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I am saying that detailed crypto and IT knowledge is not a prerequisite for being appointed to a cabinet position.

Ever do any work for lawyers? It's like that. They have admins that run the firms; the lawyers are the inventory.
The title is a bit extravagant, given that it obviously doesn't record "everything you say", just every voice interaction you ever have with any of it's products or services.

But the fact that this comes up continuously in an alarmist state should tell you something: Most people don't provide informed consent to Google's terms of service, and wouldn't if they knew what they contained. The only reason Google is able to do what it does is because most people don't know that they do it.
This is the most inaccurate click-bait title I've ever seen in my life. They may as well have said "You won't believe these 10 things Google is recording in the background!"
For those interested in this computer, there is a working Alto at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle that attendees are free to use.
wat u call trolling when not funny?
It's illuminating that this isn't framed as Snowden vs. Assange. Certainly if they could frame it that way for their juicy story, they would.

We don't know (at least here on HN) who personally posted that reply on the WikiLeaks Twitter feed. It seems reasonable to assume that there are internal differences today just as there were a few years ago when Assange publicly battled a top ex-WikiLeaker, among other conflicts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Defections

So what is "WikiLeaks" to us aside from the material they produce?

Aside from that, as has been pointed out, different legitimate tactics can serve different legitimate goals, and in different strategic contexts.
Axel Springer Plug & Play (ASPnP) is a corporate funded accelerator just as Hub:Raum is funded by Telekom. A large portion of the accelerator here are structured like that.
>Further, I don't know about where you're from, but in the west here, we used to have the semi-legal principle of "fighting words".

Really? What law is that?
because that is where the customers are
XML as a config file format was a disaster in every example I ever encountered. Config files are supposed to be editable by humans using editors, and most that I saw were too complex for that. In particular the NeXT/Apple property file formats are horrible abuses of XML.

As a format to represent structured data, it could be fine as long as you were pragmatic about it. In the case of <task id="3"> you either assumed that "id" was always an integer or you validated it with a schema declaration, which quickly got hairy.

In practice I never validated XML beyond it being well-formed (which was provided by default in any parser) and never had any real problems.
Oh, this is the difference between attribute-oriented XML, element-oriented XML, and whatever-the-hell-we-feel-like-oriented XML. Publishers should pick one of the first two and be consistent about it.
It's a bit of a catch 22, if you lose your iPhone then you need some way to locate it / erase it without having your iPhone. I don't think it's a big deal, you should have backups anyways.

One thing they could do is, if you have more than 1 device on your account, then force you to use another device for 2fa.
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I think that one boils to basically back in 1990, ISO 10646 wanted 32-bit characters but had no software folks on that committee, while the Unicode people was basically software folks but thought that 16-bit was enough (this dates back to the original Unicode proposal from 1988). UTF-8 was only created in 1992, after the software folks rejected the original DIS 10646 in mid-1991.
>The law's opinion on theft of email is incredibly different from your own.

Fair enough. But since when was the DNC officially a part of the US Federal Government? Also, since when was Hillarys' personal email server covered by the same facet?

As an outsider looking in, it doesn't appear to me that CFAA applies: are the DNC computers exclusively for the use of the US Gov't? Was Hillarys' email server?

I think these are very interesting questions .. and I ask them in earnest, since I'm clearly naive about the CFAA (and thank you for making this point clear..)
In that case, could you not just sue them for standard fraud?
It's likely, unless the email dump also included private keys of recipients.
How do you manage secrets (e.g. passwords or keys)?

I was puzzled by this and came to the conclusion Configuration Management [CM] is best left to the actual CM tools, and Docker just isn't one.

That was in the days docker-compose wasn't even a choice for me, because docs explicitly said that it's not for the production - but even now I don't see a sane way to automatically (re)configure 2-3 hosts[1] in with a single CLI command (and keep the secrets defined in one single "master" place that's outside of version control) with the Docker-provided toolset. Which is dead easy with Salt or Ansible (+bare Docker, of course, since it's Docker containers that are deployed)

(Haven't looked into recently-introduced Docker Swarm, though, maybe they have something there.)
I created some real world interview coding questions based on the work we were doing at a former job. My questions were rejected because the other engineers couldn't answer them because they were too "front-end" in that it required asynchronous programming. But they still got to ask their obscure CS college homework questions despite we never needed those skills.

It confirmed my suspicions of ego is why these questions are asked so often.
I believe that right now, people perceive that land rents are (relatively) subsidized. So people chase that subsidy.
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Ethernet was invented for the Alto, so it was the first machine to boot over Ethernet. (I don't know if any other machines did network boot earlier, using other networks.)

One entertaining thing about Alto boot: you could select a different boot address (i.e. boot something different) by pressing various keys at boot time. Each key controlled a different bit, so you would press many keys at once. This was called "nose boot" since you might need to use your nose to press a key if you ran out of fingers.

The Alto clock is 5.88 MHz, so the signals aren't as high frequency as modern computers. We could probably get crisper signals with better probing, but since we just want to see the signals, the quality isn't too important.
The more interesting problem being, of course, how to build a co-op anything that really works within a market economy. The Leftist Uber Killer may well be the killer app for socialism.

If you a mange to do it, of course.
What takes fewer lines of code to parse?

<element.name id.value="3.14">

Or accepting both:

<element.name id.value="3.14">
<element.name id.value=3.14>

How would you specify an empty value for mandatory attributes?
Who is 'they'?
Pong MMO
I couldn't help but smile reading your description of factory because it is mostly true. We stay there as it is extremely cheap - membership fee only barely covers my coffee consumption :-) and because the environment is modern and nice. Ping me if you come by again anytime soon.
I just want a single download freebsd distro for the desktop to play around with. Doesn't seem to exist.
I'm not optimistic. As climate becomes less favorable, the rich will focus capital, energy and resources on mitigation. For themselves, I mean. The poor will just starve and die.
I think Tesla has shown that jailbreaking the car is definitely not an option -- they will remotely brick your vehicle if they catch you.

So I think this a great example where you can add your Tesla to Tesla's own on demand service, but if you don't like the rates Tesla offers, and you want to put it in rotation with someone else's service, you likely run afoul of the ToS and risk bricking your car.

This probably helps explain why so many different companies, including Uber, are racing to develop their own self driving platforms. Because it won't be a bolt on feature by a supplier that anyone can build on, it will be a highly controlled and locked down service funneling the profits to the platform owners.
Fascinating. I'm merely commenting on misconceptions and discussing what I think the intent of the article is. Your hostility to these ideas is directed at the writer ("hack") and those honestly discussing the article ("true believer" -- did I ever claim to be or even agree with the article?).

As for my personal knowledge at implementing this: I don't know how it can be done since I'm a scientist and not a business analytics person. But I know that a cooperative could compete well against the taxi cab industry. Perhaps not against Uber which broke lots of regulations to become an entrenched force in the industry.

Disengaging, I don't like to discuss with those who attack others while ignoring the evidence brought forward.
I know, but what has this to do with a restaurant not getting this growth?
Alright, I concede, there should be laws surrounding principles of basic privacy in which the use of opt-out features must be converted to opt-in and cannot be masked around dark pattern UIs, and any remote communication that includes personal data must be clearly stated in both its execution and intent.

But saying you want to use Facebook is like saying you want to get cancer.
>Your expecting people who have spent their lives climbing the political ladder and understanding / memorizing / interpreting law to then be able to know that their emails are viewable by a man in the middle or anyone able to read the harddrive?

Yes, indeed, I do expect that level of competence from people who aspire to govern the subject.
> Your expecting people who have spent their lives climbing the political ladder and understanding / memorizing / interpreting law to then be able to know that their emails are viewable by a man in the middle or anyone able to read the harddrive?

Yes, yes I do. It takes less than an hour to learn how to use pgp.

It takes less than a second to understand why you don't put passwords, credit card details or root passwords in email.

Is that so much to ask from the nation's Ivy League elite?
I also mentioned projects written in Ruby and Java, but that's ok. VB.Net also has XML Literals. Ha ha.
the national instruments myRIO board has probably the lowest barrier to entry for FPGA programming and also microcontroller programming since it uses a zynq processor, both of which are programmed with LabVIEW. it also runs a real-time linux OS. but it isn't available to the general public, being reserved for academic use. i am not for sure why.
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That's very interesting! I don't think I've read about this process of learning a new language in such a specific way. It makes sense though.

I do have a question, if you don't mind my asking. When I arrived in the US from India, I learned very quickly that accent and voice intonation are very important for first impressions and learning an American accent with good intonation has greatly helped me both personally and professionally. So my question is: is it similar in Germany? I was curios to know whether this was just an American cultural thing or whether it was more universal.
I'm guessing they're just using the standard VNC / RDP algorithm that only sends (ands therefore refreshes) parts of the screen that changed.

It's at best a 150ppi (1600x1200, 2000 pixels along the diagonal over 13") screen, lower resolution than the original Kindle.
Key word, promotions. CAC is a thing, so is CLTV. But negative gross margins are something different.
That may have been true five years ago, but it isn't really true today. It's been a really long time since I've had to cover my phone to read something on it, or needed to go inside. Screens have definitely gotten better in the "reading in the daylight" category. But E-Ink hasn't gotten much better in the "reading in the dark" category.
The incentives likely don't matter in the future because the future of Uber is driverless cars.
As a devops engineer and systems architect, I pay a little attention to AWS's certs. The basic-level certs are not a guarantee of competence, and they're fairly trivial (I remember taking the AWS Certified Developer cert and finishing with like 96% in twenty minutes), but they're in-depth enough and the questions just interesting enough that I consider it to be a minor positive. The professional-level certs, however, are a bigger deal to me--they're not easy.

As a business owner, my clients like seeing certs a lot. It helps with bigger clients (with longer and ongoing business arrangements!) a lot.

If you are interested in getting into this side of things, feel free to shoot me an email (in my profile) for an offline chat, I'm happy to help out any way I can. (This is a public offer; I like hearing from people and helping them get in. It's fun.)
> Seriously, the only shot we have at a European lingua franca at the moment is English.

If we look at the language knowledge in the EU

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Unio...

51% knowledge for English is far from a lingua franca in Europe. At least German (32%) and French (26%) are also very common to know. In this sense you shouldn't think that there is some European lingua franca, but rather a small set of languages which has the property that if you know them, the probability is high that you will be understood.
Looks like many of the YouTube videos linked to by other news sites (Verge, CNN, USA Today) pointed to YouTube videos that have been taken down due to copyright infringement.

Higher resolution video by RT @ [0] and appears to give attribution to "Mondelez International" so perhaps it will stay awhile.

[0] https://youtu.be/6qF_fzEI4wU
I'm not using an alarmist language.

Kickstarter and the rest of the crowd source services mix customers and investors into a mishmash that effectively strips you from the rights and privileges of either.
You do not receive the rights and benefits of being an investor nor do you enjoy the guaranteed buyer protection as you would as a consumer buying a product.

And while you can try and hide behind the "it's a choice" argument this doesn't pass the simple smell test.
Launching a product via crowdfunding is now cheaper and less risky than launching a product through normal means, like some one else have mentioned in this thread, there are too many companies that use it as a marketing and pre-order platform instead of what it originally was meant to be - a place to get funding for projects that would not be able to be funded through normal means.
If this trend continues and everything moves to kickstarter like platforms you as a consumer suffer, you lose the rights and benefits that consumer protection laws provide, while still paying the same price and sometimes even a premium.

I don't care what people do with their money, I care about trends that could have a negative impact on myself or society now or in the future.
For me this is no different than the twitter, google, or facebook "censorship" debate, you can claim these are private services and they can do what they want. I see it from a different perspective, in my eyes when you reach a certain market position you no longer can hide behind "I'm just a company I can do what I want" and you must respect the neutrality of information and the freedom of speech for everyone.
> it received complaints that the headphone jack was sunk into the casing.

I had forgotten that. I paid $12.99 for an adapter that shouldn't have been necessary. I expect with modern times, the Lightning-to-3.5mm adapter will be twice the price, and just as unnecessary.
Agree. Practical/pragmatic use of XML as a data format requires consistency.
It's even more accurate to say that it's named for the coffee made from the coffee beans that come from said island. ;-)
> Picking and choosing predictions in this manner to make it look like they have all been steadily increasing is misleading.

Those predictions are all sourced in the original article. As you say, though, pointing out a trend in the predictions from a set of scenarios doesn't on its own tell you anything.

> The last IPCC report I read predicted an increase of between 0.3C and 0.7C by 2035 with around 0.4C being the most likely. Nowhere near the the 3.5C by 2035. There is very little consensus for numbers that high.

Was that the fifth assessment report?

And where does the consensus 'currently' cluster for 2035? What climate models would be included? Under what emissions scenarios? I'm not too familiar with the state of the current literature.
I agree that it's better when we can do without legislation and rely on individual action instead. For example, individuals should be able to take a copy of Windows 10, reverse engineer it, disable the spyware and offer the result for free download.

Unfortunately, government legislation in the form of copyright law prohibits this. If it were up to me, copyright law would be repealed. But failing that, we can't have a situation where all the laws favor corporations and none favor individuals, at least not unless we want to slide into the kind of dystopia cyberpunk writers have been warning us about for generations.
Ask HN: Do you work on machine learning at a large SV co and regret it?
I have a successful career doing regular engineering work at a large SV company. I used to work (albeit not at a super advanced level) on machine learning but it was more expedient working on tractable problems with a clear path to a solution, rather than spending a lot of time on data prep, wrangling various ML algorithms and only sometimes getting somewhere. Maybe it was me, maybe it was the tools, or a bit of both. Now that there's a huge hype cycle very well underway (especially the last 5 years) and tools are getting better (hardware and software), I'm tempted to get back into it.

Do you work on machine learning (in various incarnations incl deep learning) at Google, FB or (Microsoft, Amazon) or smaller cutting edge companies? Are you really enjoying the day to day work, or not? Why? Would you rather have built a track record in a domain involving more "linear" engineering problems with a similarly large impact? Are you a thought leader and rely on deep technical knowledge of statistics and math? Is the 'risk / reward' from a career and personal satisfaction point of view worth the time invested?
I agree with eximius and would add that special versions (or treatment) available to the DoD, banks and other large orgs who have clout is clearly not what I was talking about. Also, my point with Win7 is the that, unlike WinXP, the termination date will not be extended by Microsoft regardless of the outcry. They view that as a mistake and its is counter to their new strategy of the OS as a marketing platform.
Sounds like another industry ripe for disruption.
Because the current law on fraud is not enough for this. And that is a good thing: a fraud law so flexible as to prevent this beforehand would clearly be an overly broad law.
Have a look at this (please note that it's very much a work in progress):

https://github.com/rongarret/BWFP/

Feedback appreciated.
I think the primary challenge to learning a new language in the early stages is confronting this self-consciousness.

It's good training in not worrying too much about what other people think of you. What's the harm really in someone thinking you're an idiot? You know it's not the case.

Swallowing your pride speeds up learning immensely. You can even have fun with it--people will see you as funny and non-threatening, which can actually translate to likability quite easily if you don't get a chip on your shoulder about it.
That's no problem. Sometimes people have legit reasons for making a throwaway account. For example, they might want to post about experiences that could get them in trouble if they used their real name or even their main pseudonym. All that is fine, and long established on HN.

But it's an abuse to make a new account for every few comments, and it's an abuse to rack up a stockpile of burner accounts.
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Just checked on Google Maps and it seems you're right (though the habitable area is small)

Another surprising discovery is that KaDeWe is in Schöneberg as well
One question - why do you say it's not sustainable?

I agree that an increase in population requires an increase in funding to the NHS (or at least keeping the funding stable per capita) and more housing.

But I don't see why those things are impossible, given the political will to make them happen.
Insert it any time, yes, possibly.

Remove it at any time, no. The chip on the card is cryptographically signing the transaction, which includes the total. It can't sign it until the total is known.

In practice, I suspect the equipment is designed not to allow you to insert the card early so that you check the total first.
ASLR and MAC are unrelated - I don't get your comment.
I feel obliged to point out that HoTT is… really rather abstract. I'm just starting to learn about it now in my spare time, and I hold a master's degree in mathematics specialising in logic.
It's kind of vague. It would be better if he used a concrete example to illustrate how AI help programming.
For configuration files, not for data serialisation.
The analogy is wrong - the DNC situation is akin to Oberyn Martell saying he don't need helmet.

Everybody that has spent more than 3 hours on the internet already knows that everyone is out there to get you.
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[reading before posting, apologies for a rambling reply]

Personally, I see it as a very similar question as "why don't people just stop taking drug X" (to avoid side arguments, substitute X for a drug you see significantly altering people's lives for what you see as negatively).

Weight loss is typically very simple, but that gets confused with easy. really quite minor behavioural differences can result in fairly extreme weight changes over time.

Perhaps it's simply that people are prioritising short term things over long term. Short term the beer I'm drinking is nice, relaxing and great. Long term it's negative since it's at least taking me over my calorie limit for the day.

The risks are vague and hard to intrinsically grasp, the benefits are simple and local.

I think there are also significant effects of what people expect. With so many people overweight, what people expect has changed. I don't have statistics, but I've heard a large number of people complain about their families declaring them "anorexic" while still being quite overweight or even obese. If you're surrounded by people telling you to have more, having an expectation that people should be larger, and many external sources telling you that losing weight is complex (requiring weird and extreme approaches)

Fundamentally, we've not really evolved to deal with an environment of near infinite food available through very little activity (not suggesting work isn't hard for many, but we can sit down all day and easily get several times our required calorie intake). We have evolved in environments where we needed to get as much as we could from our surroundings, and it was hard to come by.
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CFAA applies to basically all computers in the US (technically it doesn't if no network traffic crosses state borders, but that seems hard to argue in the days of the internet), not just those under government control. The requirement is either government use or interstate communication, not both.