skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the @ at the beginning or the @ in the middle is a problem.

here is my opinion Jack if you are reading.

Every tweet needs some extra field when you are creating them.

* to: field like email. A list of people or "everybody"
* body: 140 characters.
* tags: relevant tags so that your tween can be found by non followers interested in a specific topic.
* url: seperate url so as not to use up your 140 chars. Nobody wants to use a link shortener.
Who?

In all seriousness, even if others tried before, they may only have failed because of having no visibility or bad marketing. This has the support of Chromium behind it, so it might be the only key point that would make this viable and adopted widely.
Such a situation did happen, Randall answered how many punch cards it would take to store all of the data in google datacenters (https://what-if.xkcd.com/63/). In response, google sent him punch cards (http://blog.ted.com/using-serious-math-to-answer-weird-quest...).
Get to Know Your Poop Bacteria with This New iPhone App
I hate Facebook, but I think they are right about this policy.

If you're a person at risk due to many of the issues described here, you don't belong on Facebook. If you're a domestic violence victim avoiding a dangerous person "liking" the wrong thing or somebody's innocent repost can put you in danger, pseudonym or not.

The transgender situation is similarly tragic, but it's an issue that trans people run into when presenting ID to buy beer as well. We should get states to provide some sort of transitional ID or something.
This is too bad. This was a useful service. Part of the problem might have been that individual accounts were free. I would have paid for this service.
>the higher-end switches take considerable engineering, just on the hardware side, and are fairly high-margin products

This hasn't been true for a couple years now, at least for top-of-rack and spine switches. White-box switches are now accessible to the general public, have low margins, and are not limited to huge purchasers like Facebook and Amazon.
UK and Saudi Arabia 'in secret deal' over human rights council place
Don't miss "The Act of Killing", a documentary mentioned in the article. It's both brilliantly creative and horribly chilling. Certainly you've never seen anything like it.

In the mid-1960s 500,000 to a million Indonesians were massacred when Suharto seized power (reputedly with U.S. acquiescence or support). The directors of the documentary persuaded some leaders of the massacre not only to proudly discuss their acts on camera, but to stage and re-enact them, sometimes in interpretive fashion (musicals, surreal sets, etc.), thinking they were the protagonists of a film.
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You've spent years saving up to finally buy a home. You're having a baby in a few months, and you really need the space. You have the down payment ready, your credit is great, you've ticked all the boxes on the application, but you're turned down for the loan. Why?

Maybe you walk home through a bad neighborhood. Maybe you sometimes grab a beer at a bit of a divey bar near your office. Maybe you've visited an old friend who's been in some trouble recently. Whatever the case may be, your face has been in a photo with some questionable folks, whether it's a security camera or a stranger's Facebook photo. So the bank's computers noticed, and flagged you as a risk. People who hang around questionable people aren't very good at repaying their loans.
>if he was convicted for the murder conspiracy

he wasn't. Alleged murders, without ever being tried before court, were used to cause sentence enhancement. All the "evidence" and "testimony" for the murder charges weren't even enough to sustain the charges, less bring them for trial. At the time of the conviction, it wasn't known that the agents were corrupt and thus, not surprisingly, the Judge gave their testimonies all the possible weight and came down that hard on the Ulbricht.
On a laptop, I can trivially install a new OS on it, right from the OS vendor.

On Android, the vendor needs to build the OS for me. Even with AOSP that's true, the Android driver model basically means modifying Android. Vendors are generally doing a good job of upstreaming kernel drivers, but Android has this whole awful userspace driver stack as well. You'd think at least one benefit you'd get from the Android HAL is pluggable drivers, but sadly no.
It's the same with the WSJ
صورة كراسة شروط حجز وحدات مشروع دار مصر المرحلة الثانية – تراخيص
Brilliant fun playing with the convergent Ubuntu Phone.
Yeah--reading the Ars Technica review of Marshmallow terrified me with some of the things they are doing there. Like the fact that users have more granular control over permissions now, but internet is always on for apps no matter what, there's a whole slew of permissions that aren't exposed through the user-controllable permissions that are pretty bad, and there's new stuff in there that allows screenshots to be sent from an app to Google for "searching in the app." I try to read this stuff without a tinfoil hat, but they sure don't make it easy.
More 'No Tech Zone' signs appear in San Francisco as artist reveals identity
Giving the Poor Easy Access to Healthy Food Doesn’t Mean They’ll Buy It
> I'm just objecting to the idea that the UK spy agencies are just American outposts and that each agency is responsible for the mistakes/crimes of the others.

The UK agencies aren't US outposts and the US agencies aren't UK outposts.

They're all AUSCANNZUKUS/Five Eyes outposts.
If your priority is returning the remaining investors' money to the investors, why would you keep the lights on?
A great example of "you don't own your hardware," or "you own your hardware with a hundred strings attached (probably to the software)"

RMS called this one.
Isn't there a to caps functionality for a lot of ides and editors?
Ross was a sweet innocent boy who'd never ever hurt anyone, and who only wanted to implement a golden age of Libertopia by freeing people from the oppressive yoke of laws. Y'know, like laws against having other people killed in exchange for money.

The more I read about the guy, the more the root of the word "privilege" seems appropriate (i.e., private law -- he wanted one generous and lax law for him, and another violent and harsh law for the people who got in his way).
Are Tech Startups Losing Their Charm?
Only if you want the US president to have dictatorial powers.

Consider the erosion of congressional oversight of military actions over that last 100 years. Do you think we'd have troops in combat all over the globe right now if Congress had to vote on the actions taking place? What congressman would vote to put Americans in danger to "train" the Nigerian army?
Airplane mode might lie.

Use a faraday cage.
Except he didn't sell drugs at all. He ran a marketplace.
I agree with the general idea put forth by the article. This is an important issue, and the future could bring a lot of bad things if we (as a society) are not careful.

Schneier makes it sound pretty scary. For a general audience, this is probably good. It takes a lot to make your average Joe start paying attention to something new.

But on a technical level, I can't help wondering, how realistic is the scenario he describes? Or, maybe the better question is, how immediate is the threat of universal face recognition? If we know what time horizon we're working with, maybe we can be better prepared.

I think Schneier makes some substantial logical leaps in the article that make it sound like automatic, ubiquitous facial recognition is a more urgent issue than it really is.

For example, he goes from this

> Today in the US there's a massive but invisible industry that records the movements of cars around the country. Cameras mounted on cars and tow trucks capture license places along with date/time/location information ...

to this

> This could easily happen with face recognition.

with no supporting evidence for how this feat of engineering will be accomplished. Recognizing letters and numbers on a license plate is one thing. Recognizing faces at random angles with random occlusions, hats, eyeglasses, makeup, etc., is quite another thing.

I found a couple of papers from CMU and UCF a couple of years ago where they look at the problem of recognizing people in photos at "web scale" [1]. The recall/precision rates of the algorithms they tested are pretty decent, but they're still pretty far from the dystopian future described in the article.

[1] http://enriquegortiz.com/wordpress/enriquegortiz/research/fa...
I asked our Cisco representative to offer a competing quote against an HP networking deal, and he responded with a quote for Cisco servers, and Ironport mail filtering.

When I asked him what was going on, he pointed out that he only responds to bids he can win. I told him there were no servers in that opportunity, and he went on to discuss that, from a sales point of view, I have a better chance of pushing servers anyway, than pricing Cisco against HP networking. That's from one of their own guys, and it says a lot.
This was a service I'd pay for. Not good..
This is good. But you can't really think about issues of responsibility and ownership without looking at the structure of the organization itself, and the market it exists in. The world does not begin and end with the engineering staff and their personal levels of responsibility.
its completely incomprehensible.

It's not its.

With love,

Your non English speaking 3rd world citizen.
> I think desktop-style devices are going more in the direction of being personal.

For many people you're probably right. I do think that there's tremendous value in segmenting out one's various personæ. There's no particularly good reason why I should give a binary game blob access to the same user data that contains my financial data, passwords &c.

A finer-grained system would be nice, no doubt, but OS users are pretty time-tested.

> Maybe someone else here has already thought about it and can put it into writing?

Well, in principle capabilities systems can do a lot of this already. As myself, I can give a capability to a server, and it can use that capability to execute work on my behalf; once I've received the result, I can (presumably) revoke that capability. Capabilities can even be used to implement filesystems: my process might have a filesystem root capability, which permits it to see a single directory, which is itself a list of capabilities to directories and files, &c. Pretty neat stuff.

There's been some interesting work with capabilities done in EROS, its successor Coyotos & Tahoe-LAFS.

I skimmed your thesis—really interesting work!
Another African leapfrog: First drone highway in Rwanda 'by 2016'
Quote...

"Computers will overtake humans with AI at some point within the next 100 years. When that happens, we need to make sure the computers have goals aligned with ours."

There has been a real bandwagon recently for people to assume that AI will automatically become dangerous as computing power increases. I'm not convinced.

To be dangerous I would argue that the AI needs to be self aware and capable of creating its own motivations. Nothing in machine learning, or AI in general, has provided any insight in how to achieve this or how we might even get closer to it. A faster computer does not create either. We have much better chess computers now that can beat any human player, but they have no relevance to general intelligence.

I would also argue that any emergent self aware and motivated intelligence would likely not have direct access to its own computing substrate anyway. We have consciousness that emerges from our own biological substrate but I cannot directly access and program my neurons. How come my billions of neurons are not directly programmable by me as if they were a graphics card with massively parallel power?

An intelligent machine would not directly be able to use its underlying CPU directly to perform fast math, it would need to learn it as a concept and work it out as we do. The irony is that if we create an immensely powerful computer and a conscious entity emerges, it would need to learn how to do long addition they same way my 6 year old boy does.
These are valid observations but they don't answer my question. Lots of brands target a particular audience. What makes AA particularly egregious as to warrant being called "exploitative"? Or are there more exploitative companies and I'm not aware of them? (Genuine question).
One way that I've been wondering about is all these new keyboards coming on the market. Things like Swype, Swiftkey etc.

They have cloud storage for storing data to feed predictive algorithms, but it essentially becomes a cloud-based keystroke logger.

So you may be sending encrypted traffic via hotspot, but your keyboard process running in the background has the raw input data and is feeding that to a server.

I'd love to read a more detailed writeup on the security of such apps, which ones are trusted (ie. only using local encrypted storage, no phoning home), etc.
> If you want better software, make or find tools that reduce the effort of finding bugs. ... Better monitoring is another. Code review processes. Static analysis. Improved communication. There are many more.

I'm going to come out and suggest that even THESE are more expensive than most businesses need. I believe code review processes are insanely expensive for what they usually return (wrt bug costs).
Treaties are in effects laws with extraordinary scope compared to a typical law. They are sort of a middle ground between a law and constitutional amendment. Because of this, they are supposed to be hard to implement.

Look at the devastating impact that NAFTA had had on the nation. That sort of change should require a high threshold to pass.
Really have to wonder how many of these bugs and issues are "bugs" and "issues."
Gonna be blunt: either you're not very good or you're not displaying it in interviews, or you're not getting the right interviews. I find it mind blowing that you're making 40k out of school. I was making more than that in my internship in a non-high cost of living area of the country, and am making considerably more than that now.

I just threw a resume up on Dice and started getting decent to great recruiter contacts immediately. I still get hit up constantly on linkedin as well.
I dislike real name policies, but I do want the problems with using real names to be fixed if possible.
Thanks. Reading this quote and my original side by side makes me cringe. This is a great example of the importance of language and writing skills
Judge: "So, harm reduction focused on the user is missing the point."

I think the judge is missing the point here, the point being an understanding of harm reduction and apparently, surprisingly the effects of drugs on society. No wonder she gave him life. She doesn't even understand what "harm reduction" is. The rest was just nonsense.
Unfortunately, we had the opposite experience.

Our builds were failing because even though we could check out our Git submodules fine, they could not. They couldn't resolve it and told us to stop using submodules instead.

Then our builds were failing because they weren't respecting our scheme's settings. First they didn't even understand the problem and told us to restructure our project, then when they did understand it, they didn't treat it as a bug report, but a feature request.

To be honest, it felt like we were just an inconvenience to them. We stopped using their service because they seemed more interested in us doing work to solve their problems than them doing work to solve our problems.
In warfare. A commander can be criminally liable for failing to prevent criminal actions by their subordinates. Most famously, Tomoyuki Yamashita. Or from the prosecution brief during Ernest Medina's trial:

>'When troops commit massacres and atrocities against the civilian population of occupied territory or against prisoners of war, the responsibility may rest not only with the actual perpetrators but also with the commander. Such a responsibility arises directly when the acts in question have been committed in pursuance of an order of the commander concerned. The commander is also responsible if he has actual knowledge, or should have knowledge, through reports received by h'un or through other means, that troops or other persons subject to his control are about to commit or have committed a war crime and he fails to take the necessary and reasonable steps to insure compliance with the law of war or to punish violators thereof.'
Turning users into contributors
No. Military service is still an option. The education benefits are excellent.
That's one way of putting it. Another way of putting it would be: people that make a living wage, with enough time off, have the resources to donate to the creative commons.

If you frame it that way, the problem isn't how can people charge for their passion, but how can we get people decent working conditions so that they can have a meaningful and rich life outside of work?
Disclaimer: I'm part of New Relic's Product Management team.

I think you might have a misunderstanding of how our stuff works. While we originally only captured aggregates, the last ~2 years or so we've been capturing and reporting on every transaction/request taking place.

As such, when you do a 95th percentile chart in our product, we're not "averaging the percentile" like many monitoring tools do. We are literally looking at every single record during that time.

We also allow filtering by transaction, which means you can check out just the percentile for "CheckoutController" or "AddToCartController" -- definitely not just the aggregate application.

And if you're a customer and want to verify this yourself, just pop over to New Relic Insights (insights.newrelic.com) and run a query like this to really see the power that comes from not pre-aggregating anything:

SELECT count(*), percentile(duration, 50, 90, 87, 95)
FROM Transaction
SINCE 1 day ago
FACET BY name

That will return all transactions in the last day, grouped by transaction name (ex: "CheckoutController"), along with their respective count and median, 90th, and 95th percentile. I threw in the 87th percentile just to show that you can do that too if that's your kind of thing.
The signs cost 100 dollars each... on his website.

Guess I should stop working with computers and be an 'artist' to make the real money.
Because drugs were already illegal?

You could perhaps argue that they shouldn't have been illegal, constitutionally. But, IIRC, they were, and so new change was required to start the war on drugs. It was just "we're going to get serious about stopping this stuff".
It's definitely not rocket science and yes i agree that it has to be solved.

I think it's important to make it useful to the non-techie person, so they know that whatever they put out there is guaranteed to last, rather than having to pay for hosting and such. This is just enthralling.

Creating an open content creation platform that will let users to create and upload media and text without any fuss will make IFPS a very viable choice.

I think it's interesting to consider the architecture of websites and how a non-decentralized content service has forced a centralized, systemized design of websites. Websites nowadays put more focus on design and fluff than on linkability of content. Maybe the very idea of a website is mainly because it's served from a single server. You couldn't have it coming from a million places, so you had to ensure that everyhting looked consistent and similar within this site.

But now with IFPS, we can reconsider the web stack and typical web design. We can reduce the content to themselves only and allow these to be linked with other content so everything's closer to being true hypermedia.

We really don't need any fancy web templates (think wordpress, squarespace, etc) if we are to achieve true decentralization. Heavily designed websites prevent them from being "decentralized" as in being too systematized/tightly coupled. Do I make sense here?

I'm actually working on this at the moment. I'm working on making it easy to create decentralized web content. I want to say I can, with some help from you and others, integrate IFPS as the backbone of this. Keeping IFPS in the picture brings back the decoupled nature of content with the guarante that the links won't go out of business. Nobody has to pay for hosting, nobody has to worry about content anymore. The world just became our one huge hard drive!
No interviews at all so far. I am an intern at a company that just got bought out and so they won't hire me "until they have more contracts" so they are keeping me on because they like me and want to hire me at some point. This means that it is very hard for me to get another job because I am not accruing experience in a "real" job and I am not qualified for any of the jobs I am applying for so I can't actually get real experience.

My immediate boss would love to hire me but as his boss says no I am stuck here looking.
Alphabet Drops ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Motto
hmm running a drugs market is a criminal conspiracy so I'd imagine a high number for that alone, quite apart from the deaths of users. not sure if his defence team were more inept or desperate from the article
Presumably removing the battery stops this? Or is there another internal power source they have access to?
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Wow this thread reeks of negativity
> I don't know how they do it. But they do it. I'm assuming geo-tracking of phones and noticing that you spent X hours together the previous night.

My boss and I were wondering the same thing after spending few days at client's site in another country, after which Facebook suggested the client as a friend to my boss, even though they never interacted electronically by means other than company e-mail. We thought about geo-tracking, but then concluded that it's more likely Facebook must have identified both of them were connecting to the same Wi-Fi network at the same time.
Leaflet:

"Congratulations! You have been selected for our beta testing program.

Based on data we collected on you when you were browsing the internet, we found that you [insert controversial subject, political statement, political affiliation]. We matched this data to you using facial recognition.

If this is not correct, please write to us at [website], we are always looking to improve our algorithms.

[website prominently displayed]"

The controversial characteristics can be obtained by hot reading of some sort or by simply sending party affiliation leaflets in an area where a specific party makes sense. No data actually has to be gathered.

Website reveals the trick and what you, the user, can do about it.

Should piss some people off.
Hellish airplane seat arrangement from Airbus