skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can vote for either a) the representative on the one side who supports such laws or b) the representative on the other side who supports such laws or c) throw your vote away and let the majority of people who don't understand/care about this issue decide between (a) and (b).

Voting is not a solution to a problem like this and is generally very ineffective in the US.
I'd love it plotly.js could work Medium for integration. Medium still doesn't have way to do rich, interactive charts. It makes me sad...
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I agree with you both, but I think we can argue that people can have mitigating circumstances, and that you can (and should) try to understand why it is they do what they do, rather than "Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people." Life isn't a comic book.
Not at all, I know only a tiny amount about this field myself.
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Honestly, I don't doubt at all that intelligence officials would love to exploit FUD about this situation to further their agendas, but this article's claim that the NYT article was "blaming encryption" is kind of a stretch. Read the article linked on archive.org and decide for yourself:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151115191248/http:/www.nytimes...
They probably are very generous - I'd imagine the entire country was defined as the "area". The system doesn't work very well if there's false negatives and people don't see it, and if someone sees it but shouldn't all they have to do is hit that they're OK.
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>I'm sure there's an appropriate time and place for spidersex.

In the deep places, as the atmosphere snows down in the cold above.
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I'll quote Ellen White the prophet of SDA and its namer:

“Seventh-day Adventists, who profess to be looking for and loving the appearing of Christ, should not follow the course of worldlings. These are no criterion for commandment keepers. Neither should they pattern after first-day Adventists, who refuse to acknowledge the claims of the law of God and trample it under their feet.”—2 Testimonies, 450.

Adventist is the part of the name you are quoting. Seventh Day by the words of the person who named the church distinguished from 1st Day who took Sunday.

Plus, anyone who does not know the reason that Catholics and most of the other Christian churches switched to Sunday won't get the whole seventh day part of the name.

Once again, FUD. All Christian churches expect the imminent return of the Jesus. Its part of the base Christian belief.
While it's legal to take someone's photo in public, because they don't have an expectation of privacy, it's generally not legal to record audio without their knowledge.

It depends on states, but almost every state falls into the classification of one-party or all-party. In one-party states, at least one person being recorded must be aware of the recording. In all-party states, all parties being recorded must be informed.

These laws were originally written for telephone tapping, but my understanding is that they have been used in cases of bugging as well, even when no phone was involved.
No, I think he meant other Muslims that aren't/weren't involved with ISIS. Remember, ISIS is still a radical minority, and there are Muslims who don't support ISIS.
I found this story very ironic.
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Depends on the state. Most give a lot of freedom to videotaping people in public spaces but audio is usually stricter. In PA for example, it is illegal.
The FBI's apparent courthouse or near-courthouse tapping took place in California. If you placed microphones in random public places in CA, the question would be whether there's an expectation of privacy in a conversation that took place in or near those places.

If someone does have an expectation of privacy in public (which does not necessarily seem clear to me), you would be engaging in unlawful surveillance. Whispered conversations in public may be protected. The language used by CA law is: "circumstance in which the parties to the communication may reasonably expect that the communication may be overheard or recorded." See: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&gr...

In CA, video recording laws are more liberal. That's why you see surveillance cameras all over the place in cities (and increasingly in residential suburban or rural neighborhoods as well).
I've looked into plot.ly and found the feature set pretty impressive, although I was not happy with the way they handled data. Now that it's open sourced, I'll definitely try to make use of it in practical data visualization applications.

That being said, I'm not 100% sold on interactive charts. Way too many libraries (Highcharts especially) break or function poorly on mobile devices, which is a serious problem in 2015. I'll have to give plot.ly another QA audit.
Here's a very relevant article about how French youth get radicalized: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/31/the-other-franc...

Major points:

Unless you have the right connections, go to the right schools, have the right French names, it's very difficult to get a good job. Even more so if you come from banlieues. With no job prospects and isolation from mainstream society, some Muslim youths retreat to religion and out of those, some discover and/or led to radical ideologies.

If you read the article, you'll see that there are some Muslims who are trying to rescue these youths. I feel this could be part of an actually solution. Since Muslim youth won't trust outsiders at all, the government can provide Muslim community leaders some resources to intervene in the lives of youths that are going down the wrong paths from crime to radicalization.

Also, they can consider setting up programs for parents to identify the signs of radicalization and educate them about how to intervene and de-escalate. Apparently, a father of one of the Paris attackers even went all the way to Syria to persuade his son to come home. Even after offering him a plan where he didn't have to go to prison but could resettle in Algeria and try to rebuild his life, the son refused. After a certain point in the radicalization process, there seems to be a point of no return.

Clearly, just bombing ISIS is not going to work when the majority of these terrorists lived in Europe.
It will probably come full circle eventually. If ad revenue stopped being given to content creators then content creators would stop producing content then people would become more likely to give money to content creators then ad agencies would come back and offer money to content creators and then people would stop contributing, etc.
> citing unidentified “European officials”

That was the Belgium minister.

> It was not clear whether the encryption was part of widely used communications tools, like WhatsApp, which the authorities have a hard time monitoring, or something more elaborate.

"PlayStation 4 is even more difficult to keep track of than WhatsApp," Jambon [Belgium minister] said at a debate in Brussels.
"The most difficult communication between these terrorists is via PlayStation 4," he said. "It’s very, very difficult for our services — not only Belgian services but international services — to decrypt the communication that is done via PlayStation 4." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/playstatio...

So: It is less about encryption (PGP, Tor) than it is about companies running their own communication networks with encryption, and the intelligence agencies have increasingly more trouble tracking extremists using games or phone apps to plan their attacks.

Is that Snowden's fault? No. Did Snowden's leaks contribute to companies making their networks harder to tap? Definitely.

Another tidbit that is coming out is that nearly all terrorists were already on the radar of the intelligence services and had documents tracking their radicalization. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/16/french-and-belg...

Apparently there was a failure to share and to make actionable sense of this information.

Is that Snowden's fault? No. Did Snowden's broad indiscriminate leaks cause less willingness to share information between intelligence agencies? Definitely.

This is, in my view, a side-effect of these revelations, but a real effect too. I don't want to weigh up these two on a scale, as that will be difficult and everyone will have different priorities anyway.

BTW: This gaffe/Chinese whispers started with a Forbes article and New York Times fell for it: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/11/14/why-the-pa...

"Correction: It has not been confirmed, as originally written, that a console was found as a result of specific Belgian terror raids. Minister Jambon was speaking about tactics he knows ISIS to be using generally. "
No need to wait that long, usually the benevolent dictator of today is the tyrant of tomorrow.
Do you have any more information on this tactic? It's fascinating, I didn't realize that there was actual intent to it.
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I would recommend reading Bernard Lewis, _What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response_, which discusses the early stages of this conflict -- the failure of the Ottoman Empire. I'd also recommend reading up on the fall of the Qing dynasty, which occurred at about the same time, for about the same reasons; the two histories aren't the same, by any means, but they shed a little light on each other.
Indeed. Also, combine your steganography argument with this image

http://www.friendmosaic.com/images/example-mosaic.jpg

and it's pretty easy to see that this avenue of thought --- that we will put our efforts toward finding a way to ban encryption --- is totally ridiculous.
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The last time Google contributor got brought up, I mentioned I'd be happy to participate so long as I wasn't being tracked and could still block any remaining ads. As is, it seems that running adblock would prevent contributor from paying any of the sites I visit so I don't see the point.

I actually don't even run an adblocker any more - I just use a javascript blocker set for "default deny" which seems to work just about as well as a real adblocker.
Holy shit! You just read my mind!
In this case, it is the license that matters.

Most charting libraries are licensed. You can use them trivially by downloading them, or inspecting them in the browser, as you suggest. However, it isn't legal.
It's about the license, not the actual code.
I wouldn't say that. The Michelson-Morley experiment demonstrated that if there was a luminiferous ether, it had no measurable inertia. That pretty much falsified the ether as anything that we'd recognize as "real."
Read Glen Greenwald's book Liberty and Justice for Some.

The rule of law is largely a joke that the powerful trick the weak into accepting. The constant drilling away at the supposed sanctity of the legal system is evidence that the people who run things really don't care so much about attorney client privilege or due process.
you must love the clickbaits! :D
Yes, it irks the good team that there are new "deadlines" being set as if they can't meet the deadlines assigned to them. It is really lowering the team moral when done and should never be done. I was lucky to have an amazing manager for that one doomed project, we were 4-5 months behind timeline yet he said, "I am not going to micromanage you, I trust you that you'll deliver this on time" (he had been assigned halfway into the project), the project had escalated to one level lower than the CEO and the result? The team delivered! Because the team wasn't micro managed!
There was an article lately about interviews with captured ISIS fighters on the death row. (I can't find the link unfortunately, maybe anyone's got it?) The idea was that what some of them describe is basically being forced to join the movement because there's no other way for them to provide for their families - they just suddenly lived in the middle of a war, but they don't care about the ideology itself. Biased? Of course, and doesn't apply to the European attackers. But still something to think about.
Never seen it as a consumer or even as an entrepreneur. We just send an email on failed payments reminding clients to update with a grace period. I know that if you use something like stripe subscriptions, they have inbuilt function to try 3 times before stopping subscriptions but again, the amount is the same for each try unless you of course build your own custom solution.
>The shuttle went the way of the dodo and we are using Soviet's 70s technology to get into orbit.

We're between systems, like the seven years between Apollo and the STS. Its a happy coincidence Russia still has a legacy system for lifting people into the largely STS built and ferried ISS. The SLS/Orion and SpaceX systems will be the next generation of spaceflight that will take us out of the LEO. Neither the Soyuz or the STS could leave LEO.

>was the first fully automated space shuttle, so again autocratic state wins?

The Buran sent as many men into space as Zimbabwe. Zero. That's not a "win" in anyone's book. It was a prototype and a blatant copy of the STS.

The STS had automatic capabilities but astronauts, feared rightly, that if the landing gear went down accidentally they would die. The Shuttle does NOT HAVE the capabilities to lift its own landing gear. That's done by a ground crew. If this went off accidentally in space then these people are stranded. If it goes off during re-entry they would die.

Having a removable and stowed cable for plugging the flight computer into the landing gear was a rational compromise. This allowed scenarios where an abandoned shuttle could fly itself home.
Pay flounders?

Sounds fishy to me.
As an off-topic data visualization tip, I strongly recommend against using Medium for writing about data visualization. Medium's compression murders the quality of high-res charts.
Signs you're underpaid
Couldthis be useful for testing the emdrive? I heard one theory is it might be emitting gravity waves.
Like many others are saying, I believe the price point to be too high and am disappointed in their decision to limit previously free features.
The Github pages reads: "Built on top of d3.js and stack.gl, plotly.js is a high-level, declarative charting library. plotly.js ships with 20 chart types, including 3D charts, statistical graphs, and SVG maps." -- https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js

It feels a bit heavy in comparision to Highcharts or the open source Flotcharts. Though some chart types are pretty impressive, same can be said for d3.js in general.

But thanks for releasing plotly.js as open source.
I'm confused. Can you say more?
The value for the user isn't there.

Netflix: $8 = no ads

Google Contributor: $10 = half as many ads on a few websites.

uBlock is free for no ads. You have to be better than that. The web is a weird place. I think people, abstractly, might be fine paying for good content. Part of the problem is that the internet is brimming with garbage, and no one wants to pay for garbage. If a user incidentally visits a site and it isn't what they were looking for, they don't want part of their monthly ad-bidding funds to go to that site.

I fear that since things have been free for 20+ years, people aren't going to ever pay for written content. Maybe if we are forced to pay for every view, we'll think twice about where it comes from and not waste money on clickbait. Probably not.
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I'd be more likely to pay in exchange for no ads whatsoever than to pay money and continue to be exposed to essentially an unaccountable 3rd party (the ad network) when it comes to security issues like being served malware when that 3rd party gets hacked.

If micropayments were a thing I'd be willing to pay $1 for a day pass to view an article on an infrequently read website as opposed to paying $50/yr which is a complete waste of my money.
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Hey everyone! FB engineer here who wrote the original code for this and gave the talk during @Scale 2015. There's a recording of our talk here:
https://youtu.be/ptsCWGZW_P8?t=333

That's a bit more visual and easier to understand. At the end of the day its really just DFS with seen state and selective exploration :)
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This seems to be a service that costs more than all other ad-blocking services and blocks vastly fewer ads than those services.

Additionally, it is run by the company that people who would be concerned about ad trackers are probably the most concerned about.

I would be shocked if it gained any traction ever.
$5 a month to see 15-25% fewer adverts seems like a bad deal, when I first saw this announced I couldn't see any way of it working.

Google being financed by advertising is interesting, on one hand they pump a lot of money into security (and lead the field in a lot of areas) but on the other they take in a lot through scammy adverts. Just Google 'Chrome' on a new computer and you will be faced with a whole bunch of "Download Chrome from download.safe-webbrowsers.com" that are designed to trick less technical people into installing crapware. Same for the endless diet pill and 'one weird trick' adverts that scam people into eating the pill equivalent of crapware.

On a side note that title took me a while to process, I was wondering what flounders are and why on earth visitors should pay them.
It means that someone who wants to make money off your private information has decided that they are entitled to it.
A machine that detects the toxins/harmful chemicals in food materials....
It really is too bad that it's such a problem. Have you considered rasterizing the graphs and only displaying that version on mobile?
If what you are supposing is true, it fails to address what should be done now; should the French increase air attacks on ISIS, abandon their effort, or lead a ground incursion?

Over 50% of the population in many Muslim majority states believe that terrorism is at least 'rarely', and over 5% (, which is a large number of people,) believe it is justified 'often'.[1] There are obviously a large number of Muslims who do not support ISIS (probably a great majority, given sectarian and other considerations), but ISIS is not the only extremist Islamist organization in conflict with western values and/or governments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_attitudes_towards_terro...
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Probably on the side you write on.
It's not just NL. It's PL too, and DE and apparently almost every other European country. If the whole Europe closes up the borders at the same time, it's effectively sending the refugees back to warzone.
How do you propose they pay websites you visit without tracking which websites you visit?
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Medium's lack of embeddable visualizer is frustrating. But getting interactive charts to play nicely and responsively on desktop/tablet/mobile is immensely painful. I did it manually once but it merely adequate on phones.

I just want to have my cake and eat it. Is that really so much to ask?
For those ctrl+f'ing for "non-paywall", see above.
> "Proper machine learning systems would probably distinguish between someone doing something with a red flag only occasionally and a fanatic who does something based on a strong belief"

The point of the article was that even "proper" machine learning systems will generate either false positives or false negatives, either of which are damaging enough that they compromise the effectiveness of the approach.
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Just blaming it on people not wanting to pay for content is short sighted.

Are there those people? Of course... just like there are people who won't tip if they have a billion dollars in their bank account...

The reasons for ad blocking is long:

* Screen Real-estate
* Cognitive load
* Speed up browsing
* Data usage
* Distracting
* Sound based ads
* Pop ups
* Pop unders
* Security
* Tracking/Profiling/privacy
* Being cheap - or not having any reasonable route to support random-website-#896796987

I could probably add a few more if I took a few minutes, but the same arguments about MP3s ran rampant. Those DAMN KIDS! with no respect REFUSED! to pay for a full CD! HOW DARE THOSE CHEAP BASTARDS!

Then, amazingly... a more flexible model came about and GASP people started buying MP3s. Same for Netflix and other digital content.

The problem is peoples privacy, security, screen time, etc are getting thrown under the bus for some random companies profit...

You give me a more reasonable model and I'll tone down my Ad Blocking (I allow text based ads on Google.com for example)... until then, you can shove your fake "THOSE CHEAP BASTARDS!!!" argument right up yer kiester...

Now get off my lawn dammit.
Having an agent standing there would be entirely acceptable. Use of surveillance equipment, especially the hidden kind, has always had a higher standard, even in public. So much so that one of the main ethical questions right now regards the use of publicly placed microphones that supposedly can only hear gunshots, in order to triangulate where those gunshots took place.

> Don't respond or disagree, just vote it down

It's faster to produce bullshit ideas than to respond to them civilly, as anyone who has an incompetent coworker can attest to. You aren't owed anything.
I switched jobs last month and decided to audit all my personal stuff while the old place was auditing all the work accounts I left behind. We'd been using google/gmail 2 factor authentication.

There's a few layers to it, most everyone has seen. Ok, 1st factor is your password, so you log in with your password.

2nd factor can vary - a list of codes you print and keep in your wallet, or they can send a txt message to your phone. Or you can get an authenticator app, which you configure with some magical seed value, and then you have what's effectively a software RSA token device on your phone.

Even easier? I just found out about these FIDO usb hardware keys. 9 bucks, wait for it in the mail... go to your gmail account settings, click the link, put the hardware key in, press the button... and that's it, from then on you can plug that key into a web browser (chrome, actually) and it will pass the second factor. Anyways, it's been out for a while, but I just found out about it, and it's so easy to do I wanted to jot a note down here.
I didn't downvote you, and haven't actually read the article yet - but wiretap laws are pretty clear that it's illegal to perform audio recordings of people without their knowledge, regardless of location and how that applies to an expectation of privacy.
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Haven't all those records been broken by cooling gases at a very low pressure?

But in this case, the laser is not cooling the liquid. It is cooling a solid crystal of an anti-Stokes phosphor within the liquid.

The negative Stokes shift is powered by thermal energy, so the more you make it convert near-infrared to green, the colder it gets. The liquid gets colder because it is touching the crystal.

So the article is even wrong on that count. This laser is not cooling a liquid at all. It won't do anything without the anti-Stokes phosphor crystal.
I earned my PhD at EGS and am very happy to share my experience there. Full disclosure: Dan mentioned me and my colleagues (we created the media-agnostic publication, continent., continentcontinent.cc) in the article above.