skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can buy a dirt cheap one from ebay, slow shipping from china, for a couple of dollars.

I bought one for my son. He's not so interested (he still has small hands which doesn't help). Turns out I use it every day.

See also the glitter bottles I built with him. He liked making them - lots of mess - but I'm the one who spends time watching them.
DoZipper: Improve traffic flow without being a jerk
> "sports car"

lol

Why'd you get a BRZ? Bonus question: uh why did Toyota/Subaru make them
With Bitcoin you need to transition and get consensus. A bank can just upgrade their systems.
I wouldn't be surprised if money wasn't involved, HN has always worked like this.

Some tech post about some technology gets a ton of votes, some people get excited about the tech, they investigate and find articles about that tech, they share it, and all the excited people upvote it.

Has happened several times with Rust, Go, Ember, Meteor, Angular, TypeScript, etc etc

This time android support and that steve yegge blog post set it off (it probably wasn't an accident that these two coincided though?)

It's like an echo-chamber with ADHD
they have an entire API be explored:
https://core.telegram.org/

meanwhile whatsapp have this:
https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/android/28000012
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I sympathise with your exasperation, but I think you're only considering half the story.

What 1984 didn't depict or foresee was that the same technology that can be used by corporations and governments to monitor citizens can be (and is) just as easily used by citizens to monitor the actions of the governments and corporations, and hold them to account.

To quote John O'Farrell of Andreessen Horowitz [1]:

“So, Orwell was partly right. The state uses ever more advanced surveillance technology to watch us, and our own ever-greater use of personal technology makes it possible. On the other hand, technology has fundamentally destroyed the state’s ability to control our access to information, and exposed its bureaucracy to unprecedented scrutiny. This may be the death of privacy, but perhaps it’s also the death of secrecy and impunity. In that respect, fortunately, Orwell was wrong. Thanks to technology, Big Brother may be watching us, but we’re watching him too.”

Whether or not society is overall healthier in this state than it was before the technology emerged, I'm undecided, but the powers of surveillance do seem rather more balanced than the dystopian view suggests.

[1] http://a16z.com/2017/05/15/andreessen-primack-dc-tech-policy...
whatsapp is end to end encrypted, no? at what point are the messages intercepted?
For security and privacy, neighter is a good option. If you compare Telegram and Riot, Telegram wins hands down from a UX point of view. Riot is seriously lacking in this department, but it offers true end to end encryption with multiple devices by default, so if that matters to you, that is the best choice.
That interview was led by a prosecutor from Ecuador. The Swedish prosecutor and police was only allowed to be present, so they could not question Assange as they wanted.
They are ignorant to the point that I simply can't understand. Durov is in 'fuck you and die sooner' relation with russian goverment, but people still claim that Telegram is under their control. Right now we are at risk of losing Telegram if he will not provide server location info to FSB in few weeks, and it seems Durov is ready to lose russian market completely to protect it from these guys.

I actually trust whatsapp way less, simply because it has NO problems with russian special forces, which became very high-tech last years. This alone is a big red flag today.
This is their problem then.
When Assange was studying his PhD in the US (Bill Clinton was president at the time) the funding for his research was suddenly cut by the US Government, and he was never told why.

He's held a grudge against the US Government since then.
Is it possible that Google views JetBrains as an acquisition target?
Couldn't it be that we are all hyped about Kotlin because we read a new article about how incredible it is every 10 minutes? Chicken and egg.
Not by Swedish police or prosecutor, Ecuador didn't allow it. Only a prosecutor from Ecuador was allowed to ask questions.
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I think part of the fascination is the gyro sensation, and few children are exposed to gyroscopes nowadays, like a TEDCO gyroscope (http://amzn.to/2qZsS1t).
Thats not really the issue.

You are using the internet, you already have a big brother that can see everything you do.

Google at least show you what it have on you. It's a far bigger problem that governments don't.
I love this and so many command line tools that so many projects are shipping now - actually I have come to expect that projects/frameworks that need multiple files (VueJS, React, etc) have a "component generator" distributed with it, so you can create new components, with the proper up-to-date template, from the command line.

I don't remember when this started - Rails maybe? That was not my thing back then, but I really like this now.

IIRC Elixir has a great tool as well.
Nice intention, but have you been to suburban america? There's nothing there.
"wrecking bones" was great
In 1989 MI5 assisted loyalist paramilitaries in murdering Pat Finucane, human rights lawyer. Not exactly "kidnapped", but in many ways being shot 14 times, at point blank range, in front of your children at home, is pretty bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Finucane
That would work for good willing people but not for people that is in a political war state of mind
Haha fantastic read. Best part though was that my Google home responded to all the commands from the video.
Do you have any good links for learning the tricks?

I saw the practice knifes are about $10 on Amazon.
Regarding "fined by the EU". They obviously transferred WhatsApp data to Facebook and vice versa.
But I don't think that they necessarily store all of your WhatsApp messages somewhere in the cloud. Otherwise they could provide a similar easy, device independent solution like Telegram - instead of using the smartphone as a general pipe for all of the messages. So yeah...maybe they do and maybe they just don't want to tell us - but for now I am pretty confident that they would provide their user base with some kind of storing back end advantages.
Centralized Logging: A Big Data Challenge
Has there been any kind of comparable instance though? Had he skipped bail by just not showing up we could compare the manhunt that happened with any other bail skipper. But his location was very publicly known - what would a reasonable government do in that situation in your view?
I had mostly positive experience with Azure. Sure, it's definitely not the cheapest cloud - but on the other hand it compares well with AWS. I credit Azure for focussing on simplicity and having a polite customer service.

Regarding Google, I had really bad experience with that at some point. When App Engine was still young, it was mega unreliable, it seemed not even the Google people could predict when it failed. Not only that, at some point, when it wasn't so beta anymore, they changed pricing model and raised the prices unproportionally high. Eventually I painfully migrated my app onto some Virtual Private Server.

> First I was told that I am not eligible for trial.

I had 150 € for free a month, for half a year or so and afterwards access to a 60k € program. You can try to apply for that.

Anyways, I don't want to make any advertisment. My current project is hosted on Scaleway using Docker, so I can do what I want and I don't depend on any Tech Giant's benevolence.
Great blog post, short and quick read. The whole voice and children stuff has not been worked out properly yet. I believe Mattel is working on some special child-focused device.
> All he had to do was answer some questions to the Swedish prosecutor.

And he did, and as a result they finally dropped the investigation.

It was the Swedish prosecutor who waited 4 years before finally interviewing him before Christmas last year, because she - despite the statement of Swedish legal experts - stubbornly insisted she couldn't interview him in the UK.

Except it appears she could, so one might ask questions about why she chose to let it drag on for so long. I can understand holding out for a bit initially in the hope he'd give in, but to me it appears that she in letting it drag on this long failed to do her job - it did not serve justice to refuse. If she after the interview still believed he needed to be interviewed in Sweden for some reason, she could have made that case. But refusing not to interview him because the conditions were not to her liking? That stinks. Not necessarily of what Assange thinks it stinks of (see below), but it stinks.

> I still fail to understand why Sweden, NOT a NATO member, would have been more dangerous than the UK. Also, Sweden is not exactly the worst place in the world to spend prison time (which was only the worst case scenario.)

Whether or not it was realistic, there were two things to fuel Assange's fear:

Firstly, the irregularities surrounding the case. He was first told he could go, then suddenly a new prosecutor picked up the case and restarted investigations.

Then said prosecutor doggedly insisted he had to come back to Sweden instead of interviewing him in the UK, despite insisting over and over it was just part of the investigation.

Additionally police investigation records were illegally handed to the press.

I've mentioned in the past that I think Ny and one of the lawyers involved had personal reasons for wanting to use Assange as an example to push for a stricter interpretation of Swedish rape law (she has argued for that in the past). It probably had nothing to do with the US - but there were multiple things that were unusual. But with Assange paranoid about the US, it's not surprising how he interpreted that.

Secondly, there was a past case where Swedish police black-bagged two political asylum seekers and handed them to the CIA (who promptly handed them to Egypt - the regime they'd been seeking asylum from - where they were tortured), in violation of Swedish law.

Years later, Wikileaks revealed that the US ambassador had been called to the Swedish foreign ministry to answer questions about why rendition flights were still going through Sweden, with the support of Swedish ground staff, despite having been officially told to stop; the Swedish public was not told of the latter until Wikileaks revealed it.

It's not unsurprising if Assange again would interpret that as implying that whatever Swedens official position is, there is from his point of view a reason to fear that 1) either there are elements in Sweden willing to break the law to hand him over, or 2) that the US might just pick him up and ignore Swedish objections. Maybe it's not realistic, but the issue is not whether or not it is realistic, but whether or not Assange feared it might happen.
As it has been explained many times: no, they couldn't have.

Trial in absentia is not a universal feature of justice systems. Germany, for example, doesn't have it. Neither has Sweden.
More kid friendly? I would say the opposite they are more adult friendly then Ringling.

Also Glob Trotters, Disney on Ice and Marvel Live have taken over and owned by the same company.
You are wrong to be ambivalent. Russia is a vastly less free country than the United States.

For example, please see https://freedomhouse.org
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Wikileaks didn't release the cache, but they certainly did their best to boost its credibility with tweets like "We have not yet discovered fakes in #MacronLeaks & we are very skeptical that the Macron campaign is faster than us" (yeah, because there's no way alleged senders and recipients of emails could spot fakes faster than people analysing the meta data...) and the outstanding "assessment update: several Office files have Cyrillic meta data. Unclear if by design, incompetence, or Slavic employee."

Of course, it's entirely within Wikileaks' remit to process and publicise leaked information regardless of origin and leakers' suspected motives, but even as they asserted their experience in assessing leaked material they seemed far less willing to question what they were reading than everyone else...
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If you have an iPad you have no choice: you can't use WhatsApp on it. Even web vesion is not available (you'll be redirected to AppStore).

BTW that's not the main reason why I use Telegram for several years as my primary messenger.
As someone who's become adept with a few modern statically typed languages (C#, TypeScript, F#), and still sometimes has to write (pull teeth) crufty old Java for Android development, I can tell you that I'm happily pitching into this PR campaign unpaid and of my own volition.
Part of me thinks the 'why' game is the perfect way to gain the long-term attention of an adult through flattery.

The other part of me thinks kids have a lot to learn, and asking why is a good way to get there.
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Hi,

I have a c++ and android knowledge and I want to start from the company like you where I can polish myself. But I have experience of less than one year. Will that be acceptable?
By that logic, every time an investigation is dropped is proof of a world-wide conspiracy.
It would be easier if they had a injectable function to handle moderation / anti gaming etc. Release the code publicly with a stub function, then run the real one in prod.
And not to mention that fear when arguing against his extradition in a UK court.
War is Peace. Peace is War. We have always been at war with Eastasia.
I thought the same thing -- given the choice, most PIs would just as soon hire a full-time "staff grant writer" and return to science themselves. Of course, you can't actually pay for such a position using government grants, and therein lies the rub.
Server-side Swift's Vapor 2.0 released (and it's 3x faster than 1.5)
Lets say you model-checked some distributed algorithm with TLA+. You then implement it in Rust. How are you going to check that your implementation implements exactly the algorithm you have checked and not some other algorithm which looks very similar?

I think the phrase 'reliable systems' is more appropriate to what you are up to, as opposed to the phrase 'correct systems' which usually corresponds to formal verification.
In the UK people are told to change their oil once a year or 10k miles. If you do it every 3k miles in the US, which of us is doing it wrong? Either we're damaging our cars or you're wasting money and oil. They're the same cars doing the same distance, and parts of the US are similar climates.
Some countries would deny you that choice even if you were both OK with it.

e.g. http://mentalfloss.com/article/25034/8-countries-fascinating...
It really doesn't. They wanted to question him, he fled and locked himself up in an embassy. You don't know what evidence they have but rape cases such as this rarely have any physical evidence but they should still be investigated.
Mazda has a turbocharged SkyActive-G 2.5 these days they're using on the CX-9 and it's been pretty well recieved - https://insidemazda.mazdausa.com/press-release/mazdas-turboc...

It makes a ton of torque very low down low (300 ft/lbs) which makes it very suitable to push around a midsized CUV.
'timeo danaos et dona ferentes'

it's amazing how some fundamentals of the human condition don't change even over thousands of years
They're £3 (GBP) on eBay for a set of 4 scooter bearings. Which suggests they're pennies on AliBaba, perhaps cheaper without a (fake?) ABEC rating.
> Riot is seriously lacking in this department, but it offers true end to end encryption with multiple devices by default, so if that matters to you, that is the best choice.

What about Wire?
Telegram works without a smartphone, whatsapp doesn't.
Also personally I don't like to give order by yelling, OK Google, Alexa, make me a sandwich...
I cannot help but suspect the recent "stealthing" headlines following Comey's(?) 180° turn against Wikileaks is part of the campaign. Sure, it is an abhorrent act and justifiably prosecutable, and just so happens to be what Sweden was wanting to question Assange about, but when WSJ, WaPo, Fox, USA Today, CNN & Fox run the same headlines for two weeks on a prior low-priority subject(for them & their advertisers), I cannot help but wonder at the genesis for this particular MSM meme of late.
I'm pretty sure that with your IQ you can find the inconsistencies in your comment.
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It's two egyptians asylum seekers being illegal black-bagged and handed to a foreign power who turned around and handed them to the country they were fleeing.

It was not just a violation of international law, but a violation of Swedish law which the relevant police officers were not punished for.

So it is an indication that Swedish police can illegally pick people off the streets of Sweden, treat them in a way that is blatantly illegal, illegally hand them off to a foreign power, and not be charged with anything.

Maybe that is not enough to make you more suspicious, but the question is whether or not it gave Assange more reason to be concerned.
> A device that records you and sends the data to a corporation! In 1984 people were freakin' forced to have one. In 2017 people WANT to have one.

As predicted by Brave New world.
> The other part of me thinks kids have a lot to learn, and asking why is a good way to get there.

Indeed, there's a reason why it has become an accepted and well-used tool in the management toolbox.[1][2] It's something we shouldn't stop doing as adults.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
https://www.amazon.com/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp...
Unfortunately, even as a software engineer (although a mediocre one) I don't even know which one is actually safer.

I know that Whatsapp encrypts everything on the device so that's a really good start.

But I have no clue what security holes, backdoors, etc are in neither of them and we are leaving in dangerous times.

So basically the only thing I really trust is GPG-encoded emails which noone uses.
Is the risk that an accused on bail can be granted political asylum a reason to deny bail for future defendants?

In the history of UK, how many times have this set of circumstances happed?
And Assange kept offering to let them interview him in the UK. They refused for four years before finally agreeing last year. Why could they not have interviewed him for those four years?
Not really. What I missed most in Telegram was "delivered to device" status. While they claim such information wouldn't tell which of the recipient's devices received the message, I see it more as laziness on their side. They could have aimed for "delivered to any/one device" or "delivered to the default device". I personally care about whether a message was delivered (and the recipient would eventually look at their phone) or the server is down, recipient doesn't have a data connection etc. and I can try different communication methods. A "read" status is nice but the people I usually talk to tend to reply anyway.

In terms of message storage (ignoring government requests here), Telegram servers need to store them so that they can be provided to different clients/devices. For WhatsApp, OTOH, there are primary communication devices (phones) with end-to-end encryption and secondary clients that connect to the primary device to access the messages (rather than getting them from WhatsApp's servers). End-to-end encryption is available on Telegram as well but AFAIK you lose the ability to use secondary clients.
afaik you still require a phone number also for telegram :(
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Right, so many companies, such as in finance/banks are really going to have to get on with changing that mentality to compete with new or existing competitors who are more tech savy.
According to their engineers it was a compromise because they needed a more powerful engine, and adding a turbo was simpler and faster, than design larger one in line with their SkyActive-G design philosophy.
yes, far superior , latest updates demonstrates this again.
1. Android is the largest mobile platform on the planet.

2. It's been around for a decade now, but has only supported development with Java and C++.

3. The most recent version of Java supported comes from 2011. And full C++ support is only recent.

4. Few people (if any) really like these options.

5. This week Google announced that Kotlin is the next "official" language with first-class support.

6. A temporary wave of stories appear on HN.

Are you new here? I'm sure that next week it'll go back to the usual threads about Rust or Haskell, or someone will start a retro fad around Algol-68 or something.
It's actually pretty solid both with my 7 year old and even my 4 year old who has quite a few pronunciation issues.
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yes. latest updates demonstrate how far they are ahead. i find the bot platform superb
The end of competition?
From a pragmatic point of view Chinese would be much more useful, but there are a tons of good resources for that already, so dunno. Congratulations anyway. I've used Duolingo to refresh my German some time back.
Clackers.
> how did Wikileaks turn from a whistleblower into a mouthpiece of the Kremlin?

Examples are not proof. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
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It wasn't entirely open sourced last time I researched it, which is one of the reasons I switched to Riot.
I would love to see a modernized COBOL in the same way they have modernized Fortran. It'd be an instant hit in enterprise IT environments.
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Telegram and Whatsapp are pretty interchangeable on feature set TBH. The support for bots in Telegram is nice, but Whatsapp currently has more user share - which is crucial.

Another interchangeable from user experience is Signal. I'm seeing more growth in Signal, which is great - and I trust it more than Telegram and Whatsapp combined.
They had closed the case, and notified him of that. Then a new prosecutor reopens the case and goes after him.

The point is that Sweden might very well have seemed perfectly safe despite those past actions until a prosecutor took those steps which still seems exceedingly odd.

To have one prosecutor say there was no case to answer, only to have another prosecutor specifically go after the case and reopen it, is uncommon to say the least.
Telegram is far from perfect, according to this investigation:

http://www.cryptofails.com/post/70546720222/telegrams-crypta...

Why not use, say, Ricochet? Or any other secure messenger (https://prism-break.org/en/all/#instant-messaging)
What?!

C++ might be a 2nd class citizen in SDK tooling, but it is supported since Android 1.5 and C++14 is fully supported.

How is that very recent?

EDIT: The NDK was actually released with v1.5 (2009), the v2.3 was when STL and exceptions support were added hence my error.
You don't actually need to use the 3.0 preview for kotlin development in android. You can use the stable version and just follow the instructions provided by jetbrains: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/kotlin-android.html
Atmospheric sensors have to be deployed at the location they're sampling, so step 0 is: cover the earth with air quality monitoring stations. Step -1 is convincing someone to pay for this (governments have limited funding for this, so choose their monitoring sites carefully & extrapolate from the recorded data).

There's a few sites which aggregate the public datasources, like http://aqicn.org/map/world/
Hardware Engineers Have to Think Like Criminals and Engineers Are Easy to Fool
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