skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends if you are the boss, a peer or subordinate.
On most (if not all) Laptop Webcams the Light is not controlled by hardware, but by the Operating System

it is Trivial to create software to no turn on the light.

The Light is not considered by manufacturers to be a Security feature, or something to warn a user of someone other than the user is using the webcam, it is simply there to inform the user when their cam is active using normal "friendly" software, it is a convenience feature, not a security feature

Many commercial management and security software packages sold to schools, corporations, and individuals have the ability to turn on the webcam with out illuminating the light, this often billed as a "theft prevention" feature.

Several schools have gotten in trouble for using this feature to spy on students using school owned laptops

In short, they do not have to "defeat all of the laptops" they just have to right a program for windows, and get 99% of them, the capability is already in the OS, the harder part is installing it with out the user knowing, and hiding the process from the user... Disabling the LED is trivial
NetBSD

https://github.com/IIJ-NetBSD/netbsd-src
How does one stop supplying anything to East Texas? Because that's the only way I can see that the forum shopping and utterly slanted judgements can be stopped.

These judges make legal precedent, and anyone who does business in East Texas seems to be at risk of a massive patent lawsuit that, even if utterly unfair, might bankrupt them or severely impact them.

I'm sure there are firms who would be more than happy to avoid patent trolls as much as possible and forgo any sales in this area of the world.
I'm in Indianapolis area. The chip reader requirement is spreading everywhere I go. Target, Lowes, Kroger etc. it's getting to the point now that I use the chip more than swipe per week
If the email you're trying to remove is the email used to register the phone, it can only be removed by resetting the phone. The same thing applies to Windows phone.
Will the public reaction be considered at all in this proposal? In line with current trends is it not more likely that public reaction will for the most part be ignored?
And if you're the genius somewhere in the neighboring thread using YY/MM/DD, it's February 12, 2011.

Heuristically, "if it has slashes, it's USian mm/dd/yy, if it has dots, it's European dd.mm.yy, if it has dashes, it's ISOish yy-mm-dd, YMMV."
I honestly cannot tell if that is serious, a joke or some kind of irony.

I'm not american so really not my business however narcissists do not make good social leaders. They make really terrible & dangerous social leaders.
The problem with the automotive industry is, that the top lobbyist in the EU for it is the German chancellor (which name soever he/she has).
I'm pretty sure dexterdog is being sarcastic.
Bitcoin is just a soap opera that keeps on giving... it's fantastic how much credibility something can keep loosing and loosing.
this are examples of what I have seen on projects
The relational model, by being based directly on set theory and first order logic, is the most robust method for managing data today.

Yes, SQL is not the best implementation; theoretically we could try out Tutorial D/D4/whatever, but it's good enough especially in the Postgres flavour which is built on decades of academic and commercial research. PostgreSQL is almost entirely declarative (the RM is declarative) - how do you propose to improve on that?

As a quick reminder, these are the things you have to build manually into your application if you're not using a relational DBMS (or check are included in your new black box solution for managing data):

- data being shared (concurrent access, writes, etc.);

- avoiding redundancy, inconsistency (which you get for free by centralising the data into a single copy instead of having one copy per thread/program/user);

- transaction (= logical unit of work) atomicity (all or nothing) - say you want to transfer money from A to B, decrease A, then increase B; what if "increase B" fails? A relational database will ensure your transaction does not half go through;

- integrity - impossible things are avoided by constraints, anything from "an employee logging 400 hours of work this week" to parsing different date formats (because the date is stored as string because it's an Entity Attribute Value antipattern because "the schema has to be flexible");

- easily enforced security ("nobody but finance accesses payroll tables");

- and obviously data independence, such as freedom from having to specify the physical representation of data and access techniques in your application code. (OK, this is one place where SQL is not perfect; but it's pretty good)

(*thanks to C. J. Date for the list)

The sad thing is that this stuff does not seem to be taught anymore; I get a lot of business from the fact that most frameworks encourage antipatterns by design (Bill Karwin's book on the subject [1] is a great, easy read for those who can't stomach C. J. Date's 1000 page "Introduction" [2]).

[1] http://www.amazon.com/SQL-Antipatterns-Programming-Pragmatic...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Database-Systems-8th/dp/0...
>you cannot have any regulations to force sharing the network

>Nothing in this... shall... require a Party to compel

It says nothing about prohibiting regulations - that clause clearly just says no changes are required by the agreement. Way to start spreading the disinformation early.
All politicians are narcissists. Trump is just more extroverted.
Sorry I have not been following what has been going on, can somebody catch me up with a TL;DR?
I suspect it's illegal and punishable in some way. There are definitely German MPs who would be congratulated rather than shunned for exposing this.

But if only selected MPs can see the text at all, maybe they've been selected carefully.
So, the only recourse against Apple's missteps is "well if you're in the old boys' club, you might be in luck"? But this is Apple, so it's somehow okay. Magic.
Yeah, cmon...

Text messages sent per day peaked in 2011 and have declined ever since, we're now half a decade later.

In fact just last month we heard FB and Whatsapp process 60 billion daily messages and growing, SMS 20 billion and dropping. Further, a decent chunk of those SMS messages are from feature phones, i.e. on an iPhone the SMS to IM ratio is more significant than 1:3 and again, growing.

Early on, especially for families, iMessage was somewhat of a big deal. But today and into the future? My whole family is on Whatsapp, from age 10 to age 70 and we all have each others' numbers. We exchange text, videos, voice recording, pictures, there's absolutely zero draw from iMessage. I use SMS exclusively for things like 2FA.
>This is a takeover attempt through the backdoor.

In case it wasn't already immensely obvious, the third world war has been underway for some time. This one isn't a war fought with guns and bombs, it's a war fought with information, deals and economies.

See China's massive economy and ownership of the US, the massive drop in oil price and what that's done to the world economy etc.

The citizens of the world wouldn't tolerate full-scale war - they'd vote out their leaders, so this is what we get when countries still want to dominate each other.
We have this already it is called Internet banking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_banking and mobile banking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_banking
Wait a minute, are you just trying to be gender neutral, or do you suspect Satoshi is several people like Bourbaki?
Minority in power != minority in population. Look at apartheid era South Africa, for example, for a case where the white minority population had the large majority of power.

I agree that the ambiguity is confusing.

FWIW, it's also part of the traditional colonial structure. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism :

> Colonialism is a relationship between an indigenous (or forcibly imported) majority and a minority of foreign invaders. The fundamental decisions affecting the lives of the colonized people are made and implemented by the colonial rulers in pursuit of interests that are often defined in a distant metropolis. Rejecting cultural compromises with the colonized population, the colonizers are convinced of their own superiority and their ordained mandate to rule.[6]

While the British were the minority of the population in India, they had the majority of power during colonial rule.

To make it more confusing, depending on which definition of 'minority' you use, women are also a minority. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_group#Gender_and_sexu... .
The destruction of your enemy in war with the goal of ending the war and saving the lives of your countrymen and allies is always justified.
Nowadays it's hard to trust any monetary system with all the hacking, skimming and fraud that takes place.
Yes, all this nonsense was brought up in the previous cover-up of this story also. See http://trilema.com/2015/on-how-the-factored-4096-rsa-keys-st... for a discussion of that.
That fact should be alarming, and you should find that offensive...

If the courts are routinely signing search warrants on parties that are not involved in cases or criminal activity that highlights how much of a rubber stamp the warrant process as become, and how little "probable cause" means any more

Probable cause has become "Judge we want to search this place"
Australian dude publishes fake proof he's the famous inventor of bitcoin:

* http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif...
* https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hflr3/craig_wrigh...

High-profile Bitcoin dev Gavin Andresen inexplicably supports the fraudster: http://gavinandresen.ninja/satoshi
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Odd. I'm also in Boston and have to use it almost everywhere I go.
Science doesn't prove things. It provides likelihoods and most likely explanations.

So the real question is: should something only be banned when it's 99.5% certain that it's harmful? Is 50% chance of it being harmful okay? Or 80%? And why?

The EU prefers to err on the side of safety. The US prefers to err on the side of profit. I don't see why the US approach would be better.
I don't believe equity should be instead of salary but if you are given the option of owning what you create, you shouldn't be enslaved by it.
That's not standard though, I don't even have email setup on my S7 on the standard email app, although I've got my phone registered... although I did get the Gmail app and set up mail later, and I can indeed delete it.
It looks unlikely but is there any actual evidence that he is not Satoshi?
That's why the distinction is so lovely. Same identity, different value. State is a snapshot of an identity at some point in time.
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The technical word is threshold. You're saying "wait a bit" - sure. Now you waited a bit and still don't see anything - you're going to start overtaking.
Show HN: Blind Valet
Blind Valet (http://blindvalet.com) has been a hobby project of mine for a number of years. It started as a blind structure calculator for poker tournaments and is has now evolved into a full live poker tournament management software.

I released a new version yesterday that is completed redesigned and rearchitected from the ground up. The old version was a stand-alone flash web application. This new version is all HTML 5/JS. It is responsive across all devices and multiple devices can connect to the same tournament with real-time data synchronization. So, in practice this allow tournament directors to hook up their computer to the big screen, yet control the entire tournament from their phone (starting/pausing the clock, eliminating players, balancing tables, etc). I built this version using AngularJS as the front-end framework and I am using Firebase on the back-end that provides the NoSQL data storage and real-time data synchronization over web sockets.

The application is free to use. I am monetizing through non-intrusive advertisements on the poker clock and down the road will add some paid options above and beyond what is free today.

Would love to get your feedback.
Or Gavin just isn't James Randi, and wasn't prepared to uncover deliberate fakes.

Wright could very easily faked a demonstration on his own machine.

Last time, when Andy Greenberg (who ought to have known better, and in some ways looked like he did) bought the Wright story, I remember thinking maybe he did it for ideological reasons. I.e, he might know Wright isn't Satoshi, but be happy for attention thrown that way, because he thinks the real Satoshi deserves to be shielded.

As I see it, the strongest evidence by far is still for Nick Szabo, and I don't think I'm the only one who has come to that conclusion after looking into it.
Of course, but when you group them all together you have a majority.

It really is a lazy categorisation of people.
For people who are fans of adequacy, the author of that essay is Daniel Davies, who blogs at Crooked Timber and on Medium, and has an entertaining Twitter feed.
I took it as a suggestion not to assume the author is a male so as not to embarrass yourself when it turns out they aren't, as a bare minimum of investigation would have revealed. Since when is basic politeness "gender politics"?
Well, you can be pretty well sure that unless western civilization fails and your money is worthless anyway, that you can trust having your money in USD/EUR in a bank up to a certain amount (100K in the EU, not sure how much in the USA), even if they get hacked, skim and commit fraud. Same can't be said for Bitcoin and we keep being reminded of it.
I believe the fragmentation issue is going to take a lot longer to solve than the author leads on. Android is rooted in its open nature, and it's what caused the proliferation of the OS in the first place. It's going to take much longer for OEMs to stop shipping bloatware on the devices, or Google will effectively fork the OS simply because the OEMs can't keep up. Look how long it's taken Microsoft to get their OEMs to comply (but I do believe Google is a different beast in this regard).
That's like saying you're fine with every decision taken by a government you voted for.

Go owners have millions and millions of lines of existing Java code and they employ many people whose entire careers were made on top of Java.

I'm not saying there are no rational reasons to prefer Java over Go. But Google is hardly the yardstick for that.
It's hard to prove a negative.

All we know is that, at the moment, he is trying to convince that he is Satoshi but uses deceptive proofs.
Madison WI. Gas stations (at the pump) and grocery stores are the only places I go to that don't have or use the chips (taped over). I understand both have extra time to rollout.

I assumed it had rolled out across most of the US at this point since most of the smaller places had even implemented it.
Is there any actual evidence that you aren't Satoshi?

You can't prove a negative. There's absolutely no published evidence to support the claim that he is Satoshi, and there's no reason to believe that he is.
And shutting down GB. Which goes to say it doesn't matter if they seem "nice" or not, they can still let you down - the important thing is how tied to the establishment they are.
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It's a pretty extraordinary claim which would require similarly extraordinary evidence.

From what I've read so far the "evidence" does not barely reach "ordinary" and seems to be straight up bullshit[0][1]. Considering the last round of "Craig Wright is satoshi" ~6 months ago was similarly bullshit[2] at this point there's a pattern of Wright being a bullshit artist.

Either way, popcorn time, fun to watch from the sidelines.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hflr3/craig_wrigh...

[1] people have also been combing through the script screenshots (…) Wright posted, and there's a pattern of oddities: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hfwg7/steve_wrigh... https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hgas6/wrights_sig...

[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1282144.msg13196947#...
Yes. Satoshi wouldn't publish bullshit evidence of him being Satoshi.
It's now illegal to Airbnb your entire apartment in Berlin
It really is abusing the term minority to label women as a minority.

In every society a small minority has the majority of the power. Apartheid might be history, but the vast majority of people in South Africa have no power.
That's a big flaw with Android, people make unfair comparisons because the average Android phone is cheap.
Using your example:

Motorola G3 (July 2015, £150 currently on Amazon)

iPhone 6s (September 2015, £497 currently on Amazon)

Obviously a device costing more than 3X as much is going to perform better, eg my S6 (£355, also 2015) almost never crashes and is fast.
This mirrors my experience. I take my ideas from both right and left, but if I post any left-wing viewpoint on something (corporate taxation, say) the hard right might disagree but they keep it respectful. Whereas say anything even centrist and I get instant, vicious hate and bile from the left.

Fortunately those people have very poor impulse control and are prone to rage-blocking, so I never have to bother with them for long, but there's always more.
Really? I also find that to be true for the go stuff I run.

The last example is nsq[1]: Download, unzip and run the binaries .. aahh :)

Obviously this can be true for non-golang programs as well, but I can't think of any right now.

1: http://nsq.io/deployment/installing.html
Trump has spoken out against the TTIP and TPP on a number of occasions. The media just doesn't like to talk about that aspect of his campaign:

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/27/trade-policy...
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The people who lose credibility here are

* The Economist

* BBC

* Gavin Andresen (unless he was hacked)
I moved from android to iphone to Windows phone to android to iphone.

I'm sticking with iphone. Android has been the worst experience for me. Had an old HTC with 2.# and a Samsung note4, plagued with issues.

The thing that annoyed me most (besides Samsung bugs like not being able to remove keyboard notification) is when you register with an email, you cannot use the same email for another service.

My contacts exist on my windows live account which happens to be my gmail addy, when I register the phone with gmail I cannot sign in with windows live using the same email because the email already exists. A bug that doesn't happen on Windows phone or iphone.

Coupled with slow buggy laggy android phones, and malware. I ditched iphone. Android with so much market share is not a good thing either. Just a IE scenario all over again.
It could be an extraordinarily expressive language, though. Think about what Japanese writers can do with 140 characters.
Ah thank you :)

So Craig Wright isn't Satoshi then? Somebody should tell the BBC ;)
> It looks unlikely but is there any actual evidence that he is not Satoshi?

Is there any actual evidence that I'm not the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Both!
Does it really matter?

The firebombing of Tokyo (one of many examples - many Japanese cities suffered mass destruction in conventional bombings) was just as, if not more, horrific than Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Why would the residents care whether they were being firebombed or nuclear bombed?
If you're interested in clustering text documents, the canonical algorithm would be latent Dirichlet allocation, which is a topic modeling algorithm. You can find latent Dirichlet allocation in sklearn; however, you're more looking for something that returns a raw similarity score it sounds like, in which case it might be interesting to check out word2vec. Perhaps checkout this stack overflow answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22129943/how-to-calculat...
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What if Gavin choose to play with Wright to keep the real identity of Sathosi hidden?
>> 5. Why does this program require 4GB of ram?

> Java is actually very memory efficient, all things considering.

Huh? Considering what? Compared to what?

> There are Ruby developers choosing JRuby for deployment because of that efficiency.

Yeah, Java !=JVM, and Ruby is not Go so this is kind of moot.

>By the time Go's GC will reach the same maturity, it will behave similarly.

Says who? You can't just state that as a fact without backing it up somehow.
He's going to build a chain, and he's going to make the Fed pay for it.
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The EU isn't quite the democratic paradise either. We too have corporate lobbyists writing laws, and politicians and officials negotiating behind closed doors.

On average, the EU is more transparent than the EU, and politicians tend to feel more like they really should be representing the people, but it's really a sliding scale with the US just a bit further down than the EU.

I really hope transparency about the TTIP negotiations will help turn this around in both the EU and the US.
The corporations have hijacked the US government years ago it was always only the matter of time that they'll spread to EU.

What saddens me more is that the cucked EU will let them, forgetting all the achievements this continent has to offer.
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I don't think that's true anymore (?). HN has a well defined, very short, hype cycle.
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Reply to myself, effectively I was wrong, page 11:

"[EU: 4. Each Party shall ensure that a major supplier in its territory grants access to its essential
facilities, which may include, inter alia, network elements, associated facilities, and ancillary
services, to suppliers of electronic communications services on reasonable and non-discriminatory
terms and conditions (including in relation to rates, technical standards, specifications, quality and
maintenance).]"

You have quite some anti-competitive safeguards so, this is not that bad. The general tone here is pretty libertarian. Note that it only concerns the telecommunication services, this section is not about IP etc..
Must be all the politically-incorrect trolling I do,
but anyways, what is [dead]?
> How could you know what the real Satoshi would do?

mappum is - or has access to - the real Satoshi of course!
And that's the root of what's wrong about TTIP: the US doesn't like the way Europeans vote, and wants to put a stop to it. Business interests need to be protected against the evil democracy.
You only gave two alternatives wait or leave. What other alternatives are there ?
Not all things always change. Like change, for instance. Change that doesn't change remains the same. Just sayin' :-)
I haven't read the article, and I love my Android phone, but I sincerely hope Android never approaches 100%. Monoculture is never a good thing.
This looks great. There are a couple of minor bugs that I've come across so far.

1. Occasionally at the 'Prompts' screen, pressing the reload icon causes a blank prompt, which means there is no reload icon. Hence the user has to refresh the entire page.
2. In the "prompt" screen the place which I think is for some title text from the user does not show what is typed. The user can see the cursor moving, but no text, they can select the text but it is not highlighted. You can select copy & paste the text elsewhere. Suggesting that the text colour is just the same as the background colour.

Other than that, you have small logos in the top right, but the logos are far from clear what they actually do. Home, Settings and (probably) logout are clear, but the other two are not so clear.