skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not play dumb. If we (me included) get our way and have perfect digital security, it WILL make it harder or impossible for law enforcement to do proper police work. Criminals will be able to do all business and communication with 100% privacy from spying.

Let's debate honestly about what we think is acceptable. I honestly don't know, but I think perfect security is a mathematical inevitability, so I guess I'm more on the side of figuring out how to live with it.
I propose to have a smart solution with encryption. For example you could give half of the access key to the local government (maybe 1/4 to courts and 1/4 to police force), other half to Apple. If both parties believe on the case, they unlock the phone. Maybe we can also include the international court.
This Spring, some cheap 13 inch ereaders are to be released.
What about it? I just went there and saw mostly fluff pieces.
Once in a million years is not equal to a million years later. If an asteroid hit the earth today, a million years later one could say that the probability of an asteroid hitting earth is once in a million years.
A very insightful observation. That wasn't intentional. Upon reflection I think that everything I own outside of a small collection of half a dozen pieces of art could be classified as some kind of tool. That makes me feel somewhat better about the amount of "stuff" I have.
It's not very accurate. Spots in Australia are misplaced.
If they're new enough to not understand that map, et al are using loops internally, then they're probably too new to be working an actual job. They might never have been exposed to it, in which case an explanation is warranted, but if they still don't get it, maybe they're not cut out to be a programmer.
But there used to be millions of buffalo roaming the American Midwest. They produced methane too. So this isn't some new issue, right?
Yes, it should be easy to serialize the state using convertToRaw and/or convert it to HTML/Markdown/etc. I could imagine official helpers for this might be added.

You can try the embedded photo experience in Facebook Notes at https://www.facebook.com/notes. I think it does essentially everything that you have described. (I believe we do keep at least one (possibly empty) block after each media object to allow putting the cursor there.)

Mentions (like on Facebook) can be done easily with Draft's entities, and mentions that behave more like syntax highlighting (like on Twitter) can be easily done with decorators.

Mobiledoc looks pretty awesome though. I hadn't seen it before this -- thanks for sharing.
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I dunno, I'm just trying to come up with possible reasons other than "Google Engineers being too smart for their own good"
Sure. But there's also a lot of stuff that does require having specialized things. (And a lot of your list actually does.) 0xffff2's point is that stuff is sometimes an enabler, not just a burden.

Personally, I don't have much stuff, and I like it that way. But taken to its extreme, and I wouldn't be able to do my favorite things.
I think that a cellular automata can replace any differential equation. That doesn't necessarily make it a more correct (or more useful!) way to look at things.
Do you mean blaming someone else's behaviour? If so, I disagree.

If there was porn on the back of the seat, I think the guy could reasonably say "I don't want to look at that, I don't want to be tempted". That's not blaming some behaviour by the porn, he's just saying "in this situation, I will react this way, and I don't want to".

(I don't like the way they're acting, but I don't think "they're blaming other people" is what's wrong with it.)
I wish there was a startup in this space.

I have so much house maintenance stuff. For example, I only really need a ladder once a year. But I keep it around forever because when you need a ladder, you need a ladder.

I would love to not have to store and maintain all this stuff and to just request it on demand. Can someone solve that for me?

I'm embarrassed to admit that sometimes it's easier for me to just buy a new tool than to find the right one at the bottom of a tool box somewhere. It seems so wasteful...

Same goes for all my hobby stuff too. (I too have a huge bag of mountain climbing gear that gets used only twice a year.)
Can you point to exactly what makes you think that's a particular sticking point?
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Why would avoiding "map" suddenly decrease the ability of your coders? It's not like writing out the equivalent loop takes that much time.
Yeah, its not in your terminal at all. Fails to mention dependencies.
One time I took square photos of all my things and put them in CouchDB with just a label. It was pretty fun to see an alphabetical list of photos of nearly everything I owned. Like an RPG inventory.
Like so many things, minimizing "stuff" falls on a spectrum, and your ability to minimize depends a lot on your status in life (kids, family, wealth). It seems like what the author is talking about here is stuff that gives you neither basic utility nor inspiration, but that you have accepted as part of a social custom that is disconnected from both utility and inspiration.

A beautiful-to-you piece of artwork (or 10) could be worth keeping if provides you inspiration. A really nice chair or couch, or a plant could do the same, as do your family heirlooms. These are examples of stuff that it probably is worth keeping.

Things that do little to nothing to sustain or inspire you, but whose primary purpose is social status signaling are good candidates for stuff reduction.
There's a question of "need", but for most people in first-world countries:

- Writing: Pens, Paper, Laptop
- Walking: Shoes, Clothing (other than robe)
- Music: iPod, Headphones
- Reading: Comfortable chair
- Drinking Tea: Teapot, china
- Running: Specialized shoes and gear
- Making Electronica: Synthesizers
- Penmanship: Specialized quills and ink
- Swimming: Swimsuit, goggles, towel

The list goes on, but I'd argue a lot of those DO require extra things (to do well or "right" at least).
In summary, they found out that in spite of EMET protecting a wide variety of functions, EMET has a function and a global variable that turns off EMET. So they can call it or set the variable and EMET is bypassed.

Why bother with all the fancy tricks to get around the various protections when you can just ask EMET to turn them off for you?
In 7 at least it's completely useless, because "depending on the application" means it works nowhere. Not even Windows' own UI is consistently scaled, never mind random third party applications.
I inserted some JS code via the console that scrolls to the bottom of the page whenever the 'collection-assets' div changed, waited, ran observer.disconnect() as my browser was crashing to a halt, and then saved the HTML and combed through it with regexes.

var target = document.querySelector('.collection-assets');

var observer = new MutationObserver(function() {
window.scrollTo(0,document.body.scrollHeight);
});

var config = { childList: true };

observer.observe(target, config);
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Soluto for PC is retiring
Sure, but that's all stuff that would fit in Mr. Sivers' sparse apartment or suitcase.
The difference between those hobbies and the ones
0xffff2 mentioned is these are (most of, not all) hobbies where you consume, whereas his are hobbies where he creates.
Here's a simple, troubling aspect. The U.S. Government and state governments (and, I'm sure, foreign governments) increasingly seek to purchase private data for mining, and to sell their data for revenue.

The former is used particularly to make an end-run around legal restrictions placed on their own data gathering. And to create a firewall against oversight, with the activities of concern taking place in private entities not subject to public oversight.

The latter is... well, many things, but it is particularly a political expedience; when you face opposition raising revenue directly, instead sell off some portion of the public good, as quietly as possible. (Remember, for example, state departments of motor vehicles (DMV) trying to launch plans to sell drivers' data, including photos, a few years back?)

And, with the "revolving door" and ongoing sweetheart relationships between private and public positions and power brokers, there is also a large incentive of private and personal profit now driving this, as well.

So. Government data collection is no longer really nor just government data collection. It is increasingly -- or, increasingly dominant and pervasive -- a collusion between extant powers for their own purposes.

I don't want to be locked out of insurance, a job, etc. because my "profile" doesn't score high enough, or I friended the "wrong" person on Facebook. Nor do I want this to happen to others.

In biology, advanced species exhibit increasing levels of autonomy from "the herd." Our species and culture needs to keep that in mind and the foster it; there is strength in diversity. And that is predicated on some autonomy and privacy. The ability and freedom to differentiate and to find new modes, new optimizations. And to find the simple happiness that fosters greater productivity, not to mention a better personal life.

As an analogy, no one feels particularly comfortable with someone "staring over their shoulder" constantly -- particularly with a critical or condescending attitude.

A happy life does not involve Big Brother guiding, constraining, and homogenizing your every step.
> Needs more lambdas.

I'll be using this in every code review from now on.
If you are going to build something new, I guess I'll throw my suggestion of Signal+Ricochet+Burner in.

* Signal - the crypto
* Ricochet - no metadata leaking
* Burner - the ability to have multiple IDs without trying to tie to PII

Last but not least, a commitment to have Actor code evaluated by credible outside security firm.
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I am 100% sure that anything measurable exists.

Something something Sith, something something absolutes :)
In the UK a lot of primary school kids ride to school... And the UK isn't nearly as bike friendly as Denmark.

I just find it extremely curious how strange the US has become towards children, you have this "free range kids" thing (which is just the norm in other countries) with child protection going after parents for it, and you have parents being questioned because they let their kids play in the front yard of their own house?

The US has lost all sense of reality. Children are safer now than they have ever been. Stranger kidnappings are exceptionally uncommon. And yet on the other side of this coin you have childhood depression and obesity increasing, likely because children aren't allowed to play and are not given as much freedom.

The fact this article exists is yet another hint that something is wrong with the US.
However, while dollar cost to move between classes of service is exponential [1] the number of points required is approximately logarithmic [2].

Even using American's post-devaluation chart (one-way):

* economy 35,000

* business 70,000

* first 90,000

So, buy miles when on sale, fly first at a significant discount subject to availability.

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=quadratic+fit+%7B1,900...
[2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=log+fit+%7B1,35000%7D+...
Yeah I tried renting stuff like camping gear, instead of owning it. The University athletic services was glad to rent me old-fashioned heavy tents and so on. For about $50 per campout. It was about the same price to buy good stuff, and use it a dozen times!

I'm suspicious that an own-in-common club or organization would end up asking me to pay too much for old stuff. It'd be hard to avoid - they'd want to depreciate it all or whatever. A hard startup to invent.
A lot of these things could be borrowed for the occasion, or you could go to a co-working space that has the right tools. But granted, sometimes it is more convenient to own certain things.
Are the two so easy to distinguish? I'd say most of the things I listed aren't easily classifiable as either consuming or producing... and many of them are obviously productive.
Okay we have mass and time nailed down. I think the subdivision method should work for length as well. Let's try voltage.

Consider two voltage sources that you want to measure the ratio of. Place one source on one arm of a resistor, and the other through a pulse width modulator, (ideal) low pass filter with a cutoff frequency much lower than the pulse width modulator frequency, and then attach this to the other lead of the resistor. Turn on the voltage sources and adjust the pulse width modulator until the resistor doesn't heat up. You could place it in a cup of water and monitor the temperature. Remember we're free to push up the current in this thought experiment
Economic uncertainty is also bad for solidarity.

It becomes a "Team up? What for?" situation
I participate in a 40-user group chat that sees around 2,000 messages a day. That's 50 messages on average from one group chat alone. Group chats – at least the ones I'm in – tend to have a multiplicative effect.

If I talk to two people, over the course of two hours, at one message a minute, that's another 240 (2260) messages.

The numbers seem fairly plausible. (I do think there's a fair number of spam and bot messages included in the figures.)
Also it's called "Crypto Experts," which in this particular field somehow pegs my contrarian indicator button.

If they'd claimed to have designed a modern alternative to SSL using modern crypto primitives that's one thing. That's hard and requires solid crypto and coding knowledge and I wouldn't trust it without a lot of peer review, but it's something a competent crypto-understanding developer could pull off. Ordinary mortals can do things like combine a cipher with an authentication algorithm correctly if they take the time to study the state of the art and avoid previously understood pitfalls.

That's using crypto as a developer. But this is making crypto.

Creating a new cryptographic primitive is serious deep ninja-god black magic voodoo stuff that is beyond mere mortals... and this is coming from someone who is very anti-elitist when it comes to most things like this. There's not a huge pool of people I'd trust to attempt it, and even if it came from someone like DJB I still wouldn't use it until it's been in publication for at least a few years and attacked by many Ph.D's and others. Salsa and ChaCha are some of the newest ciphers in common use and those are now... what... a decade old? And they've been beat up pretty badly by researchers too, so they've passed enough of a gauntlet to be trusted with something.

So even if they did this new curve, I wouldn't use it for at least 5-10 years.

Edit:

The other thing I really don't get is why a new venture like this would start off by trying to push an entire new curve. Unless there is some good reason not to trust C25519, there are many other more pressing concerns in the crypto world that could be tackled. We could really use good end-user crypto software that is solidly engineered and offers good UX. That would be of immensely more value than yet another ECC curve with no clear benefit over existing curves. (Other than maybe NIST but that's another matter.)
Sure. I'm just trying to stimulate the imagination of someone who said they can't imagine a fulfilling life devoid of specialized items.
You've missed my point, again.

We live in a world where eavesdropping on a private conversation is possible because people aren't talking in a cone of silence every time they want privacy. The unlawful intent to listen in needs to be there, and then some sort of action is required to hear the conversation, such as holding a glass to a wall.

Exactly the same with digital messages. Sure, they can be listened to, but not by just anyone accidentally, as the video seems to suggest. Unlawful intent is required, and specific actions with specific software to listen in.

I'm all for encryption, but let's get something straight: unencrypted messages are not dripping down the walls for anyone to read who passes by.
To take just two examples to add to my list above:

Tea drinker -> Three different tea sets, which get used variously depending on what kind of tea I am drinking.

baker -> An entire kitchen full of tools.

Perhaps I'm taking the article too literally, but if he really only has the things that came with his apartment, so clothes, a laptop, and headphones, he really can't do most of the things on your list, at least not at any kind of level beyond the most casual.
That is inescapable for any quantity whatsoever that we extract from nature. In dimensionless quantities, the units just canceled out. Amperes divided by amperes, or whatever.

See root comment. I do not have to specify the units that I used when I quote the aspect ratio, or the method that I used.
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That logo is awesome. :)
The default behavior for tab is defined here:

https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/blob/f5e6cf50558f5797b0...

It would be easy to override it in your own component or send a PR upstream to make it adjust multiple blocks at once.
You're missing the key difference here: The maximum an anti-nuclear protester could hope to achieve through his or her actions would be to have the country quit nuclear power generation, nuclear waste storage, etc.

The political views of a far-right politician such as Höcke (probably aka Landolf Ladig[1]), if you translate them into what he hopes to turn Germany into, threaten the liberal democratic basis of the German constitution. And that we have a law against.

Naturally, the means through which said anti-nuclear activists try to achieve their goals, if only of making themselves heard, need to be legal, and if those actions are sufficiently illegal that they constitute a crime, I'm sure that will get the perpetrators in trouble and rightly so.

[1] https://andreaskemper.wordpress.com/2016/01/09/landolf-ladig...
I'm not saying they are barred from trying, just that matters are stacked against them and that's why people are upset and want change. Rob May seems to think they just need to "work harder".

>Why do you think that people are victims of their skin colour and heritage?

Because studies have shown that people with "black" or "ethnic" names are often passed over in favor of more European/Christian names. Because an entire generation of minority fathers were systemically targeted by police as part of the misguided War on Drugs. Because nearly fifty percent of the wealth gained by blacks was wiped out in the housing crisis because they were the victims of predatory loan practices.

>Why does that make them a second class citizen?

In America, if you don't have money you are a second class citizen. If you are black, in many areas you are a second class citizen. I wish more than anything this was not the case but it is a reality that I've witnessed and that many have to fight through.

Just saying "hey, sorry things are broken and you are at a huge disadvantage, guess you'll have to work harder!" is a pathetic redress to the economic realities of today.
As far as I can tell, this is just a python wrapper for common bioinformatics tools?

I feel like this might not be sophisticated enough for bioinformaticians, but too complex for the casual user or clinician. Unfortunately, proper bioinformatics requires a heafty dose of background knowledge. If you don't understand what you are aligning and filtering, and why, then the results will always just be a shot in the dark.
Teaching your kids how to tend bar, including when to cut someone off, is a valuable life skill.~

My personal opinion is that to prevent party-related mishaps later in life--particularly between the ages of 18 and 22--you need to teach your kids how to party responsibly before they leave your household. Thanks to the keen foresight of federal highway funding bills, this means you will almost invariably have to break the law in order to protect your kids in the US.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of not having to visit the cop shop or emergency department--or both--because your kid never learned about the potential dangers of satyrs and maenads before running off and joining the bacchanalia.
Low fertility doesn't lead to extinction in a few hundred years. Let's say the average is one child per woman (even places like Japan are above this), then it still takes 23 generations to reduce the global population to a thousand people, and a further ten generations to reduce to one.

Use Japan's fertility rate and you can roughly double those numbers.

I also don't see why disagreement has bizarre implications. World fertility rate is still somewhat above replacement, so all you really need is for the populations currently having lots of babies to keep on doing so. And even if the trend continues way downwards, reversal doesn't require weird scenarios where all children suddenly decide to have twice as many children as their parents. If fertility rates go from 1.5 to 2.5 over the course of ten generations, that would do it too.

Nobody really understands why fertility rates drop with wealth, so it's not weird to think that further changes could cause them to increase again, especially in a world with a much lower population than today.
I see the same thing for "business cards". On the other hand, a few other searches I tried ("android", "books", "facebook") returned 0 ads at all anywhere.
I highly disagree. That you even say something like this, shows how privliged of a state you must live in.

Beeing spyed on by the same institution that has the monopoly on violence. If that institution stops liking me, I have a huge problem, a potentially life threatning situation. If the state of Iran has a simular problem with me, I don't care because they dont have a police force and an army in central europe.
It wouldn't be a NUCLEAR winter...