skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"progressively tyrannical"

Google was much worse back in the years. It's just that people are beginning to notice it more.

Back in those days, for my school project I created an app that had to recognize the hollywood celebrity based on the drawing. Google shut down my android account and then everything else in few weeks citing "copyright and impersonation".

Worse, it shut down my google apps for business account 7 years later because "all related accounts will be closed". Other people faced the same wrath : https://www.androidpit.com/forum/617883/google-suspend-my-ac...

It was a business account and everything including drive etc was gone. The appeal form has automated responses and there is no number to call.
Can you tell me more about what you believe that Pinker video establishes?

What I say it establishes. That James Damore was referencing mainstream science. One might reasonably conclude that his conclusions are wrong. Here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIRvtA2JIIA

I think all of those who concluded that he was being a misogynist have no leg to stand on. The accusation is levied just to silence views that are not liked.

I'd also urge you to step back from the Damore framing of this post. I know why it's hard to escape. But I think the author is just using Damore as an opportunity to make a more general statistical point.

I don't have a problem with the article's statistical point. I think there are all sorts of opportunities to make points here.
I can only speak for my experience, but I’m sure it happens to all micro minorities. People don’t have those same reservations because their excitement at your uniqueness overrides their training about minorities.
There's one called steem.it that sounds similar to what you're saying - users use steem to upvote posts
I want this.

Maybe use it as product placement in the movie 'Last Action Hero 2'?
I think it still requires faster, more ubiquitous networking. But in general, I think you're correct. This is also probably the long-term solution to how to make iOS a full general-purpose computing device, which to date is somewhat at odds with the "app console" philosophy of iOS's restrictions and the App Store. If I can run anything I want in the cloud with minimal latency, the restrictions on the phone just don't matter as much.
And no evidence against it. I believe it was intended as a hypothesis.
And carbon tax. Just count tons of coal at the mine and charge a fee per ton. Same at oil and gas wells. There aren't that many major sources, it'd be easy.
Ideally, I'd like to back up my data too. That's where it becomes much harder: I need a second location. (In case my house catches fire, or floods in a hurricane, etc.)

AWS and GCE both provide raw disk space, and certainly, an encrypted backup could be uploaded to them. I would like to be able to put a cap on what I spend on service, in case something goes wrong with the system, which AFAIK, neither GCE/AWS provide, unfortunately.

I would also like it to be remotely accessible, which a simple terabyte drive doesn't get directly.

Now, most of the above (creating a backup, encrypting it, shipping it out to AWS/GCE, securely accessing a drive remotely) are all possible, but none are easy, and certainly not yet at the level of "my mother/father can do it".

I try very hard to maintain a private "cloud", and I find it fairly difficult.
Good luck with that considering they're using Samsung panels.
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test/test is amazingly effective too.
Snowden seems like a great guy with a good heart. It's a shame that he has been exiled to Moscow for embarrassing the government, but i'm happy he is alive and not in a jail cell.
Maybe something like a RPi, made to just be a web server. Something pretty dumb. Also, possibly legislation that forces ISPs to let residential customers use their outbound bandwidth the way they want, within the bounds of the law?

I dunno...
> "It's not like drug addiction is a thing that happens to you"

A common route that leads people to taking heroin is...

1. Go to the doctor, get prescribed pain medication.

2. Become addicted to pain medication during treatment.

3. After supply of pain medication dries up, turn to illegal alternatives (which includes heroin).

So it really could happen to anyone, as it's possible to become an addict without any prior intention to take illegal substances.
The camera is on the far (under)side of the phone, which isn't even shown in this clip.
Yeah he's everywhere. I remember that NYT did a featurette on their top commenters and he's actually Chelsea Handler's brother.
I got the dual monitor mount on the back too.
Exactly. For bitcoin taxes we basically rely on people honestly self-reporting, which (a) isn't very effective and (b) means they have to do lots of tedious record keeping and FIFO calculations. Maybe that's not a very good tax.

I'm not saying we shouldn't tax crypto at all, but some countries don't and they seem to do all right. Maybe there's a middle ground.
I think you misunderstand the data. This isn't "people who opted into Autopilot vs. people who opted out" — the no-Autopilot group is people whose Teslas were made before Autopilot was introduced.
We already tax that and not everyone owns property. There are also a lot of poor people who still manage to hold property.
No information about RAM or CPU speed/cores?
Same here, I use a spreadsheet for my budget.
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Not necessarily clear, but Rawls did not use this defense. It should be effective but we are in unknown territory.
I strongly doubt that Apple will make it easier to share devices.

Every Apple device, from Macbooks to iPads to iPhones to Airpods is built to be a personal device. Even Macs, theoretically capable of multi-user, are a pain to share (eg try updating a Mac App Store app purchased with a different user account than the one you are logged in as)

Apple doesn’t want to sell one shared device to a family. They want to sell multiple devices to every family member.
The real argument is that having a wired option is not a money maker for apple. Apple wants YOU to buy accessories, which are the meat of their business with ridiculous margins. That's just selling to users something they don't need in the first place and making them pay premium for it.
I think we can chalk up this sort of thing happening once in, what, a decade(?) to an honest mistake.
Only on Reddit....
The juxtaposition on the front page right now is cool.

iPhone X 623 6 hours ago | 1290 comments

Edward Snowden Interview: 'There Is Still Hope - Even for Me' 74 points 4 hours ago | 16 comments

As they move past from their earthly feelings of shame, whenst they stuck their heads in the sand, now they revel in their vice.
Yeah I know. That's exactly what bothers me.
We have iOS 11 which I think is a good indication that Apple isn’t avoiding the number 11. They’ve officially broken the ‘s’ pattern by skipping the 7s and going right to 8, so I’d say the most likely name for the next iPhone is iPhone 11.
> add fs.copyFile and fs.copyFileSync which allows for more efficient copying of files.

FINALLY. I don;t know how long we could have come with this still being a thing you need a module for, or you have to code yourself.

Hopefully we get `fs.mkdirp` and `fs.remrf` somewhere down the line.

> Add support for ESM. This is currently behind the `--experimental-modules` flag and requires the `.mjs` extension.

I don't like the `.mjs` extension, but I understand the need for it, and I'm just glad that modules are finally here.
Society really should stop tolerating this type of TOS.
Out of curiosity, what hardware/software do you use for an AP?

I had a Belkin AP for a while, which was okay, but couldn't do anything fancy, like DD-WRT, and the microwave would knock it offline — even after the microwave was done. (It had to be power cycled.)

Today I have the big black Comcast all-in-one AP/router/modem, and it resets the WiFi password (and only the password, not the SSID!) any time it soft or hard resets.

> a SEWER VLAN for things that scare me

This is an awesome name.

> SSL bump

This is a MitM of SSL traffic, or something else? (And if the former, requires installation of a CA cert on devices on that VLAN?) (I found the Squid page for it, but wasn't really clear on it even with the docs.)
> Calling a non-coke beverage a "Coke" just seems silly though.

It's not. Would you force my nose to continue to run because you don't have the Kleenex brand? Or must I continue to bleed because you don't have a Band-Aid brand bandage?
Fastmail.fm

Not free; but you definitely get what you pay for.
And maybe importantly, you can use a personal license at work, on paid projects, etc.

I've never been particularly bullish on Atom or Electron, but I think Jetbrains is going to be eating their lunch for awhile at least.
Stack Exchange is not a commenting system. Source: I am one of the co-founders.
I feel old.

I would simply install nginx and write HTML by hand.

If I felt fancy, markdown + pandoc. But if you feel like you need to put some content online, you don't need much more than a text file with some links.

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
And there initially was no Windows version of iTunes. The iPod's market was at first only people who already owned Macs.
Fingerprints do not confirm identity.

A phone is not what you have in the context of this discussion. What you have would be an NFC, for example to authenticate to the phone. A phone is only what you have, when you use the phone as evidence to authenticate into a different system.
Their book is quite good. It should be read along with Venture Hacks. I prefer VH but the PDF weighs in at 1200 pages and while I have finished War and Peace I haven't finished VH.
For breaks, I find letting my thoughts drift to be important. In fact, I try to avoid thinking about my work doing many of my walks/breaks (sometimes I can't help it though).

Doing a bit of low-key mindfulness and slowing my breathing has been very helpful as well.
Is 18.5:9 really a standard? And does it matter? They will sell a hundred million of these things and it will this become a standard size.
Eh. The ethos died, too.

The protruding camera on the back of recent models would be considered unacceptable.
I was a long time and happy Reddit advertiser myself up until last month when their original ad system was deprecated.

I experienced the exact same change in results as the OP describes: An effective 10x increase in CPA with the same ad copy and what I understood was the same targeting. When you think you're paying for the same thing but experience worse results by an order of magnitude, then you know something is up.

The deceptive nature of this change is that their new ad platform does not explain any of details that their product manager has graciously offered here. It's too bad that it has taken a front-page HN post to get this information to light; this already undermines the trust of the ads product team at Reddit. Thank you to the OP for explaining the change in laymen's terms.

Next, despite spending tens of thousands of dollars with Reddit, it's nearly impossible to be in contact with a competent person on their ads team. My support requests have gone routinely unanswered, or at best I receive a template response after days and days. After this most recent change I tried a last resort option of posting in the Reddit ads subreddit, which also received no response: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditads/comments/6wlyya/using_the...

The only benefit I've seen in the new platform is conversion tracking, which is a basic feature that has existed on even the most rudimentary ad systems for more than a decade. The Reddit Ads platform is way behind the times, which is sad because they're sitting on some of the most valuable web traffic in the world.
> Samsung has a Truetone display now? Don't think so.

Apparently it has, for a long time:

> The Adapt Display Mode provides real-time adaptive processing to dynamically adjust images and videos – for some applications it will vary the White Point, Color Gamut, and Color Saturation based on the image content and the color of the surrounding ambient lighting measured by the Galaxy S5 RGB Ambient Light Sensor (which measures color in addition to brightness).

http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_S5_ShootOut_1.htm
Agreed. The gesture of glancing at one's watch or wrist during a conversation carries a very particular connotation, probably going back generations.
And in future news:

"Celebrity gets iPhone stolen. Naked photos unlocked at wax museum." :D
"I think it is this new atmosphere of fear and that it won't change until we, as a public, learn to perform a new kind of alchemy and recognize fear when it is being presented. We need to learn to eat fear, to convert it into an energy that can be used to better a society rather than to terrorize and weaken it."

Very well said. In many ways, Snowden keeps the bar high for what we should aspire to be, and what we can be.
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> What options are there for this on Linux?

You have RPM signatures and the like to verify the authenticity of packages at the point of installation. If you mean detection of changes to files after the installation, then we need to talk about what it is you're trying to protect against.

If you want to detect accidental corruption (e.g. clobbering of distro-provided files through pip or 'make install'), the built-in verification functionality of RPM (rpm -V) or dpkg (dpkg -V) does a good job at that.

Malicious modification is something else entirely. Your system files are only modifiable by root. So if an attacker was able to mess with these files, any tool intended to detect that situation might've also been messed with so that it always gives the "everything is fine" assessment.

You can tackle this problem using special hardware. Or do the assessment on a different system using a disk snapshot.

The former can be done on Linux using a TPM and the trousers framework. If the protected set of software changes frequently, it's a pain in the ass to manage though.
While this is true, that would also eliminate 95% of potential posts. I am more inclined to "you cannot post until you have proven you read stuff" ala https://meta.discourse.org/t/additional-optional-barriers-be...
The fact that sometimes things in the Linux ecosystem just break is pretty daunting for any company that wants to make money selling Linux boxes. For example sound was good for a while and then PulseAudio happened and it was terrible; these days PulseAudio is supposed to be okay, but if you were selling laptops in 2007 and the sound on those laptops broke in 2010 you've got a big problem on your hands as a vendor. It's difficult to insulate yourself from because you don't know which hardware is going to break tomorrow and you might not be able to fix it but your customers probably quite reasonably want to upgrade their computers. Even PC-BSD is not immune when, for example, KDE 4 is released.

Apple owns the software that runs on their computers. None of these problems will ever happen to Apple. This has been around:

https://endlessos.com/home/
I think we need a lot more focus and funding on a field of study/discipline that studies how science it done. I'm not honestly sure who in the academy, if anyone, is doing this. "History of science" comes close (it's not always "in the past"), but generally scrupulously avoids making any determinations of the "validity" of the science, it tends to be like a _social_ study of how science it done, intentionally having no opinions on how to make it "better" or "worse".

Are there any departments or disciplines or academic careers that can be made on scrupulous scientific study of how science goes right and wrong, including statistical as well as other issues? I think we need it.
Linux for me, Chromebooks for everyone else.

Probably like many here, I have to support several family members' personal computing needs. I switched them all from Windows first to Linux, and then Chromebooks, and each time support became five times easier.

With Chromebooks, the only support I have done in the last year has been getting a cloud printer working again.
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I've never used a tampon. Why do they sell them?
It's easier to watch people entering their PINs on overhead security camera footage than it is to cheat their biometrics. Dedicated attackers have simpler, more effective options than having to hack your biometrics.

Yes, your fingerprint and faceprint are irreplaceable. They're kept device-local for more reasons than just Apple Pay. But make no mistake: It's simpler to record you entering your PIN surreptitiously than it is to hack your biometrics.

Are the attacks against it "likely" or "unlikely"? They're clearly aware of the "photograph" and "Mission Impossible" scenarios, and demonstrated visible proof of their time spent ensuring they're refused. If you're under directed and specific attack, that's the best you can hope for from technology! It's not human. It can't magically evolve defenses against humans with time, patience, and hacking powers.

Devices are only safe when a human takes care of them. Your phone, your computer, phone companies, credit bureaus. When you don't take care of technology, someone will eventually exploit it, usually for greed.

Which is more likely:

Someone makes a cool mask device that can hack faceprint, and simultaneously gets sued by Honda Robotics for violating one of their many, many patents on lifelike robotic faces. They use it to hack you, and somehow materially impact your life through hacking your device.

Or, someone hard-resets your phone while you aren't looking, videotapes you entering your PIN confusedly, and then steals it.

A dedicated malicious attacker will always take the second path, because this biometrics crap is useless when you can just get people to blindly enter their PIN as if somehow it's safe to do so anywhere.

TL;DR: Enter your PIN in a bathroom stall, or it's on the security tapes of the mall. If you do this, don't enable Touch ID or Face ID. Problem solved.
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I gave it a try and I like it. I think it's better than to waste screen space.
> It's a popular number chosen that'd represent BTC @ ~1/4 the market cap of Gold

Is this where "if we only get 1% of the market we'll all be billionaires" goes to summer?
This is basically the entirety of what is represented by the staff of the 'Civil Service' in the BBC show Yes Minister
Most regular users of iOS products know very little about these kinds of features, they just enable these things without thinking, then I have to explain why its bad. I have this exact kind of talk every other day on a regular basis.
My take on this is that they're aiming to have people experiment with the two little areas rather than have everyone immediately "letterbox" it away. (Although to be honest it's a little baffling since I think it detracts from the phone, especially when playing games or watching videos).
The biggest problem with Google isn't that they can delete YouTube videos or your Google+ account, it's that they can virtually erase you from the web through their search domination.
This image installs the cowsay utility and then adds its own "cow" file. This is the default installation of the cowsay utility, not something created by Docker. This is clear from reading the Dockerfile on that page:

# install cowsay, and move the "default.cow" out of the way so we can overwrite it with "docker.cow"
Apple's (presumed) controlled leaks tend to be about setting expectations rather than "building hype": they're not going to deliberately spoil the reveals of their own press shows, but they may deliberately shoot down rumors about things their upcoming products don't have. Also, they tend to talk to established venues that don't have a reputation for rumor-mongering. If a "leak" appears on the WSJ, it's often presumed to be a tip from Apple itself; if it appears on 9to5Mac or MacRumors, it almost certainly is not Apple's own doing.
> Maybe the solution is distributed content and P2P networks?

Zero Net does that:
https://zeronet.io/

A surprising relatively recent project that is much more usable than Tor onions or Freenet project. All content is hosted in a P2P fashion, you seed all the contents you have visited. If enough people visit your content, you won't need to host it.
Yes, but some actors might be willing to trade with NK in bitcoin, but not, say USD. The same thing happens with $100 notes.
> I appealed both decisions. Those appeals were apparently rejected, (at least that is what I gathered.because the videos were removed). That the community strikes stood (despite my appeals) was not explicitly clear during the process.

Is the appeal process automated? If there is no way to circumvent an automated process then it has to work 100% correctly, 99% is simply not acceptable.
I'm just saying that you're hijacking the point (that using a single editor, rather than switching between IDEs, is useful) and replacing it with a competition for size and speed. Yes, vim and emacs are lighter. Does that devalue Atom's consistency? No. I say this as an avid Emacs user.
Tap on the time, and press the home button?
I don't like that google is doing this, but your argument doesn't help our cause.

> Google arbitrarily decided it was #extremism, therefore #banned.

The author admits the videos contain terrorist propaganda. Its not arbitrary, its literally the definition of extremism. If google doesn't want to host that content, they don't have to. They want to be vaguely family-safe.

> Google is on a crusade to demonetize any video it doesn't like, so it can keep dwindling ad money flowing to only the people it chooses.

Absolute bullshit. Google doesn't crusade - its a company not a religion. And are you really insinuating that google is somehow a plot to make the rich richer? Really? The platform where anyone can upload a video and monetize it, and countless joe-schmoes have become millionaires from?
Texting was Illegal, as was holding the phone.

The new law Driving While Under the Influence of Electronics codifies this even more clearly. No more using phones, unless it's mounted on the dash, and you use minimal interaction (such as starting an app)
I assume the OP is saying that people are starting to use the term "deep learning" (or other terminology?) instead of "machine learning" in marketing.
note that "puche" in Portuguese is pronounced exactly like "push" in English.
I got the August security update yesterday - how do I check if I'm vulnerable?
Well, you and I disagree about Damore, but I'd be happy to leave it at "at least two reasonable people can disagree about it".

Here, though, I just see a professional biostatistician making a basic point about how genetically-influenced traits do and don't influence real-world outcomes. It may seem basic, but if it is, it's not obvious to the typical HN thread!

Later edit

I mean, doesn't it seem apparent just from the responses on this thread?
> Fun fact: I'm told that in Dallas, TX "y'all" is singular, the plural of which is "all y'all."

False fact. Source: life long DFW resident. It is plural in basically all uses.
It's reasonable to ask people to be quieter and/or close the door.

If you complain about people speaking non-English in your office you're going to be fired for racism.
I would think not. Is a Tesla heavier than a comparable sized ICE vehicle?
I mean technically yes, but that is pretty much fear mongering. That is like fearing the government because they could delete your social security number. Neither would ever do it, despite it being possible. The ramifications would be absurd.