skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even if all of that were true, Assange is NOT a US citizen. He cannot go beyond a journalist's 1st Amendment right and he also cannot be a traitor to the US.

No one has suggested charging him with treason. He certainly can be guilty of espionage against the US without being a citizen.

(And his citizenship is irrelevant to whether he can exceed the protection of the 1st Amendment, since that applies whether or not he is a citizen with regard to government action such as prosecution for espionage.)
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which is the most important metric. see, eg, industry-wide struggles to effectively write parallel software.
So is the speculation that Stamos' departure was related to this? The timing would seem suspicious otherwise.

If so, one wonders if he would take a similar principled stance a second time at Facebook. Much harder to jump ship for greener pastures while already riding the biggest rocketship in town.
Thought the same thing when I watched a bit of the Cops tv show, if they had no problem with what was being filmed, what would they do without cameras? (off the top of my head: grabbing by the hair and insulting a drunk who was already in a cell, shoot a guy in the back who was walking with a knife)
This brings up a good point.. what is a valuable mapping of the type [ stream of data ] => [stream of Sound] ?

If the input was a stream of random bytes you could immediately list an infinite number of different ways to turn that into sound of some kind. Most of those would probably be as interesting as listening to random tones.

In this case, it would be interesting if the music communicated something meaningful about the github pull requests rather than just using github as a random number generator to make pleasant bell tones.

One example might be that a pull request that solved some long-standing much discussed bug would stand out musically by being loud, introducing a new sound, or resolving a tension present in the music. To contrast, a PR that changed some documentation might generate hardly any change in the music.
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Hey, does anyone have experience with setting up an LLC that has ESOP as the 100% owner and is treated as an S-Corp? Is it easy todo?
Great, that explains the warrant canary disappearance. I hope they put it back up so they can take it down again.
+1, I couldn't agree with you more.
Hasn't this been tried before? If I'm not mistaken Aether is a similar concept but I'm not sure how much traction it's gotten.
http://getaether.net/
The California Constitution is extremely clear. No one may restrict the freeness of anyone's speech and especially not any law.

If UC uses its lawful property ownership powers (or any other) to restrict someone's speech, it has acted contrary to the CA Constitution.
> it is badly overstating things to claim, as the author does, that the Roman empire was not a "dim backwater by comparison"

I think you mean "it is overstating to claim Rome was a dim backwater".
Privacy expectations and acceptance of government surveillance changed a lot in less than 20 years.

When info about FBI Carnivore system was leaked (or announced, cannot recall), there was a public outcry that made FBI shut it down (according to Wikipedia they soon replaced it with a similar system under a different name). Learning about massive government data collections of today? Resigned acceptance :(
How does this work while running zfs with LZ4?

Has this even been tested on zfs?
I take seriously the idea that officials' email conduct should be 100% transparent and available to the public record. Clearly there were efforts made to circumvent the accountability measures that were in place. I don't care whether or not HRC is convicted or anything like that, but I think at present we don't really know, as some of the evidence was not available to the investigation.

This kind of basic accountability and transparency is essential to the proper functioning of democracy.
While most of us tuned in to watch last Monday’s presidential debate on a tv or computer screen, a select few tuned in with the latest technology: Virtual Reality. With VR’s enormous potential to directly connect brands with audiences, why is no one talking about this?

As if the two phenomena: a debate between potential leaders of the world's most powerful nation; and yet another technology for spamming ads at people -- were of even remotely comparable significance?
Visual languages are also often used in industrial applications, usually in the form of ladder logic instead of flow diagrams.
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Have you been living under a rock for the past 5 years? Snowden revealed all of this ions ago now and provided plenty of proof.
To this commenter and its parent: please don't complain about downvotes or accuse other community members like you have. On controversial topics, it's even more important that we comment reflectively, civilly, and substantively because it's difficult enough to stay on-topic.
Exact same pricing as the iPhone 7. Not a coincidence.
For those curious, a paper detailing some known issues with 3D Secure's security:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/fc10vbvsecurecode.pdf
And even Google, I distrust, after they left Motorola and my Moto X to "rust" before I was even done with its contract/payments term.

The Moto X is still getting prompt updates, regardless of the sale, no? My Moto G does at least. Certainly no rust on it.
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> Most importantly, the question of guilt should be ascertained by a court, as it is with us peons.

No, even with "peons", a prosecutor reviews the evidence available and determines if they justify prosecution before a court has a chance to ascertain guilt, and the court never gets the chance if the prosecutor decides that there is nothing worth prosecuting.

> Anyone else would have been charged.

That's not what those making the charging decisions have said, and given the amount of material that has been leaked about the detailed findings, I find it interesting that no one has even attempted to support this kind of claims with any comparisons of actual facts to cases where people have been charged.
It's a pretty good reason to stay away from anything proprietary. Otherwise, bloat will be enforced on us with my own money and no given control to remove it.
It's a 21st century!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cyber...
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Besides the obvious choices (advertisement), you could look for sponsors to sponsor your posts (if you have enough visitors).
good point. those could probably be measured and simulated too, though
Mayer had many choices on how to act. This is extremely newsworthy, no matter what you are "certain" about, because it has never been reported before that the government had been given realtime scanning access to a major provider. Stop trying to turn this into a stupid tabloid story about who likes or doesn't like the CEO.
then they probably should not advertise it together with their new mobile VR platform
> I don't think this is a productive framing when there is a huge excluded middle in there, but to your point, when have you seen an upper class white person treated like Henry Louis Gates?

If it were to happen to an upper class white person, it would probably not become a national news story in which the POTUS involved himself, as was the case with Henry Louis Gates. So the fact that I haven't heard of it happening to an upper class white person does not suggest, at least to me, that it hasn't happened to an upper class white person.

And as I recall from the news reports, Gates became confrontational and argumentative with the officers who were investigating the report of the possible break-in at his home, as was their duty. That might have been a contributing factor in his getting arrested.
There's something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbkwew3bfWU
> remove classified information from SIPRNet or NIPRNet

Small nit- IIRC NIPRnet should not contain classified information. Maybe you were thinking CENTRIXS instead?

edited for clarity
I have to be honest, I find it a little frustrating that you would not spend the estimated 6 minutes it would take you to read a post I spent hours writing before you put me down in a comment.
Ask HN: Which video tutorial sites to use to replicate a coding bootcamp?
You want to learn to program but you don't want to pay the hefty cost of a programming bootcamp. Which video tutorial websites and video tutorials do you use?
None of this seems very scandalous to me, am I missing something?
Trump is basically an American Duterte.

Haha that will be funny, when Trump gets 60% more votes than the second-place candidate, and then three months after election has a 90% approval rating. We heard it here first!

[EDIT:] I ain't voting for him, but I seem to have touched a nerve... are you guys afraid of something?
All these phones are only two dimensional? Did Jony Ive design them?
I was kind of expecting a black bar on HN by now, but the comments here are more of a statement of how much people respected him than any symbol.
The "paying-with-my-data-I-am-the-product" cliche doesn't really work here because Yahoo didn't do this for money. You are also not giving up "some form of copyright" beyond the narrow definition of the license yahoo may require to show it to someone else. Otherwise there'd probably be a few bestsellers owned by google et al. – I'm sure quite a few Harry Potter manuscripts went through their network.

There's a certain expectation of the relationship between a service like yahoo's and the customer. Those expectations go beyond what may be the bare minimum that is legally required. Considering that there is healthy competition even in the free tier of email services, consumers are not powerless in the "negotiation" that defines this relationship.

The bare minimum of any such relationship must be a truthful and specific description of any access the provider has to my data. Indeed that is a legal requirement in many jurisdictions.

But how can I trust them? It depends on the organization. I'm 100% certain that Apple doesn't sell the content of my e-mails because it'd be stupid... They'd be risking a triple-digit-revenue business on what could amount to a few million/year tops. Their and my interest are aligned.

Regarding the analogy you weren't following: placing yourself in a position of vulnerability is simply never an excuse for anybody, either legally or morally, to exploit that vulnerability. If I accidentally leave my bike unlocked doesn't change the thieve's legal or moral standing at all.
The hardware isn't really that impressive. iPhone still has the best hardware in my opinion. I'm not even talking about performance, battery, etc, I'm talking about usability.
I think you mean http://com.google, which is indeed now just a redirect. I think someone discovered a vulnerability in it.
This is the first time in a while I've seen an active project on SourceForge.
This was my understanding as well.

Except now, two issues:
1) More a quibble, but I'd say that people around here pushing AOSP makes the term "stock Android" a bit less clear.

2) Article claims the new Pixels will have some other variant of Android, based on current stock Nougat but with additional support baked in for things like their new VR headset and Google Assistant.

Which strengthens FuzzyZeus' point: determining which version of Android a given phone comes with (and which it can support, both now and in the future) is an extremely muddled game, with the OEMs and now Google itself not doing anyone any favors.
If this is fake data it is either really well done or is at least partially real. There is contact info in the linked spreadsheet that I can verify is legitimate. Of course you have no idea whether or not I am legit.
> Since google killed reader

Since then we actually have several better feed readers. There are several very great readers, from self hosted to free to paid.

I stuck with newsblur.com (paid)
Perhaps the FBI clearing her is more rooted in her position than her actions. Would suggest watching this for a different point of view:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0ptlTScIFIM
> Certainly the FBI has never let a plutocrat off the hook before!

This is the issue. Once an official takes measures to circumvent accountability and transparency, I think all bets are off. If it turns out that there were emails that got destroyed to cover up wrongdoing, I think it's a pretty big deal.
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> Sad thing, to most 'muricans, even a 2 block walk is too far.

You can please leave out this insult and still effectively communicate your point.
Are you saying that CNN, MSNBC, NYTIMES, ABC, CBS, NBC aren't all extremely biased in favor of Hillary Clinton and Democrats in general?
yeah, i understand that it's better than the $300 nexus 5X that's a year old. that goes without saying.

but since the Nexus 5X was released, there's been a bunch of metal bodied phones with the SD820 released that only cost $399 - the oneplus 3, zte axon, honor 5x, xaoimi mi5... and there's nothing to differentiate the pixel from those phones, other than a 40% higher price.
This is actually a decent article, but I had to close four separate pop ups before I could even begin reading it.
Affiliate and eproducts. A lot of bloggers are against monetizing right off the bat, but if you can drive an audience to your blog then you should be able to drive them to click buy every once in a while.
Had Mayer specifically told him, he'd have been compelled to remain silent as she was...

I wonder if she knew the security team would find it if they weren't consulted, making not telling them the legal way to tell them.
Also, is it bad having the blue light from a cell phone pouring directly into your retinas? Or do these types of VR goggles filter the light somehow?
More like "everything you know is a lie and ONLY WE can give you the truth."

The more you buy into it the more susceptible you become to baseless conspiracy theories. Because it's always easier to believe that the people you are told to hate deserve the hate than to consider that you were duped.

It scares me how many smart people are playing right into the Bernays/Goebbels/Chavez playbook.
Google is a like an ADHD kid, one minute they want to conquer Android hardware market with Motorola, and other days they are so annoyed by hardware that they sell Motorola to Lenevo.
Pixel comes, and Pixate goes. Bummer.
Propositions as Types: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOiZatlZtGU

I think this can really really change how we look at everyday programming tasks everywhere from the type of tooling we choose to how we approach problems.
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So if I assume she's lying, then she's committed perjury? Is that really your argument? What are your reasons for believing that she used a server for reasons of privacy? Why do you think she would have done that vs. just having conversations on the phone or in person?
If you aren't aware (I wasn't), xiaomi phones run miui which is somewhat different than stock android. Google miui before you buy. Or you have to be comfortable installing an android distribution.
Daydream SDK currently only works on Nexus 6P, but comes with this warning:

> Caution: The 6P's thermal performance is not representative of the consumer Daydream-ready devices that will be launching later this year. In particular, expect the 6P to thermally throttle CPU and GPU performance after a short period of use, depending on workload.

It seems that it's a hardware issue.
Were you misled by the changing axis scale? From that paper:

> Our measurements (Section 3) confirm that
the transmission energy consumed by WiFi is significantly smaller
than both 3G and GSM, especially for large transfer sizes.

Also that's 3G, not LTE which is what most everyone is using nowadays.
I'm not sure how I managed to screw up posting that link. Thank you.

If any mods are around, could you correct the story link please?
Did a hackday on that focused on a non-gaming VR solution, and while I can't say what that was, I will point out two previous training related uses:

In 2001/2002 they trained surgeons with it and found significant improvements:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1422600/

Siemens has done training for Oil Rig crews while the rig was being constructed. Reduced real world training times:

http://www.siemens.com/innovation/en/home/pictures-of-the-fu...
I don't think you understand the nature of natural security letters. We don't know how Mayer was allowed to ask because we cannot see the letter, such is their nature
CA hasn't adopted the ABA Model Rules. However:

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&gr...

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Jon Blow's "How to program independent games": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjDsP5n2kSM

It's about much more than games. To me, it's about identifying and not doing unnecessary work.

The second half of this video is a Q&A session, which I would skip.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12635994 and marked it off-topic.
Well, Sigaint is rather immune to this, no? The US government arguably doesn't know where its servers are located, or who operates them.
"Women VCs"? Are you sure you meant to say that, Mattermark?
^This.
Wouldn't having the fingerprint scanner on the back be annoying sometimes? For example, when your phone is just laying on the table and you want to quickly unlock it without picking it up.
Do you think a small start-up will be in a better position to stand up against its government?
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You know as well as I that even though your sarcasm is warranted due to my inaccuracy, I was trying to speak more to Duterte's authoritarian leanings than his performance in the election.
> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Chelsea Manning, who is imprisoned over something similar to this case, may have a different opinion on how nice jail is than you.
> It's entirely reasonable to continue to be suspicious about this investigation at this point. I'm not going to argue "it's unreasonable to trust her" but i think there's plenty of reason to believe "she DID use a private server for reasons or privacy, and thus lied to the FBI to avoid criminal charges."

Right. In my opinion, this is what matters. Since I am not a partisan for or against HRC winning the presidency, I don't care about any impact on that outcome, but I would prefer to know if we're talking about basic cluelessness / IT-incompetence or something far more sinister.
Probably email should just be immune from FOIA requests (like phone calls) and we could have avoided all this.
> Then you are criticizing something other than their actual description.

No, I'm criticizing the wording. Perhaps you should ask yourself more questions about the construction of these descriptions and what messages they convey, than merely the definition of the word usually.
@jasonkester Aren't you worried about attracting unwanted attention from Amazon's lawyers for using their trademark in the name of your business?

https://aws.amazon.com/trademark-guidelines/
GearVR is pretty good. When mobile soon gets positional tracking it'll be great.
Not the grandparent, but having used Android for years I would argue that's true too. Consider that Android apps are generally even made second for a lot of startups, so in a lot of cases Android forfeits by not even having an app in their ecosystem. Most YC companies are in that boat too--companies that make the iOS version first.
Serious question, why do you think that when it comes to emails? Do you also think all of their phone calls should be recorded to make sure they don't just shift any illegal conversations to that? Should all politicians wear a body camera at all times, so we can make sure they aren't meeting lobbyists after hours?
I was a bit surprised that you seem to consider the challenges to be "technical, political and regulatory". Why? Because obviously one word is missing and that's "science".

Maybe the lack of adoption of machine learning (I don't like to call something AI that really isn't) is due to the fact that medicine is more demanding on high quality scientific evidence than the IT industry.

Related, Gerd Antes from Cochrane once wrote a very interesting piece on the promises of "Big Data" (which is kinda related) and that they still need to hold up to scientific evidence:
http://www.labtimes.org/editorial/e_654.lasso
An honest question: what's up with the use of the word "murder"?

I'm not asking that to start a fight over whether these shootings were justified. I'm asking because that word has a specific criminal definition, and news organizations typically have very strict policies on implying criminal guilt (witness the pre-conviction use of "alleged X" even in the most obvious of cases).

As I understand it, most of the names described here as "murdered by police" have not produced murder convictions or even murder charges against police officers.

Without getting into subjective discussions of 'guilt', does TechCrunch have a policy on language in criminal cases? What is it?
This is very cool. I like this example which uses diagram for general logic flow, but mixes raw code for details: http://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/folder-night.png
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