skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cops don't want to shoot innocent people.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-iraq-i-raided-ins...

> When I later visited the Fairfax County police station to gather details about what went wrong, I met the shift commander, Lt. Erik Rhoads. I asked why his officers hadn’t contacted management before they raided the apartment. Why did they classify the incident as a forced entry, when the information they had suggested something innocuous? Why not evaluate the situation before escalating it?

> Rhoads defended the procedure, calling the officers’ actions “on point.” It’s not standard to conduct investigations beforehand because that delays the apprehension of suspects, he told me.

Yeah, given how they reacted in this article and the fact they defended not even bothering to contact the apartment complex...yeah.

Sorry, I'm not really able to believe that. Its pretty clear this procedure exists to pad some kind of statistic rather than any rational cause. It can't be justified outside of that.

"Does the property owner know about this?" is literally the first question worth asking if you cared about not shooting innocent people.
Syd's work is regularly featured at /r/retrofuturism - great submission the other day I'm paraphrasing below:

First load this up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8mC9AKHoAQ

Then open up this Syd Mead gallery to full screen and click through:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/40143737@N02/sets/721576229061...
Another problem is that it doesn't really matter if you know what is legal and wasn't isn't. At least in the moment. What are you going to do? Physically fight the cop to enforce your rights? I'm also pretty sure that in many jurisdictions, if you fight a cop over an illegal arrests, you are still guilty of assaulting an officer.

Rights are enforced in a court after the fact.
It does seem like the US officers prefer to shoot and ask questions later.
OMG. Thanks for calling attention to this. It's unbelievable.

Is there a chance that somehow The Onion has hijacked DNS for the Times and redirected it to a spoof site? Because that's how I read what the Public Editor said!

We're also treated to Orwellian Newspeak. When articles are written with an SJW slant it's not "opinion", but "analysis".

BTW at this moment there are 226 comments on that column on the Times website. People are outraged. Here are some excerpts from a few comments:

The color commentary disgused as "context and
analysis" is just awful—stop it! Just the facts,
please.

This is why the Times has diminishing
readership and crediblity.

I'm just boggled. Readers hammered you on the
factual inaccuracies, bias and agenda pushing
in that article. And that's your response?

My world is crumbling and there's nothing
I can do to stop it.

I've saved a copy of both the column and the comments. When I need a reminder of how bad traditional media has become, I'll reread them.
Glad you found it useful.

Another reason technical debt is useful, as touched on elsewhere, is that it's something of a real option.

Options have value - think e.g. Oil futures which are the right but not the obligation to purchase X at Y price in the future.

Real options also have value - certain investment decisions can be delayed (e.g. building a plant or refactoring code) and by delaying them you create an option. Here the option is the right but not obligation to write better code that will actually work :)

I know it's hard to convince clients to change their ways, I have found that telling them they are doing great things they didn't even realize is a good way to start before you "bring the pain". Best of luck!
I'm not sure how the idea that we hand undisciplined teenage boys firearms and power over the rest of the population any less horrific than what I described.
I've always felt dropping/dragging a net would be an effective counter measure. Around my place trees provide good anti-drone defense :-).
Quantum computing circuits
The project is a frontend to cryptsetup[1] and tcplay[2],both of these tools use the services of dm-crypt and dm-crypt requires root privileges.

Also,access to block devices requires root's privileges by default.

cryptsetup and tcplay works in both linux and dragonfly bsd because dragonfly bsd has the necessary libdevmapper API[4]

[1] https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/blob/master/README....

[2] https://github.com/bwalex/tc-play

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dm-crypt

[4] http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2011-07/msg0...
>Hopefully, more bad cops will get the message: if you act this way, you will be discovered.

and then what? get put on paid leave while you're being investigated, and then cleared in a year or two, after all the public anger died down? At worse the cop loses his job and gets a fraction of the sentence that a civilian would get under the same circumstances.
If America was going to give a "haircut," they'd dilute the money supply instead of just taking 10% from banks.

So yes, uncle sam can steal the money in your mattress without having access.

Or the Fed could release a newDollar and only accept a certain amount of oldDollars. Russia (I think) has done that once or twice.
Ayn Rand and the “New Intellectual” (1961)
I have a couple hummers in my backyard and every spring I see them taking spiderweb from the dog run.
That's what people said about going to 3GL's. I'm glad, for my day-to-day computing, that most went in the other direction (pro 3GL's). Software people can't get the kind of results hardware people can while using HLS techniques. That's obvious. Yet, the existing research shows they should be able to get quite a bit of results with little knowledge of hardware. EDA tools actually solved most of the hard parts. Only thing that's lacking are tools to accomplish this and at prices most people can afford.

Two paths developed in parallel. One for those trying to boost their software with hardware generation. One for hardware designers trying to improve their own craft. And with the benefit that one's tools can integrate the other. Best of both worlds.

So, I look for both.
yes, both padmapper and 3taps were scraping CL directly for some of the time

padmapper was scraping, got C&D, so moved to 3taps

3taps got C&D (and was playing dumb games like switching ip addresses to avoid blocks), then moved to scraping CL posts out of google's cache, claiming they therefore weren't bound by terms and conditions of CL. After CL blocked google from caching posts, 3taps went back to scraping CL.
What is truly amazing about the 172 is how it is certified for night and IFR operations, is lighting resistant, can carry up to 4 people and luggage, and can carry a typical American adult and flight instructor.

LSAs are a toy in comparison to the 172.
> Rescuing active drowning victims (this kind of drowning) is very dangerous, for that reason. The victim won't just hold you, they'll climb you.

My only save as a lifeguard was a double for this very reason: the drowning kid's older brother jumped in to save him, and they both went under as the younger one scrambled for air.

"Good thing I jumped in after you, huh?" said the older brother, after I dragged them to the side. I wanted to punch him.
I live in the US, and rarely use cash. My spouse and I pay for big ticket items like cars, by writing a check.

I've visited Switzerland a few times, and noticed that the transit system (trains, buses, etc.) creates natural places where people go almost every day, that are convenient locations for things like banks and food stores. There's nothing like that in most of the US. My bank closed its branch office near my house, and now the closest branch is some distance away. So it's an extra trip to get cash.

Now, if I use a check or debit card at the food store, then I can get some extra cash from the transaction. I also get a little bit of cash from playing music. My main use for cash is to give some to my kids if they need to buy something.

Oddly enough, I take $1 bills out of my wallet and leave them at home, so I won't be tempted to buy snacks from vending machines during the day.
Show HN is for showing your project itself, not a specific feature or campaign on it. So it would be better to make a general post about it, and explain what you've made and why.
Why? Why is the reference "fair to make these points to a mass audience"?

I'm not saying Craigslist should have won the suit on the legal merits. I'm ambivalent about that.

But surely, every time one company sues another company and their case isn't completely bulletproof, surely it can't be reasonable for us to say "that's just like what killed Aaron Swartz".
Comparison of BSD Operating Systems
Mike Tyson Bitcoin ATM
Caffe also supports Matlab and C++, I believe.
This comes up a lot. It simply cannot be the case that a "200 OK" constitutes a blanket authorization to do anything with a website (so long as you keep getting that HTTP status). A huge fraction of SQL injection attacks, and virtually every authz/forced-browsing/direct-object-reference attack also generates "200 OK".

(I have no idea how this plays into the Craigslist lawsuit. I'm just responding to that one fragment of logic from your comment.)
It's only an illusion when the central bank is unwilling to inject money into the system in the event of a bank run. The central bank has to maintain somewhat of an equivalence between money stored in banks and cash. It depends on if banks become merely "money vaults" or investment/speculative vehicles.
It you go beyong ~1955 the documents get pretty scarce. Still it's a fascintating topic to research.
Fuck!!!!
> Also, 95% of life-guarding is preventive.

I remember this well: sitting in a chair, scanning the pool, and every 20 seconds yelling, "Walk, please!" I was a living reminder to slow the heck down.

I'm pretty sure it was one of my most important tasks, though. The only serious injury I ever witnessed (a skull fracture) happened when someone was running on deck.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9324874
Ah, the overly verbose circlejerk of Academia. On the up-stroke you learn to extract fact from the layers of bullshit, and on the down-stroke you learn to wrap the facts you've discovered in layers of bullshit.
This is not good! This data has epic value. We need to get a full backup of this database!!!
This comment doesn't even make sense.

Kong is a cool product, but Kong spam from a couple of accounts [1] on HN is getting tiresome. (Maybe it's just that I look through the comments of most stories to do with APIs.)

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=mashape%2Fkong&sort=byPopulari...
DRAM, or preferably a closer core. The memory on chip is all physically addressed, and part of a flat global address space. The first 128KB of the address space is core 0's memory, then the next 128KB is core 1's, and so on to core 255. When a core accesses a memory region not in its own local scratchpad, it hops along the network on chip (with one cycle per hop) to get to the core which has the needed memory address. The compiler would try to keep the needed data by a core in that cores local scratchpad, or if it can't, as close as possible. Even in the worse case scenario where a core needs to access the memory in the opposite corner (Core 0 accessing core 255), it is still only 32 cycles to access it (less than the ~40 cycles it takes to access L3 cache on an Intel chip).

The NoC is also entirely non blocking... a router is able to read/write to its cores scratchpad and do a passthrough in the same cycle.
Indeed, founders usually have a better complete vision the the folks around them.

Though I was just pointing that out for over time. One time around the tech-debt is not that big of a deal, until it becomes a beast and hard to overcome.
I think part of the Sandra Bland story is the apparent escalation of the encounter BY the officer. Asking sarcastic, passive aggressive questions when you have the trust of the community and a gun at your waist is abusive. Its outrageous to many of us who watch the video and just juvenile bullying really.

Regarding your comments on the danger of policing, its somewhat fallacious--police work is generally safer than it's ever been and not any more dangerous than simply walking the streets in most U.S. cities. Im having a hard time pasting the link on mobile but Radley Balko has a number of articles on the subject in the Washington Post and Reason.
What do you mean, "how draconian CFAA penalties can be"? Which penalties are you referring to? The civil cause of action defined by CFAA expressly limits the kinds of damages plaintiffs can pursue, unlike other torts.

This is why it's so upsetting to see these people use this manipulative language. Criminal CFAA --- or, more accurately, federal sentencing law --- can legitimately be criticized for being draconian. But criminal CFAA has almost nothing but a few definitions in common with civil CFAA.

Causing damages under the civil cause of action defined by CFAA does not allow the government to fine you. That's not how this works.
I can't tell if this is a prank.

A post on "How to Read in College" targeted at college age students who (paraphrased) "can't possibly read everything assigned to them" goes over...3000 words without even an overview?

He then adds nonsense disclaimers, buried at the end. This post is hopeless.
I haven't had my account hijacked before with fastmail. But I have had to contact support and I was in touch with a real person in less than 30 minutes.
Not that I'm aware of. I think there's an element of "grass is always greener on the other side." When the NSA thing first came out, people were publicly talking about leaving for GMail for Fastmail, since Google showed up in the XKeyscore docs, just as people felt superior about their Androids when the Apple Foxconn scandal broken. But in all likelihood they suffer from many of the same problems; Fastmail (and the various Android manufacturers) are just smaller and don't attract the same negative attention.
Rant:

Moreover I think the whole "let the user decide" attitude is just a lame excuse developers hide behind when they can't figure out a decent UX. (It's no wonder design-by-committee software like we see on desktop Linux has so many UI options... Nobody can come up with anything people can agree on so "make it a checkbox so the user can decide" becomes the solution.)

Unsolicited sound is a horrible idea on any platform, it's a good thing that iOS only allows it when there's a touch event somewhere in the call stack. Dialogs would only worsen the problem; disallowing it altogether is the only sane solution.
'Communication', especially in the field of internet systems, does not require two sentient endpoints. (My computers are constantly communicating with other computers while I sleep!)

Consumptive/rivalrous use is relevant to the issue of what words, analogies, and legal regime should apply. You've been emphasizing terms and metaphors which make people think of situations where incremental use exacerbates scarcity. (Even your de minimis examples are activities that in the tangible world, can't be repeated endlessly without inconveniencing others.)

Much of the online world is different. Applying 'trespass' metaphors implies negative-sum wear-and-tear when in fact the activity can be marginally costless... or even socially net-beneficial, when spreading information improves decisions or competition.

A website operator that plugs their server into the net, and publicizes its address and services to the anonymous public, has consented to receiving a rather large set of messages from anyone. They retain full control over what that server – their 'property' – does in reaction, and what information it sends others, via software of their own choice and design.

Given that reality – which is very different from that of physical and real property – an interesting question is how much use-via-communication should be considered implicitly authorized, by custom and common sense, and what it takes to selectively revoke that blanket authorization... especially authorization that's still available to the anonymous public.

Permission-revocation via bright-line technical-access-controls would be a clear and fair system. People and even machines would be able to tell what's allowed, and litigation would be minimized.

Revocation by fuzzy 'terms-of-use' or other out-of-band communications seems ripe for confusion and abuse. That's especially true if any commercial dispute over reuse of true information can automatically be trumped up into a more serious 'hacking' ("access exceeding authorization") federal offense.
I wonder if Apple now owns the most *.sucks domains. I'm really having a hard time finding utility in the majority of new TLDs especially since most people nowadays simply search for unfamiliar sites so you're probably going to find the right place regardless.

Such a stupid cash grab.
PAE/LPAE are a really awful hack, and you are still resticted to 4GB per process, unless you do app specific PAE/LPAE custom allocators (also a terrible hack).

a real 64 bit processor with a real 64bit memory space is a much better solution all around.
First of all, I never get tired of seeing you post in these threads. Keep it up and thanks for being so transparent every single time.

Second, I'm surprised that ads work to such a significant degree for DRP. My assumptions off the bat would've been a. 1000 uniques is too few to generate significant income, b. a tech savvy crowd (developers) wouldn't click on ads/are more likely to have adblock. Am I missing something?
This is a really amazing post.

Two things that startled me:

First, there is apparently a market for vulnerabilities that bypass the Flash access controls for cameras and audio recording. There can be no benign purpose for those exploits. Nobody penetration tests a Fortune 500 company looking to see if they can light up the cameras on worker desktops.

Second, there's an eighty thousand dollar price tag for a Netgear vulnerability. That shocked me: serverside, highly targeted. Only, it turns out, there probably isn't any such market. Apparently, some of these bugs are listed for sale at exorbitant price with no anticipation of ever selling them. They're not listed at close to a clearing price, but rather just aspirationally, with the idea being that anyone who will someday, maybe, engage a serious zero-day broker for a Netgear vuln is probably going to derive six figures of income from that bug.

That's the theory, at least.

For future HN bug bounty/black market threads: note the absence of Facebook XSS vulns on these price lists. Nobody is paying tens of thousands of dollars for web vulns. Except the vendors. :)
Generating leads via content marketing
Urgent p.s.a
"They are dangerous for the cops as well" - That's true..but hasn't it always been true? Car speeds haven't meaningfully changed in the last 40-50 years, so it's likely that the danger to civilians and police hasn't particularly changed either. So, if it's true that police agencies are encouraging less dangerous means of achieving the same ends, why now and not before? The change suggests some other factor, and my supposition is that widespread video footage of these chases may have played a role.
The demand for local internet marketing is booming
Right, I'm not saying that "200 OK" means you definitely haven't exceeded authorization, just that it can't reliably be analogized to the physical world.
That's the real reason they want to get rid of cash. They want to make it impossible for any economic activity to occur without the government approving and getting a cut.

I don't think it will actually work. Were the US to get rid of cash tax cheats and drug dealers would simply switch to GBPs, euros, or yen. Or drugs.

The only people who will be absolutely locked into the system are cubicle dwellers, but that's already pretty much the case.
how did the academics do it?

Tape out using these tools?

My guess is they skipped gate level and other stuff that I consider good quality (BISTs, DFT logic, power estimation etc). You either skip it or rewrite your tests in Verilog/VHDL/etc.

Static Timing Analysis etc. can only do a little of what's needed. You have to check your constraints are correct.

Academics don't know what they are doing. They probably never had to do a design flow for a real product or even touched a commercial tool. It's too expensive. That's why they make these other tools. And that's why these tools kinda suck at getting to a finished product.
Of course we do all of our real tests on the generated verilog. (Note: There is a big difference between generated verilog, in the Chisel sense, and synthesized verilog, in the MyHDL sense). We use Chisel to write our RTL and do quick and dirty testing with our gold model, and if that matches up, we generate the verilog and do the "real" testing from that point. This whole flow is a iterative process that can happen several times a day, or once a week, depending on how much development is going on. This of course leaves out the other steps once you synthesize the verilog for either a FPGA or VLSI tools, which we also do.

What you linked to there seems to be a "mode" (Can't think of a better name to describe it at the moment), similar to how you can embed verilog or C++ into Chisel.
They used to ignore cash transactions for the same reason. The advance of technology makes everything cheaper, and sometimes that's bad.
Netwon laws are applicable to startups
This is totally ignoring the fact that nature doesn't know wtf it is doing either. Your argument is an appeal to nature, that if it's natural it's good.

"Even if we can agree that some things are natural and some are not, what follows from this? The answer is: nothing. There is no factual reason to suppose that what is natural is good (or at least better) and what is unnatural is bad (or at least worse)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature

Gene transfer may have already screwed up the planet once:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-single-act-evol...
But Rayiner's point is that it's equally ambiguous in the real world. A shopkeeper opens their shop to the public. Nobody has to use a key or flash a card to get in. But you can certainly exceed your welcome in a real-world store, and the law manages to handle that situation, too.
people optimizing for the metric instead than getting better at working?

color me surprised.

this has been know for a while by now: if you try to put down hard metrics for creative jobs they just backfire.

also managers using reviews to favor their protege and as favor exchange across other managers to partition their resources shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone having worked with humans.
Jim Carrey on Safety and Civil Liberties: Is Corporate Clout Calling the Shots?
In most US states you need a business license.

People incorporate for a reason, though. If you don't your personal assets aren't protected if the business gets sued or becomes insolvent.

There's a reason Donald Trump still has lots of money after having his businesses go bankrupt four times.
@gluggymug

You do realize you can do all of that simulation after you generate your verilog and put it through your RTL compiler?
The problem is most people just criticise/tear-down instead of actually improving open-source projects (just read the Show HN section here...). Building open source projects requires a positive attitude and early stage comments can be discouraging.
The problem here is that localStorage/WebStorage already creates an IPC mechanism. You're able to create objects, and other pages in the same domain can read them. Add another object as flow control, and you have all the primitives you need. In fact, I'd argue that the current situation is more insecure, because it is an ill-defined backchannel instead of something formalized.

Regarding the audio issue, I think this hits up a greater issue. Browsers should have a permission dialogue for things like audio and video that work on a per-domain basis so you can control that behavior. Sometimes you want to have background audio from pages. Most of the time, it's annoying. Asking would fix that problem, even when the user initiates a touch event.