skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been involved peripherally in working with anti-radicalisation programmes in UK schools. I imagine that the issue that authorities are bumping up against are the situations, where you know someone has been radicalised, but there is nothing effectively you can do because no law has been broken until there's evidence that they start assembling the components for the bomb or whatever.

This is a hard problem and leads to all those 'the bomber was described as being on the intelligence services radar' lines in news stories.

The benevolent reading of these kinds of moves is that it at least gives the authorities to intervene, though I recognise the risks to liberty.
Next thing to criminalize is thinking “extremist” thoughts. All for the benefit of her majesty’s subjects, of course.
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It's a conservative party speech, so it's not law yet. But the censorvatives can pretty much push through any law they want at this point.
Not exactly a blogpost, but this is Randy Pausch's last lecture about achieving your childhood dreams. He was a CS professor at Carnegie Mellon, who passed away roughly a decade ago. I watch it from time to time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
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I'm honestly too scared to do it. Not because I worry I'll be known as the guy who got GitHub banned in China (presumably after the rest of the world had to suffer from the inaccessibility caused by DDOS attacks that would likely last weeks (I mean the DDOS would last weeks, not the inaccessibility)), but because I worry the Chinese government would retaliate on me.

I agree that many Chinese don't share these values (although I do believe most of them choose to sacrifice their freedom because they don't really have a choice, and they feel it's justified by the country's growth), and that many innocent people would suffer. But I feel as long as the repo focus on spreading truthful history, then the government is to blame for whatever negative effect that occurs as a result of this.
In the UK, your internet browsing history is stored by your ISP for one year.
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The hit or miss nature of black swans means you can run out of money and willing investors even when expected return is in your favor.

The only way to fund the famine years is to subsidize with a regular portfolio ... but then you don't run a black swan fund any longer.
I suppose they 'll have to add an 'accept' button.
DuckDuckGo does this as well:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+many+people+are+in+space
I think this is a misinterpretation: we do have a constitution, it's just not all in one place and not regularly invoked by laypersons. This makes it difficult to work out how constitutional crises will play out. Is the Sewel Convention legally binding for example? More importantly, does the ECHR function as a constitutional guarantee of rights above Parliament? For the past couple of decades the answer has been yes, which has mostly greatly improved UK law.

Most of the weirdness of US politics goes back to slavery, and the contortions invoked in order to give rights only to certain people.
Exactly, a very good point. You could make websites that start out with:

"Once upon a time there was a girl who always wore a red riding hood...grand ma was sick... wolf... 'We should just have a big genocide' screamed grandma as she pointed her right arm in the air."
If you can be arrested and imprisoned for what appears in your browser, this is going to take rickrolling to a whole new level.

Also since this would be inspected from the ISP's end of the pipe, it's easy to simulate the network traffic of a lot of page views without the user ever seeing anything. See also "curl".
Amber Rudd also said this week that techies were ‘patronising’ and she doesn’t need to understand encryption. She wants them to give her access to terrorist messages on WhatsApp etc. - but she’s not asking for a backdoor.
Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41479620
> and now they're eyeing blockchain cause they don't know better.

Or because they can't be seen ignoring a hype that too many others believe in. When decisionmaking for a publicly traded company you have to at least pretend to participate in the hype even if the only reason is a sufficiently large fraction of investors thinking that a sufficiently large fraction of their peers are believing in the hype. It's almost like magic.
> go straight for an ARM CPU

Are there actually open ARM CPUs? My very vague understanding was that ARM claims that their ISA cannot be implemented without infringing some patents on some instruction encoding tricks they hold.
Of course he forgot about the cost part of the equation. He’s the Deepak Chopra of the Malcolm Gladwell of the Freakonomics guys of the herbal remedy people.

A fucking clown.
.. which was the end of the old censorship regime and the point at which book, theatre and news censorship collapsed. In 1959.
> They did it because people are expecting more out of their phones e.g. better cameras, better screen, battery life, TouchID, FaceID all whilst demanding the same thickness. Something has to give. First it was the 30-pin adapter, now it's headphone, next will be SIM.

Way to completely ignore the fact that there is room for a headphone jack in the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 8. It was not removed in order to make room for anything. See the video I posted above.
Can the Conservative Party of the UK be far right? Many would say that at times they are, and around now is one of those times.

I'm not just talking about this proposal, there's a long list of things from Theresa May's "Racist van" initiative through to her "citizen of nowhere" comment.
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The contract between the things that are provable on-chain and the actual real world where people are not so straight-forward to interact with is the point where you realise that only a small percentage of this model is actually a tech problem and is mostly a people problem, at which point tech-led startups are ill suited to being the complete solution.
I don't much get the point - you 're making sure that journalists and ordinary people cannot use this material to extract information and in general find ways to deal with this plague. If anything you should find the people who read this material and send them to school.
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Yes, please show the Ubuntu guy that he was wrong to abandon his mobile OS.
Sometimes it seems to me that the British government is intent on making V for Vendetta or 1984 happen in real life. The things they are doing are so scary and openly oppressive that I can only hope that they are trying to be a parody of themselves.
Just use MongoDB and shard it for every galaxy.
Problem solved.
You can disable data collection in the settings, or directly install Firefox Klar, a special version of Firefox Focus without telemetry made for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Then they should create a program where specific individuals can placed on a deradicalization program and be banned from extremist material. And then make it a crime to view the material while you are on that program.
It's more than only warnings.

If you code runs fine with two or three different compilers you can also be sure that you don't rely on undefined or compiler specific behaviour.

It's the same reason some multiplatform libraries are extremely battle tested and comparatively bug free when compared to single platform code.
Where do you even start. Firstly, this is just a law Amber Rudd wants to make, it's not anywhere close to being made into actual law, it's very unlikely it will be. It's probably more a bit of signalling/posturing by Amber Rudd to appear as the "Tough on extremists" candidate in the forthcoming Tory leadership (and hence Prime Ministerial) election.

Secondly, even if this law was passed, it would never be actively used against the public. It would be used to throw more charges at people they have arrested already, or to have some charges to throw at people who they have arrested but can't charge. It's a handy catch-all (along with vague bans on pornography) that criminalises many normal people who have internet-connected devices. It means they can haul you over at Heathrow, search your device and say "Ah! You've looked at this naughty thing! Too bad!", for example - giving the state an easy way to reject people they don't like much more easily.

A lot of this approach stems from Theresa May herself, who spent many years as Home Secretary struggling to deport Anjem Choudary.
In these times it is not happening from the far left much but there are still exceptions (eg. Antifa). However, this can be explained by the prevalence of leftist views. It is mostly the right that feels compelled to use violence.
Note that Montero provides a heuristic guarantee of anonymity, not a provable one.
ah man! :) you just made HN an extremist propaganda website

(but yes exactly what you write, plus, its quite an extremist measure to say you can't read something of other extremists)
I've been doing my work with Ember (co-founder/only developer) since version 2.0 (currently 2.15), and I really like their approach to things.

I feel I'm very productive with Ember (not being a JS guru). The whole ember-cli plus addons makes it a breeze to start a new application/enhance an existing one.

Also, the work being put on Glimmer making Ember faster and pretty much the only thing I had to do was to update my package.json and install the new version (granted If I did that the minute it was released some addons do break, but if you wait a little/contribute to fix those issues... it was great).
I hate the invasive features that seems to only increase with every Android update. So now I am getting an iPhone for the first time in years.

> And this year’s Pixel will take advantage of the phone’s always-on microphones to listen for music (not just the phrase “OK Google”) and display what you’re listening to on the screen, even if it’s something on the radio.

Like.. wtf? No! I don't want that. Sure it "only listens for music". I don't want Google to save my passwords in apps. I don't want anything of that. Get out of my life google.

In the process of removing Google out of my life as much as possible. This is my progress:

Completed:

- Using DDG for search

- Using bing maps or OSM for maps

- Only using Firefox / Vivaldi for browsing.

TODO:

- Move email provider completely, now I am only partly using my gmail.

- Move to iPhone (will soon be done)

- Youtube (unfortunately I think this is hard to avoid)

Don't really use any other Google service than that. I urge people to do the same.
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This is the only thing stopping me from buying a Samsung phone.

They've almost a completely different company from the original Samsung Galaxy days. If they could partner their build quality with a stock experience and optional downloads of their apps then I'd be completely sold.
Wow LG has launched a New smartphone that can chase away mosquitoes
Interested in trying this for Transloadit, currently our only tooling to achieve similar ideas is markdown/GitHub. Is there a demo/pilot somewhere?
Why Arch?
Regarding refunds: I funded the Librem 5 using Bitcoin, but the transaction didn't go through in time. I contacted them via mail, gave them a Bitcoin address, and got refunded. Unlike some other vendors I have dealt with in the past, they actually understand Bitcoin. So I'm optimistic this will work.
Amber Rudd is a lightweight. She almost lost her seat at the snap general election - she's deluded if she thinks the CCHQ would let her become the PM whilst in her "unsafe seat".
I'd like to have these systems as decoupled as possible or at least have some meaningful information without a dependency on an external datastore. This might be just me being paranoid and overthinking it but after having to deal with a nasty monolith of an application for the last couple of years and finally convincing the rest that we need to change if we want to be able to expand I want to do it right.
Also ironic that it's happening in 2017
Is this just not yet another case of unnecessarily attempting to shoehorn in blockchain technology where it's not really required?

This is basically a freelancing platform that has been overcomplicated by the use of a blockchain and 'smart contracts'.
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PREVENT is pretty dire, though.

I agree it's a hard problem, but getting it wrong is going to lead to the Northern Ireland situation: overreaction by authorities creating political prisoners who will be martyrs to their cause. Bobby Sands is still a hero to many.

> there is nothing effectively you can do because no law has been broken until there's evidence that they start assembling the components for the bomb or whatever

Sure, but that is basically where we as a society have agreed the line is drawn for decades. Otherwise you start prosecuting people for "sedition". And it'll inevitably get used against peaceful leftwing groups and not against radical xenophobes, etc.
It has in the past though. Pol Pot. The Chinese cultural revolution.
The article appears to me to be overly harsh. However, trust is probably Mozillas primary asset. I think they could've made the telemetry a question at first use or something comparable.

Everyone knows that most people never change (or even realize) the default.
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The problem with category theory and monads, etc are that they are inaccessible for some of the popular tools. E.g. javascript, python, ruby .
It invariably happens that learning these patterns needs you to learn haskell, lisp or erlang. Which is where accessibility breaks down.

If there was a conceptual framework that bridges these higher order designs to accessible languages .. even if partially so, that would be killer.

P.S. I love what dg for python has done - http://pyos.github.io/dg/

>Annoy advocates of the category theory!

>With Haskell's syntax but none of its type system, dg is the best way to make fans of static typing shut up already
I don't understand, what's the difference in intent?

Do you think it should be illegal to save a collection of isis videos?
Big company support have lots of moving parts. My girlfriend's Nexus 5x also died this week. Local LG branch (Budapest) replaced the motherboard within a day. She basically got a new phone for free.
Nice, I'll try it out once I get home.

A couple of question:

- What is the throughput once you fixed the issues ?

- If you were to implement a client for mobile (iOS, Android), how would you go about it ? (Just theoretically, I understand it's a personal project)

I'm using openvpn on a cloud server and one of the big advantages is the availability of mobile client apps.
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Considered by whom? The British constitution functions, yes, but not very well. It's a huge legacy mess of patch sets and emergency bug fixes.
2017: when mean words can land you in jail, wrongthink is about to be a crime, free speech and the ACLU is white supremacy(1), and possibly the first time in history when a man breaking a woman's skull with his fist is OK(2).

1-https://reason.com/blog/2017/10/04/black-lives-matter-studen...

2-https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yAAlFya89aw
How can you call lisp an inaccessible language? It has less syntax than anything else. It is as simple as a language gets.
I did not expect to see “free speech” in there, but I most definitely compare US free speech laws favorably to any and all other countries.
Personally I don't want this feature. Because it is an extension, I don't have to have it and my browser can be lighter. This is exactly what should happen, move as much as possible into extensions.

If WebExtensions doesn't allow for this, then yes, Firefox should extend it. That way, other extensions can make use of it. You might not be able to port it to Chrome because it is using specific Firefox APIs but the alternative is not to have this feature. I expect to see other extensions in the future like the ability to hide the tab bar.
Klar is only available in those stores, but not worldwide.
you're making sure that journalists and ordinary people cannot use this material to extract information and in general find ways to deal with this plague.

According to the official statement they're still going to allow a "reasonable excuse" defense for journalists, academics and others who can convince the courts that they're nice people really.
premium means paying extra compared to 150$ huawei phones which give you 90-100% of the functionality and performance.

i don't expect anything from huawei apart from their legal obligations, but sure as hell would expect more if I pay 4x more.
> it would never be actively used against the public.

> or to have some charges to throw at people who they have arrested but can't charge.

I don't understand who else it would be used against?
This is the same minister who was talking about the "necessary hashtags" a few months ago. She's certainly not a _digital native_, or indeed even competent.

> Speaking about preventing the upload of objectionable content, Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the government needs to get people who "understand the necessary hashtags" talking.

> That was of course in addition to Rudd's widely criticised remarks that encryption has no place in citizens' hands, in the wake of revelations that Westminster attacker Khalid Masood was using WhatsApp shortly before murdering pedestrians with his car.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/03/uk_home_secretary_a...
Except if they invest a whole $0 in a letsencrypt cert or any service with one.... or have they persuaded the services to allow them to MITM their own citizens?
Prior discussions
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=howmanypeopleareinspa...
Then identify the ways wealthy people can divert income (e.g. Australia's fringe benefits tax) and force them to report it as income.
In practice, are Americans better off for having the US idea of free speech than Western Europeans whose rights generally aren't as well guaranteed?

It's a right that Americans are very proud of, but the edge cases when contrasted to what other countries have in practice seem to all be net negatives.
its not reliable? It can easily be forged/hidden/framed?

Again it confers power to those that understand how systems work. I'm not complaining, it benefits me but we continue to drift toward a class-based system where the technical class gains ever increasing benefits over the rest of the plebs.
We're sleepwalking into an increasingly stratified society.
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We are looking for a Backend Developer for our Dashboard team to help us solving the challenges on Audience Builder.

Audience Builder enables our customers to set up retargeting campaigns with partners immediately, by defining segmentation rules for the audiences. We launched this game changing feature beginning of this year, and there are still lots of features to implement and lots of partners to integrate it with to maintain our market leadership. This is where we need your help on!

In this role you’ll be taking over services that comprise our Audience Builder product. You will have to dig into the dashboard codebase and make yourself (with our help ofc.) comfortable contributing before you will start to implement your first Audience Builder features and its integration independently.

Integration with third-parties like Facebook and Google is an important part of the Audience Builder and our dashboard backend. You will maintain existing and develop new API backends for a number of our services. Additionally, you’ll be contributing to our dashboard backend services that we are constantly improving and since almost every feature requires dashboard support it needs to be kept up to date.

You’ll face the challenge of building robust integrations with various third party APIs while keeping it simple and unified experience for our customers. Existing pieces are written in Elixir and Ruby, besides Go and Scala that are used in the company and might be therefore beneficial to know as well.

Does this sound like a interesting challenge for you? Our petabytes of data are waiting for you, residing on a fleet of machines. Please, also keep in mind that naive approaches might not work anymore and that most of our features touch more than one service, that will require from you close coordination with other teams, such as data, dashboard, UI and product teams.

Apply here: https://app.jobvite.com/j?cj=oGrR5fwN&s=Hackernews
The question is not does it need cloud, the question is, is it worth it. When you send an audio stream to Google, you are imposing your answer to that question on everybody else in the room.
Thanks for broadening the discussion, authorities are a construct of our society that have come about usually in response to a need, they are mostly funded using our taxes and the output of the state's productivity, directed by our politicians, administered by our civil service and executed by employees of the state, they are not separate to society, they are within society, we made them and we influence the authorities behaviour by our actions. Trust is the glue that holds this together and transparency is the mechanism by which trust can be earnt. I'd like to see some strong progress in tools to visualise and inspect these systems, a way for me to connect the dots, the better these systems are, the more support they can be in demonstrating where transparency is lacking, open big data is helping, and it's exciting to imagine that a community led project could create a more complete picture of the systems we live in than we've ever had, if we can do that then perhaps there would be a better understanding of the constraints under which the authorities operate and the actions they take would have context.
> special version of Firefox Focus without telemetry made for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

only 3 country care about privacy?
You find my email address in my HN handle.
Meanwhile:

- Former Equifax CEO is walking away with 90 million dollars.

- Equifax's stock price (NYSE:EFX) is recovering.

- Equifax is being awarded contracts and continues to serve as a credit bureau.

- The leaked information is being traded among fraudsters, and will remain to be traded for years.

Welcome to the golden age of bullshit.
> The body of evidence to date suggests that you're much more likely to be robbed of your cryptocurrency through fraud or incompetence

Because the technology (right now? maybe we'll see cryptocurrencies built in hardware/os eventually) is for competent geeks, not that greedy people that store their bitcoins on exchange wallets (or use any central server). One has to ask oneself if the blockchain is more reliable for him, just as he does with other things like choosing doctors etc.
Why should it be different? Your browser might save the videos on your computer anyway, to cache them.

Distributing videos would be another matter.
I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm not denying you can raise income through VAT, I'm saying you can't do it in a progressive manner, basic income or no basic income. The reason for this is that the more you earn, the less you spend as a proportion of your income. Billionaires spend almost nothing compared to either their income or their wealth. The poorest in society spend everything, because some things are essential.

Any progressive system would make it so that the less well off paid _at most_ as much as the 1%.* Income tax may not work very well, but it's one of the most progressive forms of taxation there is.

*And yeah, as you point out, tax avoidance makes a mockery of this anyway.