skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is some use of proxies (with the inevitable attendant gaming), but in profit oriented companies it remains largely at the discretion of the manager(s).
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That particular potential terrorist was clearly caught by using targeted surveillance.

It was also the FBI's "bomb" that he tried to detonate.
If A and B are equivalent, and B makes you money, most people have a large unconscious bias to B. Which is perfectly reasonable. The problem is if A is ever so slightly better that bias is still there.

The is directly observed when doctors are for example incentivized or penalized for over prescribing medication. So, no expecting unbiased options it an unreasonable standard.

PS: This is often why second opinions are so valuable. If a doctor has no economic stake in the outcome they often give better advice for the patient.
My point is all software is large; even Linux combined with it's user-land is large. Larger than Windows was a while back. What you prefer is pretty immaterial to the discussion; you choice is perfectly valid even though I would personally find it wasteful.
Related: how to control the SSL CAs your browser trusts, on nearly every device (except iOS 9).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10615829
Out of curiosity, what do you see that needs "reform" in the drug war? It seems that abolition is much more appropriate.
They'd probably be more... computational:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1579550088/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=...
Lenovo uses Microsoft Windows Platform Binary Table to install bloatware, which gets around any kind of clean install/reset.

Clean install for Windows means nothing when you have shady vendors utilizing this mechanism.
Is there any reason, aside from the $1.7 billion from Bernie Madoff, as to why the amount seized has risen so much in the last 10 years?

Was there some case that made it much easier for law enforcement to seize assets this way?
Stationary solutions to the three-body problem
Even as a developer working on my first open source project I find the model a huge turn-off. I want to keep my repo private for now and it appears I have to pay. Instead I'm using Bitbucket which charges by the user -- far more reasonable model IMO.
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As kaitai & teddyc, mentioned the roads aren't as bike-friendly. Now trying to be a mother with kids in tow trying to bike a total of 30 minutes, in a not bike-friendly area, to the grocery store and back.
>In another attempt, The Coca-Cola Company briefly implemented a strategy where one in every nine vending machine bottles was empty.

That is an absurd strategy.
A relevant question is whether the newest version of v8 is any better than it was a year ago with respect to these issues.
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They need your SSN and other critical info for tax reasons. Probably other regulations in states where I have little experience. Only obvious escape while still being marketable is having your own company and doing business in the company name. "Jsprogrammer & Associates Inc." Then, you get to pay extra taxes and stuff. Assuming they even hire you under such a scenario. ;)
U.K. Carrier EE Looking at Giving Users Control Over Mobile Ads
This story is so interesting!

- Lawyers screwing up the Coca-Cola founder on bottling

- Founder strikes back by advertising low bottled prices

- Price stable for 30 years

- They then try to raise price to 6c

- Company discovers that 1-coin pricing boosts sales

- President tries to convince the US Treasury to mint a 7.5c coin (?!?!?)

- Company using alternative strategies to bring the price up like placing empty bottles that some customer has to pay for

- Finally Coca-Cola, company who owns like 80% of vending machines, basically invents a method to reliably deliver change on machines.

Overall, I found it a surprisingly "canonical" story on how startup founders face adversities, how they try to lobby the government, screw up customers, and finally reach a creative solution based on technology that establishes their product!
I would think the light reflecting back into your face in fog and smoke would be a bigger detriment than benefit. Utilizing high beams in snow and fog while driving is discouraged for this reason.
I wonder if/when they'll require drones to have a transponder that will allow identification via radar similar to what airplanes are required to have and operate.
surely it would be easier to build better robots?
Amazon’s Ingenious Scheme to Undermine Black Friday
Online grocery delivery is still only in limited, typically wealthy areas and is still more expensive. I think it also caters to people buying higher priced items such as more expensive meat or seafood, where the cost of delivering it is a small percentage of the value. Let's assume for a box filled with $5 and $10 items such as chicken, steak, coffee, etc that the delivery cost is $0.25 or $0.50 per item... that might not be a big deal for people here. But say you're buying boxes of $1.00 Rice in a box, or cans of beans and the cost of delivery makes a bigger difference in your cost per meal.

Items sold in online grocery services are also marked up higher than they are in stores, for example: "Celeste Frozen Pizza is 99-cents at ShopRite, $1.29 at Peapod and a whopping $2.69 at FreshDirect"(source: http://6abc.com/archive/8983520/)

It also assumes that people can be home for the delivery, neighborhoods like this might not be the type where you want $50 to $100 worth of groceries sitting outside your apartment building.

Making the actual payment is another thing to consider. Not everyone has credit or debit cards. It looks like online grocery sellers also can't legally accept EBT, Wic or other food programs for online grocery delivery: https://www.facebook.com/notes/peapod-delivers/why-we-dont-a...

Online groceries require planning, time, and at least for the foreseeable future will come at a premium cost. It's great for certain people but I hope it does not become the only option for groceries.
Human brains are severely limited so the mathematics they invent is severely limited and everything new are small, understandable steps that build on huge piles of proven mathematics. A computer can create entirely new huge, complex ideas we wouldn't understand because they don't depend on making small steps.
Read RMS's essay "The Right to Read," which was written 20 years ago, and see just how nuts it seems today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_To_Read

Just as developers think their security-conscious coworker is nuts until their site gets hacked, people sometimes think those with the extreme long-term outlook are nuts because the people can't see that far ahead.
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It's like a fight between SJW's. Who's the least judgemental! Tune in at 11 and find out!

lol
It's possible that Obama cynically said one thing to get elected while planning to do another thing once in charge, but it's also possible that he did his utmost to bring change to politics and make good on peoples' hope, and simply failed; that he tried to do the job people wanted him to do, but the job was impossible. I think it's probably a lot of both.
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Maybe I'm just misunderstanding, but you're talking as if the current system was consciously selected because of some inherent advantages it has over the alternatives. I don't think that's really true, and I would argue that the high marginal tax rates on low-income people are less the result of a careful analysis of trade-offs, and more the result of a flaw in the incentive structure for law-makers (on-budget costs look worse than off-budget costs).
Definitely sounds like a cultural mismatch between your work environment and the expected github work environment.
I pulled this line from their pricing page:

Typical price is $7.50/year per font

And that, in a sentence, is their real problem: underpriced by at least an order—if not two—of magnitude.
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Nearly all developed economies are counter-examples. Korea is the same way, as is the US, England, etc. All of these nations used tariffs to protect their native industry while they were developing. The same argument could be made for China, that they liberalized slowly over a period of decades to protect their native industry.
Today they would call that "Growth Hacking". :)
stop worrying about definitions, it's a question of intent and life satisfaction for people.

What category someone on the internet wants to file that under is irrelevant.
> So far, all attempts to significantly increase one or the other have failed.

Actually, there is a very wide range of balances that work and have worked in the modern developed world, and countries in that group have made fairly big changes within that range without failing.

There are things outside that proven range, though, and you would be correcet to say that what hardcore libertarian advocates seem to seek [0] seems to be among them.

[0] I say "seem to seek" because hardcore libertarians are often much clearer about what they don't want than what they do, and about dismissing every real world example that is raised to suggest problems with their approach with the claim that the problems pointed to are a result not of the relative libertarianess, but the fact that the government involvement in the example, however minimal, was still too much.
Might be good to replace "they" with "we" i.e. "we are pumping fossil water". (unless you don't live in California)

It doesn't seem like pointing the finger at the farmers who are bearing the brunt of the drought is very fair or productive. Just makes farmers feel like their livelihood and way of life is being threatened. What would you do if you were in their shoes?

I'm not using prior appropriation as an excuse, just pointing out that the more egregious wasting of water in agriculture is the exception not the rule. It'd be the equivalent of farmers citing the Bel Air resident as representative of all city dwellers.

If prior appropriation is the problem, what would you do policy wise to move forward? It's a very hard problem to solve and I'm sincerely curious to hear proposed solutions.
Make that "3,310 kg ISS" not "3,10 kg"
Of course, the system is far from perfect.

Even if I agree with you that policies undesirable for most of the population are pushed using this "two parties one program trick", we have to admit that is not so simple and that is preferable to a dictatorship.

I think we have to try to improve from here because is undeniable that there is some advance.

In the EUA, maybe you have dynasties that take turns in power, but the idea of some president just refusing to left the white house is inconceivable.

Just compare that with the normal in human history.

I think that removing people from power is the "strong problem" to solve and, democracy, the current imperfect democracy, is a big steep in the right direction.
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Ordered by purchase date and, incidentally, size

1. Lexmark IBM Model M, 1993, Black modifiers from Unicomp, 100%

2. Noppoo Lolita Spyder, Kailh Browns, Granite Keycaps, TKL

3. Poker 3, Cherry MX White, and Granite keycaps, 60%

4. (on order) Planck (MIT layout), Cherry MX Tactile Grey, Black DSA Keycaps, 40%

I plan on giving the Spyder to a friend for Christmas, replacing it with a Novatouch someday. Also looking to build a better numpad, as the last PCB i got was just terrible.
> But, looking at the more quantifiable world, I don't see how state is completely independent of identity.

I gave you an example, two dollar bills have equal state but completely different identity. The identity obviously has nothing at all to do with state.

It's clear you're not a programmer or you wouldn't be having the issues you're having understanding this distinction. Programming 101, state and identity are different things.

> A fundamental question is, can a thing ever cease to exist?

That depends on how you define thing, and that question has nothing to do with the issue at hand, state vs identity.

> If so, then can a change in state precipitate its demise? Or said another way, can it cease to exist, yet retain its state?

That's a bad example that mixes in unrelated issues, flip it around. Can it maintain its state yet lose its identity, and the answer is yes it can, by being copied. A copy of a thing has all the same state as the original thing but has a different identity. If I clone you, the clone is not you, you and the clone have distinct identities but equal state. Therefore identity and state are clearly distinct, QED.

> So, I would say that there are state changes which can alter or completely destroy identity.

True, but irrelevant and merely coincidental.

> But, if you say that a thing cannot cease to exist, then you are effectively saying that there is not such a thing as identity in the first place.

No I'm not. Get off the cease to exist point, it's confusing you; look at the copy angle, copies make it clear that state and identity are not the same thing and are completely independent of each other.

Yes, it's possible to think of state changes that affect identity by killing a thing, but that's coincidental and tangential, it doesn't mean state and identity are the same thing, only that they both rely on existence of a thing.

Things can and do have equal state and distinct identity, money is a prime example; state and identity are distinct, accept it.
> President tries to convince the US Treasury to mint a 7.5c coin (?!?!?)

It was because at the time vending machines couldn't make change, and they wanted to raise the price, but doubling (from 5 to 10 cents) would be too much.

Instead they figured out how to make the vending machine make change.
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Can you elaborate how the Sony hack ruined people's lives? How much information can possibility be attached to a psn account?
"Gay marriage" So state-sponsored perversion that makes a mockery of the institution of family, great.

"we've got Obamacare" So the government's ever-increasing power now includes what products we /have/ to buy, and here that compulsory purchase is part of a completely broken system that's essentially the worst of it's kind in the developed world

"we will probably have a woman President" Any woman right? Doesn't matter who

"little real risk of overturning Roe" We can keep murdering innocent defenseless babies in the womb unimpeded that's great!

The government spying on everyone all the time isn't the future it's the present.
If the intelligence agencies have thwarted 90% of the attacks you'd still have the same impression.

FYI Glenn Greenwald is never interesting.
Although I didn't support him, I think Obama had good intentions and wasn't lying to get elected. His failure to accomplish what he promised is an indicator of just how strong the "shadow government" (comprised of the military, our surveillance agencies, corporate interests) is in the US.
Genuine question: what technologies allow us to organize and store information in the event of a massive catastrophe (meteors/comet, volcanoes, etc)?
Are Adblock companies breaking the law?
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No, I didn't take it. Saving it for my own botnet. ;)

And awesome! Really happy to hear you're still enjoying your Torbit shirt.
> because they think the network is there to serve THEM.

I can't tell if you mean to imply that it's there to be served by them, or that it is there to serve "regulars".
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I just read "The Next Africa"[1] which had a good bit on M-Pesa and one of the cool offshoots, M-Kopa[2], which is offering a pay as you go solar lights/radio/sim card all paid for with M-Pesa. It sounds like it could be as big of a deal as the Rural Electrification projects of the last century.

1. http://us.macmillan.com/thenextafrica/jakebright
2. http://solar.m-kopa.com/about/company-overview/
I love my day job. I build decentralized software for a living. Always interested in talking to like-minded people, though. niran@niran.org
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> my internal answer to the question above is basically "No, not really"

oh my god how can you not find this the coolest thing ever

> Does it make me less of a "hacker"?

Probably not.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10614837.
the whole time I was watching the 60 minutes feature I was thinking, sure this is great for the people but what about the cell/mobile providers behind it all? How do they pay for their cell network access? Who is (must be) raking it in on that front/the gateway/infrastructure to have all of this work on top of?
"seemingly unrelated" It's not hard to imagine that this is how a flight control system for a drone might work.
The civil rights movement was enormous; the March on Washington was at the time the largest recorded public protest in the capital. And the modern gay/LGBT rights marches clock in at 3x-4x King's numbers.

There is no reasonable interpretation of the facts that can lead you to a conclusion that the civil rights and gay rights movements were outsider movements.
The author updated his post:

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>And the candidate broke every promise...

Hardly.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/ru...
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Does elixir solve this problem? http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...
Attempts to raise prices

The Coca-Cola Company sought ways to increase their prices, even approaching the U.S. Treasury Department in 1953 to ask that they mint a 7.5 cent coin.[1] The Treasury was unsympathetic. In another attempt, The Coca-Cola Company briefly implemented a strategy where one in every nine vending machine bottles was empty.[1] The empty bottle was called an "official blank".[2] This meant that, while most nickels inserted in a vending machine would yield cold drinks, one in eight patrons would have to insert two nickels in order to get a bottle. This effectively raised the price to 5.625 cents.[1] Coca-Cola never implemented this strategy on a national scale.
> a little more schooling

... after getting a bachelor's degree (3-5 years) a general practitioner takes at the bare minimum 7 years of schooling and internship. Surgeon far more than that. One can work as a professional software engineer without ever attending any university.
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So buy it twice to get a good copy?

Microsoft really needs to reel in the bad behaviour on the part of the OEMs.
Since the Internet is still quite young in political timescales, isn't it conceivable that the idea that Internet surveillance equals security" is a new one introduced by the government, even if the "security above freedom" idea is older?

All it really would take to plant such an idea in the public consciousness is mentioning the technology one wants to control in the same breath as an existing boogeyman, and the people will do the rest. Look at how authorities were so quick to blame encryption and Snowden for Paris when there was no evidence supporting that blame.
I agree with most of your points.

- I make CAD software for a living, so I've got a leg up when it comes to modeling. And I still absolutely find it a pain.

- Interesting feedback on being food-safe, thanks for the clarification.

- Yes, I realize that it's much faster than other options. I guess I was just a bit naive. Still, I'd love to have a 3d printer that is even faster than, say, a Carbon3d printer. It would really speed up the cycle time.

- When I first got started on the Rep2 makerware was using makerbot's C++ slicer for most models, and a Python-based slicer for high quality. The situation is much better now than it used to be. I've heard good things about slic3r.

I have gotten better at designing so that supports aren't needed. I've also had some good luck with meshmixer's editable supports.

- The rep2 nozzle is okay, it's the 5th gen replicator (after they were bought by stratasys) that has the horrible problems and is super expensive. Based on what I've heard, I wouldn't recommend buying a 5th gen makerbot.
It shouldn't be. If anything, being as big as Dell makes me wonder why it hasn't happened already.

I work at an Enterprise software company a few orders of magnitude smaller than Dell. The number of people we have who don't even begin to understand how SSL works beyond 'its encrypted now' is frustrating.

Dell can probably recruit better people than we can, but I don't know if they can recruit better people at volume, top to bottom. It only takes a couple of people to not understand what they are doing and 'just get it done' for this to happen.
I don't think people have an inherent right to put addictive substances into their bodies,[1] so I view the issue purely through a cost-benefit lens. And I think it's at least possible that what maximizes social utility is a policy on drugs that stops short of full abolition of the drug war.

[1] I think once certain conduct creates the risk of a harmful social effect (e.g. drunk driving), society is entitled to intervene. It does not have to wait for that harmful social effect to actually come to pass (e.g. an actual accident caused by drunk driving).
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10591250
From what I've been able to find about the Philips API, there's also a modicum of authentication while these appear happy to accept input from anyone on the network.
Of course fires are 'bad' - if you're a bear or a deer. Fires are adaptive for the organisms that produce them, that is, pine forests, which use fire as part of their natural ecological cycle (by filling the forest up with fire-promoting oils and dry tinder) to wipe out competition and proliferate.

We only have a problem with this because we still live on the ground. If we lived in airships, like I've been suggesting all along, then forest fires would become a wonderful natural spectacle, and people would pilot their airships to the Rockies for the summer just to catch a view.
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The day of week probably matters as well. For example, the conferences will always span a weekend, giving a biased sample of days. I think it is a mistake to try interpreting this data without considering it as a timeseries.
Quality means many things... When it comes to the experience of the people using the site, performance - how long it takes the requested page to display - is critical; the vast majority of Stack Overflow's page requests are someone requesting a page that they urgently need to read.

That doesn't preclude other aspects of quality of course. But it does influence how they're approached. A heavily abstracted system that hurts performance is unacceptable, but there are other ways to achieve the same ends.

You might find this article interesting... http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/03/30/How+I+learned+to+st...
Based on my casual observation of this issue, the biggest problem I believe is allowing police forces to benefit directly from what they seize.

Maybe it just doesn't affect regular folks that much, so there is not much uproar from the voting body.
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> There is no reasonable interpretation of the facts that can lead you to a conclusion that the civil rights and gay rights movements were outsider movements.

They both started out, and spent large amounts of time, as outsider movements: they are both, therefore, examples of how outsider movements can shift the public consciousness (and, in doing so, stop being outsider movements.)

If you reject that something was an outsider movement by the fact that it eventually achieves success, then, sure, by definition outsider movements can't succeed. But that's a definition which robs all meaning from the discussion.
Perhaps a better question would be "What is the median forfeiture amount?". Without additional data points or underlying explanation, this article is nothing but click-bait.
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