skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I didn't know anything of the sort. I only noticed "Asian-Americans" and "Americans" in the same sentence once you pointed it out. I understand the offense that this could cause but to be honest I'd find it odd if he was using "less snobbish" as a negative term. If anything I thought he was being negative towards the "Americans".

Also I sense we both believe that discrimination is wrong, you've taken this fairly strongly. But we approach this matter differently.

Your point about how I would react being described as anything other than South African is dead on. But the truth is that apartheid and colonialism has meant that not all South Africans were born with the same opportunities. So nationality may exist in some abstract sense apart form race but it is not a great equaliser. A whole lot of what I know about the US leads me to believe that this is something our countries have in common.

This is not a verbal trick: I firmly believe that the only way to deal with discrimination is to recognise it even where nobody is using the words. If anything the "trick" is pretending that a stamp on a form wipes out the tremendous advantages or disadvantages of skin colour.
This is exactly what I thought as well. The man's name has been poisoned to me, it seems.
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But the macbook can do that, possibly better in fact, as it has more resources at its disposal to analyze your audio.

As GP said, you're trusting that it doesn't.
That's really interesting. I've actually put some significant effort into using batman but after a month I dropped it, mainly because of the lack of documentation.

I've also wondered about the pros and cons of doing separate backend APIs and having the front end be a separate client and then also the mobile clients. This seems to be the most theoretically clear/clean way to set stuff up but in my experience, having to replicate the models in javascript never has seemed like a good use of time.
"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."

-- Mark Twain

Pro-tip, when people make such outlandish comments and call people idiots en-masse, (which I am amazed hasn't been flagged away), just ignore them. :-)
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Can you elaborate? The argument made sense to me.
"On or about October 7, 2013, the HSI-UC [the undercover agent] was invited to join a newly created discussion forum on the Tor network, concerning the potential creation of a replacement for the Silk Road 1.0 website. The next day, on or about October 8, 2013, the persons operating the forum gave the HSI-UC moderator privileges, enabling the HSI-UC to access areas of the forum available only to forum staff."

They were compromised from day 1, before the 2.0 site had even launched. I wonder how they managed to be a trusted admin so quickly?
came here to say the same thing :) +1!
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We all trust our e-mail to be stored in the cloud.

A lot of people have their own elaborate personal mail setups.

we store sensitive files etc on services like dropbox

A lot of people do not, and it is absolutely trivial not to (unlike say, being totally independent of webmail providers).

we trust that our operating systems aren't collecting/sending data

Trust is not created equal. For example, it is not a stretch at all for someone to think that OpenBSD is more trustworthy than Windows when it comes to security and privacy, and to sleep well at night with reasonable confidence as to the validity of that assertion.
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It wouldn't be starting a business so much as the local government offering a service.
It was previously submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8546139

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>I haven't visited it in a while, but a common sentiment on AskReddit was a total disillusionment with the chauvinistic "support the troops" mentality and a belief that military service does not make one righteous in of itself.

Enough kids who grew up playing Call of Duty has shifted reddit into being more pro-military and pro-weapons. There is also a steady stream of "coming home" photos and videos with kids and pets.
Unless that's what they want us to think. If it was just this undercover agent, how did they shut down the other unrelated markets?

I think we've learned from the Dread Pirate Roberts case that what FBI says they did to catch these guys is a lie. They caught them some other way - either in an illegal way or through some method they intend to use in the future and don't want to disclose now. Either way, chances are it didn't happen the way they say it did.
My guess is that it's not the trigger that's the problem, it's the fact that creating a poll is very hard to do - especially in comparison to just voting. I would find ways to reduce the effort and "cognitive load" of doing the behavior.
Thank god, I was worried that my violent street gang was going to lose business.
South Park did an episode last night about some of the HOOK model aspects like triggers, rewards and how addictive the new model game developers are using. Found it quite funny and timing is impeccable with your bookrelease. Do you think the hook model should and could be applied more to school? Mostly thinking short term, since alot of students dont see (or believe) the long term rewards.
This reminds me of the (just as insane) concerns that people had about Microsoft's Xbox One Kinect being likened to a 1984 telescreen. I crunched some numbers like you just did - back when the One came with a Kinect and had to be online to work, the numbers worked out to something like exabytes of data that would be getting streamed to Microsoft, every single day.

You think the ISP's are cheesed off at Netflix? You haven't seen anything yet. The screaming from a non-trivial portion of their customers suddenly uploading multiple gigabytes of data per day would be deafening.

Sarcasm aside, anyone who thinks that this is seriously some kind of government listening device needs to up their medication. The number of insane assumption that have to be made for this to be plausible are:

* This is a listening device, live transmitting everything you say, when it would be more economical to listen for a codeword on chip. (Amazon is wasting money because they are not a corporate enterprise, and we all know how much companies love spending money they don't need to)

* That the data being transmitted is being stored for long term periods of time (Amazon is wasting money on storage when it makes more sense to just process commands)

* That that literally nobody actually notices the data stream going to Amazon servers when not in active use. (Not bloody likely)

* That ISPs will not flip their collective shit at the data usage should this catch on (Hello? Netflix? And that's a company whose business is transmitting large quantities of hard to compress data.)

* That customers won't notice this data usage when their next bill comes in or when their shitty connections get saturated by the upstream

* That the sorry state of connectivity in the USA (especially with regard to upload/download asymmetry) doesn't render the entire exercise meaningless from a surveillance standpoint even if we ignore every other point above

* That the outrage angle once these things that are never noticed are noticed wouldn't be played up in the media

Fucking. Seriously?

If I were a high level NSA guy, and this was the plan that was brought before me? I'd fire the guy for rank incompetence.
> You have enumerated a list of the worst services available to today's consumer.

All these services probably have a better consumer rating than your Internet provider.
seemingly good point but I think you're comparing apples to oranges. Providing electrical power, sewage lines, etc.. is not very difficult compared to handling Internet traffic. To make more clear what I mean, I wonder how your electric company would deal with a set of problems like when a torrent shows up on one of your customer's computers? Not to mention that IT support is probably more expensive than having your gas line checked for a leak.
I'm curious, when's the last time you used Juju?

Juju has first class support for Azure, Joyent, HP, MAAS, and whatever Openstack you want, in addition to EC2. They're all at feature parity (plus or minus some pretty minor stuff).

There are a lot of features still to be added, for sure... but calling it not production ready is disingenuous, IMO.
In practice, "No." to both. Which suggests that you are far more confident than you should be.

Amazon publishes the leadership principles that they demand their employees aspire to: http://www.amazon.com/Values-Careers-Homepage/b?node=2393650...

Look over those for a moment. Assume for the moment that Amazon engineers and their management take them seriously.

When Amazon employees working on this project raised concerns about privacy, do you think that they were berated? Or do you think that they were heard out? The sort of attitude that you have towards these concerns is exactly what so many people fear. It is part of the reason those guideline principles were created.
Yes, this one anecdote must mean the entire concept of municipal broadband is untenable.
This is neat. One thing, would it be possible to show "verified" accounts? Meaning if someone puts up the stack that Twitter uses, how do I know for sure this isn't someone's guess and someone at Twitter actually posted it?
"You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it." - Scott McNealy
I had been following the AI research of the Big Four ... but I did not see this one coming. That's pretty sneaky :-)

At this point, the technologies related to personal AIs seem to be fragmenting, similarly to when the sewing machines were being developed back in the mid-1850s. I will be interesting if it follows it through to the endgame, when patent owners come together into a patent pool and create a personal AI device that will change many things.
> I don't care about my location information, I don't use social networks.

> I care about the content of my private communications w/ other people. Including in-person conversations.

A widely accepted security fundamental is that metadata, such as where, when, and with whom you interact, is as valuable as the content of those communications. People in the surveillance business (from security agencies to businesses who track users) value metadata for a reason.

Think about it this way: If you wanted to spy on someone what would be more valuable?: Recording everywhere they go and everyone they talk to, or recording the content of those communications?
I run Net on my t420, and I like it. I feel like I get ~3 hours (I don't keep hard time) using it, and it'd be fair to say typical use is development, w/ web (ie: running X, vi, clang, and various text-processing tools, Firefox, and disk/network intensive things like syncing code-repositories).

I've got a 9-cell battery.

I'm running -current. Now that -current is also offloading rendering to my integrated i915 gfx, I'll be curious to see how screen-intensive work will impact battery.

The joy I get from NetBSD has outweighed various temptations from other OSes. I've dabbled w/ Ubuntu and others, but they're not compelling enough to switch.

If you've got any questions, I'm happy to try to answer.
Ignorance towards 14 year old girls's interests is still ignorance. Like it or not, the next generation will take leadership while our generation ages. It is their values and tastes that constitute our future.

If a company is considering entering the wearables market, fashion and brand need to be intimately integrated with design alongside technology. The reason the headphone industry was stuck in the 1980's was because they ignored exactly this part. Nobody wants to wear the same shirts on their chests- why should they wear the same headphones on their HEADS? Now Beats has created a new market. With new markets come innovation. It is only a matter of time until top sound comes out of fashionable headphones. Maybe there will even be a paradigm shift in sound quality technology as a byproduct of the fresh infusion of capital. I listen on Kipsch.
Well it's awesome until you want to leave or want support or thought wave was good or one of your users violates their ToS and they take your entire account out before you are even notified or its down for a few hours when you're about to drop a big presentation to that client or you find out that local legislation changes make it illegal to export data out of the EU or you're somewhere with a basic GPRS connection or none whatsoever.

These are all real problems I've had to work around.
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Congratulations Werner and GnuPG team!

> GnuPG now support Elliptic Curve keys for public key encryption. This is defined in RFC-6637. Because there is no other mainstream OpenPGP implementation yet available which supports ECC, the use of such keys is still very limited. [1]

Google End-To-End [2] supports ECC by default. We are working on supporting Ed25519, but encrypting and signing with NIST curves should work and be compatible with GnuPG. That said, we've had a lot of compat issues, so it'll be great if Hacker News readers and GnuPG users can help test our implementation against GnuPG. You can generate keys in GnuPG and import them to End-To-End and vice versa, or you can encrypt/sign messages on one software and decrypt/verify them on the other. If you found a bug or anything that doesn't work as expected, you can report it at https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/wiki/Issues?tm=3. If it's a security bug you're eligible for a monetary reward under our bug bounty program :-).

[1] https://gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html#ecc
[2] https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/
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Do the relationships described in that story not seem deeply unhealthy to you? From my (male) perspective the women seem to get treated like property.
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Not all the charts are ggplot2. It looks like the big interactive one is javascript, specifically HighCharts.
Not sure why being pro-weapons is bad, but alright.
What's funny is that a lot of people are worried about the "government" limiting their liberty, whereas in cases like this it's the big corporations that need to be defeated to win back your freedom.

Maybe freedom-above-all folks need to rethink what freedom is all about in this new reality.
Back when I went to UIUC the SIGOps chapter had a "Roll Your Own Operating System" series (mid-90's)[1]. I'm glad to see they are still doing interesting things.

[1] Still available: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigops/roll_your_own/
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...when it consistently and unfairly places itself and its cronies above said laws.
Private tweets make your mention private
URL : https://pvttwt.com

Private tweets are messages that can only be viewed by the people you mentioned

How does Private Tweets work?
https://pvttwt.com/privacy

Why I use this site ?
Because not all people in Twitter you know, and you can not get their mail.
When there is a famous person, and you want to send him a private message, what do you do?
Are you should follow everyone they follow you until they send you or you send him a private message?
You can write a long letter in Twitter.
You can not attach a file in Twitter
If the message does not want to be seen by anyone and you can not put it in public.
Private tweets will help you to do that.
If Blake Benthall actually does prison time, I'd say that's extremely unlikely... I suppose the FBI could have been behind the original setup and then sold it to him...
The argument you made was that "Swift is a general purpose language.". Since both Python and Ruby are generally considered general purpose languages, they _are_ suitable for comparison to Swift in the exact sense that you chose to describe Swift.

I'm not trying to tell you that you are wrong. I'm just saying that your reasoning is flawed, and your arguments don't really support any particular conclusion. "Swift is a general purpose language." - OK? "I fail to see what it lacks." - Noted.

Let's only compare with native, canonically AOT compiled, general purpose languages, though. All of a sudden there are a lot of questions. Why didn't they write it in C? Why didn't they write it in Delphi? Fortran? Forth? The answer is of course that beyond being a native, canonically AOT compiled, general purpose language, different languages have different constructs and models of particular patterns that make them more or less useful for different kinds of tasks and development models.

Apple seemingly recognized that Swift was less useful than Go for the particular task at hand, and while we can't really know for sure if this was a matter of performance, development speed, personal preference of the developers etc, we can probably assume that the choice was based on taking several such quality dimensions into consideration.
It's not votes weighted by subscriber count at all. It's "hotness" weighted by the hotness of the highest-hotness link per subreddit

Hotness: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/db/_s...

Front-page weighting: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/norma...
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Are there open-source voice recognition projects in the works that could replace the likes of Google Now and the others? If not, there should be.
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I'm not sure how this is a whack-a-mole game.

If you run a single-server hidden service, the NSA can track it (unless you think otherwise - tried to initiate discussion here[1]).

Once they track it, they will get your hosting provider to cooperate and before you know it, your server has been imaged and that irrevocable .onion private key is in the authorities' hands. The most you'll see from your end was some downtime, which a cooperative host (an assumption here, granted) would cover up for the FBI (status update: rack/sector/DC failure at XXX).

They can now impersonate your server, MitM you, the works. After that, in order to move, you have to literally move to another onion address.

What you're saying makes sense if there is anyone who habitually rotates servers as a matter of OPSEC, but that sounds like an invitation for disaster.

AFAICT the name of the game isn't whack-a-mole, because when the NSA sees the mole, it will whack it.

It's "bury the mole in the moleyard" - multiple mirrors so as to make locating the actual service very unlikely.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8568667
Most people don't care because they're not culpable enough to feel paranoid. Some percentage of people will be unjustly exploited, but probably not enough to offset the economic benefits that technology like this brings to its users.

I think your focus on 'the people vs the government' is misplaced, because government is just a sort of social technology which can be used and abused like any other technology depending on who controls it at the time. What about Barack Obama, for example? Do you seriously think he will refuse to relinquish power in 2 years? You probably don't, just' just expressing your cynical (and entirely justifiable) opinion about the political class. But that's not much different from a Marxist asserting that business is fundamentally antagonistic towards workers or similar monolithic abstractions. When you make arguments like this you've opted for ideology over empiricism.

Bringing it back to technology, certainly the ubiquity of digital technology makes it easier to establish mass surveillance of a kind that would have seemed nightmarish a few generations ago. But the same technology has also facilitated a significant number of populist uprisings in recent years, and made it far easier for marginalized communities to get their message out in relatively short order, as well as facilitating organizations with both benign and malicious intentions (eg MSF and ISIS, who both leverage social media but for wildly divergent ends).

The internet of things isn't 'coinciding with the dragnet surveillance trend'; the latter is an emerging property of our increasingly networked society. When we use metaphors like a 'world wide web' traversed by 'spiders' and so on, we should not be surprised that such technologies are going to amplify the capabilities of institutional actors in at least the same proportion that they amplify the capabilities of individuals.
I hear you.

...but I feel like it's an important topic, and this conversation thread was ALMOST worth trying to redeem... I thought I could maybe shine a bit of light where there was a lot of heat...

But yeah, I hear ya.
so you guarantee that the system doesn't access the microphones until it gets an interrupt from that chip? I don't see why that should be mutually exclusive.
Even the NSA has to deal with Huxley.
If you're worried don't use the software.
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Looking pretty close to the real random and being actually random are two different things, which is why RNG analysis is so difficult.
I suppose that doesn't apply to using smartcards, as the private key never leaves the card anyway.
Or, they just executed the same plan repeatedly. Clearly
most people opening these markets are not as
smart as they think they are. I would not be surprised if
undercover police tactics succeeded across multiple markets,
and the FBI simply timed the shutdowns to coincide. In fact
I remember reading an interview with a market founder in
cryptonews, where he mentioned the difficulty in finding
and trusting support staff. That's all the more reason
to listen when the FBI comes knocking, asking to help
with support.
why would any company large enough to fund R&D take risks to develop something truly innovative when it could just combine incremental innovation rolled up into an advertising/commerce-linked platform?

especially for anyone trying to develop new hardware, patent barriers have made it much more risky and difficult--especially for small companies--to build things that are truly innovative or disruptive. and to the extent anyone does, they're likely to get bought out by a major company.
It may be a bit counterintuitive but I think the smart watch will help reduce unwanted distraction. I think the buzzes and beeps coming from our watches will be better placed in our lives and since the screen real estate is so much smaller, there will be less room for distracting triggers we don't want.
For example, ever look at your phone to check the time only to find yourself pecking at email or Facebook 30 minutes later? That will happen less on our watches now that looking at the time will just be a mater of looking at your watch. Imagine that! Looking at your wrist to check the time! What a novel idea.