skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to Wireshark, we have pretty strong legal evidence. When Amazon was made to provide whatever recordings they had from the Echo in that homocide case, they said they only record the commands given and don't have an always-on microphone. If that was not the case, Amazon would be committing a major crime to cover up such a feature.

Disclaimer: work for AWS, not affiliated with Alexa or Echo.
El Salvador’s gangs try to negotiate a way out of their bloody stalemate
I don't get the fear mongering. It seems infinitely more likely my computer is compromised than some single purpose device that doesn't load code from third party developers or visit random web pages.

If we're expecting that Apple/Google/Amazon/Microsoft are the people attacking us then they have easier ways. If we expect it's outsiders then how do they even get to my Alexa?
After Hilter's suicide.

After the bombing, they rounded up some 5000 people, and executed most of them. And others were forced to take their own like, like Rommel.
> I can imagine that that would stimulate a huge influx of people who do that simply as an excuse to take a 4-year vacation

In practice this isn't a problem, at least not in France where my partner studied. Students that qualify for free public education are in the top of their class for the year. In order to keep qualifying for free education they must keep their grades up. So this idea of students graduating high school, waltzing into a university, then screwing off for four years is pure fiction.
I think many people probably like the idea, but are worried about implementation.

Example: I think everyone should be sterilized at birth, but it should be reversible at no cost to them. But I can't think of a single government that I'd trust to enact this policy correctly without falling into a Eugenics system.
You claim there is a lord/serf dynamic. Let's take that a step further. Let's free the "serfs" by removing every lord from power today. Now, we have just lost all of our experts in managing large companies, and global competitors come in and take over the markets our own companies used to control. Now you work for them, instead of for our own companies, because you still have to make money. Do you think that your Chinese or Israeli lords are better than the American ones?
Does every wolf whistle and catcall deserve jail time?

Does hitting on someone deserve jail time?

Does hitting on someone aggressively deserve jail time?

Does hitting on someone aggressively when you have a position of some power relative to them deserve jail time?

Does doing it repeatedly deserve jail time?

I am not saying that we should be desensitized to this stuff. We should not become complacent and say it's OK. But it's not all in the category of "crime". Reserve the word for the stuff that really is criminal, that is, something that can land people in jail. (Calling everything criminal winds up desensitizing people to that which actually is criminal. "Oh, yeah, you say that about everything, so this is probably no big deal too.")
>> Their salaries aren't out of control though

Sure they are. After this season, $30m is going to be the starting salary for even a mediocre quarterback in the NFL
Also a special tax for sick people?
Updated to http://github.com/tower-rs/tower -- thanks for the heads up.
Mediatek is very bad in releasing kernel source. See XDA/lineage os before buying next phone.
Maybe so anon3433...
Certainly, although it's clear that the largest part of the context would be the audience that the comment is exposed to. And it also shows that the upvote and downvote feature is not used correctly here either - it's used to promote or hide comments that the viewer agrees or disagrees with.

Just the same as Reddit. It's a deeper issue than just being 'reddit', and it's more about online discussion in general.
eos.io just released alpha ahead of schedule https://steemit.com/eos/@eosio/eos-io-dawn-2-0-released-and-...
As another comment pointed out, in most of Europe your government funded "vacation" can last at most 1 year if you don't manage to pass a minimum number of exams, or rather collect a minimum number of ECTS points.
For those of us still ignorant -- can you point to a resource where I can learn about these differences and evidence?
Ask HN: What books did you read in 2017?
or planning to finish by the end of this year.

Got the idea of this post after seeing Bill Gates post on this forum :)
Using Headless Mode in Firefox
Charles Babbage is referring to two separate occasions upon which he was asked if his "analytical engine" (what some might consider the first computer) would still produce the right answer to a problem even if the wrong input was supplied. The answer is so painfully obvious -- of course it won't! -- that Babbage remarks that he can't even understand how confused the person must be in order to ask such a question.
eos.io released their alpha yesterday: https://steemit.com/eos/@eosio/eos-io-dawn-2-0-released-and-...
Not to take the bait & segue too much, but maps have been a core part of navigation for centuries upon centuries, and they generally teach & augment your own ability to navigate rather than navigate for you.

No one misses the technical skill to use a sextant, typewriter, or sliderule. Those things are in a sense just drudgery. But if you lose the ability to navigate, compose, or do math in the process, that's a different story.
Are black folks using the iPhone X having more issues with the facial recognition unlocking their phones than folks of other races? I do so this as a potential downside of ML-driven applications: training and testing are critical and there's a science behind these endeavors. We should expect problems if we take the slipshod approach so often employed when testing software.
You have to be an idiot to think Southern Pride is based on slavery being legal.
You're projecting.

Not everyone buys pets to test their boyfriend or relationship. Some people actually commit to their pets until the pet lives into old age and dies of natural causes.

You are right, a pet is not just for Christmas.
Self signed cert... should've used Let's Encrypt
Of course you can do sub one minute blocks. Bitcoin chose 10 minute blocks to maximize decentralization. Bitcoin could also do 12 second blocks, but then the network would be as centralized as Ethereum.
For most providers, like Protonmail, the decryption password is the same as your login password. I'm curious what scenario you see allowing someone other than the provider to get access to your mailbox but not also your decryption key.
Between gmail and location tracking on my Android, at this point there's very little data on me that Google doesn't have access to, so I figured "in for a penny, in for a pound."

If Google ever personally burns me on this I'll probably just give up and live in a shack in the woods.
No benchmarks yet (and it will be difficult to isolate that effect).

The cache structure more closely mirrors the data locality intrinsic in recent high-performance database engines, which don't share data pages across cores and which now commonly use page sizes (256k) that don't fit in L2. The increase in cache size from 256k to 1M is particularly important because it allows you to store multiple pages in L2 which should make a number of multi-page and complex query on single page operations significantly more efficient. Should be great for join kernels. Similarly, the non-inclusive and smaller shared L3 makes more sense in that the amount of state shared across cores is actually pretty small. In short, it redistributes cache resources in a way that is very useful to the way database engines are currently designed.
Check your sources. is the author marked as contributor? -> find their twitter account and check the background.
Most sites have open editorial, or blogs, or contributor's section.
More sites will have open editorial sections as the journos are laid off each day.
And again check the source.
I always looked at it as Pokemon cards. Because it's unique you can track it's history and that opens up for a whole slew of new interesting services.

Ebook's could increase in price when sold second hand (owned by such and such), an open source gaming asset exchange allowing people to buy and sell no matter the game.

Basically it crypto creates physical like scarcity in an otherwise abundant digital space.

That's the biggest deal about crypto IMO.
It's significantly different than subclassing. The wikipedia examples are instructive:

a dependent type is a type whose definition depends on a
value. A "pair of integers" is a type. A "pair of integers
where the second is greater than the first" is a dependent
type because of the dependence on the value.
I fought against having a GPS in the car for years. It was the biggest single source of arguments with my partner yet still I didn't want to dumb myself with tech.

It's most definitely the most helpful device I've ever bought, second to a mobile phone. Switching to a smartphone from my old Nokia didn't improve my life, adding a TomTom in my car did.
There's two unknowns in this statement. 1) How does bitcoin behave during a recession and 2) What will the next recession look like?

If the next recession takes the form of significant inflation -- resulting in effectively negative interest rates -- you will see flow into bitcoin.

If the next recession is caused by significant defaults on debt, well, bitcoin is also the safe haven asset there.

Bitcoin came into existence as a response to 2008. It's primary purpose is to protect peoples savings from central banks foolishness.

I agree no one knows for sure what will happen. IMO, bitcoin is a reasonable hedge against the monetary policy we have today.
What does your actions mean for residents in other states who have fake comments posted in their name? Should they still report them to you and are those fake comments actionable in any other way?
You shouldn't be trusting your phone any more than an Alexa device.

I don't
The gold market can be manipulated as most people never take physical delivery of gold. There's no mechanism to audit everyone's holdings. Additionally, I'm of the opinion volatility will decrease as bitcoin matures. Do you really expect a currency bootstrapped from the ground up to not be volatile in its uptake?

We'll see if you're singing the same tune when you're finally confronted with the certain depreciation of your USD holdings. (Will you still reject bitcoin when USD is depreciating at a rate of 5% per year?)
> Without paid prioritization, ISPs must recover these costs solely from end users, but ISPs cannot always set prices targeted at the relevant end users.

Is there any way this statement is not a straight up pants-on-fire lie? Why wouldn't an ISP have metering built into its infrastructure? And the only other thing you'd need in order to make it happen is the freedom to set your price -- are there places in the US where ISPs aren't free to price on bandwidth usage?
That's possible. Based on all the border incidents since the end of the Korean War though it looks like the North Korea side is on a hair trigger to respond.
Converting between private net Ether and real Ether: the DDASH Protocol
Pain and tears pushing Electron to the AppStore
Just because they have easier ways, doesn't mean they need more ways.
You still don't know whether or not the phone is actually listening. This is even worse on cell phones because you can't easily insert something like WireShark between your cell phone and the data network.

Untrusted microphones connected to networks are untrusted microphones connected to networks. The only thing distinguishing an Echo from any smart phone is that you can monitor the Echo's network traffic.
On the good side, those drivers didn't have Internet connection capability.
You'd be surprised. Road maps maybe, given we all still drive and Google Maps is full of them. But topographical maps, for example, are alien to a huge portion of the population.

Source: I help teach adults to read topo maps every year
I think the author is right, for the simple reason that it's irresponsible of us as technologists to support a product like this. We're training an entire generation that it's a good idea to pay companies money so that those companies can wiretap your most intimate moments. I just have a huge problem with that.
Self signed. Don't remember why (but there is a reason). Not sure why he doesn't just use Lets Encrypt.
I tossed "sexual misconduct" into Google news to see who came up. I got:

John Conyers, accused of firing someone for refusing him sex and misappropriating official transportation for women he was having affairs with, among other things, which is criminal.

Matt Lauer, Dustin Hoffman, Roy Moore, James Levine, Robert Knepper, Bruce Weber, and Matt Dababneh, all accused of sexual assault.

And that's the end of the first page. How far do I have to go to find this "pretty much all of it" which is non-criminal misconduct?
I'm amazed there's a market for this kind of thing. Since the 1990s its been known how to implement an undetectable backdoor in hardware based crypto which leaks your keys to an attacker.

E.g. http://paper.ijcsns.org/07_book/201006/20100623.pdf details how to do it for Elliptic Curves. But its been studied since https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F3-540-69053-...

The tl;dr is that any device in which you can't check the implementation or get the private key out (i.e. Secure Enclave, TPM etc), can leak your key to a passive attacker in a way that you provably can't detect.
Why aren't you just using torches or candles? Isn't that what tools are for?

My bedroom has a light switch by the door that turns on the fan light. I have canned lights as well but the switch is on the other side of the room in the bathroom (why God why?!). I have two lamps on their respective night stands plugged into always on outlets.

If I leave the room then chances are I'll first have to walk across the room to shut off one of the 3 lights not controlled by the switch at the door.

Instead I have two smart plugs on the lamps. I can operate simply by saying "Alexa turn on the lights".

If I enter the room with a load of laundry in my arms, I don't have to fiddle with a switch.

If I am leaving the room, I don't have to run around turning off lights.

If I wake up in the middle of the night I don't have to grope around the back of my night stand for the switch on my lamp cord.

I can also set a schedule when I am away to make it appear that I am home.

It's useful.
Accepting cash for links?? That should be the Google Death Penalty for all of them. But I doubt that's going to happen, these sites probably sell a lot of ads for Google.
what is the impact of this?
Quite a few:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/6b64if/list_of_e...
I expect it must be put in something that can bring it close to its target to be effective. O(n²) power drop off for electromagnetic radiation is tough to beat at a distance of kilometers.
I was a former insider so I can't get into details, but if you look you'll see that almost the entirety of their cost is content acquisition. The next biggest cost is salary.

Servers barely even register as far as costs go, and also, it's a 92% savings over what the cost would have been without the system, not an absolute 92%. The farm keeps growing all the time as movies become higher resolution and more encodings are supported.
the cat you get at the shelter keeps requiring ether forever
That usually works out as 100% for some, 0% for the rest.
I heard about this but send an ETH transaction in about 20 minutes this morning. I guess "slow" for ETH is a different standard than "slow" for BTC, or ACH (shudder)
The two coolest things about Parcel for me, are 1) multi-core support, and 2) a simpler, ES6-esque API. Without these two distinct elements, I think Parcel is nothing more than a simple Webpack boilerplate which could easily been generated by yeoman.

I see its potential regarding Parcel’s competitiveness against Webpack, but it also has worsen the JavaScript fatigue, which is considered a nightmare for many newcomers webdevs because of huge fragmentation and thus bigotry in the industry.
How much of that stuff is in the news? All of the sexual misconduct stories on the first page of Google News right now, for example, are about things that are clearly criminal.

This is exactly why I'm disturbed that the standard term has become "sexual misconduct." The major issues right now are people who use their power to rape and assault. Using the term "sexual misconduct" in that context puts those things in the same category as telling a naughty joke in the wrong company. And instead of asking why we keep electing sex criminals, or why rapists seems to enjoy so much success in Hollywood, we're asking whether or not a catcall deserves jail time.
If you weren't "playing a game" then why haven't you addressed his sources? Or provided your own?
The commentor is not technically wrong, but practically so. Government might not dictate, but insurance companies will.
Um...isn't this how pretty much all media works?
Welcome to the news business. Even your local TV station receives its news directly from businesses, who often send multiple versions of the script to fit different time allotments. This is where "PR consultants" come into play - highly paid networking people who have the inside-track to, say, Walt Mossberg, and for a fee will happily send him your story and any related materials in the hope he'll decide it's worthy of publishing in his brand. Whether or not money makes its way to the news entity, and how that factors into their decision of what to publish, is an open question ... I'll simply point out there are economic incentives at play, and leave it at that.

Macro vision ... Americans get news and updates from two sources:

- "news" entities like the paper, magazines, television news, and their related websites

- advertisements

Only in the latter is it obvious that the viewing audience is being sold a product. In the former, it's absolutely still true, it's just less obvious.
You can mine with you GPU in a pool. You can earn a whopping $4 a week with a mid range GPU.

I wasn't saying that it's intentionally inefficient, just that it's purposefully designed to be ASIC unfriendly.
E7 Xeon is the old naming scheme. Xeons used to roughly follow E3 / E5 / E7 (just like i3 / i5 / i7 in the consumer brands).

The latest Xeons naming scheme for Skylake or newer is Xeon Platinum / Xeon Gold / Xeon Silver.
Subsidizing non-college career options would fix that, but really it would probably just be easier to expand college options to include non-degree career paths so that those options fall under the college umbrella.

Really though, people might choose to go to college to see what they are capable of and take on a challenge with the possibility of failure already planned. They might already know they can do an alternate career path as well.

The idea that everyone will have their life planned out before college is silly. I certainly have no idea how well I would do in every college degree program. I could be great, or I could suck.
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Weighing the harm of loss against the benefit of entertainment is one way to decide. An alternative viewpoint is whether the freedom to gamble is more or less important than protecting the irresponsible.

You may also want to consider that your non-participation in an activity may not affect whether it happens or not. Arguably, there will always be a provider of gambling services where it is legal (and maybe even where it isn't). From this perspective, the most ethical choice may be to be to provide the most ethical gambling service. However, this may be commercially challenging.

Ultimately, only you can decide whether this is ethical, as ethics is subjective.
The Future of JavaScript Will Be Less JavaScript
If Tezos ever arrives it might be a viable alternative for certain use cases.
A month with Pixel 2 XL
His risk isn't asymmetric. He (or she) has got to justify their job each and every quarter to the investors. A couple of bad quarters and you can expect the shareholders to be looking for a scalp and it's usually the CEO.

I think you maybe underestimate the job market for senior executives. It's not like a CEO of a S&P500 company can find another job on LinkedIn. Sometimes they land a new gig. A lot of the times they don't.

I'd also suggest you try the job of leading people and groups of that size. There are very few who can do this sort of work effectively.

Also consider that a CEO has to consider the types of challenges he or she would like to tackle. A Board of Directors is shopping for talent and trying to get the right fit. Why does a CEO not get the same opportunity to negotiate a pay package?
The idea that the limit would happen to be just beyond where it was earlier in our lives reminds me of a Douglas Adams quote:

"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

"1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

"2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

"3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
+1

Bunch of we-don't-like-options luddites in here. I'm surprised people aren't modding their cars with a hand crank b/c

> why can't you just get the crank, walk up front, and start it manually, instead of turning a key like a princess.

Yelling at my home is on my top 10 favorite things about this century so far. I tried for decades to utilize the force to get the lights on/off or grab the tv remote. Burst a blood vessel in my eye trying one night. Never worked.
The thinking behind the tax plan being touted in the U.S. is indicative that we aren't ready for any major disruption to the status quo.
I guess one of the fastest and best way to get engagement is to do something cute .
> The relative impact of a CEO, whose job is to set strategic direction and direct human (tens of thousands of employees) and financial capital (billions of dollars) at scale

Or - according to my anecdotal experience - get out of the way and stop interfering with employees that know what they’re doing? I can think of several asinine “big plans” that just ended up burning huge stashes of capital and costing even more in opportunities that were heralded as the new Advent of Christ, “and don’t you dare be the naysayer!”
> Almost everyone gets approved, regardless of their future ability to pay it back.

Because student loans are the one kind of debt that can stick through bankruptcy, so it's a great investment!
AWS releases SageMaker to make it easier to build/deploy machine learning models
Google Kubernetes Engine launches multi-master, regional clusters to beta
And Western Pennsylvania is closer to Chicago than to NYC. Eastern Penn cities like Philly are definitely considered part of the East Coast, culturally, but western Penn such as Pittsburgh is definitely part of the Midwest.
Sounds like he was just trying to show off his new gadgets? I've got Hue bulbs in every room, but if it's easier to flip a switch, I'll flip a switch (Hue bulbs still turn off/on with the regular wall switch...). What I think is useful is saying "turn off all the lights" when I'm about to go to bed, or if I'm out and about and want to make sure my lights are off.

The main reason I bought them was the ability to display multiple colors - I absolutely wear that out. I love having a red-colored room when I'm playing video games. Dimmed 'sunset' colors when watching a movie. Party colors when friends are over.

I think they're really fun, sometimes useful.