skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoy science-fiction, but I'm not an aircraft aficionado. What makes the SR-71 so awesome to me is that it looks like about the coolest spacecraft I could have imagined when I was 10 years old. And it still looks that way to me.
They were making a related but cogent point about the security implications of Google having this info versus the cell phone carriers. It did not, directly or even by implication, contradict anything you wrote – you're right that this is a privacy violation, but I didn't interpret the comment to which you replied as denying that.
"tough to replicate with computers"

I was under the impression that computers can fly planes which are impossible for humans to fly (e.g. the F-117, or any fighter with forward-swept wings). Since the U-2 is much closer to a "conventional" aircraft, and can be stick-flown by a human, wouldn't it be a walk in the park for a compute to fly it?
> It's amazing to me how many comments here excuse Google's behavior by offering the impractical "solution" of just not using a smartphone (a false dilemma) when the obvious answer is to get an iPhone.

Smartphone or not, carrying any phone means providing this information to your carrier at all times.

I don't like the idea of sending this information to anybody, but to be honest, Google is the entity that I'm the last concerned with at the moment. Unlike literally every cell carrier on the market, hey have an excellent track record from a data security perspective, and their entire competitive advantage relies on them not providing that raw data to any third party.
> Do normal mutual funds pay capital gains taxes as the things they invest other people's money in are changed?

Yep! Tax efficiency of a mutual fund is quite an important factor to look at for your overall expenses as well. It's a large reason actively managed funds don't do as well as simple market-wide ETFs.
I have hopes this will happen with machine-to-machine payment systems. Add fog computing and you might get decent speeds with no centralized backbone.
What are you afraid of? Correlation does not equal causation.
But "race" isn't actually the same thing as "skin colour or hair length".

"Race" is really a social/cultural concept, it is specific to a particular country/society.

Most official forms in the US seem to believe humans can be classified into five races:
"White", "Black or African American", "American Indian or Alaska Native",
"Asian", "Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander"

(Source: https://www.census.gov/topics/population/race/about.html )

None of those categories bears a straightforward relation to physical characteristics.
e.g. "Asian" includes a wide range of skin tones, from quite pale to quite dark.

And only Americans categorise humans in this way. Other countries either categorise them differently, or eschew racial classification entirely.
e.g. "Asian" in the UK has a narrower meaning than it does in the US.
He has a number of great pieces on his site.

I'd also recommend "The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans"

http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hun...
Scientists have created brain implants that could boost our memory by up to 30%
Ask HN: How Apple encrypt iCloud photos?
Here, at HN, we all care about privacy.

Apple claims that iCloud encrypt everything on a device and Apple don't have an access to my photos. They are claiming it in their docs, for example, https://machinelearning.apple.com/2017/11/16/face-detection.html

... Every photo and video sent to iCloud Photo Library is encrypted on the device before it is sent to cloud storage, and can only be decrypted by devices that are registered with the iCloud account. ...

When you try to login to iCloud Web App with two-factor authentication enabled it seems that Web App do Diffie-Hellman key exchange and it looks that it is implemented securely

But then in Chrome Developer Tools, there are direct links the photos (unencrypted) that work even in a different browser. It looks like there are some encryption keys in links.

So, Apple lie about their encryption and they have all the keys? Then why no one cares?
I'm interpreting (the first part of) your post as "humans cant do the right thing so we need laws to force them to do it".

I know the right thing for me. I don't need laws telling me about the right thing for me. No other human, or law, can know the right thing for me. And I humbly accept that neither can I know what's the right thing for others, nor construct laws that could guide any other person to the right thing for them.
The text of the law[0] is surprisingly clear that FB's acceptance of these ads is illegal (unless I'm missing something big).

As made applicable by section 3603 of this title and except as exempted by
sections 3603(b) and 3607 of this title, it shall be unlawful—
...
(c) To make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published
any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental
of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination
based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national
origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation, or
discrimination.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/3604#c
Right, people can be flaky, and those that are flaky will continue to be flaky, regardless of the amount paid. But paying more can attract more of the people who aren't flaky.

Those who are good employees are already employed, and probably at a decent compensation level. Whenever this topic comes up, I always ask, "What compelling reason are you giving for people to come work for you?" I never get a satisfactory answer, usually because the people know that they have nothing compelling over the next job.
> Except Netflix doesn't care about net neutrality anymore

Yes, they do:

https://twitter.com/netflix/status/933042368156123136
Well - you do have to use an intermediary to exchange bitcoin for fiat, that is correct. I think the vision is that one day fiat will go away and be replaced by bitcoin and other cryptos though.

Everything is quite clunky right now, and not exactly easy but that is true of any new technology.
> With a non jailbroken iPhone I have a lot more peace of mind.

Ignorance is bliss.
Yeah, child hood memories with GI Joe come to mind [1]

[1] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0a/8c/a7/0a8ca767c485d88869af...
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ROS probably should go under Linux Foundation as well.
Article headline implies Bitcoin can be used in real estate deals. Article itself describes how blockchain techniques may be used in real estate record keeping. This aligns with my understanding of how bubbles are promoted through confusion tactics, via financial press as complicit agents. Mental Note; don't touch cryptocurrencies with a barge pole.
A language with copy constructors could have prevented this.
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I wonder if Yusupov realized that this would be the way that I and many other readers would learn about his app for the first time.
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> when the obvious answer is to get an iPhone.

It is only obvious when one enjoys a wealthy life.

There are lots of countries out where people can barely afford something better than a feature phone, and when they do, their hard worked savings are just enough for an Android device.
Hope the founder of the Selenium project and Sauce Labs isn't reading this! ;)
As a Norwegian I was also used to the German variation and it took me a long time to get used to the UK version, but yes, in the UK "half two" is unambiguously always half past two.
"quarter til" is definitely far more common, but I've heard "quarter of" on occasion as well.
Oh, very interesting! This is somewhat similar to a hack project I did recently, but more dynamic -- going from bytecode and doing the assembly at runtime amps things up a bit! Mine works from a Python AST and is much more static, but it also supports quite a lot more Python syntax. http://benhoyt.com/writings/pyast64/
>She tromped through the wet grass in calf-high Sorel snow boots

> At the first sliver of morning light on the eastern horizon, the treetop planet croaks to life. This mass of shrieking marauders lifts up and atomizes again into x-shaped silhouettes,

Does anyone else find it distracting when journalists attempt to imitate their literary heroes and write ham-fisted prose like this? I'm all for experimental journalism, but this really took away from the thrust of the article for me.
> your keyboard is already slower than you might expect.

An extract from the linked article:[0]

> A major source of latency is key travel time. It’s not a coincidence that the quickest keyboard measured also has the shortest key travel distance by a large margin.

They're not measuring from when the signal is sent from the keyboard, they're measuring from when the force begins to apply on the key. If you have a clicky or tactile switch (Cherry MX Blues, Greens, Browns, Clears, etc) then the latency measured here will be way disproportionate to how it actually /feels/.

[0]: https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/
I'm working on a game engine in Rust in my spare time, I'll probably end up with that same code in the physics side.
Language definitively could have helped. For example, you could have a type that could only be created with both disk and partition info filled in. Then the compiler would complain if you forgot one of them.
Any company or landlord who does such a thing will go out of business, since any clever competitor will snatch those great deals that those companies and landlords are missing out on.
> a private company knowing exactly where you are at all moments

Someone else commented that this has already been the case for ... at least a decade, for basically everyone (in the U.S.) – the cell phone carriers are those private companies. And there is substantial evidence that they're even less trustworthy than Google.
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But what would it have to be about, for employers to consistently turn down an approach that gets them access to a bigger class of labor and better filtering for safety?
Apple provides a black box with iOS, they have full control. Maybe the next iOS update comes with privacy intrusion because it's more lucrative.

A more sensible way of dealing wirh the issue would be to use an open source Android version like AOSP or LineageOS, not run proprietary gapps, and replace its functionality with F-Droid, MicroG and Yalp-store. Your location will stay out of Apple's/Google's hands and you can still enjoy all convenience of a smartphone. Keeping your freedom in your own hands.
Wow. TIL. Thanks!
I had literally never heard of HQ before reading this article, and I work in the tech / software space. This has to be the weirdest attempt at guerrilla marketing ever.
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How did you measure this? That's contrary to what I've seen using https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/is-it-snappy/id1219667593.
Joan and Richard had a deal, he would leave it alone for her. At one point later in life he asked her permission to study it and she said no. He covers it in one of his books.
And if you get hacked and can prove it, the bank/municipality has the power to correct fraudulent transactions.
We don't know what the circumstances of the interview were, though. It easily could be a minimum wage job, and the other people just found something else.
It's right there in their privacy policy, they already say that they can share your location and other "non-personal information" for any purpose. And it's a very small step from "occupation, language, zip code, area code, unique device identifier, referrer URL, location" for a vendor to identify you.

If they weren't selling location information, then they could just say it:

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/

Collection and Use of Non-Personal Information

We also collect data in a form that does not, on its own, permit direct association with any specific individual. We may collect, use, transfer, and disclose non-personal information for any purpose. The following are some examples of non-personal information that we collect and how we may use it:

We may collect information such as occupation, language, zip code, area code, unique device identifier, referrer URL, location, and the time zone where an Apple product is used so that we can better understand customer behavior and improve our products, services, and advertising.
So instead we should wildly speculate with no evidence? I personally prefer my android phone and the only true advantage for iOS I see is that Apple actively fights for privacy.
"Data maximisation is the norm" is a big point. Emphasize that. If they are looking for a punitive legislative approach to curb breaches, remind them it's not just the "how", but the "what". Between HIPAA and SOX and the like, they are familiar with the burdens that come with different data types. Hopefully, between differentiating types of data and discouraging storage of data for other (law enforcement?) use, we can just have less data stored in general. At some point, companies should see data as a liability.
This isn't just a rename.

The structure dm_bio_details was changed to remove one field that points to a block_device structure, and add a field that points to a gendisk structure, and an integer called bi_partno.

This change copies the gendisk structure, but not bi_partno. That's the bug.
Light comes in discrete energy quanta; a monochromatic light source with frequency f will come as one hf photon, two hf photons, three hf photons, and so forth because of the relationship E=hf, where E is the energy and h is Planck's constant. Multicolour light will come in different frequencies, but for each frequency there will be an integer number of photons. You will never see a photon with energy 1/2 hf or 3/4 hf, where f is that photon's frequency.

Frequency itself is not quantized; in the visible spectrum photon frequency can take on any real value between about 430 and 770 THz.

Moreover, frequency observer-dependent. Two observers related by a Lorentz boost (i.e., moving uniformly such that there is a constant relative velocity between them) will see the same photon with a different frequency (and thus by E=hf, a different energy); this is the relativistic red shift (or blue shift).
Yeah, but your job likely doesn't involve hard, physical labor, and you're likely paying more.
Nope.

I'm just saying that if you remove the ability to target ads based on specific person characteristics, you remove a piece of what makes fb so valuable of an advertising platform (that is to target people so microscopically).

Just pointing it out.
No wonder you spend enormous amounts of money on health care in the states. In Norway most doctors makes just above $100,000. I guess this is more or less comparable to the rest of Europe.
I hope someone does this. I've been playing HQ for a few weeks, and it is deeply clear to me that their success has much to do with his hosting. When someone else fills in for him, it's sometimes painful to watch. Scott has some "thing" that makes the game very enjoyable -- maybe it's wit or confidence or something, but I have not seen another host work as well as he does. If the founders are being this petty, then let them reap what they sow.
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No. It's called ad optimization.
/me puts foot in mouth
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Budweiser isn't even an American company anymore. Globalization: who made this piss water? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anheuser-Busch_InBev
> bleeding-edge kernel kernel

> risk you play

uhm you realize that the kernel was already released upstream right?
What's the downside of developer edition?

> It's my computer, not Mozilla's.

Then you'll be overjoyed to hear about the unbranded builds! The exact same code, except it's yours, so it allows all extensions and doesn't say "Firefox" on it.
I think even "assuming the worst" gives him too much credit, it's just irrational control freakery.
I've been a long time user of Firefox, and after v55, I've been incredibly pleased with the improvements in tab handling (I'm one of those imbeciles who often has hundreds and hundreds of tabs open) and browser performance overall. Like you, I haven't had any stability issues, and the overall resource use is still far lower than Chrome/Chromium/derivatives (like Brave). I'm somewhat disappointed with the removal of the old XUL API and the death of many extensions, but expecting this, I trimmed what I had installed to an absolute minimum. So far so good; can't say I'm really missing anything except maybe Session Manager.

I do have some empathy for your parent comment: I'm not particularly fond of NoScript v10's UI either, if that's their chief complaint. It's different and somewhat cartoonish, but I don't know if my reaction is because of the stylistic changes or the fact that it just changed.

Regardless, Raymond Hill released a version of uMatrix for Firefox 57 which I feel has somewhat more power than NoScript in certain areas (selectively blocking cookies is a nice addition), and I like the UI better. It's not as intuitive, arguably, as the original NoScript, but it's information-dense and provides a fantastic picture of what's going on--better than NoScript ever did.
CentCom says massive data cache on leaky server is benign
Assuming that was true, I'm not sure why that'd be the Daily Beast's problem. His accusation seems to be that they're doing something wrong by publishing an article or talking to an employee. The responsibility for maintaining any agreement/NDA isn't on the news outlet.
Or maybe buy a Android phone and flash AOSP without Play Services. As much as I like privacy, I am not tempted to buy a $700+ device which seems to be getting costlier and gimped with each new version.
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For those interested in this story, you may also like the documentary "Alone In The Wilderness" by PBS. It's a great story of a man that lived alone for 30 years in the Alaskan wilderness.

https://shop.pbs.org/alone-in-the-wilderness-dvd/product/ALW...
It's hard not to assume the worst, especially when you have no concrete reports on their capabilities. And when assessing the threat it creates, you can't really ignore the possibilities by that lack of knowledge.
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> Kids who molest other kids and bring guns to school are criminals. We should lock them up early, and we can reduce the cost of prison by getting more labor out of prisoners and busting the guard unions.

This seems like short-term economic thinking to me. We can also reduce the cost of prison by keeping more kids in school, rather than kicking kids to the curb the minute something bad happens. Inclusion, not exclusion, is how to feed the virtuous cycle.

Also, if it's so easy to reduce the cost of prisons even though people have been debating it for centuries, why hasn't it happened already? How do you just extract more labor out of prisoners?

And what happened to your plan to produce more scientists and fewer criminals? For three comments in a row you've ignored the question of how to convert more would-be criminals into scientists, and talked about reducing dollar costs instead. Pretend I don't care about dollar costs and help me understand how increasing expulsion and
incarceration rates leads to more scientists.

> Teachers spend a non-zero amount of time dealing with parents. I know a few teachers personally and all of them have stories about parents who take up too much of their time.

So what? Part of being a teacher is interacting with parents, it's a good thing, not a bad thing. Some parents will take up more time. What is the actual problem here? What is the economic cost to teachers talking to parents? Since teachers mostly talk to parents outside of school hours, how much extra money for the education budget or the economy will solving this "problem" yield?

> In the school districts near me, special ed and admin costs can take ~40% of the budget. I wouldn't displace the students onto social services because there'd be no social services.

It sounds like regular students take ~60% of the budget. By your math, we could get more bang for our buck by eliminating the non-special-ed services.

Do you have any policy study or experience at all? The more suggestions you add, the more it sounds like you aren't aware of any policy or government or education funding history. People have tried some of the kinds of things you're suggesting in the past, and gotten wildly different results than they expected.
How will any kind of blockchain used for real-estate be de-centralized? My guess is that it will be centralized. No government would give up that much control over the property within its borders. Governments want authority to be the first to add property to the ledger to ensure it starts off in a valid state. Governments want to have the authority to seize property and enforce court decisions as well. People could get hacked and suddenly someone else owns their home, but with a centralized system, even if the government gets hacked and all property stolen, they simply fork off a previous block that was known to be valid and proceed as usual.
> you have to do weird css hacks to make it look seemless and hide the top tab bar is very disappointing

Firefox plans to add an API for dynamically hiding the tabbar. You can follow progress here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332447
See also a story about testing the minimum airspeed on a single engine, from the book "Contrails over the Mojave": https://books.google.ie/books?id=NTU9BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT114&lpg=P...
Russia to act against Google if Sputnik, RT get lower search rankings: official
"Generals are always fighting the last war."
Most books I've read for a long time now start with an overview of the book's chapters in the introduction. Particularly advanced books will even tell you which chapters are prerequisites for others, and which ones you can skip for specific topics.
Techmeme summary: Reuters: Russia says it could act against Google if Sputnik, RT get lower search rankings, after Eric Schmidt said “those kinds of websites” should have less prominence
> if you lose the private key to your house

Haha. Sorry that I laugh, but using blockchain for land ownership is not about backing bitcoins with square meters, but about the tamper-proof, immutable, public and resilient aspects of the data you can store in the bitcoin blockchain.

The only private key that would be involved in this process would come from the government, which could just sign messages with some standard (encrypted) format that just maps addresses to individuals/entities. This way even notaries will become one day obsolete (or they will simply be there to make sure the blockchain entry happens and the transfer of the assets as well, in an atomic way; and the assets don't even need to be crypto in this case).
... objectively (in no bad way whatsoever) acknowledge
trait differences ...

This is like the "frictionless surface" of sociology. It sure sounds like a great thing to shoot for, but our laws carry centuries (if not millennia) of cultural baggage along with them. It's nigh impossible to craft policies that aim only at the ideal, and ignore people's heavy emotional priors (e.g., if you're a person of race A who grew up amidst feelings of animosity towards people of race B that were brought on by centuries of physical and emotional trauma).