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To put it in perspective for those who actually read through it: the aether that Einstein was talking about has nothing to do with a classical definition of aether from Michelson-Morley times and, of course, connection to dark matter is solely grammatical.

Since when did HN become an "alternative science" magnet?
The local merchants are on board in that to get listed DoorDash wants a 20% cut from the merchants as lead gen services. Obviously they didn't get that from big brands but offer it as a means of bolstering up DoorDash's platform value.

I'm curious as to how does one do the dance of saying you coordinate logistics but are not a logistics service provider when the people showing up are wearing your logo, paid by you, and use your app for order information, confirmation, and directions.
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I suppose that comes down to whether there is a contractual obligation on the part of Securus to scrub recording archives for attorney numbers, or whether they are merely obligated to delete recordings upon allegation that they are improperly archived, or something else. That's not spelled out.
how is the framing of the question wrong? You are criticizing a product, so the burden lies with you to proof what is wrong with it.
The BND has been working closely with Five Eyes and the NSA especially so it sadly might not make much of a difference after all.
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The WordPress code is open source, but who owns and maintains the WordPress.org domain? Is it Automattic Inc, the owner of WordPress.com?
>>The obvious counter example is the US, where public schooling is sectioned off by neighborhood and rich kids still attend school together because they can afford to live in their respective neighborhoods.

This happens in the UK too. People who are unwilling to send their children to private school will instead move to a more expensive house because it is in the catchment area of a good school. This is morally equivalent to using extra money to sending your child to a private school.
Not at all. Theranos' CEO's hair color is a different shade of blonde.
Did I miss something and Sublime somehow got some advantage over Emacs? When did it happen and what kind of advantage, exactly?
All because EUGH stopped Safe Harbor.

This is the first mover. Next wave will be SaaS companies (Email e.g.) guaranteeing data stays in the EU. At the end of January no EU company can transfer email addresses, IP addresses or HR data into the US. Only if there is a Safe Harbor II coming where the US guarantees to not spy on data without warrant/open procedure and legal recourse by EU citizens.

PS: I know this EUGH ruling does not make sense with UK and France having the same intransparent all-people are spyed on. But this are the rules now.
Not just a lottery, but it feels like randomness should be part of the process. The mechanisms and people we have in place to make decisions are horribly imperfect, so there's a lot of noise in the system as is. Many perfectly good grants don't get funded, often for unclear reasons. Adding randomness past a certain minimum bar just makes that noise explicit and ensures that it's not biased or spuriously correlated.

This would also deemphasize the importance of narrow skills specific to writing and getting grants. Right now, understanding the grant process and granting agency is probably just as important as, you know, coming up with good proposals. Not ideal!

Among other things, this could also help academics to spread out a bit—right now, research agendas are extremely fashion-driven, in large part because of how grants are awarded. Think about it like a search algorithm which, with some probability, randomly jumps out of its current state as a way to avoid getting stuck in local maxima.

Originally, I thought of this idea as applied to college admissions. Harvard likes to talk about how it could assemble a few classes of qualified students each year, but only has room for one. At that point, it's distinctly non-obvious that the process they use to choose between similarly qualified candidates is any good; some actual randomness could have benefits. But this idea feels even more applicable to research grants.
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I now see that my examples are oversimplified. I also don’t think that the Null Object pattern is the ultimate solution for handling nulls. I just found it useful in certain cases.

What I wanted to show here among other things and why optional chaining would not help is if we wanted to have a special case handling on failure. Optional chaining fails silently. So if we wanted to log an error or to terminate the app every time the request fails, we'd have to do it on every function call.
They do, but if they don't have that ability now then that's the problem we should be addressing. Removing the ability of the rich to do so won't magically give that ability to the poor.

If anyone here wants to argue that because the poor can't effectively fight government then nobody should be allowed to 'because otherwise it isn't fair', then please go ahead. But that's the logic of plucking out everyone's right eye because one person suffered an eye injury. If your idea of fairness is reducing everyone to the lowest common denominator, I want no part of it.
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Weren't trolls like you supposed to not be on this site?
Wait, why is she using a volt meter in that video? That's not useful information without knowing how many amps the system can push. I could probably get a volt meter to read 8 volts just from my hair after walking on carpet a bit, but that's certainly not going to charge my phone...
> So simply put, the USA was already a socialist paradise by the time they came to name their schools

Amusingly Marx in the Critique of the Gotha Programme, used the (then) US system of regulation of schools without running them as an example of a system preferable to state run schools (I realize you mentioned "state funded" as opposed to "state run", but in most state funded systems too it tends to be the state that sets the curriculum in particular and exercise far more control than outlined in the quote below):

'"Elementary education by the state" is altogether objectionable. Defining by a general law the expenditures on the elementary schools, the qualifications of the teaching staff, the branches of instruction, etc., and, as is done in the United States, supervising the fulfillment of these legal specifications by state inspectors, is a very different thing from appointing the state as the educator of the people! Government and church should rather be equally excluded from any influence on the school. Particularly, indeed, in the Prusso-German Empire (and one should not take refuge in the rotten subterfuge that one is speaking of a "state of the future"; we have seen how matters stand in this respect) the state has need, on the contrary, of a very stern education by the people.'

EDIT: Note that he does not argue against public/local government influence on the schools, but it is a red thread (..) in Marx' writings that he was strongly critical of state influence vs. local, direct control.
Apple added the ability to compile and deploy apps without a developer license in iOS 9 and Xcode 7.

In fact, Apple even advertises this ability as the most prominent new feature of Xcode 7.[1]

If your response were true, Apple would never have added this ability in the first place.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/xcode/
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Welcome to the list. :p
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I remember being all excited when i realized the console red text scrolling over the (first) Terminator view was an Apple II monitor 6502 disassembly!
Mitigation: use Chrome? None of the recent Flash exploits were able to break out of the sandbox, at least not on Linux.
Maybe in "fat" language runtimes this is a problem (Ruby, Java, Python etc).

In Go, requests are a single goroutine, dirt cheap (no problem with a single CPU). To me, this type of work is where Go excels.

I used SSE (not quite long polling but I think it has the same implications as far as this discussion goes) back in Go 1.3 days (so GOMAXPROCS=1) to write metrics to 100<n<1000 clients and the process barely registered CPU or memory usage. No lock problems either (copying metric values over channels).

As far as complexity .. well, sure, if you fuck up the design or use the wrong tool for the job you'll have problems.
Or just send pull requests, if a user doesn't want to grant push access (this can also be used as comment moderation)
But then, advertising agencies didn't murder 50 million+ of their own customers in the last century alone.
This probably indicates that we need to do a bit of work on our documentation :) You're right about the general purpose - however Shunter also handles front-end assets: images, CSS, and JavaScript, as well as making it easy to extend the rendering engine.

In terms of benefits of using Shunter over a home-rolled solution, the same question could/should be asked of any framework. Shunter is very well tested, has been used in production on a large site for a number of years, and is used to serve hundreds of thousands of requests. It will also be supported by a large development team for the foreseeable future.
Can someone please explain what this means:

> up to now, [traffic predictions] [were] limited to Google Maps for Work customers only.

> Today [...] we’re making all traffic features in Directions API and Distance Matrix API available under our Standard Plan, and increasing the waypoint limit in Directions API for these developers from 8 to 23 waypoints. (Traffic features and higher waypoint limits in the JavaScript Maps API are available to Google Maps for Work customers for now.)

Does it mean that the new traffic predictions, as well as the increased waypoints limits, are not accessible via the JavaScript API except for Google Maps for Work customers, but they are accessible to the general public via some other API? What is the non-JavaScript Maps API?
For most middle class people, increasing wealth by $10M does much less to their happiness than having a good job. Short term excitement nonwithstanding.
The vast majority of criminals have assets lower than their total penalties / damages payable. You're basically asking lawyers to hope that their clients will have enough money left after they have paid their damages? And you're saying defense lawyers will do that because... what... otherwise they'd have to find clients in other fields of law?

"It's actually super common to wait years for payment in tons of industries, including law."

8| No it's not, except in law for cases on contingency basis. Which only make sense in cases where there might be a huge settlement or punitive damages. There are very few companies that can even afford to wait for their money for years.

"They have plenty of money, enough to wait for some time for a payday."

I'm not sure if you're just trolling here? You seem to have a conception of the economics of running small law offices (which is what the vast majority of criminal defense lawyers are) that is massively detached from reality.
Get legal insurance. I don't know if this is available in the US, but over here in the Netherlands it's really affordable for about $150-200 a year, including things regarding your home and car. I've had this for years without using it, but it's worth the money. This year I had to use it for the first time and the service is quite good up til now.
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I guess but you wouldn't sell your furniture via Indiegogo, just from your own overseas office.
Doesn't work in IE, last I checked.
Could it be pushed to F-Droid? At of people using FD as main source of apps would like to try it.
Cannataci read Cerf's full quote: "Privacy may actually be an anomaly. [...]"

"I cannot understand how a person of the intelligence of Vint Cerf could say anything so dumb. It's just dumb."

What's happening here is not Cerf being dumb, because obviously he's not. He's been bought by Google a long time ago and Google has destruction of privacy as their business model (just like Facebook, and the rest of them).

Good money has allowed Vint to brainwash himself into actually thinking that destroying privacy is acceptable. He's basically just attempting to find a way out of the inner conflict he must have, working for Google. (So yes, he'd actually benefit from seeing a shrink.)
I hope you meant 2013. Looks like the earliest beta users were starting 2012.
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No, you'd ship from within the EU, so no customs clearing, low shipping time, etc. My point was, it seems that as long as you sell via a company outside the EU, but produce and ship from within the EU, you don't have to charge your EU customers VAT.
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I strongly urge you to make a study of the fucked-up residential construction situation in SF and the SFBA before making any claims about the effects of Rent Control/Stabilization on housing prices in the area. :)

I also urge you to read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10551005 .
"never publicly demonstrated" still leaves the possibility that they privately demonstrated a prototype to investors.
In the UK, lawyers have for a long time earned on average substantially below the average salary, and that is driven up by the top end London firms (where partners can earn millions).

The reality is that in many countries most lawyers don't earn very much, because they're not top end litigators or counsel to large companies, but spend most of their time writing "low value" documents or letters for clients with little money.

This doesn't seemed to have caused the supply of people wanting to study law to dry up.
Great post.

One thing about making the process (more) random is it would encourage people to take risks. When I was an academic I had to spend most of my time working on relatively low risk projects that I knew would generate results (and get me publications) or else I knew I would not get anymore grants. By removing this need I could have afforded to take risks that might have resulted in real breakthroughs. We need scientists to take risks and make the great discoveries.
Well, W was at least honest enough to admit that the Constitution is "just a goddamned piece of paper" ;)
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Wouldn't pipelining/prefetching the requests have the same effect if that's the bottleneck?
> Cryptographically random isn't the aim here

We are agreeing here.

> A seedable black-box RNG that guarantees what seed corresponds

If you can control when the blackbox gets updated, or the blackbox carries a guarantee of stable output for any given seed over the while time of its existence, yes. But if you are using OS provided RNGs, as a for instance, their behaviour is not defined (well they are, but those definitions are not set in stone) and may change as kernel updates happen.

That is why I suggest "making your own simple PRNG". This could be as simple as picking a known documented algorithm as implemented by a particular library and using that in your test cases - it doesn't need to be as much as writing your own function even.
Submitter here:

Briefly, the idea is to transfer the effort of reviewing documents to a crowd-sourced platform: a user provides feedback to other users' documents, and in return obtains feedback for his own documents.

My motivation stems from "yet another review" of a research paper of my own that I had already read many times for re-submission. At the time I was already so fed up of reading it that I'd rather read someone else's work instead, hoping that another person would instead read my own work.
Not only would that be refreshing, not to be reading always the same thing and maybe learn something new, but it would also be way more productive to catch problems in the document with a fresh pair of eyes.
We all understand that the VC narrative is about potentials. Sometimes we don't buy into the potential, may even have legit reasons to believe it is bogus. But if we don't support the narrative we are haters. Seems beneath someone in that position to resort to name-calling.
Survivorship bias at it's finest.
You've posted astonishingly many submissions about this app; into the dozens, I think, and certainly way too many.

It looks like a wonderful app, but if the HN community were going to be interested in these posts, it would have happened already.
MySpace will be hearing about this, let me assure you.
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As mentioned by admax88q, this was extensively discussed a few months ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8894902
What do you mean by "proper full replication"?
I'm not too sure about using immunosuppression and gene editing to make organs cross-species transplantable. I'm a fan of the method that washes the pig cells off the organ's protein scaffold, then takes a few cells from the patient and grows them on the scaffold to make a new native organ. The way described in the article just seems like a less elegant process, is it cheaper or easier in some way?
4. Require that papers report all possible correlations in order to make p-hacking impossible, to allow "stacking" the results of multiple studies and to make negative results more interesting.

5. Don't limit review to peer review, but involve people from different fields. What can be a well known source of bias in one field may be overlooked in another.
Exactly. That's why rich people aren't "hoarding cash". They deposit it in a bank, which loans it out to people who spend it. It is not dead money.
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Some headline numbers: I've been on Hacker News for well over 5 years (I joined on July 2, 2007)

Ha! when I wrote that it was 5 years... now it's > 8 years. I think the same conclusion still applies: "So, to answer my original question about how I ended up with that much karma: slowly, consistently, over years by submitting things that people like."
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Well that is alarming.
Cheaper, in the long run. Why bother with that scaffold and seeding and all that when you can just take the organ straight out of the animal.

Plus you still have to gm the pig. For example there's an allergen n-glycolyl neuraminic acid which is present in most extracellular matrix proteins that will be in the scaffold.
Many of the people who don't seem to care about privacy seem to have enough money for the newest iPhone, an SUV or a McMansion, though.
Yet this councillor voted for these policies, and remains an ardent supporter of the tories. Hypocrite.
Is that necessary, though? The application is already available in this very article, without involving the Play Store if that's what you're trying it avoid.
A static charge from the carpet would be a lot more than just 8 volts.
>I don't even need to come up with a specific reason, the burden of proof lies on the makers of F.lux to demonstrate that their specific product does what it says

Man who the fuck cares. Millions of people use f.lux every day - personally, it's the first thing I install on any PC or Laptop I know I'll be using for a while.

It doesn't matter whether you have proof one way or the other.

Use it, or don't - honestly nobody gives a shit.
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Even if it works perfectly, from the other article they had, pointing that they can get ~ 3W at a device (and their transmitter is how much, around 300W as well) should be enough to cast a lot of doubts
How about them? Do you mean: Can an electric field of sufficient strength be used to charge cellphones?
I don't think so. Similar to many Linux distributions F-Droid apps should be build from source. There are some issues about the branding (logo, name etc.) which leads to things like Iceweasel (Debian) or Fennec (F-Droid). See: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.mozilla.fire...
Does it autoupdate itself?
It's interesting how fast you can abandon cash when you have decent alternatives. Most NZ banks support paying people to their cell phone number too, with a URL to follow to get the money. It's not that clunky either which is surprising to me (given how long decent mobile apps have taken).
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Glad to see Mozilla announcing FxOS release versions, at last (previously they didn't).

Should I be able to upgrade any FxOS device to 2.5 now?
And if you wonder why Ubuntu has a real Firefox branding, they have a deal with Mozilla.
(Lack of) native X11 support. I want to compile Awesome [1] and use that as my window manager.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awesome_WM
And this is why "Photos" joined all the other permissions in off-land for the Facebook app. If the mobile web version wasn't horribly janky, I'd delete the app entirely.
Others have already pointed out that we already have the option Apple is developing in Denmark and Sweden.

But I also had to add that I haven't received a paper bill in several years. It used to be that bills were delivered in paper form in my mailbox every month but now I just get a notification from my bank app when I have bills and I can pay them from anywhere with my mobile phone.
There are a lot web based markdown previewers. You could even go to github and use the 'preview' feature when editing a README.
if this is the only time that having inbound money is a problem (is it?) then wouldn't amending the law be easier?
>... but he also came up with "5 Eyes" ...

That simply isn't true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
I'd sign for it. Just imagine: millions of people that can't switch providers that you can charge whatever you want. Coupled with a legal system that provides a steady inflow of new consumers. It's a super business model (albeit totally un-ethical). Most businesses are happy with 30% gross, that seems to be the number that normal and healthy businesses strive for. Plenty are happy with 20%. 50% is on the very high side of gross margins. Sure there are a few outliers but it definitely isn't normal.
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