skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only in NYC so far, last I checked.

My wife knows a taxi service here in Boston that we use when we're travelling with the little guy. Last time we flew, we were picked up in a black car with tinted windows and leather seats. There was a stylish black carseat in the back for him ready to go. Sadly, he's still too young to feel like a rock star.
This highlights the problem. Why should they have any keys? It should be end to end encryption, where users have the keys. Otherwise it's already insecure and no one should be using it. Government demanding something is just a symptom.
Pavel Durov left Russia several years ago.
>Does no one care that Digital Ocean is owned and created by Russia?

Really? Source? I thought they were based in NYC?
Will your company be posting bail for your clients?
Seriously. Rock solid evidence that directly contradicts your sworn testimony? That's perjury. That's a crime.
The allegations against Facebook are that for a period of several years they turned a blind eye to rampant Developer abuse of their API, allowing Political organizations (and others) to download massive amounts of Facebook user data.

Facebook also continuously marginalized their Chief Security Officer who routinely complained about the API loopholes, were caught informing employees of a "don't ask don't know therefore no liability" quasi-official policy towards the widespread abuse (don't rock the advertising/business boat), and eventually reduced the CSO's staff from 120 to 3 and role to what appears to be "tweeting pre-approved pro-Facebook messages".

The FTC is now investigating if Facebook has violated it's 2011 FTC privacy mandate, something which carries fines in the millions per event range I believe (i.e. trillions of USD in fines for this size of privacy mandate failure)
I don’t use it as a phone. It’s just a classic PDA. Got the work phone and Google Voice for calls/Internet/email.
> However, we created a company with those values because we believed this put us in the best position to scale the solutions we believed in.

You could just have created a non-profit and reinvest all money - way easier to scale. Values mean shit to the shareholders who invested in you :) They care about returns. I can only image what kind of monsters are born when blindly hunting for profit. Actually, I don't have to imagine, I just need to look at the current for-profit rehabilitation industry. Not saying you're the same, you're probably not but you will at some point yield decision power to the for-profit interest of the company. And let's assume this picks up and becomes immensely successful. What's stopping the company from hiring lobbyists to support legislation which keeps people 'in the system'?
Back child support cases alone are a strong use case and huge population for this service.
How about changing the culture of mass incarceration and over-regulated over-criminalized society first?
Beat me to it. Was just about to write the same exact thing. If we common peasants lie on the stand they have no problem calling it what it is. If one of the anointed does it, it's called "testilying" or, my personal favorite, "misremembering". Sure, memory is pretty faulty, but not in the way these cops "misremember".
Here's my understanding of how this works in a Poon-Dryja payment channel[1]. I haven't reviewed the Stellar proposal to see if it's substantially different.

Let's assume an Alice-Bob channel funded with 1 BTC, and look at how we get from payment state 1 (Alice: 0.5 BTC, Bob: 0.5 BTC) to payment state 2 (Alice: 0.4 BTC, Bob: 0.6 BTC), and who could do what during the transition. This is just a sketch, but I think it fills in what you're asking.

Payment state 1:

* Alice holds a transaction C1a, that only she can broadcast. C1a has two outputs: 0.5 BTC -> {Alice in the future; or, Bob if signed by Alice's key Ak1}; 0.5 BTC -> Bob.

* Bob holds C1b, which looks like C1a but with names reversed. [Names reversed except both transactions send the same amounts to each party. In this special example case of a 50/50 distribution, that comes to the same thing.]

Transition to payment state 2:

1. Alice and Bob create new transactions C2a and C2b, half-sign them, exchange them, yada yada. This is complicated and has internal steps where only some of the information has been exchanged, but I don't think it's the part you're asking about.

At this point, Alice could broadcast C1a or C2a without penalty, and Bob could broadcast C1b or C2b without penalty, so the channel hasn't conclusively moved to payment state 2. Any broadcast will either close the channel in payment state 1, which it's coming from, or payment state 2, which it's going to. So as long as everyone knows that payment state 2 isn't confirmed (which they do), this isn't really a threat.

(With physical currency: if I hand you a nickel, there's a period where it's not clear if you're going to take it and it's not clear if I'm going to let it go, but at the end of that period either I paid you — the new state — or I didn't — we're back where we were before I started to hand you the nickel, but no earlier.)

2. Alice sends Bob Ak1.

Now if Alice publishes C1a to the blockchain, he can take its both outputs. So she wouldn't do that. Alice can safely publish C2a, and Bob can publish either C1a or C2a. We're halfway to payment state 2.

3. Bob sends Alice Bk1.

Now Bob can't publish C1b without penalty, either.

If Alice and Bob are rational, nobody will ever broadcast C1a or C1b. (If Alice — the only person who can broadcast C1a — does so, she forfeits the channel funds to Bob; and vice versa.)

The channel is now in payment state 2.

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[1] J. Poon, T. Dryja. “The Bitcoin Lightning Network: Scalable Off-Chain Instant Payments”, pp. 22–26, Section 3.3.4, “Creating a new Commitment Transaction and Revoking Prior Commitments”. This uses the terminology Commitment Transactions, Revocable Delivery Transaction, and Breach Remedy Transaction to describe the concepts that I've either waved my hands about or completely elided, above. It has lots of pictures. “Payment state” is my non-standard neologism.

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“I got here the same way the coin did.” – C. McCarthy, No Country for Old Men.
This revised 2014 article veers off into some strange territory at the end:

For the first time in human history, ALL of the philosophical, psychological, and educational frameworks and just about every technology necessary to create and sustain abundant, low-cost access to energy, water, nutritious food, high-quality education, physical and mental health, transportation, and shelter exists at the same time.

Right now, in 2018, we already have everything we need to reduce and possibly eliminate nearly all the waste in our systems. And we can do it all in a way that benefits the planet’s environment instead of harming it and possibly destabilizing it.

The obstacles to the widespread deployment of these ideas and technologies are misaligned incentives and scale.

And thanks to an extraordinary invention by a strange reclusive figure who calls itself Satoshi, humanity may have a path around those obstacles as well

No, that invention is not Bitcoin. It is the blockchain, the much more significant technology that makes Bitcoin possible.

In a much bigger upcoming guide to the blockchain, we’ll explore these things as well.

I've seen all manner of wind-ups to "blockchain," but this one was quite unexpected.

If the author is talking about social networks combined with "Blockchain Technology," he can save his breath. This has been done to death.
Keybase handles the multi-device issue really, really well. I don't feel convinced at all that multi-device e2e encrypted messaging cannot be usable.
Actually, plenty of people use Pinterest as a way to save curated lists of URLs/pages. My daughters use Pinterest to make Christmas lists. my wife has used it to save interesting looking recipes. Sometimes the display is core, sometimes it's a nicety that makes it easier to browse.

I would hazard that the number of people looking to save bookmarks online easily is a couple orders of magnitude more than those looking for fashion magazine layout, at least.

Beyond that, it's pretty easy to slice up aspects of two companies so they are or are not competitors. I think Pinterest and Pinboard fairly clearly are (and since Pinterest is often mentioned along with Pinboard, I assume others think so as well).
I have first hand experience when I tried to drive away from the police because I knew I had a warrant for my arrest. They started shooting and said I tried to run them over. There were five separate police reports with the same story. I had eye witnesses, but they were addicts like myself. So you plead guilty and go to jail.
Just because the founders immigrated from Russia as youth, doesn't mean "Digital Ocean is owned and created by Russia"
How do I read this?
But to the extent that any one of those metrics may show that your methodology has a negative or even negligible impact, what mechanisms exist to ensure your fidelity to these metrics, instead of leaning on public relations and marketing that pick up the slack?

No one is here accusing you of doing any of these things. On the contrary, there is an implication that you are positive that you will be able to do these things, even though you're obviously still validating the idea, at some level.

Edit: switched you're for your.
Java 10 release
Where you get that from? Wikipedia page about DigitalOcean mentions it's an American company from New York City. What makes you say it's owned and created by Russia (which I think you mean the Russian Government)?
Ask HN: Data Modeling Tools?
What tools do you use to perform your data modeling tasks, and why?

Specifically, I'd love to find a tool with:

- A nice, clean interface
- Ability to easily convert a data model into SQL CREATE TABLE statements (supporting multiple syntaxes)
- Is relatively affordable

Anything out there?
Yeah, I've read that.
Did he really sneak in Blockchain hype in the last 2 sentences?

Why am I even surprised...
> You don't appear to have a follow-up to that argument other than "isn't that just your opinion."

This is patently false. I have tried to give arguments but people are generally incapable of understanding what "begging the question" means. I cannot convince people that are not rational.

Something is either a human, or it isn't. If it isn't a human, it has to be something else. Assume that the embryo is not a human. It follows that it has to be something else. If it is something else, what is it?

If you say "an embryo", this is circular (the embryo is an embryo). If you say "not a human", you're begging the question. What's left? You have to attribute it as some other species of being, but if you do this, you're committing yourself to the absurd proposition that humans conceive something other than humans, and these non-humans then become humans. This is complex (and absurd) in a way that saying that human beings conceive other human beings is not.
There's no reason to believe you're talking about the same "Software Engineers" in each case, so questions like this are meaningless and boil down to rhetoric. Different subgroups of people comment on different threads.
It doesn't help that anytime Facebook changes their privacy policy or their available privacy settings, they tend to set it to a convenient default that benefits them, and that Plumber Joe is likely to never even know about.
Yep, so there's a lot of work to do. Bolukbasi, Cheng, et al. will straightforwardly admit that their model only applies to the one axis of gender bias. Fortunately there are other people working on this too, and I am one of them.

The baked-in assumption that Arabs or Muslims are terrorists, or that terrorists are Arabs or Muslims, is something that the de-biasing process in ConceptNet Numberbatch (which I make) attempts to mitigate at the same time as gender and racial bias. And of course there is much more to do.

It's a fascinating and productive field of research. Why did you have such a negative initial reaction to it?
Companies give the silent treatment all the time but add on how terrible Zuckerberg is at public relations and even I really have trouble blaming Facebook for keeping him stashed away right now.
The scandal and crimes aren't limited to the perjurious cops, but include prosecutors who fail to prosecute this perjury (and, even worse, rely on false testimony to secure convictions).
Your questions remind me of how Eli Whitney's cotton gin, originally invented for the purpose of making the lives of slaves better, instead dramatically increased the demand for slaves causing the enslavement of millions.

See http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/2... for more details on that example.
You might be able to structure the sale so that the European was the data subject for GDPR reasons, but did not have the passwords. That seems reasonable because under the GDPR, a company like Equifax would be obligated to purge your data if you withdrew consent even though you don't have access to the account they have on you.
And, what does the quoted officer say in the story about lying under oath?

"Behind closed doors, we call it testilying," a New York City police officer, Pedro Serrano, said in a recent interview, echoing a word that officers coined at least 25 years ago. "You take the truth and stretch it out a little bit."

An officer lying under oath in order to sway a verdict calls into question every single police report or court testimony from that officer.

You're absolutely correct. This is extremely serious.
> The other issue is that we, as a society, subsidize the additional cost for the handicapped

The only way this is generally true of privately-offered public accommodations covered by ADA is that the requirements impose additional costs on business which they pass on to all customers.

> I doubt that Uber subsidizes the additional cleaning for transporting a service dog.

The occasional need to do so is a cost of doing business which should factor into the minimum rate that drivers are willing to accept. No specific subsidy should be needed.
Chinese can't buy chinese land. They only get the right to use the land. Land-use rights can be bought by foreign investors for some projects.
He's finally learning that you can't duck, spin, and charm your way out of everything.
"these multi-company collaborations (Taligent, Itanium, even Power) rarely come to much."

That is a good point. A good example that's happening right now is https://www.roomkey.com/

If you read this you will be amazed by the technology that RoomKey developed:

"Against the Grain: How We Built the Next Generation Online Travel Agency using Amazon, Clojure, and a Comically Small Team"

http://www.colinsteele.org/post/23103789647/against-the-grai...

(Hotelicopter eventually rebranded as RoomKey)

The tech is amazing, but this is a company owned by a consortium of big hotels (Marriot, Sheraton, etc) and they have no interest in feeding a disruptive startup that threatens their business. Rather, they simply want RoomKey to exist so they can use it as leverage in negotiations with Expedia and Orbitz and maybe Kayak. In other words, they want to be able to say "Give us a better percentage of revenue or we will fully fund RoomKey and you will be sorry."

This truth is obvious to the tech at programmer, and they find it immensely frustrating.

It's the mis-aligned incentives that lead to the poisonous politics of these multi-company joint efforts.
For information sake, what do you think would be easier?

Web hosted I imagine?
There was never a time that home address was available from the friend graph api.
I'm just waiting for the "FreedomCoin" ICO. /s

edit: of course that's a real coin already. Sigh.
So I think Zuck's presidential campaign is officially toast at this point.

Now what?
After learning about the war on drugs being a ploy to build up the gun and law enforcement markets.

I wondered if Bitcoin was created by the us to launder and fund projects while still maintaining control over the majority of it and possibly use to collapse other currencies and governments.

They already print cash so we know the anonymous currency isn't frowned upon and the only banned Venezuela crypto none of the other seeming shady coins.
But in fairness, you cannot really claim that Signal is actually secure just because it has a better encryption.
Bail or no bail, I do not see how your system will prevent the Shkreli and Holmes of this world to not be the prime benefactor and beneficiary of your system.
I love how now this issue is alright to talk about on hacker news. For some reason when it was happening and all of the alarms were going off, it was banned content on hacker news. Technology is inherently political with political ramifications. -_-
Maybe read the article:

"The driver said it was like a flash, the person walked out in front of them," Moir said, referring to the backup driver who was behind the wheel but not operating the vehicle. "His first alert to the collision was the sound of the collision."
Service Monitoring: The Conceptual Framework
Interesting observation. Kind of crazy and not normal. I wonder if the account is a PR implant, or just a really really enthusiastic Google employee.
Good marketing for struggling Watson, I wonder what Apple gets—ie, how useful it is to the developer.

It's a shame Watson's been so disappointing (eg MD Anderson Cancer platform), maybe it can start a support group with Stephen Wolfram...
That's truly unfortunate. But it doesn't surprise me one bit. This is how they operate. They love trumping up charges any way they can ("stop resisting!") because the more "serious" crime they stop they better they look and then they are able to get promotions. Was there any dashcam or other video evidence available? I assume not or else I imagine it would have been used.
Could you please provide some home-reading material on the topic? I understand that the notion of "secure messenger" linked to your phone number and running on a phone is laughable, but it's the first time I hear accusations that my mobile operator can retrieve basically any info from my phone, like actually right now, without breaking a sweat.

Does it apply to all mobile operators or only to american ones?
> (1) We believe scale will be critical. Also, qualitative and quantitative analysis. I do not think this can be solved only through technology.

This is the cavalier attitude that concerns me. If we are talking about predicting what wines people like than saying we believe scale will be critical is fine. When talking about something that will have a major impact on the lives of unwilling participants, you'd like to see at least some rigor.

> (2) Parolees are post conviction. We are focused on people who are incarcerated pre trial because they cannot afford bail.

People being Parolees or on bail doesn't make a difference to my point.

> (3) This is not what we said but really helpful to understand that is how it reads.

You don't think the care plan Promise creates will have a positive impact on those that go through the program?
The original edition of the Google News Archive included a timeline that helped you narrow down the date range. See this help page from 2008: http://web.archive.org/web/20080905060327/http://news.google...

I find the omission in the current engine somewhat frustrating. If you are looking for original references, this timeline was very helpful -- a lot of times, the current search pulls up more modern references that aren't necessarily as useful if you want perspectives from the past. There are ways to search the current archive by date, but they are not terribly intuitive (https://www.thoughtco.com/search-tips-for-google-news-archiv...).

(My memory is that the previous search engine gave better results as well, but unfortunately it's difficult for me to prove whether that's correct one way or another.)
Small, young businesses are the (significant) job creators, grow the economy.

This isn't rocket science:

Nationwide broadband, Medicare for All, strong coffee, ready access to capital (eg SBA, grants).

Boom. Economic miracle.

Extra credit:

Then increase teacher pay to attract young families. Because families absolutely do relocate to choose better school districts. (Teacher pay mostly means cutting out all the middle men, waste. May mean more funding for schools in some areas.)

Lastly, subsidize child care, elder care. So people don't have to choose between family and work.

Oh, obvious afterthought, sorry:

Debt jubilee on all student loans. Pay for everyone's education going forward.
Thank you. Every jurisdiction has their own protocol. Bail is usually set based on a bail schedule. In CA, every county has their own bail schedule. The judge can then listen to arguments to either increase or decrease the bail amount based on different factors around whether they will be a flight risk and whether they will be a danger to the community. Once a bail is set, most people who have money bail out. Those that don't sit in jail until their case is resolved. In many counties, courts do have the option of releasing someone on their own recognizance or with some type of supervision. New laws like In re Humprey (a recent decision out of SF) is changing the way that courts can set bail.
Ask HN: Augmented reality startup idea: see inside walls
A startup to gather and provide access to details of hidden infrastructure underground and inside of the walls of buildings.

The startup would produce a data capture device, consisting of a lidar survey instrument paired with one or more high resolution cameras. It would also produce augmented reality apps for handheld, eye-glass, and heavy-equipment-mounted heads up display.

It would partner with construction firms which build large structures or repair in-ground infrastructure. Possibly also with city inspection offices. The partners would be supplied with data capture devices to record the detailed position of infrastructure elements in an uncovered state.

The AR apps would allow later users to see under the surface of streets and inside walls at later phases of construction or repair. So when you dig back up a street, the backhoe operator can see where the water lines are under the ground on his AR display; when you to reconfigure interior space in a skyscraper you can look inside the walls of the existing construction, etc.

The business model would be to try to build up data as quickly as possible. Whoever scales such a business first may own the space. Make data collection devices and acceess to their own data free to large partners; sell subscription access to data recorded by someone other than the partner.

Critique?
I care, but had no idea. Any more info? Search not showing up much.
Promise will be paid per former inmate that enters into this program I presume?

As long as there is a profit incentive for people to be in the criminal justice system, there will be market forces pushing to increase the prison population.
I've nothing bad to say about Signal. If it supports all the same features I guess that would be a better choice as their crypto seems to be thoroughly verified. (Disclaimer: I am not a cryptographer.)

Telegram just happen to be what my friends and family standardized on after WhatsApp failed on their stated mission.
Using NPS data with machine learning to improve your marketing – Beyond Keywords
If you have money to get Epic to make an exception for you, you likely don't need freebies like these assets ;)
I read the reduction in the CSO's staff as a prelude to his leaving the company, not as a "nerfing" to his role.
Google is also founded by Russian immigrants, it does not mean its owned and is created in Russia...
Did it ever have a real chance?
Are you looking to hire anyone that is currently based out of Seattle? I would love to work for you.
AMDGPU DC's Latest 34 Patches Provide More Fixes – Phoronix
There used to be a really good walk through and demo of the software on youtube, but it was pulled down. Perhaps someone has uploaded it again. I will see if I can find it.

IIRC, these debugging tools exist on all carriers and each have their own custom implementations.