skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Perhaps you might read a bit about CPU VT extensions, No Execute Bits, and similar hardware security technologies. Use your imagination a bit, and you can probably converge on a few key concepts that will significantly extend the usefulness of Linux Containers.

This is the most interesting part. Anyone want to guess? I'm having a hard time - from a hardware perspective contained processes are currently no different from any other processes, taking advantage of the standard user/kernel divide that hardware has supported for decades; they're merely namespaced differently by the kernel. How do you inject hardware into that?
Even so, you're basically voluntarily placing a "bug" in your house, allowing anything you say to be transmitted to someone else.

The user has no way of knowing how that data may or may not be used.
Ask HN: Would you use a docker-based PaaS/IaaS?
I work for Myplanet, a digital products company based in Toronto. We are working with a client and applying our Lean UX methodology to gain a better understanding of the demand for solutions related to Docker.

We are testing for the level of demand for a product that aims to solve some of the issues and problems developers and engineers face when building, deploying, migrating and maintaining their microservice oriented applications. Please take a quick look at the site and tell us if this is the type of thing you'd actually want!

http://getmaestro.io
Well there you go, interesting. The "see who wrote the comment" comment was unnecessary though as it's pretty obvious.
Who cares about what the selling point is? Neither Amazon Echo or Apple is claiming to secretly listen to your most intimate and private conversations, so it can report everything you say over to the NSA.

BUT, those are two devices that would have full capabilities to do so if they really wanted to.

The point is, we trust (or do not) that these services that have access to sensitive information -- are only doing what they CLAIM they are doing with regards to privacy.
D.J. Bernstein stated that he wasn't aware of any patents that applied to Curve25519[1]. This leads to the following statement in the GnuPG v2.1 FAQ[2]:

>For many people the NIST and also the Brainpool curves have an doubtful origin and thus the plan for GnuPG is to use Bernstein’s Curve 25519 as default.

[1] http://cr.yp.to/ecdh/patents.html

[2] https://gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html
Harness Could Allow Dogs, Humans to Communicate
This was done to some extent/similarity by people honeypotting the standard your standard email scammers, having the scammers run around the country to "pick up the check", go through hilarious hoops, etc, so it's certainly not without precedent.

I shouldn't find this as entertaining an idea as I do, already don't have nearly enough free time...
This implies an agent established a direct connection to a server in Benthall's C&C chain. Once there, they simple hacked (or subpoena or Mutual Legal Assistance Treatied) their way back to him.
Differential Expression Patterns of Non-Symbiotic Hemoglobins in Sugar Beet
tl;dr: sugar beets might be a great ingredient for a blood substitute.
He got a lot of crap at AOL for developing gnutella and other programs like WASTE. It was pretty contentious for a few years.
Snapchat is in no way private.
Also given the recent decision in the Ulbricht case that their method of obtaining the server location and contents was not enough to throw out the case may have given them confidence to use the same tactic again. Now they know the law does not apply to them they almost have free reign to bust these markets with whatever resources they have at their disposal.
I'm honestly surprised this hasn't been created before, really cool idea!
Excellent, I've been waiting for Moore's Law to catch up with what I need to engineer my groundbreaking, innovative personal flight device design. Ever since I learned about the F-16's use of thrust and computing power to enable Relaxed Stability, I've been certain my personal flight device will need the capability to operate in that mode. I'm still trying to secure proper IP protections (I'm an amateur inventor) before prototyping for marketing / capital raising, but this is very relevant. Thanks for sharing and I hope to be in contact eventually regarding potential collaboration. Cheers!
My favorite feature is getting to pick my one wake word. Cortana, Dinklebot, Jarvis, GLaDOS. Now if I could pick the voice...
Interesting site. A valuable tool for startups and developers looking to expand their toolset.

Please make a shortcut for "I use this", so we can add technologies without navigating to their individual pages. I added 10 technologies off the top of my head but I keep being reminded of other ones I use and adding them involves a lot of clicking and back and forth.

Added to favourites!
Interesting that LinkedIn is an investor in a startup consisting of its former employees.

http://confluent.io
What alternatives have you chosen that makes you feel more secure? I'm genuinely curious.
Feeblepoint: ultra-simple HTML-based presentations
You are correct. And those few people NOT having their lives online are decidedly not the target audience to begin with.
SF cabdrivers officially join union, take aim at Uber, Lyft, Sidecar
"Just because Skrillex likes them doesn't mean they're actually good."

They have pointed out in the article that Beats really isn't as "high quality" as other superior headphone sets.

So, I don't understand the knock towards them. Its a product. A product that has done extremely well. There are many products out there that sell because of a celebrity endorsed it. In fact the article stated that Dr. Dre was thinking of marketing fashion before he spoke with Iovine on what he should do. Dre would have had sold some product one way or another to make money. Why not Beats?

All in all, it all just worked out for Dre. Beats is a good headset made cheap and sold high. It found its star in Dr. Dre to be the face.

Beats is the George Forman Grill on headphones!

No reason to knock it. There are many products out there that isn't the greatest, but it works fine for most of us. Look at Windows.

Now, should getting rich be the end goal of every business venture? No, but well you'd definitely want it to do fairly well.

--
I think its a cool idea that they are trying to disrupt college. Especially in the fields of the Arts, why not try? More choices means more people (especially young people) get to see what's out out there, what's possible.

How many articles do we need to post on Hacker News about the "youth not able to find a job even with a bachelors degree at Stanford" before some change to how we "educate" them occurs?

All in all, I cannot criticize someone's business practices who's able generate $3 billion for a company let alone $1. Someone was going to do that, why not him?
My sister lives in a town in Massachusetts with community-run Internet. She's always freaking out about broadband caps, violation of which apparently triggers massive fees.
I suppose with a lot of constraints that you can, using something like OsmocomBB: http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/
This is awesome. I have a MotoX with always on listening, but I only use that aspect of it at home. Since the phone is optimized for close proximity listening it often doesn't work when its slightly far away. If the voice recognition works as well as they say it will, then this could be really useful.
Here's how I understand it: if you claim that your database cannot be taken down by component failure, you have to necessarily consider network partitions as well as individual node failure. If you are node A talking to node B, and node B stops responding you cannot distinguish between a node failure and a network failure. In order to claim high availability you must build an AP system.

Let's reduce this case to a multi-master setup where a client can connect to any node and write to it. If a node fails outright and a client tries to connect, no big deal: the client chooses a different node, the failed node eventually comes back online later, catches up, then says "OK, write to me!" opening a listening socket.

However, if a partition happens, and client X writes to node A, client Y writes to node B, and then the two nodes cannot agree on the correct data, then you lose consistency. You can of course say that no node can be written to if other nodes are offline, which means the system is not highly available.

So their stated goal: "The primary design goal is global consistency and survivability..." either implies that high availability is not something they are going for, or that they are shooting for something that is not theoretically possible.

Of course all of the above is just my understanding, not necessarily fact, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
i think you're underestimating how deeply entrenched 'surveillance as a business model' has become amongst leading american tech companies in recent years. this has much less to do with latent consumer demand than companies wanting to leverage that information for advertising and related purposes and desperately trying to craft a value proposition that justifies and normalizes more intrusive forms of data collection.
I found that http://knockoutjs.com/ (which I ultimately picked instead of Angular or Ember) takes backward compatibility very seriously (http://knockoutjs.com/upgrade-notes/v3.0.0.html).
They talked about this eons ago. Maybe 3, 4 years? It's an attempt to highlight smaller subreddits and hopefully boost subreddit discovery.
> The only issue I have is that there is no remote, and I don't see a good path to adding one.

And that is the nail in the coffin for tons of users. If I have a device connected to my TV, and have to get up to open an app, play, pause, etc. that is a huge problem.

My favorite connected device is a cheap box running windows. I can watch shows from Amazon, Hulu, HGTV, HBO, olympics. It has two remotes (media remote and a wireless kb/mouse combo), I can beam youtube videos to it from my phone, watch any flash based video players, and can use the "full" internet easily. The only thing it's missing is some sort of siri/cortana/echo functionality, although I'm guessing that I could add it with some work.
Good time for me to do my annual bitching about how much I hate HN comments. So who made the most agreeable comment on this thread? I don't know...
So if I'm understanding the promotional video correctly, Alexa is listening to you while you have sex.

The best part must be how they represent the capabilities( cloud, always online, third party... ), through an incompetent parent, who isn't capable of understanding the concept. I'm paraphrasing: Cloud?, I've heard that word in the advertisement and it must be good for me.

And continuing by lying:

Quote: So it can just hear you anywhere? Yes, well anyone can hear you anyway.

Nobody except the people in the house you know and trust can hear you, with Echo, the potential listeners become an unknown.
When TechCrunch, the New Stack and Programmable Web Want Their Pitches
Agreed, it sounds more like criminal facilitation than conspiracy.

IANAL but I am well read. If I understand correctly, conspiracy requires an intent to break the law. If you do something with the knowledge that someone might be breaking the law but you have no specific knowledge, it's going to be very difficult to make a case for conspiracy.

Facilitation is pretty much a given.
Would this be able to play Billy Joel's "Downeaster Alexa" without interruption?
How is the FBI going to handle an inevitably popular
decentralized marketplace? Will they prosecute anyone
who downloads the marketplace software onto their
computer?

All the pieces are in place for a true p2p marketplace. It
doesn't exist yet, but it will soon.

EDIT: I should read about OpenBazaar.
The phenomenon of the average person being surrounded by a half dozen internet-enabled cameras and microphones is a pretty recent one; I don't think we've even begun to experience the Bad Things that can result from that. Even if it's highly unlikely that Amazon would use it for evil, there's no stopping a technically savvy malfeasant from doing so. I mean, probably 1/3rd the people reading the post, including myself, are on an Apple laptop. You're staring right into the face of an internets-enabled HD camera. Is it recording? The light says no but the light can lie (https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2...). Is your microphone recording audio and sending it somewhere? Even you, the 1%ers of the tech savvy world, have got to admit that you would have little way of knowing this if somebody did it correctly.
Pretty good read from a woman's perspective. I don't know why I find M/Cs fascinating.
hmmm... doesn't seem to detect cfml as being used. other than that, very nice!!!

I scanned the cfwheels repo: https://github.com/cfwheels/cfwheels

picked up almost everything that we're using
>2.5" woofer
>Deep Bass Response

I doubt that. I'd honestly just prefer a solid midrange speaker rather than a struggling subwoofer.
So your worried Amazon will be specifically listening in to your conversations and use the content to...what? Blackmail you? Share clips of your conversation on the Internet? Inform your wife/husband you're having an affair?
And for HN, the "algorithm" is the subjective judgment of the moderation staff, as witnessed by countless articles on the misogyny in tech (as an example) getting axed from the front page.
What I Learned Asking 98 Strangers About Their Morning Routine
That is exactly what this reminds me of, telescreens. I love the idea of being able to have a star trek like computer interface, but with all the processing being done off site it can and will be used in ways that violate our privacy.
Brings to mind HAL9000
Huh, interesting. What I like most about this is that Microsoft has been putting out a major piece of news (Microsoft Band, Independence Day, now this, etc.) every few days. I feel as if we're now beginning to really see product-level changes as a consequence of Satya being CEO. I'm very excited by these developments.
Bad error message on HN. “Stop spamming us. You're wasting your time.”
I tried to submit to HN a cool video that I came across...

http://youtu.be/SKPYx4CEIlM

I got the above message. Not a very good error message, it is not telling me what is wrong with my submission, is it a duplicate? or what?
I am obviously not spamming HN, just wanted to share something cool.
I feel like people vote only partly on whether they think something is good or bad; they also (or maybe mostly) vote based on whether they think something has a higher or lower score than they think it deserves. So as a post or comment's score rises, people will stop upvoting when they feel it's got enough.
I just found my favourite skin called 'doomed'. It was posted 11 years ago.
http://customize.org/winamp2/skins/21793
I worked on a blog post for Ember and Rails (using the Ember CLI and building a completely separate Rails API)... Check it out: https://www.devmynd.com/blog/2014-7-rails-ember-js-with-the-...
>Echo is Bluetooth-enabled so you can stream your favorite music services like Spotify, iTunes, and Pandora from your phone or tablet.

Seems like it needs Bluetooth to stream music.
A little bit off topic, but whenever I see the name Jimmy Iovine I immediately think of the Macklemore song about his meeting with him. And I feel like the song does a good job representing what Jimmy Iovine stands for and how the music business works. To quote from the song, "rather be a starving artist than succeed at getting fucked." Overall this 'school for innovation' seems like a program developed for people that are wasting time at college, not rigorous students. There are plenty of entrepreneurial programs at universities and colleges and this just seems like a light-weight over-hyped version of those, sorta like the headphones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RwW6ERgpvo --the song.
I was attempting sarcasm; I may have failed.
The two main things I use Siri for are setting alarms ("Wake me at 7 tomorrow") and adding things to shopping (i.e., reminder) lists ("Add pasta to my Costco list").

It'd be kinda magic if I could say "Alexa, get me some toothpaste" (and have it know that I like Mr Sparkle Minty Fresh) and have that turn up on my doorstep the next day.

And I guess if it's always listening, it could build up a 'map' of when you're home. So it could schedule delivery of fresh stuff for when you're likely to be there.
I think so. An internal trigger can also be a routine (such as sitting down to watch TV at the end of the work day.) Connecting to an already established routines is a great place to add new habits assuming that you can effectively cue the user to do the new behavior.
Don't despair, it's going to improve eventually but it takes time. Those companies need to put effort into training their services specifically for accented speech - in the same way they do it for child voices etc. I'm pretty sure it's already on their roadmap!
They should have named it Alexa.
The first one. In an ideal world (tm) you have two physical servers srv0/1, both with full-disk encryption and some form of remote KVM. srv0 is connected to the internet on eth0 and to srv1 on eth1.

Then you set up networking in a way that the only thing aside from absolute required services running on srv0 is your tor gateway, and no traffic from eth1 may pass through to eth0.

On srv1 you set up the usual services, e.g. mysql, lighttpd and whatever you need hosted.

Ideally, you keep srv0 and srv1 in different datacenters, if not even different countries.
>Is this much better than just having a really good smartphone with voice recognition that's connected to speakers in the house?

It doesn't look like it. Maybe it has a better microphone? In any case, this seems like a function that could be just as easily accomplished by a smartphone. (Maybe this is a wasted Fire-phone opportunity?)
I Have been reading this book and almost completed it. I can say this is a great book and help us focus on right area.

I am been working on a consumer facing product(Social Polling app) and we recently had a initial launch of our mobile android app. When we started on this product we thought of giving out many features at once. But after reading your book the thoughts have become more clearer on how to approach this problem.
We started referencing my thoughts with the product related to the core idea. I found voting on questions is a general behaviour of people, when they are provided with some set of options. But creating a Poll and asking a question was not a general behaviour. this has to have some sort of external trigger to make this happen. So We can leverage voting habit and gradually have external triggers so that user starts taking his own polls and asking opinions. Do you this we are moving in right direction?
Intel SGX: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8425178
I noticed that your profile mentioned "recording engineer" so maybe some concrete numbers related to digital audio technology will put boundaries on plausible scenarios.

We assume either of 2 engineering designs:

(#1) the trigger word "Alexa" is detected within an embedded chip. The DSP (digital signal processing) intelligence for analyzing sound waveforms is inside the device. Therefore, the words spoken after "Alexa" are then sent to the cloud.

(#2) the trigger word "Alexa" (and/or other words) are detected remotely via cloud computers. There is no "smart" DSP chip within the Echo device. That means that the device must send a constant 24/7 stream of digital waveforms to the cloud.

If we continue on the #2 scenario, we can guesstimate what data transfer volumes would look like. To be conservative, we use 8kHz 8-bit audio as the parameters which is telephone quality. (Reliable voice recognition probably requires inputs with greater audio fidelity e.g. 16-bit 32kHz but we'll keep the 8kHz-8bit as a possible lower bound.)

Using 8kHz-8bit, it means that the device would have to stream 691 megabytes a day which leads to 20.7 gigabytes a month. Likewise on the back end, the amazon infrastructure would have to scale up to constantly analyze millions of parallel 24/7 digital waveforms. The amazon datacenters would be burning up terawatts of electricity to ignore the 99.99% of digital waveforms that is not the word "Alexa".

So, are there any consumer devices out there surreptitiously uploading 691 megabytes of digital waveforms (or any data) every single day? Is it realistic that Amazon would engineer the product to work like this?

I have a router that has a fallback option to a cellular connection in case my cable is disrupted. I and others would hate to get a surprise bill from Verizon/AT&T for going over my 2GB/month transfer limit if the amazon device was designed via scenario #2.

EDIT TO ADD scenario #3:

(#3) there are unpublicized/secret list of words in addition to the documented "Alexa" within the embedded chip's "vocabulary". Such words might be "vacation" and "book" and depending on the subsequent words sent to the cloud, you'd see ads for suntan lotion or Stephen King novels on your next visit to amazon.com. The chip's vocabulary may also include listening for transient sounds like dog barks or sneezes. You'd then get ads for dog food and cold medicine. In this scenario, a constant digital waveform is not uploaded 24/7 but extra trigger keywords unknown to the consumer causes more data to be sent than he/she agreed to.
Great job! I wouldn't have created http://hackertoolbox.com if I knew this. Time to kill myself!
Can/will this lead to a stifling of true innovation? If this existed and there was one in that the famed Apple garage, or in the house rented by Zuck and his friends, would IBM have let Apple happen, or Google let the FB grow? How many prescient individuals (the future is already here, just not evenly distributed, as Gibson said) do you need to spy on to "manage" innovation in a way to prevent disruption? Could this surveillance era be the beginning of a technology dark age? What really disruptive things have happened since iphone(2007)?

(edit typo)
"prove this doesn't happen"
> Yes, I'm trying to get on a list at the NSA

I have a running joke about this with my mom. The particular list that people like you and me get put on is called the "patriot file." Fortunately, it's way too big of a list for them to follow up on thoroughly, so if your phone conversation (or comment) ends up there, you're really OK.
"From any screen" definitely is one of the choices in Google Now settings, at least on Note II.
I think you misunderstood skorgu's post. I think you're both in agreement. He was saying Echo won't act on anything without first hearing "Alexa," (as in, perform the action you're asking it to) but that we don't know if it will be transmitting the voice data.
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Why is it that problems that are obviously due to lack of man-power in a project are more likely to cause people to call for forking the project into another one that also lacks man-power, instead of considering joining the development team to increase its man-power? The phenomenon fundamentally doesn't make sense to me.
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