skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like humankind has set its drapes on fire and we're just watching in slo-mo the first flames of what will inevitably be an uncontrollable inferno.
The Wikipedia article about him has nothing to say on the topic. The only references I see are on tabloid sites and appear to come from a tell-all book and a single interview with another ex-playmate.

I didn't dig very deep and their lack of mention on Wikipedia makes me immediately doubt their credibility, until there is further verification and a presentation of credible evidence.

Yes, I hold the same burdens of proof for everyone and always assume innocence until reasonable evidence suggests guilt. I figure some folks might question that, so I'll just put it out there now.

From some of the attitudes expressed in this thread, I'm thinking some people don't appreciate the magazine or what it did. It promoted safe and healthy sex and gave many women agency and the ability to be confident and have some self-respect.

Somewhere along the lines, it has again become taboo for a woman to want to take her clothing off, look appealing, and enjoy herself. I dunno? As a guy, I kind of like taking my clothing off, looking appealing, and enjoying myself.
"Good idea" is a tough subjective question to answer. Could you do better than FFT/DCT/frequency-based transform? Maybe/possibly given that music tends to be quite "harmonic." Taking a step back, when trying to classify, the best features are ones that separate your classes out better. Certain representations / changes thereof can lead to better separations depending on the the properties of your input source.

The cepstrum is good for providing energy compact/sparse representation of harmonic features. This is why it's used (/was used) a lot in speech recognition. Speech sounds tend to have harmonic properties (see: formants). Frequency-based transforms tell you how much of a frequency (repeating/periodic signal) is present. If you have harmonics, those can sooort of be thought of has repeating patterns in the frequency domain. So taking a frequency transform of a frequency transform (which is super loosely a cepstrum) gets you a nice compact (separable) representation of inputs that tend to have harmonic features.

Most music tends to be pretty damn harmonic... so maybe?

Also an argument to be made that if you have a big enough network of the right kind that's just taking in windowed time domain data (almost surely involving recurrence), it might not be surprising that you could find some cepstral-like stuff naturally pop out.
I guess with wireless charging you can now do so.
Isn't that actually an illustration of Apple's commitment to security and privacy? They truly cannot enter your computer without you providing your username and password - no backdoors, no special "Genius" login that works on all computers. You have to provide that information because the computer they sell you works as they promised it would - securely without backdoors.
I completely agree.

But the example the author notes isn’t the worst. If killing the app refreshes, that’s okay.

The problem is a lot worse if the app syncs to disk.

All Apple apps have this issue. iCloud is nice when it works, but it’s infuriating when a photo or something doesn’t show up on your other device, and there is no way to force a sync.
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Some people are not as horny as others, nothing to be ashamed of.
>>A dirty old man is dead

What percentage of men would do the same if they were in his shoes? Plenty of willing women (maybe also enticed by benefits) and no taboo. I'd bet that maybe 80% of them, at least. Whether they admit it or not, that's a different story. Straight men are supposed to like women, and "be" around them.
If Apple was serious about privacy then they should have existed China. After all Cook says he does not consider ROI

Mr. Cook replied --with an uncharacteristic display of emotion--that a return on investment (ROI) was not the primary consideration on such issues. "When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind," he said, "I don't consider the bloody ROI." It was the same thing for environmental issues, worker safety, and other areas that don’t have an immediate profit. The company does "a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it."
You might want to use the same editor for your client-side JS and server-side JVM/.NET code.
Another way to look at it is that there is a spectrum between privacy and usefulness where Android lets you choose any point on that line, defaulting to usefulness, while the iPhone forces you into a strange point on the spectrum between privacy and usefulness that doesn't seem to be a good fit for anybody. For example, Apple's email service and maps service are both significantly less convenient than Google's, but a privacy-conscious user would use neither (offline maps and PGP email), which is not an option on iPhone but is on Android with the simplicity of installing an app. Similarly, a privacy-conscious user would not want anybody to know what apps they have on their phone, which is not an option on iPhone but is on Android (simply don't install apps from the Play Store).
Consider the quote - how do you suggest a nomadic tribe deal with elderly who cannot walk?

I've also seen other historians talk about nomadic tribes leaving the old behind to die, it's just that Diamond came up first in a search.
>Since Google's source code is one of the company's most important assets, security features are a key consideration in Piper's design. Piper supports file-level access control lists. Most of the repository is visible to all Piper users;d however, important configuration files or files including business-critical algorithms can be more tightly controlled. In addition, read and write access to files in Piper is logged. If sensitive data is accidentally committed to Piper, the file in question can be purged. The read logs allow administrators to determine if anyone accessed the problematic file before it was removed.

From [1]. Essentially, there are files and changes that I cannot view the source of.

[1]: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
Google has access to your current desires, things you say, search, email etc. Most of the information on twitter, LinkedIn etc is public unlike your private desires that only google knows from your search and ok google history
Interesting you say that. Android actually gives you control over security and privacy by telling you what your app API's get access to. iOS apps could be transmitting details back to home without your knowledge.
> Denials of an objective reality are, in the opinion of the author, and also of the reviewer, aberrations of human thought, plain and simple.

I found this sentence rather disappointing, although I can sympathize. It really does seem like there is an objective reality out there, and humanity has certainly benefited greatly from our collective power over the natural world.

However, if this "reality" is mathematical in nature, and mathematics is incomplete, then I don't see what is the big deal with giving up the idea of an objective reality. The founders of QM seemed to be much more open to these ideas, eg. Heisenberg and Bohr.
Nice. The book seems like a good review of foundations. It's good to see the topic discussed by someone expert, because otherwise QM education is left in the hands of gurus and popular science who totally butcher the subject.

See this excerpt for my attempt to explain QM from first principles: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSguide2LA_previ... (content warning: contains math equations)
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there are so many start up or IT company around there, and many it guys will have meet up in that, you will definitely love there.
> Why are you emphasizing Pony at all?

I added that bit because Pony is interesting and under-represented on HN, and it would probably have escaped notice otherwise.

It usually doesn't add much value to say "written in X" in a title (e.g. for X in {Rust, Go, JS}) but IMO this is an exception.

Edit: since we switched the URL back to the blog post I've taken the Pony away.
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I don't think cynicism is necessary. Apple is in a better position than Google to do this because of their business model.

Many of Google's services, for example, are free to use - that comes at a cost to the consumer because they have to make money off those products somehow; enter advertising and selling your data to 3rd parties. The same applies to Facebook and other social media companies.

Apple sells premium hardware devices for a premium price - that is their bread and butter and where they make most of their money. What do they really have to lose (financially) by protecting your privacy? They don't have a search engine or advertising driven business model that requires sharing your data with other companies. Even if Apple didn't really give a shit they earn free goodwill.

I also agree with others that Tim Cook and other Apple execs seem to genuinely care about this issue as well.
> Report back when you've actually researched what it was like.

I had a look I can't find anything that would surprise me, it seems quite tame actually. If you don't want to provide some sort of citation or claim about what you're talking about then I can only conclude that you think sex is somehow dirty.
There could be other explanation also.

I think it would be pretty tough to not allow Apple (the largest US company) to operate in China. At that point US government, WTO and other organizations will step in and there will be serious economic retaliation that I'm sure China doesn't want.
"iOS 11: toggling wifi and Bluetooth in Control Centre doesn't actually turn them off"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/21/ios-11-ap...

"Quick switch simply disconnects phone from access points and devices rather than turning off the radios, in move criticised by security researchers."

"On iOS 11, pressing the wifi toggle immediately disconnects the iPhone or iPad from any wifi networks, but leaves the wireless radio available for use by location services, scanning for the names of nearby wifi access points. The Bluetooth toggle operates in a similar fashion."

"To actually turn off Bluetooth and wifi users will need to head into the Settings app and manually turn them off, which deactivates them until 5am the next morning"

"But security researchers warn that having either wifi or Bluetooth active when not in use puts users at risk of attack, calling the change “stupid” and “not clear for the user”. Only recently researchers demonstrated that, due to a weakness in the implementation of Bluetooth in some smartphones and tablets, hackers could wirelessly hijack a device without the user having to accept a connection or download anything."
Wouldn't Google be in the same position? They could grant their apps privileges without your knowledge. They build the OS.
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"He routinely does things he thinks is the right thing to do, which is often contra to what Wall Street wants and that of a purely for-profit enterprise"

And yet Apple is asking for more Tax breaks in India. http://fortune.com/2017/08/01/apple-tax-break-india/

It seems more marketing rather then good will.
Slavery:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_among_the_indigenous_p...

You're right that primitive societies did not have prisons - they could not afford them. They either killed the miscreant or banished him.
Likely no one would answer this question considering the info is confidential. I think the best way to understand how Google uses a monorepo is this doc [0].

Disclaimer: yes I work for Google but my work is not related to Abseil team.

[0]: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
Thanks, I've been here for a while but didn't start commenting until fairly recently. I like to lurk before posting. It helps me to better understand the rules, especially the unwritten ones, before posting.

I'm the same KGIII from Slashdot, etc... Yeah, that guy.

But, I don't want to meander too far off topic. I will say that I come here for the comments, I read quite a few articles, but I prefer the comments. Some of you are really intelligent. I don't always agree with some posts, and some common themes, but I can respect a well presented and logically consistent argument.

I do sometimes see the most innocuous comments getting negative moderation. That sometimes confuses me, but I've seen it on other sites so it's not unique to HN.

Besides? What good is karma if you can't spend it?
Yes, and also on Mac OS. (Show Trackpad Handwriting)
Oh sure, but google has everything to lose for leaking personal data. Rogue app companies simply have nothing to lose
> 3. What are the things you should consider if you were writing your own database server?

Answer: I would consider why I'm writing my own database server, as opposed to using something off the shelf.
Was it not a major case to set precedent? It would need to be public.
Right, whoever had the weapons just took what they could. Theft is the first labor-saving innovation.
The stripping was more for third party apps. I should be able to decide if instagram sees the EXIF or not.
Chromium's base/ and the various copies of it (ex. inside net/) are derived from a very old fork of the code inside Google that became abseil. In some places it's like looking backwards in time, in others the two have diverged naturally as folks have worked on them separately.
I suspect that, for many physicists, the de Broglie-Bohm medicine is worse than the disease itself. It reminds me of Scott Aaronson's work "The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine" [1] where he sets up the boundary conditions of the universe to somehow encode free-will. But then, even the author doesn't seem to want to take this medicine.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0159
this is just like https://finviz.com/map.ashx
Parroting this comment (that is probably confidential), the abseil website does include this statement:

>The libraries we are releasing come with a pedigree: many years of experience using these APIs in Google’s production environments. We’ve seen what works and what doesn’t, what designs lead to bugs, performance problems, and misuse. What you see here is what we found to be a good balance between simplicity and meeting the needs of production use and an ever-evolving codebase. [1]

Also a googler who has nothing to do with abseil.

[1]: https://abseil.io/
You don't have to show a refresh button all the time. If the timestamp of the most recent data is more than Xs, and you hash or build a merkle tree of all the data, then you can opportunistically tell the user that the app's view is out of date and automatically refresh.
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Glad to see this is zero configuration.

If your software is NOT zero configuration, ask yourself why not.
Thanks for the info. I've been learning now for about a year, and text is definitely my weak spot. I see handwritten chinese and it frequently looks nothing like the nice, crisp computer fonts (which are hard enough just by themselves) - not so much that it's messy, but that I often just simply can't see how you make out the elements. I find it amazing that not only do native chinese speakers recognise thousands of characters, but also wild handwritten variants, and also the same again in simplified/traditional.

I once lightheartedly asked my teacher if exercise books in china had bigger gaps between the lines, as I couldn't see how to fit a vertically-complex hanzi in. She wandered over and scrawled something that neatly fit in the line. "How the hell did you do that... ?" :)
>Google is not content with me asking them to leave me alone, they would use ML and whatever they have built to figure out where I have been

Which is precisely why I stopped syncing my images to Google.
Normally I like to ask where their lowest point in life was. People who reach great heights often have great lows too.

Also ask if they do whatever the trend is - meditation, what time they wake up, habits like that. Most people don't realize what routine they follow and it's often best to work close with them and observe.
Why does it need to be blockchain? It sounds like what Japan needs is credit and debit card infrastructure powered by regular banks.
They don't. Compound words in Germanic languages are basically always nouns. So you'd have to rephrase your example a bit to make a German (or Swedish, etc) word out of it.
Interesting factoid, but after checking Silverstein's wikipedia page it's evident that he was well published before working for Playboy.
There are different types of consulting services - you could assess many parts of someone's cyber security preparedness without knowing technical details about security, as weird as that sounds.

Does management make it a priority?
Is there appropriate funding?
Are the correct policies in place?

And so on.

Of course, if you ignore th and technical details you will have very serious issues.

That said, you shouldn't send a super technical security expert to interview executives about their culture around cyber - the expert will find it boring/beneath them, the execs won't like the expert... etc
That's very clever.

It has most of the problems of garbage collectors that need to know object layout. "(void *)" will break this.

They don't mention I/O. If you have an I/O operation in progress, its buffer areas need to be locked. But the object-moving operation is lazy, so that's not too bad. You have to avoid getting into a situation where object-moving gets started, clashes with a pending I/O operation, and has to block. But this is Microsoft working on their own runtime, so they can fix I/O if needed.
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I have to agree, things could change in the future. However, my guts tell me rust GUI libraries/frameworks won't be as great as say, Cocoa, although that's something I would love.
I think you're right about the benefits, but wrong about most of the drawbacks. The Inuit seemed to have done pretty well in a much harsher environment than most of us have to deal with. Also, for nearly all of prehistoric times, humans lived in the tropics and didn't have to worry as much about fighting the environment, especially cold.

And the thing about modern medicine versus prehistoric illnesses, is that you would nearly always be either "doing okay", or dead. And the majority of people who got past 30 had a decent chance of living to 60 in most cases. Especially since they were usually involved in child care, etc. while the younger adults did the hunter-gatherer thing.
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That is the most hilarious abstract I have ever read in my life.
Very poetically put
The whole country is laughably undermaintained -- all public infrastructure, period. I think this is what it looks like when a major first world economy just slowly winds down -- decades of "profits" that are really just cashing out investments from decades earlier without replenishing them. It's like one of those "perpetual motion machines" that appear to work for a while, but in reality are just spending all the energy used in creating the magnets.
What does JFC mean?
The AIS data is for getting the vessel position and ID / name, the Enigma Public API would still be used to get the cargo details.
Chinese language student, native English speaker. I haven't found any handwriting recognition commercially available for the English language that compares to what is available for Chinese Traditional / Simplified.

The best English handwriting recognition software I've found is the old Palm Pilot Graffiti writing system. It's not really developed since the late 90's / 00s. Back in the day, it was blazing fast (and pretty accurate after learning the method) compared to shitty small mechanical keyboards of the era.

After diving into Chinese I realized how deficient the English HR landscape was and how badly under-researched the area is. I think the standard QWERTY keyboard is just too efficient for the Euro zone languages to make the research investment worthwhile. My 2 cents / guess.

There are Graffiti like apps available on IOS. What I've found is that with english keyboard auto-correct, my typing is so much faster without Graffiti using the standard Apple IOS English keyboard. Kind of a disappointment...

Another conjecture, I suspect much of the morbidity in English HR research has something to do with Graffiti patent lock up between what ever remains of Palm, Xerox, and some heretofore unheard of company called Communication Intelligence Corporation.
Basically, how to bet that it is going to plummet in value and make money on that process. I figure it's a bubble and there's going to be a popping, even if it is done by force of law.

These ICOs are starting to make powerful people angry. Thefts like this one are starting to get regular media coverage. At some point, probably soon, the governments are going to come and clamp down on it.

Is there a way to long-term short Etherium or Bitcoin?
> It's only a matter of time before there is a huge backlash against this rampant unethical behavior by the industry and its clear we need tough regulation and consequences.

Don’t count on it. Outside of the tech community (echo chambered here), people seem to just not care. Otherwise Google and it’s products would not have been so successful; all the click-bait adware nonsense would not have been successful. People are cheap and just don’t want to pay for anything. Regulation could solve this, but Google and Facebook have so much lobbying power in the US, I fear nothing will change for the better, but, indeed, most likely for the worse.
Google Photos's automatic indexing of pictures is one of its best features. They're not trying to figure out where you have been, they're just saving you the work of tagging your photos. If you put your SF pictures in an album called "Trip to SF" in Apple Photos and sync it with iCloud, Apple "knows where you have been" just as much as Google does.