skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say it had to do with Room 641A. That was a separate and distinct reply to your allegations over no proof of wiretapping.

Look at the very first sentence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

> PRISM is a secret code name for a program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from at least nine major US internet companies

And here:

> Documents indicate that PRISM is "the number one source of raw intelligence used for NSA analytic reports", and it accounts for 91% of the NSA's internet traffic acquired under FISA section 702 authority." The leaked information came to light one day after the revelation that the FISA Court had been ordering a subsidiary of telecommunications company Verizon Communications to turn over to the NSA logs tracking all of its customers' telephone calls

You're talking out of your ass. Clearly. You can't even do basic research on the most public open knowledge base on the internet.

Just saying there is no evidence of mass wiretapping of AT&T's infra makes you look ignorant as hell.

Next you're going to tell me this is just a fraternity club:

https://vimeo.com/193562415

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-...
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Time feels easy because we humans constantly make implicit and contextual assumptions about meaning. Computers are terrible at both implicit and contextual assumptions.
Ask HN: Any startups using oracle?
My professor for the database class says that oracle is the king of databases. It's loved by big companies, but I can't believe any startups out there are using it.
> there is no evidence at all which indicates the exploits leaked by Shadow Brokers are intentional backdoors

And this seems a little disingenuous. Perhaps there is no evidence so far regarding these particular leaks from Shadow Brokers, but in general the NSA has a history of creating backdoors.

You and I discussed some of this a bit already in one of the older NSA threads:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullrun_(decryption_program)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

The idea of "key escrow", used by the NSA in the Clipper Chip's Skipjack algorithm, is really a euphemism for a built-in cryptographic backdoor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_escrow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipjack_(cipher)
The time work is started is something I'm debating with myself on. I think I will add start + end date + time since it would help with making a timer persistent across pages/connection issues.

Confirmation is a must, mistakes happen!

Filters/reporting is coming over the next week, also a must, what's the point of time tracking if you can't compile reports of your time.
Thanks. I'll let it stand for now. I haven't been a part of that company for several years now, and did not have any legal agreements or first party relationship with either of the companies named above, and since the deal closed since with Slice it would be difficult for anyone to allege damages.

On top of that, it should be very clear that everything I said is hearsay at best. If I had known the attention this would receive, I would have been clearer about it.
> The way you're framing it presumes SIGINT is in charge.

You fundamentally misunderstood my post, whiis causing you to reach strange conclusions. Neither is "in charge." They are two separate entities with separate missions. Some of the systems developed and documented by IA make the job of SIGINT difficult if our adversaries implement them as well.

How would spying from the air have prevented Iran from developing it's nuclear program?
They don't inform advertisers of anything. They allow advertisers to bid to show you an ad. That's all.
Totally agree with the audit trail. From time to time I look at which accounts are connected and nuke most, but making this a better informed decision through access history would be great.
>For example, the chairman on the senate intel committee is about to vote for more oversight of $secretprogram.

People's memories are way too short with this kind of stuff because something like this already happened: The CIA hacked the computers of the senate oversight committee responsible for investigating the CIAs record of torture.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/cia-admits-spy...
Thanks for the feedback. Just implemented all that. Check it out.
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What I always wonder about when I see business like these: What comes first? Do they first think about what they could sell and then go about setting up a service that gets users to provide them with that data or do they first create a nice service and then realize they have to keep the lights on somehow?
Hacker News RSS feeds "provides custom, realtime RSS feeds for Hacker News", including for user posts and comments:

https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/
Americans just don't want to be bothered with the chore of working a clutch with their left foot and shifting with their right.

It's my impression that more American drivers use their right hand to shift, rather than their right foot.
It would be nice if the article's title mentioned its publishing date. I wrote a comment criticizing the article for ignoring a number of important papers published since 2010, the latest published article that was cited, and then had to delete it.
A 30-second product demo video would definitely be a nice to have.
Same here can't believe we reached a point where the phone can play these..
Your comment is unnecessarily dismissive and inaccurate.

I'll avoid getting into an internet argument, and just leave this quote here.

> tech has become a cesspool of slimy founders + and unbridled capitalism - this needs to stop for the greater good

This was the thread the comment was posted in and it's entirely the topic of discussion.

In the future try to choose more productive ways of describing people's views and engaging in discussion than as 'rabble-rousing' 'rants'.
I got really fast at shifting my little, manual Toyota. There was this steep hill with a light at the top, and cars would pull up right behind the bumper.
Dunno. Never got an answer. Maybe the driver thought we are gangbangers, flying hands too scary, can't read my written address, etc etc. not one ever was able to explain why.
An audit trail like that should include every access that Google makes to your email for their own purposes.
I'm a little younger then most who are on this thread. I grew/am growing up playing Fallout 3/NV. Projects like this give me hope that I will one day see similar things happen with my favorite games.

What I'd give for an open source Fallout 3/NV with some kind of coop feature....
If they don't delete it and they have European customers they are breaking the law.
If you're not paying money, you're not a customer.

Saying that a true statement is "trite" and "meaningless" doesn't make it untrue.
Right on. You going to charge (hosted solution)? I'd like to support you.
Thanks. I'll let it stand for now. I haven't been a part of that company for several years now, and did not have any legal agreements or first party relationship with either of the companies named above, and since the deal closed since with Slice it would be difficult for anyone to allege damages.

I should also be clear that everything I said is hearsay. I wasn't personally privy to the terms of the deal or involved in due diligence, which is why I am fairly sure that I am not under NDA from unroll.me. (My former employer may be a different situation, but I'm pretty confident that none of the information disclosed above is or was a trade secret at this point.)
Yeah but a video is always nice on mobile where some of the functionality is a little rough around the edges right now.
if anyone wants a nice CLI tool then Timetrap is pretty awesome, been using it for years.

https://github.com/samg/timetrap
It's certainly possible to do so and doing so would indeed avoid any sort of flicker -- but cost-cutting (good capacitors that will last the life of the LEDs are expensive) reigns supreme alas.
They shouldn't but Google does not have much in terms of Chinese Walls internally. The contents of your gmail account or youtube history could easily affect your search results.
Look at Snowden's actual documents. It shows the data is actually collected by the FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit (https://i.imgur.com/setOJIm.jpg),
which is the organization within the FBI that handles electronic wiretaps . The FBI requests data for specific accounts from these companies using FISA warrants and NSLs, but only the data requested via FISA (i.e., for foreigners) are allowed into the NSA's systems.

Room 641A isn't a mass wiretapping system. Once again, see the documents from Snowden. It looks for communications from specific Internet endpoints that are being wiretapped under court order.
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I think trurl's comment actually serves to highlight how awful java.util.Date's design is, and how important names are in programming. trurl was responding to a comment about Date not having a timezones, on an article that goes in depth as to how Date just represents an instant in time and not a date on a calendar, and he still misunderstood what java.util.Date's represent. Imagine how the legions of programmers new to Java make the same mistake.
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That's so far outside of what is acceptable that it should be actionable in some way and I sincerely hope Google cuts them off at the knees. Aren't you breaking an NDA by posting this? (If so, extra kudos to you!)
I wonder how many users they lost to release this same day.
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The value of attending Harvard comes not from the education itself, but the signalling which indicates that you had the abilities or achievements to get accepted in the first place.

If Harvard or Yale start publicly accepting that a proportion of their students simply paid their way in, then this knowledge shifts from being an implicit understanding/public secret to one that is publicly acknowledged and widely publicized.

If the names of those who bought places are publicly announced, then this dries up the pool of future 'donors' because the signalling effect disappears when everyone knows how you got in. Conversely, if they keep the names anonymous, this demeans the value of the degree for everyone, because people will then cast their aspersions on all future ivy league grads.
And Memory Evolutive Neural Systems (MENS)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/articles/26193173/
No, but you did just point a whole pile of nasties at a very juicy and poorly secured target.
I don't really have any interest in making money on this project and I feel like a hosted solution defeats the purpose. The best support you could give is writing some issues on GitHub, testing things, helping with documentation, or submitting some features.
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Sounds great — this is off to an amazing start.

Not sure if you intend to turn it into a business but with a little polish and the features you described it's simpler / better than several competing paid products on the market today (as you probably noticed).
When someone discovered that Uber suddenly needed your location “always” instead of just “while app is running”, Uber tried to say it was no big deal. Yet, combined with questionable attempts to profile users, it really does seem like they have a major interest in every drip of data they can scrape (namely, they probably sell it on the side).
Because the newest computer-controlled automatics can shift more quickly than any human can, engineers see the manual transmission as outdated. We disagree. Shifting a manual transmission is not only more engaging and fun than flicking some dainty little paddles, it also requires more skill and makes the driver a better one.

"It's an unimportant skill but as you practice it you will get better at it." Well, yeah.

My fun weekend car has a stick, and that's not such a bad thing, but there's no denying stick shift on passenger cars exists solely for entertainment value or vanity at this point.
> Fortunately, Americans are beginning to remember what was once lost. Senator Elizabeth Warren often sounds like she’s channeling Wright Patman. Senator Bernie Sanders stirred enormous enthusiasm in a younger generation more in touch with their populist souls. Republicans even debated putting antitrust back in their party platform. President Obama has begun talking about the problem of monopolies. Renata Hesse, the head of the government’s antitrust division, recently gave a blistering speech repudiating Bork’s corporatist ideas. And none other than Hillary Clinton, in an October 3, 2016, speech on renewing antitrust vigor, noted that Trump, while a unique figure, also represents the “broader trends” of big business picking on the little guy.

> Restoring America’s anti-monopoly traditions does not mean rejecting what the Watergate Babies accomplished. It means merging their understanding of a multicultural democratic society with Brandeis’s vision of an “industrial democracy.” The United States must place democracy at the heart of its commercial sphere once again. That means competition policy, in force, all the time, at every level. The prevailing culture must be re-geared, so that the republic may be born anew.
Maybe they mean in terms of there being a Rails-style (mindset might be a better way to put it) framework available to get up and going quickly.
Too few. If they're still in business next week I'd consider that a failure on Google's part.
Human accesses or machine accesses? Because there are constant machine accesses for search indexing and spam detection.
I never denied the FBI's role in this?

I never said Room 641A was a mass wiretapping system? Just that it was one example of many such wiretapping initiatives?

I also provided citations showing that this is more than just targeting specific accounts?

You're starting to sound like a shill, that won't do any good if you're trying to convince people of your narrative.
The fact that something is more common, doesn't mean it's not still largely luck.

Ignore the powerball and look at scratch off lottery winners. There are thousands of people who 'win' at it every day but that doesn't mean it's not luck.

You're mixing frequency with luck. Something can occur frequently and still be heavily influenced by luck.
This is an excellent syllabus by Professor Dave Touretzky, a pioneer in deep learning. He started the Connectionists mailing list and was heavily involved in the early days of NIPS.

Sign up here: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/connectionis...

For anyone who thinks there was ever a pause in deep learning progress, the Connectionists archives beg otherwise!
Hence the 'for their own purposes'. So not related to gmail.
> Outside of Germany, the SS is the only old-school V8 performance sedan you can get with a manual.

Except of course for the Australian car that is the original version of the SS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Commodore_(VF)
Will do. You should think about charging, it is a forcing function and prevents you from working on the wrong features (developer creep)
for me, sleep wasn't happening and didn't come until several weeks of both therapy and antidepressants - but yes, everyone is different and different drugs work in different ways for everyone.
How extreme is your standard for biased reporting, if publishing an article with completely made up claims - and not retracting it - is not what you would consider biased?
Is the price listed on these vehicles starting at $35000 USD because of the stick shift or is that just the starting price for cars now? I haven't seriously looked at cars for well over 8 years since I moved abroad, and before that it was just buying beaters from people on craigslist.
Debugging a large, complex application
Java 8 was released 5 years after the Sun Oracle acquisition. What do you mean by decade?
If you do it right, you only need to verify a few key components with interface conditions on how the rest should use them. This approach was taken in high-assurance security to build window managers that prevented leaks between apps or login spoofing. Nitpicker GUI is a modern example of that at least architecturally.
I feel so frustrated. This Jojo CEO is just gonna get away with it, and in a few days people will forget. He will continue his status as a "successful entrepreneur", getting investments and still selling customer private information to whomever or whatever.

And nothing's gonna happen to protect user's privacy. All I (or any one) can do is to use fake accounts to sign-up for free services.
One of the great underrated films of all time. Sneakers
Rule of thumb- anytime people resort to "education Will solve this", they are resorting to a non solution.

Education/retraining doesn't happen at the rate, at the scale, or in the time people need it to.
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“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.”

― Hunter S. Thompson
Thanks for adding this — it looks like a couple states are settling on no sleep in 24 consecutive hours as a standard. I wonder if different regulations are being considered for individuals vs drivers for ride sharing services. The latter is more concerning to me, though both are definitely a big deal.
I bought a toyota yaris with manual transmission for 12k new
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Oh the headaches those hill assist solenoids cause on Subaru's. Especially when they start to wear out or get electrical issues.
Is this answer on their FAQ an outright lie, then?

https://unrollme.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200243036-If-...

> we don't store any of your emails on our servers.

Either way, I just deleted my Unroll.me account and revoked access to my Gmail account. I don't think there's anything the company can do to ever get me back as a user.
Here is my problem with the article: It has the title of a magna opus. The article has a title that suggests content that is expansive and authoritative, containing both rigorous theory and seminal empirical research. This article is not at all deserving of such a title, and I cannot think of a single neuroscientist I know that would put such a title on even their most ambitious work, much less this loosely thought out treatment.

It is, frankly, embarrassing. Even in 2011.
Oh that's interesting, can we speak via email:- tom dot larkworthy at Google's popular email provider?
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> However, their Privacy Notice claims to not store emails that are not personal emails but certain types of "commercial" emails as defined by the CAN-SPAM act.

> Are they really hoovering up everything?

I worked on a competing product a long long time ago. (Well, a competitor in the "all your emails are belong to us" space.)

The way ours worked was that we hovered everything, but before we provided any analytics staff access to it, we grabbed only emails of interest, tokenized the data in them, and then copied them to the analytics data store.

But we were constantly refining what "of interest" meant, which means that we had to go back and re scan the archives periodically, which would always turn up new stuff for the analytics team. The need to re scan historical data as the models improved meant that we had to keep all of the source material, even if it wasn't accessible to the people who were most interested in looking at it.
I'm sure somebody can come up with a better term than "master/slave", for an equitable relationship between hardware or software that's harmoniously cooperating towards a shared goal by willfully and respectfully delegating authority.

Even the old telnet protocol politely and consensually negotiates with will/won't/do/don't, and it's not protocolly correct for a server to rape a client, who historians then romanticize as a mistress.

Another common metaphor that I find cognitively dissonant is calling the relationships between nodes in a tree "parent" and "child", since all humans have exactly two biological parents, but all tree nodes have only one parent.

https://www.quora.com/Can-a-binary-tree-node-have-multiple-p...
I would hope that Slice secured it after the acquisition.
Haha, I did read that book before start this project, it's a very useful material. But for now the project are far more complicated than the sample project in that book, only lexer and parser remain similar.

BTW I also took "nand2tetris II" on coursera and read "Ruby under a microscope" for this project.
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I think a more reasonable approach would be to have a hard time limit on each discovered exploit. Something like 180 days to use it for any missions, after which they must report the exploit and get it patched. This shortens the window for any leaks or independent discovery while still allowing it to be used for important intelligence gathering activities. In turn this will create a pressure to keep finding more exploits as old ones expire, and that in turn will mean more get fixed 180 days later, etc.
Well, that and cost and simplicity. A manual transmission will always be cheaper to manufacture and repair, and can actually be worked on by mere mortals.

I have rebuilt one manual transmission and one automatic transmission, and I have recurring nightmares about only one of those two. (fuck you, E40D...)
I agree! I was making fun of my own naiveté. I think sites like Youtube are great (even though I never post on it and almost never watch anything on it).

Unfortunately "seemed" got autocorrected to "seems", and I didn't catch it, grr!
That's a fair point, but after you learn how to stop it properly it's pure muscle memory, it's very difficult to make such an error.
I guess it's not a lie since they store it on Amazon's servers?
I'd disagree.

While it's true you can be paying someone to sell you to some third-party, it's virtually never the case where a private firm offers you a service completely gratis without sell you to some third-party. Furthermore, without the exchange of funds, you lose a lot of legal protections and the ability to hold the company accountable for a lot of their actions.

I know it might be annoying to hear it over and over, but I think it bares repeating because I can guarantee you that only some people have heard that phrase, and far fewer have truly understood it's impact.
I'll quote what I said elsewhere:

> I haven't been a part of that company for several years now, and did not have any legal agreements or first party relationship with either of the companies named above, and since the deal closed since with Slice it would be difficult for anyone to allege damages.

And if all this disappears, then yes, someone did attack me legally over it. I don't like the business culture that has built up around this kind of thing -- reputation is important, so let's defend it with lots of lawyers and NDAs, but it's too much effort to be up front about business practices that might give us a bad reputation. That's bullshit.
( iOS only :( https://get.google.com/motionstills/ )
This is just depressing.

I had an S2000, but sold it when I had the opportunity to travel overseas for work one year... Been back a few years now and I still haven't found anything to replace it.

Given the very short list of cars that still offer manual transmissions, it's unlikely I'll ever in my life have another car I will love to drive as much as my old Honda. I just can't see driving a convertible without a manual transmission... where's the fun in that?