skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have different understandings of threats from "FVEY". I don't assume that e.g. FBI uses China's putative backdoors when trolling for subjects to oppress. In comparison, China is using them for precisely that purpose; this is the hypothesis from which this discussion started. There simply isn't much intersection between the two sets of oppressed subjects.

FBI might know of some such backdoors, if they exist, but there is no structural reason to expect that they do. FVEY is not a monolith. If there were a "national security" reason to be interested in some target, that might inspire enough cooperation to generate a Baidu vuln. Most subjects, however, are simply targets of opportunity for law enforcement, with no real connection to national security.

Sure, YOLO, but TFA is a repo. That is a pure thing, the worth of which is totally unrelated to all this other stuff.
You're absolutely right, and there's a lot of innovation that comes not from automating existing human technique but from changing how things are made so that the technique can be easily automated. For example: from through-hole components in PCBs to surface mount components in PCBs. Or even the PCB itself, which replaced wire wrapping (which, granted, can be automated) and soldering components together with free wires.

The design and the technique are critical variables that must be tweaked to make automation feasible.
I use Google Music on an iPhone and iPad with a Chromecast Audio at home and could not be happier with the setup.
ADS-B alone is insufficient for collision avoidance. In order to operate safely outside of special restricted airspace, drones would need to be able to visually see and avoid other aircraft.
Why not the best? Why not Linux Mint?
I am a closeted hobbyist musician in a rather small niche (contemporary christian music in Spanish LOL)but I don't want to live off my music. I just want to be heard by somebody. And today, trough distrokid plus spotify this is sooo posible. Which wouldn't have been in my wildest of dreams 20 years ago when I wanted to start a band with my friends. Or even 10, when I toured with a small time ska band. And since my goal is being heard and not profit I would be glad to pay for listeners.

And I don't think I'm the only one.
What specific claims does, e.g. Alcor, make that are scientifically sketchy? Just the implication that resurrection might be possible sometime in the future?
People must still use cash to buy drugs, sex, and that sort of thing no?
>YIMBY movements won't succeed until we convince poor renters that THEIR lives will also be better in a denser, more affordable city.

If that simple truth isn't immediately obvious to poor renters, then it seems like they're beyond hope.
> Can you cite a source for your definition of breach?

As a stated, its a synthesis of the common features of various domain-specific breach notification laws and regulations. A few examples would be the FTC [0] and HHS [1] rules for health information breaches under the HITECH Act, and California's governmental breach notification law [2]; in all of those, and many other similar laws and regulations, breach is defined by someone getting unauthorized access (or, in some cases, making unauthorized use or disclosure even with only authorized access) to personal information, whether or not the custodian directly, or indirectly (e.g., by providing it to an authorized party who subsequently acted badly with it) made it available to the party who acquired or used it without authorization.

> Also, I'm not sure what "applicable laws and/or policies" you are assuming were violated.

In the case of the Facebook breach, it's Facebooks own policies, which is what users have consented to with regard to use of their data.

[0] 16 CFR § 318.2(a): “Breach of security means, with respect to unsecured PHR identifiable health information of an individual in a personal health record, acquisition of such information without the authorization of the individual. Unauthorized acquisition will be presumed to include unauthorized access to unsecured PHR identifiable health information unless the vendor of personal health records, PHR related entity, or third party service provider that experienced the breach has reliable evidence showing that there has not been, or could not reasonably have been, unauthorized acquisition of such information.”

[1] 45 CFR § 164.402: “Breach means the acquisition, access, use, or disclosure of protected health information in a manner not permitted under subpart E of this part which compromises the security or privacy of the protected health information.”

[2] Civil Code § 1798.29, requiring agency to provide breach notification “to any resident of California (1) whose unencrypted personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired by an unauthorized person, or, (2) whose encrypted personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired by an unauthorized person and the encryption key or security credential was, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired by an unauthorized person and the agency that owns or licenses the encrypted information has a reasonable belief that the encryption key or security credential could render that personal information readable or useable.”
This is confusing. I thought it was just a couple of friends and I that thought that cashless is a horrible idea. Seems like we at least have older people on our side.

> Yet Sweden is divided into two camps: the first says "we love the new technology", while the other just can’t be bothered, Skarec says.

Also, it is scary that people think like this. Everyone is in such a rush to digitize everything and implement new tech that we don't think about the consequences of our actions. E.g the scandal from last year where Transportstyrelsen (Swedish Transport Agency) outsourced work to a company in the Czech Republic and gave people without security clearance access to the database. That included access to details concerning military vehicles and two different police registers.
I think the reason the Boston is not more of a tech center is that MA law supports no compete clauses as condition for employment. CA has high housing prices where the tech industry is located. However, CA does not support no compete clauses for condition for employment.
The most damning evidence IMO is the promise, straight from the mouth of NIAAA director George Koob, to suppress future research that might be critical of the alcohol industry. Utterly disgraceful.

Koob's defense of that email -- that he was merely referring to research that is "not of the highest scientific quality" -- is pretty pathetic, given that Jernigan's and Siegel's work apparently met the NIAAA's past and present quality standards.
Interesting strategy mate! Any links on how to do that? I've googled a bit but haven't find anything on this!
Did you consider XMPP with OMEMO? I'm running my own server for family and friends, we use https://conversations.im in mobile and Gajim or https://dino.im on desktop. Everything runs well including encrypted group chats.
But "100% of Google products exist to drive revenue to ads" would probably have been more correct than what you originally said, which was

>but ~90% of their other products exist for the sole purpose of driving business to their ads products.

Machine learning at Google, for example, is a product that exists to, among other things, drive revenue to ads. It is not however a product that exists solely to drive revenue to ads.

As soon as you say "we are not talking about B2B or B2C products", you've made a tautological argument. What you're saying is that "all of the Google products which don't make money via other methods make money via ads". Which is trivially true, but also totally uninteresting.

My point was that the original statement you made was a hyperbole: there are not very many Google products which exist, as you stated, "for the sole purpose of driving business to [ads]". Most Google products have other revenue generation methods. That's all.
You could just charge it up with a visa gift card or something, but (as others have pointed out) I'm betting that it's not nearly as anonymous as you think. If I'm a prosecutor trying to hang a charge on you and your Smartrip card is a key piece of evidence, all I need to do is correlate it a sufficiently tiny probability of being anyone but you and the jury will accept that.
"Hyping" was an auto correct typo, I didn't notice until it was too late. I meant to type "typing". My coworker was typing up a fake automated email every night as close to 9pm as possible. I didn't want to do that, since it is invasive to my schedule and would take place on my own time. Instead, we solved the problems and implemented the actual feature.
mrustc successfully bootstrapped the compiler; you could compile this with nothing but a C compiler and some elbow grease if you truly desired.
Slack's desktop apps use Electron (the GitHub Desktop and Discord apps do as well, for further examples), which is built on Chromium.
Great, thanks. I've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16736341 and marked it off-topic.
An open experimental database for exploring inorganic materials
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$ repoquery python27 rh-python36-python
python27-0:1.1-25.el6.x86_64
rh-python36-python-0:3.6.3-1.el6.x86_64
Yeah, lack of communication on these bugs from AMD is really annoying, especially since there is no way to know whether they are fixed in newer CPUs already or not.
You are probably using one of the IRC bridges that is on the matrix.org server. The matrix.org server is having a lot of problems with being DDoSed as well as not being able to keep up with the normal traffic. The next generation homeserver written in Go is supposed to help with this a lot.

There is nothing inherently broken with Matrix <-> IRC bridges, it is just that one server. Other servers are bridging to IRC perfectly fine and you are welcome to host your own.
I use both for recommendations still. They both have their weaknesses. I’d probably lean toward Spotify if I had to now but I’m perfectly happy using both.
K, I'll have to look more, later. Thanks!
Once again, The Fine Article has you covered. Stallman says when such logs are necessary, they should never be network accessible. Go get the disk out of the physically secured machine if you need the data for $SERIOUSREASON.
Does the NIH provide most funding to university researchers working in health research?
I don't know if there are any great blog posts on it yet (write one!) but you can read more about Workers here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/about/
> and it gets much more attention than alternate libraries.

Compared to BoringSSL I don't think so. Lots of huge players are using it on their devices and it's the Android SSL implementation.
What Is Your City's Twin?
I for one am in favor of death without backups. I’ve met enough of you people; on the whole, you’ve all got to go.
Excellent. We just created this Google Form to add/recommend partners: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdObw8HKH4uDexOg-fl...
That helps, thanks
Great - we'll try to connect with them.
With no underwriting Banks to support the IPO the price is steadily going down since the open...
Great question untog, we have webrtc as a convenience and you can turn it off in “Snowden Mode”
That appears to be another way to the same interface as on i.reddit.com.
This is on one side for tax avoidance reasons. But on the other side everyone I know working in gastronomy rages about Americans and their aggressive credit card usage, how slow usually the process is (these people are trained with cash, plus nearly anywhere in Europe you round the sum to something easy to give out anyway as a tip).

From what I can tell these people simply prefer cash. I just asked and my gf said it's just a lot faster to do it by hand.
> a rather small niche (contemporary christian music in Spanish LOL)

I would have expected this to be a very large niche? How do the Latin American / Spanish markets treat Christian music?
> essentially check out of the modern internet, and reduce your web usage to calling wget on a shell

Minor nitpick, but he also uses icecat + Tor when needed

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html (grep for icecat)
It's very doubtful that Disney is or could be an serious issue for Netflix now.

Netflix is approaching - or already larger than - the size of Disney's comparable entertainment business, and Netflix is growing relatively fast whereas Disney's business isn't growing much or at all.

Disney's studio division does $8.3 billion in sales. Their media networks arm, which includes ABC & ESPN, does $23 billion.

Netflix will hit ~$14-$15 billion in sales this year. Apples to apples in terms of where they compete, Netflix will be comparable to or larger than Disney in size in 2018 or 2019.

Five years from now Disney isn't likely to be much larger than they are today (just look at their growth the last few years, flat to minimum). Netflix will very likely be over $25 billion in sales at that point (which would plausibly be larger than Disney's largest business, the media networks group).

At the scale Netflix has reached, every dollar of new growth that Netflix is obtaining is taking some bit of revenue away from Disney. Disney is going to mostly cannabilize themselves in switching to their own streaming service, including the mess at ESPN (the end of the hyper lucrative, subsidized cable & satellite subscribers that have been artificially fattening Disney's entertainment wallet for years).

Disney is mostly in a scenario of attempting to hold their ground. The same place Walmart is in with Amazon and for the exact same reason (minimum overall market expansion, low consumer spending growth across the developed world, while the new competitor is starting to eat your existing house).

Interestingly another similarity between those situations: Amazon is willing to compete at near zero profit generation in retail to pursue sales growth, which is brutal to an established giant like Walmart who has a huge investor base that expects them to generate considerable profits every year. Walmart can't just drop their profits dramatically to compete, their stock would implode. Disney is facing the same storm: Netflix operates at a level of minimal profit (~4%-5% net income margins), whereas Disney's long-established shareholders expect rich profits and a dividend (Disney typically sees 10%-20% margins in their entertainment groups, with a 16% overall net income margin). Netflix is willing to plow almost every dollar back into content production and licensing, and their shareholders cheer that on so long as the top-line growth continues.
Streaming music kind of already is a commodity and the main thing that keeps users tethered to a service are playlists. I'm sure Spotify could eventually raise prices a bit but obviously only so much.

I think their biggest threat would be Amazon getting their music service in order and baking the current paid version into the cost of a Prime membership.
The cryonics claim is that they will freeze you and attempt to maintain you in that state indefinitely.

Resurrection is a hope, but never a claim.
What motivated him to do that? Came across as immature, glib and nitpicky. Neither btc nor eth are close to being ready for mass use.

Looking at this makes me wonder if he has made his money and is just cruising.

Would add that Debt is not the authoritative source on money. Some good points but equal parts flabby.

He's also flat wrong about shenzhen vs hk. HK developed as a colony with decidedly British regulations around trade. China is a financial wild west, comparable with 19th century America. Shenzhen is in fact a far more economically "free"zone.
I know, right?

Except browsers sucked at the time, JS really, really sucked at the time. WebGL didn't exist. WebVR didn't exist at the time. VR Controllers didn't exist at the time. Bandwidth sucked. Most people didn't have GPUs, and couldn't render many triangles...
I see people from Blackblaze here, so let me ask: any chance we could get B2 integration in Synology's Hyper Backup ?

I know you're in Cloud Sync, but that's really not the same thing (a one/two way sync is not a backup service).

I'm not sure if you need to give Synology a nudge or something, and I would even pay a fee for it if need be, but until then I can't use B2 as one my main backup destination for all those businesses NAS I have at various small sized companies I administrate.
I understand what you're saying, but a huge number of people commute by rail or bus (perhaps more so outside of the US, I don't know). Watching video on the Tube (London Underground) is fairly common, as it is on commuter rail into London
Resurrection, while not impossible, is sufficiently unlikely that taking people's money while promising it-- even with a disclaimer that it is not guaranteed-- seems exploitative, akin to people promising homeopathic cancer remedies. It is preying on people's fear of death.
Maybe I'm missing something but you asked for P2P messengers but listed a bunch of messengers that aren't P2P? The only one you've tried that is P2P is Tox right?
I think that wish would be corrupted quickly.

Oh so you commute all the way out to the suburbs? Hey since we know you'll have nothing to do anyway please complete these additional tasks. If you work on the way home we won't bother you after you actually arrive there.
Reflecting on the past five months at Plan
I wonder at what point blockchain will hit a make or break moment in finance companies. At some point, it will have to provide direct, tangible value-add or it might get funding pulled from non-tech companies
Is there any evidence that, once you adjust for parental income, ESL status, etc., SAT scores tell you anything about K-12 quality?
> ... if the startup goes south

The startup is a snake oil scam. It is by definition "south." It is not "unclear if the upload is feasible." It is simply NOT feasible.
I'm sorry if I'm wrong, but you sound as if you know nothing about addiction, especially to opiates (but not really limited to them), at all. Unless you can somehow back up your statements or otherwise explain them, I'd like to ask you to stop using heroin addiction rethorically...
I once read somewhere that birds naturally evolved to always veer to the right to avoid collisions.
Finding music you like among all the competing possibilities is Spotify's strong point.
No, I'm admitting that, in the course of an existing investigation attempting to press criminal charges against the scammers, emails may turn up with Mayweather writing "how long does it take me to get paid after you con these idiots? How else can I help you guys pump things up quickly and how quickly can I get paid?". Then, maybe they'll decide to charge him with something and use him as a lesson against future promoters. Probably not. We'll see.

Either way, they may determine he needs to cough up his profits. Take a look at the Madoff aftermath.
Ask HN: Does Google Cloud have geo replicated DynamoDB alternative?
Reading: http://highscalability.com/blog/2018/4/2/how-ipdata-serves-25m-api-calls-from-10-infinitely-scalable.html

I see how it made low latency possible in their application by using DynamoDB's GEO replication. As a result, they managed to support multiple regions with little work.

According to Netflix, adding a region is very expensive. And same been our experience.

But we are using Google Cloud, do they've something similar?
However consumer prices have gone down over the same period. A refrigerator today costs much less in terms of labor hours than it did 30 years ago. So productivity growth has led to a rise in living standards.
Yev from Backblaze here -> We'd LOVE for that to happen (and there's ways to make Cloud Sync work as a one-way street) but it looks like they are pushing their own C2 service for Hyper Backup - so it's looking unlikely that they'll add us in. There's a thread about it on their forums (https://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=120647) so our hope is that if they see value in adding 3rd party platforms to the Hyper Backup service we'd be high on the list!
Neat argument. That's a totally different one than "backdoors can never be secure", right? Like, we've established that all that hub-bub [1] was a complete farce and we've now moved on to a different point of discussion, right? Cool, thanks.

1. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/09/tsa_master_ke...
What that says about Spotify's valuation is another thing
No cryonics organization promises it.
> At the end of the day, this is about information asymmetry. If the general public loses privacy, then so should those who benefit from that information, in order to level the playing field.

This could be said for literally any transaction, ever. The bank knows how much money you have, but you don't know how much money the teller has. You don't know which books your librarian has out or what the bartender drinks. They are also citizens with their own right to privacy.

I'm all for transparency and oversight, but information asymmetry will always exist. Some industries have regulatory structures around that asymmetry to prevent abuse, HIPAA for example, and others have not.
Larger library? They all use the same base library afaik.
Maybe to you, but apparently not to them:
2018: 2 Minutes to Midnight
1984-1988: 3 Minutes to Midnight

https://thebulletin.org/timeline

The last time we were at 2 minutes was the 50s.
Thanks. I don't follow IPO's too closely and was less than 10 for the .com bubble filled with IPO's. I'm still learning the general patterns.
Discover Weekly as far as i know didn’t begin immediately or at least wasn’t what it is now at first. Now it’s great. Spotify has so much past and present data from listeners. Way more than they need.
> “Fundamentally, the company is based on a proposition that is just false. It is something that just can’t happen,” says Sten Linnarsson of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

That sounds a lot like the "heavier than air flight is impossible" quote from 1895.
Cracking Cisco’s Sourcefire licensing system
Small artists are great, but music and money to be made from music seems to be dominated by large artists. Could Spotify ever sign, say, Taylor Swift?
Women are naturally equipped with the anatomy to feed offspring...
It was disturbing to think of the Flatline as a construct, a hardwired ROM cassette replicating a dead man's skills, obsessions, knee-jerk responses. --Neuromancer
That's totally irrelevant to the point that two-user encryption is fundamentally insecure, made insistently by even those who should really know better: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/09/tsa_master_ke...
> That is, unless they find a way to upend the record industry entirely.

It seems like they can and are on their way already.
I personally have supported them since beta (when they charged more) so I will probably pick up a share or two. They are certainly worth NFLX money. Music is insanely easy to produce, it is certain they will start courting artists directly, and if they can find an acquisition that fills the DIY punk music scene that was Soundcloud they will be just fine. They need more DIY content to go along with the curated big label stuff. And by DIY I mean letting every small Bandcamp DJ and artist on there. Might as well swallow everything right?

The experience on the platform was always stellar and just keeps getting better the more data they collect. It's a good example where big data isn't creepy at all, it's amazing. They constantly filter my preferences and show me the key types of songs I like to listen to, impressive in itself but the song radio aping Pandora is also impressive and way more interactive than Pandora itself.

Basically I'm mega bullish Spotify and am not even going to front like I'm not. You don't need to buy it but I doubt it goes anywhere bad. /end-activist-investor-rant