skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The part that listens for the "Alexa" word is analog not digital.
> It cannot be updated remotely by firmware.

I used to think that about my phone, that it was hard-wired to "OK, Google". I had a Moto X (first generation), which is one of the first phones to have this always-listening feature. They claimed that it had special hardware that allowed it to work using very little power.

But after a software update, they added a feature that allowed me to retrain the activation phrase to whatever I wanted. They recommend using something with 5 syllables or more. It works. I haven't addressed my phone with "OK, Google" for years.

If Motorola (owned by Google at the time) can do it with Moto X, I'm sure Amazon could do it with Alexa too.
Large sedans and station wagons are valid alternatives; SUVs are similarly or higher-priced.
Author of Emoji Dick here. The $200 price tag is that high because its a one-off print-on-demand of an 800 page color laser hardcover book. I would LOVE to find a way to produce these cheaper (even do another edition) but haven't had the time to get a publisher / deal / etc. together.
1.) Talk to the lawyer you previously had a relationship with (assuming you think he is competent) and ask him for recommendations for a criminal lawyer. Keep the name(s) handy.

2.) In a real pinch, call your local public defender. They likely will not be able to get someone out to your place ASAP but they may be able to offer some advice. You can always follow-up with private counsel later.
The idea was never that emoji evolve into their own language, but rather compliment our exiting ones -- which they're doing quite well IMHO.
Large sedans and station wagons are valid alternatives; SUVs are similarly or higher-priced than safer options.
You're misinformed about the nature of the SQL Server codebase. While it was originally licensed from Sybase, all parts of it have been completely re-worked. I read somewhere that they celebrated "zero Sybase day" or something to that effect in the early 2000s to mark the retirement of the last of the original Sybase code. Some more info here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/euanga/2006/01/19/sql-mythb...

As for its performance and features, I have run PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server in production on large workloads and am a big fan of PostgreSQL. That said, I've encountered the fewest sharp edges and disappointments with SQL Server. It is a very respectable RDBMS and it's great that it's now available on Linux.
You were the one who said RPC should be used instead of SSH. People use SSH because it's secure, despite the issues in passing parameters.

Suggesting that RPC be used instead of SSH while ignoring security is terrible advice.
i just stab them with a fork and deflate them here in germany before putting the deflated baggies into the yellow bag, and the box into the paper bag. not sure what's all the fuss is about.

greener planet, happier people everyone wins.

a real issue would be making better use of the space. i once got shipped a 10 liter box that contained a single zippo lighter.
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We need to learn how to use the 4G that we already have. Even if 5G is faster, at least in the US, we'll be bandwidth constrained by the telcos. As a result, we'll just be able to reach our pittance of monthly quota faster (at least theoretically).

The US hasn't even seen full 4G penetration in markets that supposedly have 4G penetration. Palatka Florida has 4G. You just can't access it inside a building with a metal roof (you know, like most of the houses). South Bend Indiana has dead spots all over the place. 5G is just faster networking that doesn't work.
Thats basically the setup I use. Old 48" flatscreen (not even 1080p) with an Xbox One plugged into it as my media center. Smart enough for me right now at least.
The truth is that obesity is complex and does not have a single risk factor. Lack of exercise, over-eating, depression, anxiety, gut bacteria, food chemicals (emulsifiers, asapartame etc.), refined grains and now this virus all are risk factors. They also interact with each other, making understanding complex (see http://outcomereference.com/outcomes/3 )

I am glad though they are researching this. If a vaccine could be found, it might decrease risk for a significant portion of the population. It does not negate the fact that dish portions in North America are much larger than they should be or that there is still too much processed food in the average american diet.
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Sure. But why can't I preview, say, the first chapter?
The cops can't be certain if the suspect hasn't deleted incriminating recordings.
You will have to pay penalties if you underpaid over the course of the year. This makes it not interest free.
Forewarning: This likely sounds like a shill post. I'm okay with that. I work for a Microsoft partner and we're tightly integrated with the MS sellers for a number of products. I am trying to provide an answer to the use cases.

A fully integrated data platform suite with several tools that are best in class. SQL Server is not just a relational database engine, though that is at the core of most tools and services.

SQL Server is a SKU that includes many things:

* Relational engine
* In-memory OLTP (SQL compiles to native code)
* Columnstore indices for OLAP workloads
* The two above can be combined for real time analytics
* Embedded R engine in DB
* SSIS - data processing orchestration tool AND ETL tool
* SSRS - traditional reporting platform (with native mobile reports)
* SSAS - best in class OLAP engine/semantic layer
* MDS - Master Data Services (basically a rules engine)
* DQS - Data Quality Services (pluggable back end for data quality needs - batch or real time)

I do think SSAS is truly best in class. The others are all solid products, some better than most competitors, some middle of the road. You can certainly find equivalent open source products or vendor products and roll your own. But SQL Server as a SKU is not competing with your Postgres server. It's competing with damn near everything that touches data at your company.
SUV center of mass is probably higher and easier to tilt.

Both cars braking, center of mass shifting toward their front and lowering. Meaning the small car momentum was peak at the collision point, while the SUV rear end was already lifted thus lighter.

Direction of the collision helped transfer the energy into torque. The barrier provided the final help to start the car tumbles.
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This isn't the first time I've heard someone throw out the idea of emojis as a possible language. It seems popular in certain circles, including a couple of different podcasts I listen to.

Why do people insist on trying to shoehorn emojis into the realm of being a whole languange? Let emojis be emojis. They're not a language. They're not punctuation. They are how we use them.

I'm not a huge fan, but they can be fun and are quite good at conveying certain emotions and empathy. Plus other uses. Why must they be pushed towards use as something that they're not?
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Too bad the business model of VMS was so bad, eh? UNIX, and more to the point, KILLED VMS on every front. And yes, I have had the displeasure of having to use VMS and code in it and deal with the special snowflake sysadmin people who operate VMS, the most recent one being just two years ago. What a time! What mystifies me is that there are still many companies out there who refuse (stuck?) to migrate off of ancient OpenVMS Alpha hardware--all because the IT people stomp their feet and throw tantrums and won't let it go. Where are the rational tech people? Still advocating these monoliths for job security...

VMS had its day, its day is over. Learn. New. Skills.

I enjoyed using VMS in college years ago. I am now biased because I have never been mistreated as a professional developer so badly than while dealing with that VMS admin! The man was so toxic that the company should have fired him many times over but refused because he was the "only" one who could kinda sorta run their database (note: they had to restart the application daily to keep it running and the boxes had all kinds of memory issues and they were buying used hardware off of eBay to keep it running--this is a major healthcare company mind you, thousands of customers whose lives are at stake).

Time marches on, skillsets have to be upgraded, which is apparently too much for some people to accept.

Dumb companies, dumb sysadmins.
Hm. That's pretty rough.
Its not the case of Overclocking no longer giving you expected speedup, its INTEL directly FIGHTING with overclockers and blocking every avenue that would enable you to gain performance for free.

Nowadays Overclocking is just another premium market segment being milked by Intel with K/Z series chips.

Every single Intel chipset is 'in theory' capable of overclocking (multiplier change, Turbo). Its all blocked on the Bios/OEM agreement[1]/microcode(!)[2] level. Sometimes OEMs grow bold and ignore it (Asrock pioneering H81 overclocking), sometimes they get spanked by Intel and quickly release 'updated' bios removing OC.

OC in itself works great. You an buy $72 3.2GHz G3258 haswell, OC to 4.3GHz (stock cooler, or ~4.5Ghz on custom) and enjoy >30% speed improvement. Especially great for single threaded games(written in python!) like World of Tanks where your oced $72 cpu performs like $300 4790K.

[1] http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/asrock-killed-overclo...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/comments/3ji7im/nonz_o...

[2] http://www.sevenforums.com/windows-updates-activation/373250...
Now if all cars had similar detection systems it would probably avoid a massive amount of escalations.
That could just set someone off and make things more dangerous. If that's happening in the passing lane, get over and let them pass.
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Has anyone, Amazon or otherwise, clarified what the Echo is actually recording? If anything? My use of the Echo and my reading of the information available from Amazon indicated that nothing of any value was ever recorded/saved.

/edit

Ok, I'm an idiot. I see now that the app has a history of my commands and their audio recordings. Which is actually kind of creepy. But then I wonder why the police don't just check this guy's Alexa app on his phone. And maybe that's the real question - are they asking Amazon to provide some sort of recording of everything the device heard that night?
> It looks like better documentation could have prevented this bug.

Where?

Barring user-submitted comments, PHP has consistently had some of the most complete programming language documentation.

This exact issue is specifically documented with the mail() function[1] so I'm not sure you can blame PHP or ask for better documentation in this case:

"This parameter is escaped by escapeshellcmd() internally to prevent command execution. escapeshellcmd() prevents command execution, but allows to add additional parameters. For security reasons, it is recommended for the user to sanitize this parameter to avoid adding unwanted parameters to the shell command."

Escaping too many times or incorrectly is a pretty common error but it's normally of the PEBKAC variety.

[1] - http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
While I think you're close, the war example is not fitting unless people are forced to go to war. If they decide to do go to war voluntarily, then it's IMO partly their fault.

Probably a better example is CEOs who get big bonuses if the company goes well but will get a good pension and other benefits ("golden parachute") if they are fired after a few months because of bad performance.
It's kind of win / win for them, so a loss for everyone else.

Same holds for a risky bank that keeps its profits (if there are any) or gets a (taxpayer funded) bailout if "profits are negative".
This seems to be a Samsung initiative. http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/30/11814706/samsung-smart-tel...
After quitting a job with a lot of commute time in it, and having failed to monetize a side project, I finally landed a teaching position on a local technical university.

I always loved learning and teaching, and a side effect of this is that now I've regained the curiosity I always had about the fundamentals of our industry (I've a CS PhD). So now I'm back reading about the fundamentals of electricity and building 8-bit digital adders with basic AND/OR/XOR logic gates [0].

There's still lots of fundamental things that I want to re-learn, and for 2017 I'm thinking on writing a book about learning programming from exercises (with just enough theoretical concepts) starting from flow-charts and pseudocode, up-to some basic algorithms / abstract data structures/types (probably using Python). My idea is that there are lots of students out there that could benefit of learning how to program by solving focused exercises and learn enough about algorithms and structures to feel capable of doing more complex things (i.e, not feel the "impostor" syndrome).

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softw...
>Can you imagine a situation in which the truth uncovered by a foreign government or some unaccountable agency like Wikileaks is not, in fact, actually true?

Yes. All that would achieve would be to undermine wikileaks' credibility.

They literally would just have to do it once and every leak subsequent to that would be suspect.

The main reason why wikileaks has had such an effect is because they haven't yet released any lies.

>Or where, as with Wikileaks, the selective exposure of some truths and withholding of others is meant to serve an explicit political purpose and to bias, rather than inform, the electorate?

If you were the subject of such leaks you could offset this problem by releasing the rest of the information to the media rendering its selectivity pointless.

The only way selective exposure as a means of propaganda works is if you actually wield a large degree of influence or control over the media (which does undermine democracy) and can 'bury' stories.

The DNC can make a claim to that (CNN, CBS, Viacom) as can the RNC (Fox) but wikileaks doesn't wield any influence over those corporations.
I never really seriously considered it. Made the book and the page before this was really all that common online. Maybe I'll A/B test it to see if it generates more sales :)
‘Sharing economy’ takes off in Japan despite barriers
Stock wordpress shouldn't be remotely exploitable with this. The exploit relies on the end user being able to specify the "From" address. That is passed to sendmail via the -f parameter on the command line, which is why the vulnerability exists. Other addresses, like To:, are passed via the headers/piped, so they don't create issues.

Wordpress is adding a fix, but I assume that's to cover plugins that allow end users to set the From: address, like perhaps "Share this with a friend" type functionality where the email is meant to look like it's from a different domain.

In short, I don't think most wordpress installations are remotely exploitable via this bug.
Probably just a relic from before everything was https
You're right. I retract the documentation comment.
The article title seems misleading. It says "Amazon refuses to let police access US murder suspect's Echo recordings" and in the article says "Amazon has refused to hand over recordings from an Echo smart speaker to US police investigating a murder in Arkansas". However, the article then points out that the device only has an audio buffer of a few seconds and there are no such recordings: "the vast majority of the recordings it makes are not saved for longer than the few seconds it takes to determine if a pre-set “wake word” (usually “Alexa”) has been said. Only if that wake word has been heard does the device’s full complement of microphones come on and begin transmitting audio to Amazon."

So it would seem Amazon isn't "refusing" to hand over recordings. Amazon just doesn't have recordings of everything that is said around it retained long term.
>If the police stands in front of my house with a warrant to search my belongings, can I refuse that? Does it make sense if I have nothing to hide?

Contrary to what others on this thread are saying, no. You cannot deny them entry. At that point, in that situation, the police are authorized to use force to exercise that warrant and you have no recourse but to cooperate. I don't know where people get this silly idea that they can refuse. That's how you turn a peaceful affair into police busting down the door, legally shooting your alarmed dog, wrestling you into handcuffs, and executing the warrant by force. I wouldn't be surprised if your refusal to cooperate would be admissible as evidence of mens rea. Don't be stupid.

The kind of warrant that Amazon is contesting is different than the kind that police show up at your door with. They could get one of those for Amazon too: a warrant to enter Amazon's buildings and seize servers, hard drives, papers, etc. If Amazon itself, or its employees, was suspected of criminal wrongdoing, and being investigated by a police force with physical jurisdiction over the locations to be searched, that would happen. Businesses are searched this way all the time.
Timing of this post is good as I just read an interesting paper on various current vehicles impact on climate change based on electricity + carbon output. I posted it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13270712

The real meaty quote from the automobile paper is:

> By 2050,
only electric vehicles supplied with almost completely carbon-free electric power are expected to meet climate-policy targets.

It would be neat to overlay the two: vehicles and electricity.
Given the cost of laser diodes is now pennies, how much would it cost to target every window in a city?
Fairness is not apropos, the idea of skin in the game is a heuristic to identify decision-makers who are likely (or not) to expose others to harmful risks. If anything, the skin in the game should be even more than proportional. The system can survive local failure (death of a general or economist) as the price of encouraging better risk-taking.
In an industry obsessed with KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) I find this one of the most interesting comments here.
I think the distinction between those who have "skin in the game" and those who survive on arbitrary indicators of prestige is an important one culturally, but especially as applied to Trump, I still think it's weird Taleb doesn't address any distance between perceived skin in the game and actual. Saying "Trump's a businessman who takes real risks, Krugman's just a writer who will never answer for mistakes" ignores that Trump is a media figure at least as much as he's a businessman, and has put effort his entire career towards presenting that image (as a businessman who takes real risks) regardless of the truth. Is Trump really more likely to end up going to a soup kitchen than Krugman? Are the elaborate terms of his bankruptcies really "losing your own money, not someone else's?" Or is he just trying to present himself that way?

I agree that there's a serious problem in society of people coasting on their arbitrary degrees/status/reputation in a way that lets them take no responsibility for their mistakes; see Theranos/general examples of VCs focusing on style over meritocracy, see diploma mills and rent-seeking prestige colleges, see Ross Douthat's career (if the mainstream media wants to restore faith and trust, the best thing they could do would be to fire people who continue to screw up...) But the other issue, of resentment against the mandarin class, people waking up and getting angry against those without skin in the game; that's a matter of perception, not reality. Heck, Trump switching to the Apprentice after facing bankruptcy seems exactly the sort of coasting based on arbitrary celebrity Taleb might despise in a different context. If we want to understand the effects of the mandarin class, we should figure out not just who has "skin in the game" or not, but the level of cultural and media fluff that leads people to believe that someone has skin in the game or not.
An old colleague of mine, who'd worked for an LA-based tech company for 10 years, went to hand in his resignation. He was moving to Charlotte so he could be with his girlfriend.

His boss begged him to stay -- he could even work remotely. My friend took the deal. He lives in Charlotte now and flies to LA every 2 or 3 months.

The best place to look for remote jobs is to talk to people who have worked with you in the past and trust you.
That's at least voluntary. For now...
But can you enter containment?
Also, how can emojis evolve into a language when they are prescribed by big companies, which provide few updates? Perhaps the set of emojis should be crowdsourced, and we might see some interesting language phenomena.
I wonder what's the thought process whereby you marry someone you can't communicate effectively with!
So IOPS drops to HDD-like levels after several minutes of 4K mixed reads/writes with write-through. Why is that a reason to avoid consumer grade SSDs? The original article is talking about ThinkPads, which are highly unlikely to ever see this kind of workload. Endurance isn't an issue with the kind of writes you'll typically get on a laptop either. Consumer-grade SSDs are more than fast enough for even heavy consumer-grade workloads.
And this is relevant to Optane because?
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> […] that if you're going to take up murder as a hobby […]

and right there is the problem. Nowhere in the article does it say that anybody has committed a murder.

You are not proposing to strip privacy away from a criminal, but from a person that is suspected of a crime and might just be completely innocent. That leads to stripping privacy away from everybody.
I don't really like this site and others like it. I could be wrong, but it appears to be an automated scraper of real managed content like https://weworkremotely.com/ which is what I'd recommend and found my first remote position through
Amazon would break the law, if their persisted data uploaded to their servers. Article implies they do that.

(I am not lawyer)
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Potentially, but his response is vague in nature and doesn't reveal any trade secrets or other information that isn't publicly available. If he had mentioned another project that never went live or that he saw some interesting prototypes then yeah he would be at that point.

It also has to actually matter to Apple or the employer in question to issue a cease and desist order. I'm not sure they care if he revealed a random prototype from 16 years ago.
If it's distributed using Google play store aren't apks signed by the developer anyway?
On Android or iOS or did you mean sign a source release ...?

My guess is because of potential friction with reproducible building (for Android) and this for iOS:
https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/issues/1063

hth,
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I see you've never spent much time on deviantart. :) The only limitation there is your ability to remember the right nickname. :iconawesomefaceplz: :iconhappydanceplz:
Same logic used in the Salem witch trials. You ever wonder why The Right to Be Silent is the first right mentioned in Miranda? Our entire criminal justice system is rooted is this concept. You have to be proven guilty and the state has to provide probable cause to search or seize.

Eric Schmidt is as biased on this subject as you can get, he profits from our data.
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YNAB, MINT and BudgetSimple, they do have Bank account/ Credit card link. You can link your financial institution and get the daily transactions.

Why do we need to scrap? Is there any specific reason ?