skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's basically this thing https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.everything....

embedded into the OS.
Because of an older version of python?!
thanks for this info! Much more detailed than the newspapers...
The speaker is consistent with the chapter on plane crashes in Malcom Gladwell's Outliers, which is a nice treatment of the science around this issue and the movement which led to hiring expat trainers in the first place. As the post's author mentions, inflexible thinking and failure to challenge authority was a fairly common theme in airline crashes of "high power-distance" cultures like Korea (and not low power-distance cultures like the US) for a good while, to the point that aviation authorities felt a need to do something about it.
We went from putting every ounce of labor into hunting/gathering/building shelter for oneself and one's family to early civilization where the surplus of resources generated by agriculture (i.e. technology) caused a labor surplus that allowed for new kinds of jobs to arise. More recently, the US went from 80% farmers at the time of the Revolution to 2% now. Along the way the definition of "low-level labor" and "skilled labor" changed; you'd be hard-pressed to get a job even at McDonald's or in a factory, if you're completely illiterate in modern America. It's hard to argue that these changes weren't for the better, for _everybody_, including those at the bottom of the new order. The bottom of society today is orders of magnitude better off than the middle of society in 1790, and we owe that pretty much entirely to technological advance. There are of course speed bumps along the way, and a generation of workers that are not skilled enough for the new order will have a hard time, but in a healthy economy, it's the role of the state to smooth that path using the resources that the economy at large gains from the advances in efficiency and wealth.

I'm a little skeptical of the idea that this wave of technology must be different from all the ones in the past (which isn't to say it's impossible) and obsolete jobs completely. Programming literacy may simply become the new literacy; Education may very well have to become a longer stage of life, but given lengthening lifespans, it won't necessarily be a drastically higher proportion of one's life than it has been in the past.
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Isn't quinoa technically a fruit? One problem with it is when you cook it, unlike say rice, it's tough to refrigerate or store it without it turning into a gelatinous mess.
I would imagine that very few people in high levels of the company knew about this.

I can't exactly blame them for the marketing campaign... just imagine you work for Microsoft's marketing division... Apple/Google are completely destroying you and your company has missed the boat almost every major technological revolution of the last decade (internet, mobile, etc).

How would you exactly convince people to switch to your companies products? At the time, there was a lot of fear around Google's data collection and what they might do with it, so it's unsurprising this is the route they took (although anyone sensible would assume that Microsoft of all companies would be just as bad if not worse).
I don't think so. From the facebook links, it has only recently started.
You're not hellbanned. Can someone do the same for me? I cannot seem to up-vote anymore
Looks very interesting -- though it probably needs to be a bit more hands on than just a video to get much concrete feedback!

Can you give a few more details on how the plumbing works: from the video it isn't clear how the JS is being injected into the page (you just seemed to add a data attribute). How is the persistence handled?
I must be in the minority here, but I'm no more concerned now than before reading this, and I'm still not super concerned if it works the way I think it does. It doesn't answer the main question of HOW MANY USERS are being watched like this.

We already knew from Prism that Microsoft is providing data to the NSA, and we already knew that it included real time video, emails, messages, etc. So this is more of a behind-the-scenes of how it's done, but if you stopped to consider before what Prism meant then it sort of implies everything here.

BUT, I still don't know whether this tapping of Skype calls, providing of decrypted messages, etc, applies only to a few specific people who the government has warrants for, or for all of Microsoft's users. I still think it's the former based on that Prism slide that said it cost $10M/yr, which is clearly not enough to handle ALL of Microsoft's and Google's and Apple's data.

If anything, I applaud Prism in that it's just a more efficient way of doing what the NSA is already cleared to do.

I'm MORE concerned about the warrantless Verizon metadata tracking for millions of subscribers, Clapper's lies before Congress about said data, the DoJ classifying the FISC's rulings that something or other is unconstitutional, the inability of companies to discuss NSLs.

But this release is just clarification on what we already knew, and we still don't know whether PRISM is oh-my-god-the-government-is-tapped-into-everything or just a convenient front-end on the government's warrant-obtained data (which is a good thing, AFAICT).
Maybe the reason they are blocking reform on the banking sector is because they feel it wouldn't be necessary if only the Executive branch would actually enforce the laws already on the books that apply?

Maybe the reason they oppose abortion laws is because they feel they are saving human lives who have no say in the matter?

Maybe the reason they support such amounts of military spending is because they feel it is the nation's responsibility to do its best to provide for a safe and secure world, including using the military for life-saving operations?

Maybe the reason they are blocking current immigration reform is because they disagree with the methodology being proposed that is possibly unfair to current citizens including the ones who immigrated here legally and followed the law to become citizens?

Maybe the reason they are trying to prevent implementation of universal healthcare is because they feel the current law is ripe with corruption, waste, fraud, eventual failure, and will in the end actually make things worse?

You are again one of these people going with the notion that since you disagree with the other people's ideas you get to assume that the ideas are somehow bad. Notice that in no way did you explain why these ideas are inherently bad, you simply disagree with them. You are perpetuating the fallacy that they are bad simply because you say they are while ignoring the possibilities that they have good reasons to think that way. Next thing on your agenda will be to ridicule them in some way to show your superiority over such backward-thinking people in a feeble attempt to convince us you are right without actually having to prove anything nor support your accusations.
In particular, a query like the one in the original blog post will evaluate multiple intermediate lists that then need to be thrown away.

Why not fuse the operations, if the values are immutable?
Is UGC always a safe harbor? To qualify for safe harbor in the case of file sharing services, it's not enough not to deliberately populate the site with copyrighted content and to honor takedowns; there's also a requirement that the operators of the site not run it with foreknowledge of infringing copyright, so that if they became aware of copyvio content, they'd still be required to take it down.
Microsoft handed over encrypted messages key and Skype calls access to NSA
Why is this a problem? If quinoa sprouted literal diamonds we wouldn't be upset that the farmers were selling them instead of making their own jewelry.

Having your crops be too valuable to eat is a good problem to have; these farmers incomes have more than sextupled. That easily lets them sell the crop and buy other food like everyone else.
lol. OP is bitching about internet karma.
1st rule of internet karma is it's irrelevant.
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No, it's a "pseudocereal", a broad-leaf plant whose seeds are used similarly to cereal grains ("cereals", proper, are all grasses).
We have nice looking business cards (ours have a hex ASCII chart on the back) but I haven't used one in at least 3 years.
>for us privacy-conscious users

You're phone's OS is almost entirely irrelevant with regard to privacy. The snooping that we know about (PRISM, AT&T selling private data, etc.) is happening at the carrier level.
This lawsuit was filed after NSA was found with its hand in the cookie jar. I think devindotcom means, why were these tech companies not fighting this years ago. I guess you cannot fault Eric Schmidt, because he has been dropping lines like these [1] for years.

We know where you are. We know where you’ve been.
We can more or less know what you’re thinking about

Just remember when you post something, the computers
remember forever

[1] http://www.stateofsearch.com/top-15-of-eric-schmidts-remarka...
Are you implying that he's living in a google bubble? I just searched with multiple search engines, with different browsers, and even with different IPs and they all returned a link to the same effect. Different sources (prweb on most), but still the same story.
How does that explain white rice vs. brown rice preferences, or glutinous rice vs longgrain, etc.

People have preferences for some characteristics in something which would seem to be very ordinary.

Maybe quinoa is different, but who knows, at this point. Maybe it's like oats. Oats are oats are oats, for most people, I think (except for the cutting vs rolling process)
Quinoa is a grain, which is technically a seed.

I'm confused about the refrigeration comment though - I make quinoa all the time and have not had that issue.
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I think this is probably wrong. Virtually all of the US operates (thankfully) under at-will employment rules; it is difficult under any circumstances to sue for wrongful termination, and employers are generally free to fire for no reason at all.

The biggest reason I've seen for termination to get tricky involve protected employment classes (race, gender, &c) and the ADA, but those issues apply with equal force during the "probationary period".
If you freely choose where to live, that means you get (at least) $3000 of value renting a $3000/month apartment no matter where you rent it. If it's more expensive for the same size of unit in one place or another, that means you're paying for amenities, or a short commute, or access to a particular job market. So giving people more money to live in SF would be subsidizing the consumption of the amenities that SF provides, or to put it less delicately, you're rewarding San Francisco residents just for living there. One could potentially argue that the subsidy is warranted, but generally I am skeptical that such a subsidy would be welfare enhancing. My suspicion is it would just cause people to overconsume San Francisco real estate relative to their latent preferences.
No, you are wrong. All of those flights, and all flights on the Moscow-Havana route, follow the great circle route because it is the shortest distance. Flights that must divert for winds or turbulence or scheduling follow a modified great circle route.

Today's Aeroflot 150 does not follow a great circle route, modified or otherwise. Such a deviation has nothing to do with weather or other environmental factors and can only be explained by a need to avoid a particular airspace and the potential for diversion to an alternate airport within that airspace in case of an emergency.

You will notice that the route overflies the Azores, Bermuda and Nassau so that those airports, rather than airports in continental North America, can be used as alternates when filing the flight plan.

This is the most telling aspect of the diversion, even more so than the diversion from the great circle.

Someone important who needs to avoid the airspace over North America at all costs is on that plane.
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This is too complicated...

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> Sweet! None of us have to work anymore! Party at my place every night for life!

As Nursie said as well, that's the whole fucking point. The fact we don't live like this today is an atrocity.

It seems that you don't understand the kind of world we're headed to. Energy abundance + automation = dirt cheap manufacturing. At first mostly by economies of scale, later literally dirt-cheap, as pretty much everything you could imagine can be made from dirt, power and a bit of advanced manufacturing tech we don't yet have but we know how it will work [0]. Energy abundance + automation + ever better software = most service jobs gone, most knowledge jobs disappearning, and people getting quickly optimized out of economy.

There is a potential for everything to be free because it doesn't have to cost anything. The only reason we would like that not to happen is some kind of weird stockholm-syndromish love for slavery (i.e. work).

Maybe we should stop working on life extension as well because we were meant to work hard and then die.

[0] - actually, we have it, but it's not ours and we can't control it yet. But it works. You and I are examples of it. Biology is nothing but an highly advanced tech we haven't master so far.
implementation. that's why it's not being used.
I thought they didn't have a C# SDK. Is it possible to use this from C++ via REST or something?
I'm wondering why is it that we will do absolutely anything to avoid pondering the hypothesis that the currently observable matter which constitues human body may only be a half of the answer, and that the other half may be, what we could approximately call some sort of energetic, perhaps electro-magnetic field, carrying the missing link to many of our puzzles.

How about the cases of patients who lost large portions of their brain, or people who were born with or have developed to most of their brain missing - the rest of their head filled with fluid - these people are usually way more functional than what any of our brain theories would suggest.

So perhaps the brain is only an antenna into this energetic field which is the other half of that what see and can detect and measure.

The question is why does this sound ridiculous to you.
I like all the competitions and games you can join before or during the con (check the forums for official contests etc). Hacker Jeopardy is by far my favorite con event. On Thursday there's the Atomic Barbeque, which is a great way to network with people and chow down. I don't know if they still do the Hacker Iron Chef, but that was fun to watch.

Getting into parties is half the fun! I remember the times I social engineered my way into the Ninja party. Humans are so insecure...

p.s. even if you don't drink, the quickest way to make friends at defcon is to give someone free alcohol. the goons also appreciate free beverages.
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It increases producer prices which shifts the supply curve to the right, but its pretty self-evident...

If you're taxing corporate income, it's pretty clear that Apple's and Google's supply curve will shift to the right. Not so much Samsung's or Nokia's. Taxing corporate income harms exports. Trying to tax only the corporate income from products and services sold in the US is in essence a VAT and then we're not talking about corporate income tax.
Teamviewer is present as well.
Except capital gains taxes don't include inflation in the calculations.

So let's say your stocks in aggregate rose 4% that year, and the inflation was 3%. You made 1% profit (in purchasing power). You pay 4% * 0.15 = 0.6% which is 60% of your profits and only 38% of your income.
Profits are also a cushion for the future years when the sales are not that great, and the company has to dip into its savings account or force layoffs and trim product offerings.

While high corporate taxation environment is great for boom years (unless your corporate constituents relocate), it necessitates bailouts during the bad years. Good example would be some European socialist economies overly reliant on state enterprises.
I was working at jimmy johns as a driver about four months ago. One of the drivers there had a Nokia phone, I had an android, and obviously delivering you often get addresses that are sometimes slightly incorrect etc. Google maps never failed me, the windows phone guy would get lost constantly. I don't know why, could be just bad driving, but one thing that the google maps seemed to be better at was determining the location of businesses and for traffic and TRAINS (since the town I was in had 2 different tracks).

In short, I'd have to agree that google maps is unparalleled (important to note that the iPhone people didn't even bother using their maps).
Maybe someone will figure things out at the circuit level to get hashes out faster. Or figure out better ROMs (with fewer transistors) to store the 64 32-bit fractional parts of cube roots of primes. Or, someday, someone will come up with the coinotron, which, like a transistor or memristor, would be at the boundary between chemical and electrical engineering, targeted at the bottleneck in the hash.
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> So why don't the youth of Italy want these jobs? Maybe the work is seen as menial (so a cultural condition) or maybe the wages are too low.

If you can't make a living wage at these jobs, then by taking the job you are hastening your own demise. If you already have a living wage, then taking a low-paying job will give you a supplemental income. If you can work part-time at a low-paying job, then you can still spend your other time educating yourself or looking for a better job.

Also, if you can't fill your factories with the wage that you're offering, then the free market is telling you that you need to either increase the wage, or learn to make do with less, i.e. decrease output.
I don't think it is the same talk, he talks about the tagging platform which is a new feature.

Or maybe the slides are just that old? :-)
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> Society can't function with people only doing things they enjoy.

Yes it can. Or rather it will. That's the whole point of this basic-income discussion. The source of the problem stems from the fact automation and software is systematically replacing humans in things they don't enjoy.
100 million * $20,000 = $2 trillion

No matter how you shake around the minimum income scales, you'll end up near those types of massive figures.

That's $2 trillion dollars that doesn't exist right now and would have to be magically conjured up. And I suspect a comfortable wage would need to be higher than $20,000. I think the financial disaster of this arrangement would be closer to $3 trillion.

It's mathematically impossible.
I'm using WP 7, I think. In no particular order,

* Entering text beyond 5 lines is a nightmare, as lag increases wich each keypress

* No Skype unless I unlock it

* In that venue: locked phone, requires a substantial amount of money to develop on it

* Taking a picture has a 5% chance of hanging the whole camera, requiring a restart. Also: no timer for the camera

* No connection under Linux, as the USB upgrade was not backported to my version of WP, and it doesn't plug as a regular USB drive. I'm guessing support for my phone is gone, which should also be added to the list.

* Can't remove the USB card (explicitly forbidden in the manual). Uploading media requires the installation of Zune. Yep, you read that right, Zune

* No way of changing the default search engine

* Cannot edit playlists for music, which BTW must be created with Zune while plugged onto my PC

I'm glad you are glad with your WP, but implying that anyone who complains about it is doing it just for the sake of it is, IMHO, a bit misleading.
From what I've read, the main feature is a low power, always on, sensor array. My guess is that this phone will break new ground with comprehensive and novel Google Now integration, and push further towards the goal of a device that actively assists its user. Think of it as a robotic system that is integrated into the growing AI/expert system service that is Google.
True - I doubt that any of the hardware manufacturers for Android have the technology to top what Nokia did with Lumia 1020. Nokia is completely invested in camera unlike HTC, Samsung, Motorola etc.,
lol nice troll
This sentence is not anywhere near close enough to the top:

"This CA isn't going to be trusted by your website visitors, but your infrastructure can trust it as long as you keep it safe. "

In other words, this doesn't mean you can buy a single cert and then go around creating new certs for your other domains and subdomains. You're still going to need to pay for those.
I'm confused about the distinction between air traffic controlled airspace and sovereign airspace. It seems that international law would only allow sovereignty over airspace within 12 nautical miles of the coastline. Can you comment?
Assault would be threatening them with a paintballing. Battery is when the paintball hits their trachea.

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What is the deal with Practical Cryptography versus Cryptography Engineering? I have frequently seen people say they are the "same book." How similar are they? The publication date is seven years apart. Did they just add a new foreword and change the title?
Until Backblaze changes their policy for direct attached storage, I'm covered as they have all my RAWs.

I also store full "originals" (JPEG only, not RAW, but at least its something) on an unlimited Pro Flickr account, again, until their policy changes.
>That easily lets them sell the crop and buy other food like everyone else.

[citation needed].
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Yes, that's exactly what I was sayint 2 comments upper this thread:

> The point I wanted to make is that it's the same getA, but anyone reading the code should understand that result binded to a and b will be different.

So, while referrential transparency is still in place, programmer who reads the code will most likely care not about getA's result, but rather what will a and b get binded to, and in those terms it's just the same as good old

a = getA(); b = getA();
This is the kind of device for the lucky folks who have 1Gb/sec, such as google fiber. I like the idea but it may be a few years too early.
The concern isn't just for the farmers, but everyone that lives near them that used to have affordable local food.
Oversampling of images - super pixels. You are not taking 41 MP images.
I agree. This plugin is great!
Probably, but you'd need a tailrotor or tip props on the blade tips for countertorque. There was an unsuccessful HPH design with one tip-driven rotor. The negative is that you're generating aerodynamic force that is non-lifting, and thus wasting power. Four rotors were probably chosen for this design (and many past others) for stability; a helicopter in hover is about as stable as an air hockey puck, it needs constant control input to stay in one spot. Directional control is much easier with a vehicle resting on four legs than on one.
If they're stuck on a version of software that hasn't been supported in 5 years for bugs or security with a set of features that was originally released nearly 10 years ago, it means that there are some culture issues in the workplace that will most likely drive me insane.

Therefore, I am unlikely to take the job.
my first link on bing: http://www.prweb.com/releases/class-action-lawsuit/google-ns...
Nokia maps has all of those plus handy apps like onebusaway
that's a very good point.
I for one, look forward to all the cheap 6990s that are about to hit eBay.