skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GP already replied to this exact claim:

But that's the point: we've seen that this balance doesn't exist, because if the service providers have access to the plaintext, the State will not contain itself to issuing case-by-case warrants - see Room 641A, "SSL added and removed here", etc.

The current move to encrypt everything is a reaction to the realization that the balance that was thought to exist, does not, and political participation is not sufficient because the information is kept hidden, so no informed political discourse is possible.
> Even if it is flawed, the contract never said I couldn't untie or cut the string before pulling it (or move the head away from the gun). So I remove the string from the trigger, pull it, and walk away with $10.

Again, this is not an accurate analogy to the DAO contract, which I could fully inspect, and even theoretically run in a sandbox environment myself.

Your analogy is more akin to what actually happened, which is that people said, "nah, we didn't mean that", and re-tied the string to something else.
Unless you illegally run an email server as a public offical. Then take your time and delete anything "private", we'll wait.
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>The Technological-Savvy-Investor (you called them a hacker)

Why put words in my mouth?

>They were careful to state that if the code and their wishes/statements disagreed, that the code was the authoritative answer.

It what other area of contract law are people allow to solicit investment based on false representations/marketing and hide from liability based on a disclaimer that the marketing materials may be inconsistent with the contract? I appreciate that they had the foresight to realize their code was likely to execute in unexpected ways or at least ways inconsistent with their marketing/solicitation and they made those disclaimers, but it isn't novel in law where contracts are inconsistent with marketing material (which even disclose the potential inconsistency).
"there was a declassification of cryptography as munitions"

That's the popular tale. It was partial. Lots of stuff, including high-assurance systems and custom, stayed under old classification. Such export uncertainty was a consideration in the cancellation of A1-class, VAX, Security Kernel. Here's excerpts and links from a write-up I did on it after I dug into the actual export laws:

http://pastebin.com/GHmHJASm

Still like some help from professionals to confirm or reject my analysis. People dealing with export on Schneier's blog gave feedback indicating they never ran into trouble. Yet, they might have been under the mass-market classification. So, I don't know if the other one is enforced or under what circumstances.
No, I'm not complaining, it's just odd seeing you primarily work with solaris for so many years, and now talking about linux toolsets instead. I mean, I still remember you dissmissing SystemTap, although I believe you later said it had improved...

Speaking of which, as I understand it, dbx is to gdb as adb is to mdb. So other than syntax, what IS difference between the adb and dbx families, as you've clearly used both?
Search/YouTube/GMail/etc predate GCE by many years. In the case of Search, almost two decades. You can't expect them to rewrite everything every time a new tool comes out.
Fair enough. Any suggested reading material regarding this subject?
Ah, that's too bad but I guess it makes sense. Would buy a "pro" version of this if it had a built in low latency audio interface or even just a DAC. I'm not sure if the Android APIs support such a thing, however.
> That presumes they aren't fully emulating streaming traffic to test speed.

It's not really a presumption, it's the actual facts on the ground. The actual benchmark file is served over HTTPS from, but there are still multiple simple ways to distinguish the current speedtest testcase from normal streaming.
Good tip, thanks. What's the difference between with and without -s?
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APL isn't that much more readable. They're both fairly obtuse, so it's really just whichever you learned first.
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Facebook, Google/YouTube, and Twitter to a lesser extent, command a large portion of the digital ad market due in no small part to the fact that they are also some of the largest publishers.

In other words, they make a ton of money selling ads on their own properties. Their publisher products (Adsense, DFA, Audience Network, Audience Platform) extend their reach to third parties certainly, but AFAIK each of them still make more money from their own inventory.
Ah, that's valid, but at least base64 encode the password (for more entropy per character). It doesn't really matter anyway, if you're using a long secret (and nothing stops you, since it's not like you need to remember it).
Can anyone provide a TLDR? All I can see in the conclusion is: "We expect to develop a prototype of a blockchain-based system with the raffle protocol in the near future.". So their alternative to reaching consensus is a raffle protocol? And in raffle protocol section I read "among a set
of eligible agents" and "relying on a trusted “global clock” service". Seems quite centralized if you ask me.
To use an analogy (probably flawed): Any stranger can walk up to my house, break out a window, and steal things from within. This is obviously illegal.

By your analogy... because "anyone" could do this, law enforcement should be able to as well?

Now s/house/computer/
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Is this my interface or yours?
Thank you for the explanation. Would 'buy something' in this case mean to choose options over 'normal' compensation (salary)? Or were employees advised to buy extra options in the company at some point?

Also, I thought there was a difference between options and equity and the assumption I have heard some people have is that 'equity' is safer than 'options', but if I think about it now it seems as if options are just what equity consists of. Is there a difference and does one consist of the other? While I understand that I should probably consult Duck Duck Go on this some more, I still ask seeing as you seem to be knowledgeable on the subject.
Ok, so here is my idea: Most adblockers use lists or block scripts that are loaded from third party sites.

If I load my ads from my own servers, using standard images or gifs, maybe have a script alter the size a few pixel each time, wouldn't that defeat most adblockers?

On the upside (for users): No external tracking through ad networks.
I like "build-you-own-car-tracker" very much.

I feel that it really helps explain and accept the long list of readme-like instructions thrown on the landing page.

Otherwise one is inclined to judge the project by the standards of mainstream products (tinyurl is quite mainstream) and will likely conclude that it is overcomplicated.
What's the difference between `"%s" % foo` and `"{}".format(foo)`? Why is one interpolation and the other not?
PyPy is still not really a performance option for numerical computing.
This would be amazing. If we had this the first line of judges could just be automated. Feed evidence in, computer finds you guilty or innocent, done. Then if you appeal you can seek a human judge in case judgement / exceptions need to be made (so say you technically broke a law but it was actually necessary / a good thing then you have recourse). First appeals could be very quick, less traffic to first human judge, etc.

Hell even without automated the justice system just doing as you suggested alone would be amazing. I've often wondered about putting laws in GIT or similar.
To "backwards nations" you can add the following, all of which have floated laws to weaken/backdoor/ban crypto:

France

UK

USA

Russia
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>That's a circular argument: "The meaning of the words to the people who wrote the words doesn't matter because we don't think the original meaning is what governs today."

That's not circular. That's pretty much exactly what you do when you take a balancing approach to conflicting interests. Some part of the original meaning is often tossed out. It happens a lot in Speech cases, and (in my opinion) is happening more frequently with 4th Amendment cases.

>I think that's actually a bit of a strawman of the "living Constitution" position.

Maybe.

>Clearly, very smart people would not subscribe to a patently absurd idea like that.

It doesn't matter what we think very smart people would or wouldn't do. The constitution means what the Supreme Court says it means, and the justices themselves are free to interpret however they wish. The current bench contains a variety of approaches, some fairly divergent from originalism, which it sounds like you prefer.

At this point you're probably a little bit surprised to learn that I do ascribe to originalism as my preferred approach to constitutional law. I can appreciate the other approaches, but there's the slippery slope of making the constitution fit whatever it is that we're trying to accomplish today, and at that point we might as well be like the British again and have no written constitution. Constitutional positions aside, though, I'm not a huge fan of capital punishment, whether or not the 8th amendment permits it (it does).
Facebook, in a spirit of honesty and fairness, asks me nicely to look at ads when they send me HTML. I, also in a spirit of honesty and fairness, have the option of deciding what of that HTML I want to look at.

There is nothing honest or fair about dictating what happens on someone else's computer without user input. That's what malware does. Are you pro-malware?
Don't gain enough? Static type checking and asyncio? Sign me up!
I can't say anything about the feasibility of what you describe, but something about the idea of being a being composed of pure text, no ability to perceive or visualise the world around me except through the medium of text, utterly horrifies me
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> This seems apocryphal. Its trivial to disable USB for a mass storage (or all devices) via things like group policy or other security controls. Or disable the controller.

The question is - where do you stop? The controller could be re-enabled from a lower level, etc. The rabbit hole goes very deep. Sometimes it's best to just take control of the physical layer and call it a day.

> Those USB ports aren't perfect boxes, the epoxy would just run out all over the place.

Epoxy putty would work pretty well, and it's widely available.
What are some examples of cathedrals? Based on my reading of the original article, these would need to meet two requirements...

1. Software has been in service for a long time (let's say more than 10 years, though some will debate the timeframe).

2. Software is recognized as of enduring, well-conceived design.

The second point is an important one. I have read that there are some government (IRS tax calculation) and industry (airline reservation systems) which have been in place for far longer than 10 years, but their longevity is more a function of the risk-aversion of the organizations that needed them, and less a testament to their "beauty."
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You are referring to stamped foil or embossed holograms such as the ones used as security marks on credit cards. Here's a description of the process:

http://www.holoeast.com/holography/holograms_maiking.html

Inspired by the process for creating compact disks, stamped holograms took Benton's rainbow holograms and made them cheaply reproducible through a mechanical process. Mike Foster developed the process and Steve McGrew made it commercially viable.

Other types of white light holograms, such as the two-step "rainbow" white light transmission hologram that Steve Benton created or the white light reflection hologram of Yuri Denisyuk are both holograms proper -- they are both made using a traditional holographic process.

A transmission white light hologram has less controllable color because it uses broad spectrum diffraction. A white light reflection hologram uses a thick diffraction pattern to additionally filter white light down to a narrow spectrum, producing a more pure color. Full color reflection holograms can be produced by superimposing multiple diffractive patterns in the hologram layer, one for each primary color.
> Until very recently 99.99% of conversations where completely private and society functioned just fine.

In fairness, until very recently it was also extremely difficult for two people to privately plot to murder hundreds. Technology has changed the balances on a lot of scales.

To be clear, I'm not advocating for government back doors in encryption here. But I am saying we should not pretend that encryption just puts things back "the way they were". It most definitely does not.
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> brings Python's speed to NodeJS level

Does anyone have a benchmark? I hear this claim a lot, but I haven't seen NodeJS being that much faster.
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Well, thanks for clarifying. That makes a lot more sense.
In terms of DNA difference, humans are very close to mammals that don't have much language capability but demonstrate some degree of intelligence. This suggests that language is not as fundamental as some researchers claim.

I once told Rod Brooks, back when he was proposing "Cog" (look it up), that he'd done a really good insect robot, and the next step should be a good robot mouse. He said "I don't want to go down in history as the guy who built the world's best robot mouse". "Cog" was a dud, and Brooks went back to insect level AI in the form of robot vacuum cleaners.

We need more machines which successfully operate autonomously in the real world. Then they may need to talk to humans and each other. That might work.

The big problem in AI isn't language, anyway. It's consequences. We don't have common sense for robots. There's little or no understanding of the consequences of planned actions. We need to get this figured out before we can let robots do much.
How does the latency compare to a wired connection? Is it viable for gaming and the like?
Sadly it's a bit of a race to the bottom and for people who live in expensive countries it doesn't work.
It's all just slides and pans -- stuff that can be previewed in real-time locally on your phone. Stuff that would run on a computer with 1/10th the compute/graphics/memory in 1998.
Static checking ? Python 3.5
Asyncio ? Python 3.4

If these had been available in Python 3.2 or even better 3.0, the switch would have been far easier for corporate users that need benefits before accepting the cost of change...
The analogy was not to reflect the DAO but for the moral question:

>Do I have a moral obligation to perform a contract that I entered only as a result of fraud?

Further, I acknowledge it is an extreme, and offered a more real world example (which coincidentally includes the opportunity for review)...I represent the contents of a Will to your parent and they sign over everything to me because I told them it would go to you, sure they were on their death bed so it was more practical to rely on my representations (DAO marketing material) than read the Will/contract (DAO code) but they had the opportunity. Also lets assume there was no separate issue of lack of capacity in this example, because the would be a separate legal defense.

What is your moral obligation?
What are you talking about? This guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover

Was an upstanding american!!!!
So you're saying that the laws under which Americans are governed shouldn't be up to Americans but should be, at least for some things, up to people who live in other countries?
Well then things are improving!
Looks like Facebook undeleted all the stuff from the last time I ran this.

Last time I made it to 2014 before my browser locked up. But now I'm seeing stuff from early 2016.
In other words: https://www.xkcd.com/538/
I wonder how this relates to ethereum's Casper proof of stake mechanism.
Fixed wireless has been done poorly and it has been done well (Webpass). Fiber has also been done poorly (FIOS at >$2,000 per customer), so I don't know if historical anecdotes are useful here.
Why is Mozilla doing this? They're already doing Rust, and their products don't use Python internally. The build process for Mozilla add-ons was even converted from Python to Javascript to eliminate Python from the build chain.

I'd rather see Mozilla support Thunderbird, which is useful.
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> They are welcome to try. And I am welcome to try harder to block them.

Well, you've given them permission to try. I doubt they are giving you any such permission, so you're actually presuming quite a bit when you say you're welcome to try as well. This actually matters, because as far as the law is concerned, you don't have any right to to the content beyond what they allow you (excluding laws specific to your submitted content, depending on locality).

I understand ads and ad-blocking stir visceral reactions in people, but really, if you don't like what they are doing, you shouldn't use their service. Anything else is just enabling the behavior you dislike, as even if you are not being marketed to, you are providing a reason for other people to want to use the site that are marketed to.
The files that fast.com has you download ARE chunks of video files :)
They switched to openflow on internal networks for this reason, deterministic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaAZAII2x0w

External network is BGP though and sounds like they didn't detect it until user reports hit. They can't predict the problem and there detection isn't working well either.
Contrast:

A small shop has a sign, and a bucket. "Put $1 in the bucket and test how good you are at some_game."

There is no one there - it's an unmonitored booth.

Do you try your hand at the game and not put in money? They lose nothing, it's a repeatable game with no consumables. There is no one watching you, and there is no line behind you either.
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And in ww1 the black tom ammo dump in NY harbour was blown up by saboteurs.
> All of the information of our world is contained in text.

That's a bit overstated. I think maybe you mean to say "all of the information you'd need to be an effective citizen of our world is contained in text"? Or something similar? I think even that is too strong a claim, but it's at least understandable.

As stated the assertion doesn't make any sense. There is more information in a glass of milk than could be stored on all of the computers on earth, and Heisenberg showed that it's impossible to even record all of the information about a single particle.

Certainly there is no textual information available about my grandfather's eyes, but that information is accessible in the world for those who'll look. You seem to be underestimating the quantity of information you absorbed as a baby, just by reacting robotically to the people and events around you and absorbing the relationships between percepts and feelings.
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You use a weird definition of "mass surveillance" if installing a single tapping device that can snoop on every customer of a company (hundreds of millions, for the large providers) doesn't qualify.
Malicious server, apart from possibility of removing data, would look pretty unusual for the client (like returning incorrect data etc). So it's a good idea to look for these patterns. An attack would probably look like trying to use the client as an oracle, and that's pretty detectable.

But as MacLane pointed out in another comment this is only the case for the standalone database described in the ArXiv paper. The Hadoop scheme works quite differently
> Monopolies don't last.

This is simply untrue.
> whatever you may feel about politicians, they do have the legitimacy and power to do so. They have the constitutions, legislative powers, courts of law, and police forces to make this happen.

Do they have the actual power?

As the article states, the reason for the all or nothing approach is that we currently don't have any way to do a middle ground with TLS.

We have the technology, and it's already available anywhere. How do you actually put that genie back in the bottle? Probably the best you can do is heavy handed enforcement.

That also does nothing to deal with the fact that an organization like ISIS are going to find ways to continue to use strong encryption.
Would it be wrong to use a finance-textbook approach e.g. recurring revenue divided by a rate of return? (Or rate_of_return minus rate_of_growth, using the Gordon model.) For example, if I get 1k/mo in ads, dividing it by (0.25 / 12) would result in a sale value of 48k.

The rate of return must reflect of course the high risk of the investment (e.g. users may migrate to other app and revenue dwindles) and must also cover the costs of app maintenance (every major release of mobile app takes some maintenance in code, at least).

I used 25%/year as example but I am not really sure if it is too low (or too high). Fact is, not many investments yield 25%/year.
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Great video, thanks for sharing! A bit embarrassing that Professor Bob Spence teaches at my/our alma mater and I didn't realize it was him until checking out the description at the end.

Wish I had used my time at University more productively, so many interesting people and subjects concentrated in one place. It went by very quickly and most the time was spent worrying about passing exams. Seems I'm much more interested in some of the subjects nowadays, I certainly would have appreciated the experience more now than at that age.
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Python 3.6 is adding `f"{foo}"`, which is rather different than the previous offerings.
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Sample size is only a tiny part of the relevance of a sample. You can take a thousand gallons of water to test water quality, but if all of it is from the same faucet the sample isn't representative.
> Feed evidence in, computer finds you guilty or innocent, done.

Would you be willing to trust a program with your sentence? I wouldn't in the slightest.
The Turing Test equivalent in the game of Go is not beating the computer. Instead, it is: given a history of moves, can you determine whether or not a computer was playing? Determining whether or not AlphaGo was playing seems like a relatively easy task to me for the designers. Since they have access to the AlphaGo system, they can just calculate the probability that each move corresponds to one AlphaGo would make.