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NC;DR (no context, didn't read) super-dumbed-down summary, found in this [1] linked page, is that there is now a quasipolynomial algorithm to solve graph isomorphism ("are these two graphs identical?"). This is important because:

"[…] it could be that GI will become the first ever problem which is NP-intermediate (assuming P is not NP), but from historical patterns it seems more likely that it will fall into P. So people are excited because it’s tantalizing: everyone believes it should be in P, but nobody can prove it. It’s right at the edge of the current state of knowledge about the theoretical capabilities and limits of computation."

NP-intermediate being that space between P and NP-complete where quasipolynomial algorithms sit.

[1] http://jeremykun.com/2015/11/12/a-quasipolynomial-time-algor...
We need to compensate that with having accessible endpoints - otherwise it means that things like[0] won't be possible. Security can be one of the most effective enemies of the Freedom to Tinker.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10609165
The most interesting revelation in the entire piece to me was that a number of high level people close to the mayor were dirty. Mayor Coleman Young may have run Detroit into the ground (according to Time Magazine) but I never heard any allegations that he or his people were taking bribes.

A few years back we went though the trials of another Detroit Mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick and his aides, who were taking bribes, lots of bribes and they were all convicted. Kilpatrick's Mother was a Congresswoman and was part of the group around Coleman Young. I have to think that a young Kwame who would have had a front row seat to all this craziness was merely trying to emulate his idol Coleman Young when he sought the office of Mayor of Detroit. The main difference is that unlike his idol Kwame got caught.
see also https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/67
10.10 required, lame. This is most useful on Mavericks, where the sidebar doesn't already have widgets.
Looking at the picture they put on the post... Can someone please explain why a launcher needs so many employees?
> My 5 year old can decide what her favorite color is,
> much less what gender she wants to be the rest of her
> life.

I think you may be confusing gender dysphoria with people waking up one day and thinking "Heck, it'd be kinda cool to be another gender!", rather than a pervasive and persistent deeply held belief that their body is wrong.
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Interesting, they are dropping out because they actually want a harder test, according to the article.
Twenty years ago, there were hundreds of Internet Service Providers, and each large (and most medium) one gave access to Usenet discussions.

Then with increased monopoly and commercialization, the ISP's shut down, and Verizon and AT&T gained a duopoly over the majority of the US's wired and wireless last mile. With this accomplished, they shut down their Usenet feeds.

A programmer I know calls it digging ditches with air conditioning. Programmers are wage slaves, just a slightly more exalted position than the people who come in at night to empty the waste baskets.
Yeah, I mean, sorry they closed down, but an Android only niche product doesn't scream "sustainable business model" to me.
I'm reminded of the "Command Line Bulshittery" article recently featured on HN [0].

So much effort, just to get to zero. Somehow, somewhere, this has to change.

[0] http://pgbovine.net/command-line-bullshittery.htm
I'd be all over that.

I find the way the game displays inventory (particularly guns) quite irritating to say the least. I want to see one ammo type at a time (since you need minimum one gun per ammo type) and then to see a comparison (damage, rate of fire, accuracy, and specials).
For most of China's Imperial history they had a tributary system. Which I think ended in 1912. It is not really surprising to see it come back in a some form.
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Very different applications -- Lytro does use a lens array, but behind a traditional lens; the lens array is a microlens array covering the pixels on the sensor. This allows the recovery of the plenoptic function (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_field) from within the camera, which allows things like refocusing.

A large-scale array, with no front objective lens, like the one shown here -- that allows recovery of the plenoptic function outside of any lens environment, which means you can do different fancy stuff. Synthetic aperture is one (not that interesting); holographic reconstruction is one much more interesting possibility, though.

With holographic reconstruction, you could serve any possible perspective behind the array to a VR headset, say, or even create a 'hologram' of the scene incident on the array. Seriously, it's pretty cool.

I wrote at length about it here:

http://uploadvr.com/light-fields-are-dead-long-live-holograp...

Awesome. And yes, the professor responsible for that group was the thesis advisor to Ren Ng (Lytro founder), and now works at Google. His name is Marc Levoy, and he's done amazing stuff.
This dates back to 2005; headline should reflect this.
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BuzzFeed is horrible enough. This is even worse.
OpenBSD has ports for OpenJDK 7 and 8, packages are available for both as of 5.8.

We've even got Minecraft.
Jesus! Daily doses for months? How long ago? What do you mean by 'less able to function'? Any long-lasting effects?
For the government surveillance parts of the article perhaps, though lets be honest, people were saying TLA's had been watching everything you've been doing for a while before that.

Another large part of the article is corporate control of the internet and that was a problem long before Snowden. That corporations would control the world and use the internet to create a Shadowrun type world was again something people had been warning about as less of the content on the internet was what people put up and more what was curated for you.

The end of the internet as a place for free expression is being driven in large part by the type of people that frequent this site. They're here to make money, a lot of it. And they're going to do what they can to lock you into their way of presenting things to make it very difficult for you to use another basically identical service. They're going to lock you in with your own data, sell it back to you and package you up to sell to others. The death of the internet began long before Edward Snowden showed the world what the other monster on the wires was doing.
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i simply posit that there exists a severity of depression at which waking up, getting dressed, and getting in the shower are out of question. do you disagree?

furthermore, i suggest there exists a severity of depression that cannot be managed or mitigated by using an app to get things done. do you disagree?

in no way did i "imply" getting dressed and depression are mutually exclusive. i didn't imply anything at all, for that matter. the connotations are your own. if i can directly address your assumption: just because you don't exhibit a symptom does not mean you don't have [some thing]. i never suggested otherwise.
> • You won’t necessarily know anything about the decisions that affect your rights, like whether you get a loan, a job, or if a car runs over you. Things will get decided by data-crunching computer algorithms and no human will really be able to understand why.

This isn't a change from the current state of things. For a hundred years, each of these decisions have been made by neural networks which we scarcely understand.
Related to this, there was (some time ago) an initiative to build out a "haystack" proxy, which went a step further than this. For every link on the page, it would randomly follow 3-4 of them. On every page on those linked page, another random 3-4 links were followed, up to a random depth. The idea being that you ended up generating so much noise (the haystack) that the signal (the needle) was lost.

Of course, this wouldn't prevent a dedicated snooper from watching you, using statistical analysis to find your real trail, but it would certainly hinder your average tracking network.
From reading the post I understand that they're taking down the launcher, or that it otherwise won't work anymore. And I have to ask - why? Why just not leave it there? Is there something in it that requires Internet connection to access their servers? It's a launcher, even predictive smart whatever features should not require Internet access.
It's not how I'd phrase it, but I agree. It's appalling how many people on HN seem to think that it's perfectly okay to require JavaScript in order to display text.
Here's a paper that proposes GPS authentication based on signing and statistics about the signals (lots of math):
http://radionavlab.ae.utexas.edu/images/stories/files/papers...

Paper from Los Alamos with a receiver-only implementation that would use:

- abnormally high signal strength

- abnormally regular transmissions

- a secondary time source to double-check time (e.g. NTP on a smartphone)

- dead-reckoning based on accelerometers/gyroscopes/compass to double-check position

http://lewisperdue.com/DieByWire/GPS-Vulnerability-LosAlamos...
from AdNauseum's website (adnauseam.io):

>Working in coordination with your ad blocker, AdNauseam quietly clicks every blocked ad, registering a visit on the ad networks databases.

Are they sure the visit is registered?
This seems like a trick that would work strictly off clicks in circa ~2009-2012, where now, adnetworks tend to check if you've downloaded some snippet of content (like a pixel tag) before it registers a hit.

In order to "click everything" you'd essentially have to download a ton of pages, content, and 3rd party scripts that are never rendered on your screen.

I think the idea is wonderful, but ad trackers have grown more sophisticated now. I'll have to check out the source later!
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I think the fact that our society is being more thoughtful towards gender identity is a good thing. But is it possible in our attempt to be thoughtful we sometimes will over analyze individual situations and change our environments, interactions, and treatment, towards those we are trying to help in such a way that it is actually detrimental to them?

In the case of allowing children to choose their identity in the way this article describes, is it possible that a parent might misunderstand their child and enable a short-term change that could be detrimental to a child's development (socially, academically, etc)?

I feel like gender identity is a hot issue right now, and people in general get caught up in the rhetoric and forget about the actual people.
> I find infant circumcision little different from head-binding or foot-binding—but that is a rather unpopular opinion here in the US.

Circumcision is a lightning rod issue partly because it is often performed for religious reasons.

One thing that's often overlooked when it's discussed, though: if the child grows up to be a woman (ie, transgender woman assigned male at birth), being circumcised makes gender reassignment surgery more complicated and difficult. It's still possible, but the doctors have less to work with for reconstruction.
> programmers are wage slaves

What pieces of the concept of slavery are you referring to here?
This. So much. And by any chance if you are stuck in some kind of "corporate only" domain (ex: telecom, insurance etc) with "system/non-web competency" like C/C++/Linux, your job market narrows down further. Its not impossible to find a job, but your job market becomes very niche. When people say just read up on tech etc, they forget the fact that, most employers are looking for professional experience in that area. Doubt if contributing to OSS, side projects can help convince the employers otherwise !
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I only scanned through this very long article to pull out useful info.. I got this:

> [Chomsky] concluded that [children] must be born with a rudimentary body of grammatical knowledge – a ‘Universal Grammar’ – written into the human DNA.

> ... Chomsky is plain wrong

> What is in dispute is the claim that knowledge of language itself – the language software – is something that each human child is born with.

> Our brains really are ‘language-ready’ in the following limited sense: they have the right sort of working memory to process sentence-level syntax, and an unusually large prefrontal cortex that gives us the associative learning capacity to use symbols in the first place.

> And of course, language doesn’t need to be spoken. ..linguistic meaning can be conveyed in multiple ways: in speech, by gestured signs, on the printed page or computer screen. It does not depend upon a particular medium for its expression.

> As it happens, cognitive neuroscience research from the past two decades or so has begun to lift the veil on where language is processed in the brain. The short answer is that it is everywhere.

> Why is it that today, only humans have language, the most complex of animal behaviours?

> [Early humans'] new ecological situation would have led, inexorably, to changes in human behaviour. ... This allows us to picture the emergence of language as a gradual process from many overlapping tendencies.

> We see this instinct [(cooperation)] at work in human infants as they attempt to acquire their mother tongue. Children have far more sophisticated learning capacities than Chomsky foresaw. They are able to deploy sophisticated intention-recognition abilities from a young age, perhaps as early as nine months old, in order to begin to figure out the communicative purposes of the adults around them. And this is, ultimately, an outcome of our co‑operative minds.
Reading this article made me realize I have no idea what "gender" is. It used to be synonymous with what parts and chromosomes you have, where there are no questions of "I identify as XYZ," but now what the hell is it really?

All the fluidity and tension created by gender makes me think why don't we just get rid of it? Stop making children conform to social norms/behavior/dressing/everything based on their sex. Drop all social expectations of gender and let people do whatever they naturally want to do. But then we're just left with sex, which is basically where we started. So what the hell is gender?
So how do you differentiate between an actual refresh and a "close tab, open website 2 days later"?

Also, what happens when someone has 2 tabs open with the app, closes one and tries to do some action in the other?

Edit: What I really want to ask is... why is this ever necessary?
> When the United States wielded power over corporations in the postwar era, our overarching goal was — with some notable exceptions — stability, peace, and prosperity. When China wields its power over foreign corporations, the ultimate goal is — always — command and control.

That's some narrow-minded thinking. Two different words for the same thing. I'm sure the south american governments who were dismantled in the cold war era by the CIA would see the actions as "command and control" as opposed to peace and stability. Likewise, the chinese government is going to serve the interests of itself.
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I know Marc. We worked together in Google[x] for a while. ;)
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> $8 a month is a pittance. You can't even get the NYT alone for that. You can't get the WSJ either. You can, just barely, get the Linux Weekly Newsletter for that much.

It would work poorly for the regular NYT readers, but I'd argue that's not most of the Internet. People don't browse websites, they read articles they found using a search engine or were linked to somewhere. I'm not paying NYT, the Economist, WSJ, The Atlantic, and a hundred other websites $10 each, when I read on average one article every two month on each of those sites. So I think the idea mostly works, but we need to make sure that those who read more articles from a single site pay correspondingly more to it.

> Great, now I'm going to advertise to a bunch of poor people and skinflints. There's no chance I'm going to pay the publisher an equal amount for those ads as I'm going to pay them for the rest. So that publisher will have to charge paying users enough to make up the shortfall.

So the system stabilizes at some price point and there are no ads? I'd say "mission accomplished" :).
Accessibility doesn't necessarily have to be the highest priority. BITD folks would jump through ludicrous numbers of hoops just to gain access to the network. Whether or not this limiting factor improved the quality of interactions online is an open question.
It looks to me like you saw a downvoted comment and decided to pile on to gain a feeling of superiority in the one place you have authority.

Maybe from now on you should just let people vote and keep your smug judgements to yourself.
> Programmers are wage slaves

By this definition, anyone with a job is a wage slave unless they work for themselves. Unless you meant something else, because in the US programmers enjoy salaries and flexibility that many other professionals don't have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
Sane javascript in Unreal 4 is definitely interesting, however, take a look at the repo's owner.

This has a lot more staying power as a portion of the platform given the fact that NCSOFT, producer of Guild Wars and Aion, is the company behind it; this isn't a hobbyist hacking together a solution to build a proof of concept, this is a giant publisher potentially throwing their weight behind their new platform. Their new, opensource platform.
Bible talks about man and woman. I suppose this doesn't help.

But there are some other religious topics that got to a point (after a long long painful way) where they are treated like metaphors or simplification (like the genesis) because science brought another explanation.

Gender will probably get to this point. But not in the near future, I think.
Yes, that's also one of the very few complaints I have about FO4. The whole inventory system is designed as if limited to what you can do with a controller. Why can't you deposit all junk from your companion automatically? Why can't you get all inventory not currently used by them? Why can't you craft/replace with power armor pieces that are in storage?

I hope some patches/mods for the inventory system come out soon.
> The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when the Apollo 12 was disabled by lightning, the techniques of celestial navigation.

You'd think the proof reader would at least catch an issue in the very first sentence.
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More likely that somebody writes FalloutSheep that invades privacy by dumping the inventory of anybody playing on the same network and then users demand Bethesda encrypt the data.
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Trello + Slack + Github.
1. Github to track issues, INTEGRATE it with Slack.
2. Trello for your agile board, INTEGRATE it with Slack.
3. If might also be a good idea to write code that emails and sends a text message to all the mobile phones of your developer.

Using those tools felt like a breath of fresh air. They have a mobile app and web app that has an amazing UI/UX.
That home page... I love it. That is the best thing I've seen all day.
Siri actually hands it back to Apple’s servers, so the moment the watch has WiFi or LTE, it will have Siri independently of the phone.
> and am also relieved it's part of an overall strategy that included professional help.

I think that part is the most key to success for this type of strategy.
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nice binding.

Particularly good to see its using es6 to wrap the native api.

Since writing C++ for UE4 is rather a pain, this could hit a sweet spot between C++ tedium and blueprint madness.
Anyone know of an open source implementation? I've only had a chance to scan the document but it appears to only go into the theory.
The prediction is likely entirely centralized machine learning; similar to how Netflix predictions work. Tell the server <x apps installed, y location, z time of day>, get a response showing <show apps a, b, q>.
The elephant in the room for me during conversations like this is theory of gender. It doesn't seem like we have one. I sideline myself, or at least error on the side of compassion, because it feels like we just don't know how to think about gender, either in a scientific way, or if significant features of it are non-scientific, how to approach it then at all.

I think more attention to it as a subject of serious research could help us all a lot.
If I had grown up in a culture this accepting of transgender people I would have transitioned. That would have been the worst decision of my life. I've grown into my identity as a man since then and I'm thankful for my parents and society pushing me in the right direction. We need to be careful to avoid putting borderline cases like me into a group with such high rates of suicide and depression.
Worth watching on this topic is a recent Louis Theroux piece on this (if you can source it). [1]

When I watched this I couldn't help but wonder if some of these kids are actually intersex, have Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome or something similar [2]. There was no mention in the documentary about any chromosomal testing being done by these doctors. The testing seems to be behavioural. I wonder what the overlap is between trans kids and Sex Chromosome Abnormalities?

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qkzt2

[2] http://www.who.int/genomics/gender/en/index1.html
Why do people only worry about physical body integrity on an infant?

Parents have a HUGE impact on children mentally, yet no one makes much of a fuss about that.

At the end of the day parents have full control over how their children will turn out, both mentally and physically.

We should only be concerned about the end result: Are they doing good, or bad. Nebulous concepts like "bodily integrity" are meaningless.
Sort of, at least in that the airplanes would be grounded if the software didn't work. But this isn't unique to airlines. These big industry companies are lagging behind in technology and they always will, because they associate revenue to sales, marketing and account management, and they see business operations and IT as operating cost, and not a part of the product. And they have little incentive to change, because the low margins and high capex are barriers to entry that keep venture capital out.
It might be a good idea to add a timestamp to the local storage item, preferably make it a JSON string. Then decide a reasonable amount of time between a "refresh" to count it as an actual refresh
Thanks, we thought about this.

One intention is to make the site name feel white label, so it focuses on the user's name instead of the service.
In fairness, the server is disabled by default in the settings.
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