skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What hosting is acceptable for your privacy wishes? Given that "a contracted party sees plaintext" is apparently the issue, the following clearly are not ok:

a) any SaaS

b) any of the cloud providers when their load-balancing offerings are used in HTTP mode (e.g. Amazon ELB)

c) any traditional "shared" hosting company

Are VPSes trustworthy enough, or does it have to be dedicated hardware? Dedicated hardware under direct control of the company only? And how many companies run those, vs setups falling under a-c) above?

I see people make comments like this all the time when it is about Cloudflare, but somehow very seldom if it's about Amazon AWS, Shopify, ..., despite the same caveats applying to those, and it being widely accepted that third-party processing is fine if for a clear purpose and under proper contracts.
From what I can see in this article, they respect the privacy of DEFCON attendees more than the US.
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I don't get it. Why did Kelly's parents not just stop paying her phone bills and change the Wifi password? Heck, why not just take the phone away and replace it with a flip-phone? How hard can it be to nip these kinds of issues in the butt with simple pragmatic solutions? This is not a rhetorical question. I will be parent soon and stories like these, terrify me.
It's the ubiquitousness that was missing in the past. It's come to a point where it's considered socially regressive to not give your middle-school aged child a 24/7 communications device laden with apps engineered with the same addictiveness principles of slot machines.

We have burdened young humans, whose mental abilities are not fully developed, with a self-image permanently detached from interpersonal relationships. There is hard data on this[0][1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcBJ2bQ4HHE
[1] www.amazon.com/iGen-Super-Connected-Rebellious-Happy-Adulthood/dp/1501151983
Lack of scepticism, if anything.
Atleast part of the cloud service is open source (mozilla's side) and they are still planning to open source them. Until evidence of the contrary surfaces I do believe Mozilla when they say that.
I think you are expecting the term 'validity' to mean more than what it technically means to people in philosophy, which is that it 'adheres to the form of either Modus Ponens or Modus Tollens'. Colloquially it has come to mean more like what soundness means, which is valid but also with true premises.
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A hostile nation targeted our elections in 2016. We know that much.

In February, the NY Times writes, "The Justice Department charged 13 Russians and three companies on Friday in a sprawling indictment that unveiled a sophisticated network designed to subvert the 2016 election" [1]

OK, so Russia had this expensive, sophisticated operation to influence the election. It wasn't a half-assed effort.

So why wouldn't this operation include attacking voting machines? Especially if the machines are vulnerable and virtually unprotected?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/us/politics/russians-indi...
It's hard to recommend something if we don't really know your level of knowledge so far.

I wholeheartedly recommend the fast.ai [0] course. It provides a lot of instantly applicable code, coupled with very good explanations which you can try out on novel problems later. It's focused on "learning by doing", and not "learning by reading" which fits my style really well.

That said, it doesn't dissuade the watcher from reading later, it's just not recommended to start out with.

[0]: course.fast.ai
From an American POV, your nuclear program is modern and well run. America's nuclear program is pretty embarrassing in comparison. Even older tech, well past expiration heavily reliant on government subsidies.
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You should be able to walk up to a vending machine with a face mask on. That's a more apt analogy.
He plans to shove all those small shareholders into another fund, call it "Tesla Investors".

Tesla Investors then holds all those shares that the individual shareholders once held --> one shareholder, plus some big shareholders in Tesla.

And the many small shareholders aren't technically shareholders in Tesla anymore, but in Tesla Investors, which distributes its Tesla dividends among the small investors.

Matt Levine highly doubts that this obvious circumvention of securities law can fly, and so do I.

Elon Musk is basically dreaming up cool "hacks" in his mind, but he has no clue about the law. It is improbably that he can pull something like this off.
> No. We have never observed a star become a red giant.

I never actually claimed that we have seen a star become a red giant, but that we have made observations that allow us to conclude that some stars become red giants.

Perhaps you can enlighten me on what explanatory theory is. Does explanatory theory make use of observation? Because based on the the wiki page for inductive reasoning, if you use observations for evidence, then you are using inductive reasoning to some capacity.

> Going into detail on how that process works is a little too long for an HN comment.

We don't have to get into details on the star life-cycle and I get why there are issues with inductive reasoning regarding certainty. I am just trying to understand what you consider inductive reasoning to be, given that I think you used inductive reasoning to call inductive reasoning invalid.
Related Party Transactions in ETH?
2990WX has a very complex NUMA architecture that costs it a lot of performance if the scheduler doesn't get things right. Linux has been running on and has been heavily optimized for even more complex NUMA systems.
Congress recently failed to pass a bill which would add election security funding, so we know where they stand.
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> My $100,- Motorola Moto C plus is great but I can't remove the Google search box from my home screen for example.

I isnt googles fault. Ive not seen any naked android release where the user is forced to use the google search box from home screen or not able to remove it. Thats some 3rd party layer.
Oli here from the team developing Memex.

thanks for speaking my mind here :)

We built Memex for that combination of use cases in mind.
So right now you can already full-text search your bookmarks, and filter by time, domain and tags. Already on the mid-term roadmap we plan to enable full-html/text snapshots of visited pages, both locally and on-demand. For the latter we are potentially working with the Internet Archive.
it's missing the images :(
>The problem with middleboxes and TLS v1.3 wasn't that IT can see you're on Google, it's that you go to Google and get a grey page that says LOL_SSL_ERROR.

More like, everybody is offline as the middlebox crashed. Which is how it should be: Garbage in the network path should be highlighted and removed.
Three buses come along at once. Which should you take?
As others have said, also its sequel Rule 34. It's been a while since I read these, but I don't recall anything in there that jumped out at me as "you can't get there from here."

There was originally supposed to be a third novel in this series, but Stross cancelled it[0] after Edward Snowden.

"Halting State" wasn't intended to be predictive when I started writing it in 2006. Trouble is, about the only parts that haven't happened yet are Scottish Independence and the use of actual quantum computers for cracking public key encryption (and there's a big fat question mark over the latter—what else are the NSA up to?).

I'm throwing in the towel. I probably will write another near-future Scottish police procedural by and by, but it won't be a sequel to the first two except in the loosest sense. The science fictional universe of "Halting State" and "Rule 34" is teetering on the edge of turning into reality. Meanwhile, the financial crisis of 2007 forced me back to the drawing board for "Rule 34"; the Snowden revelations have systematically trashed all my ideas for the third book.

[0] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/psa-why-...
Classic instance of a technical solution to a people problem. Even if you change the WIFI password, most phone plans come with a data plan. Trying to engineer a technical solution just punts the people problem down the road - you have to address it at some point.

And in the article, they mention that the defining event was when the parents went to take the phone away. So they did try to take the phone away.
Try playing with acceleration factor in your OS / DE settings.

I used to have trackpoint send the cursor across the screen pretty efficiently when pressed harder, while keeping it quite reasonably accurate when pressed gently.

The same applies to mice, but the threshold(s) for a trackpoint differ(s) from mouse's, so it pays to tweak it until you're comfortable.
"Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" by Christopher Bishop.
As someone who sees it constantly on sites using Cloudflare....

Tails doesn't work for this.

Tor Browser Bundle does.

Correct?
Graphene can be used to detect molecules in the air which has applications in air pollution monitoring.
https://phys.org/news/2016-04-graphene-based-sensor-air-poll...
> The baseline percentage of the population which experience depression (and other mental illness) each year is known to be pretty high -- and highest in for people in their 20's. One third sounds fairly normal; at any rate, there is a burden here to show that this is an exceptional proportion.

There has been a study in Belgium that showed that Grad students had a relative risk of psychological disorder scored according to a questionnaire used to decide whether psychological/psychiatric care is needed were about 5x times more at risk than the general population, even when matched for the age, education attainment and several other known common confounding factors for mental health disorders. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004873331...

> If you are starting from an undergraduate degree, you probably need at least two years to take the PhD intro classes. One year to start a research program might work in a subject like the author's where your papers are chats about social implications, but there are plenty of subjects where even the data collection is going to take longer than that.

In Germany, you need a master's to start a PhD, as such your classes load is minimal...

> Being a professor is only one possible goal and for some fields, it isn't even the primary one.

Not according to the professors mentoring you. That's changing, but the normal consideration is that if you are not on a tenure track, you are a failure. If you acknowledge it, quite often you will lose the support of your PI and your peers.
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2x core count hardly ever offers anywhere near a 100% performance gain, even across Intel's lineup [1]. Very few workloads are that parallelizeable, and almost everything (from the program to the OS to the CPU itself) introduces some form of overhead when running in parallel.

[1] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Core-i9-7960X-vs-...
You're missing the point - it's not the physical device that the parents are fighting, it's what the device is doing to the child. They took it away and she threatened to kill herself.

This story, for you (as a soon to be parent) and for me (a new parent) might be great timing - it certainly makes me never want to get my child a cell phone that could even start them down this path.
What's special about Tor Browser Bundle? What would I need to configure to use it with another browser?
2018 ... im too lazy to input a captcha

dear lord, the how many other things are you too lazy to do
I'll bet using potatoes does makes the the question harder for people. However simple the math, it runs up against the intuition "potatoes are full of starchy solids, I'll bet lowering their water weight one point wouldn't be that noticeable a change". Heck, I'll bet this is made harder by exposure to baked potatoes. The actual study on water loss via baking potatoes is paywalled, sadly, but discussion on some fitness forums says that there's a >5% weight loss from baking - which would constitute a 1-point change in water weight.

Still an interesting question, but it feels a bit cheap to invoke a physical intuition that's completely irrelevant.
Oscar Wilde: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/10/25/comma/
"It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."
Russia also apparently interpreted the tweet as encouragement to illegally hack into messages by a former Secretary of State, because they were encouraged to attempt to illegally hack into messages by a former Secretary of State:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/13/russians-hil...

It's a fact that Trump made the request to the russians, and it's a fact that the russians interpreted the request as a request.
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I use Firefox Quantum 61.0 too on my mid-2014 MacBook Air. The numbers are very close to the ones in the blog.

Safari performed well in this test. Firefox's JS performance and Chrome's WASM performance seem to be abysmal.

Firefox 61.0
WASM: ~21fps, JS: ~2.2fps

Chrome 68.0
WASM: ~14fps, JS: ~5fps

Safari 11.1.2
WASM: ~23fps, JS: ~6fps
>I'm sure they'll be happy to turn it off.

They'd turn it off if the alternative was to be offline because the middlebox crashes a second after power on.
You must realize that what you're saying is an argument for better targeted ads. If you don't, I don't know how to help you see it.
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Somewhat - parents want to act and help but it's hard when the technology geared towards kids is creating problems parents don't yet know how to face.

This is new grounds so I wouldn't dismiss the problem as simple scapegoating but rather parents need to understand why and how this technology is affecting their kids.
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Quality of comments.
And they were right each time.
> Without consent, Google’s code had downloaded a black box of code that – according to itself – had turned on the microphone and was actively listening to your room.

In my world that means chrome would be able to do that; not that is actually listen/recording/uploading stuff all the time. Thats what the image popup says, at least.
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That's fair - technology limits will vary place to place.
I would think that something like RCV would be best done in a single pass though, so you have all the information up front. But of course I've never tried to implement it! My initial though was it was approx 5x actual counts, but that's far less than 5x labor because you only do the logistical parts once. So I was thinking you could do it with about 2x the labor total, which sounds achievable.

Personally I'm a fan of just committing to doing it by hand and accepting the cost in exchange for robustness against many types of manipulation. The problem is your argument works the other way also, the easier/cheaper it is to tally the votes due to reduced labor and # of people involved, the higher the risk of significant interference, imo.
Translated from French of course and most likely trying to keep to its idiomatic French flavour it comes out a bit of verbose. :-)
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All I know about "My Little Pony" is that it is a cartoon based on a line of toys, is written for little girls, has been around for a long time, for some reason attracts a lot of adult male fans (called "bronies"), and HN user nickthemagician suggested that a blogger using an MLP avatar lost credibility and HN user tern delivered the perfect response that I'm still chuckling over 5 years later [1].

A bit of Googling turned up a video on the evolution of the MLP theme from 1984-2014 [2], and contained therein was the G4 theme. But also in there or in the subsequent Googling it inspired I learned 3 other interesting things:

1. Some of the earlier themes would probably be more cutely annoying than G4 for this application,

2. Sandy Duncan and Tony Randall were voice actors in the earliest MLP stories in 1984. They were both pretty well established, critically and popularly acclaimed, actors. I would not have expected such big names in this kind of cartoon in 1984.

3. That's nothing...the 1986 movie had Randall, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Madeline Kahn, and Cloris Leachman. Either I'm totally misremembering the state of animation in 1986, or MLP was a way bigger deal then I remember.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6042590

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vI3YypGhnA
Sorry, I didn't intend to start any flame war, I didn't respond in any comments by the way.

It's just always so surprising to find that someone could have such rigid requirements for a relationship, and one of them being daily prayers (which sounds rather outdated for most younger westerners).

I've never encountered that in my european life (more so by magazines editorialists that are usually not very conservative here, although I'm not sure how the nytimes rates on the spectrum), and it's always surprising to me to see that such criterias are enforced and seem normal to everyone, even in upper strates of society, with good access to culture and education (which would be here the most adverse to religion). And yes, I think this whole phenomenon is rather specific to the USA. Even in Greece where many people are pious for example, daily prayers are very specific and active part of one's spiritual life, and I don't meet many people with that level of dedication to faith. It just seems oddly ... scholarly ? Like ticking boxes, as if daily prayer was of any spiritual worth in itself.

I didn't emit any judgment though, everyone is free to believe whatever they want.

Is it alright if expressed that way ? Can you unban my comment ?

Obviously it's not my native language that's why I rather don't engage in long explanations, so sorry if I offended anyone.
Not in all states. I haven't had to do it in 20 years.
It's even worse: Tor protects only the source IP address, while leaving personally identifiable information like login, email, credit card numbers, browser configuration, screen resolution etc untouched.

An analogy? Being required to show you passport to use a vending machine.
So far I have taken one introductory class on AI in general, but it did not cover machine learning. I took one class on machine learning, but I only grasped the basics of several algorithms from the class. These classes, and the textbook I've partially completed, are the extent of my knowledge.

Thank you for that suggestion.
It's not even incorporating in California, merely having your headquarters there will cause your company to be burdened by this law.
Why does Lenovo persist with the Quadro GPUs? None of their workstation models have the option for a GTX 10-series. I recently bought a gaming laptop (not a gamer) so I could have the GPU power for ML. Surely there's a big enough market for this to warrant a ThinkPad option by now?
Well, besides misspelling my name, you did not even stop to consider what I wrote before engaging in trying to spot a Russian national behind the post.

To understand why people “support” the current government, you have to understand what they have been through. 90s have not been kind to the average “Joe” (Ivan?) in Russia (or most of the non-EU former Soviet Union countries). From bad economical prospects to collapsing healthcare/education/social protections, life really went bad for them. When police is more dangerous than the thugs that shake you down, your priorities change.

This is why I advised that you should get to know the people first, before you judge them evil. You’ll likely find a lack of imperialist or almost any ambitions above and beyond a safe, modestly plentiful life and some hope for their children to live just a bit better.

Just like I believe a good portion of those who have voted for the current administration in US are at heart decent people, who are either angry or somehow disenfranchised, so are most people around the world. You have to get to know them to understand what ills have motivated their choices. Walk a mile in their shoes as it were.
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No more costly than testing the web version on Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Opera.

They already use iBooks and Kindle. So they already decided to pay that cost for two specific ebook readers.
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+1 for computing some sort of normalization factors... here are some ideas:

N = number of API endpoints, then N/cloc would be something like efficiency (get more stuff done with less code)

M = number of lines of code for all code paths accesses during average day on PROD, then (cloc-M)/cloc would represent the "dead code" ratio---how much of your code base is not used

X(c1,c2) = an arbitrary function computed on the diff between commits c1 and c2

And all of the above can be run using some sort of rolling window from git init to today.
what California is doing is horrific

it is sickening and will lead to genocide

the people of California provoke genocide AT THEIR PERIL!!
I saw a headline a few weeks ago that American fast food had spread to <location> half a decade or a decade ago, and now obesity rates were way up in the past few years. There shouldn't be anything surprising about this - fast food is engineered and optimized to be as appealing/addictive as possible so that people come back for more, and likely breaks natural systems of recognizing fullness in the process. (Further side effects - zero optimization for human health; likely leads to pickier eaters, etc.)

In much the same way, tech optimizes for eyeballs and attention. Kids learning how to interact socially in person? Irrelevant. Constant advertising and status comparison driving users to depression? Doesn't matter, or can even be a positive if it drives engagement. There was an article on here just yesterday ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17745630 ) about how people spend so much time trying to one-up each other on social media, endlessly trying to make it look like their life is better or more fun than it actually is. And of course, even if it sucks a lot of the joy out of doing things, this is exactly what social media companies want.

This isn't a problem with psychology or tech, phones or apps. It'd a core feature of the capitalistic system we operate in, and it warps everything within it.
Did the Soviets collude? A statistical analysis of championship chess 1940–1978 [pdf]
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I built a document recommendation project as part of a course, wrote it in python using the term-frequency inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) formula. It's actually a pretty straight forward method for recommending similar documents based on content.

https://github.com/ElementalWarrior/LearningAnalytics
Sure, and one whose economics could be supported without made up rules about how to exchange information that can be copied for free. That is what I claim.

In other words, I believe artists and drug manufacturers alike would still find ways to fund important work even without intellectual property law or secrecy of information.
I tend to think of feature selection as being methods like LASSO that induce conceptual sparsity in the feature space; and use the label "dimensional reduction" for methods which reduce covariant dimensionality without inducing conceptual sparsity -- PCAing 100 features down to 3 principal components may or may not actually lend itself to a simpler interpretation but often it just susbstitutes the problem of labeling loaded principal components in lieu of the original problem.

Not disagreeing with you, just spitballing.