skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GV isn't truly independent. Best way to describe it is that multiple companies in Alphabet have access to Google's tech stack and resource manager. In the early days, I advised against GV trying to get its funded companies to GCP because it wasn't mature enough and I wanted the startups to just be successful, not be political statements about Google's cloud.

That changed over the past few years; now I would easily recommend that startups funded by GV use Google Cloud if they wanted to.
One of the major concerns of EU skeptics has always been the ability (and the gall) to push ambitious acts of centralized control by like-minded European leaders. And more likely that big players like Google/FB will just buy off protections from mega-regulators than actually be "reigned in" as it always happens
On the philosophical side, I recently published a paper which could potentially lead to a whole new genre: making actual scientific (=falsifiable) progress on the previously-ineffable question, "Do we live in a simulation?"

"A type of simulation which some experimental evidence suggests we don't live in" https://philpapers.org/archive/ALEATO-6.pdf
We've already asked you not to personally attack other users, so we've banned the account.
All-Optical Machine Learning Using Diffractive Deep Neural Networks
Star Trek movies are like if the Titanic had to fight off the combined fleets of all WW1 and WW2 powers.

There's a reason the ships get blown up.
none of the Asus z370 ones have it, and almost none of the z270 had it either.

Despite Ryzen AMD is still negligible as far as market share goes.
You can't regulate corruption, by definition
from a legal environment prospective for google, facebook etc. it's the combination of DMCA, neutrality, click wrap agreements, copyright law, patents law, Securities law etc that created the perfect legal environment for them to grow so fast. but, I'm not sure they influenced that law before they grew big.

So, let's call it favorable regulatory environment.

your in the right industry at the right time.
It's not a long document. Its just six pages in 30 minutes. There can be written counterproposal sometimes.

The point of the meeting is not to create new ideas or solve problems. Either the presenter has the solutions or ideas written down or not. Every meeting has a decision maker. The purpose of the meeting is there to make a decision at the end. If there are still open questions, then the decision-maker assigns one or more people to research, and the needed follow-up. At the end of the next meeting,
the decision is made.
Plus if you look at old Smalltalk systems they are nothing like the GUI used in the Lisa or Macintosh. The concepts (mouse, bitmapped display, menus, object-orientation, networking) were Xerox's but the implementation (pull down menus, icons, drag and drop) were Apple's.

(object-orientation and networking were two things Steve Jobs later said he wished he had taken to Apple, so instead made sure he used them in NeXT - hence Objective-C and the BSD layer in NeXTStep and now macOS)
I haven't, no, but I know there are initiatives in Process Mining that closely relate to knowledge graphs, etc. and
wouldn't be surprised if there are groups working on that.

I'm particularly working with the mining of plans (as in Automated Planning) in declarative process models. If I have a chance I'll look into it, thanks for the heads up
Even more, software development now involves an assumption of the average manager or customer that some extra feature can be added halfway through.

Is the customer going to be happy with "we've billed $X for a formal spec and that means that we can't make the change that you want, that seems simple without $Y dollars for changes to it and the code." Notice that software methodologies have gone the opposite direction here, with Extreme Programming basically aiming to make all of the programmer's activities revolve around exactly what and only what the customer has actually requested.
I think this is all about money really. EU lost the tech war so they try to make winners life so hard so that they could either squeeze more money from them or enforce some government supported - controlled inferior products to replace them. These may be the excuse key words: "protecting civil rights, hate speech, terrorism, privacy"
The argument to ban or regulate "facial recognition technology" seems futile. It's not (necessarily) some highly complicated secret software available to a limited number of organizations that could keep it under wraps - currently, any decent CS undergraduate student could make a passable facial recognition system as a study project if they really wanted to, using only generic, freely available image processing / machine learning resources (i.e. nothing specific to facial recognition that could be regulated or restricted). Sure, it won't be as good as state-of-art systems, and it will take enough time so they likely won't bother unless someone wants it bad enough to pay for a bunch of weeks of work, but it'll be sufficient for all the bad outcomes described in the article.

The barrier of entry is just too low. If a few pictures of your face are floating online, many people can make a system that will somewhat accurately try to detect your face; the best the regulation can do is to specify that organizations will not use facial recognition even if they trivially could.
After my law degree I worked for a year in a big international law firm (I didn't yet had my license, so I was a kind of trainee – similar to you position right now). I realised that there is a huge interest in technical solutions to make the work more efficient (often labeled as "Legal Tech"). But there was very little actual understanding of technologie, which I think is one of the reasons why there aren't yet many real world application which are really making a difference. That was when I decided to go back to university for a CS degree.

Some learnings so far:
1) I get great feedback for my decision from other lawyers, who are genereally very interested but not well versed in tech.
2) Legal Tech feels a bit overhyped right now, but eventually it will change the field drastically. Law firms need lawyers who have technical skills. And that doesn't necessarily mean a whole CS degree, some programming skills etc. will already do it.

I personally love tech that much that I don't want to go back to a law firm to practise law, but rather actually develop technology. But for you, if you want to become a lawyer, I can promise you that you will find a fertil ground for your interest. It soon will be one of the most sought after skills for law firms. So if you learn some programming (maybe you already know some), take some online courses (there are great resources for CS online), then the next time your law firm gets offered a (as magic advertised) ML tool or needs to implement a new tech solution which really influcences the workflow, you will be the star of the firm for being a critical but competent colleague. Or if you're starting your own law firm, I think there is great potential for a more automated workflow. In your position, I would be very glad for you CS interest – you in the right field and it is the right time for it!:)
> Mitstörerhaftung

Without knowing anything about what that is, I'm having a lot of trouble looking up anything about what that is. Most of the links about that seem to be in German, and the ones in English are talking about it too tangentially to get any meaning from context clues.
I'm gonna go one step further with the off-topicness. Do you get much of an opportunity working within law to focus on technology?

I'm about to go back to University to study law but I would love to be able to combine Law with technology. Seems like an interesting area.
Do you think others might also contribute good ideas if it were opened sooner rather than later?
Usenet died with Eternal September! RIP
All slaves had universal basic income Massa took care of absolutely every one of their basic needs even medical, housing and food.
Nikon teases full-frame mirrorless camera with a series of cool videos
Diffractive Deep Neural Network Identifies Objects at the Speed of Light
Touch of Evil: High-Assurance Cryptographic Hardware from Untrusted Components [pdf]
I don't know that we need to interpret the GP's post as moralizing. You can also interpret it as a simple statement of fact: History is usually written by those who were in power at the time, and that means that it doesn't typically include the opinions of those who weren't.

The common meme that the vast majority of people in the antebellum south thought slavery was OK is a great example of this. It doesn't even pass the smell test unless you either don't have a good sense of just how many people were enslaved at that time and place, or you don't think slaves count as people.

That isn't to say that the morals of the people dictating how society worked weren't different at the time, just that getting the phrasing right does matter.
It's unclear for that reason. In a straight forward sense, computational complexity has naturally been observed for as long as we've computed things.
You have too much fate on politicians and government regulations.
SpaceX set to re-fly a Block 5 rocket for the first time tonight
> /r/CasualUK

Another plug for this. Always get a laugh from there.
> FIDO U2F support

Sweet, although IIRC several of the email providers with 2FA (Gmail and Outlook come to mind) have the option of providing app-passwords instead, which bypass the need for a 2FA token.
Some real-life tests disagree, saying 10-15ms is roughly the minimal latency noticeable by musicians, while 20 for "normal humans".

Tests: http://whirlwindusa.com/support/tech-articles/opening-pandor...
Perhaps the reason why your Spanish was insufficient for his writings is that his writings are in Portuguese ;)

Here's his primary English writing on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general (not necessarily blockchain), sent to the SEC:
https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-batsbzx-2016-30/batsbzx20163...
I think so! The "Magic Planet" is a digital projection globe that can display all sorts of different datasets. I've been more interested in its planetary science, astronomy, and geology applications, but I believe they've got lots of political, cultural, and economic visualizations as well.

http://globalimagination.com/
It doesn't have to be misspelling. More likely it's forgetting which word it's supposed to be. I've only seen the word written/used in museums, so I'm unlikely to remember whether it's a mastadon, mastodon, matadon, etc.
I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing.
It even has a name - SARGable - able to use an index on the [S]earch [ARG]uments but still easy to get tripped up.

https://www.definitions.net/definition/sargable

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/799584/what-makes-a-sql-...
Agreed.

One of the next significant moments could be taking the current Dota 2 algorithm and massaging it to use human style inputs and outputs. Please correct if needed, but the current Dota 2 algorithm boils down to (1) a fully connected network that generates an input state vector from the Dota 2 bot output interface, (2) an LSTM of sufficient length that generates an output state vector from the input state vector, and (3) another fully connected network that generates the Dota 2 bot interface inputs from the output state vector. This could be updated to have (1a) a convolutional network that feeds into a fully connected network, where the input to the convolutional network is the frame buffer (and perhaps the audio output) and the output of the fully connected network is the input state vector, (2) the same or similar LSTM network, and (3a) a fully connected network that outputs keyboard and mouse commands instead of DotA 2 bot interface inputs.

It is an open question as to whether current compute power is sufficient for this massage.
>You cannot compare CDN with DNS

I didn't compare them.
It makes me wonder, is there a hard physical limit on what is possible for data storage density?

Hardrives are roughly 1Tb/in^2 in areal density right now. SSD's are a little better.

This one using hydrogen atoms is ~100x better.

Hydrogen atoms are pretty damn small. Aside from improvements with 2D packing factor, is this pretty much the limit?
Thanks! We've updated the link from https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/03/when-your-uber-driver-is...
Recent Results in Scalable Multi-Party Computation [pdf]
I am looking for a library that provides a blockchain, without needing a consensus mechanism. 50% of the the need is to gain experience and 50% is for a couple of light weight projects. I was hoping this was something I could try out but from the comments it looks like not. I use nodejs so extra points for that, but I am open to other alternatives. An example project would be to set up a local swap market, where users can swap appliances for swap-coins, then spend those for other appliances at a later time.
Someone's way ahead of you: https://github.com/jdenen/mastodon.el
If you don't mind me asking - whereabouts (geographically) are you based? I'm hoping to get into law after a couple of years working in technology but I haven't been able to find that much information online about the meeting point of law and technology and my searches haven't found me any communities for law similar to HN for technology.
I know all of this. The query was looking for everyday things that are more complicated than people expect.
Cleese's talks on this are good, personal faves, and have useful advice. But they're also oriented to a specific activity: developing comedic scripts. I'd be somewhat cautious in overgeneralising.

Again, not that there aren't useful concepts, and his anti-creativity measures strike me as valid.
One example of something you'd always like to verify is, "this code does not have undefined behavior". This could be the key to obtaining C speed without C's lack of safety. In fact, in some possibly-formalizable sense, it's probably the ONLY way to do that.
The idea seems very interesting to me, but I have to ask, people talk a lot about the social aspect and how I can follow people, this honestly doesn't interest me at all, what I'm interested at is aggregation, could I actually replace say twitter and my RSS reader with self-hosted Mastodon instance?
I enjoyed reading, your writing style is fun and engaging. JSYK though, you typo'd "nothign" in the second paragraph of "How does it work?"
Here's a question that crossed my mind: what if you ignore a gag order? You receive a secret court order to hand over data, and you tell them you're not giving it to them unless you're allowed to tell the world about it.

Will they give you a fine? And what if you don't pay the fine? Will they arrest you? And if they do, how can they prevent people from finding out about it?
Brains keep temporary records before making a lasting memory
I don't quite understand what is meant by "speed of light" here? Is that because they are using Photonic IC's? Even then, is it techically correct to use the term "Speed of Light"?
Can you elaborate why solar roof tiles need such intelligence, especially the secure part? I don't see what data they would need to hide.
Wow, did you downvote me for adding to the conversation? Here are sources that disagree with you and align with my previous comment. You should provide sources next time.

> A judge does not have to approve the NSL or an accompanying gag order.

https://www.eff.org/issues/national-security-letters/faq

> The letters come with a life-long gag order, so businesses that receive such letters are prohibited from revealing to anyone, including customers who may be under investigation, that the government has requested records of transactions.

https://www.wired.com/2010/08/nsl-gag-order-lifted/#ixzz0wcP...

> NSLs are almost exclusively served in secret alongside an indefinite gag order, which prevents anyone from disclosing the contents of the letter to anyone.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/national-security-letters-ever...

> Since the first national security letter (NSL) statute was passed in 1986 and then dramatically expanded under the USA PATRIOT Act, the FBI has issued hundreds of thousands of such letters seeking the private telecommunications and financial records of Americans without any prior approval from courts. In addition to this immense investigatory power, NSL statutes also permit the FBI to unilaterally gag recipients and prevent them from criticizing such actions publicly. This combination of powers — to investigate and to silence — has coalesced to permit the FBI to wield enormous power and to operate without meaningful checks, far from the watchful eyes of the judicial branch. Not surprisingly, this lack of checks has contributed to a dramatic expansion in the use of these tools across the country. Indeed, for the period between 2003 and 2006 alone, almost 200,000 requests for private customer information were sought pursuant to various NSL statutes.

https://www.eff.org/issues/national-security-letters
It's a general legal concept that is mostly famous in one application: people having open (non password-protected) WiFis were considered to have full liability if some user misused their WiFi breaking copyright laws.

The conservatives and social-democrats finally got around to kill this by law (although there are some fine details that are still not good), and the highest court basically affirmed this change, applying it even retroactively.

But grandparent is not proposing a coherent argument, he's just expressing his dislike for the conservative party.
Walking on a treadmill with your computer screen(s) at eye level is. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/04/technology/personaltech/t...
> How Powerful Your Social-Dating App Will Be?

> - Fake Profile Generator

Just as shady as I expected it to be
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound

It gives the maximum amount of data in space before collapsing into a black hole.
A few years back I was house hunting with my wife. We found a lovely house that was a short sale, and put in a bid.

Holy crap, that process was all kinds of frustrating and drawn out.

About 3 months after we placed the offer, the bank put the house up for auction on another site, to try and drum up more offered. On the auction day, I checked in routinely no one was bidding. All was looking great. About three hours before closing, a bid came in that was lower than our offer. OK, still good. Then another about an hour later. Still good. Then the "final hour" of the auction happened and it slowly but surely started ticking upwards, bids started trickling in and the price started climbing higher and higher. About 20 minutes before the end it got past our offer and my heart sank. As the end time drew near it started getting bumped out by further offers.

I told my wife we'd been outbid, after a stressful day, following on from months of stress and frustration.

Next day, our realtor reaches out to the selling realtor who reported that the bank told her no one else had actually bid on the house.

Yay.
We currently use a combo of JSONAPI + JSCON Schema validation and it is working well for us. We had to write a lot of tooling on both front and backend, and resolve a bunch of problems with expressing things like aggregated efficiently (If I want a count of a user's posts, I don't need all their posts, just count them for me) for complicated UIs, using things like metadata in the request. Our front end developers really like the consistency, and working on it from backend is very sane, despite having to think slightly more generally than normal in APIs. We looked into jsonschema-hyperschema but it didn't seem to quite express the constraints in the spec that we wish it did, though I'm unsure if that is still true with our current knowledge of the solution.

I will say I will strongly advocate away from APIs that are not in this fashion for all future projects. Having some of the consistencies granted by JSONAPI is wonderfully freeing.
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OSI network stacks. They were going to replace the 'old' Internet protocols.

Relational Databases, SQL and two phase commit.

Formal methods and verification.
I don't know if that is so, but as a solution "basic housing" may be required too then?
It's much more than that. If you believe what Assange wrote--or even if you don't--these American companies must comply with the legal (and not-so-legal) requests of our various surveillance apparati.

Having a foreign Google integrated into their web activities as much as we have a domestic Google integrated into ours is a threat to their own sovereignty.
Apple Removes Infowars from Podcast Directory
Doesn't matter. The moment the canary died, they became a compromised agent whose further statements are to be interpreted as being manipulated by secret court order.

If your canary dies, you can buy a new one, but you still have deadly gas in your mine. You can't trust the words or actions of someone who just declared they have been compromised.
Deploying Vault and Consul
This is an awesome resource, thank you.
Within a year or two, we will see grad-level courses at top CS programs in Chaos Engineering and SRE. Just as we've seen the addition of Distributed Systems classes in the past few years with introductions to Zookeeper, Paxos, BigTable, Raft and Spanner. There will be an explosion in academic work on the science of "failure-injection" methods ;)
Building a real time quant trading engine on gCloud Dataflow and Apache Beam
Queue tweets through telegram
Similar with rules to traffic, the rules are there for the cops to make some pocket money not not for our safety /s

I think is easy to see that you need to always had some new rules when someone finds a way to do harm to the society, I am sorry that the rules makes some billionaires have a few less billions.
Replacing react-intl with jsLingui
Analyzing 2018 World Cup match data with Clojure
I also did law at University instead of CS as I had originally planned. Completed a conversion MSc into computing last year and now work as a developer.

I'm intrigued at what you are referring to by the important questions in law, as they relate to CS algorithms?
> constrained housing supply

So make it unconstrained?
There is such a limit to areal density. The math involved dives into entropy and the planck length, but the short answer is that any information at a quantum level must be quantized in some form and the smallest possible quantization is the planck length squared, called the "planck area".

reference: https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/2283
Now comes the challenge of mass producing a reliable product.
Great work! How does this work? Do you map the subtitle timings?
I really like E/R Studio for modeling work. It is expensive, but I've not found a nicer tool to do it across multiple database platforms.

Their website shows they don't officially support the latest versions of PostgreSQL. It does work, but the menus haven't been updated for all the latest features. If you want to use syntax from a newer release, you'll need to do a SQL override until they update the tool.

Their team version keeps the metadata in a database, instead of a file. The locking/unlocking of individual tables is cumbersome. The metadata database doesn't support using PostgreSQL for storing the metadata. I tend to store the models in Git and use the built in model diff tool to do model merges.

ER Studio gets slow when you are north of 10k tables/views in a single model. As a work around, I use sub-models and do not touch the large master model. On a large main model, their visualization tool I believe tries to render all 10k tables. It starts taking 1-2 seconds between clicks. Smaller sub-models (1-2k) off that large main model do not have that issue.

The scripting extension for ER Studio is decent, not great, but significantly improved in the last few versions. It is close to being VBScript. Scripting makes updating really large models a breeze. I use it a lot for storage/index parameter parameter changes during hardware/software upgrades.