skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s assume a government asks Facebook about private information. In the US, it can do so via with secret courts, so the people being surveilled cannot know about and oppose it. In that case, Facebook is the only one who could do something about it: they can do so by arguing that revealing that information would put them in legal trouble. How that works, I have no idea: the court is secret, so is the idiosyncrasies of its appeal process.

The possibility that Facebook could be attacked makes the lawyers unhappy: their job includes minimising risks, and this is a big one given the PR around it. The ability to oppose abusive requests makes the (very many) privacy-concerned employees happy: they really don’t like spending their career helping ideas they strongly oppose. That’s why you can have contradictory statements.

The real issue here is the existence of secret courts, and administrative processes that exclude judges and the basic legal protection (guaranteed by the Fourth amendment in the US). Facebook can’t really oppose that without exposing itself to spin around being pro-terrorists (which is mind-boggling when you think about how loudly the same people talk about “Freedom”). Allowing an appeal and maintaining needed discretion in certain matters is a delicate problem, but hardly a new one in law.

It sounds to me (not a legal expert) that what would be preferable is to have a Public defender for privacy, fluent in legal and technical matter, who be made privy to secret decision, and not allowed to contact the people being targeted before they know about the surveillance. The ACLU sounds like they could recommend good candidates. A judge should be able to do that, and Congress at a higher level — but whomever was in charge lately has dropped the ball quite dramatically, being both lied to and far too lenient in what they knew.
create trigger tgr_whatever
INSTEAD OF {update,insert,delete} on some_complex_view
[for each row]
<code goes here>

Sometimes, if you run a DML statement on a view, the database can figure out how to translate that into DML on the underlying tables.

Sometimes it can't. In this case the view is not updateable, unless you define appropriate "instead of" triggers on it. Some databases allow you do define these as statement-level triggers, that is without the "for each row" part. In that case the trigger will be passed all of the affected rows at once.
HOWTO: write bad documentation that looks good (2003)
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The biggest problem with micromanagement is that you're making it about you rather than whatever your goal is. It's not so much that you're making your team miserable (though you may be), but that you're making their goal keeping you happy rather than achieving whatever objective you have. Those two things might be closely aligned, and then the result might be ok, but if they aren't, things are going to go bad. Effectively you're making your team be as good as you are rather than as good as they could be.
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I would find this article hilarious if I weren't horrified that people may take it seriously.

In the 50s, people could identify Buckminster Fuller, Saul Bellow, or Jackson Pollock. Many educated people now could identify Frank Gehry, Toni Morrison, or Jeff Koons. But having a cadre of public artists who "shape in meaningful ways our image of ourselves or define our collective values" is a very narrow way framing the issue and has not been the trajectory of art for decades, if ever.

Look at that reception to Marina Abramović's The Artist is Present. People stood in line for hours. I saw a segment about it on CBS Sunday Friggin' Morning. The public is engaged with art, it's just not the art that the writer wants them to be engaged with.
Probably not as many with the same IP.
Can we make another one?
If I can use PC ecosystem as an analog, in grand scheme of things this will offer no price reduction to end consumer.

Me and my son just upgraded his PC. It was a 4 yr old PC. We wanted new graphics card and we had to replace entire PC except power supply (barely!) and the case.

Even more fun, we wanted to build a PC from the leftover parts for friend of my son who is less fortunate. OK not top of the shelf, but he can play some games. We ended up spending $150 for new power supply, overpriced memory (DDR2), thermal grease, new fan (plastic leg broke off the original) and set of screws (where are they when you need them?).

In the end, upgrade = new PC, setting up the old one was still super expensive ($150).

Another factor is: these phones get a beating in daily use. While it may still make sense (technically) to keep some components during upgrade, they will be in bad bad shape.

It may make sense in context of repairs. Just like a car: I will fix it buying parts as needed, but after N years and M miles I will replace it.
> By very definition most people go to universities or institutions that "don't matter" in your eyes.

Most of the so called "universities" are nothing but a cargo cult education. They're only damaging their students. This insanity must stop.

> You can't rule out the majority of the population in a discussion about the nature of higher education just because it doesn't fit your narrative about what college should be.

I can. If the majority is a counterfeit product it can be simply ignored. Only the genuine education matters.

> trying hard because they are deeply passionate about learning is absolutely ridiculous

They're 20 years old. Of course only a minority is passionate about learning. But at least there is a majority who consciously understand the reason they're doing it (and no, the reason is not a degree).

> but in the US employers want to see proof

I thought we're not discussing Mordor in this thread. Mordor experience is irrelevant.

> Putting someone through a 4 year arbitrary filter is a ridiculous practice which should stop

Invent a better filter then.

> Making someone rack up 80-120K in additional student debt

Once again, we're not discussing Mordor here.
> charged with crimes for "private" communication

TPP/TISA will create new "crimes" to be discovered. Would CISA cause data breaches to supplement legal fishing expeditions? That could incentivize rather than deter the market for mercenary data breaches.
It is surprising to say the least to see a new app, especially one focusing on actions like swipe to dismiss choose to use ListView instead of RecyclerView.
Has anyone made a VM specifically for this? I would think you could randomly clock up and down the VM speed to get around the profiling fingerprinting.
What makes you think this is a democracy?
The implementation repository is linked further down the page: https://github.com/anishathalye/neural-style
The cost breakdown is astonishing. Close to 40 EUR or 10% of the average net sales price goes away for IP roalties.

http://fairphone.com/costbreakdown/

I would love to see which IP holders receive what portion for their IP.
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Specs look good, and the value proposition is interesting, as many articles state, it's about time a manufacturer did something different.

My wishlist for this kind of phones:

- OS support and updates beyond the standard 1 or 2 years (TBD, but I think they're aiming for a 3 year lifecycle)

- upgradable RAM, check :)

- upgradable internal memory, check :)

- replaceable battery, check :)

- glass fixable separately, nope (they do say it's much more sturdy than standard phones though)

- alternative OSs, check :)

things that don't influence my buying decision that much

- fairly traded materials (their original value proposition, which DID appeal a lot to the early backers :) )

Their success depends on appeal beyond their initial core backers, and whether someone comes up with cool or killer app modules :) (they mention some like solar cells, etc.)
Since they're enjoying Star Wars while legislating, maybe Padme's quote is apropos: "So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause."
I am looking forward for the similar idea for cars to be realised.
Do you have the right to read it?
Looks like about the same price as a Nexus 5X in Australia, excluding shipping.

Wouldn't it be more environmentally friendly to keep my current phone or to buy a second hand one?
Employees who are micromanaged lose confidence in their decision making abilities. At every decision they question themselves making it hard and even stressful to make decisions.

The way I correct employees work, this would be in a professional kitchen, is by cooking a dish they way I think it should be done and have the employee cook the dish how he thinks it should be done. Then I ask the employee which dish he thinks is best, or which technique has the best result either in quality or is quicker. They decide. It's their decision how to run their work station. Most of the time they choose my way. However, sometimes they don't. I have to respect that for two reason. First, I'm not always correct even if I think I am. Second, they have to be the one's making the decisions and they have to believe in themselves.
> better odds and worse odds

That's exactly why I said that it worth assessing your abilities first before going there.

> but they are paying for an honest effort

And they're getting it. Slacking the marking because they're now paying more is not an "honest effort", not even close. Honest effort is keeping the bar high enough and pushing them harder and harder.

> Wow! I didn't know I did that!

You (supposedly) did enough of this crap to get your degree. Which is, again, not even close to a point of going to a university.
IPFS?

https://ipfs.io/
The idea of blocking out a full day [or two?] to watch conference videos is interesting. It's something I would struggle to give myself permission to do.
> The core problem is it lets major industry players like MS / Google / Apple give the fed access to all the personal info they record without investigators needing a warrant and with no liability on the companies part (ie, you cannot sue them for state disclosure of your personal info that then resulted in harm against you).

As far as I know, they can already do that. And a lot of tech companies did.

What CISA does is explicitly formalize a voluntary arrangement for sharing 'cybersecurity indicators' and 'defensive measures' among government agencies and private companies.

There are, actually, explicit provisions for removing personal information and making sure that any indicators that do contain personal information anyway are deleted in a timely manner.

It's hard to gauge the accuracy of those links, because both of those are from 2014 and the bill has changed since then.

I think the strongest argument against the law is the potential for abuse, not anything actually in the law. Actually if you removed provisions 3, 4, and 5 on page 1766 I think it'd be a good idea, other than the fact it creates a system that potentially government agencies and corporations could abuse (in violation of the law, but who is going to call them on it?)
He should be fired for incompetence, as should every person in the chain of command between him and the highest-level person who is fired for actually committing fraud.
Teachers time is a part of this infrastructure. They're paying for it, they're getting their share. How to use that time is 100% their responsibility.
I use ArcGIS model builder sometimes which is a block and arrow model. It seems to encourage people to think in a more functional, and less procedural manner. With procedural code it is easy for inexperienced people to get bogged down in endless if statements and managing state. This is a bad idea when the underlying operations you want to perform are more like maths operations and better used directly.
From what I've read "upgradable RAM" is really more like "upgradable RAM if somebody designs, builds, and gets through certification a module with an upgraded SoC" which really isn't the same thing...
I'm fairly sure the bootloader fuse will still be blown on this as it's a retail Qualcomm board - no bootloader upgrades for you.
Not sure why you single out the UK - fbi recently gave an anti-e2e speech.
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It also says that non-related personal information will be removed from the shared data, and (surprise!) that if someone's personal data were accidentally (I presume) shared then the feds must notify that person of the breach. That's actually a positive in this bill.
25th Anniversary of Gene Spafford's “Practical Unix Security”
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr2029/text/eah#l...
Detect and disconnect WiFi cameras
This phone is too expensive for me right now but this is utterly excellent: http://shop.fairphone.com/catalog/category/view/id/10
Well this doesn't matter much.

You can download your torrents from other sites.

But an interesting new development has occured where I live (and what I hear in other europena countries as well).

Lawyers get the rights holders permissions to enforce their copyrights, and then they connect to the torrent swarms and start collecting IP addressess.

Then they get a court order for the ISP's to release the IP owner's personal information.

Then they send a shakedown letter, were they threaten to sue you if you don't pay up 600 euros or some such sum.

It's "nice" to know that it is that easy to get ISP's to hand over customer information.

So, always use protection (VPN) when torrenting, kids! :)
Still, what is the benefit of driving a company into bankruptcy while the actual responsible have left with a golden parachute? The only thing that works is to go after all responsible managers. The Sabanes-Oxley act was a start, perhaps it needs to be extended. And I do like the idea of rather forcing the company to invest in making up for their wrongdoing than plain fines which vanish in some budget.
I'm in India and I purchased a ~50$ 350W power supply (Corsair is the brand) for my computer. (my total PC price is 150$ and it can play older 3D games at medium settings)
It would seem simpler to make the fine come directly as a percentage (or entirety) of the shares in the company from the shareholders. Why disrupt operations more than is needed to effect change, or end the jobs of innocent low level employees to make a point.

It seems counterproductive to buy into the fiction that corporations are "persons" at which we should be angry, or who would fear our retribution. It's the avarice and/or willful ignorance of owners that needs to change.
I think they copied this video?
4 ways you've been click baited!? It was published a month ago

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/665808
I'm not sure what you are trying to communicate.

Trust is something delicate which works best by using face to face communication.

So it's ok not to trust everything you read.

But this story is about private communication not being as private as thought.
To a great extent it exists because of cultural inertia. The English language has a huge number of inconsistencies as well, especially in spelling; far more inconsistent than, say, Spanish, which is highly phoenetically-consistent. But nobody is editing the English language because their edited version of the langauge wouldn't fly in a formal setting. So even if English or Chinese could be made better, it's not going to happen in a heartbeat. Python2 to Python3 is enough of a pain to deal with maintainence, let alone re-learning a human language.

There are some advantages to Chinese typography over a phoenetic system. Phoenetically written languages like English go from symbols to sounds to meaning. Chinese goes directly from symbols to meaning. Eschewing the sound stage means that as sounds evolve over time, the symbols, whose meanings change on a much slower time scale, are still comprehensible for a long period of time. This means, among other things, that Chinese formal writing is mostly common to all dialects, whereas a pronounciation-based system could only serve a single dialect. For example, in Hong Kong, where Cantonese is the de facto spoken dialect of choice, I, as a Mandarin-only speaker, can still understand all the signage even though I cannot interact with a Cantonese-only speaker. 1000+ year-old texts are reasonably accessible to well-educated high school students.
Assuming those are all the parts one needs to construct a full phone, you save around 50% of the list of the assembled unit by building it yourself.
The whole point of common lisp, the reason it has survived since the beginning of time, is that the language was designed so that language innovation happened by people developing libraries for it. Complaining that common lisp hasn't evolved is like complaining that free-software posix systems haven't evolved. True, the posix standard hasn't evolved much, but its not meant to, it's meant to be evolved by the userspace programs and libraries that people write.

Yes, this approach is not the best approach to getting mass adoption, and there are benefits to mass adoption — people can help you, there's a bigger pool of people to hire, etc (I think its much more important to companies than individuals). But mass adoption isn't always the goal. I suppose you can consider Ruby analogous to Ubuntu while common lisp is like a *bsd distribution (or arch, gentoo, slack...). Ubuntu is great, all Ubuntu installations start from the same starting point, and the potential for customization is limited (try changing Ubuntu's init system), so you can just ask a question on stack overflow and get an answer with instructions specific to how your system works. And companies are more likely to pick Ubuntu than gentoo, because its better supported and supposedly more stable. That doesn't mean that people consider the distributions where the user can pick and choose exactly what their system does (like a common lisp programmer does by picking out libraries of macros) to be any worse of a distribution. Quite the contrary, the mythos seems to consider these distributions better in some way, like they're a better tool for a more skilled practitioner, a sentiment which has also found its place around common lisp.
Agreed. Clojure isn't overall a bad language, but it has annoying quirks in a lot of places, presumably because it needs to be compatible with Java. The ones that annoy me the most are (0) `nil` and `false` being different, and (1) wonky arithmetic that uses Java's numeric types under the hood, unless you explicitly ask it not to.
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That seems very low. I wonder if they classify some costs i would expect there into a different category.
More explanation: https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founder-builds-the-ultim...
> It "might" look intuitive at first[1], but the network just becomes unreadable as soon as you have more than 10 nodes or non-linear behavior

It works for DSLs in video-compositing apps , "learn to code apps" , yahoo pipes like apps or VST plugin coding apps ( and to a certain extend you could argue that working with DAWs is programming, I mean Logic has some kind of visual programming environment, so does Ableton Live)

It doesn't work for anything complex that would be normally be done via typing actual code.

I mean it has always been the case.IMHO Anyone that says he can invent something that can replace typing instructions in a text editor[1] and give a better experience to a professional programmer that way is lying.

But VISUAL PROGRAMMING is great for learning how to code, I learned coding, OOP and all that stuff in Flash 15 years ago, dragging and dropping some stuff and seeing the result visually in a matter of micro seconds was enjoyable, felt rewarding and motivated me to explore programming further. It was a shoehorn into the world of programming.

1: It doesn't mean one cannot improve text editors and IDEs, I think there is a whole LOT of room for improvement in order to make typing programs painless, and I'd like to see more research and experimentation done in that specific area, because it feels to me we're still stuck into BORLAND era when it comes to IDEs and nothing has evolved since that time.
Ceylon on Java 9 and Jigsaw
Yes, if Raymond Chen had been named in the feedback it would have looked more like a serious threat.
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Social and political commentary by its nature, will alienate a large portion of its consumers. The strange morphing of the definition of Art into only High Art, I think leads to the opinion of the author, and the disproportionate amount of High Art that is exclusively commentary leads to an obvious disengagement by big chunks of the population.

Through out history the majority of artist have been craftsman that create for the sake a client, state, or church. Sometime in the last couple centuries working artist have become taboo, and that meaningful creation for a purpose other than that of the "pure" artistic value has been pushed out of High Art.

The fact that art the Author classifies as art, is not modern media form(TV, CINEMA, DIGITAL) seems to ensure that the prophesy should be self fulfilling.

I do not know of any contemporary ceiling painters.
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> it never had any deep emotional or cultural impact to those who saw it in the first place.

How could you possibly know what had a deep emotional impact on anyone other than yourself or possibly the people you interact with most closely in life?

Here's an alternate proposal for you: You've grown as a person, and all the deep emotional impacts that music might be able to make on you have been made. To those still growing, you aren't able to assess the impact, because you now view the world through the eyes of an adult.

Give it 30 years, and watch as all these things come back again into pop-culture because those kids from today will be in your shoes, as decision makers at TV/Internet/Whatever companies that push pop-culture -- being guided by their own sense of nostalgia about the things that impacted them as kids.
Actually we (in the U.S.) do, if the charges are serious enough or if the suspect is a flight risk. It varies by jurisdiction, but in general misdemeanor charges have pre-set bonds, and usually felony warrants will have a bond set by the judge at the time the warrant is issued, though for serious charges the warrant may be issued with no bond set.
So far postgres' statement level triggers do not have access to changed rows so far, be it an INSTEAD OF or any other kind of trigger. There has been some noise towards supporting it for AFTER triggers - I doubt we'll see BEFORE support, it's unclear to me what that'd even mean.
Maybe you need more people to handle the surge? There are hard physical limits on how much attention a person can pay.
I love the value prop.

For the OS support, they cannot commit fully as they work with partners.

For the Fairphone 1 (released end 2013) they were able to secure licenses to get the source code and are working hard on making it live for as long as they can even if that means replacing Android:
https://www.fairphone.com/2015/09/16/long-term-software-supp...

It's worth noting that they released the "Stagefright" fix very quickly.
Except a $10 spare smartphone can be turned into a wifi camera very easily.

So it only works if they are using one of those two off the shelf cameras.