skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a significant difference between private companies collecting data and the state doing wholesale surveillance.

I used to agree, but don't we know for certain that this is false now? With the Snowden documents, we know that the USA government, along with others, knows how valuable these private companies' data stores are and will hack their way in so that they can get access (if they're refused when they first ask politely).

I no longer think there's much real difference at all between the private companies collecting the data and then actively/passively sending it to the government, vs. the government doing all the collecting and analyzing themselves.

And the point that I was trying to make is that even if the private companies can collect and analyze the data safely (they can't), that still sets up a society that is willing to be watched. That is the hardest part for totalitarian governments to overcome; if you hand the USA or China or Russian governments a silver platter of a willing population that will accept the surveillance from one entity, they will accept it from another. That's a dangerous place to be.
Maybe because, not being a mathematician, and certainly not a quantum mechanic, I understand pi and circles as being lock-step mutually defining; from what I've read, this derivation of pi doesn't seem to be described as anything more than an interesting coincidence, and to call it a "link" is reaching.
Submit to Biorxiv [1]. Most journals have actually recently changed their terms to explicitly allow pre-print publication.

[1] http://www.biorxiv.org/about-biorxiv
>The term 'non-reproduced' was assigned on the basis of findings not being sufficiently robust to drive a drug-development programme.

Funny stuff. This editorial is about making it so that preclinical publications are only published when they're ready for the clinic. It's not about the same experiments being reproducible. It's not an indictment about the quality of research or the utility of research for advancing knowledge. However, this editorial is often cited by people outside of the field to bolster something that it does not bolster.
Dude. You downvoted me for pointing that out? Seriously?

A more thorough explanation was posted by somebody else here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10611002
I know some great commercial real estate brokers. The very successful ones are the ones that you want to talk with when they call because they are extremely funny and entertaining. That's the mark of a great salesman. They are so much fun to be around that you want to take their calls, drive around and look at property with them, etc.
i agree, this is tasteless and should be forbidden in my opinion, the only one who should be able to decide if they want to be frozen and revived should be the person themselves.
New Words, New World: What happens when a language is born [audio]
I personally know two people who abuse the welfare system and a study whose name starts with "Debunking the Stereotype" sounds like it's throwing any objectivity out of the window right at the beginning - not to mention they analyse data only from six third world countries. Inapplicable to richer countries with generous welfare benefits.
Ask HN: Is there a case for UI / layout libraries that ditch the past?
UI programming is hard and extremely hacky and fiddly.

Virtually all the major UI libraries are deeply committed to backward compatibility. But surely the cost in terms of complexity, code, testing, effort and cognitive load is unbelievably high.

Game changing browser technologies such as FlexBox have matured enough to be usable in current browsers. Such technologies make things dramatically more simple and understandable.

Is there a case now for UI frameworks that ditch the past and choose the simplicity and practicality of latest-version-browsers-only?
The game of mafia (aka Werewolf) is linked to PI (my paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.1031, for a summary: http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1157558/polish-paper-werewol...), also via the Wallis formula. But so what?

Pi appears in physics roughly as often as 2 in finance. Even to describe the simples quantum states (ground states of the harmonic potential) you use Pi (as a normalization factor).
The cloud gives vendors a huge corpus of data to improve speech/query recognition accuracy and of course targeting of advertising...
Someone posted a link here saying only 10% of houses were sold to chinese investors, meaning not enough to influence the bids.
I agree. Resuscitation seems unlikely, given that the freezing process itself damages the tissues, as well as the degradation that has already happened post-mortem.
You can rename her to Amazon. Hopefully there aren't very many people named Amazon.
Robot gets rid of weeds automatically and without herbicides
God I wish more people knew this and understood that it's a feature, not a bug of our system.

In this case, that message is not quite exact because MAJCOM commanders have the POTUS as their boss. But between state governors, POTUS, Congrees and the Judiciary, there is an intentional and functional disconnect.
Yes, that is actually a very good question. It's true that I create weather forecasting systems that rely on barometric pressure data that's collected from smartphones, and that those systems are privacy-sensitive.

It's a difficult line, of course. My goals are to reduce the effects of global climate change by better understanding the atmosphere. If we can provide more accurate wind speed information to wind farms, more accurate solar irradiation information to agriculture businesses, etc, then we can radically improve the world's preparedness for large scale global climate change.

For me, the issue here is deciding which problem is more important to work on. Mitigation of disastrous effects of climate change, or choose to not use any sensor data from smartphones due to my privacy concerns. So far I have aired on the side of climate change being a bigger problem, and that I have a helpful set of work that can make a difference, so I will do my work and hope that it helps.
FBI versus John Kennedy is one of those moments.

Not the assassination part. I mean the communist mistress part.
Completely misleading title. I'm so sick of click-bait.
It wasn't just the Nazis that thought like this, the Communists did too http://history.stackexchange.com/q/14699/4449
A mathematical model of the Mafia (aka Werewolf) game
If welfare is having a bad time in term of public opinion, how do you want basic income to have a better public perception?
Chicken Little comes home to roost.

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1002
Would be an interesting experiment to see what cleaner is most effective in removing that gunk, then mixing with water and a smoker "inhaling" it into their lungs.

Would it clean their lungs of similar gunk or would the water return clear as it went in?
Well, the libertarians wouldn't support it as an addition to the current welfare state, and the liberals wouldn't support it if it was conditional on dismantling Social Security, Medicare, etc. If we were building something from scratch, we might be able to get to a basic income, but right now, there's too much disagreement about the proper size of the welfare state to make any sweeping changes to its structure.
>There is a significant difference between private companies collecting data and the state doing wholesale surveillance.

Not under the current rules where the data are treated as "business records" and subject not only to spying while en route, but also to administrative subpoena and all sorts of other "legal" and questionably legal collection methods employed by various divisions of the state.

>we need to get rid of the state.

For sure, the part that wants to collect all the data needs to go.
Oops, sorry, you're right. It was very early this morning and pre-coffee when I wrote that, was paraphrasing colloquially instead of technically (and not thinking) :)
Whistleblowers Risk Prosecution to Warn Drone War Kills Civilians, Fuels Terror
Well much of this is the proceeds of corruption, so yes they do want to keep them in the country.
There's also some cases of people who's hearts had stopped after being caught outside in sub-zero temperatures being successfully revived with no adverse effects.
I'm not formally in sales but I do the same thing. There's nothing like "Oh, I was there a couple years ago and found this great little burger place near..." or "I've always heard they have the best X there. Where do you recommend?"
Federalism is great when your side benefits from it.
I don't get it. Is this about laziness?
Attempts to cryopreserve people who are still (just about) living will take more months of human life than will ever be restored by foreseeable future revival attempts.
You might be interested in this: https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/

However, the difficulty is to make these requests actually look indistinguishable from normal browsing. It might "work OK" now, but the behaviour certainly is different from normal browsing habits. If everyone started using this, you can bet someone would pour a lot of money into research that filters out the automated requests. Then one basically needs to solve steganography, which is a hard problem, harder than cryptography.
I believe HSBC gained immunity by paying a token fine and promising not to do it again.
I went near-caffeine-free the last two weeks: Two shots of espresso in the morning, only decaf after that. (Fortunately any coffee shop worth their salt has decaf beans available.)

What has surprised me is that I am no longer oversleeping on my days off. Before, I was sleeping until 12-1pm to catch up on sleep debt incurred during the week, and I would wake up bleary-eyed and tired. Now, I wake up around 9-10am (which coincides with my wake-up time on work days), way before my alarm clock, and I actually feel quite rested.

Note that this is without adjusting my bedtime schedule at all. As someone who's been on caffeine most of his life and whose late sleep schedule is a veritable personality trait by now, this came as a surprise.
There is already a huge market for modern, high end mobile phones that passively record the environment constantly, in order to wake up and respond when their user says "Hey Siri" / "Ok Google" / "Hey Cortana". Users tend to carry those with them everywhere.

I see that your company plans to "build[] an open platform for atmospheric data collection using smartphone sensors". It looks like you support Apple and advertise their products on your company's website: https://www.pressurenet.io/blog/iphone-6-has-barometer/

"We’re excited to start including iPhones in our study of the atmosphere!"

If you believe that "every purchase[] is a signal", then what signal are you sending about Apple iPhones?

I have not researched it in detail, but it seems like you're relying on data collection from large networks of smartphones in order to put together accurate weather forecasts. That's cool! But I find it hard to reconcile with the view that smartphone data collection (from people who volunteer to participate, or who use a product that has a collection feature) is invasive.
I moved from Slackware to Kubuntu too, but as I recall Slack had something - maybe slackpkg - that did dependency installation. I jumped ship for the breadth of packages available and automatic kernel module compilation (I forget what it's called at the moment; recompiling nvidia video modules was getting to be a pain and I needed to keep the family computer online consistently).
Bitcoin may float to any valuation.
Well, there is something invented back in 1804 which is called a 'railway' system. It is much more efficient in terms of costs, and can be turned to autopilot much more easily and reliably.
The GFW started to take off when I was in college somewhere in Beijing, China. In almost two decades, not a single tech trick can survive and grow to a meaningful scale. One technology might work for either limited case or very limited audience, or just get blocked completely.

Technology can't fix politics.
monbiot.com/2014/10/14/falling-apart/ is an interesting link - it is about about how we become more and more lonely.

By the way if the problem is that we are lonely - than all community solution like musicians relying on a community of supporters instead of 'music industry' is a step in the right direction.
Note that punctuation applies to other languages as well.
Personally I think it might make sense to run your stateful apps in openstack VMs and the stateless portion in containers.
You can call Lua scripts from other Lua scripts. It is a little funky, but that's why I built https://github.com/josiahcarlson/lua-call
It's odd that your first and most prominent screenshot has such bad typography:

regulation the circulation.

Bad typography is my main quibble with the Kindle app. It's been awful for years.

Have you looked into a better flow algorithm, such as the Knuth/Plass [1] algorithm from TeX?

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.4380111102/ab...
Thanks, this is really helpful!
You can't. The answer is to reduce the number of connected devices.

Your refrigerator does not need networking capability. Nor does you wash machine or your toaster or your tig welder.

In fact, I would argue that even your display device (your "smart tv") should not have a network connection, but I think I'm in the minority there. For those that are interested, I have very good luck using "commercial displays" like the ones you see in airport signage. They are dumb. They are also fantastic and well engineered displays.
Since operations in Iraq are just a government fraud / boondoggle by the Pentagon and it's incestuous corporate leeches, this bad attempt at coverup isn't surprising
I always wanted something similar for C++ to exist. But people seem to think linting is entirely different than thing demonstrated here.
Let's say we have a service, that needs network to be up and running. network.target won't work on boot, you start googling and find network-online.target that should do the trick, but it doesn't. Then you spend half an hour trying to figure out how to make it wait for dhcp config to finish for /etc/network/interfaces. In the end, either find that you need to enable some obscure service that waits for it and makes network-online.target actually work and enable it or you copy-paste it from somewhere on the internet and it is a shell script anyway.
I'm not sure how you can you depend on network-online.target and be sure this network waiting services are properly enabled.

With sysvinit you'd usually just put it on S99 and be done with it in most cases.
I think it would be novel to have a negotiation seminar, but where the price of the seminar would be ... negotiable. a la https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y.
If you always use something like 'data-bind' for binding and keep classes solely for CSS it's easier to maintain simply because you know 'what classes you can delete' without having to look in two places (CSS and JS) to see what will be affected as a result.
Interesting aside: I'm a native Hebrew speaker, and practically a native English speaker. I tend to notice grammatical mistakes in English.

In this case, I didn't notice anything. It's probably because I was speed-reading, but I can't help but feel that it also has something to do with the fact that I've gotten used to the way Hebrew speakers tend to mangle English.
Surround them with intelligent people who like talking.

Take a visit to a children's area in a hospital if you want to meet some hyper intelligent children with less intelligent parents. They soak in an amazing vocabulary from being around doctors all day.
Watch Jeff Bezos Lay Out His Grand Vision for Amazon's Future Dominance
The device does not communicate with amazon.com until you say "alexa" and the code/hardware for that is all done on the device itself. So its not listening and streaming everything, all the time. It is listening all the time, yes- But only for the word 'alexa' - If it hears that word, then it starts talking to amazon.com and starts doing voice recognition. This is very easy to verify yourself with a network monitor.

Do you ask people with iphones or androids to turn them off when you are close because its listening for "hey siri" or "ok google" ?

If you asked me to turn mine off when visiting, I would happily oblige you- And then label you as a nutcase who has lined their walls with tinfoil.
Are there any steganographic content sites running now? One could probably run HTML/images only sites purely through steganographically disguised data on imgur, tumblr, Facebook, and others. (Images would be lowered resolution, and involve the combination of 2 or 3 images.) A secret browser extension would be needed for recombination. This browser extension could come in multiple variants, in such a way that it would be hard for one agency to know all of the content channels.
I get a lot of recruiters insisting on calling me instead of e-mailing their vacancies. I figure they aim for the same effect as with sales techniques described in this article. However, I am not a native English speaker and these calls end even faster than an e-mail conversation.

It's much easier to decline in a foreign language than in your own. All the emotional cues get filtered through the language barrier and even if I understand them perfectly they do not bear any direct impact.

I suspect I am not the only one so I'd advise people to adjust their cold calling strategies accordingly. It might be worth to have sales calls in your target's native tongue even if you are not fluent or switch to e-mail in such a case.
> it's just that most of us understand that corporations are not evil by default

Perhaps not evil but they are amoral.

If a course of action is not illegal and would increase revenue then a company really should be doing it. Particularly if their competitors are doing so.
Of the ones GP mentioned, Tornatore and Salvatores also won the academy award.

Personally, I feel most movie awards are BS, but I do not understand why GP believes these authors are the cause of the "italian cinema decline" in the context of abroad appeal, given they are have actually been rather more successful at it then others.
Seperations of concerns can be interpreted in multiple ways. You could say that the concern of one React component is to render one particular part of a view based on data. Or: "convert data to a view".

In for instance Angular you have the template seperated from the controller or directive. But in what way does that really help you? The controller and the template are inseperable. The variables inside of the template corrospond directly to the variables in the scope of the controller. You cannot see what the template is doing without having the controller next to it. In React you really see how the view is built up, without any magic.

The points you make on React make me really wonder if you did your research.
One more step towards Twitters untimely irrelevancy.

Shame, if they implemented features instead of removing them they could be huge. Still can in my opinion.
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That is a good point, although a Skype connection or just a conference call is a pretty good substitute, and without body language as a guide actually tends to make negotiations much harder and increase the risk of tempers flaring.
Its broken. No links are shown on the download page without javascript.

> We think your OS is Well, we don’t actually know. Either Javascript is disabled, or I am not working quite right… So I am showing you all the options. That should cover it.

Ha. Incompetent designers and programmers. Off to send an email.
anvay could not have downvoted you, as your comment was a reply to them, so no, they didn't downvote you for that.

And then in reply to what you said:

>> It is locally convex in the sense
>> that it has no loops

> Of course it has loops. But in the
> scale of the drawing, the loops are
> lost due to the vast distance from
> Earth/Moon system to Sun.

By my way of thinking, this is wrong. Looking at this from the Sun-centric point of view, thinking of the Moon's path in space in the Sun's frame of reference, the path is convex. Take any finite straight line (no, I'm not going to go into General Relativity) whose endpoints are both, at some point, between the Moon and the Sun, then every point on that line is such that it is at some point between the Moon and the Sun.

In other words, the path of the Moon is convex. By any common usage of the language, that means it has no loops.
This article goes into much more detail about why it became popular in the West to adorn textiles with pseudo-Kufic script during the Renaissance:

http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/fashion/crusader-chic

The short version is that it was fashionable in Fatimid Egypt for the ruler to bestow high quality garments to government officials as a sort of promition. These garments usually had verses from the koran embroidered along the hems. The crusaders brought back many of these garments to Western Europe where they became very popular, and the style was imitated in paintings.
So who will be the next president?
I don't think you have CloudFlare setup correctly, if you need to bust the cache.

http://pastebin.com/ktbavQKV

Either 1. you don't need the Lambda service, or 2. set up a cache everything pagerule if you're wanting to cache the html page.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168306-I...

CloudFlare doesn't cache html by default.

Disclaimer: I work for CloudFlare.
Variations of this argument are everywhere though, for every product you may not like. Everybody who buys a burrito at Chipotle sends a message that it's ok to put cilantro in rice. What happens when there aren't any cilantro free burritos? What happens when they put cilantro on pizza? Cilantro may or may not be a human rights violation, but it's a weak argument that people shouldn't buy a product you don't like because then that product will continue to be sold.
reminds me of

http://beebole.com/pure/
This command doesn't make any sense to me. That's why I hate using git...
That looks like it might be a way out of the maze.
I can't downvote anything yet, I am new :)

Yes the wired article is a better explanation(which btw I posted in a comment below). I was however struck by just the no loops part which you rightfully mentioned. It is so counterintuitive. But later I found that the moon is slower around earth than I had assumed(~27days), that was causing the problem for me.
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And how would you respond to friends / family buying them? Or to a coworker who brought one into the office?
Basic income does of course still discourage work: for instance consider the case of someone who would starve without having job but doesn't with basic income.

But of course encouraging work is not really the ultimate goal, so this is unrelated to whether basic income is a good idea or not.
> it's just that most of us understand that corporations are not evil by default

That's not an objective fact; it's kind of condescending to present it that way. I would say that they corp's are amoral.

>they are not part of a bigger scheme that wants to enslave the world.

Corp's act in the self-interest of the directors without regard for whether their actions increase/decrease "world enslavement".
Also from what I'm seeing winning bids in this market are at least 120-130%
Privacy is an asset that people are willing to exchange for tangible benefits. Especially because most people don't really know how to value their privacy until it's been breached.

Create a system that realizes the tangible value of privacy and people will be much less likely to give it away.

What does that look like? That's the billion dollar question. For starters, here's an essay by Albert Wagner of USV that sets the stage for a solution (in a very abstract way): http://continuations.com/post/131372549150/land-capital-atte...