skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing that they'd allow 7+ attempts to correctly identify the customer's voice. To me, that signals either poor security practices or a lack of confidence from HSBC in the technology itself.
Pot would alleviate much of the heroin problem but with great advantages comes equal disadvantages. I suspect we will see these issues soon.

Point number two: Marijuana is addictive and individuals with marijuana addiction entering voluntary rehab is increasing:(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2797098/)

Theory: The reason one does not get physical withdraws is that it is oil based, stored in the fat and slowly dissipates in about 2-weeks or so whereas heroin is water soluble and leaves the body within 24-hours...
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I don't see why this is an issue though, just promise quarterly updates and clearly state rights on future raises for existing investors. They can follow-on or not. All of these issues can be solved, it's just more excuses. It should be easier to have 100 investors who all agree on everything than 4 investors you have to baby and cajole and manage their whining because they feel entitled to personal service.
Which procedural limitations? The ones Ny proved doesn't exist when she finally after four years interviewed him in London after all?

I'm not expected Sweden to be like the UK/US - I'm Norwegian, and our system is much closer to the Swedish and to the UK/US systems.

I am expecting a prosecutor to not stubbornly refuse to take actions for fours years while claiming it to be impossible, while being contradicted by legal experts, just to suddenly decide it's possible after all.

If that's too much to ask of Swedish prosectors, you have a big problem with your legal justice system.
Isn't this susceptible to a trusting trust[0] attack, where your verifier has a bug that makes it verify itself, even though it shouldn't ?

It's always possible there is a loop somewhere. The best you can hope for is make it infinitesimally small.

[0]: http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack
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So, blame the clients and users unfortunate enough to be using an implementation that only works 99.999% of the time?
Either way you can not expect a single number to encapsulate something as large and complex as the US labor market.

This is true, but part of the problem is with the media and government communications often failing to engage with this fact properly, and instead focusing on a single metric which is often misinterpreted.
Does he not understand static methods? Static methods exist in C++ and do not require an object to be created...
It's a nice feel good story that gets funding. It's not replacing teachers, mentors and schools anytime soon.
Advertisers are probably foaming at the mouth thinking of the data mining and indoctrination possibilities. Today's youth never had a chance.

Imagine growing up and finding out that your parents took away your ability to decide whether or not you want corporations to have a permanent record of your entire life?
Yes, because that's what happened. "The questions were prepared by prosecutors in Sweden, where an arrest warrant for Mr. Assange was issued in 2010, but were posed by a prosecutor from Ecuador under an agreement the two countries made in August." - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/world/europe/assange-wiki...

I think a key part of a police interview is asking new questions based on responses and having an actual conversation, which the Swedish prosecutors couldn't do.
Very reasonable explanation.

I'd still say though that if they bought WhatsApp for 19B only to stop accepting payments and run it for free to avoid competition then maybe the should be punished for being an evil monopoly.

Until then I'll continue muy little campaign against the guys who destroyed the good, privacy-focused WhatsApp and tried to feed our data into Facebook after first lying through their teeth about not being able to do that.

Summary: WhatsApp is now owned by a big, lying and likely also evil megacorp.[0]

Recommendation: avoid until Facebook change their ways, voluntarily or not. (No, I'm not against big companies, not against huge profits.)

[0]: big is easy to prove, lying is easy to prove and based on the way they lie and what they did to WhatsApp I guess they are evil.
I'm not talking about voice logs or anything else recorded by Google Home itself. Once people expect that their conversation can be recoded by a 3rd party, they no longer have the protections against other recordings being made.

> Law enforcement must have a valid and legal warrant

Kyllo v United States established a bright line test that the need for a warrant specifically depends on if the technology used is commonly available to and used by the general public.
I don't think you're required to no, but you can at least attempt an answer or cite someone else that has put thought into an alternative.

And just because you fail at your attempt does not make your initial point void.
Government as an aggregate will of the people is just a hivemind. There has to be push and pull; give and take. The 51% cannot completely neglect the wishes of the other 49%.

However, on the other hand, I agree with you. Who's to say that private conglomerates have our best interests in mind moreso than the people we elect to represent us?

In order to maximize personal freedoms, I believe that there can be no utopia. Debate and compromise and the messiness that comes with those two are essential.
You're right - there are far more risks. Access to extreme content is easier than it's ever been and can often happen inadvertently. It's a hard problem, and one I don't fully have answers to.

I don't object at all to people censoring their own feeds or deciding what is acceptable to themselves - I do it myself.
Tools for this should be easy to use and widely available for those who want them.

What I do object to, strongly, is a bunch of unaccountable people secretly deciding what we should and shouldn't have access to, especially on such slippery justifications as 'protecting the children' or 'preventing terrorism'.
I'm not sure. From what I've read it worked quite well in Scandinavian countries. For example, Norway, while consuming approximately the same amount of alcohol (with a slight upwards tendency, but with spirits usage going down in favor of wine), has had 20 years of non-stop reduction of deaths related to alcohol usage from 1980-2001 (http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/en/norway.pd...). That, to an outsider like me, suggests that they have something that works, although I don't know exactly what it is.
Having worked at home for many years the hardest thing i found was to switch of from work and have a home life.
even after reading all the article on separating work/home life.
now i work in a office i feel i get more done.
Ask HN: Right to Repair after WannaCry?
Given what happened in the UK to MRI machines, do you think there will be any gains on the "right to repair" or open hardware for that matter?

I know in recent years there have been issues with Farmers being able to modify their tractors. Apple has had issues with 3rd parties being able to repair phones.
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Being the 'official' language, is this also true for Chinese business — or is that dependent on the dialect of where an office may be located?
I completely agree that there is a ruling class, and that they extract an obscene amount of rent just because they can. I also happen to think they create a ton of value. I just don't believe that justifies them making us 'human capital'.
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of course it depends on your case , but my guess is that if you ask the question then you should probably invest time on kotlin ( because it aims for a larger scope of use cases)

People coding in go for real world projects usualy know that go fits the tradeoffs they're looking for.
Blue Ridge Labs @ Robinhood.

We have a yearly, paid, 5 month long fellowship in Brooklyn for mid-career engineers, designs, and product managers that combines human centered design and Lean Startup to build tech ventures that fight poverty.

https://joinpropel.com came out of our fellowship and just raised a seed round from Andreesen Horowitz.

Our website: https://labs.robinhood.org
Personally I don't feel the need to use React if you use kotlin. But there are few cases where React makes sense. Everything that involves a stream of events that you need to process and they can fail or you need to retry, them React is your way to go (I don't feel kotlin is ready for this use case yet). For example, if you want to use the BlueTooth API it is so easy to use it with React because of the stream of events.

People are using React for Rest requests, and for APIs where you cannot touch them it can be a good idea as it provide ways to join results of requests and other stuff. But if you control the API and it is designed to be simple and with mobile in mind, there shouldn't be uses cases where a simple request give you all you need.

It also gives consistency as you treat the same way a click event than a http request. Some people like this but I don't.

I personally didn't find a good use case to use it in my app, but you might think diferently. So, I suggest you to try it a little at least an decide by yourself.
That is my hope in regards to people finding healthier food options.
I'm just pulling ideas out of thin air but I wonder if it connected with how good the economy is doing for the people buying drugs.
Do you have any sources for how the interview took place? And any indication that it was unfair? (I'm pretty sure Sweden would have refused to do it if they were unhappy with the process.)

I don't know who asked the questions, or what the procedure was, but I read the Swedish prosecutor's statement issued today and they do not mention the London interview being an issue.
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In my experience iOS users are much more likely to pay for your app. Android apps seem to do better when they're ad supported.

This is anecdotal, so YMMV.
> All I could wish for is C with native features of python (dict, list comprehensions, libs like sqlite and xml...)

So... C#?
https://m.vk.com/wall1_677448

As for goverment intentions, I have no direct link, but those who simply ignored their demands were blocked. We wait and see what happens.
Edited my comment to remove the U1, U3 reference, not to confuse everyone. The point still stands, though.
Your other reply to onmobiletemp is great. The goal is to have all comments on HN that - so that half the comments aren't jokes, memes, and overly hyperbolic sarcasm.
> You're not communicating if people reflexively downvote you.

I don't really understand this; most likely I think that you are communicating, and people don't like what they're reading. Sure, posts that don't communicate are downvoted, but so are posts that do communicate. I haven't actually read the comment we're talking about, because I can't, but my point of contention is that receiving downvotes should be considered as some sacred message to re-think your life. It shouldn't, it just shows that an elite group of HN users have decided they don't like what you're saying. It might be for good reasons or bad reasons.

In the past I have tried to reach out to HN's medium, writing posts I think are thought out, non-attackative, presenting an interesting viewpoint etc. only to have them downvoted 2 or 3 times, and I suspect it's because I espouse a particular political viewpoint, even when on topic. Some other of my comments have been upvoted, with much the same content.

I have discovered that it's very hard to predict if your comment will be upvoted or downvoted, so I stopped caring so much. It's clear that the HN mods or perhaps PG himself want to manipulate people into espousing points that everyone else likes, even going so far as to gray out comments to make them harder to read, of course so that people won't want to read them.

I found that I was being stopped from posting things I thought were interesting or perhaps controversial, and instead I was searching for things that would get me upvotes. This is in stark contrast to the old style imageboards, in which everyone's post is given an equal footing.

Downvoting is a dirty little system, and it's one of the things keeping me from posting more on this site, which is filled with relatively intelligent discussion on all sorts of topics.

And do not start me talking about how the HN moderators have decided that sometimes "You're submitting too fast, please slow down" when I want to post something in quick succession (about twice per hour even). It makes it impossible for me to have discussions here with this. I don't know if it affects other people (I suspect it does not), but it's so frustrating. Sometimes I have to collate two or three posts into one to avoid being prevented from posting. Reddit doesn't do that, the imageboards don't do that, in fact almost no other forum does this.
If the current system is so "heinous" then seemingly that should not be very difficult.
Um, no. What happens on HN is nowhere near an industry driver. It's better than many forums, but it's not some powerhouse of technology industry influence, nor does a trending topic on HN necessarily indicate a particular trend in the industry in general.
> Not every idea has to have billion dollar potential

If I'm going to seriously join a crowdfunding investment, I'm going to be thinking like a VC. I would happily join a smaller "lifestyle" company as an employee or cofounder, but I probably wouldn't give them much money. I expect 9 out of 10 of my investments to fail, so I also need to look for those 10x opportunities.

On the other hand, if it's just a token amount like a few hundred dollars, then I'll throw some cash at a Kickstarter or whatever. But then you can't say I really invested in anything.
I've actually heard that Polish is more difficult to learn. It all seems fairly subjective.
RFC 6066 specifies that you can only have one certificate in an OCSP response - as with intermediate certs you need to be able to respond with a chain, this does not work. RFC 6961 defines a multiple response capability, but my understanding is that currently this is not sufficiently widely implemented to be useful yet.
Dart is losing with TypeScript. It seems that outside of Google almost nobody uses Dart.

It'll be interesting to see how Go will cope with Kotlin/Native (in technology preview stage right now)

Kotlin has no unsigned types (JVM language). In embedded / IoT applications that's a downside. It seems that unsigned types are the only major advantage Go has over Kotlin/Native.
From the article, the malware "provides remote beacon and loader capabilities on target computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system (from Windows XP to Windows 10). Once installed, the malware provides a beaconing capability (including configuration and task handling), the memory loading/unloading of malicious payloads for specific tasks and the delivery and retrieval of files to/from a specified directory on the target system. It allows the operator to configure settings during runtime (while the implant is on target) to customize it to an operation."

First the Intel AMT vuln, and now all versions of Windows can be popped. Jesus, I'm just going to start porting Plan9 to my electric abacus.
same goes for Tower (https://www.git-tower.com)
This makes me incredibly sad.

Why are we handing massive advertising corporations the keys to our children's minds?
I know a handful of professionals who don’t want to work from home at all…but even those people admit that they want the flexibility to work from home on days when their kids are sick, the car has a flat, or workers are coming, rather than having to take time off of work.

Is this a problem that people who work in technical fields actually have? Even in companies with aggressively unfriendly WFH policies, I've had good luck requesting time at home in situations like the above.
xoL is a graphic based programming language that I have been working on. The goal is to make programs visually easier to read. And to be editable with almost no use of keyboard. It can work well on tablets. A partially working prototype can be found here: https://github.com/lignixz/xoL

I have a newer design with substantial improvements. If only I had funding to focus on this.
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That is an exercise left to the reader. Find groups that interest you and are effective in their mission. Ask how you can help and follow through with your commitments. Be humble and aware that initially you will be taking not giving as they expend resources to spin you up.

Or as mentioned above - just donate some of that sweet, sweet cash that tech workers are making hand over fist compared to nearly every other occupation.

> Unspecific suggestions like this are the reason people get lost and resume the attitude you're deriding.

Yes, surely those people bear no responsibility around their personal level of civic engagement.
Yes, but they're at least adequate at funding good science. That is all that they are attempting.

I did mention that there are people with salesmanship and that's an advantage that you really can't control for. Well except through scrutiny of only the science, which seems to be fairly well done through a group of scientists who have to approve proposals.

"Oversell ideas and falsify data": Of course a competitive market will encourage these behaviors. But just because there are unethical people in science doesn't mean that we should do away with the system.

I would add to "falsify data", misinterpret and misunderstand data (and specifically the statistics involved). Again, something you can control for to some degree with scrutiny of the applications by other good scientists.
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This looks cool, I just experimented with it. I am curious: what is the business model for this? Server costs are probably fairly expensive.
what of forking an existing language and adding one of two features you want to see it it.

i'd like to make a subset of ruby minus blocks and indentation (yes i'm crazy)
As the confinement in the Embassy is confinement. And he's been unjustly confined for a longer period than the maximum penalty for rape in Sweden.

That's valid if Sweden locked him in the Ecuador Embassy. He went there to shield himself.

Personally I think (my opinion, anyway) that the rape charges were work of the CIA, but that's another story.
Efficacy of remote workers is just a thing some people really want to be true, but it's not clear that it's true at all. (It's also not clear that it isn't, but the evidence is nowhere near as overwhelming as some people make it out to be)
Long experience suggests they probably are not.
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Like someone mentioned, it's hard to answer this in the general case. Factors to consider would be: a) are you dependent on the JVM and Java ecosystem? b) Are you already familiar/comfortable with Java/Scala? "Yes" answers to both of these might lean you towards Kotlin.

c) is speed essential? d) are you doing systems programming as opposed to CRUD webapps?[1] These might lead you to Go.

[1] I know you can do the latter in Go, but it's unclear that it's as easy/productive as in other langs currently (nor have I directly compared, say, Revel to other frameworks, so someone else is probably better qualified to answer this question.)
There was a 99% Invisible episode about this:
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/war-and-pizza/
"rope"? ;-)
The idea here is that the server can't be scaled up or down. I suggest googling "cattle vs pets". If you know how to make a single process scale horizontally across additional hosts or scale up in alternative datacenters with a chef service notification, I'd pay you money to tell me how.
>But a systemic problem demands a systemic explanation. Austrians give us monetary policy. Keynesians give us greed.

Keynesians give regulation. If you're unwilling to consider the ideas of someone who believes that capitalism is reckless, that greed does cause financial crises and that regulation is an answer, then why are you asking for a book recommendation? You should also note that I believe in regulated markets not socialism or communism. There are a million shades of gray here.

>I need a better explanation than hand wringing and worship of Piketty.

Have you read Piketty?

I'm going to recommend two books which should be a gentle introduction to my viewpoint:

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang

Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality by James Kwak

EDIT: I'd also note that one of the things that frustrates me most is to see the politicization of economics. The misuse of economic terminology to advocate a specific political viewpoint is exactly what mises and similar institutions engage in and it leads to a group of the public who believes that they're educated in economics when they're actually just inculcated to a political worldview. If you read those books and still disagree, that's fine but just think about whether it's an intelligent disagreement. I've run into so many individuals who know Friedman, Hayek, Mises, Rothbard, maybe Hoppe and no one else. People who explain to me all about how supply and demand lead to market clearing but don't know a single model other than "the free market model" (actually the perfectly competitive model) and definitely don't know its assumptions. People who have never read an empirical/econometric study of economics that did not come with an easy synopsis from a blog they read(and agree with). These people do not know economics, they know politics.
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If you're using redux I would recommend you stay far away from react-router. Using redux-little-router has been a pleasure to use in comparison: https://github.com/FormidableLabs/redux-little-router
Simply it is not a part of corporate strategy. Larry/Sundar or any SVP do not introduce new version on stage or gush over its market reach or new Http2 API. See the website of Swift/OpenJDK/Go and you will notice there is no mention of corporate ownership for Go.

Swift: "Swift and the Swift logo are trademarks of Apple Inc."

OpenJDK: "© 2017 Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates "

Go: "Except as noted, the content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, and code is licensed under a BSD license."
Plus, most don't even say that: just that he's a dangerous propagandist.

Which is pretty undeniable at this point.

It's a shame, because the idea of WikiLeaks is decent... but it requires someone with no agenda to skew it. Assange isn't that guy.
Really depends on your objective measure of "better".

Faster load time?
Better uptime?
Less data leakage to Facebook?
Etc.

This practice of defining "better" is a great habbit to cultivate not only in your conversation but in your thinking too.
Inline assembly isn't that common in Fortran.
Yes we have. The majority of all commercial programmers work with web sites or web applications in which VM:s reign supreme.

But for hobbyist work, it is different. Free software developers are seeking universality more than anything else. They want as many people as possible to be able to use their code, be able to read it and contribute to it.

VM:s hinder universality. For example, if you write an image processing library in C then everyone can theoretically use it (assuming bindings are non-trivial to write). But if the same library is written in a VM language, then it is only usable to developers who are using that platform.

It's like a curse.