skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically pointing out, once again, that it really is a question of price, not of availability. Cheaper energy would make this more doable. And water has been proposed as a transfer medium for value from photovoltaic arrays (they desalinate water by cracking it into hydrogen and oxygen, which then gets recombined to produce local energy and exportable potable water. Only makes sense if you are willing to pay more for the water.

That said, the ability of graphene to desalinate water is something I think should get more investigation than it does. See (http://cleantechnica.com/2015/04/03/methane-rescue-new-energ...) for example.
While I'll agree with your second point about designing the API in a more safe way, the first one I'm not as sure about. You could make that same argument in favor of malware authors against Big Bad Microsoft walling them out with new Windows Defender definitions.

If something is stealing my personal information and sending it off to advertisers, I'm entirely happy to have the OS vendor give them the boot.
He wanted Curtis Green dead because of Force, not despite.
>Yeah, I remember reading news stories all the time about how Canadians overdose on maple syrup or how Egyptians overdose on water. Truly, all drugs are just as innocuous as air and puppies.

Maple syrup may not have been a good example
http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/statistics
> Why shouldn't everyone benefit from the fruits of full automation?

They should, but:

>That is largely up to the people who now have all the money and power.

And that's why they won't. At least not until their poverty destabilizes the economy. It's expensive and reduces profits for the people making the decisions, at least in the short run.
"artificially produced water" just seems like a shortening of "artificially produced freshwater", and that seems like a correct statement. It's just semantics, man.
> Deeper responses are available from most candidates.

Occasionally. Very occasionally.

I would submit that these interviews are really only useful to the extent that they let candidates demonstrate their leadership style or possibly their personality.
> I'm not sure memory locality effects can be considered secondary

What is secondary isn't the TLAB/stack performance ratio, but that ratio vs malloc/TLAB.

Also, I'm not sure why you think locality matters much here in the case of stack reuse. Within each frame, the stores always come first, and those go in the store buffer (and the reads are from the store buffer, too), so those are pretty benign cache misses.

> which, I argue, is rare in properly written applications

Sure, it is rare in "well written applications", but how costly is it to write a well-written application in a large team, and how much extra performance can you get? Remember, we're not talking about a DSP, a microcontroller or a net router when we're discussing GCs, but big, complex applications. Nobody is claiming you can't beat a GC given enough work (though it's harder the more concurrency is involved).

Also, think about what kind of data we're talking about. The interesting data is database data, and that has both arbitrary lifetime as well as concurrent read/write. And if you don't use malloc/free, at best you need to write your own manual memory allocator which is just as complex, and at worst you basically need to write your own GC.
> He wanted Curtis Green dead

You should have stopped there. Unless you're trying to claim that Force somehow zombified Ulbricht and then mind-controlled him into placing the hit...
Last updated 2 hours ago, so doesn't seem out of date. Starting from https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/docs/start/getting-the-c... I get https://developers.google.com/web/tools/polymer-starter-kit/ which points to https://github.com/google/polymer-starter-kit?hl=en which is a 404. :/
The best jailbreak tools to jailbreak iOS 8.2 – TaiG 1.3.0
Did you even read the article? The article's description of "beat" doesn't conflict with the musical term but yours does. In fact the article even relates beats to tempo and describes the results in terms of tempo. This is about tempo detection.

The reason this technique is called "beat detection" is it can be used to collect the individual beats from the stream contrasted with knowing the just the tempo doesn't tell you where the beats are exactly (and doesn't help a lick with finding the off-beats.) Tempo detection is only one product of these algorithms, and guesses can be constructed from any of them, though sometimes additional heuristics are needed.

The accuracy of the LPF technique is well worth criticizing. Yes, it's fairly good, but it's not the best one we have and the article says part 2 will describe a better technique. I should note that even organs and vocals can create transients that are often associated with beats. The LPF probably does better simply by eliminating false-positives.
It's still conspiracy to traffic narcotics and nobody in their right mind would do so without taking the money since life in prison is likely. Risk must equal reward, and I wouldn't trust any software to protect you from a nation state set on shutting you down. You need the protection of another nation state.
Silk Road founder gets life sentence for creating online drug site
Yes, radically changing everyone's idea about what rights should exist is hard.

Of course, you haven't provided any argument here for your position on rights, just a bald statement that the right you would like to exist does, as if that were some kind of uncontroversial, universally-accepted thing that required no justification.
Cars and guns also hurt people but pretty much anyone can sell those.

I agree that drug sales should be regulated but that doesn't in any way make sentencing someone to life in prison for running a website any less fucked up.
(I think s/he means that it works with Flash disabled)
I sort of like the Drip widgets (http://getdrip.com) and there exist numerous Javascript things which can do roughly the same.

I don't have much experience with physical products and am not sure this generalizes, but in SaaS, one of the best ways to get opt-ins with advertising is to:

a) Send the ad not to a landing page but rather to content pitched in the ad

b) Have a further incentive which takes the piece it's attached to and deepens it. Gate this one with an email submit.

c) You generally want to get to a state where you have N content pieces, M creatives for the premium (downloadable whitepaper or whatever), and P premiums, where N >> M >> P. Then you can start testing to find which ads/content/house ad creatives/premiums get you the best results. It works perfectly adequately with N = M = P = 1 though.

This works particularly well with retargeting. You get someone to visit your site once or a few times organically (your content was on HN or Twitter or what have you), you cookie them up, and some day when they're browsing Facebook your company (which they already trust to give them useful info) says "Hey, more stuff for you to read of interest to you." They come over, read for a bit, and hand over the email address semi-casually. Your marketing and sales processes now take over.
Tesla is recharging emission-free electric cars with a diesel generator
Thanks, it's getting late here.
Sepp Blatter: how the great survivor won another term amid Fifa crisis
Israel is considered an occupying power within Gaza and the West Bank according to international law. Comparisons with Mexico and Canada are not particularly relevant, in that regard.
> the entire concept of apartheid doesn't even make any sense in that concept

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_apartheid_analog...

> Your antisemitism is showing.

In my criticism of Israel?

> You do know your github and other public data is linked from your profile?

Fear is the mind-killer.
I suppose this doesn't come as a shock to anyone who has even had a passing interest in the case. The DOJ definitely wanted to make an example out of Ross and send a clear message to those that would try to emulate him.

Even many in the crypto/cypherpunk communities find it difficult to defend Ross given the allegations of attempting to solicit people to commit violence (and even murder) on his behalf.

I hate quoting memes but it somehow feels appropriate here: Unfortunately, DPR was the martyr that none of us wanted but ultimately deserved.
Practically every filing from the case is trivially available with a single Google search, so I'm not really at all interested in how Ars or Wired chose to summarize it.
Hmm.

Now, water in Europe is recycled as well. Maybe I'm missing the context, but .. so far I'm unconvinced. And even IFF that would be true, not using a running tap would save more water.

Reusing bottles is stupid? Really? You want to create those from scratch, because .. you have sand? What happens to the old/used bottles? I cannot even begin to understand this point, tbh.

Kosher: I'm no expert on kosher regulations, but a bottle of coke (in a specific form) will stay a bottle of coke. Washing it, refilling it should (??) be irrelevant for people that want kosher stuff. If you consider Coke kosher (which - ignoring Coke - is arguably something that you have to decide for yourself. People often seemed to eat seafood but reject pork for example) then this bottle is just going to be cleaned and .. refilled with the same stuff. I don't see how kosher comes into play here?
> I have a mild bias against altcoins, and have heard bad things about Namecoin in particular: that the anti-spam incentives aren't good, leading to illegal files stored in the blockchain itself, and that there's no compact representation (like Bitcoin's Simplified Payment Verification) for determining whether a claimed name is valid without consulting a full history.

Security-wise Namecoin is a weaker Blockchain, but I think in this case it's not that important. -- Are not the anti-spam measures hurting users as much as spammers in this case? Since you end up with higher-costs for what is otherwise practically free with a centralized service.

From the looks of it there is no reason that Bitcoin's Simplified Payment Verification wouldn't be usable with Namecoin either.

edit: Also this may be interesting to take a look at https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/vandenhooff-ver...
The problem I have with the Israeli government is that they continue to provoke Hamas.

Bulldozing the houses of families of terrorists (punishment of the family is these days only heard of in North Korean prison camps)? Illegal settlements?

If the Israeli government wanted peace, they could immediately stop these measures and gain a lot of political credit in peace negotiations without losing anything (except votes from the illegal settlers of course). But the way things are running now, it becomes harder every day to defend Israel.

And that, honestly, is unacceptable.
Israel is a occupying power in the West Bank and effectively is a occupier in Gaza. Israel collects taxes on Palestinian goods (as do the PA and Hamas). Regardless of how you _feel_ about their government, Israel has mandatory obligations as such it has to meet. This means things like not turning off power to Gaza from the power plant at Ashkelon, as some were suggesting offhandedly a couple of years ago.
No, no, no. Desal is not ever going to be used to irrigate crops in California. You would need to build something like 100 of the largest desal plants in existence to meet the ag demand (~= 100k AF/day). Oh and a way to pump it all a hundred miles inland, over a coastal mountain range. Also, there are significant environmental impacts associated with both desal and nukes which you have completely ignored. Pretend like technology is going to rush in and save the day delays our transition to a realistic, sustainable way of life.
I don't understand why so many people are in awe of this project when it seems to be based on a number of falsehoods:

> "imagine someone arguing that we can do without BitTorrent because we have FTP. We would not advocate replacing BitTorrent with FTP, and the suggestion doesn’t even make sense! First — there’s no index of which hosts have which files in FTP, so we wouldn’t know where to look for anything."

Actually there is. It's called a mirror list. Most FTP-based repositories support this.

> "And second — even if we knew who owned copies of the file we wanted, those computers aren’t going to be running an anonymous FTP server."

Except bittorrent does turn your client into a server. Many clients silently punch holes in your firewall via uPnP, so you don't always realise you're running a server, but it does still happen.

And as for anonymous FTP servers, it depends on what you mean there. If you mean anonymous access, then that's not only supported, but actually the norm. If you mean the server itself is anonymous, then it should be noted that neither github nor torrent seeding peers are anonymous either.

> "Just like Git, FTP doesn’t turn clients into servers in the way that a peer-to-peer protocol does. So that’s why Git isn’t already the decentralized GitHub — you don’t know where anything’s stored, and even if you did, those machines aren’t running Git servers that you’re allowed to talk to. I think we can fix that."

Hang on, a moment ago you _didn't_ want to run servers. Now you're complaining that git clones aren't servers?

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Then there's the matter of the github competitors, of which there are many. gitlab, gitbucket, etc. Some open source, some closed but free, but all of them largely offer the same features as github.

These days it seems trendy to use bittorrent as a bootstrap for all kinds of wacky and wonderful problems, but using bittorrent for a protocol that's already distributed and already pretty saturated with github competitors; well it just seems redundant.
Even though this was a joke, UDP does need to be use in the correct applications, I don't know why I am getting down-voted for this...
As far as hard drugs, Ron Paul has done excellent surveys amongst hardcore Republicans (who generally say they'd do drugs if allowed) and found that most of them would not do heroin if given the choice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9n4nwxgaQg
> 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.

It's not true that products unsafe for smoking are not marked - they are; moreover, there's both infrastructure in place to increase safety (e.g. physicians and filters) and a significant amount of effort put towards educating people about the dangers of things like using tobacco in a potentially unsafe manner.

I believe that time and history has proven that prohibition solves little, where infrastructure to increase safety and effort put towards educating people results in "less harm" -- a much better outcome for all. Some people will make a harmful choice (e.g. heavy smoking, fast food diet, sedentary lifestyle, using chainsaws alone), but society as a whole should not be punished for the choices of the few.
Biracial Beauty Queen Strives for Change in Mono-Ethnic Japan
The real problem I run into as someone who speaks English natively and German as a second language is, outside of the Internet and reading books, I never have a chance to speak German. Even in the actual country of Germany, I speak German just bad enough that I can tell it's painful for people to listen to me struggle, and they'll quickly switch to English if they know it (which they do). The only benefit is I know what the weather forecast will be and I know what the announcements at the Bahnhof mean, so I know what train to get on.

I've visited Mexico with my Spanish-speaking wife (semi-natively) and while the locals loved to hear her speak their language, we communicated mostly in English if we wanted to be easily understood.

The struggle is real for Americans, or for native English speakers as a whole. For Americans, there is no other language spoken for thousands of miles like you mentioned (Mexico and Quebec (to a limited extent)), and even then, most of the people we interact with on vacation will speak English.

I put serious effort into maintain my German, and she puts serious effort into maintaining her Spanish. But we rarely have the chance to actually use it, even if we're in a country that speaks the language. English has won.
See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9627467
To be clear - I have no problem with this service getting shut down, as it's clearly intended to violate the user's privacy. But to say you must use APIs as "prescribed" by Apple is way too broad and subjective.

I'm sure the iOS developer Terms of Service forbids this at some level. If not, then update it. Then say you're shutting this down because it violates the TOS.
You should look into the open source Kong for managing your microservices http://getkong.org - Github repo https://github.com/mashape/kong
Will Linux No Longer Work on Future Windows 10 Hardware?
"Pretending"...
Just because you live in a place where the existence of your country isn't threatened, doesn't make it not true for other places.
Israel is in a place where you have 10s of thousands of rockets aimed at your population centers, UN member countries publicly threaten to wipe you off the map while creating a nuclear program.
History of your surrounding countries trying to actually wipe you off the map, many many times...

The threat is real.
They make a database alternative to CoreData/SQLite.
Right, they did it by blocking javascript access to computed CSS styles so that it doesn't return :visited rules.

In Apple's case, the more secure options would either be "an app must include a perapproved list of which other apps are authorized to see that it is installed", or popups for permissions like "Image Editor wants to know if you have Dropbox."

Since Apple has both the authority and the manpower to approve or disapprove of apps, they chose to not take either and to stick with the version that gives the best user experience, while also allowing devs to continue checking installed apps when they need to as appropriate for cross-app interaction.

I guess it sucks from iHasApp's perspective, but I don't have any more sympathy for them than any other spyware developer. Just because Win32 apps aren't sandboxed and can read arbitrary data out of my home folder doesn't mean it's an OK thing to do.
>Why do you hate people who choose to spend time as they wish instead of being coerced into unwanted employment?

Why should money be taken from my paycheck to support idle people who could be working? In general it's none of my business how people choose to spend their time, but if they expect me to pay their expenses it becomes my business and I have to ask why they can't go to work like I do.
I think the issue is more you can't guarantee someone didn't do something with said rewashed bottles that doesn't violate kashrut.
I think you meant to reply to mpyne, but that is a very amusing observation. :)
How to Keep the World from Distracting You When You Work from Home
Could you give a high level description of the features used? Interest points, corners, edges, color histograms, or something more sophisticated?
What's the state of the art of water desalination? I remember some interesting research on graphene filters a year or two back. Is this doable on a micro level for off grid living on coastlines?
The court docs were taken down since Ulbricht's attorney messed up and uploaded unredacted versions, but if that's the guy I think it is;

His son had started abusing benzos but wanted to try heroin -- he bought some H on the Silk Road and then ODed after trying it once. When they found his body, the computer was literally open to the Silk Road page..

(There were 6 deaths detailed in the sentencing guidelines, so my recounting may be slightly off, but feel free to exchange this one for the 16-year old kid who bought LSD on the SR, had a terrible trip, then jumped to his death off of a balcony)

Making dangerous drugs vastly easier to purchase by those who had no previous source for them isn't harmless.
> So that's where rights come from... they are a human construct, but there's also a single, objectively correct answer.

Ironically (since you are obviously a rational, self interested person), this statement is objectively false.
CEO of Mandriva says employee lawsuits put the company out of business
Can we just blame one person instead of an entire country?
It's interesting that someone would remove that comment.
I'm not sure I really follow because the comics didn't describe anything that presumably would be entrapment.

Is anyone here a lawyer in this area of law? I don't really trust webcomics....

But let's talk about this alleged hitman situation. Didn't the police come up with the idea and create the situation where a third of a million dollars appeared to have been stolen and a volunteer appeared to defect with information and a threat to bring down the organization?

What exactly does count as coercion? If the police were to make your incentives work out a certain way - let's say they were aware that a non-call-girl was in dire straights was potentially willing to accept money for a personal night, they freeze her bank account and provide a good looking and safe opportunity with a load of cash to do it - would that count as compulsion?

Or is it just by appeal to words that counts as compulsion?

How can a court decide what you would have done otherwise?

It seems like a pretty difficult area of law - and one that the defendant could argue?

For the record I do not support trafficking of drugs and illegal materials, nor calling of hit men: but I do want to make sure that the tools to get a conviction do not further enshrine precedents that have fascistic qualities to them - e.g. parallel construction, entrapment, others.
I don't believe that Iran would do as much as send a dummy conventional rocket towards Israel. Israel and the US would likely send enough nukes flying towards Teheran to vaporize the country for centuries before the Iranian missile crosses the border, and Iran leadership knows that.

It's just exaggerated v-penis comparisons, imho.
This is the kind of thing that just makes me wish there was a open source or distributed alternative to these services. Really? A decision like this is news? What happened to the internet?
The article goes into why that's not really an option. Making a separate request for each blob/file/commit/whatever would be way too slow for large repos.
Yup, virtually everyone is screwed, eventually (with eventually being not that far away, IMO).

Something that seems to get missed a bunch when talking about the upcoming lack of work for humans is that a job category doesn't need to be fully automated to cause widespread lack of employment.

Simply automating a job enough to allow 2 people to do the work 3 used to do puts 33% of those doing that job out of work. 33% unemployment is already an economic nightmare and the actual ratios of "X people to do the work Y used to do" will quickly become much more severe than 2 to 3.

Some people will inevitably say "this has happened before", but this time a lot of the automation is going to be purely software. You are not going to have enough new jobs for people "maintaining the robots" at anywhere near the scale required to make up for the lost jobs like you did with the previous more mechanical style of automation.
I stopped buying when the content industries declared war on my profession. When they started going after tinkerers for being inquisitive instead of the people who used the resulting code to actually commit copyright violations, that crossed a line for me and, because of that, I will never willingly give them another dime of my money.

To me, it's abundantly clear that people should be responsible for what they do with code, no matter who wrote it. Writing code should never be illegal.