skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using a "device" to help you gamble at a casino is usually illegal, yes. From the Wired article:

the operatives use their phones to record about two dozen spins on a game they aim to cheat. They upload that footage to a technical staff in St. Petersburg, who analyze the video and calculate the machine’s pattern based on what they know about the model’s pseudorandom number generator. Finally, the St. Petersburg team transmits a list of timing markers to a custom app on the operative’s phone; those markers cause the handset to vibrate roughly 0.25 seconds before the operative should press the spin button.

Wired says they were arrested under a federal fraud charge. I don't know how that part works, but it's definitely illegal under state laws, e.g. Nevada:   It is unlawful for any person to use, possess with the intent to use or assist another person in using or possessing with the intent to use any computerized, electronic, electrical or mechanical device, or any software or hardware, or any combination thereof, which is designed, constructed, altered or programmed to obtain an advantage at playing any game in a licensed gaming establishment... [1]

Applies to anything at the casino -- it's not illegal to count cards at blackjack in your head, but you can't use your phone to do it.

[1] https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-465.html#NRS465Sec075
Thats a whole lot of assumptions
Wars were started over less. Maybe a little more patriotism is called for nowadays
Aren't torrent seed boxes typically in jurisdictions hostile or indifferent to US copyright law?
Never underestimate the power of stickies and a wall. I'd do a very simple do/doing/done online board along with it when remote co-workers were involved.

IMO, Comparing between scrum and kanban is pointless. As long as you have good periodic retrospectives, you'll find the team correcting itself to what works the best.
You cannot run a massive, scalable website without analytics the same way you cannot run massive, scalable infrastructure without monitoring. It's like driving with your eyes closed.

This discussion got me thinking about releasing my own open source replacement for Google Analytics and how I would achieve that. Seems like such an interesting challenge.
I believe that's actually the main reason to choose a "local" AI.
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Is it the same hosts?

Having worked web security -

This is always a battle - for big operations you've got people farming out signups using stolen data to random 'buddies' on the other side of the world with the dark hat team ready to stand up outbounding traffic as fast as they can get a processor to execute it on, not to mention the hosts that get cracked automatically..

It's whack-a-mole on crystal meth.
Not every project has to appeal to the mass market. It's okay to make stuff that only a hacker would find cool!
>The average bicyclist actually rides on the sidewalks, and pedestrians are often injured by bicyclists.

This happens, but I don't think it is as common here, which probably again points to a better overall transit culture. Most cyclists in my city ride on the road. I personally am not against riding on the sidewalk, but one should slow down/be more careful and not ride when the sidewalk is densely populated. I am not opposed to laws that regulate that.

For electric bikes, I don't think they should be considered in the same category as bikes as they are closer to mopeds.
It's named client side detection and it sends the DOM model(actually hashes of it) to Google. I found about it on HN too. Obviously you may check FF/Chrome source too. I would love to be proven wrong. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5971403
That is not even remotely true. A 5 megaton nuke in DC - about the upper limit of modern active-duty warheads - wouldn't directly injure anyone in Baltimore, never mind Philadelphia. If the wind was blowing the wrong way, Philadelphia might get some fallout. But that would take many hours to arrive, there'd be plenty of time to evacuate or take shelter. And even a lot of fallout wouldn't come close to killing everyone in the city.

Alex Wellerstein made an awesome map, where you can "nuke" any city with any size bomb and see all the effects: http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Actually it sends the DOM model too. It's named client side detection. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5971403
> If I was the president under which such a thing happened, I would make sure the consequences are severe enough that it would never happen again under my term.

This particular president offered to pay the bail for anyone who "kicked the crap" out of protesters at one of his campaign rallies... I doubt he even sees it as a problem.
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HDR photography can be applied practically to let you look directly into the sun and still see objects next to it perfectly clearly.

There's no actual problem for a video camera to drive while staring straight into the sun, beyond the need to have a camera shutter.
Good luck getting any of the big players to acknowledge that. >.<
Homeless people still exist where housing is dirt cheap. It doesn't matter whether the rent is $2500 or $500 when you don't have the skills or mental health to be employed at all.
You don't believe me or the sales person?
Focus. Apple and Google have hundreds or thousands of engineers working on these operating systems, full time, for years. To get this project to even 1/10th of the quality would be a massive undertaking. Open source mobile OSes do not have a great track record right now. It'd be amazing to have a real option with a solid development and user base behind it.
In all likelihood, we are sacrificing freedoms for nothing.

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/17/u-s-mass-surveillance-ha...

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-aclu-tsa-20170207-stor...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/03/opinions/abend-tsa-screening-f...
DJT is not far off.
Pretty clear to me he's running DNS over the VPN, and so yes, 'ISP' referred to 'his immediately upstream ISP', and so yes,

OP is "creating a chain of recursors (that you control?) to make tracing the requests more difficult"

but also, as a result less difficult to tamper with by a less trusted party such as a mass market commercial ISP - tampering with his forwarder would entail either tampering with random many other peoples traffic or compromising the 'percieved as more secure' ISP.

Pretty sure someone mucking around with TTL's on these packets to make sure they don't get too far out of intended range and the numerous other things would be aware of these issues..
to obtain an advantage?

So any device the casinos use is illegal.
Generally if you can, unassisted by technology, "beat the casino" then the casino will simply exercise its right to ask you to leave and not come back.

But if you can only do it with, or just choose to do it with, technological assistance, there are likely to be many laws that can apply.
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The model X too. I drove one for a day and it felt like a $25,000 car inside, not $125,000.
Maybe they're asking why you'd want to subtract addresses. Unclear though.
Retailers in Sydney are worried. Some of them at least. Apparently Amazon is coming soon.
>Wars were started over less.

We're still dealing with the consequences of a war we started for apparently no reason other than than wanting to do it. Maybe we should raise the bar for going to war, and not keep lowering it.
> for advertising purposes

What other purposes would they use it for? Can anyone think of one?
Islamic terrorism in many cases is homegrown though.
He literally said "no vent on the right". But maybe he was exaggerating.
Are these kind of chips used to accelerate the NN training process only?
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...and a lot pf those homegrown terrorists form the 70/80s were funded by the Soviets. Notice how in the charts the rates drop off after the cold war ends. The same thing happened in Latin America. Presumably this could be a clue on how to solve current problems.
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Nah, if their point had been satirical, they wouldn't have used a throwaway account. Poster isn't exactly overflowing with the milk of human-kindness.
I signed up for facebook two years ago, didn't put any real information on there, then haven't touched it since. I still get emails about "people you might know" that they have absolutely no business knowing about and aren't in any way connected to my immediate family. It's creepy and I don't want them storing that information about me, but there's nothing I can do. I've been cautious about putting my information on the internet since I got my first computer in 1995. But that information got out there somehow anyway.
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If you want this in your Bay Area town/region you should write your city council. There are a lot of older neighbors who oppose new poles / new right of ways so it's good for the City Council to hear voices that support fiber.
It works for any "local commutes" up to 250 miles (base model). That's a shitload of driving. Taking a half hour break after over 3 hours of driving is not that weird.

Imagine if we all had electric cars, and had to switch to gasoline. It would seem so inconvenient to have to go all the way to a gas station to refill, when you're used to having a fully charged vehicle every morning. It would seem so inconsequential that you could make 400-500 mile journeys a whole half hour faster. Why would you not want to stop for lunch while on a 6-7 hour trip?
When I hear "Most carmakers have plans to start testing the market with Level 3 or possibly Level 4 autonomous vehicles around 2021"...

It makes me think of what a stupendous amount of time that is in engineering terms. And then I think that basically a suit somewhere has a product roadmap, but no real idea of how he's going to get there.

Which in turn tends to make the time estimate questionable at best, wishful thinking at worst.
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Patriotism is a part of what this was about. Turning down the dial would be more more likely to help in my view.
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Ask HN: Will there be a new Linus Torvalds for the mobile world?
Would it be possible that someone nowadays develops a new OS for the mobile from scratch and make it evolve in a similar way Linux did over the years? Will we ever see the rise of a new Linus Torvalds?
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Do you remember how the coverage of terrorist attacks was handled in those days?

Looking at the graph, I can't help but think that even the peak of yearly casualties is a rounding error compared to the other types of threats facing Europeans.
I think, bitcoin will be banned by most of governments earlier than quantum computing will become widespread to break bitcoin.
$299 / $399 price point for a single board computer (SBC)?

That price makes it hard to compete with the Odroid or Raspberry Pi.
On the other hand, training neural networks and teaching computers to have general intelligence is not inherently an advertising purpose ;)
This comment is pretty fascist. The notion that it's OK to run around assaulting peaceful protesters because that gives you the scope to similarly ignore human rights elsewhere, and the phrasing "deal with" ... really don't sit well with me. A lot of what is wrong with the world rests on this kind of thinking.
5:26 "and we found that with any work we do in VR, we always end up on the floor at some point..."

Looked as if they were high on drugs on something... but then when bluetooth handsfree headsets first came out, I thought they were crazy people talking to themselves.
I think you can check the source https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/chrome/browser/safe_bro...
Long story short it sends the DOM "model" including links, input names etc. There was a story on HN about this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5971403
Say you scale your problem up and write a Fortran program to run it on a supercomputer. You can then use that same plotting script, which is independent of the language that created the data.
They're referring to the one by Mesquita because it was popularized by a recent CGP grey video
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>Long term, is whether a Turkish autocracy, which is what it is now, a viable member in NATO? I think the U.S. looks the other way as long as Turkey helps fight Daesh. But Turkey is now a stain on NATO's democratic origin and purpose.

Unless Turkey loses control of the Bosphorous straits or Russia stops being what it is, Turkey will always be welcome at the table. Help with Daesh and/or pushing democratic ideas is neither the purpose of NATO, nor the origin of NATO, nor the future of NATO.
It's all about the routing table and subnet masks/link-local addressing.

start with the lan and configuring interfaces statically..
then run your own router (manually)
then setup your portion of VPN to your VM.

by that time, the rest will all make sense.
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Screensavers are great. I spent endless hours watching Screen Antics (aka Johnny Castaway)[1], and the silly things he did.

But I also watched countless hours watching this art screensaver that came with my Canon printer (I think it was Canon). It just animated the painting process. I think it was called something like Canon Creative, but I'm not sure. I'd love to find that screensaver again - That'd instantly take me back 20 years.

[1] http://web.onetel.net.uk/~gnudawn/johnny/
Didn't read the article. But the answer is yes.
How do you explain this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5971403
If you alter the way these attacks are covered by the media, they will stop being so destabilizing.
An abstraction layer can be still useful even though its core assumptions don't reflect the reality and could be easily disproven by a scientific experiment. Take classical physics for example.

Just to be clear, I was not defending any religious system here, I just meant it's easier to judge their usefulness based on a practical basis because of their complexity.
Is there any evidence presented here? I see a map with some rectangles on it...
This reminds me of the part in Batman Begins where Bruce Wayne uses anonymous shell companies to buy up Wayne Inc.'s shares while simultaneously being someone who brutalizes street criminals.
> The security services have grown vastly more capable through experience and advancement in tech

Can you objectively prove this? Specifically that its due to 1) experience 2) advancement in tech?

Terrorists also gain experience. Terrorists also advance in tech.

You do realize terrorist plots were foiled in the 70s and 80s as well? Minimizing (casualties from) terrorism is of all times.

Yet the so-called 'vastly more capable' security services did not stop 9/11, Madrid, London attacks, Boston, or the attack on the USS Cole. All of that happened after mid 90s, arguably when mass surveillance was possible.

What your posts continue to lack is any kind of substance on the positive effect of mass surveillance.

The fact targeted surveillance is much older is a fallacy. However targeted surveillance has a proven track record. I've yet to see the efficiency of mass surveillance. I'll put my money on a lot of false positives, and a cat and mouse game where the mouse is going to adapt pretty quickly to the mass surveillance. In Belgium, for example, the government wants to have all SIM cards registered. All anonymous SIM cards will be disabled in a month. Hows that going to help catch terrorists? If not only for the fact anonymous SIM cards are still sold in the neighboring The Neherlands?

Finally, as I posted in the other post, we must remember the main goal of terrorism is not (merely) 'killing people' [1]. So the statistic isn't accurately describing the 'effectiveness of terrorism'.

[1] Specifically: "7. The direct victims are not the ultimate target (as in a classical assassination where victim and target coincide) but serve as message generators, more or less unwittingly helped by the news values of the mass media, to reach various audiences and conflict parties that identify either with the victims’ plight or the terrorists’ professed cause;"
Even if say the amount of casualties triple, that's still a rounding error compared to heart disease, suicide, car crashes, and a number of other sources of massive suffering and shortened lives.
Turkey is a democracy. Most people there want Erdogan's government and they voted for it.

Diplomatic immunity is part of international law and exists for good reasons. See the Vienna Convention:

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

If you think that concept is wrong, why not address that or argue for the US to be exempt from the Vienna Convention?
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Blue Apron comes with its own meal kit and instructions on how to make. It's almost like one of those DIY science experiment boxes, but for dinner. This makes it more appealing than the package of what a grocery store could offer. (Or selecting the individual ingredients one by one.)
Sure, because in the case where differentiation of very similar signals is necessary, the human ear is too obtuse an organ of measurement. You might show kids the output from such an instrument as a brief exhibit piece in explaining a more relatable scientific fact such a tool would allow us to discover, e.g. that birds can pick out their own chicks' cries from those of their fellow species kin, but that's teaching about the bird's sensitivity. Not developing the learner's ability to analyze that. You would not use an oscilloscope as a means to teach the sparrow's call from the blue jay's from the robin's from the jackdaw's.
I think so- they acquired a company a few years back, percept.io, that did on device learning. I wouldn't be surprised if they were starting to put it in production.
They are in somewhat related business, but not that comparable. Blue Apron is more akin to peapod without a delivery fleet and less choice.
If the company is completely shutting down anyway, what's the point?
I'm not currently a Sonic.net customer[1], but what I liked about them was most importantly they know how to run their network, and have good peering and transit: they don't do PPPoE, or have wrong MTUs set (ATT's devices advertise a 1480 MTU for 6rd based IPv6, even though the MTU they actually accept is 1472, and they also rate limit sending of needs frag packets). They have a customer forum where their network and service teams interact with customers for those things that are broken, but not broken enough to call support. The CEO is active in the forums as well.

[1] Sonic doesn't serve my area directly, so I had to pick between (discontinued) line shared 6mbps ADSL1 and resold ATT uverse at 45mbps; and then 1gbps became available, so I went with that.
Ask HN: What, if anything, will come after Facebook for human connection?
Based on all these headlines, people seem to be 'catching on' or 'burning out' of Facebook. I have been for awhile but I've almost given up hope as to anything taking it on directly or challenging it's market position. At this point, it's like trying to supplant Windows.

What are your thoughts? I don't have much to say, I just want to read and reflect.
Come to think about it, it would be ironic if you didn't!
If only things were that simple.
I installed CyanogenMod 12 (or maybe 11) on a Nexus S. It was in fact dog-slow.
Sure, you have the tribal-ists that are anti-Trump or anti-Obama, but I find there are many civil libertarians on HN. In 2013, during the wake of the Snowden release there must have been 3-5 threads per day.

I don't feel qualified to assess the inner workings of the FBI, but there appear to be no checks on this surveillance power with any teeth. We need to fix this immediately. It should not be a partisan issue.
How so? Google developed a server class TPU for Datacenters. Apple is trying to build on-device low powered custom chip.
How can you ban something that can not be banned by design?
Is replacing people with automation at $0.10 on the dollar ethical? That, in a nutshell is what software developers do.
In reaction to people who are confused, that this is not a finished product, I have added a note saying "(Not usable for most people yet!)" at the beginning. The summary at the beginning did not make that clear before.

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Nope. And it shouldn't matter.
Facebook's dominance is even more pronounced in parts of the developing world. I've met people in Asia (Myanmar and Nepal) who have just accessed the internet for the first time in the past 12-24 months (through their Android smartphones).

But they don't know the true internet - they only know the internet through the Facebook app. They use it like we use Google and web browsers.

To them, Facebook is the internet. They don't have email accounts. They don't use the browser. They don't search. I met someone in a small town who never even used the maps feature. I tried to think of what value the true internet might bring them, but when I suggested that "you can search for news and read other things", the response was that they already did that with the Facebook App.

One guy handed me his phone, so I could add myself as a friend on his Facebook. While I started typing my name, I noticed his search history... and to him, Facebook was even a substitute for what people in the USA might use Incognito mode for!

I would call Facebook their internet portal, but it's not really a portal to anything - Facebook is just the entire internet to them.

Buzzfeed (yes, Buzzfeed) did an excellent writeup of Myanmar, that mirrors what I saw there:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/fake-news-spreads-tru...

“Nobody asks, they don’t care about the email,” he said, explaining that most don’t know that creating an email address is free, and easy. “No one is using that. They have Facebook.”
To add, L2TP is only tunneling and not encrypted, which is why it is often used in combination with IPSec.

It is used instead of pure IPSec because it allows non IP traffic, which in some cases is more important (e.g. windows non-IP netbios traffic interop when L2TP/IPSec was first made popular)

and to confirm, yes, OpenVPN will run in IP or ethernet mode.
> the ability for their platform to facilitate racism

Hunh? Care to elaborate on a) what specifically AirBNB does to facilitate racism, and b) what you'd expect them to change about their 'platform' to stop people from being horrible?
Hmmm.

Getting the bug report to the right dev and eliciting the ever-important "huh, that's weird" is a really tricky routing problem due to Microsoft (and similar companies') scale.

So... maybe... a team could be created, whose sole purpose is to distill potential issues into tiny testcases that take the fewest number of seconds for someone with domain knowledge to look at and go "okay I doubt this is invalid". Not to actually repro the issue (which might require significant setup), but rather to get an initial go/no-go.

Then teams around the company could be routed batches of testcases to look at every couple of days.

I know I'm describing issue tracking here - the specific point I'm getting at is that the first team I mentioned would handle all the back-and-forth with the customer until the testcase was as small as possible.

The caveat emptor with this idea is that it's inspired by a single datapoint (OP's bug report) and may not scale to more nuanced problems. Hardware failure, for example, would fall right through this approach.
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