skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How common is that though? Taking one example is pretty fraught especially because the prisoners that are sent to that prison are naturally going to be of the lower risk, non-violent type unless that's how a majority of the prisons are run. There are prisons in the US with very open security too (though mainly for rich white collar criminals but then that's a group with a low likely-hood of attempting to escape). Heck there's a fair number of programs where prisoners are given big tools like that here in the US too.
> Neither women nor blacks nor catholics nor jews have been systematically oppressed in the US in my lifetime

If you are ever so slightly open-minded about it you could consider black Americans to still be systematically oppressed by the criminal justice system. Read a bit about the criminalisation of marajuana, sentencing procedures, the industrial prison complex etc..
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I don't think it's feasible for Google to index the web separately for every person!
Testing and continuous integration are already mentioned, but there's also two features that might be of interest to a lot of people.

Screenshots via --screenshot on the command line.

Dump page to pdf via --print-to-pdf
>Critical Thinking isn't going to save the world

true, but why is

>if only people were more rational or more logical.

a fallacy? we can see pretty clean data that show more education = better societal outcomes...
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Don't let her description of Void Star put you off. It's not literary, but it is fun scifi. Although I don't think it will ever be seminal, parts of its world-building compare favorably to Snow Crash, and the treatment of AIs is quite fun and sometimes thought-provoking.
Lots of options to explore, but no reinforcement learning yet.

Also, some converted Core ML Models ready to use here: developer.apple.com/machine-learning
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They were one of the hardest working people in the company. Partially that's because they worked on nonsense projects they made up, and partially that's because they were always putting out fires caused by the fact they did things poorly in the first place.
That's sound advice but I'd like to point out that this Open PGP card appears to only support 2048bit keys while some (but not all!) yubikeys and nitrokeys support 4096bit.

I suppose nowadays 2048bit is more than enough but I like the extra safety and "future-proofness" of a 4096bit key.
I'm curious, in your periods of interest in religion, did you ever come across systematic theology?

Systematic theology applies critical thought, and yes, even empiricism to the study of scripture. I would recommend R.C Sproul's "Foundations" lecture series to anyone who is interested in the subject.

No, I don't consider unhappiness to be a problem to be solved, or that anyone can solve such a problem. That's the opposite of what I said actually.
>Put the most relevant at the top and if people want to read a free second hand ripoff of some news they can select a lower ranked search result.

Couldn't you argue that if the free "ripoff" has the same information and is more easily accessible it should be considered more relevant?
Why is everyone concerned with how often they piss? I drink 3-4 liters of water a day and take many bathroom breaks. Who cares? Everyone does it. I think it's more concerning that people aren't drinking enough water.
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And we just elected the most anti-civil-right president in history, who is backed by the anti-civil-rights party controlling all three houses of government.

As opposed to the other anti-civil-rights party? Or was there a bunch of civil rights progress during the 111th congress when they controlled the legislature and executive, that nobody ever noticed?

I don't seem to remember hearing landmark civil rights legislation coming from that congress. Or -- relevent to this surveillance thread -- seeing the PATRIOT Act repealed. Not only did they just not do anything, they reauthorized section 215.

Remember that section? One of the powers Snowden revealed to be abused by the security state? And downplayed by Obama as needing reform?

But yeah, complain about Trump/Republicans in a thread about surveillance. That's productive.
All true, but left unmentioned is that a significant part of that was due to the open discrimination against immigrant groups by the prestigious ivy league that viewed them as inferior. CCNY benefited from that pool of excluded talent.
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....but still from a HYPSM.
I was disappointed that this doesn't really explain what webassembly is, and the link that says 'if you don't know what webassembly is, click here' just redirects to a tank game with no explanation.

I thought maybe it was some way to write x86 assembly in the browser, but apparently it's a tank game.
Book Of The New Sun.

I've read about 300 fiction novels over the course of my life and that book still maintains a hold on me like nothing else ever has. It is easily the best fiction novel I've ever read.
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Those huge, correlated roller coaster curves aren't based off of natural fluctuations in land values in all those different places. They're based on a kind of big distributed Monopoly game where a bunch of people frustratedly flipped the board over in 2008.

Couldn't this be that the underlying value of the land didn't change at all in 2008? That people still really value land in desirable coastal areas and will do just about anything to get it? That what did change was the amount of capital available to regular people to get it?

Nothing about their underlying desire changed at all.
Just thought I would try to illuminate a prevalent technical misconception.
Again, you have generated and extraordinary amount of opinion given that this post was not for you and given your ignorance of the topic.

I understand you don't see why these things are problems. What is extraordinary to me is that you have confused "I don't see X" with "X does not exist". And then gone on to blather extensively based on this confusion.

I get it. You're a paragon of self control. Congrats. Have a cookie. But you're playing this game at the lowest difficulty setting: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-th...

Other things become relevant when you play it on different settings.

> but if somebody is drunk, whether they're a guy or a girl - or whether the gender ratio at my workplace is 60:40 or 80:20 is irrelevant

Irrelevant to you, as a financially comfortable white man. It is not irrelevant to other people. You don't understand why, which is fine.

But ignorantly proclaiming on the topic is not fine. Aggressive dismissal of the concerns of other people is part of why large parts of humanity are underrepresented in tech.

You are part of the problem. Right here, right now. So ask yourself: what will you do differently next time?
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So, so true.
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Here is an article with journalistic details about the parties involved: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/06/net-neutr...
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Progress has to begin somewhere. In another 10 years, this kind of lithography will likely have evolved into something much more viable.
Ha, I take the same course. I also enjoy the style
Meh, not necessarily. I used to be a truck driver (paid my way through college), and I know computer security well enough to execute some basic hacks, and I've read quite a bit about identity theft due to suspicion of an attempt made against me. I wouldn't say the right set of skills in a single person is common, but it certainly isn't so uncommon that it doesn't exist.

The bigger clue that it is origanized is that they've stolen 370,000 lbs of it. That is a huge amount of warehousing and movement...no way it could be done by one person. I'd be willing to bet they're working with a mid-size walnut farmer or distributor who can "launder" the stolen goods fairly easily into something that can be wholesaled without being obviously tracked.

The curious thing for me is that the trucks haven't been recovered. If I were doing this, I'd drop the trucks off at the side of a country road in the middle of nowhere. You can't really scam your way through a quick cash sale of a stolen tractor like you can with a Honda Accord, and driving it off to Mexico to be chopped adds a lot of risk to what seems like a relatively low risk operation.
Now how would google find the relevant info (and index it) yet at the same time a 'regular' user would be restricted by the paywall? That might be a solution you can implement technically, but will it also work for your users?

If users don't have access to info because it is restricted to paying users, google won't have access either.
I don't know of any research, but the issue is that it's too highly stimulating. Real life can't compete with carefully engineered intermittent dopamine rushes. So you end up with fidgety kids who are uncomfortable unless they're getting some sort of "fix".

It's a silent epidemic. Some years ago I went hitchhiking through Iceland. Gorgeous country. Of all the cars I rode in, maybe half a dozen had children. In every instance - EVERY single instance - the child had an iPad or phone, and was playing with that instead of admiring some of the most beautiful scenery in the world.
Let's go into business together mining coin on people's iPhones.
I guess it's good for the business to perpetuate the myth that you don't need to feed the goldfish...
Imagine how, on a super sunny Earth day it's hard to keep your eyes open outside. I imagine it would be like that, but way worse.
Back in the late 1990s during the telecom boom, the gov came out to the Holmdel Bell Labs bldg to proclaim the area be called "Photon Valley". The name didn't quite stick.
Manufacturers who insert a RFID tag inside tires:

Michelin and its brand BF Goodrich:
http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?269

Goodyear tires:
http://www.rfid-ready.com/201202156319/goodyear-integrates-r...

Bridgestone tires:
http://www.tirereview.com/rfid-today-tomorrow-yesterday/

Komho tires manufactured in Korea:
http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?10880/2

Cooper tires:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8231060.html
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7443301.html

Continental tires:
http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?8338

Pirelli tires:
http://www.cnet.com/news/pirelli-microchipped-cyber-tyre-imp...!
At this point isn't this basically a fab attached to a particle accelerator?
Yes Woollahra is a rather nice place to run a company like mine :)
Ah have done so! Thanks Nailer.
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Sure, but 100 years ago none of them would have thought of moving to Northern CA, where now they are more likely to go there than the East Coast.
Compatibility and efficiency are two big reasons why you would want to have composed forms like e.g. the single codepoint for é: legacy encodings also have a single codepoint for it, and it's more efficient to represent it with one codepoint than with two.

So, we need composed characters, but surely combining characters aren't needed, then? Well, no, because it's unreasonable to include a codepoint for every single combination, especially once you have multiple diacritics on a single character, for example. Also, compatibility factors in here too, because legacy encodings likewise have combining characters.
Totally agree with you! In the article we fully outline why it was purely our own fault.
The issue we found was that the decision was made during a pretty formative time in Deekit's past - we weren't 100% convinced which model we were going to run with. We stuck to an initial decision to go with Braintree when we really should have re-evaulated.

Lesson learnt. Hopefully others can avoid the same mistake.
It might be that your actual sentence is 10 years, but the state may expect to send you to prison for the first 5 and have you live on probation or parole restrictions for the last 5. So the judge might tell you to serve 8 years in prison. That gives the state some years of leeway to both add time to your prison sentence for being difficult and to knock some off for being cooperative.

No matter which way you slice it, the sentence is still 10 years, and the state can decide how much of that is spent in prison, and how much outside as a less-than-entirely-free person.

If you can manage to serve your entire sentence in prison without actually committing additional crimes, you might be able to walk out the front gates and never have a single day of probation, but I put the likelihood of that ever happening at just above infinitesimal. People in prison would mostly rather be outside and on parole/probation.

You only need a judge's help to keep someone in prison past the actual length of their sentence.

IANAL and IHNBAP, so I may be up to 100% wrong about this.
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What I don't understand about this viewpoint is, don't all of these caveats also apply to native apps?
The Greeks at least had a common language, from what I understand. That's far from true for India.
I recently went to a talk at the London Machine Learning meetup (https://www.meetup.com/London-Machine-Learning-Meetup/) on "End-to-end Differentiable Proving" (https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.11040).

Basically, this was about building neural networks based on propositional logic (e.g. Prolog-style statements), which was how some traditional expert systems were built.

Unfortunately, there wasn't a video of the presentation, and I can't find the slides anywhere.

If you're based around London, the London Machine Learning meetups are always worth attending!
Transistorland (for one Bell Labs invention)?

UNIX shore (for another)?

Claude and Harry's neighborhood (for Shannon and Nyquist)?

The trouble is, the state's name now is Christie's Fiefdom, and that has to fade away.
RFIDs in clothing are commonplace: http://www.whitewaycleaners.com/Uniform-Services/RFID-Garmen...
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Advocate here; rocks are quite dynamic on geologic timescales. Also, I don't think it really makes sense to call them dumb, as that is a quality one would apply to something with a central nervous system and capacity to self-identify in conjunction with capacity for intelligence.

We know that rocks don't have a CNS; if they can self-identify the mechanism for this and their experience is obviously quite alien to our own so it doesn't make much sense to project human qualities onto them without more information.

It is true that the qualities of rocks are quite different than those of large felines.
Thanks for the feedback, I should probably link to http://webassembly.org/ instead and link demos after this.
High ceilings probably mean keeping your AC on 80F doesn't save as much power as you expect, because it has to cool a larger volume of space.
That's closer to the free inquiry norm, but better yet would be some connection to some intellectual pursuit.

"All Mexicans should be deported" expresses an idea -- it isn't offensive for the purpose of being offensive like the image macros, but it doesn't propose, advance, or engage with any kind of plausible research program or existing intellectual tradition. "Mexicans are genetically inferior to Americans" is more offensive, but at least it is the kind of statement that is plausibly connected to something that could be studied and dissected at a university.

That said, even for the first statement, were I leading Harvard I'd say it ought not garner any official response.
I get that, but he didn't make an incorrect or misleading claim. And honestly, most people on HN probably understand that air conditioners move heat.
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Will work and I think this is the only way through out people will gave ML access to their IoT and sensible data. However most of current crypto systems are not homomorphic and neither malleable. I'm working on this in combination with biometric continuous authentication that will increase also the forensic capability.
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I bought this book a few weeks ago because of how interesting Bell Labs was - great recommendation!
You are correct regarding the resource fork support in the fs and it's visibility, maybe I didn't express myself as exactly as I should.

However, 99%+ of Mac users do use FAT-formatted USB sticks, ZIP files, or other fs/mechanism/whatever that does not support resource forks where the compatibility littering kicks in, so they, or the people they share their files with, will see ._$filename files too.

On the other hand, Finder litters with .DS_Store files everywhere, even on HFS+.
This seems to be a perverted trend in America. Medical bills, tuition and all fees in general bloated to the point where it doesn't make sense. Is this some sort of anthropological/economic phenomenon? Somebody should get to the bottom of this and write a book.
The addition of type information already makes it more explicit.
Oh come on. Is this how business people see it, just throw someone under a bus?
Yes, but DC is famous for its humidity, whereas Phoenix is known for its "dry heat."
Related discussion from yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14485960
> Ever try coding with mittens :-) ?

No, but I've seen PowerPoint presentations that were designed by someone wearing mittens...
What a silly argument. (Disclaimer: atheist) Your argument doesn't understand what god(s) mean. In what world does anyone use society as an understanding or proxy of god? This argument makes a fallacious assumption as its primary argument then goes on to make other points based off of that incorrect assumption by definition.

And besides that, I think you grossly underestimate the stubbornness of many who go to jail in the first place. Getting a human to be humble is one of the toughest things you can do, and that difficulty is often an inverse of intelligence in my experience (are there studies on this? And I'm not talking about the ultra rich or ultra famous people.)
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They blocked VPNs around the same time as their global expansion, and when VPNs were becoming increasingly popular, in addition to becoming a new major content creator.

I don't care about it enough to think more, you might be more right, but it's all just adding to their DRM regime.
Very serious mental illness. He had fairly frequent episodes, but in between he seemed just fine. His homework assignments were mostly really tragic to look at.
According to this EFF article:
1. Social Media Monitoring
2. Automated License Plate Readers
3. Automatic Toll Readers
4. Surveillance Cameras
5. Biometrics
6. IMSI Catchers

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/6-spooky-ways-local-la...
From the Ars article a couple of days ago [1], it sounds like EUV improvements are actually at the core of the work announced here.

[1] https://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2017/06/ibm-5nm-chip/
A clue: there are a number of religions that include the concept of hell. Hell is the ultimate retribution, in case society wasn't able to apply it in this world. The underlying idea is that justice is a balance. If someone commits a crime, the reality is unbalanced and equilibrium must be restored punishing the culprit. This idea has been developed by some philosophers, Kant IIRC (but a lot of Kant's work is mostly a repackaging of Christianism).

Edit, just to add some history: justice system was very entangled with religion since forever. Romans were the ones that greatly developed the technical aspects. There was the directum --the righteous thing-- aspect vs the ius, the technical one, the contracts, the seek of solutions and social peace.
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Spot on! Nicely done.
I'd generally agree. Although I think this is rather something the people behind Enigmail should figure out. The vast majority of gpg users will never interact with it over the terminal, probably.
>This was a significant clue that The Intercept did not have to give up.

I have no idea why people are leaking to rinky-dink operations like the Intercept. If you want to leak, then leak to the Washington Post or New York Times. I can't imagine the Intercept having the expertise to handle such documents. This was a fairly obvious screw up.

I also question their methods of receiving and storing such documents and if they aren't compromised by one or more nation state intelligence services. Are these documents being stored through a third party email or web server? Is there end-to-end encryption?

The copier explanation may be a believable fiction as not to reveal other sources.
Actually most nodes are phasing out EUV lithography research and moving to plasma-enhanced lithography. Pretty sure you can't really go below 15nm without PECVD/Plasma enhanced etch steps.
If hard labor is the punishment, and the punishment is commensurate with the crime, then no, it's not slavery. Slavery obtains under different conditions.
and because our criminal justice system is principally concerned with entrapping and prosecuting "TERRORISM!!111!!" cases, we don't get the manpower on these kinds of things, which persist across the states. So sad.
The Wall Street journal is maybe worth reading sometimes, but their op-ed page is cancerous garbage (same goes for the NYT actually).

You can read the other side but drawing the comparison with legal briefs suggests that both sides are acting in equally good faith, but the clogosphere is full of idiots who do nothing but argue in bad faith with bad arguments. Granted the left has these things too (cough TYT cough) but these days the right has more of them, I think.

Even the surface politeness that William F. Buckley managed to muster is mostly lost to bluster on the right today. I would say it's sad except that William F. Buckley's arguments were never any good either, so I consider his spiritual descendants more honest than he.
Rationality and logic is used for bad things too.
Because you need a normalisation form fit for your particular purpose.
I saw this and came to make the same recommendation. I just finished this book and it is excellent. As an EE, the chapters on the discovery of the transistor by Brattain and Bardeen up to the experiment where their prototype starts actually amplifying an input signal for the first time represents such a seminal moment in the history of the world. Arguably, it is the most important invention of the 20th century.
Firstly, you can't use Hanlon's Razor and NSA in the same sentence.

Secondly, often assuming just a tiny bit of malice can account for layers and layers of stupidity. Occam's razor is sharper :)
Terman.

How did you do research for the talk without learning the spelling?