skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nobody at Google is authorized to read my email or even I expect look at who I'm corresponding with. It's all done by machine.

The "machine" versus "Google employee" distinction isn't a compelling one. The computer is programmed by a human agent of Google to scan your email, collect information, and use that information for Google's purposes. Also, wouldn't your reasoning allow the government to avoid any allegations of 4th amendment violations by pointing to the NSA computer that does the actual scanning?

> And the whole concept of "property" as inside a machine is unusual. Is an email on a server like a letter on an accountant's desk, or is it like a letter on my desk in my apartment which I lease from someone else?

It's not unusual. Property is defined by the bundle of rights you have with respect to something, whether that something is tangible or intangible.[1] A lease is a property right that limits what the lessor can do. Your landlord cannot, except under certain exceptions, enter your apartment and look through your desk (or send a robot to do the same). Your landlord has no interest in the things inside your apartment, which remain solely your property. None of that is true for many types of digital information held by third parties. Google explicitly retains the right to scan your emails and use the collected information for commercial purposes. At some point, Google retained quite extensive rights over what you put on Google Docs (although they've narrowed that in a TOS change). Facebook retains quite extensive rights over what you post.

The 1878 case of Ex Parte Jackson addresses the Post Office issue. It distinguishes between sealed letters (protected by the 4th amendment), and things like postcards that are open to inspection, even if they are not routinely inspected (not protected). Arguably, most clear-text online traffic falls in the latter bucket.

All of that being said, my point is that you certainly could conjure up a right to digital privacy from the "penumbras" of the 4th amendment. But the opposite view--that no such right exists--is pretty logical too. Certainly, I think logical enough that you can't say that the text of the 4th amendment compels you to find that such a right exists.

[1] This should not be a foreign concept to programmers. It's very much like a capability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-capability_model.
I haven't tried it, but Molekine has an Evernote Sketch book that's designed specifically so you can take a picture of the page and upload it instantly into Evernote, you might find that useful. I also know they have a notebook you can buy that when you're done with it, you can mail it to them (for free, built into the price I think), and they'll digitize it for you, and either send back your paper copy or recycle it.

http://www.moleskine.com/en/collections/model/product/everno...
Luke Cage must be the antimatter version of Daredevil then. Tried to watch the first episode - after half an hour and nothing had happened I gave up.
I may be wrong, but that is different from my understanding. I was under the impression that anybody could post to arxiv, with the caveat that depending on the subject area and other factors, you might need an "endorsement" from another arXiv user first. All of that said, while I have an arXiv account, I've never tried to post anything.
As someone who writes for a living, I can appreciate mobile note taking. Flexibility of the app is not really the important part - I frequently use apple's notes app. But, in those cases what I'm really doing is "pre-writing" not note taking. I'm not capturing ideas, I'm already interpreting them before I write them down, adding structure as I go.

In paper, I tend to really note-take. I like note-taking on paper for things I don't really understand yet. I prefer pre-writing in an app for situations where my understanding of the topic is good, and I want to skip steps (e.g. writing a blog post about a presentation, where the topic is already familiar)

Now, in fairness, I have recently started using SimpleMind for mind-mapping real-time. I find it does a good job at doing both things. It helps me build a narrative structure in one branch, while capturing notes in others. It also gives me a lot of nice flexibility on-screen to rearrange branches, relocate topics and do other general house-keeping.
I have started two new note taking practices recently: learning shorthand and sketchnotes. Sketchnotes I've seen fairly frequently around here, but not much mention of shorthand.

My goal with both is that A) I hate taking notes on a computer; B) I'm trying to increase retention, which I'm finding the sketchnotes definitely helps with; C) I need a better way of keeping up in meetings, and writing longhand just isn't cutting it. I'm not far enough along with the shorthand, but I'm curious if anybody else around here uses it.

Shorthand method: https://www.amazon.com/GREGG-Shorthand-Manual-Simplified/dp/...

Sketchnoting: https://www.amazon.com/Sketchnote-Handbook-illustrated-visua...
Using "to be" isn't necessarily the passive voice. The author doesn't use the passive voice in those sentences.

http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/passive-voice/
This article just shows that the company had a really bad hiring process.
I think this also shows why on-site technical interviews are so important.
In my 2 years or so of taking interviews it took me 10-15 minutes to see whether someone was competent enough to write code.
On the plus side, on-site interviews also help you in determining whether the candidate will be a good cultural fit or not
I think the parent post is comparing how long it takes to reach being able to consistently write something "that just seems to work"
I remember seeing keras in commaai source. Who else uses it ?
> Otherwise, whatever $ which python will be the default.

This is a bit strange because the python binary is always supposed to be Python 2. The Python 3 binary is supposed to be named python3. Some distributons don't follow this, but they're the weird non-conformant ones; it's not a behaviour that should really be relied on.
Every time I use Amazon, I say "I wish this UI was half as good as Netflix's."

Every time I use Hulu, I say "I wish this UI was half as good as Amazon's."
Internet access in SZ is also restricted, but you are right that you can buy an unrestricted SIM on the border, but that is actually a HK SIM (or dual network sim) so your data connections are terminated in HK and hence not filtered.
In the publishing industry, many require you to submit double spaced - they will change it to single spaced before the final publication.

I agree the final one posted to the web should be single spaced, but perhaps he is merely uploading the document he submitted somewhere.
I couldn't no. Made sure I was using everything the same, but I couldn't determine any relationship between original secret and one produced by program. However contrary to my original statement it turned out secret in use was actually only 30 characters long. I've passed on more detailed info to OP.
What strikes me as weird is that I know of exactly one
compiler system that got it right (...) Turbo Pascal.

Long Live Turbo Pascal.

when you cannot (...) CPP

I really see no way forward to be able to modernize CPP build systems. CPP has invented it's own paradigm for how a build system should work. Unless square 1 is "support CPP" making something support cpp is almost impossible.
Guy on Motorbike Crashes the Center Median
The Inevitability of Being Hacked
Open Sourcing the Visual Studio Test Platform
There are undertones here. What the section really says is that mathematical intuition has different aspects that are very distinct, and that a discussion of some of these will follow. Which ones these are and why these were chosen will be discussed in Section 1.

The task of the editor is never to impose their style upon the author. There are different writing styles even in academic writing, a wordy one, one that chooses outrageous words, a very terse one, and the awful MBA-style kind.

What's worst is an editor that sees a sentence that he does not understand, and edits that, thinking it's just style but completely changes the meaning.
Going Isomorphic with Python and React
Android uses runtime permissions since marshmallow, but the app has to support them otherwise it falls back to granting them all at install time.
The author was far too generous with that guy. I actually think that this SV mentality of helping others (to that extent) is morally wrong.

When you help someone like this get a position/salary that they don't deserve, you're actually making it harder for people who actually deserve that position to get it.

It's the same thing when it comes to investors helping a specific founder to raise funding just because they happen to frequent the same cafe and happen to have the same first name.

Whenever you're helping someone with anything, just keep in mind that you're also hurting someone else behind the scenes...

Why should simply meeting a person make them any more deserving of your help? You're just rewarding luck over hard work. This is really evil.
Very basic question: am I thinking of these the right way?

React.js is the view layer of a web app/page. ReactNative is a whole framework for making an app (that you could call back to a database, do some logic on the data and display it to the user.)

Is that right?
I would ask why you're coding at home. Is it because you feel like you have to or like you should? Why?
Because a watch isn't about time.
We hired a support staffer, Kevin, with a good amount of C experience on his resume, but he didn't need it on our job. Months later, a junior guy started and needed a little help with some C code so we had Kevin help out. Hours later a DBA sitting near them comes over and tells us they've spent almost an hour trying to figure out how to printf() a variable's value but can't figure out where the quotes go. Unsurprisingly, the rest of his resume didn't hold up very well either.
Yah, I don't actually think mjolk or you are willfully discriminatory, and I think you misunderstand. Because implicit bias is subconscious, it requires conscious effort to recognize and and correct it. I'm not saying and will not try to argue that people say and do things that they know to be racist because they want to be racist, because nobody does want to be racist. However if it is so probable that you have implicit bias against non-white people I would ask why is it a bad thing to try and change that?

Also it doesn't really matter to the person being discriminated against whether it's a question of individual will or implicit bias, and we are still responsible for both. I will even argue that there's a high probability most white people have a lot of explicit bias as well, the reason I didn't mention that is because you can't test it empirically in the same way as implicit bias.
I get what you're saying here and agree with it, but I just wanted to make a minor point about "fake it till you make it." FITYMI was never supposed to be a synonym for "misrepresent your credentials and lie about your experience." In other words, it's not related to scamming people, but rather avoiding the self-fulfilling prophecy that results in lacking confidence or being a failure.
I can't image anyone paying someone 150K/yr that has little to no experience, or is just a 'bootcamp' coder.

Around here, the average salary for a software engineer is 60K/yr. I only came into the average after working for 2.5 years in the field (and after working for 1+ years self-teaching at home). Started at about half the average.

Where is it that people are paying junior developers 150K/yr?
I use an erasable notebook [1] for my scribbling. I find it quite good for sketching a quick diagram /prototyping, short-term todos, mindmapping and brainstorming. I don't think it's good for long term journaling (a proper notebook would be better).

Having an erasable pen solves my problem of making tons of stupid spelling mistakes, being guilty of wasting paper and losing them in a giant pile of worthless annotation. For me it's more helpful to have some of my working ideas physically in front of me instead of hidden behind another window or virtual desktop.

My particular brand of erasable notebook (Whynote) also have detachable sheets, so I'm not bound to the linearity of a conventional notebook (I not super fan of constantly having to turn pages).

[1] http://www.whynote.ch or http://www.wipebook.com or http://www.magicwhiteboard.co.uk/category/magic-notebook
Those Kaspersky permissions look like permissions on the payload you can create with Metasploit...
If people entered their good passwords on your site without noticing that it was unencrypted, then great, they should now consider that password compromised... As a user, as soon as I notice it's unencrypted, I'm _going_ assume the password is also probably not encrypted nor salted, and other users will probably have done so.

(Of course, even better would be a different password per site, but...)
The right to freedom from search is not about envelopes. Arguments about cleartext online email cannot stem from paper equivalents - it must be about intent, how it affects our lives, not some rule-lawyering view.

Further, when govt attempts to prevent citizens from putting email into secure envelopes then its clear what's going on. Its goes from "I can easily read your email; thus its not protected" to "You must submit all you email for inspection!" That's clearly the sort of thing the 4th amendment is intended to protect from.
Somehow I doubt the tweeting will be done from 'his' phone anymore. If still from a phone, I imagine a sandboxed one at least. Too common of an app/api/interface to assume its not exploited many ways now. Bleed through of info on android and apple are still huge known issues. A discrete phone, network, and account per-insecure-app seems to be a workable policy in his case if history bears.
How to Embrace Constant Change in Growth, by Brian Balfour
It's good to see satire and parody thriving in the age of Trump
Well, you could use something like a smart pen to automatically mirror everything you write on paper to Evernote. Here's one: https://www.livescribe.com/en-us/smartpen/ls3/
3 years later are still ~200,000 services vulnerable to Heartbleed
Blame the parents who never bothered to teach their children how to properly behave in society.

"Why should I have to give up my seat to someone just because they didn't use birth control?"
Just classify everything then. Problem solved.
This somehow never fails to anger me with HBO as well. Why are you interrupting a service I'm paying for to advertise...the service? They could just have a previews section in their apps and call it good.
The United States of Artificial Intelligence Startups
There are, broadly, two questions here. I don't have any insight on the first, but I do on the second.

One is whether the existing solution (asking) works well. I wouldn't know, and I'm fully prepared to believe that it doesn't. The old "breaching experiments" about asking for someone's subway seat come to mind - asking for a seat while pregnant is very different from asking for one with no reason, but there's still a strong impulse against asking strangers for concessions. Add in the possibility of a hostile response, and I certainly won't be making fun of anyone for "not just talking".

But the second question is whether the solution works any better. The requirements for that are "people download the app, keep location and bluetooth on, then notice the alert and respond". That, simply put, isn't going to happen. You don't have to tell me what the product is - just knowing it's a two-sided 'market', where one side is "do all of these tasks without a reward", I can tell you that adoption will never be high enough to count on the app (unless someone enforces its use).

I don't object to someone making this app, though I'm a bit uncomfortable with them charging for a product which will work approximately never (even for charity). But it feels more like an art/awareness project than an actual tool - it's motivation to consider the problem, but I can't see any road for it to be a solution.
> Marco Polo on the other hand cost a fuck ton and I've yet to meet anyone who really liked it.

My wife's pitch to try to get me to watch that was "it's pretty good when Marco Polo's not in the scene". Didn't work.
RNN contemplates aging: Age away
Also, in that same article you linked where the former News of the World reporter Graham Johnson recounts his suspicions, Phil Hall, the former editor denies being coerced by Murdoch into not publishing the story:

> I can vaguely remember that story. I do remember that Roger Insall worked on it and I remember it was not published. My only recollection is that the only reason we wouldn't publish it was because of legal reasons. He said Mr Murdoch never asked him to spike stories. News International, publisher of the NOTW, made no comment.

This does not really lend credibility to the rumours bandied about by a tabloid hack.
I had to read that several times before I realized she didn't actually have such an app and now I an wondering if it would help people to make one.
CIA material is extremely time-sensitive. Anything a year or two stale is probably fine to expose. In fact the attempt to hide every CIA activity from public scrutiny is so repressing and dangerous to a free society, that some risk is certainly warranted. Release the documents.
>I did not see any reference saying he emigrated because of wanting to scuba dive.

Then read up more about his life. There are multiple reasons he left the UK. He stated scuba diving in many of his works. Another potential reason was that he was gay, and the UK was not gay friendly at the time (reference Alan Turing).
If people are unlikely to move when asked they're unlikely to install and app that tells them to move either.
When you ship a product to millions of customers, you don't "expect" or assume anything. You have your own people, on your payroll, test parts before they get used.
How Bullshitters Not Just Survive But Thrive (2016)
> should nobody be able to write their opinion about a sporting event

A better analogy would be someone starting a medical blog after having read a book or two and crafting a profile for it that gives the reader the impression that they're some kind of medical professional. This is in effect what these medium bloggers do when they claim to be a "fullstack" developer specializing in RoR, JS, React, Node.js, etc. despite having only graduated from a bootcamp last week.

> While arguable not 'commendable' is it 100% of the time reprehensible?

I never said it was reprehensible, but it's unfortunate that the people whose voices are heard the most are generally the least worth hearing, that many of the best programmers never blog at all while these incompetents drone on and on, and that many of the best programmer blogs, such as Pershing on Programming, aren't read.
(Data) TrumpEffect? Tech Jobs SV Workers Think Will Vanish Under Trump
> The surveillance laws are introduced because of increasing terrorism.

The terrorism is a convenient excuse.
He was talking about things in China like

Poisonous air - "pollution levels hovering over 12 times the level recommended by the World Health Organization"

http://theweek.com/articles/672007/filth-breathe-china

Poisonous food: "Fake Chinese seasoning ring, operating for 10 years using cancerous industrial ingredients"

http://shanghaiist.com/2017/01/17/fake_seasoning_factories.p...

Dirty water: "Shanghai water supply hit by 100-tonne wave of garbage"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/23/shanghai-water...
Signs of Alien Air Herald a New Era of Exoplanet Discoveries
Meet Phoenix: A Rails-Like Framework for Modern Web Apps
You already can at Costco, so this seems logical. Many customers will always prefer a "non-dealership" due to the long history of pushy shady salespeople, which if my last 3 visits tell me anything, is still very deserved ( in north america ).
That is incredibly pretentious of you. It works just fine under Wine and, arguably, better than the native LastPass client on Linux.
I agree with you.
I actually misread first before sharing the article and then read "these databases are MongoDB instances that feature no administrator password and are exposed to external connections from the internet"
If you configure a DB with admin access to the internet and no password, you are basically asking people to vandalise/temper with your DB.
Ooh, that sounds cool. Could you tell me about how you did presence detection?
Obviously, "Lane Following Autopilot using my brain and controls theory" would not make it to the top of HN. Welcome to the new era where Tensorflow replaces Lyapunov and ML spares you the need of understanding hard problems... until you need guarantees and safety... but but it's ok let's add more data.
Facebook Wants “Thumb-Stopping Content” – Here Is How to Get It
SQL Server Index Tuning
Probably right. That was a year ago, and idk whether phone was up-to-date (though it was 'new'). Relatively cheap phones take no updates, is that still true?
To be sure, I didn't say anything about the effectiveness of harsher sentencing on addictive substances (as I'm not very well read on this subject), but that's the intent of coming down harder on endemics caused by substances that are cheap to produce and quick to gain usage.
no ty!
SNAP IPO Will Disappoint, Punish Tech Valuations
No, apps just ask upfront for all their permissions, only now in several separate windows. And if you will deny app even one thing it asks it won't work. So nothing really changed with fine grained permissions.
Hmm, so let's say I'm hosting my static files on S3. I've currently got CloudFlare setup in front of it but that apparently doesn't help.

Anything I can do other than not using S3?
1. Which government did this Recall? In the US all Recalls were Voluntary as defined under US CPSC Rules

2. None of the phones "Exploded" they caught fire, big difference

3. What exactly do you believe they should have have done differently
They seem to be a government contractor.
Actually pretty fun if you like doodling/experimenting with your handwriting style. Plus you can draw your own little emojis and stuff
> trivially done using control algorithms

Is it really trivial? Honest question... Which control algorithms are you speaking of?
The article if a mixed bag. I use a combination of paper and electronic note-taking. Being dogmatic about paper is as nearsighted as trumpeting some specific software solution.

For example, the article states, correctly, that whiteboards dominate workplace collaborative text and drawing. It is also true that electronic whiteboards are a repeated failure over multiple product generations. But this ignores the ubiquity of smartphone cameras. Now people take pictures of whiteboards and share the images and transcribe the important text.

Cameras have mostly superseded dedicated document scanning machines. Checks, receipts, signed NDAs, etc. are often managed using document imaging, but the document imaging product category has largely dissolved into our smartphones and apps.

I'm not picky about software. I used to use any text editor to make lists, and have settled on Keep for electronic lists. Having reusable shopping lists makes Keep a winner over paper for that application. But I also keep a pocket pen and a small notebook in my pockets. There are times I can't keep up with note taking. There are also times when I need to extract a short list of tasks to be done in a morning, and doing that on paper is usually the easiest way to do it.
This is probably more possible now given the ease with which a fraud can get someone else to do their work for them (I remember a news story doing the rounds of an experienced developer doing all of this and outsourcing all their work to India).

But of course, this isn't new behavior and because we work in a job which is seen as well paid, so fraudsters will try to get something for nothing.

See: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Brillant_Paula_Bean