skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love my gadgets so I’ve owned lots of smart phone, tablets, tablet pencils, and Wacom devices—even a couple of high end Wacom video graphic tablets. I think Apple did a good job with their pencil. However, I rarely use any of them outside of electronic art projects.

I completed my Math degree and Engineering degrees in 1974 so I’ve solved my fair share of problems and taken thousands of pages of technical notes; my opinion is that no electronic drawing device beats a ream of typing paper and a good pen or pencil. (I don’t even use a calculator very often. Once I’m ready to handle numbers I use a computer.)
FYI on Fi there are many devices that seem to work well, even if they aren't on the official list of supported devices.

Fi also supports additional devices using a data-only SIM, which doesn't cost any extra except for the per-GB data rates. No $15 surcharge just for the ability to use other devices, etc. Same thing with tethering.

edit: also, this isn't exactly new, Google Fi was introduced in October 2016. I've been using it since then with no problems. In fact, I once received a reimbursement for a short outage that I hadn't even realized happened.
You could call it max(b,a) but that would be fucking stupid.

People shouldn't have to write shit code cause judges are tech illiterate.
"How I flipped a couple booleans to `is_deleted=true` in Facebook's DB"
That is what the new law established by that case seems to suggest...
Appellate courts do not lightly overturn jury verdicts using highly fact-specific reviews of evidence. There is a reason they call a jury a "trier of fact".

There is a reason for this: if it were the rule that an appellate court could easily step in and second-guess how a jury weighs evidence, there would be little room for finality with jury verdicts because lawyers are very skilled (and become very tiresome) endlessly arguing why this or that fact is better than another and why a court should weigh things differently than the way a jury did.

In this case, the Federal Circuit Court did what amounted a wholesale second-guessing of what the jury concluded about the facts here.

I am not saying the issues were not complex and that it had absolutely no basis for coming to different conclusions.

But the zeal with which this particular court upholds IP absolutism is truly a marvel.

This is the court that gave us the frivolous patent bonanza dating back to 1990s by which "everything under the sun" became patentable and many suffered for years from the consequent harm.

So too with the way it is handling copyright law in this Oracle/Google dispute. Yes, by all means, let us protect the hell out of APIs and invite endless future litigation that ensures that easy connectivity in the computer world will no longer depend on engineers but on lawyers. And let us say that "no reasonable jury" could possibly conclude that copying even a tiny amount of code could possibly be "quantitatively insignificant" so as to shield the one doing the copying from claims of copyright infringement, all the better to ensure that future lawyers can conjure up infringement claims from all sorts of seemingly quantitatively trivial copying.

I deliberately exaggerate in how I characterize this decision knowing that it glosses over all sorts of fine points that are the subject of profound argument among lawyers. But I do so to capture the spirit of this decision and what decisions like this mean for computing generally.

Yes, a very broad theory of what is patentable can readily be defended in the name of protecting IP rights and lawyers can come up with endless arguments for why this should be so. So too can lawyers make convincing arguments for very broad theories of copyrightability and very narrow readings of fair use. In both cases, the law protecting IP gets an expansive reading.

Well, speaking as one who has tilled this soil for a long time and who very much supports and sees the need for strong support of IP rights, I can only say that the Federal Circuit Court has proven to be a largely counter-productive force in serving as a specialized court dealing with IP among federal courts. This ruling will do what its prior expansive reading of patent law did: it will set up a legal standard that invites lawyers and litigants to engage in endless second-guessing over copyright and fair use in areas of connectivity and inter-operability in the computing world and this in turn, as a standing invitation to litigate, cannot be good for future development.
You will not be a different person, you will be “Person who thinks they can fool us into being a different person by feeding in fake data.”

You’ll probably get ads for people who are paranoid or security conscious.
You could say he... refactored it. <puts on glasses>

I'll get out now...
Seems like JavaScript would make sense since there are so many young, inexperienced js developers that stand to potentially benefit from such a book.
Google's Project Fi does work in iPhones (if they're unlocked) when you travel internationally. It's not quite as effective as using a Nexus (now Pixel) device (they switch between carriers more effectively, they're designed to), but it does work. Can get you down to one SIM if you don't mind not having a local-to-the-country phone number.

EDIT: To qualify this, it's more useful if your primary country is the US.
This isn’t new and it’s fairly expensive compared to Google Fi or T-Mobile. Might be worth it for customers in some countries but US users have much better choices for roaming internationally.
but the far right still falls under the umbrella of Classical Liberalism, they're reactionary liberals, but still liberals. If you 'believe' in the market and private ownership of capital a` la Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, then you fall into that political purview. it's the dominant ideology of the developed world.
Does anyone get the feeling that Facebook friendlies are monitoring posts like this one and steering the conversation?

Yes, other CEOs may have made similar statements, but they didn't volunteerily give millions of customers data to unscrupulous partners because that's clearly wrong to do. It's the statement with the action that's enlightening, not just the statement.

The lack of any sense of right and wrong within FB's leadership is astounding.
You know, if a country ran an election over and over until they got the "right" answer it would obvious that said country wasn't a democracy. I would have no problems if every time I opened an app or logged into a website it asked if it could have the set of permissions it needed (or wanted). Or, it could ask me once, then make me go into the settings to change my answer if I changed my mind.

But asking over and over until I say yes, then never asking again is just as nefarious my aforementioned election strategy.
But they don't do that for school shootings. Media companies are selling student lives in exchange for advertising money. Think of the innocent children that have been killed by copycat killers, just so media companies could make a few more dollars in advertising!
Hands on with Google's TPUv2
Yes, it is. It's heavily moderated and surveilled.
I'd say Apollo was pretty incremental. Hell, it was very much "move fast and break things", given how many things they designed and tested in the 12 years between Sputnik and the first Moon landing.
I've read elsewhere that film festivals like Cannes also perform a vital business function for independent filmmakers whereby distributors attend to find movies they want to buy the rights to distribute to more theaters in various countries, and filmmakers bring their movies there seeking this to try and get their film onto more screens.

For Netflix and Amazon exclusives, this part of the film festival is completely irrelevant, and I would imagine that the people who use film festivals to shop for independent films to distribute would rather not waste their time,
"privacy is over" was cool until it got Trump elected.
And you have been able to purchase a data plan straight from your iPad even before Apple SIM was officially a thing.
same. I bounce between this and https://m.facebook.com depending on what I'm trying to get done
I wonder if Uber pricing will remain as good once they go public and need to show growth and profitability.
I can't provide sufficient due diligence but look up what exactly a 'Facebook tracking pixel' is.

Nearly every website utilizes one and it allows FB to track you around the web.
ASK HN: Request for macOS browser recommendations
Can I get your opinion on which browser I should be running for macOS from a security & privacy standpoint?

My current setup is Safari 11.0.3 w/ ‘Prevent cross-site tracking’ & ‘Ask websites not to track me’ enabled. I also have the extension Better (2017.4) installed.

(I have Brave (0.21.18) installed as a backup, but rarely use it.)

Would I be better using eg. Chrome w/ Certbot, HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger or similar?

One reason I ask is I’ve seen recommendations re. physical U2F devices. I use a password manager and 2FA wherever available, but Chrome seems to be the only mainstream browser that handles 2FA at the moment.

Any and all advice gratefully received. Thanks, and sorry if I missed this topic on a search.
So then theoretically, Intel could sue AMD for supporting their x86 ISA?

1) AMD chips aren't free and the usage is totally for a commercial purpose.

2) ISAs are an API.

3) While the implementation is probably clean-room, it's still a total copy of the ISA structure and function call/return value.

4) Intel has been directly harmed by AMD competition, which results in them needing to be price competitive in certain markets.
Had uBlock off, and saw an AD for Lyft in this article. :D
Nice analysis! That's the rub with doing tco analysis. How much value do you put on higher order of manageability?

You should also include a workload volatility component to be entirely fair. Your analysis assumes it's entirely steady state.

(Work at g)
I'm not sure if you're saying this is a good or bad thing?

I really love watching and discussing both of those ceremonies. Lots of neat clothes, some funny jokes, celebrities, I like, etc.

Even if they are "just marketing exercises for the film and television industries anyway" who cares? Lots of people are like me and enjoy them.
That's effectively what privacy.firstparty.isolate does in about:config. Every origin automatically gets its own container.

This is one of the features that we've brought upstream from the Tor browser. Further reading at https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#ident...
Instagram is owned by Facebook. Acquisition was in 2012.
If he has something to hide, he really shouldn't be on the internet, because the age of privacy is over.
At least Microsoft[0] does not sell your personal information or build it's business around renting access to your personal information. There is a big difference between sharing data with advertisers and sharing data with company-controlled subsidiaries and vendors.

"We tell you about things we think you’ll like. For example, we may send you email to remind you about items left in your online shopping cart. We also display advertising in some services, and we’d prefer to show you ads you find interesting."

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/windows10privacy

Microsoft mines your behavioural patterns and activities on Windows, Bing etc and sells this information to advertisers.
Nice to see no version on that list but that stuffs been out forever
Yes, but you can't copyright the technical structure - so the acoustically designed internal structure can be copied unless it's protected by IPR other than copyright (patent, industrial design rights, whatever). The external appearance, AIUI, is chosen primarily on artistic merit and so would be under copyright. Facets that are technical, how panels are adhered, how drainage works, they could be copied.

Using this as an analogy for the API would mean anything that was part of the technical implementation could be copied but inconsequential or artistic parts couldn't. This has been interpreted to mean that the actual code is "creative", so you'd have the framework of the code but not the non-essential parts that could be different and still allow the API to work.
I feel like you could pull a 'natural flow' subset out.
What do these things have to do with each other? Why would you need an "alternative to email" just because you stopped using Gmail?
Feds launch investigation of fiery fatal Tesla crash
I think your math is wrong by a factor of 60. Under your assumptions, one hour of speech is equivalent to 30-40 thousand characters, costing between $0.48-$0.65. That translates to revenue of $9.50-$12.96/hour per TPU.
When you say you remember AOL, do you mean that it exists or that you remember using it?

If the latter, where can we send condolence cards or what is your favorite charity? (I have friends my age that used it, but I think most of us will be dead in 50 years. We could live longer if we took better care of ourselves, but not much)
Think?
Don’t they cross license because AMD does need permission to reproduce an ISA?
That's pretty interesting. I was unaware of swivel guns.

Though it appears the first "consumer" versions of semi-automatic rifles are from the early 1900s with the M1 Garand being the point of mass adoption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic_rifle#Notable_e...
But the compelling reason for choosing it over Java is that isn't wholly centered on classes.

That doesn't explain why choose it from among the majority of other languages that aren't centered on classes. JavaScript is so quirky, it seems like a really strange choice for a general programming book.

Perhaps it's my back end bias showing.
Structure and Distribution of an Unrecognized Interstitium in Human Tissues
North Korea Is Starting Up a Nuclear Reactor
There's no extra charge for a data-only SIM but you are required to have a primary device which costs $20 (plus $10/GB). Would be great to offer this to customers on other carriers.
It's fantastic that they do collect and share this information - I imagine many thousands of arrests made based on data collected, if not 10K's+ I wouldn't be surprised if hundreds of lives were saved... and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Are there any voice samples?
So bugs nobody files then? Why do you think this is a useful distinction. Either APIs aren't copyrightable or we should pass a law that says they aren't immediately.
> if Oracle hadn't also accused Oracle initially of patent infringement.

Was this a mistake or did Oracle actually accuse themselves of infringing their own patents?
Deleting anything given the limitations of Facebook, is very irresponsible. I've invested hours of commenting on stuff. The way Facebook is designed if people delete their comment or posts on which I commented, my content gets wiped out, too.

Other systems have handled this gracefully in the past. I hate when somebody decided to wipe all evidence out and put hours of life into the trashcan.

If you want Facebook to be responsible, set an example, and be responsible and respectful of other people's time and effort!
you should watch the Netflix series that have serious, emotional, social, and political topics.
Junior developers guide to galaxy
Yeah, but it's 20 years of Adobe, which is not a company that I highly respect. IMHO there is a good chunk of Photoshop's interface that is the way it is mostly for legacy reasons. Some random programmer thought the feature would be good in buried down in this dialog box off of a vaguely related menu option and it has lived their ever since.
Is the GPL a copyright license or a contract under U.S. law? [video]
AMD has a long-standing cross licensing agreement with Intel regarding x86
Lyft commits to closing wage gaps across race and gender
True.... though I bucket that under my last grouping, because I think there's a conspiracy attacking the legitimacy and experience of scientists. If the public mistrusts doctors and vaccines, they're more likely to distrust climate change and anti-refined-sugar research.
Isn't that for patent infringement? EDIT: nope it explicitly covers the ISA, too
The original one in written in RATFOR with no structures/records or recursion which make some of the programs more complicated than they should. It easy to find the two versions on Internet.

They describe the design and implementation of many of the classic unix tools. Nowadays it is posible to learn the same principles by reading the userland source code of BSD or Plan9.
Unbundle your real identity from your online identity. The problem was solved already with handles, until FB came along.
I really think programmers need a basic lesson in probability, because most of these solutions are complete nonsense with respect to information theory. Skynet still knows enough about you and everyone else even if you alone leave Facebook, and we need to figure out how to curb the powers that come with amassed data more generally.

1. Models don't need everyones data, they just need enough data. Facebook, Google, et al have more than enough data for a lot of applications even if they only had 5-10% of the population. So at best, this ship jumping will limit Facebook's ability to "micro-target" certain populations. In this case, P(whatever | privacy concerned individual) will be a bit noisier, but Facebook will still have a really damn good idea about P(whatever | still a Facebook user)

2. Facebook can still use/sell the models it develops against its user base to target you even if you're not on the platform unless you really think P(depressed), P(bad employee), P(insurance risk), P(easily influenced by a specific type of marketing) has anything to do with the fact that you're not on Facebook. The minute someone asks a few questions about you in any setting, they'll be able to infer a ton more from the models alone. Lack of information about you will only add noise, and to make things worse, Facebook has enough data on privacy conscious individuals anyway to where they can reasonably fill in the privacy conscious holes in their data with a reasonable model.

3. P(privacy concerned) may be correlated with P(not manipulable), so you jumping ship isn't going change the systemic issues everyone is concerned with, namely Facebook and third-party customers' ability to morph society in the means they see fit.

4. You can replace Facebook with Google/Amazon/Spotify/Chase/Bank of America/Hospital System/Government and all of the above is true within the domain of data they control.
Device locking was prohibited by the FCC for Block C (700 MHz):

> (e)Handset locking prohibited. No licensee may disable features on handsets it provides to customers, to the extent such features are compliant with the licensee's standards pursuant to paragraph (b)of this section, nor configure handsets it provides to prohibit use of such handsets on other providers' networks.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/27.16
> Because Google states that it will comply with such orders.

So Google saying that it will lie to me means that they aren't going lying to me? OK

> I already explained why 'designing a system so you can't comply with an NSL' is a nonstarter.

No, you gave a poor excuse as to why Google won't do it. That doesn't mean it can't be done. In fact, many other organizations do it all the time. Google simply chooses not to.
Where is the obvious factual inaccuracy?
Gah, I'm an idiot and replied to the top-level thread instead of here. See my "I agree it seems that way" comment down below.
I was test driving a car this weekend and noticed the seat covers had some hidden zippers that would make it trivial to replace.
You can try it yourself here, just make sure to select English (United States) and Voicetype: Wavenet, as the other languages are not yet using the Wavenet system: https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/
Premium title is misleading, self-driving car capability isn't something "already" available on a "budget" fiat 500
> it's weird to assign moral superiority to one side of the grass or the other

Algorithmic complexity is not "moral superiority." The whole point of formal language theory is to show how the different languages differ in terms of how difficult they are to work with.

> just as they use regular expressions for tokenizing and allow regular language sub-languages

That is because regular languages are a subset of context-free languages. There is nothing special to "allow" there.

> I can point to ambiguous context-free grammars and say whitespace sensitivity is ok, because the tools to fix the one are often the same to fix the other.

No they are not. Precedence rules and extra lookahead will help with ambiguous context-free grammars but not with context-sensitive ones. There is also a whole class of algorithms, such as GLR, specialized to handle ambiguous CFGs efficiently.

> Whitespace sensitivity is one of the easier context sensitivity challenges to embed as a sub-language in an otherwise (mostly) context-free language, because you can represent it entirely as pseudo tokens from a simply modified lexing phase in a traditional CFG parser.

That statement is nonsense. There is no way to "embed" a context-sensitive language in a CFG. What you are saying is that it is "easy" to make a whole context-sensitive parser just to produce a context-free language so you can pass that to another CFG parser. That is not "easy," that is bolting crap onto other crap.
Is this a joke? Comments on Facebook are not "effort". They are a waste of life.
isn't that just for patent infringement? EDIT: nope it explicitly covers the ISA, too
Let's hope the deep learning craze doesn't pick up pace.
26.5 million viewers is still a lot for something that is neither a sporting event nor a Presidential address, inauguration, or debate. It’s enough that other networks will schedule around it rather than going head to head.
Peter Drucker; Managing for business effectiveness
Not at all surprised that Palantir sees itself as being more powerful than national governments.

The upside is that Palantir and Mr. Thiel will suffer the same fate as most business associates of Mr. Trump, out of the money and with a permanently tainted reputation to boot.
Google Play Partners with Third-Party Streaming Services
As cities grow, nations will die
Potential conflict of interest since IMDB is owned by Amazon.
"How I set the hide flag on all my comments and likes while doing nothing about actually deleting them."
Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and writes in kernel memory
Yeah, it should be getting better soon. Especially since ETH is now 1/3 what it was in Jan ($458.42 at the moment, $1350+ in Jan).

As long as the prices don't rally again!
Both, but the former is what I originally intended. He is so helter skelter in his delivery, but I think he may go down in history as one of the most consistent presidents in terms of campaign promises and in-office actions. I am in no way implying that this is necessarily good or bad.
You can choose different interrupt numbers as well.
The video is misrepresentative of the actual road conditions.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03/police-chief-said-uber-...
Wow, how far do you drive to work? Maybe a cheap one-seater electric car would work for you?