skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if that would really work, with extradition agreements and all. A lot of other countries' governments will actually agree with the FBI's position, not the position of the American people.

In other news, Apple has been complying all along with Chinese authority requests, including placing Chinese user data on Chinese servers and hand over relevant data when asked. In China if they made a fit over this they'd be thrown out and blocked along with Google and Facebook. For them, complying with Chinese authorities is a revenue-driven business decision.

In the absolute worst case outcome of the FBI case, I imagine they would end up complying with US authorities as well, as a business decision.
(Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud)

Thanks for your great review! We really appreciate it.

I hate to nitpick one point in what you said, but are you sure that S3 is cheaper than Google Cloud Storage? Glacier is definitely cheaper than we are, but they offer ~4 hour object retrieval latency. If you consider only services with real-time retrieval, I think we stack up quite well in both performance and price :).
>You need a conspiracy at every precinct where you replace or introduce ballots.

Indeed. I'm not sure if you watched some of the clip I linked to but that it one of the things Abagnale speaks to. With decreasing budgets, increasing corruption, or a simple lack of ethics it is easy enough to compromise an individual and thus the whole system which they administer. Any social engineer will tell you it is far easier to hack a person than to hack a system.

This is why I would argue that a more automated electric system, one which relies on less human administrators, would would be more difficult for the average person to compromise than a paper-based system which relies on a higher number of human administrators.
How many men are kept in captivity?
It’s Time the Software People and Mechanical People Sat Down and Had a Talk
Came here to say this. I hope the fact that I'm using my very limited noprocrast window to say this adds weight to this expression of my disappointment.
I'm thinking now that maybe there could be a magnetic material solving an NP-problem
I don't think it's just the UK. At Berkeley, for example, the Math minor requires 4 lower division courses and 5 upper div.

https://math.berkeley.edu/programs/undergraduate/minoring-ma...
A few Loopt and ImagineK12 alum being brought in to the tent. What's the connection?
SONIC is not, I repeat, Not a Microsoft Linux distro
I think this holds true for only Haskell and Clojure. You're missing something important everywhere else (especially STM).

One nice thing about STM in Haskell is that the type system will help prevent you making mistakes. I've benefited from the types tracking how I'm creating and combining database transactions, which makes it easier to compose them into one big DB transaction from smaller ones.
I'm volunteering to live next to the reactor, because I think the risk of doing so is negligible. I am legally prohibited from doing so, and these people were legally prohibited from staying. If there is in fact no ongoing physical health risk as I am claiming, the harm caused to them is part of the psychological damage from (the cultural context around) nuclear power that I mentioned. It doesn't lessen what these people have been through of course.
That's most likely, and I agree that it's likely in the case mentioned that the data is not skewed. However, the main reason I posted is because the post I was responding to appeared to make the assumption that nearly half of the data points will always be below the mean, and I was pointing out that there are some distributions where you should not expect that to be the case because they are skewed.
"Well, that's a funny way to spell X11"
They did run into a parked Prius the other day and then Geohot made fun of that
http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10810726/cruise-automation...
Google DeepMind could play StarCraft
In practice I don't think it's useful to think about it in terms of liability. That $100 bill is a share in the net wealth of the nation. This is why when a country prints a lot if its currency to fund government spending, the relative value of that currency goes down. There are more 'shares' in the economy now, so each one represents a smaller slice of the pie than it did before. So if there is any liability, it's distributed across everyone else holding that currency.

Of course the value of anything is only relative to what anyone is prepared to pay for it, it's a matter of sentiment, so the value of an economy can go up or down depending on perceived risks, liabilities or opportunities and thus is reflected in the value of the currency compared to other assets or currencies.
US Attr Gen Loretta Lynch Shills on Colbert to Sway Public Opinion on iPhone
I was also wondering about that. Y-axis values are rounded to integers, even in the data source contained in a script node on the page.
Here is an article about a Beluga whale that began to mimic human speech:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/story-one-whale...

Also, In the "Animal Minds" episode, Radiolab recounts a story of divers saving a net-entangled whale, and the whale in turn "thanks" each diver. It's a good show, and the examples included are thought-provoking. If you found this story intriguing, I recommend giving this Radiolab episode a listen. If not, the stories leads to what is intelligence and connection possibilities across species, and the topic of Spindle Neurons is presented which are explored as a connection between high and low order parts of the brain. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindle_neuron)

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The Goods:

1. The episode: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91701-animal-minds/

2. A related follow-up about whales:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/149761-whale-saying-thank-you/
It seems it would be only a matter of time before other manufacturers join TP-Link on this.
I really like Circle CI, but I've used (and enjoyed) most of the other services as well.
Actually, the useful part of the geostationary orbit is 1 dimensional, because the satellites have to be at the right height and over the equator. It's called the "Clarke Belt": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit

But anyway space is very big and the probability of collisions is still low. Two geostationary satellites out of control would probably not collide, they will pass a few hundred of meters away in any direction. The big distance between them is mostly to avoid interference between the radio signals.
Hackers Breach DDoS Protection Firm Staminus, Leak Sensitive Data Online
The Two Year Writing Challenge Is Over
Can a mod please fix the title? Nowhere in the article does it say that the FBI may demand either the source code or the signing key.
Photo project matches tweets and locations via GPS
If anyone knows a good way to check proofs by yourself, let me know. I love it, but you pretty much have to have other mathematicians tell you when you're doing something horribly wrong.

By the way, did anyone else have to take engineering maths instead and feel they were somewhat lacking?
Modbus is still very common in ECUs. I work for a telematics company and Modbus is probably our 2nd biggest bus protocol next to CAN(J1939).
It is the same kinda of idea of banning big scary guns instead of going after the people who use guns to commit crimes (and also ignoring that the people who do commit crimes often aren't even using the big scary guns).

Regulators gonna regulate!
AVA, an AI assistant for specialists
Or CSI: Cyber, except they need to add something brain-breakingly wrong to those of us in the know for that.
I'd suggest that everyone come join the party in the U.S., but then I realize that we have equally stupid politicians trying to run everything, too.

I get the sense that reincorporating in Bermuda, Gibraltar, or one of the Channel islands might help in some way, but I can't quite figure out just where in my brain that idea came from. Maybe it was one of those foil hat ideas that I had to discard because it only worked for Commonwealth citizens.

It would take a careful reading of the law to discover the most appropriate loophole. In the U.S., that often takes the form of having no meaningful penalty or enforcement for breaking a law. So, basically, companies just ignore it. But UK law works differently, so I can't say for certain whether that means a judge could invent an appropriate penalty or not.
I would vote for a president that ran a campaign _only_ based on quirky punishments for those who use history.pushState()

They should have to open a door repeatedly, only to have someone push them back when they try to walk through for a few weeks, for example!
This is the part where the FBI begins to really scare Apple with its aggression, by intentionally over-reaching to try and prompt Apple to meet them in the middle (settle) out of fear of losing big otherwise. Classic hardball tactic from the government (prosecutors use it routinely; works best if you're an all-powerful entity with the ability to put people in prison or otherwise cripple their existence).
Think the title means to say 'starcraft'.

Interesting how deepmind started with atari, moved to go, and is staying on mastering games.
You're work is interesting. The concepts remind me of work in analog implementations of neural circuitry. See, the brain is likely a general-purpose, analog computer with digital-like parts. So, trying analog implementations was thought to have improvements. It did with one wafer-scale method I didn't see coming.

http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/boser-92.pdf

http://www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/Veroeffentlichungen/downloa...

It would be interesting to see someone combine the principles of your work with analog implementations on a decent process node. Yours is kind of like a hybrid between properties of analog and digital cells. The real thing might be even more effective albeit harder to automate. There's some analog EDA but it's almost always custom work.
Newly-Discovered Bacterium Can Break Down, Metabolize Plastic
Agreed, but I really feel like this time, the public vaguely understands and has more of a stake in it than before. Now, keep in mind, this is just as important to the day-to-day user as it was in the cypherpunk days, but now, everyone has a device in their hands that they can touch, and know is related to this. The public knows how precious its data is, now.

The last time this fight occurred... the last two times this fight occurred, actually, no one in the public had any clue what we were all talking about.
> This needs to be framed as a political issue

I completely agree it should be political. And I think it would be a big win for any candidate to express support for backdoor-free encryption now that the facts are becoming clearer to the public. All we need is someone with some authority to stand up and share those facts.

Unfortunately, Sanders has yet to comment on it, and some feel that his comments about Snowden have been less-than-brave, so he might not weigh in on this. People within his campaign feel it isn't currently a major issue for American voters. I've tried to share some information a couple of times but it hasn't really generated much discussion in the Sanders subreddit [1]

If anyone has any contacts within his campaign, it would be a good idea to reach out to them and talk about the issue. There are two bills, one in NY [2] and one in CA [3], being proposed that would mandate backdoors in encrypted phones. These are based off of text originally produced by Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance in November 2015 [4]. It's just a matter of time until there is similar federal legislation [5]

> The entire tech industry should be taking a stand right now. Setting the policy of the FBI & DoJ is more important than net neutrality or SOPA. Not to mention picking the judges that will be deciding these cases for the next 20 years.

I think you also need to consider the powers that the US government does have over tech companies.

Remember 5 years ago when all the tech companies issued oddly similar statements saying, "we want to tell you more about our cooperation with the government, and we are asking the government for permission to do that." Whatever came of that? Do we know more now?

I think tech companies are timid because they know the DOJ can ruin them. We only found out much later the duress under which Yahoo found itself in 2008 [6]. And, Microsoft was slapped pretty hard under Bill for bundling IE etc. He pretty much always sides with the government now. Also, Apple was just fined fairly heavily in a loss to the DOJ over its ebook negotiations with publishers. Until the supreme court denied Apple's request to hear that case, it seemed like it could go either way. There are probably many more we don't know about. There is a big difference between fighting against the DOJ and fighting publicly with Congress over SOPA etc. Fighting the DOJ is often done behind closed doors where the public and Apple's users cannot have its back.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/49otvu...

[2] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/bill-aims-to-thwa...

[3] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/worried-about-apple-ca...

[4] https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/dont-panic/DA_Repor...

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

[6] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/yahoo-nsa-lawsu...
Good fences make good neighbors, and encryption is the only way to reliably create barriers around data and devices. Encryption deserves to be every bit as normalized as other social technologies like private property or personal space. http://www.meltingasphalt.com/border-stories/
Couldn't you get at least similar storage performance from EBS Provisioned IOPS SSDs in AWS? And maybe "scale out," instead of "scaling up," to maintain performance within AWS constraints? The advantage obviously is that you avoid the capex and if you don't achieve the sales that you foretasted then you can just rapidly scale down your AWS footprint, thus avoiding financial catastrophe. You could spring for the fancy custom bare metal hardware when you reach a "hyperscale" amount of workload where it makes sense to switch to your own hardware, like Google or Facebook. And if your customers really want the fancy Infiniband clusters right now, why not license your software and make them put up the capital to buy the hardware themselves? Just my two cents, maybe I'm missing something and your approach makes sense.
>You are ultimately responsible for your own perceptions.

Would you consider a Muslim born and raised in the Maldives, where the state and populous are all Muslim and questioning the status quo can result in severe injury and incarceration, personally responsible for their views even though they are denied alternative perspectives?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_Maldives
22 days ago: TP-Link begins router firmware lockdown due to FCC proposed regulation (ninux.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11122966
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Von Neumann model?

Von Neumann J 1945 Rev. Econ. Studies 13 1

Can't find the full text at the moment, sorry.
>The thought of that culture spreading across the galaxy like a disease is horrifying.

Why the assumption that humans are uniquely pestilential in our behavior? For all we know, 'the galaxy' might consider our capacity for tolerance to be the disease.
A couple of weeks ago. It did take some work, it seems like there's a "sweet spot" that I had to hit, and some experimentation that required rotating the phone on the surface, but I was able to write google.com and then pop it open on my tablet.
There is a correlation, but effort is a vector more than a magnitude. Lots of effort in the wrong direction gets you nowhere. Meanwhile small effort surfing on a trend can work quite well.
You would enjoy pretty much all of the games by Zachtronics, including Infinifactory. They're all puzzle-oriented though, as far as I know, rather than sandbox.
For founders, the trick is finding that sweet spot where a problem sounds hard on paper (such as self-driving cars or VR headsets, wooo!), but actually is feasible using current technology...

This is how true innovation happens. Like evolution, innovation is not a steady inching forward (though that kind of progress certainly operates continuously in the background), but a series of sudden leaps punctuated by relative stability. Those sudden leaps happen when the right brain is in the right place at the right time to make the right analogy or synthesis with existing ideas. You can't fund people to produce it on command, you can only hope to be among the first to recognize that it has happened and to invest in it at that early point, before the innovation is disseminated.

For an approach that does seek to produce innovation on command, see Ken Stanley's work on novelty search:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXQPL9GooyI
At what point does sentience end? Whales? Rats? Birds? Fish? Insects? Plants? Bacteria?

Because something has a higher order nervous system does that mean we have to assign it equal rights? How high an order of system would be required to have equal rights? Why does it really matter how something else feels other than members of our own species?

For the record I generally agree with not keeping killer whales in captivity. I'm just asking the question so we know the position has been well considered.

Perhaps "slavery" is a bit too strong? (And that's without even getting into "you say that like it's a bad thing....").
I recently went to a LoRaWan workshop funded by my megacorp (a utility company). It felt like paying someone to try and sell you their stuff.

Anyway, what the LoRa did emphasize is that both the network layer and application layer are encrypted with different keys using AES. This means someone would have to compromise both layers to actually control the devices.

Buuut, given that both encryption keys are stored on the device, I bet someone will just walk up with a chip clip and read the keys right out of EEPROM and then the pretty lights will start.

Or they'll just hack the application servers. I've seen some really god awful pieces of software in use.

A vendor once told me "it's so easy to admin our device over the internet. Just go to 192.168..." And of course due to corporate politics we still bought that piece of shit.
Isn't very similar attitude "oh, why bother with checks, I'll never do anything wrong with those" is a case of most segfaults in C programs?
Sure, there are plenty of actual uses for RFID, what I meant is that most of the 'that'd be cool to play with' uses are impossible, and what is possible aren't the things you'd play with (I mean I don't have a warehouse, and for tracking stuff in my pantry it's impractical because of the reasons I mentioned earlier).
I don't think GM spent $1BN to buy Cruise. That's might be GM's total spending on autonomous vehicles, including the Cadillac/CMU effort and the Delphi work.

I'm surprised GM bought them. Cruise is basically lane keeping plus smart cruise control, with extra hype. Their driving record isn't very good.[1]

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/bc21ef62-6e7c-4049...
Dogs are not exactly in captivity; they are domestic. Many of them show that they are not in captivity by roaming freely but then returning home.

They do so even if they are not verbally threatened with negative consequences if they fail to come home; and they wouldn't understand that anyway. :)

Domestic animals kept as pets that are treated well have good lives that they arguably enjoy. Wild animals have it very tough, by contrast.
This is what makes people with so many years of experience so valuable. NetApp had a woman who would source parts from around the world and she had done it for long enough that she knew many (if not all) of the tricks in the book. Often her conversations would start with a new supplier and her requests with explicit constraints would tell them that she knew what she was talking about and that they had better play it straight. So they started out assuming none of the tricks they might use with an inexperienced buyer would work. That experience had tremendous value to the company.
Such technology is already being used in this way, and has been compared chillingly to tracking 'precrime'; there is a terrifying Radiolab episode on it:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/
I don't really care about all of the calls, but I'd like to say "here's a regex pattern describing a uri. once any connection with uri pattern closes (within 10 seconds), you can render."

Yeah, this isn't great for websockets/long polling or other persistent methods, but it's fine for simple ajax-y calls.
Sam Altman was a co-founder and the CEO of Loopt
I thought the point is right here right now?
Writing interactive command line apps in JavaScript with Node.js
RDBMS and Graphs: Graph Basics for the Relational Developer
Eye in the Sky (2015)
Don't even get me started on medical devices. Hospitals are facing a disaster they've never even conceptualized.
No, it's like saying its okay to beat someone up if it stops them from dying.
I wonder if, with MITM devices set up on a few consecutive floors, you could make massive pixelart animations on the outside of the building by turning lights on and off...
There are geosynchronous (not = geostationary) orbits which trace an analemma in the sky, that are also very useful.
750 GeV: the bigger picture
I have used xxhash before, its very impressive for speed.

Do you tie sphinx to a database backend to store the data in?
I'm Brian Fallon (Of the Gaslight Anthem)
Except for the airport. It has one of the nicest airports in the country. The TSA agents are mostly friendly and they smile while they give you a rub and tug.
I completely agree with you. Not to mention the current trend(?) with solutions like hotjar or inspectlet where the whole html is sent to their servers with realtime cursor position, click and scroll information. This is really disturbing. And I guess 99% of the visitors don't even know that they are being tracked.
Meanwhile, we have this:
https://github.com/ecprice/newsdiffs

Hoping to make some contribution myself...
Yeah, Cadillac must be really happy that they wasted their time on the SuperCruise technology... or how is this going to work out?
Glad to you brought this to my attention. My proprietary vs OSS essay promoting hybrids was going to change OSS to shared source to avoid confusion of established OSS definitions. Now, I suddenly find Microsoft has a brand of intiatives called Shared Source. They had to pick the most generic, intuitive thing I could come up with. This will probably cause confusion at some point. (sighs)

Might get away with it but maybe need alternatives. If not "open source" or "shared source," what's a generic phrase for software that includes the source but not necessarily OSS principles.
I find it fascinating that it's commonly believed that big corporations run / control / own the US Government. When that's constantly shown to not be the case. Occasionally they have common ground, more often than not the government imposes its will in the process of seeking more power and control through regulation. If big corporations ran things, the executive branch would be on its knees groveling right now, with trillions of dollars in market value stacked on the Apple side of this. Apple makes so much money, their profit is almost as large as the entire spy budget for all US agencies. So where's the power and control over the government? Turns out that isn't true, the power derived from the guns beats the money every time (which history has shown repeatedly).
Any company that supports cloud. Revenue of cloud department is 8%-10% of IBM's revenue. It grew from last year. It's projected to grow yet again this upcoming year. We've continuously added on customers in several of the cloud companies that were purchased. I'm in one of those cloud companies that was purchased. Our customer count is going up leading to our revenue going up, contributing to IBM's overall cloud push.