skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree with whoever downvoted your post; it contributes to the discussion.

> The NSA itself knows very well that if the gizmos they provide aren't usable

What isn't usable about a desktop computer? According to the article, she just liked using BBs more. Confusingly, the article seems to conflate a few things.

1. She wanted to use her Unclassified//SBU Blackberry in the SCIF. Because of phone exploits that the NSA employs against other heads of state [1], State Department guidelines require her to leave it outside of her office that has classified computers. Obama's special Blackberry might let him talk to DNC leadership and big donors, but I'm guessing he uses a normal phone for that. Why couldn't she use a desktop phone and her unclassified computer to check her email to donors, campaign managers, and DNC leadership? How does a separate email server solve this problem?

2. She felt the need to have a separate email server. What this solves is never mentioned in the article. All State Department employees have access to the Unclassified network. Most have access to State Department provided Blackberries for that network, and also to 2FA token generators to permit them to VPN in. Traveling all over the world doesn't restrict the usage of either of these. Also, DSS sets up a classified network wherever the Sec State stays.

The only plausible reason to set up this outside email server is to evade FOIA and discuss classified topics without the risk of a government employee seeing classified information on an unclassified network. I'm really trying to understand any other reason to do this.

[1] I didn't see a Blackberry exploit in the Snowden leaks, but it's probably safe to assume that the risk is significant. Imagine how valuable it would be to get room audio of political or trade discussions before stepping into a meeting with the U.S. Secretary of State.
> "Search is NOT A PRODUCT!!!"

I suppose they were right in one way. Google's product is search advertising.
OpenCl targets nVidia GPUs also, at least according to the documentation.

The main problem is OpenCL seems an order of magnitude more complex than CUDA. To be honest, Cuda seems semi-portable just because (according to documentation and tutorials I've read) you do little more than allocate memory, tag functions, write loops and the compiler figures out the rest. OpenCL seems to demand everything be specified in gruesome detail whether in the c or the c++ version. Also, the latest pdf-pamphlet of the Khronos Group on opencl 1.2 just says they're "exploring" an open source implementation of the spec, which doesn't encourage one to imagine the spec as available.

Edit: Researching this, it seems that the CUDA compiler actually has been integrated into clang/llvm. An open spec with open compiler seems as open as one can get with software - it only targets NVidia but you can just complain Linux was proprietary when it originally only targeted Intel.

https://research.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-contributes-cuda-com...
You keep using the word willing instead of the word you should be using capable. Case in point old manufacturing towns like Detroit and Flint where the literacy rate hovers around 50% graduation rates in the 20s and the likelihood that a graduate from the school district did not receive the same education as someone from a functioning school district(Standardized Tests Provide this Measure).

So how do these people "will" their way past illiteracy, plummeting home values (Makes it quite difficult to sell and start somewhere new), and the need to suddenly compete with all of their former co-workers? Economic data suggests these people simply become "Disassociated" from the Labor Force and are no longer counted as unemployed whether they found employment or not.
Can we come up with a new word for this? Real-Time has a definition w/r/t computing, and it's certainly not "Python code, running in a C runtime, on top of a non-realtime OS."
Oh, beans from a fart, wow, though it should really be the other way around ...
Until that empty file has the inode edited so it replaced . in a folder, leaving a particularly difficult-to-notice/find backdoor in an SPARC system.
The reason to 'deserve it' is twofold. First, to avoid folks stagnating - a public health issue. 2nd, to have some way of knowing the person actually exists! E.g. automate it with an app, that verifies simply that you spend time at places associated with socializing. Not much is cheaper than that.
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It's an interesting set of points, but damn, this article is really difficult to read. The light text colour and the tiny font size means I had to basically squint at the screen to make out most of it.
Good call! We actually operate across North America, definitely something we'll make more clear.

We're on the verge of rolling out automatic pricing for both types of buses right away. But will make sure to include it for both buses.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions!
Or the worst of both worlds?
>So now those same security people caused a considerably greater threat to national security.

The logic here is that one adult's actions can be blamed on a second adult if the second adult doesn't allow the first one to get their way. Now imagine applying that to other situations.
Who cares how much work it takes? That doesn't make what the FBI wants any less fascist (or their reasoning any less sociopathic).
The main problem is not the emotional aspect. After all the majority of the people affected had left their country only 1 generation before.

The real problem is that you don't know what is the rational decision at the time you need to take it, only in hindsight. It is not in the business owners to share their 10 year strategy with their employees. Everything is positive, all green, until the very day you have 2 weeks to pack. You don't necessarily know the big picture. Is your company having trouble or is the whole region is going to be in ruin. You can make the rational decision to start a local business and have your market vanish way before you have benefitted. Same thing with the local politician, we are always at the end of the tunnel.

Same problem with training and moving. How much do you leverage your current competence. As a DevOps, do you learn development, or plumbery ? How far do you need to move. It is even worse here as you have even less information about the target sector or region.

So what happened to people that made the right decision, they did alright of course. But there have been a lot of people that trained in using newer better technology of their field and that did not help them when the job moved to India. Some moved to Spain and France, but the crisis started a few years later there. A lot opened businesses, and failed as new businesses do, but also because the whole region went under. Same outcome for people that moved to different field in the same region, they were caught in the ripple effects. None of those decision were irrational, or necessarily easy. They were just not the right decisions when you have perfect information.
Do you live somewhere where $30/hr is a good wage? In the US, a decent iOS freelancer should be getting at least $100/hr -- you can't do that by competing on these platforms.

The standard advice for getting better rates (you'll see all over HN -- and I can tell you that it's what I do personally)

1. Charge by the week, not by the hour.

2. Sell the business result, not the app's features.

3. Your cover letter should reference how your portfolio projects delivered (profit, cost saving, risk reduction) to the client.

4. You need to convey that you are the low risk choice -- money to you definitely turns into an app for them.
"Facebook.... <story is yet to be written> but the same thing will happen to them." -amen! Their big screw up is not supporting a vibrant market for apps. Zuck says he wants "to be electricty" but it seems he also wants to tightly control what is plugged in and how it's used. How come I can't access messenger with a 3rd party app? Why can't all kinds of cool startups build their business on the FB "platform"? Why not be more open, when Apple allowed Google Voice in the App Store all the carriers had to hasten their move to data based pricing... it was a revolution but Apple allowed it. Facebook will not ever let their power, position or business model be challenged by apps in any serious way.
I really hope that the last paragraph is wrong. Getting out of that area because they're afraid of neo-luddite backlash is ridiculous. Instead, they should be using their considerable power to push the much-lauded "Silicon Valley Democracy" (http://www.vox.com/2016/2/19/11057836/silicon-valley-democra...). Things like:

- Guaranteed income, or at least a stopgap like the old welfare system, but with far less means-testing and much more generosity

- Universal, free higher education

- Free, universal health care

- Smart, flexible regulatory apparatus

- A complete rethought system of unions (a la Sweden)

- Massive push (or even buildout) of dense urban housing developments. Make the modern "company town" an explicit goal if you must, then expand it to regions across the country

I really wonder if the Nordics have a leg up on us here; they're already 3/4 of the way towards this ideal, both in terms of policy and a cultural understanding of the benefits of a truly progressive taxation system/public goods and services. Would a Danish or Finnish robotics company bail out just because of fear of backlash, or would they say "society already has you covered, people"?
I'm not familiar with instagram, but I would be surprised if they weren't just replicating Facebooks' model.

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/547448218658012
Not sure of the approach Nomad takes, if any, but generally speaking bind mounting from the host system into the container is the common approach. That allows you to attach network storage, or EBS, or whatever you're used to using, and having access to it from your containers pretty transparently.

ContainerShip, has CodexD (https://github.com/containership/codexd) which creates subvolumes for your containers on the fly using ephemeral/host storage, and can stream the data around to other servers in the cluster if containers are relocated.

(Disclosure: I'm a founder of ContainerShip)
Another way is by weight. Kind of like weight classes in boxing matches. Let Google cram all its hardware it can in the same weight as its opponent, including the batteries that will last for the duration of the match (actually, a longer match since the current match duration seems to be in AlphaGo's favor).

Sure, it will probably still win in this setup say in a year or so, but it will provide a much closer match if done within the next few months.
> one is expected to live up to and follow the rules and laws dictated for that position.

One is also expected to do a certain job, and if the security regulations are impeding your job, then which do you really think will take precedent?
Doubling alphaGo's compute will improve Go performance (up to a limit)
Doubling a human's food intake will only lead to cardiac issues ;)
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
> Mark Z may look at the early-stage product himself and conclude that it's not anything special.

I think he already did and bought Instagram & Whatsapp. Yea real threat is when they miss the opportunity.
Good for everyone else. This is exactly how startups get their opportunities. There's always a bigger, better company that can do what you want to do right now but won't.
> The feds can not force me to decrypt my own crypto, I have 5th amendment protection against that.

That depends on what the gov't knows about what encrypted files you have. In the worst case, they don't need to ask you for your password, they just need you to decrypt your data.

In Re Boucher is the most famous case where the government ruled that the 5th amendment couldn't prevent the government from compelling someone to decrypt their data. On the flip side, Wikipedia has this short blurb on it's article on U.S. V Hubbell: "The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hubbell. The Court held that the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination protects a witness from being compelled to disclose the existence of incriminating documents that the Government is unable to describe with reasonable particularity. The Court also ruled that if the witness produces such documents, pursuant to a grant of immunity, the government may not use them to prepare criminal charges against him."
Actually, your comment appears to be even less based on reality and observation than the quotation you're railing against.

Assuming you're reserving your diatribe for the US, major corporations are simply hoarding and offshoring cash reserves. This is so that they can defer paying the highest corporate income tax in the world, and wait to file all of this cash when the next administration announces a corporate income tax holiday. That will be when the hiring happens and wages get raised in the US.
Yeah, I'm surprised by how many people still ask me this. There's proof in the piece, but I also write long so I don't blame you if you missed it :)
Yes, they acquired Meebo and shut it down.
For example construction, guarding, supermarkets, restaurant.
The recent price increase falls far short of overturning this policy. The new price is still ridiculously cheap and far below market prices, something like the equivalent of $0.11/gallon.
Very insightful comments... apparently just a little too insightful.
Be aware the country is highly divided along political lines, and some of us in Argentina are thinking Macri is sinking the country into a profound unpayable debt and a crisis the likes of which-- well, I was about say "we've never faced before", but sadly my country is cyclical. We have faced it before, and we will again.

I have reason to be pessimistic about Macri's policies.
Caused by Fraudulent Enron employees. Not because of lack of supply.
Are we heading for some science fiction future where no one speaks honestly? It isn't a far stretch to imagine that everything is already recorded and what might not be usable against you today could be usable tomorrow if the climate changes. Frightening train of thought, I'll disembark now.
I'm actually sad that any hint of honesty is so quickly and severely punished in the business world. This is why we get so used to hearing nothing but empty platitudes and bald faced lies from business executives and government officials alike. It does not make me hopeful.
Really brillant !
But they have a need: publish content for free because screw website and domains and servers and all that crap. They know how to facebook, they probably know they won't win a website award but their need is satisfied (come up on google for restaurant in x that does y). They are better served by million other things, but they know facebook. Check them out and you'll find they probably won't have a verifyed listing on google or tripadvisor.

There is a vast untapped market of digital semiliterate that only waits to be tapped. See also: medium. Why that and not wordpress.com? Because they speak the right language.
Maybe she did not want anyone in to be able to FOIA her correspondences. She has said she deleted about 30k emails off the server because she claimed they were "personal in nature". The problem is, that wasn't her call to make.
fair point. A better comparison seems to be short guys and women who don't age well. Although it's still worse to be the short guy because it affects you through the mating stage whereas women that don't age well could still get a mate and it doesn't matter by the time they age.
Its initially so they can fit in with an existing work crew, using tools and devices already there. At this point, that market is huge.
I mean this is true, but it's always been true of the internet.

Pre-web: Usenet
Early web: Bulletin Boards
Mid-Late 90s: Yahoo
Early 00s: Myspace/Livejournal
Now: Facebook

So, yeah, it's not so much Facebook is the new Excel as it's just the current "place where the average person is going to post things/look for things."
Hosted by John Hockenberry.

Speakers: Joi Ito, Daniela Rus, Gloria Rudisch Minsky, Jacques D'Amboise, Patrick Winston, Yoshiaki Shirai, Mike Hawley, Dylan Holmes, Danny Hillis, Cynthia Solomon & Brian Silverman, Ed Fredkin, Tom Ashbrook & David Levitt, Ed Boyden, Tod Machover, Nicholas Negroponte, Margaret Minsky, and more.
My employer MITMs my https sessions. The result is that I can not use Firefox to google stuff or use any site that uses HTTP Strict Transport Security . And since we are still on Windows 7, we end up using IE which is a pain in the ass.
Cruise: From a cold email to a $1B+ exit
When that immense computing power is such that it would require turning the entire observable universe into computronium dedicated to the task, and running it for longer than the heat death of the universe, I feel comfortable calling it "unbreakable."
And Twitter is worth $11 billion, versus Facebook's $315 billion.

One of the two is clearly better at converting users to dollars.
Apple to Hand iCloud Encryption Key Management to Account Holders
The Secret to Throwing a Tech Conference That Reflects How Diverse We Really Are
Oh to be a fly on the wall in closed door meetings at Booz, Deloitte, BAE, Lockheed, Boeing, etc. The procurement process is busted and I'm glad SpaceX is shining a light on it.
During a period of time when government insiders were leaking damaging classified information on the internet.

I can see how she would consider her actions to be the lesser to two evils, at least she could trust her people.
Can't wait, I'm sure I'll learn a lot from this.
I gave you two apples-to-apples comparisons, I don't get why you don't understand the difference.
I'm genuinely curious -- how would the NSA would crack it?

My understanding is that iOS's filesystem uses AES 256 encryption. Even if you physically removed the disk, brute force is not an option.
Ugh! Single buffered UARTS are catastrophic and outdated. sorry you had to go through that.

ADI is more about raw processing power in base station apps; they don't seem to be interested in embedded, sigh.

Thank you for getting back to me.
Awesome that you want to run GitLab in a CaaS. We want to make sure you can deploy all your software from GitLab to Kubernetes without using any glue. Work on this is being done by the Redspread team in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/1300648
I'm skeptical of humanoid robotics. If we're talking about productivity, humanoids will never be competitive with purpose-optimized robots. A few suitcases full of robots of different sizes will outperform a humanoid at almost anything.

Sex robots is one area where humanoids will be strong. But I think that's one area where a lot of humans will draw a line. Many humans won't even date someone with different skin color yet, let alone another species like a robot.

There is maybe a marketing advantage in the fact that they look like people so they might be seen as more trustworthy or comfortable. But there's the uncanny valley thing too. And with the little robots people will already have gotten really comfortable with, like, their kitchen counter robot making them coffee and breakfast long before a compelling, affordable humanoid robot exists.

I guess humanoids might make good spies if you can make them indistinguishable from people, but that's pretty sci-fi. And people who want to boss around a slave that has human feelings and stuff, but who don't like the idea of owning a human would be pretty into humanoids.

But all of this seems like fairly niche interests to me?
We're already there, friend, and have been for some time.
Mastering Concurrency in Ruby
How does one measure social progress? Without an agreed upon definition of what is forward, how can we label something back?
That's because the mobile link was submitted. If you're on a desktop then remove the m. subdomain prefix to go here:

http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/189498-top-10-myths-abou...
Too bad - as the article implies in several cases, this kind of stuff is all common knowledge in government contracting. The USG has tried to revamp the procurement processes repeatedly - and not without some success - but the bottom line is that people in positions of power will often give money to whomever they want to give it to, and by imposing more restrictions you just force them to be more creative about how exactly they do this. The most common form is careful phrasing about what exact capabilities are required, such that only one contractor meets those criteria. There was a famous case a few years ago[0] over the Interior Department's email systems in which the contract required compatibility with Microsoft products - Google sued and ultimate won the contract. Senators can blow their tops off all day about this guy's statements but it won't change a thing about the opacity, nepotism, and sometimes complete arbitrariness of the USG procurement process.

[0] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487041411045755886...
It's not about honestly. He basically admitted that the procurement is broken and that ULA is part of the problem.
Reop is not really the answer, but I think it (and NaCl with it) is the best starting point for building a GPG replacement. Of course it does not fit if you need compatibility with actual GPG for some reason.

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/reop
Yeah I agree on that. Several problems here.
That's not how it worked! Read it again.
I agree, but in this case, he was not just being honest but also weakening his company's business position. I think that is a fireable offense.
Robots aren't just about war. Japan is pursuing robots to help the elderly. If Google X was really making a bet on the future, they would see the value of BD beyond defense contracts.
The movie was only the first half of the book. They didn't do the speech at all.
Nope. The people chose the gov that is causing all these problems. They must first get rid of it. Otherwise it'll just be throwing pearls to swine.
For me at least this has been so since around 2008. I was working on a startup whose product was a "social network for travellers". Every single feature we came with, Facebook implemented it and reimplemented it faster and better. Likes, pages, reviews, photo albums, messenger, etc. You name it. At one point we would think "why bother", we couldn't compete with that with a team of 3 developers.
What Are You Flying Over? This App Will Tell You
The Era of Dynamic Languages is Over
self checkout lanes need a "beginner" side and "express" side. :/
I think it was just an excuse used as a cover-up. Sounds like cultural issues were at play with the split.
Why create a bunch of rules to keep things fair? Man vs machine is never going to be fair once we have the machine to do it. Before deep blue or alphaGo, yea it'll be a fun event. Once the machine exists, we check off another box in the list of things that machines can now do, and we move on with our lives.

Though on the topic of the movement aspect of boxing, machines are still pretty bad at keeping their balance and moving around the world, even without limitations.
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Were people only allowed to pick one? If not, I'd assume the total is lower than that since some people probably use more than one of them.
Is it theoretically possible to achieve the kinds of performance needed from batteries and actuators ?