skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an interesting question. Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme is estimated to have lost clients $65 billion. The Bitcoin market cap is nearly double at $107 billion.

But Bernie Madoff's $65 billion is all real dollars paid into the scheme. Bitcoin market cap doesn't track the amount of the money that has been paid into the current Bitcoin market. It simply estimates the current market price, then multiplies that number by the total of number of Bitcoins.

So the amount currently paid into the current Bitcoin market is going to be much, much lower. Experts estimate that nearly 30% of current bitcoins are 'lost' forever in non-recoverable wallets. Also, the gal who bought 1000 bitcoin at 5 dollars hasn't re-paid another $6 million into the system. But, if Bitcoin crashed to zero today, would you also need to account for dollars lost by investors who built mining stations and gear?

I guess we will never know. But, I think it is fair to say that the Madoff scheme is in the same ballpark of Bitcoin.
...or they define harassment so broadly that almost everyone is included. As a male scientist (former) I have been "harrassed" by male and female staff on many occasions, but on a level so trivial that it is totally meaningless.

What we need to worry about is not trivial harassment, but the serious cases like staff sleeping with their students or continually propositing them with threats or inducements to their careers. Let's get away from a number grab and start focusing on the really bad first [1].

1. My personal experience is the Sciences are the least bad in regard serious harassment with the Arts the worst by a factor of 10x at least.
> I don't think it is necessarily the "power", so much as it is a new vector to get the evidence they feel that they need to perform their job with less effort

I am inclined to agree with you, but I have no evidence. Hence the questions. HN is well aware of the risks. But I've never seen any work done into the potential benefits. If the benefits are slim, then the discussion is moot. If there are cases that can be solved with phone data only, and if those cases are horrible or frequent enough, then there is a valid debate at hand.
Doesn’t it seem strange that they’re not patching the actual exploit, only mitigating it? Do they have no idea what the actual bug is? Is the usb interface fundamentally insecure?
Oh god, this sounds like a nightmare. I posted this in another story on GraphQL, but it is now clear to me that GraphQL is being used in ways that make it a disaster, and part of the problem is that there are tools (sounds like Postgraphile) that encourage this misuse.

My thoughts on the issue:

- Perhaps GraphQL's biggest mistake is using "QL" in the name. GraphQL is NOT AND SHOULD NOT be a replacement for SQL, and that's where I think folks get confused. Whenever I see complaints about "I can't do joins, and GraphQL is missing generic filter statements" I'm sure people are totally missing the point of GraphQL.

- Your last bullet point (about UI developers going from writing simple rest queries to convolute front end queries) made me extremely sad, as when done right this is where GraphQL truly excels. Where I've used GraphQL to great success is to define my types to very closely match what the UI developers need. In fact, I have the UI devs themselves write the type and query definitions, code reviewed by backend engineers. This makes it trivial for UI devs to code against, for example, a mocked up version of the APIs while backend devs build out the resolvers.

The issue is that GraphQL is GREAT as a layer BETWEEN your lower level data sources and backend APIs and your front end, and the "translation layer" is done in the resolvers. This is especially true for native clients when you may have multiple versions of clients in the wild.
Is it? It looks like the natural language processing part is simply not very good. Improve that

It’s really hard to avoid a sarcastic reply here.

The AllenAI institute probably has the 3rd best know NLP team in the world after Google and Facebook. They basically have Washington State NLP group.

Given that, and their impressive record of publications (eg ELMO) I think it’s fair to say that they are trying.
sorry, what's that have to do with the lock in question?
In the past I've used PouchDB inside a webview for this use-case.
I've used Beddit, quite good but company has been bought by Apple and I don't think it will ever get any updates as a standalone product.

The most advanced and exciting one is probably the Dreem headband, an EEG that also has features to fight insomnia and even attempts to improve your deep sleep : https://dreem.com/en/

Quite pleased with it, even though the app still has teething problems.
> there are other factors which outweigh that benefit

How can you weigh a cost against a benefit when you have no idea how big the benefit is?
How many feet above current sea level will I have to reside to be safe in 10 years, 20 years?
R you okay?
Can you explain how your post relates to mine? I honestly cannot tell whether you agree, disagree, or merely said something about the same topic :)
Right? Remember when content was measured in BYTES and was delivered ad-free, in full, from a self-owned domain?
Ask HN: Does HN Karma do anything, other than give me dopamine? (in algorithm)
Striking over automation seems highly counterproductive. First off automatability means the labor they bring to the table is likely* waning in value. Second it only highlights the advantage that machines don't strike. Third bringing it up as a demand highlights and acknowledges their weakness. Their case would probably be stronger without reference to them. Especially when it is in "gimmick" resorts in the first place. It would be like complaining self-sealing pipes are unfair to plumbers.

* Automation may be currently worse than other options. Automats were reduced to a curiosity by fast food and its leveraged versatility among other issues. Similarly "the customer is always right" applies to supply and demand.
We should probably keep doing studies to check how dentists think we should brush our teeth. We just shouldn't have dentists do a study on a variable that directly harms their income as we would already know the results they would give before the study is even done.

If you wanted a study on that variable, you'd likely need to at least get input from someone who says going to dentists is a bad idea - but at that point, you're just going to have a shouting match and a statistics measuring contest between the dentists and the guy who doesn't think anybody should see dentists. Your results would likely be contradictory and fairly useless.

We haven't yet found a way to do such studies in a useful manner, and it's an ongoing problem in politics that has yet to have a solution. And may never have a solution. And it's very important to be able to determine when such study variables align with the financial and ideological requirements of the researcher.

If you can tell without doubt what the result of a study by a certain group will be before the study takes place, it's usually a red flag.
> an hour after the phone is locked [...] In order to transfer data to or from the iPhone using the port, a person would first need to enter the phone’s password.

An hour seems like a long time?

On Android (at least, on my device) the USB port is always charging-only. For data transfer you must always unlock the phone and accept a notification for MTP/PTP mode.
I'm not sure that these people care about results that much. Movies with women writers, directors, and leads are setting records. When the abusive men are being protected, women are pushed out even if they would have performed better than the men. I think misogyny is the root cause here, not a focus on results.
I find the personal data fad frightening. Not because of privacy, but because it seems that business may have reached the point where they can only grab breadcrumbs to 'improve' this way.
Worth noting that Elon just purchased 72,000 TSLA shares worth $24,000,000 (purchased June 12 & 13).
>> all the evidence we’ve lost and all the kids we can’t put into a position of safety,

There are two type of child abuse imagery: the new and original stuff that points to a kid currently being abused, the one can can be rescued, and the enormous mass of old material that forensic investigators have seen literally thousands of time before. Actual new abuse material that could lead to the rescue of a child is thankfully very rare. While these phones could lead to arrests, the likelihood of them leading to the rescue of a child is negligible.

Once upon a time the bulk of images on phones were originals taken by the phone. Now "phones" are really just internet machines and the images they are looking for are essentially browsing history and stuff saved from online sources.
Are there transmission schemes that can transfer multiple independent streams that add up for better quality?

It could be streams containing information about smaller subblocs, etc.

If you take a fourrier transform, the more coefficients you include, the more faithful the reproduction is.

Splitting the quality level into multiple independent streams could have multiple advantages :

- better use of Multicast, as viewers for different quality settings get the same data, so you use approximately the bandwidth for one full quality video instead of full quality + medium + low...

- save on storage space for the same reason
- save on transcoding time, as only one pass is needed

- better suited for distributed storage/transmission, on a platform like PeerTube, where every p2p client could contribute back instead of clustering by quality.

I am not working in this field, but I know a fair bit about compression, and this seems a no-brainer to me. Is it already done? Where? Or did I oversaw some issues?
I bought an HDMI cloner box the same day Netflix announced they were adding this DRM.

I actually haven't even taken it out of the box yet. But it just feels good to know their DRM is pointless.
It wasn't just an ethical breach, it was a felony. And he is now being investigated for rape in NYC and LA, and being sued for breach of contract and various other torts.

A great many people in Hollywood began to ignore Weinstein's claims after they became public (to the industry) knowledge, though this was unfortunately too late for some of his earlier victims like Asia Argento and Annabella Sciorra.
One thing I like about what the Gates Foundation is that they can focus on unglamorous, high impact stuff. Keeping vaccines cold in areas without reliable power is not something makes headlines (apart from Gate's publicizing it), but that will actually save a lot more lives than many of the high profile new treatments that gain the notice of the press.
That's not true. The comparison to biology is very literal here. We simply do not have the tools to really understand complex systems.

This is where our physics fails us. We're great at predicting the behavior of systems with a small number of interacting degrees of freedom. But for systems with a huge number of interacting degrees of freedom (everything around you) we're hooped - the math is intractable to existing techniques. New approaches are required.

There _are_ some overarching principles for complex systems (namely self-organization). But they have not been well-developed.
Lenovo Crammed a Hexa-Core CPU and 128GB of Memory into a Laptop
Is "salami publishing" even harmful at all? Isn't a larger number of smaller papers analagous to a larger number of smaller modules in software?
1.0 _may be_ a distraction but I think it's a fair one. It's a common enough convention that pre-1.0 versions are the developer's way of saying, "please please please don't treat this as ready and production quality. We're still figuring some things out and haven't settled on some key choices."

If that's not what the developers are trying to communicate with a pre-1.0 version I do wonder what they're gating 1.0 on. What needs finalization? Documentation?
No worries, I'll just make a new account. As long as you pretentious douches who run this site continue with the bullshit that your shitty internet site is some sort of higher order of discourse, I'll be here to fuck up your "public record."

Or of course you could just delete all of my comments, and live in your own hypocrisy, but will you be able to find them all? :)
The government is allowed to crack open a safe with a warrant. The government is allowed to crack open an iPhone with a warrant.

What does either of those things have to do with decrypting things found inside either the safe or the iPhone?

If the FBI found coded papers inside a safe, they could try to decrypt those papers, but couldn't compel the owner to assist them.

Security flaws are fair game for law enforcement. Secure encryption without exploitable weaknesses will probably defeat them even in the presence of a court order.
gamergate was not a thing till people decided to link two groups together. The second group is a group of assholes who like to harass women or really anyone on the internet they don't like. Nobody is going to defend them here, and there isn't a way for the first group to NOT be linked with them since news articles keep linking the two for obvious sensational reasons.

>Just for the record: GamerGate was 100% founded on harassing women.

>Some well-meaning people have taken GamerGate's message at face value and been motivated to expose actual ethical issues. That's laudable, but doing it under the GamerGate banner devalues the entire message.

You seem to have back pedaled from your original absurd claim. That's progress I guess.

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Its hard to find any neutral source that aggregates all the factual information. Does this website cover everything? Do you have an alternate source?

http://thisisvideogames.com/gamergatewiki/index.php/Timeline...
Compare and contrast the different levels of effort required to gain access to a safe VS a persons iPhone prior to this data update.

Authourities must first gain access to premises with a warrant and then get a safe cracker in.

VS: authourities (at an airport or just about anywhere) take the phone off the person, there is a layer of obsfucation as to whether a warrant has been obtained or is needed, and data is collected.

If you look at the history of digital data (ie echelon etc) there is a clear trend for vast data hovering of all and any resources.
This is not possible with physical data, as it leaves behind a more concrete trail when authorities go after it, and causes them to (generally) be more selective about what they are doing
I honestly think that the idea of letting people search inside a torrent before fully downloading it has been overlooked and might be the next big step in P2P file-sharing: https://github.com/lmatteis/torrent-net

The idea is that you can actually query stuff inside a torrent; like actually perform an SQL query and only the pieces relevant to the query will be downloaded.

This sort of allows for distributed querying if you think about it, since your query could be satisfied by many different peers that are seeding/leeching.

Imagine a Web built this way. Where sites are served by people that visit them and are not just static sites, but fully queryable as you'd expect in the normal HTTP web.

I wrote more on this here: https://medium.com/@lmatteis/torrentnet-bd4f6dab15e4
Phrasing it "extreme of either side" sends a message that you place either extreme in the same moral bucket.

Some people may argue that extreme personal protection is good and extreme personal vulnerability is bad, which makes these "extremes" quite opposite, making one highly desirable and another one not.

Plus who decided that subpoenas are a good idea, or law enforcement traditions are how things ought to be? Inquisition and slavery were also a thing until they were not.
Exposes the ability to downvote comments at >500. Seems to give flags and possibly votes more weight.
I only routinely use 2 devices. I'm very heavily into the tech scene and could afford more devices if I wished.

Some people don't live in a place where it's easy to afford multiple devices.

Many non-tech people don't even use a desktop PC anymore. They just have a smartphone.

Believe what you will, but it is certainly fair to say not everyone has enough devices for this service to make sense. For example, me, with 2 devices.

>If you are already using KeePass than there is no reason to use NoKey, KeePass is great!

Exactly.
Describing the exact same inevitable phenomena as "The Age of Transparency" is probably going to elicit a better response from most people. "Post Privacy" is negatively charged and makes it sound like more of a net loss as opposed to progress.
Total surveillance doesn't guarantee "perfect and total information".
Even at places where the pay scale is set at the departmental level, professors have discretion on whether they want to pay you over the summer. That's 1/4 of your salary.

Also, funding comes straight from the professor. If your advisor decides they don't have funding, you're out of luck and working on the side, unless your department is nice enough to give you a teaching assistant job.
This is a big topic with plenty to be said but to synthesize some concrete ways YC can eliminate the cons:

- Raise equity ownership if possible.

- Raise the 90 day option exercise period.

- Be pro-actively transparent about the financial math.

There is a counter argument here that more transparency could lead to morale issues but most mature EEs know that they are rolling a dice and upfront honesty works wonders. The worse thing for the eco-system is the feeling of getting duped.

- Ruthlessly support EEs in growing their careers.

If your hands are tied w.r.t giving financial upside, at least be a champion for personal growth for EEs. As a founder, you get tons of opportunity to receive mentorship. Send that elevator down, every time you get a chance to. YC can easily provide mentorship for EE cohort, if it can do it for Founders.
I'm with you. Want to chat?
https://invisible.college

The invisible college was started in the 1600s by Robert Boyle (of Boyle's law), as an alternative to the corrupt academy of his time, which cared more about authority than reason and evidence. The invisible college went on to invent peer review.

Now peer review has spread throughout the academy! But corruption has exploited its weaknesses and we need to build a new system, outside the academic walls, to usher in the next era of science.

Please talk with us at the new invisible college. We have a new system for peer review. It isn't yet published but it's ready for discussion.

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Sure, but this is not a very clean way. Reverse proxy is not a problem for sure, but writing Resolvers will be a huge pain with no way to make something hacky that won't blow up the whole server.
There are some thresholds to unlock additional abilities. For example, with 200 you can make polls and with 500 you can downvote comments. (The numbers may change.)
What would seem to make sense for Netflix would be use more HDD/SSD caching of videos, similar to how a DVR for Tivo works. There really isn't a huge reason to live stream Netflix movie/show content. It's not live video.

The Netflix subscriber user could download up to 30 or 40 Netflix shows in advance from their Netflix queue (sort of like the original 'Netflix by mail' queue) over LTE at midnight under some sort of LTE multi-cast deal with AT&T or Verizon. Or maybe lossless transmission over standard POTS/DSL or Dish Satellite.
I was more thinking about querying something like testtls.google.com, that would analyze the results server-side (this might require an extra round-trip), and return them to be displayed.
Then it strikes me kind of like C++ exceptions. They have them, and it's kinda supported, and there are certain things you shouldn't do with them, so everyone just uses return codes.

Java/Python encourage the use of exceptions as returning error conditions, rather than return error codes.
yeah indeed, I just found myself having way more ideas I'll ever be able to build.. so why not share them :) Im planning to add an idea every day.. will keep me busy for a while
The thing to keep in mind is that, from the point of view of someone who works with data, R isn't a programming language. It's a statistical software package that has a programming language. Its competitors are things like Minitab, SPSS, Stata, and JMP, all of which used to be entirely menu-driven. R was a genuine innovation when it was first introduced.

Now it's certainly showing its age and the limits of its design, but it's still best in class for a certain kind of user. We could do better for software development, but it's not clear that doing so would actually make data analysis easier.
Or simply, in free societies sometimes the bad guys get away with things. Or maybe they're not the bad guys and the state has deemed them "bad guys".

And what's really pathetic is that societies don't have discussions about unintended consequences of laws, and that prosecutors don't have checks-n-balances on their power/authority.
I think he's tying speed and data more closely than is justifiable for most people. > you assume that people control their data usage that closely.

I see a natural inflation in data usage because the services I use are inflating the data supplied to my requests. Streamed video sizes increase, I actually have had to use my cloud back up (3 times unfortunately) in the last 3 months so I've had to download 250gb * 3 because I actually had a cloud back up, web page sizes increase from ad-bloat, my hard disk is larger, so my back up size needs increase.. And so on, and so on, and so on...

The speed increases are just a way to eventually tip you into data overages if the data cap does not increase proportionally to the speed increase.
I'm pretty sure cryptokitties are teh Google of cryto. They kind of have a product that makes sense in the cryptocurrency universe.
The percentages are not consistent with a definition that includes almost everyone.
> that is why the Soviet Union lagged U.S. technology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NK-33
Thanks for the link. Seems valuable for independent researchers who want to collaborate with others like themselves.
Alienating to men, obviously. I don't see the point of that question.
My Answer: To replace a SQL select with javascript map/reduce is senseless. The whole idea of a database is to provide high performance access to data using index lookups. This particular case can be performed by a full table scan and a merge/sort operation, and so the performance might be acceptable, that is not a general solution though.

As an aside: You could optimise this in sql by providing indices on some of the fields and the DB would then perform a full index scan rather than a table scan.
R-studio is one of the best IDEs, period.

Documentation? R is the only ecosystem that require good documentation to submit modules to the central repository (CRAN).

The language itself is hairy, with multiple, incompatible object systens, but there is a modern refined subset, just like with Perl and C++.
The whole point of Perl 6 was to break compatibility, as the implementation of Perl 5 was deemed good enough to keep existing code running.

In the meantime, Perl 5 keeps getting better while mostly maintaining backwards compatibility. So basically we avoided the problem of transferring people from one language version to the next by allowing them to stay with Perl 5.
Perl 5 maintains backwards compatible with code written 30 years ago for the first version of Perl. Which is the reason you have to opt-in to strict mode.

The last major change in Perl 5 that caused widespread problems was done to improve security. (v5.18 hash randomization)
Mostly what it did was cause already existing bugs in user code to happen more often, making them easier to track down.

Also thanks for pointing out that not enough people use Perl 6, as it is an awesome language that brings in a lot of ideas from other languages and makes them seem as if they have always belonged together.