skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can rest assured that the cameras are being used by the government. All over the West, they're clearly showing us they don't want us to have any privacy.

As for the article, it is, of course, some sort of propaganda. I guess they're just acclimating us to being aware that we're monitored all the time, everywhere.

That way we're easier to lead down the slippery slope all the way to where ever we're headed. But it's not good.

People need to wake up and start seeing that governments are obviously not working towards our interests. It's amazing how the masses still don't see it.

Do we want surveillance? No. Are we going to be surveilled anyway? Yes, of course. It's not about what we want - it's about what our rulers want.
I've only worked for one place that didn't immediately vest (after a 90 day period) and that was a long time ago and the CEO is currently rotting in jail.
The goatse.cx lawyer has informed us that we need a warning! So.. if you are under the age of 18 or find this photograph offensive, please don't look at it. Thank you!
The alternative in DNSSEC to ECDSA isn't "log based crypto".
Just because somewhere is public does not mean that it is expected (or ok) to be under blanket surveillance there.

People can film you in public places, but they can't follow you around all day filming constantly from multiple angles. That would be harassment and invasion of privacy. This is however, the real situation in large parts of the UK.

It's now impossible in most of London to meet with political activists or journalists without being surveilled.
> That question has nothing to do with whether we should hate CCTV or not. The question is is do you think it'll be abused. If the answer is yes, then CCTV is incredibly dangerous.

You've made several great points, but I would invert your question. What value does systematic CCTV offer? If we have no strong evidence then perhaps we should dismantle the network.
> Double bottom

This is no place for this kind of tea leaf reading nonsense.
Few people dispute that it costs a billion dollars or so to bring a new drug to market. That's a heavy cost foreign manufacturers don't have to pay.

The fact that marketing is a higher spend is irrelevant. It's like free2play on mobile. You spend a bunch of money developing something. If you can spend $.90 in user acquisition to earn back $1.00 then you throw every single dollar you can muster so long as the benefit is higher than the cost. It's a diminishing returns equation so you do as long as you can. The highest grossing games have marketing campaigns on the order of $100,000,000. Basically the same thing here. Take out as many loans as you can so long as it works.
> Let this be a lesson to you. Don't indulge the perpetually offended. [...] Should they be hired, fire them.

How is that not what Mozilla is doing?

Or do you mean, only those people who are "perpetually offended" by things you agree with, rather those "perpetually offended" by the things that you too are "perpetually offended" by?
Went to the physio with RSI and she recommended I take up swimming. Totally worked.
Oh, really?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/462230/Edward-Snowden-re...
But where do most new drugs come from? (Not a rhetorical question, but serious).

If the US system of insane drug prices leads to 10x the drugs of a system of capped drug prices, I could see an argument to be made that insane drug prices are saving lives.
> I don't understand what you're implying. A drug requires billions in investment. Why would a company invest billions into a new drug if they can't make that money back?

Well pharma companies tend to spend so much money because they are run very inefficiently in the first place. Plus there's the cost of lobbying...
There's loads of more recent that 20 years old stuff. Selfies, the migrants, payday loans, non functioning websites etc.
over a long enough time period? yes.
Or just put the osascript line in your crontab?
Say GDP in US is growth 2%, inflation is 3%, and stock market is up 10% a year - where do the extra 5% come from?
Of course he can. You can map keys for only specific modes (imap, vmap, nmap, etc...).
The actual surveillance of 1984 was facile compared to today; today we are infinitely more surveilled than was described in the book. We carry cell phones which are fountains of data regarding our communications and movement, and we use the internet, which is a very large window into the content and often intent of our minds, not to mention ANOTHER fountain of information about our location and communications. On top of that, there are probably more CCTV cameras, dashcams, airborne cameras (with ARGOS), and body cameras today. Hell, they even have microphones and cameras in public buses / bus stops / metro trains.

These cameras are all infinitely more utile than in 1984 once they are linked to facial recognition and gait recognition technology. In 1984, you could be an unnoticed face in a crowd if you weren't under investigation-- not so in our reality. You step outside, and the fact that you did so is tied to your identity and dossier and noted for later.

Like I said before, Ingsoc of 1984 was a primitive surveillance society which still relied on humans to manually collect data on each other's conversations and movement patterns. It just doesn't scale as cleanly as an automatic computer system does. There wasn't any ability to create dossiers on 100% of people passively, nor was there any ability to sort people based off of various patterns, nor was there any ability to build sentiment maps, etc.

As far as exploitation goes, I'm not going to say that our society is blatantly coercive using surveillance in the way that Ingsoc was. Wild abuses of the surveillance apparatus is utterly undeniable, however. Consider that whistleblower Russ Tice has said that Obama was being surveilled before his presidential term. Consider the terms "LOVEINT/SEXINT" and the JTRIG group. These are serious, democracy-eradicating abuses whose purpose is blackmail, not finding terrorists. I will also say that the current trend of politicians trying to outlaw cryptography and the sentiment there there should be nothing beyond the government's reach is taking us even further into totalitarian territory.

Then there's the whole "we never voted or asked for this and now it won't go away" thing. As far as I can tell, the government doesn't have the consent of the governed to pursue these programs.
One place I worked, they installed a program that reminded people every few minutes to take breaks and have good posture.

The longer you worked, it showed a different color for how fatigued you were. Taking regular breaks kept you at green, constantly typing made it go toward red.

I found that the program displayed the colors by just displaying different picture files of just that color. I changed those files to pictures of your character from Doom as he takes more damage. The longer I typed without a break, the bloodier the guys face got.

Oh, as for your question, no it didn't work. I just saw it as a distraction so removed the program (which I wasn't supposed to be able to do.)
I think the underlying reason is that it's really hard to evaluate if an SDK is useful. The promises of the documentation aren't always reflected in the reality of the implementation, and often only hard experience can reveal the truth.
i don't have sound, so when i watched the video i don't know if there was someone explaining the output of the command line prompts, but from the video it looks like a grad student project, not a system to sell
How and Why We Designed Lucida
They're investing in research on the expectation that their patents will be honored. If patents are ignored, what do you think this will do to any future research that requires tons in capital expenditures?
I think the bigger point is to have a contingency plan in place so your whole engineering team isn't sitting on their thumbs with stupid grins on their faces.
I was just kidding around. Im pretty sure its impossible to get the icons right because alot of optically different devices are technically equivalent.
> First it was a setting in the preference panel, preventing you from installing non-MAS apps without disabling it.

Pretty sure the default is MAS + Signed Apps. This setting also doesn't actually stop you from installing a non-signed app. You just have to right click and select open to bypass the warning.

I actually keep this enabled so I know if an app isn't signed. So installing non-signed apps is a conscious decision.
Fuzz Testing Zstandard
This is where 1984 and Brave New World diverge. In 1984 people obeyed because they were afraid. In Brave New World, which is closer to reality, people fell into the arms of the big stage. They wanted it.

That is why Brave New World is far more chilling.
Correct, but in many real cases you can do much better than using Horner's especially when you want to exploit SIMD. Infact dumb sum of powers of monomials can run faster than Horner's. Typically your compiler will vectorize them to use SIMD pretty effortlessly. It took me by surprise when I saw it. If you have millions you could probably do as you said and still gain a lot of speedup but for few hundreds it might be a different story.

EDIT @jacobolus does it cover Estrin's ? Its certainly older than the 90s. The main problem is Horners does not have any parallelism. With Estrin's one can oarallelize along two axes: Use threads for one and simd for another. Although I believe one can play with the parse tree to get better speed than Estrins on your specific hardware.
The piece on the events page[1] is Josh Keyes[2]. Another artist that hasn't done anything new in years. It makes me chuckle when artists that claim to be so anti-corporate practice exactly the same techniques of brand management to inflate their bank accounts.

[1] http://dismaland.co.uk/events/
[2] http://www.joshkeyes.net/

PS. I'm not calling them out on hypocrisy, but instead on spending the latter 2/3rds of their careers cashing in as opposed to taking a risk and pushing their work forward.

EDIT: I do not recall much of Josh Keyes' work being anti-corporate in case the wording above appears to sound like I'm saying that. With him is just the typical unoriginal sameness over the last 10 years.
qwerty's question isn't hypothetical. Pharma research indeed is a high stakes game.

What's more appropriate to ask though is how do developing/under-developed countries compete with the money spending power of west. Are the poor people forever destined to look for aid from the west? If they ain't creating all the drugs, they ain't creating all the horrible diseases either. Many tribes were perfectly happy and healthy until the intruders affected their ecosystem.
Who are you to decide what on my computer is crap?
Open Bionics robotic hand for amputees wins Dyson Award
This one says sitting straight is bad, that a 35% lean back is ideal: http://mashable.com/2011/05/09/sitting-down-infographic/

I have 2 blown lumbar disks, and for me at least, the 35% lean back, even if it means slouching on the couch, eliminates pain when I do have to sit for extended periods.
> But where do most new drugs come from? (Not a rhetorical question, but serious).

US market because that's the largest pharma market in the world, and it's the most friendly to businesses as well (since you can do direct to consumer advertising for pharma drugs, which is forbidden is about every other country). It's kind of natural that this is the market with the most innovation, but also where prices go the craziest, because of the way the insurance system is structured,
No, it's not intended for me. I'm actually evaluating it for other people (I work with people that are totally lost in Unix shells) and playing with its terminal to see exactly what I've been given.
Why Socialism? By Albert Einstein
If it's been more than a year since you've used a distribution, your opinion, positive or negative, is likely innacurate. The Linux community iterates at an order of magnitude faster then the windows or Mac ecosystem. The Chakra of today is far smoother than the ones a few years back.
Depending on how many other dollars you have to spend on things that you might enjoy eating.
This itself explains the worship of the Standard Algorithm, and why people see a New World Order conspiracy behind every attempt to reform math education.

Not helping matters is the fact that most of the reformers are themselves ignorant chuckleheads who identify the heuristics that skilled arithmeticians use and codify them as a NEW set of rules to be memorized...
All that static typing shoud lead to an awesome IDE experience. Given that this hasn't happened, I wonder if there isn't something wrong with Haskell's design that works against it?
Gravity also doesn't give you chemistry.

Earth intuitions are not good to apply to the universe. Life on Earth may seem very robust and resilient, but the universe as a whole does not seem friendly to it. And yet, even things as hostile as the surface of the sun is as a verdant garden paradise for life compared to the dark matter universe, because at least on the sun, atoms interact with each other. The dark matter universe looks more like one of those universes where someone tweaked the constants so that stars and planets never form and so nothing but hydrogen ever exists. It doesn't matter how much hydrogen you pour into a universe, if that's all you have, it's not going to be alive.
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USAA is, indeed, an exceptional bank. Hard to get in, though, unless you have served in the military or have a parent that did. My father was quite surprised when I asked him to sign up for a website account (not bank account) so I could use that to join.

You see, USAA was one of the first banks to have an Android check deposit app. Years before B of A.
Living in Denial?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style-blog/wp/2014/12/16...

http://www.chicagonow.com/listing-toward-forty/2013/11/elf-o...

"Smart" TVs, and most of the "Internet of Things" stuff is all about monitoring us. XBox's Kinect is in the mix too.

And they're just brazenly telling us through the mainstream media. Again, they're acclimating us to being aware that we're surveilled all the time.
i mean- how many "legacy media companies" have world class tourist attractions? ignoring their shows, movies, and music all together- how many celebrities do they create? they are a staple of American consumerism.

Princess Diana seems carefully selected to me. a more recent death would be "too soon". a less famous death wouldn't be familiar. a less public death wouldn't prove the point. a less innocent death wouldn't be sympathetic.
That is an incorrect lifting position because that guy's huge chin makes him top-heavy, he'll just fall over the box.
Github employees are here on HN, and just as likely to answer here vs a tweet or whatever.
After you get past that, maybe some basic scripting would be in order.

The course needs more content, through and through. You've got a solid beginning, though.
I'm able to watch livestreams on livecodingtv without registering
> The pharmaceutical industry pays for clinical trials, marketing, and bribing doctors and government officials all over the world.

Bribing goes both ways. Politicians and Doctors actively WANT to be bribed as well, let's not pretend they are victims.
I've been wanting a harder mattress for a while. Now I have a great excuse.
Why not create a series of (edit: autoupdating) symlinks like ~/today and ~/yesterday? Just a thought.
Yeah, tensed up muscles are weird in how they can cause pain elsewhere, no?

I had something similar where neck- and shoulder tension was the cause of headaches. And a friend of mine suffered from what felt like a tooth-ache for weeks, which turned out to be caused by a cramped up jaw muscle (which nobody thought of at first, since they were focussing on where she felt the pain).
I know this is a statement of where the market is going, but boy is it depressing to see people saying that 20 Euros is too much to drop on a piece of software.
"The Clintons"? We're going to lump Hillary in with the policies of an administration that she married into?
Life in the Paris Banlieues
I'm a bit nervous about doing this. At the moment, I've got the possibility of paying $2k/month or dying. If we mess with a system that's clearly working, will I continue to have the choice of paying $2k/month?

For Gleevec, almost surely yes. But what about other undiscovered drugs?
The author's "his overwrought images continue to be rooted in the same, familiar liberal values that people are all too eager to agree with" kind of implies he's going to be anti anything a bit lefty.
Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter Issue 145
I doubt the CEO dug up the content; more likely the potentially libelous comment was brought to Mozilla management's attention by someone else, possibly the recently departed employee who was it's target.
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10093074
Determining the Age of Fingerprints
I hear lots of discussion that deadlifting with proper form strengthens the core. Also, being a compound lift, you'll hit tons of other muscle groups as well.

Mark rippetoe's book on starting strength is a great read on how to execute compound barbell exercises like the deadlift, and also has some great information on things like progressive overload. I'd recommend it even if you don't plan on following the starting strength program.
You don't need to "reverse engineer" anything. The large majority of the drugs of the market are in the category of small molecules and they are well known and described everywhere. Any organic chemist from any university can draft a synthesis path.

the only thing holding the system in place are the patents, not the knowledge.
Actually it's not that easy because Google Services will transmit data back to Google even if you're not logged in. At a minimum it transmits back statistical information but it's not entirely clear what is sent. Which is just like with Windows 10, we don't know exactly what's being transmitted.

So from what I can tell there is no difference.
75,000 Popcorn Time users will be getting a surprise in the mail this fall
TravelersBox has a solution for your pesky foreign currency
A physical therapist once told me that you need to to sit and stand as if a string is connected to the middle of your sternum and being pulled skywards. Apparently this is what they teach in Ballet schools. For me it worked well and my back pain, over a 4 week period vanished.
> 1. One file distribution.

What's wrong with using data URIs?
I've struggled with a minor case (once major) of TOS for years, particularly with clarinet playing. I totally agree with the importance of strength for this.

I recently switched to a standing desk at work, with a tall chair for the option to sit, and it has helped some, but I think what helped most was rowing and weight lifting.

The other thing I've been finding is how much emotions affect posture. When I'm feeling open and unafraid, my whole front side opens up and relaxes, and when feeling insecure, it all curls forward.
Yes, the propaganda is quite thick on this topic.

They don't want us to have privacy because (duh) knowledge is power, and they want even more power. Maligning opting out is covered safely by the "if you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide" cliche (which is never challenged in the public channels) and allegations of surveillance are still shut down by the "conspiracy theory" smear.

They're ready for widespread rebellion and attacks on government installations. Many of the people-tracking systems that they have in place were tested against guerrilla IED networks in Iraq, and they've armed every government agency to the teeth-- even the US Department of Education has a SWAT team [0].

[0]: http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2011/06/beware-t...
A feature for who? I prefer precise language and being understood.
The government is funding free software. Just not in the way you might expect. :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jQoAYRKqhg
If you do get one, I suggest making a cover for it to prevent squashed bugs from falling in and modifying keystrokes.
It probably uses the local time zone name (for me it shows CEST) and was written by someone who assumed all time zone names are always abbreviated.
Why WhatsApp bombed in the US, while Snapchat and Kik blew up
Yep. Short selling is usually very bad financial advice, outside of some very specific situations where you have solid reasons to believe that prices will fall. But if you're going to say financial catastrophe is right around the corner, put some skin in the game. Be prepared to go bankrupt if you're wrong.

It's easy to say "I saw it coming!" after it's happened. But if you saw it coming, why didn't you do something to take advantage of the situation (given that doing something about it is pretty much impossible)?
The fact that there are no data types but only strings. The necessity to navigate dynamic scoping with `upvar` & siblings. The load of having to simulate locality of reference with fancy array indexes. It may be nice for simple string-crunching scripts but a complex application is living hell. You wouldn't use /bin/sh for that, either.
If the only thing that needs to change to enable that world is a policy document, then it's just as bad.
> Government funding the research + selling the drugs at cost would benefit mankind overall...

Wasnt that how NASA was supposed to work ? Oh wait, we know how it went...
That kind of story makes me irrationally upset. That's horrible — killing a child's interest in math because they didn't do the problem the "right way". It's completely antagonistic to the spirit of the field. Teachers shouldn't be teaching subjects if they don't understand them.
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The underlying assets were stable. Are you sure about that? Go check some intraday prices. Have a gander at AAPL or GE or COST.
Why is GPG/PGP still a pain in the ass to use? Perhaps not for people reading on HN, but my grandma doesn't even know what "encryption" means, much less how to use it. If you want to increase it's reach, you have to make it easy and on by default in a way that doesn't interfere with normal users (much like how a lot of websites are redirecting to HTTPS, now: it just works and the user doesn't have to do anything).
Many tribes were perfectly happy and healthy until the intruders affected their ecosystem.

No. That's just your american white guilt playing up.
My mom was the same way. I remember a particularly challenging (to me) elementary school word problem, involving a fictional system of currency. She went to a box of Trix cereal, we decided which cereal pieces corresponded to which fictional currency units in the word problem, and then we started doing transactions with the cereal, until I finally figured out the answer to the problem.

I found out later that she hated math, and thought she was bad at it (she really wasn't, but that's another issue entirely...). However, she never let me see that, which was fantastic.
The company you keep
Yeah, like trying to do a C file without semicolons
Banksy himself on the issue: "I asked myself: what do people like most about going to look at art? The coffee. So I made an art show that has a cafe, a cocktail bar, a restaurant and another bar. And some art."