skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Justice in my view is the presumption of innocence, with the duty to demonstrate guilt beyond reasonable doubt placed on the prosecution. Forcing accused to decrypt data obviously helps the prosecution, but so would warrantless searches, and I oppose both for precisely the same reason.

Warrantless searches are unjust because the police can come in and execute them without oversight. In this case, the neutral overseer (the court) has directed the accused to comply with a request from the investigators.

Warrants are a check against rampant tyranny. They are issued or declined by an independent judicial officer whose incentives are, at least theoretically, not aligned to favor either party.

Warrants don't exist because we think it's unfair to comply with reasonable requests from the organs of the state in the their pursuit of justice, even when you're among the accused. Rather, they exist to make sure that the requests remain reasonable and fair and serve the interests of justice.

Like many things in our government, these are checks to limit and constrain the power of distinct government bodies and ensure that they do not get out of control. It is incorrect to assume that these restrictions exist for the convenience of criminal suspects, because they don't.
There have been a lot of shenanigans from the admins/mods over the past year or so, mostly related to the popularity of the pro-Trump subreddit and their resulting chagrin. There have been several thinly-veiled rule changes and algorithm changes aimed at reducing the number of pro-Trump postings that appear on the main homepage and generally lowering the visibility of that subreddit. At one point, the CEO manually edited some comments in the database that were critical of him. It all comes across as somewhat shady and untrustworthy. They could just come out and ban or quarantine the subreddit, but instead they've chose to subversively go Digg-mode and essentially start curating what users see rather than allowing it to rise/fall organically.
But we've engaged with those motivations, and found them lacking -- so libsodium is still what tqbf and I recommend. (Not NaCl! libsodium is sufficiently interestingly different that you should use it, not NaCl.)

It is not true that any attempt at new crypto software will just be shut down; for example, I think Noise is awesome. I think STROBE is pretty cool too, but I'm not telling people to implement STROBE. I'm telling people to use libsodium. Telling people to use the probably-already-packaged, carefully reviewed, random-nonce supporting package they had available yesterday _is_ solid engineering advance, and I stand by that claim.
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Agreed. If they were told to hit a certain set of milestones, and they did, I don't see why its an issue after the fact. The people that received the bonuses did their job and deserve what they were promised.

After hitting all those milestones and not seeing a car on the road, I can imagine that as a reason to be disgruntled and wanting to move to another company.
"NATO is an illusion" - http://www.businessinsider.com/george-friedman-says-nato-is-...
Sure, I'm at work right now, but I could write up some stuff about my experience later.
Most large cities, except for Hong Kong, still have plenty of room to build up. You don't tear down the 20-floor buildings to build the 40-floor ones, you tear down the 6-floor ones in the next neighborhood. It's much cheaper to buy them out.
We're seeing 30-50% of visitors blocking Google Analytics client side tracking at 80000hours.org. Target audience is university educated 18-30 year olds, ~100K unique visitors / month.

The folks at Segment.io warn their users to expect ~20%, with the caveat that blocking rates vary wildly between demographics [1].

[1] https://community.segment.com/t/1889n1/how-common-is-client-...
glucose from sugar cane or corn

Is there meaningful mass production of glucose (or dextrose) from corn? Corn syrup is higher in fructose, which is metabolized very differently from glucose.
Is hydro more dangerous than nuclear? The Banqiao and Shimantan Dams killed 171k people, whereas Chernobyl killed 30 people directly plus an increase in cancer risk. No one died directly at Fukushima, though zero to hundreds could from radiation exposure depending on the estimates. About 18k died in the tsunami.

(I just realized the Oroville Dam is for a reservoir rather than power generation, but the risks are similar.)
Remember that it's mandatory to disclose to visitors that your site uses Google Analytics in their T&C's https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html (section 7, 'Privacy'). I don't see a privacy policy on this Google employee's page but perhaps they have a special exemption?

Anyhow, for many websites you'll get more accurate traffic data with GoAccess parsing your logs and showing you page views and basic demographic data. Use it alongside Google Analytics if you must, to see the exact difference between what Google tells you your page views were versus what your server tells you.
> TLS and most configs of VPN protocols were shown to be easily compromised.

This is a major claim to be making, and it is false. It is not helpful to spread misinformation like this.
>> Neither company can keep pace with Sony and Zeiss.

I'm a fan of Sony cameras, but I would only go so far as to say that Sony's sensors are great.

I find some of Sony's handling and physical camera design choices to be a little questionable, especially when compared to Olympus, Panasonic and Fuji.
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>This should be a basic fundamental right of the accused

Well, it's not, and that's a terribly naive viewpoint. This is akin to a legal search. Are you also against those? How is this any different than compelling a suspect to e.g. open a safe in their home?
When it comes to "curated" list like this, the who the curator is more important that what they curate. Who is Kevin Deldycke, and why should I value his judgement?
Isn't it a temporary ban?
Epic! I take it back in that case.

Perhaps making it more clear that you're the creators in that case? Unless I'm being my ignorant self again :)
your headline is good except the term "serverless".
please drop it.
The term means much more than "not hosting it on a server". As somebody pointed out, "embedded datastore" may be a better term.
Are the chatbots a hype? why now?
Yeah, it's too bad. I wish the Nikon 1 was a better camera (I have a couple of nice lenses for my Nikon DSLR).

I ended up getting a Fuji X-T1 a couple months ago (discounted since the X-T2 is out). I need to get new glass but the lenses I've gotten are fantastic and it's fun as hell to shoot with.

I'd still consider buying a mirrorless Nikon at some point, but they need to step up their game a bit.
Apple’s Fall – The Dawn of Microsoft Fans
FWIW; OP posted that article and it got on HN where said reddit thread was linked; it is not accurate to describe this as "digging through their reddit history" as if there's some kind of weird malicious character assassination thing going on.
Stupid hacks from stupidhackathon.se
I definitely agree that going around adopting freshly written and poorly tested crypto libraries is A BAD IDEA EVERY TIME. Absolutely no argument there.

I still got a very "stop what you're doing and move on" vibe from the parent comment as well as the response on the Reddit thread, and I feel that it wasn't fair in this case.

I apologize if I misunderstood.
No, excellent point, thanks. Will think of an elegant way to do that :)
We now know why mosquitoes find malaria victims so tasty
How does "spiritual" junk like this get on the hackernews front page? Does a substantial portion of the readership follow woo like this?

I think it's time to do some bayesian filtering or something.
To boost cinema attendance, China wages war on critics
Whoops, must have missed that, my bad!
MIT Media Lab Experiment: NiftyFifty. Get 50 People 50 States to call Congress
Python or JS depending of the training.

People used their laptop.

The others were using PyCharm, notepad++ or Sublime Text.

Users of notepad are the slowest of all though. They are usually beginners.
I am not sure if law enforcement agencies actually give a damn about EULA. They dont give a flying F about constitution and bill of rights on regular basis I find it hard to believe they actually give much damn about EULA especially when they are the only customer that company has.
TLDR: OP owns librarian.net and describes what a master librarian does.
Interesting thought experiment, but ultimately flawed. For this to make any sense, you first need to answer a question: Why are the authorities looking at Alice's computer in the first place?

Also, it's extrapolating a lot from a case that's actually a fair bit less sinister than what you're suggestion. Facts of this particular case here are that:

1. The guy was a suspect to begin with, and they had
enough evidence of him doing something wrong (from
the Usenet side of the operation) that they got a
warrant to search his computer.
2. The disks are encrypted with off-the-shelf OS-provided
full-disk encryption, which is relatively easy to verify,
rather than some "purely random data that might or might
not be encrypted".
3. At no point has he denied having access to the keys (at
which point it would essentially stop being a 5th amendment
case).

Now, I'm actually of the opinion that he should _not_ have to decrypt those disks, but that's strictly a fifth amendment thing, rather than the more convoluted scenario you're suggesting.
Makes sense. Thanks. It seems as if what I would consider "natural usage" is a bit different than yours. I don't use my phone to access anything critical -- the attack surface is too big and changes too rapidly (sometimes outside of my control) for me to keep track of -- and I wouldn't worry about safety when checking a flight.
Nothing illegal, and nothing that would impact my own health in a permanent way. Otherwise yes, everything and everyone has a price.
An easy way to boost potassium is to replace table salt (sodium chloride) with potassium chloride. For example, Morton's Lite Salt (in the USA at least) is half-and-half.
Actually I would glad to have many of those people are friends I am just worried that US government will target me.
I didn't after all these years! They should have made it the default. I mean who prefers to click more than they need to!
I agree the term is confusing now that "serverless" has a cloud-related definition, but in the database world, it is traditionally one of the terms used as an antonym to "client/server database". See, for example: https://sqlite.org/serverless.html
Who's your attacker? How determined is your attacker to see you suffer?

If your attacker is a well funded government agency it doesn't matter if you're legally in the right, they're going to fuck you over.

In this case they're going to ask for the key; or they're going to ask for the unencrypted material; and destruction of either is destruction of evidence and contempt of court.
The Luddites and the textile industry come immediately to mind.

"At one time there were more British soldiers fighting the Luddites than there were fighting Napoleon on the Iberian Peninsula."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
Not sure if choice of domain name is too OT, but ...

Anyone else read the domain name as "grow the con"?
Perhaps we can leave the politics out of this one?
Internet firms’ legal immunity is under threat
The book 'Deep Learning' generally refers to deeplearningbook.org, though there are others by that name. Goodfellow, et al, I think of as the canonical.
> To claim that smartphones are a replacement for P&S cameras is I think misguided.

There's a joke that asks, "what is the best camera?" The punchline is, "whichever camera you have with you when you need to take a picture." To me, this captures why smartphones beat P&S, even for vacation photos. The difference in quality just isn't that large. I just spent six months traveling and almost never used my P&S. Even when I had both on me, my phone was just more accessible. And P&S can't match the sharing functionality of a smartphone. Even on vacation, when I take a photo I liked, I want to put it on Instagram without having to use a computer.

I see a market that has no middle. You're either a professional who needs the absolute best quality or you're not and want something that takes acceptable photos as quickly as possible. Other than that, there's only the specialty market (action, drone, underwater, etc), which is small by comparison. But smartphones are now good enough that the market for P&S is vanishingly small.
Temporary government orders have a habit of becoming permanent ones. (Cf. every temporary tax ever.)
I agree, https to serve software (libraries included) is a must, even if the source is open. (That's not to get into the debate on whether or not to use https for everything, but I am a proponent of that as well).

Since he's running his own server, it should be easy enough to add a certificate from https://letsencrypt.org/
I sold site with indie books and used the money to launch a startup
It's a story how I made a site with 100 indie books, sold it and used the money to launch a service that transforms data from spreadsheets into standalone sites / micro-services

A couple of months ago I launched https://groundera.com — a site that aggregates indie books by entrepreneurs. It got a lot of traction from Reddit, Product Hunt and social networks. A week ago i sold Groundera. Right now I'm working on the new project called Tabledo http://tabledo.com and want to tell you a short story about my path.

When i started working on Groundera, I collected all information in a spreadsheet to better understand the amount of data i had, such as authors, titles, URLs, descriptions, URLs to download books, etc. A prepared an image to show you the amount of data http://i.imgur.com/PccjWiY.png

Then with my partner, we built a simple site engine that transformed data from a spreadsheet into a site. It was magic. You add a spreadsheet URL, push a sync button, and a site with hundreds of pages is alive. Want to remove a book or add description? Update the spreadsheet and push the sync button!

When we sold Groundera, i started thinking of what to do next. I love the solution we built. And I suggested we can rebuild the site engine from scratch and launch a service that can transforms spreadsheets into standalone sites.

Now my partner works on software for Tabledo and I do business development. I did simple landing page and got 6 clients (from Betalist) who paid $10/m for the solution. We already made installations for them. Yes, the service isn't ready, but we can make installations by our hands. It works, people are willing to pay!

For example, one of the clients used our service to launch an MVP of his startup.

If you have spreadsheets you want to turn into sites, let me know. I would be happy to move you to a beta-testers group.
Machine learning basics podcast
I'm creating a podcast on the basics of ML: http://ocdevel.com/podcasts/machine-learning. Audio is an inferior medium to task - but with so much chores/commute/exercise time, there's _hours_ every day one could spend learning - so count this supplementary. I aim to be super high-level and 101, so this is for newbies and unconfidents.

One goal of the podcast is to be a curriculum, where in each episode I recommend "required readings" resources - books/textbooks/courses/etc that I've boiled down from the most common recommendations from around the web. So anyone asking "which maths should I learn? which books & courses would you recommend? which language is best?" - this is for you.

Hope y'all find it useful, tell me if it's crap!
It's good to see the lake level coming down. 896 feet now, four feet below overflow at the emergency spillway.

Don't take the outflow rate number too seriously. The emergency spillway is just a concrete lip with no flow metering. Here's the actual data source information.[1]

[1] https://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/stationInfo?station_id=O...
Your hypothetical business is clearly not built on the requirement of an exit as the only path to success (unless you and I have a profoundly different definition of the word "healthy").

If the business is healthy and you simply want more resources to scale, it absolutely makes sense to entertain an acquisition.

But if you start up knowing full well that the only path to success is through acquisition (that is the idea, on its own, cannot be used to build a sustainable, going concern), then you're simply gambling and contributing to the speculative bubble that is the Valley.

And you're also a heck of a lot more likely to fail.
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Who said development should be free? Paying the person who knows the software most in the world to taylor it to your needs makes all the sense. Paying for copy, in a world where making digital copies is essentially free, does not.

But having access to the source, without permission to modify it nor a perpetual license for using it, doesn't solve any of the problems I listed above. And if they have permission and are doing the modifications themselves, why should they pay the original author?
This is specific case of the more general flaw in a lot of design work - "I have a collection of things, these things always have an X with property Y, so I'll just organize/key them that way".

This works great until property Y is violated... or until you run into one without "an X". Most times you are better off to just start with unique identifiers and avoid breaking logic.
the first falsehood on that list should be that programmers actually believe anything else on the list.

you're all idiots.
Moving from upmarket to down is also hard to do - witness IBM trying to move to PCs from mainframes, and just today, Nikon trying to make a lower range camera (the DL just got canceled due to massive Nikon losses).

In my view, Whole Foods is losing out because while they stuck to Organic with a capital "O", they forgot about the rest of the things people want. Clearly everyone is different, but a regular grocery store has the luxury of catering to most of those ( low cost, wide variety, close by, _and_ organic). Whole Foods only can offer one of those (currently).

So companies like HEB, which have some very nice grocery stores, can easily shift their product mix to fit the neighborhood they serve. That's a huge advantage, and I don't know how WF can fight them and succeed.
> I assumed that the question being asked was is the style with ASCII quotes legal.

My question was actually about the fancy quotes; I found it amusing that they got fanci-fied by the blog software.
No, Drive is about intangible benefits. The connection to salary is secondary.
> for many websites you'll get more accurate traffic data with GoAccess parsing your logs and showing you page views and basic demographic data

Yes but remember that bot traffic may be more of an issue when analysing server side logs (a lot of bots still don't execute JavaScript).

It's hard to know how effective the bot filtering features in GoAccess are compared with those of Google Analytics.
Hi I am currently living in Argentina, willing to do a remote job if you need. I would expect something around 5.5k a month email me if you would be interested. (jcdotinha14 at gmail dot com) I wouldn't mind working for free for the first two weeks to show you my skills.
I don't get it. What do you mean by "direct brain to computer interface" and why it is supposed to "not be comparable to video"? Our eyes are already integrated as closely as possible with our brain and you can easily feed enough pixels into your eyes to utilize your retinas fully. Why do you think that "direct interface" will be any better? How do you envision input/output with that?

I have a lot of doubt about prophecies of "brain/computer merger" when the message itself isn't clear enough for another brain to understand it. Like, how can the message can possibly be clearer if it's "transmitted" (which implies articulation of some sort) ten or hundred times faster?
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Of course. News outlet conflates government policy with emotionally charged tear jerking story, in the hopes of swaying public opinion against said policy. Just because there exists such an angel of a man who would fall under this policy doesn't mean this policy is bad or should not be enacted.
Save the dog from a 70m deep, 35cm wide hole
A real-life engineering problem.

In Turkey, a 3 months-old dog has fallen into a 70 m deep 30 cm wide hole and it's been there for 10 days. People and local government organizations are still trying to save the dog. It is still under 70m deep borehole in Istanbul.

According to tweets, local government branches of saving, rescuing, mining organizations are also trying to save the dog. They still need for more practical ideas.

Here are some information I gathered from tweets of Baris Sengun of Animal Rights Confederation.

Some info: the puppy is 3 months-old Kangal breed. They have considered to dig another hole in parallel. Since the soil is soft and muddy, they've been said it might cause landslide. The dog should't get weight but they normally get 1-1.5 kgs per week. So they feed it under control. They tried nets but it did not fit as it needs to.

The hole: https://twitter.com/MBarisSengun/status/830216289155182592, https://twitter.com/MBarisSengun/status/830038601174044672
Video from the hole: https://twitter.com/MBarisSengun/status/830223838034132993
This didn't work: https://twitter.com/MBarisSengun/status/831126486551764992
Hashtag: https://twitter.com/hashtag/yavrukopekbeykoz?src=hash

Any ideas?
Not a plugin (does uBlock / Adblock even have a concept of plugins?), but rather a simple blocklist.

Just checked, and this list doesn't block comments on hacker news or reddit, just like it doesn't block the wall on facebook or posts on a forum. It would be pointless, because the whole point of those [social] sites is the comments.

I prefer this way because uBlock Origin is already installed and is quite lightweight, so the incremental performance hit is less. I can see your point about UI convenience too. Everyone has their own priorities!

I mostly use it for blocking comments on news and video sites [in my experience typically 99% noise]. Whitelists can be added for individual sites, in the same way that any blocking rule can be whitelisted with custom filter rules.