skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I want is a service that deletes all my online presence after I die. A deadswitch. All texts, messages, emails, facebook posts, pictures anywhere, everything.

I want it all to go when I do. Hell, I want some of it to go now.

After I'm gone, I want to leave no part of my existence on the internet.

I realize that's not possible. But I want to minimize my footprint.

It is totally possible for a local device. I have a deadswitch on all my computers. If I don't log in and set an alive flag via the command line in any of my computers for more than a week, that computer securely wipes itself.

Let it be known, I have nothing to hide. I just think this is the best way to do things.

Edit: My reason for this is the frequency with which I encounter people who are no longer alive. It's a harsh thing to look at a link to someone who said something, and you used to know and then suddenly realize, "Oh shit. He's dead. And I used to be his best friend."

I know facebook has memorial pages, but those are difficult to get.
if you're attempting to keep the information private, you're not doing a good job by handing it to a third party.

Expectation of privacy is kind of based around self-incrimination, and you lose a lot of those when you hand information to a third party.

Even if it's "public" (in the legal sense of 'not protected'), Tor can be useful against non-state actors, or against weaker state actors.

I'm not saying there isn't a colloquial expectation of privacy, but that the jurisprudence on privacy doesn't apply to Tor (or at least, that there is an argument that it doesn't).
Yes. But I rolled my own out of pre-existing software:

* Emacs (desktop / laptop editor)

* Orgzly (Android editor)

* org-mode (the note mechanism itself)

* Unison (for file sync)

* Ubuntu LTS + OpenSSH (on the file server)

Happy to provide more detail if you're interested.
What is the size different between those?

Issue is, I don't know that all the tools support lz4 like they support gzip.
Show HN: MAZE, a silly little curses game
Psychological manipulation (or maybe, being more charitable, 'magic tricks') for AIs. Interesting.

I wonder if, by treating an Amazon Turk style classifier instead of a deep learning system, you could use this approach to farm optical illusions or similar human 'glitches'?
We faced a very similar problem when we started Kentik two years ago, except in our case the "transactions" are network traffic telemetry that we collect from our customers' physical network infrastructure, and providing super-fast ad hoc queries over that data is our core service offering.

We looked at just about every open source and commercial platform that we might use as a backend, and decided that none were appropriate, for scale, maturity, or fairness / scheduling. So we ended up building, from scratch, something that looks a bit like Google's Dremel / BigQuery, but runs on our own bare metal infrastructure. And then we put postgres on top of that using Foreign Data Wrappers so we could write standard SQL queries against it.

Some blog posts about the nuts and bolts you might find interesting:

https://www.kentik.com/postgresql-foreign-data-wrappers/

https://www.kentik.com/metrics-for-microservices/

If we were starting today, we might consider Apache Drill, although I haven't looked at the maturity and stability of that project recently.
The volume of venous blood for everyday blood test is indeed well known, and has been established decades ago. Take a look at your test tubes then next time you have your blood drawn. The required volumes are always clearly indicated.

This study is about novel tests based on minute volumes of blood. These are not routine in medical practice.
Sure, reverse moc.rozav@ttam
From what's been said, it seems like it was made to be updated so that Apple could easily issue security updates. They've already increased the delay between repeated attempts at password entry. Probably they were worried about vulnerabilities or bugs that hadn't been found and wanted to maintain debugging connections to make repairs easier. A tamper-resistant self-destruct mechanism with no possibility of recovery introduces extra points of failure, and it seems that until now, they didn't think it was necessary.

Look at the controversy over the phone not booting with third-party fingerprint reader repairs as an example. People were upset when they found out that having their device worked on could make it unbootable, but Apple was able to easily fix it with a software update. If it had been designed more securely, it might have wiped data when it detected unauthorized modifications, which would have meant even more upset people. Now that this has become a public debate, there will be a very different response to making it more secure.
A 40x40 ultrasound array can scan with a much better resolution, look at prenatal imaging for example. The phased array is modulated in the time and space domains, so one cell can substitute many fixed ones. With the speed of sound, the receivers resolution of depth information extracted from a reflection's timing information would be a million times better. ...
Hi Duncan. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Yeah, I currently use multiple tools to manage my stuff as well but it's starting to feel like playing lego with tools. As much as I love to play around with lego, I'm getting tired of jumping from app to app to just handle a couple of "seemingly related" tasks to me. Not to mention usability and collaboration isn't without much friction. If anything, I need a tool that I can tell my wife: "here, use this, write your note and secure your passwords here" instead of scattering them everywhere.
The research into this is usually called "effect systems", I think. You can use it to prove that ugly old APIs like OpenGL are being used properly in your code.

As far as the real world goes, all you get is -Wunused.
Check out LinkedIn's posts about log processing [0] and Apache Kafka. Handling data as streams of events lets you avoid spikey query-based processing, and helps you scale out horizontally. Partitioning lets you do joins, and you can still add databases as "materialized views" for query-ability. Add Secor to automatically write logs to S3 so you can feel secure in the face of data loss, and use replication of at least 3 in your Kafka topics. Also, start with instrumentation from DataDog or NewRelic from the start - it will show you the performance bottlenecks.

0: https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
I've owned a refurbished LG 505C (Verizon is still CDMA here) for more than 3 years now. I paid $9.99 for it. A battery charge still lasts a week. I spend roughly $100 a year for TracFone minutes. It's always been cheap and good. Nice to know that it's stylish now as well.
In my experience the difference is ~10% (.3 ratio vs ~.23 ratio) but for the increase in processing speed it's well worth it.

If the tool supports Hadoop's FileInputFormat or a stream of whatever underlying data (you can use the 4mc or lz4 command line tool) it will work.
> or perhaps they were afraid some bug could end up having catastrophic consequences of locking a billion people out of their phones with no way to fix it?

That basically happened (at a smaller scale) just last week. When Apple apologized and fixed the "can't use iPhone if it's been repaired by a 3rd party" thing, the fix required updating phones which were otherwise bricked. It's not an unreasonable scenario.
> BigQuery has a nice interface and it's a better hosted service than Redshift IMO.

Do you have some points where BQ is advantageous over Redshift?
That's a completely different problem, and really, I have no idea why it cycling on the comments.

Yes, some languages print floating point numbers in a friendly way by default (really if you are going with the default format, anything will do). In what way does it change equality tests?
Dates are a thing.
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http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/

https://nylas.com/blog
Someone using TOR should know that exit nodes will know that you used TOR, but by design they are not supposed to be able to find out who you were talking to, or what you were talking about.

The general assumption back when Silk Road was created was that TOR itself was safe, and the most likely way to be discovered was for your personal machine to be compromised. This belief was only strengthened by the FBI's repeated failures to take down Silk Road.

Heck, this was still a widespread belief AFTER Silk Road was taken down! For example http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fbis-deep-web-raid-seiz... quotes a security researcher who came to the conclusion in late 2014 that the FBI was just scanning TOR, and TOR itself had not been compromised.

For a comparison to phones, the Supreme Court has held that a list of people you called is not protected, but the contents of your phone calls are. Similarly I think they should rule in this case that the fact you're using TOR is not protected, but the details of what you were doing on TOR is covered by the 4th amendment.
Thing I harp on is that the medical industry is used to just charging whatever they can get away with. Since they have a generally naive and captive customer base, there is generally nothing to keep things real. My small experience with business is that when you have that situation you're set up to totally lose control of your costs. Because a lot of excess expenses are hidden in high margin products and services. Example, you make something for $5600 and sell it for $15,340. Could be that with a small amount of work you could produce the thing for $4200 ea. But because the margin is 'good' no one feels the need.
Will you be including Greenpeace and the Sierra Club for their scaremongering about nuclear power?
Although an awesome book, as I've bought it, maybe it would be useful to inform any interested buyers that not all chapters are ready yet. i.e. it hasn't been released officially and it doesn't have a final release date.

Right now the first 9(out of 12) chapters are finished and they're really insightful.
Nowhere in that article was there any indication that the web designers were people who considered CSS "beneath them".
4 years ago you had a bad experience and now you are projecting it onto an article that is only related due to the use of one word, "designer".

The article was about a move to in-house design instead of agency/freelancer work.
C/Java-type strong languages have the downside that they're super redundant. Typing "MyObject myObject = new MyObject();" is not fun in your free time. The same goes for any other required proof in your program, when you already know you're right.

Hey, remember this guy? He used to be pretty famous, you know.

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/is-weak-typing-str...

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/05/dynamic-languages-st...
> I recommend you make a backup to your laptop, which you then encrypt manually.

You mean your laptop that was manufactured by a 3rd party, with a network card that was manufactured by a 3rd party? And you're using encryption software that, even if it's open source, you probably aren't qualified to code review. I'm not downplaying the benefit of being careful, but unfortunately you can keep doing that pretty much forever.
> getting a John Yoo to write an executive memo

The memos didn't provide de iure indemnity. There is no constitutional basis, in fact the proposition that a memo can supersede the Constitution is idiotic on its face.

The failure is the de facto doctrine of absolute executive immunity. It has two prongs: 1. "When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." 2. When the perpetrator follows president's orders, also not illegal.

Nevertheless, since there is no legal basis, there is nothing preventing the next government from prosecuting them.
Does anyone know if most of Xamarin team located in Boston? The web sites has San Francisco as headquarters, but for some reason I always thought company is mostly in Boston.
Curios how much this acquisition increases Microsoft's dev center in Boston.
So much this
Not tangential at all -- it's much nicer than working with csv and gzip strips out the redundancy that you'd save with a csv anyway.
Omni Group – Designing Graceful, Gracious Interfaces for iPad (2011) [video]
Jeez man I think we all get it. You have a product you want to sell. Spamming is not the way to promote your email product.
Our (US) legal system doesn't work that way. If something isn't explicitly prohibited, it's permitted. This is a feature, not a bug.

While it's not illegal to purchase and use an x-ray machine itself, it would be illegal to use one on human subjects without the proper training and licensing. (Unless, of course, you work for the TSA.)
Could the "code equivalent" of your fingerprint be stolen by a rogue app if it's allowed to read it? I don't have a touchId phone but have wondered what would happen if your "print" is stolen -- passwords can at least be changed.
TP-LINK WiFi Router Firmware Locked Down Due to New FCC Rules
Just a pro tip: you don't want to use GZip since it can't be split, and if you want to parallelize effectively you need to split... that is, unless you're dealing with many small files (<100MB), in which case your cloud storage costs may explode at scale.

(I ingest, process, and warehouse 20TB of data a day)
I agree but if their problem is that they want a scalable solution for processing a growing amount of data cheaply and robustly and potentially doing more complex work in the future (it's a growing business). This is basically the tagline of the current batch of hadoop ecosystem projects.

Investing in working with the hadoop ecosystem is a much better long term solution (if this is the case).
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IP addresses are routinely subpoenaed. Ask the operator of any popular file sharing site how many subpoenas they get from copyright lawyers. Some large ISPs have entire departments dedicated to servicing subpoenas from law enforcement.

Just because you used Tor doesn't make your IP address invulnerable to subpoena.

If I connect through 7 proxies and do something illegal, my IP is no less subject to subpoena than if I weren't to use a proxy at all.

If I stand in my front yard, in view of my neighbors, put on a mask, then I go rob a store, wearing that same mask, I don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy as to my identity while wearing the mask.

This case is far less controversial than the recent one where the FBI hacked all the pervert's computers. It may be an issue of ethics at CMU, but, not an issue with 4th/5th amendments.
I can't go into too much detail (publications pending), but the initial prototype cost roughly $6K in components. The basic idea is find the optimal balance between hardware-vs-software and speed-vs-cost-vs-quality. The device attaches to a regular slit lamp, so that shaves off a big part of the cost too (no need for a separate examination table and optical assembly).

This is spectral-domain OCT with tracking, so quality falls somewhere between Cirrus and Spectralis. However, I'm working on a few sweet mathematical tricks that actually surpass anything available on the market right now - hardware and software has advanced hugely over the past few years.

We already have a hardware manufacturer and are currently fighting to secure the necessary funding. This technology has to make it out there.
Wow this is really interesting. Poooor showing from Mailgun!!!
The memos didn't provide de iure indemnity. There is no constitutional basis, in fact the proposition that a memo can supersede the Constitution is idiotic on its face.

Yes, and that's what I meant by "let the courts sort it out later." The Constitution's not much help either way, being full of imprecise, hand-waving language and vague terms like "cruel and unusual." It was anticipated by the Constitution's authors that it would be of use only to a moral government.

Nevertheless, since there is no legal basis, there is nothing preventing the next government from prosecuting them.

I wonder if that's ever happened in the US? Does anyone know?
Processing speed due to the decompression algorithm or the I/O?

You can get another 10% with gzip -7 vs the default I bet.

I don't find the compression/decompression the bottleneck in most of this work and even then an extra 10% isn't worth sacrificing the interoperability between all the systems that support .json.gz

Higher gzip levels I think only really affect the compression step -- decompression is the same cost. These are mostly write-once read many times sorts of datasets.
Collection of engineering blogs : https://github.com/sumodirjo/engineering-blogs/
No need. The future is WebAssembly. We just need C#/F# compilers that generate this new IL.
Sharp accepts Hon Hai's $6.2bn buyout offer
Many people have two phones (and two accounts for every relevant messaging service) for that reason; one phone for normal communication and one that people are told to only contact in urgent cases. If you manage to make people adhere to that you can put the normal phone in airplane mode as needed while still being reachable for important things.
There are many factors that impact deliverability that aren't reflected in the type of simple test InboxTrail conducts. Like most ESPs, your reputation builds on Mailgun as you send with us. If for whatever reason you are experiencing a deliverability problem, you can always reach out to us and we'll help you with any issues you have. We support many large and fast growing customers who are all seeing a >99% delivery rate.

Our support team is here to help 24/7. We have a great team here that is proud of the work we do for our customers.

Disclosure: I lead product development at Mailgun.
Phoenix OS Android for Productivity on Alcatel OneTouch Xess
They had a pretty relaxed strategy on sender domain verification. which was great for white-labeling transnational email on multiple domains.

Goodbye Mandrill.
You don't have to think about running or scaling a cluster -- it's a service that you dump data into and supports a pretty decent set of SQL.

Cost is probably cheaper as well, but I don't have apples to apples numbers to compare.

But the main point being, if you get your data in the cloud as .json.gz, you can use them all fairly easily. Maybe one solution fits 90% of your needs, and another one the other 10%. That's what I'm finding at least.
Not really a shock, evolve or die. I did a great deal of web design in my earlier years, but you have to keep up. I learned how to code, I learned databases, I learned system administration, learned the latest frameworks, I made sure I kept up my skill set.

I ended up in UI/UX, but since it's such a young field the variance in quality is completely crazy. You will get people that are 100% designers that have no concept of what is required to implement their ideas, on the other hand you get middling coders that know nothing about design. It's pretty interesting to see.

It was pretty clear where it was going 5-6 years ago. It's too easy to make a simple restaurant website, you have to bring far more to the table these days.
I think entropy, in however you measure it, does influence something like a UUID generator differently than the cryptographic algorithms. What you are trying to achieve, or more importantly the condition you are trying to avoid, is different.
> It is not that certain inputs happen to correspond to a configuration solvable by an NFA. It is that if you give it certain inputs it internally generates a data structure that actually IS a description of an NFA. And the same is true of most RE engines.

All this means is that Perl sometimes evaluates inputs using an NFA algorithm. To describe its matching engine generally as an NFA is extremely misleading.

> See for example https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e347654k%28v=vs.110.... for yet another non-NFA that is described as one somewhere that programmers are likely to believe it.

Yes. It's sad.

I frankly can't tell you how much I see this confusion. It happens so much. I point it out when I see it in the hopes that others learn. I don't really buy the argument that we should stop educating others just because the "damage is done."

There's certainly a fine line between being an annoying pedant about this and genuinely trying to clarify it for someone who is confused. I thought I was doing the latter in this case initially. Of course, I am hyper sensitive to this topic because I maintain a regex engine! Can you guess which kind? :P
Funny to see this downvoted on "hacker news". I think this site is long over due for a title change.
To respond to the Mailgun developer above slash below - the InboxTrail result might not be reflective of all your service, but you're selling a premium service - 37.5% spam flagging on any of your active IPs is seriously offputting.
I'm just thinking out loud, but who knows? DOJ has been pretty creative about making this issue more critical than the other times they've tried to unlock iOS devices (because, of course, terrorism)

What if the feds decide that an O/S update closes a zeroday that the NSA was using (note they've been really quiet here) and interferes with an FBI investigation in process?

And yeah, DOJ keeps saying it's just the one device, just this one time. What happens if they suddenly change course just to prevent iOS from getting more secure?
Juventus akhirnya bisa menyamakan kedudukan
Can someone please comment on the future of AIs attacking other AIs?

That is going to be an amazing Turning point day...

(I'm also amazed that my auto correct changed my turning to Turing)
This is true not only of government projects, but of all projects.

Anyone in charge of a budget is potentially corrupt. I'd argue that it is more common in corporates than in government, because the personal damage that could be inflicted is less. A company doesn't want reputation damaged by being involved in fraudulent bidding (so will sweep under the carpet readily), and as long as the job gets done, nobody cares (unless internal politics get stirred). The employee may be fired, but they can go somewhere else. And all is off the public record.
How big is teletext usage nowadays (if it's still being used)?

Last time I used it, if memory serves well, was probably 1997, in a town in Indonesia. I was a kid back then, didn't aware of internet, yet.

Boy it was pretty handy for browsing TV listing/news :D
We had more than a few really worried people reach out (before this thread), this change is very worrying to some. I'll dial it back though, thanks!
That brings to mind this classic..

Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology—where each worker may bloom, secure from
the pests purveying contradictory truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death, and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R706isyDrqI

They should re-run this commercial for iPhone 7. "On September 24th, Apple Computer will introduce iPhone 7. And you'll see why 2017 won't be like 1984."
An instructive one-file Ruby path tracer
In this case the user noticed the light but ignored it. Is this really the bigger of the two issues?
Great idea.

The UK tried a NOMS (offender management) system and that was an expensive disaster too..

Would be nice to put down the contracting companies who were ripping of the Govt along with the civil servants who over saw the massive waste of tax payers money/time.