skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, Netflix only runs some of their infrastructure on AWS. Basically, if I understand correctly, their applications run on AWS and their delivery is through their own CDN built on top of various ISPs[1].

[1] https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/how-netflix-works-...
You are framing the problem wrongly. The FIRST problem is the existence of the "sex offender registry" AT ALL.

If you get rid of the sex offender registry then the problems around the child pornography laws become far less acute.
I think contraception has gotten quite good. I don't think the edge cases would excessively burden society in a way we'd be unable to manage. I could see a definition of contraception being something that prevents an egg, fertilized or not, from developing. And then we could define abortion as the act of terminating a developing embryo. I imagine if people had universal access to contraception we'd be more socially willing to push the responsibility of using the tools provided (and generally being sexually educated and responsible) back on the individuals involved.
If I'm reading it right, the Intel compiler just took advantage of the outer test loop. It was supposed to loop over the data many times. Instead looped over each item of the data many times. Got the same answer, but the branch predictor had a much easier job.
From the article:

>Justice Adams said the legislation's main purpose was to combat the direct sexual exploitation and abuse of children that occurs where offensive images of real children are made.

If he believes this, then why is he legislating that virtual pornography, in fact even hand drawn, of the Simpsons which bear such little resemblance to real people, never mind actually existing people, is against the law?

>But, he said, it was also calculated to deter production of other material, including cartoons, which "can fuel demand for material that does involve the abuse of children".

Was it really? And if so, does he, or the authors of the legislation, have evidence to back up this claim? This seems to be totally unsubstantiated nonsense this judge is saying. And what of fueled demand? The fact that a drawing or story might make someone else do an action is, in my view (and I hope others can agree) not reasonable grounds for illegalising possession or production of that drawing.

Unfortunately bone-headed cases and legislation like this have graced the rest of the Commonwealth and various European countries.
Tokyo is insane on that front.

I was in the subway with a friend, shortly after lunch. As we exit the station, she realizes she doesn’t have her phone anymore, when she definitely had it 20 minutes earlier.

We go find an attendant, and she tells him the story. Some Japanese back and forth ensues, which seemed to be more than just “i lost my phone in that wagon at that time, here’s what it looks like and here’s my contact info”. I might be able to partially understand it now, but this was during my first week ever in Japan so I did not understand a lick of it at the time. As we exit the subway, she tells me that she’s not so sure she’ll get it back, and she was pretty bummed out because she didn’t have enough money to buy a new phone.

She got her phone back before dinner.

The craziest part? The reason why she got agitated during her exchange with the agent is because, she told me, he was being lazy. If he can recover an iPhone lost on the Tokyo subway in 4 hours, let him be lazy!
Okay, but once you get on those registries you're screwed. Can't live within a certain distance of anyplace a child might be. Schools, parks, day care centers. I remember reading an article about a town in Florida where all the sex offenders were literally living in the same apartment complex because it was the only one left after all the circles were drawn on the map.

And if you think felons have a hard time getting a job...
Most of the FM stations in my city (in Argentina) have a shoutcast stream to listen online.
Is "flag" actually clearer if you're not already familiar with the term from command-line "flags"? Personally I always thought it was kind of a weird usage, pretty far from the literal meaning.
Good point. I guess in comparison to Windows.
Because of religious people, mainly
As far as the demo user interface goes, I find the controls to be weird. Dragging the 3D model left and right will move the nose left and right. But dragging up and down will move the face model in the opposite direction.
No worries. I should write more clearly and take this as help along the way!
Linear Algebra for AI
It's horrifyingly easy to frame someone for CP. There are even people advertising on onion sites to frame someone remotely for as little as $300.
Visa?
Heh. I don't mean the database can do only one query at a time. I mean the db is set up so the front end can't just hit it with a SQL query to dump the database.

Now, sure, if the front ends query 10% of all records every day, then yeah, it only takes 10 days to get all the data, one query at a time, without triggering any alarms. They had 75 days. I don't know though, on any given day, what percentage of the population are getting credit checked? And did they have any alarms?
Like Google Alerts but for Twitter
Try https://www.MyTweetAlerts.com to customize Twitter email alerts, for example only tweets with more than X number of likes.
I try to do the same, I hope you don't mind I borrow your words.
The idea that the Amish survive off others' electric bill tax sounds more like a urban legend than fact. Let's be optimistic and assume the average household pays $500 / month in electricity and has a 10% tax rate; that's $50/ month / household divided by the entire state of Pennsylvania. Even if Pennsylvania is 50% Amish that's $25 / month in 'free' money for each Amish household. Hardly enough money to run a community off of.
Someone filling in for parents again! It's a shame.

But if it helps, why not?
This is a symptom of how I think Republicans and many neoliberal Democrats have basically reduced our government to systematically stop recognizing compassion as a function. All that is left is possession (property rights), and punishment (criminal enforcement). Charity and compassion are seen as some exotic thing that tend to belong in the personal sphere, not something that is a government function in society.
They have a completely different use case that benefits from being able to scale up and down quickly. I don't see them moving away from AWS anytime soon.
Meet WEX: Bitcoin Exchange Launches for BTC-E Users with BTC-E Design
I was sure the vulnerability was going to be an API key hard coded in the app which allowed retrieving any credit report over the API. That the app was "merely" sending some calls unencrypted was a total let down.
I really like this, as there is opt in consent. Perhaps you could default the number of threads to `navigator.getHardwareConcurrency -1`
FYI- Myself and almost all the hardcore bitcoiners I know feel the recent price drop was due to China, not Dimon. Dimon has been making these pronouncements for years, and things had already started to turn with the rumors coming out of china.

Even then the recent drop was basically just a big trading opportunity-- the rumors kept building and once an exchange said they were going to shut down, all the whales piled in at once... to kill the price and take profits and drive out the weak hands.

And then when the other exchanges were clearly going to shut down and all the shorts had been built up, these same whales piled in at once again to get coins at a lower price.

Thats why the move is so dramatic and so quick.

I don't think this was collusion. I don't think this was coordinated or communicated or even intentional-- it was just an obvious trade and so a bunch of people jumped on it.

One thing about BTC is that it is a free market, and that means you don't have market makers who act as stops on price movements (or trading hours, LOL!) and so things are very different there.

This is why the general advice is HODL. Just buy bitcoin using dollar cost averaging, don't risk too much and hold it. Timing the market is a PITA, and I'm convinced impossible on the micro. On the macro scale, though, HODL is the best strategy.

PS; here by HODL I mean "hold on for dear life". Don't get shaken out of your coins by roller coaster weeks like this one.
Good point. I always wonder how such accounting changes truly reflect the financial performance of the company. On one hand it's a lot of upfront cost to Dropbox with high risk too but all that won't show up completely if this cost is amortizable over the long run.
I agree. The title is misleading and should be changed.
Reproduction is one consequence of one specific sex act.

Hetero vaginal intercourse often doesn't result in procreation, and that's your best shot at it anyway.

There isn't really any universal default consequence, just like there isn't a universal sex act. A lot of people enjoy it, some people feel shame, etc. Life is a spectrum.
From the audit[0]:

> Based on this analysis, PBOT has found that when Uber illegally entered the Portland market in December 2014, the company tagged 17 individual rider accounts, 16 of which have been identified as government officials using its Greyball software tool. Uber used Greyball software to intentionally evade PBOT’s officers from December 5 to December 19, 2014 and deny 29 separate ride requests by PBOT enforcement officers. On December 21, 2014 Uber ceased operations in the City of Portland. Uber received a permit to operate in the City of Portland during an initiated Pilot Period beginning April 24, 2015. Uber has provided documentation which shows the Greyball tags were removed on April 24, 2015. After April 2015, PBOT did not find any evidence suggesting that either Uber or Lyft attempted to use a software tool to evade PBOT’s officials in their efforts to protect TNC consumers or to deny consumers rides based on their location.

So I believe the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) considers the temporary shutdown in 2014/2015 was enough. They do state, however:

> it is important to note that finding no evidence of the use of Greyball or similar software tools after April 2015 does not prove definitively that such tools were not used. It is inherently difficult to prove a negative.

So they're taking it somewhat seriously.

[0]: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/saltzman/article/638525
They should provide free credit monitoring for LIFE for affected individuals and not just one year...the individuals have been affected for life because now their SSN numbers are going to be out in the wild FOR EVER!!!!
Looks much better!
This article sounds like a PR puff piece. If you downvote me, please explain why this blog article actually means anything to you.
Thanks for the info! I've been reading up on Diffie-Hellman, wasn't sure if it was susceptible to MITM, but glad to know that it is.

My goal is to enable a mostly-automated way to have devices on a network discover and authenticate each other. As a thought experiment, I was trying to determine if two devices plugged into a malicious router could communicate securely, but everything I've found so far seems to indicate that it isn't possible without a shared secret.

Do you know how web vendors do it? Does Chrome/Firefox/etc have any base keys stored to ensure you aren't working with a censored internet?
They should provide free credit monitoring for LIFE for affected individuals and not just one year...the individuals have been affected for life because now their SSN numbers are going to be out in the wild FOR EVER!!!
I also don't know how much of that performance boost comes from just disabling all my extensions.
Re: your last point, I hope the God I don't believe in helps us...

At this point, if they spend time going after people for that type of technicality, then it's only a matter of time before they get all of us in prison for something.

70m people in the USA have a criminal record of some kind.

The more victimless crimes we have, the more power we will lose.
I had a chance to compare all of the file services a few years ago in a large corporation and I thought out of all of them, the DropBox engineers were the strongest. Microsoft second.
Control-click and mouse 3 (middle button / scroll wheel) click already open a new tab in the current container.

But, if you're someone who browses primarily using keyboard shortcuts, this just doesn't cut it.
If you like Peter Singer's approach so much, then you agree with him that one should be allowed to "abort" babies for a long time after birth as well? No? I guess it's not so easy after all.
We are out of our minds.
I believe the grandparent just means free access to birth control. Ie “With our current technology the default state doesn’t have to be pregnancy anymore.” It’s phrased a bit weirdly, I’ll grant you.
The weirdest thing is that we deem people as legal adults at 18.

If you look at neurological science, crime rates, and even car insurance rates then it's fairly easy to see that the brain has not fully matured by age 18 in most people.

Sure, a person's capacity for logic/reason has matured but usually that happens around 15 anyway. Inhibition of risky behavior and thus the ability to make sound decisions definitely has not.

A more sane legal adult age would probably be around 25 but then how would we justify enlisting legal 'children' in the military?
Thought it was somewhat clear, Amish plus antibiotics.
From from the main report, no, it doesn't seem like a direct punitive action against Uber, but it sounds like they are preparing to make that happen should something similar ever come to light again, and basically letting the US Attorney deal with the rest:

> After PBOT initiated this investigation, the City of Portland was notified by the United States Attorney of the Northern District of California that Uber is the subject of a federal inquiry. The City of Portland is cooperating with this on-going probe.

> Based on its investigation, PBOT would also recommend the following changes to the current Transportation Network Company and Taxi Code

> ● Strengthen language in the Transportation Network Company & Taxi Code to make it clear any attempt to deceive and evade City Officials will result in fines, suspension or
Greyball Audit Report | April 2017
26 revocation of operating permit.

> ● Strengthen language in the Transportation Network Company & Taxi Code to make it clear any attempt to discriminate against riders on the basis of race, gender, sex or zip code will result in fines, suspension or revocation of operating permit.
Science has failed to define what a human life is (really what any life is). It has not enumerated the qualities that make us human nor has it established a plausible theory and effective model that allows us to assess the attributes of a developing fetus and declare, "this one is human, this one is still a pile of cells". (And that's not to say it hasn't been helpful in sussing out practical guidelines so far.) I respectfully disagree that terminating the life of a fish/mammal and a 3- or 6-month old human are effectively the same thing. We kill and eat animals because that's how our biology works, and thus it is mostly socially acceptable. We don't allow eating small human fetuses because they're, "basically just a mammal at that stage". There are things that make something decidedly not human, but so far we can't really agree on how to distinguish definitely a human from potentially a human. Until we understand exactly what makes us human, I'm uncomfortable simply sweeping that unknown under the rug, morally.
20% more expressiveness … reduce that million line code base down to 833k lines

I'm not convinced language expressiveness can really be quantified that way.

emphasis on reducing constant overhead at the expense of adding more linear overhead after a certain threshold has been reached

Who exactly is emphasizing this?
I've never felt so alone as when I'm worried that a think that shouldn't work, does.
Age of consent is 16 in 30 States
and 17 in 8 states
As I've already remarked here[0] on github, the real problem is that you're forced to choose the container before you decide what you're doing in the new tab.

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot-containers/issues/245#i...
That ignores attacks on dns and certificate authorities.

I could readily see a fun novel about a nation state or isp using this trick to seed malicious code to a lot of public sites. Imagine setting it for index.html on any site with a source that merely bootstraps to the intended site. Along with the malicious code.
I don't need it, but I do appreciate it. :) And yeah, we're still kids ourselves, I can't picture myself a dad, heh. But who knows what life will bring down the track a few years.
You mean her "Head of Security when Equifax was Hacked" work experience?
Two things. One, you've mischaracterized what I said. I said the county relies heavily on these taxes, not that the Amish "survive off" other people.

Two, $50/month is a lot of money in rural PA.
So a fetus can't suffer? I think science has proven quite the opposite.
Thanks for that clarification, it does make more sense. I think there are still practical limits to that. If your application can do:

SELECT * FROM users WHERE ID = 10

Why not

SELECT * FROM users where ID > 0

Honestly this is something I'd like to be able to put in place in certain areas, but I'm not aware of a sane strategy to do so existing.
What part did he play in Kelly's Heros?

Is this him?
https://youtu.be/Iby1Ni0VJxg?t=93
> photorealistic masks

But it's not yet clear how much photorealism matters vs. 3D shape, which may be a lot lower fidelity.
I don't understand what you're saying? The US is not under threat of invasion.

Sure they should pay for public services they use, but what more are you asking?
Sure thing! After you spend a few days with it, I'd love to hear how you compare it to 3DCoat. I've considered picking up 3dCoat not for its texturing but its voxel workflow.
https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGOOGL&fstype=i...

Google made 3.5 billion in their most recently reported quarter. It would have been even higher, except for a nearly 3 billion dollar 'unusual expense'. It's not exactly chicken feed, but 1.1B isn't an unexpected number given their focus on 'other bets'.
Ah so it wouldn't be the mine itself that would be the uphill/downhill discussed, it's moreso the route from the mine to where the ore is processed. I got it now, thanks.
From Yann LeCunn.
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Numenta, Vicarious, NuPic, HTM, CLA, etc.

Jeff Hawkins has the right intuition and the right philosophy. Some of us have had similar ideas for several decades. Certainly, we all agree that AI systems of the future will be hierarchical (it’s the very idea of deep learning) and will use temporal prediction.

But the difficulty is to instantiate these concepts and reduce them to practice. Another difficulty is grounding them on sound mathematical principles (is this algorithm minimizing an objective function?).

I think Jeff Hawkins, Dileep George and others greatly underestimated the difficulty of reducing these conceptual ideas to practice.

As far as I can tell, HTM has not been demonstrated to get anywhere close to state of the art on any serious task.

I still think [Vicarious] is mostly hype. There is no public information about the underlying technology. The principals don’t have a particularly good track record of success. And the only demo is way behind what you can do with “plain vanilla” convolutional nets (see this Google blog post and this ICLR 2014 paper and this video of the ICLR talk).

HTM, NuPIC, and Numenta received a lot more publicity than they deserved because of the Internet millionaire / Silocon Valley celebrity status of Jeff Hawkins.

But I haven’t seen any result that would give substance to the hype.

Don’t get fooled by people who claim to have a solution to Artificial General Intelligence, who claim to have AI systems that work “just like the human brain”, or who claim to have figured out how the brain works (well, except if it’s Geoff Hinton making the claim). Ask them what error rate they get on MNIST or ImageNet.

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Reference:

http://fastml.com/yann-lecuns-answers-from-the-reddit-ama/
An interesting talk by Ken Olsen on his history with DEC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNBS0I1h42k

Sadly, the names DEC and Digital barely resonate with the average under-30 developer. In fact, I'd guess that DEC/Digital on a resume not only counts for much less than AirBnB or some other trendy, frivolous startup, but probably even hurts, given how prevalent ageism is in our industry.
Very good points; to add to that, there are some anecdotes that developer pay is becoming bimodal: http://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/
What are you on about? AWS practically requires BGP. Static routing is rarely the best choice when you set up DX.

Netflix rolls its own CDNs because Cloudfront can't meet all their demands, yet.
The business they are in is supplying information to creditors about the credit-worthiness of potential customers. AFAIK they have succeeded at this.

I don't want to downplay their security failure. It's obviously really bad, but saying that security was the "single thing they were supposed to do" is false.
But the blog itself lacks a lot of information.

The timeline is really, really significant here. Did they initiate this back in 2013? 2015?

My company has seen a remarkable shift in trust for online services change the last two years. Was Dropbox ahead of this curve? Were they someone who brought this change in mentality around?

This blog article is crap because without a basic sense of _when_ it could be that they were riding the coattails of other industry leaders. Or they were leading the charge.
The linear/road distance down doesn't matter. It's elevation that provides the potential energy. Pretty sure they are not descending 10 miles in elevation.
A 27-minute presentation: https://systemswe.love/archive/minneapolis-2017/ivan-richwal... ; https://player.vimeo.com/video/209021697

"Metadata Indexes & Queries in the BeOS Filesystem", by Ivan Richwalski, at Systems We Love.

He explains cool features like extended attributes in files, and search queries whose results are updated in real time.
Maybe but OpEx is tax deductible. CapEx is not.
This is the solution I've come up with as well. It's saved a lot of frustration already, which builds up quickly with when you have to retype even a 16 - 20 character random password over and over again in a short period of time. I only wish for a better iOS experience and direct integration with 1Password. Oh, and a way to prevent random connections from having keyboard access if I were to forget to unplug.
The rationale is the age of majority. As a parent, I have a right to control the influences in my daughter's life - save for some exceptions around mandatory education and maintaining basic health. That means whom she associates with, and how images of her taken are used save for those taken of her while in public and not under duress of compulsion. Why is that so hard to understand?
I think you just described 0 friction with 50% efficiency. With 100% efficiency the weight of the truck alone would be enough to recoup the energy on the way down.
They were off of it quite a while ago from what I remember. Perhaps they are completely off of it, as in, "we deleted our account" off of it.
Why, what is your threat model? Who is your adversary, and what is the worst case scenario?
There is no such thing as a runtime environment that (a) attackers gained RCE into, and (b) the box with the sensitive data can verify the incoming connection is from an audited, signed binary.

Simply put: if you have RCE into an app, then that breaks all the guarantees of that audited, signed binary. You can make it sing and dance and ask for a thousand rows instead of ten; you can do whatever you want to it. The modifications happen in memory, not on disk, so even if they don't persist you can still modify the app.

Monitoring seems like the only solution.
People making sane choice very refreshing. I wish my company would make same decision.