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>How do you think search warrants and national espionage programs are carried out?

Based on the citizenship of the targets.

>Far from a "pretzel" this is par for the course for multinationals, and a key area of legal precedence for the current IT behemoths

Well, not anymore if this ruling stands.
Israel can afford to do it precisely because it doesn't border China.

Israel established itself as a nuclear capable state way before it had any US support.

Until 1967 the US was almost openly hostile towards Israel with very chilly relations, and even then it really changed until the mid 70's.

Israel established its nuclear capabilities despite and against the wishes of the US through their cooperation with France and the U.K.

People forget that in 1956 Israel and the U.K. nearly went directly against US peace keepers in their joint Sinai campaign after Nasser nationalized the cannal.

If Israel was developing their nuclear capabilities today the US would've stopped them in a heartbeat, if they bordered China then they wouldn't even be allowed to mention it in a conversation.
I feel like the "Serverless is cheaper" thing here is being driven largely by the sorts of companies who are experimenting with it the most - small startups prematurely designing for scale.

I would predict that many of the early adopters are going to work themselves into a corner and find that Serverless doesn't fit a year or more down the line. Maybe that's ok if it works for now, but maybe not.

I also suspect that the long term place for Serverless is going to be in support services in infrastructure. Being used as "smart" wiring for alerts, internal chatbots, or for services that only ever have very spikey and infrequent traffic (which I think are rare).
Mapped to system threads. Separate heaps to simplify garbage collection (and improve performance.)
From the article, and I'm no expert: they referred to that other court as a "sister court". My take on that was that those courts reside on the same legal 'tier' so neither one really dictates for the other, SCOTUS is the point of final arbitration.
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No. It's presented as an outright ban, but that doesn't mean what you think it means.

Uber is able to continue business while it appeals. As long as the appeal process is continuing (and it may well continue for years to the High Court) Uber can continue business as usual.

Uber can change its processes during the course of the appeal, and if they match what is required, the ban will fail.

This is a high-visibility, high-impact method of regulation that Uber can't ignore. Given Uber's habit of ignoring regulations it doesn't like, it seems entirely appropriate.

One of the largest problems that the UK has had with the EU is that EU-mandated regulations are not implemented by some EU member countries. This is against all the rules of the EU, but there's no enforcement.

In the UK, regulations are implemented and enforced. This is that enforcement in practice. One of the reasons London has flourished as a financial centre is because the regulatory agency doesn't mess around and does its job properly. This gives certainty, stability, and engenders trust in trading partners.

The article is entirely wrong, completely misunderstands what's happening here, and why.
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Does slow startup time matter for services that are supposed to be running continuously in a cluster environment?

I have no doubt that a Go tracer would start orders of magnitudes faster than a Java one (especially if it pulls in spring or other web-related dependencies for the zipkin UI) but I think it is irrelevant.
Swipe keyboard perhaps?
http://docs.grafana.org/features/datasources/graphite/
That reminds me of "UML as sketch" rather than "UML as blueprint" approach:

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/UmlAsSketch.html

However, I tend to find that if I'm drawing sketches I don't need anything as "formal" as UML

[NB I have a long standing loathing of obsessively detailed use of UML, fortunately for me most people seem to have given up on this approach.]
Ask HN: CS, Maths or some other degree for an experienced dev?
// this is a repost, for some reason I couldn't submit it properly yesterday with description

Hi. I'm a self taught dev doing web development for 4 years now. I switched few shops and eventually found a company with excellent engineering culture. I love everything about my job now, but I feel like I'm missing out on some more exciting areas in CS.

Hence I'm pretty determined to get a degree (it's free, I'm in Europe). I've been settled on CS, but just today I've read here on HN that it's not that good of a choice for people who can already code. Mathematics has been recommended and also Physics. This has been a interesting idea to think about, but I'm having troubles deciding and love to hear your opinions on the matter.

I like maths, but I'm not a nerd for it. I understand that CS is mostly maths, I'm okay with that and therefore I'm also open to alternatives. I don't exactly know what area I'm interested in - that's why I want to get a degree in the first place, to find out which would interest me.

What I'm looking to get out of it is specialised knowledge that would allow me to work in that specific field or start my own company. I'm also not sure if that would mean that I'd need a PhD. I'm open to it as I have a strong passion for science/tech.

Any insight will be much appreciated. Thanks!
> I don't know whether this sounds like I'm splitting hairs

Somewhat no, but somewhat yes. Thing is, while there can be lots of input images that generate the same output, it could be that only one (or a handful) of them would occur in reality. If this happens to sometimes be the case, and if you could somehow guarantee this was the case in some particular scenario, it could very well make sense to admit it as evidence. Of course, the issue is that figuring this out may not be possible...
What other choice do they have? With the "data lives in Europe" loophole ending, then yeah, the US will have to suffer the economic consequences of its failure to come to an agreement with the EU.
IE also complains about the certificate.
There are many arrows in the quiver that an enterprising politician can use to hold an errant organization to account (it's very difficult to be against holding powerful organizations to account, regardless of the actual merits of the action). They could propose amending the charter, simply choke off funding or insisting that they submit to a thorough audit by some federal government office (for which read: do what we tell you to, or have all your dirty laundry aired on cable news).
The VM has a set of threads called schedulers, all running in parallel. Each scheduler has in turn a set of Erlang processes (possibly thousands) to run. Every process has a pointer to its own separate chunk of heap where it allocates its stuff.

The language has no concept of pointer, so there is no way to create a reference to memory owned by another process. You can send a message to another process, but internally the VM will copy the message to that process’ heap.
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The low resolution to high resolution image synthesis reminds me of the unblur tool that Adobe demoed during Adobe MAX in 2011. Here is the relevant clip if you're interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxjiQoTp864
It can give possible matches, i don't think it would be admissible in court. they could still trick a confession out of someone using that image.
It depends on the use case. If I just wanted a watch to use when I’m running or at the gym so I could leave my phone at home, I would give up battery life for functionality. That would also limit the market for the watch.
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Do they use browsers at all? If so, why not Chrome specifically?
These ones seem to have large SSDs so I guess not everything is cloud synced? Especially if they're intended to handle software development.
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If you're an employee, you generally can't optimise much. Perhaps you can take some basic deductions, but that's in.

If you take two people earning $1M a year, the employee will in most jurisdictions (both relative and absolute) pay significantly more in taxes than the self employed person.
Why do sites still hijack the back button?
Also, active directory.
Sure you can use shading to move everything you don't want in your public API into some other package, or you can use something like ProGuard to obfuscate everything but your intentional public API. However those things will still be public.

The only way to not have those things visible for the user of your library is to only use one package in your implementation.
All that means is that there are many worse charities.

I tried to look into it one time and find things written by people who watched from up close. It made me physically ill long before I looked at any substantial number of them.

I think the usual formula is to "pay" the CEO 200 k and spending the rest on ever larger promotion cycles.

What is needed in the west is a huge tax on charities and other non-profits to be entirely used to monitor their activities. Then we need to write draconian laws forcing them to insure and guarantee delivery.

Any sign of failure should result in persecution and the entire staff replaced - since we have plenty of volunteers.

We need to raise the standards like that to the point where government can safely pump funds into the mechanism when a situation calls for it.

I don't want to be called, receive letters and fill out paper work. I have better things to do. I'd much rather spend 50 bucks in [extra] tax for aid than suffering 2 hours of promotion to fund promotion every year.

When is gates going to provide drinking water to the entire world? Never? Then lets put him in prison and salvage the fund.
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Google reverse image search finds this http://designingflicks.com/images/leopard-moth-svg-1.png which says "Leopard Moth" in the image path, and it does look more like a moth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_leopard_moth
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Just shows you the ‘power’ of touch. On my iPad, I didn’t even think about it.
Also, as its birth experience tought it - that everything is containered, it would suffer from severe simulation paranoia, and frequently try to hack god - to get to a higher level of paper clipping.
Paul Stamets has studied the soil restorative effects of mycellium mushroom and published a number of videos. In this Ted Talk at the 10 minute mark, there's a demonstration of just how rapidly a patch of ground can be transformed compared to other commonly used methods, even land polluted with diesel fuel, which the mycellium rapidly breaks down into harmless compounds. All the videos are fascinating. https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_c...
All of these except the "smarter sensor" seem like software features -- I wonder if it's technically impossible to get them on the iPhone 7 or if it's just a matter of differentiation.
That is hinted in the article, i.e. the specs are too beefed up just to run Chrome OS (half a terabyte of storage) and a full dev environment awaits via virtualization.
Ahh kinesis has crazy gotchas depending on what you're doing. If you are pushing LOTS of events it kinda makes sense but see: https://brandur.org/kinesis-in-production for some gory details.

In particular: "you get 5 reads". Number of consumers impacts latency, and not ms of latency, but s of latency.

This stuff is not obvious until you really try and use it.
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I'm sure they'd be upset, but the USSR was the first country to overfly other nations with a man made object in space. I doubt they'd do anything other than yell about it? It's not like they could effectively sanction the US.

I am not an expert in these matters but, if I understand correctly, they can tell velocity and direction to see that it's not going to hit then. I'm not sure that it enters their airspace, however.

Are there any treaties or international laws regarding this? Again, Google is not being helpful.
> To my understanding, neither US nor EU law give a crap about the data's geography ... [search warrants... are carried out] based on the citizenship of the targets.

Executing a legal search warrant involves using legally binding power on a legal entity within a specific jurisdiction. If property or entity is outside that jurisdiction then the laws do not apply. US and EU law give very, very, much a crap about their jurisdictions, and where property is (ie where data is located).
> long lists to sort, some graphs to walk, some intricate canvas renderings to do

This is probably one of the worst usecases for node.js
Your vision might come true. However there is catch. ML/DL right now, doesn't have good abstractions, the existing ones are to some extent all leaky.

That is why ML as an hands-free service, just like what a database is, doesn't work. To my surprise, I would say, currently ML/AI is a quite manual thing to get right, and it requires constant attention, not just one time effort, since the data is ever changing.

AutoML might be a solution to this, with the help of a working HPO solution, but both are not really public accessible at this point, requires long time and big computation resource.
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Agree. This appears to be more a clever implementation of an algorithm generating "artistic" impressions. In some cases, creating artifacts which simply were not part of the original picture.
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> delegating the work to a threadpool in the background.

Yes, delegating to the C++ modules in the background, which do support multi-threading.

These modules have nothing to do with Node directly so meme stays - node itself is single-threaded no matter how you spin this off.
In Overcast you can set the skip to a duration that roughly matches the advert duration (I’ve set 45 seconds, generally hitting it twice) and set the rewind to 15. 3 adverts per 60-90 mins seems a reasonable trade off to me, and if the shows you listen to pick their adverts right, they are actually worth listening to.
I think using AI to make clickbaity titles is still sigh-worthy.
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That's true, and I can't think of a good alternative.

But there's a clear problem on HN where people who don't run businesses and don't know how to pontificate on things like this citing nebulous results on productivity.

If open-offices are so remarkably detrimental, then I await the disrupting startup that blows the rest of the industry out of the water by using private offices.
> hallucinating the high resolution images though

To play devil's advocate though, modern neuroscience and neuropsychology basically tells us that that our brains reconstruct and recreate our memories every time we try to remember them. Our memories are highly malleable and prone to false implantation... and yet witness testimony is still the gold standard in courts.
Really nice tutorial is being made here:
https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/series/beginners-guide...

Author uses recent version of Python and Django and is building with You something useful.
Tried to use iMessage on a hackintosh recently. Don’t do this, and don’t let anyone you know do it. Watching your services get switched off in a cascade is rather awful.
That was a stupid thing Lenovo did, but it was limited to consumer devices (and not all of them at that - the Microsoft Signature edition devices didn't have this, for example).

Laptops purchased through enterprise sales were not affected by this.
I recently took part in a course on doing farm work with horses. It was a large garden where all the farm work had been done exclusively with horses for about 10 years, after decades of using tractors. The tractors had turned the soil into hard, clumpy clay which yielded bad crops and required more and more fertilizers every year. In about a decade of using horses, manure and traditional methods, the topsoil had turned nice and soft and nutrient-rich. Not at all like the hard clay my grandparents' farm and the owners of the garden were more than happy with the results.

Working with horses was slow, hard and laborious work but it was a lot of fun! Much more fun than doing the same with tractors (which I also think is quite fun).

Unfortunately, going back to horses or oxen never going to be viable in a large scale. The recent trends in agriculture have been making machines larger and larger to reduce the amount of labor required, causing the soil to be packed even harder, requiring more tilling for the next crop.

Maybe autonomous farm equipment could reverse the trend, as machines could be made smaller without increasing the amount of human labor.
Is the scenery a huge one-time drawing or is it generated as the train progresses ? In any case it's truly well done !
I wonder might Google be making a play for the Macbook segment of the market? That'd be interesting. Imagine a non-Windows high end laptop able to go toe to toe with Apple quality and design but running a very secure version of Linux.

I know that Apple Macbooks are as popular as ever but there has been some grumbling that RAM is limited, the touchbar has caused a split in opinions, and there has been suggestions that Apple is trailing Intel's top of the line chip launches, and finally that Mac OS X is not getting the love that iOS is getting.

Put that all together and maybe Google has a small window of opportunity to surprise the dev community and bring out a kick-ass Linux laptop workstation to offer true competition to Apple on their home turf. That would be pretty exciting, all the more so if they got within sniffing distance. Since the demise of SUN Solaris and SGI Irix workstations and the like Apple has had this segment (brawny Unix workstations) pretty much all to themselves in a way.

Dream machine: Great Intel hardware, RAM up to 64G, decent graphics card, flawless 2D/3D drivers (minimum brawn needed for ML work), ChromeOS w/ dev tools a couple of command line scribbles away, software repo as large as Debian/Unubtu/Arch/Gentoo, ability to run Android apps, Secureboot and non-reboot kernel/driver updates, ability to install my won boot key if I so wish, fingerprint reader –– hey I did say dream machine!
Sorry if I was unclear, I had no intention to imply that their innovation is weak, or that SV has anything to do with that. It's pretty clear they have access to SV network, despite being based in London.
They never did it for G Suite customers anyway, as far as I know.

The real reason most companies are hesitant to use Google for work email is that they don't know where their data is getting stored.
It's a well-known technique in astronomy, eg
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/ps/2005/22/aa2320-04.ps.gz
If there is anything I would like to see my taxes used for that would be it.
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What's an ant colony then -- imaginary or real? And if imaginary, who is doing the imagining?

I'm not sure I understand your position.
To paraphrase Google Brain's Vincent Vanhoucke, this appears to be another example where using context prediction from neighboring values outperforms an autoencoder approach.

If 2017 was the year of GANs, 2018 will be the year context prediction.
2048!
Towards the end of the 2048-craze era, I wrote a solver for the game that unlike other solvers that came out, had no built-in algorithm about how to play.

It was quite simple: It simulated games from the current position using random moves, and chose the move that resulted in the highest average end-game score. The surprising result was that even though random moves are obviously a terrible game plan (on average, random play from a given starting position lasted 40 extra moves and scored an extra of 340 points before dying), using the least bad move each time led to very good game play over all: An average game had 70000 points and lasted 3000 moves, reaching the 2048 tile 100% of time and the 4096 tile 70%.

Also, perhaps of interested to this crowd, I later noticed that the web version of the game had exposed JS for the board state and controls. This allowed me to write a bookmarklet version of the solver that could play the original web version directly. This was fun because many game variants came out (like Hexagon 2048, and 20Euros) which were all different games, but were based on the same controllers. The solver, being "general purpose" could play many of these variants without any tweaking.

Solver demo: http://ronzil.github.io/2048-AI/
Write up: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22342854/what-is-the-opt...
Bookmarklet version: http://ronzil.github.io/2048AI-AllClones/
My phone stays at home when I work out.

Which is good because I don't use the gym benches to fiddle with my phone
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My experience of local NGO / nonprofit workers is similar, although I see that they are frustrated with organisations that seem to increasingly spend more on seeking grants and reporting than "service delivery".

Also, well funded NGOs over here often tend to have significant government-based revenue streams, which can discourage activism on the fundamentals (which government might not agree with).

I do not question the dedication of local workers I've met, but the larger issue with respect to foreign aid is what happens to the money "in country" when it comes time to distribute goods or get things done in the local economy.
All I could think of when he said that was this: https://xkcd.com/927/
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With all due respect, "the reasons he heard" are bogus.

The only reasons there is no preemptive multithreading in Node is just that the V8 interpreter is under GIL.
If we're on books, I'll always suggest "Up the Organization" by Townsend. It's a classic for a reason.

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Individual people may not be guilty of this, and even major parts of the USA may not have been guilty of it, but as an entity, this is what "the USA" did. If that makes people angry, they should search themselves to see where such anger should be directed.