skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't know about Google voice search, but I am betting it was just a voice interface to a normal search. Nothing like answering questions, keeping contexts, etc. like they were advertising today. Siri, however, started out like that from the beginning.
I lament the fact that we're moving more and more to closed chat protocols. Shortly, nothing will work with Pidgin/Adium any more, and it's a shame because it's by far the best way to chat.
We don't know the exact mechanism (endosymbiosis vs. hgt, for example) - which is why I said "freak merger" to keep it vague, but correct me if I'm wrong, but it's pretty clear that PSI comes from purple and PSII comes from green sulfurs, by homology.
Sadly, humans are very good at rationalizing their unethical. The rule of thumb seems to be that whenever there's something unethical but profitable (in terms of money or power), absent any non-moral kind of stopping force (like risk of getting caught and jailed, or social ostracism), a lot of people will be doing that unethical thing. You don't have to go further than to your local grocery store to notice that.
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Not in my use cases.
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Would you recommend it as an audio book, or are the visuals essential?
> Complaints about Signal are, unsurprisingly, getting dumber and more venomous. For instance, last week, Nadim Kobeissi (the author of Cryptocat, a competing secure messaging system that I think you should avoid) was on Twitter talking about how impossible a GPL violation could have been given that Wire's Signal implementation is in Rust.

Given that I'm mentioned by name (and tied to a bunch of exaggerated claims), I'd like to clarify a few points.

1. I never claimed that a GPL violation was impossible because of different programming languages. I merely questioned whether this was the case with Wire's Rust codebase [0], given that its data structures, namespacing etc. are substantially different from the OWS Java code [1]. To me, different code organization + different implementation style + different programming language don't exactly amount to a line-by-line conversion from Java to Rust as OWS seems to be claiming.

2. Cryptocat does not compete with Signal: it's a desktop XMPP client that focuses on synchronous messaging (that I write in my free time and with no funding or business plan, to boot), and does not at all target the mobile space. I was very happy to adopt a variant of Signal Protocol into Cryptocat and consider Signal's contributions to the field of secure messaging to be highly valuable. I'm not sure why tptacek brings up Cryptocat (completely unrelated to this discussion) but by all means, don't avoid it! The recent rewrite is pretty good, actually.

Overall, this situation just struck me as very ugly. Moxie seemed at some point to be reticent to allow fully independent implementations of the protocol, and Wire's lawsuit was pretty aggressive. Both parties locked in a catfight and then (apparently?) realized their approaches were counterproductive and gave it up.

The best resolution here, in my view, would have been for Moxie to publish a public-domain reference specification document of Signal Protocol that's independent of the code, and for Wire to be allowed to write a Rust implementation of it without any party causing drama.

[0] https://github.com/wireapp/proteus

[1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-protocol-java
It had definitely started as an API side detail. But it might become an industry thing. It allows very easy vendor lock-in for all the *AAS products (PAAS, SAAS, etc). You could be required an add-on for your server or machine to be able to use their product.

Oh, and imagine a Facebook chip. :)
“Aw, so cute”: Allo helps you respond to shared photos
Horizon uses push architecture by default so there is no need to pool.
> Sadly, humans are very good at rationalizing their unethical.

Humans are also very good on disagreeing on a fundamental level about what is and isn't unethical in general, before even considering rationalizing their own behavior.
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This is really good for the sports streaming community.

The current landscape is either a paid site — which is really only http://hehestreams.xyz right now (but it's awesome) — an AceStream link (quality suffers), one of the really janky sports streaming sites where you get blasted with ads, or a YouTube link which likely gets taken down before you can sit down and enjoy it.

AceStream, while good, doesn't have the backing of someone like BitTorrent.

Interesting read: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-fascinating-local-c...
Because soon enough every company out there would want to include one in their website, regardless whether it’s based on some half assed AI. Depending on how good the implementation will be, bots could solve some real problems in the customer support front. And there would be top dollars in training bots (aka customizing the software) to adapt to specific needs. Instead of having FAQs, which no-one ever reads, you’ll have bots. And you could choose from a variety of them, starting from a few dozen bucks per month up to thousands.

There are hundreds of use cases I can think of. A doctor implements a bot on his/her site and it asks potential patients questions about their condition. It feels much more friendly than reading a FAQ. The same goes for a lawyer firm. Or how about a bank’s call center. Actually, every call center out there could be replaced by sophisticated bots. Or a bookstore that asks you to name a few of your favorite books and then makes recommendations. Come to think of it, the market here is huge. That’s why all the big players are moving in. Microsoft is already building APIs for their platforms.

As for Google, judging by the fact that they’ve invested shitloads of money in AI research, bots could really give them an opportunity to capitalize on that know-how.
I am impressed Amazon was able to make a new product category. It's only a matter of time before Apple announces their take on Siri Home.
US Judge Says Internet Archive's Wayback Machine a Legit Source of Evidence
Not even close to being the same thing. On android there's a common codebase that it's guaranteed to be there for all devices even if you have to add a couple of additional layouts for the odd cases, which it's what it mostly comes down to in this day and age. The same can't be said for VR right now.
Hah. You'd be surprised how few developers actually know that shared memory exists.
I'd like to learn some possible reasons why one should avoid cryptocat, is there any material you could link for further reading?

Thank you
I think its likely that "everyone" following Tesla knew an offering was coming. I'd go as far as thinking its likely Bob Lutz knew the offering was coming soon. GS research could easily have known without illegal backroom whispers.
The article does say:

> You’ll find that, suddenly, the things you usually expect from your IDE just work
I don't think you've thought this through.

If one side enabled this "use E2E encryption for everything" feature, then the other side would presumably no longer have access to any of the smart assistant features. And it would not be obvious why.

Additionally, it would be hard to explain why you'd ever want to enable such a feature which means nobody would do it. I suspect you want default E2E encryption for political reasons. Such things don't work unless it's on by default.
No desktop app means it will never be able to compete with Skype. I don't even see a reason trying out the phone apps.
Oh look, Google's 67th messaging app attempt. I'm sure it's going to be a killer this time...
Preset responses, seriously??? bwahahahaha, only a socially challenged googler could've thought of something like this.
Never talk to a cop or fed without a lawyer present if you are being questioned for anything other than a traffic ticket or you were just the victim of a crime. Even then, be careful what you say. They are not there for your benefit.
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That would fit the common understanding of the phrase "not losing money on every X sold".
> He ends up using the discussion to make the argument that all life in the universe likely uses redox chemistry for energy.

If that's the conclusion, it's trivially true, since basically you can assign a redox value to every chemical transformation using the nernst equation.

The interesting thing is that IMO the resistance to the conceptual framework behind the way that the mitochondrion works was because it was hard for biochemists to picture the proton motive force (concentration gradient) as a redox potential (it truly is one) because it seemed more physics-ey than biochemistry-ey. Peter Mitchell cleared that up amidst quite a bit of controversy. He had to go to the lengths of setting up an independent research institute to get the work done.
SEATAC in Seattle and the Port Authority in New and New Jersey have threatened to privatize TSA duties as well. The question is can they? What's to stop them? Why is it taking so long?

How was this agency not looking at actually travel data that they failed to hire more staff as the number of air travelers increased? This was over a two year period. The idiot in charge of the TSA said they anticipated more people would sign up for TSA prescreen. At some point in the last two years they couldn't see that this trend wasn't transpiring?

This same idiot said they he was asking congress for more money for overtime for TSA employees. Great, make the same miserable people work even longer hours. That sounds like a great solution.

He also made a statement to the effect that their "mandate is to keep America safe' yet he seems to not grasp that if we can't get on the plane it doesn't much matter.

They also seem to blame part of the increased wait on the tragedy in Belgium but do you mean to tell me that not one person in this agency could see that the departure halls's were a huge a blind spot?

I imagine that lawmakers in Washington don't have to wait in the long lines like the rest of us? That's generally how the broken stuff in the US stays broken b/c lawmakers aren't exposed to it. This is true of healthcare as well. Congress has indemnity health plans which is why they have no idea how bad it is for the rest of us.
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I've noticed this being a thing. Actually, its my #1 dream after doing ASIMUV full time (which will hopefully will become a reality). Also, its a comment easter egg because Im referring to the movie office space. The protagonist quit his job at a software company to go and work in construction. :)
Could you expand on it?
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...in our post-prejudicial world.
You mean you actually believe that an organisation with no transparency and no accountability that routinely slaughters civilians in double digits, is engaged in illegal torture etc etc will staunchly follow an arbitrary jurisdiction?

In jail she might die on accident just because your jails murder people for fun.
Or she might get murdered purposefully - for eg deny medical care...
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I'm not even a hardware or AI person, and even I could have told you ASICs would make way more sense than GPUs or FPGAs for machine learning. It's all about data locality. Fetching memory is the most costly thing a GPU does, and for ML (DNNs) there no big need for global access memory 99% of the time.

Anyone the casually follows AI knows that people have been talking about making DNN ASICS for some time. It was all a matter of time and $$$$$$

There is no doubt FB is working on them too. Which is why Google is finally publicaly saying that "we did it first ;)"
The Wayback Machine is already commonly used in patent cases for prior art.

For example: http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/use-of-the-wayback-machine-...

“we will not lightly grant a motion for a subpoena for cross-examination of a third party with respect to admissibility where counsel simply concedes that they do not understand how the Wayback Machine works.”
the 2nd point was to address the fact that the contract can be updated/patched with little if any impact to it's end users. so the new version of the contract gets pushed out, the old one is not in use any longer and just kind of dies off :)
Not entirely.

Total Revenue: 4,046,024
Cost of Revenue: 3,122,521
Gross Profit: 923,503

R&D: 717,900
Selling, General, & Administrative: 922,232
Total OpEx: 1,640,132

Loss from Operations: (716,629)
/* snip some other line items */

Net Loss: 888,663

http://secfilings.nasdaq.com/filingFrameset.asp?FilingID=111...

So it's not all just R&D. Their revenue and cost of revenue includes their resale value guarantee and lease programs. I'm not enough of an accountant to know which way these tilt the numbers. Their resale value guarantee probably will help them maintain a high sticker price.
sadly, I am... I work for an ISP that generally doesn't make these mistakes, our network engineering/operations/construction team enjoys observing all the stupid things Centurylink and Comcast do in our local market.
> Preset responses, seriously???

I'm guessing that they've got some pretty good experience with the reception the same feature has had on Inbox, where its been around for a while. Just because its not something that seems useful to you (I rarely use it, but it has sometimes been useful for quick and contextually appropriate acknowledgements) doesn't mean it doesn't have value to the broad base of users Google is targeting.
To answer your question, Fundamentally a Synchronous distributed design has nodes in the system set an upper limit on how long it takes for things to happen, like max RTT and computation time.

Algorithms based on synchronous systems are much simpler but theyre also unrealistic both in theory and usually in practice as well (without clever hacks handling edge cases). For example its difficult to set time limit on how long a node on the internet will take to respond. One may reasonably say 10 seconds max, but what happens on the day it takes 10.1 seconds? The system collapses.
Asynchronous systems do not consider time at all so they don't suffer from those classes of problems but algorithms based on them are more complex.
If I were a naive business owner, I sure as hell would hire a lawyer to look at any giant load contract I was signing.
You're the author of a secure messaging system who is, to put it lightly, notorious for throwing shade on other people's secure messaging projects. This comment is a perfect example: OWS demanded that Wire comply with the GPL, and you've declared that "drama", and suggested that Wire was somehow "not allowed" to port it to Rust.

Your messages on Twitter are right there for everyone to read.

Here's a helpful starting point:

https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/730165751240364033

The preceding link where you referred, unbidden, to Moxie's last post about their take on federation for their own implementation of Signal as a "dishonest rant" is left as an exercise for the reader.
Forbes requires me to disable malware protection to view their site. I found an informative link here instead:

http://dailysignal.com/2016/04/22/nebraska-abolishes-civil-f...
What do you think about http://optalysys.com/ or http://lighton.io?
Not just lower precision but probably less error correction in the lower bits. -Or- ... they convert the floating point values to analog values and do all the math in the analog domain and convert it back, just like old analog computers. But by going fully analog, I think the gains would be over 10x better, so probably not.

See 'low-power (inexact|approximate) computing'
I would be surprised if they weren't working on their own specialised chips then, though Google have the advantage of already having the software specs to build for.
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How many months from release until the FISA court issues a secret order to turn one of these on 24x7x365 in a suspect's home, and stream the audio to the FBI "counter terrorism" people investigating a subject?
Found a recently published Python example: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580625-collection-pipeli...
You will get downvoted but are still correct
Are you suggesting they're not? Where did he plagiarize them from if so? He can't exactly prove they're original, but you could prove they have at least been said before, if not plagiarized.
Or they consider the TPU to be something similar to a math co-processor, it just offloads work from the CPU. They also didn't discuss the custom built power modules, or the custom built network switches used for interconnects.
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Whenever I see one of these things, and the people who happily purchase it without giving even two seconds of thought to the privacy implications, it makes me realize how important organizations like the FSF and EFF are.
All my friends did that too. It was the norm in the 80s when I was growing up. To my recollection, any deaths or serious injuries from it were somewhere between rare and non-existent. That's not survivor bias.

I have no doubt that a study would find there were more then than there are now, but things don't exist in isolation. We make trades for everything.

For example, we've traded relatively rare (and usually treatable) skin cancer for more widespread sunlight deprivation and Vitamin D deficiency that's implicated in a number of different conditions. I don't think this was a good trade, personally.

In this case we've traded our kids' childhoods and parents' exercise of discretion--this is part of their life cycle too, keep in mind--for what I'm quite convinced is a minimal increase in safety. Mandatory bicycle helmets? Sure, if it stopped there. But we've gotten way more paranoid than that. I don't think that's a good trade either.
I was watching Dirty Harry the other day and was amazed by how San Francisco looked exactly the same in that film as it does today.
The issue isn't creating such a platform, it has been done. The issue is getting others to use it. That has not been done.
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We have many institutions that have evolved over centuries to correct the mistakes of governments (including ones that involve malice). Radical anything risks destabilising that most valuable knowledge: incremental change has worked remarkably well in this sphere, given time. There need to be very good reasons to throw everything up in the air - especially given radical transparency is just worse than its absence in many ways (see my earlier comments) -- really the idea has come about not because people thought it was a good idea, but because they thought it was inevitable, which it is not.

I think there are good reasons to expect the current ongoing disaster that is computer security will one day be fixed. Then, radical surveillance will still be with us, but radical transparency will operate in one direction: from those in power to everybody else.

Until then, especially in a society that is showing signs of starting to lose the means for criticism of bad ideas, extreme surveillance does not imply that the same data will be collected and stored about everybody or every institution. The UK government has already introduced data transparency laws. It makes special exceptions for... government. Even though they might eventually be caught, your local population of bureaucrats, with easy access to every detail of your life, will have an asymmetric information and legal power advantage over you, and adding information amplifies that asymmetry. Massive data leaks are still surprisingly infrequent. If we had regular Snowdens across government, what makes us think we know that would be a net good, a general purpose cure-all nostrum for government?

Meanwhile, the rest of population, given data, are happy to "know" the moral truth as they see it about other people and impose their own tyranny without due process (see e.g. Jon Ronson's "So you've been publicly shamed"). And corporations -- but they are discussed often enough that I don't want to add anything now.

Not to speak of progress, planning, and the morality of imposing "radical transparency" on other people.
Exactly. It is entirely plausible to me that this guy got screwed but as written I only made it about halfway through and couldn't even find the lines to read between.
Out of curiosity, what are your thoughts when YC personnel hype the latest batch of startups here on HN shortly before Demo Day?
Thanks! The second edition has the preview on the Amazon too:

http://www.amazon.com/Physical-Biology-Cell-Rob-Phillips/dp/...

Looks worth the money, based on the pictures. However, as I browse through the text, the tone of the explanations seems to be a little casual, and the book more concentrating on "counting" than explaining the details presented with the pictures?

Otherwise it seems to be "what you get when a physicist gets to write about cells," is my impression right? It seems that Lodish and Alberts are better starts to learn the biological aspects?
Secondary offerings don't significantly affect the stock price and research notes don't make the bank much money, so the outrage is a bit misplaced. If a bank wanted to make money by breaking the rules, they'd have M&A talk with their prop trading desk.
Doesn't the Pure Flashblade do something similar?
https://regmedia.co.uk/2016/03/13/flashblade_950.jpg
> How many months from release until the FISA court issues a secret order to turn one of these on 24x7x365 in a suspect's home, and stream the audio to the FBI "counter terrorism" people investigating a subject?

Google Home isn't the first entry into this market (Amazon Echo is a thing), and neither of those is the first network-connected microphone-bearing device in people's homes that might be targeted, so its kind of weird to focus on this particular product for that question.
>Selling at a loss is a real thing that lots of companies do

Except products sold at a lost are almost always loss leaders designed to increase other revenue sources. It is fine to sell razors, printers, or game consoles at a loss if products like blades, ink, and games sell for a large premium. The problem is that Tesla doesn't have any other products to offer. They sell cars. You can't really expect to function in the medium to long term as a business if your only product sells for a loss.
I'm unclear why that's bad form. Pumping a stock while you are selling it is bad form. Say it's great and that you intend to offer to buy some seems kind reasonable to me.
> Now that she's in Europe, the CIA's jurisdiction, she's at greater risk...

History has shown that geographic location is no protection from the CIA. MKULTRA being a clear example of obviously illegal activity. But I really doubt that the CIA would be interested in a TOR developer, that is NSA territory. While the NSA has a much less colorful history, they do burgle when they feel they need to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_the_United_S...
Do it. My university has a path for this sort of thing. You usually have to pay the same tuition rate, but it's per unit, so it's less than a full time enrollment. I'm at UCSB, and it's called Extension here. I did this to help my grad application prior to enrolling. It really helped to a) show that I could do the work and b) get me excited about it and confirm my desire to enroll.
Since nobody has provided any evidence that OWS ever suggested that using their documentation was improper, you might just as well suggest Moxie use this "incident" as an opportunity to announce that he's stopped beating his wife.