skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox manages to sync just fine while automatically encrypting data end-to-end.
He's not forced to testify to the EU (or the UK), though to not do so may be undesirable.
> Which, after three posts you still haven't really addressed. What evidence does Promise have that their product will make things better? This isn't really something you give the old college try and hope to find success.

I've addressed it. People who cannot afford to pay bail (or for a bail bond) will be able to work and be with their families rather than stay in jail. Do you disagree that this is "making things better?"

>>When people are able to work and take care of their families who would otherwise be sitting in a concrete box, waiting for time to pass.

>And how are we going to know that is happening?

Are you over-thinking this? We will know this is happening when people show up for work and then go home to their families at the end of the day.
Apple is not delegating cloud services to IBM. They are partnering with IBM for enterprise go-to-market, as they have done before.

It just happens that cloud services is IBM's preferred method of selling enterprise software and services.
I was the technology lead at Myspace for the Games Platform during the 2011 crackdown by the FTC. We took the FTC filings seriously and spent large amounts of cash and resources to prevent our data from making it to databrokers. Fines are one thing. FTC can shutdown or cripple your business.

I bet if Facebook is found not to take reasonable steps to mitigate issues raised during the 2011 FTC investigation, they'll be forced to do yearly audits of every app on the platform and require KYC(know your customer) process for all app publishers. This will be very costly and we'll probably see the end of the FB graph API except for trusted and highly capitalized partners.
I think its much easier in a space where you already have a precisely measured framework.

Disclaimer: I haven't prototyped this.

I think with a good enough continuous camera movement you can track from a zoomed out or slow-pan view that takes in multiple registration points (e.g. room corners) to a zoomed in view of a detail of interest keeping track of corresponding details. That lets you map back from the zoomed out view where you could correspond to the recorded data by the visual registration points.
Are you afraid of jumbo jet engines falling out of the sky near airports?

Exactly, that's the end goal.
People romanticize working in games and are exploited for it.

Ain't that the truth. Lots of young men (teenagers) aspire to be gamer programmers. When my son uttered those words, I immediately schooled him that it was one of the worst places on earth for a programmer to work. He got it.
Hm what do you mean? I'm not quite seeing how to differentiate with respect to the quantization steps.
And how is Google not a neutral arbitrator?
Why not async/await ? :D
Every athlete is different (even from themselves over time), and every opponent has qualities that inform your strategies. I don’t think the two are that divorced.
Contacts, media, and phone. Basic functionality of a messaging app.
Correct, this is part of the Signal protocol[1]. Specifically, this part is called Sesame[2]:

> This document describes the Sesame algorithm for managing message encryption sessions in an asynchronous and multi-device setting.

[1] https://www.signal.org/docs/

[2] https://www.signal.org/docs/specifications/sesame/
The data is not anonymized. If you install an app that requests access to your data and the data of your friends, then it's not anonymized. How could it be? That company would have the exact links between you, under your real name, and all of the friends linked to you, under their real names.

Multiply this by a million.
Looks like there isn't one. Who wants to build an open source alternative? :)
Most people didn't think Trump had a chance either.
He is to charm what Mother Theresa was to the tech world. (no disrespect intended)
The entire "Here's how promise works" paragraph, and the one following it in your introduction sounds like, essentially, you've created a private parole system. State and county governments already have parole systems.

Is your proposition to these governments that they should pay you to supervise paroled persons instead of their own pre-existing systems? Is your proposition that it will be more effective (in terms of lower recidivism) and cost per parolee?
In violation of agreements, definitely, if you believe Facebook's public statement. I think it would be risky for Facebook to lie about their developer policies but that doesn't mean it's impossible. I don't have time right now to dig through archive.org to find an old copy of those, unfortunately.

For a much better examination of legal aspects than I can provide, see https://www.lawfareblog.com/cambridge-analytica-facebook-deb.... Please keep in mind the sentence "I am leaving aside for now the potential claims under British and European law, but those add to this list considerably," which is rather important given the EU's more aggressive privacy regulations.
Haven't tried this but this is definitely a good idea for visualizing what's going on!
I haven't seen anyone post this yet but I highly suspect the fact that she was pushing a bicycle impacted the machine learning driven AIs ability to determine she was a pedestrian. This reminds me of the kangaroos messing up the AV programs being tested in Australia. A human paying attention may have been wary of a person pushing a bike in the shadows but for all we know the algorithm thought that she was a bush or something because her profile was impacted by the bike. There is a lot to speculate about but machine learning isn't as smart as we humans tend to believe it is and nowhere does it yet approach the form of general intelligence required to respond appropriately to all of it's inputs the way a human paying attention could.
That's great!
What do you see as the long term future of this company? An IPO or acquisition seems a little tougher in this case.
How is this any different than Core ML supporting the other tools for creating NNs?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreml/converting_...
I have a friend who almost went to prison (24 months) for something a stranger had done because a police officer gave false testimony against him. Because my friend's public defender was overloaded with cases, bus surveillance footage corroborating my friend's defense almost didn't make it to his trial. At the very last minute, while the judge was making his final statement, my friend's public defender busted through the door with the footage. A police officer blatantly lied to get him convicted for a crime he had nothing to do with.

My friend got off and the police officer blushed. Nothing else happened. The cop was never prosecuted for anything, not for perjury, not for testilying.

In case you were wondering, the answer is "yes": my friend is a black male.

edit:
Just wanted to say that yes, these kinds of things also happen to people of all races, especially working class people.
This was great on AMD's part. They responded to all of the issues and also put it into perspective.

Also, it looks like they are in-line with releasing fixes (in a couple of weeks) way under the 90 day disclosure timeframe.
Right, but that doesn't seem to answer my question. I know that Stellar isn't quite fast enough to become the word's money transfer solution on its own. It appears that the Lightning Network (or some other solution) needs to go into the mix for that. But once we're using Lightning Network, why do we need Stellar? Does Stellar have any advantage over Bitcoin as the underlying foundation? Or is the idea here just that Stellar doesn't want to be left out of the Lightning Network, rather than it solves some problem that LN would otherwise have?

EDIT: Proposing an answer to my own question, perhaps LN transaction fees could be significantly lower if using Stellar rather than Bitcoin as the supporting blockchain? If so, does anyone have any estimates regarding the difference?

EDIT 2: It does seem that there would be an advantage to Stellar at the time a channel is closed, since the fee for the underlying blockchain transaction should be significantly less.
Thanks and I agree in theory. It remains to be seen whether that statement was true, or just CA pumping up their own importance.
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He wanted to leave after he was reassigned - in other words, because he was reassigned. They convinced him to stay because him quitting then would have looked bad for the company. That's what 7 sources told the NYT.
I don’t think it does that anymore - my signal has nothing in it.
> One person at a major Ruby conference casually literally asked me if I enjoyed killing babies.

That's horrible man, I'm sorry somebody was that callous.
Yeah that's what I thought. Does it mean things have changed at YC? Maybe the selection is a bit over engineered missing out on the basic stuff.
There is no pricing information easily available. Is it free, or are people supposed to invest time into learning, and then find out what it costs to go live?
Depends on your definition of being "in custody".

Here's how Promise works: We work in partnership with governments who release people from jail on condition that they work with Promise as an alternative to being in custody.

Not sure it only applies to pre-trial people or parolees. A clarification would be welcome.
Sounds like an instance of Jevons' Paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
The whole thing actually reminds me of Inform7, which is a natural language implementation of text adventures on a similar (albeit very old) database query language system.
Our Discovery of Cramming (2017)
"huge problems in energy, food production, transportation, municipal government, civic engineering, education, etc."

Completely nonsensical list of unrelated nouns, but nonsense is what fuels crypto hype.
Every single project I've seen that is looking into Lightning has simply offered lofty promises and roadmaps but without any compelling advantage of Lightning on their coin as opposed to Lightning on Bitcoin. If anything, they have a big hurdle to overcome - Bitcoin's first mover advantage with regards to LN development. PLEASE correct me if I am wrong, but as far as I have seen 99% of off-chain development progress has been Bitcoin/Litecoin, with other coins simply following the progress made and hoping to change a few parameters to make it compatible with their coin.

And the speed difference you mention is an important point - so many of these coins have acted as artificial capacity surrogates during Bitcoin's scaling woes. But with LN, I don't see their use at all...
Less than 10% of the HN community is in Silicon Valley.
Cambridge analytica is an investment of Robert Mercer. Mercer also donates to the Trump campaign. Steve Bannon headed the CA operation to collect user data from social media for the sole purpose of "gaming" the electorate system (ALL confirmed by the Canadian CA whistleblower). Kushner hired CA to work for the Trump campaign. CA admitted (on tape) they broke election laws and actively obstruct justice by not keeping evidence (paper trail). They also admitted they ran the "entire digital campaign" for Trump Campaign. Board of CA quickly suspends CEO as of today.

Mark currently getting away as an accomplice to the murder of our democracy.
I'm not buying naïve.

See https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/facebook-person... for a 2013 view of Facebook near the beginning of this decade.

In 2010 I remember hearing rumor that some of the early investors in Facebook were connected with the CIA. I can't readily verify that, but it fits with everything that I've heard about them.

I don't think that we should assume good intentions here.
> "Xu Guangyu, chairman of Beijing Kaiwen... runs K-12 schools in China and said Westminster could provide the knowledge to help upgrade arts education for his students."

There you have it. The Chinese company is buying the college specifically for the purpose of using their intellectual property. Is this not the same thing they have been doing buying US businesses? Purchasing the know-how that they lack to gain a competitive edge, while preventing MNCs from competing fairly in the Chinese domestic market?

It's a smart strategy and seems to be working. Not fair though, and shouldn't be allowed.
Turn Your Raspberry Pi into a Portable Touchscreen Tablet
That's a distinction without a difference, if there ever was one.
It was also launched AS webOS back in 2009. PalmOS was something different.
I have not been involved in FTC decisions but I have worked at companies subject to FTC consent decrees. I agree with adrr's comment. The initial fines are not that big a deal; the work required to demonstrate compliance is non-trivial.
Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We always look for evidence when people are worried, and we take action, such as banning accounts, when we find it.

Frankly, though, the greater danger—orders of magnitude greater—is users' tendency to assume that other users must be astroturfing, or shills, bots, or spies, just because they hold opposing views. The truth is that HN is divided on divisive issues, just like society at large, all the more because it is a majority international community.

That is why the site guidelines ask you not to post comments like this. The attempted cure is more toxic than the seeming disease.

I've written about this a ton if anyone wants it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Facebook is right – this isn’t a breach
> I couldn’t close the account through their website or app but had to send a paper form to Germany!

This is a side effect of German banking regulation, not a fault of N26 (or any other Internet bank)
The early marketing showed _nothing_. No images or descriptions of actual hardware, not even a straightforward explanation of what they're actually building.

Again, if you went and interpreted that to mean "we invented a holographic projector" or "we invented glasses-free AR" or "we discovered a way to project forcefields strong enough to suspend whales in midair" that's on you.
> It's not so easy to control because judges

Judges don't make laws (well, at least, they aren't the ones I'm talking about with a jurisdiction-wide, state or federal, prohibition.)

Now, if you want to say that it's not easy to control because legislators and ultimately the electorate are biased toward and support this kind of police intimidation, that may be the case (though that's exactly saying it's not easy to solve because we, as a society, actively desire the status quo. It's easy to solve, it's hard to convince people it should be solved, which has always been the problem with civil liberties.)
The same reason it costs 1 billion dollars to build 1 mile of railroad track. Nonprofits pay premium to get anything done. Tenure and administration costs are through the roof at these schools.
First it is great you are tackling a real social issue.

If it works it looks like it could have a positive impact. How ever I have a few concerns/questions

1. How will the incentives be aligned? More people standing trial = larger potential market.

2. This is a false dichotomy.
“Not having to deal with foundations”

There are other models that do not require you to take donor funding. Take a look at the model by Muhammad Yunus[0] or writing by Porter on shared value [1]. For e.g one could generate cash flow for expenses without having investors looking for a return.

3. While a profit motive can be useful to encourage innovation and competitiveness, this can have negative consequences. For e.g in this case what is good for business is not necessarily good for society.(more suspects)

4. Would you consider this a fundamental solution?

5. What outcome are you after?

6. Is there a way to prevent people even Being suspected of a crime? Preventing them committing a crime?

7. Using leverage points from Donella Meadows [2] Where does this fall?

8. Have you looked at systems theory? Very useful for really complex social challenges like the one you are trying to tackle acumen has a free course. [3].

8. Is this solution a short term one with a more long term(fundamental) plan for the future?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grameen_Bank

[1] https://hbr.org/2011/01/the-big-idea-creating-shared-value

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_leverage_points

[3] https://www.plusacumen.org/courses/systems-practice
I'll have two, please.
They're in closed BETA. I looked into them but they are not that good for long term storage. Plus their payment system is centralized.
> Edit text without having to constantly move hands off of the keyboard home row to move the mouse or hit keys like PgUp/PgDn.

There's probably more you can do without using the mouse than you realize.

> # Change all the 'X's to 'Y's on the current line in 5 seconds.

In PyCharm, I can easily select the current line with Home followed by Shift+End, hit CTRL-R, X, Tab, Y, click Replace All. Doesn't really take much more effort than whatever black magic command vim uses.

> # Syntax highlighting for [any language the IDE doesn't compile].

Then you're using the wrong IDE. PyCharm is primarily a Python IDE, but also does syntax highlighting for JavaScript, HTML, XML, YAML, CSS, and CoffeeScript. Visual Studio Code supports C/C++, C#, CSS, Go HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSON, PHP, Python, and a few others.

Both of them have support for adding custom syntax highlighting.

> # Pipe text through an external program.

I'd be doing this on the command line anyways.

> # Start quickly enough to pop open text files whenever you need it.

I'll give you that one. But that's not enough to do your general development in vim.
> An officer lying under oath in order to sway a verdict calls into question every single police report or court testimony from that officer

Are there public databases that track dishonest officers? That could be incredibly helpful to defence lawyers.
With Trump's win it feels wrong to rule anyone out this early.
There was recently a case of some cops who shot a pregnant teenager [0]. A few months before the prosecutor cleared the cops, the police union donated $10,000 to her campaign. I don't know if this was pay-to-play or not, but it creates very bad optics that undermines the appearance of justice. These kinds of events should always require an independent, maybe even unelected federal prosecutor, lead the investigation.

0: https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2018/03/16...
How does that make the term meaningless? If you owned 90% of a crypto currency it would indeed be centralized

If someone owns the vast majority of a crypto currency, they have a lot of control over the price

And since stellar is centralized in that way on purpose, I don’t see how calling it centralized is inaccurate
National Transit Database – Visualizing national public transit data
Thank you for this, hadn't run across a site as well presented as this.
I wrote this in another comment, but this is only partially true. The GDPR protections can potentially extend to non-EU citizens who travel to the EU, but the letter of the law seems to state that that's only true if data is actually collected while the person is in the EU. In other words, Facebook and others could potentially say "if this data is geotagged in the EU, don't record it. Wait until they're back in the US." Then, since no data collection happened in the EU, they wouldn't have the right to get it deleted.

Edit: rereading https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/, it specifically mentions the "processing of data", not just storing. In other words, Facebook could potentially stop an American from logging in when in Europe. Would they? Likely not, it would hurt their business. But what if I (an American) sign on via a British VPN?

It also doesn't answer what would happen to the data of EU citizens who are never geotagged in the EU (due to living outside of it), but also have shadow profiles created without their consent anyway. The first GDPR lawsuit will be fascinating.
> We then monitor and support participants to help them succeed with their plans.

so a private police force “monitoring” people?
Is that a printer jam example? If yes, then is Apple using a "printer jam" example to showcase it's ML chops in-collab with the Big Blue?
Again, I would refer you to the Rich Hickey talks, I'm not very eloquent on this. I think its about the manual overhead that constructing your hierarchy of types, plus the cognitive overhead of doing all the fancy things in your brackets.

I'm familiar with the advantages of type systems (my progression was Java -> Haskell -> Idris) but I found my personal productivity (even in larger systems built in a team) was best in clojure. I didn't feel that the guarantees given to me by the type system were worth the mental overhead, a lot of people feel differently (you amongst them I'm guessing :p)

As a closing point, if I were to ever build something that truly had to be Robust in a "someone will die if this goes even slightly wrong" way, I would reach straight for Idris and probably something like TLA+. However most of my development revolves around larger distributed systems communicating over wires, still resilient but in a different way. Mainly I use clojure.spec in core business logic and at the edges of my programs, for generative testing and ensuring that the data flowing through the system is sensible.
The case for deterring authoritarianism is not G20 protests, it's

(a) groups like Deacons for Defence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacons_for_Defense_and_Justic...) where the presence of weapons serves as a deterrence, or if you want to turn to more grim times,
(b) events like Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising)
where the concentration of weapons counts for forcing an oppressor to suffer casualties instead of just rolling over the unarmed opposition. That is what the quote you are responding to alludes to.

Finally, weapons also serve as deterrent for the out-of-control forces, e.g.
(c) 1992 Los Angeles Riots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots) when the government is not acting directly or indirectly against a group but is simply not acting at all during critical time

All of these has happened before, and all of these will happen again, during our lifetime.
Yeah, bro. Report them to FBI, let our president know.
You must have a lot of free time. Serving such a trivial page over http means little - but to you is apparently the whole world.
Yes, it would be nice to have some simple hosted event board. Probably with participant accounts tied to phones, so it's easy to join.
American colleges have an anti-asian bias. I, for one, don't blame the Chinese for buying up the system so that they get decide who comes through the door now.
Maybe/hopefully. Does PSD2 mandate a specific protocol? If not, I suspect each bank will just cook up some horrible, incompatible-to-everything-else API, and it will be completely useless.
It's basically what Secure Scuttlebutt is doing.

Basically, if you have a cryptographic write only log of social activity, and can exchange that with others, you can create social activity/interactions that are only readable by your social graph (as it should be), and not by third parties/providers.

It's a really, really neat concept (in the vein of the awesome stuff happening with distributed cryptographic consensus in general), and simply needs easier entry points for mass adoption.
That's not the rest of the worlds problem. If they want to buy other peoples land, then other people should be able to buy theres.

They're taking advantage of us.
I can't say I understand a lot of it. Where can I read more on hardware exploits and how people figure them out?