skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're talking about the real time translation, https://support.google.com/googlepixelbuds/answer/7545575?hl... says "Google Translate on Google Pixel Buds is only available on Pixel."
Seagate Ships Consumer-Focused 12TB Helium Drives
How I wrote The Remains of the Day in four weeks (2014)
A good chunk of his advice is applicable even in moderately high-cost labour countries such as Germany or the Netherlands.
Confirmation Bias at work. You're invested, so you want it to take off.

Yet none of those blockchain enthusiasts could tell me a
single USP that blockchains had over storage in a normal database on any concrete use case, with the sole exception of cryptocurrencies.

And the reason is simple: all those applications have none of the properties and problems the blockchain solves - which is an elegant niche solution tailor made for mutually mistrusting entities working together on a distributed ledger. That barely exists in real life.

Centralized systems are what you want in 99% of cases. They're more reliable, better controlled, have infinitely more throughput and usually, you want to be able to roll back transactions under certain conditions (fraud, mistakes, etc.)

Sure, you could store anything in a blockchain. Sure, something yada yada blockchain could "replace Netflix". It's just that apparently nobody can tell me _why_.

My only concern right now is that I can't short Blockchain technology because the relation of hype to actual usefulness and potential is so incredibly large that it will drag a big chunk of the tech sector down the drain.

In stark contrast to AI which is just as hyped, but isn't just supposed to "change everything" since years - it's actually starting to do so on a spectacular timeline.
Cuts to disaster funding:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-agencies-respond-...

Medicaid and anti-poverty:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/trump-budget-...

Dept of labor: -19.8%
Dept of the interior: -10.9%
Dept of state and intl aid: -29.1%
Dept of Justice: -3.8%
Dept of Housing and Urban Devl: -13.2%
Dept of Education: -13.5%
Corps of Engineers: -16.3%
EPA: -31.4%
DOT: -12.7%

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/23/politics/trump-budget-cuts-pro...

Also, by budget conscious, I mean the individual department's budgets, not the overall federal government's budget, which has been a wreck since Reagan (minus 2 years of Clinton).
I've always wondered about this too. What happens when precedent is set either by faulty cases or people with agendas?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_vulture_and_the_little_gir...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter#Death
We do have armed police but they're on specialist deployment - you see them at events (also at ports of entry). They deploy relatively often in my area I assume they're attending drugs busts.

Regular police carry tear gas spray (or perhaps pepper spray?) and tazers as a matter of course.

Saying "police don't have them" is a bit misleading.
The support for android apps is in one of their stretched goal in their crowdfunding campaign : $10M... so, not really realist, given how the campaign is currently doing.

That being said, if we managed to run windows games on linux, I'm pretty sure we can find a way to run android apps without a VM.
When working from home doesn't work
That I think is the real problem? I mean how many of us on this thread alone are pushing around troves of consumer data today? Maybe just browsing habits or analytics or what have you but nevertheless, here we are, handling possibly terrabytes of data on people we don't know, who don't know us, and have no current way to hold us accountable if we do it wrong and they are subsequently affected.

I mean how many firms do we read about a DAY on here who are collecting by the truckload consumer data, either to be used or sold later? And how many of said firms are taking proper steps to anonymize or secure (or both) said data properly?
Arrested drunk man claims he time traveled to warn of aliens
"focus on process" -yes, that's it.
how long do we wait until the series is complete, a year?
> If you think energy conservation is more important, other chains don't have this cost (proof of stake).

Those chains don't exist yet in any meaningful sense; at this point, AFAIK, it's not been proven that an energy-efficient PoS system even can be created theoretically. If it turned out it could be done and then if it was done, I'm sure lot of the negativity would disappear.

The underlying sentiment behind pessimism, at least for me, is that it seems that in the blockchain ecosystem, all the incentives are aligned in such a way to have the market push us into stupidly wasting huge amounts of electricity, storage and bandwidth for no tangible benefit. No need to wait for energy-efficient PoS or other things - you can earn your money right now.
All flash-based memory devices have a limited number of write/erase cycles. Internal flash memories have more sophisticated strategies to extend memory life but they all rely on having spare memory available. Try not to go past 80% usage.
The world OP describes SF as becoming is that of Atlas Shrugged where failure is never misfortune but a personal failing with the poor reaping their just desserts.

Ayn Rand is quite popular with the Silicon Valley technorati: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/10/silicon-valley-ayn-r...
Hmm, I've just decided to start slowly learning vim by adding some vim-like functionality to my browsers.
While I don't know what the burden of proof is is in Denmark, if it is similar to that in America where guilt needs to be proven beyond "reasonable doubt" I don't see a conviction coming. There are no witnesses, yes she was on the sub and yes her DNA was on the suspect. But his lawyers can claim that he had a co-pilot on the sub who lost it and killed her then abandoned ship. The reason her blood was all over him was to try to save her, then he panicked when she died so he sank the ship. Defense attorneys love to play these games (since its their job to get their client the lowest sentence possible, regardless of their guilt) and I can see a jury or lay judges being able to come to a majority verdict of guilt.
No. The photos that I uploaded in "Original Quality" are still original quality, and they remain that. I switched to 'High quality' because I don't have a Pixel, and it hasn't retrospectively changed the previous ones. That is also what Google probably means here.
Sure, but your local street-patrolling officer does not have a gun with them. There might be one locked in their car but your ordinary policemen don't carry weapons.
Do you sit in a team with magical dev-ops unicorns only?
I use a Samsung Chromebook 3 with Linux installed in a chroot via Crouton.

http://bryangrohman.com/ubuntu-i3wm-chromebook/

It's a bit underpowered, but it works just fine for my personal use which includes some light coding. It would be way underpowered to use for my day job in any capacity other than ssh-ing into other machines. Then again, it is one of the cheapest Chromebooks available at $169, so you get what you pay for :)
It seemed like the law enabling them to capture the data is expiring and they are adding in some controls about how an agency can access the collected data. Doesn’t seem like mass surveillance is curbed in any way really. If anything it seemed like they are intent to continue surveillance.
> I'm not saying that such a model is the right one for devs, but it would certainly be an interesting move away from "not my fault - nobody would let me do it right".

I would say I'm in a similar position, but that's because I'm more or less essential (no ego here, and can't explain obviously, but I am) and if I walk out, the company has a lot of BFPs to deal with.

Perhaps there should be some sort of guild? Some way that we could make it harder for ourselves to be replaced in such a way where we can actually stop bucks without just getting fired while they find some script kiddie to do what we wouldn't.
Donald Trump Threatened North Korea After Completely Imaginary Negotiations
Very interesting idea, clearly explained use-cases, thanks!
Of course that is a big problem. One of many reasons to replace ChromeOS with a full desktop Linux.

Chromebook hardware is great for the money. Replace the OS and you have the best of both worlds.
"Getting things done" would be nice. I only ever had that in a small company that used something I'd call "anarchy management".
> What are actual examples in practice of how us Euros are worse off?

Off the top of my head: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36055488

EDIT: Also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9#Europe
Implementing Go's defer keyword in C++
The Internet Archive is such an essential feature for the Internet. I appreciate them stepping up their role as a repository of history for legal disputes, political debates, etc.

If the Wayback Machine or other archive.org projects have helped you, consider donating. https://archive.org/donate/
One-time-pad is so easy to use that a child could figure it out and is literally unbreakable. Even if you outlaw "hard encryption" this extremely easy encryption method will always be available and will always offer 100% secrecy for anyone needing it. This is just a smokescreen, as always.
Criminals also have access to fast automobiles and efficient dual carriageways that enable their escapes. Further, they are using a powerful radio network to communicate with ease. We must act now to remove these things for the good of the people!
Oh come on that's not astonishing at all. Nothing ever changes until it hits the lawmakers personally, that's why we don't do jack about poverty and why people in those positions get up on podiums and tell us $1,000 more gets every family a new car.
The "Information Awareness Office" already has a program "Human Identification at a Distance (HumanID)" with this capability
> where have all innovators gone

They have enough sense to see that blockchain ecosystem is 1% innovation, 99% hype.
Which is exactly what they want. Britain seems to be pushing to open up every communication channel their citizens use, it's ridiculous. They are on the best way to build "V for Vendetta"'s political system, it's a joke.
They along with the tech industry are quickly ending that option, too, to the point where as soon as it happens, they'll act as if it's criminal to try to hide what you're talking behind closed doors.
Sounds interesting. Reminds me "Artifacts Evaluated" stamp.
Direct Formation of Structural Components Using a Martian Soil Simulant
You lost me at token.
Sieve of Eratosthenes in Python (2015)
They don't have guns in the car. Only trained police officers are allowed to use firearms.
Yeah, I also love Golang, though I am a full-job front-end developer. Sometimes it can make me shout "WHAT THE FUCK"[1] to the IDE, but it's the most enjoyable language I worked with during last 20 years.

[1] http://devs.cloudimmunity.com/gotchas-and-common-mistakes-in...
Its not easy as it sounds. Its not a transfer per say, its a new petition. Recently premium processing was stopped. Many H1B transfers were in limbo. If an employee transfers when he has I-140, his greencard process might get jeopardized. There are many quirks for an employee to change his employers. Many employers will not allow an employee to join unless his petition is approved. This is also good for the employee, because there are high chances that an H1B transfer can go wrong. So no, its not easy.
I really don't care if the contents of my Whatsapp/Messenger/SMS/etc. comments/posts are made public, FWIW.

Nor do I mind that GCHQ can probably listen to all my calls and certainly not that they use meta-data to look for links with organised crime (eg terrorism).

My impression would be that in the UK outside of fora like HN that position would be pretty common.
ECC is a market segmentation tool. Keeping ECC away from consumer hardware means you can charge more to make it available for industrial, professional etc. use.
If it wasn't going to be China, it was going to be, and has already been somewhere else. Look at the labels on the clothes you wear, many aren't made in China.
Someone Programmed an Arduino Board with a Worm's Brain
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That depends on how often that pun appears in the corpus. If you observe the translation enough times, it'll be easy for the computer.
I use an Acer C720P with GalliumOS installed on it as my secondary dev machine. My main rig is a Windows desktop.

I have no real complaints with Gallium or the C720P, it's a really solid little machine, and it's super fast.
My only gripe is the keyboard - there's no delete key, there's a magnifying glass where the Caps Lock should go, and that gets mapped to Super, and the worst part, I only have F1-F10, missing F11 and F12.

I'm sure there's a good way to remap some keys to get F11 and F12, but I haven't figured out a good key combination that doesn't interfere with other keyboard shortcuts.
> Fishing is not as big as oil, but it is still an important part of the economy

Meh. It employs 7k-10k people and contributes 0.7% of the economy. That is chickenfeed, and a particularly dumb thing to give up their principles over - particularly because processed fish are a fungible commodity and could be sold for the same price outside of China.
Explaining the new cryptocurrency bubble–and why it might not be all bad
Legal fight against UK state hacking seeks crowdfunds
It's more like you'd have a map with a line that shows where the terrorist has been, you can overlay on that map everywhere every other whatsapp user has been and pull out any that spend a significant amount of time with the known terrorist. Then you know exactly who they associate with and can interrogate their profiles directly to see if they are viable suspects.
nnn file browser 1.5 released
So you're awake for five days straight? That can't be healthy.
I can't attest for that point scientifically or even personally.

The argument in #9 as I understand it is, over the course of your lifetime, the cumulative minuscule effect of how you sleep relative to the Earths magnetic field can have a negative effect on your health, increasing the risk of stroke or brain related conditions.

To prove or disprove would require long term study (in the order of a human lifetime) with equipment capable of detecting very small changes while eliminating all other effects.
Why is the left failing the working class? – Filibuster – Medium
> I locate and bribe/extort your main influencer/s to push your project into the ground (block work, object to everything, whatever) or in my preferred direction

How's that any different from the current state?
Execs of current companies are humans with power to run the company into the ground. You can extort/bribe them like that as well. How does it change anything?
The UK is part of the international "five eyes" mass surveillance group. The NSA certainly has access to all Whatsapp messages. Therefor, the UK has it too.

Therefor, this article certainly is nothing but propaganda.
Assault weapons were also banned in France. Guess what the terrorists used in the couple of major attacks against France?

This policy of banning end-to-end encryption is beyond stupid. They won't stop a single terrorist from using end-to-end encryption.

But I think they know this, too. They just don't want everyone else's conversations to be secret either.
I'd prefer to see a headline like "UK government calls out Apple, Facebook and Google for spying on their citizens"
There's a fundamental difference to both the pre-phone and the pre-Internet age:

In the grand scheme of things phone tapping is a relatively new affair. Before the general availability of phones you needed actual human snitches to spy on dissidents and deviants.

Even once phones were widely used oppressive regimes still needed a huge number of human agents because not every conversation happened on phone.

Physically spying on others is both dangerous and expensive, which is why it's usually done selectively.

All of that changed with the general widespread use of digital means of communication: Not only do most dissident, potentially 'dangerous' conversations take place in digital media but those conversations are also easily available for governments to harvest and draw upon to whatever end.
"The UK is more than 10x the size of all EEA members combined. The EEA exists / works because its members are largely peripheral."

My guess is that by EEA you refer to those members that are not already part of the EU, although technically the EEA includes both EU members and countries with a special agreement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area
Converting Other's Thoughts and Prayers into Tangible Support
Exactly. Any CPU for real work that can't support ECC memory is useless.
Python is interesting in that list, given how it's at least 4 times as old as all of the other ones in that list. What's behind that? I don't recall any major developments after Python 3, and most of the news behind that one was about its backwards incompatibility (and currently how 2.x isn't about to go anytime soon)
Radical defined by whom?
Religion defined by whom?

First they came for the radicals ...
To put this article out when the head of the NRA is releasing Doomsday videos about vague nonsense societal threats to "conservatives" is just irresponsible.
OTP requires a meeting, dead drop, or other open communication though. That's a massive vulnerability over purely virtual communications.
Electricity _is_ aggressive in that it does not weigh in the interests of the person and just does its thing, just like C.

You can now insult and smear on people that write undefined code in C, but that does not change the fact that undefined behaviour happens in C code and is a source of problems. These problems are worth a solution besides swearing and derision.
We have accepted that you can curtail certain rights for criminals, so I can't see why we couldn't add "not using Whatsapp" to them.

All you have to do is prove a certain person is a criminal. Innocent until proven guilty, due process, the justice system - any of these minor details ring a bell to Amber Rudd?
Fair enough. Was in a hurry. Was obviously a topic that needs more detail. Have also seen those studies (via HN) - in fact they were what originally got me curious about meditation about 5 years ago.

Meanwhile the guru in question is one that gets invited to Talk at Google, if that's any measure of credibility - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQn8X4FbpTM
Neat! I'll have to look into this.
I think you’re overgeneralizing a community that intrinsically resists introspection, but even if we entertain your premise, an aim to violate norms for “lulz” doesn’t preclude the platform from incubating real damaging disinformation. In fact, because the aim of the chans is orthogonal to truth or accuracy, it’s a more fertile plot than any on which to grow disinformation.
Running tus in production – Transloadit
Final report on disappearance of MH370 by the Australian govt (PDF, 440 pages)
Everyone gets their apps from two places: the Apple app store and Google Play. To enforce a ban on whatsapp, all the government has to do is compel Google and Apple to pull them from the app store.

The common user is currently entrenched in two walled gardens for almost all of their activity, and banning encrypted communications for 95% of the population is now feasible, and perhaps quite likely. That sucks.
Those who are in power want to stay in power, no matter what.
I wonder when some country will try to implement the idea from Jacek Dukaj's "Black Oceans" - a society in which you can have private space, but if you've disabled cameras and/or are out of their view and anything happens you you, you don't get insurance.
The national grid? You think the electricity suppliers should, somehow, stop "terrorists" from using electricity to make toast?
It’s a common tactic for hucksters: make it hard to understand and hope that people conclude it’s really advanced and get out their wallets.
It creates a type called "G" which is simply "interface{}".
This is just part of signals intelligence.

Once you have a known event, then you can use the information that you know about that to start asking more questions.

Proximity is an obvious one, who was near or in contact with the alleged terrorist in the hours, days, weeks beforehand. Were there recurrences of close proximity amongst those individuals previously not considered persons of interest.

This methodology is precisely the same as how fraud and money laundering risk is mitigated. Once you work back from a KE (known event) to build up the pattern of related activities you can use this as a signature on observed future behaviour to try and identify future activity that you'd like to investigate more closely or act on.
Node.js for Mobile Apps
I think they're aiming at the 'Android One' devices to replace the Nexus ones. The Mi A1 might be your friend.
I read the whitepaper TLDR, but I'm still not clear on the value of the Colony Tokens. Is the idea that they are like shares in the Colony?
To take your example further, rented trucks have also been used for killing people, so logically, trucks should be banned since criminals have used those.
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China also affects Hollywood movies whom self-censor in order to not offend Chinese censors.
Whenever I lately read things the UK government says about human rights I am soo glad they are leaving the EU.
Well they would have to pay:

- Import tax on all the products(IP, patenets, licenses etc) licensed/purchased from BMW Panama

- Sales tax?

So the US would get more customs and sales tax and less profit tax. Nevertheless the scheme you mentioned is meant to lower the tax paid(i.e. the import tax may be lower than the profit tax) so I fully agree that something should be done. I guess only solution would be the term "tax avoidance" to be defined, put into the trade agreements(i.e. WTO, EU etc) and governments allowed fine the companies employing such practices just like the "state aid".

The issue in EU is way worse because there is no import or sales tax so using your hypothetical story BMW GmbH pays only the profit tax in Panama.

Related: In Europe the operating company takes loans at high interest rates from its shell in Luxembourgh to siphon off the profits.
Quantum information from spacetime geometry
I've only dabbled myself, but I can see how that would start; I come from a Java background which forces you to have one module / class per file, but Go doesn't. It's very easy to start hacking up a thing, and it's easier in development to just keep it in one file. Of course, the nature of code is that it grows, so spend enough time there and it'll start growing. If you're familiar with the code (as in, you wrote it yourself), single files shouldn't be a problem.

It's not uncommon in other projects either, NodeJS for example has a relatively small number of large files (https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/src/node.cc).
Why aren’t all cops trained to use firearms?