skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't this considered destruction of evidence and already illegal in the context of a court case?

IANAL; my understanding is that it is only destruction of evidence if you're being investigated (or perhaps have reason to believe that you will be investigated; again, IANAL and this it not legal advice), at which point you ought to know better. Otherwise, the result is ridiculous: any piece of paper I throw out could be evidence in some future, yet unknown, unfathomable to me trial — how am I to know now? If I toss anything, then how could it be used as evidence? I'd need to keep everything to be sure, which is absurd. And, like the article continues: what about conversations? That could show wrong-doing, but I'm not recording it.

The point the author is making is that there have long existed things that could be evidence but that have always been possible to destroy prior to anyone knowing that something is afoot. In that regard, those things are "warrant-proof": by the time you know to issue a warrant, you can't find the item that would incriminate the person. But we're not getting legislation crazy about those. A warrant is permission to take a look, not a guarantee to find what you're looking for.

Frankly, I think that opponents of E2E encryption are greatly overstating things; I think a fair amount of the time, LE will be able to work around it: criminals will set stupid passwords, they won't use the tech at all, they'll be caught by other means (hey, we found printed records, your buddy's drive wasn't encrypted, we found a non-technical smoking gun, like a literal smoking gun).

(Ideally, I'd like to see my data essentially being an extension of my mind that perhaps LE can look at; but I shouldn't be compelled to help them do so. But the current gist I get from politicians is that they'd essentially like to outlaw E2E encryption, and you'd never even get a warrant for your data, because BigCo provider would get it.)
Could this be white privilege at work again? I mean this guy got 2 cases granted which seems to be quite an accomplishment in the legal world, but don't you think race had little something to do with it The guy interviewing him said, "[he] looked more like a lawyer then a bank robber". Why? Because he's white?
That is indeed quite weird
>> Are there any books that explain political campaign strategy at this level?

Not sure, but I think the last campaign taught us that these books are super important:

1) "What's Your Message?: Public Speaking with twice the impact, using half the effort" by Cam Barber

2) "Make Your Point!:Speak clearly and concisely anyplace anytime" by Bob Elliott

3) "The Twitter Book" by Tim O'Reilly
The 10 Habits of High-Performing Software Teams
Very few people would "thrive" on a basic income. Look at communities today where a large percentage of people live on government aid. People need a reason to exist and meaningful work to do. Very few have the drive and discipline to become artists/inventors/philosophers/musicians/actors. Plus the majority of those who do become artists are unlikely to create anything that the rest of society would value. Have you been to an Arts & Crafts fair lately? Most of the stuff there has negative value, in that you'd have to pay me to take it.

We need a better solution than basic income.
but did the students learn more?
It's no surprise that we're seeing more and more anxiety coalesce around land: this is the classical economic expectation of what would happen as automated output starts to outperform labor, and capital can be automatically produced. When this happens, scarce natural resources (such as location) increase in value. Henry George saw this nearly 140 years ago, with his "Fool's Paradise" thought experiment.[0]

As efficiency rises and rises, can the cost of living ever approach zero, or will the landlords (in their many forms) be able to extract what they will? This is a very important question we need to answer.

[0] http://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/George/grgPP15.html#...
USF has nothing to do with FIOS. At the time FIOS was built out, you couldn’t even get USF funding for broadband.
He presented the show for 13 years, obviously he's going to say something wrong once in a while. Nobody could possibly know every single topic they cover.
Dan Geer, CISO at In-Q-Tel, on[1] why this is patently incorrect:

> Your digital exhaust is unique hence it identifies. Pooling everyone's digital exhaust also characterizes how you differ from normal. Privacy used to be proportional to that which it is impossible to observe or that which can be observed but not identified. No more -- what is today observable and identifiable kills both privacy as impossible-to-observe and privacy as impossible-to-identify, so what might be an alternative? [...] Privacy will be [...] the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.

> Misrepresentation is using disinformation to frustrate data fusion on the part of whomever it is that is watching you. Some of it can
be low-tech, such as misrepresentation by paying your therapist in cash under an assumed name. Misrepresentation means arming yourself not at Walmart but in living rooms. Misrepresentation means swapping affinity cards at random with like-minded folks. Misrepresentation means keeping an inventory of misconfigured webservers to proxy through. Misrepresentation means putting a motor-generator between you and the Smart Grid. Misrepresentation means using Tor for no reason at all. Misrepresentation means hiding in plain sight when there is nowhere else to hide. Misrepresentation means having not one digital identity that you cherish, burnish, and protect, but having as many as you can. Your fused identity is not a question unless you work to make it be. Lest you think that this is a problem statement for the random paranoid individual alone, let me tell you
that in the big-I Intelligence trade, crafting good cover is getting harder and harder and for the exact same reasons: misrepresentation is getting harder and harder. If I was running field operations I would not try to fabricate a complete digital identity, I'd "borrow" the identity of someone who had the characteristics that I needed for the case at hand.

OPSEC is hard. You leak incredible amounts of data, and modern analysis techniques reveal a lot more than most people realize.

Re: your secondary identity - how do you plan on obfuscating the changeover events so the usage times (and/or network entry/exit times) of your secondary identity are not the inverse of when you use your primary identity? I recommend ZOZ's talk "Don't fuck it up!"[2] for a better sense of just how hard is to do proper OPSEC in the modern age of surveillance.

[1] http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1q4Ir2J8P8
I use gitlab instead of GitHub and Travis and tend to use the free tiers of GAE and Heroku indistinctly. But man, I wasn't even aware of something like Sentry existing, I'll have to get me some of that.

I also need to think of the messaging system. I'll probably start using mattermost instead of slack, though; because GitLab.
RIYL this: there's a surprisingly good documentary about the history of Linotype: http://www.linotypefilm.com/
QI did end up having quite a lot of rather dubious facts in the end (or at the very least, a lot of the answers given as correct on the show required a very unintuitive interpretation of the question, despite the nature of the show).

But given that this seems to have continued well after Fry left the show, I can only assume it’s the researchers on the show making the errors, not Fry himself.
Or 1/9th of a Theranos, amortized over 13 years of discovery rather than flushed down a toilet.
Goodbye Uncanny Valley
Even with a felony conviction for armed robbery, he was able to pass the character and fitness requirements for bar admission. In Washington State. Wonder how many other states would admit him.
Nice example of usability concerns, but I think bookshelves/<bookshelf>/<book> is much more intuitive than bookshelves/<bookshelf>/book/<book>.
Sorry for off-topic.

What reasonably-priced DAC would you recommend?

In the market for one currently.
He did attend a law school and graduate, and was admitted to the bar afterwards.

"He spent three years with the Cockles in Omaha, completing the undergraduate degree he'd begun in prison, and continuing to impress the lawyers he worked with. With their help and against all odds the University of Washington law school took a chance on him. He won a full scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and upon graduation was admitted to the bar."
I don't use filecoin's network but I do use a competitor that is basically doing the same thing, storj. Also when I say I use the network I am talking about actually uploading and paying for data storage.

To answer some of your questions, storj's network consists primarily of people who are renting out their unused hard drive space. Economic of scale doesn't really matter because the people renting the space are just trying to make a few extra bucks per month and they have already paid for the hardware.

They have no way of preventing centralization of disks but the whole network is decentralized. The file you upload is being hosted on thousands of different disks.

Like all companies, they will probably comply with FBI/DMCA orders to the best of their abilities. The issue for them and the FBI is that all data uploaded to the network is encrypted at the point of upload so it is impossible for the FBI/DMCA to find it. These decentralized file hosting systems don't allow public sharing of the download links/keys (yet at least).

Also the reason I pay for storj over say google is because storj is cheaper and has higher redundancy requirements. I have files that I absolutely can never risk losing and storj allows you to pay for the service anonymously while other services do not. In the world of data breaches everywhere, the less information the company has about you, the better.
Hey, my friends and I made that! Happy to answer any questions :)
Most people who deal with Windows often use the actual version number when dicussing versions (as referred to by the winver command). This one is the 1709 update, which is plenty sensical.
Looks great, but the privacy 'setup' is killing it for me.

Anyone know exactly same, best open source without phoning home those data ?

[1] http://browsewithintent.com/privacy

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We let you nuke data from our servers. If you're feeling uncomfortable, you can delete all the data associated with your account. Push a button and it's gone from our servers forever.

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We log only domains, not full URLs.

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Any information about your browsing history is tied to a random identifier that's generated when you install Intent for the first time. When we ask your phone number for our mobile product, we throw it away immediately after we send you a text message.
I was imagining a virtual newspaper that you could fold and manipulate as if it were paper. Now that I think about it, this would be better suited for AR.
What you don't think the date string 120521 is unambiguous? Oh or was that 051221 or was that 210512...?
Microsoft has to defer reporting revenue on sales of Windows 10. From their recent investor letter:

"We delivered $90.0 billion in revenue and $22.3 billion in operating income this past fiscal year. Adjusting for Windows 10 revenue deferrals and restructuring expenses, revenue was $96.7 billion with $29.3 billion in operating income."

That is 31% more revenue and 34% more operating income compared to 2012 (the 5 year time period you're citing). Stock backs will also move the price -- there's almost a billion fewer shares outstanding now than there were 5 years ago.

Of course, investors buy companies for future performance and not for past performance. I would suggest that investors like MSFT's current strategy and management considerably more than their past, and as the management continues to increase profits, investors gain more confidence.
99 year leases have been very, very common throughout history. Simply doing a present value calculation yields the result that to an investor, a 99 year lease and a 999 year lease are approximately the same value today.
“he looked more like a [insert role here] than a [insert role here]”. Why because he’s [ethnicity]?

[citation backing up presumption that the quote was based on real world evidence, or founded on probabilities]
It's been a long time since I accidentally got to porn on the internet. I think that kind of thing is mostly dead (although some of the 'related articles' sections look pretty iffy), and instead porn monetization has moved towards people intentionally looking for porn.
The other language that does what Zig is trying to do is the Jai language that Jonathan Blow has been developing, but it's not open to the public yet.

We don't need a radically different language, really. We just need a language that combines some of the best ideas that have been developing recently in a clean way while keeping the language simple, not complex.

D was trying to do that but then it exploded and became a monster just like C++. It's kind of just a slightly cleaner C++, but it's still a monster.
ISTJ vs. INTJ – How to Tell Them Apart – Astroligion.com
Operations require sort of versions to synchronize, these versions is where ordering comes from too. This is important because since networks are asynchronous messages can arrive to this central server at different order. So, the way to achieve order with central server and being able to synchronize operations is to ask that server and wait for its decision. Not really that simple nor even usable. Instead the simplest and the most naive way to do this is to use timestamps for versions, still without a central server though. But time is not really possible to synchronize, so instead logical clocks should be used, like lamport timestamps, vector clocks.

(And yes, I've been through this)
Bombardier is hugely popular in Québec. The press coverage here has been so anti-boeing they have launched a PR campaign. Any politician that signs any military contract with Boeing is going to pay a huge price in Québec; maybe high enough to lose an election.

Boeing likely mis-calculated the politeness of their neighbors.
It’s still a win for Boeing and Trump. Bombardiers plans to enlarge the CS series to compete with the 737 will not happen as Airbus already has the Neo. The threat of a new entrant is gone, jobs move out of Canada to the airbus plant in the US, and the CS stays at a size below the prime markets Boeing and Airbus compete in. While I am sure Boeing would rather have the program killed entirely this still works out very well for them.
Modern Love: Are We Ready for Intimacy with Robots?
Indeed, several good examples of these DSPs are the Qualcomm Hexagon and the VideoCore IV, the latter of which has a 64x64 register bank, and is largely reverse engineered so you can actually figure out how it works [1]. They are really good for highly serial per-block operations, such as video encoding and decoding. They would also work OK for stuff like large convolutions, which is what I kind of imagine the IPUs are for, but not really significantly better than a GPU (the low serial latency is wasted).

I did find the original source to the Ars article [2] and it says that each IPU core has 512 ALUs. This seems more like a extremely wide GPU than the VPU. It also seems to be programmable in Halide [3], which presents a more "SIMT"-like interface, just like a GPU shader. It probably lacks the super fast bilinear texture mapping units that a GPU has, but otherwise seems very similar. It'd be interesting to know if the texture/pixel cache is handled automatically, or manually with a large register file like the VPU.

The article also features this quote, which also seems to back Google being unsatisfied with only high level access to the GPU:

>A key ingredient to the IPU’s efficiency is the tight coupling of hardware and software—our software controls many more details of the hardware than in a typical processor.

It would be really awesome if they opened this chip up to third party developers. Unfortunately the press release only mentions availability in the Camera API so far, relegating it to the same opaque blob status as all the other dedicated image processors :(

[1] https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv/wiki/VideoCor...

[2] https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-visual-core-image-p...

[3] http://halide-lang.org/
>Go forces you to stick to the basics. This makes it very easy to read anyone’s code and immediately understand what’s going on.

I’m not criticizing Go since I have no LoC in it, but in other restricted-and-flat languages and areas our company’s expertise quickly (read: in half a decade) went to the limit with no chance to turn the lang partly into dsl and level up. It is like playing rpg where you stuck to level 5 and never get powerful enough to take middle-level quest even with a great party.

While it seems cool to have automatic jsonification, build process and out of box concurrency, inability to create something that only your team can use and understand effectively means you’re locked to growing markets (bubbles) and never have real expertise and/or budget over bloated competition. This may play a bad game with your future, should roads cross with one who has.

Again, the type I’m talking about must be rare, and “there is only one opinionated way to do it” seems to fit better on average tasks.
> Economic of scale doesn't really matter because the people renting the space are just trying to make a few extra bucks per month and they have already paid for the hardware.

OK so hypothetically, if this decentralized storage thingie made the sellers a profit, there would be at least 1 rational and greedy seller who would take that profit, invest it in more disks, and save on costs compared to other folks, right? In other words, if I have 100,000 computers in a data center with central cooling system, the total electricity costs will be less than the total cooling costs of 100,000 individuals each with their own 1 computer. Furthermore, the total bandwidth costs of the 100,000-computer data center will be cheaper than the total bandwidth costs of 100,000 individuals with 1 computer each (economies of scale).

How can you say that "there is no way to prevent centralization" and then follow up with "the whole network is decentralized", when the cost structure obviously makes more sense for this distributed storage to all be controlled by a handful of resourceful entities?

Then those 4-5 data centers just become an encrypted Dropbox, right? So like, SpiderOak?
You could say that nearly for any language. Very often you could do just fine without one.
Well, it's Go, so you're going to have some runtime type errors. interface{} is way too common to avoid them completely (I had the order of arguments for two ConcurrentMaps wrong, for instance, and it blew up on reads -- found it almost instantly, but alas, at runtime). But it should be a much smaller number than python.
Hokay. First solid attributable example of this meme I can find was a comment from an Ezra Klein thread about Dick Armey, in 2010. Though I didn't look very hard.

Re: Dick Armey, 2010
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/03/dont_kno...

Re: Newt Gingrich, 2011
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/paul-krugman-newt-gingrich-is-a-...

Re: Paul Ryan, 2011
https://twitter.com/muttmutt/status/137622700217745408

Re: Chris Christie, 2012
https://twitter.com/BrooklineDems/status/240650011304660992

Re: Russell Brand, 2013
https://twitter.com/DrPizza/status/393134675935649792

etc etc.

I've seen this said of people and movies (Inception especially- many times), etc.

Whoever said it about Stephen Fry was way, WAAY late to the party.
Show HN: UK only Net to Gross salary calculator-Android app
I wonder if we are seeing "tinderization" of all online means of communication or it's just creepy approaches existed since primordial times and we just have the technology to record it(or is it that Russian PR teams started stirring up the things between the genders instead of races... ) .
Is the underground network of autonomous vehicles for deliveries and waste management just a sketch or actually in the works? [1]

[1] https://www.sidewalklabs.com/assets/uploads/2016/10/171012_S...
Static analysis tools can already find obvious bugs. Except they have a high false positive rate. And then fixing the bugs without breaking something else is still far beyond what we can automate. There is no universal fitness function to tell the difference between good versus bad software, thus no way to consistently automate improvements.
"She wanted to post it on Twitter, not a blog"

Therein lies the problem. Good research deserves good presentation, and 60 tweets where a Medium or Blogger or whatever post would've sufficed ain't exactly it.

Likewise, it's hard to discuss her work when the presentation is sufficiently distracting to preclude actually viewing said work in a reasonable manner.
Violence is not solely limited as the “purview” to young people. While they represent the mean, they do not own the entire curve. Your statement is a generalization.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/251884/murder-offenders-...
Before, I could see the files. Now, I can feel the files changing in front of my eyes with the motions of my hands.

The touchscreen touches back.
if it was a box instead of bookshelf then /book/ makes more sense otherwise you don't know which object the <book> id is for.
It's great to see clojure in the wild. I have to cringe a little at the use of a bunch of atoms like this:

https://github.com/clojurecademy/clojurecademy/blob/master/src/cljs/clojurecademy/course.cljs#L37

Also, seeing a whole lot of calls to set-event-handler really rubs me the wrong way.

To the author, are you willing to let someone move this to more cljs (i.e. a big state atom with dispatches and subscriptions)?
The Surface Book was good enough on paper that I ordered one without ever having seen one in person, and being willing to switch from Linux (Arch with i3wm) to Windows for it.

It has not disappointed me.
and how exactly are they going to enforce these rules? Do you think the SEC is going to zimbabwe, congo or some other backwater country to tell these people to stop issuing ICO lol? The US federal government is not the policeman of the world my friend.

People who are doing ICOs will just move to where they can have their business be successful. If USA/Europe or Asia ban ICOs then all the devs will just move to another country where it is legal, maybe russia?
Didnt we try this before (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper chip) and it was determined to be a Bad Idea?
We need a new "explain it like I'm 5" guide to modern physics. Or at least, "like I'm not a mathematician".
Good luck! By an issue I meant the former company took them to court and was ordered to pay a few hundred grand
i would say for using Zig with Arduino (it's possible llvm will ship AVR support in the future) and other microcontrollers.
While siphoning up more user data.
Interesting, I had always gone with that since the RFC says it should happen. Good to know.