skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I agree with that to some extent.

I have a bit of faith in companies like Google and Microsoft though. If suddenly their feed of illicit image hashes began to contain content related to politics or protecting government secrets, I think they'd raise hell. I also don't think the FBI would be dumb enough to start pushing that sort of stuff and harming the relationship they have with tech companies.

Now, I can very much see NSA doing that kind of content inspection without the companies knowing about it. And that's not just because we already know it's been happening for years.

But law enforcement != intelligence, or at least it shouldn't. The FBI does still have a corps of good old fashioned cops, even if they're now getting more and more into the intelligence side of things.
Agreed. Home owners in gentrified areas can't afford to move anywhere else (that isn't far away), so of course they stay put.
hrm, this is not happening very slowly and has been going on for quite some time. It stretches all the way up into North York and is happening all through the GTA. Due to the free flow of capital and the visas that Canada was handing out to immigrants with significantly large amounts of capital you could come to Canada with millions and buy up a few properties to then rent them out. It makes sense to move your capital away from a highly unstable middle eastern/Asian country where you don't trust the ruling elite or you yourself are corrupt and fear reprisal. How do I know this? I've talked to a quite of few of these people; the highest number of properties that one person has owned and rented out for monthly income is 4 and he was considering bringing in a few more million from his bank in Dubai because he realized that the UAE has little future when global warming gets out of control. I can go on about the CPC members I've talked to, etc.
Further more I know bankers that work for the chartered banks here and the stories they tell me of HNWI are simply ridiculous.

Basically all this foreign capital tremendously augments the market, driving up prices for younger Canadians entering the real estate market for the first time -- this is the other side of the coin for those that didn't already have real estate downtown.

Long term it does look good. Capital inflows are being clamped down due to the visa program being pulled and more capital restrictions on banks, which means that all of these prices will not be sustainable along with the fact the at some point interest rates will be going up (Carney did his damage before moving off to replace King because of the Libor market rigging at the BoE) and he has been doing similar stuff to England's housing market.

Those of us who did not purchase properties outright have this to deal with once interest rates shoot up:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/current-inflation-is-killing...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/middle-class-canadians-just-ho...

At the end of the day gentrification in Toronto means less disposable income for those who can barely afford to have rents extracted from those that moved in their foreign capital. Although it's not as bad as the US where hedge funds are starting to buy up properties en masse.
Hi Stasy.

Hacker News is not a venue for handling customer support complaints.

I know you are frustrated. But you will get better help elsewhere.
> people fixing up a run down neighborhood

Whoa there, let's not put words in people's mouths. Gentrification has benefits and drawbacks, like everything else.

First, and foremost, the neighborhoods aren't always run down. The Missions and the Williamsburgs of the world aren't the only places undergoing gentrification. Sometimes they're just neighborhoods largely populated by immigrants (Greenpoint in Brooklyn), or traditional working-class neighborhoods (Potrero Hill in SF). Being populated by immigrants or working-class folks doesn't make a neighborhood run-down.

Second, what does it mean to "fix up" a neighborhood? I'd argue it's really just replacing the historic culture with the culture of the new residents (which is usually rich, mostly white people). Sure, one nice effect is a huge reduction in crime, but you're also often replacing historic establishments with rich people tropes (e.g. Murry's -> Whole Foods). Harlem will probably be a really safe place to be in 20 years, but isn't it going to be a little bit of a shame when the Apollo gets replaced with a coffee shop?
You can (although you'd need to write or use a script to make an offline copy.)

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.reddit.com

Also: http://www.redditarchive.com/
Did you consider writing instead of reading? You'll be amazed what you find once you just start writing down your thoughts, uncensored, stream-of-consciousness style.

So bring a notepad. :-)
What did you think of the OCC? Their point is that there are other mechanisms to get the same result, though they require a different sort of "training from day one."

For an example from the Fast Company link, "One of the neatest things about Orpheus is that one of its musicians will go down and sit in the audience to hear how each piece sounds to a concertgoer's ears... I've never seen that happen in an orchestra before."

Why doesn't that happen in most orchestras? After all, presumably the conductor also doesn't hear the same thing as the audience.
It depends on personal taste. But if I were going to a country I never visited before, there would be very little time to do anything else other than sightseeing, mingling with the locals, learning about their culture, their history, the food, and if you are anywhere near one, visit the national parks and take the safari.

Document everything you see. Take a good camera with you, and if you don't know how to use an SLR, this is the perfect time to learn some basic tricks. Once you pick a camera, you can find some tutorial on the web, which teaches you the basics for that brand/model.

I would use this time out to "take a break" from computer science. But if you can't stay away from it, pick up a book like SICP (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/). This is one of those books which you want to read away from all distractions and think deeply about. If you can, download the accompanying video lectures:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
>They can't use the same technique

It's not the technique, it's the precedent. The technology is really not the point here.

>None of those conditions exists for tax fraud, or for that matter terrorism.

Actually they exist for both. Google is only one possible access point for monitoring.

The question is whether we want Internet services of all kinds of to be part of a culture of automated state surveillance.

I'd suggest there are good reasons for answering that question with a firm 'No'.
You'll probably feel marginally better to know that the corpus of hashes is managed not by the FBI, but by NCMEC, an NGO.
> I'll give them permission to automate scanning to place ads but that's it. Anything past that is out full stop

If you look at the relevant section of Google's Privacy Policy - https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/#nosharing - you have already given them permission to access your email to "meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request".
+1 for Wikipedia, not just for reading something but as a reference if you want to verify something as the old Encyclopedias we used to use.
To just fill the hours, I would suggest some nice book, even better good series, like Foundation and Robot Series by Isaac Asimov, A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) by George R.R. Martin etc..
With those I think those 5 weeks will fly..
5 weeks is a long time. I could spend a week or two mingling and sightseeing, but burnout will eventually set in, and I would need a small break.
Depends on where in Africa, you are going to, it's not like the whole continent has no internet.
You do realize that automation of scanning to place ads is FAR more invasive to your privacy than what's being described in this article?

Scanning if any of the images you sent, when hashed, meet a certain hash is about as blind and automated as you can possibly get. They have no clue of what images you send or what they look like, they just know if you sent an image that is an exact match to an image of child pornography. No one is actually reading through emails and "looking" at the pictures; a program is hashing them all.
Awesome, thankyou! I hadn't heard of reddit archive before, that's exactly what I was looking for.

I might also need to start from scratch, so that I can get my own personal front-page for each day.
The Black Hole sent a generation of sci-fi fans to hell
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Public benefit organizations like Wikipedia already operate by a somewhat different set of tax laws than traditional for profit corporations. This is precisely because governments around the world believe there is high value in organizations other than governments that serve the people with a public good or service.

Why can you not imagine similar carve-outs for non-profits when it comes to communications regulations on the Internet.
Damn, that's not as pretty as they look in the sky. What gives?
I don't think it's about the technique. The "precedent" (set at least 3 years ago, when this was all announced publicly) involves the tradeoffs.

The technique comes into the picture because there is no technique for detecting tax fraud that makes the same tradeoffs.

I don't have any trouble believing simultaneously that we shouldn't have a "culture of automated state surveillance" and that it's OK to sweep image uploads for matches against known child pornography. Just like I had no problem with metal detectors, but do have a big problem with millimeter wave imaging.
Russian blogger law puts new restrictions on Internet freedoms
I like the JetBrains pricing model, separating companies and individual developers.
To summarise: I can download and use OpenMusic the source code of which is issued under the GPL. But to exercise my free software style rights to hack on OpenMusic and recompile the changed software I need to buy a licence for a closed commercial product.

Have I got that right?
I expected it to be smoother. I guess that makes sense, though, hurling through a vacuum isn't going to cause mechanical erosion.
At the time I posted every top-level commend was trying to defend this ridiculous law by bringing up examples of other countries' laws that didn't even pass.
'yeah, we ran few secret concentration camps in Europe, no biggie'
Richard Stallman uses Emacs to read and send email: http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/

It's possible you're mixing up with Donald Knuth: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
Godspeed, J002E3. Next time you come back around, we'll bring you home.
A millisecond's thought will tell you that Google engineers aren't looking at every email (or a substantive fraction). That doesn't mean they aren't looking at any email, which is all that is necessary for that interpretation.
When I read that earlier comment, I don't see "semi-autistic semantics" being used as an insult. I think it's actually quite relevant given the context, and appropriate given the argument that was being made.

Defining characteristics of autism (that is, the medical condition) include a deficiency when it comes to social understanding, a tendency to have an extreme focus on minor details, and an inherent inability to grasp the "big picture".

The earlier comment describes how certain attempts to justify what happened in a particular situation end up exhibiting similar traits. These justifications do not correspond well at all with how society at large interprets the situation, and they have a very narrow focus that ignores the larger social aspects of the situation.

I could see it being insulting if the earlier comment labelled somebody as being autistic in an attempt to discredit them, but in this case it's describing certain traits that correlate quite well with the medical condition and how those who suffer from said condition often behave.

If a person who suffers from a poor ability to understand the society around them, and who also tends to be unrelentingly focused on minute details, can be diagnosed as having "autism", then I think a similar diagnosis is perfectly reasonable when applied to an argument or justification that exhibits the same traits. It's a perfectly legitimate way of describing such arguments/justifications that don't mesh well with the social reality.
Title is misleading: Greenwald said that the NSA investigation is an illusion to keep the German public happy. Inviting him instead of Snowden was done to keep the U.S happy.

Just in case the title is changed:
"Glenn Greenwald says Germany's NSA investigation is an illusion to keep US happy" is the title of the linked article [1] and the title on HN right now.

[1] http://www.themukt.com/2014/08/02/glenn-greenwald-says-germa...
Spend those hours in your room writing a diary about your trip, doodling on your own projects, meditating. You're going to be overloaded with new input already. You don't need more.
Perhaps the sandstorm project will help? Then your mobile phone talks to your personal server in the cloud, which can more easily participate in a distributed system.
> Wikipedia can never be the sum of all human knowledge and anyone who thinks so is seriously deluded.

Especially when any article that is not about something widely and globally known is deleted for lack of notability.
Thanks! So this is why it doesn't happen with smartphones.
Why read/watch?

I mean... maybe you can enjoy coding offline ?

You can git clone many things... the linux kernel, the openbsd source tree, the bootstrap project, whatever you love. And then hack on it !

On my external HDD, I use to bring with me a Debian mirror and a CPAN mirror, so I can hack offline (building system scripts, etc).

On the other side, if you want to take a rest of coding, there are free publications and podcasts for many knowledge topics, I think a search engine will drive you to some ebooks in the areas of your personal interest. Just two suggestions if you want to explore them:

"modern perl" (http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/)

"Higher-Order Perl" (http://hop.perl.plover.com)

First one is refreshing if you think "perl is perl4 of 1990", second one is an enlightening experience whatever programming language you like (even if not Perl).

But don't discard to make a git clone of your favourite project, tool, etc and pass the time "reading" source code (and even touching it!!). Enjoy in Africa!
Ah, that makes even more sense. And it makes it even more annoying that the original article didn't include any of this information (what Google is actually doing to find these, how hashing works, who manages the hashes) just to make a more sensationalist piece.
"Forget the Internet and all that is on it" > I think this is very good advice.

I found writing was a very nice activity when you're not connected. When I was travelling, I always carried a small notebook and a pen. It just started as random scribbles, notes and doodles about various things I was experiencing, but after a while my writing started having more substance. I realized it helped me understand cultures, people, languages etc. a lot better.

For example, I'd see/hear a word I couldn't understand, write it down in the original language and phonetically, then would ask various people how they'd explain the word (or expression). Translations are very rarely 1:1, so people have different ways of explaining the same thing, which I find very insightful. Writing these things down was a good way to organize and etch those things in my mind.
Outsmarting the smart meter
That's the one, yes!
Keep in mind that S and R were targeted toward Statistics and Finance. Not everybody has a background in the above.
Economists call an aversion to risk "liquidity preference". You don't even need regulation to cause this.
Ok. Instead of simply spouting vitriol, suggest an alternative service, solving the same problems, that you think genuinely cares about a fair internet.

Or do you dismiss anyone who strives to make things better as "false utopian" and "acolytes"?
Just enjoy something different during the 5 weeks.
I've been reading about founder's depression. Why do we have to label it as if this is something that is affecting founders. Depression affects everyone, from a single mother who works hard to support her family and has no time for herself. From the dad that works hard and has to put kids through school, put food on the table, the person who works behind the counter at your favorite burger place who works hard and can't pay for his/her school because they don't make enough money.

I suffer from depression and I am not a founder we all have issues so why do we have to label this depression and founder's depression. These people are no different that anyone else just different problems.

seems like we should actually be doing something to help people with depression and not just a certain group just because they are founders. After all depression is the same regardless if you are a founder, a manager, a business owner, a student.
To a first approximation, the whole US is at-will. The exceptions to at-will are expensive to litigate and have very uncertain outcomes. The "just-cause" standard that is basically the worst-case for an employer basically amounts to "there must be some valid reason to terminate the employee"; it would come in to play if you, say, fired someone for distracting you by being too attractive (actually happened!), but not if you thought you were getting poor bang-for-the-buck from a developer.

I'm not a lawyer, &c &c, but it's probably smart to deal with all employer/employee relationships where you don't have a contract addressing the issue as if it was at-will.
The argument that QoS would violate net neutrality is FUD from net neutrality opponents. The only time I've seen proponents call it that was because ISPs would block bittorrent for "quality of service" reasons, which of course isn't QoS at all.
Nevermind youtube api issue. It's fixed now
I run. I usually come back from a run with sticky code or business problems solved and things I need to write half written in my head. There is definitely something about being on my feet and out in the fresh air that allows my brain to sort stuff out.
Welcome to Club "Tracking Down Primary Sources And Talking About Them On HN Threads"! We have jackets!
This is not regulation.

Also I'm not against free wikipedia access. I'm against using connection provider power to limit access to any where.

If an ISP starts with free wikipedia where would it land then? I believe "You can freely connect wikipedia but you can't use whatsapp or you must reimburse us for the lost sms revenue" is only one step ahead.
And replace a public road with a toll road, with effects that are predictable. Strange saga.

Is there good public transport in Seattle?
can someone please explain in easy to understand how alice and bob find each other with temporary public keys in the DHT? I read this (https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/blob/master/docs/Preve...) but I still can't picture it (the wording isn't the greatest either). Thanks!!
1. Buy or download a bunch of E-Books.

2. Buy or download a bunch of games.

I use myanonamouse, a good E-Book torrent tracker. It's also good for just browsing.
vi evolved from ex (not ed), didn't it?
Yea exactly. There are a bunch of news stories floating around about how developers are in crisis struggling to sell homes to younger homebuyers, and as someone in the demographic of who they're struggling with, its such an obvious reason as to why.

A large portion of the generation who grew up in cookie cutter 90's exurbs have absolutely no desire to live their adult life in areas with those types of development patterns. Developers and city planners need to get with the program or the american suburbs are going to go through serious decline soon
Comparing C to Javascript makes no sense, and Javascript is NOT a safe language. Those issues you mentioned are due to programmer incompetence. Bad programmers will make bad code no matter what language they program in. Security should not rely on a language hand-holding bad programmers.
When read without putting political correctness above all else, the comment from bowlofpetunias is quite civilized.

I think it brings up some very good points about how non-technical people and technical people can interpret situations involving technology in very different ways, for example. And I think it's actually trying to hold the technical community to a much higher standard when it comes to justifying actions that society at large will very likely disagree with.

It's far more harmful and disruptive to see the perfectly legitimate argument of bowlofpetunias being totally ignored and even obscured, merely because some people find a single word in the comment to potentially be politically incorrect or potentially offensive.

Discussion is much better when the focus is on the argument or topic itself, rather than going off on political correctness tangents over a single word in somebody's comment.
Aren't bad blocks detected during scrubbing? I assumed scrubbing every two weeks (as I do) should reveal read problems before any drives fail, at least in the common case. Maybe there's something important I'm missing?
Art and the Semiotics of Images: Three Questions About Visual Meaning (1999)
Your last paragraph makes me unsure where you're actually standing on this, but I think that the issue with the hipsters is that they are financially indifferent. Since they're wealthy compared to the locals, they have the interesting condition of wanting to look like bohemian beatniks while enjoying modern luxuries. You end up with the kid who wants to live in a little loft in Harlem but also wants wifi for his laptop. And he's willing to pay for it. Also, since he's not strapped for money, he's willing to pay extra if it means that he gets the ambiance he's looking for. That's why formerly dingy dive bars start selling $5 Pabst Blue Ribbons, shitty apartments start adding amenities and increasing the prices, and everything follows from there.

Personally, I don't really blame anyone, although I chuckle at the fact that there are people who want to pretend that they're poor while demanding luxuries used by 1% of the world.
> There aren't any decentralized alternatives to Facebook, Google, or Twitter because nobody's been able to ship one.

This makes it sound like a technical problem, but it's also at least partially a market problem. It's much more straightforward to squeeze revenue streams out of centralized walled gardens like these than decentralized equivalents.