skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's gone, it means that have received a warrant.

That's the whole point of the warrant canary.
SpiderOak tweeted three days ago [1] that it's replacing the warrant canary with a transparency report that'd be updated every six months.

This is what the tweet said/says: [1]

"We just released our most recent transparency report, available at https://spideroak.com/transparency/ . This will replace our #warrantcanary. The final version of the canary is available at https://spideroak.com/canary . The transparency report will be updated every six months."

The transparency report, updated a few days ago this month, shows zeros for every kind of request, which means there haven't been any kind of court orders for information from February to August 2018. [2]

Are there still reasons to be concerned? I don't understand how they can list NSLs in the transparency report, since those are the ones with the gag orders necessitating legally confounding workarounds like a warrant canary.

[1]: https://twitter.com/SpiderOak/status/1025488889564327936

[2]: https://spideroak.com/transparency/
Google removes, filters, and sets the page rank of content all of the time.

If a search result doesn’t appear on the first page, statistically it may as well not exist.
There are different intepretations or definitions of what is decentralized. For example, Vitalik defines the concwpts in a different way https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentrali...
Is someone who uses Twitter a twit?

Silly names that mean things in different places don't seem to deter Americans (I'm a Brit but I've never heard the slang "toot" before; I guess it might be very regional)
USB n-key rollover keyboards avoid that issue by looking like several keyboards to the OS, I think.
Slightly off-topic but I wanted to ask why and when did you start studying CS after law.

I recently graduated from law school and now am an intern at a law firm. I have a strong interest for CS, and it bothered me for a long time that I went to law school instead of CS.

I'v overcome those feelings over the years and dedicated myself to become a lawyer. But your post caught my interest.

I'd be glad if you could share some of the story behind you studying cs after getting your law degree.
Ask HN: Should I join a startup that will match my salary
I am being offered to join a startup (post angel round, pre series A). This startup is offering to match my (slightly above market) salary.

They are taking the product into an overseas market and creating a child company there. I'd be a key member in leading these efforts (from marketing and sales to product development). Some aspects of the product (including the main business model) will be changed to adopt to the new market so in some ways it will be like starting from ground 0 which, needless to say, comes with it's risks.

I'm being offered my current salary. I can use parts of or all of it to buy parent startup shares at approx 17% discount. I can at a later date exchange those shares for child company stock once an official valuation is available (e.g. after an angel round). Initially I'd be capped to not be able to own more than 10% of this child company.

The offer sounded a little convoluted at first but on the surface it appears that between my current situation and what I'm being offered the only monetary advantage is the ability to purchase the startup's stock at 17% discount and later being able to exchange it for a new child startup that I'll be a part of.

Is this a worthwhile offer? Thoughts/opinions appreciated.
I agree that by reading I can more quickly understand some things but I try to balance my time by setting aside large blocks of time for thinking about my own philosophy.

I have never spent much time reading this Less Wrong web site but recently I did buy the 50 hour Audible book ‘Rationality: from AI to Zombies’ to list too when working in the kitchen, etc.
Except you don't look at regulations to judge whether immigration is high. You look at the numbers for actual inflows of people and compare to the past. Certainly for eg. the UK the numbers for recent years are sky high compared to decades ago, so to claim that "immigration is restricted look at the requirements" is to ignore empirical reality.
This mind corrupting comment induced me to find the closest McDonalds and eat there though.
> In fact the term "common carrier" was invented to describe an earlier wave of technology companies.

I mean, common carrier was applied to telecommunications services that acted as dumb pipes, carrying other people's content. Seeing as iTunes doesn't not host podcasts themselves and acts also as a editorial platform, it seems hard to say that Apple / iTunes is a common carrier (especially when the FCC, incorrectly IMHO, declared that broadband ISPs are not common carriers). Of course it gets even more complicated when these tech companies run actual news products, like Apple News.

> Right now tech firms seem to be trying to have it both ways.

Honestly, this is the main problem. We don't have good ways to deal with the roles and responsibilities of tech companies. Our old laws were made in 'simpler times' and can be awkward to apply to newer companies and the internet in general.

Side note, I found this on the wiki: In certain U.S. states, amusement parks that operate roller coasters and comparable rides have been found to be common carriers; a famous example is Disneyland.
You are missing the point. Once you are free of space time there is no gravity holding you to the surface of the planet, therefore staying on the surface of the planet requires a propulsion system and tremendous navigational skills. “Stay where you are” is only easy when you have the help of gravity, and it’s alwsys an illusion. At no point do you ever stay where you are.
Toad Modeler for modelling.
Handles defered constraints, inheritance, keys etc.
Very scriptable tho the scripting IDE isn't great.
poking through google cache (blocked here too), sounds like they overly aggressively block spam sources.
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Only because I don't yet see it mentioned, the one emerging field to rule them all: program synthesis. :P
Deep Video Portraits - https://web.stanford.edu/~zollhoef/papers/SG2018_DeepVideo/p...

DeepFake Creation Tools - https://voat.co/v/DeepFake/2405562

Adobe Voco = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Voco
plentiful and clean, yes.
90% of the taxi drivers I had were horrible though up until a few years ago.

Sure, anecdata, but to this day I'm wary of using taxis because the majority of taxi drivers I had were either rambling and shouting, going 80 on a 50 road, or downright driving recklessly.
Exactly. It's perfectly fine to exclude content from the iTunes store. Apple have always banned porn in the iTunes/App store, and very few have complained about that.... Not that I would like a PornHub app for my AppleTV.

What I wouldn't like is Apple parsing the podcast feeds I enter into iTunes and potentially block me from adding certain feeds. That should be non of their business.
More likely: centralisation has its pros and cons, as does decentralisation. There will always be some forces pushing towards centralisation, and other forces pushing towards decentralisation. The further we move towards one, the greater the push will be towards the other.
FWIW I've lived in England my whole life and never heard a fart referred to as a "toot". The only meaning I'm aware of is "toot[ing] a horn", meaning sounding the horn on a car ("honk" in US English). That seems appropriate in the context of Mastodon.
As well as the CLI tool the repository contains code for a server to listen for pushes to repositories in github via webhooks and write any violations found into elasticsearch.
Which is a real shame since one of the points of learning history is to understand why things happened and how very different things can be from our own times and cultures. It is good to go through the uncomfortable bits, since those are the most difficult to understand, and the most rewarding. I sometimes think that the difference between one culture through time is larger than the difference in culture between two different countries now.

It is good to understand the most different things, either to avoid them and their root cause, or to adopt the things people in history have done better than us. History repeats itself :D
I'm the same. I often feel like my brain is a Pentium ii (256Mhz) processor and my peers have a modern 2.8Ghz processor. They seem to grasp things so much quicker. I can't but I do have the confidence that given enough time I'll figure it out.
The youtube clip in the article? The voice reconstruction there is from high speed video. If you mean some other video, I'd appreciate a link.
It would be cool if this could show what the Earth would look like in the future too.
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Absolutely no idea, but I'd love to see this if so.

There are numerous specialised atlases and globes. I've never run across a generalised mapping engine and dataset like this.

Wikipedia / Wikimedia have a number of map sets, that might be a place to start your search.

Great question.
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Great in theory, in practice, channels like infowars are using irrational arguments and keep using them; you'll never see the rational counter arguments in their broadcasts.

I mean to bring up facism again, there were valid rational counter-arguments to the nazi's arguments, but because they owned the media nobody saw them and those that published them were squashed.

Same thing is still happening all over the place.
Yup, that's what I was referring to.
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There is some more information in this reddit thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/94r6w6/how_i_s...
Any field that isn't being outsourced (yet).
Here's an archived copy:

https://archive.is/WpAhA
These cities? Copenhagen is nothing like Hong Kong. The only similarity is... it's not the US. I guess that's how you view the world.
I didn't know who John Holmes was. Don't google it at work guys.
This opinion piece is a response to a right-wing campaign to get Jeong fired from the NYT.
i felt that with age it took me more and more time to feel that i understood something. At first i thought it was age, but whenever i compare with younger colleagues, i realize it's often that i have higher standards for what "understanding" means. Whenever you've had the experience of realizing how much more complex something that looked simple was, you start to look at every problem with much more care.

That may makes me look like a a "slow" person or someone a bit thick, but then i often come up with interesting questions that makes everyone realize they didn't understand the problem as well as they thought.
For computer vision without context (2D images standing alone), we have some nice solutions already, but I think that as long as we keep using the same methods, it will be insufficient for many purposes. Because the truth is that projection of images to a square, 2D grid, and given the complexity of lighting, put us at a situation where we have insufficient information.

And we are already seeing this being heavily developed in autonomous driving systems and others, but I feel like the biggest computer vision applications will require much more information than a 2d image can offer. Instead, recognising objects when you have 3d information seems much more reasonable to me.
This is a I believe a common sentiment in post-communist countries, esp. for anyone working for the state/city/municipality. It's normal for people to take a one or two hour break to go shop for groceries, or even leave at noon if they don't feel like working longer. There is even a common saying in ex-yu countries: “They can never pay me so little that I can't do even less work.” (sorry for the bad translation).
Hanlons Razor is often appropriate, but I'm not sure it is in the case of history teaching. Teachers don't teach an incorrect or skewed version of history because they are "dumb". They either do it because the want to impart certain ideas and values to the students, or because they genuinely believe this is a appropriate view of history, which just pushes the question one level back - because who then taught the teacher the skewed version of history?
Debouncing shouldn’t add any latency. If a mechanical keyboard sold at a price premium adds latency for “denouncing” someone got ripped off.
>However nowadays people ditched their desktop computer/node for an iphone, and ISP upload speeds are in most places pretty bad. I think this has crippled p2p services and made centralization more convenient

Most people were on dialup in Napster's heyday, so I don't think that can be the issue. Music files are small.
The marketing screenshot is quite misleading. Most of the websites out there already have favicons. At least my chrome window looks nothing like the one presented there.
There used to be a browser plugin that allowed users of the plugin to register comments on parts of web pages.

In general I like the idea behind the article, of enriching content by allowing readers to add links, but in practice this opens the door for spammers.
it is harder for him to get new listeners unless the current ones spread the message. By delisting Apple is, in my mind, censoring him.
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This is outrageous.

Jeong wrote horrible things about people based on only their skin color. There is NO excuse for such behavior. It is as racist as can be.

Further: Conservative African-American commentator Candace Owens (of #walkaway fame) substituted other races into Jeong's comments and posted them on Twitter. Twitter suspended her account. Of course Twitter found the comments racist-- anybody would.

The NYT has jumped the shark. This is over the line.
Movies in 3D might not be accessible to everyone, but that doesn't mean it should be accessible noone. I agree to your general point, but not this specific one.
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Worked in a company making internet scams.

My first project was an 'X-Ray': for a fee user could upload a photo of person and see them naked. The website just applied a picture of naked body to the uploaded face. We collected all of the resulting pictures and displayed them in a slideshow on a TV in the office for laughs.

The big project was 'download anything'. We had an affiliate program where partners were driving traffic to us and received 70% of profit. All the traffic was coming with ?search=keyword URL parameter and our landing page looked like a file sharing website with search results for 'keyword'. It was 2012, downloading shit from file shares was a big thing these days. Depending on the USER_AGENT, the visitor downloaded keyword.exe or keywork.apk. On Windows, it was an 'installer' that asked user to send an SMS to premium number in order to 'activate the download'. On Android, it was an app that just sent the premium SMS by itself — easy money!

We had a lot of fun and profit doing that, and I left that job not because of guilt, but because I burned out. Only after I left I was able to look at it from a different perspective.
Agreed. CS is the study of translating human needs into formal systems. In a way, it's "applied philosophy".

I think taking CS and "bouncing it off" of other disciplines is where the real magic happens.
Ooh I'll check this book out once I get through the pile of stuff I have right now.

And as you noted there definitely is a lot of "magic" when it comes to the inner workings of theorem proving tactics. I'm slowly figuring all of that out but like you said it definitely takes time and digging at the moment.
They have a monopoly on phones with non-licensable operating systems preinstalled. You can thank the EU for that definition.
Money is a form of power, sure. There are different forms of power as well, not all of which can (realistically) be bought. Try purchasing serious weaponry for example (let's say a dozen tanks or fighter jets) and you will quickly discover that money is not enough.
In the logical extreme that can't be the case, because a fully debugged program plus a machine to run it on actually satisfy the definition of a formal specification. Deciding what you want your program to do is the eternal burden of programming, but maybe there's a way to make formal specification at least as easy as regular programming.
There are philosophical differences and practical differences. They are trying to build an AI scientist ground-up (love it). I would like to optimise for front-line use cases in a lean, user-driven manner. The common denominator technologically is knowledge extraction (text to subject-predicate-object triples), ontological mapping (e.g, these relationships express the same thing, these references are synonyms of this compound, etc.), and reasoning (comes free once you have information properly extracted and mapped with a schema in place thanks to knowledge graph implementations such as GraKn).

Practically speaking: Aristo takes questions in unstructured text, and answers in unstructured text. I'm interested in providing mechanistic queries and comprehensive, highly-structured result sets.

For a question such as, "what are the biological consequences of increasing the activity of molecule A", I want tabular and filterable results (where the number of rows depends on the volume of underlying data and the degrees of separation you carry the inference to). For this reason (alongside their current limitation to elementary science) I argue that Aristo is not currently a relevant resource for researchers and students looking to query and survey biomedical relationships.

The solution I'm aiming at takes a structured query and returns structured results. E.g, a query: [entity: molecule A, direction: increase] generates a list of direct and inferred consequences. It is more like a logic-driven search engine over structured information than it is a question answering system.
Then they've just given some new upstart room to enter the market by hosting the denied person.

It's funny to call an industry that didn't even exist 20 years ago an oligopoly. The industry leader of 20 years from now may not even exist yet.
I thought this could have really done with an explanation of how the process worked. Did it take a long time to develop the photographs? What were the exposure times? How many copies could you make? How stable are the photographs [to be fair this was sort of addressed at the end]?
> - Mark the North and South poles.

I find it easy to tell where the poles are - that's where the cloud texture gets visibly broken :).
I'm not sure if this will be relevant to its longer-term success, but I notice that the word "Mastodon" seems to be very easy to misspell -- In the comments here alone I already find "Mastadon", "Mastadoon", etc.
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I don't think anyone questioned that companies are publishing stuff as open source.

The point is they're "advertising" compatibility to draw customers but putting the weight on the projects' shoulders to deliver glue code/bindings/whatever.
Yes, IoT is great when you can DIY. But when you need to send a technician 2-4 times a year for each node... it’s a problem, not a business.
How to Optimize the Scalability and Performance of a Multi-Core Operating System
My thoughts exactly.

The post references a StackExchange question [1] which has a simple analysis, and four helpful suggestions (similar to yours), as to which the author states:

"I tried the first suggestion, but the results weren't promising. As experimenting with each suggestion could easily take at least half a day, I proceeded with a way I knew would work efficiently and reliably"
You can configure your client to ignore comments unless they’re verified by [authority you trust]. Verification would happen cryptographically; like the GPG web of trust. It’s up to you to choose which moderators you subsrcibe to, if any.
The speed of sound is a constant, so I'm sure the brain filters it out.

What you can hear are changes in latency which get added to the constant time the signal travels to the brain.
But it did help there, as I already pointed out and you ignored twice.
Yes, I think in the case of Apple specifically you're right, I added an addendum to my post above clarifying that I'm making a more general argument now.

If Apple had done this in isolation I don't think anyone would care. As part of a trend that seems to be affecting most companies based in the bay area, it is far more worthy of analysis and discussion as part of that trend.
Teachers teach the curriculum they are assigned, that is all. The only variation is in private schools that do not conform to State and Federal curriculum standards by default. In public schools, teachers do not decide what they teach. Standardized testing guarantees that teachers stick to the script also.
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Debouncing does add latency how much is dependent on the switch and matrix type as well as the controller.

Debouncing isn't limited to keyboards this is a concept in electronic switching.

http://www.labbookpages.co.uk/electronics/debounce.html

The method of debouncing (software, hardware or both) as well as the "debounce" window which can be set beyond a certain base limit to an arbitrary value has an impact on latency.

"Gaming" keyboards that tend to push the limit of what is acceptable for debouncing like the first generation Razer ones have had issues with keys registering multiple times for a single press.

Most current keyboards don't use the first "drop" as a keypress and usually count 2-3 drops depending on the switch type, and then also have their window set for key repeat if the key is still pressed which then adds additional latency.

Heck even with "normal" keyboards you can sometimes see this in action while keeping a key pressed you might notice that the repeat typing is sometimes jittery that is usually the debouncing in action.

The reason why mechanical switches can be worse off than membrane is because of how the electrical contact is made.
This is indeed known in the psychological practice in general (it's called "processing speed"), but most lay people aren't aware of it. Ask your friends if they ever got a professional IQ score and if they got the the different scores you describe. You tend to see it with people whose parents notice a high intelligence with learning difficulty and fight for thorough diagnostic testing and educational services.

Common tests don't explicitly measure it, but the test design either implicitly demands processing speed (timed tests, or rapidly spoken prompts/questions) or avoid it.
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Also check out the related ModuleInterface library (https://github.com/fredilarsen/ModuleInterface) that lets devices declare their contracts for settings, outputs and inputs and a master that synchronizes these between modules and to and from a web server / database.

It does data logging and storage to a database for trending and/or analysis, as well as configuration in a web page.

It uses PJON as transport, so it can run on one or multiple of the supported media, for example a SoftwareBitBang bus between worker devices, with a router that connects them via UDP to a master process on Linux. Or any other combination.
Before you receive a NSL, you do not have any gag orders. It is the gag order that prevents publication; not the law.

So you can legally say you’ve received no NSLs; until you get a NSL.
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Curious what people's views are on e-readers here at HN? Personally, I've tried to adopt an e-reader over many years. The convenience of having 100s of books without the weight is great. Being able to read in a dark room as well. However, the feel of a real book I think still wins out over any advantages of an e-reader.

Also my informal and anecdotal survey of how people use technology - mainly on the NYC subway - doesn't really bring to mind many people reading on e-readers. It usually a real book.