skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds more like a (more) viable (or maybe, more profitable) business model went against the founders/tech-experts ideals and a collision occurred. I think it is very mature of Frank not to speak out on the issue while still in a probably somewhat emotional state about it. I'm curious what comes out when the dust settles, a statement from people left at ownCloud would be very nice and appropriate...
Well, for one those self driving cars have a few Intel Xeons onboard. Those cars need more processing power than your phone can provide.
Anyone want to explain why Google requires you to turn on these recordings to use voice search?

I want a setting where they automatically get deleted after processed, which does not appear to exist.
As a Scale Factory client, I can say anyone joining SF would be joining a great team. Happy to confidentially answer any questions interested people may have. :)
> It's getting close, that's for sure - and there may well be some niche where it already makes sense, but I wouldn't know which one.

Proprietary blobs such as Intel's ME that cannot be removed from Intel Xeon systems pose a security risk. If the ARM systems are found to lack them and they achieve the status of being good enough, security minded individuals and organizations will buy them because of that.

As long as that happens, Cavium will be able to use the revenues to develop the next generation of chips to better compete on traditional metrics like Intel was able to do against the RISC vendors of the past. As a security minded individual myself, I am well aware of that and I look forward to supporting such developments by purchasing such hardware for applications where it can be used.

There are others thinking this too. Some of them are watching the Talos workstation motherboard come to market with that in mind. The people behind it are even talking about IBM's executives being willing to make the POWER9 processor's microcode open source if the POWER8 model succeeds.

https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/prerelease.php
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> If we assume that general intelligence comes from highly trained, highly connected single processors (neurons)

This assumption is wrong, of course.
So it's just a clone of Bootstrap with different class names.
It used to be a very common idea, but has fallen out of vogue in favor of more raw capitalist sentiment. There very much used to be an idea of changing the world for the better, but it died along with a lot of America's positive outlook in the post-9/11 era.
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Nonsensical scaremongering. I've reviewed my history for several months. I use voice a lot, especially in the car. My history only shows items where I've used Google Now (button press) or used keyboard voice dictation (SMS, Waze, etc. - also button-press). Easy to recognize, you even hear the beep at the start.

I don't have "OK Google" set to "always on" on my phone. Anyone who sees "strange" items may have that setting enabled.

PS Thanks OP, I wasn't aware of this overview page. Insightful. I appreciate Google allows you to delete the samples if so inclined. Where is this page on FB? ;-)
OwnCloud actually has security issues similar to what you cited in the second link. Their security track record isn't spectacular either.

https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/880-Pwncloud-bad-crypto-in-t...
Catalog zones in BIND 9.11
You can, though it's got a 6 year age limit [1]. They only finance up to $20,000 which rules out a large number of completely new cars anyway.

Vehicles requirements for Xchange Leasing program:

2009 or newer
75,000 or less miles
no salvage, rebuilt or flood vehicle titles
4 full-sized doors
minimum of 5 seatbelts (driver and 4 passengers)
maximum amount financed $20,000 (subject to change)

1 - https://get.uber.com/cl/xchange/
Connect this to macrofab, add an option for group buying, and you'll get a nice one-purchase for fully built projects.
Proof of concept PowerDNS implementation of ISC/BIND catalog zones
This is totally BS. Litigation finance has been around for years, and has been done by all kind of people and organizations for all kind of purposes.

Thiel is rich, he does things, there is no causality with 'tech' here.

> Maybe it’s time for Silicon Valley to tone things down. To admit that, no, the Valley can’t solve all human problems -- not even close -- and never will.

WTF.
While not necessarily in these terms, it is something is not uncommon to see in the comments here in HN (as in "truck drivers should learn how to program" and stuff like that).

While I feel there is a noticeable and unwarranted resentment growing in the media against SV (and I find kind of stupid binning so many people under the same umbrella), it is also true that many people in the environment do seem to suffer from naïveté and ivory tower syndrome, IMHO.
one example is Popover controls on iPhone.
http://marksands.github.io/2014/05/27/how-apple-cheats.html
In an open system, how do you ensure basic safety needs are met - eg, do drivers have licenses?

I sure as hell am not getting into a car with an unlicensed driver
Distributing a private sex video was unethical and not an act of journalistic integrity. I view the Hulk Hogan case as justified and supporting it as a beneficial act.
> Litigation finance is typically a business venture. It doesn’t become charity because a wealthy person uses it as a template for a personal crusade and then insists he’s doing everyone else a favor.

Why? Many cases brought by individuals or groups on moral grounds have led the way to better governance. A lot of good work has been done by groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Why should individuals or groups not be allowed to litigate moral changes? Who is supposed to do this?

What's lost in all of this is what the lawsuit was actually about. Gawker wasn't speaking truth to power and criticizing individuals. Gawker posted an illegally obtained sex-tape. These articles attacking Thiel framed as billionaire versus journalists doesn't even mention this fact. The question should be why you need a billionaire to fund a lawsuit to get some sort of justice.
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From the photos in the article it appears to be a mountain bike with a electric motor - look at the front fork, the tiny MTB disc brakes, etc.
This article is about amphetamine use. Modafinil is not an amphetamine nor is it amphetamine-like.
That video was great! Just started thinking about Alexa, this looks like an easy way to get moving with it.
I'd like to point you to https://statuscode.ch/2015/09/ownCloud-security-development-... and make you aware of https://seacloud.cc/group/3/wiki/security-records.md and you should probably consider who reported the last critical vulnerability.

Only because a project is serious about actually publishing vulnerability data does not make it necessarily more insecure (or secure).
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Almost all of mine are recordings of conversations I was having. Most of them sound like my phone was in my pocket and are very muffled, and very few of them have a transcript.

2 of the last 20 recordings are actually questions I asked. 5/20 have transcripts, and the rest are partial recordings of conversations I've had with no transcript.
It was very much the stance of Wired magazine in the 90s, I think, and may still be. One major critique of that position is the "Californian Ideology" theory.

Isn't the quoted passage essentially what Mark Zuckerberg claims to believe? What about Google's "don't be evil"?
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American: land of second chances.
Thanks petra, we are really looking forward to exploring options like this. It's very much early days (the site is currently static pages hosted on GitHub and re-built when changes are made).

The first step will likely be to add direct links to the PCB fabs. Assembly would be a step beyond that. I am currently trying to figure out: what are the benefits of an "on-demand" manufacture of open source hardware projects?
I was all excited for the climatic ending and it ended on a whimper.
>due to its lambda complex level

No need to look so far. The logo for Half-Life was always the Greek letter lambda (certainly because it's often used in physics and chemistry to represent the decay constant, which is a simple function of half-life). And that level is probably just named in keeping with the game's identity.

I still remember when my chemistry teacher first drew a lambda on the chalkboard and said "this will give us the half-life". I felt like all the pieces finally came together in my life.
Decent deal on AppSumo – for freelancers
Not in the US. Taxi companies in US cities are terrible.
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Its just an artifact of the that countrys tax system if you can receive taxed income or scrip shares untaxed then 99.9% of people are going to go for scrip.
Yes, I agree that a stock dividend is equivalent to a stock split. But you argued that a stock dividend is also equivalent to a cash dividend. In that case a cash dividend is equivalent to a stock split, which is clearly not the case.

A stock split leaves shareholders with exactly the same share of the company they had before, it's just divided into smaller increments. It also leaves the company's balance sheet exactly the same.

What's actually equivalent to a cash dividend is a stock buyback. That gives each shareholder a larger portion of the company, and removes cash from the balance sheet.

Companies will often do stock buybacks in place of cash dividends. They never do stock splits in place of cash dividends, because splits have no effect on shareholders' wealth.

If a company awards new shares to one specific person, that's different. And you're right, it has the same effect on all the other shareholders as if the company paid that person cash. That person gets more and it comes out of everybody else's pocket. But when everybody gets new shares it's just a split.
I agree. Just pointing out that the specific problem the above poster mentioned as a reason to choose OwnCloud also is similarly true of OwnCloud.

https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/880-Pwncloud-bad-crypto-in-t...
>These articles attacking Thiel framed as billionaire versus journalists doesn't even mention this fact.

This one does though:

>As for Gawker, it disseminated a sex tape of a retired pro wrestler. Let’s not pretend that the website did it as part of a great journalistic mission. Gawker did it to lure eyes to its website while smugly saying the First Amendment sheltered it.

The author's beef isn't with Thiel using his money to help sue Gawker, but with him considering this to be philanthropic:

>The problem isn’t the way Thiel used his money. It’s his pretensions about it.
And your point is? the ex div share price recovers in most cases.
Also, keyword detection algorithms are different from general purpose speech transcription algorithms. The general pattern is to write a specialized model that's really good at robustly identifying the key phrase, run that continuously, then trigger recording and full transcription only when the key phrase is heard.

Those keyword identification algorithms can be implemented at the hardware level. I believe this is done for specialized devices like Echo and Kinect, not sure how phones do it.
I wish there was more information on the specs and design choices and not just the prototype evolution in pictures
The thing is this really isn't a motorcycle at all.

The tires are Bicycle tires (cruiser tires for one) not rated at all for the kinds of speeds they are advertising.

The front suspension while rated for MTB downhill use (which puts up with some heavy stress loads) would need to be tested for those speeds as well.

The fact that they are taking speculative pre-orders for a $56,000 product and don't even give out a parts spec on their website is very fishy.
depends on how you are taxed
Man interesting how all this happens, a few weeks ago when the verdict came out and no one knew of Thiel there was no large outcry.

Now to find out that the lawsuit was funded directly by someone who was hurt by the high shittery from gawker. It is not a surprise.

Tech billionaires are people, gawker pushed him and he is pushing back. Not sure there is much more to this.
Show HN: Krakern phishing attempt related to Mt. Gox claims
Tutankhamun's knife was 'made from meteorite iron'
When I worked at Apple before Steve came back there were tons of checks in MacOS for particular versions of apps, especially for Microsoft Word and Excel, working around their buggy behavior (or their workarounds for Apple's buggy behavior, a vicious cycle). While I have no idea if this person knows anything it would not be surprising.
you would need mass adoption. you also kind of have it it's called facebook/instagram. most people don't care how the message gets to the other person.
"...Boskalis can pay a dividend, without actually paying a dividend."

That is so very wrong. While the overall picture seems the same, the tangible difference is in what each investor actually has at the end of each transaction:

Option 1: Dividends as cash, which means cash leaving the company. Money is transferred from one entity (the company) to another (a group of shareholders). While shareholders are regarded as owners of the company, the nature of their ownership doesn't always work quite the same as say ownership of one's personal effects. Being a shareholder mostly means having certain rights regarding how one gets part of the company's profits and the right to vote on how the company is controlled. Payout of dividends means an immediate reduction of capital for the company, and an increase of income to the shareholders. So at the end the shareholders have the same number of shares and a certain amount of cash. The market value of their shares may drop at first as a reflection of the dividend payments (because technically the company's book value does drop immediately). But let's be honest here, the whole point of shares is the profit potential, so the pricing of shares needn't be in strict alignment with the book value.

Option 2: Dividends as new shares means the company holds on to capital. At the end, shareholders get more shares, which may suit them just fine if they're not in any situation that compels them to liquidate. Extra shares means having more to sell. Let's not hyper-focus on book value, since a share price needn't be constrained by that. If there's a good chance that the price per share will rise over time, then getting shares may be more profitable to an investor than getting immediate cash.

As the old adage goes, you pays your money you takes your choice. Also, it takes money to make money. But let's not get too hung-up on book value vs. share price, or on whether money truly is a "store of value". There's an awful lot of human desires and human efforts at play here, and in the end it's that interplay of desires and efforts (i.e. what efforts must one undertake to satisfy one's own temporal desires) that brings value to anything.
How to assign partial credit on an exam of true-false questions?
Here's the full article for those interested: http://rdcu.be/iFZr
Are more leaked sex tapes used for commercial purposes in the public interest?
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What exactly is the difference between "bankroll personal vendettas" and "fight against what you believe is bad"? The latter has to be broke and the former isn't?
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This isn't my product (no affiliation), but it so awesomely good that I had to share it with everyone.
Although I agree with the trend described I don't think words like synergy should be considered jargon...
If there is something I deeply wish for, it is for the power to ignore sleep. Every minute slept is a great loss. A good night's sleep means you're not working hard enough.
cobaltspeech.Com -- in case you can't get what you want from a default Kaldi install.
I was a little skeptical about what this offered via just running Hugo locally, but this does have some nice features. I like the "pay what it's worth to you" price approach. Hope it's effective.
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They're not comparable. Blue Origin's work is commendable, but landing a sub-orbital rocket, even re-using one, is not on the same scale as what SpaceX has done, the engineering is just on a different level. The X-15 program was landing sub-orbital vehicles, and re-using them, that had gone above 100km decades ago. The difference between Blue Origin's efforts and the X-15 is primarily the landing.
That was true on the AM3+ Processors with the 890FX and 990FX chipsets. I do not believe it is the case on AMD's modern CPU sockets, but I would be happy to be shown to be wrong.
Ask HN: Does anyone still uses Google+?
No, partycoder is educating is educating varadg on the correct site etiquette; the 'upvote' button should be used in place of 'I agree!' or 'This!' type comments.
If this strikes you as somewhat accurate and funny, then at some point you've heard the idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXuFrtmOYKg
No Sysadmin shoud be playing games on the systems he/she uses for admin work.
The problem with working from home is that it's very easy to procrastinate or just jerk off with the gazillion of things that attract your attention.
Elizabeth Holmes, Founder of Theranos, Falls from Highest Perch Off Forbes List
I can confirm it is down at my work as well

http://i.imgur.com/On8CoRz.png
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Here, have this /s you dropped.
Maybe Thiel paid Hulk Hogan's lawyers through PayPal. (sarcasm level: infinity)
A bad night's sleep means you will have to work harder for the same result the next day.
they could also be the COO.
Elon Musk: we are probably characters in some advanced civilization's video game
I don't know what you mean by "cult members". We have multiple sources that are independent in all reasonable senses of the word, as you must know if you've read about this. It is certainly false to claim that those who believe that Jesus was a historical figure (i.e., all scholars) admit that there is an absence of multiple independent sources. See e.g. Bart Ehrman's book "Did Jesus Exist?", which gives a nice summary of all of the sources.
Google will start giving this service. https://cloud.google.com/speech/
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I always thought that Half-Life's logo is from that level. I think in the game it's first used in that context.
Very intersting link inside the article about the "Simulation Argument": http://www.simulation-argument.com/
Tech people to tend to generically think about the world in a way; this is not an absolute, but just a pattern. Techies for example care more about access to information than the general public; to be fair, being in SV does not make you a techie.
I'd assume she cashed out some? Nowhere near $400m or $4.5bn, but at least tens of millions?