skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We also have vastly different levels of social mobility in different states. Since access to quality education for the poorest and social mobility should be correlated, we could have some idea of what education model is the best, and my guess is that it will not be the one in the US.
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I didn't like the way I was behaving with my social media accounts and smartphone: basically just consuming like crazy. So back in 2011 I deleted the facebook account and got a dumb phone. As facebook was just taking off when I finished high school, I had never really lived my adult life without it. Just trying to give you some background to frame the rest of my response, I never started using facebook again. Nothing against the company, I know many people with use cases where having an account is valuable, and I have often thought of going back. Just hasn't been worth it to me yet.

Introducing some challenge is a good way to figure out what is really important to you. If you are willing to charge through obstacles to have something, then it probably does actually off value to your life (barring addiction, etc). Then later, take the obstacles out of the way of the good, and stop doing the bad.

Learning there actually are a bunch of people living without smartphones (or leaving them in their pockets) was interesting to see. I didn't really notice there were as many people connecting with each other when I was looking at my screen. Breaking completely from smartphone use for an extended period was necessary for me to start experiencing the value of looking around instead of taking every moment of free time to find some "interesting" new piece of information. However, having the dumb phone was really annoying when it came to texting (T9!), managing contacts, saving messages, viewing voicemail, and obviously no apps. There is a reason basically anyone who has the means wants a smartphone. From my experience, the only benefit of a dumb phone is more time to do what is important to you.

I live in the bay area and work in tech, so it is definitely possible. Now I have a smartphone again, but like other posters, I barely have any apps compared to standard user, and turn almost all notifications off. At the time, I got a "feature" phone for $20 and a $6 per month no contract plan. It is a very cheap experiment to run if you want to try! Just leave your smartphone at home for a week...
Perhaps his attitude is filtering away people who take intellectual arguments personally.
I don't think you and OP commenter are talking about the same thing.
> "logic without evidence"

When I was in school we called these people "philosophy majors." ;-)
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You nailed it. It gives you 100% market penetration with one system, one UI, and then you can focus on the backend processing and workflows. It also doesn't require data or the like. If you throw in some phone number -> country processing, you can even make some best-guess localization/internationalization with pretty minimal effort.

It's a simple but powerful approach.

~ Former Twilio evangelist, so biased :)
The item clearly depicted at 3:10 in the video [1] seems to be a 15" MacBook Air, which looks like it'll be shown at WWDC '16 [2]. I wouldn't kick this thing out of my workstation, that's for sure.

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/inside-apple-part-one/

[2] http://www.macrumors.com/2015/11/30/thinner-macbook-air-13-1...
Non mobile link: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/boring-crypto/48qa1kWi...
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Before, there were markets Apple might move into. For example, smartphones and tablets. And yes, this was seen as a possibility before the products in question were released. Now, I don't see anything similar.

I don't know what kind of reasoning you expect beyond that. It's tough to prove a negative. I don't know why you take such issue with my opinion.
I'm 32 years old. I haven't ever had a cable subscription or equivalent.

I grew up in rural Canada. We had two channels (broadcast) because cable companies wouldn't service our area.

Once I moved out, I could barely afford to buy beer, let alone a cable package. With the internet providing endless amusement, it was a pretty easy choice: the beer won.

Today, I have a netflix account. The cable company is still getting their pound of flesh from me; my internet costs $80 a month. Oh how I miss the days of living downtown, where I could get cheap fibre...

I don't know why anyone would give a damn about having cable TV. It provides very little value for a very high price.
>I don't see why "Uber for lawyers" wouldn't work.

I'd imagine for the same reason HomeJoy didn't work. If you find a good lawyer - why bother going through the service and deal with the lawyer directly? I can see many firms adopting or licensing such a service, but I doubt it would change how clients approach them.

>I don't see any reason why AI couldn't potentially have super-human powers of persuasion and manipulation
I'd imagine once we have this, we would have Strong AI. At that point many traditional business models would be stone dead.
No need to downvote a comment that exposes an opinion you disagree with (and I disagree too). The patent is clearly a joke: "A method for transferring an electronic payment between a purchaser and a merchant etc...". Instead of downvote, send a letter to your congressmen to stop this ludicrous software patent thing, it will be more useful.
> I own a few patents, as I'm sure many on Hacker News do. As I write this, I'm in the middle of a patent lawsuit with Square (http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/24u13j6tr/california-northe...). I don't apologize for it. I'm not a troll. I'm an inventor and I made a real product.

That's great you made a real product. So many who file patents don't end up creating real products. But the problem here is you made a real product that's pretty generic much akind to the patents of "input devices changes display on output device" kind of patents. It's an abuse of the system that many are working to eradicate.

So I don't think you're going to find any support on HN for it. It's great you're not like the typical patent troll since you claim you made a product (of which I have not verified but I give you the benefit of the doubt) but obvious design patents hurt innovation. Hell to some degree all patents hurt innovation but the obvious designs are the most egregious in my opinion.
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You seem to have mistaken "begin to hint at" in the article for something like "proves" or "necessarily, logically implies".
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Not lazy to assume anxiety without reviewing colonoscopy, EGD & gastric emptying study results? Perhaps I was showing signs of anxiety, but as a side effect of the discomfort I was in.

There are certainly hypochondriacs out there, but there are also terrible doctors as well. One should not immediately assume the patient is incompetent and doctor infallible.

Gastroparesis is a pretty severe condition that often lasts for months or even your entire life. In my research I did not see stress noted as the most common cause.
I do know paying off your total credit card debt every month does nothing to help your credit score

This is correct, but misleading[1][2]. A balance is not necessary to gain credit history[0], though a very minimal balance is better than nothing[3]. What matters is utilization rate, which is the ratio of how much credit is used versus how much is available. There is some misunderstanding about "paying it off each month" due to the fact that the CC companies report how much was used during a month not the balance at the end of the month. (ex: with a limit of $1000, $900 was charged then paid off. The $900 is reported, even though it's paid off by the end of the month).

You would be far better off to get 2-3 cards, ring up some debt on each of them, and then make the monthly minimum payment, on-time, for 6-12 months.

This is some pretty poor financial advice. Paying minimum balances is almost always a bad idea from a financial perspective. The same effect could be had by obtaining one card, using about 5-20% of the available balance each month, then paying it off each month. Using this method, the utilization rate is above 0, but below 30%, the length of the CC history is increasing, and no interest is being paid.

[0] - https://www.bankofamerica.com/credit-cards/education/5-facts... Myth #5

[1] - http://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit/credit-score-fall-aft...

[2] - http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/simon-credit-car...

[3] - http://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-cards/does-card-inact...
Maybe not WORA - but 'Write your business logic, a chunk of your UI logic once, then do something sensible for the rest of the UI code'.

Admittedly - there's problems even achieving that. Android intents, activities and fragments don't easily map to anything on iOS and they have big architectural implications.
> Why is tuition continuing to rise so much faster than inflation? Is this simple supply and demand? Government backed loans create infinite supply to anyone who wants them?

I'm not convinced government backed loans have much to do with it. Here's a table comparing Stanford tuition growth to inflation over periods of 10 years.

Each row represents the 10 years ending in the year given in the first column. Second column is how much inflation multiplied prices over that 10 years. Third column is how much Stanford tuition multiplied over that 10 years. Final column is the ratio of the Stanford column and the inflation column.

Year Inflation Stanford Ratio
1930 0.8 2.5 3.0
1940 0.8 1.2 1.4
1950 1.7 1.9 1.1
1960 1.2 1.5 1.2
1970 1.3 2.4 1.8
1980 2.1 2.6 1.2
1990 1.6 2.3 1.4
2000 1.3 1.7 1.3
2010 1.3 1.6 1.3

Government backed student loans didn't really start taking off until the mid '60s, so maybe some of the Stanford spike in the 10 years ending in 1970 can be attributed to that, but after that it falls back to its "normal" faster-than-inflation rates.

It would be interesting to compare to other schools, in particular to other top private schools, top state schools, and other private and state schools, because it is quite possible that factors that can affect tuition affect it differently at different kinds of schools. My Googling only found sufficient historical tuition data for Stanford which is why that's the only one I was able to compare against inflation.

Inflation data: http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-in...

Stanford tuition data: http://facts.stanford.edu/administration/finances
I don't agree with your last paragraph, as I have different values, but as far as your first one: this is the essence of 'hypercompetition', and it's bound up with our winner-take-all system / superstar effect.

Anyone who hasn't read "Twilight of the Elites" and "Average is Over" should do so.

Winner-take-all society: http://prospect.org/article/talent-and-winner-take-all-socie...

The superstar effect: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/business/26excerpt.html?_r...

Non-stop retraining: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/business/to-stay-relevant-...

My personal preference would be to accept this as the new reality and give better societal supports to allow people to compete (as Twilight of the Elites makes clear, you need more equality of outcome to enable equality of opportunity vis a vis education, tutors, etc.) like debt-free college and retraining programs, GBI, a more comprehensive unemployment system, etc. Rather than trying to roll the clock back, we should instead embrace it and allow people who want to be part of the race to have the tools to compete, while allowing those who would rather not to step away without starving and becoming homeless.
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The points in this article also apply really nicely to websites and other services, many of which seem to make the mistake of outsourcing everything to other people's platforms. Oh sure, you may be using 'the cloud' to host your webmail, or your forums, or your chat, or anything else... but what if that goes missing? You're in an even worse situation than the individuals using these services to host their personal files. Remember what happened to IPBFree? They were shut down for some weird, unexplained reason (rumour has it as a raid for illegal activity), and literally everything on their servers was wiped out. Now imagine if the same sort of thing happened to one of these services, like Dropbox or the likes... Millions of people would lose most of their files overnight.

Use such services for backups, sure. But don't rely on them too much, you don't know what might be going on behind the scenes at the other end of the line. You don't know their financials (usually), whether they're under investigation for something, whether an intelligence agency is spying on their servers, whether their security is up to par in every possible sense...

And if they're offering it for free... well, they don't have much invested in keeping you as a customer when things get tough. Became unpopular recently, for saying something controversial or 'stupid' on social media? Made enemies in the political world? Then a lot of companies will be quite happy to shut down your account to avoid bad PR. By using these services, you provide a nice target for the social media mob the minute you do something that a lot of people don't like...
So you're saying people who go to college shouldn't expect to have time to study?
Seems pretty rough, as it seems like she's trying to solve NP hard problems. And once it's solved for a small number, just a small adjustment again would render them useless.

Anyone who wants the government not to see anything would just encrypt with the larger key as a standard (unless someone does a timing cheat in the decryption implementation itself).

There could be dirty tricks deployed, but truly breaking an encryption is a serious waste of time and money. It sounds to me that Clinton's tech team needs to get more than just policy wonks in there if we are to trust her with truly understanding technology.

Like the fact that H1 Visas are really a ploy to get cheap labor, and not that we are 'deficient' in tech know-how.
Dependency hell has very little to do with kernel design - it's entirely a user mode problem.

Neither Linux or Windows NT in the modern iterations are true monolithic kernels - e.g. on Linux FUSE allows filesystems in user space, loadable and unloadable kernel modules, Windows has a User mode drivers framework which is increasingly used post Vista.

Neither QNX or Minix are as feature full as Linux or Windows NT - almost all development on Linux and Windows is in driver development, not core kernel work (e.g. scheduler, IO system, memory manager).

Windows NT remains a more modern kernel (in terms of internal consistent object model, basic kernel primitives) than either BSD or Linux, but whether it's absolutely better is a harder argument.

In general the argument regarding micro/monolithic kernels is old hat in practice we can make extra-ordinarily reliable monolithic kernels, while we can also avoid a lot of the pain associated with microkernels - e.g. minimising context switch time. The reliability, security, flexibility argument is largely made redundant by man-power dropped into modern kernels - better use Linux because although it's theoretically inferior it has 1000s of days of development thrown at it.

Kernel development also appears to be transitioning to using safety in compilers to improve reliability, but that's been a research topic for decades - the answer to 'can we build a sufficiently smart compiler' has been 'maybe' for a long time - though LLVM and Rust's compiler show a way forwards.
In you do not have Flash installed on your desktop here are direct URL's to the .MP4 files.

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> That's because there isn't such an option

This contradicts your original post. And it's true, there is no 3rd option. Very smart people have spent decades looking at alternatives and yet here we are.

> That's quite a simplification -- without the podcast they wouldn't sell books, swag, tickets, or receive donations.

Ok, let's reframe it then. It's a business that sells books, swag and tickets. And the podcast is a marketing cost center. Same outcome, they're a company that sells stuff for money. And sometimes people donate.

> Websites that serve ads are not free.

They are. The monetary sense is what we're talking about here. Not sure of this other "cost" your describing.

> Ad supported websites are not open, as every part of the ad network except for the literal content served to the client is closed and a trade secret.

What? By open I mean that websites are equally available to anyone regardless of logged in users or anonymous. This isn't a closed platform like Facebook where you have to be logged in to use it, thus revealing your identity.

> Ad supported websites are not democratic because advertisers will not want to have their brand associated with 'unsavory' topics or opinions which means that the overall content on the web is curated by small group ad networks that effectively 'bless' content on the web by providing them ad revenue.

That's not how it works. There's a tremendous amount of advertising material to fit virtually any vertical or environment. Sites are democratic because it's the audience that gives them value. Give the readers what they want and you get more readers and thus a more valuable audience to monetize. The site doesnt get to just make up whatever content it wants, it only works if there is a readership for it.

> The accessibility of ad sponsored content is just an accidental byproduct of paying customers visiting the site. If ad networks had the tools to discriminate between people who had high disposable income then the web would no longer be accessible to the poor as it would make business sense to simply not serve them the page.

Again, this is not how it works. "poor" people are not indigent (and those people are most likely not online that much). They still buy plenty and there are products for every price point. Most ads are sold on an impression/awareness basis so there's always value in showing the message to more people. And ad networks already have access to data like household income. Most ad campaigns use both the context of the site as well as various data points of the user to target ads - this is why you see Rolex ads on the WSJ but not on your local news site. Either way ads monetize all users which in turn let's the publisher keep the site open to everyone, as in it's accessible to everyone regardless of who you are or where you're from. That's a good thing (whether it's a byproduct or not).
It is great that they are making Wifi devices for the Commodore 64. It is Hayes command set compatible so it should be able to work with any terminal program.
You're partially correct. If you are paying everything off, you will not be rated as high as someone who is carrying a reasonable amount debt every month.

Why? If you pay everything off (no interest), the banks make no money, so you're simply not as attractive of a customer to lend money to. So, it's not about the payment, it's about using debt.

Other negatives: Reposession, defaulting on debts, bankruptcy, late payments, having monthly payments over some percentage over your income... it varies by provider (and most of it's automated).

Source: Worked for a 3rd party which does the actual approval and denial calculations for many different providers.
Pretty big goddamn difference there though!

That's a little like claiming that essentially every language is the same, because they all end up as machine code.
Sadly, it is very true.
Writing secure software in C is just next to impossible. Memory corruption, arbitrary pointers, deep magic. Even pure assembly is more secure, as everything is explicit and well-defined there. There are lots of safer languages than C, and performance is not everything.
Thanks for that info. It's also good to know that my BS detector is still in working order.
Honestly I think the apology is a bit unnecessary but I'm glad many are turning around on the ideal of technology patents. Yeah patents on obvious designs not only hinder but hurt innovation (one click, anyone?) but even patents on non-obvious but obviously-trending designs can slow progress in many areas.

I'll be honest though I wish patents worked. It would be nice to have a way to protect the "little guy" when they figured out a break through, showed it to the "big guy" and was then ripped off. But in practice the "little guy" would need millions of dollars just to create the case and go after the "big guy". That practically makes the patent system a place where only the "big guys" can play which defeats its purpose.

So maybe it's time to do something radical and just completely end or retard its abilities. I'm not sure if the current political environment will change this system any time soon though. Most patent holders have large sums of political influence.
Nope...I'm a geek and ex-juggler/magician.
FICO - by paying for it. Some credit cards provide it as a perk, but it's never free to get, and is actually rather hard for you to obtain without some form of credit provider between you and them.

You can (and should) get your credit report, but there's no score there.
Well, part of it is that they increased the size of the "spectrum" by adding more conditions and that doctors now check early in case intervention may be required are why the numbers are not so high.

Take for example my daughter. She was able to walk by herself when she was 8 months old. She got very independent quickly. She was about to recite entire alphabet and count to 20 by 15 months. The concerning fact that doctors had was that she did not point at things of interest and had poor eye contact. By her 2nd birthday, she started receiving speech and occupational therapies from a local early intervention program. It definitely helped her along with putting her into daycare/early preschool environment. She is very good at memorizing songs and objects. We're a bilingual family and she understands both Polish and English languages. Recently, she started learning some bits of Spanish at preschool. She can draw pretty well and can write her own name.

Her biggest weakness that we're working on now is her speech / communication. She is currently at 27% for her age.
Coming from someone who while Secretary of State willingly breached security policies to ensure her privacy, this rhetoric carries no water at all.

Who are the Halliburton and Blackwater of the information security fields, or is it them all over again?

They are obviously superpac'g Clinton's campaign
Is there a language that has powerful tools for dealing with timing attacks and can facilitate correctness proofs?
"6,000 deaths were attributed to the floodwaters, while nearly 145,000 people lost their lives because of epidemics and famine."

Wow.
Is there something this does that bugseverywhere doesn't?
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Excellent point. I highly doubt a VPS provider would volunteer a memory dump of a VM when presented with a search warrant for a copy of the VM. Most providers would likely just copy the VM files and call it a day.
CompCert?
YAML is really quite complex. I like it in general but it's impossible to dump the data out without destroying the structure of the file (throw away comments, change whitespace, formatting style etc.)
It's amusing to see Canonical held up as a good example. Of course they're anti-patent. They repackage the work of others and sell it.