skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like an instance in which a small number of people could strongly affect an outcome - in which civil disobedience could matter.

For Apple to comply with the court's order would require some of its employees to act. If whoever at Apple is told to comply with the court's order declines to do so, then what? If every Apple employee asked to supply information to the FBI refuses, then what? If every coder Apple tries to hire to comply with the court order declines to come aboard...how will the FBI get what it wants?

Of course, those critical people would have to be willing to lose their jobs or not accept employment.

Long ago, Rosa Parks declined to give up her seat on the bus in favor of a white passenger. She was arrested for it, and we have a better country for her pains.

This is an opportunity for Parks v.2016 - if you're asked by Apple to do anything to comply with the court order, don't do it.
Except that "North Korea" isn't "most part of the world". Even a basic five-minute readout on any travel wiki would tell you that. This is a country that will send your whole family to slave labour if you remotely suggest something that might be regarded as against their supreme leader.
> On the other hand, "convenience" is a contrived reason to favor cashless transactions.

Fine. Prove it. Collect your pay in cash. Pay your rent in cash. Do all your shopping with cash.

Otherwise, lay off the fairy stories and moralising.
You know sometimes it's as simple as "a large group of people are ready for it."

Whatever Facebook touch turns to gold, right?

Except Facebook is less than 1/4 of this market.
'tl;dr' is often a troll response to a long post that that someone has obviously spent a lot of time on. Bonus troll-points if the long post was in response to another troll.

Example:

poster1: only retards use vi, notepad rules

poster2: huge list of reasons why vi is better than notepad

poster1: lol tldr
CSS architectures in 2016
>That's like saying public-key encryption is broken because we can brute force decryption.

No, that's like saying that public-key encryption will eventually be broken because at the end of the day its just about having enough brute force processing.

>When we talk about solving a game (or solving an optimization problem, etc), we aren't simply interested in whether the problem is computable.

No we aren't. But games of complete information that ARE computable, such as chess and GO can be removed from discussion. There is no question that these games of complete information are "solvable" with or without AI, since every move, from start to finish, can be calculated before the game even begins - its just a matter of processing power.

Which brings us to the question of AI and games of incomplete information. By definition full-ring no-limit hold-em is not computable. Even with infinite processing power, with every possible permutation calculated, there is no guarantee that a brute-force computer player is going to win full-ring no-limit hold-em. If there are multiple unknown players to act behind you, there is no way to compute with certainty what the outcome will be. This is where AI becomes really interesting as far as gaming is concerned.
It's obviously impossible to know what Fermat actually had, but consensus has always been that Fermat may have had a proof in mind, but almost certainly not a correct one.
> However, training is critical.

After the Great Alaska quake of 1964 two people died in Crescent City. After the first wave hit they went back to check on things and then got caught by a second wave.

Crescent City, CA is 2400km from Anchorage AK.
His Wikipedia page uses similar language with more detail:

"On February 29, 2016 he confessed to stealing a piece of North Korean propaganda from his hotel's staff-only section to take back to the United States as a "trophy" for someone willing to recompense him with a $10,000 reward."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Frederick_Warmbier
Firmware seems overly restrictive - I thought drone rules were only to ask ATC if inside controlled airspace. Unless there's temporary airspace restrictions you should be OK.

Runway is typically set depending on the prevailing winds. Obviously if it's a single runway GA airport you only get two choices. If it's two or three runway, the active runway can change any time with the wind direction, and the pattern adjusts.

There's a few other factors that may influence the exclusion.

First is the VFR GA circuit (pattern) - which is 1000ft agl. You fly a rectangle - parallel to the runway, turn left, left again and you're on approach. You want as little as possible around you as it's a period of high workload doing landing checks, and other GA pilots will be joining and leaving the circuit, usually from the side. You'll be well outside the threshold for most of it. You're already scanning for potential impacts, but the traffic is arranged such that nothing should be coming at you, or from below you - they're the really difficult ones to spot.

If the weather is crap and the cloudbase lowers you'll do bad weather circuits - perhaps down to 500ft. You;ll be a lot tighter in to the field though.

Second, you'll sometimes extend circuit, usually downwind, to avoid commercial, military or heavy traffic (737 747 etc). ATC will sometimes (rarely) send you off in a random direction to keep separation with commercial or a heavy. You should still be circuit height agl though.

Commercial IFR stuff won't be mucking about in the pattern at 1000ft agl of course.

I doubt many drones are big enough to show on radar.

So a couple of miles out there shouldn't be anything at 500ft agl to the sides of the runway, unless something something exceptional is going on.

If it's a GA airfield like some of the more rural unmanned US ones, where you're the only thing in the sky, it's stupidly restrictive. If it's the airfield I learnt to fly at, with many aircraft in constant movement and two heleports, I don't want any more dots to scan for thanks very much.

It's probably more dangerous in whichever local area the instructors use to practice engine failures and emergency landings. Often a local beach or farm fields near the airfield, and usually uncontrolled airspace.

I'm guessing the rules are to try and limit things in the sky near airfields to those who know what they're doing, contact ATC, read NOTAMs and METARs, not scaring the students on their first solo and what have you.
> The campaign underscores the vital role that smart browsing plays in staying secure online. One of the most important things users can do is to decrease what researchers refer to as their "attack surface." That means uninstalling things like Adobe Flash, Oracle Java, Microsoft Silverlight, and other third-party browser extensions unless absolutely necessary...

Funny how Ars doesn't mention the fact that using a good ad blocker would also be immensely helpful. In fact, it almost sounds like they're saying NOT to run an ad blocker, since it is a third party extension.

At the end of the day, if the companies relying on advertising don't even know who they're getting their ads from, why should I let them risk MY IDENTITY for their profit?

I get that I'm visiting their site and they're producing the content that I was there for (in some cases), but if I have to worry about every single link I may follow then I'm going to take steps to protect myself. When I encounter a company that is acting ethically (like StackOverflow, off the top of my head) I make sure they get added to the whitelist.

I can't rely on disabling JS if I also want to enjoy using the 'net, so I do the best thing that I have available, kill the third party ad network requests.
Pregnant T. rex may contain the holy grail of all dinosaur fossils: DNA
A valid point, but even realistic metal isn't necessarily easy. The volumetrically diffuse reflections (that actually get sharper as geometry approaches them) you see of the robot prisoner's arms on some of the walls haven't been possible in real-time until only very recently, and is clearly a new feature Unity is showing off here.

What's most interesting to me, though, is the Unity logo at the end, which I assume must be showing off engine capabilities as well. It makes heavy use of sub-surface scattering, which is of critical importance to lifelike skin and faces.
> I'm always surprised at the lack of enthusiasm for VR and AR on HN.

"Less storage than a Nomad. Lame."
On the downside it's not nice for the student and a pain for US negotiators trying to get him out. On the other hand it may help throw some light on the issues of the 150,000–200,000 prisoners incarcerated in various prison camps, who don't get the press coverage.
You really should publish and share the published version of Google docs unless the users needs to edit the shared version.
Congrats to Etsy. Last year at PlanGrid we adopted 12-week paid leave with the same gender-blind policy that applies in the case of adoptions, etc.

I wish I had worked here when my little ones were born. My employer at the time (a multi-national software company in the bay area) offered leave in CA but those living elsewhere got nothing besides FMLA (meaning only women and only six paid weeks, along with burning all vacation time). Being the dad I got nothing.
They could but then they would have to pay more than current 'market' rate for senior engineers in Australia.

This makes importing talent much less attractive, as they may as well just hire local (so long as the talent exists in the local talent pool - which it does).
When I do fixup commits, I often think there will be no conflict when it gets rebased but it turns out there is. Do you not worry about mistakes entering at this (post-review) stage?
Well I'm glad at least a few people on HN still appreciate the finer things cash provides! Try worrying about muggers with other forms of payment!

What's interesting to me is how far ahead some poorer societies are than us in the cash department. Such as in Africa. They have gone all mobile payments and eschew the local currencies.
I do agree that hiding bandwidth and source is reasonable use-case, but then you don't really need to know about service jurisdiction, logging policies, activism, etc. So I just seriously wonder why anyone who actually care about real privacy and logging would use public services.
I guarantee job offers and a gofundme legal defense would be offered to any dissenting employees insanely quickly on this issue.

If Tim Cook was really upset he could start a new company called "Screw the FBI LLC" which coincidentally hired employees after they got fired from Apple...
Re: 1

No, the government can acknowledge that it cannot compel Apple to do anything. This is in violation of all four points of the All Writs Act. It's really not even close. This is such a strange situation to try to shove into this legal framework.

Re: 2

Even if the search warrant was properly issued, the All Writs act cannot be used to expand jurisdiction to an area where the Federal Government doesn't already have it. The matter of security features on a private phone made by an entity who is not a party in this case is a rock-solid example.

Re: 3

I, and Apple, and most legal scholars who have looked at this case do not believe this order to be particularly restricted. We are talking about forcing a company to rethink a crucial engineering decision on a complex piece of equipment and dedicate engineering effort to rewrite software in such a way that is completely at odds with the needs of the customer.

Your argument is basically akin to saying, "well, they aren't saying they're going to personally kill Apple employees who don't comply, so this is actually a very moderate request."

Re: what the government needs to do if it wants to stay relevant:

You are mistaken if you think that these wild hypotheticals are the way that we make law. Nobody cares about the bizarre narrative of a kidnapper at an airport; case law is made exclusively on the basis of actual case or controversy.

In the scenario you describe, you will sadly probably succeed at an act of horrific violence; I am not moved by your suggestion that the government will be able to stop this action even if the All Writs act did apply in this situation. This is the (relatively small) price of freedom. We live in a country where one is more likely to be killed by a falling vending machine than a terrorist act, but neither is a good enough reason to completely rethink the basis of our legal system.
A couple of those phrases just didn't sound right, as if they weren't picked by a native speaker. "...their treatment of severe criminals like myself and of their fair and square legal procedures in the DPR Korea"

As well as how awkwardly he walked in and bowed. Perhaps that's how people of the DPRK bow, but I've never seen that before.
Build an island somewhere?

Sure, why not? Put that $200B cash reserve to use.
It's not that no-one wants to move to Australia, it's just they don't want to move to Sydney...
xpra is basically screen/tmux but for X11 sessions.

https://xpra.org/
NK is pioneer for 4:3 video technologies. Only America uses inferior 16:9.
I think even the amount to transfer and who to transfer to should be automated. The app should just know who visited the restaurant and the menu would already have the prices. You just choose what to order/buy and it's charged, just like on Amazon etc. Once we abolish tips everything will become automatic!!
I made a Brackets Extension that helps you debug JavaScript
no it's not. it's very hard to write a slow application if you know the minimum about how the browser/vm handles your data.

very few cases excluded (e.g. scrolling issues on Android of old) it's nothing but a case of bad developers not having a clue. their code will be slow regardless of the framework because they use the wrong data structure, or render on the wrong step. simple as that.

then changing framework means dropping several features until they are ported, which means less code, which means faster code... until all features are back in. then, rinse, apply framework du jour, repeat.
This is one of those rare things that seems so obvious and simple yet awesome that I immediately slap myself in the face for not thinking of it already. Great idea :)
At this point, photorealism isn't so much a question of hardware limitations as one of scene complexity and interactivity.

If you have a simple enough subject to start with, and bake enough lighting and shadow mapping into the textures, you can make a photorealistic scene on even previous-generation console hardware. Once you start adding more objects, and allowing more things to move, you start needing to calculate more in real time, and you need more processing and rendering power.

A room with a table and a teapot could probably be made photorealistic on a PS3, even at 90 FPS. A densely populated street with moving cars and pedestrians, however, would have to be fairly visually abstracted to hit that target even on a PS4.
Apple/Tim have already made it abundantly clear that they will follow the law. If you read the briefing, it makes it clear that every reasonable legal argument you can make agrees with Apples position.
The analysis itself could be IMMENSELY useful in things like typesetting. There's a whole assortment of stylistic rules based on rather subtle things (e.g. the space between initials is usually slightly smaller) and they're rather hard to automate. If it were possible to parse and tag text like that, it may give way to advanced typesetting algorithms.

By the way, syntax highlighting works for code only as long as you see the same color scheme. If the scheme changes, the benefit is lost.
Is there any way to filter by the values? Namely average length and frequency? Other than by eyeballing, of course.
You may wish for that bulky wallet back after living in a world where cash is banned and NIRP is ubiquitous.
> Saying that Tor is just a LEA honey-trap is just plain FUD.

Explain why the FBI has been able to unmask nearly every high profile hidden service operator they go after then? Each time it's a different strategy, and they have all been incredibly effective. Some relied on bugs in Tor, others on broken tools used to access it, others on poor UX that encourages operational security failures. Russian intelligence ran their own set of exit nodes for a period and replaced all executable downloads with malware! You are objectively less safe using the public Tor network.

I don't think the concept of "crowding" is a recognized security property of a system. At least, I've never seen it used before. The way that single-hop commercial VPN services "crowd" people together creates a massive liability. The way that Tor allows anyone on their public network creates a free-for-all where you're exposed to more surveillance and more malicious code (entry/exit node manipulation). Each of these offer straightforward targets for a slow, lumbering, resourced attacker to eventually completely compromise with users none the wiser.
The Enchiridion
I would disagree. When typing Danish on a phone I started realizing how many different words differs by a single neighboring keystroke on qwerty in Danish and how this is actually a big cause of typos.

Qwerty really does shine on a smartphone, for English.
Try "Kalzumeus" or "Patrick McKenzie", although I will definitely take a whack at my metadata in response to this comment. (I use "Perhaps better known as patio11" as a self-deprecating joke and forget that it is actually literally true when making consequential decisions like e.g. metadata, registering domain names, etc. Someone got patio11.com and transferred it to me, shocked that I hadn't thought of that. I'm shocked, too.)
This does look like an interesting protocol, but Signal almost certainly wants offline contact discovery.
I get that we have mouths, vocal chords, lungs, brains, etc. It simply shocks me that some fellow humans use them to ridicule those things.. Once machines start making fun of us as they heal themselves (something we can do too.. go Life), I believe I'll get their humor, or what have you. I wonder if with their "big brains" some of them will still feel so inclined to speak unkindly about Earth's chemicals and processes that their bodies use.
If you can give some idea of the client code / API that you are expecting, I might be able to give some view on that.
I've done it all in cash in the past. It's not "hard". It's only thought of as inconvenient because we've been raised to think so. Now, some of those things are no longer easy due to incumbent "automation" [automatic deposit, for example]. I have had cash jobs in the past. It's not a "game changer" It removes friction, yes, but it's not in the same league as curing disease, bringing about equality or reducing pollution, etc. --the big things that matter in improving life.

There are many, many apps out there to facilitate many things, to reduce friction. You know the two that matter most to me [other than telephony]? Navigation (maps) and Yelp (or similar) [finding food, entertainment]. Most other things can wait till I get to the office or get back home. I detest the idea of being electronically "tethered" into always on attention.
There is plenty of such "review sites" on internet already and main problem with them is trust. Overall Joe simply don't need your website since he don't know how VPN works at all and just use some exe installer from website. So he don't need all these geeky details to decide use service or not.

For more skilled internet user any affiliate links and weirdly-designed redirections trying to hide them is usually no-go BS.
Honestly the most impressive part to me was being able to convey a story of "human somehow put into a machine" pretty much only through physical acting. That's not something you see every day in video games.
Yes. They were/are heavily focused on Enterprise features.
It's all very well to say "It should mean what it says.", but this is just begging the question - frequently what it says is imprecise, so the meaning is open to interpretation. In the case of the All Writs Act, for example, the Supreme Court found a three-pronged test in New York Telephone.

It's precisely because it is a very broad law that it should be construed narrowly - in this case, that it is intended to be able to compel the co-operation of parties with some real involvement in a case, not to authorise open-ended civil conscription in service of the judicial branch.
Do you honestly think Rosa Parks risking her life and limb to protest racial injustice is even remotely equivalent to an engineer at Apple refusing to comply with a court order to look at the information on the iPhone's of the two nut jobs that killed:

Shannon Johnson
Bennetta Bet-Badal
Aurora Godoy
Isaac Amanios
Larry Kaufman
Harry Bowman
Yvette Velasco
Sierra Clayborn
Robert Adams
Nicholas Thalasinos
Tin Nguyen
Juan Espinoza
Damian Meins
Michael Wetzel

?

Listen, I understand you feel passionate about securing your privacy, but it would likely help your case to keep things a little more in perspective
Subsistence farmers by definition don't need loans.

So you could see in theory how it could allow them to get out of subsistence farming.

IE Buy tools they can't afford that would allow them to increase yield to pay for the loan and profit to send kids to school or something.

But the reality is microfinance has always been available, called things like loan sharks. Yet they have stayed poor.

So you need to think why this microfinance would work.

Some microfinance bring training with the loan for instance.

Lowing the interest % is the equivalent to giving them money direct, which has some evidence it works.

But I tend to agree "microfinance" itself doesn't work.
CryEngine V released
Apple's response addresses almost every point you bring up, so I'm guessing you didn't read it. Which is probably why you're posting with a throwaway account.
Putting “house” in blue reminds me of House of Leaves, a book that plays with formatting & typography in unusual ways…

very minor spoilers

…as it descends into madness (blank pages, words in spirals, backwards characters, single-character pages, overlaid paragraphs…). The very first unusual formatting in the book, and spit-take surprising to me as I wasn't expecting anything unusual at all, was simply printing the word “house” in blue. A fun read, thanks for reminding me of it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves#Colors
There's RCL which is a lisp interface to R.

https://common-lisp.net/project/rcl/

A bit long in tooth but might get you what you want.
You can either shut yourself off from it and cement yourself into "oldman" oblivion, or actually try to understand why these tools exist.
I'm not sure what you mean about those systems not talking to each other? I can take my Australian PayWave cards (which are actually Visa, Mastercard & Amex) and use them in Singapore and across Europe. I was using them in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria & Slovakia.

Cashless makes travelling easier. It's far easier than managing different currency for each country: SEK, DKK, SGD, EUR, AUD, some USD for those US trips, and all the small change you can't get rid of in each country. Why not use the same tap-to-pay cards that you use when at home, considering they work everywhere?

If you mean receiving money from someone while travelling, perhaps that is a more awkward case right now. But Paypal seems to work across many countries.
Gmail Redesign concept
The refresh rate does not necessarily match 1:1 with the frame rate. You can display the same frame multiple times, and this is actually what Sony is doing.
> Who here honestly thought neural networks were going to be a dominant force in board game AI?

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

Neural networks are an algorithmically simple way to approximate any mathematical function. So, really, why _wouldn't_ you think this?

Ultimately, almost all boardgames can be reduced to mathematical functions.