skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remote communication other than by courier didn't exist at all prior to the 19th century and the telegraph. That's why it was left out of the construction of the 4th Amendment.

You can make an argument for crimefighting, but then you have to stay within the judicial boundaries: limited access, requiring a warrant, limited use, requirement for basis for suspicion. The crimefighting process is there to produce evidence which is then presented to a court in public.

The problem with the IPbill is that it comes from the military intelligence point of view instead. The process produces intelligence which is then classified and is illegal for the public to see. There are warrants to be issued under the IP bill: it is a criminal offence for the people on whom the warrant is served to "to disclose to any person, without reasonable excuse, the existence or contents
of the warrant." This provision does not come with a time limit. You can be ordered to hack activists or opposition parties or human rights lawyers and not allowed to whistleblow, ever.

There are some extraordinary little subclauses like 154.(9):

"Any conduct which is carried out in accordance with a bulk equipment interference warrant is lawful for all purposes"
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eh, It doesn't scare me because they have the name, credit card, and exclusive control over the lock on the attacker's door. You'd have to commit so many counts of fraud and hacking in order to attempt getting away with it, that the reward just doesn't seem there to me.
I think we already solved this issue ages ago... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding_door_operator#Triggeri...
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Sure, that's a bottleneck, but that's not all bicycles.

And those expensive bikes are what percent of the bikes on the road everyday? Less than 2% I bet. But there's no way to tell as far as I can figure.
I think if people actually wanted the products, they'd be more likely to offer constructive solutions.
Not really, today's dumps are tomorrows mines. If we really don't want to keep this stuff over a very long time scale we could use a seduction zone and send our junk into earth mantle.

PS: Trash is matter, to generate cubic miles of the stuff we need cubic miles of raw materials.
You caught a typo of mine. I flipped the Others and Sex with child values for E (women). Corrected.
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I work in a flagship building in France, known for its environmental compliance and automation features. It's quite nice, but there's a web app to toggle the lights, the blinds and whatnot. And guess what, the logins to other floors are trivial to guess.
Maybe not "concrete in a post" specifically, but doing basic construction and home maintenance tasks are very useful skills for almost anyone, and I'm totally helpless at them. So I try to have empathy for anyone lacking "basic technical literacy".
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A far better history of Gold and its relation to art:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grULH297m48
Wait, sorry... what?! You had an RFID chip implanted in your hand???

I think that story deserves a little elaboration.

EDIT: Wow, this is apparently a thing. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchip_implant_(human)#Hobb...
I used to fly round as the fly with my 3D shutter glasses on for ages just watching.
> e) No other use - Gold is terrible for most other things (swords, stirrups, axes....) so demand for it is purely for its value as a currency.

I don't think that's fair, unless ornamentation isn't considered a "use". Gold is pretty close to ideal for a primitive (and contemporary) jeweler/artisan because it's atypically easy to work with: it can take intricate detailing, it takes a high polish, it doesn't tarnish, it has a pleasing unusual color and unusual density, and it's forgiving (can be melted down). If gold were as common as dirt, it'd still be a preferred medium for ornamental purposes.
Oh I gotcha. That makes more sense; I was confused since most of the expressions match more than 4 characters. Thanks!
Unfortunately we never got to actually operate jjwiseman, though that was our goal. Lots of lessons learned and definitely brought out the best in each of us. Thanks for sharing on HN!
I'm all for taking Medium thought pieces on the fundraising environment down a peg, but the problem with Hard Tech is that it requires a nontrivial amount of venture capital. You can't be ramen-profitable when your startup requires purchasing cars for testing or renting giant computing clusters for training AI models.

In relative contrast, it is trivial and risk-free to make a lean MVP for a generic Uber-for-X and send in a YC application.
I know that many learn programming themselves but I'm curious if anyone have learn advanced mathematics this way.
CloudPleasers: “Readable Code”
It's interesting that, in Japan's political environment, the local fishing industry has enough clout to veto TEPCO's proposal to allow radioactive water to leak into the ocean near the site.

It's also interesting that the fishing industry, which is usually (correctly) assigned blame for depleting fish stocks is, in this case, protecting fish habitat.
Look, the sales guy gave the president a _really_ nice lunch.
> So they're not forcing ads onto home users

I have seen some examples of this. I screamed loudly. It's not appropriate.

> trying to turn Windows application development into a walled garden a la Apple App Store / Google Play

Actually no, they're not. That's a negotiating tactic by a game developer and he's admitted there is no current substance to it. It's all speculative. You can distributed UWP apps without the store right now, just like you can distribute Mac apps without the App store.

And why would you even put Google's ecosystem in that statement? That's a completely incorrect comparison. The only OS that does total lockdown right now is iOS for mobile and iPad pro.

> They're desperate to force customers into the SaaS business model because their old model of charging a one-time fee per OS install is no longer viable.

This is true. But to be honest, it was never very viable or fair to the customers. OSs in a modern security climate are a service. Making that clear is much more honest.

> Desktop computers have well and truly reached market penetration

You're wrong there. Their hybrid interface design is superior for next generation portable computing. People give them VERY high marks on this. Even really persnickety and principled people like Tog agree MS is further along than anyone else in a universally usable interface context that works with traditional M&K and Touch applications.

My job forces me to use a Macbook with El Captian on it. I hate it. It feels like a dowdy piece of abandonware. I get hope and open my surfacebook and it feels like a modern, integrated, useful device.

And that's my perspective as a cloud services developer. OSX has pissed me off so much I hate doing dev on it. It's slow, full of weird undocumented behavior, made devving harder, has very dated feeling hardware, comes with just abysmally bad bundled apps (dear god Keynote, how bad can you get? And Apple notes is like OneNote but 2x as difficult to use, and don't even get me started on how awkward Pages has gotten as it tries to be all things to all people. Need we even mention the nightmare that is iTunes and iPhoto?)
What New Delhi’s free clinics can teach about fixing health care system
You seem to be assuming that it's entirely flooded. Seems probable that there are areas that are partially flooded, entirely flooded, or flooded and filled with wreckage. ie, an open water ROV may not be at all appropriate.

Certainly if the answer was actually as simple as "buy this off the shelf thing" then all the smart people over there would've figured that out at some point in the last 3 years.
>And if this metaphor seems a little obscure, this is why it is irresponsible, populist and ultimately self-defeating for uBlock and chums to block self-hosted Piwik and other such internal analytics tools.

uBlock didn't block it. I blocked it, by using uBlock, which I picked because of its stance on trackers. So its more like I found a cloak of invisibility so I don't show up on your cameras. You can't blame the store selling the cloaks, because I and every user like me chooses to wear them. You have to blame the user for using the cloak... but to what point? You are blaming me for not letting your code run on my machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_custody
You can go pretty far with AI using just a few GPU's.

10's of Teraflops is cheap.
This is complete nonsense if you're using a static constructor and not a factory. There's zero point to doing this for a local, statically constructed type. It's not a best practice.

If you were using a factory, var would infer the factory signature's type, which would normally be the interface.
Unclear. In terms of deaths the number caused by Fukushima is comparable to an equivalent coal plant[1] and we still use coal plants for some reason so the consensus seems to be that the electricity is worth the cost. I'd guess that the Fukushima cleanup and containment costs are going to be small compared to the human costs. As to the cost of the evacuation, that might very well be enough to zero out the economic value.

[1]http://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2013/12/fukushima-vs...
Ask HN: Is Silicon Valley slowing down?
I’m currently working in my first job after university and I’m thinking of moving to San Francisco on a graduate visa this summer. (I’m From Ireland and have the opportunity to get a J1 graduate visa)

I’d be moving to San Francisco/silicon valley with a CS degree from a university here in Ireland and 1 years experience in a development role. From reading recent articles and the recent fall in stock prices of tech stocks, I’m just worried that things seem to be slowing down and that there is possibly a tech bubble that's about to pop this year. What is the job market like out there at the moment and is it a foolish decision to leave my permanent job here and risk not finding any work in silicon valley?
Agreed on both points. The potential for shenanigans with electronic voting machines is worrying, but it seems to be a mostly theoretical problem right now.
#2 I believe. Better the NSA than your auntie.
It seems unlikely that the device received a UL certification without a simple thermal cutoff switch that is common even in low-end cooking appliances.

Even without deliberate hackers, the device needs to contend with software errors, running without water, or a stuck relay that could leave it boiling dry and overheating.
I suspect the vesting schedule of his GM options will impact his decision making more than mere passion. ;)

Speaking of, what does a typical vesting schedule look like in stock-based acquisitions? Is it always negotiable or is there an industry standard? I assume it's not the same 4/1 used in normal employee options, or else no founder would sell to a company requiring him to work four years to realize the full value of the acquisition.
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Russian Bitcoin issuers will risk seven-year prison sentence
> I'll block every single request I can, if it's not just fetching the content that I want.

Do you block images, css, and other stuff that doesn't pertain to the content at hand?

> What I'm suggesting is that applications can completely unobtrusively log visitor data internally, without requiring the client to make additional requests. In the same way that ad networks could serve data through your own application backend (rather than being requested by the client), if the ad networks and advertisers could stomach losing access to cross site user data tracking.

Yeah if all you want is referrer, user agent, url requested, and ip. But what about other great information in help with making your site BETTER for your users, like screen size?

> As a user, there is absolutely no benefit to me whatsoever of your site knowing my age, income bracket, recent (off-site!) browsing history and interests. None. Ad networks, advertisers and content providers will benefit. I won't.

I find it strange given the demographics of HN that people still believe by me putting Pwiki on my site to gather analytics about my visitors, that somehow taps into your bank account to see your income, requests your tax documents, downloads your birth certificate and gives me a full list of your last 100 visited urls.

That data is only available if I somehow put a tracking pixel on as many sites as I can. Such as a 3rd party script.

So because of that I can see blocking Google Analytics, or 3rd party trackers, but what are you doing by blocking 1st party stuff like Pwiki other than giving a big fuck you to the website owner?
>the implication was that some asshole can obtain photos of you sleeping by opening the curtains and switching on the lights in the middle of the night.

So, somebody is going to set up shop across the way, in what is probably another commercial building, commit a couple of crimes, all to take a picture of some random, likely unidentifiable person sleeping in a hotel bed?

Personally, I'm not very worried about that.

I mean, it's not like there aren't easier attack vectors for creeping on people in hotel rooms if you were so inclined.
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Everything you should know about the obscure world of Jruby with Ruby on Rails
Eventually the fusion process in the sun stops too.
Luckily, there are plenty of researchers in the field who fall into neither category.
This project is amazing. The site's scrolling should be memorialized in a museum of awful user experiences for posterity's sake.
“While some paraphilic behaviours, such as pedophilia, exhibitionism and voyeurism, are illegal and involve a non-consensual party, certain others should not be labelled abnormal, says the study’s co-author, Christian Joyal... ‘If people are happy, if everybody is consenting, I don’t know why it should be abnormal, especially in 2016,’ Joyal says.”

In other words the co-author either has no grasp of, and/or little regard for, distinctions considered important by many people across many centuries: moral object versus moral subject, intention, and circumstances. See the essay Intrinsic Evil and the Moral Object[+] for an overview.

In pointing that out, I don’t mean to denigrate the researchers’ persons or work. But the co-author’s “I don’t know why...” comment jumped out at me; I don’t think it was a rhetorical statement. Indeed, in many conversations I’ve had in recent years and in my daily reading, I sense a vast and accelerating cultural ignorance related to basic moral philosophy, especially among STEM folk. That’s quite a different thing than holding fast to or proposing a conflicting set of reasoned ideas. Now, discussing-debating the details is somewhat out of scope for HN – and I’m not attempting to get that snowball rolling down hill – but ignorance of this variety ultimately leads to dismissive attitudes and mental caricatures of those with whom we disagree, paving the way for “justified” incivility. I think we can and should do better.

[+] http://www.catechism.cc/articles/moral-object.htm
You buy one big block, say 50% of daily volume. Then you move the shares around, in the next few sessions sell smaller blocks through multiple brokers. The key is to buy enough volume to move the price, not so much to make exiting the position difficult. I don't do things like this, but I did see it on lower-liquidity exchanges all the time, and used to trade in small caps where a $10K bid could move the price ~5%... And if I was motivated to sell, the best bet was to break it up into smaller pieces, and sell over the course of a session or two. If daily volume is 50K, and I want to sell 20K, I can't put it all up at once.

Also, on a typical exchange like the NYSE, HKex, Euronext Paris, etc..., the volume is so large you generally don't even bother to look at who's buying or selling. On smaller exchanges you're constantly glued to the screen, looking at the sellers, trying to guess what they're up to.

I imagine company 401ks are managed by in a fairly conservative way. Big positions in fundamentally solid large caps, holding for a long time, selling only when you need to cash out or the price moves beyond a certain range. Traders basically manage their trades in the exact opposite fashion - short, extremely speculative trades, no regard for fundamentals, on smaller exchanges you mess with people's emotions, etc...
What are the best ways for a non-genius, normal person to learn advanced mathematics?
or even on the products in Wal-Mart
I argue to people that I'd rather have my photos on Googles servers than on the friendly local Dropbox clone.

Why? Because I know Google has systems in place to detect sysadmins browsing in data unrelated to their job and I know they have fired people over it even if was tought to have been done with good intentions.

Edit: as for tracking I wish they would up their game and stop providing ads for <insert eastern country here>-dating.<tld-of-the-day>

I wish they would take into consideration that I am happily married with more than 3kids, belongs to a subset of the population that has way less than 10% divorce rate and I might even be in the market for a new car at some point.

In fact I would even tell them if they asked.
Except "not rotting or corroding in wet conditions" is one of the reasons plastic is so useful.
One famous, although admittedly not particularly recent, example of a mathematical autodidact is Srinivasa Ramanujan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan).
This is the rationale of EF (said as someone who was in it). They've recognised that IP is VERY valuable again and are capitalising on it in a massive way.
I stand corrected. It also appears from those charts that the bigger GCP machines have more than 10gbps connection. It looks like 2x10gbps. That would explain why instances of all sizes are able to push more network traffic.

Mind you the benchmarks are for bulk transfer with 9001 MTU. With more jittery workloads with lots of small packets, like a webserver has to deal with, then you see the benefit of SR-IOV. So AWS may still have the advantage on some workloads, and some measures (maybe latency, maybe CPU usage per packet.) However, it's clear if Google can support SR-IOV in the future they will mop the floor with AWS on networking because their network infrastructure is obviously superior.
FBI May Demand iOS Source Code, Signing Key
Unbearable scrolling behavior in Chrome on a late 2013 MBP.
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You're right that IoC/Dependency injection pretty much define a framework -- that and ascii folder diagrams. IoC and other patterns are pretty common and well regarded, but they are not features of the language. If you had a library using functional programming instead of an IoC framework you'd be closer to the "principles of abstraction that the programming language provides."
> Neither of these have any bearing on the topic of the article itself.

I disagree there. I think diligent fact-checking encourages readers' trust. While I don't expect the author to have consulted a geologist, when I read "It's geologically distributed like this because it leaves the center of the Earth through volcanoes and other cracks", I wonder if any of our lava/magma comes from the core, because most of our core is just iron and nickel. We can imagine what a volcano that spews iron and nickle would look like. A quick check on Wikipedia indicates that our magma is formed in the crust and mantle.
This post makes me wonder about space pollution/saturation.

Are there any resources that talk about what is a safe number of satellites for different altitudes and the effects of space pollution?

I have heard of the Kessler Syndrome, any suggestions that discuss this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Well, the lack of oversight is a big one. But I remain concerned about the overly broad usages/references to terrorism, "promoting" terrorism, and phrases referring to actions that undermine "the economic and financial stability of Canada".

If an Indigenous tribe protests a pipeline being built on their ancestral land, are they undermining the economic stability of Canada?

I don't like leaving the distinction between what constitutes activism and terrorism up to interpretation by the frontline LEO's and CSIS agents collecting and acting on the data.
You're right and wrong. To the extent that such suppression is happening on campuses that is also an example, but it doesn't excuse Trump. Your argument amounts to "but those people are also a-holes!" Well okay, sure, but yeah.

That's why I included left-populism in my top level comment. Populism tends toward authoritarianism and... authoritarianism is authoritarianism. The extreme left and the extreme right converge on very similar things. In both cases you get a lot of "the end justifies the means" and we know where that goes.
What a wonderful story. Do those children know that everything they do on their Chromebooks is tracked and analysed by Google? Probably not, and they don't even know what tracking is or why it's bad.

They've been sold the idea that web apps and the cloud are beautiful and "free".
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So a completely open development model for their core platform, including unprecedented levels of commitment to patent pacifism and MIT/BSD level licesning is not?

> I suspect the overall response on HN would generally be favourable

It was.

> this is pretty much a forum full of people interested in disruptive new technologies, after all.
Most people here are incredibly conservative in their technology choices. Hell, Clojure is still considered minority, people actively defend Apple's anti-competitive stuff and dismiss the crazy progress Google and Microsoft have made, people say, "I'd love to use Erlang but..."

Even if we ignore the general novice factor, rate limiting stops real technical conversations here, anyways. Every time we get into a real technical discussion we hit the rate limits almost instantly.
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You are absolutely right. There are many city laws and ordinances that I doubt would stand a constitutional review.

I don't think police officers today are any lazier it more corrupt than police officers in the good old days. We are a bit too harsh on them I suppose. It is just that with an easier access to communication, we can all tell about our particular nuisances which paints a bigger picture together.

If you yell back at someone who yelled at you, should you get a $200 ticket while the other person who started it gets away? Hey, maybe have a plain cloth police officer yell at random people and see who bites and issue them a $200 ticket when they do?
That depends primarily on your favoured learning style. MOOCs are certainly changing the available resources and lecturers are publishing freely available notes for particular courses on their home pages.

Unfortunately some textbooks can be expensive, but some are more reasonably priced. Unfortunately, the more "niche" the mathematical area becomes, the harder it becomes to find freely available sources.

I personally prefer a mix of video lectures and textbooks. Being able to watch video lectures, with the ability to pause and rewind, is a very useful feature that is not available in live lectures!
The acquisition price can't be right. If the price was north of $1B, GM would be required to file and disclose the price as the acquisition was material. GM itself is worth less than $50B, so an acquisition for over 2% of the value of the company certainly would be considered material and require disclosure to the SEC and investors. That price can't be right.
It's not unusual to include Turkey in the Middle East region:

http://www.britannica.com/place/Middle-East

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East
As long as the satellites are under a certain mass, they will eventually get too close to Earth and burn up once they are pulled into reentry.
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