skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Snowden showed that it is as easy as pressing a button which is why he went and blurted it out. The NSA were also working to make it easier to track people.

My take on it is privacy is dead or nearly and we have to have good legal protections of who can use what data and when. The privacy arms race will mostly be won by big government with lots of resources and enough willing/foolish patriots (Depending on your point of view).
Curious on battery life since the battery (45 Wh) is smaller than other comparable laptops. Wish there was a 16GB RAM option.

Price is $999 for lowest configuration (QHD + 128GB) going up $200 for each upgrade (256GB, then screen, then 512GB), so it seems reasonable for the cheaper models I think. No tax in some states unlike most other laptop companies/Microsoft Store.

Here's a quick list of specs from Razer's sites:

- 12.5-inch IGZO QuadHD (2,560 x 1,440 / 70% Adobe RBG) or UHD (3840 x 2160 / 100% Adobe RBG) resolution touchscreen

- Intel HD Graphics 520

- Intel Core i7-6500U

- 8GB of RAM

- 128GB/256GB PCIe M.2 (QuadHD display model)

- 256GB/512GB PCIe M.2 (Ultra HD display model)

- Chroma-lit keyboard (Individual RGB per key according to theverge article)

- 0.52-inches thick

- 2.75 pounds

- Two USB 3.0 ports

- USB-C Thunderbolt 3 port

- One combo headphone/microphone port (like the single port ones in Macbooks)
I think that the internet, by its own nature, self-segregates people. I might not have data to back this up, but it is apparent that people go online to ratify their own views, rather than to listen to others.

I have also left reddit, mostly because the discussion around any controversial topic is toxic. Toxic. At least here you get the occasional moderates who are willing to actually have a discussion, where they try to check their assumptions and the logical leaps that they make to justify a point.

But to answer your question, I simply say that perhaps HN is the best place to have this type of discussions. Simply because politics, important societal issues, etc permeate our lives, including the technology that we use. In that sense, a good way to ponder about these issues is not to face them directly, but to deal with them as they arise within the confines of our daily lives.

By the way, I have made plenty of weird assumptions and assertions in this post, and so have you, and the weird thing is that instead of focusing on those issues, it is likely that I would feel personally attacked if I were shown to be wrong. That is part of being human, but it is also ultimately why talking about any issue is hard:

critical thinking is hard, and uncomfortable, and a concept that everyone talks about but that nobody is really willing to utilize.
Herbalife would beg to differ with your claims.
That's it. I'm done with Linode. I will be keeping one server on Linode, but my new startup where I need several load balancers, Web servers, DB replication will be hosted elsewhere.

Do you guys know any good providers? Not AWS.
For some companies such as those in manufacturing, enhanced oversight and better spend control are necessary card program requirements. I agree that business credit would add significant value. Thanks for the suggestion.
Getting Japan to accept them might run into some internal political issues; there's historically been some opposition to nuclear weapons in Japan. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Non-Nuclear_Principles for example.

That said, if Japan decided it _wanted_ nuclear weapons, it can almost certainly produce them itself very quickly (order of 6-12 months according to most estimates I've seen). They have the raw fissile material due to their longstanding nuclear power plant program, and the general knowhow and infrastructure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nuclear_weapon_progra... has some more data.
>Granting your premises then the goal of LW/EY should not be AI but the scientific, rational proof and definition of ethics but their fundamental philosophic premises won't allow it.

That is the goal of MIRI, the organization that EY founded, and is a frequent topic of discussion on LW
99% of this is not people creating "better" (whatever that is) art. It is, if my experience with photography is any guide, people churning out the same crap everyone else does, while affecting a position of being somehow superior because they "aren't obsessed with the latest gear" - while being, in fact, vastly more obsessed with what equipment to use.
2016 predictions
It will be a while still before you can actually party. As long as a measurable percentage of your users are still on these browsers, you're missing out on money of you don't support them.
ethics and morals aside, there are some laws that prohibit fictional depictions of CP combine that with the ambiguity of ages of characters in fiction and you could have something like this http://cbldf.org/2011/06/cbldf-forms-coalition-to-defend-ame...
A bit undermined by speculation like "we should expect Oracle to..." and "despite Oracle's expected nastiness" being so central to the analysis.

If we're talking speculation, then I'm guessing the next piece of news might be an announcement that Google is buying Java and Oracle's Java team. The line of thinking goes...

- Despite currently looking like losing a lawsuit, Google has just cosied closer to Oracle's version of Java. (Something's afoot...)

- Despite currently looking like winning a lawsuit, and Java 8 being very well received, Oracle's rumoured to have just let its Java evangelists go, and to be less interested in Java than it used to be. (They look willing to sell...)

- JavaOne was apparently a bit light on announcements (Could something other than just work on Java 9 be distracting them and making them put some plans on hold for a mo...)

- Having a litigious competitor own a key piece of Android is surely a pain point for Google that gets more painful as Android keeps storming ahead. Buying it would make that pain go away.

- Google's looking at possibly having to pay some money in the lawsuit, and will likely want to get something for it

- Oracle's looking at an uncertain return from the lawsuit, hasn't extracted that much revenue from Java itself, and might just be happy to take some cash for someone else to be custodian of it from here on
So I haven't used Magic in a while. I'll probably start using it again now.

Last time, I used it as follows:

1) Lunch for my cofounder and I at demo day since we had dietary restrictions. Worked perfectly.

2) went drinking with everyone after demo day, and we drove. Didn't plan out who was DD. Magic sent us a driver to drive us home in our car. Was one of the Magic founders' sister.

3) Had flowers sent to my wife, just to let her know I was thinking of her while I was away. Said they were the best flowers she had ever got, and got lots of compliments from family and friends.

Yesterday, I was just thinking about using Magic to get a bunch of things done, housekeeping wise within the company. Really timely to see this. I'll be using them for everything from fixing my glasses, to cleaning up my books, and more. I'm hoping to have them take care of the mundane things so I can focus on more important tasks like coding and such.
Not a word about Hitchens? He had been writing about this for over 20 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missionary_Position
Never believe in Photos!
Photos gives no truths nowadays. We knew the photos of food are fake a long time ago. Now, even the human portraits are fake. There are too many PS apps developed in Asia to make people look more beautiful.
I have heard of people genuinely saying such a thing. Fortunately, it is nothing but an empty redefinition of the word "probability". In fact, rational degrees of belief in hypotheses do follow the kolmogorov axioms (as shown by eg. Cox's theorem or the VNM theorem), and bayes theorem does therefore apply. Whether or not someone refuses to call that "probability" makes no difference.
Pity it looks like shit if you don't live on the first-run circut, but I guess us peasants who don't happen to live in NY and LA only deserve scratched-up seconds.
Microservices will tranform development
> What to Submit

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Limiting privacy to stuff that's "not Evil" is unworkable, because there's no reliable way to distinguish "good" from "evil". For example, many Wahhabi Muslims consider homosexuality to be at least as evil as child pornography. And indeed, some decades ago, that was virtually the case in the US.
How to hire a product manager
The myth of nuclear deterrence is an interesting concept http://setbpbx.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weap...
I have no idea how confident I should be in Edge's security. Microsoft just doesn't have a great history there.
This is the logical extreme. It may seem far fetched today, but it doesn't have to get nearly this bad to cause great harm.
Bombs also do not have any for/aftershocks. Not all quakes do, but it is a tell.
This is really interesting, and it reminds me of the Cangjie input method for Chinese characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangjie_input_method.

It was designed to run within the disk+memory limitations of an Apple II where they couldn't store a full character dictionary. Instead, it broke the characters up into a few fundamental shapes and composition rules, and generated the graphics on-the-fly. The encoding of a character was the set of keystrokes that signified how to compose it, which meant you could "invent" new characters by just typing random strings.
Go look through how often CF has zero days compared to competing platforms.
Ask HN: What is now?
In 1999 there were dotcoms.

In 2009 there were iPhone apps.

In 2013 there was Bitcoin.

What is hot or becoming hot today in your opinion?
> Fujifilm did end up doing OK by, among other things, applying their film making expertise to other industries like medical.

Another thing they did was carve out a very nice niche for themselves with their X-mount cameras. They've done quite well in part because the in-camera processing engine does a good job of emulating a lot of the old Fuji film stocks (as well as making very nice cameras that offer something different to the canokin mill).
As I understand itg North Korea is there because China doesn't want to have to deal with what will happen when North Korea collapses.
A year at my job
I'd install http://wiki.debian.org/iptables
Product Development 2016
#2 doesn't happen with US democracy now at any level. It also inherently contradicts #1.
Clickbait - someone is selling a book.
and credibility has no place in a rational debate, but the courts rely on it heavily.
Self-driving cars
Bullshit. I'm not "rich", but I'm a single guy making an great salary and my purchasing power is probably in the 95% of the the US. I don't even really think twice about purchases of anything that costs less than 3 digits if I have any desire for it. But $300 dollars for a meal as a gift to a friend? And not even that great of a meal? The fuck? That is absurd. I wouldn't even be above buying someone an xbox if I felt like it, but a $100/hr "convenience" charge is stupid money.
The last time I used Hotmail was the 90s, but I still know people who use it. But an issue like this goes far beyond email. If a company is prepared to so thoroughly sell out their customers, that's a problem. They'll probably get away with it though. In the balance of loss of revenue due to damage to their reputation with their customers versus loss of revenue due to Chinese government sanctions, the appalling truth is they probably made the right decision.
It's just not something you really ever hear about anyone doing here, and even when it is required, it's pretty far down the list of things to do. Pretty much the only time you hear about someone killing someone in self defense is a cop killing a knife-weilding person every now and then...

Whereas in the US every now and then you hear about people firing at what they think is an intruder, but it turns out to be a family member and stuff like that. It's just really strange to me that shooting would be the first thing you would do, but from the news we hear, it seems that's what a non-insignificant number of people in the US do.
Do not underestimate the power of paper. Because with the right amount of legal framework (on paper) I can evict people from their houses, sell these of for a nice profit and not have to care for the fate of said people.

I could rob whole countries of their future (say Greece) with paper treaties.

I can rob people of most of their democratic power (see lots of tries at treaties like TTIP or some things like this).

All on paper and in my eyes tending to the evil side.

The problem with evil though is, that it isn't an objective term, it is not empirically measurable and it has so many definitions and perspectives, that it has none.

Evil is a weasle-word, is propaganda, nothing more. So we really need a better word, a better definition. And breaking the law or something like that does not work either, as for example the laws in Germany, the US or Saudi Arabia or China tend to differ massively. They are ideologically tainted and do not provide an objective framework/reference either.

So we should work on a actionable and helpful definition first and not go partisan on the medium to be controlled.
I'd begin with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
> the tracks each pass through their own DAC connected to this old-school analogue summing mixer, and then are re-recorded on the other side. It seems totally foreign to me

There was, at one point, good reason for doing this. Digital summing is really easy to get very wrong. ProTools used to introduce some really nasty artifacts back in the 16-bit days if you had non-linear effects.

24-bit chains have made a lot of this moot. And using 32-bit float as intermediate calculation steps makes even more of it moot. And, increased computer power ... etc.

Then there is the always present "Magic Box X adds tonal coloring that I like." You can't actually argue against this very well unless the box really doesn't do anything at all.
We changed the title to something more neutral. If anybody suggests a better title, we can change it again.
It's not a cold case like in Serial, it's an expose of an allegedly fraudulent prosecution.

The documentary makes a new case that the criminal convictions are maliciously incorrect and relied on misconduct by police and prosecutors.
A bunch of people on HN were asking where to learn the conventions of x86 ASM - this actually is a pretty good place to start. He picked the 8 important registers, the 3 forms of addressing, demonstrated hi/lo (ah/al) -> ax -> eax -> rax evolution, and kept with the acc, count, data, GP conventions for eax,ecx,edx,ebx which is often overlooked (you can tell which era of x86 asm I grew up in ;)).

I'm scared this has the potential to be information overload for people who aren't familiar with an assembly language and Haskell, but for me I thought this was a terribly neat (both in the "interesting" as well as "structurally well done") article. As usual, fantastic work by Steven. Up there with Bartosz and Yang in quality of write-ups.
Apple Scales Back Orders for Its iPhones
Let us imagine that someone out there doesn't like the fact that you don't care about privacy and thinks that you should. In a world without privacy where everything is under surveillance that someone can simply recreate reality so that you are now a criminal. Hell, they might just smear you on twitter as a racist rapist and post a bunch of fake data. It won't matter what the truth is any more. Allowing the state to trample all over privacy will only make such activity easier and more prevalent. Worse it can create the illusion of 'authoritative' truth which is even easier to manipulate.
North Korean Nukes from the Product Engineering Perspective
An internal logistics dashboard and automation pipeline is absolutely technology, and it's absolutely a competitive advantage.
Thank you. Your post has indeed cleared up most of the confusion I had on this issue.
I'm trying to figure out why I (too) am having a strong negative reaction to this. Let me think out loud:

I'm fortunate enough to have a real personal assistant. She's amazing, she knows me, she does fantastic work, and I pay her a fair and reasonable wage (including health care) that's far less than $100/hour. So let's put me in the category of "people who can afford a personal assistant" but not quite in the category of "people who demand to meet Tina Fey & Amy Poehler on demand."

I would NEVER in a million years consider replacing my assistant with a faceless nameless AI-assisted service. I have a number of friends who are also fortunate enough to have assistants. They would NEVER consider replacing their assistants with a faceless nameless AI-assisted service (at least one friend has an assistant that's been with him for years and is basically part of the family).

And with the examples they give, Magic+ is painting a picture of both a service and user that's highly specific -- wealthy enough to afford these luxuries, but not willing to make the investment of hiring a real person to build a real relationship with to perform these tasks.

So the whole thing feels....dismissive. I guess that's the best word I can come up with. Dismissive of money ("Entertain me with Tina Fey - I will pay for her presence."), dismissive of human contact ("I don't want a real assistant - I just want to text a service to do my bidding.") Dismissive of warmth. It's sort of what I imagine a caricature of a dystopian tech billionaire would want -- all of the somethings with none of the someones.

I dunno. It just feels ... off. Sorry I can't come up with something better. But as the target demographic (I think?), I'm feeling like the pitch is very off-target and off-putting.
Oh, TIL. I had no idea the WinNT source leak was nearly complete.

I vaguely recall hearing something about getting the Win2K kernel to build, but I don't remember exactly what I read (I think it was on BetaArchive).

Then there's the Mac OS 7.x leak, which is also curious.

I need to dig my old archives up and poke at this stuff... heh
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10822268
On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
> Go look at great pixel art from the 80's and 90's era on an analog CRT.

> Overall, modern displays do more and are better in every way. But, I find watching SD media is best on analog SD media.

Well, this is because the pixel art was specifically designed (sometimes intentionally--sometimes just because that's what the artist used to make it) to the limitations of the CRT's is was going to be used on. Consequently, it looks worse when viewed on something that doesn't have the particular blurring, filtering, circularizing characteristics for which it was designed.
Benefits of Hiring a Certified Security Tester for Your Security Testing Needs
> I don't care if Google or the government knows that I'm searching "[insert embarassing keywords for you here]" ...

If you were living in western China, you might care, because you might end up an involuntary organ donor. Or if you were searching for gay porn in Saudi Arabia.
I have heard this explained as stuff that needs to be done yesterday almost always also has the property of cannot be disrupted for any reason (which is why it was so urgent to begin with). So your quick hack that stops the world from exploding cant afford to be meddled with, lest it causes the world to explode in the process....

Its similar to the worse is better philosophy, low quality wins because it can be churned out quickly, it stays in place because the value proposition of replacing it is unclear or insufficient.

When it comes to critical things, its very important that changing things has a definite, demonstrable purpose in regards to its outward effects, not just itch scratching. Aesthetic concerns matter little because the potential for disruptive effects is a near certainty while the upside is much more nebulous typically (the devil you know etc)
Totally agree with your first point, I just didn't want to have too many caveats and nitpicking words. If it's not clear, then of course my arugment in no way implies that human intelligence was "created" by an intelligence - it evolved. Poor wording aside, my statement remains the same.

"This is hugely debatable. Why is AGI inevitable? Even given great amounts of computing resources, a artificial general intelligence does not just automatically appear [...]"

Well no one thinks AGI will appear without anyone working on it, but lots and lots of people are working on it now. And since there are huge incentives to create one, the belief is that more people will work on it as time goes on.

"[...] there really isn't any evidence that I know of that a general intelligence is any closer than it was 20 years ago."

Well, in some sense I agree, in that we still have no idea how far off AGI is. If it's going to happen in 10 years, we should definitely prepare now. If it's 500 years away, maybe it's too early to think about it. But since neither of us knows, wouldn't you say it's worth putting some effort to working towards safety?

In another sense though, I disagree with you that we're not any closer to AGI. As you said jsut the sentence before, fields like comptuer vision have advanced tremendously. While this doesn't necessarily mean AGI is closer, it certainly seems that the fields are related, so advancement in one is a sign that advancement in the other is closer.
That's the right bottom part of the Bayes' rule?
The issue with the 'nothing to hide' argument is that it puts the burden of proof and determination of whether something is 'hide-worthy' on the target of the inquiry.

If you subscribe to the 'presumed innocent' premise of the law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence) then the burden of proof is on the inquisitor.

Either you believe in presumed innocence or you don't. Pick one.
I also feel, that some form of privacy is also needed to develop new ideas. To mull them, to test them out, before everybody with their own interpretations get's a say. How will we as a society develop further, if everybody will be more or less homogenized by means of ubiquitous surveillance and self censorship (or punishment for transgressions)?

We need save (and private) spaces. At least in my view of the world, where I am on your side, not believing all people will turn into saints. Not even most of people.

So killing privacy and upping surveillance of everybody, we as society will shoot ourselves in the foot and killing new ideas before they are even thought i fear.
I don't think that if all you have is 'allegedly' it is up to you to make such accusations here in public.
Credibility has direct relevance to testimony, amongst other things.

I know this may shock you, but there's a world beyond high school debating.
Some of the books are textbooks that take a few months to get through (about 1 month of full-time effort when non-employed, if you consider that you'll read about 4 textbooks in a semester of school), and many are rather casual reads (biography, history, and pop science)
Giant Submarines with Huge Guns
2 points from the defense that had a "checkmate" feel to them when first presented in the show, but were then never brought up again. Anyone have a pointer to details/followup/refutation on these? (Spoiler alert, obviously)

- Colburn calling in the plates/make/model/year for the victim's car 2 days before it was found

- Victim's voice mail was checked at 8am the day after she was supposedly killed
This seems to defeat the GPL entirely, since it doesn't matter that you have a license to modify the source code if doing so means you are violating copyright on the APIs.

Indeed.

IANAL, but that is one (of many) problems with this legal outcome.

Although it's possible that the explicit permission to change the code in the GPL would be interpreted as a license the the API as well.