skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see any evidence that this guy's car was targeted specifically. From the info in the article, a much more likely scenario is that they accidentally pushed an update with private data to all cars, realized their mistake after the tweet was posted, then rolled back the update on all cars, so they could fix it before rolling it out again. That's exactly what you'd expect them to do and not sinister in the least.

I haven't read the 48-page forum discussion linked in the article, so there may be more info there, but at the very least the article writer hasn't adequately backed up his claims.
Not sure if the parent poster referred to this, but it's not absurd to consider that the term "content" may have harmful connotations.

See Stallman's opinion on this (I know, an extremist view, but I think he has a point):

"Words to avoid (or use with care)": http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#Content

> If you want to describe a feeling of comfort and satisfaction, by all means say you are “content,” but using the word as a noun to describe publications and works of authorship adopts an attitude you might rather avoid: it treats them as a commodity whose purpose is to fill a box and make money. In effect, it disparages the works themselves. If you don't agree with that attitude, you can call them “works” or “publications.”

I think there may be a correlation between this negative phenomenon of gaming pagerank and referring to articles and pictures as "content", as if they were second-class citizens of the web.
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I think it'll be very interesting to see the compensation that Amazon gives its pilots. Personally I like well paid, well rested pilots as a general principle. It's also a good thing from an insurance/liability perspective. A 767 coming down into anywhere populated is a rather scary proposition, as we're probably all too aware.
SCMP was already going down the tubes in regards to journalistic integrity. I stopped reading more than a year ago due to the propaganda pieces they were shipping.
You pretty much already said it yourself... it's already a problem, it affects not just the individual but his environment, too, and generates costs unto society, too.

Now, there are cost-effective ways to solve these issues and they happen to be humane, too: support people with issues they have immense difficulty overcoming themselves, include them in society, do not stigmatise, create support structures. It's effective and carries a short-term cost.

The alternative solution to the problem is not cost-effective, not humane and in fact, not very effective: criminalise a person's problem, push him away into the worst corner of society (prison), stigmatise him (prison), fine him, take away his opportunity, and expect him to resist a drug that has a hold on his brain every waking hour without help. It doesn't work and carries a long-term cost.

And that's just the individual, let's not get into the side-effects of criminalising drugs. (I welcome anyone to look into the Mexican drug war which has taken the lives of more than 100 thousand people in the past decade, and is at least partially rooted in drug policy of various American countries including the US)

Further, I think it's important to stress the limitations of self-control. For example, we don't expect an orphan to take care of himself. We argue, because it's a kid with no level of responsibility or maturity. The libertarian case of self-responsibility does not apply here, based on the biological limitations of a kid's brain. But it's important to consider that people under the effect of drugs or addictions are also to a large extent, not a similar extent but a substantial one, emotionally/biologically limited to take adequate self-responsibility. The solution then isn't to say 'you're an adult, so get over it and take responsibility', when your brain simply has a hard time, not by choice, to act in a way that you know is rational. And in this way an addiction is similar to many other forms of disease. Similarly a depressed person can not 'just' take self-responsibility and get over it. What remains then is the argument 'but before you got addicted, you should've known better'. And that is the worst argument. For one because people don't get addicted by some clear choice, some are ignorant, some are exposed to drugs as very young children, some use it after experiencing extreme trauma. And even if you should've known better, I don't believe the solution is to withhold support as a form of punishment for the sake of punishing a bad action, that makes no sense to me.
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It's so short that you can also just brute force it. Using hashcat in "try all short alphanumeric+symbols strings in increasing length" mode on this hash produces the resulting string in about ten seconds on my computer.

I imagine it was just guessed, though. Any Tesla fan thinking of "cool new upgrade to the car, currently secret" would put a P100D model near the top of the list of things to try.
Which part?

Figuring out how to efficiently calculate a moving average seems like a good question for basic maths skills to me.

About complexity theory, there is already a lot of discussion about it's relevancy in the comments. My point was meant more along the line that, if you value a basic understanding of complexity theory, the question asked of the GP seems reasonable.
$100 a day to view basic service manuals? I will Never buy a Tesla; even if one day I can afford one.

I can't believe you wealthy boys are putting up with this.

Do you guys really want to be sitting on the side of a road clueless over your toy? I don't expect you boys to pull out the DVOM, and Snap-on tools, but a little knowledge of why it broke down?

Isn't it kinda the American way to at least know what the underlying problem is? Or, have we been conditioned into being good obedient victims?

Personally, I feel emasculated if I need to ring a ding ding AAA? Especially, if the problem is minor. Will never know if we aren't able to read up on the toy?
That, too. Good luck getting a hungry child to "see the wealth" in not eating for "a few days."
You don't have to manage scaling anymore. All you write is business logic and AWS allows you to run it at whatever load you need, without dealing about configuration, server restart, upgrades, provisioning, all the parts that lean more toward operations than development.

Lambda is more like CGI-in-the-cloud than applications in a VM.
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So, presumably, there are uber-secret flights that the military and cia, etc operate which are so clandestine that they appear civilian. However, their flight plans are probably quite similar to the known law enforcement/military stuff. Eg: circling over certain places or circling/tracking a moving car. So in theory you could train a network on known civilian vs known law enforcement and then have it identify the as yet unidentified law enforcement flight plans?
As the author himself (sullivandanny) replied, you misread the title.

But I will actually claim that PageRank itself is a problem not just because it is so gamed but also because web page authors link to things they find via Google, creating a positive feedback loop that undermines the very premise of the PageRank algorithm.

Search engine research had stagnated because of Google's dominance, and Google itself is not motivated to change, much as Microsoft was unwilling to evolve its cash cow. Rather than innovate in search, it spends most of its resources on ways to shore up its dominance (Google+, Android), fighting the very thing its search engine feeds (Internet garbage), and strengthening its advertising business.
And here it is a follow-up post with some shared experience: https://medium.com/@stanbright/how-to-set-up-a-free-status-p...
I think it will be very interesting if Lee Sedol can win one. Humans have different blueprints and environments. Who is to say a human can't become better?
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What about the people who find relief from chronic pain with opioids and have no other option? These people are the ones who will suffer from the " we know whats best for you crowd"
Why laugh? We were already using proguard heavily. We eventually hit build perf issues and had to patch it too (https://github.com/facebook/proguard)

Do you think we wanted to do a crazy runtime patch and didn't explore every other short/medium-term option? Do you think we wanted to write our own build system (Buck)? Or our own JS view layer (React)? Our own PHP virtual machine (HHVM)? Our own database (Presto/RocksDB)? Our own IDE (Nuclide)?

You "laughing" tells me you have never worked on a large codebase with hundreds of engineers shipping very quickly, so you can't empathize with the sort of problems that come up.

Btw, every time Google Apps hit the limit they merely bumped the limit in AOSP and dropped support for old OS versions...
It is unfortunate that recruiters don't seem to understand that...
Hope the faster release will also show in a faster update cycle for vendors. Or some kind of guarantee that devices who got/get M, will also get N. The quick reply API and notification tweaks are pretty great and doze is now useful (seems like a something like Sony Stamina mode).
Let's Encrypt makes an effort not to use "ssl" anywhere on their site when they really mean tls or https. I'd also hope that no one helps get ssl anywhere given the vulnerabilities that come with it.
Maybe I am biased, I work with Clojure since 2012, I use elixir and go, but still, I believe that once you master the paradigm (OOP, FP, or procedural) then it always the same deal, the syntax may change, but find a value in am hash map will always be faster than find a value in an unsorted list.

For a programmer, once the basis are solid, learn a "new" language should be matter of a couple of weeks...
This topic is also addressed in the last season of House of Cards.
Pain gets investigated extensively (there's a natural abundance of demand for making it go away). If you go to a doctor complaining that you have it, they're not going to make you a research project. You'd need to go to a researcher.

If you have pain and you know why, you'll generally volunteer that information to your doctor. If you have pain and you don't know why, they will look at the area that hurts. If there's nothing obvious there, they'll give you painkillers, because all the safe money is on the idea that no matter what they try, they'll never be able to eliminate or even identify the cause of the pain. This is what you want them to do.
Exactly-once delivery really depends where and how you actually "deliver". Even if your writes are idempontent you need to know if they have been properly committed on the other side, not that simple. If the system you are committing your output offers version control and/or proper transactional support then delivery can be eventually re-conciliated.
Apache Flink's snapshotting algorithm solely guarantees exactly-once application state access, plain and simple.
Android N Developer Preview Is Out for Use
I think that by the time that Google is able to quantify quality and relevance, people will be able to use AI to automatically create websites that are relevant and high quality.

I'm not sure whether that is a good thing or not, but it would make sense that the sophistication of the AI used to game Google moves at about the same pace of Google's ability to stop people from gaming its algorithms.
Ahh yes, the tried and true "turn it off and on again" philosophy...

All kidding aside, if it's a random rare issue (some bit flipped somewhere), chances are that power cycling it may fix the issue (upon initialization). If it's anything more serious, the issue will likely persist, in which case taking the machine out of production is likely the best immediate course of action.
This read like anti-Google FUD.

The basic argument is search engine rank determines trustworthiness of a source. This influences people's opinions on politics, what they buy, what they think, etc.

This is absolutely true, and the core of their research (it seems).

But then it goes into FUD territory when talking about Google backing Hillary. Hillary and Trump have received the lion's share of attention in media, social media, and such. Google searches SHOULD show them prominently.

Worse, the article basically finishes up with a "be afraid, be very afraid" approach that rankles me. "The new hidden persuaders are bigger, bolder and badder than anything Vance Packard ever envisioned. If we choose to ignore this, we do so at our peril."

No solutions or deeper analysis. No discussions on how a search engine should rank relevancy to search terms.

I personally have no doubt that mass-media, marketing, and the internet are shapers of opinions. Bias in the media, search engines, and such is a complex topic. Not something that should boil down to "Google could make it so Hillary wins" therefore you should be afraid.
disclaimer: I work on Android dev tools

It depends. For example, let's compare providing an event listener via a lambda vs an anonymous inner class. Using the lambda will increase your method count by 1. However, if you're accessing class member variables, it will reduce the method count for each variable you use, because it's added as a method of the containing class and doesn't need to generate accessors.
I see no reason why liability doesnt follow just like (afaik) all tech does.

When I use my computer, if it malfunctions and hurts someone, its the manufacturers fault (think DELL w/ bad batteries), if an engineer was deeply negligent they may take on liability, but generally the company. If I use my computer for bad I am liable. So on and so forth to wherever the source of the fault is.
Ask HN: Recommended study tools and aids?
It has been over 10 years since I last studied, and I'm returning to studying part time this year, so things have moved on a bit! I will be studying towards a degree, part time over the next few years.

Does anyone have any recommended tools or aids? (Primarily software based, but also interested in any real-world tips)

From learning aids & methods, right through to time management, self testing, and collecting & annotating material - I am interested in any resources or programmes people have found have helped them as a student.

My background the last 10 years is as a developer, and I primarily use OSX, but interested all suggestions.

Many Thanks.
Yeah, Bernays is great. He called it 'propeganda' to begin with - but realized that it needed a better name. So he called it 'public relations'. The best thing about PR is that people who practice PR have PR practiced on them - they don't even know the history of PR. Curtis' documentary is the best source I have come across for the history of PR.
But this article is quite something. It helps explain the Trump effect - just get on the news/social-media and you will get more votes. Those who can manipulate the media, there's is the kingdom of power...
Dokku's Letsencrypt plugin is also very simple to use.

https://github.com/dokku/dokku-letsencrypt
Linux netfilter IPT_SO_SET_REPLACE memory corruption
That isn't what you said:

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It's encrypted, but here's the thing: the encryption key is also (almost certainly) stored in the same chip. So all the FBI needs to do is de-solder the chip, mount it in its own hardware, and read out the data.

This is not correct and was the main suggestion you made.

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I don't know how I could have made it any clearer that I was proposing an attack on the PIN, not the key.

Because you just did. You are now claiming that an offhand comment you made that resembles what the ACLU suggests is the main point of your post and that is not the case.
I'm personally at the stage where I judge any politician that actually spends time on drug policy and still comes out against legalization as being no better than murderers. The information is there. If they're talking drug policy and still support criminalization, they are intentionally or out of an inexcusable level of ignorance helping to perpetrate a system that causes a massive number of deaths.

If I had the choice of releasing a murderer from prison and putting one of those politicians there, I would take it: The chance of a murderer carrying out another murder is extremely low, but such a politician have a history of continuing to cause massive harm to others with these policies.
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> the assumption that we're likely to see armed drone strikes on US soil is hyperbolic

No, it isn't. They have intentionally targeted and assassinated US citizens. What makes you think they care so much more about geography?
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The article provides both scientifically acquired evidence and some analysis. That's more than your comment provides, IMO.
Building the wall down to attack the bottom right corner isn't something outrageous, not to those at the level of Sedol. AlphaGo definitely played amazing, as the game was very technical in term of fighting. But the "flow" (chase out weak group then invade a corner) is a fairly common situation. I don't think it's a matter of AlphaGo seeing strategy further than Sedol. It might have had much deeper calculation and reading than Sedol - as showed in deflecting the attachment in lower right - but that's a bit of a different story.
I understand this, but was answering the question (in general) about why I believe BSD has better networking.
daily reminder that during Benghazi the State Department censored info on google and youtube.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/emails-show-hillarys-state-de...
In 2012, Microsoft was a significant contributor to Linux[1]. This was mostly because of Hyper-V.

So, if/when it suits them, Microsoft are all over Linux

[1]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/16/linux_foundation_ker...
Check out this app, it does a decent job: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yafla.gall...
"So brave."

Sorry for my dickish attitude. I mean, I completely agree with you, but this is the sentiment held by most HN and Reddit users, and isn't even that directly related to the article.

We know the War on Drugs isn't good. We know it'll take a while to eventually cut back on it and adopt harm reduction over zero tolerance. No need to bring it up every time.
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There is little to no bullying at my son's school. However, in size he's around 97 percentile, so he wouldn't really be a candidate for bullying.

He genuinely seems to like the social aspects of school.

Anyway, homeschooling isn't an option for us. I have a demanding tech job and my wife works and is otherwise unsuited for managing homeschooling.
This is essentially a 0day out in the wild now, because of this policy:

"For networking patches, the networking maintainer requests that you just
post the issues on the netdev@vger.kernel.org mailing list, in public,
and they will all work together on them as soon as possible."

Great.
Some drugs must be outlawed. Asking why heroin or cocaine need to be illegal is like asking why gambling has to be illegal. If you allow people to use addictive drugs or gamble freely then they will destroy themselves. Or huge numbers of people will, anyway.
This is sweet...image-matching is one of those functions that external services do extremely well for the consumer -- e.g. Google Image Search and TinEye -- but not for those who need to have such a service in a private domain, such as an in-house photo library...I've used pHash for comparisons, and have a decent idea of how to build my own classifiers...but pretty much no idea how to do it efficiently and in a structured way to do reverse-image matching.

FWIW, John Resig uses pastec for his work:

http://ejohn.org/blog/image-similarity-search-wanted/

http://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2015/11/03/finding_near-matches_...
What's the connection between RHEL and Microsoft? Azure seems to have focussed on Ubuntu first, so I'm not surprised they lean closer to a Debian base.
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Organ harvesting from prisoners is apparently legal in China (per the Wikipedia article, haven't followed through all the links yet). So apparently some not-crazy people think it's not really bad or crazy people are running the show. Let's assume not-crazy. They have a source of organs, people they intend to execute, and they apparently make use of this. There's a lack (or circa 2006 was) of a detailed registry showing the source of transplant organs. There's some evidence (but not conclusive) that some of those organs were from Falun Gong members.

So China is harvesting organs from prisoners. They have not maintained an accountable record of which prisoners were used that could be offered as verification. Torture and coercion of Falun Gong prisoners does happen. In an environment of poor accountability and oversight with a willingness for brutality, the potential abuse cannot be immediately discarded.

If you think I'm just bashing China, see the US and its various torture abuses over the past 15 (in particular) years. Abu Ghraib is not something that most people would have expected from the US Army, but it happened.

Bush was a public figure. Bush was probably not crazy. Most US people are not crazy. Not-crazy people think that dehumanizing and torture of prisoners is really bad. But it happened.

This is a different scale (thousands, not hundreds) and different issue (killing and harvesting, not torture) but your assumptions are insufficient to discard it out of hand. They do, however, provide a solid basis for skepticism.

But had the Chinese officials and agencies involved done their due diligence they should have had records demonstrating the source of organs. If for no other reason than the medical knowledge for recipients. A closed examination or audit of those records would have sufficed to put this case to rest (for the vast majority of people).
AFAIK they don't expose Freebase ids as part of image search. You can get them through their Cloud Vision API

https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/concepts#label_detectio...
I had used that extension for ages to prevent w3schools from appearing in my search results, but removed it when I eventually got tired of seeing search results jump around.

(Because the extension works on a JS level, it needs to wait for the results page to load before it can strip out what you want to hide. Too often I'd see the results page begin drawing quickly, with a couple w3schools results at the top of the results, and my eyes would scan down to find the first non-w3schools result; then a second later, in the middle of finding the first such result, the w3schools results would be removed, and the non-w3schools result which I'd finally found and was about to click on has moved.)