skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is behind the recent cashless movement? Which group? Who wants to profit? The huge population who will be on the looser side, is evident.

It's not surprising that lesser educated people would find it convenient to not have cash. Though those don't understand what they would loose in the first place. Cash means freedom, no one can spy on what you spend your money on. And a big part of the money is still spend every day in the real world on location, and the smaller part online. Also cash cannot loose value as easily over night or even vanish without a trace (banks are private and can go bankrupt). It's very easy to keep track of your spending, when you use cash for all location payments (banks of course would like to loan you money). And remember, there was a time when banks were a new thing, and to catch consumers they provided bank accounts and services for free. Back then, you got your money from your employer in cash. Suddenly, employers started to pay out the money only to bank accounts you were locked in to the back system and of course they started to charge you for bank account and all their "services" incl ATM and cards.
Not likely.

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

Although, Obama's administration did secure the release of journalists in 2009:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_imprisonment_of_American_...
For those curious, here's his full press conference (1) presented in glorious 4:3 aspect ratio. This is obviously prior to recent sentencing:

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCZvgY1NGXU
Defy Ventures – Prison Entrepreneurship – YC/Kahn A. For Prisons
Looks like so much of work put into list, but I still wonder why on Earth anyone would use 3rd party service especially one based in weird jurisdiction for anything other than torrents download?

Likely every service with questionable legal status (e.g all that state there is no logging going) does analyse all bandwidth for it's own needs and clearly going to steal everything they can. Even TOR exit nodes are more secure since you at least know they can't be trusted by default.

What advantage is there over own servers that is unlikely monitored by default and still dirt cheap?
I went as an American in October 2005 (before that, yeah -- Americans had not been allowed.)
Well, of course not all things that benefit one group benefit everyone overall, and not everything which benefits Apple benefits us.

That doesn't mean that our interests don't somewhat align with those of Apple in this case.

Iirc, the Magna Carta was one of the first to establish the limitation of the powers of kings, though the direct benefeciaries were not the common persons.

Analogously, I think this conflict , if it ends in Apple's favor, helps reinforce limits on the powers of the government.

Is that not true?

An individual, or a group of a few common people could not win against the government in a situation like this, just as the common people could not have gotten something like the Magna Carta.

It seems analogous?
Sure, which is why proprietary solutions are ultimately doomed if USG continues down its totalitarian path. But it would have been a tougher legal battle to constrain what types of software can be written in general, compared to just compelling Apple to unlock one specific device of interest using an existing backdoor. And it seems like once the easier precedent has been set, the worse one will be a much shorter leap.
Reliving memories seems like a much more powerful drug when streamed directly to your retina just as you experienced it.

I'm pretty sure it requires a whole other level of nostalgia to be immersed and get lost in transcribed texts of the audio of an event.

Not that I'm saying the latter is what the tech will remain like, but at least at first that's what it will probably look like.
All programming is proof. You just don't often know what exactly it is you're proving.

Anyway, the point is moot: software is not that reliable. It's good at the common case, and is very brittle at the edge cases. That's my experience anyway.
It was meant tongue in cheek. I honestly don't hate anyone.
There is the possibility the excessive sentence is to make him into in to a negotiation pawn. NK now has one more pawn to play whenever something comes up with the US [perh. by extension JP]
In their slide decks they showed a 60->120 mode based on frame doubling plus asynchronous time warping (so head movement is partially taken into account). I don't think they actually allow you to run it below 90hz.
>> "You’ll be able to package your application and distribute it like any other desktop application, complete with an installer and auto-updates."

Yep, Electron is excellent. However, Electron is built on top of V8 and V8 does not provide a way to protect the JS source. More than the technical problem this becomes legal issue for businesses that want to develop applications/tools rapidly with electron.

refer: https://github.com/atom/electron/issues/2570

Cons of other options that I know:
1. Obfuscation is not ideal to hide the source from competitors.

2. Writing nodejs modules in C++ is not so easy way. Once could prefer to develop entire app with C++ than the learning curve associated with node modules in C++.

3. V8 snapshots maybe a way to go with nw.js. But doesn't work great and it is hard to isolate issues while packaging.

4. EncloseJS looks promising. There is no company behind it and no guarantee it will be supported. (I personally have been following up with issues in packaging an open source app with encloseJS. No luck so far with support.

5. nexe is interesting. But not easy and no clear way to work with it.

What are your opinions? Any alternatives?

P.S: I'm framing a base with Java (most likely C++ too) to develop an app that runs on client machine but on browsers. Performance and source protection are my goals. Might open source its architecture eventually.
I'm sure he'd easily take home detention over either, but that's not really his choice.
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And how did such a person learn which places they want to work if not by spending their valuable time looking at all the places they don't?
Not that I'm promoting any of them, I have my specific gripes with each of them as well.

NordVPN for instance has a ton of servers yet doesn't label the regional locations for them in the OpenVPN filenames. They're just labeled US-1 to US-339 and I ended up having to add random configs and hope it's one near my area. Their server map isn't accurate either and doesn't show all of them.

AirVPN I'm concerned with their user logging as they have this hub area for the community that reveals your username and when you're online as well as how much data you use and have a rankings for users or servers that use the most data each day/month. There's a log in anonymously checkbox but it's still a bit worrying to me.
We're not going to really know what happened there until he's out. But the question did remind me of an old Polish movie ending in a scene where a guy tries to fix a broken flag and the police stops him for breaking it. (https://youtu.be/34OcRxapLY0?t=10m10s "citizen, are you taking down national flag? papers please") NK publishes a lot of lies. Let's not rely on them for judging people.
The important difference is that DeepGram is a fuzzy search that can find matches even if a text transcript is wrong. This is what ups the accuracy very significantly.

I'm the other cofounder of DeepGram. I'm glad we're getting everybody's feedback!
I thought people locked up at gitmo are terrorists who wanted to kill people. This guy on the other hand tried to steal a poster. I can't even fathom how you are trying to draw parallel between the two cases.
My point is not a strawman argument - if it was so, then you'd have to prove that nobody is arguing that the govt accessing the information on terrorists phones would be helpful in countering terrorism. The case in point proves this not to be so.

Also, your condescending tone does not help your argument, does it?
Especially the second part with the humans looked very real.
This was the worst part of Martrix II.
1. Non-unique IP, which, for good no-logging VPNs, means no way to map a connection to a person, even through the legal system.

2. Hiding your activities from your own ISP.

And I would guess that the vast majority of VPN customers are simply doing what you said VPNs are good for: hiding copyright-violating activities.
This sounds like a good case for a threshold signature scheme[1] where no one member has all of a complete key and can partially sign without revealing their piece of the key to anyone.

[1] http://www.iacr.org/archive/eurocrypt2000/1807/18070209-new....
The magical line that explains it all
Nothing of real importance, but I'm sure they would appreciate a nice email.
I confusingly used 'data' in two senses there... the second was is in the sense of 'code is data'.
I mostly agree, but can't see much evidence of Kim Jong-un being kept on a short leash by the West. Pyongyang launches 40-meter, 8000 km Taepodong missiles for funsies with very little international reprimand. I just hope this matter is dealt careful diplomacy by the US.
> It bans nudity, porn, and hate speech

Ha! Imgur is awash with pornography. They could automatically remove a large amount of nudity and porn by looking at the contents of /r/nsfw. As a second gate, they could use Microsoft's image classification service, which has a 'racy' flag.

Imgur is lucky that there aren't powerful rightsholder bodies for images the way there are for music and video. That's the only way the massive copyright infringement happening there every day goes unchallenged. Sure, they have DMCA safe harbor, but so did many other video and music startups who ended up slapped with lawsuits.
I can tell you right away that it would be of huge help when reading a new language especially in a new script. And who are biggest set of users that might benefit from this? (clue: they haven't said their first words yet).
It’s less work if you need to use multiple locations for geocircumvention, at least.

I’m happy to pay somebody 5/mo to handle that + patching etc. etc.
Mixing natural selection and intelligent design is a problem, but that's not a problem for natural selection.
I disagree. I think this distinction results from Europeans being more humble and not from us being more concerned. I'm not convinced that our arrogance serves the freedom of technology or the internet. American's are eager to see themselves as citizens of the country that invented freedom. We assume our capacity for self-determination is absolute and unwavering. We like to see America, which is often great, as a reflection of ourselves. But ultimately this inclination is a double-edged sword. It forces us to accept personal responsibility for our country's flaws. You might think that this causes us to "actually care". I don't. While it is conceivable that a single person can shape their entire country the reality is immensely challenging and uncertain. Anecdotes to the contrary, though numerous and extraordinary, are curated by survival bias. We know this intuitively but can't express it without contradicting our idealism. When faced with a new social problem we essentially have 3 choices:

1. Abandon the pleasant safety of arrogance. Accept the non-totality of your control. Be practical. Do what you can. Risk the indignant judgement of someone that chose #2.

2. Abandon the intuition of humility. Be the solution. Assume you're the next Great Thinker in social progress. The MLK for problem x. Change the world. Care. Inspire people. Avoid narcissism.

3. Capitulate to the most primitive defense: denial/apathy. The government isn't spying on us. If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear. Are you a conspiracy theorist?

The best choice is #1. It's the unconscious choice of most Europeans. They simply lack the arrogance necessary to perceive our little problem with problems. American's are frequently stuck between #2/#3. While these people may appear to care more they are merely sublimating the intense anxiety of their self-imposed challenge. Their choice to meet insecurity with arrogance undermines the optimization of their unlikely success. They struggle to understand their relationship to the autonomous beast that opposes them. Of course, that is only if they choose not to deny the problem exists at all.
This is really neat, but the high-availability story is concerning--it's the first thing I look at with new services, especially datastores. "Leader-follower" is very easy to implement, but quorum-based election has gotten super easy to deal with over the last couple years and is much better for redundancy, while--being optional--doesn't necessarily have to sacrifice single-node performance for trivial cases.

If it wasn't Go, which I don't enjoy writing, I might consider taking some time this weekend to do it myself, but I don't have a real need for a geolocation store right now and don't have enough interest to overcome having to use Go.
What they really want is keep you on RDS, not just get paid for the migration bandwidth.
> I thought people locked up at gitmo are terrorists who wanted to kill people.

If only there were some kind of open forum, or even a closed forum where the records of same are made public, where the government could present evidence in favor of this assertion, and the accused could defend themselves against it in kind. We could even mandate that they be set free, should they prove themselves innocent, or that they be required to serve a defined prison term, should they not.

What a more just world we might live in, where such privileges were granted to everyone, regardless of how grievous the crimes they were accused of might be. Oh well.
Those methods (not texturing, but animation at least) seem to be evolving with the introduction of accessible mocap and 6dof controllers.

http://blog.leapmotion.com/vr-transform-world-3d-animation/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a_M9VsZ6Lk

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-05/08/animating-in-...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/+bug/1557787 is the tracking bug for this issue. Seems like it's fixed on xenial but not yet in older releases.
Similar story (just reverse the severity of the crime and the punishment): http://www.b92.net/eng/news/crimes.php?yyyy=2016&mm=01&dd=14...
I was a math major and while trying to get a job in programming I got asked how I felt my skills in mathematics would transition to programming-

The language (spec) is my set of axioms, the standard library existing theorems, and my program the proof.

It's kinda drab now that I think about it, but for a 'firing from the hip' answer I still stand by it.
Viking seems much more limited—and is US-based, which creates its own problems.

IVPN does look interesting, so I’ll have to re-review them… I’m still on Freedome’s trial, and it’s been working stellar including comparable speeds. Exit nodes in certain countries are also an important factor in my consideration, admittedly.
Very well scripted by the NK government, almost like he picked the words himself.
The paper is talking about rigorous formal mathematical proofs of correctness like in the sense of of the seL4 kernel (https://sel4.systems/Info/FAQ/) where they have confirmed the kernel is completely free of bugs such as buffer overflows, null pointer exceptions, use-after-free, etc.
Every DA and police department will show up with a stack of phones after the first unlock. Apple would now be responsible for decrypting phones day and night. This has already happened with a department in NYC that wants 100+ iPhones unlocked.
Making an embedded Linux computer (2014)
So you hate on college students just for the lulz? And think that's representative of HN readership?
In Canada all you need to send someone money from your bank is their email address (and you supply a question they should be able to answer). Actually quite an impressively well designed system, considering it's been around for at least a decade now (first one I have a record of having sent was in nov 2005).

Honestly, I consider that easier than cash.
As someone who has fallen into a transition from software engineering to science I think I can say this is mostly wrong.

It seems to me that any given field of "science" isn't any harder than dropping into a new area of software engineering. There's a lot to learn, sure, but there's a lot to do as well and there are areas where an complete rank amateur can make significant contributions.

It's still true that every day I discover something I have no idea at all about. But it seems that this is fairly normal in science - people know a lot about a single specialized area and not much outside it.
https://www.lyx.org/
For hiding IP and bandwidth you don't really need to know even a third of options included in that list. And for "good no-logging VPNs" do you actually belive service like that may even exist for longer than a few years?
I went from "Whoa, this is astounding for WebGL" in the first scene to "Ok, this probably isn't actually rendering on the client" as I saw some of the diffuse reflection shaders in the escape to "I feel kind of silly now" once all the other robots appeared.

The YouTube chrome is hidden, but the video must be in 4K; it looked like native resolution on my Retina MacBook Pro.
Really hard to tell when something is solved, because it's always going to get improved. As Elon puts it with self driving cars: They must be more secure than human level until we can expect broad acceptance. However both technologies are already useful as of now.
Banks want cash banned because they spend a lot of money handling it. Also a cashless economy where the banks own all the infrastructure is more opportunities for them to make money.

Basically we're setting up a system where private entities will be able to tax and control participation in the economy, and we're doing it without any sort of debate except over how annoying coins are. Personally I'm not very impressed.
Nice concept, but even as a developer, not easy to kickstart to try out this product. Some simple walkthough or guide for Flytrap language will be useful
Zendesk will no longer support Internet Explorer 8, 9 or 10 from April 11th 2016
I'll go ahead and predict that we won't have human-level artificial intelligence within 10 years. As in you could throw it literally any task and it would handle it as well as a human and get better at it as fast as a human.
Enhanced versions of markdown are just turning it back into a full wiki language.
Living things aren't very reliable. They don't last very long, in general, and their replication mechanism is highly error-prone.
You're considering the launch date of the console, which is its best price/performance time, but that quickly goes down. A GTX 660 is now around $100. Most people will want some kind of PC anyway, and mainstream CPUs are good enough to handle almost any game. All that most people need for gaming is a GPU update. Although this isn't possible with most laptops, external GPUs are already entering the market.

Console and PC gaming are converging. Microsoft is talking about quicker upgrades because the power of hardware is rapidly evolving. The new GPU generations this year will be a huge leap forward, and there's plenty more to come. They're also introducing cross-platform online play. By the way, PlayStation requires a subscription fee for that too now. It was only the PS3 that allowed free online play.
With a USD$1.63bn net worth, Mr Mike Cannon-Brookes could afford to pay ten(10) Software Engineers 34% over the top market rate [0] at USD$100k/yr for 10 years and it would reduce his net worth to USD$1.62bn.

Is this how the wealthy pan handle?

[0] http://www.payscale.com/research/AU/Job=Software_Engineer/Sa...
Sometimes I have something to say that I think people will find helpful. Sometimes people reply to my comments with useful information.

Feedback is important for everyone.
Please don't post garden-variety political stories to Hacker News. There needs to be something unusually intellectually interesting about them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, John Carmack was impressed by the results of Brigade. And I think Otoy is a company to watch when it comes to VR and 3D.

https://home.otoy.com/render/brigade/
> Why do people keep saying cash is inconvenient, as if saying it makes it true?

I know I enjoy arguing about whether the cash I have is too large for the other party to conveniently make change for. I especially enjoy my wallet bulging with coins and wads of paper. I love the thought of having the week's grocery money ready to be lost and stolen - or even better, carrying my whole pay packet about until I can put it somewhere safe.
This is what I was getting at. It's like people are waiting around for someone to do it. Aren't we the ones that are supposed to be doing it?
I can't speak for weird jurisdictions, but I use privateinternetaccess myself. I haven't tried it for torrents actually, I should give that a shot. I use it for

* getting around arbitrary region restrictions (that use case is rapidly disappearing)

* protecting myself against snoopers when on public WiFi. I'm very mobile, and often work from cafe/hotel/airport WiFi. They're mostly in the clear, but I VPN even over encrypted WiFi because of the below.

* I don't like ISPs selling my information. The service i use is fast enough that I can have it always on, without a noticeable speed loss... So I do. If my ISP wants to sell my browsing habits, they can buy them from me.

Now that you mention it, I'll totally try torrenting something. Curious to know how it performs!
Markdown gets very limited very quickly.

Are you aware of pandoc?

http://pandoc.org/
The constitution sets forth very real protections for the accused, for defendants. I see very little that could be stretched to apply to a third party that chooses not to comply with a lawfully obtained order because they disagree with it.

Frankly I doubt the Founding Fathers would ever have conceived of a third party daring to issue a bare-faced refusal to comply with a lawfully obtained order. They would surely have expected that this would immediately turn that individual (or corporate person, as the case may well be in this age) into another defendant, for a new crime.

I really don't know what Apple is thinking. They should have set a line in the sand when they legitimately could do nothing to gain access to the data, as they're so close to having completed in recent hardware/OS revs. That would force congress to pass legislation outlawing secure crypto, or give up. That would be an interesting thing to see, no doubt.

But this? They're playing a very dangerous game for very low stakes, and the only obvious rationale for doing it is the one that the government can and probably will argue is at work, which is as a PR move.

And a judge's signature outweighs your stock price any damn day of the week. Stupid/reckless is my first impression, or maybe it is just brilliant PR. But as a general rule, don't fight city hall for bragging rights. The real fight will happen once you say "tough luck, nothing anybody can do, you want to break in, go talk to to the quantum cryptographers".
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11295159 and marked it off-topic.
If anyone related to list is here here is my suggestion for improvement: add information about year certain service started to operate into the list. May be worth also add information if there some real company behind that service if country of jurisdiction provide way to check it exist.

Many clearly wouldn't want to pay for longer periods if service created few months ago and don't have real company behind it.
One site I use to improve my prose is

http://hemingwayapp.com/

not quite what you're proposing but useful nonetheless
> Here in NZ it is literally easier to pay people via bank transfer.

Alas, I always struggle to explain it to people from primitive banking cultures.
They're giving all parents half a year off, paid, gender blind and circumstance blind.