skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quote from the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (not the UN charter http://www.un.org/en/charter-united-nations/, odd mistake by the nytimes) is also misleading.

The very next sentence says

>(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
False. The most cited person is Russell Barkley and his advice is the one that goes through. His work is considered a paradigm shift that the literature revolves around. We know it is very severe from the 4th edition it states there have been over 300 studies done on stimulants in kids in ADHD and we know it's safe. Wait till they're in high school but it's too powerful to be overcome, sorry, it's strict consensus and well corroborated. Not even high intelligence is powerful enough to overcome it.

It's a developmental disorder, their brains aren't done developing until they're in their late twenties or early thirties, you can't "wait it out".

http://www.drthomasebrown.com/pdfs/HighIQAdults.JADonlinever... Look read it. It's a well known fact working memory decides school performance better than I.Q. (I can grab that study) look at those ratios.

I have it. I'm aware of the literature.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lG2w3PAAAAAJ&hl=en

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/289931.php <--

^^ ADHD DOUBLES-QUADRUPLES your mortality rate. If you're a girl it's 3x the average person. It's severe.
While it is the scientists who are writing the papers and editing them, the journals provide a valuable service as intermediaries between the scientists. Whether this service is best provided "for free" or for profit is another question. In some fields, the leading journals are already published by not-for-profit organizations such as the ACM, but I am not sure that they are doing a better job than Springer or Elsevier.

In a language that's understandable to the HN crowd, journals:scientists are as VCs:(founders + investors).
I'm not convinced this will get past our Congress. Lindsey Graham is also not convinced [1]

The reason the Apple case is in the courts is nobody wanted to put their name on this encryption bill without understanding it. Feinstein is one of the only ones willing to so far [2]. Basically, any politician who feels they are at about the end of their career might put forth such legislation, but all the others know it'd be suicide.

[1] https://youtu.be/uk4hYAwCdhU?t=1m44s

[2] http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-cybersecurity/2016...
Are you, as a taxpayer, willing to pay (your share of) the extra $1000 or so per paper that it would take?
Not sure why you are being down-voted, as it is a fair question. But it was too long ago to be a part of human memory. Perhaps the Black Sea deluge though...
This is so not true. Closed-access journals do not pay authors. There's no advance. There are no royalties. At best, they don't charge authors for publishing their work. They don't pay reviewers, and typically not even editors. Maybe they do pay for editing. But that is minuscule cost, relative to $30 per copy.

What happened here is that jerks hijacked the academic publishing industry. They turned a system that was largely pro bono publico into an intellectual pyramid scam. Academia has been slow to respond, mired in the web of prestigious citation. But maybe this is the end game.
One thing that would help is if our governments, all governments, would stop spending money they don't have, and therefore stop devaluing currencies. When the Fed "buys" $4T in mortgages to relieve banks from holding any risk, where do they get all that money? They don't - they just "print" it, by clicking on a computer. And in the process, they devalue everyone's wealth.

Take a look at this chart: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/12/14/a-brief-history-of...

Yes, things are not quite as volatile since 1930, but also note that there is only inflation, whereas before, there was deflation to balance out the inflation. I know everyone says deflation is the devil. I'm not so sure about that.
Actually all of these sound like excellent gestures.

Not playing to BS patriotism and phony sentiment by having his hands "together and below his belt"? Daring to say "my muslim faith" (haven't heard of that, so I kinda doubt it, but still). Bowing in respect to heads of other nations, instead of playing the "greatest nation on earth"?

All of these all excellent.

It's all the OTHER stuff that's bad about what he did.
The ones that taxpayers pay for should be!
Your next car will be hacked
The Science of President Trump
Small Business Field Guide
Even a 4100DTN is a great deal, sub $100.
Yeah, that's true.
How to Send an Email in 1984
It should use less that 0.5 megawatt,
1920 * 150W (High end server CPU) + 280 * 300W (Nvidia Tesla cards)
Journals do minimal typesetting, and practically no editorial work. Paper reviews are done by academics, free. Editors are mostly academics, not depending a paycheck from publishers. There is cost, like marketing cost, but none that justifies $35 per article to the general public.
Got four auto-updated PCs here at home that qualify for the upgrade and it hasn't happened to any of them.

And given Microsoft's reliance on people accepting its EULA, I'm pretty sure it would not deliberately bypass that....

Otherwise, Microsoft stated that it wouldn't upgrade PCs updated via WSUS, so I'd be interested to see concrete evidence, because that would clearly be a mistake. Not to mention wrong.
I think with respect to business regulation, encryption won't pose much of a problem. People in criminal prosecutions have a right not to incriminate themselves. But if the government wants to investigate, say, DuPont for chemical dumping and there's a law on the books saying companies have to keep chemical storage records for 7 years, DuPont can't just throw away the key for their encrypted internal data. They'll have broken the law requiring them to keep their data and be liable to regulatory sanctions for that.

In contrast to criminal law, most regulatory schemes use a reverse onus. That is to say, the onus to prove compliance is on the regulated entity. So you can't just say, "sorry, we don't have that data / we encrypted it". That will be de facto non-compliance. So if you are encrypting internal data (which of course you should be doing, just so it isn't stolen), you had better have the means of decrypting it when the government comes knocking.

The thorny issues will be in criminal prosecutions where disclosure of the accused's (encrypted) stored data will now need the active participation of the accused, who of course can exercise their Fifth Amendment rights to refuse. And the government won't be able to go around them and get the device vendor to unlock it. But companies facing regulatory sanctions already don't have these rights.
Woodrow Wilson sprang immediately to mind as an example of a president who effected change despite an intransigent congress. He is also a president who fought against entrenched interests.

Your idea seems to be more of an observation of recent presidents than a property of the presidency itself. I think there are two things that make it so. First, modern presidents are generally picked from a very narrow pool of candidates which the parties and the media help select and shape, thus making sure a relatively docile candidate is chosen. Second, most modern presidents are very politically oriented and beholden to the groups that donated to them during their campaigns.

I think that can be used to describe Hillary, but I think both Sanders and Trump are non-docile and not beholden to outside interests. Sanders, because his funds largely come as a mandate from individuals and he is very clear about who he works for. Trump, because he has nothing at all to lose by doing whatever he wants.
mlvljr, you may be shadowbanned. I bring it to your attention becaue your comment history seems inoffensive so it may be in error if it is true.
The open access journals charge thousands. Journal publishing has costs, and they need to be born by someone. If not from access fees, they'll need to be paid upfront, which means each study costs more, which means either less studying gets done, or funds come from elsewhere to fund it.
Producers are funded by grants or private research funding. They get no money that are paid for access to articles, that is why they publish preprints for free.
The implementations look odd. A network consists of a collection of neurons, which are implemented individually as structs. The forward pass through the network is a series of nested loops, and the gradient descent implementation doesn't use backpropagation - it uses finite differences to approximate derivatives, which is known to be inefficient. Given the overall design of the library, it isn't really clear what you would use it for in practice.

I hope that future versions take inspiration from other open source machine learning libraries, which show how to use linear algebra and backpropagation and are much more effective.
> Your boss doesn't punch you for not filing your TPS reports; your spouse doesn't hit you for not doing the shopping.

You're right, but he also has a point in that eventually, if you just don't do things, the cops will drag you away. Eventual violence is a cornerstone of order in our society. I find this unpalatable, but at least another cornerstone of order is motivation to do good things.

Just as short timeouts are not solitary confinement, open-handed slaps on the butt are not gang beatings. It's generally the parent that determines whether the punishment is abusive, not the type of punishment itself.
Most of the time you can't. You can't buy something that's explicitly and on purpose not available for purchase in your country. That is the whole point. Even if you were to find someone willing to import American DVDs to Estonia, the movie studios have region code lockout codes on DVD players to prevent that!
Actually...

From his rhetoric, it sounds like he wants to appeal to technologists by arguing he keeps them very close to him in the White House. He's saying, "see? I have tech friends and I give them cool jobs where they feel appreciated."

He's also implying that they should count towards him being informed about technology. But we know that's not the case.

So he's trying to say he has trusted technology advisors, but he doesn't. It's scary. Join me in tweeting at them [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/usds
Václav Havel on the Temptations of Political Power (1991)
I would say that not many actual implementations of software turn out to be beautiful, assuming it is above a certain threshold of complexity and it is meant for production use.

On the other hand, the ideas, algorithms, or the protocols on which software is based often seem beautiful, elegant, or brilliant, at least to me.

A few examples I can think of are: Google PageRank algorithm, Bitcoin's protocol and the block chain, the TCP network protocol, the BitTorrent protocol, Dijkstra’s algorithm, etc.
Edward Said on Orientalism
Who says it's only about phones?

The fact that it's an iPhone in the San Bernardino case is kind of a red herring; the precedent it would set is not "iPhones and only iPhones and not any other type of computing device are subject to law enforcement unlocking". The precedent it would set is that any encrypted system must be built to be decrypted on demand by law enforcement.

And that gets back to my original comment: a system the "good guys" can decrypt is one the "bad guys" will be able to decrypt too.
Welcome to the CRISPR Zoo: The Rapidly Approaching Modified Genome
It perhaps closer to Judo, if anything?
Imagine you need to hire someone to guard a big red button. The best that can happen is nothing; but the worst that can happen is that they themselves decide to push the button.

The Executive branch effectively only has the purpose of destroying, stopping, blocking, canceling, and annulling things. The president vetos bills; stops foreign invasions with military power; commutes federal prison sentences created by the judicial branch; stops legislation from applying by signing trade agreements or granting amnesties; etc. And every department within the Executive, like the FDA or the SEC, exists solely for the purpose of blocking people from doing things.

So the President is effectively just sitting there in front of a control panel consisting entirely of big red buttons. Sometimes, rarely, situationally, it helps to press one of them. Pressing one at random, though, would almost certainly do damage and serve no purpose.

Obama's status quo was done by just avoiding pressing the big red buttons. That's bad in one way. But it's an entirely different kind of bad to start pressing lots and lots of the big red buttons. That's what George W. was actually hated for—what he did, not what he didn't do.

Trump couldn't accomplish much good, certainly. But he would have full access to a panel of big red buttons. Do you trust Trump there?
Given academic salary and researcher publication rate, I am confident that it is far less than $1000 you pulled out of air. How much did your tax go up when NIH mandated free publication, after a 2-years period?
Machines retreat and regroup, and fix the problems. Next time there is no chance for a move 78.
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I love that at the bottom of the article is a nice big advertisement.
I am happy about that.

What does any of that have to do with the fact that he does not understand encryption technology?

I can appreciate some things about Obama and not others.

People aren't all bad or good. I support ideas, not people, just as I hate the game, not the player.
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$1000 for what? The research and paper writing was already funded by the tax payer. Peer review is done for free by other researchers today. Journals provide very little value for the money they extort for paper access.
Does ACM sell individual papers? If so, what's the price?
Could say the same about Bernie? Or would you disagree?
That is how private research is funded, say at Microsoft Research. You agree on "deliverables" and get your money for each stage of your work. Deliverables include tech reports, source code, prototypes and things like that. You get nothing after your stop working on the project. For producers, i.e. researchers, this scheme is not worse than grants and getting money for published articles, citations etc., they don't get money for years after the publication anyway.
>Obama has a meta-point however that proponents of the absolutist position don't seem to want to face. Democracy relies on transparency. Many of the progressives who are rallying in support of absolute right to privacy are some of the same people who constantly criticize Swiss bank accounts, Cayman island financial shenanigans.

And there's nothing preventing law enforcement to find about these by tons of other means, including checking suspected bank transactions with a warrant.

People determined to communicate without anyone hearing, e.g. to setup their tax-haven accouts-- can do it in 2000 ways. Mass surveillance is about all the others who casually exchange data and discussions.

>The end result of going full tilt on crypto is cryptoanarchy.

That sounds like, but is not, a thing.
Odd that Riak is absent from their NoSQL list.
AArch64 (and AArch32 for that matter) is a highly redesigned ISA, not just a 64bit extension, and it's the ISA ARMv8 cores were designed to run.
Until you lose it or it's stolen.
Universities already pay comparable subscription fees
> It would be an amazing insight into the corrosive influence of Washington on a person's integrity.

That's going on the assumption that he had integrity in the first place and I'm no longer immune to considering the possibility that he did not and just played the voters for all it was worth.

For instance: someone with integrity would have returned an un-deserved Nobel peace prize.
Ask HN: What percent of your income do you spend at Amazon?
Ask HN: what percent of your total take home income do you spend at amazon.com?
I might be imagining it, but I think this has been increasing with each game.
> With that statement of mine I was mostly trying to convey how some things shouldn't be easy.

I agree completely. I think attempts to paint this as a "reversal" of hundreds of years of governmental warrant procedure is ignoring that these new devices and this new data didn't exist hundreds of years ago. If we're going to put a huge amount of valuable data about our lives in one place, we'd better protect that place better than we've ever protected anything before.
Even if it did cost $1000, which it doesn't. Tax pays the salaries and materials to do the research, which is more like 10k to 100k, an additional 1k overhead is a drop in the ocean.
I must not be paying attention. Is there a quick summary of why I shouldn't use my ISP's DNS servers?
These $300k+ salaries you speak of are no more common than any other field where maybe 1/1000 makes this. HN is quite heavy with Silicon Valley coders at Google, Facebook, etc.

The 99.9% of the rest of developers are making $90k in the Midwest up to $150k in high cost areas on the coasts.

Yes this is certainly better than most other jobs, but considering a developer will hit the inflation rate raises by about 30, while other professions like doctors and lawyers tend to continue seeing large raises, I really don't feel software is a great gig, all things considered.

Mid thirties and I'm already seeing my first decades's go-to languages and frameworks becoming obsolete (Java, MVC, single RDMS, etc). Taking the massive amount of time to learn the new ones will not increase my pay one bit, but just give me another few years of employment.

It was great at 28 making $90k while most my peers were still in grad school and / or making $40k in crappy positions. But now a lot them are getting into mgmt, making partner, have a good book of customers, and have caught up. Even a few Fed and state workers I know with liberal arts degrees are hitting six figures with the gov't, along with job stability, pensions, and guaranteed raises. Meanwhile we get more H1Bs and offshoring.
Maybe public funders ought to claim copyright on any work produced, and require open access publication.
That wouldn't require Obama to wait until just before leaving office. Anything done in secret has already been implemented. What the FBI is asking for could likely be done by the NSA already. The Feds want a publicly known law or ruling they can use as a club over private companies, so they don't have to break any more encryption; they want it all handed to them. And they're too shortsighted and pigheaded to see/admit the folly of what they're asking.
Fantastic speech, thank you very much for sharing.
If you're not willing to revolt over it then it is definitely a possibility that end-to-end encryption will be made illegal. Non-techies simply don't care, they have 'nothing to hide' (or so they think).
Countering Surveillance Capitalism
I've always wondered what would happen if a President gave a TV-broadcast speech, telling people to write to their congressmen and demand a change of their policy on some issue.

Would that be illegal? Would it be speech? It's not like the President would be telling you who to vote for (though it might be different if the US had referendums, because the President would be telling you what to vote for); the President is simply attempting to sway your opinion, and then telling you to inform someone else of your (hopefully swayed) opinion.
Well I don't think that's what the complaints have been about. I'm not sure if the complaints are even true but is definitely a more common view on HN these days. It's less what you say and I think more "people in X will do all this for an annual salary of about $1,000" so that's the end of the game now.

As far as the "pace of technology change;" I don't really see that. I don't count the rather comedic constant wheel reinvention in the JavaScript community really counts as really "technology change" or even think the Web mvc framework du jour rises to that level. So, ok let's look at general cs, what I see is fairly incremental changes in distributed systems, file systems, and so on. Ok let's consider the machine learning craze, but this has been a utilization of 50 year old methods in a much more distributed fashion -- the people who wrote the Statistical Learning textbook in the 70s probably don't think of this is as mega technological change, maybe more like "well, this is finally popular." So I dunno.
This is not a debate about privacy vs. security.

It's about security vs. security. [1] [2] [3]

On balance, putting backdoors in phones will make us less secure, because criminals will just use other methods to communicate, and the public will be putting their data within reach of every hacker in the world through a government-imposed weakness.

The administration is unlikely to understand our privacy concerns. They do understand economic and public safety issues, and it is the facts around these issues that we must share with them. President Obama himself told President Xi last year that introducing backdoor legislation would hurt his economy [4]. Let's make Obama's argument back to him

[1] https://youtu.be/g1GgnbN9oNw?t=3h35m52s

[2] https://youtu.be/g1GgnbN9oNw?t=3h11m46s

[3] https://youtu.be/g1GgnbN9oNw?t=3h19m39s

[4] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obama-china-idUSKBN0LY...
From a government / national perspective should it be free world wide?

If so, why should nations give away their expensive research that potentially give them an edge either military or commercially?

Personally I almost never traded technology when I played civilization, let alone give it away!
C: anything by antirez (redis, etc...) Redis is the epitome of well written understandable C.

Ruby: anything written by _why (if you can find the source) He once gave a whole presentation on the splat operator and it's bizarre uses that gave me goosebumps. A true artist. The code twists and contorts ruby in unimaginable ways.

JS: anything written by TJ hollwaychuck (express, mocha, etc...) Express is so simple but powerful, when you read the source you can't help but wonder where the rest of the code is.

Python: anything written by Kenneth Reitz (Requests, legit, records...) This guy can lay down some serious Python and gets things done. He writes the batteries that python should have had included.
Really? That seems very disrespectful to the Nobel committee to me.
Yep, you're not supposed to write the yaml yourself, it's just a compilation target and an intermediate format.

Why YAML then? Well it's still nice to be able to read it easily in that early phase of the project and it's fairly well supported in most popular languages(and a little bit more compact than JSON).
Of course it is not okay unless you have permission.
This is whack-a-mole with VPN's.

We'll start to see VPN companies setup auto-rotating IPv6-only networks registered to residential addresses and pseudonyms shortly (if they haven't already) with 2-3 customers per/IP.

VPN's will cater and advertise as "for Netflix" and then the "fight" will shift to copyright takedowns and proxy-lawsuits.

If Netflix continues to crack down and push harder you'll see a lot more false positives/user complaints about being blocked than we currently do.

I sincerely hope they start using their weight to push back.
1) Correct diagnosis is important.

2) ADHD meds have side effects.

http://childmind.org/article/side-effects-of-adhd-medication...
And, the alternative of Republicans controlling all three branches of government would be good how?
FTA:

>But that financial model requires authors to pay a processing charge that can run anywhere from $1,500 to $3,000 per article so the publisher can recoup its costs.

They may have pulled it out of thin air (although I've seen similar numbers elsewhere, this doesn't seem to be in dispute).