skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Between the Google play store, Android's general insecurity, and now cell carriers actively pushing spyware, what alternatives exist?

And please don't say iOS. It's closed source, which means we really don't know what's going on under the hood. We may trust it today, but one secret court order + an overnight update is all we need to lose everything with iOS. Apple execs may not even be made aware of such an update if the order was delivered to the engineers directly.

What are my options such that I'll actually feel comfortable when I sleep at night? My phone knows everything. All my emails (which can typically be used to get into everything else), all my contacts, all my calendar events, where I go every day, and I'm even paranoid that it records all of my conversations. This isn't schizophrenia, we know that devices record people's conversations without their knowledge. A phone doing the same is just one step away.

So what can I do? How can I get some sanity and security around my mobile life?

Would be a great step to have a phone that:

+ Fully open source. (Sorry Android you don't count)
+ Hardware switch for mic
+ Hardware switch for location services

Or at least a phone that is beginning to move in that direction? Should I just stop using my phone?
> No metro area is slowed down by bicycles.

Totally untrue. The DC area has plenty of two Lane roads whose speed limit is higher than the average bicyclist can maintain, with the predictable result that you'll have a line of cars being held up by a bicycle. It's especially bad on the Virginia side; many very pretty Virginia roads​ are virtually undrivable on nice days because of slow bikes.
My favorite of the results tended to be [anything] -> Ukiyo-e/Cezanne. I think because these are easier problems, lots of detail to less. The transfiguration and painting -> photo have me firmly in the uncanny valley, but I suspect this harder problem will be solved given more training.
I am fairly right of center but nothing in your narrative is anything I have considered worthy of attention.

There's plenty of good healthy center to right news. The garbage, left and right, is for consumption by the foolish. It also serves as inflammatory material to be used by extremists of the opposite ilk.

Don't fall into the trap of believing that, simply because a news source (no matter how loud) is present that any particular group of people takes it seriously.
Libraries have become a broadband lifeline for students
+1, agreed!
yeah I get what youre saying for sure. Even Windows 10 has that baked in now!!!
Thank you. I guess my confusion was with the installer. I will make an edit.
Just know that MVNOs usually have some drawbacks. E.g. slightly higher pings, lower priority etc.
> I learned that perhaps the ban of cannabis was perhaps not based on scientific facts at all. The whole ban was just a political move by provoking racism to rally up against the Blacks and the Mexicans.

This is interesting, I didn't know about that. However, I remember a sociology class I took in college. It showed that crack and cocaine fines / jail times were very different from each other (doing crack was legally more Dangerous than doing cocaine). But crack and cocain are pretty much the same thing. The biggest difference is that a few décades ago (I don't know if it's still the case), white people did cocaine and black people did crack. Because crack was cheaper than cocaine. Sad how régulations are made sometimes.
> The simplest fix would probably be to make /boot large enough by default (in the order of 10GB or 20GB or so -- the current size is 512MB IIRC).

What? This is ridiculous and unacceptable. I don't use Ubuntu anymore, can someone tell me what is filling up the boot partition?

I'm currently on ArchLinux and mine is 200MB and it's 14% full! I can't fathom what could occupy so much space.
Yeah, I feel that. I tell myself they're only tools, really no stranger than time <-> frequency domain transformations to someone unfamiliar with the fourier transform.

Yet there really is something disturbing about seeing a computer resurrect so much of the mind of an artist who's been dead for nearly a century. I know the GPU doesn't understand what it's doing, but did Monet?

When I paint I don't really understand. There may be occasional moments of clarity, I like to think that I make deliberate choices based on the emotions and thoughts within me that I'd like to reflect to the people experiencing my art, but... Honestly am I so different from a neural network?

I am a neural network. Much of what goes into creating a piece of art is based on intuition, on experience and practice, pathways eroded into my mind from years of thoughts traversing the same landscape. The art I create is unique to me, not in that it cannot be reproduced but in that every action I take is a reflection and an echo of all the moments remembered and forgotten that create me.

How much of Monet's mind is in a GPU in Berkeley?
I am experiencing this when I resume with a VPN connection on.

Even though it doesn't take me much time to recover state its really annoying to know that I have to figure out all these issues anytime I start using a Linux laptop.
The author is an individual, and the Atlantic may be contributing to the problem but at least they published his piece.
I'm almost positive 50 democratic senators voted for this. It's not a Republican or Democrat thing - it's a power thing. You will be hard pressed to find many Republicans in Silicon Valley.
You might want to re-explore your opportunity cost.

At any top educational program, you'll get better competition and coaching from professors, peers, and alumni access than self-teaching. At most MBA programs, you can take accelerated courses or skip re-learning skills.
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I wish they had a more samples of that. I'd be interested to see where the threshold is in terms of detail to get something vaguely photorealistic

edit: in the other post there's a link to the paper with some good examples. I think the amount of detail you'd need would be pretty prohibitive in terms of artistic effort. On the other hand, it would be interesting to use this on something like a rough CG rendering to try to correct some of the shading imbalance and such.
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Life often gives you a series of small choices that amount to preferring your career or your family. Different people choose differently and it adds up over time.

This choice is not gender neutral, we can see clear differences - and this shows up in all kinds of places, choice of profession being one of them; taking time off for family - another.
This has nothing to do with Apple vs. Google. It has more to do with Android being Open Source. So they modify Android + put the Google stuff on it (which Verizon is paying a fee for).
One very simple use case that would apply to almost any sort of hack, no matter how bad, is to lawfully use it to show someone that it can be done. Say a teacher using this at school on a sample laptop as a PSA to let students know the danger of leaving actively connected webcams in their room and not trusting the light indicator on them to show when it is working. Yeah, you could just tell the students, but sometimes showing them the hack in action works far better to convince them.
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FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Power management

DESCRIPTION: I likely will not be running OSX anymore, and you guys are going to find a large number of defectors. Concentrate on optimizing power. This will also help performance.

ROLE: Angry former Mac User
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These were successful companies at one time. What is the percentage of Fortune 500 companies three years ago that have failed - I don't know, but it isn't 90% (it probably isn't hard to look this up if someone wants to fact check me - for extra credit find other measures companies of different sizes that are not startups). Of course bankruptcy is only part of failure. So really it is what percentages of Fortune 500 (or other measure of successful companies) have "their company went bankrupt, they were forced out of the CEO chair, a major merger backfired, and so on"

Startups are in fact the wrong measure. A startup has nothing to lose, and often is trying something that will not succeed. Large companies often fund startups to limit their potential loss if it fails (if things seem not be going well they pull out without having to lay off all the people working for the startup which looks bad), and they buy the company if things go well.
I guess you already have read about Prisma App.
Here is the research paper it is based on..
-> https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.06576.pdf
I recall this being something pointed out in "Silicon Valley" where an offer/valuation was way over the top and would leave the team in this same kind of situation. Dropbox had to accept the offer, so they did agree to the terms that put themselves where they are now.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server

- HEADLINE: Full compatibility with Debian packages and paths

- DESCRIPTION: Please, please keep package and paths compatibility with Debian. The amount of work to get Debian packages work on a recent Ubuntu distribution is huge, and there are a lot of scientific software that is geared to Debian, not Ubuntu.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Research Scientist on a large Multinational
While this is undoubtedly very impressive, I think it's just another logical step to what we've been seeing so far:

- In the past, you needed to have a pianist at home to perform you a song, with the music box and then the phonograph you don't need to hire anyone anymore. It's probably not as good as a live performance (maybe?), but it's good enough for many people, and much much cheaper, faster, and available.

- You needed advanced knowledge and equipments at home to produce magazine-style tri-fold leaflets or wedding invitations, with modern word processors you can use a template and be alright. It's probably not as good as a professionally customized design (maybe?), but it's good enough for many people, and much much cheaper, faster, and available.

- You used to hire a photographer or an artist to have your portrait photographed/painted, now you can do with your NVIDIA card at home. It's probably not as good as a professionally painted one, but it's good enough for many people, and much much cheaper, faster, and available.
If you haven't been near your public library's internet area for a while, you should go--it is an eye opener to see not only that they are full to capacity, but also that there is often a wait list involved.
Notice the article was discussing biology degrees. Classic STEM. Chemistry is awful too. In reality STEM is now just TE. And The E may be collapsing soon too (and the T can't stay where it is forever, we don't need 150 million programmers in America).

So categorizing degrees into "useless" and "useful" is -- at best -- whistling past graveyards if you are still lucky to possess one of those "useful" degrees. Or maybe it's wishful thinking.
Still used when placing order with a number of manufacturers, unfortunately.

They are viewed as "safe" for credit card information, as opposed to emails.

Unknown as to why these manufacturers don't provide an online payment system. I work with several that want faxes, and they aren't small companies.

I also saw this with companies that provide drug testing, background checks, etc. Same thing...viewed as a secure channel.
Orange Pi 2G-IoT Matches Raspberry Pi Zero W’s $10 Price, Adds 2G Wireless Radio
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server

- HEADLINE: Please don't mess with python package management

- DESCRIPTION: Take a look at this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3.4/+bug/129...

This happened because ubuntu decided to unbundle some packages that come as a part of the python ecosystem. This is really a major annoyance because it breaks default behavior that people have come to rely on in every other platform, and confuses the hell out of people - just google for similar keywords and you'll find tons of questions and discussions around this and similar issues. Please don't mess with this stuff, or if you're going to break them, break them in a way that tells the user what the heck to do - it costs real hours and effort to debug and work around these things for production deployments.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software / Data engineer
Between hospitals, for instance when patient data is requested.
Well, if you buy an unlocked phone, then it won't happen to you either. That's why I bought the Pixel from the Google Store and not through a carrier.
More than billions, it's been approximately 1 trillion dollars in the past 50 years according to the table at [1]. Do note, however, that in a single year the US spends more than double that amount on keeping people fed, housed, and healthy through programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Unemployment, and Labor. Also remember that this is just American spending - other nations also have space programs and social programs.

But what can you possibly mean by "when will this promise be delivered?"

Yes, some humans are still starving, cold, thirsty, or hurt. Some are fighting - some for good reasons, like protecting/providing basic rights and needs for themselves and others, but many are fighting for stupid reasons. Humans still become sick and injured, and we still die.

We cannot "solve" these problems today by throwing money at them. We will probably never be able to completely solve them. By analogy, you cannot complete the task of having clean dishes and laundry by buying new place settings and clothes. But consider that these endless chores have become easier and less impactful with the advent of indoor plumbing, washing machines, cotton gins, sewing machines, and synthetic fabrics - not to mention advances in transportation, communication, and other seemingly unrelated fields.

In the same way, the work of keeping people healthy and fed has been improved by the development of agricultural, medical, and other technology. Certainly, feeding the hungry is important, and we should spend a great deal right now to help those in need. But there are other needs, and it would be foolish to not use some of our effort on making future needs less.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
ISP privacy rules could be resurrected by states, starting in Minnesota
Then you must have worked on tiny software.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server

- HEADLINE: First boot post-install hook

- DESCRIPTION: There is currently no clean way to have a script run only once post-install, first boot. There are hacks for making this work to a degree, including things like self-deleting init scripts. I would most prefer to see this hook officially supported in robust way.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Systems Engineer
US astronaut breaks record for most spacewalks by a woman
GraphQL was not meant to be a replacement for REST. It doesn't seem to right to compare an architectural concept to a query language.

The main power of GraphQL is for client developers and lies in the decoupling it provides between the client and server and the ability to fulfill the client needs in a single round trip. This is great for mobile devices with slower networks.

Introspection is a really powerful tool and you can build tools around that to do compile time checks and automatically generate class definitions based on your schema.
> Wouldn't it make much more sense to increase ridership than prices?

In peak hours, BART seems pretty close to capacity. My favorite is that while fewer people travel south of the city, rather than east, because of all the "back-trackers" looking for seats (but adding 10 minutes to their commute), even the other direction is pretty crowded.
I was nearly bamboozled by their successor Quixtar while in university. Luckily I was able to smell the scam when I went to one of their sessions. Very vague and very pushy about us buying into a scheme before we could learn how it worked.
MthSense, YC's alumni 2012, is the part of $7M ad fraud on fake news
This has also been making the rounds, Deep Photo Style Transfer: https://github.com/luanfujun/deep-photo-styletransfer
There is also the fact that the Verizon version of the Pixel is not rootable as they locked down the bootloader.
That would be a cache of what's popular. That would actually help on the surveillance side because it would effectively be a filter of the common traffic allowing them to focus on your unique traffic.
I would really like to see this as well. Linux in general is a system I love to use but there's a ton of tedium involved in getting it set up in just the right way that it doesn't make my head throb. This isn't necessarily a setback for me from daily usage, but whenever a new version comes out, it soaks up a lot of time getting it re-setup.

+1 This would be a great feature for people like us.
Ok so why not just take those classes online or something and save yourself the huge cost of MBA?
> Unfortunately, Sun decided that almost all Java errors must be recoverable, which results in lazy error handling like the above.

Not quite: Java insists that all (checked) Exceptions be handled or passed up explicitly. One can argue that this design decision is bad, as has been done extensively elsewhere.

However, in the particular example given, I'd argue that it would have made much more sense to display a user-understandable error message to the user (e.g. "Required gun resource file is missing, please re-download the game here: (...)"), and then just System.exit() if it's non-recoverable. Maybe print a stacktrace if the game was started in debug mode.
I use page plus cellular on a Moto G4. Uses the Verizon network and I have no Verizon bloat at all. I never had to root the phone either. The Motorola/Lenovo bloat is quite minimal. I pay under 30 dollars a month, but don't need much data.
Disclaimer: I own Tucows shares.

Ting, a MVNO and ISP, views customer privacy as an important value.

While Ting may not be able to prevent their upstream mobile providers from bundling such an app, everything I've seen from the company would lead me to believe that Ting would fight it as best it can on principle.

https://ting.com/blog/congress-votes-repeal-broadband-privac...

Also, Ting voice and SMS roam on the Verizon network. Less expensive, too.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Make KDE again a first class citizen

- DESCRIPTION: Kubuntu used to be very similar to the Ubuntu distribution and now, because of the "fork", it´s drifting. It is also very different on configuration, packages and behavior when doing an `apt-get install kde-desktop` on an Ubuntu installation versus Kubuntu, and it should be the same.
- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Research Scientist on a large Multinational
Great talk. Can you please elaborate how the use case for APIErrorCollection ?
It's well more than editorial bias in some cases, it's blatantly misleading. Whether it's due to laziness and needing something catchy to write about, incompetence because they really don't understand statistics, or malice trying to pander or push a narrative I can't say.

Two recent examples.

* https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/more-bad-r...

* https://twitter.com/StuartBuck1/status/847104688562548736
No need to bring a grenade to a fist fight.

If the overall history data is aggregated you won't really need to filter out the noise. Random browsing will just disappear under the threshold of noise and the 'real' browsing will stand out.
I know, I know. I'm in the uncomfortable position of being both pro gun, and pro gun-control, so I get the worst of both worlds. On one side people think you should be free to transfer a gun without a scrap of record keeping, and the other thinks that if you beat someone to death with a cell phone, you should sue Samsung.

The total systemic paralysis is real.
It wasn't highlighted on the github readme, but I think that the satellite photo to map and map to satellite photo (!!!) is incredible as well: https://taesung89.github.io/cyclegan/2017/03/25/maps-compari...
If you want to install with full disk encryption, you normally want a /boot partition.

In theory, GRUB can load kernels off of a LUKS-encrypted partition, but in practice I've never managed to set that up without having two passphrase prompts, one from GRUB and one for mounting the root filesystem under Linux.
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Redis does not have a win32 target, otherwise probably that would be needed as well for simplicity.
Jeff Barr responds to AWS suggestion
Your data and everything else still would go through Verizon... So they can get your stuff either way.
Does CSS Grid Replace Flexbox?
The more coverage that Trump got for "outlandish" behavior, the more immune we all became to it. He, and the media, normalized his shocking behavior.

Such a contrast to John Kerry's swiftboating... Somehow Trump repelled any smear attempts. Personality? Media? Society?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiftboating
Please don't.

We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13997270.
And Germany.

Also fax is apparently the only way to reserve a table for Oktoberfest in Munich. Or so says a German colleague.
I work for Cloudflare.

Thanks for bringing this bug to our attention. We have just rolled out a fix. You might need to go into the CF dashboard and purge the cache for your site to see the fix take effect.
Check out Piwik (https://piwik.org/)! It'll do what you need but the data at least stays on your server.
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Is it April Fools' Day already somewhere?
TIL - remap green pixels to grey/white and you go from summer to a contrived notion of winter.

This done easily in Photoshop.

- select green pixels, smooth it a bit, then paint white over it..
- apply a blue cast on it

https://s17.postimg.org/q68dz04sf/test.jpg
Any data on this? Would be very valuable.
I guess I'm a bit jaded since adding depth of field via software is a bit more common these days but overall, this project is still really impressive. Even with obvious artifacts it's not something I'd have considered possible 5 or 10 years ago.
It's subjective.

From my perspective (as a Brit) it's us that have been the petulant ones, demanding special treatment and opt-outs from this directive or that, then throwing a temper tantrum when we couldn't have our own way.

All of that, combined with a relentless decades-long campaign of lies and vitriol from the Murdoch press, resulting in such gems as "the EU demands we have straight bananas!" among various myths, falsehoods and outright lies about the EU;

http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/

The entire leave campaign has been fuelled by an outrageous sense of entitlement on the part of a huge swathe of the population that cannot accept that we are no longer a world power to be reckoned with, and the hilariously inaccurate perceptions people have of the various EU bodies and how they work.

The EU is far from perfect, but by comparison the UK is a fucking catastrophe of systemic classism, crony capitalism and unelected hereditary privilege.
> They are viewed as "safe" for credit card information, as opposed to emails.

The odds of someone obtaining credit card information from a plaintext email is a lot higher than someone decoding a VOIP SIP/T38 stream over the public internet, and reading the secrets out of that.

And if its through a traditional carrier (not an Internet provider), its digital, but almost always over their internal network. It is more secure through obscurity alone than plain text email.
Most branches of moral philosophy and ethics consider self defense morally legitimate.