skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you haven't done so already, read Herodotus's book.

Here is a digital version, http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.html

While we cannot confirm everything he wrote, it is a good insight into the Mediterranean civilization around 440 BC.

Old Greek, Roman and Egyptian transcripts are quite a good source. Some of them were preserved in Arab libraries during the middle age and as such survived the dark ages of the inquisition.

Not an historian, so I don't know how easy it is to get written sources from other cultures (Maya, Chinese, Japanese, ...), specially in the several centuries that preceded BC/AD.
Can you be more specific? What are you talking about?
I don't know where you live, but as for me I live in a house right next to the environment.
Similar, but very light (sub 2kg) and probably cheaper, and much higher image quality on the visible spectrum (1080p without any digital stabilization).

Will be happy to hear from you - roee at phobotic is my mail.
It's way down there in the article, but Turing's distributor (Impax) is tampering with the generic approval process. They use a controlled distribution strategy where you need to buy it directly from them, and they won't sell it to anyone who uses it for approval testing. Without the namebrand drug, there's no way to prove that your generic is equally efficacious, and thus no generic approvals and no competition.
I think "Google to announce proof of Ikea's excellence" wins.
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Hey all,

I'm a coder, not a writer nor a graphic designer. I recently published http://howtocode.io, a site targeted at people who want to teach themselves how to code but I'm afraid the message is not clear. I am not a native English speaker and my sentences may be too long or too confusing.

Do you understand what the site is all about? What should I improve to make the message clear?
When speaking of disk encryption the bottleneck is the CPU. In order for encryption to work without a noticeable performance hit you need a microprocessor with hardware acceleration for AES. For example the latest Intel and AMD processors have the AES-NI instruction set. Ditto for the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC.

I'm not sure if hardware acceleration is enabled in Nexus 6, but the hardware is certainly capable of acceleration. I now have an encrypted Nexus 6 and the performance is fine. My previous Nexus 4 was also encrypted and after encryption the performance hit was noticeable when booting up, but after boot it performs fine.

30 seconds to switch an app that's stale sounds like there's something really wrong either with your device or with the Cyanogenmod version you've got installed, judging by those specs at least.
The reality is that war is an effective means of population equilibrium, and it's no coincidence that its' enthusiasts skew heavily male. Genetically speaking, it offers a good deal: eliminate competitor males, and if you survive, your mating opportunities statistically improve after the war is over (and that's without mentioning the horrid connection between war and mass rape in ancient warfare, and still sometimes today).

Ironically enough, I think these violent "selfish gene" urges have been co-opted into (relatively) less deadly forms of war by sociopaths who seek economic domination and control (typically using the recursive logic of game theory; after all, they're just keeping up with the other sociopaths). I wish I could remember the source, but I've read that conquest and colonionism is so expensive that it tends to be net-neutral even after extracting the resources of the vanquished; however, it is an extremely effective way to transfer wealth internally between powers on the victor's side.

Given the perverse incentives at work, the only way to reduce war is to pro-actively wage peace, from every angle: deepen economic interdependence, extend the circle of empathy through culture, and perhaps most importantly, continue to inter-breed across every geographic and ethnic divide.
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Seems to just be a list of iOS 9 supported devices...
> Do you believe this to be false (i.e., do you believe that all possible investments are receiving optimal resources)?

I believe that we've tapped out as much consumer demand as we can in the first world, and that emerging economies (China, clearly from recent events) is unable to bootstrap their own local demand.

It doesn't matter if production is higher if there's no consumer demand; you're "pushing the string" as it were.

> I'm also not sure what the federal reserve has to do with anything, or why you believe the fed can't raise rates.

The Federal Reserve is the level by which the US (and through it, the world) economy is governed. Rates go lower, you (supposedly) throttle up the economy. Rates go higher, you throttle it down.

The Federal Reserve won't raise waits until there are enough positive economic indicators that their actions won't push us back into recession; if you want to see what I believe the Fed can't raise rates, look at Japan:

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-04-25/zero-rates-...

Now, I'm not one to hold Japan up as a failed experiment. Even with interest rates at zero, everyone has a fairly high quality of life. I'm saying: Once consumer debt is sapped, either because of a populace aging (which reduces demand), stagnant wages (which also reduces demand), and so forth, there is no economic driver.
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Curious, are you going to return the vehicle for any recall notices? You realize once they "fix" the emissions issue, the performance of the car is probably going to tank. I have to imagine you will no longer realize the ratings as advertised on the Monroney sticker?

I was thinking to myself, I would avoid the recall but then I think there is fine print that states the OEM must be able to service your vehicle to maintain said warranty.

Interesting pickle. How stupid VW is.
Nobody cares about the actual damage, it's the reputational damage that is important. "If they cheated on this, how do we know they followed all other safety/environmental regulations and their cars won't just blow up? How do we know their published accounts are truthful?" etc etc.

The apology is basically "sorry we lied in this case, usually we don't lie, please keep trusting us."

Actual damage is relatively nonimportant. You can always donate to this or that green group, develop a magic air-cleaning machine or something... but only if you keep getting money out of customers trusting you.
That's true but I found the statement interesting. It makes sense to me that scrambled transmissions would be less likely detected among cosmic noise and even if there are protocols for finishing and ending the transmissions they might be small in scope and hard to detect. I'd never though about it that way, so it was interesting.
I used to be Libertarian, too, until I realized one very important thing: a pure market approach does not take into account exploitation.

It assumes that exploitation can be handled within the same system that spawned it -- the market -- and it simply can't.

Much of the underlying mathematics of modern market theory assume that expectations on transactions are positive. Markets only move toward efficiency under that assumption. That is why things like muggings, an exploitative transaction, can never lead to market efficiency.

Exploitation is where this assumption, and therefore the free market, breaks down. If a person might die if they don't make a deal that is clearly exploitation.

In this case the guy is taking advantage of government constructed barriers to entry but, at its heart, that plan can only be successful because there is an exploitative element to the original transaction. If this guy was selling interesting pencils, for example, such a plan would never pan out.

We need some sort of extra-market intervention in the case of potentially exploitative transactions. That is the litmus test and just the fumes from this company set it off.
from the link, emphasis mine: "In 2013, 230 academics and scientists signed an open letter stating their objection to the claims being made by the APA, calling them “misleading and alarmist”."
You can POST your data. PUT and DELETE soon.
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Anybody else here remembers the picture of Reagan with the Taliban and a heading along the lines of "These gentlemen are the moral equivalent of our founding fathers". I am not surprised in the slightest.
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There are many pointless devices. But there are also devices that actually solve peoples problems. They will be the ones that emerge as real companies.
It is built on top of tex4ht. It provides merely a few settings for tex4ht and post-processing scripts that beautify the generated HTML. You might ask why post-processing? Well, because it was simpler for me than figuring out how to get tex4ht to do the desired thing. I just find Tex/Latex not pleasant to use as a programming language, but that's personal taste.
If I'm reading you correctly and I take this to it's logical conclusion, one could correctly assume that in any war, regardless of the precautions, technology, and training, you will have civilian deaths. You'll have terrible incidents where friendly forced were shot at, or buildings misidentified and a family of four blown up.

It's probably drifting out of scope of this conversation, but it can probably never be reemphasized enough that these will be the consequences of any war, and as such, a war should never be seen as a favorable outcome. In that, I definitely agree with you.
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I recommend against debating religion online. That sounds like a hobby for jerks. Do you enjoy being angry?
Oh sure. But that doesn't make military spending a particularly efficient way of financing research, just a politically opportune one.
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Violent crime rates are affected by literally hundreds of factors. There can be dozens of factors pushing the rate down and few dozen less pushing the rate up with the end result being we have an overall reduction.
The statement I replied to was

> There's no reason that roads and airwaves need to be managed by violence.

I said the law doesn't require reason; that's a fact, it does not, unreasonable laws happen all the time. So you don't even have the question right, it's no wonder you can't stop blabbering on about unrelated ideas. This was never about the nature of law, you simply fail to realize that.
This is purely market value. If iOS simply had less users, the price would be lower. So I think your conclusion of it being more secure because of this is incorrect.

About less people being able to afford it - this again depends on what ZERODIUM intends to do with it. They may sell it for cheap and count on a large number of sales because, again, iOS is so popular.
It seems financialization is coming to its peak. What new tricks will capitalism come up with to continue 'growing' at an exponential rate?
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Isn't that good enough? SSD in particular is a huge speed boost.
Webex, goto meeting. Use professional grade tools if you are a professional.
"backwards compatible" how? iOS 9 runs on all of those devices, so they're just saying it has to be hardware agnostic.
Forgive me, it's Monday morning and I haven't yet had my coffee, but it sounds like you're describing a block-level copy between two drives, something which RAID0 is most definitely not.

Unless I'm misinterpreting, I think you were going for RAID1.
What were these records doing on AWS in the first place? AWS isn't HIPAA compliant, surely?
Thanks. Make sense. I was confused as it not list devices that also support iOS9 like the iPad mini 3.
Taking shortcuts instead of delivering quality is usually very badly seen.
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Secret: Most agencies who pitch you several ideas, will often on purpose have one or two ideas they know you wont chose, so they can nudge you into selecting those they want you to choose.

Hopefully we can use this format.
This is all you need to take away from the article...

> Bond mutual and exchange-traded funds now own 17% of all corporate bonds, up from 9% in 2008, according to the ICI. In periods of market stress, more-concentrated mutual-fund ownership tends to mean larger price drops, the IMF said last year.

It used to be the case that stocks, bonds and other commodities like gold has inverse correlations. Or in other terms, when stocks were down, bonds and gold were up....

This lead to the Efficient Frontier from Markowitz where you would choose a risk level you were comfortable with and then build a portfolio of "uncorrelated assets" to get you optimum return for your risk level.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/efficientfrontier.asp

The issue now a days is that this no longer makes much sense as when things go wrong everything is correlated almost to a degree of 1. Or in other terms, when the shit hits the fan, everything (Gold, stocks and bonds) all go down together.

TL/DR the old advice about investing in both bonds, stocks and gold for diversivication of risk is at best much less pronounced than it used to be and at worst just bad advice as they are now positively correlated.
The end of the pbs documentary on the excavation suggested that because there is proof of interbreeding among different Homo species, that the hierarchical genus-species-subspecies framework may not work as well as a mesh-like graph.
In that case, higher stress, lesser-quality food, limited means to exercise for pleasure, et al. related to being poorer do contribute directly to physical health and being overweight.
I was speaking in terms of Canadian testing. Turns out, I was still wrong - I assumed Canada was strictly performing tailpipe tests, not ODB instrument testing. Turns out they don't do tailpipe tests on cars newer than 1998 (this is news to me), meaning the defeat device is the exact reason why I hadn't heard about any cases of cars failing the emissions test.
I tried Pandoc before reverting back to tex4ht. Unfortunately, it models a rather small subset of the things I was interested in. Specifically around the typesetting of citations and listings, as far a I remember. So, tex4ht and HTML post-processing it was.
How did they respond?
> It seems intuitive that a violent individual would be attracted to violent games.

The aggressive people I encounter outside the bars in my town seem to be sports fans and weightlifters, not video game players.
From the guidelines

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Thanks for the explanation. But this rule - ie, not allowing the competitor to buy the original product for testing - is incredibly anti-competitive and should be banned.
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The New York Times story: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/4chan-sells-to-japa...
In Canada, we used to only ever do tailpipe tests, meaning a defeat device wouldn't be able to fool the testing. Apparently I'm wrong though - turns out Canada doesn't do tailpipe tests on cars newer than 1998 (this is news to me), meaning the defeat device is the exact reason why I hadn't heard about any cases of cars failing the emissions test.
Environmental impact aside, this is the same practice employed by Samsung and HTC with regards to performance benchmarks:

http://bgr.com/2013/11/27/samsung-benchmark-cheating-banned-...

I saw a documentary about other manufactures removing seats and using different tires for tests. I expect this is rife with any industry imposed tests :(
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The EU announced earlier this year that they were changing the test procedures and certification rules for diesel cars to more accurately assess and control NOx output and to prevent gaming of the tests by manufacturers. Defeat devices were explicitly called out:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/03/car-maker...
Misleading title. AWS did not expose these, but the insurers using AWS did.
Turing only acquired the US marketing rights. Someone else is making the drug. So that doesn't change the FDA licensing, but they get to increase the price in the US.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/turing-pharmaceutica...
AWS offers a BAA with some services

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance/#What_Ser...?
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If you have physical access to the device, aren't all bets off anyways?
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I think the author's definition of homeless is a little bit facetious and it sounds like a humble brag. It's very different to be homeless because you ran your technology startup into the ground and another to be seriously challenged by your socioeconomic standing leading you from affordable housing, to a shelter, to the street, ad infinitum.
It can be! https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance/
The Pharma industry does need to be relatively strictly regulated - for instance see the issues over withholding and bias in clinical research:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllTrials

But, nationalizing the industry is impossible. We don't spend anywhere near enough on medical research for it to be possible. The UK government for instance spends about £500m a year on all medical research, even if you redirected all that money into clinical trials, you would be lucky to produce a handful of drugs each year.
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I don't think there is any SJW on 2chan. It's pretty much as trash as 4chan.
I've seen these kinds of things up close (investigations and eventual prosecutions of exploitative companies in the health care sector) and I can absolutely tell you I am not pleased.

But I also don't see the alternative. I don't think a free market approach would work. The government has a huge standing war chest. It can afford to take the time and expense to go after these bad actors. Even insurance companies are rightfully reluctant to take on very expensive, risky litigation and/or investigation that could run into multiple years or even decades.

The market is a wonderful tool, but it can't solve all problems. Some problems are so big that it takes the pooled resources of, essentially, everyone to fight against it.
I'm not sure what AWS has to do with anything - is the article suggesting that AWS was some how complicit in this? Edit: it sounds as though the user got a new instance with data already on the drives? Thats a bit different...
Except you'd want to use a dedicated fighter for the air superiority role. The F35 doesn't do that that well.
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Replace drug with aircraft and few people will say the military should be private.
It's still one of my favorite reads.

It's worth mentioning that Haldeman wrote it in part as an allegory to Vietnam. It's often called a counterpart or "rebuttal" to Heinlein's "Starship Troopers", though you'll read that both authors had immense respect for each others' books.

In any case, I agree, "The Forever War" is up at the pinnacle of the art of Science Fiction and a near-perfect example of the message it can deliver.
I make multiple times more money than I can spend; I don't care about real wages or if fat cat capitalists happen to be grabbing a larger share of the pie.

I care that I can look around and feel like my earnings and chances of being laid off are consummate with my productivity and skill relative to those around me and not my age (whether it's true or not -- perception is what's important).

Without that work is just a pointless grind of showing up on time to collect a paycheck. If that's what your job is already, fine, but that's not what I studied CS for.
Racist? A black defendant doesn't make a case racist. You have to prove that they were charged because of their race. Making a race charge is nonsense.
From Wikipedia:

"Skype originally featured a hybrid peer-to-peer and client–server system; however, since May 2012, Skype is entirely powered by Microsoft-operated supernodes. The 2013 mass surveillance disclosures revealed that Microsoft has granted intelligence agencies unfettered access to supernodes and Skype communication content."

Can anyone spot where they went wrong?
Look, if you make $73,327.54/year do you say you make $73,327.54/year or do you say you make $75k/year?
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They are not 'tricks'... they are financial 'innovations.'
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I meant the depth. Thank you!
This weirdly makes my external monitor flash black when I open this tab. What's going on here?

https://vid.me/dWW7
I disagree. Less users also mean low price for bounty since the media is not paying attention. It is a fair conclusion that a reward as big as $1M is imposed since it has been proven (so far) that iOS platform is quite secure.
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I read Starship Troopers and The Forever War back-to-back in like three days, and I wasn't so much of a fan of Haldeman's book, the writing just didn't seem as good to me as Heinlein's and in any case they're nearly identical -- though obviously the relativity thing and time making the "forever" part true was a very good point.
Very well stated, and I agree a defense exists for the accused.

Gaming tests and parameters doesn't seem too far fetched to me. In high school one class allowed for one 3x5" notecard to be brought to the final exam, and it could have notes written on it. Following the letter but not the spirit of the rule, I used a razor blade to gently split the notecard and was able to peel it open for about 70% more writing space. Though a technicality, I did manage to use my device with approval in that case.
The point about mobile air defence actually makes a lot of sense. It still seems to me that a dedicated replacement to the A10 would be preferable to what the F35 has become.
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