skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a very important difference that we "people-in-the-know" forget every time this topic comes up:

- When doors are locked and police want to go inside, they can still break the lock or the door. It will only take some time.

- When a safe is locked, it doesn't prevent it from being opened. It will only take some time.

What the FBI ultimately wants is not necessarily ban encryption, or give them an additional key; what they really want is breakable encryption so they can decrypt the content. Much like a lock is not unbreakable but is defined in terms of security by how much efforts it takes to break it, and much like a KDF is defined to take a given amount of time, they want to have breakable encryption -- ie, encryption that only takes, let's say 1 M$ to break (the figure is just to have clear ideas).

Of course, as we all know, if it takes 1 M$ to break, everybody with 1 M$ can break it (not only the "good guys"). This is further exacerbated by the fact that it's online (contrary to a physical lock, for which you need the appropriate tools and physical access to the lock).

So the equivalent is not "Comey wants us to remove all locks", it is "Comey would like us to use locks that can't resist a 1 M$ attack". That is still undesirable (we've grown extremely accustomed to almost-infinity $-resistant crypto), and looks very much like a call back to exports-grade crypto. If the quality of a crypto cipher doesn't decline too fast, I think I'd be happy that LEO could decrypt the messages provided they have all the required legal provisions.
There's Mailpile: https://www.mailpile.is/
How are the security update/fixes handled in NixOS?
Yes, that's probably it. Cargo ships could be a good use case for thorium reactors. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/01/16/thorium-fu...
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https://web.archive.org/web/20151210170144/https://www.reddi...

Deleted for not being a question I guess.
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They're also removing tab groups (panorama) in the next version. Apparently due to low usage -- which is surprising considering how much they've advertised the feature. /s
Care to give a few examples to help?
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The Mozilla organization is disassembling itself.
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Just to clarify, “They” here is not Mozilla. Matchstick was a separate company.

By the way, it is bizarre that they do not mention their death on the website (http://www.matchstick.tv/overview/company-news/). On their Kickstarter article, their wording is a bit unclear, but it does seem like they have stopped working on Matchstick (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matchstick/matchstick-t...).
Saloons are not usually part of a family house. Usually.
Europe really needs a Kei car classification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car
I guess these taxi drivers really don't like Uber
The more humanely a fish is killed, the better it tastes
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"Saloon" (meaning car) is a normal British English term (apparently they are called Sedans in the US), and the Economist is a British paper.
In engineering systems can often be characterised as having feedback - that is, the output feeds somehow back to the input. Active suspension, robotic navigation and amplifiers are all examples of this.

The problem is that these types of systems can become unstable. A classic example is a microphone too near a speaker. The output over-influences the input, resulting in larger output, resulting in a correspondingly amplified input... etc. Quite quickly everything has fallen to bits.

What if the internet is simply providing too much feedback for our system of governance to handle?

Interesting thought. I suspect only time will tell what happens.
You're right that Professor 't Hooft is being sarcastic but you've got the wrong target.

He's not aiming this at practicing physicists. He says early on that, if you want to be a physicist, you should enroll at a University. He says in the Questions section that you'll eventually need a degree.

This is aimed at people who can't or won't. The sarcasm is intended to appeal to the "well intended but totally useless" amateur physicists that regularly send him crackpot theories. It's a common refrain from such individuals that they are held back by the establishment.

What he's trying to convey is the amount of information that one needs to master to be taken seriously as a theoretical physicist. His intention is both to put off those that have read a popular science book and now know it all as well as encouraging those that are actually serious by giving them some structure to their learning.
I only skimmed the thing a bit, but how do they deal with heat exactly? Water cooling at every level?
Why would anyone pick this instead of Qt/QML, Java/JavaFX, Android/Java, Win10/XAML which are already being used in production?

EDIT: Forgot to mention Tizen as well.
http://www.radiocells.org/ if you want something that's opensource both software and data. You can download whole database of wifis and cells from radiocells.
I think the biggest problem is users losing the battle. Do users really want more crapware? More distractions?
It is well known that tax regulators prefer to settle out of court, to avoid lengthy and very expensive court cases.

Out of court settlements allow them to get some of the tax back; put a bit of pressure on the trading entity; and not force closure of that trading entity which would probably cause some disruption.

I think that's the wrong approach because those trading entities have shown that they continue to break the laws where they want to.
a supercomputer is a device for turning a CPU-bound problem into an IO-bound problem

Heh. I remember a tale from the days of the early generation Crays, where they were showing one off to an IBM guy, who said, yeah, impressive, but what about I/O? So a Cray guy ran something and got all the tapes to moving. The IBM guy was unimpressed until they pointed out they were writing data to all of them.

At least in those days the problem was understood, don't know about current supercomputers, but as I understand it one of the things that makes them expensive is their board to board interconnects, so I doubt they neglect I/O at the same time.
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Spoiler: Probably not, Berghdal is still active duty in Texas.

One of the functions and outcomes of great investigative reporting is to find facts that aren't already visible. The first series of Serial apparently resulted in Syed being granted a new hearing—his post-conviction hearings were re-opened by the appeals court last month, and he will get a new day in court some time soon.

There's a chance that the reporting in this new series of episodes might result in a similar change in outcome or circumstance.
Because they are contributing to it.
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Headline should've read: "World’s 15 Biggest Ships Create More SOx- and NOx-emissions Than All The Cars In The World, COx-emissions a Whole Other Story"
Well, that is one way to read it, I suppose. Another is to take the second paragraph as the theme of the piece: if you don't have a grounding in all of this stuff, your reckonings and supposings are probably not as brilliant and revolutionary as you think they are.

The author isn't expressing his disdain for school, but the disdain he perceives in the people who keep e-mailing him with the simple answers to deep questions. "Okay," he says (I'm paraphrasing wildly here), "you may be too cool for school, but if you don't have at least a firm understanding of these basics, you won't even be able to understand why you're wrong when you, quite inevitably, veer off into the muddy mire of misunderstanding."

He is most assuredly not denigrating experimental physics, nor is he saying that the ordinary educational process is a waste of time and effort. (This is not meant to encourage autodidacts in any way.) He's even hinted that the "lies to children" -- those models that seemed to work for a very long time in the pre-GR/pre-quantum world -- aren't nearly as useless as people might think they are, nor are the scientific processes that led to those models.

So, yes, he is being quite sarcastic here, but the sarcasm is pointed in a completely different direction.
Yes it is, Mozilla is fighting to keep it relevant.
s/Firefox OS/WebOS/g
Compare http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/23/vegetarianism-for-meat-...
Yep, they refunded my money.
What is selling Google to ad companies?

The same thing Apple is selling with iAds?
I've heard that France is similarly military in style, and that a lot of Europe is the same, their police culture is military. Britain was the one that innovated a civilian police force (as opposed to the older practise of using the Redcoats - the army). America copied us, but, has drifted towards militarism.
You are talking about the value for the app owner, but the debate seems to be about the value created for the user !
Yeah, they talk in a couple of different videos about the different approaches they've used over the years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10694916

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10697567

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10699872

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10700491 (most commented)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10701485

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10701648

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10704652

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10716382

etc.
same here. it's great that some people still do. otherwise we'd need to hire an AI to read the articles for us and post the proper comments
> I am also very interested in knowing what to do when the dimension of the input space can vary.

It is frequently the case that one's data lies on a (curvy) low dimensional manifold embedded within a higher dimensional space. Because of this, performing an orthogonal projection to a lower dimension is often a bad idea. Consider the famous "Swiss roll" dataset: http://www.convexoptimization.com/dattorro/manifold_learning... Although the data lies on a 2D manifold, there exists no affine subspace to project the data onto; one must instead perform a non-linear mapping.

Problems like this are tackled using a variety of methods that attempt to "unroll" the manifold into its own vector space. The rest of the problem can then be solved using the tools of linear algebra. See http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001... for example.
I just stumbled on an amusing use of the term gentrification:

Average Silicon Valley millionaires are being displaced by gentrifying billionaires

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/216500/average-silicon-valle...
Valid point except I worked at the largest wealth management firm in the world in a major office.

Cocaine, hookers, money launderering, investment in drugs, executives selling (small amounts) of drugs and all kinds of related craziness.

People are people, and we are a flawed bunch.
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You mean to say JP Morgan is appointed a lowly paid public defender and intimidated into a plea deal?
"I'm wondering why these ships aren't nuclear powered."

A combination of cost and environmental concerns;

'The ship that totally failed to change the world"
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28439159
Is it pronounced the same in early and modern Greek?
It also kinda depends on the heat generated; I can imagine that this system allows for lower power consumption, which is equivalent to lower heat production.
It sounds like Oracle's netbook which was original chrome book in 96.Every body can now absorb pretty clearly the bandwidth and stability is not there.(even today.let alone 96).

I think companies should understand if you don't have money for just spending on products like these.then don't start them.because it will make you look like idiot. Maybe 25 year from now you can run Gecko(what was their engines name?) On low powered chip.but today?no way.
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Your opinion might not be popular in general, but I don't see how immigration can be feasible/sustainable without integration. Surely it's beneficial for both parties that immigrants try to integrate. I realise some of these people end up in Western Europe out of necessity rather than choice, but more should be done to integrate them.
Nobel laureates don't typically cease research after receiving the award. He's still active.
Didn't Ghengis Khan's realm contract and then split when he died? IIRC Charlemagne gained two thrones (not by conquest), then added to that area by conquest, and largely kept the military gains.
Haha first time in a while that I see a link to yahoo.com on the front page. Marissa is that you?
Something not related.why Oracle discontinued javafx scene builder?.it send signal to programmer javafx is not serious.
> Most Smart TVs are never updated after all

Along with the usual problems of "smart" (spyware) devices, the non-updatability of IoT devices is a time bomb.

We already have a problem with firmware based on very-old Linux kernels; shipping devices with known kernel exploits should be automatic liability for any damage the device does. It's willful negligence.

As Dan Geer says[1], embedded devices need to either be updated or have a limited lifespan. We cannot allow a situation where common consumer IoT devices are both immortal and unfixable.

[1] http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt
What difference should this classification make compared to existing car legislation?

Among the financial advantages mentioned on the Wikipedia article, only the VAT (presumably?) break has meaning in Europe, or at least in France, since the other advantages are either on taxes or requirements that don't exist here (weight tax, road tax, adequate parking requirement) or insurance (which already depends on engine power here).

It seems to be closer to the existing license-less car category, actually (which are also limited to 50 km/h and barred from entering highways).
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Yes, South America is much bigger than Spain itself, was conquered quickly and then kept... good point. Thanks.
I'm not really knowledgeable to have an opinion on HFT, but there's something I'm still not clear about.

HFT firms are not that big; the ones I've seen pointed as the largest have net incomes of less than $100M. Why wouldn't the other market participants, particularly the largest Wall Street firms, allow HFTs to ruin their game? The link you posted mentions "corrupt SEC regulators", but why would they be corrupt in favour of HFTs?
That looks neat but doesn't fufill the "low resource client on my desktop with notifications" that Thunderbird does.
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I wonder why the duplicate detector didn't go off on this. This URL is exactly the same as the one noted in the flagged comment (show hidden).

@Dang: Have HN changed the way in which dupes are detected? Also, should we be flagging comments that point to previous submissions btw? It seems a bit harsh to flag a comment in this way, although I agree that the previous post doesn't add anything to this particular discussion. Wouldn't a downvote be more appropriate?
you must be new to The Economist
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Many credit cards offer a bonus if you spend $X in the first 3 months.

Well, sure, but that's not a marginal advantage to using it for this one purpose unless you're not charging anything else.

And then it's usually 1-5% cash back at certain vendors after that.

I've not seen any card with an unlimited bonus on something like this of more than 2%. You might see 3% on limited categories like fuel (like Costco) or groceries.'
Before I clicked that link I thought the parent might be complaining for no reason. Then, and this was probably just a coincidence, I saw the page and had a pressure buildup in my right eye that felt like a headache.
Many phones have this in settings, many other phones have this in a hidden service menu (eg http://android.stackexchange.com/a/66819)
>We need good open-source mail clients

Take a look at https://nylas.com/N1
FTFA:

"Just as skyscrapers have ventilation systems, N3XT high-rise chip designs incorporate thermal cooling layers. This work, led by Stanford mechanical engineers Kenneth Goodson and Mehdi Asheghi, ensures that the heat rising from the stacked layers of electronics does not degrade overall system performance."

Paper about that:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263004944_Phonon_sc...
Looks like its neck to neck with AWS RDS MySQL.
Has anyone done any benchmarks on performance?
FxOS 1.0 on ZTE Open was/is plenty fast despite the very low end hardware.
> Have you ever been stuck behind a car with a broken exhaust system? The amount of pollution coming out of such a car is surprising, and that's with relatively clean gasoline.

For a diesel engine (which is the subject here) that has very little to do with the exhaust system but usually everything to do with the engine (and more specifically, the injectors) itself.

Relatively clean gasoline only pollutes more when the catalytic converter isn't working properly but you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference without a measurement.

So if you see 'clouds of smoke' coming from a car that's either a badly injecting diesel (droplets too large to combust) or a gasoline engine that is burning engine oil.

The exhaust system is 'not guilty' in either case.
Cars taking up physically less space could be taxed less (or, my preference, large SUVs taxed more). You use less road space, less parking space, less materials, so that is a reasonable tax policy. The UK has a road tax which could cover this, but VAT could also be used to tax the car less at time of purchase.

Current cars have settled on a certain size, for historical reasons. In fact they seem to be getting a bit bigger. But there's no particular reason for a car to be bigger than a single human being, or other sizes (two humans + one suitcase perhaps). We can use the tax system to change that for the better.

This isn't a pie-in-the-sky unproven idea either. Kei cars are hugely popular in Japan, demonstrating that the market exists.

They're pretty practical - I've driven in a 6 seat Kei-car in Japan, and there are Kei vans and Kei flatbed delivery trucks (all fitting into the smaller dimensions).
At least he had one; a lot of people writing about science and philosophy don't seem to even understand the concept.
It's not the traditional mail client, it requires server (https://github.com/nylas/N1/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#runn...)
Very cool maps indeed, would love to have this on my wall sometime.
Your comment would be much nicer without the first sentence.
I think I noticed another duplicate subscription yesterday. So yes - they may have changed this.
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>Most countries in the Balkans (not just Slovenia) have fought the Turks for extended periods of time.

Count Dracula - Vlad the Impaler - comes immediately to mind. I'm always surprised at the similarity between how Dracula and Milosevic were both demonized for defending their people against the "Musulman" aggression.
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If you omit something it is not the same anymore. It is like omitting pasta from a spaghetti bolognese: you will end up with something completely different and not even remotely pleasant.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10712906
The decision to move away from a smartphone OS and towards IoT devices is not based on what serves Gecko. Gecko is better suited to smartphones.

Besides, Gecko is still relevant, and will continue to be for quite some time. Mozilla and Google appear to have a good working relationship when it comes to web standards, and new standards are only signed off when at least two browser vendors (or rather, browser engine vendors) implement the proposed functionality.
It boggles the mind. At the same time, their browser market share is eaten by Chrome now and probably MS Edge starting next year or so. But it typical enterprise lingo, they "pivot" a dead project into something that continues eating resources for nothing.

Mozilla, get your act together, you are burning through a lot of good-will lately.
The capacity and willingness of financial institutions to completely fuck everyone over repeatedly and consistently must be a universal constant at this point.
> So, at first, they've told us that they don't have enough resources to pour into Thunderbird because they were working on something else. That something else was Firefox OS

I'm not really familiar with Mozilla's internal org - so I have just had a look at Mozilla Corp's leadership page[1]: there is an SVP for Firefox, and an SVP for "Connected Devices" - who authored the linked article. There are no other SVPs: which suggests MozCorp consider connected devices to be as important as Firefox . It looks like Thunderbird is orphaned and has no champion within Mozilla (I don't think the Firefox division wants it).

So it looks like it boils down to org structure & politics (for the lack of a better word): Thunderbird is dying because it's an unwanted step-child, and FirefoxOS is revived because it's the biggest thing going on for an entire division/department ("Connected Devices")

1. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership/
You can pay your property taxes with a credit card?
There are some interesting oddnesses here:

Vatican can't really "experience huge spatial growth" from this experiment. It is surrounded by Rome. Traffic from any origin point will reach Rome before it reaches The Holy See. I understand that this has probably happened because the calculation is to a specific "centre of the city" point, which means that any traffic entering Rome from the Westish will hit Vatican first.

Looking at the interactive map is fun.

For some reason, it's faster to get to Paris from Hemel Hempstead that it is to get to London. And the opposite is true of Pont-l'Évêque. I originally wondered if this was calculated using active traffic data, and a couple of particularly bad traffic jams might have skewed the results.

But then I looked for others: Montreuil to Brussels is very odd, as is the strange case of travellers from the Faroe Islands driving through Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, before reaching their nearest capital in Brussels.

The oddest example of this is that travellers from half of Apulia find it quicker to drive straight past San Marino, Ljubljana and Zagreb, before reaching Sarajevo.
Great read, thanks.
If you watch old westerns, the doors on a saloon (the bar) swing outward from the center as someone walked through them.

The name was originally given to cars that have normal opening front doors and suicide rear doors which would have a similar appearance when you opened them. Eventually it started being applied to any 4 door regardless of how the doors opened.
Surely 'It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it' is a mark of any competent developer , After all you very often have to entertain competing theories about the inner workings of a program and pretty much everyone involved, users, maintainers, architects, managers, etc., will have a different theory. As a developer you will probably have to be able to discuss all of them without necessarily accepting any.

Unfortunately this does not necessarily require an educated mind.
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I reposted this submission because I got a mail from hn@ycombinator.com suggesting doing so, it even provided a link for doing the repost.

Reason for that was stated as: "This is part of an experiment in giving good HN submissions multiple
chances at the front page"
You can host a server yourself or use a version hosted by the company. If you are not concerned with privacy issues, it works like a traditional mail client.
So, choose a different approach because it's an expensive, white neighborhood?