skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is ridiculous. This is clearly a key advance needed for automated surveillance and autonomous robotics.

That is like saying that the people who were working on nuclear fission are as responsible as the people who invented the process for creating the metal casing of the nuclear weapons used in Japan.

"Whatever well-intentioned people do, the ill-intentioned would still have researched this and devoted it maybe more exclusively towards evil purposes."

That is like saying you can do whatever you want because if you didn't do it someone else would. Maybe bad people would do this eventually, but maybe they wouldn't. I can tell you that most if not all of the people who want to use these technologies to do awful things are completely incapable of developing these technologies themselves. They have to get people like us to make them.

There is no question that computer vision is being used for military purposes and any advance will definitely be used by the CIA. It is completely ridiculous to think otherwise.

Sure this does have some positive uses, but the very clear danger that is posed by advanced AI and AI imaging techniques really makes this a field that should not be pursued. There is a high chance that this tech will have a net negative effect on the world.

There are many other techs that are much less dangerous to pursue that will provide positive benefits.
For bup, there is something called Kup (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Kup+Backup+System?conte...), but I haven't tested it.

For duplicity, there is a quite good ui in the form of deja dup (see http://www.howtogeek.com/108869/how-to-back-up-ubuntu-the-ea...). It's really nice and easy to use, and if I recall correctly it's installed by default on Ubuntu.
That fiasco is reason alone to never ride in an Uber.
How do I figure this out?

I resolve my DNS through my proxy.

##Preference Name Status Type Value
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns user set boolean true
I am also interested in load testing stateful sessions e.g. log in, wait, do stuff, wait, log out.
Using ponos this could be done by spawning a (gen_server-) process in the task which runs the session and then terminates.
In this scenario the load function would model the arrival rate of the users.
It's a good paper for anyone starting up with the NAT traversal, but it missed few things even when it first came out, so just make sure to read more on the subject if you're actually implementing the UDP/TCP punching.
Yeah, this team is from Nokia Corporation the part Microsoft did not buy (essentially business dev, R&D, some creative and remnants of the N9 (Meego) team that did not leave for Jolla among others). So totally separate from Microsoft.
I think the easiest way to undermine China right now is to trick them into further limiting it's own connectivity with the global internet by banking on their zeal for censorship and their itchy trigger finger.

Not that I'm advocating this as a strategy, it's more of a warning. China has enemies, and those enemies can do a lot of damage feeding the fire that drives it's governments oppressive policies. And they can do it practically for free.
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On the subject of this tablet (too little, too late), there is a nagging question, that maybe someone could explain:

Why has there not been any criminal investigation at all, into the infiltration and acquisiton of Nokia?

1. Microsoft exec becomes CEO of Nokia

2. He bankrupts the company (burning platform memo, etc.)

(Not only does he bankrupt it, but in all the history of corporate business, this is one of the most spectacular flameouts ever...)

3. Microsoft buys Nokia for peanuts

I mean, wouldn't there at least be a bit of an investigation into this? The moment Elop became CEO, I had a suspicion that this was going to happen, and it did! I wouldn't say I'm particularly smart or well-informed - certainly everyone else saw it coming too....

(edit: clarified a couple points)
I'm guessing this is the first example of device created with the Nokia brand as part of the licensing deal mentioned earlier this week [0].

They're simply cashing in on the value of that brand, and I worry ultimately it'll end up worthless.

[0] http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/17/nokia-licensing-its-iconi...
I guess the services advertised in your profile come highly recommended then?
Thats defeatist. We have labels for organic food, so why not have something certified asshole-free? You know, a certificate for ethical behavior or something.

I'm only glad that he really looks like the asshole he is (and so does weev btw.). At least you can still trust your gut instincts.
World is small. I spent a winter there, working with the Synergy Strike Force. One thing led to another and I ended up coaching the regional basketball team:

https://nplusonemag.com/basketball-diaries-afghanistan/

Here are some photos of home base:

https://www.flickr.com/search?user_id=68877611%40N00&text=ta...

One of my best basketball players, an Afghan, and SSF member, is now a Fulbright in the US:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifl/13007763495

@rdl don't believe we've met but nods to you.
Good to know that some stayed. Hopefully Jolla will rejoin the mothership in 2016 :)
I use Gesture Search (from Google) all the time for calling contacts, perhaps this could be usefull also.
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Tor TLS traffic can be distinguished by random domain in SNI during handshake (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5505056).

If FBI can sniff all traffic originating from hosting provider, then it seems to be trivial to detect all Tor servers and go through them manually?
Thanks. Got the answer.
If you mean you get that error when you try to load the website https://www.zlauncher.com/, you can view and download the app directly from the Google Play Store at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nokia.z .
Talk about overkill. That's a quad-core x86-64 CPU clocking up to 2.33Ghz. I realize Atom microarchitectures aren't wide as Haswell and ilk, but that's still some serious horsepower.

It's also interesting that Intel doesn't mention the TDP on their site.[1] I wonder if it eats more power than a comparable ARM CPU.

1. http://ark.intel.com/products/81195/Intel-Atom-Processor-Z35...
I saw "par2" and got all excited to see if lelutin re-implemented all the Galois field goodness from scratch, looked at the source and - no, bup merely spawns the par2 binary. Damn :)
Nice, when trying to sign up to the newsletter it says i'm blocked.. On all addresses, what gives?
Yes, although I couldn't tell how are they called. The official Nokia site lists Networks, Here (maps) and Advanced Technologies (mostly patents) as 3 main divisions.
Which country would investigate?
N1 is their product. They just use contract manufacturers just like Apple does. They are also hiring new people for tablet development.

Nokia only sold their phone manufacturing and design to Microsoft. Nokia is Nokia Networks, Mobile Broadband- and Global Services, Nokia HERE ja Nokia Technologies (previously Nokia Research). They also own the patents (just licensed to Microsoft)
Simple mail security for everyone, Jumpble.io
I'd just like to point out that Windows Phone has almost nothing to do with real Windows, no matter what Microsoft's marketing is trying to say.
I'm not sure, because I've never had a fraudulent transaction with it and never heard of anyone who has. Probably because it's point of sale, card present only. (Fraud with ATM withdrawals is an issue, but that's the bank's problem).
There are alternatives for Android Play Store already. The Chinese have several, there is the one from Amazon, ... There is no reason to think one by Nokia would be any more different or successful than those.
What to Do to Make Your E-mails More Secure Online?
Works well for me, FF33 on OS X.

They simply have a carousel in which they embed <video> elements, here's a direct link to one of the files: https://www.zlauncher.com/video/Afternoon_H1.mp4
Exactly! and whose loss is it?
I thought it was already established that "megacorporations" are above the law of any country.
I think you are mistaken on the positions of the PCF. Please read the political program for the 2012 elections "L'Humain d'abord" and tell me where it favors "totally state-governed economy" or is "against free market". (It is, indeed, for a greater control of financial transactions, but that does not mean being against free market.)

Extreme left in France is parties like Lutte Ouvrière and NPA (formerly LCR). Besides, extreme left is very diverse, contains trotskysts as well as libertarians (who never, ever have supported the USSR, and some of them think that PCF militants are stalinists and socio-traitors).

You are mistaken, PCF is not considered extreme left in France. The fact that you are placed on the 'far left' on election results does not mean you are extremist. It means you are on a place of the political spectrum where journalists chose to put you, and that they have found no one more radical than they judge you are to put to your left and who presented candidates. But no one really labels PCF as extremists, except some people who have an interest in doing so: those from the right wing who wish to make a coalition with extreme right.

As for your parallel between PCF and extreme right in France (I think you refer to FN), I am truly sad that someone as smart as you are can fall in that kind of ideological trap. Look beyond the labels and actually read what the Front de Gauche proposes, it has nothing to do whatsoever with what the FN intends to do.
Yeah that would be awesome. I had an N9 and loved it. Incredible device in terms of design and OS. It was an absolute shame and a disaster that it fell to the way side for Windows Phone.

Nokia had made a massive mistake by neglecting Symbian for half a decade, but I think going with Windows Phone was an even bigger mistake. Meego really could have been huge if they just stuck with it.
Fun idea
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Finland or EU (not a country (yet?), I know), of course. Nokia was a Finnish asset and EU should be looking into these deals to begin with.
The SSH one is probably easiest to detect. When you first connect to a session the public key fingerprint of the server is saved in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file. If you can verify this out of band somehow actually is the correct fingerprint (call a friend and ask them to connect and get it), then chances are it's not being tampered with. Essentially it would have had to have happened the first time you connected to the server, and every single time afterwards else OpenSSH makes it very, very clear you've been hijacked.

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!

Yeah. So if you don't remember seeing that and the fingerprint is correct, probably nobody has been tampering with the connection. Which would imply that they've either cracked the cipher and are tampering with it anyway (unlikely as hell), that your DNS requests are somehow leaking (somewhat likely) or maybe it's some sort of nocebo effect. Hard to say for certain, wireshark might be the place to go in order to find out some more about your outgoing DNS requests though.
Isn't suprising? It should be opt-in, not opt-out.
s/developed world/USA/

Signed,
Paym user
mm must htry an dfind a copy I remember seeing the boo crew preenting at a first tuesday and was shocked how poor they where.

I copuld have picked 3 first level managers from BT at rendom and woould have done a better job
2 and 3 are highly contentious. Nokia's mobile phone division was in huge trouble long before Elop showed up, and there is no indication that anything he did made it worse. And given the state Nokia was in, the deal they got from MS was extremely fair.
I had the exact same thing and also, after Microsoft buys Nokia, Elop became Microsoft's Vice President of Microsoft's Devices & Services... It's like it was meant to be :)

He also received quite a bonus after selling Nokia
Why they using an iPhone to represent the Morning/Evening for an Android app ?
I was thinking about buying the Nokia Android phone back in June, but then I read reports they abandoned the platform. I don't trust them. Being stuck with unsupported software is really bad if the software sucks. And Android often does. I wouldn't consider 2.1 or lower release ready.. beta at best.. yet they sold it to consumers.
I particularly like reading this, and then comparing to something like this: http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf
Really hope this type of event spreads - looks like a lot of fun.
You can make a shortcut but it's hard! You have to long press on the icon once you've scribbled for it. Then it should become draggable.
And with the USB3 Type C connector. AFAIK it's the first major device maker to make the move.
This is from the independent Nokia that makes HERE Maps, not from the division acquired by Microsoft.
bup does that.
That privacy policy is brutal, and it's just for their analytics and enabled unless you opt out in the settings. The application runs just fine without all of this data being sent to them. You're giving them your bookmarks, call history, contacts, favorites, gestures, app launch times, location, SMS metadata, notifications and internet searches.

https://www.zlauncher.com/privsupp.html
Nokia was 4 months away from shipping the "Lumia" running MeeGo when February 10th happened.

People were pretty angry.

Source: I was working there on the project at the time.
How much music is disappearing
Why has there not been any criminal investigation at all, into the infiltration and acquisiton of Nokia?

Who would you investigate and what crimes would you accuse them of?

The closest thing I'm coming up with is blaming the directors that hired the CEO for tanking shareholder value, but that's a civil matter. Being incompetent is not a crime unless you can prove fraud.
You're thinking imperatively. It is not "do this" but "generate the set of possible solutions".

The "soft cut" part I'm presuming is similar to Prolog, where a "cut" indicates that once you've gotten past it, you can't backtrack (roughly - my knowledge of Prolog is rather limited) to try other arms - so "choose" is forced down one path by the guard, and then not allowed to also evaluate the other arm, while "if" can generate both alternatives.
Nice Drupal site.
A lot of newer CPUs aren't available in DIP packaging which means they won't be usable with a breadboard; the M68k is one of the more unusual ones in that it's available in a 64-pin DIP, the longest common DIP package. E.g. all the x86 processors moved to square packages starting with the 80186/80188, only the 8086/8088 were in DIP.

DIP packages are problematic for high-speed operation since the leads to the pins near the ends are longer than the ones in the middle, creating signal skew; hence the move to square/BGA packages.

That being said, there are microcontrollers with a relatively powerful ARM core and in DIP, but they usually have internal memory and use the pins for peripherals, not as a full memory data/address bus.
It looks like 7in iPhone. Even the connector looks like a lightning jack from the renders. And at 6.9mm its thinner than every iPad other than the Air 2 and is even thinner than the 6+ (its as thin as the 6).

Also a quad core intel atom. Are there any consumer devices running x86 Android? Seems like an interesting choice, I wonder how long intel can squeeze that battery.

Really interesting design choice on Nokia's part, but it seems too recent to actually be a copy-cat in design. Really can't wait to get my hands on one.
It has become substantially more difficult over the last year or so, in my experience, with periodic blockages and slowdowns.
It's... Interesting. It forces you to think about the names of apps which I find offputting. I look for the colours and shapes of the icons - or remember the location on my homescreen.

For example, I couldn't really remember the name of my PodCast app. I scribbled P... then O... then D... Until finally my brain clicked and I remembered it was "AntennaPod".

This will, I'm sure, be incredibly useful for people who don't like to organise their phones and who also are great at remembering names.
Also writing infinity as oo is questionable, IMHO. Use Inf or Infinity or ∞.
Sure thing. I guess you could even spawn a task that generates new load_generators. In that scenario I guess it could be useful to have the possibility to configure a load generator that terminates after the call_counter reaches a threshold.
if they do then that sucks, Nokia has a LOT of industry patents, including a few on bluetooth.
I've been wondering this for a long time myself. Even the fact that the company was steered away from Meego for (at the time) a less functional OS like Windows Phone (damned thing didn't have a twitter app and Meego came with one...) by an ex exec who could potentially benefit from the migration of Nokia's devices to Microsoft OS(if he had options).

Such a shame. Meego was revolutionary and is still imo the most intuitive OS ever made. If only someone reputable picked it up, as it still is revolutionary.

Android took the double tap to turn on and HTC Sense took the app cards but beyond that it still has an edge if it was around today.
Nokia has however been shopping its brand around to third parties looking to slap the Nokia label onto their own designs.
Tomi Ahonen has made a few lists..

edit for downvoters who don't know now to run a web search:

http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2013/09/elop-25...
The information on the pretty website is spare. However, there are a few issues which give me pause.

The integral example already given is one. One must wonder what is going on "under the hood" to give such a result. My hypothesis is that Riemann sums are what's going on, and that the integral uses 0 as a sample point. An interesting point is that this is one of the unit tests. https://github.com/gogotanaka/Hilbert/blob/master/test/inter...

Another is the example of lim[x->0] 1/x => oo. This is not true; the limit does not exist. If one said lim[x->0+] => oo there would be a better case. Also a unit test. https://github.com/gogotanaka/Hilbert/blob/master/test/inter...

(1 2 3; 4 5 6) * (1 2 3) => (14 32) is not how matrix multiplication is normally done. ( (1 2 3) would need to be (1; 2; 3).)

All in all, the grammar seems to be quite irregular; it seems to be the result of a sequence of wanting to solve one very particular kind of problem (take a limit, differentiate a function, take a sum) and cludging it into the parser.

https://github.com/gogotanaka/Hilbert/blob/master/lib/hilber... has seven exclamation marks in a row. That's amusing... I don't know anything about Ruby, but I feel that it must be a joke.
Obviously I think it should be opt-in. I'm not surprised it isn't, though
You get it all wrong. He is not saying "Google will not contribute back to LLVM" per se. He said "Any entity can leverage LLVM without contributing back. It's very nice Google is playing fair with the community, but not all commercial entities will be that friendly, and LLVM's licence makes it easier. He is not attacking Google and there is no reason to take it "personally" and entering to the "defensive mode" immediately.
I thought that Microsoft was getting rid of the Nokia brand?
Thanks, I got it! Only the icon is draggable, and it's draggable always (not only after you scribble for it). Very non-intuitive, I always drag the entire entry, list row for example, not the icon alone.
Here is a good article written around 2 years ago on how Nokia went from MeeGo to Windows Phone:
http://taskumuro.com/artikkelit/the-story-of-nokia-meego
Hence I wrote

> there's an option to opt-out which (apparently) makes the app no more privacy-invading than any other launcher
So Microsoft only buy Nokia for Phone brand, Nokia cam still make other related device that other phone using Nokia brand.
Yes like when Europe fights against Mittal when they close profitable steel factories or screw them with no investments and R&D, oh wait.
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That's your opinion.

But the science disproves your opinion.
McDonalds, Starbucks, and many other private companies, all do not require an account, many don't even require you buy anything.

Counting street lights as electricity is a bit of reach. Last I checked to have electrical service or water service I actually had to have an account. After all, where would they provide it?
As a MeeGo fans since back when it was called Maemo (I even had an N810) I'm as sad as the next person to never get that phone. That being said I am not at all convinced that going with MeeGo over WP wouldn't have left Nokia in worse position than the one it ended up in.
Escape Sequences – A Quick Guide
Shell control characters may seem complicated at first glance, but once you play around with them they become simple and powerful. With this knowledge you can finally understand the PS1 environment variable, have beautiful command line applications, or as in my case, make a nyancat run through your screen representing the progress of you test suite.

http://shiroyasha.svbtle.com/escape-sequences-a-quick-guide-1
He got payed by Nokia board to drive it into the ground as part of his bonus.

So the board is to blame, he was just going after his bonus.

"Elop was entitled to immediate share price performance bonus in case of a “change of control” situation…"

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/24/nokia-payo...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/terokuittinen/2013/09/24/nokia-a...
Meanwhile in 2012 ... http://slatd.deviantart.com/art/Nokia-N1-298087658
> He also received quite a bonus after selling Nokia

He achieved what he was hired for. Sadly
So you have to launch it locally? Can't it observe changes on a public git repository and run it after each commit?
Hi, PM for Z Launcher here. That's just a generic smartphone image. Any similarities to smartphones living or dead is purely coincidental!
They are.

This is not Microsoft making tablet with Nokia brand. This is Nokia the company making their own Tablet.

Nokia only sold its ‘Devices and Services’ business to Microsoft and licensed its brand for transition period to MS.
Hi Steventhedev, Z Launcher PM here. What do you mean by travel/email card system?
> It's completely defensible. Would you rather people go to jail for painting hypotheticals of crimes? Perhaps we should send everyone who's ever written a violent novel to jail? Thoughtcrimes are real, now. People can never be frustrated.

I haven't read anything suggesting that people should go to jail. I know I'm unlikely to use a taxi service that contemplates blackmailing or retaliating against me using private information if they decide that I'm too annoying, though, even if they decide not to do it. I'm kind of surprised other people feel differently, TBH.

> Further, why does this article repeat over and over that this wasn't "off the record" going to every length to try to justify publishing it?

So that the reporter's future sources will feel comfortable giving explicitly "off the record" information with the expectation that it will stay confidential. It has literally nothing to do with the accuracy of this story one way or the other.
> But I think many would any way because they are in Chinese

Any serious service is localised in Chinese.

> and local (faster, even without the GFW)

Any serious service would use a Chinese CDN or host servers inside China.

> And some are just better, WeChat and Taobao for example.

Would WeChat and Taobao have reached critical momentum if they were subjected to the full force of competition in their early phases? It's impossible to know of course, but it's something to consider.
John from Nokia here. We are thrilled that you like it. Great things to come :)
Placekitten hasn't been working for a while unfortunately