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Ladies and gentle, witness the justification of the dystopian future before you.

Here is my problem, or my main problem, with this line of thinking. America is founded upon the idea that individual liberties are basis for all other liberties, and while I can understand the reasoning that the national security apparatus finds the shifting sands of power from nation states to individuals a potential security threat, they have embraced this thought process without bringing it to the people in an upfront manner as should be properly done in a constitutional representative democracy. This model of thinking, at least in the USA, is a complete rewriting of what we consider our government should be, and a rewiting that is happening with no informing the people, and one that will most certainly have more unintended consequences than anyone can yet imagine.

I am certain of one thing, and that is the worst things will befall those who so eagerly trade liberty for security, at the hands of those who promise to protect.
Damn it! I just read this 10 hours later. I totally know how to spell "hemorrhage". Don't judge me posterity.
The choice between Google and Hacking Team seems super easy to me.

I also wonder if making root more available ends up enabling the bad actor at the phone store more than it ends up helping end users.

(I do get that many people see it as an matter of principle)
The Waterfall method has not been successful for 40 years

Right, ok.
NSA phone records collection 'likely violates constitution', US judge rules
While I expected a wooden version of Michelson's analyzer : http://imgur.com/gyeR4A0
To be clear, this is applying the classic observation that if you keep the first and last letter correct, humans are really good at unjumbling the center.
Thanks! Just would like to precise this is the exceptional category for 'alien with exceptional abilities' [0] who need to prove their exceptional abilities; all other employment-based petitions are filed by employers.

[0] http://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/permanent-workers...
Hello, developer here.

Quick tech rundown:

This is implemented as a Google Chrome extension, i.e. it's
implemented using web frontend tech, using a custom injected agent
program injected into note-possible websites (= every URL that's not a
browser-internal "page"). The UI is implemented in a React.js + Redux
combination. It's authenticated by the slimmest possible Python +
Flask web backend using OAuth2 via Google I felt I could get away
with.

Post tech questions here if you're curious and I'll try to answer them
or tweet at me (I'm https://twitter.com/jacob414).
Is it me or all the photos are blurred? I can't read them
I just wanted to do a +1 here, but as it is not very HN-worthy, I'll provide a little bit more of work, and just say that a search in HNSearch for "Fabrice Bellard" produced 3 pages of results for tha last year, whereas "Jeff Dean" only produced 2.

Personally, I feel I've been more exposed to Fabrice Bellard's work, which might be not true, but I first learned of Jeff Dean's existence yesterday.
Mine was employment based / EB1.
It was not the number of forms, but the structure that made it complicated. The final package we submitted was over 150 pages total for me and my wife. This is in part because the same information is required multiple times, since the different steps get reviewed by different departments.
This discussion again
As far as I understand, the reason this is a problem is because the FAA requires English language proficiency.

Within that context, this is an anecdote about the ineffectiveness of the FAA at enforcing its regulations, which is troublesome regardless of whether that particular regulation makes any sense, because one typically imagines most regulations regarding aircraft maintenance are probably worth enforcing.

(fwiw, I agree with you that this particular regulation probably doesn't make sense, as long as manuals are available in the technician's language. And the article's tone is off-putting. But I think there's a sane and completely rational reason to be concerned by the fact that mechanics don't speak English. It's more of a canary (in light of relevant regulations) than an actual problem unto itself. The solution is probably to bring regulations into the 21st century, and then actually enforce them.)
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Wonder if you can choose a sentence such that humans see it one way (homophones, jumbles), perhaps via context clues, but the closest match (edit distance?) for the individual words gives a different sentence?

Certainly seems doable.

Along those lines would be something like: "if I have a coin and I, err,trun tit, which face is showing?" but it's not a good example. Here "err, trun tit" gets corrected to return but the end should find to "err, turn it" instead making the face showing be "the opposite".

Hopefully you get the idea, bet there are some really good phrases that would fit this scheme.
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I wonder if a small railgun could be made portable for infantry, and how much power per shoot it would be. Because the home made ones don't seem that much powerful in term of muzzle energy.
Answering the hard drive issue in part: there are widely-available means of combining multiple hard drives to achieve greater data integrity.

Last I checked, airplane RAID was in only exceptionally preliminary stages of development.
This article perfectly exemplifies why startups are such a powerful idea. He made this on company time with company funds, and Kodak profited for years off the patents while keeping his work out of the market. He had all the ingenuity, knowledge, and marketing; all Kodak did was provide the money. If companies didn't have non-compete clauses and ownership of things made on company time he could've likely made an attempt into the market, or at least owned the patent. Startups equalize the playing field for the smaller guys by giving their ideas a chance to be funded, though of course the path is harder and fraught with its own risks. (I also find it interesting how one can own a patent on something that is just sat on)
Regardless of wether M is currently more human than AI, we could project that in the not-so-distant future (after it's trained), M will be mostly, 99% AI.

The technology itself will become more and more available and other companies will also use similar AI tech to work with customers.

The ultimate moment will be when the AIs start talking to each other in human language, each 'thinking' that the other is a human.

That will be the moment when the machines have decided something for you and while at first you'll think that you triggered that, at some point it will become unclear - is the human triggering the AI or is the AI triggering the human.

Pretty soon, everything we consume and everywhere we go will be controlled (and, a bit later, predestined and programmed for us) by the AI.
I suspect it will end once Go adds generics. (Whyever it would want them.)
>There are many highly competent people and organisations in "developing" countries

Yes, you're repeating yourself.

> It only makes sense to evaluate things on a case by case basis.

I disagree. Case-by-case evaluation is necessary, but general trends are highly informative, useful, and not intrinsically racist/xenophobe/bigoted.

You're arguing that we should ignore evidence on the basis of political correctness, and I'm arguing that this is silly and dangerous.
What name calling? And how is that related?
What Open-Access Publishing Actually Costs
I agree there. Plenty to be done still.
Best thing about this railgun is the optical effect. The spark shower looks like a really cheesy science fiction movie.
If you want to avoid giving information about whether you are an AI or human, you simply respond "No."

Besides, the CAPTCHA's that are sufficiently hard to solve for computers are already hard for humans as well.
Yes, that's the problem. Our society fortunately no longer tolerates overt discrimination by race, sex or religion, but unfortunately still tolerates discrimination by age, overt at the low end and thinly veiled at the high end. We need to put an end to that.
Facebook Messenger will scan your photos for faces it recognizes
You cannot outright ignore the threat because there is a chance it could escalate. Any example you give, I could give a counter where I use some non-state certified violence (such as the mafia) that escalates in the same fashion, and it would be considered a threat backed by violence.
How to choose either fixed inclusive or exclusive tax within your pricing?
Date: 2006.
People running Nexuses have root on their smartphone, even better, they can replace the copy of android with a modified one (which is really what you want, not people running around with /sbin/su in their smartphone). Granted, there are blob everywhere and running a more recent kernel is hard (impossible?), and there isn't a sensible mechanism like secureboot on x86 to add the users key to the bootloader, but it's not that bad a situation.
The problem is the rest of the Android ecosystem, and Microsoft phones, and of course Apple.

Besides, if free software can't provide security, people won't run free software. End of story.
Anodised aluminium foil, borax for the electrolyte. Think we had about 30 of them. Definitely not a portable setup!
It's a human using Siri to answer your questions.
I thought Edison had mostly been dismissed as not even remotely as great an inventor as most people thought he was?
I've always found the biggest joke in these forms, among other federal forms, to be the OMB "paperwork reduction" statements. [1] Even airport landing customs cards have these.

Why these make no sense:

- They take up a good chunk of a page and consume both paper and the reader's time.

- These forms aren't exactly optional, so I am going to spend time filling them out anyway. They would be easier to fill out if they were electronic, and if I wasn't repeating the same entries for the Nth time. The long disclosure adds nothing to usability and is only taunting.

"Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: A federal agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, nor shall a person be subject to a penalty for failure to comply with a collection of information subject to the
requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act unless that collection of information displays a current valid OMB Control Number.
The OMB Control Number for this information collection is <number> Public reporting for this collection of information is
estimated to be approximately <n> minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, completing and reviewing
the collection of information. All responses to this collection of information are mandated by <statute>. Comments
concerning the accuracy of this burden and suggestions for reducing the burden should be directed to the <agency> at: <addr>."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperwork_Reduction_Act
"With some more research funding I might be able to figure this out!"

come on ...
I've never heard vaporware characterized as something that "could make a lot of sense"; how could it?

Plus I'm doubtful whether the data would be very meaningful. A bunch of people adversarially trying to figure out whether the AI is real is not representative or generally useful data.
11am - 3pm, and a push 3pm - 4pm. Relief at 5pm and a slow cool-down.

A regular hour office job, but largely '50% time' which I'm ridiculously lucky to have, long may it be that way.

Evenings are a time for inspiration, and mornings for licking-off stuff mainly related to admin and documentation.

Time to work with and interact with colleagues is very important. It is a magnifier. What I've learnt the most regarding my own productivity is I do too much, and it is probably easier to have others do it. That's done by sharing and influencing, and helping out when colleagues are in need.
Just you, I'm afraid.
Perhaps you could contribute to the other open source project and make it better while waiting for another idea to spark your passion.

Good luck.
5)“Eye fatigue comes in pretty quickly” - we don’t want you to do anything differently, but play as naturally as possible since the eye tracker is monitoring your eye movements. So there is really NO NEED to stay perfectly still, blink or be unnaturally close to the screen.

6)"Use gaze to control the camera pivot -- That sounds incredibly annoying.” - We understand the doubts but we are pretty confident that you might have a different opinion after trying it out! A gamespot reporter did the same:http://l.gamespot.com/1Mm7rar

7)“Making the foreground in sharper focus than background and peripheral objects. Why is this necessary?” - We want allow your normal human vision to exist within the game based on your natural focus to allow for real depth instead of a flat screen. @teckromancr @blakecaldwell and @tdaltonc got it right!

8)"Is it sad that all I see this turning into is REALLY annoying ads in streaming apps?"/"I do not look forward to advertisements using this technology.” - We have no intentions of making ads from eye tracking! We also have SDK agreements based on not allowing infringement of privacy. Its been 15 years in eye tracking for Tobii so personal integrity is something we take extremely seriously.

So if any of you want to try out the tracker, all you have to do is tweet "let me try @tobiieyex via #hackernews!” and we will DM you for your details. The first 10 individuals to tweet it within 48 hours will get our latest Tobii EyeX shipped right to you, free of charge. All we want is for you to really play/test it out for yourself. We have not done this with any other community before but hacker news is pretty special to us!
Upto 15 hours of battery life for light usage? Now that's impressive! I wonder how the i5 compares to the latest MacBook Air.
I am not american nor a gun owner but man, this is a very... unclever approach. I could put here quotes about people who give up a bit of freedom for a bit more security deserve neither, but I presume that's old school talk for you too. Except it isn't.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people. We are not yet in the age of some automated gun turrets. If you want to blame guns, then blame all knives, baseball bats, axes and whatnot. All shall be banned, no? I say yes, I see no difference between being shot and stabbed to death, for both you need a clear intent, but accedents can (and do) happen.

Seriously, how hard is to understand that weapons are not bought only for attack, but also for self-defense, ALSO for sport/fun, as collectibles etc. In fact, it takes a extremely dull character who needs to commit a crime with a weapon and goes to store to get registered for one. I mean, seriously, this is what you are saying? Because this isn't ahppening. Ban guns, and you'll severely restrict common citizen's access to them, but not so much criminal's one. In fact, i would expect illegal arms trafficking to skyrocket. War on drugs all over again.

There should be a check (of rules/laws knowledge, mental capability, clean criminal record etc.) before selling a gun. Guns for civilians shouldn't be full automatic either. But that's it. Rest is about living in freedom, or in a system that doesn't trust its own citizens and needs to control them. Just look at any news how power-greedy politicians are.

Who are you to tell other people they should abandon their hobbies ie of practise shooting, just because you feel that their real power to overthrow their government is "small"? You would be surprised how untrue this really is if whole nation would stood up to its government. But without guns, of course they wouldn't stand a chance
Thanks for this. Fascinating. A really interesting article.
Why not just make it a laptop for significantly less? The tablet thing is mostly a gimmick.
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>AND you now say you are going to use the law to get someone to stop doing something that is perfectly legal

Why does it matter if it is legal? Illegal only means that the group in control at the time thinks violence is acceptable to stop the given illegal action.

For some actions there will be mass agreement, such as making murder illegal. For others, there often is far less agreement and maybe even mass disagreement, such as sodomy, which was illegal even into the beginning of the 21st century, or pot.

That the action is legal or not doesn't have much bearing on the underlying issue.

And just to be clear, anarchy isn't a solution because there will always be those wanting to use violence to enforce their will. So banding together and creating a stronger entity that has a monopoly on violence is the best option even if not a good one. Especially when you are a significant enough minority that the group doesn't care about your input or when the monopoly becomes corrupt and no longer follows the will of the group.

It is kinda like a predator out in nature. They have to kill to survive. Either their prey dies or they die. There is no solution where both can live.
Feel free to downvote me if you want, but I'm skeptical about Go and what caught my attention in this linked article is the picture. Pretty much what I feel about Go. Was it a (sub)conscious choice?
And they would come up with some other creative character with a new copyright duration, thus enriching our public culture with their previous works and employing people to create new works for people to enjoy.

Twenty years ought to be enough to recoup your investment, but I'm open to compromise. In any case, (rougly) 150 years, as it currently is, is way, way, way, way, way, way way too long.
But if somebody would read the publication in, say, 20 years, then the whole platform on which the computation has to run might have become obsolete. Suddenly, you have to look for emulators. Or even for emulators running emulators.
Please, please donate to the library developers. Scan the dependencies for some of your favourite packages and see if there's anything common to a few that might not be obvious. SDL backs so many things, for example, but rarely gets called out.
Meta: Can we please stop with these low quality comments? This has nothing to do with the article.
The Functional Final Frontier
Ask HN: Micro payment charges
If New York Times charged a micro payment of a couple cents per article read, how much would they need to charge to match their current revenue?
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This is exactly the problem that the Center for Open Science [https://cos.io/] is hoping to solve with the Open Science Framework [https://www.osf.io].

These are the same people behind the large Reproducibility Project that was on the top of HN not too long ago.
Had the same experience during my visit. Some older Russian doctor who chatted with me for 15 minutes, telling me that America was ok, that green card medical visit were pretty much all she was doing now, 3 half-day a week and that was plenty for her to make good money. She pocketed the $600 and gave me the sealed envelop.

I have no problem with not passing any cost to the American taxpayers (and even that could be debatable, yes I'm an immigrant but I've never been unemployed and I believe I create wealth so it's a full net win for the country), but the system is really hostile and dysfunctional.
I'm just worried that among progressives of the past, many open minded positions of today would have been 'opening your mind til your brain fell out'. Consider what people would've said a century ago if you brought up homosexuals marrying or transsexual acceptance. What today seems a strange to use as those concepts seemed a to progressives a century ago?
Actually, Ho has generics and has had them from the beginning. But they're only available for builtin types (slices, maps), not for user-defined types/functions.
Does anyone know how can I try it ? I can't find a link or something like that.
It is fairly clear by now that omitting generics is not an oversight, but rather a design choice. If you disagree, it sounds like Go isn't for you. Maybe it's time to just move on and ignore it instead of beating a dead horse.

I am always confused by the push to make every language exactly the same by using the same paradigms and features. Some languages try to take a different approach. If you can't figure out how to work within that paradigm, don't use it. Your comment is akin to complaining that Haskell doesn't support an imperative style.
So does everyone else.
I think the philosophy behind it is that they (View Point Research Institute) want(ed?) to be able to create lots of domain specific programming languages easily. So being able to implement those little languages from scratch and not as part of an existing language was part of the research effort, not just the language itself.

They have created tools like OMeta2 for this purpose, because they think that this way every problem is expressed in the natural language of the problem domain. A huge compiler like GHC with its >= 100.000 lines of code runs also against the goal of creating a system that needs orders of magnitude less code (I think their initial budget was ~10000 lines of code).
It's kind of a shame that an otherwise-useful treaty that could lead to great cooperation and improved trade between important markets is so marred by these unconscionable IP terms. Reminds me of a similar treaty in Europe a couple years ago that got struck down in its entirety due to its ridiculous IP terms. I forget the name.
Great! Than the distributor that finds a descendant of Hammurabi can earn a ton of money from all existing countries.
The Go faq doesn't agree with you.
I filed:

* A permanent residency application based on my marriage.

* An application to remove conditions on said permanent residency

* An expedited naturalization application

We didn't bother getting a lawyer: the paperwork was easy. The problem isn't that the paperwork is hard. The problem is that there is so much paperwork to file.
He was a businessman, who hired people to invent things. He was certainly useful, but it's always been surprising to me how much credit he got for inventing things.
I think they've started getting rid of custom cards. My folks visited from Europe a few weeks ago and told me they didn't have to fill in anything this time, everything was electronic.

But yeah, otherwise I agree with your statement. When I filled for my green card extension I had to put my application in a box, not an envelop, a box.
I just closed the browser tab when I saw him recommending apple tv.
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There is enough prove around, that these treaties with the US all contain the same bullshit again and again.
At these price points you don't really have to agonize. Get both. Get a Chromecast and a Fire stick, too. Always nice to have one in your bag and at each TV. Fire seems to work best at hotels.

Apple TV doesn't have the headphone jack but it can connect audio via Bluetooth.
> The fact it says Facebook is just evidence that it was indeed from M, and not just him getting his friend to call him and pretend.

It doesn't really prove anything, since caller ID is extremely easy to spoof (I used to call my mates from the emergency number for kicks when I was younger). Not that I have any doubt as to the credibility of the story.
You're right, of course. I was making a joking remark here. I had enough mishaps with small HV capacitors in my childhood to know how incredibly dangerous this stuff can be (as if wasn't obvious from the sparks of molten metal on every animation there), especially that you're going to stack the capacitors to ramp the voltage up to dozens of kilovolts.
Is it though? I get that from my base model MacBook (2015).
I picked up the new Go book (gopl.io) and have had a lot of fun going through it. The prevailing feeling of Go is "getting things done".

I also write a little Go program every day as practice. If you want a sample of some Go.
https://github.com/kris-s/daily-go