skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft Surface. I suppose you could call it a tablet, but it has a keyboard and an i7 processor and runs Real Windows including games. The tablet/laptop distinction is being eroded, and "tablets" are much more commonly held together with glue.
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Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12296798
The naive point of view would be that if you're an American citizen the NSA agents are supposed to be YOUR employees so they have an obligation to be whatever you ask them.
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I just opened the site in chrome and did a hard refresh on the Good 2G setting of the chrome tools, only took 3 seconds. Maybe you're cell phone dropped the connection or something.
Thank you for summarizing that. As others have commented, I wish Snowden would simply blog about this sort of thing. Twitter is frustrating to digest for any insightful commentary that is on the longer side.
"We're currently working on a programmatic solution for invalidation. We respect max-age headers for deciding when to refetch a page, but will keep serving the last known version until we have done so."

https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/1901
Because twitter has a vast public reach, more so than an individuals blog. It's also really easy to use by journalists who get pre-made sound bites, which is a bonus for the sources too - they can more easily edit and shape how they are quoted.

While a blog would be much better quality, quality journalism doesn't sell nearly as well as highly-polarised, bite-sized clips.
Ed was a Booz Allen Hamilton employee only for a couple of months. He wasn't even out of his probation period as an employee. It's really amazing that in such a short time he was able to siphon all this information out of the NSA.

I wonder what more information could he have collected if he had spent a longer time contracting for the NSA. I wonder how much more about the NSA we could know if people who have dedicated their entire careers to the NSA would whistleblow.
This is why I enjoyed being a part of Indie.vc. Zero emphasis on pitching or raising the next round. No demo day. All the focus was on growing a real business.
If your pages are 10kb then I think you aren't the target audience for amp. They say themselves that amp pages will never be the most light weight of all pages and never faster then perfectly hand tuned pages, just way way better than the current median website that loads MBs from 75 domains and relayouts 50 times before it's done loading.
Blimey - I didn't realise that, and I will continue to completely ignore it as it's ridiculous.
There's a lot of variability between people taking the SAT twice. So if you initially expect that A will score higher than B, then learn they were selected for having received the same score on one round of the test, your guess for A on another round of testing should still be a bit higher than for B.
This is not an accurate summary of what the study actually found. The article proposes a high-level explanation for how one aspect of learning changes with age.

The actual cause of this high-level change could be lower-level age-induced differences in neurotransmitter levels or in neuronal function and connectivity. As the article's summary points out, the actual biological basis needs to be investigated in further research.

It's also important to note that this study found a plausible explanation for changes in learning performance under specific circumstances. This is a very important qualification.

Learning in general is believed to involve many different interrelated mechanisms. It's well established that many different cognitive abilities (perhaps most importantly working memory) diminish with age, and some of this degradation is likely related to natural cerebral shrinkage (a healthy 75-year-old has a 15% smaller brain than a 25-year-old).
nobody seems interested in looking at the thing from the other perspective - why was it an evolutionary advantage for older people to develop this uncertainty-blindness? i would guess that perhaps with age the importance of making a decision rises, even if not the best decision. perhaps it's an evolutionary adaptation to reduce analysis-paralysis in developed adults and improve their self-sufficiency? in any case, it's interesting how we all jumped to "fixing" it. a cute reflection of the culture here.
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And they still offer crappy 3D performance and for long time had better DirectX drivers than OpenGL ones, which sometimes lied about their actual hardware capabilities.
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The AMP GitHub page claims that "AMP HTML is a way to build web pages for static content". It's ironic that we now need a 170kb Javascript file in order to generate static HTML web pages.
"Behaving threateningly" is not a binary condition.
Seriously. The entire Google Hangouts experience is extremely unfriendly and difficult to use. It's a great service, but the UX is awful. It's hard to get any non-technical person into a Hangouts call for the first time.
Or what damage a normal spy could have done...
Because the article is from 1998, it probably could use a date in the story title.
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Why not use a proper graph? http://pp.ipd.kit.edu/firm/GraphSnippets
As I said, downgrading that way involves a lot of hassle and potentially relies on the willingness of your OEM to support it. It's hardly an improvement on just buying a machine with the OS you actually want already installed and working, which is what we have today.
Yeah good points, not everyone needs to host their own matrix.org home server; users can simply hop on existing ones. The one on matrix.org or vector.im are pretty robust and actually allows public registration (and you can have private rooms for privacy, etc.). Check out: http://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html or directly to https://vector.im

Also, I should have stated, I hosted my home server on a vps, but one can also totally just do it on your own server at home (so you could avoid paying any vps provider)...again, for those who have an interest in hosting their own.

Personally, my goal was to host the server for my family...but the really big advantage of decentralized platforms like matrix.org (and others like gnu social, etc.!) is that my host can connect with others...hey email has worked successfully connecting billions of decentralized people for so long now, so there is precedent for this type of concept.

I suggest heading over to vector.im - its the easiest on-ramp - and give it a try! i hope that helps!
The maximum yearly gain is $3000 * your marginal income tax rate. So, if your marginal tax rate is 33%, it would be $1000/year. This is because you can write off a maximum of $3000 of losses on your taxes every year.

The information you may find about tax-loss harvesting gains on the internet is usually incorrect if it comes from people trying to sell you something. For example, Betterment / Wealthfront claim that it adds an extra 1% of returns (only if you have a $100,000 portfolio and your marginal tax rate is 33%, which are the assumptions they use to get that number). On the other hand, human investment advisors are generating FUD about tax-loss harvesting[1][2], because they want to discourage people from requesting that service.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2014/10/24/weighing-the-pros-and-cons-of...

[2] https://www.kitces.com/blog/is-capital-loss-harvesting-overv...
I have a quick hack for reading long news articles on the web. Simply read the first sentence of each paragraph.

This works remarkably well. Most journalists seem to practice a uniform style when it comes to paragraph composition. The first sentence is the "thesis", and the subsequent ones provide the "evidence."
My daughter uses facetime every evening talking to one or another of her girlfriends from high school. I think certain demographics will be more inclined to use it than others.
While I agree this sort of thing can be frustrating when starting a new company, I find that it is useful. If i can't get the system working on my dev machine, how can I be expected to debug the production site when there are problems?
I thought AMP was an anti-ad-blocking play. It smells to me like Google is trying to use its dominant position in search to reduce consumer control of the browser; it's a risky road to go down for everyone, including Google.

For me, as long as I disable javascript, the modern mobile web is plenty fast enough. That is, the bits of the web I want to use on the move: mostly text, occasional pictures. It takes real effort to break this with javascript disabled. Most JS on e.g. news sites, blogs, aggregators etc. is tracking and ad related, dynamically adding links to viral content, all that stuff you don't need and dramatically slows down sites through repeated reflow.
You have to set up docker first.
You have a good point all though I'd like to put forth the argument that many websites could just as well focus on reducing their page sizes and external resources instead of/before adopting AMP.
My guess it's an independent team inside Google decided "let's make a better facetime" and starting from scratch was easier than wrapping their heads around a several years old codebase.
What would be the use case for using something like nools? Compared to just writing it in JS or Java or whatever the rest of your business logic is written in.
Care to elaborate?
TAO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations)
seems fine to me.
Yes, noone does. You are not bound by law to be ethical. There's no law about it. Are you _supposed_ to act ethical? absolutely. but you dont have an obligation
The kind of creativity and acceptance of uncertainty that leads to insight is often at odds with the narrow focus get-it-done tenacity associated with success. Some people have more of the former without the ability to switch to the latter.
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I was talking about KNC since it's only hardware I ever had access to since Intel sold them 90% off on Amazon.
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I could just change a few words in the article and it will work fine as "A guide to Spouse Fit"
How much of it is genuine fear of their research being misused, vs fear of the repercussions from a very reactive public that's been conditioned to think stereotypes are bad or evil by default?
The obvious solution is to use Twitter to link to your longer article. Isn't it?
Oh, you're right. My bad!
You can keep AMP pages separate (different suffix, domain, whatever) and then let tools like Google discover them using rel="amphtml"

https://www.ampproject.org/docs/guides/discovery.html
So this seems to be the "Dr Strangelove" scenario playing out, but with (fortunately) exploits rather than nuclear weapons. It sounds like many countries have other significant exploits into other countries, but this isn't "admitted"; it's not an unignorable public fact (+). The Russian destabilisation plan is to get Western countries to see NSA attacks on them and lose trust in the US - plus an attack on the concept of democracy by getting enough people to lose faith in the US election.

(+) "unignorable public fact" is a clunky way of expressing it, but I mean something that you can bring up in a news report and politicians discuss what the appropriate reaction is, rather than challenging the fact itself. This is getting increasingly rare.
As a naive college graduate, I accepted a package that pathetic to commute from Brampton to Markham every day. I might as well have been paying them for the privilege of working!
Google are very good at pumping out "standards" that fill short term commercial goals while in the meantime making a fragmented pig's breakfast of the rest of the web. Aside from HTML 5 (which I'm coming to accept was justifiably hostile to the W3 process), I have yet to see anything from Quic, SPDY, WebSockets, and now AMP that demonstrates any kind of long term thinking.

WebSockets for a long time (is it still true?) could not run over a SPDY/HTTP 2 connection. SPDY itself had multiple fundamentally incompatible versions in the wild before things settled down (they changed how negotiation was implemented), WebSockets and SPDY duplicate many of the same concepts (yes, really), Quic seems utterly ignorant of the early history of the Internet and the importance of flow control, and now AMP.

AMP it seems to me, is a standard designed around the current era shortcomings in the implementation of Google Chrome (and similar browsers). It's hard to get more myopic than that.
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I have an Apps account and just installed it from the Play Store.
Yes, this my major complaint, too.

I have 3 Android devices and can use this only on the one that has a SIM card?
And even if the others had SIM cards, they'd be on different accounts? WTF.
I know that, but Snowden is less superficial than politicians and journalists : he has convictions at least.
This has also been discovered with the Debian project, as I submitted a while ago [1].

The really scary part is the follow-up [2]:

> € gpg --search-key samuel.thibault@gnu.org
> ...
> (1) Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
> 4096 bit RSA key 7D069EE6, created: 2014-06-16

And it has 55 signatures from 55 colliding keys...

Edit: even the 64-bit fingerprint is probably insufficient, see [3].

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/08/msg00143.html

[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/08/msg00144.html

[3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/08/msg00215.html
> Am I supposed to detect mobile devices (which is a massive pain) and serve them this separate HTML/JS/CSS?

No. It's the responsibility of search engines and apps to choose whether to send visitors to AMP pages. If Google crawls your site and finds AMP pages, it'll send mobile users to them from search.
Ideally, yes, although I can't actually imagine how any interesting discussion could come of this particular information in either medium - the "good" stuff will be on satellite communities like HN, reddit, 4chan.

While a blog is a better authoring medium, it's still shit for discussion, and loses some of the media impact benefits that Snowden probably intends to leverage here.
Yes, I gave a read to it but if I remember I think there was a piece that didn't perform up to the speed of the thunderbolt link making the whole solution run 1/4 speed.

The solution approach I think goes as back as when using the express card port on elitebooks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDiizICogMQ

It would be incredible on the other hand to get this solutions as official products from vendors like nvidia or asus without the DIY (not because I'm against it but to push making use of this solutions officially will improve the state of the solutions).
And yet AMP needs Javascript to work.
That is beautiful! I didn't realize you could pipe into OSX's `open` util. (or how big the man page for bash really is!)

Here's zsh: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_jWp8d11aB5Wi15eVdJS1Nhdk0...
http://easyendorse.com - A SaaS app that lets you collect & display testimonials on any website. Originally built with the intention of helping out small businesses that don't want to solely rely on Yelp for their reviews.

No traffic/users, but the app works well. Not strongly looking to sell, but I'm open to talking.
Author here. Would love to hear your feedback!
I've attended security conferences in the past two years wherein representatives of companies that claim to see 80+ percent of all Internet traffic in their threat intel offerings who were presenting about Android malware reverse engineering used short IDs in their slide deck and business cards.

When I mentioned Evil32 to them, they looked at a loss.

https://evil32.com

If this is news to you, don't feel bad. Many infosec conference speakers don't do this right either, and those are the sorts of people you'd expect to get this right.
Does the author define what they mean for a stereotype to be "accurate"?

For example, it is a stereotype that in the US, white people vote Republican. Is this an accurate stereotype?

On one level, it is - in recent elections around 55-60% of white voters voted Republican, so it is certainly true to say that most white people vote Republican.

On another level, given a random white voter from the US, there is only a 55-60% chance that they voted Republican, which is not much better than guessing. So it's not particularly accurate to say that white people vote Republican.

I expect that most stereotypes fall into this class - they are accurate in aggregate, but not particularly informative when dealing with individuals. And surely this is the problem with stereotypes? We take a characteristic which is true in aggregate for a group (white people vote Republican, black people listen to hip hop, old people are less open to new experiences) and assume that those characteristics are true of individual members of that group.
How much system hardening is enough?
Perhaps you should look into the Citizen's United court case.

Who was the plaintiff? Hillary Clinton.

And what was she seeking to accomplish? Prevent the release of a movie which criticized her political career.
32 bit seems so obviously bad I'm not sure why we still have it..
Is SSA form not already a proper graph? I would agree that the visualization would benefit from a toggle between pure textual representation and one that includes the graph structure with textual basic blocks. LLVM already has graphviz output so perhaps a dot2html utility with some SSA smarts added would do the trick.
I'd say it is very probable. But I don't think that means the satire has no value.
Yep, this was also incredibly obvious to me when google introduced it. It's such a typical Google move to market something as "better for the web" when what they really mean is "better for our pockets."

Fortunately for anyone with Apple phones, content blockers should still work on AMP pages.
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All the fake keys that I've seen mentioned are from the data set at https://evil32.com.

It appears a couple of researchers decided, back in 2014, to demonstrate this issue by cloning the entire strong set of the PGP web of trust (not just Linus' key, but basically everyone who uses PGP/GPG for Free Software development - myself included).

It would appear that sometime quite recently, someone decided it would be fun to upload all of those keys (there's ~24,000 in their tarball) to the keyservers...

One would hope that the researchers behind evil32.com are ethical enough and sensible enough to have permanently destroyed the secret keys - but obviously, anyone could mount this attack quite trivially with modern hardware.

So, check your fingerprints!
>I am certain that nobody in the history of the podcast has ever complained about the sound quality of the theme song or audio clips, especially after they switched over to 96kbps.

Source?

>Whereas there is no doubt that any technical solution — especially any of the ones proposed, including switching to VBR — would inconvenience a whole lot of people.

It sounded to me like the entire point of his approach is to find a technical solution without inconveniencing people.
Well, then Google should also include the search rating bonus and the "fast page" lightning logo for all pages smaller than 170kb directly.
What makes you choose Go over Python for simple services and utility scripts? (I'm just learning Go but would heavily lean towards Python for those things)
News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12291850
He is a VC
I don't know why more folks don't display keys and fingerprints as Base64; it seems to me that "q68RxlopcLEwq+PEeb4+QwBBGIY=" (Linus's real key) and "D2oUZTLYaa7kOPdLYhGqOwBBGIY=" (Linus's fake key) are pretty easilt-distinguishable, and not terribly verbose.
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Legal obligation being the only possible meaning of "obligation", obviously.
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The 90s were a different time, that's the only explanation I can come up with. Short key IDs are yet another 90s-crypto wart.
And a smart ML system would correspondingly put a lot more weight on those variables than on race.
> the fact that you seem to be in favor of stereotypes, because you belong to a group that won't be strongly affected by it, is not relevant either

Either I missed where the poster listed their group, or you're stereotyping people that don't consider stereotyping abhorrent as people who aren't affected by stereotyping.
It takes about 12 seconds on a 64k connection (the default if you used up your data cap).

In contrast, HN loads in half a second on that connection.

Obvious result: AMP is bloated.
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Given that "Autotune the news" renamed itself to "Songify the news", it's highly likely that Autotune's owners are not shy about enforcing their trademark.
I'd say, "reminding myself I don't understand this." Like you say, you can always dig deeper and it's almost always rewarding.
> it's a risky road to go down for everyone, including Google

What's risky about it for Google? They can back down at any time they want (this includes injecting ads directly in AMP pages, precluding competitors from doing the same because they control Chrome).

They have shown again and again that they don't give a shit about lost investments for web developers.
Yep. Stereotypes are almost always being debunked too, either by a new generation with a new culture/outlook, or someone belonging to a stereotyped group steps out with unique enough traits that conflict with the stereotype itself - but of course those with the stereotype would fling their hands in the air and proclaim "Of course I don't mean to say that about all of them." Damage's done though.

We all inevitably stereotype, even the most liberal can't claim otherwise. But history has never shown anything less bleak and painful when one stereotype is carried loudly and by a growing mass of hysteria. It's not worth it, imo, to debate so much of the validity of a stereotype, particularly when it involves lots of lives as you risk dehumanisation.
Yes, but even how much you pay for rent can be controlled, if you choose to.

You can easily find a room in an apartment for less than 1000 $/mo anywhere in the bay. It won't be a nice room if you choose to live in, say SoMa, but it's housing. So you could argue anything over that is "discretionary".

Obviously, many people would consider such a living situation unacceptable. But in the most general sense, it is still a choice.
My fiancée lives 937 miles away (not that anyone's counting). Video calling is like basic sustenance for us.
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Yeah I don't understand why people don't just blog and be done with it, without all the formatting gredue.

Then, you can just post a link on your twitter and say "hey, see my new blog post".
If everyone did that, couldn't attackers just target collisions that "look like" the target key in Base64? i.e. the same first 5 or 6 chars and the punctuation in the right places.