skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SIGNAL APP REMOVED “SAFETY WORDS” WHY??
Why in God's name did they remove them? Am I the only person that actually used them? Am I the only one verifying other people's security numbers? Oh and also, does anyone look at the debug logs from their app???
I want everyone who knows what they're looking at to go and look at the debug log from your Signal app and post what you find here. Post the gist link or paste it into a ghostbin.. You will find some scary shit. First of all, DNS hijacking on ios and especially Android is HUGE right now. If someone is hijacking your DNS, and you use Signal, you are resolving and most likely proxying your texts and conversations through unknown servers... Here, have a look at the topology of their root domain whispersystems.org - https://www.threatcrowd.org/domain.php?domain=whispersystems.org
What does "Can hire compliance pros" mean?
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I think "gaining half a bit of information" about something can correspond to stuff that lets you update your probability distribution about it?

I'm not sure.
> What's the problem with just assigning a number 0-10 for every candidate that you care to, and summing up the points?

The problem with this (Range Voting) that there is no consistent mapping from preferences to 1-10 ratings, so that equivalent ballots have different meaning and equivalent preferences result in different ballots from different voters.

Approval has the same problem for normal elections.

This issue is overlooked in most analysis, which generally presume the existence of a simple quantifiable utility function and a consistent mapping from that function to ballot markings for these non-ranked-preference methods.

In social choice scenarios without secret ballots, you can tie concrete consequences to voting which eliminate this issue and make either method sensible.

Range and Approval (and IRV) are also single-winner systems and don't deal with the general problems with single-member district systems, as much as they may be marginally better means of electing in such districts than FPTP.

Schulze STV is a bit opaque, you are correct, and traditional STV (or STV without loser elimination) is more readily understandable and possibly practically better despite some theoretical deficiencies compared to the more opaque Schulze variantes, simply because it is more comprehensible.
Those are so good! Highly recommended.
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Possible typo: “tree sticks” should be “three sticks”.
This has been in the works for a while, and we are really proud to announce this has reached GA. Storage for cloud computing is a particularly hard, and often hinders portability due to cloud specific deployments. With Dynamic Storage classes, deployments now have a cleaner level of abstraction letting devs focus on apps, and ops focus on infrastructure and resources. Super cool!

Disclosure: I work on Kubernetes at Google
Docked dev tools is in active development at Vivaldi at the moment, so fingers crossed it will be included in an upcoming release. It's easily one of the most requested features we get, understandably, and definitely not being ignored. :)
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Intel is keeping Moore’s Law alive
One would think this could be the perfect case for Big Data approach, web scale and all. But no - it is an intern manually clicking through 12K web sites. Somebody sell them some buzzwords, anybody?
squillo in italy ;)
Nice job! However, this has been tried hundreds of times before. What makes your service different?
The default port of 443 is somewhat bizarre, it's almost guaranteed to conflict on a server. They could have applied to IETF / IANA for port 253 (it currently reserved / unassigned).
>Because they're asked to, as part of the experiment?

Let me try another way to word the same concept: why would an actor in the best shape of their life with a personal chef and nutritionist participate in the experiment? Similar logic goes for less extreme examples on this end of the curve.

>For regression to the mean, they should have started the diet after some extreme readings.

They're obese, their diet is an extreme reading from the space of possible diets. They're choosing foods that only satisfies their various needs at a caloric quantity that causes weight gain.

>But who said those are what prompted them to the diet? People don't start on a diet when they get extremely heavy, they start and stop diets all the time, while being continuously obese.

Caloric restriction diets and food choice diets aren't the same thing here. People usually start and stop diets all the time because caloric restriction diets have huge user experience issues. Specifically, the very common yoyo dieting; you feel bad about being fat so you decide to do something about it, then you do caloric restriction in a way that fails to meet many of your other needs, then you abandon the diet because the stress of not meeting your needs starts to outweigh the negative feelings from being fat.

>Well, if you eat the same calories from your new "Whatever you don't eat", then you'll get as fat.

If your current diet meets your needs at an above-average number of calories, you won't eat the same number of calories (unless you try to manually control caloric intake through some variant of calorie counting).
Electromagnetic drive: the Arabian Nights or a major breakthrough?
I can buy a 'burner' SIM when landing at Heathrow without giving any information - paying in cash. However, to disable the content filter requires giving up personal information.
Step 1: touch report.tex
Step 2: latexmk -pvc -pdf report.tex
Step 3: ???
Step 4: PROFIT
The 265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs
I'm sorry, I don't know why those changes were made, I'm just a random user trying to be helpful and provide a possible alternative. And I'm embarrassed to say I forgot about that full screen message you mentioned.

You're right, the old system did have some advantages!
Yeah they would parachute into the ocean, get filled with air, then literally dragged back to port:

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/solid-rocket-bo...

All that stress + salt water meant a fairly extensive refurb process.
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I have a feeling escaping from Windows into a Ubuntu host system would not be as effective (though I wouldn't doubt it impossible) as escaping into a Windows OS which is usually the bigger / main target for malware.
Computer Science and Game Theory [pdf]
Just pointing out, there's now a standardized way to do encrypted DNS via TLS:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7858

Probably more likely that that one will succeed. DNScrypt has been around for a long time and hasn't really seen any significant adoption.
The closest model to what you're describing is Feudalism, and I don't mean say this in a dismissive way. I too believe that notions of Houses might spring up again. In one House comprising of about 50 people, only 5 would do the work which generates wealth, and puts food on the table. The others would do art and other such non-wealth producing activities. The incentive of the wealth-producers is to be able to claim that their House invented this or that artwork, etc.
I think you mean "copyright license", not "copyleft license". Consider the Copyfree Open Innovation License (COIL): http://coil.apotheon.org/.
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I'm not trying to take anyone's market with this, more that I couldn't find any de facto solution that solved this problem when I went looking for why my scripts were waiting 400ms to load, and started thinking about async scripts.

So I went and wrote something simple, and hopefully versatile!
I'm probably in the minority here

Are you? I've never met anyone who includes Lifecycle of Software Objects in their favorite Ted Chiang stories
This should prove, that you can still find stuff like this.
You get a receipt that show your vote. After veryfying the vote, You physically and manually put the receipt in the ballot box as with manual voting.

The physical receipts are the legally valid votes and can be counted with leisure in the days after the election. The electronic copy can be used for fast aggregation and to give instant results at the end of the voting day.
Im not badgering anyone i just know as a european luving in the us that it doesent have to be that difficult.
These new models are replacing almost everything that's been developed for TTS in the last 30 years with neural nets. So you don't need to study TTS anymore. Study neural nets and then read this paper and you will understand the state of the art in TTS.
This can't be repeated often enough:

If you have some ssh server somewhere (who hasn't), you can very easily create a 'VPN over ssh' by calling:

sshuttle -r user@remote_host 0.0.0.0/0 --dns

It works nicely together with dnscrypt
Why is indexing faster than binary search?
3 minute per URL seem like a whole lot, it seems more likely that 7k of them were trash and were removed within seconds. A simple automated script/iframe with a "tinder" like interface of yes/no/maybe seems like the way to go here. Spend seconds on most, then minutes on the maybes.
Doctors want to bill insurance for as much as they can. Insurers don't really care about medical costs either, because the percent they keep as profit grows as they spend more.

Patients are the victims in the trench warfare between doctors and payers.
> If you reject all inheritance, you reject much of the incentives of capitalism.

I reject the idea that inheritance is a matter of right, and particularly that there is any moral right in extending the will of the dead past their death.

I don't, OTOH, disagree that some inheritance may even socially useful and worth permitting, with appropriate conditions and limitations, on that basis. In fact, I said so explicitly in GP.

OTOH, I'm also not a big fan of capitalism as a system, am glad that it has generally been displaced by the modern mixed economy since being described by its critics, and think that the influence it has on the general shape of modern economies needs to be further curtailed, so I'm not particularly worried that limiting inheritance might further undermine the influence of capitalism; that's a benefit, not a cost.
ISPs should calculate how much this will make them then charge us that much to opt out. Wins all around - the ISP makes every dime they can, privacy-conscious customers aren't abused, unconscious customers don't need to pay more.

Hell, take it a step farther - sell VPN-like anonymization. Think about it, your ISP is technically able to do it far better than any VPN: no impact on speed, no impact on latency, no software required, wouldn't miss any types of traffic, and increases anonymity just by having more customers.

If ISPs don't realize that they can make money selling privacy then they're just bad businesses.
Sure, if you have a few million dollars on hand. Few hundred thousand might start a small company in service sector.
So as an example, if I had a lot of aerial photography of an area taken with a drone, would this be something I should research to stich together all of the raw / separate photographs into a map?
Yes, that's how I mostly improved my codes but learning how other people coded the function I wanted to do. And then write the code itself on how I understood it. By that, I also learn new things I haven't tried before.
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And Trump would need to either ignore the claim made by the media, which could be seen as an admission of guilt...

Deny the claim, and then be later impeached for dishonesty.

Admit the claim, and then well, admit it.

IF some of the content is serious enough, it could surely be a foundation of a congressional hearing or perhaps even impeachment process? How can he respond to the questions there?

In any scenario... I can't see how he could "win" this? (Unless he is really innocent of anything questionable of course)
Regardless of the source of the compromising information (browser history or other), one difference between factual and fabricated information is that you cannot deny the former without the risk of legal consequences, because denying it would be lying. Think perjury, for example (the Lewinsky scandal comes to mind).
> That isn't true.

That's rather sweeping, don't you think? If anything, my statement might be an oversimplification. But untrue?
I wouldn't be surprised if they were of a similar order of magnitude. Like houses (Michael Jackson's mansion and similar outliers excluded).

> the externalities for carbon are far greater

Do you have numbers to back that up? (I don't).

But keep in mind that it's not yet clear how expensive it will be to de-construct reactors and store nuclear waste for millenia. Just that it's going to be very, very expensive. And probably footed by the taxpayer.
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Cost to make an app like Uber
He didn't acquire it through violence, so there's nothing to see here. Move along, people.

A handful of people control as much wealth as the world's population combined, but there's nothing here to concern any of us, since they didn't do it with sword and cannons like a few hundred years ago.

In fact, since the days of imperial conquest by force are pretty much over (minus the occasional here and there), we really shouldn't worry ever again about the hundred people who own the world.

Not. A. Problem.
She comes to understand she cannot change it, yet from her point of view, she decides to call the Chinese. And she chooses, from her point of view, when she tells her husband. She does actions that would have been impossible without knowledge of the future. Maintaining that she didn't have free will when her actions depend on that knowledge is very difficult in my opinion. You have the subjective impression of free will, if you have certain knowledge and you can sometimes act on it, why not always? The book fixes this making it irrelevant to have that knowledge. The movie crosses the line when some causality is reversed.

It's possible that she decided to have the child knowing what would happen to her, and that's why she can see that future, but that's still her making her own selfish decision. If she wouldn't have done that, then she wouldn't "remember" having a child. I think this is why they changed how the child dies from the book. In the book she dies in a perfectly preventable accident. In the movies is kind of pre-arranged. Making her die in an accident that the mother know is going to happen would have been very obviously evil when it's been proven she can sometimes act on knowledge of the future. The book makes the situation maximize the fatalism of the character: she knows her daughter is going to die in that climbing trip, yet she can't do anything to avoid it, she's just an observer, a passenger in her own life.
AFAIK it's a bundled DOS emulator (DOSBox), not a real port. But it's very nice for them to make it accessible, anyway.
His total compensation is like 2 million.
The v3 versions also have the additions that require to provide the end user with the means to update/exchange the [L]GPLed software binaries with custom ones. Which is mostly interpreted as "I have to provide my customer not only my application sources (in case of GPL), but also a way to deploy custom binaries of with arbitrary code and behavior". This causes gigantic headaches for most embedded device manufactureres, and the outcome is ususally the the [L]GPLv3 licenses are strictly avoided.
It probably means that the license is well known and understood by many compliance experts.
> This is like so many articles and books I've read (several mentioned in this article itself). Ok, AI is a threat to jobs up and down the ladder. I get it. Now what? What are we supposed to do about it?

Did you read "Homo Deus : A Brief History of Tomorrow" [1]? It seems to me this book tries to see things a bit further than most do. Basically the author says humanity will try to achieve happiness, immortality and power. If artificial intelligence can be controlled, then it will be used to reach these goals. The quest for happiness and power will then push us into modifying ourselves, to the point we'll turn into either machines or into a completely different species. Either way, that will indeed relegate human beings into a endangered species.

I personally believe there is nothing we can do, because we deeply want happiness, immortality and power, and we can't get them without modifying ourselves into something else.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Deus:_A_Brief_History_of_T...
Every copyleft license gets at least a double-question-mark. I don't know for certain why he did that, of course, but experience has taught me that copyleft licenses are inherently more confusing than permissive ones.
There exist people who understand the license reasonably well and can get paid to ensure your software complies with the requirements of the license.
Kind of like when you could set your screen resolution to a value that wasn't supported by your screen and it didn't reset automatically after 30 seconds.
They are selling Diablo 2 and it's a relatively modern game supporting latest Windows/macOS, you have to buy it and then you can download it.
Gonna disagree:
Pretty much anywhere that doesn't generate shitty apps cares about even small size regression
> Millennials are also coming of age now through the next decade.

Millenials start from 1981 so some of them are nearing 40. Generation Z is coming of age.
I am learning now TensorFlow and I have no knowledge of the other possible frameworks.

What surprise me the most is that, at least tf, is almost declarative as framework.

I needed to add some random noise to a point in a multidimensional space so to generate other n points, close to first one.

In python I would loop through n, each time I would add some noise to the initial point and then I would push it into a list or whatever structure, a list compression.

In tf I am "stacking" n times the original point so to obtain n times that same point, then I am generating n random noise and finally I am adding the two.

The second solution more elegant in my opinion but require an important mental shift.

If the other frameworks are somehow similar at tf your biggest hurdle will be this kind of mental shift, just pick one.
But why? He earned it.
Someone working in a fulfillment center making ~40-50K each year won't be able to put together 100K capital to risk, even with family and friends.

A large portion of HN readers are entrepreneurs, a lot of stories here tell the tale of failure, the burden and how to bear it. Yes it's not easy.

And then there are people for the "not easy" is virtually impossible. Because they can't even start a business with any chance to succeed.

I'm not saying, that because of this Bezos should give more to the employees, but it'd be good if these inherent inequalities were better managed by society.
In a country where people move an average of 11.7 [1] times in their lives, do your really believe who gets hired has nothing to do with the demographics?

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/how-many-times-the-avera...
None of the things you mention change the fact that if you increase the IOS system image size by 3x, it will likely no longer fit in the default firmware partition :)
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Let's *not* kill *all* Mosquitoes
Let's kill Mosquitoes to maintain their population density below disease vector threshold only.
Comcast blocking Cloud 9 online IDE
What is encryption, how does it work and what apps use it?
Here's the status message (posting for posterity)

"Investigating - It appears Comcast is blocking our domain name and all Comcast users in the USA may be affected. We're trying all available channels to get the site unblocked. Please see https://community.c9.io/t/cant-access-c9-io-comcast/14834 for more information.
Mar 30, 02:25 UTC"
You can downvote?
Yes, I have looked at that, and it is tempting. But you still have to worry about cross compiling and distribution. Right?
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Thank you! I honestly primarily try to add value.

Some people moved because of these posts, so I hope my outreach has a positive net impact on the HN community.
Well, I'm not necessarily suggesting that wealth be distributed equally throughout all society. But maybe we would be better off if wealth and ownership operated on a more human scale. Even in a massive company like Amazon, no matter how hard A works or how much B goes on Reddit, A will never be one million times more valuable than B. That sort of piece-of-every-pie money is an absurdity. In my fantasy economy, A could still be rewarded for their hard work, but perhaps on the order of millions instead of tens of billions. There's no intrinsic reason why people should be able to acquire material wealth with no upper limit.

I strongly believe that in order to build a better world, we have to stop thinking in terms of people "deserving" things and instead focus on what's better for society overall.
What is "niched to Perl" meant to mean? I realise it was originally the Perl license, but is it tied to it?
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Such arguments are such nonsense, that you should probably not make them without going into much more detail. It is common knowledge that almost all macro economic models we currently have are very crude approximations, so you are in no position to deduce anything with the certainty and "it's game theory" attitude that you seem to have.

In other words: Economics is not physics, there you say something like "Well, energy is always conserved" or "This does not work because of the second law of thermodynamics", you can't do that with "Game theory".
Not everyone is a vim user.
Eye dryness is only a temporary side-effect from laser eye surgery (as are halo effects and increased light sensitivity), which can easily be treated.

There are a few actual complications, but they are rarer than complications from wearing contacts (depending to a certain extent on the clinic, of course).
"With improved laws, no one would be able to hold the web-accessible data hostage, and competition would be based on consumer-facing concerns like user experience and customer service."

Yes--we need to take control of our data, and personal information. We need a stronger version of Europe's ePrivacy Act. We need all servers to permently delete our data if we wish. (Hell--it would help small consumer websites. I don't shop at small websites anyone because I just don't trust them. If I knew by law, they needed to delete all my data I might start giving them business again?)

Yes--Facebook, and Google will fight hard! They will cry! And they will cry more! And yes, we might need to re-enter our data. I will make time. The time has come--they abused us.
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I agree completely with your assessment. I run a website called HeyAmIFat.com where you can send in a picture of yourself and we'll tell you if you look fat or not in minutes. I often look at the huge companies advertising on my site and think "if they could see where their ads are being placed right now they'd probably realize they're wasting their money"

On the other hand this huge "fraud" is what makes Google free and has thus powered the information revolution that now looks like a pivotal turning point in human history. Hard to be all that mad that Google made all the worlds information freely searchable by ripping off dumb businesses...