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It's quite frustrating that the illogical latch onto morsels/islands of logic that are convenient for their agenda.

You can pick and choose your religion, but you can't pick and choose with logic.
> There is a good reason why everyone here on HN considers any startup that might potentially compete with Google dead in the water

It is good that you have asked EVERYONE in HN and you KNOW as a fact that everyone thinks the same you think

> Google uses predatory pricing
So you can link to any ruling stating that Google uses predatory pricinc, thing that it is ilegal. Because you can prove it and it is not just your subjective opinion

> the current Antitrust trial with Yelp!, where Google scraped reviews, and displayed them in Google places comes to mind. (And when Yelp! complained, Google threatened to throw them out of the results

Which anti trust trial?

> very monopoly is an Antitrust situation,

No, it isn't
It seems like most instragram users have over 100 followers[1], if they're all active and connected that means a sizable chunk of likes (or whatever else you can do) when you post something.

Surely sending all these notifications isn't entirely free - someone else posted Snowden receiving 47 gigs of mail because of email notifications.

You could do something like send notifications with some sort of back-off. Send them for 10 seconds, then back off to a minute's worth chunk, then 10 minutes, then an hour.

Then again, I don't have any statistics on how much these external services actually cost, nor how often this actually does happen. Simplest thing is for instagram/twitter to not care, and to point the finger at apple/android and tell them they should have UI to squelch high-frequency notifications.

[1] http://www.statista.com/statistics/419326/us-teen-instagram-...
> Serum nucleic acid sampling to screen for malignancies has a few problems. One issue is that it runs into the realities of Bayes theorem.

Which is that the occurrence of a genuine positive result is so rare that the false positives vastly outnumber the real positives unless your test is amazingly good.

And this is a bad thing when the interventions are as horrific as most of our current cancer treatments.

This is the reason for the recent recommendations for both breast and prostate cancers to reduce screening unless you have actual risk factors (family history, obesity, smoking, etc.)
At the local hackerspace, there was an older man who came along to fiddle around with his Raspberry Pi and learn programming from a book he had bought.

He faced a problem one time where his Python program wouldn't execute, and I unfortunately had to explain to him what shebang lines do, how to use them, the UNIX executable bit, etc.

The Raspberry Pi is indeed not as educational as it is made out to be. It may have been envisioned as a tool for classrooms, but in practice the Pi is just a toy for hackers. It's not like it was ever going to do much for the classroom anyway. Instead of spending $40 to teach a kid to program using Linux on a Pi, you could spend $0 to teach them to program using Linux in a virtual machine.
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I agree. Academia is really resistant to the idea (see MOOCs), but the quality of this style of education can be quite high for CS.

Plus there are guys like me who are excellent at the CS / math, but were awful at everything else in undergrad who could really shine.
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It may requires great protection on intelligent property since there are too many copycats in the market. If they can "copy" with good quality, it would be more acceptable (although it is not right). But if they are only produce electronic rubbish as usual, they would destroy the industry and lower consumers' confidence with their low cost rubbish.
Yep - you're correct, bacteria do not have a nucleus either. I was swapping the words around to try and create a parallel sentence and I thought I had corrected 'nuclei' to 'genomes' in my edit, but apparently I did not.

"there are 39 trillion separate non-human genomes in a human body, and only 5 trillion human nuclei." And you'd be correct in pointing out that that sentence is also a little wonky.

Which is the best metric? Nuclei, cells, dividable cells, base pairs, non-redundant base pairs, protein-encoding base pairs, expressed human protein, mass, species, etc?

It's difficult to get the nomenclature exactly parallel between mammalian and bacterial cells, much less fungal or viral material. But that's also the point. It's tricky to compare, and shouting that one comparison is wrong is just kind of click-baity.
Any views on Sofos? I use it to whitelist stuff as requested.. application by application.. seems pretty solid to me.
critical mass

As an example, I setup an NTP server a while back and found they used Bitcard.org as an authentication manager. I've been using it for years now and aside from the note on their website about running much of Perl.org, I've never heard of it being used anywhere else.

It's probably a reasonable service but I'd never implement it on my website because I know I'd be telling customers to go off and setup a Bitcard account, which they would have never heard of.
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It's also very much possible to draw the wrong conclusions as you mentioned. So while data may not lie, there certainly are plenty of faulty interpretations.

What scares me is the fact the data aggregation is being done with mere promises of "trust us, we won't look" . Systems built this way are inherently vulnerable to secondary and tertiary usage. That's why I think there is a strong case for end to end encryption so that there is separation but ultimately this is still a problem because there is no way to enforce metadata constraints on data. Someone may design such a system but others will just resort to using something else. Frustrating.
Nice, but a bit more context as to what exactly these images would have been nice :) https://developer.apple.com/library/tvos/documentation/Gener...
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While you certainly have a point, MITs actions in this case, and in the case of Star Simpson show what looks to me (as an outsider who really wants to go to an elite college) like MIT doesn't stand behind their students the way that I would expect an elite college to stand behind their students.

I mean, maybe that's just the way it is; maybe being a student at an elite institution just doesn't come with the level of privilege than I think it comes with; Maybe Stanford would have done the same thing (though my impression is that they would not.) like I said, I'm an outsider here, but the actions of MIT faculty in these two cases have significantly diminished how much I want to become a student there.
I don't know that much about Canada, but I can accept that giving up assumption (4) is worth exploring, and that Canadians may have substantially less family and individual debt. This should increase the ability of Canadian workers to walk away from a deal, as their need is not as high.

However, I would have trouble giving up assumptions (1), (2), and (3) because I think they fairly apply to Canada.

While Canada supplies for college and medicine, if the government doesn't supply shelter, food, and transportation, that provides the imperative to work. This means a steady supply of people who cannot easily refuse a job offer, even if it skates by the bare minimum of the law.

If you have a financial need to work, and others are willing to take your position, then it's hard to walk away as leverage.

I also have trouble dropping the assumption that advantage begets advantage, and that disadvantage begets disadvantage. I think that one is inherent to a generally free market.

I didn't include a political factor, and that's a gap that ought be plugged, but the only counter-balancing force I can think of are union-protection laws and progressive taxes, which many nations already have. I think these are good but partial remedies. Fixing industry abuses ad-hoc is a catch-up game where industry will always be ahead.
First step is remission monitoring.
And it only seems far fetched until it happens to you. Then it's front and center.
iPads in schools serve the exact same purpose macbooks did in the past, and its the same thing Google is doing with Chromebooks, albeit its not as bad.

Its buying new customers. If kids are literally raised on your products, you take them as yours before they even have money to buy computers in the first place. I went to a high school that used macbooks, and I'm probably the only person staunchly anti-Apple from my graduating class I know out of 50+ people - the vast majority of them are now primary Apple users over Windows, Android, Linux, etc.

Its not philanthropy, that's for sure.

I personally think its extremely important to get open, hackable hardware in the hands of students instead of some of the most locked down proprietary consumer devices to ever be pushed so aggressively on kids. For selfish reasons, because I don't want a proprietary world of tonka class computers and corporate controlled software - I want open platforms using open standards so I can use what I want and not be strong armed into some proprietary control by a business entity. The only way to get that is with an understanding and appreciation for hacker / open culture, and kids using ipads in class are definitely not getting exposure to anything like that.
What are you talking about. The link takes you to a pay wall asking for subscription.

Edit : Ah you meant the WEB button under the main link in HN
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If this seriously _had_ happened all on its own (apparently it didn't) then I'd be thinking the exact opposite -- this would tend to make me re-consider intelligent design.

However, it didn't.
Just to incorporate both of yours' points, I hope we all can agree that the CFAA is rank garbage.
Currently there is an effort in GNU Emacs project to move a subset of Common Lisp in Emacs Lisp under the cl prefix, so one would say cl-let or cl-values, etc.

It seems like a cool idea. If you disagree with some of CL's design or stylistic choices, which people familiar with Arc or Scheme would do, moving it out of the way is a good idea.

BTW, a long ago in order or incorporate CL into Symbolics Zeta Lisp they used cl: prefix for some functions. Nothing is new under the Moon.)
I'm definitely for scoring the police if they insist on rolling this out. Police should not be above the law.

Unfortunately, this is not likely to happen just like LEO are able to hide their home address because safety but you Joe citizen do not have that option.
So I wasn't 100% sure what Persona was (why read the article, right?) and decided to Google for it…

Turns out neither the Mozilla Persona main page nor the developer docs linked therefrom mention this timeline. Shouldn't there be a huge banner at the top warning visitors that maybe starting a new project using this tech is a bad idea? Or at least some sort of link to this post?
I still use it. I don't find sync to work with iOS and OSX for Notes.

Once I had Evernote delete a months worth of notes randomly. I wish Google Keep was more refined.
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Perhaps. I'd argue it's not military fetishism though - there are no goose-stepping soldiers, missiles being wheeled through the streets, and so on. Closest they get in the UK is the Trooping of The Colour, which is a few centuries old, and hasn't caused a problem so far [citation needed — cf "Buzzfeed: The Three Countries the UK Didn't Invade?!"]. The focus appears to be on sacrifice and dulce et decorum est rather than on militeria.
> call upon a wealth of experience both with driving and interacting with the physical world in general.

> a judgement I wouldn't expect near-future software to be particularly good at.

Its going to take a fleet of a ten thousand self driving cars a week to have driving experience equal any person alive.

Thats why Google / et al are putting millions of miles of data into these logic engines before they even attempt to sell them.
US cops are not trained to prioritize descalatio in general. That's why you have that cop in McKinney doing a diving roll like Farva.
Why are you taking offense at a description of market conditions?
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Sure, but why can external sites access localhost?
Look at it this way: Enron (China) engaged in accounting fraud (lied about debt and gdp) in order to obtain massive investment (massive dollar denominated debt), and spent all the money on parties and drugs (empty cities and roads to nowhere. steel factories that are kept open despite losing money. league of legend game studio and AMC. all the north korea's crude supply) and pretty soon will declare bankruptcy (yuan devaluation and chinese company bankruptcies), to the detriment of investors (European companies, US funds, people everywhere). Will anyone go to jail? (China won't be able to get any FDI for a a long time. Economic depression)...and do investors have the right to be angry (sure)
Traffic inspection shenanigans like Binge On are yet another reason why services like Netflix are moving to HTTPS.
Yeah, I forgot about the exceptions to the Same Origin Policy for a moment there.

Still, I don't see why sites should ever be able to make any request to localhost.
They do take complaints seriously. So complain.
Not sure it's hating or preaching. It just that a lot of businesses supplying China will make losses or go bust if they stop buying. More of an oh shit, what do we do now moment.
I think these devices are awesome. They will lead to better drivers getting better rates. I can't wait to sign up.
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Sure, for local web dev and apps. But why can websites on the Internet make requests to localhost?
You need to turn off adblock to view the video. Or at least I did, because the video is hosted on Facebook and I have a social media button blocking list. Though the site looks very messy without it.

Second, why does the os allow this many notifications? Obviously this is an edge case, but there are countless apps and any of them could have a bug or unexpected situation like this that causes a lot of notifications.
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Good question. I'm sure they did, and I'm sure there are cases even worse!

I'm surprised the cell towers were able to keep up without skipping a beat.
I sense that you think this is derogatory towards China when it is not. Or at least I don't read it that way. It reads to me as though it shows how connected our world is and how when a large consumer falters it affects all of its suppliers, especially when those suppliers overbuilt capacity. If anything it shows how much of an impact China has on the world due to its sheer size.
There have been massive improvements in AI in the last few years. Particularly things like machine vision, speech recognition, and reinforcement learning. AI is one of the major things that has been holding back robotics. It may be that it's time has finally come, or at least is very close.
As another example, Go's := makes it much harder to do things you aren't intending to do.
Is there another way than a mutation, propagation to an offspring(s), survival and successful reproduction of these, then over-reproducing others due to this adaptation (or by a pure chance) etc?
No, because you can build a selector string at run-time and call that.
I'll also point out that this is inherently unfair fron the standpoint using a person's name as the primary key for lookup. Given the roaring success that is the no fly list (/s), people's names are not evenly distributed, there are a lot more John Smiths than say Larry Ellison. It should not mean one person is easier to identify because of their name. If that's the case, there should be an even name distribution to give everyone a fair shake. Let's call everyone Bob!
There's a lot of pessimism ITT, but I'd like to say: As a new driver, I love these things. I started off with a multi-thousand insurance bill yearly, even with the cheapest insurance I could find. This is simply because I am young, male, and had to buy my own car - I don't think the insurance company was screwing me over, I'm just a high-risk demographic.

However, I'm a fairly cautious driver - why should I have to pay for the indiscretions of other people in my demographic? I signed up for a UBI program and received a device that tracks

* How long I drive over 120km/h

* When I drive

* How often I brake hard

I don't consider this a huge breach of my privacy, and it has saved me over $5000 so far. If it required GPS my tune might change, but across 3 different insurance companies I've never seen a program like that. Maybe if I had the luxury of belonging to a low-risk demographic I would be more sensitive, but for people like me these programs are a godsend.

(Full disclosure: I have not read the linked article due to paywall)
Nik, though I do that already and going to do that in the future also,this, however, is an awesome read. I am not any kind of person - morning or night. I work well in both cases. But I like to get up early every morning. It gives me 14 more hours every week than people who wake up at 7 and 28 more hours than people who wake up at 9. So in the whole year, I will have 2*365/24=30.4 more days to work on me or the things that I love than a person who wake up at 7 and 60.8 more days than the one who wakes up at 9.

That's is crazy. Isn't it?
Looks like he was on wifi.
Push notifications are pretty tiny, and it's not like one new connection is opened for each notification. Also that's over WiFi.
Absolutely. I keep getting amazed at how well designed their backend is (going by their OSS contribs and blogs at least), and their client app on the device absolutely sucks.
So basically the automobile equivalent of credit reports/scores?
This is unsurprising but also really incredible to actually see. I was first struck by how smooth it runs through all those notifications. I wonder how real time those notifications are. Are the ones coming in now for content created an hour ago?

I'm really curious what a system designed to push that much info out all over the place looks like. Where can I learn more about this?
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One problem is that it is difficult for the VA to fire people for performance problems. There was a bill (HR 1944) that passed the House this summer, but the corresponding Senate bill was only introduced in November.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/108...
I'm happy you're open to learning more about evolution.

Genetic linkage is a fairly advanced concept. For example, this (great) introductory Yale course doesn't even mention it. http://oyc.yale.edu/ecology-and-evolutionary-biology/eeb-122...

Every gene is next to another gene. You are right, the scenario you are detailing is unlikely - correspondingly, it happens very rarely.

Complex things we don't understand often seem magical.
Seems like they should be able to batch them in some way, and not have to send a notification for every single like.
> For downloading academic papers, he was facing a punishment that could have gone to literally millions of dollars in fines and up to 35 years in prison

He wasn't realistically facing 35 years. He could not get anywhere near that under the federal sentencing guidelines. See this prior discussion for details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7996807

In particular, be sure to read this article linked to in the first comment, which explains exactly how the numbers given in DOJ press releases have very little connection to reality: https://popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentence-el...

Also see these two article if you want details specifically on how sentencing works on the specific charges Swartz faced:

http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/

http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-agains...

Prosecutors in the Swartz case were actually asking for about 7 years, which was still much higher than they were likely to get. Swartz's own lawyer thought that he'd probably just get probation if convicted.

The DOJ really needs to stop using this stupid method of writing press releases. They wrote the indictment and so they sure as hell better know exactly what they are charging and what facts they are alleging, so they should be able to figure out the guideline sentence that would result if they won on all counts. That's what should be in the press release.
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> Second, why does the os allow this many notifications?

Why wouldn't it? How would you implement a throttle that behaves correctly with all notification types?

Seems to me the better solution here would be Instagram bundling up notifications within a specific amount of time and sending you just one saying "You have 15,000 new likes!" etc.
"Just by betting on west coast teams in every Monday Night Football game where they played east coast teams you’d beat the point spread 70% of the time.
NFL teams that crossed three time zones for a game “were twice as likely to be beaten by a lower-ranked opponent in the tournament’s first round.”

Those are conflicting conditions (Monday Night Football is not a tournament with rounds), so this data (at least) is suspect.
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While it'd be great for T-Mo to support the mission of organizations like EFF, it wouldn't be good for them to donate $1M (or some other amount) directly right now for a couple of reasons:

- Donating in this situation sounds an awful lot like a shakedown. "Gee, what a nice mobile network you have. Donate $1M and we'll stop calling out your unfair network practices."

- That much corporate money could affect the psychology within EFF as well as people's trust of EFF.
I'm very sad to see this announcement. I've been a big fan of persona since I first learned about it three years ago, and for a few months I tilted at windmills by writing to services I used, and asking them why they didn't support persona login.

After writing about four of these, though, I had a small epiphany; this is a ludicrously uphill battle, because Facebook and Google don't just make it easy to use their login because they're nice; the information that they gather from these logins is worth good money to them, and so of course facebook+google login is the most frictionless and butter-easy way to implement login.

Sigh.

Okay, I know this was totally obvious to everyone but me, but it does make me sad, and I can start to see the outlines of an internet that I'm somewhat less excited about than the one we have now.

I'll miss you, persona. Mozilla, keep up the good fight!
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This is hardly surprising given the greater than 100 point difference in average SAT scores between the two groups.
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I think you have your own answer:)

Regarding to learning, you are the smartest and the most skilled in the working place. You now learn mostly by your self. Stronger people will have you learn faster and more effectively.

About earning, you are low paid. And you know it, and you are unsatisfied about it.

Staying here you cannot maximize neither learning nor earning.