skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your opinion!

Regarding it being creepy—I'm not sure how I see it myself.

In a way it's a lot more creepier that advertising companies know your tastes and have a shitload of info about you--sometimes more than you do.

At the end of the day we only track the HTML the site owner provides in the first place, and stuff like mouse movements within the page, without it ever being recorded.

On the other hand, I agree that the fact that you "see" the page being used and not just collect metadata could be deemed very creepy.
> It's actually not that much. Current consumer desktop hard drives top out at 8T (you can get enterprise RAID boxes of up to 48T now, but leave them out of the equation). 1P/day ~= 128 hard drives, so at 4min/drive, that's one person.

Of course at this scale you provision by prebuilt rack or even by container
Given the extensive debunking of the security of all existing registrars in the post, I'd really love to know who CloudFlare were thinking of when they said

"There are plenty of great mass-market registrars."

Shortly after they said (I'm paraphrasing here) "we've just explained why your current registrar is insecure, but this shiny new secure service isn't for you, pleb!"

They offer an "audit your registry" service, which is great, but they have zero suggestions for good alternatives if you're not front page news.
Interesting to know that there are still people - even visitors here - that don't know what TTIP is! ;-)

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a proposed trade agreement between the European Union and the United States, with the aim of promoting trade and multilateral economic growth. The American government considers the TTIP a companion agreement to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/ttip/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Invest...
I do, I also have just absolute version numbers. I'm not the only one with such problems

https://github.com/composer/composer/issues/1898
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True, but that warrant can only be obtained from the judicial branch of government by law enforcement officers conducting a criminal investigation, and only if it meets the following criteria (among many others which I've excluded for brevity, see: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2518):

- a full and complete statement of the facts and circumstances relied upon by the applicant, to justify his belief that an order should be issued, including (i) details as to the particular offense that has been, is being, or is about to be committed, (ii) except as provided in subsection (11), a particular description of the nature and location of the facilities from which or the place where the communication is to be intercepted, (iii) a particular description of the type of communications sought to be intercepted, (iv) the identity of the person, if known, committing the offense and whose communications are to be intercepted;

- a full and complete statement as to whether or not other investigative procedures have been tried and failed or why they reasonably appear to be unlikely to succeed if tried or to be too dangerous;

- there is probable cause for belief that an individual is committing, has committed, or is about to commit a particular offense enumerated in section 2516 of this chapter;

- there is probable cause for belief that particular communications concerning that offense will be obtained through such interception;

- normal investigative procedures have been tried and have failed or reasonably appear to be unlikely to succeed if tried or to be too dangerous;

- there is probable cause for belief that the facilities from which, or the place where, the wire, oral, or electronic communications are to be intercepted are being used, or are about to be used, in connection with the commission of such offense, or are leased to, listed in the name of, or commonly used by such person.

- No order entered under this section may authorize or approve the interception of any wire, oral, or electronic communication for any period longer than is necessary to achieve the objective of the authorization, nor in any event longer than thirty days.

In contrast, FISA warrants are indiscriminate and the criteria for acceptance seems to be 'asking for one'. Of the 35,529 FISA warrant applications made up to 2013, only 12 were rejected.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=TTIP

"The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a proposed trade agreement between the European Union and the United States"
Well, TBH it is the tech workers driving demand-if you believe as I do that the increased supply of housing will greatly moderate prices, the flip side of that is that demand does exist, and the demand part of supply and demand works. The solution (build more, lots more) is obvious, but its not like accepting 200K/year FB/Apple/etc job doesn't have moral issues attached.
Vietnamese writing is pretty much phonetic. Technically, you could learn the alphabet and read Vietnamese almost perfectly without prior understanding of word pronunciation (obviously there are some exception, but there much much less variation than English). Also, different regions in Vietnam pronounce certain alphabet letters differently, but within-region per-letter pronunciation is very similar.

I suspect Vietnamese tones (6 tones in total) give an stronger, more consistent, "orthogonal" signal that helps speech-to-text. For example, a word spoken with an "up" tone will always be spoken with an up tone. Whereas in English, depending on the word's position in a sentence, the speaker's emotion, etc, you might have great across-word tonal variation, even within the same speaker's multiple utterances of the word.

When you listen to Vietnamese it's very "short and choppy" with a lot of tonal variation. I suspect that the recurrent neural nets Google is training for speech recognition purposes have better inference over these separable, tonally-consistent utterances compared with harder to separate and highly variable English speech.
> couldn't the head read several tracks at once?

The paper in fact suggests this and also cites an attempt by Conner to introduce multiple actuator drives:

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/op/actMultiple-c.html
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The effects of Cloudflare attacking internet neutrality worldwide can already be seen https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361
Hey smart folks,

How does TTIP affect small business, and startups in Australia-Canda-America-Asia?

How does TTIP affect small business, and startups in the Pacifics?
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I have been an avid reader since a young age and around the time I turned 15 I discovered and quickly became scornful of self help books.

However, one self help book which I recently discovered and completely changed my life is "Rewire your brain" (ISBN: 0470487291) which offers explanations of many things from a neuroscience perspective and includes some practical anecdotes etc.

I would recommend it to essentially anyone, and all I could think while reading it was "why is this book not mandatory reading for all humans?".

FWIW.
Why can't they just update iOS and allow many attempts at the passcode, just like with the 5C?
As they say in the paper: "it is not yet known whether adversarial example generation requires greater control over the image than can be obtained by physically altering the sign" I would be more worried people wearing T-shirts with traffic sign pictures in them.

Image recognition might not be the best use of this kind of attack. How about financial data, profiling data etc? It's often possible to alter the less significant digits at will and there is no extra noise.
Has Apple even given access of someone's iCloud account to next-of-kin after they died? I've never heard of this, and I don't expect Apple to be responsible to preserve photos. You already can have shared photo streams, and there are many solutions for other data that could be potentially lost that don't involve Apple getting directly involved in these cases.
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By the way, what I meant with scalability is that if you have up to say 10-15 users at a time you can keep track of them easily, if it's more you either need more people or the whole monitoring station becomes worthless
3 Ways Agile Will Reward Your Team
As a non-user of Mandrill or MailChimp I look on this whole episode as a classic example of how not to make product changes. I suspect YC17 will be studying this as how not to go.

One thing I don't understand if this is all about the Benjamins while not just increase the price and leave the functionality unchanged. This way you would only lose the customers who are price sensitive and not those that now have to change their back ends.
> For me, the ultimate test is can I copy my application to a flash drive, walk it to a new clean system, and "paste" it to that new system. Go really does let me do that.

That used to be the case for erlang deployments that looked pretty similar, and Exrm looks like it does the same thing:

https://hexdocs.pm/exrm/extra-deployment.html

There are five stages to creating and deploying a first release. The first is just generating it, the next three are for moving the release to a new place and the third is just decompressing it.

Live upgrades/downgrades seem pretty similar: https://hexdocs.pm/exrm/extra-upgrades-and-downgrades.html
I'm skeptical about the existence of that kind of photographic memory.
Woah! Take my money!

Though I really wish you would consider selling the software and allowing it to be self hosted for security reasons - I think this is great!

My users really aren't the brightest (that's not to put them down; computer savvy users just aren't my target demographic) - so it would be awesome to see what their struggling with.

That - and for months I've been having an incredibly hard time hunting down 1 specific bug - I've setup all kinds of traps, triggers - still nothing.

Maybe if I can actually see it happen, it'll shed some light on it.

1 problem - in an AngularJS 1.x app - this is throwing a lot of JS errors. The site is working fine with it in place - but the console has a lot of red in it pointing to your script with no specific error message.

Message me if you wanna see for yourself.
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I spent a summer working out of an office in Menlo Park. Having just come from Manhattan, it blew my mind that you had to get in a car to just get lunch. How do people live like that?
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"Perhaps one of the most interesting conclusions was a perceived conflict of interest between having the company responsible for the UK's broadband network part of the same company that is a leading internet service provider."

Perceived?
What makes you think the lobbyists haven't already "processed" MEPs? European institutions, no matter how high-level, haven't exactly been showing great judgement or interest in doing the good thing.
> What's a "real project"?

One of not negligible size. They usually have many dependencies. I can see on our composer.json around ~60 dependencies, and the number will only grow (apart some lucky circumstances).

https://github.com/composer/composer/issues/1898

> I also recommend setting up Toran Proxy, which will allow you to ensure you're not boned when Github goes down.

Yes, that's a good idea
An amazing effort, many congrats to all involved.

I work on the address-formatting project, one small piece of the many used here. We currently have formatting rules for 93% of the world's 249 territories (as defined by ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes), but we need help to finish things out - especially from people with local knowledge and native speakers. Even for the countries we've "finished" more tests are always useful.

Here's the repo if you'd like to get involved:
https://github.com/OpenCageData/address-formatting

Here's a post I did a week ago on the regions we need help with, though since then we've started making good progress on Arabic speaking countries.
http://blog.opencagedata.com/post/138991962708/an-update-on-...

Feel free to ping me if you'd like to get involved. Thanks.
Surveys show British digital startups back staying in the EU
> Is there something particular about Vietnamese that makes it easier than other languages for dictations?

phonemic orthographies (These languages should work better) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_orthography

English is highly non-phonemic the only language I would think is worst is French/Greek with silent letters and the different accents and in Modern Greek /i/ can be written in six different ways: ι, η, υ, ει, οι and υι. My Italian and most Eastern European languages would be easier European languages for voice translation.

This seriously reminds me of my days in college and grad school learning/teaching dead languages. The dead languages (Latin, ancient Hebrew, Classical/Koine Greek and Aramaic) we really don't know how they were pronounced so we just made them phonetic, which tells you that we don't speak them correctly since no language is 100%.

Vietnamese is interesting because there are several dialects that would trip this up but doesn't appear to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_language
It would be cool if you had transparent backgrounds.
Well, we just found out that 6/7 of our countries MEP's in Parliament voted for TTIP without even reading it. With no consultation or anything else.

I have very low hopes that reason will prevail in this case.
Is this a reason to vote Brexit?

I would like to be able to vote out any political party that is entering into such an agreement, but if it's the EU's bureaucracy itself I have no democratic way to do so.

(I'm asking this sincerely. I don't yet know enough to be able to be for or against Brexit.)
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TTIP stands for Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

You have to worry about TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership)

The Trans-Pacific Partnership may turn out to be the worst trade agreement in decades
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/10/in-2016-bett...
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It's rare but it does exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Peek
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I still use it almost every day. Today it has a web interface (http://www.svt.se/svttext/web/pages/100.html), which has been interfaced to smartphone apps. Why do I use it? It's a quick way to get summaries of what is happening at home.
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Meet Inkpact, the company using tech to bring back handwritten letters
I don't think it has any direct affect on those areas. Australasia has TPP, Canada has NAFTA.
This is really great. Can you distinguish yourselves from placeit.net somehow in the long run?
I need to send around 180k emails. Is that 2 x 100k for $19.95 ?
> I read out a passage aloud, and apart from not quite getting everything right (but getting some remarkably difficult words/names correct), the thing that struck me is how written word, and the art form of such, is in fact quite different from a verbal stream of spoken words. The little sigils and breaking up of a written text conveys a whole bunch of meaning and subtlety that a word for word stream doesn't quite get.

Worth noting that kids who start using this young will have much less problem adapting their speech for automated transcription. Likewise, adults often were drawn to "natural-language capable" Ask Jeeves, but kids just searched with alta vista using grammatically bizarre but effective terms.
The accompanyuing course is also being offered online on Stanford's EdX/MOOC platform Lagunita. It is 9 weeks of material due April 4th.

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesSciences/Sta...
Releasing our “Learn Serverless” book
I am repeating a comment to another response but if you reduce the access time and at the same time increase the amount of data stored on the drive, you are locking yourself out of your data. Which is fine if it is just for archival. But if it is data supposed to be randomly accessed (youtube video) it doesn't help to have 100TB of data on a drive if you can only extract them at a single 50MB/s at a time. The more data on a single drive, the most likely you will a need to access several segments of this data at the same time.
Believe TTIP is being pushed by the UK government and resisted by countries in Europe.
A little company in Adelaide, Australia called Signostics (pronounced Sig - nostics).

http://www.signostics.com.au/
More like the virtual world.
Does anyone not in the manufacturing or retail sectors ever use the term "Notebook"? I've never heard anyone utter it in normal conversation and every time I read it I have to mentally translate it to "Laptop". Is it a UK thing? Do people in the US habitually refer to portable computers as "Notebooks"?
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I have one of these and this is why I blocked the wifi bridge from any outgoing network access. The mystery server then just uses the MAC address of the bridge as the "authentication" of where you get to control the lights via the app.

Having a separate wifi network (and separate VLAN for wired) IoT devices sounds like a good idea, and is something that I'll be doing this weekend...

(Also will port-scan the MiLight bridge to see if it's got any other interesting services on it)
Yes, it's pain! Unless you have the struct ready for unmarshalling json. I use gojson [https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson], it auto generates struct from json with a simple command.

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/chimeracoder/gojson | gojson -name=Repository
Which means that BRexit would mean that EU would get rid of USA's strongest "lapdog".
Democracy is how it was intended to be,they gave the salves a choice of meals & called it freedom.
Obama can say & do what he wants because he knows the people have mo power.Only the herd can change things & their minds are firmly controlled by the system of slavery that is everywhere.
"I still have faith that Parliament can protect us"

Sure why not, they've done such a great job so far at protecting Europeans in general and Greeks in particular.
Why is that corrosive? Increasing the cost of going to war sounds great to me.
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Er...this is a strange title. The closest the author comes to saying that he almost died in a mass shooting is this:

> Do you know how a properly functioning society would react to an event like San Bernardino? I do — because I’ve had the misfortune of living through such an event. On the 28th of April, 1996, a gunman equipped with an AR-15 assault rifle — the same kind that the San Bernardino shooters used — opened fire in Port Arthur, in Australia. 35 people were killed and 23 were wounded. It remains one of the world’s deadliest shootings by a single person.

Uh, maybe he was actually present during the shooting? But "I’ve had the misfortune of living through such an event" is a pretty vague and passively-constructed statement. It could mean that he was in Australia during the time of the shooting and subsequent change to gun rights. Which, OK, is fine -- a constructive, convincing argument need not be rooted in emotional authority...but my particular problem is that this piece is mostly invective and ad hominem...while the author's recounting of the mass shooting is brief and antiseptic.

I mean, technically, I can say I "lived through 9/11" even though it happened while I was halfway across the country...
Good news, someone fixed the scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwSxNrxmrCw
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Google seriously needs to build an Amazon Echo competitor NOW. Using Nest (if that division can muster actually creating a new product) and it's learning chops.

Google: please don't mess this up as a science experiment as you do so many products - build it for real.
Yeah, Australia does not have the almighty sacred 'right to bear arms' dogma which the NRA (and it's supporters/lobbyists) says is it's 'god given right' (or something to that effect)
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Never mind that the government has access to my whole life and can track me and direct my life, and has me misinformed through propaganda. At least I have a gun.
In Australia, same here.
They probably are. But there's a fair few ministers that are still criticising it. The bad guys here are the EU Commission, not the Parliament. It's important to know which side we need to be supporting because often people blame the government.

Examples:

* UK MP on transparency - http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/18/mps-can-view...

* German MP on what is NOT in the documents - http://www.waronwant.org/media/what-i-didn%E2%80%99t-read-tt...
I use aliases for that reason, much cleaner IMHO.
Really, is that all you take away from the article?
Thanks for getting back to me. Wow, Day One looks like an amazing app. I would certainly use it if my needs were simply journaling AND I can read their key management system specs. For some reason, I'm stilling writing on a notebook when it comes to private thoughts--just a force of habit I suppose. I think I'm like you, I would probably be more honest if I know what I write is going to be for my eyes only.
Ruin someone’s day by sending them a raw egg yolk or shitty smelling egg
All I wanted out of this deal were unified automotive safety standards (hopefully choosing the more proven standards of the two for each case). Instead, we seem to have ended up with another slew of controversial elements that apparently serve someone's interests.
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I get what you're saying—I guess what I'm trying to understand is whether a regular user has an unspoken expectation that browsing or using a web app is "private"--in which case that expectation is already broken most of the times by usage of analytics and, less often by session recording tech--or whether it is like walking in a store: no one is bothering you but you know that there's someone that might be seeing what you are doing, and if you stand in front of an item long enough someone is gonna come over asking if you need any help.

Apps like intercom already allow you to specify "triggers" so that when the user does something you can send them a message. I'm not sure how many people actually realize that it is an automated message.
Wrong. UKIP and Labour hold the majority seats for the UK in the EUP and they're both against TTIP.
I think it's more a psychological view.

The default psychological view (if you can call it that) in 1830 was Romantic Individualism.

The default psychological view in 2016 is that objective statistical trends are the rule across populations, not the exception.

There can be arguments about which statistics apply, and whether or not they're accurate and not measured poorly, or impossible to replicate, or even deliberately dishonest and politically motivated.

But there's no argument that in principle it's perfectly scientific to use statistics to identify and measure behavioural trends.

The shock in 1830 was discovering the latter fact. The idea that something personal like suicide might fit a measurable statistical trend was completely novel - perhaps because it directly challenged beliefs about heroic personal self-determination.

The fine details of the distributions don't matter. The fact that statistics can be used at all shocked people in a way that it doesn't now.
The real pain for me to share variables from different handlers in the chain (middlewares). I know some frameworks and libraries provide "contexts", but it's something that should have been part of the standard library.