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Your examples are all pretty disingenuous.

> A majority of Americans is dissatisfied with the Patriot Act [1] yet it keeps getting renewed.

First, what polls say is not the same as what the electorate believes. Actual voters skew older and more conservative that the general public. Second, your poll doesn't show that Americans are dissatisfied with the Patriot Act. 63% of those polled think it requires no or only minor changes. 62% think it's about right or doesn't go far enough.

Those polls also have some very interesting statistics. 30% of those polled think that the government should take all steps necessary to prevent future terrorist attacks, even if that means violating basic civil liberties. 65% think otherwise, but 55% of those polled do not think the government's programs violate civil liberties. 55% of those polled in 2006 were okay with the Bush administration's wiretaps. 53% of those polled in 2006 thought that the Bush administration was about right or did not go far enough in restricting peoples' civil liberties to fight terrorism.

> A majority of Americans thinks political spending is corrupt [2] and that the political system is rigged, yet we get Citizens United to pour even more corporate cash into the machine.

In a 2010 poll, 68% of those polled thought the government should be able to prevent the sale of violent video games to minors: http://www.gallup.com/poll/1588/children-violence.aspx. Yet in 2011, the Supreme Court struck down a California law doing precisely that (Brown v. EMA). I think few people on HN would say that was wrongly decided. Given that the Supreme Court reviews laws that have been passed by elected legislatures, it is almost guaranteed that when it strikes down a law, it will be going against popular opinion.

> A majority of Americans voted for the Democrat in 2000, but the Republican was installed instead [3].

Frankly, I think we should not only abolish the electoral college, but the states as well. But in the meantime, who the "majority of Americans voted for" is not how we decide the election of the President.
and also http://projects.haykranen.nl/java/
> This ignores the astronomical losses from our fractional banking system. Pretty much every 40 years we get a crash and print our way out of it, giving ever more money to the core of the system.

Take a look at some very long term (100 year) GDP charts. The economy is far less volatile today than ever before.

While there are culprits, the fractional banking system isn't necessarily one.

> Trickle-down, or too-big-to-fail, both were rewards simply for being the entrenched players.

These are the results of a corrupt system, not because of the existence of fiat currency or central banks.

> The USD has lost 95% of its value.

And you make 20 times more of it.

> Perhaps for the "economy" (... of bankers who defraud us) inflation is good, but for the common man fraud is worse and fiat is the enabler, not the solution.

Please, there was theft and fraud when we were trading piles of grain and goats.
That goes with what Glenford Meyers said, that all bugs are transcription bugs, either from the requirements to the programmer, or from the programmers head to his fingers, or.....
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11377716
See, that illustrates another problem: Everything is considered a failure unless it nets 1000%. Taking a more critical eye toward what you invest in, and having more realistic views of success, and therefore not pushing insane growth on everything, would make things much more successful overall.
I didn't see the need to repost it, since it was already in the grandparent post (victorhooi's, to whom caio1982 was replying).

No need to google it at all.
The reality is that the FBI accessed it, so they no longer required Apple's help.

"The Justice Department said Monday it has accessed data on the iPhone used by a shooter in last year's San Bernardino, California, attacks and no longer needs Apple's help in cracking it."

Apparently a 3rd party from Israel (http://www.cellebrite.com/) helped the FBI which begs the question, how did they do it? Do they have universal access to all iOS devices or just this particular device? This really makes me start to think there is a backdoor.
Google Photos has some AI tied into it- it tries to autotag photos into categories like "selfies" and "concerts" and "Christmas" (to name a few at random) and it isn't completely perfect, but not horrible.

Not so useful for me, since I don't care to upload my entire photo collection to Google. Something like this that either works offline or can progressively tag photos and insert those tags in a format Lightroom could read would be awfully useful.
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Fixing a handful of programs that way is already more expensive than putting it in the language.
We have a solution for that already - it's called "divorce". But this is a very bad example overall, because there's insane amount of complexity hiding under the phrase "doesn't love". Love is a very complicated amalgamate of emotions that routinely escapes comprehension of otherwise healthy people. What do you mean she "doesn't love" her husband - did the relationship between them dried out? Did she get bored? Did they marry on emotional high with no stronger bond being formed between them? Maybe the husband is abusive?

To solve that seemingly simple example case one needs to inspect the exact reasons for the problem. And hell, for some of the particular issues there may even be a pill and I'd be totally happy about it.
fwiw, John McAffee has said that he can decrypt the iPhone:
http://www.siliconbeat.com/2016/02/18/102312/
commit 512813f

Added Klingon translation and and test for word "thirteen"

https://github.com/jezen/is-thirteen/commit/512813f
Ask HN: A US company(Upwork) is scamming me. What can I do?
If agony is the motivating factor, why are the rates of suicide for people experiencing chronic pain (5%) not as high as the depressed (15%)?

If the answer is that they come to the conclusion of suicide because they are deluded by depression, it comes back to the question in the OP: how does the grandparent's hypothesis explain the symptom of suicidal ideation/acts in depression?
Algorithmic complexity is certainly important. Intuition and knowledge of (or ability to research) the pros and cons of existing algorithms are essential. However, I don't think you need to see a single line of code (on a whiteboard or not) in order to test for that.
Half the issues suggest the use of actual NPM modules, and I'm at a loss to tell which ones are jokes. For example: "Replace noop3 with noop4 (also keep an eye out for noop5)" https://github.com/jezen/is-thirteen/issues/151
It's never talking to people _or_ drugging them though. Since when do psychiatrists send you off with a prescription for Prozac and then never see you again?

Answer: they don't. Major depression is treated with drugs and therapy. And it's the combination of both that helps. Rarely if ever are patients given drugs so the psychiatrist can avoid giving them therapy.
You've gotta be careful about the Carlyle cite. I think he chose it carefully. There is a lot to Carlyle, not just odious racial theories and slavery apologia. If you try to associate Yarvin to defense of chattel slavery of African Americans through Carlyle, he'll dive into the weeds of the rest of Carlyle's work and take potshots at you from the bushes.

Instead, you have to carefully unspool all the stuff Yarvin writes. It's not enough to observe him lovingly citing Carlyle; you have to note how he also cites him when the subject of race comes up, and you have to tie it back to things like his warm and generous citation of Nehemiah Adams --- a figure who, unlike Carlyle, is not very notable for anything other than providing a defense of slavery that sounds suspiciously compatible with everything else Yarvin says about social organization. And so on, and so forth.

It's easy to see how two very smart people could get so tied up discussing this, especially when one of them ('tzs) is only casually acquainted with the work we're talking about.
Altspace ( http://altvr.com/ ) and Tilt Brush ( http://www.tiltbrush.com/ ) jump out at me. Industrial Lights and Magic has been playing with using this stuff professionally as part of their movie making process: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeaLgPMGzkQ ).

Personally I'm a little disappointed that most of the hype around VR has been explicitly focusing on the gaming aspect. The non-gaming applications of VR are much more exciting to me. I want a meditation room, where I can sit on a stormy mountain to think. I want to program in a virtual room with monitors on every surface, and pieces of code fixed in space, where I move to the code instead of the other way around. Maybe it'll work and maybe it won't - its impossible to know until the hardware gets good enough to try.
i dont understand why you would even listen to them, their website is such a piece of shit- terrible performance, terrible ui. maybe their infrastructure is good, but i can tell you they absolutely suck at frontend js.
I use problems with multiple acceptable solutions and easy tests of correctness -- i.e., it's obvious whether or not the approach is sound and the code works. For example, write a function that determines whether two rectangles on a display overlap, given the coordinates of their corners. Solving it requires the ability to analyze the problem and describe the conditions, the ability to code a simple Boolean predicate, and some aptitude for checking boundary cases and writing unit tests. I have others; what they have in common is that they're really easy problems for great programmers, and well within the limits of a 45-minute technical interview for competent coders, and good at exposing candidates who lack some basic skills.
Came here to post about this. The elephant in the VR room is that porn, both recorded and semi-interactive 3DCG, is easily the most immediately interesting use of the technology to the vast majority of consumers. It's also a huge part of why everyone lost their shit when Facebook bought Occulus, as early adopters feared that Facebook would either implement a closed platform or track what "applications" people used.
How does this explain the higher rate of suicidal ideation/actions in depressed adolescents who are at their biological prime for reproduction?
If you've never heard of it, If-This-Then-That is a service that lets you connect websites together, so that things that happen in one place automatically trigger some regrettable action someplace else. For example, you might write an IFTTT ‘recipe’ that tweets anything you post on Facebook, because you are a monster.

I'd heard of it (I may have even signed up with it at some point), but this has to be the best explanation of IFTTT I've come across.
I think FizzBuzz is far more complex problem than this isThirteen. This FizzbuzzEE solution shows where Java truly shines: powerful dependency management, industry leading design patterns. My only wish is to add parallel streams, lambda and other latest Java 8 feature support.
This is one reason that the famous Hyperbole and a Half entries describing depression were always so surprising to me. The first entry starts like this:

> Some people have a legitimate reason to feel depressed, but not me. I just woke up one day feeling sad and helpless for absolutely no reason.

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-...

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-par...

If this article is true, the Allie just hadn't figured out what the underlying issue was yet. Or what she went through was something else entirely.
We both are Google employees. I used to be MySQL sre, with experience in this.
Here is my weird 9.3 behavior: go to a mail inbox and do the pull-to-refresh and nothing happens. If I go to the page with all the inboxes displayed and do pull-to-refresh, it actually refreshes. Battery is a huge issue for me too.
For more 13 fun, check of the Magic: the Gathering card Triskaidekaphobia. (Specifically, counts in the art and the rules text.)

http://media.wizards.com/2016/aksdjciawolkcc0_soi/en_CMrxVcz...
I predominantly see the Yandex symbol and Yandex is cheaper than Bing so I'm not sure that is true.
or you could just:

diff X Y

and check the return code.

Oh you crazy pythonistas.
To be clear: I think you can get a pretty good bead on where Yarvin is coming from just from his writing (you have to read it diligently though, and I agree it's not worth the trouble).

But there are also very troubling eyewitness reports about things he's said in person that provide a pretty convenient shortcut to doing that.
The most fit genes propagate, not the most fit individuals. Your siblings have many of the same genes that you have. Say there is a gene A that will result in some individuals not reproducing, but will result in more members of their group reproducing. Now say there is 1 group where the members of the group have gene A, and another group where the members don't have gene A. Over time the group with gene A will reproduce more than the group without A, resulting in more copies of A in the general population.

Even if some individuals in the group do not reproduce, their relatives in the group do reproduce. So say 1 person self-sacrifices and does not reproduce, and as a result of their sacrifice 10 others in the group survive and reproduce that would not have been able to if the first individual had not self sacrificed. The family all has gene A, so this results in a net gain of 9 individuals with gene A. So the amount of people with gene A increases, even though some individuals with gene A potentially do not survive and reproduce.

If you want to learn more about this kind of thing, look into "Selfish Gene Theory".
Then their author costs would be lower. I could have suggested pinning their author costs to their stock holdings value, too.

Doesn't matter if they are nonprofit.
The fact is, it doesn't work that way in biology. When
developing new biotech, you'd be lucky if you understood
5% of what a new drug does in the body (sometimes it's 0%!).

Very recent example of this: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/03/28/the...

What’s rather alarming is the sequence of this current
minimal cell: of those 473 genes, 149 of them are of
unknown function.

In the simplest possible bacterial cell, we don't know what fully 31% of the genes do. They're of vital importance to the cell, they're manufacturing proteins it absolutely cannot do without, and we don't know what any of them are.
They should be. It's small but effective, proving once again that size doesn't matter.
Many of the comments here are about the technology, which isn't that revolutionary.

Wine drinkers are highly ritualistic, especially in the U.S. Despite decades of science and engineering around better packaging, drinkers still hold on to the idea that wine must be in a corked bottle. While I'm not sure that Kuvee has found "the" solution, I think it's interesting that they're taking a "build a more luxurious bottle" approach to convincing consumers to switch.
It's not that the federal government has ignored the 10th amendment, it's that it doesn't really mean anything.

Here is the text:

> The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

So take something like the ACA individual mandate. Does that violate the 10th amendment? Well, it was held to not be a valid exercise of the commerce clause power. But it was held to be a valid exercise of the taxing power. So it cannot violate the 10th amendment, because the taxing power is one of the ones "delegated to the United States by the Constitution." Say the Supreme Court had held it wasn't valid under the taxing power either. Would it violate the 10th amendment? Technically, but the Supreme Court wouldn't invoke the 10th amendment to strike it down, because a law not supported by one of the enumerated powers is invalid anyway.

The 10th amendment, by it's very language, cannot serve as any sort of independent check. If government action passes muster under one of the enumerated powers, it is by definition "delegated to the United States by the Constitution" and cannot violate the 10th amendment. If it doesn't, it's invalid by reason of not being within the government's enumerated powers--no 10th amendment necessary.
True, but to be fair, their power has GREATLY diminished from what it was back in the days of the Robber Barons. It seems like they have a lot of control because we get to see behind the curtain now more than ever, but it's way less horrible now than then.

Remember, at one point, there was an entire plot by businesses to basically take the entire country over, and it was highly supported by members of congress and others.

So yeah. It's gotten better, but it's still way too pervasive.
I don't know. Except maybe that biologically they're supposed to have children instead of sitting in school and waiting for marriage, home and a job.
Tried migrating my IFTTT recipes to Zapier and hit a roadblock on the very first one -- bookmarking posts I have saved in Reddit.

Botize apparently has no Reddit integration.

There's a definite opportunity here. I'd even pay more money for Pinboard (on top of the archival fee) for more Pinboard-specific integrations for things like this. It is too convenient.
Ah, nice! That wasn't super clear to me but now that you mentioned it, perhaps it should have been.
I can't tell from that chart what the "behavior gap" is, or how the $50k is invested without "index investing", which I would expect to be the default but is the second largest contributor to the total value that this company apparently provides? I'm not skeptical, just don't understand yet.
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I just uploaded the data files to pgp and signup was trivial.

I did illumination wgs and just visited random doc for the blood draw.
I promise I don't wear a tin foil hat, but it would be great if they proved that they did access it. The cynic in me wonders if they're tapping out because they didn't want to lose in court and set a precedent they don't like.
https://theintercept.com/2016/02/23/new-court-filing-reveals...
I don't know why you are being downvoted, you asked a very valid and obvious question.
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Ideally you want an evolutive monoculture. Have everyone on the same page, while collecting the best of everyone's feedback.
You will need of course to establish "values" as previously mentioned. Those values will differ depending on what your goal is... a proof of concept, a functional prototype, a stable product, a bulletproof platform...
Sort of... it's learning to recognize when your brain starts looping and giving you the skills to be able to hit ctrl + c, while at the same time teaching you how to not write loops in the first place.

GAD and PTSD and all that spectrum are coping mechanisms, they're just maladaptive. CBT teaches you how to cope productively.

(personal opinion incoming), I think a person can get to the point where they need an SSRI as a stepping stone to even have the energy/capability to benefit from CBT, then they learn adaptive behavior, then they can dump the SSRI and let their new skills handle day-to-day life.

The "underlying reasons" are only useful inasmuch as you know what to look for so you can proactively start coping/remove yourself from maladaptive situations, but IMO most people try way too hard with the "why" stuff. The only thing that matters is "what now?"
unit test for morse code: thirtees?
Letter from Theranos to JCI (The Journal of Clinical Investigation) which published the study.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/306187782/Theranos-Letter-to-JCI
Yea I'm wondering the same thing. They should be bound by a public records request as the methods aren't related to national security (once the investigation has been deemed closed). Also, they should be required to disclose the amount of taxpayer money used for this workaround...
There is no "significance".
> We have a solution for that already - it's called "divorce".

And we can't extrapolate that to "just change the things in your life that are making you unhappy", because?

I understand there are some life circumstances that are difficult to change or rectify. And that sometimes medication might help people cope with difficulties in their life. But let's not pretend that is about mental illness - these people are healthy, their symptoms of depression are a healthy response to negative circumstances - and medication in this case is a palliative aid, not a cure to a disease or malfunction.
Depending on when the channel was introduced, the backend implementation of a channel can vary wildly. Some were written in Node, others in Ruby, some where written internally, others were written by the service owners.

When IFTTT released the developer platform, they were solving two needs: 1) creating a consistent channel infrastructure, and 2) providing a tool for developers to write channels so they don't have to.

It seems like they are shutting down some of their legacy services, which is probably a good plan for a company with no revenue stream. Not a good plan, however, to make it look like it is the developers' fault.
We should be talking about torture in VR
Not subject to HIPAA as in the UK but something I'm working on stores medical data, this looks interesting though.

I wish the UK had something so concise.
It's called kin selection and I think it's generally accepted within scientific community to be a real phenomenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_selection
Not your fault - I was a little slow on getting the docs written up!
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I don't do alpine climbing but I do climb in the UK lots. Climbers here have very strong views about how things should be climbed, it doesn't matter if you got to the top if you did it in bad style. For example, if you are climbing and you weight your equipment even for just a second, the whole ascent does not count (there is aid climbing but that is not real climbing). If you can't climb the route in good style, then don't climb it.

What good style is varies location to location but the lengths Everest climbers go to in my opinion are laughable. They pay poor people to fix ladders across crevasses? They pay poor people to fix ropes? I am not denying that climbing Everest with these advantages is hard, it is still very hard, but just because it is hard does not make it worthwhile.
I'm curious about this capital-P People. Does working for a corporation revoke membership in this club?
>It sounds like Asana wants to determine if people can do this kind of thing.

Same for Facebook/Google/Apple/Microsoft/Amazon/etc that also use whiteboard interviews. Those types of companies value seeing candidates' thought process more than the final code of work-at-home test questions. There's a signal there in whiteboard interviews that can't be replicated by at-home tests. Whether that unique signal is valuable or worth the cost is up for debate (as the ongoing disagreements about hiring practices show).
You could just as easily read it as a comment on overengineering.
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