skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having spent a fair part of my life working in the criminal justice research field, the biggest blocker I see to something like this is political.

I can only speak to Massachusetts, and I can only speak to the time ~ mid 2000s when Rhode Island and Massachusetts were dealing with claims of racial profiling - specifically driving while black - but there was a great deal of friction with having a central store of any aggregate data on specific judges.

The idea that you could easily run an analysis of a judge's decisions cross referenced by, say, race, was such a complete non-starter in most professional judicial working groups where you'd be looking for buy-in on something like this. Having a good deal of these records available in disparate systems, or even better, only in paper form, was actually a concerted decision at that point in time.

I'm really interested to see what kind of traction you see (and where it comes from). Good luck!
This has to be fake - the US doesn't have a driver's license database, each of the individual states do and they're not unified.

I'm grabbing the torrent for lulz, one seeder using uTorrent Mac 1.8.7 at 87.229.219.94 (in russia).
I've never seen 'table' being used as 'postpone' by any American, either in literature or on the intertubes; is it some sort of professional / niche usage?
The app automatically distributes public keys, to my knowledge, and the QR code is merely a validation mechanism to ensure that no MITM is substituting keys.

The EFF seems to think the QR code thing is the bee's knees. In practice, I would wager less than 0.1% of users will make use of that functionality. It's more of a placebo.
Interesting analysis, thanks. What do you think about the development of more radical redesigns like quanum computers, memristors, or anything else that might show promise to displace the traditional CPU? It seems that there's a lot going on in the more experimental side of computing right now that is reaching enough maturity where experiments might become practical products within the next decade. Even if we don't have pocket-sized quantum computers, the existence of cloud computing might make something like quantum annealing practical in the near future. Is there anything that has you excited?
But if the code is open source, we _can_ verify it's security?

Heartbleed and Shellshock, the two most significant vulnerabilities found in heavily used open source software, were found by vulnerability testing and not code inspection. So while being open source is a nice-to-have attribute for a piece of software, that's as far as it goes. Painting open source as being a magical wand that wishes away all our security troubles is completely out of order.

Edit: I'll go further. It's become dismayingly apparent that very little systematic code review of open source software in order to secure it is actually taking place. It now seems quite possible that the most thorough investigations of software vulnerability, via code analysis or any other techniques, are carried out by those wishing to exploit them. They are well funded and highly motivated. Looked at in that light, the balance may well tip towards open source actually increasing the likelihood of software vulnerabilities being exploited maliciously.

The open source community has a long way to go if it's going to clearly demonstrate that it's model is advantageous, and complacent pronouncements of it's assumed superiority like this aren't going to achieve that.
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Or you could set up a pr0n site that shows the material only after the user has completed the captcha. This trick has been done before.
> Duh. We don't know how the brain works yet. A big chunk of The Singularity is Near deals with how we build that understanding. Once we know how the brain works, computing will take advantage.

That's not what I hear. The singularity-is-near proponents argue that understanding the brain is unnecessary, and that there are short-cuts, whether it be trial-and-error, big data approaches, or neural networks. Otherwise it's going to take a long long time to truly understand how it works and the Singularity-won't-be-so-near.
What a funny coincidence - I just discovered and used this a few hours ago. I wanted to rip some YT audio from (mostly) old records that I have that are not on Spotify etc.

I looked at some browser plugins but I wasn't really impressed. This, on the other hand, was a great discovery. Really configurable and well documented.

Assuming you have `ffmpeg` installed just run:

`youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 $URL`

and you're done! I expect my phone will be packed of bizarre prog/jazz before the end of the weekend :D
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It does scale when being considered by software running on it. Even more with some alternative approaches like directories. What OP means is that it does not scale for software to be oblivious to underlying cache coherence and to operate on "one flat shared RAM" assumption. E.g. false cache line sharing etc.
the best camera is the one that's with you

While certainly true, I hate those moments when all I have with me is a phone's camera, knowing my far-superior-photos-taking SLR one is at home, then taking the picture anyway and coming home staring at the noise and often subpar framing (never got used to holding the thing steady in front of me). That always hurts a bit. Especially in low light etc. Not that I never took brilliant pictures with a phone or similar, but knowing that the same scene could have been even captured better with other gear I have still hurts.
I don't know about evolution, but most current AI work is done through first principles rather than copying the brain. Neural networks, despite the name, were only vaguely inspired by real neuroscience. And now are entirely rooted in basic calculus and maybe probability theory.

It may very well happen the other way around, that AI researchers figure out intelligence and then use their discoveries to explain neuroscience. Which is already happening a bit, with a well known researcher recently proposing a theory on how the brain might implement a variation of the backpropagation algorithm.

Figuring out the brain is like trying to reverse engineer messy spaghetti code that has gone through an obfuscating compiler. Although it may be possible to figure it out, it's probably faster to just write our own code.
Neither. Either pick the route most likely to avoid a head on collision if the motor cyclists also swerve, or just pick a path at random if all of them result in collisions. Trying to build in ethical rules is a fool's errand because you'll never get it right and might even create additional legal liability due to the rules chosen.
I don't understand the dislike for the article title. Wasn't the iPhone the most used camera on Flickr for multiple years running? And the article is based on 2007 being a major shift in buying habits. I do feel that he could have been clearer about how it is smartphones in general that helped the decline in sales of digital cameras. His closing paragraph makes it seem like the iPhone is the only phone with a camera.
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Right, key is to make it so expensive that the obsession over mass surveillance becomes economically unhealthy.
Got it, thanks. I'd heard of OTR, but never really looked into what it meant. Makes sense now.
An advisory service could recommend a hostile takeover, but not execute it.

You don't need to solve an NP hard problem to beat human intervention. You just have to be faster and more accurate.

I do think that computers could outperform humans on the supply side, calculating the costs of production relative to competitors better than humans. The demand side is trickier but again computers would do a better job calculating available cash and then ranking marginal goods' likelihood of being purchased based on existing prices.

As long as prices and production processes are public knowledge computers will do better than people at modeling the economy. Humans only gain an advantage through insider knowledge and trade secrets.
React made frontend much more enjoyale to me too, it's so quick to build nice things in it :)
This is 100% correct and agrees with our research. The mobile use case for PDs has a lot to do with them just being able to access their case files electronically from home, something that a lot of their in-house CRMs simply doesn't allow.

That being said, a lot of courts are starting to soften up on these standards. For instance, I've been an infrequent visitor to NYC criminal and family courts, and lots of judges already allow the use electronics in the court rooms and some attorneys even use an iPad as their primary reference (but not notetaking) device.

Getting an influential CJ/Clerk on our board sounds like a great idea a bit further down the line.
See this thread for tptacek's views on the topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11432047

In short, "sources do not guarantee anything, and it's better to inspect the binary directly".
The open source part covers both those problems. If whatsapp respected user freedom, users could fork it and add metadata encryption to the system, and by the nature of forking and redistributing would create a network of similar apps.

It doesn't stop whatsapp proper from being non-federated like XMPP or Matrix, so maybe that does deserve its own criteria.
Ok, so people in the government realised, that there exist encryption methods, which can not be "decrypted", and technology makes encryption accessible to everyone.

When will they realise, that there is no way to detect, whether a message is encrypted or not-encrypted, and there may be multiple levels of "tunneling". It is not possible to find out the original form or the source (app) of information.

Monitoring online communication is in not any simpler, than monitoring verbal communication between every 2 people.
Not if they have the keys to decrypt the content. But apparently they've come to their senses and have abandonded this idea.
Not sure why you're getting downvotes. Sure, the argument comes off as sort of sophomoric in the face of the indisputable fact that there was an actual Rembrandt and this painting was produced neither by him nor by a low-fidelity replica of his brain; but I think it's interesting to think about. If we wanted to get real sophomoric, we'd apply the Ship of Theseus/Heraclitus/Lucretius line of thought to whether even a Rembrandt is a Rembrandt: is what I made yesterday made equally by the me of today? Cross-pollinating the brain-replication discussion with the multiverse discussion is pretty wild to think about: what is a copy of a dynamic thing?
Does this offer integration with something like Harvest? I'm so integrated with their system now that automating time tracking to their service would be absolutely fantastic.
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It's used that way in meetings run under Robert's Rules. To table is to put off a decision until a future meeting.
I'm currently working on adding in a rating system. The back-end is set up in such a way that your credit card is authorized when you make a task, and charged when you hit "Confirm Task". If your task is accepted and its been 5 days and you haven't hit confirm or dispute, it automatically charges the card.
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I moved to one of the darkest spots in California (actually just submitted to Apply HN as I want to make a tech park there).

So many people in so cal haven't experienced a true night sky - it's like seeing the ocean for the first time if you don't live near the coast.

Even people who have been to dark spots often don't think about how they need to observe without a moon in the sky and that they need to give their eyes enough time to adjust to the dark (lots of people KNOW about this but for some reason don't think about it when they are camping)
To be fair, it it wasn't a crapware YouTube Downloader, it would be something else. As long as "computer intuition" doesn't become more commonplace, we are always going to have this problem despite our best efforts to get rid of crapware on the net.
I had the same experience with much slower normal shipping suddenly after the introduction of Prime. But I just recently allowed my Prime subscription to lapse, and based on my very limited data it seems back to normal again.
Messaging apps are often used outside, with limited bandwidth, and are highly interactive. I would be annoyed to wait more than 0.5 sec until my message is delivered.

Maybe an "ultra-secure" mode could be created, and if you enable that for a chat, traffic could be routed through tor. And you would have a separate list of "ultra-secure" contacts, which are not based on phone-numbers.
The point seems to be that people have been predicting human or super-human intelligence was just around the corner for decades, each time they've been wrong, and there's not much evidence that this time is any different. Granted, this should be common sense, but judging from a lot that gets written it unfortunately isn't.

Current productivity growth is actually somewhat low. But instead of looking at the data, people seem to latch on to anecdotal evidence, posting stories about modern day automats and saying that they're evidence that everyone is going to be replaced by robots soon.
ClojureScript's areduce is faster than native JavaScript's reduce
What do you mean by "fundamental"? Do you mean a theoretical configuration of atoms, or do you mean practically manufacturable?
Managed to find the wiki article on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_(parliamentary_procedure...
The only time I have heard of that is when sponsors buy a slot to pitch their product or service. Was that your situation?

In most conferences that are not marketing-oriented, the speakers are the product being sold to the attendees. Many conferences pay the speaker's expenses for travel, and may even pay them some speaking fee.

If you are a speaker being offered a fee to speak, however, be very careful about overseas conferences. People have been turned away at the border because the officials may see the money being paid as a job.
I'm american, and I've definitely seen it used "Alright, let's just table the issue" implying "let's come back to that issue later". I can't say that the slang makes any sense, but that's slang for you heh

1: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/16285/what-is-the...
I prefer S3 and CloudFront for various reasons, and <$2/month is so close to free that it doesn't matter.
I think eru is right. Here's my argument:

Tomorrow I will buy 10 shares of XYZ at any price, and everyone knows this. XYZ is worth $100/share and today that is the price. If one other person in the world owns XYZ shares they can sell it to me for $200,$300, whatever price they name. If 2 people own shares, there will be competition, and I'll buy at the cheapest price available. If 1000 people own shares I will still have to pay more then $100, but if there is true competition on price then I should only pay slightly over $100.
So excited to try this out tonight
Slick, thanks for pointing it out. Will be a great area to follow in the future. I think the more who participate in various forms, be it full size or R/C scale, can hopefully advance the knowledge and expertise in the field.
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Thanks for the questions:

1) Not much so far as I can extrapolate (IANAL though). The data is provided by the attorneys and they will be using this as a service. We will have to have some sort of uptime guarantees stipulated in our agreement as well as support, standardized backups and safety policy etc. I'm not going to lie and say that we have figure this all out already, but we are thinking about it.

2) Starting out it will come from the users themselves (hence the 'New Case' tab in the demo). Eventually, for municipalities that allow it (NYC criminal courts are not among them), we'd like to get our hands directly on the case starting documents (Accusatory instruments, rap sheets, etc) and have them be piped straight into the system.
I believe so: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Server
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tptacek writes a lot of pretty positive stuff about iPhone security.

It's an example of a topic people will raise to object to the EFF scorecard, not an argument being made against the iPhone.
A poorly planned chart at that. The x-axis is so tiny and hard to read
They've got two scores for Telegram on their score card[0]: "Telegram" scores poorly (4 out of 7), "Telegram (secret chats)" scores perfectly (7 out of 7). The quality of the encryption algorithm itself doesn't factor into it, though Telegram gets a check for having a recent audit.

Even if the crypto was good, the cognitive load of having to decide whether you want a chat to be secret or not makes it a bad choice IMO, especially if it comes with a downside.

[0] https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard
Exactly what I would expect to hear from an NSA stooge!
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Java comes with adware on the platform with the worst java installer. It's slow to install and forces you to actively deselect adware, but there's a Windows tool that can do that for you and there are package managers and app setup bundles. Installing Java on Linux and FreeBSD is very simple and fast.

Qt these days needs at minimum 30MB for a simple window and that's a huge overhead for basically a hello-qt app.

But Qt isn't as bloated as carrying around another browser.
You should beware, as GMail isn't an "encrypted service", only your communication with their servers is. This prevents MitM attacks from small adversaries, until the government forces their own root certificate on every citizen that is. But given Google has business and representation in Europe, they are susceptible to governmental requests for mass surveillance (especially because of the good cooperation the NSA has with foreign intelligence agencies), plus for individuals (like specific enemies of government) all it takes is a subpoena.
But the important question is whether Moore's law is a necessary part. There's a big difference between "a redundant part, if it fails, the whole thing continues" and "a necessary but not sufficient component".
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Did the hospital tell you what the source of the infection was?
There are a lot of generalizations there. Do you have example of an audit showing that they have never misguided their users or represented their product and motivations?
Most secure messengers don't have deniability.
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Special routing for the ultrasecure messages highlights that they were requested to be ultrasecure and makes correlation easier (by reducing the candidate pool).
You misunderstood the point I was making.
thanks! i must have glossed over that when i first discovered youtube-dl. like countless others before, i found out how to do the one thing i needed to and ignored the rest of the tool's utility.
I think this is a brillaint idea. It's not that I don't like paying for content. It's that ads on the web have become so intrusive, overbearing, comumbersome, and, well, BAD, that it has destroyed the browsing experience. There are no controls. I don't need to be paid, as some have suggested, to be given ads. However I do want more control over the ads displayed, how they're displayed, and who benefits. I love this model and I can't wait to direct some money to better causes.
Copyright is different and enforceable - see what RIAA did to some downloaders.
less HUMINT more LOVEINT
> it is still largely unsafe

It's not unsafe, you just don't know if it's safe or not. That doesn't make it unsafe.

Even if the code were open source and there were some guarantee that WhatsApp was using that exact code during compilation, you still would not know if it's safe. Just like most other people, you are relying on people experienced with such things to confirm that they are doing things in a "safe" way. Thus for all practical matters, it really doesn't matter if it's open source or not.

There is always going to be an unknown here, and open source does not reduce that much risk. In fact, it's probably better to look at how WhatsApp, the software, behaves (i.e. what it does on the wire) rather than the code. Sure there could be backdoors, but that is the risk you take when you use any pre-compiled software -- open source doesn't change that.

All we are really left with then is trust.
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Those are not all exactly the same comparisions though. Sure a phone can perfectly replace a gps, the sound quality is already hard (if not impossible) to distinguish from dedicated players (usability: not so much though) and sure it's good at playing games. But there's just no phone, under the circumstances I often take pictures, which will yield pictures which are good enough or even close for me. And my dedicated device for that isn't even top of the line.
For what's it worth, I cannot buy a Chromecast or Fire TV Stick at the Apple Store, or an Apple TV or Fire TV Stick at the Google Play store etc.
If anyone can sign up for a bot API key, then anyone can sign up for a 3rd party client API key. It'd add a step or two, but still.

Anyway, you don't need an API key at all currently. And they said they intend to support the current API.
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Qt or .Net will integrate with your desktop properly.
I mean limits that we won't ever break for whatever reason, be it physics, engineering, or economics.
How so? I know I happily ignore/do other things while ads are playing in a video I'm watching
I have the opposite experience.
Why Go gets criticized so much
I would definitely use this!
> largely be traced to the topological properties of the subway lines

See 'A Subway Named Mobius' [1][2] for some of the problems this might cause in the future!

[1] http://www.iblist.com/book12352.htm

[2] http://www.rioranchomathcamp.com/Topology/SubwayNamedMobius....
I am trying to encourage you to read both sides and make up your own mind, if you are actually relying on anecdotal data.
I'm curious. So you think, this may work as an argument? You think that if I tell my parents this, they'll suddenly start using the command line?

Let me tell you how it works now:

I've installed a download addon for them. Because they have no idea and before they install crap, I'll do it for them.

I did not explain anything nor did I tell them that I did install that addon.

They automatically clicked the red "download" icon under every youtube video they watch and it downloads the video.

So short: 1 step.

This is userfriendly and easy.
> They choose them for the same reason that people choose big consulting firms like BCG or McKinsey: status and affiliation, nepotism, internal power struggles, and cover-your-ass blame insurance.

There must be some lean way to exploit that.

In theory, you could manufacture status for your consulting firm. (So that's why BCG and McKinsey plaster German universities with their ads.)
Are there 3rd-party implementations of OpenWhisper or a complete and detailed spec, so that others can build clients more fitting their (integration) needs?
This is interesting; it reminds me somewhat of the "Bowie Bonds" concept that has been going around in music. The Offspring just sold their catalog for $35M I think. If the royalty structure is lucrative enough and worth the long-term exchange for the buyer then I think you could definitely establish a market.
You guys do use "leave it on the table" a lot.