skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately with civil forfeiture, the situation with cash isn't much better. (E.g. the case of a black kid who carried $10,000 cash, his life savings, to move across the country, ended having the money taken by police and never returned, he was cooperative with officers and never accused or even arrested.)
> Games like chess and GO are games of complete information. Its just a matter of brute processing power, even if currently computers don't have the processing power to "solve" them.

That's like saying public-key encryption is broken because we can brute force decryption.

When we talk about solving a game (or solving an optimization problem, etc), we aren't simply interested in whether the problem is computable. We want a efficient, polynomial-time algorithm if we're interested in the generalized problem (the size of the board is a parameter), otherwise at least something that runs and completes in a reasonable time if we're OK with solving only a particular board size (an instance, in terms of computational complexity).

The generalized go problem is PSPACE-hard or EXPTIME-complete depending on the ruleset you adopt. So it's not just a matter of brute processing power.

Now, most people outside theoretical computer science research don't care much about generalized games and asymptotics, they're fine with solving 19x19 Go instead of n x n Go. But that doesn't help you much: the only board size that has been solved is 5x5 [0], and there are only about 10^10 legal positions in a 5x5 board. The standard 19x19 has 10^170 legal positions! Good luck brute forcing it.

[0] http://erikvanderwerf.tengen.nl/5x5/5x5solved.html
: to make (something) available to all people : to make it possible for all people to understand (something)
They certainly would have understood corporate legal status, and done so much better than nearly everyone who comments on it today.

And honestly I don't think it would take most of them very long to grasp the implications of mobile phones, the internet, and encryption. The Founders whose names immediately come to mind were some very intelligent and mentally agile people. While our technology may be incomprehensible to them, the social frameworks into which it fits is not.
That's the beauty of the new spaceship campus - it can just land in another country if need be.
Is your thesis online where we can look at it?
Tim Cook has done a lot at Apple, but this ethical stand will likely be the most important thing he does in his life. It's a big fucking deal.
How does this compare to http://clarify.io?
But it does support multithreading.

Things missing are usually specific external protocols.
e.g. being able to make a TCP socket; (or higher level things like ignoring CORS).
So, are there out of the box libraries to estimate a zero inflated negative binomial regression model in guile? How about to create multi-faceted plots with < 10 lines of code?

I would LOVE to do my statsing with any lisp variant, but the reality is that R has a killer ecosystem of statistical and visualization packages. Python had an enormous uphill battle but now has a really great story to tell in part because it hitched itself to the rising fortunes of Bayesian stats.

Any discussion of languages has to include amount and maturity of libraries for the purposes at hand.

This PDF has some good content. But I feel a somewhat harsh response is warranted if your starting premise is positioning yourself against an existing solution that many individuals use.
The seemingly "poor" intelligence represented from the article, ironically, really weakens what intelligence is. In certain sense, this article really strengthen the importance of AlphaGo:
AlphaGo does appear know Go, and the author seemingly have weak understanding of AI and GO, making it a poor intelligent being that is specialized in writing articles. Apparently Go is considered require more intelligence than writing normal articles. So AlphaGo performs well in a task that requires more intelligence, and the author performs poorly in a task that requires less intelligence. Does this make AlphaGo a better intelligent being than the author?
Well, read the source of jquery. You will see fixes for "old new features" of FF that broke applications in the past.

Given the way mozilla teams are still working I guess it can still happen.

EDIT and add the memory leaks and the change of performance that happens from time to time in new releases.
I found myself nodding along in a agreement with mc32's post. I usually stop by the ATM around Dawn, it's just one of those errands I enjoy. Not to mention the minimal possible tracking ability by aggregating payment history info. Small businesses that I frequent also seem to appreciate cash, which is plus.
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Believing that the last digit of primes is evenly distributed overall is not the same as thinking they do not exhibit patterns when viewed sequentially. I'm surprised by neither.
TURN's only needed if both sides have particularly restrictive NATs. There are also some public TURN servers. It's fairly harmless, as the media's all encrypted.
If my memory is not totally off, I started my computer usage in the early 00s. I don't recall crashing as a ticking time-bomb so I certainly didn't have that issue. And I save manually frequently.

I think it is more of a power user thing and/or a paranoia thing or similar - not the fear of crashing. For me, anyway.
Helix is also a solid and reliable mixer, with the downside that it requires TOR to access
Qualcomm's broken kernel code is the tip of the iceberg
But I think that the government should be able to require Apple to use its capabilities to hack particular devices with a court order.

That's not the question, though: the question is whether the All Writs Act already grants that power, or whether a new piece of legislation is required.

I think that Apple is right that it is more conservative for the courts to construe the existing legislation narrowly, since the Government always has the option to put specific legislation before Congress to remove all doubt.
The biggest problem I see coming with "cashless societies" is severe technological fragmentation. For mobile payments, in China you can get around with WeChat Pay and AliPay; in USA you use PayPal, Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay, Venmo, and probably a few others I'm forgetting. In Australia you have PayWave. What about plastic? In Singapore you have NETS, in USA you have Amex, Visa, MasterCard, in China you have UnionPay, ...

And guess what? None of these systems talk to each other. Even PayPal USA doesn't talk to PayPal China for goodness sake. Most payment systems require local addresses and phone numbers to even register an account, so if you're a short-term tourist or business traveller, you're out of luck. If you're a frequent international traveller, cashless societies are going to be absolute hell unless we come up with some kind of internationally-standardized protocol, which doesn't seem to be happening any time soon because each payment system has a corporate agenda behind it.
When that is the case you can use electronic payment. But they are not mutually exclusive. Electronic payment can coexist with cash. The fact that electronic transfers are convenient for large purchases does not negate the convenience of cash for small person to person transactions.

People are making the argument that because electronic payment is convenient for large transactions, therefore cash is inconvenient in all cases. This is a falsehood. They are both convenient in different cases.

In a way, convenience is in the eye of the bearer.
Most scientific and engineering advancements are an incremental combination of what has come before. One can make all the predictions one wants, but until someone actually builds something working, it's just a hypothesis.

The key advancement in AlphaGo seems to be generating a subset good moves, as opposed to randomly selecting them, and determining whether a given configuration has a probability of winning. Monte Carlo Tree Search by itself only gets you to amateur ranks from what I read, but won't beat a pro player. Being able to combine the policy and value networks, and figuring out how to bootstrap and train them was where all the work is.

In hindsight, everything looks like an obvious combination of separate already-known-to-be-good pieces. I don't think this achievement should be hand waved away.

More importantly, the DeepMind folks are being pretty humble about it and not making the big claims everything seems to think they're making.
What’s this talk about Cloud/Container Native and how does it relate to DevOps?
Cool! I've had this book on my to-read: "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do" (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1565843428/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl...)
"consumerization" just tells you that something is going into the market, not that it's becoming accessible to everyone. "Democratic" is not the best word but it's better than that.
I think we'd need to solve computational linguistics for a completely accurate parser to be able to tag the words properly. Although, the current state of the science works for something like 80% of cases (which are the "easy" ones).
I don't think DOJ knows what they're doing here at all. At worst, they'll force Apple and the rest to have subsidiaries off-shore with the signing key.
Maybe I have a blind spot, where an I wrong? (Vague "this'll change everything" statements don't count)
Enron can hand over the laptop. This would be like asking Enron to break into their CEO's house.
It's pretty straight forward to use JSX outside of React. If you're using Babel you can simply add

/** @jsx ExampleDOM */

As the first line in your Javascript source file. This indicates to the transpiler to convert statements of the form

<example name="Wesley" age={15}>
<Message text="hello"/>
<Message text="world"/>
</example>

into

ExampleDOM('example', { name: 'Wesley', age: 15 },
ExampleDOM(Message, { text: 'hello'}),
ExampleDOM(Message, { text: 'world })
)

where you implement ExampleDom as

function ExampleDOM(element_or_component, attributes, ...children) {

}

Note that because 'example' starts with a lowercase character, it is transpiled into a string first-argument to the ExampleDOM function. If it starts with an Uppercase letter (i.e. 'Message' above) it is interpreted as an in-scope Javascript variable.

We've had really good results using JSX outside of the core react library. For example, we've built a "React.js for Excel" that lets us easily create rich Excel workbooks:

<worksheet
clear
protect
flow="column"
name={`Bespoke - ${network.shortname} - WACC`}
tabColor={theme.bespokeBlue}
displayGridlines={false}
style={worksheetStyle}>
<PageLayout
title={`${network.name} Cost-of-Capital Worksheet`}
lastUpdated={new Date()}>
<UpdatedWACCEstimates network={network} determination={determination}/>
<WACCForecast network={network} forecast={forecast}/>
</PageLayout>
</worksheet>

Which looks a lot like React.js and behaves almost exactly the same, but it's targeting the Excel COM Object model rather than the HTML DOM.
No, I lived the C-explosion of 30 years ago and it was absolutely nothing like what I see these days.

It utterly nuts how we are expected a learn a full-stack like Mongo/Angular/Backbone and then 6 months later is like NO we need AWS/React/Redux now!

It's my oldman opinion that IT has become too much like fashion and not enough like engineering, but that's what oldmen think so who cares.
This story by Ted Chiang [1] is an examination of exactly the future you describe. Forget lying to others, this could prevent our leaky, revisionist, memories from lying to ourselves.

[1] https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_o...
There's not going to be another AI winter. The past AI winters occurred because people drastically underestimated how difficult AI would be. MIT (Seymour Papert specifically) thought computer vision could be solved by some graduate students as a summer project. Same story for other AI problems, e.g. NLP, speech recognition, general reasoning and inference, etc.

Once the difficulty of those problems started to be understood, of course funding dried up. Industry is focused on short-term ROI, so it's hard to get funding if the profits won't be seen for 50 years.

The difference is that now there's an entire string of profitable markets for solving near-term AI problems. AI is fundamental to the business models of some of the world's largest companies (i.e. Google). There's basically zero risk of an AI winter when we're on the verge of advanced robotics, Watson-style Q&A systems, self-driving cars, large-scale genomics, etc.

An AGI winter is another story, but most AI work isn't really focused on serious, full-scale AGI right now anyway. That winter never ended and is ongoing. Everyone is focused on incremental AI improvements because no one really knows what's required for full AGI, and are in the meantime hoping they'll hit on it while building on known techniques like deep learning, comp neurosci, etc.

tl;dr: As long as investors continue to see marketable products for new AI developments anywhere in the next ~10 years, funding won't dry up again.
I was taught that the protocol is for the speakers to alternate if no other information is given in the lines. In all other cases you need to restart the speech block with something like "Watson continued, "..."".
It lets you pass around a FooObject/FooContext and offers you a lot of the powers of a DSL while still being boring, stock BarLanguage. I find it to be very helpful for making declarative-style APIs.
I think a naive approach would do quite well. We're not looking to comprehend the sentence entirely, rather a fairly good accuracy, so that the reader only needs, usually, focus on the highlighted words. For example, serif'd, bolded verbs and noun would retain most of the information while filler words like "the" and "and" might not be necessary.

The consequent highlighted parts reminds me a lot of Chinese, where essentially every word is "important" and there are few filler words, and hence there is often a lot of contextual information.
If Loretta Lynch were informed about how encryption works, she would not be pursuing this case. As it is, she does not understand that she is wasting the time of American government and people.

She does not understand that even if the FBI can get into every Apple phone, criminals can simply choose another form of encryption software to accomplish means of hiding their communications. Assuming the FBI can force Apple to install a key logger to grant them access into encrypted apps, will the FBI then go after Samsung and HTC which are made outside the US?

The whole thing is absurd and a waste of our time. The way in which the FBI is going about this is not going to get them what they want.

I don't know how to get them what they want. That's their job to figure it out. But they should know better about encryption technology. Or someone should tell them. This has gone on too long.
The rdesktop (and GUI frontends) Remote Desktop client on Linux is perfect for this. Supports the Windows RDP protocol. All you need is to find the raw connection data (if they don't give it to you, e.g. if they use "remote desktop connection files"). We have various Windows servers at work yet no developer uses Windows (it's all OS X and Linux).
Looks like http://parts-of-speech.info/ does a pretty good job at detection; too bad the styling is so garish.
For the record, I'm one of the web developers that resigned. Not from a large company, but from a small consulting company. I'm back in embedded land, and I'm way happier for it. Sure, the vendor-provided code is often shit, but it can be rewritten if necessary.
Fairness. Is that not sufficient reason?

If taking your hat off was required for the picture, then she should also have to take her hat off. If taking your hat off was optional, then she should be able to keep her hat on.
IIRC Enron was being investigated under the RICO act. In this case no one is even being investigated for committing a crime, let alone charged with one.
Ok but in the eyes of the law at the time, george washington was a terrorist (in addition to being 6 feet tall and made of radiation). Of course a guy like Paul Revere would have been pro-privacy. He needed privacy to deliver intelligence on british troop movements.

Some legal scholars view the declaration of independence as part of the constitution (and the primary part). But clearly any 'right to rebel' wasn't recognized during the civil war. So we can conclude that the climate has changed.

Notice that tim cook isn't out there fighting against apple's ability to push code or fighting for me to install debian on my ipad. He's fighting for his own institution's right to resist the orders of a larger institution. This is like the magna carta -- it was about the rights of the british aristocracy, not the lower gentry or the feudal labor force.

Now that they've crossed the IRS and DOJ off the list of federal agencies they give a crap about, next on the list might be the DMV. Apple car anyone?
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How do you see it as derogatory? I'm a native English speaker and have never thought of it that way. I didn't click the link, but did appreciate his short summary – and upvoted him for it. ;)
The CTO would likely be compelled by the courts to reveal their password.
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Ok but the Magna Carta in the long run had benefits for those not in the aristocracy, did it not?
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The best mixer is Bitcoin Fog: http://foggeddriztrcar2.onion/
I think Apple was wrong to have picked to have this battle in such a poorly defended position. The stand would have been better made over a secure device they couldn't unlock. But obviously I have to now root for Apple, hoping that a terrible intermediate precedent does not get set and that they're able to dissuade new laws as well.

At least the amended FBI request looks a lot less risky.
The ps4 rendering 1080p at 120hz? Yeah no.

Unless they significantly pare down their graphical fidelity.
Enron doesn't make encryption software/hardware I don't see how that is a comparable situation? Obviously there are limits to what courts can order in the pursuit of law enforcement goals, and this should be one of them.
It takes the biggest, richest, most loved and most powerful companies to stand up to the insane overreach of government authority. Even then everyone sucks in their breath "Are they really daring to defy the power of the government?"

Everyone else, every other organisation is little people.

Sad that it came to be that governments rule the people instead of the government serving the people.
PayPal doesn't like gift cards.
Why hasn't Zerocator found a VP of Engineering yet?
Links not included because of anti spam But try this search:
'zerocater "VP of engineering" site:news.ycombinator.com'

1 hour ago, 14 hours ago, 12 days ago, 25 days ago, ... for FOUR pages of search results! All the way back to 2013.

Either no one is applying or they are incredibly picky.
[video] How Diffie-Hellman Public Key Cryptography Works
Or we would be stuck focusing on the best [and the worst] of past because it's persistent, like in the episode.
There's another thread about this on the front page right now [1]

I suggest that we as technologists get together and inform the public about this issue. I don't know if the EFF is contacting congressmen or not, but we should be informing them and making ourselves available for their questions should they have any about computer technology.

I propose that we,

1. seek out public figures and media who can share our message

2. come up with more concise messaging that is understandable by a non-techie

3. back it up with facts and primary sources

John Oliver is not enough. All the tech companies is not enough. This is as big as or bigger than SOPA. When we fought SOPA, we didn't have the possibility that people could blame us in the future for terrorist attacks if that bill did not pass. If and when we fight an anti-encryption bill, we will be fighting that alarmist view. We will make it much easier on ourselves if we seek to educate the public about the issues and let them make up their own minds.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11293949
Agreed... The Founding Fathers were clearly the most intelligent and capable leadership the country has ever had, but in 2016, I wouldn't ask for the opinion of a person who had signed their name on the three fifths compromise.
Group chat is more effective than email but more fragmentation if no good way to control. So base this i think the group chat like slack prefer "channel" which is a type of small group or created by a single target. This will decrease the fragmentation. As the slack reboot does.
Why you think the net was born? Porn porn porn
My take as I pointed earlier, would be that they would start selling online only (go to store to look at it only) and shipping devices from Mexico for example. Or if Gov continues their witch hunt, they could clearly mark phones with backdoor from those without, hoping that black market will be able to deliver encrypted phones to those who still want to have Apple device.
> there's a clear reason for this order to be executed

No. They are abusing a law written two centuries ago to compel a private corporation to perform work on their behalf when they have the resources and know-how to do it themselves in this specific case. They are doing it purely to establish precedent so that they can then proceed to do the same, again and again, on an absolutely massive scale. A scale which wouldn't be possible with their resources. This is shameful and shouldn't be permitted.

> I would be curious to hear some considered reflections on how the govt should go about this differently

It's very simple. Stop trying to compel private corporations to do their job for them.
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Have you ever tried Cisco's Webex? It's pretty good, plus it has desktop sharing and various other handy things.
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Or jQuery. That also has proved itself to be reliable.
Live coding with ClojureScript/Reagent/Re-frame/Figwheel/REPL is a holy-grail-kind of dev experience for me (and React really does feel like it was ported to JS from a better place), but one has to admit the potential maintainability/refactorability issues when projects grow beyond a certain size (as compared to something like Haskell or PureScript).

Plumatic Schema [1] goes a long way towards narrowing that gap though and I cannot recommend it enough. Whether it goes far enough in terms of safety is certainly a matter of project type/size and personal preference, but to me, for my kind of work so far it does and they'll take away my ClojureScript when they pry it from my cold, dead hands. :)

Also (and slightly off-topic) the combination of clairvoyant + re-frame-tracer [2][3] (+[4] for some minor, so far mostly React Native-relevant additions) should be way more popular than it seems to be. It's definitely one of the most important tools in my toolbox and completely changed the way I approach debugging.

[1]: https://github.com/plumatic/schema
[2]: https://clojars.org/day8/re-frame-tracer
[3]: https://clojars.org/gnl/re-frame-tracer
[4]: https://clojars.org/gnl/clairvoyant
Here's another possibility. Let's say DOJ wins, or a new law is passed requiring Apple to sign malware version of iOS. Apple risks losing huge market share overseas, where people will stop buying iPhones. Apple spins off affiliate companies in these other countries, distributing controlling share of the affiliate stock to current Apple shareholders. Then apple just licenses its tech to the spin-off affiliates. No control over their ops. (Obviously would be more convoluted, much more -- but that's the basic idea.)
Yeah you could probably write a program to put a TV in virtual space and use a live video stream as a texture.