skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of comments here about how Dynamicland is a bit confusing to understand, and the website is light on details.

The latter is true - it would be nice if there were academic style papers describing the system, or reference source code, etc. - but I understand that right now, their time is mostly dedicated to building+fundraising, and the goal of this website is to have something rather than nothing online.

That being said, Dynamicland inherits a lot from many previous subfields in computing.

If anyone wants to get deeper, and try to wrap their head around what Dynamicland aims to be, here are what I think a few starting points:

- Alan Kay's STEPS paper, the goal of which is to have a fully implemented OS + base libraries etc in a few thousands of lines of codes at most, by using modern patterns and abstractions.

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf

- Bret Victor's "Seeing Spaces" is pretty much the precursor to Dynamic Land

http://worrydream.com/SeeingSpaces/

- Ishii & Ullmer's seminal paper "Tangible Bits: Towards Seamless Interfaces between People, Bits and Atoms" (which precedes Dynamicland by 20 years, but I think many core goals are shared)

https://trackr-media.tangiblemedia.org/publishedmedia/Papers...

This paper kickstarted the whole "tangible interaction" subfield of Human Computer Interaction. If you wish to dive even deeper, I recommend:

- reading Ullmer's PhD thesis, of which the previous paper is essentially a TL;DR

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~ullmer/thesis/full-noblanks.pdf

- checking out the proceedings of TEI, the ACM conference for Tangible & Embodied Interaction (sadly you'll need an ACM digital library membership, but if you are a computer scientist it is very much worth it and you should get your job/school to pay for it if you can).

https://dl.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE271

I have no ties to Dynamicland besides having visited it, but I have done my graduate studies under one of the aforementioned authors and shared workplaces with people from Bret's group, so I'm happy to talk more about the whole "tangible interaction" aspect of it all.
> I think the point that the GP post is making [...]

Yup, that was the point.

> And that's their decision

Some at least. It's modern European federalism. The same people that the lawmakers believe aren't able to make their own decisions about which services are good or bad for them are, yet, able to determine that these regulations will be beneficial.
I know they do it when the battery gets really bad, they could move it up to happen sooner. I just imagine it would fit into the planned obsolescence narrative too easily.
If you can't keep the data secret, then maybe don't store data worth stealing. Yeah, breaches will always occur, but this data shouldn't have been piled up in the first place.
Why ask a question if you don't want to hear the answer?
I like drastic, because what else is going to spur the powers that be to revamp how we approach identification? Something dramatic like this is almost necessary at this point. Equifax was huge and yet what reforms have we seen? Is anything even in the pipeline?
> Not requiring a change of ballots when you are doing very different things with them is, IMO, a negative traits because it creates a false familiarity.

I don't think that's something you can really do with voting systems, though. Lots of voting systems are based around the same input assumptions, i.e., people are submitting a rank-order of preferences. And nothing's saying you'd have to switch to PLACE from STV rather than from FPTP. Regardless I think it doesn't make a lot of sense to associate ordinal ballots with STV specifically rather than just, well, what they are, which is a rank-order of preferences, that will get used somehow.
I have a similar situation.

My Android (1st Gen Moto G, running Lineage OS, about 3 years old) shuts down once the battery level hits 15%. You can actually see it change from 15% to 1% for one brief moment before it shuts down.

Sure, the battery is old, but this behavior is unlike the behavior of any other OS/device I've seen. I've seen some laptops with seriously messed up batteries and as far as I can remember, the OS reports a smooth discharge profile without steep drops and without and strange "surprises".

I think Android is probably not taking battery health into account when it reports remaining capacity, but that is only a guess.
> if firefox shipped with a built-in default-on child filter would that be a net neutrality violation in your eyes? if it just slowed down adult content would it violate net neutrality? where even is the line here and is the line meaningful?

I don't know (that's why I'm asking). On one side, you could argue that they are providing a service to users, on the other hand, they become a content gatekeeper if they do it by default.

Chrome, for example, blocks suspicious sites, but that's a very clear line you're drawing. With ads and tracking, it becomes muddled.

It would be similar to adult content in the UK, where AFAIK you have to proactively enable it through your ISP, it comes blocked by default.
The volatility affects all sizes of transactions in the same way. So sure, transactions with Bitcoin may be reliable. But converting them is not.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/exquilla-...

seems to be a solution but not free ($10/year/user) and some reviews say that the extension is broken recently.
Another day, another leak, another mass shooting. This is starting to be daily occurrence in the US.
As a store of value, Bitcoin is 100% a play on trust. Bitcoin's scarcity is based on consensus-- in an entirely decentralized network no less! Gold's scarcity is based on physical laws. I don't agree with Jamie Dimon much, but if folks think Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency is digital "gold," well there are a lot of people buying on a mistaken premise.
It has become a store of value, and there is nothing wrong to see it as a new asset class because of the attention it has been getting. IMO, bitcoin will rise till it finds an equivalent place like gold. Because of the limit, the value of bitcoin can technically reach anywhere between 400K to a million dollars. If they really wanted to see this as a currency, you would never design this to have an upper bound. You cannot realistically support or even augment the world exonomy with just 21 million bitcoins.
Personally, I prefer that high-powered cars don't have great brakes; people who use the brakes that much are bad drivers.

I saw a talk from the data guy at Progressive car insurance, he said that the only signal from their "black box" monitoring of drivers (opt-in) which predicted accidents was extreme braking. Not strong acceleration, not anything else.
Yes! And if you “lose” my data you owe me big money.

Also have the fine scale exponentially by data items.... data set of 100 people with 2 items (name and email = $400 total or ($2x$2=$4 per user x 100 users)).

Data set with 1 million users and 10 fields per user would be $1B and $1,024 paid to each person...

Then make companies bond their liability - with recourse against anyone up the chain of title if the data was purchased...

Perhaps a bit draconian...
Do you want for your bank or government to cut you off from any funds at any time?
How expensive, $100M?
It's just an artifact of data. The data from iOS 11 is naturally going to be collected when the phones are older than iOS 10.x, because iOS 11 came out later (and because people are likely to only run geekbench when they get their phone or do a major OS update, rather than, say, running it on iOS 10.x immediately prior to upgrading to 11).
1 - i changed it to equate for you.

2. you did, and your illustration provided no such thing; it’s a strawman with no bearing in reality, and your very self-same argument can be used to undermine your own position...

3. what?
Why would Thunderbird need to change beyond maintenance in order to be "viable" in the first place? Email hasn't changed. It's still solving the same problem. It should be as good as ever.
My morale goes up if I ever get to actually repay some of that debt. More often than not developers are discouraged from paying it back, having to add new features or quick hacks instead, making it worse. In my company we can't spends weeks refactoring because there is no new business functionality to tie it to and IME that is the norm.

At the moment I'm working on a story that requires a massive refactor of a core process, I'm loving the process of cleaning up the spaghetti but I'm not sure if the business will accept the risk of the changes.
>If it's an add, it's the most well-hidden ad in history

So well hidden, it's practically underwater.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Yet in spite of how well hidden it was (or rather, because of), we're now all talking about Mr. Robot, somehow. Funny how that works!

> No, it doesn't [parasitically hook in and waste resources]. [...] since you need [...] a specific and non-documented website to let it display anything

Yes it does hook into and waste resources and potentially display ads on ALL web pages.

Hover text injected into headline on Washington Post #39: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/issues/39

Have you read the source code?

background.js: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/master/addon/backgr...

content-script.js: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/master/addon/conten...

The extension literally injects ads for Mr. Robot in the form of popup tooltips with links on every web page that contains certain keywords. And it also wastes memory, CPU time and battery life for web pages not containing those keywords.

How much more like parasitic adware does it have be before you can see that it walks and quacks like a duck, because its intended purpose is to advertise a television show?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15936727

>It injects a blob of CSS and some JavaScript into every tab, then it does a regular expression search of every text node on each page, filtering out everything but paragraphs, then for each occurrence of a keyword in the text, it creates a new text node to split the current text node, then inserts a new span element between them, containing its own text node, then it creates an additional tooltip element containing six text nodes, five br elements, and one anchor element linking to https://support.mozilla.org/kb/lookingglass , and it also configures css class names to associate all those new nodes it created with the blob of css styling and animations that it injected.

If you wanted to develop your own malicious adware like Superfish that injects your own ads into every web page, this code and the browser hijacking techniques it uses would be an excellent starting point.

Browser Hijacking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_hijacking

Threat Introduced via Browser Extensions: https://blog.sucuri.net/2014/10/threat-introduced-via-browse...

How to find Chrome extensions that inject ads into any webpage I browse? https://superuser.com/questions/893843/how-to-find-chrome-ex...
At the risk of speaking for OP: The point is that the data should be owned by me. Yeah, I get that it has value to other people, but I'm the one that has to deal with the fallout, not them. Just because something is useful to a business doesn't mean that they have the right to it. If they want information about me, they should be asking me, not some third party.
A similar thing happened when Google+ tried to link accounts with YouTube, etc.

When will companies figure out that a brand has value by itself and should not be auto-merged with the rest of the universe?

It just makes me want to avoid doing pretty much anything, for fear of the next purchase out of my control just mixing things together.
I think we're missing a key piece of information. I'm referring to companies that want to hire for a specialized role, do no testing germane to the role, but do test competency for the job solely via a skill set that is tangential to the job itself. A lot of places do this.

I think it must be a relic of the Google-style interview cargo cult approach to hiring.
It's a little awkward, but not so bad if it's within basics, like linked lists - which one may be rusty on but will generally know or re-derive - rather than really specific algorithms. But that's just a starting point, then it's about the interview and the communication and the interaction - exactly like the examples above of talking to real users or colleagues.
The javascript part of web applications are pretty fairly open source. Most libraries are OS licensed (probably MIT) and include plain source along with the minified versions that can be verified, forked, modified or redistributed as desired. Any browser allows the source of any page to be viewed or saved locally - and I would bet dollars to donuts that even with minifiers, most javascript running on the web is still plaintext. Browsers allow turning off javascript entirely, or overriding it with custom scripts using plugins like Greasemonkey, which is a lot more freedom than most native apps provide.

The only problem from a free software perspective is that not every line of javascript in the universe is explicitly linkable to a GPL license in a static file, as one would find in, say, a C library. But in every other way (I would argue, in every way that really matters) javascript in the browser is either as free or more free than other languages in their respective environments.
It's been quite a while since I used it, but I recall Kmail being quite customizable. Indeed I actually remember it as being more customizable and had kind of been meaning to switch back to it from Thunderbird (but haven't actually done so because switching mail clients is a pain).
If I don't shred it, I usually dump it into a particular trash can. The bag from that trash can is the one I usually use for cleaning out the cat litter. If someone wants to steal it from my trash can, it may be possible, but they're going to earn it.
yeah, I'd prefer the data were simply out there, at least average people would know and understand what is known about themselves.
Geekbench and Reddit think they’ve cracked why iPhones get slower over time
News organizations aren’t immune from getting it wrong though. The Duke lacrosse case and Brian Banks are two prominent examples.
So rather than just assume ulterior motives here (which I agree should be considered as a possibility whenever a big stakeholder is discussing a major investment of theirs), I wonder if there's a different question to ask.

Specifically, how does the game theory play out for his comments? Does it point towards him being genuine? Or does it point to him trying to do something else?
If there are organisms in the ice, its a spaceship.
It’s far worse than that. If you and any two people in your list have done the same, then the app has just been given permission to a whole graph, and on and on. Connections are easy to link up. After awhile, it almost doesn’t matter if you give permission as long as they can infer a long list of possible connections based on everything else they know.
You become bad when you take action on it. If you believe homosexuality is a sin and that gay marriage shouldn't be allowed I don't know if that makes you a bad person.

If you vote for a person who says they will ban it, then yeah that's actually taking action to deprive another person of their rights. I don't support that and consider it bad.
You've just shut down every personal blog and small (or medium or large...) forum on the Internet.
Something I really dislike about the way he presents his work is that he is intentionally really really vague about what his contribution was to those various products, in his presentations he often shows a few slides "I worked on this, this and this", where the iPad and watch get shown..

Like, what did you do? Design the home screen? Design the vision of the machine itself? It's ambiguity taken to its highest extreme.

I really respect his work and publications though, no doubt that he made important contributions to the products he shows on his slides.
Lumping totally dis-similar arguments together is just intellectually lazy, which is most of my problem with the use of words like "racist, sexist, etc." They have valid applications, but are often used to circumvent rational debate.
> You do know it is impossible thwart all data breaches right?

As RcouF1uZ4gsC's proposal contains measures to be taken when it happens, I strongly suspect that he does, in fact, know that.

> Zero-day attacks are still bound to occur... Geniuses are on the offensive side.

Most of the breaches have required neither of these. The goal is to improve the practice of security to the point where the only successful attacks would require both.

> No company in the right mind would agree to pay a tax when the inevitable happens.

You have a very unconventional idea of how companies generally operate.
I'm not sure why you responded if you didn't get my point then, but let's assume you're asking me in good faith. All I'm saying is that your premise of "write once, run anywhere" is still not true for everyone, everywhere. So I don't see why I have to accept it as if I'm being unfair to someone. I think it's not honest when people are not upfront about hidden limitations to their promises which are going to have material effects on the future. We ought not to sweep this problem under the rug when we have the chance to solve it. I don't buy that people have entirely their own priorities. We all need a solution to this problem, but who wants to dedicate their life to making "learn once write anywhere" an actual reality? Especially when the developers of top platforms "have their own priorities". Go ahead and call me esoteric but I guess I just prefer it if projects didn't overhype their capabilities when I'm supposed to be evaluating them for security- and business-sensitive contexts. :P
Gas is tied up largely in export contracts, and the whole thing about Australia being both somewhat flat and dry means hydro basically doesn't exist (it exists only in the literally 1 place on the mainland continent we have any "significant" snowfall).

The biggest surprise to me was that a plant in Gladstone (Queensland) was contracted to prop up a plant in Victoria. These two places are 1375 miles apart. Then again, I guess the linky bits between the wires must be pretty high-speed, so the speed-of-light propagation of the grid conditions wouldn't take too much extra time.
where do you sell them? amazon or other website?
I want to know the website which exclude Amazon.
Friends since the 80s, have kept in touch all that time, live >1000 miles away. Real friends are those people with whom you can be yourself, who understand what you don't say as well as they understand what you do say.
I have a question. Didn't read the article. Does the phones performance pick back up if you plug it in, regardless of the battery?
Seems to me substantial liability will create a market for insurance of this sort anyway.
Coinbase added Bitcoin Cash
It sure is nice having Justin O'Bierne writing publically about maps again. His old 41Latitude blog was phenomenal and then got blackholed when he went to work at Apple Maps. Then he left Apple and is back in the free world and doing phenomenal analysis of digital mapping like this article. I can't wait for him to finish his book.
Maybe companies like this just shouldn't be allowed to store data on people anymore. It's becoming clear that none of them know how to keep it from being stolen. I reckon most people don't even know they're affected by this.
I have iPhone 7 as well (almost year old) and got 156,473
There was no equivalence drawn between slavery and the (modern) treatment of homosexuals.

There was a parallel drawn between the cultural divide on both issues, and the implication was that, like slavery, oppression of homosexuals is wrong.

3. The hatred of homosexuals (at least hatred of gay marriage) tends to draw from religion. A more secular society has no reason to care.
Ideas are worthless. Undoubtedly he took their concept, but I sincerely doubt he developed a complete copy of their idea. Whether or not their idea would have worked is up for debate. But it's a pointless debate, because ideas are worthless... Unless of course, they are patented.
>Contrary to what some reactionary conservatives seem to think, they are not generally oppressive places with no tolerance for conservative thought.

It varies from university to university. Most universities don't experience anything like the authoritarian-left chaos at Evergreen [1], but you can find student organizations at universities all over America who hold these far-left beliefs. We had no scandals like this at my east coast university, but I'd estimate at least 10-20% of the student population holds extreme beliefs of this nature. You could see inklings of it on campus in the form of posters and group demonstrations and events. I have no statistics about the political leanings of universities in general, but if even 10 big universities have these issues (and it's definitely more than 10), then it's worth discussing.

At my university, even though it didn't seem to lean that much to the left, holding conservative views was definitely a stigma. Conservative students were routinely mocked and ostracized. And this isn't some self-pity, as I consider myself to have been and to be pretty left-wing on most social and economic issues. I just saw what people on the opposite side had to deal with.

>Consider, among many other facts, the fact that Alabama just very nearly elected to the US Senate a man who thinks the US was better under slavery and that the constitutional amendments granting women and blacks the right to vote should be revoked. If that's not enough to convince you that racism is a serious problem I don't know what would be.

Pointing to proof of a problem isn't proof that all opponents of that problem are justified. The position of many university campus students, and some professors, is not merely that racism is still a serious problem in the US but that non-minority groups have effectively been born with some innate sin which they must seek constant penance for due to historical power dynamics. Connected to this is a set of very tribalistic and insular beliefs not unlike what you see in alt-right communities. It's anti-intellectual and it's encouraging college students to view the world in a very narrow way. Oppression of minority groups was and is a dire issue, but it's important not to overcorrect.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/opinion/when-the-left-tur...
You can't say "demonstrably" until you can specify the full breadth of the algorithm's specs. Something being "demonstrable" is something incredibly hard to achieve in certain classes of NNs.

If it breaks on edge cases, that's important.
AAPL buying/selling itself is a direct link between the assets inside AAPL and its stock price. Money can literally be "put into" and "taken out of" AAPL.
If it doesn't need to be insured, you could just spin off a smaller entity responsible for holding the data for you, and shut the company down if the data leaks. You can do the same if insurance is required of course, but any brand new 'personal data holding' company would likely have very high insurance premiums to offset the risk.