skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Giving up the decryption key is clearly not analogous to deciphering the letter. When you decrypt a drive, it’s the computer does the actual deciphering operation.

The computer cannot decipher the drive without the decryption key. The computer doing it is just automation. Using that logic killing someone with a car isn't the person's fault since the car did the actual killing. It's about who is controlling the thing, not the actual thing itself.

>We can jail people for not providing the key to a regular safe, even though the cops could break into it.

That is true with physical keys, but not combinations. It doesn't matter to police whether a suspect provides a key or not because the cops can work around that. In the case of encryption, they cannot. A cypher is a combination more so than a key.

Here is an article on revealing a combination of a safe vs. a key. In it, judges agree that revealing a combination delves into the mind while a physical key does not. A distinct difference when dealing with self incrimination. Collecting evidence from the mind (a combination) is self incrimination.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/crime/2012/01/05/why-criminals-s...

>Shouldn’t the cops have more power in the situation where they have no alternatives?

Perhaps in a dictatorship.
Now imagine that kind of damage being done to your eyes.

It hurts just thinking about it, yet some people don’t seem to really believe the warnings.
The machines used to count votes were Windows machines connected to the internet.

https://www.nrk.no/norge/teller-opp-stemmer-i-valget-pa-data...
Don't the UK, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands have fairly significant trafficking problems?
Interesting! My assumption is that this could not happen with a phone camera though, correct? Because then one would think just leaving one's phone face down on the table in sunlight would ruin it.
Tightening it by counting manually, hehe.

Was a big deal earlier this week that the keys and stuff for some municipalities were posted online on their web pages. Edit: it was certificates you had to install in the browser to verify that you were in the position to enter the total amount of votes in your municipality. The url for download were unique and random, but got indexed by search engines because they spy on urls you visit.

https://www.nrk.no/norge/sensitive-valg-filer-for-tre-kommun...

Edit, hmm, downvoted?
Why do you think so? The Wikipedia page on their method of hierarchical temporal memory[1] says that:

The goal of current HTMs is to capture as much of the functions of neurons and the network (as they are currently understood) within the capability of typical computers and in areas that can be made readily useful such as image processing. For example, feedback from higher levels and motor control are not attempted because it is not yet understood how to incorporate them and binary instead of variable synapses are used because they were determined to be sufficient in the current HTM capabilities.

It doesn't seem like they are even close to a simulation that could accurately model something like C. elegans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_temporal_memory
I'd argue this is slightly worse because the cameras have higher magnification lenses* vs our naked eye. This might be more akin to looking into a telescope with your eyes.

Edit: To elaborate - Higher magnification lenses (depending on the camera lens used of course)

Edit 1: - /u/corndoge Suggests that people may take this the wrong way. I mean to say in the amount of physical damage it's worse for camera's because of the extra (and typically higher magnification lens). I don't mean that a burnt camera is worse then a burnt eye - I'd rather anybody loose tons of $$$ for a camera then have eye damage.
The population in general is full of crazy people. No reason to think the gov't wouldn't be equally represented.
The Ender's Series - For the essence of xenophobia and subjective realities.
Hmm, reading your experience clarifies to me (a Maths guy) why current deep learning efforts are producing real fruit from their labor. Linear Regression and Vector/dot products are just constructs to re-create the evolutionary biology seen in nature. When looking at the slow process of evolution, it's the nuances that matter and over time, they compound exponentially. Pretty neat. By breaking down a task into abstract constructs and sifting problems out with a sigmoid function.
Might just be my machine but it feels extremely "heavy" (slow) in Firefox compared to Chrome. I'm assuming it is some rendering bottleneck in Firefox.
Our naked eye has a lens too.
Close parallels to partial evaluation and the Futamura projections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_evaluation#Futamura_pr...
Predictably Irrational is essentially required reading for anyone who is making decisions for a product.

The Information by James Gleick. Remember, Africa has had long range, distributed, fault tolerant wireless communication networks since before Europe had reliable clocks.

Euclid's Window by Mlodonow. The entire arc of history in a sweeping curve towards, ultimately, machine learning.

Reading Doc Smith's lensmen series (particularly the chronologically first 2) helped me recognize how very much pop science culture shapes perception. A futurist in the 20s thinking about interstellar travel has delightfuly different ideas. Wrong ideas, but hey.

Peter Hamilton's sci-fi, particularly the 6 Commonwealth Books: they're so different and so surprising and very happy to present a glowing and balelful view of capitalism in an expansionist universe.

Everyone in the west should.be required to read Ways of Seeing by Berger.
Out of interest, what makes you think UBS is above average? I interviewed there recently and the emphasis was "our benefits are remote working and life work balance" - which is HR speak for low salary (though I do appreciate both).
I had actually. Once, because of their website insisting on showing dates for which there are availabilities, I ended up booking for the wrong days, something that I could not cancel. At the time I though I made the mistake so didn't complain. Only later did I realize that's how the website works (they force a date in the web session because it converts better). Had I given them a call at the time, chances are that they would have refund me, but this also I learnt only later.

I've also been "stolen" a car booking on rentalcars once, another company belonging to Priceline. I'm not as familiar with rentalcars as I am with booking so can't be as confident but even in that case I doubt the business plan is based on such erroneous bookings. For sure, the incentive to fight fraud they are victim of is bigger than the incentive to fix the UX dark patterns that are causing the erroneous bookings and eventually bring them some extra profit.

Also, let's not forget that companies abusing dark patterns or being slow to fix "bugs" when they convert well, are not merely soulless organisations driven by profit. They are made of teams driven by OKRs, which are made of individuals driven by their desire to fit in the culture (or their perception of it).
During my life I didn't meet a single person who understood COM and could program with it.

That's it, just sayin'.
Maybe it IS awesome. It's just unreachable.

Borland made a fortune by making COM go away for a subset of tasks. After that, DotNet.
It's a shame that Lens Rentals had to suffer such material loss, but that report is absolute gold-plated first-hand evidence for my perennial debates with other photographers who insist that they don't need Solar protection for eclipses.

"But I took a landscape shot at midday with the Sun in frame and it didn't melt my sensor". The difference being the length of exposure and the concentrations of energy.
Thanks goodness they're finally adding playback speed control to mobile.
> Read books for ideas. You can always look at the book for reference when you forget the details.

This I agree with. Make marginal notes for some specific notable detail you think might be useful to recall in the future.
http://www.alife.org/

Artificial Life is a field with very fuzzy boundaries. Roughly, computer systems that look like biological or ecological systems.

From an AL perspective, life evolves to function in it's ecology. The problem is not building an AGI, it's building an ecology in which AGI will emerge.

Oh... and hopefully, also one in which ruthlessly destroying other intelligent agents isn't a good survival strategy.
The sun would have to be dead center middle so it's probably unlikely. The lenses on the fancy cameras definitely make it a far worse problem for them vs our phone cameras though.

An iphone 6 camera only costs 5$ and is easy to replace(with a screw driver and spudger (maybe an igizmo) most hacker news people likely wouldn't have issues.), so it's not the end of the world (source:I repair phones)
Why Steve Jobs' Mercedes Never Had a License Plate
It's funny looking at the time lapse of the UI and watching white space grow like a contagion across the screen.
"Godel Escher Bach" and "I am a strange loop".

I only made it half way through GEB, however the latter is a bit easier to get through.

For me, these books marked the beginning of a lifelong journey of "self" contemplation and intellectual/philosophical exploration.
You're setting up a pretty big strawman. You asked why would someone use Docker for Go, I replied to that. I'm fully aware of the problems Docker has had and that's why I avoided using it when I set up our productions SaaS platform, preferring to use just Ansible and Upstart.

And you write "in the case of a Go binary, you have no benefit", but completely failed to respond to the benefit I gave. It seems like you were just goading someone to justify a rant. That's not nice.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15125722
That seems doubtful.
But it’s not a 600mm tele, so the actual area of burn damage is going to be smaller. You’ll still have a blind spot in the center of your field of view, but not the whole eye. Still, I imagine it’s quite a disability either way.
There's an "awesome-react" list [0]. Also, I personally maintain a large list of links to tutorials, articles, and resources for React and Redux [1], as well as a list of Redux-related addons [2].

[0] https://github.com/enaqx/awesome-react

[1] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links

[2] https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links
Usually everyone makes use of COM.

With Longhorn's failure, most of the .NET APIs that were part of the design how Longhorn was supposed to be, became COM APIs in Vista.

Since then all major APIs were always COM based, with WinRT design goal being to do with COM what was originally imagined for Longhorn.

Just that the COM APIs in UWP have been improved. Interfaces must inherit from IInspectable instead of IUnknown and .NET Metada is used instead of COM type libraries.

COM allows any language on Windows that can interface with it to have access to an OS OO ABI.

Which means any .NET language, Delphi, C++ and if feeling masochist C.

EDIT: I think Ruby and Python can also consume COM. I also forgot to mention VBScript and JavaScript.
http://toogl.es is a good replacement and still works.
Positive speech is rarely threatened before negative speech. The attacks on the fringes of free speech gradually enable the ability to curtail speech in any form.
Thanks for your suggestions.
What is a Mental Model? I've heard this word tossed around so much recently and I still don't feel like I understand what it means.
It's not clear from the article what doesn't scale -- is it that businesses stretch themselves too thin or is it that making a platform that encompasses any and every use case is not a viable business model or is it that the software technology itself doesn't scale? Anyone know?
Sometimes, justice doesn't carry out fully. Cases fail for a variety of reasons. We sometimes fail to charge the guilty. The reason why it works this way is simple : it's better than charging the innocent.

What should happen in this case IMO is that they should charge him with whatever they have right this moment, and if it fails, release him. Infinite detaining of individuals should be impossible, no matter what. This is dangerous.
>What on Earth's wrong with it?

The usual things that are wrong with pie charts:

Ask yourself: How useful would the chart be had the numbers not been provided? Why did he have to give the actual figures? Perhaps because it would be hard to gauge areas? Especially for a 3-D pie chart where you are not looking at it head on. The 25% is not much bigger than the 15% (it should be 66% bigger). And with that projection, it's hard to tell.

In fact, the 25% looks like one fourth of the pie chart - the angle it makes is 90 degrees. That's good and as it should be. Looking at Multivariate calculus and Algorithms combined, it really looks like 90 degrees to me too. But it's not 25%.

What value is added by padding blank spaces between all the slices of the chart? Seriously - how does that help at all? Imagine looking at a pie chart head on (i.e. in 2-D), and then seeing they decided to expand the circle and add spaces. Why?

Now imagine presenting this as a simple bar chart. It would be clearer, and the pie chart shows nothing more than what a simple bar chart would. The bar chart would be less confusing.
> And of the things returned, we were equally impressed with our customer-base, and their guilt and owning up to the damage.

I thought the renters would be paying for it?
Presumably the rental place isn't planning to just eat the loss. They have the renters' credit card numbers...
With Google, I wouldn't be surprized that it could be a mild but intentional attack on non-Chrome browsers. For such a high-profile web application, testing the usability for all their users is a must.
For most hotel chains if you join the loyalty programs then when you log in and book directly you get the member price which is usually $10-20/night lower.
But that is my whole point. I want templates separate from the rest of the presentation logic, not interleaved with it.
I try to use explicit waits whenever possible. Luckily, the Java client library provides a rich set of combinators for declaring them.

You can also define your own; they are basically functions from a WebDriver object to some other thing (usually a Boolean).

http://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/java/org/openq...
I work in Automotive Manufacturing IT. Something left unsaid about IIoT is that when the business needs something, they go and buy it. There is no plan for IIoT, there sometimes isn't even a plan for IT.

All of your pretty analytics won't do jack if all you get back is -999. Things get complicated the closer you get to the metal, so systems are installed and configured to work, and then you back away slowly and don't breathe on it.

Eventually you have a plant full of things that look very similar from the front office, but once you dig in, all of the interesting stuff is completely different, and different in different ways.
Still, lots of people might feign ignorance.
If this was a joke it wouldn't be funny. Oh wait.
I was just considering the option of not hiding values on the y-axis.
Thanks for your suggestions.
I'm not sure I agree with this. For sure, it's nice to be disconnected once in a while, but internet makes a lot of logistical things more convenient.

When I traveled in foreign countries, sometimes I went without data, but often I'd have to walk around for 40 minutes looking for a bank, or wait for someone for an hour not knowing where they are. It's not really a fun experience, nor did it make me 'experience the culture' better by not being connected.
> making a platform that encompasses any and every use case is not a viable business model

That one.
Could somebody tell me why this comment is being downvoted? I didn't feel like I was being rude (I'm sorry if I was), and I'm pretty sure it's a correct statement.

Our eyes have lenses but as /u/jmiserez said the lenses in the cameras lenses magnify it far more. It'd be like us looking into a telescope looking at the sun (Obviously depends on which camera lens you use).

Edit: I edited the main comment to explain that the difference is that camera's typically have higher magnification lens then our eyes.
I lost an uncle to black lung. Coal mining as an industry needs to die. And I grew up in WV.
Probably the "move fast and break things" approach.
> Though it does seem possible that they are using this case to set a precedent for future, less clear-cut cases.

Possible? Try exceedingly likely. That's why it should be fought here, with an unpopular defendant.
Candide
The Go-Getter by Peter B. Kyne and Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull
This is probably all you need to know from this article:

Now, it’s owned by Alphabet, so it effectively has only one investor and no public disclosure obligations.
Looks like "chart" would be more accurate, I thought/hoped "graph" was related to blockchain graph analysis which is quite interesting.
Safari is the new Internet explorer. If you use it, you should expect that many things break frequently.
How virtual DOM nodes work in mithril.js
When the FBI used the All Writs Act against Apple to attempt to force Apple to bypass the password functions of an iPhone or develop a backdoor method of access, the courts ruled that decryption was not a violation of the Fifth Amendment "if the contents were a foregone conclusion."

So if "foregone conclusion" is the criteria that must be met, I have to ask how the contents of this man's external hard drive could be conclusively a foregone conclusion. Maybe he did download thousands of images. What if he no longer possess them? He could have deleted them. The police have been known to make mistakes and have made high profile mistakes' i.e., the Atlanta Olympics bombing when they all but destroyed Richard Jewell.

What if he decrypted it and there was no child porn but there were records of say a store selling drugs etc on the dark net? Then he would have incriminated himself for something they had zero knowledge about because the court issued this writ.

The government states that his sister acknowledges him showing her many explicit photos. Did she turn in her brother? Why would a man show his sister pornographic images? Did she tell anyone around the time this happened that this occurred? Seems to me to be unusual at the least for the government to hang their hat on something uncorroberated. If the sister had access to the computer' who is to say that she did not download the images. He could have seen them and deleted them. Seems that a mere he said -she said is enough to have the government invade your privacy and demand you willingly set aside your consistutional protections or risk going to jail when you have not been charged with, let alone convicted of, a crime.

We have to be very careful when we start seeing civil liberties and constitutional protections erode. Tech companies have been under siege from the government's use of the All Writs Act in the last two decades and as long as they are successful, I do not foresee them changing their methods.
Ask HN: How do humans think?
I wrote a Reddit comment a few months back listing around 20 of my favorite React-related bloggers: https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/5t8loz/what_are_yo... .
I am completely battled as you too...
Facts About Prostate Cancer Every Man Should Know
Human echolocators – signal description and model based signal synthesis
CP is a wedge tool for politicians. Want to get around the Constitution while having public opinion on your side? Use a pedophile. I don't have a problem sending people to jail who produce the stuff, but the idea that I could put images in someone's computer, call the cops, and get them put away didn't sit right with me.

This case in particular is troublesome. There are lots of bogus claims by the prosecution like being able to confirm the CP via hashes despite the content being encrypted. If they truly had a strong case against this guy, they'd go to trial.
A machine that composes chess problems (2014)
On Having No Head by Douglas Harding had a profound effect on my introspection. It simply points out who you really are from your subjective.

It bypasses the religious mumbo jumbo that so often gets bundled in guides to spirituality by using scientific experiements. Highly recommended!
Data Should Be Animated, Not Mapped
.NET was originally designed as COM+ Runtime, before they decided to create the CLR, the research project was called Ext-VOS.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dsyme/2012/07/05/more-c-net...

Basically WinRT, being based on COM, with .NET being compiled to native code via .NET Native and UWP controls being implementations of IInspectable, is the return to that original design idea of the COM+ Runtime.
There are two groups of people on HN: people that think everything is binary and people that think everything is a continuum.

I'm somewhere in the middle.
New Pneumonia in Chinese Hospitals Is Drug-Resistant, Deadly and Contagious
FWIW me and my coworkers looked at the eclipse with no protection (it was too foggy to use our pinhole cameras). I didn't develop any vision issues, and I don't think the others did either.
Fyi: not java but a java derived language with similar aims (and initial language features) to kotlin (and pascal).
I do this very often, sending an email yields 5%-15% discount on booking.com prices. But that works for independent hotels. What I write here about are chain hotels, which have terrible online experience and contacted through email gave me 10-20% higher prices than online comparison sites (which also include commission for the site).

Edit: this is in Europe though
Critique of Pure Reason

Philosophical Investigations

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Foucault's Pendulum

Snopes == The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion.

A River Runs Through It

Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World

A Pattern Language

The Analects

Bhagavad Gita

Apology

The Republic

Touch the Earth

The Pity of War: Explaining World War I

The Civil War: A Narrative
So in the article he says:

". If we were kicked off the road more than half of our total revenue would disappear instantly and would stay disappeared until we found a new road – i.e., a new ad serving service or technology. At a minimum that would be a devastating blow that would require us to find a totally different ad serving system, make major technical changes to the site to accommodate the new system and likely not be able to make as much from ads ever again."

Is there a framework/library whatever you want to call it that helps with that, I mean something that abstracts you ad serving systems enough that when you need to slot another in its place it's a matter of some configuration properties or a couple lines of code changes?
probably because you suggested damage to a camera is worse than damage to a human eye in the first sentence and hn is full of reactionary children
It's a bit more than it seems, on the surface. You're not just expected to pick up what the professors lecture about, but to take it and apply it to a sampling of fairly advanced problems. You end up doing a lot of learning on your own (or in a small group) while completing the homework.

To use your gym analogy, it's like focusing on one muscle group per week. On Monday, you're shown proper form and technique for a squat, but by the following Monday, you'd better be able to squat significantly more than you could a week ago (and you'll get graded on it). Are you going to become a competitive squat weight lifter? Absolutely not. Do you now know proper form, and understand what it takes to train properly? Almost certainly.

I'd also note two things:

- Most topics covered were useful in later courses.

- A lot of the credit for this course's success can be given as much to really, really dedicated TAs as it can to the professors.

(Note: I took this course my freshman year, it was blisteringly hard, and I wouldn't have traded anything for it.)