skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use it in ECS; we use AWS SDK to read values in and out. As we may launch several containers simultaneously, and hit API limits, we cache it into S3, which is read when container spins up.
I checked the reliable links, not every "conspiracy".
In fact, it makes more sense to develop an app for the Chinese market than to develop one for iOS based on pure userbase numbers (obviously, for many companies that only operate in the US, this doesn’t make sense, but if you’re, say, an open source project, it might)
If you want to delve further into the "conspiracy" side of this, google "voice to skull" - there's some interesting stuff out there...
We already have that, it's called Title I: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_and_Secondary_Educa...
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How does this compare with Google's proprietary neural network optimized chip? That seems like a place that Intel could kick ass in and sell tons to Amazon and Microsoft's cloud services for NN acceleration, especially if they supported the main NN libraries.

And if Intel isn't pursuing the opportunity to compete for deep learning NN against Google's chips, why aren't they? It seems like a well defined opportunity, more so than whatever these chips are.
Why would WeChat treat a foreigner any different than a Chinese citizen? Do US companies not turn over foreigner's data stored in US servers to US authorities if they receive a warrant?
It could be less planned obsolescence and more that iPhone/iPad hardware has gotten many times faster over the past few years while Mac hardware has improved by 50% at best.
You've heard of this enemy of the state called "Snowden", right? 5 eyes? The US coalition dropping helpline missiles based on cellphone meta data (obtained from private corporations)?

Or simply border control agents asking for social media credentials, partly based on knowing you have an account?

I'm not saying I would enjoy being spied on by the Chinese government in particular... But it's not as if the "Western Internet" is free.

Finally, I think it is rather naive to think that the controlling interests behind global corporations are somehow so much more benevolent and disinterested in maintaining power, than governments are.
Even if Microsoft keeps this behavior, I'm surprised they don't modify it to check the filename extension. It's one thing to change a device like CON that people might expect to exist, but it seems like not distinguishing CON and con.c is just asking for trouble.
DNA? Fingerprints? Chipping people? RSA keys that are very carefully managed?

Not saying that any of those are great, or even defect free, but you could certainly come up with schemes that don't involve DoB?
That’s where identity politics US politicians have been carefully cultivating for decades will bite them square in the ass.
Uh huh. But again, why would they not bother covering their tracks at all?
I modified my blog recently to require users to click a button before disqus is even loaded on the page. I think it gives the best of both worlds.
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I don't know for sure, but google's chips are advanced matrix multiplying engines. the "neuromorphic" chips are (in a very stupid-fied explanation) kind of like imagine a configurable fpgas with more-than-one-bit lines connecting adjacent tiles.
You're American (USA)? How often do you get outraged about your country's government interfering with OTHER country's elections?
Google charges clients for the ability to have their ads seen by the demographic of users they want to target. Under no circumstances does Google sell user data in any form and it's disingenuous to try and make people believe that they do.
Did you ever use Shadowsocks in lieu of a VPN? AFAIK, it suffers no traffic disruption (worked great for me when I connected to either my own US-based house or an AWS server in Japan)
My definition of a startup is the same as Blank's: "an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model." So I'd call Google a startup because they were radically reinventing the search model.

It's important for briandear to decide which he's going for. The behaviors appropriate for a startup by Blank's definition are different than those needed for a new business. Even fast-growing new businesses are different than startups, because they're not trying to do something particularly innovative.

Take Google as an example. If their goal was to be 20% better than the average search company of the day, then they would have gone for breadth of content first, because you couldn't compete in the search market without good general-audience results. Instead, their first target was Stanford users, and their second was Linux users. Instead of investing in deep ops cost reduction, which became a huge strategic advantage, they would have used commodity hardware and tools. They wouldn't have tried a variety of revenue models, seeing which ones best suited them; they would have aped existing solutions.

Google's approach is exactly the playbook that Blank, et al, recommend for startups: find early adopters and iterate until you can knock something out of the park for them. Then use that feedback loop to build a broader product while extending your market reach. Eventually you find product-market fit; if you're fast you can entirely take over a market before you have real competition.

But that's a terrible strategy to use when you're just looking to be another provider of an existing commodity, even if you want to grow quickly. Look at the top 5 fastest growing restaurants: Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers, Jersey Mike's Subs, Marco's Pizza, Wingstop Chicken, and Chick Fil-A. [1] None of these are particularly innovative companies. They sell known products to known audiences using known methods. I worked at a McDonald's as a teen, and I'm sure I could walk behind the counter at any one of those restaurants and jump into any of the line jobs there.

Both are fine kinds of companies to start. You've just got to use different techniques, so you have to know which you're doing.

[1] from http://www.nrn.com/top-100-restaurants/2017-top-100-top-10-f...
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The thing about Venus is why bother colonizing it when deep space is more hospitable than the planet's surface?
Not sure. Last time I read about these things soldered in storage wasn't really a thing. For some things where it's still largely a separate board they could probably just desolder it and attach it to another device via pogo pins or something. For monolithic boards you could attach wires directly to the chip given enough resources.

IME could maybe be useful for this but it's hard to prevent the take the drive out and attach it to another machine without having firmware or a ME-like chip on the drive to make it wipe if it's connected to a different machine.
Unfortunately not. Even if there was, it's the mesh network they run on that breaks security - corporate & gov controlled cellular towers
The thing Apple has going for it is that they already build a headquarters a long time ago, and also outgrew it a long time ago. Their employees are already used to working in buildings near but not in the headquarters, and being moved around in and out of the HQ campus.

Also, the new HQ is only a mile from the old one and they're going to keep the old one too.

So it's not the huge cultural shift of a new HQ -- it's more like just a new set of buildings.

It's true, they spent a lot of money making a nice new HQ, but not even 1/2 the employees will move into it.
Would you be equally outraged if your country interfered with someone else's elections?
I believe the number of voters in key districts needed to swing the electoral college to Clinton was in the tens of thousands. If it was targeted perfectly (which of course is impossible), that's almost two dollars a person that needed to be influenced. How many Facebook ads impressions does that buy per person? While I think it's unlikely that anyone could have accurately targeted to that degree, it does put into perspective just how important targeted advertising might be to something like this.

Additionally (and I think more likely), the advertising might have been been used more as an agitation device, and to reduce the trust in traditional information through highly effective misinformation. If you can start viral memes, it doesn't matter how many impressions you paid for, what's important is how far the meme spreads in the end. A single shared article can lead to tens of millions of views and re-shares. In this case, money is purely a way to help get critical mass for your specially crafted meme, so it doesn't necessarily compare to candidate spending directly, which needs to both educate and counteract opponent messaging. Targeted disinformation can just ignore failed meme campaigns and counteractions to them and move onto the next meme, since it's effectively anonymous.

1: https://medium.com/@hoffa/hillary-only-needed-to-switch-53-6...
As a countepoint, my fiancée’s sister and her husband have been married over 10 years and spent less than $1000 on the whole thing. A marriage certificate in my town costs $100. You can still get married on the cheap.

(We are spending less than $10k on ours all in)
My point was that Spotlight search is on by default, that's what I took issue with.

It may be on-device only but it's not clear to the end-user that it's happening at all. No visible setting to disable it and vulnerable to malware.
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Those are not the same things. There is an unfolding story about employment of paid and farmed action on social platforms by Russia to influence the election, but also an unfolding story about attempts to infiltrate state voting systems and voter rolls. The nexus of the two is in how users were targeted for the former using data potentially taken from the latter.

It was pretty clear, even for the sensationalized media and sensationalizable public, that Russia did not "hack" the election and that no votes were altered, etc. But now it turns out, hey, there were actually successful penetrations of state voting systems, and at present we are not sure of the extent.

So while the initial "Russia hacked the US election" line was quickly redrawn to be precise about what we knew, it turns out now that there's a reasonable possibility that Russia actually did hack our election. To what extent or effect? Yet unknown.
This is for people with no dating prospects.

At no point the person wearing this jacket would ever be going hand in hand with a date, because her hands would then trigger the tech in the jacket.

a tap .google.com?

There will be no tapping going on with this jacket on. That's for sure.
They are more power efficient when implemented as analogue circuits. Two main reasons:

First, you only need a handful of transistors to implement a single spiking neuron, whereas digital circuits require ten to hundred thousands of transistors for corresponding numerical computations.

Second, spiking neural networks are intrinsically asynchronous. All the computing elements (neurons) are independent and only communicate via rare one-bit events (spikes). Correspondingly you (if any) only need a clock for the event bus but not for the vast majority of the chip.

See http://web.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/documents/IEEE... for a high-level overview.

Edit: To clarify: the asynchronicity argument is valid for digital implementations of spiking neural networks as well, especially as you scale up to networks of a million (or more) neurons. See http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/SpiNNaker/ for an implementation.
I thought Apple killed iAds?
They look different than us and follow different societal norms, right?

Forest. Trees.
I'd suggest you redirect some of that outrage toward Isreal as they have much more influence over our elections and policies than Russia does.
"Edifice complex"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=edifice%20com...

The urbandictionary link refers specifically to college presidents & universities, but there've been a few articles about how it applies to corporations as well.
I mean, I feel like a big difference between me and my grandma is that I have an instinct for quickly getting to the "meat and potatoes" of whatever I'm doing on the computer.

I do a google search and click within 5 seconds the right link, even if the first couple are ads/irrelevant. When installing a program, I get through everything quickly, without wasting mental energy on the useless TOS and etc.

Whereas my grandma will see a TOS and think "oh my goodness, a contract! Do I need to sign this? What, should I read this?" Because she doesn't see many TOSs and doesn't get that they're not a legal document or whatever, and any actually interesting information is buried deep within swathes of legalize. She also doesn't have access to reddit/HN or whatever to quickly warn her if the TOS changes/contains heinous shit.

Anyway, I feel like this is why google and firefox buried their "untrusted website - go to it anyway" button in some clickies that even I have a hard time finding, to force people to actually consider the decision.
Anyone want to take a crack at MyMathLab?
I know it's a pipe dream but I want to see Ottawa's Central Experimental Farm sold to Amazon. Where else do you have over 4km^2 of farmland in the core of a million person city?

It's barely 10 minutes from the airport, about the same to downtown, a couple hundred metres from light rail, right next to Carleton University. The list goes on.
Right, 32% vs. 18-20%. Which, in hard numbers, is quite a few individuals. Your post said 18-20%, so I figured I'd give you the current estimates for more accuracy. The estimates for upper-class were but 2%.

Probably important: There is some disparity in numbers. A few claimed higher, a couple had lower. Neither was significantly higher or lower, so I went with that one. Interestingly, a frequently listed number was 50% middle class by 2030.

My guess is that the numbers aren't accurately reported, which explains the variations.
How Westfield is collecting large amounts of data from shoppers
It cuts the shareholders out. It leaves the valuable part of the business in the hands of a select few, and leaves the crappy part of the business in the hands of the shareholders.
I find it hard to believe anyone susceptible to having opinions on BLM or Muslims would be measurably influenced by an ad on facebook.

Maybe that's why they only spent 100K. A similar op by Western intelligence services would cost what... maybe 10 million? 100K in ads, 9.9 million for contractors and mid level management bureaucrats.
Read their ads, pay them money, or don't read their content. Seems like a pretty fair trade off.
A legacy requirement to not ever have any files with a basename of CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, or LPT9 doesn't make sense either :)
Oh. I was hoping it was a metaphor, and they were actually generating sounds based on the physical properties of a 3D environment. PBR for sounds as in "rendering" a sound wave.
Perhaps my use case is a bit esoteric, but lack of sparse file support in HFS+ is mildly annoying. Sometimes I would forget and accidentally create a huge one, then I'd have to wait for the OS to finish zero-padding (it's non-interruptible) or fail with ENOSPC. Having a fast SSD helps. :-)
Not feasible with iPhones, as it is not possible to access the security processor memory. At least, not without some very sophisticated attack, e.g. using some sort of differential power analysis on the chip. Very expensive.
Lot of posts about the economic effects of this. From my armchair this looks to be political more than economic. China wants to be in control of how their citizens communicate.

They don't trust Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg or any of the US government. Letting their citizens chat on an encrypted channel made by a foreign "superpower" seems disingenuous.

It's not as if Americans are going to boycott Chinese goods, so I don't see any direct loss for China here.
> Have those differences ever been shown to affect their ability to do the same job? No

Just want to point out that this isn't necessarily true in a broader sense; look at all the recent coverage of women being allowed to serve in frontline combat roles in various Western militaries around the world - their drop out, and medical discharge rate has been exponentially higher than their male counterparts. So while some women can do that same job as men in that field, the vast majority physically cannot.
I will always cherish reading The Design and Evolution of C++, even if I stopped caring about C++ a decade ago or so.
When I was a kid my mother had a dozen different department store charge cards, and you could only use them at that store. What a nightmare that must have been when it came time to pay bills.

It's really crazy when you look back and think about it.
I think that the Mozilla Dev docs would probably be useful to you, or at least that's what I always end up going to -- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
Conversely, there are plenty of democratic liberal regimes that turn up to be kleptocratic - just look at Brazil as one recent example.

It's also not clear whether kleptocracy can't be implemented in a way such that it's not a significant detriment to development. Singapore is arguably a kleptocracy, but it's a surprisingly well-managed one.
There is an entire thread of meaningful, respectful discussion that follows your initial remark, and you haven't even tried to engage with it.
I'm outraged that the Russian's attempted to influence the election, but I'm not outraged that the Russians 'stole' the election for Trump because there's no proof of that yet. Many of the articles I've read on this topic just today (from CNN,BI and WaPo) seem to take it as a forgone conclusion that this paltry amount of money means that the Russians interfered with the election in a way that amounts to a political crisis.

Bush and Obama both had bogus crisis whipped up in an attempt to delegitimize their elections. This is an incredibly dangerous pattern in a democracy and one that I'm not really excited to see repeated again.
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That seems like a recipe for long-term disaster, looking at how Japan fared with its technological isolation. It's not like the rest of the world is going to stop.
That behavior is intentional and is workaround for programs that does not let user change file extension on saving.
This sort of thing should be illegal by federal law; I don't see anyone benefitting from it other than Amazon.
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If you ran something like grep -r SYSCALL_DEFINE.read from the top level of the linux source it would search through not just your source code, but also all of the artifacts of building the kernel. Basically, git grep is faster in this case because it filters the searched files down to only ones that are checked in. You could achieve a similar effect with standard tools like this: find -type f -regex '.\.[hc]' | xargs grep 'SYSCALL_DEFINE.*read'
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DNA, Fingerprints, footprints (captured at birth), retina patterns, etc can all identify that you are the same person that you were yesterday.

Your identity is defined by that birth certificate in most cases. In corner cases, immigration, refugee or some other document may replace it. Birth is unique because it’s the moment when you become a recognized human, and there is at least one witness to the event or the immediate aftermath. You cannot be born or die more than once, so it makes sense to chronicle that moment.

Here’s an example of how the state of New York identifies you. It is all tied to the record of your birth, either directly or indirectly.

https://dmv.ny.gov/driver-license/prove-identity-age-permitl...
Actually, why is this not a potential legitimate business model?

I let you stream content for free and you let me mine cryto-coins with your spare CPU cycles while you watch. Isn't that better for people who don't like all the tracking by ads?
Even the USSR had money and wealth. Desire to accumulate wealth in some form is a primitive instinct.
You're downvoted, but this has been exactly my thought all along. The people who saw these ads weren't going the other way anyway.
The web seriously sucks. One thing I admire, at least in theory, about Xbox 360 games or iOS apps is the limited access a specific program can run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiqioE1zGCw talks about this

Why is the overwhelming majority of networked software still not secure, despite all effort to the contrary? Why is it almost certain to get exploited so long as attackers can craft its inputs? Why is it the case that no amount of effort seems enough to fix software that must speak certain protocols?

The answer to these questions is that for many protocols and services currently in use on the Internet, the problem of recognizing and validating their "good", expected inputs from bad ones is either not well-posed or is undecidable (i.e., no algorithm can exist to solve it in the general case), which means that their implementations cannot even be comprehensively tested, let alone automatically checked for weaknesses or correctness. The designers' desire for more functionality has made these protocols effectively unsecurable.

In this talk we'll draw a direct connection between this ubiquitous insecurity and basic computer science concepts of Turing completeness and theory of languages. We will show how well-meant protocol designs are doomed to their implementations becoming clusters of 0day, and will show where to look for these 0day. We will also discuss simple principles of how to avoid designing such protocols.

EDIT: Sandstorm was looking to fix user permissions for individual programs on computers (they went defunct/bankrupt/no-longer-developing last I heard).

What I'm looking for is a user-facing, user-friendly structure that A) Does only what the user wants to do eg. load site B) Explicitly does NOTHING else eg run javascripts for cryptocurrency.

How could this work? Maybe your SecureBrowser*tm would only run Javascripts that have their hashes, and the hash of all the simultaneous Javascripts running on that page, approved by a network. Your client frequently checks this blockchain (why not) to download the latest approved scripts.
Even it's the "backup" name, it's not like his wife or his wife's parents are incapable of coming up with a meaningful Chinese name for the child. It's his choice to go ask the president of China to choose it for him (and his wife - if she is like "I am not interested in choosing a Chinese name my child"?).

I can understand this on a personal level. Yeah, I'd understand, If, say, Obama was my friend, I'd want to "ask" the ideas of his for my child's English name, when he comes to my family dinner, sure...

But asking the Chairman of China publicly in a dinner just shows he does care a lot about who has power. Not a friend, not a great thinker, but a fucking president he has a chance to have dinner with the first time. And publicly with many other people. If I'm being cynical, then at least doing it his way was really quite distasteful.
> I just wondering, for normal people, what kind of information you concerned to not be monitored, seriously?

Political dissent, for example?
Competing in the interest of their citizens should be illegal?
Interesting, you should apply to YC 2018!
I'll be willing to bet no one can answer this