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> Growing up here myself didn’t prepare me for how distinctly, viscerally frightening it would be to raise children in a gun-obsessed nation.

All arguments aside, this is just... really? I mean, come on.
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This link in the article is more interessting that this article himself. http://www.snopes.com/toddlers-killed-americans-terrorists/
Or one shit-crazy US president.
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Yeah, I love sethbling. And the lua for MarI/O is only one file, and a relatively small one at that.
Well in this case the coolest new technology seems to be AMP, the use case for which is not so plain to anyone who knows how to make a modern looking website that actually performs in a way one would expect from today's computers and browser optimizations.
This appears to be a fairly complex subject. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11216950 and the original LWN article that it depends from.
Using the argument form of this article you could make any number of outrageously nonsensical claims. The form is basically X does Y more than Z, where X occurs vastly more than Z in some population.

Examples:

1. white caucasians commit more crime in the Canada than all other ethnic groups combined!

2. In Sweden the common cold is more lethal than HIV!

In my opinion article exemplifies the antithesis of a decent argument or even ligitimate journalism.
Author here: we announced this back in Nov, but the trigger only got pulled earlier this week. At least one other major CA will make the same announcement shortly.
Made me wary of it being mostly a blind trend.
While I agree that privacy and secure communications are the best means to protect kids in the first world, there are still enough horrible people in the world who rape children and take pictures, as well, there is child sex trafficking. We shouldn't forget that these things exist and reduce child porn to snapchat and selfies.
Fascinating idea. To what degree would a company need to exist outside national boundaries (physical and legal) before something like this could become a reality? The idea of a giant Apple logo beaming down at us from the moon is mildly terrifying :)

Surely it'd be cheaper to essentially buy a small country (Shadowrun style megacorp?).
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This has been tried a couple times. At least 2 of the categories here, drones and cameras, are just begging to have disputes over damage.

Need to think about the model more if it is going to have a chance to succeed. As it is now it will now.
The difficulty is that encryption doesn't work with the warrant system. There's no "encrypted before a warrant is issued, but unlockable after one is" without key escrow or something similar.

The real tragedy is that if the government had good intentions about doing so in a responsible manner (setting aside the problems with key escrow in the first place), then the NSA burnt those bridges to the ground between 1990 and 2015.

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> The article never made this point. All it said is that they kill more people.

If that was the case they would not have mentioned terrorism. The comparison to terrorism exists because it makes the article travel better between members of the Blue Tribe who think anxieties over terrorism are overblown and better gun control would be good.

Remove the link to terrorism and the article would have had less currency within this group.

> I always thought terrorism was feared because this is an emotion which the government and the media sell.

The message already resonates with conservatives as they already have high anxiety about losing their 'way of life'. It's not just a case of a message that has been sold by the government and the media. Real people's innate fears [0].

> I really don't think any such worry is realistic, these people are marginalized and completely inconsequential to their nations GDP or the progress of civilization.

Yes - in many cases. But there are a few countries in Europe that will be majority islamic over the next 100 years, and in those places people might lose their 'way of life'. Demographic changes are underway.

As you probably realise, fear isn't always rational. Many groups of people are very sensitive to fears of losing their 'way of life'. Even without the existence of a significant threat.

[0] http://www.unz.com/pfrost/are-liberals-and-conservatives-dif...
UK govt does kill its citizens though. Without trial. The restrictions of guns by the government ensures you have no defense from the one entity that has killed more people than anything. Their own govt.

http://blogs.ft.com/david-allen-green/2015/09/08/when-does-t...
As far as I can see this is quite similar to the 'sharded bloom filter' discussed in the submitted link.

This approach is dismissed in the document as

> In the end, this strategy seems to provide very little at the cost of fairly substantial complexity.

Since it seems you use it for silent circle, how does it work there? How many 'longer hashes' do clients get on average per submitted 'short hash'? How large is the 'false positive' rate you get from the long hashes? Since the argument against the 'sharded bloom filter' in the submitted link boils down to 'the tradeoffs don't work', I would be very interested to know how these tradeoffs work out for silent circle.

As far as I understand, you would still need to have some rate limiting in order to stop someone to collect all registered phone numbers though, wouldn't you?
This seems to have been linked to a lot recently but I feel it is relevant to the discussion on technology advances pertaining to AI.

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...
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Your comment takes on a whole new meaning with the cloud-to-butt extension. "Was discussing "in my butt" with my wife yesterday..."
So, what's the difference between this and being self-controlled AND loading images, CSS and JS asynchronously?
the self driving car is a concept I have a hard time appreciating. It sounds cool, and offers enormous technological and legislative obstacles to overcome, yet I can't figure out the fundamental problem they will solve - compared to the attention they get. For any use case I can imagine (minus the cool factor) we either have more efficient solutions already, or there are better alternatives to investigate. Plus I figure, most people still like to drive.
Just how dangerous is the United Kingdom's new surveillance law?
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the FBI is executive branch!?

I would've never occured to me... I thought all law enforcement was on the judicial branch. TIL.
How exactly do we define "terrorist"? For example, why is the San Bernandino mass shooting NOT considered terrorism? Because more people were killed in that single incident than were shot by toddlers in all of 2015.
unless it's a mosquito with malaria or dengue :) (aka terrorist with nuclear/dirty bomb).

terrorism is, above all, politically motivated theatrical act that should manipulate audience into something (fear and thus irrational behavior, election choices etc). plus some stray dogs that are out of any reasonable control.

we humans are vastly irrational, and just because mankind landed on the moon doesn't mean emotions don't hold more power than reason in most of us. that's why so many people are afraid of flying, are superstitious, believe in horoscopes and so on. you know, general folks out there who have same voting power as you or me or anybody else
Perhaps if HIV was endlessly highlighted by government and the media as a major problem in Sweden your analogy might have made some sense. In my opinion your post exemplifies the antithesis of a decent argument or even legitimate criticism.
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I think he means R5RS. But honestly, It's missing a bit of what you need for most programming. Chicken Scheme is probably the best actual scheme on the sliding scale of elegance/power, IMHO.
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A lot of people expressed concern about the title. I just would like to say that it does come from a misunderstanding about the original article I read the story from [1], as I expressed in another comment [2].

I've discovered plenty of North Kore related stories in HN that people already cover in the comments section [3] or other submissions [4] [5].

I thought that given these two points this story would be quite interesting here in HN. As of the title, knowing now that it's not exactly true I let the mods choose a more appropriate one if needed.

[1] https://twitter.com/Dimitri_Jorge/status/709705048150949888

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11288584

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11287297

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5091962

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2541189
Really? I would disagree whole heartedly.

This might be true in X years but right now human ability to apply existing knowledge to brand new situations far surpasses that of AI
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whats the "brand new programming language" the writer meant ?
It's coming from the top. Obama has backed this effort from the start. The White House wants the Burr-Feinstein anti-encryption bill [1]. They've been waiting for it for months and the press keeps asking about it. From the White House Daily Briefing on March 11 [2],

> Q: Can I do the weekly check-in on if you guys have anything to say on the Burr-Feinstein legislation on encryption coming out of the Senate?

> MR. EARNEST: I don’t have anything new -- which is to say we continue to be in touch with Congress, and I continue to be personally skeptical -- more broadly, going beyond just this specific legislation, I continue to be a little skeptical of Congress’s ability to handle such a complicated policy area, given Congress’s recent inability to handle even simple things.

[1] http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-cybersecurity/2016...

[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/14/press...
Get real. Or a tin foil hat.

I am mid thirties, grown up in the UK and not having guns here is amazing. People don't get shot, as a teenager in the council flats in the UK, no-one is going to turn up with a gun, or carry a gun. And unsurprisingly, people make mistakes with guns (accidents happen).

I have been forever conflicted, as I love the idea of guns, I wanted them as a kid/teenager, the idea of having such a tool is fascinating. However they are reserved for video games in my life...

The only time I may regret this is in some kind of completely hypothetical situation (zombies, aliens, gov gone crazy) which is so unlikely to happen I would rather the tools to kill each other very quickly were not legally available.
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Politicians need to appear strong.

For some reason, especially in the U.S., "leaders" have to appear strong. When there's no war going on, they have to start one. Terrorism is easy. There's really nobody to fight, but you get to fight them anyway. Politicians LOVE this.

Law enforcement loves it too. They get to trot it out as an excuse to lengthen their leashes.
I've said this for years. If there had just been a payment layer built into the web browser spec, we'd be in different world. A monetizable world. It's still not too late.
I don't think it worked out quite the way you said:

http://crimeresearch.org/2013/12/murder-and-homicide-rates-b...

Obligatory un-zeroed-axis warning, but the point stands.
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I don't want to be tracked when I go to work (or ever), but I have to bring my cell phone to work because I need it to do my job.

So, yes it's a "choice": I can have my privacy or I can have my job.
Interested why you switched from 9x9 at 2 stones. I've been playing SmartGo recently (iOS) and figured I shouldn't switch to a 19x19 board until I could give it a good game without a handicap, but have stalled at 2 stones. My logic was if I can't play the 'right' moves at this stage, what hope do I have on a larger board?
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Ok, if you believe what he says this means that I am right. I would never vote for someone who treats women as meat and hates other cultures.
You forgot about Squeak. Now THAT is a brilliant abstraction. Provided you don't touch the outside OS, you can copy an image, bit-for-bit, to another computer that runs the Squeak VM, and it'll just work.
There'd probably be a whole mess of 0-days that would come out of it which would impact a lot of people as Apple might not be able to patch fast enough. Though I meant the horribleness of tanking an American company just because.
The critical issue here is whether this is really "open".

The x86 platform, like most processors, has a documented instruction set and software loading process. (There are undocumented corners, but the "front door" is open). Whereas historically almost all FPGAs have had fully closed bitstream formats and loading procedures. This necessitates the use of the manufacturer's software which is (a) often terrible and (b) usually restricted to Verilog and VHDL.

If Intel ship a genuinely open set of tools, then all manner of wonderful things could be built on the FPGA, dynamically. That requires being open down to the bitstream level, which also requires that the system is designed so that no bitstream can damage the FPGA.

To me this is most interesting not at the server level but at the ""IoT"" level; if they start making Edison or NUC boards that expose the FPGA to a useful extent.
Imagining the mental gymnastics you went through to bring this up was the best laugh I've had all day.

Trying to say owning a handgun would prevent a clandestine branch of a first world governments assassination.
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When was the last time a toddler killing someone led to the passage of something like the Patriot Act or the creation of a department like Homeland Security. Terrorism isn't about killing as many people as possible, it's about instilling terror in your enemy and all the negative stuff that goes along with that. Comparing it to accidents involving guns and toddlers is lazy.
Sure they do. There is no charge back or fraud risk for the merchant with Bitcoin. It lets you service customers that might otherwise be too risky because they happen to fit a profile that correlates to high fraud risk.
Agreed (on all that).
AI does not want "war", it just has a better* use for your atoms.

* your point of view is probably different ;)
Probable cause? The phone's user shot 22 people. The phone itself belongs to the county, so legally, they don't even need a warrant, but if there isn't cause to issue a warrant in this case, there's never been such cause in any case.
Thanks for the information. Sounds like you are learning a ton about a space that is ripe for supply chain/logistical disruption. Good luck!
For example, I looked into implementing this with Python 3.5's coroutines and async/await syntax, but this seems to add an enourmous amount of complexity. For example you need specialized versions of many of the standard library methods, just to make them usable in the async setting.

In either case I couldn't get my head around how to implement this.

In Go, the implementation is conceptually extremely simple (although the code might not always be the most readable).
Right.

I guess it's a good thing that with a static HTML it's basically the same thing but without the fancyness and the Google cache in the background.
As opposed to the USA I assume you mean. Given the number of deaths from police officers alone it hardly supports your argument.

You had a revolution once and talk about gun rights as if you were expecting one again. And the threat of one is hardly doing anything to contain your governments continual erosion of all of your other constitutional rights.
The point of this article is not that children are more dangerous than terrorists. The point is that terrorism over-dominates national discussion of priorities.

Focus on terrorism is worrisome because it kills relatively fewer people than the top national stressors, it distracts the nation in its very limited capacity to discuss anything, it justifies extreme expenditure, and by its covert nature it is difficult to mediate in effect size.

Does terrorism warrant attention and expenditure? Yes. But it should get in line behind highly preventable or mediatable stressors like vehicle and gun related deaths.

The nation has spent trillions trying to fight terrorism, terrorism that has killed several thousand American civilians in total throughout all years. In response the nation went to war with Iraq, which itself costed thousands of lives on the American side, and over 100,000 deaths to Iraqis.

Terrorism has justified massive expansion of executive powers, it has led to opaque operations like extraordinary rendition, torture, and black sites, it has justified mass surveillance, it has led the discussion on privacy and encryption, it has led to new executive departments with budgets in the billions per year, and it justifies the use of secret courts with secret judges and secret warrants.

All in the name of fighting terrorists, while severe domestic stressors take a backseat in national priority.
"and an optimal solution so complex it appears infeasible to directly approximate using a policy or value function."

To be clear, the above refers to specific concepts in Reinforcement Learning.

A policy is a function from state (in Go, where all the stones are) to action (where to place the next stone). I agree that it is unlikely to have an effective policy function. At least one that is calculated efficiently (no tree search)... otherwise its not what a Reinforcement Learning researcher typically calls a policy function.

A value function is is a function from state to numerical "goodness", and is more or less one step removed from a policy function: you can choose the action that takes you to the state with the highest value. It has the same representational problems found there.
That is an understandable set of emotions but not really a rational basis for public policy.
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Terrorism is almost by definition sensationalist. The argument I referred to as cheapened was the argument being made in the article against guns.

Both sides of the gun argument are very passionate. In order for either to make headway with the other they have to avoid starting with hyperbole. Instead, all you get is both sides shouting at each other.
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I would agree with you, but this[1] article changed my mind.

0: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2015/2/17/ui-and-hidden-consistency/
How is that related? If your own government, for some reason, decided to kill you, there's not much you can do against a heavily armed SWAT team, with or without your small firearm. And if by this argument you mean that owning firearms en masse somehow keep government in line and ensures democracy, that's a moot point, since there are even (arguably) better functioning democracies than USA all over the world that chose to ban firearms completely except for military/antiterorist use.
I played chess instead of go, but I think they are similar enough ...

When you play, you consider a few possible movements, and a few possible responses of the other player, and in each case a few possible response of you, and ... I think amateur players like me consider only 3 or 4 levels (unless it's some easy but interesting situation like a multiple capture chain) but professional players consider much deeper trees. So humans also iterate randomly, but usually we prune the tree more aggressively for the time and memory constrains of the current implementation.

Unless you are Capablanca :). There is a famous fake quote from Capablanca that says "I see only one move ahead, but it is always the correct one." It's probably fake, but it's funny. More info and similar quotes: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/movesahead.html
> As far as I can see this is quite similar to the 'sharded bloom filter' discussed in the submitted link.

It's pretty similar, but not exactly like that. The main difference is that the server doesn't need to transmit a bloom filter, it transmits partial hashes, but yes, there's a tradeoff.

> How many 'longer hashes' do clients get on average per submitted 'short hash'? How large is the 'false positive' rate you get from the long hashes?

I'm afraid I don't know the answer to these questions, as we don't keep logs... The false positive rate of the long hashes should be astronomically low (since they are full 256-bit hashes), but it doesn't much matter because the client only needs to be reasonably sure that the user exists so it can perform an actual query with the plaintext identifier.

The problem isn't really "we shouldn't know any of your contacts", it's "we shouldn't know any of your contacts that aren't using our service", since clients have to divulge some of their contacts in order to set up calls with them or send them messages. That means the client only has to know which of their contacts are probably on the server so they can request more information, which will, at that point, tell them with certainty whether a contact is using the service.

P.S. My opinions are my own, I'm not speaking for SC, etc.