skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either that, or personal data has to stored in a central server so it can be accessed on demand by web apps - which would eliminate a lot of web forms, but would have uncomfortable political and social implications.

That doesn't necessarily require centralisation. Web browsers have some form-filling capabilities now, and that data can stay under end-user control. Perhaps there's scope for building on something like this (although the growth of, _e.g._ "social login" doesn't leave me too optimistic. That perhaps does count as an example of UI innovation, although one which hasn't particularly registered with me since I tend to avoid it).

There's still room to improve form-based pages, because there's still far too little research into best practice. But forms are an efficient way to collect information, so it's hard to imagine a secure and private UI paradigm that would eliminate them altogether.

Agreed. I don't see easy wins, but trying to make forms as good as they can be seems a very worthwhile area of endeavour. I suspect part of this might be trying not to go too far in terms of baking "business rule" type stuff into forms, which has a tendency to leave people in impossible states (thinking, for instance, of academic grant systems which can end up with some very strong assumptions about career paths built in)
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The software piece of this is not the hard part. The social piece is.

Admirable goal, but good luck getting wide enough adoption to achieve viability.
You're wrong. Most states have some form of Standards of Learning (SOL) testing at each grade level. These cover the three Rs, plus history and science. Most of these were implemented as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Here's a listing of the tests given in VA...
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/released_tests/index...
That’s interesting, I shared the “but why” until mid way through a BSc in Physics. The foundational concepts of “this is how {thermo|mechanics|quantum} works” was exciting, but the remainder of each semester was “now let’s work through all the edge cases” and I had difficulty keeping up.
What do you think about how Ziplink startup want to solve sharing links problem?
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Supporting evidence:
"Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier"
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00659
Their timing analysis is missing the time it takes to respond to the initial interrupt. If there's any delay there, it subtracts from the available time before the second byte wipes out the first.
DNA computing might be an interesting new domain [1]. The idea is to use DNA as a memory, while using proteins/RNA as logic operators. This can provide massive speed and efficiency gains, especially for optimisation problems that need parallelization. Just consider that 4bits of information on DNA take only about 1nm^3 of volume, where solid state memory has about 3Tb/in^2 which is roughly equivalent to 10^7 nm^3.

To me it is still not clear how scalable the DNA computing is, but there are nice proofs of concept already [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0289-6
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I did not mean you but Macron/the article
> The API does not give the bots extra information compared to a human player.

Well, maybe not technically, but it does make it much much easier to take in all of that info and process it. You can't expect a human player to keep a perfect record of all heroes' hp, mana, all damage being dealt, all abilities being used etc. during a chaotic fight, yet the API yields this information effortlessly.

> The micro- and reaction time edge is also being dulled to being more human-like.

And yet, the bots showed superhuman near instant reaction times. 200ms is a very low amount to process very complex/confusing audiovisual data and react precisely.
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Oppression always fails in the long run because the conditions that spawn the oppression always eventually pass, and oppressive regime has to keep justifying itself.

For instance, slavery was long on the way out of the US by the time of the Civil War. As we kept expanding west-ward, the new states had exactly zero economic incentive to turn people into livestock. The South could get away with political shenanigans only as long as it could maintain its voting bloc. Expansion made that impossible, and the only solution became a war.

If the war hadn't happened though, we would have seen a managed transition. Legislation tailored at reining in slavery would have slowly made the practice increasingly untenable and the economic aspect would have gotten managed out over time. In fact, it was already happening.

To generalize, oppression seeks out a local maximum, eventually society finds a higher peak, and the oppression only lasts as long as it takes for the rest of society to build a wide enough bridge so that people on the lower hill can just walk over to the bigger hill. Or, you know, a war.
Not only do most kids not take AP tests, not all schools offer AP classes. OF the schools that offer them, not all of them offer the full array.

The other unfortunate side of AP classes is that much of history classes is taught well before the AP class. I had 2.5 years of history in high school: One semester was a law education class, only offered to "advanced" students instead of geography (a real shame, as I think the class was one of the more helpful classes I took), one European history class, and one AP American History.

The American History class was the most interesting and probably the most free, actually. My particular class used a college-level book and the teacher would add in things that weren't covered by the book and she'd point out where the book might be misleading or wrong. That class was also where I was introduced to "The Jungle", "Grapes of wrath", and Malcolm X's biography.

I oddly don't remember as much about the actual test (it was 20 years ago), but it wasn't nearly the same as other standardized tests at the time. If I remember correctly, it was more based on thinking and processing history than memorizing facts.
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Be nice to actually see what garbage is involved here so that I can determine for myself if I agree with you. Not possible though because it appears that Facebook did not specifically state which posts or videos violated their policies or in what way.
Possible jobs include:

- Working as a lawyer in a law firm and being the expert/contact person for any tech stuff.

- Working as project mananger for Legal Tech in a law firm (Magic Circle law firms are already having these jobs)

- Being a lawyer specialised in IT/tech/IP laws, which require a domain understanding.

- Working for or founding a Legal Tech start-up.

- Owning a law firm that is having an automated workflow which is specifically engineered.

Right now, there aren't too many jobs on the market. But they will become more. And I can promise you, for most of all people tech is a black box (which is also bothering people), and with it being more and more integraded in our workflows, being tech savy will become more important in virtually any job (including government etc.).
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Good point, but I was specifically talking about the ╭ ╮ ╯ ╰ characters; those were added in 866, and they're not included in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character#DOS or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
FYI there is already a "Divvy" by Mizage. A window management app that's pretty impressive:

http://mizage.com/divvy/
Correct, the bots "see" the entire map. Well, the parts that are not hidden by 'fog of war'.
SpiderOak basically said "if we do this, you should stop using us" (well, if you care about warrant canaries). And then they did it.

It doesn't mean that they received a warrant, but it does mean SpiderOak is telling you not to use them, and I think that when a service tell you that, for whatever reason, it means quite a lot. :)

(Even if, as you suggest further down, they received legal advice that warrant canaries were a bad idea and they needed to take it down, the way they handled the entire process makes it clear that they aren't taking this seriously. Posting a warrant canary, updating it regularly, and then taking it down while not telling the real (legit) reason is reckless at best, and in my view is basically the worst way they could handle it.)

Whatever a realistic estimation of SpiderOak's security was before this news, I think it has to be strictly lower now, right?

(Mind you...on further reflection I'm not convinced the transparency report is any more - or less - meaningful than the canary. The theory behind both is that the government cannot compel false speech. If that's true, then both are equally protective; if it's false, both are equally pointless.
SpiderOak did say "if we stop updating this stop using us", and then they stopped updating it, but...then they published a transparency report saying "0 NSLs". So...maybe they're just really awful at communication.)
What kind of lies do they tell?
What I am saying is that immigrants (or their kids) sometimes become entrepreneurs, that's all.

Regarding student loans, I am sorry to hear that, frankly situation in the U.S. is messed up. I honestly think you should support Bernie Sanders and his ilk if you want to change that.

What I am saying is pretty much standard Keynesian view of the economy: The economy can produce less than it potentially could (and have full employment, although that is tenuous) when there isn't large enough demand, that is consumer buying things and services.

This has not much to do with minimum wages, although in fact, raising minimum wage can most likely help to stimulate demand.

Regarding the cheap-labor made imports, these in fact hurt the foreign economies more than yours (because of the trade deficit, which most likely won't be equalized). The only way to prevent them (to some extent) would be to impose some form of import tariff.
The only mildly sophisticated part of the blockchain itself is the Merkle tree. You can find lots of Node libraries for that.

For every new record, add it to the tree. When your tree gets big enough (i.e. hits maximum block size), sign it along with the hash of the last one, and then start a new Merkle tree. Congrats, you have a blockchain.
We had a large presentation from IBM about hyperledger (I work for a healthcare company) and it seemed like something our industry could really leverage.

I was put on a team to research using it on an upcoming project. Once we started digging in and asking questions, it became apparent very quickly IBM wants to control everything from top to bottom. It's on their network, they build it, they maintain it, and there's not a lot of options outside of what they've already built.

We had some very specific functionality we needed and were told by the IBM team it wouldn't be a problem. When we got down to delivery and talking actuals, they started to balk if they could even deliver what we really needed. After trying to nail several things down and not getting anywhere, we pivoted and are currently looking at other blockchain platforms.

After reading your response, it sounds like we may have dodged a bullet and made the right choice.
So you're saying you're going to market your way of distributing products by insisting you "pay [more] taxes [than Amazon is obligated to]" and paying more for labour? What exactly should make the most expensive available retailer win purchases from Amazon?

This is not a business plan, this is an economically illiterate wet fantasy for yuppies.
I suspect the speed is going to kill this idea.
But even at 20 year old mechanical hard drive speeds, there should be some use for this for backup.
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I am posting it to be able to add it to my favorites. :)
> Too much hate and virtue signalling. It was like what Twitter already was.

Thanks for virtue signalling. Ironic.
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Or that a stray cosmic ray won't disrupt the molecules and cause read corruptions?
I think that you are getting downvoted because people don't understand what you are trying to say. I don't understand it either.

Yes, the NSL and gag order are effectively one and the same. However, the point of these "warrant canaries" is that they don't have to talk about the request to let people know that they have likely received one. They simply remove their existing statement that they have never previously seen one.

The theory is that the government cannot compel you to continue to make a statement now that it is false and your removal doesn't technically constitute a disclosure of the NSL.

AFAIK, this theory has never been tested in court.
I'm also a "slow thinker" in this regard. It's not in my view anything other than your thoughtfulness being influenced by your personality. Folks like us are attempting to be thoughtful but without trying, and we have the capacity to hold back our impulses from the cerebral cortex. People who are "quick tongued", are not always coming up with the right answer, their personality is simply more dominant.

What's always struck me as odd, is that I'm vastly superior in creativity versus almost everyone I work with or meet. For me, it seems that no one has truly new ideas while they do come to mind for me, out of nowhere. I also get the sense when I'm out driving or walking around that I'm more "aware" of what's around me than others.

That's discounting that seeing people be dumb enough to walk and drive with their face in their phone though, guarantees if you're not one of them, that you have at least a 50 point IQ advantage. :) I can't even really explain the feeling of awareness, but I notice a lot more, a lot faster than most people that I know.
I find most of the folks espousing "nuance" and "narrative" are, in the end, really just arguing against positions they don't agree with using high brow language. Case in point would be to point them to David Irving's work on holocaust history and watch them flee from "nuance" and back to "truth".
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Is there a BNF online for Mathematica?

I know there is a project to do Mathematica-like things (computer algebra system) on github written in pure Python ( http://sympy.org/ ).

I've been told that Sage ( http://sagemath.org/ ) is Mathematica-like but uses Python as its programming language.

There is also Maxima ( http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ ) which also has a close to Mathematica experience.
There is an excellent fun little book "1066 and All That", which parodies English history as people remember it from their education. It happens to have been written in 1930 but most of its jokes hold up, and the subset that people remember from that period hasn't changed quite so much.

History as remembered by the public is always going to be fragments made into a mythos. The problem is that some of that mythos defines the propaganda contours of the present, whether that's people saying the US civil war wasn't about slavery or whether it's Brexiteers saying that "no deal will be fine because we survived the second world war".
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To this day, I still don't understand if "spooky action at a distance" is a thing and if there is actually any sort of connection between entangled particles. People vehemently, dramatically claim one side or the other with no support...or I don't get it.

Was just reading this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMB_cold_spot

And how it's "proof of a parallel universe that is quantum-entangled with ours." Don't understand any of it.

Someone on here explained quantum radar to me - that's about the only "quantum" thing that made sense to me.
Well, the reality is that all USB mechanical and gaming keyboards have been limited to 6KRO until very recently. For instance: https://www.keyboardco.com/blog/index.php/2016/03/what-is-nk...

The very same keyboards provide n-key if you use the USB->PS/2 adaptor in the box with the keyboard.

If it were straightforward there wouldn't be hacks such as pretending there's 2 keyboards in the system.
I once went to a McDonald's in Amsterdam. You had to pay to use the restroom and there was a person standing at the door who would hand you a 12 inch strip of toilet paper. God knows what you were supposed to do if you actually needed more. From my experience in dozens of other McDonald's restaurants, I was stunned to see this.
Will Microsoft use windows subscription to push Surface hardware?
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USB 2.0 High Speed allows polling at 8000Hz. There is a windows driver out there for the Wheel Mouse Optical [1]. Someone made a keyboard with that polling rate, too [2].

[1] https://www.overclock.net/forum/375-mice/1589644-usb-mouse-h...

[2] https://michael.stapelberg.de/posts/2018-04-17-kinx-keyboard...
We can and should draw that conclusion. Anything less compromises the canary system. I'm not going to bet my security on someone who frivolously shouts fire in a crowded theater, even if they later say they were only kidding.
Ok, but I sure as shit don't want to live through the 20-80yr it takes to get from oppression to something else.
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I think this post is mostly showing off the new iteration protocol in Julia 0.7/1.0, not advocating for converting all the for loops into decorators.

However, the post doesn't make it clear, so it's just a guess.
It's true that oppression fails in the long run but it's also true that we all die in the long run. There are plenty of examples where oppression lasted long enough to make the lives of generations of people miserable. So we shouldn't just say "This too shall pass"
If you want to find the Alex Jones podcast, you can still go to Google (like the rest of the world) and the web page and the RSS feed comes up on the first page right below the news articles.

http://rss.gcnlive.com/alexJones/

You can add the link directly to the podcast app.

I'm sure there are enough conservative outlets that will inform people how to go to the link. If enough sites link to it, it should appear higher up on Google.
All of the Starbucks I visited in Europe had locks on the bathrooms.
Amazon is making a Culture series (starting with Consider Phlebas): https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/21/17035618/amazon-culture-s...
But then you are basically compelled to lie, otherwise you'd violate the gag order.

If the gag order would only prohibit the disclosure of the contents, then businesses could simply show the list of NSLs received (basically the date and time of when they got it and when they complied with it).
They are equally-interesting!

I'd love to be able to play with some of these ideas in my current favorite (but alas not mathematically-speedy) language (Elixir), if anyone had any sort of intro guide to HE or MPC, would love to have a look
Any ban would be pointless. "Facial recognition" stopped being about faces some time ago, and now the more advanced systems look at everything from the shoulder tops on up - additional information from the shoulders, neck, ears, and so on provide additional discerning characteristics.

If "facial recognition" were banned, organizations would just start ignoring the face and proceed with other characteristics. The world of biometrics is huge, and the whole reason facial recognition is the biometric people pick on is because it is the easiest for laypeople to grasp.

This is article is nearly obsolete fear propaganda. We're getting wise to this crap, as the fear card is being played far too often, it's become the boy who cried wolf.
We could call it "council housing". We could even observe that, left to the free market, housebuilding can become unacceptably cramped and poor quality, and decide to raise the minimum standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Morris_Committee
No, sMPC is seen as different from FHE (Fully Homomorphic Encryption).
Some protocols utilize the partially homomorphic qualities of certain cryptosystems, e.g. Paillier for additive homomorphism.

I view both of these things as methods to perform secure computation on encrypted data. sMPC has a lot of applied research behind it while FHE has been mostly theoretical up until a decade ago. I think we'll see FHE catch up with sMPC soon here as there are technical limitations to sMPC systems that FHE doesn't have.
There doesn't seem to be the political will to do what is necessary. House building is up but its nowhere near where it needs to be to remove that constraint.
From that article:

>Imagine Keynes was really a highlander and was still alive and at the height of his intellectual powers. Who would it be more beneficial to read, the 1936 Keynes or the 2010 Keynes?

The "at the height of his intellectual powers" is sort of begging the question.

Imagine Paul McCartney was still alive and active. Who would it be more beneficial to listen to, the 1967 McCartney of The Beatles, or the 2018 McCartney?
Amazon pays no taxes? Got this from the introduction.
True, yet they stuck to it for years despite widespread resistance and mockery. This will not be forgotten so easily.
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