skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also says that 94% of requests are "Device requests - Law enforcement seeking a stolen device."
I'm certain they don't separately pay for mileage.
I still don't know which setting actually disables that.
Then the bad reputation of PHP was the second wave of non-programmers building web apps?
Hitachi says it can predict crimes before they happen
Stuff like gotofail took a while to get patched (weeks?), and things like https://github.com/kpwn/tpwn has been around for a while which is still not patched in any public, non-beta release of OSX.
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I realize Snowden personally didn't leak the documents (unless you qualify handing the trove to journalists as "leaking" which some might). This is why I used the word "abscond" as well as "leak". Fact is he left with thousands of legitimate documents that had no business being a part of his collection.

But I've never received a straight answer to that question and I guess this is no exception.
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Prism in general was mischaracterized by the early reports. It was first reported as a persistent backdoor into servers, but it was actually just a way for NSA to automate requests for information through the FBI. This was detailed in later reports.

Edit: for those skeptical about my comment above, here is more detail from a discussion about a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8333844
I have not seen many robots which can walk stairs without falling at 99.99% confidence yet for door-to-door delivery.

Investment of the systems you mention are high-investment, not worth it vs the cost of a human operator per hour. this may change as new buildings are being built with such facilities in mind, but I have not heard of anything like that yet.

So human deliveries have a pretty good future for the time being.
We’re going to make sure you get updates here about privacy at Apple at least once a year and whenever there are significant changes to our policies.

Translation: We set up this page to reference for the inevitable future articles and critcisms of our policies.

Not saying it's a bad idea, but it's very lawerly to me. Like this one:

We don’t build a profile based on your email content or web browsing habits to sell to advertisers. We don’t “monetize” the information you store on your iPhone or in iCloud.

That makes sense, and I figure it's a true statement as written. But, bear with me here, I feel like it could still also be true they build a profile based on X, Y, or Z for internal use by Apple in the name of "making services better" as it were.

What I'd like to see at the bottom of the letter - and don't see even after clicking through a couple of the links - is a link to review all stored content by Apple in a nice, clean two-factor authenticated dashboard, and settings for all devices to be managed in one central location. That would be rather helpful to individuals...a big gesture of that buzzword "transparency" and all that! Yet I highly doubt such a portal / review capability would be implemented by Apple without much metaphorical kicking and screaming.
I don't know if Apple actually means that, but the EFF gives Apple 5 stars out of 5 when assessing which companies protect their customers from government data requests: https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-reques...
Avoiding Hiring Errors
> You don't quantify the impact of false positives the same way you do the false negatives. A false negative simply means you take more time to look for a candidate. A false positive's impact is so huge that you can't come up with numbers large enough for false negatives to outweigh it.

I vehemently disagree with this.

A false negative means either work isn't getting done or current people are overworked. This is costing your business. If it isn't, why are you hiring in the first place?

As for the cost of false positives being "huge", how? All you have stated is that a bad hire brings down the net productivity of a team. How much is very relevant and something you can get a rough feel for. If I hire someone who has a slight net negative impact on team productivity, and they show no signs of improving, I fire them and move on. Is it a worse outcome than not hiring them or anyone else for that period of time? Yes. Is it a huge impact? Not at all.

You can come up with a hypothetical worst-case, company-destroying false positive, but that would be comparing apples to oranges based on your position concerning false negatives. The worst-case false negative situation is also company-destroying.
Trust, but verify.
capitalism, if you're not cheating you're not trying.
In my experience, getting good at math requires first that you accept that your intuitions suck. Your natural intuition will constantly lead you astray mathematically. People who struggle with algebra are often people who are trusting their intuitions about what is correct. Eventually, you internalize the rules and they become your intuition. But to suggest that we should skip the rules and instead try to build up intuition seems rather wrong-headed to me.
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There are plenty of people who watch TV in the UK without paying the license fee, to say nothing of the Internet. I'd bet that the percentage of non-license payers who use iPlayer is higher, due to cord-cutting.
One could infer how difficult it would be to maintain secrecy as the number of privileged enforcers expands. The longer that secrecy is maintained, the less access probably exists to the privilege.

I'm comfortable assuming that my local beat officer probably can't signal to his superior to pull an NSL on me and start reading every piece of data my devices are streaming over TLS.
News article text absolutely can be copyrighted. It's just the parts that are pure reported speech or excerpts from someone else's press release that can't.

News is also fairly worthless without comment, analysis and context.
The content the player uses has no DRM, and it doesn't use EME. Not sure why anyone thinks otherwise...
Good start. Needs more snap :).
>or worse passing on "tips" to US-based private companies so they can gain an advantage during negotiations/bidding.

>But it seem hypocritical to beat the capitalism drum with one hand, while with the other quietly subverting capitalism by giving certain favored entities tips and advantages.

Do you have any sources for this? I am genuinely curious.

If there was anything in any of the leaked Snowden slides detailing any US companies they give info to that would be greatly appreciated.
Do you have Prime Now? I think the expanded list is the cities currently served by Prime Now.
This is by design they make more money (long term) if the target thinks his privacy is save. So only a percentage is targeted at you the rest are decoys.
So you're right there's a lot of low quality stuffy on Buzzfeed, but also some amazing pieces of journalism. Business Insider is at NY Post levels most of the time. I can't even think of something I read on Business Insider that was both accurate (and I don't mean technically accurate, I mean addressed the main issue of the story) and more than 500 words long. That being said it's been so bad that I actively avoid BI links, it's possible that the ones I don't click are better.

Buzzfeed, for all the flack they take, makes it quite obvious that that the article is going to be of a certain quality from the title. "7 tricks..." is actually great because I know I don't need to click.
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Source?

My understanding was that some iCloud account login endpoints (associated with Find My iPhone) didn't have any rate limiting for password failures, and this allowed brute force to work for targetted accounts.
It sounds like you're looking for the "walk" selector, which comes with Specter:

(select (walker number?)
{2 [1 2 [6 7]] :a 4 :c {:a 1 :d [2 nil]}})

=> [2 1 2 1 2 6 7 4]

I've personally found this to be a use case that comes up infrequently.
The irony of someone interested in the demoscene pushing CPU-cycle wasting technologies like WebGL and JS..
So, same fate as PHP?
You won't be able to complete a single formal, rigorous proof without clear, formal unambiguous rules. Yes, first principle reasoning is straining, requires hard work and causes headaches, but the understanding will be deeper and complete. The English language is shaped by use and constantly changing. Mathematics is not supposed to change unless we have a mistake in our axioms.
I disagree with how you've framed this. When you say "All they want to do is play video with some UI around it." that is solved, it's fairly easy and works fine.

At issue here is DRM and the BBC's need (probably contractually mandated by the rights holders) to control what you can do with their content on your devices. It's about control, not about simple delivery.

I use Linux only and when I visited the opt-in page with Firefox I received the following error message: "Sorry, we can't provide you with the HTML5 Player beta because your browser doesn't support Media Source Extensions. Please try another browser. Only Google Chrome is supported on your platform at this time." Testing the same page with Chromium and it worked fine. I won't use Chrome and won't install Flash so I was pleased to see it working with Chromium.

Looking at the bigger picture, it's still easier for me to use youtube-dl and grab the videos that way. The quality is higher and even on my gigabit fiber broadband, I got some buffering and the frame rate dropped which showed significant tearing in the playback. At least CPU use was much lower than with Flash.

The future isn't Flash, it's HTML5 video and I'm pleased to finally have something that works for us Linux users who don't use Flash. Nice work BBC iPlayer team and if any of you are reading this comment I say thanks.

Edit: formatting
The drone thing is a ways off; this is akin to Uber hiring drivers while working on driverless cars. The sad thing is the majority of jobs I hear about in the exciting new sharing economy are drivers and delivery people -- unskilled jobs that skilled engineers are furiously working on eliminating.
> it seems hypocritical to beat the capitalism drum with one hand, while with the other quietly subverting capitalism by giving certain favored entities tips and advantages

Capitalism is a regulatory and economic framework that allows for the private ownership of capital and assets and is driven by selfish profit motives.

In a purely capitalistic system, we wouldn't even have a government to redistribute wealth and provide oversight, or in this case - to spy on other countries and provide information to a few select corporations. The socialistic thing for the government to do would be to distribute these secrets evenly among all US businesses.

So government favoring big business is actually another triumph of capitalism.
I was reading their guidelines for law enforcement requests: https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/emeia_le_guidelines_final...

Interesting note:
"P. FaceTime
FaceTime communications are end-to-end encrypted and Apple has no way to decrypt FaceTime
data when it is in transit between devices. Apple cannot intercept FaceTime communications.
Apple has FaceTime call invitation logs when a FaceTime call invitation is initiated. These logs do
not indicate that any communication between users actually took place. Apple has no information
as to whether the FaceTime call was successfully established or duration of a FaceTime call.
FaceTime call invitation logs are retained up to 30 days. FaceTime call invitation logs are available
only following receipt of a legally valid request"

iMessage is not mentioned. Does this mean they are capable of intercepting iMessage?

edit: in the FAQ it says "Can Apple intercept users’ communications pursuant to a Wiretap Order?
Apple can intercept users’ email communications, upon receipt of a valid Wiretap Order. Apple cannot
intercept users’ iMessage or FaceTime communications as these communications are end-to-end
encrypted."
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Many people are saying the same thing:

> Spying on other spying agencies seems like 100% fair game

> This is legitimate activity for the NSA

> I'd be pretty angry at NSA for being incompetent if they didn't spy on foreign intelligence agencies.

Correct. This is what spy agencies do. Edward Snowden is an American Hero, and it is a shame what has happened beyond the obvious. His name is invoked for shock headlines, and at this point there is almost no reaction to these disclosures and that is worrying. If there was a way to lower the power distance between "Government Actors" and citizens, we could expend resources cooperatively instead of competitively.

Until then, there will be numerous government agencies AND companies, on many continents and countries, building systems to collect and analyze your data creating a single point of failure. That sounds counter intuitive, but if we assume all of your data is essentially uniform and the Chinese/NSA/BND etc. all have essentially the same data. If even one of those places has a breach event, your data will be in the hands of bad individual actors. This leaves aside, that the data is already in the hands of questionable players.

To conclude, the Snowden docs were illuminating but no longer hold the shock they once did. Not much has changed. The initial disclosure confirmed for a lot of us what we already knew, and publicized it to those who didn't. The ongoing disclosures are marginal now and really a function of leveraging Snowden's name for ad-traffic. Hopefully, going forward there will be a framework for protecting privacy that regular, everyday people can easily use. Until then, these disclosures are just a disheartening reminder of the inability to seperate gov. tyranny from legitimate activity.

[0]Snowden is living in an undisclosed location in Russia, a country hostile to the US, and barred from entering America without being tried for treason. Disappointing.
Folding Postgres Window Functions into Rails
> A buddy of mine who is an EE with a heavy math background has had trouble helping his child get the correct answer.

Yeah, these anecdotes of supposedly brilliant people incapable of learning a new way to add numbers are always about engineers and accountants and stuff. Never an actual mathematician. It's almost like they went through an entire college degree pushing symbols and were never forced to stop and come up with a real proof on their own...

It's possible to have a heavy math background and still be shit at math. Especially if that background stopped short of anything proof-based (but even then, plenty of people memorize proof techniques instead of actually understanding the arguments and the subject).

Calculus sequences and ODEs courses that EEs take are particularly bad. They are just symbol pushing like in middle and high school. More symbols and more complicated pushing, but nothing essentially deeper.

If I had a dime for every vector calculus student who didn't understand basic facts about the Reals (or even the Integers)... and most of them get decent marks, too.

So, new rule: any rant about common core mathematics can only contain as many words as the number of words in the longest proof the speaker has written outside the context of a homework assignment or exam.
The Chinese Hacked Sony, OPM, and Then My Vasectomy
Fair enough.

But let me ask you this: Why is the government helping large corporations to cheat more than small or medium companies? Even if we decide cheating is acceptable, shouldn't everyone be on an even footing in terms of this type of help?

Seems like the ultimate result is the big get bigger while the small get smaller.
> "I'm sure you have a range in mind for this position that's commensurate with fair market rates. And I'm willing to be a team player and probably meet you somewhere along those lines. Can you tell me roughly what you're targeting for this role?"

* This is solid advice. Keep in mind that for recruiters processing candidates is a daily routine. They'll be evaluating you for managerial transparency and probably guess based on your experience and skills your current compensation level. That data point serves as just other market benchmark. They know beforehand, making an attractive offer for you to move will require at least a 10-20% bump.
As a kid I refused to learn music because no-one could give me a good explanation of the difference between the black piano keys and the white keys. The explanations were always circular: white notes are special because they are in C-Major; C-Major is special because it contains all the white notes.

(The correct answer is that people's hands aren't wide enough to deal with all twelve notes on the same level, and that particular subset of the notes contains a lot of consonant intervals and barely any dissonant ones.)
Yes. Compare with the rebellion of the 13 Colonies.. or was it a revolution?
Regular functions are treated as filters, so that's done so that things like ALL, LAST, etc. are clearly delineated as something different than filters.
The Trotsky Paradox
Probaby MSE.
I've not seen those machines. The ones I've seen you just scan everything as you put it in your bag, and then you pay. No cashier will bag your groceries for you either, and they will laugh at you if you ask. You do that yourself here, either way.
"Old little lady" is correct in context.

"Which little lady are you referring to? The old little lady, or the young "little lady" that is her five-year-old great granddaughter?"

Though order is a syntactic feature, the restrictions on adjective order are derived from semantics, which depend on context. They are not ruled out by the grammar, per se.

Therefore the rule which says it must be "little old lady" is plain wrong.

The fallacy consists of regarding incorrect or incomplete rules as the unvarnished truth which to learn from and imitate.
Amazon can probably control provisioning through their Amazon Appstore (which is Android-only).
Google’s Quantum Computer Just Got a Big Upgrade
I wonder how many other languages have well-known secret operators?

I know of C's secret "limit" operator:

int x = 10;
while (x --> 0) { printf("%i", x); }

prints 9876543210

Of course, in some ML dialects you can define your own opreators - such as (f |> g) to mean (g o f) which is actually very useful.
So what? The issue is legal not technical.

Gosling was at Sun until the end.

Sun just lacked the money to sue Google.
Axel Springer Buys Business Insider for $442M
Google announcing latest Nexus device on livestream
My vote for most over-the-top: The Goatse.
Ah. Here the cashiers have only ever scanned your groceries, and put them on a small conveyor belt that moves them to the side. You'll have to pack your bag yourself, and bread usually comes pre-sliced. I've also seen non-sliced bread being sold, but that is usually accompanied by a machine where you can have it sliced prior to purchase.
Ah, I see. Has anyone achieved this? It sounds difficult. as a small business owner myself, I know I'm super suspicious of middlemen, and I think that's one of my major advantages over larger businesses.
OCaml's syntax is really not that different from F#'s. This isn't surprising, since F# was originally just "OCaml for .NET".
Can we please stop calling it the "sharing" economy? There is no sharing going on.
But two squares is possible (8x8 with a negative 2x2 anywhere inside, including at the center)
This is an unrelated issue, but I think you're working from the premise that the CIA's spying and SIGINT capabilities actually make the US safer or more strategically secure in the world.

That the CIA actually improves the US's position isn't remotely proven even on the 50 year timescale, and there's a cornucopia of evidence that supports the opposite hypothesis which states the CIA's endless philandering has engendered a deep hatred of the US in many corners of the world, not to mention seeding anarchic instability.
This sounds like lie detectors and K9-units... not accurate and used to get their foot in the door.
LR(1)-parseable context free grammars are more convenient to write than parsing expression grammars in my experience, partially because PEGs are completely unambiguous. PEG parsers often exist just because it's easier to implement them. Also, LR(1) parsers and LALRPOP generally operate on token streams and not plain strings, whereas PEG parsers need to encode lexing within the grammar, which is a pain. So if you were writing a compiler, I would recommend using an LR(1) parser over a PEG parser.
I'm a native English speaker, and I never came across such a thing. Often, such adjective mistakes are simply corrected because 'it sounds funny'. I took advanced courses in English and school, and as a weird result, missed out on much of the sentence labeling and other such things.
I'm also learning a language. I moved to Norway a couple years ago and am in the second year of classes. Rules, even when they are loose, help a lot as an adult learner because the rules give me something to lean on to make guesses. I'm just now starting to get a feel for what 'sounds' right, but thanks to the rules, I can bypass that for now and use the language skills I have and make do.
That button isn't displayed if you are outside the UK, which causes some confusion. I guess it's a simpler solution than redirecting to an error page.
Ah, that would explain why they skipped Los Angeles too.
it's the existence of this that gives Perl a bad reputation. You can write Perl as though it were Python. In the Perl world that's called "baby talk"

https://www.google.com/search?q=perl+"baby+talk"

in the real world it's called clean, maintainable code.
I use Apple products, including the MBP on which I am typing this post. I paid big bucks and my expectation is Apple should respect my privacy. Services like Google I use them for free, and as such, monetization is fair. Not for Apple, and I hope it won't let me down.
Localized strings are not compressed in a standard apk; if you have a decent number of strings and support many languages, that takes up a lot of space.

Doing the work to split packages up into different architectures helps a lot (if you use a bunch of native code), but then you have to deal with the fallout of people downloading from google play for their device, and then posting the slim binary on the web that other people with different devices are going to download and install to incompatible phones.
8 or so leads a day is roughly ~2700 leads per year. A $20k budget means you can spend about $7.50/lead. Depending on your niche that is likely going to be difficult to do with adwords alone.

Again depending on your niche, Thumbtack might actually be good here. In my experience though Thumbtack is very hit or miss from the businesses side of things. If you're spending $5-$10 just to send an email to single potential customer it might not be cost effective.