skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's newsworthy in this case because of the initial refusal.

Not because it adds anything substantial to the privacy debate, but because it means we won't get to see if their argument would be held up by the court.
I guess it might be a cultural thing, but it seemed pretty obvious to me that it's something in the style of Mediafire/RapidShare/Hostr, before they all went to crap.
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Looks like either a type on their page or code. Because 10 Gb == 1.25GB. Mixing bits and bytes somewhere
The Inspirion line is not equivalent to Dell's Precision workstation line.

One difference is the warranty (US). Precisions come with three year next-business-day onsite warranties standard (and are upgradable from there with more years and better response). Other differences include the availability of Xeon CPU's, ECC RAM, system certification, and 'professional' GPU's.
His memoir Little Wilson and Big God is most interesting also.
I'm a lawyer by training, although I no longer practice law, and what I'll say is that when you read enough of these you get pretty good at piecing it together provided that you have some grounding in the existing law (since it's very heavy on amending language). This problem has been on my list for a long time, I've just never had enough time to think it all through. It's probably more approachable now versus 5-10 years ago given the advances in NLP, which at least in my mind, was the barrier on getting started.

The navigational references are not always consistent. They're human-readable, but not really marked up for straight machine processing. Given that you'd probably never get the Federal government to move toward some kind of standard markup, I think any solution would be AI-driven (not to overuse the buzzword, but I think it fits).

One day I'll get started on this. I have no idea how it could make any money, but I've been interested in it since law school.

I'm hesitant to ask who else wants to work on this, because by this evening, this will be back in the category of things I don't have time to look at.
Why Being Wrong Can Be Right: Magical Warfare Technologies and False Beliefs
Folks, this is not uncommon for the ad industry. Political entities run a lot of ads, and they don't want to disclose what they are doing to their opponents. The obvious answer is to have one team for Dems, one team for GOP, and a team for orgs (since coordination with candidates is illegal).
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You might take a look at Julia Evans' writing as an example of this, learn, write, learn some more. Your blog doesn't have to be a reference textbook on a topic, but a log of your explorations on whatever topics you find interesting. If you have something incorrect, the worst case is nobody reads it. Best case is you start a discussion with a reader and learn something.

https://mobile.twitter.com/b0rk

http://jvns.ca/
In the UK, we have the right to remain silent when questioned by a police officer. But in 1994, the wording was changed to include: "You do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_silence_in_England_an...
> But considering that Wikileaks is essentially a Russian intelligence services front at this point

Trump is crazy & I'm willing to believe the Russians helped him, but this is an equally baseless accusation.

Wikileaks has a history of pissing off both the left & right in the United States. I have a hard time believing the claims they're part of the Republican party.
> The audio Amazon receives is from only-just-barely-before the wakeword up to and through the command or timeout expiration.

I wonder, how on earth do you know that, that you are able to dismiss it with such confidence as a non-issue. That's the problem with proprietary systems (proprietary always-on microphones at that). I would be surprised if they weren't actually listening and analysing and storing data from the microphone feed at all times.
HPE is buying the flash storage company Nimble Storage for $1B
Try changing the user agent string of the requests library to something more legit, like a Chrome user agent string. Makes most websites less suspicious of your traffic.
The United States Department of Justice disagrees with you:

https://www.nij.gov/five-things/pages/deterrence.aspx

(NIJ is research arm of the DOJ)
The ends may justify the means in abstract, but they don't among humans.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/uv/ends_dont_justify_means_among_hum...
Link to the actual WikiLeaks release and discussion can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13810015
The position is no longer open.
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My girlfriend bought me a sous-vide stick for christmas https://anovaculinary.com/ I'm loving it, and was just trying to figure out how to make yoghurt in it. I was thinking a pot inside a cambro container or a bunch of mason jars in the cambro.

An instant pot is an interesting choice. We have an old-fashioned pressure cooker at home, which doesn't get nearly enough use.
As usual, I like Matt Levine's take on this : https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-06/cargo-blo....

The problem to be solved here is not chiefly technological: It's getting all of those agencies to agree to a single messaging protocol. That's hard! They have long experience of using their own protocols (e.g., paper), and little incentive to switch to Maersk's. Calling the new protocol a "blockchain" makes it sound sexier, and so more likely to be adopted.
What do you think changed? Did PG change his view on things, or did the industry change?

A LOT can happen over 15+ years, and considering how fast SV and the tech industry moves, that's almost an eternity.
Our overcrowded prisons and high prisoner-per-capita rate stands as one piece of evidence against that. We keep throwing people in jail for long periods of time, but people keep committing crimes and former criminals keep committing crimes again at a higher rate than other countries whose criminal justice programs focus on rehabilitation instead of punishment. In fact, the ability for ex-convicts to get jobs after they're released is associated with lower rates of recidivism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism#Employment_and_reci...)

You say that your comment will be very unpopular with HN, but it seems to me that it's actually very unpopular with facts and statistics.
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Makes me realize that 4chan has been eerily silent over the last years. Wouldn't mind if they rediscovered their social responsibility, for teh lulz.
Indeed! My bad, thanks for pointing it out.
I tried writing a lang called Slang where every statement was a search query against an corpus of data and methods that were either imported or generated by the active program. Under a certain threshold of query-match accuracy, it would abort with an exception. I could never make it work and it's probably a bad idea that I should try 5 or 6 more times.
You are right, but opinion of Mozilla and opinion about Uber is always a favorite topic for discussion.
Not a very good article. At the end of the article they even say "While traditional interviews aren't going away any time soon..."

So which is it? The job interview will soon be dead or it's not going away anytime soon? Stupid clickbait headlines.
Having now looked up the difference between the two (I've only ever seen pressure canners, with the locking lids and real pressure gauges, but which everyone I know calls a pressure cooker), I'm now curious what in the world you would use a plain pressure cooker for? It seems like a strictly worse piece of equipment.
HPE to buy Nimble Storage for $1.09B
> It makes sense. Musicians and singers have to audition. Actors have to audition. The people employing them don't sit down and dart scripted questions their way. They want to see them play, sing, perform. Doesn't it make sense to audition a prospective employee for the same reasons, before they sign an offer letter?

No, that doesn't make sense AT ALL. Musicians, actors and other purveyors of the Arts deal in a subjective and extremely hand-wavy set of skills (not denigrating them at all, just saying) that are oftentimes equally skilled as one another and the "choice" depends on which one fits the given role/piece you have in mind for them.

Software developers are more closely related to skilled craftsmen, even if the fruits of our craft aren't as tactile as a nice table or chair. The current Interview scheme has it's issues, but I can't see how this is improving on a single element of that.
We weren't speculating before - we were trusting them - Intel has long produced the entire chip and chipset (i.e. the entire path between the CPU and the network interface). They could have implemented backdoors previously.

All that's changed is that they are implementing function which makes it obvious that this is possible.
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"Republican Party"? OP said Russian intelligence.
Indeed I have: https://tkatchev.bitbucket.io/tab/

Because awk sucks and SQL is too constraining.
i can go on all day about this, but this comment has summarised it nicely, you have to understand that to be compliant with DO-178b/c you need to do an un-godly amount of v&v and other things that literally cost millions $ per quarter in a span of a single project, c is much easier to prove right and can easily achieve a good test coverage, c++ on the otherhand is considered a "high level language" and is used for instrument panels and such things, down the stack however you will see people using much more conservative languages.
Comparing it to a tape recorder is interesting. If we consider this device to be the same as a tape recorder for the purpose of admission of evidence:
(1) In some states, by having this device and turning it on you have now indeed consented for the conversation to be recorded - which would alarm most users
(2) In other states, it is illegal for the device to be functioning without consent of all who are conversing, and the recording is thus inadmissable as evidence.
Quite the opposite of what I think you're implying by that comparison. We keep seeing that treating new technology under previous legal definitions is very unsteady ground. You can see how comparison to previous technology would protect privacy and hinder investigation in this case, but on the other hand it makes me think of compelling you to give up encryption keys because well, they're not "papers" like the 4th amendment refers to (an argument which HAS been used before). So given that, how am I supposed to know what my actual rights are in a case like this, when it's so freely interpreted either way depending on the specific case?
But also offsetting credits from dedup.
So record the audio 24/7 and compress and send once an hour? Once a day? Or eliminate empty space first. The files wouldn't be that big
The guy went from "cryptoanarchy" to having a TV show on RT(a propaganda network)and saying Russia has "vibrant" criticism of Putin's regime (beyond absurd). Not to mention him somehow being able to facilitate Snowden's entry into Russia.

I'm no fan of imperialist American foreign policy, but Russia is just as grotesque.

http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2016/12/23/news/assange_wiki...
>What exactly in the admittedly shortened list am I supposed to be upset about? It makes no distinction between US citizens and overseas parties. If these actions are being done domestically against US citizens, with no just cause sure I will get upset, but that has yet to be seen.

From the Reppublica article: "Three years ago the news that the Agency had spied on the US Senate intelligence committee's years-long effort to investigate CIA's tortures by penetrating the computers of the committee staff members sparked public outrage and political fury."
But of course. Corporations are amoral entities. They do whatever it is that they calculate to yield the highest expected profit. They will do good things only insofar as it happens to coincide with what's most profitable (as is the case). If the most profitable course of action was to murder children and they could do it without hurting profits via breaking the law or getting bad PR, they would do it (as at any rate they do in places where committing atrocities is the unpunished, most profitable course of action).
Read the headline and then decide 'I don't want to know' and move on. If you're issue is knowing that they've even got a public position on an issue that's different but if the issue is just that you don't want to know their position, don't read it.
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The regulatory patchwork makes it difficult. Even if some states have authorized it, you still have individual regulators in those states themselves. I work in a different type of insurance, but even in my space, writing one insurance contract that satisfies two sets of regulators isn't easy.

A full blown shift to federal regulation of insurance is probably too much to ask - and frankly, the state regulated system we have today is more consumer-friendly so I doubt anyone except insurance companies wants to give that up. We could, however, do with a federal definition of a basic policy that is authorized to market in all 50 states. Something (and I'm simplifying) like what Switzerland does with a legally defined minimum set of coverage that all policies must offer - the Swiss also regulate the pricing of that contract, but let's set that aside for now and start with price competition on a defined minimum coverage.
I'd love to see work on how to visualize processes
On the iPhone the margins to the edge of the page don't feel large enough and I keep thinking the words are bleeding off the edges of the screen.
Yes and for all you know that table you bought could include a large battery, LTE receiver, and a microphone and could be recording your every sound as well.

There's a limit to how much paranoia is warranted, and in this case I'm firmly in the "it's not" column. Yes, it could be recording your every sound for months on end and uploading it to evil amazon, but not only would they be in some hot water legally in some areas, but the media would have a fucking field day with it, and for what gain?

To be able to listen in on your conversations?

And if you want to argue that it could be remotely updated to target you to always record that data, you could always be targeted by inserting a microphone into anything else of yours (good 'ole bugs).

You don't need to like them, you don't need to own them, and you don't need to be somewhere that has them, but some of us see utility in devices like this. And to me it's well worth the trade off that my recordings could be used in a court of law when requested with a warrant and I agreed to it.
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While the article certainly does highlight some disturbing trends, it reads like a hit piece against Silicon Valley. It focuses on a very narrow slice of the population that uses these apps.

It appears she didn't visit a co-working facility or even a coffeeshop as research. That would go against her narrative of the anti-social, nerdy shut-in. She also neglects to talk about the costs of commuting, namely that the longer the drive one has, the more likely they are to have higher levels of obesity, cholesterol, pain, fatigue and anxiety. For those with mid to low incomes, commutes can eat up 9% of one's income. They are also adding to gridlock and pollution.

The article only looks at a small cross-section of what appears to be anti She declines to write about the benefits of being a remote worker. The digital nomad movement is the diametric opposite of a shut-in. Parents of newborn children who work remote now get to be around their children instead of shuttling them off to daycare. These services sound awesome. I don't like doing dishes, washing my clothes, or cleaning my apartment. I don't see any virtue in doing mindless labor that I personally find annoying at best. If I want to do something repetitive that doesn't require higher cognitive abilities, I exercise. It has the benefit of clearing my head/bringing mindfulness. Isn't that the point of technology?

I, personally, have cut down drastically on driving. I am no longer adding to gridlock or spewing pollution into the air. I'm much healthier since I cook for myself more often and I exercise more. I love the flexibility it gives my life. I don't have to take a vacation day for mundane errands like going to the doctor, going to court, picking up a friend or relative from the airport, etc. I've more hobbies and explored more interests in one year of remote work than I did the previous 10 years. The greatest benefit is that it makes me MORE social. I get to see the people who are important to me in life the most and not spend most of my social time with people who I' am lukewarm about. I just didn't have any energy or motivation to do anything but veg out in front of the TV when I drove home through LA traffic from work.

The one downside I was that I found myself consuming more cable news/infotainment. This raised my level of righteous indignation and more and more of my conversations started to become intense debates with my positions formed by emotional responses. However, I fixed this by not watching as much Bloomberg and avoided media intended to cause outrage.

As a number of these services will be automated in the future, her conclusion that we are headed towards a stratified society with on-demand workers being reduced to servants in the Guilted Era is just flat out wrong. I am fearful of the future stratification of society, but that's due to people being displaced from work and not the issues
This was due to an old client-side limit that hadn't been updated.

It's been changed and you can now upload files up to 10.2 GB, thanks for pointing it out.
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Three week "paid trials" -- so they're only going to be able to hire people who have already quit their jobs and who have stopped interviewing elsewhere. Nice power structure there; all the risk is on the applicant. Wonder how many experienced engineers they're able to hire?
I would never tell them anything, but I have listened to the recording and pressed '1' to speak to a representative and when I do that, nobody ever picks up. It's baffling.
You might be surprised by how technical fine art really is. I've learned as much about programming from painting in the last two years as from programming.
guys, Rapidshare and Megaupload, once pinnacle of pirate file sharing, are now dead. (I miss them so much :))
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Not necessarily true. We've been looking for a medior frontend dev with Magento experience (any will do) for almost a year, no one to be found.
Before reading, I thought it was going to claim that deep learning applied to a candidate's social media footprint would develop an accurate profile of the applicant's personality, intelligence, psychological stability, etc, because I think that's what might replace a job interview.

Was disappointed.
> I'm not sure how Trump's election is going to change that; if anything it might produce the opposite effect since these agencies seem to be feuding with Trump on some level

A big part of Trump's appeal is that he's seen as anti-establishment. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that he may make significant changes at those agencies as a result of their "feuding" with him.

> wikieaks is a pro-Trump organization

I don't believe that for a moment. WikiLeaks helped Trump's campaign, certainly - but their reason for doing so was orthogonal to Trump himself.

If WikiLeak's behavior during the 2016 election was driven by anything personal or partisan, I would say it was Assange's own personal vendetta against Hillary Clinton.
That sounds horrible indeed, I think I would just walk out if I was faced with such an interview.
Ada isn't my favourite language to code in. But if I was tasked to build something safety-critical, I would strongly consider Ada SPARK [1] among the possible tools to use.

[1] http://www.spark-2014.org/about
Deep down I believe GIMP's ergonomy is a plot to push people to write Scheme DSLs.
Battery life on the Precisions tends to be pretty weak and weight and bulk high. These will tend to work against or rule out a number of use cases. On the other hand, raw compute is substantially greater and that's a benefit of the tradeoffs.
What kind of recipes do you like to use?

(I just bought one after reading this thread hehe)
I created http://jogolang.org, mostly because I was interested in learning how compilers worked. I was also motivated by the lack of simple, type-safe, ahead-of-time-compiled programming languages for writing video games. Now the project is kind of dead, but I certainly learned a lot about parsers, code generation, optimizations, SSA, and register allocation!
Evidence please? All the research I have seen suggests harsh punishments do little to deter crime. See e.g. this National Institute of Justice page as a jumping-off point:
https://www.nij.gov/five-things/pages/deterrence.aspx
The page states 10 GB (not Gb).
To be completely correct the precise limit is 10.2 GiB.
So why are you here? To laugh at people looking for solutions to problems using well-defined means, as opposed to continuing in the usual ambiguous, gut-feeling-driven thinking?

I for one like this kind of "technomyopia", because it works off a framework that lets humans eventually figure things out.
Perhaps Mozilla could take a cue from OK Cupid, which blocked Firefox to protest Eich's nomination as Mozilla's CEO, and stop rendering US government websites or perhaps a random list of websites related to Trump or his supporters. Then a Trump-supporting CEO of some ISP can throttle HTTP traffic issued by Mozilla. Then a Trump-opposing CPU manufacturer can build into their hardware some logic detecting the word "Trump" preceded by a positive adjective from a list and hard-reset the CPU. Then a Trump-supporting DRAM controller vendor can drop writes to DRAM if the burst contains the word "Clinton."

And then perhaps users, consumers and other innocent bystanders will finally rise as one and stake all these people. And we shall have peace.
>> So, now, you get to worry about anybody else that might have this toolset.

You also have to consider who has the capability to actually use these tools - its not like they come with a user manual. Could Joe Schmo download these and start using them tomorrow? Probably not.

Also, I'm pretty sure this isn't "the entire hacking capacity of the CIA". If you consider all the stuff that came out with the Snowden leaks, you'd think this is more likely the tip of the iceberg in terms of tools they're currently using. I would think they're developing new tools and techniques daily.
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It's great to see the Instant Pot on Hacker News.

A couple of key takeaways:

- There's no marketing magic here, this is just a great product.

- It's ugly, and the interface is weird. Doesn't matter, it gets the job done.

- Pressure cookers have been around for a long time, they're a really great cooking technology marred by some serious safety and inconvenience issues. There are a bunch of companies competing in Sous Vide right now (the hot new cooking trend) but the Instant Pot guys just took old technology and made it slightly better.

edit: formatting
I'm operating DropJar.om and I can say it's a big headache. For some reason I keep getting DMCA notices from all kinds of lawyers and the occasional take down notice from police when ISIS videos are uploaded there. No income and tons of complaints. http://dropjar.com
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Check this one out, it is the classic in book on causal inference: https://www.amazon.com/Experimental-Quasi-Experimental-Desig...
Looks like nofile.io is depending on cloudflare. Which, I assume doesn't jive with their TOS "SECTION 10: LIMITATION ON NON-HTML CACHING" policy.