skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that example is pretty bad. There is no jaywalking crime when you're the last man on earth.
lol my first instinct was that they would charge a fee, but forcing you to watch YouTube commercials sounds so Google.
Sex offender registry ruins lives far far far beyond what is morally "right." Google it.
Trying to answer the following might be fun as well: How much is a 1000 USD from today in that era in terms of purchasing power? What could you have bought with the equivalent amount of money, and how many people could have afforded the iPhone equivalent then?
Fine, but if that's the case it certainly ruins the argument that there's an alternative to Google Play for everyday users.
...and yet, even with all this computing power, simple tasks like loading a webpage full of text still take ridiculously long times.

Maybe not with a '57 vacuum tube (transistors actually existed at the time already) computer, but then there's this:

https://hubpages.com/technology/_86_Mac_Plus_Vs_07_AMD_DualC...

The massive increase in computing power has been accompanied by a corresponding increase in complexity. For better or worse.
"Wear a copper cap and plug it into an electrical socket"

See now, this is why they tell people not to take advice from the internet :)
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How are you going to anonymously trade gold online? Bitcoin gives the anonymity that criminals need.
> Consider the 256 GB memory iPhone X: Implemented in vacuum tubes in 1957, the transistors in an iPhoneX alone would have [cost]...

Did a search for computer history and 1957 and came up with this: http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1957/

...the creation of FORTRAN? Looking at the entry for 1956, the site lists MIT creating the TX-0, the "first general-purpose programmable computer built with transistors", and IBM's shipment of "RAMAC", the first computer based on "The new technology of the hard disk drive".
It's not all about privacy and trackers, but about search monopoly that well might abuse it's power to become content provider monopoly as well using the fact they have fastest CDN.

Though it's less of a problem with self-hosted AMP, but still a problem because it's still tech from company that might choose to improve web and can very well do it with Chrome market share, but instead decide to replace it with own thing.

I have good reasons to not trust Google because over years they provided worse experience for Firefox on their own services and it's still annoyingly true on Android.
Religious-based prohibitionism of premarital sex is a real problem in America. It's one of the frontiers of the culture war. So, please, donate to your local Planned Parenthood.
There are so many cases of JPM/Goldman/etc. advising customers of 1 direction while they themselves, do the exact opposite, it is no longer noteworthy... just cheerfully accept and internalize that they are SCUM and get on with your life.
Physical isn't in quotes in what I'm saying. A country can actually cut off access to the internet, it just costs them all the benefits of the internet. Send out a couple of guys with axes or a boat with an achor and you can cut off access completely
At one time the USA discovered that the Soviets were bombarding their Moscow embassy with radio waves. Decades later it was learned that a genius names Theremin had built a device that acted as both microphone and transmitter, when bombarded with a specific frequency of radio waves.

There has been some writing on how it used wave guide effects to transmit, but not so much on the microphone part. Some of you may know that many speakers can be wired up as microphones. One wonders whether a device intended to be a microphone, might in some circumstances act as a speaker as well.

If the Cubans are following an evolutionary path from the device concealed in the Great Seal in the 50's then one could easily imagine something built into the structure of the building itself that is accidentally generating sound energy.

As a thought experiment, imagine that you could build a window frame that would pick up sound from inside a room, shift it to an inaudible frequency and then emit that sound. Furthermore, what if a double pane window intended to block sound from leaving the room, had a pickup attached to the inner glass pane and emitted the high frequency sound from the outer pane so that an external laser could pick it up. Then further imagine that the window was installed wrong way around so that the constant street noise was broadcasting high frequency sounds into the building.

I expect that the Russians don't do this stuff anymore because they get better results from HUMINT, especially deep cover agents.
So that Steve jobs was at least 2 years old before he came up with the idea
So does cash. Should we ban paper money too?
I think how close that was has been greatly overstated and is a part of a somewhat nostalgic BeOS mythology. BeOS wasn't anywhere near being a consumer OS Apple could build on.
I discovered last year that people are actually promoting this. I've been attacked by people because I do not agree with late-term (for no medical reason) and after-birth abortion:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_natur...

It is almost in the same line of thinking that infants are not capable of feeling pain and why some operations on them were done without anesthesia:

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/17/opinion/l-why-infant-surge...

I believe some operations on infants are still being done without it:

http://gizmodo.com/why-are-so-many-newborns-still-being-deni...

"to this day, many procedures are performed on newborns without the benefit of analgesics. That’s largely because of an enduring misconception in the medical community that newborns don’t feel pain like adults."
You can. As the other commenter wrote `firefox -no-remote -P` works. You can also add the name of a profile after the "-P" to launch directly into that profile.

If you're not on Windows, you can also instead use `firefox -new-instance -P`, which is better, because -no-remote cuts off communication from other applications to that Firefox instance, meaning that you can't open links from those other applications inside a Firefox instance that's been started with -no-remote.

The aforementioned "about:profiles" also has a button "Launch profile in new browser", which is much easier than the above methods, but those are useful, if you for example want desktop shortcut for your individual profiles.
Fault of the the webpage or the phone?

multiple milliseconds or seconds? Ridiculous! Those of old enough to remember 9600 baud know the disappointment (in our lifetimes) waiting many minutes to download a jpg just to find it wasn't what we wanted. Or that mp3 track from some obscure FTP server....
> mandatory minimum

This means a judge can't use his/her discretion to forgive, imposing extra toughness on the accused, usually in absurd ways, such as 30 years in prison for stealing a doughnut because of 2 prior similar petty theft convictions. But a Wall Street type could abuse billions of dollars and go free. I think this kind of cookie cutter justice is perverse and just serves to wage social war and fill up prisons.
the social networks are held up by inefficient marketplaces.

kind of like how amazon screws over best buy. the networks can't stay afloat if most everyone uses the social networks resource then goes to a fair efficient marketplace to buy goods/services because the prices are cheaper and easier more convenient for users. and the prices are cheaper because they don't pay an advertising tax which funds all the free useless videos.
In the mid 50s silicon transistors started to replace vacuum tubes. I assume tubes were at their cheapest in the late 50s. I'm not sure why the article uses '57 in particular though.
Netflix is going to exist regardless of whether Amazon lets them run on AWS.

Amazon letting them run on AWS is brilliant as they get a piece of Netflix's pie. So even if Netflix beats Amazon Prime, Amazon gets to dip into their pot via revenues from AWS. It's a great hedging of bets.
This is incredible. It seems to perform well on faces with dysmorphic features including cleft lips, asymmetric eyes, and abnormal locations of facial landmarks. It even creates an appropriate 3D representation of a cleft. I've found that some other face detection implementations actually fail at even localizing faces with these abnormalities. I don't have the background to fully understand the paper, though. Is there anything truly novel in how they are detecting faces? Could their work be leveraged to more accurately label facial landmarks for "abnormal" faces?
We, as a society, have decided yes.
Thanks for replying and sorry for moving my comment.
a 14 inch TV. Or tuition at harvard...
> 4) Software tends to be a winner-take-most industry.

That's true of software generally, but not will not be true of automated driving software.

Windows, iOS, Facebook and YouTube have strong network effects. Google search and Microsoft Office offer a familiar user interface and superior features.

Self driving software will have none of these benefits - there is no network effect, no significant user interface, and no feature differentiation. As soon as there are 3 self driving software products on the market that meet minimum safety standards, competition will force the price down to little more than the cost of development. What's more, that cost of development will diminish over time: If in 2027 a company decides to develop self driving software, the development cost will be much less than the $1.1 billion Google has paid. So over the long term the economics will be similar to airlines - suppliers offering a commodity product and generating thin margins.

Although the long-term trend is bleak, Waymo does have two short-term advantages: 1) possibly being first to market; 2) its suite of patents on self-driving tech. Personally I don't place much weight on these advantages so I would value Waymo much less than the stock market. As an Alphabet shareholder I very much hope that they spin off Waymo so I can sell my interest in self-driving tech.
Good ol' Wirth's Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
By the time it comes to "conviction" it is far, far too late. By then several lives have been ruined, reputations damaged, and thousands of dollars of fees spent. To argue that the sentencing somehow fixes the inhumanity of the laws is utter rubbish.
For argument's sake (abuse is down the hall):

1. My understanding of UDP being lossy typically refers to it happening via transit but your example is an endpoint failure.

2. Since the whole point of metrics is to keep track of operations then the monitoring of the metrics themselves should be alerting to anomalies?
Gold mines are connected to genocide, funding wars and illegal trade.

Is my logic wrong in pointing out a 'flaw' in gold when someone else points out a 'flaw' in bitcoin?

I think criminals will use any tool in ways that they were not meant to be used. This does not make the tool/subject at hand the culprit.
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There is a sound device that acts like a laser, where ultrasonic waves are created such that their interference pattern interact at a specific location, to drop into audible sound at that location only. Perhaps it was something similar, but meant to 'tap a person's ear drum vibrations to hear what they hear, and something went wrong? Just speculation...

http://www.soundlazer.com/what-is-a-parametric-speaker/
this article is just made to justify the phone's price.
Credit card x,y, and z all know my current balance, place of residence and payment history. They let me and only me know that info via some method that can be trusted by anyone (blockchain?).

At a later date, I autorize credit card w to access some computed score that I compute and verify via other trusted means (another blockchain or whatever). Credit card w never sees all my data and the verifier gets access to only what it needs. Nobody needs to trust anyone and instead trusts the chain. Just an idea.
One would assume so, since the data is being unwrapped/rewrapped at another jurisdiction - thereby proving/providing the ability to do so there.
> That's an intense app rebuild

That is not even close to an excuse. A remote code execution vulnerability has the potential to destroy your whole company.
There are massive economies of scale. If Google is first to mass market, they will have a large information lead. From there, their cars could take better routes and handle more edge cases.

There's a similar network effect and economy of scale that applies to Waze + Google Maps' lead in mapping.
Facebook has done a really poor job at handling this React situation. If Automattic are moving away from React, how long until other companies start moving away from it too? Preact is probably a good alternative or Vue.js as well.
Three hours well spent, thanks. I'm not sure how historically accurate it is, but it was fun to watch. I didn't get my Canadian citizenship until a half dozen years ago, but it's neat to see that story. I knew of the plane, and a few others, but not the details.

In a demonstration of my pride to be a Canadian citizen, I will eat ketchup chips and apologize profusely when I go back across the border into Canada, eh.
You imply that that ethics 'evolve' always in a positive and constructive direction. This is clearly false, especially with the subject matter at hand. You also link 'ethics' and 'lawfulness' which is pretty naive, at best.
You're right. I mischaracterized sillysaurus3's position. I would only argue that there are different levels of competence in protecting data and some company has to be the worst. So far, Equifax seems to be that company. Right now, they are deserving of scorn. At the same time, sure, it's good to recognize that we're failing at security as an industry.
Can your daughter go outside and play with her friends unsupervised? Does she have any friends?
Things that haven't improved exponentially since 1957:

Batteries

Cars

Houses

People

Dishwashers

TVs

Things that have improved exponentially since 1957:

Disk drives

Integrated Circuits

RAM
> Those of old enough to remember 9600 baud know the disappointment (in our lifetimes) waiting many minutes to download a jpg just to find it wasn't what we wanted.

It was also pretty bad with a 56k modem as far as I remember -- definitely not minutes though! The wait becomes worse when the JPEG is of a... critical nature, if you know what I mean.
Honestly, who cares. A ton of modern inventions would've cost way more money in 1956. I'm not gonna go to the store and say, wow this microwave would've cost millions in the 50s, that's a super reasonable price. Compare 2017 phone prices to other 2017 phones.
Maybe. That isn't exactly true. This adds the ability to persist a new threat.

There is a temporal difference. An attacker may wish to plant something today, in a coffee shop, that would execute in a protected environment, tomorrow. Immutability of caching can only help an attacker.

Yes, there are other ways for an attacker do this, but there is no reason to add to more ways! That's why the web is in its current state.

I see how you put "executable planting vulnerability" in quotes. Sometimes (in the current marketing), these are called APTs, but they have been around forever. e.g. Think of dll planting in Windows and the millions of attacks and three or four new API sets from Microsoft that resulted from that single ability to plant a dll in the search path.

This type of persistence can also be called incubation.
According to saving.org, 111.42. According to http://www.earlytelevision.org/color.html a 21" color tv in 1955 was $755 1955 dollars... or more than 6 iPhones.

This site seems to have more prices of goods
http://fiftiesweb.com/pop/prices-1957/

A cheap ford car was $1879 or 17 iPhones.

Kinda holds as a cheap ford today is around 14k
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Based on the article, it seems that the German government combined foreign and signals intelligence into one agency, the BND. In the US, however, Truman separated them into the CIA [0] and the NSA [1], respectively. Thus, is there a specific reason for BND's dual role?

[0] https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...

[1] https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/tru...
Comparisons like that always assume the that price is constant with increased demand even when world GDP is spent on something. What would likely happen is first the price would go up and later down as the world manufacturing would shift to vacuum tubes production.
>I wish people would stop bashing this stuff 15m after it's announced in the presentation. Let's see what the security white paper says. Let's see what reviewers who have been allowed to use it say (they couldn't enroll at the event).

I don't see why it upsets you that someone doesn not like a product. Every comment does not need to be supported by a scientific study, or even be objective in any way. Your own comment is speculative.
It's all good. Just happy the world is starting to care about security.
1000 2017 dollars isn't equivalent to 1000 1957 dollars
Why didn't the investigator contact Dave or Gordon both of whom are alive and well?
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Though I doubt an iPhone could do all the processing those SAGE computers did, despite being infinitely more powerful as a general purpose CPU.
This is 100% mis-read of what this said. The court said "this is the way the law is written, it sucks, but this is the law as written."
I have trouble understanding how winning the lottery this often doesn't immediately raise red flags for fraud. Is there some reason that people might buy winning lottery tickets?
The same tech that is being used in self driving cars could be repurposed for autonomous robots, and end up with a market much bigger than that of transportation. SDCs are just the easiest form of autonomous robots.
The comparison is a bit unfair because the technology of 1957 was primarily analog. A few rolls of film can store the same HD videos as an iPhone for instance. Video phones existed in the 1960s and just didn't catch on.

It's sort of an apples and oranges comparison. Obviously there are many things that couldn't be done with analog tech. But it's not as bad as you would expect with just naive comparisons based on the cost of vacuum tubes.
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50selectrical.html

1000USD today would be around 100USD in the 50s.
with no actual facts, i'll speculate.

let's assume they have 12 buildings at each region with 500 racks in each. 6k racks

Let's assume that S3 is 1/4 of their infrastructure.

Let's assume you can put 60 * 12TB disks in 4U and they use 52 racks. That's 136012TB per cabinet or 9.4PB per rack.

1500 racks at 9.4PB raw capacity with RF=2.1 so best case that's that's 1500 * 9.4 / 2.1 = 6700PB at a site.

So 500PB would be 7% of the space.

They're probably growing 5-15% per month like most hot companies now, so that's 1-2 month's growth.

Of course these numbers are certainly off. But probably in the magnitudinal ballpark.
That appears to be the route India is taking.
Your first paragraph, do you find any of that a valid excuse for a company like Equifax, who handle so much sensitive data? _I_ consider them responsible for the entire chain. I understand it's hard, makes no difference with those stakes.
As others have noted, the age of consent is far less than 18 in much of the world. Indeed, in parts of the US. Or at least, it was no more than a couple decades ago.
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That's still relying on a service that they refuse to be part of. Im not saying it's a bad position for them to take, but they are not willing to garuntee their own freedom
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Browser caches can hold on to things longer than the freshness lifetime, and do.

They can also evict things before the freshness lifetime is up, and do.

The freshness lifetime is one of the things a browser can use to decide how long to keep something in its cache, but not the only one.
That's funny to see this article. I remember an article about it -- also in CJR -- when the original series broke in 2014 [0]. Looks like this article, which is from today, is about other reporters taking it nationwide. Which is great. One of the more confounding things (to me) about journalism is how a great investigation in one state isn't done in another. Not by the reporting team of the first story, but by any journalist in other states, because it's easy "money", in the sense that you have a framework to copy/imitate, and if there was a corrupt system in one state, there's likely to be something similar in all the other 49 states. And it will still be "news" because of how fundamentally different state laws and bureaucracies are. But then again, sometimes newsrooms have a culture of not wanting to be seen as doing something that has been perceived to have been done, even if it was by a non-competitor (e.g. a non-Florida newspaper, in this case)

Seeing investigative efforts replicated nationwide not only makes for 50 unique-in-their-own way stories, that benefit 50 different jurisdictions. You also get bonus meta-stories about states that are severe outliers, when the 50 are compared and contrasted.

[0] http://archives.cjr.org/united_states_project/palm_beach_pos...
Also as a follow up - this is our fault. We elect the people that write the laws. The courts job it is to check the law constitutional. We have this illusion that the court is there to think better then those we elect, which is not the case. If you are outraged by this then pay some attention to who you vote for.
That's rude. She has many friends and sees kids her age almost everyday. She's too young to be unsupervised.

Let me ask you a question similar to what you just asked me, "Do you enjoy letting your family breathe the smog and pollution infested air that you live in? If they don't breathe the outside air, are they aware of the pollution and climate change that is killing the planet, caused by your car?" See how silly the kind of assumptions are that you made?
It will be interesting to see what developers can do with the sensor, especially for AR. I wonder if you could stick two iphones together back to back and have one "see" the world in 3D and have the other augment it in some way.
Yes if a government started buying trillions of vacuum tubes, companies would quickly get much more efficient at producing then and there would be a huge investment into researching alternatives.

But that brings up the question, what tech could we be subsidizing today so we can get it faster?
How web vendors do it: PKI.

PKI (root certs) was very controversial at the time it was proposed. It has endured because it's easy for things that are happening to keep happening. It's the idea that because a company with a root cert (eg. Verisign) says you are who you say you are, they will vouch for you. But it's not that secure, and plenty of people have demonstrated over the years it's easy to impersonate companies/websites by swindling Verisign first. Microsoft has been a victim on numerous occasions.

Diffie Hellman isn't really susceptible to a MITM. It just means the party at the other end of your secure channel could be a hostile actor. So you need a way to discriminate on who's naughty/nice. Like Santa. For your use case you could distribute a usb stick of blessings to the computers you have deemed virtuous. But a nice computer can turn into a naughty computer, etc.

So if the two machines can communicate at least once over a hostile network, then they can ensure future conversations are secure (co-authenticated) and not susceptible to mitm. The problem is, they might not be communicating that first time. I hope this captures the nuance.