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>If government forced me to hand over data on users, I wouldn't want to be held liable for that.

Government couldn't have gotten it if you didn't collect it. Why should you be held responsible for storing data in an insecure fashion (which given the long arm of the government, translates to storing the data at all). This is especially true of data the average user isn't considering as being captured/stored, such as Microsoft's grabbing everything you do and storing it.
This article to me is a perfect example of bias in the media. It takes something commonplace and reasonable and explains it in a way that makes it sound vaguely nefarious. Why ? Because many NYTimes readers already have a vague anti business bias, is the only explanation I can think of. Or is it just clickbait tactics ?
Sounds like what Google Analytics is doing for me, and I don't feel bad having that on my apps.
You realise you are posting on Hacker News not the Daily Mail yes?

This is a heavily technology focused community and in the wonderful world of technology things change. Quickly. Complaining about a new product coming out is quite baffling to me. Perhaps your post would make sense if they had announced they were only going to develop and support this product going forward but they didn't so I find your post quite out of place around here.

I don't mean to be rude (although it will no doubt come across like I am).
I suffer from Abstractitis. Everything is the same to me. #turingcompleteness
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It's an interesting idea. But I guess there are would be two main problems.

1. Memory is limited. For this task you need to save a lot of words to make possible use it in applications. To solve this problem you should save words in a huge dimensional vectors.

2. This network can't solve the problem of missing letters in words with a high accuracy.
It's an ISO-specified solution of CO(NH2)2 and deionized water. If evil automakers want to screw the consumer they could make the fill port difficult to access, but other than that it seems straightforward. The "once a year" thing is also strange, since DEF usage is totally dependent on miles driven and how "hard" those miles were. (High-RPM, high-turbo-pressure driving uses more than low-RPM, low-turbo-pressure driving.)
somebody else can probably answer this better than I can

but my understanding is that managers who beat the market don't repeat their success at a rate better than you would expect to happen simply by randomness

if you have 100 people flipping coins 20 times, a few of them are going to amass pretty impressive records (that sort of thing)
>It's telling us the simple fact that our food consists of plants and trees selected for taste and appearance

It's telling us a lot more than that.

Further this is an "Opinion" piece, in the opinion section of a newspaper. Opinion sections are not held to any standard of truth, and pretty much anything goes, even when factual claims are made. No information in this article can be trusted as reliable, because of that.
Assuming early death was fairly random then the number of people living to 70+ may have been much smaller, but the survivors would probably not differ significantly from the overall population. However, I don't think we can find a lot of actual evidence to support one interpretation over another.

PS: It should be noted that due to low human birth rates disease and accidental death really can't kill over that high a % of the population each year. 90% survival change per year = 28% of people reaching 12 years old which is far from sustainable. 95% survival chance = 54% live to 12 which is at the edge of sustainable. ~.95 ^ 75 = 2% which would suggest 2+% of the population should hit 75 assuming a steady rate of accidental / disease related deaths. (Which is unlikely)

Granted, real world death rates do increase after puberty, but even still a significant portion of preindustrial society was likely over 70. Barring a strong exponential population growth rate.
The original Pebble uses a Sharp LCD. The Pebble Time uses JDI display. I have no idea what display the Time Round uses: do you know for sure it's a Sharp unit?
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> My dad can give me a book he read in college, just grab it off the shelf. I can go buy books extremely cheaply secondhand, sometimes free. I can't imagine paying $10 for an ebook when I can go to a used bookstore and pay $3, and then I own it forever. Additionally, once I own it I can share it, give it away, write in the margins, dog-ear pages, leave post-it notes, etc. I also can't imagine a world where 20 years later I can trivially give my old Kindle eBooks to my children.

That's a problem with the current incarnation of ebooks as a set of cloud stores. Imagine e-books held—along with all the annotations made to them on your device—in something like a blockchain. Someone pushes you three bucks, and you push them a (license to a) book. Now the license, and the annotations, are in their account, accessible to all their devices.
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"3) Giant Enterprise "Threshold 2" release is expected to drop November-ish with greater support for GPO, BYOD, LTS, and all the Enterprise appeasing buzzword acronyms that "admins" love and users live with and/or hate. Microsoft appears to be collecting a lot of feedback to work on to build this Enterprise push, including a lot of feedback from the few companies to actually try and use Windows 8 (as opposed to all the ones steadfastly "Windows XP or Death"/"LTS for Life"), which had a lot stronger Enterprise capabilities than people seem to have given it credit for..."

Right. And let's face it, what fraction of 1% of enterprises are doing anything other than proof-of-concept for Windows 10 at this point anyway??
Boy do we want to solve this problem! And we've been working hard on it. But if anyone has any ideas...
Of the employees you've hired after hearing their answers, how have they all been?
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I would wager than statistically, internal combustion engines have saved far more lives than they've cost.
OneSignal is hiring devs to help scale to 100,000 notifications sent per second
It's not an excuse at all. I'm just saying that appears to be what happened. Whoever actually made the decision to do this should be prosecuted. I was just saying that the CEO may be the public fall guy but it is unlikely that this was his decision.
It's pretty, but they're continuing to compromise core features (waterproofness, battery) which make Pebbles unique, while their software and abilities and displays lag far behind the pack (partly due to vendor lock-in).

I loved my OG Steel. But they won't compete against the Apple Watches and Moto 360s of the world by mirroring their shortcomings and price while providing none of the deep integration, apps, and features.

I think ultimately, the Pebble line will need to become the leader of the "Smart-ish" watches. They'll display notifications, and allow some very limited interactions, but will always be more watch than smart. This will work great for non-geeky people who would love to get notifications quickly and silently, while still retaining the advantages of a more conventional watch (don't worry about charging, water, durability or daylight).

Then, the wrist computers (e.g Apple Watch or Android Wear) will exist for somebody who wants the geekier, app-ier experience and will take some compromises for it.
My experience with technical books in ebook form has been pretty lack-luster so far. I personally like to have my screen dedicated to the IDE and to have the book over on some other screen. This is so I don't lose context in what I'm working on and so I can easily work through examples without putting the text away.

Most of the time I only have the one laptop screen however, so if I'm reading an ebook on the same computer, I need to switch from IDE to some other program to read and then back. This also drives me to copy/paste examples, which for me doesn't help me learn well.

Reading a technical ebook on my kindle has its own set of problems. Examples are usually written for the paperback book (which are usually very wide), so the kindle will squish examples and put them across multiple kindle pages. I haven't tried using an ebook with a large tablet yet, so maybe that is the sweet spot.

But my last issue is something I haven't seen a good solution for yet. Often I just want to flip to a section of the book for reference and I simply don't have a good feel for how to do this with an ebook right now. Flipping on an ebook usually requires going to a chapter you know holds the content and then paging one-by-one until you find what you are looking for. Ctrl+F may or may not be useful (I usually find its not). Paper books are simply quicker for flipping through the pages while scanning the content.
"the compound interest theory that is usually provided. It's true..."

It really isn't. It's true only if every year you get the promised interest rate. You don't.

This is one of my favorite charts ever: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...

Read what it is carefully. The green and red are not that year's return, it's the cumulative return across the represented time span. Red spaces represent spans of investing for which it did not keep up with inflation.

The "compound interest" argument comes with so many caveats that in practice, it is simply false.
Require payment of $1 per year per public IP, and suddenly wastrels like the Apple class A will be available again...
It may well be a limitation of today's technology but it's still a real limitation. It's why reading ebooks on my laptop while I'm in the tub hasn't become my method.
It's not worth obfuscating the web for what Angular brings to the table.
FYI, Kobo already sells a waterproof e-reader today for ~$160.
Systematically allocating your assets will only go so far. People don't seek out financial advisers for asset allocation, they seek them out for the sage advice that they'll offer for big financial decisions they have in life: should I go to grad school? Should I move in with my SO? Should I buy this house when I have $X in savings? A parent died, what do I do with their estate? etc. An algorithm isn't going to give you that kind of human touch (at least not yet). Traditional financial advisers aren't going anywhere.
And Android benchmarks two years ago

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-andr...
that's why the article is so ridiculous. VC doesn't make sense without liquidation preference, so founders would be MORE screwed without it because they would not have any funding for their startups !
I was thinking for those people in teams where multiple people have server access, how do they control who has access, how do they keep track, and how do they store that information?
The Nest thermostat also had a square screen under a cover that makes it look round. (Not sure if newer Nest models actually have circle screens.)
likewise the number of firefox users.
Goes all the way back to Latin, too! Left = sinister, right = dexterous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_and_sinister
There has been research on "notched audio" to reduce tinnitus which seems hopeful, eg.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3002906/pdf/nihm...

And there are people who will auto-notch your music (for a fee, natch), eg.

http://www.audionotch.com
3-D printers will now be able to create a duplicate finger and your fingerprints might end up in places you don't go, as well!
I work with around a dozen freelance writers regularly. I usually aim to set the pay so they'll earn a minimum of $25 an hour. Although, they're freelancers, so that really isn't up to me. I just accepted a piece for publication -- and I'm fairly certain the writer spent no more than 30 minutes on it. The call for submissions went out, and 30 minutes later I got the piece. I'm paying $65 for it.

In general, I'm always looking for ways to justify spending more money on producing better content. I work hard to build the trust of my audience and to provide ever increasing value to them. Fortunately, as my business grows, this becomes easier in some ways, due to economy of scale. A bigger audience generates more revenue, which means I can spend more on content. Better content means more readership, which in turn increases revenue. It's a gratifying business. :)
> Rather, you make a linear movement, and THEN you rotate the simulator (if you need to sustain the acceleration).

Am I understanding this wrong or are you saying long accelerations can be achieved by accelerating, turn, accelerating, .... etc? Wouldn't the person wearing VR headset feel the turn?
Splash resistance generally means it's fine in the shower and while washing hands, just not while swimming. Or, at least, that's how I've always interpreted it.
You can front-run the algotraders because you know what they're going to do. A simple example from Bloomberg View:

"Take American Airlines Group Inc., which joined the S&P 500 after markets closed on March 20. Because the addition of the carrier was announced four days earlier, nimble traders had plenty of time to get in front of the less fleet-footed."

The bigger the index funds get, the more easy money there is to be made this way.
Office for Mac OS has been around for longer than Office for Windows. It is all developed natively and is not as you said, a Windows VM running it.
Android has actually been pretty far ahead of iOS in this respect. My Nexus 4 on T-Mobile has been running IPv6-only for close to two years now.
Apparently it fully charges in 15 minutes, which may not be so bad: plug it in whilst in the shower for example. I think it's a bit overpriced for what it is but I guess you're paying for the fact it's thinner and trendier with its round screen.
That was my first thought. The bezel definitely looks nearly exactly the right size for that.
It will only be a couple years before we eschew the skeuomorphism of smartwatches in favor of "abstract" "paper" "flat" designs. Just wait.
2 days battery is disappointing. Making it slightly thicker and getting more days would have been fantastic. With 2 days you may as well charge it every night so you don't forget.

Still, this has a wow factor to me due to its slimness. The Apple watch could have been amazingly thin without the taptic engine: http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/26f878cd9a24ea264d064c...

Its thickness is the main reason I'm not buying v1.
Your re-written version is definitely the correct way to phrase it. As written in the article, one would expect IPv6 to have moved from 2.92% to 2.95% (1% of 2.92 being 0.03), which is clearly not the case.
Time for Consumer Reports to do emissions testing.
I think Google is one of a handful of firms that has the resources to make this happen
>If you're opposed to downloading these ebooks for free

I sort of am although I realize the only net difference between buying a very cheap used book and downloading a free copy is to make a bookseller some place and the USPS a few pennies each.

I can't imagine going to the trouble of ordering a used copy and getting it digitized though.
I think you're talking about a different use case. The original subject in this thread was about mailing lists that are difficult to unsubscribe from.

I would say (and a legal interpretation of CAN-SPAM would agree) that an unsolicited mass campaign of emails are spam, are not wanted, and aren't legal in the US. A fully individualized, tailored email probably doesn't fall in this class of email.

Double-opt-in is a good email practice. There are several reasons for this.

1. Ensure the email address actually belongs to the account holder. Some people make up an address with a common name instead of using a throwaway email provider, such as Mailinator.

2. Demonstrate to email service providers that the lists are legitimate and aren't used for unsolicited marketing. Many whitelisting and un-blacklisting negotiations are still handled by people. Good practices are important for reputation management.
Suburban Copenhagen has very good bike lanes. Actually separate roads for bikes. [1] Granted, this took years to build.

[1] E.g. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Sjælsø,+Denmark/@55.8628... (yes, that thing on the left is a bike lane!)
Filters apply on a dumb level: do this if exactly this address, etc. I hope this would apply on a higher, "do what I mean" level: attempt to figure out if each new From address is actually the same person or organization as one you've already blocked, and, if so, add it to the "contact" of the blocked party so that it's blocked too.
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What Open Source projects are similar? It seems like data transformation tasks like this are a universal problem. I'd just do map/reduce, but that's the advantage that comes with being a developer. Great tools for non-developers to do limited programming tasks are incredibly useful.
Anyone knows scalable it would be? To start, everyone would need a VR headset, not that amusement parks are short on cash
It's a 1 percentage point increase and also a 33 percent increase.
How about public transport you can take the bikes with you on, and nice bike paths in the denser areas?
Funny that you should mention web comics and fanfic because I spent a substantial amount of time going through websites dedicated to both for a few years, and I can tell you that the vast majority of the content was unmitigated drek. There certainly was a lot of content, but "good" content? Like a diamond in the rough. That's the reason I stopped visiting those sites.

The internet has certainly made it easier to get content out there. But it has also made it very evident how rare good talent actually is. The good ones deserve to be able to be rewarded for their work so they can continue to produce more, and unless someone comes up with a better system, copyright is what we have.
When I'm 85 I'll still be able to open a book I bought in 2012 and read it.

Text on paper ain't never changing file format.
It's a holodeck!
But it's still invested in the sense that somebody is leveraging it.
Do you notice any difference when you are stressed or anxious?

My tinnitus is fairly mild but when I'm stressed it seems much worse.

I'm also very sensitive to certain noises - a single dog bark, for instance, can leave me feeling very anxious for a period of an hour or more.
As my kids got older and started playing sports, I eventually got to the point where I am now coaching one of their soccer teams. It has become a real passion, and I also joined a team myself (in my younger days, pickup basketball was more my thing). My wife helps coach, and she just started a soccer clinic/pickup group for Moms.

So I guess from my perspective, I would say your passions and hobbies and interests can be molded by having children, and become something you share and develop together as a family. From an outside perspective, we probably devote too much time to this sport (I would have thought so a few years ago), but it's something we all enjoy and have found ways to participate in together.
That all sounds right, except...

I don't think that the Apple Watch or at least some Android Wear watches are aimed at a "geeky" audience.

And I don't think that anyone has found anything more compelling than "receive notifications" to use Apple or Android watches for.
Not really - iOS has been capable of this for a long time - the difference noted in the article is due to iOS 9's change in preference for IPv6.

Running an iPhone on IPv6 only far from new...
It's a research paper at this point. Pricing comes after FDA approval and the ability to scale.
The article says it is financially viable if there are 21 patient scans done per batch. If an additional breakthrough allows more than 21 patients per batch, then end-user pricing can fall.
Linus on compiler warnings and code reviews
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Its refreshing to see other uses of neural networks other then the standard deep learning stuff. keep up the good work!

EDIT: You might want to check the [Source] links in the docs. they throw a 404
A mutual fund is almost always more expensive then an ETF, and rarely outperforms them. It should be criminal for mutual fund managers to charge 1% or more for their services, when they underperform broad indexes so frequently.
It's funny. Any feature you don't want to use is bloat, but as soon as you need it is a necessity. The way I see it, they can either "bloat" nginx by adding scripting capabilities, or they can bloat it by covering all of the use cases that a scripting engine would otherwise enable, big and small.

One simple example that I would love to use this for: generating and adding a UUIDv4 to every request's headers. Doing so would allow us to append the UUID to virtually every log in our entire stack. Right now there is no easy out of box solution for this in nginx. With scripting capabilities it becomes trivial.

However, whether or not Lua was enough and adding JavaScript is overkill, I'm not sure.
That same VC is only getting 1% of the company if they value it at $1B pre-money - that's the flip side of a high valuation - the higher it is, the less ownership the VC gets.
The terms, conditions and trends affecting VC-backed unicorns
Are there parallels to wine? Why are wines expensive?

I mean, neither art nor wine, in general, are expensive. Only a few - to use the language of this article - curated 'brands' of wine are in the $15,000/bottle range, and some have sold for more than $100K/bottle.
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How would you go about enforcing that. and enforcing that is still covering up the issue that we really do need to move to IPv6
I for one like seeing Javascript replaced by better Javascript.
To further emphasis your point, it's not like growers have magical tomato plants that don't make ugly tomatoes. They get loads of ugly tomatoes, which then get sent to be turned into canned tomatoes, or jarred tomato sauce, or V8, or any number of other pre-processed applications. But selling directly to the consumer yields the highest price per unit, so of course that's where the best stock goes.
A more interesting plan would have been to short VW while waiting for them to get discovered.
Working for a corporation does not relieve you of the basic human responsibility to stand against evil. The fact that many, even most, humans ignore this responsibility only makes it more important.
I wonder what will happen once citizen fingerprint data is stolen. How much has to be stolen before fingerprinting is no longer reliable in csi?
>It depends on how the emissions are measured.

That is certainly a good point. However in this case, the specifics of what they were doing obviously crossed the line. Normally I roll my eyes when I hear about EPA issues, given that agency's penchant for making mountains out of molehills and ravenous appetite for horrendous fines. But in this case, many rational, scientifically credible people all seem to agree that they were intentionally and egregiously violating the law.
> The author may have assumptions I'm missing here but the standard way to have a "one of these or one of these" thing is to have two classes inherent from a given abstract base class and use a pointer to the base class.

I think this is what the author describes in the sentence that follows the one you quoted. He also calls it "a common (ab)use of object oriented programming."
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FWIW, I have the Pebble Time Steel from Kickstarter earlier this year and I get a good 4-6 days of battery life on a single charge.
If IP addresses are scarce, why does it not seem to cost me anything to get one? I've had a bunch of online servers that came with a static IP, and an ISP service that came with one, at various times. It seldom seemed to be explicitly priced, and when it was the price was not really something worth considering.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10266000