skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Unless they had some specific agreement with Apple to do a teardown and have time for research about the specific components pre-release, then they were under the same exact NDA that everyone that signed up to their developer unit pre-release lottery was under.

They even stated that they knew they had signed an NDA, but felt that publishing their teardown information was "more important" than the NDA.
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"No, the UK doesn't have PR, but it's a different system to the US."

Nice attempt to shift the goalposts. Not going to work.

Stability isn't the only goal, but it's an important one.

"Still, I like you completely sidestepped the question of how 'stability' matches up with having a civil war that was one of the bloodiest in history.

Britain had a nasty civil war also.

"You're not actually interested in finding the best form of government; "

No, because I don't believe that there is a "best" form of government. Attempting to immanentize the eschaton usually (always) winds up with a few million people dead.

I'm interested in avoiding forms of government that are demonstrably bad, based on past performance.
We will have to disagree that it sounds "surprisingly coherent". (So does a markov chain, if you ignore the parts that don't.) The page says they are next crowd-sourcing lyrics - that should make it more obvious.

(on your other point, practically any single author can write in two sentences something much better than the entire wikipedia article I linked; there's nothing great about it except that it happens to be there. The great person in this case would be: Jimbo Wales. No Jimbo Wales, no wikipedia. we are getting really off-topic though; there's an email in my profile, you can mail me if you'd like to discuss this further.)
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Well, yeah, you have to use the right tool for the job. You don't use a task management tool to chat with clients.

You find Trello easier to use and more flexible than Asana? I actually find the exact opposite. You do task management for your entire company with Trello?
any way to read it without logging in?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10307163
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"I remember being told to go to college and to get a 'good' degree (this was well before STEM was a common term) meaning something not liberal arts and preferably something math heavy..."

I'm curious when the meaning of "liberal arts" changed. When I was in college liberal arts was a superset of STEM - well, at least SM. Physics was just as much a liberal arts field as history. A vocationally-focused degree in, say, criminology wouldn't be liberal arts, and neither would a self-guided major in peace studies. It seems like lately I've seen more and more people use the term as meaning 'all humanities, social sciences, and anything else that seems fluffy', which seems surprising to me. (Not that the comment above necessarily means it this way, though it does seem kind of close in spirit).
I think I make a fair point against those password rules in http://www.robsheldon.com/index-of-bad-passwords/ (linked from the Github repo's readme file) -- what users typically do is take their really weak password and then add the minimum amount of effort necessary to meet the password rule requirements. Meanwhile, there are lots of perfectly good passwords that don't meet those requirements.

edit: To further make the case, I just ran your password requirements against the input file. The most popular password that meets your requirements is some variation of "p@ssw0rd" -- usually "P@ssw0rd", but "P@ssw0rd123", "P@ssw0rd$", and so on are all popular too. Direct variations of "p@ssw0rd" (where the user only changed the capitalization of one letter) occur 47 times in the input file. For comparison, the index file contains every password that occurs at least 5 times...

Other popular combinations that meet your requirements are l58jkdjp!(46 times), !qaz2wsx (39), 1qaz!qaz (37), 1qaz@wsx (18), !qazxsw2 (16), zaq!2wsx (15), nick1234-rem936 (12), xxpa33bq.adna (11), !qaz1qaz (11), g00dpa$$w0rd (11), jhon@ta2011 (10), nloq_010101 (9), 1qazzaq! (9), pa$$w0rd (8)...

Meanwhile a nice long passphrase, which doesn't occur at all in the input file, is not allowed according to your requirements unless the user also throws in a special character and a number and an uppercase letter and a lowercase letter.
IRV isn't much worse on any of those...

I was an active IRV proponent. Then I figured out they require computerized tabulation (for non trivial elections, such as my jurisdiction) and are infeasible to audit.
There was a DOM2Canvas library at some stage, though it wasn't perfect and it couldn't render images (for security reasons).
Not a big fan of lawyers (personally seen people screwed by them twice) but there's this weird meme that lawyers can make lawsuits happen as they please. The cases where this can happen are very rare as far as I can see, yet the meme persists.
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All right, but in order for an investigation to be reasonable, there needs to be a basis for accusation, or something. We don't just say "AnimalMuppet must be guilty of something; let's start an investigation to find out what."
Low hanging fruit.

Join your local party and sneak it into your platform.

Use it whenever it makes sense. I used approval voting for feature planning and triaging bugs.

Our study group uses it to choose dinner.

Etc.
People seem to forget that a law degree was probably the most common example of a "good degree" you'd hear about in the 90's. And if you want to get a law degree, the American Bar Association recommends an undergraduate degree in "history, English, philosophy, political science, economics or business."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10260174 is recent and related, but maybe not quite a duplicate.
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>IMHO, they are extremely lucky the worst thing that happened was their developer account getting pulled.

What else can Apple do? Send the device teardown Police?

They never acted like they did not violate the terms of the agreement, or that Apple did some injustice. I don't see the hypocrisy. Even if they were hypocritical, it is an overrated vice. Asking people to honour their agreement does not become wrong just because they are hypocrites.
Not really. Check out Indy, Columbus, and Nashville, just to name a few.
Doesn't seem like a failure for the people at the top.
Did you read the linked stackoverflow discussion? I thought it made a convincing case that greater efficiency was possible across a valley given a sufficiently-aerodynamic low-rolling-resistance vehicle with an engine of non-constant efficiency. Would your intuition also say that analysis is wrong? Is it?
They probably lost interest once they realized that Android/Google wouldn't give them the giant payday they wanted.
http://www.pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/03/08/erooms_l...

http://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8264355/research-study-hype

http://www.nature.com/news/registered-clinical-trials-make-p...

There is no exponential progress in medicine. In fact, medicine is in some ways actually regressing, in particular through growing antibiotic resistance.

Where is this evidence for leaps in medical technological progress? The regular news stories prematurely heralding the end of some disease based solely on some priliminary in-vitro result that likely won't ever make it to a Phase 1 clinical trial?

I am betting that medicine will look twenty years from now largely as it does today. It will be painful, expensive, unautomated, unscientific, and of course, largely ineffective--just as it did twenty years before today. Had I made this prediction in 1970, 1980, 1990, or (extrapolating 5 years into the future) 2000, I would have been absolutely correct, so I see no reason to stop making it.

Take care of yourself. Do not assume regenerative medicine will fix the damage done to your body through smoking, excessive drinking, poor diet, or lack of exercise. Even if some genuine breakthrough arrived tomorrow, it would still take years to receive FDA approval and would likely cost a small fortune (see Sovaldi).
The first thing I notice is the seats.

The same very, very unadjustable, very sparse seats that the model S has. I won't provide reference [1][2][3]'s here, but there are absolutely much, much better seats with many more adjustments available in the lower end 3 series / A4 / C class cars ... and this is a car with a 6 figure price tag.

The seats. I have never understood the seats in the model S (and now X).

edit: OK, so another thing ... the stick-on spoiler has always annoyed me on the model S. Very cheap and lame. I see that the new Model X has a retractable spoiler ... when will that arrive on the Model S ?
Nope. If your vehicle goes over a hump back bridge then maybe, but not if you go down one side of a valley and up the other side, obviously with an inverted wing shaped profile to the vehicle?
Many thanks for that, I shall now read the code-less-code...
I believe Brooks will eventually be proven wrong about AI and Automatic Programming. Granted, he has not been proven wrong yet.

It is interesting, perhaps even a little surprising, that reasoning about programs has proven to be one of the most intractable challenges for AI. Why, to take a simple-sounding example, when my program does something wrong, can I not simply ask the machine why it did it? Why do I have to go in with a debugger and find the problem myself? This wouldn't require solutions to any of the familiar bugaboos of AI: it doesn't need a massive database of facts about the world, it doesn't require visual image recognition, it doesn't require natural language understanding, it doesn't require robotics or simulated emotions or any of those things. It just requires logical reasoning. Can't computers do that?

Well, no, it turns out, they can't do it, not in its full generality. Despite all the things it doesn't require, general logical reasoning is still almost AI-complete, which is a cute way of saying we still don't know how to make machines do it.

And fully general reasoning is required to solve the problem. We have lots of static analysis algorithms that can answer specific kinds of questions about programs, but we're still not very close to being able to answer an arbitrary question, even fairly simple ones. The spaces we would have to search are just too big; the branching factors are too high.

I think there is hope on the horizon, though. The so-called automated reasoning systems that have been built over the last few decades -- also called theorem provers -- have mostly not made use of any machine learning techniques. These two technologies are starting to be combined, and machine learning is of course a very hot area right now. I believe that eventually we will have Automatic Programming worthy of the name as a result of this combination.
It's interesting that both you and the author mention recalling things and simultaneously knowing that you hadn't recalled them before. When you remember something, it rarely brings to mind the specific situation in which you last remembered that thing. But apparently, somehow, you remember that you have remembered it at some point, enough to be startled when you haven't!
I feel there are too many controls without a sense of hierarchy. I get lost knowing which sub list of which task under which project I'm looking at. Plus with the amount of controls there are I'd expect it to be more powerful.

Likewise - I really want to like it.
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I really like their use of material design in their video. It's not the "Google-esque" material design but it follows the principles. I think that's what is intended and it is indeed very appealing and pleasing.
LightScribe was discontinued in 2013, and is no longer available on new drives. It's fortunate that someone thought to try this experiment during its brief window of popularity.
It is a large country and has existing infrastructure. It is hard to compare US to say a West European country and look at internet speeds or LTE coverage. US is just much larger so looking at geographical coverage it doesn't look good at all.

The existing infrastructure part is companies will refuse to update their system for as long as the existing one kinda works. Sometimes with only 1 or 2 companies covering a region. If both stay at 3G, the customer basically doesn't have a choice. So no need to upgrade.

If it was an African country, without an existing network, they might choose to jump to the latest technology (like some skipped installing wired phones and just went to cell phones in the past). In the chart Khazakstan and Uruguay is perhaps in that category.

In the speed category Romania kills it with 30Mbps. That's pretty cool for being a relatively poor European country.
" I think it's fair to say that a good programmer in 2015 is probably 10x more productive than a good programmer in 1995."

I don't know about fairness, but definitively that's wrong. I was around then and the most I could believe is that we are 2x.
Except these are companies choosing to shorten their work days. This isn't a top-down imposition by government. I suspect you are envisioning a 6-hour day, with government requiring overtime compensation beyond that. As for basic income, that's another discussion entirely.
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What do you mean by surprisingly coherent? Is it that it's vaguely in the same scale? That really isn't impressive. Once it's been established pretty much anyone can tell if there's a clearly sour note. The song plays like a markov chain. There's not structure, no real pattern, bizarre changes. I guess the real failure is that there's no progression, no building up of tension. It's just a meandering, structureless mess.
iFixit traditionally does teardown on the first day of availability. If you need to see a teardown before buying, you just have to wait 24 hours after availability. You'll need to do that anyway in case Apple changes something between dev unit and production unit.

Sure iFixit provides a great service. I happily support them by buying tools and parts from them. "Public service" simply isn't a valid reason for this teardown. It was regrettably thoughtless of them to do this just because they can.
Great Article on a new tech start up dealing with shoes
I was obsessed with this book in 1st through 3rd grade and must have checked it out from the school library 50 times.

Just picked up a used copy from Amazon 30 seconds ago; thanks for reminding me.
I don't see any contrition on their part. They're trying to have it both ways – the tone of the article is clearly engineered to raise the heckles of people who are sympathetic to the "Apple is authoritarian" meme without explicitly saying so.

"In the meantime, we will continue to support our Android app" they say. Not subtle at all.
Wait, so Firefox just added clipboard copy support one day ago, and everyone in the other thread about clipboard.js was already calling Safari "the new IE" for this reason?
My roku is at least three years old and we added the YouTube channel just fine.
Another interesting wrinkle that lukeschlather brings up is that if the productivity increases are the result of more and more automation, does that not also mean that there are fewer and fewer people paying into social security? Or am I misunderstanding the statement?
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Silly comparison -- linkbait headline. It doesn't even delve into Spotify economics, nor particularly the passive aspect of streaming income that starkly distinguishes it from busking.
After carefully reading again what they stating stating, it appears that even when they talk about CO2 emissions, they actually base their claims on self reported fuel consumption data from http://www.spritmonitor.de

It looks to me that the following is entered (I have not used the app) by the users.

Objective data:

Date of fuelling,
Current odometer value,
Amount and price of fuel.
Type of tires (summer/winter) [should be mostly objective]

Subjective data:

Driving style used (Moderate, Normal, Fast),
Roads driven (Motor-way, City, Country roads)

For roads driven all the options could be selected and are then doubly reported in the detailed statistics.

This means that there is no objective acceleration and speed profile and also elevation difference data is missing (is not collected).

To illustrate this I will compare two different entries for BMW 3er 320d touring efficient dynamic

1) http://www.spritmonitor.de/en/detail/595885.html?cdetail=1 (2012, 120 kW, 4,14 l/100km)
2) http://www.spritmonitor.de/en/detail/672858.html?cdetail=1 (2011, 120 kW, 5,54 l/100km)

As both cars have the same power, I assume that they are the same model.

The consumption difference is 33%!

Driver one believes that driving style has been mostly moderate and driver two believes that driving style has mostly been normal.

Edit: I think that it illustrates that it is possible to drive this car close to its spec but it also easy to have more courageous driving style.
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Up until maybe 30 years ago it made perfect sense to "just get a degree." College degrees were rare enough that they were a differentiator.

The people pushing to get any old degree were just following the logic of the world they grew up in. I suspect a lot of millenials will encourage their kids to get degrees in STEM fields and especially CS, even though in 30 years that won't be the best advice.
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What would happen if someone actually managed to move google.com to a non-google registrar account under their control? Would someone step in and just seize it back? Can you imagine the magnitude of client devices hitting the wrong server for gmail,android updates,chrome even for a few minutes?
You must have terrible credit. As someone who has taken part in the lending side of P2P companies, 20+% APR is the lowest grade of credit and represents a substantial default risk (real returns are <10%).
Hack Google?
Can't wait for the data equivalent of the Java programmer's FactoryFactoryFactory pattern.

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431....
I think it's a complete script for an oscar-level movie and I would love to watch it.
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Litigation is a crap-shoot. Microsoft could have just as easily been slapped with such a judgement on its FAT patent that provoked that countersuit. Instead, it went the other way.

The only thing that's clear is that Microsoft was the aggressor. Without the FAT litigation, there would have been no h.264 litigation.
"Over the years, thousands of people taking or withdrawing from Paxil or other psychiatric drugs have committed violent acts, including suicide, experts said, though no firm statistics are available. Because many factors could have contributed to that behavior, it is still far from clear who is at risk — and for whom the drugs are protective."[1]

So we have a case where thousands of people we're put at a big risk,with clearly illegal practices , and nobody is going to jail ? and on the other hand, no major systemic change has happened - like taking the responsibility for clinical testing , and drug advertising out of drug developer's hands ?

How will anybody learn ?

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/health/antidepressant-paxi...
With binary files and git, am I saving all the previous versions in the tree locally (which could get huge fast), or just the diffs?
History of the subway map (geometry vs. geography)
DNS takes a few hours to fully propagate, last time I checked.
Also true for pretty much every other term I've seen mainstream journalists 'learn'... hack, app, cloud, algorithm...
Hi Aaron, hah, I had forgotten all about that link. Thanks Mini! And as for us leaving at the same time, funny how that works :)
I was expecting this ever since Oracle has taken over it. I hope the same thing doesn't happen with MySQL
This is awesome. Great work.
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Thank you for sharing this study. It is very interesting.

Every kind of social group has its pros and cons.
Well I am not at all knowledgeable about the different types of lawyers out there but in general the problem doesn't even begin to start with them. Its all the USPTOs fault for even allowing software (zeros and ones) to be patented in the first place (There are probably very legitimate reasons for this that I don't know about). I don't even know how many resources and time are wasted in courts but I imagine it would be pretty shocking.

I haven't heard anything about patent trolls for a while but their entire existence is based on bullshit lawyers and wasting the courts resources. (kinda getting off topic I guess I am done here)
This is such an awesome post. Samson shared the details of his data engineering work at 500px and Wish during a Keen IO event last night. His slides are here -> https://keen.io/blog/130230045601/analytics-startups-and-lau...
Hello and thank you for the feedback!

First off, I apologize for the site being so slow (it frustrates me too and we're working on it!).

I'm glad you enjoyed the concept -- we're working on some exciting new stuff as well, so stay tuned!

I hope the site is helpful during the upcoming holidays!
Great concept. However:

http://www.giftmasters.com/gift-finder should be the homepage of your site.

And a cursory glance suggests that you need to improve your data, which undermines the whole "handpicked" notion:

All of the headphones you suggest on the first page of results for running would be terrible for running.

Most of the water bottles you suggest for running would be impractical (e.g. the glass one)

Keep at it!
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That would be like buying the worlds biggest DDOS botnet holy cow.
This article is from 2012.

> Tuesday 3 July 2012 12.19 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 1 October 2014 07.41 EDT
Someone correct me if I'm way off, but I've been thinking that leveraged markets and margin trading have more of a negative effect than just creating risk of a domino effect. They also resist change (change that is sometimes needed).

If tons of huge banks have tons of money on the line in leveraged crude oil futures, then there would be resistance to global movement away from fossil fuels. Larger financial markets should in theory provide oil to the gears of the economy, but I think that if the industry becomes so bloated it will actually cause additional friction.

Please point me in the right direction if there is anything written on this topic.
Yes (as would you if you bothered to look), and plenty more offer relocation bonuses of eg $5k which (1) will be taxed, and (2) are wildly insufficient unless you're basically living on a futon. For a family that needs a trip to house hunt and has furniture for 3-4 people, an actual relocation can very easily cost $15k ($3k airfare/hotels/meals/babysitting for 3-4 days in the new city to house or apartment hunt; $10k move for 3 bedroom house + car; apartment lease termination / house selling costs; other services shutdown plus startup in the new city).