skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to think so too (that's what iPhones and the like do on "erase", btw) but doesn't that just push the problem into the future, when computers can more easily crack today's encryption?
Reminds me of the hype that surrounded the Creativity Machine in the late 90's, if anyone remembers that.

http://www.imagination-engines.com/

Along with pointing the finger at "media sensationalism" I think we should also implicate the strong fear/desire we have towards achieving a strong AI. If anything looks like it could belong to a strong AI, holy crap, could this be the start of a strong AI??? I'd draw a parallel at how eager we are to hear that there might possibly be some sign of life on another planet. Perhaps this sort of confirmation bias comes from our sense of loneliness as a species.
There's a simple heuristic that works pretty well for me: does it still make sense in Reader View? If so, it's a document, and it shouldn't have needed Javascript. If not, then it's probably a web app.

I am less concerned about server-side logic than the expectation that I'm just going to be happy to run arbitrary code provided by other people on my machine.
>what if AI is totally possible, but our sacks of meat in skulls are not able to achieve it?

Won't be a problem if we use CRISPR to make ourselves smarter first!
I do this too. But i think for me, its that I get to a point where I have a really good understanding of something, but realize that spending incremental time on even more expertise on the subject has only marginal returns.

Like if I already have a good understanding of a subject or technology, it doesn't really make much sense for me to keep learning the nitty gritty details which I may never use. But instead am satisfied that I have a good enough base of knowledge that I would know what to look for if I encountered something I wanted to know within the field.
Indeed! I would never not teach my children (father of a boy and a girl) about masculinity or the drive for power accumulation, only how to wield that power in a just way. Good people should have power.

There will always be power dynamics and struggles in human interactions. You can’t ignore that and not properly equip your kids for those interactions, otherwise you’re setting them up for social and career stagnation at best, and abuse at the worst.
yeah but well-funded adversaries could easily exploit this and we're talking like a full-blown data leak so it might be worth it to protect against it.
> And the CEO himself pleaded guilty to money laundering. I remember people here were coming out in droves to defend the company against big bad government when the site was first seized.

They weren't defending Backpage, they were condemning the power grab in the form of a law that was passed (but has not yet been signed) where they let this whole situation languish to make it easier to "sell" the new powers for the Government.

You are confusing the fight over FOSTA/SESTA/etc. with the fight over Backpage just like the people who pushed those laws intended you to.
>Is it possible that you consider the flaw in the process to be of a different nature? Such as that there should under no circumstances be any interest in a person's criminal history in any hiring process?

Yes. If, as you say, criminal history was not a bar to employment, why ask the question at all if you are going to run a background check anyhow? You contradict yourself by stating that "criminal history was not an bar to employment" but also that "The nature of the roles in question [...] required us to care about the pasts of the candidates." so it's difficult to understand why you are so firm on this point. Anyhow, there are plenty of protected groups of people that a prospective employer can't legally discriminate against, yet the discrimination still happens.

The applicant has to take a calculated risk when deciding whether to answer the question about criminal history honestly. Maybe a better question on the application, rather than asking outright about criminal history and discarding an applicant when you catch them in a lie, is asking about relevant convictions that might have some implications about whether that person has a history of violations in your area of practice, or present a conflict to your customers.
Hand dryers spray human waste particles all over you, study finds
The Real Technology Problem – Dave Pell – Medium
Cartels often like to protect their elite or scarce stature. Even if one has an elevated respect for the type of people that belong to a given society (eg scientists or researchers), they're going to likely more often than not be no better than doctors or plumbers or any other professionals when it comes to being human: ie they will act in their perceived self-interest to put up barriers that benefit their position.

I think farmers are remarkable people, broadly speaking. They feed us all. Who deserves more gratitude than people that do that, right? Well, farmers love their tariffs and protectionism. They lobby like crazy for it all around the world. Nearly everyone wants artificial protection when they can get it.

Nobody is confused when labor unions do the exact same thing. This is all about restricting a resource, restricting distribution, tightly controlling it for the supposed benefit of the members (often at the expense of non-members).

Controlling prestige via distribution, etc. is one way to control stature and prevent dilution. Scientists & common researchers often don't get paid super well, one of the things they do have is acquired prestige. Restricted publication/distribution is a way to control who gets to be prestigious or not.
Seems to me like all the states where its so easy to do businesses there are no businesses. Maybe that's why they are making it so easy because no one comes there. You are complaining about CA but forget why it grew in the first place. CA governments have been leading the way for many years on what is required to be done for the economy.
I disagree, shelling out to another program is a perfectly reasonable design decision, one that has paid off in development speed. The people that run from their OS like it's something to be scared of are really missing out on the benefits of the their OS. I have built whole pipelines of essentially shell commands and I have never had a command injection vulnerability because I follow one simple rule:

I filter and sanitize input as soon as I receive it from the user. There are an infinitesimally small number of instances where you need to process anything but [a-zA-Z0-9]+ charset in a shell pipeline.

Once you have a pattern down for safely executing commands, there is no reason to be scared. It's really a myth that you can't become "secure", and this author's blog post is a perfect example. Tell me how you will conduct command injection when you have a whitelist of a-z0-9. I need an example, instead of this fear mongering that your OS is something to run and hide from.
Twenty Years Ago, I Ran Away to Paris. This Is What It Was Like to Return
Majority of reading is done in a brighter setting so many factors contribute to using dark text in white background. In the case of reading in the dark or low light settings, using a Kindle Paperwhite gets complicated since you want to make the background darker while still maintaining sufficient contrast to read the text which is always in a dark font color.

In the UX StackExchange post, it's stated that astigmatism is also a contributing factor to favor dark text on white background. I do believe that these night time settings should be toggled automatically for white text with dark background as well as accounting for blue wavelength reduction for screens with full colors.
There are many kinds of UPS's

http://www.apc.com/us/en/faqs/FA157448/
On iOS, the app Unobstruct is a lifesaver for these.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/unobstruct/id1255281426?mt=8
New TTS App Has Amazon Polly
Google Announces New Data Retention Controls for Google Analytics
I was thinking of socialist marches, and Homestead. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike
>For example, Darcs and Pijul aren't based around a "graph of commits" like Git is, they use sets of inter-dependent patches instead.

I said graph, I didn't say which graph. Both systems still use graphs. And still a graph you have to understand how to edit with each tool. The abstraction is still the same, and if you have problems with Git, you're going to have problems with either of those tools as well. The abstraction is not the problem, it's the developers inability to conceptualize the model in their head.

Where is the exaggeration?
Beyond Photoshop: Deep Painterly Harmonization
I just wanna say one thing about this, when I found out that FB was looking to find healthcare data from hospitals and other providers to like to peoples profile it sent the chills up my spine. that is seriously creepy. if something like is available then probability of it being abused is almost 1. right now my facebook usage is fairly low but I'll delete my account for sure if there is any truth to that.
I like Duolingo and worked through a bit of their Spanish tree but one thing that I found baffling is how late they introduce numbers. I got to Spain knowing how to tell someone that my large uncle was a milk-drinking crab in the army, but without covering 1-10.
I might be biased, but I think Pinterest Lens (visual search) is pretty cool. This is a semi-technical write up with a couple of example gifs: https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/introducing-the-fu...
It's going to be a lot harder for Google to refuse global censorship orders from countries you don't like when it's routinely taking global censorship orders from countries you like.
Army Shows Off Automatic Mortar System That's Still Too Expensive to Field
Actually, I saw lots of people defending backpage.

It is some sort of new age leftist thing, where the argument is that backpage somehow made things safer for sex workers.
Maybe I’m too old school, but can someone explain to me how this is any different than a stock with a dividend or a bond? Both transferable? Yup. Both guarantee the holder some percentage of future revenue? Check. Both are advertised to the public? You betcha! What am I missing?
Lockheed Is Pushing a Stealthy Version of Its MQ-25 Stingray Tanker Drone
This is exactly what you are rallying against here in your quote.

"This is a toxic attitude. “Don’t worry if you’re breaking the law; they’ll have to change to stay relevant!”"

Uber X enabled a cheaper form of public transport by adding some efficiencies, but also by actively skirting regulation that was in place for Hire Cars and Taxis (that also made them more expensive options) that was designed for public safety.

Following this, Governments changed laws to allow for this new class of driver with new regulations that lowered the cost of compliance.

This is exactly the same as a new financial instrument designed to allow some other form of innovative public good that breaches current regulations that were designed for safety. With the expectation that regulation will ave to change for them.

In both cases the regulations being breached were designed for some kind of public safety. The breakers believed they were delivering some kind of greater good. I'm not saying the method is right or wrong... it appears to get results.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. This appears to be an evolution of WYSIWYG tools to me, which I wouldn't categorize as a text editor either — more like a word processor.

FWIW ProseMirror does not bill itself as a text editor:

> An ideal content editor ... bridg[ing] the gap between Markdown text editing and classical WYSIWYG editors.

> It does this by implementing a WYSIWYG-style editing interface for documents more constrained and structured than plain HTML...

from https://prosemirror.net
For some reason I initially read the title as "Google ICO" and damn near blew my mind.
is this the actual real world implementation of SOLAR FREAKIN ROADWAYS?
You must have skipped over the many hundreds of "Backpage actually reduces trafficking" comments.
Legally protected against fraudulent activity? Nope.
There are some speculative illustrations at the bottom of the article.
What I don't understand is that if all of this blatant child trafficking was going on, why the authorities weren't using the information to actually hunt down the traffickers. Driving them farther underground seems like it will make them harder to find.

I doubt that losing backpage ads is going to make a big dent in the trade -- child trafficking is so abhorrent and so clearly illegal that the people involved will find other ways to connect.
Yes! We have to rule out the acoustic factor entirely. Better put big graphite blocks around it too for good measure.
Any backend openings? I've been looking to move into frontend work more but don't think my experience is there yet.
More likely that it can't become a large corporate entity with corporate presence, I would imagine. They can't realistically stop encryption without becoming Iran, but they can sure slow its popularity. Most likely they're trying make people who do use unbreakable encryption stand out, so they don't have as many people to monitor.

Edit: As an Australian myself, this does worry me. But I plan to keep using strong encryption as a protest.
Ask HN: How do I tell my founder I'm out?
I've been part of an amazing startup the past few years. The products and work we've done as a small group (~20 people) has been astonishing, but its time for me to move on.

How do I tell the founder (who I've been along side of since the beginning) its time for me to move on? I know he's not prepared to lose a main player in our tight knit group. I owe a good deal of what I've become to him but I need new experiences, new people, and to learn new things. I feel remorseful leaving while hard work continues daily and I'm not sure how to approach him about this.
Maan, I envy the homebrew scenes in the US so much. In Japan there are a few people who're doing homebrew, but because of the constant intimidation by Nintendo and marginalization by the society ("they're technically criminals.") they're not as open or organized as the US. I think we're killing our own talents.
Doesn't the mere existence of reader view make your point moot?

The web browser is your software -- I have mine customized with plenty of plugins, blockers, and reader view. You can take content, remix it, and display it however you like. I can render this site as green text on a black background if I wanted to.

I can write my own web browser if none of the existing ones do what I want.
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$100M startup littering San Francisco's sidewalks with scooter
Node-cobol: run COBOL code from Node.js
Or it is but never gets upvoted enough for most people to see it.
Agreed. The design aesthetic actually works but the technical overhead in implementing is the problem. HN works so well because not only does it prioritize information density but it consumes less resources. The Reddit redesign pushes thumbnails, infinite scroll, and a useless right sidebar.

Thumbnails waste space depending on the subreddit. Infinite scroll destroys the idea of a discrete "front page" which is core to Reddit being the front page of the Internet. In addition the infinite scroll makes no sense in the comments where on Mobile you can jump between top-level parent comments whereas on Desktop it's too busy loading child comments before you can get to the next top-level parent comment. The right sidebar is persistent and serves little purpose for a power user. The left sidebar which provides core navigation for a power user is useful when persistent but loads asynchronously with the middle, main content for it to be a consistent user experience.
A pretty robust secure room even from many decades ago would combine isolation tricks you would see in various single-purpose laboratory settings and in hollywood movies.

A room within a room with non-parallel walls for acoustic isolation over a wide frequency range. The inner room is hanging from a spring suspension system. A mesh layer for electromagnetic shielding. A power isolation system doing some elaborate AC-DC-AC conversion (mechanically and/or electrically). Also, separate air handling systems to avoid connected duct work.

And of course, there could be significant buffering and filtering via mass loading, shock absorbers, capacitor banks, chilled water tanks, etc.
No more massive than it takes to maintain these roads to begin with.
For me, it's usually because if I'm ordering something it's for a group of people (family or group of friends), so it's easier to put the order together online (you can go round the room and ask them what they want, then get them to double check the order at the end).

There's also the fact that at a couple of the local places, the staff don't speak English as a first language, which combined with the noise of the shop often leads to you repeating yourself or there being occasional mixups.
Every comment that remotely questions this article is getting downvoted, rather than discussed. Lame.
I believe there is a valid argument that giving sex workers a platform where they can advertise relatively safely improves their safety.

I, for one, did not really research Backpage that much and so was unaware of the reality of the allegations against them. For myself, I chose not to weigh in on the debate, even though I have the belief I stated above, because I didn't feel I had enough background.
YC Video call before final interview
Did anyone get a YC video call? If so, how did it go? - S2018 batch
This might come across as a bit 'gushy' but it really has had a massive impact on what I am working on and what it enables us to do.

I've been evaluating WYSIWYG editors to use in one of our main products for about a year now. I stopped looking when I saw CK5 back in Alpha 1.

It ticked all of the boxes: modern build architecture, easily extensible, diffs/deltas/transform-ops at the core for collaborative services -- it's made for today and the future. And so much more than that. Where CK4 was great for what is now legacy browsers, CK5 is completely fresh and new for current & future browsers.

I highly recommend checking it out and to absolutely consider using it in a project that needs any form of rich text editing.
No, this is the actual sex workers saying “places like backpage, where I can vet clients ahead of time, keeps me safer.”
I agree Microsoft excels at backwards compatibility, sometimes at a great cost. This often prevents them from performing aggressive innovations. But it's the right compromise for a company whose business clients represent a significant portion of their overall revenues.

Apple is mostly a consumer-focused company. Thus, backwards compatibility is sometimes a liability. If you are forced to keep old code working, e.g. you can't optimize for new instructions that may reduce energy usage.

Apple has historically done smooth transitions from one architecture to another, offering plenty of time for consumers to migrate, and providing emulation of older architectures in several forms.

If you like sane backwards compatibility, things like Nix and Docker are likely to provide great stuff in the future. Not applicable to Windows, though.
Adrenal burnout is associated with rising energy levels as the day progresses (ie, one way to create a night owl) and a constant stress state.

NutrEval (include hormone panel) catches many imbalances/deficiencies. It can almost be assumed vitamin D (+ K), vitamin E, and magnesium are low. Vitamin D (+ K) strongly affects the pineal gland and melatonin release.

Resveratrol in the morning resets circadian rhythm, as does melatonin at night.

If fixing deficiencies/imbalances does not "normalize" circadian rhythm, then that's the natural rhythm and is something to work around.
What is the reason, you don’t see a future for the company or you don see a future for yourself in the company? Maybe just tell him the truth...
i can't speak to the "majority" but for a hypothetical one - how do you feel about ICO's as pre-sales of a product?
Tesla didn't claim that he didn't have his hands on the wheel, they claimed that it wasn't detected. Tesla knows how inaccurate that is. Tesla has always been shamefully misleading with all of their victim blaming PR pieces. I get that there's plenty of "unintended acceleration" cases where the driver straight up lies about hitting the wrong pedal but they included that information about what the driver did earlier in the trip and the time he would have had a view of the barrier solely to imply that it's his fault that autopilot killed him. That's never an okay thing to do yet it seems like this is Tesla's modus operandi when there's some high profile accident.

Who cares if he had 5 seconds to see the barrier if he only had 0.5 seconds to realize that the car went into casual murder mode right as it veers into the barrier. They make it sound like it had to have been driver error with facts that are irrelevant to the question at hand. Your assumption that Tesla claimed he didn't have his hands on the wheel at the time of the accident is exactly what I'm talking about, Tesla's PR release is filled with weasel words to do exactly that.

I'm not even trying to suggest that Autopilot is less safe than an alert human driver, but one thing is clear, we certainly can't trust Tesla to determine how safe it is.
"We’re planning to begin work soon on a collaborative editing feature that would allow more than one user to edit an article at the same time"

You mean like Google Docs or Quip?
Even if you could see magnetic fields, it wouldn't look like lines in the sky running north to south, so this does sound like an hallucination.
> Traditionally the jobs were separate --- and I assume they still are.

Is this really a good assumption? Journalists are making complex documents with central interactive features and lots of data visualization. It seems a lot like classic waterfall thinking to assume that reporters could perfectly envision that and toss it over the wall for a separate team.
I haven't been able to find any instances of the courts requesting take-downs. But the registry has removed some ISIS domains on their own accord.
Nah, people were alarmed here only about whores not being able to sell themselves.
Is it due to not getting enough sunlight (vitamin D)?
My Google DoubleClick Mozilla essay talks about this exact topic:
http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2018/04/google-doubleclick-mozi...
UBlock brings it down to 204KB because the images are on a CDN. Being on a CDN is probably why the author is oblivious to the file sizes.
Edit: The cache tokens have expired so the video links don't work anymore, but the site seems to be working better now.
What if all servers would hold some random bits and no one would have any whole file (only the clients would be getting whole files)
Cryptoc.. what? Crypto?! Sir when ICO?
Brave is great but until they include dark mode I'll stick with Chromium from F-droid.
That I cannot deny, but neither were users forced to upgrade immediately.
The article suggests we as a society need to recognize the difference between masculinity, which can be perfectly healthy, and toxic masculinity. Forming a violence gang would seem to be an example of the latter and not the former.