skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I said, Apple shouldn't have made this "golden key" possible. That's on them.

Same thing for the juniper backdoor.

It should be up to the government to tighten up internet infrastructure security. I really don't see any initiative to do so, and it's the same thing for most businesses: there are no "security standard", mainly because all those communication technologies are very new, and a little too complex for engineers to think about making rules about them.

Ultimately, the law will say the last word, because that's how things work. I don't think tech companies should do what they want in all the countries of the world. If apple doesn't comply with the FBI, that same kind of story will happen later for another company in another country.

My point is that all those technology are new, so there is this vacuum which makes it impossible to really define things or protect yourself.

All those could be solved if there were better security standards, or any standard at all, no data centralization (all internet is structurally centralized), and more consumer awareness. P2P techs are already quite secure, and would make things very difficult for intelligence agencies.
Damnit. I am old and slow.
even when you hit the end of that toner cartridge there is a small hack to get you another at least 50 pages, the brother printers use some kinda beam sensor that passes through the cartridge if the printer detects this is unbroken the cartridge must be empty because there is no toner all you do is block this there a small clear plastic window on the cartridge reboot the printer and you're good to go. you may get faded pages after a while try shaking the cartridge a bit.

also people just don't buy inkjet printers if your printing patterns are limited to just a few prints a month there always just going to dry out go with the laser printers they use toner and never dry out.
The whole document or just a preview? I'm on a phone and Scribd wants to install an app...
It's a self-correcting problem: as more investors place money in passive funds, fewer eyeballs look for opportunities where the consensus price is wrong. That means that there's less competition for these opportunities, which both increases your chances of finding them and increases the returns to finding them. Eventually, active investing becomes fashionable again, because the returns are real and measurably higher, and the cycle repeats.

It may be contributing to greater wealth inequality, though: if you look at basically anyone who has become fabulously wealthy in the last couple decades, it's because they saw a profit opportunity that others were unwilling or unable to exploit. The primary form of unwillingness is "It's too risky..."
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It is NOT the same cycle.
Every life is different.
So what the people learned 500 years ago made sense for them - but they would face a hard time now.
Our knowledge of daily living will be mostly obsolete in 200 (or much less) years, too.

Fresh minds don't have the burden of outdated ideas... quoting Max Planck: "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
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When I was in high-school, reading a lot of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kant, and Stoics, I got the idea that if you thought hard about a difficult issue and couldn't decide on your stance, then you should just throw a coin and go with it as if it was coming from your heart. It worked pretty well.
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I hate printers in general. After all these years, manufacturers still haven't come up with a standard communication interface that would allow me to just plug in the printer and have my OS detect and use it without issue. Instead, especially with Epson printers, I have to download some awful crap-ware driver, which supports all OS versions up to the one right before the one I'm currently running.
Also, printer user interfaces are consistently incomprehensible. I had a Brother 5070N for a long time, ended up giving it away. It was almost impossible to tell what the few problems it had were. I made the mistake of getting a Canon Pixma 3520. 5 LEDs and 4 buttons as a user interface for something that hooks up to a wireless network, and has all kinds of physical things to do to it? You've got to be kidding. Unfortunately, that's typical for printer state-of-the-art. LEDs and push buttons. What a joke.
Vendors actually hard-code "I'm dry and won't print anymore" kill-switch into chip on cartridge as protection against regeneration. You may refill your cart, but if kill-switch went on already, your printer will not print anyway claiming dry cartrigde.

I've actually experienced this on HP printer, and quick Google search shows that I'm not alone in this:
http://www.gadgetspage.com/comps-peripheral/hp-printer-consp...
> Sometime around 1982 or ’83, the philosopher Janet Radcliffe Richards moved from London to Oxford, having ended her first marriage. She had become well known a few years earlier for writing “The Skeptical Feminist,” a fierce attack on anti-rational tendencies in the women’s movement, and was teaching philosophy of science at the Open University. She was very beautiful and very feminine. She attended a seminar that Parfit was teaching. She had never encountered anyone like him: he was obviously a strange person, but not in any of the usual ways. Afterward, Amartya Sen, a friend, who was co-teaching the seminar, greeted her, and, when she left, Parfit asked Sen who she was.

D.P.: I read some of Sam Scheffler’s recent work and he’s arguing that people care about the future of humanity much more than they realize. And I think that’s right, actually.
J.R.R.: The Future of Humanity Institute people keep talking about engineering humans to make them more moral.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Humanity_Institute says it was founded in 2005. Does anyone know what she could have been referring to in the 80s?
They are still responsible for the non-free license on the TianoCore; Intel are having to negotiate with Microsoft to change the license, despite being the copyright holder.

Agreed re not using UEFI. I wouldn't touch CoreBoot though, LibreBoot seems more sane.
Can someone explain to me why I would want to use either over px? I just don't get it.

"One of the best practices to typography on the web is to use relative units like rem and em.", it says, but why?? I get as a general philosophy that relative might be preferable over absolute, the way you prefer relative paths in your build system. But "relative" in this case means relative to the font size which is either specified or the default, both which makes s using absolute values just as valid and easier to comprehend..?
It's ahead of its time.

As lines blur between nations and international commerce becomes routine, there will be a need for global currency not subject to an individual nation's laws.
I've got a HP PSC1215 that is 10+ years old, and don't agree with all of your complaints.

1. Cartridges last about 200 pages, which isn't great (I use a laserjet for anything I don't need in colour, so personally not a huge issue). They are rated for 500ish pages, so YMMV.

2. Never had this issue - I've had cartridges in for over a year, and they've still worked fine

3. Not the best of comparisons, as the printers often ship with 'trial' cartridges that contain much less ink than the replacements. That said, a set of Black+Colour cartridges will cost me about £30 (a little expensive really), or a third-party/refilled set will be about £15 (always worked fine for me; YMMV).

4. Never had this issue - I used it as a scanner recently without any cartridges in at all and it worked fine.

5. It's noisy when printing. I hadn't encountered any major bugs - mostly used with OS X, so can't really comment on Windows driver quality.
Go was created to do what Google does - server side software run in huge data centers. C++ was too bug-prone, and Python was too slow. Go has the right feature set for that job. Google then provided good libraries for most of the things you'd want to do on a server. It lets mid-level programmers do competent work without much trouble.

It's not a great choice for operating system development, real time work, client side code, graphics, games, supercomputing, or "frameworks". That's OK. For the job it was designed to do, the features are there.
You could make the same argument against, oh, I dunno, medicine. Or libraries. Supermarkets (freeing us from all farming our own food). Anything that reduces adversity for anyone.

I propose a counter-statement: removing adversity is good, the goodest thing there is.
Your last question is a good one. How can we set up checks and balances so that the surveillance apparatus cannot be misused? This is particularly important in our democracy, where the whims of the people might favor misusing it from time to time. I have ideas. Not that anyone's asking me.
Ah OK gotcha.. I need to do some more reading on this it seems. Thank you.
A train has free will but still has to go where the tracks are laid down - that's my philosophy.
Much more than then "stupid" human used, I guess.
So for now, we are at least much more energy-efficient ...
Well don't buy inkjet printers.

Although manufacturers might pick up on that and start doing the same for laser printers...
"All that is needed is to figure a way, to make neural networks handle the flow of thoughts of human consciousness."

Good luck with that!
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Something I suspected was the case but hadn't heard the term - or seen any research on.

In SF the battle is over what will happen in the next 5 to 10 years. In that context it is politically dangerous to support market rate "luxury" housing. On a longer timeline this is the only thing that will make a serious dent.

Instead they are pushing for 25% of all developments to be affordable housing, which will retard the whole market and worsen the problem.
Yeah but Moore's law is dead now so that really doesn't say much anymore.
Such an AI would also do a great job of making people sad, or terrified, or numb, depending on just what motivated it. I don't find that reassuring.
> there seems to be no shortage of awesome websites that serve their purpose

This is not an effort to defeat the web, just to provide a security-oriented application platform that sits alongside it.

It appears Crockford's time at PayPal has led to this focus?

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So what? Why is it important that OpenWhisperSystems is partnered with WhatsApp? Can you trust these people?
They don't sound like troll tweets.

Indeed, one could say there's a certain air of emotional authenticity to them.
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This isn't just consumer grade printers. At work we have a number of large scale plotters and they all stink. Our main is a HP DesignJet T1300 44-inch wide plotter. Even it refuses to print if any of the 6 inks are too low or the heads are 'needing to be replaced'.

The software on it is absolutely brutal too, it has a resistive touch screen as it's primary input and it's incredibly slow to page through. On top of that, if you try to speed things along (for example, pre-opening the paper roll cover before manually paging through to the 'replace paper' menu link) it will complain and refuse to do what you ask until you start back at the beginning.

I have had nothing but trouble, and these are multi-thousand dollar printers.
In another words totalitarian governments should be reformed. Laws did not come into existence on their own. They were implemented by governments that don't respect the will of the people.
Most Linux desktop distributions have plenty of elements that were popularised by Microsoft, like start buttons and task bars. As the parent says, we could go on endlessly debating who copied who, and if we cared to do our research we would have to conclude that most things were invented by previous guys anyways, people like Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson and Doug Engelbart.
Is it just me, or has there been a series of articles specifically putting Vanguard in the crosshairs lately? Between this and the ridiculous attempt to blame Vanguard for being too efficient and charging too little in overhead, I'm starting to wonder if there's a specific campaign going on here.

Vanguard is definitely at the forefront of advocating "just put your money in an index fund and wait, don't try to time the market". There's a huge amount of money behind the alternative that will suffer if more people follow that advice. Media campaigns are, on that scale, relatively inexpensive.
The trick is to just collect and store data at exabyte scales like Google or the NSA.

That way when there's a breach, it's impractical for the attackers to exfiltrate the complete dataset because the target probably represents a non-trivial percentage of the world's storage capacity.

The attackers can filter the data, but surely someone's going to notice ten thousand machines whirring away at odd MapReduce queries.
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But that wasn't based on the performance of AG but sumlsr AIs
13" macbook pro retina 2013 for daily use and remote work i.e. business travel

old 13" macbook air 2012 for weekend trips (this was my primary until it got a little too sluggish for daily use)

the air is still much easier to travel with which is why i take it when i don't need full horsepower on the road. the small difference in weight makes a huge difference when lugging it around. both are ssd.
Why? How is it any different than applying agency to an NPC?

"He threw the grenade into the jeep" doesn't sound crazy to me when referencing the choices of an AI. The I Ching just requires a human computer to execute world ticks.

Astrology is just really old computer games about life for a really crusty computing platform.
Work on whatever you want to work on. If you're interested in nanotechnology, by all means, go work on it. But why should we design the world to force others to labor in ways they'd rather not under threat of destitution (starvation, homelessness, etc.), if we could instead allow people freedom from this bondage?

The way the world works now is that the wealthy are free to spend their time however they like, and the poor are forced to work on the projects the wealthy want worked on, regardless of their own interests, just to stay alive. Is this it? Are we done here? Is this the world we want?
The talk linked from this post was pretty easy to digest, perhaps you should watch the whole thing before asking what it's about?

The television-standards bit, while probably longer than necessary, was meant to drive home the point that the responsibility for improving application security on the Internet should not be placed with the user.
This is not true, I owned a 700$ multifunction printer scanner, copier, everythinger and it required me to hack the cartridges to print black, it always put shitty yellow tracking dots on all printouts. Don't send more business to Brother.

They have the worst software (on printer and in driver) of any printer company I have come across. Their driver installers download random bits from IP addresses in Japan with zero encryption. The hardware is stellar, the software is cringe worthy.
> It seems likely (via whatever channels) that the attack could have been averted with more intel that was unavailable due to encryption.

If you don't mind answering, why does it seem likely? (You're welcome to answer that you don't want to talk further about the specific incident, or even say which specific incident it was.) I ask because my estimate of the prior probability of this actually being the case is quite low.

> My friend knows that I'm against back-doors and government invasion of privacy. What do I tell him in consolation?

Being against back-doors and government invasion of privacy doesn't preclude also being against terrorism. (I'm against both.) So you can still tell him that you're sorry he lost his family, and that you hope the people responsible are caught and punished.
Solid resource but ultimately this kind of stuff plays a very small part in rankings. Targeting the correct keywords and building backlinks are what it's all about. This article came out not long ago, thought it was really good.

http://www.siegemedia.com/strategy/increase-website-traffic
AlphaGo's algorithms will generalize easily to other perfect information games, including ones that include randomness like Backgammon. Games with imperfect information will take some more advances, but AlphaGo just opened up a lot of interesting potential paths, so there's a decent chance someone pursuing one of those will find something quickly.

The sheer amount of computing power that AlphaGo needs will be a problem for games as complicated as Go for people who aren't Google. There will probably be more activity in simpler games with interesting properties.

Non-game applications will require a fully formalized set of rules. The fact that formalizing what you want is hard is the reason we need programmers in the first place, so nothing fundamentally different there.
Because we needed to share ideas over a medium where images depictions coded in BMP, JPG or GIF were probably slow and by setting a set of "most probable images" and mapping them to a letter we can always perform the transmission using old loved ASCII to concepts... precached on your HDD in every windows install....

Did the penguin had it?
HP Pavillion 17.3 inch, 8GB RAM. Got it a year and half ago for about $350.

I like it. I'm a back-end web developer(php, node.js, python) that likes using Windows. Everyone else at work is on Macs.
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How does this work with digital stores (Steam/App Store/Play Store)? Do you even get that data from them as a developer?
The problem isn't pushing an agenda (which I think everyone agrees is fine), it's adding something subjective with no legal definition to your license.

Since no one can say objectively "we do good", you're banking on not getting sued or having enough money and time to defend the lawsuit, which makes it unpalatable to many people.

Additionally, it makes it non-free software, by definition, so a lot of distros can't include it or anything that depends on it.
Overpopulation in terms of running out of space is definitely overplayed. But it's a direct multiplier for our effect on the environment. If the world's population were cut in half, we'd emit about half as much pollution, half as much greenhouse gas, half the land used for farming would be left wild, etc.
England is still higher than the rest of Europe, I think.
I'm punished the same no matter what personal sacrifices I do - or don't - make out of concern for other people and a desire to make a difference.

If the people I'm trying to help are going to actively punish me for trying to help them, I'm going to quickly conclude they don't want my help. I was taught that it's incredibly rude to force help on people who don't want it. Since that is indeed what's happening, it's clearly time for me to stop trying to help.

Thank you for helping me to this moment of moral clarity. I really do mean that sincerely.
That sounds like the HFT is providing a better bid-ask spread.
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What I mean is that the IBM Watson deals effectively deals with semantic information.

You can make some analogies between sparse matrix data representations and what happens in the mammalian neocortex. It is of course not self conscious, but it effectively deals with semantic information and relationships among it.
Dang!

It's your place to do so, and I'd probably get more work done if you did, but even reading the complaint there are inconsistencies:

1. She says she was a virgin when she met the guy in the US
2. She was inducted into sex trafficking before she moved to the US
3. They maintained an amicable relationship over text

This is just according to her. And I don't need to tell a smart dude like you that these are allegations, and not facts.

"haha" is insensitive, for sure, but she was traveling with him to foreign countries as a personal escort and got $10 million as a result. I'm inclined to believe the extortion angle.
"Motivated" is a weird word, it anthropomorphises the machine. It will do what it's programmed to do. It doesn't have a personality.

Formally specifying what we actually wanted is why programmers have a job. And the difficulty of that is why we have bugs. So that's still scary. But it's not the machine's choice in any way
I'm assuming this is on Windows? Because I've never had to install anything on a Mac for it to work with a brother printer...
> is a totally incorrect thing to do in practice

Can you elaborate on this? I understand that there are many sources of entropy for random number generation, and it seems like this would be as good a way as any to store* a pool of some for future use.

(* Is it that the storage is the inherent problem?)
I think this is a great (and very overlooked) in depth assessment of the significance of this advance http://www.milesbrundage.com/blog-posts/alphago-and-ai-progr...

I do feel that given all the hype and speculation about strong AI researchers in Deep Learning should really come forward to contextualize the real impact of this - which I think is not all that great.
Creator of the project here. First off, thanks for posting this. Secondly, this project is mainly an experiment, and not completely suited for everyday usage. If you want something similar but without the whole filesystem malarkey check out http://wmutils.io which is a set of programmes for manipulating x windows. Also a warning that x11fs only works standalone and will interfere with most WMs, however I do plan to add an ewmh mode in the future to allow for using it alongside a wm.
Or just give them no-strings-attached digital cash (ie some sort of credit card) and track it to learn about what people do when unsupervised. I will admit to being an optimist, but my understanding is that there's a history of paternal policy being oversimplistic, and of people solving their own problems in clever and unexpected ways when given the latitude to do so :)
I feel like targeted index funds solve this problem. People make coarser judgements about what "the market" actually means and which markets they actually want to buy into... It's sort of semi-passive. You make decisions on the timescale of financial strategy sessions, which is fine.... You can be an infrequent signal, as long as you are a rational signal you are good for the economy.
It may surprise you to hear that most citizens do not care about privacy, and actually support government surveillance, for a variety of reasons. If you want a simple gauge of whether the public supports a measure without wanting to read through polls, just look for a signing ceremony, and the date of passage. Unpopular or politically risky things (like releasing Hillary Clinton's e-mails) are done just before major holidays or events, and popular measures are enacted Monday-Wednesday on a quiet week (, whereas the largest group of Clinton's e-mails were released the day before the Super Bowl).
You're anthropomorphising the machine. An AI will do what it's programmed to do, not develop free will and decide on its own destiny.

Correctly programming something that takes into account all of the nuances of the human condition might be impossible, and the results of mistakes are uniformly terrifying, but the result is entirely in the hands of humans (and human mistakes).
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