skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple's focus on privacy has always been a splinter in the eye of Chinese authorities.

So was UK authorities, US authorities, and lots of other authorities, there is no need to single out China in this case.

> I strongly believe that this is an excuse Chinese authorities had been looking for that will use to pressure Apple in China at the same time create the illusion to the general public to not trust Apple.

Yes, it could be the excuse for Chinese authorities, but this case could have happened anywhere else in the world given the way Apple stores information, and similar incidents have happened before for other companies like mentioned in other comments. So I don't see a strong evidence that this particular incident is related to some ulterior motive of Chinese government.

> I find it especially suspecious that the Chinese media put so much emphasis the privacy concern of this event and in modern Chinese culture, privacy is much less regarded as compared to western countries.

The entire incident is about privacy issues, what else do you expect the media to talk about? New iPhone colors?

> Anyone remember the propaganda while Google was being driven out of China? Straight up false info about Google were broadcasted on CCTV-1, the prime time national channel. A lot of my friends in China became very patriotic and viewed Google as some sort of evil corporation trying to undermine Chinese culture.

As far as I remember, Google did not want to comply with Chinese regulations on censorship, so it was not allowed to operate in China, simple as that. I don't think people had that bad of an impression about Google, more like they felt bad losing a good search engine or simple just don't really care.
In some ways, const fn reminds me of this.
On a technical point, I was impressed by their CoreML model format. The specification is open, optimized for maximum transferability, it can convert models from Keras (with TensorFlow), scikit-learn and others, and their Python model converter is also open source: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/coremltools

Once you have your model as a CoreML file, it is stupidly simple to incorporate it into an app (the live demo with the flower model was very impressive), and Xcode will convert it to a machine-optimized version.

I was skeptical when I saw the announcement, but honestly it seems like a game changer -- to be able to drag-and-drop models that other people have trained into an app and use them with virtually zero boilerplate is just great.

Video here: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/703/
The Gassed Pump
OK, wrote a first pass: http://www.telepresence.io/howto/golang.html
Sia.tech is good to use than this amazon drive. Sia is cheap and not governed or no one controls your data as its a decentralized network.
It's also boring. Part of being a good writer is being not boring.
I remember an interview with the head of building Spain's high speed rail. I can't find it now, but one of the interesting points was that he refused to use contractors. All labor was full time employees so he had complete control of schedule.

Which makes decent sense. We need to do a lot of road building and maintenance. Why not make it a public corps? There's no reason to involve contractors.
Yes, a very common dom-based XSS vector is against document.hash, which is never passed to the server. Versions of Adobe Robohelp keep getting pwned by this. The article is kind of wrong that attacks against the URL won't be detected by the server since a decent WAF will detect this.
The End of Heroku?
You don't even need FPGA's for this sort of network, necessarily. Take a look at how WISARD worked: https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=igor%20Aleksander%20W... It's "just" a bunch of RAM.
I'm pretty sure larger vocabulary local speech recognition on devices with less computing power than modern smartphones has existed (products for continuous speech recognition on PC go back to at least Dragon Naturally Speaking in 1997.)
This is the link to the actual text-searchable video: https://www.c-span.org/video/?429381-1
Found: An Aztec Temple Hiding Under the Streets of Mexico City
The initial sync really sucks. With smart sync things are much better, because you can easily pickup projects to download to your machine. With large amount of files and folders the regular selective sync has quite bad ux.

Unfortunately smart sync is only available for business subscriptions (probably because it makes it easy to put more stuff to Dropbox than you have disk space)
Some data hoarders can be acommodated since the service only cares about average usage per user.

Also data deduplication works even for data hoarders if they are hoarding media commonly shared on the internet.

Given the above points, I think there is no basis to call it "abuse".
Just wait a bit, and with the way things are going, "Did you see all the snacks?" will be declared the thought crime against fat people.

I prefer using the same language in interviews as we do in office. If the candidate gets offended, chances are, he would be offended on the first day on the job; better weed those out early.
Hayek was a Nobel prize winning economist who along with Mises brought this whole issue to the attention of the field of economics. If you want more 'non ideological' than that in economics you're not gonna find it. By the definition you seem to be using a non ideological economist doesn't exist.
Can't claim to be a fanboy, but I am a longtime user[1], and this is the primary reason I stick to them for my phone. I frankly can't imagine using Android the way I use my Iphone - the privacy invasions considered acceptable are well in to the "no go" range for me, before even getting to the malware that pass for "free apps". If I were somehow forced to use Android, I'm pretty sure I'd treat it as an adversarial device, mostly like a feature-phone.

Trust is vital in devices like this.

[1] I'm becoming less of a fan, as MacOS becomes "cloud aware" and less of a Unix workstation.
- "Get the app, $1"

- Click the link to buy

- Cost: $2 ($1 if you share)

A little deceptive...

Also I'm a fan of electron apps because I believe get get some apps that we would otherwise not get and they are cross platform but this doesn't really fit either of those criteria.

Save yourself the money and download iTerm2 [0] for free (15MB vs 110MB) and use the quake style mode (bind it to a hotkey, it's life changing).

[0] https://www.iterm2.com/
Capital and Growth aims to be the Stack Overflow for startup marketing
I mean, advertisers have been using GIFs since the early days of the web. The benefit here is that audio won't autoplay unexpectedly, which nobody ever wanted ever.
Why Does Microsoft Still Offer a 32-bit OS?
Lifestyle company? What does that even mean? If Apple isn't a tech company I don't know what is. They design their own processors, programming languages, operating systems, web browser, batteries, etc. Sounds like a tech company to me.
Check out Christian Schafmeister's research if you are interested in this: https://www.schafmeistergroup.com/

There is a brief summary of the history of Schafmeister's approaches (and why he thinks direct copying of protein-based mechanisms from nature will not work) in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X69_42Mj-g
Best to use is sia.tech they are much cheaper from amazon drive and dropbox. Also they are decentralized which is no one controls or governed your files means 100% safe from them. Sia.tech :)
Well, Scheme has a bunch of syntax as well.

(list '(1. . #\#)
-5/6+7.s-8i
`(1 ,@2)
1@1 ;hmmm, no unquote splicing comma ;-)
10# ;surprised?
(list #i+1 +1i 1+i) ;complicated or complex?
#e-1e10i ;Old MacDonald?
"(* 9 10)" #())

...how many can you guess without running the example? (I checked it with Dr. Racket under R5RS mode)
>Also, her voice recognition is awful in noisy settings.

I figured that was more of a hardware problem?
As far as I am aware they are still going to have more extension points than Chrome.

E.g. it seems the vertical tabs extension I use will still work.
Well done! This is very impressive.

IMHO, curiosity and desire to learn form the basis of any good technologist career. And arguably they are very important for a happy and fulfilled life. I applaud your tenacity.
CosmosDB lets you set region failover priority if something goes wrong, does Fauna have a similar model?

How does an application know which region to talk to? Especially once you can select a subset of regions to be in. Some might not have the data you are looking for.
Like in most wells, out of the ground ;)

I jest... but not really.

You'd be surprised just how accessible the water table is, depending on your region. If there are trees on your property, there's a reasonably good chance you're close enough to water to dig a well and get good throughput. If you're looking to buy property, look for properties that have trees that normally require a lot of water. Just by way of example, if there's a Willow tree(s) on the property, there's a good chance you've got water... and aspirin.

If your question was related to contaminants and so forth, obviously you have to be aware of where the water is flowing from upstream. If you're downstream of a high contamination zone, your only real choice is to move, sadly.
Thanks: I installed it and will try it out for a bit before deciding if I switch to it or remain on Moves.
Ultimately, the goal of a talk is to win the hearts and minds of the audience. If you achieve that, while communicating the foundational ideas and knowledge required to go further (perhaps implementation of a paper or replication of an experiment), then the talk was successful.
Any advice on how to compare this with RxJS?
Zero sandboxing for one?
It's tough to accomplish before you get home, but I find a good nap really helps clear the head.
I don't know of anything that's an exact correspondence, but some things that are kinda-sorta that, if you squint real hard:

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/

http://www.mathoverflow.net/

https://math.stackexchange.com/
The scale matters and managing even not so small companies Soviet Style is quite OK. As the article point out for small number of products​ optimization​ problems are solvable in one way or another. I will not even be surprised if few rules of thumb that a good manager instinctively uses give good enough solutions in most cases that matter. But that fails as n growths.
I think you're being too conservative.

I plan to leave if hashrate distribution starts to look too consolidated. If one entity gets close to 51%, the security of the chain is compromised and we move on.

Right now Bitcoin is cool for a whole lot of reasons, discounting it because maybe possibly someday it will fail is silly.
AFAIK, encryption at rest protects against a very specific threat. That is, someone goes into the data center, turns off your server, and steals the hard drive.
Tangent: wouldn't it be nice if you could say "Siri, ask Google to..."

I wonder if implementing the feature of calling 3rd party assistants from the flagship assistant would pay off strategically.

On one hand, you appeal to people who like other assistants better, or like different assistants for different things. On the other hand, you give up on forcing people to get used to your assistant.

Also, could an isolationist provider stop other assistants from calling their one? Technically? Legally?
Yay! It's great to be working with you all at Tubi TV. Love, your Algolia account executive. :D
Yes, but that gets passed to the server.
>likely completely

Well you probably certainly showed me. I'm glad we resolved that argument and can now continue doing nothing to solve problems like the destruction of arable soils.

It'll be interesting to see what boogeyman agribusiness can dream up after we've all switched over to solar and it can't shout about "muh fossil fuels" anymore.
Recent news item: some entrepreneurs are "hacking the system" through a workaround that started as an experiment in Massachusetts and has expanded to five other states. > http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/05/03/526...
Ask HN: Is there a (near) realtime API for the UK General Election results?
Ideally JSON, but not too fussed. I know http://lda.data.parliament.uk/elections.json exists but it seems too outdated (just shows a by-election in January) - anyone know if it'll be updated?
'I’m Not Sure I Understand’–How Apple’s Siri Lost Her Mojo
the more reliant you become on popular corporate/"non-profit" controlled browsers the more disappointed you will be when the drm comes. but i will bet they will ease you into it to minimize the complaints. long ago someone predicted very early that the web would evolve into tv, driven by "pinheads". i believe he was correct.

anyone remember a browser from nocrew called zen? had framebuffer support. i think it also allows users to add new interfaces. still compiles cleanly today even on non-linux. code is in archive.org, see nocrew.org

have not tried to use it but am impressed that it is from 2004-ish and still compiles cleanly. framebuffer has had some significant improvements since 2004. could be time to revisit.
Could you elaborate on Android's weaknesses when it comes to privacy and contrast this with Apple's approach? Asking genuinely to update my understanding.
Siri is obviously behind Google Assistant on general knowledge queries. It seems like if Siri doesn't understand something, it falls back to unhelpfully searching the web, something that is not useful if you can't look at your phone. Assistant on the other hand attempts (with decent accuracy) to extract a useful answer to your question, and reads it back to you.
A buffer system within small scale perturbations. Take anthropogenic CO2 emissions: they are changing the entire planet's climate.

Take permafrost, for instance. A small increase in the temperature might lead to an even bigger one. This is well documented.
You can track the full status here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-roadmap/issues/17
Just to clarify, I don't think it's appropriate to just "turn off" completely. Speak up. Make your opinions known, put the work in to back them up, but don't let that work be extra - build it into the time you need to prepare for meetings. Push back when you don't get enough time to do it.

If there's something alarmingly dangerous about the things that you end up doing, security concerns unaddressed etc, put the feedback in writing.

Don't clam up. Just don't let it eat away at you if you are ignored; dot your Is and cross your Ts.

It's a balancing act, of course. You have to get good at understanding and making the case for what's best for the company.
Me: Hey Siri, what cheese goes well with fruit?

Siri: Here's what I found on the web for "What cheese goes well with fruit..."

Me: Hey Google, what cheese goes well with fruit?

Google: "Edam"
Well yes, - they don't publish, they don't have a reputation (no teams like FAIR, DeepMind, MetaMind, MSFT AI, etc.), they don't attract the top AI talent, and anecdotally, they don't even even know how to hire for AI (had a brilliant colleague working in AI turned away because he didn't know some facets about the Python language when they hit him with Leetcode whiteboard questions; IMO they aren't in a position with AI where they get to flex programmer egos).
Perhaps the correct answer is to have a solid color or similarly simple background. Aids in readability too.
This is a very user-friendly feature, kudos to Apple for making the change. I hope other browsers follow in their steps.

I think every time I've encountered a website that autoplays video, it's been an annoyance. But maybe I haven't considered the topic with enough depth, what are examples of legitimate use-cases for autoplay video?
Ah! Good old days when we "blink"ed everything important. :)
Given that with 2FA enabled Apple can't even reset your password (which has caught the tech press out before https://thenextweb.com/apple/2014/12/08/lost-apple-id-learnt...) I agree that iCloud itself is unlikely the source.

It's probably a marketing or support database that contains basic data. Annoying but not a serious breach.
Accurate, Large Minibatch SGD: Training ImageNet in 1 Hour [pdf]
I agree that most people shouldn't try this, just like most people shouldn't try to be startup founders.

But you're the foolish one if you think nobody can succeed. There are no fool-proof recipes. You do your best, prepare meticulously, and play the odds.

I've spent many years reading police reports and paying attention to how people are caught. (The annoying thing about learning craft as a lone wolf is that you have to pay attention to deplorable characters to learn the cutting-edge techniques used to catch them.) This doesn't make me smart, nor does it make me invulnerable. Leaving ego at the door is step zero.

You bet it's large and dangerous, and that's partly why I backed down. But there are ways.

It's easy to be a keyboard warrior. It's not so easy to do anything about the problems that face us.

I like you. But you're dismissive of anything you feel treads on your domain. Are you sure you're the only one who's carefully considered the issues?

If you have points, I'm sure nobody would object to this thread turning into a tradecraft workshop. Things like that are why we're all here.
YouTube. Netflix.
Selling copies to people who want it is more efficient than the crowdfunding approach: the people get their maps right away, and the author gets money right away. There's less friction in this approach.

Of course, we don't get the source code, which is a loss to some people, but all that extra "friction" involved in the crowdfunding path is why simply selling stuff directly is an easier way to make money. It also requires less guesswork on the part of the author as to how much they may be able to extract from the work, in total.
I disagree with your conclusion that universal healthcare for all is the logical end point.

What if we did mandatory catastrophic insurance for everyone (I'm not against the mandate). All other non-life threatening services are negotiable and free market. Its as simple as that. You can even have the government pay for this insurance for every American as sort-of a quasi universal service via taxes. The government will save your life and maybe even pay to "get you back on your feet". The rest is up to you. You can still buy private plans for better high end treatment, but take the lowest barrier out of the picture.

This solves the issue of not turning away people at emergency rooms with life threatening conditions, and allows competition to drive down prices for everything else. Deregulate the rest, remove onerous standard of care requirements that stifle new and innovative treatments, and let the bad apples get google/yelp/whatever reviewed out of existence.
An interesting example of this is the modern Israeli kibbutz. These are literal socialist collectives [1] that function as actors in the capitalist economy. And a lot of them are quite good at it! It may be hard to motivate innovation in a nation-size egalitarian society, but it seems to work quite well in an economic unit where everyone knows everyone else and you personally know, or at least recognize, everyone who benefits from your innovation. (And they know you and recognize your accomplishments, which is also a big motivator.)

[1] In the ideologically pure case, which is a common case but not universal or even the majority.
Yes it does.

Look, there are two stories here.

The conventional story starts with climate scientists discovering that human action is causing the climate getting much warmer, and this being very bad for humans. This in turn leads to a need to switch off of fossil fuels and onto renewable energy, which would after a while be cheaper than conventional energy and so cause no economic harm. The conventional story continues that nations around the world were persuaded, and so they have set on this path, and as part of this signed the Paris Treaty. China is included as believing climate change is real and supporting moving to renewables, and since the Paris Treaty was signed has done this at a very rapid rate. It is also doing this, as I said, because it has very serious air pollution problems, and also wants to make a lot of money selling technology for renewable energy.

Trump and his millions of supporters tell a completely different story. They claim the scientists did not discover human activity is making the world warmer, but this is instead a lie they made up for illegitimate reasons. They claim that renewable energy is vastly more expensive than conventional, and will continue to be so for a very long time. They claim that the Chinese government knows all this, but is pretending to believe it so as to undermine the US economy by driving up its energy costs. And they claim that China is itself making only minor efforts to convert over to renewables, and is basically charging ahead as fast as ever to increase fossil fuel use.

Now everything you have said fits into the Trump crackpot story, and so I am assuming you believe the whole thing. You claim I am wrong, but you never present anything contrary. My best guess is this is because you really do agree with Trump, but don't want to admit it. Or maybe you are just plain confused.

If you really do think differently from Trump, then you need to lay out your whole story of what is really going on, from the beginning.

And be sure to make clear what you think Trump is right or wrong about (you do care, I assume, about whether the most powerful man in the world is right or wrong on this most important issue).
Why make the printer "think" it's printing. Why not just literally measure and record the pulses sent to the actual print heads?

The "yellow dot" method would be picked up pretty quickly by the yellow being triggered while printing entirely B&W documents.

Things like dithering, if they encode things like printer serial numbers might be catchable by printing an identical set of documents across two examples of the printer.
I love Apple's commitment to privacy, but the notion that privacy precludes powerful AI strikes me as a false dichotomy, and a cop-out. There must be some middle-ground.
Websites I'd certainly whitelist.
NASA PICKS 12 NEW ASTRONAUTS FROM CRUSH OF APPLICANTS
As a Canadian making a decent wage, but not living outside my means, I guess this article explains why I feel like I'm being left behind.

I had a coworker who got a condon and was paying 45% of his income for it, it made no sense. So I keep renting and wasting my money as people say, but at least I wouldn't go bankrupt if something bad happens.
I will also add the thought that you might find it helpful to do volunteer work of a sort that really tugs at your heartstrings as a means to put your day job in perspective.

I paid accident claims for over five years and a lot of my coworkers found this to be disturbing work. But, among other things, I had been a military wife and raised two special needs kids. It was rare that I took any of the emotional stress home with me. I stressed about making quota every day, but most of the run of the mill accidents did not get a rise out of me. Once in a while, I would read something particularly gruesome and have trouble with that. But I think this was on the order of once a year or so.
I also highly recommend this blog post, which this article references and links to frequently: http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiza...
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