skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. I just think it significantly weakens their argument to admit they don't even know if they phone data will be useful. I would have thought when they are going to court to compel a company to do something they would be asserting something more than "who knows, it might be useful?" in support of their case.
The stress is the interpretation of/response to "very real problems". One of the habits formed in meditation is the ability to create space between perception and interpretation, in which we can explicitly notice how the mind is reacting to these problems, and where we can create a habit of asking of ourselves questions like "is this feeling/reaction useful?".
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I can certainly relate. Good luck to us both then.
Same here, unless it's the only option and I really need the product, I'll only buy Prime-enabled products.

I really don't want Amazon to turn into eBay or Alibaba, but for many categories it already is if you scroll/paginate far enough.
At least it's 'only' a few pronouns - it may sound awkward now, but not so awkward that it couldn't become acceptable in a timespan of decades or less. Compare to the many languages that assign a gender to every noun, where you'd have to make up a whole new set of endings or something. (Of course, there are also plenty of languages with no grammatical role for gender whatsoever.)
Of all the memes IWBTG has created, "bad game" is not one of them. (the deliberate difficulty of that game has in fact created a new genre of games, leading to things like Super Meat Boy)
Is that the same kind of "deported" that most Canadian devs get when they apply for TN status at the border?
For the past 20 months I've been designing a new mesh network protocol in my spare time, and I'm planning to incorporate (obviously as a non-profit) eventually, but haven't pulled the trigger because I haven't needed to solicit donations. I already have a WordPress site up and I know how to maintain it, but my web/graphic design skills are seriously lacking (I'm a systems guy).

The site (and my proposed Protocol Stack Spec) is at isogrid.org. If you find the cause righteous, I'd love the help!
I'm pretty certain you and rtpg don't understand stare decisis. This isn't about this specific phone, or even the methodology. This is about the FBI cherry-picking a nearly throwaway (in terms of probable data value) case to set precedent in what is obvious to practitioners as a continuation of their War on Cryptography.

The US legal system and education pertaining to it is largely composed of studying prior case law and its applications. Few cases (including this one) involve truly new decisions, and even those are usually novel applications of former decisions. That is what those who can see past their nose are concerned about. There is every probability that, in the near future, one or both of Apple or the judicial system will tire of the farce of one-phone-per-case firmware and request a new application of the law (because there would now be precedent).

To take any laywer-moderated statement (including Apple's) at face value belies credulity that does not become the HN audience. As others have pointed out, Comey's appeals to emotion and terrorism should be enough, but the idea that an FBI lawyer would advise pursuing this particular case in this particular manner without expecting to set precedent? Positively silly. This is what they do.
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Sorry about that! We're under heavy load right now, and there's just a few of us :)

Registration is free though! Then you get more free sessions.

I hear we're planning on creating a longer trial program soon. But until then, I hope you'll give it another try.

For the record I don't really mind if people use it incognito, BUT it will keep giving you the same sessions over and over. So you're not getting but a fraction of the experience. We just need the survey so we can better adapt to you, and for benchmarks later on. It really doesn't take long. Also if you have an account it will adapt to you using ratings and other metrics, like if you skip a song consistently, etc.

- Adam from Brain.fm
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Apple are very good at the shiny brand thing. Most cars over $20k work just fine these days and a lot of why people pay 2 or 3x that is for status. I can see that working for Apple.
Yes, redundancy helps in noisy environment. But this is only the tip of the iceberg, and the mistake here is to think human languages are "communication tools". If they were, they could be easily simplified, replaced by better tools, etc. But languages are much more than "communication tools". For example, inside us, ideas have to mold themselves in a given human language framework. So do dreams, many parts of memories, etc. There is no "communication" here, if communication is transmission of information bewteen two or more agents.

So, to take an extreme, if a language was much harder to learn but much more feature rich for non-communication purpose (e.g. a better language to dream in), it could very well be much better to choose the complex language over the simpler one, even if the learning part is harder.
AR at the desk is superfluous.

Hardly. Maximize and customize your space how you like. You can literally change everything about it. For example, if you work in an open plan office, you can put a virtual divider up between you and the persons next to you temporarily so you can focus. You can also take your whole "desk" with you everywhere with the layout you like - like moving your laptop - except everything else comes with it.
> Look at history. The encryption the Nazis had created helped them commit terrible acts of war and it was the backdoor the Allies discovered that helped bring justice to them.

Are you suggesting the Nazi's were the only ones to use encryption during World War II?

You forgot to mention at least 9 other nations (including the USA)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_cryptography
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My point is that encryption is good and bad, but we can't completely enable it to be utilized for criminal activity. There will be the need for a resolution to be reached on who gets access to this information, in what situations, and maybe even strict prosecution if the information is ever used incorrectly.
I like how they did the finger print sensor on the side. I hope Microsoft does this in a future Surface, along with the RealSense camera for Windows Hello. Nice having two options. I still don't think any tablet has been able to compete with the Surface line in terms of how the keyboard and kickstand operate in tandem.

To me, this is more of an iPad Pro competitor than a Surface competitor. The one "problem" or "innovation," that I think Windows is going to bring with RedStone is "smart bezels" with continuum. The device is an infinity display but when you switch to tablet mode you get bezels and apps have access to create buttons in the bezel space (which I think Wacom users would adore.) I have a feeling that is coming soon. The issue there is where to stick the camera...but PixelSense has cameras built into the screen...I dunno.

Off topic, but I am really excited now where Windows tablets can go. I like that OEMs are stepping up their game.
Singular "they" is incredibly widely adopted and would be and is easily understood by 1000 of 1000 native English speakers, and would be and has been understood by them for centuries: as the Wikipedia article (directly linked to by yours) says, "the singular they had emerged by the mid-14th century and is common in everyday spoken English". If we've been able to deal with this supposed combinatorial ambiguity for ~700 years, how bad could it be? If we can deal with singular and plural "you", why not singular and plural "they"?

It's certainly not common, even amongst "PC" types or whatever, to want to eliminate gendered pronouns entirely; just that everyone gets to be called the pronoun of their choice (regardless of whatever genitals they were born with), and when the antecedent is of indeterminate gender, a pronoun of indeterminate or at least not a male-default gender is chosen. So Alice and Bob can still be "she" and "he" respectively if they so choose, and there's no confusion there; "they" still refers to both of them. But when a person wants to tell the story of Alice and Bob, that person is "they" or maybe "she" or sometimes "he" - just not "he" by default.

Anyway, slicing up our pronoun space into male/female is entirely arbitrary. Perhaps Alice and Bob are the people chosen for these kinds of stories because our pronouns are gendered; if our language categorized people in different ways than gender, we would chose people as examples along those lines instead. And what do we do when we have a story about Adam and Bob? They're both "he"! How ever do we deal with the combinatorial explosion of ambiguity? And yet people somehow have managed to tell stories with multiple men in them for millennia...

Suppose Adam is tall and Bob is short. Maybe English ought to have different pronouns for men of different heights (or hair colour, or...). It would help relieve this terrible ambiguity here. And yet we get by without this precision in our pronouns.

Perhaps Adam is black and Bob white. Should they have different pronouns to distinguish them? If you say no to that and feel like that maybe might even kind of be a bad idea because of the rigid line it draws between two people created equal, well, now you know why people might be opposed to gendered pronouns.

Some languages have the notion of politeness encoded in, which can often help distinguish pronouns in stories between children and adults, or royalty and their subjects. English doesn't really have this (at least not at a grammatical level), and yet somehow I don't feel my language to be particularly enfeebled without them - I can tell stories about little girls talking to their mothers, or male peasants talking to kings, just fine.
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There's a lot of false disagreement going on in these threads. It should be noticed that talking about meditation, and the resultant discussions about the uses of meditation, the strange experiences of no-self/universality/etc, the nature of the self-ing mind, et al are all ultimately recursive. At the edges of all of these conversations is self-cancelling language, and if one is to get too hung up on linguistic explanations of these things, one is almost surely going to end up arguing with herself.

Meditation is useful, possibly life transforming, and the techniques and effects are available to most people. Unfortunately, this claim exists in a grey area between/overlapping objectivity and subjectivity, and can only really be tested in the laboratories of our own minds.
> Do you want your country, which is an example for remainder of the world for progress...

I'm sorry, what?
I don't really view it as an age things - for one, I still consider myself a "kid", and second, past a certain minimum age we have a mix of experiences and any of us is "the noob" in a given situation.

It is, however, a bit of a generational experience. If you grew up using card catalogs and learning to spell from a dictionary (?!), your relationship with knowing/not knowing will be different than someone who grew up with the Web always around and accessible. I think it was Agatha Christie who said of her childhood "I couldn't imagine being so rich as to have a car nor so poor as to not have servants".

Irony: I just googled that to confirm, and was mostly right but not quite accurate, assuming the links are themselves accurate:

http://www.bradford-delong.com/2013/01/agatha-christie-i-nev...
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We were talking about ignorance (not knowing, and speculating) vs being wrong (thinking you know, but being wrong).

I've seen people move from speculating to assuming too often, but I don't see speculation as inherently wrong.
Self replicating robots? We're not there on that one but it seems possible. Then you can have 10,000 of them build a Taj for you. That would be different.
Maybe a better way to illustrate the surprising behavior is that

if (x < x + c) {
// block
}

if (0 < c) {
// block
}

are not equivalent statements if you add overflow wrapping into the spec. What if the processor your application is running on doesn't do two's compliment arithmetic? Does gcc need to emulate this behavior to comply with the spec?
For me this was an instant turnoff -- it's really hard for me to take a project serious if that's how they present themselves.

Good software stands on its own, and doesn't need corny jokes like this.
Does anybody have an example of 7 and 8? I can't even think of how you'd accomplish them right now.
Frankly, I think it's a fair deal.

I gladly pay the Prime fee and in return can be very sure that products will arrive tomorrow. I value that certainty and immediate availability. And that's not even considering the video and music services which I don't use that much.
My point is to show how encryption in the wrong hands can also have terrible consequences.

This is a two way street.
I've been listening to Nujabes's various albums going on 11 years now, so I don't have to imagine that scenario. His music isn't going anywhere.
Good point. But keep in mind that C predates C++ by over 15 years. There were tremendous advances in theory in that time. It's not completely fair to compare a hacker's tool from 1970 with a state of the art academic exercise from 1987.
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Encryption is either secure or it isn't. You can't have a middle ground. It's unfortunate that under rare, and very particular circumstances criminals can perhaps evade crimes because they have access encryption, but it's also unfortunate that they can get away with crimes because they have access to guns, knives, vaults, cars, basements, gasoline, matches, duck tape, chain saws, shovels, etc...

Yet we don't cripple the effectiveness of these items for the sake of preventing crime. Doing so would only harm the quality of lives of the vast majority of innocent people who we trust to use these thing for their own benefit as free citizitens of a free country.
Hey, Adam from Brian.fm here.

Thanks, glad you like it. There's a piece of my soul in that thing. Or I assume soul-transfer is what happens when you go full hermit for 5 months and gain 50 pounds creating something like this.

Any questions about the science or AI, happy to talk about it. :)
I'm sure there are huge personal differences. I have tried a lot of different sounds until now, but I cannot imagine listening to one type of sound over a period more than two weeks.

Variety works for me and keeps me happy at work which is as important as being productive alone. Productivity will not last long without happiness.

Variety works for me.
The H1B process already has a mechanism built in to prevent this 'abuse' - employers have to pay the prevailing market wage for the position. Perhaps the existing rules just need to be enforced better?
A lot of stuff is fine though and you will probably get it in similar time to Amazon standard shipping.

It would be hard if they let you search by say < 3 business days, < 5 business days in the same way they let you search prime only.
The interesting part of the conversation are the arguments (not the debate, but the specific chains of reasoning people present to support their belief about the correct answer.)

Also, the tangents that are spawned based both on some.of the specific answers people propose and elements of the arguments for those answers.
There's even a video game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKqeD7ojynw
> encryption in the wrong hands can also have terrible consequences.

So can literally anything in the wrong hands, though.
"The split between source and headers, which makes project management quite slow. If you make all header libraries you’ll have a lot of copied code – the binaries will be larger. You’ll have to recompile that code every time you want to use it."

You can't say "the split between source and header sucks" just because it's painfull to use it wrong ("all header libraries") !

(All header libraries are justified when you're dealing with highly templated stuff, but in this case you have no way to avoid recompiling this code every time you use it, as each required template instance needs to be generated anyway - smart compilers will get rid of duplicated instanciations).

The split between source and headers is a key to good encapsulation. From a software design point of view, it's good way to break long dependency chains.
All I did was give some technical information. How did you conclude that I'm ignorant of law?

If a new case is not similar to this case, then this case doesn't count as precedent. If a new case is similar to this case, then the arguments put forward for this case apply to the new case, and we shouldn't care about precedent setting. If the new case is similar but different in important ways, then when that new case is fought, the lawyers point ou the substantive differences, and it doesn't count as precedent.

The only concern would seem to be if the future court fails to analyse a case properly. But they can fail regardless of what precedent is or is not set.

I don't think individual cases should be ruled improperly because of concern about the precedent effect. You might want meta-level rules (e.g. Bill of Rights, free speech), but the individual actors should not be taking them into account except insofar as they have been legislated (although the Supreme Court perhaps should).

TL;DR argue the damn object level.
Argument is for improved code clarity, not performance etc. Definitely something to think about. Thanks for the post.
> What makes you think that if you minimise your tax payments, it's poor little orphans that get hit and not bloated military budgets or overweight bureaucracies? Isn't that just an assumption on your part? How can you know what governments would choose to spend less on, if they had less tax revenue?

Because that's what happens time and time again, from what I can tell when looking for information on that over the news I got to hear for all of my adult life. It has nothing to do with looking into a glass ball.

> Corporations normally do not profit directly from infrastructure provided by governments. The people who make them up benefit from them a lot, but they pay taxes already.

"Not directly", so? Without the people who need the infrastructure to live, there would be no corporations and no customers.
What do you mean turn into ebay or Alibaba?
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I meant the name and the likeness to the MacBook name.

MacBook

MateBook
I'm curious about how Linux drivers deal with the USB3 -> everything expansion box it comes with, for video/ethernet/etc. Not having any experience here, is it at all mature and just works or is it one of those stars-must-align cases?
a guess: full of shoddy and/or unsafe knockoffs
That's good to hear.
and doesn't the Huawei logo remind you of Shell Oil?
If something can't be resold they save money by not having to deal with the return you make. That kind of situation is a tough call, in theory they could simply not offer you anything, in practise they don't want to lose customers.
The dates don't match the description; from the (last, more specific) description, you'd need to drop back at least about 5, maybe closer to 10, years earlier on the start date for that "generation".

Really, just thinking of it as "members of Generation X with an early and lifelong interest in technology" would probably work better than trying to carve it out as a narrower subset of Gen X by age.
"Spotify, ad-free magazines on my Kindle, and local journalists" all manipulate the thoughts you have.

We don't live in a bubble; we're a product of our surroundings. No aspect of the world is benign.

The fact that ads may "change you" is not an argument against advertising, because it doesn't distinguish advertising from anything else, at all.

It seems to me there is a moral judgement happening here. But, what is the appropriate way to distinguish moral manipulation from immoral manipulation?

Communication – even honest communication – is designed to influence other people. I'm trying to "change you" with this message. Should this message be blocked?

Yes/no?

What is the difference?
It doesn't seem as good as http://musicforprogramming.net/
Once the technology is sufficiently advanced, it would be interesting to repeatedly decompile and recompile (using an optimising compiler) the same code, to see if it reaches a fixed point or perhaps oscillates around one.
I accidentally produced a similar effect while working on my voxel game engine: https://twitter.com/jmhobrien/status/624133887036424193

Basically, just deferenced a pointer to OpenGL memory that I shouldn't have...
The author is trying really hard to come up with a reason for why she was fired, but she herself does not give one, so the article just stumbles guessing and making assumptions..
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I don't understand where the disconnect for ads is.

1) I have money. I got the money specifically so that I could use it to buy things.

2) Give me options of things to buy, and I will buy them.

3) Show me things that are relevant to my interests, and I will probably buy those things.

Advertisers seem to be failing (badly) at 3. Ads that I see are not only intrusive (full page CSS popovers have gotten to the point where I just disable javascript), but they're also irrelevant to me.

WHy?
Another one:

x * y;

Is that a multiplication, whose result is being thrown away, or a declaration of a variable y of type pointer-to-x?
Same. Especially with items like Apple accessories, this is really starting to hurt Amazon's reputation.
Most of the reviewers for those products complain about receiving knock-off products and have no clue that they need to select the ones sold directly by Amazon to get the original one.
I like the White Noise Meditation albums. Some tracks are literally just white noise or pink noise. It is much more relaxing than it sounds! :)

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6 months? Firefox before auto-updates had faster turnaround for the updates. Not only that iOS still doesn't have auto-updates. The user still has to manually agree to the nag. It's ok when your app is the iBooks. Not so when it is a modern browser.
>unfortunate that they can get away with crimes because they have access to guns, knives, vaults, cars, basements, gasoline, matches, duck tape, chain saws, shovels, etc...

But investigators can get access to basements, cars, knives and guns and use them to solve the crime. In this case, post-crime, there is no way to gather information that could be important.
That's not how WiFi works, it's not like a wall or anything. Your device literally "shouts" (transmits in RF) your private message across the room (and into adjoining rooms). Anybody that can connect to the WiFi network (or has a decent machine and half an hour to kill) can read your message (the encryption in WiFi is fucked).
Wait "war" sounds like it's an even fight. If I wanted to I could remove 90% of ads from my life RIGHT NOW. In fact I've already removed ~70% of them just by adding an ad blocker to my browser and by not having a tv (opting for streams etc).
That's true, but without the 15% profit margin cap that wholesale clubs have. Lately I've found that certain Prime items (home decor and kitchen stuff) are 20-25% more expensive than what I can get them for locally.
I have a different reaction. I view prime plus the occasional markup as a convenience fee. I'm paying to not spend an hour to 90 minutes of my life driving to the (poorly stocked) Target near me, hunting for the item I want that they may or may not have in stock, checking out, and driving back home. And I'm ok with that.