skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on where you live. Some places have the privacy built-in.

In Canada anybody can get the name associated with a plate, but it costs ~$30 CAD and your name and drivers license number is verified and stored to do so. If you want the address you must be a licensed private investigator (~$350 CAD course and ~$80 CAD test) or police, again the access is logged.

In the UK you need to write to the ministry for even a name, not sure of the level of difficulty or likelihood of the request being granted.

In the USA, it depends on the state. Many you can get freely and anonymously from a 3rd party database.
Its appears crypto currencies have escaped the technical domain and have landed plum into nigerian scam territory.

The crypto currency ecosystem has become toxic and irrational propped up by ignorance, desperation and blind greed

I wonder what arguments will be made to third world countries at the next climate change summit when a large number of our population seem to be squandering electricity without pause in the hope of riches.

The only way any crypto takes off in the world we live in is if some powerful vested interest sees some use for it, at which point all the speculators having spent the better part of the past decade pushing fantasy narratives about freedom etc will sell out every single tall claim made for a dime. Those who do not understand history and in this case economies are condemned to repeat it, and badly.
Totally agreed. After I lost my login details to sign into HMRC portal to do my self assessment, it was almost impossible to recover my credentials.

Impossible over the phone as they wanted to send a paper letter to my address and I was just moving to a new place (and doing some travel before that) so I had no more access to the address HMRC had on file.

I finally gave up and just asked my accountant to do it on my behalf. He somehow managed to sort this out with HMRC.

There is no flow to recover your username and password (or generate new one) with your email address which is maddening.
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It's a chicken and egg problem. Let's the see the effective government regulators start regulating before withdrawing the admittedly flawed class action lawyer-regulators.
Yeah cost is definitely not going to be a reasonable factor wrt Sonos equipment comparison. I think the tablet being misplaced, broken or otherwise abused is more troublesome.
It is illegal to attempt to make foreign policy as a private citizen.

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Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act
Just last week I was saying that the AI gold rush needed its own version of "Bitboys Oy!" to add comic relief and occasionally good ideas. After all, you can't spell Bitmain without A I.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitBoys
It's an interesting comment in the article considering the data analyzed has zero overlap with the time Trump has been president.
Are you singling out someone prominent for criticism about how they singled out someone prominent in an ironic way or was it by accident?
>Economists don't generally buy the buy idea that you can make some people better off without making others worse off.

Which economists? Economists generally support freer trade, more open borders and the like because they see trade as fundamentally not a zero sum game: if two parties are willing to make an exchange, it must be because the exchange somehow makes them better off than they would be without it. All of developmental economics is built on this: it's why the majority of the world's population enjoy an incredibly greater standard of living than they did 100 years ago. Everyone is better off.

Which is not to say there aren't situations where economists recognise trade-offs. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_price_equalization: a commonly accepted economic theory that proposes that international trade between poorer and richer countries will make unskilled wages in the poorer countries higher and in the richer countries lower.
Or selling data to repo people / skip tracers. In fact a few of the larger companies that already exist do that and they share data between clients' ANPR (ALPR) devices on their repo / skip tracer work vehicles. The ACLU published a document about the privacy issues around this in 2013. [0]

[0] https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/location-trac...
Thank you for the explanation. This is entirely counter-intuitive to me.
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At least in Europe a court of law can judge their dispute.
I sued a company where I worked. They were not paying my final dues after I left the company. It took me 1 year and lots of visits to court just to get my final dues. Finally after a year of all such waste of time, they came to me and asked for a settlement to which I agree and I got part of my money.

In India, even if you know you will win the case, it is not worth it. It will take your mental peace. Although I highly recommend to sue companies in other countries, In India we should think twice before suing anyone.
Mostly this part:

> Sonos may modify or update this Statement when necessary to reflect customer feedback and changes in our Products and Service; so, please review it periodically. When we update this Statement, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of the Statement. If there are material changes to the Statement or in how Sonos uses your personal data, we will notify you either by posting a notice of such changes before they take effect or by sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review this Statement to learn more about how Sonos is using and protecting your information. Your continued use of the Service or Products after any modification to this Statement will constitute your acceptance of such modification and updates.

I wouldn't have to just agree to the policy as you linked it today. One agrees to all future versions of the policy.
But why should it be for residential traffic, if the through traffic is driving within the speed limit? Again, just because the history of a street made it appropriate for relaxed pedestrian use, should that now be in perpetuity?

Maybe a better solution would be to put in barriers.
That's fine enough when that only directly affects those people or their networks. The article mentions Google public dns having this problem. If your customers are using them, and you're returning large DNS responses over ipv6, your customers will have trouble with resolving you names, and blame you, and you may not even be able to tell it's Google's fault.
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Streaming Content Provider vs. Physical Device specifically made to play music you physically own or streamed from devices you physically own.
> only one of many many people burned by McDonalds coffee

And many of these were sequential, so McDonalds had been told multiple times that their coffee was too hot, and they just refused to do anything about it.
Thank you, seriously, from a very deep place, for taking the time to actually look at the code and write this. You are exactly right about how I went about testing it, at least in the early stages. It was always "test on the hardest edge cases, make sure they don't throw errors, move on to fixing another small piece". I actually found that making the GUI brought out most of the deeper, more bizarre errors and made it loads more stable.

There's a much bigger validation dataset that I used later on that I just haven't uploaded yet. In the latest iteration I have manually traced examples that are used for training and validation, which makes me a lot more confident in the results.

Adding an instructional video / workshop was one of the top things on my to-do list. I agree that that would help any potential users in a huge way. I did video chat with some people who used it, and they ultimately published a paper using it, so that was pretty cool.

In the end, though, this was just a semi-polished byproduct of the actual experimental work I was doing, so like others have pointed out, I didn't have to make the code nice to pass peer review or graduate.
There are a few things here. From a technical level, how do you think GCM/FCM is implemented? A socket is hardly a scarce resource and keeping 2 open is only 1/65535 more "expensive" (from a kernel standpoint not power/energy) than multiplexing two streams on one connection. It's possible FCM uses some micro polling strategy so that the radio can sleep for short bursts, but I don't see why the same mechanism can't be exposed to other apps if that was the case.

Second, from a product level there is a double standard now. Apps that build infrastructure using Google's platform services don't have to put a persistent notification in front of users and clutter the phone ui. Apps that choose not to depend on google (the "open source" as it pertains here but you're right it's not limited to open source apps) do. That's a pretty obvious power play.

If you want to see all the stuff going on in the background why are things that buddy up with google exempt from that in your eyes? I could flood your phone with a high priority FCM message every 500ms effectively making my app run all the time and you wouldn't know. There will be apps that do it (as there are with APNS on iOS) and it is in fact far worse for battery life. Maybe we differ on this point but there are certainly things I want happening in the background that don't need a ui. That's the precedent on the desktop anyway.

BTW The ordering of FCM messages is not guaranteed so they're not even as useful as a TCP connection.
More like, if we had a big patch of strawberries and every day I picked 100 and you picked 1000, why should I get to take yours?
It's worse then that. It's as if every day you got to take 1 skittle, but the rich take 2^n skittles on the nth day. That is, until the skittle system breaks down.
> Are there any privacy guards that can be applied to number plates that are effective in protecting you from being tracked?

Not legal ones. The whole point of the number plate is as an identifier for the vehicle.

I've been thinking about logging all the traffic down my street as a fun project as a way to learn OpenCV.
> I find it hard to believe

.... until it does happen as they promised ...

> sound systems that may eventually "cease to function".

Not just some part of it but all of it.
Well the biggest ones are on AM, though they seem to be starting to cross over to FM more recently. So Premiere Networks, Salem etc... all syndicate the conservative talk guys and things like Coast to Coast AM.

By the way Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell is how I got into radio in the first place and was probably the widest reaching single AM show worldwide.
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I have no way of knowing how this may or may not compromise my privacy without a deep understanding of the techniques being used. I am meant to trust Mozilla and hope that they haven't overlooked some weakness in the algorithms used. The obvious security choice is to not add this feature in. The 'Provided this feature doesn't compromise anyone's privacy' is a fantasy, because no-one can be sure of that.
Exactly. The distributions looks reasonable until ~2008, when things go wonky. That coincides quite nicely with the bottom of the equities market and the subsequent bull run.

Also, something seems off. The animated chart is not data for a given year, it's for the last 34 year ending in that year. Since you're averaging growth over 34 years, the only way the top percentile can go from 3% growth (over 34 years) to 5% is if you average in really huge growth.

Also, the 34 year measurement makes me suspicious. Seems like an odd time period to capture. Maybe if you made it 30 or 40 years the data isn't quite so compelling?
Regarding #3, user uetokenceo did that with uetoken.com and put far less effort into it than what you described, to at least some decent effect.
Twitter created some kind of council made up almost entirely of people like @femfreq in response to #GamerGate and its aftermath. Supporters applauded it as taking responsibility and promoting a message of diversity and good things, detractors saw it as the end of Twitter-as-we-know-it.

I think this happened around the time some right-wing accounts were suspended or suffering weird "glitches" (e.g. sudden massive decreases in follower counts) but I'm not sure what the relation between that and the supposed oversight council was.

Other than the initial drama I don't think anything ever came from that. At some point Twitter sent promoted tweets pointing out the block feature with a nice animation about making nasty people go away but needless to say that wasn't even remotely helpful.
I'm a C++ developer in an embedded system where speed counts. I still live by that badge. I know that if I find a particular tiny area of code that is a bottleneck I can drop to low level assembly and after a year of work beat the compiler by a tiny amount on ONE of the THREE CPUs we support - but it would take me an entire year of nothing else.

I know of thousands of places where our code does not use the best algorithm (they are not bottlenecks). I know of hundreds of real bottlenecks that I think could be fixed with algorithm work, but the bottleneck isn't large enough to be worth putting effort into. (this decision is subject to change)
I've never seen patent trolling fall into this category, probably because patent trolling is a viable way for firms to make money and being held liable for consumer injuries isn't.
Yep :P that's definitely a benefit for a class of users, but it's not the benefit that all users are interested in, and all the other benefits are linked to those vulnerabilities. (in the current implementations anyway).
This is a reasonable compromise, but it does bias the sample towards popular sites. Granted, many of these sites are the sites that Firefox struggles with, but browsing habits are a heavy-tailed distribution. That said, smaller sites do open the door for problems, so it's probably a workable compromise.

EDIT: It should also be completely disabled in Private Browsing mode -- otherwise the optics are even worse than they are now.
Good god, how many does he have that they set him back $2000?
Because opt-in data is inherently biased and is a terrible indicator for common user behaviour.
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Meanwhile, they have one of the highest property tax rates in the nation. Good to know what I'm paying for.
I think it's referring to how efficiently it uses the energy after it is collected by the solar panel. So the collection itself might be <20% efficient, but the synthesis of new materials can be very efficient after that.
IMO I don't think its as simple as just building infrastructure, even though that's a significant part of it. One of the best things about Western society is that there is a certain amount of trust among the people, even strangers that seems to be very important to get things done. i.e. if I pay a contractor to fix my house, its very likely they will (if the problem is well known etc.). Even if the trust is misplaced, there is a good judicial system to resort to in egregious cases which keeps (most) bad behaviors/people in check. Cooperation among strangers is essential to the advancement of any society.

In most non-Western countries, this level of trust or belief/existence of the judicial system is absent. Which increases the risk exponentially of investing, working etc.

Now of course, you do need a good education system to provide lawyers/judges and people of every skill level to man these institutions and keep them from corruption. So it does seem like a somewhat cyclical problem.
Right - you have to have a bit of hardware knowledge to use it effectively
> It would mostly introduce insane additional complexity.

GoLang has a concurrent garbage collector.

> what's supposed to happen if you ask for memory sharing across the network

Yeap, I mentioned that. Again, as a developer you want the choice. You don't want your language telling you "sorry, that's too complicated for your brain, so you can't do that".
> but equally why not just precompute the whole range and do a binary search?

what do you mean?
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Every interaction I have with a gov.uk portal is a painful UX disater - most recently passport and driver license, both had a submitting payment stage. I can't imagine anyone saying 'wow look how at the gov.uk got it right' lets use their code, a glorified CMS system with forms and payments bolted on - badly - so badly.

Just rechecked it's still complete crap. They can't support the back button, no post / redirect pattern, confirm form resubmission. https://passportapplication.service.gov.uk/
I think the OP purposes that there are people earning zero, skewing the bottom percentiles, no matter how linearly the income is multiplied.
Diagnosing a single slow test
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Why would you assume ralphm is happy with those other services doing it? Maybe they don't use any of those things.
It's almost always better to start with a compiler-generated critical section and see if there are possible hand optimizations.

Yeap. But once you do, it's almost always easy to get some efficiency gains, because you understand what the code intends, and the compiler does not.

Surprisingly it doesn't take much experience to do this: just a profiler, and a willingness to try different things until you find something that works.
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Better to know how all the pieces work together even if just a bit, your overall decisions will work better with the entire program as a whole.

Also I think our job is often just 75% "here's a bunch of information, figure it out" so it doesn't matter what the material is because you're constantly seeing new stuff. Know a lot about a little, and a little about a lot. It's good to have a focus on something but you should be able to navigate every step of the process, even if more slowly than the person who usually does it.
I read that and I think they're totally free to.

And they might. Which would be more frustrating to a user - their Sonos turning into regular speakers, or arbitrarily and randomly not functioning as expected?

Imagine the difference between your phone suddenly bricking itself, or random refusing to dial certain numbers.
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This one http://www.luckyironfish.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_iron_fish
> It only incentivizes more litigiousness, which is part of the things that are ruining American society.

Can you expound on this? Any examples?
Come to Ohio, it's the main plank of the liberal platform here.
I'm not agreeing with the assertion in this case, but there are very different standards for people "of public interest" and ordinary common folk. This distinction is made in a lot of places, including European privacy laws e.g. in Germany.
If you're an anarcho-capitalist, "what is this minimum wage thing?,"

I thought eliminating the minimum wage was a common sense libertarian ideal. Google Economist Walter Williams!
The furniture wasn't particularly great. I found the exact models on Wayfair.

The rental price was even worse. Adding in the delivery and return fee, I think it was more expensive at any of the durations (3 month, 6 month, etc).

Combining those two together I don't see this working out.

Are there really that many people who live in a place for less than year that will pay a premium of a couple hundred bucks for okayish furniture? I would imagine that target market would instead rent a furnished apartment. Baked in cost, no dealing with movers at all, and you leave everything where it's at when you're done.

EDIT: Added that there's both a delivery and return fee of $99. That means a three month rental of a queen sized bed (https://rentfeather.com/collections/bedroom/products/durham-...) would be $99 + 3 x $53 + $99 = $357. I'm pretty sure it's this bed on Wayfair (https://www.wayfair.com/Varick-Gallery-Bonfiglio-Upholstered...) which is currently $223 with free shipping arriving next Thurs. That leaves $134 to pay someone to dispose of it or just pocket the difference and spend 10 seconds listing a "Free Bed - Just Pick It Up" on Craigslist. Again, I just don't see this working. Even modern consumers aren't this stupid.
Would you need radar? If you have a camera pointed at the street, couldn't you use the distance traveled in successive frames to calculate a speed? If you already have one camera set up to record the tags, a second one should be easy to capture the speed.
I don't think it is necessarily a worse overall outcome, even if the small streets become somewhat less safe.

It could be that installing barriers at some of the more dangerous points is the most optimal solution?
Ask HN: Should there be a shame list for bad YC companies?
I've been spammed by YC-invested companies in the past. Usually I politely ask to be removed, or blacklist the appropriate domain.

For the past few months I've been receiving sporadic junk-mails, entirely unsolicated, from a YC company that even boasts about that affiliation in their signature:

XXX (Y Combinator W16)

The company has neither responded to my requests to stop, nor replied to the tweet I sent them.

Not all YC companies are spammers, but those that are should be held accountable. Is there a shame list? Or am I being petulant by wanting one?
Does Logitech Media Server integrate with all these doodads: http://www.sonos.com/en-us/streaming-music ?
I missed all this, what did rvagg do? Why are some people upset enough to try to vote him off the island, and leave when it didn't happen?
That's a common misconception. The money can go to the US, it simply can't go to shareholders. Apple could for example have a subsidiary buy a lot of US treasury bonds.
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Can you crack this PRNG without knowing the seed?

f(1) = 1 // seed

f(n) = sha512(f(n-1) . f(1))
Can we at least stop with the FUD please?

> DRM

EME is not DRM, it's a fully open source spec to support third-party DRM modules. If you don't actively choose to install a DRM module, there is no DRM in your Firefox.

> 3-rd party apps

Like what? Pocket is fully owned by Mozilla.

> analytics, tracking

So far this has been 100% opt-in. It might change with this new thing, but even that's not for certain.
So you would acquire evidence with a very large assumption?
This isn't already possible? That's not right that companies can hack the law like this. Consumers should be able to sue.
Is Kal Pen famous or something? I just copied the name from the Twitter profile.