skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Er, you're drawing a completely ridiculous parallel.

If AT&T made a Text 81841 For Guns and created an anonymous infrastructure for arms dealers to sell guns to gangsters, yes, they would be in trouble.

Here's another example - I'm sure that some people have used Reddit for illegal transactions, but no one is going after Reddit for facilitating drug trafficking because it's a small part of their customer base.

In contrast, the Silk Road was wholly dedicated to selling illegal goods. That's why it was created, and that's why it made money.
I like how you're downvoted for pointing out something very obvious, but not 100% pro-israel.
I'd love to have a conversation with the author of the piece and ask them what sort of mental conception of the universe leads to calling desalinated water "artificially produced."
Here are some of the technologies we use:

Caffe - deep learning feature computation and model training

OpenCV - local + other features

Zookeeper - service discovery

Cascading - batch processing jobs

We’ve built infrastructure around some of these libraries to operate at scale. For example we’ve build an incremental feature extraction pipeline that at the core uses caffe + opencv for the feature extraction (more details on how this works is in the paper).

We serve our infrastructure through ec2.
Correct. The carrier controls that SE, in this case Google is making it easier for people to work with their own SE by giving Android ability to talk to it.

You can/could do the same thing with carrier's SIM actually. All SEs run something called Java Card, which is a standard API you can write against (in Java). Each app gets it's own isolated part of the secure storage, and runs in complete sandbox from other apps and can communicate to apps on the host device.

The chip inside the SIM and the SDCard are pretty much the same. Just different packaging.
This is an important point. Just being punctual and efficient and not stealing is a bar many people can't clear because they didn't start in a low paid job and get experience.
A few years ago, David Nutt and other drug experts rated the relative harms of drugs and found LSD was among the least harmful.

These were the evaluation criteria: drug-specific and drug-related mortality, drug-specific and drug-related damage, dependence, drug-specific and drug-related impairment of mental functioning, loss of tangibles, loss of relationships, injury, crime, environmental damage, family adversities, international damage, economic cost, and community harm.

Infographic: http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/or...

Original study: Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis http://www.sg.unimaas.nl/_old/oudelezingen/dddsd.pdf
Very, very skeptical of this. Apps that people have installed tend to be similar apps.
It's a really good question and hopefully a good solution can be implemented. I always thought namecoin was onto something because whoever was willing to spend the most (run the most miners) got to control transactions, so market forces prevented excessive squatting.

Of course that has the downside that large entities grab all the good names and the little people are left with the leftovers.
I don't know if it is automatical or you enable the machine translation in the Play Store, but the app headline is translated really poorly to Hungarian. The description is in English though.
> yes, vitalyd is going to mention traversals, but if the traversals are interesting, they point to objects in the arbitrary cost anyway

I'm going to mention this too. I don't understand what you mean by "they point to objects in the arbitrary cost anyway". The fact of the matter is that you have to trace all objects at some point.

> 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.

Object pooling is just a (limited, error-prone, poorly-performing) form of manual memory management.

> reference counting is neither here nor there (contention, cycles).

Contention isn't a problem if you don't touch the reference counts much. Cycles aren't a problem if you don't have cycles.
> If anything should be open and free, it's art.

I'm not sure that would work with all types of art and for all types of artists.

If an author spends a year writing a book, how is he supposed to make a living? A few authors can attend sci-fi and fantasy conferences, but most can't make much money from live performances, t-shirts etc.

It's not fair to limit the ways an artist can make a living. If writing was limited to hobbyists we would lose a lot of good literature that can only come from total dedication to their work.

The same can also be said for musicians. Consumers have a limited amount of time and money they can spend on concerts, donations and t-shirts.

The current copyright and distribution system is broken, but art has always been a product that can be sold and controlled by the artists, so why should it be free-as-in-speech just because it can be copied digitally?

The main issue with today's system is that artists no longer have enough control of the distribution and copyright is something that can be transferred and outlive the original artists.

The only way art can be free-as-in-speech is to build a post scarcity world where everyone is free to do whatever they want.
I don't see how your location could be relevant here: you are not selling/shipping products from your home, you are only operating an online marketplace. To make things easier: you aren't even making any profit from it, you are just doing it because you support the idea of a drug market or whatever, so there is no laundering.
Oh I love that idea.

As far as Django, Blockstore is on Pypi so you can just install and import the library.

I think it'd be great to have modules for Rails, Node, etc.

I saw your tweet and I'll shoot you an email. Also feel free to open an issue on github.com/namesystem/blockstore and we can discuss the idea openly there.
Kids and robots learn to write together
I could tell you a story... that at least corroborates that statement... but you wouldn't believe me anyway.
You are right about the addictiveness of nicotine. Also, alcohol is a really nasty one - withdrawal can be lethal in some cases. Even heroin does not do that.

I recommend you reading about the delta FOSB protein. There is promising research towards unifying all, or almost all, addictions with a single, coherent theory. In this light, drugs are really beginning to look very similar to one another.
> Are you implying drugs don't hurt anyone?

Drugs, like spoons, hurt people. Some other items that kill people include:

Cars. Motorcycles. Trees. Water. Too much air. Too little air. People. Dogs. Sticks. Bath tubs. Guns.

In the end, drugs are no more inherently harmful than any of the items listed above.

What usually kills people, however, is not drugs, but things associated with drugs that exist only because we have decided they should exist:

- Drug gangs and cartels and the violence associated with them are the product of US government policy, not drugs.

- Drug overdoses are the product of US government policy, not drugs (in most cases), because especially with illegal drugs people don't know what they're getting or how much of it or how to use it.

It is primarily we that kill people. Look around you. If you see a face that supports the drug war, that person is partially guilty in all drug related deaths.

The irony of this case is that Judge Katherine Forrest is now much more responsible for the drug-related deaths she is trying to prevent.
But, if I'm not mistaken, an agent isn't concurrent. You make your shared data a bottleneck which is exactly what concurrent data strctcures are meant to prevent.
If nothing else, this is immediately useful to the sport of fencing.

If you're not aware, competitive fencers already wear metallic jackets to detect when one has been hit by the other's weapon. If this could make them cheaper/lighter/more durable/more accurate or improve them in any way, that would be pretty cool. I'm guessing you could even track the specific place that they hit.
I think that it might be possible to set up a dark market (and even then, it's unlikely). The problem is making money off of it. You have to spend the money somewhere, after all. And unlike cash, which is very difficult to trace, spending Bitcoins can be tracked. "Gee, the wallet that everyone pays money to is spending it on X, Y, and Z! I wonder whom that's for!"
> When Wix started, we had a Flash-based product—both the Editor and the created sites were Flash applications—which turned into a second monolith (especially the Editor application).

These flash sites were ugly, even for the time. I'm amazed the company has done so well.

In the beginning I'd expect it'd be easy to scale. User would create a flash based site with the tool and server would host that file.
>Definitions are boringly pedantic and beside the point. I'm saying the bigger issue is the lack of output on a national level due to undertraining, underemployment, etc.

Come on. You were wrong, the difference between production and productivity is very important. You can't just cop out and whine that 'definitions are pedantic'. No. Definitions are very important.
This is eye-opening.
I went to university nearly 15 years ago, but it sounds like Title IX removes freedom of speech unless it agrees with mainstream culture.
Her quote - "What’s being lost, along with job security, is the liberty to publish ideas that might go against the grain." is absolutely terrifying to me.

The ability to call Title IX on a subject you find offends you implies that the accusers who do this are using it for manipulation, not a safe way to find help for an actual violation.
He edited it. His original message was blatantly antisemetic.
Let's hope that, this time, he doesn't get the date conveniently wrong, and doesn't just grandstand without pissing off his masters, like he just did.
Just let people upvote banned users comments out of oblivion if they think it's worth seeing.
No drug dealer from the Bronx was reviewed by buyers for all to see before making a deal with them. Arguably, a dealer from the Bronx would be on the streets so couldn't make that defense in the first place... so the comparison doesn't hold up.

>It’s a privileged argument and it’s an argument made by one of the privileged

I'm unsure what this is even supposed to mean. I tried searching for a definition of "privileged argument" and found nothing. My search phrase was:

"privileged argument" -white -race -racial -feminist

If someone can explain what was meant by this statement, that would be nice and I'd appreciate it.
So, let's state my affiliation first: I lived in Tel Aviv for a year, I still work for a company that was founded in Israel. I have friends there and would love to go back.

Now .. water? That's insane. You'll see lots of places that offer a 'lawn'. Which doesn't work without a lot of water. People seem to be rather wasteful. We (my wife and me) had discussions with Israelis about how to do the dishes (the 'German way', if that is really special, is filling your sink with water and washing your dishes. The 'Israeli way' - anecdotally, among friends - was running tap water) and about reusing glass bottles ("What? You have people that prefer to buy Coke in a glass bottle, because that bottle will be washed and reused? Isn't that totally baaah?").

We tried to discuss that topic a couple of times, but nobody local (in our circles) cared One. Little. Bit.

(Ironically we were in a hotel before we found our final apartment for our time in Israel and the management stole the bathtub plug from each and every room, citing water shortage as a reason. That was before we had all the conversations that are summarized above)

I'm glad that desalination works and helps. But the attitude might need adjustment as well, based on my non-scientific observations.
The topic sounds interesting, but I can't tell whether the interesting part is supposed to be the preprocessing, I.e. going from a raw music file to some sort of binary vector, or the actual beat detection, which could ostensibly work on any binary vector. Wouldn't one just do a Fourier transform for the second part?
Almost. The biggest hurdle in SE is "provisioning", i.e. how do you get your master keys in there. This is why Google needed to rely on the carriers for authentication. They already have a full infrastructure for that in place.

The NFC chip in Nexus for example (PN5323 IIRC) interfaces with an external secure element[1], which would be in the SIM card in their case and in the new use cases it would be the external uSD card. The NFC chip passes data transparently between the external NFC device and the SE like a bridge.[2]

I believe in Apple's case they just built an SE directly into their chip and came up with their own provisioning infrastructure, bypassing the carrier. Which I think is the better way. That is what Google should have done.

[1] http://www.adafruit.com/datasheets/pn532ds.pdf (page 20)
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFC-WI
Bank lends farmer money to buy a tractor, farmer doubles productivity.
Yup. The last album I bought was one where I couldn't rip a couple tracks and put them on my Diamond Rio (how's that for a flashback?). Then they came out with the "You didn't buy this song, you bought a license to play this song on one media type..."

And I've been digital since then.
Based on the screenshots, yes if you changed margin on say body, or something high up it would cause everything to shift and be "red".
They probably don't even pay for what they agreed to buy anyway... just like with electricity where they owe about 2 billion shekels (500 million $)

But they still get water regardless on the amount they are allow to pump, clean safe water coming from the same sources used for the rest of Israel, including the one in the article. They will have water without concerns for drought or whatever happens with the aquifer.

The thing is that this aquifer is under both Israeli and Palestinian land and therefor one affect the other. Just look at what they did in Gaza (From the article):
"Overpumping in Gaza, which causes seawater and sewage to penetrate into the aquifer, has made 90 percent of the potable water undrinkable."

It's probably best that they have a limit on drilling and pumping. Otherwise it could be really bad...
I think people who aren't heavy BBQ fans don't fully appreciate the number of decisions that goes into a well-made BBQ. The sauces and rubs alone show a huge amount of variation that can make or break the entire thing.
I like this idea very much. Make water only during the day. Water consumption is highest during the day anyway, and water can be stored much easier than electricity.
Show HN: j2c — JavaScript object to CSS compiler
Just search for the article on google and it will take you straight there.
The permission clause is "You hereby grant the Company permission to display your logo, trademarks and company name on the Sites and in press and other public releases or filings."

This does not appear to include the right to use the trademark in installers, as an installer is neither a site nor press release, etc.
You call it nimbyism. I call it climate change.

Making natural gas cheaper should not be one of our priorities. It's non-renewable and contributes to carbon emissions.
>The only thing you need to prevent is people and organisations sitting on idle cash or cash like investments. That's what destroys the economy.

Not true. Cash kept in banks is reinvested in the economy. If companies like Apple keep billions in the bank, it has the effect of lowering interest rates and therefore encouraging investment.

Clarity in economic thought comes when this incorrect bit of Keynesian relic thinking is discarded.
It's called "Rule Of Law". Why the hell should anybody else bother respecting the law, when it is patently clear that the law as written is not actually what the "law" that is used.

When people that have clearly violated the law - like certain people in the CIA, for example - are not even prosecuted, it is hard agree with people that think it is "just" to give someone life in prison for allegedly committing as far lesser crime.

At worst, Ross Ulbricht is accused of an attempted conspiracy of murder. People in the CIA actually killed people, in ways that are always illegal.
No that's wrong. The screenshots are not based on one device looking like another. It's based on one device looking like X all the time.

For example this uses Firefox, if all I change is something in the backend. My front end should look the exact same before the change and after.
So the Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing is actually the Palestinians fault? For electing the wrong political party? How long until Israel implements the final solution for this evil minority?
I read the _Illuminatus!_ trilogy, and wondered if AUM could possibly be made real from a combination of already-known drugs. Following my curiosity taught me a great deal about natural and synthetic psychoactive drugs, and some of what I learned was not completely bogus.

As a result of my "research", LSD remains one of the few recreational drugs that I might ever consider trying in the future, given the correct circumstances.

It is certainly less harmful than nicotine, ethanol, and acetaminophen. But now that marijuana is legal in some states, I expect that it will soon displace LSD-25 as the least harmful recreational drug that I know about.

If you are also curious, my conclusion was that LSD-25 is probably present in AUM at a psychoactive, but non-hallucinogenic, dose, mostly as an adjuvant for the other ingredients. It would help bridge the gap between a drug known to have powerful, positive, short-term effects and one known to cause long-term but very unpredictable changes in behavior.
About the author: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Manne

Interview arguing insider trading should be legal: http://capitalismmagazine.com/2004/09/legalize-insider-tradi...
And current languages too. A while back I found this diagram http://imgur.com/ZNlwDUZ, to me it shows how logical greeks were. Terms are symmetrical, well organized, forming a tiny core of combinators.
In the nineties, there was a great local record shop that was set up in a former bank that had been built in 1930. Marble floors and walls. Wrought iron railing with a loft above the main floor, which had a huge vaulted ceiling. There were listening stations where you could sample music and several floors above, all full of music in various genres. It wasn't quite a large as Tower Records, but it was a much nicer building and was just a 15-minute walk from my high-school. I blew far too much money there. In terms of the sheer percentage of my disposable income it gobbled up, no other format has ever come close to CD's.

As great as this store was, it was still sometimes hard to find specific albums. Imagine special ordering physical media these days! I forget if you had to pay in advance or just put down a deposit, but sometimes it took months to get some albums in. Today, even if you still have to have physical media, you can get the most obscure releases off of amazon (heck, even amazon japan) in less time.

In every measurable way, online distribution of physical media is superior to the old mega-stores, and digital media is more convenient still. However, there was something special about walking into a big space that was packed with tens of thousands of different albums and being able to wander down the aisles browsing album art. One of my big hopes for virtual reality is to bring this kind of experience back to life, only with all the advantages of digital media. Imagine shopping in a virtual record shop, being able to walk down the aisles, pick a random album off the shelf and, just by looking at it, be able to listen to the tracks. Maybe there will even be a way to chat up other people browsing the same genre!
> Hamas has spent much of its money on missiles that it shoots at Israeli civilian population centers.

Just compare the victims of the junkyard Hamas missiles and the countless, often innocent victims of Israeli air strikes. Not to count any of the violations of international law Israel has committed against the Palestine people (border violations, the illegal settlements encouraged by Israeli government, illegaly withholding Palestine tax income, ...).

Israel is able to get away with more illegal stuff than the US.

edit: oh, just btw, a single Hellfire missile costs $100k. Imagine if that money spent on a single missile was instead spent on improving the lives of Palestine citizens. Hate and religious extremism is far too often fueled by poverty.
There's a difference in degree and in kind. Water does not create addiction that forces you to consume it in amounts that are seriously harmful to your health.

It's not true that areas unsafe for swimming are not marked - they are; moreover, there's both infrastructure in place to increase safety (e.g. lifeguards) and a significant amount of effort put towards educating people about the dangers of things like jumping into the water in a potentially unsafe place.

But that's all beside the point. Laws and rules do not exist in vacuum, and humans are not spherical cows of uniform density. Time and again history has proven that most people can handle exposure to water safely, while they can't handle being exposed to hard drugs. You can blame this on individual stupidity, but people don't have perfectly free will, and if this stupidity predictably touches big fractions of a population, it's time to mitigate it.
It is amazing when you think about it at scale. Your car drops you off exactly where you want to go, then double-parks in a ultra-dense parking hanger.

What are we going to do with all the extra parking spaces? Turn them into parks/wildlife habitat/green space!
I was given the impression that all therapy for addiction has a pretty poor record. If there was something that actually got good results, everyone would be using it. Unfortunately, brains are complicated, and everyone's brain is different.
Keep It Secret Stupid
> In my fantasy world, I'd like the auditors to be telling companies 'in 5 years, you won't be allowed to firewall your business network, and if you aren't secure without the crutches, then no certification for you.' That would light a fire under management to care about software quality all over the place.

Your fantasy world also has auditors. What concerns me most is "self-auditing", mostly because it's a joke, partly because a lot of places don't take it seriously.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

Conclusion: We did not find use of psychedelics to be an independent risk factor for mental health problems.
> Switch to blockchain tech

What is "blockchain tech" in the context of mobile apps?
For some subset maybe. But I guarantee you that there is not one other person on Earth that has the same set of apps installed on their phone that I do. The chances of that are astronomically tiny.
It's worth pointing out that Natural Gas is an extremely clean fossil fuel, as far as fossil fuels go. It's a shame that so much is simply burnt off rather than harnessed. That doesn't help anyone.
> There's a difference in degree and in kind. Water does not create addiction that forces you to consume it in amounts that are seriously harmful to your health.

Neither do most drugs, especially most illegal drugs.

Many legal drugs do (the most addictive of all being nicotine), but that also doesn't matter and is besides the point.

These are health issues, not criminal issues.
"If the police have to come get you, they're bringing an ass-kicking with 'em."
Yes, of course. I just thought that flashbacks and other LSD complications are common knowledge. Take a look at this Wikipedia section:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#Adv...