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> Violent crime could be virtually eradicated.

Or violent crime might continue unabated while a large taxpayer funded workforce uses the surveillance infrastructure the taxpayer paid for to look at hot girls.

I'm all for sanctioning anti-social behavior when it directly harms innocent people. My problem is this:

The surveillance proponent claims to have a solution for some societal ill: Street violence, red light running, smuggling of explosives into airplanes, etc.

The proponent benefits, personally, regardless of how effective the solution is: They sell the cameras, or the organization that employs them gets revenue from penalties imposed on those who are caught by the solution.

Sometimes the proponent isn't personally subject to the new privacy invading system: Proponents of invasive airport screening who fly private.

> In the example from the story, it's clear that our collective welfare could be increased by analyzing reams of restricted data.

Even with this relatively benign example, I see the same case of perverse incentives.

Did we really need to look at tax returns to learn that better teachers have a positive impact? Did our collective welfare improve at all here, or did the researchers just help their own careers more than anything else?

> I contend that it's more useful to look at the discrete harms that flow from disclosure of specific information.

This question is like asking how people could be harmed by leaving their keys in the ignition while they run a 5 minute errand.

The potential for harm depends on the circumstance of the individual.

A multimillionaire leaves his car outside the country club with his driver in it. A poor man leaves his car outside 7-Eleven. Now imagine the poor man is required to appear in court in 45 minutes for a child custody hearing.

There's a significant difference in the possible discrete harms that flow from those situations.

I therefore contend that it's more useful to keep things discreet, unless the individual explicitly opts to release the information.
Lol, let's just look at french intellectuals today. Bernard Henri Levy ? Henri Guaino ? i mean come on. Official culture and "pensée unique" killed French thought. In France the government decides of everything ,even official history and "protected" culture often means the same guys get money/percs from the state over and over again, shutting down any potential artistic and cultural competition. So if an artist wants to make it has better chances in UK or US.

There are also technical and reputation issues like the needless complexity of the language ( I'm better at writing English than French yet I am French) and the unconditional alignment of french foreign policies with US interests ( from which we gain absolutely nothing).

France is weak, its people is so desperate it elects mediocre leaders, the educated youth is moving abroad because there is very little future if you are not "well connected" and it's not going to change anytime soon.
I don't think people are expecting these to be laptops, exactly. More like very portable "desktops". I know a lot of people in the VR community are going bonkers over this announcement. It's going to make setting up demos a hell of a lot easier. Nvidia's Optimus technology (don't ask me what it was for, I could never keep it straight) was a serious impediment to achieve low tracking latency, to the point of being downright impossible. I even once returned a laptop with a 980M the same day I got it after I found out Optimus basically made it useless to use with my DK2.

I probably won't buy one of these. I'll probably just stuff my desktop into an aluminum case suitcase. But you could pull the battery out and throw it away for all the VR folks care. This will get setup on a table at conferences by a lot of people.
Incorrect, the reason a casual drinker gets a hangover is because they don't know enough to keep themselves hydrated, whereas someone who is more experienced will absolutely keep that water by their bed throughout the night.
Those low end cortex M's tend to have C++2003.

I am kinda-sorta happy to have C++ at all.

I think.
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No they cannot be 'taken' from A to B. They must arise independently within in B. The fact B's technique looks very much like A's must be complete coincidence.
That certainly minimizes hangover effects, but tolerance is why the habitual drinker gets less drunk (if all other factors are equal).
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Remember that Robespeirre was led to the guillotine. Once the killing starts, you're riding the tiger. So far as I know, Beria would have killed Stalin had he had the chance. Same basic deal.
The submission title sounds like a new music store clone, but if I understand correctly this is a python program were you type a part of the lyric and the programs try to identify the complete song and download the complete mp3.

If this description interpretation is true, you should change your approach.

1) Pick a catchy title like "Machine learning program to identify and download a song (in Python)" Edit the title until it's true and sounds nicely.

2) Write a blog post about it, discuss some common problems, tech stack, heuristics, problems with songs in other languages, most difficult to distinguish songs, too recent hits.

3) Later, write another post about the name in a string to mp3 download conversion. Problems with alternative versions, singers, editions, ...

An interesting problem with a nice solution usually makes a good blog post with more points here.
Ah, gotcha. That makes sense, then.
Downvotes are often attached to inconvenient truths.

The safety of nuclear power is based mainly on wishful thinking. It's the classic folly of chasing short-term cost savings and ignoring long-tail risks.
> French intellectuals today

Off the top of my head:

- Yann LeCun

- Yoshua Bengio

- Thomas Picketty

I'm sure there are many others...
California doesn't enforce noncompetes, which is what matters in this case.
It's nice to see a sane IP ruling for once.
I'm not terribly surprised. I stopped using Groupon 3-4 years ago after a couple of bad experiences, watching the CEO in an interview on TV and also learning about how some small businesses were negatively affected.

I think there is a class of business ideas that may seem good in the beginning but eventually fail for various reasons.
I monitor ntp activity from the computers and iPhones on my home network, so I have a good understanding of how Apple does this, at least on OS X and iOS 8.4, at least when WiFi is available.

It's simple ntp. The computers ask DNS for time.apple.com, while the iOS devices ask for a similar domain, time-ios.apple.com. From that point both types of devices make ntp requests. What I do on my firewall is redirect those requests to my local ntp server, this saves on external ntp traffic.

time.apple.com resolves to 12 different IP addresses, all on Apple's 17.0.0.0/8 network. It's easy to see, just issue the following command and you'll see all of them:

ntpdate -quv time.apple.com

These servers are pretty darn good, they're stratum 1, they're distributed all over the world. Time from them seems to agree to within milliseconds of each other. The iOS address only seems to resolve to 3 places, but those also agree to milliseconds of each other.

Given that, I can think of at least 3 different error scenarios:

1) Apple broke something in actual ntp implementation in iOS 9.

2) One of the iOS ntp servers is goofing up. Unlikely since I'm sure Apple doubtlessly has lots of monitoring for errors like that.

3) Without WiFi available, iOS relies on the cell carrier for time services. Of course, the operation of the cell network depends on all phones knowing the exact time, but that probably doesn't carry over to something ancillary like ntp. Perhaps a carrier's ntp server is borked?

To resolve this it would be interesting to know and try:

does the problem happen only on WiFi?

does the problem happen only on cellular?

does the problem only happen with a specific carrier?

if WiFi, use something like tcpdump to monitor the
actual packets to see if any obviously bad time is
being served

Why would anyone update to 9.0.0 anyway? New software always has teething problems.
Has it been invalidated in the EU?

Oddly enough, the expiration date of a copyright is a birthday of sorts.
That's exactly my point. Kozmo as a whole didn't work. But some bit of Kozmo worked. It wasn't all garbage. Local delivery + fees + free delivery using monthly club payments + better smartphone logistics can turned it into a great business. But so many people have missed it though throwing out the entire business idea of "local delivery" until some smart folks behind instacart/postmates/etc. realized the gems in here. This is happening here again with Groupon. "Group coupons are a terrible idea" I hear. Yeah, for a lot of people, but not all. I bet there's some really great ideas buried here for those folks who can dig into what's working and what's not.
ah sorry. updated to "will expire".
Social Darwinism was an error of Spencer's, but the world was a billiard-ball, Determinist world then. So the end position of a particle must be determined by it's initial direction and velocity. Malthus was strikingly similar
but different.

Nobody's actually a Social Darwinist now. There's just the Conservative "barbarians are at the gate" thing and too much emphasis on fame.

To forgive Spencer, you should at least read Social Statics. :)
I'm not sure how desirable the new features are compared to existing currencies. It also doesn't seem any freer. Don't know what the association with GNU entails. Furthermore, its name is easily confused with the ancient denomination of "Thaler", I guess it's on purpose, but, once again, maybe not the greatest idea.

If they want to centralize a currency, perhaps that would be better done by a government or other experienced institution.
I mean, I agree with your sarcasm. But on the other hand, you're kinda right—instead of everyone singing the same Happy Birthday song, every movie and chain restaurant has to come up with their own version. And maybe one of them would have been better, and caught on instead. Of course, they all were terrible.
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I prefer http://youtu.be/8H8e-2TLgpA
Don't confuse "conservative" with "religious".

One surprising thing in my little looks into the Francosphere is how little religion plays.
Ah, well then I'm a doofus. That makes sense. Apologies, OP.
"When you fork a repository on GitHub, we create a shallow copy of it. This copy has no objects of its own, but it has access to all the objects of an alternate ..."

So does this mean one could attach a GitHub repository by having a lot of shill accounts cline it and add random objects (possibly having a performance impact on the original)? I understand the engineering need for the use of alternates, but wonder about the lowered degree of isolation.
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Part of the blame is outdated train safety requirements from the Federal Railroad Administration. They like big heavy trains even for commuter rail.

https://bikeeastbay.org/rail/fra.html

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/modern-european-train-desig...
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Fascinating! I was wondering why nobody had done an XCB-based set of X bindings for Rust, given that XCB was basically designed for this purpose (well-typed, high-level metadata to generate good bindings from).

If I'm reading that page correctly, the problem is that GLX is specified as an API + implied ABI, not a wire protocol, and part of that API/ABI contract is "I was compiled with <X11/X11.h> and -lX11, and you'd better give me structures compatible with those"? And half of the GLX implementations are closed-source? Sigh.
The filing is public, and referred to in the lawsuit. I'll summarize here:

Smule has claimed we violated non-solicitation provision in our contract by recruiting each other to start a startup;
that we appropriated Smule's code or methods to build Shred Video (though they don't make any specific trade secret claims);
That Mark is guilty of fraud in his consulting relationship w/ Smule's engineers (this is detailed our post); and
We converted Smule's proprietary information into Shred Video (far as I understand, conversion is a fancy word for "stealing").

The "non-solicitation" claim is laughable, especially in California. The fraud claim is fraudulent itself, as the email record clearly shows Smule itself asked for Mark's help, and he was wholly transparent in the way he provided that help. Everything else comes down to whether we used Smule's proprietary code or methods.

When Smith says "I'm fairly confident we will figure something out eventually...unfortunately...with a bunch of lawyers," seems a reasonable interpretation that "a bunch of lawyers" is code for legal threats, and "figure something out" is code for us paying him (in equity or otherwise) to withdraw the legal threat.
These might possibly be the worst analogies I've ever heard. This isn't the equivalent of folding up paper airplanes of Harry Potter and throwing them around the room.

This is the equivalent of making a youtube video of you reading through each chapter one-by-one using an e-reader that only works with pirated copies of the book. Nintendo is absolutely NOT the bad guy.
So... as it happens I have a lot of experience deploying Meteor apps to servers that don't belong to Meteor. In fact, I may have a greater variety of such experience than anyone.

As the lead developer of Sandstorm.io, I have deployed Meteor:

* As the Sandstorm front-end, where Sandstorm is designed to be installed by end users on their own machines.

* As apps that run on Sandstorm, and are designed to be extremely fine-grained (each app instance handling a tiny amount of data, e.g. a single document).

* As oasis.sandstorm.io, a highly-scalable centralized Sandstorm host.

* As apps.sandstorm.io, a fairly mundane use case (whereas Sandstorm is, comparatively, highly unusual).

I would argue that Meteor is not at all designed for Meteor hosting. Rather, Meteor is designed such that anyone wanting to build a PaaS around it will have a much easier time doing so than they will with just about any other environment. On Sandstorm, we find Meteor apps much easier to package than anything else, because the Meteor tools will output a self-contained app bundle that operates in a consistent fashion for all apps -- thus allowing us to write a common packaging tool that works with all Meteor apps. Other stacks are comparatively much more fiddly.

I would expect Meteor's hosting will turn out to be the best way to run Meteor apps primarily because they have kick-ass engineers there who will build an awesome product (disclosure: I know several of them), not because they've biased the framework in their favor.
You're right of course. I didn't realize that was a greek letter on the sign in the photo.

Still, ~43[1] mSv/year is pretty close to the "safe" limit (and it makes sense to set a safety limit well below what can be documented as being harmful) -- and that's just from irradiation. Who knows the effect of breathing in pollen, never mind eating local produce, over a period of ~50 years?

Are there different safety levels for children/infants? If the 50mSv/year is set for workers, I assume they're for adults?

[1] I accidentally dropped a significant digit when rounding off too. It comes to ~42924.0, not ~49...
(I worked on the Android app.)

No, we're not using React Native yet, but we're hoping to start using it in the near future.
They weren't traditional. As simplistic and potentially annoying as the traditional "Happy Birthday" song was and is, it's part of the birthday tradition shared by a lot of English-speaking people, so it's special.

It's simply special, and nothing can replace it.

Ideally, works should be public domain long before they're traditional to that extent. It's just creepy for a company to assert ownership rights on some piece of culture that's been passed down through your family for generations.
And those reasons are clear and clear-cut. Dynamic linking is a net negative in most use cases, and certainly in all the use-cases that the Go developers are developing for, where reproducible builds are mandatory, code size is a tiny fraction of main memory, and code quality is very strictly maintained. When you've built a good development and deploy strategy, rebuilding and redistributing your binary is an everyday activity. There's no additional cost.
> If "Millennials" really are narcissistic, they will most likely grow out of it (whatever it is) in the normal course of, you know, growing up.

They might. But the Baby Boomers were also known as the "me generation", and they don't seem to have grown out of it. And the millennials are the consequence of the baby boomers' childrearing.

NB: Individuals in any generation may be exceptions. I'm speaking specifically to the gross cultural, business and political trends these generations exhibit.
The method proposed by the author does not work for packed structs. The btrfs library has a lot of them.

main.go

package main
/*
struct packed {
unsigned char a;
unsigned long long b;
unsigned char c;
} __attribute__((packed));
*/
import "C"
type Packed C.struct_packed

go tool cgo -godefs main.go

package main
type Packed struct {
A	uint8
Pad_cgo_0	[8]byte
C	uint8
}

We lost packed.b field. Go doesn't support packed structs. More info here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/UX5srUMt...
Correction, this is chapter 11 bankruptcy. This isn't the same as standard bankruptcy. This is the same kind of bankruptcy that 50 Cent is going through. It doesn't mean you have no money, it allows you to reasses your finances and protects you.
I’m working on a statically typed concatenative (stack-based functional) language called Kitten, and it’s one of the eventual goals to use type information to enable better editing environments, including on touch devices as seen here. The language is still a research project at this point, but it might be something you’d like to keep an eye on.

https://github.com/evincarofautumn/kitten
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> The bay area is definitely a world leader in smugness and self-satisfaction.

If anything is neck and neck with it, I would say it's NYC. To some of the people I knew who came from NYC, that fact almost formed the entirety of their identity.
The question isn't how big the farms are. The question is how are those who are "using" Farmlogs, using FarmLogs. Are they active? Are they using just the basic functionality, or are they using more advanced features?

I'm still involved in farming, and the guys I know who are "using" it, just are using the basic functionality.

Unless they have partnerships, FarmLogs is going to have a difficult time competing with Deere, Case/IH, other equipment manufacturers who are developing their own built-in products with similar feature sets and deeper pockets. Not to mention the local cooperative monopolies, seed companies, etc who are also in the game.
There's an alternate URL prefix you can use if your bucket name has periods: http://documents.scribd.com.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/91ltsqq5fk... becomes https://s3.amazonaws.com/documents.scribd.com/docs/91ltsqq5f...
That's a peculiar way to disincentive success. Hope to be successful enough to make some royalties, but not so successful as to be traditional because then you get nothing.
I disagree.

Political correctness has not gotten rid of bigotry or disrespect. It has merely been used as a silencing tool for opposing view points. This is why so many people (like me) are against it.

In the world that political correctness describes, the ex-Mozilla CEO wouldn't have been bullied, personally attacked, and disrespected until he was forced to resign from his position.

The guy that killed Cecil the Lion wouldn't have been bullied until he was forced to close his practice.

In many cases, people are destroyed before any of the evidence has been evaluated. Justice is now who has the loudest voice and how fast they can get a hashtag army against you. The truth doesn't matter any longer.

I thought we were supposed to be about more respect, less bulling, and actually creating a better world for all. Instead, it's a better world for only the people with a very specific narrow view of the world.

"And stop being so damned disrespectful."

The problem is that many people can't even respectfully disagree any longer. Even here on HN, I respectfully disagree constantly, give many good thoughts and ideas, but like many places, it's no longer acceptable to have an open and honest conversation.

The other problem is that somebody will almost always take any opinion as 'disrespectful' and you can't please everyone.

This entire thread has comments that are disrespectful toward Trump and anyone that supports him. You really need to ask yourself why this is allowed on a forum like HN, but if you said the same exact thing against Obama or anyone on the other side, you would be silenced.

You can't be against bigotry, bullying and disrespect and then go ahead and do the same thing to people you don't personally like. It invalidates your entire argument and makes you look like a fool.

Political correctness is rotting the country from the inside and will only be the downfall of our freedom.
Except games are an interactive medium, and watching someone else play isn't the same as listening to someone else read a book.
Yeah, I hear you, hindsight 20-20.

It was Mark's manager John Shimmin who made that request. John is a great guy, and Mark had (still has?) a great relationship with him. He genuinely wanted to help Shimmin, and did so faithfully for weeks.

It's not fair to pin this on Mark and dismiss it with a "rookie move dude." Mark (and I) had no idea that facts could be twisted and ignored to create this kind of legal conflict. A lot of people operate under the guileless belief that if they help someone, that person/entity will not screw them. Mark is one of those people.
It's hard not to have an opinion when BHL spends all of his time on TV.
Well the term "republic" is overused, even now 99% of the politicians come from the same class, went to the same school and basically are the same no matter which party they end up in. French elections are really just for show.
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I'm actually struggling to remember the specific examples, precisely because I used the items so infrequently.

One product was a spray cap mounted on a spike, which you were supposed to insert into citrus fruits so that you could spritz things with them.

Another was a silicone cap for placing over citrus after you slice it in half so that the remaining fruit would stay fresher.

There was a square block that you could insert the top of a wine bottle into, so the bottle would not roll when stored on its side.

The only product I actually use is an octopus-like hybrid between an extension chord and a power strip, which works well for providing quick access to electrical outlets all along the couch in my den.
Given that 1922 was the fourth edition, it's likely that the lyrics were actually published earlier. It's just that you don't need to go back further, since once you reach a date earlier than 1923 you know it's public domain.
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> despite how remarkably easy it is now to read

You must have more free time than I do. I'm satisfied to let the EFF read it and base my conclusions off of theirs.
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Robespierre had lived way too long - his existence made the Terror continue for years and he was unchallenged at the Commune until they finally got to get rid of him - and stop the craziness of the Terror.