and 21 counts of identity theft

so about 8 months each, if you want to think of it that way. He'll be up for parole in 6 or 8 years - I think, but it's late and I don't feel like reading through the rules now.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/att-of...
My grandmother did the same thing with bound "pads" of $2 bills for years, gave them (in a checkbook-style holder) as Christmas gifts. I don't think the serial numbers were in order, though, as she got the $2 bills from a local bank.
You can sort-of do analog input-output via the audio ports on the pi, right?
Well, Twitter didn't backed away from Scala, but it doesn't qualify as purely functional.

Turing completeness ensures there's no "true way", but some languages offer better abstractions than others. In my experience, once you learn the abstractions, the functional paradigm has an edge about the ability to reason about the code.

Of course, the adoption of new ideas and technologies takes time, they need to be explored and fully developed. But even right now, you see many mainstream languages adopting functional flavors.

I believe that eventually, there will be enough successful large scale projects build with pure functional languages to convince skeptics, there's nothing wrong with "playing it safe" and wait.

If Scala is good enough as an example, I see an increasing adoption.
As an anecdote, one of the biggest and Very Serious(tm) investment bank, is using Scala for most of their new initiatives, with a big team spread across the world.
And the language itself was selected by a committee. You can't get more serious than that...
Reflex looks awesome, and it's real FRP
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Ask HN: Who funds adult sites? I'm, uhh, asking for a friend
I have some friends who are workers in the online adult industry, mostly performers but also contract worker engineers, and they'd like to build a more ethical adult site.

Whenever I talk to people about building new businesses, I'm usually able to at least point them in the right direction on both technical topics and on funding questions. In this case, I get to the part where I would explain, "You'd want to get your working demo site, so you can show it to angels to raise enough money to launch and run it for a few months so you can prove the idea has legs...at which point you either grow from revenue or you raise more money, or a little of both, or you know it's not going to fly and you need to go back to the drawing board."

But, I have no idea who funds in the adult industry. I remember reading an article a few years ago claiming that even major VCs often have rarely talked about adult industry funds, but I'm not finding that article, and since it doesn't get talked about, I don't know who among the people I do know would fit that description.

Bootstrapping probably isn't an option for them, for a variety of reasons. Banks are right out.

Anybody built a business in the adult space and raised money for it?
I don't get the extrajudicial stuff. Why not go to court, have someone found guilty, then put them on a list (e.g. for assets to be frozen)? If the evidence is so clear that the cabinet or white house or gov can add someone to a list, why can this not be done by an independent judge? Why the political aspect?
I remember one such list was also created for people related to running poker and gambing sites outside the US.
Unlike, say, the Federal system, California has near universal parole; IIRC, the norm, barring particularly bad conduct in prison, is serving 1/3 to 1/2 the sentence, so an 18 year sentence is effectively pretty close to 5 or 10 years.
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I think that's a valid point, but if you're going to take up that cause, there are much better people to champion than him.
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Even with all the pessimism that I express here about the future of the internet, I think that the internet can and is fighting against this. We need an educated voting population. One with an attention span that's longer than 60 seconds. This is difficult to do. But more importantly, for those who do have the attention span, we need to provide a way for them to get the debates that they deserve.

I hope that someone on HN is building a better US debate platform. I want to see a back-and-forth between the 2016 candidates that isn't limited to 140 characters or 60 second increments. I want to read paragraphs and paragraphs of their reasoning, and I want to see candidates criticize each other asynchronously.
You're guilty until proven innocent. Its not right to start punishing a person before his guilt is proven.
Now if only someone could write "Let's build a database"...
First, I would dispute that a cortex A9 is comparable to a Core 2. Second, if ARM is in fact getting that close to Intel, I would attribute it to diminishing returns, and not some mythical property of the ISA that makes it difficult to implement.

I'm not sure what you mean by wide SIMD extensions providing "most of the chip's power." If you mean for vectorized DSP loops or whatever, sure, but I was talking about performance on branchy pointer-chasing spaghetti, which is what most real code is, and where it would be the hardest to catch up to Intel.
I think that starting from unsympathetic person is better. It was despicable, but still non violent. If he is not physically dangerous for anyone, then the case for keeping him behind bars is weak ...
I'm not usually the pedantic type, but I think the Hacker (as in clever tinkerer) News front page is a bad place for headlines using the word hackers as 'computer criminals'.
If all living humans piled up in the grand canyon, it would look like this
I briefly met the Symbolics engineers and I didn't get the feeling that they were zealots like you suggest.

This all happened over 30 years ago. Intel didn't have a hegemony in CPUs. There was funding available to try new things in hardware. Some of it failed, some of it succeeded.

Thirty years from now we will be rolling in laughter at the absurdity of so many of today's startups.
With reportedly 10,000 pictures posted, that's only 1.5 days per picture.

It's not murder, each incident is a lesser crime, but by replicating it manifold with the tool of the internet he magnified its impact by several orders of magnitude. He's responsible for using that tool and allowing it to grow to an extraordinary level of criminality and grief.
And do you think associating this disgraceful activity with capitalism hurts or helps the best system we have?
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Thats more than whats considered a life sentence here in Australia.

edit: Actually a Judge must sentence a non parole period of at least 10 yrs and up to 25, but it differs between states.
In that scenario, it wouldn't make a difference what you choose.

If you were so inclined to take Box B's million, Omega would never have put that million in the first place.

The only way for Omega to put that million there is if you weren't inclined to take Box B - despite the million being completely visible to you - in which case you lose anyway.

The situation where Omega gives you the million, and you take it, just never comes up. Can't fool it.
Is there plans to drop glibc dependency? Rust should be able to do system calls itself and glibc should be as optional FFI library IMO.
Looks like I was wrong in my other post[0] in this thread about people using downvotes to moderate posts they merely disagree with. Apparently those interested in intersectionality, refuse to consider the possibility that discrimination against white cisgender males and asian cisgender men is a thing.

Don't get me wrong here. I'm not anti-diversity. I'm actually a huge proponent of diversity. I just believe that hypocrisy and reserve discrimination is the wrong way to get there. And I believe that there are many more dimensions in which someone can contribute to the diversity of a group besides gender, race and sexual identity. Cognitive and cultural diversity for example are examples of two other vectors in which someone can contribute to diversity. What happened to MLK's dream of focusing on content of character instead of color of a person's skin? At the end of the day characteristics of like gender, race and identity are merely a few of the many factors that contribute to the sum total of experiences that makes someone who they are and who they will be become. The are just superficial proxies for the type of diversity we should be seeking out and celebrating and that's diversity of content of character.

What kind of message are we sending our kids when things like this can happen:

Last year, his school offered a robotics class for girls
only. When my son asked why he couldn't join, it was
explained to him that girls need special help to become
interested in technology, and that if there are boys
around, the girls will be too scared to try.

My son came home very confused. You see, he grew up with a
mom who coded while she breastfed and brought him to his
first LUG meeting at age seven weeks. The first time he
saw a home-built robot, it was shown to him by a local
hackerspace member, a woman who happens to administer one
of the country's biggest supercomputers. Why was his
school acting like girls were dumb?

Thanks so much, modern-day "feminism", for putting very
unfeminist ideas in my son's head. [2]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9319641

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality

[2] http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/girls-and-software
Firefox and VLC are popular because they had a superior UX compared to the proprietary competition. Firefox had plugins,tabs,and had more web features than IE. VLC,well, you don't need to care about installing codec A or B with VLC to read video files, it just works.

A opensource solution or free software, in order to win,must not only be free, but beat the competition in terms of user experience,ease of use,design...
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US Presidential Order Allows the State to Confiscate Crypto Holdings ‘Without Prior Notice’

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9309612

“Now the USA can simply confiscate all crypto without any need for time consuming paperwork.
This I believe puts USA in the lead (by a big margin) over China and Russia as far as dictatorial level usurpation of financial rights,”
I would imagine they ran the A/B tests on 99th percentile metrics and also on consumer behavior and decided that having the HTTPS enabled by default would result in less revenue/growth/etc

I'd imagine with the number of requests they make to various analytics, internal services etc it is not a super simple migration.
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I'm completely in agreement with you. There are very real experiences that people go through, that have similar outcomes including permanent changes in perception but we lack the common scientific concepts and language to discuss them seriously within that particular domain of knowledge.
> I don't think John McCain or Mitt Romney would have made any better paragons of civil rights or of a restrained executive

They didn't campaign on those issues whereas Obama did, explicitly.
I previously had no interest in Backbone but those are absolutely amazing learning resources.
Will this require jailbroken device? It breaks quite a lot of the App Store rules?
The author claims that his fit is:

sick_hours = -52 * ln(x) + 236,

not sick days. Furthermore, your conclusion should read

p = 1 - exp(- sick_hours/52).

Then, the units in the exp() cancel and everyone is happy. But I assume that's what you meant by stating lambda=1/52.
Gigabit ethernet that's not dangling off the USB bus, lots of I/O, a realtime micro that's well integrated into the board's architecture, USB OTG, analog inputs. This board seems much more useful if you need lower latency timing, where the Pi seems more useful if you need a small board to stick somewhere and do a bit of number crunching.
Ruby seems to support this well as one can always redefine methods and classes.
I joined a few months ago. It's not terribly active, but a lot of the active users are FOSS people, which makes for a very high signal to noise ratio. It's the only network nowadays where I don't just autopost from the blog and completely ignore it otherwise.
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Does the U.S have victims of crime compensation now that there has been a conviction?
Pornographers. No, really - because of the factors you mention, porn tends to get made by people who have a bit of money, go into making porn, and re-invest the profits from DVD or subscription sales. I'd say this is more true than ever nowadays because it's so cheap to make something and a lot of people aren't that concerned about aesthetics or quality. I'd guess your main problem is that at the low end of the market the money comes more from advertising than subscriptions, but 99% of the porn ads I've ever seen were ugly and tacky and often really offensive, which doesn't sound compatible with your desire to build and ethical site.

Anyway, people who make porn have to have some sort of declaration on their website about all the participants being over 18, and that includes the legal contact point for the publisher by law, so I guess you could scope out a bunch of upmarket porn sites and get in touch with the publishing companies.

Drop me a line if you want. I'm interviewing someone this weekend who's involved in that sphere and who's also an activist, so that person might have some ideas.I've never worked in that area myself. Also, here's an article I came across recently that seems like it might have some useful context for you: http://grantland.com/features/porntopia/
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