skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. Mason gives a pretty good explanation of the legal differences between a K-9 officer already on the scene and the "excessive prelongation of the search" involved in calling for one.

> Dog sniffs are “sui generis,” the Court has held—they’re unique in that they don’t reveal any information about the contents of the object sniffed except the presence of contraband, as to which you have no privacy right. Thus, if the police have a dog ready to sniff your car when they pull you over for a traffic violation, you have no basis for objecting to the sniff. And, of course, if the dog does alert to the car, that is probable cause, so the police can then search the whole car. That’s what the officer wanted to do with Jay-Z, but the K-9 unit wasn’t there when he was pulled over, and was late arriving.
it is very silly.

does that track have a title?
I'm surprised that Google Fiber hasn't made a bid to move into Detroit - it seems like the issues they have with digging up yards and such would be minimal.
Many of the people who signed this letter probably believe that C-51 is bad for other, more fundamental reasons.

But since corrupt politicians are more likely to listen to money than moral qualms, Canadian businesses are using "this is bad for business" as a tool to pressure them to do what is right. In other words, this is just a political maneuver to add weight to the opposition's argument. It is a clever maneuver, since it turns the Conservatives' usual emphasis on economic growth on its head. It's not a slam dunk argument, either, but it slightly increases the probability that C-51 will fail.

Ideals are great, but in order to make a difference in the real messy world of politics, you often need to make temporary alliances with those who might have other motives. Even worse, you also sometimes need to manipulate bad people into unwittingly serving the greater good.
In 2005, I was finishing my senior year as a Psychology major at Wright State University in Ohio. We were forced to anesthetize and perform surgery on female mice without any formal training. This process often resulted in mutiliation at best, and death at worst. In fact, the mice often died during the injection, as we were not properly trained on how to administer injections. In fact, we were never trained by medical personnel at all, but instead by our teacher, who also had a lab full of large rodents undergoing brain experimentation. And this is only what they allowed us to see...
Millions of accounts compromised because there is no specialised user database
I can't tell how much of this is a joke, but, yes, it turns out you can't write such a programming language for exactly the reason you allude to: you can't tell whether a given number is computable in finite time, as you don't know whether your program will terminate.
The distinction between "system" and "app" containers is almost entirely artificial and down to philosophy. LXC containers can very easily be single app, and Docker containers can be full systems.

Lxd looks interesting, though, in particular in not actively trying to make running your on registry/image server awkward, which appears to be a design goal with Docker, though they are trying hard to describe it as more different to Docker than it appears to actually be. Also if they get live migrations working well (having dealt with live migrations with e.g. OpenVz, live migrations is one of those things that is full of gotcha's, and I've come to prefer to spawn new containers and do quick and dirty ip switches couples with gratuitous arp instead whenever I can get away with it).
> Apply for a job and change it from within

That's not at all how I read what happened. Rather, I read that the two worked back and forth until they came to this present arrangement, and he was hired specifically for the purpose of making an organizational change. There has to be a culture there that is open to change or you will just make yourself an outcast by entering such an endeavor on your own. Unless you have some highly exceptional leadership and people skills, and likely connections in congress and the upper echelons of defense, this will go exactly nowhere at a place like the CIA.
> Many of the people who signed this letter probably believe that C-51 is bad for other, more fundamental reasons.

This is basically the reason I signed this letter.

I had actually previously signed the regular citizen petition, but when OpenMedia approached me to sign this, I was on board — not just for my business but also personally.
For context (for those who didn't read the whole article): https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-17975
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That's my reading too. But before we get too mechanistic about what's going to happen: no police department can afford to put two officers and a drug dog in every traffic patrol car. Police departments will be able to adapt so that the patrols that already had drug dogs will often (but not always) be able to use them. What they won't be able to do is ensure that any stop can be converted on a whim to a drug search.

It's an incremental win, but a win.
The Court has held that dog sniffs are not searches; they only reveal whether contraband is present. Unlike wiretaps, physical searches of houses, etc. there's no privacy concern.

The issue here was that everything necessary to complete the traffic stop was finished, and by conducting an additional dog sniff (or doing anything else, really), the officer did something out of the ordinary to prolong the stop.
Because the standard is that the detention can last as long as reasonably required by the mission of completing a traffic stop. An officer who "dilly dallies" fails to meet that reasonableness standard, and will have their evidence suppressed.
Google Is Fifth-Biggest Spender in U.S. Lobbying
Hacking vs. Engineering
Yes. I will probably use it for a project I have here when I succeed in developing the moral strength necessary for marketing it (but it is not a big deal anyway, my comment was more general than about my specific case).

Thank you.
In finite precision arithmetic "multiplying by pi or e" makes no sense. And all arithmetic is finite precision. You could multiply by an approximation, and accordingly adjust the precision to avoid rounding.

In more general context, you could choose e as the base of your number system and then multiplying by e is a trivial shift. Then, however, multiplying by 2 would make arithmetically no sense. The natural question that arises is whether it's possible to represent all computable numbers non-lossy in one system. The answer is yes.

Besides that, I think you should re-evaluate your decision-making for votes.
This really sucks, in fact many low-end sales jobs suck.

And to cap it all off, some young smart-looking black kid actually interrupted me to sell stuff at my front-door whilst I was reading this article.

How do you address something like this? It's hard to imagine there's so much competition for jobs at McDs or Chick Filet or Aldi (reputedly $12/hour+benefits), that smart-looking, communicative people would rather go door to door selling magazine subscriptions.
Drop Table Political Action Committee
Nice interface, but it shows me a lot of out-of-date prices. Mind sharing any details about how price trends are estimated?
You can do that at Spokane Int'l (GEG). Flying is still an enormous hassle but at least GEG doesn't add much to the stress. Given a choice I'd take the ICE every time if we had such a thing here. Few hassles, comfortable seats, nice scenery out the windows. A little expensive but worth it to me.
We should cut to the subtext here and stipulate: trained dog handling officers can cue their dogs to alert.

So the problem is, if you're on a traffic patrol and already have a drug dog (many do), then the following sequence remains blessed:

1. Make a reasonable traffic stop

2. Approach vehicle with drug dog

3. Cue dog to alert concurrent with traffic stop handling

4. Conduct car search based on cued alert

No delay has been added in this procedure, and by the letter of the opinion today, it looks like that search will hold up.
> But as Roeland Loof, a Dutch fellow runner says in this New York Times article: “In the U.S. and Europe, we’re as brainwashed as they are here.” Is there a better or a worse? Hard to say, it always depends on who you are and where you look from.

I suppose this sort of hogwash is how he justifies to himself handing the North Korean a large wad of money for something as self-indulgent as doing some tourism and running there.
Python 3 broke hello world

Python 3 broke hello world

Python 3 broke hello world

...

Yes, yes, yes, a million times yes. The print change really grates.

People say "print became a function", but that doesn't do it justice. Your quip is infinitely better.
Show HN: Microanalytics is a pure-CouchDB web-analytics service with a CLI
This was the main reason I picked up the yubikey, but I simply could not get GPG to recognize the yubikey to import my keys. I'm sure I simply missed some important step, but I couldn't figure it out with either GPG for windows or GPG in a linux VM.

I wish there more smart card devices available for use with PGP that were as widely purchasable as the yubikey.
> It would hire a lawyer!

Or become one?

Or would there be some kind of objection to its networked existence, an unfair advantage, so to speak?
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That skill is worthless unless you have something to sell.
I wish NASCAR would take an MLB-like stance to races. NASCAR's efforts are pathetic and insultingly expensive for what little you get.
You make an good and important distinction, and I'll back off my flippant suggestion that annotations are useless. However, for fixing the problems listed in my post, annotations are not a good solution for the reason I said above: they don't condense the literature. (The importance of this relies on the non-obvious empirical fact that the dispersed literature, even when nicely linked, presents huge barriers to learning anything outside your sub-sub-specialty; not sure how much this is disputed.)

Based on your comment, I'm now convinced that a wiki-only model is unsuitable.
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It seems easier to me to just go with a reputable database vendor.
Exactly. The government is going to be receptive to an activist asking them to stop bulk data collection and mass surveillance because they're trying to change from within.
I'm more worried about losing my savings (mostly RMB in China) since I can always go to the states if I lost my job.
You really can't trust the police if they aren't looking out for your best interest.
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The history of hello world
No, you misunderstand me, the solution would not be to force companies to hire some percentage of black people, or anything like that. Companies should hire whoever is best for the job.

But it is absolutely fair to address the reasons black people are so disproportionately unemployed. Is it because employers are unconsciously discriminatory when evaluating candidates? Yes, according to a a few studies. What can we do about that? I don't really know, but helping poor people in general will not solve this problem.

Is it because particular communities have been caught in a cycle of poverty and lack of education for centuries, because of slavery and segregation? Yes, often it is. You are not racist, you had nothing to do with those crimes, but unfortunately the antagonism of the past is still very much affecting the people of today. It is not antagonistic to address these longstanding issues. Again, I don't know the solution, but it might involve offering college scholarships specific to black people. It might involve some kind of affirmative action.

These ideas are not antagonistic to non-black people, even if a white guy gets rejected from a college that accepts a less-qualified black guy. We cannot treat everyone equally when some people are starting so far behind.

Yes, we should offer opportunities for all poor people, but that won't do enough. Biological classification A is at a huge disadvantage, and all the people responsible for it are dead, so we can't punish them or make them fix it. We have to try to fix it.
About arXiv licensing: most people choose the minimal licensing because they are submitting the paper to a conference of journal. If you put the paper in the public domain or under a cc license then you risk the journal or conference rejecting your paper.

If journals didn't care about having the exclusive publication rights then I suspect a lot more academics would select more flexible licenses.
I fished out my USB 3 1/2" floppy drive... it still works. I've also got a box of old floppies. Guess I know what I'm doing this weekend!
People really underestimate the value of Occasional Consistency. Occasionally Consistent databases, like MongoDB, are great for approximation algorithms, sublinear time algorithms, and similar applications.
It was a poor example.

Does the fall of Rome prove that republics/democracies suck?

Does Chernobyl and Fukushima prove nuclear power sucks?

Electric cars, smartphones, personal computers, there are so many things that sucked before someone figured out how to get things right.

There's always more than one factor in play, and there are many arguments to be made on the viability of Communism, perhaps it was just ahead of its time.
I believe the plain view doctrine might apply in "inadvertent discovery"
That island of safety is a rapidly shrinking one. Jepsen covers more ground with each new post from Kyle. :)
Good question. http://www.law360.com/articles/236158/google-dodges-injuncti... shows that in 2011, Red Bend did not get a preliminary injunction.

What happened after that is a good question. But https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504624 includes a comment dated 2013-09-24 12:57:04 PDT saying that things are sorted out, and Courgette can be used.

So apparently some sort of private settlement resulted with little publicity.
My first thought when I saw the post. Wouldn't touch with a bargepole. But others... enjoy!
The hardest part about getting the Yubikey to work, at least under Ubuntu, is dealing with the marriage to gnome-keyring. Uninstalling it and the associated autostart gpg-agent files (see http://www.bootc.net/archives/2013/06/09/my-perfect-gnupg-ss...) seems to do the trick. The documentation for doing this is _horrendous_
You certainly could. If the naturally suffering humans are in the same country as the experiments, then they probably should be given priority. As long as they can actually be helped as easily as ending human experiments. If they're in a different country then the people of each country will think their own population is more deserving than the other so it'll be unfairly skewed, as it currently is.
If your talk gets accepted please post the video and/or transcript.
Seriously, who thought that was a good idea? Novel isn't the same as worthwhile.
In some browsers (e.g. Chrome), clicking the elevator and leaving the tab to make it inactive would play the tune indefinitely (the chime plays only when the tab is activated again). If you enjoyed the tune, well, you've got something to do now.
About the Debian GNU/Linux Port for OpenRISC Or1k
US Power is the best interest of all of the above nations.
Would this be the modern equivalent of "Press 7 to hear a duck quack"? :)

http://everything2.com/title/If+you+would+like+to+hear+a+duc...
They don't event ask for a piece of ID.

It's just a pity that Narita is almost two hours and 30$ far from most parts of Tokyo...
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Is Anyone Testing on Mobile?
Seems to have worked for SJW's and the media...
I got a C# client on there for you to review. (May want a separate repo).
bad ssl
I prefer the abbreviated radio spelling alphabet.

A -> alph -> alphty, B -> brav -> bravty, C -> charl -> charlty, D -> delt -> delty, E -> echo -> echty, F -> fox -> foxty

0x1DE,ADB,EEF is "one hundred delty-echo million, alph hundred delty-beta thousand, echo hundred and echty-fox".
Ignore what the teacher told you, and just make things up
Um, this is the postgres article:

https://aphyr.com/posts/282-call-me-maybe-postgres

There were no acknowledged writes lost. The only unacked-but-successful writes resulted from a connection while a commit ack was in-flight. That doesn't qualify as a data-consistency error, it means the client has to check if the data is present after reconnecting.

But in no cases would the client reconnect to find that there were acknowledged-as-committed records that were missing or stale. In no cases would the client find that responded-as-rolled-back data was actually committed. This is very, very different than what is seen with MongoDB.
Stewart Brand: Rethinking Extinction
Minority games, not Minority Report the movie. :P In game theory, minority games [0] are a class of games that includes the El Farol Bar problem, a class in which the payoffs depend on the number of actors who make each choice. For the most part, the strategic aspect of these games disappears when you have enough information about who has choosen what so far.

On the parking point—there do seem finally to be some real efforts underway to gather data about parking availability. At an average cost of about $40,000 per spot in a parking structure and low overall utilization, it's astounding that it's taken this long for serious attempts to emerge to find ways to allocate parking more efficiently. In addition to solutions that involve putting sensors in situ, car-makers are starting to think about how they can use the ever-expanding array of sensors in their vehicles to map parking spaces and track their availability [1].

But there are surely other open problems of the same sort that Density's data could help solve: how many people are jamming into the subway right now, or how many are at the farmer's market already? In this common sort of situation, your experience depends on how many other people are doing what you're contemplating doing, and your behavior will (or would) change with better information about who's doing what.

Look for those sorts of problems to apply your data to, I'm suggesting. There might also be opportunities to map demand irrespective of supply. In the parking situation, for instance, tracking the number of open spaces only gets you so far; you also want to know how much aggregate demand there is, because that helps you figure out whether to build more capacity. Second-order statistics like how many people are checking a location's activity in the app can help you estimate that sort of thing.

0. See, e.g., http://www-f1.ijs.si/~rudi/sola/MinorityGame-Seminar.pdf [PDF]

1. http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/02/remote-valet-mode-and-re...
Drowning hurts. Invalid test.

Can you name something that's not a thought experiment where a chimp has shown that higher level of reasoning? Where they show a preference specifically about their own life/death.

Edit: For example, an especially good test for a human would be a button that gives a mild zap when you press it, but if it goes unpressed then you die in your sleep from carbon monoxide poisoning. That shows actual preference for life, and not just running away from a negative stimulus.
Any thought to shifting your savings to USD ASAP?
> If you purchase something from us and we email you, it's super useful for both of us to know if you have read the email (purchase receipt or booking confirmation.)

Why? If I'm interested in the email, I'll request it (i.e. if I'm purchasing something from you, me receiving confirmation emails from you should be opt-in, either in my user settings on your site or on a per-purchase basis). If I'm not interested in the email, I'll click the "unsubscribe" link in the email (you do include unsubscribe links, right?) or otherwise specify such in - again - my user settings.

In other words, that's not your call to make. That's my call to make, and your explanation is sounding like a very weak excuse to pin my privacy to a table and give it a night it'll never forget.
Not always:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela_rail_dis...
Why does /bin/sh behave differently to /bin/bash?
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Interesting talk. Some parts of the reasoning that might need work:

"if there was no possibility to get rich, there would be no startups".

Does not explain patronage, i.e. people investing in people for reasons other than getting rich.

"without start-ups, there would be slower rates of technological growth".

Prizes, like the Ansari X-Prize, is another model that drives innovation, it can be viewed as a low-risk investment.
I posed this comment the other day on another thread, but it is also relevant here

At AWS Re:Invent last year someone from the MLB gave a great presentation[1] on technology usage in baseball and its benefits. It really opened up my eyes to a whole segment that I had never really considered.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=847HY-JATrs
That's quality programming by today's standards. And you say it lasts, but there probably isn't a single piece of code that has lasted a full century. That's barely more than a single lifetime.

Comparing microwave code to the code I'm talking about is like comparing medieval accounting records to Hamlet. One is far more impressive than the other.
I think it would be great to see one of these done for RethinkDB :)
Yes. This is one of my methods for dealing with it. Another is to just inspect the source and look for the relevant href. Point is, don't have a footer with links if you are using infinite scroll!