skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that this is working again, we can see the work-mac device constantly trying to connect to fqtag.com, a site linked to malware/adware behaviour.

Good news everyone, the queen will now be able to alert you if your computer is infected! /s
This reminds me of the Focused people in Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky", slaves that were integrated into the computer system to provide function that surpassed the computer's built in intelligence.
I think there's a slide to that effect in this presentation: that the development process involves upgrading the apps to the point at which the security can be made mandatory.
Sony says goodbye to Betamax tapes
Nice;

> Moore’s Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.
Has worked mostly OKish here for a few generations it seems.

Also remember you cannot trade liberty for security.
Eventually : )
I thought this article would be about people streaming on twitch and receiving donates.

Because let's be honest, it wasn't really gaming that paid off in this case, but programming and hard work.
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But I am broadcasting identifiers everywhere I go. The oldest means of recognition in the world is my face, and I don't cover that up wherever I go. I've also got a recognizable smell[1], a recognizable gait[2], a recognizable voice[3], and doubtless many other things that can be used individually or in aggregate to identify me, and that's before we get to contact-based or invasive techniques involving fingerprints, iris recognition, or DNA tests.

Suggesting that people "need to take responsibility for themselves" is tantamount to victim blaming when it comes to broadcasting identities for gathering by third parties. The responsibility for correctly using data should really lie with those that collect the data, and that's what data protection acts in Europe tend to target.

[1] http://www.livescience.com/5188-odor-unique-fingerprint.html

[2] http://www.wired.com/2011/09/walking-biometric-identificatio...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_recognition
Scylla vs. Cassandra benchmark (cluster)
I usually read VF and New Yorker articles pretending to be an aristocratic American from a century ago:

"Dear Lord, we are flying in airplanes maintained by heathen savages in faraway nations? This is absolutely shocking, I demand changes now!"
FinTech rules in Europe, but which other verticals are popular with investors?
I think the text needs a provision to roll it back gracefully. For instance, by tapering any repercussions in a certain time-window.
There's probably money to be made in buying up old tapes, refurbishing them, blanking them and selling them on.

Much like these guys do with floppy disks: http://floppydisk.com/
May be true but not applicable to this story about a rail gun that is more dangerous to the person setting it up and firing it than any potential target of it.

The thing couldn't even shoot through two sides of a car door.
Taking the best match from a spell checker on unrecognized words will handle most of it.

A threshold would probably work better against a mix of jumbled words and real gibberish.
> 1) GUIs in 1980s like MS Windows 1.0/2.0 had flat design

1a) In 1989 NeXTStep introduced 3-dimensional buttons and general shaded UI elements.[1]

> 2) In 1990s, MS Windows 3.0/3.1 introduced 3-dimensional

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#/media/File:NeXTSTEP_...
Thank you, I didn't know that
Occam's Razor. All direct evidence points to students being utterly misguided to the point where you're tempted to call it a mental healthcare issue, and you have reasons to believe this is an endemic problem in US colleges.

If you see a house burning you call the fire department, you don't start speculating that maybe it's a movie set.
Seems like all this user does is complain about reposts of stuff he previously (?) posted...
I'm in talks with them to allow access. They're a little pickier about what sites can become a member of their advertising program.
Torch is used in production by Facebook , deepmind and possibly baidu, amongst others. Facebook especially have released code to make torch run much faster on AWS with GPU cards. Also no startup time. The design is done with a high level language (lua) while computation done mostly in C. I'd be very surprised if tensorflow is actually faster than torch on a single machine
Considering that they're tracking time spent in queues, and (presumably) also recording video for security purposes, it's possible to associate a MAC address with a person's face, and possibly a person's passport (if they're leaving the arrivals area and passing through passport control). Doesn't this constitute the very conjunction to which the guidance refers?
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Who China? They screw up all the time...
I don't know what culture you're from, but culture is people, and support for gay marriage has increased massively in countries around the world, and is probably the majority in western Europe and North and South America. If by culture you mean "how things have always been done" then that's saying that public opinion never changes, and that slavery should never have been abolished, women never given the vote etc. Times change, and happily my culture at least is far less homophobic, racist and sexist than it used to be even 30 years ago. There are sadly still areas that are still very homophobic (parts of eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, for example), but overall the momentum is in the right direction.
> 4) The zenith of affordances is reached with Windows Vista/7 "Aeroglass" where windows could cast translucent drop shadows on the desktop. Effects like that required heavier computation such as "alpha channels". Hardware-assisted (premium graphics card) was required. Desktop computing power (both cpu and graphics chip) to deliver all this GUI effects was not a big deal. This was the time period before "skeumorphism" became persona non grata.

I would say the introduction of hardware-accelerated translucent UIs was a blessing and a curse for usability. The ability to cast shadows added a useful visual cue to the ubiquitous "2.5D" floating window manager.

Simultaneously, this new rendering ability allowed application windows to become translucent; undermining the 2.5D concept and sometimes making content illegible. Another technical capability was added to "fix" this: blurring the transparent sections, when IMHO it would be better to avoid transparency other than for shadows.
SELinux is on by default now with Android. So that's good. I don't know when it will be on by default for the majority of desktop and server users though.
There are very clear requirements for reporting certain in-flight failures, and very clear requirements for dispatching with some equipment inoperative. In addition, log books can be inspected by the FAA for patterns of failure, or for information after a specific failure.

I think this is a complete non-issue for everyone except US-based Airframe & Powerplant mechanics. If you're worried about aviation safety, don't fly on regional carriers in Eastern Europe, South America, or any third-world country. Flying on any major (for flights operated by the major, not under a codeshare) is the safest form of long distance travel by quite a wide margin.

On the small private planes that I fly, we have annual inspections where the airplane is carefully inspected and in order to do that, lots of disassembly and re-assembly is required. It's inherently dangerous, and I do an extremely careful pre-flight and will not take passengers on the first flight post-maintenance. I've found an oil line only finger tight (dumped oil directly onto the exhaust at any speed over 1700 RPM), various electrical and avionics anomalies, and other smaller mechanical issues. And in my case, this is all done by FAA-certified, English-speaking, hard-working, dedicated A&Ps right here in the good old USA. That you can find examples of maintenance errors from overseas repair shops is unsurprising; it's because you can find it from any repair shop.
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Better get real good life insurance. I think most people fail to see all the dangers in this project. This thing terrifies me and wouldn't be within 40 feet of those capacitors. Electricity doesn't always behave the way we intended it, and this would probably be fatal if it discharges incorrectly or accidentally.
Excellent description that setups the context beautifully with what TMail21 offers. Should be exciting times ahead! Cheers.
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Then again, a ball is an awfully heavy and big projectile.
You could argue that all modern codes of law are unauthorized derivative works of the Code of Hammurabi.
I don't understand this headline.
I miss that in Perl a lot.
Mostly okish minus tens of thousands of unnecessary and/or accidental deaths and little to no actual benefit (like idk, mass shootings or terrorist attacks prevented). IIRC the right to bear arms was intended so that the people can overthrow the government if need be; small chance of that now, with the military and police forces as advanced and militarised as they are now. /rant
Funny thing... If something is Russian it always goes down to burning something to the ground.
Obviously the round table's Percival/Parsifal is not really the one behind Parseval's theorem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc-Antoine_Parseval

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival
So they have a profitable biz... Why bother with college? What are they going to learn there that they haven't already demonstrated enough savvy to acquire on their own? Seems like a waste of scholarship.
Exactly right. Kodak did launch the first digital consumer camera when they felt the time was right... and they partnered with Apple Computer to make it happen.

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

That was 1994, and it turned out the market still wasn't ready for it.
Body Cameras and the Death of a 6-Year-Old Boy
He didn't necceseraly choose the thousand line files but did have to keep them running.
That's a lot of expense on capacitors. When we made a rail gun at school, we built our own capacitor bank with big glass cider bottles. Main problem we had was the projectile (ball bearing) welding itself to the rails. Solved by rubbing them with graphite before each firing. No idea what the efficiency was, but we lodged several bearings deep in a brick wall.

They made us dismantle it as it was unsafe - so we re-use the capacitors and made a tesla coil.
Banks cutting off data to financial sites
I write all my design notes, sketches etc on 5mm A4 square pads, this would be an incredible devices for me since I could scan them in really quickly once I'm done with them and I'd have a permanent record of all my stuff without a massive pile of pads to shlep through.

Could also attach metadata to them (project name etc).

I considered building something like this a while back as a side project but couldn't find a high enough resolution camera I could connect to a raspberry pi, this is 16MP, the rpi camera is only 5MP so that was a problem.
Because they don't know who you are from it - the MAC address is not a person, and you can't know who that person is without another database containing the actual personal information.
Also known as the "Innovator's Dilemma" more recently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma

Heck, Kodak is one of Christensen's main examples.
It seems to me the the same effort that was applied to the HealthCare.gov should be applied here.[1]

It is beyond...well I don't know...beyond something that our federal government proves itself time and time again so incompetent at this sort of thing.

Yes, I understand in Washington that the political process drives everything and that contractors have turned milking-the-cow into an art form, but certain important issues, such as immigration reform, should (pardon me) trump this stasis.

[1] http://qz.com/182303/these-three-management-rules-helped-fix...
There's no reason to limit the web to static pages. How would you do this with a static page https://benedikt-bitterli.me/tantalum/tantalum.html ? Or http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/03/upshot/the-bes... Or https://play.freeciv.org/ Or anything on this page http://www.kongregate.com/ or, you know, Facebook or Twitter or Google Maps/Books/Docs/Photos...?
Their affiliated training centre presently has a capacity for 550 people - equivalent to 10% of their workforce - at any one time on EASA (not FAA) accredited Part 66 training courses, plus a further 400 people on type-specific training. They've been training their own staff based on an EASA approved German-designed training scheme since 1996, so its not like the desire for certified engineers or their adherence to European training standards is a new thing either.

http://www.lufthansa-technik.com/ameco-beijing
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Nanocubes: Fast visualization of large spatiotemporal datasets
They may already be unlucky enough to have a mobile phone provider who adds stuff like the mobile phone number to their outgoing HTTP headers automatically!
Building OYO as an Uber, not an Airbnb, for Indian Hotels
The amount of repetitive paperwork and needless bureaucratic steps for immigration-related matters is utterly ridiculous. The closest approximation I can make to dealing with immigration-related paperwork is filing taxes without the aid of software and being forced to complete and mail in one section (and have it approved) before moving onto the next.
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Copyright was never for the creators, It's always been for the distributors.

Not a great source but: http://questioncopyright.org/promise
https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/redis.conf#L4...

# Command renaming.

# It is possible to change the name of dangerous commands in a shared
# environment.

# For instance the CONFIG command may be renamed into something
# hard to guess so that it will still be available for internal-use tools

# but not available for general clients.
#

# Example:
#

# rename-command CONFIG b840fc02d524045429941cc15f59e41cb7be6c52
#

# It is also possible to completely kill a command by renaming it into

# an empty string:

#

# rename-command CONFIG ""

I'm a big Redis fan, and have used most of its power, including the great HyperLogLog stuff, I never really looked at the CONFIG command and would not have imagined it would allow such things even.

Is CONFIG commonly used? What are the use cases?
> The point of the law is

Is? Or was?

Was the law written when mass tracking of inidivuals by unique serial numbers was common, possible, or feasible?
The Opposite of a Bloom Filter (2012)
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And less well resourced.
I remember taking my wife for her medical exam as part of her green card process. What a joke! The doctor--who he has to select as someone on a small approved list--was basically retired and using his position on that list as a way to make extra money. I don't think he did a thing to examine her. He just chatted and told us stories about when he was fighting in Korea and accidentally stepped in a kimchi pot. Very nice fellow, but clearly just milking the process.
Hi HN,

We built Skarpline after scraping a product we had built. We focused on solving our own need and the challenges we saw in modern communication and collaboration.

One of our early users made a pretty good description what makes Skarpline unique right here http://bit.ly/1YXzy8L (former Slack user).

And, we’re doing a small announcement with “PRESS RELEASE: We are now a Unicorn Startup”. http://bit.ly/1MOgxw8

We got featured on Product Hunt a few days ago: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/skarpline

Take the web app for a spin. I’d be happy to answer your questions. Here's a link made for HN -> https://skarpline.com/ref/hacker-news/

Ask me anything :)
I was born and raised in Cluj-Napoca, which is not Silicon Valley. Here’s why
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You're correct that it's ultimate up to judges to interpret the law but in this case it's really hard to see the full range of NSA activities surviving a 4th amendment challenge. The recent ruling shows how that's likely to go unless they're allowed to play the national security excuse:

https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2013cv0...

There's a simple rule I use for this: are they trying to prevent a court from discussing the mechanism?

You never see e.g. the FBI trying to argue that it'll endanger national security to acknowledge that they have the technical capacity to wiretap phones because that's clearly legal as long as they have a warrant. They might try to keep specific instances sealed (e.g. mob cases where retaliation is likely) but the capability and process is not secret.

As with the NSA, however, that changes once they exceed their legal authority and you see that when they do things like drop charges against known criminals rather than discuss how they used a Stingray to intercept cell-phone traffic. There's no reason to do that unless you know that the system isn't designed to follow the legal rules and thus would never survive a real court.
Are the buildings of primitive societies actually primitive?
Its not clear exactly how this is different from other photo apps.
Having passed through Dublin Airport many hundreds of times, I think it would be an interesting technical challenge mapping one MAC address to one individual given the hundreds of people milling around the security area at times.

That is to say that, while possible, such a mapping is by no means easy or automatic, and it would have to be very calculated and deliberate and even then couldn't be 100% accurate without a whole lot of engineering. In such a case of deliberate and specific design to gather and associate MACs and identities, then yes, the law applies to such a conjunction.
Absolutely. I kept thinking of an angry mob of unionists screaming "dey took ur jawb!".
I don't get the part about the reverse number lookup. Couldn't they be using a disposable phone number that is allocated to Facebook? That's what Handy, Airbnb, Uber, etc. do. Why would they have to block their caller id? And how does either method prove or disprove that M is human?
"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." -- Oscar Wilde
I think it's an interesting exercise in how to prove the level of human involvement in this AI.
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The inspiration for this project was that I kept getting this question:

"I just launched my app. How do I get users?"

I wrote this book specifically for people in these three stages:

1. Developers who want to build a product, but haven't found an idea.

2. Developers who are building a product, but haven't yet launched.

3. Developers who have launched, and are looking for their first 100 customers.
I hope that technologists are also students of history. You do understand where all this is going don't you? What are you doing now to safeguard the future?

"Not my problem, won't happen in my lifetime" - yes it will.
I spoke with some USDS/18F folks a few months back, and I know they're working with USCIS to try and remedy the failures of contracting this all out to IBM. I'm hopeful things will get better in the next few years.
yup. The title is irrelevant. And the story is... well another teenager success stories that people adore.
Perhaps the promotion of SELinux and its integration in some major distros is impeding the adoption of more practical kernel security measures like AppArmor or grsecurity. At least that's what Chris Siebenmann, a long-time sysadmin for the University of Toronto's CS department, thinks.

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SELinuxWhyICa...

What I don't like about SELinux is that it doesn't integrate easily with existing tools. It requires special filesystem attributes, and tools like ls and cp have to be modified to support it. Third-party tools like Ansible also have to go out of their way to support SELinux. It seems to me that AppArmor and grsecurity don't have that problem nearly as much.
Thomas Edison claimed to have a long lasting light bulb before he actually did. He showed it to reporters one at a time in a booth. Between observers, he would change out the light for a fresh one. Source "How We Got to Now: Light" (on Netflix currently, at least in the US). Found the clip on PBS. Skip to 2:20 for the specific part: http://www.pbs.org/how-we-got-to-now/big-ideas/light/
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A real JetPack with real jet engines
It amazes me how much time people spend on their mobile phones. Tiny screen, half of which gets taken up by a crappy keyboard (on screen keyboards are technically quite amazing, but a normal keyboard is way more usable).

If I want to book something, or basically type more than a few lines, give me a desktop (or laptop) any day.
+1

Even though this project was very cool to watch, but it looked super dangerous to me, especially the capacitor bank - it looked very ghetto.
What, you mean like all the data the article supplied (in theory...)?
That doesn't prove that M's human, what prove's it's human is that a Human voice called. The fact it says Facebook is just evidence that it was indeed from M, and not just him getting his friend to call him and pretend.
They covered a little EEG ON National Geographic's Breakthrough series (Episode 2):

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/breakthrough-series/vi...

I don't seem to hear much about this technology. Are we making any real progress?
I hardly think that's a recent development. Plenty of technology has been sold that way for a long time.
I was going to say bullshit but you're right. Even Israel does this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_for_Prevention_of_Damage_t...

FTA:

> Law for Prevention of Damage to State of Israel through Boycott (Hebrew: חוק למניעת פגיעה במדינת ישראל באמצעות חרם, התשע"א-2011), also commonly known as the Boycott law, is an Israeli Anti-boycott law that was approved in the Knesset on 11 July 2011. The law has been widely criticised.

I strongly believe that Israel has a right to exist but laws like these do not give me hope for the Israeli people if they are complacent or (worse) supportive of these repressive laws.
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Flippant Accusations
Wood carving tools overview
Seemed like a whole lot of scary intimation and not much in the way of facts. Sure, a couple anecdotes of maintenance issues, but no evidence that the rate is any higher than it is in the US.

Seems like every other paragraph contained something like this: "Then everything is put back exactly where it was, at least in theory." Suggesting imminent life-threatening danger, without having to worry about any pesky facts to back it up.
> Where can you find music with no compression?

the pub?
I've not read that. Personally i felt we're one step closer to the "cookies" in Charlie Brooker's "White Christmas" episode of Black Mirror.

From the article :

“Our test participant was impressed with how much M could do, but was sometimes disappointed at how long it took,” UserTesting’s report reads. “He concluded that it would be very useful if he could set it to perform a non-­urgent tasks for him while he worked on other things.”

That made me shudder. One person tutting at the poor performance of "it". It seems plausible that robot-powered tasks would complete rapidly, and humans power the slower processes.

So the participant didn't know it was human-powered. If anything, that makes things worse.
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The solution is obvious - provide a github repository with all the code for the research. Provide clear ways to reproduce all the results of the research from raw data by running build.

Bonus points: Hirschware as software license.