skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He wasn't published by Harvard University Press either! But I think it is interesting and relevant to the discussion how the modern English aspect was overlooked whereas the imperial unit triggered his anachronism detector.
What’s cool about being a programmer?
Who are these people you speak of that have similar credentials to a fire fighter?
That's rather terrifying.

If I'm reading this right then they basically have access to all 3G/4G data and they do so in a way that cannot be detected.

My home country is rather delightful, isn't it. :(
I think this is a great idea. Unfortunately, several of the images have alignment issues and other problems. One of the mockups thumbnails covers up the user's thumbs with the screen, for example: http://smartmockups.imgix.net/47_bg.jpg?fit=crop&w=360&h=270...

Also, have you thought about doing some basic colour balancing on the uploaded images to match the environment in the image, or overlaying some subtle alpha-channel reflections? (Both of which would greatly increase the realism)
First time seeing noodl.io... interesting concept.
Or Firefox?
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This. Reading KeePass database is simple. The problem with KeePass is that its sync protocol is undocumented and reportedly arcane. And just syncing opaque blobs at whole will eventually lead to data losses.
If this doesn't work then it will get killed for something to replace it with. I haven't heard anyone speak highly of forms after the initial positive start.
Totally; on a number of occasions, Al's talked about address-formatting was a big underpinning of this effort. I'd be happy to help out with some of those other regions!

I'm pretty excited that this is the first time someone has been able to release into the open an address analysis engine like underpins Google's geocoder. You'd be surprised just how hand-tuned most of the other address parsing engines are (regex and case statements all the way down). This feels like a huge leap forward.
I have a bad feeling about GitHub's desire to be more "diverse".

https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941 :^)
"brits are as a whole a pretty depressed bunch" - have you been watching TV again?
https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941

I'm migrating all my repos to BitBucket.
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Thanks. A quick search shows 'getUserMedia/Stream API' is supported in Firefox though and people on this thread don't seem to be able to use it in Firefox (I haven't personally tested).
I'm not sure that's what is being argued here. I think it's more like if the govt compelled someone to write software to break someone's pacemaker or life support machine, then certify under their name that the software was safe to use.

Of course in this case the person is a corporation; if this defense works I wonder if there will be calls for renewed scrutiny of corporate personhood. This may have been discussed in the article, but I was unable to read very far because I have an ad blocker turned on.
FWIW It feels spammy to me for the top comment in a story about Cloudflare being someone pushing a competitor they work for. It's one thing to bring up the "too many eggs in one basket" concern, but doing so while pitching your company, on a story that isn't about you, just .... rubs me the wrong way.
I'm running Python + Django with uWSGI. Building the app is a pleasure. With type hints in Python 3.5, the code becomes almost as maintainable as statically typed languages too.

One problem I have is that the application is extremely CPU intensive. I can't get past 35-40 requests per second with 500 concurrent users (at 4 CPU cores, 14 GB RAM), which seemed too expensive economically. (I cached as much data as possible, both at the Nginx tier and with Redis) and tuned the number of uWSGI worker processes.

Do I have to try other languages or do you think I have more room for optimization with Python?
If its the same architecture then you can copy the tar file to another system and run it. Its the same for Go apps except you get a binary.
I do not want to recreate all the structure( I basically do web apps). Phoenix provides good defaults. If it was few lines of code then Go is fine, for larger project i prefer Phoenix( prefer might not be the right word since i don't have elixir prod apps while i do have Go apps)
In the article they noted that MarkMonitor (Who I've used myself), is more focussed on managing online brands, and the registrar element is a sideline. Also - MarkMonitor can be pretty pricey - I'm wondering if CloudFlare is price competitive with them?

But yes, I agree - if I had to recommend to a fortune 500 today where to go to manage your domain safely, it would be MarkMonitor. I guess we'll see how CloudFlare stacks up over the next few years.
That doesn't make me feel any better. This treaty and the debate around it have become very public, and continuing to deal in private where even lawmakers are restricted from seeing it can be absolutely nothing other than trying to avoid controversy and public debate.

By the time this is in its final form, many countries (like the US) would have basically already voted for approval, meaning a public debate will be too late and all but meaningless.
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It doesn't.

source: https://github.com/antelle/keeweb/issues/70
"Representative democracy is often presented as the only form of democracy possible in mass societies. It arguably allows for efficient ruling by a sufficiently small number of people on behalf of the larger number."

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

Democracy is more a form of elitism than "power to the people". It has always been like that.

Another system is possible (like Futarchy or a form of Anarchism) but the transition is risky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futarchy
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you keep trying to attach the "conspiracy" label to my text. just move on.. you have nothing relevant to say
Your agenda in your pocket wasn't subject to unconditional dragnet surveillance. Copies of it weren't going to find their way on to security contractors' systems. Such copies wouldn't have then been stolen and distributed by whoever, and made available for search as you type. The intimacies of daily life are very precious.
I understood that one benefit of Xamarin is to build once and target many platforms. If you're faced with iOS and Android as the top platforms, including Windows for minimal cost without a complete rewrite is quite appealing.
The Importance of Strong Encryption to Security
I have this gripe too. I recently received a letter from BT to say that my line rental was increasing by £1/month so that they could offer more "great services and a wider selection of content".

The only reason I have the line is for the FTTC connection that runs over it (using Goscomb as my ISP, rather than BT) There isn't even a phone connected to it.
That message isn't meant to give you hope. It's a taunt.

It's saying "superfast broadband is here in this cabinet, but will never make it the extra 50 feet to your house". I've had that sticker on a cabinet at the end of my road for three years now. But still just sketchy DSL offered to my house.

According to BT's helpful "when the F is Fibre going to F'ng make it to my area" page, my postcode is going to be ready in "March 2016". But then that page used to say March 2015, March 2014 and March 2013 since I've been checking. At least it's always March, so I don't have to get my hopes up more than once a year.
> the advantage of keepass is that I don't need to upload my credentials anywhere

But if you want to sync your credentials across devices, you still have to upload them somewhere, right? Doesn't this just support sync via Dropbox? If so, aren't you then just playing the trust game between two third-parties?
If the deal is done in secret, people'll complain that its secret.

If the deal is not done in secret, people'll complain about the draft terms before it is finalized.
I'd be willing to bet that Sakaguchi has read "The 5 dysfunctions of a team" [1]. One of my favorite books about how people jell together in groups.

Like him I was also in a military setting before I became a programmer. I haven't yet experienced the same level of engagement and team cohesion outside of the military but I believe that the answers are to be found in the kinds of insights that studies like this uncover.

[1] http://www.tablegroup.com/books/dysfunctions
Cornwall (where I live) got trumpeted as a target for superfast broadband. As far as I can tell, it's mostly a marketing exercise. The town I live in (~25k people) has loads of green boxes with the livery and I see vans quite often but in the five years I've live here (four different properties), I've never been able to get superfast. I know precisely one person who has it and describes it as "rubbish".

I'm sure there's people that it's working out wonderfully for but I've never found them.

Some kind of shake up is needed in the industry, similar to when cable came in around 2000(?).
> that warrant can only be obtained from the judicial branch of government by law enforcement officers conducting a criminal investigation

You seem to be laboring under the assumption that your phone company is more benign than Google, which is an assumption I am not willing to make (for Verizon or ATT among others)
I didn't know about it, quick googling shows that his dad is not a mobster. He was however arrested and charged in a high scale corruption case and fraud [1] five years back and was also charged with tax fraud in Germany before that. Since then he was released on bail and in 2014 sentenced to three years an ten months of prison [2].

Mate said in an interview that is planning to return the loan he received from his dad [3]. Also that should not impair Mate's achievements.

[1] http://www.vecernji.hr/crna-kronika/ivan-rimac-opet-na-sudu-...
[2] http://www.vecernji.hr/hrvatska/afera-sibinj-svi-proglaseni-...
[3] http://www.vecernji.hr/automobili/mate-rimac-posudeni-novac-...
I also hate having to do this mental adjustment - in my head, even 40Mbps isn't "superfast" - it's above the national average, sure - give me 100Mbps, then maybe you can justify using that label
The hardware key is designed to be impossible to extract from the device. That's part of the security, so you can't simply transfer the data to a phone where protections against brute-forcing the user key have been removed.
Already transferring all my repos to Bitbucket.
Why should we want that? If someone wants to kill themselves, it's not my place or your place to make it more difficult for them to do so.
I'm always shocked when such terrible ideas are put forth for consideration in a public forum.

Privatize essential life safety services? Because that has worked oh so well for healthcare.
I would be careful with that comparison. Many higher-wage US jobs get much more vacation than the minimum 2 weeks, health insurance is paid for by the company (employee only pay ~10% of premium), you get a pension (Social Security) and you're kids can go to a state school with subsidized tuition (albetit, nowhere near as cheap as Europe).
>Do you really need such strong security?

Do i really need a quad core smartphone with a dedicated GPU 3GB of ram a higher pixel density than i can possibly distinguish, etc etc?

Why would i settle for shitty crypto just because the information isnt a state secret?
>Personally I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions in the society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established at every level -- there's a little bargaining, a little give and take, but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.

-Noam Chomsky, Business Today, May 1973
Understandably, but does it matter how directly encryption is involved? You could come up with contrived examples if you want.

Jigsaw the serial killer (of Saw infamy) has been captured by the police. However, he's got his final victim in a booby trapped room where he'll drown in an hour. The location and instructions to disable the traps are encrypted on a thumb drive, which he'll decrypt if the police set him free.

Edit: What should be evident is that no matter what means are used, the person behind it is responsible. Focusing on tools that are used by good people to protect themselves doesn't follow.
The real change is that with increasingly performant and large SSDs, it's becoming reasonable to have main storage for which random access is orders of magnitude faster than HDDs will ever be. Still much slower than cache, but a few orders of magnitude here and there are likely to shift what optimal strategies are.
I don't know about this version, but keepassx creates a file in the same directory where the password kdb file is, and use it as a lock.

But, keep in mind that dropbox can delay updates to the server (could be hours if you are disconnected) with no warning to the user, which means that two different users could update the same file independently and create a conflict. For this reason, it isn't suitable as an enterprise solution.

Having said that I recommend dropbox as a poor man escrow, so that somebody you trust as easy access to all your passwords for banking, social network (keep your alt accounts somewhere else :-) ), servers' root, etc...
> you should be asking yourself why a free trade treaty is so important when we already have free trade

Depends on your definition of "free trade", but we don't have completely free trade; many countries have high tarrifs, for example Japan's rice tarrif.

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/10/06/tpp-deal-expec...

(OK, this is TPP, but I'm sure the same point applies).
> Ruby doesn't have built in concurrency like Go does

Seriously. Pretty much all languages have support for concurrency via threads. Ruby even have the equivalent of channels since a decade: http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/Queue.html

Now if you meant to talk about the GIL, well it prevent parallelism only for purely CPU bound tasks. And in the context of a web app, if I have a CPU bound tasks that I can just fire and forget, I don't want to execute it on my frontend server anyway.
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> (i.e. 10 downing street). Status of the exchange: no plan for optic fiber roll out.

I imagine the entirety of Downing Street is connected back into the larger Whitehall network via redundant private gigabit circuits.
AMD needs to get their shit together
Hmm, then maybe it's using the speech recognition API which is really only supported in chrome right now (it's in firefox but behind a flag).

Although i just assumed that google would be running the speech recognition themselves.
> You can't just say anything you want, either (yelling "fire!" in a crowded room ...

This is simply not true. Read Trope Two here [0] for a brief overview (although the entire essay is well worth reading), and [1] for a in-depth analysis of the trope.

[0] https://popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-cens...

[1] https://popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-hackne...
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"the only thing you’re disrupting out there is your own sense of human decency" Ouch
This is not my area of expertise, but in speaking to Regulatory Affairs people when I was working in the field, most of the EU and some of Asia base their regulations on the US FDA, or at least have very similar regulations. In addition to FDA audits, we were also periodically audited by the regulatory bodies of other countries.

However, in many countries, enforcement is lax, so you get lots of devices that don't come close to meeting whatever regulation is in place.
Down at the moment, here's the Google cached copy https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:N8pEP7...
There may already be a law on the books in some countries.

Regarding the US, these treaties will probably effect more harm to the protections and government as defined by the Constitution than any army. So at what point does that count as "levying war"? Or are we going to pretend that "war" doesn't include economic weapons?

(I suspect this might be easier in other countries, that use a less restrictive definition of treason)
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Depends on your paranoia level if you trust something like that, but most people have old wifi enabled routers just laying around
As someone who works on a geocoder, no, I am not surprised how hand-tuned things are. I'm guilty of such sins myself. Clearly this is the way forward.

Feel free to help out on address-formatting. Where we really need help is eastern Asian countries with double-byte character scripts. Specifically CN, HK, JP, KP, KR, MO, and TW - those countries obviously represent a significant chunk of the world's population, so would be great if we could get help on those from folks with local knowledge.
The whole world moves to putting out different devices for different usecases and integrating them with protocols and APIs. Why is Canonical moving in the other direction?
> If the deal is not done in secret, people'll complain about the draft terms before it is finalized.

That little bit there is called democracy. Without transparency, it's called fascism.
I recently changed ISP and told them the copper line was part of the broadband package with my previous ISP (for an extra £10/month) and was assured everything was fine.

One month after the transfer, Openreach ceases the PSTN line and the reaction from my new ISP was "well it's your responsibility to keep up your BT subscription" (never had BT).

Two weeks later, the PSTN line is still dark, and I'm waiting for Openreach to install a new MPF line provided by my current ISP (for an extra £10/month of course).

Apparently the reason for doing this rather than re-start the PSTN line is part of a process called "Local-loop unbundling".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-loop_unbundling
Another project along similar lines is the Jasper Project[0], which has received some HN coverage in the past several years[1]. It interfaces with many of the same speech recognition and text-to-speech libraries.

[0] https://jasperproject.github.io/

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Jasper%20Project&sort=byPopula...
I agree. Some of these post mortems are insightful but some are lame like prism. "Welp we built a cool product, learned content distribution is tough, and failed to achieve growth. The end" But why is it tough? What it sounds like was that prism didn't provide a useful enough experience for enough people to change their old habits of consumption.

Also there was a hotel top 10 one that was odd. They couldn't grow because they were priced out by large competitors. But any ranking / aggregator site should crush end providers in seo. I work for a financial services companies and lead aggregators dominate seo because it's inherently more beneficial for a consumer to see a bunch of choices than one provider. I imagine its a similar story for hotels.
And the issue with that is...?

"complain" just means negative feedback which should be taken into consideration since a draft is a version which is still being worked on. Isn't that how it should really be?
No, the EULA for those services is also quite explicative about this.
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If this means that there's going to be some hardware measures in the iPhone itself that would prevent multiple passcode entry attempts then that'd be good. Otherwise, as long there's that "troubleshooting" system that can update/reinstall the firmware without the passcode and all measures taken to prevent brute forcing the passcode out are built in the software, it's all talk. There's nothing enlightening in this article.
Of course it's a short-term marketing benefit. But, if the encryption is secure, then the marketing benefit is matching up with the customer benefit, so hey.
> Would the simulated human have real subjective experience? No
> way to find out as far as I can tell.

I think that once you hold the view that living beings aren't "magic",
that our behavior / wants / needs are just a result of the sum of our
hardware as it were, you'll quickly realize that talking about "real"
experiences doesn't make sense.

Extrapolating from a simpler system can help to give clarity,
e.g. does this Lego Robot who's running a complete simulation of a
round worm's neural network feel "real" hunger when its food sensory
neurons are stimulated?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_i1NKPzbjM

Some might have the knee-jerk reaction of saying something to the effect of "of course it's not real, it's just a simulation running on some robot, it's not actually hungry".

I think that falls apart when you consider the following: Suppose I had the technology to take an existing round worm and slowly replace its individual cells & copmonents with artificial equivalents, at what point would it stop having "real" feelings of hunger or anything else?

I think the only sensible answer is to realize that the question doesn't make any sense. No more than asserting that moving a computer program from one computer to another makes its execution any less "real".

> You can't even find out whether I have true subjective
> experience. Maybe I'm just a machine acting as if I do. So maybe
> it's a nonsensical question, but I have never found a satisfying
> explanation for why exactly it's a nonsensical question.

I think if we mapped your entire biology & neural network and uploaded
it to the proverbial Lego Robot we could easily find out a lot of
things about what's happening with your experience of the
world.

E.g. maybe you're in chronic pain, maybe you're hungry. Those things
are just the result of biological processes in your body &
brain. There's no reason to think subjective experience is anything
inherently different.

Edit: Added some clarifications.
Not sure if they fixed it in the meantime, but it work for me right now with client version 4.3.0.37.
swagger.io for the apis + README.md on each service's repo
Assuming we could stop this- the next 'Trade Alliance Agreement' coupe would then be named HHKQ ? The only way this repetition can be broken, is by the world agreeing on taxing the hell out of every organization that can try to usurp legitimate democratic structures..
I'm not sure I would understand my own description, let me go again: The transducer sends a modulated signal and receives the reflections. From the time difference information is gained. The signal is steered using beamforming as known from radar technology. This creates many different impulses that can be correlated from the received reflections.

The key is that the 1600 sells deliver more than one input over time, from a nonstatic signal, which is like shooting photos from different perspectives. I believe cell correlation or whatchamacallit is done in all kinds of variation for CCD data, too.
> If the deal is not done in secret, people'll complain about the draft terms before it is finalized.

You say this like it is something bad. That's the point of transparency.

It's like that old comic I just remembered, it depicts a guy in a ladder painting "Cofee" sign for a coffee shop and below him the owner is looking up at the typo and frowning and the painter said: "Jeez man, at least wait until it dries out!".