skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say the entire part of the 4th Amendment that deals with warrants is what pertains to this issue.

Of course you can encrypt things yourself, and I would imagine you could probably refuse to hand over the password under your 5th Amendment rights. Nothing's changed there.

I think the issue here is that someone else (Apple) has gone and set up an encrypted environment for you in such a way that actively prevents law enforcement from carrying out legal investigations with a warrant on an incredibly popular series of devices that they were capable of searching before. Let's face it - the number of people who are buying iPhones because they are now encrypted is miniscule. If you really wanted to encrypt all of your data, optional full disk encryption already existed on other phones. The problem the police have with it is that it's now set up by default, they can no longer access it when they do have a valid warrant and this extends to everyone instead of just the handful of criminals that would take extra steps to encrypt their data. John Q. Criminal didn't choose to encrypt his phone, Apple made that decision for him.
So does living in NYC...let's not kid ourselves about that either.
I could be wrong, but I think "ARMs" was intended as a pun referring to the ARM cpus that are commonly used in mobile devices.
There is a subfield of cryptography called kleptography, which studies the "secure golden keys" talked about.

The DUAL_EC_DRBG is a great example of how "golden keys" can be implemented securely, because the underlying problem is the same one that a lot of elliptic curve cryptosystems rely on.

Only the NSA could predict the output of the generator with the same level of security as ECDH or ECDSA.
>> I think a "corporate micro-city" might be the solution for poverty in the 3rd world.

Funny, I was thinking it contributes to the problem. It clearly creates inequality which can be seen in this article. The company simply doing the minimum to exploit the resources in the area with no spill-over into the larger region. It would be more helpful to the locals if they were vertically integrated right there - producing tires. That would require building more infrastructure and more manufacturing capability and such. But no, they just want to grow the rubber there and keep the higher value stuff elsewhere.

To clarify, I'm not saying "companies=bad" just that companies only have self-interest and are not inherently good for the broader region they inhabit. This is abundantly clear from TFA which I don't think is the message they wanted us to take away.
Yeah, git-repo-per-project was an unspoken assumption. Also, "upstream and downstream" may not suffice analytically, as many interdependencies in this model do not satisfy DAG, even if they ~should~. Agile projects aren't often built so much as grown.
A long requested feature – I hope we get time to build a mini bookmarking feature.
This may interest you:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/upshot/parks-and-recreatio...

The city of San Francisco claims they will get at least twice as much use out of the turf than grass.
Is that from Komarr? (Bujold often has interesting things to say about parenthood.)
For one thing, adding external DSP is rather redundant since the program material can be optimized for the peculiarities of the iPhone's DAC in firmware or software.

For another, it's not true to say music is mastered for ideal studio conditions. It's typically mastered in ideal studio conditions but then it's also typically tried out in known inferior ones - for example, almost every recording studio used to have a pair of Yamaha NS-10 speakers, which were deliberately engineered to deliver crap home hifi performance, with the rule of thumb being 'if it sounds good on them, it'll sound good on anything.' Do a Google Image search on'recording studio' and you'll loads on these el-cheapo monitors sitting atop mixers that cost tens or even hundreds of times as much.

Learn more here: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep08/articles/yamahans10.ht...

And even after using tools like that, the final test is (and has long been) to listen to the program material in a car, on a boombox, on a phone, or whatever - just like in film, the director doesn't usually sign off on the final product until after taking it to a screening theater or putting it in the DVD/bluray player at home, as appropriate.

People who work in audio production are abundantly aware that music is listened to in very different environments from where it is created. This is something that is stressed in just about every mastering article/tutorial/book I have come across in 20 years as a sound engineer. We're also aware that the human brain tends to compensate for the effect of the listening environment on the signal. We even have a name for this phenomenon, which has been the subject of considerable academic study: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect

You're offering a product that does some dynamic signal processing based on a combination of the program material and the listening environment, that's fine and there's a market for it. By all means lay claim to some new secret sauce - as pointed out above, everyone else in this industry does. But spare me the spurious arguments about elitist engineers in their ivory tower studios who don't care about the plight of the average listener.
As for bus rapid transit, I found the new West Seattle service to be quite fast and efficient (although West Seattle was already pretty accessible before).
What a terrible idea. Yes key escrow is a NSA agenda they have been trying to sneak into our stack for quite some time. As if the NSA hadn't done enough damage to the cloud industry, now they are trying this shit again. American IT products are going to be totally unmarketable outside of the US. The trust is gone. The day any corporation adopts this stance is the day I ditch them. I will literally throw my iPad in the trash. Apple and Google will entirely lose the leverage their ecosystems provide if they try this.
I question if you can spend 90 min on a train in New York. It's only like 50 min to Connecticut on the metro north.

Also, my commute these days is about an hour and 20 min each way. 45 min Amtrak, 20 min walking, 15 min metro. Way preferable to a 30-40 min car commute.
I find these type of studies so fascinating! By studying infants and toddlers we can truly get a sense of how truly "social" we are as animals and how we adapted to that fact by developing these subtle learning mechanism.
...what? It's highly objective that New York has the worst commute times in the country. I shared one link on it. There are countless more. Here's another that has more numbers for other cities. http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst//longest... If you object to their methodology

31.5% of NYC workers have a commute time longer than 60 minutes. That's insane.
This is great! I've wanted this for years. I imagine this is pretty difficult to integrate and provide. I hope they can deliver.
> The problem the police have with it is that it's now set up by default, they can no longer access it when they do have a valid warrant and this extends to everyone instead of just the handful of criminals that would take extra steps to encrypt their data.

Not at all true. The fifth amendment doesn't mean the court can't serve you with a subpoena for your device's unencrypted contents and imprison you until you provide it, for life if necessary.
Also, what could the U.S. government do when this knowledge is so widespread and in so many forms at this point? Take down notices to github? Cease and desist orders to Linus Torvalds? The encryption cat is out of the bag to a certain degree. Legislation along this line would simply further harm U.S. business interest in the global marketplace, even if it were desirable.
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Peter Thiel isn't exactly known for his good judgment. Just look at one of his Thiel fellows: http://blog.kevinzhang.me/posts/tracking-down-the-person-who...
Why You Need to Document Your Business Processes
Seattle buses are immensely more comfortable than the subway we have in Beijing (but then dammit, I just take a taxi).
I think the catch he's getting at is that || imposes an ordering that the left side is checked before the right side. This also implies that any side-effects of the left side have to happen before the right-side is evaluated.

That said, I still don't know how you could get this code generated. If you make an equivalent piece of code with _JCR_END__ as a volatile int, you still get an infinite loop which has the mov op for reading the _JCR_END__ value but it doesn't bother to test it. IE. gcc still reads the variable but optimizes the loop to a while (1). I can't think of anyway to trick gcc into generating asm like this.
It's not NYC, and it's not Chicago or Philly either. DC suffers for making the Metro do double duty as a subway and commuter rail. Plus, many of the suburban stops have awful walk ability (silver line)
But that's how the stock market works...
This is a big if - If the data is to be believed, the plots on wikipedia show liberia getting a handle on it in the last couple weeks. The exponential growth in number of cases has been reduced (concave down on the plots). I suspect the people there are finally believing the disease is real and changing their ways, which is reducing transmission. Or it's just a blip or a reduction in quality of the data. I dunno.
I'd say the reasoning is that you then have to trust there are no privesc/bypass opportunities in your environment. Trusting that all your dbus/pulseaudio/network-manager/cups/fuse/display manager & friends aren't going to give your rogue chrome process on one account some kind of access to another (thanks to X11/XDMCP, they'll at least have keylogging) - that's a big surface area, aas in: space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

Compared to the few hundred lines in the hypervisor providing VM-level isolation you'd be a bit mad to say that these are equivalent means of isolation.
Actually, the 6.29 exchange rate is only for importers of medicines and food, which are mostly government friends and cronies who are becoming multi-millionaires by buying dollars from the govt at Bs.6.9. Then they claim they bought food from a foreign company (which they also own in Panama or somewhere else) and they sell it back to the govt at Bs.80-100 per dollar and they pocket the difference.

Or they buy dollars at the 6.9 rate, claim they are importing farming machinery for $2-3million. Then they buy one tractor for $50k, pay off the corresponding govt official, and keep the difference. And I'm not making this up. They recently tried to arrest 2 or 3 guys on this (they probably didn't pay enough) and they just fled to Miami and Panama.

If you come to venezuela, bring dollars. You will always find someone that will buy them at the black market rate of almost Bs.100 per dollar. You could live like a king here with $1000 for quite a while.
Ask HN: Cheapest option to colo a GPU compute box?
Hi everyone,
We need to build a GPU compute box (thinking GeForce GTX Titan Black[$1000] as the GPU) for training Convolutional Neural Networks and building services on top of the trained model. What would be the most cost effective way to colo such a server?
Hurricane Electric told us a 2U rack space (100mbit and 750W) would cost us $700/month and I find that a little too expensive.(they are saying that we would rent a whole cabinet for the same price since their main cost is going to be our power usage and not bandwidth etc)

I am also thinking of building the box on my own and putting it in our office in SF (which has a static ip and 50mbit unlimited internet) but that'd probably violate the TOS - and even if it doesn't I am not sure if the internet connection would be stable enough to operate such a service from (though it doesn't necessarily need to be real-real-time -- we just the box to consume our job queue and a 1 minute delay would be acceptable there)

What are your thoughts on this? Do we really have to come to terms with having to pay $700+/mo for this?

(somehow arranging this for ~$300/mo would be amazing)
Completely irrespective of whether there is a strong causative link between these things and cancer -- If I were a parent, I'm not sure I'd want my child inhaling little grains of tire rubber while playing soccer. They contain a ton of arbitrary hydrocarbons, whose health risks are often unknown and unclear.

While the 10-year studies are being conducted, I'd either make my child play on real grass if possible, or, at least, in a position where they came into minimal contact with this stuff.
Ah, time to pull out and dust off my Benjamin Hoff: The Tao of Pooh. I have frequently focused on a different part each time I re-listen to the audio book format...

Doesn't this restatement of wu-wei also reinforce Malcom Gladwell's suggested 10,000 hours?
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Chromebooks just became more lucrative for small and medium businesses
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Thanks.

I looked at more teardown pics. It is definitely a segmented display which is far easier to drive than an active matrix (i.e. "pixels"). They also don't have wireless and a host of other things that this device proclaims to have.
I posted this in the reddit thread today, after being part of a larger discussion last week.

Theo de Raadt co-created AnonCVS back in 1995/1996. He and Chuck Cranor from AT&T Labs Research published a paper in 1999 about it.

OpenBSD was the first open source project to make access to their source repository public to non-developers, before AnonCVS you needed commit access to review history, annotations and even checkout. OpenBSD had a read-only CVS tree even before their website was created in 1996.

There are no known prior cited examples of a project providing this level of transparency to the development process, most open source projects at the time only provided "snapshots" of development in the form of compressed source directory tarballs, excluding RCS files. SUP and FreeBSD's ctm(1) only let you merge "current" remote changes to a local non-versioned directory.

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-paper.pdf

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-slides.pdf

And here's an additional historical tidbit relating to FreeBSD and AnonCVS: https://twitter.com/canadianbryan/status/517714611089719296
> What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me - into us - clearly or darkly?
How would FDE affect the SSD/HDD decision (in any way that could favor an SSD)?
> I'd suggest you do some research on this: where's all the information hiding in the Chinese internet? It's just that, things work quite different here in China...

In your posts (the previous one and your last one) you were essentially saying that mainland Chinese do things differently, but it was just as good. Well I've listed specific reasons as to why it's not as good as the way things are in the West.

Your current example about 100 replies to your post is like the number of projects on csdn.net; it's just not impressive like other things in China like the pace and scope of Chinese construction (e.g. the 3 Gorges dam) or China's ambition for manned moon landings... and again it has nothing to do with skill or talent. It's just mainland Chinese culture.
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I keep having flashbacks to 1994... Clipper Chip saga.. anyhow, here's a good read.. looks the the debate hasn't changed too much.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/magazine/battle-of-the-cli...
This guy again? The Coin Guy?
Umm...so its Greasemonkey?
Since Universe is Infinite, it is scientifically impossible to prove non-existence of something.
Still people tend to claim of being first at something.
Americans claim they are first humans walked on the Moon. Is it provable? Did they monitor the Moon all the time it's exists? May be there was another civilization of humans which waked all over the Moon centures ago?
Did Columbus discovered America? - there were people living on the land! etc.
It is all relative, sure.
"“Ultimately, we want kids who are well regulated, who can use multiple cues from others to help decide what they should and shouldn’t do,” Repacholi said."

Is that what we really want? Ultimately I´d hope that we raise kids that can listen to themselves as much as others, so they have some hope of guarding themselves from whatever neuroses the adults around them have picked up.
I used this feature years ago with a Visa from MBNA. They got bought by BOA who later rolled it in to all their credit cards.
Citibank also has this feature since around 2001.
It is considered property, however, when mined it is treated as property received as compensation for services rendered (i.e., verifying transactions in the block). Consequently, it is treated as income at its fair market value when received.
That's right, but what do I learn now ?

Swift ?
OR
Obj. C ?
Exactly, in Argentina the situation is similar. The problem is that no body wants bolivar (or pesos) at the official rate because is unfair.

Bitcoin can help to make that more fair and here is an example. An example is a person that works for a company abroad from Venezuela . If he does what is supposed to do, he will get paid in dollars but with a wire transfer but the local bank gives bolivar at the official rate only and won't be able to buy dollars back.

On the other hand there is always another person that needs to get dollars, to travel or to pay something.

One way to solve this issue is with Bank accounts abroad, the first person get paid on an account in a bank outside Venezuela, then he wire to the second person acc abroad. In exchange the second person pay in bolivar at a good rate to the first one. In the black market it sometimes call "wire dollar" or cable dollar.

Bitcoin can makes this easier because is more tangible, you can meet someone at any place and move the bitcoins from phone. It requires less trust between the parties.

The money always go where it wants to go, there is no way to regulate.
I bet many people from the UK wouldn't click on this link since they'd think it's another crappy dating site.
Now that you mentioned it, it has similar context in Australia as well.
Just read through all 3 posts in the history of this incident, and I am dumbfounded.

It reminds me of how I was friends with a con-artist in college and had no idea about it (though I did think he had compulsive lying disorder).

I genuinely wonder what sort of heuristics Thiel used, and why his presumably quite reasonable approach failed to catch this anomaly.
I'd stick it in your office - $300/mo is still $3600/yr...

Other option I'd look at is spot gpu instances on aws - then it's hosted and you don't buy anything - and potentially you could shut it down part of the time although you're charged a full hour for each partial hour...
I'm someone, and I don't agree.
I... I must be silly, but what does Oracle have to do with it?
How do you get a subdomain like that?
> Even if it were a watering problem, there's nothing too bad with playing on dry grass.

You mean no grass? When I was a kid and there was a drought in Pennsylvania, they didn't water the soccer fields in the summer, and the fields had less grass, and because they were so dry, there was a cloud of dust above the fields about 20 feet high. Breathing that in all practice gave me a persistent post-nasal drip. In California they have to water the fields. There is no rain for half the year.
¿Shellshock es la punta del iceberg de la seguridad su empresa?
You might as well say that we gona create a Warp drive by 2100. Jump necessary for AI advancement makes settlement on Mars an easy problem. We are so far from that we really have no idea how far it is. Human level AI when it happens and it probably will will most likely be at a stage where current tech would seem something out of Ancient Greeks time if not Stone age.
TL;DR on the blog article I posted: in any complex fitness landscape there are points unreachable by simple gradient ascent. Innovation simply cannot be 100% incremental. Leaps must occur, and these are qualitatively different from hill climbing.
Nice! Is it open source?

FYI, me and three others developed one for plants as part of GovHack hackathon [1]. The information is sourced from Atlas of Living Australia database.

One of these days, I'll pick up the code and complete it :) Very time poor right now, unfortunately.

[1] - https://github.com/govhack-botaniser
How do I safely take non-accredited money as a startup?
Somebody exploiting your PDF reader can't upload all your email.
Kurzweil is not respected in the AI community. I have never heard of Moravec.

I thought Scott Aaronson had a survey of AI researchers where they were asked how long they though AGI would take but I can't find it now.
China's potential iphone market likely be bigger than US. Chinese gov can easily say: "Give us the golden key, or your phone is not getting into the China Cell market."
If you can find equivalent Canadian data sources for the US Census-based ones listed in http://www.cts.umn.edu/Publications/ResearchReports/reportde..., I'd be happy to ask Andrew about computing up a map of Toronto.

Looks like he'd primarily need replacements for U.S. Census TIGER 2010 datasets: blocks, core-based statistical areas (CBSAs) and the U.S. Census Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) 2011 Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/10/08/ebo...
>Not likely. Survival of the fittest for a virus usually means allowing the host to live longer - in other words LESS lethal.

Lethality is irrelevant to a virus, all that matters is the probability of transmission. Ebola is about as rapidly deadly as a virus can be and still be viable. The selection pressure is all on shedding large numbers of virus particle in all directions - there is no selection pressure on preventing you from dying.

So why does Ebola kill then? It is basically a side effect of its mechanisms of transmission. It diverts your body into producing an enormous number of viral particles and then makes your body “leaky” so that they are released into the environment to infect someone else. If you were to design a virus based on Ebola from scratch for maximum transmission in humans you would slow down the disease progression, but you would find it hard to remove the lethality.

Another way of thinking about Ebola is that the current strain is not at the local maximum for optimal transmission in humans as it kills too quickly. Any slow down in disease progression will cause the infectiousness in humans to increase. This is why this is something we should be worried about.
At least there is only one confirmed death in the US. A man that already had the disease on arrival.
the wind moves faster on that side than on the turbulent side. This creates lift like an airplane wing.

There's no reason to complicate it like this. It's simply Newtons laws at work. You accelerate a mass of air in one direction, you get pushed the other.

The over complicated theory you've stated there is actually completely incorrect btw.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_(force)#False_explanation_...