skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To repeat what everyone else has said: The data doesn't exist on whatsapp's servers.

Now I know the law's position is basically "do what we say or we'll punish you until you comply - and we'll simply ignore you until you figure out a way to do so".

Obviously that's literally impossible for data that doesn't exist anymore, but of course it's technically possible to comply with these laws in the future. And I think that's a bigger problem here - that governments want to turn companies into surveillance tools. It's like telling the postal service to open and scan every single letter - which would have sounded pretty bad in the past, but nowadays that's somehow okay. Not because morals have changed but because it's feasible now.

Following/enforcing laws is generally a good thing, but since we live in a human society and not a robot one, things like that get fuzzy around the edges. Let's imagine an extreme, outlandish case where some odd and unforeseen circumstances in poorly written laws lead to a judge being able to order nuclear attacks on several cities of their own country. I'd want the judge to hold off on that and maybe wait for the legislature to catch up with the will of the people - which is not to die in millions.

Whatsapp isn't exactly a matter of life and death (at least I hope it isn't), but maybe this is a case where values like common sense, the common good and the interests of hundreds of millions of people weigh more than maybe locking up some stupid drug dealer.

I completely disagree with "If they disobey the law, it must have consequences, no matter how big and important to brazilian society they are.". That's the kind of idiocy that emerges right when society ends up working for the benefit of its government instead of the other way around.

If your position is unpopular with your friends, then it's because you think the law is more important than the entire society it's supposed to protect.
Condition B does not make sense. The proof provided to Andresen/Matonis is not known to be fake, and they both vouch for his identity.
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I can't put my finger on it, but in the video he just seems...disingenuous
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And if you read the posts on Wright's blog, they have the comparable "taste" of "appearing impressive to those who aren't in the subject, appearing uninformed to those who know" whether he writes about sha256 or programming details like timestamps.

There's also a hint of how some of the posts were made:

https://medium.com/@jprichardson/did-satoshi-steal-my-blog-p...
I'm curious about how the metabolic rate of these former contestants is determined. Are they confined to a lab where their dietary intake and physical activity can be accurately measured for an extended period of time? Probably not. My best guess is that the subjects being studied are asked to keep food and activity journals and then these, plus their weight, is used to calculate their metabolic rate.

I've experimented with keeping a food journal in the past, and it's exceptionally difficult to keep track of everything you eat without this extra work impacting your food choices. e.g. The chore of writing stuff down might prevent me from casually snagging a handful of nuts on my way through the kitchen, and consciousness about how it will look in the journal might make me pass on those chips. Even ignoring these problems, it takes a lot of effort to produce even remotely useful data. e.g. "I ate a pear." is actually pretty vague. Breed, size, and ripeness all have a pretty big impact on the nutrients you'll get from that pear. You need to weigh everything as a bare minimum. Also, you need to keep the journal all of the time, because if you keep it for just a week or two that sample likely won't be very representative of your normal habits.

Likewise, activities are hard to keep track of. With a fairly standard ergometer (such as a Concept2 rower) you can get a reasonable measure of activity level in a workout. Lifting weights, running, walking, etc. are all much, much vaguer. 30 minutes of "moderate jogging" means different things to different people. Most people are likely to overestimate or habitually pad their activities.

So, you have a really vague, spitballed idea of what these people are eating and doing, combined with weight gain. Are their metabolisms really slower than expected, or is there a systematic error common to these people in that, after a period of extreme privation (i.e. the competition) in which some of them lost more than a pound a day, they are now underestimating their food intake and overestimating their activity levels?

How much can basal human metabolism really vary anyways? If humans can get by on substantially fewer calories, why don't we all typically do this? Where does all the extra energy normal people inefficiently burn off go?
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I flew from Atlanta a while back with a bunch of Trader Joe's 'Pound Plus' chocolate bars and a ten pound (!) Ghirardelli chocolate bar in my carry-on which got quite a reaction. The poor girl doing the screening seemed to think an explosion was imminent and was visibly distressed, quickly leaving her post and grabbing a supervisor. For those that don't know, big chocolate bars are organic material and look like explosives and I've seen this happen before - I was waiting to see the reaction.

The supervisor and the girl came back and I laughed and said 'clearly you have spotted my giant chocolate bar', and volunteered all the standard answers (yes I packed this myself, it's been with me the whole time, etc) and they calmed down. I was worried they were going to want to open the package which was a gift and I didn't want them all riled up.

We all learned something that day, they learned that big ten-pound chocolate bars are a real thing and I learned that terrorists can probably carry bombs on board as long as they are sealed in a Ghirardelli box. TSA didn't even bother with the swabs or sniffer dog.

Bottom line is that TSA agents have no skin in the game, if they miss dangerous items it's the passengers who suffer the loss, not the agents standing safely at their posts on the ground at the airport.
> Can anyone name a language that they've grown to like more the more they learned about it?

Haskell
So what does a real authentic vote look like to you, in a decentralized system?

Who calls for the vote? Who counts them? Who is allowed to vote? Who isn't? Who proposes ideas for a vote?

When the pool of people who understand what Bitcoin is gets totally overwhelmed by people who don't, what keeps really stupid decisions from being made?

When people vote for something that isn't already coded, who is responsible for coding it?
We are seeing the Apprentice/Padawan here which does a good but not excellent magic illusion show in proving he is the one. Meanwhile the Sith-Master himself is hiding in the shadows and has probably an evil grin on his face.
Actually, there is a very good solution.

Process people instantly. If there are no lines at all, then there is no target.

If people are used to effectively walking straight onto the plane, they aren't hanging around for several hours clogging up the system. And, anyone hanging around automatically becomes suspicious and worth a casual conversation.
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It's even simpler. That he presented hearsay evidence instead of using obvious method plus forged the PGP evidence means he's a fraud. End of story.
Avionics and engines can be treated in a modular fashion. Airframes cannot, and that's probably the biggest sin of the F-35.
At the same time, Wright is obviously a chimp himself. I doubt I know anyone with any combinatorics knowledge who would describe it as "a process," mistake permutations for subsets, and then cite Lovasz to define binomial coefficients.
Credit is much cheaper than it was in 2000. It's simply not as appealing for investors to make hasty exits when cash is so easy to come by from other sources.
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What I think could/should happen is someone releasing an open-source version of Uber/Lyft and selling support for city governments to run city-owned ride-sharing services. If the Uber app only worked in the city I live, I wouldn't mind at all. It would also be no trouble to download the local ride-sharing app when visiting a new city.

This would be a win-win for many reasons, one of which would be that cities would keep the revenue from these services, or they could run it at cost and send more money to the drivers (thus stimulating the local economy and not VC valuations)
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From the about section: "Unison is a new programming platform that rethinks just about every aspect of the programming experience."

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I'll look into this and let you know what's going on, mate. I've been playing League of Legends for a couple of months now but i'm still really bad at the game. Enjoying the game so much though, just hopefully I can get better at the game soon.

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They've pulled this before in the commuter train station in Chicago.
Small company ops guy here - a bit over a year ago, I used to joke with my devs, asking them "So, what's this month's recommended way of installing node?". More recently we've been experiencing dependency hell, which is exacerbated by our small team not having enough time to upgrade to the latest LTS release. Node is definitely a language that you have to manage. It doesn't sit in the background and let you get on with writing stuff.

Is it the right tool for X or Y? I can't say, I'm not a dev. But it does require a lot of hand-holding and keeping current with the zeitgeist.
There is no legal basis to support the judge decision. A telecommunication service must keep records, but by the very difficult to understand Brazilian regulation, WhatsApp can not be considered a telecom service.

A service like WhatsApp is an over the top service, very much like any other communication service that you can use in the internets (like email), that does not need to comply to the telecom services regulations.

The truth is that the judge does not understand the matter being ruled and a single Judge closing a service used by 100m citizens is another proof of a very authoritarian and arrogant judiciary system.
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My apps are in the Danish Google Play and Apple App Store...

I never been there, I don't read or write danish, I never interacted with danish government, or met any danish person.

If the dane government wanted something from me, and sent a letter to some random person, written in danish, even if it reaches me, I wouldn't understand it anyway.

Thus, having app in some other country store doesn't prove much, except that you clicked "publish" somewhere on Google or Apple uploading interfaces.
They are american companies based in the US, with ties to US government (ie. susceptible to US secret courts, gag orders yadda yadda).

They operate internationally. ymmv.
It's very misleading indeed. And regardless of what has grown the most lately, the top industry in the US by far is Finance (19% of GDP) followed by Government and Manufacturing (12% each). 'Tech' is scattered across various industries, I think for the most part is included in Business Services and in Information. It's simply not nearly as important as some seem to think it is. The data is available here
http://www.bea.gov/regional/index.htm
This whole thing feels subtly racist.
Harrier design concept is limited by the massive frontal cross section

The same criticism has been levied on the F-35, due to the S/VTOL airframe support requirement.
Seems that this is what I just read:

"Blah, blah, blah, peer review, blah, blah, economics, blah, blah, blah, innovation, blah, blah, blah."

Seriously, I don't see anything in there that sells me that Elsevier is adding significant value to the academic publishing world. So they reject a lot of stuff? An arXiv overlay journal can easily have its editors click a button to reject a submission, but the paper is still there on arXiv if people still want to read it for whatever reason. As far as that goes, an overlay journal could easily support crowd-sourced ranking based on votes, tags, etc., and let users set filters to define the bar a paper has to reach before they see it. And if you support discussions around each paper, you encourage post-publication review.

"But, wait" you're saying... "somebody would have to write that software". Yes, technically correct, although there are open source platforms already that could provide a very significant foundation to build on. And if a major initiative were launched to build a standard, open source platform for building overlay journals, I feel highly confident that a number of contributors would jump in. At the very least, I'd volunteer for that myself.

"But what about the marketing that Elsevier does", you say.

I say, a scientific journal should receive respect and credibility based on its contents, not the marketing spend of the publisher. If anything, reading the bits about marketing in this article leave me with an even less favorable view of Elsevier (if that is possible).
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Huh, never knew that... but I just tried it and GAS (the version Debian installed as powerpc-linux-gnu-as, at any rate) accepted "lwz %r0, %r5(%r0)". Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory...

It would still be a gotcha, but a pretty minor one if messing it up just resulted in an error. I suppose the approach taken by AArch64 and others is preferable, where one register is just completely reserved as constant 0 rather than only in some encodings.
That's very interesting I didn't realise that. So it's oversampling ~10x?

The datasheet for the LMS7002 chip seems to indicate its sample rate is 160
MHz? Which you can grab from:

http://www.limemicro.com/products/field-programmable-rf-ics-...
> A plane with a hole in it crashes and kills all on board.

God no, that's far from certain. [0] Aircraft are designed to function in the face of all sorts of failures.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_840_bombing
No, energy expenditure is normally measured by the doubly-labelled water technique. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubly_labeled_water
There's evidence of deliberate deception, alongside a suspicious lack of evidence about what transpired out of view of the public. So there are grounds to believe this guy is full of shit.
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When I hear CAD I think, "Computer Aided Drafting", typically 3D solid modeling for Mechanical Engineers.
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> If your position is unpopular with your friends, then it's because you think the law is more important than the entire society it's supposed to protect.

Totally agree. This is unfortunately a very authoritarian world of view that is not uncommon.
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Well, the increase in cost of housing has been very patchy - each instance it is very mediated by local conditions but still not simply a local phenomena.

As a Bay Area resident, I'm eager to escape to places like the Bay but with a lower cost of living and scanning craigslist for such places, I have consistently found the differences less than I'd imagine.

A variety of things seem to have come together.

On the demand side, the job market today seems to favor certain of the young and the educated. The social consensus has become that no one, especially not the young and educated, wants to live in America's vast expanse of suburban developments - and investors are equally shy about investing her.

But also on the supply side, investment in any and all stores of value has gone up all along with the process of the Fed printing money aggressively with investment rental property going with that; the Blackstone group is now one of the nations' largest landlords. And of course a array of Home-value protectors in the form of Nimbyists, prevents construction and a lack of land central cities naturally restricts supply as well.

But still, I think it's reasonably to say you have a national phenomena which simply manifests locally in different ways.
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I understand, but from an inference point of view, it is nebulous because the distributions are unknown. Statistical dependence can be determined easily if you know the distributions, but not if you only have samples.

The "c" in the proof, I assume means "observed correlation". Because we are in fact talking about "[Observed] correlation does not imply [Unobserved] causation", right?
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USPS does do that. It's considered metadata.
Voting for Pinboard feels like a protest vote. Naturally, I voted for Pinboard.
which would both violate their contract and also be illegal.
Please don't be like that here. If you have a substantive point to make, you're welcome to.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11615847 and marked it off-topic.
One of the powerful ones? Hah. What power is that exactly?

All I can do is choose which client to run. You have all the power I do. That anyone does.
While doctors don't always know the most about a diet there is also the aspect of actually following the diet. People suck at following diets so giving one that is as little adjustment from a normal diet as possible might increase compliance and will result in predictable insulin levels.

If you pick a very strict diet then people drop the diet completely or cheat all the time, resulting in uneven insulin levels.

It is like inflammatory bowel disease. Many doctors rarely prescribe rectal medication for long term use even if it might be more effective than alternatives just because it is difficult enough to get people to take their pills.

But I do think diet suggestions will change more in the future when it comes to diabetes.
Like the author said, Node isn't a great fit for certain apps. It sounds like yours is one of them.
It is a strange, strange world in which Uber is considered "tech" but turning around a rocket after it's boosted a payload toward orbit and then landing it back on earth exactly where intended isn't technologically innovative enough to qualify.
I am not aware of any formal research. There is a school district on the Indian reservation in Arizona that is having huge success with Kanban planning for the actual curriculum workflow. Also, there are numerous examples in Europe that use Kanban boards in the old bulletin board and sticky note method.
I am Brazilian as well and feel the same way. Laws are laws. We can change them if we don't like them, but defying and ignoring them is the wrong course of action.
You beat me to it. I was going to add something along lines of expanding existing corruption where military people authorizing it get cushy jobs in return over time. The "revolving door." So consistent that it should be our first hypothesis for every program like this.
Yes, Pinboard should clearly just be given a spot at YC through the normal process and see what he can do... there should probably also be two other startups through the voting system...
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If Pinboard is eligible, why shouldn't it be included? I don't think that the choice of winner should be determined by what you believe to be the "Spirit of HN".

If anything, this second vote against 19 other startups is unfair to Pinboard, who I believed pulled far and away the most votes during the first phase.