skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Pro Dumpster Diver Who’s Making Thousands Off America’s Biggest Retailers
Damn; good to know, thanks!
They aren’t nerfing all Home Minis, just disabling a feature in an early batch of them that caused it activate far too often.

So many words to explain a very obvious (since it indicated it was listening) bug.
Yeah, and Israel too in Russia.

I mean what could happen from here. Even if NSA get evidence that their networks were hacked without doubt, which is a hard thing in itself as there are thousands of vectors and even harder is to say that it had been directly done or funded by Kaspersky, they are likely not going to expose themselves in court. Israel has even bigger reason, considering Kaspersky has at least some relation to Russia.

Also, there is evidence that NSA attacked Kaspersky first, which gives them a very good reason to carry out a counter attack to secure themselves.
I agree on the high quality research etc but personally I dropped Kaspersky products for the same reason as the original Norton Antivirus products, they became obnoxiously loud with unnecessary notifications. Kaspersky ramped up their annoying notifications that I went from recommending it in small corporate environments to not even mentioning it.

Antivirus/antimalware is incredibly important, but it should generally be silent and protect a system.
”...I like these restrictions.”

Yup. I will only do tech supp (for friends, family) for macOS, iOS. Bought both gf and mom Apple gear. My life is now much easier.
If your company is in Russia, China or the US, and the government in that country has any interest in the data you collect, you will have to give it away. In Russia and China they just do it, in the US it's a matter of "National Security". I'm not sure why this would surprise anyone - maybe because most of us are on the side of the latter.
Intelligence sharing..
The article fully supports your characterization of bar fights? You seem to think that its opinion differs from yours.
If he is forced out of the antivirus business then he and his staff could potentially do blackhat stuff. I suspect that everybody would loose from such a development - because a very competent guy he is. (one is supposed to think in terms of capabilities when thinking about security related stuff ;-)
I had the pleasure of chilling with Bdale about 16 years ago when I worked at Progeny. Besides being generally personable he has an amazing wealth of stories to tell (and has obviously picked up a few more since then).
Have you considered Cython?
The fact that they collaborate with the Russian gov't secret services.
The WhatsApp attack will reveal how much you sleep and who you talk to
Reading through this thread, I can't help but long for the days of it only being a crackpot theory that everything everywhere is owned.
> There's no storage tank to supply it?

Not that I'm aware of, which means I'm pretty sure not. It might be that at the house level, a single house isn't expected to draw so much water, while in a larger structure it's probably possible to overwhelm any feasible main that could be expected if a bunch of sprinklers go off. Even if the main can handle it, maybe there isn't a large enough connections to specific portions of the building from the main which causes water starvation. I imagine there's lots of insidious details when scaling to a large building which aren't immediately obvious.
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Russian and China coercion are on a completely different scale, and we all know it. Especially after the Snowden backlash.

Imagine any major Chinese IT company pushing back against government requests like Dreamhost did. Even the biggest ones can't/won't. It helps that the government is a huge investor in most of them, of course.

"Chinese IT company rebuffs government demand for user information on its website". This headline does not exist.
Only considering my own workflow: some Hangouts api that some apps I was using relied upon. Probably related to that other product of them competing in the same space but nowhere as feature complete: Google duo.
Interesting that Check Point Technologies use(d) Kaspersky AV engine embedded in its UTM platforms for many years up until the US government mandates this year (resulting in a non KAV install option). Check Point trust them but not the US government.
It should not be assumed that all visual dataflow languages are similar. They're as varied as textual imperative languages.

I'm developing my own dataflow language. Before I began, I had already programmed in many different languages and even designed some of my own languages and dialects.

I came to several conclusions about how visual dataflow should be done, which are different from the approach taken in LabVIEW and other visual dataflow languages such as Prograph, Max, and vvvv.

(1) You should only be able to connect vertices (i.e. functions) when their argument/value types are compatible. This allows you to drag an edge in the right general direction and it will find what to connect to, and also means you can develop a powerful type system with type inference built into the editor. This makes the language safe, but why stop at Hindley-Milner? You can add units (metres, flight levels, dollars, etc.) to real number types. You can give the language dependent types to make it even safer. This would eliminate many errors inherent in developing in other languages. And with a good enough type system, you don't need object orientation.

(2) You can keep the language design simple. You don't need special constructs for things like iteration and conditionals. All you need are vertices (where processing is done), edges (along which values flow), constant values, and enclosures/lambdas.

(3) Iteration can often be abstracted away, by having filters operating on streams of data instead of single data items. It might be worth adding an even higher level, with bidirectional flow between processes or agents.

(4) You can define new types by connecting existing types, just like new functions can be defined by connecting existing functions.

(5) Version control and project management can also be done graphically.

I encountered, and solved, some little-known problems associated with dataflow.

My language isn't yet ready for release. (There's only one of me, not a large team.) I've begun work on dependent types. I need to develop a non-trivial application, for which I have a few ideas. The language also needs a compiler. I'll add version control and project management when there's any commercial interest.

Documentation (which I need to update) is at

http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/fmj/FMJ.html

The papers on the site describe obsolete versions of the language but are still worth reading. The tutorials are more up to date.
It's valuable information that can be used to either secure a future favor or serve as a quid pro quo for a previously extended favor.
This is a gross false equivalence.
Not found your email address in the profile so applied to jobs at mercury DOT co
At least they took it seriously. Obviously they're going to be a lot more responsive to a well-known tech blogger, but either way google still doesn't usually make house calls.
It's interesting how DreamHost picks and chooses which opinions it defends:

http://fightthefuture.org/article/the-new-era-of-corporate-c...
Everyone gave good advice.

I think about the way Insurance companies have used these rare events to raise rates, and cringe.

I think about all the people who couldn't afford property insurance, and cringe.

(If it was my house, I might put a sprinkler on the roof, and turn it on. I would nail the sprinkler head to the roof. Then again, they say it will lower the water pressure to the fire hydrants in some areas.)
For current gen VR (Rift consumer version and Vive) Apple would not sell you a Mac with a GPU that meets the minimum spec requirements at any price. Not even a maxed-out Mac Pro could pull it off. There might be some new, barely-sufficient options recently.
What does that even mean? A "counter-attack to secure themselves"?
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Intel & AMD CPUs also have firmware that can be updated as well. Not to mention the BIOS itself which is often blindly trusted.
I disagree that the buffer protocol is the one reason why Python is growing. Python was designed as a glue language, has great APIs for intrgrating with other languages, and people continue to use and improve those APIs to integrate with more and more systems. It's the overall design of Python that makes it popular for this kind of work.
Yea, but many people don't have, or couldn't afford property insurance. Turn it on, and get out.
> Is there ever going to be a post-scarcity era, or is scarcity contextual?

There cannot be a post-scarcity era as long as one man is able to impregnate more than one woman.
Thanks for putting this together.

You mention vetting third party scripts, but did not explain how your app is not vulnerable to those scripts being hacked or modified in the future. This vulnerability seemed to be the main point of Kevin's piece.

Could you update your post to address that issue?
In both cases I experienced, it was a big giant tank up on the roof of the building. It was separate from the fire suppression system in the server room.

I can see why there would be different systems and code requirements for residential construction. Come to think of it, whilst you could put the tank in an attic space - or use a bladder system, it would occupy a lot of space and I'm not sure residential construction would support the weight of the system.
Of all of the Mill subjects, the pointer kludge to support fork (itself a kludge, yes) seems to me to be the biggest offender of the "sufficiently smart compiler" red flag.

I just have a sinking feeling about hoping a compiler can correctly identify and track all pointers to know how to flag them. The "pointer is a native-word-sized int" assumption may be so ingrained -- from compilers to stdlibs to the wide variety and age of programs -- that it will be nigh impossible to rid existing codebases of it completely.

But I'm not a compiler guy (or hardware, or assembly, or C for that matter) so I could be quite mistaken. Perhaps it's enough to fix the compiler and make it capable of emitting warnings/errors when it detects a violation.

As far as the talk itself goes, I'm a little sad that there was so little new information though I understand that we're quite deep in the technical details and there's a lot of prerequisite background that you can't reasonably expect from a random tech audience. If there are more than a few more talks you might need to reevaluate this method altogether and use a different format.

I'm very glad that you've decided to change the wording to refer to it as an "SSA machine" as opposed to "belt". I think many more people are familiar with SSA or can be convinced that it works ("your current compiler uses it right now" probably helps) by describing it as "SSA where you can only reference the last N results" as opposed to building a whole model based on a "conceptual giant shift register" from before. I've been following the Mill talks since the first few videos and recently I wonder if even the asm programming model should be writing raw SSA instead of belt numbers, especially since genasm assumes an infinite belt anyways.
Why so? AFAIK the campaigns to move nuclear weapons away from the hair trigger mode were unsuccessful so far.
Google typically only shuts down Services that already have very low user counts relative to their bigger offerings. Reader was a huge exception, though its closing was more of a migration (to Google+) than a shutdown and it was done under the pretense of moving people to G+.
It amazes me that people arent excited to think up and implement crazy ideas and everyone is so war/money/competition focused, we need to get excited about making the world a better place again rather than going stagnant, which seems to be the theme whenever I read things here.
I kind of disagree on a couple points.

1. phones seem like there own era

2. most of the wealth accumulated recently has been generated through transferring large amounts of copyrighted material from individuals at little or no cost to copyright aggregators.

a. google fair use and web links
b. youtube and videos
c. facebook and stupid pics, conversations etc.

even the code that's copyrighted and transferred from the creators to the aggragators.
Wow i thought I was the only one.
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I do give to charity, actually. That hardly precludes me from wishing my money, and others', was used more efficiently.

I feel like this isn't going how you were expecting. I was supposed to be exposed as a hollow "progressive" who's free with other people's money but is secretly a grasping hypocrite. You shouldn't assume everyone is selfish just because you are.
Brooks concluded that visual programming wouldn't speed up development by an order of magnitude, and he's right. But it has other advantages.

There has to be a silver bullet though. I haven't seen a large system which couldn't be implemented in less than 10% of the code. Chuck Moore, the inventor of Forth, says 1%.
>I'd say 0, since eyeballing the list almost none of them seem to be B2B type products.

If moving the goalposts is allowed then fair enough, it can be any number you choose.

>This is by far the most pervasive comment on HN regarding Google ("Oh, they launched something, don't use it because they will retire it soon. Look what happened to Reader!").

Yes, hello, reality calling - Google has a PR problem, as a direct result of canceling services. This PR problem is bleeding into their commercial offerings precisely because of their reliance and cultivation of grassroots, technology-minded consumer mind share. "Man, I killed all those bees but for some reason now my honey production has dropped right off. Could there be a connection???"

Someone did not properly cost this into the decision to terminate those services, and it's now biting the organization. It should be.
Scientists Can Read a Bird’s Brain and Predict Its Next Song
I'm not sure where the author gets that.
This demo uses SSL:
https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/0B_U5RNpwhcE6SF85TEN...

All Google products use SSL anyway.
This shouldn't be modded down.

Security services are completely unreliable and release these things for their own benefit. The question with this is why are the Israelis pushing this now?

The NYT has a poor record on this stuff as does pretty much everyone.

WMD.
Ah thanks, missed that!
nice, didn't know so many variations are there, especially the ones based on noughts and crosses.. and some of them can be played from the site itself, very nice..

there is also MetaSquares (http://www.scottkim.com.previewc40.carrierzone.com/squares/i...)

I have made one too - Square TicTacToe(https://github.com/learnbyexample/squaretictactoe)
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Regarding this protest, though, it was evidence of violence being plotted that led to some arrests and then this investigation and the search warrants. There were undercover videos showing #disruptj20 organizers plotting to chain trains & release butyric acid into the ventilation of the Inaugural Ball, among other things. These search warrants are part of that investigation.
Sentimental value items: Printed photo albums, trips souvenirs, gifts, kids favourite stuffed toy.

So easy to forget: a phone charger.
I have to know, what'd that post say? I love internet fights
BI/Analytics is a tricky area with many sub-areas.

I'm relatively new to this field and I found the value of the solution is how it can connect various business workflows instead of just focused on building dashboards.

For example: typical BI tools only focused on Visualizations (most mentioned here only support that and a bit of "Insight"). This alone is not enough because business activities around BI would require forecasting/predictive and planning (and potentially Risk Assessment).

Disclaimer: I work for a business-unit that develop Analytics solution that covered those business activities (https://www.sapanalytics.cloud/product/).
Well, fair point. My bias may come from the fact that I see NSA domestic surveillance as grossly unconstitutional as well as an undemocratically implemented abuse of state power. I suppose it's useful to ask at what point can the State grant an order that is illegitimate, if this isn't one of those cases? If Putin has a court order drafted to do his dirty work does that make it any more legitimate?

Maybe Snowden broke laws, but every single person breaks some frivolous laws every year of their life that they can be prosecuted for, see The Intercept source I posted on this.
SSH Keys are for login authentication. If tomorrow we crack RSA-2047, you can replace them before we get to 2048 bits.

GPG Keys are for secrecy. If the adversary gets a ciphertext, he can hold it until 2030 and decrypt then. Very different model!
I haven't known this kind of competition even existed. But it strikes me as weird. Why does it even exist? Training kids to win a debate? What is that good for? If we want them to exercise debate as a democratic institution shouldn't we rather focus on ability to understand the opponent, to change one's mind, to reach compromise?

One way to make that competitive would be to deliberately build a prisoner's dilemma into the rules: If one party wins, they get the most points. If they reach a compromise each party gets some points. If either party fails to convince the judge, nobody gets nothing.
"I'd rate this as pretty mediocre."

Most of what you are saying is unsubstantiated.

It does use SSL (just like all Google products). Where did you gather that it wasn't using it?
And what do you mean by "complex time comparisons"? There are examples of time series comparisons in the demos.
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You left out any mention of this video series, or the claims & counter claims regarding it -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHZSfhd1X_8
Not an easy way to do it really unless you plan to do it ahead of time and go buy a cap or and expanding plug. I wouldn't recommend stuffing some rags or anything down one as they're both flammable and absorbent so the water may just go right through it over time.

The idea is you want to make it harder for the fire to get a foothold on your roof - that's a death sentence for the house in most cases.
I just tried it. Tried to keep an open mind. I couldn't get the button to change the text, or rather, I didn't have the patience to keep trying to get the button click's action to modify the text value. The paradigm and mental load is shifted to gui boxes with entries and arrows to actions and more boxes. This is a wip at best. An AI you talk to just like a programmer is what is truly needed.
Then you'd have to convince conservatives to pay for birth control. It's a double whammy: increased taxes, and giving women agency over their bodies. They hate the idea. (Also it would be tantamount to eugenics, which is pretty much not something anyone would or should want to get political traction on, except maybe from the Alt Right)
Some stuff is hand waved. However, the amount of incredible facts about human condition and precaution is incredible and very much core to the story. The back of the book is packed with references to actual research work.

It took me a long time though to get myself to buy the book because the book description on Amazon is the worst and sounds like a awful B-movie.
You could try DRAKON.
If your guns are for home protection how on earth would you be well served by needing to open a second safe to get your ammo?
Imagine your pc vendor shipped windows with remote desktop enabled, you can't disable it, and you can't see if there are any local accounts in the group, and also they could be administrators, and also it was far worse than even that, because the computer doesn't have to be on or connected to a lan. imagine if dell shipped with logmein and wol but it was permanent. how are these not security vulnerabilities?
Sure. A company doesn't choose to spend hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars per year to port their development tools to a third-party platform.

I'm sure if they believed they would get more & higher quality developers to build apps by doing so, they already would have.

Makes since, especially since Windows historically hasn't done the same for Visual Studio / C# (I know they're supposedly trying now or planning to but I confess I haven't followed along closely enough to determine if it's cancelled, delayed, or the scope was actually smaller than full dot net + c# support).
Well there were the Snowden revelations of the PRISM program which apparently had all the major US tech companies onboard. So it’s highly probable.
You mean you can't even stand their mere existence even without ever actually touching any of their products? Note that I'm not asking why you're not installing their antivirus, I'm asking why you don't want them to exist...
I don't understand how people keep bringing up Google product shutdowns as if literally half their products get discontinued

Even if you don’t, I hope Google understands it, and then learns from it. Wanna take a guess at why Microsft kept FoxPro around for so long? One of the reasons was if MS axed it, they’d lose those developers, many forever. Not until they had a good transition story that utilized MS products could they dare discontinue it. And to this day some will still say MS bought Fox Software for the tech and killed FoxPro...despite it being kept around for over ten years.

Point being, MS did the right thing by FoxPro in my eyes, and it is still used as an example of MS discontinuing products. Google has most definitely not done right by some products, so perhaps that will help you understand why people keep bringing it up.
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Sorry you're getting downvoted to oblivion.
So, barely visible gas and not dark matter?
A lot of that is because Russia and China don't feel very secure compared to the US for various historical/geopolitical reasons. The US govt is known to act ruthlessly when it feels there's an existential threat.
"Always bet on text"

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html
Governments never fire spies. They move them to reserve and pay them good pensions.
Aftereffects of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15435822
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> We did have nightly backups but the guy with access to them was notoriously hard to get the attention of and lived in a different state.

Read up on "bus factor": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
Oh nice, tell me more about proxying to GA, do you just change some hostname config in the ga universal js snippet to point to your forwarding proxy? how does GA know end user IP as it will be your proxy forwarders normally?
Huawei’s Aim to Create a Gigaband Society
That is true. But in that level of paranoia I would argue they should stop using software :). In healthcare and other regulated environments they can shut you down for months or years because of your handling of audit findings. But you get findings because an employee missed his badge, hold open a door for an auditor or has the wrong training records. But there are finding severities, risk analysis and capa handlings to deal with them. Handling this case is easy.

My argument is, when you are in healthcare and you cannot deal with audits and their outcome, stop being there.
Why would they be easier to steal because they are more common? Criminals have more experience with them?