skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The problems of Intelligence" - the many problems that one might associate with discussions about intelligence. They are indeed numerous.

"are, together, the greatest problem in science and technology." - You probably get this: together, those problems are the "golden ring" (or brass ring - see the carousel metaphor at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_ring) of science.

my paraphrasing would be:

"Intelligence is the greatest problem in science and technology today."
Looking good doesn't automatically translate to being good at politics, but it gives your political success a serious boost, and there is a slew of research that backs this up:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/17/candid...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/opinion/sunday/health-beau...
http://web.mit.edu/polisci/people/faculty/documents/Lawson%2...
http://www.macleans.ca/society/science/the-mysterious-power-...
A lot of genocides have been committed between races that, particularly from an outsider's view, are quite racially similar and nearby.

For example: Hutu/Tutsi, Serbians/Croatians
Is there any hope I'll be able to find a major ISP that doesn't sell my data? (Google Fiber, I wish?)
Because not all SV companies are data whores/pimps?

I know the hot new thing is to get zillions in VC funds to provide some half-assed free service, based on the idea that one day you'll have a heap of users who you can somehow milk for a profit, but once upon a time, tech companies made money by providing useful products and services that people were willing to pay for.
It's mainly an attack surface issue. A process running in a Linux container is just a process running in a regular OS with some extra bells and whistles for resource constraints and isolation. So when it comes to making a kernel call, it's a call directly to the same kernel all of the other containers are calling.

This means the entire kernel/userspace API is the attack surface for a malicious container. Compare that to a VM where the attack surface is the API the hypervisor exposes to a virtual machine.

It's not that the former is necessarily smaller, it's just that the modus operandi in systems administration has always been that if a person executes malicious code as a user on the OS, you better wipe the system because kernel vulnerabilities aren't treated with the same severity of hypervisor vulnerabilities.

This is the reason your containers are actually executed in a dedicated VM if you use something like GCE.
Where do I sign up to get my 20 acres? And do I get free agriculture school? Because capitalists took the land from indigenous people who were surviving and then intentionally destroyed the social institutions that would've let them revive their culture on a land grant. Ironically, capitalists eventually did the same thing to the descendants of the settlers, with a little less outright slaughter.

Therefore, I would say society owes all of us at least the land and the education—real hands on education and family-style support—before anyone can start saying wage "slavery" is a choice.
Thanks! Yeah I'm struggling to think of ways to market Unity plugins. It seems like the main thing most people do is post on the Unity forums, and tweet about the product. There aren't many other places to advertise since the products are so tied to Unity.

Some plugins solve major pain points for Unity users who are not super technical, like the Prime31 mobile plugins, so they are very popular. I think if you can build something like that then you have a good shot at success.
I don't use it myself, but could the technology behind the tor network [1] (or the product itself) be used to counter this?

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
> Google at the moment leverages the data they gather from their services, but your ISP has _everything_

...which is surely part of the reason Google is pushing so hard to encrypt everything.

(I'm not saying there aren't altruistic reasons too.)
Mostly, yes. Notice that Go and Rust (two of the newer languages popular at least on HN) also feature static compilation by default. Turns out that shared libraries are awesome, until the libraries can't provide a consistently backwards compatible ABI.
If everyone engaged in this form of counterveillance, though, wouldn't it backfire by bogging down the network with superfluous traffic?
People ask me why are you learning programming when you already have another career, and I feel like I'm Noah building an ark
As an employee, I can tell you that the company culture has completely changed. I came in to MS a few months before Windows 7 released. I was just about to quit, when Nadella took over. I decided to wait it out and see. I am glad I did.

EEE died a long time ago. It was pretty much gone under Balmer, although we still didn't really play nice with others. Nadella on the other hand came in, started mending fences with other companies that we had previously ignored, or even had some hostility towards. Let me contrast some differences.

Balmer -> Gave all employees a Windows Phone and got pissed if he saw an employee with a competitors phone. I even saw him pretend he was stomping on an iphone at a Company Meeting.
Nadella -> Put out a video from himself stating "Unless you work on certain parts of the Windows team, use whatever device want.

Balmer -> Had Office for IOS and Android mostly feature complete and wouldn't release it.
Nadella -> Released it quickly after becoming CEO.

You are insane if you think EEE is still going on. That was over like 10. I'm going to skip Balmer as I am sure you can imagine, these are not things he would have done.

Right now Visual Studio for Mac is in preview. We purchased Xamarin and as far as I know it is now free for everyone except Enterprise.

In the last release of Visual Studio, we shipped Chrome as an optional addon.

Released Visual Studio code which is open source, built on open source products from GitHub and Google Chromium.

Open sourced .NET and made it cross platform. This also enabled us to release PowerShell as open source.

Added Bash on Ubuntu on Windows to Windows 10 by collaborating with Canonical. Seriously? Let that sink in @wiredearp. You can now run native command line tools in REAL linux running on Windows.

Invited the Angular team from Google to get a sneak peek at future plans for TypeScript. After the saw it they dropped AtScript and used TypeScript to build Angular (formally known as Angular 2). It is now the preferred language to consume it as well.

SharePoint, the product I work on will soon open source our new app model which now runs on a standard open source web stack. Webpack, gulp, React, all accounted for.

The static types in TypeScript add value, they weren't added as part of some scheme so later we can... what? I can't even imagine a nefarious end game.

No disrespect intended at all, but if you think this is the Microsoft of the Netscape era, you seriously haven't been paying attention.
> I do not understand. I thought that in the current climate, where people are becoming increasingly aware and concerned about privacy, that such laws would be expanded in scope.

It's very simple. The government is not working towards our interests, but their own.

That applies to every government everywhere, all throughout history, because all governments are populated by psychopaths.

They don't want you to have any privacy at all. Instead, they want to monitor everything you say and do, because it helps them maintain their rule over you.

Red Pill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngpsJKQR_ZE&t=8

Oh and by the way, this account will be shadowbanned, because HN is controlled by psychopaths too, and anti-government (=pro-sanity) posters are censored out.

One more thing. You're being told about a "privacy law" being scrapped, because they want to advance "the chilling effect". They want everyone to be afraid of speaking out, as the budding police state engulfs them.

You could look into moving to some less scary country.
It's an old PCM format from Sun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Au_file_format
Fair point.

I'm not in the US, so the local advantages don't apply, only the three-letter agency illegal snooping disadvantages.
That does not mean I want them in a programming language to be functions.
I use (not necessarily an endorsement) BlackVPN. I like that they are based Hong Kong, and not the US or a US-friendly country.
The national infrastructure for the internet and POTS is the same, and has been since the mid-1990s, if not always. Internet PoP sites and telephone PoP sites in the U.S. are housed in the same building, usually in the same rack. The fiber was run in separate trays and they used slightly different equipment for each (OC-48 vs. OC-192 in the mid-1990s), but at least from that point on the primary difference between POTS and internet has been that POTS usually runs through a slightly lower-bandwidth version of the same system. The same people built, maintained, and upgraded the cables and equipment on the backbone, whether it was POTS or internet. It's still run primarily by Level 3 (which swallowed up most of the companies that built it, or the infrastructure and employees that survived or spun out of those companies) and AT&T, and many of the fiber runs across the country are still marked with MCI's logo.

I don't think the FCC is the best place to fix the problems with the internet, but I don't see the "repeal and don't fix" method that seems to be so popular with the Republicans lately as a better way to deal with it.
That's complete horseshit.
Mercedes has the $40k B-Class electric car.
... did you read the thread you are replying to?
like I said, I don't actually expect you to admit to such a horrible way of choosing who to vote for.

My post wasn't for you.
The Opera VPN cannot be trusted. https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4fuyxf/operas_n...
>1. Because I was forced to? That's not why I'd want to.

Better than rewriting the whole thing in your pet language.
Run a Tor exit node.
Might that motivate the ISP to remove the incentive to take the privacy measures?
Seems like a great start. I too would like to see ways to combine waveforms. And a bigger ask of being able to draw filters in real time while playing back to hear changes instead having to process them to find out what will happen as well as loop the same while editing. I realizing I'm asking for more DAW like features! :P
Frederick Hart: The Artist the Art World Couldn't See by Tom Wolfe (2000)
Service Worker Testing Made Easy
IAPP's Glossary of Privacy Terms
Do people actually care? Https makes only reveals the domain not the content. Google/Facebook collect way more information. Everyone keeps using them.

If given the choice of targeted ads vs an extra $30 a month I suspect most people would choose targeted ads.

Edit: remember downvote if you disagree
> These regulations were only voted on late in 2016 and never went into effect.

False. Parts of the regulation went into effect 30 days after publication. Parts went into effect 90 days after publication. Part would have gone into effect 6 months after publication. Part would have gone into effect 12 months after publication.

See pg. 202 of the Report and Order.
Translates as 'not because they are easy, but because we need to show the Russians we can match them in space'.
Isn't that dangerous? I'd be afraid of random showing ups of FBI at my door.
Can we not just have some representatives browser history leak and blame it on this?
I have a question. Right now I'm using a cheap $3.49 VPS and it is located in Beauharnois, Canada. How are the privacy laws in Canada? Better than US or worse? Is there anything else I should know?

PS/PSA: It was the best value with unlimited internet I could find. It was the cheapest option from OVH. Cheapest, considering I wouldn't have to worry that the company would shut down. Latency isn't terrible actually.
Question. When were these FCC rules implemented? I know they were under Obama but right now as I try to learn the history google just keeps giving me the news of the repeal.
True, but Github and a PaaS platform tell you that your data is leaving your computer. It isn't something that happens in the background from a simple autocomplete application.

The other thing is that a proper 12-factor app separates secrets and keys into environment variables that are not committed to Github or your PaaS. They are added after a deployment which this "product" just scoops up. For reference, here's what a AWS key being leaked on Github leads to (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/06/dev_blunder_shows_g...). Now, imagine that project that is running in production having to be brought offline because this company leaks thousands of AWS keys that were used in development. It's dangerous, sloppy and stupid, three things I generally try not to mix.
They don't advertise themselves as a company particularly concerned with preserving the absolute privacy of their customers like PIA does. I admit I haven't read their privacy policy, but I'm assuming they would have no problems handing over logs, and I'm assuming they indeed keep logs (or at least are entirely willing to do so if asked to).
I remember being so excited as a kid when I started getting drawn into the computing age. I remember when the internet seemed like mankind's next step forward. I remember being excited about so many new trends, social media, the age of everything being free on the internet.

Then, everyone else caught up. Now it's just like watching television. A bunch of companies vying to get you to buy something at any cost, and taking that strategy further than they ever did before the internet.

Now, I just want to leave my phone at home and go ride my bike. I rarely feel like developing anything anymore, haven't done a side project in over a year. Whenever I get motivated to do things like that I see shit like this and it just feels hopeless. There's no way to defeat these companies, because they are full of people struggling to get ahead and doing their cog's part in the machine that ultimately does this to us all.
Selling your customers’ private browsing data constitutes speech… Wow. Just wow.
Show HN: Google Bigtable Postgres FDW in Rust
Yes it can be used, but beware, your ISP WILL know that you are using Tor, so there's that.
> Case in point: "premises". So many people treat this singular noun as a plural and use horrors like "on-premise"

I didn't know that! Thanks!
Silicon Valley culture of ideals ?

No offense, but that's the most ludicrous statement I read in a long time.

Silicon Valley is about money and power. Ideals, apart from "ideals" packed into cheesy marketing slogans, just don't play into that.
> This, right here, is the consequence of the withdrawal from politics many geeks advocated very strongly in an earlier time

Well, do you want to risk your life fighting in a revolution?

Politics certainly doesn't matter in the sense that it's all bullshit anyway. No matter how hard you call "your" representatives, they won't give a flying fuck about you because they're all psychopaths.

> What we have in protections and freedoms

.. Was apparently nothing in terms of "protections" at all, considering here we are again.

Look, the real problem is that political power exists at all. If people didn't believe that they need to be ruled over, we wouldn't have all the problems caused by government, and you wouldn't need to preach at people about not having already overthrown the government when they "still had time".

How about just stopping this insane cycle of tyranny --> relative freedom --> tyranny --> relative freedom .. this-time-it's-different-if-i-just-vote-harder?

Rather than asking the government to grant you better "protections" from itself, how about just removing the need for protections altogether?
hah! i didn't even realize that was there. I think this is really broken if the first line doesn't match.

a,b,c,1,2,3,x,y,z and x,y,z,1,2,3,a,b,c shows 9 differences. the 1,2,3 part at least should be a straight up match.

if each line is unique that replace implementation just trucks down through the whole file.
Porsche Carrera GT
Apple pie is not the same thing as "ice tea".

Apple is describing the type of pie. "ice" is not a type of tea.
I'm typing this on a 1984 IBM Model "M" plugged into USB via PS/2 to USB converter. I have bought several on eBay - since I was afraid I'd eventually wear this one out. But now I'm pretty sure that's never going to happen. Is one is due for a bath though. They can be found on eBay for ~$100.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/11/why-i-use-a-20-year-...
I didn't see any examples of human faces, can you link me to one? Happy to try it out and see the results.
> ... told with slightly different subsets of the available facts.

What makes me worry about humanity is the fact that you said that with a straight face as if we, as a society, can't (or shouldn't) demand that they tell the story with the same set of facts.

Treating the other side with fairness and understanding MEANS acknowledging all the facts.

> ... than ask them to converge on exactly the same dry list of uninterpreted facts

This is a false dichotomy.

> Also, I think people ask for "fairness and understanding" but want a great deal more;

And you just twisted my words, which doesn't need to happen in order for us to have a conversation. But you chose to do it anyway because you're not interested in a conversation, you're not interested in fairness, you're interested in pushing a narrative.

And it sucks that people like you exist.
I think it's important to make the distinction that containers do provide a level of security isolation, but that in most cases it's not as much protection as it provided by VM isolation.

There are companies doing multi-tenant Container setups, with untrusted customers, so it's not an unknown concept for sure.

what I'd say is that the attack surface is much larger than a VM hypervisor , so there's likely more risk of a container breakout than a VM one.
Do they train with backpropagation efficiently?
Google tries to define a valid family. Predictable awfulness ensues
Unless running a TOR exit node is deemed illegal, you have an almost air tight argument if they show up at your door. They cannot prove you did it beyond reasonable doubt unless they find actual evidence on your machines.
This conjecture seems to be easily seen as true by intuition. It's surprising that it took so long to find a proof.
Ajit Pai, the chairman of the FCC, is not doing anything for the public interest.
I asked this is in the other thread on this topic, when did the Obama-era rules emerge? If anyone has the bill info that would be ideal. I've been trying to find stuff on google but it's flooded with the current news.
If I live near my family on Long Island it would be a 2.5 hour commute to my job each way. If I live halfway between them and my job then I'm neither close to them nor my job. So living near my job is the least bad option, and that seems to be the option most people take.
Is this in any way connected to the Eve/Lighttable guys?
Difference is you can choose not to use them.
You're not getting 1.6 GB/s out of a SATA drive that's communicating over a 600MB/s link. I think you may be confused about which products are using SATA vs PCIe.
The niche of "welcome to Lisp, here's how to code" has been super well filled over the years. And regularly people write sort of intros to SBCL, CCL, etc. articulate-lisp isn't intended to do that - there are a few notes in that regard, just to whet your thoughts - and because I was bored - but it's not a thing there really.

But what is typically lacking is how you go from just a Lisp environment to a development environment that lets you operate at a professional level. Articulate-lisp is intended to deliver the thumbnail of how to get that put together, along with assorted references to further study.

At the time I created it, there was nothing really suitable for pro development out there. I guess roswell and portacle are things now.

Training wheels aren't really my bag of things. I'm notorious for preferring to read the O.G. paper on subjects rather than work through tutorials and simplified whatsits. But giving all the data at once doesn't provide the map of the territory that newbies crave.

There's no Royal Road to Lisp... or geometry. But a map to get you to where you're going does exist for geometry, and Lisp, I think deserves one too.

If that-all makes sense.
That's not a sensible interpretation of that measles data.

Since measles is very contagious, there's a lot of effort putting into identifying and isolating cases. This necessarily involves screening many cases where the disease is only weakly suspected. On top of that, the current protocols cast a really wide drag net. Australia, for example, tests every susceptible patient who shared a waiting room with a measles patient, as well as those who entered less than two hours after the index case left. In a busy hospital or practice, this could be a lot of children.

Thus, the high ratio of tested to confirmed cases doesn't mean doctors are bad at diagnosing measles; they may just be cautious.
"they said they have no plans to sell any customer data."

WhatsApp said that too. When they change their minds, it will be too late.
You somehow trust China better?
They might not be able to convict you, but that won't stop them from breaking down your door and bringing you to jail from terrorism/hacking/child pornography while you get your name associated with it in the local news.
> I do not use Windows. I do not use the kernel or the browser you use. It is not your business what I use anyway.

I just said that because it's the only one I can think of people still having around that doesn't support SNI. OpenSSL, NSS, etc. have all supported SNI for a decade. In fact, I can't find any TLS implementation that supports even TLS 1.1 that doesn't support SNI. So unless you have an example I'd say SNI reached fixation a long time ago.

> Notice I never said TLS sucks, you did.

From another one of your comments: "I would not use SSL. Why spend time learning and fiddling with something that is so flawed?". Using TLS definitely counts as fiddling with SSL (TLS is a derivative).

> Maybe I do not care about security and I just like carefully written software by people who do not make many mistakes? Is there something offensive about that? Am I allowed to make my own choices of software?

Sure, write your own SSL/TLS/CurveCP implementation. But you started with "Just say no to SNI" and claimed privacy advocates should push back on it, which obviously doesn't only apply to you.
> the founders did not want a two party system.

Well, they said they didn't want a factional system, then they built rules which guaranteed two factions, modelled directly after rules which had done the same elsewhere, and all while organizing themselves into two factions which were visible in nascent form in the first national elections under the Constitution and well solidified by the time Washington was to be replaced as President.

So, do you listen to their words, or their actions? The founders were, to all evidence, a lot like politicians of today, publicly cursing the ills of partisanship while deeply engaged in it, mostly as a rhetorical device against the other party.
Quoting this dead (and useful) comment for others who don't browse showdead:

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l04m33 3 hours ago [dead] [-]

I wrote a new CL plugin for Vim, which only depends on +channel and supports most SLIME features: https://github.com/l04m33/vlime
It's quite new, and I'd be grateful if you could try it out and provide some feedback.

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