skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just can't remotely pilot a fighter/bomber. You can't remotely pilot if you don't have an overwhelming air superiority. You can't remotely pilot if your adversary can deny you satellite connection (either through jamming or by destroying the satellite). Here are a few problems:

- the lag. Aerial fight implies split-second decisions, many of which are matter of life and death. Sat link is way slower than that.

- kiss your stealth goodbye. First, you need a radar-transparent dome and a satellite dish under that; it's hardly stealthy. Second, you need a downlink that can be detected in a large vicinity of its target - even if it's a "tight" beam, it's still kilometers across. Third, the uplink will still bleed some RF energy that can be detectable. Planes fly in a radio silence for a reason.

- very low "sensor bandwidth". Fighter pilot constantly receives tons of data using almost all of their senses, while drone pilot only sees a grainy glitchy videostream.

To put it in another way: F-35 is basically a multi-ton, hyper-technological shell for about a kilo of squishy brain mass. Unless we invent some form of undetectable, very-low-ping, multi-gigabit communication it will always be better to have that brain "locally" in an adversary environment.
European Parliament wants to enforce encryption on all electronic communications
Atom still has a richer plugin ecosystem.
At the very least, this is a good first step. Certainly, there are a lot more ethical questions to ask than are raised in this post (although I do think a lot of the questions you raise fall under the questions they suggest in their post, they just flesh them out more, e.g. (1) and (2) are intrinsically tied to the second-last question).

But culture is a serious thing, and managing it is hugely important for how a company handles big-picture issues, rather than simply letting them get tossed about in the waves. It definitely seems a bit late in the game for Facebook to start doing this - they passed startup scale years ago, and they've had some very big fuckups (c.f. News Feed experiments) - but it says something that they're stepping up to the plate to acknowledge this now, especially in the public eye.

I wonder what the discussion about this is like internally. I haven't had a chance to ping anyone I know there yet about this.
Would you mind sharing what it was about Idris that made you feel like you were offered a glimpse into a possible future?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrimethamine#Availability_and...
why are Americans so hell bent on having a war with China? last I heard China doesn't have military bases around the globe like the US does.
Currently, US wages continue to slide and the middle class shrinks, while the top 8 billionaires own as much wealth as half of the world. This libertarian, trickle-down, union-busting, union-whining nonsense has to stop if people are to realize they're not going to get a fair slice of the pie without resisting corporate greed together. Almost every rich person never gives up a dime without a vicious fight, that's just the way it works. So lower- and middle-income people have to coordinate together to stop working until they are paid what the jobs can afford to make a livable wage.
Fuck that. The government paid for most of my college and living expenses during, without incurring any debt (MGIB.) I'm getting screwed over by the combination of medical expenses and rent.
This work (QBism) is certainly intriguing and the promise of deriving the Schrödinger equation from the Born rule using SIC-POVMs could really change how QM is understood.

But I wonder why it gets so little attention...
> France is notorious for never-ending paperwork and administration

Having visited the Paris startup scene recently, I got the feeling that the bureaucracy is much less taxing these days.
And that is perhaps the one thing everyone glosses over.

Multitouch was being developed by a startup that Apple gobbled up.
What prevent me of using atom is this issue:
https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/2456
How about going in the opposite direction and using
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-adic_number

Or could combine the two for even more joy.
Yes, I'm sure the length of a UTF-8 string is something tricky but Data.Text has a length function nonetheless. The APIs are very similar if not identical. You can see it here:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-1.2.2.2/docs/Data-T...

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring-0.10.8.1/docs...
Some people voluntarily help some other people with some costs. There's a lot of people who don't get the care they need for whatever reason, even in a system where there's a lot of volunteers.

To get the best deal for everybody, governments in most countries step in to create a system where everybody pays in and the best deal for everybody is made (with the option for extra private care if you can afford it). You get a basic guaranteed level of healthcare in return for your taxes, as part of your participation in society. Corporations are prevented from deciding they need to charge you more than your annual income for the medication keeping you alive, while you're free to change jobs and start businesses when you wish, because you're not trapped in an insurance plan that you'll lost the moment you do something else.

Only in America is this seen as wrong. Everywhere else gets cheaper bills with zero chance of personal bankruptcy just because you got the wrong disease/got ill before/etc.
Show HN: Minimalist url-to-image online converter
Phillip Sackl landed a design-job at Mozilla by doing something similar. It wasn't as complex as a full redesign, though.

The application:
http://readyformozilla.com/

The design-work:
http://readyformozilla.com/panorama/
Stone.... and polyolefins. This somewhat pollutes the message. Is it anywhere near as recyclable or biodegradable as 'normal' paper?
Do you only have work email?
I've switched over to something more lightweight - XCode.
Cascading Dropdowns in ASP.NET MVC
How ServMask Does Quality Assurance
A quite interesting Swedish company that uses immune system biomarkers for early detection

http://immunovia.com/

They use these biomarker together with a statistical algorithm to find very high specificity and sensitivity at the same time.
Harder question: Why should Facebook counter terrorism?
Easy answer: Because terrorist may use it.

Yes, but terrorists may use roads, buses, local grocery shops, cinemas. Should all of those places counter terrorism?
And the S90 UI would continue on into Maemo.

And i swear i could finger type on the 770 before iPhone showed up, even though it was a resistive screen.
> Do you disagree with the idea that the propagation of narratives that pretend to support illegal terrorist violence does not actually help support terrorists? I agree with that idea.

Either you added one too many negations or I am failing to understand your point... you are saying that the idea you agree with is that the propagation of narratives does not actually help support terrorists?
Another lesson from Total War: Mongols; run.
WW3 Will Happen Like This
The 'problem' I'm referring to need not be sexism.

Either way, you can't argue that something should be done on the basis that it is legal and works. You can obviously change the laws, and there's lots of stuff that 'works' while externalizing all the damage done.
AKA: how to provide a lot of work to security engineers, pentesters and security researcher for a long time.
Well, this "as good as" is more of a personal opinion though.
I love the '95 movie. It was the first anime I watched and it showed me that there is not only tentacle porn and little girls there. But I've also seen everything else that was branded GitS and I have the manga here. Therefore I liked the movie because it was just another interpretation of the general idea that is GitS.

Because of that, I find that harsh and kind of orthodox criticism quite over the top.
How do you bootstrap a robot factory if you need the factory's output to make the robots?
Looks like they are going for around $190 used on eBay with the CPUs and RAM included (some with HDDs and some without, but personally I'd buy without and use my own SSDs). Not a bad deal for the horsepower!
>since there's no way to sustain today's societies without the cooperation established by taxes.

To the degree one can differentiate societies sustained by taxes from sustained by lines of credit extended to societies in promise of future taxes of which are now under question…

New "establishments"[0] will form that better serve those who reap the benefits of engaging in crypto-economic behaviors, Old ones will die/become obsoleted/increasingly ineffective at enforcing their diktats, some overlap of functionalities may exist/remain between such. Same as it ever was.

10k software engineers effectively dodging/avoiding taxes on 100k/y of income, who can organize/allocate resources to some other ends seems like a plausible block of people to put up some effective asymmetrical resistance against taxes to governments of various sizes over the world. Yet still a drop in the bucket in terms of population size.

Do a few engineers who are unable to imagine such, really pose a threat agaisnt people are/trying to create something new?

[0] I use this very loosely, could be traditional meat spaces ones, or decentralized digital networks with active and passive mechanisms for ensuring survival.
This IIT aspirant's dreams bloomed in a park shanty
Nice job! I like how easy it is to see the metering between devices on your effects chain
That's an extremely narrow minded viewpoint. You're sure conventional warfare is right and terrorism is wrong? Perhaps the majority of Americans (based on votes) believe their way is right and they have to impose it on others who are wrong.
This is honestly terrifying. As a citizen of a state that increasingly tends to call "terrorism" any non-passive dissent I can't help but substitute the word "dissent" for the "terrorism" in the article. "If we previously removed a propaganda video from the doubters of The Great Leader, we can work to prevent other accounts from uploading the same video to our site" and such.

Or, to put it into terms closer to the demographic majority of HN, "we have also recently started to experiment with using AI to understand text that might be undermining the authority of the Oval office".

Given that Facebook collects data from a ton of sources besides facebook.com (even your CC data), it's literally a Big Brother scenario. Big "AI-powered" Brother without any oversight or responsibility.
Because you are used to it?
Why change if everything works. It takes some work to re-learn all keyboard shortcuts, for example.
The "radical Bayesian" stance is very difficult to grasp, coming from an ordinary scientific background. At least it was for me - took months, maybe years of sinking-in to figure out what Fuchs was trying to say. I think a lot of people start reading about it, quickly get the (false) impression that it's solipsistic, and just lose interest.
This appears to be a prime example where moderators should not use their real identity.

Surely FB can provide an exception to the rule to protect its own employees in high risk activities.

Related Twitter discussion: https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/875626936612999168
Yeah all these discussions are rather aimed at people who implement cryptography or have to make a well-thought hash choice at some point.

As a developer you should use something like libsodium that has a default "hash" API. Underneath, the developers made the choice of choosing Blake2, but this is transparent to the user of the library.

If you do not have access to high level libraries like that, and don't want to loose time/dig too much into the topic, following standards (SHA-3) is easy.
Pay should be deducted for using tabs!
:)
[...] we have begun work on systems to enable us to take action against
terrorist accounts across all our platforms, including WhatsApp and Instagram.
Given the limited data some of our apps collect as part of their service,
the ability to share data across the whole family is indispensable to our
efforts to keep all our platforms safe.

Looks like they are indeed linking WhatsApp and Facebook accounts internally. Weren't they fined for failing to disclose this pre-acquisition a couple weeks ago?
I'd argue that we should let them use Facebook, the more one uses it the less they are out there killing people.
Could scala native be used to compile scalac in the future (if enough of java.* has a clean room implementation)? And could that speed up compile time of scala programs, or is compilation bottlenecked by IO (or other things) which may not be enhanced by scala native?
What is this new term Neo 4j?
Facebook is unprecendentedly widely used, global in reach.

It has become for many an essential service.

Facebook ( in many countries ) is a monopoly, unassailable competitively due to the size of its network.

In days of yore, such a huge monopoly that is a utility would be broken up like Ma Bell in the 1980s or like rail, water and electricity in the UK were nationalised.

Consumer data protections are currently woefully insufficient.

I propose that such vast walled gardens should be curtailed for the public good.

Thus Facebook should be just as viewable without signup, data exportable and deletable in whole or in part.

Facebook should provide an API so competing and extending services can be freely built on it, restoring competition and innovation and niche utilities it brings.

Consumers should be free to use whatever services and programs they choose on their own data whether stored on Facebooks servers or downloaded and held privately.

Huge transnational data monopolies should not be walled gardens.
As someone who switched from Atom to VSCode some time ago, I'm yet to find anything that VSCode doesn't have – are there any notable examples where Atom is ahead of the curve or is it just that it has more plugins?
Old last commit date could mean two things:

1. Project left in unfinished state and development stalled, in which case it's reasonable to run away from it.

2. Project done (fulfilling it's purpose) and turned to maintenance mode, in which case I'd be quite happy (as a matter of fact I'd prefer) to use it as I know I'm dealing with a stable codebase and don't need to be afraid of breaking changes in the future.

I think it would help if maintainers would state the "completeness" in the README file.
It's not just wood. From the article:

> To make a ton of regular paper requires 100 tons of water, TBM says, while its Limex paper is made without water.
Sure, blame the employee for the 3% raise cap or the bonus pool that is too small. It's not the managers fault either. Companies have systems explicitly designed to control salaries and bonuses. "I appreciate all that extra work you did but I'm sorry, we have a 5% raise cap.."

Businesses give poor raises because they can. I never found it worth the effort to haggle for a raise when I could just give myself a raise by going somewhere that valued me more.

I've been super lucky to work at companies that made me look forward to going to work but business is business.
Well, the Armenians were Christians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
Looks cool ! It could be even cooler maybe to add a pricing page
Citizen Participation and the Rise of the Open Source City in Spain [pdf]
What is the problem with strings being lists in Haskell?
I believe Perl 6 does so as well, see e.g. https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/day-7-unicode-p...
"In China" was implied, not that I'm convinced that there was great environmental concern before that, even if the means to pollute were lacking compared to the post-Industrial Revolution west.
> Having the right to not have pictures of you made public (where is a setting that automatically UN-tags me and blurs my face in pictures I don't approve?)

The minute that Faceshmuck implements that, you'll find half of 4chan posting your pics along with Barbra Streisand's mansion. Technology trumps privacy, information wants to be free, yada yada yada.
This might be valid for a very limited subset of terrorists, but the kinds we are seeing today (IS, Boko Haram, ...) do not have these goals. Their main goals are the eradication of dissenters and the collecting of power over others.

If you blow up people waiting in line in an airport, going to a concert, or visiting a nightclub, you are dead wrong. There is not much wiggle room here.

If everyone who feels they are don't have a way of making themselves heard (whether or not that thought is valid) just starts harming unrelated people, we can just do away with society completely.
> Also, I think you are confusing performance with business success and sales.

I see your point. I've misinterpreted your comment assuming it was focused on performance instead of market share.
I can almost guarantee the government hasn't 'ignored' these cases as suggested here.
Won't it then just become an online class? How will you differentiate?
SREcon17 Asia/Australia: Golang's Garbage [video]
It's much harder to make changes to an already good design. I don't think he was throwing out the baby with the bath water, they were fairly subtle changes overall.
I guess the birds getting killed by plastic bags in the environment and the sea are happy to know that the life cycle energy consumption is better than paper.

That said I do not use paper bags or plastic bags but a recycled canvas bag I've used for hundreds of shopping trips.
I didn't find that one when I looked for this kind of tool so I rolled out my own, I would have definitely given it a go !
"fiddling feels a lot more productive than it actually is"

Best thing about this article. Unfortunately he didn't derive anything from this wise statement.
No good hash functions are usually fast. You're talking about "password hashing function", and I can understand the confusion. Maybe if people decided to rename these "pash" it would be easier.

Anyway the state of the art here is Argon2 which won the latest password hashing competition: https://password-hashing.net/
I guess it depends if they can use it to influence lots of people.
Even with way fewer files than that you can't use wildcards in bash because it will expands to longer than the commandline allows.

This makes any work in the shell painful.
I agree that unfortunately the official definitions of terrorism are whacky and often colored by political or geostrategical evaluations, but there is one that works: Terrorists are persons who directly and intentionally target noncombatant civilians as a means to achieve political goals.
IMHO, this is the best definition and captures what we ordinarily mean by 'terrorist'. It does make certain acts that are classified as terrorist non-terrorist, e.g. Taleban attacking a military base are not terrorists by that definition, and it also classifies other acts as terrorist that have previously not been regarded as such, e.g. maybe drone strikes with consistently more civilian deaths than enemy combatants are acts of state-terrorism according to that definition. (The latter depends on ones interpretation of the so-called 'doctrine of double effect' and definition of intentional actions.)

So there is a good definition FB could use. That being said, I can't figure out why companies ought to fulfill the role of judges, especially not proactively. It's not their business and they have no expertise in it, and there are conflicts of interests. If some content or website is illegal, then it should be investigated by the police and closed down under judicial oversight. If it's not illegal, then it should be left alone.
facebook is a terrorist organization
its not too late. 3k per coin is nothing. expect 10k or more in the coming years.
Not necessarily in BTC though (Hint: August 1)
Living with backpack for a year
This is not completely accurate either, you don't necessarily do full clearing even with the big machines. Typically there's couple of thinnings in the growth cycle from sapling stage to old forest, the whole cycle taking something like 70 years. Mostly you do full clearing at the end and then replant. This is my experience, also from Finland.
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> they only call them 128-bit because they provide 128bits of preimage and collision resistance (at 256 bits of output).

You're right, Appendix A.1 of http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.202.pdf
Cdist 4.4.4 has been released
What's the actual difference? As far as I can see, they're both poor text editors with bad interfaces, built on top of the horrible mess that is Electron. They're also both massive. VS Code takes up 235 MB and Atom takes a whopping 530 MB. Sublime Text is like 30 MB.
What does flight check-in times has to do with extreme vetting? US visas are already granted after extreme vetting and pre 9/11 ease of moving around is not coming back anytime soon. Concordes are not flying purely for safety and business reasons and not terrorism and sot com bubble and the 2008 market crash happened because of corporate greed which is what affects many more lives than fear and paranoia.

Our country already extremely vets, tracks the movement and stay of Pakistani nationals inside our borders. I know of a few people who have married Pakistani nationals and stay in Mumbai. They undergo the most inhumane scrutiny. You want an ankle bracelet on you when you live in the US? Terrorist attacks in India have seldom been committed by visa travellers. It has either been disgruntled natives like Tiger memon colluding with corrupt Indian officials or poor security infrastructure which leads to ttacks over water. I am sorry but you have no idea what you are talking about.
It is not only good advice, it is required in fair amount of situations because of limitations in the C# language.
Agreed. But exceptions do exist. Singapore is neither arid nor self-sufficient in fresh water.
Your suggestion amounts to using Facebook as an infrastructure, not directly using their user-facing services. The problem is that alternative (and open source) infrastructures have been developed, but nobody had the UI that Facebook has so people used Facebook anyway.

Some like to argue that alternative infrastructures failed because "my friends weren't there so I couldn't use it" but that chicken-and-egg problem does not exist in small tight communities such as makers and startups. Yet, all those groups stayed on Facebook anyway even after trying Diaspora et. al. The common reasons were UI and features.
Take a proper holiday and give your team the space they need to show you that you're not a single point of failure. Give them a phobne number that is only to be called in dire emergency. Turn off data and Wifi on your phone.
> This post makes it seem like Facebook subscribes to the theory that hiding unpleasant content prevents terrorism, and that there is universal global agreement on what counts as terrorism.

Terrorism is a label that is applied to any violent attack performed by (most of the time) non-state agents these days, where it should instead be used on situations where the perpetrator's intent is to instill fear on the population and get recognition on the media for their political agenda.

With this in mind and taking aside the ethics of it, not showing or at least not exaggerating news about terrorist attacks could be a good mitigation strategy (the general media would certainly do the opposite though).

Personally, my take on this post is just PR for Facebook.

[0] - http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/430497-terrorism-isn-t-a-cri... (Schneier on terrorism)

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Gq-5zISAk (Relevant Carlin)