skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can argue it isn't wiretapping/recording. Like Shazam, they are fingerprinting the audio and sending the fingerprints back to a server. In the same way, something like Moves fingerprints the gyroscope on your phone and identifies if you are running/walking/taking a car -- but this isn't surveillance.
I think the problem is that for most ads, impressions are the bulk of your value. For example, a company might advertise so that when you do actually need their service, they come to mind first.
thi.ng was just getting started when I last looked at Quil/Clojure. It looks a lot more interesting now, and Karsten Schmidt is something of a legend among creative coders.

>Overall I think Clojure has taken most of what was good about lisp and turned it into a much more usable and friendly environment.

For creative coding I completely agree. I think it's a much more rewarding environment than Processing, both from a programming point of view, and also creatively.
Think about weather forecasts. If you want to know if it'll rain on this day next year, you can look at historical data, and make a guess. If you want to know if it'll rain tomorrow, the forecast is really good.

Technically, predictions are just made up, forecasts have some model behind them. but the notion of near vs far is helpful. Back then, there really wasn't any hope of beating a human at go. We were in a position of not knowing what we don't know. As we get better at it, the upper and lower bounds can be reevaluated.

A nice comparison is self driving cars. 20 years ago, the answer would be a long time, without really complicated road infrastructure. Like magnets embedded in highways. But once the DARPA grand challenge fell, we were able to revise the time down dramatically. Alphabet is saying 30 years for perfect in all conditions. But as we understand and revise the problem, we can get pretty good highway drivers right now. They'll steadily improve handling more and more adverse situations. so the predictions can be revised.

Far flung predictions are cultural aspirations. As we understand, we improve or abandon that prediction.
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I had to uninstall it. Even though there was an extension icon on each individual window using it in one acted on all windows. Not cool.
It isn't that hard, you just have to be careful not to overestimate your knowledge of the mushrooms where you are picking.

There are many varieties that can be visually identified with very high confidence after only moderate practice. Fortunately morels fall into this category, they're delicious. It's true that there are mushrooms that can be confused with morels, but it's also true that it doesn't take all that much practice to understand the differences.
Url changed from https://newrepublic.com/article/131517/weve-measuring-inequa..., which points to this.
Is this an oversight of the AV software companies? Did no one come up with this before? Could it be that if people did come up with this before that a lot of Windows computers have viruses without them knowing? Is their virus detection scheme fundamentally flawed?

Should I be shocked? Shouldn't I be? I'm currently shocked but I don't know if it's justified, not an expert in the field.
Well there is coq au vin already...
I was reading the article and I consider it interesting.As a fan of Paradox myself I might love some of it but some parts seem very unlikely.

First let me address the part of education platform. We all know what are/were educational games and for most part they are bad. The most difficult problem is Game Literacy, basically to achieve the best effect the game should be fun and the mechanics adequate to the problem and yet make the players understand it. Sadly most of the people have a limited level of knowledge of game "languages" (probably the most easy are side scrollers, puzzle games, maybe sports). So you have or a "foul proof mechanics" aka (boring point and click interactive movie) or do you teach them how to play (and that takes time!).

Think that know how to play a game is essentially a skill, and gamers will fly way ahead of non-gamers. To know common mechanics (for example sport rules) can give huge advantages to some people, and will crush the expectations of people that is not interested or slow to learn games. There are gamers that have the equivalent literacy of a pro, and people with the level of kinder garden kids (across all the school years!!) and you have to leverage that. Later the platform, you can't assume a platform unless you provide it!!!.

I recommend This video about game literacy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8np2I_gQgcY

In second place, the AI is mod-able enough to make me think unthinkable it will be open sourced. It would be great if the configuration is open sourced. Imagine have a version controlled configuration, it could be flavoured and a fine tuned by the best of the players/modders in a centralized way (openTTD has something like that!!!!) and I'm not talking about Steamworkshop, I mean something better, internally reviewed. As example one thing that the Paradox AI in EU4 does bad is the economy, there are plenty of buildings that are built in a nonsensical way, like markets in provinces with bad trade values, or optimizing the slots available wrong, but that can be MODDED.

Now imagine to have an IN GAME AI configuration "market", all reviewed (and properly signed/checksumed for Ironman-achievements enabled games), and other just to play, with scores and all. Even they could release an AI development kit or something, if the configuration thing it's not enough.

For the last part, I don't buy it. Doesn't appeal to me.
What this article doesn't seem to explain is how NPR is supposed to monetize its content via podcast or NPR One - currently monetization is handled by the local affiliate via pledge drives, then paid for by subscription upstream. It seems to me that promoting NPR One would draw revenue from local affiliates - without replacing it elsewhere.
You only really need reproducible builds if you don't trust the source. So far, there hasn't been any evidence that any open-source projects are untrustworthy.
You should clarify how this is different from https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/hack/lo...
Yes, surprisingly I am more deeply concerned with the logic bit, lol
Yeah from the letter it doesn't appear like it's illegal, otherwise the FTC would have taken that route. Having said that, the letter is a strong indication that it is on the FTC's radar insomuch as they will find a way to make it illegal if it keeps coming up as a privacy issue.
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Or lead filled water pipes.
Good start indeed, it'd be nice to have a small open source tool to do these checks, maybe even with a simple web interface - anyone seen a simple security checklist / analyser that's well maintained with the latest standards?
Where can I skip to to see amazing polymagnet action ? Am in a room where people are watching telly so can only watch without sound.
Mushrooms can have a variety of flavours. I bought one at a farmer's market in Oregon several years ago that smelled like fried fish, and tasted a bit like it too. It was only cooked over a grill with some olive oil. It was a "found" mushroom too, the guy before me was chatting with the seller about training truffle-finding dogs.

My favourite hot-and-sour soup is filled with a variety of funguses (well 2 or 3). Though these are not "found" mushrooms, they are different from the "common table mushrooms" that I believe you're talking about.

edit: This is the one that I bought at the farmer's market: http://www.specialtyproduce.com/produce/Abalone_Mushrooms_32...
For ads on TV, billboards, etc., that's true.

For web ads, I thought that most places had given up on charging by impression, and only charged by click-through.
I agree the school behaved very poorly, but that doesn't mean the father was being reasonable.

By "not supposed to know", I mean the other students should not be penalized for not knowing exponentiation. If marking down his daughter is despicable, so is marking down every other children for not having a father who can afford to hire a lawyer for their grades.

The way I read it, he decided it's OK to give the same injustice his daughter received to every other children, because they are not his children, after all. I don't think that's the kind of parental role children needs, and I don't want to be such a parent. (Well, luckily for me, I can't afford lawyer for such matters, and my kids have no danger of having a five-week 100% streak on math problems, let alone five years, so I guess that point is moot...)
That sounds like 1s latency. Is it producing a sustained rate of 2Mpps?
Please don't rewrite story titles to single out the detail you think is important. That's editorializing, and it's against the rules here.

If you want to say what you consider important about an article, you can do so by adding a comment to the thread.
When you are at the interview, you will probably go past some computer screens. Just ask if you can stop for a moment and see what they are working on.
Which undergraduate though, I was an undergraduate once, so was Dijkstra, I suspect his idea of obvious would have been divergent from mine.
Thanks for the info. I can definitely see the need for something like this at my work. Hope it works out for you guys!
There are drivers for other file systems like ext3 on Windows.
Well, yes, but how in practical terms are we supposed to accomplish #1? I see no options. The US government is doing what it wants because it can, and has grown increasingly obvious about it since they face no consequences beyond the embarrassment consequent from perverting the democracy, which is easier to solve by adopting a status-hierarchy mindset and not worrying about it than by actually letting go of power once seized. They are not going to stop unless someone forces them to, and major tech corporations are the only entities I see capable of wielding force on the scale that might accomplish it. They don't care what citizens think anymore - the total failure of the largest protests in the history of the world to accomplish anything against the blatant idiocy of the Iraq war proved that.
Ok, so it seems the use of braces (use of "Uniform initialization syntax") in constructors is to reduce the ambiguity with declaring functions and declaring+initializing variables. This wiki entry has more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse
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Except both oxygen and CO2 diffuse in and out of water so that buys you time, especially if the water current is constantly keeping the concentrations equalized near the boat.
It discusses both. "Nevertheless, some courts have been willing to make browsewraps enforceable under certain circumstances. " The link is broken and should be https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/decision-23jan04...
This is yet one more predictor of a collapsing economy. If it did collapse it would be a disaster for the world economy including ours. Hopefully it will be a "soft-landing".
The level playing field I'm talking about isn't between multiple submitters, but between the submitter and other users. On HN, submitting a story confers no special rights to frame the discussion for everyone else. Readers here can make up their own minds about what's important in a story. For that it's important (critical, actually) to have accurate, neutral titles that avoid spin.
Stop refreshing your browser as you wait for your devserver to start
That's a really bad way to solve that problem, it relies on other systems following a protocol that they have no reason to even know exists.

A much better way to solve it, which is already being done (to some degree of success) is to calibrate the phrase detection to the owner's unique voice.
That's like saying the software world don't need issue trackers/scrum boards/todo lists because it's easy for devs to figure out bugs...

City projects operate at scales beyond most companies... Coordination is kinda important for a decentralized organization running multiple billion dollar projects that impact thousands upon thousands of shareholders and consumers.
Well they had the Newton as well, don't think they got too much inspiration from Palm for that.
There's a reason for that. Here in the US, we don't consider train tracks to be "infrastructure" because they're almost all privately owned. Amtrak has to lease track usage from heavy freight railroads, and their trains have to sit and wait any time a freight train wants the track: freight has priority over passengers in this country.

Optical fibers are not infrastructure here, because that's all privately owned too (even if the land to put it on was gifted to the corporations who own the fiber).

Electric grids are privately owned too, but their owners are regulated as utility monopolies.

So basically, only roads and bridges are actually publicly-owned.
> That won't fly without access to Google's proprietary apps and app store. Microsoft will need to bury this hatchet before they could get that licensing deal.

Microsoft could use AOSP or Cyanogen. But is there any known case where Google has blocked a would-be Android phone maker? And if it blocked Microsoft, how would that stand up to DoJ scrutiny?
It's initially worrying, but it makes a certain amount of sense when you think that an antivirus is a blacklist (of known vulnerabilities), not a whitelist.

Somewhat related: http://security.stackexchange.com/a/117312
Heat is another helper here. Body heat would eventually cause a chimney effect unless the single hole is on the bottom of the box. That will create an air current, greatly increasing the speed of diffusion.
I've always said "security, just like disaster recovery, is a lifestyle, not a checklist".
You should really have a look at the MCAM report cited in the article. All of these are old prior art ridden patents that would easily be defeated if someone took them to court. Barnes and Noble was one company that told Microsoft to Fuck Off. When the trial date approached they suddenly reached a business arrangement where the two companies formed a joint company.
Well yeah... That's the insight.
There's been some movies about the future of US infrastructure. They usually have the name "Mad Max" in them.
"battery life, build quality, screen resolution" = total agreement, I can't wait to be back on Gnome 3.
Retropie v3.6 on a Raspberry Pi 3 running PS1 with full speed out of the box
> MTP/PTP works fine for what it is.

> Also MSFT didn't force anyone to adopt FAT32 and exFAT for SDHC and SDXC it's not even part of the SD association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD_Association

> If there was a better FS out there that met all the requirements for SD cards don't you think it would've been adopted?

They need to allow users to plug their SD cards into their Windows machine without it being wiped. That requires using FAT. Considering the fact that most Android distributions use far more modern Linux filesystems (ext, xfs, etc), I wouldn't say that the reason they use FAT is because it's "the best FS out there". In all honesty, you can't come close to ZFS.

Not to mention that Windows has poisoned the UEFI spec by requiring that your UEFI boot partition be formatted with FAT. However, as it turns out, this means that they had to give a patent grant to anyone who implements UEFI-based booting (which is why the vfat Linux kernel code is still there).
Does MigratoryData use the kernel networking stack or bypass it? Also is the Zing JVM included or do you have to license that separately?
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You're still not understanding the crux of the issue here. There are two possible ways to handle this:

1. A text question can have multiple correct answers.

Great, accept that, mark her as correct, everyone else too, everyone gets to be happy.

2. A text question can have only one single correct answer.

In that case she was correct and everyone else was not. Period. End of game.

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And here's why the father was reasonable: He did offer them option 1. He did ask for that. The school administration refused it. It was their choice. They were being unreasonable, not the father.

Also, yes, marking the other children down is despicable, however this was the choice of the school, not the choice of the father. All he told them was "mark her correct". The schools response to not simply do that and actually mark everyone else down is despicable, and they deserve all the misfortune he had the power to bring upon them, and more.

"I only followed orders." has not been acceptable for a LONG time now.
>but the public baseline starts off much higher.

Does it really? How many people are actually watching any particular piece of free/open source software, versus the number of programmers who might be paid to do so for the same as a proprietary project? The "public baseline" for free software includes all users, but only the subset of those who are competent enough programmers to be able to recognize issues, and who actually audit code and bring those issues to light, or have a PR accepted, or have the time to fork a project, even matter in this case.

I suspect politics and popularity affect the security of open source projects far more than the openness of the source code itself. While the potential is there once an issue is discovered for the community to come together around a solution in ways a dedicated staff might not be able to achieve, unpopular but mission critical projects may languish for years with only one or two people watching them because everyone is watching code that looks good on their resume.
GoodReader for iPad, on an iPad Air 2. It has fast PDF rendering, intuitive but powerful features for highlighting and file management, and cost something like 10USD.
Thanks Max! I think it's a great resource too !!!
What we need is a way to turn off the Chrome keyboard shortcut(s) that shuts down your window and all of its tabs (or asks confirmation first, like IE) that works even with Incognito windows.

I stumble across that sequence a few times a month, and bam, all that context is lost.
Are you using that to read technical books?
> None of these companies have, to my knowledge, ever used these patents against individuals in the open source community but they sure do love to wield them with each other...

There have been many, many cases of patent trolls doing exactly that. The reason this is relevant to these companies is that patent trolls can buy these patents from a company and then make their money's worth by suing every Tom, Dick and Harry they want. Sure, $CompanyX might not actually be the one suing, but they are enabling this sort of abuse of an already broken system.
Great article.

I have to commend you on your sleuthing, but even more so for not unmasking Thompson when you had the chance.
I wouldn't defend any of those cases, but if that's your yardstick for "biggest patent troll in history", then you have a lot of disillusionment and disappointment ahead of you. There is no shortage of vastly sillier patent cases being won by organizations whose entire business model is "winning silly patent cases", in many cases against people who can't afford to defend themselves, but sometimes against giant tech companies as well.

Big tech companies sue each other all the time over all sorts of stupid things. Everybody is suing everybody all the time and it's absurd that they have to play that game, but that's not even close to the bottom of the barrel of patent insanity. Don't mistake the handful of high-profile cases that bubble to the top of your RSS feeds (or whatever) as being a meaningful sample of what is actually going on in the world, because the reality is so much worse than that.
It doesn't really matter. If you don't have Google services and the Play store your Android based phone is destined to fail.
You'd still need a decoding stub which can be fingerprinted. An XOR "decoder" is far smaller in shellcode and can be custom written in asm to reduce time-to-first-signature.
This was a great explanation. Thanks for taking the time to write this all out. Very exciting stuff.
What tool is used to create the diagrams here? Is it GraphViz or something else? Looks very nice
It'll work until a virus scanner company distributes a virus definition file containing a signature of your offending code.
Does your runtime still barf JVM stack traces?
I happened to remember reading about a wave powered design that propels a small model boat. I recall seeing it in an old Popular Mechanics and that the year was maybe 1948. I read it while in I was in 7th or 8th grade in a stack of my Uncle's old magazines stored in my Grandmother's basement over half a century ago!

With the help of Google I found the article in less than a minute; I was off by a year: https://books.google.com/books?id=9NgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA182&sour... . Take a look it explains how such a design works.
No, this is not surprising at all.

It's impossible to determine whether software is malicious or not (Rice's theorem).

Antivirus software only reliably detects code that is identical to known malicious software.
Read https://www.virustotal.com/en/faq/#statistics
There's actually an organization that specializes in tours of Berlin's underground architecture and offers some interesting guided tours (although they probably wouldn't include the subway bedrooms): http://berliner-unterwelten.de/home.1.1.html
Yes, that is the normal advice for California too.

Usually it's immigrants who die from death caps due to mistaken identity. The article is shocking to me because it involves a non-immigrant picking and eating mushrooms without expert knowledge: that's suicidal behavior.
They did. For example http://www.pcworld.com/article/2070280/german-court-invalida...
It'd be cool if there were mushroom-testing reagent kits, like for MDMA etc.

Edit: apparently chemical tests exist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_tests_in_mushroom_ide...
It needs a culture change, and that won't happen. If Microsoft actually wanted to be a part of the free software community, they would start liberating all of their software, one piece at a time. Most of the things I've seen look like business decisions (top-down) not engineering decisions (bottom-up). I still feel that liberating .NET was done to force Mono out of business. Or to attempt to gain a monopoly with C# developers.

Don't get me wrong, more free software is always a good thing. But I still remember the Microsoft of old and no, I don't accept that they've changed their ways. It's just the next step in their line of business decisions.
Not that much manual setup - just check it out into quicklisp local-projects directory, and run (ql:quickload "sketch")

Seriously, what kind of pre-done setup one needs these days? Even PDE-style package can be prepared for this with CL-launch and some editor support, and the editor is probably going to be biggest issue (if not using SLIME and Emacs).
Surprise surprise, pop culture is based on laziness.

Free software generally relies wholly on complexity theoretic security - so that it can be completely software based, as well as the author lacking any special privilege when the source is released. Computationally security necessitates a certain minimum amount of entropy.

For UI reasons, Apple would like to skimp on the required entropy, and thus employs additional non-complexity-based means of security. While this provides security for a casual user against a casual attacker, it unfortunately creates a juicy target for USG to fixate on, as in the current proceedings. It would have been more responsible for Apple to have designed their system so that low entropy passcodes were directly crackable by USG, rather than leaving themselves in a privileged position they can be compelled to use.