skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the one hand you have a point about China's actions, on the other hand, you are comparing Germany to mainland China as equivalent threats. As an American I would trust most countries in the EU with stuff like this over even my own country given the direction of the USA.
This is all opinion and I'm not criticizing your view, just disagreeing, but I would hazard a guess from the wording of the last sentence the worry is about Orwell's 1984 dystopian future coming true when the bigger problem is that the problems in Huxley Brave New World is much closer to reality (even given the current autocratic/far right's non ironic use of doublespeak across all countries and forms of government). Germany already bans Nazi imagery and wording in many forms except for history purposes and they seem to be fine. We already have problems in the USA where now nonviolent political protestors are being prosecuted by the federal government and officials are encouraging people to commit violence against the protestors in spite of the protestors having the First Amendment to back them up - statutory limits or freedoms are not magic that make things right.
It was just an unexpected funding problem, it’s not my place to say more than that. Also, some of the groups are still going, but not through HARC.
Thanks, I should look how others did it. It's true that dillo never cared about scripting, I felt like plugin lua in would force a rewrite of every part..
Megacomputers and the Quest to Understand Superstorms
when they don't want to refund me $50, sure. But if they're holding $3600, i think i could probably pay attention to what they're telling me.
What's that symbol after the A? I've tried to repro it myself but I couldn't
News reported the state of the area a year after but I didn't check since, it would be interesting to see how they coped with the event.
Are there adversarial examples for Alpha Go Zero?
well if you chose and modified the representation of the world yourself, and set it so it would be making decisions based on a heuristic you provided it, then at the end of the day, it is not so different from how our biological circuits work, to the extent we have control over them
Reminds me of a longstanding similar issue. I regularly type Korean on my iPhone, and autocorrect has been historically terrible on iOS. It will replace entire correct and valid words with completely unrelated words.

No Korean I know keeps Autocorrect turned on because of this, so I think iOS never learns which words are used frequently when, and never improves.

I have had autocorrect off on iOS for years because I cannot disable autocorrect by language/keyboard.
I love Apple. I really do. But I feel so disappointed in their quality control lately. I don't understand how this made it into release.
i don’t understand how microservices solves the problem of broken interfaces. if an api changes or disappears, how is that different from the locations.txt file changing or disappearing?

i think it’s just another instance of humans making things more complicated than they need be. Same line of reasoning Linus went with a monolith vs a micro kernel.
It's legal in my country to mock religious figures like Jesus, Moses and Mohammad. In other countries it is illegal to do so. If I post an image portraying Jesus, Moses and Mohammad as lovers (admittedly it's in poor taste) to MyFaceGoogleLinkedSpaceBookPlusIn, does MyFaceGoogleLinkedSpaceBookPlusIn have the legal authority to delete my post since it might be seen in a country where it's illegal?
I wonder why we use these services if we aren’t satisfied with how they work.
This is why even some of ASCII is a mistake, maybe we shouldn't even bother with case.

Every time something like this comes about I just get more cynical about the complexity of multilingual systems, or systems with interesting typesetting routines.
Very true. It is of course not only a US or Western issue. England and Wales have illegalised possession of certain pornographic comics showing children, for example. Australia and Canada have gone so far as to do the same for even possession of stories or diary entries depicting it.

This was done solely from the "think of the children!" angle. To those who might respond with the dact that only disgusting people could possibly enjoy such material, Snowden's "saying that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say". It also sets the precedent that the State has the right to decide what art you can possess and produce privately.
U+FE0F, VARIATION SELECTOR-16. Typically used to force usage of an "emoji-style" variation of a character.
I would reiterate that simply because there are problems with naive visualization, we shouldn't discredit visual thinking.

There are several key elements to effective visual thinking. The primary importance is to keep it grounded in proofs and theorems, so you know exactly what are your limitations. Often you can use a geometric argument on top of a few theorems and you get a very strong result intuitively, and then use this intuition with a tiny amount of algebra to prove it (which might take you forever to arrive from a purely algebraic perspective). Another key is that there are several ways of visualizing things. You can almost always transform a problem into an equivalent one that is easy to visualize (just need a little bit of care with the transformation, etc).

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For example, you can show functions form a vector space, visualizing some interesting algebraic properties about them, even if it constitutes an infinite-dimensional space.

You can show several operators (such as d/dx) are linear, you can give it a norm, internal product, etc. This trick lets you use visual tools (and linear algebra tools) with arbitrary functions. You can visualize projection of a function into a subspace, or into some non-canonical basis -- yielding useful applications -- such as Fourier analysis.

Fourier analysis itself is a fertile ground for visual thinking. You'll be finding trivial arguments for seemingly difficult decisions such as "Does this linear system have a bounded output for any bounded input?". There isn't one right way of thinking about anything.

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On the other hand, it can't be stressed enough the importance of keeping track of formal assumptions, axioms, definitions, theorems to construct valid, correct proofs. That way you minimize the risk of fooling yourself, and can safely use your intuition.

This 3B1B video exemplifies many of those elements:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwAD6dRSVyI&t=633s
down. seems slashdotted ehhmm hned
You set the destination, it sets the route. Maybe you tell it you feel like you aren't getting enough exercise, or you need more time at night for a friend. It schedules the mundanity around those goals. I would love that.
Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes, Including Billionaire Waleed Bin Talal
There's nothing really that special about Goroutines. Ruby also introduced Fibres in 2007. There's been some discussion of adding a more automatic M:N threading model to Ruby 3.
Trust is hard. It cannot be automated, it's inherently social and demands vigilance. This is as true IRL as it is online and on "curated" federations (of software, news, contacts etc). The "killer app" for trust is one that extends our natural skepticism and social awareness, and this will _never_ be easier online than in meatspace. This is obvious when we raise our perspective from the purely technological (the "means") to the fundamentally social (the "ends").

All the automated or manual safeguards that Google could enact would never prevent people from pulling a fast one, the old switcheroo, a kansas shuffle on each other because it's just something that we do. And we will use whichever means (technology) available, in whatever way feasible. This particular example looks egregious (or ingenious, depending) for cosmetic reasons, but it's fundamentally an interaction between people however fraudulent. Google is in the business of interactions between people.
> If that's what Germany wants, Facebook should pack up and leave, and make people use a VPN to access Facebook.

Oh, it would be so nice if all the other countries did that, so Facebook
would pack up and leave everywhere.
“Oushu” (偶数) is developing “Apache HAWQ”, the fourth generation of OLAP database
How can one say that "the system has corrected itself", when the perpetrators have yet to receive punishment? Criminals don't get to just cease and apologize.
Nobody understands how 11.0 made it into release
It is as easy to setup a framebuffer into a SDL window, working pretty much like in the DOS days.
> I wish someone would make me look like a fool by proving such assertions wrong. Sadly, I think that is increasingly unlikely.

I’m sorry to say no such reprieve is on the way. The situation is as dire as you make it out to be. Silicon Valley, tech culture as a whole, can either be the new master or the savior, it just hasn’t collectively made up its mind yet.
I love Apple as much as the next person, but I'm embarrassed for whoever had to publish the contents of that support article.
In every redaction, there used to be a government employee called censor. This one read all articles are decides what can and what cannot go into print.

The law does not require checking all content, it requires checking content that has been flagged by users. So it is neither everything nor on behalf of the government.

Censor followed government wish what citizens can and cannot know.

The law requires taking offline content that is in violation of existing laws, it has nothing to do with what the government likes or not. At least unless you assume that the laws already reflect what the government likes and dislikes in which case taking offline Facebook posts is probably not your biggest concern.

This German law institutes private censors. This one will behave exactly like the same, except they will be employed by the company, under penalty.

There is certainly some justified concern that decisions over legal matters are moved into private hands but in the end that are considerations of practicality. In an ideal world a judge would check all cases but that is realistically not going to happen. So judges checking all the cases where users complain about the decisions made by private companies seems a reasonable compromise.

This is not cultural marxism, this is censorship. The rules under which censors will operate are based on political correctness, which is based on cultural marxism.

This is just vague, it doesn't really say anything. You can not really discuss anything just in terms like capitalism, political correctness, or morality where hardly a hand full of people on Earth agrees on the exact meaning.

Personally, I believe there much not be any limits to free speech. Free speech is not about what you can say - it's about what you can hear. Authoritarians are not afraid of what you can say, they are afraid of those who listen to you.

I would agree that in an ideal world there should be no limit to what you can say, in reality we will have to compromise, I guess.
Some of the Disqus comments at the bottom of that article illustrate the complexity and prevalence of the problems.

Of course, The Atlantic, and many other websites continue to tolerate massive troll operations in their own comment sections, for the same reason that FB and Twitter do.
Yeah, ios is considerably less consistent since Scott Forstall left. Bring back Forstall plz.
What are the avenues for appeal in the military courts? Does it end up in the SC?
I don't use an iPhone, but Google is really messing up with the default Android 7 keyboard. It frequently replaces correctly spelled words, and will not correct words with one letter incorrect and no ambiguity as to what word it should be. I've tried clearing my history to no avail. It seems like it's trying to be "smart" and using context rather than just a dictionary. It's similar to how they made their search "smarter", returning results that don't match your query exactly.

Someone at Google should really be embarrassed that this got out into the public's hands.
I more meant speed.
The fallacy of premature optimization (2006)
I once tried to engage in a ‘Deepak Chopra’ way and asked if the person (15-17 year kid) needed any help, and started offering unsolicited advice about staying calm and being friendly to people. The situation escalated pretty quickly to the point he went crazy on the entire subway car and started using profanity against anyone who even looked at him. Note to myself: don’t engage. World is not the same as what you see in movies or tv shows.
Minimax algorithm with alpha-beta pruning is an exhaustive search algorithm. MCTS is a probabilistic algorithm that optimises for converging faster for a partial "good enough" result.

Introducing MCTS for Go playing programs in 2006 brought upon a revolution in playing strength. For the first time Go programs stood a chance against a dan-level amateur.
To which the term "Unicode whitespace" applies as equally well as it does to plain old U+0020 :)
Ouch. Post an article, then two weeks later your headline image makes you look a bit tasteless. Bad timing...

EDIT: And then I started reading the first paragraph...

EDIT 2: I'm not saying they did anything wrong, the article was posted on the 17th.
Why aren't they paying?
Face ID fails to distinguish non-twin brothers
Would the judge still be at risk for 'disrespecting a superior officer' no matter what the billet?
I don’t get it. Apple makes the best mobile processors in the world. They routinely introduce low volume manufacturing techniques to the iPhone, which they then scale to 100+ million units per year. How are they somehow not a hardware company?
Here's a photo of the Colonel-

http://www.gazettenet.com/Gitmo-case-off-rails-13508136

The prisoner, Al-Nashiri, was arrested in 2002 and held in CIA black sites for years. In 2004, he was sentenced to death (in absentia) in Yemen for the USS Cole bombing.

Instead, the CIA interrogated him and tortured him for years. Now he's charged in a case where if he wins he remains in prison indefinitely.

If this guy really was a terrorist why didn't the CIA send him back to Yemen to be put to death legally?

According to this article, a CIA official disputed his guilt saying: "He was an idiot. He couldn't read or comprehend a comic book."

I wonder what the truth is and how they could be ambiguous on his guilt. I think the CIA is generally good but I often wonder how it'd work if Elon Musk type principles drove government agencies. All organizations seem poisoned by processes and plagued by mental models designed by lawyers with relativistic principles.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-h...
The branching factor for games like Go is too high. Alpha Go Zero uses a stochastic policy to focus its attention on useful branches. This policy is optimized alongside the predicted value for each node.
i agree big tech needs to be held accountable more, but we also need to be careful. a lot of the freedom tech was given was to enable start ups.

big tech has basically monopolized the market, but if we enact laws of responsibility, they could be ones that make it even harder to disrupt the monopolies already in power
Implementing a key-value store, part 1: Linear Hashing
Do you have one?
Here are three fake uBlock Origins that have over 4 million users between them

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-plus/kjagjn...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-adblock-plu...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-adblocker-p...

The last two are exploiting the fact that uBlock Origin doesn't come up when you search "adblock".

There's tons more, just look through the search results for "adblock" https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/adblock?hl=en-US&_... and results for "ublock"
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/ublock?hl=en-US&_c...

Note that firefox doesn't have this problem (tons of adblockers, maybe some are fake, but none pretending to be uBlock Origin) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?platform=ma... maybe has something to do with the fact that they show usage numbers on the results page.
One can GPS spoof with $100 worth of hardware and a few days putting together opensource software defined radio modules.

Just hook a GPS signal emulator to a software defined transmitter.

A total system bandwidth of 1 Mhz is nowhere near computational limits today. Total transmission power of a couple of watts is trivial.
just because people get richer doesn't mean they will or even could make the same unhealthy lifestyle choices as americans. There will never be huge suburbs of mcmansions outside of every indian city - there's simply not enough room, even if everyone had the purchasing power of an american. (I say this as american who lives in the suburbs). Not saying that all the growth will be environmentally sound growth, but perhaps not as bad as it was in the past.
The recent innovation to iOS keyboard is a feature called "Smart Punctuation". When you type the single quote, it will automatically turn into a unicode apostrophe. I am sure many programmers occasionally writing code on iOS are thrilled about this feature.
I'm returned to the heyday of Sorenson Video 3, Windows Media Video, and RealVideo. =:D Our application was used by most web video professionals at the time - go to a trailer on Apple's site, and it'd almost certainly have been produced by our work.

All C, up to Media Cleaner Pro 4, migrating to C++ with Cleaner 5, with some Altivec (oh, what a joyous SIMD ISA) on the Mac side.
If your loved ones require you to install crap on your phone to communicate with you, do they really love you?
The solution to that is to aggressively enforce antitrust laws already in the books, not to oppose "laws of responsibility" because it might have disproportionate impact on small companies.

Note that Germany's "Facebook law" doesn't apply to social media platforms with less than 2 million users, which shows they took steps to protect small businesses from the compliance burden.
network effects, and convenience.
This is kind of incredible. A wretched multi-level failure.
Thank God! I was going crazy trying to convince the Apple support people that this was a real thing.

It appears that somehow a rogue Unicode character gets in the dictionary, and it looks just like a capital I. It even shows up as an emoji in the recently used section!
The NN played against itself.
11 is so trash. Slowed me down immediately. Typing in iMessage is awful and lags like none other. I started to uninstall apps to see what I thought was an increase in speed, but I don't actually believe it. It's the very definition of planned obsolescence.
Settings > General > Keyboard > Smart Punctuation

People do like to exaggerate simple problems.
In 1988 Teuvo Kohonen had an "animation" with rotating disks how the perceptron learns https://youtu.be/Qy3h7kT3P5I?t=42m24s. Did not help comprehension much.
What do you mean?

AlphaGo Zero has played itself, and they have published 20 of those games.
You want skeuomorphism again?
Another is "you don't get what you don't pay for."
Apparently a-z0-9 usernames work better than these full business names.

It would be much harder to fake a github.com/whatsapp account than it is to fake "WhatsApp Inc.". Besides the invisible codepoints, one would easily do "WhatsApp Inc", "WhatsApp Messenger Inc.", "WhatsApp IM" and so on.
Yes, for both courts-martial and commissions. I can only provide a good explanation of courts-martial, though, as I've never litigated in the commissions.

Congress set up the military courts to function kind of like a state jurisdiction, with its own trial courts, intermediate appellate courts, and overarching appellate court of last resort.

The trial courts are not standing courts, but are "convened" by commanders, and trial judiciary judges come to the convened court to preside (almost like how judges used to "ride circuit"). O-5 and O-6 commanders can usually only convene "special courts-martial" which have limits on the punishment they can mete out.

Each military department has its own intermediate appellate court called a "Court of Criminal Appeals" (CCA). There's the ACCA, the AFCCA, the CGCCA, and the NMCCA (Navy/Marine Corps). These are sitting courts but, like the trial judiciary, the judges are uniformed military members.

The court of last resort within the military justice system is the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF). They act like a "state Supreme Court" in a sense that they unify law within their jurisdiction, but you can still appeal their decisions to the U.S. Supreme Court. CAAF judges are civilians nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.

A recent example of a case that was appealed to the Supreme Court (but the Supreme Court did not grant certiorari and hear the case) was US v. Sterling:

http://www.caaflog.com/category/september-2015-term/united-s...
It’s a really hard bug to run into - you have to get the bad Unicode I-that-isn’t-an-I in your autocorrect dictionary somehow (for example by having someone else text it to you multiple times), then this character shows up as an autocorrect suggestion. If you’re in messages, it still shows the fake I as an emoji, so you dont see the problem sometimes.
That's cool. You should post again, with a proper link, and mention "audio" in the title. Audio is always cool.
Not ideal, but after listening to an episode of Back to Work, I tried the Reset All Settings trick and for the past 4 days since it's been wonderful.
Fast with good battery life and minimal things to re-install / setup. Mainly just TouchID, Wifi networks, and Apple Pay.
It’s a rogue emoji - after typing the A-blah character, look at your recently used emojis, there will be a capital I in there.
How much employees at top tech companies like Google, Uber, and FB get paid
Microservices set out to do the same thing as Object Oriented programming set out to do. You define an {object,microservice} by exposing methods, and other services and clients interact by calling those methods. Theoretically, if your API remains stable, your internal implementation can change drastically and the system will continue to function as it should. There's no reason you can't draw these boundaries inside a monolith, but with microservices you'd have to go out of your way to not have those boundaries.

IMO by using HTTP to communicate, they ended up being significantly closer to the original concepts behind OOP and message passing.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998-...

Now, whether microservices are successful in dealing with the problems they set out to solve, and are worth the tradeoffs they entail is still up for debate.
I strongly disagree with this. Part of Captain America’s story was that he was only given physical strength because he deserved it as a moral individual. Iron Man spends a few movies feeling guilty for being a war profiteer and trying to make up for it by doing good, and then in the post-Avengers movies he struggles even more with the idea that his heroics have resulted in just as much death and destruction as his weapons sales. Doctor Strange gains his power by being willing to question his beliefs and then work really hard. And of course there’s Spider Man, who tries to use his powers for good but ends up bumbling around and screwing things up most of the time because he needs to learn that teenagers don’t actually know everything and the wisdom of age is important. Winter Soldier specifically railed against giving the government too much power because it’s impossoble to ensure it will be used for good.

I could go on, but hopefully I’ve made my point!
A fuller excerpt was published by the Paris Review in case anyone reading this was like me and wanted to keep going:

https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/6950/from-the-odyssey-...

Definitely excited to read he book as well.