skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Dorsey is no Jobs" sound very fitting now.
> I think it's very likely that torture "works" in some sense and certainly everyone practicing it expects it to work.

I attack this by stating that "We got far more intelligence by NOT torturing people in WWII."

People want to talk. If you give them an environment where they can just talk, they can't help but tell you valuable things.
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> But "too much" is a totality. There are a number of studies that show that sodium-restricted diets may increase all-cause mortality. So "too much sodium...is unhealthy" is not nonsense but completely meaningless and unhelpful as advice.

You seem to be arguing that, because too little is harmful, saying that too much is harmful is meaningless. That seems... less than logically sound.

Or have I misunderstood you?
Pizza for a user group meeting? Your attendees already hate you
The vigilante approach sounds good when you apply it to people you find abhorrent. Doesn't sound so good when you realize some people find homosexuals, blacks, atheists, etc. abhorrent and think "they don't belong in our society".
I like how he talks about the ex-employees as they are dead. Honouring the memory of the lost by continuing to fight for the cause.
It's not the engineers fault. It is a statement that they need fewer people going forward.
> Unless you have a detachable tag, otherwise your tag ID will appear on every single major interception, with time, speed between blocks. Most of Tag will ship to your house, and/or auto fill by credit card once the balance is low.

In principle there's no reason the same thing couldn't happen with license plate readers in all but the most dense of traffic. The tags likely make it easier, but with plate-reader technology it should still be possible to do just using license plates.
Tried it on my GF's laptop (mine runs linux), which has a first gen core i5 from 2008ish. Everything was fine, except the HDMI port wouldn't work anymore. Apparently a bug in Intel's driver and they have aanounced that they will not be supporting it.

The rollback to win7 was rather quick and painless.
A doctor friend of mine said, "Half of what we [doctors/medicine] know is wrong. Unfortunately, we don't know which half."
Better to call it a GNU package, to emphasize the GNUness. GNU's definition of freedom is quite specific, and not my definition. Better to call it libre, as there is less confusion.
"Since the founding, the compromise is that the government can get at nearly any place that might contain evidence, so long as it has a warrant."

I don't believe that with regards to the 5th amendment and some rulings, e.g. [1], have held this to be the case. I would like to think my phone applies and workarounds should not even be legal regardless of whether they can.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Hubbell
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@AnimalMuppet - I think he means that "too much" is un-bounded, and since anything will kill you in quantity (oxygen, sugar, whatever), it loses its meaning.

The nuance required for an actionable claim sounds more like "more than x but less than y based on metabolic factors a, b, and c is the healthy range". This is difficult to construct based on existing research, thus we need to learn more before making blanket statements.
One feature i really like about cyanogenmod is the ability to revoke most privacy related permissions or deploy a dialog when accessed, asking for permission on a case by case basis.

I think it should have been that way from the beginning forcing app developers to handle cases where some permissions aren't granted. It makes for much better visibility when some data is used and to some degree for what.
"Best" means "most optimized for some utility function". It always requires the utility function to be defined, and there's always an infinite array of conflicting utility functions that could be used -- that's the nature of "best".

Stallman is, quite properly, clearly addressing the relevant utility function. This may differ from your preferred utility function, but that doesn't make RMS's definition a "redefinition of best".
How does that work with long-running emacs processes?

I generally keep a daemonized emacs or two running the entire duration of my uptime. If package A depends on a certain behavior of package B (but doesn't eagerly load it), if I start emacs, load package A, wait some duration X, package B gets updated, then I load package B, will A break?

If so, is that a failure of A for not eagerly loading B, or a failure of the dependency system for not letting A declare that it wants a particular version of B, or something else?

Sorry, I have not really dived into package.el all that much and the documentation is somewhat fragmented since everybody customizes it the way they want.
It's also not uncommon to tell your employees they don't need to come in to work during that last month.
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I know one company [1] who set its mission to "Advancing humanity through the power of software". I wonder what's the credit when your values are quoted in a parody show ("Silicon Valley", HBO).

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/company
There are better options than to use Ghostery for the same reasons you don't want a private company having a say in your privacy ;)
Depends on whether you care about the product or the money.
The frustrating part of these articles is how they tend to ignore that diet and exercise are intrinsically linked. Live a sedentary lifestyle? Limiting fat (and general caloric intake) is the right move. Work out intensively for an hour daily? You almost certainly aren't consuming enough fats.
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> 'Did you do (basic research)' is an impolite way to suggest someone did not.

I ask basic questions because I often have conversation partners who have not done their basic research. In the past, I've wasted a lot of time having mid-to-advanced level discussions about topics with people who -as it turns out- didn't have even the most rudimentary grasp of the fundamentals of the topic. I ask brief clarifying questions of this sort out of respect for the busy schedules of myself and my conversation partners.

More than that, I've found that presuming to know something about other people often leads to hurt feelings and wildly incorrect assumptions. :)

From the start, I've been behaving in exactly the way you claim that you want me to behave. I even explained -at length- the reasoning behind my first and second comments and my conversational MO.

After your reply to my first comment, you've failed to meaningfully engage in any further discussion, citing my failure to behave in the way that you want me to behave as the reason for your non-participation.

We're getting really far afield here, but do you make it a policy to apologise to people (who aren't paying you) who continue to fail to understand something long after you've made that thing clear to everyone else in the room?
So your hypothesis is that Google took the knowledge of the search query and attached some sort of indicator that the user was interested in AA onto the user's personal data (in violation of its own policies for interest-based advertising on sensitive topics). Then, it mapped that user to a cookie (in violation of its own policy towards cookie-user matching). Then it gave a list of cookies associated with alcohol rehab to a 3rd party (also not how any Google systems work, this would be in violation of many internal policies). Then, someone was able to match cookies to email addresses (available, unfortunately, in the shadier black markets of the marketing world, but totally in violation of Google remarketing standards such that the 3rd party would be likely barred, if caught, from all Google systems). Then, the spammer bought the email addresses and sent the emails.

Alternate theory: someone at AA sold an email list to a shady marketer.
They went to robots in China.

One interesting thing to watch in the next few decades would be this - if more and more robots are going to be used, then countries like China will no longer have the advantage of cheap labor. A robot in the US is more or less going to cost the same as a robot in China, so there are not many reasons to send jobs elsewhere.
My mom got a masters in nutrition from University of Washington in the 70s, and has kept up with most of the newer research and news in the industry and regularly talks about how they were just simply taught incorrect information.
I think there are a couple of things. First, it's meant to complement rather than replace your default keyboard, which is where I think most third party implementations go wrong (it's very hard to best Apple's autocorrect and people are used to using the default keyboard for typing). Then I think the advantages with Winston are that it aggregates a number of useful services (Yelp, Giphy, Spotify, etc.), has a simple design with no need to learn anything new (like gestures or swiping), and includes search functionality. But I'd love to get any feedback as well!
What's your plan for revenue? IAP?
> While incredibly flawed it's still the single best toolto fight against censorship and public and private control.

But is it the best because it is better than the alternatives we would have without it is, or is it the best because its dominance in messaging prevents better tools (in terms of "the fight against censorship and ... control") from being developed or gaining traction and critical mass -- e.g., is the goal you point to really being served by a strong Twitter, or held back by it?
Then it's your job to make one of those parties not the same.

Howard Dean's time as DNC chair showed you the blueprint for doing this. It was working. That's why they kicked him out.
> Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

I sometimes feel like at least a third of the resistance to ideas like fat is ok is based in a deep-rooted belief drilled into us by fad diets that eating healthy can't also be delicious.
They have that: http://www.ttlclock.com/
I am too, but maybe you're thinking of Windows Presentation Framework? XAML files are still used to describe user interfaces in whatever they're calling Metro these days.
The next version of Android ("M") does this.
Donate to the FSF! :)

(I mean you don't have to obviously, but I think it's a good remainder for all of us that Emacs wouldn't exist without it. I've just bought a shirt myself!)
Good point. But the author probably didn't choose the title. I hear they rarely do at large publications.
There does seem to be considerable distaste for the suburbs on regular display in large parts of the media. This title captures that perfectly: while the housing stock remains the same, it magically transforms from tasteless when suburban to beloved when the suburban area becomes urban.
It's okay, your friends and those you converse with already have.
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Yeah, I've noticed a tricky part about 3rd-party keyboards is discoverability. Many people get far enough to enable it, but in my own experience, iOS is pretty buggy when it comes to keyboards.

I like the approach of augmenting the system keyboard with additional features. When it's done this way, it's not so infuriating that it's not working :-)
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I'm assuming from the context you're touting that as an example of a "scam product" - first time I've heard of them but http://tellspec.com/order/ has beta device for purchase at present and they appear to be getting plaudits eg "Selected to be part of the HIVE at TED Med 2015" is on their website (and confirmed at TED MED).

Surely ordering the beta would show straight away that the product was entirely non-functional (ie fake)?

Did I miss something that you're relying on to form this opinion?

Edit: perhaps http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-busi... ?
If someone is interested in real technical description of molecular manufacturing, you may read Eric Drexler's "Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing and Computation".
Most parts of this book can be read on the author's website http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/Nanosystems/toc.html , and if you know how to google you can find the whole book.

The book contains a careful physical analysis of molecular machines. The technical material is unchallenged to the present day.
I think we are in agreement this is all legal, and are just disagreeing about the meaning of 'restricted'. Your usage is in legal terms, whereas I'm talking about what was advertised.

> The didn't just decide to spend specific dollars on one cause that had been collected under a guise of a different cause.

Actually, in the case of the lottery, there are examples of this. See the part at 12:24 - https://youtu.be/9PK-netuhHA?t=12m24s

Perhaps one can say it was legal and not restricted money. Regardless, it is definitely odd how the state advertises that lottery money goes to education, and meanwhile corporate tax money disappears from the education budget.

The point is not legality, it is ethics.
Yes, of course. My sibling comment clarifies.
no, but they've introduced a bunch of versions of it under different names (WPF, Silverlight, Phone Silverlight, WinRT XAML, UWP), a few of which broke compatibility, so that's probably where you got that impression.
Makes sense. We will work on making this process super easy and transparent. Thanks for your feedback!
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Never mind the bubble babble!
>lifestyle company

Ah! So that's what it's called. I was wondering if there was more to the world of business than all this "Grow or die!" that I hear, well, everywhere. Though it makes sense, "9th year of enough happy customers to pay the bills, just what we were going for" just doesn't make as good a headline as million dollar deals.
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The government doesn't have a warrant to force the device manufacturer to add a feature to the phones making them easier to search in the future.
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> so stupid that they actually fall for the answers they get.

This, mostly.

Never put HR on your engineering interview loops.

I actually recorded the statistics for our HR people on the loop to prove that they were random relative to the engineering assessments so I could get them kicked off the loop.
Isn't that already covered by spoilage of evidence, or something along those lines? If i have a magic safe that destroys its contents, I'd be on the hook for maybe Obstruction of Justice? That may or may not be better than losing the contents, but it's not like i could just walk away.
You may have been misled by my autocorrect. I meant "tautology" not "totality". Saying that "too much" is bad for you will always be true because by definition "too much" is more than you should have. The problem is that, in nutrition, we usually don't know how much is too much (outside of absurd levels that aren't commonly reached).

We know that reducing sodium may be harmful. It's possible that attempting to reduce sodium below what the average person consumes may be harmful (or may be harmful for some portion of the population). We don't know what is the "ideal" level or range of sodium.

So, yes, it is true that "too much" sodium is bad for you, but we don't really know how much is too much, or even if the amounts that people eat today are actually too much for the typical person.
I'm convinced the complexity comes from the language,

Flux/React are actually quite simple and I can put the core architecture together in under 50 loc of Elm.
Well, there's additional nuance here... Caloric intake is made up of 3 principle inputs: carbohydrates, fat, and protein. The recommended daily allowance of each is in balance, so if you eat fewer carbs, you have to eat more fat or protein to reach your caloric intake.

U.S. governmental regulations have long discouraged fat intake, replacing those calories largely with carbs. This was based on the assumption that the fats were harmful, rather than extra calories in general. The article is highlighting a change in understanding that will hopefully have us stop demonizing fats in favor of carbs in a diet that is otherwise within bounds calorically.

In short, we know now that it is not necessarily bad to eat fats (anymore than it's bad to over-eat in general).
Yes. I think I'll add features for free in the next update (and continue to improve the existing features) and then begin to experiment with premium features. Keyboards require a bit of creativity to monetize since users have to go to the containing app to purchase IAP, and I don't know how well that works. Ideally with enough downloads, I might also be able to monetize with some form of sponsored content.
In other air crash investigations, the technical analysis is the most important part -- because a technical component failed, or because the type of missile needs to be deduced, etc. In the 9/11 attacks, people intentionally flew the planes into buildings. There is not much to talk about, technically -- the control systems worked as intended, and the technology used by the attackers only got as sophisticated as box cutters.

So what would you like to see? A detailed analysis of all of the ways the plane did exactly what you'd expect? Do you think the onus is on the investigators to disprove conspiracy theories? It's like you want a report called "Why it wasn't a missile: a detailed report on how Flight 93 looks like what you'd expect if terrorists hijacked a plane and crashed it into the ground."

You're asking others to disprove your hypothesis, for which there's no evidence in the positive, while ignoring competing evidence. This is the hallmark of bad conspiracy theories.
I used to work for an ad retargeting company. Our advertisers gave us a ton of data that we didn't necessarily want along with pixel data that we did, including email addresses. So if you're logged in to some retailers website and they were retargeting with us, they might either accidentally or deliberately passing us your email address, which would allow us (if we wanted to) to map your email address to your cookie. We see your cookie look at galleries, bam.

Or, more legally, the advertisers could be part of a specific email retargeting campaign where they give us your email addresses, and then we can establish the mapping in a more direct way.

Obviously there must have been more shading goings on in this case, but the principle is the same.
> If we could get rid of copyright

If that happens, the web as we know it would cease to exist. Without a legal recourse to stop plagiarism and stolen content, people who are actually creating new content stop completely and move into other areas of work. Websites that produce original and unique content close up shop. Instead you're left with a bunch of low-quality rip off sites that have nothing original of their own. Then it the entire web stagnates over the years as very few new things get added to the net as a whole. And that's just the effect on the internet, that doesn't take into account real world publishing.

I wish people would consider all of the consequences of these things before making statements like that. I haven't even begun to consider the consequences of eliminating copyright completely and just from what I can come up with off the top of my head makes it a non-starter.
This is what it offers: http://photonkit.com/components/

As well as something in the way of a template for you to build on.
I like how un-mac-like the space looks. It's kinda messy with raw cables and industrial machines laying about. It looks like a place where you get real work done - ironically designing stuff for the mac.
The problem that this is trying to solve (Isolation) seem possible to solve once you get away from a mismanaged wifi setup.

Too many devices supported by one router. This can be solved with more chipsets per router, each with a slightly more directional antenna (as opposed to dipoles being standard).

Turning down transmitter power on routers, if you want fewer devices (such as one 20x20 area instead of pi(150)^2 ft) you can turn down the tx power. Moreover, using 5ghz already starts limiting wall penetration more.
Yeah, there is a lot of FUD on this one. Its really not a constitutional convention but more a gathering that will send proposed amendments back to the state legislatures. It is not a rewrite of the Cobstitution.
Oops, HN cuts the canonical URL's last character, a period; try this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USL_v._BSDI
> Without a legal recourse to stop plagiarism and stolen content, people who are actually creating new content stop completely and move into other areas of work.

Copyright doesn't prevent plagiarism; plagiarism can exist without copyright violation and vice versa.
I'm glad you mentioned pockets. That's what hit me first.

Also, everybody holds their smartphone differently, including at the top (where LED notification lights are), especially in landscape mode.
AMD doesn't have fabs anymore it had to sell all of them to GlobalFoundries.

Fab 68 is a 65nm fab even tho it's their newest it's pretty much delegated for making non-vital parts.

The only Fabs Intel has outside of the US that are manufacturing CPU's and high-value components are in Ireland(24, 14nm) and Israel(28, 22nm currently will be Intel's first 10nm fab by mid 2016).

But anyhow no one doubts China has the capability to manufacture quality components, and they got better at developing internally as well many of the newer Chinese consumer electronics brands can quite easily compete with other Asian primarily Korean manufacturers quite well.

The Chinese automotive industry on the other hand well didn't had much success as far as designing goes their best cars currently are probably the MG (or which ever brand SAIC Motor uses these days) ones which are based on existing designs and IP from the MG Rover buyout, and although they look very modern allot of them are based on quite old designs even the newer MG's can still be traced to the Rover 75 and the Streetwise which were well kinda outdated designs to begin with.

I've drove the MG 6 when I was in China, it's not a bad car it looks quite nice the accessory pack of the leasing agency unlike in Western countries was probably couple of levels beyond what ever is normally sold in the local markets but it still felt like an older car, the steering, responsiveness breaking everything felt like a car from the late 90's early 2000's which under all the flare it kinda is.
This couple lives on 6% of their income so they can give $100k a year to charity
Which was incidentally a technique used by early blu-ray rippers. (Making a screenshot of each frame.)
Security reasons. It can be used to confirm whether or not a certain file exists on another PC on the network by observing where it's synced to/from.

That said, there's nothing novel here. People have been doing this for decades, and extensions to the bittorrent protocol use it all the time to prioritize LAN seeds over internet seeds. In fact, I believe there was talk a while back about optimizing BT to prioritize peers and seeds on the same subnet/ISP as a way of mitigating ISP bandwidth concerns and whatnot.
No, because dye is only on the 'outside the scalp' part of the hair. IPL works by transmitting heat to the follicle (transmission only works on the color particles in the hair, can't remember the proper name) and when the follicle has been burned, the hair falls out.
> Hamilton received a check for $37,200

Should have been $32,768.
The Diamond Age is a great book. Neal Stephenson is known for researching concepts he writes about, so the technology present in the setting is based on Drexler's thesis.

I wouldn't call it "a dream" in a sense that it's utterly unrealistic; physics says that these systems can work.