skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cook stated this in his interview. The government would say otherwise if that weren't true.

15:12

David Muir: You have talked to the President before on these issues [yes] of privacy and security. Are you disappointed there wasn't more of a dialog with the administration before this swift action from the justice department?

Tim Cook: Yes.

David Muir: You wish there was more done?

Tim Cook: Yes. And I think there should've been... We found out about the filing from the press. And, I don't think that's the way it should be run. And I don't think that something so important to this country should be handled in this way.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/exclusive-apple-ceo-tim-cook...
Value is a property of a market. If there is no market (like in free software because it's "free") or if people don't want to pay for it, there is no value.

In other words, create things is not enough.
> ancient hindus saw being a yogi as a path for one that was of a certain age and already had a family and proved itself capable of functioning in society

This was the case with the Western mystery traditions since the Greeks, but I wasn't aware of it in the East. Buddhist monks are often accepted at a very early age. In Tibet in particular they learn advanced yogic practices, although the more rigorous training does not start until the teenage years. Foyan, an 11th Century Chinese Zen monk, comments that there is no point studying past the age of 30 because you are too old!
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I think that's overdramatic. We have a voice in this and if we are loud enough, if we educate people enough, we can make this an election issue. Don't underestimate the power of your voice and vote.
Oh neat. Thanks!
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> How data was collected

Previously collected census data of Amsterdam.

> The original purpose of collection

> The benign intentions of the original collectors

The usual reasons any state pays to count their citizens. This particular census data included the religious affiliation.

> How the data moved from the collecting administration to the abusive administration

In 1941, when the Nazis occupied Amsterdam, they commissioned the local civil servants this map of a particular subset of their census data:

https://www.verzetsmuseum.org/uploads/archive/museum/topstuk...

Each black dot represents 10 Jews. 3/4 of those dots were efficiently rounded up and eventually murdered in the camps.
Hmmm that seems to contradict the source the NYTimes used here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/technology/how-tim-cook-be...

>Apple had asked the F.B.I. to issue its application for the tool under seal. But the government made it public, prompting Mr. Cook to go into bunker mode to draft a response, according to people privy to the discussions, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
> The more RAM you give ZFS the better performance you get (to a point) but I believe this issue is massively over talked about and hyped.

Definitely not hyped as you said in the enterprise space - think some home users see that warning of 1GB per 1TB though and get put off.

In my experience we were running multiple vSphere NFS volumes on several large 16x bay FreeNAS systems. We started with 16x 1TB disks and 16GB of RAM. It wasn't until we installed 32GB of RAM before performance became acceptable. Ideally we should really have put in 64GB of RAM but alas Intel's damn Ivy Bridge E3 range maxed out at 32GB.

I should stress we were only running 20 virtual machines in total so nothing massively onerous, but that extra RAM made all the difference.
> if you view Obama as moderate republican

I'd go even farther. Philosophically, his world views seems to be a variation of the neo-conservatism that people hated so much in Bush and Cheney. Who would've guessed in 2008? (a few people did, but very few). And that's little consolation to us civil libertarians now.
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Upvote as well. My personal mystical experiences have been very positive in my life. My friends and I call it "cleaning out the cobwebs" and do it a couple times a year. And yes this stuff is not good for people with mental illness, but let's not throw it away all together. Psychedelics have an incredible promise to heal, and have helped me substantially with my own trauma. However they should be used in chorus with a certified therapist. Beyond that I get a little agitated when people feel that none of it is of any substance and we already "know" reality. I think we are actually very far from understanding the nature of reality and these experiences may hold legitimate truths in them. Let's not be reductionists and keep an open mind
Rebol is not dead yet. I expect a new bounce with the Red language.
I suspect the problem domain is more along the lines of work requiring capital expense - like remote war reporting which is tough to do from your bedroom in your pajamas. It takes real money.
This is an interesting line: do you have links and research which support it?
Seriously? Ok, first of all, why would universities use IQ as an enrollment measure? IQ is a general (and contested) measure of potential, not of effort, accomplishment, interpersonal skills, or any of the many other qualities that make a person successful in college and later in life. That's why the admissions process uses a combination of test scores, GPA, essays, and interviews. If you just enroll the top 5% IQ students you could easily end up with a class full of intelligent slackers who fail out in a year because everything in high school was easy.

Second, IQ and race is a highly studied area and the differences are likely to do with many of the exact same factors that lead to socioeconomic inequality between the races. Remember: IQ is correlated with general intelligence, but there are many reasons people do better or worse on IQ tests beyond that. You should really read the Wikipedia page on the subject and take a look at some of the cited research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence

Lastly, to answer your question, if universities just wanted the highest IQ students they would overlook American students entirely and fill their classes with East Asian, and maybe European students instead.
I feel that this is an untenable situation and business model. When people first took to buying their "random crap" via amazon, it was at least backed by an amazon customer service experience that defaulted to very good - amazon prime shipping, consistent shipping and packaging, consistent return policies.

But once these marketplace sellers came into being, the qualify of the experience is on the whole, lacking.

Years ago, my family would use a particular salad dressing enough that when we found it on Amazon as a "send me a case of this every three months" thing, we were happy with that. It was marginally cheaper than buying at the store, but it was far more convenient

At some point, we started receiving things from sellers that were obviously not Amazon themselves, and then endless emails asking us to rate their service, etc. Sometimes the product would be poorly package or damaged in shipping. Once it seemed like something had maybe turfed off their pantry shelf into a box to send us. It was annoying but not worth our time to 'fix', so we just canceled that order.

But lately it seems like things have been getting harder to deal with when these third party sellers are involved. I don't want to save $1.37 on a $200 router that I receive in obviously opened-and-returned condition and missing parts, and then receive an insulting letter from the (actual) seller about it somehow being my fault and saying that I should pay the return cost.

It may be possible go get amazon involved in resolving this - BUT IT IS NOT WORTH MY TIME. At some point, it was easier and cheaper to use Amazon for all these types of purchases, but Amazon Marketplace is hurting their brand. Weakest link and all that.

(Maybe we'll get a return to brick & mortar stores for radio-shack or similar things.)
Totally agree, the best ideas of mine come after a good sleep
We should. But we might not be allowed to in the digital world in the future.

A bill by US lawmakers, set for release in March, could require encrypted devices to be able to give un-encrypted data to law enforcement. Feinstein says the bill is "coming along ... some people are making it a lot harder than we think it needs to be". An alternate proposal is also on the table

http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-cybersecurity/2016...
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Yea kundalini is known for this. Other forms of yoga and meditation are very safe and healthy
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Rent:

In Germany it is pretty hard to kick out a tenant for a single unpaid rent. If you have a proper rental contract, you're safe for a few weeks at least. Bonus points for talking to your landlord openly about your situation; s/he might be more helpful than you'd think...

Food:

You don't mention in which city you are in, but you can go to "Tafel". They are in all major cities and hand out free meals to those in need. Bonus points for not only taking, but for giving back (e.g. by helping or by keeping track how often you use their services and then paying them back when you can).

Last but not least: food prices in Germany are ridiculously low. 200 USD can easily feed 2 people for a whole month. If necessary, one can survive on 50USD/month.

Edit: Since you are a student - have you thought about asking your fellow students for help? 10 people lending you 20 each won't hurt them even if it takes you months to pay back the loans. Also, in most universities you find student groups that help fellow students or even programs run by the universities themselves.
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Interesting! Can you explain more what you did to fix the underlying problems you found?
Both could be true. Like, they discussed it awhile back, Apple asked them to keep it private, and Apple's request was their last communication before the FBI filed. No reason for Cook to lie here, it'd just make the relationship worse.
I'd add that, given the subsequent court cases, it's unclear that Caldera even owned the rights to offer that license.
That may have been me?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9910380

Why? Your peer group literally gets arbitrary code execution on your brain. (It's a flaw in MonkeyBrainOS 1.01 which we haven't patched yet.) You'll tend to find yourself valuing what they value. You will tend to find yourself achieving outcomes strikingly similar to their outcomes.

Given this, picking a peer group whose values are not your values and whose outcomes are terrible is a poor choice.
This changes nothing from what I said.
It is worth noting that this document reads more like a first draft, in fact the document title is 'QUIC FEC v1'. No details/illustration of the implementation and experimental results are given, instead you find statements like 'Median and mean join latency increased'.
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I live in Tübingen and yes, there is a Tafel here ! Thanks, this helps a lot.
He's suggesting that we should dig up academic papers studying the topic and run the numbers based on the intelligence distributions found therein.

Here are a few review articles to get you started - more detailed studies can be found referenced therein.

http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/PPPL1.pdf

https://home.ubalt.edu/tmitch/645/articles/roth%20et%20al%20...

http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/PPPL1.pdf

http://matt.colorado.edu/teaching/highcog/fall8/nbbbbchlpsu9...

https://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1997mainstrea...
I don't think a low ration of women indicates a problem that needs to be fixed. I think this is a complete fallacy. I'd like to hear proof of why that is, then we can start fixing it.
:) Foyan also said:

"What do you people come to me for? Each individual should lead life autonomously—don’t listen to what other people say. An ancient declared, ‘I knew how to lead life by the time I was eighteen.’ You people must learn to live independently."
Thanks. I think I confused low coupling with loose coupling.

Where do I find information about the Haskell module thing?
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I wonder why "scanning" is required here; it seems to me like the effort to set up and OCR this is greater than the effort of typing it in manually. Its certainly not going to be worse (to an order of magnitude) than toggling the boot loader of that era system anyway.
Looks like it's using a broadcom WiFi & Bluetooth chip:
http://i.imgur.com/exuZy58.jpg
It should include 2013.

This is only becoming more true every year. I hope that more folks read this post.
Thanks for understanding. I had a (rich) girlfriend and she supported me, i am doing my master thesis and had no time for her, so she left for someone else and here i am :(
The results as a purely visual comparison is an interesting idea. Once I was expecting to get the results instead of a page refresh. Because I picked the second car first, I had to think about which link to select to get another car.
Well, videos get plagiarised on YouTube anyway and nobody bats an eyelid. And Content ID can't do anything about Facebook.
This is getting ridiculous. Standardized test is ONLY test that is fair.
The very first moment people will get different tests based on their race will be moment when racism started and will shortly follow by employer discrimination.
Racism against whites exists, but labelling it reverse racism is asinine. Are white people such special snowflakes that discrimination against them needs an unique name? It's as dumb as the term reverse sexism.

Claiming Salon advocates for racism against whites promotes outrage. People are too sensitive.
Yeah, i think there is something like that at my university. I'll go there on monday :
http://en.my-stuwe.de/geld/studienkredite-darlehen/kurzfrist...
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My hometown is 400miles away and i recently moved here. So : no :(
This is a really weird situation where HN is calling for the government to ignore public opinion and seek the input of a giant corporation in crafting legislation: http://www.people-press.org/2016/02/22/more-support-for-just...

[1] People have been trying to discount this survey asserting that those polled just don't get it. But support for the FBI's position holds across age groups (even folks 18-29), extends to highly educated people (those with post-grad educations), and is similar whether or not people have heard a lot or a little about the issue.
This is the crankiest comment I've seen on HN in a while. You "know Fields medalists"? Right.

You think that Pricipia Mathematica is the source of all truth in mathematics? Wrong. Most mathematicians working on foundational questions start out by learning Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory, which is well-understood, and avoids several difficulties that Russel had. While few people have read PM, it remains important because it goes through the hard task showing that high-level mathematics (calculus, &c.) can have rigorous, first-principle proofs.

"PM is like a compiler before there were compilers." What?

"I asked a math professor about the '=' sign and how things can be equal at all (...)" OMGWTFNO. I've seen comments like this before. Typically, it creates debate around a non-issue by sowing confusion and never nailing down precisely what we are talking about (hence the need for formal methods—it helps us call bullshit on comments like this).

"Two things are equal iff their transformation leads to the origin. [A - B = 0]". Wrong. There are equality relations that do not require the existence of a zero or the concept of addition or subtraction.
The "Studentenwerk" in your region offers zero-interest short term loans to students: http://www.my-stuwe.de/geld/studienkredite-darlehen/kurzfris...

And maybe contact them for local, more personalized advice: http://www.studit.uni-tuebingen.de/english/about-us.php

Good luck and don't give up! ("Studentjahre sind keine Herrenjahre" ;)
This is true. Various studies have been done which measure how much of college GPA and other such things can be predicted based on academic inputs.

http://ftp.iza.org/dp8733.pdf

http://www.mindingthecampus.org/2010/09/the_underperformance...

It turns out that "underprivileged" people actually do worse than what IQ and other academic measurements alone would predict.

If universities actually wanted to accurately choose the students most likely to succeed, they would penalize blacks, hispanics, males and people with low family income.

Second, IQ and race is a highly studied area and the differences are likely to do with many of the exact same factors that lead to socioeconomic inequality between the races.

If this is true, you should be able to run a multiple regression analysis which takes into account those "exact same factors" as well as race, and which accurately predicts outcomes. Further, the coefficient on race should be close to zero.

(This is the exact opposite of what is found in the studies I link above.)

Can you cite a study demonstrating this?
Dangers related to keeping a human brain outside of a human body
I am interested in learning about the feasibility of keeping a human brain alive outside of a human body. I want to understand the dangers related to creating an environment, in which a human brain could live outside of a human body.

The problems I am taking into consideration are:

- connecting nerves with an artificial skeleton, (no need to connect spinal cord?)

- delivering signals to the brain to avoid sensory deprivation?,

- keeping brain in a "healthy state" as long as possible,

- augmenting and stimulating brain,

- connecting the brain to external devices without hurting it,

- maintaining blood supply,blood transfusion problems (allergic reactions and hives, fever, hemolytic reactions, iron overload etc.)
can a brain be in a sleep mode? keeping brain in a "work" mode,

- can a brain function without hormones?,

- can we copy a brain?,

- can we grow a brain? part of a brain? (see Guardian),

- regenerating brain, slowing down the process of brain degeneration,

- can we use optogenetics to create a mechanism similar to a brain?,

- does the brain need bone marrow to properly function,

- maintaining cerebrospinal fluid supply.
A lot of this could be due to a poor diet. The author or anybody in a similar situation should look into this as well. Eat less carbs to avoid insulin swings, etc. It's amazing how a better diet can affect your mood.
Not cheap in absolute dollars, but not expensive in the grand scheme of things. Backhaul and IP transit are fairly small expenditures compared to the last mile. There's the 90/9/1 rule of thumb for expenses in last mile/backhaul/IP transit.

Furthermore a gigabit fiber customer does not on average use 100x more bandwidth than a 10M copper customer. There is only a small multiple.
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Hallucinations from mania are probably caused by sleep deprivation. Even if you're not consciously tired, your mind and body are.
This is the poster case for "code is for humans to read, so it shouldn't be easy to mis-read." Braceless misindented ifs are everything except easy to read.
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Many people observe that as miles-per-gallon gets better and better, it begins to become a deceptive measurement in a way, because going from 10 to 20 mpg is a much, much larger change than going from 30 to 40, or even from 80 to 140. It seems people get a better sense of what's going on to measure gallons per mile. When you start doing that it becomes more clear that going from .0001 gallons per mile to .00001 gallons per mile, as large as it may be in orders of magnitude, still isn't that big a deal. Either way you're looking at your cost-of-fuel being effectively zero for all practical use cases, because your costs will be dominated by something else.

Similarly, I've noticed that people tend to get a little silly about web server requests-per-second. It really gets to the point you probably ought to be talking about seconds per request, or perhaps rather, microseconds per request or something.

Because A: as you start talking about these fast servers, you need to contemplate whether your code can run in, say, 2.5 microseconds either; who cares whether your webserver takes 2 or 25 microseconds to handle a minimal request if your minimal response requires 8 milliseconds (i.e. "8000 microseconds")? 8ms would actually be pretty decent performance for a wide variety of non-trivial web requests.

And B: As the webservers get faster and faster, you really need to start wondering what corners they cut to push their reqs/s number up. I can make a blazingly fast webserver that would actually kill nginx's performance stone dead for a "return a constant JSON string response" task... the trick is that I'm not even going to look at the incoming web request, I'm going to just receive a socket, blast out my answer as a constant string buffer without even reading from the socket, and discard the socket. (If you're feeling particularly saucy, hook that up to a user-space TCP stack so you can drop the work of properly setting up and tearing down TCP connections.) There aren't that many real-world tasks for which that is a good solution (though, non-zero!), but it'll look like pure awesomesauce on the benchmark!

Properly handling HTTP is non-trivial problem, and even moreso if it's going to be hooked up to a program rather than a static file system or something similarly easy. I actually start getting nervous about web servers that show excessively high numbers. If your performance is much better than nginx, rather than me cheering for joy, I actually have a lot of questions about how you did that exactly, and what my website's security profile looks like with your way-faster server. I'm not saying these questions are completely unanswerable; perhaps there is a way to safely do a much faster web server. I'm just saying that rather than my default response being celebration and "Oh wowzers cool!", my default reaction is a healthy dollop of skepticism.
YES! Thanks :)
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I'm not totally clear about the concept either. :)

It's called Backpack.
It's funny, but you're unintentionally perpetuating what's becoming the new stereotype. Now that the GPL has become mainstream, it's the anti-GPL people who come off as extreme. I'm not saying you're an extremist, but the GPL is not always the root of the problem.

In this case, it's a mutual incompatibility. This is just as much about the CDDL's restrictions as it is the GPL. The CDDL was created after the GPL, and it was an intended incompatibility. The GPL could have been the MIT license and the CDDL might have included a "cannot be distributed with MIT-licensed software" clause.

The point is that now that nobody has an interest in keeping ZFS out of Linux, it's time to relicense! That's all there is to it.
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This was me, six months ago.
But thas is not Mathematics, they call it "metamathematics" for something.
Jack Kerouac, is that you?

Insurance, gas money, possible smog check requirements, city restrictions on sleeping in one's car, and registration transfer fees make your proposal impossible for pretty much all of 21st century America.

(Also, Germans don’t use personal checks. They use the postal giro model, not the banking model.)
TWC does this in LA.
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I wonder if the FBI might ask China to help break into the phone(s) in question.