skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. The most recent governments' hostility toward scientific research has been hugely damaging to the research community in Australia. The CSIRO were once an amazing asset to the world, now with their funding slashed dramatically there are many brilliant teams without the resources to develop their ideas. So disappointing and frustrating to watch. :-(
Here'y'are mate, if you thought that was a cracker, you're gonna have a ripper of an arvo with this:

http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html/
I won’t be a fan of an icar. It will be too long and thin and to fill up the tank you will need to go to a special gas station.
Apple has 5,000 people working on a me too project that will likely never go anywhere while they are unable to ship announced products like AirPower and Mac Pro. Oh and they admitted to a known flaw in the keyboard of their current line of laptops that goes back years. This is frustrating.
I thought they moved out because they were having difficulty getting penetration?
I don’t think reporting criminals to the police makes one an asshole.

If you want open borders that’s fine. We have a congress and they can legally pass that policy. Write your representative and senators or something.
It's sarcastic.
So the quantum part of this network is that it is doing quantum key distribution [1]. The idea is that messages are sent in a predictably lossy way and that further non-predicted losses correspond to the messages being observed (by the environment or by physics).

In particular messages (bits) are sent as photons with certain polarisations. The space of possible polarisations is roughly rays through the origin in the plane (ignoring circular polarisation). The only way to observe polarisation is to take two possible polarisations and ask which one the photon is. The answer depends probabilistically on the photon’s state and the polarisations chosen. For example a +45° polarisation when observed in the basis of {0°, 90°} corresponds to 50% chance of 0° and 50% chance of 90°. If a certain polarisation p is sent and then one observes with a basis of p or q, there is a 100% chance of observing state p. When a photon is observed it’s polarisation becomes whatever polarisation was observed (this it can’t be measured twice)

The algorithm used works roughly as:

0. Four polarisations are known in advance, made of two orthogonal bases, (but the four states are together orthogonal or linearly independent) and parties can send any polarisation down some channel[2], and observe any photon they receive with one of the bases, chosen before the photon arrives. A 0-state and 1-state is decided for each basis.

1. Alice produces some random data to send to Bob

2. For each bit she wishes to send, she chooses a basis at random and sends the corresponding 0-state or 1-state

3. For each photon he receives, bob chooses a basis at random and observes the photon, recording his basis choice and whether he got the 0-state or the 1-state.

4. Alice and bob compare notes on the bases they chose over a classical insecure channel. They should have picked the same basis 50% of the time.

5. Bob and Alice keep the bits where the basis matched. In these cases, bob should have perfectly received the data.

6. Some [random I think] subset is compared over the classical channel. Where these don’t match up, the photons must have been observed (potentially eavesdropped). An eavesdropper can get a 75% probability [I think] that they were eavesdropped but not noticed by Bob/Alice as an eavesdropper would have had to pick a basis and could have either got it right and sent on an equivalent photon or got it wrong and had Bob probabilistically get the right bit out.

7. If the error rate is suitably low then Alice and bob assume their data was safely transmitted and the rest of it can be used to make a random key.

Please correct me if I’m wrong on this as I’m not an expert and I’m not sure I’ve understood it correctly.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution

[2] optical fibre is this channel. I don’t really understand the physics of it but I thought reflection (inside the fibre) could cause polarisation to change or just loss of photon. I don’t know this is dealt with but I’d love to find out.
I'd recommended: Sr DevOps, SA-SRE, SRE-TPM

30 years here.
a reorganization and less political administration couldn't hurt though. Some checks and balances maybe to ensure all choices they make are ethical, and move in a more humane direction... (though, I think we could deal w/ open borders if we had a national sales tax to capture taxes off their grocery/restaurant/etc use.

Then they'd all be contributing to the bottom line, the only reason people hate them being here in the first place right? Nobody wants a freeloader, so let's make it so anyone living here can't be one.
It's not xenophobic to exclude people who are citizens of a country with no extradition treaty from working on sensitive projects.
Building your first interactive Node JavaScript CLI
This article is weird. I work with ML (AI is overloaded term) and don't recognize myself in this article at all. It seems to be written for managers, politicians, or economists or something.

It is like stating: "The function that gives software value is the ability to create if-then statements." Both remotely true and meaningless.

Conflating analysis with predictive modeling, pretending self-driving cars are a thing of the last decade (and not fully operational since the 80s) and this:

> “So what’s going to happen is that these prediction machines are going to make predictions better and faster and cheaper, and when you do that, two things happen. The first is that we will do a lot more predicting. And the second is that we will think of new ways of doing things for problems where the missing bit was prediction.”

If using ML or DL qualifies as a subset of AI, then AI qualifies as a subset of software and IT. Turning above statement into:

> “So what’s going to happen is that these computer are going to run code better and faster and cheaper, and when you do that, two things happen. The first is that we will do a lot more coding. And the second is that we will think of new ways of doing things for problems where the missing bit was software.”

Then you are still correct, it is a safe bet, but you are correct about a very insignificant thing.
They were booted last year by a German IXP, DE-CIX after reported abuse. Nice to see a company with an abuse handle that works

http://seclists.org/nanog/2018/Jun/370
Humans have already unwittingly destroyed most of the ecosystems in the world, so I'm not really opposed to teams of scientists carefully making such changes in the future.
This is not in line with the principle of responding to the strongest possible interpretation of a post, it’s the oppposite.
This is an inaccurate portrayal of the pharmaceutical industry. Take CAR-T as one obvious counterexample.
For search yes but I haven’t figured out how to do any real analytics with it.
This neither harms users nor the general public, so I don't see relevance.
They’re not reporting criminals, they’re reporting everyone.

This has nothing to do with open borders. Why would you even bring that up?
pleased to meetcha, you now know one.
I timeout on getting an IP, but I noticed Opera/Chrome already flagged the url as unsafe despite the dns fail.
Too bad this didn't come up, when the supreme court was more liberal, now it'd surely be shot down. (applying the similar scenario to the license plates)
Russian company had access to Facebook user data through apps
Except that it is true that directors face lawsuits about breaches of fiduciary duty frequently enough for it to be not uncommon.

A suit was filed recently naming Eddy Cue for violating anti-trust law relating to the settlement for the e-books case brought by the federal government.

http://investor.apple.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-18-...
mail.ru

"A Russian internet company with links to the Kremlin was among the firms to which Facebook gave an extension which allowed them to collect data on unknowing users of the social network after a policy change supposedly stopped such collection."
It would be but nobody really does that on the basis of extradition treaties anyway.
I'd like to hear why you think Python is as bad
This particular mosquito is not an indigenous part of the ecosystem where this trial is taking place, it is an introduced species.
And abolishing ICE (or what ICE has become) actually isn't that radical. It was created as part of the Homeland Security Act in 2002 as part of the (over)reaction to 9/11 .

Before that, customs and immigration concerns were handled perfectly well by the United States Customs Service (in the Treasury Department) and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (Department of Justice.)

What is new with ICE is the militaristic "hunt them down" approach to immigration enforcement while pushing back on due process for offenders (which they mostly get away with because these people are poor non-citizens). Suggesting we do away with that is not that radical -- it's actually quite civilized and a return to much more humane pre-9/11 norms.
This seems like a sort of standard country customization/localization thing that just happened to have a bug in it.

However because it’s China and Taiwan it’s a “thing“ because there’s a very heavy political angle.

My original comment was meant to point out that Apple isn’t hypocritical here as many people want to claim. They said they’d do the exact same kind of things here if required by US law.
Translation Leak-Aside Buffer: Defeating Cache Side-Channel Protections [pdf]
It'd be a lot easier to make cheap, pure heroin available to people who choose to use it. Switzerland does just that and it seems to benefit their society while taking money out of the pockets of the drug cartels: http://drugwarfacts.org/region/switzerland
Wow. That's retarded.
The hard thing would be getting enough signatures on the ballot, that costs a million bucks usually. Of course that can be powerful, consider the recent surprising rush for privacy policy legislation.
So where was Zhang headded with this stash? I think I can be sure those people would just get a lawsuit instead of criminal charges.
The formula is easy, as explained in the article:

1) For any word in the 10,000-word vividness dictionary, add its score to the sum.

2) Divide by the total word count.

The complete word list in the vividness dictionary, and the scores of each word, are in constant flux, based on the results of a massive machine-learning algorithm, driven by the set of novels in the corpus.

Every time we add new novels, the results change slightly, but as the corpus, but the word-list and scores will eventually converge, and perhaps then we'll publish the dataset :)
> The US isn't going to arbitrarily blockade Apple's market access over the screenlock conflict.

I wonder if people from Huawei and HTC have a different point of view there?
You can search from the homepage: http://prosecraft.io
Thanks for all the great answers. I shall remove my tinfoil hat :)
Don’t call it a comeback: Condos return to Seattle
Now can you Google the difference between a gun show and a mall for the commenter as well?
I find the documentation good and some frustratingly vague depending on the service.
In AWS everything can be done via code including starting and launching EC2/lambda. You'll need to look in their sdk documentation and experiment a little to figure out what everything means and in what order you need to make the api requests.
Even for regular search, Splunk's search language absolutely blows Elasticsearch's/Lucene's out of the water. Splunk is one of the best software products I've ever used and developed extensions for. A shame it's so obscenely expensive.
Facebook fined for data breaches in Cambridge Analytica scandal
Making $6,000/Month Profit from Crowdfunding Business
> Wouldnt it make more sense to build this as a cloud service?

Definitely. Maritime companies and backcountry users probably won't be interested in messing around with a nifty open source tool nor the hosting infrastructure it'd require. They'll want this built out as a secure easy to use service.

@tombh Feel free to get in touch if you're interested in building or optimizing for satellite users. I'd be happy to provide some beta test feedback using my equipment.
ALPR vans endlessly trawl public and private parking lots and streets, recording your presence and movements and just waiting for you to show up in their database with an unpaid parking ticket so they can boot or tow your car.

Some of the higher-tier services use ALPR cameras that map plates to GPS coordinates. Property ownership is public information so you can narrow down the owner of a vehicle's plate based on where they're parked overnight. You can deduce where the owner works by tracking where it's parked between 9 and 6. You can deduce who the owner's associates are by tracking who he tends to park near when not at home or work.

The beauty of it is how well it scales. One van can patrol your neighborhood. Another can patrol the mall. Another can drive around and through your office park. Another might catch you simply driving down the road. It's like having spies everywhere, and they're all feeding their observations back to a central database to build a broader profile...which they later sell to law enforcement upon request.

(Or you can make like Vincent Asaro and just give a cop buddy the plate number of the car that cut you off and have your post-roadrage firebomb run expedited. DPPA sure helped that guy!)

If that's not sustained surveillance then please explain your understanding of the concept.
Zilliqa is pretty cool, actually. I read the whitepaper and found the pieces on Zilliqa consensus and incentivizing miners based on their sharding architecture that "allows the mining network to process transactions in parallel and reach high throughput" very interesting. A great example of tech that presents solid algorithms or functions that do real work, or that could set the stage for new future work, within the context of cryptocurrency.
We can always keep a few in labs around the world in the very small chance they do serve a useful purpose.
Chromium and Google's Roboto and Noto fonts are all in the official repos.
> Buts it's especially terrible because it was designed by a guy without much language expertise in a handful of weeks.

The core isn't too bad; I'd argue that the main reason why it's hard to work with is because you don't have tight control over your execution environment, mostly since the language wasn't really standardized until pretty late. It also solves a much different problem than most languages since it has to optimize for better UX (not crashing the whole program on exceptions, for example).
At the root of this article is a complete lack of insight into what it means to compare apples with apples and oranges with oranges.

One of the points made by Mr Gans is: When I’m going to catch a ball, I predict the physics of where it’s going to end up. I have to do a lot of other things to catch the ball, but one of the things I do is make that prediction.

You do yourself a disservice sir - there is no AI on earth that could possibly match your ability to determine where a ball will land and work out how to catch it (one hand or two, over or under), whilst teetering on a pair of legs or perhaps diving. You may also be about to land in water and be working out how to deal with that as well at the same time. If you are diving you will also be making some horrifically complicated calculations that will ensure that you don't snap your neck or ribs and land in one piece. You may do that whilst daydreaming about something else.

"AI" is making some wonderful advances. Doing most of the stuff that we do routinely is not one of them. For starters an "AI" doesn't have a body!
The author forgets many counterexamples like Amazon.
Thanks, sorry, I should try to remember to clarify my acronyms when I write posts.
Physically easier yes, politically easier debatable.
Do you agree that if Congress passes a law that bans phone encryption, Apple would have to comply with it? Yes or no?
I think they were pointing out that you typically get issued a summons in lieu of arrest for misdemeanors.
AUR has the word "Arch" in its name and is linked right at the top of the Arch Linux homepage and from every Arch Linux webpage. So it's disingenuous to claim it is "not Arch.”

Contrast this to the old debian-multimedia, which had no links from Debian.org and which eventually yielded to pressure to change its name to make clear that it was not part of Debian.
Then don't go on to their private property to conduct business?
There's a very nice open source sshd daemon based on dropbear that I use. Doesn't require root or anything. I use it for pretty much all my file transfer needs. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.galexander...
> From an architectural perspective, there is absolutely no difference between a micro service and a library.

I’ll stick to linking glibc, friend architect. Performance is also architecture.
author of that line here: i don't want to live in a world where companies can't have a little fun with some copy.
Malls are privately owned property, if you don't like it don't go to them.
Microservices do have various organizational tradeoffs. Individual teams can now own deployment, operation, language, and tooling choices for better or worse. This is probably advantageous for large companies where the number of teams scales beyond what a hierarchical control structure can support. In other words, a single devops team can't make good decisions and prescriptions about languages, tooling, deployment, etc nor effectively react to feedback from the dev teams. Control (power and responsibility) becomes distributed instead of centralized, with all the tradeoffs that entails.
This is great.

I wish we could do our own arbitrary style analysis on the data set sort of the way one can do a factor analysis on a portfolio.

I would look at words that are common between Marukami and McCarthy compared to the rest of the corpus for instance.
That doesn’t answer my question.
You do know that Hong Kong is technically part of China, right?
That was less than a month ago.
>You reference those things as if they are a "bad thing"

More accurately, as if they are not obviously noble, since you conflated everyone to have been called SJW with someone brave and insightful. But yeah I do think those things are intrinsically wrong.
They're not going to reply to you and even if they do it'll be a "we do not comment on our security practices".
Upvoted you. Google is still operating in Hong Kong, which is part of China.
Apple is in a position of strength in the USA and a position of weakness in China. Apple could choose to die on this hill, and all it would accomplish would be to deprive Chinese consumers of the strongest privacy-protecting mobile phone choice.

Things would be different if Apple were found to be shipping firmware-level spyware like Huawei and ZTE phones. But for flag emoji? Who cares? That's an easy trade.
Van Gogh has a special meaning for me, because it's the first time I was fascinated with a painting.

To put things into context: my mom is an art historian, and when I was a kid she'd regularly drag me to museums. I remember being bored out of my mind, with only the cool architecture of the museums themselves to mildly entertain me.

To this day I'm pretty uninterested in the classics

Years later, in my late 20s, I went to the National Gallery in London, and saw one of Van Gogh's "Wheatfield with Cypresses" [1] there, and for the first time a classical painting struck me as beautiful. Maybe it's the pastels, maybe it was the texture of the gouache (which no digital picture reproduces, you'd need a detailed 3D model), I just stood there entranced by this painting.

I bought a (stupidly overpriced) print of it at the gift shop, and to this day it's still the only classical painting I can recognize a love for.

Sadly, that particular painting isn't part of this digitized collection, since the collection is from the Amsterdam Museum, not from London's National Gallery.

[1] https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/vincent-van-gog...
I read articles like this and I think that one's opinion on this is directly correlated with whether one thinks that immigration laws should be enforced. I don't think most people are calling for immigration laws to be eliminated and anyone who manages to make it here should be allowed to stay indefinitely.

What I don't get is the whole selective enforcement of laws thing. If someone somehow managed to get across the border that gets the person some sort of award for sneaking past the border patrol and thus a right to stay here for being a particularly sneaky lawbreaker? The legal reasoning behind all this just strikes me as ridiculously convoluted.
Ginger never works for me.
"Happens at every gun show" is not the same as "happened at California gun shows".

I don't like the scanning at all but this is a far cry from a national gun show surveillance program.
Danielle Morrill on starting over from zero
Intel Active Management Technology Security Review Cumulative Update
I like and use auracle. It's basically a rewrite / redo of cower, the core of pacaur, by the same developer. Pacaur was the most popular alternative to Yaourt, but is now discontinued.
Some people theorize that alcohol works in a similar way for the brain.
Today, no.

Once health insurance companies start paying for video game addiction treatment, yes.
Why do we care that it's written in Go then?
I'm a little confused about the mall operator's incentive to do this.

Are they using ALPR for their own security and voluntarily sharing the reads? Is the provider giving them a discount to do so or paying to place cameras or something?
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17502247
I went to this food... thing... in Palm Springs a few weeks ago. We watched Sitcoms and ate food inspired by them. They went way back to 1960s shows, but it would have been 1000x more fun (for me) had it been full on vaporwave. We were all dressed up, the servers sang and did trivia. It was awesome and now makes me want to throw a Vaporwave food event.
And this is how extremism wins.

The world's economy has been inter-connected for some time; some part of that computer or phone that you're typing that on, is probably made in China.
Nah. Huffing glue doesn't help one get laid. Or maybe it does but I somehow have doubts about the reproductive success of such a society.
They are both places to buy goods and services, not really much of a difference tbh.
It's much easier to drive a car than an 18 wheel truck too, but the latter have their uses.
The expertise you'd want for drilling an emergency rescue tunnel would be a combination of skills related to drilling roughly pipe-sized vertical shafts [1] (mining/oil services, or maybe the companies themselves; I don't know what the exact breakdown of work packages end up being) and remote (specifically mountainous and jungle, in this case) infrastructure and logistics, which is military or again mining/oil services. Possibly a geologist or two on hand to assess the rock layers and identify hydrographic hazards as well as risks such as accidentally causing cave-ins. For the cave diving extraction, you'd want experienced cave divers, ideally ones with good first aid knowledge and cave rescue experience. For any further expertise, I wouldn't suggest anything without hearing the observations from the cave divers who have just explored the cave themselves.

There is no evidence presented that Musk, nor any of his companies, has any of this kind of useful expertise.

[1] Emphasis here on vertical shafts. There is a world of difference between a tunnel-boring machine that tends to remain within a single geological stratum and a vertical shaft that is constantly cutting through several strata of different kinds of rock (that require different cutting techniques).
This is how we start Jurassic Park, btw.
Proof is in the pudding. People generally come around.