skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
depth/focus is wrong and hurts my eyes, its like those pictures are forcing me to go cross-eye
Nope. https://defcon.org/images/defcon-18/dc-18-presentations/Blak...
Or, they "dumped" free classified listings into the market, killing off competitors (newspapers), giving CL a monopoly.

Of course they "manage to beat" competitors, that's not hard for a monopolist. But it doesn't equate to "doing something right."

The whole suit is ridiculous from the consumer/society perspective. You can't argue that scraping Google to get CL listings harms CL in any way whatsoever. So the only TRUE reason to sue 3Taps (or their customers) is to retain the monopoly, plain and simple.

I'm starting to think that, on balance, CL may no longer be a net benefit to society.
I also guessed correctly with only 2 nos -- my real confirmation came from the fact that "-1, 0, 300000000" (or some number of 0s) was correct, meaning it couldn't be any really meaningful sequence.
> They may have meant the various agencies under DOJ (DEA, FBI, ATF, etc.) and not the US Attorney's office

Indeed, that is precisely what I meant. I'm not interested in the US Attorney's office when I speak of the DoJ.
I'd like to also add to this that SCTP doesn't ship on Mac OS X either by default. Although, in recent years there have been development on an SCTP over UDP standard, allowing for user-mode SCTP. Yet, I still haven't seen a mature version of this API ship on Mac OS X.

Some time ago, I also did performance testing on SCTP vs. TCP. It's surprisingly sad how much worse SCTP's performance was compared to TCP. I imagine that this is because just isn't as much work put into SCTP as TCP.
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It seems to be a very popular de facto design in the BitCoin world, yes.
> I can't imagine there being a huge difference between Rust and Go both being quite new.

This is a failure of your imagination. The linked article points out some of the differences, but there are many others. This topic has been endlessly discussed, and I'm kind of sick of repeating it, but I have written several posts on this matter and you can hunt them down if you wish.
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Be fair; entrepreneurs are very likely the set that will produce another. The set that predicts who won't be, is the rest.
The tech workers who make up the majority of my friends and acquaintances are heavily left-leaning. What is the US left wing supposedly giving away to them to buy their support?

I think it's ironic that you go through this (IMO justified) rant about how awful politics is, and then immediately turn around and propose your own political philosophy as the answer. Sorry, but libertarianism is still politics. I'm sure you have plenty of answers about how that's not true and your way is inherently different from all the others, but they all say that.
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Capitalists think that because they take on the risk, it is somehow morally justified to exploit others for wages. It is pretty obvious that it isn't much better than feudal indentured servitude and that ideally in any enterprise the risk and reward would be shared by everyone proportionally to their contribution.
The call to int is unnecessary when using the built in.
>This contamination was due to farm runoff into an adjacent water well

Yet another victim of our universally awful water management in agriculture, and in general. Why is a farmer allowed to discharge polluted water onto someone else's property, whereas if a factory discharged that exact same water it would be a crime?

Our land management (which in modern times mostly falls under the purview of agriculture) needs to start treating the water cycle as the life-critical biophysical process it is, not just as an inconvenience (rain is just 'weather,' and the answer to rain is always 'drainage')

In reality, 'drainage' leads to drought. Drainage is straight hard pipes that shunt all rainfall to the ocean as fast as possible. This prevents aquifer recharge or soil soaking. Buildings and parking lots are 100% runoff surfaces. Even continuously mowed lawns are nearly so due to subsoil hardpan.

Here's a simple math equation. When looking at a continent as a whole:

water_available_per_hectare (in megalitre/ha) = net_precipitation_per_hectare (ML/day/ha) * average_time_from_fall_to_ocean (days)

As you can see, minimizing the time it takes water to reach the ocean minimizes the water available on the land.[1] And under climate change more of the world is going to start looking like California.

But by using "drainage" as the de facto solution, we're driving the optimization in the exact opposite direction. What we should be doing is slowing down water, sending it on circuitous routes with lots of friction. There are some designs that do exactly that,[2] but they are almost entirely ignored in discussions of water use and policy.

This E. coli incident/mismanagement/market failure is tragic, but it's a symptom of a larger structural problem. We're subsidizing both water addition (huge dam projects and pipelines) and water removal (not making farmers clean up their own mess^Wrunoff), with all the predictably bad results.

[1] Ok, I cheated a bit here. There actually is something clever that you can do - recycle the water. If you harvest and evaporate huge quantities of water shortly after it falls, you can cause new rain a few hundred miles downwind (and buffer floodwaters besides). This is quite absurd for an industrial system, but nevertheless this system powers our modern day rain. And that's why trees cause 80% of terrestrial rainfall: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v496/n7445/full/nature1...

[2] A few that come to mind: swales (i.e. contour following water soaking ditches), the various techniques of Keyline design (farm scale dams/tanks, altering the passive flow of water over land, and use of a deep ripping plow), and productive literally-cheaper-than-dirt biofiltration systems like reed bed ponds and banana circles. Google is your friend here, but a couple links: http://www.cresswater.co.uk/pages/case-studies/whitsome-hill... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ima_ff5xVH4
How does it matter whether it's humans or uploaded humans or pure AIs that we're talking about. You think that AIs will necessarily be driven by pure logic and all agree on the fundamental root of any given idea?

I love how computer scientists seem to decide they've "solved" AI because neural nets can sorta- kinda- do something that we do unconsciously (like see) and blithely assume that we just need a bigger net to get "thinking". When have we ever built something more complex than, say, a bunch of rocks piled on each other, without understanding its basic workings?
Java's JIT probably generated pretty close to the same assembly code as the C version. Hence the "same" result.
Is that what happened to Ulbricht? How did the US Attorney even know who Ulbricht was to personally despise him?
>Maybe it's a bunch of bored teenagers.

When bored teenagers make death threats against the president, it's terrorism... and if teenagers are systematically disrupting commerce, even just with the intent to "have lulz", that is terrorism.

>Maybe a disgruntled employee has it in for Level 3. Maybe the guy who shot up the PG&E substation has a delusional fear of electricity

Lone wolf terrorists.

>These are all plausible, non-terroristic explanations

They are plausible, but not non-terroristic. All of the things you listed are instances of terrorism.

>A legislature could decree that apple pie is terrorism, but it simply does not make it so

Since terrorism is primarily a legal concept, that would indeed make apple pies terroristic.

>We've seen no evidence that this was carried out in furtherance of a "{political, religious, ideological} {purposes, objective, cause}". We've seen no evidence to suggest that this was done to intimidate the public. Yes, it's a lousy, criminal, needlessly destructive thing to do. That doesn't make it terrorism.

This is the best argument against calling it terrorism, but I agree with the comment parent that this is probably the work of neo-luddites. California is certainly known for being a hotbed of radical ideologies and this is just a few logical steps past the bus protests. Considering it is possible to cause massive network damage by taking out a few choke points, expect these attacks to become more widespread in the coming years, probably causing a severe shortage of connectivity at times and significantly disrupting commerce.
It's a problem that apps have, but they just shift it onto the user.
Guessed after just one "No"

3 9 27 yes (is it exponential series?)
4 16 64 yes (is it only odd numbers?)
5 7 9 yes (is it any numbers of the same parity?)
6 7 8 yes (is it any set of increasing numbers?)
6 7 6 no (just to confirm that it's x<y<z, and not something like x<=y<=z)
No, Ulbricht screwed himself when he decided to document, in excruciating detail, every event of his life (including all of his crimes).

I'm talking more abstract: Police brutality against anyone poor or black, the FBI's war on hackers by exploiting the vagueness of the CFAA, etc.

Sometimes the DOJ dogs (including federal prosecutors) direct this incredible destructive capability at people who, arguably, deserve it. But not always.

My question wasn't about Ulbricht. It was simply, "Is anyone really surprised that Force (and other agents involved in this case) turned out to be corrupt?" I'm only surprised they're being prosecuted for it. :P
The 'iconicity' part of homoiconicity refers to the textual representation.
I have to admit I'm still kind of split on whether XML made the right call here. It's tricky with character encodings to allow arbitrary binary in the characters, but something like CDATA could have permitted it, perhaps with a shell-like specification of a terminating byte sequence, or even with a UTF-8-style prefix number that indicates the length. This sounds great to me at first. But then I put on my security hat and consider what horrors would transpire in the bowels of programs unprepared to handle binary or somehow can be tricked during validation vs. parsing or any number of other nightmares one could do with this, and I go back to neutral-at-best. (I'd go negative, but on the other, other hand [1], a lot of these things are already happening as people blithely stuff these things in to XML documents anyhow, standard or no.)

[1]: No, not gripping hand... that's only for when the third choice is the dominant/default/obviously-correct-once-I-say-it choice.
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Most copyright laws assume there are just 2 players: Aki who owns the property and the copyright, and Ben who takes & monetizes the photo and then pays royalties.

Usually it's the reproducer who has to pay, so Caro would have to pay both Ben and Aki, for the photo and property licenses respectively.
Sentencing can be appealed, but you'd need to prove that excluding the evidence would result in a substantially different outcome. It seems unlikely the appeals court would agree that the life sentence was a result of this evidence alone.
I think the asinine part is copyright transferring to another medium. Its one thing to copyright the lighting installation (which is a fine thing, more power to you), but another thing to now own copyright a photo that happens to have said installation in it.
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Yes, I'm curious what heuristics it used there.

Playing the confirmation bias game on "playthroughs of the confirmation bias game": it looks like you get that message if you have a 'no' answer, and the word 'increasing' in your guess. ("Increasing by the same amount" is still accepted.) I wouldn't be surprised if other words also count.

Edit: the words '<', '>', 'increas', 'big' and 'larger' seem to count. Looks like they're accepted as substrings, not just words - so 'increase' and 'increasing' are accepted. I could look for a long time, so I'm giving up now.
rgl library for R can be used to make such plots.
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Perhaps the main problem is how to prove that you can apply those skills. To have a portfolio of achievements.
What if I take a high quality picture of a painting? What about a video of a photograph? What about a film based on a book?
I wouldn't say 'double' the engineers. In my last company's case, you still need to write the iOS and Android "UI" part, and waiting for the C++ engineers to finally make this relatively simple thing could take longer than it should. Sometimes it was just faster for the two UI engineers to implement it in the UI than it was for the two C++ engineers to make it themselves.

Then the UI engineers often had to create wrappers for the C++ objects (in the iOS Objective-C++ case at least), because ObjC objects only take NSString, while the C++ types only give C++ strings and other such glue things.

Then lazy engineers / deadlines would move business logic into the UI layer wrappers, because development speed wise it was much easier to work with there than to put inside the C++ layer.

Cross platform makes it's own work. But this was with a 'homegrown' C++ solution, so maybe something made by a third party like xamarin might be a very different experience.
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The USSR notwithstanding. Or whatever it is China does.
It's not an assumption; the article tells you up front that there is one correct answer.

It is an analog for how science works. When it comes to a natural phenomenon, humans can come up with multiple explanations that fit a given set of observations, but presumably (I mean, this is a basic tenet of science) nature only works in one consistent way.

Thus, the importance of a falsifying test. You form a hypothesis based on the initial observations (in this case, the number sequence 2, 4, 8), and then you propose a test that could falsify your hypothesis.

The trick is that a hypothesis can fail in several ways. It can be outright wrong, like saying "the rule is that the numbers decrease from left to right." That's obviously just wrong.

But it can also be too specific, like saying "the rule is that the exponent increments by one with each step to the right." That matches the given evidence, and tests with other base numbers will succeed too. But it's over-fitting.

Here's a concrete example: a man wearing a red shirt drops a weight and measures gravitational acceleration as 9.8 m/s^2. So he formulates a hypothesis that gravity always produces an acceleration of 9.8 m/s^2 in the presence of a red shirt.

And if he always wears a red shirt, and always tests gravity on the surface of the Earth, he'll always find supporting evidence for that hypothesis.

But of course we know that gravitational acceleration varies depending on mass and distance, and that it's the same no matter what color your shirt is. But he would only find that out if he varied his experiment beyond what his hypothesis predicts.
Security is not binary at all. Your computer is not 100% secure as you should know yet you are still plugging it into the Internet. Aren't you?
ReactNative does not render to web views. It uses web development constructs like CSS, Flexbox, and JavaScript, but the output is the native view hierarchy. Facebook is using it (in Paper, at least)

FaceBook thinks you should use ReactNative for mobile and React for the web -- they call it learn-once-write-anywhere -- the UI code is not portable and that is not a goal of the project.

The only things I know about where you can run in a browser and in a native app are HTML-based and use app-wrapped web-views on mobile. I would look at jQueryMobile and Ionic if you want to go this route. You wrap either in Cordova/PhoneGap.
Just for fun, I decided to see what the heck '\v' does....

>>> print 'hello\vworld'
hello
world
>>> print 'hello\v\vworld'
hello

world

Now I want to use it a bunch.
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> The amended section of the report asks to extend that provision to cover the entire EU.

The entire EU is still "only certain countries in Europe."
I was just writing this out! I believe practice in unit testing is what let me get this question right. I almost submitted n^1, n^2, n^3 before I realized I didn't get any wrong answers and something didn't feel right. I credit this 'instinct' to having written thousands of tests, and trying to make them fail to make sure my tests weren't lying to me.
Or the ability to directly wire to factory-fresh "192.168.0.1" routers/switches/etc.
No, it's the other way around. It was athenian citizenship which was transmitted by birth. First you had to have at least one athenian parent. And then later athenians voted to change the law so two athenian parents would be required. And this is in part because 'metekos' were more often than not rich merchants and not underdogs at all. And the athenians were weary about them having influence just like they ostracized any citizen who had too much influence. But anyway, more or less restrictive citizenship conditions is irrelevant to the fact that electing masters is not and never will be democracy.
Thanks. I've been working on this for quite a while, and I'm excited to finally launch. Still have a lot of work to do on it though.

Do you support pushing to edge nodes?
Push zones won't be implemented until later this year.

Do you support the Vary header across things like Accept & Accept-Encoding?
Accept-encoding is used to decide if the reply is gzip'd, but other than that no. If you email me, I'll let you know when I'm finished implementing Vary.. it'll probably be this weekend.

Is the $25/mo for 100GB across multiple domains?
yes. there's no limit on the number of domains.

Any plans for higher tiers?
Yes.. there will be a couple of larger plans. In the meantime, you're welcome to email me if you need a larger plan.

The team is just me. I built this because it seems like every CDN focuses on enterprises, instead of the startup type websites I usually work on. I feel like most CDNs are a catch-22.. to get good performance at the edge, your website has to be popular enough to cache... but if your website is slow, no one is going to use it, so the CDN doesn't cache it. So this actually caches your files at the edge, even in areas where your website is less popular (so you can actually build up an audience in that area of the world).

As far as the website being quicker, it uses a web app framework I've developed over the past decade + the CDN (which I wrote in Golang and C). I've worked on various startups over the past 14 years (nothing big though).
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As tptacek put it, rageviews.
Wait, did you just equate caring for minorities and people in positions where they can easily be taking advantage of, to buying TVs for people branded with a politicians face? I think you did. And you did it in an incredibly condescending manner to boot. If that's what waking up feels like, I'd rather stay asleep thank you.
I've never heard anyone use that in terms of physical infrastructure. I've heard our other physical infrastructure is unprotected (which is true) and our internet isn't protected against cyberattacks (which I guess is vaguely true?)
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I'd like to see these mounted under a car to warn you when you're hitting ice.

A lot of times you can't see it. the roads can be wet and then certain areas start freezing. You slow way down once you start seeing ice patches.
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That post is talking about people taking personal photos and sharing them privately; it doesn't address Wikimedia's concern that sharing those photos on their sites might be construed as "commercial activity".
-2 -4 -8 (is it increasing distance from zero?)
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> Wtf? what is the justification for this?

It's called a "money grab". Wouldn't you love to be able to tax photographers for taking pictures of public places too?

I mean, it's not as if there will be no pictures of the Eiffel Tower at night, that'd be silly. They'll just be able to restrict those photos to those willing to pay licensing fees.

But this is Europe we're talking about... the same people who think the label "cheddar cheese" should be copyrightable.
It'll also be less and less pretty soon.
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I'd pay $500 for a 2015 version of: https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd. Would pay a lot more if I made my living coding.
You, too, are repeating the false trope that the CFAA is an egregious overreaction by Craigslist. Not only is it not that (it is literally the federal private cause of action specifically intended for enforcing terms of service), but it's more limited than other civil causes of action: plaintiffs can sue only for certain types of damages.

It's also preposterous to suggest that Craigslist somehow "passed the line into criminal penalties". Just because a section of the law also has criminal offenses specified does not make all invocations of that law criminal. Private parties can't criminally prosecute people. There was, obviously, no risk of criminal charges in this case.

Techdirt is, as usually, being manipulative in how they frame this story. The are the Internet's foremost amplifier of online law misinformation.
Well, there's a much quieter but also storied history of West Coast vs. East Coast rivalries. Even computer science had its own rivalries, before the Internet effectively erased the geographical distinction for most such purposes.
R. P. Feynman on social sciences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaO69CF5mbY

Psychology, economics, climatology. World is literally run by "almost-sciences" claiming to have an authority of "full-science".