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> That word does not mean what you think it means.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/presumption_of_innocence

One of the most sacred principles
in the American criminal justice
system, holding that a defendant
is *innocent* until proven guilty.

> Plenty of uncharged and unconvicted people have broken the law.

I can't believe anyone would bother making such a fatuous point, to which the obvious response is simply: plenty of uncharged and unconvicted (and even convicted for that matter) people have not broken the law.

Now can you answer the question you evaded in my last post:

If stating that black sites are set up specifically to detain people without charge and torture them is "misleading", according to you, please explain what you believe the purpose of black sites is.
Interesting that Tesla isn't on this coalition since they are the closest to having real consumers having self-driving cars.
Seeing how gaming keyboards and mice have gone these days. I wonder if we'll need manufacturer specific software and an account and to access our future audio settings and features.
It's bizarre. Why would we push the <5mm^2 that an audio amplifier requires in a smartphone into the headphones, where it then inevitably requires local decoupling, a circuit board, power management, something to decode the USB (or can USB-C do analog?) and all the other hassle?

Makes absolutely zero sense.
> It teaches a way of thinking, and it really doesn't matter much which language is used as long as the basic principles are covered.

Nevertheless, schools do not want to teach an inferior language that encourages bad programming habits. They (now) tend to rely on languages with a vocational bent, such as Python and Java. I remember my days in university when odd languages like Scheme and Turing were taught. Now, it's sensible to at least try to prepare the student for the job market. I'm glad they didn't stoop to JavaScript.

> If you are a new programmer reading the article and feeling discouraged, don't lose heart. Build stuff and you'll learn.

Why should a new programmer feel discouraged? There are plenty of good languages to choose from (Java, C#, Python, C++, Ruby, etc.). They offer varying levels of ease, but Python and Ruby would be more than good enough. If you want to do web development, use a transpiled language (). That'll save you much of the grief of JavaScript. (My personal favourite is Amber Smalltalk.)

I agree, build stuff and learn.
Warrant Requirement for Cell Phone Searches Upheld
They cannot be serious. Replacing what works great with all kinds of cheap or expensive and easy to repair equipment with what? Another device on the Universal Serial Bus. I see the point of attaching storage devices, sound cards and anything else that is not simple and needs a controller and logic to USB, but audio output? I do sometimes use a USB headset because it has its own soundcard built-in, but I actually prefer a simple headset with a 3.5mm mic-in/head-out connection. Why? Well, it works always, it doesn't load another driver, and it doesn't rely on the USB bus. USB is nice but occasionally hiccups and resets itself, which is not something you'll see happen with your mic and headphones because they are not overcomplicated. To be totally honest, I'm also one of those who prefers keyboards attached via PS/2 because I've had USB keyboards reset when I attached another USB device to the shared bus. That PS/2 has real interrupts is an added bonus for something as crucial as keyboard input. With all that being said, as long as this happens in the phone and tablet space, I guess I can live with it, but having to carry around an adapter from USB to 3.5mm audio will be a PITA.

This is just another, let's change it to make money with adapters and sell new implementations due to bugs in the old controllers and drivers, scheme.

Next year, USB power cords, and you'll have to rewire your house.
Why it's impossible to actually be a vegetarian
Can you elaborate on why you don't see mixed use ever happening? Do you think its regulatory, liability or technological... or maybe some combination of the three?
There's a horrible video I don't feel like looking up at work of a dude in an elevator that's acting all erratically. A guy with a baby stroller is about to get in. The guy tells the guy not to; the elevator hasn't been behaving correctly (there's no audio/security video. Guy tells the police this later). Guy in the elevator looks terrified.

The man with the stroller steps in and the elevator cuts him in half. There's a trail of blood on the wall where the man use to be. It turns out the maintenance guy forgot to put out barriers saying the elevator was under repair. He was moving it from above and didn't realize people were getting in.
Major releases are potentially breaking
Except in that case, he unearthed another completely unrelated vuln.

I agree that some actions are u ethical, but does that really matter so much when a black hat is unethical anyways? The fact that he reported meant he was harbored no malicious intent.

How is collecting logins better than that? Seriously? This is completely malicious if you ask me.

Moreover, we must not judge each case strictly to the same rule, but with a measure of consideration of the circumstances as well.
How does one know one has an optimal solution for the travelling salesman problem?

Any experts out there that can explain this, or point to some accessible literature on this?
All HN threads have a 14 day lifetime.
The options prior were half-dead PalmOS, Windows CE devices like the iPaq, and the Blackberry.

The blackberry was the ultimate pager, but didn't have a functional web browser. The Windows device was pretty much awful, and PalmOS was waiting for euthanasia.
Judging by all of the comments complaining about DRM and having to buy new audio equipment, it seems like few people are actually reading the whole article. USB-C can support analog audio output via audio adapter accessory mode[1].

In the near future you'll be able to buy passive USB-C→3.5mm cables for cheaper than normal USB-C→USB-C cables. You will be able to use them like any other aux cable.

Personally, I still prefer the 3.5mm jack so that I don't need a passive adapter for using my earbuds. Requiring a passive adapter that gives you a perpendicular 3.5mm jack, no matter how small, would be ugly and obtrusive.

Fortunately, at least for over-the-ear headphones with a 3.5mm jack, this will at least be much less of a hassle. Passive USB-C→3.5mm cables can just be your new aux cable.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/y6xCS9u.png
Yes and no. It's like saying there's no point to IMDB since Wikipedia has the same data... or why do you need IM when email does the same thing? The subject matter is more limited and the display is way more consistent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Fadell

http://theymadethat.com/people/tony-fadell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pinkham

http://theymadethat.com/people/chris-pinkham
Apologies in advance if this is a dumb question.

What is Apple's next move once it saturates the market?

Or, more generally, what is the next move once you've saturated a market?
That's fair with custom things but when you're on a lab hardware site looking at a centrifuge for a home lab and you're curious how much it costs and they have "Call for Quote" listed, it's just infuriating. There's no customization. I want the centrifuge as pictured. How much is it?!
It may be hardware, but might not be computers, phones, and tablets.
You're reading that post wrong.

No matter how you lay out the numbers, a nice hard roll will give you a completely uniform result. The goal here is to make it harder to cheat when you can partially control how the die rolls.

Nobody is pretending there is more entropy than the number of outcomes. What we want is a design that can't be influenced in favor of the roller, even when entropy is a bit low.

Let's design two layouts for a d100. We'll say that you can roll each design two ways. You can roll it properly and get a random number from 1-100, or you can roll it improperly and it will stay within a cluster of 10 numbers, giving you a random number out of that cluster.

The first layout puts similar numbers together. 1-10 are all together, as are 11-20, etc.

The second design is laid out so that every tens digit show up in each cluster, and every ones digit shows up in each cluster.

Both designs can give you equally random numbers. A proper roll gives you a uniform distribution over 100 numbers, and an improper roll gives you a uniform distribution over 10 numbers.

But look at what happens when you apply certain functions to the output. A common use for the d100 might be emulating a d10. If you divide the first die by ten, a proper roll acts like a d10, and an improper roll lets the cheater pick what result they want. With the second die, a proper roll acts like a d10, and an improper roll also acts like a d10.

Fairness is preserved when the imperfections in the randomness don't matter. Your coin method looks like it would be a fair way to pick lottery numbers if it was only used once. But it would be a fair way to pick even or odd indefinitely.
Funny that you should mention the FHS. From that same document:

Applications must never create or require special files or subdirectories in the root directory. Other locations in the FHS hierarchy provide more than enough flexibility for any package.

They really should be using /opt:

/opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software packages.

A package to be installed in /opt must locate its static files in a separate /opt/<package> or /opt/<provider> directory tree
And oh, I knew what an IPod was before I ever knew a Macintosh existed.
Ask HN: Would you purchase shopbitcoin.net?
I've this domain unused and willing to sale it to have some side fund to pay the bills. If interested please contact.
hm, there is a valid criticism to be had but "wrong" isn't the word I would use.

there isn't anything wrong with Apple's stock selling off violently, as much as there was anything wrong with people bidding the shares up so high under the idea of selling it to someone else at a higher price.

there are plenty of companies that are content with steady or even cyclical growth/earnings. in many other countries were local stock markets are not popular venues for speculation and capital formation, it is quite respected to have steady earnings without a drive to quarterly growth.

that being said, many places that are low growth envy the high growth areas, especially how it has been achieved in the US markets.
How competent can you really be if you're delusional?

> I don't think religiosity has any bearing on intelligence.

I think it has every bearing on intelligence; they are highly correlated[1] and the science backs this up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence
Seems reminiscent of the BSD ports approach, which is one of the major reasons a switch to FreeBSD (from Linux) is still on my personal roadmap.
> The infrastructure is already in place. We can deploy military technology anywhere in the world, but we can't export food? C'mon. It's not a technological issue in the least anymore.

You are mistaken due to that bad metaphor. There is a vast difference between deploying some troops anywhere in the world, and setting up a permanent supply chain for food to everywhere in the world that needs food; tons of places don't even have decent roads nor the local government approval/agreement to allow the relief or not steal the relief. They are not remotely comparable. Getting food to the places it'd be needed is absolutely not a solved problem.
There's a video of security footage from some elevator in South America (Argentina I think) in a brand new building. The elevator brakes failed and it launched upward (from the counter weight). Dude survived with major injuries. Others have said he should have laid down flat, but at that velocity who knows if it would have done any good.
VW Presentation in 2006 Showed How to Foil Emissions Tests
Two Bytes To $951M
And now available on Google App Engine (Flexible Environment).

Example app running v6.0.0: http://nodejs600.appspot.com/
Yes, and African Americans had the option of not visiting "white only" restaurants. Do you see any difference here? Because I don't.
The 6S and 6S plus didn't offer a ton of new features really besides being faster. The 3D-touch screen is nice for quick shortcuts but not a killer feature.

Basically, the only reason why I would personally want to upgrade is for the bigger screen on the plus model and the battery life that comes with it.
Apply HN: On-demand for the masses – THE ‘APP STORE’ FOR EVERYONE
Industry: Mobile local commerce

Problem: The way businesses and people communicate is outdated and scattered (phone calls, clumsy email, numerous chat support interfaces). There are too many different on demand apps for many different things, and worse yet, every major brand already has their own app for interacting with their products/services (think Starbucks, Subway, Dominoes, Macy’s, McDonald's, etc).

From an average person point of view - buying things from businesses involves too many apps. People do not want to deal with 15 different apps with 15 different interfaces just to achieve a few simple tasks (contact the business, buy from the business, view products/services, etc)

Solution: What if we could have one app where you could find any business you want across any industry, and buy from them directly and seamlessly? What if your appointments and transactions were all in one easy place? What if we made this platform opened so that anyone could start their own ‘storefront’ (aka ‘app’) and sell their products/services? What would that mean for people’s livelihoods and careers? We’re building a platform that can do just this.

We’re not just improving the way people connect and buy from businesses, but we’re also making it so the average person can tap into this platform and monetize themselves. This is what we’re really passionate about – empowering the common folk! We see it as ‘opensourcing’ the economy and making it easy for anyone to input (sell) and output (buy) from it (in Hacker News talk of course).

Help us: We’re based in Canada, we’re a technical team of 3, we're on a mission, and almost ready to launch in beta. The YC Fellowship would help us greatly in keeping us afloat for a few more months (we’re currently ‘jobless’ and working on this fulltime :D).

Any feedback, reality checks, and experience is appreciated so let us know what you think.

- Osiris
Nexus 5 was phenomenally good though for the price point/no-crapware bundle. Coupled with Android finally being good enough to at least rival iOS, it was the start of a new era. Certainly in the UK, since buying my Nexus 5, android has gone from like 6% to 40% of mobiles hitting the websites I manage (the EU market has always been heavily iOS skewed compared to America).

My battery crapped out rather quickly, but a replacement has extended its life.
There's not enough detail in the link. You can force the doors of an elevator to open it. Sometimes there's just a small hole to go through. The elevator had problems and was moving arbitrary. Sure, if it is just 5cm off, go for it, but don't think you are inside a movie and it is save to go out. In doubt, stay quiet.
Apple is doing just fine. But there's been no Next Big Thing since Jobs. Apple's watch is a dud. Nest's products don't work well. It's like Sony after Akio Moreta died; the company plugs on, but the light has gone out.
It increasingly seems that the cheating at Volkswagon was systematic and not the fault of rouge engineers as they claim.
At a PE ratio that is heading rapidly towards the single digits, I would argue that they don't have growth earnings growth priced in at all.
Can you list few reasons why you prefer TeamCity?
Knowledge that code exists is necessary, but not how to code.

An analogy would be saying every human being needs to know about IC engines since everyone drives.
You wanna make videogames, huh?
What happens if there's a pause between the next big thing and now? What if technology effecting people's lives starts to slow? Interesting (for me at least) to think about.
Apple used to offer through mobile companies a discount or monthly fee to make iPhones more affordable. I think that stopped.

My son got a iPhone 6 for $25 extra a month. Without that we could not afford it.
VPN User Arrested
A chart of growth rate might have a peak, but a chart of the thing that is growing is more simply modeled as a sigmoid that has an initial exponential growth portion, then a logarithmic portion which ends in a plateau.
New Report Shows Which Brazilian ISPs Stand with Their Users
Note that accepting HTTP/2 connections over TLS requires the “Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation” (ALPN) TLS extension support, which is available only since OpenSSL version 1.0.2. Using the “Next Protocol Negotiation” (NPN) TLS extension for this purpose (available since OpenSSL version 1.0.1) is not guaranteed.

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_v2_module.html

Hmm, so Ubuntu 14.04 LTS won't support it (ships OpenSSL 1.0.1f), need to upgrade to 16.04.
I only see it as a matter of time before brands like Xiaomi make cheaper and better products for sale beyond their current dominance in 'developing countries'. We need to catch up.
The guy above is correct. The order said 5-8 days and I ordered it on Monday and needed it Saturday. 5 days could have possibly allowed it to arrive on time even within the window and I had past experiences where Amazon had just shoved stuff in the mail and it arrived in 2 days. HOWEVER, they waited until Thursday to even start the shipment process because then it would've arrived on/around Tuesday of the next week making it 7ish days which is the longer of the range as well.
I had no idea newsblur is open source! I can't believe you don't mention it at all on the newsblur.com landing page!

I've been getting fed up with feedly missing critical features. Knowing that newsblur is a service that I could potentially improve is enough to go through the pain of migrating my feeds to do a solid evaluation.
> Physical limits on some aspect of the system must intervene and impose a new law.

Just because Apple didn't become the first trillion dollar public company by marketcap (lets assume that chinese bank ipo for a brief second didn't count), doesn't mean that it would have broken a physical limit on the system.

There was a time not long ago when 100 billion companies didn't exist

and there was a time when private venture capital didn't value new businesses at 1 billion dollars

although I don't see the fundamentals to support such large companies, apple, or another company, isn't breaking anything if it does achieve the ability to grow larger
I did use technology before the iPhone, but I don't remember being as frustrated by it as I am now.

The most frustrating thing is that we seem to be getting worse, not better. We're not learning from mistakes, we're too busy churning out the next buggy release to review the mistakes in the last one :(

When huge software companies like Google and Microsoft are churning out buggy crap, it's easy to see why others assume they can't do any better.
I like Hubski (https://www.hubski.com). It's self-moderating in a cool way. Each user decides exactly who and what they want to see.
Well besides the obvious about the decline in phone sales I think the primary reasons is Apple's steadfast refusal to get in lower margin markets. Sorry, but a four hundred dollar phone is still not cheap enough especially when you consider the monthly usage fees following the purchase.

Then we see tablets and all Apple has done is release newer models with higher price points and worse more expensive add ons.

Finally, their cheapest desktop is eleven hundred and cheapest laptop is nine hundred for a low powered system, the first realistic laptops start at thirteen hundred. No I don't really count the Mac Mini because it never seems to register on people's radar and by the time you add on the monitor and such its up close to eight and nine hundred.

I won't even touch that Watch, its price or the silliness of that is the price of just the bands.

Apple's failure is that it won't go low. They don't have to go rock bottom but they damn well need to push "LE" models or the like. Redo the first Air with a few minor upgrades as the Air LE, 299... get an iMac out for the public nearer seven hundred. Get the rest of the iMac line back into realistic pricing especially for SSD upgrades. Please update the Mac Pro, really how long are they going to ignore it?

tl;dr Apple simply priced them out of too many markets, either out of ignorance or arrogance.
The major automakers can of course make 100K luxury automobiles, electric or not. They don't replace the 17 million normally-priced cars the rest of us buy each year.

Studies and predictions are nice, but to build it and make it work takes decades. We have a massive infrastructure in the country. And of course, it won't work the way we planned. Everything changes and pivots, not just SV startups.
Windows 10!! Fuuuuu! How did Windows 10 escape my post?!
> Firefox was created to be a browser in which the developers and the community can have a voice, rather than having all decisions made by the enterprise. I know there are many heroic stories and tales, but after all those are the two goals.

While I like these ideas, this isn't quite accurate. That may describe Mozilla Application Suite (now Seamonkey) to some extent, but not Firefox. Mozilla's mission is to promote the open Internet, as opposed to the proprietary one (originally represented by IE's market dominance):

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/
That's a big reason why private businesses are better than public ones. There's no need to push for unsustainable growth at the behest of busybody investors.
Australia's Quickflix video streaming enters administration
Some were just for one earphone (mono) and a mic. Some were effectively the same as the iPhone (stereo+mic). Some had weird adapters for other ports if they just had the earphone+mic version. I think I had one of each at different times, all pre-2007.
I'm in the same boat and bought a Moto G, but one major issue is the lack of gyroscope for google cardboard/vr use.
Smartphone VR with positional tracking will come this year I reckon (on Android)
Dota and CS go tend to be where the items at.
>I can't believe anyone would bother making such a fatuous point, to which the obvious response is simply: plenty of uncharged and unconvicted (and even convicted for that matter) people have not broken the law.

Which is entirely irrelevant. Your claim was that innocent simply meant not found guilty, which is incorrect. There's a "presumption" of innocence: "innocence" means they actually didn't do it, and the law assumes they're in that state until proven otherwise. That doesn't mean everyone presumed innocent is innocent.

>If stating that black sites are set up specifically to detain people without charge and torture them is "misleading", according to you, please explain what you believe the purpose of black sites is.

I didn't say that. I specifically suggested you use "unconvicted", but if you'd used "uncharged" it would be fine. The word innocent is problematic for reasons I've explained.
Pink (aka "rose gold") appeals to many women. It also differentiates from the sea of space grey devices.
Apple earnings press release titles
Princess Monomake
Google partners Uber on driverless cars