skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, you can't know anything for sure. That's logically true, but a totally pointless dead end. Backing away from that so we can have a useful conversation - I guess when I talk about toxic ideas I'm thinking something like Trump's "fake news" declarations.

We can study it and... within' reasonable bounds, know that it's a distortion of reality. Of course not all news is 100% accurate, and all news comes with politics attached - why was this reported not that, etc. but calling the new york times "fake news" is just wrong. If we analyze things in a deep and unbiased way we can be fairly sure they are mostly acting in good faith with the goal of telling the truth.

But it's a toxic idea - if we don't have the time, inclination or critical skills to break it down, it can prey on people's mistrust of intellectualism and stereotypes about the media. If you believe it even a little bit it undermines any and all criticism of Trump no matter how valid. Which allows him to dance around the normal check on democracy that the media is supposed to be.

To conclude: I don't know that pride is a frailty that can be exploited by a toxic idea to cause harm, but that's the way the world looks from here so that's how I conduct myself.
Or financial services.
Spectacles failed because they wouldn't sell us the damn things! There was all this hype but it was practically impossible to buy a pair except for scalper prices on eBay.
Julia does exactly this.
Tech Stocks Roar Again in Faint Echo of 2000
Stifled ambitions: a review of Google robotics
Sometimes? Like most of winter when the wind in Beijing disappears and an inversion sets in (when the wind comes, it gets really cold but the air is clean, no need for rain). Beijing is comparable to Salt Lake City, which has its own inversion problem but doesn’t have polluting factories surrounding it in Hebei.
I saw this, realized I had never heard of it, and knew right away it had to be a blockchain. It all falls into place. Moving on.
Apple is not a monopolist. iPhone marketshare is ~15% globally. There is plenty of choice.
There's no question it's production ready ... plenty of large companies are deploying it routinely in production for years. The real question is more the opposite of that - is it past its prime to the point where it will stop receiving enough fresh developer input to keep it up with modern trends? Groovy's lunch was mostly eaten by Ruby, unfortunately, and even that is looking old now.

For the other part of your question, it depends a bit what you mean by "without the need for object orientation". Groovy definitely relaxes a lot of the strict object orientation of Java. However, since it is based on the JVM it doesn't have platform support for core functional features like tail recursion and immutability. Groovy adds a number of features to add support for these, but as with all such features added after the fact, they aren't as good or reliable as if it was built into the core platform.

Groovy's forte is really in how it makes Java massively more developer friendly while staying within the original philosophy and maintaining full compatibility with Java. This is where I think it wins over Scala and other JVM languages which introduce their own types and radically different design philosophies. The integration of Groovy with Java is nearly completely seamless, and that's where I think it's actually really awesome for enterprise systems.
Except for the $5+ tax per pack. What a ridiculous assertion.
There are a number of differences (which one might say would take an entire whitepaper to describe ;P), but as one high-level and in my mind very interesting example, Tor actually is a centralized service where nine directory servers are able to decide the state of the network; we are accepting nothing less than a fully-decentralized system.
RPC Over RDMA
Perception of quality is subjective. An objective measurement of quality would be how well something fits a set of requirements. Something fitting that definition of "quality" could still be perceived as low-quality, of course, but I think that's a different question.
The main reason there's currently not more details around the SAFT and the token model/allocations is that it would distract from the overall project and tech, given the current hype of blockchains and tokens.

There's certainly economic incentives for all participants, and what I find interesting is that since we're open sourcing all the code, anyone can easily deploy another network with a different token (model).

This puts pressure on us to propose fair token model/allocations else we risk disruption by forks or simply new Orchid networks.
The whitepaper is way over my head

How about a more specific question. If someone uses Orchid to accesse a website, can the website identify their IP address?
Same here - working up an algorithm is so much more pleasant when you can take advantage of all the Groovy features to get the logic right interactively in a REPL, then you can bring it into your code and sprinkle in types afterwards.

I quite like the pattern of having fully typed interfaces and type signatures while letting the body of a function be dynamic where it makes a big difference to expressiveness. Like a hard shell with a soft inside.
> In a tearful video, Peterson explains her father violated an Apple company rule by allowing her to film the unreleased handset at Apple’s campus.

The key word here is "unreleased".

Even if she released the video after the keynote, it was filmed in Apple's Labs / Offices a month before, when the new iphone was in an unreleased state. Pretty sure their NDA forbids such things for obvious reasons. Design leaks (from videos) could potential cost companies like Apple MILLIONS in lost revenue.

NDAs are there for a reason. I see nothing wrong with what Apple did here.
Not even remotely universally true. I've seen plenty of static code that is as obtuse as any dynamic code. Authorship holds far more sway than dynamic vs static.
He did more than let her, he participated in the video, demonstrating animojis.
wasn't it at apple HQ as well?
This.

The publishing that they did concerning Snowden was important for journalistic freedom.

All that stuff stopped after Katherine Viner became editor in 2015.

I do read it occasionally - just have uBlock Origin picker handy each time her face pops up begging for funds ...
While I'm not too familiar with "the dominant model", I guess I should have clarified:

> The results of the dominant model of town organization in the USA leaves much to be desired

Way over-priced homes, auto-oriented urban/rural design, an excessive love for parking lots, houses all look the same...

Towns across the US share way too much in common for it to be something that spontaneously arose out of millions of tiny decisions.

The developed parts of California cannot be anywhere close to the Arden idea - there's endless rules, zoning restrictions, boards and commissions to try to sway, etc.
Could you tell us how?
Is there any thought given to the response to a node operator who is detected/proven to be operating the node for surveillance or compromise? What would the response be? Will tokens not be sold to such a node operator?
I doubt they care about publicity or karma. They care a great deal about secrecy, and firing this person sends a clear message to everyone else at the company that violating secrecy has major consequences.
Remember Boris Johnson? Why should he have to pay taxes to a country he had no real connection to? What real purpose does that serve?
How would you say politics there differs from other places?
I saw this video on r/apple a few days ago and the general consensus there was that the father would be fired eventually.

It's harsh but if you work at Apple you should know they take a no nonsense approach to pre-launch secrecy.
If you living under this kind of sky long enough, you'll get use to it and may even forgot what normal air looks like.

On a online forum of my home town (At Southern China), people often post images they took at a day with 200+ PM 2.5 reading, and call it a good day just because it's sunny.

And yes, sometime we have reading way over 200+ at south too, like this photo I took back in 2015 (PM 2.5 ~500): https://goo.gl/9NADxM

Luckily though, at south, we may have better air during summer (PM 2.5 ~70). And when that happens, the sky look like this: https://goo.gl/nzopX3.

The government's work had it's effect, but currently they only able to reduce the amount of (heavily) polluted days, rather than kill the pollution all together.

Personally, I think, regardless what the government trying to do, until we switched to cleaner energy sources and industries, that smog over there ain't go anywhere.
I imagine most people here agree, but feel some sympathy for the engineer who wasn't malicious, just careless.
Clearly we should just fire all police officers since there is still crime. They aren't doing their jobs!
Saudi Arabia has granted citizenship to a robot
Ruby has new syntax to handle calling methods on null objects.

obj&.is&.nil? can replace the use of try obj.try(:is).try(:nil?)
The website will see the IP address of the exit node connecting to it, not the IP address of the user connecting to the network. You can then ask the question "what if the people running the website are also running nodes on this network and are actively attempting to do various forms of information correlation attacks including active experiments on the traffic flow", then I really am going to have a hard time accurately summarizing the whitepaper.

However, I see now that I didn't bother answering your first question, due to the complexity of the second ;P.

> Is this anonymous like tor or i2p?

The answer to this question is "yes", though we are aiming to be even better than those projects (in different ways).
When you routinely see numbers in the 400s and sometimes over 500, a mere 300 is a welcome reprieve.
The calculus is worth it in their estimation, if it prevents a similar (or worse) leak in the future.
> I mean, if filming is not allowed, how did she get a camera in there in the first place?

You're not allowed to stab people in the supermarket I frequent, and yet there's nobody standing at the door frisking all the customers.

> People other than her father didn't do their job, clearly, and if a kid can sneak a digital device into Apple into a location that is apparently intended to be highly secure, then I'm forced to question their sincerity in how much emphasis they put on security.

They probably evaluated the situation and decided that rather than turn their facility in a well-defended fortress, they would simply make it clear to their employees what isn't allowed and expect them to do the right thing most of the time, and accept that sometimes the rules will get broken. That this story counts as news proves that their approach works very well most of the time.

Besides, these iPhones have cameras, if you can get on campus and get your hands on two of them, you could easily create a video and upload it, without ever bringing your own camera.
> the Tobacco industry benefits enormously from manufacturing economies of scale.

I was expecting the rest of the comment to be an explanation of why this is so, but I feel that it really just restated, with specific numbers, the claim that they do indeed make a large amount of money (or at least revenue) per employee.
Bitcoin secret recovery tool in Node.js
That makes sense, the priority is whitelists, not blacklists.
This is needed but there should be more insight into the current surveillance problem and how Orchid solves it. This seems to be focused on China.

Because surveillance is a potentially serious problem, it should not be used cynically to market some new product that just adds another layer but doesn't really solve the problem.

For the average person its not China or Russia but their own state that is a bigger problem as they have power over them and can interfere with activism, journalism, dissent etc. The intensive profiling by Google, Facebook and others is another problem.

Was the Internet designed to be anonymous? Governments control access and can stomp down at will. ISPs and telcos know who you are, server and vpn providers know who you are, Facebook and Google have a lot of data on you. Only the very committed and technically adept can perhaps attempt any sort of anonymity.

Something like Musk's satellites with some basic free access may perhaps be the first of many steps to some kind of anonymity.
I believe that while monads are great, crystal obviates the need for option because String? doesn't mean "nullable string", it means (String | Nil) or "the type which is the union of String and Nil". This is a much more powerful and generic concept than nillable types, as you can call any method in this object which is defined both on String and Nil. One such method (which happens to be defined in every type) is the method try. This is equivalent to a map in monad optional. I'm sure you can see that this generalises to make type unions possible to represent the optional type (with no overhead) and all methods which you could implement on it. Furthermore, its actually more powerful as this is implemented at the type system level, meaning flow typing works, which makes code much cleaner as you can use normal if statements with boolean conjugates to "unwrap" these types (really just removing types from the union) which is cleaner.
It's the sort of action that keeps other employees from being lackadaisical about security. This sort of move is actually good for morale.
Agreed, but with that level of access, one cannot afford to be careless. And Apple could care less whether it was malicious, or careless or plain stupid.

The intent doesn't change the consequences for Apple.
I'm a senior in college now. This was something I worked on from the beginning of high school until this May.
> Because then every minority can vote whatever they want.

I don't see why that would be a problem. In fact, we already do that all the time. Look at the voting turnout for a large number of elections. Are you seriously suggesting that >50% of voters have to vote on something (that they may or may not be properly informed about) to make it legitimate?

I generally don't vote on my local school and education laws, because I don't have kids, and don't follow that system enough to be properly informed. My city has a low percentage of parents, so I'm assuming that a lot of other people don't either. If the choice is between everyone voting on stuff that they don't understand, or only those who care enough vote, I'll take the later every time.
Depends on how exactly you define trust. You can always trust big companies - to do the thing that will make them the most money short term and/or minimize their risks. Their actions tend to be predictable. Small companies sometimes do strange / unpredictable / stupid things, you can't always trust that they'll do things that are in their best interest.
Looks like somewhere in the middle he/she switched to a different style. Where +, *, etc are treated as infix operators by default; so that you don't have to write `+` anymore. But to treat + as a regular operator, you would write (+).
It's ancient history to me, and I'm not even a teenager. I can't believe it was 2012... I would have said 2005 or something. According to Wikipedia, it was actually 2013. Wow.
I don’t know how to feel on this one. Usually I agree but this is Apple and he’s an employee. If he was able to get an iPhone there’s no way he doesn’t know what the rules are. There’s no way he doesn’t know that Apple is extremely strict about security. He’s probably been through a couple of the “we are tightening down on leaks” things over the last year or two. If he’s been there long enough he probably remembers the big mess about the employee who lost their iPhone four before it was released.

Heck we got massive firmware leaks a month or two ago, he had to of known about that and how mad people were.

I don’t know how Sony, or Samsung, or Microsoft, or other companies handle this kind of stuff. But Apple is well known for taking an extremely strong stance.

Part of me thinks the daughter should’ve known better, it’s not like she’s a 12-year-old. If this was filmed a month before it was posted then she had plenty of time to think about it. It’s not like she live streamed it in then realized later that it was a mistake.

I want to think the employee just had a lapse in judgment and was just trying to have fun with/impress his daughter. I hope that’s all it was.

It’s kind of unfortunate but it was 100% predictable what would happen the instant this went online.
We still use Grails at work. Kill it. Kill it with fire.
https://github.com/peterjkrey/bitcoin_recover
True. Also I feel kind of bad for the kid which adds another semitragic element.
Both of Sask's major cities in the region that is on permanent Central Time.
Can I set up a relay node now?
The goal of our network is to make it so that the network is protected as much as possible from users running compromised nodes. If you are a single node, you should not be able to do anything against the network. As the number of nodes you are in the system increases, the probability you will be able to pull of various forms of attacks against users of the network also increases. We are working on documenting these security tradeoffs in detail in our whitepaper (and any attempt I make to describe them here will be less accurate and thereby dangerous ;P).

However, it is worth noting at a super-super high level that we are hoping to get a large number of nodes running the network and we have parts of our system that involve proof of work in a way similar to a cryptocurrency blockchain like Bitcoin. If a node in the Bitcoin network is operating for the purpose of compromise, it need not be banned from mining blocks: the network is designed in a way to make it so that such a node would not be able to pull off the kinds of attacks that people care about unless it owns a significant percentage of the resources being applied to securing the network. Our network has similar properties.
i love being an amazon customer; less so an amazon merchant.

we sell DIY products, which can be damaged easily (improper electrical connections, poor RTFM, etc). the no-questions-asked return policy is not great for us.
I understand the plan is to be open source, but can someone help me understand why it's not developed in the open? I mean, you can tell people you're not accepting external input at this stage, but why not let people watch it being developed? I can't think of any reason that doesn't make me think that the goal may be openness/transparency but not the practice. Or did I miss the link to the repo?
Good riddance to over-engineered niche luxury products like this that ask you to spend hundreds of dollars to achieve the same results you can achieve for a few dollars.

The loss on the human side (jobs, etc) is sad, but I certainly don't shed a tear when this stuff doesn't succeed.

The Juicero was essentially an expensive pair of hands. The only thing the Teforia MAYBE offers, if I'm incredibly generous about it, is the pressurized steeping, but there is no way that it makes enough of a taste difference to be worth it over traditional western or gongfu brewing. I'm also not convinced that it's actually better, and anecdotal experiences from Teforia buyers don't really help because when you pay $1000 for your tea infuser, of course you're going to "think" it's better. I bet blind taste tests would come out quite differently.

Let's even say the result does actually taste better, even under blind testing. There is no way it tastes hundreds of dollars better. Why would someone spend that much on a slight taste improvement? It only makes sense for people with incredibly high budgets/income. Tea enthusiasts already control all the variables (temperature, time, etc) and can and do make great tea using gaiwans and teapots. The Teaforia solves a non-existent problem.
As far as I understand it this is a move by governments to prevent money from leaving their borders. VND is a currency useful only in Vietnam. Bitcoin has no borders - this means they can't constrain that value inside the country.

I feel like I've only scratched the surface as to why governments would want to do this. What else is there?
I think his point at the end was that computation is substrate-independent; i.e. there is nothing special or magical about silicon and electricity. In a sense, the universe itself can be said to be acting like a computer.
Sorry, but we have not yet finished writing the code for this (let's just say it: "my fault" ;P). Even I am currently unable to start and integrate a new relay into a running network; this should be fixed in the near future and we will have all of our code available as open source under the AGPL3 license, and will be working hard to build up an inclusive community around the project.
can captcha go away now? its such a lazy garbage solution to the problem
Indeed, if you expect intelligent people to follow stupid rules, you need to be sure to give them a lot of "morale".
Real wages have not risen in over 40 years.
Exactly. Symbols are first-class runtime objects in CL, so just make up a symbol name for the various null-like values. Keywords are the easiest symbols for this purpose since they're package-agnostic.
the end is near..? ..is everyone in yet?
Could make the case it is used for black market purchases or funding terrorists, or rogue governments.
Sure. Imagine how much income the crack industry would produce if they didn't have to waste so much labor avoiding law enforcement.
It’s widely thought that a number of things come directly from Apple. Leaks that point out/say other negative leaks are true often seem to be from Apple. A sort of unofficial official statement.

It’s also thought that they leak things sometimes so people will have some time to get used to the information before it’s officially announced. That may have been the case with the leaks about headphone removal on the iPhone 7 months ahead of the device’s announcement. That way when the time came the stories were about the headphone removal but also other things. If it hadn’t already been discussed a lot there’s a decent chance it would’ve ONLY been about the headphone removal.

But those kinds of leaks tend to be to reporters or bloggers that Apple is familiar with.

As far as I know they’ve never actually done any “geurrila“ style stuff.
I walked a mile and a half alone to and from kindergarten back in the 1970s (my family lived in the Long Island, NY suburbs). I was allowed to ride my bicycle alone all over town on weekends, and sometimes I traveled so far as to cross into the neighboring towns. I never got lost because I studied road maps as a kid and could even draw them from memory -- to this day I do not use GPS for navigation.

My parents even entrusted me with the care of my 4-year-old sister when I was twelve. The two of us would bicycle into town by ourselves and I would buy her candy at the local shops. Those early feelings of independence are some of my most treasured childhood memories.

Edit: All of this happened, of course, without the benefit of cell phones. I could be completely out of contact with my parents for an entire day, and that was not considered anything unusual. I can only remember one time in all those years when my parents came looking for me, and that was because a powerful storm suddenly broke out in the middle of an otherwise clear day.