skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am with you in concept, and the idea of royalty seems crazy when the current generation has more in common with the Kardashians and Hiltons than anything seemingly royal.

That said, I think it's ok to honor a deal of, "Walk away, and we let your offspring pretend they are important, and we won't expropriate your wealth." And as much of a shmuck Prince Harry seems to be, I respect that he volunteered to serve in Afghanistan, where he knew he would be a target. That's more brave than any president that the US has seen in the past 20 years.
Your average user is going to know how to do that or even want to do that. If they have to jump through a ton of hoops they just won't use it and be worse off.
Noticed this jump over the last few days, randomly checking the price with DDG. It's never clear what's behind these things, but I'm sure there will be some explanation (when the jump has reversed, no doubt).
It's no different to when Bliar or Brown were in power. Brown never actually won an election, he took over from Bliar after he stepped down. How's that for democracy?
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Trying to make a really good model bird held back the development of flight for centuries.

Certainly, Julius Caesar or Crassus could have afforded a Roman era hot air balloon or hang glider or glider aircraft if this false analogy hadn't stood in the way of development. Performance would have been somewhat lower than modern material craft, but probably not as bad as you think. There were several decades of modest performance aircraft before titanium, synthetic fabrics, and carbon fiber.

AI workers might be more successful in the long run if they focus on making a useful martian brain, not clone humans in silicon.
Key difference I suppose is that President Hollande was elected. The French did not like Sarkozy anymore so they kicked him out at the last election. Bit more accountable that way, and it's not possible that you would be stuck with the same president for decades unlike monarchs.
> Maybe have a third party host/store chrome update binaries? Something like amazon S3 or something which would not data share with Google.

Obvious problem there is that whoever is putting pressure on Google could put the same pressure on Amazon. Solution is to use P2P. If your device has uploaded the new code to two other devices (and so on) before installing it, targeting specific devices becomes much more difficult.
Cold calling is one of the hardest jobs in the world. The people who are good at it, and can think on their feet, are worth their weight in gold. Maybe even worth their weight in bitcoins.
fmt.Fprint(os.Stdout, "Something\n")

By itself isn't a valid statement. You try to compile that and you'll get an error saying unused return value. So you'll try:

err := fmt.Fprint(os.Stdout, "Something\n")

and you could ignore err, but then you'll get a compiler saying err is defined but never used. So you can be like NAH I'm just trying to muck stuff up so I"m going to do this.

_ = fmt.Fprint(os.Stdout, "Something\n")

Which is explicitly discarding the error much like:

try{
fmt.Fprint(os.Stdout, "Something\n")
}catch(Throwable t){}
Jesus wept....
I'm not sure about that. People who actually want to assassinate the president are not criminal geniuses, or even rational people at all. They're often mentally ill, or at least stupid enough to think that killing the president is a good idea and they can get away with it.

More than one mass murderer has talked publicly about what they're planning online. And two guys that planned to assassinate Obama in 2008 were caught because they bragged to a friend about what they were doing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_assassination_plot...

Obviously you won't catch everybody, but I don't think the idea of getting tipped off about a potential assassination plan based on posts online is totally far fetched.
This is appalling and inexcusable for a site who claims to help improve security and that claims to have in the team people such as "a foremost expert on information security awareness"[1]. So this cannot be attributed to ignorance.

[1] https://www.getsafeonline.org/about-us/
Really cool! A few suggestions:

- It'd be handy to highlight search terms and maybe sort by some relevance measure

- For example in this graph:

http://www.gridvisual.com/datasets/unemployment-rate-by-sex-...

It'd be handy to be able to see both sexes as different lines on one graph. If I scroll down enough to the widget that switches between male-female-total, I can't see the graph anymore which makes it difficult to compare data across facets. There's an interesting tradeoff here of putting the controls on the side for easy access but then having to make the graph smaller.

I like the idea of the subscribe feature.

In any case, good stuff! Is this raw d3?
BTW, the ARM cell phone SOC I worked with everyday has integrated GPU, video processor (HW base), 2,4,6,8 ARM Cores, with integrated CP (Cellular processor), almost all the necessary IO such as USB (OTG, 3.0), SD, Display controller etc are all integrated inside the SOC.

DDR are POP soldered on top of SOC directly - similar to raspberry pie's SOC's RAM.

The power are way lower.

All package (With DDR) in size of the thumbnail. A PCB with SOC + EMMC (Flash) + PMIC + Wifi is size of the postage stamp.

And they are selling billions of them every year.

It is amaze how far ahead of for ARM SOC as compare to x86 camp. (In my point of view.)
Their workaround of "To communicate with other people that don't use End-To-End, you will need to either generate a key in GnuPG and then import it" wouldn't make much sense if ETE wasn't able to import and interop with RSA keys already. You can also find an rsa implementation in the repo (https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/source/browse/javascrip...) that would indicate that they do support RSA encrypt/decrypt. However I can't find any DSA implementation, I think there could indeed be issues with people using DSA/ElGamal keys. (which is weird because there is an implementation of ElGamal, probably the DSA implementation is still being worked on)
The two have different scopes -- you guys aren't really comparing fairly here.

To someone who's never done it before, "building a working web application with 3 docker containers" -- no matter what that application does or doesn't do -- might sound much harder than it is to get started.

Comparing a ham sandwich to a roasted chicken isn't at all appropriate here -- it's more like comparing a ham sandwich to a gourmet bistro sandwich, where, to a beginner, a ham sandwich is a great starting point, because he learns about the very basics and can expand from there.

The value isn't in the end product here; it's in the first steps toward an end product and teaching people that it's not as befuddling as it might sound. It's not misleading and it's absolutely not meaningless.
> To counter this you'd need a secure, distributed way to release updates in Chrome. I don't think that's quite in scope of what this project is trying to accomplish.

It's not like that would require a large amount of novel code. Use BitTorrent + sign the update, problem solved.
Looks like this is a day late, but just wanted to add that I did some research in med school on learning methods and one of the strongest correlations was that hand-writing notes was an excellent learning method while typing notes was horrible.
TOR?

EDIT: Just to expand on that a little. For as long as Snowden sports a TOR sticker on his laptop, or until I hear otherwise, I'll continue recommend its use for basic privacy needs. And as mikegioia notes, it is only used on the front page. You could also block the script, failing that!
Looks like there's a huge difference between small Linux and something like Contiki. Any time you run out of on-chip SRAM without an MMU (e.g. anything really low power) Linux is not a good fit. That non-Linux space is gigantic and there's room for something like Contiki as well as much lighter systems that have some form of non-IP networking. We evaluated a bunch of small kernels (ended up with uc/OS) but there are dozens of open and proprietary kernels that fit specific needs both larger and smaller than Contiki that are non-Linux for good reasons.
It's just their homepage, most of their other pages don't even run javascript: https://protonmail.ch/login.php
Which is better as a laptop, the Macbook Air or the Surface Pro 3?
And it even manages to include Google Analytics !
Yes this is terrible...but it isn't the "UK Government" its a private corporation as per:
https://www.getsafeonline.org/about-us/

It also does work over https:
https://www.getsafeonline.org/themes/passwrdcheck/index.html

So I'm pretty sure this is just the fact they failed to setup the redirect. Rather than mocking them on Hacker News, we should just tell them they broke that part of their setup at some point and should fix it?

EDIT:

Tried to contact them, got a "The form you submitted contained the following errors

Missing Data.(DIFFERENT_IP)"

error which has nothing to do with the form I submitted. XD

Could someone contact them by their contact us page to get this fixed?
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http://www.getsafeonline.org/themes/passwrdcheck/results.htm...
It was probably outsourced to accenture or similar who then paid the cheapest devs they could find in india.
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We probably wouldn't have a President Cameron , most republics separate the head of state from the head of parliament. The US system works differently altogether in this regard. We would probably have someone like Jeremy Clarkson as president.
using tor to download it should work pretty well, yes.
If a hostile party can get code onto your computer, it doesn't matter much whether the hostile code is living inside chrome.exe or some other program.

If I am quietly targeting you to get malware onto your machine to capture your key, trying to sabotage Google Updater even in the current format is the wrong way.
I contacted few famous designers also. I thought that may help me in building customer base. They first wanted to know who are the other designers with whom I am working. I am not giving up this idea - I will pursue them again later on.

Amazon.in asked i must have models wearing my dresses. I think as lot of people are recommending this approach so I should have this going now.

I am not sure if people buy clothes from ebay. Zappos also have lot of clothing collection. I am not sure how much it contributes towards their total sales.

I tried shopify also as they will take care of scalability part also but the problem is it is not flexible. I can only do what their platforms allows.

I am starting on logo tonight. Thanks for forums link. I will check it out.

Best.
Regardless of whether or not you belief in a singularity theory, it's only mentioned in passing in the article and not really relevant to this discussion.
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Author here. I made this last night, I really wanted to stick to making a Minimum Viable Product. I believe I achieved that. I usually wind up making my first release way way overcomplicated. I would love to hear feedback from HN. It's just running on a single Heroku dyno right now, so I'll have to pay close attention, so you guys don't bring it down. :)

If it seems intriguing to people, I plan on adding simple user accounts, so people can submit links and also save favorites to refer to later. I will probably do that next, but depending on the feedback I could go another direction.

Thanks,
Patrick

PS. A good way to get a hold of me fast is @patrickjbradley
> Get Safe Online is a jointly funded initiative between several Government departments and private sector businesses. In fact, we are the Government’s preferred online security advice channel.

There are adverts everywhere about it with obvious government endorsement.

It's not just that they send it over HTTP. It shouldn't send it anywhere, it should all be done client-side with JavaScript. It's more than "you made a little mistake" it's "who are you to tell people what is, or isn't, secure when you can't even manage the basics?"
In a way -- and I say this as an American -- I perceive that one possible advantage of the British monarchy (with its particular form and historical context) is that by concentrating the ceremonial roles of chief of state in a different person than the head of government -- and divorcing the former from the political process in a way which you don't have in systems that have the separation but choose both through conventional political means -- you divorce, to a degree, tribal patriotism and support for the nation from support from the current political leadership, and simultaneously remove the distancing (from the rest of society) effect that the ceremonial functions of chief of state has from the functional head of government.

Its not something I would want to replicate in form here (and it wouldn't work anyway -- to the extent it works in the UK it does because of historical context, not because of the form alone), and I'm not saying that Britons shouldn't adopt a Republic, but I think that its worth considering what benefits the monarchy provides (even if they are outweighed by the costs) and whether any replacement system can retain or replicate them by alternate means while mitigating the costs (and maybe it can't, and the best net is to sacrifice the benefits to eliminate the costs.)
> /\d/.test("\u2169")

false
That's really funny because something similar was done at my unversity (I think with bats, or maybe even flying foxes). I declined because although the devices were really small and they assured me that the animals did not come to harm I doubted that. It's like carrying around a big backpack.

This is getting OT, but sensor network applications and discussions often neglect the problem of device recovery and I know there are projects were sensors are not recovered and after they did their work (sensing stuff and sending it to a post-processing node) they go out of energy and become ... highly toxic waste.
Good point -- I probably should've linked back to the official docs too -- they are very good.
I see the monarchy as a technical debt from experimenting with government models. We ended up something similar to a presidency but also left withe a symbolic head of state.

Because cost of removing the technical debt is bigger than the cost of living with it, we just ignore it.
I think its a moot point, if the government is the attacker, who tries to spy on you specifically, there is absolutely NOTHING you can do to prevent that from happening.

The US government has (literally) secret laws, that grants themselves the right to go to another country and kill someone without due process or trial or any kind of repercussion if they 'accidentally' kill innocent bystanders.

Its sort of laughable to talk about end to end encryption and possible NSL when you really think about it.
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Another point: India replaced the British monarch with a constitutional figurehead, the President, when it became a republic in 1950. The Indian president is elected by parliament (deliberately, so he doesn't have direct popular support). It's usually a sinecure for elderly politicians. However, India still spends quite a bit on the upkeep of the presidential palace, etc. So turning into a republic hasn't been cost-free.

So for constitutional monarchies, the question would be: if they were ever to turn into a republic, who would be their head of state? and how would that be any better than simply staying with the monarch?

[edit: grammar]
It is also disabled when external gpu is present. At least it should be.
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This is concerning in conjunction with the trend for a cashless society.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/australia...
Prince Harry is only something like 4th in line to the throne though, they didn't let Prince William go to Afghanistan.
My initial thoughts are just why not do this client side using javascript? No need for the string to leave the client.
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> Human-like AI is a dead field, or at least dead as far we can tell. We're not even sure how to build it because conceptually we don't even have a grasp on consciousness or cognition.
>Then there's the false assumption that we can get to this level before doing things like, say, solving all mental health issues and that it can magically be scaled to super-human speeds. For all we know cognition happens at a certain speed and any attempts past that are troublesome.

On a purely physical level, this is hard to believe. We don't have precise models of consciousness and reasoning, but the general ones (bayesian reasoning, decision theories, etc) are speed-agnostic. It's hard to imagine one that isn't.

> Look at how easily we suffer from mania and other issues when our natural limiters go haywire.

Sure, our hardware sucks. Plus, that's even more the reason to worry about the singularity - if a very fast ai can think and plan, but suffers from mania, that's not a very good outcome. UFAI is an area of concern for many.
Just like his useless father who's only contribution to society has been to, er, pilot a search and rescue helicopter...
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Use the tablet as a voting machine. The user would enter a code which blindly identifies him/her to the tablet, then be presented with the voting options, etc.
If he really didn't like it he could give it up - we've had abdications before. It seems like a pretty sweet gig to me - a chance to see the world, talk to lots of different people, and the work's not exactly strenuous.
Hahahahaha. This is a total embarrassment and it is why we can't have nice things. There is always this for a decent alternative:

https://howsecureismypassword.net/
DARPA / IBM

http://www.research.ibm.com/cognitive-computing/index.shtml
Why mention BASIC in the title but not in the article? Also, how can Swift be the new BASIC if it's Apple-only?
The daily volume has tripled in the past 15 days. There must be something behind that.
What makes me so frustrated about this argument is that we already live in a world with thousands of optimization processes that end up hurting or killing humanity. Everything from the flu to tigers. Plus, all those 'processes' are evolving through selective pressure.
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hi josaka, yeh i think the new procedures (IPR, CBM) relatively increases prior art research emphasis. Do you think high success rate has a pre-selected bias? i.e. stakeholders only apply higher confidence oppositions to the USPTO?
As far as I can tell, the claims of the Singularity are as follows:

Human-level AI is possible.

Human-level AI will likely be practical this century.

Once AI is sufficiently advanced, it will be capable of AI research.

Most terminal goals would lead to intelligence enhancement as a sub goal, as any system with a goal would be better able to pursue it if more intelligent. Therefore, most AIs will devote resources to increasing their intelligence.

Assuming humans are not near the maximum possible intellectual level, super-human AI will likely be developed soon after an AI is created that is as smart as the smartest human.

This means the future will not be controlled by humans, as we will no longer be the smartest things in town.

Unless we can predict the goals of the AI, we should consider the future unpredictable after the point of its creation, as our models of the future rely on human-shaped agents with human goals and capabilities. With these assumptions broken, we have a sort of singularity, a breakdown of our models of the future.

It's quite conjunctive, but this all seems pretty reasonable to me - and it's worth spending resources studying.
yep, the Queen is quite frugal in that matter. The cost of representation and the the perceived splendor aren't really correlated.

I've heard a few years ago that Hollande, to break with his predecessor Sarkozy, wanted to travel by train rather than by plane whenever possible, in order to look less costly for the French citizen. However it wasn't the case : a train is way more complex to secure than a plane.

Basically in order to secure a train, you need to put an agent at every junction/bridge/tunnel to look for saboteur or terrorist, whereas a plane can take off (resp. land) from (resp. on) a military airport (national airspace is being monitored anyway).
Ruby also does not match roman numerals with \d

http://rubular.com/r/bOCmLIfKdZ
(Never enter your real password into a password checker

In their defense, it's stated pretty clearly that you shouldn't enter your real password and that this website allows you to test the "type of passwords" you use.

They could use the fact that it's over HTTP to teach a second lesson in the results page about HTTP vs HTTPS, and warn the user again that he/she should stopping using that password immediately.
Your comment doesn't parse due to an ambiguity. Who is we?

If "we" are supposed to be all of us as owners of computing devices, I'm not sure how DRM is supposed to help. Maybe the ambiguity is in what you think DRM is.

If "we" is "they" as the overlords who manufacture our stuff, having a DRM infrastructure they can trust would be a primary source of the problem, because it would consequently be one that we can't.
It was also down for me but came up again. It's been long since I have experience my last Google outage, very curious what happened with this Service. Does anybody know?
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Wow, their advice is terrible too:
"86% Exceptional" http://www.getsafeonline.org/themes/passwrdcheck/results.htm...
The regression models are regularized. The classification models are simple enough that they shouldn't be very overfit. All the performance results are cross validated, so there is an out of sample estimate.
Oh, like THAT'LL work.
> "we plan to open-source key parts of our code as well later on."

Great!
I hacked up something similar on appengine a few years ago, though it's more of a url shortener than a DynDNS replacment.

http://symlinkd.com
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Thanks, I see where I was wrong now.

In this case when finding the last match from the end, would the lazy quantifier reduce backtracking? e.g. /(\d)\D*?$/
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Just sent an email to their WHOIS contacts.