skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall some research that showed that very young children did not pick up language from watching TV. It required an adult to closely interact with the child to learn language.
Often the private APIs are used to track users, because they allow getting identifying serial numbers from the phone.

Apple markets privacy as one of the features for the iPhone.
In my experience those vesting triggers are much less common than a fixed vesting schedule.
> Pretty much what's happened really. Turns out not that many people want Google Search when they have the choice of Google Secretary instead.

How do you know? Popularity of Google Search is an indication, but its not like people decide which search engine they use when they install Google Chrome. Do you think ordinary people are even aware there's an alternative to Google Search such as Duck Duck Go?
The Baffler, It's a magazine of cultural, political, and business analysis.
https://thebaffler.com/
I'm not sure I would call it a nice syntax. std::initializer_list was a questionable addition to C++ because its syntax clashes with other forms of initialization. It ends up creating special cases and complicating generic code. They fixed some of its problems in C++14, and we might see more improvements in C++20, but the entire idea of that syntax creating a special object feels like a mistake.
Nor our adults, in 15-20 years
Filing out the form and clicking "Launch my business" just refreshes the page with no confirmation or other response.

The intro on Github says the trial was only for August; is that why?
I think plurality/first-past-the-post gets an unjustified bad rap. If you focus only on the moment of election, it is not a very good system. But a broader view reveals something else. The process of settling on two options, that each represent a coalition of factions that have come together and compromised on a common platform, is doing most of the work that other systems try to do within the voting system itself.

Proportional voting also solves the problem in a similar way, except that the politicians representing each faction, rather than the faction at-large, do the work of forming coalitions with other factions.

Of course the distinction between the two is a little more blurry, since broad-coalition parties also exist in proportional systems, and politicians do play a large role in the at-large coalition-forming in plurality systems. But nonetheless, they clearly lead to different outcomes.

As for ranked and approval-type voting systems, I’m not really a fan since I think they don’t have any hope of representing coherent thought about politics. People have a hard enough time making a principled choice of one party to vote for; asking people to rank them seems likely to produce even less principled choices.
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I honestly feel like the solution to that problem is to ignore content from Facebook and Twitter, but I suppose I'm in the minority.
Sure, the platforms support it, but most readers don't use it. I still use RSS, but the majority of my readers follow my blog via email or Facebook.
Even if this worked as intended, what’s the point? The person wanting to spread such images could just use another platform to do so, or modify the image slightly... Would this really stop much abuse?
I disagree: we've been playing these games for a long time and I don't see anything on the horizon.

You know how you start a phone call in Japan with Moshi moshi‡? In the 1990s the software in some of the PHS phones would wait until there was enough energy coming through the microphone before powering up the compression hardware in order to save just a little more power. So the "Moshi moshi" would get cut off.

Basically anything to save power -- people hate recharging.

‡ It's like the linguistic equivalent of the old TTY STX (which still survives in ASCII!)
Maybe they don't want a system they cannot audit or debug.

Or maybe their data acquisition system is nuts, but maybe it expanded a job for someone who would otherwise be out of one.

I have encountered situations like these and my suggestions... well, not wrong, but not a good fit for that department.
I wonder how long will they release the android version of this

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/microsoftpi...
http://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/why-your-kid-cant-l...
I propose you build a MMO that simulates political parties and presidential elections in third world countries.
Authors aren't reliable narrators of their work.
I used to think the same way about the CPU, even after getting a masters in Computer Science! About a year ago I read the book Code by Charles Petzold and watched some lectures about Computer Science by Robert Sedgewick which really opened up my mind.
Also the new chalk that makes dust that is safer to breathe doesn't write as well as the older kind that is bad for your lungs.

Very similar to leaded/unleaded solder.
"Woo hoo-hoo, looks who knows so much, huh? Well, it just so happens that your marker here is only mostly-dead. There's a big difference between mostly-dead and all-dead."

"Now, mostly-dead, it's slightly useful. Now, all-dead... well, with all-dead, there's usually only one thing you can do: Join them all together to create a modular lightsaber."

---

I think all-dead markers aren't a big problem, what you have to watch out for are teh mostly-dead ones, which tend to stick around "just in case the good one isn't available."
It's actually pretty common for a file exception to be exceptional.

In all programs I've ever worked on you don't want to have to check useless junk like that and just want the general exception handler to handle it.
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I recall when taking the SAT in ~2009, that you were asked to copy a paragraph (honesty statement) in cursive.

That took most people 20 minutes because no one could remember cursive. I recall giving up and writing print with little attaching lines.

I don't know anyone under 30 who recall how to write in it. I'm sure there's a few, but for 95% of people it was forgotten before the age of 18.
This article is so well written! Absolutely delightful to read.
I don't think those criticisms of Vine or Snapchat were necessarily wrong. I suspect it's a problem at Youtube to greater or lesser degrees at different times as well.
Okay, fine, I don't want to understand; it jives against the charitable way that I want to think about people.

I guess there's a whole lot of cognitive dissonance between how fucking stupid People reliably are and how kind and admirable persons can be, though - I should probably just get used to it.
Having driven one of them you forgot:

* Rude

* Will demand payment in cash, and only when you threaten them with non-payment repeatedly will allow you to pay with credit cards, DESPITE agreeing to it beforehand.

* Unwilling to stop where the customer wants them to

* Don't get out of the car to put luggage in the trunk

I hate Uber's labour practices, but there are major issues with black cabs.
Cam Arcade: play classic DOS games with your webcam and a neural network
Nor our adults, now.
Because mother googly-eyed wouldn’t have it another way.
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I bought a 20 year supply of that chalk when the demise of Hagoromo was announced, but it turns out that production of that particular product was turned over to a Korean company. I’m still using my legacy supply, so I can’t comment first-hand on old/new comparisons, but I haven’t heard any complaints.
The Godfather's Switchblade:

Make it look like an accident.

Ultimately I don't think we can judge intent in situations like these, especially because it's so easy to disguise[0]. A sentence can be constructed in favor of any opinion; so I'll spare you my attempt at an alternate reading of the situation that makes them sound guilty so long as you agree that it's possible to do.

I think a few questions can be raised about whether we can trust a company's claim that a problem stops exactly at the limits of what's been made publicly visible. How do we really know that select installations weren't phoning home with their captures?

This is a great moment to plug the idea that we really should be able to see the source code of the software we're running.

[0] http://www.underhanded-c.org/
In 1993, I was taught D'Nealian cursive. It's a derivative of the Palmer cursive that the other commenter mentions.
"If it were to periodically "check in" with an external server to see if it needs to do any kind of spying -- admins would notice the network traffic."

Admins would use network dedicated hardware with network chipsets driven by closed source firmware.
In a crazy but technically doable scenario, that closed source firmware could contain instructions to "send packets containing magic word X to address a.b.c.d" and not reporting or counting that traffic, even to applications opening the device in promiscuous mode, with all routers in between to obey the same instructions. Not a single byte would be reported, counted or sniffed unless someone sticks a digital analyzer on the network cable.
It is different, in the traditional government bureaucratic ways. It boils down to :

* several government sanctioned intermediaries get a cut (who, I'm sure, are entirely unrelated to the politicians running the city)

* direct tax is paid on the taxi cab licence to the government
Does Excel still use the virtual machine they built in Office 6? I think it was the first whack at aligning the Mac and Windows versions. That was hard. We couldn't afford to give everyone more than 8MB of DRAM.
Vault is designed for application configuration secrets, not for at-scale storage of raw business data.
Dozens of us.. subtle never nudes reference?
> and Google is guessing which one I want based on what it knows about me

That's a bit of an empty statement. I assume it also looks at the other terms, or your previous searches (from your IP or Google Account). Because there might be a time where you are searching for a person Ruby (the capital letter gives it away) or a gem called ruby.
Hello world is not a real world app. I've tried both React and Vue, and in my opinion there's a steeper learning curve with Vue due to the two way binding and all the new directives you have to learn as opposed to React.
I’m almost certain I heard it was only available on their enterprise plan so you’re looking at a couple grand plus per month minimum
The new Mayor... announced his intention to destroy one of the city’s central roads, the Via dei Fori Imperiali,

... which didn't exist before Mussolini anyway. This is a restorative act, not a destructive one.
"Honestly, Senator, does it really matter at this point? The data is all out there now anyways, you'd may as well just let us carry on unless you want to give us a 9-figure contract to update our own infrastructure."

...Is what I can only imagine is being said when the cameras are off.
Neither is there for reproducible code, but now there are artificial incentives such as the Reproduction Challenge.
LocalBitcoins ad limits hurting Bitcoin community
AMT is completely not fair. It was not indexed to inflation which means that it has started to affect middle class taxes. Go look at why it was created. The fact is if you are rich you can work around it. If you are mid to upper middle class you to not have enough money to structure things to work around it. AMT penalizes the middle class in the more expensive states to live as the salaries are higher. It is 100% unfair.
> Admins would use network dedicated hardware with network chipsets driven by closed source firmware.

No, I fully expect there are enough admins out there running dedicated hardware whose design & source code they have access to. That is sufficient.
Doesn't matter; realistically, laws don't apply to them.

(Also not a lawyer)
Of course, if you are a leader, you can sway your entire group to use something else as a primary medium. I've seen a few examples.

The catch is twofold.

Leaders, by definition, are few and far between.

Moreover, for a leader, FB offers tools and prospects to gain an ever-expanding audience. The leader must have a strong aversion to FB to ignore this lure.
Because that information is no different than anything in your credit report.

I forgot to mention the insurance companies have their own data brokers too. So you'll end up in there if you've ever had insurance.
There was a brief "Golden Age". I want to say around 2005 or so. When you had a proliferation of MP3 music blogs such as "Hype Machine". All with distinctive curatorial voices and great taste. And all distributing their MP3s using RSS. Just the music. No ads, filler or other detritus.

And you could write your own little client program in like 100 lines of C#. That would aggregate all the various feeds. And download just the MP3 files overnight. Providing you with a tasty gigabyte-sized bouquet of rare bootlegs, unreleased demos, forgotten imports, and much more every morning.

Spotify playlists have supplanted that particular use case. But the design favors promotion. Pushing overlooked talent to the fore. And bubbling up gems that may have been subsumed in the volume of noise.

To find rarities, such as this classic R.E.M. set from the Paradise Theater in Boston, Summer '83 (where they opened for The Replacements). You have to stumble on it via Youtube. Or find a friend with an actual collection of old vinyl ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kok2fGjIUWI
DuckDuckGo is still hanging in there (for me anyway)
https://duckduckgo.com
Now that we know for sure people who have worked on or are working on Intel ME actually read and post here, I'd like to take the opportunity to refer those of you to a previous post of mine about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15120207

If you choose to defect and leak all the information you can, you will almost certainly be greatly praised for it by many. Of course there will be negative consequences, but no one ever said that standing firm and adhering to your morals was easy. Maybe if enough employees stood up for what they think is right instead of continuing to silently comply like slaves and let --- or even assist --- companies and governments slowly take away their freedom and privacy, there would be some actual change happening.
The same hubris that lets Facebook believe they can do this without it backfiring on them is the same hubris that lets them believe that theirs is the only platform that matters.
Flickr's first incarnation was as a Flex app, if I remember right. The whole thing was Flash.
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I much prefer putting the styles in a separate {componentName}.scss file, import'ing that into the component and using the Webpack Extract Text Plugin:

https://github.com/webpack-contrib/extract-text-webpack-plug...

I guess now you have two files per component but to me, it's well worth it.
Parent probably has a little girl (or girls) and is innocently describing their direct experience. I wouldn't read much into that.
"implementation details is a huge pain in the ass"

Privacy is worth protecting. Plus, it's still a huge value add to your customers if you provide them these controls, whether you're legally required to or not.
> Apologies for my laziness, but what is meant by "private API" here and why Apple does not want them to be used?

Private APIs are not meant for use by third-party developers. They are not publicly documented and are subject to change without warning.
LocalBitcoins ad limits hurting Bitcoin community
Local Bitcoins Ad limits are not getting adjusted. Many of their limits are btc based. Some of them get adjusted when the price of BTC moves significantly. For a long time the minimum deposit to have an ad show up was 0.4 BTC. Its been adjusted down to 0.1 BTC and needs to go lower for many of the new traders. The ad limits Have not been adjusted. Each user can have 5 ads as a base. Then 1 new ad for every 1btc traded in a month. When BTC was $500 this was a resonable limit. Now that btc is over $5k it makes it difficult for many traders to maintain the trade volume to keep ads up. To buy and sell in one category it takes 4 ads if you use the trust system. Trusted ads are only shown to people that have been marked trusted. Many use it to offer trades with higher limits, and better prices to people they have verified as a good trade partner.

Pro-traders, a badge given to traders that have high feedback, and meet certain criteria have been asking for LBC to adjust these limits for months now.

When the Bitcoin price rises significantly, it attracts scammers, for multiple reasons. News gets around, and scammers like to get in early on stuff. It turns good people into scammers, they might be somewhat of a gambler, and when the price moves against them they do a charge back to get out of the loss. Scammers tend to create new accounts, and concentrate on a certain type of scam.

When Pro-traders (very unlikely to scam, but it still happens) can’t make ads in other categories, scammers fill in the gaps. Leaving people no choice but to think the offers are good.

Writing this and posting in multiple places is the best way I know to pressure them to fix it. The real pressure is monetary, but for them its unrealized as they continue to make good money. However they’re reputation is dropping, as the scammers move towards outweighing the good traders. People are moving over to other platforms, or trading outside the provided escrow which is how they make their money.
I think OStatus is what you're looking for ;)
At recent times, American politics seems to suffer from getting stuck in a near 50-50 position with only two parties, and this probably is a direct consequence of the first-past-the-post voting system.

The Continental European system with proportional voting and multiple political parties with changing support seems more agile. New parties can form, gain and lose support, not quite as quickly as in one 4-year election cycle, but in about 3 or 4 election cycles the political landscape of a country can change.

But then again, the American democratic system has already had a pretty good run for over 200 years, so can we know if present-day problems are indicative of actual problems in the system, or something that will pass?
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1000 times faster is not the incredibly hard part. Its the immense amount of massively parallel signal processing that the neocortex achieves every second.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this wound up being some ML grad student's channel who was playing around with generating audiovisual content. If it started getting picked up by big algorithms and making money...

Although actually, huh. Maybe it's a little more organized and is just a general memetic malware scam; con youtube's algorithms into putting your junk which was generated in 0.4 seconds onto a few million screens and pocket the ad revenue.

The point is, it might not be any more malicious than anything else that advertisers do on a daily basis, if they were just auto-tweaking the videos to optimize for revenue and hey, presto, colorful crap topped the list. After all, it's just an impartial algorithm.

Kinda makes you think about all the other stuff we happily let advertisers get away with, huh?
It works. Very tiring to have stuff that is rock solid exchanged for junk. Move on, find something else to go after.. there is so much that is just mediocre
I saw John Sotos, Chief Medical Officer of Intel talk at DEF CON 25 about bio-hacking. This guy is at the top of his field and whip-smart. He's without a doubt an expert in this field and it was one of the most terrifying talks I've ever attended at DEF CON. Bio-hacking has the potential of being one of the gravest threats to humanity in far more ways than just killing people. This is a MUST WATCH:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY
The biggest case for me is no rescanning over things I've already seen. Also, filtering things I know I'll never want to read (anything from certain domains and some keywords) removes a ton of cruft, even when subscribed to otherwise high-volume feeds.

Edit: Another big win, not needing yet another account to be tracked and targeted through just to get at a feed. Best example being YouTube.
Hardware Security Module, a device that stores a private key in a way that cannot be easily extracted. When your application needs to decrypt something, it sends a request over the network to the HSM, which decrypts it and returns the plaintext.
I unplugged the microphone on my daughter's iMac years ago. She did not use it, and was ok with that.

I did not break her phone in that way. Her phone is more dangerous.
Excerpt:

SegWit2x Cancelled, No Short-Term Uncertainty

...the cancellation of the SegWit2x hard fork eliminated any uncertainty surrounding the mid-term performance of bitcoin and most importantly, eliminated the possibility of a split chain by the end of 2017. As such, many analysts including Mayer, Max Keiser, and Tom Lee have predicted the bitcoin price to achieve the $8,000 mark by the end of this year.

According to a report by Nikkei, 4,500 large-scale stores and merchants already accept bitcoin as a payment method in Japan, including leading retailers, airlines, hotels, and even restaurants. That number is expected to increase by five-fold, to 25,000, by the end of 2017.
Why do you think that people have a hard time choosing which of two parties to vote for? My impression is that the opposite is true, at least in the United States. My impression is that most elections are largely decided by the relative turnout of existing populations of individuals, each of which are firmly committed to one party and simply haven’t decided whether to actually show up and vote.
It's not a hard problem. Both A & B are bogus reasons.

A) Any hash is going to be easily circumvented by anyone who owns Photoshop or any image editor. It's only going to catch those dumb enough not to modify the images, ie. most everyone. Doing the hash server side isn't the big problem though, because if you trust the Facebook App then by default you should trust the Facebook web applications.

B) The big problem is you take care of adversarial reporting at the end, not the beginning. If they get a hit on a reported hash, only then do they tell the photo owner and ask for proof that it's their image.

It's bonkers that Facebook expects people terrified of their photos being circulated to send them those images so a Facebook employee can eye fondle them.

This is just par for the course for Facebook, as a business they are so tone death and oblivious to basic human behavior and feelings that it seems like the entire company is infected with the same alleged autism of it's founder.
Here is a short history on the early hacking groups (#pain)-

http://www.stepbystep.com/America-Onlines-Dark-Side-131812/
Collection of actual M&A analysis and presentations done by investment banks
I hope I'm reading this wrong, but this paper's conclusions seem to make claims unsupported by a majority of the component papers (and the choice of component studies seems arbitrary in general, given that no two have the exact same strains under test).

10 studies spanning a mishmash of probiotics (and not even the same strains), 5 of which conclude no effect, and 1 says adverse effects on anxiety. Only two claimed significant benefit of any probiotic blend vs. placebo.

Only 3 had populations > 60.
Quartet makes my favorite dry erase markers. I'm curious how they would have fared.

https://smile.amazon.com/Quartet-Accessory-EnduraGlide-Assor...
Are there some practical use cases for 50 qubit processor or is more off a research thing?
Not too long ago I summarized every datapoint in that page. It is almost perfectly linear (there's 1 qubit lower somewhere, 1 qubit higher elsewhere), the noise is way lower than anything I was expecting to see.
It is based on the percentage of AVX instructions being executed, and kicks in when the percentage surpasses a predetermined threshold. It's different for every CPU generation I believe.
This was a great read - thank you for sharing.