skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also on the 7. There's absolutely nothing wrong with this phone, but I'll probably wait for the X2 (or whatever the next X will be called) and then upgrade to that once it comes out.
They talk about this in the article:

> DARPA’s stated goal of “hack resistance” appears to hedge a bit on whether truly unhackable hardware is achievable.
One of the best comedies ever.
An observer wouldn’t describe one of the sides as delusional.
They almost certainly get a lot of reports of hate speech, and it is actually an offence, so having some level of specialist response is probably justified. What's wrong is ignoring any category of crime where there are victims, property or otherwise.

London it a multi-ethnic city and in order to stay peacefully that way the more extreme provocateurs of racial and religious hatred need to be silenced.

Some background: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmha... (caution, includes a couple of example offensive images)

Specifically one of London's black MPs, Dianne Abbott, recieves something like 40% of all online abuse directed at MPs. After the murder of Jo Cox by a far right extremist this stuff has to be taken seriously.

More context from the report: "The Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) was set
up in 2010 to remove unlawful terrorist material from the internet, with a focus on UK-
based material. Twitter, which has been a magnet for jihadist propaganda, said that it had
a close relationship with the CTIRU.
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Google described CTIRU as a ‘trusted flagger’ with
“an accuracy rate of around 80%”
Economics isn't that magic. Everyone has to share some of the risk!

Services like this exist, but you is really need to do your own research. Your research is required in order to help keep scams out of the system.

The major investment firms, like fidelity, Ameritrade, T Rowe Price, Etc, can probably recommend conservative investment vehicles for you that get pretty close to your goal. It just takes a phone call or a chat session.

Then there are more modern investment sites where you just tell them your risk profile and they choose the Investments for you.
> So you believe they only slowed down your phone to have you buy a new phone and hoped not to get caught?

I don't feel comfortable speculating about their real intentions. Regardless, my main qualm is that they made my user experience worse without warning me about it during the upgrade nor providing the exact reason for it. I guess we can both agree then it's primarily a communication issue.
That presumes people wouldn't vote in favor of authoritarian practices.
No part of the Windows syscall ABI is stable on Windows. Not win32k, not core NTAPI. You need core NTAPI to send IPC messages.
I'm not doubting that, it may well be a good investment, it's just reacting to an advert isn't a good methodology for picking your investments.
FWIW, I don't feel like Clicker Heroes handles micro-transactions in a scummy way. It's not pay to win/play because it's literally impossible to win and you offer an alternate way to obtain the in-game currency (rubies, I think?).
I often lose my place in a sea of similar outputs. It's infuriating that distinguishing which command belongs to which output at which time requires me to rely on my eyeballs.

So for example it'd be nice if my output folded up after the following command is run. If `time` was run automatically. If I could switch on autodiffing between runs of the same command. There are probably other such ideas.
yeah, I wish there was an easy DIY way to program those
There was an article the other day on HN regarding mental burnout of ads.

This morning I decided to count the ads on a news article, there were 14 between sponsored bs and banner ads. Every single one was complete garbage.

Click here to find out how the tech and ad industry are lowering the bar at a "shocking" rate
I saw a huge stock of Echo Dots (Echos Dot?) in at least one local store.
This looks promising. Although, it seems they only offer NFL, soccer, and tennis coverage currently. Hopefully some day they'll add NHL and NBA games as well.
The problem happens for any name.

Amazon tried to get around it by naming the product "Echo" while making the activation phrase "Alexa" but that means people don't call it "Echo" in practice.
> can increasing scientific knowledge and technological innovation overcome any limitations to economic growth posed by the depletion of non-renewable resources?

> Stanford University economist Paul Romer has observed, "Every generation has perceived the limits to growth that finite resources and undesirable side effects would pose if no new recipes or ideas were discovered. And every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new recipes and ideas. We consistently fail to grasp how many ideas remain to be discovered. The difficulty is the same one we have with compounding: possibilities do not merely add up; they multiply.”

http://reason.com/archives/2010/04/27/peak-everything
Agreed. Time and place matters.

My (minor) successes on policy work happened when my whole tribe showed up to testify at hearings, repeated.

To see how this works, attend any public hearing regarding puppies, kittens, kennels, etc. Whereas most hearings have no audience, attendees, the kittens pack the chambers. And the advocates will get their way.

(I've done the street level protests. It feels nice, validating to be around others who agree with you. But mostly it just makes you a target.)
Grand unified theory of markets
> Just leave us more of our own tax money and we could do all sorts of things that aren't currently considered possible.

At (roughly) what number of people does that argument stop working? 5M? 500K? 50K? 5?
> VR is freaking awesome

For what uses? I've been trying VR on multiple occasions, I still don't see much use for it. Even most VR games suck completely.
We bought our first Echo earlier this year and when we went through the configuration were very surprised to see how many of our friends and relatives popped up as contacts for the voice-call feature. None of these people are under 40.
QuickLaunch: Single Sign-On from any device to all of your apps with 1 click
Except that Slashdot doesn't have a userbase capable of bringing a server to it's knees anymore.
Great books there, with some unique finds that you cannot see on most lists.
Nah, looks like another iteration of UML.
They look very much like early British/Norse runes too.

Proto-Indo-European (PIE) origins presumably?
Hate crime: abuse, hate  and extremism online [pdf]
No, the difference is that you need to pay salaries in order for company to continue operating. If you don't, the employees will just quit.

On the other hand, there's absolutely no need to pay anything to shareholders for a company to operate, other than legal obligation. Shareholders going on strike makes absolutely no difference for the company.
A positive step would be publish all expenditures, appropriations, contracts, etc. By default. Bypassing the sunlighting/FOIA charade.
I believe Julius and PocketSphinx do not require internet connections and may be able to perform some of this stuff if you were running your own server:
http://jasperproject.github.io/documentation/configuration/#...
could anyone find actual pics of the symbols on cave walls? I spent a few minutes looking and couldn't find any.
Having done "microservices" for more than a decade, I think most of these patterns are horribly overengineered or incomplete. As with the GoF design patterns, it's almost always a bad idea to implement these patterns as-is.

Rather, look at these patterns as solutions for problems that worked for other people, and try to adapt that to your own situation. You're almost certainly going to come up with something more simple and reliable in the process.
I don't know enough about computer security, but I think the talk from Joanna Rutkowska about 'Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops' [0] is basically pushing for 'hack resistance' from a different angle, with a stateless laptop. I guess that's focussing more on verifying the lack of hacks rather than making it unhackable.

[0]: https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7352-towards_reasonably_trustwor...
My first reaction was "a Russian name?" That's curious...
If you enjoyed this, you'll probably enjoy the Unsong book, by the same author. It's basically the same idea, only bigger and better.

http://unsongbook.com/
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More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct.
I went looking for a Rubik's cube to 3D print for a friend, and I found a few models, but none that could be easily modified. After reaching out to one of the designers and not getting any response, I decided to make my own.

I used the 1983 U.S. patent diagram for the Rubik's cube as a guide. Notable differences include a spherical center piece and beveled edges where the pieces might snag.
Servants?

Alexa, wash the dishes! Alexa, change my kid’s diaper! Alexa, pickup my kid from school! Alexa, vacuum the living room! Alexa, take out the trash!

She can’t help me with any of that.

I guess everyday people need to have lower barriers to interacting with computers, but I’m good. I like to read HN the way I would have read the newspaper. I listen to some podcasts the way I would have listened to the radio. Beyond that I don’t have much non-professional use for computers.
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> "cat" could never work of course

We have an idea in that direction, where each program in a pipeline can optionally specify a file type, and the last file type hint in the pipeline determines how the stdout is rendered. So if you have "cat image.jpg", then "cat" can indicate a file type of image/jpg, causing stdout to be interpreted as an image. But if you have "cat image.jpg | grep foo" (just making something up here), then grep can indicate a file type of application/octet-stream because it cannot guarantee what the file type is.

The tricky part, from what I can see, is explaining the pipeline topology to the terminal, so that it knows that "grep" comes after "cat", even though command parsing happens in the shell only. That's still a big unknown. A previous project in this area (TermKit) mandated that applications specify a "Content-Type" header (like in HTTP) in their stdout, but that would break most existing programs, so it's not an option for us.
As a Star Trek fan, it is pretty cool. I would not have bought it if "Computer" was not a wake word option. I showed my young girls a few clips from TNG when Geordi is asking the computer to play music and dim the lights. The experience is pretty similar. Aside from that, playing music and podcasts is how we use it. It beats having to find the song you want on a phone.
Wikipedia still sees "slashdotting" as the general term.
...and that's a good thing. Short: they deprecated insecure key lengths (<2048)
You can still use alternative SSH clients if you really need to use them
Descartes' Regulae (Rules for the Direction of the Mind). There are online copies, but all the ones I have found are incomplete. The best one is in John Cottingham's The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 1

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_the_Direction_of_the...
Isn’t the issue the time when you’ve lost your dB and the time you realize it? During that time keys could be used.
Night and day difference. With Google glass, you're bringing a stealthy, concealed video camera into public spaces like restrooms, where the guy using the urinal next to you has no idea if you're recording him or not.

With smart home devices, you put a microphone on private property that you already own, and it needs to be connected to an AC outlet. It's not a public space.

Meanwhile, most seem to have no problem carrying smartphones on them 24/7, which have the same capability of recording microphone input, but in public spaces disconnected from an AC outlet.

The faux outrage at surveillance is fairly hypocritical, if you ask me.
As a note on Santa Claus being something different than we think: "Is Santa Claus a god?" (http://nautil.us/blog/is-santa-claus-a-god).

tl;dr: Omniscience (of child's deeds), rewarding the good (with gifts) and punishing the bad (with coal).
We don't remember many business leaders, unless they also happened to be scientists as well.
> Perhaps the ancients did have anti-gravity capable flying machines

Anti-gravity like that is essentially impossible according to physics.

Even if you decide that you think general relativity is wrong, if a society had antigravity, we would expect to see many more signs of their technological advancement.

Unless of course you want to believe that they used some sort of magic, using say incantations instead of technology.
I never got the subscription services like CrateJoy. It's nice for a one-time gift, kind of like a grab bag. But once you've gotten a couple boxes, what's the point? You've discovered the brands/items you like, and it's easy to go out and buy them at regular prices (some of those crates are $35 for $10 worth of stuff)

Something that you can control and sell at a lower price than I can buy (cheap razors, for example) is a different story.
> with the amount of tech a d data

This blows my mind. The ad industry has basically taken three steps backwards in a time with incredible analytics. Google, Facebook etc have drunkenly ruined and inundated their targets to the point people outright mentally adblock
Thanks for putting a search option for previous articles. Please post more articles about sports!
Machine Learning (ab)Use Cases
Playing Mario Kart in VR Looks Amazing
If you have never encountered an Orthodox File Manager, you should try one. One can have a hierarchical display of the file system without necessarily using a GUI.
Many of these people are the same ones who believe Tesla can build profitable $35,000 cars because the CEO said so, despite evidence of billions in losses (and subsidies).
Flagged, as a click-bait headline. I'd rephrase to "macOS 10.13.2 update enforces 2048-bit SSH keys; smaller keys forcibly unsupported." (or something along those lines).

RSA key sizes < 2048 have not been recommended for a long while.
> At first I would state one curious fact: [...]

That part is so nicely said I might just steal it for our manifesto. :)
A better way to hire software engineers, or to find a software engineering job.

The problem, when I'm hiring, is that so much of the interviewing process is about determining competence. When I'm job-seeking, a lot of my time is spent determining the competence of the people in charge of the company.

In the medical field, doctors and hospitals are accredited. Thus the interviewing process isn't really about a doctor proving his or her competency, nor does a doctor have to worry about the hospital going bankrupt three years after taking the job.

We really need a professional licensing process for software engineers and the firms that hire us. Even though the tools we use change from year to year, the fundamentals of software development change about as fast as the medical field.

I haven't really come across any hiring firm or headhunter who is really good at determining the competency of a software engineer or the legitimacy of a business trying to hire. It doesn't matter who they are, they always boil down to middle men trying to sell whatever goods they have on hand while making a honest attempt to manage their reputation. They need the licensing process as much as we do because they just don't have the background to determine competence.
The biggest challenge is the voice recognition. There are a variety of open source projects. The Mozilla one is likely the most promising option at the moment. Kaldi and Sphinx are a couple of others. It's probably fair to say that nothing in the space is a "product" at the moment and would likely require a full PC to run as well.

I played around a bit to see if I could put together a standalone timer but didn't get very far.
In case anyone else is wondering, I was able to get my Vega 64 working, just required building the latest 4.15 RC kernel :)
I'm currently awaiting the delivery of a 400x300 epaper module from aliexpress which I'm hoping to use as a display that updates daily with google calendar entries, the local weather, and similar things.

I don't have a solid use for it, but I'm looking forward to experimenting as I'm surprised how inexpensive these things have become - the item I ordered is ~€25.

I'll be using a Wemos mini D1 to drive it, and I'd also expect a long life-span between charges. (Though waking up and using the WiFi is always the heavy-weight part of these devices.)
No, he didn't. How do you justify carrying a smartphone with an always listening microphone into shared public spaces (many listen for wake words now), but get hung up on having a microphone in your private residence?

Google has a horrific track record on privacy, but Amazon knows who their customers are, and would never do anything to violate their trust. With Amazon, you're the customer, with Google, you're the product.
>By the time this will be a problem in 100 years, we'll have long moved to something else, like graphene or whatever.

That is a big assumption, and honestly irresponsible.
This is awesome. Thank you for pointing me in this direction. This kind of corpus is going to be extremely important to getting a more diverse array of voice applications out there in the open.
So, you've a 45 ton stone to lever up, how do you move the log that would be though enough to use as a lever ... How about the fulcrum stone, how do you move that ... levers will the way down?
It's amazing how many service-oriented projects continue to add basic patterns like security, observability, and reliability after the fact.

This looks like a great set of templates for setting the tone and expectations on a project. Will definitely use.
I love David Hockney, but Secret Knowledge is an extraordinary work that I’d recommend to everyone regardless of their interest in art criticism. Most people frame the work as using science to comment about art criticism but I think that’s backwards. Hockney, instead, uses the program of art criticism to evaluate scientific discovery (and progress). By the end I felt that science became slightly more humane.
Maybe, but sounds a bit like future discounting to me. I'm just presenting my dilemma, and I don't think the solution is to be idle for 10 years and then switch to entrepeneurship overnight. More like work a normal job and try to get stuff going on the side, but don't risk your life savings for a lottery ticket.
I'm not clear on what it is you're asking.
For that kind of money, I would rather go to a different country as well. Like Thailand. Find a nice place in a city with a co-working space. If you'd be ok eating asian food, life can be very cheap (1,5 USD a meal depending on where you buy the food). A nice apartment + gym + swimming pool can be rented pretty cheap as well, maybe starting around 300 USD a month and more expensive depending on the size of the apartment.
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It's all fine and dandy except Amazon could not handle the volume. Two of my guaranteed next day deliveries were awfully late, one of them over a week. Apparently my case was not at all isolated, as people were complaining all over the Internet. Reading their boasting leaves quite a bad taste.
‘Amazon says bestselling product made by Amazon’
"(W)e don't know exactly how it was done" is exactly what "unexplained mystery" means.
Define "obsolete"?
Seems the only reasonable option to have the cake and eat it too.
Trusting a corporation, any corporation, is a bad idea. There is nothing there to trust; any ethical behavior by a corporation is a calculated behavior, executed purely for the maximization of profits. Hell, working for a corporation should be viewed as a calculated behavior, as one is working for an entity with a legally mandated anti-human profit incentive. Speaking as a person with a graduate degree in economics, we're on a bad path that needs to be revised soon, or Fermi's Paradox of technological destruction will be our fate.
How do people deal with the software side of these boards? AFAIK, Raspberry Pies are the only ones with good support, plus there are a few boards that have Tier 1 support on NetBSD. The rest seem too risky to rely on if you don't want to live with vulnerable kernels after a year or two.
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Surely allowing police to use excessive force to control protestors is the exact opposite of "individual liberty".
Thanks, great read. It really reaffirms the brilliance of Tolkien's work. Lord of the Rings isn't just a nice story, it's a world with its own mythos and history.
The Haunting Effects Of Going Days Without Sleep
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Is there a vulva too - no not yet RTFA.
Check out using the Kindle as a raspberry pi display:

http://ponnuki.net/2012/09/kindleberry-pi/

https://maxogden.com/kindleberry-wireless.html
I never noticed those hairy ocelli in bee pictures.

Seems like they are for detecting wind direction so they can stay on course in windy conditions.
And there we have the real Fake News. The term originated as a label for crackpot/tinfoil-hat/state-actor misinformation ops. It was picked up by Trump who presumably misunderstood the meaning, and used by him to describe MSM he didn't like. Sort of Fake News squared...
Concentration isn’t the whole story though. Plastic is 100% plastic, but it’s still hard and expensive to recycle.

Lithium batteries need to be removed from their device. Then removed from their casing. Both these steps are for things made tamper proof to some degree.

Add transportation, labor and environmental [1] costs.

In general recycling of mtls used in electronic devices is dirty and expensive.

Now a car with a big battery will change a lot of these numbers. But the problem remains: we look for tech solution (i.e. e-cars) to our social problems (bad cities, “weak” ppl [2])

[1] the Chinese are increasingly reluctant to import the worlds trash.

[2] as a kid my wife used newspaper for toilet paper at an outhouse, no one owned cars and her grandparents village was a three hour walk (no roads). That’s strong. My mom drove me to school. That’s weak
I never said it doesn't happen. You're the odd case and of course there's someone who had adblock installed for them. I just said "unlikely", because they went out of their way to install the adblocker.
I think you're wrong about children not having purchasing power. Remember all those toy commercials on TV during Saturday morning cartoons? Those advertisers weren't just throwing money away, they were marketing to kids, and those kids then bugged their parents to purchase the toys.

The same holds true for YouTube; in fact I might go so far as to say it's even more powerful today. Kids are choosing the videos to watch and people to subscribe to. That means they have an interest and are actively participating in the process. I would think this would make them a better target with a higher ROI. Especially if the investment is a couple of hours of video creation.
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