skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really like the commandline-esque search bar
I know... I had a hard time once trying to explain that the newer LT version was completely worthless to me because I needed the AutoLisp from the real version and that the "upgrade" gave me no useful features and merely made it impossible to automate anything.

Sure, I could construct everything by hand, but that's pretty unreasonable when I'm redoing the same basic shapes all day.
Drug dealers tend to handle the drugs they are convicted of selling.

Whilst I agree he deliberately set up a website designed for use for criminal transactions, I find it ridiculous that everyone (including the courts) would rather focus on people buying drugs online (if that was their big thing, then many of the major early newsgroup operators would be in prison for life, for having not even concealed names for newsgroups deliberately designed for buying and selling drugs), than on the selling of stolen credit cards and other identity theft sales.

Sure, drugs are bad m'kay, and we have to stomp on people who use, buy and sell them or something, but, how many lives are destroyed by identity theft?
Or do the courts think that is too complicated for people to understand, whilst the "He let drugs be sold on his website" is something even Fox News can communicate.
I really appreciate this comment, even though I personally don't agree with it.

You can't take drugs 100% safely, but their safety level does vary, and it definitely varies with wealth.

Amphetamines, for example. Rich Americans get prescriptions for Adderall. Poor Americans make meth. Or take opiates. Vicodin vs. heroin.
I wonder how something like this will fare in the washing machine.
I'm 99% certain they meant Free RTOS[0] and someone just misheard.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeRTOS
k is used for 1000, M for millions... damn americans.
> that's a completely reasonable thing to want and
> something that language designers are capable of
> providing.

This is exactly what the designers of Rust have worked to provide: freedom from GC while maintaining guarantees against user-after-free and double-free, while allowing you to reference-count bits of data when you ask for it (RC leaks are rare in Rust--it's not trivial to create cycles--though still possible).
What are those bucketloads worth when the only time you get to spend them are when you buy assassinations from dirty undercover DEA agents?
What I described would be the ideal situation. I don't know of any existing P2P system that works like that, unless it's a system for sharing individual files instead of "torrents" containing multiple files.
To be honest, when I used it, AutoLisp was really the only feature I cared about other than drawing basic 2D shapes. You could have left me with only points, lines, arcs and dimension text, as long as I had lisp to automate it all.
If you're looking for an open source HSM take a look at cryptech.is
My experience has shown that having names be treated as unique identifiers is a hairy situation. And frankly, unique identifiers in a system for distributing source code are as important as domain names if not way more so.

Domain names only ever run code in an ostensibly sandboxed vm.
Any credible studies to link?

The LD50 was extensively document, your claim is essentially vodoo.
Worldwide? Nationwide (US)? Major metros? What are we constraining to?
Psychedelic drugs should be legally reclassified, says psychiatrist
He was charged with murder-for-hire in a separate jurisdiction, and he hasn't faced trial for those charges yet. Today he was sentenced to life in prison for a number of victimless crimes.
For a long time Google Drive for the desktop didn't exist and a company name InSyncHQ built a desktop client. I thought for sure that spelled doom for them. Nope, they've been chugging along ever since. In fact GDrive has ceased to innovate so heavily that I've personally switched back to Dropbox. Don't let Google's involvement deter you...Google fails a lot and is not immune to the innovators dilemma. Chances are you'll find something they miss and you'll win.
> the US worker is ..effed

Work is almost over. Good riddance to it. Why shouldn't everyone benefit from the fruits of full automation?

> We are going to have ... the super low wage unskilled laborers in a race to the bottom, trying to compete with machines, and a huge, empty nothing in the middle between those groups... and there will be large-scale civil unrest, even in the US, within the next 30 years, I'm betting on it.

That is largely up to the people who now have all the money and power. If they are shortsighted enough to take entirely for themselves the wealth the machines create - rather than using it to guarantee basic security for everyone - then we're in for rough times. I'm betting with you on that one.
After Apple killed Junaio, what other app to use for AR?
Apple bought Metaio and they are closing business. You can create new AR channels until 2015-06-30. They will work until 2015-12-15.

Junaio is their free app for AR. You can create content for it in 3D, animated, and interactive.

You need the Metaio Creator to generate the needed data for the tracking information. The Junaio app then can display the 3D object relative in space to a picture it tracks.

This stops working after 2015-12-15 because the app needs to open a channel for your content. Those channels will be gone then.

http://www.junaio.com/faq/

This app was nice for small gimmicks on leaflets because nearly everybody has a smartphone or tablet now.

Are there any similar solutions you would recommend?
>What will it take to bring this kind of technology to Southern California?

San Diego county is already getting a desalination plant in Carlsbad, although it's projected to cost more, for much less water: $530 million for ~18 billion gallons a year. No idea why it's so expensive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsbad_desalination_plant
This is really inspiring stuff. Highly recommend the author's blog[1] (sadly on blogspot) and GitHub page[2] too.

His last section on 'advanced particle systems' might be able to be sped up considerably by using an appropriate neighbour list algorithm (e.g. parallel Verlet) which would scale as O(N) instead of O(N^2). I'm working on something similar myself at the moment, though with far fewer particles, but it really is inspiring to see it work with so many on a mobile device.

Can't wait for WWDC to see if there are any updates to Metal (and SceneKit for that matter).

[1] http://flexmonkey.blogspot.co.uk
[2] https://github.com/FlexMonkey
So then, you don't believe that harm reduction doesn't justify illegal activity, you just think what Silk Road specifically did doesn't qualify as "harm reduction"?

That's fine; I disagree, but I'm not interested in litigating it here. But your original parent actually was arguing along those lines, cf. "rat poison" et cetera, so perhaps you'd like to retroactively not reject that as "not a reasonable argument".
You forgot the part where he wanted Curtis Green dead because of a theft of USD$350,000.00 in Bitcoin commited by the dirty undercover DEA agent who he then hired to murder Curtis Green.
Not to mention liquor stores, Walmart, Bayer AG, anyone who's ever manufactured a gun or a knife, ...
These plants are running on cheap natural gas; Israeli price controls are looking at about $6 per million BTU [1] whereas US prices are around $8-10 [2]. The US could have cheap natural gas, too; Even cheaper than Israel could get it. But we can't move it around without pipelines, which is limiting both our production and consumption. What's blocking the pipelines? Nimbyism, to be short.

[1]http://www.platts.com/latest-news/natural-gas/jerusalem/isra...
[2]http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/ng_pri_sum_dcu_nus_m.htm
(I'm fudging the BTU->Cubic Foot conversion here, but it's darn close to 1000:1)
There is no political will in the sense that people in power don't have the will, and the people with will don't have power. I'm all for optimism, but I doubt we're going to see a sudden reversal of the oligarchy and power restored to the people anytime soon. I support labor movements, but I doubt they can supplant the lobbying of the corporations.

If there will be any change at all, it will come about when corporate leaders put pressure on the government.
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I can't upvote you for some retarded reason. But you're correct as far as I'm concerned.
Why did the bay bridge cost such an exorbitant amount, for a very simple structure that is now falling apart? Same reason probably.
In your situation, I'd build a web app to show potential employees that I can actually code, and then send out closer to twelve applications a day than twelve a week.
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I am not arguing against investing and its usefulness to catalyze the creation of value, I am arguing that investments don't magically create value but only the work they support or enable.

But if I go a step further I would also argue that investments as we know them are not sustainable. There is a risk that an investment fails and therefore interests are chosen such that they yield a profit at least in the long run and this also doubles as incentive to invest in the first place.

I now argue that this setup will run away. Having money to invest now allows to gain more money and then even more money by reinvesting again and again. But because investing is a non-productive activity not creating value the returns must be paid by taking an ever increasing share of the value produced by the workers.

The problem is that the value produced by work at best increases linearly with time (assuming a constant workforce) while the returns from investments increases exponentially. And no matter how close to zero the gains of an investment are, sooner or later it will blow up.
Imagine if your country had basically no military technology or ongoing research. Well that's how my country Tunisia is, and of course the rest of Middle East and North Africa. It's easy to say "military funded research is bad" when your country (ex: USA) is at the top of the world when it comes to defense and state-of-the-art weaponry.

By developing our own tech, we can avoid depending on foreign suppliers, at least in some areas. This will help with improving national security and decreasing the obscenely high maintenance costs imposed by these suppliers in the long run.

Advancement in military technology will then allow us to apply the lessons learned, supply chains developed, factories built, and so on, to the civilian space. Look at Israel for example. They have an entire startup scene growing around the military. Many of the people who work in the military go on to start their own defense companies. These companies then give back to both military and civilian tech (Microsoft Kinect, for instance).
That seems like an incredibly petty way to view it.

Apple's not out to get you. In fact, I'm glad they did this. That iHasApp looks creepy as hell, and it pisses me off that other devs were using it to basically spy on me. It reduces my trust in all apps.
If 'trapped in financial instruments' includes standard investments, like deposited in a bank, loaned to a business, or buying equity in a business, then your money is not trapped at all but spreading through the economy in multiples. Only stuffed-in-a-mattress style 'instruments' are taking the money out of circulation, like buying an expensive piece of art or a condo that you don't rent or live in. Yet, you still paid someone for that art, so the cash is flowing...
> One of the many ironies of libertarian extremists is that actions which are considered illegitimate when taken by a democratic government become OK when taken by concentrated private power to protect private property.

Huh? Libertarian extremists do not condone murder or murder-for-hire. Most libertarian extremists also support proportional self-defense and damages doctrine (Rothbard et al) so would not consider murdering someone who steals from you acceptable.
I completely agree. This is tantamount to spying on users. It's basically equivalent to some random game reading your entire contacts list and sending it to the company.
a percussive element has little to no attack, and a quick decay. It doesn't have to be drums, you can play a trumpet or flute "percussively".

The article also says it's the "beat" that makes you dance. A barbershop quartet can have a beat with just vocals. I'm not disagreeing with what you wrote, just explaining why I think a kick isn't necessary for beat detection, even though it makes it easier.
Which leads to the question - does it have a demoscene?
Looks great!
We started doing something similar three weeks ago at http://jobsBCN.com, but with the idea of covering all job openings from startups in Barcelona city (Europe).

We have more than 250 job openings for engineers (+250 for biz) in more than 160 startup companies in Barcelona. Salaries are shown for some of them.

It could be interesting to see how different technologies rank against salaries, or regarding job openings. I hope to find the time to show some statistics soon.
Embrace the usefulness!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
So even when palestinian have a written agreement with israelis on something as crucial as water in a semi desertic land, and someone posts about a peacefull technology used heavily in israel to the benefit of everyone in the region and probably everywhere in the world soon, there will people that come here to spread hateful propaganda... That's really depressing.
blame the brits, not the americans.
Very interesting subject, but far too long. can anybody please write a tl;dr ?
I think we should look at the problem the other way around: it is manual memory management that is overkill because there are exactly four kinds of object memory scope:

* stack scope
* transaction scope (for some definition of transaction -- it can be, say, a frame in a game, or a request in a web server)
* arbitrary (database or any shared data structure)
* permanent

For the stack scope, we have the stack. For the arbitrary scope, a GC is invaluable. For the permanent scope, it doesn't matter too much whether you have a GC or not (yes, vitalyd is going to mention traversals, but if the traversals are interesting, they point to objects in the arbitrary cost anyway). This leaves us the transaction cost. Now, I think it is far easier to manage a stack scope in a GCed environment than an arbitrary scope in a manual environment, and, in fact, some GCs, such as HotSpot's G1 should (yes, vitalyd, it doesn't always work) figure out the tranaction boundary automatically, but even if they don't, it's fairly easy to get that functionality with object pooling. However, to get the absolute best we shouldn't add a GC to a manually managed environment, but add arena collections to a GCed environment, which is exactly what RTSJ (realtime Java) does with scoped memory (making sure there are no references from potentially longer scopes into the arena).

To sum up, for the absolute best performance, a GCed environment + arenas has all you need. There is absolutely no need for a per-object malloc/free, and reference counting is neither here nor there (contention, cycles).
Sadly, the Palestinians elected for their government, Hamas, which has as part of its charter the destruction of Israel when they could have elected the Palestinian Authority to lead them which does recognize Israel. Hamas has spent much of its money on missiles that it shoots at Israeli civilian population centers. Consider, would the US be obligated to give water to Mexico or Canada if these countries had as part of their charter the destruction of the US and shot missiles at US civilian population centers?

I can assure you, that the Palestinian standard of living, esp. in Gaza, will markedly improve once they elect a government which signs a peace agreement with Israel.
I don't even think you should be surprised. I don't see how anyone could condone the privacy violation this app commits.

Of course this app should be banned, should have never made it to the appstore to begin with. And the developer should be ashamed of himself. With all the discussions around the NSA & privacy these days, it's tone-deafness & insensitive for a developer not to see the obvious problems iHasApp creates.
This is more invention than innovation.
Greg KH on 2-year old Linux kernel CVE
Harvard Business case studies cite the delayed Windows version as a marketing tactic. "Everyone loved" the iPod, and apparently quite a few people bought a prerequisite Mac in order to use the iPod.
I think the deeper point is that people feel there's a disconnect from the perceived damage an action incurs and the punishment assigned to it. Rightly or wrongly that's how people feel, and what is the law for in the end?
It's almost surreal when you know this, and you search far and wide, but every CD you're interested in buying has that logo missing.
No more than water does.

Even as a proponent of full legalization I know that as little as a few minutes spent in water can kill someone, and often does.

Why people are allowed to casually dive into this toxic substance is beyond me. No licenses, no regulations, practically any body of water you can find you're allowed to jump into totally unsupervised.

Most places don't even have signs warning people of the danger, and worst yet, many children practice a dangerous activity called 'swimming' in this substance often daring each other as to who can drop the highest from a rope into a potentially fatal body of water.

Also, once you start drinking it you need to find at least 4 litres of this a day to keep from going into water withdrawl, commonly known as dehydration, this can happen in as little as 3 days with out your daily fix.
The amount of prescription opioids being sold in the US is insane, this is my opinion on the subject. It cannot end well in the long run.

There are already millions of Americans that started their opioid adventure with oxycodone or hydrocodone, often coming from the "upper spheres". Addiction does not discriminate. Changing the name from amphetamine to Adderal will not give you more control over your addiction. You will have none, regardless of your income level.

You are right about the safety level though, this is about potential short-term complications. Prescription stuff is not contaminated, a doctor can give you some good advice, or a vial of emergency Naloxone.
Scale it up a bit and fuel it with petrol. I can't imagine this thing using more than 3 kW of electric power, and petrol generators are quite small these days.
The issue with card counting in blackjack is that to have an advantage, the player must vary their bet size according to the count. Casino surveillance personnel and floormen also know how to count cards, and when they see the player raise and lower their bet consistently with the count, will do one of three things. First, they will "flat-bet" them - tell them that they are welcome to play, but must bet the same amount from the beginning to the end of each shuffle. If the player is caught a second time, they will be told that they are welcome to play any game in that casino except for blackjack. On strike 3, they will be "trespassed" - walked off the property by casino security, and told that if they come back, the police will be called and they will be arrested. Some casinos skip directly to step 3, especially if they suspect team play (where a player is betting the minimum while counting, and signals for a big player to come in and bet the max when the count is favorable).
You're leading with a consumption=everything view on the economy. This is wrong.

Growth and employment comes with investment in increasing productivity, not from consumer spending.

I would read some books that take an opposite view to Keynes. Things will make more sense after absorbing the fact that consumption is not the source if economic growth, production and investment is.
Licensed & regulated dealers (aka pharmacies) would be great.

In regards to the harm from drugs-- I'd add the obvious point that prohibition comes with a really high cost.

I recently did dry-january and I was really happy with the results of cutting back on my drinking. I wake up more rested, and had more energy in the evenings. I've been thinking that going totally dry might be a good thing to do in my life.

But would I make alcohol, one of the top killers in america, illegal? (ref: http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm ) Absolutely not. If you went to US high school you know why--- alcohol-dealing gangs took over. People turned to bad products (wood alcohol, that potentially included methanol) to get their alcohol fix. I imagine we needlessly jailed a lot of alcohol drinkers and pushers.

A more indepth analysis of alcohol prohibition: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-157.html

Why does the general public consider drug prohibition to be that much different than alcohol prohibition??
You exhausted those a decade ago. Now other states are shipping water to Cali, and those states are starting to have their own issues.
Probably a lot. I'm not sure exactly what it is though. If it were that easy, we'd have line-rate firewalls from every manufacturer. Considering that the performance rates are much lower, there are indeed challenges.

Tuple based hashing can get complicated and is highly dependent upon the installation. Some would want source IP. Some want destination IP. Some want a mixture of destination IP and source IP and port. How much you can get through each core (in aggregate) definitely impacts throughput.

Think of a volumetric DDoS attack that rolls into a network over a single path and overwhelms a 1/10/40/100G link. You could have a dozen of those links, but your throughput is hosed because that link is effectively saturated. It might only affect 1/12 of your capacity, but you can't use any of the other links. I hate to bring BGP pathing into a firewall discussion, but maybe it makes sense.
Simon's blog has lots of interesting Metal posts. I've got them catalogued here:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?q=flexmonkey&age=10...
I agree, but it creates a conflicting economic issue for the artists who spend their time working on these creations.

The global economy is in a very awkward transitional state right now thanks to tools and networks of the information era.

I imagine a decade or two from now, the prevalent models for creative media outlets would be youtube + advertising views = payment to artists, subscription based netflix / spotify will still be around for niche markets, and as it is now - local copies of recorded media will be sold as physical artifacts bundled with other artwork that cannot be digitized like shirts or toys.
For me, it doesn't seem like a massive logical leap to suggest that shutting down a particularly convenient and unique part of the supply chain will have an effect on consumption and therefore the negative effects of consumption. Shutting down The Silk Road isn't quite the same thing as arresting the corner dealer.

Aside from that - let's posit that Ross Ulbricht's arrest and punishment and the shutdown of The Silk Road doesn't impact consumption and the consequent negative effects at all. I've still got no real moral qualms about punishing someone who enriches themselves off so much harm to others. Yes, there are many people in this world who do equivalent harm that we don't punish, and that's unfortunate, but that doesn't change the rightness of Ross's punishment one bit.
Everyone seems to want chemical storage of Solar Energy.

Everyone keeps looking into batteries and they are not yet sufficient.

Why not store the massive amounts of Solar that Southern California receives during the day as clean drinking water?
No Time Like the Present for AI Safety Work