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And police choppers are loud and annoying, while drones are presumably quiet.

On the other hand, what if we scaled if up? It would be very useful for the police to have a constant fleet of drones in the sky ready to swing their cameras around to focus on anything. Report of a mugging at fifth and D? Get visual on it in seconds. Which as a potential mugging victim I'm all for, but still, the idea of constant airborne surveillance gives me the heebie-jeebies.

That said, this, along with many other potentially useful crime- fighting tools, is about to become technologically possible, and we're going to need rules about every new thing that comes along. Right now we have no useful framework for making rules, apart from seeing what people shout loudest about. Personal heebie-jeebies aren't a good guide to sensible decisionmaking.
OK I'll bite. That logic is ridiculous. "Because X led to Y for one instance of Z, X leads to Y (ultimately and permanently) for all Z?" Spot the fallacy. (And what exactly do you mean by 'first principles' in a field of social science and political economy?)

Counter-thoughts from reality: China's doing great, and the US has a higher percentage of its own population incarcerated than any other state in human history.
Not sure how serious to take an article on cars that misspells Volkswagen.
You're talking about equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome?

This is specifically not what Sanders is talking about. He's saying that the basic fact that the rich have become richer than they used to be, relative to everyone else, is wrong and must change.

How do you read this differently?: https://berniesanders.com/issues/income-and-wealth-inequalit...
Yeah, see my comment above. Got a screenshot of it.
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This is a good way to describe it. He got the first part right, and identified the true flaw of capitalism.

Too many people still associate him and his theory of communism with failed communist states like the soviet union, North Korea or pre-capitalistic China. While the association may or may not be real, his observation about capitalism is unequivocal.
I am not a fan of trying to use original intent at all, but it is most often done by a relatively large number of judges by reading legislative history.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_intent
> My answer was that ES2015 encompasses a lot of additions to the language, and that we don't have to use all of them.

Exactly. Valid JS APIs and syntax, no matter what version, unless announced as deprecated, is still valid JS. It's not like if I write using `for` loops in your project, it will totally break.

> Our tech lead is concerned that our team isn't ready to use "advanced javascript" and it will cause issues.

Give or take 5-6 months of development down that route and you'll see more tools-related bugs and workflow problems than problems in your product. Your productivity will decrease as more of these show up. You'll then start to drop priorities and cope up with workarounds. When these overwhelm you, it won't be long before he decides to do a rewrite. Yep, this happens in software development, no matter how you take care of your code.

There's a reason why almost all JS frameworks and tools aren't all 1.0 yet. The API is NOT STABLE if it's not a major release. Node.js, if not for io.js, would still be 0.12 and highly unstable. If not that, then tools are breaking too often. Look at Browserify, it's version 11 already!

You don't want fast-moving tools on a long-term project. Stick with what's proven and stable.

Additionally, it only increases the barrier of entry for your project. A new developer won't know where to start if the tools are relatively new.

> We don't have to start using Classes unless we all agree that it's a good idea.

Classes are just sugar for prototypal inheritance. And even inheritance itself is a problem. There's a saying that goes "Composition over inheritance". Google that and you'll see what I mean. People even go as far as "When to use inheritance: Never".

> we'll be required to read/write ES2015 style code if we want to develop apps in React, Angular, etc. because their documentation will be using the new syntax

Wrong. That only makes copy-paste harder, which is a minor inconvenience. Learn to solve problems, not copy-paste.

> Backporting things sucks, and will cause more problems than its worth.

That's what the tools do for you right? And when they break, it's a bigger headache than backporting, especially when tool/framework developers throw you a "WONTFIX" and closes your bug report because it was not a bug, but a feature.

> These points didn't really seem to sway his opinion

Then let him be. Trust me, give 5-6 months and you'll start to hear WTFs and OMGs, see "what is this crap?!" and "holy !" in your code, a lot of "TODO" and "NOTE", a lot of workarounds and stuff. Yep.
This is just one part of the equation though. Yes, bad home-environments are worse than bad schools, but we can try to eliminate both
I agree with you that "Anyone can learn to code!" is wrong. Anyone can learn to code... badly, so badly that they're a danger to every piece of code they touch.

However, dragging software into it is a bit misguided. The value a programmer provides is a service (the production of software) not a commodity (the software). The software has almost no monetary value because it can be reproduced at will. Various DRM schemes attempt to make software a commodity but this viewpoint in general holds humanity back.

More to the point, viewing the production of software as a service rather than viewing software as a commodity demonstrates why programmers are the real value. If you view the C-level execs as retailers of a commodity, their business model makes sort of sense. But if you view software engineers as providing a service, it becomes strikingly obvious that the executives are extraneous, unnecessary middlemen attaching themselves parasitically to a service transaction.
I'm sorry to hear this. It should work okay if you only have one Google account. Unfortunately, maintaining the Firefox version isn't a priority right now. I love Firefox and it was a tough decision to switch to Chrome, but it's the more popular browser these days.

As I wrote below, updating the Firefox version really depends on how successful the Chrome version becomes and how many people request this.

If you write me an email (will@gethibou.com), I can keep you up to date with my plans to update the Firefox extension.
The theory is the maths. Maths makes predictions, observation confirms those predictions. End of story. Local hidden variables are not required any more than a medium is required for an electro magnetic wave to propagate.

And yes, it's correct that entanglement transfers no information! So there's nothing spooky about it; or more correctly it might seem spooky but there's no action at a distance.
> > Medical

> Yes. There is plenty of work that can be done by a nurse that doesn't need to be done by a doctor. It seems silly that someone gets sent to school for over a decade to talk to me about whether I can take a drug to bring back the spark in my relationship.

> > Law

> Yes. There are plenty of routine legal procedures that should be allowed to be performed by someone that doesn't have to go through the costly process of going through law school (routine divorce comes to mind)

Paralegals and Nurses require 2-4 year diplomas or degrees, typically
The Wikipedia entry is titled 'price', but is actually mostly about price theory.
I was hoping that it would be a reference to Stanisław Lem's "The Washing Machine Tragedy" from the part V of "Further reminiscences of Ijon Tichy"( "Ze wspomnień Ijona Tichego. V (Tragedia pralnicza)", 1962) where washing machines gradually got all imaginable home automation features and also became telepresense robots, sex dolls and members of organised crime.

https://books.google.ru/books?id=1DNVzphAHD0C&pg=PA89&dq=the...
It would be helpful if Apple included tracking on background time and other battery-usage metrics along with crash reporting for users that opt into it.

Facebook has no by-the-books way to realize some issues like this are happening, largely because iOS makes this difficult to watch.
I was just looking at http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/epic-archive/png/epic_1b_201510210... and wondering what all that smoke was.
Seems like it's trying to generate a bunch of aesthetically-pleasing 4-color palettes, and present them in a helpful way.

I suspect that the building shape is engineered to create a border between each pair of colors. (The standard alternative would be, say, 4 vertical bars, which only shows you how 3 of the color pairs look against each other.)

The noise might be working under the assumption that you're going to apply noise to the colors when you use them, too.
Really? Here is the subtitle of the linked article:

> From jeans to dating partners and TV subscriptions to schools, we think the more choices we have the better. But too many options create anxiety and leave us less satisfied. Could one answer lie in a return to the state monopolies of old?
GraphQL ends up being capable of whatever the backend exposes in the GraphQL schema, right - so in a way, they are isomorphic. However, in reality I'd argue GraphQL is a brilliant compliment to Cypher.

Here are some use cases I think Cypher expresses nicely that I (as a GraphQL noob) don't know how to do in GraphQL:

Simple recommendation engine - suggest people with lots of friends in common that I don't already know;

MATCH (me:User)-[:KNOWS]->(friend)-[:KNOWS]->(fof)
WHERE NOT (me)-[:KNOWS]->(fof)
AND id(me) = blah
RETURN fof.name, count(friend) AS friendsInCommon
ORDER BY friendsInCommon DESC

Basic routing - what's the shortest way for me to get to work?

MATCH p = shortestPath( (home:Address)-[:ROAD*]-(work) )
WHERE home.street = .. AND work.street = ..
RETURN p
But Bernie Sanders IS talking about wealth distribution.

"There is something profoundly wrong when one family owns more wealth than the bottom 130 million Americans." - Bernie Sanders

(Also a really misleading stat. If you have a $1 net worth, you have more wealth than the bottom 25% of Americans combined.)
Anyone know how to disable those Facebook notifications that say "Do you know X?". Can't find it in the options at all. Feels like an attempt to get engagement.
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Right. I completely agree. And I guess what I have a problem with is not the word spooky but the notion that there is "action at a distance".
On the other hand rioters won't break into your residence while you're asleep and maim your toddler with a flashbang on the flimsiest of evidence and conjecture.
Most interesting part of the article, I think:

> Ronson documents the rise of cyberbrigades which unite in virtual outrage, on Twitter, Reddit, or elsewhere online, to disparage someone’s words or behavior. Participants often feel that their abusive actions flow from justified outrage—but all bullies think that their behavior is justified. “We know from moral disengagement work that all bullies feel morally justified in their actions,” Swearer pointed out. [..] “They build narratives of their behaviors.” Many of the bullies Swearer has dealt with don’t seem to have realized that what they did was bullying: they demonstrate “a lack of insight and self-awareness.” Instead, they see themselves as righteous crusaders.
The paper or the post?

I think the paper is maybe slightly dismissive, closer to neutral: "it is conceivable the NSA has found ...".

The post seems more enthusiastic:

"the most intriguing hypotheses in the paper"

"Beginning with the smallest of the standard curves, P-256, which would now provide less than the required 128-bit security.

Did I mention that as part of the recent announcement, NSA also deprecated P-256?"

He backtracks a little in the following paragraph ("Of course, there’s no reason to believe ..."), but I think the conspiratorial tone is pretty well established by then.

It's also just the fact that he spends about a third of the post talking about this explanation without really covering any of the others. If I hadn't read the paper, I'd come away with the impression that this is the main theory they put forth.
Or, another explanation: they really are talking about income inequality, and you don't agree.
Linked article is from May. Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9504825
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Can anybody tell us what is the current state of the art in "electronic nose" sensors technology? Could they potentially be used to identify this smell?
Well a few quick thoughts against that:

1) Wouldn't you want to know say a year in advance, before you made all kinds of hospital visits and it was finally confirmed? I bet you would. Perhaps to start preparing for a different life, career, perhaps to advance future plans of things you'll gradually become less able to do. People want to know.

2) Can you imagine that if somehow, for example, you could detect Parkinson's by smell, that this would open up all kinds of findings, research and understanding about what Parkinson's is, how it works, how it's detected etc, that could potentially lead to better treatment or even a cure? I bet you can imagine there's a positive correlation between understanding something better and the ability to treat it in future.

3) it's simply interesting in and of itself. How curious, isn't it?
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"The second issue is with how we manage audio sessions. If you leave the Facebook app after watching a video, the audio session sometimes stays open as if the app was playing audio silently. This is similar to when you close a music app and want to keep listening to the music while you do other things, except in this case it was unintentional and nothing kept playing. The app isn't actually doing anything while awake in the background, but it does use more battery simply by being awake. Our fixes will solve this audio issue and remove background audio completely."

So after all the accusations of Facebook exploiting background audio to steal cycles for downloading content or tracking people's location it's just another case of Hanlon's Razor.
What do you mean by "take payments"? You mean you collect CC/other info and send it to a merchant like Stripe? Or do you have a merchant account (as in an ISO account), and are actually communicating with a processor directly?

If it's the former and you store any customer information at all, I would caution against it, since it identifies your application as being something that people can attack and possibly get data from.

If it's the former and you don't store any information that can even remotely identify customers, it wouldn't really hurt. I don't think Stripe/Paypal/etc require that integration with their APIs be kept secret.

If it's the latter (merchant account) I would assume that you're required to maintain PCI compliance, in which case even if you remove all "secrets", it still may be unacceptable to open source that code.

Keep in mind, if you store data and transact with processors, any bug in your code opens both the processors and users up to fraud. Generally I don't consider that a good idea. Code audits are one thing (which can be done by hiring a firm to internally review your code), but giving it to everyone I think would be a bad idea.
I think most of us don't define "pie" that way. In particular, I (and, I presume, saulrh) were talking about the economy, not about the total amount of matter within reach of the human race.

Even using your definition, though, the pie is not fixed. We can't mine the moon today. Perhaps someday we can. If so, the amount of matter available to us is not fixed. Or perhaps we can mine the earth's core. More mundanely, there's fracking. That's dramatically added to the amount of matter (of a particular useful form) that is available to the human race.
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I really want access to the code base so I can diff the changes.

I guess we'll just have to trust this explanation?
That's a good point. On the other hand, if it was common for people (one in a thousand) to smell Parkinson's, somebody would have come forward 200 years ago? A doctor or nurse, perhaps. So, on population level it should be extremely rare.

Of course, she is not a person picked at random, we should look at the population of people claiming to have done these sort of things already on their own. This population would be expected to contain a large portion of people with mental issues and charlatans trying to gain some financial benefit. If she doesn't have a history of either, then the prior jumps up to a very high level already. It is not very likely for a normal person to claim this sort of thing, unless they already have good evidence by themselves already.
Now that freebase is shutting down, is there ever going to be an open source version of the server side implementation of MQL?
What in America sorry I am ROTFL here! didn't seem to stop jack Dorsey making a lot of people redundant or MS using stack ranking to fire the lowest 10%
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As a user of a 2012 Nexus tablet, I'd say it's more than that - as the OS and apps auto-update, the device feels slower and slower, with inexplicable freezes. The system alone takes half the total RAM, leading to constant swapping out of apps. I refuse to give in to the upgrade treadmill, but there's a clear pressure.

(There's also the fact that for many, the upgrade is effectively "free" with their contract.)
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I think lazy eval is the wrong way to think about it. You might like http://oyhus.no/QuantumMechanicsForProgrammers.html
Everytime I read something like this, I get sad that I don't understand most of it.

But then I get happy because at least I understand a little bit :)
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Importantly, this explains why a number of Facebook on iOS users were reporting that the app was showing background usage even when background refresh was turned off. Many people thought Facebook was using a private API to track people when they weren't using the app. In reality, it was just a mistake. This is a great example of Hanlon's Razor [1]

[1] "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
Rioting is one of the expected consequences when more peaceable ways to resolve problems - problems that threaten one's self or one's family's safety - prove ineffective.

Quoting from Martin Luther King, Jr:

"""There's no doubt about that. I will agree that there is a group in the Negro community advocating violence now. I happen to feel that this group represents a numerical minority. Surveys have revealed this. The vast majority of Negroes still feel that the best way to deal with the dilemma that we face in this country is through non-violent resistance, and I don't think this vocal group will be able to make a real dent in the Negro community in terms of swaying 22 million Negroes to this particular point of view. And I contend that the cry of "black power" is, at bottom, a reaction to the reluctance of white power to make the kind of changes necessary to make justice a reality for the Negro. I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years.""" -- CBS Reports, Sept. 27, 1966

"""But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear?...It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.""" -- “The Other America” 1968
Thanks for all the work you guys are doing. I have used neo4j on a few projects, one in node and the other in python, and have really loved using cypher. The projects end up so simple with so many fewer lines of code it's amazing.
Really? Every single point there is about increasing taxes on the rich and reducing taxes/burdens or increasing pay for the poor, leading to one thing: more opportunity for the poor to pursue life decisions that aren't mandated by position or need (e.g., not going to school because you cant afford it or dont have the time when not working your two jobs).

The rich being richer and the poor being poorer is an indication of the disparity of opportunity. This disparity is being used to illustrate the difference -- it is the cough caused by the cold; the cough is not the root cause, but a signal. Income inequality growth is not the root cause, it is the outcome of policies that affect access to opportunities and why all of the points that he proposes are goals to alleviate that access imbalance.
Nice chart!
Did anyone else see the title and think this would be about Perl?
So, with no scientific basis at all you believe there is a 10% chance that people can detect disease by smell, something that has AFAIK never been proven for any disease? We don't go to the doctor and have him or her smell our armpits. Do you use a psychic? What we have here is an organization that is basing their research funding on math tricks that I, ten years out of undergrad, maybe didn't remember exactly as it was characterized but was able to see through.
In Apache TinkerPop's Gremlin3.

g.V().match(
as("cypher").hasLabel("QueryLanguage").out("queries").as("graphs"),
as("user").out("uses").as("cypher"),
where("user", within(["Oracle","Apache Spark", "Tableau", "Structr"])),
as("openCypher").out('makesAvailable").as("cypher")).
select("cypher").by("attributes")

The original query is sort of an odd query as you don't don't need all the unbound variables...

And if you want to use SPARQL over TinkerPop, just use a SPARQL->Gremlin Virtual Machine compiler.
https://github.com/dkuppitz/sparql-gremlin
I recommend listening to the 'Eye in the Sky' episode of of Radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/

It features an interview with Ross McNutt, also interviewed in the Washington Post story. McNutt describes aerial surveillance technology he developed for the US military operations in Iraq & Afghanistan, in use for over 10 years. The primary reason for not introducing it here is the US is opposition from privacy groups, despite having been used successfully abroad to counter terrorism and organized crime.
And I'd add -- the Waltons would be a weird example to key on if you were concerned mainly with punishing Wall St. speculators but keeping dynamism and entrepreneurship alive. Regardless of how you feel about WalMart, the Waltons are rich because they built a big, successful business. Not sure why they're first among the villains for ol' Bernie.
Mathematically, identity is indeed a relation.

If I say: "Look over there, it's Elizabeth II, Queen of England", I am establishing the sameness of a person referenced by in three different ways:

by a geographical position, by a name, by a title (according to the arbitrary rules of British monarchy)