skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still a little confused by the OP's assumption that he's a "tech-illiterate old guy". He's undoubtedly been using secure electronic communication systems for his entire career, and is certainly well-aware of the risks involved with compromised information. He's definitely more clued in than the amateurs who usually get this kind of government gig.

As you say, though, that makes him more culpable if it turns out he has actually been using the phone. But my money says he hasn't been.
You said it much better than I did :-) People will understand over time this is tabloid news.
https://www.stereophile.com/content/recommended-components-2...
That was going to be my next question: is there any tunability to the query planner? Obviously you're going to be more tolerant of planner overhead than someone maintaining the maintaining the backend for a big CRUD site.

ETA: some quick googling suggests no, since most tuning documentation is on the initial query or the indexing.
Somewhat relevant to my comment on another thread.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15413217

"...education sites are competing with very powerful algorithms that are designed to keep users watching video after video. If youtube starts encouraging users to do a few Khan Academy problems before watching the next video, I will consider our project, DnsLearning.org, a total success"
Based on the results of the last USA election, that appears to be the case.
This is like a variant of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which posits that your language constrains what you can think about, but I am not convinced (not in general, and not in this particular case.) It is not a failing of language that it can be used inconsistently, or to lie; this is inevitable. The problem in current political discourse is a growing preference among the electorate for having their emotions stimulated without regard to facts. To put it another way, the author had no difficulty in refuting those inconsistencies and lies; his problem is that not enough people care about it.
What mountain is this: http://www.spoon-tamago.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Eiji-...

It kind of looks like a miniature Fuji-san.
Not a great movie in the traditional sense, but they hit on some important stuff. I loved when the one fed was reading from the Hacker Manifesto...

This is our world now... the world of the electron and
the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a
service already existing without paying for what could
be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons,
and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call
us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call
us criminals. We exist without skin color, without
nationality, without religious bias... and you call us
criminals.

You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder,
cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for
our own good, yet we're the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity.
My crime is that of judging people by what they say and
think, not what they look like. My crime is that of
outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive
me for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto.
Bodega isn't innovating much. There are several other systems where you access a big refrigerator using an app and get food.
Not with satellite phones.
As opposed to Google's dark patterns that make maps unusable with location tracking off.
Amazon officially sells everything, including a $36K shipping container house
Nah. It’s a bug in a critical security system that made it to release. It should have been caught by automated testing—can you grep for the password, or decrypted volume encryption key, in an encrypted filesystem? When you change the password, does anything change other than the encrypted VEK? It shouldn’t!

These are in the first page of tests I’d write. NIST SP 800-111 asks for forensic pre-release testing—can you really believe such happened here?

This isn’t a failure of the engineer who wrote out the wrong buffer. Everyone makes mistakes like that. It’s a failure of the Engineering culture and engineering management that shipped without reasonable testing, or manual pre-release examination. It’s a failure of the culture that accepted bugs like this, rather than asking (appropriately, for an Apple FDE product): let’s assume that it will cost someone $1B or a thousand lives if this fails. What should we do to assure its correctness?
Better now than when civil discourse was considered “gentlemanly” pistol duels and the like?

Facebook flame wars seem rather tame by what used to be considered the civil way to resolve numerous types of disputes

Personally I quit social media and the world seems a lot kinder. Perhaps you need to just take a break
Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors
Stanley Farlow's "Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers" would be my suggestion for an introduction. It's a Dover book, so it's cheap. Look at the book as a set of simple introductions to a large number of PDE related topics, many of which have applications beyond PDEs, e.g., the Laplace transform, conformal mapping, perturbation methods, etc. The book would disappoint anyone looking for rigor. You can refer to a more advanced book for that.

The book has relatively few exercises, but the ones present are definitely worth your time. I recall working out a large fraction of them before I took a PDE class as an undergraduate. Dover will also send you a scan of the solutions manual if you contact them. As I recall a few exercises had mistakes in their solutions, but I had no trouble spotting the mistakes as a novice.
I work in online advertising (AdGear/Montreal/Canada) and a lot of the business is around RTB (Real Time Bidding). This is an area where millions of requests/second is the norm and latency is the name of the game.

We've been using Cassandra for many years. As the business has grown, we've refreshed/updated/resized/tweaked/hacked the cluster. Unfortunately past a certain point, there were no more performance wins to be had - further - we started experiencing stability issues.

We came across ScyllaDB. I had heard about the underlying SeaStar framework and was excited to test something based on it that was addressing a real pain point.

We are not (yet) customers of ScyllaDB - however we're pretty advanced into our POC. To summarize:
* Extremely low latency compared to cassandra
* During delivery valeys, peaks, and even burst batch loads
* It delivers the above running on a fraction of the hardware Cassandra does
* Very good no-bs responsive engineering support

Scylla's having a conference in SF later this month where AdGear will be presenting our use case more in depth. If it sounds like the product may address some pain points you're working on, might be worth attending.

/not affiliated with Scylla beyond the potential-customer-in-POC case described above
Evancoin is live
I made the jump off of HFS+ a few months back, as soon as I heard a new FS was coming. After years of keeping TBs of data on Mac OS on HFS+ as a home file server, I was just completely fed up. My external volumes were dead without a Mac. Nothing can read them, without paying for special software, and even that doesn't work correctly.

Now, I know there are many things that can read HFS+ in Linux and Windows, but none of them cover 100%. Sometimes you can't write, sometimes you can't mount on boot, other times you can't rely on it as a long-term solution.

I spent weeks copying everything over to a NAS, and I have never looked back. Apple should have gone with ANYTHING open source, or even remotely open standards, but it seems like the lesson they've taken from Jobs' legacy is "be different for difference's sake."

I know they've open sourced the iOS kernel, but that's because it doesn't matter. It doesn't keep you locked in, like XCode keeps you locked into Mac desktops. The Apple world went from innovating in UI and design, to innovating in supply chain management and pricing structures.
ATCs are great: they make you work hard (indeed, many classic records don't sound that crash hot on them). If it sounds good on them, though, it'll often translate really well.
Wrong. It’s you who is rationalizing not living morally-consistently as yet another BS excuse. Most people are just too selfish, weak and exhibit too much cognitive dissonance to do anything but rationalize their unsustainable behavior because it costs them immediately nothing. In that case, meat needs to be heavily taxed like cigarettes and alcohol because too many people can’t or won’t give up something that is threatening the future of the planet, creates lakes of shit and is the opposite of humane. People treat their dogs and cats better than other feeling animals whom they don’t need to kill.

I suggest you watch videos on YouTube by the SHARK to see what’s really going on at CAFOs and other facilities.

The planet can’t take it (methane and CO2) and it directly causes “out-of-sight, out-of-mind” suffering and pain proportional to purchases.

I used to eat piles of meat but have not for about a decade because I became educated about the multifaceted reality of the climate, environmental, ecological and animal welfare aspects.
Some people may not like Facebook, but HN is far from the path that slashdot was driven into.

Perhaps, but I have no doubt that there are a substantial number of sock puppet accounts running loose here. I just wish I had enough free time to try and prove it using text analytics. Then again, I'm not sure it would make any difference anyway.
I'm in a constant state of leisure ;)
That’s funny. Disk Utility is the successor to Disk First Aid, which has been available since the mid-80s. It’s not the iOSification; it’s deep Mac tradition.
Yes, this was a big surprise in iOS 11. I can understand the appeal of making it work this way, but I wish it was implemented as a parallel set of options. Or at least make it configurable in settings of how it should work.

I feel the same way about the "Do Not Disturb While Driving" feature. I like the feature a lot, and I've been using it, but I wish it was a parallel feature as well. My "Do Not Disturb" patterns are different in the car from when I'm not and I'd like to be able to configure it as such.
More common are the vending machines that will sell you a ticket for a meal, which you then hand to the person who will make your food and give it to you.

I'm not certain if that scheme is done for fraud prevention, or if it is done for convenience in order to have fewer employees.
Why San Jose is Not Bidding for Amazon’s HQ
Microsoft Using Chromium on Android Is Bad for the Web
>Everybody knows that my brain does not operate by having trillions of examples.

This is where I disagree fundamentally with others in the field - though Trillions is also an exaggeration.

In my opinion this needs a lot more study, but if you look at just the amount of visual data that we process per hour it's staggering.

There is no coherent comparison between our human visual systems and digital system in terms of image processing, but we can use some rough equivalents as a starting point.

MIT researchers have shown that humans can process images that have an exposure time of about 13ms [1]. Now, that is "recognition" of something that has already been seen, but it does show that it is the minimum time to discriminate visual features for the optical/visual system to "close the loop."

If you assume that the 13ms per process "sampling rate" at 60Hz (where most people start to see screen flicker) then you could very roughly translate that into image processing at around 276,000 "images" per hour. Roughly extrapolated you are looking at 1.4B "samples" per year.

I would imagine that a system with millions of years of evolution can do a lot to make that visual pipeline REALLY efficient, even if you keep the same basic learning structure. That's especially in comparison to our crude tools. I mean some of our best DL training sets only have 60-80,000 images.

Again, these comparisons are not rigorous, but illustrate my point that it's much more data than I think Hinton et al give credit to. A lot more needs to be taken into consideration for this to be really studied. Like attention in the visual field, how much cognitive power is put into peripheral vs focal point etc...

[1]http://news.mit.edu/2014/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-0116
I was in Kyoto in 2013 and there were plenty of beer vending machines.
The fundamental blunder was appointing Grayling in the first place. He had an ignorant, regressive attitude to criminal justice that we haven't seen since Michael Howard. In addition to wrecking the prison service, Grayling did grievous damage to the courts with the Criminal Courts Charge and the massive cuts to Legal Aid. Gove spent most of his tenure as Justice Secretary undoing the damage that Grayling had done.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jan/28/michael-gov...
Once you go remote it's hard to go back. I have been remote for 4 years now and I can't imagine doing the whole commute / office thing ever again. I don't even care if they pay more, nope. No way.
There are platforms which can and do survive. HN, despite bumps, does pretty well. Metafilter is another that seems to be kicking along.

Others tend to become Generation Ships of the founder culture. I'd put the Well in that category, as the userbase still seems to be strongly focused on the original cohort. Some fresh blood is necessary.

Actually: the idea of a university as an intentional community that tends to survive over time has occurred to me. Not fully assured, but there are an impressive number of centuries-old instances.

And, continuing that thought: YC emulates a critical element of that dynamic, in having regular incoming classes.
I think your other comment is spot-on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15413662
Came here to upvote this inevitable comment. I am still waiting for the glorious future when laptop manufacturers realize that watching movies isn't necessarily the sole (or primary) purpose of their products, and that activities like editing and reading documents benefit from having vertical space.
> Security
> Our site resides on a dedicated server

> SSL certificate
> We use a certificate with extended validation (EV). This verifies that our company can be trusted.

And they are suggesting that they'll give over 200% returns yoy.
Given that "I can get warm drinks from the vending machines" at any weather and there is one vending machine for each 23 citizens, what is energy impact?
How do Radio Shack Realistic Minimus 7's compare to these?

http://tapeop.com/reviews/gear/14/minimus-7-speakers/
> The disadvantage, however, is that these algorithms are general-purpose and not tuned to the application.

Another big disadvantage is that the page cache is only useful for caching data of actual files and nothing else.
I used to love the coffee vending machines until I accidentally got one with jelly chunks in it and was afraid to ever try again.

We had a Cup Noodle vending machine on our university campus which sold the elusive curry flavour, possibly the food I'm most nostalgic about from my time living over there.
When your median home price is $900k, you really don't have a chance in hell. Might as well brag about how you don't need an Amazon.
Exactly. I take fish oil, eat a mostly plant-based diet, don’t smoke/drink but live comfortably in a van for cheap. Why? Survival is easy. All risks are not created equal, and following the heard may result in running off a cliff, ie debt, consumption-oriented, spendy, no love/children/friends, workaholism
/not enjoying vacations/travel/life and worrying about the wrong things that don’t really matter.
“The Domestic Dog”, featuring two decades of new evidence
I'd love to see a benchmark on which LuaJIT is significantly slower than Lua, if you have a link.
Well this finally explains why Bluetooth kept re-enabling itself seemingly at random after I turned it off in iOS 11...

I agree with the EFF on this one, at no time was any of how this works communicated, particularly not the "turns back on at 5 am" quirk. These features aren't inherently bad, but lack of communication is bad.
I learned from a cop that in New York, if you pee in a public place, you are a sex offender. Basically the cop said he would give the homeless people a citation for something else because it’s crazy to make someone a sex offender for that.

I wonder how many of the sex offenders are a real danger to society, and how many just got put in due to the ridiculous amount of laws we have.
They still have them in the vending room in many business hotels in Tokyo. Better than a minibar!
Google wireless headphones that can translate languages on the fly
2017 is already the biggest year for data center investment in the U.S
I think it's better to have fewer medals but have the majority of the population receive the above-mentioned benefits.
CV on the way. Steal me away from this Toronto life.
The bribing of government employees might not have been a crime then, but it is now. On the other hand, confidential contributions to help get politicians elected is back with us...
I think named entity recognition may help if detailed labels were used. The parser can already label the where clause, select clause, etc. However a component of a where clause in a given query may be better executed as a join clause. Given enough training data, NER should be able to recognize the join clause within the where clause in that specific context and the resulting labels would give the optimizer a hint on how to rewrite that specific query.

Now I have no idea how much training data you would need or if a single, trained model would work for most use cases. But I think it could work in theory.
The article notes Apple's policy of only allowing browsers to use its (Apple's) browser engine on iOS. An additional note should be added that Microsoft also has the same policy on its Windows Store which is why Firefox and Chrome are not available on it [1]

[1] "Desktop browsers like Chrome and Firefox won’t be allowed in the Windows Store" [ https://www.onmsft.com/news/desktop-browsers-like-chrome-and... ]
It's asymmetric key cryptography.

Every vending machine can verify signatures using a CA certificate.
Charging stations and a vending machines also have a signing key signed by that central certificate. Whatever is written on the card is signed by whoever wrote it.

Charging a card goes like this:
- Read everything from the card (data + signature)
- Verify signature + expiration dates, etc
- Extract amount on card
- Decrement said amount
- Write new amount to card
- Sign data on card using local signing key

It's a bit more complicated than that, but you get the idea.
In some systems the logs of all transactions are reconciled asynchronously (if and when internet connection is available)
so if a card is cloned it can eventually be detected and blocked.
HACKED Personal Android Cellphone of White House Chief, John Kelly Was Hacked
cia nigger in denial
cia niggers are in denial on God and going to get fuck beat out of them

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Of course Bitcoin built on previous ideas, but the ideas were more theoretical, in the realm of academia and obscure cypherpunk mailing lists.

The components of an iPhone (e.g. the touchscreen, microprocessor, RAM, SSD drive) OTOH were already mass-produced and widely adopted in consumer electronic.

I don't want to understate the iPhone's impact. It spurred the development of better LCDs, touch interfaces and especially SSDs, but it was undoubtedly still working off a more established base than Bitcoin.

The consensus algorithms predating Bitcoin required some percentage of participants to be trusted identities, so were quite different than what Bitcoin pioneered.

Hashcash was a very limited experiment that had no consensus system. Utilizing the proof of work idea of Hashcash to create an identity-less consensus system was more conceptually groundbreaking than iPhone's marriage of touch screen mobility and personal computing.

While the iPhone added a personal computer to a mobile phone, in a user friendly touchscreen package, the blockchain created something that was totally new: distributed consensus without known and trusted parties.
LOL. Pizzagate wasn't wholly made up. The conclusions were silly and and almost certainly false, but there were real circumstances and posts that inspired it.

And you are seriously claiming pissgate is real news because "someone said"?

I understand you feel strongly, but if we can't emotionally detach when it comes to determining reality it just keeps going around and around in the same circle. Which is what I think OP was trying to say.
just today I was wondering if that feature exists in high Sierra after recently being forced to migrate to Mac
Russian hackers stole U.S. cyber secrets from NSA
I'm certainly open to the idea of studying the early childhood development practices of the parents of those award winners. Individualized success seems like it is more likely to attributable to unique factors such as high IQ coupled with obsessive personality traits. That may not be as helpful as looking at the practices of success groups the size of entire cultures. Shooting star vs rising tide sort of thing.
> In an attempt to keep you connected to Apple devices and services, iOS 11 compromises users' security.

No. It is in an attempt to resolve the real loss of money experienced by everyday users who turn off WiFi when it’s flakey and then forget to turn it back on, costing them cash on their cellular data plan. (And the very real frustration when things don’t work they expect to work, and they don’t know why.)

Meanwhile, the security motivated user will figure out she can 3D Touch or go into settings and meet her more sophisticated use cases.

Consider the normal user’s scenarios and do the math. This saves more users from more loss.
my airpods disconnect when i turn bluetooth off from control center. very weird that’s not an exception...
The author indicts Trump's use of language. While his speech does have a certain word salad quality, the left's use of language has been far more damaging. The proponents of academic intersectionality have been using language in a characteristic manner, the effect of which is to attach the emotional valence of an everyday English word to a politically charged concept, giving the language abuser a cudgel with which to beat his political opponents.

Word | Meaning in 1990 English
---------+--------------------------
Gender | Personality
Violence | Critique
Harassment | Disagreement
Safety | Uniformity
Diversity | Uniformity
Unsafe | Controversial
Equal | Identical
Sexist | Non-discriminatory
Racist | Non-discriminatory
Problematic | Dissident
Biased | Discerning

You may find the above table inflammatory, but I didn't intend it as such. My table reflects a real abuse of the language of the sort the author of the article describes. People at work have said that "violent and oppressive ideas" require physical violence as "self-defense". These people were referring to mere words. Others have claimed that to be "safe", people with disagreeable opinions must not be allowed to speak. Obviously, words are not violence (1990 term), even if some people call them "violence" (2017 academic left term).

The same shift in denotation (but deliberately not connotation) features in discussions of concepts like "decolonialism", "science", and "culture".

If that isn't authoritarian language, what is?

I don't blame the right generally and Trump specifically for playing the same game. Unfortunately, the only winning move is not to play.