skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lean toward yes, it is an essential liberty. Society necessarily has to have protections built in that sometimes (often?) also protect criminals because we need strong civil liberty protections.

When I was arrested for drug trafficking (the charges were later dropped) I told the police "No, you can't have my iPhone password, not because there is incriminating evidence on the phone I don't want you to see but because there are messages, emails, and notes on that phone that reflect the contents of my mind and the contents of the minds of my closes friends, and I will not give you nor your colleges access to the contents of my mind."

They were unable to break the encryption on the phone, and my personal thoughts remained secure.

If law enforcement can't obtain enough evidence from meta data and other evidence to get to beyond reasonable doubt, then too bad.

I'm open to changing my opinion on this matter if someone can show me many examples of where serious crimes took place that wouldn't have happened if law enforcement had master keys to encryption.
Fuck James Comey and fuck the FBI. I will continue to choose freedom over safety.
Show HN: WaTracker – Record and visualize WhatsApp activity
A direct link to the PDF for ISL is here:

https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/local.ftp/Springer/ISLR_pri...

The grownup version of that, ESL, is also available free:

https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/local.ftp/Springer/ESLII_pr...

And for people who are genuinely curious about how this segues into graphical models, NNs, and the autoencoder (maybe the most interesting part of modern NNs), there's

https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/StatLearnSparsity_files/SLS...

The more curious or research oriented may appreciate

https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/local.ftp/hastie_glmnet.pdf

I doubt Gareth or Daniela (the primary authors of ISL) would mind my pointing you towards Hastie's archives since both of them were advised by Trevor Hastie during their PhDs.

Matloff is a great guy. The chapters on shrinkage and dimension reduction aren't yet written in his book, and since these are important topics, you should consider reading the others. These things are mostly of interest for people who want to draw inference about underlying processes that may be generating observed outcomes. If all you care about is prediction, fit a Random Forest or xgboost GBM or a DNN and be done with it. But if you're actually curious about how complex descriptions of rare events can be thoughtfully analyzed, this is the standard progression.

Matloff's book is a great introduction. I particularly like the example on page 204. /ducks
You have a very interesting background and experiences. As a 40 something software engineer I see a bunch of my friends getting divorced and not having much success in the dating pool. I can think of one person very similar to you in almost every way, he can't find anyone to date.
Should be possible using the ASN id of the IP address, and I think Domaintools provides this information and some other fields as well, although their API is not free. That won't help with most VPNs though as they just rent servers from various providers, so you need some kind of active monitoring, which might be tricky to implement from a technical and legal point of view.
Great picks. But notice how these are specifically in the FMCG domain. ParleG- an 8 cent biscuit out of India is the world's highest selling biscuit.

The article IMHO talks more of the mainstream digital Internet businesses which largely ignore the 200M non-english speaking people on the "Indian Internet".
And then there is a 3rd category of companies: Startups that do well and get complacent post funding.

Case in point: Furlenco

On supermarkets only 1 player seems to get it right as of now - Hypercity. Maybe Amazon will kill it in the next 5-10 years
You can usually get it for around 10% off either when they run a sale or off Amazon. But yes, they are expensive, but they also age well and Kinesis is great with support. My first keyboard lasted 8 years before a couple of the switches started to go. Contacting them, they gave me the option of shipping me new switches for free (requires soldering) or buy a new key-well (the curved circuit boards) for around $30.
the only thing it has done is confirm what we already knew decades ago

I thought it confirmed what we thought we knew (and is the only way to confirm it), so that doesn't seem like wasted money.
My post was under the assumption it wasn't an alien lifeform. If that's what the person I responded to meant, then I see his/her point better. Still, if we finally found life, I'd prefer for them to be close rather than far.

Curiosity killed the cat, but I'd rather learn about the aliens (if they are indeed arriving on our doorstep soon) than know they're too far away for either of us to make it in time.
I'm very familiar with Wittes' position on encryption and national security issues, but I don't believe he is a biased party.

I find the quote most problematic in this situation because it frames liberty and security as a dichotomy, which any even rudimentary analysis would make clear that they are not opposing forces.
Up until they decide you've returned too many things and they cancel all your accounts with them without recourse.

As with most stores, I think Amazon returns are meant for actual problems and cases when things really don't work out, not for trying out hardware.
Yes, I agree with you. I believe we need a strong social welfare system and affordable (cheap / free, as in no, or little, out of pocket expense) healthcare.

The net cost to society of not having those things is probably magnitudes of order greater than paying for them, both in the economic sense and the social costs.
This sort of rhetoric damages the quality we're hoping for here. Having a civil, substantive discussion about something mostly isn't compatible with advocating death for it.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12238910 and marked it off-topic.
Prove that someone knows the proper key to decrypt a given device. In some cases prove an encypted container actually exists. Suppose I set it up so that both data contained on the system and data I know is required to decrypt the data.

Suppose that I set it up that the part of the data required is set up to be destroyed if I merely don't log in every day. If you arrest me and by the time anyone thinks to speak to me all possibility of ever recovering the data is gone.

Have I destroyed evidence or not?
> How do you tell the victims of the crime that the people who harmed them is still out there because you can't get access to the last piece of evidence you need?

If they had a solid case, they wouldn't need that one last piece of evidence.
I hope one day title bashing turns into a global no-ads movement.
From an intelligent life angle, what would really save us is that, aside from a number of planets to observe, we haven't really been all that interesting until the last 100-200 years; when we started actually emitting signs of intelligent life in to space.
Change that final period to an exclamation point and you have a reasonably convincing Donald Trump tweet.
Counterpoint: http://behoovingmoving.com/2016/08/06/superblock-hopscotch-i...:

"The new bollards that will be planted to stop cars cutting through the middle of the superblocks won’t stop that menace of the Mediterranean, the motor scooter rider"

"In Barcelona two out of three streets will be easy to cross, but make a mistake when crossing the third"

I think this is a worthy experiment, but I wouldn't roll it out across the city without knowing whether it will work.

Because to me, the existing blocks simply look too massive to become a truly pedestrian neighborhood, I also would look for ways to cut paths through some of the blocks.
How about we have an honest conversation about how the government is eroding the Bill of Rights?
Totally agreed about the not letting mistakes be an option.

I was building an admin ui to configure basically a fancy slideshow for employee performance metrics (gamification). We originally had planned a few days work to put proper validation and error messages in, but then flipped the task around and made it so that every field had a sensible default, and no mistaken values were possible to be filled in (e.g. number fields with automatic limits, date pickers instead of free text).

It turned out to be much less work and the user never sees an annoying "hey you've not filled in this field in the way one of our devs wanted you to".
There's something I'm not understanding here: both you and the GP are commenting on a food shortage and Sugar is the food that you both mention as being hard to come by. If there is a food shortage shouldn't sugar be the last food you would care about obtaining? Or are basic necessities (rice, etc) readily available and it's only luxuries like sugar that are hard to find?
I had assumed from the headline that he somehow managed to surpass Twitter's limit, and that's what the story was about.
My best guess: the article is 726 words; That's pretty short by HN's standards.
Many of the commenters here are missing the satire. This essay is about a self centered dev learning user empathy, not a defense of hard to use software
I guess it was a bit out of the wrong context. I did a lot of fixing/building computers back in the school days, and that left a bad impression - a lot of people don't care to learn even the simplest things, or stop to think for 5 seconds.
I can sympathize with people hoping for a more "useful" result in light of what avenues this closes down, but c'mon, any reliable scientific result is a good thing. We don't get to pick what the results are going to be but they are the only way forward.

As a curious bystander, it seems like some folks may have gotten a false sense of how difficult these next steps will be, after the recent and astounding success of mechanics and relativity. We could see another "extended" period where new observations are insufficient to support a better theory, and if so we have to be OK with that (but keep looking to make progress if at all possible).
No one in the physics community did take the creation of a black hole serious not even as a nightmare scenario. (First you have to create it, which requires large extra dimensions or a similar deformation of gravity at short scales, then it should not just evaporate immediately, which appears^1 to involve a breakdown of quantum field theories close to a black hole. Then there are additional arguments, but we already assumed that we do neither understand gravity nor quantum theory at the TeV scale, so all bets are off. We may as well assume that the LHC wakes Cthulhu.)

By contrast, the nightmare scenario here is really the worst kind scenario under the assumption that we have a good idea about physics at the TeV scale. We do not learn anything, and even worse the LHC is the wrong machine. With a light Higgs and no additional particles, a slight upgrade to the LEP, the predecessor of the LHC, would have found the Higgs in 2005 and would be a much better machine to study it in detail.

^1 Hawking radiation (and its close relative Unruh radiation) are basically the only two effects which involve both gravity and quantum field theory anybody has any kind of believe in.
(i.e. that the laws of physics are inside the universe)
Probably the same way the State Department tells the families of journalists detained by foreign governments that they are "working on it", but that it just not worth it, financially and politically, to unleash the full power of the Department of Defense to recover an individual.
Yes they did. I even got an email from Airbnb saying that both our reviews were now public.
The "Linux desktop" is unfortunately its own special self-inflicted trainwreck. While I've used it nearly exclusively for nearly two decades, the last five years or so have been little but regressive. It's become a byzantine mess.

Just yesterday and today I've spent hours debugging a segfault in VMware. During the course of that investigation, I've found (again) that after all these years, PulseAudio is still incapable of doing its job properly. It's both failed to play the sound its been given without mangling it (possibly a bitrate issue), and then it failed to mix it correctly, with an incoherent staticky jumble as the output. And yet, removing it results in a perfectly functional system! And this is one of the minor issues on a "current" system!
And the current anti-terror programs are a resounding success?
"I've always felt having so many languages has hurt India more." - why?
Many languages are dying in India and that's just sad - every language lost erodes identities, stories, and diversity.
However, more and more people are moving to 'link languages' like Hindi, Tamil, Bengali etc. The challenge is to ensure all local language users are treated equal in India
It would be more precise to say that it didn't show us anything we didn't already know (other than the Higgs). There are various indications that the Standard Model is not the whole story but the LHC gave no hints whatsoever on what directions to explore next. In that sense, it was wasted money.
The trade off is in not banning motor vehicles entirely from superblocks.
Yes I tried from multiple computers and networks. The review does not show up.
Question: What are some medium-sized tech companies on the east coast?
The biggest difference was never having the shift or modifier keys get stuck on. The mechanical f keys were really nice as well, though being that I'm already a advantage user my standard layout has the ones I use regularly (especially esc) mapped elsewhere. Programming new key combinations and being able to use the .txt files made remapping a bit easier. It also made it easier to see what I had done in case a mapping didn't look right.

If you do a lot of remapping with multiple layouts or macros the new one is a must. If the occasional modifier's getting stuck really bothers you, or you are a heavy user of the f keys and can't remap for whatever reason you will benefit from the advantage 2.

If, on the other hand, you only do a small amount of remapping and have already mapped away f-keys that are used a lot AND the modifier freezing is not a big deal for you it might not be worth it to upgrade to the new model until your current one bites the dust. If you are looking at getting an Advantage for the first time I would buy this one instead of the previous model.
> will triple the traffic on the remaining through-street.

It is almost certainly less than triple, because of latent demand.
The FBI is the face of the larger government trying to control the people, which is hard to do when their communication is encrypted. They're playing off the fears of the sheeple and don't deserve our attention.
I can easily see the difference, but I am no lord or duke, and thus not be bothered if sometimes my voyage is a bit uncomfortable. It's (edit: I meant public transport in general) cheaper, better for the environment, more social, certainly more secure than a random multinational company, quicker than any other option besides the motorbike, and helps free the roads for emergencies like ambulances carrying ill or wounded people. Now if infrastructure where you are is sub par, that's an infrastructure problem, not a defect of the medium.

Edit: I really want to add that I detest uber and the like for attempting to kill local businesses replacing them with lower quality cheaper services.
Top Roboticist Quits Google's Self-Driving Car Project
A vision of a faster, more versatile and more intelligent Internet
Apple Acquires Machine Learning Startup Turi (formerly Dato, GraphLab)
I was surprised when I read this, but only because the sheriff wasn't Joe Arpaio. Certain law enforcement officers apparently receive training in How to Ignore the Constitution and Laws of the State and Country That You Swore to Uphold these days, perhaps in place of the former training for responsible use of firearms. This is unfortunate.

On the other hand, it IS Louisiana, the home of such great statesmen as "Dollar" Bill Jefferson and Ray Nagin, whose service the federal government now honors by providing them with round the clock housing and sustenance.
There's a rationale for this. Google can either become an auto manufacturer, or become a supplier to auto manufacturers. Becoming an automaker is very expensive, very complicated, far from Google's expertise, and not highly profitable even if successful. Becoming a supplier of self-driving technology is likely to be profitable, but won't require huge amounts of capital or the risk of competing in a crowded auto industry.

So Google/Alphabet has apparently decided to become an automotive supplier. That means establishing a presence near auto companies. That's not a bad thing. The Google people need to be talking to auto stylists and engineers. Google has good self-driving technology, but their stylistic integration of the sensors with the vehicle is terrible. The sensor people and the stylists need to spend lots of time together arguing and fighting until the sensors are either invisible or attractive.

Then the Google people need to work with the hardcore auto engineers about dealing with the real world of automobiles, where there's ice, snow, slush, potholes, rust, dirt, and inept or nonexistent maintenance. They'll need self-defrosting sensors, washing sprays, automatic realignment at power-on, dirt detection, and all those real-world problems Google hasn't addressed yet. They'll need to drive over the bump road and skid on the skid pan, then make sure everything still works.

That's what needs to happen in Novi. That's the real non-fun engineering that needs to be done.
As a Spanish native speaker who knows Venezuela pretty well I find disturbing to hear you could live well in Venezuela with USD100.

First, unless you are a complete sociopath, just seeing so many people suffering to just buy food(or medicines) is a traumatic experience.

For a doctor to operate you, you need to bring the medicines first!!

Next, you will risking your life in every corner. In some South American countries life is worth nothing, but in Venezuela it is another level. If you are an outsider you have to be very careful. Venezuelan people have gotten used to it and they know subconsciously what not to do, while a European or (North)American can make mistakes easily, and they have too much money.

When Venezuelan people find a robber, they will lynch him, police will come so people do not kill him.

The country is near a civil war. Hugo Chavez created a populist law called "Referendum revocatorio" that if the Government did something against the people, the people could remove it from power. The opposition is trying to use this law, but Maduro opposes it.

Of course the people in power do not want to go out of power by any means, specially when in Venezuela every good job position is occupied by pro-Chavez people, they are "more equal than others" and will lose everything if they pass the law.

Venezuela has a big army, and this army is directly supported by Russia, so given that Venezuela oil reserves are the biggest in the world(albeit bad quality) it is very dangerous as lots of other countries could intervene and create a proxy war.
Agreed, this could be a feature that could be added if there is enough demand with the firmware.
I agree they aren't opposing forces. And I also don't take Franklin's quote that way. Indeed, in the historical context, another way to put what he is saying is "don't trade short-term security for long-term security."

I think that is where the quote applies in this debate. Is accepting curtailing of encryption really an increase in security. If so, is it only short-term? What are the trade-offs to liberty and freedom further out? We should indeed be very cautious about any trade-off between short-term security vs long-term security and liberty.
Encryption vs safety? This is carefully framed in a way that ignores the safety provided by proper encryption. This isn't "encryption vs safety", but actual safety of secure communication and personal data vs possible safety of solving a few more criminal cases.

As koenigdavidmj already mentioned, one of the key principles of a free society is that liberty and justice is more important than law enforcement convenience. It is better to let the guilty go free than infringing the rights of the innocent. The police will simply have to be more creative and find alternative ways to do their work.

Of course, the FBI and congress already knows this, as Susan Landau already explained this in her testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1GgnbN9oNw#t=12944
Quickly serve static files with HTTP
There are exactly two correct ways of handling a phone number.

* A text input field (which you will store as the user entered)

* What will eventually be coerced in to a series of just numbers in a string.
So in the past we talked about this kind of integration. Our only concern would be user generated content. Our users can 100% trust that if an IP is in our system and logged as a level 5 risk level, that that the originating IP hacked one of our nodes and was caught in the process.

Obviously we are concerned that a user that doesn't like (example IP) 4.2.2.1 for whatever reason might create 10 accounts and log this IP as malicious so we would need to tag it as user-generated before we turn it on. But we are considering it
All the basics are hard to come by: rice, flour, milk, toiletries,etc. I'm just commenting about sugar because GP commented on it. I assume because it's one of the items that has just disapeared lately.

I'm actually not really worried about sugar because I barely consume it. We bought the sack of sugar because a cousin of mine used to make ends meet with a small cupcake business she used to make for parties,etc. and now she can't find flour or sugar.

I wrote a comment about this before: if you have enough money you can go out and eat lobster and whatever fancy food you want. The things that are almost impossible to find are basic things most people need to survive like flour, milk, toiletries, medicine,etc.
But standing in a bus is part of the worst case scenario.
I heard that there were some issues with the solder joints on the switches with the the TECK. When I went over to being a Kinesis user I had considered these but decided to go with the Advantage......am very glad I did.
If you've never been poor then you won't understand that coffee and tea (therefore sugar) are not luxuries, but a way to keep your sanity. The alternative is taking to the streets
It's a usability failure to not display anything when JS is turned off -- it's also a testimonial of the sad state today's WWW is in. IMHO its a valid complaint in a community a large part of which is devoted to the development of web-based apps. I don't think the OP asked for a workaround.
> was speeding

You're saying that's blameless? If someone were speeding, I would blame them for the crash.
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/3878082?s=H07Rw2s1

Notice all 4 and 5 star reviews. My wife and I posted a 2 star review from her account.
This is a heady conversation, that's simply categorizing a group of people by race. The only thing that this group has in common are economic status and the color of their skin. They toss in college degree to sound scientific but it's such a large swath of communities and cultures that to organize everyone by being white is literally what everyone is trying to avoid. It's needlessly being racist in the guise of science.

Organizing poor Americans by the color of their skin is like categorizing houses by the color that they're painted.

It doesn't have to do with anything.