skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't make it clear at all. There's nothing objectively wrong or evil about suffering, however most of us personally don't like it or however much some of us might empathize with the victims. You're simply restating your position based on your personal value preferences (such as 'suffering is evil') which are by no means universal and certainly not binding moral edicts.

The only reason you and I wouldn't accept that argument about kicking a dog is because that goes against strong social norms our culture has about abusing pets. That doesn't make our beliefs moral truths, or our arguments sound.

What you're advocating is that we change those norms to proscribe the eating of animals based on your value-preferences - you're advocating a change of our tastes, in both senses of the word. And you are not going to sway many people to make a fundamentally emotional decision with 'logical' or 'moral' reasoning, particularly when for many people the eating of meat (or even the killing of animals) is not only something they like but part of their cultural identity. Even so, people like me are still going to be steadfast in their opposition to your attempted revolution of social norms based simply on their value-preferences and because, frankly, I find the presumption of moral superiority repugnant, especially in an age where we should all know better.
http://twister.net.co/

A more mature similar open source implementation of the same idea.
If anyone has an opportunity to visit the Verdun area, please do. It's surreal. The landscape is still scarred by the war. It feels like you're on the moon. Craters, pieces of metal still sticking out of the ground, bunkers... undoubtedly wherever you are walking there are probably soldiers buried beneath you.
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My Galaxy S5 has been terrible since the 5.1 upgrade. I actually don't want any software updates. My phone used to be a fast nicely functioning phone and now it's a sluggish piece of trash that's unusable. Like just stick with the current phone software and give me security updates and that's it. I've tried factory resetting and uninstalling most apps (and a factory reset is a huge pain with 2-factor set up everywhere by the way). The 5.1.1 upgrade didn't help either.

I don't want updates. Leave my phone alone.
Still happy with my S3 and feel I'm not missing any key features. The more generations go on you realize just how incremental the phone upgrades have gotten for quite some time now.
Probably gone amiss in this whole thing. Apple technically could post this letter under the proposed legislation because they are not a "telecommunications provider" which is a specific term in UK law referring to those companies who provide telecoms services usually mobile operators, BT etc.

Apple is not a licensed telecoms provider as they would never of been able to provide iMessage in the UK as it lacks any ability for real-time intercept a requirement on telecoms providers.
I disagree. Four decades isn't that much, given it's totally achievable for one person to spend that much time in public office. Bernie Sanders has 35.
Hello! I'm one of the guys behind Luna. You might be right, that the first example on the website should not be connected to image processing, because it could make the reader biased. In fact any example could affect the reader in the same way. You can observe "branching" and some kind of "folds" in the second example on the website. There are no loops in Luna, because it's purelly functional language and everything can be done simply by recurrence or by using "fold" or "map" operations. As a side note - there is a startup using Luna as a core engine for image processing (flowbox.io) and a lot of movie studios around the world are testing it right now because it gives much greater power than Nuke's graphical representation. On the other hand there is a topic on sidefx forum (makers of Houdini) about incorporating Luna to Houdini to increase its power. Luna is above these domain specific use cases.

I think the most important thing here is that although VPL was introduced many years ago (like textual programming), Luna is the first language that allows switching between code and graphs on demand.
Looking for a great wireframe tool
Not a technical guy . looking for wireframe online tool that allow me to:
- create wireframe online
- communicate with technical folks effectively
- let me share it
Random teleportation aside, this is a cool idea :)
Germans have a word for everything. :)
To be clear I base my assumption on the fact that there's Standard ML work coming from Diku. So I should say "I believe they teach it at Diku".

DIKU Introduction to Programming organization on github has "ML Picture Library (for teaching purposes)" (https://github.com/DIKU-IP/InstagraML)

MoscowML credits some authors from Diku

http://studies.ku.dk/masters/it-and-cognition/profile-and-ca...

http://diku.dk/english/calendar2011/using_llvm_to_implement_...

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

I cannot find a link to an SML course taught there but you'd expect one.
To be fair, no cat video watching on the Newton though
Discussion from 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10809523 and https://github.com/soheil/wayback.co

All 3 were submitted by the author.
Statistically empathy lurks in the corners.Power sickness is the new age illness
This is what scholarpedia is for.
I am a troll at heart, but over the last few months i've become friends with the event organizers. As much as trolling would be fun, I feel it would be a betrayal of their trust.
A corporation is under a lot more societal pressure than individuals in regards to following norms and ethics. Most corporations (including Google) only exists because people choose to do business with them and they are happy with their product and price.

Google does plenty of charitable ventures that don't add any value for this reason and it makes sense.

A corporations bottom line is hurt when people have negative views of their company, product or practices. Individuals don't really have this amount of pressure. An individual can be immoral but legal and likely not lose their income. If people have a negative view of a corporation and choose not to purchase their product or use their service, the corporation suffers and therefore has an incentive to behave ethically.

The reason that Google and other companies can get away with these practices is that most people don't care enough to not use their product. They still find their value proposition attractive. The gains from the unethical behavior is less than the lost revenue from those that do care.

Personally, I am not concerned about their minimizing taxes as I believe that the government isn't a great steward of the taxes they collect and the extra revenue brought it would not have a positive effect.
Why I’m teaching prisoners to code
There are more people working on mobile, there's a lot more revenue, and a lot more opportunity for iteration. Mobile and the desktop converge:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2016/02/21/the-convergence-of-m...
If only that were the biggest problem. A far bigger one is big blockers wanting to expose Bitcoin to increased risk of catastrophic ruin at the protocol level to service the more expedient commercial concerns of a few big businesses that have bet their future on no/low tx fees.

Bitcoin is not a payment network, it is digital gold, and any attempt to make it competitive with Visa, Paypal, or Western Union puts the whole project at greater risk of failure. A $10 or similarly large fee to move gold around the world instantaneously is miniscule for the value conferred, especially when that digital gold can reliably serve as an alternative global reserve currently roughly as viable as the USD but with no central issuing authority. That kind of value is not cheap, easy, or free, and cannot be achieved while also compromising its design parameters in favor of expedient commercial concerns.
I few months ago I lost my 3 years old HTC One, so I had to get a new phone.

For the first time I decided to get an iPhone. So I got a 6s.

Worst mobile phone I've ever had.

The battery life is terrible. Now I understand why people have 'Power banks' with them all the time.

The phone also dies with 40% battery! I turn it on, it shows a splash screen meaning low battery, turns on, shows 40% battery, then dies after a moment again.Funny thing is that I try restarting it several times and at some point it starts working for hours (which means it actually does have 40% battery and its not a calibration issue).

The user interface (which it was supposed to shine at) is just bad. I can never find items I'm looking for.
I had to read an article to find out how I'm supposed to turn on the Hotspot feature (And it actually seemed like editing xorg file!)

Viber/Skype start ringing and I cannot respond immediately, as the ringing dialog doesnt even show up until I do to the application.

ios has only a few keyboard layouts and misses my language (Farsi) and I have to rely on third party keyboards to type and third party keyboards are so unstable. Sometimes the keyboard just doesnt show up until I close/open the application.

My GPRS just started working when I inserted the SIM card to my HTC phone. On ios? I had to configure it manually! Again, felt like Linux +10 years ago!

I know this is totally off-topic to this thread but I had to say this rant. iPhone is only a fashion item. Its nowhere as usable as Android.

If you want a phone that just works do yourself a favor and give a decent flagship Android phone a try. You'd be surprised.

(And I'm not a fanboy of Google/Android, I wish we had a FOSS OS with an open ecosystem, but Android just works, unlike ios)
I've tried both Oculus Rift and Google Cardboard. I'm wondering what your thoughts are here too.
Samsung and LG both introduce their annual flagship smartphone so early in the year. Doesn't it give Apple plenty of time to counter them spec wise if any? Just curious, if you're Apple competitor, what's the pros and cons of launching your flagship before and after Apple's launch?
You can do that with google cardboard!
Remote working requires VoIP, imo. I grew up collaborating with teams in online games like WoW and Dota, and I learned that constant communication is the only way to thrive when you can't see other humans face-to-face. It seems ridiculous to be in a voice chat room with your coworkers at first, but it's the best way to ensure everyone is on the same page and communicating. Written communication, be it email, irc, or slack, is not enough for effective remote teams.
True. By the way, the Galaxy S7 is supposed to have a metal case but it still has wireless charging too so the engineering seems to be feasible.

In my experience the distance between the pad and charger receiver made a big difference, thus putting on a thick case made charging difficult to proceed quickly.
Why discussing WebRTC security gets you down voted? Please explain
The interesting thing here wont be the tech, but the business model and regulatory framework.
Man, you are crazy. :o
Without encryption, anyone on the same network - including your coworkers - can certainly see everything you do. Tools like Firesheep make it dead-simple to do.

What you're talking about is encryption of data at rest, which is a specific subset of encryption. And even then, what makes you think the breached data won't be available to your coworkers? The stuff on Ashley Madison certainly did.
> Cool. Actually, right now, I have NI* that does that.

Yes, and it takes an enormous toll on your brain. Seriously, I really feel tired after having to use a non-adblocking computer...
Sure, but I don't see your email on your profile (the 'email' field is not public, if you want others to see your email, put it in the 'about' section as well).
Sure, but I don't see any emails on your profile (the 'email' field is not public, if you want others to see your email, put it in the 'about' section as well).
>conscription

That one sounds like a weird one out there. Especially if you consider that the UK has (re)instated (and probably would in future) draft if the situation warrants.
Yeah, more like Awordforeverything
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Not only is it supported but it has been confirmed that an extra camera will ship with the Touch controllers. Every time I have used Touch it has been with multiple cameras. At Oculus Connect 2 they had ~50 stations setup with multiple cameras.
Tim Cook, James Comey Invited to Testify About Encryption Before Congress
> Is it safe?

> You bet. We use modern SSL encryption protocol to ensure that your data is securely sent to our servers for encryption.

> Plus, your message and password will never be stored into the database.

Here's a list of journalists killed since 1992 to 2010. http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/jan/11/journal...

Here's a list of journalists killed in Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...

We need to be careful with these numbers, because sometimes a murdered journalist was not targeted because of their journalism. But still: you describe your service as safe. Is it something other people should trust their lives to? Is it something that could withstand a well funded government agency attack?
Still no evidence for homeopathy
Yeah, interesting attempt at revising history there but the title of the email which debuted Bitcoin to the world was titled: "Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper." It was designed to eventually compete with Visa, Paypal, etc. See also: http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/2/
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I do love the screen of the Samsung S-line. Not the size, but the actual display, the colors and brightness is why I keep coming back to it.

Any other phone with comparable screens?
That isn't a threat model for this but speculation that this is a mitigation of a threat in twitter's threat model.

It isn't clear what threats the design of this system guards against or that much thought was given to the types of attacks so much as to create something shiny and decentralized.
Hi! I'm one of the guys behind Luna. The problem with such parser is that in vast majority of cases such graph is not readable by non-technical people, it is not interactive, does not visualise results and doesnt allow you to fast reconnecting components, switching and testing ideas. Moreover, it would be very hard to provide a tool that would draw graphs with the same layout of unchanged elements between iterations, so the layout would completely change after changing the text. In fact the problem originates from the source language - if you want to create a data flow graph out of imperative language, you'll hit a wall really fast, because the output would be messy and completely not understandable. Luna is purelly functional and designed in such way, the graphical representation matches the textual one in nice, seamless way.
The teacher of tomorrow will be neither human nor machine
> The phone also dies with 40% battery! I turn it on, it shows a splash screen meaning low battery, turns on, shows 40% battery, then dies after a moment again.Funny thing is that I try restarting it several times and at some point it starts working for hours (which means it actually does have 40% battery and its not a calibration issue).

Other complaints aside, have you considered that your device might be defective? What you describe is neither common nor accepted by iPhone users at large.
I never used this framework, but everything i know from the next era is starting to show its age (including coredata, with its messed up support for multi threading access).

The more i think about it, the more i think golang approach is the right one : the only hard part today is concurrency. As long as swift ( and rust for that matter) hasn't standardized patterns that people would use on the whole stack for concurrent access to ressources,as well as asynchronicity, they won't have made the necessary step to truely advance the state of the art.
More platforms = more opportunities. The Kim Kardashian game on Android/iOS made $200 million dollars in 2014. You don't have to come up with a new niche to be wildly successful, you can innovate on execution.

That being said, I believe there is huge potential for new types of voice-only apps on the Amazon Alexa platform.
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Blind Twitter chrome extension will remove all usernames until you RT/fav/reply
I think you mean ascerbic lol.
Dumb JavaScript decisions
The Nexus 6P is using Samsung panels.
Erm, there's around half a year between Samsung and Apple announcements. Is this before or after?

Apple introduces their annual flagship smartphone so late in the year. Doesn't it give Samsung plenty of time to counter them spec wise next year? :)

BTW, no, the iPhone that's going to be announced in the autumn is likely going through the last phases of testing.
More on the Toyota software issue:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9643204

Toyotas Unintended Acceleration and the Big Bowl of “Spaghetti” Code (2013) (safetyresearch.net)

http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/toyota-unintende...
I'm not sure that'll be so easy: the holy grail of ads is to be indistinguishable from content to people. I don't think it's at all certain that AI could ever beat humans at this, controlling for the possibility of strong AI.

All that powerful adblocking tools will do is force native advertising to become dominant.
I bet you only go to certain parts of Manhattan if you think cab service is good in nyc
That is why I moved to the Nexus phones. Base software (no crapware) with rapid updates at a reasonable price.
Saudi Arabia is the most important client (in cash) for military equipment to France, sadly.
The S3 feels like the "core 2 duo" of smartphones. Clearly not as fast as new phones, but still good enough.
Um, no? It takes one parameter.

Wouldn't fit into the map type signature otherwise.
But Twitter has a patent pledge with its engineers [1]:

The IPA is a new way to do patent assignment that
keeps control in the hands of engineers and designers.
It is a commitment from Twitter to our employees that
patents can only be used for defensive purposes. We will
not use the patents from employees’ inventions in
offensive litigation without their permission. What’s
more, this control flows with the patents, so if we sold
them to others, they could only use them as the inventor
intended.

[1]: https://blog.twitter.com/2012/introducing-the-innovator-s-pa...
Learning/teaching Argentine Tango.

I would like to use my prior experience as a pilot/flight instructor and mix it with my programming/database skills via drones somehow. The combo of machine learning, (fixed wing?) drones, and infosec have captured my attention.

CTFs are new for me and I'm enjoying stockfighter.io quite a bit.

Continuing my CS self-education in areas because they sound interesting.
Perhaps you're used to a different set of UX standards by being on android so switching feels like worse ux. I feel exactly as you towards android.
Yeah, I think if the attacker getting a valid certificate for subdomain.victim.com is a serious possibility, you've already lost long ago. If an attacker

If you're worried about the attacker getting DNS (e.g. by spoofing DNS) and running a webserver at subdomain.victim.com, the user has to click through a certificate warning. I can see why the HSTS preload list would want to worry about making it hard for user error to compromise security, but I don't think it's a very sensible part of a threat model for HSTS as a whole..

(For those cases where you explicitly permit people to register websites at a subdomain of their choosing, e.g. stuff like username.github.io, you need to register github.io in the Public Suffix List. This prohibits github.io from having any cookies set on it.)
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'Tree man' undergoes successful surgery to remove large growths on his hand
Was this before he returned back to Apple? I though he always wore black turtlenecks when he returned to Apple.
I'd imagine that the specs on the upcoming iPhone would already be more or less finalized by this point. Or moving in that direction, at the very least. Unless Samsung or LG unveiled something groundbreaking that would make upending plans for Apple worthwhile, I don't think it much matters. They probably already have a pretty solid idea on what their competitors are likely to do when they start development in earnest.
I don't think it's a strategic question like that. It's more simple: Mobile World Congress starts tomorrow. It's the default venue to launch new devices (assuming you're not Apple or Google).
That depends on how well tagged things are.
Agreed. I didn't claim that interfaces were bad architecture (but actually I've often seen it overdone).
I think people need to pay more attention to the current AI status. It is rapidly maturing and offering surprises every year. Most of the progress didn't make to the news, as AlphaGo level, but it is going to have bigger impact to our lives, even our jobs.

like:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00965
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I actually think it's a good thing that startups won't be able to easily hire H1Bs. Here is what happened to me: I got convinced to join a startup with all sorts of promises of stability. I got H1B and I relocate my family to silicon valley. I go to my first day at work. First is meeting with founder, who tells me company has 1 month of money in the bank and currently at the stage of raising capital. Imagine my reaction that I might not have a job in a month after all they told me to recruit me. If I was citizen I could just get another job but with H1B it means leaving the country after the move and if company goes bankrupt they would not even be able to pay for me relocating back. Everything turned out to be fine at the end, but I don't wish anyone to experience that situation.
Nah. Apple largely does not care what competitors do, Apple seeks to set trends instead of following them. They're more interested in Google's software than Samsung's hardware, and only so far as to make sure truly necessary features are included in iOS.

Plus, Apple buys or has bought chips and screens from Samsung.

On the flip side, getting your flagship out months and months before Apple means hundreds of thousands or millions of people walking around with the "latest and greatest" which might just eclipse the last gen iPhone.

Still, Apple doesn't compete on specs. They happily put less megapixels (with better quality) or a lower clock speed (with better chip design and operating system efficiency), and have almost always had much smaller batteries.